It was a normal day as ever in the 'Equestrian Waste Lands', Bandits where raiding caravans, mutants fighting each other, and scavengers were well... scavenging. Sweetie Belle is one of these survivors, but she is alone and hungry. She was in a train cart hugging a Teddy Bear listening to the Radio right next to her. A tear formed in her eye and slowly went down her cheek. She knew it was inevitable, she would starve to death soon, and she was alone. Was this truly her fate? To die alone as a Foal... no, her life had just begun and there was a bright future waiting for her and her kind on a different world, it's just that they didn't know it yet.
All of a sudden't there is a loud thumping in the distance, sweetie belle walks out to see what it is. She looks towards the direction the thumping is coming from, she see's strange helicopters heading towards her and the town, some bigger than others, 2 of them were carrying some sort of tanks. (2 Мi-28NEs, 2 Apaches, 2 Мi-26 carrying a BTR and LAV, 3 Мi-8/17 carrying 3 squads of US and RU soldiers, and one Russian sniper) In the corner of her eye she could see a Raider pull out a rocket launcher to shoot it down, before the Raider could one of the helicopters fired a cannon that ripped the Raider to shreds. She was horrified of the power these machines had, all that was left of the raider was a few dismembered body parts. The machines landed in the middle of the town at least except for three. The larger ones take back off after they deployed the tanks and head back the way they came. The other starts heading in her direction. She hid herself inside the train cart, it lands not to far from her.
About a minute passes by and she decides to look out, only to see a tall, bipedal creature. She noticed many things about 'it'. It was wearing a camouflage uniform with a hood that rarity would have a fit over (that if she was still alive), it looked like some sort of body armor that was also had an identical camouflage, a brownish-greenish back pack, some sort of sniper rifle that had a black barrel, receiver, with some wood as well, and a strange scope. What really caught her most attention is that it was staring at her with glassy eyes from a Gas Mask. She felt fear take hold of her and she couldn't move or scream. The creature was staring at her with those black glassy eyes, but it did something she did not expect from a 13 hoof (6 inches = 1 hoof) creature. It crouched down and threw the rifle on to its back. It looked at her for a moment before it took off its back pack and looked around. It pulled out a Real Red Apple, then it offered it to her. She hesitated but her stomach disagreed, she slowly made her way towards the creature and apple. Many thought where running through her head like 'What is this thing' or 'Why is it offering me and apple'. When see made it to the apple and creature, she used her magic to grab it while the creature let it go. It floated over to her as she took a bit, it was the juiciest and most delicious apple she had ever eaten.
She sat down in front of the creature as it pulled out a Green Apple and took of its mask. She was not horrified as she thought she would be. It had a short dark brown mane and had brown eyes, it also had facial hair as well so she considered it to be a Stallion. It's skin was a mixture of white and pink, it didn't have any fur. It took a bite out of his apple and hit had sharp teeth that scared her but noticed a pair of molars in the back of the mouth. This lead her to think that his race are omnivores. They stared at each other for a few minutes eating there apples before she broke the silence.
"So, do you have a name" Sweetie Belle asked
He seemed taken back by this with a shocked look on his face.
"Um, I never expected you to talk... but I do have a name. I'm Artyom" Artyom (Not the character from Metro 2033 [book or game] but that's where I got 'my' characters name.) said in a heavy Stalliongrad accent. "What is your name?"
"Mines Sweetie Belle"
"Sweetie Belle? That's an interesting name."
"You also have a funny name" He started to laugh afterwards.
"Hahaha, not the first time I have herd that."
Then it went back to the silence as they stared at each other with smiles on there faces. He threw away the his apple cord in an old trash can close by.
"So, would you care to walk with me back to the helicopter?"
She looked at him for a moment as he was gathering up his equipment.
"Ugh, sure" said Sweetie Belle "Just let me get my teddy bear Snuggles"
"Snuggles?" Said Artyom
She felt embarrassed afterwards "Um... It's just.. my.." she was cut off by Artyom
"Hey, don't worry. You don't have to be embarrassed, I have a stuffed Jet that I called Jetty" He looked through his back pack and pulled out a white stuffed 'jet' with two fluffy wings and a black tail that had "Delta" on it.
"Wow, I really didn't expect that" she said in a relief of the embarrassment.
"What did you expect me to do make fun of you?"
"I actually did" She said.
"Do not worry I would never do that to a friend" He said in a encouraging tone.
She smiled as she got her teddy bear from the train and trotted back over to him.
"Ready, Comrade?" He said.
"Yea I'm ready... what does 'comrade' mean?" she asked.
"It means a friend but a bit different." he answered.
"Alright" she responded
She started to follow him to the helicopter.
"So, what are you exactly?" asked Sweetie Belle.
"I am a Human, I from the country known as Russia. To tell you this language is not my native tongue." Artyom answered.
"Hugh, I thought humans where just myths. So, your saying that Equestian is not your native language?" she asked.
"Da, and were we are from we call it English, and we are myths? Unicorns like you are also just myths to us." he answered.
"Hugh" she responded.
"So, is there more races than Unicorns?" Asked Aryom.
"Yea there are 3 races, Unicorns, Pegasi, and Earth Ponies" she answered.
"Strange, Pegasuses are also myths... next thing you know there are dragons"
"There are" she said
Right at that moment she swore that she heard glass shared.
"O this is going to be a big fucking problem" he said in Russian
"Hugh?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"Nothing, anyway we are here"
When they arrived some more Humans in camouflage uniforms were around the helicopter. One of them greeted them... in Russian.
"Hey Artyom, we where about to go looking for... what in the name of..." He was cut off by howling not to far off. As an effect Artyom and the others grabbed there weapons. Artyom picked up Sweetie Belle and put her inside the Helicopter.
"Stay here, I'll be back." He said in a calm voice.
"Promise?" She asked
"I promise" as he walked back out and loaded his rifle.
She quickly ran up to the cockpit to see what was going on, what she saw horrified her. A large pack of 30 Timberwolves surrounded them, but Artyom and the others showed no sign of fear. They where also talking in a Russian that she obviously didn't understand. One of the Timberwolves pounced and Artyom and then a loud bang rang out. Ending This Chapter.
