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>>139789He nods.
“Understood. Where are we patrolling?”
>>139788"Sounds good. Now for our disguises. Think I could pass as your apprentice?"
>>139791“Well, the term would be a ‘resident,’ a student who has graduated medical school and is now learning the trade. But I doubt the Changelings will be so savy to know that.”
>>139792"Then the last issue I can think of is how do we move the coffins into the more equipped medical facility once we arrive. It might look strange that we are bringing coffins in there."
>>139793“Maybe.... do you have a cover story?”
>>139794"Not off hoof... I would have to think up something. Perhaps it was a request to move the bodies directly from the hospital to the coffins. Perhaps I will just have to smooth talk it by."
>>139793>>139794“Or... when we are in Whinnyapolis, it may be easier to hide them. They may not even stand out as quite as unusual when we get there.”
>>139790"Patrol along telegraph and power lines. Somewhere along them changelings sabotaged them, and we need to find where they are broken and keep changelings from destroying them permanently."
>>139797He nods, and picks up his submachine gun.
“Yes sir.”
>>139798“Uh, good. Are we ready, then?”
>>139799"Good. I will lead rest of our troops in breaking changeling defenses. Do not be startled if you hear mortar fire in town."
>>139800“Alright... I’ll get these coffins... then let’s get a train.”
>>139801He makes something resembling a smile.
“Ill let the Changelings be startled, for once.”
>>139802"I don't suppose you know when the next one headed our way arrives?"
>>139802Silver chuckles in response.
"Alright, let us get it finished, Sargent."
>>139803He blinks. “We could catch the 11:55, maybe, as it stops in town.”
>>139804And now, Silver Sword has to decide where to send the squads. The road north of the town hall is Whinnington. The town hall faces Old Mecc’s trail, and so does the courthouse north of it. North of Old Mecc’s Trail is main street, which the courthouse is backed to. The way to Wald is East, the way to the Frong is West.
>>139805"Perfect. Let's go get the wolves then."
>>139806They go back up to the clearing, to find all three sitting down in front of Miskobag, who is still on the sled.
>>139807Spark waves them over.
"We are about ready to head out."
>>139808Waabishki stands up, then Makade. Waabishki takes the sled.
“Good.” She says with a rope in her mouth. “Let’s go then.”
>>139809Spark follows the sled until they get to the edge of the forest.
>>139805Silver leaves B Squad under the command of Amber Grain, as well as leaving the exact performance of the task to his discretion. He does suggest to start with patrolling the way to the Front first since the remaining changelings have taken up defensive positions in the East.
>>139811Is Amber Grain suggested to patrol east, or does Silver?
>>139810The third wolf (technically fourth) still helps pull the sled to this area.
>>139812Well, Silver is leading the rest of the platoon in breaking the changleing defensive position in the East. He doesn't dissuade Amber Grain from patrolling East, only that it is advisable to patrol the path that doesn't have changelings on it.
He also goes back upstairs to the mayor's office to investigate the changeling machinegun.
>>139813Silver returns to the office to inspect the machine gun. The gun is a medium or “universal” machine gun that is heavier than the Equestrian light machine gun, and unlike that gun, cannot be reasonably fired while walking of in clearing a building. It is belt fed, and is a true “crew served” weapon requiring at least one assistant gunner, and usually has two. It is, however, air cooled and light enough to deploy in the squad, which they do.
The Changeling submachine gun is popular enough with Equestrian troops that it’s not unthinkable that a captured one would end up in a rear supply company, but this gun would have had to be carried in by the Changelings, along with all of its ammunition and the replacement barrel.
>>139814Silver bends down to inspect the damage done to it when they grenaded the room, while asking those present a question.
"Any of you think this weapon is still operational?"
>>139815As an air cooled weapon, there is no vulnerable water jacket to be damaged by shrapnel.
“I think so. It doesn’t look like it got hit directly.” One of the rifle ponies answers.
>>139816"We might be able to use it, then. Suppress changelings with their own gun. Think you can bring this and equipment for it to our machinegun attachment?"
>>139817“We can
bring it. I don’t know if they’ll have enough ponies to use it, though.”
>>139818"They may have to take on additional ponies from A or C squad then, but this is opportunity that we can not pass up."
>>139819“Yes sir.” He answers, trying to pick up the machine gun, as another grabs an ammunition box.
>>139820Silver assists in carrying the machine gun, as well as the replacement barrel. He groans a little in pain from the extra weight.
>>139821It’s down the stairs, out the front door, across the street to the sherif’s office to get it to the machine gun detachment. It’s not heavy enough to be a pain at this distance, at least. Silver is met in front of the sherif’s office by a brown pony with a full helmet.
>>139823“Huh? Oh. Uh, uh, Dragon Echo.”
>>139824Silver sighs, and uses his magic to levitate his flashlight up to check the pony's eyes.
>>139825He scrunches, and pulls away. It’s hard to see exactly what is going on from a distance, but nothing immediately pops out as out of place.
>>139826Silver puts the flashlight away.
"Dra-con-e-quus. Anyways, we have new acquisition for machinegun attachment. I am thinking of using it against its previous owners."
>>139827He taps his hoof to his chin
"Hmmm, a new gun, is it?"
>>139828"You do not see this big gun we are carrying?"
>>139829reeeHe blinks
"We barely have enough ponies for the unit we have. Especially with one stallion down..."
>>139830"One stallion...oh, right, infiltrator. We can temporarily reassign riflestallions from A and C Squads to operate this gun. I just want to see it used against these changelings, it is beastly and it would be quite enjoyably ironic."
>>139831He smiles
"Yes sir. We will see what we can do."
>>139832"Heh. Almost want to be one to fire it, myself. Anyways, I have heard changelings have taken up defensive position on east side of town. Let us get A Squad, C Squad, Machinegun Attachment, and this gun into position to assault them. Also send couple of ponies to fetch mortars from wagon. We are going to rain hell and let thunder loose on these bugs."
>>139833"Yes sir. Do we know where they are positioned?"
>>139834"East of firestation. We will need to put scout on crows nest in area."
>>139836"Come on, let us get A, C, and MGs moving. This gun is heavy and lifting it is killing my wounds."
>>139837He nods.
Time to locate the enemy.
>>139838Silver heads to the firestation to look for a crow's nest.