The city of Chicago was once the third most populated city of America besides New York and Los Angeles and one could argue that this was still the case the only difference was that the once living streets were now filled with the infected during day time they shuffled around aimlessly in search of food, but at night well at night it looked like someone decided to inject them with adrenaline and the slow, stupid infected became true predators they became fast and whilst still dumb they were much more ferocious.

The city was silent as the stage from dusk to night started not many sounds were heard, but from the few sounds that were made only one wasn’t natural and that was the sound of metal clashing and before that shooting. Whilst in the streets the infected were busy shuffling aimlessly for the last few moments of the day before the night would give the renewed power on the construction site of a medium sized office building two men were battling with each other both willing to fight to the very end.

One of those men was James Hendrik Miller. He was wearing a brown leather jacket, A grey shirt underneath it, blue jeans with knee and shin guards strapped to his legs, black leather boots. He kept gazing at his opponent with dull brown eyes. The same eyes who belonged to a man who lived in a hell and had faced and survived the horrors of said hell. His black hair was a mess it was dirty and sticky of the sweat that had covered his entire body as a result of the fight around his body hung multiple bandoliers full with ammunition for the his fire arms not that they mattered for the moment both men had managed to get rid of their opponent fire arm leaving them to a deadly melee weapon fight.

Finally he wore an old WW2 helmet giving to him from his grand-father who served in the Atlantic theatre and thick brown leather gloves originally he had also worn a black bandana around his face, but his opponent had managed to pull it off of him leaving it on the ground not that it mattered to James as he found it easier to fight without it.

His opponent was truly a dangerous nemesis he had to admit and a persistent one as well. He didn’t know his true name, but back in New York where he had first encountered the man the survivors had nicknamed him the Medicine man as seemingly the man was capable of making medicines an extremely use full trait in the apocalypse he had to admit. James had to admit he knew jack shit about the Medicine man. He didn’t knew his origin, his name, where he came from, but he knew what he wanted a map James and his companions had managed to find in the King country hospital in New York city.

The map contained information about safe zones, military outposts, heavily infected area’s, etc quite use full so when he demanded that map saying they weren’t enthusiastic about his idea would be an understatement. He had claimed to have found the map first and store it there, but that was quite easy to say about such use full stuff wasn’t it definitely in an apocalypse an well long story short they had managed to drive him off and since then he had stalked them, attempted multiple times to steal the map and had killed a few of them.

James eyes started stinging as he remembered how the Medicine man had shot his friend Samuel after Sam like James had nicknamed him refused to tell him their whereabouts talking about the Medicine man James shot out of his trance in time to duck underneath a swing of one of the mountain climbing pickaxes of the Medicine man who used them as axes they perhaps didn’t look dangerous as weapons in comparison to James machete, but they definitely where.

He didn’t knew anything about the Medicine man’s past so he didn’t knew whether this guy had combat experience or not, but he was in any case good with those two mountain climbing pickaxes and whilst his hand to hand combat wouldn’t beat a professional soldier for new recruits it perhaps would do the trick as well as for most normal civilians lucky thing James family was a military one and that meant James had gotten some training already.

Both fighters had advantages and disadvantages James clothing allowed for more maneuverability and agility whereas the clothing of the Medicine man allowed some more protection against hits. The Medicine man wore something that looked like an own fabrication as the black vest he was wearing had metal plates in it as well as some heavier cloth in between to prevent the metal plates from hitting each other with shoulder pats as well as build in elbow protectors James had tried it before and no bullets didn’t seem to be able to penetrate that jacket.

His pants were a lot simpler just ordinary black jeans with knee and shin guards attached to his legs. He also wore black leather boots and finally a metal mask also bullet proof in case you ask underneath the vest he probably wore a black sweater with a high collar as it covered his entire neck.

The mask itself was rather terrifying if you didn’t expect to see it. The mask was mostly white except for the right upper quarter of the mask if you looked good you saw two dull gray-green eyes lurking from the depth of the eye holes it was strapped around his head with two strong straps to ensure It was nearly impossible to loose in a battle.

Normally seen the medicine man also wore a long black raincoat with the hood pulled over his head so you could literally see nothing of his body, but he had taken it off earlier on as too increase his agility thus enabling people to see the messy brown sweaty hair whilst it wasn’t warm it definitely wasn’t cold so James couldn’t help, but wonder how that guy managed to keep wearing that entire attire sometimes replacing his mask with a gasmask whenever he felt like starting to use those blasted gas grenades of his.

The two men clashed again with their weapons. James using his machete to hold one pick axe in place whilst grabbing his opponent wrist to keep the other in check after a few seconds his opponent decided to stop trying to move the pickaxes instead using a good old headbutt to make James stumble back a few feet.

The Medicine man let out a loud battle cry as he attacked once again mercilessly trying to break through James defenses a loud roar was heard not far of their position, but neither of the two paid attention to it one to busy trying to impale the other with his ice pickaxes and the other too busy trying to not get impaled by the ice pickaxes

James tried everything he could think off, but the Medicine man was the better melee weapon fighter of the two. He felt a stinging pain in his right leg as one of the ice pickaxes was slashed with a lot of force in the leg making him drop on the ground, but right before his opponent could finish him a huge beast rammed a hole through the wall whilst letting out an ear deafening battle cry. James paled and he was pretty sure that the medicine paled underneath his mask as well after all standing face to face with a berserker type infected does tend to do that to you.

James made use of the temporary distraction of his opponent to use his machete to cut deep in his leg not deep enough to hit the bone it did the trick his opponent stood rather close to the edge and the cut destabilized him enough to make him fall over. James heard a loud BOOM!!! As the body of his nemesis hit the ground followed by some agonizing cries of pain. He allowed himself to briefly look over the edge to see his nemesis status and found the Medicine man laid impaled on the ground by three sharp metal pipes disabling him from almost any movement to be honest it was a wonder the guy was still alive.

He only looked briefly at his fallen enemy as the berserker started charging towards him and with his wounded leg there was no way he was going to get away berserkers where one of the few species of infected that seemed to be able to run, etc during day as well. The berserker grabbed him and right before it wanted to kill him the concrete bar that supported that part of the floor forsake underneath the enormous weight of the berserker and James, the berserker and a part of the building went falling.

The impaled, but still living Medicine man could only watch in horror as he saw everything that came falling towards him. He closed his eyes and relaxed taking peace with his fate as James did the same in the knowledge his remaining companions would be save from the mad man that had followed them all the way from New York to Chicago both men completely relaxed as a bright light engulfed both of them.

****

Twilight was slowly adjusting to life in the palace seeing as she was the princess of magic ponies with magic came to her and seeing as Canterlot housed a lot of unicorns she was busy seeing as next to that she also needed to deal with affairs from the state needless to say she was BUSY!!!! in her free time she studied in the library and searched for new spells, etc. One day she found a trans-dimensional spell and her curiosity got the best of her of course she didn’t want to risk messing something up in the library so she memorized the spell and headed for her room to try it out there.

She focused all her magic and started activating the spell it required a big amount of energy much more than she had anticipated, but still within her power. A big white portal opened in the ceiling of her room and she closed her eyes to better concentrate when suddenly she heard two loud THUMP’S!!!! The sound of two things hitting the floor. She allowed herself to reopen her eyes and saw two beings.

She let out a small shriek and ran to the door. The guards who stood in front looked at her as she pointed at the middle one. “You go and get the princesses immediately!!!”

The guard saluted before running off as quick as possible a few minutes passed before princess Celestia appeared before her in a flash of white light. “Twilight why did you call for me ad with such urgency,” Celestia asked confused.

“Come in and look for yourself,” Twilight exclaimed enthusiastically before sprinting back into her room followed loosely by Celestia who immediately noticed the two strange beings laying on the floor.

“I used one of Starswirl The Bearded secret spells a trans-dimensional spell and I got actual living beings not some rock or something else actual living organic beings,” Twilights excitement was definitely noticeable.

Celestia looked at a loss these beings certainly didn’t look very peaceful and one of them was wearing an extremely unnerving mask it also looked like both of them carried a backpack the masked one also holding a black sport bag with what looked like some king of feline animal in white on it in his right hand.

Before she could say something another flash of light appeared in the room revealing her sister princess Luna who also noticed the two unconscious bipeds in the room. “May we ask thou why there are two unconscious beings on thine floor Twilight?”

After Twilight told the story to the princesses both seemed to think what to do next. “Well, seeing as we are probably stuck with those two uhm creatures for a while the best course of action we can do is probably trying to make them feel not threatened so for the time being I shall take one of them to my room to rest hopefully when it wakes up we can talk about this situation on a civil way,” Celestia proposed.

“Wouldn’t it be better to keep them in the same room perhaps they could calm each other down,” Twilight asked curiously.

“We agree with our sister on this one these creatures have just as much chance of having a soothing effect on each other as they have to have the opposite in group they might feel more safer to engage in hostilities than they are when separated,”

Twilight saw Luna’s point perhaps separated the two beings would less likely resort to violence. “So the masked one stays here?”

“No, we shall take him to our room. Thy deserve thine rest after performing such powerful spell,” Luna said before disappearing in a flash of light together with the masked creature and the stuff it had with it her example was followed shortly after by Celestia who took the other one and his stuff with her.

****

“It’s waking up!” A female voice said shortly followed by a male one who asked whether or not his eyes where responsive.

James tried to rub his eyes, but found they were bound. He tried to recall what had happened and slowly he remembered his fight with the Medicine man. “What had happened? Had he survived the fall and had someone been able to find him underneath the debris? How? He should have been death by now no one survives such thing.

“Get princess Celestia,” The male voice commanded followed shortly by what sounded like galloping.

“What is it? I have never seen something like him in Equestria?” A second female voice asked.

Okay, he was officially done with this bullshit. Princess Celestia, Equestria he knew those names well enough, but seriously this was an extremely bad joke from these guy. James opened his eyes and what he saw next stunned him in front of him were a few ponies.

“WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!” James exclaimed.

****

Meanwhile in princess Luna’s room the Medicine man or like he was really named Johann Wolf was in a similar position.
“What do you think It is?” He heard a female voice ask.

“It looks like some kind of ape although that mask prevents us from getting a good view I shall remove it to get a better look BIG FUCKING MISTAKE!!! From who ever said that combined with the fact they had bound the straps that bound him to the bed too loose within five seconds Johann had his fingers clutched tightly around someone’s throat when he opened his eyes he was met with two sights he had not expected. First being a gray horse thing whose neck he had in his hands and second being in a large room with dark purple walls with various emblems of a crescent moon in it.

“Where am I,” Johann hissed at the stallion who was petrified by fear. Johann could read the feelings of the horse fear, confusion even slight curiosity after a few seconds the stallion managed to stutter out one word a word he had heard for the last time a long time ago “Equestria.”

Before any of the two horses could do anything else Johann gripped what he guessed was a nurse and slammed the two’s head together not hard enough to kill, but hard enough to make them fall unconscious on the bed.

Johann tried to get out of the bed only to be stopped by a giant shot of pain in his chest which forced him down again. He managed to make his stomach area visible and saw three rather big scars on the spots where he remembered the metal pipes had managed to impale him. “Damn it that bastard got me good!”

He however saw his bag next to the bed and raised an eyebrow. “Yeah, like it isn’t hard enough to believe being in a land of talking horses they not only somehow saved me from death, but also got my stuff with me oh well better get those painkillers.”

He opened the bag and found the painkillers and took a few of them the effects went active within the next minute as the pain slowly disappeared after a good three minutes he didn’t feel any pain anymore and he attempted a second attempt at getting up this time earning the desired effect. He was to his satisfaction still completely covered meaning no one had seen his face. Johann really didn’t like it if people saw his face after all what use is a mask if everyone knows who’s underneath it.

To his relief he had his entire arsenal of weapons with him from his improvised gas grenades to the more lethal guns his personal favorite the Karabiner 98 Kurz or short Kar98k equipped with a telescopic sight this was truly a masterpiece. They could say about Nazi Germany everything they wanted, but they needed to admit the Germans knew how to build weapons. He made sure the weapon was armed not that he intended to kill any of the horses if he truly was in another world which it looked like he didn’t want to piss off the inhabitants of it (too much).

The Lunar guards that stood outside of princess Luna’s room looked at the door as it slowly opened a small container of some sort rolled outside and before any could respond the contained started shooting some kind of cloud everywhere before no time all the guards laid unconscious. The door opened again and a masked man walked through the cloud Johann had used the time to switch his normal mask with his gas mask.

He carefully made his way past the unconscious guards. “Sleeping gas such a handy thing wouldn’t you say,” Johann asked a sleeping guard and after getting no response after a few seconds he added. “Silence means you agree.” Before he continued his way through the castle hallways.

****

Princess Celestia arrived at her room when she heard. “HOW DID IT BREAK LOOSE?” followed by the sound of things getting thrown. The guard who had accompanied her readied himself, but she gestured him to stand down which he reluctantly did before using her magic to open the door almost immediately some ponies ran out of the room the last one being followed by a flowerpot.

She entered the room where she managed to duck just in time to dodge a vase which had been thrown her way and catch another one with her magic. “WHAT THE HELL DID YOU GUYS DO WITH ME?! TELL ME WHAT KIND OF DRUGS DID YOU USE TO POISON ME?!”

The biped yelled with a volume that could rival her sister’s royal voice. “We didn’t poison you. Princess Twilight used a spell which pulled you in our world!” This calmed him down.

“Why?”

“She tried out a spell and well she hadn’t expected you to come out of the portal she created,” Celestia explained as calmly as possible as not to aggravate the creature anymore.

Before the creature could reply a flash of light appeared revealing her sister who shot a vase at the creatures head knocking it out.

“Woohoo we have saved thee from this creature,” Luna exclaimed happily. Celestia could only gawk at her sister with open mouth.
“Luna you just knocked out the creature when I finally managed to get his interest.”

Luna happy expression went from happy to shocked and finally to embarrassed. “We believe we have like ponies these days would say bucked up,” Luna replied whilst a small blush formed on her cheeks and she started looking at the ground.

“Well first contact cannot get any worse,” Celestia sighted like fate wanted to mess with her a guard opened the door of her room and said. “Princess the second creature has escaped!”

“Of course it does,” Celestia muttered under her breath.

Author's Note

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