Ponies in war
Chapter 3: A carrier's voyage- what could go wrong?
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"Twilight, are you there?" asked Spike.
"I'm in the planning room, don't come down, go prepare breakfast and get me a book about Aircraft Carriers!" yelled Twilight.
"Why would you need a book about Aircraft Cariers?" Sparky asked.
"Just a distraction."
"I almost forgot, HQ(Head Quatters) wants 5 tanks and a couple of attack helicopters in the carrier for the voyage. HQ originally wanted more but I convince them to reduce the number of EGF onboard the carrier."
"****, of all the things they want me to carry onboard MY ship, they want me to put ground troops and AH(attack helicopters)in it. Why did HQ say that?"
"HQ says it is to test the carrier, they want to make sure that the carrier is capable of carrying lots of troops across the sea."
"Fine, at least it couldn't get any worse, right?"
Twilight and Sparky went back up to the dining room to have Breakfast.
Manehatten habour, on the command post of the ESS Independence
"Are you ready, Admiral Twilight?" Sparky asked.
"Stop calling me that! By the way, you look different, Field Marshall Sparky." Twilight repiled with a grin.
"I can say the same about you." Sparky said, pointing at Twilight's Navy uniform.
As they were enjoying teasing about their new uniforms, a voice came out from the radio, "Independence is leaving habour, raise anchor, I repeat, Independence is leaving habour, raise anchor."
Twilight sighed as she went to the control pannels and pushed the button "Recover Anchor".
The anchor slowly came up and tugboats nearby started 'pulling' the carrier out of habour. The 4 battleships escort was already out at sea.
The Battleships were equiped with two helicopters-one multi purpose and one attack helicopter and a scouting plane for this mission.
ESS Independence has 10 helicopters onboard- five multi purpose and five attack helicopter, 5 tanks- 2 mark 4, 2 A7Vs and one Leopard2SG, 50 aircrafts- 10 Mustang, 20 zeros, 10 spitfires and 10 BF109s.
Soon, Independence was out at sea. The Battlegroup soon headed south, towards Dragon Liar.
Celestial sea ,river in between Dragon liar and Griffonstone, 1 hour later
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Suddenly, the sky turned dark and harsh winds started to appear out of nowhere. Radar and sonar onboard the battlegroup started to malfunction, everything onboard started to to not make sense.
"Of all days for a storm, it has to be this day!" Twilight started to wine about the weather to Sparky.
"Twilight, what should we do?" A sailor asked via radio.
"Keep sailing forward, going back will be harder in this storm."
"Yes ma'am!"
Sparky, just to play safe, comanded via radio., "Keep those big guns at the ready, be prepared to fire!"
"Yes, Sir!"
30 minutes later
The storm started to clear away, but their surroundings is different.
Instead of seeing dragons or Griffons, they only saw sea and the time on Twilight computer states that the date is 1st September 1939.
She thought for a while and told Sparky, "****, we went back in time to the begining of the battle of Poland.
Sparky heard what Twilight said and look at the Equestrain positioning system [later changed to the global positoning system(GPS)], Sparky was a bit shock at what he sees.
"I don't belive it, we are in the north seas, heading south, towards Nazi Germany."
"What?! Are you serious, we have just been there 50 years ago."
"Whatever, tell the convoy to be prepared to face British or German naval patrol."
Twilight rushed to the radio set. Via the radio set, Twilight told the conyvoy, "We are approaching Germany at our current course and that we are in the north seas. Everypony to battlestations, keep a lookout for British or German naval patrol. No guns to be fired unless I say so."
"Yes ma'am!" echoed through the radio.
As everypony started to man their guns on the battleships, aircrafts and helicoptors were being placed on the flight deck, ready to take off at Twilight or Sparky's command.
Map for reference:
German navy's perpective
"Sir, unknown convoy has been spotted around 60 miles off the coast via radar"
"Send one destroyer to investigate." The officer said.
"Yes, Sir!"
Z23, A Type 1936A class destroyer was out at sea when the order came.
The crew of Z23 scramble to their guns and everyone was on high alert.
The Commanding Officer (CO) of Z23 was Lieutentant Jacky.
When Jacky heard the order, he has mixed reactions.
On one hand, it is good that the German navy saw some action. On the other hand, it could result in the inofficial declaration of war by the British.
Equestrain Battlegroup, 50 miles off the German coast, 10 miles from the destroyer
Sparky and Twilight was planning their next move when the radar showed up with a new target.
"Sir, a German Destroyer is approaching, should we fire?"
"No! I want somepony to establish radio contact with that destroyer." Sparky said in a rush.
"Yes, Sir!"
Sparky and Twilight was practically think about the same thing: Make peace with the German navy at all costs
Z23, 9 miles to battlegroup
"Sir, we recieved a message from the convoy."
"What does it says?"
It says that they want to make radio contact with us.
"Fine, put them through the radio." Jacky responded with a irritated tone.
"This is the Equestrian Navy, this is the equestrain navy, do you read?"
"Read you loud and clearly." Jacky responded.
"Good, I am Twilight and I am the CO of this fleet."
"Nice to meet, you. But can you tell me why your fleet is heading towards Germany?"
"We got lost in a storm, Sir."
"How many ships are with you?"
"1 Aircraft Carrier and 4 Battleships."
Jacky was stunned by that statement. They were supposed to 'intercept' and if necessary, sink this fleet, with that amount of firepower, they could easily sink Z23 first.
"Wait a minute, what navy are you from again?"
"We are from the Equestrain navy. Why?"
"I have never heard of that country before."
"That I can understand."
Jacky, surprised and dumbfounded, stared at his ship.
"Are you allied with Britain or France?"
"No, why you ask?"
"It is to make sure that you are not our enemys."
"Oh, I see."
"Ok, Come follow us, we will lead you to Germany for repairs and refuel."
"Ok, Thx, I guess...."
With that the conversation between the COs ended. Jacky is only allowing them to go to Germany is that they are not allied with any countries, but he will soon discover the harsh realities of what they are.
Next Chapter: Secrets in the chain of command Estimated time remaining: 2 Hours, 23 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
1) Z23 has 5 main cannons- 2 in the front and 3 at the back and 3 torpedo tubes behind the command post. 2) Both of these ships is not close enough for them to see each other so Jacky has not seen the ponies on board the convoy. 3) I use the unit 'miles' not as 1 mile= 1.125km but a unit unspecified. 4) Please leave costructive comments on how I could improve the story for you guys.
5) Next chapter: Secrets in the chain of command. Trailer: The High Command has sent them on this trip but the High Command actually has a much darker Objective. The 4 battleships are ordered to do something that Twilight and Sparky disaproves. How and what is High command's actual Objective? Stay tuned to find out.
That is all, General Sparky out