The Conversion Bureau:

United Humanity

By Cshadd

TCB: UH: Chapter 6

"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

~Winston Churchill

"War doesn't determine who is right, war determines who is left."

~Bertrand Russell

"Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior."

~Jack Schwartz

Location: EARTH – Berlin, Germany Air Base

Date: April 16, 2023

Time: 7:59 A.M. (Local Time)

The German Army was a strong military force proceeding after WWIII and remained one of the dependable armies for the United Nations. The capital city was majestic as the culture within. Both new foals and humans walked with their daily lives. That is until now. The time was 7:59 A.M. and it was a chilly frosty morning. Major Rickey of the German Defense Force was training troops at the German Berlin Air Base as planes flew overhead.

“Up-two-up-two!” the Major shouted.

The privates just grunted as they did sit-ups in the cold and freezing weather.

One of them made a whispered remark to the other, “Is he trying to train us or kill us in this cold?”

The major noticed this and walked in front of the private that made the remark.

“What was that Private Stephan?” he asked glaring.

The private looked up in surprised and quickly replied, “Nothing Major Rickey!” pausing after a while he continued, “Just doing orders sir!”

The major grinned and spoke to the rest of them, “Good, now just for Private Stephan, you all can do fifty pushups, any more you want to add privates!?”

They just grunted and got into pushup positions and started to push up and down.

“Nice going Stephan,” one of the privates next to him whispered.

Stephan just rolled his eyes and continued doing pushups.

After fifty pushups, the entire squad was wearily but at attention.

The major walked in front of them in an orderly fashion.

“Congratulations 59th Auxiliary Squad!” he shouted in a taunting tone, “You earned the award of the WEAKEST Squad in the entire REGIMENT!”

Stephan rolled his eyes as the major continued.

“Now as a reward, run the entire track of the airfield six times,” he sneered at them.

They groaned and he replied with a smirk, “Make it twelve now, up to it!”

They started right away running the entire airfield track in a jogging pace. The Major watched them until he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned around and saw a UN-IHSA-HLF soldier standing behind him. Both of them quickly saluted.

“German Major Rickey!” the HLF officer spoke.

“HLF Captain Whitney!” the major replied.

They both stopped saluting and Rickey spoke, “What can I help you with?”

“Well,” Whitney started to reply, “The UN-IHSA is requesting your assistance in the armed forces.”

Rickey just tilted his head in confusion, “Why, why us?”

Whitney smirked at that question causing a stir in Rickey.

“Your squad has the best record in the regiment of the German Defense Army and we need squads like you to defend this world as a conjoined branch,” Whitney stated.

“They are not ready sir,” Rickey replied.

“Sir,” Whitney replied, “Humanity just declared war against an alien species similar to ones on Earth.”

Rickey just snickered at the statement but Whitney remained a serious manner causing him to stop.

“And what else?” Rickey asked.

“We put both Equestrian and Earth ponies in camps-” Whitney stated but was interrupted.

“What does this have to do with my squad?” Rickey asked.

“We need all humans united to fight or we will lose everything,” Whitney explained in a calm manner.

The squad meanwhile was still doing their laps in the cold weather. However, the records indicated that the squad was far ready for combat.

Rickey shook his head and sighed, “The 59th German-IHSA Auxiliary Squad is NOT ready for a war against talking horses.”

“Nevertheless, we still need you just like how we still need the radical Axis HLF.”

“Radical Axis HLF?” Rickey started to question.

“Yes, not all of the HLF joined the IHSA, as some believe that peace is not the option to this war,” Whitney explained, “As they believe, Equestria must die fully, such like genocidal measures to the ponies.”

“Then why do we still need them if they are just genocidal terrorists?” Rickey asked to which Whitney smiled.

“They are humans too,” Whitney stated making Rickey feel bad inside.

Rickey looked at his squad continuing the laps and asked Whitney, “Any official battles that have been fought so far?”

“No, but the barrier is inaccessible as PER is guarding around it so this war won’t end that soon,” Whitney replied before continuing, “The only problem is that I see one obstacle to this war, as we may be facing ponies, but we may be underestimating them.”

“How long before the regiments are needed?” Rickey asked.

“They are needed now, train, to defend,” Whitney replied.

“I need just a few more days,” Rickey stated as his final answer.

Whitney nodded and walked away. Rickey sighed and looked over at his squad running.

I am going to have such a wonderful week this week…

Location: EARTH – Honolulu, Hawaii

Date: April 17, 2023

Time:  11:50 A.M. (Local Time)

[Battles of First Conversion: Honolulu, Hawaii]

[Fall of Hawaii]

[Royal Guard, New Foal, and PER Jointed Attack]

There was a nice breeze at Hawaii today. It was the last day of vacation for a boy named Jeff Hiltz. He was a 15-year-old boy and was scheduled to go to high school tomorrow. Today would be the day where Equestria would turn his life upside down in just a few hours. There were ponies and humans walking along the sidewalks going about their business. Most of them were new foal ponies. The war declaration has reached the news but no battles were engaged as of yet and the ponies and humans did not mind each other.

As he was walking home from the library, he could only look up at the sky and see the sun in its lunch hour position. Then in an instant, there were shouts of terror and screaming. He quickly looked over and saw the new foals originally talking, sitting, or walking tackle the humans, pull a hidden purple potion they were concealing. Most humans knew what that potion was and tried to resist.

"Join us, a new life awaits you!" a new foal said.

A few humans tried to resist their impending forced conversions only to be subdued. Then in the horizon, squads of pegasi were approaching the island armed with potions. Humans started panicking, some children too scared to move. Jeff was in shock and just stood there until a pegasus grabbed and pinned him down.

"Join the herd!" the pegasus said.

That would be echoing in Jeff's thoughts for a time before he realized his current situation. Just when the pony was about to dump the vials contents on him, the pony was shot in the head and blood splattered on Jeff's chest and face. The dead pony corpse fell over. Jeff looked over and saw a U.S. soldier aiming a M1911 pistol. It was his brother, Harry.

"Come on Jeffry!” Harry shouted, “We need to get home and get out of Hawaii now, Equestria is invading!"

A loud explosion sounded and then an air raid siren went on. Jeff looked up in the sky and saw a Lockheed Martin F-22 fly by firing its M61 Vulcan weapon at the incoming pegasi squads. A few more F-22s followed.

"Jeff!,” Harry shouted to the teenager, “Come on, we have to keep moving!" Harry shouted.

Jeff was too paralyzed to do anything. The war started on a normal day that was not expected. He could hear death and destruction, innocent people running for their lives, and innocent children originally playing outdoor games, now running and crying towards their parents while being chased by colts or fillies with potions, in addition to the military forces fighting against the ponies. Jeff and Harry kept running for two miles without stopping. When they did stop, they were far away from the battle zone. Jeff's brother had to kill five pegasi to get to the location they were at.

Two of them being Royal Guards, the other three being new foals. They were under an oak tree with the breeze flowing. Usually it would have been a nice day to relax in the sun, but that day was not the day for relaxing. Jeff was panting from the running and the hot sun. Harry, who was used to the physical running, just looked up in the sky. It was in the afternoon and they were close to their house. He had a tiny eye tear and his fist was clenched.

"They took us by surprise, those god damned ponies,” Harry growled, “Jeffry, there is a world war coming and many innocents will die, but we have to stay strong."

Jeff looked up at him. He never really liked his brother, but due to the events that were suddenly unfolding, he started to think of his brother as a savior and hope. He smiled at his brother to which his brother looked at him and smiled back.

"How did you know I was in trouble?" Jeff asked.

"You think I would let my brother be in danger against his own will?” Hillary explained. “You are my brother, and it is my duty to protect you and this country.”

Jeff nodded before Harry continued, “Now I have a new duty, to protect Earth from what is about to attack it."

10 minutes later...

They arrived at their house. When they got there, they gathered their stuff. Their parents were staying in L.A. on vacation.

"Grab only what you can and meet me in the living room," Jeff's brother said and met with a nod by Jeff.

Jeff went inside his guest room, grabbed only the essentials, including a picture of his friends at school, and went quickly into the bathroom. He packed his toothbrush and toothpaste. He got his medical kit from volunteering at the Red Cross and some clothes. Meanwhile Harry went to the gun compartment and pulled out some defensive arms. He came back into the living room armed with a Kevlar vest on top of his military uniform, a M4 Carbine with scope and a grenade launcher, an ammo belt, two M9s, a couple of fragmentation grenades, and some ammo clips.

This is it. He thought. Judgment Day has come. May God have mercy on our souls.

He gave a quick prayer to God and waited in the living room for Jeff. Jeff came to the living room with bags full of supplies.

"What are we going to do brother?" He asked.

"We are going to get away from Hawaii and get to L.A.” Harry started to explain, “From there, we can meet with our parents and find out what to do.”

Jeff nodded still listening to Harry over the distance explosions, “My base is offering evacuations as I was told from my radio, since Hawaii is being overrun and we need to get out of here.”

Jeff thought of something daring and asked it right away, “Can’t we get to the airport which is only a few blocks down instead of taking the long way to your base?”

Harry then answered the statement, “The airport is still working but they can't hold off all the pegasi as the planes take off so we need to go with my base."

There was all of a sudden a loud explosion on top of their house. The earth pony new foals were pouring in the neighborhood as some of them bypassed the front line defenses. From there they attacked and converted any human they saw, even if it was a child. The two brothers froze for a second. Jeff got under a table while his brother moved around to the window crouching. He looked outside from the window while trying to not to make the blinds move. Outside he saw a young girl, probably only eight years old, pinned down by three new foals. The girl was crying.

"Join us, your mom would like it, your mom already joined us, why don't you?" the ponies asked.

Harry was enraged. He wanted to go out there and beat those ponies into dead corpses. Immediately he saw another new foal with a purple coat and pink mane.

"Susan dear, it’s me, your mommy,” the mare said, “Please join us. It’s for the better good."

Harry's eyes went wide and he realized that the child's mom was already converted. He felt sorry for the girl. The girl in the meantime was in shock and started panicking. She was squirming to get free which was failing. The mom-pony approached with a vial. Harry could only watch in horror as the mom forced the vial into the girl’s mouth. The girl was whimpering while drinking the potion.

She had tears and was very frightened that her own mom was forcing her to become a pony. He kept looking and then realized the girl's head was facing towards the window. She has a teary face and in an instant started to transform. Harry saw the girl transform into a unicorn in just five seconds. Then after the transformation, the girl was smiling at the mom.

She had a calm voice while speaking to her mom, "You were right mommy, they are offering us help."

She got up and nuzzled her mom then continued speaking, "In fact mom, there is a soldier in that house that we should help as well."

Harry looked and realized that he and his brother were in a bad situation.

"SHIT!" he shouted. "JEFF, GET MOVING! WE HAVE BEEN SPOTTED!"

The group of ponies quickly turned and looked at the window where Harry was still standing. They had creepy grins on their faces, especially the filly, and started walking towards the house. Harry quickly closed the window and put an explosive trap near the door.

May God forgive me for this. He quickly said in his mind.

"Jeff, use the backdoor," Harry ordered his brother.

Jeff nodded and got up. They quickly sneaked out the back and ran towards the forward operating base. Meanwhile, the ponies approached the door. The filly was in the back with the mom leading the group. They broke open the door and were met by an explosion that ripped their bodies apart and threw their corpses everywhere except for the filly that quickly learned to use a magical shield spell. She ran up to her dead mother and had a tear.

"Mom, I'm sorry, why can't they just have our friendship?" the filly stood there asking. "Oh well, I guess I will continue to help the humans."

The filly skipped away with a wagon of potion vials and had no thoughts to pay respect to her mom's dead corpse. In the world of the ponies and new foals, it was a dark one.

10 minutes later...

The two brothers kept moving and running, dodging potions and hiding behind human troopers to cover.

"KEEP MOVING JEFFY! WE ARE ALMOST THERE!" Harry was shouting.

"Har-Harry! I-I’m coming!" Jeff shouted back.

"JEFF GET DOWN!" Harry yelled.

Immediately on command, Jeff ducked, and just in time as a new foal jumped and tried to pin him down with a vial. Harry aimed the M1911 pistol and fired at the hoof, spattering pony blood all over. The pony groaned but got up and still smiled. The pony was an earth stallion.

While limping towards the brothers, the pony kept speaking, "Join us, a new world awaits as your world is crumbling and any resistance is futile."

The pony was limping towards the two brothers with the purple potion. Immediately Harry shot another bullet, this time in the pony's brain, and then kicked the corpse as it landed on the ground. Jeff was frozen in fear. In the sky, an A-10 Thunderbolt II zoomed by, fired at the squad of pegasi with its 30mm Gatling cannon killing about ten of the ponies before turning around.

Jeff and Harry kept running towards the F.O.B. It was in the distance, but there was a problem, on the east side, there was a huge battle in the grasses. Squads of U.S. tanks were attacking a group of earth ponies. It would be too dangerous to go there so they would have to go the long way.

"Jeff wait,” Harry spoke, “We have to go another route because those tanks are dangerous, come on follow me.”

Jeff nodded and followed Harry. They went through an intersection cautiously walking. The street was quiet and had scattered bodies of both ponies and civilians, mostly soldiers and royal guards. One baby was burned into a black corpse and the mother dead next to it. It was a horrific sight to see and could cause nightmares. They went through an alleyway. It was starting to get dark out and they needed to reach that F.O.B. before the entire island was evacuated and left without them. They reached the end of the alleyway and there was a fence blocking the way closest to the F.O.B.

Harry grunted, "Jeff, climb this fence and hop over.”

Jeff looked and spoke back, “What about you?”

“I will do the same, wait for me."

Jeff nodded and started to climb the fence; when he got over, he turned around eager to see his brother climb the fence after him. This eagerness stopped short when a hidden earth pony grabbed Harry by the leg.

"You will join us!” the pony said.

Its legs were missing, probably shot off. Harry glared and fired the last bullet for the M1911 pistol. He then put the pistol back in his pack and took out the M4 rifle.

"2 clips, damn pony bastards, “Harry said frowning and he kicked the dead pony corpse.

He climbed up the fence and united with his brother again.

"Come on, just one last block and we will be free from this mess of an island," Harry said.

Jeff could only think of his parents right now, but snapped back to focus. They kept running until they saw an obstacle, a tank destroyed and it was blocking the next alleyway. Harry looked over and saw a store. He and his brother entered it. It was pitch dark in the store with some lights flickering. There were dead pony bodies everywhere.

"Stay here Jeff,” Harry spoke, “I’m going to check something out, see if I can get a cell phone.”

Jeff nodded and sat down in an empty chair. Meanwhile, Harry was scavenging for a cell phone. Harry came back with nothing that was of any use.

"Jeff, let’s go. Nothing’s here."

Jeff got up, but then a hidden pony grabbed him and made him fall. The pony was looming over Jeff with a vial. Without thinking, Harry body slammed into the pony. The two fell over and knocked a few items off the store shelves.

"HIDE JEFF!" Harry shouted but interrupted by a sharp kick in the knee by the pony.

Harry screamed in agony as he looked at his leg.

The kick fractured his leg and he needed a splint. There was blood trickling out from it. The pony slowly walked to Harry with a vial, and Harry raised an un-triggered grenade.

"COME AND GET ME YOU MOTHER FU-" Harry was interrupted when the pony fell over with its head blasted off.

Harry looked over and saw Jeff holding one of the M9 pistols shaking in fear and shock. His brother just saved him from ponification. Jeff just fired a gun and killed a pony that was before a human. He started to cry over at what he had done, the loss of innocence. Harry, as supportive as he was, limped over. He then embraced him in a hug. Jeff looked over at Harry and saw his injury. He knew basic first aids including how to make splints.

"Hold on Harry, I’ll find something to stabilize it," Jeff said whipping away tears

With that comment, Jeff got up and looked in his first aid kit. There was barely anything in it, not enough to stabilize him. With low supplies, he got up and ran towards the medical section with the M9 in his hand in case of any pony threats. He was still tearing up from the incident. He lost his innocence, killing a pony just in one second.

When he reached the medical section, he broke open a few first aid kits and scavenged the supplies. When he got back, Harry was looking outside at the night sky which showed that time has passed rather quickly. It brightened up by gunfire. He put on his night vision goggles that were on top of his military helmet and got a better view of the gun fire towards a rocket tank squad. Jeff quickly started wrapping the fractured leg up in bandages causing Harry to bite on his arm to ease the pain.

20 minutes later...

Harry was stabilized and limping with Jeff. They only had one more block to go. As they approached the F.O.B, the rate of ponies dead on the street increased. They were close to the entrance and saw in the harbor warships used as escape boats. People of all kinds including children boarded the ships quickly. Jeff and Harry finally arrived at the base, but then a guard stopped both of them.

"Halt,” the guard said before speaking again, “Oh, it is just you Corporal Harry, and your brother.

“Hello Corporal Whiner,” Harry said saluting.

“Hurry get in and get on a boat available, we are almost about to evacuate from this mess," the guard replied back

Harry paused and asked quickly, "What about the island?"

The guard replied, "We’re abandoning it. It’s too late."

They got in and registered for a boat. It was a very long line wait but once they got on the boat, Jeff closed his eyes and fell asleep.

DEFEND!

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