Grunting waking out of bed hearing the bell, alerting them to get ready. “Damn why did I join this special ops team. We have to get up so early.”
The group of about 100 men and women were a special ops team each one of them had the power equivalent to a Major General and the skill of a Sergeant Major. Although officially they did not exist. For the past six months he had been in the organization. It had been tough he had been officially disavowed his family thought he was dead. Even his six year old daughter knew he wasn’t coming back. They had been so through they even put the body of the man he was replacing in the coffin.
Many men and women shared those pains. Waking slowly he went to the briefing room along with everybody else. Many were sullen knowing they may not come back from this mission. They all shared the fears but few admit it. He had come back from four missions in his time in the spec ops team.
Walking into the room he took a seat and listened to the instructor. “Ok not much to say, you all have your training. All you need is to know the when where and what. When tonight 10:00pm. Where a drug dealing facility in South America. What, destroy the facility and save facility.”
One of the women raised a hand and he nodded his head in acknowadment. “Went it be the local military’s or law enforcements job to destroy this facility?”
“Yes but this is no ordinary facility. First there was a convoy of the local military ambushed in the town. They were carrying a kilo of refined uranium. The entire town has been taking hostage. One of the people living there is a Major General In the army. They also kidnapped the lead nuclear scientist. All in all even if we are wrong about the connection with the nuke we still need to check. And worse case scenario America is bombed and starts world war 3.”
Nodding the woman saw the critical ness of the mission. “Now go get armed up grab a parachute and head to the hanger.”
Opening his locker he pulled out his weapons. First was his M16 assault rifle with a suppresser and a bayonet. Along with his favorite side arm the handy Desert Eagle, inaccurate but sure to get the job done. Next to him his new friend said “You and your close range combat. Why don’t you sit back and fire a real rifle sometime?” He said pulling out his barrette sniper rifle.
“Too much effort, with my choice all I have to do is point and hold the trigger and it will die. And if I’m close enough to use my side arm then I won’t really need to aim anyway.” He said putting his helmet on and attaching his belt with extra ammunition.
“We’ll have fun getting shot. See you in the plane. You know it’s hard to fight when you know if you get shot no one will ever know you died. Everyone already thinks we are dead. And they have given us fake identity’s to go with. Sure they keep our first name but they completely change the last one.”
“Yeah I used to be John Peters now I’m John Andrews.” He said closing his locker after putting his parachute on his back.
“Yeah I’ve been here for ten years. I don’t even remember my real name.”
“I feel sorry for you. But we have to go don’t want to get yelled at again.”
Over the drop zone.
“1…2…3 GO GO GO! Remember don’t pull until almost at the ground. Be silent unless spotted then just open fire.”
They all jumped out and because they didn’t in force the haircuts his hair cut his face and stung in the cold night air. 5 kilo…4 kilo…3 kilo…2 kilo…1 kilo…900 meters 800 meters… 700 meters 600 500 400 350 NOW! Pulling the cord he glided to the ground then detached it and continued acting as if it never happened and just continuing forward.
In a low crouch they all knew what to do without ever discussing it. The snipers stayed up on a cliff with the trees the ones like him who prefer closer combat went in closer as more of an infiltration.
Circling the building he found one entrance but it was guarded. He was with four others looking from face to face and then to the entrance they all nodded then one man pointed to John then to the man on the left then to himself and then the man on the right. Then motioned for the rest to get the ones in the towers above.
Moving through the brush and to a good point he aimed down the 4x scope and got the crosshairs lined up. He then fired then all the others fell around him. Looking side to side he saw the guards in the towers fall.
Seeing a chance he got up from the bushes and pulled out his pistols one in each hand and sprinting forward. Entering the gate he then heard shots ringing all around him. “Shit they were hidden.”
While firing he noticed a door to the left. “Probably where the hostages are.” Taking cover behind the door he threw a grenade in and waited for it to explode. After it did him and three others ran in. He ran for the door the rest to clear out the guards.
The first thing he noticed was that it had a padlock before he got there he shot it and the doors swung open. He ran in and slammed them behind him.
He saw guards pointing their rifles at the heads of the hostages in heavily accented English one said “Gun down or they die.”
Kneeling down to act his surrender he calculated how many there where. Ok four guards they all look fearful. He said to them “Release the hostages; there’s no need to threaten.”
Two lowered their weapons yet were still suspicious one turned his gun towards him. “Why should we listen to you we can easily kill you?”
“Because I could kill at least two of you before I die. Do you want to gamble your life?”
The guard was unshaken he fired his gun but had terrible aim; he hit John in the side just missing his stomach. He was glad for the body armor but it still hurt like hell. He grabbed his guns off the ground and shot four rounds into the man before he was able to shoot again.
One more shot at him but missed he shot back and killed the man. Pointing his guns at the other two he said “Untie the hostages and tie yourself up. And I will let you live.” They hastily did as he requested
One of the hostages went up to him and said “I’m a General and I would like to help you out. Could I borrow one of your guns?” Handing his rifle to him he turned to see another man waiting there
“Hurry I am the head nuclear scientist go outside and there will be a door on the left as you exit. Follow it that’s where they keep the uranium.”
Nodding he went back to the door hesitant to open it he reloaded his weapon then told the general to wait three seconds before going out. Bursting through the doors and looking around he realized they had secured the area for the most part. He motioned for them all to advance on the door.
They kicked it open and went inside following the passage deep underground they came to a corner. He motioned for them to wait but one of them did not listen and went on. He was gunned down instantly.
“What now?” he asked in a low whisper.
“Throw a grenade?”
“No not next to unstable materials. Charge in?”
“As long as you have point.”
“Fine let me take a peek at what we are up against.”
Sticking his head out around the corner he saw that there were not too many of them. But they had a lot of firepower. Dragging the body of the man out from the corridor he held it up as a body shield.
Then he ran in followed by the others, there was that moment of surprise and then gunfire. He was then shot in the arm he was holding the body with. After dropping the body he was shot in the arms and legs countless times. Laying there he thought to himself is this really how I am going to let it end? Is this it. No I still have some fight left.
As he lifted himself up the general threw him his M16 and hid behind cover with a pistol. Taking it he shot at the enemy. They had killed all but one who they held their guns at and asked for surrender.
“No. I would rather die.” The man pointed his revolver at John and fired.
It hit him in the gut and he lost the strength to stand. He remembered when his daughter was born, when she first said his name, when she first went to school. She always sat home on the weekends and made him watch all her shows.
He wept and smiled, smiling at the memories and crying at the fact he would never see her again. But then there was a bright flash of purple light and he felt himself being carried away.
The next thing he knew he was lieing down on a carpet floor he heard a voice. “That wasn’t supposed to happen.” This all seemed familiar somehow
Turning his head he gasped knowing why this was familiar. But it was not possible it was a T.V. show that his daughter obsessed over. I must be dead. Then he felt the pain of his wounds. Ok not dead.
The purple unicorn turned around and noticed that he was bleeding. “Oh Celestia I need to get you to the infirmary.”
She walked over to him and helped him up. That is when he realized he was not human. He was a pony.
A.N. Well I don’t really know how this chapter turned out. Cause when I wrote it, it was 1:43am and yeah I’m tired sorry if it doesn’t flow well and stuff like that. And if your asking why I was up at 1:00….i don’t know.
He couldn’t see himself yet so he didn’t know much of how he looked. Think later live now. He quickly grabbed his things off the ground and put them around his neck. He was surprised that his guns and clothes came with him.
“Hold my hoof I’ll teleport us to the hospital.” Grabbing it they teleported to the hospital and he felt like he was about to throw up.
Although not only because of the sudden movement between space. But because his mind was reeling and lurching questioning everything. Everything at the moment was a blur he was guided to the bed then lay down and he passed out.
Upon waking he saw doctors looking at him and then at bits of metal that looked like bullets though with blood on them. Twilight was there to she asked him “Who are you? How did you get so hurt? Oh I hope it wasn’t my spell that did it.”
“I don’t remember my name. It wasn’t your spell that hurt me, no I can’t explain it to you, you wouldn’t understand.” He wasn’t lieing when he said he didn’t remember his name. He still had most of his memory but he knew nothing about himself.
“What are these?” She said poking at his gun
“NO DON’T TOUCH THAT!” He quickly grabbed it and dismantled it so it couldn’t hurt any pony.
“I’m sorry I didn’t know it was personal.”
“Oh no, I just didn’t want you getting hurt those are weapons.”
“Why do you have them?”
“I may explain another time. But I do not know how to at the moment.” He said politely then turned to the doctor. “When am I getting out of here?”
“I would say a week or more your injuries were quite strange and we would like to study them.”
Feeling his wounds he noted where they hit. He had medical training and quickly sized up the damage. Only thing that was critical was the stomach wound. “Fuck it I’m out of here. I’ve had worse.”
Climbing out of bed he saw the mirror to the side of him. He looked at it he saw he was a Pegasus. His mane was black and long or short for ponies. His fur was covered in blood, bandages, or mud. It looked to be a very light cyan. Turning to see his cutie mark he saw he didn’t have one yet.
“Sir I would recommend you lie back down.”
“Look I’ve been in the military for 12 years. I think I know if I can walk or not. I have been shot at and blown up for TWELVE YEARS. I tell you, I’ve had worse.”
“But we don’t have a military only guards for the princesses.”
“I’m not from here. From where I come from it’s not uncommon to lose a limb or die. Now do us all a favor and shut the hell up.”
Twilight stood taken aback that someone would be so rude. Though she looked passed it and said “Where do you come from?”
“A place called Earth a country called United States of America and a state called California.”
“And people get killed there a lot.”
“No I went oversees to another country and people got killed there. We have much better technology then you have here. But that is all I’ll say. If anyone needs me I’ll be sleeping in the Everfree.”
She got confused and gave up “Why the Everfree forest. It’s dangerous there.”
“I can handle my own.”
“I would feel bad if you got hurt again. I feel guilty for your injury’s already why not stay in my guest room.”
“We haven’t been properly introduced. I don’t know my real name so call me whatever you wish.”
“My names Twilight Sparkle. Follow me.”
“Let me get my things.”
Quickly gathering his guns and gear he put on his vest and helmet then the guns in the belt around the vest. Then followed Twilight out the door. “Would you mind showing me around town I’m new here. We have about ten hours of sunlight. Unless of course your world rotates faster, or it’s a different season then earth.”
“Are you sure you’re not tired you seem to have gone through a lot?”
“I’ve been trained to last a week with only two hours of sleep the entire week.” He said head hung low.
“Wow it must be ruff where you live. Why don’t you tell me more about yourself?”
“I’ll tell you when I remember.” He said trotting slowly not used to having four legs and no hands.
A pink earth pony ran by then “HEY TWILIGHT WHO’S THIS?”
Damn it’s Pinkie Pie. The energetic little… “I don’t know he doesn’t know his name. He’s new here. He just appeared in my basement after I failed a spell and he was bleeding out of many wounds.”
“Well maybe he likes parties. Everypony loves parties and friends. Where’s he staying and…”
Getting annoyed he cut her off “Well I’m an exception. I don’t have friends and I HATE parties.”
Pinkie gasped and levitated in the air for a good ten seconds. Damn she just broke every law of physics I spent 20 years teaching and studying. “DON’T LIKE PARTIES! You sound like Cranky. Why don’t you have friend don’t you want any?”
“I have a few friends but no close friends. I always feel as if I’m going to be stabbed in the back by them.”
“Ok well what do you do?”
“I spent 12 years in the military. Before that I was a scientist. Any kind Physist, Chemist, biologist you name it I studied it. And you just broke the laws of physics.”
“Boooooooooring.” Pinkie said
“Ehhh I like it. I don’t remember why I gave it up to be in the military but…”
“You a smarty pants or something? Well I guess you don’t want a party.”
“No I don’t thanks for noticing.” Then mumbling under his breath “bitch.”
“Well that was my friend Pinkie Pie. She’s a bit…random.”
“I can tell.”
“Well my friend Rarity could probably fix up your clothes.” Twilight said trotting forward
As soon as the building came into view he heard Rarity shout from inside “THIEF! THIEF! THOSE ARE MY JEWLS!” the accused jumped out of the window smashing the glass.
Unwilling to let crime be committed he lunged forwards and caught up to the pony drop kicking him and while on the ground bucked him in the face. Then pulled him up by the neck. “Give back what you stole.”
“No, make me.”
Seeing the bag of jewels in the hoof of the pony. He held it up and broke that leg. The pony instantly dropped to the ground and dropped the jewels. Looking down in pity he splinted the leg and said “Go do something with your life kid your still young.”
Then grabbing the jewels and walking back to the Boutique the white unicorn ,Rarity, ran up and punched him in the face “WELL WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!?”
“It’s not nice to steal.”
“BUT I…I just attacked the guy who stole from you and returned it.”
“Well then, Twilight tells me you wanted clothes.”
“Yes can you mend this vest?” he took off his vest and handed it to her though she just looked at it and said
“I thought those were part of your bandages. No I doubt anypony could mend that.” She said in disgust.
“Fine can I have some work clothes then? Something tough sturdy, something that if I ran through a bush I wouldn’t have to worry of it tearing or hurting myself cause it offers protection.”
“Well come inside and I will look…oh never mind you stay out here and I’ll look, don’t want to get mud everywhere.”
He was about to object then he looked at himself. Ok maybe I’m not publicly acceptable by standards here. But back in the corps this was a perfectly acceptable smell.
“So you said you studied physics I but I was never too good at it. Mind showing me something.”
“Why not, ummm well it’s been a while. Ok so you are on clouds one kilo high and say there is no air resistance. And you drop an iron ball of about 2 kilo, it falls at 9.8 meters per second right? (Ok I started to do the work on this then gave up and used this http://www.livephysics.com/tools/classical-mechanics/solve-problem-related-to-impact-force-from-falling-object.html) *mumble mumble number mumble* Ok so the velocity before impact is 140 meters per second. Kinetic energy 19,600. And it would impact with 280,000 newtons. Though you know it might be a bit off I’m a bit rusty.”
“Umm ok?” Twilight said obviously confused
Rarity walked out then with some clothes in hand, they looked like good work clothes. “That will be 50 bits.”
Reaching into his vest pocket he pulled out a wad of cash and handed it to her. “What am I supposed to do with this?”
“Right Equestria not America. So I suppose a check won’t work either I don’t have a bank here. Well shit, sorry Ms. I don’t have any of your currency.”
“Well what type of money do you have?”
“What I just gave you.”
She held the dollar in front of her face and Twilight asked “Why does a piece of paper have value? Are you people that poor? Is paper rare there?”
“Simple it has value cause the government says so.”
“Well I can’t work for free.”
“Wouldn’t expect it we all gotta pay the taxes right?” he said laughing
“Taxes?” they both looked at him confused
Shaking his head he mumbled “This is gonna be tough.” “Ok well do you know where I can get a job so I can pay?”
They both shook their heads then Twilight tilted her head and said “Wait don’t you Pegasus’s get paid for weather patrol?”
“Right, I’m a Pegasus that’s gonna take a while to get used to.” They both facehoofed
“How did you not know you were a Pegasus darling?”
“I’m not used to being a pony at all. When I got transported here I became a pony.”
Rarity looked at Twilight with a look that said “What spell was it this time?” Twilight shrugged in response to the look.
“You might want to speak to Rainbow Dash about this one. She knows about this stuff mostly the loopholes that let her lie around all day but still. She’s probably in one of the clouds napping.”
“Well I need to finish another order so you two go find Rainbow.”
“Bye Rarity.” Said Twilight trotting off looking at the clouds seeing if anyone had a rainbow tail sticking out from it.
“There she is. HEY RAINBOW DASH!”
The rainbow pegasus turned around and stuck her head out facing Twilight. “What? I am napping. Oh hey Twilight, who’s he?”
Twilight said to her friend “He doesn’t know his name he says just call him whatever you want. But he has a question for you.”
More than a question but I don’t want to get killed for asking one “Two questions actually. First, how do peagasi get paid for the weather? Second, how do you fly?”
A.N. Yeah idk if this chapter was very good or likeable but I’m hoping it will become more of the way I want it to in the near future.
