“Beeeep, beeeep, beeeep!!!”
“Grrrrrrr, good morning Tucker, it’s a beautiful, cloudy day in the United States!”
My name is Tucker and I am just a normal 21 year old guy fresh out of college with a so called “bright future” ahead of me and everything was going to stand in my way. Typical everyone was out to try and make my life a living hell just because I am a nerd and a military shut-in and all.
I have only had two friends in my entire life, and their names are Brooke and Justin. We met each other over seas in Iraq and have been best friends since. Speaking of which…..
“Knock, Knock, Knock!!!”
“Who is it,” I yelled with a sleepy yawn.
“It’s Brooke and Justin!!!!” they hollered back
“I’m comin, I’m comin…….. SHIT!!!!!” I look down, “NO PANTS!!!!”
After changing into some black shorts and a white, tight-fit tie. I opened the door to see both Brooke and Justin standing there with irritated looks on their faces.
“What?”
“You were supposed to meet us at the Café to have breakfast TWO hours ago, so that’s what.” Brooke said in a very aggravated tone.
“Ohhhhhh, that was today.” I must have broken them because I had to duck to avoid getting smashed in the face with Brooke’s 50 lb. purse, but only to get Justin’s not much better boot to my jaw. As I fell back Mortal Kombat kept screaming in my head, “FATALITY!!!”
I just hope to God they didn’t continue on to, “FINISH HIM!!!”
“Ouch!!!” I said, “OK, ok, calm down and come in. I’ll make so breakfast and coffee, as you can see I haven’t had my first cup yet.”
Then in unison(almost as if on cue) they said, “Ok.”
So after breakfast the Justin and Brooke talked while I went into the living room where all of my favorite things were, my gun safes, my workbench, and….. my Xbox 360. So I started up my Xbox and while I waited for it to start up, I got into one of my gun cases and pulled out a Slovakian AK-47 with a ACOG Scope and fore-grip, one of my personal favorites, and held it up to look down the scope, only to hear the sound of guns firing and Justin yelling like a total nerd.
Well, there just went my Xbox for the next two hours.
As I sat down to watch to the girls play Call of Duty: Black Ops II – Zombies, I saw the lights and screen flicker then everything went black.
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“What the hell just happened?” Brooke yelled.
“Shhh, there’s screaming outside.” I said as I shoved a magazine into the AK-47 I was holding, and ran to the door.
As I opened the door I looked outside and it was not what I was expecting at all. The land and scenery outside was cloud and gloomy and almost looked cartoonish in way. But something was off it almost had a leery feeling to it. So I went back inside and grabbed my gear and my AK-47.
When I ventured outside I realized we had just “showed up” outside of a post-apocalyptic town. So knowing me I entered the town, and as I kept going I saw a faint light that was coming out of some kind of tree-house (no, really it looked like someone had built a house inside a tree). I approached the house and knocked on the door, there was a long silence then I heard whispering and something that sounded like steel against leather…. OH SHIT!!!
Then the door exploded, no the door literally exploded, sending me flying back a few hundred feet and leaving me dazed. As I shook off the dizziness and got my vision back, I realized what had caused the explosion. It was a human like figure with equine features with a horn and wings, and hooves instead of feet and…… IT’S A FUCKIN PONY!!!
I was too busy freaking out to see the pony/human charge up another shot and I only had a few seconds to react before that shot hit the ground where I was. I took cover behind the remains of a burnt down house, and as I was sitting there ready, I saw something unusual. It was a figure that was wandering around; as it looked my way it gave a horrid scream and started to sprint at me in a very awkward way as if it had no coordination at all. As it reached me it tackled me to the ground out in the open and it tried to bite my face off, I tried to reach for my gun but it was a good twenty feet away. So I reach over to my left shoulder which had my combat knife strapped to it. I got ahold of the hilt and brought the 10-inch blade across slicing the “zombie” looking thing in the throat spraying blood all over my face. But that didn’t work it was still trying to get me so I rammed my knife into its head sending more gore to spray all over me.
As I tried to stand up, I saw that the pony/human (plus six others) standing there with looks of awe on their faces.
“Thanks for the help,” was all I could say as I wiped the gore off of my face.
Then I heard screams and gunfire, I spun around on my heel and started to sprint toward the noise. When I got there I couldn’t see anyone or anything, then I heard what sounded like a crunch from behind my house. So I went to investigate, I wish I hadn’t. As I peeked behind a corner I saw some more of the things and…….. two bloody human corpses.
I was pissed, scratch that I was furious. So I raised the rifle and unloaded all 30 rounds into the abominations, spraying gore and body parts everywhere. Then when I ran out of ammo I charged them knife drawn and started to kick, smash, and hack off heads; and when they were all dead I dropped to my knees and started to cry. I had just lost the only two friends I had ever had in the entire world, and now they were dead. Killed by things of our fantasies and imaginations, now I was truly alone in this world.
As I sat there crying I took notice of the strange pony that had attacked me earlier, plus the other six, standing behind me and looking between me and all of the dead creatures around me. But the way she (I think judging by the feminine body and breasts) was looking at me, it was almost like she had sympathy for me and my loses. Then she spoke.
“I am sorry for what has happened here,” She said.
“I am too, I wis……THEY CAN TALK!!!!”
I was freaking out now with a mixture of nausea and hyperventilation. So as I sat there freaking out they took a moment to speak.
“I think we should help him, he seemed very sad and heart broken,” said the yellow one.
“I would to do some studies on him too,” said the purple one.
And before anyone could continue they heard a thump and they turned around only to find me passed out on the ground. Damn this has been one hell of a day.
Chapter 2: Awakening
I awoke to the sun shining, birds chirping, and a breeze blowing through the trees. There was just one thing off; it was peaceful, too peaceful. Things were never this peaceful back on… I wasn’t on Earth!
With that thought I shot straight up in bed and looked around only to find the ponies from yesterday all surrounding me. There were seven of them (like yesterday) but now that it was light out I could make out their full features. One was a lavender color with a darker purple mane (and tail), with a lavender and pink strip in each and a horn. The next one was a cyan color with a rainbow colored mane, she had wings, and next to her was an orange one with a blonde mane. Then there was a pale white one with a curly, purple mane, she also had a horn. Second to last was a pink one with a pink mane that looked like she was higher than a kite and was suffering from a sugar-rush too. And the last one was by far the most beautiful(and the cutest) of them all, she was a butter yellow color with a pale pink mane and tail, wings noted. The other one I had had the unfortunate “run in” with but she was the tallest, with a horn and wings, with a tri-colored mane that blew in a non-existent wind.
“Hello there my name is Princess Celestia, and you shall address me as such. This here is Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy. And you are?” said Celestia.
“My-my name is Tucker, Gunnery Sergeant Tucker Loomis of the United States Marine Corps.”
“What are you?” asked Twilight(I think that’s what her name was).
“I’m a human, and what are you guys, ponies?”
“Why, yes we are darling,” said Rarity.
“Well fuck me a runnin, it’s official I’ve gone bat-shit crazy!”
“I am truly sorry about what happened yesterday Tucker, about me shooting at you and the loss of your friends,” said Celestia.
“It’s ok, but I would like to know what the hell is going on here. So I fill me in.” They were all silent except for Celestia who spoke up.
“It all started about a month ago, an old, very strange man dressed in some sort of long white coat, black gloves, and strange eye glass spectacles; was thrown in to our world. When we tried to welcome him, he pulled out some strange metal tube and killed two of my guards. Then he started rambling on how he was going to bring about our demise with a plagued “apocalypse”. In which he create a bomb, which he would have filled with something he called "Element 115". Well we just thought he was crazy but a few days later there was a great plague that started to sweep cross Equestria ponies, gryphons, and dragons alike, but they didn’t stay dead.”
“Hm. This sounds an awful lot like Black Ops.”
“What?” asked Celestia.
“Oh. Well back on Earth there is this one game called Call of Duty: Black Ops, and in one of the side games in it you’re a survivor of a zombie plague created by an evil scientist.”
“Well I would like to ask for your assistance then.”
“And why is that?”
“Because you seem to know what is going on and I feel I can trust you.”
I was somewhat speechless because, one, I was a completely different species than them and I have not known them for even a few hours (probably more than that but I was unconscious for most of them), and two, I was not even sure I could trust them yet. I mean Celestia did try to kill me, TWICE, but there is something about them. I don’t know what it is, but they just seem too innocent.
“Hey you there!"
“Ahhhhhhhh!”
“Rainbow Dash why’d ya’ll do that. Ya damn near gave the poor guy a heartattack.” Applejack said, swatting Rainbow on the back of the head.
“It’s ok. Sooooo, I’ve made an executive decision.”
“And what is that,” asked Celestia crossing her arms and waiting for the rest of the answer.
“I will help you. But I only ask three things in return.”
“And what are those?”
“One, I would like a proper burial for my friends. Two, I would like to be treated like you would treat anyone else. And three, don’t EVER try to kill me again. Deal?”
“Deal,” Celestia said as her and I shook hands.
“So before I start can we have some proper introductions that don’t involve trying to incinerate me will fireballs?”
“Yes, I am Twilight Sparkle, as you already know, and I was the personal student to Princess Celestia, before I became a princess and I run…ran the local library here in Ponyville.”
“I’m Applejack, mah family and I used ta own Sweet Apple Acres where we had one of the biggest apple orchards in Equestria, that was ‘til them there walkin’ corpses startin’ tearin’ everypony apart.”
“Sup, my name is Rainbow Dash and I was the weather captain in Ponyville. We controlled the weather around Ponyville. I’m also the fastest, most talented flyer in all of Equestria…just putting that out there.”
“Ego boost Rainbow, watch the ego boost. Anyway I am Rarity and I owned the Carousel Boutique here in Ponyville. And if I may ask what is that you are wearing?”
“Easy there Rarity, wait for questions till the end.”
“Hitherei’mPinkiePieandIwaswonderingonething?” Pinkie Pie said as she talked like she was one an everlasting sugar rush.
“And what’s that?”
“What’s this?” As she said that she pointed an AK-47 at me, finger on the trigger.
“What the-SHIT!”
And I hit the dirt. I looked in my hand and in the place of my rifle was a chocolate cupcake with pink frosting on it and one of those cheap prank candles.
“Two things PLEASE?”
“What’s that silly willy?”
“One, can I PLEASE have my gun back. Two, how in the ever living hell did she DO THAT!?!?”
“Don’t ask it’s just Pinkie being Pinkie. Don’t think about it, it will only hurt more.”
So that only left the yellow pegasus and she was hiding behind everyone else. She was hiding from m, like I was a deadly predator…ok so some of that may be true but I’m not going to hurt them. If I wanted to them I would have a long time ago.
As I walked up to the pegasus she sunk to the floor as if by some invisible force. I knelt down next to her and introduced myself.
“My name is Tucker. What’s your’s?”
“It’s Fluttershy.”
“What was that, I couldn’t quite here you? Come on try again please.” Saying that I gave her the most honest, sincere smile I ever gave anyone before.
“My-my name is Fluttershy.” I could sense a little bit more courage from her.
“There you go,” I said holding out my hand to help her up.
I helped her up and when I turned around I saw all of the girls (even the princess) with the most hilarious faces ever. Their eyes were as big as dinner plates and mouths agape.
I got out my phone and snap a picture with it. Then I start laughing my ass off, still not knowing what they were like that for.
“So do any of you have questions for me?”
Seven hands shot up instantly.
“Well fuck me.”
