> A war with friendship? > by Blaqwolf0303 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > chapter 1 introductions > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1941- Lithuania- Raseiniai- June,22 9:30 AM Russian and German tank divisions engage each other among them is a kv-1 tank, “Yuri 500 meters ahead enemy tank, send when ready” I said. “Grigori, load APCBC-HE and be on standby for-” when I was interrupted by a loud thump against the front of the tank followed by several explosions about 60 ft away from us “how does it look out there Ivan?” said Yuri. As he fired the main cannon knocking out a Panzer IV and Grigori pushed a shell into the breach “Uhhh it's not looking good the T-34 got knocked out and we are leading the charge so full force ahead, Damien!” I said Damien gave a nod and shifted into 4th gear. I was starting to get nervous as the enemy tank line grew closer and closer while shells bounced off the front of the tank got louder and sounded close to penetrating the armor when Yuri started firing again which snapped me out of my thought and realized we would have to fall back when the number of enemy tanks grew to double what they were “Damien fall back, There are too many of them!” I yelled. The tank came to an abrupt halt which made my head slam against the commander's cupola drawing blood from my head. ----- “Spike can you grab me the book on teleportation?” Twilight said looking at spike with a face of pity. ”Yeah, just give me a second” Spike groaned and grabbed the latter, put it against the bookshelf, and grabbed a dusty book from the shelf. Twilight magic it to her while spike hung from the book eventually falling to the floor with a loud thud “Sorry, spike I didn't mean to I just-” she was interrupted by spike “whatever I don't care can I have those gems you promised me?” Spike said as he picked himself off the floor and dusted himself off ”Oh yea, right here you go just don't eat them too fast or you will get sick” Twilight said as she floated a bag to spike who grabbed it and ran upstairs. “Ok long-distance teleportation spell.” twilight said as she skimmed through the pages of the book spike gave her “Darn it there is nothing, well let me just try a really powerful teleportation spell and see if I can get to Canterlot without taking the train” twilight lit up her horn and her face scrunched up as the aurora around her horn turned a bright purple and started to get really bright. She finally cast the spell but a magic explosion rang out as she fell to the floor unconscious. Spike ran from upstairs to see what happened when he saw twilight he ran to her to make sure she was ok “Twilight are you ok?! TWILIGHT!” Spike screamed as he shook twilight and decided that he should get some help. He ran for the door and called for the nearest pony “Hey help me I need help!” spike shouted as several ponys came running to his aid. ----- More shots bounced off of the tank as we reversed away from the fast-approaching german tanks when suddenly smoke filled our view “I can't see anything sir!”Damien shouted “I can’t see anything from any of the viewports either”, Grigori said in a calm but nervous voice, when all of a sudden I felt like we drove over a big bump that made all of us slam our heads into the metal roof before falling back into our chairs “what was that!, I think an enemy bombed us” Damien said before faint sunlight came through our viewports. I looked through the commander's cupola and saw a forest surrounded us from all sides and sweat started pouring down my face “Where is the enemy? Where did this forest come from? This was not here! There should be miles of open fields!” I said in a very panicked voice while Grigori loaded another shell into the breach “Oh shit Yuri are you ok!?, Yuri answer me are, you ok!” I yelled and checked Yuri’s vitals “He is alive, but unconscious. We need to get our bearings and fast. Uhh, Damien, forward but slow” I said in as calm of a voice as I could, which wasn't that calm when I think about it. ‘Ok maybe we blacked out while retreating? Or maybe the maps are wrong? I don't know where we are!’ I thought to myself. After about five minutes of crawling along the forest in a 45-ton metal deathtrap, Damien said “There is a dirt road here it looks like it leads out of this forest. Should I follow it, commander?” I thought about this for a while. ‘Get captured by the Axis and be a prisoner of war or starve to death in a hot, loud, uncomfortable, cramped tank?’ “Yes, follow the road, but stay cautious, ok?” I said in a firm voice. Damien gave me a nod and we turned to the left and started following the road towards the exit of the forest. When we got to the edge of the forest Damien stopped for a second in hesitation before driving on and what I saw, I couldn't believe; green rolling hills, nice blue sky with few clouds dotted around. ‘What is this? Are we even in the same world? Where are the battle-scarred fields? Where are all the burning tanks? I haven't heard a single gunshot in the last 7 minutes’ I thought to myself as we followed the road, which soon turned to cobblestone. Our tank treads made gnarly grinding sounds on the cobblestones. “Uh, uh what happened?” Yuri said as he look around at me, Damien, and Grigori, who has been silent while looking through his viewports “Yuri, are you ok?” I said as I grabbed ahold of him, pulling him into a hug. “Uh yeah, I am ok. How long have I been out?” “About five minutes, I think” I said, letting go of him as he wiped the blood off of his forehead. I then went on discussing to him what I have seen and he was just as confused as I was. ----- “Twilight? Twilight, can you hear me?” a faint voice called out to Twilight, which she recognized as Redheart “Ugg, what happened?” Twilight said as she opened her eyes to see that she was in a hospital. She looked to her left and Rarity Applejack and Spike looked at her with worried faces. She looked to her right and saw Pinkie pie Fluttershy and Rainbow dash looking at her with more worried faces. Redheart coughed into her hoof and said “You used too much magic and got extreme fatigue. You just need some rest and you should be out of here about noon. If you need anything just push this button” as she gestured to a remote laying on the blanket covering her. “Thanks Redheart I should be fine, thanks anyways” Twilight said. Redheart gave her a small smile before slipping out of the room. “So uh twilight what spell did you perform dear?” Rarity said with worry on her face “I was trying to figure out how to use long-distance teleportation spells so we can get places faster. Wait, why do you ask?” Twilight said with just a hint of worry. “Well” Fluttershy started before she got distracted “Oh right sorry, something happened in the Everfree Forest and some of my animal friends warned me about a big green metal animal thing that was knocking over trees. Do you think that might be connected somehow?” Fluttershy got a little nervous when Rainbow dash jumped in for her. “I was on a cloud when I heard trees falling. I flew over to where I heard it happening and there was a big metal tracked thing that was there, so we think you might have accidentally teleported something to there” Rainbow dash finished and twilight looked lost in thought before responding. “We need to find what that ‘green metal thing’ is and make sure it's not dangerous” Twilight said before yawning ‘Oh right magical exhaustion. I forgot’ before falling asleep again. ----- We were driving for what felt like 15 minutes when we crested a hill revealing a rustic looking town. “Damien stop here and be ready to take off” I said as I unlatched the commander's hatch and popped out with a pair of binoculars to take a close look. What I saw was crazy and I would have never thought that I would see ponys that are sentient. “Dear God, we are not on Earth anymore, gentlemen” I said with wide eyes and open jaw. ‘What should I do? What should I say? Oh I have an idea’ “Damien, drive into those bushes and try to hide the tank. Yuri, Grigori, come with me.” I said and gestured to the bushes when we climbed out of the tank. Damien drove behind a line of bushes and we started throwing downed trees and pulled shrubs to hide it. Once we were happy with the concealment of our tank we shut down the engine and started to sneak our way to the town. When we got to a river we decided to try and take the bridge so we wouldn't get soaked and have smelly, wet tankmen suits. We had our PPSH slung around our body’s as we made our way to a bridge that the path led to. We took our guns off the slings and had them in hand, ready to engage enemies. When we made it to the bridge, we heard horses walking while some people were talking. We slinked under the bridge when the people walked by. We found out that they were colorful pony that could talk! And they were talking about a princess. “What kind of place are we in, boys?” asked Yuri. At the time I didn't know but I, as commander, decided we should probably try to slink into town and get some info on where we were and what was happening. We then heard a voice that was obviously aimed towards us. “Hey you uh… thing! Stop and come here!” yelled a purple pony with a purple mane that had a stripe of a different shade of purple going through it. She was also a unicorn but at the time the boys and I got scared and took off towards where we had left the tank. “Our cover is blown! Get to the tank and prepare to engage and other tanks!” I heard the purple pony yell something before I heard multiple wings flapping and several sets of hooves running towards us. When we got to the tank we scrambled into our positions. Before I closed the hatch I saw a blue pegasus flying towards the tank. “Lock all hatches and get this tank moving now!” I barked and after the engine fired up we started moving. We knocked down a small tree and took off down the path towards the pony village that we saw when we heard a voice call out to us “Wait! We are not here to hurt you! We are friendly and want to help you!” I could tell it was the purple one and for a moment I thought we should keep going but my mind had other ideas “Damien stop and power down the engine”, I said as we came to a slow stop and could hear hooves approaching the tank as I called out “Are you with the Germans?” the hooves soon stopped and a small voice called out to us “No we are not working with the… uh ‘Germans’. We want to help you!” I let out a sigh and unlatched the commander's hatch and poked out to see six ponies standing there looking at me with slightly scared expressions. The purple one walked forward and held out a hoof “My name is Twilight Sparkle. I just want to talk to you. Can you please get out of the big metal thing?” I thought about this and whispered to Yuri “If things go downhill, you are the new commander” Then I hopped out of the turret and jumped to the ground which startled most of the ponies except the blue pegasus. I slowly walked towards the purple pony, ‘Twilight sparkle I think her name was’? When I got to the purple pony I realized how small the ponies where. They reached almost to the mid part of my chest. I reached down and shook the purple one's hoof and glanced back at the tank where Yuri was peeking out of the open hatch at me “Yuri, toss me the bottle of vodka” I said which startled all of the ponies as a bottle of vodka came flying out of the hatch towards me. But before I could grab it was caught by a magical aurora made by the purple pony. The bottle floated into my hand before the aurora disappeared I looked at the bottle than at the purple pony who looked at me with fascination “Uh, this is a peace offering to you” I said as I handed the bottle to her. She picked it up in her magic thing and set the bottle next to herself. “Uh thanks, if you don't mind I would like to ask you to follow me to my castle” Twilight said in a calm yet stern voice “Let me talk it over with my crew and I will have an answer for you in about 5 minutes or less”, I said as I started to walk back to the tank when I got back in the turret Yuri and Grigori looked at me with confused looks before I started “So these pony things want us to come with them to there castle what do you guys think?” I said Damien looked puzzled for a moment “Let's do what they say but we keep our guns and we follow in the tank if they attack us we will engage them does that sound good?” said Damien. I thought for a moment before I popped my head out of the commander's hatch “uh ponies we came to an agreement that we will follow you but we follow in our tank and we will engage if you attack us ok?” I said the group of ponies were huddled together they all turned to face me and Twilight stood forward and said “Ok follow us and we will try to help you and clear up this mess” I went back into the turret and ordered Damien to follow the ponies until they tell us to stop. > Chapter:2 meeting the royal > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 2 meeting the royals  While we followed the ponies back towards the town we stopped at the edge of the village and could hear the ponies talking “ How can we get them through town without being noticed by the other ponies?” Twilight said “ I don’t know dear, but we must be cautious so we don’t spook the other ponies” a white unicorn said  “Why don’t we just have twilight make them get out of the big metal thing and turn them invisible” the blue Pegasus with a rainbow Main said “Ok first things first, this is called a tank and second thing is why don’t we just drive around town to get to the other side?” I yelled from the open commanders hatch before quickly slamming it shut looking from the commanders view ports you can see the ponies looking back at the tank with confusion on there face “Oh dear, there is a river that we have to cross I don’t think that your Tank can cross it without a bridge” the white unicorn said I then had an idea and leaned down to the rest of my crew  “ Boys why don’t we conceal our tank again and just follow on foot? I think that would be best for our situation” I said Damien Grigori and Yuri thought about this for a minute  “Why don’t we just leave our tank here and paint holes on it so it looks like we have been knocked out sir!” Yuri said  “Uh that doesn’t seem like a good idea because the germans might take the tank thinking that it was out of commission and try to fix it” I said in a thoughtful voice “Damien drive back to the edge of the woods and we will conceal the tank once again” I said as we started to turn around I could hear Twilight yell  “Hey where are you going?!?!” When we finally turned around we went full throttle back to the woods witch wasn’t that far away and about a minute later we reached the edge of the woods where Damien parked behind a big bush. We all climbed out of the tank while Damien powered down the engine “Hey I thought we had a deal come back!” I heard Twilight yell as the sound of hooves become louder until they were right on top of us  “Hey ponies help us conceal our tank and we will follow you on foot” I said as I rip out a small bush and throw it on the top of the tank  “Sir I found a bunch of WHAT THE?” Yuri said as Twilight's horn started to glow and the tank started to turn invisible until all that’s left was the bush that was on the turret of the tank.  “Uh cool I guess that works but how will we get through town without spooking the other ponies?” Damien said with a hint of curiosity Twilight look unsure for a moment before she lit up her horn and shot a purple lazer at Yuri and a very bright light emitted from Yuri as he fell to the ground as a pony with a grey coat and an electric blue mane he gasped for air as the light becomes dimmer and dimmer until there was no light left I panicked because I thought that Twilight had killed him I whipped around and drew my pistol at Twilight and yelled I’m my most loud and intimidating voice that I could  “ HEY I THOUGHT WE HAD A DEAL!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?!?” This Made all the ponies jump back a bit both from fear and shock. My finger was on the trigger and the sights where dead on Twilight head right between the eyes Twilight stepped forward and lit up her horn I thought that she was going to kill me too so I started to fire as fast as I could until my clip was empty. I opened my eyes to find Twilight and her friends encased in a purple bubble and the bullets floating right in front of the bubble I was deep in thought until Grigory and Damien opened fire as I reloaded my makarov and started firing as well, when all our clips where empty we looked at each other in disbelief as all of our bullets were floating in front of the purple bubble witch then disappeared and the bullets fell to the dirt Twilight looked disappointed and lit her horn again  “Gahh I guess we have to do this the hard way” Twilight said in an upset tone before a lazer came flying towards me and my whole world turned black. I awoke in a small room to my left was a lamp that was turned off and a curtain that covered my sight of that part of the room on my right was a nightstand that had a clock on it it was 11:07 am. I tried to lift my arm to rub my eyes but quickly met a force that wouldn't let my arm move past an inch off the bed I look down and my body my arms,chest and legs were strapped to what felt like a soft bed my mind began to race as i remember my sergeant telling me that some people that were captured were experimented on until death like lab rats and I began to panic and my heart started to race and my breathing became fast and heavy when i heard hoof steps that sound like they're right behind a door that the curtain was hiding you quickly pretend to be asleep as the door opens and you could hear Twilight talking “he is here princess i have him strapped down so he won't be any trouble,” she said in a nerdy/sciency way that's when I heard a voice that was so calming soothing and caring at the same time “ Thank you twilight but I will need some alone time to explore his memories “ the new voice said in an authoritative but kind voice I hear the door creek shut and the sound of hooves approaching your bed they stop at what feels like a foot from the bed I heard this new pony say something under her breath but can only make out the first part of it  “hmmm this is-” was all I could hear this new pony say before it sounded like she had a seat on a couch or pillow I started to sweat profusely when I felt something hard but warm touch my arm my  eyes shot open and I tried and shuffle away but the straps only let you move about a centimeter before I started pleading and crying  “Please! Please don't kill me! I am too young to die I am only 26! PLEASE!” I yelled as I burst into tears and started sobbing I looked over to see the blurry white figure dressed in gold. It had its wing’s spread open wide and its horn glew a golden arora and my world faded to black again. I woke on what felt like a cloud I glanced down to see sand and look left to see that I was on a beach I let out a small yawn as I heard a familiar voice behind me  “I am sorry but I feel that this will be a more welcome place to talk” I remember that voice and spun around to see the unicorn with wings again but I noticed the other details like her flowing rainbow mane and her butt tattoo was a sun i looked at her with fear in my eyes as you heart starts to race and I prepared to make a run for it but as if she could read my mind she says  “please don't fear me I am only here to help you, I am a friend not a foe” her voice is so soothing and motherly I wanted to run but I just stood there looking at her before I sat in the sand  “Ok, promise me that you wont kill me?” I said in a very scared and shaken voice  “Yes i promise i just need you to tell me everything that happened before you came to this world, our world” she said in her what seemed a usual tone I looked at the sand and drew a little stick family and tears begin to form in my eyes but I quickly wiped them away and erased the drawing that was in the sand  “Ok lets start from the beginning than” I said a somewhat shaky voice “Ok I don’t really remember the date but what I do remember is I was part of the infantry group we were told to hold a bridge and that the Germans will be here soon it’s all really hazy but after the initial contact with the enemy my entire squad was wiped out and I quickly surrender later day well,one of the Germans gave me a pistol and forced me one by one to kill my remaining comrades before they threw me into a truck and sent me off to a POW camp. When on the journey I manage to slip off my restraints and jumped out of the back of the truck I took to the wood’s as bullets started to rain all around me. I finally came to a stop when i felt i was far enough away from the road and kept walking in the initial line while searching for a small town or something’ eventually I couldn't walk anymore I was out in the wild for about 2 days before. Russian troops of swarmed me and gave me some questions they then sent me to POW camp for a while until figuring out that I was actually Russian soldier high command then promptly sent me to the back to the front lines as a tank commander and I served in a couple battles after that. But one battle that happened we encountered German troops and was ordered not to fall back well when the German tank’s doubled what they were we all where forced to fall back. While falling back white smoke filled our view and what  felt like we fell and we just ended up in the forest we followed the forest for a while till we came across a small old looking village and we did some reconnaissance after some reconnaissance we encountered a purple pony named Twilight she and the group of ponies chased after us we ran and we got back into a tank and she probably told you the rest I’m guessing?“ I said I knew I left our major plot points but that was the main flow of this before I came here to this land celesta looked at me with the kind of expression that said ‘oh you poor thing I am so sorry’ but cleared her throat and said  “so you where a soldier and where in combat several times? I I am so sorry for what you had to go through really I am from the bottom of my heart I am sorry” she said in a sad but calm voice you look at her- wait a minute how did you know her name?  “Uh if you don’t mind me asking what is your name?”I said she looked at me and jumped up quickly  “oh my I am so sorry I forgot to introduce myself I am Celestia’ Princess of the sun and guardian of my ponies” she said and looked at you with eyes that still scream sadness  “ uh ok thanks my name is Ivan, nice to meet you” I said in a slightly relaxed tone  “do you know why I am here?” Celestia said. You shrug your shoulders and say  “I was killed and this is heaven” celestia looks at you with a slight frown before she sat back down in the sand and followed soon after  “ I am here because you came to this world and seemed to be a danger so I am here to find out if it was fear or if you are just a war monger” celestia said in a very relaxed voice as she lay down in the sand  “ If you mean the thing with Twilight than yea fear she shot Yuri with a lazer beam and he turned into a pony my first instinct it to shoot to kill as I was was told in basic training” I said celestia looked at me and looked to the water as she spoke  “Ahh i have seen many of war’s in my time I know what war can cause I know how ponies can get after a bloody and brutal battle during the war, In basic they are taught to kill first and then ask questions later. So what about your 3 other freinds are they the same story?” celestia said  “i… I don't really know much about their backstory but there in the same boat as i am so…..” I said as the beach scene started to fade to black and I felt myself grow heavy i shot up in the same bed before with celestia sitting next to me smiling “ Thank you for cooperating with me this means a grate much to not only me but the citizens of equestria” celestia said as her horn grew again and the straps holding me down were released and pushed back before falling limp I look at her and she gestures for me to follow her i pushed the blankets off and stood up that's when it hit me I was naked  “Ohh sorry!” I said as i grabbed the blanket and threw it over myself celestia giggled and used her magic to float my tanker clothing over to me they dropped in a pile at my feet and i looked at her she turned around and closed the curtain i got the message and promptly got dressed about a minute later i moved the curtain and she shot up and turned back around to look at me she opened the door and we stepped into what looked like a crystal hallway she turned her head to look at me  “we already talked to your friends they are waiting a secure room until we come up with a conclusion of what to do with you, there are beds a bathroom and lots of books in there to keep you occupied while we try and figure this out” celestia said as we walked down the hall she stopped at the fifth door down from where i was and she opened the door and looked at me i gave her a nod and walked in and there was Grigory Damion and Yuri staring at me before they jumped up and ran towards me  “Ivan! You ok? They didn't hurt you did they? Damion said in a scared but trying keep a manly tone  “Yea im fine guys, what about you all? you ok?” I said as I sat down on a small couch  “we are fine Ivan but you know we are locked in here until they come up with a plan of what to do with us right?” Damion said in a somewhat mad voice.  “I guess we play the waiting game now.” > Chapter:2.5 The German's! > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1941-Lithuania-Raseiniai-June22,9:30AM Russian and German tank's engage each other, among them is a German Panzer IV tank "Han's enemy tank's ahead fire when ready!" Lucas yelled, The main cannon boomed and a shell ejected from the breech, Looking through the commander's cupola he see a tank he has never seen before. it looked like a longer version of the T-34 but elongated and a bit wider "Fire!" Lucas yelled, and again the main cannon boomed as a shell ejected to the floor. Lucas was the proud commander of the tank, his crew consisted of Elmo Katzenbach as the driver, Lucas Schnyder (himself) as the commander, Olaf Niehaus as the loader, Harald Weinmann as the Radio operator and Hans Woerfel as the gunner. His crew was trained to handle any situation that was thrown at them and he was proud of them, "T-34 down sir!" Hans yelled looking through the gunner's sight, looking through the commander's cupola again the weird new tank was bouncing shell's left and right while it pushed through "Harald, call for the Luftwaffe to bomb this new tank!" Lucas barked. Harald turned several nobs and started speaking into the mic, looking up at Han's Lucas could see him sighting in on the new tank "Fire!" Lucas yelled and the main cannon boomed, looking through the commander's cupola he could see the shell fly through the air and hit the tank, and bounce off. contorting his face into worry he looked down at Olaf "use the special shell's" he tells him, Olaf nods and grab's a shell from the side rack labeled "APCR" he load's the shell into the breech and was prepared to give Hans the order to fire when the familiar sound of a Stuka rang through the air. "It's the Luftwaffe! there here to save us!" Elmo yelled, sticking Lucas head out of the commander's hatch he saw the bomb land a few feet from the tank than explode in a cloud of white smoke, stopping the tank Elmo looked through his small driver window, after a tense minute of nothing happening the smoke cleared to reveal nothing, not even the burning husk of a tank remained. shrugging Elmo started driving again and the Panzer platoon soon followed Dear: Mom and Dad The war is going good! today we advanced several mile's with little resistance, I am hoping that i will be able to return home someday. How is little Hertha doing? last time I saw her she was just starting to walk! Tell brother Louis i said hi! I really miss you all and when i get home i am going to attack hug you all, that's all for now. OH and tell brother Louis that i will bring him a Russian pistol i found, he will be so happy. also at the bottom of this page you will find a photo of me and my tank crew, they are like family to me. Love- Lucas Dear: Lucas We are happy to hear that you are ok and we miss you very much. It is so much different around here without you, little Hertha has said her first word today! she said "Papa" she has grown so much since you left. Your brother is rather excited to hear your present for him and he really misses you. We hope that you can return home soon and maybe with some of your buddy's, stay safe out there sweetie. As you sent me and your pa a picture of your crew we have sent you a picture of the family and a good luck charm that grandma made for you. Love- Mom, Dad, Hertha, Louis and Grandma As Lucas finished reading the letter his parent's sent him he looked at the bottom of the page to find a small necklace with his name stamped into a piece of metal on it, he picked up the photo and let out a chuckle at the rowdy family shown in the photo. standing he put the necklace on and the photo in his pocket, turning he addressed his crew whom where all chatting with each other about various thing's "Men, formation!" he barked and all of the men jumped up and formed into a line. "ok men, so our mission is to wait here for the night. Than fall back for maintenance, the front line is still advancing so we will return and service the tank. after we will go back to the front, understand?" Lucas said in a authoritative tone "Yes sir!" the men half shouted "ok as you were" he spun around and sat next to the fire he had started. The sound of distant gunfire slowly started to dissipate as the front line was pushed further and further forward, soon the only noises that could be heard was the very faint sound's of bomb's and the fire. Closing his eyes Lucas leaned on a log on put his cap over his eye's soon after he drifted to sleep. Lucas awoke, first thing he did was stoke the fire and set a cup of coffee into the ember's, he turned and looked toward's a hanging lantern and shut it off. Standing he walked over to where the rest of his crew where sleeping, ' he guys, remember the time you started shaking me and yelling we are under attack? well it's time for revenge' Lucas thought to himself stepping forward he pulled out his p-38 pistol and fired it twice into the air startling the crewmen. Lucas started laughing as his crew shot to their feet and formed into a line "Alright men pack it up we are moving on now" Lucas stated as the crew started dismantling the makeshift camp they had. > Chapter:3 New friend's and old enemy's > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Gahh, this is fucking dumb" Yuri shouted while laying on his back "aint shit to do here" looking up at Grigori Ivan shifted his weight to his other leg before leaning against the bookshelf again "Stop your bitching, take a nap or something" Ivan said closing his eyes. They have been in this room for more than four hours and it was starting to whittle down on the men's nerve's, Yuri was about to say something but a knock came from the other side of the door and it slowly opened "After some deep research you are free to go, just don't get in any trouble ok?" a guard in gold armor said stepping aside Yuri made a mad dash for the door and ran out into the crystal hallway "FINALLY, IM FUCKING FREE!" he shouted and ran to what he thought was the exit of the crystal castle. Damien Grigori and Ivan walked out of the room and followed Yuri who was down the hall opening door's and trying to find the exit "Where the fuck is the exit!? Please get me out of here!" he shouted opening a large wooden door. Moonlight leaked around the room as Yuri opened the door, he turned and looked at the other's before running outside into the darkness "FREEDOM!" he yelled as he rolled around in the grass Got lazy, sorry! "so you want us to meet some of your friend's?" Grigori asked Twilight as the group made there way down to Ponyville "yes, it might help you if you get some friend's, plus Rarity can make you some more cloth's" Twilight said. After three minute's of nothing happening the group entered the small village they saw before, Twilight lead them through the street's of Ponyville and to a house that looked to be made out of candy. "well here we are, go on inside" Twilight said with a small smirk "Team Meeting!" Ivan yelled and quickly the group gathered to gather away from Twilight "ok i called this because there is something fishy going on here, look" Ivan point's to the candy shop's window's "the light's are off and Twilight had a small smirk on her face. For all we know we are probably going to get jumped" Ivan whispered. The group look's at each other and nod "how about one of us will go in and if nothing happens than send one more in?" Damien said looking to Ivan "that way if is is a trap the other's could get out or fight back." the group look's at each other again before sharing a nod. They all stood and Ivan stepped forward's "Ok I'm going in Twilight" he said, walking up to the door he put his ear up to it and could hear the hushed whispering of something's on the other side, sighing he twisted the door knob and opened the door while assuming a defensive stance for any trap's. Nothing happened, looking around at the dark interior he took a few step's when the light flicked on "SURPRISE!" a bunch of voices yelled as pony's came form there hiding spots. scared shitless Ivan's training kicked in automatically and he swung his fist at nothing "oh boy!" a female voice said, turning around Ivan saw a pink pony with a pink mane "whatsyourname?whydidyoucometoponyvillehowoldareyouwhyareyourfriendsoutsideandwhydidhitlerrisetopoweromgimsoohappy!" it said Ivan was barely able to keep up with everything she said. Breathing a loud sigh Ivan leaned in the door way "Boys, it's save come on in" he yelled, soon the rest of the crew came into view and the pink pony almost seemed like she was going to explode "Sir, I cannot see anything!" Han's yelled up to Lucas, while on there way back they got ambushed by Russian force's that where camped out with anti-tank Rifle's and grenade's. They blew the track's off and where swarming around the tank preparing to take the kill when smoke filled the air and blocked there view of the tank, "Ok remain calm, the last thing we need is to die out here" Lucas said in a calm but authoritative tone. Eventual when the smoke cleared the Lucas peeked his head out the commander's hatch to see thick forest foliage, sighing Lucas closed the hatch and looked to his assembled crew "Abandon the tank, they blew the track's off" he said and the crew although hesitant still complied and crawled out of the tank. Forming around the broken track they had a grim discovery, the track was blown off and the drive sprocket was damaged beyond repair, sighing Lucas turned to face his crew "alright men, look's like we will be going on foot from here, when we get to the base we will tell them the location of the tank but for now get all the supply's you can carry" Lucas said "Yes, sir!" and with that the crew took as much as they could before walking through the wood's 4 Hour's later GOT LAZY After walking almost 4 mile's the German tank crew came across a town, relived they walked into the town only to freeze once they saw that there where colorful pony's walking about. Shaking his head Lucas turned to look at his crew "alright just... just ignore them alright?" he said "yes sir" the crew replied as the kept walking through town, too the crew's surprise the pony's could talk and seemed to be sentient, although he didn't care about that what he did care about was finding some place to rest. Looking up at the sky he could see the sun off in the distance it's soft warm glow covering him as he walked through town, reaching a water fountain Lucas sat down on a small bench and the crew soon followed. Relaxing Lucas dug into his pocket and pulled out the photo his parent's sent him, chuckling he looked at it until something caught his attention "It's the German's! Twilight kill them!" a male voice called out, looking up Lucas saw a Russian tank crew pointing at him, they had no weapon's drawn and where seemingly in a panic. Standing Lucas pointed a finger a the Russian's before speaking "Who are you and where are we?" he yelled, this woke his crew from there stupor and they quickly jumped to there feet and pulled there mp-40's, looking at his crew he pointed a hand at them "stand down, they look unarmed" Lucas looked at the Russian's again before yelling "ok we are standing down, we only want to talk is all, we are from the 4th Panzer Division of the German armored corps" Lucas shouted to the Russian's. This seemed to catch the Russian's off guard and Lucas didn't blame them, in normal circumstances he would have shot on sight but this was not a normal circumstances. The Russian's looked at each other before forming a group huddle, next to them was a purple pony with both a horn and wing's, she looked at the group of German's with a curious face, just than her horn glowed purple and she seemed to focus on something for a while. After three minute's the group of Russian's broke there huddle and turned to face Lucas and his group, they looked about to say something but the purple unicorn Pegasus looked up at them and whispered something to them. The group of Russian's looked at the pony with baffled expressions before the turned to face Lucas "ok, so Twilight did a quick mind sweep of all of you and concluded that you are safe, if you want to talk than follow us" one of the Russian's said before turning and walking behind the purple pony. Looking over at his crew Lucas sighed "listen i know this is crazy but right now it's either talk with them and get a explanation or go crazy in this weird pony land" he said, he picked up his bag and started walking towards the group of Russian's. His crew soon followed behind with there mp-40's in hand Following the group they eventually came to a big crystal castle, unfazed Lucas and his group followed the Russian's and the pony into the castle. Once inside the pony lead them to what seemed to be a meeting room and sat down at the end of the table, Lucas and his crew soon followed placing there bag's down before taking a seat "so before we begin, please place all your weapon's on the table" the purple pony said in what seemed to be a feminine voice, sighing Lucas set his mp-40 on the table and than his pistol followed by his two knife's, brass knuckles, a grenade, more knife's and one more pistol from his boot "Christ sake Lucas, why do you need so many weapon's?" Olaf asked putting his mp-40 and pistol on the table followed by the rest of his crew "i just like to have them for emergency's" Lucas replied, once all the weapon's where on the table the purple pony lit her horn and a glow surrounded the weapon's before they dissipated into thin air "ok, now we can get down to business!" the purple pony said looking at the Russian's "I guess we should introduce ourselves, my name is Ivan and this is Grigori, Damien and Yuri, we where from the 13th heavy tank Division of the Mechanized Corps, Russia" Ivan said. Thinking to himself Lucas stood up "my name is Lucas and this is Han's, Olaf, Elmo and Harald. 4th Panzer Division, German armored Corps" Lucas said, sticking his hand out he waited, Ivan grabbed his hand and shook it "nice to meet you Lucas, now if i may ask why are you being so friendly to us? we thought the German's where a ruthless killing machine" Ivan asked "well you see most men where drafted into the German army, and those who didn't join where killed and then there family's where also killed. I didn't want to join but i did for my family, as for them" Lucas gestures to his crew "they are in the same boat as me. We don't want to be here but we have to. That's why i am so nice, we are in a new world it seems and we have the chance to be our self's. We are not the blood thirsty monster's you make us out to be, we are only doing the thing's we do so our family's don't get killed, in reality we are scared, scared of what might happen, scared of war, scared of our self's. on the outside we are German killing machine's but on the inside we are nice innocent people" Lucas said, the Russian's sat there stunned before going back to normal "i see, im sorry to hear that, please forgive us we didn't know." Ivan said looking down at the table "what we are told is that you are blood thirsty killing machine's that have no feeling's and enjoy killing" Ivan look's over at the purple pony who is furiously scribbling down note's "It's fine, we are told you Russian's will kill and eat us given any chance but here you are" Han's said. Ivan looked over at the group of German's and let out a small chuckle "wow, i guess they will do anything to make us hate each other" he said "well now onto more pressing matter's, How did you get here?" Ivan asks "oh, well we where heading back to get our tank serviced when we where ambushed be a group of Russian's with anti-tank rifle's and anti-tank grenade's, we thought we where goner's but a white smoke filled out view and poof, we are here. that's how we got here." Lucas said, Yuri looked over at Ivan with a shocked expression "Well what the fuck? that is exactly what happened to us! minus the ambush part. we where just in combat when smoke filled our view and we ended up here" Yuri said, looking up at him Lucas was surprised to say the least, but none the less he stood up " Well it has been fun but we are really tired and need a place to stay for tonight. afterwards we will get out of your hair" Lucas said. Turning to face his crew he saw all of them sound asleep, sighing he shook each of them awake "alright men, grab your stuff were camping for tonight. After we will be leaving as to not bother these fine gentlemen." Lucas said "yes sir" all his men tiredly said, they all rose to there feet and where about to file out the door when the purple pony stopped them "You know that i have enough room's to house you guy's right?" she said. Lucas and his crew turned to face the pony "that would be nice and all but we have bugged you enough" Lucas said turning and walking out the door "but why would you just leave? where would you go?" the purple pony asked, Lucas stood in the doorway and without looking at the pony he spoke "well... i don't know. wherever we end up i guess... unless my crew want's to stay here" he said looking to his crew, they all gave tired nods and set there bag's down "sir please, could we stay here for a while?" Harald asked looking at Lucas, Lucas sighed and nod yes. After Twilight led Lucas and his crew to there room he thanked her and shut the door "Fuck, im tired" he said, grabbing his bag he pulled out a sleeping bag and set it up on the floor while the other's did the same, there was a bed but they concluded only bad thing's would come of it so they decided to sleep on the floor, laying down Lucas made himself comfy and tried to drift off to sleep, with no success he went with just laying there and stareing at the ceiling. The room was quiet too quiet for him, but after about a hour he managed to drift off to sleep > Chapter: 4 Separate way's > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 week's later "Ivan, Grigori, Damien, Yuri, Hans, Elmo, Olaf, Harald and Lucas stood on the train platform talking to each other "Well, Mentlegen. it has been nice meeting you" Elmo said shaking hands with Grigori "Same to you" Grigori said. The whistle from there train blew and he grabbed his suitcase and stepped on board "Until next time, stay safe and happy trail's" Grigori said as the train door's closed and the train started to move away. The group of human's where growing restless and decided to split ways for a while and explore their new world to see what it had to offer. Grigori was the first to split and go his own way, in the last two week's the humans became close friends and often hung out together. After the train dissipated into the distance the group turned and started heading back to there homes, following the path Ivan made his way to his house, a run down abandon house he was staying in temporarily until he could get enough money to fix it up. Opening the door Ivan stepped in and slipped his boot's off before closing the door, shuffling to the couch he flopped down and relaxed. Relaxation only lasted so long as a ruckus could be heard from upstairs. Standing up Ivan grabbed his Makarov from under the couch and started making his way to the stairs, once there Ivan slowly started walking up the steps one by one until he reached the top. Ivan saw that the door to the attic was open and the latter was folded down, grabbing a lantern he lit it and started making his way up and into the attic pistol in one hand and lantern in the other. The attic was cramped and he never bothered to look up there so he was surprised to see several boxes of old items and a bed with a sleeping pony. Walking slowly he approached the pony, she looked different, she had an ash-grey coat and a sort of fire orange mane, as Ivan approached the pony he could see her tense up, slowly he poked her on the back several time's before she shot up. "wah, What?" she said looking around until she saw Ivan crouched next to her "oh, s-sorry I didn't know that somepony lived here, I will go" she said looking for a way to walk around the lumbering giant of a human. When she couldn't find any ways around him she looked up at him her orange cat-like eye's glimmering in the light of the lantern "oh, heh... yea I guess it looks like no one lives here. but I do......" Ivan went quiet as he looked into the strange mare's eyes. He had never seen anything like them before and he was entranced by the " Sorry... if you want to stay here you can. but just so you know once I get the money I am renovating this place" he said, turning Ivan made his way back to the latter and slowly climbed down before heading to his room. Ivan sat quietly in his room thinking about what just happened, was.. was he flustered by talking to the strange pony? no, he couldn't be, these where pony's he couldn't have feelings for them that was just wrong. Or was it? they are sapient and act like human's with there own feeling's and thought's, Ivan put his head in his hand as he thought about what happened. Confused Ivan decided to go for a walk, he opened the door and stepped out into the hallway then down the stairs to the front door. After slipping on his boot's he made his way to town, while walking he could hear a commotion from the train platform and decided that he should investigate. When he got to the platform he could see the German crew with there bag's step onto the train and take seats for themselves "Hey what's going on?" Ivan asked a random mare "well they are leaving, they played a game and now one of them is going to get off at each stop," she said "like roulette? but who looses gets off at the next stop?" he asked "yea, kind of like that" she said. Ivan looked to the Germans and waved they waved back as the train started to move away and into the distance. one week later "well, the time we had was fun, but I'm growing restless." Damien said looking to Ivan "There is a swamp called 'Froggy bottom bog' and I am moving there. Hopefully I would be able to get some quiet time" Damien said standing up and grabbing his backpack "well, it was nice but I won't keep you from doing your thing" Ivan said standing up and walking to the door and stepping out, Damien soon followed and after there, final goodbye's he made his way towards the everfree forest. Sighing Ivan stepped back into the house and closed the door, he walked to the pantry and pulled out a bottle of scrumpy, opening it he started drinking the alcohol. Ivan walked back to the couch and set down starring at the ceiling while he drank, after a while the sound of hoofs could be heard walking down the stairs. The bat pony he found in the attic turned out to be a really good friend and she would come downstairs now and then " Hey Flare" Ivan said "Hey, you ok there big guy?" Flare asked nearing the couch, she was a bit timid but has gotten much better as the days went by "yea, it just my crew is leaving. the were more than friends, they were like family to me" Ivan said taking a drink. Flare walked up to Ivan and sat down to face him "Listen, I know it must be hard but they have to go. you cannot keep them forever" she said placing a shaky hoof on his arm, Ivan looked down at her hoof than up to her. She smiled warmly at him and he stood up quickly wrapping his arms around her barrel and pulling her close, she squeaked but quickly and shakily returned the gesture. A minute late he set her down and wiped some tears from his eyes "Thank you I needed some pony to talk to for a while now," Ivan said standing up "you are the one creature I can rely on" he continued "I haven't been able to feel this way since...... before......the war" Ivan's eyes closed shut as he pictured things that happened in the war. He started shaking and his breath grew short as he remembered, Flare tapped his hand and he looked down at her with a pained smile "sorry, I just get lost sometimes" he said, standing up Ivan walked past flare and into the kitchen. He grabbed a box of mini square wheat's and started making his way back to the living room, once there he sat back down and started eating while giving a few to Flare, they sat there in silence as they munched away at the dry cereal. "so... you want to talk about it?" she asked after a while, Ivan looked at her than to the floor "talk bout what?" he questioned "You seemed upset about what happened during the war, and you might feel better if you talked to me about it," Flare said looking at him and smiling Ivan, on the other hand, was nervously fidgeting while his gaze darted from her to the floor "I... I uh I" he started sweating "OK fine!" he said looking down at flare "I was ordered to clear out several buildings with my squad, any people we found where to be killed. while searching this one German house we found a German family, and as our orders stated" He started crying into his hands "we killed them all, the mother, father, kids and the baby. they screamed as we dragged them outside and shot them!" his tears flowed down his face and onto the shocked pony below him " I'm a monster! I should not be here. I should be in the deepest pit of hell!" he cried. As he was crying he was fully expecting Flare to run away in fear, but she didn't instead she crawled up and into Ivan's lap like a cat and started comforting him. Ivan cried and cried for what felt like an hour before he stopped, Ivan looked at the bat pony in his lap and smiled "you feeling better big guy?" Flare questioned looking up at him. Ivan said nothing as he pulled her into a big hug and started nuzzling her cheek Flare giggled and pulled away "see I told you you would feel better after you talked about it" Ivan smiled and started running his hands through her mane " Thank you, that has been bothering me fo-" He was cut off by a deafening roar "the fuck was that?" Ivan yelled quickly standing up. Without a second thought Ivan ran outside to find a massive three-headed dragon thing chasing after Damien. Sprinting as fast as he could Ivan caught up with Damien "The FUCK is that!" Ivan yelled "I have no idea! it was in the swamp!" Damien yelled back, the two of them ran into town and to Twilight's castle where their tank was parked. Grigori and Yuri were drinking apple cider on the tank and talking "Grigori! what are you doing back!" Ivan yelled, Grigori smiled and waved "Forgot some of my stuff!" he yelled back. Not wasting any time Ivan barked at the men in front of him "Get in the tank! Battle positions!" Ivan yelled. They instantly jumped into action and got into the tank, the engine rumbled to life and they instantly took off towards the weird dragon thing. across town "I can't believe you forgot your gear!" Hans yelled slapping Elmo in the back of the head, walking along they heard the familiar sound of tank fire along with a deafening roar. The group of Germans looked at each other and took off towards the noises "Get going men!" Lucas yelled, they ran to the outskirts of town to find the Russian KV-1 shooting at a giant hydra "Get to our tank, NOW!" Lucas screamed. They took off to where they abandoned their tank and jumped in "you dumb asses are lucky I came back and repaired the track!" Lucas yelled, the tank roared to life and took off to help the Russians. The hydra's roar was cut short as a more deafening boom cut through the air, the hydra looked over at the Panzer 4 with hate. The Panzer shot again and the round ripped through the hydra sending a pained howl from it. Lucas looked at Hans "Fire at will!" he shouted, with that the tank erupted with machine gun and cannon fire, the Russians not to be outdone started shooting with everything they got. Lumps of flesh where getting ripped from the hydra as it charged towards the Russians, it lifted its foot and stomped down on the tank... only to howl in pain again. The Russian tank had its suspension destroyed and had a large dent in the top of the turret. The hydra quickly turned tail and started to run only to get a well placed AP round to the heart. The beast fell to the ground and slowly started to turn to ash and blow away in the wind. Lucas looked at Elmo and yelled " quickly, to the Russians!" With that Elmo shifted into overdrive and went full tilt like a Peter-Built to the Russians. When they got to the Russians they all quickly jumped out of there tank and ran over to see if they were ok. Running up to the tank Lucas jumped on the turret and started yelling "are you guys ok in there!?!?" Almost instantly he could hear Ivan yell back "Yea, we are fine, help us open the hatches please" Ivan yelled quickly Lucas grabbed a crowbar from the side of the Russian tank and began to slowly pry the turret hatch open. Once open the Russians began to slowly crawl out from the tank, once all of them were out Lucas checked them for injuries. After a few minutes of silence the sound of a pony teleporting could be heard, looking over the group of humans could see Twilight and her friends plus a pissed off looking, Celestia. "Fuck," the group said in unison