Author's Note

The re-write of the second chapter is finally here.

......Is Another One's Treasure

July 3rd,2020

I've been in basic for about a month now. God, the drills never get any easier. Tensions have flared up between the United States and the new United Soviet Socialist Republics of Asia. What remains of the old Russian Government resides in Belarus. The takeover wasn't pretty and many Eastern European countries including New Russia are gearing up for a massive war.

The Truman Doctrine has been reactivated due to massive communist revolutions all throughout Asia. India, Tibet, Taiwan, South Korea, Australia and Vietnam are the only free countries remaining.

But their safety is being tested as we speak. A second Vietnam war has sprung up, South Korea is all but gone, even with UN support. Lately reports have been coming in about communist revolutionaries in India gaining support. What with much of India's food and workers being drafted into the war effort in Vietnam.

We aren't safe at home either, Arizona, Colorado, And Nevada have seceded from the union declaring themselves the United Socialist States of America. The USSA is making gains in New Mexico and Utah, but they've been stopped in California, Wyoming, and Oregon. An unsurprising devepment in the Second Civil war was Almost every Texan taking up arms.

There have been nuclear detonations.

My Hometown was obliterated when a USSA nuke had a malfunction and overshot it's target of Chicago. Phoenix was reduced to ash by a retaliatory strike launched from California.

A surprising development was aid from Cuba to the United States.

I have to report to my morning pt soon, so I'm going to end this log.

Edward Schratwieser
Marine Recruit

What I didn't know was that there was a communist movement was growing in South Carolina.

Gunfire sent me into cover, a Marine who was next to me asked me if I knew how to shoot. I did and she handed me her service pistol with six spare magazines. Getting up from cover, I took aim and hit two of the commie bastards before I was forced back into cover by return fire.

This pissed me off as I realized that communists had infiltrated our own ranks. With a new resolve to fight this rebellion, I took aim, but was shocked to see my family members, my friends, everyone I knew shooting at me. As round after round tore through me, I just stood there. The biggest sense of betrayal washing over me. I was brought to my knees. My father coming up to me.

"You should have fought harder son." He said, before putting me down with a bullet to the brain.

I woke up with a gasp, sitting straight up. The light blinded me temporarily. My head swimming with my sudden move, black outlining my vision as blood flowed to my brain. As I scanned the area around me, a persistant beeping caught my attention. I looked to my right and saw a heart monitor.

"Why am I in a hospital, did my experiment fail?" I asked myself

A gasp and metallic clatter pulled my attention to the door, where I saw a cartoony white pony with a pink mane, and a 1950s era nurses cap. As it rushed away, I caught a glimpse of a mark on its flank.

"I must be hallucinating, cause that just looked like Nurse Redheart." I say to myself.

The sound of someone else entering pulled my attention to the door once more.

"We were wondering when you might awake," Luna said, "We had Princess Twilight Sparkle teleport you here immediately upon your arrival."

"I have to be hallucinating," I said, "I must have hit the console pretty hard. Because right now it looks like Princess Luna herself is standing in front of me doc, if you're even there. Who knows, I could be just talking to myself in a padded hospital room."

"You know our- I mean my name?" Luna asks.

"Ok then, I'm not tripping out, I'm dreaming," I say, pinching myself in the arm, "Why haven't I woken up yet, I felt pain, you don't feel pain I'm dreams!"

Tears start to pour down my face as I come to the realization that I am possibly the only human on this world, but also that humanity can be saved.

"Why are you crying? Luna asked.

"I might have just saved my species," I reply, "But I might be the only one of my kind here. Wait what are you doing? I ask, feeling a weird sensation course through my body.

"I was scanning for a thaumic signature," Luna replied, "And I'm afraid Inhave some very bad news for you."

"Tell me, there's no use for delaying what I may find out independently." I say.

"You are the only one of your species on this planet, and the only one left" Luna says.

My vision goes red with absolute rage, my face red with anger, my teeth bared. "Is this some kind of joke?" I ask. "THERE IS NO POSSIBLE WAY THAT HUMANITY IS GONE, NO WAY THAT I AM THE SOLE SURVIVOR OF WORLD WAR THREE! HUMANITY IS NOT GONE, I WAS JUST ON EARTH! PONYS WERE NOT THE DOMINANT FUCKING SPECIES!"

My hostile outburst causes rage to take hold of Luna.

"DOES THOU THINK WE BROUGHT THOU HERE? WE DID NOT BRING THOU HERE, WE DID NOT ASK FOR THOU TO DECEND FROM THE HEAVENS IN HELLFIRE! THIS EARTH THOU SPEAK OF IS NOW EQUIS. HUMANITY IS GONE, THEY HATH BEEN GON FOR TWENTY-THREE MILLION YEARS! THOU ARE IN THE LAND OF THE PONIES NOW AND THOU WILL SHOW THE SHEPARD OF THE NIGHT RESPECT. WE RAISE THE MOON FROM HER HEAVENLY REST AND RETURN HER ONCE OUR SISTER MUST RAISE THE SUN!

"YOU RAISE THE SUN AND MOON!? OH THAT'S JUST FUCKING PRECIOUS, THE MOON ORBITS THE DAMN EARTH AND THE EARTH ORBITS THE FUCKING SUN. THAT'S BEEN KNOWN FOR SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS!" I shout back.

The shouting match goes on for several hours. Once it ceases, I apologize for my rash behavior and a suicidal depression takes over.

"I need you to take me to the nearest cliff." I say.

Thinking I just want to process the information and plan my future from that point on, Luna signs me out of the hospital and takes me to Dragon's Plunge.

Once I am there, I sprint from the edge and leap. Before I can hit the ground, Luna catches me and field me to secluded meadow in the nearby forest.

"Why did you try to kill yourself?" She asks.

"Why do you think, I want to die." I reply.

"Killing yourself won't bring you species back," Luna replies, "but remove it from this planet for good."

After some thought, I realize that she's right, ending my life would only end the legacy of man, and I can't let that happen.

"Do you know of a place I could stay?" I ask Luna.

"I know somepony who would love to have you." She replies, and we walk back to Ponyville.