A Tiger in Equestria

Twilight bombarded me with questions, some that I couldn't possibly answer. Like, "Why would the Romans invade Britain?" I didn't really focus on the why part. I just liked the fighting wars part of it.

"No idea." I shrugged.

The brief history lesson lasted about five hours, in which everyone except me and Twilight had fallen into a coma. Rainbow Dash and Applejack were sleeping with their heads on a table, Pinkie Pie was talking in her sleep, saying something about parties, Fluttershy was in the most inconspicuous corner possible, probably trying to hide herself. Rarity was sleeping on her couch that she somehow conjured when I talked about the first war, saying that it was the worst possible thing while fainting onto it. Drama Queen. I let Dietrich and Bernhard sit down after an hour of standing, where they proceeded to find the furthest seat from me possible, occasionally eyeing the fist-shaped hole in the wall. They fell asleep in two different armchairs.

"And that's all I know before I somehow got here."

"From this... Hun... Gary right?"

"It's one word, and yes." She scribbled something on her mile long list that stretched all around the library, I was surprised that she had that much parchment. She finally noticed the time.

"I'm sorry for keeping you here so long!" Everyone in the room promptly woke up, in quite hilarious fashions. Dietrich and Bernhard tried to reach for their rifles, but forgot they put them down so they were jumping up holding their hands like they would hold a gun, but with no gun in it. Rainbow Dash and Applejack woke up and accidentally hit their heads against one another's. Rarity woke up and started screaming about her mane, which was very untidy and some cotton had got into it. Fluttershy woke up and banged her head into a wall, Pinkie jumped up and hit the ceiling. It took a few seconds for everyone to register what they were doing, me laughing very hard their expense, rolling along the floor laughing with tears coming out of my eyes due to sheer joy. Oh god, this was totally worth the five hours of talking!

I eventually stopped myself, wiping away the tears in my eyes. I thanked Twilight for being a nice host, while Dietrich and Bernhard walked as fast as they could without passing ahead of me, and out the door. Once outside, I felt a nice breeze pass by, the moon had come up and the stars were twinkling in the night. Mentally replaying their reactions in my head when they woke up, I started laughing again.

"Oh you two looked so goofy with your two hands in the air, grabbing a gun you didn't have!" This earned me a nice punch in the shoulder. Still worth it. We got back into the tank, Gerhard already asleep next to the engine, and Albrecht apparently fell asleep in my cupola. I woke him and told him to move, while Bernhard and Dietrich got in and almost immediately fell asleep. I locked the hatch and waited for tomorrow to come.

Another day, another bunch of ponies looking at me with fear and distrust as far as the eye can see. I had my flammenwerfer with me again, this time going to explore the creepy forest. It was the only place that seemed like the ponies would stay away as if it were the plague. Understandable when you have golden armor against whatever those wooden things were.

I slowly walked in, making sure that there was not going to be any surprise attacks. When I arrived at the spot where I had been attacked by the wooden wolves last time, I saw the head of a dead wolf. Someone must have either lobbed it like an idiot, or those horses used their legs to kick it. Wonder what kind of horses would venture into here? Apparently, some ponies did come in here, as more and more wood parts of a wolf littered the road. I started to see something else as I walked on, blood. I don't know anything about those wolves, as far as I know, they're hollow but can really give you massive splinters, but they definitely did not have blood in them. What poor pony ventured in here and got hurt? The corpse count had now increased to seven dead wooden wolves, all the while more and more blood had been left on the road.

I stopped when I saw three wolves surrounding something, though they did not seem like they were in an attacking stance. I flamed them with my flammenwerfer. They yelped and ran off into the forest. With them out of the way, I could fully see the carnage that had happened. There were five more dead wooden wolves, and there were two dead ponies. They were the winged variation of the ponies. Pegasuses? No that sounds dumb, Pegasi? They had claw marks all over, splinters all along their hooves, and their wings had holes in them, like the wolves had clawed a hole in them or something. Feathers littered the area, and there were pools of blood where they had died fighting. Respect to you two. Without any weapons, you've managed to take twelve of them down with you. I gave them the military salute, instead of the Hitler salute. I began walking around when I found a second blood trail leading into a bush. I found another peagsus, this one slightly smaller, but by no means a child. This one had less injuries than the ones before, it had a really light gray color, though there were red scratches nearly everywhere, her tail was red and black so it sort of look okay? Her wings seemed to have also been clawed and had large holes in it. Guess wing membranes are really thin. I clipped the nozzle back onto the tank and carefully wrapped my hands under her. You should join your families, I'll fire a gun salute for you three later. She was surprisingly warm for a corpse, and so I listened more carefully, a heartbeat or a small inhale would be nigh near impossible to hear if you're not looking for it. I felt her very softly breathing, and so I immediately took off my jacket and wrapped it around her, using the sleeves to tie them together so my jacket wouldn't fall off, covering the wings in the process. Wait, if she's alive then... Fuck I need to get her to a hospital!

I began running at full tilt, not really caring anymore about the wolves, just trying to get her to a hospital as fast as possible. With the noise I made, some wolves appeared, then, spotting me, they began to chase me. Not right fucking now! Being four legged cheaters, they caught up and tried to claw me. I started dodging by stepping to the sides more, all the while sprinting as fast as I could go. shitshitshitshit not the time you wooden bastards! The three wolves chasing me made much more noise, and thus attracted even more wolves, pretty soon, I was running away from ten wolves in the forest, my legs and lungs screaming while my heart felt like a machine gun. The endurance training in the army was useful after all! The entrance of the forest came into view, and provided some hope for me. I felt like I had been running from these wolves for hours. All the while evading their claws. When I burst through the entrance, the wolves stopped and growled at me. Seems like they can't or won't follow me out, that's helpful. Now, I said I was running, but in reality I was more stumbling at a very fast speed as I went slightly delirious from lack of oxygen. Every single pony was giving me a weird look that I didn't bother to dwell on as I ran through the marketplace. My tank crew were surprised to see me running that fast, half expecting that something will show up behind me. To conserve energy, the only thing my brain could process at the moment was 'Get her to hospital', not even bothering with grammar at this point.

Feeling like I had internal bleeding in my lungs, I got to the hospital doors. I had my hands full by carrying her, so I used my foot to kick open the door. The ponies all were afraid, and attempted to stay as far away from me as possible, while not leaving the hospital entirely. I ran up to the reception desk, cutting in front of the ponies in front of me, who were really too scared to do anything but back off. After carefully laying her down, which got me some weird looks, I have no idea what those mean, can't read horse face yet. A pony with a nurse cap was at the desk, she was sorting through some paperwork. She somehow felt my presence and said, "How may I help you?"

Too winded to reply to that, I picked up the injured pegasus and carefully placed her on the table. She looked up and her pupils dilated when she saw me and a very injured pegasus next to me.

"Oh! What have you done to her?!" She gave me an accusing look and looked like she wanted to fight. Motherfucking hell I wish these ponies would stop assuming that I'm the bad guy here. Me being paranoid, I sort of understand, but this is beyond paranoia.

Finally catching my breath, I said, "Found her. Creepy Forest. Help her. Now." I coughed after I said this, probably my lungs trying to work again.

"Not so fast there, I have some questions for you."

"What?"

"Did you do this to her?" Fucking hell, use your brain woman!

"If I wanted to hurt her, I wouldn't have brought her to hospital now, would I?"

"Maybe you injured her too much and now you're trying to cover for it!" Fuck it.

I grabbed my Luger and pointed it at her face.

"You will find me a fucking doctor in ten seconds before I blow your face off and find one myself!"

She immediately pressed the nearest intercom, saying "Would any doctor that's free please come to the reception area."

Seven really scary seconds for her later, a doctor showed up. He stopped in shock when he looked at me, but when he looked at the injured pegasus, he immediately went into action, hollering orders for nurses. "I need a stretcher here! Get her to intensive care now!"

Seeing that my job was done, I walked out of the hospital, hoping that whoever she was, she would get better.