Hawk Eye 5 - Down

There was blood on my hands. I awoke to the feeling of a sharp pain in my leg. I slowly opened my eyes, and I could see a piece of metal jammed into my leg. It hurt, but I retained myself from screaming. I wasn't sure where I was or if there was anything else crawling around nearby. I started to get up, but the pain intensified. I needed to pull it out. I grabbed a piece of metal, put it in my mouth. Then I gripped the metal with both hands, and pulled as hard as I could. "AH FUCK!"

I screamed at the top of my lungs, the pain was so intolerable. I was screaming, and I teared up a little bit. It had barely wedged out at all. If I didn't get this damn thing out, I'd be a sitting duck for any passer-bys. I could feel the blood running down the side of my right leg. This was definitely the worst experience I've ever had, say for when I was in Russia 11 years ago, and my vodka supply was empty. Oh that was bad.

It finally came out, and I threw it to the ground. I took the metal out of my mouth, and need some sort of bandage and antibiotics, less this get infected, and that just makes more problems. I managed to rip some of my pant leg around the wound, and rapped it around. But, alas, no antibiotics. I sighed, and got up, which was difficult. I grimaced at the pain in my leg. I slowly limped over to my sidearm, a HK45, and picked it up. It wasn't much for fighting an armed opponent, but It would have to do. Now would be good time to get drunk.

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"Um . . hi . ." The thing talked and all the 3 could do was stare. It was a tall creature, standing on its hind legs. It had hands, but with out scales or anything of that matter. And it just talked. Judging by its form, they figured its face was on the top of it's body. It was smiling nervously. They all stood there, the silence being deafening. Suddenly, it turned 90 degrees and ran as fast as it probably could.

"What the hay was that?" Applejack inquired.

"Well what are we doing waiting around? We have to find him! That is how you play hide and seek, right?" Pinkie Pie started jumping after it.

"Pinkie Pie, where are ya going?" Her pink friend was already too far away. "Let's just follow it. Come on!" The two mares were off, chasing after the visitor and their pink friend. Rainbow Dash flew ahead of the two earth ponies, and was gaining speed on the creature.

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Oh fuck. They're following me. I don't know what they are, but they're pretty fucking creepy. I was sprinting as hard as I ever had. I didn't want to be near these talking ponies. I was running when I a bullet whizzed past my face, barely missing me. It distracted me, and I tripped and ate dirt. It tasted fucking bad, but at least whatever was shooting at me, missed, and couldn't see me. I looked around, and didn't see any of those pony things. I had my side arm ready and blind fired over the bush.

*BANG*

*BANG*

*BANG*

My adrenaline was pumping. I must have hit something because I heard, 'YOU FUCK!' I peeked over the bush, and saw a damn commie bastard standing there, next to a tree, gripping his arm while blood dripped down his arm. He was holding an AK-47. He saw me and lifted his gun up, but never had the chance to fire.

*BANG*

Right in the fucking head. He dropped, staying limp. I could see the blood pouring out of his face, leaving red on the green grass. I was sweating, but glad that it was over. I had survived, more to luck than anything. I decided I'd take whatever weapons he had, considering the small amount of ammo I had for my M16, and only one clip for my pistol.

As I walked over I looked around, but saw a blue blur. Suddenly I was hit in the stomach by it and dropped down almost instantly. "OH FUCK! Jesus, oh my god, that fucking hurt." I was gripping my stomach, and rolled around slowly. I threw up, which felt even worse. "oh. . . my . . . god." I was on my stomach and I looked up, and there was that blue pony, at my mercy. It's expression was fear, mixed with a little anger, probably from before.

"Don't. Move." It disturbed me a bit when it talked, but I didn't care, I was just glad it wasn't kicking the shit out of my face.

"Well, what was that for?" I said with anger.

"It was to make you stop running, chicken." I just glared at her.(judging by it's voice)

"Well looks like ya stopped 'im." An orange pony, with a cowboy hat and southern accent, walked up. How the hell does a pony get a southern accent?

"Tag your it!" The hyper active and probably mentally institutional pony poked me on the nose as she said that.

"Leave the thing be, Pinkie. He ain't lookin' too good." "Yeah, no shit." I said, rolling onto my back. "So, what the hay are you and what's that thing over there?" I assume she pointed to the dead body.

"I shot the son of a bitch in the face, that's what." I slowly got to my knees and just sat down. My stomach hurt, but I was lucky to be alive. That thing had to be going 500 MPH!

"You didn' answer mah first question. Who, or what, are you?" I decided I couldn't run from this.

"I'm Michael Sanders, Private First Class of the United States Marine Corps. I'm what you call, a human." They looked at me confused, and I knew they had a million questions.

"So, what's a 'United States Marine Corps'?"

This would be difficult. "First, let me do something, and we can go back to where my temporary camp is." I got up and walked over to the body, found his weapons, which wasn't in the greatest condition, but it would have to do, took some of the clips. I also took his dog tags, because I had a heart, and wanted to know who it was that I shot. "Czar Vasiliev." I took it, and put it into my pouch.

"Is it, dead?" The blue pony asked.

"Yes, but I can explain why I had to kill him. He is from another country, a faction. I am from the US, and he is from Russia. We're at war."

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We walked back to my cave, which I luckily remembered the way. "So . . . How did you kill 'im?" I thought how I would explain this, because I'm guessing they don't know what a gun is.

"With this." I pulled out my side arm and held it out in front of them. "It's a gun. And a gun, is a weapon, obviously, that fires tiny little pieces of ballistics at fast speeds, using gun powder." They all looked pretty horrified, but oh well.

"So, are you . . . nice?" I, again, pondered. Am I? I am, but, I just killed a man, and they have no idea why or if he was good or a lot of things actually.

"Yes. I may have killed him, but he was supplying weapons to an opposing nation. That said nation has done a lot of evil things to our nation." They understood, but it was still a haze to them. I hadn't checked my watch in awhile. 1900 hours. 7 PM, and it was getting dark. "Well, it's getting dark, and we're almost there, but won't someone look be looking for you?" They all nodded.

"Yup! Our friends also saw that big thing fall out of the sky, and so we all went in to the forest to see what happened!" It was so weird that the pink one could be so hyper active.

"Hey, what's your names by the way?"

"I'm Pinkie Pie, I make the best cupcakes (*shudder*) and throw the best parties!" Pinkie Pie seemed best fit for that, considering she was crazy.

"And Ah'm Applejack. I work on mah farm with mah brother and lil' sister." Okay, there's your country girl.

"I'm Rainbow Dash! The fastest flyer in all of Equestria."

What. "Equestria?" They all looked at me like I was crazy.

"Yeah . . . Equestria. Ruled by Princess Celestia and Princess Luna." I was SO confused. I've never heard of Equestria, but I'm not surprised.

"What? When my plane went down I was above Russia. So how did I get here?" With that, we got back to my cave. "Here we ar-" I was smacked in the back of the head, and felt the grip of unconsciousness fall into place.

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I slowly opened my eyes. I was inside the cave, and the fire was still burning. I saw the three ponies around the fire, asleep, with someone else in the room. "Ohh. . ." The figure looked up, and I saw it was Cole. "Oh shit, hey your awake!" I rubbed my head. Damn! Whatever hit me hurt A LOT.

"What happened?" He rubbed his head, and smiled sheepishly.

"I um, hit you in the back of the head." I was pretty mad at him, but glad to see another friendly face.

"WHY?!?! THAT HURT!"

"Well, um . . . I heard talking and footsteps, so I hid and jumped out and hit you, but I thought you were a Russian, because I heard some other voices." Well, isn't that nice.

"So, you talk to them yet?" He laughed and looked at me like I was crazy.

"What those horses? Horses don't talk" Either I was crazy, and what I experienced was a hallucination or I'm just messed up in the head from the crash.

"They're not horses, they're ponies. And they DO talk." I didn't want to wake them up, because they were probably tired from today's stressful events. I was way too tired, and felt like I had a concussion. "Well it's late, let's just go to sleep." And with that, he nodded. I basically passed out from exhaustion.

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I woke up and stepped outside to get some air. 900 hours. Good, I thought 9 was always a good time to wake up. Not too early, not too late. I went back inside, grabbed my knife and scrapped some more bark, and threw it on the fire. I noticed Rainbow Dash wake up. "Finally up, huh?" She just nodded. "Well, you must live somewhere. Not to be too intruding, though." She just groggily nodded again.

"Yeah, I live somewhere, but I don't think you could come." I just rolled my eyes.

"Sure." She stared at me.

"Can you walk on clouds?" Now I was just dumbfounded.

"What? No. Why would I . . ." She shook her head.

"I'm a Pegasus pony, I can fly and walk on clouds." Interesting. She can fly, but her two friends can't. That probably sucks a lot.

"Well, um, okay. I'm still worried. I ran into a Russian, and we're not in Russia, and I haven't found the others yet." I really was worried. They might be dead, or kidnapped by the Russians.

"Others?" She stared at me blankly.

"Yes, there were 5 of us. I don't know what happened to the others yet." The other 3 woke up.

"Are you talking to the 'ponies' yet?"

"I reckon he is." Cole jumped back startled that Applejack actually talked.

"Jesus. I guess you weren't lying."

"No, Really?" I guess it did sound crazy, but why hadn't they said anything to him yesterday? Oh well. After the 3 introduced themselves to Cole, I decided we needed a plan. "Well we can't just live in this cave for how ever long we're stuck here." I stood up, stretching a bit.

"Well, ya maybe could stay at mah farm fer a while, till ya get properly settled in." I decided that was better than rocks and moss.

"But we need ta find Twi', Rarity, n' Fluttershy first." I decided if I could stay anywhere else but here, I'd help out.

"Sure, what do they look like?"

Pinkie Pie answered first. "Well, Twilight is purple and has a horn, and Rarity is white with a purple mane that's really, really pretty. And Fluttershy is a yellow Pegasus with pink hair, and she's really shy." Wait, horns?

"What do you mean horns?"

Rainbow Dash answered, "Yeah, they're unicorns, and they can do really cool magic stuff. It's awesome!" Magic? Talking ponies? This was ridiculous.

"Well um, okay, we'll help you look, but be careful. I ran into the enemy, Cole. They're might be more, and who knows how many . . ."

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"Что, черт возьми, что?(What the hell is that?)" The other shook his head.

"Я не знаю, но, мы не на родине больше.(I don't know but, we're not in the motherland anymore."

Okay, so this one isn't longer, or too filled with action. BUT you have to build to something like that. I also kinda just want to get these first two chapters out right away. The next one might be done by thursday or later. MAYBE. It might be done sooner, so keep tabs. Goal: Thursday or sooner.