Author's Note:

You ever feel that hot sensation when you've done something terribly wrong? Well, I have, because I watched Ghost Adventures at night and now I'm scared shitless. Even though I favor the survival horror video games, real life ghosts are just scary as fuck. Now I'm afraid to sleep at night now, and especially when it gets quiet, very very quiet. Also this chapter marks my 100,000 word streak! Whoopee!

San Prancisco / The Resistance / Thursday 1:00 AM

"Well, do YOU know anypony who knows the access codes and can help us that isn't the princesses or Shining Armor?!" The shadowy figure asked the other one standing across from it. The other shady figure laid down a file with lots of information and pictures of a human.

"What the buck is this shit?" The shady figure looked at the file, seeing an Alicorn in there as well.

"You don't mean that this hairless ape is part Alicorn?" It questioned, the other one nodded. It looked like they needed help, this group of ponies were the resistance fighting against the terrorists in San Prancisco.

"Indeed he is my friend, and we will need his help to liberate the city. He is already in the process of doing that, but what he doesn't know is that he will be of great importance, along with his group of human / pony hybrids." The shady figure then stared at the bunker door, leading to a supply of munitions with a top secret prototype just sealed away. All he needed were the passcodes to enter that bunker, take the prototype, and take control of Equestria for himself. He may have been the leader of the resistance and have been fighting for justice, but his ambitions were demonic in nature. He already has the material, but all he needed now was the match to light it all, and watch it burn down to the ashes.

Trotson City, Neighvada / Delta 0-1 / Thursday, 8:30 AM

I had just the weirdest dream of somepony that was conspiring against the monarchy of Equestria, replacing it with a dictatorship. I just shrugged it off as Jhon woke me up, we were in Trotson City, and it looked deserted.
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"Delta Team, stay back, Delta 0-1 move in to check it out." I commanded, I then moved in with the rest of my crew with the rest of my detachment staying behind, I didn't want to lose these ponies, they just came in about two hours ago as reinforcements.

"It's too quiet, I don't thin-" Nick's sentence was interrupted as bullets hit the ground right next to him. I then commanded the team to get inside the nearest building and clear it, it was going to be our base of operations.

"Kaptn, Nick! Clear the building! Jhon, come with me and give them covering fire!" I said. Jhon then came outside with me, giving our men cover fire while Kaptn is inside with Nick clearing the building.

"I don't think we can last any longer Drew! I'm running on my last clip!" Jhon yelled, a grenade exploded in front of the sandbags we fought behind.

"We have to buy our soldiers time to get dug in! Get back!" I pushed him back, some mortar fire was being shot at our position. I was blown back by the mortar, I had to take a few Tic-Tacs to get myself back on my feet. Kaptn then contacted me, saying that the building is cleared. Jhon and I barely made it inside, reloading our guns. I had to contact Overlord for air support, we were pinned down to this single building.

"Overlord, overlord come in. We're pinned down at building Charlie-Alpha, we're requesting air support. Can you spare any left?" I asked, pacing back and forth, the building was getting hammered with artillery fire, so we had to move into the basement.

"Delta, you have a friendly Pave Low and A Strafe Run coming in to Trotson, they'll give you a distraction to retaliate the enemy." Overlord responded, at least we'll be getting air support.

"Okay guys! Get your gear! We're going back out there." I said, raising my ACR to my shoulder. One of the stallions was asking why we should go out there. We then heard an explosion coming from outside, I gave him the 'That's Why,' face. I then saw a wave of Cobra Attack Helicopters in an arrow formation with a Pave Low following right behind them, mowing down the oncoming reinforcements in the area, we then made our way to the cities' center, picking off any stragglers left behind. I then had my squad and myself go into the Capital building, but Black Claw wasn't there.
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"Damn it! Where are you?" I punched the desk, revealing a certain file on Black Claw, it was fresh too. His last known location was in Sacraponto, Marifornia. Since we've cleared Trotson City faster than we expected, we boarded the helicopters into Marifornia, where we were to find Sacraponto and recapture the city, making our way to the coast into San Prancisco.

"Alright, Foxtrot 3-7, stay here and secure the city with Delta 2-5. Omega 0-3 and Echo 1-4, you're coming with us to Sacraponto." I ordered, I heard a series of, "Yes, Sir!'s" And we loaded into the helicopters. I had Kaptn take command of the minigun and I was co-piloting one of the heelies. Once we were in sight of Sacraponto, we had completely forgotten that they had anti-air units. Moments later our helicopter was shot down from the sky, the others made it to safety luckily and landed inside city limits.

"Mayday, mayday. This is Papa-Bravo 3-1 going down, repeat we are going do-" Our helicopter crashed, on the outskirts of Sacraponto, Marifornia. Nick had to shake me awake because I was still getting over shell-shock, I then shook my head back into reality to see all of us stuck inside of the hull of the helicopter. The worse part about it was, that there were multiple hostiles closing in, the other units had to pull our because the LZ was too hot for them to land. Kaptn and Nick tried their best to break the hull open, while Jhon and I provided covering fire, Jhon was on the still intact minigun while I used the rest of the bullets I had left for my ACR.

They managed to break the hull open, and we climbed out of the destroyed helicopter, still driving off the vermin contaminating the Capital city. I then looted the nearby corpses for more ammo for my ACR, a few hours of looting later we were ready to kill Black Claw, he was here and I know it because I could sense his fear. We then breached the Capital Building, killing the Griffons that blocked our way, we then came into the main office, where we found Black Claw, but he was already dead...

"Looks like somepony's been here already..." I said, sitting on a tipped over desk, Call of Duty Black Ops front cover style. After we left the Capital Building we made our way outside, to face the army working for a dead man.

"Light them up boys." I ordered, we then stood back to back to back to back, forming a square shooting the Griffons as they came at us, as the corpses of what was left of the army building up around us, making efficient cover for our use. This was for Talon Squad, Equestria, and all the stallions and mares who died for this cause. A few hours of fighting it went quiet, and we finally cleared the streets. The winds were blowing two week old papers though town, along with the stench of blood in the air. The other units that escaped the city when we crashed moved on to San Prancisco, and liberated the port city. They also contacted me saying that there was a resistance force here, and the leader wanted to talk to me. If there were survivors that means they could tell us how they breached our line of security in the first place! But first we needed to get a new ride, Nick then found a jeep nearby and hotwired it, this jeep had a lot of power in it, instead of fossil fuels ponies used a magical based fuel, all they had to do is zap the battery with unicorn magic and it would work.

"Copy that Echo 1-4. E.T.A. Two hours, be safe escorting the civies to safety." I replied to their earlier call, but why would the resistance leader want to talk to ME? I had a bad feeling in my gut, and it was saying don't trust whoever's in charge of the group, and I almost always trusted my gut even more than Jhon's relationship advice.