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[Trapezohedron]

@Dsarker: Is this you?

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[Dsarker]

Dammit, I thought I had gotten rid of those pics No, that isn't me.

[Fniff]

Damn, that picture is really cute.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Perhaps you should build a time travel device, go back to your time, kill and replace your past self and live his life until you have to be called in.

Time travel is impossible. Well, not in the usual way at least. If you want to somehow end up in a different spot on the timeline in the same universe you're starting from, you have to do a "double reacharound" through an adjacent branch 'verse, and the most annoying thing is you never actually go anywhere. I.e. "you" do end up at the destination, but you never actually leave the point of origin. Can't send energy between 'verses from within, only data - and since quantum states qualify for "data", you can do quantum entanglement, with sufficient precision and power. The simplest and most power-effective method of "travel", thusly, is just... "occupying"... someone, through substituting simple energy patterns across a length of time, essentially fabricating memories over the course of an individual's life. Luckily, the interface I have allows for more direct methods (hurray for AMFusion!), but it's still rather unnerving that things like that might be happening nearby.

[Dsarker]

Hmm...what a modern army would be doing in Equestria.


China.


They want more territory.

[Fniff]

You could use my excuse. Randomly teleports there, tries to make the best out of a bad situation and also accidentally shoots first instead of just talking, thus causing a war.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Does China have a modern army?

(okay, okay, bad joke )

Hmm, Chinese communists encroaching on socialist Equestria. Sounds okay, as long as you keep the main characters off the goddamn front lines. Equestria has a standing military for this sort of thing. And I do believe Celestia would not consider it beneath herself to personally oversee the initial bout of "diplomacy". Now, when they capture or kill her.... THEN things might get interesting.

[Dsarker]

I'm thinking of writing it either post or pre mane 6.

Also, what standing army does Equestria have?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Royal Guards at the very least. It's not much of an army, but it's there. Granted, we rarely ever see them, but it would make sense for even a peaceful Equestria to have some kind of rapid response organization that doesn't rely on the two princesses. Once there is a military crisis, their ranks would most surely increase.

Well, then again, whatever military they have has never dealt with the kind of firepower "modern" armies can bring to bear. Pies would likely not work here.

[Dsarker]

Starbuck crouched as close to the ground as he could in horror as heard the distinctive whistling that marked the houmen's weapon. It grew louder and then there came a sound as if thunder was right next to him as it blew. He turned in further horror to see Mischief, his best friend, dead. Killed by the weapon. His body had turned to mince. Starbuck threw up, and tried to keep going.

This wasn't like they had said it would be back in Canterlot. Well dressed armoured unicorns shouting to join up. It had all seemed so fun, like an adventure. But now – now it was just horrifying. The attack continued. More whistling, followed by the counterpart explosions. Starbuck started to cry. He continued to crawl forward, but just broke down in tears.

"What are you doing, colt?! Get up and fight!" came the distinctive voice of the commissar. Starbuck continued to cry, and received a quick buck to the hindquarters for his trouble. He turned to see his commissar, Gens Sparkle. He was a brave colt. Standing up, his armour shining, he was a beacon for them, a remembrance of the grace of the Princess. Starbuck's courage was renewed, and he stood up. He'd make the houmen pay for this.

He charged forward. "For Equestria and victory!"

A machine gun opened up on the survivors of the artillery barrage. None of the Sixth Royal Guard made it back to base.

[Dsarker]

Skyberry Delight ducked into another cloudbank and came to a stop. With a roar, the houmen's thing flew through. It was five or six times her size! How in the hay could it fly? Never mind though. She followed it through, but it was going fast. She sped up. She was the fastest flier in her year, nothing was going to show her u-

RAT-A-TAT-A-TAT! More of things it spat came from behind her, and she turned her head. Another was on her tail, and it had her lined up. She tried to dive down, but it had bracketed her. With another short burst, it tore through her left wing. Desperation evident in her eyes, she fell to the earth like a stone. Hopefully, the unicorns would be there to catch her.

But she could already see the houmen swarming like ants over the trenches the earth ponies and unicorns had dug. Spersed inbetween were the bodies of dead ponies, some more intact than others. She offered up a last prayer to whatever was out there, and closed her eyes.


Crunch.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Unrelated:

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[Dsarker]

"You will fight the savage houmen! You will overwhelm the savage houmen! You will leave none alive!" roared the sergeant as the squad of unicorns moved to their points in the trenches. Bristle was standing at the centre of the line. He was raring for the fight. After the defeats in Cloudsdale and Ponyville, the interim government had decided Canterlot was to be protected first and foremost. Bristle was confident. Nopony had actually died. Just been forced off. It was a bit of fun before going back to the real work of gardening. The houmen didn't even have real weapons, anyway. Just fireworks that made whistling sounds, and toy crossbows. It was all a bit of a lark.

It was almost time for the houmens to turn up now, anyway. Braincolts back at HQ said that the houmen probably liked fighting in the day because they had a phobia of the night. Several daring raids had been done by the flycolts and the pegasi at night. Usually with no resistance, either.

A whistle sounded. That was the signal. Just like in training, Bristle raised a shield above him. He could hear those fireworks now. This was to be the first engagement of the three hundred and seventy eighth/ seven hundred and fifty second combined battalion. Old colts of the 378th had got some fighting in, but HQ had seen fit to join the two together because of causalities or something like that. But Bristle's squad was all 752nd Battalion colts. They raised their shields as one, lifting tnem to the sky. The whistling got louder. Mustang, a colt five across from Bristle, started to joke about something and dropped his shield for a second.

With a roar, the shells fell and blew on the shields. All except Mustang's. The shell hit the trench and blew, knocking down Mustang, the sergeant, and another colt Bristle couldn't remember. The smoke filled the trench, and Bristle let out a laugh at the silly fireworks of the houmen. But soon enough, the smoke cleared.

"MEDIC! COLTS DOWN! MEDIC!" came the frenzied cry. The houmen was swarming, and Bristle dropped. What...what the hay had happened? There was a ringing in his ear. Another pony was screaming at him to get up. Couldn't he have a rest? He was so tired. And wet. His right foreleg was killing him. Ha! Killing him! He'd have to tell Mustang about that. Mustang! That old son of a gun! He was a good bloke. He'd laugh. That other pony was screaming again. Something about a doctor. He wasn't a doctor! He was a gardener. Wait. That was what he was forgetting. It was time to garden.

He stood up and walked from the trench. Time to gard-

[Dsarker]

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[Sean Mirrsen]

Uh-huh. Cool story, bro.

Btw, that Kamina has no relevance to the TTGL crossover I've been thinking of. It's just from an avatar request thread over at GiTP.

edit: and now in color:

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(yeah, the previous instance also updated)