Sua Sponte

As the man’s past resurfaced, he felt hot tears streak down his face. Backhanding them away, he moved on.

However, before he was more than 25 meters away he heard the screams of a certain yellow filly.

Applejack
800 Meters from Jensen’s Position

“APPLEJACK! YOU GOTTA HELP US!” a set of young voices shouted.

“What’s the problem? Where’s Applebloom?”

“That’s the problem, we were with her when a pack of timber wolves attacked us,” Sweetie Bell said with tears in her eyes.

“We managed to get away, but Applebloom is cornered in a nearby tree, she can't hold on forever,” Scootaloo said.

“APPLEBLOOM! WHERE IN THE ORCHARD?”

“In the south end we’ll show you!” the two fillies took off with Applejack in hot pursuit.

General POV

Jensen heard the scream and immediately readied his SCAR. He continued towards the noise. From the sound of it, it sounded like a small child was in trouble. When they got there they saw a small yellow filly hanging on to a broken limb surrounded by about ten timber wolves.

“Applebloom! Hold on we’re coming, you girls go get Big Macintosh. Hurry!” he heard a voice order. The wolves then heard the voices and noticed the Ranger.

Five of them began to circle the human.

Jensen was focused on the wolves while a blonde mare was looking at her sister who was barely hanging on to the branch. Just as she was about to yell, Jensen engaged the wolves, leaving Applejack to focus on Applebloom.

“Hey!” he yelled as he aimed down his holographic scope and fired a round from his rifle. The 5.56mm round hitting one of the wolves and
blasting it apart.

Applejack stared in awe and fear as the strange alien fought off the beasts before he made their way to the filly. The branch was breaking and Applebloom looked down to see the wolves with hunger in their eyes. Applebloom began to feel the branch to give, it soon cracked in half sending the filly down towards the wolves.

“APPLEBLOOM!” the orange mare shouted.

Jensen then charged into the pack, his assault rifle was slung up as he drew his M9. Firing at the pack, he tackled another one and emptying his mag into the remaining wolves who backed off before carrying the filly and backing out.

AJ caught up her sister’s savior and charged off towards the house. Jensen then handed the filly off to the mare before reloading his weapons and escorting the two to the house.

Applejack and Jensen came into the house with the filly in her arms, she laid her down on her bed and began to examine her cuts.

“Can you understand me?” Jensen asked. Not caring about whether or not that the two were aliens, but more focused on his patient.

“Y-yes,” hesitated Applejack

“How is she?” Jensen said as he brought out his medkit.

“Not good. She's bleeding and awfully pale,” she said as Jensen came her side he began to examine the filly.

“She's bleeding out. But I think I can help her,” he said as he opened his medkit, the orange mare the stepped in front of him with an angry look in her eye.

“NO WAY! I’M NOT LETTING AN ALIEN ANYWHERE NEAR MY LITTLE SISTER!”

“Listen ma’am, that little girl needs medical attention! She won’t make it to the hospital, so unless you want your sisters’ blood on your hands, I suggest that you GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY!” he said as he glared at the now shocked mare.

AJ let him pass.

“Smart move, I’m going to need help holding her down,” AJ did as he was asked and restrained her sister, Big Macintosh soon entered the room along with the fillies.

“What happened?” he asked as he burst into the room.

“Fuckin’ wooden wolf-things. They attacked the girl,” Jensen said as he withdrew a small morphine syringe and injected the filly with the substance before sedating her with half a Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) tablet.

“What’s that?”

“Morphine and Benadryl. It’s a type of painkiller and something to help her sleep, now I can get to work, you all have to leave the room now.”

“No way, no how!” AJ said as she released her grip on her sister.

“Look, I know you want to be there for her, but I need time to work in privacy. Plus this is not going to be pretty,” the group of ponies started
to leave when AJ stopped next to him.

“Please, please save her,” she said with tears running down her face.

Jensen gave her a nod and began to get to work.

The Apple family was waiting in the living room, the rest of Applejack’s friends soon arrived after Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo had spread the word. The group waited for hours. Rarity was comforting Fluttershy, Pinkie as softly weeping in the corner, Rainbow was comforting Applejack and Twilight was pacing around the room.

4 Hours Later

The human then came down the stairs to see the group. His helmet was off and blood was splattered on his uniform and face. The group crowded around the young man.

“She’s going to be fine, I stopped the bleeding, but she still lost a lot. I had to give her several stitches for the deep cuts, medical super glue for the minor ones and gave her some antibiotics. She’s be under the drug I gave her, and I want to keep her asleep to let her body recover on its own. Finally, I've hooked her up to an IV and blood pouches. Usually, I would need to replace the IV every few days, but she should be fine,” Jensen said as he wiped his forehead with his sleeve, smearing more blood over his forehead. AJ then brought him into a hug.

“Th-thank y-you!” she said as she began to sob, Jensen then broke the hug with a blank look on his face.

“No worries ma’am, I’m just doing my job. A Ranger will never leave a man behind and I’ll be damned if I let a child die,” he collected the rest of
his gear and began to walk out the door until he was stopped by a red hand.

“Yer all welcome to stay for dinner, it’s the least ah can do for helping mah little sister,” the red stallion said with a smile. Jensen looked over to the group who shook their heads in approval, except for the cyan one.

“I’m fine-”

“Of course you can stay for supper. It’d be my pleasure,” the orange mare said with a warm smile.

10 Minutes Later

Sweetie Belle left with Scootaloo after making sure their friend was alright and thanking the human. Jensen was allowed to use the shower. When he returned, he only wore his ACU pants, boots and undershirt, revealing his strong arms and a tattoo on his forearm that read Sua Sponte to the mares. Around his neck were his dogtags and a worn silver sun pendant. Rarity, Applejack, Dash, and Pinkie all stared as he took his seat.

As the ponies sat around the table, the mares mostly gossiped while the men ate their dinner in silence.

“Ahem,” the red stallion said as he nudged his sisters’ shoulder and motioned his head towards Jensen.

“I’m sorry, I never caught y’er name. I’m Applejack,” the mare said with a sheepish grin.

“My name is Jensen Mastiff ma’am.”

Jensen shook her hand and sat back down. He noticed he was catching some nasty looks from the blue girl who was sporting track shorts and a sleeveless hoodie, while the yellow winged Pegasus seemed to be afraid of him. The pink one kept giggling to herself for some reason, and he kept feeling the white unicorns gaze on him.

“What?” he asked as he looked at the unicorn.

“I was just wondering where you got your attire,” She said as she ran her eyes over him.

“The US Army.”

“The Us Army? I never heard of that store.”

“The US stands for United States, the country I’m from. I’m a soldier in my nation’s Army.”

“Well, you certainly have an...interesting taste.” She said as she eyed his tan undershirt and UCP patterned pants.

“I didn’t pick it. It’s standard issued,” Jensen said as he rolled his eyes.

This peaked Rainbow’s interest.

“So you’re a soldier huh?” she asked as she leaned forwards.

“A Ranger more specifically. And a medic on top of that… why?”

“You don’t look all that tough… I bet I can take you on in anything!” she declared in a cocky tone.

“Ma’am, you’re talking to a member of the 75th Ranger Regiment. We are the top light infantry unit in my country. Are you absolutely sure you want to try me?” he asked in an irritated tone.

“Hell yea-” Rainbow was cut off by Twilight’s hand connecting with the back for her head.

“Rainbow Dash are you crazy?! You saw what he did to those wolves!” She halved screamed.

The winged mare rubbed the back of her head while frowning at her friend. “Chill out Twi, I totally got this--”

“He isn’t just your average fighter,” The unicorn gestured to the man, “you aren’t built to fight somepony with his build.”

Dash huffed, “The reason he won was because of those loud things-”

“Firearms, those were firearms,” Jensen helped.

“Whatever. He won because of those. He can’t fight hand to hand,” Dash said.

“Hey now, he just saved lil’ Bloom. Let the man rest,” Big Mac cut in.

“Yeah Dashie, Don’t be mean,” Pinkie added

“I haven’t eaten in the past forty-eight hours. Please, I just want to eat,” sighed Jensen.

“Fine…” Dash mumbled.

“Thank you,” sighed Jensen.

“But don’t think that this is over,” said Dash.

After Dinner

After they finished, the ponies continued with their questions.

“Well, first off, what are you?” Twilight asked

“I’m a human,” The ponies jaws dropped at this statement.

“Y-you’re a human?” Twilight asked.

“Yeah. Why?”

“Well, it looks like we owe Lyra twenty bits.” Rainbow whispered to Applejack.

“How old are you?” Rarity asked.

“Nineteen. I turn twenty in June.”

“I see. How did you get here?”

“Don’t know. One minute I’m about to smack into the ground at Mach Jesus, the next I land in an apple orchid,” He said as he pointed to the window.

“Oh darling! That’s horrible!” Rarity commented dramatically.

“You’re telling me. Now it’s my turn for some questions, who and what are all of you?”

“My name is Twilight Sparkle.” The lavender mare said.

“Rainbow Dash.”

“Applejack.”

“F-Fluttershy.” she said in a timid tone.

“Rarity, darling.”

“Hi I’m Pinkie Pie!” the pink one said in a happy tone.

"Big Macintosh, but you can call me Mac."

"And were ponies. More specifically, Rarity and I are unicorns, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are pegisi, and AJ, Mac and Pinkie are earth ponies," Twilight concluded.

“Nice to meet you all and thanks for feeding me,” He said with a nod. The ponies returned the gesture.

“Don’t worry about it sugarcube. You save our little sister,” Applejack said with a smile as Big Mac nodded.

“It’s no problem ma’am. All part of the job.”

“So... Jensen, where did you learn to provide medical aid like that?”

“I’m a combat medic, it’s kinda my job. I wanted to help people for as long as I can remember, and I had a natural talent in the medical field. So I figured that I could use my gift to serve my country.”

Rarity was next to ask a question.

“Now darling when you said you are a soldier, do you mean-”

“Yes, I’ve taken lives. And yes, it’ll stay with me for as long as I live. But this is the path I’ve chosen, and I’m happy here,” he said as she fell silent.

“W-why would you kill other…h-hoo-man?” the yellow mare asked.

“Humans ma’am, humans. But to answer your question, they belonged to a terrorist group known as the Al-Qaeda. A multinational terrorist
organization that was responsible for the 9/11 attacks on my home country. Killing about three thousand people.”

The girls were shock. That his own species would commit such acts of violence.

“W-why would they ever do such a thing?” Twilight asked in disgust.

“They claim to be doing it because my country’s support of another country named Israel, the presence of my country’s troops in Saudi Arabia, and sanctions against Iraq.”

The table sat in silence. Reflecting on what the man said.

“Why don’t we just… go home? It’s getting late,” said Twilight.

“Yeah, let’s,” said Jensen as he retrieved his gear.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa! Where are you going?” Big Mac asked as the man was about to leave.

“Um, to sleep? I can stay out in the orchid sir. It doesn’t bother me.”

“Wha- You can’t stay out there! You’ll freeze to death!” Applejack cut in.

“I’ll be fine. I’ll build a shel-,” He was cut off as AJ shushed him.

“No you won’t. You saved our sister. You can stay in the guest room,” she said.

“I don’t want to be a burden ma’am. I can work to stay,” Jensen said.

“It’s no problem at all sugarcube. ‘Side, Lil Bloom would want to meet her hero,” AJ said with a wink.

“…Alright, I’ll stay” answered the man hesitantly.

Big Mac nodded and patted his shoulder before heading to bed. AJ hung around for a few minutes before passing by the man. Standing on her tippy hooves and giving a peck on his cheek.

“Thanks again sug’,” she said as her tail inadvertently brushed up against his crotch.

“A blush formed on the man’s cheeks as he stood in shock. A few seconds later, he shook it off and moved to follow Applejack to the guest room.

Applejack led him to an upstairs room. Inside was a bed, a desk, a few chairs, and a closet for anything he needed.

"This is where you'll be stayin'. Nothin' fancy, but it's cozy she said with a light blush as Jensen walked in.

Turning to her, he thanked her before shutting the door. After setting his rifle on the desk and field stripping it, he reached down in his pocket and took out two pictures: one of his team and one of a special person that he held near and dear to his heart.

Smiling, he placed it by the reassembled rifle, and set his backpack in the closet before stripping down to his compression shorts and tags. The man then jumped into bed and dozed off.

Wondering how this turn of events would change his life.