The Gates

by Quillton

Rating: mature
Tags: Big Macintosh, Adventure, Princess Celestia, Sex, Winona, Human, Main 6, Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Alternate Universe, Granny Smith, Romance, Princess Luna, Original Character, Spike, Comedy, Cutie Mark Crusaders
Length: 40972

A human falls into Equestria, this one hopefully will be unique.

This was my very first fiction, i have no plans on changing something as monumental as this so just try your best to enjoy it for what it is. Cole O'Reilly is an emotionless soldier, he has killed hundreds and has ruined the lives of a thousand more. His agency has sent him on an important mission not to anywhere on Earth, but on a new planet. On this new planet he discovers intelligent life, and a dark secret that should not have been revealed. Now Cole must face his greatest challenge and his greatest foe. As he fights two different wars on two different planets, in two different universes.

Published 2011-10-31 03:22:53 UTC
Last updated 2011-11-15 16:56:53 UTC

The Mission

A taxi pulled up to an old abandoned barn, the rain pouring so hard onto the car it almost sounded like rocks were being dropped from the sky, a man wearing a dark coat and sunglasses emerged from the car into the rainy night, the cab driver poked his head out of his window and asked loudly, trying to speak over the rain, “Hey! Aren’t you gonna’ pay?”

The mysterious man turned to the annoyed and soaked driver and said in a German accent, “I’m terribly sorry, but you shouldn’t even know I exist.” He then pulled out a silenced HK USP and shot the driver in his right eye, blood, bits of his brain, chunks of bloody eye, and tiny shards of his skull exploded out the back and splattered all over the side of his car; leaving his head at an odd angle and his body in a painful looking position. The German man approached the doors of the barn and opened them; he made sure no one else saw him enter the building even though they were in the middle of nowhere.

Once he had closed the doors he went to the back of one of the horse stalls, the room so old not even hay littered the floor; broken windows were letting puddles of water form and the place had an eerie feeling to it. He opened up the closet at the back of the room and what looked like a wall on the other side was actually a door, he opened the door by simply pushing on it and the door slid to the left as though a machine was guiding it. Once he entered he hung up his coat and hat and continued walking down a blue hall with lights about every two meters on the ceiling, it resembled a hallway found in those sci-fi movies. An elevator waited for him at the end of the narrow hallway, the elevator being barely big enough for the man opened gently as he entered and closed the same.

Two minutes later the man had arrived at his destination, there in front of him was only a door, with a card reader directly to the left of the door. He pulled a card out of his pocket and swiped it through the machine, a small beep and a voice emanated from the machine saying, “Welcome Albrecht Freud.”

As the doors opened, Albrecht returned his card to his pocket and entered a room containing giant computers, thousands of people were working at these computers all of different countries, people running around and spoke quickly, at the top of the room in a glass box looked to be a room for board of directors, only it had no graphs, only blueprints. Computers were facing every wall calculating trajectory, velocity, mass, and calculations involving atoms, the center held one of the most spectacular inventions humanity has never known.

Albrecht walked up the stairs to the glass box where three men were standing; he pushed open the glass doors and dropped a document into the hands of the lead scientist. Gazing through it he would lift his eyes up back at Albrecht and back at the documents, his lips suddenly stopped mimicking the words. His eyes looked back up at Albrecht and the young man said in a confused voice, “Really? Out of all of them you picked this place?”

Albrecht looked down at him and said, “Just because you’re an American graduate doesn’t mean you know better than me, I have my reasons for picking here. Besides, you shouldn’t have even seen this document. But I have full faith that you will keep this secret for the good of humanity; now remember these coordinates because now this document must be burnt.” He took the folder from the graduate’s hands and placed the document in the fire, only giving the others a quick moment to read the cover which was titled “Project: Gates”. “Now have you written the coordinates down?” Albrecht asked the lead scientist.

One of the others chipped in and said, “Yes, Project: Gates’ coordinates have been wri-” Unable to finish his sentence, Albrecht grabbed him by the throat and began squeezing. At first it was slow but he began to enjoy the feeling of his bare hands killing someone so he squeezed harder until a blood filled gurgle that was supposed to be a scream brought him back to his senses. He dropped the man to his knees and the man began coughing up blood as though his lungs were filled with it.

He turned to the coughing man and said in an angry voice, “Never repeat that name, or so help me I will cut you open and feed your living corpse to your children, now get to work.” As soon as he was done speaking the scientists left the room to the lower area and began talking to the others, as he watched over them Albrecht said to himself, “For humanity’s survival.”

Then suddenly a large explosion was heard nearby, not quite inside but close enough for it to be a warning of some sort, then the door to the lab was sent flying across the room as a lone man stood there, he was about the height of a 16 year old being no older than 19, he wore dark shades, an urban military like outfit and carried with him weapons that looked to be twenty years in the future. He said in a voice that contained no emotion, “Party’s over dipshits.” And began riddling the scientists with holes, he entered the glass room to find the German man hiding behind a chair. The soldier looked at the man and said, “You’ve been charged with acts of terrorism and holding of nuclear weapons and for that I’m going to make you shit sideways.” With that the soldier walked towards him and the German man shot his pistol right in his shoulder with no pain on the soldier’s face he said, “Big mistake.” He then grabbed the German’s bottom jaw and began pulling, at first the poor German was able to resist but the soldier was stronger than that and began pulling harder to the point where the German was screaming and then the breaking point was reached. The soldier tore off the man’s jaw with a loud snap and the German was then left there holding his jaw and drowning in his own blood.

As the soldier was leaving he looked at the fireplace, took out a small tube like device and pointed at the fire as it began to make a humming sound. Ashes started collecting and reforming into a document. Once the document was fully reformed, the soldier replaced his small device and took the documents with him. As he was exiting one of the remaining scientists said in a dying voice, “You still haven’t destroyed our greatest creation, this machine will still live!”

The soldier looked down at him, pulled a bullet from his jacket and brought it close so the scientist could see and said, “You see this? This is at first glance a simple 100-grain hollow point bullet, but it contains red phosphorus in dual compressed chambers, I simply have to press this little button, and all the bullets I have fired will explode.” With that the soldier stood up and began walking away, as he exited the door he pressed his little button on his wrist and hundreds of explosions all occurred at once and the facility was destroyed.

A few hours later the soldier, now known as Cole O’Reilly, arrived back at a secret station somewhere hidden in the Rockies. He entered a secret, all white facility similar to the one previously mentioned but with a higher cleanliness standard. He headed up the stairs to a room that looked like the United Nations only it wasn’t the leaders of the country in the room nor was it the military leaders, they were just unknown people with a lot of badges on their chest. Cole walked in and dropped Project: Gates on the table. The Chief and Lieutenant leaned in and looked through the pages and looked at Cole and the Chief said to him, “Good job, Cole, now all we need to do is have our engineers rebuild this machine and we will find out what this thing is and why it was built. We will contact you when this is done for you to investigate it.” With that Cole was gone, no thank you, no yes sire, not even any sign of emotion. Little did this emotionless soldier know that he was going to accomplish something no creature, or any form of matter would be capable of.

******
Meanwhile, somewhere in a completely different universe, in Ponyville, Twilight Sparkle was taking a simple stroll through town when she saw Pinkie Pie being her usual self. Yet something was different about Pinkie today, her entire body was shaking out of control. Twilight trotted up to Pinkie and asked her with a nervous look, “Pinkie, you’ve been shaking like this for the past few minutes, how big of a doozy do you think this will be?”

Pinkie just kept shaking like a vibrating phone on nuclear energy and said, “I dunno Twilight, but whatever it is, it’s going to be a bi-i-i-ig o-o-o-one” Then as soon as the shaking came the shaking stopped. “That’s weird,” Pinkie began, “the shaky-shaky usually means a doozy of a thing is supposed to happen, and nothing happened.” She then trotted off singing like nothing had ever happened to her. Twilight still had a nervous feeling though, she kept wondering what was going to happen, and when? Then she had an idea, why not ask one of her friends who’s lived here for a while. Then Twilight galloped her way to Sweet Apple Acres to find Applejack.

“Hey AJ,” Twilight exclaimed, “You’ve known Pinkie for the longest time, how long does it usually last between her Pinkie senses and when it actually happens?”

Applejack was just finishing gathering apples when she looked at Twilight with a confused look and said, “I dunno Twi, I’ve only seen her tail twitch and it usually last only a couple of seconds before her predictions come real. Remember the doozy though? There were a few hours between the shakin’ and it actually happenin’. I believe that the more violent her shakin’ is, the longer it takes for it to happen.” Then Applejack put her wagon away and walked up to Twilight and asked, “On a scale of one to ten, how bad do you think her twitchin’ was, Twi?”

“I would have to say a ten actually; I’ve never seen her shake that violently, if she was shaking any worse, she would have fallen apart.”

Now Applejack had a nervous look on her, “Well we best be gettin’ ready for the future, I reckon that this shakin’ means something BIG is about to happen in like a few months or so.”

That wasn’t really comforting Twilight, but it gave her the idea she should be prepared for something big. “Well thanks for the help, AJ.” Twilight said as she began to trot away.

Applejack gave her a reassuring look and said, “Twi, this might not be so bad, it could be a really good thing, maybe not a rainbow, and I really don’t know what could possibly be good enough to make a filly shake out of her saddle. But if it’s a good thing, then it’s a really good thing.”

Twilight thanked Applejack for her time and was on her way, the sun was setting and Twilight had some more books to read. But little did the ponies know that their world was going to be flipped upside down.

Bitter-sweet Greetings

A month had gone by and Cole still hasn’t heard from the secret operations, now known has W.S.A. He was pacing around in his room that lay deep within the Rockies for he wasn’t allowed to mingle with the public, he sat on his bed. He has never felt pain or fear, never felt real love or sadness, only the feeling of hatred and loneliness boiled deep within him. Using only these two emotions to fuel him and keep him going, his anger was for some reason boiling now, and before he went into rage the phone rang. The chief was on the other line saying, “Agent, you have been assigned your mission, the device has been built and we need your presence, all will be explained on arrival.” And he then hung up. Cole didn’t know how to feel, it felt as though he should get there as fast as possible for something was interesting him.

A few minutes later Cole entered the laboratory and in the center of the room was just a capsule, nothing spectacular like Stargate or Star Wars, just a pod big enough for him, all that was inside was a form of strap you wear on a suspension roller coaster. In front of it was the chief and a scientist waiting to greet him, as he approached he showed no fear of what it would do, he only cared about getting the mission over with. The chief then said to the soldier, “Agent, this is probably one of the most important missions of your life and one of the greatest moments in human history. This device won’t take you anywhere in our universe, it will take you to another universe entirely. This presents an opportunity for mankind to spread once our sun has died so we can continue to live.”

Cole simply looked at him and said, “I care why?”

“Because you will be the first human to travel through an inter-dimensional portal, and we chose you because God knows what dangerous creatures are on the other side waiting to kill you. Knowing you, you would be able to handle that. So we are giving you some of the agencies best weapons, all stashed in this de-atomiser case so you can fit infinite amounts of objects in there.” With that scientist began pulling out weapons of all sorts, rapid firing pistols with explosive rounds, rapid firing grenade launchers, a folding RPG, a standard assault rifle, a sniper rifle, and a ghillie suit capable of blending the wearer and any objects he/she is carrying into the surroundings, all from a case that looked like it could fit into his pocket. Then after being showed all of these weapons he gave the agent a book and a pencil and told him to journal any of his findings.

“And one final thing, Cole” the chief said, “Wear this mask, because our speculations are that the air they breathe there might be unsuitable for our lungs. Good luck agent.” With that the chief saluted Cole as he suited up in an all black suit, when he put it on a wave of turquoise swept over his suit through small cracks to show it was working. Then he packed all of his weapons into his de-atomiser case and attached it to his belt. He then walked in to the pod, once he was strapped in a little screen in the corner lit up with a number pad. Cole was given the code to punch in on a piece of paper, once that was done he turned his oxygen mask on. Before the door closed on the soldier the chief said to him, “you have a week in there before we pull you out, if there is any sign you are in danger then your shit out of luck. Oh and one more thing,” the chief handed him a suicide pill in a small container, “if all else fails.”

With that the doors closed on Cole and he began to hear a hum, A voice began to count down till ejection, then the humming grew louder and louder as the numbers counted down from ten. The voice said in a feminine tone, “Ten… nine… eight… seven… six… five… four… three… two… one… prepare for ejection. He suddenly felt his body being stretched and burnt alive from the inside with a crusing feeling to it as though he were on a rocket elevator traveling at light speed. Then everything began to shake and the humming grew louder, he felt like his head was going to explode and he let out a painful scream as he felt his body being torn apart atom by atom. Then once the humming became a deafening tone he lost consciousness.

******

Meanwhile in Ponyville, it had been a month since Pinkie’s atomic seizure, everypony was wondering when it was going to happen today, well those who were aware of her seizure had even happened were wondering. Twilight knew it had been a whole month and ran out to the balcony of her tree and looked to see if anything has happened, nothing. She came back into the room and turned to Pinkie and said in a slightly triumphant voice, “Well Pinkie for once your Pinkie sense was wrong, I can’t believe”

Before Twilight could finish her sentence Spike ran up to the lavender pony and shouted out, “Twilight! Quick! The Sky! It’s ripping apart like a piece of napkin!” Spike then ran under the bed as there was a huge cracking noise that ripped through Ponyville loud enough that it could be heard from Canterlot. The sound had a bit of a rippling effect.

Twilight looked at Pinkie Pie with a panicking look, “We have to get the others; maybe the elements of harmony will be needed.” Twilight said as she was heading for the door.

Within minutes, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Twilight were watching the sky when all of a sudden a small object came zooming out of nowhere breaking the sound barrier and bending light behind it, Rainbow Dash had the idea of going after it to see what’s up, “I’ll try and stop it” she said bravely and she took off, a few seconds later she had managed to catch up to see that it was the egg shaped object with a window on one side, inside it was this black monster waiting to be hatched. Rainbow Dash was too startled to notice the rock in front of her and she crashed with a large, “OOF!” and the egg continued its death course until it crashed into the Everfree Forest with such a tremendous explosion that the nearby lake’s water created an inland tsunami. Luckily nopony was injured, well except for Dash.

The other ponies decided to run after the object to see what it was and help Rainbow Dash.When they caught up to Dash she didn’t say anything, she shook her head and got back onto her hooves, when they reached the Everfree Forest everypony rushed through, Fluttershy had a few troubles entering but she managed after a few minutes of comforting and encouraging. Once they arrived to the crash zone they noticed that it was an egg like container but with a weird creature behind the broken glass.

“Fluttershy, help me see if the thing is okay.” Twilight said and as they approached it Twilight could hear faint breathing “Quick, we have to get him out.”

A few minutes of struggling and teamwork later, the creature was moved away from the crash to safety, “We have to get him to the hospital.” A nervous Twilight said staring at this visitor. Twilight wondered to herself how this thing could be a good thing, it had already caused havoc to the entire town and it wasn’t conscious.

*****

When Cole opened his eyes again he was no longer in his capsule, his vision was blurry too. His entire body numb, a wave of thoughts swept over the soldier, what if I was paralyzed, what if the enemies were going experiment on me (He had a bad experience with the anal probe, but who doesn’t). When the soldier tried to move his arms, he was reassured with movement from them, it took him a few minutes, but he finally managed to get up and out of bed, he started walking down the hallway with shaky legs when he heard English being spoken around the corner. What if his mission wasn’t successful? Where was he? Did Albrecht trap him in another facility(he’s been the agencies’ arch nemesis for awhile, it started out when he refused to pay several parking tips and one thing led to another and he was becoming a terrorist)? His spy skills kicked in and managed to go undetected, the enemy the enemy couldn’t see him. The completely invisible agent managed to sneak past security by crawling through the air vents as silently as the air that traveled through them. After a few hours of crawling his way through a labyrinth of pipes he managed to get outside, the sky was blue as a cartoon, not a single cloud in the sky, the birds were singing, and the sun warmed everything it touched. Cole didn’t care about these things, all he wanted to figure out was if he was somewhere else on Earth or if he was in a different universe. Cole crawled out of the air vent and onto the roof, he looked around for any city he recognized, but nothing. He was in the middle of nowhere in a country town.

Suddenly he heard alarms blaring, he figured it was because of him and he dropped from the roof and fell about twenty feet or so. Before he landed, his suit immediately kicked and lit up with a turquoise glow, he landed without experiencing any pain. Once he was reoriented he ran for the forest at superhuman speeds, he checked for his de-atomiser case but realized it wasn’t with him, it must have been left back at the pod, he thought to himself. He had to turn off his suit because he understood that his suit had limited energy, so he went looking for a form of transport because travelling on foot would be useless because the pod could be miles away. After a few minutes of searching he poked his head out of the trees to see a small horse in a clearing sleeping there, or rather a pony sleeping, “It’s small, and odd to be cyan with rainbow mane. It must be torture to have kids do that to you, but it will have to do.” Cole snuck up behind it without making a sound, not even a branch under his foot snapped, and he got ready to jump it. Once he jumped on it he was greeted with the loudest scream he ever heard, the pony bucked and spun madly while Cole tried his best to get hold of it, “Shut up you fucking mule!” Cole yelled out.

The pony stopped moving the instant he said that, “Wait wait wait… did you just call me… a mule?” The pony said in an angry, tomboyish voice. Cole understood that it was angry, and that it was about to kill him somehow, but he didn’t understand how in the name oh holy fuck it spoke to him. Before the soldier could get off the pony suddenly spread wings and took off with Cole on it’s back. Now Cole had to figure out where he was, why this pony can talk and where the fuck it got its wings. The pegasus was beginning to move faster and faster, the last time Cole had been moving this fast was when he was in a special jet, “You know who you just called a mule?” the raging pegasus shouted over her shoulder, now traveling at super sonic speed.

“A talking horse?” Cole shouted back.

“Very funny, chump, well this is where you get off, see ya paly!” With that the cyan pegasus flipped upside down and before the soldier could react he was falling towards a lake without a parachute. From his estimations he was falling from about thirty thousand feet. Luckily Cole was prepared for anything and spread his arms and legs like a flying squirrel, but realized to the horror he hadn’t packed a base jumping suit. His impact resistors won’t work for water so long story short, he’s fucked.

“Oh you’ve gotta be fucking kiddi-.” Before he could finish his sentence he impacted in the lake with such tremendous force he was knocked unconscious, the water exploding up into the air with a loud SLAP.

In what felt like an instant he opened his eyes up to see now six odd coloured ponies. An orange, white, a pink coloured pony, lavender, a pale yellow pony, and the cyan Pegasus he encountered earlier all looking down at him. As he slowly opened his eyes the orange one said with a bit of a western farmer’s accent, “Boy, that was one mighty fall ya took there, you okay sugarcube?” As he began to get up, the others dawned looks of worry, either they were afraid of this strange new creature, or they cared for him. Cole took a look around the room he was in, he was in a sort of cottage, rodents infested the place, squirrels, birds, rabbits, and some other small creatures crawled through the area into holes scattered around the place. The walls and the ceiling were made of wood, and the couch he was lying on was rather comfortable, but he had to get up out of it.

Once he sat up the lavender pony then turned to the cyan with a look of anger and said, “Well Rainbow Dash? What do you have to say for yourself?”

Rainbow Dash just shot back at her, “Hey, he called me a mule!”

“You dropped him from the sky!”

“Serves him right.” Rainbow snorted.

Then the lavender pony nudged Rainbow with a look of frustration to get the cyan pegasus to say, “Fine, I’m sorry, yeesh.”

“Well, now that apologies have been made I think we’d better introduce ourselves. I’m Twilight Sparkle.” The lavender pony said.

“This is Applejack.”

“Howdy do?” The orange one said with a smile.

“This is Rarity.”

“A pleasure meeting you, dear.” The white unicorn cooed.

“This is Fluttershy.”

“Oh… umm…hello?” The pale yellow pegasus squeaked from behind her hair.

The lavender unicorn pointed to the smiling pink one and said, “And this here is Pinkie Pie.”

The pink one started bouncing all around the room talking at a million miles an hour saying, “Hi, I’m Pinkie Pie but you can call me Pinkie *gasp* you must be why my tail was twitchy-twitchin’ you’re not from around here are you? I should have a big welcome to Ponyville party just for you it’s gonna be soooo much fun!”

“And uhh… this is Rainbow Dash, you’ve already met her.” The lavender pony said pointing her hoof ant the scowling cyan pegasus.

“Hey.” Is all she said, she didn’t even bother to look at him. Cole could already tell that he and Rainbow weren’t going to be exactly the best of friends.

“So, what’s your name?” Twilight asked pointing to Cole.

“I’m Cole.” He said with no emotion at all.

“Colt?” The nuclear powered pink pony asked, turning her head 180 degrees.

“No Cole! It’s only Cole nothing else” The soldier said with a hint of frustration. So far he didn’t like the pink one. Then once that was over Cole got up and asked, “Where is the nearest human? I need to find out where I am.”

“What’s a hoo-min?” the pink one asked again bouncing up and down.

“That answers that. So are ponies the dominant species on this planet?” Cole asked again walking towards the door.

“Not just ponies,” The lavender pony began, “pegasi and unicorns like me live here.” The lavender pony said matter of factly.

“Well this proves that it worked, so how did I get here?” Cole said before he walked out the door, he wanted to make sure he wasn’t screwed and that he could get his supplies.

“We found you in a white egg sort of thing, if you ask me it doesn’t match your style.” He white unicorn told him; of course all she cared about was fashion. But now that Cole knew his pod was here he could start documenting his findings.

“Well as much as I want to stay, and not that I do,” Cole whispered under his breath, “I have to go get my supplies, can one of you show me where it is?” Cole wanted to just get away from these annoying ponies, the pink one was too much for him, if she continued to bounce he would go apeshit.

“Well it’s in the,” the yellow pegasus gulped down her fear, “the Everfree Forest.” Cole was really annoyed and confused now, how could they be afraid of a forest, it has the word free in it and isn’t free a good thing? (At least in his universe it was)

Cole bent over to get close into the yellow pegasus’ face and said to her with a snarky attitude, “Well then I guess your not coming now are ya?” the yellow pegasus hid behind her long pink hair like a child would hide behind their mother’s leg. The yellow one wasn’t the only one afraid of the forest, the others were shaking too.

The yellow one was probably extra terrified because of how Cole got into her personal space but she managed to sum up the courage to say, “Oh but I do want to go, but we don’t usually go in there alone,” She looked behind her at the others giving her encouraging smiles.

“So what, are all of you going to come now?” Cole was hoping this wouldn’t happen, but the sooner he gets away from these ponies the better.

“Well yeah, it aint natural in there… it aint safe fer nopony to be travellin’ in there alone.” the orange pony said to him. Cole just noticed the orange one was wearing a cowboy hat… really? Cole was seriously wondering what gas his mask was feeding him because he might be on the acid trip of the year. Cole also wasn’t afraid of what could be lurking in there, if he was man enough to suplex a fucking alligator and uppercut a bear he was man enough to walk into a fucking forest. Even if it was dusk.

“Well then let’s get our asses moving, I don’t want to be here and I’m pretty sure none of you want me here either.” Cole said bravely, he really hated these ponies so far.

As everypony left the cottage Twilight thought about this new creature, she really didn’t like him and was glad he wanted to leave, cause so far he caused havoc in Ponyville and forced everyone to help him again with no thank you from him. Yet she had a feeling that he wasn’t like this because he wanted to, there was another reason. All she and her friends had to do was just keep showing kindness and hope for the best. (LOVE AND TOLERANCE)

Later in the Everfree Forest the ponies were all cowering behind this new visitor, Rainbow Dash noticed how he wasn’t the slightest bit scared and thought to herself, What an idiot, he has no idea hes walking straight into the most dangerous place in Equestria. Pinkie began bouncing beside Cole asking him a million questions, “Why is your name Colt? Where are you from? You’re not from Ponyville are you? Where in Equestria are you from? Are you even from Equestria? Are there ponies where you’re from? Do they throw parties like me?”

Cole lost it, a vein visible on his forehead he turned to the pink pony and shouted in her face, “Oh my God almighty shut the fuck up! You ask too many fucking questions, if you ask another question I swear to Christ I will take my fist, shove it down your throat and pull your fucking vocal cords out!” As Cole was shouting and motioning all the actions, a dark creature was sneaking up behind him which made the ponies shake in pure fear. Cole thought he had finally got his message through their skulls when he felt something drip onto his shoulder.

“Chimera!” The ponies screamed. Cole felt the breathing on the back of his neck and turned around to see a creature with the head of a lion, the hind quarts of a goat, and a serpent for a tail (holy fuck that must have taken one hell of an orgy to make). Cole was blind with rage, his suit fired up as he roundhouse kicked it in the face, the suit gave him extra strength and helped kick it into a nearby tree hard enough to crack the tree. Cole walked up to the animal now even angrier, grabbed it by it’s throat and brought it close to his face and yelled at the top of his lungs, “Keep breathing down my fucking neck and I will tear out your lungs and make you eat them, I WILL EAT YOUR FUCKING HEART!” With that he threw the creature at another two trees hard enough to break them both. The chimera got up and growled at him, trying to scare Cole but he just shouted, “I WILL MAKE YOU MY BITCH!” The creature obviously outgunned scampered off tail between legs, not wanting to mess with this stronger creature. Cole then dropped to his knees in exhaustion as his suit powered down. The adrenalin finally out of his system and now a lot calmer, he turned back to the wide eyed ponies.

“You just fought off a chimera…” The lavender unicorn began, “nopony is brave enough to fight off a chimera bear hoofed.” The ponies were all impressed with Cole’s bravery, except for Dash; she thought to herself, He got lucky. As soon as Cole came back to his senses he realized that his oxygen tank had been punctured and he was beginning to panic as he lost oxygen. Cole was, for the first time in his life, afraid of dying. The ponies began to crowd around him but didn’t know how to help. With Cole’s last few breaths he decided to take off the helmet to show them his face. He had grey brown eyes and wavy dark blond hair that was cut short; he had a dimple on his chin and had a very square jaw. He held his last breath and stood up to show them what he really looked like. (So dramatic isn’t it?)

Cole’s heart began to panic, he was going to suffocate and his body took over and made him let go of his breath. Cole gasped for air as he fell to the ground and began tossing and turning, feeling the pain of the neurotoxins in him. The ponies just looked at his odd dancing and Rainbow dash thought to herself, what a baby. Cole then realized he had been doing this for almost a minute, he was breathing oxygen. He jumped to his feet brushed himself off and said in a calm voice, “That’s what it would have looked like if your air was toxic to me.” Cole didn’t feel the slightest humiliation in what he had done.

“You’re loco in the coco, you’re funny.” The pink pony said bouncing away, “Follow me.” She said waving her hoof in her direction.

After only ten minutes of walking the group had finally managed to get to Cole’s pod. The white egg object was in the center of a crater that would take thirty seconds to run around. Cole found his de-atomiser case in the pod and attached it to his belt, he turned to the pink bouncing pony and said to her, “I apologize for the way I shouted at you.” Cole didn’t mean it; he just felt it necessary to break the silence.

“It’ okay, you just got mad that’s all.” She said back to him in her happy bubbly voice. Cole began to pull a tent out of his de atomizer bag and began setting it up beside the crater.

“Uh what are you doing?” The orange pony asked with an extremely confused look on her face.

“I’m setting up a tent for the week.” Cole was impressed at how they didn’t know what a tent was yet knew how to make houses.

“Out here? Remember what just happened back there?”

“Remember what I did back there? I can survive this.”

“Sugarcube, it would be the least ah could do to let you stay at Sweet Apple Acres for tonight.” The other ponies liked the idea of letting him stay at their places for the night, after all he saved them. After a brief discussion the ponies came to an agreement.

“We decided that we will let you stay at our houses for the night the entire week you’re here,” The lavender pony said to him, “the order would be Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Me, and then Rainbow Dash.”

“Hey, I’m not letting him sleep at my place, besides only pegasi can stand on clouds.” The cyan Pegasus shouted. Cole could tell that this Pegasus is going to remember the mule incident forever.

“Well, uhh….” Cole began. He wanted to find an appropriate way to say no.

*****

An hour later, Cole was setting his de-atomiser case on a table while Applejack put a tray into the oven (how did he get talked into this). When the unpacking was over, Applejack gave Cole a tour of the farm.

“This here’s Winona,” Applejack pointed towards her dog, he seemed rather happy to see her, “and this here’s mah lil’ sister Applebloom.”

Then a small yellow pony with a rose coloured mane came from behind Applejack’s legs and looked up at Cole saying, “Um… Hello.”

Once the meet and greet was over at Sweet Apple Acres, Cole and Applejack sat down next to the fireplace with an apple pie that she baked herself. Cole reached into his pocket and pulled out a silver rectangle and popped the top off, with that a small flame appeared and he set the logs in the fireplace on fire.

“Oh wow, what’s that y’all got there?” Applejack asked with a wide look of curiosity in her eyes as she pointed at the lighter with her hoof.

“It’s a lighter, everyone from where I come from has one.” Cole said handing it to her, “Be careful, I don’t want to be responsible for a forest fire.” Cole said to Applejack, who was just flicking the fire on and off.

“Aw shoot, don’t worry ‘bout me, sugarcube.” She said with a bit of laughter. Once she was done playing with the silver rectangle of firey fire she handed it back to Cole and asked him, “We haven’t heard one single thing ‘bout where y’all are from, what’s it like there?”

So for the next hour Cole was forced to talk about how society on earth was based on technology and science, he decided to skip the war, famine, natural disasters, terrorism, diseases, crime and fear parts because he wanted to make it sound like he was from a place that was at least half as peaceful as here. He also mentioned that humans rode ponies and were the dominant species because of their opposable thumbs. Applejack looked like she was listening to a tale of absolute awesome; she was awed at the idea of having fields that stretched miles long are harvested in only a day thanks to technology. She loved to hear about the adventures Cole went on, like the time he went to the moon, and the time he went to the bottom of the ocean.

When it was Applejack’s turn to speak, Cole learned about how society here in this universe was based on magic and how “everypony” (that’s what they say here apparently) had a special and unique talent that was represented by the image on their flanks. At first Cole thought it was just a tattoo, but then again, it’s hard to tattoo fur. Cole learned about all the boring adventures Applejack went on, they were nowhere near as good as the adventures he went on in his opinion. (What a dick)

Two hours had gone by and Applejack was beginning to yawn, she brought out a pillow beside the couch and said to Cole with a sleepy look on her face, “Well Colt, we best be hittin’ the hay, maybe tomorrow the fillies and I can show ya Ponyville.”

“Yeah sure, I’d like that” Cole had no idea why he had just said that, and it took him a couple of seconds to convince himself that it was to be polite and for no other reason. Before Applejack fell asleep, she did the last thing Cole expected; she gave him a hug, not just a simple greeting hug you give your grandma, this was full of emotion. She held on for a little while and Cole could feel her blond mane brushing against his chin, Cole didn’t return the favour though, he didn’t see why he should.

“What are you doing?” Cole asked with a confused look on his face.

“I like ya, Colt, no one has ever sat around and listened to me fer that long.”

“But how can you trust me like this, what if I was a flesh eating monster?”

“Well if that were the case, I would be in yer belly by now.” Finally Applejack let go of him allowing him to fully breathe. With that she laid her head on her pillow and began to sleep.

Cole still wasn’t able to get to sleep for another few hours so he took the opportunity to write his findings:

May 6 2013

It’s been my first full day here in this dimension and the physics are almost alike the ones in our universe, except the habitants tend to display signs of telekinesis and mind powers such as flight, levitation, and crafting.

Habitants are of creatures similar to Earth mythology such as Pegasi and werewolves, as impossible as it seems the dominant species are three variants of the equine family, more accurately the pony family: The pegasi, the unicorns, and the common pony. In rare cases have there been reports on alicorns, but only are [resented in the form of royalty.

Chemical compound found in vegetation is similar, if not exact to earth vegetation. Dominant species only feed on vegetation which presents an odd paradox as to why vegetarians are dominant. The ponies here are capable of communication. It is an extremely unlikely coincidence that we speak the same language. So far six of the residents of my current location have volunteered, under pure generosity, to house me for the week.

Before Cole shut his eyes he looked down at the orange pony, now shivering because the fire had died out. Cole had this strange feeling inside him he learned to oppress years ago, but it felt different, he felt he should give her his covers, because he after all had a suit capable of warming him. Cole also didn’t want to wake up the next day to find a dead horse beside him so he gave her his blanket. As soon as he did, the orange pony stopped shivering. Cole then closed his eyes and began to drift away.

He had another nightmare again, it wasn’t like a movie or anything it was just a flash of all these still images of people he’s killed, he saw innocent families watch as their husbands or sons heads would be stomped on by him. Cole wasn’t being entertained by these anymore; a wave of anger filled his veins, as he got more and more enraged, the images were getting worse and worse until he couldn’t hold it. The last he saw wasn’t an image, it was a memory of when he visited an infected hospital and had to kill everyone there, what he remembered was pointing his pistol at a child no older than four. Before he watched as he pulled the trigger on the crying boy he woke up in a sweat. Cole looked around to see that it was still night and Applejack was still asleep. Cole gave himself a few minutes to slow his heart rate down and rolled onto his side away from the sleeping pony. As he closed his eyes he asked himself, “Why?”

The Grand Tour

Applejack woke up the next morning to see that Cole had given her his blanket. When she turned to smile at Cole she saw him laying there with his ass in the air and snoring up a storm, it was kind of funny to see him like that. She went to nudge him to life while she said in a cheerful voice, “Wakey wakey sleepin’ beauty!” The second her hoof made contact with Cole’s body he jumped to life and landed on his feet babbling about being late for wake up routines. Applejack just simply stared at Cole and asked him with a bit of a giggle in her voice, “Yer life must have been odd.”

Cole wiped the sleep out of his eyes and said, “You wouldn’t believe.” Cole tried his best not to show any embarrassment after what he did. The morning started out quite nicely, Applejack made some applesauce with apple juice and some apple pie on the side. After an hour or so of being in an apple overload (I hope you can tell by now that Applejack might like apples) Cole and Applejack headed over to Twilight’s tree library. Applejack knocked on the door and called for the lavender unicorn, “Hey Twi, you there?”

After a few minutes of waiting, the door slowly opened and Cole looked for the lavender pony but instead found a little purple and green lizard holding the door opened, “Hey Applejack, come on in.” After applejack trotted through Cole decided to follow her but the lizard stopped him and asked, “Who are you?”

“Of course you can talk, name’s Cole, lizard.”

“I’m not a lizard; I’m a baby dragon, name’s Spike.” The lizard stuck out his had for a shake.

“Cool story bro’, now you gonna let me in?” Cole was getting impatient now.

“Just as soon as you tell me how you know Twilight.”

“I kicked a weird animal into next week for her. Wanna know what it felt like?” Cole then suddenly remembered the image of him pointing a gun at that kid’s head and restrained himself from getting violent.

“Okay okay, geez,” Spike opened the door for Cole, “sorry to keep you waiting.”

Cole walked past him and said in a calm voice, “Yeah, I’m an ass sometimes.”

Cole took a look around the inside of the tree, it was quite the accomplishment they managed to hollow out the tree and craft the inside so well using only hooves. Books were everywhere; not only on shelves but on the floor too, it looked as though a book bomb exploded books everywhere.

“Twi? You there?” Applejack called out for Twilight.

“She’s under the books; she’s been studying for hours now.” Spike said pointing at the pile of books.

Twilight poked her head from the pile and gave out a big yawn and said in a sleepy voice, “I’ve been studying again, as usual.” Cole picked her up out of the bookcase and plopped her on a nearby bench.

“We were wonderin’ if you’d like to join me and Cole for a tour of Ponyville.” Applejack said gingerly.

“Yeah sure, that would be fun! Let me get the others.” The lavender pony said gleefully.

Within a matter of minutes, the six ponies were all gathered. The cyan one looked a little unhappy to be here, but Cole didn’t care about her. The pink one was bouncing as usual with a happy look on her face; Cole leaned down towards the lavender unicorn’s ear and whispered into it, “Is she normally like that? Is she on cocaine or something?”

The lavender unicorn looked up at Cole with an odd expression on her face she asked, “I beg your pardon but what’s cocaine?” Cole wasn’t entirely surprised that this place didn’t have drugs either, there were no negative things here like there were on Earth.

“Never mind, forget I asked that.” Cole whispered back into her ear. Cole walked for the door and turned around to see the ponies and asked, “So where do we go first?”

“Well, y’all have already seen Sweet Apple Acres and now you’ve seen Twilight’s house.” Applejack looked around the room.

“Oh my god! You live in a tree?” Cole looked at the lavender pony hoping to see her joke and say she lives in an apartment or something. Isn’t it unsafe to live in a tree? What if there’s a fire? Or a lightning storm? Cole thought to himself.

“Yeah I work here too, what’s wrong with that?” Twilight asked.

“Nothing…” Cole said to her with an expressionless face. Talk about being dedicated to your work. Cole thought to himself. Cole walked out the door and turned around and asked again, “So where do we begin?”

The tour was rather calm, the nuclear powered pink pony wasn’t bouncing madly, and instead she was looking at Cole with an odd expression. Cole got to learn about the town square, Rarity’s boutique (which was odd considering they don’t normally wear clothes). Cole got to see Fluttershy’s cottage again, he wanted to ask her if she would want a professional exterminator to take care of the rodent infestation, but she seemed to enjoy the company of the animals. Cole also got a glimpse of Rainbow Dash’s cloud house, which was quite the sight to see but unfortunate he didn’t get to see what it looked like on the inside. “In the distance you can see Canterlot, that’s where the princesses live.” Twilight pointed at a castle on the side of a mountain in the distance. Before the tour ended the ponies trotted up to a house alive with colors of pink and white and all sorts of lively colors, this was apparently the most popular bakery in town and was also the pink pony’s house, Cole thought to himself, of course! That’s where she’s getting all of her sugar. The group for some reason decided they should take Cole into the bakery.

“I’m not going in there!” Cole said trying to stand his ground.

“Well why not? Don’t you like candies and sweets?” asked the pink one bouncing up and down.

“No, I hate it, it’s disgusting and it’s unnatural!” Cole snorted.

“Who doesn’t like candy? Come on you probably have never tried this candy before!” The pink pony said to him beginning to push him towards the door.

The other ponies were helping Pinkie Pie, except for Rainbow Dash, all she said was, “Let him go if he doesn’t want to, besides all he’s probably gonna do is mope and shout at us.” Cole was getting a little pissed off at this pony’s attitude towards him. She knows I can snap her neck. Cole thought to himself. If she knows I’m dangerous then why is she pissing me off?

Eventually Twilight and the others managed to get him inside the dark room. Another thing you should know about Cole is that he hates dark rooms; last time he was in one was when he was clamped to a desk and being pulled apart. But before Cole could get out, the lights flicked on. Ponies crowded the room and all yelled a synchronized, “SURPRISE!” Cole was stunned by what had just happened, this wasn’t a trap, this was a fucking surprise party for him. Cole turned to the annoying pink blob, who had resumed bouncing and asked her with a look of slightly annoyed, anger, surprise and fear, “What the hell is this?”

“Oh silly, this is the welcome to Ponyville party I was talking about the other day. I do this for everypony!” The pink pony giggled at Cole, she didn’t understand this doesn’t normally happen to him where he unknowingly enters a room filled with people waiting for him and doesn’t get the shit kicked out of him.

Cole looked around the room, there were so many colors. There were balloons, streamers, and drinks. Music filled the room as ponies began to dance and blindfold themselves and spin each other around. Cole could feel something deep in his chest beginning to grow, it didn’t feel like anger, it didn’t feel like fear. It was something he’s never felt before. He kept looking around the room as this feeling began to bubble inside him and grow and grow.

Pinkie and the others backed away from the shaking human, Twilight was worried he was going to explode or something. He just stood there shaking and shaking, he slowly turned his head to Twilight and his face was twitching. She began to panic on the inside, Twilight thought to herself, what if he was going to go on rampage and do something horrible? The other ponies saw him shaking and everyone in the room became nervous about his shaking. Cole couldn’t keep this feeling inside him anymore, he felt his face stretching. He had never experienced this before and he couldn’t resist it, he let go of his control and let his body do the work. The ponies saw it, to them it was something they always see, everypony was like that, but to Cole, this was his first time actually feeling this, he usually faked it but this was genuine. Cole let himself go and a huge smile stretched to the corners of his face, for the first time in the soldier’s life he was feeling happy. He didn’t lie to himself anymore, he knew why Pinkie threw this party for him, she cared about him and no one has ever done that for Cole. Cole has never been happier in his life, or even happy for that matter.

“I can’t believe you did this for me, Pinkie!” Cole ran over with his brand new smile and picked up Pinkie and spun her around hugging her as tightly as he could, he felt weird being happy, but he loved every second of it. He loved the feeling of Pinkies curly pink hair brushing against his face as he held her up, mmmmm her hair smells sweet Cole thought to himself.

“Oh you do like it! That’s awesome!” Pinkie giggled with a snort.

Cole walked gingerly up to Applejack and gave her a big hug too saying, “I’m sorry I didn’t return the hug last night, I don’t know what was wrong with me.”

Applejack laughed a little and said to him, “Aw we all knew all you needed was to be shown a little bit of kindness.” Twilight smiled a little at all of this, she thought to herself, it always works.

The next hours were the best of Cole’s life, he was talking to lots of ponies about his adventures, and he was laughing and loving the feeling of laughing. He ate tons of sweets and went on a sugar rush and out bounced Pinkie Pie. Yet something was missing from the party, he noticed that wherever he looked he couldn’t find that downer of a pegasus. He went looking for her up the stairs and went for the nearest door and put his ear to it. He could faintly hear sobbing coming from the other side, Cole slowly opened the door to find the rainbow maned pegasus in the corner crying a little. Cole walked up to her slowly only to be greeted with a, “What do you want?” from her and more tears.

“I want to know why your not part of the party, did I do this to you?” Cole asked her. Cole thought of her as a tough one, not this.

“Well kinda, it’s not exactly you, it’s another thing too,” Rainbow wiped the tears from her eyes and continued, “but you probably wouldn’t care.”

Cole sat down next to her and said in a calm voice, “But after learning how great it feels to be happy, I hate to see others not feeling the same. Tell me what’s wrong.”

Rainbow sniffed and said with tears coming out of her eyes, “Well you see, it just happens to be my luck that I have a rainbow mane, and I have a tomboyish personality.”

“So what’s wrong with that?” Cole didn’t understand what she was getting at, he would have loved to have white hair to go with his manly personality, what’s wrong with that?

“What’s wrong is that everypony thinks I’m a lesbian,” Rainbow began to cry again, “wherever I go, ponies look at me differently, some don’t allow me near their foals, some ponies even laugh at me and make hurtful jokes towards me.” Rainbow wiped the tears away again, “Sure, when you jumped on my back and called me a mule, that hurt. But the reason I’ve been like this is because I’m constantly thinking that you’re going to be the next one to joke about my sexuality.” Rainbow resumed crying.

“Well, do you like other fillies?” Cole asked, he was trying his best to help her, but he was a soldier, not a therapist.

“Yes… No… Kind of… you see, I like both fillies and colts, I know I’m the freak of Equestria.” She said with a shaky voice. Cole could tell that this was difficult or her to admit because he’s been in situations where he was being forced to tell the truth.

“Rainbow, I would never tease you over something like that. In fact I envy your bravery; in my world it’s really humiliating for gays and lesbians to show their love all of a sudden. But if you’ve known them for being gay or lesbian ever since they were young, then you can look past that and accept them for who they are. It doesn’t matter what they love or who they love, it’s who they are that makes them wonderful. It’s your bravery and your strong attitude that makes you wonderful. You have wonderful eyes, and a wonderful taste in homes and a great smile.” Cole had never felt like this before, what he said was the honest truth and he could tell that he was helping her a lot.

Dash looked at Cole with a tearful smile and said, “That’s really sweet, Colt. Thanks.” With that Rainbow closed her eyes, she began to fear the worst would happen to her for what she was about to do but she was going to do it anyway. Here goes nothing she thought to herself and kissed Cole on the cheek. Her lips met his cheek as she gently pressed them against his face; she held on for a few seconds but then broke the kiss. Immediately she hid her face and began thinking, what if he was going to deny me? What if he’s not interested? What if he thinks I’m creepy? But then the last thing she expected happened, Cole wrapped his arm around her and brought her close to him.

That kiss on the cheek represented Cole’s changing and he was never going to go back to his old self. He held Dash close to him to make her feel better, to make him feel better. He could tell that his comforting worked, but he didn’t know that she liked him. “Listen, I’m flattered and all, and believe me when I say I like you too, Rainbow, but in my universe making love to another creature just isn’t looked too kindly uppon. Besides, I don’t know you enough yet.”

“Oh sorry I did that then…” Rainbow lowered her head, she was right, he denied her.

“Lucky for you we’re not in my universe.” Cole brought her chin up so he could look into her eyes and gave her a smile.

“You’re awesome already.” She replied in a small voice. A tear fell down her cheek out of joy that she could talk to someone who really cared for her. The next hours were the best of Dash’s life, she talked about how her dream was to one day be part of the Wonderbolts and how she loved to fly and loved the feel of adrenaline. Cole talked again about all of his adventures, this time he didn’t rush it, he was really enjoying talking to her. He loved to see the awe on Dash’s face and he felt the same when she told him about the incredible and death defying stunts she performed. Cole was extremely impressed when she told him of her sonic rainboom. Both Cole and Rainbow learned that they had more in common than they thought, they both loved the feel of adrenaline, they never had the best childhoods, they loved to go fast, they hid their true emotions, and they both loved the feeling of freedom when your flying.

Rainbow cuddled close to Cole, she loved the feeling of his hand under her wing, and the feeling of his thumb just slowly moving back and fourth on her side. She adored the feeling of her head against his chest and how she could faintly hear his heartbeat. Cole loved the feeling of her mane tickling his chin, it smelled of blueberries, the sound of her breathing, he loved the feeling of holding someone who actually cared for him, he never wanted to let go. But before Rainbow could make another move on her new love they both heard someone coming up the stairs. Cole looked down at Dash and said, “Quick act like you told me a joke.”

Dash looked at Cole and said with a confused look, “Why don’t you want her to see us like this?”

Dash made a good point; he then cuddled up to her and rested her on his lap.

Pinkie opened the door to see them in each others hands, and hooves, she said in a bubbly voice, “I didn’t know you liked each other, anyways come on you two lovers, it’s time for Colt to open his gifts.”

Downstairs all the ponies were watching eagerly as Cole opened his first gift from Twilight; it was a book on everything about Equestria, “Thanks Twilight!” Cole said with a big cheerful smile. He could just give the chief this instead of his notes. His next gift from Rarity was a hand crafted hat; Cole looked at the white unicorn with a smile and said, “Thanks, it looks comfy!”

“Oh dear, I used only the best material for that hat.” The white unicorn cooed.

Chapter 3:

The Grand Tour

Applejack woke up the next morning to see that Cole had given her his blanket. When she turned to smile at Cole she saw him laying there with his ass in the air and snoring up a storm, it was kind of funny to see him like that. She went to nudge him to life while she said in a cheerful voice, “Wakey wakey sleepin’ beauty!” The second her hoof made contact with Cole’s body he jumped to life and landed on his feet babbling about being late for wake up routines. Applejack just simply stared at Cole and asked him with a bit of a giggle in her voice, “Yer life must have been odd.”

Cole wiped the sleep out of his eyes and said, “You wouldn’t believe.” Cole tried his best not to show any embarrassment after what he did. The morning started out quite nicely, Applejack made some applesauce with apple juice and some apple pie on the side. After an hour or so of being in an apple overload (I hope you can tell by now that Applejack might like apples) Cole and Applejack headed over to Twilight’s tree library. Applejack knocked on the door and called for the lavender unicorn, “Hey Twi, you there?”

After a few minutes of waiting, the door slowly opened and Cole looked for the lavender pony but instead found a little purple and green lizard holding the door opened, “Hey Applejack, come on in.” After applejack trotted through Cole decided to follow her but the lizard stopped him and asked, “Who are you?”

“Of course you can talk, name’s Cole, lizard.”

“I’m not a lizard; I’m a baby dragon, name’s Spike.” The lizard stuck out his had for a shake.

“Cool story bro’, now you gonna let me in?” Cole was getting impatient now.

“Just as soon as you tell me how you know Twilight.”

“I kicked a weird animal into next week for her. Wanna know what it felt like?” Cole then suddenly remembered the image of him pointing a gun at that kid’s head and restrained himself from getting violent.

“Okay okay, geez,” Spike opened the door for Cole, “sorry to keep you waiting.”

Cole walked past him and said in a calm voice, “Yeah, I’m an ass sometimes.”

Cole took a look around the inside of the tree, it was quite the accomplishment they managed to hollow out the tree and craft the inside so well using only hooves. Books were everywhere; not only on shelves but on the floor too, it looked as though a book bomb exploded books everywhere.

“Twi? You there?” Applejack called out for Twilight.

“She’s under the books; she’s been studying for hours now.” Spike said pointing at the pile of books.

Twilight poked her head from the pile and gave out a big yawn and said in a sleepy voice, “I’ve been studying again, as usual.” Cole picked her up out of the bookcase and plopped her on a nearby bench.

“We were wonderin’ if you’d like to join me and Cole for a tour of Ponyville.” Applejack said gingerly.

“Yeah sure, that would be fun! Let me get the others.” The lavender pony said gleefully.

Within a matter of minutes, the six ponies were all gathered. The cyan one looked a little unhappy to be here, but Cole didn’t care about her. The pink one was bouncing as usual with a happy look on her face; Cole leaned down towards the lavender unicorn’s ear and whispered into it, “Is she normally like that? Is she on cocaine or something?”

The lavender unicorn looked up at Cole with an odd expression on her face she asked, “I beg your pardon but what’s cocaine?” Cole wasn’t entirely surprised that this place didn’t have drugs either, there were no negative things here like there were on Earth.

“Never mind, forget I asked that.” Cole whispered back into her ear. Cole walked for the door and turned around to see the ponies and asked, “So where do we go first?”

“Well, y’all have already seen Sweet Apple Acres and now you’ve seen Twilight’s house.” Applejack looked around the room.

“Oh my god! You live in a tree?” Cole looked at the lavender pony hoping to see her joke and say she lives in an apartment or something. Isn’t it unsafe to live in a tree? What if there’s a fire? Or a lightning storm? Cole thought to himself.

“Yeah I work here too, what’s wrong with that?” Twilight asked.

“Nothing…” Cole said to her with an expressionless face. Talk about being dedicated to your work. Cole thought to himself. Cole walked out the door and turned around and asked again, “So where do we begin?”

The tour was rather calm, the nuclear powered pink pony wasn’t bouncing madly, and instead she was looking at Cole with an odd expression. Cole got to learn about the town square, Rarity’s boutique (which was odd considering they don’t normally wear clothes). Cole got to see Fluttershy’s cottage again, he wanted to ask her if she would want a professional exterminator to take care of the rodent infestation, but she seemed to enjoy the company of the animals. Cole also got a glimpse of Rainbow Dash’s cloud house, which was quite the sight to see but unfortunate he didn’t get to see what it looked like on the inside. “In the distance you can see Canterlot, that’s where the princesses live.” Twilight pointed at a castle on the side of a mountain in the distance. Before the tour ended the ponies trotted up to a house alive with colors of pink and white and all sorts of lively colors, this was apparently the most popular bakery in town and was also the pink pony’s house, Cole thought to himself, of course! That’s where she’s getting all of her sugar. The group for some reason decided they should take Cole into the bakery.

“I’m not going in there!” Cole said trying to stand his ground.

“Well why not? Don’t you like candies and sweets?” asked the pink one bouncing up and down.

“No, I hate it, it’s disgusting and it’s unnatural!” Cole snorted.

“Who doesn’t like candy? Come on you probably have never tried this candy before!” The pink pony said to him beginning to push him towards the door.

The other ponies were helping Pinkie Pie, except for Rainbow Dash, all she said was, “Let him go if he doesn’t want to, besides all he’s probably gonna do is mope and shout at us.” Cole was getting a little pissed off at this pony’s attitude towards him. She knows I can snap her neck. Cole thought to himself. If she knows I’m dangerous then why is she pissing me off?

Eventually Twilight and the others managed to get him inside the dark room. Another thing you should know about Cole is that he hates dark rooms; last time he was in one was when he was clamped to a desk and being pulled apart. But before Cole could get out, the lights flicked on. Ponies crowded the room and all yelled a synchronized, “SURPRISE!” Cole was stunned by what had just happened, this wasn’t a trap, this was a fucking surprise party for him. Cole turned to the annoying pink blob, who had resumed bouncing and asked her with a look of slightly annoyed, anger, surprise and fear, “What the hell is this?”

“Oh silly, this is the welcome to Ponyville party I was talking about the other day. I do this for everypony!” The pink pony giggled at Cole, she didn’t understand this doesn’t normally happen to him where he unknowingly enters a room filled with people waiting for him and doesn’t get the shit kicked out of him.

Cole looked around the room, there were so many colors. There were balloons, streamers, and drinks. Music filled the room as ponies began to dance and blindfold themselves and spin each other around. Cole could feel something deep in his chest beginning to grow, it didn’t feel like anger, it didn’t feel like fear. It was something he’s never felt before. He kept looking around the room as this feeling began to bubble inside him and grow and grow.

Pinkie and the others backed away from the shaking human, Twilight was worried he was going to explode or something. He just stood there shaking and shaking, he slowly turned his head to Twilight and his face was twitching. She began to panic on the inside, Twilight thought to herself, what if he was going to go on rampage and do something horrible? The other ponies saw him shaking and everyone in the room became nervous about his shaking. Cole couldn’t keep this feeling inside him anymore, he felt his face stretching. He had never experienced this before and he couldn’t resist it, he let go of his control and let his body do the work. The ponies saw it, to them it was something they always see, everypony was like that, but to Cole, this was his first time actually feeling this, he usually faked it but this was genuine. Cole let himself go and a huge smile stretched to the corners of his face, for the first time in the soldier’s life he was feeling happy. He didn’t lie to himself anymore, he knew why Pinkie threw this party for him, she cared about him and no one has ever done that for Cole. Cole has never been happier in his life, or even happy for that matter.

“I can’t believe you did this for me, Pinkie!” Cole ran over with his brand new smile and picked up Pinkie and spun her around hugging her as tightly as he could, he felt weird being happy, but he loved every second of it. He loved the feeling of Pinkies curly pink hair brushing against his face as he held her up, mmmmm her hair smells sweet Cole thought to himself.

“Oh you do like it! That’s awesome!” Pinkie giggled with a snort.

Cole walked gingerly up to Applejack and gave her a big hug too saying, “I’m sorry I didn’t return the hug last night, I don’t know what was wrong with me.”

Applejack laughed a little and said to him, “Aw we all knew all you needed was to be shown a little bit of kindness.” Twilight smiled a little at all of this, she thought to herself, it always works.

The next hours were the best of Cole’s life, he was talking to lots of ponies about his adventures, and he was laughing and loving the feeling of laughing. He ate tons of sweets and went on a sugar rush and out bounced Pinkie Pie. Yet something was missing from the party, he noticed that wherever he looked he couldn’t find that downer of a pegasus. He went looking for her up the stairs and went for the nearest door and put his ear to it. He could faintly hear sobbing coming from the other side, Cole slowly opened the door to find the rainbow maned pegasus in the corner crying a little. Cole walked up to her slowly only to be greeted with a, “What do you want?” from her and more tears.

“I want to know why your not part of the party, did I do this to you?” Cole asked her. Cole thought of her as a tough one, not this.

“Well kinda, it’s not exactly you, it’s another thing too,” Rainbow wiped the tears from her eyes and continued, “but you probably wouldn’t care.”

Cole sat down next to her and said in a calm voice, “But after learning how great it feels to be happy, I hate to see others not feeling the same. Tell me what’s wrong.”

Rainbow sniffed and said with tears coming out of her eyes, “Well you see, it just happens to be my luck that I have a rainbow mane, and I have a tomboyish personality.”

“So what’s wrong with that?” Cole didn’t understand what she was getting at, he would have loved to have white hair to go with his manly personality, what’s wrong with that?

“What’s wrong is that everypony thinks I’m a lesbian,” Rainbow began to cry again, “wherever I go, ponies look at me differently, some don’t allow me near their foals, some ponies even laugh at me and make hurtful jokes towards me.” Rainbow wiped the tears away again, “Sure, when you jumped on my back and called me a mule, that hurt. But the reason I’ve been like this is because I’m constantly thinking that you’re going to be the next one to joke about my sexuality.” Rainbow resumed crying.

“Well, do you like other fillies?” Cole asked, he was trying his best to help her, but he was a soldier, not a therapist.

“Yes… No… Kind of… you see, I like both fillies and colts, I know I’m the freak of Equestria.” She said with a shaky voice. Cole could tell that this was difficult or her to admit because he’s been in situations where he was being forced to tell the truth.

“Rainbow, I would never tease you over something like that. In fact I envy your bravery; in my world it’s really humiliating for gays and lesbians to show their love all of a sudden. But if you’ve known them for being gay or lesbian ever since they were young, then you can look past that and accept them for who they are. It doesn’t matter what they love or who they love, it’s who they are that makes them wonderful. It’s your bravery and your strong attitude that makes you wonderful. You have wonderful eyes, and a wonderful taste in homes and a great smile.” Cole had never felt like this before, what he said was the honest truth and he could tell that he was helping her a lot.

Dash looked at Cole with a tearful smile and said, “That’s really sweet, Colt. Thanks.” With that Rainbow closed her eyes, she began to fear the worst would happen to her for what she was about to do but she was going to do it anyway. Here goes nothing she thought to herself and kissed Cole on the cheek. Her lips met his cheek as she gently pressed them against his face; she held on for a few seconds but then broke the kiss. Immediately she hid her face and began thinking, what if he was going to deny me? What if he’s not interested? What if he thinks I’m creepy? But then the last thing she expected happened, Cole wrapped his arm around her and brought her close to him.

That kiss on the cheek represented Cole’s changing and he was never going to go back to his old self. He held Dash close to him to make her feel better, to make him feel better. He could tell that his comforting worked, but he didn’t know that she liked him. “Listen, I’m flattered and all, and believe me when I say I like you too, Rainbow, but in my universe making love to another creature just isn’t looked too kindly uppon. Besides, I don’t know you enough yet.”

“Oh sorry I did that then…” Rainbow lowered her head, she was right, he denied her.

“Lucky for you we’re not in my universe.” Cole brought her chin up so he could look into her eyes and gave her a smile.

“You’re awesome already.” She replied in a small voice. A tear fell down her cheek out of joy that she could talk to someone who really cared for her. The next hours were the best of Dash’s life, she talked about how her dream was to one day be part of the Wonderbolts and how she loved to fly and loved the feel of adrenaline. Cole talked again about all of his adventures, this time he didn’t rush it, he was really enjoying talking to her. He loved to see the awe on Dash’s face and he felt the same when she told him about the incredible and death defying stunts she performed. Cole was extremely impressed when she told him of her sonic rainboom. Both Cole and Rainbow learned that they had more in common than they thought, they both loved the feel of adrenaline, they never had the best childhoods, they loved to go fast, they hid their true emotions, and they both loved the feeling of freedom when your flying.

Rainbow cuddled close to Cole, she loved the feeling of his hand under her wing, and the feeling of his thumb just slowly moving back and fourth on her side. She adored the feeling of her head against his chest and how she could faintly hear his heartbeat. Cole loved the feeling of her mane tickling his chin, it smelled of blueberries, the sound of her breathing, he loved the feeling of holding someone who actually cared for him, he never wanted to let go. But before Rainbow could make another move on her new love they both heard someone coming up the stairs. Cole looked down at Dash and said, “Quick act like you told me a joke.”

Dash looked at Cole and said with a confused look, “Why don’t you want her to see us like this?”

Dash made a good point; he then cuddled up to her and rested her on his lap.

Pinkie opened the door to see them in each others hands, and hooves, she said in a bubbly voice, “I didn’t know you liked each other, anyways come on you two lovers, it’s time for Colt to open his gifts.”

Downstairs all the ponies were watching eagerly as Cole opened his first gift from Twilight; it was a book on everything about Equestria, “Thanks Twilight!” Cole said with a big cheerful smile. He could just give the chief this instead of his notes. His next gift from Rarity was a hand crafted hat; Cole looked at the white unicorn with a smile and said, “Thanks, it looks comfy!”

“Oh dear, I used only the best material for that hat.” The white unicorn cooed.

Cole looked at the last three gifts, he picked up the one from Pinkie, before he even opened it he turned to her with a smirk on his face and said sarcastically, “Hmmmm what could possibly be in here?” Pinkie just giggled and gave a little snort. When Cole opened it up an explosion of confetti and fake snakes sprung out of it and Cole jumped back yelling, “Jesus tap dancing Christ!” then burst out laughing and found a box set of pranks he could do himself. He gave her a hug and went to open his gift from Applejack; inside he found a recipe for the most delicious apple treats. He gave her a big hug too. He moved on to the last gift on the table from Fluttershy and opened it; inside he found a picture of the six ponies together.

Before he even thanked her, Fluttershy squeaked from behind her hair, “You don’t like it do you?”

Cole turned to her with a gentle smile on his face and said in a calm voice, “It’s perfect, thanks guys.” He went to hug her but she just backed away.

From behind him he could hear a stallion talking to Rainbow Dash, “Your so lesbian you wont even get your friends a gift if their a colt.”

Cole turned around to see Rainbow walking towards the door with her head low with depression. Anger burned inside him and he stomped towards the unicorn who said that. This unicorn had dark brown fur and an orange mane, and Cole knelled down and asked him with a calm tone in his voice, “What did you say?”

“I said she doesn’t care about you ‘cause she’s a fag. Why do you care about her so much if she doesn’t care for you?” Cole’s rage suddenly exploded out of him, he couldn’t let this guy go without learning a lesson. He grabbed him by the mane and dragged him outside and threw him onto the grass.

“My job is to keep peace; I don’t think I can let this go without a punishment.” Cole said raising his fists as his suit lit up, he was ready to kick his fucking ass into high heaven.

But the brown unicorn just laughed at him and looked up, his eyes now more sinister than before, they were black and green instead of white and blue. The unicorn’s horn began to glow as he grew larger and changed shape. The unicorn had turned into a minotaur twice Cole’s size and was suddenly carrying a large axe with him that looked like it had taken a few lives in the past. “Come fight me then.” The beast growled, its voice had changed too, but that didn’t scare Cole.

Cole just simply walked up to it and the monster swung his axe towards him, the six ponies looked away in fear that this was the last time they would see Cole, but the sound hey heard was the strangest sound ever. When they looked back all they saw was Cole using his forearm to block the axe, he gave it a smirk and said to the beast, “Carbon 40 alloy, bitch.” He then went on to grab the axe by the blade and pull it out of the Minotaur’s grasp. Instead what happened was the Minotaur swung his axe from side to side trying to get him off and when he pulled his axe towards him Cole took the opportunity to stick out his arm. His arm made contact with the monster’s neck and he spun onto the back of the minotaur’s neck. Then Cole used his combat skills to put the beast into a sleeper hold, he squeezed as hard as he could and the minotaur fell to the ground like a sack of bricks. His suit’s lights faded away soon after.

“Is it dead?” Fluttershy asked with a pile of fear in her voice, she obviously hated seeing things die.

Cole just walked away from the beast and said with a smile on his face, “Nope just put him to sleep for a while, when he wakes up he wont be able to move for an hour, so that will give him time to learn not to fuck with me.” Cole looked over at the smiling Rainbow Dash, he saw in her eyes that she was thanking him a million times in her head.

“Thanks for standing up for me.” Dash said with a shy look on her face.

“Where I’m from that can be taken to the authorities, how come you let it slide here?” Cole asked looking at Twilight.

“We don’t it’s just that we know him for being the strongest unicorn in town and for being able to shape shift. Nopony would want to be face to face with him when he’s like that.” Twilight told Cole. Everypony who was there had a look of amazement on their face with eyes wide like saucers, and their mouths wide open.

Later that night Cole and the ponies were walking each other home. When they stopped at Rarity’s boutique Cole gave her a friendly hug and said, “Can’t wait to hang out tomorrow.”

“Oh sorry dear but I’ve got work to do tomorrow.” She apologized, gave Cole a nod and trotted to her house.

When they stopped at Twilight’s house Cole asked if she had any plans tomorrow, “Well I really can’t but I wish I could. I have to go to Canterlot tomorrow, but maybe the next day.” She trotted to her door and gave Cole a smile as she closed it. Inside spike walked up to her and she said to him, “He changed quite a bit.”

Cole, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack stopped at Sweet Apple Acres and Applejack said to Cole, “Now ah know what y’all are gonna ask, and it’s a maybe, I have a lot of apples to pick and the apple picking season is almost over. If ah get all of that done then we could spend some time.”

Pinkie whispered into Cole’s ear, “I know how it feels, don’t worry, they really do want to hang out.” And Cole just winked at Pinkie.

When they arrived at Fluttershy’s cottage she turned to Cole and said in a shy voice, “Well um this is where I live, so you can come inside, or whatever you want to do is fine.” She blushed a little from behind her long pink hair.

Cole gave a gently laugh and said to her just as quietly, “I’m going to walk everypony else home and then I’ll come back. Good night Fluttershy.”

“Well actually you only have to walk Dashie home, I have to get back right away, those cupcakes don’t bake themselves you know.” Pinkie said and with that she zoomed away like a bolt of pink lightning.

Cole and Dash walked away as Cole looked down at her and said in a calm voice, “You ever wonder what she puts in those cupcakes?”

“I try not to.” Rainbow gave Cole a smile and began hovering gently above him.

On their walk Cole and Rainbow laughed and talked all the way, they really enjoyed each other’s company. When they arrived, Cole looked up to see her floating castle made of clouds and sat next to a rock a few feet away and motioned her to sit next to him. Dash plopped next to him and moved in really close so she could feel his warmth. She looked up at him with her wide eyes and rested her head on his chest. Cole stroked her mane as his fingers ran through it and he gently said to her almost in a whisper, “So you busy tomorrow?”

“Nope, why?” Rainbow smiled at Cole, she already knew why he was asking her.

“I was wondering if you would like to hang out and maybe go do stuff.” Cole smiled, he’s never really asked anyone out on a date, mostly because he’s never felt love before.

Instead of giving him a yes or no answer, Rainbow kissed Cole on the cheek, gently at first, her lips being pressed against his cheek was the greatest feeling either of them had ever felt. Rainbow then pressed harder and continued to kiss his cheek. Cole ran his fingers through her mane and gently pinched her ears, she then broke the kiss, sat on his lap and rested her head on his shoulder. Rainbow held on to Cole tightly and wrapped her hooves around his neck. Then Dash opened her eyes to look into his.

“Does that answer your question?” She giggled rubbing her nose under his neck.

“So what time?” Cole assumed that was a yes, because if not then that was one weird way to say no.

“Let me think, how about first thing tomorrow morning?” She whispered.

“Not soon enough,” Cole said with a gentle laugh, “well it’s getting late so we might as well get some sleep.” Cole got up still holding onto her.

Rainbow opened her wings and began to hover above him, she couldn’t help but smile and she said, “Thanks, thanks for everything tonight.” Rainbow’s face turned bright pink.

“Thank you for changing who I am.” Cole then let go of her hooves to let her fly up to her house.

When Cole got back to Fluttershy’s cottage she was waiting for him on the couch, she had a concerned look on her face as she said with a stern tone, “She really loves you, Cole, and you better not break her heart. Poor filly has been through a lot in her life, I don’t think she would be able to handle heartbreak from somepony like you. If I catch you cheating on her so help me by Celestia I will hurt you.”

Cole understood why she was like this, she of all the ponies knew Dash the best, they were both from Cloudsdale and they went to the same school together, Cole looked at her with a look of curiosity, “First of all, how did you know she loves me?”

“I see the way she looks at you, she’s only looked at a few ponies that way, and all those ponies wound up breaking her heart. Seeing her look at you like that makes me think you will do the same.” Fluttershy wasn’t acting all shy, she was serious about this. Her friends meant the world to her.

“I know she loves me, and I love her, more than anything in fact. But I think it’s inevitable that I’m going to break her heart. She’s a Pegasus and I’m a human, and also I only have five more days here before I have to go back.” Cole suddenly realized what he just said and he worried about how Dash would cope with it if he just left her. He suddenly felt horrible saying that, he couldn’t do anything about his mission.

“Well then I guess you’re screwed than, aren’t you mister?” She said mocking the way he talked to her for the first time.

Cole felt horrible about himself because now he knew that he was inevitably going to ruin another life.

*****

Cole was having another nightmare, it was almost the exact same as last night but something was different, while he saw the images of him pulling the ribcages of young men apart, he constantly saw that child, rage was bubbling deep inside him again and he got a glimpse memory of his mother. Her face he didn’t recognize but it felt so familiar, he watched it as a bullet traveled through her head and the life drain from her eyes, and then he watched as his entire family was killed before him. Before he woke up he saw the image of the young boy with tears rolling down his cheek as he pulled the trigger on his heart. The last thing he saw was Dash crying as he was telling her he had to leave.

This time Cole couldn’t contain it anymore, he jerked out of bed and ran for the door, he tried his best to stay silent and once he had closed the door he fired up his suit and began to run. Cole ran as fast as he could for the mountains and ran his way up, Cole was an exceptionally good climber mostly because of the adrenaline and the suit he wore. Tears were rolling down his cheeks as he made it to the top of the snowy mountain and shouted at the top of his lungs. The pain and regret he felt finally met its breaking point and he began to shout out, “FORGIVE ME!” There was an incredible echo as Cole smashed his fist against a wall of rock, which he destroyed. For the first time in Cole’s life he was crying. He cried for almost half an hour before he had finally vented himself out, he just sat there and cried. Then he heard a very familiar voice calling for him.

“Cole! Cole what’s wrong?” the voice shouted out to him. Cole stared down the mountain into the distance and then before having any second thought he walked off the edge. Cole fell down the side of the mountain for almost a minute, before he impacted his suit kicked in and got the impact resistors ready. When he hit the ground he smashed a crater almost twelve feet deep and fifty feet wide, he didn’t feel any pain thanks to the suit and used its ability to jump out of the hole to see Rainbow Dash looking at him with worry on her face. “Cole… what’s wrong, and don’t say nothing ‘cause that was something that I just saw” Rainbow said, she had a serious look on her face and she worried for her new love.

“I guess I really should tell you this. I’m not a really good guy,” Cole began, he went and sat her down next to him because this was going to take a while, “I’m a really bad person.”

“No you’re not; you’re an incredible colt to me.” Rainbow exclaimed, the cyan pony holding Cole close.

“Yes I am, I’ve killed hundreds upon hundreds of people, most of them deserved it and most had their families watching them as I took their lives.” Cole was feeling horrible that he was telling this to probably the only person, or pony, that would love him, “All their hearts broken because of me, I ruined the lives of so many children, and so many more of mothers. Now that I have these waves of emotion, I’m regretting everything I did.” A tear dripped down his cheek, he knew Dash was going to hate him too, “What made it go too far was the idea I might never see you again, that I have to break another heart when I try my best not to. I have to leave in a few more days and I might never come back.”

Rainbow was shocked to hear she had fallen in love with a killer, “These people you killed, were they bad people?”

“Yes.”

“Then it may have been wrong to kill them, but now there are fewer bad people out there. What about those who didn’t deserve it, why did they die?”

“There was an infection, people were becoming really sick throughout the hospital, before it spread to everyone else I had to go in and exterminate them. All of those suffering people died because of me.”

“They were suffering?”

“Yes.”

“Then it was a good thing you did that, maybe some may have wanted them to live but if they were suffering, all you did was end the pain and put them in a better place. From what I’m getting, you’re like a type of police?”

“Yeah I sort of am.”

“Then what you were doing was showing other future criminals what would happen if they broke the law, in the end you may have ended a few evil lives, but you have saved a lot more good lives. Besides, the fact that you regret all of those things shows that you care for them and that you are a good person, and I’m pretty damn sure that if you go back to those families they will understand you aren’t the cold blooded monster they thought you were.”

After a few more minutes of an emotional breakdown, Cole thought about what Dash had just told him and he began to understand that she could look past who he used to be and look at him for who he really was.

“Thanks Dash,” Cole kissed her on the cheek while wrapping his arms around her, “you probably saved a life too.”

“What do you mean?” Rainbow didn’t really understand what Cole meant by what he said.

“I mean that I hated myself enough to kill myself, but you saved me. You’re a bigger hero than I will ever be.” Cole held on tight, he loved this comforting feeling.

“That means a lot to me, Cole,” Dash kissed his chin gently, “and I know you’re leaving in a few days, you mentioned that a while ago. If I could, I would give up everything I had here, even my dream of becoming a Wonderbolt so I could be with you.” Dash said with tears forming in her big beautiful eyes.

For the next ten minutes, tears and kisses were shared as they comforted each other. That moment where their lips locked the first time, Cole forgot all about his mission, all he cared about was holding his cyan pony in his arms and giving her years of oppressed emotions to her.

“Well Cole, we should really get back to our beds, got a big day tomorrow.”

“Hell yeah, hey wanna race?” Cole’s suit lit up with a turquoise color throughout the cracks in his armour.

“I never turn down a race, although I don’t know if you can keep up with me. They don’t call me Rainbow Dash for nothing.” Dash’s wings sprung to life as they stretched to their maximum on both of her sides.

“One… Two… THREE!” with that, Cole took off at supersonic speed leaving a trail of dust behind him.

“Hey no fair, you’re cheating!” Rainbow laughed as she took off behind him.

For the rest of the race neither of them cared about losing or winning, but just to have fun as they laughed all the way to their homes.

When Rainbow got home she jumped in her bed with joy, the last time she had ever felt this excitement was when she got to hang out with the Wonderbolts. She couldn’t wait for tomorrow’s date.

The Truth

There were benefits to being in the military, only a few though, like being able to wake up early without being tired and you get to be physically fit. Cole woke up even before the sun rose and got ready. He slept on that really comfy couch and wore Rarity’s hat she made for him, it did a really good job keeping him warm. When Cole got up he did a few warm up stretches to get ready for the day, and he put on his suit, but when he put it on his nostrils felt like they were on fire. Cole’s suit smelled like shit (well after running up a mountain it does seem kinda likely you might sweat a bit). Cole put it on anyway, because it was all he really had. Cole prepared a bit of breakfast for himself, he made some oatmeal and French toast for himself and Fluttershy, he put Fluttershy’s portion on her bedside table without waking her because he figured it would be another three hours before she would wake up. When Cole walked onto the front lawn, he took a deep breath of the fresh air. Where he used to live it was all stuffy and had no windows, but what he saw on his missions gave him a pretty good idea of what his planet looked like. Cole took in everything he saw, the beautiful dawn sky and the moon which appeared to have a unicorns head on it. The most beautiful thing he noticed was the peacefulness of the country side. Cole decided he would head over to Dash’s house and wait for her, he fired up his suit, which gave that turquoise glow and took off in a super human sprint.

*****

Dash was also having a nightmare, only it wasn’t about what she did in the past, her nightmare felt like it was a few days in the future, she saw an image of Cole’s face bruised, bashed, and really bloody. These images disturbed her, and she then saw her love, chained to a wall as she screamed, she was watching him being tortured. She tried to get away from this nightmare, but it was impossible, then she saw Cole’s head look up from the dead body and say with a bit of an echo, “Hey Dash, you awake?” That line brought the cyan Pegasus back to reality, she then sprung to life from her bed, it was all a dream, and it was all over. She crawled out of bed and got her hair fixed up, she was getting ready for a big day today and she wanted to look her best, when she entered the kitchen she saw a little dark brown patch in the floor suddenly disappear. When she approached the hole it made, Cole’s face popped out and Dash yelled out a loud, “By Celestia’s beard!”

“Hey you’re awake.” Cole said with an innocent smile as his head disappeared again.

Dash stuck her head through the hole to see her Cole waiting for her on the ground; she gave a loud laugh and yelled out, “It’s kind of creepy poking your head through someone’s kitchen floor!”

“Sorry, you don’t usually have a social life when you grow up two kilometres inside a mountain!” Cole sarcastically shouted back. Rainbow removed her head from the hole and closed it up.

A few minutes later she was descending from her cloud house towards Cole, “How long have you been waiting for me?” she asked with a giggle. The sun just rising over the edge of the mountain and the animals were waking up. Everypony was just waking up and getting ready for another day in Ponyville.

“Hmm maybe a few hours.” Cole asked with a blush, he really didn’t understand how to be social and didn’t understand that waiting outside someone’s house for a few hours for them to wake up isn’t considered normal.

“That’s totally not creepy of you.” Rainbow jokingly said as she nudged her head against Cole, “So what do you plan on us doing today? We’ve already seen all of Ponyville, and every other city or town is too far away.” Rainbow had a few ideas of her own, but she felt like letting the guest to this new world decide, besides, Cole was the gentleman, he should make some decisions.

Cole thought about where they could go, then a smile broke onto his face that slowly stretched from one side of his face to the next. He looked at Dash and with a smirk he asked, “You want to see where I’m from?”

Dash couldn’t help but smile at that idea too, she would love to see where he lived, it would be quite the adventure, and she looked at him and said with a giggle in her tone, “Sure! How are we going to get there though?”

A half hour later Cole was strapping himself and Dash into the pod that was still inside the crater. He made sure they were facing each other, it was really uncomfortable for her, but she was close to Cole, so it made things a bit better, Cole looked at the little screen and went to the help section on it, after a few minutes of reading instructions Cole asked Dash, “You ready? It says to hold your breath that way you don’t fall unconscious for a day. This thing is going to accelerate past light speed really quickly so it’s going to feel really weird.”

“I’m ready as I’ll ever be, Cole.” Dash said as she kissed Cole on the cheek.

“It’s going to hurt a little having all of your atoms torn apart but when it’s over it will feel like it never happened.” With that Cole put in the coordinates on the tiny number pad under the screen and the pod started to shake, the humming grew louder as the countdown reached one, and before they knew it they were having the fibres of their existence being pulled apart, before they everything went black they both held their breaths. When the pain stopped Cole looked out the window to see they were in a place that looked a lot like space, only there were no stars, just a cluster fuck of random colors. Rainbow struggled a little bit but managed to turn herself around to watch, it was the most beautiful thing they ever saw together and as soon as it all started, the colors started vibrating and turning into different shapes and darkening until they reformed the laboratory Cole entered only a few days ago. Cole unfastened themselves but didn’t open the door, he knew there were security cameras, so he had to think of a way to make them invisible, then he had an incredible idea, he went into his little de-atomiser case and pulled out the ghillie suit and put it on both of them.

Rainbow just looked at Cole and said sarcastically, “Oh great now instead of looking like a man and a pegasus, we look like a pile of walking leaves.”

“Just give it a second.” Cole reassured her and as soon as he said that the ghillie suit started to change colors until it was invisible, Cole raised his hand to check if it worked and he couldn’t see it. They were invisible now.

“That’s so awesome.” Dash whispered, she was in awe of all the cool things Cole had with him. They slowly opened up the door to the lab to find out it was midnight, no one was in the facility. Cole brought Rainbow out carrying her in his arms and gave her a tour of the facility, she was rather light, which explained how she was able to rest on certain clouds.

“Were gonna head to my room, I need to get a few things.” Cole whispered into Rainbows ear, he didn’t want them to be heard.

“Oh you’re taking me to your room already? A little too soon romeo.” Dash said sarcastically.

“Oh you got me.” Cole gave her a wink and a faint giggle as he jokingly said that. When they entered Cole’s room, he took off the suit and stuffed it into his little case on his side pocket. The room’s walls were made of concrete and had no windows, only a small light bulb flickered to give the room a bit of light. All Cole had that was actually his was a television he was given, a gaming console that the scientists felt necessary to simulate a normal room, he had a dresser full of clothes for when he had to interact with people, and a small bathroom with a shower sat in the corner of the room sealed by a steel door. First thing Cole did was gently put Dash onto his little cheap bed and he headed for the shower. A few minutes later Cole came walking out smelling a lot better and his hair a lot less greasy. Rainbow decided to take the opportunity to strike a sexy pose on his bed as he slowly got dressed, he kept giving Dash an awkward look asking, “Do you mind? I have enough scientists studying me naked, I don’t want you looking at my hairy ass ‘cause I might scar you for life.”

Rainbow then suddenly noticed his ass was bare and she asked him with a confused look, “Hey, where’s your cutie mark?” Before Cole answered her he decided he put on some boxers and some nicely fitting jeans.

“Well in this universe, you don’t have your special talent represented by a mark on your flank. Trust me some of the cutie marks here would be really gross and odd.” That made Cole think of all the prostitutes and all the whores, it made him think of all of the terrorists and the image of them having a mark of an explosion on their ass.

“Well that’s lame, so why are we here?” Dash asked, she didn’t really like this place too much. No sky to fly through.

“I came here so I can grab a few things and then we’ll head back to Ponyville, and I’ll show you what entertains humans on planet earth.” Cole went over to his closet door facing the bathroom and opened it, inside were military vehicles made specially for him, there was a motorbike that was on a suspension system to absorb as much shock as possible, a suit that resembled Cole’s other one, except this was thicker around the shoulders, forearms, and legs. Cole grabbed the bike it folded until it was capable of fitting into his case. He was really prepared for anything, when he exited, the door closed and he went for his dresser and pulled out a dark purple hoodie and a white T-shirt and put them on. Then he went to the dresser beside his bed and pulled out a smart-phone he brought with himself to help aid his disguise. He turned on his iPhone 4 and searched a few recipes to cook up when in Equestria, he copied and pasted them all into a small folder in his notes and asked Dash if they had potatoes, yeast, crystal malt, and a few other things. He was going to show them what humans drink to party hard.

“Yeah we do, why do you want to know?” Rainbow was wondering why he was asking her these things. He then searched up a few more recipes and did the same to them. When he was done he put his phone in his pocket, took the de-atomiser case and put it in his other pocket with his motorbike.

“Just a few more things, I’ll be another minute.” Cole said as he rushed for the television, he put the de-atomiser on the floor and raised the television over it and the television disappeared, he then did the same for his gaming console and a few games he never bothered playing. With that over he was ready to head back, he picked up Dash and put on the ghillie suit and they headed back towards the pod.

Before they knew it they were back in Ponyville, Cole was better dressed because he had packed some clothes. When they got out of the pod they noticed they were still in the same place only this time they were surrounded by pegasi in golden armour, it was the royal army Dash told him. The soldiers escorted him and Dash to the palace in Canterlot, it was quite a site to behold, and he would have enjoyed it if he weren’t a prisoner. The guards brought both Cole and Dash to the princesses who sat before them, one had a white coat of fur and her mane swayed in the wind as though it had a mind of its own, her mane was a mixture of shades of blue green and a pink. The other one had a dark blue coat and her mane was a slight blue, a bit darker than Dash’s coat.

Dash immediately bowed before them and whispered into Cole’s ear, “That’s Princess Luna and Princess Celestia, bow before them.”

The two alicorns stared at them both when the older looking one stood up and spoke in a gentle voice, “Rainbow Dash, a pleasure to see you, who’s this you brought here?” She looked over at Cole; he noticed how she wasn’t angry at all.

“This is uh, my coltfriend,” Dash turned really pink when she mentioned they loved each other, “he’s not from around here.”

Dash was having trouble coming up with an explanation but before Cole could chip in the white alicorn turned to Cole and said, “Oh how sweet, you two make such an adorable and unique couple, but what do you mean you’re not from around here. Where are you from?”

“Well to tell you the honest truth, I’m not from this planet or the universe for that matter.” Cole was worried but he didn’t understand why. What could he have done that was considered a crime?

The white alicorn smiled and said to him, “Well that explains the meteor that happened a few days ago and the one that happened today. I’m not going to get angry at you, in fact I’m quite interested in you.”

“Well, I know what you’re about to ask, I’m a multiversal traveling human being. I was sent here on a mission because an enemy on my planet had built one of these and I need to find out why he chose here.” When Cole happened to mention human being the two alicorns dawn looks of worry.

“Oh dear,” the younger one began, “I suppose you haven’t noticed all the coincidences while you were here?” What was she talking about? He noticed a few coincidences like how they spoke the same language and how the vegetation was the same, how there were the same animals on here as there were on earth, and then Cole froze with extreme realization. Our universes have met before. Cole thought to himself.

“Oh my god, our universes met before, but what I don’t understand is why we didn’t just move here, this place is so much better.” Cole stuttered a bit, all these coincidences made sense now.

“It didn’t happen like that,” Celestia began, “tens of thousands of years ago, when this planet was still young, all sorts of monsters were roaming along this planet, among them were the humans, and the ponies, both showed equal abilities and were both capable of great things. Yet the creator, The Nightmare, noticed humans were dangerous, they were violent and they began not only to kill each other, but they began to kill others aswell. Nightmare noticed how these monsters would eventually wipe out the more peaceful ponies. So it took the human race, a few of each animal species and traveled to another universe, it eventually found a planet exactly the same as Equestria for the humans to do what they wanted on. So it left them there, and to make sure they never remembered who they really were, Nightmare wiped their memories and put a giant human face on the side of a nearby red planet to make sure their origins would always remain a mystery. Yet some of the humans could vaguely remember the monsters and began writing them down. Now you consider those documents a part of ‘Greek mythology’. The reason we speak the same language is because a brain can never forget communication. On the Ten thousandth year, Nightmare would return to that planet and if the humans managed to keep that planet peaceful, then the Nightmare would bring a few of the best humans back to their original home.”

“What if the humans didn’t do so well?” Cole asked, he was really scared of what he thought would happen, and he knew the humans failed. Miserably.

“If the humans fail to keep peace, then the flood will begin, Nightmare will wipe out all human life on that planet before it discovers a way to get back to our universe.” Celestia and Luna weren’t kidding around, this was serious fucking business. The thought of Armageddon scared Cole.

“I’m living proof that we have become capable of coming home.” Cole said with a shudder. Suddenly he realized that the entire human race was doomed because of him.

“Nightmare is probably on her way to your planet right now,” Luna began, “You have to go back, your people don’t deserve to live, you disgusting creature.”

Rainbow immediately embraced Cole and she began to cry, “Don’t make him go, he’s not what you think, I love him.” Cole’s dream became a reality, he had to leave her and she couldn’t do anything about it.

******

Meanwhile back on Earth, a man lies in a hospital bed with bandages around his face, his medical chart shows that his bottom jaw had been torn off but was able to be replaced. The man laid there motionless, when a nurse walked in and said to him, “The doctors say you’re ready to leave, Albrecht.”

The man slowly got up and said in a German accent, “Thank you.” His voice had been replaced by a voice box and it gave him a slightly robotic voice. When he walked out of the hospital there was a limo waiting for him, the door suddenly opened for him and a voice inside called for him.

“Albrecht, you have to come with us.” The voice sounded unfamilliar to Albrecht, but he entered the vehicle. When he got in someone took a pocket knife and cut the bandages from his face to reveal himself. His new jaw was metallic, it wasn’t even painted to look human, and wires poured from either corner of his jaw and sank into his neck and under his skin. The voice was a woman’s and she said, “It looks very sinister, Albrecht, we know who did this to you, and we took the courtesy of rebuilding your project, this time we have a larger one instead of a one man pod. Now you can simply walk through it. We also found out that the man who did this to you is hiding in that universe you desired to go to. Would you like to claim your revenge?” This woman’s voice struck fear into Albrecht’s heart.

Albrecht leaned in towards the source of the woman’s voice and asked in a deep sinister robotic voice, “Where are the gates?”

*****

Meanwhile back in Ponyville, Cole was permitted to leave the castle as long as the last thing he did was say good bye to his new friends. They all gathered at Twilight’s library as Cole gave Twilight a warm hug he sad with a tear rolling out of his eye, “Thanks Twilight, you helped me learn so much about this new world and I will never forget you.”

Twilight was touched by this and returned the hug and said in a shaky voice, “You showed me that even you can be changed by friendship.”

Cole walked up to Rarity, whom he barely spoke to but said with his lips quivering, “Rarity, we may not have spoken too much, but the generous gift you gave me showed me the true value of a little bit of kindness.”

The white unicorn hugged him and cooed, “Thank you, darling, for saving us from that werewolf. Just don’t cry too much into my hair, it’ll frizz.”

Cole moved on to Fluttershy, “Fluttershy, you showed me that a friend will change themselves to protect those they love, the way you stood your ground last night was remarkable.”

Fluttershy hugged him but whispered into his ear, “It’s because I knew this would be inevitable.”

Cole moved to Applejack and gave her a gentle hug as he began to cry, “AJ, you showed me that you would go out of your way to make a friend happy, even if it meant you wouldn’t be happy.”

Applejack hugged him tightly and said, “Y’all are a good person, Colt, I knew we could change you.”

Cole then stepped to the pink blob, who was surprisingly beginning to cry as Cole hugged her and said, “Pinkie, you gave me one of the greatest gifts of all, you helped me smile for the first time in my life. I’ll never forget that.”

Pinkie hugged Cole and in a quivering voice she said, “I’m going to miss you, Colt.”

Then finally he moved on to Rainbow Dash, who was already crying before he even said anything, Cole held her up, and kissed her gently on the lips. This last kiss felt like it lasted forever and Dash tried her best to remember every second of it. Then Cole broke the kiss and said to her with a shaky tone, “Rainbow, you’ve given me the greatest gift of all time, you showed me that love doesn’t have to be between the same species, as long as the two feel happy together then true love it is. I love you more than anything, and if I die today, then I want this kiss to be our last.” With that both Cole and Dash locked lips, Dash had never been happier in her life being with Cole, and now it was all leaving her. It was as though some higher force was denying her happiness. Cole felt the same way as he felt her tender cyan lips against his.

As the other ponies watched, Twilight looked out the window to see three meteorites fall out of the sky; they all crashed at the same time into multiple houses causing large explosions. When the dust settled a man with a robotic jaw stood there with two other bulky men who looked like they could stop trains bare handed. The man with the iron jaw looked around and saw Cole inside a nearby tree, blinded with rage he shouted in a robotic German voice, “The fucker is in there, get him!”

With that order, one of the bulky men kicked down the door, thankfully Spike was there to help, he breathed fire on the men to let Cole and the others escape, but one of the bulky men kicked Spike into the bookshelf and he fell to the ground limp. Cole just stood there with no expression on his face as the two men grabbed him. When they tried to drag him out he began to fight, but he wasn’t wearing a suit and couldn’t overpower them, all they had to do was send 50,000 volts of electricity through Cole’s body to make him go limp. Rainbow heard Cole’s scream and she galloped after him. The tow bulky men were holding up Cole as Albrecht threw fist after fist at him, breaking Cole’s nose and sending blood everywhere. Rainbow dash suddenly drew her wings and flew as fast as she could towards the iron jawed menace. Unfortunately, Albrecht herd her coming and turned around to send another 50,000 volts of electricity through Dash’s body and she fell unconscious. Everypony else tried to save them but to Albrecht, it was as simple as shocking one after the next until he had all six ponies and Cole with him. Albrecht pressed a button on his watch as did the others and Albrecht, his two henchmen, Cole, and the six other ponies disappeared.

Elements of Destruction

Chapter 5:
Elements of Destruction

When Cole woke up he was in a dark room (of course it had to be dark) but he could see Dash a few feet in front of him and he whispered with relief, “Dash! Dash wake up it’s me.” Cole got up and began to run for her but was suddenly tripped. Cole slammed onto the ground and landed on his broken nose, after he snapped his nose back into place he looked for what tripped him around his ankles and saw that he was chained to the wall. Fortunately for Cole, the military trained him on how to break free, but this chain was a lot stronger than he thought. To his surprise he was chained to the wall with the same material used in his armour. Cole pulled as hard as he could but it wouldn’t budge from the wall. He looked over to see Dash raise her head, her cheeks stained with tears, but luckily no blood and when they made eye contact, all the pain that was on Dash’s face disappeared. Dash tried to make her way towards him but her hooves were chained to the wall and she was in a sort of straight jacket made special for her wings.

“Cole! Oh Celestia am I glad to see you’re alive.” The two were only inches away from each other which made it torture in itself. Light suddenly filled the room to reveal the true disgustingness of the room. The walls were made of tiles except for around the chains. Stains of blood covered the walls and there were a few bones here and there.

A voice suddenly filled the room, deep and sinister, “So good to see you alive, Cole!”

“Where are the others?” Cole shouted out, he didn’t care about where he was, he wanted to know that Dash’s friends were just as safe.

“Those annoying horses are being kept in another room close by, so they can hear you scream in pain.” Then the door to the right of Cole slammed open, Albrecht was there and he was carrying with him a baseball bat and brass knuckles.

“Don’t hurt her!” Cole shouted, the last thing he wanted to see was the one he cares for most being hurt.

“Oh… you two share some sort of special connection, don’t you?” Albrecht grinned an evil smile, “Then it must hurt her when I do this!” as soon as he said that he swung his fist across Cole’s face making blood spray out of his mouth.

Dash gasped in horror at the sight of Cole taking the pain for her. Albrecht picked up Cole to his feet and swung the baseball bat across his head sending Cole to the ground again, a wave of pain shook through his body as he began to see stars in his outer vision. Rainbow began to squirm trying to get out of her jacket and chains. Albrecht simply looked at her and asked with an evil smile, “Aw you don’t like that? Well then this will hurt both of you.” Ablrecht laughed as the two henchmen from earlier walked in carrying sharp knifes.

Meanwhile in a nearby room, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rarity, and Fluttershy held each other with tears leaking from their eyes as they heard the sound of Cole giving off a blood curdling scream of pain. Pinkie Pie was in the corner crying, her hair had gone straight and her coat had taken on a darker pink. She was mortified by the sounds of the screaming and the thought of Rainbow being killed. None of the ponies tried to comfort her because she was getting violent. Fluttershy tried to reason with her but nearly got attacked by her, Twilight whispered to Applejack, “We all know how much pain she’s in, but somepony has to find a way to distract her from her pain.”

Then suddenly Pinkie’s head jerked upright repeating what Twilight had just mentioned and her eyes looked at the security camera in the corner her hair curling up again, “Distract! Rarity I’m gonna need your help!”

Rarity simply looked at the crazy filly. “Beg pardon?”

“Just do as I say I have an idea.” Then Pinkie went on to start hitting herself in the mouth against a bedframe.

“Pinkie what’s gotten into you?” Twilight exclaimed as pinkie began to bloody her mouth.

“Rarity I need a small favour from you.” Pinkie said with teeth covered in her blood.

“Yeah she’s lost her apple seeds.” Applejack said as she watched the pink pony continue to hit herself.

Pinkie then said with a toothy grin on her face. “Just trust me on this, were getting out of here. Now hold still Rarity.”

*****

Meanwhile in the security room, two men saw the weirdest thing ever appear on their screens. They both sat in their chairs as they watched the pink pony begin smashing her face against the wall, looking like she had gone insane. The other ponies were beginning to back away from her in fear when the camera in that room suddenly lost connection, before the men did anything, the camera regained connection. At first they didn’t see anything until they turned the camera to see the pink one had attacked the white one, blood had caked the pink pony’s mouth and she was laughing her head off with a crazy look in her eyes. Blood stained the white filly’s coat as she laid there dead. Before the other prisoners were killed and eaten, backup was called for that room and three burly men walked by with stun guns in their hands.

*****

Back in the room, Pinkie was laughing her head off at how genius her plan was; the other ponies were in the corner and were surprised by her brilliant idea. She made it look like she was going to kill the other ponies and spat blood on Rarity’s coat to make her faint, that way it looked like she had attacked her. Pinkie looked at the others wiping the blood from her mouth, “Quick! Hide behind the door.”

Within seconds three security guards stormed into the room to find the pink pony sitting there giggling out of control, to them it looked like she had gone completely insane, but she was really giggling at what was about to happen next. The guards put away their stun guns to grab the pony. As soon as their hands were off of them, Twilight, Applejack and Fluttershy jumped from behind them and grabbed for their stun guns. Twilight and Applejack had managed to grab and stun their guards, but Fluttershy was still struggling. The guard threw her off his back at a nearby wall and she fell to the floor, she hid her look of pain behind her face. The guard walked up to her getting his stun gun ready and before he was able to make contact with her Fluttershy jumped backwards away from the stun gun towards the wall. She then used her hind legs to jump off the wall and towards his head, she stuck out her hooves and grabbed onto his face, she then used the momentum from the jump and her weight to tip him backwards and use the last bit of adrenaline in her to flip him over her onto the ground with a large thud. With the guard stunned she grabbed his stun gun and sent a course of 50,000 volts through his body to knock him unconscious. With him on the ground Fluttershy got onto her hind hooves and gave a loud, “Bitch doesn’t mess with Fluttershy!”

Applejack, Twilight, and Pinkie just looked at her, eyes wide like saucers and mouths agape, Twilight began to stutter but forced out a simple question, “Where did you learn that?”

“Oh well Cole showed me that, at first I didn’t like how he used it on a poor alligator,” Fluttershy returned to her shy voice, “all it takes is to get enough momentum so you can overpower them, judging by their appearance they were top heavy so it would help me and I wouldn’t have to use much force on the downfall.”

Fluttershy looked up at her friends when Rarity woke up and asked, “What did I miss?”

Fluttershy just trotted by her and in her usual small voice she said, “Oh nothing really.”

Once the five fillies were out of the room Twilight turned to Pinkie Pie and asked, “Now where? By the way I’m sorry for doubting you.”

“It’s okay, Twilight, but we have to hurry, the camera caught us escaping and their going to send reinforcements but to locate Cole and Dash we need to follow the screaming,” Pinkie Pie gave a loud gasp, “this is just like those spy movies.”

*****

It had been almost fifteen minutes of Albrecht and his henchmen wailing on Cole, he had already lost both his earlobes and had one of his canines yanked out with a wrench. By now he had barely any life left in him and Dash was screaming at the top of her lungs, “Leave him alone you bastard!”

Albrecht suddenly got bored of breaking in the skull of a crippled soldier, so he turned his attention to the cyan Pegasus who was now screaming with fear. Albrecht smiled and turned to the henchmen with the hunting knife and said, “Teach her a lesson about shouting at me; she should learn I hate being told what to do.” With that the henchman with the hunting knife slowly walked up to her and raised her head by her mane and she screamed in pain, tears stained her cheeks. Albrecht looked at her and said with an evil expression on his face, “You should have known better than to shout at me, now take a good look at your lover, ‘cause he’s that last thing you will ever see.” The henchman brought the knife to Dash’s right eye and she began to scream. The henchman enjoyed taking time before he gouged out the eye, he wanted to savour every moment when the knife would enter the soft jelly like part of the eye. But before the blade touched her eye the door swung open, Twilight burst into the room and she used her magic to freeze the man with the knife. Applejack galloped in after her and head butted the other henchman into the wall where he hit his head and fell unconscious. Fluttershy was the last to enter the room and she charged for Albrecht.

“Take this bitch.” Fluttershy exclaimed as she began to slide on her hind legs and as her right front hoof rocketed up and made contact with Albrecht’s nuts, her other hoof grabbed his arm and dragged it under with her, he then flipped and fell onto ground in cradling his broken testicles. Fluttershy got up and got into Albrecht’s face and obnoxiously exclaimed, “Just feel lucky I didn’t get ugly with you.” Fluttershy then returned to being her shy quiet self as she went to help Rainbow out of her chains. Once she was free, Dash sprinted up to Cole now more than likely dead.

Dash turned to Twilight with a look of pain, and fear in her eyes and asked her, “Do something, he’s really badly hurt.”

Twilight looked at the still body and said to Dash, “I know a spell that can accelerate healing, but it’s going to take a lot of energy if I want him to heal faster.”

“Twilight Sparkle, save Cole’s life or damn it I’ll kill you!” Dash said, she wasn’t kidding around, when someone or something she cares about is in danger she will stop at nothing to help them.

The lavender unicorn’s horn began to glow a bright purple, suddenly Cole started to glow and he began to move. Twilight didn’t stop there though, she kept on giving him all she had and he began to heal faster and faster. Eventually Cole was standing up and he could feel his insides starting to fix, he could feel his ribs moving back into place and his skull reforming. He went to feel his earlobes and they had grown back. Twilight couldn’t keep on going and she fell to the ground, Cole caught her before she hit the ground though and he gently laid her down. With all of Cole’s strength he began to pull the chains from the wall (pussies break chains, real men pull the fucking wall off with them) until he finally succeeded and pulled the chains out with a small chunk of wall. The first thing he did was embrace Dash in his arms, her soft and short fur felt well on his hands. He held on tight and ran his fingers through her mane; it almost felt like ecstasy to him, compared to all the shit he had just been. (If you went through half the shit he went through you would feel pretty good too stroking somepony’s mane.)

Cole met eyes with her as they began to tear up, he held her close to him and in almost a whisper he said, “Don’t worry, I’m here and it’s all over.” They rocked back and fourth for a while when Twilight managed to get back up and break Cole’s chains. Once everypony was back on their hooves Cole opened his arms and brought them all in for a group hug. Cole held them tightly as he said to them with love in his voice, “Thank you all for saving Dash, if you were a second too late, Dash here would have lost an eye.”

“Don’t thank any of us but Pinkie here,” Applejack said pointing a hoof to her pink friend, “she got us out.”

“Did you really?” Cole was actually impressed with this, he wouldn’t have been able to think of a way of getting out, “how did you do it?”

“I’ll explain later, we have to get out of here.” Pinkie exclaimed heading for the door.

Once everypony and Cole had left, Albrecht laid there in pain, he brought his wrist up to his mouth and said into it, “Prepare the army, we invade at dawn, and fire up the Armageddon for when I get there.”

A feminine voice came from the watch, deep and sinister as it said, “Yes sir.”

*****

It was amazing how Pinkie knew her way out of the building, apparently she remembered the way her head swayed every time they turned a corner when she was on the henchman’s shoulder. She couldn’t look around because they had placed bags over their heads but that pink pony is smarter then she looks, much smarter. When Cole and the six ponies exited the door, they were nowhere near the Rockies, Cole figured the first thing he should do is move the ponies out of sight, so no one attracts attention to them. He walked up to a random person and talked to her in a calm tone, “Hey excuse me, sorry to bother you but do you know where we… I mean I am… where are we?” The woman looked at him like he had just run up to her naked she didn’t answer all she did was turn the other way and begin walking fast. The same thing happened to another few people until Cole realized his shirt was covered in blood. He immediately pulled his blood stained T-shirt off and threw it into a nearby trashcan. Then he walked up to another stranger and asked, “Where am I? I’m really lost.”

The man was rather calm, and seemed like a nice guy, he just opened up a map of the U.S. and pointed at Olympia, Washington. Cole thanked the man and turned towards the alley, when he entered the alley he brought the ponies further back so no one could see them and Fluttershy asked, “So how far are we from Ponyville?”

Cole decided now would be the time to smart ass a dangerous filly by saying, “Well by my calculations we are about 9,460,730,472,580,800,000,000,000 kilometres away from Ponyville, and if we were travelling at 9,460,730,472,580.8 kilometres an hour then it would take about a trillion years before we made it back.” Cole felt proud about himself for managing to calculate the amount of time it would take to travel that far that fast in his head.

Fluttershy just gave him a swish of her hair and said to him in a very informative tone, “Well considering that Ponyville resides in another universe entirely it remains a mystery the actual amount of light years an infinitely large body is from the next, and sure it would take that long if we wanted to travel at the speed of light but if we could use a bit of dark matter energy in the thrusters, then I’m pretty sure we could break the light barrier and altogether slow down time, so you got two things wrong there. You got the wrong amount of distance it is between universes and you got the amount of time it would take wrong. Also you got the physics wrong, you also have to calculate the time it takes to accelerate, because if we just jumped to the speed of light we would have to endure about 130,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,135,235,645,273.512 G’s which is physically impossible.” Then Fluttershy hid behind her hair and squeaked, “But, uhm, whatever you want to do is fine.”

Cole just looked at her and then back to her friends and said, “Yeah well uhh, you got it wrong too, you would have to umm… shut up your making my brain cry!”

Fluttershy just giggled and said back to him, “Besides I didn’t mean that literally. How far are we from a means of getting us there?”

Cole looked at her, he was pissed off at her intelligence and said to her, “It’s only eleven hours away if we find a decent means of transport.”

Dash pointed a hoof at Cole’s pocket in his jeans and said, “Hey what about that weird glass thing you used to find recipes for those things, maybe it can find where we can get something fast.” She loved the thought of something fast.

Cole turned to her and gave her a kiss on the forehead and her cheeks turned bright pink, “Dash, you’re a genius!” Then he looked over at Fluttershy and said apologetically, “Metaphorically speaking.” Then he whipped out his cell phone and walked behind a nearby grocery store, on the other end of the line was the chief he had spoken to only a few days ago.

His voice sounded so strange to Cole, he felt as though it had been an eternity since he had heard his voice, “What do you think your doing, Cole? This phone is for when you’re in public and we can’t risk someone tapping the line and listening in.”

“It’s great to hear you too, Chief,” Cole said sarcastically, “listen, we need a ride home, and don’t try reasoning with me cause something big is going to happen and we need to get back to base as soon as possible.”

“What do you need? And what do you mean ‘we’?” The chief said with a sigh.

“Just bring in the Falcon. Here are the coordinates.” With that Cole gave the chief his coordinates and hung up. He turned to the ponies waiting there. Cole was still happy to see that they were all okay and that they got to see what his universe looked like from the outside. He was happy to look at his universe from the outside too and not be too preoccupied with a mission.

Applejack trotted up to Cole and asked with a confused look in her eyes, “Excuse me, but what in the hay is ‘The Falcon’?” Cole forgot that they didn’t understand what he was talking about.

“It’s just a codename.” Cole responded as he looked into the sky.

“A codename for what? What are y’all talkin’ about?” Applejack was getting impatient when suddenly wind picked up and her mane started swaying. It started to get more and more violent until Cole realized she wasn’t going to look up like the rest of them so he pointed up.

“It’s a codename for that. That’s the Falcon, our fastest aerial vehicle on the planet.” Cole was proud to say that, he loved this helicopter, it was specially designed to be able to go fast and it had a black sort of camouflage to it. Cole moved everypony out of the way for the helicopter to land. It was extremely loud and the ponies were doing their best to cover their ears with their hooves as they entered.

One by one as the colourful ponies, pegasi, and unicorns entered the Chief just watched with bewilderment in his eyes until Cole got on, the chief turned to him and said loud enough for Cole to hear, “What the fuck, Cole. Just what the fuck.”

Cole responded to him like a soldier saying, “Sir, I’ll explain everything at the base, sir!” With that the helicopter’s doors closed and they took off again heading towards the Rockies.

*****

A while after they arrived, Cole got all of the ponies into his room for a bit and set up his television set. After ten minutes of him swearing and cussing, he finally managed to get it set up to receive satellite signal. He turned to the ponies and sad, “Here, while I talk to my superior, you girls can watch some ‘A-class’ human entertainment.” He handed the remote to Twilight and left the room.

He headed down the hallway and entered the chief’s office , the chief already there in a chair waiting to talk to him, “Have a seat, Cole,” he motioned towards the chair in front of him, “let’s talk about your mission.”

“Yes chief.” Cole responded and immediately took a seat.

“Please, call me Mike,” Mike began, “Cole; I’m extremely proud of you. You have managed to travel to another dimension and journal your findings there. Before you hand me the list, tell me what the most significant things you discovered there were.”

Cole took in a deep breath, because this was going to take a while, and after ten minutes of explaining our actual origins, Mike leaned in and asked, “You seem different, I know you’re hiding one last thing you’ve discovered there. You have to tell me this, because that way we know what these creatures are capable of.”

Cole thought to himself about how he should put it to Mike that he fell in love with a pegasus. Fuck it, he’s going to find out anyway. Cole thought to himself and then told Mike the honest truth, “Well you see, the residents there aren’t like your ordinary ponies, sure some have wings and some have horns, but their also capable of showing strong emotions. The ponies are all carefree and do what they want when they want, everyone or I should say everypony there is happy. When I was there, I felt happy too, I learned I had missed out on so many things, like love.” Cole smiled when he said love.

“Wait… you fell in love? With a horse?” Mike looked at Cole like he was humping a goat on the planet Mars when he asked him that.

“Yeah, I fell in love with the cyan pegasus. I don’t care if she’s a pony and I’m a human, I know it sounds weird, but we connected somehow. We have so much in common, and I feel happy when I’m around her, she feels the same way for me too. I don’t care what you say to me but that’s not going to change how I feel for her.” Cole felt incredibly proud of himself for saying that to his superior.

Mike just stroked his white moustache and said to him, “Cole, it’s not the fact you’re humping a pony that I’m worried. It’s the fact that you have now discovered your weakness, if an enemy has her, you’ll be at their every whim.”

“She may be my weakness, but she’s also my source of power, she saved me from suicide a few days ago. She keeps me alive and when I see her smiling, I have the energy and the feeling to take on the world, I feel like my life is perfect during those moments.” Cole was being honest with Mike, he wasn’t a psychologist but he sure could understand how he felt.

“About you’re life, Cole, since the world is coming to an end I have to be honest, those memories you have of your mother being shot were fake,” Mike grew uneasy telling Cole this, “you’re mother’s not dead, neither is the rest of you’re family.”

Cole just looked at him with wide eyes and mouth agape and said, “You lied to me this entire time?”

“Yes Cole, we erased your memories because when we discovered you in the hospital after surviving an explosion we figured you would be strong enough to become part of the agency.” This was getting difficult for Mike to admit, because Cole wasn’t too happy with what he was hearing, “we gave you fake memories so you would think there’s no point in going looking for them so you stayed to train with us ever since.” Mike was getting scared of Cole, his face dark with a deeper rage than ever before.

Then suddenly Cole’s mood changed, he went from being a deadly monster to being the happiest man in the world. Cole jumped up out of the chair cheering, “I have a family! I can’t believe I’ve had a family all this time and didn’t know about it.” He jumped up and down in his seat cheering it over and over again, and then he turned his attention to Mike and asked with a big grin on his face and eyes full of joy, “Do I have a brother or sister? What are their names?”

Mike laughed on the inside and said in a calm voice, “Yes, you have one brother and one sister, their names are Kathy and Phillip, your parents, Melanie and Frederick, are living well out in Ireland.”

*****
Meanwhile back in Cole’s room, the six ponies were all laying in their own cheap beds watching a movie. Twilight turned to Rarity and asked, “What’s this movie called again?”

Rarity lifted one of the cucumbers from her eyes to read the DVD cover and read it aloud, “Brokeback Mountain, Dear. I saw ponies on the back of the rectangle and figured this would be at least more interesting than the other ones, considering this is the only one that doesn’t have violence right on the cover or anything disturbing like that.”

Applejack was intently watching the movie, “I like this movie ‘cause them cowboys have the same style as me.”

“Oh shh it’s a camping scene now,” Fluttershy began, then her eyes opened wide like saucers, “d-doesn’t that hurt?” she said as she tilted her head.

“Oh by Celestia just what are they doing?” Twilight shouted out.

“Well dear,” Rarity began pulling the cucumber off her eye again, “if you weren’t covering your eyes with your hooves you could clearly see that their waaaaahaaaaaa?” Rarity shouted, “Is that even possible?”

“They should call this Brokebutt mountain,” Dash exclaimed trying to hold back the vomit, “that’s just oh nooo….”

“Looks fun.” Pinkie said with a smile. Everypony turned to her with a look of shock, confusion and disgust on their faces and she said, “What? I’m trying to keep an open mind here.”

“Oh by the holy beard of Celestia,” Applejack said from under her hat, “Those cowboys aint nothin’ like me.”

Cole suddenly burst through the door with a smile on his face, “Hey I just found out that I have parents. What’s wrong with everypony?” Cole turned to the television and a look of disgust swept over his face as he yelled, “You’re watching Buttfuck Mountain?” Before any of them could protest (not that they would) Cole turned off the television.

“Hey we didn’t know it was going to be Pinkie’s dream come true.” Dash exclaimed from under her pillow as she pointed to Pinkie holding the DVD case.

“Well it’s off now and I have the best news, I just found out I have a family!”

Dash suddenly looked furiously at Cole, “You cheating BASTARD!”

But before Dash could tear his eyeballs out and make him eat them Cole shouted out, “Let me rephrase that, I just found out I’m not an orphan.”

Dash immediately stopped, suddenly relaxed and laughing, “Oh wow you had me going for a second that you just used me.” She then wrapped her hooves around Cole’s neck and went to kiss his cheek gently.

“I would never use you.” Cole said to her from behind a pile of her rainbow mane.

“Wow that’s incredible, Cole!” Fluttershy exclaimed.

“Where are they?” Rarity cooed.

“Apparently they still live in my place of birth, Ireland.” Cole pointed to a map proudly looking like he’s from a cartoon.

*****

A few hours had gone by, they watched a ton of television (Cole is now able aware of what’s currently going on in the media now) and they played truth or dare. Dash had to kiss Pinkie Pie on the lips, Cole was alright with it though because he knew that Dash and him were committed, he actually enjoyed it almost as much as Pinkie. Cole didn’t have much better luck, he was forced to open the door and run up and down the hallway completely naked with only a hat to cover his crotch. Now Cole could tell which scientist was gay. But that was over and everypony was asleep except for Cole. He stayed awake and went to talk to one of the scientists, Cole walked up to him and said in a quite voice, “Hey sorry you had to see that, me, my girlfriend, and her friends were playing truth or dare and I would rather run naked then have to describe every little aspect of my job.”

The scientist looked at him over his glasses and said to him, “Boy, yo’ ass was hairy” adding emphasis on hairy, “you better not strut yo’ stuff too much or someone might get a little jealous.” The scientist winked at him.

“First of all, I have a girlfriend so you’re gonna have to play Brokeback Mountain alone. Second of all, I came here to ask if you and the others could enlarge this pod so it’s more like a gateway or something because we need to fit more than one traveller in there.” Cole said with frustration, he hated when people talked about his ass.

“I’ll see what I can do, it may take a while though,” the scientist began as he walked away, “you know, you could have the decency of saying please… or you could kiss me on the cheek.” The scientist grinned, his green eyes full of hope. All he got from Cole was him loading his pistol; the man knew what that meant and ran off saying, “all right, have it your way.”

Cole entered the bathroom in the hallway and began staring at himself in the mirror, then he heard the door open, he turned to see Dash coming in with her cheeks already pink and eyes droopy with sleep, “Sorry I didn’t know you were in here.”

Cole smiled at her and said, “This is the men’s bathroom, you know that right? It’s for stallions, not mares.”

Rainbow suddenly picked up on what he was getting at and jokingly said, “Well excuse me for not knowing what sign means what after being here for a full six hours.”

Cole had a grin on his face as he said in a whisper, “Bullshit, you knew I was in here, you wanted to see me for another reason.” Cole laughed gently.

“You got me,” Dash began as she closed the door behind her, “Cole, I love you, more than anything, and I hope you don’t think less of me for kissing Pinkie.”

“Hey, it’s all fun and games,” Cole began, “if you ask me it was kinda entertaining.”

Dash moved in on Cole saying jokingly, “You pervert, just so you know I still don’t understand why you have… what do you call it… Buttfuck Mountain in your collection.”

Cole sat down against the wall, “Yeah but I think I know a scientist who has his reasons for adding that.” Cole laughed a little at the thought.

Dash slowly approached Cole, and then kissed Cole on the lips; the tender feeling of their lips colliding made them both feel at peace as she opened her mouth and welcomed Cole’s tongue. Being his first time ever making out with a girl, Cole’s eyes opened with surprise at the feeling. Cole could smell her breath, it smelled like candy. She could smell his breath which smelled like mints. Their lips mashing together as their tongues danced around each other and inside each others mouths was heaven to her. Dash moved on top of Cole and began to straddle his waist as she kissed deeper into Cole, her tongue going deeper into his mouth. Cole wrapped his arms around her but then Dash used her hoof to guide his hands lower until he reached the base of the tail and she continued to bring it lower until his hand was on her haunches. It felt rigid, but soft at the same time. Cole, with his face buried deep in her mane, slowly moved his hand over them, feeling them all over and he noticed how he seemed to please her when the edge of his hand reached the center of her haunches, her breathing began to accelerate and her grip around his shoulder tightened. He moved his hand over it until his middle finger was in the crease, he slowly began to slide his finger up and down her crease until she was beginning to gently bite his lower lip. He tilted his head back to look her in the eyes as did she. That moment they shared the same mind, their kissing didn’t need to stop because they could feel each other’s thoughts. Dash was feeling enough pleasure that her wings stuck out rigid and stiffened. Cole broke the kiss to get a breather and took the opportunity to try and ask her. But before he said anything Rainbow gently placed a hoof on his mouth saying in an almost whisper, “Yes, Cole.” It was almost as though she read his mind. Saying no more Cole got them oriented in a comfortable position, because the next few minutes were going to be magic that no unicorn could recreate. Her breath was steamy against his neck as Cole began to feel her between her haunches. When he hit her spot, Dash let out a gasp and Cole immediately stopped, worrying he hurt her by doing that. Dash just whispered to Cole, “You really are new to this aren’t you?”

As he gently wrapped her hind legs around his pelvis and began to rub he said, “Yes.”

Dash kissed him on the lips aggressively; she had a lot of energy in her suddenly as her tongue began to wrestle with his, their saliva mixing as her lips closed on his bottom one and opened up again to lick his tongue. She looked at him deeply in the eyes and said gently, “Let Dashie here be your first then.” She then began to grind against his lower abdomen, her breathing picking up. Cole picked up on the rhythm and matched hers as he could smell the rich scent of mare in the air and he began to take off his shirt and belt. Dash was licking his lips all over, her mouth wide open as her tongue was all over his mouth. She then moved lower and began to gently suck on his neck, Cole kept on gently squeezing her haunches as she began to kiss his chest, stomach, lower abdomen, and then she reached his pants. Cole took off his pants for her and she had the courtesy of attempting to pull of his boxers with her hooves, he could feel her breathing hot against him as he pulled off his boxers. Before she began she looked up at Cole as she wrapped her hooves around his thighs and said with passion in her eyes, “Just let me show you what to do.”

Cole had a nervous look on his face when he said with a pant, “Dash… what… are… you… doingggggooooooooohhhhh!” Cole was suddenly filled with pleasure, he wanted to laugh at the feeling but all he could make was a grunting noise that started in his throat as it made its way to his mouth as a moan.

(Use your imagination for what happens next. Honestly I'm still in high school, Im not old enough to write a childhood destroying clop-fiction)

Preparations

When morning came, Cole and Dash were sharing the same bed; Dash was laying her head on Cole’s naked chest, his arm wrapped around her as they smiled in their sleep and cuddled. Last night was pure magic to Dash; she had never experienced it with a human and it felt different. To Cole though, it was a mixture of scary and the most pleasurable thing he’d ever experienced, her constant gasping made Cole think he was hurting her when she was actually shuddering with pleasure. His hair was a mess because of all the sweating and the usual bed hair, last night was a wild night full of passion. Dash’s mane didn’t fare much better, it was sticking up everywhere as she slowly breathed on Cole’s chest. Cole’s eyes slowly opened and he began to run his fingers through her mane. She sighed and slowly opened her eyes to see Cole looking at her. She slowly opened her mouth and gently kissed Cole’s lips, her eyes closing again as their lips locked, she broke the kiss quietly and said to hi, “Good morning Cole.” She began to straddle his waist when her eyes opened wide with surprise and her face blushed she said quietly, “Wow already?”

Cole quietly laughed as she laid down on top of him he said, “It’s called a”

“Morning everybody!” Pinkie suddenly shouted out interrupting Cole. So Cole decided to just whisper it into her ears. Pinkie Pie then began to pull the covers off of everybody’s bed until she reached Cole and Dash and yanked the sheets off with her mouth.

Pinkie, Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rarity began screaming at the sight of Cole naked in bed with Dash, they all let out a loud “AAAAAHHHHHHH!”

Cole was shouting back too, he was looking around the room, he saw Fluttershy looking terrified as though she saw a ghost, Applejack was hiding behind her hat gazing over it, Twilight and Rarity stood there with looks of shock on their faces, Pinkie looked as though she was trying to look away, but couldn’t.

Everypony except Dash was screaming at the sight, even Cole yelled, “Why’d you pull the covers off!”

“AAAHHHHHH!!!” The mares screamed.

*****

“You wanted to see me?” Cole said as he opened Mike’s door, mike was sitting there with a serious look on his face, he knew about what Cole and Dash did last night. (Cole tried his best not to scream at the climax, guess it failed)

“Cole, sit here,” He motioned for the chair in front of his desk, Cole did as he was told, “So you got a piece of ass last night, huh?”

Cole looked at the chief and said with an emotionless tone, “Don’t call her that, she’s not an object to me.”

“You’re right; she’s a piece of mare.” Mike began to laugh at his AWFUL pun.

Cole jerked up, picked up the desk and threw it to the side and grabbed his chief by the neck and lifted him up warning him, “Wanna try laughing without lungs?”

Mike gulped and said with a shaky tine, “Hey, it was just a joke; I brought you in here to tell you the Nightmare has begun its invasion.”

Cole then dropped the chief to his feet, his face was filled with worry, “Where is she at the moment?” Cole wanted to stop the flood as soon as possible, to try and keep the number of casualties to at least one continent.

“The nightmare was first seen in Greece, at The Temple of Zeus. It’s currently unaware of the rest of the world being populated by humans so let’s destroy this thing before it spreads.” Mike pulled out a map to show him where it was.

“Permission to proceed with mission, Sir?” Cole asked as he took a military stance.

Mike got into his face and said, “Permission granted.”

*****

“Will I ever see you again?” Dash asked as Cole prepared the ponies to walk through the brand new portal to their dimension.

“Probably not, Dash, I have to die with the rest of the human race.” Cole said as tears began to form in his eyes.

“Cole, I love you, I don’t want to go now!” Dash said as she wrapped herself around him and gave him a pony hug. The mare wasn’t going to let go of him.

“I’m going to die, I want you” Cole began.

But before Cole could finish his sentence Dash said, “Then we’ll die together, I’m not living in two worlds where my true love is dead.”

“Cole, we’ve grown really fond of you,” Twilight began, “we’ve grown really fond of the human race, there’s so much to learn about you, and now The Nightmare is going to kill you all.” Twilight then stepped away from the portal behind her. She then had a serious look on her face as she said, “I’m staying.”

Applejack then stepped away from the portal as she said, “If Twilight stays, then Ah stay!”

Rarity and Pinkie Pie did the same. When it was Fluttershy’s turn she said with a squeak from behind her hair, “I don’t know, it seems kind of dangerous. But I’m not living with the guilt of leaving my best friends behind.” Fluttershy suddenly had a brave look on her face as she stepped forward. Dash didn’t even say anything; she had made it quite clear already that she wasn’t leaving.

With that Cole turned to his Chief and said as he held Dash, “Sir, permission granted to bring along the ponies?”

Mike looked at Cole for a second and then grinned as he said, “Fuck no. These ponies have caused enough problems to your emotional health; we can’t afford to have our best man be distracted. If you don’t give up these horses right now we’ll kill them right here right now.”

Cole then walked past his chief towards the door as he said, “Well then I’m no longer your best man.”

“You can’t leave us Cole,” the chief said as he was turning around, he had an angry look on his face, “what about protocol?”

Cole then wrapped his hand around his silver name tag around his neck and with a simple tug he tore it off saying, “Fuck protocol, fuck the mission, fuck the agency, and most importantly, fuck you.” He then dropped the name tag onto the floor in front of Mike’s feet as he walked away. The ponies were cheering for Cole and how he stood up for his beliefs.

This facility had many exits; each one leading to a major city in North America, Cole picked the nearest city, being Vancouver. When they opened the door all that they could see was underground road stretching on forever. Rarity had a look of despair on her face when the white unicorn pouted, “Oh this will take forever, my hooves will chip. Cole then dropped his De-Atomiser on the ground, reached in and after a few seconds pulled out his motorcycle and it sprung to life as a red neon color seeped through the cracks of the bike.

Pinkie Pie was looking at it with her mouth like an O when Cole turned to the crowd of ponies and said, “Who said anything about walking and trotting?” Next thing they knew, Cole was driving the bike down the hallway at high speeds with Dash close behind. Soon enough they were pulling up to the door at the other end. Applejack just noticed that she had lost her hat and she began to panic, “Don’t worry, I’ll get you anther one as soon as we finish saving the world.” Cole said sarcastically.

“Oh no, my coiffure! It’s ruined!” Rarity exclaimed as she looked in the side mirror of the bike as she got off.

“I think my mane looks funny blown back.” Pinkie giggled as she felt her mane that was blown back.

When it was Cole’s turn to get off he noticed Fluttershy still clinging onto him for dear life, “Fluttershy, you can let go now, the bike’s stopped.” She was still in the same position as she was on the bike; despite the fact the bike was no longer under her.

Fluttershy said in a shaky voice, “I have vertigo; it still feels like I’m moving.” Slowly she clambered down when suddenly Dash rocketed towards them and stopped with a long skid of smoke behind her. The group turned to the door; it was the only object in the entire hallway that was lit with a light. When Cole opened it, the whole hallway filled with sunlight as the ponies and Cole were blinded. When they emerged they were in the middle of Vancouver, everything was in chaos, people were running around in a panic as Greek monsters of all sorts wreaked the stores and buildings.

Suddenly one of the minotaurs saw Cole and picked up a nearby car and threw it towards him, everypony moved out of the way except for Fluttershy, she was paralyzed with fear. Cole bursted into a sprint towards the rolling car and dove for her. He caught her in the nick of time as the car rolled past them like a giant flaming barrel and exploded inside a store. Cole looked down at the crying mare in his arms and asked, “Are you okay?”

She gave him a shaking nod when the minotaur came up from behind and swung a giant hammer down on the two of them. Cole quickly threw Fluttershy aside as the hammer came smashing down on top of him making a bone crushing crunch and the ground around the hammer was cracked. Dash yelled in a painful cry, “Cole! No!” the cyan pegasus fell to her knees when suddenly she noticed there was a glow around her heart. She looked at the other ponies and the same was happening to them. Dash quietly whispered, ‘The elements of harmony.”

The minotaur laughed as he picked up his giant hammer from the ground to look down the crater it made. His laughter was cut short when suddenly there was a deafening “BOOM” as an explosion of energy came exploding from the hole. When the energy connected with the minotaur’s head, the head suddenly exploded like a pizza pocket in the microwave as tiny shards of brain exploded all over the place, pieced of the jaw and skull fragments were scattered all over the place as an eyeball fell from the sky and a charred tongue fell on top of it, the decapitated minotaur was still spraying blood everywhere as it fell to the ground, its veins still visible out of its neck. When the ponies looked up they saw Cole emerge from the hole, his body was glowing a white aura. Surrounding his left arm was what appeared to be a 3D outline of a gun made of glowing wires of pure energy. Cole looked at his left arm as the wires of energy disappeared and said, “This… is… fucking…AWESOME!” Cole threw his arms into the air and a wave of energy swept through Cole, he noticed he could control the energy and could get it to do what ever he wanted as long as he set his mind to it. Then a shockwave swept through the ground and air blowing back the manes of the ponies. Cole turned to a large dragon climbing on a building and said to himself, “I can’t think of anything awesome so all I’m going to say is I came here to kick ass and make puns, and I’m all outta puns.

Showdown

Unfortunately for Cole and the ponies, the gateway’s coordinates were a teeny bit off, instead of appearing on the ground, they were a few thousand feet in the air, plummeting to their doom (hey they were calculating trajectory, you forget to bring over the zero and the whole thing goes to shit). Cole wasn’t the least bit scared unlike Pinkie, Applejack, Rarity, and Twilight, whom were screaming their lungs out. As they were falling, Cole got a good look of Battlefield: Ponyville, lots of the major buildings were destroyed or badly damaged; fires were ravaging the buildings as they were attacked by robots that only one man Cole knows would make. A few of the royal guards remained and caught the four mares from falling any further; Cole on the other hand, (or hoof) was still falling. Dash was catching up to Cole to try and save him, but Cole was one step ahead. He reached into his de atomiser case and pulled out his good old exoskeleton thingy suit (remember he put it in there back in chapter 4 haha I’m so fucking smart) and quickly put it on. He looked at Dash and gave her a wink saying, “I’m Cole, I’ll be fine.” With that a helmet shape shifted its way around Cole’s face as he continued his decent.

*****

Big Mac had gathered the foals into the corner as he stood in front of them to defend the helpless ponies. A large metal monster slowly walked towards them. It’s claw approaching them ready to capture the poor foals. Big Mac shouted, “Stay behind me, children!”

“Where’s Rainbow Dash when you need her?” a small orange pegasus squeaked from behind the red pony.

“Where’s anypony when you need them?” a marshmallowy unicorn piped up.

“Ah wish ah could see mah big sister one last time.” Applebloom said with a tear forming in her eyes. The beast grabbed Big Mac and as he struggled as best as he could, the monster turned around and dropped him in a giant cage containing other ponies.

“Well this is the end of the Cutie Mark Crusaders.” Said the orange pegasus as she hugged the two others beside her. The large claw returned to claim another victim. When the white unicorn looked up she saw a streak of bright blue crash through the body of the machine and impacted on the other side of it.

The monster slowly fell to the ground lifeless as the black and turquoise creature stood up. Applebloom looked at it, she wasn’t as scared as the others, it looked rather familiar, almost as though she had briefly met it before. Then Applebloom shouted, “It’s you! Mah sister introduced me to ya a few days ago.”

The black creature turned to the cowering group of foals in the corner and he kneeled to get to their level. His mask receding until his face was revealed, it was Cole. Cole said to them, “Get out while you can, before the ro- I mean monsters get you.”

“All of our friends and parents are in the big cages.” Said the small white unicorn while pointing a hoof at the giant cage outside.

Cole walked up to it, he pulled out his pistol and put a bullet through the lock to free the ponies. Rarity and the others were carried to the ground safely behind Cole, as he freed all of the ponies he turned his attention to another droid who was making its way towards him to ruin his day. Luckily for Cole, he knew exactly where to shoot it; he pointed his Desert Eagle at the exposed part of the droid’s neck and pulled the trigger. When the bullet connected with the clusterfuck of wires, the droid began to descend rapidly until it hit the ground and dented itself until it looked like a truck ran over it, it slid its way up to Cole where it just stopped. The droid was massive, almost ten times Cole’s size, as it approached Cole, the life in the droid’s lights faded away. Cole then reached into his de atomiser case and pulled out his AUG, he loaded it up and got it ready for action. He then turned to the ponies and said to them as his mask enveloped his face, “Get the ponies somewhere safe, I’m going to the source.” He then fired up his suit and burst into a super sprint before Dash could protest. As much as he loved her, he wasn't going to put up with any bullshit at the moment.

Cole was running as fast as he could, he knew that he didn’t have much time left before the public execution of the princesses, it was already a quarter to midnight. A few human soldiers attempted to stop Cole in his path. Cole didn’t stop, he jumped over them and in the middle of his flip he capped a few sticky grenades and dropped them over the soldiers, as he landed, he already had his assault rifle out and had the trigger pulled back and was firing at the surrounding soldiers. The sticky grenades exploded and a mixture of shards of burnt bones and charred guts flew in every direction. Cole’s bullets penetrated the soldier’s faces as he fired; his suit aided in his aiming and was allowing him to get continuous headshots. When the area was clear he put his gun on his back and began sprinting again, when suddenly a lone soldier tried to outsmart him by jumping him from a corner. Cole didn’t even stop, he grabbed the man by the arm and kept running as he dragged the man at super speeds. He could hear the man screaming in agony as his skin was torn from his limbs by the rocks and shards of wood, Cole then thought of ending his misery by swinging the man out in front of a wall where all he heard next was a crunch and the man’s arm was torn off of his body. He then dropped the dismembered arm and continued running towards Canterlot.

*****

Princess Celestia laid there, bruised badly but not cut or shot, her sister on the other hoof (or hand if you’re that anal about grammar) was unconscious. Celestia had a tear leaking from her eye as she turned her angry gaze to the monster that stood before her. The monster looked to be the same as Cole, but had a metal jaw, and was a lot more like what she had expected from a human. She said in a shaky voice, “How could you do this to us, you… you monster!”

The monster simply laughed in his throat as he rapidly brought his foot around to connect with Celestia’s jaw, knocking her to the ground. He kneeled down do wrap his hand around her throat and bring her gaze to meet his as he said, “You’re the monster, ruling this world through Aristocracy? It’s my personal belief that the best form of government is Fascism, my dear. Oh and you only have, oh how sad," The monster looked at a device on his hand, "only ten minutes left to live, it’s a shame you won’t get to see your world ruled correctly.”

Celestia tried to use her magic against it when she remembered that it had put some sort of chemical in her to make it impossible. She struggled anyway, she managed to grunt from a bruised face, “There’s good in this land, maybe all of the humans in your world were weak minded but we ponies know what’s right and will stand up against you.”

“Let me give you a brief history lesson,” Albrecht began, “It’s the 12th of August 1939, my beautiful country was in chaos, money was worthless, politicians were drunks, we were just getting out of our first Global war, World War 1.”

Celestia shuddered at the name World War 1, but Albrecht continued his speech, “Our people were loosing faith in their country, but that day was the day a man named Adolf Hitler rose to power. He brought back the country to the economic powerhouse it was meant to be.”

“What does this have to do with you killing me and my sister!” Celestia grunted.

“When Adolf was in power, he began killing people solely for their beliefs, and none of the people that voted him in objected, even if they knew it was wrong. What I’m saying is, if you get everyone to lose faith in your country, you will have total power over them. So what I’m going to do is kill you two and when I have your world at its knees, I will turn every citizen in your kingdom into a slave of mine to rebuild a new Nazi Germany.” Albrecht gave an evil laugh. His watch then started to beep, Albrecht grabbed Celestia by her ears as she screamed in pain with tears rolling down her cheeks he turned on the camera.

*****

Cole was already in the palace when he looked out one of the giant windows to see large holograms of Albrecht holding Celestia’s head by her ears, he said to the populace of Equestria, “Good evening, my followers. Tonight, you will witness the fall of a tyrant and the rise of a true leader. Take a good look everyone for this is the last time you see this monster.” Albrecht then brought his pistol to Celestia’s head as she began to whimper he said into her ear, “Good night, my sweet princess.” Cole was already in overdrive, he was charging faster than ever before, he was leaving streaks of light behind him as he ran through (that’s right, he ran through) droids and burst through the door. Cole had his pistol pulled out and shot Albrecht in the jaw where it simply bounced off, Albrecht then pulled the trigger out of reaction but wasn’t aiming at Celestia, it was aiming at Cole. Cole’s suit protected him as he caught the bullet with his hand and simply tossed it aside as he walked towards the menace. Cole drew his pistol again and shot Albrecht’s pistol out of his hand and onto the ground.

“Back away from her you motherFUCKER!” Cole shouted at the top of his lungs.

“Sure, I didn’t want to kill her anyways; I wanted to kill you first so the world could watch the fall of their only hero.” Albrecht said as he backed up. Cole had the pistol pointed at his head ready to pull the trigger, but he wanted to see where he was going with this. Albrecht then said with a smirk, “Let’s settle this like men.”

Cole then threw his pistol aside and said, “Fine then.” Cole wasn’t sure he could trust this bastard, so Cole got ready for the worst.

Well the worst didn’t happen, but the unexpected did, Albrecht disappeared into the shadows of the palace hall and out stepped his two titanic henchmen. Before Cole could react one of them shot a tazer at him and brought him to his knees. One of the henchmen had a crowbar in his hand as he swung it at the back of Cole’s head which knocked him to the ground. The two henchmen began savagely beating him, one broke his arm and one even used Cole’s eye to put out his cigarette which made Cole scream in pain, he was blind now and his eye felt like it was melting in his skull. He was pulled to his feet by his hair and hit across his face with the crowbar which broke his jaw and made Cole’s skull rattle. When Cole got up the henchman with the crowbar swung again but this time Cole was ready, he grabbed the crowbar and twisted the henchman’s arm, his elbow was exposed so Cole took the opportunity to kick his arm in the wrong direction, breaking it with a loud snap as the henchman let go of the crowbar. The man fell onto the ground as the other one came up from behind Cole to shoot him again with the tazer. Cole swung the crowbar at him without realizing he had the curve facing the henchman which made the crowbar pierce the man’s skull and penetrated the brain. Killing him instantly, Cole then tipped the crowbar out of his head which tore his face off as his brains spilled onto the floor and blood gushed out. The dead corpse dropped to his knees as Cole approached the other one who’s arm was bent out of shape. Cole gripped the crowbar tightly as he swung it like a glof club at the man's head repeatedly until the man’s head was broken open exposing the brain ever so slightly. Then Cole got on one knee and approached the man’s face. He then dropped the crowbar and used his still working hand to drive it into the man’s chest and pull out his heart. Blood sprayed everywhere as the man died instantly too, as he tore out the heart, the ribs were pried open to show the lungs and his stomach.

As Cole was getting up he could hear clapping coming from the shadows, Cole instantly drew his other pistol and used his suit instead of his own muscles to hold his broken arm up with the pistol. Cole slowly stepped towards the now unconscious Celestia and Luna. He put Celestia on his shoulder and carried Luna under his arm as he slowly made his way towards the door. His arm felt like it was on fire but had to keep holding it up with his suit. Eventually he had managed to carry the alicorns to the main entrance and left them there hoping that Twilight and the others would find them there. Cole then made his way back to the room where he had mutilated the two henchmen. When he arrived all he could see was Albrecht’s face, Albrecht was still clapping somehow when he said, “Cole, it’s so nice to see you finally acting human, yet somehow you’re still a monster.” Albrecht motioned his head towards the corpses lying there.

Cole returned his gaze to Albrecht as he said in a shaky and angry voice, “Your chaos will finally be over, eight years you have been killing countless people and have even attempted to infect a hospital. I’m not the monster here, I heard all about your master plan, rebuild Nazi Germany here? Enslave these ponies?”

“It was for humanity’s survival, I read all about the Nightmare coming to destroy our world and I would bring select survivors here to rebuild the original human race.” Albrecht said as his head slowly sank back into the shadows.

“Al, I destroyed Nightmare, and if you think that you’re going to be able to kill me and continue your master plan, then you should give your head a shake.” Cole said as his suit lit up with turquoise, his jaw in agonizing pain, his suit was running low on energy, Cole could tell, he had begun to use the suit a lot by now.

“Nein, you should give your head a shake.” Suddenly a giant, blood red fist shot out of the shadows at Cole’s chest launching him to the wall breaking it in. Cole could see stars, his suit wasn’t able to protect him now. His arm began to hurt again, Cole couldn’t move it anymore. Cole tried to get out of the hole and burst into a sprint, but all he could manage was a limp. Albrecht slowly stepped out of the shadows in what appeared to look like a giant walking tank, only no cannons, just the black coat of paint that would glow blood red throughout the cracks, much like Cole’s suit. Albrecht walked up to Cole and swung another fist hurdling Cole into the air. Cole could feel one of his ribs had broken as he was vomiting blood as he fell down. Albrecht hit him into the wall again as blood sprayed out of Cole’s ears, nose, mouth, and his blind eye, Albrecht walked up to Cole who was now lying on the floor. Albrecht laughed inside his throat as he said, “Aww you poor thing, your eye has been hurt. Nein! I should help this poor boy.” Albrecht pointed a giant black finger at Cole’s face and a small needle popped out of the tip. Cole tried his best to get away but Albrecht had pinned him down and locked his head into place. All Cole could do was scream as his right eye was torn out of his skull. Cole could feel the warm blood filling up his eye socket as his eye was thrown away. Albrecht then said, “Oh dear, your poor arm is damaged too. Let me fix that.” Albrecht then pursued to tear off Cole’s arm as Cole screamed in pain. Cole was about to die as Albrecht kicked Cole away and threw his arm with him. Cole was barely alive enough to reach into his de atomiser case one last time hoping for something he could use. But before he could grab anything Albrecht picked up Cole by the waist. Cole’s vision was filed with stars as he was about to die of loss of blood. Albrecht brought him up to his face as he said in his deep and evil robotic voice, “Any last words, Cole?”

Instead of speaking, Cole spat a pill into Albrecht’s laughing mouth as he said in a quiet voice, “Fuck you. That’s what.” What Cole spat wasn't any ordinary pill (you remember what it was, "if all else fails").

Albrecht realized what he had just swallowed but before he could do anything he dropeed Cole and fell to the ground, dead. With the last bit of life left in Cole, he managed to pull himself up and walk out of the door. He limped slowly as he made his way to the entrance, his face covered in blood from the vomiting and the bleeding. His arm gone and his jaw broken. He made his way to the main entrance to see the six ponies surrounding the princesses. Dash turned around to see Cole with a slight smile. Her smile quickly disappeared as she saw Cole’s missing arm and his empty eye socket. The last of his energy gave out and he fell down the stairs. Dash gasped in horror as Cole lay there, motionless. Twilight managed to levitate him into the circle as Dash began crying and holding onto Cole, she began shouting with tears in her eyes, “Cole? Cole, wake up! Cole? Cole! Cole! COLE COLE! NO NO Cole!” Twilight began to tear up; she felt a sudden despair in her stomach. He had saved both his and their world, at the cost of his life. Fluttershy went and hugged Dash as they both cried. Nopony spoke; they let Rainbow Dash cry it out. Cole then raised his hand and held Dash’s face as he kissed her gently. Then his breathing slowly came to a stop as Dash had her lips tightly pressed against Cole’s, her tears rolling against his cheeks. Then Cole left the world with a smile still on his face, he left his family behind to never know the success he had become, he left the agency a hero. He left earth as salvation. He left Equestria as a protector, he left Dash with a broken promise, the promise he would never leave her.

Dreams that Do Come True

No, Cole thought to himself. He may not have physical power anymore, but he still had willpower. He wasn’t one to break a promise. He saw the light, but didn’t move towards it, he would rather live in the dark with his love then go to the light as he died. With that Cole woke up. Cole opened his eyes, Wait I have both eyes, Cole thought alarmingly, Cole then reached up to feel his face for any robotics, but didn’t, all he felt were his hands pressed against his face, I have both hands. Cole then suddenly realized that that huge adventure he had gone on was all a dream, he woke up in his room down in the facility, dressed in the shock absorbing suit, the room as dark and as gloomy as ever. Cole reached for his pillow and began to cry. He never really met the love of his life, he will never feel her gentle breathing or her wings ever again. Cole felt like he wanted to go to sleep forever when suddenly, a door opened up. Mike popped his head in and said to Cole, “Hey Cole, you’ve got family here for you.” Cole’s face lightened up a little, he would finally see his family for the first time. Instead of seeing a man and a woman who looked like him, he saw a young woman, about the same age as Cole, with blond hair and a streak of rainbow enter the room, she was wearing what looked like sports clothes.

She sat next to Cole as she said with a warm smile, “Hey you’re awake.”

This woman looked so familiar to Cole, even her voice sounded familiar, but before Cole could say anything, an overly excited girl entered the room, this one had curly brown hair and wore a very bubbly dress (in the sense that it was cute) She stood next to Cole as the others entered the room. One was wearing a hat and overalls; the oddest one though, was the woman who decided to wear a dress to this occasion. The last one to enter was a woman who looked to be about thirty or so but had hair so fine that it swayed in the wind as she walked up to Cole. Cole then rubbed his eyes and said, “You know, you all seem familiar, this might sound awkward, but I had a dream where I fell in love with someone like you.” He pointed to the tomboyish girl sitting on the bed. Cole continued, “I dreamt I saved the world but then before I could witness my victory I died in your arms.” A tear then leaked out of Cole’s cheek. The bubbly girl decided it was now the best time to be rude and begin giggling. Cole hated when people laughed at his misery so he said, “Oh yeah you find this funny huh?”

The girl then burst out laughing, “You’re so silly, Cole!”

Cole didn’t understand what was going on, these girls somehow knew his name, when suddenly the older one chipped in and said in a calming voice, “What Pinkamena is trying to say, Cole, is that she thinks you would remember all that happened. Speaking of Pinkamena, you should have seen her once all of that energy was drained from her, she fell like a sack of bricks and slept through for a few days.”

“What are you guys talking about?” Cole then realized what was actually happening as the realization hit him like a truck. Cole stuttered for a bit, “Wait…”

The bubbly girl burst out laughing as the one with the glasses began to glow around the eyes. The girl sitting next to Cole began to glow brightly as her back sprouted wings. Her head began to change shape as she became Rainbow Dash. The girls around him weren’t actually girls; they were the ponies that he loved so much. The older looking one caught Cole by surprise as she turned into Princess Celestia. Cole gave Dash a big hug and pressed his lips against hers, her breath smelled like mints and skittle. (*puts on glasses* He tasted the rainbow) Celestia then softly giggled as she said to the now crying human, “We came here as soon as we heard from Mike that you were awake, Twilight here managed to fix you up as best as she could.” Celestia pointed a hoof at Twilight who blushed. Celestia continued, "It was Pinkie who thought it would be a funny prank to take the form of humans for when you woke up. It took us a while to learn to walk on our hind legs like a human but we managed."

“So you fixed my eye and arm, and my jaw?” Cole was surprised at Twilight and how she managed to do that safely.

Celestia then giggled softly again as she lifted a mirror towards Cole’s face she said, “There’s only one side effect to when you receive that much magical treatment.” She then turned the mirror to face Cole so he could see his face, he was ready to see a warthog’s nose, buck teeth, a third eye. It was none of those; Cole’s hair had gone completely white. Not white with a bit of gray or color, Cole’s hair looked like it was white as paper, his five o’ clock, on the other hand managed to retain color. Celestia looked nervous as she saw Cole staring at the mirror in disbelief, she said, “I’m so sorry, but not even dye can fix that.”

Cole slowly turned his head to Twilight as he said, “You have no idea how much I’ve wanted white hair!” The then managed to get everyone into a big group hug. Cole had never been so happy in his life, or relieved either. Cole then asked Celestia, “So I’m really sorry on the human race’s behalf, for wrecking Ponyville.”

Celestia smiled as she said in a calm, loving voice, “Every best construction pony in Equestria heard about how you tried your best to stop your own kind from taking over our world. Everypony was so inspired by that that they all volunteered to take time off and rebuild Ponyville. Now it’s as good as new.”

“Listen, about my own kind, I’m really sorry about that, were not all like that,” Cole said hoping Celestia could forgive an entire species for nearly killing her and her sister.

Celestia just raised her hoof as to stop Cole from saying anything more, “Cole, you alone showed me that there are good people in your world, just in bad situations.” She then rested her head against Cole’s.

“Oh by the way, what did you do with the other monsters and humans that remained?” Cole asked quickly.

“Just ask Luna, she could give you an idea of what happened.” Celestia then motioned her head to the morning sky, the moon still visible. Cole didn’t know what that meant, but he didn’t care, as long as Ponyville and the rest of Equestria was safe.

Cole then turned his attention to Dash, “So now what? How does Canterlot celebrate victory and stuff like that?”

Pinkie Pie gasped as she brought her hooves to her mouth she squeaked, “A party?”

*****

The royal hall was filled with people from all over planet Earth, the Queen waited there to present Cole with the Victoria Cross, only problem was that Cole wasn’t there to receive it. The Queen approached Mike as se said in an impatient voice, “Where is that boy, I’ve got more important things to do like fix the bridge after those beasts destroyed it.”

Mike’s phone rang and when he answered it he could hear Cole’s voice saying, “Yo, my apologies I couldn’t get to the ceremony for my medal, it’s just that I… hey give that back!”

Cole’s voice was moving into the distance when Mike suddenly heard another voice come over the telephone saying in a bubbly and cheerful voice, “So how do you know this thingy is working, am I talking into the box now? Ooh what does this button do? And suddenly the phone hung up. Mike could hear Cole laughing in the background as that happened so he wasn’t too alarmed.

He approached he queen and said, “Cole’s somewhere else at the moment.”

****

Cole was in an elevator with the mares, he was wearing his best and most expensive button up shirt, with a white T shirt underneath it, he was wearing Aviators and Black jeans and black shoes. The other ponies were wearing new dresses for this year’s Grand Galloping Gala, Dash turned to Cole and said, “You look 20% cooler in a button up shirt, you know, It looks better than that one with the hood.”

“Thanks, Dash.” Cole then pulled his aviators out of his shirt pocket and put them on his face, he was ready to party like he was in college. The elevator dinged and Cole got his pimp lean on. The doors slowly opened up and Cole stepped out shouting, “Let’s get this party star-.” Cole was cut off of his sentence, he could hear classical music, stuff you hear in the 1800’s. Everyone looked too fancy for Cole’s liking. Cole then turned to Dash as he said, “Plan B, Pinkie Pie?”

Pinkie’s face lit up when she understood what he was suggesting and then she said, “Party Pinkie Pie style!” With that she bounced into the air.

*****

The elevator doors opened up to another building, this time it had a very catchy song playing over the speakers as ponies partied their flanks off. There were streamers, balloons, confetti, games, and a lot of happy faces that cheered for Cole as he entered the room. Then Cole spotted it, he saw the kitchen. Cole remembered that he wanted to make a few meals while he was here, so he went into the kitchen where a few unicorn cooks were there and Cole said to them, “Alright, we need a ton of potatoes and some milk and butter, we are gonna have an Irish dinner." A half hour later Cole stepped out with a big copper pot that was steaming, all of the ponies ooed and awed as he plopped it on the table. They all gathered at the table, Dash and the other five were next to or across from Cole as he opened up the pot.

Applejack said out loud, “Boy am I ever hungry tonight. Ah can’t wait to see what you’ve made us.” Cole then plopped a big white blob of goop onto her plate, put a small slice of butter on top and some salt and pepper, Applejack said to Cole, “Uh.. sugarcube, Ah know yer tryin to be nice and all, but maybe cookin’ aint yer thing.”

Cole laughed as he said, “You have no idea what you’re rejecting. My ancestors lived off of this for ages. This is only potatoes, some milk and butter. Take a bite, im sure you’ll like it.”

Applejack and the other’s took a small bite of it, Twilight levitated her fork to her mouth and when she pulled it out her look changed from nervousness to a somewhat trance, she then said, “Wow, Cole! This stuff is amazing! This is delicious, oh Celestia we missed out on so much.” She then forgot about her table manners and chowed down on her food as fast as she could, enjoying every bite of it. Applejack had to apologize to Cole for doubting him and begged to learn the recipe, even though she wasn’t well known for anything other than baking apple treats.

Suddenly, a few guests Cole never expected to see here arrived.

Celestia and Luna entered the room as Celestia said, “I smelt something incredible coming from here, I knew it had to be you Cole because nopony here is known for making anything that smells like that.”

“We were also wondering if we could celebrate with you.” Luna said shyly from behind her hair. Without another word Cole had sat them down in their own chairs and got them their white buttery blobs.

Both Luna and Celestia were a little grossed out at trying something that looked so barbaric when Rarity shouted from across the table, “I don’t care what my mane looks like, I want more! Oh my stars, Celestia!” Rarity then fixed her mane as she said, “You… Please don’t tell anyone in Canterlot about this.”

Luna giggled as she said with a smile, “Oh Rarity, don’t worry,” she then took a bite of her blob of white and her eyes went wide, she dropped her fork back on the table as she turned to her sister and said, “I change my opinion on humans, I am now jealous we didn’t think of this first.” Eventually Celestia was part of the pony party and she was enjoying her mashed potatoes (I don’t care what you think of this, I’m Irish and I fucking love mashed potatoes and gravy MMMMMMMMM).

The rest of the party was going extremely well, Cole walked out onto the balcony to see Spike there alone, Cole approached the little dragon and said, “Sup homie?”

Spike gave a long sigh as he began, “I’m a coward, I can’t even ask Rarity to dance with me.”

Cole then sat down so he was at the same level as Spike as he said, “Spike, you have no idea how wrong you are, you’re probably more brave than I was when I was about you’re age. You managed to avoid killer robots and even more cunning and deadly humans, you entered a monster infested forest and came to an unknown planet to find me. That takes some serious manhood.” Cole then patted Spike on the back as he said, “You’re the bravest kid I know, and if you think that asking a girl you like to dance is scarier than what you did earlier, then you need to see a doctor.” Cole then stood up and said to Spike one last time, “Just do it, I’m sure she will say yes.”

Meanwhile Rarity had her head on the table, a little glum, she was watching as a new relationship began between two ponies. It made her feel lonely on the inside, it reminded her of her “prince charming” that was a real douche to her. Suddenly she heard the chair next to her move as she lifted her head up to see Spike sit next to her and say, “Hey Rarity, I’m going to be honest with you, I was wondering if you would like to dance with me,” Then Spike closed his eyes as he said in one breath, “BecauseIsortofhaveacrushonyou.” (In slow motion that was ‘Because I sort of have a crush on you.’) Spike then got ready to be rejected when he felt a hoof oh his shoulder.

He looked up to see Rarity looking back at him as she said with eyes full of love, “Sure, dear, thanks.” She then gave Spike a hug as they went to the dance floor.

Cole stood against one of the walls when Dash trotted up to him and said, “What’s with you just standing around?”

Cole than leaned over and said, “I’ve requested the DJ, Vinyl Scratch, play a certain song.” Then Cole’s favourite song turned on. Cole felt his ears somewhat flick when he heard the robotic sounds start the song off. Immediately he took center stage as the lyrics began.

“1, 2, 3, 4..

Hey (eh)

Forever

Hey (eh)

Forever”

Cole was swaying with the music, he didn’t know much about dancing , but he didn’t give a horse's (or a pony’s) ass what anypony thought of him. He just let the music control him, and it felt great.

“It’s you, and me,

Moving at the speed of light,

Into eternity (yeah)”

Everypony in the room gave space for Cole and his dancing, he mimicked the lyrics pointing to Dash when necessary, making her blush and giggle a little.

“Tonight, is the night,

To join me in the middle of ecstasy.

Feel the melody and the

Rhythm of the music around you (around you)”

Cole was acting along those lines, ponies were wolf whistling him, he didn’t expect to be cheered on like this.

“Ima take you there,

Ima take you there

So don’t be scared,

I’m right here, ya ready?”

Dash at first was a little embarrassed for Cole until she realised the ponies in the room were cheering him on, Celestia and Luna even looked entertained by this.

lign: center;"> “We can go anywhere

Go anywhere

But first, it’s your chance

Take my hand come with me”

With that Cole stuck out his hand and Dash didn’t wait a second to give him her hoof to become a duet. Cole and Dash were lost in their emotions while they were dancing; they were staring lovingly into each others eyes as they spun around. Cole said to Dash as he hugged her tightly, “Can I stay at you’re house for the night?”

Dash began to tear up as she tightly wrapped her hooves around Cole’s neck and said, “Yes.” Dash then pursued to kiss him deeply as the ponies in the room continued to whistle.

The rest of the party went incredibly well, Spike got to spend some time talking to Rarity and even told her of a few of his feelings for her, Pinkie Pie managed to set the dance floor on fire when DJ Pon-3 (that’s what her stage name is) put on some dubtrot music (OHMIGOSH they put something involving pony into everything possible apparently) Fluttershy stayed a little longer and talked about her adventure with some ponies in a quiet place. Twilight and Cole talked about all of the incredible things Earth and Equestria have in common. They also talked about the differences between Earth and Equestria, Twilight especially loved the idea of having a sub-universe to store all of the information and how it was called the internet. Applejack learned how to make some mashed potatoes and promised to make them for the next big celebration. Dash got the most exciting suprise of all, while she was getting a drink a familiar voice spoke from behind her, “Hey Rainbow Dash, we heard about how you managed to help save TWO worlds this time,” Dash turned around to see none other than one of the Wonderbolts, Soarin, he continues with, “It didn’t take much thought to decide we want you as part of our team. You in?” With that, Dash squealed with joy as she ran up to Cole and Twilight and gave them each a big hug.

When the party was over, and everypony had left, Cole stopped the Princesses and brought them to the side, he said in a grateful tone, “Thanks, thanks for changing your opinions on my race.”

Celestia gave a soft giggle as her hair swayed and she said, “You managed to show us that it may take every human, or every pony, to change a race, but it will only take one to prove it can. Now both my sister and I know why you pulled us aside.”

Cole nodded his head, “Just give me a second to say something to my former superior.” With that he left the two princesses and pulled out his phone. He punched in the number to the facility one last time.

Mike picked up the phone and said, “What is it Cole?”

“I’m just calling to let you know that I quit.”

Mike gave a long sigh, “I already knew that Cole.” Mike paused for a moment before he began again, “But I know the new you now and I know that you won’t leave Earth behind when we are in need of a true hero.”

“I would never.” Cole replied, “I’m just letting you know that, to make sure you understand that from now on, you can’t call me agent, my name is Cole O’Reilly.”

“Yes sir, and by the way I’m dropping you your Victoria’s Cross through the gates tomorrow at noon for you, I can’t believe you missed your own ceremony, the world has to know who their hero is.”

“Maybe my unknown identity will come in handy for undercover missions on Earth” Cole replied, he realized that no one on earth saw his white hair and a nicely shaven beard would further help his disguise.

“That’s true, so remember, you keep that watch of yours in the sunlight because it’s the only way to get yourself from each universe.” Mike said to him, before mike hung up he said to Cole, “Your parents would be proud I’m sure, Cole. Good job, and good luck with your love.” With that he hung up, Cole was crying when he remembered he never got to see his family yet, instead he got to see his love and his best friends (I’m trying to make a book for teens and that’s all I could come up with? Wow I’m bad at storytelling).

Cole returned to the alicorns and asked with a tear in his eye, “Miss Celestia, Miss Luna, it would give me great joy to receive your permission to stay in this universe, here in Equestria, more specifically, here in Ponyville.”

Luna giggled and said, “You don’t have to constantly treat us like royals, Cole. You can act normal around us.”

Cole wanted to just jump on that fucking adorable pony and give her million hugs. She’s so fucking cute your head will explode candy. Cole restrained the urge to go psycho on them and said, “Can I stay for maybe the next lifetime here?”

*****

Twilight and her friends were waiting at the library, talking about how much fun that party was when suddenly, the door burst open and there stood Cole carrying his dresser full of clothes saying, “Whose gonna be my roommate for a while, any volunteers?” Suddenly the room burst into energy, Dash jumped Cole faster than anything as she tightly hugged him and crushing his new ribcage. When that was over he approached Twilight and said with his best puppy eyes (they weren’t good), “Could I ask you to do me a favour?”

“Sure thing, what is it?” Twilight raised an eyebrow to Cole.

Cole got on one knee and began whispering into her ear, her eyes when wide and she backed away. Cole got onto both knees and then to her hooves begging. Twilight just replied, “You sure you want that? I mean, What if you’re stuck like it?”

“I’ll be fine, I’ll just get some of the scientists over on earth to whip up a device to change me back and forth every time I want it, unless all goes well.”

Twilight got the others to back away as she said, “Alright, if you say so.” Her horn began to glow and Cole could feel his body tingling. His vision was slowly blinded with light as he was floated into the air. He could feel the bones in his body changing and moving, but didn’t feel any pain for some reason. Before he knew it he was put back down onto his feet. He tried to take a step and immediately fell, he got back up and tried again, but to no avail. He shouted for a mirror.

Pinkie brought a mirror to Cole and what he saw next made him shout, “Sweet mother of jumping Jesus on a pogo stick.” He looked at himself; he could barely recognise himself anymore. His hair was still white as ever, his eyes were still the same color they always were, greyish brown, his jaw was still square, no dimple but that’s okay (no it’s not). Everything seemed normal, well aside from the fact he was an alicorn now (holy shit you didn’t expect that did you? Shut up, this is my first book). His mane was still white as ever like previously mentioned, his coat was a night black all over but the light made him glisten silver, he appeared to be significantly taller than the ponies surrounding him (a bit taller than Big Mac) and his horn was significantly longer than Twilight’s his wingspan was about the length of him from horn tip to tail end. He gave his wings a flap and it felt almost as though he had them since birth. His horn on the other hoof (now I have to say that because he’s a motha fuckin’ pony), was very sensitive still and he couldn’t do any magic yet. His mark on his flank (we are not calling it a cutie mark because he’s manly, so we are gonna call it an ass tattoo) was of a crest with a shield and two swords on it.

Twilight immediately recognized it and went searching for a book, later she came back with one floating in front of her. She opened it up to the correct page and said, “Not only are you an alicorn, which represents royalty, but you are the legendary guardian spirit, an immortal. You’re supposed to live in the castle with the sisters, where you belong.”

Cole snorted and said loudly, “Fuck that, Imma stay here with you, Dashie. Hey Twilight, do you have any odd spells for mortality?”

Twilight shrugged and said, “I don’t think so, usually ponies dont want to be mortal, but to help you, all you need to do is think of what you want and your magic will summon it.”

Cole then turned to Dash and raised an eyebrow as he brought a hoof to her shoulder. She said to him, “Are you sure you want to stay here with us lame ponies when you can live forever with the royal sisters?”

Cole just gave his wings a shrug (oh he loved to do that sooo much) and said, “That would be a royal pain in the ass. I’d rather grow old with you than live forever alone.” Then Cole closed his eyes, he thought long and hard about something to do with mortality, but he couldn’t think of anything. Suddenly he saw it, he saw an image of him looking into Rainbow Dash’s eyes as they slowly passed away in each other’s hooves, they were old, but happy together. That, to Cole, represented mortality and his horn began to tingle. Before he knew it his horn’s glow disappeared and he just looked at Dash.

Dash looked at Cole with eyes full of worry, “Did it work?”

Cole just laughed gently brining her in for a hug with his wing as he said, “I know it did.”

*****

Next thing they knew Cole and Dash were saying goodbye to the five other ponies as they took off to her house. Cole was carrying his clothes in his mouth since they would no longer would fit him in pony form. He had learned how to carry objects with his mind to aid him in carrying his dresser with him (Why did he need that, no one knows). When they got there, Dash landed slowly on the cloud before Cole tried to land and failed, but they both giggled at it before they entered her house. Cole was amazed at what she had decorated her house with, it was incredible, she had quite the taste for somepony like her. When they got into the room, Cole set his dresser down next to hers, luckily it didn’t fall through the floor otherwise he might lose all of his clothes he doesn’t need (oh noes). Dash jumped onto her bed laughing and giggling madly as Cole joined her, they bounced and bounced on it until they wrecked the sheets enough for comfort. Then they had an awesome pillow fight, and talked a lot more about their past adventures. They had finally got comfy in their bed when Dash quickly kissed Cole’s lips; it felt right now that it wasn’t a human-horse relationship. When they were settled and Dash had wrapped Cole’s hooves around her she began to breathe slower until she was sound asleep. Cole on the other hand was still awake to see the moon shine through their big window in the room. It shined onto his face and Cole closed his eyes slowly saying to himself, “Perfect, just perfect.” He then kissed Rainbow Dash on the cheek as he began to drift off to sleep in what would be the first most comfortable sleep in his life.

*****

Meanwhile, somewhere in the middle of the Everfree forest, a soldier that managed to escape both Luna and Celestia’s wrath was running through the forest as fast as he could. He couldn’t stop for he didn’t know what would happen to him, his guns were out of ammo and he used up all of his emergency supplies on others that were on the moon by now. He eventually tripped over a rock and fell to the ground; the trip broke his ankle and his nose. His face covered in blood, he scrambled to his feet, what he tripped on scared him slightly. It was the statue of a monster, it had the head of a horse, the horn of a goat, and a horn of god knows what. It had one lion paw and an eagle claw for another hand, it had a different leg for each side of its body. The look on its face was of horror, as though medusa had turned it to stone. The soldier let his heart rate slow down until it saw there was a crack that was beginning to form on its chest. The soldier began to panic but was in too much pain to get up. The crack began to expand until it was covering the entire statue. Then suddenly its limbs began to move, and the statue exploded and underneath it was the beast it held captive for awhile. The monster emerged with anger and age in its motions. It stretched out its spine and shouted in a booming voice, “Oh, the Elements of Harmony have been transferred again. How exciting, and now that I’m free, chaos will not be taken lightly by those miserable ponies. Chaos will reap all of Equestria, and death will follow close behind.”

He suddenly focused his attention to the helpless man who tripped over him and the man said, “The fuck are you?”

“The god of Chaos.” With that it snapped its fingers and a bunch of hands flew up from the ground and the trees surrounding the man. The hands grabbed the man’s limbs and began to pull. The man screamed for help but could not speak for some reason. The hands kept pulling until the man could feel his insides being torn apart. Suddenly his left arm was torn off as blood sprayed everywhere where it was soon followed by his other arm being torn off. Blood was spraying everywhere as the man screamed in pain as the hands wrapped around his feet began to pull him in half. The man could feel his Pelvis being torn in half when he heard a tearing noise as blood began to spray as he saw his innards begin to spill out in front of him. He kept screaming until he had lost too much blood and was left there, mutilated and dead.

The monster then turned towards the castle in the distance and said to himself, “This time, Celestia, you will have to prepare for real Chaos!” He then turned into smoke and disappeared.

Equestrian Whoopass

Cole stared at his arms that were radiating pure energy. He felt like he could run around the world at the speed of light, looking up at that larger dragon in the distance it would have been impossible for Cole if he didn’t have the Friendship Rockets TM attached to his back. Cole looked at the ponies who were in awe, he walked towards them and asked, “How is this possible?”

Twilight looked at what was going on and after a few minutes of analyzing the situation she said, “I think that because we care for you so much now that our hopes that you were still alive caused the spark to ignite the elements of harmony inside all of us. Long story short, the elements of harmony work in mysterious ways and will take on many forms. I think that we are currently giving you power, but only if we can make direct contact, if you’re sealed off, I think the magic will be cut off. Also, this gift isn’t infinite; I can feel my energy draining by the second. So we better hurry to The Nightmare before it’s too late.”

Cole thought to himself, he really wanted to reserve as much energy as possible for when it was necessary, so he had to figure out a way of getting to Greece without using his new powers. Cole thought hard and critical as giant axes and spears were being thrown and smashing against an invisible force field behind him. Cole’s face broke into a very wide smile as he got the best idea on the universe (that’s right, fuck you logic, this idea can’t be contained in the universe). Cole then walked up to an abandoned gas station, he went to the fridges in the back and opened the door to pull out a RedBull, a Monster, and a Rockstar. As he was leaving he left a couple of dollars on the table (stealing is wrong asshole, even if it’s the end of the human race you should obey the law) he walked up to Pinkie Pie with a most sinister grin on his face and said, “Open wiiide.”

Pinkie did as she was told and Cole popped off the three bottles and began pouring them down her throat. Rarity trotted up next to Cole and said in a frustrated tone, “Now is not the time to party, we are trying to save your world here.”

Cole simply looked at her and said with an evil smile on his face, “Don’t get your mane in a tangle, just giving her fuel.”

Applejack suddenly had a nervous look in her eyes as she said while spears whizzed passed her, “Oh boy, you ain’t feedin’ her coffee are ya?”

Cole just said as his eyes grew menacingly wide, “Even better. Everybody hold on now!” As Cole said that Pinkie had chocked down the last of her drink and her eyes were dilating, her head began to shake as the rest of her body began to vibrate.

To Pinkie, she felt like she was filled with magic not even the most powerful unicorn could make, Cole began to grab the others and hold on to her, suddenly there were no longer any white in her eyes, her mane had begun to mimic a pink fire and her body began to glow. She heard Cole shouting, his voice becoming slower and deeper until he didn’t even finish his sentence. When the shaking stopped, Pinkie felt as though she was able to think clearly, she looked around to tell everyone else what happened when she realized her friends were frozen, she began to panic thinking that she had done this when she noticed a spear was stuck in midair too, Pinkie then realized with her new found collectiveness that all of time had stopped. It was either that or she was moving so fast, not even light was as fast as her. Pinkie remembered Cole had said something about a place called Greece, so she set out to find a sort of map of this world t figure out where Greece was. After what felt like an hour of searching, but was really less than a nanosecond, she had found a map and a compass to help her in finding Greece. Being only capable of carrying one at a time, Pinkie dragged each pony across the continent, over the ocean, and onto the next continent until she had managed to get them all to the destination. To her, she felt like it had taken years, she was able to travel incredibly fast, and she wasn’t aging either because the entire universe had stopped. But in reality, it only took her a second to get each pony and Cole to Greece.

Cole and the others suddenly warped to Greece, the ponies were panicking at what had just happened, but Cole knew, when he turned to thank pinkie, she was just standing there, a glow emanating off of her mane and fur. She was moving so fast that she was producing light, Cole put his hand over her mouth to make her hold her breath and he said to her, “Hold your breath when you want to speed things up a little.” She just nodded, when he removed his hand, she resumed her unusual glowing. Cole was about to turn to Dash and tell them to get somewhere safe when he remembered that they couldn’t be too far away. A hydra dropped in front of Cole and the ponies, judging by the 18 heads it had, Cole could tell this thing had already been attacked before. The hydra lunged for Cole and the ponies, the ponies cowered in fear except for Pinkie, she was so filled with energy she was causing the air around her to vibrate as a buzzing noise emanated from her. Cole picked her up and threw her towards the hydra yelling, “Party Time!” He suddenly regretted not being able to think up anything better, but before he could say something more epic, Pinkie exploded. No guts were spilled, it looked like an EMP with a pink tint to it, and as soon as she exploded the hydra was gone. Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Dash were mortified by what just happened.

“What did you do to Pinkie?” Rarity shouted.

“I didn’t do anything,” Cole pointed to the pink maned pony behind them, “she’s right there. For some reason she was soaked all over, she wasn’t vibrating or anything, her gamma caffeine rush was calming down. She was still talking at a million miles an hour though, but she said everything wasn’t frozen like before.

“Good heavens, dear, what happened?” Rarity squealed as she backed away.

“I was dragging the monster out into the ocean when my craziness wore off a bit and I fell into the water. Luckily I’m a good swimmer and I swam back to shore in a blink of an eye.” Pinkie began flailing her limbs all over the place as though she was a Garry’s Mod character and water went everywhere.

Cole didn’t have time to get the water off, “That’s fan-fucking tastic, I’ll blog about it later, but right now, we have bigger problems.” He said pointing to Mount Olympus; it looked as though dark purple clouds were brewing around it. Cole looked around for a way of getting them there, he suddenly saw a landed helicopter out in a field and had another brilliant idea. Just this one might result in some unwanted casualties. He walked up to the helicopter and pulled a manual out of the helicopter and turned to Twilight and said, “You studied human vehicles yet?”

Twilight shook her head no and began, “I don’t know anything about these machines, why?”

Cole passed the manual to her and she caught it with her magic, the manual glowing a slight pinkish purple as her horn did too. He looked at her and said, “Well then you better hurry, cause we need a pilot.”

A few minutes later Twilight had read through the manual, everypony except Dash had boarded the helicopter, Dash shouted to Cole, “I’m coming with you, Cole!”

Cole shook his head, “It’s too dangerous for you, and I don’t want to risk that.” Cole worried for Dash at the moment, he wanted to keep her as safe as possible.

Dash grabbed Cole by the collar and brought him close to her face, her snout pressing against his nose as she said, “Shut up and take me with you!” She then pursued to kiss him on the lips, this time in a hurry though, she wanted to get to the exciting battle.

Cole then put his hand next to Dash’s cheek as he said, “No, and you can’t change my mind. God knows what kind of fuckery is going on up there.”

After a little argument, a deal was made that Dash could follow Cole up the mountain but could not go in there with him. She would have to stay with the rest of the group. With that out of the way, Cole got ready to jump, when he was curled up ready to spring, his eyes lit up into a bright white as his body did too. He then jumped into the distance as Dash flew after him. Twilight then took off with the helicopter and everypony inside. Cole focused all of his energy on his feet and noticed that his feet were glowing so brightly that it hurt to look at them, but it managed to propel Cole into the air like a human rocket. Dash was close behind as they entered the cloud of purpleliness (what purpleliness isn’t a word? Well it should be) When Cole made it to the top he turned to Dash and said, “Remember the deal, this is where I go alone.”

Dash had a hard time accepting that she had to watch Cole walk to his death as she said, “You come back, Cole! Swear you wont die!”

“I swear Dash.” Cole then turned to walk into what looked like a thick dark indigo cloud of smoke. The helicopter rose up behind Dash where Twilight was arguing with Applejack on how to control it. Luckily they managed to land it with less than one casualty.

Fluttershy walked up to Dash and said in a small, but stern voice, “Do you think he’ll be alright?”

“This is Cole were talking about, he’ll be fine.” Dash said as thunder ripped through the cloud, scaring the ponies. Dash then gulped, "I hope."

Cole could hear an evil and faint laughter as he walked through the clouds and thunder. Cole felt like he was walking through a windstorm on crack cocaine, he was walking at a 45 degree angle to prevent being blown back when suddenly he walked into the eye of the storm. When he entered he didn’t see anybody, or anypony for that matter, when suddenly a voice spoke up over the storm, it was difficult to tell whether it was a man’s or a woman’s, the voice spoke, “Well, either you’re stupid to walk up a mountain and somehow wind up here by accident or you are brave enough to come face to face with your own death.”

Cole just snorted as he shouted back, “I was stupid to believe you could scare me.” Cole regretted saying another cliché line, but didn’t apologise, now really wasn’t the time.

The voice paused for a moment before it began again saying, “Obviously you haven’t seen my human form yet,” Then suddenly a plume of purple smoke swooped from behind Cole and began to form feet, it continued until it had fully formed the body. It was naked, but didn’t show any signs of gender, then the facial features began to form. It’s face was covered in what looked like a black tattoo as did the rest of the body, it had no nose or ears and only one eye on the left side of the head, the eye was three times as large as a normal human’s eye and instead of white there was black, it’s iris was a dark yellow with a tiny slit as the pupil. It’s mouth appeared normal until it opened, the top jaw remained fine while the bottom jaw split in half down the middle and a new set of teeth appeared going down the middle. It looked at Cole with its lifeless eye as it said, “Behold your god, your god of fear and suffering, your god of creation and destruction.”

Cole looked at it as he approached it, it was significantly taller than your average human, being about 10 feet tall, he said to the monster, “I’m not going to fight you. I’m here to reason with you. What you’re about to do is destroy one of your greatest creations of all time, mankind.”

“What I’m about to do is fix a problem I should have fixed thousands of years ago.” Nightmare hissed at Cole as they began to circle each other.

“That’s where you’re wrong, the human race is more complicated than you think, while we may have invented war and weapons, look at all of the other great things we have accomplished. We humans have invented cures to diseases that were once thought to be indestructible. Humans invented a means of travelling to other celestial bodies, we are so incredible, and there are many more good people on this planet than there are bad ones. We humans are capable of showing love and affection, we protect each other even if we don’t know one another, and the best part, were always changing. Take me, what triggered this whole thing to start was a man with no love, no joy, no life, no meaning. All it took was one simple gesture of kindness and now the person who is going to end this is a man who has found true love in his life. I’m going to stop you Nightmare.”

“You alone would never defeat me; it would take a million of you to defeat me.” It began to approach Cole, its fingertips begriming razor sharp as they slightly cut Cole’s chin.

“I’m not going to fight you; I’m giving you my body. Take this soul and leave this universe.”

Nightmare looked at Cole; it grabbed him by the neck and then threw him, before he could fall off a cliff Nightmare raised a wall of stone for Cole to crash against with a bone shattering crack. Cole fell to his knees, it hurt a lot more now that he was simply a human. The nightmare approached him as it hissed from its teeth, “Big mistake.”

Cole then looked up at it as it picked him up, it forcefully opened his mouth as a cloud of purple smoke began to enter his mouth. He then turned his hand into a canon and blasted a ball of energy into Nightmare’s chest to make it loose its grip on him. Nightmare regained it’ balance as it’s arms began to sprout what looked like whips with blades on the end, all from it’s wrists. Nightmare began swinging them at Cole, he managed to continuously dodge them and throw in a few counter attacks here and there. After what felt like an hour Cole had gotten Nightmare right where he wanted. He used his powers to dodge one of Nightmare’s swings and get behind it, Cole’s hand turned into what looked like a Cannon with a blade at the end. He jammed his blade into its back as it let out a shriek of pain. His Cannon began to grow brighter when he shouted out, “I will now imprison you a million years on Hayley’s comet. Your powers, useless in the night will only work when I feel its right.” With that Cole released all of his energy possible and let out a deafening boom as his entire view was filled with white. Nightmare gave out a loud cry as it was vaporized and sent to the comet, when it was all over, the clouds were gone, and he could see the monsters disappearing along with Nightmare. He could hear faint cheering down at the bottom. As he approached the mares, he could feel his power draining; he looked at Twilight, who was beginning to tip a bit here and there as the others were too. The only one who wasn’t affected by this was Pinkie Pie who was still bouncing. Cole looked at her and said, “You’re still bouncing?”

“Whatever that stuff was, it was like liquid energy. This stuff is awesome!” Pinkie said as she started zooming around the place. Cole relaxed his powers for now; he gathered the ponies onto the helicopter and began to take off.

As he was taking off Dash plopped herself in the front seat next to Cole, she said to him with a proud look on her face, “Wow, you actually defeated the Nightmare single hoofedly, no matter how much I think I know about you, you still manage to surprise me.”

“I couldn’t have done it without these powers.” Cole said as he let a bolt of light flicker across his hand. He then said as he was putting on his helmet, “Let’s go home.”

*****

When they arrived at the Rockies, Cole was surprised to see that some soldiers were waiting for him at the helipad. One of the best agents (not as good as him though, wait did I forget to mention this guy? Damn I did… that’s bad writing) was there to greet him. When Cole exited from the helicopter, the titanic soldier walked up to Cole and said in a booming voice, “I knew this would be the first place you’d go after you kicked that thing’s ass.”

“Wait,” Cole began with a puzzled look, “how do you know about that?”

“Maybe it was all over the news, I don’t know, usually interesting things are talked about on the news.” The man said sarcastically, making Cole want to punch him through his head. The man spoke again, returning to a serious face, “The Chief would like to speak with you, you have… uhhhh,” the man looked at the colourful unicorns and pegasi and ponies behind Cole, “another visitor waiting for you, it seems rather urgent.”

Cole looked back at the six of them, they were giving him looks of confusion and worry, “Let’s get our plots moving then.” Cole said as he began to walk towards the door.

When Cole reached the door, he opened it for everyone else, as Rarity passed by, she said, “Why, thank you, dear. Such a gentleman.”

As the others passed by the titanic motherfucker walked by last as he said in his deep voice, “They got into your head didn’t they?”

“Yeah and changed me for the better.” Cole said as he looked into the man’s eyes, he just realized that the sweater he was wearing was torn really badly, but he didn’t take it off, cause it looked good on him.

When they got inside, Mike was waiting there with none other than Spike standing next to him with a panicky look on his face he said loudly, “Cole! Cole, help! All of Ponyville and Canterlot is under attack, everypony is being captured as slaves… houses have burnt to the ground. The leader said that the Princesses will die by midnight if he doesn’t see you, so I snuck into this pod that you forgot and followed the instructions back to here.”

Cole heart sank into his chest, he felt exhausted from the last fight, but at least this time he’s not fighting a monster. It’s just someone or something that knows him and wants him dead (nothing out of the ordinary here). Cole looked at the baby dragon and said, “How long ago did this happen? What time is it there?”

“It’s almost eleven thirty there, I think. You have to hurry, I don’t want to be a slave, and I don’t want to move to a new world and leave everypony behind.”

The sight of the baby dragon crying brought Cole into a deep feeling, something he knew all about, but at the same time was unfamiliar to its power. Cole picked up the baby dragon and hugged him, he then said into his ear (if he has any), “Neither of those are gonna happen, kid.” He then put him down next to Twilight and said to Mike, “Fire that fucker up, were goin’ home.”

Mike did as he said, before they knew it, the gateway was fired up and opened, one by one the ponies trotted in. Cole was the last, as he was entering, Mike said, “Don’t die!” Cole responded the best way possible, he flipped him the bird before his hand disappeared into the portal.

Get Ready

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