Title: Fall of Cleveland 57 - If Only It Were Traffic Author: Spaghetti_Land Pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/YgR27qfL First Edit: Tuesday 21st of January 2014 10:29:05 PM CDT Last Edit: Tuesday 21st of January 2014 10:29:05 PM CDT http://www.fluffybooru.org/post/view/3353   Written by Mayclore   If Only It Were Traffic >You are a soldier in A Company, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment. >Your unit is currently in Humvees travelling toward the city of Cleveland along Lake Erie on Ohio State Route 2. >Just about to reach the interchange with I-90, and there's not a soul on the roads. >You'll be meeting up with C Company, 2nd Battallion, 56th Stryker Brigade, a unit from the Pennsylvania National Guard. >They've been here for a while; their vehicles were required to help make a path for evacuees. >Clumps of fluffy ponies dot the roadside. >You've lost count of how many your vehicle's run over. >It's not long before you see the Strykers up ahead. >After coming to a halt and exchanging hellos, their company commander and yours start fleshing out details. >III Corps in Fort Hood, Texas, the final word in the field for this operation, issues orders. >They want your two units to determine how far light vehicles can penetrate into the city. >You're not even bothering with the theme park itself, it's overwhelmed. >”Pway?” a fluffy pony asks, waddling over. >“Why hooman fwuff wook funny?” >Kick that bastard clear off the bridge. >You hear a chorus of 'new fwiend!' and 'gif huggies!' >Mount up again and continue down I-90, Humvees leading the way. >The closer you get to Cleveland, the more fluffies begin choking the roads. >Pretty soon, you're driving through a living sea, screaming 'pwease move!' and 'fwuffy no can wun!' >”Damn it, it feels like ice!” the driver complains. >Fluffy pony gore defeats the traction of your tires. >He opens the door and looks down.  Several fluffies try to hug him. >”Hey, Ramirez!  Open up with the forty!” >The gunner, standing up in the back, acknowledges.  Grenades begin pelting the fluffy ponies. >The explosives manage to dent the squirming fluffy glob, and the noise makes them scatter. >Scatter might be a generous term. >They waddle at top speed, which is approximately not very fast miles an hour. >You can move forward again, but you only reach Gordon Park before you get bogged down. >”Fuck me upside down on a pogo stick,” the driver exclaims.  Fluffy ponies choke the landscape. >Untold hundreds are washing up on the shores of Lake Erie to your right. >”Charlie Company, bring up your Strykers and clear us a path, would you?” >The IFVs rumble past you, their sloped forward undersides shoving piles of the screaming creatures away. >They look like wakes of water, if they could talk, bleed, and cry. >Your Humvees fall in behind them and continue on >When you reach the East 55th Street bridge, there are so many ponies, their compressed corpses lift the Stryker's front ends up. >Not even their eighteen tons can squish the dead enough to press on. “I'm calling the Captain.  Sir, we got to East 55th and I-90, but not even the Strykers can get any farther.” >You have to yell over the noise of fluffies begging for food, screaming in pain, and asking where Spaghetti Land is. >”Roger, I'll send it along to regimental HQ.” >”Man, we need a fucking Abrams,” the guy in the left rear seat says. “Now that you mention it, where the hell is Dealer Company?” >Before you can ask the Captain, you realize something. >Your vehicles are surrounded by fluffies, two and three deep. >They want hugs, and food, and directions. “Oh...shit.” >You try backing up, only for the pile of dead you create to lift up your rear tires. “Captain, we're stuck and surrounded!” >The Strykers have better luck. >Their infantry passengers emerge and start blasting fluffies with their M1014 shotguns. >The shots scatter enough grieving fluffies for the Humvees to start rolling. >”Why huwt fwuffy?!” >Fuck, do these things ever shut up? >Everyone but the drivers have to get out now, stomping and kicking and shooting fluffies so their vehicles can get going. >This oughta look real good in the regimental history.  From Hemingway in France to slaughtering living kids' toys in Ohio. >More fluffies are coming in from behind you, half screaming about that damn theme park. >Others are crying about a 'big wooshy munsta'. >You look up.  Thank fuck, an M1A2 is coming. >Its sixty-eight ton bulk flattens the little bastards into bloody puddles. >It pulls up to the rear of your procession, does a pivot turn, and plows a path back. >After a lot of three point turns, you fall in behind it. >The fluffies waddle away from the turbine noise, so you have much better luck getting back to the interchange. >Now the ruined theme park is off to your right. >The best way you can describe the sight surrounding it is a pile of fluffies. >Once you get back, your company checks in and gets the word from other companies that have attempted to reach Cleveland. >Sounds like those west of the city have fared a little better than you, as they were going with the fuzzy flow. >Fluffies continue to accost you, begging for help in reaching the 'big sgettis'. >You kick them.  Some of the other soldiers turn them into bloody poofs with a shotgun shell. >The company commander is already talking about artillery and air support. >He also remarks about reports of people still in the city, but they're on their own. >III Corps will have to take the fluffy problem a bit more seriously now. >You continue to kick fluffies that waddle up to you. >You're not shooting them, yet. >Probably will on your way back to the camp at Lost Nation Municipal Airport. >If these fluffy little bastards haven't overrun it by now.