“Alright... be careful for now on. You’ve lost a lot of blood from your back and leg wounds. I don’t think it would be good for you if you lost anymore”
“Thanks Fluttershy. I’ll try my best. How are the others?”
“I um... I'm sorry Courage but they are not as lucky as you. Liam and Pinkie suffered many abrasions and have minor concussions. Ryder has lost a lot of blood from his bullet wounds and Edward has a major concussion and a broken leg”
“Damn. Hows Apple Jack and Rainbow?”
“Apple Jack...” she tilted her head in despair. “...has suffered multiple bone fractures and abrasions of her own. It’s not looking good for her...”
“Just do what you can for her. She’s a tough pony. She’ll be fine”
“Oh... um... okay. I will do that”
“What about Rainbow?”
“She’s also in a poor condition, she suffered...”
“I'm Fine!” Interrupted Rainbow. “...I'm ready to get back at those jerks after what they did to my friends!” she huffed with a vengeance.
“Oh... Rainbow... that's not such a great idea...” suggested Fluttershy softly.
“I’ll be fine. So what if I can’t fly. I can still fight on the ground. Courage is going to need help out there...”
“...We’re coming too!” Twilight insisted as she approached us. Rarity was also with her.
“...and us...” Pete insisted, walking towards me with Violet and Megan. “...You're going to need more than a few ponies to fight the Russians”
“What are you trying to say?!?” Rainbow said aggressively, raising her hoof at Pete. “...ponies not good enough? I’ll show you who’s not good enough!”
“Woah! Calm down Rainbow...” I said as I stood between her and Pete. “...Pete didn’t mean it like that”
She just looked at me with evils and walked over to some crates to get her Famas.
“Everyone Listen! I know we’re all a bit on edge. The past few days haven’t been easy. The loss of Anthony with the plane, Lister and Gavin in Magadan... but we need to stay calm and keep a cool head. We are close to General Ricktov. Once he tells us where to find the Russian Premier we can find out where Discord is and find out what he is planning. Violet, I want you and Liam flown home. Continue to analyse the data me and Rainbow stole from the science base. Try to find something we can use. Liam. Prepare your chopper. We will need it to get to the Russian Premier. Pete, Megan and you three ponies will come with me to the Generals location at the Primary Russian command post...”
“What about the Heli deport we were told to take out?” asked Pete.
“We don’t have the time for that. The General will be onto us and will try to escape Berlin before we find him. We can’t waste anymore time. Discord has already had a huge head start”
“The UN won’t be happy about this.”
“You're right. They wont, but I'm sure they’ll understand... Now c’mon. We should get going team”

Me and the team were loading up and readying to go. Sargent Kellion walked up to me as I checked my very limited ammo.
“Low on ammo son?”
“Kellion! You're okay!”
“Sure am. A bullet to the neck wont stop me”
“...Fucking bad ass sarge”
“I noticed that you used the M246. A weapon that the UN no longer use. We don’t have any ammo to give you for that weapon. Try this instead! It’s similar, more powerful and uses the same clip size and type as the M4 and M16”
The Sargent chucked me an assault rifle similar shape and size to my M246.
“...M416: Accurate, powerful assault rifle. German basic issue. Plenty's of ammo lying around for it. I think you’ll love it”
“Thanks sarge. I appreciate this. It has always been difficult finding ammo for my weapon. It’s not made anywhere now-a-days”
“That’s because the M246 was not so great. Made in 2013 to try and imitate the AK’s attributes but horribly failed and was discontinued in early 2014”
“You certainly know you gun history. And you can definitely kick some ass. I could use you on the team”
“Sorry son... but I'm loyal to the core. But I'm sure we’ll work together again in the future. Keep up the good work. Now move it out. You’ve got a bad guy to catch”
I saluted him and he saluted back, “Thank you sarge for you help with this...”
“Anything for a fellow Brony” he said followed with a wink. He then walked away to re-group with the remains of his team. Pete came and stood beside me.
“We’re all ready to go sir”
“...No way... Sargent Kellion is a Brony...” I said quietly in awe. I then turned to the others, “Alright. Gather round team. The target is at the Russian command post in the outlying town of Blumberg. We and a few squads of UN soldiers will get there by following the Blumberger Chaussee Via Humvee. Just got to follow the road all the way to the Berliner Ring. Blumberg is just on the other side of the Berliner Ring. We will have our own Humvee and three more full of UN soldiers. We will also have two guardian Artillery with us to help fight off the tanks. These Humvees are old school. They have 50.cal weapons and not Mini-guns. I'm sure we can manage though... as always, I will now ask if any of you have any questions... We do this all too often...”
“Sounds good” “Good Plan” “I'm okay with this”. Everyone seemed okay with this very simple plan.
“..Alright then... let’s get going! It’s about a ten minute drive”

On the move now. We had just reached the Blumberger Chaussee road. Hopefully we would counter little resistance on the way to the command post. Twilight and Rarity occupied the back seats, Megen in front passenger, and Pete driving. I was manning the gun. One UN Humvee lead the convoy, two behind us and the two artillery at the back. Rainbow was in one of the Humvees behind us since there wasn’t enough room for all of us. Single file line on a long straight road... in the open... I did not feel comfortable. Open warfare was never my strong point. I’ve never actually been in open warfare. Admittedly I was actually afraid. My dad always taught me about hand to hand combat, close quarters cross fires and completing objectives. He never once taught me about open combat even though that was the field he specialised in. I had no idea why until now. The horror of it. Watching people die around you. Even those you know and love. Clearly he wanted me to go into spec ops. It is less messy and traumatising. He was obviously trying to protect me from the same horrors he experienced. It is even worse for the soldiers now. A full war between super powers is worse than what my dad was fighting. And what Discord has planned was probably even worse than that.

A few minutes past and we reaching the Berliner ring, the motorway that seemed to go all around Berlin.
PEW!
A sniper hit the gunner of the Humvee in front.
“Shit Sniper! Yelled one of the gunners behind me”
I scanned for a few seconds to see where the shot came from. The other gunners got down inside their Humvees for cover. For a split second I saw a flash coming from the Berliner ring bridge that passed over this road we were on... but then all I saw was red. I fell back inside the Humvee bleeding heavily from my stomach.
“Courage!” Twilight quickly levitated some bandages over to cover my newly made bullet wound. “...Courage! Why didn’t you get down? You know what Fluttershy said! Quick Rarity! Anesthetic now!”
“Whats happening back there?” Panicked Megan.
Another shot sounded off and the Humvee in front went out of control. It flipped and rolled off the side of the road. I turned on my ear piece and spoke into it with almost no life left in me “...The Bridge. Take out the bridge. That’s were the sniper is...”
One of the Artillery fired a shell into the bridge. It collapsed and the sniper fire seemed to stop. A needle then stabbed into my arm with Rarity’s light purple glow surrounding it. My vision suddenly returned to normal as the adrenaline shot rushed through my veins.
“Rarity! I said Anesthetic!” complained Twilight.
“I'm sorry. I didn’t know which one it was. I'm a dress maker, not a doctor. It looks like it’s helping him anyway”
I climbed back up, re-mounting the gun again.
“Courage!” Twilight moaned. “...It isn’t such a great idea for you to fight anymore. Get back inside and rest!”
“No!”
“But Fluttershy said...”
“I don’t care what Fluttershy said. I have a mission to complete. I never liked taking orders from doctors anyway...”

We reached the collapsed Bridge and stopped in front of the Rubble...
“Yeah.... We didn’t quite think that move through did we...” I said criticizingly. “Looks like we’re climbing over...”
“The artillery can drive right over the rubble” a marine said as he walked beside me.
“Are you sure?” I asked. “...It’s pretty steep”
“Yep. Pretty sure. The artillery has proper treads. Shouldn’t be too hard. However the Humvees will have to stay behind”
“That’s fine. I can take my team over and make sure it’s safe for the artillery”
“Rodger that. We’ll wait for you to confirm it’s safe. Then once we’re over we can fight to the command post”
I turned my head sideways towards the team, “Alright! Lets move!”

My team climbed over to the other side of the Rubble. It was clear. The town was not far ahead and I could see Russians prepping their defences.
“Okay, It’s clear. Bring the artillery over”
The artillery was coming over the rubble along with the marines.
“Alright. Lets not waste time. I want the artillery to go in first. Rip the town to shreds boys! We’ll follow in on foot and deal with the survivors. We will head straight for the command post. Lets go kick some ass!”
“Oh-rah!” the marines cheered.
The artillery drove in first and wreaked the first few houses. We followed and took cover by the remains of the houses. We fought our way through the town.The Russians were relentless and so were we. We were much better at it as we slaughtered the Russian forces. We encountered six T-90 tanks but our artillery took care of them. We didn’t lose a single marine as we fought our way through the town. If the UN soldiers could do all this without getting hurt then maybe the UN was not so hopeless after all.

We reached the command post. It was set up in some kind of small office building. The writing on the signs was in German so I couldn’t tell what it was.
“Expo Insurance Ltd.” said the German marine near me.
Well now I knew what the building was for. It was for insurance. Thank you German guy for giving me that useless fact. I didn’t actually say that to him as It would have been rude. Suddenly out from the building a T-90 crashed through the wall and fired a shot at our artillery. The artillery was destroyed but it didn’t explode violently. The drivers climbed out.They were a bit disorientated but they were fine and they had their P-90s to help in the fight. The second artillery fired back at the tank. The tank was damaged by the attack but it’s machine gun was still working. It started firing at us with it. One of it’s drivers tried to get out as he clearly realised that our artillery was just going to fire again and again until the tank was destroyed. The other drivers either didn’t realise or just didn’t care.
Bang! The artillery fired again and the T-90 exploded. Russians soon after started running our from the smoke and returned fire. We were all out in the open so we all went prone and fired back. It didn’t take long but after a few clips of ammo and a few artillery shells the Russians pulled back inside the building.
“C’mon team!” I jumped up walking backwards as I turned to the marines and the ponies. “...Lets go! We’ve got them on the run!” I started turning round towards the building “...so lets chase them down!!”
The marines began to cheer. “Yeah! Lets how these huskies what we're made of! Oh-rah!!”
I was trying to inspire the marines and give them morale. Being told by their leaders they were losing was not great for their morale. I wanted to give them back their morale. Morale is always important in battle. It gives the soldiers strength as I have clearly proven here as my troops kicked Russian butt.

We moved inside the building. I told the marines to clear the bottom levels of the building while me, Megan and Pete moved upstairs to find the General. Stacked upon the door now. I listened in and I could hear Ricktov.
“...I want out of here now! The Germans are here!”
“Okay, breach and clear” I whispered to Megan.
Megan put her hand on the handle as I stood in front of the door. Pete was behind Megan.
“Remember, we want him alive so watch your fire. Alright. Go!”
She swung the door open a I moved in shooting the Russians. One in the neck, another in the shoulder then a third in the head. Megan moved in and fired at a couple more Russians and Pete followed in doing the same. We took down all the Russians with a single shoot to each.
“Where the fuck is Ricktov?” I shouted.
Suddenly Ricktov rose from behind a table and shot Megan in the neck and ran towards the door. Pete fired a few bullets him but missed.
“Megan!”
I went over and knelt down beside her. She was struggling to breath as blood poured from her neck
“Shit Megan!” Pete yelled as he crouched down next to her. He grabbed her hand and looked to me.
“Don’t worry bout me sir. You gotta catch Ricktov before he gets away” Megan said trying to cling to life.
“I'm not leaving you here!”
She started coughing blood and then chuckled, “...Don’t worry about me sir. I did my part. I can die knowing I helped you save the world. I always wanted a cheesy death anyway, just like in the movies. Now go catch him!”
“Alright Meg. You did good soldier. I’m proud of you. Pete! Stay here with her. Make her death as comfortable as possible”
“What about Ricktov?” Pete asked worryingly.
“...He’s mine...” I immediately dashed out the door.

I ran out the back of the building to find Ricktov climbing aboard a hind.
“Ricktov!” I shouted accusingly. He looked back but ignored me as he continued to climb aboard the chopper. Rainbow dash ran beside me. “We can’t let him get away!”
I started running towards the chopper and grabbed the side! A Russian soldier moved to shoot me but Rainbow shot him and he fell of over my head. A second soldier moved to shoot me. I climbed up and grabbed his weapon. We struggled over the weapon but Rainbow soon took a shot at him. I threw the Russian off the chopper and watched him fall. The helicopter was pretty high off the ground now, a good 50 meters up. As I turned round Ricktov hit me round the head with his pistol. I was nearly knocked out of the chopper. He swung again to hit me but I grabbed his pistol before he could. We were too high now for Rainbow to shoot him and she as still wounded and unable to fly. I forced the pistol out of his hand and lobbed it out of the chopper. I then grabbed his collar and punched him to the floor. I then kicked him in the chest. I picked him up, threw him to the wall and punched him again.
“What’s Discord planning?!?” I demanded.
“You're too late! His plan is about to go into action. Nobody knows it but the world is about to change!”
“Where is he?!?”
“Fuck you...”
I punched him again then moved him to the chopper door, threatening to throw him out.
“Where... Is... Discord!”
“I don’t know! I don’t know! Only the Premier know...” he said cowardly.
“Okay... Where is he then?”
“Why would I tell you?”
I jolted him in threat of throwing him out, “...because I can throw you out of the chopper!”
“Okay! He’s in a bunker north of Moscow. Not that it’ll help you. You're too late.. You and your precious Ponies are fucked anyway...”
“...No. YOUR FUCKED!” I threw him out of the chopper in rage
As he fell he screamed with terror. I watched him fall. I moved to the cockpit and bashed the pilots heads together. Both were knocked out straight away. A big mistake since one fell on the ignition key, braking it.
“Who the fuck has a key to start up a fucking chopper?!?!” I complained in more rage.
The chopper started plummeting to the ground. I was pretty screwed now.
“Courage?!? Jump out of the chopper now!” Twilight's voice came from through my ear piece.
“What why?!?”
“Just do it!” She ordered.
I jumped out of the chopper. Falling fast, getting closer and closer to the ground. I was just about to hit the ground and all I could think was ‘Fuck you Twilight’. I shut my eyes to brace myself for the impact. After many second I spoke, “Why haven't I hit the ground yet?” I opened my eyes and I found myself less than 3 cm from the ground. I was surrounded by a Purple glow. Twilight had caught me with he magic. She then dropped me on my nose.
“Ow! You could have waited till I was ready”
She was standing over by a Humvee and some marines
“I'm sorry. I'm not used to carrying life forms with my magic. Levitating life forms is for some reason much much harder”
“It does not matter now. We need to get to Moscow immediately! Marine!”
“Yes sir?”
“Get a message to Liam. I need him to pick us up. Oh and tell him to bring my Lamborghini...”
“You got it. I’ll notify Command. They’ll send your message”