“All is ready, sir…” a technician said as she approached Becker. He folded his arms behind his back and looked at her, then approached the stand in the middle of the command center.

“Are you okay, Granny?” Applejack asked, looking at her grandmother’s bandaged leg.

“Oh don’t’cha worry Applejack, I’m fine as an apple!” Granny retorted. Applejack sighed and sat next to her, looking up into the sky to see the shield that was protecting Apex against the ruthless cold. She gazed to the sides, watching as the humans ushered the refugee ponies along the sides of the city’s streets. The mare frowned, curiously watching as the armored humans formed on the streets themselves.

They began marching.

All Applejack could hear was the thunderous thumping of a thousand feet marching on. Everypony watched the humans as they made their way through the streets, rifles on the shoulder. Everyone knew what this meant: war.

Suddenly amidst the marching erupted the voice of the old Admiral, booming across every square meter of Apex.

“My fellow humans, brothers and sisters!” yelled the man. Applejack watched as the humans stopped and looked up proudly into the sky. “The icy cold has reached our lands, damaged the grounds of our pony allies, so much that they have been forced to come to us! Pony legends speak of gods, gods who have seen our arrival to this system as a challenge to their will!”

“Celestia told me of this, I did not believe her at first, but now I see... We have arrived to a world that challenges many of our beliefs, and the very lords of this plane have challenged us as well! A deity, one of ice and cold, has attacked Apex, our very own home within this realm! This is unacceptable. This force has hurt our allies, and thus, has hurt us!”

“This day, we march to the south, and we will destroy this God, whatever it takes! We will fight against the ice, with strength and fire!”

Applejack stood dumbfounded as the humans cheered.

“These gods couldn’t have picked a worse enemy than the human race! We will show to them what it means to pick a fight with the damn best in the universe, bring them to the ground and crush them with the force of a thousand suns!”

“The natives of this land, they have not seen what we can do,” Becker continued, everyone in Apex completely silent. “They have been shown but a fragment of our power! But now… Now I ask for you to show your full potential! This is a full scale war that has been declared to us! And we will not show mercy!”

“Do this for our friends, from pony to gryphon, and for our honor, as we are sworn defenders! Bring down the sky with me, kill what cannot be killed, and correct the course of history!”

“March to the south, bring walker and tank, blade and gun, and DO NOT HOLD BACK! Go, and rip the gods straight from the heavens, take them to the ground and show them what it means to feel pain and fear!”

All the ponies cheered as the humans raised their rifles in the air. They watched as the bipeds continued marching, ready to fight for those not strong enough to do so themselves.