The Tower

"Sir. we're here." Sty announced.

"Damn. I don't know what I was expecting this place to look like but it wasn't this." Nix commented.

"Set us down in that plaza over there." Kal ordered; gesturing to the area in front of the castle.

After the osprey landed Echo squad disembarked.

"Um, somebody please tell me I'm not going crazy again and that we actually are surrounded by colorful ponies." Gev said.

"Yeah, I see em' to. So, it looks like this time you aren't actually crazy." Nix announced

"That was one goddamn.-" Gev said

"Safeties off." Kal commanded.

A large white alicorn approached them from inside the castle. Kal noticed the ponies wearing armor surrounding them and commented, "I don't like this."

"Back so soon?" Celestia asked.

Surprised by her ability to speak Kal inquired, "What are you talking about, for that matter how are you talking?"

"You threaten my people and now you play me as a fool?" Celestia practically yelled as she lifted Echo squad off the ground by their necks.

"We don't know what the fuck your talking about! Honest." Kal choked grabbing at his neck as his vision began to fade, "Fuck you!"

With that he passed out.

"Fucking hell." Nix said sitting up. He noticed his squad-mates sitting next to him in the room. Dungeon He thought remarking, "Great, I get to add ponies to the list of thing that have captured me. I mean really? I've been caught by the Alliance eight times, terrorists, and even goddamn Nazis."

"Nazis? And you call me crazy." Gev said leaning himself against the wall.

"Nix that was a dream." Zen voiced as lay on the ground.

"Were one short." Kal realized looking around for Sty.

"She's always got a plan. Probably planting thermite on the ceiling." Gev began to monologue, "This is the part where the hole gets melted in the ceiling and we escape. No? Damn it!"

"Right... Now, we should probably be concerned about the fact that we just got telekinetically knocked out by a large white alicorn." Zen recommended to his squad-mates.

Suddenly a large grey pegasus in gold armor opened the door and instructed Echo squad to follow him. They stepped outside into a swarm of white and grey stallions wearing identical armor. Echo squad was led down several large corridors until entering what appeared to be the throne room. In the room stood over a hundred guards in a line between them and the two alicorns sitting on the throne.

"Why are you here?" Celestia asked.

"Look, we just woke up from a five-thousand year nap and decided to head to the largest city we could find." Kal explained.

"You understand its hard for me to believe anything you tell me after your friend made threats against my people."

"Friend?"

"The man in the tower."

"He's alive? That bastard, always thinking he can just take whatever he fucking wants."

"Watch your tongue." Celestia scolded.

"Well he's not my friend by any means. In fact he's technically my enemy."

"Princess! We found her sneaking around in the castles' catacombs." A guard announced as he escorted Sty into the throne room.

Sty walked up to Kal and tapped him on his left shoulder using two of her fingers which told John that they could escape at any moment they wished.

"Anyway, princess what do you want from us?"

"A dear friend of mine was captured and imprisoned in the tower. You're soldiers and I want you to rescue my friend. Then I will consider letting you free."

"No, I have a better idea. I'll rescue your friend and nail this bastard for you but I'll do it on my own terms. Sty hit it!" Kal yelled  resulting in a ring of C-4 to explode around them causing Echo squad to fall into the catacombs.

"Couldn't have done it better myself." Nix exclaimed as he brushed dust off his tactical vest.

"Our weapons are over here." Sty gestured to a large tarp a midst the stacks of boxes.

"After them!" A guard yelled.

"Shit, lets get out of here." Gev advised looking for an exit.

"One sec. I'll just echo-map the catacombs." Zen informed his team as he started the process. A loud beep sounded from Zen's backpack and then he was finished, "Alright follow me. This should take us to the osprey."

Echo squad followed Zen through the maze of passage ways as the guards closed in on them.

"There getting pretty damn close to us." Gev noted looking over his shoulder, "Nix fix!"

"I might have a little something that can help us." Nix said as he whipped out a fully automatic MK19 grenade launcher from his backpack and cried, "Ka-Boom motherfuckers!" as he caved in the ceiling behind them.

"We're here." Zen announced climbing a ladder and cutting a hole in the sewer grate using his portable blowtorch.

"Sty start the chopper and head towards the tower." Kal commanded as they climbed out of the sewer.

"They're in the plaza!" A guard informed his comrades that soon flooded the plaza.

"Nix shoot them!" Zen cried.

"Can't the rules of engagement say they have to shoot first." Nix explained and sure enough several bolts of magic impacted the side of the craft right next to Nix. "Bad move bitches." Nix yelled pulling out his modified belt fed fully automatic AA-12 shotgun and unloading into the mass of ponies.

"Oh, so that's why they call it a crowd pleaser." Gev chuckled admiring the field of royal guards and their new red armor.

"Alright were off to the tower. ETA: one-hour." Sty announced as Echo squad departed Canterlot.