Equestria on the verge of war against longtime enemies and former allies is desperately looking for a way to defend themselves from the soon to be invading armies. Back on earth Private Jake Thompson, his brother Private Mack Thompson, Private First Class Tom Jackson, and Sergeant Jackson Bricks get sidetracked while on patrol in Syria as they are pinned down by gunfire from insurgents, but as one of them tries to throw a flashbang and things go in a direction nobody could have ever imagined.