Rolling Steel

by Xerain

Chapter 2

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With a hiss I wake up inside the tank with a pounding head I open my eyes to see nothing but blurry blobs but start to clear up. Looking around I am able to see the commanders hatch wide open with a little bit of blood on it looking inside the tank I can see the rest of the crew starting to wake up talking to themselves I can see the gun breech is open with no rounds in it so I look over to Rodney.

"why is the gun not loaded?" he just looks up at me with a raised bloody eyebrow shaking his head.

" I have been out cold so how do you expect me to load the gun if I'm not awake sergeant?" he hen proceeds to load the gun whit a high explosive anti-tank round or HEAT as it is called. I grab the out side of the tank pulling myself up while talking

"Well if you would stop being a smartass and not go to sleep on missions we would not have this problem would we?" I look down at him whit a smirk. On one training exercise we where to take out as many targets to win well Rodney had fallen asleep and failed to load the gun and the whole time our gunner that transferred thought that the gun was broke. So long story short we never let him live it down.

When I popped out of the turret I saw something I was not expecting, green, green everywhere continue to look around then reach in to the tank and pull out a small operations map and looking at it I saw no green just desert I felt the color drain from my face then I here Cody speak up

"Guys I don't think we are in Iraq anymore there's to much green last time I checked we where on the outskirts of a desert town getting hit from all sides." He then proceeds to pop open his hatch and hops out of the tank. after a few seconds I pull myself up and jump down from the tank whit trey and Rodney fallowing me looking around wide eyed

"I thought we where in Iraq not a colorful forest. well at least the tank is ok and I only fired one round so we should have 19 sabot rounds and 20 HEAT rounds left." Trey said walking over to the side of the tank that got hit by the RPG with Cody fallowing within seconds I here a gasp.

"Sargent you may want to look at this." Cody said, so I walk over expecting to see a big ass hole in the side but when I look it looks like the tank just came from the factory no nicks from the bullets no holes from RPGs just what the hell did I smoke last night looking around the forest I decide its time to fined out where we are. I look over at Cody

"Get in the tank guys we need to find out where the fuck we are. and how he hell we got here." they all nod and got back into the tank in there positions then I here the engine roar to life I see a dirt road to the left and so did Cody because that's where the tank started to roll to. I had half my body out the tank looking for anything familiar but after five minutes of straight forest I give up I must have smoked something and what ever it is I'm going to sell that shit. but joking aside I have no idea where we are but after ANOUTHER five minutes I tell Cody to stop at a sign up ahead but when we do I lose it.

"What kind of name is pony Ville! I mean really who in the hell names a place like that but you know what,fuck it just fuck it, lets go and see what the fuck is going on." And with my little rant no one speaks and just continues doing what they where before while I'm just trying to find out what the hell kind of name is pony Ville. While we roll I notice that the woods have thinned out then all I can see is rolling hills and it is calming and looking ahead I see a small village with a small sign saying WELCOM TO PONYVILLE. I drop down into the tank and grab the mic.

"Cody slow the tank but don't stop. Trey do not fire unless I give the order we don't know where we are so we don't want to start a war got it? and don't run over any of the locals."

I hear multiple yes sirs and close the hatch above me while the tank slows down and I see the buildings start to pass, what confuses me is that every thing looks well taken care of but there is no one around we must have scared them whit the tank or something. We reach what looks like the town center and what I see makes me want to go to sleep and cry. There are six pony's standing in front of me with some kind of jewelry on looking at us and one is wherein some kind of crown? maybe, I don't know but one is a light pink with a darker pink mane and is bouncing and smiling like there is not a seventy ton war machine in front of it. The next one has a white coat and indigo mane and looks like it does not want to be out side in the dirt and has a horn on her head. Wait what? my brain had to take a quick stop MOVING ON. The one next to it was orange and had a blond mane and was wherein a cowboy hat and was like the first one no horn. The one after that was cyan blue with a rainbow mane and wings. Wings? Yes it has wings. the next one was the one with the crown thing had a purple coat and deep purple mane with pink highlights. The last one had a pink mane,wings,and a butter coat and look like it wanted to hide behind its mane but could not. with this I tell Cody to stop the tank so I could open the hatch and see what the hell I'm tripping on. Popping the hatch open I pull my body out where my upper half was out when I did that I hear a collective gasp from the ponies while reaching for my radio.

"Cody stop the tank, now." When the engine turned off the ponies where just staring at me with jaws on the ground. I raise a hand and wave and the pink one waved back smiling even more I watch as the purple one looks at it and talks to it? well this is going well then they start coming over to the tank and I see trey tense up with his finger on the trigger I take a foot and kick him shaking my head he nods his head and loosens up but does not take his hand off the trigger, le sigh, I look up and see the ponies in front of the tank looking up at me then the rainbow haired one does something that makes me almost faint

"WHAT ARE YOU AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN PONYVILLE." she yells trying to fly up to me only to be stopped by her friend (I could tell it was a her by her voice) with the orange coat and blond mane.

"Now rainbow dash we can go hitting every thing now can we." the blond one says with a southern drawl and ill say it goes with her to she then looks up at me.

"sorry about our friend here she is just a little protective of us." she then looks over to her other friends then shrugs her shoulders "My name is applejack and this here is rainbow dash" she says pointing a hoof at the mare being named who just looks up at me.

"So do you talk or are you just going to sit there and stare." Rainbow dash said looking up at me waiting so I guess its time I introduce my self I look at the rest of my crew are just ready to loss it. Well here goes nothing

"I am sergeant first class Wesley D. Lowry of the United States Army 1st armored division. Now that you know my name can you tell me and my crew where the fuck we are?" In about two seconds the purple one yells at me.

"You can talk! I cant believe this princess Celestia will need to know about thi-" she cuts herself off "Wait you said us? right"

I nod my head at look down at my crew they all nod and we start getting out of the tank until all four of us are lined up in front of the tank. the girls look at us with worried expressions but then purple one takes charge.

"So I guess introductions are in order. I am twilight sparkle the local librarian and the personal student of princess Celestia." After her i nod to the next one with the indigo mane and white coat.

"My name is Rarity darling it is a pleasure to meat you and your friends." she says with a nervous laugh. I then look over to the pink one that is bouncing around the tank. She then stops in front of me and takes a deep breath of air.

"HIMYNAMESPINKYPIEWHATSYOURSOHWAITYOUALLREADYTOLDUS.INEEDTOGOPLANYOUPARTYANDYOURFRIENDSTO.ANDONEMOREQESTIONDOYOULIKECAKE?" she said at incredible speed I only got the last part about cake but I had to laugh at her antics.

"Yes pinky we do like cake and me and my friends would be glad to come to one of your parties, but could that wait for now you just meet us?" I said hoping that she would agree she puts a hoof up to her chin in thought then agrees with a nod of her head. I then go over to the last pony in the group. the shy looking one hiding behind her mane.

" so what is your name miss?" I ask in a soft whisper hoping she would come out of her little shell. Luckily she did and she then looked up at me whit a small smile.

"I'm fluttershy its nice to meet you mister Wesley." she says in a small voice I just smile kindly to her with a shake of my head.

"don't call me mister I never married just call me Wesley or Wes ok?" she gives a small smile and nods her head i then look over at my crew and decided to have some fun.

"Gentlemen give these pretty ladies you names and rank." they then proceeded to give there names then going back to where they where in front of the tank. Good now that is said and done we need to find somewhere to park the tank is getting close to dark. Looking over at twilight I walk up to her.

"Hey, Twilight is there any where we can park the tank so that we ain't out here in the morning." she thinks for a minute before telling me to fallow here to a big treehouse with a sigh that said Golding oaks library. She looks around and then turns to me.

"This should be a big enough spot for you 'tank' just don't run over any pony ok?" she says with a small smile I nod my head and walk over to Cody and tell him where to park the tank he then gets into the tank turns it on and scares the hell out of fluttershy I walk over to her and pat her back.

"Don't worry the tank cant do any harm unless we want it to and I don't want it to so there's nothing to fear. I promise." she looks up at me with a small smile and walks over to her friends. I look over and see Cody has parked the tank and is laying on top of the turret I walk over to the rest of my crew.

"Alright boys time to get the sleeping bags out of the tank so we don't freeze and check our rations as well" and with that we start getting stuff out of the tank and getting ready for lights out. The girls all decide to stay at twilights and walk in not to long after. We start getting into bed as well while eating MREs I look over at my crew and ask one thing that's been on my mind.

"What the fuck have we gotten our asses into?"


Author's Note

Well here you go chapter 2 I hope you like it and please tell me where
I messed up GOODNITE

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