Lost in Equestria

Three days went by after Celestia’s speech on Fort David and so far everypony welcomes the humans, well the soldiers of Fort David. So far the humans are given warm welcomes. But the only thing that Frankville has blocked all roads lead outside and refuse to let anyone in or out as Bruce Johnston has told this to the Frankville’s Mayor John Anderson, who in fact aware of the situation after having a meeting with the police chief and has ordered the police depart to maintain order of the town and has increased patrols to make sure this order is obeyed.

The only problem is that rations and supplies could run low in just a few months if they isolate themselves from the rest of the world. And if they can’t find a way to get back home they’ll have no choice but to call for outside help. But with water and power that was no problem since the town’s energy is powered by the Cold Fusion/Solar Panel hybrid power plant and the water pipeline runs from a river that’s replaced with a similar river than the one from their world. The citizens of Frankville are getting anxious and suspicious of what’s going on. And it’s not the matter of if they find out, but when..

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Around 8:00 pm. The streets downtown are deserted after curfew is initiated for three nights in a row, so far everything’s going smooth. Three people met in the backyard, they’re in their late-teens, early-twenties, two of them are Caucasian and one is African American. One is Jason Ford, nineteen years old who is thinking about joining the US Army sometime after he graduated, and the other is Zach Conway, a year older than Jason and a friend of him as well. The African America is Marvin Jackson

“So…how do we get by the cops without being noticed?” Marvin asked in a hushed tone.

“I got a truck parked behind the building outside the town so it can’t be seen.” Zach replied. “Plus I got some guns and ammo stashed in the truck so we’re good to go.”

“I think we should stick to crossbows and arrows.” Jason added. “We can’t use the guns as it makes noises and the police will hear that and investigate.”

“I don’t think we’ll have to worry about it since we’re gonna be hunting far away.”

“Are we gonna take that chance?”

“I’m sure they won’t hear the gunshots.”

“I still think we should stick to the crossbows and arrows.”

“Relax Jason. Now let’s get going..” And with it they got their flashlights and begin sneaking through the backyards through the subdivision.

They’ve snuck through the night one block after another, keeping an eye on any patrol cars. And every time a patrol car comes up they duck behind parked cars, dumpsters or anything to stay out of sight of the patrol car’s lights and move out after the coast is clear for moments. They’ve reached downtown and peaked out the corners to see the streets deserted and quiet.

“Man I haven’t seen this place deserted, it’s like a ghost town.” Zach exclaimed as they snuck down in the alleyways.

“Something’s very strange is going on here.” Marvin added. “First this weird green light appeared a few nights ago, then the disconnection of Wi-Fi connections and now martial law in town?”

“Yeah, I like to find out what’s causing the whole town acting like this.”

They continued down the alleyway ‘til they reacted near the edge of the town. They’re about to head on out when they saw a patrol car coming up. They quickly ducked behind some dumpsters and waited until the patrol car is out of sight.

“OK we’re clear again.” They moved out of the alley and out of Frankville, completely out of sight of any more patrol cars that could be coming up and down the street. They’ve continued until they reached to an abandoned building near the town’s entrance.

They’ve gone around the building and see a A 1969 Ford F-100 Ranger Pickup Truck with a camouflage paintjob parked behind it..

“See? I told you I got a truck here.”

“One question,” Marvin begin to ask. “How long has this truck been back here?”

“Five days ago, two days before that freaky green light. Good thing the displacement took this area too, otherwise I’ve lost my truck.” He chuckled. Then he jumped on the back of the truck and opens the lid of a large trunk and in it contains a Remington 870 Wingmaster shotgun, two Winchester rifles, and a Ruger m77 Hawkeye bolt action rifle with a scope on top. A couple of Colt Single Army Revolvers are sitting side by side along with the S&W Model 500 with the extended ejector shroud, accessory rail, and sling. The guns are sitting on top of boxes of ammunition of the weapons in the trunk. A Winchester Model 1887 shotgun with the barrel and stock sawn off is seen hanging on the rack in the truck underneath another Wingmaster Shotgun. The shotguns are loaded with buckshot shells for better damage.

“Nice stockpile Zach.” Marvin said.

“Thanks, I’m always prepared.” He replied. Gun sales have been good since John Henry Campbell became president in 2012 and protected the 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution. Although this has clashed with anti-gun groups who are against gun violence as well as guns promoting violence and want all of the guns ban in order to have peace and prevent shootings. But many groups, mostly NRA members, protected the 2nd Amendment saying that guns aren’t just for hunting but for defense from enemy forces that would invade America and they needed something to defend. But the Anti-Gun groups replied, saying that America hasn’t been invaded in the past and there was never need to have guns if there aren’t gonna be invaders. But there were some close calls in the Cold War with the Soviet Union and just because America wasn’t invaded doesn’t mean it could happen.

Several Christian groups, siding with the NRA also went head on against the Anti-Gun groups. They brought up Cain and Abel from the Book of Genesis. They’ve mentioned that Cain killed his brother Abel out of anger with a rock, therefore becoming the first murderer. And never mentions Cain killed Abel with a gun at all. Eventually President Campbell’s Liberty Bell party started a program that helps those who are victims of the shootings as well as eliminated all uses of illegal drugs, convincing that they’re responsible for their mentalness as well as convincing parents to strict their children of what video games they’re playing and limit them how long they should play them on what days.

“Shall we get going?” Jason asked while checking his crossbows and arrows.

“Sure.” Zach answers. ‘But we need to push it out of town so that the noise doesn’t attract the police.”

“What? Can’t we just start the truck and take off quickly?”

“We can’t take that chance, there’s a possibility that they’ll hear the engine noise and investigate.”

The others groaned but they have no choice. They peeked out of the corners to see if there are any cops nearby. There isn’t one, which is good for the moment. But they have to be quick if they’re gonna get out of there. Zach hops into the truck and releases the parking break and together they pushed the truck out of the back of the building and out of Frankville’s limits. Luckily for them no cops were around when they pushed the truck out of town.

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They pushed the truck for about twenty minutes before stopping.

“OK, I think we’re good.”

Zach gets in the truck and tries to start it up but it won’t.

Zach swore under his breath, knowing that he should've checked it before hiding it. He continues to turn the key in attempts to start it up. The truck may have been converted to run on green gas as well as got new filters for the new oil but the engine parts and the battery isn’t checked or replace. After two minutes the truck comes to life.

“Finally, Alright guys, here we go.” Jason and Marvin jumped into the back of the truck as Zach floors it and the truck bolts through between the trees and onto the road away from Frankville.

“Whoa.” Exclaimed Marvin as they arrived at the edge of the road where the green orb has cut through.

“Freaky.” Jason replied.

“Well, we didn’t come all this way for nothing did we?” Zach asked the others as he steps on the gas pedal again, the engine roared as the truck drives off the road and onto dirt paths. The truck was barely made to drive off road as it doesn’t have any tires for it but as long as they avoid rough terrain they’re OK. They drove for about two miles through a middle of the field and they’ve spotted a forest up ahead and Zach put his truck to a full stop a few feet outside the edge of the forest. He puts the truck in park and gets out. He, Jason and Marvin armed up and stood near inches of the forest.

“Never seen this place before.” Jason spoke. “I thought the forest is south.”

“Yeah,” Zach replied. “We’ll just have to be careful and watch out step.” And they head into the forest. Zach is armed with the Wingmaster Shotgun and the S&W Model 500 revolver as a sidearm, Marvin is armed with the Ruger m 77 Hawkeye rifle with one of the Colt Single Army revolvers, and Jason is armed with the crossbow and has the other Colt Army revolver.

“This place sure is creepy,” Jason whispered. “There’s no telling what lies in these woods.”

“We have guns here,” Zach replied. “If it moves, we’ll shoot it.”

“I dunno, I overheard the conversation Officer Carlson and two other policemen. I think we’re in an alternate world or something.”

“What makes you think that?”

“Well, during the conversation they said something about seeing a bunch of colorful…ponies.”

Zach and Marvin laughed.

“Ponies?” Zach laughed. “Come on, get serious.”

“Yeah man. That’s just silly.” Marvin added.

“I’m telling you, that’s what I heard.”

“Uh-huh, I’m sure it is.”

“Yeah, we’ll keep an eye on ponies here in this forest.”

Then they hear a noise a few feet ahead of us. The trio crouched and quietly crept into the bushes. Jason pokes his head out to see what’s up ahead, and he sees a group male deers. He double check to make sure they’re bucks.

“Guys, there’s a group of bucks up ahead.” He whispered to the fellow hunters.

“Great.” Zach replied in the hushed tone and the others aimed their hunting weapons at the deers, ready to shoot.

But suddenly, something leaped out of the bushes and pounced one of the deers. They couldn’t tell what creature is it since it’s in the shadows. But whatever is attacking the deer is vicious. The deer collapses onto the ground, fatally wounded. Then the creature leaped out of the shadow, it was a Lion. They froze in their place as they see the lion preparing its final attack. They also notice something strange about his lion; they saw a tail that belongs to a scorpion and wings of a bat. How is this possible? A lion with a scorpion’s tail and bat wings and ears, there’s no way that’s possible.

“Why the hell does that Lion have a scorpion tail and bat wings and ears?” Jason whispered but nearly shouted. Fortunally the lion didn’t hear them.

Then the Lion creature drives its scorpion tail into the side of the deer, killing it. Then five more appeared with the lion creature. Four of them have the deers they’ve slayed.

“Oh crap.” Marvin exclaimed softly. “Two more of them.”

“I think we should leave.” Zach whispered to the others, they’ve nodded their heads in agreement and moved slowly away from the lions and out of the forest.

Then, Zach steps on a twig and it snaps loudly. They froze as the twig snapped, hoping the lions didn’t hear it. Unfortunately they did and the lion creatures begin to approach them, growling as they spotted them.

“Oh shit, they heard us.”

“We need to run…” Zach begins to shout: “…Now!” And he quickly whips up this Wingmaster shotgun at them and squeezes the trigger, discharging a shell into one of the lion’s face, pumps another shell and ejecting the empty shell and fires again. It drops onto the ground with half its face blown off and dead. They took off running as the five other lions are preoccupied before giving chase.

“I told you this was a bad idea!” Jason shouted as they ran through the forest.

“How the hell was I supposed to know that they’re lions in this forest?!” Zach shouted back.

They ran ‘til they were out of the forest and to the truck. Zach nearly ripped the door off his truck as he opened it. Good thing he didn’t locked the doors before they went hunting he thought to himself. Jason and Marvin hopped on into the back as Zach tries to start the truck again but won’t come alive. And worse yet that the lions are getting closer.

“Come on dammit!” He nearly screamed. “Start!”

Marvin fires his Ruger rifle at the incoming lions but misses. He pulls the bolt out to eject the spent cartridge out and slams it back in and fires again.  The round grazes one of the lions in the ear and it roared in pain but kept on coming.

Jason fires the crossbow at the other lion and hits one in the eye and it stumbles onto the ground dead. He fumbles to try to reload his crossbow.

“Jason! Take the Winchester rifle!” Marvin shouted as he fires his rifle at the lions. Jason quickly drops the crossbow, opens the trunk and pulls out the Winchester rifle. He cocks the lever, chambering the round in and fires at the lions.

“Yes!” Zach finally got the truck started, the engine roared to life, lights flashed on and he stomps on the gas pedal, taking off. Jason and Marvin nearly fell off the truck as Zach floored it. They thought they got away but the lions continue to pursue them.

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Delta Company was selected on night patrol outside of Fort David. Sergeant Foley leading Corporals Allen, Stone and Jacobs and Private Dunn and a couple of others boarded two Humvees and departed from the base. The Humvee’s headlights pierce through the night with strong beams as they headed down the dirt trail.

“So far everything’s quiet.” Dunn reported as they drove through the night.

“Nothing happening yet.” Foley replied to him. “There’s no telling what could happen here, even if it’s the Land of Equestria.”

They’ve continued down the road and stopped on top of the hill around a quarter to 9. Delta Team jumped off the Humvees and surveyed the entire field from where they are. The moon and stars shined brightly into the night all over the entire field.

“Man, the night is sure beautiful.” Jacobs commented.

“Sure is Corporal,” responded Sergeant Foley. “..Sure is.”

“I wonder what Twilight and her friends are doing?” he asked.

“Don’t know.” Stone responded. “But I think they’re probably outside checking out the nighttime sky like we are. If we’re lucky we could run into them and…” Then they hear two popping noises in the distance.

“That sounds like gunfire.” Foley stated.

“It came over there.” Jacobs pointed towards where the forest is. Allen takes the binoculars and sees what appears to be a truck on the edge of the forest.  Then he sees three people running out of the forest and to the truck. More popping sounds were heard as they fired into the forest before the truck started and takes off.

“I think they’re from Frankville sarge.” Allen said to Foley and then he saw lions.

“Are those…lions?” Allen continued. “And they’re following them….straight to Frankville.”

“We need to get down there and stop them. Let’s move out Delta Team!” Foley commanded as they hopped back into the Humvees and took off. They couldn’t just drive down the hill towards them since the hill below them are too steep for vehicles and can’t drive down it without risking of tipping over or crashing. They need to find a way down the hill so they can stop the lions.

“Corporal Stone, head towards that slope!” Foley commanded and Stone steered towards the slope which the ponies galloped down, the second Humvee followed.

“Allen, get onto the Minigun! We’ll need it!” Allen climbs to the back and through the ringmount and takes the General Electric M134 Minigun, ready for action as they headed towards Frankville.

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Twilight, Spike and her friends have setup a small picnic on top of the hill. They came to enjoy the beauty of the nighttime sky and Twilight’s wanted to take more notes on the stars.

“The night is beautiful, right girls?” Rarity said to the other ponies.

“It sure is Rarity.” Twilight responded while looking through the telescope. “Luna sure does a great job too.”

“I know, it’s so peaceful and quiet out here.” Fluttershy stated softly.

Then they hear popping noises from a distance.

“What in tarnation’s that?” Applejack said confused by the popping noises.

“I don’t know. It sounded like it came from the Everfree Forest.” Twilight answered. Then more popping noises are heard and everypony looked from where the noises are coming from.

“Is Somepony shooting off fireworks?” Pinkie asked. Then they see flickering lights in the distance near the forest and moving. Twilight aims the telescope at the light and sees what it was.

“I think that’s one of the humans’ motor carriages.” Twilight said as she peers through the telescope. Then she saw something chasing it and moved the telescope back and saw four beasts chasing them and gasped in horror.

“What is it Twilight?” Applejack asked as she gasped.

“Manticores.” Twilight answered, the ponies gasped.

“They must’ve ran into them in the forest and are chasing them.”

Then she spots two Humvees in pursuit of the Manticores.

“I think they’re after those Manticores.” Twilight continued. “And if I remember that’s where the town of Frankville is.” She recalled Sergeant Foley saying something about the town of Frankville being located a few miles east of Ponyville a couple of miles near the river and Fort David is north east of that same river.

“Come on girls, we need to help our new friends!” Twilight said to her friends as she lifts Spike off the ground with her magic and placed him on her back before heading off down the hill to catch them up.

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Zach sped through the field without stopping, Jason and Marvin held on as the truck hit few bumps at high speeds and nearly fallen off. They’ve made it back on the asphalt road leading the Frankville limits and parked the truck back behind the building and hopped out.

“I can’t believe we narrowly escape those beasts.” Jason exclaimed.

“Have you seen the stingers on those lions?” Marvin asked.

“Don’t worry, we’ve lost them.” Zach replied. “Now let’s just sneak back home and pretend this never happens.” Then the dark corner of the street lit up, car lights shot strong beams of light at them with a pair of red and blue lights flashing on top. It was the patrol car and the police caught them.

“Crap, we’ve been caught.” Zach said to the others as they slowly raise their hands up in the air. The patrol car door opens up with the number ‘Unit 38’ on the side and the police man walked towards them. It was Jack Carlson.

“Well well well.” Carson said as he approached them. “Aren’t you supposed to be in your homes during curfew?”

“I…Uh…” Zach stammered.

“You three are in big trouble.” He continued with an angry tone in his voice. “Outside during curfew is a direct violation of this order.” The rookie, Nick Henderson steps out and approaches them.

“Looks like we’re gonna have to take you…” He is interrupted when he hears faint roars in the distance, Jason cursed as it was heard.

“What the hell is that?” Carlson asked.

“They must’ve followed us.” Jason said.

“Officer..” Zach said slowly. “We need to get ready…Trust us.” He, Jason and Marvin ran back to their truck.

“Hey! Get back here!” Carlson shouted but he then saw something in the distance. He squinted to see what it was and he saw a head of a lion. The street light up ahead exposed the lion as well as the other three.

“Rookie…Get back to the car and radio for backup.” Carlson said as he begins to draw his Smith & Wesson Model 15 revolver out. “Now!” He shouted as he ran back to the car with him and aims the revolver at the incoming Lions.

“Unit 38 to Operator, this is Nick Henderson. We need backup now!” Henderson nearly shouted through the CB Radio as the lions come closer. Carlson fires his revolver at the lion but hits it in the shoulder, wounding it. He saw the scorpion’s stinger, bat ears and wings on the lions, he couldn’t believe it a lion would have these strange features.

“We need backup now!” He shouted as the lion moves closer to them. He fires his revolver three times, the bullets hit the lion in the head and it drops to the ground dead. But the three are moving closer now. Henderson has drawn his pistol out at them too while Carlson reloads.

Then the truck behind the building starts up and takes off. Jason fires the rifle at the ground between the lions before taking off. The lions decided to chase them instead and left Carlson and Henderson. Then they see two Humvees approach them and stopped.

“Whoa.” Dunn exclaimed as he saw the dead lion on the ground. “Did you take that down on your own?”

“I did.” Carlson answered. “What the hell is going on here?”

“Don’t know but the truck with three hunters in it had lead these lions to this town.” Foley said. “But we need to flush them out before they kill anyone.”

“Wait!” A female voice is heard, they turned to see six ponies galloping towards them.

“Where…Where are…the Manticores?” Twilight panted.

“Manticores? Is that what you call lions here?” Foley asked.

“No, Manticores. Beasts that resembles lions only they have scorpion stingers, and wings and ears of a bat. The poison they contain is deadly enough to kill a full grown pony.” She continued. “We need to stop them.”

“They went down Main Street after Jason Ford, Zach Conway and Marvin Jackson took off.” Carlson said to Twilight. “I caught those three coming back after they violated curfew for the whole town.”

“What were they doing?” Rarity asked.

“I’m guessing hunting. And they have attracted unwanted attention.”

“H..Hunting? Like animal hunting?” Fluttershy asked in a shaky but soft voice.

“Fluttershy, there’s no time for that.” Twilight said to snap Fluttershy out. “We need to stop the Manticores.”

“You’ll take down Main Street while we take the other route to cut them off.” Foley added and the took off.

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Rebecca Lee is one of the top reporters for the News Channel Five network, the number one news channel in America. Rebecca Lee and her camera news crew were traveling through Virginia when their van broke down in Frankville. They’ve stayed at the motel ‘til the van is fixed. There were ready to leave the next morning when the green orb displacement happened and changed all that. So now they’re stranded in the motel in Frankville. But tonight they will get mixed up in the incident that’ll expose the citizens of Frankville to the existence of Equestria.

Rebecca Lee sat in the bed reading a book to pass the time. The book she’s reading was 1632 by Eric Flint, she’s not into books very much but since there’s nothing on TV since the signal was disconnected she was forced into reading the book. One of the news crew, Patrick Roth suggested it since it was a good book in the 1632 series but also warns her that the series is very long.

She placed the book on the nightstand next to the bed and turns the light off and prepares to go asleep. She hears what appears to be tires squealing outside which didn’t attract her, but then she hears a popping noise outside.

Gunshots she thought; she turns the light on and headed to the window to see a 1969 Ford F-100 Ranger pickup truck speeding away. What was that about? Then she saw what appear to be lions chasing the truck. She quickly gets dressed, heads on outside and heads to her news team in the rooms next to hers, who also heard the noises outside. One’s half-dressed and the other is fully dressed. Perhaps they were getting ready for bed as well.

“What’s going on here?” Patrick asked.

“Don’t know,” She replied. “But we’re gonna find out. Get in the van and go after those lions.”

They headed towards the van and got in. Patrick starts the van while she and the other crew checks the camera to get an exclusive footage and they took off after the lions.

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“Alright girls, they gotta be this way!” Twilight said to her friends as they galloped through the streets of Frankville. The ponies barely know where they’re going since they’ve never been in a town occupied by humans. They could be lost for who knows what, but since they got Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy with them it’s impossible to get lost.

“Now where in tarnation are they?” Applejack asked as they stopped to catch their breath. “Ah’ve never seen such a place like this.”

“Yeah Twilight,” Rarity added. “The architect of this town is so alien.” She points her white hoof at one of the vehicles in the driveway. “Even the residents here have more of those metal carriages.”

“Yeah, I like to learn more about them.” Twilight said.

Then they hear something screeching. But there was something strange about it as the screeching noise isn’t coming from any animal they know. They looked ahead and they see one of the vehicles making a sharp left turn followed by popping noises of their guns.

“I think that’s one of those vehicles.” Twilight said to the others and then they see three Manticores chasing them.

“There are the Manticores. We need to stop them.” Then more vehicles appeared and made a sharp left turn as well, going after the Manticores.

“Why are they chasing the Manticores? Are they crazy?” Pinkie said as the vehicle drives away.

“I don’t know Pinkie, but let’s go!” Twilight gallops down the street and her friends follow.

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The truck continues to speed down the streets of Frankville with the lions in hot pursuit, making sharp turns around corners and blocks trying to shake them off. Jason and Marvin tries to shoot back at the lions but can’t get a shot with the truck veering left and right and ends up firing stray shots.

“Dammit Zach!” Jason shouted as they bounced around the back of the truck. “Drive straight so we can hit them!”

“I’m not letting those beasts getting near us!” Zach shouted back. He drives through the alley nearby the construction site of the new pub and a pawn shop not knowing that earlier today a construction worker has spilled wood nails on the ground and missed a few of them as he was in a hurry and didn’t bother to check. The truck zooms through the construction site and ran over the eight discarded nails, the nails punctured through the left front and rear tires and the air begins to leak out of the holes at a faster rate. They turned around the corner leading to the neighborhood when they noticed the truck’s moving slower and the driver’s side is tilting. Zach stops the truck and hops out to see what was wrong.

“What happened?” Jason asked as he jumps down from the truck

“Dammit!” Cursed Zach as he looks at the tires. “We got two flat tires. We must’ve hit a couple of nails back at the construction site.”

“Don’t worry. I think we lost the lions.”

“Uhh…I don’t think so.” Marvin said. “We got company.” He points towards the three lions who are coming for them. Their ran towards the trunk from the truck as their rifles were scattered and quickly opens the lid, Jason, Marvin and Zach open fire at the lions. The news truck stopped shortly afterwards. They didn’t follow them through the construction site as the driver was very aware of any stray nails laying around and drove around it but kept in hot pursuit. Rebecca Lee and her camera crew stared in awe of these lions.

“Alright let’s get out and start recording.” Rebecca said to her camera crew.

“B..Bu.But Rebecca..” Patrick stuttered. “…Th.There’s lions out there.”

“Stay behind the van and they won’t see you.” She replied. She and the rest of the camera crew knows that the satellite feed in their van isn’t working so they’ll have to rely on recording the whole thing ‘til they get connections. But they are unaware of the fact that they’re in a parallel world.

“Camera’s on.” Patrick said as he turns on the camera and aims towards the group of lions and Rebecca begins to make her broadcast.

“This is Rebecca Lee of News Channel Five here on a live report from Frankville Virginia. So far the strange phenomena caused nearly all wireless connections to be severed and the town’s been placed on martial law for three days.”

Gunshots are heard but the lions managed to dodge them.

“It appears that a group of lions has somehow made their way into the town.” She continues. “But it’s impossible not because there are no zoos here for miles but they somehow have strange features as if they just came straight out of mythology books.”

Then one of the lions took notice of the camera crew and growls softly.

“Uh oh, one of the lions has spotted us and is making its approach.” Rebecca and her camera crew begin to stop back slowly and the lion is ready to pounce on them. Then suddenly a bright purple light appeared out of nowhere and hits the lion, sending it back.

“Alright girls! Let’s get them!” A female voice is head and a purple pony appeared. The news crew were stunned to see a pony… No, a purple unicorn pony with a dark purple mane and tail with a pink streak in it. It was followed by five more colorful ponies; from a multi-colored mane to the other wearing a cowboy hat. They were stunned from the appearance of six colorful ponies on the scene.

“Patrick, are you getting this?” Rebecca asked.

“Yeah I’m getting this,” Patrick replied. “..But I cannot believe it.” Then the ponies start to attack the three lions.

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Zach, Jason and Marvin ducked and dodged behind parked cars and the truck to avoid the lions while firing at them. They had to be careful since they’re in the neighborhood and a stray bullet could hit a bystander if they stood too close to the windows of their homes. The lions were vigorous than they thought, but then again they never met a lion up close before so it is possible.

They ducked behind their truck as they reload their weapons.

“Man! How long are we gonna keep dodging them?” Marvin panted.

“Don’t…Know…” panted Zach. “But…we can’t stop.”

Just as they rose back up to fire again they saw a purple flash hitting one of the lions as well as hearing a female voice. They saw what appears to be six colorful miniature horses attacking the three lions. Well five of them the yellow one with the pink mane stood by. The three were flabbergasted by the sight of the ‘ponies’ as Jason claims.

“A…Are those…Ponies?” Zach stuttered as he nearly dropped his gun.

“T…They are...” Replied Jason.

“You’re right, they are ponies here.” Marvin said. “That means we’re not in our world.” They continue to watch as the ponies took on the three lions. Then one of them, an orange pony with the blonde mane and tail and wearing a hat gets knocked down by one of them. Her hat was knocked off her head and lay a few feet away from her.

“Shit, that orange pony’s in trouble!” Zach exclaimed as he readies his shotgun and charged towards the lion.

“Zach, wait!” Shouted Jason as he and Marvin went after him.

Usually he would have second thoughts about the situation he’s in and would just walk the other way. But those times they weren’t Life/Death situations and of course there wasn’t any lions with scorpion tails, this is different now. This is a life and death situation and he’s gonna save a life, Human or Pony.

He discharges the shotgun at one of the lions, hitting it in the shoulder. It got the lion’s attention and it glared at him, roaring as it starts to charge him. He fires another shot at it, hitting it right in the face, taking out part of the skull and falls on the ground dead.

Two are left now.

He was about to help the orange pony up when another one tackled him and pinned him into the ground. The scorpion’s stinger rises up and jams right down towards him. The stinger would’ve pierced through Zach’s chest if he didn’t raise his shotgun up to block the stinger attack. The stinger pierced through the body of the shotgun a few inches, the tip is a couple of inches away, almost touching his chest.

Damn, that stinger is strong. He thought to himself. He struggles to keep the tip from touching his chest and digging into the flesh. There’s no telling what kind of poison it contains as he never seen the tail of that size.

Then party confetti is sprayed all over the lion and Zach. Confused, they both looked at the pink pony armed with a small cannon.

“Hi there, Mr. Manticore!” The pink pony said happily while waving her hoof. “Don’t like what you’re doing with my new human friends but you need to stop.”

The Manticore just growled at her as it eyeballed her and starts moving towards her.

“Uh oh, better give Mr. Grumpy Manticore more confetti!” She fires the cannon again, covering the Manticore more confetti. Zach quickly moves away and gets up on his feet. He may have lost his shotgun but they don’t appear to be any danger as the gun’s damage unless if the Manticore slams its tail onto the hard pavement, causing the shells in the gun to discharge at one and the gun’ll explode.

The Manticore charged at the pink pony who suddenly gasps and disappears in a pink blur. The gun remains lodged in the tail’s stinger and the tail flung aimlessly around.

Zach sees this and must find a way to have the shotgun removed. Then he saw the purple unicorn and gets up and shouts, “Hit the shotgun!”

The purple unicorn that was fighting the Manticores was confused by this. But she managed to jump out of the way and fires and bolt right at the shotgun and it exploded, taking part of the tail with it. The Manticore roars in pain as the tail’s stinger is blown off. The purple unicorn as well as the other five ponies flinched from the painful roar.

“That did it!” He shouted. But the Manticore then turned his attention to him and chases him. Zach dodges its attacks with the ponies chasing the Manticore as well. Jason and Marvin ended up face-to-face with the other Manticore. It swings its stinger at them but they managed to duck the tail attack. Jason fires the Remington 870 Wingmaster shotgun from the hip. He knows better than to fire a rifle or shotgun from the hip as he learn this from the gun training program that if you do this, you’ll end up hitting nothing. He missed as the slug hits the truck, puncturing a hole in the door.

The Manticore glanced at the gunshot hole in the door, and then turned back at Jason, growling. Jason gulped, but quickly pumps the handle, ejecting the empty shell out and fires again, this time dead center in the head. The Manticore’s head exploded from the back and drops onto the asphalt road with a resounding splat. He sighs as the Manticore falls dead and blood oozes on the asphalt. Then he and Marvin hear more shots and sees Zach being chased by the last Manticore the Purple Unicorn has injured. Jason aims the shotgun at the last Manticore but hears a ‘click’. The shotguns’ empty. He swore under his breath and he was about to dodge out of the way when the Manticore smacks its paw at him, sending him right into a parked car. The impact left a huge dent on the driver side’s door and injured Jason’s left arm.

Then he looks up to see the Manticore getting ready to pounce on him, its eyes glared at him and its fangs shown. He know that this is it, the Manticore’s gonna kill him and shut his eyes to wait for his doom. Then he hears tires squealing and the BBRRRRRR sounds are heard, followed by the roar and the wet thud on the ground. He opens one eye to see the Manticore lying on the road dead and a few feet next to it was the military Humvee with four to five soldiers in it, one manning the Minigun. All of the Manticores are dead.

“Whew.” Sight the purple unicorn. “I’m glad that’s over.”

“You said it Twilight.” The orange pony replied who wiped sweat off her forehead. “Ah can’t believe we managed to take all of those Manticores down.”

“With some help of course.” The white unicorn added.

“Right.” Replied the orange pony again smiled.

“I can’t believe what just happened Marvin Zach said.

“You said it Zach.” Replied Marvin, they both got up on their feet, Jason tried to get up but his injured arm prevent him from doing so.

You’re hurt!” The yellow pony gasped who saw Jason struggle to get up. He was started by the yellow pony’s concern. One of the US soldiers, who is a medic, approached him and rolled up his left sleeve.

“Seems like the upper arm is injured.” He said. “Nothing too serious but it is swollen and needs to heal.”

“It’s alright,” Jason spoke. “I’ll manage.” He tries to get up but the yellow pony prevented him.

“Not with that injury,” She said. “I brought something that’ll help soothe the swelling.”  She pulled out a jar filled with a light blue paste out of the saddle bag.

“What’s that?” The medic asked as the yellow pony showed it to Jason.

“It’s an ointment from this plant Zecora showed me once in the forest. It should help reduce the swelling. And the pain, hopefully.” She said as she opens the lid and dabs a little of it with her hoof. And gently rubs it against Jason’s left upper arm. After she was done she takes some gauze and like a pro, wraps it up.

“There you go, remember to let it heal and not strain it.” She said with a cute smile.

“Gee, thanks uh…” Jason hesitated for a moment.

“Fluttershy.” Said the corporal.

“Fluttershy….Cute name..” He commented.

“Thanks.” Fluttershy replied with a blush, followed by her grin which made a distinctive ‘squee’ noise. Jason smiled as he hears this.

"Can someone care to explain what's going on here?" Rebecca asked as she and her camera crew leaves the van after the manticores were dead.

"OK" The sergeant sighed and explained what's going on in the past three days.