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0930 Hours.
Ponyville General Hospital.

3rd Floor, Room 29.

The sterile room was grey in colour, this in part, due to the drab cheap coloured tile used in its construction. However it also had to do with the sheer quantity of iron used in its construction, beit for structural stability or just for decoration.

Four metal tables are lined up side by side, just enough space between them to allow a pony through. Upon each table lay an unconscious 'Tan tabbie'. The Puma's crew had arrived to this very room Via -=Telipoof=- from Princess sparkle, the ordeal had put her on the verge of magical exhaustion. The lavender purple princess currently sat in the shadowed, cool corner of the room, drinking a rather unsavory cocktail of potions and natural herbs. It was supposed to taste like mango, Either the nurses lied to her, or the pony who'd made the concoction had never eaten a mango before.

Applejack was up and about, only with a limp. Her luck was unbelievable. Not only had the orange and blonde mare taken a fifteen centimeter knife to the barrel and not been severely wounded, but now she was walking around like nothing ever happened... Proving just how much of a terrible patient she is.

Despite the nurses telling her to sit down, she continued to walk around the humans quite curiously. She seemed to still have a qualm with the one who wounded her. As every time she passed his table she bore a disgusted glare.

The rest of the maine six had been found and brought to the same room, Fluttershy being the last and current arrival. Upon walking through the door the Custard yellow mare gasped in shock and galloped over to the center of the room to see what was wrong with the creatures.

Upon reaching the closest table, she cautiously looked over the tables edge at the side of the Human, before slowly raising up to her full height, since the table was practically on the floor she was a good head higher than the humans lying on the tables.

"Wh-what happened to th-them?" The shy mare stuttered in awe at the unusual creatures before her.

Twilight moved to speak up before Applejack spoke up aggressively. "They were Spyin' on Ponyville, N' attacked the royal guard when they were asked to splain' em' selves'." Fluttershy gasped at the news. Before asking.

"Are they okay?" She said looking the humans over for injuries. "Oh No! What happened to you Applejack!" The yellow mare asked with a squeak before looking over the bandages around Applejack's front.

"I'm fine. They-" Applejack said nodding sideways to the humans. "-Are fine, It was the Guard who needed the medical attention. Two privates were cut up pretty bad n' the captain nearly had his throat-..." Applejack ceased her explanation in detail upon noticing Fluttershy's eyes glass over in fear. "-They're fine, they've been seen by th' nurses an' released."

Fluttershy let out a sigh of relief at the good news of this bad situation. "So why are they unconscious?" The yellow Pegasus inquired with concern.

Twilight stood up and with a wobble, walked from the dark cool corner, glad to leave the terrible medicine behind. "Because their too Dangerous to be kept awake! That one-" Twilight said pointing a fore hoof at Lancer. "-Was strong enough to throw an armour clad pony at princess Luna, he then immediately went to throw the knife he had used to hold said pony hostage at princess Luna, The only thing that stopped him was that Applejack had knocked one of his counterparts out cold then moved to hit him. Thus why Applejack's bandaged, And very lucky might i add." Fluttershy gasped and flattened her ears against her skull in fear, whilst turning to look at the unconscious human lying only a few feet away.

"Princess Luna used Respite on them, and with ample power, they are gonna be out for several more hours at least, if not a day or two..." Twilight told her worried friend. "We're perfectly safe! And its the perfect time to gather some information about our worlds 'New Arrivals'." Fluttershy's, As well as Applejack's, Rarity's and Rainbow's Ears perked up at that last sentence. Pinkie didn't seem surprised by the information, but as Twilight learned so many years ago, no one questions Pinkie pie...

"SAY WHAT?!" Four of the six friends yelled out in unison, loud enough to make the nurses flinch and a doctor jump. Upon receiving glares from the various medical staff around the room the friends smiled apologetically.

"If your all Quite Finsished." Nurse Redheart Asked. Upon recieving no answers and silence, she said "All right then," and turned towards the tables, beckoning her fellow staff to assist her.

The main six took their seats in the stands along the back wall of the room.

"Ugh! This is pointless Twi' I Cant see anythin' from here!" Applejack complained whilst shifting to try and get a better view.

"Oh, Right! Hang on!" Twilight said lighting her horn. A bubble appeared between the six friends and the medical ponies around the humans, the bubble flattened out into a concave disk, acting as a magnifying lens. Allowing them all a clear view.

"Oh, Dear, Twilight. Their not going to... You know... Are they?" Rarity asked starting to change a shade.

"Wha- OH! No No No no no no no." Twilight said shaking her head. "We wouldn't dare!, they may be acting like savages, but they've shown a large amount of intelligence! As you can see they not only have manufactured goods, but they also have military and social structure, AND, They speak fluent Equestrian!" Twilight listed to the amazement of her friends. Except Pinkie.

Before the lavender alicorn mumbled inaudibly. "And there's 900 in the everfree, plus more on the way..."

The doctor lit his horn, but then tilted his head in confusion, He used his magic once more, and again and again, getting quite annoyed and tired at the effort it was taking to use a simple telekinesis spell.

"That Doesn't work on them or their items and equipment for some reason!" Twilight yelled from her seat.

"Why not?" The grey pony doctor yelled back up at the stands.

"We don't know. It could be any number of things. Wards, Charms, Magical resistance. You name it" Twilight informed the doctor.

With a roll of his eyes he nodded to his fellow nurses "Be careful, Slowly." He instructs them.

They inspect the clothing and armour of the humans, Two wore full clothing and protective armour, the armours coulor was a Mixture of different coloured browns and tans with green splotches thrown in, Clearly to help them blend into their environment better. They also wore thick clothing, clothing so thick that it was impracticable for the summer. And speaking of clothing, they wore alot of it.

Rarity was both bewitched and disgusted by the humans and their obsession with clothing, but the colours were so drab and bland, whilst the style... well there was none.

After removing the humans tan leather boots the doctors were greeted by thick black socks, Yeah, they left those on...
Continuing up from there, they found multiple layers of body armour that overlapped each other like an armadillos plates. They gave each plate a firm tug, before realizing that each plate on the front was paired up with a 'Buddy' plate on the back. No luck with the sides of the Humans torso either, upon looking there they found thick Kevlar vests.

"How do they keep cool with all this on?" A nurse asked her friend. It was then a pained scream filled the room.

Everyone jumped and several guards lowered their spears, preparing for the humans to have awoken and taken another hostage. But the humans remained stationary, a nurse rolled around on the floor holding a hoof close to her. The medical staff rushed over to her and inspected her badly burned hoof. The doctor set aside two nurses to tend to the chocolate brown mare.

"That is why i said be careful. Where did you put your hoof SweetRemedy?" The doctor asked, to which Nurse Remedy replied by pointing to a metal and rubber box that was sown into the back of the humans vest, just below the neck.

The doctor moved in to inspect the overlapping metal fins that the metal box was made of. He noticed a very strong heat being emitted by it. In fact, he could feel said heat half a foot away from it.

"Interesting..." He mused looking at the Aluminium and rubber protrusion from the humans armoured clothing.

"What is it doctor? Twilight asked.

"It appears to be a metal vent that exits the armour. Its emitting extreme amounts of heat, and may explain how the humans can wear so much without overheating in the summer!"

The doctor Motions with a hoof and the nurses remaining proceed with trying to figure out how to strip down the excessive amounts of armour and clothing.

After a further three minutes one nurse discovers several black plastic 'Quick slide release buckles' holding the plates together via a Kevlar strap. She notifies her fellow staff around her and they quickly make progress in removing the heavy armour plates. Each one being a concave four millimeter plate of steel. Soon the nurses were hopping around the tables, like the floor was lava, trying to avoid the 6KG plates landing on their hooves. Each plate made a loud 'Thud' as it hit the floor immediately followed by a hollow metallic clatter.

Much to their frustration They realized that the armour on the humans back was under the aliens immense weight, and in individual pieces. Resigning themselves to removing them later, they continue on. It was at this point that the doctor noticed a black rubber tube running out of the next layer of the humans clothing and to the Aforementioned metallic box that had been woven into the previous layer of clothing.

After several seconds of inspecting the thick camouflaged jacket they discover a thick plastic zipper. The doctor begins slowly opening the zipper with his teeth.

Twilight and the rest of the maine six watch on in suspense at what they are to find below this layer. Scales? Fur? Feathers?... More clothing... To be precise a Black vest that completely rapped around the humans torso.

"Okay... Okay...-" The doctor inhales sharply in frustration before letting out a huff. "-This is getting ridiculous."

"How are they able to wear so much without DIEING in this heat?!" Applejack asked whilst turning to her friends. Her response was a shrug from four of them. Twilight however, Was busy peering into the bubble lens with great curiosity.

Many minutes went by, and nopony could find a way to get this layer off the humans. Eventually one frustrated nurse decided to experiment with tugging on the rubber hose that lead into the metal box on the humans back, one tug. Two tugs. Three. Fou- =Pop=...

The nurse promptly flew backwards a short distance before landing on her hind quarters, the rest of the medical staff in attendance gasped as they looked at a bright green, Almost florescent fluid start glugging out of the hose. Pouring out across the table and dripping onto the floor with an audible noise, the medical staff stared on in shock, thinking that the nurse may have just caused the alien creature to bleed out. Their fears were replaced by curiosity when nurse Redheart looked at the dried blood on the third human and saw it's crimson colour.

"Its not blood... what ever it is..." She mumbled blankly, they continued inspecting the vest and the strange, horrid smelling liquid, after about thirteen minutes nurse Nurse Redheart looked over the humans full body-glove that was under the vest, and noticed that it was completely drenched in sweat. Curious she held a hoof to the humans flank. And gasped in shock before starting to try and tear the vest off the creature.

"Redheart! What are you doing!" The doctor yelled at the white mare. Her Maine swayed back and forth as she violently tried to rip the vest off to no avail. She spat it out, turned to the doctor and the nurses around him and yelled urgently.

"It's Overheating! Badly! We need to get this off!" She yelled before returning to her previous actions.

The doctor placed a hoof on the humans flank and instantly knew he wouldn't need a thermometer to find out its temperature. It was at least 37 degrees under all those layers now.

"Quickly!" He yelled as he joined in the frantic blitz to get the next layers off. All the while the maine six watched on from the bleachers in shock. Fluttershy and Pinkie looked on with tears forming in their eyes. Rarity sat there with a hoof across her muzzle in shock, Twilight watched on, frozen in horror, and Applejack launched from her seat and down over to the fiasco.

'He' may of tried to kill me, but i cant just let em' die like this!' she thought to herself and she leaped onto the table over the human. She pointed to the only earth pony in the room, that being Redheart. And yelled. "You! Bite down on that side and pull!" Applejack bit down on the opposite side of the vest and began pulling with every granule of strength she had. Harder and harder the earth ponies pulled until an audible sound was heard, Tearing fabric.

"Pll HRDDERRR" Applejack growled through a mouth full of fabric. She pulled even harder and eventually a burning pain hit her, like a blacksmith had just plunged a red hot iron into her barrel. The orange mare clamped her eyes shut and pulled even harder. Eventually there was a loud fabric(ie) =SHRRRRIIIPP= And both mares flew a few feet in opposite directions as the fabric vest gave up and exploded outward in two halves. Eight square rubber bottles flew out of the open vest and all over the table. The medical ponies pulled the mess of rubber pipes and containers aside and continued to rip the remainder of the vest away. Underneath they found a fabric 'full body-glove'. They growled in frustration as their medical scissors kept getting stuck on copper wires woven through the fabric and even got stuck in the odd material itself at times. Next, a button up shirt that they quickly ripped off, next a white singlet, a nurse promptly cut it off.

Finally, they found skin. Sweat covered skin, the nurses could feel the heat radiating out from the humans chest. The nurses instantly threw watered down towels over the top of the humans chest in a frantic attempt at cooling down his dangerous temperature. The doctors had an idea of what the humans normal temperature was, thanks to the work of a nurse who found the black vest had a wire that ran into the humans wrist armour, a display read 'Cooling Vest 26*C', as well as 'COOLANT SEAL COMPROMISED'.

After several minutes and a dozen cold towels later... Applejack watched on in relief that they saved the human, The doctors medical scans exhausted him to near unconsciousness, but he was able to confirm that no damage had been done.

It was then that Applejack's adrenaline began to ebb off, and she was struck by a crippling burning pain, she looked down at the bandages around her front and notice a large red stain.

"Ah, Horse-apples..." She groaned before falling into her haunches. Redheart noticed Applejack's plight, and rushed over to assist her.

"Get me a medical bed and two nurses!" She yelled before running for the locked double doors. Unlocking them, She turned and galloped back to the orange mare now starting to lie down on the gurney The maine six watched in concern and pinkie galloped to keep up with the group leaving...

Two hours later, the humans had been stripped down to their underwear and non-evasively studied, before being left alone in the locked room, two guards posted outside the doors.

On the other side of Ponyville, two Dingoes had arrived on the outskirts and been hidden on a riverbank. Their crews left to perform their missions. Luke and Eliza went to break into Ponyville library to gather information, and return the CMC, in order to protect the ponies from their friends.

Clarkson and Rabbit went hunting for the 'Tan Tabbies'. Eliza had ordered Rabbit to shoot Clarkson if he posed a threat to the locals. And rabbit was keen to keep that promise, this man in front of him wasn't the Clarkson who he befriended, He was something else, a monster bent on revenge...

It Wouldn't take them long for the two parties to meet...