XCOM: Pony Unknown

The trip through the warp gate felt... weird but comforting at the same time. It felt like the one I was in when I was heading to Equestria all that time ago. It's still fresh in my mind.

I was sitting in my bedroom after a long day of work at J.F.K. International Airport working on Boeing 747s and other types of aircraft. This was three days after Princess Cadence arrived at my front door and asked to see the six, who had been living in the spare bedroom for the past month, and took them back to their world. I would cry from time to time knowing that my great friends were gone and would never come back. I would sometimes pray to God for another chance to meet them.

However, I knew that it wouldn't come to fruition. Or so I thought.
It was a quiet and practicality boring Wednesday evening. No planes came in for repairs or tune ups, which I almost mastered. After my shift was done, I drove down to the closest Burger King, got a Whopper combo with a medium Coke, and went home. I ate the burger and fries on the way home due to a traffic jam on Fifth avenue. I got home an hour after going off shift.

The house wasn't any different from the rest in the neighborhood so it wasn't special.

A buzzing noise pulled me from my daydream. I looked around. Still in the warp. I didn't remember that it took this long to exit the warp. I then heard someone calling my name. "Doctor Whooves?" I said outloud.

The doctor and I have been friends even before I became a pony. He was like a brother to me, letting me stay with him 'till I found Twilight, fed me good food, you name it! What caught my attention about the brown coated pony was his likeness to Doctor Who, my second favorite t.v. show. He seemed to be based off the tenth doctor by his appearance. The doctor even showed me his tardis!

"Maverick!" He yelled, "If you were heading back to Earth, you just missed your exit about ten kilometers back!" He pulled his tardis in front of me and put his hoof out. "Grab on!" I grabbed his hoof and he pulled me in.

Though the outside looks like a normal tardis, the inside is completely different. It's like a laboratory in there! He closed the door and locked it, walking back to me.

"Well, thanks for coming at the time you did! I was in a bit of a daydream and I lost focus on my surroundings." I chuckled slightly.

He started to walk to a big control console in the middle of the room.

"Well that's all fine and dandy but I'm wondering what in Equestria you're doing out in this rift? It's quite dangerous with Celestia knows what flying out here."

I remembered that Celestia didn't want anypony knowing about my mission. I didn't want to lie to him, he would see right through it. I sighed and told him the truth.

"I'm not allowed to tell anypony. Celestia sent me on a mission but that's all I'm saying." I told him sternly.

Doctor Whooves stopped and turned around. He had the expression of a toddler who's about to play with his first toy.

"A secret mission by the princess herself?! That's fantastic! I wonder what your mission is? Assassinate an Earth leader, conquer the planet and take it for ponykind? Oh! maybe-" I stopped him short.

I know he's a scientist and "time lord" but my god he can be annoying.

"Doctor! Please, I'm on a tight schedule here and if I don't get to Earth right now, Equestria could be in big trouble!" I yelled.

I didn't want to yell at him but the only way I can get my point across to his thick skull is if I did so. He snapped out his guessing game and hurriedly went over to the console of controls and turned a few knobs and pulled a few levers.

"Much apologies Maverick. Where on Earth do you want to be dropped off at?" He apologised.

I told him it didn't matter where I was placed as long as it was near a city.

He pushed a few buttons, set a few knobs and pulled a big red lever on the middle of the console. The tardis shook slightly and it shifted to the left.

The first time I was traveling with the doc was when he wanted me to test the latest upgrade for his tardis. That was five months ago. When I was still a human. I felt like I was re-taking my private pilot exam just in a remade telephone box.

"So when do you think we'll arrive on Earth?" I asked the doctor.

He was looking at a repurposed clock that would estimate the time of arrival in a warp. The time read 9:17 PM.

"By my calculations I would estimate that we'll be on Earth..." The tardis stopped suddenly. I fell to the ground by the unexpected stop. "right about now."

The ground hurts. My face hurts. Why must the floor be made of metal?

I got up and stretched my neck to make sure I'm still able to move it. A twinge of pain shot through the left side. Damn, I sprained my neck!

The door opened and a blast of cold wind shot in, making me shiver. I lit up my horn and teleported a jacket from my closet back in Equestria on my body. Normally, I wouldn't mind the cold but I haven't been on Earth in a while so my body isn't adjusted to the temperature. The warmth surrounding my body feels very comforting, almost soothing.
I thanked Doctor Whooves for the ride and walked out. On the way out, I heard him talk to himself.

"Hm, that's strange. Why do I smell peanut butter all of a sudden?" I quickened my pase so he didn't question me. The door closed behind me and the tardis teleported away.

I looked around and saw that I was in an alleyway. I didn't know what city I was in but it seemed like a very populace city due to the size of the buildings and roads. Speaking of roads, the street signs were not in english. Dorfstraße? The only language that has that is German. I believe straße means street if I'm not mistaken.

I was shaken out of my thought by gun shots from my left. I just then released that no-one was outside on the street. It felt unsettling. The shots only got more and more repetitive as explosions were also brought into the mix. I was fighting with self conscious about what to do about the situation. Eventually, fight beat flight as I flew over to the combat zone.

The flight took only but thirty seconds before I was fired upon. I quickly landed behind a parked car on the side of the road and peaked out. POP! another shot zoomed by my head. I had an idea; a risky one at that.

I focused on my magic and casted an sheild spell in front of me. Using the emerald green shield that I casted, I walked out from my cover to be immediately fired upon once again. I did this for two reasons; one, to get out of my easily flankable position, and two, to see who was attacking me.

Humans; of course it was Humans. There's four of them and, by their equipment, I would say they're military.

The bullets were bouncing off my shield like it was a bouncy castle. I wasn't gonna last long out in the open like this. I ran over to the other side of the street and took cover behind a building.

Getting rid of the shield, I took a peak around the corner again. One of them were gone. I tried to move out of cover, but everytime I tried to move I would be shot at to stay where I was. Damn! I'm pinned!

THUMP!

I quickly turned around too see the missing soldier run towards me. He was a big, bulky Caucasian male with black hair. If I had to guess his height at that moment, I would say he's probably over six feet tall.
I was paralyzed with fear as running to me. He flipped the assault rifle in his hands rammed the butt of his stock into my face, knocking me out immediately.