You ever wake up and get that feeling that you are being watched? Well that's how I fell now waking up. After I pull myself out of my sleeping bag all I see is ponies, ponies everywhere, they where walking around the tank some looking into it, one was looking down the barrel of the 120mm gun. So I get up and every single pony was staring at me, wonder why they are looking around now they should have heard the tank yesterday, oh well. I go around gently waking the guys up and bye that i mean going and kicking all three in the ass.

"What the fuck was that for boss I'm trying to sleep" Rodney looks up at me then at the ponies around the tank. I see a confused look in his eye then everything seems to come back to him like a Simi-truck.

"Aw shit we still in talking pony land ain't we sir?" All I do is nod my head with a small smile I walk over to Cody next, he don't seem that surprised of confused just, pissed? Walking over to him I put a hand on his shoulder.

"Hey Cody what's wrong with you, you look like you about kill someone." He looks up at me and for a second I think he is about to start swinging on me, but then he seems to calm down.

"Sorry sir its just I believe that I could have avoided this whole thing if I would have backed out, but no I had to stay where I was in fear of another T-72 coming out and hitting us in the rear so I just stayed put." He looks up at me I can see tears in his eyes. I sit down next to him with my hand still on his shoulder and look him in the eyes

"Now don't you start that bull shit today for two reasons, the first is because it is not your fault it is mine because I saw the rocket and failed to react to the situation, the second is because it is to early in the dam morning." I pat him on the back and go over to trey and notice he is still in his sleeping bag. So I do what I would do any other day, I grab the end of his bag and yank it into the air while yelling at him to get the fuck up. He gets up rubbing his head and muttering something about a tank round up the ass so I stop him.

"What was that private? You are going to shove what up my ass." I look ay him with my arms crossed and a smick on my face as he turns around with a not so happy look on his face

"No sir, I would never dream of doing something to someone who deserves it" he says with a little malice in his voice but I just smile at him shaking my head.

"Get your lazy ass in the tank and make sure those ponies isn't about to blow the town square up" He just nods his head and walks u to he tank with the ponies parting like the red sea as he climes onto the turret and sticks his head into the commands hatch then hops into the tank. While he is doing that I walk back over to Cody and tap him on the shoulder.

"Hey Cody I need you to check how much fuel we got left, we only have two cans left on the tank." He gets up and walks over to the tank and gets into the drivers hatch. While he is in there one of the ponies from yesterday, Twilight sparkle I think was her name, she walks over to Rodney then he shoos her away so she walks over to me with a bag full of parchment and quills all I can do is prey do God that she isn't going to question me. But something's just have to happen and she walks up to me.

"Um I was wondering if it was ok if I asked you a few questions about your race and this machine that came with you." I was about to say no when she used this puppy dog look on me,and with the sake of my manliness I wish I could say it didn't work well it did. I nod my head and start walking to the tank while she looks at me with her head tilted to the side and it was adorable.

" Why are you going over there?" I just motion with my head for her to fallow me to the rear of the tank with here coming up beside me and looks up at the tank. I start to get on when I realized she cant without some help so I go over to her and pick up in my arms much to her surprise.

"What are you doing? Put me down." I set her on the back of the tank then I get on myself leaning against the back of the turret trey throws out one of the shell casings with it landing right next to my head so I get up and look into the tank.

"You hit me with one of those casing I will throw a sabot round at you, you here me?" He just looks at me with a smirk and a nod. So with that done I go back to where I was and look over at twilight.

"So what do you want to know? I can promise you I'm no professor but ask away." She then proceeds to make her horn start glowing and I shit you not one of the parchments and quills started floating. All I do is stare will my jaw on the tank rising a shaking finger up at her.

"How in the hell are you doing that?" She looks at my finger with a confused expression on her face till she realizes what I'm tanking about then puts on a small smile pointing at her horn.

"Well I'm a unicorn, so I can do magic all I have to do is concentrate and well it happens." she looks at me with a frown.

"Do you not have magic? I mean you had to if you built this right?" I just shake my head thinking to my self what the fuck is all this. Realizing she is talking to me I look up at her muttering.

"Fucking pony land. No we don't have magic in our world and I dint build this it was made in a factory in the United States." She nods her head writing what I said down. When she finished writing that she looks up at me with a smile.

"Ok so my next question-" All I do is shake my head knowing this is going to be awhile.

four hours, four fucking hours of questions you would think they had a sign that you could buy that said shut the fuck up but I dint have any money anyway so that was out the window. I'm sitting here laying my head on the casing trey slung up here and I was almost to the point of taking a nap till she poked me with a quill.

"So what can you tell me about the machine that you where all in." I look around tank thinking of how to put this but I got bored and just decided to put it bluntly as possible.

"This is a M1A1 main battle tank or Abrams tank was built for the United States armed forces. it has one main gun, a smooth bore 120mm gun that can put something the size of a grapefruit into something the size of a van 2 miles away, it also has a m240 bravo as a coaxial machinegun next to the mail gun for soft targets like infantry. And last we have the M2 'MA DUCE' on top of the turret for the commander to use when he is looking out side of the tank. The engine is some kind of jet engine I don't know what kind but it allows this seventy ton monster to go over sixty mild per hour." I finish off with a smile. She is writing all of this down and when she finished she looks over at the main gun then back at me.

"What's the possibility of me and the girls getting to see a demonstration of these 'guns'?" I look a her then back at the turret.

"Well we would but we only have so many rounds and we don't want to waste them on target practice and also we have only two cans of fuel left." I look at her and see she is thinking about something then looks at one of the fuel cans I pointed and picked it up with her magic
and sets it in front of her. She thinks for a moment before her horn starts glowing and the can starts glowing as well and before I know it theirs TWO cans in front of me. I just look in amazement then at her as she is panting she then smiles.

"Duplication spell its a little complicated but there is better unicorns to do this but how many do you need?" I just hold up one more finger and she duplicates one more and almost passes out so I grab her before she falls off the tank.

"That is amazing twilight. HEY Rodney get your lazy ass up here and put this fuel into the tank." he gets up and runs over to where we are with a raised eyebrow.

"Where did you get the other fuel cans at?" I just point at twilight and he just shrugs and starts fueling the tank while I set twilight against the side plating she looks up at me.

"So does that you will show us the guns?" I just nod my head and look at the crew then back at her.

"Is there some kind of old building out side town that is to be demolished?" She nods her head and stands up although shaking and walks over to her library.

"I wonder if the girls are still here" She walks in then come out a few minutes later with applejack fallowing her heading my way.

"Applejack has a old shed she was planning on tearing down but she will let you use your machine do it instead. "She then walks back into the library and walks back out with the rest of the girls in tow and nods to me. I walk over to the tank and nod to the guys and they get into there positions while I walk over to the girls.

"Hop onto the tank and the turret. Applejack get next to me on the tank so you can tell me where to go. Alright?" they all clime onto the tank with applejack and rainbow dash next to me. With everyone and pony where they are supposed to be I get on the mic and have Cody start the tank up. All I hear is the rumble of the engine and the radio. I grab the mic

"Alright we are giving a weapons demonstration we are heading to where applejack tells us to go and to engage the target she gives us, copy." I get a yes sir from all of the guys while we start rolling down the road kicking up dost.

Five minutes later
"That's the shed you can get rid of just don't hit none of the trees alright." Applejack says over the engine all I do is nod and bring my binoculars up to my eyes seeing a small stone shed. I grab the mic and key in.

"Trey small building to the left fire on my mark." I here a yes sir and look at the girls on the tank yelling.

"Get off the damm tank and cover your ears!" They all get off and go to a safe distance while I look at the small building I decided to use the fifty on my tank first. With a load *BANG BANG BANG* the rounds hit around the building the coaxial does the same thing. Now its time to get to the big seeing that the gun was lined up I grab the mic and yell 'fire' with a load BOOM and a fire ball coming out of the end of the barrel and a dust cloud being kicked up I grab the mic one more time

"status?" for a second nothing, then
"target destroyed, sir" trey says with a smile. I look over at the girls to see them all with jaws on the ground then rainbow flies into the air and says something I was not expecting

"THAT WAS AWSOME"

Author's Note

So tell me how I did and I need ideas for the first engagement so please tell me what you would like to see. well good bye for now on ROLLING STEEL