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World at War: Protectors of Harmony

by TasteDaRainbow

Chapter 14: Battle of Cherbourg - Part 1

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Author's Notes:

I'm really sorry for making you guys waiting for so long. Hope you didn't mind cause I need some time to myself lately. But for now, I'm making something new to the story. Hope you'll enjoy it. Roll out!

"COVERING FIRE!!" Parker shouted while running with his group. The ponies, his soldiers were now desperately running for their lives as they ran through the streets. Papers lying and flying everywhere, buildings were on fire and destroyed by the artillery barrage, countless corpses of soldiers, both American and German scattered everywhere.

"PARKER!! YOUR RIGHT!!" Celestia yelled as he saw a Kraut opened a window. Parker, with his skill, quickly put two bullets right on his head.

"GET IN HERE!!" A soldier yelled not far away in front of them. They could see the army was now making a defensive position on a town square. All of them were fighting against the German soldiers on two sides. "HURRY!!" The soldier shouted again as he sprayed his bullets to a nearby building.

Blake turned around and burst his bullets to the street, making their chasers quickly ran for cover. A grenade landed on Parker's front right. He snatched it and threw it at a nearby window. As it blew up, he was about to catch up with the others when he saw Blake standing in the middle of the road while giving them suppressing fire.

"COME HERE YOU PIECE OF SHIT!!" Blake shouted as he fired his weapon on his hip.

"Damn it." Parker muttered before looking at the ponies, then to his Lieutenant. "Guess I'm stuck here with him."

"COME ON!! COME ON!!" Reed said as he jumped into the cover where the other soldier yelled. He helped the ponies to get into their covers.

"MOVE GODDAMN IT!!" Wade shouted as he shoved Leon's ass into the cover, making the private yelp in surprise and land face first.

"The hell dude?! What are you, a gay?!" Leon asked. Wade quickly jumped from the other side of the cover and ducked down with his friends.

"You should thank me," Wade pointed his finger to Leon, "I just saved your ass from those Krauts."

"Where's Parker and Blake?" Twilight asked as she looked around. The others noticed her worried voice and quickly search for any signs of their leaders, but they didn't see those two paratroopers.

"You see them?" Wade asked. A bullet passed right in front of his face, making his eyes widened and quickly ducked down for cover.

"You one lucky bastard." Andrew said.

"LEFT SIDE!!" Glenn shrieked as he fired his Garand on the oncoming German soldiers. The paratroopers moved into cover and fought back.

"See Blake and Parker yet?!" Reed asked over his shoulder.

Matthew took a look on his surroundings. And when he looked at the road they just went through, he spotted their Sergeant and Lieutenant. "Over there!" He pointed to a building on the right side of the street. They could see Blake and Parker were hiding behind the staircase. Not far from their position but the two paratroopers were pinned down by the advancing army. If they made one wrong move, they're dead.

~

"You never leave my side huh?" Blake said as he fired some rounds on a group of enemies.

"I'm just here so that you won't do stupid shit alone." Parker retorted and cocked his gun, aiming at the street, he fired again.

Blake chuckled as he aimed down his sight. Taking a deep breath, he closed one eye and aim for the head of the Krauts. "One..."

BANG! BANG!

A soldier dropped to the ground as the bullets pierced through his helmet, aiming for another soldier, the Lieutenant took a deep breath before pulling the trigger. "Two..."

BANG! BANG!

Another one fell. Parker, on the other hand, shoot at wherever the enemies hid to pin them down.

"Go! I'll take care of this!" Parker said as he pulled out a fresh mag.

"Hell no! You're going first!" Blake stood up and ran across the street, making the enemies turned their attention to him as they began to shoot the running Lieutenant.

"FUCK!!" Blake shrieked as he jumped to the cover. Leaning against it, he looked at Parker. "GO!! I'LL GIVE YOU SUPPRESSING FIRE!!"

Parker was about to stand up when bullets continued to spray at his direction. Taking cover, he looked annoyingly at Blake. "WE'LL DIE IF WE STAY HERE!!"

Blake groaned in annoyance as he emptied his mag and took his cover for reload. "ON MY COUNT!!"

"YA KIDDING ME?!"

"ON THREE!!"

"FUCK YOU LIEUTENANT!!"

"THREE!!"

~

"GO SAVE THEM!!" Twilight shrieked as she looked at the two desperate paratroopers. They gasped when they saw Blake suddenly ran out from his cover onto the other side of the street.

"WHAT IS HE DOING?!" Luna yelled. But the fear subsided when Blake managed to get to the other side and immediately took cover.

"He knows what he's doing." Reed replied calmly. A massive explosion in front of them causing them to duck down for cover. The ponies screamed.

"WHAT THE HAY WAS THAT?!" Rainbow shrieked. "It's bigger than at Carentan!"

"It's..." Wade stammered as he knew what was about to happen.

"What?!" Applejack asked while shaking him. "Explain ta us what is that?!"

"It's the 105!" Glenn replied. The sound of the 105 mm shell could be heard as the soldiers looked at the sky in fear. "INCOMING!!"

BOOM!

The explosion landed right in the middle of the defence line. Causing some soldiers to fly from their hiding spots.

"SHIT!!" Reed shrieked and continue to fire at the approaching Krauts. Wade stayed closely with the ponies. He looked left and right, left and right to see if there's a German soldier that dare to take the ponies from him. A Kraut suddenly appeared next to Reed, but the young soldier didn't see him.

Wade aimed at his sniper and pull the trigger.

CLICK!

"SHIT!!" He shouted as he cocked the weapon several times desperately. "My gun's jammed! REED LOOK OUT!!"

Reed looked at the German with wide eyes as he saw him. The German raised his weapon and aimed it right at Reed's head. Before they knew it, a soldier stabbed the Kraut from behind, making him cry out in pain. Behind him, it was Parker. He came out of nowhere. Pulling out his bayonet, he let the German fell before he knelt on his chest and stab the enemy right in the face. Sending him straight to hell.

Parker looked at the ponies as he pulled out the bayonet. "You ponies all right?" He asked.

"Umm... hello? This is the one who nearly fucking died." Reed raised an eyebrow in annoyance.

Parker sighed. "You all right?"

"Fuck you." Without another word, Reed continue to fight their assailants. Parker could only chuckled at his response.

BOOM!

The chuckle instantly died when another explosion from the artillery fire landed near them. Causing the group to duck down while covering their heads. A soldier was laying limply on the ground. He lost his left arm as he just stared at it with the half of his face stained with blood.

"Matt! Get him over here now!" Parker ordered, crouching down beside the ponies.

Matthew nod and was about to stand up when the wounded soldier suddenly surrounded by a golden aura and slowly being dragged away from his spot. Leaving a massive trail of blood behind him. Parker looked at Celestia, her horn glowed the same colour and her face was filled with worry. Sweat poured from her forehead.

"Oh God!" The bloodied soldier screamed when he was pulled over to cover. "I'm gonna die? Am I going to die?"

"Matt!" Parker yelled. Matthew quickly knelt down next to lying soldier and quickly put him some morphine.

"I'm gonna die... right?" The soldier asked again.

Celestia shook her head as a tear manage to made it's way down her cheek. "No! You're not going to die okay?! You must believe that!"

The soldier chuckled bitterly as Matthew tried his best to fix him. "These are those ponies you guys taken cared of?"

Parker knelt down beside him as he took off his helmet. "Indeed they are," he smiled and looked at the ponies, "They're our most precious treasure."

"I'm glad that it's you that's in charged. I doubt the others couldn't handle these cute ponies." The soldier said, more blood coming out from his mouth.

"Wade! I need you to help me!" Matthew desperately poured more morphine to the open wound. Blood quickly covered his hands.

"They are good... right?" The soldier asked, looking at the ponies.

"Yeah," Parker replied as he knew what was about to happen, "They're our friends. Your friends."

The soldier smiled limply as he dropped his head to the ground, looking at the grey sky above. "Glad they're on our side..." With his final breath, he closed his eyes, never opening them again.

Matthew stared at the soldier, his hands slowly dropped to the ground and sighed in disappointment. Parker put on his helmet and stood up. A heavy sigh came out from his mouth. Explosions were heard all around them, but they didn't care about it. They had to watch a soldier died in front of them while trying to save his life. Especially this kind of situation was very uncomfortable for the ponies.

"Come on," Parker said as he cocked his weapon, "We still have a war to fight."

"He's not dead..." Celestia said between her sobs.

"Princess..." Shining put a hoof around her shoulder.

"He's not dead, okay?!" Celestia shrieked. Shining jumped from the sudden burst and backed away next to his wife.

"Celestia!" Parker yelled. "This isn't the time okay? This is war. He's dead now, no one can fix that. You have to control yourself."

BOOM!

The explosion caused all of them to crouched down, but when they did, they heard a screaming voice and it's coming straight towards them.

"AAAAHHHHHH!! LOOK OUT!!" Before Parker could react, a heavy object hit him right on the back of his head, causing him to fall forward and shouted in agony.

"Shit! Fuck! Ow... the hell was that?" He rubbed his head and gritted his teeth. Luckily for him, his helmet have reduced the pain a bit. But it still hurts for him as his ears buzzed slightly.

"Ugh..." A groaned got his attention and Parker looked to his left, only to find a massive raccoon lying on the ground; whining and rubbing it's head.

"Ow..." He groaned again. His eyes then darted to Parker, who was looking at him in confusion, shock, and of course, pain. "Hehe, sorry about that."

"So he's the one?" Reed suddenly asked, "Oh wait, Wade can you shoot that guy for me?" He pointed to a German soldier that was about to throw a grenade.

BANG!

The soldier instantly fell to the ground while the grenade exploded at his place.

"Thank you." Reed calmly said.

"Are you the raccoon every marine was talking about?" Parker asked while offering him a hand to get up.

The six foot tall raccoon looked at his hand, then back to his face. And he smirked. "I'm really popular here didn't I?" He gladly took Parker's hand and stood up.

"Sergeant Parker, it's nice to meet you." Parker shook their hands while smirking.

"Whoa, wait... you don't even shocked?" The raccoon asked.

Parker shrugged and looked at the ponies from his shoulder. "We've encountered these guys, so we don't have that much of a shock." He chuckled.

The raccoon smiled widely at Parker's friendliness. "You really are a different person. Just call me Bandit."

"Bandit?" Wade raised an eyebrow. "That's a neat name."

Bandit nod. "It is. I'll tell you guys later, right now we have to fight those craps."

Parker let go of their hands and grabbed his own weapon. "You're right. The name's Parker by the way."

Bandit chuckled before grabbed his weapon from his back and cocked it. The weapon was all too familiar to the Americans. It's the STG 44. One of the German's deadly weapon.

"Is that the STG?" Andrew pointed at the gun.

Bandit tilt his head. He then looked at his weapon and back to Andrew. "Oh, this one, yeah. I tested one of those weapons out there and, this is the one that I like the most."

"You have the ammo?" Glenn asked.

"Of course I did."

"PARKER!!" A shrieking sound filled the air, interrupting their conversation. Parker's eyes widened and looked at where Blake was currently hiding. Then he saw him, the Lieutenant was being pushed by the German army and he was trying to hold his best with his Thompson.

"Oh shit! I completely forgot about him!" Parker was about to jump out of the cover when a bullet bounced off his helmet. He fall backwards while blinking several times, still processing what just happened to him.

"Parker!" Twilight shrieked and quickly stood next to him. Parker blinked again before letting out a laugh.

"Holy shit... did that bullet just bounced me?"

"You're one lucky bastard Sergeant." Wade said and fired a bullet, filling the air with the familiar sound of Kar98k.

"I know right?" Parker slowly stood up. He then smiled at Twilight. "Don't worry too much about it. This trash here saved me." He pat his helmet as he said so. Twilight nod as she smiled back.

Parker was about to help Blake when a soldier shrieked. "PANZER!!" The tank emerged from the street on their left and fired it's main gun at the building behind them.

"FUCK!! WHERE'S THE BAZOOKA?!" Parker yelled as he shot several bullets to the enemies.

"I DON'T KNOW SARGE!!" Leon replied while throwing a grenade. "MAYBE THEY'RE INSIDE THE BUILDING!!"

"All right everyone gather around me!" Parker ordered and crouched down. The others followed him while the rest of the army fought their best to defend the square. "Wade, Leon, I want you two to get inside that building and search some bazookas." He pointed at the building that the Panzer shot earlier. "If you guys find it, go to the top floor and assist us from up there. Wade, I'm counting your skill this time."

"You got it Sarge," Wade said and gestured Leon to follow, "Come on Private, we got a tank to destroy."

"Bandit?"

"Yes Sir?" Bandit looked at the sergeant.

"You got anything else than that?"

"Of course I did." Bandit said with a smirk. He snapped his fingers and a hoverboard flew from inside the building Wade and Leon just came in. The next thing they knew is that the board was hoovering behind Bandit. It has light blue colour with neon streaks making their way from north to south. For them it's just an ordinary board but it's fucking hoovering.

"How the..." Glenn stammered with wide eyes.

Shouldering his weapon, Bandit stood up. "I'll provide you guys some air support."

Before anyone could speak, he hopped on his hoverboard and flew away while shooting with his STG like a mad man. They still watched him in shock as he disappeared behind a building.

"Okay, he can fly." Reed said with flat tone.

"Well, that's one point for us." Glenn blinked before realising the situation and quickly regain his focus.

Parker looked back at his soldier and his brain was working hardly to form a plan. "All right, Bandit will provide us the air support. Glenn, Andrew and Matt, you guys go help Blake. Bring some soldiers if you can."

"You got it Sarge." Glenn replied before stood up. Followed by Andrew and Matthew, the three of them jumped out of the cover and rushed past the bullets.

"Reed, stick with me and these ponies. They might-"

"TIGER TANK!!" A soldier shrieked, making the two Americans lost their bravery. Peeking their heads to look at the street, to their left, they saw the Panzer still being bombarded by bullets, on their right side, a massive group of Krauts was being hold by the marines, and in front of them, they saw the Tiger tank moving slowly towards them. With it's slow movement, the Tiger looked even scarier than a monster while Blake, Glenn, Andrew, Matthew, along with a few soldiers tried their best to hold the advancing metal.

"Oh fuck..." Reed grumbled. Never taking his eyes off of the Tiger. Fear already struck down his body.

"It's a goddamn Tiger..." Parker quietly said.

"Tiger?" Cadance asked.

"We're gonna need reinforcements now." Before Parker could think, the Tiger aimed it's main gun towards the building behind them.

"GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE!!" Parker suddenly stood up and jumped out from his cover. He knew that if they stayed, they could get crushed.

He held out his hand to help the ponies get out of the cover. Reed was the last one to get out as he instantly escort the ponies to another safe place. Parker grabbed his BAR just in time when the Tiger fired at the building. Covering his head with one hand, he ran past the bullets. A grenade exploded behind the running sergeant and he stumbled. Unable to regain his balance, he let himself collapsed to the ground.

"Motherfucker..." He grumbled and coughed a little. Just as he was about to stand up, a purple aura surrounded him and it dragged him to it's owner, Twilight.

"How many times you're saved by your teammates Sarge?" Reed asked in annoyance as he helped pulled Parker to the cover. Parker shook his head slightly to get rid off his dizziness.

"Countless..." He replied once everything's clear.

"We have to destroy that Tiger." Reed said while peeking his head to see the Tiger tank was fighting with dozens of American soldiers.

"But how?" Rainbow asked. "I saw you guys were like scarier than ever after you saw that tank."

"Tank? Is Tank here?" Pinkie asked while looking around.

"No, Pinkie. What Dash meant is that tank." Applejack said while pointing at the Tiger.

"Ooooh, he's slow though. I guess he can be a perfect friend for Tank too."

"It's a fuckin' beast." Reed said sarcastically.

"Guys!" A voice shrieked on top of them as they looked up to see Bandit hoovering in the air with his hoverboard thingy.

"What is it?" Parker asked.

"You better call for reinforcements! The least you call for those who have tanks dammit!" With that, Bandit quickly flew towards the Germans while firing his gun from his hip. The Americans were holding their best at the advancing Germans. But as time went on, they sustained heavy casualties. With the artillery bombardment, tank assault, and massive amount of enemies causing the American's line of defence slowly crippled away.

"LOOK OUT!!"

"WE GOT A MAN DOWN!!"

"WHERE'S THE REINFORCEMENTS GOD DAMN IT?!"

"MG42!!"

"GRENADE!!"

All of the soldiers screaming and yelling for help and orders made the ponies scared beyond their thoughts. But being in a war, they tried to help the Americans with their skills.

"Twilight! Fluttershy!" Parker yelled as he dragged a wounded soldier to cover. Twilight and Fluttershy rushed to him and quickly healed the soldier, along with another medic.

"Go," the medic said with a nod, "We'll take care of this."

"Celestia! Luna! Summon your barrier over there to protect those soldiers! They have wounded over there!" Reed ordered, and they did what he had said. But their magic could only used in an estimate time of 15 seconds. Because there's no magic exist on Earth, at least they can use it for a moment.

"Rainbow! Dash towards that house and quickly bring us some ammo!" Reed said as he placed a Browning.

"I'm on it!"

"Applejack! Pinkie! I want you to help Leon and Wade up there!" Parker said. The Earth Ponies nod and quickly made their way inside the building. "Reed! Help Blake and the others! We need to hold that Tiger until I can get connected to nearest reinforcements!"

Without second thought, Reed quickly jumped out of the cover and rushed to help his friends. While Parker desperately search for the radio. "Hey!" He called out to a group of soldiers beside them. "Where's the radio?!"

"Last time I saw it, it was at that fountain!" A soldier replied while pointing a finger to the fountain he meant.

Parker looked at the fountain before decided to bring Shining and Cadance as well. "Shining, Cadance, come with me. And keep your heads low."

They nod in unison while Cadance breathe in and out to gain her courage. As Parker yelled 'three', they dashed from their cover and ran as fast as they could to the fountain. Some paratroopers were there, screaming and yelling at one another.

Finally, Parker spotted the radio he was looking for. With a 'thank God' grumbling, he snatched the phone and put it on his right ear.

"This is Screaming Ducks! Does anyone copy over?!" He asked desperately.

"This is Second Armored Division, reporting in for duty."

"Hell on Wheels! We desperately in need of fire support right now! We can't hold this square much longer!"

"Roger! But we're gonna let your left flank exposed!"

"We'll get to it once you're here! We need your support right now! Our asses are being torned apart here!"

"Hang tight lad! We're on our way!" Parker put the phone down and continue to fight with the other soldiers.

~

"All right lads! You heard them, our boys need some help out there. Enemy dispositions unknown." The commander says. He look down to see the gunner, who is currently reading a book. "Anonymous! Stop that thing and get yourself ready! We have a work to do."

You look up at your commander while raising an eyebrow. Closing the book, you toss it away and calmly load an AP shell. "This better be good."

"All right chaps! We're moving out to our newest objective. Put on the horses lads, let's go!"

Somehow, you smirk at what will happen next.

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