Clay Swords and Crossed Dimensions.

Krieger gasped for air as cracked his eyes open, day light filled his vision and the sudden change from darkness made his vision blurry, he rubbed his eyes trying to make them clear, he blinked rapidly and his vision cleared.

"What happened? Did the medics actually save me?" He thought as he sat up. He glanced at his body, he had legs again, he formed an expression of shock on his face and started grabbing his legs to make sure he wasn't hallucinating or dreaming, his legs felt real as though he had never lost them.

"Ok I must be heavan." Krieger surveyed his surroundings, hills of green, a blue stream and smoke coming up in the distance and ponies... they were all sorts of colors, green, blue, purple, and orange. He rubbed his eyes again and looked at the ponies again to make sure it wasn't his mind playing a trick on him. The ponies had remained there previous colors, he tried making out what they were doing by squinting and covering his eyes from the sun. They looked animated, if that's even possible, Krieger made out more that they were having a picnic and holding sandwiches in their hooves.

He felt out of place, "What the hell is going on?" He couldn't help but mutter to himself as he tried to study them further. He paused and looked around at his own lap and the grass near him, there were his grenades, his rifle and bayonet, and a Colt M1911. He heard voices get steadily louder and hooves hitting dirt, he didn't know what to do so he just sat there.

"This is twice today that some creepy stuff happened, first that thing falling in the river then a lightning bolt coming out of nowhere on a clear sunny day. I swear if it's just like some pegasi playing a prank I'll kick their flanks to the curve." A male voice said.

"Pegasi? Arn't they just greek legends?" Krieger though as he scrambled for the pistol sitting near him and aimed it at the direction the voices seemed to be coming from. He moved a little bit and his helmet slid on his head and covered his eyes, he fumbled to get it into it's previous position and as he did he saw two of the equines staring at him with some of the biggest eyes he ever saw.

"What the buck is that?" Said a light blue and green maned armored pony as it stared at Krieger.

"I can't help but think I read about something like this somewhere." The other equine, it's voice feminant and it's colors a dull pink and it's mane a bright yellow said, the other one's jaw dropped.

"What? You're saying that this thing is actually in books?" Said the grey one.

"Well yes, though I can't remember what they're called... uhh homons? Hamuns? Oh yeah Humans! I studied under Celestia for awhile and.. buck me we weren't supposed to say anything..." The pink one said, the two now just rambling on about things Krieger didn't understand. He just sat there dumbstruck, pistol loosely in his hand; he didn't know what to do trying to kill them or just sit there until the situation resolved itself.

"Uhh, what's going on exactly and how can you talk?" Krieger mumbled out, much to the dismay of the equines as they jumped out of shock.

"Holy buck it can talk!" The grey one yelped as it flew into the air and wings spread out of it's back and levitated there. The pink one seemed to take it better as it remained calmer than it's friend.

"Apparently so Sky Mint, let's not get to irrational there fella, we'll start with names ok? I'm Dawn Gazer and this is Sky Mint. Now if you could just put that down and you could just tell me your name."  Dawn Gazer said.

"Uhh... my names Lieutenant James Krieger of the United States army..." He managed to mumble as he noticed Dawn Gazer had a horn on her head and it seemed to be glowing.

"Well James we're gonna need you to come with us right now, we're gonna need to talk with the princess about this." Dawn Gazer said as Krieger noticed the rifle next to him levitating towards the pair of equines, he rushed to grab the rifle back and was tackled by Sky Mint.

"Sky Mint get off him! If he wants this thing back then we should be happy to, he's probably more confused than we are okay?" Dawn said as the light blue pony got off Krieger and mumbled something incoherent. The American proceeded to stand up and snatch his gun out of mid air.

"Very odd objects those are though, what are they?" Dawn asked him, staring at his rifle.

"It's a rifle, you know a gun? Boom boom? Well it's called an M1 Garand... I don't know if you'd understand anything beyond that because it seems that you are not beyond medival ages really. So what did you do to my rifle?" Krieger questioned while going over his rifle to make sure they hadn't done anything to it. Both Sky Mint and Dawn Gazer raised an eyebrow at the description of the firearm.

"Could you demonstrate it to us?" Sky Mint asked, he landed on the ground and took a few steps forward to examine the gun more closely in Kriegers hands.

"Uhh... alright I guess that can be done." He said as he aimed at a nearby forest, he pulled the trigger, nothing happened. Krieger checked the magazine of the rifle and found it was empty, he ejected it and the audible ping of the magazine ejecting from the M1 Garand was heard. He checked the many pouchs of his uniform and found a new loaded cartridge of bullets, he loaded it and took aim at the many trees in the distance. He pulled the trigger and the rifle recoiled as the bullet was sent into the distance, the two guard ponies had their jaw dropped and were wary of saying anything.

"So that thing kills people doesn't it?" Sky Mint said as he took a few steps back.

"No it's made for cutting down trees and making soup." Krieger replied sarcastically, he slung the gun over his shoulder and looked at the two equines.

"I'll take that as it is made for killing." Dawn said as she started to look back at the ponies who were picnicing and having a nice afternoon. "We should get going lest one of these civilians find you." She said walking off in a direction that had no to very little amounts of regualr ponies in it.

"Alright let's go get a chariot and bring this guy back." Sky Mint said while taking flight and hovering above the two. They found a chariot outside of the town not to long after they had started walking, Krieger was supposed to lay low in the chariot part and let the equines do their thing and take him back to this town called Canterlot.

"Alright we'll get their within a few hours just make sure to stay out of sight." Mumbled Sky Mint.

"This should be interesting to say the least..." Krieger thought as he closed the back of the chariot so he wouldn't fall out. The chariot took off and he sat their higher above the ground then he ever had been, he sat and waited for the trip close to their destination, desperate to know why he was here.