Once a Soldier always a soldier

A day’s work is never finished.

I woke up and I sat up rubbing my eyes. How I hate hangovers. I looked around the room smaking my lips freezing when I felt the bed shifting along with a breath along with the smell of sex in the air. I looked down to see a red mare. “What the hell happened last night?” I said to myself just before the door burst open revealing a smiling Shield.

“So, it looks like you got some.” he said with a wide smile; involuntary answering my question

“You know if I had my fingers I would be showing you  one.” I said flatly carefully getting out of bed making sure not to wake the mare in my bed.

He shrugged. “I have no idea what the hell fingers are but, if it anything like claws, you are probably talking about the middle one right?” he said with a small chuckle.

My face went flat. “lets get out of here, so I can start my training and get briefed.” I said walking to the door just to get stopped by shield.

Shield raised a hoof and shook his head. “No need, you are already trained. This is how we do it here. Well, in a hurry anyways” he said motioning his head to go outside. The moment that I got outside the door. A unicorn pined me against the wall and flared his horn. The moment it touched my forehead vision began to appear in my eyes and I could see it all. Weapons, training, tactics, vehicles and the briefing. I’m going after what they call Changelings. I shook my head to see the out stretched hoof of Shield.

“That... was a ride.” I said. I rubbed my head again for the first time not from my hangover.

“yeah, now lets get going we are going to miss the chopper.” he said slugging my legs. I glared at him rubbing it following behind him. “And that is pay back for last night.”

We were quiet as we reached the chopper and climbed on. My mind was racing as I realized where I was going. I am going to one of the most dangerous places on this world. Right into the Changeling hive. I was thinking for most of the two hour long ride then, I looked in the horizon to see the mountain where it is. The chopper slowed down and began to decent into a small clearing. I jumped off along with shield and two others. I looked at them. “Private frozen water, and Private Hog.” Is what my head briefing said that were they're names. We began to move along a valley stealthily as not to get detected by any sentries.My head breifing was telling me everything as we went along, It put an image in my mind. They look like ponies but, what creeps me out is that they have holes covering their bodies, scaly bodies and insect wings. I kept my rifle ready as just in case of an ambush learning from the IED strike. There have been rumors as I was able to figure out from the ponies from the chopper, that these changelings can change into any living thing they desire as long as they have a good mental picture that i backed up with the mental briefing. which means I can’t even trust the last two ponies for now. We walked into a large ancient court yard in front of what looks like a castle. We kept an eye out for anything as we walked to the entrance  Shield stopped in front of the entrance and pressed his ear against the door. He looked at me and nodded to some rocks about seventy-five yards away. We all ran to it just and jumped behind them.“Lets blow this popsicle stand.” he said just before the door exploded and swarms of black bugs came out; the buzzing was hurting my ears. The blast pretty much kicked the hornets nest. oh the irony.

We all began to fire our rifles taking out as many as possible before the got to us. Some went into the air and tried to dive into us. I smiled lining up my shots . “you get lead.” I said shooting a bullet into a changeling's head making it fall onto the ground never to get up again. I got a grin on my face as I began to shoot again. I was firing with precision firing in bursts killing one changeling at a time.  “here’s your present. your’s. and I can’t forget about you!” I said shooting three changelings out of the air. My ears perked up again as a changeling was rushing from behind me. “AND YOU GET COAL!” I yelled I swung around and hitting the changeling with butt of the gun, stunning it. It fell onto the ground shocked the expertise of the attack and it looked up. I lowered my rifle to its head. “Ho Ho Ho motherfucker.” I said just before I pulled the trigger splattering green goo across the ground.  I smiled truing around to see that the changelings were setting a defensive position firing orbs of green I say plasma. I chuckled a little. “Just like back home. except, for all of the weird shit here." i said firing on a pair of changeling bombers.