Harmony's Defeat
Chapter 37: Chapter Thirty Six - Final Assault
Previous Chapter Next Chapter“...and I was like in Equestria for like one day... and now you want me to die for them! For a bunch of Ponies! I mean what kind of ponies are you?!? I mean I’ve never seen a blue or a purple pony before! You don’t even look like real ponies! You’re some stupid.... Like... gerbil things... But now I have to die for six ponies and some stupid gems that you could probably buy in Boots! Oh wait it all got glassed by Discord! Because he is a total ass hole that wanted to troll Celestia! I know! Let build a glass house and play minecraft and live happily ever after!! And Discord! What a twat! He had like 500 ships but lost to like 80. He’s like the worst leader ever... Fucking Discord and his Halo rip off grav lift. I bet it’s not even a grav lift! I bet it’s just a giant industrial fan that blows us up! And Twilight! Your fucking speech was SOOO uplifting! ‘We’re up against impossible and odds and we’re all gonna die!’. Fucking nice Twilight! Yeah! I feel so uplifted now! Yeah! Great one!...”
Liam was ranting as we walked towards Discord’s ship. Liam was not happy at all with anything. I had never heard anyone rant like that before. Half of it didn’t even make sense to me. We all near enough ignored him. We had bigger things to worry about.
After an hour of walking we finally made it to the building. We were hidden in the tree line so we had time to prepare a plan of action. The office building seem relatively intact. A few holes and a few smashed windows but still in good enough condition to set up a base in. A few tanks patrolled the perimeter and a few mounted turrets were set up behind some purple metal barricades at the main entrance.
“Oh yeah! We’re supposed to attack a random building in the middle of nowhere!! What the fuck is it doing in the middle of nowhere anyway?!? It’s not like anyone can actually fucking find it!!”
“Alright! Give it a rest Liam!” I sighed loudly. “Let’s get this over with so we can all go home for a cappuccino”
“Yeah! You better fucking buy me a cappuccino...”
“Alright... Any ideas people?!?” I asked hopelessly.
Everyone shrugged at me. That was just great. Impossible odds and no plan.
“Alright... well lets get a sniper up on that hill to the right. First team of ponies, get up there and set up that sniper of yours”
“You got it...” replied the pony marine.
“Alright what else?” asked Twilight.
“Erm... Shit... I have no idea... erm...”
I lied there thinking. There was no cover between us and the building, we had no air support and there was no way of sneaking in.
“Alright. Sniper team, you are now Able squad. The second Pony team is Delta and Tasha’s team is Husky. The rest of us are Cobra. So this is how we are going to do this: Delta squad will move about 100 yards down the tree line and provide cover. Husky, you will do the same to the right. Able, you will still move to the hill and provide sniper cover. You will target the turret gunners as soon as Cobra team goes...
“Let me guess... We run down the middle at the enemies?” complained Liam.
“Um...yes...”
“Fucking great! This is the worst plan ever...”
“Have you got a problem Liam? Do you not want to stop Discord? Are you gonna let him get away with destroying all those Cappuccino machines?”
“Aw what?!? Hell No!”
“Alright...”
“Al-left...” muttered Russell blankly.
“Shut up...” I said before continuing with my original sentence. “Alright, Cobra team. Get ready move. Luna, Celestia, Twilight: Get ready to cover us with shields”
“Got it” replied all three of them.
We got ready to move. We were waiting on the teams to get in position. It was only a few tanks and turrets: How hard could it be? We had two goddesses on our side for Pete's sake. No way we were going to lose.
“We are in position. Sniper is ready and covering”
“Rodger that Able squad” I then turned to the others, “Alright, lets go people!”
We ran out into the open towards the building, I stopped and pulled out my rocket launcher. I fired a rocket into the first tank and destroyed it. Luna and Celestia deflected incoming fire while the sniper took out the turret soldiers. Twilight and the rest fired on the enemies firing from the windows and from behind the walls. Two tanks came around the building. Before they could even shoot, Celestia picked them both up with her levitation and smashed them together. Rainbow Dash then stepped forward and fired away at the enemy with her battle saddle. Luckily the pad in her helmet was still working despite everything else with her helmet being broken. She dominated the enemies on the bottom floor with her weapons as the rest of us moved in.
“Delta, Husky! We’re moving in. Once the enemy stop firing then move up. Able squad, you will follow up after them”
“Rodger that Courage” replied a pony marine.
Me, the Mane six and Liam moved into the main lobby and took cover behind some metal boxes as more enemies fired upon us. We returned fire, popping in and out of cover. Russell and Blades moved in and took cover with us.
“Two laser mini-guns! Second floor! Eleven o’clock!” shouted Blades.
Heavy laser fire bombed the boxes and we found it difficult to return fire under that much suppression.
“The Fun Has Been Doubled!!” shouted Luna as she walked in through the main entrance. She was levitating two Tar-21’s and she was surrounded by a force field of her own. She began to open fire on the upper balconies, eliminating the mini-gunners with ease and taking down a lot of the enemy soldiers. She reloaded and took out the last of the enemies, spraying bullets all over the lobby as the last of the enemies fled. Luna then blew the smoke from her barrels and turned to me.
“So how many points do I receive?” she asked with a wink.
I smiled and got up, “You just broke the high score...”
Everyone else got up and began to move across the room to secure it. The other teams came through the door and approached me.
“Alright, Husky team, you move through the building and secure it floor by floor. Able and Delta teams, I want you to move to the south stair well and move to the top floor. Me and the others will move up the north and we will both take the top floor from two directions! Now move it out! Time’s a wasting”
The teams moved off to follow their orders and I approached my team.
“Alright. We have done well so far. Let’s keep it up”
We were now on the top floor. We were sneaking around to find the Grav lift. We approached a double door way and stacked up on the right side. I took a peak round the corner to have a look of what was waiting for us in the room. The Grav lift! It was being protected by more dragon warriors. Some had laser rifles and some had an energy sword. In the door way at the opposite end of the room I saw a pony soldier peaking through the door way in the same way as me.
“Delta team here. We’re ready to move in when you are Sir”
“Rodger that. On my mark we all move in and gun them down... Ready?”
I paused for a second while everyone primed their weapons.
“Mark!”
On my mark, everyone moved into the room and sprayed the enemy with bullets. Most of them were killed instantly but some managed to get down and take cover. We all took cover and fired on the enemy. With us coming from both sides, they didn’t last very long. Some of them tried to take the Grav lift back up to the ship. Some of them were successful with the cover their allies provided.
Only two were left and both got up and backed up for the Grav lift. They backed towards the grav lift, firing back at us as they attempted to cover themselves. I lifted my assault rifle and fired at them, taking them both down before they could reach the lift.
Suddenly the room went quiet and we began to stand up slowly, including the ponies on the other side of the room.
“Clear!” yelled a pony soldier.
“Clear!” yelled another.
We moved up to the blue, swirly grav lift and looked up through the hole in the roof towards the ship. I then started to move into it but Luna pulled me back again.
“Wait...” she said. “They’ll be expecting us. They will be ready for us”
“You’re right...” I agreed softly. “Liam! The C5...” I ordered. “You know what to do” I hinted at him.
“Yeah!! C5 time!” cheered Liam as he pulled out a few blocks of C5 explosives. Liam threw them into the grav lift and they were slowly lifted up towards the ship. We waited patiently.
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“Be ready dragon warriors! Here they come!”
…
“Huh? What the? You! Go check it out!”
*Grunt* “Yes boss”
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“Erm... Boss... It’s flashing red and beeping and has a timer... What should we do?!?”
“It’s a bomb you idiot! Drop it! And you! Turn off the grav lift quickly befo-”
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“Wow...” we all said in awe as the hole in the ship filled with blue and orange flames.
“Alright! That should have cleared them all out! Lets move!” I ordered as I walked into the grav beam. The other followed me in and we too were lifted slowly towards the ship. The feeling of weightlessness was weird and I could feel the energy of the lift passing through me. It was like a cool breeze was passing right through my skin. Weird. We were lifted slowly out of the building and towards the ship. We were so high above the building now. I didn’t normally have a fear of heights but knowing that some one could shut this thing off at any moment really scared me. I then floated up through a force field that filled the hole and the grav lift dropped me on it. I waited as the others joined me in the ship. Once everyone was on board a huge door closed below our feet and the force field shut off.
“That was weird too” I mumbled to myself.
The pony marines and Russian soldiers secured the room. All the guards were killed by the C5 explosives. I dared to say more were on their way.
“Alright, gather round!...” I ordered.
“Why do you always say ‘Alright’? It’s getting kinda lame...”
“Stow it Liam...”
“How about you shut the fuck up you stupid Plum head! Go suck on some apricots”
I looked at him with a deep frown but then continued to address everyone.
“Right... More soldiers are most likely on their way down so lets make this quick. Luna, Celestia and the girls will make their way to the bridge and deal with Discord, Able team will go to down to the engines and plant C5 explosives around the deck, Delta will do the same with the Hyper-drive and Husky will do the same with the hanger. Me, Liam, Russell and Blades will head to the shield generator to do the same. Once we are done we will return here, escape the ship and detonate the charges. Now lets get going before more of them show up!”
Me and my team were now on our way down to the shield generator. The other teams went for their objectives. Hopefully if everything went to plan we would actually win this time.
“Sorry Courage, why didn’t you go with the ponies this time?” asked Liam curiously.
“Because we need to keep the teams as even as possible so we don’t lose anyone else...” I explained.
“I would have thought you would want to be there when Discord got defeat- Oh crap!”
We started to take laser fire from the end of the corridor. We hugged the wall and returned fire. We managed to take one down but the others took cover by the corners.
“Shit! We’re exposed! We gotta double back and find another way round to the shield generator!”
“Aww What?!? But that’s effort!!” complained Liam.
“C’mon Liam. Lets go!”
We pulled back slowly, returning fire on the enemy.
“Where do you think you’re going?!?” shouted a voice behind us. It was a super soldier!
“Shit!” I yelled as I dodged his melee attack. He was holding a large assault rifle with some kind of knife at the end of it. He swung at me again and I dodged to the side.
“Everyone in!” shouted Blades as he opened a door into a large tool repair room. We all moved into the room to get out of the laser fire but the super soldier followed us in. Blades quickly smashed the control panel to close and seal the door. The super soldier began to spray bullets everywhere and we all jumped behind stuff for cover. Once he started to reload I switched my assault rifle for my shotgun and ran at him. Blades come at him from the side. The super soldier tried to swing at me as I approached but I ducked and shot his hand. He swung again and I dodged but he quickly elbowed me back afterwards. Blades jump kicked from the side but the super soldier grabbed his leg and swung him into some metal shelves. Liam and Russell got up to shoot but the super soldier threw a grenade at them. It had a very short fuse and detonated near them both before they could get away. They were blown into a wall and were stunned. I got up and fired a few shots into the super soldiers helmet. His helmet was torn apart but some how he survived. At least he was wounded and had no head protection. He then grabbed the end of my shotgun and crushed it. He then punched me with his other hand and knocked me back. He then took off his damaged helmet. Blades soon recovered and came back at him. Blades swiped the soldiers legs and tripped him. The super soldier then grabbed his hoof, stood up and slammed Blades to the ground. He then punched him twice, smashed him into a wall and then grabbed him by the throat, drawing his pistol. He began to shoot Blades in the stomach multiple times.
“Noo!” I yelled as I tackled the super soldier from the side, forcing him to drop Blades. The super soldier knocked me off and got up. He swung at me and I knocked his arm away. I then punch him in the stomach hard using my suits hydraulics, winding him. He held his stomach, bring his head down a bit. He tried to punch again but I kicked him in the side of the head, then brought my foot down on his head, forcing him on his knees and then spun round in the air to kick him into some shelves. He tried to recover but I drew my knife and stabbed him in the eye while I screamed in rage. He cried out in pain as he held his eye with his hands. I then twisted the blade and pulled out of his head. He grunted as he fell to the floor dead.
“Blades!” I yelled as I approached him. “Blades! Are you okay?!?”
The gap in the door began to spark as the dragon soldiers began to cut through.
“I’m gonna get you outta here Blades...”
“No...” he coughed heavily and looked to the door. “There’s no time, I’ll only slow you down. I’ll hold them off. Get to the generator now!”
“I’ve left too many friends to die! I’m not letting any more die!”
“There’s no time! Go!”
I then picked up Blades and wrapped his front leg around the back of my neck to support him.
“What are you doing?!?” he asked.
“I’m not leaving you!! I’ve lost too many friends! Russell! Liam! Lets go!!”
We quickly exited the room through the other door and made our way to the generator.
We made it to the generator room. Me and Blades limped into the room as Liam and Russell backed in behind us, firing on some enemies. Russell smashed the door panel and sealed the room.
“Alright! Get those charges set!”
Liam and Russell proceeded to plant charges while I set Blades down to tend his wounds.
“You okay Blades?” I asked.
“It’s bad... It’s really bad... I’m not going to make it”
“Stop it. You’re starting to sound like Violet... Just hold still okay?”
I pulled out my field kit.
“Your suit is fucked! I need to remove it to get to your wounds”
I took off Blades suit, the opened my field kit and started to stitch up Blades bullet wounds.
“How are we doing with those charges guys?” I asked in a pressured tone.
“Almost finished” replied Liam.
Blades began to cough and pass out. He was bleeding heavily and I couldn’t stitch his wounds very well.
“Stay with me Blades! Stay with me!!” I shouted, but in a concentrated tone.
He passed out and I wasn’t getting very far with the stitches.
“Fuck it! I’ll just use a few bandages”
The enemy began to cut through the door.
“Alright! Time to go!!” I ordered as I picked up Blades and put him over my shoulder.
“Okay! Charges are set! Lets go!” replied Russell.
We left through the back door and made out way towards the bridge.
“Courage. This is Twilight. We’re at the bridge. We encountered resistance up here but no sign of Discord”
“Alright Twi. Access the computers and see if you can find out where he is” I suggested.
“Alright. Will do. Twilight out”
Me and the others stopped in the corridor while I took a moment to think.
“Where could of Discord gone?” asked Liam in a slightly annoyed tone.
“I dunno but we-”
“Courage! This is Tasha! We have encountered some heavy resistance...”
I could hear heavy gun and laser fire in the background.
“...It’s Discord! He’s trying too escape on a transport!”
“Hold him off! We’ll be right there!” I replied as I waved my hand to tell the other to move. We began to run for the hanger.
“Will do commander. We will do our best!”
“Everyone! To the hanger now!” I ordered.
We made it to the hanger. As we walked through the door, a Russian soldier was thrown against the wall beside us. I ducked my head a little as the soldier hit the wall. I then looked forward and set Blades down by the door. We found Discord walking slowly towards us with Tasha in in his left claw, holding her up high. She struggled against his claw while he just grinned at her. He then drew a pistol and shot her in the stomach.
“No! Tig ol’ Bitties!!” shouted Liam in sadness.
Discord then threw her away as she slowly bled to death.
“Mwa ha ha ha ha ha... Pathetic... Why do you keep resisting. I will always be two steps ahead of you...”
“I have a plan... follow my lead...” whispered Liam.
“...and now I will finish you by-”
“Oi! You startin’ something with us Discord?” said Liam in a squeaky tone. I knew exactly what he was doing so... I joined in for a laugh.
“Yeah! You startin’ Discord?” said I in the same high pitched voice.
“You startin’ something with us?”
“Don’t be startin’ with us Discord!”
Russell then joined in, “Yeah! Don’t start Discord!”
“Yeah! Stop startin’!”
“Start stoppin’ Discord!”
“Yeah stop startin’”
“Stop startin’!”
“Yeah! Stop startin’ Discord!”
We then went silent and Discord looked at us with a frown. He then began to speak again.
“...and now I will fin-”
“Stop startin’ Discord!” yelled Liam again.
“Urgh! Stop interrupting me!” shouted Discord as he levitated and threw a load of boxes at us.
“You mad br- Oh shit!”
We were all knocked back by a heavy wave of boxes.
“Shit! I think we pissed him off with that stupid Japanese startin’ thing!” pointed out Liam.
“Yeah! But it was funny!” I laughed.
“Kill them!” Discord ordered his dragon soldiers.
A bunch of dragon soldiers stepped forward and aimed at us. We jumped to the sides for cover as they opened fire. Discord then boarded a transport and prepared to leave the ship.
“Fuck! We can’t let him get away!”
Many more transports full of troops began to take off with him. Luna then walked in spraying bullets everywhere. This gave me enough cover to pull out my rocket launcher and aim for Discord’s engines.
“Quick!” yelled Luna. “Take out his engines before he gets away!”
I aimed for his engines but took my time. My rocket launcher was not guided or heat seeking so I had to get it right. His ship began to fly out of the hanger.
“Courage!!” yelled Twilight in panic.
I then bit my tongue and focused my aim. His ship was now out the hanger. I pulled the trigger and my rocket launched towards his engines.
Direct hit!
His transport then began to fall from the sky towards the ground.
“Quick!” I yelled. “We gotta go after him!” I yelled pointing towards an empty transport.
The other teams had joined us and we were now needing to fight across the floor to the transport.
“Alright! Lets go!”
We all began to fight across the floor. Moving from cover to cover, fighting over a hundred enemy soldiers that surrounded us. I had Blades on my back as I struggled to move around. I was carrying way to much weight. The pony soldier began to go down, Luna and Celestia began to weaken from trying to hold back so much fire and the others being suppressed.
“Fluttershy! Take Blades!” I shouted as I rested him down and drew my LMG. “Everyone go! I’ll cover you all!”
I then began to fire away at the enemy forces. The enemy focused on me, which allowed the others to move quickly to the transport. I continued to fire, taking a few hits but the suit sustained me. I slowly backed towards the transport as the pony soldiers covered me.
“C’mon! Lets go!” shouted the pony soldier.
I used up the last of my bullets on the enemy. I ran out of ammo and dropped my LMG before running for the transport.
“Punch it Rainbow!” I shouted.
“You got it!” she replied as she began to launch the transport.
We flew out the hanger and Rainbow made her way down to Discord’s crashed transport. Discord is a persistent bugger. We landed down to see a few troops running into the tree line. I could only guess that was where Discord had run off too. Rainbow landed us down next to the crash site.
“Alright! The pony soldiers will stay here to protect Blades and the transport. The rest of us need to chase down Discord!”
“We exited the crafted and followed the enemy into the tree lines. The enemy littered the woods and fired on us. We returned fire but we didn’t stop moving. We tore through their lines as we chased after Discord. Celestia and Luna providing cover with their shields. I jumped over a log and into a dragon soldier that was ducked. I shot him and jumped off him into another, jamming my assault rifle into his body and pulling the trigger. We came into an opening and we could see a large group of soldiers coming towards us. We were sprayed with heavy laser fire and we were forced to take cover behind some logs and trees. Behind them I saw Discord making a run for it.
“Fuck! There he is! We can’t let him get away!”
“I got this!!” grinned Rainbow before dashing into the air.
“What are you doing?” I asked loudly.
Rainbow then flew towards the enemy and began to circle them rapidly. They tried to shoot her but she was moving to fast for them to hit. Suddenly the air around them began to act up and it began to form a... tornado?
“Holy crap! She’s doing that thing she did to the para-sprites! Awesome!” I cheered joyfully.
A tornado spoiled up and the enemies were thrown everywhere. Rainbow then began to slow down and the mini tornado dissipated. She landed with a proud grin on her face. We all got up and approached her.
“Nice one Rainbow...” I said in awe.
“Yeah, good going...”
“What skill”
“Awesome”
Everyone was praising her for her skill.
“Eh... it was nothing” she grinned smugly.
“Alright! Let get going! Discord is getting away!” I suggested.
We moved in Discord’s direction through the woods to try find him. He was out of soldiers now and running out of time. It was over for him. We eventually found ourselves entering an old oil refinery complex. We followed the main path towards a large opening. We found Discord sitting on a brown leather chair drinking tea.
“It’s over Discord!” shouted Twilight.
“Oh yes! It has appeared you have got me! Oh no!” he said sarcastically.
“That’s right! We have the elements and you’ve got no where to run! Girls! Get into formation!”
“Okay Ladies! I’m ready to be defeated now. Fire when ready...” said Discord sarcastically while magicking up a target on his chest.
“Why does he sound so fine with this?” I asked worryingly.
The mane six then began to float into the air and their elements began to glow. Discord seemed unmoved by this and merely waited with an bored expression.
“Erm... why is he not screaming in fear?!?” I said again in a worried tone.
“I’m sorry? Do you want me to scream?”
The girls began to glow harder and a rainbow shot out from them and it started going straight for Discord, just like in the show.
“Oh no! I’m doomed!” shouted Discord again sarcastically.
The rainbow then began to spin around him, slowly turning him to stone. He remained expressionless.
After a few seconds he was finally a full statue again.
Everyone began to cheer at Discord’s apparent defeat.
“Well done everypony!” congratulated Celestia as she approached us. We all gathered around in celebration. It was finally over. Well actually I was not totally convinced. Discord seemed way to calm about being turned to stone again.
“Mwa ha ha ha ha ha.... Mwa ha ha ha ha ha”
That taunting laugh... Discord? The ground began to tremble and shack. We all looked around in fear. The Discord statue began to crack up.
“Oh What now!!” I complained.
The statue then broke and emerged a huge demon! It was a huge demonic Discord! But how?
“What the fuck?!? How is that possible?!?” I complained.
“Uh oh... Final boss fight...” said Liam with concern. “This must be a Japanese game or some shit...”
Discord was huge! He was like eighty feet tall now and he had dark red eyes. His teeth were bigger and sharper, his claws were also increase in size and his scales were thicker and shiny-er.
“How is this possible?!?” asked Twilight.
“Mwa ha ha ha ha... Those pathetic elements are not powerful enough to stop me! I have absorbed beyond controllable amounts of negative energy!” His voice was so dark and demonic. “Now! I will end you all!” He swiped his claw across the ground and smacked us all across the ground. Rainbow flew up but he knocked her down into a large oil container.
“Rainbow!” shouted Applejack in worry.
Discord then smacked Celestia and Luna into a large pile of creates and then threw a truck at Applejack and Twilight. I lifted my assault rifle to attack but he just slammed his palm onto me, crushing me into the ground. He then flicked me into a wall with extreme force before kicking me and crushing me further into the wall. Rarity jumped in front of me to protect me but he crushed her into the ground and then threw explosive barrels at her. I then passed out as the others continued to fight him...