Fifteen recruits stepped out of a large metal structure that they were using as a temporary barracks. A young Wolf, no older than nineteen was one of many in terms of appearance but in combat capability he far exceeded his other bunk mates. The recruits stood in lines of five, as a drill sergeant walked forward and back whilst starring at a clipboard.

The grizzled soldier stopped in front of Wolf and looked down on him, he spoke in a deep voice "Private Alexander Wolf, front and centre"

Wolf obeyed as he stepped forward, and prepared for what he expected to be a long rant about his age, one he had heard far too often in his time training for the SAS.

The sergeant continued "Private, you have been selected for three live fire exercises, all of which shall effect your combat rating and overall grading, these exercises are based on accuracy, rapid reload and armour piercing capabilities, do you understand"

Wolf simply replied "Sir yes Sir"

The sergeant pulled Wolf onto a live fire range and handed him an AR-15 assault rifle, without saying a word the officer pointed to the targets and stepped back. Wolf checked his magazine, chambered the first bullet, flicked off the safety and aimed down the sights. The officer pressed a button and three red lights appeared above Wolfs head and ticked down. Once the final light turned off the first target popped upand within a split second Wolf put a round inbetween where its eyes would've been, this repeated over and over again until the final target dropped, the last round flew out of the chamber and the safety was on. The Sergeant stepped forward again, this time with a stopwatch, Wolf knew the second he touched the magazine release the timer would start, but he was ready, he pressed the release, grabbed a magazine off of his hip, flicked the rifle so the empty magazine flew out, loaded the fresh one and finally pulled the firing pin.

The Sergeant looked at the stopwatch and said "impressive, one point two one seconds"

A second officer approached the pair and handed Wolf an anti material rifle and pointed towards an old tank. The officers stepped back once more letting Wolf drop to the ground into a firing position. The magazine of the anti material rifle held ten tounds, but Wolf only needed one. A single well placed shot between the tracks was all it took to ignite the ammunition storage and destroy the entire tank. As the officer went to approach Wolf his ear were filled with radio static. His eyes opened to see his was in his room In the castle of the two sisters, seeing that the past three years of his life were not just a dream. He longed to see his friends again, his girlfriend Alice who he had left behind so long ago. He was about to climb out of his hammock when he heard a voice come over the radio, for once he was happy that he kept charging it with his solar charger.

The voice over the radio said “this is corporal possum of bravo pack, our helo went down to what we believe to be turbulence, if there is anyone there please respond”

Wolf pulled his radio off his hip and quickly replied “this is corporal Wolf of Alpha Pack, what is your location”

The corporal quickly responded “alpha pack? Thought you guys were dead”

“not dead corporal, just MIA, now what’s your position” Wolf snapped back

The corporal stuttered before responding “can’t tell, just a lot of trees, wait, there’s a castle spire in the distance”

Wolf jumped out of his hammock and looked out his window to see a distant smoke trail “hold on trooper, I’ve clocked your location and I’ll be there soon, how many of you are there” he asked before grabbing his equipment and bandana.

The trooper quickly responded “twelve standing, three wounded”

Wolf ran out the castle and switched form bolting towards the smoke as fast as his leg could carry him, it wouldn’t be long before he got there. As he drew closer a familiar scent filled his lungs, although he could not place it brought a smile to his face.

He made it to the edge of the clearing where the helicopter crashed and switched form once more, before slowly approaching the downed whirly bird. He cautiously approached, seeing no people, nor movement. Wolf searched the helicopter thoroughly, finding minimal supplies and equipment had been left behind, somewhat sloppily leaving weapons and ammo out in the open. Before he was about to switch his form once more to see if he could pick up a scent trail he heard movement from the inside the wreckage. With his sidearm raised he turned into the helicopter to see a small amount of radio equipment with a note left on it.

As Wolf approached the equipment a small squirrel jumped out of an exposed yet empty fuel reserve. "Well that explains the noice" Wolf muttered to himself before grabbing the note

It read “sorry corporal, hostiles converging on this location, regroup ASAP”

Wolf put the note in his pocket before looking around for tracks. They would have to be somewhat deep as they had wounded and equipment to move, so possible three or four troopers left to guard. He looked around an found a large concentration of tracks leading deeper into the woods. Knowing the woods like the back of his hands Wolf ran into the dark, using his nose to keep on the right track.

It wasn’t long before Wolf heard gunshots in the distance. He began to sprint in the direction of the gunshots, knowing there to be a large cave in that direction. As he once more got closer he heard a bullet whiz past his head.

He dropped to the ground and shouted “BLUE ON BLUE”

The assault rifle fire stopped and one of the cave occupants shouted back “haul ass Corporal”

Wolf did just that, as he got up from the mossy forest dirt and ran straight for the cave entrance and diving over the makeshift barricade the troopers had made. Two of the soldiers held their rifles aimed at Wolf, he looked back at them with distain but raised his hands to show cooperation. He looked around the cave, seeing all the soldiers there were of British origin, and all wearing the insignia of the pack. The soldiers themselves wore a mixture of light and heavy armour, as well as a flak helmet on their head and a camouflage bandana and goggles covering their faces. Thinking quickly wolf slowly pulled his backpack round to his front to show that he had the insignia for the Pack, more specifically Alpha pack, the lead unit for the splinter division of the SAS. The soldiers lowered their weapons and turned their attention back towards the cave mouth.

Wolf threw his backpack back over his shoulder and walked over to the defensive line and squatted down next to the members of Bravo Pack. The defensive line was nothing special, just a pile of sandbags atop a mound of rocky soil, but it would keep those behind it from taking an unwanted bullet. Along the line all of the soldiers used differnt weapons, all of which chambered in the same caliber of 5.56.

One of the troopers spoke in a somewhat high-pitched voice and said “CO’s back there, helping ferret and Possum tend to the wounded”

Wolf nodded and began to walk to the back of the cave to meet with the captain of Bravo Pack, a man he had only heard stories of. The three wounded men where all in bad shape, on who appeared to be the helicopter pilot was covered in second degree burns, the second appeared to be a demolitions technician, he had small puncture wounds all over his torso, suggesting he was too close to one of his explosives and took shrapnel as a memento. The third was in the worst shape as he had a minimum of twelve separate bite marks from a small beaked creature.

The captain turned and greeted Wolf, somewhat annoyed “Finally, some reinforcements, how many men did you bring fifty, seventy, a hundred?”

Wolf sighed and said “I’m sorry sir, it’s just me, I take it you don’t know where we are”

The captain let out a loud sigh before replying “no, I don’t know where we are, and to be frank I don’t care, I just want to know when were gonna get some support and how many soldiers their bringing”

“Sir, there are no reinforcements coming, we’re not on earth anymore, and I’m the only support your going to get out here” Wolf said darkly before continuing “welcome to equestria, yet another place ravaged by war, a war I’ve been fighting for the past three years in hopes of getting home”

The captain laughed and said “you really expect me to believe that soldier, what’s your name, rank and number”

Wolf looked him dead in the eye and pulled down his mask to watch the captains face drop before saying “Corporal Alexander Wolf, Alpha Pack, 13082003, but you already know that from the wall of fallen pack members, don’t you sir”

Before the captain could say anything, multiple members of Bravo pack turned and walked towards them, one of which was the squad medic ferret.

The captain said “ah, I should probably introduce you to bravo, since all of them enlisted after Alpha’s disappearance, that’s Ferret, our team’s medic, Fox, Bravo’s entrenchment expert, and llama, our heavy support.”

The three soldiers stood in disbelieve, until lite sobbing could be heard from behind ferret’s mask before she jumped forward and hugged Wolf tightly before softly whispering “kept me waiting huh”

Wolf now recognised that o so familiar scent, a scent he was so close to so long ago, Wolf closed his arms around the masked woman and whispered “sorry to keep you, Alice”

Alice stood slightly shorter than Wolf, just enough for Wolf to rest his head on hers, she removed her helmet and mask reviling her golden locks and familiar face. Fox removed his helmet and mask a short red hair and a soft freckled face, one of Wolf and Raptors closest friends, John, and Llama finally took her mask and helmet off revealing brown haired woman, Izabella, Raptors girlfriend.

Wolf stood in disbelieve of the faces he saw in front of him, not only his girlfriend, but his best friends as well. He stuttered before asking “ho..how did you get here, why are you here”

“that’s what we don’t know, one minute were above Russia, the next we’re plummeting to the ground” said john still confused by the whole ordeal

“no, no, what are you doing here with the pack” replied Wolf

Alice stepped forward and took Wolfs hands before saying “After your reported death, we wanted vengeance, we all read the reports of your actions so we knew that you couldn’t have died from a firefight, so we joined up to either find you or avenge you”

Wolf would have replied if one of the troops on the frontline shouted “CONTACT”

The four troopers looked at each other before rushing towards battle positions. Ferret drew a MP5, Fox picked up his M416, llama drove into a fighting position and grabbed her M289 and Wolf unslung his trusty M4 and crouched down next to Alice behind the sandbags and took aim. it Would be the first time any of them saw Wolf in action, but after all the friends he’s lost, he wouldn’t fail them.

One of the marines shouted “LEFT SIDE”

Wolf twisted rapidly and let out a burst, hitting its target making a loud thump. Before he could even breath he heard twigs snapping to his right and twisted around once more letting out another burst, once again confirming the hit with a thump. A loud crack was heard on the mouth of the cave, leaving bullet holes. Wolf lowered his head, but gradually peaked over the sandbag wall, yet he saw nothing. The trees around him went silent before Wolf plucked a flashbang off of his belt.

As he prepped the grenade he shouted “FLASH GOING OUT”

The grenade went off with a loud bang, accompanied by a blinding flash off light. The line of soldiers heard squawking in the tree line before what appeared to be a griffon coscript fell from the tree, holding some kind of rifle. Wolf fired another burst at it, to ensure it didn’t get back up. Wolf stood back up and looked around, once more seeing nothing until a fragmentation grenade was thrown into the cave. Without thinking Wolf jumped on top of the grenade and threw it back out the mouth of the cave, but the grenade began to roll back towards the cave. In an attempt to save his friends Wolf jumped inform of the sandbag wall and tossed the grenade further away, but it detonated mid-air, Wolf rapidly turned around and extended his wings, successfully blocking all of the shrapnel.

Just as Wolf began to walk back to the sandbag wall, to no doubt answer some awkward questions he began to hear heavy footsteps behind him. He turned to see a human in a suit of heavy armour carrying a rotary machine gun. Wolf dove behind a nearby tree whereas the other soldiers took cover behind the sandbag wall. As the heavily armoured ‘juggernaut’ began to spin up his machine gun Wolf looked at Alice and saw the fear in her eyes.

Without taking a second thought Wolf switched his form, letting all his comrades see what he had become before stalking his way around the tree towards the ‘juggernaut’. He rapidly made his way around the tree and lugged at the ‘juggernaut’ catching it off guard causing him to drop the machine gun and attempted to grab what it thought was a large black wolf, but just as it was about to grab him Wolf switched form once more and unloaded the last of his magazine into one of the joint holes around the neck, killing the ‘juggernaut’ almost instantly.

Wolf ejected the magazine out of his gun and loaded a fresh one before turning back towards the cave. Captain Winter raised his side arm with a look of disgust on his face. Wolf looked him dead in the eye before continuing to walk forward

“stop monster” he shouted “what are you”

“I was human before I came here, still mostly am, but that a long story, anyway, the people here did this to me by my request, evidently it was to save not only my life, but Corporal Shaun Raptor's as well and for a while it did” Wolf said, his eyes piercing the captain

Before anything else could be said a burst of rounds flew past Wolf's side, barely missing him and hit the mouth of the cave. Wolf took cover behind a tree once more, he checked his ammo pouches to find he only had one mag left for his assault rifle and two for his pistol

"You fucking idiot, after six years you cant remember to refill your pouches" he whispered to himself

About to peak around the tree another burst of live fire flew past Wolf, this time coming from the mouth of the cave, Initially Wolf thought the rounds were ment for him until he found the tree he was using as cover was covered with blood, with a human corpse next to it. Wolf didnt think about it before peeking around the blood soaked tree and seeing three more human soldiers rushing towards the cave entrance. Wolf hid back behind the tree and drew his kukri and readied it. As the footsteps got closer Wolf swung the blade outward, directly infront of one of the soldiers, the soldier in question had no time to react before the blade went through his neck like a hot knife through butter. As Wolf readied himself to fight the other two hostiles in hand to hand combat the cave move lit up more than fireworks on the forth of july, gunning the two down where they stood

Wolf looked back towards the cave to see Fox and Llama arguing with Captain Arctic. Before anyone could stop her Alice ran from behind the sandbags towards Wolf and embraced him before saying “I don’t care what you are, you’re still the man I fell in love with”

Wolf smiled before going into the cave, once inside he sat upon a large stone and filled the rest of the now stranded soldiers in on the events of the past two years.

One soldier pipped up "holy shit, so your telling me that this place was ruled by talking ponies, griffons and shapeshifting bugs, if i hadn't just seen you turn into a literal wolf I'd ask what you've been smoking"

Wolf stood back up and asked "so, you guys wanna come back with me"

The others looked at each other, Ferret, Fox and Llama already had their equipment packed, and Captain Arctic sat with a disgruntled look on his face, one by one the other soldiers grabbed their equipment and joined Wolf at the mouth of the cave, six of whom were carrying their brethren who were too wounded to move, the rest carrying equipment or dismantling the makeshift defences, the captain finally stood up, but was met with the barrel of Wolfs M9.

Wolf's piercing blood red eyes stared directly at Arctic's hands before he said sternly "Command works differently around here Captain, unless the princesses say otherwise your under my command, understand"

The captain said nothing and just nodded before Wolf lowered his sidearm and quickly reholstered it. Wolf left the cave and the marines followed behind, as they went through the forrest Alice approached Wolf and put a hand on one of his wings, feeling a cold metallic shell, yet a hint of warmth from underneath it. Wolf looked back at her and smiled, still in disbelief that she was here, after two years he didn't know what to say, but then he looked at llama and wondered how he would break the bad news to her.

Alice leaned forward and kissed Wolf's cheek, making his face turn bright red. She bagan to speak in a soft voice "so, alex, i suppose your angry about me going and doing the one thing you told me not to do but i had good reason to"

Wolf cut her off by saying "after two year of scrapping by, im just happy to have you back, i cant remember the last time i was this happy"

Alice blushed before asking "so these princesses, Celestia, Luna and Cadence, how are they, are they nice, strict, caring or brutal"

Wolf laughed before replying "well Luna is kind and caring towards all creatures on our side, Cadence is the same, but Celestia seems to have a stick shoved so far up her arse towards me"

"How so, i thought she of all of them would be grateful to have you with them" Alice asked, making more than a good point

Wolf slightly slowed down before continuing "she always seems to go against my ideas or decisions, its like she always expects me to attempt to overthrow her, which is strange because they've offered me a place on their war council before shit went sideways"

Before Alice could ask another question Wolf Raised his fist, signalling to the others to stop, the three guards, Ferret, Possum and another Soldier called Python raised their rifles until Wolf placed a hand on Ferrets barrel, Before doing anything else Wolf whistled in a strange pattern. After waiting a few seconds a handful of guard ponies approached the group and looked at them.

One of them said in excitement "more creatures like Wolf, were gonna win this war in no time"

The others looked on in awe before Llama reached out her hand and said "my names Izabella, Wolf's told us alot about your people's stuggle and were here to help"

The excited pony gave a screech of joy before allowing the group to pass. As they got closer to the castle more and more ponies turned and looked at the group before Twilight and Applejack appeared from around a corner.

"Wolf where have you been, Celestia's about to blow a fuse" said Applejack, not noticing the other humans behind him

Wolf stepped aside and said "just went to get some backup"

Twilight gasped before running around the group of people with a quill and paper held by magic, taking note after note about the other humans. However before she could ask Wolf anything he said "Twi, would you mind showing our new arrivals to their quarters"

Twilight nodded, to deep in her own mind to comprehend what had just been asked of her before slowly walking into the castle with almost all the new allies behind her. Alice on the other hand stayed with Wolf and followed him to the war room, unbeknownst to him.

When he got their the first thing he asked was "whats the situation, Griffons, Changelings, Timberwolves?"

Luna spoke calmly "nothing of the sort, we had sent Rainbow Dash to your room to check on you, but when she returned she said the room was empty and it seemed like you left in a hurry"

Alice stood quietly directly behind Wolf, hoping not to be noticed before Wolf replied "i was awoken this morning by a distress call coming through my radio, when i answered it i found out that a second, larger group of human soldiers had been transported somehow to equestria, just like me and Raptor, i went to go bring them back here before they got lost in the everfree"

Cadence stepped forth before asking "i sense something differnt about your emotions, you seem almost impossibly happy about this situation, tell us, was there anybody close to you in this group of soldiers"

Before Wolf could reply Alice stepped out from behind him and said "forgive the intrusion your highness' but i along with a couple of Alex close friends were with this group"

Luna smiled, insinuating that she knew exactly who Alice was to Wolf and said "i see, we will trouble you no longer Wolf and miss?"

"Alice" replied Wolf "i hope you will inform Celestia of the good news"

"Indeed" said Cadence before the two alicorn regals left the room

As the reunited couple left the room Alice asked "so, did they not know your name or..."

Wolf sighed before replying "at the start i didn't want to get attached, Rapt.., Shaun went along with it, even when it was just us, either way it didnt help, and it hit me like a truck when he...."

Alice stopped him before saying "babe, he was your brother, you two couldn't be separated until you left, but he's always with you, fighting by your side, even if you cant see him"

Wolf opened the door to his bunk before turning to Alice. All of his emotions he had repressed where finally coming out as he began to sob. Alice pulled him close and held him there until he stopped ctying, then dried his tears. No words were ever needed for how much Alex cared for Shaun, but it was hard to see that in equestria, Wolf kept up a shield of anger or hatred to stop himself from looking weak, but before equestria he was just Alex, a man abused by his parents, only having a small group of trusted friends, and only loving Alice.

Alice kissed Alex before softly whispering "its all ok now, your not alone anymore"

Alex mustered a light, yet real smile before looking around his bunk and saying "well, this is where ive been sleeping, well when im here anyway, i know its not much but, its home know that your here"

"I like it, its cosy and perfect for just the two of us, but please tell me that theirs a lock on the door" Alice said, making Wolf's face go red

Wolf stuttered before saying "well, we have a few hours before sunset, and as much as i hate to say it but we need to clean that bed of dust before we can sleep on it"

The couple got to work cleaning up their bunk room, cleaning off the large bed and dressers of dust, rearranging the furniture in a way that would give them more space for future developments and finally taking down Wolfs hammock, as he wouldnt be sleeping alone anymore.

There was a knock on the thick wooden door just as the pair finished sorting out their room. Alice opened it to meet six colourful ponies on the other side before they started to bombard her with questions, but Alex quickly put a stop tomthat by saying "sorry guys its getting late, and we're about to get some rest, can we answer your questions tomorrow"

The ponies simply nodded before leaving as Alex closed the door

"You didnt need to lie and say we're going to sleep" Alice said, hiding a slight laugh

"Who said i was lying" Alex yawned as he flopped onto the bed

Alice joined him and the pair chatted before dozing off, but it wasnt to last for Alex as he was plagued by the same nightmare he always had, loosing his squad and fighting through a terrorist outpost to find them all dead. His squad mate screams of terror and pain as he made his way through the outpost filled his ears, making him roll in his sleep. Alice woke before Alex to see him shaking his head side to side as his legs moved back and forth, all as he was sweating profusely. As he finally woke from his nightmare Alice crawled beside him and cuddled into him.

"Same nightmare" she asked

Alex simply sighed, which was more than enough to tell her that it was

"Do you remember what happened after that, Shaun found you and began to extract you when you came under fire, Shaun took a bullet and you picked up a rifle and saved not only the squad, but the village that you were in as well, what happened that day was horrible, but it wasn't your fault, but you did all you could to make it right and still bear the scars, both physically and mental, you may not like it but you were always Shauns hero, and you'll always be mine, nothing could ever change that" she kissed his cheek before continuing "you always make me feel safe, no matter what happened, but please get some rest"

Alex put his arm over Alice as he thought she had fell asleep, but it must have been at least another hour before he began sleep again, but over the hour period he was muttering what Alice had said to him, making a still awake Alice smile as the night passed the love filled couple by.

Author's Note

So, before i start this let me apologise for the lack of work being published recently, lives been tough for the past few months, but im back in the saddle (hopefully) but anyway, after this chapter Wolf's character will have two sides, Wolf and Alex, Wolf being the tough, angry and furious side, wheras Alex will be the more soft, loving and caring side. As for the next chapter, it will not be shown from the side of the equines.

Until then, i hope you enjoy reading more stories made by other creators on this wonderful site