Something Big
“Come on, load that damned gear already. We need to get out of this forest.”
Sgt. Adam grunted as he hefted an MG3 and carried it across to Old Tom. Other crewmen were loading boxes of ammunition and other supplies; Food, spare uniforms, rifles, etc.
“This is going slowly.” Alex said as he lifted an eskie. “Ironluck! Aren’t you going to help out?”
Ironluck and Pathfinder were idly chatting away in the sidelines.
“Oh yeah.” Ironluck said sheepishly. Her horn started to glow. Alex saw this, dropped the eskie and raised his M4.
“WAIT!” Fluttershy squeaked from atop of the Retribution II.
Alex aimed his M4 at Ironluck but held his fire. “What is it?”
“She’s just helping.” At that the eskie was surrounded in a red glow and floated off towards Old Tom.
Alex lowered his M4 with a dumbstruck look on his face. “...What?”
Other crewmen paused to watch the eskie float past.
“What’s going on here?” Alex mumbled to himself.
Slinging his M4 he walked towards Ironluck who was watching the eskie go through the
passenger’s door.
“How are you doing that?” Alex asked.
“With my horn silly.” Ironluck said.
The last bundle of supplies glowed red and floated away. Ironluck giggled as Alex watched with a dumbstruck face.
“I’m going to check up on the Leopard. Staff Sergeant Daseal, I’ll be leaving you in charge. Tell me when you’re done here.”
“Yes, sir.” Staff Sergeant Daseal replied.
“Righto.” Ironluck said as she levitated a G36.
“Pass me that, ma’am.”
“You talking about this thing?” She spun the G36 around in the air.
“Yes.”
The G36 flew through the air and landed at Alex’s feet.
“Pathetic!” Alex yelled.
He picked up the G36 and examined it in his hands.
’Always loved the look of these rifles.’
Alex turned towards the Leopard 2 with the G36 in hand but was stopped by the sound of footsteps behind him. He turned to see Pathfinder walking gingerly behind him.
“Ma’am.” Alex nodded.
“Hello.” Pathfinder said.
“Since you’re here, do you mind if I ask you a few questions?”
“Uh sure.”
Alex motioned with his hand for her to walk next to him.
“Firstly; where did you find the Leopard?”
“We found it out here.”
“In this exact same spot?”
“Well Box has moved a little.”
“How much is ‘a little’?”
“A metre.”
“Alright. Secondly; this tank has a crew of four, where’d they go?
Pathfinder paused and looked up at Alex.
“I don’t know. We found Box by itself, nopony else was here.” She said.
“So the Leopard was just sitting there, loaded up with gear and the crew wasn’t there?”
“Yep.”
“Sorry if I find that hard to believe.”
“I’m just telling you what I know.”
Alex nodded. “Very well. Thirdly; how do you know how to drive it?”
“Well it took about a year to figure it all out, but we got it moving in the end, even if it was just a metre.”
Alex played that over in his mind again.
“Did you say ‘a year’? How long have you had it?”
“Hmmm, we found it about… two? Yeah. Two and a half years ago.”
Alex’s jaw fell open as he heard that. “Two and a half years ago?”
“Yup.”
“Ok. Well I wasn’t expecting that.” Alex said as he shook his head. “One other thing, can you even see out of those sunglasses?”
“Of course.”
“Do you mind if I move Box up with the rest of your tanks?”
Alex stood quietly for a moment.
“I don’t. Just watch what you’re doing.”
They quickly reached the Leopard and Alex boosted Pathfinder up onto the hull.
“Now, you’re sure you know what you’re doing? These things are not toys.”
“Jeez you sound like my dad. I know what I’m doing.” Pathfinder said as she somehow swung the drivers hatch open.
“Aren’t you a bit small to be driving that?” Alex stated.
“I’ve made a few adjustments.” Pathfinder said as she hopped into the driver’s seat.
“All units, just a quick heads up. The Leopard is starting up.” Alex said into his headset.
Alex walked to stand in front of the Leopard and gave a quick thumbs up. Pathfinder nodded and swung the drivers hatch closed. Alex walked to the front of the Leopard and banged the hull twice. He stepped back as the Leopards engine roared to life. Previously unseen wires along the hull began to glow in a light blue.
’Of course! Why didn’t I see this before?’
Alex threw his arms into the air and turned around in frustration.
’This is absolute bullshit! They knew about this!’
He turned back to the Leopard, took a deep breath, cleared his mind and motioned for it to move forward. The Leopard lurched forwards with a splutter of exhaust and flicked mud into the air.
’Well I’ll be damned. She can actually drive it.’
Alex waved the Leopard forward and it slowly followed him. He walked alongside the Leopard making sure that Pathfinder didn’t screw up. Luckily nothing went wrong and the Leopard reached the end of the convoy safely. The Leopard came to a stop and the engine died. Alex climbed onto the hull and banged the drivers hatch twice. It swung open to reveal a beaming pony.
“I told you I could drive it!” Pathfinder boasted.
“You’re full of it, you know?” Alex replied.
Pathfinder laughed and pulled herself out of the driver’s seat.
“Sir.”
Alex turned around to face the newcomer.
“Staff Sergeant?”
“We’ve finished moving the supplies into the back of Old Tom.”
“Excellent. Anything else to report?”
“We’re running low on ammunition, sir. We used up a lot of it on that purple pony.”
Alex sighed and peered over the shoulders of the Staff Sergeant to look at the LAV. An idea formed in his head and he looked back down to the G36 in his hands. He shoved the rifle into the Staff Sergeants hands.
“Distribute what G36 rifles we have amongst the men. Take any magazines from the previous weapon they had. Hand those few magazines out equally.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Pathfinder, stay with the tank for now.”
“Whatever.” She replied.
Before the Staff Sergeant left Alex grabbed the G36 out of his hands and gave him his
almost depleted M4 in return.
“I’ll take that back.”
The Staff Sergeant was about to say something but was interrupted by a yell.
“Sir! Sir!” An Australian crewmen yelled.
“What is it?” Alex yelled back.
“Something big is coming down the path!”
“Well if it isn’t one thing it’s another. Back to the tanks!” Alex bellowed across the clearing.
Rushed footsteps and clunks echoed through the forest as crewmen ran around. Alex and the Staff Sergeant ran back to their tanks.
“What’s going on?” Fluttershy asked as Alex approached the Retribution II.
“Something big is coming down the path!” He replied.
He climbed atop of the turret and quickly swung open the cupola. He was about to hop in when a very loud howl filled the forest.
’Not fucking good!’
Fluttershy whimpered and buried herself under her mane.
“Private make room, you’re going to squeeze in Fluttershy!”
“Uhh- Yes, sir!”
Fluttershy squeaked as she was hastily lifted by David and lowered into the loaders compartment. Alex quickly leaned over and closed the loaders hatch as they descended. He slid back down into the turret to find Roger looking at him with a pale face.
“Is there a problem?” Alex asked as he reached to close the cupola.
“That didn’t sound good, sir.” Roger said weakly.
“You don’t say? Corporal start her up.”
The engine whined and then roared to life the other tanks followed suit including the Leopard.
“What are they doing?” Alex asked himself as he craned his neck around to see the Leopard.
“All units form a line! Use of main cannons is authorized.” Alex ordered into the headset.
The Kangaroo revved her engine and parked to the left of the Retribution II, Old Tom reversed to the right side of the Retribution II. Alex eyed the Leopard; it sat still for a while and then it suddenly moved forward and stopped next to the Kangaroo. The line of tanks had their main guns facing the path, waiting for whatever it was to make an appearance.
“I don’t like this.” Roger whispered.
“Can’t say I like this either, Sergeant.”
The crack of a tree falling down made the Roger stiffen.
“Private, load a HEAT round!” Alex ordered.
There was a clank and a thud as the shell was loaded.
“Loaded!” David announced.
Movement further along the path caught Alex’s attention.
“You see that sir?” Roger asked.
“I saw it, I saw it. Keep your eyes open.” Alex replied.
A rumbling from above announced the presence of rainclouds. There was another rumble and it started to rain.
“Just what we need, more rain.” Alex said.
There was a crack of lightning and the forest was lit up. Alex thought he saw what appeared to be a giant wooden wolf towering over the path.
“Sergeant?!” He blurted out.
“Holy shit! That thing is the size of a house!” Roger exclaimed.
“Did you get its exact location?”
“No, sir.”
“Retribution II to all units, can anyone confirm the presence of a large wolf down the path?”
“Kangaroo here, sir. I saw it but I didn’t believe it.”
“Roger that. If anyone gets a clear shot on it; take it. Retribution II out.”
There was a loud rumble as rain clouds crashed into each other in the sky.
“Get ready for the lightning, Sergeant.” Alex ordered
“Ready, sir.”
There was another crack and the forest was once again lit up. The giant wolf stood in the middle of the path; it's yellow eyes glaring at the row of armoured vehicles.
“I have it in our sights, sir!”
“Fire!”
The main gun roared and the HEAT shell soared down the path, it smacked right into the side of the giant wolfs head. Half of its head was destroyed in a shower of splinters as the HEAT shell exploded. The casing was ejected from the main gun with a clatter and another HEAT was loaded.
“All units the target has been marked. Open fire.”
The wall of armoured vehicles opened up, including the Leopard which fired its main gun with a deep boom. The giant wolf was bombarded with shells, 50 Cal bullets and 25mm rounds. It roared every time a shot landed. Very quickly the once house sized wolf was transformed into a burning pile of splinters, sticks and logs.
“Do you think there are any more of those things, sir?”
“Probably, but we’re not going to stick around to find out.”
Another loud howl filled the forest; confirming Alex’s suspicions.
“All units we’re rolling out, follow my lead.” He ordered. “Corporal, get us moving back down that path.”
“Aye, sir.”
The Retribution II pulled forward and began the journey out of the clearing.
“Fluttershy?” Alex asked into his headset as the Retribution ploughed through the smoldering remains of the wooden wolf.
“Private, is Fluttershy alright?”
“Uh she’s fine, sir. She’s just in shock I think.”
“Ask her if the path we’re on now will take us out of this forest.”
There was a moment of silence as David tried to get Fluttershy to talk.
“She won’t talk, sir.”
Alex sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. “Very well, tell me when she starts talking, Private.”
“Yes, sir.”
The convoy sped down the narrow path with haste. After five tense minutes of driving the path started to get brighter and brighter, confirming that they were going the right way. The once heavy rain became very light and eventually stopped as they drove along.
“Slow her down, Corporal I don’t think we’re in any danger right now.”
“If you say so, sir.”
The convoy slowed down but continued unopposed along the path.
“Sir, Fluttershy is talking now.”
“Thank you, Private.” Alex switched channels. “Fluttershy are you ok?”
“M-my wing and hoof still hurts.” Fluttershy replied over the radio.
“Don’t worry, ma’am, we should be getting out of this forest soon.”
‘Oh ok.”
“Speaking of which does, the path we’re currently on lead out of the forest?”
“Yes. It should.”
“Care to make sure? I don’t want to get lost.”
There was a clunk as the loaders hatch opened.
“This is the right path.”
“Alright, that’s good. How long until we reach the edge?”
“Any minute now.”
“Excellent.”
Alex swung open the cupola and breathed in the fresh air. He turned to look at the convoy behind him; the Kangaroo was directly behind the Retribution followed by Old Tom and the pony driven Leopard.
’Convoy of misfits right here.’
Alex turned back around to face Fluttershy who was still poking her head out of the drivers hatch. He then looked back up to see the trees thin and clear. The path dipped as they reached the edge of the forest and the Retribution II bounced as the suspension absorbed it.
“Corporal bring us to a stop.” Alex ordered.
The tank swayed forward as it came to a halt.
“Well now...” He said as he took in the scenery.
The path continued down a lush green hill dotted with bushes and colourful flowers. Alex looked further along the path he could barely make out what appeared to a town at the bottom of the hill.
“...Ponyville?” Alex asked.
“Yes.” Fluttershy confirmed.
He looked up at the cloudless blue sky.
“Take us in, Corporal.”
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hmm I wonder what got featured today?
*sees story about a Tank making it to Equestria*
dear god some people have amazing ideas, plus it's probably less destructive than
, 
, and 
Dem cliffhangers
Can't wait for the next one!
Betting 100 bits they'll meet the princess at some point in the story
Hell yeah son, that went well in my imagination... heard all the sounds, giant timberwolves, reloading tank rounds, firing the rounds, rain hitting the plating of the tank, voices over the coms! I like it moar!
We need to get back to the humvee driver soon dangit. 
So much talking. So little description. Hard to follow the story. The dialogues are abrupt, half of the time you don't know who's talking.
2041221
Well, that's a thumb rule of every fic.
Yay Lets spread chaos :D
Tank, meet Tanks.
Happened to listen to this while reading this;
I should point out M1A3 Abarms does use caseless shells, the case of shell is burned when fired in cannon, only the bottom of shell is ejected.
And tanks can use thermal vision to see in night place and navigate in low visibility zone like smoke filled arena. And if in case there a enemies walking on top of tanks, tanks can load canister to "scratch" tank's ass each other ( think a shotgun with so many steel balls ) killing soft targets but not damaging tanks.
Ask me if you need information how this is done with tanks.
2041349 Great song and fitting to some extent
How many countries worth of vehicles do they have there?
U.S.
German
Australian
Anymore?
2.5 years likely either means it was the first failed attempt and the crew was either not inside, died due to the teleportation (erased from existance) , or died when attempting to figure out where they were (Unlike these characters, they may had thought they were still in Germany)
Can't wait for more! Time for NATO Forces to move into a completely foreign land.
good story.
2041221 I bet 200 bits that Twilight and the rest of Ponyville start to either.
A) Panic and Run everywhere
B) Start to attack the Tanks thinking it would damage them.
Is Alex gonna be a complete ass to every pony he meets? He keeps seeing himself as "order and justice" in a world which is clearly not their own, and has intelligent life of it's own. I dunno, aren't Marines supposed to be better than that?
So the time displaced Box has E.A.S.T.
Which means the Nazis had E.A.S.T.
I think that doctor has a LOT of explaining to do.
EDIT: Disregard that whole "Nazis" thing, I got my German tank names mixed up and thought the Leopard was a WWII era tank.
Wow. They really got split. Someone was already at AJ's farm, but they only got to Ponyville now.
2041780
The Leopard 2 is a modern German tank. Nazis probably didn't have it. However, it's a possiblity that the Germans developed EAST first. They smart people.
2041780 saying a leopard is a Nazi tank is BS. Germany is NATO not Nazi.
2041808
2041820
Apologies, I got my tanks mixed up. I was thinking of the Panzer or something.
2041835 The Tiger 2 probably.
2041835
Germans do like naming their tanks after big cats though.
Correction: 'Panzer' is just German for 'tank' (it's actually just a shortened version of the long German word...).
2041835 I guess you where thinking of the "Panzerkampfwagen" 5 (the Panther) and 6 (the Tiger, the 6B beeing the King Tiger)
2041438
Yeah, 2.5 years is a good amount of time for other tanks to arrive, assuming that the project was around 2.5 years and they had been designing prototypes for quite a while! Personally, a T-90 would be great!
I'm impressed! this is the first story on fimfiction I've seen which used the Timberzilla as a monster. Every HiE always goes with a simple manticore or the go to 6-pack of Timberwolves. Your execution (hehe, morbid pun is morbid) was excellent. I much prefered the dialogue you used over a simple description of what happened. It adequately explained what was going on, while leaving out the parts which would have been unneccessary to the story. I for one, am quite excited for the next chapter, which promises to be even more interesting than a simple run through the Everfree.
2042123
I doubt a T-90
NATO would not share tech with the Russians.
2041780
Well, quite obviously Doctor Who went back in time with the E.A.S.T. or something similar to Germany and it got stolen.
But wait, there's more!
WOOT!! Another update! Now to go read it....
25mm rounds.
The US military uses 25 mm weapons in their AV-8B Harrier, AC-130 gunship, M2 Bradley, LAV-25, F-35 Lightning II and as a standard ship-based munition in the Mk 38 auto cannon. I don't think they had any of these. I believe you said M1A2 Abrams and HMMWV's
2042761 It says there is an LAV in there. It's been there since the beginning.
Some shit's getin real. Also
Y U NO MERKAVA IV!?!?!
2041521 Absolutely B. They attacked Twilight, and she escaped. They are going to attack.
2041349 You sir have a fine taste in music. I was listening to Sabaton as well while reading this. Primarily Attero Dominatus and Nuclear Attack. Yay for album videos!
2042956 Thank you, so do you. And I say yay for album videos too! ^^
Wait, Canada has Leopard 2s! The Leopard 2 could be Canadian!
Don't you mean i only have you guys to Tanks. HAHAHAHAHA
I'm reading this on my teachers Ipad
Not a very good idea...
I'll be that guy and point out that HEAT probably won't be very effective against a target like a King Timberwolf. Not saying it won't do the job, but in my opinion, simple HE should do the trick far better. Then again, I don't really know if that's used anymore in tanks nowadays.
I wonder if they have forgotten that they tried to use lethal force on Twilight, and that after being wounded said pony teleported away?
... Yea. That one might come back to bight them in the ass.
Ponyville is within your sight. You now have 3 options.
1.) Be friendly motherfuckers and go say hello.
2.) Be total badasses and drive in gung-ho style, taking shit from no-one no how.
3.) level the town and pretend it never happened.
Please choose 3, please choose 3,please choose 3.
2042998 imageshack.us/a/img96/4722/badassoverhere.png
You naughty fellah :P
2043282
HEAT - High Explosive Anti-Tank. Definitely think it would work against a King Timberwolf.
2043935
I think a regular high explosive would be just fine but yeah that anti tank part just adds more to the OVERKILL factor
Gotta love overkill.
And here I thought that you where dead
nice to know I was wrong. Awesome chapter as always
military people... stop ruining the fun.
Tank meet ponies.
Ponies meet tank.
Yay update!!!
That Timberwolf ate tank rounds hard I don't think it's going to be able to regen after that, also they're going to drive the tanks into Ponyville, this isn't going to end well but still great chapter, can't wait for more!
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I highly doubt they're gonna drive in leveling everything. I mean sure first encounters with the ponies showed otherwise but still, I'm pretty sure they're level-headed enough not to engage a town full of ponies while carrying one onboard. From a different perspective that could like a hostage but eh.
...Causing a massive pileup of armored vehicles because He forgot to tell the convoy they were stopping!
2044425
Hey! That's my Deviantart sig.
But your doing it wrong. It's "My little panzer"
2044110Better to overcompensate than not be sure if you can stop a threat.