A Soldier's Pain

TIME: 13:33(1:33)

WINTER

A bright light above the trees of the everfree forrest started to grow brighter and brighter and exploded fire out a object in the shape of a animal, a pony to be exact firing right into the forrest trees and into the forrest floor making a trench through the snow and into another tree. The explostion from the light was loud enought to be heard in Canterlot even going so far as to rattle windows or shatter those close to the blast which was most of ponyville.

All the pony that heard the explostion saw the light disappearing wanted to know what it was so six ponys said they would go and investigate. Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy,Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Applejack stood at the entrance of the everfree forrest looking in not wanting to go in but knew they had to incase anyone was hurt or if there was a danger to ponyville so without waiting anymore they ventrued in.

"What u s'pose it is Twi"?Applejack asked. She was nervious she hoped it was just another weird thing that happens in the forrest all the time. She still had a whole bunch of window that needed to be replaced and a hospitalized Granny Smith and a petrified Winona to calm down and a very excited Applebloom who wanted to come but AJ bout had to tie her down to make sure she wouldnt follow them into the forrest.

"Dont no AJ i just hope nopony is hurt that was a really scary explostion all of my windows are going to need to be replaced back home." The ponys started down the path thinking what could have caused the the light and explostion, plus for Twilight she needed to talk to Zacora for cold meds for spike, turns out he was the cutie mark crusaders with there cutie marks and they tried for a ice fishermans cutie mark, but it didnt work out spike was going to burn a hole in the ice for them to fish in but he walked on a part of thin ice and fell in the crusaders helped him out of the ice but he was running a fever and couldnt stop shaking, the poor guy was in his bed by the fire trying to keep warm.

As they where goin down the path Applejack spotted something wrong with the trees all the branches broken and headed one way Rarity spotted it also.

" Hey girls take a gander at them banches, there all broken" said Applejack. Everone who didnt notice it looked up and saw what she was talking about. Pinkie Pie got exiced and started bouncing around talking about all kinds of different things, Rainbow had to clamp her mouth shut.

"Pinkie Pie you are so random" said Rainbow. Still holding onto Pinkie who just kept bouncing following the path of broken limbs, as they continued there trek Applejack saw something in the snow it was long, black and stuck out of a pile of snow as she looked closer she saw something that didnt go with it was a strange color that looked like clothes she moved the snow some more and saw a PONY!

"Girls git over here theres somepony in the snow and he looks pretty bad" yelled AJ. The pony was a unicorn he had on some stange clothes with some sort of helmet and bulky vest looking thing with other pocket things all over it the pony himself was brown with balck stipes in a few places he had a mask on his face that was torn in some places, his mane was a reddish brown, what really caught her attention was the tree limb sticking through his right shoulder.

I woke up hurting all over, all i wanted to do was go back to sleep but i was cold and wet i needed to get moving as soon as i tried to move i had bite back a scream i started to open my eye to see myself and see what kind of damage there was when i saw a horse lookin at me, i didnt give it much thought ive seen enough of them since ive been in iraq i looked down and saw the stick in my shoulder but what really got me was the snow last i remember it was 132 degrees outside and i was in a dusty little village in the desert not a snowy forrest. Then i heard some voices i looked around and didnt see anyone then i realized it was coming from the hourse in front of me, thats when i saw a hat on its head and it was talking to me.

"Ah said stay still theres a big limb in yer arm so dont move" said AJ. As she looked at the stallion he was lookin pretty rough besides the stick he had numerious cut and scrapes all over his body. She was wondering how he got this way when he spoke.

"Ah'm defenately not with the unit anymore" he said and promply passed out, Applejack looked confused but she shrugged and had twilight help carry him, he was heavy bout the size of big mac as they got the snow off him and saw the rest of him they gasped his lower body was really bad he had all kinds of metal bits sticking out of his hind legs and his front left leg was broken. They were shocked what could have done this to him thats when they noticed all the blood they had to get him to the hospital and fast or he would bleed out. Twilight and AJ moved fast but carefull not make him worse. As they where headed back they didnt forget his things the long metal things one was strapped around him the other was with Pinkie Pie who was using it as paddle to row along the ground as if she was in a boat how she did these things theyed never know.

They burst through the front door carring the pony, nurse red heart saw his condition and started to shout for a doctor and to get him into surgery. It was later that night when they finaly got him stable he lost alot of blood, now he was in a room being monitored.

BOOM

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SLICE MOVE! GO GO GO GET TO THE TRUCKS LETS GO GET OUT OF THE OPEN! yelled my sgt, over all the incoming mortar strikes, i glanced left and saw the rest of my platoon doin the same goin to a truck to help in taking out the enemy mortar teams, all i could think of is that its bullshit we couldnt fire our big guns back at them but something about property and collateral damage to civilians. As i ran i looked behind me to see one of the men ive served with for the past 8 months have a enemy go through his back out the front of him hit the ground and explode blowing him in a rain of blood, i looked in front of me and saw one of our 4 ton trucks get hit i saw the driver jump out on fire screaming as men tried to put the fire out and save him i looked right to see a brand new kid just met him today huddled behind a conceat barrier holding himself crying calling for someone i never found out as round came through the barrier taking his head off. I couldnt move it was the first real deaths i saw in person of people i knew dying in a very violent way. As time started to go back to normal i was in my kit (body armor, rifle, extra mags, extra ammo for my baby girl and just in case extra ammo for rondas sister jessie(my m-4). I knew it wouldnt matter once we started to roll out the shells stopped by the time we got to the mortar site they were gone.

Applejack was getting worried she came to see how the pony they found was doin only to come into his room and see him struggling in his sleep the heart beat monitor was going crazy it was beeping rapidly he was sweating and had a look of pain on his face, she called for help but no one was there she started to panic she ran over to the struggling pony, he calmed down a little bit he wasnt struggling anymore but his heart rate was still off the chart still and he hasnt stopped sweating she didnt know why but she called out to him trying to calm him down.

"Hey partner ya need to calm down ok parkner its ok" she said. She calmed down alittle bit when she saw he stopped sweating so much and his breathing wasnt as ragged, she grabbed a near by chair and held his hoof while brushing his mane and spoke calm soothing words as she saw him visable starting relax his breathing slowed back down to normal he stopped sweating and his heart rate slowed down to normal. She didnt know what it was, it was like she know how to help him relax.

I opened my eyes and saw something beautiful she was gorgious. 'Beautiful" I said as i looked into the most dazzeling pair of eyes i ever saw, i started to go back to sleep as i saw other figures run in talking rapidly i couldnt make out what they where saying i was just so tired.

Applejack was stunned she never had anyone call her beautiful before course shes been call that by her friends and family but since theres so few stallions in ponyville she didnt get those from compliments from them before. She looked at him he had a content smile on his face, now with the mask off she saw a jagged scar going from the bottom of his chin to the top of his cheek bone along with others a small one on his left eye they both looked fresh but it wasnt hidious, with his smile he looked cute. Just then a nurse and doctor ran in and went straight to the pony on the bed they check him over and looked at her and asked what happened.

"Ah was just coming to check up on him and found him like goin all kinds of crazy i shouted for help but nopony was around so ah started to panic so i started to talk to him and he started to calm down but he was goin crazy so i started to brush his mane and he calmed down all the way, i remember Granny Smith doin that to me when i was upset and she talked me down.

*UGH* i felt like shit i looked up and the i was lookin at the white tiles i looked to my left and saw all the get well cards, I was just about to get out of bed when i felt something wrong i looked down to see myself i nearly choked. I saw a horse body i freaked out a little bit just a little im a combat veteran i dont get freaked out by small things like being in the body of a horse.

WHAT THA FUCK IS THIS SHIT AH'M A FUCKIN PONY WHO DOES THAT TO PEOPLE ILL KILL WHOEVER DID THIS TO ILL-

WHATS GOING ON IN HERE!

i looked up to see who said that and standing in the doorway was another pony dressed in doctors uniform, like i said i dont freak out over small details... I passed out.