a Rifle, a Hat, and a Wrench

As a dark blue sphere sputtered into existence followed by a deafening howling as ponies were spat out of it. And out came two soldiers, a engineer, a time traveler, and a not so much a pony. The first get on their hooves was the time traveler by the name of Bluesand with a large grin on his face.

"Celestia, I love doing that!" Exclaimed the solid white unicorn.

The next to stand was an uninvited soldier who immediately grabbed a trash bin, Vomiting his stomach contents and dropping the can. Noticing he dropped his rifle he went to reach for his sidearm. As he drew his weapon a bullet impacted his pistol sending it flying out of his hooves and sliding across the room. As he looked to his left he saw that Longshot had gotten to his hooves and was holding his own smoking sidearm.

"Stand down soldier!" Shouted Longshot at the panicking unicorn.

"WHO THE BUCK ARE THESE PONIES, WHERE AM I!!?!?" yelled the now very distraught soldier

"The real question is when are we?" Longshot said smiling as he looked at a not very amused time traveler. "What? I had to say it!"

"Well we are 1 year, 46 days, 4 hours, 23 minutes and 15 seconds after the crowning of Princess Twilight"

"WHAT!" sacreamed the soldier.

"I volunteer Bluesand to explain it to him!" jumped Longshot.

"Yea, yea, after I find out where we are."

"You dont know where we are!?" asked the soldier and Longshot simultaneously .

"um.... guys... um...." stuttered Hardwired.

"Hey, when dealing with time i'm dead on, space, meh we could be a little off from where the lab is."

"How off!?" yelled longshot.

"Guys this is kind of important..." Said Hardwired starting to sound clearer.

"We could be a 100 yards away or we could be 100 miles away." calmly said Bluesand

"What!?!?!?!?" Longshot yelled louder.

"GUYS PLEASE!" said Hardwired as he stamped the ground and pointed toward a doorway.

Following his hoof the others looked toward the the door to see a sky blue mare standing in the door frame with her mouth wide open. She had dark blue and white hair that somewhat resembled toothpaste. The oddest part was her hourglass cutie mark which they could only guess its purpose.

Without warning the mare started to scream louder then a air raid siren on nuke day. It was so loud that it could have been classified as acoustic warfare, driving to deafen and drive its opposition insane.

"Huh, thats where we are, the Ponyville dentistry office. Hi Colgate!" Yelled Bluesand over the blood curdling scream.

"Lets get out of here, get our hearing checked, then ill call for a ride I think Corrupt and Crimson are available!" shouted Hardwired.

"Me First! I don't want to go deaf!" said the soldier loudly as he made his way towards the door.

As the group swiftly made a B line toward the fire exit they passed the still screaming mint mare. When they open the door they triggered the fire alarm as well as the emergency water valves which went to soak the petrified mare. slowly the mare started to calm and and quite herself. One reason was the potential danger of magically appearing time robbers fading, and two, she was starting to run out of oxygen.

As Colgate sat there in the fall of water, still trying to understand what happened Longshot practically slide tackled his way back into the room sliding a good 20 feet into the center of the room. Colgate was going to scream again but then she noticed that her throat felt like somepony took a cheese grater to it.

"Oh hi I just forgot something." said Longshot as he picked up the soldier's dented sidearm and proceeded around an examination table.

"There you are!" exclaimed Longshot as he leaned down and picked up the still unconscious colt.

"God Damn how are you still out after that! Oh no offense to you um... what was it Colgate?"

"Um what does god mean..." Said Colgate barely audibly

"OH, oh its um well nothing, wait you know what" said Longshot grabbing a piece of paper and writing down a ten digit number while smiling.

"What do i do with this?" said Colgate as she received the piece of paper.

"Call me!" said Longshot with a nervous smile

"With what?"

"A phon... they don't exist yet, do they." said Longshot his smile turning to a frown.

"That would be a no." Answered Colgate questionaly.

"Blaaa, forget it!" Said Longshot clearly frustrated as he rushed for the door.

"Your a very random pony!" yelled Colgate at the rushing Stallion

"Oh yes I am!" answered Longshot as he bashed through the door.

As he came into the daylight once again he sees that his group had taken cover behind various objects. Hardwired and Bluesand were hiding behind an apple stand while the soldier was comically hiding behind a lamppost. As Longshot looked into the street he stared down the barrel of a changeling assault rifle. As the 3 changelings were about to open fire a few things happened.

One, Longshot Drew his sidearm and fired nailing the changeling on the left in the forehead. Two, Longshot dove and rolled behind flower stand as the 2 remaining changelings opened fire lacing the wall with bullets. And three, a dozen more changelings came out of the alleyways in a brisk march as Bluesand threw some kind of blue rod at the advancing forces.

On impact the rod exploded in large blue sparks then imploded, sucking three unlucky changelings to Celestia knows where. The blast left a perfect semicircle crater and a group of shocked changelings slowly backing away, fearing the crazy white pony would throw another magic rod of death.

"Changelings!?! How the hell did they get here!" Hollered Longshot at the two ponies behind the apple stand.

"Simple, they followed us, how I don't know." Said Bluesand in a slightly louder but still calm and stable voice.

"Ok so lets send them back!' Said Longshot grabbing his rifle and tossing his sidearm to the soldier.

"Hey 'Shot give me two minutes I need to do something!" Said Hardwired grabbing his wrench.

"Roger!" Said Longshot as he got up with a slight grin.

Longshot rolled out of cover and he went up on his hind legs aiming his rifle at his first victim and pulled the trigger. The bullet flew out of the barrel and slammed the changeling in his temple and out the back of his skull where it continued to hit a street sign on the other side of the road. The lingering vapour trail indicating where the changeling once stood, but now he lay on the ground in a puddle of blood, definitely not the Ponyville Longshot remembered.

As Longshot pulled back the rifles bolt to load another devastating round into the firing chamber he could hear the popping of the the soldier's g18 and the falling of another changeling combatant. The sound of the firing pistol sounded so weak after the air shaking sound of his rifle but he still welcomed the sound of friendly gunfire. Slamming the bolt of the rifle back into the rear of the firearm Longshot raised it again to take aim.

This time the bullet went upward and into a wooded support of a deck that was suspended over a group of four changelings. Without the critical support the deck creaked, then gave way as gravity took control. One Changeling was fast enough to jump out its way but the other three were buried under a mass amount of wood and stone. As the changeling started to recollect what had just occurred a bullet from the soldier's firearm impacted him in his chest sending him back to the ground.

As the soldier ejected the clip from his gun to reload a changeling took the opportunity to fire. Unleashing three bursts of gunfire at the soldier his cover didn't stand a chance. As a bullet clipped the soldier's hip and he let out a howl as he reloaded and returned the favour as he opened fire with the g18 getting at least 8 good bullets into the combatants chest. Another changeling was about to open fire when a high caliber round ripped through his side and sent him to the ground like a sack of potatoes.

"Done, you guys can get back!" yelled Hardwired sounding very accomplished.

"Awww but I was starting to have fun" Said the soldier with a small amount of blood coming out of the corner of his mouth.

Longshot looked to his right to see a medieval looking contraption. It was some sort of jacked up super slingshot on steroids. There were three slots in which were loaded bright red apples. The sling had so many taught wires and strings hooked up to it that it looked like it would snap and go flying everywhere. At its side was Hardwired cranking back a handle with an evil grin on his face as he took aim.

"BUY SOME APPLES BITCHES!" yelled Hardwired as he pull a string unleashing the apples at mach speed toward the 5 remaining stunned changelings.

As the first apple found its mark you could hear the sound of a neck cracking as the apple collided with the side of a changeling's head and sent it into a unnatural position. The second apple impacting a changeling in the chest rupturing some very important things as he stumbled to the ground and didn't get up. The third missed but it hardly mattered as Hardwired had already loaded another batch of hell apples and pulled the string letting them soar into the air.

Once again only two apples impacted leaving one sole survivor. In a frenzied panic the lone soldier pulled out his radio and starting talking so fast you could barely make out the words in his raspy swift voice. One word he said was clear though the word was "backup". Then to end his rambling an apple clocked him in the head sending him spinning then collapsing on the ground.

"Yea thats not good." Said Longshot as he heard the beat of a march down the alley.

"I dont want to die in a different time period!" Said the soldier with a slight whimper in his voice.

"Just dig in and we will be fine! How many rounds you got left soldier?" Sternly questioned Longshot.

"4 clips and a fragmentation grenade sir!" Said the soldier with a sense of purpose returning to his voice.

"That will have to be enough, take aim at the alley and dont waste a bullet!" Yelled Longshot positioning his rifle on the flower stand with a bipod.

The marching kept getting louder until the small army of changelings rounded the corner. The small group of armed ponies opened fire unleashing hot metal and hard apples at the approaching force. Even though the group kept taking out large numbers of the charging force had their orders and they just kept coming, mind that they came slower since they had to jumped over the bodies of their comrades that had fallen in front of them.

"I'm out of ammo!" screamed the soldier over the gunfire.

"Time to use that grenade of yours!" Said Longshot not taking his eye off his scope.

"Roger, FIRE IN THE HOLE!" Said the Soldier as he flung the the round explosive over his head.

The frag skipped across the concrete a good three times then detonated in the middle of a large advancing group sending them flying against the walls. Despite losing the group of soldiers the enemy kept advancing with a vengeful purpose.

"Ok now we are really screwed" Said Longshot in a grim voice.

The Changelings started to fire and dot the area where the group was with metal not giving them a chance to return their fire. The gunfire only intensified as the enemy closed in on their position raising the risk of a bullet finding a way though their cover and hitting one of them. It was only a matter of time before they were all overwhelmed and covered in bullets. Longshot looked to his side to see the soldier take a bullet in his vest, thankfully not penetrating but he couldn't take much more.

Then one of the most beautiful sounds they could hear at this time. The sound of a 50 caliber unloading into the flesh of its enemy. The bullets shredding through the enemy as Longshot looked up the street to see two humvees flooring it down the cobble road unleashing their metallic payload. Then another beautiful sound followed, the beating of the rotor of a blackhawk as it soared over dropping its cargo.

"How do we even have these, they aren't even invented yet!" Said Longshot in total shock.

"We Invented them a tad early" Said Hardwired with a sheepish grin.

"By a tad do you mean 150 years early!?" Questioned Longshot.

"Um yea." Said hardwired a little quieter.

Longshot didn't hear him because he was too focused on the blackhawk's "cargo". Dropping out of the bird was armed pegasuses diving toward combat wearing  P.U.N. Ranger uniforms. As they hit the ground they drew their weapons and started to unleash hell on the unsuspecting changelings.

The battle from that point was over quick. The changelings didn't stand a chance to the combined power of two ranger squadrons, 2 humvees, and a small group of future soldiers. As the helicopter came in for a landing and the soldiers set up street barricades until a clean up crew could arrive, a very familiar red colt walked up to the group.

"Crimson Its been way too long!" said Longshot Joyfully to the approaching stallion.

"Yes it has, so whats going on?" Said Crimson

"Ahhh you know, firefights, time traveling, stuff like that" Said Longshot with a hint of Sarcasm in his voice.

"So nothing has changed?" Said Crimson with a wide grin.

"Hehe nope! So how did you find us by the way?" Questioned Longshot truly interested.

"Him" Said Crimson pointing at Bluesand.

"OHHH so thats what you were doing this entire time, I was wondering." Exclaimed Longshot.

"Did you think i would just sit there and let us get shot?" Said Bluesand slapping Longshot's back

"Guess not hehe" Said Longshot with a smirk

"Is anyone concerned that i've been shot?" Said a light headed soldier.

"Yea I think we should return to base, we taking the heli?" Asked Longshot.

"um yes." Answered Crimson.

"Get to the chopaah!" Said Hardwired starting to laugh."Sorry it needed to be said!"

"Wait may I ask why there is a knocked out pony behind that flower stand." Asked Crimson.

"Dammit! How do I keep forgetting him, I mean he is literally the entire reason I came here!" Rambled Longshot as he went around the cart and slung the colt over his back. Longshot then went on to board the blackhawk with with the others following. Then as the helicopter rose into the air someone came over the radio.

"PHOENIX 2 WE HAVE TWO BIRDS MISSING AT 345-674 IT IS URGENT THAT THEIR SITUATION IS DISCOVERED, COMMAND OUT."

"ROGER, THIS IS PHOENIX 2 CHANGING COURSE."

"You guys ready for a pitstop?" Said the pilot over the blackhawk's intercom system as the helicopter took a hard right towards the everfree.