Date: April 11th 2755
Time: 16:38
Location: Canterlot Barracks, Canterlot Equestria
Planet: Equuis

It's been a few weeks since our alliance. Celestia, being true to her word, had notified the guards and all of Canterlot that I was an ally and was to be welcomed. Anyone who would try to harm me, I was to let her know and have her handle it. Luna made sure to keep her distance from me. Part of me felt bad for what I did to her, but her sister said that it was a well deserved punishment for her.

Speaking of the devil, I had finally managed to talk her out of baby talking to me. It was getting rather annoying and undignifying. I didn't take too kindly to her constantly asking to carry me around like a teddy bear. As much as I didn't mind settling between her bouncing tits the one time she did, I couldn't help but feel further embarrassment walking past her staff. One thing for sure, I sure as hell wasn't going to call her 'Auntie' or 'Momma Celestia.' That would be way too much.

After a little while longer, I guess you could say that I had lightened up. There had been no reports of the FoG yet, but that didn't mean that I couldn't try to get along with some of the guards, per Celestia's suggestion, and without my armor. She reassured me that I'd be safe with the guards in which I had replied "Fuck that. Without my armor and weapons, I'd still be a better match for the FoG than your guards." I patrolled solo for a while and at night as to not accidentally cause a stir within the public of alien presence. Although everyone, or 'everypony' I should say, was aware of my residing in Canterlot under the Princesses' watch, there were those who protested against me, as per expected.

One thing I had gathered was that ponykind had a variety of similarities with mankind, and differing point of views, classism, and behavior were a few of them. The first time I had decided to patrol for any signs of the FoG during the day, I had an unpleasant confrontation with a group of locals that wanted me to leave, of course. However, as I was officially an ally of the crown and promised to help them, I had no intentions of leaving at the moment. In return, I told them to perform a vigorous act of self-procreation and continued my patrol. From that day on, I had started patrolling at night by my own initiative. The same mob had went to Sunbutt about this. I was told that Celestia took offense and nearly had them booted out of her throne room.

At first I had done my rounds alone and unbothered. The FoG seemed to be quiet, not even attacking other towns. Taking it as a good sign that they wouldn't be any trouble, until their reinforcements arrive who knows when, I didn't really think much of it. Seeing as how I sent my SOS earlier than the did, I had a feeling that this world would be occupied by the UwE before that can happen. The worst thing I could think happening would be if an idiot open fires on the locals like I did with Twilight. Usually we shoot anything that isn't human, because they usually shoot at us first. Either way, I wouldn't complain about not being shot at for a change.

Soon after, the night guards grew curious, deciding to join me on my rounds. I figured that the night guards were under Moonbutt's orders, so I was a bit wary of them. I wasn't keen on making buddies with them yet, but if I have to give ponies one thing, they are pretty insistant. First it was a guardsmare named Petunia Petals that decided to join and try to get to know me. Then another mare, named Starbright and a stallion named Storm Cloud joined. I suppose that after a while, I had decided to give them a chance as they were asking questions, and I started answering them. Soon, I started asking questions and they answered, and from then on, more guards were interested in the stories I had to tell. They seemed rather amazed.

I started getting along with most of the guards. And by most, I mean all but the captain of the guards who was a replacement for the guy who replaced someone named Shining Armor who was put in charge shortly after Equestria attacked. Yeah, him. The big guy. Captain Edgelock. Seems like a pretty fitting name for the dickweed. He's the type that would intentionally make things difficult for others for his own pleasure. The reason why he was picked as the captain of the guard was because they were at war against a powerful foe, and Luna felt that the guards were being coddled through their training. I try to stay out of his way lest he tempts me to do something regrettable. Last thing I'd like happen would be needing to hide a dead body, and that if I ended up doing something to him that renders him unable to do his job, I'd end up being a substitute. Instead, I take a mental note of how easily I could remove his head from his body or turn him into swiss cheese. Or at least give him the ability to be in multiple places at once. Head over here, leg over in that area somewhere. It's a satisfying thought.

I was visiting the barracks near their training field as they were telling me about why they joined the guards, although most wanted to hear another story about me and my squad. Some joined the ranks because of family tradition, some couldn't find a job anywhere else, and some had friends that had joined. There were various reasons on why they were there.

"I joined for the benefits. Those that leave the guards after service are looked up to and considered heroes. We're supported by a lot of businesses and it would make our lives easier." A stallion said.

"Fair enough, private." I said, shrugging my shoulders. "Let's just hope you'll live long enough to enjoy said benefits."

"Yeah. We've recieved a lot of new recruits since those damned aliens attacked. Either so they can protect their families, or out of revenge for those they lost." Rose Blade said, her ears lowering.

"I know someone who went through that a few years ago. One of my squad's girlfriend went out on a research mission a few years ago on what we thought was an unoccupied planet. Was a good friend of mine too." I sighed. The guards all wore a familiar look I had became familiar with. "We practically threw ourselves to going on that search and rescue mission when we found out about her and her group of scientists gone missing."

Date: August 23rd, 2752
Time: 7:36
Planet: Uncharted Planet Fuolara
Location: Unknown

My squad and I had arrived at our location which was quite away from the science establishment nearby, and where they had gone quiet. We were in a desert in the middle of a light sandstorm that was somehow jamming our communications. Fortunately we didn't need to have much of it as we couold see the establishment from where we landed. It was a bit of a walk for the five of us as we approached the site. One of us however, was in a hurry to get there. The squad leader, Lamont, seemed to be on edge, and we all knew why. It didn't help when we made it there, however. The entire base was empty. There were signs of FoG blaster fire throughout the base. A cracked helmet here, a weapon there. A several dead wormheads littered the ground along with a few dead manti partly buried in the sand, but no human bodies were found. We were searching around for hours until there was nothing else to be searched.

"Damnit! Where did they go?" Jackson asked. "They were attacked, but I don't see any bodies."

"I don't know, but I cannot detect any lifeforms within base parameter." Helga said, using a scanning device.

Charlie placed his hand on Jackson's shoulder. "I'm sorry sir. She's MIA. Best we can do is take whatever notes or logs we can from the area and call for extraction."

This wasn't something Jackson wanted to hear, and he made it known when he punched the side of a building, leaving a dent in the walls. "Damnit! I should've been here!"

"You probably would've gone missing too." Helga said uncautiously.

Charlie and I looked at Helga. "Oi." I started. "The man lost someone. Show some damned empathy."

"We all lost someone." Helga pointed out, still carrying her apathetic tone. Yumi was looking around, collecting notes and downloading data logs. "Now isn't the time for him to start acting like a rambunctious brute."

Before we could say anything, Lamont cut us off. "She's right. I'll have plenty of time to mourn later. We need to collect whatever findings they have, destroy the base, and report back ASAP." Soon enough we had gathered everything we could hold. We had wasted no time in planting explosives around the base before we all met at the establishment's entrance after an hour and a half.

"We should head to the extraction point now. The place is rigged to blow in five minutes." Yumi said. Before we could leave the base, we heard a deep rumbling noises followed by the sound of metal as the area got darker. Everyone looked up as we found ourselves under a crimson armored fortress standing on four mechanical legs, standing very high up over us.

Soon enough we were bathed in red lights as doors had opened under the behemoth. Seeing the many FoG dropships coming out of the doors from high up, we took off running towards our extraction point.

"What the hell is that thing?!" I yelled.

"I don't know but it looks like the FoG have themselves a super weapon! We need an extraction ASAP!" Jackson replied.

"Our communications are jammed! They must have a jammer somewhere.." Charlie thought out loud.

Yumi cloaked herself. I assumed she was going to search for the jammer and destroy it. She had less than three minutes to do so. It wouldn't take long before they noticed the dropship picking us up, which would've made getting us all out alive even more difficult. Thinking quickly, I turned around and started heading back to base to back up Yumi.

"Sparks! What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Jackson called out.

"Backing up Yumi. Go on ahead. We'll catch up!" I didn't even look back. There was no way I was going to risk losing someone behind.

Thankfully, Yumi had allowed me to do some tampering with her armor's cloaking device. We could see an outline of her through our visor. She was searching the area outside of the settlement as the FoG started closing in. Manti and wormheads started swarming the base in search of us. Soon enough Yumi might find herself surrounded. Raising my rifle, I launched three of my scatter grenades, taking out dozens of wormheads and weakening the shields of the manti. I drew their fire as I ran towards Yumi. She was running this way, running past the dead bodies and the firing manti. She drew her side-arm and took out a few of them.

Running up a large dune hill while avoiding fire we saw the dropship afar ahead come in for extraction. At this rate, we were going to be left. There was only one way we could have a chance at getting out of this. It was a recent armor modification I had added recently but hadn't had the chance to test it before being volunteered for this mission. I grabbed Yumi without hesitation as I was instantly propelled upwards, narrowoly avoiding a blast from one of the fortress's cannons, but going higher than I had anticipated. I then propelled us forward, instantly jolting us pretty far ahead as I was carrying a screaming and kicking Yumi.

We soon landed a bit past the extraction point (not on our feet) and luckily Charlie saw us both flying past them. After recieving a slap from Yumi, the two of us were picked up by our VTOL dropship where the rest of our squad awaited as the hatches opened.

"Another one of your 'modifications' I assume?" Charlie asked.

I nodded.

Yumi didn't look very happy with me. Apparently when I grabbed her, I was holding on to her tits. "...Hentai."

"Hey. I saved our asses at least." I said. No response. Yumi had went to the cockpit as we took off in the air. However, we weren't leaving just yet. We were flying towards the giant walking fortress as Yumi had added an attatchment to her sniper rifle as she walked out of the cockpit, aimed out of the vehicle and towards the fortres and fired. We couold see the turrets and guns turning up and aiming towards us. Our speed increased as they opened fire on us attempting to shoot us out of the sky. Beams and bolts were fired in our direction, only recieving hits from the smaller ones luckily.

"Okay what's going on, Yumi?" Jackson asked.

Yumi was sitting in one of the seats, mumbling under her breath before slapping her hand twice on the cockpit door. The pilot flew us up and into the atmosphere as the hatches closed and sealed itself.

"Gathering information about their new superweapon, are we?" Charlie asked. Yumi nodded in response. "Good work, but next time give us a heads up."

"Would be nice to know when we're increasing the risk of being shot down." Helga remarked.

"Can it Helga. We need every information we can get on that thing down there. God knows how many they have built and where they are." Jackson said. "The sooner we find its weak points, the sooner we can start taking those sons of bitches down even further..."

Most of us were a bit concerned with Jackson's cold behavior, but he and his girl were pretty close. We refrained from talking about it until a later time when he went over her logs. As far as we knew, the scientists were MIA, probably gone for good.

Date: Current Day
Time: 17:36
Location: Canterlot Barracks
Planet: Equuis

"Yeah. Most of us fight to protect our homes, whereas others fight in honor of those lost." I said, finishing my story.

There were looks of sadness and concern before questions were asked.

"Wow.. this war you're fighting have taken a lot away from your kind, hasn't it?" You have no clue.

"Do you think they could build or bring one of those fortresses here?"

Shaking my head, I chuckled. "I doubt it. It looks like it'd require a lot of local resources and a structure capable of building it. They somehow had a massive base on that planet hidden under a cloaking device that we couldn't pick up yet. We can now pick up cloaking devices on a planet, but not what it's hiding. We're workin on it."

"Are all battles this heart wrenching?" Rose Thorn asked.

"Not mostly. It's expected. Everyone understands that there's no promise of returning home from a battle in one piece, let alone alive" I shrugged. "That rule applies even to me." Seeing all of the gloomy looks, I made note to try to cut out the emotional parts of the story and just stick to the action in the future.

"Well, seeing as how you told us more about yourself and your adventures, why don't you ask us a question?" Rose Thorn asked.

I shrugged again and leaned back. "Alright." The question was something that I've had on my mind for a while. I didn't know how to ask about it, but as noticed before, the guardsmare's armor was extremely revealing and didn't cover much. Their golden chestplates were practically an armored bra, and only had a loin cloth underneith, whereas the stallions armor had the typical roman armor design. This was as good as an opportunity to ask a question I wanted to ask for so long.

"Why are the stallions dressed as soldiers whereas the mares are dressed like they belong in a strip club or a brothel?" I asked.

This had gotten a mixed reaction. Most of the stallions had burst out laughing. The guardsmares either blushed, laughed, or gave pouty, unamused, or sultry looks.

"For your information," started a triggered guardsmare, "we are protected. The fabrics are enchanted with an arcane armor spell." Her armor started glowing along with the other guardsmares as transparent armor had appeared over their exposed parts, making them look like warriors instead of strippers. "Genetically, mares are physically weaker than stallions, so their armor slows our mobility."

"That explains a lot." I admitted. "But ya still look like strippers without the magic."

"Well maybe we should give you a show sometime?" A guardsmare joked. I couldn't help but to chuckle a bit.

"Nah. As tempting as it is, I probably won't be too relaxed until my reinforcements arrive to secure the planet." I replied.

As I had bonded with the night and day guards, unfortunately all good things must come to an end as Captain Stick-Up-His-Arse had made an entry.

"Hey! What are you sacks of waste doing slackin off! I should see nopony just standing around at this time of day!" Captain Edgelock yelled, walking up to the group. His eyes narrowed when he noticed I was the center of it. "You! I grow tired of you getting in the way of their training!" He said, poking my chest with his finger.

I took a deep breath, closing my eyes before exhaling. "You know, a good part of training would be knowing how to bond with your comrades. You'll be surprised with how well a squad does when they know each other well. And while I'm at it, exercise and patrolling alone won't help them out in the field."

He snorted as his glare grew sharper. "The princesses made me captain of the guards for a reason. Are you suggesting you can train these maggots better than me?"

I lookeed at the others. "I have a few suggestions that'd better prepare them. They're practically agile meatshields at this point. Least I can do is spread my wisdom." I said, chuckling. This had him fuming.

"You think you can do better?" He growled. He then stopped as a grin slowly formed on his face. "How about we make arrangements for a little challenge. A duel you might say."

I knew there was going to be a catch."What are your terms?"

"Without armor or weapons, we will engage in a hand to hand duel. When I win, you will follow my orders as if you were under my command. I'll be sure to give you hell." He said, wearing a discomforting grin.

"At least until my reinforcements arrive. However, if by chance I should so happen to win, I'll get a chance to help ready these ponies properly." I didn't think that was enough. "Also, you'll be stripped of your rank as I don't think you're even qualified to be captain of a cheerleader squad."

He let out a chuckle himself. "You have guts for a scrawny alien, I'll give you that."

"This is nothing." I replied. "Tomorrow at noon."

"Don't chicken out, alien." He replied.

Later on that day, I was in my room sitting at my desk. I have taken the liberty of writing a journal logging the happenings of what's been going on since I crash landed here on Equuis. Of course I've had to do a bit of back tracking since this journal was sent by mail to me from Twilight sometime during my stay here. Part of me believed that I should be preparing myself for my challenger tomorrow. Odds are, he was probably doing so.

I heard a knock on the door. I wasn't really expecting any visitors, but ever since I've made a few... aquaintances, I have been getting a few visits every now and then, sometimes to hear about more stories about the war. I requested that I have some space and time to myself. The relationship between me and these ponies have improved in due time, but again, they weren't human. Humanity has been at war with aliens for my entire life. I never imagined that I'd be getting nearly as chummy with anything inhuman or not from Earth. Baby steps. However, it's still a good idea to keep my guard up. Although they are human-like in nature, that just means there may be those who may intend to do harm even when ordered not to. This is why I've requested for visits to be kept to a minimum. The princesses understood, and had trouble arrived in my room, Celestia's door would be right there across from mine.

I appreciate the gesture, but we both know that's not why that's the case.

Standing up, I went to answer the door, though the first thing I saw was Petunia's armored cleavage. "Hello Petunia. What brings you here?"

She looked rather nervous. "I heard you're going to but heads against the Captain of the Guard."

"That's right." I answered.

"Everypony's talking about it, and I hear even the princesses will be there to watch."

"Good." I replied. "Then maybe they may come to the same conclusion as I do afterwards."

She stepped into my room. "I think you should back out. Only one pony has ever won against him even in a sparring match."

"No can do." I replied. "Though I appreciate your concern."

"He's the Captain of the Guard for a reason."

Sighing, I looked at the mare. "Look, if you came here to talk me out of it, you're wasting your time. I've already accepted the challenge and I'm gonna give him what he wants. No, more like what he needs."

She let out a sigh as well. "Just... be careful." Petunia turned to leave.

"Again, thanks for your concern. It's appreciated." I reassured. She looked back and mumbled something about stallions. before leaving. I had no plans on taking this challenge lightly.

Date: April 12th 2755
Time: 11:55
Location: Canterlot Arena

I never liked being the center of attention by a large audience, which was why I wanted the challenge to be the very next day. Word gets out really fast... I was standing in an arena which resembled the one in Rome back on Earth. I had then realized that there were a lot more people living in Canterlot than I had originally thought.

"All of these ponies will have come to watch you scream and beg for my mercy as I break you." Mocked Edgelock, who was standing at the other end of the arena wearing only a pair of brown pants. "You have guts to face me without your advanced armor."

"I don't need it. Not here anyway. This isn't a fight to the death." I replied.

He chuckled. "You're right. I'm not going to kill you, but I will make it hurt."

A horn sounded as we both approached each other in the middle. I extended my hand, and he took it. Hearing the audience respond told me that I had just made a mistake as he pulled me close to him with great force and planted a fist in my stomach. He then threw me back into a pillar and charged towards me. I put both of my arms infront of me and braced for impact.

Boy did I feel it. It had managed to break the pillar, but at least I was still on my feet, disoriented when he backed away to look at his work. Shaking it off and spitting out some blood, I took the time to refocus as he laughed.

I guess handshakes aren't a thing here.

I assessed the situation. He was strong, no question. He also had grip, if he got a hold of me again, pain would follow after. Still, this is going to be fun.

"Ready to surrender, alien?" He asked, further mocking me.

I chuckled. "You give me too little credit, Captain Jerkoff."

He growled and charged at me, swinging. I had managed to dodge his attacks. Sloppy. He raised his fist and swung downards. I had rolled away in front of another pillar before he hit the ground. Reckless. He charged again, and again, I rolled out of the way at the last second before he rammed head first into another pillar, having it fall on top of him. He growled out as he wrapped his arms around the pillar, crushing it in half before pushing the rest of it off of him.

"Stay still alien and fight like a stallion!" He yelled before charging at me again. He launched a fist at me. I ducked the punch, but he tried to charge me right afterwards with his shoulder. I had narrowly managed to dodge the attack with another roll before giving the side of his right knee a booted kick, causing him to lose his balance. I had sent him tumbling. At least he can adapt, but he didn't consider my anticipation. The crowd roared in excitement as I approached him, getting on his knees.

"Ready to give up?" I asked as I approached.

"Not even close!" He grabbed a hand full of sand and threw it at my face. Swearing out loud at his underhanded trick, I was too distracted to see him charging at me again. He swung a fist and it connected, sending me stumbling to the ground. I had a good idea what was coming next and immediately started rolling. It was a good call as I felt the ground shake a little from an impact on where I was.

Finally able to open my eyes again, I got up around the same time he did. The expression on my face seemed to have pleased him. I made note that I was going to make his defeat memorable. He charged at me, his fist raised. I chargeed at him as well. He swung, but I had dodged it with a sidestep and jumped onto his back, wrapping an arm around his neck. I raised my fist and brought it down hard on the back of his neck, right where his nerves were. All it took was one hit as he had fell forward. He didn't move, but he was very well breathing.

"I've handled multiple enemies bigger than me at once many times, and I do it for a living." I told him, not caring if he heard or not. "How many bloaters have you killed?"

I exited the arena shortly after they had Edgelock moved to the infirmary, found the nearest bench and rested my aching back.

Author's Note

To make up for the long wait, I had added in a little fight scene in the end. Hope ya liked it. This story won't die either.