The thing about dreams is they do not have to make logical sense.

David "awoke" dressed in BDUs and LBE, he had his M-4 rifle slung over his shoulder, his Kukri in its sheath on his left hip, and his SIG 1911 Tactical in it's holster on his left calf. He also noticed that he was not human, he appeared to be covered in some sort of mottled grey and black fur. He turned to look into his mirror, and noticed that he also had wings jetting out of his back, their feathers dappled with grey and dark blue. But most odd, was that he no longer had his battle-worn face, instead he had the face of a pony. "What the fuck?" He said, realizing he was dreaming, but even for his mind, this was weird.

"Hello there." A voice said. David's instincts took over, and in one fluid motion he slid his rifle off of his back, around, peering through the Eotech sight. A female, dressed similarly to himself, stood in his sight picture. She was beautiful, her fur was midnight blue, and she had curves that would make a California girl jealous.

"Who are you?" David kept his finger on the trigger guard, ready to pull it at a moment's notice.

"I am Princess Luna, you may know me from that show your daughter used to watch." Luna smiled, her mind nodding it's approval at the human's actions. "Please, lower your weapon, I mean you no harm." She held out her hands, empty, to show she meant what she said.

David lowered his weapon, sliding it around by the sling until it rested on his back. "So you are Princess Luna of Equestria. How do I know that you are actually here in this dream and it is not my imagination?" He asked, sitting down on the bed.

"Because, would you ever dream of this any other way? I brought myself into your dream because I need someone who can help me dream walk. I hunt nightmares, and I need somepony who can come along, and you were highly recommended by someone who said you would know who they were by this name 'I am' it is a powerful being, far surpassing myself or my sister. So, will you ride with me tonight?" Luna answered, standing before him, looking at him with pleading eyes.

"Why the hell not." David decided, getting up off of the bed. "Where to, Princess?" He asked his travelling companion.

"Please, call me Luna, and we will be travelling into the mind of a young filly." After Luna spoke, the world around the two shifted, becoming a whirling mass of colors and sounds. The pair landed in what appeared to be an overgrown castle. Luna looked toward her new companion, and smiled when she saw that he already had his rifle, (something she had found when wandering around in his memory), out and pointed at the gate. She had armed herself with a longbow, her favorite weapon of all time. Powerful, accurate, deadly, yet quiet, it was the perfect weapon for the Princess of the Night.

David looked at his partner. "Luna, why am I using a gun and you a bow?" He questioned his partner's choice of weapon, but it also confirmed that there was someone else with him in the dream, because if he had been dreaming this, his partner would most definitely have been armed with a firearm. "And what are we looking for?" He asked.

"Nightmares take on many forms. This one in particular has been terrorizing many of the fillies in Equestria. It feeds on their self-consciousness, their insecurity. I once had a nightmare that possessed me. It fed off of my fear until it took over me. I do not want that to happen again." For such a beautiful mare/woman...whatever the hell Luna was, she sure was terrifying.

"So it is in this castle?" Shadowsky said. Looking at the massive structure, his mind working overtime analyzing the corridors and how they would have to clear the building. Two people...Ponies, his mind corrected, verses a castle.

"Yes, there are no good dreams in this castle. if anything moves in there, kill it." Luna said. Her head now covered by a helmet of some sort of ethereal metal. He decided that he needed some night vision goggles. Luna, seemingly reading his mind, said, "This is a dream, you can manipulate it to your benefit."

David nodded, then imagined a pair of ATN PS15-CGT night vision goggles mounted on a helmet. He put them down, and turned them on, everything became green as he nodded to Luna. "Lets do this. Lead on." He shouldered his rifle and the walked towards the heavy oak doors. He did sneak a look at her ass...

They reached the doors, big, solid iron-banded oak. "So, I assume that we cannot manipulate anything we want, correct?" David asked the pretty warrior princess.

"Correct. We can manipulate the things around us, things that are ours, but because this is not ours, we will have to get through this door by more conventional means." Luna saw where David was going, sort of. Then her eyes widened when David pulled out a block of some white material and some sort of black device attached to it.

"You might want to cover your ears Luna. I am about to blow this door down." He placed the object on the center of the door, then ran a cable to some sort of other device. "Get behind me." She complied, and they took cover behind one of the stone statues that flanked the door. David pressed the clacker, causing the four pounds of C-4 plastic explosives to detonate, shattering the wood and mangling the heavy iron reinforcing bands.

"Go." He said, and simultaneously they entered, David's rifle pointing left, and Luna's bow covering right.

Author's Note

This is a waking dream... you will find out why later. What will they find? Whose dream are they in? What nightmare is this? When will David Webb get the name Shadowsky? How will he get it? Sorry for the cliffhanger...