Border between the NLR and Solar Empire
5:35 a.m.
"INCOMING!!!!!!!", yelled a stallion as an artillery shell struck a group of ponies blowing them apart.The war had started and the border between the NLR and Solar Empire was now alive with gunfire and fighting.Twilight was galloping as fast as she could her heart beating a thousand times a second, bullets whizzing past her head , artillery and mortar shells impacting the ground showering her with dirt and debris.
Twilight skidded behind one of the destroyed concrete border walls just as a republic soldier opened fire with a .50cal, applejack followed soon after,"wadda ya think we should do?",yelled applejack over the gunfire,"im working on that thought",yelled twilight as she quickly leaned over the side of the wall and squeezed of a few rounds from her carbine one of the bullets collided with the bottom jaw of a republic soldier practically ripping it off, she ducked behind again as the gunner continued firing in their direction.
"Well we gotta move quickly sugarcube or risk gettin' turned to applesauce",yelled applejack as she lobbed a grenade at the gunner ahead the grenade landed right beside soldier, it detonated just as he was about to throw it back blowing him and his hoof off."Nice work applejack now lets go!!",yelled twilight as they both bolted from the cover over to a more secure piece of shielding with a few other soldiers.
After they got behind the sandbags a mortor struck a soldier running to the cover they were hiding behind, twilight caught a quick glimpse of his head landing a few yards from them his eyes still blinking.She heard a young stallion mutter "oh my god" and then vomited behind her, the sight of the head made a shiver of horror down her spine as she shook her head and looked onward at the battle.
"Twilight, applejack!!", two voices shouted with excitemnt from behind, twilight saw the faces of rarity and pinkie pie both gripping their weapons, rarity a light machine gun and pinkie with a highly improved version of the flamethrower."Twilight its such a pleasure to see you right now and you two applejack honey", yelled rarity over the gunfire so the two could hear her,"thanks you too and its good to see you to pinkie", said the two at rarity and pinkie pie.
Pinkie was about to reply when a mare beside her yelled "we got three advancing up the hill towards us" pinkie swinged the muzzle of her flamethrower towards the direction of the three advancing enemy soldiers, twilight saw the three faces in utter horror just before liquid napalm shot out of pinkies flamethrower onto them.
The three soldiers ran around in blood curdling screams as the napalm cooked their flesh and insides alive, the smell was nauseating and almost made twilight vomit.Pinkie slowly crouched behind the sandbags again and spoke,"i....i..i always hate doing that, oh its great to see you guys too",said pinkie pie with sickness in her eyes but still sounded a little enthusiastic.
"Where's rainbow dash and fluttershy?", yelled twilight to rarity,"they're over there",replied rarity who was pointing her hoof to a small hill with sand bags and dead, mangled bodies all around it.
There twilight could see rainbow dash firing a heavy machine gun into the republic troops the bullets riping their bodies almost in half, just a little ways from her fluttershy was picking off republic artillery gunners with a .308 sniper rifle.Twilight smiled a bit knowing all of her friends were not dead, she could here from one of the combat radios a transmission for reinforcements, "we need more reinforcements NOW!, the republic is pushing hard were losing to many ponies out here!!", the radio went back to static.
"Buck their right we need to fall back",yelled rarity as she yanked twilight out of a trance, twilight could here other stallions and mares calling to fall back.Tank shells and bullets whizzed over head crashing and striking buildings some colliding with groups of solar soldiers their bodies and appendages flung in all directions.
Twilight and rarity skidded behind a burnt out shell of a jeep and fired upon the advancing republic troops, applejack swung her sub-machine around firing half a clip before retreating behind the same cover."We need back-up soon sugarcube or we're as good as dead", yelled applejack as she flinched at the sound of bullets ricoching of the jeep, fierce winds blew the scent of burnt flesh and smoke making twilight gag.
"We need to get to that gunning post", shouted twilight as she pointed her hoof at a heavy machine gun on top of a command building with a solar soldier slumped over it,"you mares get over there i'll provide cover as", shouted pinkie pie readying here flamethrower.
"But what if you get killed..it...its just to many soldiers for you to handle", replied twilight with worry in her eyes, pinkie put her hoof on twilights shoulder,"c'mone twilight im pinkie pie remember.If i can brake through a fourth wall then i can take a few soldiers, now GO!!!", shouted pinkie pie as she stood from cover and spat the liquid napalm from her flamethrower on the advancing republic soldiers.
With out a moments hesitation twilight and the other two bolted from the safety of cover to the heavy machine gun post behind them pinkie was dousing the advancing soldiers preventing them from going further.
Twilight and the other two reached the post.Being on top of the command building you could easily fire down upon the enemy, twilight took the dead solar soldier off the machine gun and set him down gently, closing his eyes for him remembering the generals speech.Applejack took hold of the heavy machine gun, swung open the loading hatch and put in a new belt then cocked it and opened fire on the enemy below.
Rarity aimed her light machine downhill and took aim on the advancing troops, twilight swung her carbine around closing one eye she looked through the rifle scope but first at her friends a little ways to the right.Rainbow dash was still firing at the soldiers she could see a small trickle of blood form her arm were a bullet had grazed it, fluttershy was still picking off soldiers with her rifle.
Twilight focused once more on the advancing enemy she aimed and fired, the bullet passing through the head off a rublic soldier a small cloud off blood popping from the back were the bullet exited.She continued to fire on the troops from her peripheral vision she could see soldiers running around screaming as their flesh burned from the fire of pinkies flamethrower.
"Theres just to many of them, we cant hold them off for much longer", shouted applejack as she loaded another ammo belt and continued firing, twilights eyes widened in shock as she too realized that they indeed desperatly needed reinforcements."I..i..i dont think we're going to make it theres to many of them",twilight said in shock as she kept aiming and firing as fast as she could.
Just when twilight was about to tell rarity and applejack to retreat should heard a distinctive sound in the distance, the roar of jet engines!!Twilight swung around, rarity and applejack had to heard it and had done the same, the white jets roared overhead dropping napalm and bombs on the enemy below the great gatling guns from the jets spat lead so fast theat it tore the republic soldiers in half some of the bullets hit their heads popping them like bloody grapes.
But that wasnt the only relieving sight, tanks also rolled out from behind they opened fire with a great thundering boom, their shells impacting the ground throwing great plumes of earth and republic soldiers into the air.
The republic soldiers started to retreat back to the republic side of the border galloping as fast as they could, the tanks and jets still continued firing upon the retreating troops then started to stop..one...by...one.
There was a still silence over the solar troops...then..cheering,"MOTHER OF CELESTIA WE DID IT!!!!",yelled applejack and rarity along with alot of other ponies as they thrusted their weapons in the air in rejoice.
Pinkie pie ran up and hugged twilight, rainbow dash and fluttershy had made their way up the building to congradulate rarity, applejack, pinkie, and twilight also for surviving their first battle of this war."Oh my gosh twilight i cant believe we made it!!",shouted pinkie as she hugged twilight then let go to congradulate her other friends.
Twilight just stood there in a trance and walked over to the edge of the command building and looked over the area where the battle took place.
Bodies littered the area both solar and republic, some blown or shot completely in half their organs scattered everywhere, medics attending the wounded soldiers closing the eyes of the dead and carrying them off.The once brown earth that separated the two countries now dark red from the blood of the fallen.The sky black and red with burning and smoke, the wind carrying the smell of burnt flesh and fresh blood.
The solar empire did indeed win the first battle, barely, but still a victory and even if they did win this war but at what cost?How many lives must be wasted and taken from their homes, how much blood must be spilled to declare this war a victory?
Twilight stared off into the distance where they would be continuing onward to, on the other side of the border, the side...of the republic.They would not be returning back to the base tonight but continue onward chasing the enemy, taking more lives.
The war was long from over.....
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Back in the solar empire
Canterlot castle
3:45 p.m.
Celestia sat in her office working and preparing for the next assault on the republic after the battle at the border."To many losses on the first day", celestia said sighing to her self, she stood up and slowly walked to her window overlooking canterlot.
The sky was now gray with rain clouds but in the distance in the direction of the border the clouds were'nt gray but black and red from the fire and smoke."Why luna..why did you have to act like this?",said celestia softly to herself, grief and sadness sitting in her heart like a lead ball.
War was never something celestia liked to her war was nothing but a waste of lives, she still remembered when luna was kind and soft a time when there was peace between the two countries.But now that time was long gone and now she had a war on her hooves, the solar empire is a much smaller country when compared to the new lunar republic by ponies and land mass.
"This is not going to be an easy war i dont even know if we'll make it",said celestia softly again to herself as she went back to her chair and devising a new battle plan for the upcoming battles.
Oh how many lives will be lost, how much of this generation will survive?