June 2nd, 1422 E.F
I realized I haven’t written in this for a while now, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. I’ve been doing everything I could with physical therapy to get me back into fighting order so I can kill the humans. Equestria knows they need every soldier they can get now.
The past month has been nothing but a demoralizing day by day process of learning which battles were lost, which towns were obliterated or occupied, how big were the number of dead, and how closer the armies were getting to us. There have been very few victories and those only happen because Princess Celestia or Twilight was there. Everypony is afraid that the war is over and that we’re all going to die. That the humans will destroy us like they did to the non-ponies when they fled Equestria. I remember the announcement from Celestia herself about how the human navy sunk all their ships and exterminated them. Humanity is a cruel monster that cares nothing about itself and just wants to take everything they can with their greedy hands.
They already ruined this world with their actions. We cannot let them ruin Equestria.
I keep telling them to let me fight, but they say I’m not ready. That I haven’t adjusted to not having wings anymore or the other injuries might cause serious harm to my body. I don’t care if I don’t have wings anymore! I’ll rip their faces off with my teeth if I have to!
They’ve taken everything from me. My comrades. My princesses. My lover.
They’ve taken my home and my family.
Clousdale surrendered to humanity just two weeks ago and I still can’t believe it. The home of some of our greatest heroes, warriors and generals of renown, and it surrendered without a fight. It’s not the only one to do so, but it hurts knowing my home betrayed us. I don’t even know if my family is even alive. Did they get executed for fun? Did they rape my sister or mother before tossing their bodies in some factory to use them as glue? Did they burn our church down because it didn’t worship their heathen gods?
I don’t know, but I can’t let it get to me except to fuel me into getting better. My family might be dead, but I can’t worry about that. This war is bigger than them. I’ve seen the strength and evil of these invaders and I know that unless we stop them then everything is lost.
Death would be better than such a fate.
-Corporal Halberd Wings, 139th Arial Spear Regiment, 2nd Platoon
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June 4th, 1422 E.F
Rumors are going around about how the ponies captured or being held control over by humanity are being treated well. Some are suggesting that maybe the humans will be merciful if they are captured. I can’t believe what I am here, but these are civilians who don’t know what we are really fighting against. I’ve seen the way they wage war. The brutality and outright horrible things. They claim to have made some rules of war a long time ago at a place called Geneva, but it's a load of manure. There are no rules to war. Just killing and surviving. Millions are dead because of them, both soldiers and civilians. How can we just expect mercy from these monkeys?
I went out to walk around Ponyville for a bit. I’m not well enough to fight, but I can travel around at least. It’s...tough getting used to the feeling of not being able to fly. Like a part of you is gone forever. I see the looks that some ponies give me, but I hate it. I hate being pitied. Some look at me as a hero, but I’m just some unlucky wingless pegasus who managed to avoid getting killed while better ponies died.
Why am I even alive? Why didn’t I die with Thundershot? I don’t care if there is an afterlife or not anymore. I feel dead already inside. I don’t even have a home or a family to go home to now. The only thing keeping me going is the need to protect my country from these bastards. If I didn’t have that...
The town has seen better days. I can say that much. I used to grow up hearing about how great Ponyville was from the Crystal Tower of Friendship to Sweet Apple Acres owned by the Element of Honesty. A place of happiness and importance. It’s barely got a smile to its name. A large memorial is always updating on the souls of ponies who have died in this war. The economy has ruined many businesses and the houses are being prepped for any future bombings. I even hear that the farmers are suffering with their fields being nationalized so that the food can feed the army.
It just feels like utter depression made whole in my mind.
I wonder what it's like for all the other places in Equestria that are still standing?
-Corporal Halberd Wings, 139th Arial Spear Regiment, 2nd Platoon
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June 8th, 1422 E.F
I’m still getting this news, but it sounds big. There was some kind of incident in Canterlot last night. What I’m hearing doesn’t make sense, but it sounds like members of the Royal Guard and Army were fighting each other last night. Apparently, there was infighting like a coup or revolt. There are rumors going around that Princess Celestia is dead or nearly died. Others are saying she faked her death before striking back. Some say it's the Resistance led by Lyra Heartstrings. Others say it's Discord again.
There are also rumors of humans arriving in Canterlot and trying to assasinate Princess Celestia. It had happened nearly a few times before the war. Back when humanity allowed the Convention Bureaus to save them from the barrier’s growth.
The truth is nopony knows what is going on and that’s scaring everyone. Including me.
It’s got everypony up in arms at the moment. Civilians are forced into their homes with orders to not come out or they’ll be punished. Soldiers are on every street while everypony is waiting for news about what happened in Canterlot.
I will write more when I find out more.
-Corporal Halberd Wings, 139th Arial Spear Regiment, 2nd Platoon
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June 11th, 1422 E.F
We finally have the full information on what happened. It turns out that one of the military generals, General Valkyrie, had staged a coup attempt with members from the Royal Guard and Military to seize control of Canterlot and order a negotiation with the human armies. Cowards and traitors a lot of them! Princess Celestia was poisoned, but her alicorn biology managed to save her so she made it look like she had died in hopes of getting the conspirators to appear. When they stormed the castle in an attempt to seize it, she and the rest of the loyal forces managed to stop them with Spike the Dragon arriving with other forces as reinforcements.
Most of the traitors died in the battle, but the remaining ones were straight up executed. Their heads decorate a pike on the walls of the palace. A better fate than they deserve if you ask me. According to one soldier who was there, General Valkyrie accused Princess Celestia of dooming the entire Pony race with her actions and that there was no hope of winning the war. She did what she did to save what was left. How dare she accuse the Princess of such a thing! We came here to save humanity from ourselves if there is anyone to blame for all this chaos it's them! Not the princess! They say her last action before Celestia personally killed her was to spit in her face. I wish I could have killed her personally.
The only reason we are even alive and have a chance of winning this war is because of the Princesses. They are the only reason we can even fight and hold off humanity.
What is happening to Equestria where she is tearing herself apart in false accusations while the true enemy lies on our doorstep? All it did was lead to more ponies ending up dead and hindering the war effort.
At least Princess Celestia is okay. She is fine and that’s what matters. If we were to lose our remaining princesses then there really would be no hope left.
-Corporal Halberd Wings, 139th Arial Spear Regiment, 2nd Platoon
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June 12th, 1422 E.F
I met one of them today. Sweetie Belle. One of Scootaloo’s friends. I remember her talking about her...before the invasion and I recognized her description. She was surprised to know that I knew her friend, but nonetheless wanted to know what had happened to her at the battle. I was surprised Rainbow Dash didn’t tell her what happened, but apparently Dash didn’t like talking about what happened. Not that I blame her, I still can’t fully talk about it myself.
I told her of the brief moment of time we spent together. It wasn’t much but I could tell in her eyes that she wanted to know every detail of her friend’s final moments. She then asked how did the battle go...or more accurately how did she die. I didn’t know what to say, but she begged me to tell her no matter how gruesome it was.
In the end, I told her how the Wonderbolts were all killed one by one. Their remains now buried at sea for eternity. She sobbed for a while and held me as I comforted her. I told her I lost somepony too. How I lost Thundershot.
Sweetie Belle told me she just wanted the war to be over. She didn’t care about who won or lost anymore, just for all the dying to stop. Normally, I would say something about how we needed to win, but I felt like that wouldn’t be right so I didn’t say anything. Maybe I can understand why some ponies think this way, but I feel like they can’t see the bigger picture.
Let’s say, by some miracle, humanity doesn’t wipe us out or enslave us. What will we do? Have to adhere to their laws? Their rules? Will our culture, religion, and society have to change because they hold power over us? What will we lose becoming more like them? No, it would not be Equestria anymore. It would be a puppet state or would fall into the same trap as these humans have done. Their entire history is nothing of conquest, enslavement, death, and corruption. I do not want to see Equestria follow the same fate.
She thanked me before leaving, saying it was something that she and her friend Apple Bloom wanted to know for a long time. I remembered that Apple Bloom was Scootaloo’s fiance and asked how she was, but Sweetie Belle whispered I didn’t want to know. Maybe it's best I didn’t.
As I saw her walk away I wondered more and more what our future as a species and as a nation was going to be. Is there a way to save our home? We’ve done it in the past before, but can we pull it off again with the armies of humanity coming closer and closer with each day? How many lives must be lost before we can turn the tide? If we can turn the tide.
The thought that this is the end has crossed my mind more than once, but I can’t believe it. Because then everything would have been for nothing and I refuse to let that happen. Even if it means losing my life.
-Corporal Halberd Wings, 139th Arial Spear Regiment, 2nd Platoon
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June 19th, 1422 E.F
I heard rumors going around that more and more soldiers are surrendering. It’s gotten to the point that half of Equestria is now under human rule. Worse, there are talks about them planning some kind of major strike.
I don’t know what it is, but I don’t like it. I’ll see if I can find out some more.
-Corporal Halberd Wings, 139th Arial Spear Regiment, 2nd Platoon
Oh no.
Ponyville is about to be blown to bits, isn't it?
Heh, General Valkyrie.
You should make a pony version of General Walther Wenck. The pony version should refuse Celestia’s orders to break the siege on Canterlot and instead use his army to help surrendering forces and civilians reach the Humans’ frontlines while defending them from Equestrian fanatics aka their SS.
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I was wondering how long it would take for someone to get the reference. That idea is something another writer can explore.
Ah yes, Propaganda by Princess Celestia herself. The one time you shouldn't believe the words coming out of this horse's mouth.
So says the race who didn't hesitate to use magical chemical warfare or magical weapons of mass destruction on two of the most scarce and holiest cities on earth or a magical barrier causing world wide destruction before both were destroyed. You killed or converted nearly billions of humans, than the millions of ponies, that humans killed in the war.
At least we humans try to follow the rules of war and don't carry out worldwide mass genocide.
Unlike you fucking barbaric equines. So Fuck you, you damn dirty horse. 🖕
You're going to wish she had died in that military coup, if you had learn the true reason why Celestia brought all of Equestria to Earth and deliberately signed the death warrant to all those left behind on your original homeworld.
That's the real reason for this whole Conversion war, it was nothing more than one alicorn tyrant's ambition to create a pony only world.
God damn it all, the more I read this, the more I feel less sympathetic towards the main character. Because he's nothing but a damn racist fool.
So quite frankly, both he and the entire pony race got what they fucking deserve. Enough said....
The irony is absolutely delicious.
We cannot tarnish that which has already been defiled.
and next chapter ponyville know the meaning of carpet bombing
every chapter is a wonder. One the one hoof, I can't wait for the next chapter, and the next. On the other hoof, I dread when it will finally be over and finished.
It’s going to break him isn’t it? When their last supply lines break down and the food runs out. Feeding an army is extremely expensive and it sounds like they have lost of lot of breakbasket areas. We’re they able to transport the grains out before they were captured? Or did they have to retreat befor they got as much as a hoof full? But most importantly I have to wonder how long he can keep up the image that they are right and everyone else is wrong... Germany effectively medicated their people into compliance, propaganda only gets you so far. Especially when some of the generals that you’ve been idolizing come out and admit Celestia killed numerous Civilian non-ponies just to stand on their graves and use them as a rallying cry. It also doesn’t help that questions about the New-Foals will start being asked, especially after the surrender. The image of do no wrong will start to crack, it would be even better if his family were the ones who told them....
We're closing in on the end
Pony came to earth leaving millions if not billions to perish, began the conversion bureau taking away the freewill and freedom of millions, began a world wide genocide war, killing billions around the world, erasing entire countries races and cultures and destroying landmarks which will have included memorials i imagine.
How are we the bad guys here even with propaganda? Ponies have no right to be so hateful anymore... I also love how their anger was held against the race who by this point was beginning to recognize its faults and wrongdoings who were beginning to try and right those wrongs. Well now all of that progress is either lost or heavily set back. Thanks Celestia.
I think they'll starve them into submission. Non-stop bombing raids, use incedinary and/or chemical bombs would do the trick.
Kind of wish Twilight was rumored to be in on the coup attempt. Realizing the broken idealization of Celestia and the reality of the situation and her own arrest and later trial, or perhaps just quiet suicide when caught might have been an interesting thing for the ponies to piece through. Overall though this story remains quite interesting. Thanks for continuing to share it.
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Unfortunately we know Twilight was loyal up to the end of the war. She doesn't wake up to the truth until the surrender.
Clousdale surrendered cause it was either that or being sundered by a concentration of air power only matched by ww2
Ponies are laying down their weapons because your poorly made weapons and half thought out tactics are laughable in the face of modern infantry, armored combat vehicles and close air support
The coup was formed because any being with more than ten minutes and a book on the last century knows that once the humans reach canterlot its gonna be either horrific street by street cqc or the whole fucking city is gonna be flattened by never ending carpet bombing or hell if the humans are pissed enough chemical weapons and napalm yall fucked around now your gonna find out
- end drunken rant
Typo or Freudian slip?
Each chapter is like classic literature.
Were this not a story about ponies, I feel like I was reading a really good anti-war novel.
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Never thought I'd see the day b-1s and tu-106s might work side by side ....ponyvilles fucked
...Halberd's gonna die in the Ponyville attack.
Hopefully he'll be out of Ponyville before the bombs start dropping, I might be too optimistic, but maybe he'll just be captured and sees that humans aren't absolute monsters?
Accuses humans being barbaric, then goes on to mention a very medieval body desecration-method (the heads on pikes thing) they themselves use (to send a message)? One would question how is that aligned with "HaRmOnY and fRiEnDsHiP". I wonder will they even one day dig up stuff from BEFORE the first Heartswarming eve?
Also wondering how our MC here might react if his family is alive, and maybe with the human side now?
Like?
Too bad it isn't microseconds-fast onsetting radiation poisoning
It's funny how he talks about becoming a puppet of humanity if they lose, as if he's not a puppet already...
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And the magic 8-ball says.... "Signs point to Yes"
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It was a bit obvious, but still a nice reference. Somehow, I think Gen. Valkyrie is going to be revered as a true Champion of ponies when the whole thing ends.
Though Celestia having to put down a revolt of ponies and kill their leader means that she's now personally participated in killing the ponies she loves so much. The schadenfreude... it is delicious!
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It's all leading up to the whole thing getting uncovered and Halberd realizing how much of his sacrifice and loss was a lie. Maybe he won't join the Equestria Freedom Fighters after all. He won't love the humans, but he'll know whose goddamn fault this whole war was.
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That's what I'm personally looking forwards to. Him just realizing how badly he was lied to, and how he has to pick up the pieces in a new world. Hopefully he'll be a better person after this.
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I'd say Ponyville is a farming community with a sizable food supplier base. Sweet Apple Acres is the main farm, though I wouldn't say the only one. Still, I don't think Ponyville was ever meant to be a major military base or refugee camp, so the food supply is going to be taxed to its limit.
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Yeah, that kind of puts paid to the whole "Harmony and Friendship" deal, doesn't it? Then again, Celestia was clearly a hypocrite for a long time. She knew about the oncoming death of the sun, told nobody, and then continued to act in friendship to deceive everyone and then leave them behind when the time was right. And now that the war's gotten bad, she's executing dissidents and leaving their heads on pikes as warnings.
Celly, we humans did some really bad things in our history, we know that. But why are you, the supposed 'civilized and harmonious' ponies, doing it too? Guess it's easy to be a saint in paradise, not so easy when you're forced to eat shit to survive. Welcome to Earth, Sunbitch.
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I doubt the humans will use chemical weaponry; we're still trying to take the high ground here, remember? Incendiary weaponry's fine, however.
However, the US Army classifies Willy Pete (white phosphorus) as a smoke weapon designed to blind the enemy (hint: it does so much worse than that), so take that as you will.
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I'm really looking forward to that. Princess Sun-butt was like Hitler 2.0, but alot worst than the Führer himself. She said that all humans are unworthy to live, and those words back fired on her... SO HARD!
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These ponies didn't realized that they just repeated a piece of human history.
One more thing I'm realizing as I read through this again. Halberd Wings wonders what sort of atrocities are being inflicted on his home now that they surrendered. Don't cities usually surrender to avoid getting butchered? I mean, if they're all getting slaughtered anyways, why not fight to the last breath? At this point, Halberd is either so full of propaganda or so deep in denial he can't stop to think what that means. Then again, if he even doubts the war and Princess Celestia, it'll destroy him, because it would mean everything he fought for and all that he lost were ultimately utterly worthless.
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Should also mention the purge in the military after. Like a famous pony general Celestia didn’t like committed suicide to save his family (Erwin Rommel), another high ranking general executed (Erwin von Witzleben), and a high ranking general committing suicide because he thought they found out he knew about the plot (Gunther von Kluge).
Maybe even mention how every other high ranking General also knew about the plot, but did nothing and didn’t assist either. They didn’t like Celestia, but they’re bound by oath to defend Equestria.
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Ah yes, excellent idea. With the humans already slaughtering anypony stupid enough to wear their officers' stripes with drone attacks and snipers, let's go ahead and cull more of our experienced officer corps in a time of crisis, forcing them to either flee or defend themselves
I'm not criticizing what you're saying; I'm actually worried Celestia (or her inner circle) might go ahead and do it. But you can imagine the immense backlash once the Army is being purged right in the middle of the humans' biggest assault.
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That's because he's not just a puppet, he's a mindless one. Damn fool.
And now, Ponyville gets burned to the ground.
We all read the other stories, we know what's going to happen...
Gotta feel sympathetic for the ponies, tbh.
I think Wings is either going to die or join the resistance. However, his single-mindedness makes me wonder if he has been brainwashed. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out he has been under the influence of mind altering magic this whole time.
I forgot, what happened to the changelings again?
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They were left behind on their planet
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Madness and desperation does that to people. Just look at what Hitler and Stalin did when they purged their own officer corps.
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If my memory serves yes surrendering before the seige usually got you much better results atleast in medieval times
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Arthur Harris and Curtis Lemay are smiling down on humanity in our time of need lol
oh come now, we're not all Japanese.
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hearing?
Btw I see your Operation:Valkyrie Nazi coup reference.
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Hey, you shouldn't judge people by where they come from. That's what they do in Equestria.
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Willy Pete is is the main thing in smoke bombs, but it's mainly an incendiary reaction. And any time you burn something there's Fallout. It's illegal to use WP bombs. But all of it doesnt get consumed when you detonate a giant smoke bomb and the remainder can fall and cause fires and horrific burns.
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Huh, you learn something new every day.
The irony is that the codename for the plot to kill hitler was called Valkyrie.
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Which game are the Vanu from?
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planetside 2
Some are suggesting that maybe the humans will be merciful if they are captured. I can’t believe what I am here