The Lost Soldier

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Gunny Ray awoke from unconsciousness with a sharp headache and blurry vision. He blinked several times, hoping it would help, but his vision remained blurry. It wasn’t a surprise he was having vision issues, considering where he had hit his head was where vision is controlled by the brain. Ray hoped that he would recover before any enemy forces decided to show up.

The operator slowly tipped his head back to look up into the sky. He could make out daylight from the sky, most likely an early morning hour of 0800 or 0900ish. Ray looked down and also noticed a huge blur of bright colors gathered below him. He became aware of murmurs that appeared to come from them, but none that he could make out. Ray reached up and pulled off his helmet, which was attached to an oxygen tank, and let it hang along with the rest of his gear. There was a collective gasp from below when he took off the helmet and he looked up at a multi-colored blob at head level with himself. It was similar to the cyan object that had passed Ray earlier, but had a swirl of other colors at the top and bottom. Ray was slightly puzzled by this, believing it was a bird until it started talking to him.

“What in the hay are you?”

“Wha-?” was all Ray could manage to murmur.

“You heard me. What are you?” the blue blur asked again, more agitated this time.

Ray heard a voice from below, but he couldn’t make out what it said. He heard a softer murmur, barely a whisper and saw movement from blue blob.

“I don’t know, but I can check.”

The cyan blur moved closer and he felt it touch his head. Ray immediately let out an involuntary yelp as pain shot through his head.

“Uhhh, I think its hurt,” the color replied back to the ground.

Ray watched as a yellow and pink blend rose from the crowd and closed in on him. This new being floated behind him and gasped. He figured it was from a serious head wound that he had received from when his head hit the tree branch.

“Umm, Rainbow Dash... I think we should get him to my cottage,” Ray heard a very light voice say from behind him.

Ray thought to himself, “Who names their kid Rainbow Dash….”

“Help me with this white cover thingy that’s stuck on the tree. It looks like he’s attached to it,” said the blue color called Rainbow Dash.

“N- no need,” Ray murmured.

“Whoa, you speak the same language as us?” asked Rainbow Dash, surprised.

“Yeah, but you don’t need to unsnag my parachute. I can just release myself from it,” replied Ray.

Ray felt for the clips on his chute and unsnapped them to remove himself from it. After doing so, Ray realized he probably should have prepared for the fall. He gasped as he suddenly dropped and approached the green earth below him. There was another collective gasp and the single collective blur below him separated into several scattering blurs. As Ray hit the ground, he tried to perform a roll to distribute the force of the fall but only managed to redirect it… onto his left arm, which promptly snapped. He had had worse injuries previously, but in his weakened state, he lost consciousness again.

Ray awoke again and found he was lying down on a couch in a strange little room. He was pleased to find his vision had returned to normal and tried to look around the room, but his attempt was met with a burst of pain. Ray settled back and closed his eyes, picking up on faint murmuring from nearby. He strained to hear what the voices were talking about. He recognized two voices from his encounter earlier from when he was in the tree. He heard two other voices, one sounded like a young girl and the other sounded older. Ray then realized that all the voices he heard up to now were all feminine. He could barely make out what was being said however.

“So that thing over there is called a... a ‘human,’ huh?” asked the voice he recognized as Rainbow Dash.

“Yes,” said the younger female voice. “Even though the princess or I have never seen one before, we have studied them from books: Legends, myths, and a few books on their lifestyles. Judging by that, however, we never really thought of them as a peaceful species.”

“Yes, I agree. You ponies should exercise great caution when dealing with him,” said the older feminine voice.

“Oh no, I’m so sorry. I wouldn’t have helped him if I knew he would try to hurt us,” said the soft voice.

This last part hurt Ray because he thought of himself as a pretty nice guy who only resorted to violence when necessary. Unfortunately, being a soldier meant that violence was needed quite often. Ray slowly turned his head towards the direction of the voices and stared at what he saw. He saw four different horses standing off towards the side of the room. He was so surprised that he let an involuntary gasp escape from his lips and the four horses snapped their heads towards him. Three of the horses stared at him with fierce eyes and Ray immediately knew they did not trust him. The yellow horse, however, was stricken by fear, it seemed, and started backing away.

Ray was the first to speak as his training kicked in. He remembered that, whenever one was unknown of their current location, he should begin to gather intel of his location. “What are you all?”

“Ponies,” said the purple colored one, bluntly.

“Okay,” Ray said. “Where am I?”

“You are in Equestria in the town of Ponyville,” said the purple one again.

“Very creative town name,” Ray thought to himself.

“Now what is your name?” inquired the taller white pony, more calmly.

Ray thought to himself for a minute. If somehow these ponies were connected with any terrorist forces, he could compromise himself by telling them his name. On the other hand, he could start to gain their trust- Wait, what was he doing? Ray realized that nothing like this could happen on Earth so there was no point in evaluating the situation like this!

“My name is Raymond James, but you can just call me Ray. I heard you talking a few minutes ago about my race…”

“Yes, we know about your race’s violent tendencies and let me make it clear that if you hurt anypony here during your stay in Equestria, I will personally make sure you regret it” The tall white pony notified Ray. He couldn’t help notice her three-colored mane was flowing without there being any wind.

“Okay, you can trust me. I won’t hurt anyo… anyPONY, I guess, unless I have an absolutely good reason. By the way, I didn’t happen to catch any of your names besides Rainbow Dash’s.”

“I’m Twilight Sparkle” said the purple pony who, Ray inferred that from the horn on her head, was a unicorn from mythology on Earth. Yep, clearly he was not on Earth anymore.

“I’m Fluttershy,” squeaked the yellow pony, but her voice was hardly able to be picked up by Ray.

“And I’m Princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria,” said the tall white pony.

“Okay, so can anyo- Er, anyPONY tell me how I managed to get to Equestria?”

“Well, uh, I suppose that might have been me,” Twilight Sparkle said. “You see, I was experimenting with some of the clouds over the Everfree Forest last night. Rainbow Dash here was helping me and I was testing some magic on the clouds. I was trying to see if my magic would work on clouds in the Everfree Forest like they do over Ponyville, but it didn’t work.”

“Well I don’t see how that could have brought me here...”

“They were teleportation spells,” she replied bluntly.

“Okay...” Ray thought to himself. “They have magic here in Equestria. It looks like Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are pegasi, another thing from mythology. Definitely not on Earth anymore.”

“Okay, well I guess you can just teleport me back to Earth and I won’t be a problem anymore. Right?”

“Well, you see,” Twilight started. “I was performing an extremely complicated teleportation spell I have never tried before. I don’t even know how you got teleported here. If you really are from another planet or, even worse, a different dimension, I have no idea how to get you back.”

Ray began to realize the situation and it dawned on him that his spotter was on her own to complete the mission.

As if she could somehow read his mind, Princess Celestia asked, “Can you three give the human and I some privacy? We need to talk about something.”

“Okay Princess,” Twilight said as the others exited the small cottage.

The princess turned towards Ray. “I know what you do.”

“Okay.”

“I don’t trust you, but I’m wise enough to know that I should give you a chance to prove yourself before I pass judgment. Therefore, over the next month, I am going to have my student Twilight write to me about how you are doing and what you are doing. As I said before, if you hurt anypony, I will make sure you regret it. I must to go back to Canterlot, the Equestrian capital, now but I hope you have a good stay here in Equestria.”

Her words were bitter in Ray’s ears. She meant business.

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