The Fighter Pilot in Equestria
The Fighter Pilot in Equestria
Present day Canterlot 9PM
Princess Celestia looked at the moon her sister Luna had raised. “It truly is beautiful I see you haven’t lost your touch Luna,” She said
“Thanks Tia!” Luna beamed cheerfully walking into the room. As the two were standing there a pegasus guard flew up to them and bowed, the armor indicated he was from Fillydelphia,and he was panting heavily suggesting he'd flown the entire way at breakneck speed.
"Your...your majesties."
"What is it my little pony?" Celestia asked looking at the pegasus with concern.
"There...there's a statue missing from Fillydelphia."
"You flew all the way here to tell us a statue was missing?" Luna inquired a hint of anger in her voice.
"Yes,” the pegasus replied, “the statue by the cemetary gates.” Celestia’s eyes opened wide.
“Keep us updated on the situation, I’ll have one of the other guards here tell the mayor of fillydelphia, but I want you to rest for now..”
“Yes your majesties.” The pegasus bowed again and walked off into the castle.
“What was that about?”
“Luna there are things I haven’t told you. But now is the time.”
“Tia what do you mean?” Luna asked.
“That stature was a pony I imprisoned,” Celestia said taking a breath before she continued. “His name was Shell Dawn and he tried to raise an army of ponies against me.”
"Oh,” Luna asked cocking her head to one side. “how should we try to stop him then?”
“There are several options available to us.”
“And those are?”
“Well reasoning with him is out since he probably hates me for encasing him in stone.”
“What about the guards we have now?”
“Luna this pony has more combat experience than any guard alive today. We haven’t had a war in two centuries.”
“So are you saying we get somepony who has combat experience? What about the elements of harmony?”
“Luna those won’t work on normal ponies, and besides Twilight and her friends wouldn’t stand a chance.”
“So what other options are there?” The two sisters sat there for a few moments pondering what they should do.
“But I think I might know how to stop it.”
“How is that Tia?”
“I will have to bring a creature know as a Human here,” Celestia replied.
“You can’t be serious,” Luna exclaimed in shock. “They’re the most dangerous beings in existence!”
“I’m afraid I am dear sister,” Celestia replied.
“But aren’t humans a bunch of savages?”
“Don’t forget little sister there was one Alicorn that made the journey to their world.”
“You mean mom?” Luna asked.
“Yes Luna,” Celestia replied nodding her head.
Celestia walked out on the balcony and opened her wings. “It will be alright Luna,” Celestia said. Celestia’s horn began to glow as a flash of light engulfed her entire body before she disappeared.
December 10th 1958 Olmstead Air Force base 10:00 am
Princess Celestia appeared outside the gate. She cast an invisibility spell and looked around at the snow covered landscape was almost serene, except for the buildings and a number of craft parked with a tank under each wing in front of them. Celestia started walking closer to the fence and jumped over. Walking toward the hanger she noticed two figures in front of the parked craft. One had grayish hair and a look of pain in his light brown eyes, while the other had dark brown eyes and red hair. I wonder just how I should approach him. she thought.
“Hey colonel you all packed?”
“Just about kid, Just need to clean them a bit but I’ll be ready to leave in the morning not sure if Joe and Mitch are though.”
“I’m a bit jealous sir, you three will be in the Californian sun and the rest of us will be back here freezing our asses off.” Celestia heard a laugh coming from the elder pilot and watched as four other pilots three of them around the same age of the “colonel” in the group walk over.
“Hey Frank you got a light?” asked the pilot in the front with the thin mustache holding a cigarette.
“Sure just let me look.” Frank replied and fished in his pockets for a lighter before producing one. “There you go Joe.”
“Thanks buddy.” Joe light the cigarette and walked away, but not before tossing the lighter back.
“You’re welcome.” Frank replied catching the lighter.
“Hey kid you gonna join the poker game later?” Joe asked.
“You mean it sir?”
“Yep remember it starts at 9 o’clock sharp.”
“I’ll be there!” The group walked off into one of the buildings.
“So did you hear from you’re girlfriend kid?”
“Yes. She’s giving me another chance.”
“Well there you go kid. treat your girl with respect and remain faithful, you’ll be together for a long while.”
“Yes sir.”
“Now I’ve gotta go talk to Joe.”
“Ok talk to you later then.” Frank walked off to find Mitch and Joe. Celestia followed close behind him, thinking to herself i probably should bring two more humans they seem to be rather frail creatures. Celestia noticed that Frank kept looking over his shoulder as if he sensed she was there but wasn’t sure. He really should have been paying more attention since he ended up walking straight into Joe who was still smoking his cigarette. “Oh sorry about that buddy.”
“It’s alright Frank,” Joe looked at Frank for a moment. “What’s the matter?”
“Have you ever had the feeling you’re being watched?”
“This day and age I feel like I’m always being watched.”
“Heh tell me about it.” “With what’s going on in Cuba, and with what happened off Taiwan a few months ago you never truly know.”
“Yeah, you’re right.” The two stood there in silence for a moment. Celestia watched the two for a moment.
“Oh yes, I almost forgot, I’d like to talk to you and Mitch before the poker game be sure to tell him ok?”
“Don’t worry I will.” Frank nodded his head and walked off to one of the buildings on the base. Celestia followed frank at a distance, watching him walk into one of the buildings that had the words “Officers Quarters” above the door. Celestia followed frank inside the building The heat counteracted the cold air outside and was refreshing in a way.
“Sir?” Frank turned around and saw a enlisted man walking over. “you have a telephone call.”
“Thank you airman um...I’m sorry but I forgot your name.”
As she followed a human into one of the buildings, she felt the human she was searching for was close. She walked in and saw several human men sitting at a table and playing a card game. She listened in on the conversation. “I’ll see your ten ‘Blazer’ and raise you twenty,” said the man with the bulldog tattoo on his neck.
“Hey ‘Bulldog’ do you know where the colonel is?” second Lt Samuel asked.
“Last I checked he was in his room ‘Sammy’ getting ready for that shooting competition he’s supposed to take part in California in two days,” ‘Bulldog’ replied. Celestia continued on her watching the humans, though she had met the human before she didn’t reveal her face or her form to him.
“Well I’m going to take a little break to talk to him,” ‘Sammy’ said folding his hand and getting up from the table. ‘Sammy’ walked down the hall with Celestia following behind him. As the two approached the Col’s room they heard singing in German. Celestia cocked her head to one side. She hadn’t heard the song before, but there was something about the voice that seemed it was coming from someone who had suffered a lot. Stopping at the door Samuel began to knock on it.
“Come in,” a voice on the other end spoke. Samuel followed by Celestia walked in and watched an older man cleaning a model 1928 Thompson submachine gun. “Hey kid how are you doing?” Frank asked.
“I’m doing very good sir,” ‘Sammy’ replied.
“That’s good kid I’m happy to know you’re getting along with everyone.”
“Yeah why do you insist on calling me ‘kid’ sir when everyone calls me ‘Sammy’?”
“I used to go by ‘kid’ myself and since you’re the youngest member of the squadron I thought kid would be an appropriate nickname.”
“Oh is that so?” ‘Sammy’ asked.
“Yes but that’s a story for another time, was there anything else you wanted to ask?”
“No sir.”
“You’re dismissed then,” frank said before ‘Sammy’ turned around and walked out of the room. Frank sighed and tilted the Thompson in an upwards angle looking down the barrel. “It’s alright you can reveal yourself now,” He said aloud.
“How did you know I was here?” Celestia asked revealing herself.
“I remember what being in your presence feels like,” frank replied taking a gander at Celestia’s form. “So that’s what you really look like.”
“Is there a problem with the way I look?”
“Oh no, it’s just that I didn’t expect the one who I saw when I was trapped in that burning plane back in 1944 to be a horse.”
“Alicorn,” Celestia corrected.
“I’m sorry Alicorn,” frank replied sincerely. “So why are you here?”
“Well I need your help with something frank,” Celestia said.
“Look before I accept any offer you have to make I think we should properly introduce ourselves.”
“Very well I’m Princess Celestia,” Celestia said sounding somewhat annoyed.
“I’m Colonel Frank ‘Raptor’ Anderson.”
“Well then Col Anderson will you hear my offer?”
“I’m listening princess.”
“Well I need your help I believe you are one of seven operatives I need.”
“Who are the other seven?” Frank asked.
“You will meet them when I bring you to my world,” Celestia replied.
“Now hold on for just a second I advise you wait until I’m heading to California, then you could bring me to your world.”
“Why is that?”
“Well for one if I just disappear right now they’ll probably think I’ve gone AWOL, or have been kidnapped, or some nonsense, if I was to disappear while flying to California in adverse weather conditions over a national park however, it would appear that I lost control and crashed.”
“How can you fly? You don’t have any wings.”
“We humans are a unique bunch. We’ve designed mechanical means of flying, like the most recent achievement jets.” Frank set the Thompson in its case before reaching back behind him and brought out a model of his aircraft the F-100 Super Sabre.
“That’s very impressive,” Celestia stated looking at the model. As she turned to leave she felt frank reach out and touch her flowing mane.
“I assume there are more talking horses in you world?”
“Ponies you mean,” Celestia said turning back toward frank correcting him again.
“Ok then, ponies.”
“I’m just making sure you understand before I bring you to my world,” Celestia said turning to leave again.
“Good night princess,” Frank said.
“Oh before I leave I wanted to ask, what was that song you were singing?”
“Stille Nacht,” Frank replied. “It’s an old Christmas carol.” Frank set the model plane back and lay down on his bed.
“Good night frank,” Celestia said as her horn began glowing before she disappeared.
Frank fell asleep thinking of what Celestia had told him, wondering what her world looked like. The night seemed to pass quickly as frank heard his alarm clock going off. He got up and put his flight suit on making sure he had everything packed for the trip.
“You ready Frank?” ‘Blazer’ asked walking into the room.
“I’m ready,” Frank said putting on his flight jacket. Frank walked out to his plane checking it over. “She ready to go chief?” he asked the mechanic. The mechanic saluted Frank and nodded his head. Frank climbed into his plane and took off into the sky heading west.
Col Frank Anderson flew over a forest at 30,000ft in his F-100 super sabre. The black and grey overcast obscured the snow covered ground. He was heading to California where Frank was to participate in a shooting Competition in 4 days; the rest of the group would join him the day before. Though he had other things on his mind, he was thinking of what Celestia had told him back at the base.
All of a sudden a down draft caused frank to lose control of his plane.
“This is raptor I’ve lost control I’m going down!” Frank screamed into the radio. His fighter dived toward the ground as Frank struggled to control the plane. Frank was blinded by a piercing light as plane and pilot disappeared.
“Raptor what is your position can you read me over?” the tower Frank had been transmitting to asked.
Canterlot, Equestria
Princess Celestia and Princess Luna watched the clear blue sky as a hole opened up and a strange object flew out of it. “Am I in Celestia’s land already?” frank asked himself looking around at the landscape it was more open than Ohio and it was now a bright sunny day. Frank flew by a castle and rubbed his eyes. “Well I’m not in Kansas anymore that’s for sure,” Frank said, quoting the wizard of OZ. As he passed the castle he saw a farm and a town below him, he continued to lose altitude, when he heard his engine die. Looking at the fuel gauge it read empty, the altimeter indicated he was 200 feet off the ground. “This is going to hurt,” Frank said as he braced himself for the inevitable impact. His plane hit the ground shearing the right wing, before it tumbled shearing the other wing off, and ripping open the cargo area where he had stored his luggage including his guns excluding the pistols and knifes he carried on him at all times. Frank felt the bones in his left arm snap which also caused him to rip his dog tags off which fell to the rudder control. His head slammed into the control panel throbbing in pain, he then felt his right leg bones snap, as the plane came to a stop lying on its right side his eyesight was becoming blurry, and he felt blood running down his face, but he knew he had to get out of the plane. He grabbed his Colt .45 with his right hand and used it as hammer to break the canopy open. He began crawling from the wreck of his plane, dragging himself along with his right arm before he saw two figures coming toward him but he couldn’t tell what they were before he passed out.
“Sis what was that?” Princess Luna asked her sister as the two Alicorns watched the craft crash in the distance.
“I saw several objects like that where I went I believe they’re called jets,” Celestia replied turning to her sister. “But I will be sending you to Ponyville the day after tomorrow, until then I will be leaving my student Twilight Sparkle in charge of the matter of that object and the creature inside it.”
It was a warm and sunny afternoon in Ponyville as Twilight Sparkle was sitting in the cool green grass, under the shade of a tree practicing her magic with her assistant spike.
“Twilight do you see that object in the sky there,” Spike asked pointing the first digit on his right claw toward the sky. The two looked at the sky when they saw something they’d never seen before. The object was emitting a loud roar, its wings didn’t move and, it had hole in the front streaked down from the sky, the most curious feature of it were the talons and the gaping teeth in the front. The object seemed to be trying to gain altitude when the roaring quit, and it turned to the right hitting the ground which ripped the right wing off but it continued to tumble, the other wing also getting ripped off as the object came to a stop. Twilight ran toward the scene with spike following her. A figure was crawling away from the wreck on its stomach; it’s left arm, and right leg were not moving. The figure stopped and collapsed as the two came into view as they carefully walked over.
“What do you think that is?” Twilight asked spike. Spike stood by Twilight as a couple of residents of Ponyville walked over. At the head of the herd were the mayor and nurse Redheart who.
“What do we have here now?” she asked. Nurse Redheart checked the strange creature over as she felt her hoof over the unconscious body. “It seems his left arm, and his right leg is broken, and we should check to see how bad of a head wound it has,” she said, as she removed the helmet revealing that the creature was old. It had short grey hair; blood came out of the creature’s nose and from the wound on its head. The silver on the pale green flight suit and the black visor on the white helmet reflected the sunlight. Redheart with the help of three other ponies lifted the unknown creature onto a cart which was then pulled to Ponyville hospital by two stallions at a fast rate. Rainbow Dash landed next to Twilight and Spike.
“I saw everypony gathering here. What the hay is going on?” she asked. Twilight turned to the crashed object which the mayor and a group of other ponies were gathering around.
“I was practicing my magic with spike when that object crashed over there,” Twilight said. Rainbow Dash flew over to the wreck of the plane. There was a nauseous smell of blood and in the cockpit of the plane as she checked the front of the plane before she flew back trying not to throw up.
“Just what in the hay is that?” she asked as she landed next to Twilight exhaling loudly to get the smell out of her nostrils. Twilight shrugged her shoulders in response.
“I don’t know but spike and I were about to head to Ponyville hospital to see how the creature that was in it is doing. Could you get the others and tell them to meet us there,” Rainbow Dash nodded her head in reply to Twilight statement and took off while Twilight and Spike walked to Ponyville hospital.
Spike belched a green flame and caught a scroll that came from it.
“Twilight you going to read the letter from the Princess?” Spike asked.
“We’ll have to read it later spike we’re heading to Ponyville hospital to see how that strange creature that was in that flying contraption is doing.” At Ponyville hospital nurse Redheart and nurse Tenderheart were bandaging the creature’s wounds while supervised by a unicorn doctor, stripping it to its shorts and t-shirt while throwing a hospital gown on. They were also setting the creatures broken leg, and arm over his head at an angle, and bandaging the wounds on its head and bandaging its chest, and stopping its nose bleed,and the bleeding from the head wound. they figured the creature was male by the masculine features. Twilight Sparkle and Spike walked up. “Is there anything we can do to help?” Twilight asked. Nurse Redheart nodded her head in reply and sighed.
“We don’t know all that much about this creature so what should we do we don’t know if it’s dangerous or not.” Nurse Tenderheart nodded her head in response to her colleague’s statement.
“Since we don’t know if it’s dangerous or not we should tie it down cruel as it may sound. We still have to think of the possibility that it may be a danger to anypony,” She said.
“I have to agree even though it’s wounded we have to think of the other patients,” the doctor unicorn said looking at an x-ray of the creatures chest. “Though it’s lucky that it was brought here when it was, there are signs it had a minor concussion, and several broken ribs but we managed to treat the wound, though we’re moving it ICU so we can keep an eye on it.” Twilight sighed and walked to the with spike where he started to read the letter.
“My faithful student Twilight I suppose you saw that object crash in Ponyville. As such you are to act on my behalf on what to do with it until Luna arrives the day after tomorrow. Your teacher princess Celestia.” Twilight read. She sighed and turned to see the rest of her friends walking up.
“Hey Twilight. Word around town is spreading fast about that creature,” Applejack said. Twilight nodded her head in agreement and started back to the library with Spike, it was going to be a long night.
“Well see you tomorrow,” Rainbow Dash said. The five other ponies walked inside watching the unconscious creature lie there stretched out on two beds.
“Where do think it came from?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“I dunno sugarcube,” Applejack said. “Whatever it is we’ll have to wait till it wakes up.” Pinkie pie bounced around her friends.
“Yes!” she said in excitement. “I’m gonna throw the biggest party Ponyville has ever seen for it!” Pinkie bounced off for Sugar Cube Corner before anyone could say anything.
“Well it’s going to be a long day on the farm tomorrow,” Applejack said before walking off. “I’ll see y’all tomorrow.”
“Good night,” Rainbow Dash said flying to her home in the clouds.
“Um I guess I should uh head back home then. Goodnight Rarity,” Fluttershy said walking off.
Rarity looked at the creature for a moment.
“I guess I can critique his fashion tomorrow and I should what Sweetie Belle has been up to,” she said walking to her store.