"Do you really want to go home, Izaiah?" Brisk asked with a small amount of hurt in his voice. Izaiah thought about this. RD looked a bit sad as well as Falcon, Sgt. Gold, Solarwing, the mane six, Celestia, Luna, and Brisk. If Izaiah went back, he could live life with humans and without wings, or ponies. If he stayed here, well, who knows what could happen. Falcon, Gold, Brisk, and Solarwing were here and would stay here...forever...

"Uh Flare? Any Ideas?" Izaiah asked in his head.
"Nope. This one is all yours, Major. Although, you should take a look at the girls if you do say yes. That might help." Flare said, sounding rather bored.

Well shit. Guess it's worth a shot. Izaiah thought.

"Well...Yes I do want to go home..." Izaiah looked at the girls. RD was depressed, Fluttershy looked like she was going to cry, Pinkie's mane deflated, Twilight, Rarity, and Apple Jack seemed disappointed. Izaiah looked at the guys. Sgt. Gold hung his head low, Falcon gave a pleading look, Solarwing looked a bit sad as well.

"But..." Everyone (pony) looked at Izaiah as he spoke. Izaiah looked to Gold, Falcon, Brisk, and Solarwing. "LT! WHAT IS THE FIRST RULE OF OUR SQUAD!?" Izaiah yelled out in his best, loudest, commanding, voice. A startled Falcon went rigid and responded in a normal voice.

"Um...don't be stupid?"
"WRONG ANSWER! ACCORDING TO RULE NUMBER 4, YOU HAVE BEEN DEMOTED TO 2nd LT!" Falcon hung his head low.

"Yes sir..."
Izaiah focused his attention on Gold. "SARGENT! EDUCATE THE LT. OF OUR RULES!"

"SIR YES SIR!" Gold turned to Falcon "SIR! RULE NUMBER ONE! THE SQUAD STAYS TOGETHER, NO MATTER WHAT! RULE TWO! BE AS STUPID AS YOU NEED TO BE TO GET THE JOB DONE! RULE THREE! RESPECT ALL OFFICERS IN COMMAND! RULE FOUR! FAILURE RESULTS IN DEMOTION! RULE FIVE! TREAT WAR VETERANS WITH EXTREME RESPECT, EVEN IF YOU OUT RANK THEM! LAST RULE! IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, WELL TOUGH SHIT!" Once Gold had finished "educating" Falcon, he turned back to Izaiah and saluted, waiting for Izaiah to respond. Izaiah saluted.

"Report."
"SIR! THE LT. HAS BEEN EDUCATED, SIR!"

"Good job Sargent, you are dismissed."
"THANK YOU SIR!" Gold cried out, relaxing. Brisk smiled as well as Solarwing. The mares still looked confused and sad. Izaiah sighed.

"That means I'm staying." The mares perked up, and let out a cheer. Izaiah shook his head. "So what are we discussing Celestia?"
Celestia regained her composure.

"Right. Let's discuss where you boys will be living. Sgt. Gold?"
"Yes ma'am?"

"I will assume you would like to stay with Pinkie Pie Correct?" Gold looked at her with a huge smile and nodded enthusiastically. "Pinkie Pie, are you okay with this?" As if it wasn't obvious, Pinkie nodded quickly, her body tingling with excitement. "Good." She looked towards Falcon who stared back with a confused set of eyes. She nodded to him. "Lieutenant Falcon was it? You choose where you would like to stay." Falcon looked around in surprise not expecting this. He locked eyes with Twilight. She smiled. Falcon turned back to Celestia.

"If Twilight would be so kind, can I stay with her?"
"Yes. Twilight?" Twilight nodded.

"I would be more than happy to take him in."
"Alright now..."

Brisk interrupted. "Hold on Tia. Before we discuss Izaiah's and Solarwing's home arrangements, I'd like to ask a question." Celestia nodded and Brisk turned to the two high ranking officers. Brisk looked at them for confirmation. "May I?"

"Shoot." Izaiah said, looking on in curiosity, as did Solarwing.
"Ok, so here it is. I have organized a military branch meant to protect Equestria from terrorists and enemy armies. You have already met the branch I am talking about and I have got to say, I am a might disappointed in them. They are disorganized and unskilled. The four of you thrashed them badly without a sweat and I fear that our foes could do the same. So I was wondering if you two could train them. With the both of your experience, I believe you could change the marines from hopeless to fearsome."

Izaiah and Solarwing looked on debating this offer. Izaiah looked at Solarwing. "I don't know, what do you think Captain?" Solarwing shrugged.

"I have nothing better to do." He looked to Brisk. "I can try sir, but I make no promises." Brisk nodded.
"What about you Izaiah?"

"If Solarwing is on board then sure. However, I set the rules, and I would like to wait until the squad and I are comfortable with living in this new world. Fair sir?"

Brisk nodded. "I will give you a month, they have a yearly training segment then, if I am not mistaken. I expect you to be there training them. This includes you too Captain. Understood?"

"YES SIR!" They cried out in unison, saluting. Brisk nodded to Celestia for her to continue.
"Alright, as far as where you two can stay...It is your choice. You could stay in Canterlot, and live here with us, or you can live with one of the mane six."

Solarwing looked at Izaiah. "It's up to you."
Izaiah ginned. "Staying with me huh? Any reason for that?"

"I've been assigned to you by Princess Luna, my teacher."
Izaiah looked at him with a furrowed brow. "So basically I now have a personal guard?" Izaiah looked at the night Princess. "You do now I can hold my own right?" Luna nodded.

"There is a reason for this major. See my student is kind of a loner, all he does is train, train, train. He seriously needs a life." Luna said bluntly.

"Hey!"
"It is true. Major, do you think that you can change that? Please?"

Izaiah nodded as he cringed. "Just please call me Izaiah. Please."
The night princess raised an eye brow. "Why do you hate your rank so much Maj-Izaiah? If anything, you should be proud of it."

Izaiah looked at her shaking his head. "Bad memories. Tell you what, princess Luna, I can show the memory to you in my mind, if you can do something for me."

She nodded. "What do you need?"
"Can you give Falcon, Gold, and I, the ability to talk to one another inside our minds again?" Izaiah asked.

"I will do you one better. I will give you three the ability to see, hear, and talk to one another in your minds and anyone else you desire. With permission of course. Now show me this bad memory of yours." Izaiah nodded as she read his mind. Three minutes later, Luna leapt out of her throne and tackled him to the floor, crying. Izaiah, surprised, retuned the embrace, stroking her mane, trying to comfort her. Everypony else looked on in confusion. Celestia tried to read Izaiah's mind once more but Izaiah had already shoved that memory deep, deep, down where nobody would find it. He shook his head at Celestia. She just let out a defeated sigh and slumped back into her throne. After a few minutes, Luna calmed down.

Izaiah spoke. "So girls, would any of you be willing to take Solarwing and I in?" Guess who was the first to say yes. Yup, Rainbow Dash.
"I will!" RD said loudly, scaring the shit out of Solarwing, who was standing beside her. He must have jumped a good four feet off the ground.
"Sorry." She said as Solarwing crashed to the floor.
Izaiah rolled his eyes at RD's antics.

"Anything else for us Celestia?" Falcon asked ignoring everything that was happening. She put a hoof to her chin in thought. Then her eyes lit up in remembrance.

"Twilight, didn't you have something to say? About them learning about Equestria and such?" The boys looked at Twilight. She looked confused for a moment then spoke.

"Right! Thank you for reminding me." She looked at Izaiah. "You and your squad need to come by the library every two days or so, so I can teach you about politics and how things work here in Equestria." Izaiah, Falcon, and Gold groaned in displeasure. Twilight looked at them with a harsh look. "That's an order. Understood?" Before Izaiah could respond, Falcon asked,

"What authority do you have over us exactly? As far as I know, we outrank you severely." Izaiah sighed and shook at his second in command's stupidity. Twilight simply grinned. She turned towards Brisk who gulped.

"I don't know, what authority exactly do I have General Brisk?" Sighing and turning to face Falcon, he stated;
"As Twilight being Princess Celestia's protégé, she has the authority of a Senior Captain, meaning, she outranks all of you aside from Izaiah and Solarwing, who know better than to argue with a female of any kind. So I would simmer down and listen if I were you Lt."

Falcon's jaw hung open. Blinking, he shut his mouth closed. Almost whispering, he said; "I'm sorry, forget I said anything."
Twilight smirked as she nodded to him.

"Now that we are done, lets pack up and head back to Ponyvile ok?" Twilight said, walking to the Princess, saying her farewells.
Celestia called out to Rainbow Dash; "If you have time before leave, the Wonderbolts are practicing in the Royal Garden so if you-...she's gone. Wait. Where's Izaiah?"

"C'mon Izaiah! They might leave soon-" She was cut off by a light blue Pegasus crashing into the ground before them. He was wearing a blue suit with lightning shapes on the sides. He had gashes in his sides, making him bleed profusely. Rainbow Dash rushed over to him. "Are you alright? What happened?" The Pegasus groaned in pain as he got up. He spoke in a pained voice.

"I'm fine...just...get the guard...griffins are attacking...my team..." The Pegasus slumped to the ground. Izaiah looked to Rainbow Dash. He was pissed.

"Get the guard and get this guy to the hospital." He said the words from his blade and changed to his human form. "I'll deal with this." He took to the skies, cradling his M4. The gardens was a battle ground. The rest of the Pegasus' team were being beaten badly and were outnumbered by a shit ton of griffins. "Alright Flare, you can take half control. No kills, just wound them. Understood?"

"Fine. But I'm using my flame form." A burst of flames appeared next to Izaiah. Flare's form looked like this;

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They took off, targeting the griffins with weapons. Taking aim, Izaiah shot a few rounds into a griffin's shoulder, making it cry out in pain, releasing it's hold on the pony in it's grasp. The pony, taking this chance, spun around and took the griffin down with a few well placed kicks to the head and side. The griffin went down and fled in pain. The pony he helped flew up to him.

"Thanks. Who are you?" The pony asked as Izaiah shot down more griffins, aiming for the wings and legs. He brought out another clip, and slipped it into his gun. He looked at the pony. It was a mare, with a dark yellow coat, and fiery orange hair. Izaiah held out a hand.

"Major Izaiah Midflame. Who are you?" The mare grinned.

"Major Spitfire, Captain of the Wonderbolts."

"Well then, shall we carry on? You know how to use a DE right?" Izaiah held out his Desert Eagle to her. She took it and shot down 7 griffins with expert speed and aim. Izaiah raised an eyebrow. "I take that as a yes. Good. Let's go." The flew to the battle guns blazing, sending the griffins away with some serious battle scars. The marines and solar guard showed up, and with a combined effort, they sent them into a full on retreat. The ponies cheered in victory. Flare returned to Izaiah's body. Izaiah grabbed Rainbow Dash, who had a few wounds herself, and flew to Ponyvile together, where their friends would be waiting.

Major Spitfire finished checking up on her team, and set out to find the human from earlier. She needed to thank him for helping out and give him his Desert eagle back. She flew around, asking ponies left and right they had seen him but they all had the same answer. "Who?"

"Oh that guy...He just left." A marine answered with a bit of anger in his voice. Spitfire sighed.
"Damn it... I will find you...someday..." She holstered the pistol and flew back over to her team.

Author's Note

Alright, now we are out of the castle! Finally we can do some bonding with the mane six n Ponyvile.
Until next time....bye! Oh yeah before I forget, please give some feedback and point out any errors you happen to see. I always look at the comments so if you can help, that would be much appreciated.