GOLDEN OAKS LIBRARY

TWILIGHT SPARKLE

4 HOURS LATER

"And that is what the princess wrote me" Twilight said calmly to her friends letting them know what happened.

"Oh I'm gonna throw them a great big welcome to equestria party" Pinkie pie said in her normal fast paced happy way.

"Uh pinkie we don't know if their nice or not for all we know they could be the one's that sent them other things here eight years ago" Applejack said with concern.

"But what if their nice and help us with those scary things" Fluttershy said quietly with what could possibly be fear in her voice.

"I wonder what they wear it's a whole new fashion type" Rarity said with glee in her voice.

"I am gonna keep my eye's on them applejack is right they could be evil" rainbow dash said with hostility in her voice.

Although right before twilight could say anything they all heard a loud sound. "What the hay is that rainbow dash said.

When they went outside they saw a large number of objects fly past ponyville they all decided to see what they were so they followed them.

DROPSHIP 22

CLEARING NEAR PONYVILLE AND THE EVERFREE FOREST

2LT. RICHARD TOUCHSTONE

"Move it Move it Move it" I yelled with pride. I then got out and saw 132 soldiers outside the dropships I smiled to myself.

"Ah look at how beautiful this is Richard" Mike said coming up to me with Andrew.

I looked down and exhaled "You okay Richard?" Andrew asked me I looked at him.

"How many soldiers do you think are gonna die during just this landing if the arachnids charge us" I said with clear sadness in my voice.

"Sir's" we heard a soldier say we turned and saw a young woman standing there.

"At ease Elizabeth and tell us what it is" I said not so happy to see her among the first half of my platoon to land.

"We found these weird horse things sir's and they appear to most likely be the natives" she said with calmness and standing at attention.

"Thank you Elizabeth and I want you to come with us for the first meeting with a new species" I said with calmness but also concern for Elizabeth and my troops.

"Thank you sir" She said back with excitedly.

5 MINUTES LATER

We approached the natives which looked like they were taken from a girls coloring book. "I am second lieutenant Richard Touchstone of the Terran federation and ranking officer of omega platoon this is second lieutenant Micheal Heck ranking officer of alpha platoon, this is second lieutenant Andrew Johnson ranking officer of echo platoon, and this is private Elizabeth smith of omega platoon and my fiance" I said with utmost curtasy.

"It is a pleasure to meet you Mr. Richard I am Twilight Sparkle, and these are my friends Pinkie Pie, Rarity Bell, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy" The purple one said with pride pointing at each of them so we knew who was who.

Then the blue one came up to us "So you all are in a military?" the blue one asked with suspicion.

"Why yes we are and since your not wearing anything that indicates your a member of the military I take it your a civilian" Mike said flicking her nose with a smirk.

"Don't mind mike he's just an asshole and doesn't care much but he'll grow on you"Andrew said trying not to smile about what just said.

"If I may ask why are ya'll here?" the orange one asked also sounding suspicious.

"Hey you have west Virginian accent" Mike said with shock.

"Well we're here because we were following a trail of five massive space rocks that we found out 4 hours ago the trail was 8 years old and we believe the rocks may have crashed into you planet sense the trail stops here so we're here to kick some bug ass and become friends" Andrew said with a smile.

"I knew it" Twilight said excitedly and sounded like gloating.

"What are you talking about?" I asked with caution.

"Oh let me tell you you'r correct five giant rocks did fall from space eight years ago and then these weird creatures came out of them and attacked anything near them then hid before the royal guard arrived and even now they attack towns then run off and hide somewhere" Twilight said in a teacher type of way.

"Have you tried looking underground" I said bluntly getting them all to look at me.

"What was that?" Twilight asked sounding shocked.

"The creatures your talking about are called arachnids and they dig tunnels to avoid detection so their most likely underground with a brain bug" I said to them sounding like a federal intelligence agent.

"No we never checked underground or for tunnels how do you even know they make tunnels?" Rainbow dash asked with more suspicion in her voice.

"We have been fighting and killing those bugs for fifteen years them the same and when you have been in four assaults on bug infested planets you learn a few things" I said with discomfort in my voice.

The pony's looked at me concerned "Are you okay?" Fluttershy asked me with care in her voice.

"No he's not he was promoted to corporal during one of those operations because he was the only survivor of his squad..." Mike said with discomfort.

"I was too scared to fight the bugs and they just ignored me I guess they thought I was already dead but why me why not anyone else some of those guys were young o-one of them was j-j-just 18 years old h-he had his whole life a-ahead of him"I said a tear coming down my face and sadness in my voice.

"You poor thing" Fluttershy said hugging me or what I guessed was a hug somehow she made me feel better.

"Sir's we need you on the line with us" A soldier said sounding urgent.

"What is it corporal" I said with calmness in my voice.

"Sir arachnid signatures in the forest heading this way and fast we picked up 50 total orders" He said with calmness as well.

"Tell everyone to get into a firing line we'll be there in a second" I ordered him with calmness.

"Yes sir" He said with obedience in his voice.

"What those things are coming" twilight said with slight fear in her voice.

"Yes they are but don't worry this time we have the numbers on those bugs" Mike said with sounding smug.

"Still how many good people are we going to lose ?" I said with depression in my voice.

"Uh enough of that if we do this right no one will die" Andrew said encouragingly.

"That's what they said about the first assault on planet P look how that turned out 2 million soldiers went in 500 came back" I said with sadness in my voice.

"Then lets get this over with" Andrew said bluntly.

"And Elizabeth you stay here" I said leaving.

"WHAT" Elizabeth said with shock over what I said.

"Elizabeth as your soon to be husband please stay here I love you and don't want you to die and as your superior officer I am ordering you to stay here and protect these pony's" I said with determination.

"Yes honey I will" She said sounding sad.

"I'm sorry I just want you to be safe I love you so much" I said kissing her then leaving with a new goal.

"Just be sure you don't die our wedding is in a week" She said to me with a happy demeanor.

4 minutes later

We were all set up rifle aimed at the forest we could now hear the arachnids coming. "Okay everyone remember we hold this position and we fire the minute we get a clear shot" I yelled at them with as much calmness in my voice I could find.

"Okay you apes you want to live forever" Andrew shouted with pride.

"SIR YES SIR!!!" Everyone yelled with pride then we saw all the arachnids rush out of the forest.

"Light them up" Mike yelled to everyone and began shooting at the arachnids not knowing this got allot of attention.

PVT. ELIZABETH

"What is all that noise over there?" Rarity said with agitation.

"Everyone is killing bugs while I'm sitting here" I said with anger in my voice then there was a flash of light behind me.

I turned and saw 2 taller pony's both with wings and horns and had what I could consider guards with them one was white the other was blue.

"Princesses" The pony's said bowing to them.

"Rise my little pony's" The white one said with kindness in her voice.

"Uh not to sound rude here or anything but can you tell me who you are?" I asked confusion obviously in my voice.

The others present and the guards looked shocked "Oh I forgot your not from our world I am princess Celestia co-ruler of equestria and this is my sister princess Luna and your name is?" Celestia asked still with kindness in her voice.

"I am private Elizabeth Smith of the Terran federation omega platoon although in a week I will be Elizabeth Touchstone with my soon to be husband second lieutenant Richard Touchstone ranking officer of omega platoon" I said not knowing I was sounding upset.

"Are thou feeling sad?" princess Luna asked me.

"Yes I am my future husband wont let me participate in the fight but I understand he loves me and doesnt want me to die" I said with sadness clear in my voice.

"Where is he now?" princess Celestia asked then their was a loud boom from a grenade going off.

"By that explosion" I said getting up and grabbing my rifle and ran to the action the pony's following me.

Author's Note

The pony's now know what the arachnids are and where to start looking for them.