Battlefield: Equestria (Part 2) The New Threats

Her words hit Recker like a body blow from Mike Tyson. He was going to be a father in six months. He impregnated Pinkie. He impregnated a pony. "I-I-I..." He was tongue tied. What could he say? He wasn't ready to be a father. To start a family. The only reason he said yes was to get the question over with.

"Reckie?" Pinkie looked worried. He couldn't stop thinking. But he like the thought of being able to hold and love both part of him and Pinkie. Raising a little filly or stallion with her. A smile made its way on his face.

"I'm so happy right now I don't even know how to explain it." Pinkie lit up and hugged him.

"Oh Reckie!" They proceeded to have the best day ever. Him and the six ponies told stories and laughed and had a good time. They left to go home once it got dark. All except Pinkie of course. They got in bed, kissed a little, Then she fell asleep in his arms.

The next six months where near impossible. Pinkie kept having her mood swings. She ate almost everything. She was vomiting almost once a day. Recker had to tell Tombstone about him and Pinkie. They didn't care that he and Pinkie were together, as long as it didn't interfere with the war, meaning his leading ability and stuff like that. The day came that Pinkie gave birth to a filly. Artemis is what they agreed on. Her black mane, blue coat, green eyes were beautiful. She was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. With one good thing came another. The Anthro Pod was built and it worked. Soon, Stallions were lining up to join. Even some of Celestias' Guards joined. Hell, Shining Armor himself joined. Recker checked up on the newbie every now and then. Shining was strong, fast, and a good shot. He was soon offered to join Tombstone because they had been down a member. Recker gladly accepted Shining into Tombstone. He was given the call sign of Tombstone 4. Things were looking up. Artemis grew fast. Years went by like days. Eventually the time had almost come. He was going back out for who knows how long in a week. The news was hard to break to his daughter.

"Arty," Recker got down on a knee to be more to her level. "Daddy has to go in a week."

"Where are you going daddy?" Arty said. He didn't know what to say.

"Away, for a long time. A couple years at the least." The look his daughter gave him almost made his break down into tears.

"D-daddy...I...I don't want you to go! I want you here!" Tears started forming in her eyes. He almost started to as well.

"I know, I know. But I have to for work."

"Why can't you work here!" She started to cry. He held her.

"Shhhhhh. It-it's okay Arty. It's okay."

"I d-don't w-want you to-to go daddy! I d-don't want you to!" He started to tear up.

"And I don't want to, but I-"

"Then d-don't!" She started to sob harder. "I love you daddy! Please don't go!" Tears started streaming down his face.

"I love you too Arty, but I have to. I-I'm s-sorry." He held her tighter. "We are going to have the best week ever okay? We are going to have fun this last week. Just you, me, and mommy. Okay?"

"O-*sniff* okay." He wiped the tears away from her eyes.

"I promise. We will have the best week ever." He could hear Pinkie in the other room crying. "Honey...come here, please." She walked in the room. Artemis had only seen her cry once, and she hated it. Pinkie was the most happy pony ever. When she cried, something really bad and or sad was going to, or did happen.

"Y-yes R-Reckie?"

"I already told Arty. We are going to have a good, fun week before I go. Just the three of us."

"O-okay...that s-sounds good." Recker looked over at the clock.

"Arty, it's well past time for school."

"C-can you take me there daddy?"

"Yes. Yes I can." He got his combat boots on to match his ghostex clothing. He had to wear it for Artys' school. It was her turn to bring in her parent to tell the class what they did. Arty wanted Recker to present to the class. He walked her out the door and towards the school. He got the the school and stopped outside the door. "No more crying Arty, okay?"

"Yes daddy." He opened the door.

"Okay class n-" Cheerilee looked over to them. "Oh Arty you are late."

"Sorry..." She slowly made her way to her seat and sat down. Recker keeled down to get to her level.

"We had to tell her that I'm leaving in a week. We didn't tell her why, I just said it was for work, but I'm fighting the battles over by Los Pegasus." He whispered to her so Arty and the rest of the class couldn't hear.

"Oh...Okay." She looked to the class. "Okay class, This is Recker, Artys' dad. She has brought him in so he can tell you what he does." He was attacked with questions. He didn't answer any questions about shooting and killing. Not that any of them asked him, but he didn't tell them. Instead, he told them that he protected them from any dangers that threatened them. After 30 minuets, the bell rang for them to go out for lunch. Cheerilee told them to say goodbye to Recker. As they left out the door, each of them said goodbye. Artemis was the last to leave. She gave him a hug and he kissed her on the top of her head.

"I will see you after school. Okay?"

"Okay daddy." She left out the door.

"I can't believe they are making you go." Cheerilee said.

"They need me," Recker said. "I have to go, as much as it hurts me, I have to."

"Well I wish you the best of luck out there Reck."

"Thanks." He left the school. He made his way home. Pinkie was working at SCC so he would be alone. He opened the door to his house, and saw Tombstone sitting on the couch and chairs.

       "Reck," Pac said. "This is bad. This is really fucking bad."

"What is it?" Reck said. Shining stood up.

"The Changelings attacked, today."

"What?"

"Garrison said we need to leave, now." Pac said. Recker felt like he got stabbed again.

"No. No! NO! I'm staying right FUCKING HERE! FUCK GARRISON! I'M STAYING WITH MY FAMILY FOR ONE MORE WEEK! I PROMISED ARTEMIS THAT WE WOULD SPEND THIS WEEK TOGETHER, AND I PLAN ON KEEPING THAT PROMISE!"

"We all did Recker!" Shining stood up. "We all did. We all promised our families that we would spend this last week together, and we had to break it. I know it's hard, but-"

"I COULD FUCKING CARE LESS!"

"Recker! Come on man!" Irish said. "We need to go. None of our family knows we are going. We wrote notes and left. It's hard, I know. But we all did it. Write a note and lets go." Tears filled Reckers eyes. He had to leave his family, with out saying goodbye.

"F-fine." He left Tombstone and wrote his letter and left it on the kitchen table. "L-lets go Tombstone." They walked out the door, made way to camp, and got in the HMMWV, and made off to Los Pegasus.