"Well, I was just going to keep them outside of the border until you were ready to invade. What I was planning was for you to rush in after my ponies massacre them in the air. My plan hinges on you rushing in while they're disoriented." you say explaining the whole of you plan to her.
"I don't understand how would that work?" Celestia said.
"Where I am from there's a wartime tactic called Blitzkrieg, or lightning warfare, it's a combination of air and ground attacks timed together to overwhelm the enemy's defenses and weaken them so durastically that we overtake their armies while they reel and retreat we advance almost unhindered. It's simple in how effective it is." You say bringing that to the table.
"Well, It shall be another week until most of my troops arrive on the border. Can you hold them off until then?" Celestia said.
"We can hold them. If you need that much time I'll buy it for you, but when you're ready we're going to go in hard and fast. Guess I'll start bombing missions then." you say as you look at the map of reconnaissance photos to see where the wartime production factories were.
"I suggest you strike here and here. You'll cripple their ability to move supplies after you hit their factories." Celestia said as she was looking at the maps.
"Yes, but striking here and here takes out their raw material production. No raw materials, means no finished products no matter how close to completion they are." You say offering a different target to hit.
"Well, I'm not going to tell you where to strike." Celestia said.
"Right, don't you have an army to amass?" You say as she smiles and leaves. Leaving you to get back to assembling Falken.
 
2200 hrs.
You've managed to complete the nose section of Falken, still a long way to go before he's complete, but at least his face is done.
"So what's the plan?" Thunderbolt asked.
"Plan is for the moment to bomb their factories, when Celestia gives the go, we go and burn them a path into Oslo along route 171." You say
"Route 171? But doesn't that lead from the crystal empire?" Thunderbolt asked.
"Yea, it does. And we've got about a week until she amasses enough troops and tells me to go. Tomorrow starts the bombing campaign. As much as I want to hit their AA defenses. They're basically non existent. So smashing them now is pointless. I just hope there will be a represenative of each bomber here tomorrow so I can go over this with them." You say as you get ready to go to bed.
"And us attack ponies?" Thunderbolt asked.
"as much as it's going to bother all of you, you've got to wait until we need close air support. So you're sitting and preparing for a week." you say as Thunderbolt follows you to your room.
 
1100 hrs. Your shop.
"Rex, I bring represenative of each bomb designation. They understand if you just call by designation. There lot of ponies to keep track of." Brezhnev said as he had ten other ponies outside of your shop.
"Alright then, let's get to business." You say as you drag the map outside for them all to see.
"So, this is Oslo, which I'm sure you're all very aware of." You say some of the bombers laugh at you.
"Right, but we've got a few issues with them declaring war on us. They signed their own death warrant, and we're going to hand it to them. Can you all see these cities on the map?" You say as you get a resounding yes.
"Good, those are your targets. Your corridors in are along here and here, plan is to hit every target at the same time, those of you who are faster will be hitting the further out targets, those who aren't as fast, will be hitting the closer targets. These corridors as of this very moment are not protected, but you will have fighter escort into the area, and if there is defenses, they shall take down the AA for you. Is this understood?" You say after pointing out who was going where due to the preset labels done by Sully and Mulder
"Yes Sir!" They yelled and you nod
"Good, mission starts 0830 hrs tomorrow. Keep in touch for targets" You say
You return to your shop after all the bombers leave and continue working on Falken, right now, you're the only one who can work on him due to the small space and limited room to work in.
Though it may have took you months of building Morgan after you finished working, it would only take you maybe another day to finish Falken, then build another ADFX for yourself.
 
When you stop to take a late lunch, you've done about 80% of the work on Falken, most of what needed to be done was put on all his skin as all his internal workings were done. You're happy with your progress, and decide to take a nap in your office, as all this construction has you wiped.
 
1600 hrs. Your office.
You wake up from your nap to a crashing sound inside of your shop.
"Damn it. Stupid nose, why are you so long?" Falken said as you rush out of your office to see him standing there.
"Falken. Stop. You're not even covered." You say as you're irritated to see that he's already alive.
"What do you mean not even. Wait, where's like half of my skin?" Falken said as you stared into his camera covered face.
"Yea, didn't give me a chance to finish you." You say as you grab a large panel for his back,
"So would you lie down so I can finish?" You say as he lies down allowing you to finish your work.
"So I guess you're my dad hua?" Falken asked as you were installing his skin.
"Yea, I'm your dad. You've also got an older sister. Her name is Morgan." You say as you go to get another panel.
"Morgan? Like ADFX?" Falken asked.
"Yep, ADFX-02 to be exact. There a problem with that Falken?" You ask still installing panels onto him.
"Nope, no issue there. I know she could take care of herself." Falken said as you laugh a little.
"You're both young, still have a lot to learn. Try and get along with her." You say as you continue to work
 
2300 Hrs. your home.
"Morgan! You still awake?" You yell into your home to see if Morgan was awake.
"Whaaat?" Morgan said as she came out of her room a little sleepy
"There's someone here I'd like you to meet." You say as you turn around to see all the lights of Falken's cameras glow in the darkness of your home
"Who?" Morgan asked
"Your little brother." You say when the lights come on to show a coppery red ADF-01 pony.
"No way! Dad! You did it! You gave me a little brother!" Morgan said over excited about this.
"Yea, I've also got another responsibility because of it. Now I've got two of you to look after." You say when Thunderbolt came out of your room
"Anon, come to bed. It's late. Who's that?" She said as she stood in the doorway
"Falken. another one of mine. Thunderbolt, I'll be there in a second." You say as you walk towards your room
"Wait, where are his eyes?" Morgan asked as she walked around Falken
"You see all these white dots?" Falken said
"Yes"
"Those are cameras, so they are my eyes, Allows me to have a 360 degree field of view. So, I can see you when you're behind me, but mostly I chose to use only a section of my vision at one time. That 360 view tends to hurt my head." Falken said explaining how he saw.
"Oh, that's kinda weird but ok. Just as long as you're not blind." Morgan said as she went back to her room
"Well, she's subtle, then again, it's not like I'm any better." Falken said in reference to his appearance
"I know sarcasm when I hear it Falken, take what was the guest room, it's yours now. I need to sleep buddy." You say as you walk off to bed.
"See you in the morning Dad." Falken said as he walked to the last available room in your home.
 
0800 Hrs. Control tower.
There's 30min before your first bombing strikes get off the ground, Avalon's shadow hosts a few of the jet bombers, B-52s mostly.
The bombers are lead by Strato, who's got Phantom by his side leading the escort for him.
The few other bombers here are the B-24s and 17s. Their escorts are a mix of Bf-109s, P-51, Fw-190s, P-47s, Spitfires, and Me 262s. The amount of air power you're sending on these missions could almost rival what humans did in the second world war, except you've got ponies that can carry more bombs and could exceed the amount of bombs dropped in a month that was dropped in the entirety of Vietnam or the Gulf war.
Up in the control tower, a smaller version of the map was there, and you were going to be up there until you heard that all the bombers returned back to base.
 
0830 hrs. Tower.
"All bombers and escorts, green light, We're a go." You say as you watch the bombers from your airfield run down the runway and take to the air fully loaded with High explosives.
"Rugido to Avalon, all B-1 and Tu -160s have taken flight, en route to target." Rugido's tower said to you
"Copy, B-17, 24 and B-52 flight have departed Avalon, they're on their way." You say as the towers were all on a party line.
"Hierlark, all bombers departed, everything's preceding on schedule." Heirlark tower said as you smile and look at the radar readout of your territory to see the flights of bombers departing to their targets.
The lancers and blackjacks were hauling ass to the deep targets, their speed negated the need for them to be escorted as they're flying far faster than any gryphon, so they'd be a bitch to target anyways
For the next three hours you watch the radar screens, counting and recounting all the ponies on the screen. You don't know what you'd do if you watched one disappear from the screen, and you're hoping that it won't happen.
When they got close to the border of Avalon Territory and Oslo, you got very tense, as that's where problems would occur if there were to be any.
When they crossed nothing happened, when Strato lands you need to ask him how the mission went.
 
1300hrs. Strato's rearmament station
"Strato how'd it go?" You ask as he's standing at a station to reload his empty bombbays.
"They weren't expecting us to strike so soon or in the numbers we did. They were more concerned with putting out the fires we started than actually tryin to stop us. It's kind of unfair." Strato said as you nod.
"I'll take unfair and not lose any of you over fair and lose a bunch of you. Your lives are too damned important to me." You say as Strato chuckles a little upon hearing that.
"Well, it's good to hear that you care about us big boys. Bear joined in my formation, told him to go fuck off and join the other 95s, but he wouldn't listen." Strato said.
"So let him, how much destruction was done?" You ask.
"Go ask Bear, he knows how much damage we did." Strato said.
You nod and walk off to go find Bear.
 
Bear's laughing it up with some of the Flankers, as they're making jokes about how feeble the defenses were.
"Bear, you catch a glimpse of Strato's destruction?" you ask as you manage to force your way into the group.
"Da, the buildings we hit, nothing left, they now nothing but craters and rubble. Was too easy." Bear said as you're now a little concerned if the bombers are saying it's too easy.
"Thank you Bear, Not sure if that's what I wanted to hear." You say as you walk off to think about this and build your second ADFX, that you sincerely hope does not come to life on you.
 
Fortunately for you as you walk to your shop, you bump into Sully.
"Rex, sorry I didn't see you." Sully said.
"No, no problem Sully, I wasn't really paying attention to where I was going anyways. Hey, since I've got you here, you mind doing a small favor for me?" You ask as now would be a good time to send over a surveillance craft to see how much damage was done and what defenses now existed to stop you, as there had to be more now.
"Sure what's the favor?" Sully asked.
"Well, could you go check out Oslo? I want to see the damage for myself, and what defenses are still there. The bombers are telling me it was too easy. Nothing is that easy, unless they're trying to lull me into a trap." You say
"Alright, oh, how many pounds of bombs were dropped today?" Sully asked
"I'll need to calculate that, so I'll tell you when you get back." You say as Sully nods and heads off to fuel up and prepare his cameras for a trip over Oslo.
 
1430 Hrs. Your shop.
You're starting to build another aircraft that you hope understands it's not supposed to be alive and will comply with that.Then again, you've also got to calculate how many pounds of bombs were dropped today.
At the end of your calculations you figure there was about 6,667,948 lbs dropped or about 3333.94 tons of bombs dropped today alone, more bombs dropped in a single day than an entire year of the second world war.
"That's a hell of a lot of bombs." you say as you look at the numbers when Thunderbolt came in.
"What's a lot of bombs?" She asked.
"Sully asked me how many pounds of bombs were dropped today, came out to 3333.94 tons, so roughly 6.7 million pounds of bombs were dropped today only." You say as Thunderbolt whistles upon hearing how many pounds were dropped today.
"That is an awful lot of bombs. Just came to tell you Morgan and Falken seem to be getting along just fine." Thunderbolt said
"Well, that's good that they're getting along. I would hate it if they didn't." You say as you go and hug Thunderbolt's leg, as that's about all you can wrap your arms around of her.
"Are you ok Anon?" Thunderbolt asked as you were wrapped around one of her legs.
"Yea, just happy you're here." You say as you let go and attempt to get back to work.
"Ok, what's bothering you?" Thunderbolt asked as you looked at part of the materials to build the next ADFX.
"Strato and Bear said the bombing was too easy. It's an unsettling thought for me. I know I have to send them back in to hit different targets, but it could be a trap for every single one of them." You say as you continue to stand there and do nothing but think.
"What if they just weren't expecting us to strike so soon? They have only been at war with us for a day, and those strikes pulled their troops away from the border, right now it's just sporadic attacks against us. We've destroyed their heavy industries. They're probably reeling in shock from the attack. We sent what? 107 ponies in? Do you honestly think they expected to see so many of us flying in and dropping bombs?" Thunderbolt said as you're still a little concerned.
"Still I would have expected a little resistance from them." You say as you start to build another aircraft from the landing gear up.
"I've heard the reports from the fighters, there was very light resistance, most of it very confused and unorganized. We kept them down, if anything they're more massing along route 171 to counter Celestia and her troops." Thunderbolt said giving you another side of what was going on.
"Hmm, if they were worried about her, they should be worried about us now." You say as you push part groupings together.
"They should, but it looks like they're ignoring us for the moment." Thunderbolt said.
"Well, I'd really like to know why they are. If it's due to Route 171, they're idiots, if it's just because they don't know how to fight against us, well that's not excusable." you say still building small sections of the aircraft.
"How is that not excusable if they don't know how to fight against us?" Thunderbolt asked.