The Overwatch

DATE: July/ 5/ 2034…

TIME: 3:25am…

LOCATION: Nova Prospekt/Cell Block Delta 2/ Portal briefing room

P.O.V: Cpl. Daniel Joseph McAllister/ Ex-Combine Overwatch

The pegasuses fur felt soft almost like a stuffed animal. And she looked so cute as she rested her eyes. After John came in with the bandages and David with the Antibiotics I went to work cleaning her wounds and wrapping her up. After checking for broken bones, I finished up my handy work tightening her bandages as tight as I could without cutting off blood flow. I stood back from the horse and studied my work. Four bandages in total surrounded her body. One on two of her legs, and around her chest and one around her head.

David was at work fixing the male when the one I worked on woke up for the first time.

“Uhhg,” She murmured. I was kneeling next to David as he worked giving him tips when I shifted my head over to the horse. David did the same. Her eyes fluttered a bit before they slowly opened. I stood up tall and walked up to the horse kneeling down again, but I kept my distance. I saw a glimpse of her eyes as her cyan blue lids opened up. They were a beautiful shade of magenta. Never before have I ever seen eyes quite as bright and big as hers. As she opened more, they stared into me as my mouth didn't seemed to respond as my jaw dropped open as my eyes widened at her gaze. I hadn’t felt this feeling before, or at least I think. My body felt warm and fuzzy inside as my arm hairs stood on edge and my feet felt as if pins and needles were stabbing them. I felt more than happy, I felt, something… I’m not sure what it was, but it was there. Everything else didn’t matter anymore.

“W-where am I?” She asked as her head turned slowly from left to right as one of her hoofs reached up to scratch her left eye. But as her eyes opened all the way, she began to look around faster and began to grow worried. I could see it in her eyes.

“Wh-wheres Thunderlane? What happened?” Looking up to me she nearly jumped off the bench, her whole body shook in one shock, “Who in the hay are you?” Scared for her actions I threw up my hands and waved them back and forth.

“Please, we're here to help, don’t be scared I don't mean to hurt you.” I said apprehensively. She stood up from her prone position and fell backwards off the bench, and attempted to flap her wings, but due to her entry had received quite a beating, so it was wrapped up. Not noticing this she tried to fly, but received pain instead of flight, nearly yelping in pain.

“ARGH! What in Tartarus did you do to my wings?” She said looking back at the wrapping. Suddenly John came up beside me and moved closer to the stumbling horse as I stood up and followed him.

“When you came here you suffered quite a tumble, your wing is damaged, try not to move it, let it heal, and stop moving around. That isn't the only thing thats broken, you’ll ruin the bandages.” He stated as the pegasus squirmed around. She looked angrily at him and me.

“Why should I listen to you?” She spat in a retort. Suddenly David came up behind us and nearly kicked the bench out of the way in rage. The pegasus quickly looked over at him and snorted as she painfully stood up and stood into a fighting stance as the back of the fur on her neck stood up on edge.

“Because if you don’t, i'll knuckle fuck your face so hard you’ll be shiting your own teeth for weeks.” He quickly as he pointed his hand towards one of the door he came through earlier. “We are being hunted by guards as we speak, the less we talk the more unlikely it is for them to find us. Now unless you wanna die, shut up.” He said nearly hissing out his last words. John and I looked at each other in shock. We had never heard those words come out of David's mouth before, not even when we were in a firefight. John looked back to David and put a hand on his shoulder while he and the horse still stared at each other.

“David? Why dont you let us handle the talking for right now? Okay?” With a grunt, David turned to John and gave him a look of hatred before storming off. After he left. We looked back to the horse who was still watching him. I came closer to her and got her attention as she looked at me with rage. Putting up my hands again, showing no harm, she losned her mood and listened. I took a knee and looked at her directly.

“Sorry about my friend, he’s been acting a little strange lately,” I lied to cover up the fact that I didn’t know what was wrong with him. “I know this place is strange for you but, to help you help me, I’ll answer any question you have.” I said. She began to loosen up, losing the anger in her eyes.

“Okay mister, where am I?” She asked slamming her hoof down onto the ground.

“Well, the planet you're on is Earth, currently were somewhere in Russia, or France, England? I don’t know, one of those places. Anyway, we are in a place called Nova Prospekt, it used to be a top security prison, but it’s something much worse now.” She looked confused.

“Earth? Wait, how did I get here?” She asked putting her hoof to her chin.

“Well, in the room next to us, which is currently exploding to bits, there is a portal, that portal was one of our greatest creations we ever made-” John behind me laughed sarcastically and walked off. Looking back in annoyance, I saw him go back over to the bench and sit down. “Well it would have been the greatest creation ever, if it worked right. Instead, it malfunctioned and may have killed thousands of people, while shutting off all power to the prison, minus back up generators.” She still looked confused when I turned back.

“Uh-huh, well anyway, I don't get half of that stuff-” Behind me came John again. “Neither do I!” I turned around to John, “John! Quiet!” I hissed as loud as possible.“Whatever!” Turning back to the horse again, she still was confused. “Like I was saying, I don’t get half that stuff, but, you said I came through a portal?” I shook my head. “And it exploded?” Again I shook my head yes. “And is there anyway for me to get back?” I shook my head no this time. “That machine was the only one we had and it was a prototype.

A gigantic sigh of distress came out off her as she collapsed onto to floor covering her face with her hoofs. “Great!” she yelled as the ground muffled her out. After about a few seconds of silence she looked back up with a blank expression.

“Anyway, who are you?” She asked. Giving her the answer, I pointed to myself and began to read off everyone in the room, pointing at them as I went.

“Well, my name is Daniel, back there is John over there is david and in the white is Chernykh.” Everyone waved when there name was called, with the exception of David who just grunted. Looking back to the horse she seemed less tense than before and now looked calmer.

“Well, my names Rainbow Dash and over there is Thunderlane.” I nodded looking back towards the sleeping horse.” Another question, what are you?” She asked putting a hoof on my exposed chest. Her hoof felt strangely fluffy, despite being here in this place, as if she wasn’t affected by it at all. It made me fluster up again like before. Time seemed to slow down as she didn’t just take her hoof off of me, she trailed down my torso, as if she was secretly feeling my body. A bit bewildered I spoke up as her hoof left after what seemed like an eternity of tenseness, for it stopped at the lower half of my abs, then rejoined her body.

“W-well we’re humans.” I stuttered.

I looked up from my chest freed from the state I was in, and looked to her face, but instead of looking at me, she was looking at my midsection instead.

What made me just as surprised like she was before calming down, was that she wasn’t just looking, she seemed lost in a gaze as her magenta eyes appeared to sparkle while her cheeks faded into a small shade of light violet. Her mouth was opened and she stared.

At this point I didn’t know what to do. This whole situation was extremely awkward. She was just staring at me, stunned, I didn’t know what to say, or what to do. What made it worse was the fact that I was enjoying it, the thought someone idling at my body to the point of nearly drooling was enough to send me over the edge, but now it was really happening, and shes not even human! But I didn’t care.

I shouldn't be enjoying it, but I am. What made it EVEN WORSE, was that fact that we weren't the only ones in the room, there was three others behind me, and another pegasus, who was thankfully knocked out, for I feared that the two were somehow intertwined and he would kick this living shit out of me if he found out. I would feel slightly better if I could just throw the rest of the world away so that only me and her were left.

So, trying to avoid that happening and David getting involved. I quickly asked a question to snap her out of the trance.

“Uh, well, what are you?” I asked dumbly already knowing what she was. The sudden sound of my voice shook her up, her pupils shrunk as she looked up at me in embarrassment. She smiled as she quickly raised a hoof to cover her checks.

“Heh, well, I’m a pegasus, but i’m not just any pegasus, I’m the greatest flyer in all of Equestria, my home world country.” She said, matter of factly. “I won the great flyers competition and joined up with our greatest flyers in the whole country, the Wonder Bolts.” I had no idea what she was talking about, but I had a good idea.

“So Equestria is your home country?” I asked

“Yes, it’s ruled over by two princesses. One rules the night and one rules the day.” I nodded as I stood up.

“What about your world?” She asked happier tone, unlike before now. As soon as she said that, everyone in the room looked at us, including David. We didn’t know what to say. It became extra quiet in the room. I remembered little of the other world, the world I used to live in. The only thing I knew was who I was, where I lived, and the 7 hour war.

“Well, uh, thats a hard question to answer Rainbow, we don’t actually know. Our world has had a rough past.” David appeared next to me. No longer mad, unlike before. His eyes shined from the dim light in the room, almost as if they were glassy. He took his armour off, the only thing that remained, was his BDU.

“Our world is the greatest thing we could ask for, this planet is the perfect planet. It has a 12 hour day and night cycle, four seasons, and nearly every part of its surface is liveable. We have existed on this world for over two thousand years and used it not only for our home, but our mother, and our life line. We have studied it to the fullest and then some more. We’ve created huge scientific breakthroughs from using its supplies that we dug out of it. We built towns, cities, countries, and have pushed our existence out onto our moon. We built highways, and railways to take us to the far corners of our lands. We made giant ships and airplanes to carry us through the ocean and fly us through the clouds at lighting speeds. We’ve made ourselves cultured by creating multiple forms of entertainment, sports, and have used technology to link us together in ways we never thought possible. Along with culture we have stuck with our ancestors roots and have created many different religions based off of different beliefs.  We have tried to shape the future to our will, while exploring our past.” Rainbow Dash and the rest of us listen to David speach, for again, we have never heard anything like this come out of him before. He was defending our world? What for? Maybe to scare the new alien that was in front of us? I dont know.

“Along the way, we have had some, problems that nature through at us, but most of the problems we’ve faced, are from us. War, hunger, poverty, over population, pollution, and the fear that the end is right around the corner when we shroud ourselves in lies that we created. But, our world used to be much better than it is now. For now we can only glimpse at the dream of us ever returning to the world we once lived in. For time has finally caught up with us, a race of hyper intelligent beings called the Universal Union, invaded earth many years ago, the nations of the our world, grudges or not, put there armed forces together and attempted to defeat them. But in seven hours, all of our efforts to stop them went down in flames as 75% of our worlds population was exterminated. Eight billion innocent harmless lives, the ones who built the greatest civilizations in probably the whole universe, nearly wiped out. Families, friends, neighbors, everyone gone, and those who weren’t whipped out, they were forced into, “Cities” giant labor camps really, and the ones who didn’t got turned into us.” By this time everyone was next to me, and now joining us for the first time, Thunderlane, who from this point had been knocked out. He now stood beside John, who stood next to Chernykh who was standing next to me.

Rainbow Dash saw him and smiled, “Thunderlane! You’re okay!” He limped painfully over to the excited pegasus and gave her a hug, as awkward as it looked, it was sort of heart warming. Suddenly as if by mistake, Thunderlane stuttered and push himself off over her and stood at attention, knees locking tight as his right hoof shot up to his eyes.

“Sorry Ma’am, I didn’t mean to hug you, I was just glad to see you weren’t dead, Ma’am.” His voice sounded deep like Chernykh, but he didn’t have a accent. His voice seemed weak and choppy, and his body wasn’t in good enough shape to be standing like he was, his shaking shown his pain.

Rainbow Dash smiled and returned his salute, “At ease, no need to call me Ma’am, spitfire isn’t around now. Thunderlane,” she said raising her hoof towards me, “This is Daniel he was the one who rescued us.” I waved hello, and she continued reading off our names.

TIME: 3:55am…

After an half an hour of explanation of how they got here, again, we explained more about our world, and how it works. In return they told us about their world. I was intrigued by all of the information. It was truly fascinating how their world needs two great powers to raise and lower the sun and moon and how the weather is dictated by what they need at certain times and how they control it to achieve that. Also that magic is the only way this could happen. At first I didn’t believe in magic, but when I considered that they were in fact talking neon colored pegasi from another world and not my imagination, I dropped all suspicions.

We talked more about how our world is ruled over by an administrator named Dr. Breen and that he controls the Combine his main army. We explained that he’s the figurehead of earth and explained that he’s ruled over by the Universal Union, and that they are the ones that destroyed our world.

But, throughout this whole time, listening and explaining, I was as tense as a bound wire because, despite Thunderlane being awake now and sitting right next to her, Rainbow Dash continued to glance over from time to time to look at my body, before I would catch her looking and she quickly looked at something else. I didn’t know whether to blush or just be confused.

TIME: 4:15…

About an hour has passed now, Rainbow Dash and Thunderlane lay down on a bench as the rest of us stand near one of the doors that lead out into the prison. We talked about what our next plan was. Chernykh and David told us how, while they were out looking for supplies to fix up the Ponies, they ran into a few guards and overwatch soldiers that were patrolling the surrounding hallways looking for something. We assumed that thing they were looking for, was us. Since Chernykh was the Lieutenant of our group, we turned to him for information. He informed us that that there was a large distance between us and freedom from this place and that we needed to pass through it untouched or unheard, or else the prison can track us down. Along with that he mentioned something that caught my attention. He said some where in this prison is a Time Vault.

This vault was a 25 mile long storage facility that housed the devices from our past and preserved them to be used for the future. Like our weapons, armour, communication devices, transport vehicles, anything that could be useful to the Combine was saved there for future use. Along with that there is a P.A.T.C, (Personal Accessable Time Capsule,) that anyone can access at anytime to find the information about themselves from the old world. Along with the information about that said person, it comes with whatever they were wearing before the takeover.

“If we want to find out who we are, we need to find that vault, all in favor for finding it, say ‘I.’” Chernykh said as he raised his hand. Me and John were the first ones to raise our hand, David raised it about a second after us.

“Alrighty then, we move out in 15 minutes, get ready to roll.” And just like that, our plan was put into action.

If we can't remember our past, we’re going to find it…