Fallen Earth: Rebuilding

by Cakebomb

Chapter 4: First Contact

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First Contact

Corporal Mark was bored out of his mind. Even with all the fancy tales of chicken monsters that can turn you to stone, and the no shit story of wooden wolves, He still hated guard duty. The only thing he had to report earlier was some strange sounds coming from the woods. Sighing, he suddenly perked up when he saw some...things walking out of the woods. With his eyes early bulging out of his head, he thought Fucking ponies?!

Shrimp was sitting down on a crate, miserably thinking about his dead friend. Wiping a small tear from his eye, he noticed Mark running towards him waving his arms. Getting there breathlessly, he said "You wanna see this!" Standing up, Shrimp returned his face to his new air of calm and uncaring and walked with Mark. Arriving at the gate, he was suprised to see 3...ponies....wearing hats. They had ridiculously large eyes, and their natural coloration was nowhere near a normal pony. Seeing the humans approach them, the ponies somehow withdrew spears, holding them in their hooves. Running up to them, the lead pony talked! It said "Alright, humans, how about you get out of your fancy get up and come back to your owner?" With his mouth open in shock, Shrimp stammered "Wha-aa-t?" The pony snorted, and whacked him across the chest with his spear! Falling back, Shrimp did the most logical thing he could think of: he took out his side arm and aimed at the pony's head. Snorting, it laughed and said "What are you going to do with that thing! It has no blade even!". Pulling the trigger, the other two pony's were shocked to see their leader's head explode in a large gory mess! Trying to run, they were quickly brought down with 2 shots in the legs from Mark. With dozens of men approaching them, the ponies watched wide eyed as they were surrounded.

Lightning was horrified. Stone said it was going to be a simple job of catching some escaped human salves, but these weird humans somehow killed them. It looked like the small one took out a small, and seemingly harmless, metal object, but it somehow killed Stone! Currently, he was locked in a small room, with a single, somehow glowing glass bulb providing the room illumination. Wincing as he felt the bandage on the wound in hes leg, Lightning jolted up as the door opened. A human walked into the room, wearing a full grey suit of some sort. Drawing a chair and sitting down, it folded it's hands and observed Lightning. Clearing it's throat, it said "Alright, i have many questions for you. For starters, what in the name of Jesus are you?" Rolling his eyes, Lightning said "A pony, you dirty human." Glaring at him, the human continued. "That didn't exactly answer my question. Who taught you English?" Scoffing, Lightning said "Don't you mean Equish, and yeah, my teacher did. I don't see how a human like you got taught such good Equish though." Noticing a vein throb above the human's eye, Lightning snickered. Upon seeing the angry look on it's face, he quickly quieted down. Continuing on, It said "Why did you attack my men?" Stiffening, Lightning said "Because you and the other humans obviously escaped from their owner and we hunt them down. Simple as that!" Leaning back in the chair, Lightning was surprised to see the human's shocked and furious expression. Snapping his fingers, two other humans, these wearing strange grey armor, came in and grabbed Lighting. Picking him up like he was a sack of potatoes, they returned him to his cell. Sitting on the cold, metal floor, he wondered what had transpired.

Wesley stared at Professor Wilkins as they finished reviewing the tape of the interrogation. "So, talking ponies that are colored like rainbows?", Wesley said. Wilkins said "Yes sir, but the fact that they speak English is world changing. It can prove every single theory on multiple universes we have! But, there is the problem of the other information we collected from the two survivors." Turning towards the now grave looking scientist, Wesley said "Spit it out. man!" Gulping, the scientist continued. "From reviewing the audio logs of the interrogations, it appeared that these "Ponies" were slave hunters. The problem with this is that they see humans as slaves. Multiple sources confirmed the two speaking of the onsite personal as "escaped humans". I suggest we immediately send out a scouting party the way they came from." Wesley thought this over, and said "This is a grave crime against humanity..I'm sending out one of the recon choppers."

Giving a thumbs up to his co pilot, Antoch eased the throttle on the Hornet Attack Helicopter he was piloting and quickly gained altitude. Facing East, he slowly tilted the helicopter forward and went on his scouting mission. Command was telling to find any signs of habitation or "Small, colorful ponies." After a hour of seeing nothing, he eventually came upon what appeared to be a small farming village inhabited by ponies. Among the population were damn unicorns and Pegasi! Seeing the helicopter, they appeared to run away, but only stopped to.. Oh god, it can't be!, he thought. Beneath him, massive fields of apple trees were being tended by chained HUMANS! Some of the running ponies stopped quickly to kick down humans that were desperately trying to eat some apples in the confusion of their masters escaping. With an enraged look on his face, Antoch grabbed the radio on the dashboard and shouted into it "Targets acquired, 5 klicks south from base!" Pulling back to base, he saw dozens of soldiers running out of their barracks and armory's in full combat gear. Hearing the whirring of more propellers, Antoch was shaken to his bones as he saw 4 different Black Hawks filled with men heading south. "This is total war...", he whispered.....

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