Nightshade Squad

Chapters

Chapter 1: Nightshade
Chapter 2: Where Art Thou Tank?
Chapter 3: Memories Sweet, Sweet Memories
Chapter 4: Welcome to Ponykind
Chapter 5: New Homes (Revised)
Chapter 6: Sleep, Sleep Now
Chapter 7: Settled?
Chapter 8: Me, Myself, and I
Chapter 9: Back in Time
Chapter 10: The "Normal" Three
Chapter 12: Magical Emotions
Chapter 13: Enemy of the State
Chapter 11: The One, The Only, Me. (Revised, for easier ways to tell who's speaking)
PSA: Intermission 1

Chapter 1: Nightshade

"Get down!" Lieutenant Tom Johnson (Night) yelled. Two grenades were thrown over his head and blew up behind him.

All was a normal day, getting orders to take out some resurrection camp, killing them, then returning home. At least that's what the Lt. thought. He never thought that these resurrectionist's were not human at all. They were part of the Alien race that the humans had "thought" they had eradicated years before. Now his team was standing toe to toe with 15 of them.

"Lt.!" yelled Sgt. Jake Johnson (Black Death), Lt. Johnson's little brother. "Why are they still here? On our planet!"

"Calm down Sgt. we will find an answer soon enough, for now we have to worry about not getting killed!" Many thoughts raced through Tom's mind as he saw his squad panicking. They needed to find an answer, he knew that much but he didn't know if they could get out alive. Even with high tech armor suits the Elites had an advantage with their plasma weapons.

"Lieutenant! I found a portal of some type." said Cpl. Melissa Johnson (The Sniper). She was staring at the blue shape in front of her. Not knowing what it was she slipped her hand through. It was warm on the other side and a little bit breezy. "Sir, it is warm on the other side."

"Don't touch it!"

"Sir, I'm going in for a closer look."

"Ok... Scout it out we may need it to escape into."

Melissa went inside the portal emptying her clip on the way in. She appeared at a farm. She couldn't believe what she was seeing. "It seemed so... peaceful." She turned around and realized that the portal she came from was not there anymore. She began to panic.

"Attention Lieutenant can you hear me?"

A voice came back scratchy. "Yes Cpl. I can hear you but I am getting a lot of feedback".

"Sir, I can't get back through the portal it seems to be closed on my end".

"Hold on Cpl. we are coming through after we set explosives at the entrance".

"Ok i'll set up a defensive position on my end"

Tom didn't know how she could still communicate with him through another dimension. He however didn't question that she was able to tell him that the portal was closed on her end. "Alright lets go through and wait 5 seconds and detonate the C4". They ran through the portal, leaving the Elites to examine the blue shape before they all got vaporized by the C4.

"Now what do we do?" Jake asked.

"We need to find any locals" Tom answered.

Tom led the way with his SAW modified to shoot 30 caliber rounds. In such a peaceful place he didn't expect to have to use such deadly force but in the dark he had to expect anything. "Everything is a surprise," He thought. They had no idea where they were so he didn't want to let his guard down. Slowly moving out of the forest they got a close look at the farm, however, in the dark he could not see very well.

"Cpl. go check out the farm".

"Yes sir," she saluted.

"Sgt. stay here"

"Got it," he replied.

Melissa wished that she was not the one who had to check out the farm. She was the sniper after all right? However when her brother gave her orders she did not question them. Using the apple trees as cover she slowly went up to the house. She read a sign that said "Sweet Apple Acres". "Great probably a bunch of crazy people," she thought. She went up to the door and knocked. "Anyone there?" She yelled. She heard shuffling on the other side and wait... a sound of hooves?

"Who keeps a horse inside the house? These people are crazier than I thought". The door opened with a orange horse with a scared look on her face.

"W-Who are yall?" She asked slowly.

Melissa had no intentions on what she had to say but instead raised her gun to the unknown creature. "Are you an alien?"

"Nah Ah prefer pony," she replied still scared.

"Do you work for the covenant?"

"What in tarnation are yall talking about?"

Melissa slowly lowered her weapon and called her brothers. They slowly walked down examining all angles for threats.

"Who are yall?" The orange pony asked.

"We are humans," Melissa replied.

"Really? Ah thought yall were just a myth and why are yer made of metal?" she said confused.

"We are wearing armor to protect us from plasma bullets".

When Tom reached the house he asked why Melissa was talking to a horse.

"For yer information Ah can talk too".

He stood shocked not sure what dimension he wandered into. Maybe he was just dreaming, until he felt the burn in his right arm again. "Nope," now he was sure that this was not a dream.

"Well we came here through a portal and we are not sure how to get back because the portal closed up".

"Well yall should talk to Twilight she sure knows about this," The orange pony said.

"What is your name?" Melissa asked.

"Oh Ah am sorry yall, my name is Applejack".

Tom thought of how crazy their names were and why they were ponies. "Why does all the crazy stuff happen to Nightshade?" he thought.

"What are yall's names?" Applejack asked.

"I am The Sniper, the one in the all black armor is Night, and the one in the black and red armor is Black Death."

"Hmm... some mighty nasty names"

"Look Applejack we need to find a way to get out of here as quickly as possible" Melissa said.

"Well nopony is up at this hour so yall will have to sleep here till the mornin".

Tom wasn't so sure about this but he was on this ponies property and he was sure that she would be found if he killed her. So he followed the pony into her house. It was quite plain. She led them up the stairs. Then pointed her hoof at an empty room.

"My lil' sister Applebloom is with her friends so feel welcome to have her room for the night".

"Thank you Applejack if there is anyway we can repay you don't hesitate to ask," Melissa said.

"That's quite ok, it really is no problem".

Tom laid his duffel bag on the ground. He spread out the contents to see what gear he had left. Two M8 Magnums .357 caliber. 5 frag grenades. 5 pounds of C4 explosive. He also packed para-cord, a 17 inch titanium blade, and some food. Everyone else packed the same gear except for a few variations.

"Alright everyone take turns keeping watch, i'll go first Melissa next and Jake your last".

Melissa was happy that all military protocol stayed at the other side of the portal and they could now be together as a family not a squad. She was still worried how they were going to get back. She stuck those thoughts into the back of her head and tried to get a couple hours of sleep.

"Better try to keep myself awake" Tom thought. He was now alone watching out a window for any Elite movement. Melissa and Jake fell asleep fairly quickly. Which was understandable because they had found talking ponies. He still didn't know if he could trust them but Melissa seemed to. "I mean they are talking ponies how bad could they be?" he asked himself.

He waited another 15 minutes. Then he heard someone walking around in Applejack's room. He woke up Melissa and Jake and said he heard something in Applejack's room. They all crept through the hallway with stealthy silence. Slowly he put his helmet to the door and heard voices.

"Applejack!" the voice said. "Wake up I have to tell you something".

Tom didn't hear any threats being made so he did not open the door.

"I-I saw someponies walking to your farm while I was cloud kicking," the voice said again.

"Sugarcube there is nothing to be afraid of, Ah have it under control, come on, they are sleeping in the other room".

Tom tensed and slowly crept back to his room followed by Melissa and Jake. They all sat down pretending to talk to each other in low voices. They heard the door open and Applejack and a rainbow colored pony walked in.

"Howdy yall this here is my friend Rainbow Dash and she was worried yall were trying to hurt me".

"Nice to meet you Rainbow Dash, I'm Night, my sister in the black and pink armor is The Sniper and my brother over there in the all black armor is Black Death.

Tom took his helmet off and put his hand out for Rainbow to shake. She blushed and took his hand. Tom smiled and let go.

"So, what are you guys?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Well we are Humans but we may not look like it because of our armor," Tom said.

Tom then proceeded to explain to Rainbow the same thing Melissa explained to Applejack.

"Hmm... I agree with Applejack, Twilight may be the only one to help you on this".

"Well, maybe we can talk about this more in the morning, my team and I are tired. I really do thank you for your hospitality while we figure out how to get out of here."

Applejack stared at Rainbow Dash as she saw her blush and turn away.

"Rainbow," Applejack whispered, "why are you blushing?"

"I-I have never seen a human before," she replied.

Applejack rolled her eyes. She walked out of the room with Rainbow Dash.

"Applejack can I stay with you?"

"Yeah sure sugarcube".

Tom wondered why Rainbow Dash stared at him so different. It wasn't a "New person shy stare" as he called it. She stared at him in a more... loving manor. For now he stuffed those thoughts away. "Thinking is just as deadly as a pistol," He remembered his mentors words. To much thinking and he could be thrown from a peaceful situation to a deadly one.

"Hey guys we shouldn't have anything to worry about, go ahead to sleep,"

"Alright Tom, have a good night," Melissa replied.

Slowly Tom felt time pass away as he tried to go to sleep. He began to nod off and soon found himself in a deep sleep.

Rainbow Dash sat up panting from her dream. "Wow... I really need to get myself together," she though to herself. She went down to the kitchen and found "Black Death" sitting at the table. He was on his phone.

"Hey Rainbow Dash," he said as he saw her enter the room.

"H-Hey Black Death," she said nervously as she eyed his pistol he had with him.

"What's bothering you?"

"I-I have never seen what those do," Rainbow said pointing a hoof at the gun.

"Yeah you probably won't want to anytime soon."

"Y-Your probably right," she said as she slowly went back upstairs. Stopping at the top step she looked down the hallway where the humans room was. She slowly walked towards their door. Opening the door with extreme caution she caught a glimpse on what was happening. It wasn't much, all she saw was two humans sleeping.

"Hmm... so this is it?" Rainbow thought to herself. She went up to the human in all black armor. He was sleeping. She curled herself in a ball and tried to go to sleep next to him. "I have never felt this safe in my life," as she drifted to sleep.

Tom was jolted awake when he felt himself touch something... soft. He looked down and saw the pony sleeping right next to him. He did not want to startle her so he sat there in silence. Over his private communication in his helmet he asked where his squad was.

"Well me and Jake thought that we would watch you and your girlfriend over there cuddle it up," Melissa replied giggling.

"Yeah man when's the wedding I've been waiting to put my tux on." Jake said.

"Both of you, just stop," he couldn't stop himself from smiling. He scratched Rainbow's ear and said as quietly as possible if she could wake up.

"Huh?" she said and bolted up as she realized everyone was staring at her. "I-I was uh just checking on you guys and I-I fell asleep!" she blurted.

"Alright well I need to go outside to the last spot where we came from the portal. Then we can go see your friend Twilight," Tom said.

Tom needed to call for the "Mantis" a robot with a Rocket Launcher and a high fire rate mini-gun. Maybe I can get it to come through the portal. Tom sensed in the back of his head that in a short time the Covenant will find the portal. On his private channel with the Mantis he said for it to come through the portal.

"Yes sir," came a very deep robot sounding voice. "Area has been secure and all enemies neutralized".

Suddenly with a bright flash of light the Mantis appeared. Rotating down it looked at its surroundings.

"Permission to engage hostile area sir?"

"No! Stand down." Tom replied. "Just follow me and do NOT engage anything unless you are told".

"Yes sir". The Mantis and Tom walked back to the farm.

Applejack and Rainbow Dash came out with Jake and Melissa.

"Uh Tom why did you bring the Mantis here?" Melissa asked obviously concerned.

"What in tarnation is that?" Applejack asked very scared.

"This my friends is my Mantis, a high powered self defense robot," Tom said with pride. "Self defense" however was an understatement, the robot was 30 feet tall while Tom was only 7 and a half feet tall. "Now lets go see Twilight".

"Uh, Tom bringing yourselves and the Mantis will be too much for each pony to handle," Rainbow said concerned.

"That's a chance I have to take, now lets go".

The party consisting of two ponies 3 humans and their robot made it to town. Everyone watched in awe as the Giant robot rotated keeping an eye out for hostiles. While the humans kept their guns on their backs so that it did not cause too much fuss from the locals. Going to Twilight's library Applejack knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" Twilight said seemingly annoyed at the disturbance.

"Howdy Twi, yall might want to get out here for a minute or so".

Twilight opened the door and stood in shock when she saw the rest of the things with Applejack. "Applejack you didn't tell me you had such... Alien guests with you," Twilight said with a fake smile. Quite scared of the metal monstrosity.

"Well Ah figured yall would want to take a look at them, besides you love astronomy".

"Ok everypony come inside. I have some catching up to do, however, your "friend" will have to stay outside".

Tom stepped up. "Yeah he will stand guard out here".

They all went inside and Twilight was embarrassed by the mess she had made.

"Now why are you all here?" Twilight asked.

Chapter 2: Where Art Thou Tank?

"Why are we here?" That question nagged Tom for awhile because he had no "good" answer. He thought back a few days. Command had instructed him to kill those insurrectionists but they seemed a little... Different about giving him that mission. It almost seemed as though... "Oh my G..." Tom couldn't finish the sentence as it all dawned on him.

A week before.

"Nightshade Squad please report to the debriefing deck," A voice came over the speaker.

"Alright Nightshade, double time," Tom yelled.

"You heard him Jake, wake up!" Melissa said.

"Hrmm," Jake yawned.

Tom knew that they were going to get called for a mission, but everything seemed a little off. He shook the feeling from his head. "I'm just over exaggerating." His team reached the elevator. "Alright Nightshade, lets get it done".

Pressing the elevator button to go the debriefing deck, they all sat in awkward silence until they reached the bottom.

"Nightshade, we have a mission for you." said General Anderson.

Tom sensed that something about the General was off. The normal serious but joking General wasn't there. Instead there was an all serious General standing before them. He knew something they didn't and Tom didn't like it. However, Tom does not question higher officers than himself, especially the General.

"General what's the mission sir?"

"Normal just go down and wipe out the insurrectionist's camp, however, they are a bit... different".

"Sir, we can handle it". Deep down Tom thought this was a big mistake. He knew something was off and he knew that the General wasn't acting himself. That made him feel like he was going to collapse under strain.

"Tom are you ok?" Melissa asked sounding concerned.

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine I just feel like this mission is going to be... well different you know?"

"Yeah something is bothering the General, its almost like he doesn't want to send us down there."

Tom knew in his gut she was right but his mind didn't want to accept it. It didn't seem like the General to regret sending them on a mission. Maybe they were just imagining it but maybe they weren't.

"Alright Nightshade get ready for the mission, pack everything you think you will need. Try to pack the same gear besides weapons, so that we can all share equipment".

"Alright well none of you are touching my Sniper Rifle". Melissa said jokingly.

"Yeah well I'm a terrible shot with long range weapons anyway," Jake replied.

"Jake just get your energy swords, I still can't believe out of all the Covenant weaponry you picked energy swords". Tom said.

"Dude I'm called an assassin for a reason".

"Yeah man your REAL stealthy, remember last time your tried to sneak up on a grunt? You tripped over a tree stump and landed into some Elites arms. Your lucky he didn't kill you". Tom said laughing. Remembering his brother doing front flips on the ground and bumping into every possible object on the way.

Being with his squad... no his family, helped Tom forget about the mission. It had so many secrets, for an insurrectionist camp that is.

"Nightshade you drop in 15 minutes. You better be ready." came a Marines voice.

"Be ready for anything, we don't know what to expect," Tom said.

"Yeah, I know, I always try to be careful don't worry". Melissa replied.

"Well, lets go to the Pelican".

Tom and his squad walked to the Pelican. Being attached was a Mantis and another Pelican was being refitted to carry a Scorpion. He didn't understand why they would ever need that much firepower for insurrectionists. His mind went back to the General's strange behavior. "Maybe they did need this much firepower".

"Wow. I wonder if that Mantis has an R/C converter in it. We are screwed if it doesn't," Melissa said.

"Most of them do now, I would be surprised if its manual." Tom replied.

"Well I'll drive the tank. You guys can fight over the turret," Jake said.

Jake was right, he was the best driver, especially if the device was a tank. "Melissa I'll handle the turret you sit on the side with your Sniper Rifle.

"Ok," Melissa said annoyed. "Why do I always hang on the side? Never have any fun with heavy weapons" She thought to herself. She completely knew the answer to her question but she didn't want to admit it. She almost killed herself the last time she tried to use a Warthogs mini-gun, so she had no chance with firing a tanks mini-gun turret.

"Its good to have good ol' Steel Wall back," Tom said while admiring the tank. It been repainted black and had the word Nightshade painted in white on both sides of the turret. The most recent mission had left Steel Wall with a lot of dents and a hole in the front. It has seen much better days. He was glad that they had repaired it instead of letting them go with it like that.

"Nightshade board the tank get ready for a hot drop".

"Hot drop?" Tom hasn't heard that word in a very long time.

"Yeah these "people" are very violent".

The way the man used the word "people" worried Tom. Everyone on this ship had acted weird, at least to Tom that is. He couldn't help feeling that they were in grave danger.

Tom and his squad boarded their respected positions. Melissa sat beside Jake so she wouldn't fly off into space.

"Activating slipspace drive in 3...2...1...". Tom imagined his stomach tear apart, and recombine back together in a different shape. However, that was just his slipspace sickness.

The Pelicans reappeared over a planet. Seemed like any other planet, on the outside. When they descended the atmosphere began to change. Dark storm clouds covered the sky.

"Get ready for some rain!" Tom yelled over the Pelicans engines. It started to rain as they passed through the clouds. Tom saw the ground. There was a small camp of... Purple metallic buildings. The pelicans let them off behind the cover of the trees southwest of the forest. The clamps released the tank and the Mantis.

"The Mantis needs to be turned on manually but we gave it an A.I. no need to get in and shoot manually." An engineer said over the COM as they flew away.

Tom was glad that the Mantis had an R/C converter. That would help a lot in battle. He flipped the switch to turn the Mantis on.

"Loading A.I. information. Rocket Launcher/Mini-Gun test. Move away from test site." The Mantis said with a deep voice. Soon after the rockets fired. Blackening the ground and sending a shockwave through the ground. Tom and his squad backed up so they did not die in the process. Tom was worried now that the "insurrectionist's" now knew where they were.

"Stealth just flew out the window," The Mantis fired it's mini-gun. "Yeah now its on a different planet". Tom said disgusted. "At least we don't have to worry about the Mantis not working".

"Everyone get in the tank," Tom said as the Mantis was done test firing.

Tom admired the tank when it started up, the tank had been custom fitted with a 3,000 HP engine. Stealth was no longer an issue now they were crushing trees with their massive engine tank. Then the worst possible thing happened. The tank stopped dead.

"What now!" Tom yelled at Jake over the COM.

"I don't know sir, it seems to have run out of gas".

"Turn on the R/C converter prototype on".

"Yes, sir".

The tank started up its R/C converter. "Prototype-X: Code: Scorpion," said a female voice.

"Running on nuclear power".

"Hopefully she doesn't go up like a firecracker when she gets hit," Jake said.

"Nuclear power doesn't work that way anymore, besides its forerunner technology the computer just refers to it as nuclear." Tom replied.

"Oh, that's still confusing".

"No kidding Sherlock,".

They continued to a hill that overlooked the camp. Tom got a closer look at the buildings. They seemed strangely similar but he couldn't put his finger on it. "Where have a I seen that metal before?". He pondered that question for awhile until he saw movement.

"Pay attention there is a figure coming out of one of the camps,". It was roughly 3 feet tall. "Where have I seen this before?" Tom asked himself. "No it can't be...".

"Mantis, scan the figure coming out,".

"Figure appears to be a grunt. Lowest in the covenant military".

"Tom? Are you ok?" Melissa asked.

"We... I... Aww crap..." Tom struggled to say. He was to busy trying to find an answer to why there was still covenant. All thoughts drew up to a blank.

"Well, looks like the UNSC has some major explaining to do," Jake said obviously angry.

"Jake it may not be their fault. Sometimes things live and people just don't know about it".

Tom was angry as well. If the UNSC had known wouldn't they have told everyone? Tom knew that their is a good chance that they didn't know either.

"We still need to worry about killing all of them," Jake interrupted Tom's thoughts.

"How do you suppose we do that? Just because their weapons are inaccurate doesn't mean they don't do damage. Looks like the grunts are carrying needlers as well".

"Great, needlers..." Melissa trailed off.

The Mantis suddenly fired at the trees behind them. An elite fell over and uncloaked.

"Great they know we are here and they have active camo".

"Enemy neutralized 104 enemies remaining".

"Well, this sucks already and I haven't shot anything yet," Tom said.

"Well lets get to it considering they will come out in hordes now," Jake replied.

Tom and the rest of Nightshade followed him. Melissa, however, stayed on the ridge to put her skills to good use. "Steel Wall shoot at the buildings to see if they are shielded," to Tom's dismay they were. So that means they will have to use the aliens own weapons against them. Jake go to active camo and be stealthy. When Tom rounded the cliff he almost ran right into 3 Jackals that were waiting at the bottom.

"Engaging targets," The Mantis said as it fired a rocket killing the Jackals before they had time to turn their shields on. "101 enemies remaining"

Tom hid behind the first metallic enemy building. When he got close he felt the liquid glossy shield. "There has got to be a way around this shield. Then he realized that the entrance would not be shielded. He just needed the tank to shoot inside each building and they should go up like firecrackers.

Suddenly a plasma pistol bolt came out of nowhere and hit Tom in the arm. His shield flared and he felt it burn on his armor. Sizzling the skin underneath. Being that Spartan II shields were very expensive and he wasn't equipped with their kind of shields, Tom knew his could not put up with a blast like that. Slowly his shields recharged. He took out his SAW and made sure his night vision was on. He looked in the direction of where the blast had come and saw a grunt peeking its head around a corner. "Typical grunts," Tom thought as he shot in its direction only hitting it once. "I hate how inaccurate this thing is". He pulled out his pistol and finished it off.

He saw an elite sniper in the distance pointing its beam rifle directly at him. He heard a sniper rifle crack and the elite went down. "Nice headshot Melissa," Tom said over the COM.

"I'm counting how many times I'm going to save your butt today".

Tom chuckled at her last remark and moved up to the next building. He saw the Mantis take out a platoon of grunts coming its way.

"72 enemies remaining sir".

Tom knew that it was only going to get harder. He rounded the corner and he walked straight into the middle of the camp telling the tank to come with him. "Steel Wall, shoot inside each building".

"Yes sir". The tank replied.

The tank shot and it blew up on something, it wasn't on the building. He saw a Hunter fall over from the blast. Slowly it got back up and readied it's shield. It's partner came out behind it. Slowly raising its massive gun at the tank.

The tank continued to fire at the Hunter in front and finally it went down but the Hunter behind it discharged it's gun. It hit the side of the tank melting the tracks and the armor in that spot. The tank could still move its turret and shot the other Hunter until it fell over dead.

"Nightshade, Steel Wall is immobile," Tom yelled over the COM.

"Crap," Melissa said.

"Steel Wall continue to shoot at the inside of the buildings. Mantis get over here and guard Steel Wall".

"Yes sir, 56 enemies remaining".

The Mantis made its way over to the tank. The tank began to shoot inside the buildings each one exploding.

Tom saw a plasma grenade sail across and it stuck on the tank.

"BACK UP!!!" Tom yelled to everyone.

"Reactor failure in 15 seconds, moving towards enemies. Everyone clear vicinity for nuclear explosion."

Tom watched in sorrow as the tank slowly went towards a building full of grunts. 3...2...1... The tank exploded leaving a crater where it once stood. Wiping out the three buildings next to it.

"Sir, 21 enemies remaining."

Suddenly out of the last three buildings he saw 21 elites come out. They all cloaked.

"Melissa we have a problem get over here. Jake get over here as well".

"Aw I was having fun chopping up grunts," Jake replied.

Tom knew how much Jake loved his swords. It was a little on the creepy side though.

"The three Spartans and the Mantis waited for the first target to show its self. Tom saw a distortion in the air. He shot in the direction hitting and killing the elite that had stood there.

"Look for any distortions in the air," Tom said over the COM. He wondered why the elites were not shooting that them. Then the worst thought crossed his mind. These elites were the assassins. Deadly and stealthy. Suddenly he saw an elite uncloak and lay there dead. Its head had been severed off. Tom was glad to see Jake was doing his job.

"19 enemies remaining".

Tom and Melissa slowly backed up towards a wall. The wall seemed strange and had symbols that did not seem to be from any known language. Melissa stepped on a plate and it pressed down. A blue shape appeared behind him. "What's that," Tom asked.

"I don't know," Melissa replied.

Tom saw 2 more elites go down. He shot at a distortion he saw and another one went down. He knew they were slowly closing in on them. An elite uncloaked and swung his sword at Tom. Tom sidestepped and tried to pull his gun up to shoot it. The elite kicked the gun out of his hand. Tom didn't have time to pull his pistol out. He punched the elite in the face and its shield shimmered.

"Melissa when you get a clear shot take it!"

Tom ducked as the deadly arc of energy sizzled the air above his head. He kicked the elites shin trying to get its shields down. The shield shimmered again. It was almost depleted. The elite bellowed in rage as it rushed Tom. Tom moved and the elite ran past him almost smacking into the wall. Tom kicked it in the back of the head. That's all the more it needed. The shield glowed brightly then died.

"Melissa take the shot!" Tom heard a crack and the elite fell. He would not have survived against this elite if it was not for Melissa.

"Saved you twice, I'm still counting." Melissa said.

Tom noticed Melissa stuck her hand in the portal.

"Don't touch that!" he ordered.

"With all due respect I'm going in for a closer look," Melissa replied.

Tom looked at her for a second then told her to go ahead. "We may need it for escape later". "Jake get back here and help me set C4 around this portal. Tom saw a distortion run towards him and uncloak.

"15 elites still left," Jake said.

"I know".

Tom told the Mantis to retreat back up to the hill and to come back down after he blew the C4.

"Sir I can't come back through the portal," Melissa said with static.

Tom knew he had to take the chance of going in.

"Jake come on let's go!" Tom yelled.

Tom and Jake went through the portal and the C4 exploded. The portal shimmered but didn't go out, however, the elites who were close got vaporized.

Chapter 3: Memories Sweet, Sweet Memories

Tom had just explained to everyone in the building what has gone on in the past week. Now they were visibly afraid of him and the others. Tom heard the screams from outside when a pony dared to get close to the Mantis.

"Well at least it doesn't kill them," Tom thought. He knew how afraid they were but he wasn't to concerned with their emotions.

"Well your a major jerk," Rainbow said angrily.

"I... We only did what we had to," Tom replied.

"Yeah? Well maybe you should let people explain themselves before you go in killing them all!" Rainbow said flustered. She was turning a dark red from anger.

"Look, Rainbow Dash was it? Get this through your head before I beat it into it. Aliens DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH! Unless they have a translator but something told me they didn't. Besides if those aliens had been able to speak English I'm sure they would have said something."

"I don't care if they were mentally retarded, that gives you no reason to kill them!" Rainbow Dash was getting to close for Toms liking.

"Back it up".

"Make me!"

Tom for once in his life wish he could shoot something friendly, or at least was friendly before. He kept that under wraps though.

"Look I don't want to argue but your friend asked me why we were here. So now you know why but yet you want to kill me for it."

"Guys stop arguing, he's right I asked because I was curious." Twilight cut in.

"Egghead back up nobody asked for your input". Rainbow replied angrily.

"Hey! I want to know and that could help me send them back so calm down!"

"ALL OF YOU SHUT UP!" Melissa yelled in the background. "Now, we did not come here to harm ANY of you. We went through that portal because we thought we would die. So retreat was the best decision at the time. You cannot blame us for not wanting to die or to even come into your world".

"Sir, there are friendly human soldiers outside," the Mantis said through Tom's speakers.

"Uh, Melissa and Jake we have a big problem. Follow me!"

Tom ran outside followed closely by Jake and Melissa. Walking down the street were very confused soldiers in very old armor. Most of them resembled Master Chief. Tom's jaw literally fell to the bottom of his helmet when he recognized the soldiers.

"Tucker shut the fuck up! I will not tell you again, we are just dreaming no need to worry about these fucking things," The one whom Tom believed to be Church was talking to his squad. Tom walked out and greeted the other squad.

"See Tucker you were worried about nothing and you owe me 5 dollars bitch," Church said while laughing. Tom stood at attention and saluted.

"Church this guys saluting you". Tucker hit Church on the side of the head.

"Yeah I noticed asshole," Church said rubbing the side of his helmet. He turned towards Tom.

"Bro, why are you saluting? I'm not that high of a rank".

"You did a feat most of us judged as impossible. Yet you did it".

"What might that be?"

"You took down the Freelancers, mostly..." Tom said eyeing Agent Washington warily.

"Yeah I did do that didn't I?" Church chuckled.

"Hey dipshit we helped you as well," Tucker said hitting Church in the side of the head painfully.

"Hey asshole! Stop hitting me".

"That makes me want to do it more," Tucker said hitting Church again.

"Fuck you," he said as he turned to Tom. "Sorry about my friends, wait no I'm not. Anyway, where are we?"

"I was about to ask you the same thing".

"Damn, I have no idea. One second I'm walking with these dumbasses, then I'm in this land of colors". He shook his head. "They give me a headache".

"Tell me about it. The colors aren't the only thing that will give you headache. The horses that live around here do a better job of that".

"Great, and I thought the band of dipshits over here was hard enough". Church said shaking his head sadly. "Should we shoot these horses I mean the only thing they are good for is staring it seems like". Tom looked around all the ponies in the area were cowering in fear staring at the group.

"Nah man, I mean as much as I'd like to. They don't seem to be a threat, we are probably more of a threat to them then they are to us". Tom and Church shared a little chuckle.

"Oh! My! God! These horses can talk!" Tom glanced around Church to see one of his squadmates was getting very close to a group of ponies. They were telling him to get away.

"I shall call you... Wait I know!" Church stopped Caboose before he could make himself look like more of an idiot. Wait making Caboose not look like an idiot was impossible.

"Caboose back away from the gay horse looking things," Frowning Church looked a their many colors and gave a sigh as the colors gave him a headache.

Caboose backed up for the time being. Twilight came outside to see what was taking so long and she realized it was no longer just Tom and his friends. There was now 7 more of them. Nervously she trotted inside and found Spike. She told him to get a letter ready.

"Dear Princess Celestia, it seems as though beings from another world have found their way to my home. Their are 10 of them and a giant robot thing. Please teleport them to you as they a causing fear to about everypony in town".

"Ok Spike send it". She watched as the dragon sent the letter with his fire. Outside was turning into chaos as Caboose was frightening everyone outside.

"Church! Did you know these things can talk!"

"Yes Caboose, you said it 5 times already," Church said rolling his eyes.

"It is so cool!"

"Caboose just don't touch any of them for Christ's sake".

"Ok Church," He turned away sadly.

"Hey," Church motioned at Tom, "I never got your name".

"Tom Johnson, it's a pleasure".

"How about those two?"

"My younger siblings, Melissa and Jake".

"Bow-chika-bow-wow," Tucker said staring at Melissa.

"Tucker, shut your mouth before I do it myself".

"Hey don't look at me, I can't help it she's perfect. I would know, I'm great with the ladies".

"Oh yes Tucker I forgot so quickly. One such as you must be great since you had an alien baby," Church said sarcastically.

"Bro that was one time, and what happened to not bringing that up?" Tucker asked angrily.

"Oh sorry it seems to have slipped my mind". Even though Church knew he couldn't forget it because he was an AI.

"You have your ways of being an ass at all times".

"I take pride in them".

"Epsilon what happened to taking you back? I need you to help me get my slate clean". Washington said.

"Who's going to find you in here? The horse police?" At that moment the 10 aliens and the Mantis were teleported to Canterlot. The 10 stood up to see where they went.

"What happened?" Grif said opening his eyes an inch.

"Maybe if you didn't sleep all the damn time you would know," Sarge said.

Grif weighed his options for a second. "Nah I'll stick with not knowing". As he said that loud snoring could be heard coming from him. Church was arguing with Tucker about Tucker's lady knowledge. Grif was taking a nap. Simmons was sitting down with his hands on his faceplate. Caboose was bouncing around the room happily. Jake, Tom, and Melissa were talking to themselves. The Mantis was keeping an eye out for targets.

Celestia watched the spectacle in front of her as the 10 aliens and the robot did whatever they normally did. She eyed the Mantis cautiously and cleared her throat trying to get everyone in the rooms attention. She failed to do so. She then said hello in the nicest possible tone and everyone snapped to attention in her direction. She shifted uncomfortably for a second then cleared her throat again.

"Hello, my name is Princess Celestia. Who might you be?" She said not talking to anybody in particular.

Instead of the answer she expected she just got blank stares from everyone in the room.

Church spoke up. "My name is Church, we are humans. I am afraid we have no idea how we got here".

"Is there a reason you are scaring my subjects?" She asked raising an eyebrow.

"Because we don't give a fuck about them," Church replied calmly, knowing instantly he wasn't going to like it here.

"I don't like your tone".

"I don't like horses, guess we are even".

"I am not a horse, I am a pony. So are the rest of the beings that live here and Ponyville".

"That makes it even worse," Church said rolling his eyes.

"Well then, I am going to send you back to Ponyville".

"Good to know, hurry up with it".

"Oh one minor thing before you all go," She lowered her horn in their direction and hit them with a spell.

All of them began to scream in pain as their bodies changed form and the sound of screeching metal came to Celestia's ears. She noticed that even the robot was being turned into a pony. She waited a minute after the screaming had stopped.

Church looked down at himself, or what was supposed to be himself. He was now a horse like the rest of the people here.

"What. In. The. Actual. Fuck." He noticed everyone else had shocked expressions on their faces looking down at themselves. He still wasn't believing what he was seeing. He was dearly hoping this was a bad dream.

Chapter 4: Welcome to Ponykind

Caboose squealed happily somehow already used to his new body. "I'm a pony! I'm a pony!" Celestia couldn't help but smile at his reaction to her spell, however, she frowned on how everypony else was taking it.

"Now," Celestia said, "you are going to live with the Elements of Harmony until I figure out what I want to do with you".

"Who the fuck are the Elements of Harmony?"

"Twilight Sparkle, the owner of the library, she found you. She is the Element of Magic. Applejack, worker at Sweet Apple Acres is the Element of Honesty. She continued with the rest of the Elements but Church could really couldn't give two shits about it. He was more worried on how he could move his body. Out of the corner of his eye he caught something that made him sigh in frustration. He had two foreign limbs attached to his back.

"What the fuck," Church said slowly. When Sarge looked at his enemy/blue he laughed his ass off.

"Blue, I think something is wrong with your body, you seem to have grown some wings," Sarge said chuckling to himself.

"Shut it," Church growled. He around at the rest of the idiots in the room, 3 of them had turned into winged horses as well. He chuckled to himself when he saw Tucker struggling to get up.

"Hey dipshit, it's walking it's not that fucking difficult," Church then got up to try to walk but quickly lost balance and smashed his chin of the ground. "Fuck!"

"Who are you calling dipshit," Tucker smugly said back, happy Church had given him a moment to light up what just happened.

Not surprisingly the Mantis was the first to learn to stand up. He went around slowly to teach each of them to stand. When he got to Caboose, Caboose screamed.

"Freckles! Is that really you! OH MY GOD! I thought I lost you Freckles. Do you still remember your little hat?"

The robot stared blankly at Caboose not sure what he was talking about. "Caboose," He said in a deep voice, "If you friend was a robot like me then I can understand the confusion. I, however, have never met you".

Caboose looked away sadly then suddenly perked up. "I will call you Freckles Jr.!" The Mantis simply looked away shaking his head.

"Caboose leave the fucking robot alone. He has guns and I will not hesitate to tell him to use them on you". He instantly thought of what he said.

"Do you have guns?" Church turned his head quizzically.

"Yes, I still have them," Two slides slide away from his forelegs and a smaller machine gun and rocket launcher slid out.

"Good, you may have to shoot me soon before I shoot myself," Church nodded his now very heavy head in the direction of Caboose and chuckled. The robot looked back at Caboose and nodded.

When the Mantis had finally taught everyone how to stand Celestia looked at them with a smile on her face. "Welcome to the land of Equestria!" She said with a smile on her face.

"I consider it the land of "seriously fuck your shit up" kind of place. No sooner had he said that they all got teleported back to where they had been standing before.

They all began to try to walk in circles for a minute to get used to their new bodies while some of the ponies had not left from earlier. Church saw them staring.

"Who are you looking at asshole?" The pony quickly took the action as aggressive and ran in the other direction.

Twilight came outside and instantly felt better when she saw they had been turned to her kind.

"Who's this bitch?"

"Bow-chik-"

"For everything holy please shut the fuck up!"

"Fine asshole way to ruin the moment".

"Jesus Christ why am I still with these dumbasses?"

Twilight motioned for them to follow her inside. They got the doorway and all looked at each other. Tom tried to go up the steps and lost his balance falling backwards into Tucker.

"Hey watch where your going!"

"Tom feel free to hit him as hard as you would like".

"Gladly". Tom said with a smile. He lifted his foreleg up and jabbed it into Tucker's face. Tucker hit the ground with enough force to knock the wind out of him.

"What the fuck man? All I said was watch where you were going".

"Exactly dipshit don't give orders to him, you can however give orders to Caboose. That is if he's likely to listen".

"Grif get your lazy ass up!" Sarge yelled.

"Are we dead?"

"No".

"Then why did-" His eyes suddenly opened and he looked down at his body. "Dude who got me high? Am I drunk?"

"Neither," Sarge said with a smile.

"Oh shit! I'm a fucking horse! What the fuck guys? Next time do you want to wake me up? This is kind of important!".

"The only thing that is important is the day you die by the end of my shotgun!" He wanted that dream to become a reality. He smiled at the sight of him burying Grif's body.

"Protect me cone!" Grif yelped when a familiar looking figure came into view except she wasn't human.

"Holy shit!" Church yelped when he followed Grif's eyes.

"Nice to see you too Church," Tex grinned when she saw Church was also a horse. "Hey, you guys got fucked over by that bitch too?"

"Bow chika-" He was interrupted by a swift kick to the face Tex gave him. "Dammit Tex not even once huh?"

"No, not even once". She smiled but it wasn't friendly.

Twilight came back out to see what was taking them so long when she noticed there was another mare with the group. She didn't recognize her but the way she talked she had to know who the group was. She sighed at the fact she would have to look after another one of these aliens.

"Tex how in the fuck did you get here?"

"I was following you, and I was suddenly blind by a bright light and I ended behind you guys". She said sheepishly.

As much as Church was glad Tex was back he still didn't like having her around. She was a full out bitch 100% of the time. He, however, has the unfortunate circumstance that he was programmed to love her. With the Director gone Church didn't care what he was programmed to do.

"Hey, you guys should come inside," She said when she realized ponies were staring at the group. "You guys don't exactly fit in".

"Really? I thought we actually fit in!" Church said sarcastically. She didn't catch his sarcasm and stared at him for a second. They slowly got used to the steps and all of them filed inside sitting in an awkward circle.

"Princess Celestia said you all have to stay here until she believes you fit in. Meaning you have to get one of these". Twilight motioned towards her cutie mark.

"I have to get a girly tattoo on my ass?" Tucker whined.

"No, it shows your best skill. Anyway, you also have to learn to get along with the ponies in this area, if you as so much as reveal who you are or hurt somepony in any way there will be consequences," Twilight said sternly.

"And you thought I was a bitch," Tex whispered to Church.

"You still are," Church smiled back.

Tex fell silent knowing she couldn't argue anymore. Well she could but it would end in a couple broken bones.

Twilight continued to explain how she wanted each of them to act. Then explained that her friends will be coming and will pick who they want to stay with them. Each of them nodded reluctantly and fell silent.

"Tom?" Melissa asked.

"Yeah?"

"Do you trust these other soldiers?"

"To an extent yes," He chuckled.

Tom began to observe everyone's colors. Tom himself was all black including his mane and tail. Melissa was dark purple and her hair was a dark pink. Jake had a bright red coat and his hair was black. He noticed that each of them somewhat resembled their previous armor colors. Tom then looked up and gasped. He had a horn projecting out of his head. He noticed that Jake had the same thing as well. Melissa was the lucky one to get wings.

Church observed his hair. It was strange how bright the royal blue was but the longer he stared the more his headache intensified. He put a hoof to his head in an effort to make it go away. Tex noticed that he was in pain and smiled, content karma was being a bitch.

The group milled about in the libraries main floor thinking and waiting for the other elements to come pick them up. Everypony was nervous but didn't show it. Twilight was content with the quiet as she was reading a book. When she heard a knock on the door everpony in the group tensed up and Twilight let out a sigh. "This is going to be difficult" she thought as she went to open the door.

Chapter 5: New Homes (Revised)

Twilight invited the mares at the door inside. They looked at the room filled with ponies cautiously.

They all stared at the five who entered and Fluttershy hid behind Rarity.

"What's up bitches?" Tucker said with a smug smile on his face. Tex back flipped onto Tucker's back, knocking him to the ground with a loud thump.

Church stared with a smile on his face. He was happy to see Tucker shut up for once. Tex came back and sat next to Church smiling. Church knew she wasn't smiling because she was happy but because she was able to perform violence.

"Thanks... What was your name?"

"Tex, and it's no problem. He has done many things to well deserve what I do to him," She said chuckling.

"Alright girls, pick who you want to stay with you."

"Before you start," Tom interrupted, "please don't separate my siblings from me, I'd like to keep them as close as possible."

"I'll see what I can do," Twilight smiled.

"Hey, Tom, his brother and all the pegasi come with me," Rainbow Dash said.

"Dash, Tom and Jake can't go to your house."

"Well teach them to use that cloud spell or whatever."

Twilight sighed but then nodded.

"I want the blue one!" Pinkie yelled over top of everypony.

"Pinkie no need to yell," Twilight said rubbing her temples.

"Now you know how I feel," Church shared a glance with Twilight.

"Dash, can I uh... take care of Melissa?" Fluttershy asked.

Melissa glanced at Fluttershy with a smile.

"Yeah I guess, but then you have to take care of Tom and Jake too."

"That's fine..." She said, hiding her face.

"Dash, you can't have all the pegasi. I'd like to take care of Church and... what's your name?" Twilight said, motioning towards Tex.

"Tex."

"Yeah I'd like to take care of them."

"Hey, y'all in the red and y'all over there with the black fur with yellow and black hair; Come with mah," Applejack said.

"I have a name you know," Washington glared at Applejack.

"Then what is it?"

"Washington..."

"Ok y'all and red with mah."

"My name's Sarge," Sarge said, putting out his hoof for Applejack to shake, smiling.

"Dash darling, may I take Tucker?"

"No, I want to take care of more than one. So I get Tucker and Orange over there."

"Will we have to work?" Grif asked loudly.

"That depends if you get on my nerves or not."

Grif groaned loudly and Rainbow gave him a smirk.

"Ok I guess I have you darling," Rarity said pointing at Simmons.

Simmons sighed inwardly. He got one look of Rarity and he figured she would be very girly. He didn't mind too much, considering she was giving him a place to stay.

"Alright girls, go get settled its getting late," Twilight pointed a hoof at the coming darkness.

"See y'all later," Applejack said, waving out the door.

"Come on Caboose, I have something exciting planned!"

"Oh boy! I love excitement!" Caboose said bouncing after her.

Church sighed, happy that Caboose was gone.

"Well my dresses won't sow themselves. Simmons come, I must show you my many clothing items!" Rarity practically dragged Simmons out the door.

"Eh, that will show Simmons to not mess with a lady," Sarge said with a chuckle as he followed Applejack with Washington.

"Um... Melissa, Jake, and Tom? Can you follow me..." Fluttershy led the way out the door.

"Well Twilight, I think these guys will have to sleep on the ground until they learn to fly," Dash said with a smirk.

"Really? Wow you're a bitch. Give us a bed or something!"

"I'm completely fine with it," Grif commented.

"Yeah, but you can sleep anywhere!" Tucker retorted.

"How about I let you sleep on the ground the entire time for calling me that!" Dash's face become red with anger.

"Oh shit, Grif run!"

"You don't have to tell me twice!" Grif and Tucker ran as fast as they could but smacked into each other and flopped to the ground with a thud. Both tried to stand up still dazed.

"Dude I think we left the ground for a couple of seconds!" Tucker said pointing at his outstretched wings.

"Yeah but now we need to figure out how to use them all the time".

"Hmm," Tucker tried to use the foreign limbs but they didn't budge. "I feel something oddly connected but I can't figure out where the muscle is!" Tucker sighed angrily. He kept moving every part of his body until finally he figured out where the muscles were.

"Ok here it goes!" Tucker flapped once to get used to them. He left the ground for a brief second. "Dude, I think I got this!" He flapped a few more times. Soon he was 15 feet off the ground. "Grif watch this!" Tuckers dipped forward and didn't compensate for the drag. Tucker smashed his face into a tree a few seconds later.

"Yeah dipshit, that was great," Grif said rolling his eyes.

"Shut up, I'm still learning".

"No shit Sherlock. That's why it's funny," Grif said chuckling.

They both heard a laugh come from above. They both looked up and saw Rainbow Dash staring down at them with a huge smile on her face.

"That was priceless! Your reaction after hitting the tree was amazing!" Rainbow Dash continued to laugh.

"Yeah, shut the fuck up," Tucker murmured.

"Would you like help?" Rainbow said finally getting over her laughing fit.

"Yeah, just a few pointers. I guess... If I learn can I sleep in the bed up at your house?"

"We'll see," Rainbow Dash said with a mysterious grin. Tucker shuddered for a second. Even in almost complete darkness he could still make out her features staring down on him.

"Well?"

"Oh yeah sorry. First, you have to take it carefully. You crashed because you didn't compensate for drag. You want to be slow into moving so you don't get carried out of control.

"Got it," Tucker said as he flapped his wings again. He started to lift about 20 feet off the ground. He then slowly angled himself so he could go forward.

This time he didn't slam into a tree. He started to go in circles slowly making them wider. Tucker then landed happy he had been able to fly.

"Nice job, not as good as me, but nice," Dash gave him a smirk.

"Thanks," Tucker said sarcastically.

"Grif, your turn!"

"Do I have to?" Grif whined.

"If you want to sleep in my cloud house, then yes."

"Is a cloud comfy?"

"Most comfortable thing you can sleep on," Dash said chuckling.

"Alright I'll try," Grif sighed.

Grif flapped his wings relatively easy. Remembering everything Dash told him he quickly did what Tucker did without any problem.

"Tucker, it seems you have some stiff competition," Dash smiled.

"Bow-chika-bow-wow," Tucker smirked.

"I used a poor choice of words," Dash sighed.

Tex awoke from the guest room she was sleeping in, getting church up as well.

"What's wrong Tex?" Her eyes narrowed to slits.

"Remind me to kick Tucker's ass tomorrow".

"Will do".

They both slowly fell back asleep.

"Alright boys lets go to my house."

"Bow-chika-"

"Shut it," Dash growled.

The three pegasi flew to Dash's house. When they got there, she beckoned them in.

"You realize your house is made out of clouds right?"

"Yep just take a seat," She motioned towards a couch.

"How is this even possible, I am sitting on a cloud."

"Pegasus physics are awesome!"

"Whatever I'm tired, I'll take the couch. Grif you can sleep in her bed".

"Alright man, see ya tomorrow... Dipshit," He mumbled under his breath.

"Tucker, you guys can switch between the bed, ok?"

"Sounds good, night."

"Night," Tucker laid down on the most comfortable couch he ever slept on. He fell asleep quickly, thinking of what tomorrow would bring, not that he cared

Chapter 6: Sleep, Sleep Now

Grif crawled into Rainbow Dash's bed, tired from the amount of strain it took to fly. He went as far to the side as he could so he didn't interfere with Rainbow Dash. Rainbow slowly followed and she crawled in the other side of the bed. Grif felt something nudge his shoulder and he rolled over and locked lips with her.

"Ewwww!" She screamed.

"Uh... Hey I wasn't the one who was right next to me".

"Grif what's going on?" Tucker said blinking the tiredness out of his eyes. He finally understood what was happening.

"Grif you banged her before me? What the fuck man?" Tucker glared at Grif.

"No dude that's nothing like what happened!"

"Really? What happened then?"

"I just rolled over and her face was there! I didn't realize she was there," Grif retorted.

"Yeah right," Tucker rolled his eyes.

"No he's right Tucker, I must have nudged him or something. I don't understand why he kissed me though". Rainbow said staring at Grif.

"Don't look at me, all I did was roll over to see what touched me," Grif said innocently.

"Alright dipshit I believe you, I'm going to back to bed," Tucker yawned.

"Same to you dumbass," Grif rolled over and was snoring shortly after.

"Huh, where am I?" Grif asked the blackness in front of him. He facehoofed realizing he just asked darkness where he was. He felt something brush up against his leg and he looked down. Grif almost shit himself at the sight.

"Holy fuck! Where am I?" Grif kept looking at the torn apart pony. He couldn't tell who it was so he just walked a few feet. He was stopped when he hit a wall.

"What the fuck? Where's the light switch? Jesus Christ, learn to pay your damn electric bill." He scavenged the walls until finally he found it. He clicked it onto the "on" position. Grif almost threw up. Everywhere was pieces of ponies and their skeletons were nailed to the wall. "Ok, shit just escalated quickly." The only door in the room opened showing Fluttershy.

"Nopony listened... Nopony! Fluttershy yelled then was quickly sawed in half. He couldn't tell who the attacker was but Grif quickly ran to Fluttershy.

"Aww fuck." Grif said as he held what was left of her. "God why do you do this to me? Fuck you!" Grif kept shaking Fluttershy even though he knew she was dead. "Come on, don't do this!" Grif felt a tear run down his cheek. That was very abnormal for him but he had lost too many people. Even though she was a total stranger he couldn't help but feel for her. He heard a noise in the back of the room and quickly turned his head.

"Who are you? Show yourself!" Grif yelled.

"You don't need to know who I am," The voice said.

"Why did you kill her?"

"To understand you better."

"What the fuck would you want to know?"

"Why you are here."

"In this world? Or in this dream."

"In Ponyville, why are you here?"

"I don't know but I really don't give a fuck anymore. So why don't you show yourself so we can end this. Or at least wake up..."

The being on the other side started laughing maniacally and stepped into the light. It was the Meta, how Grif didn't know the voice he didn't understand.

"Aww fuck, how can you talk?"

"Seems like your little place here can heal me."

"Get the fuck out of my dreams, I'd like some sleep." With that Grif woke up surrounded by at least a dozen ponies. He looked around very confused.

"What the hell? Where am I?"

"I brought you to library when you started screaming in your sleep." Rainbow Dash muttered trying to get the sleep out of her eyes.

"Oh, sorry about that." Grif said innocently rubbing the back of his neck.

"Well it better be a damn good reason for Twilight to call everyone here." Church said obviously annoyed.

"Yeah, fuck you man, I was banging a girl in my sleep." Tucker smirked.

"Tucker, your not helping." Tex growled at him.

"Wow, can't a guy dream?"

"Not if it's you." Tex replied smirking.

Grif ignored the two bickering and looked over at Twilight who was standing with her friends.

"So why did you get everyone? They didn't need to be here."

"Nopony could get you to wake up, so I called as many ponies as I could to help you. Church said it was a waste of time." Twilight glared at Church.

"He's a worthless sack of shit, of course it was a waste." Church shrugged.

"How can you all fight like that? I thought you are all friends?" Twilight replied.

"Well friends is a strong word, mostly because I hate all of them. Same goes for everyone else. We all hate each other except Caboose because well, he's Caboose." All of the once-humans shook their head in agreement. Twilight sighed and turned back to Grif.

"Grif why were you screaming?"

"Just a dream, it's no problem." Grif lied.

"Well it seems like a problem, you would feel better if you told us."

"Yeah I'm not sure about that." Grif glanced at Fluttershy who quickly hid behind Twilight. He was content she was alright, and looked at Twilight again. Twilight, however caught Grif's gaze and looked behind her at Fluttershy. She looked back at Grif with a knowing smile. Grif looked around uncomfortably, he held a gaze with Tex who seemed to be staring directly into his soul.

"Tex, quit staring at me like-" He quickly covered his manhood out of safety. Tex laughed because she had gotten her message through.

"I'll stop if you tell us." Tex said chuckling.

"Fine..." Grif shook his head in attempt to relieve his headache. "Uh, I don't know how to put this." Grif said shrugging.

Tex growled at Grif and reminded him of what she could do if needed. Grif stared at her and try to form words but he couldn't.

"You know, why don't I make this easy. Why don't we all just forget about this and go back to bed?"

"Oh no you don't." Tex lunged at Grif and tackled him to the ground. She stood firm and held him there. "Talk or I will force you the Freelancer way."

"Can't... Breath..." Tex put less pressure on him but held firm.

"God, fine dammit, look." Grif paused for a second to reconsider his words but they would get the truth out of him on way or another. "It was just a nightmare, that's it." Grif said with a frown.

"Grif, tell them what it is, or i'll say what I think it is." Twilight smirked.

"Oh for the love of Christ, don't do that. This is what happened. I was in a completely black room. Something brushed up against my leg and I looked down. I'm pretty sure if I could, I would've shit myself right then and there. It was a pony basically torn apart laying on the ground. I backed up and yelled for a light. I hit something on the wall and flipped it on. Although now I'm really wishing I didn't. Lined on the walls were pieces and skeletons of ponies."

Grif took a breath to recollect himself and continue with his dream.

"Anyway, I saw you come through the door." Grif pointed at Fluttershy. "You yelled something like 'Nopony listened to me' or something like that. Then you got sawed in half by at that time I had no idea. I ran over and tried to get you back but nothing. So basically cursed the shit out of everything holy to get you back. Although I won't admit it, I think that was the first time I ever shed a tear."

Everyone in the room just stared at Grif, except Twilight because she knew it was about Fluttershy. Fluttershy peeked around Twilight and gave Grif a quick smile and went back behind her. Grif just sat there hoping he wouldn't get kicked in the balls or worse. He shuddered at the idea of "worse".

Chapter 7: Settled?

I only figured out later who had sawed her in half," Grif said with a shudder. "It was the Meta."

"Yeah Grif, only you would dream of that." Church said sarcastically. "We all have had experiences with him."

"No shit, just listen. He specifically asked me in his voice that he claimed he got from this "world". He then asked me why I was here. So doesn't that seem a little bit too real?

"Hmm," Church sighed, "I guess it's a bit more real for comfort, but that doesn't mean that he is back."

"Yeah, I just want to go one night without something fucking weird happening."

"Don't get your hopes up," Tex chuckled.

"Yeah with you around, when will my life ever be normal?"

"Guys, this is getting us nowhere, Grif seems fine, I just want to finish my sleep..." Tucker said yawning.

"Yeah I guess your right, Grif and Tucker come on lets go," Rainbow Dash said readying herself to fly.

"Can't we go somewhere that doesn't require physical exercise?" Grif asked with a whine.

"Haha, no," Dash smirked.

"Ugh fine," Grif reluctantly got up and walked outside. Rainbow, Tucker, and Grif all took off and flew back to Rainbow's house.

"Ah reckon Ah should be heading off too, Washington and Sarge, are yall ready?"

"As long as I don't get kicked by Tex on the way out then yeah," Washington said with a sigh.

"Heh, you killed me Wash, don't get your hopes up," Tex watched as he, Sarge, and Applejack left. Tex gasped when she remembered something. "Church! You didn't remind me to kick Tucker in the balls!"

"Oh shit, guess i'll remember next time," Church replied sarcastically.

"You had one job..." Tex growled.

"Yeah, shouldn't you be used to me failing my one job?"

"I guess I should... If you don't remind me tomorrow, you will be getting kicked with Tucker."

"Fine, fine," Church sighed.

"Twilight um... I think i'll go now..." Fluttershy said hiding behind her hair.

"Ok, hey why didn't you bring the 3 siblings and their robot?"

"They don't really know these ponies, that's what they told me."

"Yeah she's right Twilight, Jake, Melissa, and Tom don't know us." Church cut in.

"Oh, ok I thought they would because you where all the same species and all."

"Yeah... Well I'm going to bed." Church and Tex walked up to their room and settled in the bed.

"Twilight darling, I don't feel comfortable with so many unknown ponies around."

"I understand Rarity, just try not to show that to them."

"I have ears you know," Simmons said frowning.

"Still, you seem more trustworthy than them, I just don't feel comfortable with them around you know?"

"Yeah, I guess, they can be pretty annoying and violent at times, but we all have been to hell and back many times."

Twilight and Rarity just simply stared at him for a second trying to find something to say. They looked away when they couldn't. Rarity walked out the door with Simmons and Twilight waved at them. She went back inside and closed the door, content everypony was gone. She went over to the couch and sat down. She couldn't believe that she and her friends where now housing 11 aliens. She thought of how they could earn their cutie marks but came up with nothing. She figured that they would do what they wanted to and get them that way.

Twilight arose from her couch and walked upstairs to her bed. She settled down and tried to go to sleep but figured she couldn't. So she laid awake until her body decided to go to sleep. She thought of how the aliens would treat the other ponies. Their language wasn't exactly the type that was friendly. She would need to talk to them about it. For now she had to concentrate on going to bed. She closed her eyes and fell asleep.

"So you guys going to go to sleep for the rest of the night this time?" Rainbow Dash had arrived at her house with the two aliens moments ago.

"Yeah as long as dipshit over here doesn't have another dumbass nightmare."

"Shut up, you didn't have that much of a better dream."

"Atleast I didn't scream in my sleep."

"You have a way to worm out of everything, don't you?"

"I take pride in it too," Tucker smirked.

Rainbow Dash stood in the doorway of her bedroom laughing at the two bickering. She couldn't help but wonder why they bickered so much. She decided she wouldn't figure out anything if she didn't ask.

"Why do you guys fight so much?"

"Because he's an asshole," Tucker replied without turning his head from Grif.

"So are you dumbass," Grif replied.

"Fair enough, I'm tried so you two can fight like an old married couple. Also you can fight over who gets the bed, i'll see you guys in the morning."

Tucker and Grif never stopped fighting so Rainbow just shrugged and went to her bed. She looked it over and laid down. She thought about what might happen in with these two in her house. Her mind went to a particularly naughty thought. "Oh no! That is not happening!" She quickly covered her mouth with her hoof realizing she had just said that out loud.

"What's not happening Dash?" Tucker yelled from the other room.

"Oh nothing, don't worry about it," She smirked knowing they wouldn't expect a thing.

"Well when your done thinking naughty thoughts I'll ask again."

Dash's mouth flopped open not understanding how he knew that. She gained her composure back and blushed. "How did you know I was thinking naughty things?"

"I didn't but I do now!" Tucker yelled back.

Dash facehoofed knowing she had just fell for the oldest trick in the book. "I hate you so much right now." Dash yelled back.

"No need to yell, I'm sleeping in there tonight," Tucker replied.

She quickly went to her bed and scooted to the side as much as possible, she hoped that he wouldn't try anything in her sleep. She smirked knowing if he did she would kick his flank out of her house.

Chapter 8: Me, Myself, and I

The story from here will be written from my point of view unless specified otherwise.

I sat in my lab with my best friend Whiteshield Cat. I just called her Cat for length's sake. We were trying to figure out why out machine we had created was not working. Normally I wouldn't be so fed up with a machine not working but today was different.

"Ugh! This is stupid. Why can't this shit ever work?" I screamed at nothing.

"It's not your fault Bullet. I think the machine's purpose is why it won't work. I mean come on did you really think armor like this would work the first time?"

"I didn't think it would, but it would make it a hell of a lot easier." I slowly climbed in to my set of armor and so did Cat. The armor closed on us and waited until I gave the command to start up. This was going to be my last test of the day before I would make more changes to it. I mentally wished it would work this time. "A.P.P, start." I had come up with the name myself. Armored Pony Protection seemed to fit it right. It was going to hopefully be used for war when it passed trials. It speeds up a normal ponies movements and even makes them stronger and it could carry the guns for you. The Heads Up Display, displayed the armors shield percentage and current ammo left.

To my surprise Cat's and my armor started up. To my surprise both of us were surrounded by a blinding light and were teleported somewhere else. I felt around in my armor to make sure it was still intact. I looked over to my left and saw Cat in a similar position.

"What happened Bullet?"

"How the hell should I know? I don't remember giving this armor the ability to teleport."

I stood up slowly, atleast as slow as possible before the armor sped me up tenfold. I looked around noticing it was dark out. I noticed Cat got up as well and was looking around. After further inspection I noticed we were in the middle of a town. My first thought was "Fuck". I had noticed where we were but I didn't want to believe it at all. Apparently cat did too because the look on her face behind the visor was priceless.

"Bullet... Is this Ponyville?" She asked obviously nervous. To be honest I was just as nervous if not more.

"Yeah, it looks like it. I thought this place was destroyed atleast 200 years ago..."

"Me too, looks like we were wrong."

"This doesn't seem right," I took my helmet off with my magic and let my purple and black mane fall in my eyes. Cat did the same except she had to use her hoofs, she isn't a unicorn like me, she was the lucky one to be the pegasus. Her brightly colored blue and yellow hair stayed where it was. We walked together and carried our helmets with us. Our white fur brightly shined in the moonlight and looked like we were lights walking around. I found what I thought was a library and remembered my mother tell me stories about this place. Since I was still a filly I remembered them like the back of my hoof. Me and Cat had turned 16 a few days ago and considered each other sisters. Since our birthday oddly took place on the same day.

"I don't like this," Cat said as I raised my metal covered hoof to the door.

"I don't either but we have to figure this out."

I knocked loudly on the door and heard voices. Two mares and a Stallion. Somepony came to the door and opened it. By the way she looked this had to be Twilight Sparkle.

"Hi, I have a few questions for you."

She looked at me confused, "Ok, come in please."

She led the way in and I looked around, lined on the walls were hundreds of books. Before I could look anywhere else I felt myself get tackled and so did Cat.

"Hey what the fuck is this?"

"Oh nothing but I would like to know why your armor looks strangely like mine used to." A black furred mare was holding me down with crushing strength, even with my armor I could feel her strength. Cat was pinned down by a blue stallion who looked like he had the same strength the pony on top of me did.

"Well, sorry ma'am I just invented this for war, me and my partner had just put it on and a flash of light appeared and we woke up on the street out there." My high pitched filly voice didn't help me sound very intimidating.

"Tex, Church please let them up!"

"Sorry, just force of habit for someone who looks like they stole my armor!" Tex shouted.

"Tex you never had your armor stolen..." Church sighed.

"Oh, true but still, doesn't it look strangely similar to the armor I had when I was human. Even if it's shaped to look like a pony?"

"Yeah, that's true."

"Wait a second? You are human?" I asked confused.

"Yeah was, Princess sun ass turned us into ponies." I just burst out laughing at the nickname she had for the Princess. Cat seemed to find it funny as well.

"Hey, don't call her that!" Twilight seemed to be angry with the fact we had insulted the Princess.

"Sorry Twilight kind of a habit." Tex smirked.

"Yeah," She turned to face me with a look of determination on her face. "What year was it when you left?"

"Oh that's easy it is 2235!" I said happily not expecting the coming answer.

"Well, it's 2015 right now..." Twilight said as she looked at me like I was some kind of alien.

"Um, ok what the fuck? How the fuck did I get here? Who the fuck are they? And how the fuck can I get back?"

She winced when I had finished my sentence, I forgot that in this time they used words like "buck" instead of "fuck".

"Sorry, I forgot you ponies don't use that language". I said frowning.

"They may not, but we do." Tex said chuckling.

"Yeah I figured you humans wouldn't talk like them," I gave her a small smile.

"Yeah, I'm not used to the whole "buck" and "flank". To be honest I don't think I ever will." Tex remarked.

Twilight stared in shock as Tex talked to me pony like we were best friends. Although for Tex it wasn't the same feeling. She only wanted to know more about my abilities, armor, and kill count. After I had told her that the armor functioned much like hers did, she seemed to be listening intently now. I really never expected somepony to be so knowledgeable on this subject besides Cat. I explained my training and my kill count was a staggering zero, she didn't seem to happy about that.

"So your telling me that you have never killed someone?"

"I was never given any reason to kill somepony," I replied.

"Hmm, well before I get sent back you will have changed that," She said with a mysterious grin.

I just stared at her wide eyed. I never wanted to kill somepony! I was still 16, I wasn't sure that I could handle that.

"I never caught both of your names," Twilight interrupted.

"I'm Black Bullet and my friend's name is Whiteshield Cat," I said without turning my head to face her.

"Would you two like to stay here?"

"I guess..." I blushed and turned away, my fillyfooler senses were kicking in at the wrong time. Cat just stared at me knowing what was up. We were close friends but it took me awhile to explain to her that I wasn't into Stallions. She however is and I can accept that if she can accept me.

"Anything wrong?" Twilight asked, obviously not seeing me blush.

"No nothings wrong, thank you for letting us stay here."

"Your welcome."

I walked around the room once to get a feel for it, I didn't understand why but I have a feeling I will be here for a long time.

Chapter 9: Back in Time

"Tucker? Tucker!" Tucker was roughly shoved off of his sofa and sprawled out on the ground.

"What the fuck? Was that necessary?" Tucker yelled at his assailant. Rainbow Dash peered her head around the sofa with a big grin a her face.

"Oh, that was priceless!" She smirked and walked back into her room, supposedly waking Grif up. Tucker heard a shriek and a soft *thump*. Tucker walked in just to see Grif sighing and shakily getting up. Hoofs were not something the *once* humans were used to.

"Alright, both of you lazy flanks are up! Great, I promised Applejack I would help her with something, you guys get to come with me."

"Lady, I don't think you understand how I operate," Grif started but was quickly silenced by Tuckers hoof.

"Before you continue with that statement, let me point out, no one knows how you operate. Your as predictable as the weather."

Rainbow Dash gave both of them a confused look. "Well then wouldn't he be easy to know? I mean for us pegasi the weather is easy to predict. We are always spot on to!" Grif and Tucker gave her bewildered looks.

"Blue, where we come from, the weather is probably mans biggest enemy in science. Nobody has figured out how to accurately predict it yet." Tucker said, shocked at his own words.

"Wow Tucker, that is the smartest thing I think you ever said."

"I have my moments," Tucker replied with a shrug. After the exchange Rainbow Dash, Tucker, and Grif all headed out for Applejack's farm. After Rainbow getting agitated with the boy's slow flying, they finally made it after only one accident. Which was undoubtedly done by Grif.

"I'm hungry," Grif whined.

"I'm sure Applejack has some food," Rainbow dismissed his comment with a flick of her head in his direction. Walking up to the door, the three newcomers all knocked.

"Ah'm a comin'," came AJ's country accent. She opened the door and let them all file into the house.

"So, Applejack, what did you need us for?" Rainbow asked with a confused look.

"Well, Ah only asked you, Ah didn't expect the other two." She pointed a hoof at the other two stallions in the room. After hearing the door open Sarge and Washington both came down the steps smashing into each other along the way.

"Come on Sarge! Your better than that, I thought you already knew how to use stairs." Grif smirked.

"I may not know how to use stairs with these new limbs, but I still know how to beat your ass." Sarge retorted.

"Haha! You can't catch me now Sarge, I've got wings now don't forget." Grif returned the comment.

"Who's to say I won't just rip them off and kill you while your down?" Sarge smugly replied to a shocked Grif.

"Psst, Rainbow," Grif whispered, "how bad would it hurt to get my wings torn off?"

"Probably worse than every pain combined." She replied with a shrug. Grif shuddered at the thought of more pain than getting kicked in the nuts more than once in 10 minutes by a crazy fucked up freelancer. He looked back at Sarge's growling figured and slowly whistled. With a smug smile Sarge returned to looking at Applejack with returned attention.

"Anyway, Ah reckon yall can help me out on fields right?" Everyone gave a nod except Grif who was silently whining in the corner. At least most thought it was whining, to Sarge it sounded like he was saying "fuck" over and over again.

"Well I thank ya kindly, bits have been tight around here and as much as Ah hate to admit it, I need someponies help for a day."

"Oh come on Applejack, you know I can do this in 10 seconds flat." Rainbow said with a smirk.

"Hold on there Rainbow, you might want to save that speed for later when Ah beat your flank at picking apples." Applejack returned the challenge.

"Your on," Rainbow said with a determined smile. She rocketed out of the house towards the apple orchard. Applejack smirked and ran after her towards the same destination. Leaving the group of stallions very confused.

"So what do we do?" Tucker asked the rest of the group. They all shrugged and Grif was the first to come up with an idea.

"I say we just stay here, eat, and maybe take a morning nap." Everyone nodded their heads except Washington.

"We should go help, just because you guys are used to being lazy, doesn't mean you should." Surprisingly that came out of his mouth, he had been the most skeptical about lodging with a complete stranger, however, he had gotten used that they would be here temporarily and he should try to enjoy it while it lasted. With a sigh Washington started out towards where he thought they were going. He stopped and turned around to see if the others had followed him. He notice that all of them grudgingly were slowly following him, he let himself smile a little.

After a small while of walking they had finally made it to the outskirts of where the girls had gone. Grif was complaining about his hoofs and Tucker was busy flying around above the trees. Washington sat down at waited for Tucker to return with details on where the girls had went.

"I want the cupcake!" Caboose's scream shattered all the ears in the bakery. Pinkie was giggling as she was keeping a very tasty cupcake from Caboose. He wildly swung his new appendages around trying to grab the cupcake from her to no avail. Just when he gave up and gave Pinkie his best "sad" face she finally gave in.

"Ok I guess you can have it now, you where a good boy." Pinkie said trying to keep herself from giggling.

"Yay!" Caboose then proceeded to shove the entire cupcake down his throat. He didn't even savor the taste but the look on his face must have been pure bliss. Pinkie laughed some more then returned to the next customer in line. She was getting accustomed to the new stallion very quickly because of the same personalities they shared. She let herself a small smile and handed over the next customers order.

Chapter 10: The "Normal" Three

Tom, Melissa, and Jake all had awoken at the same time. Sibling telepathy? Not likely. Fluttershy feeding her animals? That's more like it. The three had still tried to become accustomed to the new changes, even with the Mantis around. The robot never exactly slept, he stood guard near the door all night. In a peaceful place like this, who would need such a defense? Unless of course, the person who had brought you into the new world.

"Tom, do you ever think that there is more going on here?" Melissa nervously broke the silence. She had felt like something was very wrong ever since they had stepped foot in this dimension just yesterday.

"I'm not saying that there isn't anything going on, but I don't feel like there is." He said with a sigh. Melissa just frowned back, she had an abnormal ability to detect danger and 90 percent of the time she happened to be right. Jake hadn't partaken in the conversation because he was staring at something intently out the window in the small guest room. Fluttershy had been so kind to let them have the room, instead of the floor. Tom had even offered it to her, but she turned it down in a heartbeat.

"Guys, do you think Fluttershy is comfortable with us yet?" Jake asked solemnly, the other two in the room were taken aback by his question.

"Jake, give her time, Twilight said she was very shy, be lucky you can even get a word out of her." Melissa stated.

"That's true, I just feel like I could do something to make it better between us." Tom cocked an eyebrow at Jake as he turned around to face him.

"Whoa dude, it's not like I'm in love with her or anything." Jake looked at Tom with a serious glare. Tom just shrugged and went back to the conversation.

"Well, who do you like then?" As soon as the question had left Tom's lips he had instantly regretted it. He didn't want to fuse into this world anymore than they already have, so asking whether or not they like the ponies around here was downright stupid.

Jake stared at him for a second, contemplating an answer. "To be honest, I just don't get the feeling we will get out of this, so settling down here might be the best bet." Melissa and Tom both glared at him in disgust, neither of the other two wanted to accept they were going to stay here forever. Jake, was actually Tom's last guess on who would accept this world first. However, people change, war doesn't.

"I don't understand why you can just waltz right in here and instantly take it as your new home, transformation shouldn't be that easy." Tom retorted.

"Dude, don't you see! We are not going back, I've seen some crazy stuff in my lifetime, but this? This isn't possible, but yet it happened, what do you think our possibility of getting back is?" Jake vented his anger on his siblings a lot, but yet they were taken aback by his sudden yelling.

Without a word Tom got up and trotted out of the room, he had gotten use to his new limbs but to him, they still felt foreign. He walked down into the main floor of the cottage and went to make himself some breakfast.

"Tom a-are you ok?" A small shy voice asked behind him.

"No, I'm not Fluttershy, just a little family fight, that's all." Tom sighed and turned around to meet Fluttershy's gaze. She quickly averted her eyes to the ground when Tom had turned around.

"Wel-l you cou-ld always see the rest of your species." Fluttershy tried to offer the most helpful suggestion she could think of.

"Yeah, I guess your right but as we explained yesterday, I don't really know them." Without waiting to hear Fluttershy's response, Tom trotted up to the room.

"Hey guys, I'm going to Twilight's place, you want to come?"

"I'll come, I guess." Melissa replied with a sigh.

"Jake?" Tom asked, already knowing the answer.

"No thanks, i'll stay here." Tom winced when Jake didn't want to be with his family. Tom wanted to make the perfect life for his two younger siblings, however, that was not always readily the case. They had fights but made up. This time, Jake wouldn't make up so fast.

"Alright Melissa, let's go..." Looking over at Jake's red and black form, they made there way out of the cottage.

Unknown to Melissa and Jake, not having cutie marks puts you as a bit of an outsider. Strange glances made the two uncomfortable. Tom also had gotten a comment on why his mane, tail, and fur were all black. He simply ignored the comment and kept walking. As they made their way to the more densely populated part of town, Tom realized something.

"Uh Melissa... I... uh... don't exactly know how to get to Twilight's house." Melissa stopped and turned around with an angry glare, one that would stop an Elite from coming at you.

"Then why are we out here? Tom!" Melissa yelled angrily bringing most of the eyes to her direction.

"Hmm, didn't think that far through. Why don't you go fly overhead and check it out?" Tom smirked, fully knowing all she knew how to do with her wings was make them twitch.

"Har har, very funny." She then proceeded to punch him in the shoulder, hard.

"Ow, come on! Was that really necessary?" Tom was gingerly holding his shoulder.

While to who sibling fight had been going on, a stallion was making his way over to the two.

"Why are you insulting this mare?" The newcomer fully unaware of the two being siblings or on how the fight had actually started.

"I'm not, I just said I have no idea where to get somewhere!" Tom said defensively, trying to put an end to the fight.

"Oh yeah?" The stallion glared at Tom then turned around and looked at Melissa.

"You have nice fur and hair. I like pink and purple." The stallion was trying to hard to flirt with Melissa, but she went along with it, hoping he would leave soon.

"Yeah? Sorry my pink hair... er... mane is unkempt, busy day as you can see." She subtly tried to get the hint across.

"Why don't you come back to my place, I'll fix your mane up for you," He said with a wink. While that had been going on, Tom was staring at them in mock horror. This was the last thing he had expected from this place. Finally after regaining his wits he spoke up.

"Hey, I don't appreciate you talking to my sister like that." Tom spoke up angrily. Melissa flashed him a glance and tried to get this newcomer to let them leave.

The stallion turned around and glared at Tom. "Why are you so protective of your sister? She doesn't look like she had ever gotten any action, probably because of you!" Tom angrily got up and was about to punch him when he felt something strange on his back. He turned around and saw he was now wearing a harness with his old gun attached to it.

The stallion backed up, now sure of what just happened. It was an odd feat of magic for that to appear, even if Tom was a unicorn. However Tom didn't even think to use the gun, he was so transfixed on how it had gotten there. When he felt his anger leave him, the gun dissipated in a cloud of red smoke. He put two and two together, red smoke and anger. That's what made it appear.

"Ok, sorry, I'll just leave now. I don't know what that was, but I'm not going to be the first to find out." The stallion then trotted away like nothing had happened.

"Wow Tom, so you still have your gun?" Melissa remarked.

"Yeah, I guess, pretty cool, but I figure it only appears if I'm angry." Tom sighed, wanting to have his gun all the time.

"Well, let's get to Twilight's, before something else appears on my body." Tom smirked, and was followed by Melissa as the two made their way throughout the town.

Chapter 12: Magical Emotions

"Cat! Hey cat?" I trotted up the stairs yelling for my companion, hoping she could be somewhat submissive to getting up. It wasn't even that early, how could she sleep this late? Shrugging off my minor thoughts I trotted into the room I was currently staying at.

"Cat, get up!" I heard incoherent mumbling from below the sheets, I rolled my eyes and attempted to push her to get her moving. Then a better idea hit my mind. She would probably kill me in retrospect but hey, it's worth a shot. Racing down to the bottom of the steps I grabbed something with my magic, and promptly filled it with water. Then, carefully making my way up to not spill the water I made it to the room once again. I grinned evilly as a made my way over to Cat.

Three...

Two...

One... A semi-loud splash soon followed.

BULLET WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK!?

I giggled as my friend, now dripping wet, made her way over to me, not looking happy, at all. She raised a hoof to do who knows what and silently lowered it, making her way downstairs. I was now on the ground laughing so hard I couldn't get up. I was still laughing for the better half of the next minute and regained my composure. I walked down the steps again to be greeted by a torrent of water as I hit the last floor.

"Celestiadammit," was my only reaction. It was utterly embarrassing to have my own trick be used against me. I watched in embarrassment as the 6 ponies in the room laughed at me. I sighed and made my way up to the room again, not wanting to deal with them. I flopped down onto the bed and sighed louder than before. This was not how I had planned the day to go, especially after what had happened with that "Melissa" mare. That made me smile, however. I slowly returned to my feet and made my way downstairs, willing to swear at anypony who tried to get in my way, whether it be by words or actions. I made by way back downstairs for the 500th time today.

"Hey Bullet, glad to see you're all dry." Cat smirked at me.

"Go fuck yourself." I simply said back, she seemed surprised but that added to what I wanted.

"What did I do wrong, I only did what you did to me." She replied.

"Don't go all philosopher on me," I growled in response. She stayed silent, then I realized I was being stared down by everypony else in the room, fuck me.

"What are you all staring at?" I said, trying to stay calm, I got really angry when ponies stared at me for long periods of time, it made me feel like I wanted to stay in a ball forever.

"Oh nothing, I didn't know you ponies knew how to swear." Church remarked.

"All of these ponies may not, but remember, I'm not from around this time. By the way, Twilight where is my armor?"

"I have it in safekeeping in my basement," she replied. I sighed, not wanting to part with my invention, but it would not be accepted if I walked around with armor on.

"I'm still not convinced that you didn't steal humans armor design," Tex grumbled. I looked at her for a second with a glare that said words that didn't need to be said.

"I didn't even know humans existed, let alone stealing their armor," I glared at her. She just smirked at me and went back to thinking about Celestia knows what. I couldn't help but feel a sense of awkwardness in the room. It was odd, very odd.

"So Tom, I think I figured something out. You told me that you had an arsenal of you're "weapons" correct?" The black stallion nodded his head. "Well, since anger brought a weapon out, lets try other emotions."

"Ma'am, that's not a good idea, I can't feel any emotions, I'm a soldier, they burned that out of us." Tom said, with exactly no emotion. I was perplexed, our military still had emotions, I think.

"Well, we will see what we can do, and you don't have to call me ma'am. I'm not that old," Twilight said with a chuckle.

"Sorry, uh... What do you want me to call you?" Tom said, I thought he looked pained not to be able to say "ma'am".

"Just Twilight is fine," she replied.

"Ok, Twilight." He said, purposely longing each syllable, it was pathetic, he can't even stand to say a name.

"Since sadness is an emotion..." Melissa trailed off, I gulped at what she could possible be thinking. "Tom... Jake said before we left, he wanted to break up the family, he hates you. He doesn't want to talk to you ever again." Tom turned around with his face that could have been chiseled from stone, but I thought I saw a gleam of a tear in his eye. Suddenly with a flash of blue light, a large looking gun appeared on his back. Everypony in the room backed up.

"Whoa, Tom, you're rocket launcher is back." Melissa said. He looked behind himself, and sure enough was a mounted rocket launcher to him. I stared at it for a long time, human weaponry looked very different than our weaponry. I shuddered at what something like that could do.

"Jake, he needs to be talked to NOW!" I cowered before his voice, even though he wasn't talking to me. He moved to move out the door, while Cat, Tex, Church, Twilight, Melissa, and myself all stared in horror.

"Melissa, I hope to Celestia you where joking!" Twilight yelled.

"I was, but I didn't think he would just take off!" She replied, shuddering.

"Go get him, you're a pegasus, just fly to him." Twilight replied dryly.

"I don't know how..." Melissa hung her head, I couldn't stand to see her like this, even if I only knew her for a few minutes. I ran outside to catch up with the angry and sad stallion.

Chapter 13: Enemy of the State

Deep inside the Everfree Forest, where nopony has dared to venture, an ancient evil stirs, the new arrivals igniting it's presence with their ways. Earthquakes shook the ground, timberwolves ran for cover, trees falling all around the epicenter, the one who emerges is a unicorn. Hell bent on destroying Equestria's life as they know it. Another pony, a unicorn, rose up beside him, speaking a dark ominous voice.

"Sir, what awakens us?" The unicorn, who is presumed to be the leaders right hand buck.

"Evil, I feel it all around us, somepony or ponies with evil in their hearts broke my seal, I have been waiting for this day for a millennium." Turning around he faced his partner, horn glowing with a black light. "You shall be my scout Striker, do not let the princesses know of your presence, for I fear they already know we arose. I will awaken our brethren and together with the help of this evil presence we shall bring Equestria to it's knees, me and you will have our rightful place." Striker nodded once and teleported away. The unicorn began to chant a mysterious spell, unknown by anypony of this time. The ground began to shake again as torn apart remains of ponies began to rise up...

"Let us be free my brethren!"

"Tom, wait for me!" I yelled in the angry stallion's direction. Hoping he would at least slow down for a bit. Seeing as that was not the case, I tried to keep up with him, but due to my small size I couldn't decrease the gap. My stubby legs were not helping my case at all, I kept tripping over things, hoping I didn't lose him. The sound of half stomping half running could be heard a mile away though, so my worries vanished along with my energy. I was trying to keep up with him, not only for whoever Jake was, but for Melissa as well.

Tom turned around as I got closer, he glared at me. I noticed he now had two guns on his back, side by side.

"What do you want child?" He asked menacingly. I wasn't caught off guard by anything but that he called me a child.

"I'm a child? A child! Let me tell you something fucker, I created armor, I'm from the future, and I am sure as Tartarus that I have done more than you." My small filly voice didn't help me, but I got the point across.

"You still seem like a child, and I have saved my world from... Well that's classified." I've heard the term before, but most ponies just used "it's a secret".

"So then you've done nothing, is what you're telling me?" I said with a smirk.

"You know what..." He growled at me, his horn glowing with... Power? A few seconds afterward a rocket launched itself from his large gun. Impacting me but not blowing up, instead it bowled me over and roared past me. I felt everything slipping away, my vision began to darken. That bitch, shot me, after what I was doing for him.

"I was... Trying... To help... you," my breathing becoming erratic as I fought for consciousness. The stallion now visibly stunned was trying to help me up... Wait what?

"What... are you... doing?" I asked, my vision darkening.

"I act on impulse, sorry..." Really? That was all he could say?

"Fuck... you!" I hardly managed, slipping away from the light even more. Although with my gaze locked on him I could see him wince, that doesn't make up for anything though.

"You're lucky that I have this modified, otherwise you would have blown up on impact." Tom said, on the verge of looking like he was going to cry, damn, he could hide his emotions well. The headache began to hurt more and my surroundings continued to get dimmer.

"Don't... hurt... your... brother... it... wasn't..." Everything went black.

Tom stared at my limp body, he looked stunned by the new news, even though he didn't get to hear the whole thing. He let my body fall with a soft *thump* against the ground, he looked in the distance and the rest of the ponies excluding Tex and Church came running in our direction.

"Tom!" Melissa yelled, "What did you do?" The guns on Tom's back disappeared, no longer was he feeling emotion.

"I shot her," he stated simply, with no remorse for his actions.

"You what!?" Melissa screamed.

"I shot her with my rocket launcher, she should be fine though, it didn't blow up on impact."

"Tom... If she blacked out then obviously she isn't fine! You idiot! What happened to keeping low?" Melissa broke a fuse and started ranting.

"Look Melissa, I'm not sure if you noticed, but I'm not ready to break up the family yet, so while you yell at yourself, I'm going to go talk to Jake."

"I only said that to try a different emotion, Jake never actually said any of those things..." Melissa trailed off.

A shadow, not seen by pony eyes, slipped into Tom.

"You... Lied... To me... About... That!? You ignorant whelp, can't you go one time without joking!?" Melissa had tears in her eyes.

"Is that all I am to you? A whelp? Nothing?" Melissa cried.

"No... No... No! I have no idea what came over me to say that," Tom moved to help his sister.

"Get away from me! Don't talk to me ever again! You hear?" With that Melissa galloped away as fast as she could. Leaving behind, her sad brother, Cat, my unconscious body, and Twilight.

"How was your scouting mission?"

"Sir, I had to slip into one of the newcomers bodies, I amped up the relation between him and the relationship to his other friends. I, however, did study them before I did so. I think we can take this one called "Tom". His friends seem to have left him after his outburst."

"Striker you did a grand job, he will be our first target. Scout again try to find the other newcomers that bring darkness to this dreaded good world."

"Yes sir!" With that Striker left the forest behind, moving towards our beloved newcomers.

Chapter 11: The One, The Only, Me. (Revised, for easier ways to tell who's speaking)

Sunlight, the damned sunlight. Every time I wake up it's directly in my eyes. Makes me want to go punch... Er... Something... I got up after my internal rant about the sun, not eager to start the new day, at all. After looking around and panicking for 10 minutes, I had finally remembered where we were. The thoughts about it being a dream had resurfaced and were instantly erased as the feeling of "you will be here, forever," came into play. After looking around the room I noticed Cat was still sleeping.

I opened the door as quiet as possible and made my way to the lower level of the library. No sooner than three seconds that I walked into the kitchen I was instantly greeted by two mares, a stallion, and a dragon.

"Hey guys, how's life?" I said in the calmest voice I could muster. (The way Tex looked at me, scared me.)

"Haha, well same with every other fucking time in the future you ask me, it's a living hell." Church chuckled and glanced over at Tex who had finally dropped her gaze from me.

"Why is your life so bad? I mean, I know you guys got turned into ponies and all that but still." At first I thought I had insulted them, but seeing as how he answered the question my fear dropped.

"Well, we were finally getting our lives back on track but then this happened. So yeah, give me around... Forever to get used to here."

"Oh come on Church, stop being a bitch." Tex replied readily.

"Who's the bitch?" Church smugly replied.

Tex grumbled and went back to her thoughts, probably wishing she never opened her mouth in the first place. A sudden question hit my mind.

"What did you guys do before you got here?"

"Nothing, I sat in a place called blood gulch and did jack shit. Until I learned I wasn't even real, that's when shit got interesting. Everyone in the room stared at Church for awhile before he finally elaborated on what he meant.

"I'm an AI fragment, meaning I'm like a computer. So this eating and going to the bathroom shit is weird." I must have looked even more confused than before, because I still had no idea what he was talking about.

"Look, since I'm not real, at least when I found out I wasn't real, I didn't eat ever. I hadn't even gotten the urge." Now it was starting to make sense, a little.

Everyone turned their heads as we heard a knock on the door.

"I'll get it!" Twilight said in a singsong voice.

Two ponies that I didn't know entered the room. The stallion being all black and the mare had a beautiful purple coat and pink hair.

"You realize this is a public library, no need to knock." Twilight scolded the two newcomers.

"Yeah, it's still the right thing to do right?" The stallion said in a calm voice.

"I guess, but still, for the future just come on, unless it says closed."

He nodded his head and both of them came into the room with us. I couldn't drop my gaze from the mare, goddammit I think she noticed. She gave me a glance and I quickly looked the other way. I then looked in her direction again, but this time I stared at her flanks, those nice and... Whoa back up the train from creepy town for a second, she doesn't have cutie marks.

"Hey Bullet, what are you looking at?" Twilight had caught my gaze and was giving me an awkward smile. I choked back my saliva that had been apparently forming on my mouth and thought of an answer.

"I uh... Um... Yeah, nothing." I said, looking very embarrassed. I looked at the wall while the others continued conversing.

"Well, today my gun appeared out of no where, I think it was because I got angry." Tom said, explaining to Twilight why they had come. He said something about family issues but I wasn't paying much attention. I was to busy staring at the mare. She was beautiful in everyway. I found myself once again staring at her flanks... Again... I wasn't noticed seeing as how I was basically hiding behind them all. They were all talking in a circle at the table. I was so entranced by... Her... I hadn't noticed she had turned her head and was staring at me. A bit of drool falling from my mouth had brought me out of my trance, I saw she had a devious smile on her face. She then quickly dropped it.

"Um, sorry, just wondering why you didn't have a cutie mark." I said embarrassed, she looked at me and smiled, not a friendly smile, but a devious one. I slowly looked away and stared at the floor.

"Well Tom, I'm not completely sure why magic had done that, but your magic seems to directly conflict with your emotions." Twilight said, she had been talking to Tom about his sudden magical appearance. All of it was gibberish to me, I didn't understand half of it. I mean, who would? Magic controlled by emotions is impossible, unless of course, something is wrong with their bodies. I can totally understand that if they are actually humans, I still have my doubts. I was still staring at the floor and then I felt a warm breath against my cheek. I turned up to look at who had done it, and I instantly met the mares lips. They were so soft, like a cloud, I never wanted to leave the warm embrace. I finally opened my eyes and I was staring into the other mares eyes, they were transfixed on mine.

"Melissa!" The stallion yelled. She instantly broke the kiss and turned around, behind her four very confused ponies were standing.

"Damn, I've seen some things in my lifetime, but that was not on the list. If only Tucker were here." Church was laughing in the background. Melissa was blushing, probably because she didn't want to be seen. I, however, didn't make it any better by standing there in mock horror. I could tell the heat was rising to my cheeks and I was blushing, hard. She then turned around and gave me a smile, walking up to me at the same time. When she was at my ear, she whispered something.

"To be continued," Her voice was so smooth and pretty, she then trotted back over to the four other confused ponies. I simply turned around and walked to my room, not sure how to take this. Yes, it was always my dream to be with another mare, but this... This was amazing. I had finally done it! Wait... She never said anything about being my marefriend... This is going to be a long day. I trotted up to my room intent on getting Cat's flank up and moving.

PSA: Intermission 1

"Hi my name is Micheal J Caboose from the in-famous story namely named "Nightshade Squad" oh and I HATE BABIES!"

"Yes Caboose we got that silly, now quit eating all the muffin mix!"

"Are those two seriously at it again?"

"Grif just ignore it, let's get this over with. Hi my name is Dick Simmons from the same story that Caboose mentioned earlier."

"My name is Dexter Grif from the same story."

"Grif and I are here to talk to you about the elements of good writing, isn't that right Grif?"

"Yeah, yeah, whatever gets me eating faster."

"Oh come on fat ass, we haven't even starred in a chapter for over a month because the author has had some family problems lately."

"Who cares? I just want food, I don't give a damn if we do a chapter now or next year."

"You just ate like two hours ago..."

"That's an hour and 30 minutes over when I wanted to eat."

"You know, ever since we turned into horses, you have been nothing but a jackass."

"Who you calling jackass, jackass."

"Anyway, so onto the writing. First off is character."

"Boring..."

"Shut the fuck up. Anyway, characters play an important part in stories such as this one, without us characters what would a story be?"

"Boring, even with characters, still boring."

"Grif, now would you like to tell the nice people about the difference between a flat and dynamic character?"

"Simmons come on, you know I don't know what either of those mean." Simmons simply facehoofed.

"Anyway, as you may know, this story right now has just introduced the bad guy. And by bad guy, I mean the guy who's going to shoot and kill Grif first." A faint yelling could be heard a mile away.

"Hey that's my job!" Yelled Sarge.

"Fuck you guys."

"Ease up, ponies don't know what fucking guns are, remember?"

"Yeah, what about magic?"

"I hate you, and your random moments that actually make sense."

"Fuck, that made sense, well now I have to go make up for that." Grif walked away, probably thinking of the many ways he could protect his self image.

"Well seeing as how Grif walked off, seems as though that's about it. Stay tuned for more chapters or even some more PSAs."

"I HATE BABIES"

"Yeah Caboose... We got that..."

((A/N)) *So I apologize for not updating this story recently. I ran into family problems and well working on other stories. So I hope that you guys retain your patience and hopefully I can get a chapter out soon. I love you all and have a good day!*