Chapter Two - The Landing

Perspective: Miles

I open my eyes to find that I'm in some sort of forest. The trees are darker than most trees and the forest is giving off an eerie feeling to it. I want to leave here. Now. I try to get up but am greeted with the sharp pain from before.

"Oh yeah, forgot about that."

I look behind me to see that the supply crate is behind me, it has falling on it's side and ammo has fallen out of it. I hear something moving in the bush, whatever it is, its big and something tells me that this thing is going to be a problem. I grab my pistol and take aim at the bush. Its coming out fast, so I ready myself to take aim.

*hop* *hop*

Its a bunny. Its a god damn bunny. How in the hell does a bunny make that much movement in a fucking bush?! I sigh and lower my pistol and so it begins to hope off back into the bush. I can already tell that today is going to be a long day. I need to get something to cover that wound. Maybe there are some medical supplies in the crate. I craw my way inside the crate. Finding it a bit warmer than outside, but I press on.

After about ten minutes of searching, taking longer than normally due to crawling, I finally find some medical supplies. I find something to cover the wound as well as a med pack. After applying the med pack my health rises back to yellow on my visor and I can stand. I'm limping, so I must have hit my leg during the crash. Whatever, I'll deal with that later.

I walk/limp out of the crate and take a look around, nothing has changed. I take this moment to look around the area. The trees are sporting different dark colors, blues, greens and some blacks. There are vines growing everywhere and patches of plant life everywhere. The air around here feels....untouched. Its like this place has never seen any pollution. Ever. Which feels very strange because most of the forests back on Harvest are covered with pollution. I then come to a realization. I'm not on Harvest....

"WHERE THE FUCK AM I?!" I yell

*growl*

Oh that can't be good, I turn to the bush to my right and see a large wolf like creature emerge from it, the strange thing is that its made of wood. It eyes are a glowing a energized green. It is about two meters long and stands around half a meter. It's wooden body parts are covered in different symbols and marks. I raise my pistol and take aim at it's head, I bet that's where the control to the AI is. I slowly back up against the crate as the wooden wolf moves towards me. It stops and looks at me for a moment, inspecting me to see which way I will try to attack.

"AROOOOOOOOOOO!" it howls into the forest

Seven more of the wooden wolves appear from the forest, and begin to circle around me. I know this tactic, this is how wolves kill bigger prey, they try to distract it. I decide to go along with their little game and make them think that I have turned my full attention to the biggest one. I wait for one to make its move and try to jump on my back.

"RAAAAH"

KER - PUNCH

I turned around just in time to prevent the attacking wolf from biting into me. The punch sends the wolf flying back into a tree, shattering the wolf to bits. One of the wolfs to my left begins to charge at me, so I aim my pistol up and get ready to fire.

PAT PAT PAT

I fire three rounds into it's head, dropping it. They all begin to lunge at me so I quickly drop to the ground and dodge their attack. I grab the energy sword I looted from one of the elites and turn it on. This gets me confused stares from the wooden wolfs, but they quickly ignore it and lunge at me again.

CRUNCH

I cut into four of them and block all of their attacks. The wolves that were hit have fallen to pieces and the last one starts to back away. I begin to walk towards it but am stopped when the fallen wolves' parts begin to bounce around. They then begin to gather into one big pile, forming up into something big. I take a fighting stances and ready for their or its attack. It has now formed into one massive wolf, it stands nearly seven times what the one wolf did before and it stares down at me with it's big green eyes.

"OH SON OF A BITCH!"

KER - PUNCH

I'm sent flying ten meters, hitting the ground hard. I look back up to see the beast charging at me again, I take a grenade out and throw it under the beast. It stops to look at the grenade, sniffing it.

KRA - BOOM

The blast sends me flying back into another tree, and the beast into tiny bits once again. I let out a sigh of relief and walk over to the crate. I see the wolf from earlier there, growling at me. I simply raise my pistol and fire five rounds into it's head, dropping it. Finally, I killed all of those motherfuckers

"AROOOOOOOOOOO!"

Are you fucking kidding me? I look back to see that they have all reformed into individual wolfs and begin to circle around me again. How the fuck are these things still alive?! I used a fucking frag grenade, that fucking kills hunters and not these assholes?!

"DIE YOU GOD DAMNED PIECES OF SHIT!" I yell at them

I tackle the nearest wolf and fire the rest of the pistol's clip into it's head. I am so god damn done with these motherfucking wolves. A wolf jumps at me from behind and I try to block it, but the wolf is stopped by a rope being rapped around it's stomach and dragged to the ground.

"GET OUTTA HERE YA GOSH DARN WOLVES!" I female voice with a southern accent yells from the bushes.

I look for who caught the wolf and see a... horse. She's standing there with a rope in her mouth dragging the wolf towards her, the rest of the wolves begin to run off as more five more horses run out from the bushes. She pulls the wolf up close to her and looks it dead in the eyes.

"Don't you ever attack another pony, you hear me?"

The wolf nods and she let's it go, making the wolf run off with it's tail between it's legs. The rest of the horses.. or ponies gather around to inspect me, and I do the same. The pony that saved me has a orange coat with a cowboy hat on her head as well as a blond mane and tail, she has bright green eyes that seem... earthly. She also has three apples tattooed to her flank. The two to my left are ponies with wings, one of which is watching me very closely with a large smile on her face, she has a yellow coat with a pink mane, pink eyes and tail and three pink butterflies on her flank. The other one is a cyan blue with a rainbow mane and tail, she also has red or magenta eye color, that is sick as fuck. She seems to be flying around really impatiently, acting like she has to be somewhere and is not interested, but I've seen her take a few looks at me and the two to my right both have horns coming out of their heads. Unicorn ponies? The unicorn pony on the right has a purple mane with a pink stripe going through it, what I also notice is that she also has a pair of wings. Maybe a hybrid between a unicorn pony and a winged pony? The other has white coat and with a purple mane and tail and blue eyes, she has her mane well styled and seems to be trying to stay away from anything dirty around her. The Purple Unicorn hybrid pony approaches me, she seems a bit nervous but mostly curious and excited.

"What are you?" She asks as she begins to reach for my armor. That's when I notice that the bandage for my side wound has been ripped off by a nearby tree branch and blood begins to pool everywhere. I feel my consciousness fading. I think it's time to sleep again.

"....."

"...."

"..."

Perspective: Twilight Sparkle
One hour earlier

I make my way to the door of the library, with my saddle bags on my hips, full of food for the picnic. I take this moment to make sure I have everything.

"Spike, I'm going out for a picnic with the girls at Fluttershy's, Make sure you keep an eye on the library for me." I call out to him

"Will do, later Twi." He says as he walks down the stairway, giving me a mock solute. I laugh a little at his antics and nod my head as I walk out the door.

Its a nice day in Ponyville, the sun is shinning and not a single cloud to be seen in the sky, Rainbow must have been working hard today. Ponies go around town doing their business, buying groceries, eating at restaurants, foals playing, etc. The trees are bright green, and the atmosphere is just so alive. I love these days, I'm glad that Princess Celestia let me stay here rather than some palace in Canterlot. While Canterlot may be my home, I would have to leave my friends behind, something I'm not doing. I begin walking towards the Everfree and take a right on the path to Fluttershy's house. I make my way to the door and give a knock, to which Applejack answers it.

"Hey Sugarcube, ya'll ready for the picnic?"

"Yep, I'm all ready to go, I've been waiting for my schedule to clear up so I can spend time with you girls, we haven't been able to talk much after I became Princess."

"Ah know Twi, come on in, we're just about to leave."

I walk inside to see all of the girls chatting with each other. Fluttershy is talking with Rarity, Rainbow is reading a Daring Doo book and Pinkie, well, she's being Pinkie because she went from side of the room to the other in less than a millisecond.

"Alright girls, Twi's here, let's start heading out for the lake."

So, we're going to the lake for the picnic today, I honestly thought that we were going to the park, but the lake's fine. The girls gather their things and begin to head for the door. We make it outside and the sun is blaring down us, I can see why we would go to the lake for the picnic now.

After a good few minutes of walking, we finally make it to the lake. Ponies are out having fun in the water or relaxing in the shade. The sky doesn't have a single cloud in it and the sun is reflecting off the water, giving a very peaceful summer feeling. The trees of the nearby Everfree and the trees in the park are moving softly in the summer breeze. I never get tired of seeing this, it gives me one more reason to stay in Ponyville with my friends.

We begin to chat about our day while Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie play in the water, wrestling as of now. Rainbow Dash just tackled Applejack underwater and Pinkie goes in to knock Applejack off. I look back to Rarity and Fluttershy to see that they are looking up into the sky, I look up as well to see what got their attention.

KRA BOOM

A massive ball of fire has slammed into the Everfree. Causing ponies in the surrounding area to panic, they quickly run from the area, grabbing their foals, but some are to shocked to even move.

"Girls, we need to go. Now!" I yell to them

This breaks them of their shock and they nod to me. We quickly start running into the Everfree where the fireball hit. We are slowed down by the natural growth of the Everfree, tree branches, bushes and among other things are blocking our way, so we have to take alternate routes, taking around thirty minutes. We decide to take a break, exhausted from running non stop.

"What do you think that was Twi?" Applejack asks

"Maybe a meteor, but we need to make sure that a fire hasn't started."

"Well maybe it's a--"

Just then, we hear the sound of a stallion screaming and then more explosions.

"Somepony's in trouble!" Rainbow yells and starts to fly toward the scream.

We take this as our time to get moving, we all start sprinting towards the sounds of the screams and explosions. When we are about a hundred yards away, we make out two figures. One is a massive timberwolf, most likely a pack that was destroyed and reformed. And the other a massive,,,metal thing. It stands on two legs and has two arms. It has two devices in its hand, one is a metal mechanism, and the other looks like an oddly shaped sword made of... energy? Whatever they are, it must be using them to defend itself.

KRA - BOOM

A explosion sends the massive timberwolf into peices, it looks relieved to see that their is only a single wolf left. He walks toward the lone timberwolf and raises his arm with the metal thing and pulls a trigger.

PAT PAT PAT PAT PAT

Five small explosions come from the metal machine and the timberwolf's head is in pieces. I didn't even see anything come out of that thing! What the heck was that?! It must not know that the timberwolves reform themselves if they are destroyed because its attention is completely away from the pile of rumbling timberwolf parts.

"AROOOOOOOOOOO!"

Seven timberwolves have reformed, looking very angry at the metal thing. The metal thing turns back towards the timberwolves. The metal thing yells at the timberwolves, but I can't make it if it said anything at all. It lunges towards the nearest timberwolf, firing its device into its head. Applejack is ahead of us, with a rope in her mouth ready to catch a timberwolf. I look to see that a timberwolf has begun to lunge at the metal thing, but is caught by Applejack's rope. We begin to run out towards the rest of the timberwolves, causing them to scatter. Applejack pulls the timberwolf she caught towards her and stares it directly in the eyes.

"Don't you ever attack another pony, you hear me?" She says, getting the timberwolf to nod to her and run off. With it's tails between it's legs.

We turn back and gather around the metal thing that is now lying on the ground. It looks to be inspecting us as we inspect it. It stands at around 7 or 8 feet tall, it has various different metal plating going all along it's body, it has a knife by it's waist and both of it's weapons are now lying on the ground.

"What are you?" I ask as I reach towards the metal plating

"..."

I feel that I have stepped in a liquid. I look down to see that it's blood, leaking from the metal thing, or rather the creature wearing the metal plating. It then starts to fall back

THUD

It hits the ground, I intermediately begin to search for a pulse within the plating. I find one. Weak but still going.

"Girls, we need to get this thing to the hospital now, it's losing blood."

They nod and I raise it with my magic, and we take off back towards Ponyville. I hope this thing is ok.

Author's Note

Well, here is the second chapter. I wrote this kind of on and off for the past few months, probably not my best work, but it gets the chapter in. If you want to see this story going, let me know in the comments.