Heroes travels

Pinkie stared into Ashley’s eyes, wondering what she was staring at. Ashley shifted uncomfortably as he tried to avoid her stare

“What's this? Someponies new pet? Does it like play-“Pinkie was interrupted with hoof going into her mouth.

“Will ya’ll just simmer down? Let them introduce themselves first” Applejack said in a stern voice, pulling away her hoof from the pink mare’s mouth after she nodded.

“Alright...” Callum began “My name’s Callum or you can choose to refer me as Cal.”

“And my name’s Ashley, you can refer to me as either Ash or Toast.” Ashley held out his hand to the pink mare

Pinkie stared at Ashley “What are you? You remind me of a monkey.” she asked as she slowly put her hoof into his hand.

“We’re humans. I would like it if you didn’t call us monkeys even though our DNA is around 95% similar to a chimpanzee.” Ashley said as he shook the mares hoof before letting go.

“So you’re new here?” a smile appeared on Pinkie’s face

“Yep” Callum replied

Pinkie’s eyes narrowed as her smile grew wider (beyond the point to which both humans thought was physically impossible) which was starting to creep out the humans.

“What the heck is she smiling about?” Ashley turned to ask the other ponies

“Wait for it.” Rainbow replied

Ashley turned back to find Pinkie gone. “Where’d she go?”

“Well, since you’re new here, she’s most likely planning you two a party.” Twilight said

“The last thing I would really want right now is a party. Especially since the whole town thinks were monsters that hurt ponies.” Ashley snapped back

“Like it or not, you’re having a party. The best thing to do is to go to it and enjoy it...” Rainbow Dash stepped closer towards Ashley with her eyes narrowed “Unless you want to see Pinkie cry. You’re not that kind of...”

“Person” Callum interrupted

“Thanks.” She nodded to Callum before turning her attention back to Ashley “You’re not that kind of person are you?”

“Are you telling me what I can and can’t do?” Ashley stood up, towering over Rainbow “I. Will. Not. Be going to any party. Do I make myself clear?”

Callum stood and put his arm of Ashley’s shoulder and took him away from the group “Let me just have a word with him” he called back to them

When they were out of earshot, Callum put his hands on Ashley’s shoulders “What the fuck do you think you’re playing at?”

“Callum, we both know about why I don’t like parties.” Ashley said in a sad tone, averting his eyes away from Callum.

***

Flashback: 4 years before teleportation. Location:???  Mission Objective: Destroy enemy weapons factory and comm station

***

A large explosion went off in the background, in the distance on a hill. A group of five men raised their weapons and cheered. Two of those men are slightly younger versions of Callum and Ashley. In fact, this was their second mission. For you see, Callum and Ashley were assigned to a group when they became almost as good as they are today.

Francis...A true friend. Willing to go to hell and back even if it was just to see you smile. He would gladly risk everything he had for his friends. One thing you didn’t want to do was remind him of his family which was taken away from him at a young age by robbers. The image of him finding his parents dead bodies still haunts him...

Josh...A bit immature when you meet him but on the field...he knows what he’s doing. He was always known for being a bit of a pyromaniac who grew his interests into explosives. Just don’t offend him in his face unless you want to blown up into a million pieces.

“WOO! Mission complete fella’s!” Francis cheered.

“Man...Pretty fireworks eh guys?” Josh said, putting his arm around Francis.

“You never disappoint Josh.” Ashley pat him on the shoulder “Come on, we got a jeep to catch.”

Lets skip 15 minutes ahead. Delta squad arrived to the e vac vehicle and are making their way back to base.

“You guys like whiskey?” The driver called out.

The driver. Also known as Simon. He didn’t really like doing missions like Ashley and the gang but was treated like one of the gang, mostly because he was their transport to and from missions.

“It’s alright” Callum shrugged

“Well here, catch” Simon threw a water basin filled with whiskey to Callum who caught it in his lap

“Here Josh, you get first sip” Callum opened the lid, passing it to his friend.

“Thanks” Josh sniffed the bottles mouth; the strong, burning scent of whiskey filled his nostrils before he raised it to his mouth “Bottoms up” he took a large sip. The inside of his mouth burned but he didn’t care. After he finished his sip, he let out a sigh of refreshment before passing it to Francis.

“Cheers.” Francis raised the basin slightly before taking it back to his lips. After taking his sip, his face scrunched up “Burns a bit on the way down don’t it?” he put the bottle in front of Ashley’s face who pushed it away with his hand.

“Drinking on the job ain’t my thing and you know that.” He gave Francis a stern look.

“Oh...right, forgot.” Francis took the bottle back “Sorry bro.”

“Nah, its cool.” Ashley gave him a smile.

Josh grabbed the basin from Francis “Guess it’s a party for me and Francis then!”

“What about Callum?” Ashley asked

“Oh right, you want in Cal?”

“One sip” Callum replied in a strict tone, taking the basin. He took as sip and shown no emotion as he passed it back to Josh

“Alright” Josh took a mouthful of whiskey, he could feel it burning the inside of his mouth but gulped it down quickly “This is some good shit” he held the bottle up to his chest

“Alright guys” Simon yelled back “We’re going to have to drive through this village and we should be back to the base in about 2 hours.”

30 seconds later.

The jeep was turned onto its roof, the bottom of it caught on fire as Simon desperately tried to undo his seat belt to escape. It turns out that the village had a group of hostiles still in the area and one shot an RPG next to the jeep. The others managed to escape the flaming vehicle

Ashley and Callum tried to get the door to open for Simon but they were sitting ducks for the enemy to pick off. They both ran into a nearby building with their weapons in their grasp and looked across the street. Francis was hiding in an alley with his gun in his left hand as his other was clutching a bullet wound. Josh was inside the building next to him.

“Josh.  You have what looks like 7 hostiles on your rooftop.” Ashley said into his radio

“Roger that. You have 2 on yours, looks like they are trying to get at Francis” Josh replied “Where’s Simon?”

“He’s still in the jeep, he can’t get out.”

“ASHLEY GET DOWN!” Callum shouted, he grabbed his friend by the shoulder and pulled him to the floor. A large explosion caused the building to shake, windows smashed as dust fell from the ceiling.

“What just happened!?” Ashley yelled down his radio

“The jeep blew up” Josh’s volume decreased “Simon didn’t escape in time...”

“We’ll mourn him later. Let’s try not to die—“ Francis said into his radio before being cut off

“Francis? FRANCIS!? Come in Francis!” Josh yelled down his radio. No response “DAMN IT!”

Ashley peered his head over one of the windowsills, he looked into the alleyway where Francis was but all he saw was his friends corpse with a bullet through its skull. Ashley looked to the rooftop and saw one of the hostiles aiming his gun down the alley

“Francis is KIA. Hostile on your roof got him.” Ashley radioed to Josh

“Those fucking assholes...” These were the last words Ashley heard from Josh

Josh ran upstairs, he looked into his bag and found C4 but only had a wire that was a meter long. He placed the C4 on the ceiling and wired it up. He clicked the remote. The explosion caused the house to collapse. The explosion blew Josh apart, even if he lived. The house’s weight would have killed him. The hostiles on the roof either got caught in the blast radius or were blown off the roof and suffered large injuries.

“Josh! Josh respond!” Callum radioed. No response “GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!” he threw his radio to the wall, shattering it to pieces

Ashley grabbed Callum by the shoulders “We don’t have time to mourn. Let’s get those two bastards on the roof and get outta here!”

Callum nodded in agreement. Both burst out of the door and turned round, aiming their guns to the roof. The two hostiles made the fatal mistake of looking over. Both sides fired wildly at each other. A bullet tore through Callums arm, causing him to drop his weapon. Ashley managed to shoot one of them in the head. Both Ashley and the hostile ran out of bullets and stared at each other. Ashley saw the enemy trying to pull out his pistol but Ashley already had his drawn

“Say goodbye maggot” He muttered quietly. He pulled the trigger as the bullet raced through the soldiers head. His body lent over the edge and fell in front of Ashley and Callum.

“Oh shit your hit!” Ashley ran to the side of Callum and pulled out his radio “Base. This is Delta one. Our e vac was ambushed and we have wounded. Driver is dead as well as 2 members of delta. We need Med-e vac now!”

“Affirmative, Delta one. What is your current location?” a female voice replied over the radio.

“Were in a village nearby the mission objective. The jeep exploded so you should see a large amount of smoke above the village.”

“Alright Delta one, Med-evac is on the way.”

Ashley put his radio back and noticed one of his enemies who were on the building before it exploded trying to crawl to a weapon. Ashley walked up to it and kicked it away. The dying soldier looked up, Ashley’s figure blocked out the sun

“This is for Delta...” Ashley pulled out his knife and forced it into the enemy’s eye socket. Blood squirted as the soldier cried in pain. He tried to get Ashley to stop but the blade went in deeper. Eventually piercing his brain. Ashley kept the knife in the soldier’s eye until his movements ceased.

Ashley stared at the motionless body and spat on its face. He pulled the blade out of the socket. The eye was ripped out as the blade was still inside it. Ashley grabbed the dead soldiers hand and used it to wipe off the eye

“Number one” He said to himself. He made his way to Callum who was lying on the floor clutching his bloodied arm.

Several minutes passed before a Chinook arrived with two Apaches. The Chinook landed, causing dust to fill the area as a squad poured out of it, raising their guns and looking around the area for hostiles. Two medics rushed out of the Chinook and grabbed Callum, putting his arms over their shoulders to help him walk.

Ashley walked over to Francis’ body and dragged the body into the Chinook. He noticed Josh’s dog tags on the floor and grabbed them, putting them in his pocket. He returned to the flaming debris of the jeep. He looked through the window and saw Simon’s carcass being burnt to a crisp. The dog tag was embedded in his melted flesh. Ashley walked back onto the helicopter as the squad ran back inside as well.

“Mission accomplished...” He said to himself as the door closed.

***

Present day

***

"I know you're thinking about them Ash" Callum said

"That obvious huh? The hardest part was telling their families and friends." A tear started to form in his eye but he wiped it away quickly.

"You want a few minutes to yourself?" Callum asked, putting his arm over Ashley.

"Yea...a few minutes..." Ashley said as he started to drift off. Memories of the good times he had with those guys. But then the images of how they died flooded his mind. He tried to think of something else but nothing worked. The only thing that got rid of the images was killing.

"Right...I'll just be over there" He pointed to the group of ponies who were staring at him.

Ashley didn't reply. He sat himself on the cobblestone ground. Callum walked over to the ponies who stared at him in confusion. Twilight was the first to break the awkward silence.

"What was that all about?"

"Some tragic stuff happened. Don't ask me or Ashley what happened unless you want to sign your death warrant." Callum replied, his face shown no emotion. His eyes appeared as cold as his words.

"B-but--" Rainbow stuttered

"I said no." Callum's face started to show anger. He took several deep breaths, eventually he calmed down "I'd respect the fact that none of you will ever ask about this. Okay?"

The ponies were reluctant at first, but one by one they agreed by nodding or something called a 'pinkie promise'.

Several minutes passed until Ashley returned to the group. He tried to put on a fake smile but his red eyes gave away that he had been crying. He noticed a tear was still on his cheek and wiped it off with the back of his hand

"Haven't had a good cry in a couple of years. Does wonders" He looked around at the ponies who were looking at him in confusion or sympathy "What?"

"Oh its just-" Twilight began but she looked at Callum who was staring daggers at her "Nothing. Nothing at all."

"Callum told you not to ask about it, didn't he?" Ashley raised an eyebrow

"Eeeyup" Big Mac said.

“Good. Although he probably threatened you as well, didn’t he?”

Big Mac nodded.

Ashley face palmed “God damn it Cal. Remember the last time you threatened someone about this?”

“Oh...Right. I was just looking out for ya’.” Callum smiled awkwardly.

“What happened last time?” Twilight asked

“Well...Iets just say we were thrown out the clubbing district. Some loser kept asking me questions about why I was upset and every time I told him to leave me alone. The guy wouldn’t stop asking so Callum came into the conversation and threatened the guy.”

“So then what happened?” Rainbow Dash asked “Did he do anything?”

“Yes. The guy walked away and Callum sat down to talk to me. But the guy returned and smashed a bottle over Callum’s head. This sent Callum here into a frenzy.”

“What happened next?” Rainbow asked once more, her eyes were gleaming as her hunger for the story increased “Was there a fight?”

“Yes. Callum smashed the guys face into the bar and smashed a bottle of vodka on the back of the guys head. He then dragged him to middle of the dance floor and smashed the guys head into one of the speakers. Blood was all across the floor and just when you thought he was finished. Callum twisted the guys arm behind his back awkwardly and broke it. The bouncers rushed towards the dance floor in the attempt to fight Callum.”

“What happened next!? Tell me tell me tell me!” Rainbow dash said quickly. She took a seat closer to Ashley.

“I don’t really want to talk about it anymore.” Ashley smiled to the cyan mare

“Pleeeeeaaasssee. You gotta tell me!” Rainbow begged, giving Ashley her best fake sad face. Pouting her lips, she even threw in a fake tear into the look.

“She’s so cute! Wait no... She’s weakening you Ashley...But look at the cuteness! Can’t resist...” Ashley thought to himself. He couldn’t stop staring into her wide, beautiful, magenta colour eyes. They felt as if they were staring into his soul. He shifted his body slightly from being uncomfortable but...The longer he stared into the eyes, the more he felt at ease.

“Okay. I’ll spill the beans.” He smiled. Rainbows expression changed to joy. Ashley realized her sadness was fake “Cunning, gotta keep my eye on her” he thought to himself

“What beans?” Applejack asked, tilting her head slightly in confusion.

“It’s a figure of speech. Anyway, onto the story. One of the guards held Callum back by the arms while the other punched him in the gut a few times. This pissed me off so much that I barged through the crowd and rugby tackled him”

“Rugby tackle?” Twilight asked

“Rugby is a sport from where we are from. Basically, there are two teams that compete for the control of a weirdly shaped ball. Each team has line they must defend. If the opponent manages to get a player holding the ball to cross their line, then that team scores a point. Now this sport is a contact sport and you don’t wear protection. Well, maybe a bit of protection. You want to stop your opponent then you have to bring them down with a tackle. Callum care to demonstrate?”

“Yea sure. You going to tackle me? Also is there a park nearby?”

“There’s a park, just follow me. I want to see this ‘rugby tackle’.” Rainbow Dash unfurled her wings and took to the skies. Leaving a faint trail of rainbow colours behind her

"Okay now that is pretty cool." Ashley pointed towards the trail "Now lets get going"

***

Princess Celestia was in her private quarters with a list in front of her. She was looking over the countries economy charts.

"All seems in order" She smiled to herself. She put much work into keeping the economy right while her sister was on the moon. Now that she had returned, Celestia had a bit more free time on her hooves, it wasn't much but it allowed her to calm down from stressful days of having to appear in courts and visiting the cities of Equestria. She kept watch of the economy every now and again to make sure that her sister was taking her role back effectively.

Outside of the princess' private quarters, two unicorn guards stood at the door. Two groups of four guards would patrol the hallways nearby. A grey pegasus walked down the halls. Her cutie mark was an envelope with wings but most of this was covered up by her saddle bags. Her mane was a light shade of blue. She was one of Celestia's most trusted forms of mail delivery between her and Ponyville. She walked up to the guards at the door.

"What is your business here today?" The guard asked, diverting his gaze to the pegasus mail-mare

"I am here to deliver an urgent letter to the princess." She took off her saddle bags and put them on the ground. She opened them with her mouth before pulling out a scroll with a red ribbon wrapped around it. She placed it on the ground in front of the guards.

"Thank you." The guard said as he levitated the scroll next to him "I shall give it to her majesty right away"

The mail-mare nodded before turning to leave. The guard knocked on the door.

"You may enter" Princess Celestia called out. The guard entered the room slowly with the scroll levitating next to him. He made his way to the princess before stopping to bow down

"You may rise Captain Night Wind."

"Thank you your majesty. A letter arrived from Ponyville for you." He levitated the scroll in front of Celestia and let go. The scroll became encased in the princess' magic

"You have my gratitude Captain. You may leave now." Celestia said in her calm voice with a smile.

The captain bowed down slightly once more before leaving the room, closing the door behind him and returning to his post.

"Now lets see..." She opened the scroll in front of her and began to read "Oh its from the Ponyville hospital...Guards have been hospitalized from being attacked...two mysterious creatures that stand on their back legs..." The princess finished the letter. She closed the scroll and tied it in the ribbon it came with before levitating it over to a small pile of letters.

The princess left her room. She stood in front of Captain Dark Wing "Captain."

"Yes you majesty?" He looked up to the majestic sun princess in front of him and bowed.

"Prepare a tier two escort." She said in a slightly stern voice.

"Tier two ma'am?" He asked, still bowing down.

"You heard me correctly. Prepare them in 15 minutes."

"Yes ma'am" He rose back up and made his way to the guard quarters. The other guard tried to look away from what happened but he met the gaze of the princess.

"Captain Solar."

The guard bowed down "Yes your majesty?"

"You have my permission to leave your post. I want you to come with me."

"Yes ma'am. I have a question to ask you." Both unicorn and alicorn started their journey through the castle

"Ask away" Celestia said with a smile

"Why are you in the need of a tier two escort?"

"One of the patrols of Ponyville were attacked by two creatures that have been claimed to walk on their hind legs. Who knows what they are capable of."

"I see your majesty. Lets just hope that these creatures will not attack."

"I hope so as well"

Both alicorn and unicorn walked the rest of the journey in silence. Ponies bowed down in the sight of the princess and rose when she left the room to resume their duties. They entered the palace garden. There were three chariots, each to be pulled by two pegasi. The front and back chariots would contain unicorn and earth pony guards while the middle would contain the Princess and two of her most trusted guards. In this case, Solar and Dark Wing were to be in the same carriage. The escort also consisted of five pegasi on both sides of the chariots with three at the back and at the front in a V shape.

After preparations were complete and the guards and princess boarded the chariots. The set their journey towards Ponyville.

***

The ponies and the humans arrived at the park. It was quite popular but a pony screamed that the 'beasts' were here which caused everypony to run away

"You just have to love the reception here." Ashley joked.

"I'm ready when your ready." Callum walked several paces in front of Ashley and prepared himself.

"Right-o. Everyone watching?" Ashley said as he lower himself slightly and prepared to charge at Callum

"Everypony Ashley" Twilight giggled.

"Yea yea, whatever" Ashley rolled his eyes.

"Come on! I'm not getting any younger!" Rainbow yelled from above.

Ashley nodded towards Callum who returned the nod. Ashley began his charge slowly but quickly picked up the pace. He lowered his torso down as he collided with Callum. A large thud was heard upon impact and followed by an even louder one when they hit the ground.

Ashley got off of Callum and held his hand out for his friend who grabbed it and got back up. "And that's basically a rugby tackle. Not much to it really."

"So, I'm guessing you played this sport before?"

"Correct. I used to enjoy playing it in school when I was younger." Ashley smiled, he dusted himself off with his hands. Everypony and Callum's head turned to him when his stomach growled "Guess I sorta missed breakfast." he smiled sheepishly

"That's okay. Spike should be returning today anyway so we can go to my place to grab something to eat and introduce him to you."

"Spike? Is it your pet or something?" Callum asked

"No. He's my number one assistant."

"Okay then. Can't wait to see his reaction to us." Ashley chuckled

Twilight rolled her eyes "Come on lets go." She turned her head to the other ponies "See you later!" she waved.

"See ya' later Twi! You too Ash and Cal!" Applejack called out

"Bye Twilight!" Rainbow Dash yelled "Ash! we need to hang out sometime!"

"Sure, We'll hang out later today if you feel like it!" Ashley called back

"Sounds like a plan!" Rainbow returned.

Ashley turned back to Twilight and Callum who were staring at Ashley. With smirks on their faces

"What?"

"Oh nothing." Both said in unison sheepishly. Their eyes darted around and their smirks disappeared.

"Whatever." Ashley shrugged "Can we get a move on? I'm wasting away here!" He started to walk ahead of Twilight and Callum but stopped "Which way was the library again?"

"Just follow me" Twilight took the lead.

Spike was unpacking his things. Mostly just pictures of Rarity. He heard the door open and made his way downstairs to see Twilight walking in. He decided to greet her.

"Hey Twilight, How's it been for the last week?" he waved

"Well...It has been eventful to say the least" She walked up to Spike and hugged him "I missed you so much Spikey Wikey" she giggled

"Ugh. I didn't ask for this!" Spike tried to struggle free but couldn't break out of the embrace so he returned the hug and was let go by Twilight "What did you mean by 'eventful'?"

"Well...There's some ponies..." Twilight face hoofed "I mean people I want you to meet."

"People? What are you on about Twi?" Spike scratched his head with his claw

"You'll see" Twilight turned towards the door "You can come in now."

Spike watched as two creatures walked in. They towered not only Twilight but looked around the same height as Princess Celestia. They didn't have fur coats or scales and had paws similar to his but the claws were long but were not sharp.  He looked at their facial features. One had a brown mane while the other had a black one. The brown maned creature had a small scar on his face and blue eyes while the black maned one had brown eyes. The strangest thing he noticed was that both creatures stood on their back legs like him.

"W-what are those!?" Spike shouted, his mouth was covered by one of his paws while the other was pointing towards the humans "Are these like, your new pets or something!?"

"Spike. They can understand you." Twilight said in an unamused tone.

"What?"

"She's right you know." Ashley said

"THEY CAN TALK!?" Spike was on the verge of passing out but held himself together

"CONGRATULATIONS! WE CAN ALSO YELL AS WELL!" Callum yelled at the top of his voice. Ashley was not affected by it while Spike was literally blown away from it. Twilight had her hooves over her ears

"Next time give me a warning!?" She said angrily

"Fine." Callum sulked.

Spike was still dazed by the shouting fiasco and slowly stood back up, clutching his head "I'm going to have a headache from that."

"Heh, that'll teach ya." Callum chuckled to himself. Ashley couldn't help but do the same "Anyway. My name is Callum and this is Ashley."

"Yo." Ashley waved

"Ugh...What are you?" Spike asked, still rubbing his head

"We are humans." Ashley responded.

"What's a hyuu-man?"

"Basically. An evolved ape that has become much smarter and uses technology and science to make its life easier. Our species appears to have not existed here and everypony dislikes us because what happened earlier today." Ashley said in a monotone voice.

"What happened?" Spike asked.

"Oh Ashley got into a fight with Big Macintosh and then he ran into town which then a bunch of guards tried to get him. I found out that Ashley was in a fight so I ran to the scene and almost strangled one of the guards to death while Ashley beat the crap out of the others. It was fun to say the least."

"Yea...That's basically what happened." Ashley smiled awkwardly until he noticed his stomach groan again

Spike was completely speechless. He looked at Twilight in panic but saw that she trusted them so he thought that he could do the same. But he kept hold of some of his suspicions just in case.

After getting something to eat AND a large explanation of what happened so far. Spike was now up to date with the situation. If anything, he feared the creatures near him but they told him that as long as he doesn't get them in a bad mood and 'perform first blood' then everything would work out.

"Spike?" Twilight asked after finishing her meal

"Hmmph?" Spike replied, still with a mouthful of food

"Don't speak with your mouth full. It's rude." Ashley said smiling while raising an eyebrow

Spike stared daggers at Ashley before chewing and swallowing his food "There. Happy?"

"Yes." Ashley smiled

"What was it you needed Twi?" Spike asked.

"Spike. I think its time we send a letter to the Princess."

Jesus Christ...5000+ words. All I can say is that I feel that this chapter was WAY better than the one a posted before I redone it. I just couldn't stop with this chapter and then I realized it was getting late so I decided to upload this. Hope you enjoyed this chapter more than the other one and I ask you to do one thing: Never mention the scrapped chapter ever again. NEVER. AGAIN....

So I thought I should throw in a bit more of the humans past so that's what I did...So yeah...Comment and stuff...I'm just going go sleep now...