Apple Panzer

by Undead Equestrian Writer

Rough Translation

Twilight rubbed her temples as she stared at the many notes she took on the language the newspapers were printed in. She finally managed to wrap her head around the wording, even if it was sloppy and she had to write down the wording to translate it, she got it to a point where she could understand what was written.

"Twi, do you need any help?" Spike asked her as he hopped up onto the large desk she was working on. Twilight sighed and let out a soft yawn. She had been at this for days now, waiting for AJ to return with the machine, which Twilight nearly knew for certain was the 'tank' that AJ's journal referenced to here and there. She closed the journal and stood from her desk. "A coffee? A Twilight needs to take a break brunch?"

"I'll take a coffee, Spike," Spike smiled and hopped off the table and ran towards the kitchen, flying when he made his way to the door. Her mane was sticky with warm office sweat and dirty from dust and airborne dirt, as she made her way to her room, more specifically her bathroom. Spike walked up to her, coffee steaming in its cup as it rested in his paws. The lifted from his hands and to her mouth, giving a cautious sip as she walked. "Thank you, Spike, I'm going to take a shower, and maybe a nap."

"Okay, Twilight," he ran off, doing whatever he does when he is dismissed. She continued her walk, before pushing two double doors and staring into her room, abandoned for days. She set her coffee down and quickly made her way to her bath. She grabbed a towel and locked the door to her bathroom, turning on the water. She quickly stepped in and scrubbed her mane and coat, watching the dirty water wash off her and down the drain. She turned the water off and slid the curtain aside as she wrapped her coat around her mane.

"Hey, Twilight, when you get done, I got a question," Twilight sighed as Starlight walked away from the door, the soft click of her bedroom doors closing. Twilight hurried up her drying and walked out to meet Starlight, seeing Pinkie and Starlight talking in the hall. Pinkie smiled and bounced away as Twilight approached Starlight. "What are you doing in your office? You've been in there for half a week now and I want to know what's so interesting that it requires you to miss your friend's friendship dinner with Celestia?"

"Applejack found this... machine, and a stallion found one as well, but the language on some of the documents found within are in a different language to ours, so I'm helping Applejack by translating them," Twilight yawned as she stretched her wings out. "You can go take a look if you want, but most of it's unreadable, I'd recommend going to Applejack's farm when she gets back and helping her with the machines."

"Alright... I just wanted to make sure Equestria wasn't ending," she hugged her still slightly damp friend and walked off, letting Twilight return to her room and fall asleep quickly, German wording flowing through her brain.

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Applejack collapsed outside her family's farmhouse, her body swore as she pulled the harness off of her. Staring at the large brown machine. Applebloom rushed over with a smile on her face as she looked up at the bigger machine.

"Applebloom, go get the hose and soap, and clean this thing, I'ma go get some ice," Applebloom nodded as she ran off, Applejack slowly standing as she walked inside, her body burning after pulling the extremely heavy and awkward machine a few miles between Manehattan and Ponyville. She nearly broke the door to the farmhouse, as she shoved it open. Applebloom ran a hose from the side of the house to the machine, running back over and turning on the water as she started spraying the machine down, the dirt and dust coming off rather easily, as the actual body looked in nearly perfect condition. The paint was peeling here and there, but the dust brown still noticeable as she washed it. A single black cross sat on the side of the machine. "Wow, it's nearly in perfect condition, excluding the insides being barren, but wow, a new coat of paint and some polisher this thing will look beautiful, okay, Applebloom, that's enough, but you go ahead and play around on it, just don't break anything."

"Okay, sis,"

Applejack slowly made her way to Twilight's castle, with a limp in her step, as Applebloom tried to climb onto the machine. Ponies waved to Applejack, but let her continue on her way. As the sunset Applejack walked into Twilight's castle, walking up the many stairs to Twilight's personal office, where she told Applejack she would be residing for a while. Opened the door to the office, Twilight looked up from her work and smiled at the apple mare.

"Great, you're just in time, I have a way to read the newspapers, and sorted them into which would likely be the most important to read," she smiled happily, her wings flapping in ecstasy. "While the translation may not be perfect, it works, now, I'm going to finish my nap."

Instead of moving anywhere, Twilight collapsed into a beanbag chair, her soft snores filling the usually quiet office. Applejack approached the sleeping mare and shook her head, but turned her attention to the more important newspapers that sat in a small pile on Twilight's desk. Grabbing the stack and Twilight's notebook with a linear translation guide, AJ fell into a similar beanbag chair and grabbed the top newspaper. Some words had lines through them or words under them, as AJ continually looked at the newspapers and the journal she focused her attention and started reading.

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Eiffel Tower Destroyed

Earlier today, our great leader gave permission to detonate several explosives attached to the base of the tower, and not soon after, the tower was collapsed, and in the center of it, the German flag was raised. Raising spirits and morale, what can't our leader do?

German-American Axis

Today, American's and Germans celebrate as brothers as the two leaders of the country agree to help each other, instead of impeding each other. Under a temporary alliance to crush the Soviet Union, American raised arms and launched a naval invasion of Vladivistock while Germany slowly advanced on the western border. With Japan pushing up with the American's, the Soviet's are weak.

Great German Nuclear Program!

After the fall of traitorous Poland, Germany's Uranprojekt continued research, and with help from Italian and American scientist's have invented a weapon that would make the British runaway packing, or as German scientist, Otto Hahn, the same scientist who discovered nuclear fusion, quoted, "It wouldn't give them time to run, as they disintegrated into a fine dust."

America Needs Our Help!

America, pushing against the Soviets in the east, where backstabbed by their neighbors, as both Mexico and the Dominion of Canada attacked. America is losing ground in the south but is holding in the north. We are calling upon all Germans who haven't picked up a gun, to consider it for our American brother!

Fall of Mexico

Mexico fell yesterday, as America with the help German volunteers pushed south and seized Mexico city. America in response to the fall of Mexico, was this. "We are angered and saddened that our southern neighbor's thought they could take what wasn't theirs, and as a warning to the rest of Central America and South America if you attempt, you will be thwarted." To show dominance, they quickly took control of the Carribean and the Philippines.

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Applejack got to the last newspaper, out of the stack, she frowned. The page was in worst shape than the other newspapers. It appeared burnt, and the parts that were readable seemed to have faded with age. The only words she made out was the actual date, reading 25.12.44 and two words, Atomic and London.

Comments

[Venerable Ro]

Interesting. Sounds like the soviets succeeded where herr Zimmermann failed.

[BurningSkies]

Applejack got to the last newspaper, out of the stack, she frowned. The page was in worst shape than the other newspapers. It appeared burnt, and the parts that were readable seemed to have faded with age. The only words she made out was the actual date, reading 25.12.44 and two words, Atomic and London.

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