The Conversion Bureau:

United Humanity

By Cshadd

TCB: UH: Chapter 8

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."

~John Ruskin

"The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times."

~Patti Smith

Terms:

Task Force 2-A: Task Force 2-Alpha

Task Force 2-B: Task Force 2-Bravo

Task Force 2-C: Task Force 2-Charlie

Task Force 2-D: Task Force 2-Delta

Location: EARTH – Hawaii

Date: September 1, 2023

Time: 9:00 A.M. (Local Time)

[Operation: Redemption – Landing at Pearl Harbor]

[Second Battle of Hawaii/Battle of Shattered Hopes]

Months after the EFH introduced itself to the world and the invasion of Germany, which failed, the Equestrian invasion has halted. UN-IHSA warships however could not invade the barrier in time, because the new foal pegasi squadrons would be ready to sink the ships. The IHSA also found out that the orbital defense space cannon is un-operational due to a malfunction in the IHSA defense computers and officials shut the entire system down temporarily for safety. All hopes of invading Equestria were shattered until the IHSA could find a way to retake the islands and then destroy the barrier turning the tide in the war. However, the barrier continued to advance quickly and the trajectory is heading towards Australia.

However, the IHSA has thought of a new approach used in World War 2 by an honored general. Island hopping is the new approach, or capturing islands one by one near the objective source. The first island is to be Hawaii in Operation Redemption. Since the successful Equestrian invasion of Hawaii, the island is covered in fog making it hard to see. IHSA joint task force two is assigned to take it back by force. The task force is made of eight Defender-class Destroyers, one Resolute-class aircraft carrier by the HMS Royal Navy, and three Royal-class littoral combat ships of the US Navy. One soldier on the ship however stood out from the rest. Harry Blitz, assigned to Task Force 2-C, had the mission to take back the island one way or another. He is stationed on the USS Bright (LCSRZ-3) awaiting the landing.

In front of the LCS were the eight destroyers and in the back is the HMS Winston Churchill. The eight destroyers were already under attack and were attacking the beachhead with the plasma mark guns. To start, the LCS would make the landings; the destroyers would defend the LCS and the aircraft carrier. The carrier would help launch air support planes. Frontal destroyer, UN-IHSA/USS George Washington (DDGZ-30), led the charge in. Admiral Leo Dè Mark led the Washington ship firing all batteries.

“I want a straight ahead forth to ram through!” he shouted under the fire.

“Fire at will!” a deck soldier said to the others handing out Plasma IK-1 Rifles.

A group of armed deckhands had to be deployed as the plasma guns and the Phalanx CWIS would not be able to hold the pegasi squads off for very much. A few orbs causing minimal damage already bombarded the ship.

“Yes Deckhand Stern!” they replied aiming.

The Deckhand sailor also picked up a rifle and aimed in the sky.

Keep calm, and prevail… He said in his mind.

*Bam!*

He fired a bolt, which whizzed through the sky and hit an unsuspecting pegasus new foal in the wing tearing the entire limb off. While the rifle could function as an automatic, bolt shots were far more accurate and damaging.

“I got one!” a sailor a few meters away shouted putting his hands in the air.

“Watch out-FUCK!” another sailor shouted next to him when a potion quickly fell on them both.

They looked at the other sailors who returned the gaze in horror.

“Shoot us now!” both of the sailors said in unison. “We will never become ponies!”

Stern looked away as the other sailors aimed and fired. He turned to see two dead half-converted pony humans on the deck bleeding. As he turned, he saw the ship is pushing through the fight to the harbor, the famous Pearl Harbor.

Location: EARTH – Hawaii

Date: September 1, 2023

Time: 9:00 A.M. (Local Time)

[Operation: Redemption – Landing at Port Codename Virgo]

[Second Battle of Hawaii/Battle of Shattered Hopes]

Meanwhile, as the Task Force 2-C is trying to land at Pearl Harbor, a different Task Force, 2-B, British-UN-IHSA jointed troops, were trying to land at a port named Virgo. Three HMS LCS ships were trying to bypass an Equestrian made fortress near the entrance to the fort. However, things did not look good for the HMS ships. Captain Reece of the HMS Superior is the lead LCS ship captain. All three of the LCS ships received damage from pegasi strikes.

“Sir!” a crewmember shouted to Reece, “Auxiliary failing!”

“Move to portside and fire side plasmas!” Reece shouted back.

The ship’s steering officer pulled hard on a bank trying to force the ship towards portside, its engines made a whining sound as they did so obviously strained. Other LCS ships in the convoy following the same banking their engines while under fire by orbs. However, a problem is that the ponies on this side of the island are in supply with orbs so the assault on the ship is far more damaging then ponification. Once the ships were broadside to the fort, the side plasma cannons unleashed a large barrage of plasma shots. However, a new enemy appeared as the fort is under siege. PER soldiers led by Commander Peirce arrived at the fort with RPG-93s. They set up near the injured ponies using walls as cover as they aimed. Three shots aimed at the bridge of each ship and three shots near the fuel tanks would disable the ship.

“Aim…...FIRE!” Peirce shouted.

Back on the ship, Reece looked through the bridge windows and noticed six new projectiles heading towards his ship.

“SHIT!” is all he could shout as his world faded into darkness…

The PER RPG-93s were successful in destroying the bridge and the fuel rods causing the ship to stop moving and firing as all the systems were disabled. He nodded to his men to fire at the other ships and they did the exact thing downing the LCS task force. A pony in clad armor went up smiling to Peirce.

“Thank you so much!” he said smiling. “Now we can rescue the survivors and offer salvation!”

Back on the ships, which were slowly sinking, the sailors could only hold onto railings as the ships were overturning. They were all afraid and screaming. They then saw figures fly next to them and hold them in a grasp. Some resisted, others were too scared to do anything, and some thought of it as a beacon of hope. The sailors looked up to the new foals, which were smiling and flying them to safety.

“W-what are you doing?” one of them shouted in fear.

“Saving you from the ship silly!” the new foal responded giggling.

The new foals quickly brought the survivors to the fortress, and shoved them in cells.

“Y-you can’t do this to us!” a sailor said near tears.

“We saved you from the ship, but now we shall save you from your humanity!”

It is clear the ponification potion is far from the sailors for now but they stayed on their toes.

Task Force 2-Bravo is defeated…

Location: EARTH – Hawaii

Date: September 1, 2023

Time: 9:20 A.M. (Local Time)

[Operation: Redemption – Air Battle]

[Second Battle of Hawaii/Battle of Shattered Hopes]

After the LCS ships landed securing Pearl Harbor, the HMS aircraft carrier launched F-22s into the sky to cover ground troops.

“You are clear, you are clear!” a radio shouted into Airman Nichole’s air speakers. “I have your tail Orange 4!”

“Enemy targets closing!” another command mixed with others said.

The F-22 squads were battling for air superiority all around the island. Nichole quickly piloted her F-22 currently dodging launched orbs from pegasi while being tailed by ones with potions. Her partner is behind her trying to weave in and out of debris.

“We have ten ponies pushing our six, abort right!” she shouted into her radio, which is receiving a mixture of other commands.

“Breaking off, trying to break off!” her other airman replied.

Nichole quickly noticed a group of pegasi heading towards them from her 12 o’clock view.

“Hammer down!” she shouted firing her trigger downing some of the pegasi quickly.

One A-10 whizzed past the F-22s but then hit by an orb causing one of the engines to explode and the other to catch on fire. The A-10 went down before the pilot ejected and the pegasi following him. It is clear that even though the humans were superior in technology, the ponies outmatched them in numbers and tactics as their bodies were too flexible to hit at times.

“Trying to break off Orange 9!” her airman shouted in her speakers from his radio. “There are too many!”

“Stay with me and make a bank left,” she replied while turning her plane to bank a left turn with her airman following.

A pony flew next to her plane frowning before it spoke, “Why do you run human?”

“Because I do not want to be ‘saved’!” Nichole shouted from her cockpit window.

“This is why we can’t have nice things!” the new foal said, now pounding on the window trying to get in.

She quickly banked her F-22 into the pony knocking it out sending it towards its doom.

“When we reach that hill Orange 8, we shall see Pearl Harbor and regroup again letting the AA cannons fire upon the pegasi following us!” she exclaimed with confidence.

They quickly headed above the hills. Her confidence, however, destroyed when she saw the major fire fight near the landing zone and the ships under attack again.

“Are you kidding me!?” she said.

The other F-22s shot down from the air fight right after they arrived over the hills.

“This will take awhile to land Orange 8!” she shouted.

Location: EARTH – Hawaii

Date: September 1, 2023

Time: 9:50 A.M. (Local Time)

[Operation: Redemption – Puu Poni Street]

[Second Battle of Hawaii/Battle of Shattered Hopes]

Harry and a squad were advancing on Puu Poni Street quickly. Gunfire raged as PER and new foal forces fiercely defended the island. Military forces quickly advanced pushing the fire front back inward.

“Taking fire!” a soldier shouted.

Harry looked over and saw a few military forces behind a destroyed tank firing at a window. Another group of soldiers near Harry shouted over the gunfire trying to get the soldiers towards their position.

“Get over here now!” one of them shouted to the soldiers.

Harry looked over as he saw the soldiers get up from their positions trying to run over to their group. Then he saw their doom.

“Wait, get back-!” Harry is screaming towards them as a potion hit them square in the heads.

The group of six soldiers is screaming as they instantly transformed.

“Join us in our quest for friendship!” one of the converted said happily bouncing up and down.

A soldier aimed at them and gunned them down in an instant.

“How dare you!” a new foal shouted, “We saved them and you killed them!”

“Shut up!” a different soldier shouted back.

“We forgive you if you take this potion!” the new foal again replied giggling holding up a few vials.

“Go to hell!” the same soldier shouted unleashing a horde of fire.

A group of other new foals in a window had a makeshift bunker equipped with orb launchers. The new foals fired the orbs at a five-second pace and they exploded on the human forces. A human RPG-98 equipped soldier noticed this and aimed at the window.

“Load me!” he shouted to an ammo carrier.

The ammo carrier soldier quickly took out a shell and put it in quickly for the soldier.

“Firing!” the soldier shouted firing the projectile towards the window.

The new foals quickly scattered as the orb launcher exploded sending shards everywhere. Harry kept firing his M4A4 rifle at groups of new foals. Ponies quickly retreated as the forces were advancing. They passed old destroyed buildings and a Conversion Center slowly, inch by inch.

As the ponies retreated, the human forces pushed forward until they entered the next street. The bloody battle of Puu Poni Street is over and the humans now can enter the island by streets and freeways. Blackhawk helicopters flew overhead to cover the airspace.

Location: EARTH – Hawaii

Date: September 1, 2023

Time: 10:16 A.M. (Local Time)

[Operation: Redemption – Wal-Mart Super Store]

[Second Battle of Hawaii/Battle of Shattered Hopes]

The military task force 2-A had already arrived in Hawaii hours ago. Consisting of marines, they hid inside the river near Pearl Harbor. Now it is their time to attack…

On top of a Wal-Mart superstore, a new foal is scanning the area for any signs of infiltrators. The new foal wore a scarf, as the weather is chilly. Distant gunfire alerted his ears every so often. He currently faced a river as he held a spear tipped with potion.

*Pew!*

The new foal is suddenly on the ground dead by a silenced plasma shot. There is movement in the water as ripples appeared. Black suited figures advanced out of the water slowly sporting the UN-IHSA symbols. They wore diving military gear.

“Task force 2-A is out of the water,” one of them whispered into the radio, “We are infiltrating a store.”

The marines quickly scattered up upon the shore. There were twenty members for this task force sub division while others were around the island. They ran up stone steps towards the back of the store. The soldiers stood in front of a locked door ready.

“Morris, break the bolt,” one of them whispered to a soldier.

Morris quickly ran up with bolt cutters and unclipped the bolt of the door. The soldiers in front of the door then kicked the door open and ran inside.

“Secure this sector,” the captain of the squad quietly said.

“Roger that,” a soldier replied.

The store looked abandoned as dead pony bodies, and half-converted humans littered from the First Battle of Hawaii. The smell of rotting decaying flesh could cause anyone to gag. It is unsanitary as blood and dried potion fluids stained the wall. The captain, named Eric Denver, spotted a balcony good for snipers to cover their position. He pointed to it and the snipers automatically knew to station up there. They climbed a ladder leading up to it, silently to not alert any enemy forces in the area. Once they were up, one of them noticed new foals near a conversion station.

“We have ten targets near a station a few yards across from you sir,” one of the snipers whispered in a radio.

“Get in position and wait for my go,” Denver replied.

He gave the signal to his squad on positions. Two members took cover behind an ice cream bar station, others near a shelf of clothes. Some even were in plain sight but the fog obscured them hidden. They put on their night vision goggles to see through the fog. When they were in position to take the ponies out, the captain whispered in the radio.

“Ok, take them out,” he said to the snipers.

With their Plasma IL-1 Snipers, the snipers fired shots into the new foals.

*Pew, Pew, Pew, Pew, Pew!*

The five snipers shot silenced bullets killing five of the new foals but alerting the rest. The other soldiers appeared out of cover and opened fire. Thinking that they were still under stealth, Denver relaxed until one new foal gave away their position.

“Humans!” the new foal shouted echoing over the store alerting others.

“Shit,” he cursed under his breath.

“Engage, engage, engage!” he shouted in the radio.

“Sir!” one sniper shouted, “Three unicorns coming down the hall across from you!”

“Open fire!” Denver shouted turning towards the hall firing.

Within minutes, the entire task force was under attack by all sides and took cover behind kiosks.

“Arm the capsules and use them!” Denver shouted to his explosives specialist.

“Have we found a clear path to take?” another soldier shouted asking Denver while firing shots into new foals.

“I’m hit, shoot me!” another soldier shouted to a soldier next to him.

The other soldier next to him gunned him down with tears and looked at the half-converted soldier.

“Clear path to the right!” a sniper shouted in the radio reloading making crackles from his gun.

The building started to shake as a wall at another hall end collapsed revealing a moving M1 Abrams Tank from a different division. It rolled over kiosks and dead bodies along with some new foals as it is firing behind at other new foals chasing it.

“What the hell?!?” Denver shouted.

The tank turned towards the new foals in the hall and sent a shell spraying some blood upon the tiles. Then the tank rotated its turret over to Denver’s squad.

“Wait!” Denver shouted showing his UN-IHSA patch.

The tank powered down and a hatch opened revealing an injured gunner.

“Sorry about that,” the gunner stated, “We were attacked by new foals and PER.”

“Behind you!” a sniper shouted firing at a group of new foal unicorns charging at the tank.

The gunner turned his M60 machine gun towards the pegasi while the turret rotated slowly. He quickly unleashed a fiery amount of shells towards them as Denver’s squad assisted in covering the tank.

“Cover fire!” he shouted as his men took cover behind the tank and fired upon the unicorns.

One of the unicorn’s horns had a yellow aura and the machine gunner on the tank suddenly flung up.

“Holy shit!” he shouted seeing his mounted gun also turn up aiming at him.

“Fire on that unicorn!” Denver shouted to which a sniper rang a shot out shooting the horn off.

The unicorn’s eyes rolled back into its head as it had a seizure from the injury and slowly bled to death. The gunner fell onto a tarp near a kiosk and staggered up towards the tank. Denver’s medics helped him get to the tank however and up back in the gunners seat as he continued firing with an injured back.

“The bitches will die!” the gunner shouted firing upon the unicorns killing the rest.

“Snipers, regroup!” Denver shouted in the radio.

The five snipers slid down the ladder and ran towards the tank. A new foal however jumped a slow running sniper and pinned him down spilling potion over his face. The sniper screamed but silenced by the other sniper who fired a shot into his fallen comrade. The new foal turned grinning but, like the converted sniper, shot by the same one that killed his comrade. With his gun barrel smoking, he turned towards the tank and climbed up on it with the rest of the squad.

“Can we clear this store and get back to the main lines?” Denver said to the gunner.

“We can,” the gunner replied before facing down in the hole, “Did you hear that Sandy?”

“What?” a voice shouted from inside the tank.

“We are going to clear the store and ram through the fire lines!” the gunner shouted.

“Yes sir!” the voice replied.

The squad sat on the tank as it rolled down the halls of the super store firing upon new foals. The soldiers sitting also covered the tank’s rear and sides.

“Approaching a Mc Donald stand sir!” a soldier shouted to Denver, “Want to go eat?”

Denver chuckled and replied, “After the battle private!”

The entire group laughing at this, continued to head forth deeper into the store.

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