Author's Note

Hope you guys enjoy hearing the backstory of Torian`s tragic mission during a mission before he joined the Navy.

Now I may add some war history lectures every once in a while, but this is important info about the tactics used to make the operation successful. Hopefully I don`t bore you guys too much, Anyways Some romance will arise with a certain background pony in the next chapter and in the future, a villain will have revenge for what the Mane 6 did, until then enjoy.

What happened in the War

(Torian Scotterian`s POV)

Morning rose in this place called 'Equestria' as I felt the gleaming, warm rays of the sun. I awoke from my slumber and made my way to the bathroom to freshen up. Let me tell you, I havent slept so well and so comfortable in 2 years before I join the Navy, on board the Morrison, because the mattresses on the ships beds were metal and got hard and cold every night. I looked at my mirrors reflection and saw that I had some beard and side burn stubble, indicating that I havent shaved for god knows how long, and my breathe smelled as if I ate a poisoned rat and somehow never got sick, I needed to get my naval uniform fixed up, and the shiny piece of shrapnel was still lodged in the top of my eye.

"Man I`m a wreck, it looked as if I were fighting on the shores of Guadalcanal for almost 3 months without taking care of my hygiene." I thought to myself as I looked around for something to take care of my unhygienic self. Luckily, I found a toothbrush and tooth paste, and comb for my messy hair, and tweezers for shrapnel removal. After brushing my teeth and combing my hair, it was time for the removal of a metal piece of a Japanese plane lodged on my face.

"Alright, here goes." I said to myself as I brought the tweezers on the 3 inch piece of shrapnel and slowly began to pull it out. It was difficult because of the pain of how deep it was and I was doing my absolute best not to cause an ear-piercing scream that could make anyone go deaf in a 3 mile radius. Just on the verge of giving up there was a knock at the door that startled me and I lost my concentration, causing me to yank the piece of airplane metal right out like a dentist removing a tooth.

"Torian, Are you in there? Come down for breakfast." Twilight called. I would have been happy at the term 'Breakfast', But I had a wound and stubble to deal with. "I`ll be down in a moment." I called back as I bandaged the open wound on my head and got a razor to deal with my overgrowing facial hair.

Getting down the stairs and entering the kitchen I saw a large stack of pancakes that looked and smelled so good I was drooling like a waterfall. Twilight saw this a laughed a little. "Well, aren`t you hungry?" She asked.

"Oh you bet, I haven`t seen food this delicious before I left to Naval Training." I spoke as I sat down and savored the flavorful delicacy. This also earned a questionable look from the unicorn and I most likely set myself up for this question. "What is Naval Training?"

"Oh, I`ll tell you about it later when all your friends come by later." I replied. Twilight understood and was about to dig in when the familiar younger voice spoke out. "Twilight, You got a message from the Princess!" I looked to see that it was a baby dragon, I was stunned in amazement. "Um, hi?" he asked unsure why I was staring.

"Excuse my staring, but I can`t believe dragons actually exist, I mean dragons were my squadrons symbol before-" I cut myself off remembering to not talk about the tragedy over Santa Cruz. But the dragon was elated that his species was well recognized back on Earth.

"So whats your name?" I asked the baby dragon.

"I`m Spike, Twilight's #1 assistant." Spike replied. "What about you?"

"Torian James Scotterian, glad to meet you." I extended my hand out to shake his claws.

"Well I have to go, I need to pick up a few things for the Library, I`ll be back." Spike said as he left, then I looked over at Twilight who had finished reading whatever was on the scroll and spoke. "The Princesses have both agreed to come and meet you for the first time."

At this point I began to get nervous, not only because they were rulers, its that they were royals and I`ve never met royalty before, than my train of thought was interrupted by knocking at the door. Twilight got up and opened the door to see her other 5 friends.

"Hey Twilight" They all said in unison.

"Hey, everypony, the Princesses will be here soon so we don`t have a lot of time." Twilight said as all her friends came inside. I had finished the 6 stacks of pancakes on the plate and like I mentioned before, I had never tasted good food before my Naval Training. Just the Rarity comes up to me.

"Darling, I should really do something about that uniform and I could make you a wardrobe of clothing, This could be a new challenge a I could start a new line." I saw the enthusiasm within her and decided to let her go for it. "Go ahead." Was all I said before she activated her magic and in an instant, my uniform was back to its former glory with all my badges still where they should be.

"I`m astonished, Thanks Rarity, it looks just like new!" I exclaimed as I continued looking. Rarity gave a generous smile and said "Anything for a friend, darling." Right then I froze, Jerry used to say that to me whenever I was in trouble and he came to help me. Then I felt as if a flashback took hold of Jerry speaking. "Anything for a friend." Jerry spoke. I was snapped back into reality when I heard my name. "Wh-What is yes?"

"Are you alright, sugarcube, yah froze like a statue for a moment there?" Applejack asked with a little worry. I was about to answer when knocking was heard from the door. "Man its almost like every few minutes before I hear a door knocking when Im trying to think." I thought as Twilight opened the door to reveal Equestrias rulers.

"Princesses." Twilight bowed and so did everypony else as did I. "Please Twilight, no need for bowing." The tall white alicorn spoke. as she saw me and gave a smile. "You must be the creature Twilight wrote to me about." I looked up and tried to look as professional.

"Yes, your majesty, Lieutenant Torian 'Golden' Scotterian at your service." I said formally and earned a smile from the midnight blue alicorn as well. "You must be Celestia." I pointed at the tall white alicorn. "And Luna." I pointed at the smaller blue alicorn. Celestia was a little taller than I was but I was about 4 inches taller than Luna and the ponies were about as tall as my waist.

"You seem to know about us, but we all want to know about you." Luna said as everypony gathered to hear my story and human history. "Tell us, what is it like in your world?" Celestia asked as sat down in a chair.

"Let me warn you that there are many things my species have done and that I`m not proud of." I warned everypony in the room. "My country, The United States of America, were engaged with a war with 2 other countries Germany and Japan and I happen to be a soldier in the war against Japan." I said as ponies gasped to hear about a war.

"How did this war start?" Rainbow asked quite uncomfortably. "This war was started by a dictator named Adolf Hitler, he wanted to prove Germany wasn`t a big of a coward like in World War 1. He invaded countries, sent out submarines to sink allied supply convoys and had the biggest and most powerful army the world has ever witnessed." I began as I saw the terrified look on their faces. I spared a few details like the Holocaust, some battles, and how Mussolini was killed by his own country after he surrendered Italy in the war.

"So was there a turning point?" Luna asked. I smiled remembering a special day that shall never be forgotten.

"Yes. it was called D-Day in 1944, when American, British and Canadian armies stormed 5 beaches from the Germans in France and giving us a strong foothold in Europe." I explained before remembering what happened in the Pacific. "But in 1942, America had beaten Japans Navy by stopping an invasion on Midway and we began our offensive attacks against the Japanese Empire." The ponies were glad to know that the Axis Powers were vulnerable but never knew what they were capable of doing during the desperate times of 1944-1945 like Japanese kamikazes and the German 'Sonderkommando Elbe' Germanys ramming squadron.

But I set myself up for a question for something I wasn`t proud of and learned to keep certain thoughts in my head. "So earlier you mentioned about dragons being a symbol in your Squadron, what was that all about?" Twilight asked.

I sighed and vowed to never speak of this tale, but I felt as if they had to know. "My first year in combat was in October,26,1942, a few months after Guadalcanals airstrip was taken from the Japanese. I was a squadron leader in the air force, where I taught young pilots how to fly and fight and when you became an Ace, meaning you got 5 kills, you get your planes tail painted a gold color and people started giving me my nickname 'Golden'. My squadrons name were the Sky Dragons and I trained them onboard our aircraft carrier Enterprise and flew on our first mission to scout for the enemy carriers. There were only 8 of us, myself included

*Flashback to 1942 as I told the story*

We flew F6F Hellcats almost 15 miles from the carrier when one of my wing men spotted a what appears to be a lone cruiser. "Hey Golden, enemy cruiser 2 o clock low looks like easy pickings." I was firm on my orders and replied.

"Negative, Red 4, our orders are to scout and return to Enterprise." Then my squadron wanted to get this turkey shoot one pass. "Come on Golden." one squad mate said. "Yeah let`s do it." another called back. Finally giving in I replied. "Alright, but keep your distance. We dove in on the cruiser, but it turned out to be the whole enemy fleet. "Sweet Lord, its the whole enemy fleet!" A squad mate said in surprise. But with no time to pull out I had opened fired upon a ship but, every which way I looked, one by one my squadron was shot down until I managed to escape with my engine smoking from the heavy AA.

When I landed on the Enterprise, I looked in hopes that a squad member would return. But I was the only one who survived.

*Flashback ends*

"My whole squadron, under my command." I paused and saw everypony in tears to know my squadron died in almost a second. I then continued but I pulled out a photograph. "After that, I couldnt bring myself to fly again and joined the Navy, I swore to my fallen squad mates that I would avenge them by destroying every Japanese ship or plane that came into the ships cross hairs. And this picture, helped me remember who I was fighting for." I passed the picture around for everypony to see it. The photo contained my squadron before the disaster where I was standing in the second to the left with the other 7 pilots I trained in front of my Hellcat.

After getting my photograph back, I talked more about how the USS Morrison sank, My best friend Jerry, how the Allies won the war in Europe, and as much about human history as I can remember. The ponies taught me about their world of how Celestia and Luna raises the sun and moon, What cutie marks were and, what their currency is. Soon it came the time where the Princesses had to leave back to this city called 'Canterlot' while I needed some time to myself. "Excuse me, but I need to leave too." I said heading for the door.

"Where are you going, if you don`t mind answering?" Fluttershy said timidly. I understood they wanted to help me but I need to think things over myself. "I just need some time to myself." I replied as I left the library and began strolling through town.

While walking along the dirt road, I thought to myself asking "What could have done to not let myself get pulled from the main objective?" I can say that if I hadnt gone for that turkey shoot, I would still be flying with my Sky Dragon squadron. I was so lost in thought I didnt even see where I was going until I knocked into somepony. She was beautiful I must say and her beauty probably made my day.