Upon Salvationby Nespher McelChaptersChapter One: The PredicamentChapter Two: MemoriesChapter Three: A Second ChanceChapter Four: It Comes Together Like Glue On WoodChapter One: The PredicamentThe day started like any other, at least for me, who would have known it would be my last one for a long while I woke up to a consistent ringing coming somewhere behind the back of my head, a normal thing that I've been used to for about three years. I looked over to see my phone, an old flip-phone that my mom bought me before I left, bouncing all over the place on my old nightstand. It was emitting a rather unpleasant noise from one of its many speakers. Sighing deeply, I reached over to the vibrating device and turned off the alarm; glancing at the top of its only screen i realized what time it was, "Oh SHIT! Its oh-six-thirty! I'm late!" I yelled jumping out of my bunk, waking the other guy who was asleep above me, and running over to the showers, towel in hand. My name is Jacob Alexander Leavitt, I am 26 years old and the year is 2023 and the world has very much changed. It is now December. What used to be a war between the military and terrorists became union versus union, a group called the Insurrectionists banded all of the U.S.s enemies together under their banner. And fought against us, the Fist of Imperium (what used to be of the United States military.) I was enlisted into the Marine Corps at the age of 20 and have been on the field for about three years (they have become desperate for troops). I am now a Lance Cpl in the 107th Battalion, squad omega-alpha. To be honest I'm just rather ordinary soldier who does what he is told (most of the time). But now I'm late, I was assigned patrol duty with the rest of my squad. But what happens today will turn my life on to a different road. I zipped up my vest and fastened my helmet to inspection quality, I was supposed to meet up with the rest of the team and Sarge today for a patrol around the base, and I was late. We were stationed in Baghdad, Iraq and our base was just outside of the prosperous city. I caught sight of the Sargent in question by our team's Humvee 'Octavia', he obviously was pissed for my being late, "I'm here Sarge! I'm Here!" I hollered just loud enough for him, and anyone else who were outside, to notice. "Your gonna give me eighty when we get back to base corporal!" Sarge yelled in his gruff voice "That's fine with me." An annoying voice sounded from behind the Sarge. Private first class Andrew walked out (nickname: Da'Goof) of the now gleaming Octavia as the sun slowly rose from the East. "Shut-up Da'Goof!" I yelled at Andrew who had a smile on his face (a pretty good poker face, just sayin'), and I looked over at the sarge, "Whatever you say Craw-Fish..." I mused as I came sliding to a halt. "Your lucky no one has court marshaled you Leavitt, If I was anyone else you would have been kicked out a long time ago." Sarge (Crawfish) said in his gruff voice. Sarge or Crawfish as we normally called him, was an old friend of mine (Jeremy Crawford) from back in high school. But he was more stern and more professional now than back then. Just then another person gets out of the Humvee and stares at the three men argue, "Any of you guys want to get back on track, and out of here?" a very feminine voice came from behind the three men. "Sorry Grace." all of the men said in unison as the medic and driver walked over to them. Grace or Grace Armstrin was always the one to get everyone back in order, which is why she had her rank of Petty officer.She was like the big sister that I never had, always having my back in almost everything. "Well then, lets get this girl going!" Grace enthusiastically yelled as the squad hurried into their vehicle after a simultaneous "Hoorah!" I got on the gun as Grace got in the drivers seat, Andrew to the left of where I was, and Sarge in Shotgun. I looked to my right and in the seat was my precious 'Athena' (my personalized M214 LMG, it had the word 'Athena' carved into the side of the large weapon). [---] Break in the line --- I looked out the window as we neared a large dune, and attempted to cross it. I imagined that i was back home sitting in my room with my folks doing what I usually did, read. I remembered a story I once read a long time ago about a squad of soldiers who where transported to some world (Sound familiar Sandstorm?). I hadn't thought a lot about it much more when I heard Andrew yell, "RPG, RPG, to the right, to the right!!!" I looked over in the general direction he was talking about and started spraying in my line of fire. Hearing a "boom" afterwards I smiled and continued firing when I saw a group of at least 50 or more enemies in an ambush pattern in all directions. The Humvee finally reached the peak of the dune and started making its way down. "Step on the gas, Grace!" I yelled over the hum of the fifty, a round whizzed by me as i heard a scream of pain. Looking down I saw Grace holding her chest and her other hand on the wheel. "Grace been hit, Grace been hit!" I yelled as I dove down and applied pressure to her new wound as Andrew jumped up to the fifty. "RPG to the left!" Sarge Yelled, "To the right as well!" "To the front!" Andrew yelled firing the fifty, I guess if he was going down he was going to take some of these Muther-fuckers with him. sarge just sat there making a cross over his chest, and I just bowed my head as I saw Grace trying not to cry "Dear Lord..." I said to myself before an image flashed before my eyes. I looked to my right and saw a man almost as tall as me in an ACU uniform (my father). I looked to my left to see a woman a lot shorter than me in an orange pumpkin looking dress (my mother). A look around me showed a younger kid about 3 years younger than me in a navy blue uniform and a lot o' ribbons and all of my sisters (significantly taller than before) with all of their best dresses on. this was the last time I saw them. My family. I have not seen them for nearly three years now. For thee years... As I had my last thoughts before giving in to the impending death, a bright light enveloped the Humvee and all our passengers. As I felt myself slowly slipping into unconsciousness I thought to myself "goodbye world." And I knocked out. [---] Chapter One: End [---] Chapter Two: Memories'Well that's it, I'm dead' I thought to myself, 'I've finally been beaten.' 'But wait, why do I still feel alive?' I ask myself still thinking, 'I can still feel my heart beat, and can feel a bruise on my arm.' 'Well this is interesting,' I thought, 'I wonder if I can get up, or at least see whats going on.' I tried to get up to a sitting position, but something warm and heavy was laying on my side. I tried to open my eyes, encountering some difficulty and getting blinded by the sun. Eyes being half-open I turn my head to the side and see Grace laying on the right side of me looking like she is soundly asleep. I painfully smile at the sight, as I tried to sit up again, I felt a pain in my leg, looking down gain I saw that there was a red stain in my MARPAT boots "Dang-it I've been hit, oh well we'll get that taken care of later." But boy-oh, was I not prepared for what I was About to see next. A large meadow full of flowing green grass and a tree that popped up every once in a while. Looking around I see the rest of my squad also unconscious, Andrew on his side against a tree, and Crawfish (Sarge) on his back against the Humvee. Further inspection shows me that Octavia (The Humvee) is on its side with its front on top of a collapsed tree. 'Why does this place look so hand drawn? Its like there is no shade of murky colors like from where Earth is like' I thought to myself. I sat there Dumbfounded by the area around me, until I heard a rustle in some bushes behind me. Pulling out my side-arm (I keep a Glock 17 attached to my arm instead of to my waist) and rolling over to my left aiming the weapon in the general direction, prepared (or so I thought) for whoever (or whatever) that comes out. "Come out whoever you are, or so I swear, I will put a round through your skull!" I yelled/ ordered loudly, causing my squad mates to snap awake, "I said come out!" Sarge and Andrew jumped to their feet and crouched aiming their own weapons toward the bushes in question (Andrew- M4 Sarge-Desert Eagle) and started walking toward me Grace groaning as she woke up, suddenly feeling the pain in her chest. A small sound of movement and whispering could be heard from the bush until a small, scared child's voice spoke up out of the bush, "Why?" Suddenly realizing I scared a little kid, I mentally slapped myself in the face. 'Dammit! Now I look like a monster in a little kids head, now what are you going to do?' I ask myself as I lower my weapon and motion the others to do the same. "Because me and my friends here want to see who we are taking to," I said in the friendliest tone I could muster. 'Real smooth Jake, real smooth' My subconscious said to me in my head. 'Shut up Kuno!" I mentally yelled at my subconscious. (who we will now call kuno, and yes i do talk to myself in real life) 'okay' kuno pouted in my head. "But we don't want to..." the voice squeaked. Now the kid sounded a little less scared but still did not come out. 'Wait there is more than one?' I asked myself. 'It seems so' the feminine voice of kuno replied in my head I sighed and shook my head to gather my thoughts correctly, "Please come out, I promise we won't hurt you," I said in a surprisingly motherly tone (lololololololol, you may now laugh your flank off). "you promise?" the voice asked even less scared than before. "Yes." I said blankly, taken away by how cute the voice sounded. But even after 6 years in the military/ marines, nothing could have prepared me for what happened next. "Okay, here we come..." said the little voice. Then for some odd reason I had a tugging feeling in my head 'What was that show's name again? My little Pony? wait why am I thinking about this anyway?) [Dangit he's breaking the forth wall again -ZAP-, there that made it all better, now back to the story]. One after another three small figures walked out of the bush 'Ponies?' I thought dumbfounded with my jaw dropping. The first one was a little filly with an orange colored body '?' and pink/ violet mane and tail '?!', and wings... The second one was another filly (a little bigger than the first) with a yellowish colored body 'again?' and a red mane and tail 'I give up', no wings. The last was another filly (about the size of the first) with a white body, purple and pink mane and tail, but she had a HORN. "Now what do you want Diamond Dogs!" squeaked the orange filly with wings. (Soo adorable) I looked to my sides noticing that the others were also at a loss of words. "Uhm, we aren't diamond dogs miss," I said a bit nervous on what to say, "We aren't from here either..." I stopped not knowing what else to say. And for about ten minutes we just "stood" there in silence, from not knowing what to say. [---] Break in the line --- "And what happened next, Lance Corporal?" A dark figure asks a man who looked to be about 40 years old sitting at a desk in a dark room, "what did these 'ponies' do next?" "I'm getting there dammit!" the man says, "Why do you even want to know again?" the man asks the dark figure. "Because you and your squad were the first humans to make contact with Equestria, and its your duty as a Marine to record the events that took place." The figure sternly says, slight irritation showing in his voice. "Ex-Marine, I've been out for a few years; but fine, I'll finish..." [---] Break in the line --- "so if ya'r not a diamond dog then what ah're you?" The yellow filly speaks up this time (with a very strong county accent). As she took a step toward the group of soldiers. "We're humans, and we are from America," Andrew said finally his voice (a little scared himself I would say). "Where are we anyway, last I knew we were rolling along getting attacked in Iraq?" he asks clearly confused at the sudden change of scenery. "It's Equestria if I remember correctly..." I blurt out suddenly feeling everyone present staring at me, "I think?" [ZZZAAPPP!] "Now how in tarnation do you know that mister?" The yellow one asks again, "and what in the hay is a human? And whats that about an America?" I looked over at Grace who was still laying on her back, but some how she got her armor off and was applying bandages to her wound. I leaned over to help her apply the bandages to the wound, not noticing the white filly approachiing me 'Perv' Kuno says as I do what I do 'Again shut up' "Is she okay?" a voice says breaking my train of thought, looking up I see it's the white filly who has been silent until now. She had a glint of concern in her eyes. "For now, yes; but we will have to clean the wound and get the bullet out first," Then a thought came to me, "if you could bring someone- err, somepony who could help us, it would be a great help." "Okay I'll be right back Mr. ... Um who are you again?" The white filly said mildly confused "Oh, um, I'm Jacob" I said, "The guy over there," I pointed at Sarge, "is Jeremy or Sarge," he tipped his helmet as a greeting. "The one looking stupid is Da'Goof or Andrew" I pointed over at Andrew, who was still looking shocked, "and this fine lady..." I was about to finish before Grace cut me off. "I'm Grace, the one and only thing holding these boys together," Grace finished looking mighty proud of herself. But a few seconds after and she squeezed her eyes shut as a wave of pain shot through her body. "Hi." the three fillies all said together, "This is Applebloom," as the yellow filly stepped up, "this is Scootaloo," as the orange filly stepped up, "and I'm Sweetie Belle." as the white filly took a bow. "I'll go and get Twilight," said Sweetie Belle, "You girls..." she pointed her hoof at the other two fillies, "stay here." The two fillies nodded and sat down as Sweetie Belle ran off to lord know where (or celestia in this case) [---] Break in the line --- "That's it? That's what happened?" The dark figure looked at me in disbelief. "Oh and there is no such thing as an ex-Marine; once a marine, always a marine" "Will you shut your tramp, I'm thirsty, I need a drink," I say now a little irritated, "We will continue tomorrow... General." (From now on the dark figure is the general) "Fine, but I'll expect for you to come." The General replies. "Oh I will," I said 'these memories are some of the greatest in my entire life, I'd be glad to remember these memories for most of any reason' I thought to myself as I walked out of the room. 'They are nice memories aren't they?' Kuno said to me as I walked out 'Oh yes," Looking to my side I was greeted by an ecstatic pink mare with a poofy pink mane and tail, with a ring hanging on a chain around her neck. 'Oh yes indeed' [---] Chapter Two: End [---] Chapter Three: A Second Chance"Now, where was I?" I say upon sitting down in the chair sitting by a table in the dimly lit room. "Oh yes, before Twilight got there..." [---] Break in the line --- The two fillies who were still with us, as they had been sitting there for a little bit just staring at us and our equipment, spoke up or at least one did. "What's all this stuff anyway?" Scootaloo asked looking to me with a confused look on her face. I chuckled as I looked at the adorable orange Pegasus who had the best puppy dog eyes you have ever seen, "It's just stuff that we needed back on our world, stuff we couldn't live without," I said not really answering the question fully, (with and discord approved smile. "I mean what ARE they?" She asked again, with a really creepy smile coming across her face. "Well," damn that is creepy I started as I took out my Glock 17, "is a gun,, or a pistol in this case, it is used for defensive or offensive purposes, but enough of that," I said as I put away the pistol and started pulling out one of the many MRE's that were laying around on the ground, "this is the shi- I mean food that we get to eat, heheheh...," I said while rubbing the back of my neck, then I pointed to the Humvee that was on it's side, "This beauty is our lovely Octavia," I said with a smile, the scooted over to Grace, who weakly smiled up at me. "Oh that's cool- WAIT Octavia! what'd you do to our friend!!" Scootaloo said running up to me, scaring the hell out of me, just sayin' "Huh? wait no, nothing happened, we just called her that because the name fits," I said with a slight twinge of fear in my voice. 'I hope she don't punch me, those hooves look like they'll hurt' I thought to myself. 'Well you would deserve it,' kuno said in my head 'Why do you always talk to me at the worst of times?' I answered "Oh okay... sorry," the little orange filly apologized while running her hoof though the sand with her head down. she still didn't trust these "humans" all that much. We all just sat there after that, not doing real much, until Sarge thought it would be a good idea to start putting all the equipment and supplies in organized piles. So I tried to get up, but after being pushed down by Da'Goof a couple times, i gave up and relaxed while cleaning my Athena and my Glock. All the while Da'Goof and Sarge were walking around and gathering the random equipment that was lying around. But everyone was soo distracted with what they were doing that they didn't notice the two mares that walked into the clearing. The violet one coughed into her shoulder to grab their attention, looking up from my cleaning i saw quite a sight. The first mare that i laid my eyes on was the violet one, or more specifically- a purple/ violet mare with a dark purple mane and tail that had a fluid stripe of pink through both, her mane didn't even part for her horn, that stuck out of her short bangs. Behind her though showed what looked like to be a cyan Pegasus mare with an impossible rainbow colored mane and tail, she wore a confident look like if it was her second nature. "Eh'hem!" the violet mare said with enough volume to further gather all present's attention. Once she knew that she had our attention she started, "I am Twilight Sparkle, student of Princess Celestia, ruler of the sun, I am pleased to meet one of another sentient race, I hope that we keep a close relationship between us," she said with a rather monotone voice. "Likewise, I'm Sargent Crawford or Jeremy Crawford, you can just call me Sarge. I'm the leader of this group, and I guess now the Ambassador in this sense," Sarge said while dropping the heavy gun that usually was mounted on top of the Octavia. "I'm Private First Class Alexander, you can call me Alex or Da'Goof, everyone else does," Da'Goof said while still working on the equipment. "I'm Lance Corporal Leavitt, you can just call me Leavitt or Jake," I said then I looked down to see that Grace had fallen asleep, "This is Grace she is injured and needs to rest, so you'll meet her later," "Nice to meet all of you, but I'm certain there is no 'humans' in Equestria, so you must have been transported here from your own planet, probably a mishap on one of the spells I was working on," Twilight said while looking over all of us and our stuff, "We will have to work on living spaces while we figure how to fix this rather big problem. Though I am surprised that this even happened." "We are just as surprised that this happened as you are, but I can say as the voice of our group, that this is a much better fate than what could have happened," I said gaining nods from my two teammates. "I have to admit, this is a surprising occurrence if you ask me," Twilight said with a thoughtful voice. "If you ask me, I say this is more of a second chance," Sarge said before zoning out, "This place seems much more peaceful than back where we came from." "I have to agree with ya' on that one," Da'Goof chimed in while leaning on a nearby tree. "I can't exactly disagree with you, this place is like ten times better than back there," I said while trying to get up again, and winced as I put some weight on my foot. Then I noticed that these ponies were about as short as my bro back home, 'about 5 foot for the two big ones, and about 3 foot for the small ones, tho the cyan one looked smaller than the purple one, oh yeah what was her name again?' I thought to myself. "Well if you guys are done geeking out on me, i don't think I've introduce myself yet," She said noticing that i was starting to stare at her, I allowed myself a small blush and looked away. "My name's Rainbow Dash, fastest flier in all of Equestria! Besides the Wonder Bolts of course." "Nice to meet you miss Dash," Sarge said with a smirk on his face seeing me. "I'll stop you right there, none of that missus stuff, I hate it," Rainbow quipped before adding, "Just call me Rainbow." "Huh, now we are only missing someone with some sort of bubbly personality, with pink-" I joked while looking to the sky, but then was suddenly interrupted by Rainbow. "Wait, how do you know about Pinkie?" Rainbow said getting in my face. So I did the only reasonable thing i could think of, "..." I face palmed. "Somepony call my name?" A pink mare said after popping up in front of me in a bunch of streamers and confetti, again I did the only thing that a reasonable person would do and face-palm myself again "What... The... Fuck..." I said in-between face-palms, then looked around to see Sarge and Da'Goof training their guns on the pink blur. I just raised and lowered my hand to tell them to put their guns down. "I'm fucking tired of all of these fucking surprises," I said to myself. The pink mare's hair slowly deflated hearing this, "Sorry, I'll leave," the pink mare mummered barely being able to heard. 'Wonderful, fucking wonderful job Jake, no one else could be as cold hearted as you' Kuno quipped 'Kuno?' 'Yes?' 'Shut up.' 'Okay' I limped over to the now crying mare and placed a hand on her shoulder. She didn't resist and turned around and jumped on me, hugging me till I couldn't breathe, "C-can't... B-breathe...!" I gasped still unable to speak correctly. The pink mare looked up at me as if suddenly realizing what she was doing, after a second or two she stopped hugging me and backed off It kinda looked like she was blushing and let out a giggle, "hehehe, sorry, I guess I don't know my own strength," she let out another giggle. "Eh'hem! I think we have business to deal with here," Sarge stated looking at me in the eye with an angry death glare, "Miss Sparkle, I'm sorry about the comment my soldier said about your friend, we'll take care of him later..." Twilight looked over to me seeing the fear on my face, "Oh no need, It was just an accident, it looks like all was forgiven, and please just call me Twilight," "As you wish Miss Twilight," Sarge said with a smile on his face, 'Damn that lady charmer, he always knows just how to talk to a girl, even if they are a different species' I thought to myself as i laid myself against a tree. Twilight blushed at the comment and said that she'll take her leave, as did the three little fillies. Rainbow saying that she had to leave because of a Weather patrol. Pinkie said that she wanted to stay a little longer. I just closed my eyes and dozed off quickly, so quickly that I didn't even notice Pinkie was sitting next to me when she kissed my cheek, i didn't even notice it and kept sleeping. [---] Break in the Line --- "That's about it, for the first day in Equestria, other than that it was just of me sleeping and the others laughing around a camp fire," I replied. All the while the General walks into the light to show the face of a guy whose seen hell and more, "General, I don't really understand why you want to hear my story, you already have the report from Sarge," "I'm doing this, cause that "report" was so incomplete it only talked about many months later!" The General looked clearly irritated. "You are the only one who is even willing to give me the full story!" "Whoa! Whoa dude, take a chill pill, I was just asking. No harm done in asking, right?" I said putting my hands up to show I'm not there to fight. Just then a pink pony walked in the room, bringing it into silence. The General was the first to speak, "It's time to go, isn't it? Mrs. Pie I'm sorry for keeping your husband so late." "No prob," She bounced, "And I told you to call me Pinkie, Mister Ando," she said jumping on me, and nuzzling her muzzle in my chest. "As long as I get him back in the end of the day, I don't care if he's here talking to you." "Heh, well I bid you goodbye General Ando!" I yelled before getting dragged out out of the building by the jumpy pink mare. [---] Chapter Three: End [---] Chapter Four: It Comes Together Like Glue On WoodGeneral 'Ando' walks out of the conference room baffled by what he just witnessed, "I still don't understand how that man puts up with that mare," he says as he walks down a hall way with a human soldier carrying an Tibris Stock-7 assault rifle and a unicorn wearing identical tacti armor [Like the Kevlar but stronger and lighter, more durable, and infused with magic to make the weak points harder, followed up with a tactical helmet with verse tech visor (like infrared but better) ] following him. As he's walking he thinks back to when the rift was finally secured, about twelve years ago the Fist of the Legions reported disturbances to their radios and satellites. Who knew we lost a squad years before to that thing. Either way we sent multiple squads with techs to go figure it out, when none came back we got suspicious, that's how it began. The building of the Rift Bridge only came into effect two years later, but boy when we finished were we surprised. An entire squad of Marines had toughed it out for fourteen years, FOURTEEN FUCKING YEARS!! No supplies or anything to help them live, battled with an entire nation of bug creatures, fought against mythical beasts that wanted to eat the precocious 'ponies' that they come to love, and a corrupt king who tried to steal everyponies love and use it for power. All in the day's work for this group of Marines, they are definitely due for more than just a vacation, but a long happy life without the military influence. The General stops and look up at the door to his office, there was still a few hours to write down what he has learned before calling it a day. "You two," he says to the soldier and unicorn, "are dismissed, go home and relax boys." "Yes Sir!" the both say simultaneously and walk out. Neither one of those recruits knows just how important all of this is, only those few that have been there and back can really know how important the beginning is when it comes to the end. General Ando walks over to his desk and sits down, takes out a pen, and starts writing. General Ando gets up and stretches, it's like Five in the morning now and he needs to call it a night, At least i got most of this report done," he sighed as he flexed his cramped hand and walked out of his office, a few privates walking by sending a quick salute while walking past. He returns the salute but doesn't pay much attention as he is lost in his own thoughts and walks out of the building. The building itself was made before the war in Iraq and is now the headquarters for the Rift Bridge, and he is in charge of all of it. He personally took the dirty work of tracking the original squad down and questioning each and every one of them, Lance Cpl Leavitt is the last one to do and he is the longest so far, the others just giving small short stories, but this guy, this Marine. He's seen it all hell and back, and is willing to share nit all to the world. Ando starts up his car, an old Mustang G.T., that he won in a bet against another collector. Driving to the gate he gets waved into a lane at a checkpoint, "Good day General," "Good day soldier, had a good night?" Ando replies cheerfully. He always had a level of respect for those who are in charge of his protection and those who would follow his orders to the grave. True soldiers if there ever was any. "Nothing very interesting sir, we did have a little run in with a drunk trying to ram his way in, but we took care of it, either way have a nice morning General." The soldier replies waving to another guard to have the gate opened. "You too," Ando says as he drive off of base to his house a few blocks away. His thoughts of the beginning don't come back until he pulls into the drive and parks. "Home Sweet Home, i guess," he walks up to the door and look for the key in his pocket. But as he's looking he ponders on what it would be like if the Rift Gate was never constructed, life would still be in war against the insurrectionists to this day. But with the finding of the peaceful country of Equestria and it's two co-rulers and Princesses, war has been reduced to the small little outbursts here and there around the globe. The mixing between species seemed to not make a difference, as the mares continued making baby foals and the human women continued making human babies no matter the rumors of mutation between species mingling. He finally find the key and opens the door, "Honey! I'm home!" he calls out as he hangs his jacket up on the coat rack. A slightly aged Woman walks out of the kitchen with oven mitts on her hands. "Welcome back, did the conference go well?" she says in an experienced and caring tone, one you would find with a married couple. "Yeah, it went pretty much as planned, stayed up late though i see," Ando says as he walks up to her and gives her a kiss on the lips, "Either way it was tiring none-the-less," "Okay, well your dinner is done you just have to warm it up, i was baking cookies when i noticed you'd be late coming home again, so we have desert as well." Ando's eyes lit up with excitement at the sound of cookies. "You spoil me too much dear," "I just love you that much" General Ando looks at the paper he just printed, it tells of all the events that happened while the Marines were stuck in Equestria, not as much detail as he would like but it will serve it's purpose while he waits till the net meeting with the Cpl. Because next time he'll have Twilight and Sgt Crawford over here to help put the story together, whether they like it or not. Ando looks around and puts the papers into a vanilla folder and locks them inside of a safe for tomorrow. He gets up and walks out of his study, belly full and ready for a good night of sleep with his wife Saphire Smith (Anderson), and walks into their bedroom turning out the lights and finally going to bed. [---] Chapter Four: End [---]
Chapter One: The PredicamentThe day started like any other, at least for me, who would have known it would be my last one for a long while I woke up to a consistent ringing coming somewhere behind the back of my head, a normal thing that I've been used to for about three years. I looked over to see my phone, an old flip-phone that my mom bought me before I left, bouncing all over the place on my old nightstand. It was emitting a rather unpleasant noise from one of its many speakers. Sighing deeply, I reached over to the vibrating device and turned off the alarm; glancing at the top of its only screen i realized what time it was, "Oh SHIT! Its oh-six-thirty! I'm late!" I yelled jumping out of my bunk, waking the other guy who was asleep above me, and running over to the showers, towel in hand. My name is Jacob Alexander Leavitt, I am 26 years old and the year is 2023 and the world has very much changed. It is now December. What used to be a war between the military and terrorists became union versus union, a group called the Insurrectionists banded all of the U.S.s enemies together under their banner. And fought against us, the Fist of Imperium (what used to be of the United States military.) I was enlisted into the Marine Corps at the age of 20 and have been on the field for about three years (they have become desperate for troops). I am now a Lance Cpl in the 107th Battalion, squad omega-alpha. To be honest I'm just rather ordinary soldier who does what he is told (most of the time). But now I'm late, I was assigned patrol duty with the rest of my squad. But what happens today will turn my life on to a different road. I zipped up my vest and fastened my helmet to inspection quality, I was supposed to meet up with the rest of the team and Sarge today for a patrol around the base, and I was late. We were stationed in Baghdad, Iraq and our base was just outside of the prosperous city. I caught sight of the Sargent in question by our team's Humvee 'Octavia', he obviously was pissed for my being late, "I'm here Sarge! I'm Here!" I hollered just loud enough for him, and anyone else who were outside, to notice. "Your gonna give me eighty when we get back to base corporal!" Sarge yelled in his gruff voice "That's fine with me." An annoying voice sounded from behind the Sarge. Private first class Andrew walked out (nickname: Da'Goof) of the now gleaming Octavia as the sun slowly rose from the East. "Shut-up Da'Goof!" I yelled at Andrew who had a smile on his face (a pretty good poker face, just sayin'), and I looked over at the sarge, "Whatever you say Craw-Fish..." I mused as I came sliding to a halt. "Your lucky no one has court marshaled you Leavitt, If I was anyone else you would have been kicked out a long time ago." Sarge (Crawfish) said in his gruff voice. Sarge or Crawfish as we normally called him, was an old friend of mine (Jeremy Crawford) from back in high school. But he was more stern and more professional now than back then. Just then another person gets out of the Humvee and stares at the three men argue, "Any of you guys want to get back on track, and out of here?" a very feminine voice came from behind the three men. "Sorry Grace." all of the men said in unison as the medic and driver walked over to them. Grace or Grace Armstrin was always the one to get everyone back in order, which is why she had her rank of Petty officer.She was like the big sister that I never had, always having my back in almost everything. "Well then, lets get this girl going!" Grace enthusiastically yelled as the squad hurried into their vehicle after a simultaneous "Hoorah!" I got on the gun as Grace got in the drivers seat, Andrew to the left of where I was, and Sarge in Shotgun. I looked to my right and in the seat was my precious 'Athena' (my personalized M214 LMG, it had the word 'Athena' carved into the side of the large weapon). [---] Break in the line --- I looked out the window as we neared a large dune, and attempted to cross it. I imagined that i was back home sitting in my room with my folks doing what I usually did, read. I remembered a story I once read a long time ago about a squad of soldiers who where transported to some world (Sound familiar Sandstorm?). I hadn't thought a lot about it much more when I heard Andrew yell, "RPG, RPG, to the right, to the right!!!" I looked over in the general direction he was talking about and started spraying in my line of fire. Hearing a "boom" afterwards I smiled and continued firing when I saw a group of at least 50 or more enemies in an ambush pattern in all directions. The Humvee finally reached the peak of the dune and started making its way down. "Step on the gas, Grace!" I yelled over the hum of the fifty, a round whizzed by me as i heard a scream of pain. Looking down I saw Grace holding her chest and her other hand on the wheel. "Grace been hit, Grace been hit!" I yelled as I dove down and applied pressure to her new wound as Andrew jumped up to the fifty. "RPG to the left!" Sarge Yelled, "To the right as well!" "To the front!" Andrew yelled firing the fifty, I guess if he was going down he was going to take some of these Muther-fuckers with him. sarge just sat there making a cross over his chest, and I just bowed my head as I saw Grace trying not to cry "Dear Lord..." I said to myself before an image flashed before my eyes. I looked to my right and saw a man almost as tall as me in an ACU uniform (my father). I looked to my left to see a woman a lot shorter than me in an orange pumpkin looking dress (my mother). A look around me showed a younger kid about 3 years younger than me in a navy blue uniform and a lot o' ribbons and all of my sisters (significantly taller than before) with all of their best dresses on. this was the last time I saw them. My family. I have not seen them for nearly three years now. For thee years... As I had my last thoughts before giving in to the impending death, a bright light enveloped the Humvee and all our passengers. As I felt myself slowly slipping into unconsciousness I thought to myself "goodbye world." And I knocked out. [---] Chapter One: End [---]
Chapter Two: Memories'Well that's it, I'm dead' I thought to myself, 'I've finally been beaten.' 'But wait, why do I still feel alive?' I ask myself still thinking, 'I can still feel my heart beat, and can feel a bruise on my arm.' 'Well this is interesting,' I thought, 'I wonder if I can get up, or at least see whats going on.' I tried to get up to a sitting position, but something warm and heavy was laying on my side. I tried to open my eyes, encountering some difficulty and getting blinded by the sun. Eyes being half-open I turn my head to the side and see Grace laying on the right side of me looking like she is soundly asleep. I painfully smile at the sight, as I tried to sit up again, I felt a pain in my leg, looking down gain I saw that there was a red stain in my MARPAT boots "Dang-it I've been hit, oh well we'll get that taken care of later." But boy-oh, was I not prepared for what I was About to see next. A large meadow full of flowing green grass and a tree that popped up every once in a while. Looking around I see the rest of my squad also unconscious, Andrew on his side against a tree, and Crawfish (Sarge) on his back against the Humvee. Further inspection shows me that Octavia (The Humvee) is on its side with its front on top of a collapsed tree. 'Why does this place look so hand drawn? Its like there is no shade of murky colors like from where Earth is like' I thought to myself. I sat there Dumbfounded by the area around me, until I heard a rustle in some bushes behind me. Pulling out my side-arm (I keep a Glock 17 attached to my arm instead of to my waist) and rolling over to my left aiming the weapon in the general direction, prepared (or so I thought) for whoever (or whatever) that comes out. "Come out whoever you are, or so I swear, I will put a round through your skull!" I yelled/ ordered loudly, causing my squad mates to snap awake, "I said come out!" Sarge and Andrew jumped to their feet and crouched aiming their own weapons toward the bushes in question (Andrew- M4 Sarge-Desert Eagle) and started walking toward me Grace groaning as she woke up, suddenly feeling the pain in her chest. A small sound of movement and whispering could be heard from the bush until a small, scared child's voice spoke up out of the bush, "Why?" Suddenly realizing I scared a little kid, I mentally slapped myself in the face. 'Dammit! Now I look like a monster in a little kids head, now what are you going to do?' I ask myself as I lower my weapon and motion the others to do the same. "Because me and my friends here want to see who we are taking to," I said in the friendliest tone I could muster. 'Real smooth Jake, real smooth' My subconscious said to me in my head. 'Shut up Kuno!" I mentally yelled at my subconscious. (who we will now call kuno, and yes i do talk to myself in real life) 'okay' kuno pouted in my head. "But we don't want to..." the voice squeaked. Now the kid sounded a little less scared but still did not come out. 'Wait there is more than one?' I asked myself. 'It seems so' the feminine voice of kuno replied in my head I sighed and shook my head to gather my thoughts correctly, "Please come out, I promise we won't hurt you," I said in a surprisingly motherly tone (lololololololol, you may now laugh your flank off). "you promise?" the voice asked even less scared than before. "Yes." I said blankly, taken away by how cute the voice sounded. But even after 6 years in the military/ marines, nothing could have prepared me for what happened next. "Okay, here we come..." said the little voice. Then for some odd reason I had a tugging feeling in my head 'What was that show's name again? My little Pony? wait why am I thinking about this anyway?) [Dangit he's breaking the forth wall again -ZAP-, there that made it all better, now back to the story]. One after another three small figures walked out of the bush 'Ponies?' I thought dumbfounded with my jaw dropping. The first one was a little filly with an orange colored body '?' and pink/ violet mane and tail '?!', and wings... The second one was another filly (a little bigger than the first) with a yellowish colored body 'again?' and a red mane and tail 'I give up', no wings. The last was another filly (about the size of the first) with a white body, purple and pink mane and tail, but she had a HORN. "Now what do you want Diamond Dogs!" squeaked the orange filly with wings. (Soo adorable) I looked to my sides noticing that the others were also at a loss of words. "Uhm, we aren't diamond dogs miss," I said a bit nervous on what to say, "We aren't from here either..." I stopped not knowing what else to say. And for about ten minutes we just "stood" there in silence, from not knowing what to say. [---] Break in the line --- "And what happened next, Lance Corporal?" A dark figure asks a man who looked to be about 40 years old sitting at a desk in a dark room, "what did these 'ponies' do next?" "I'm getting there dammit!" the man says, "Why do you even want to know again?" the man asks the dark figure. "Because you and your squad were the first humans to make contact with Equestria, and its your duty as a Marine to record the events that took place." The figure sternly says, slight irritation showing in his voice. "Ex-Marine, I've been out for a few years; but fine, I'll finish..." [---] Break in the line --- "so if ya'r not a diamond dog then what ah're you?" The yellow filly speaks up this time (with a very strong county accent). As she took a step toward the group of soldiers. "We're humans, and we are from America," Andrew said finally his voice (a little scared himself I would say). "Where are we anyway, last I knew we were rolling along getting attacked in Iraq?" he asks clearly confused at the sudden change of scenery. "It's Equestria if I remember correctly..." I blurt out suddenly feeling everyone present staring at me, "I think?" [ZZZAAPPP!] "Now how in tarnation do you know that mister?" The yellow one asks again, "and what in the hay is a human? And whats that about an America?" I looked over at Grace who was still laying on her back, but some how she got her armor off and was applying bandages to her wound. I leaned over to help her apply the bandages to the wound, not noticing the white filly approachiing me 'Perv' Kuno says as I do what I do 'Again shut up' "Is she okay?" a voice says breaking my train of thought, looking up I see it's the white filly who has been silent until now. She had a glint of concern in her eyes. "For now, yes; but we will have to clean the wound and get the bullet out first," Then a thought came to me, "if you could bring someone- err, somepony who could help us, it would be a great help." "Okay I'll be right back Mr. ... Um who are you again?" The white filly said mildly confused "Oh, um, I'm Jacob" I said, "The guy over there," I pointed at Sarge, "is Jeremy or Sarge," he tipped his helmet as a greeting. "The one looking stupid is Da'Goof or Andrew" I pointed over at Andrew, who was still looking shocked, "and this fine lady..." I was about to finish before Grace cut me off. "I'm Grace, the one and only thing holding these boys together," Grace finished looking mighty proud of herself. But a few seconds after and she squeezed her eyes shut as a wave of pain shot through her body. "Hi." the three fillies all said together, "This is Applebloom," as the yellow filly stepped up, "this is Scootaloo," as the orange filly stepped up, "and I'm Sweetie Belle." as the white filly took a bow. "I'll go and get Twilight," said Sweetie Belle, "You girls..." she pointed her hoof at the other two fillies, "stay here." The two fillies nodded and sat down as Sweetie Belle ran off to lord know where (or celestia in this case) [---] Break in the line --- "That's it? That's what happened?" The dark figure looked at me in disbelief. "Oh and there is no such thing as an ex-Marine; once a marine, always a marine" "Will you shut your tramp, I'm thirsty, I need a drink," I say now a little irritated, "We will continue tomorrow... General." (From now on the dark figure is the general) "Fine, but I'll expect for you to come." The General replies. "Oh I will," I said 'these memories are some of the greatest in my entire life, I'd be glad to remember these memories for most of any reason' I thought to myself as I walked out of the room. 'They are nice memories aren't they?' Kuno said to me as I walked out 'Oh yes," Looking to my side I was greeted by an ecstatic pink mare with a poofy pink mane and tail, with a ring hanging on a chain around her neck. 'Oh yes indeed' [---] Chapter Two: End [---]
Chapter Three: A Second Chance"Now, where was I?" I say upon sitting down in the chair sitting by a table in the dimly lit room. "Oh yes, before Twilight got there..." [---] Break in the line --- The two fillies who were still with us, as they had been sitting there for a little bit just staring at us and our equipment, spoke up or at least one did. "What's all this stuff anyway?" Scootaloo asked looking to me with a confused look on her face. I chuckled as I looked at the adorable orange Pegasus who had the best puppy dog eyes you have ever seen, "It's just stuff that we needed back on our world, stuff we couldn't live without," I said not really answering the question fully, (with and discord approved smile. "I mean what ARE they?" She asked again, with a really creepy smile coming across her face. "Well," damn that is creepy I started as I took out my Glock 17, "is a gun,, or a pistol in this case, it is used for defensive or offensive purposes, but enough of that," I said as I put away the pistol and started pulling out one of the many MRE's that were laying around on the ground, "this is the shi- I mean food that we get to eat, heheheh...," I said while rubbing the back of my neck, then I pointed to the Humvee that was on it's side, "This beauty is our lovely Octavia," I said with a smile, the scooted over to Grace, who weakly smiled up at me. "Oh that's cool- WAIT Octavia! what'd you do to our friend!!" Scootaloo said running up to me, scaring the hell out of me, just sayin' "Huh? wait no, nothing happened, we just called her that because the name fits," I said with a slight twinge of fear in my voice. 'I hope she don't punch me, those hooves look like they'll hurt' I thought to myself. 'Well you would deserve it,' kuno said in my head 'Why do you always talk to me at the worst of times?' I answered "Oh okay... sorry," the little orange filly apologized while running her hoof though the sand with her head down. she still didn't trust these "humans" all that much. We all just sat there after that, not doing real much, until Sarge thought it would be a good idea to start putting all the equipment and supplies in organized piles. So I tried to get up, but after being pushed down by Da'Goof a couple times, i gave up and relaxed while cleaning my Athena and my Glock. All the while Da'Goof and Sarge were walking around and gathering the random equipment that was lying around. But everyone was soo distracted with what they were doing that they didn't notice the two mares that walked into the clearing. The violet one coughed into her shoulder to grab their attention, looking up from my cleaning i saw quite a sight. The first mare that i laid my eyes on was the violet one, or more specifically- a purple/ violet mare with a dark purple mane and tail that had a fluid stripe of pink through both, her mane didn't even part for her horn, that stuck out of her short bangs. Behind her though showed what looked like to be a cyan Pegasus mare with an impossible rainbow colored mane and tail, she wore a confident look like if it was her second nature. "Eh'hem!" the violet mare said with enough volume to further gather all present's attention. Once she knew that she had our attention she started, "I am Twilight Sparkle, student of Princess Celestia, ruler of the sun, I am pleased to meet one of another sentient race, I hope that we keep a close relationship between us," she said with a rather monotone voice. "Likewise, I'm Sargent Crawford or Jeremy Crawford, you can just call me Sarge. I'm the leader of this group, and I guess now the Ambassador in this sense," Sarge said while dropping the heavy gun that usually was mounted on top of the Octavia. "I'm Private First Class Alexander, you can call me Alex or Da'Goof, everyone else does," Da'Goof said while still working on the equipment. "I'm Lance Corporal Leavitt, you can just call me Leavitt or Jake," I said then I looked down to see that Grace had fallen asleep, "This is Grace she is injured and needs to rest, so you'll meet her later," "Nice to meet all of you, but I'm certain there is no 'humans' in Equestria, so you must have been transported here from your own planet, probably a mishap on one of the spells I was working on," Twilight said while looking over all of us and our stuff, "We will have to work on living spaces while we figure how to fix this rather big problem. Though I am surprised that this even happened." "We are just as surprised that this happened as you are, but I can say as the voice of our group, that this is a much better fate than what could have happened," I said gaining nods from my two teammates. "I have to admit, this is a surprising occurrence if you ask me," Twilight said with a thoughtful voice. "If you ask me, I say this is more of a second chance," Sarge said before zoning out, "This place seems much more peaceful than back where we came from." "I have to agree with ya' on that one," Da'Goof chimed in while leaning on a nearby tree. "I can't exactly disagree with you, this place is like ten times better than back there," I said while trying to get up again, and winced as I put some weight on my foot. Then I noticed that these ponies were about as short as my bro back home, 'about 5 foot for the two big ones, and about 3 foot for the small ones, tho the cyan one looked smaller than the purple one, oh yeah what was her name again?' I thought to myself. "Well if you guys are done geeking out on me, i don't think I've introduce myself yet," She said noticing that i was starting to stare at her, I allowed myself a small blush and looked away. "My name's Rainbow Dash, fastest flier in all of Equestria! Besides the Wonder Bolts of course." "Nice to meet you miss Dash," Sarge said with a smirk on his face seeing me. "I'll stop you right there, none of that missus stuff, I hate it," Rainbow quipped before adding, "Just call me Rainbow." "Huh, now we are only missing someone with some sort of bubbly personality, with pink-" I joked while looking to the sky, but then was suddenly interrupted by Rainbow. "Wait, how do you know about Pinkie?" Rainbow said getting in my face. So I did the only reasonable thing i could think of, "..." I face palmed. "Somepony call my name?" A pink mare said after popping up in front of me in a bunch of streamers and confetti, again I did the only thing that a reasonable person would do and face-palm myself again "What... The... Fuck..." I said in-between face-palms, then looked around to see Sarge and Da'Goof training their guns on the pink blur. I just raised and lowered my hand to tell them to put their guns down. "I'm fucking tired of all of these fucking surprises," I said to myself. The pink mare's hair slowly deflated hearing this, "Sorry, I'll leave," the pink mare mummered barely being able to heard. 'Wonderful, fucking wonderful job Jake, no one else could be as cold hearted as you' Kuno quipped 'Kuno?' 'Yes?' 'Shut up.' 'Okay' I limped over to the now crying mare and placed a hand on her shoulder. She didn't resist and turned around and jumped on me, hugging me till I couldn't breathe, "C-can't... B-breathe...!" I gasped still unable to speak correctly. The pink mare looked up at me as if suddenly realizing what she was doing, after a second or two she stopped hugging me and backed off It kinda looked like she was blushing and let out a giggle, "hehehe, sorry, I guess I don't know my own strength," she let out another giggle. "Eh'hem! I think we have business to deal with here," Sarge stated looking at me in the eye with an angry death glare, "Miss Sparkle, I'm sorry about the comment my soldier said about your friend, we'll take care of him later..." Twilight looked over to me seeing the fear on my face, "Oh no need, It was just an accident, it looks like all was forgiven, and please just call me Twilight," "As you wish Miss Twilight," Sarge said with a smile on his face, 'Damn that lady charmer, he always knows just how to talk to a girl, even if they are a different species' I thought to myself as i laid myself against a tree. Twilight blushed at the comment and said that she'll take her leave, as did the three little fillies. Rainbow saying that she had to leave because of a Weather patrol. Pinkie said that she wanted to stay a little longer. I just closed my eyes and dozed off quickly, so quickly that I didn't even notice Pinkie was sitting next to me when she kissed my cheek, i didn't even notice it and kept sleeping. [---] Break in the Line --- "That's about it, for the first day in Equestria, other than that it was just of me sleeping and the others laughing around a camp fire," I replied. All the while the General walks into the light to show the face of a guy whose seen hell and more, "General, I don't really understand why you want to hear my story, you already have the report from Sarge," "I'm doing this, cause that "report" was so incomplete it only talked about many months later!" The General looked clearly irritated. "You are the only one who is even willing to give me the full story!" "Whoa! Whoa dude, take a chill pill, I was just asking. No harm done in asking, right?" I said putting my hands up to show I'm not there to fight. Just then a pink pony walked in the room, bringing it into silence. The General was the first to speak, "It's time to go, isn't it? Mrs. Pie I'm sorry for keeping your husband so late." "No prob," She bounced, "And I told you to call me Pinkie, Mister Ando," she said jumping on me, and nuzzling her muzzle in my chest. "As long as I get him back in the end of the day, I don't care if he's here talking to you." "Heh, well I bid you goodbye General Ando!" I yelled before getting dragged out out of the building by the jumpy pink mare. [---] Chapter Three: End [---]
Chapter Four: It Comes Together Like Glue On WoodGeneral 'Ando' walks out of the conference room baffled by what he just witnessed, "I still don't understand how that man puts up with that mare," he says as he walks down a hall way with a human soldier carrying an Tibris Stock-7 assault rifle and a unicorn wearing identical tacti armor [Like the Kevlar but stronger and lighter, more durable, and infused with magic to make the weak points harder, followed up with a tactical helmet with verse tech visor (like infrared but better) ] following him. As he's walking he thinks back to when the rift was finally secured, about twelve years ago the Fist of the Legions reported disturbances to their radios and satellites. Who knew we lost a squad years before to that thing. Either way we sent multiple squads with techs to go figure it out, when none came back we got suspicious, that's how it began. The building of the Rift Bridge only came into effect two years later, but boy when we finished were we surprised. An entire squad of Marines had toughed it out for fourteen years, FOURTEEN FUCKING YEARS!! No supplies or anything to help them live, battled with an entire nation of bug creatures, fought against mythical beasts that wanted to eat the precocious 'ponies' that they come to love, and a corrupt king who tried to steal everyponies love and use it for power. All in the day's work for this group of Marines, they are definitely due for more than just a vacation, but a long happy life without the military influence. The General stops and look up at the door to his office, there was still a few hours to write down what he has learned before calling it a day. "You two," he says to the soldier and unicorn, "are dismissed, go home and relax boys." "Yes Sir!" the both say simultaneously and walk out. Neither one of those recruits knows just how important all of this is, only those few that have been there and back can really know how important the beginning is when it comes to the end. General Ando walks over to his desk and sits down, takes out a pen, and starts writing. General Ando gets up and stretches, it's like Five in the morning now and he needs to call it a night, At least i got most of this report done," he sighed as he flexed his cramped hand and walked out of his office, a few privates walking by sending a quick salute while walking past. He returns the salute but doesn't pay much attention as he is lost in his own thoughts and walks out of the building. The building itself was made before the war in Iraq and is now the headquarters for the Rift Bridge, and he is in charge of all of it. He personally took the dirty work of tracking the original squad down and questioning each and every one of them, Lance Cpl Leavitt is the last one to do and he is the longest so far, the others just giving small short stories, but this guy, this Marine. He's seen it all hell and back, and is willing to share nit all to the world. Ando starts up his car, an old Mustang G.T., that he won in a bet against another collector. Driving to the gate he gets waved into a lane at a checkpoint, "Good day General," "Good day soldier, had a good night?" Ando replies cheerfully. He always had a level of respect for those who are in charge of his protection and those who would follow his orders to the grave. True soldiers if there ever was any. "Nothing very interesting sir, we did have a little run in with a drunk trying to ram his way in, but we took care of it, either way have a nice morning General." The soldier replies waving to another guard to have the gate opened. "You too," Ando says as he drive off of base to his house a few blocks away. His thoughts of the beginning don't come back until he pulls into the drive and parks. "Home Sweet Home, i guess," he walks up to the door and look for the key in his pocket. But as he's looking he ponders on what it would be like if the Rift Gate was never constructed, life would still be in war against the insurrectionists to this day. But with the finding of the peaceful country of Equestria and it's two co-rulers and Princesses, war has been reduced to the small little outbursts here and there around the globe. The mixing between species seemed to not make a difference, as the mares continued making baby foals and the human women continued making human babies no matter the rumors of mutation between species mingling. He finally find the key and opens the door, "Honey! I'm home!" he calls out as he hangs his jacket up on the coat rack. A slightly aged Woman walks out of the kitchen with oven mitts on her hands. "Welcome back, did the conference go well?" she says in an experienced and caring tone, one you would find with a married couple. "Yeah, it went pretty much as planned, stayed up late though i see," Ando says as he walks up to her and gives her a kiss on the lips, "Either way it was tiring none-the-less," "Okay, well your dinner is done you just have to warm it up, i was baking cookies when i noticed you'd be late coming home again, so we have desert as well." Ando's eyes lit up with excitement at the sound of cookies. "You spoil me too much dear," "I just love you that much" General Ando looks at the paper he just printed, it tells of all the events that happened while the Marines were stuck in Equestria, not as much detail as he would like but it will serve it's purpose while he waits till the net meeting with the Cpl. Because next time he'll have Twilight and Sgt Crawford over here to help put the story together, whether they like it or not. Ando looks around and puts the papers into a vanilla folder and locks them inside of a safe for tomorrow. He gets up and walks out of his study, belly full and ready for a good night of sleep with his wife Saphire Smith (Anderson), and walks into their bedroom turning out the lights and finally going to bed. [---] Chapter Four: End [---]
