To gaze upon a tombstone,
Only warriors are visible

"Thank you all for coming. I am most excited to show this new technology." Greeted Princess Luna as Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Applejack walked into the throne room, talking among themselves while Pinkie Pie bounced instead of walking.
"Yes, my sister is very eager to demonstrate our work." Princess Celestia said with a smirk directed at the princess of the night.
"Oh shush." Luna teased back.
When the eight had settled down, Twilight took off the saddlebags she was waring and pulled out a notepad with ink & quill.
"We got your letter princess, what do you have to show us?" Asked the lavender unicorn.
"Is it fun?" Inquired Pinkie Pie as she continued her hopping in place.
Celestia chuckled quietly before looking over at Luna.
"Sister, would you please retrieve the device?" She asked with a smile.
Luna nodded and walked to the thrones then behind them.

Meanwhile, Celestia turned to look at the six.
"My little ponies, I have called upon the six of you to show our newest technology to." She announced as Twilight's eyes grew visibly larger. "We have developed a device that will allow us to look deep into the vastness of space to see and hear what one of our neighboring planets is like."
"That's incredible, princess!" Said Twilight with a big smile.
"Ah never thought such a thing was possible." Commented Applejack as she looked to the side in thought.
"I wonder what fashion sense these others have..." Rarity muttered under her breath.
Rainbow Dash snapped her attention on the white unicorn with the best 'are you kidding' expression she could muster. Rarity looked over at the prismatic pegasus and recoiled a little.
"What?"
Rainbow Dash just shrugged and looked forward again.

Princess Luna walked over to the others, a boxy looking device with what looked like screen on the front of it and a long antenna in her dark blue aura. Twilight was already writing down some notes as Luna set the device down.
"Please quiet down now." Said Celestia as Luna hit a switch and turned a small nob on the front all the way to the right.
The screen flickered to life but was fizzing with black and white.
"Is that supposed to happen?" Asked Fluttershy quietly.
"We just haven't found a signal yet is all." Replied Celestia as her horn lit up.
The antenna's tip started glowing as the screen started changing a bit.
"Almost... There!" Said Celestia as her horn stopped glowing. "Now, we have been studying this planet for about two weeks, and now we will see what life on it is really like." She said as the screen started showing what looked like a old door.
Little did the eight know, they were about to watch the operation known simply as Fishing in Baku.

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Wrecker was breathing heavily as he shut the old wood door behind him. He stopped with his hands on the door to rest for a few seconds before turning around and raising his SCAR-H towards the small hall he was in. As the Marine started walking down the stairs he inspected his rifle before taking out the mag. There were no bullets left. Sighing, he reluctantly put the mag back in the rifle anyways.
"Fuck..." He hissed to himself as he peered around the corner of the next hallway.
He was about to proceed when a shadow covered the thin light beam coming though the nearest window near the ceiling, making him crouch in place and pause for a moment. Looking up at the window he waited for the Russian soldier to pass before slowly moving on. After silently vaulting over a tipped locker, he took notice that the ground was submerged in about half a foot of water. Carefully turning the next corner, he walked a few steps before having to duck under a locker that was wedged on both walls, and walked up another small staircase.

After reaching the second floor Wrecker rounded a corner and saw a rat scurry under a locker on the far end of the hallway. Walking through the hall he spotted a wood door that was slightly ajar and pushed it open, his unloaded weapon at the ready. Quickly checking his surroundings he saw a bayonet blade sticking out from a board with a pair of dog tags hanging from them. Taking the tags he proceeded to the neighboring room, where there was a gaping hole in the ceiling and a large pile of rubble on the floor below it. Spotting another slightly open door on the other side of the room, Wrecker walked over and pushed it open. He started walking around the large hole in the floor when the door below him flew open, and a flashlight clicked on. He crouched as the light did a sweep of his floor as well as the other while one of the soldiers said something in Russian, followed by a radio.

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So far nothing exciting had happened yet, but the eight ponies were a little fearful by now.
"What is that thing the thing's holding all the time?" Asked Rainbow Dash.
"It appears to be some kind of weapon, judging by the way the thing's holding it and how it had that laser on the front." Replied Twilight.
Celestia thought about that for a minute. Weapons... The destroyed environment... The way this creature seamed to be keeping a low profile...
"My little ponies," She said as she turned to them. "It has come to my attention that this being we are watching may be involved in a war." She said firmly.
Fluttershy whimpered and curled up and Rarity reeled back slightly with wide eyes.
"W-war?" They both stammered together.
"That explains why the building this thing's in looks like after the changeling attack on Canterlot..." Applejack said to herself.
"If any of you would like to leave due to the possible violence that may follow, you may now." Announced Celestia
Almost immedeatly after she said that Rarity and Fluttershy both got up and walked out of the throne room.

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Wrecker had stayed in the room for about a minute to think about just what the hell he was going to do, before opening the next door across a hallway. Multiple birds flew into his face and past him as he recoiled and slowly stepped into the room. Before he could even react, his gun was forced down and he turned to see Pac, another lost Marine of Tombstone, holding what looked like a Glock 18 at his head.
"Drop it!" Pac said quickly before realizing who he almost shot and lowered his gun. "Damnit, Wrecker. I almost shot you in the face." He said as he holstered his Glock and handled his M16A4. "You lost your tail."
A moment later another soldier walked in through the back door of the room, and Wrecker and Pac both trained there weapons on him, Wrecker's laser sight on.
"Ease up, Pac." Said Dunn, the squad leader after a moment of identification as he lowered his M416. "Where the hell have you been?"
"After the hand off went pair shaped I came straight here." Replied Pac in a worried voice. "They were Russians right? Spec-ops, one second they're there the next they're not." He continued quickly.

Dunn put up a hand to stop him.
"Take deep breaths, son. You got the intel?" Asked the leader.
Pac took a moment to feel one of his utility pouches before nodding.
"Yeah, yeah, Got it." He breathed.
"Nice play." Dunn replied as he and Pac walked to the boarded up windows. "Shit, it's already daylight, we gotta get to the extraction point." He said as he peered through on of the windows, before turning to Pac. "You got a 20 on Irish?"
"I thought he was with you." Replied Pac.
Dunn turned away sharply.
"Breaking radio silence." He said firmly as he put a hand to his shoulder. "Tombstone Three, Tombstone Actual, what's your 20?" Demanded Dunn as he started pacing.
"Tombstone Actual, inbound from the north. Coming in hot!" Came the voice of Irish, the team's gunner. "Requesting cover fire on my retreat!"
"We copy, Irish! Wrecker, gear up and get ready!" Ordered Dunn as he and Pac began pulling down the boards on the windows.
Wrecker walked over to the nearby ammo crate and stocked up on magazines until he was full before turning back and manning one of the right side windows.
"You got my ass?" Asked Irish.
"Take position by the window! We gotta cover Irish!" Said Dunn as the three of them manned there windows, weapons locked and loaded.

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Celestia was a little shocked at the events that were unfolding. As much as she was a bit worried for the four elements still present, she was a little eager to see what these humans were capable of, now that it was clear they were soldiers. Good ones too. She glanced back to see Twilight scribbling down notes like no tomorrow, Applejack was watching intently with some worry, Rainbow Dash looked a bit eager, and Pinkie Pie had a look of awe plastered on her face. Celestia was about to talk when she was startled by the sound of a high pitched horn, followed instantly by the sound of a shattering window and two very angry dogs. Whipping her head around she saw another one of the humans in his armor and gear roll onto his feet as a dog charged at him and landed in front of him. She watched as her heart raced and recoiled as the human raised his long weapon with one hand and with a sound like cannons going off all at once, blood sprayed from the dogs head and it fell dead.

Celestia heard a loud whimper from behind her and glanced to see Pinkie Pie's mane was deflated, she had gotten noticeably darker and her lower lip was quivering. Twilight had even stopped taking her notes and was watching in utter shock. Even Rainbow Dash seamed frightened.
"Get the fuck off of me!" Yelled the human again and Celestia turned.
The human was now wrestling with a second dog, which he threw over his shoulder and pinned to the ground. A loud cry of pain emitted from the dog as the human delivered a knock out punch to its head before standing up and ducking behind a nearby truck.
"Wrecker! Hostiles in the windows across!" Yelled the human Dunn.
Celestia watched now in horror as the first-person view looked down the weird box-like optic on the top of his weapon at what looked like a small market, where another human inside ducked by a window. It looked up with its own weapon raised at the human Irish, but more deafening bangs sounded from Wrecker's weapon and blood coated the floor behind the human, which fell dead with a cry of agony.

Pinkie let out a sob as she covered her face up, and Applejack wrapped a hoof around her back. That was enough for Celestia as her horn glowed to turn the device off but it didn't, and more bangs echoed through the room.
"What's happening?" Demanded Luna as she looked over at Celestia.
"I don't know! It won't turn off!" Shouted Celestia as her horn glowed brighter.
The device still remained on as more loud bangs and now some extremely loud explosions radiated from the device, as well as more shouts of order and pain. After a brutal half minute of enduring the terrible noises, the sounds stopped.
"Irish! Get up here!" Shouted Dunn.
"Anything still moving?" Yelled Pac.
"Got em' all!"
"Clear!" Replied Irish as he ran over to the building. "Give me a hand." He said as he started climbing up and Pac leaned out the window with his arms outstretched.

"You okay Irish?" Asked Pac as Irish climbed through the window.
"Fuck, man. I guess the safe house ain't so safe." He replied in a winded voice as he walked past Pac.
Celestia was still trying to turn the device off as the team walked through the door that Dunn had originally come through.
"Tombstone on the move." Dunn said quietly.
Finally the screen turned off and Celestia breathed a hefty sigh of relief, as well as Luna who both turned around and walked to the four shocked and scared ponies.
"I'm so sorry you had to endure that, all of you." Luna said somberly as she knelt by Pinkie Pie and Applejack.
"Rainbow Dash, Twilight, my deepest apologies to both of you. That footage was terrifying." Celestia said slowly as she sat by the two.
Rainbow Dash looked like she wanted to stand up and say something like, "that didn't scare me!" but she didn't. She only nodded.
"Our wars... are nothing compared to Earth..." Twilight said to nopony in particular.
"Even we didn't kill the changelings when they attacked, just gave em' a beating." Rainbow Dash said sadly.

Pinkie Pie was openly sobbing into Applejack's shoulder by now, and the farm pony just hugged her and patted her back.
Celestia nodded before standing up.
"Now all of you go home. I think we're done here today." She announced.
The four stood up and slowly turned to walk out of the room, muttering and whimpering among themselves. When they got to the door, Twilight looked behind her at the princess.
"Princess...?"
"Not now, Twilight. Please go." Celestia said firmly, but she too was shaken to the core by the five minute of horror she had just bestowed to the elements.
Twilight slowly walked through the large doorway and trotted up to the others before the doors swung closed, leaving the two Princesses in there throne room. A powerful silence bore down on them as they stood side by side, motionless, untill Luna looked over at her sister.
"Should I destroy the device?" She asked.
Celestia sighed, contemplating her answer.
"Yes. I do not feel it is necessary to watch these beings anymore, and we can stop our studies on there kind." She replied flatly as Luna turned around and walked away from her.

Author's Note

Sweet! I hope you all enjoyed my little experiment! More chapters are on there way!
I'll admit the ending could've been better, but eh... Oh well.
Leave a comment below on what I did well and what I could do better, and thanks for reading!