Equestria caught in crossfire.

An hour passed, in that time they had managed to bring his carrier in with little problem. The only exception being that they lacked the fuel in which to jump, so they can to run off to a local trade hub to get some. Delaying them by about 25 minutes. But they were all now in system, and running through final checks.

"Ammo?" Jay shouted.

"Check!" Jack replied loudly.

"Food"?"

"Check"

"Medi-packs?"

"Check"

"Vehicle fuel?"

"Check"

"Oxygen tanks?"

"Check"

"Alright, lets go through our emergency supplies" Jay shouted as he walked towards Jack.
"You sure? We're carrying a lot all ready..." He replied cautiously.
"We're not taking more than the pods can handle. Besides, we have not idea whats down there. They might be killers."
"I somehow highly doubt that..." Jack said, rolling his eyes.
"What makes you so sure?" He questioned.
Jack looked away from his list and looked at jay like he was some sort of idiot. "The scans say that the 'native species' as it were, are no more than up the bottom of our ribs. Their tiny. And besides..." He finishes but climbing onto the armored jeep next to them. "I don't think they be able to withstand this" He finished with a grin on his face and he loaded the monstrosity of a weapon that was on the jeep. Jay looked up to where jack was loading the ammo into the thing.
"I'll never understand how the Minmatar are able to make weapons that fire such rounds and such high rates of fire...its scary how they do so."
What stood before him was an armored, roofless jeep which bore a single 9.87mm rapid fire mini gun. It was belt fed and had a well earned reputation for cutting men (and small vehicles) in half. "What I will never understand if how this thing works." He replied. "The handles are held together with freaking duct tape. And I swear that there is chewing gum holding some sort of vital component together in it..." Jack finished loading the vehicle and jumped down from it.
"Ha ha, more than likely" Jay replied. "Anyway, we need to check these emergency supplies, I'm not leaving without them."
"Alright" Jack grumbled.

"Extra ammo?"
"Check"
"Extra fuel, food, medicine etc"
"Check, check, double check"
"2 cheap, dirty holo vids in case we get stranded?"
"Check...?" jack said with a hint of worry.
"Relax, there not for you." Jay smiled. "Are my 'special magazines' in there? You know...the 'clean' ones?"
"And by 'clean', you mean 'unused'. Am I right?" Jack grimaced.
"Yup. Those ones." Jay smiled.
"Check..." Jack said. Now feeling ill at the thought of what those magazines might go through.
"Alright, that's everything. Get the gear loaded on the LRC and move it over the drop zone. Jay finished.
"What the hell is an LRV?" Jack questioned.
"The jeep you moron. Light Recon Vehicle?" Jay replied, face palming.

"Sooo...you guys are actually going to try this huh?" A deep hearted voice said.
"Thats the idea Andy. Of course we will give credit to you who helped us." With jay waving a hand at him.
"HA, very modest of you." He chuckled. "But whats your plan?"
Jay tapped a button on the interface in the cabin and brought up a 3D map on the scanned area.
"Jack said that this area here would be a great landing zone. Its a 20 meter clearing in these thick woods and its within quick driving distance to what we think is a large town. From there I guess we will just say hi and hope they don't try and kill us." Jay finished with a half smile.
"Looks to me like you don't want to go boy? Hmmm...?" Andy inquired.
"Its not that. I'm just not sure what we will find down there." Jay finished.
Andy was about to ask another question when a small beeping sound filled the room. He swung around on his chair and tapped the flashing button. "You alright jack?"
"Good thanks. Tell Jay that everything is loaded and ready. We can go anytime." He said over the channel.
"Alright, he is on his way" Andy finished, swinging his chair round to face Jay. "I have the co-ords for the drop, pop these into the computer and hit 'fire' when ready Andy." Jay handed the code over to him.
"Very well. Suit up lad, you have a lot of work ahead of you" He smiled turning around to face his console again.

Jay walked in and strapped himself into the sides of the pod. "You ready?" He asked Jack. "Dude, I was *born* ready. Lets do this!" Jack shouted back.
"Alright. Andy, we're good to go. FIRE NOW!" Jay shouted.

***
Rushing through the skies is something that she will never get used to. The adrenalin pumping its way around her system, her mane cutting through the air. It felt exhilarating. She came to rest on a cloud and stared up at the sky. "What a great day...I hope nothing ruins today" She sighed happily to herself. But something caught her eye and was a little started by what she saw. It was like a small, bright orange spark in the sky, right above her. At first she thought it was nothing but it got bigger and bigger. She raised herself to her hooves and realized that whatever it was. It was heading towards her. Fast. That thing was an orange spark a very seconds ago, now its a large ball of flame. And it is still heading towards her quickly. Rainbow quickly darts off towards the safety of Ponyville, namely the library. Maybe she can get an answer on what this mysterious thing is.

Twilight was going about her chores and daily business like any other day. It was mostly quiet with only the few grunts from her #1 assistant. The only thing to ruin this lovely setting my a crash that came from her bedroom window. Twilight had become farmilar with this sound over the past few years she had been living here and did not pay too much attention to it.
"Hello Rainbow" She said in a tired expression.
"Twilight, quick. You HAVE to come see this! I'v never seen this before!" She explained.
"I'm sure whatever it is, it can wait until i have finished re-organizing this shelf." Twilight replied.
"No. You have to see it now. It's falling straight from the sky and is heading straight for us!! Rainbow Dash cried.
This was enough to grab the purple unicorns attention. She quickly spun around.
"What is falling from the sky?" She asked quickly.
"I don't know! Thats why I'm asking you now! Quickly, come see it!" With that, rainbow burst out through the front door of the library. Twilight promptly followed with spike behind her. They both looked up and their mouth dropped with what they saw. Whatever it was, it looked like it was going for them. But Twilight knew better, and saw from the angle of...whatever it is, it was going to miss them. But not by much. "Rainbow, 2 things." The unicorn stated. The cyan pegasus turned around. "Number one, its going to miss us but barely." The speedster sighed in relief for a split second. "Number 2, get all the girls together and meet back here and quickly as possible. I don't know what it is, but it wont harm Ponyville." She finished with a sense of pride. The pegasus saw this and gave a quick salute before speeding off towards sweet apple acres. Twilight rushed into the library to get a few things in her saddlebags.
"Whats going on?!" The small dragon next to her asked in frustration.
"Something big is falling from the sky and heading for the Everfree forest. I intend to find out what" Twilight quickly replied.
"Alright, said the dragon. "But please be careful." He pleaded. The unicorn turned around and patted spike softly on the head. "Don't you worry. I will be" She finished, smiling.

***

With a mighty thud. The drop pod came to a sudden halt. The doors dropped and the 2 Gallentians stepped out.
"Atmosphere scan complete. Looks like most other terrestrial worlds. Air is safe to breath without head gear." Jay stated.
"In that case." Jack replied. "Im taking mine off." jack proceeded to remove the helmet and take a deep breath in. "AAaahhhh, I have not smelt a proper world in months. Not since my training finished."
Jay took off his helmet and smiled as he drew breath. "Maybe this won;t be so bad after all."
"See? I told you" Jack smirked. "You want driver or gunner?" he asked.
"Driver" her replied, climbing into the drivers seat of their LRV. "You take gunner"
Jack climbed onto the back of the jeep with a smile on his face and he cocked the weapon. "I thought you would never ask."

***

"Ok girls. This is it. We have some strange thing that dropped out of the sky somewhere into the Everfree forest. We have no idea what it is, but we need to assess that it is not a threat and see what we can learn. I saw where it landed and think it is in a large clearing near the old ruins." Twilight said. "We will simple go there, find out what it is and head home. Any questions?"
"Errm...well...yes, one but im not sure...err...do we have to go...?" Asked a timid pegasus.
"Yes, we do. Its important. Who knows what is out there? We must find out" Replied Twilight dutiful.
"Well...ok...as long as...-"
Her sentence was cut short by the panicked cries of ponies outside the library.
The 6 ponies rush outside to find a panicked Roseluck. "Roseluck, whats wrong?" Twilight inquired.
"Something is making a load noise from the Everfree forest and whatever it is, is heading this way" She said quietly.
Upon hearing this, the girls rushed through town and onto a near by hill over looking the front of the forest. At first they saw nothing but then something moved quickly through the brush. Heading straight towards the town. It broke through the tree line and stopped just in front of it. They stood their with inquisitive faces starting at this thing. It then started to slowly make it way towards them. The girls did the same. Only with rainbow hovering above them. They were within 10 meters of each other when she heard it shout. "Stop right there!" The 6 poines promptly stood in their tracks. Rainbow stopped but continued to hover. "Be you friend or foe?!" It demanded. "Friend!...I guess, are you here to hurts us?" Twilight inquired. "Only if you hurt us first!" It answered. "You may approach. We will not harm you, this I promise"
"Do you Pinkie Pie Promise?" Shouted the poofy pink pony.
"Err..yeah sure, whatever you call it" Replied the thing. The 6 ponies seemed satisfied with this and ventured closer to the thing. As they got closer they could see that it was some sort of Self-moving cart they were riding with 2 tall bipedal creatures on it. One of these creatures got off the 'cart' and stood in front of it. The other stayed where he was, but did not seem hostile. The creature in front of the 'cart' walked towards them with his front...paw? Out stretched. Twilight looked up and took the paw in a shake. "My name is Jay Broker. The guy behind me on the jeep is Jack Altair" Jack replied by giving them a wave. "Well, you seem nice enough but...what are you?" Asked a bright, white unicorn.
"We?" Jay replied with a smile. "We are humans. I come and offer peace on behalf of the Gallente Federation"