We come into this world with our paths covered, and most of mankind lives their lives that way, We blindly follow anyone, when promises something your desperate to do, for me it was the military.

I enlisted into Marines, 6 months ago to fight for humanity, but now I’m sent across the galaxy, going to planet, that many never thought existed.

These soldiers I’m with are, not like most of our military, they’re here for a different reason, and its that reason what makes a lot of them hated across society.

“Come on Alcatraz! It’s not so bad!” one of the marines next to me said, his name was Private Brian, he was a Brony, just like the rest of troops here.

“Just having a hard time, taking this all in” I told him,

“Hey, this is what we signed up for!” was Private Brian’s response to me.

“Yeah, you guys put my name down, so I didn’t have much of a choice” yeah, I never wanted to be part of this, but I’m forced into it, so I’ll see the end of it.

“Yeah? Well, soon we got on the ground, you’re gonna fucking love it!” he told me, licking his lips which creeped me out.

“Yeah, keep telling yourself that” I told him, I watched everyone preparing for the operation at hand, soon our commanding officer arrive to give us our orders.

“Alright listen up! You have your orders, you’ll be inserted in LZ Alpha, you better remember everything you’ve been taught! Everyone knows what they have to do? Everyone knows where they’re going?!” our CO motivated our troops.

Everyone around me yelled out “Ooh-rah!”

“Everyone ready?!”

“Ooh-rah!” everyone yelled.

“Get to it! Corporal! Lead them out!” Annoyingly our CO, wanted me to lead these troops to the battlefield.

“Lead the way!” “I can’t wait for this” endless chants from the troops behind me, all I could do was roll my eyes and lead the way.

The Changelings have invaded Equestria, Humanity had to push them out, This was not a simple start of an operation, this was the start of something bigger

(Several Moments Later)

My team enter our drop pod strapping ourselves in for deployment; I just hope I can get through this without too much of an issue.

“Oracle to Delta Squad, we’re deploying you on the south west of the combat zone, link up with Able Squad and local forces, and push onwards to the outer line, known as Cake Line Alpha” I groaned as I heard what was being said, this was not what I enlisted for.

“Okay, soon we win this battle, we get a permit, and first round at Sugercube Corner is on me!” Private Brian told my squad, but I didn’t take notice.

“Looks like Alcatraz, is thinking about other things! Who do you think he’s thinking about? Lyra? Colgate? Oh even better Sunset Shimmer!” he asked, I felt sick to my stomach at what he was asking, he assumed I was one of them, one of the most frowned upon types of their ‘club’, I ignored him and just wanted to follow my orders and go home.

“Alright, ease off on him! We got a job to do! I gotcha back Corporal, tell Oracle we’re go from deployment!” I looked at my second in command, who I nodded in appreciation.

“Oracle to all squads, commencing drop in t-minus 10 seconds” the loudspeaker announced.

“Lets do this” I said to my squad who all nodded.

“Drop commencing drop in 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… Drop! All units commence drop!” Oracle said to all squads.

Soon our pod is dropped and we look out to the battlefield and I groaned when my soldiers started to be wowed by the scenery despite most of it being in flames. However out pod is soon hit by a flying changeling and veered us off-course and forced us to land a few miles from a designated LZ.

(A brief moment later)

“Is everyone alright?” I asked my squad, but I soon regretted asking that.

“I’m good, but where is Private Daniels?” Private Brian responded, but the one who asked if I was thinking about ponies during the drop, was missing, and I could only guess what he was doing and decided he’s off doing something other than fighting.

“Leave him, we got a job to do and he decided to abandon the mission” I spoke coldly, when I enter every difficult situation, a new side comes out, I become cold, professional and dedicated, it was something that stuck with me, since my high school, hell I enlisted right out of high school.

“You heard him, let’s get to it” Private Brian told the remanding member of my squad which was my second in command, Private First Class Richards. I help Richards up and pass him his rifle and we exit our pod and activated our nav systems and headed for the meeting point. Soon I receive contact from Able Squad.

“Able to Alcatraz, what’s your ETA? We’ve linked up with local forces and experiencing complications!” Able’s squad leader told me.

“Our pod went off-course, we’ll be at your position in a few minutes, and were experiencing problems ourselves” I told them.

“Are you fucking serious? I already lost four soldiers, and not to enemy forces. God I knew this operation was a mistake! Wait a minute, what the… oh son of a…!” I heard him then I heard gunfire and lost contact to Able Squad.

“Alcatraz... what happened?!” Private Brian asked.

“Uh… dude, I think some of our guys are falling to their urges, let’s just hope the local forces are still alive” Private Richards hopes and we pushed onwards to the meeting point.

My unit pressed onwards towards Able Squad’s last know position and when we arrived, we were in for a shock; several members of Able Squad and the local forces have been murdered by human weapons, and the next thing the three of us heard sent a creepy shiver down our spines, we could hear young female ponies being raped by our soldiers. I fell to my knees and felt like I was going to throw up.

“Mate… Mate! You alright mate?!” Private Richards asked me, but I couldn’t respond.

“Come on, we better get moving” Private Brian helped me up and we double timed out of there.

My squad then arrives at an Outpost which was taking fire from Changeling forces “Engage at will!” I ordered my troops. We managed to eliminate the enemy forces and I went to the leader of the Outpost.

“You Delta Squad?” he asked me and I nodded. “Thank god you’re here, I can finally stop defending this hellhole! Wait my manners… I’m Lieutenant Flash Sentry, 3rd Royal Guard Army, what happened to your other squad? I was told to wait for two squads of human forces!” the young Pegasus told us, and I sighed and explained what happened.

“Able Squad and several local forces were killed by rouge human soldiers” I regrettably told him.

“What? Why would they do that?!” he asked us.

“To fulfil their desires, I knew something like this would happen” Private Richards told him.

“WHAT?! You come here with the intention of helping us, only to be murdering bastards! How dare you walk on our soil with that intention?” Flash spat to me and my troops.

“Yeah well, I didn’t ask to be here, I was forced to be here, so if you have a problem, find someone to cry to about it, because I rather do my objectives and leave!” I spoke coldly and Flash, his troops and mine looked at me feeling hurt.

“Oh… well our forces are linking up with your forces up north from here, and since you’re the only human forces I’ll be getting, I… better lead the way” Flash told me, he felt depressed after what I told him and want me to get to my squads' next objective.

We followed Flash and his soldiers to the meeting point where our commanding officer was gathering troops for the final push but experiencing complications.

“What’s the status on that launcher?!” we heard our CO demanded from the troops around him.

“We’ve lost contact with Squads; Able, Cakes and Harmony!” one soldiers told him, I walked up to the CO and demanded what the hell is going on.

“Sir, what’s this about launchers?” I asked.

“Corporal, the enemy have captured a Havoc Launcher, and are using it to blow our air support out of the sky! I need a demo and strike team to take that launcher down!” he explained.

“Alright, Delta Squad will provide cover for the demo team, we just need to know where, we’re going!” I yelled as gunfire and explosives go on, tearing apart the area

“I’ve sent the demo team ahead and to wait for the strike team, head North West, the launcher will be just a few hundred metres from you there, good luck!” our CO instructed.

Soon My team along with Flash’s troops headed for the demo team, however kept encountering enemy forces, slowing us down.

“We have to keep moving, the demo team, won’t last much longer!” Flash yelled behind cover, while my troops fired at the enemy.

Soon we are contacted by the demo squad, “Where the hell, are you guys? I’m taking heavy casualties, we need…” the connection abruptly stops, and I assumed the worse, soon Flash, his troops and mine finally cleared a path to the demo team and the Havoc Launcher.

“Havoc Launcher is dead head!” Private Richards tells us as we get to cover, we began observing the area and find the demo team had been killed, “Shit… demo teams’ KIA, but I can still see the charges!” Private Brian explained.

“Alright, we need to be quick! Flash, you and your troops provide a distraction while my team and I get the charges, once we get them find cover and provide cover fire while we make a run for the launcher!” I ordered to Flash, despite Flash being a Lieutenant, but he followed my orders, since he had no idea what he could do.

“On my mark, three, two, one…GO!” I yelled, we all ran out of cover and charged for the demo charges, while Flash and his team distracted the enemy, when we arrived, I grabbed the charges but before we could contact Flash to find cover, Private Richards was next to an explosive barrel and when the enemy fired an energy blast at them, it exploded and obliterated him.

“Shit! Richards Down! Repeat, Richards’ KIA!” Private Brian yelled. We cleared the launcher of enemy forces with help from Flash’s team, but as Private Brian was setting the charge, the hatch he put it in, closed on his arm, we tried to pull the hatch opening, but the launcher began to hover.

“We’re out of time Corporal!! You have to get out of here!” he told me, but I ignored and tried to get the hatch open, then he grabs me and says to me “I’m sorry, I dragged you into this…” and then throws me to the ground, I watch as the launcher lifts off and explodes instantly killing Private Brian. Soon Flash and his Team arrive to extract me from the area, and I contemplated on whether was my teams’ sacrifice was worth anything this day. Only the future could tell.

Author's Note

Most of this chapter and the next chapter are inspired by the first mission of Call of Duty Advanced Warfare

I don't own Call of Duty Advanced Warfare - It is owned by Activison, Sledgehammer Games and High Moon Studies