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- >You are the gunner for an M270A1 MLRS.
- >Gunner is a bit of a misnomer; this is a rocket launcher.
- >You're attached to 3rd Battalion, 13th Field Artillery Regiment, and you're parked in the suburbs of Akron.
- >That's right, Ohio.
- >Your unit, along with several others, is preparing to fire on the city of Cleveland.
- >III Corps, under the direction of US Army North, is forming a cordon to contain the fluffy ponies in the city.
- >Over eight million of the little bastards.
- >You didn't think there were that many fluffies on the planet, much less in America.
- >1st and 4th Infantry are using I-90 and I-77 to move in soldiers to establish a large perimeter.
- >Your unit's mission, now that the evacuation is over, is to provide firepower.
- >There are seven other M270s in your section.
- >They're all loaded with the new MGM-140 missile.
- >Only two of the big rockets will fit in your launcher, but two is more than enough.
- >You can see your commanding officer, a Captain, on the horn with Battery C, 26th Field Artillery.
- >They're the guys that will tell you where to launch the hardware.
- >There's not much conversation between you, the driver, and your section chief.
- >Just waiting for the order.
- >You know why the Staff Sergeant's quiet; he was born in Cleveland.
- >Now he has to help level it.
- “I can't fuckin’ believe this, man...”
- >You look around.
- >Your section is set up in Schneider Park, north and west of downtown Akron.
- >You're surrounded by suburbia. There's a church across the road south.
- >You even see a couple of herds of fluffies trying to go north.
- >They get slaughtered by military police.
- >Captain's still talking to Battery C.
- >Army North's plan is to demolish all the bridges in Cleveland
- >With the massive fluffy pony influx, sending in sappers isn't feasible right now, however.
- >Instead, III Corps Artillery, of which your unit is a part, is going to do that, along with zoomies from the First Air Force.
- >He's done talking. Even though he's right over there, not twenty yards away, he gets his field radio.
- >It's go time. He's issuing orders to the section.
- >You receive an assignment to attack the Memorial Shoreway bridge as well as West Superior Avenue's bridge.
- >You head to the launcher, looking at the maps to figure out where they are.
- >The Staff Sergeant already knows.
- >”I have to launch against Riverfront Park?” he asks in disbelief.
- >Your targets are very close to Lake Erie. The whole section will be attacking them.
- >You hear over the radio that both Wendy Park and Riverfront are absolutely choked with fluffy ponies.
- >Even Humvees have had trouble navigating the pile of fluff.
- >Therefore, your missiles will be launched first.
- >They contain nine hundred and fifty submunitions each, designed to kill personnel.
- >The other launchers' weapons have five hundred pound high explosive single charges, for use against the structures.
- >Your missiles should kill most of the fluffies, allowing engineers to get in if your section can't finish off the bridges.
- >You're all inside or away from the launchers now.
- >You're setting up the fire control system.
- >You press the 'button'.
- >The vehicle shudders a bit as the missile punches out of its canister and blasts up and away.
- >The noise is shrill and penetrating for a brief time, but fades as the missile speeds downrange.
- >You just launched live ammunition on an American city.
- >Silently, you hope you don't hit anything alive besides fluffy ponies.
- ------
- “Gif owwies!”
- >Your massive herd fights against the endless tide of ponies ahead, trying to make progress.
- >You're also trying not get driven into the Big Water on your right.
- >”Fwuffies go Sgetti Wan'! No wet otha fwuffies ge' sgettis!” yells a pegasus before you stomp his face.
- >You've been fighting for what feels like an eternity.
- >Your purple fluff is stained with red.
- >Your left ear has been ripped almost clean off.
- >Your horn is chipped and aching.
- >And yet, you've prevailed. Your herd is mostly strong earth ponies.
- >You've been able to overwhelm opposition until you found yourself surrounded by human home places.
- >You directed your fluffies to retreat to a grassies place where Big Water and some Winding Water met.
- >You managed to rest enough, eat some grassies, and recuperate for a day.
- >Now you're stuck.
- >You can't swim across Winding Water.
- >The way back to the grey path that crosses it is blocked by herds that are coming from behind you.
- >You have to fight your way out.
- >Your mares are being viciously attacked.
- >There are no foals left in your group; they've all either been killed or lost in the chaos.
- >The males of your herd go to defend their mates, but the endless stream of enemy fluffies swallows them.
- >Screams fill the air.
- >You can pick out words sometimes, but it's all just a chorus of agony.
- >You see a pink mare with a foal, desperate to get away and find shelter.
- >Her smell says she is with the enemy. You rush through the scrum and stomp her foal.
- >Then you gore her in the tummy as she wails over her dead baby.
- >Your males protecting their mates succeed in breaking out and rejoining your group.
- >”Nee' go, too many bad fwuffies! Haffa fin' safe pwace for giwl fwuffies!”
- >You cannot make any headway. Solid walls of bleeding, shrieking fluff pin you from all directions.
- “No can move! Too many fwuffies aww ova pwace! Am stuck!”
- >You're forced to hold your position, goring and biting any fluffy that tries to hide in your clump.
- >”Wook! Wook! See fwy tingy!”
- >You look up as more fluffies shout those words.
- >An indistinct shape is above you, coming almost straight down.
- >It makes a loud noise, and a huge number of smaller things come out.
- >”Fwy tingy haf babehs?” your yellow wingie friend mate asks.
- >More enemy children. You know what to do.
- “Fwuffies huwt babehs when dey co--”
- >Your senses can barely comprehend the carnage that happens next.
- >Sharp, deafening bangs engulf your herd.
- >You see parts of fluffies flying through the air.
- >Eyeballs, legs, wings, halves of fluffies, foals hanging from severed torsos of dams by their umbilical cords.
- >They pelt your herd, causing them to scream with primal fear.
- >A mighty bang comes from nearby, causing fluffies to tumble through the air, trailing misty red in their wakes.
- >They land on other fluffies and crush them.
- >The bang noises get closer and farther away at the same time.
- >You watch helplessly as you see members of your own herd begin to fly overhead.
- >”Smawty, pwease hewp fwuffy!” some shriek.
- >You see one of your only surviving dams get flung up by a close bang.
- >She explodes in the air, her foals fanning out and landing amidst the panicking fluffy mass.
- >”Nuuuuuuuuuu! Smawty fwiend pwease hewp fwiend's babehs!” your mate cries.
- >A very loud bang.
- >You feel hot, sharp owwies rip through your flesh.
- >The boo-boo juice of your mate splatters your face, causing you to lose sight for a moment.
- >The bangs stop.
- >You manage to pull yourself up on your front leggies again.
- >You no longer feel the back ones.
- >As you blink away the boo-boo juice, you feel like throwing up your nummies.
- >The fluffies around you are shredded to bits, but a lot are still able to wail in pain.
- >Separated heads lie on the ground, their lips moving for a moment before going still forever, their eyes frozen open with terror.
- >Back halves of bodies mix with severed limbs and eyes and parts of dead foals.
- >Everything is drenched with scared poopies, pee, and boo-boo juice.
- “Why...why dis happen...”
- >You tip backwards, suddenly resting on your spilled innards.
- >The pain is just another ripple in the sea of your white-hot agony.
- “Fwuffies onwy wan' sgettis, why...why fwy tingy gif big owwies to...to good fwuffies...”
- >As your eyes involuntarily roll back, they see another shape approaching in the blue sky.
- “No...no wan' owwies, fwy tingy...fwuffies sowwy...”
- >Like the one before, it has many little black babies.
- “No, pwease no...pwease no gif owwies babehs, fwuffies go 'way, babehs can haf sgettis...”
- >The babies don't listen.
- >One of them flies right at you.
- >It is the last thing you ever see.
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