A different war to fight

As the two men approached the town, they both realised something was wrong. The houses were build out of wood and thatch rather than brick and cement. The two approached cautiously with their weapons raised. Before they entered the town they were stopped by two pony looking creatures that appeared talking to each other. The creatures them selves looked normal to earth standards but unlike the standard earth pony these two had wings. The men went to walk past the creatures but were shocked when the creatures gasped at the sight of them.

Without thinking Raptor raised and pointed his hand gun, but Wolf did the opposite. Wolf realised that the creatures were more focused on their weaponry than what the men were doing. One of the creatures cautiously steped forward towards Raptor, as it got closer it started to slowly raise a hoof towards him. Raptor unsure of what was happening look towards his last living squad mate to realise that he had lowered his weapon, once he saw this he did the same lowering his side arm and putting it back on his hip. Wolf stepped closer towards the creature and moved one of his hands towards the creatures hoof. Once the hoof met the hand the creature started moving their hoof up and down, Wolf did the same.

After they stopped one of the ponys said "Derpy are you sure this is a good idea?"

The creature known as Derpy replied "if these creatures are friendly I'm sure Twilight would want to see them."

This caused Wolf to step back as he was shocked to hear two pony looking creatures to speak. Raptor looked shocked and intrigued, he finally lowered side arm back into its holster.

Raptor lowered himself to the level of the creatures and moved his hand toward them. He said with a friendly tone "my name is Raptor and this is my friend Wolf, who are you?"

The creature replied "my name is Derpy Hooves and my friend is called Fluttershy, would you like to meet our friend Twilight Sparkle?"

Raptor replied "yes we would love to meet your friend, where are they?"

Without thinking twice Derpy said "I can show you, follow me"

before she turned around and started walking into the town. The town was full of ponys and more of the winged creatures, some even had horns. As the marines followed Derpy they were met with scared and confused faces from the inhabitants of the town.

Raptor noticed this and said to Wolf "I dont think they have seen humans before."

Wolf replied "wouldn't you be scared and confused if a pony came into to your hometown armed to the teeth?"

It wasn't long before they reached a large oak tree which looked like some had hollowed it out and was living in it. Derpy turned around and said "were hear, I'll go Introduce you to Twilight."

They approached a of red door at the base of the tree, the door itself looked like a stable door, with two parts to open. Derpy knocked loudly on the doors while shouting "Twilight you should probably see this."

Inside they could hear a loud bang followed by the sound of hooves quickly moving on a wooden floor. Before the men could ask what was going on the door burst open to reveal a purple pony with a horn on its head.

As the men were about to introduce themselves Derpy said "this is Raptor and Wolf, me and Fluttershy found them just outside the town."

As she was saying this Twilight started to look at Raptor and Wolf trying to figure out what they were. Twilight then asked "would you like to come inside?"

The men seeing no other option went inside the large oak tree, they were greeted on the other side by the side of a large library. "So what are you?" Twilight asked the marines.

Wolf responded "we are humans from what appears to be either another planet or another dimension."
Twilight then asked "how did you get here?"

Raptor replied "we were flying a helicopter attempting to avoid being shot down when another helicopter crashed into us causing us to crash into a building, that's all we can remember."

Twilight took in every word of the soldier's story still trying to think of anything that could bring a large chuck of mass across the galaxy, but another dimension would require an even larger amount of magical power. She turned towards her many bookshelves and retrieved a handful of book on the powerful magic users in equstria but found nothing, it would take all all the strongest magic users in equstria and more to transport something that big that far.

She put this aside for now and turned back to the 2 men "so do you two have facial features or is it just those masks?" Asked Twilight curious of the appearance of the marines.

"Oh sorry" Wolf replied "I'm so used to wearing this I sometimes forget I have it on."

Wolf removed his boonie hat and balaclava to reveal a 26 year old man with shaggy hair and a 5 o'clock shadow. Raptor removed the last of his flight gear revealing a 28 year old man with a clean shave and pony tail.

"Would you mind if we ask you a few questions?" asked Wolf wanting to know more about the strange lands he find himself in.

"Sure" replied "you can ask your questions as I show you around the rest of the town, while we're doing that I could talk to the mayor about getting you two a house to stay in."

Hearing this shocked the men with how easily they had gained the pony's trust.

As they were going through the town Wolf started asking his questions.
"So where are we?" he asked quickly receiving a response

"you're in equstria, the town you're currently in is called Ponyville, most of the inhabitants are ponys, pegasia and unicorns."

He then asked a second question "why do you trust us, I mean we haven't really given you a reason?"

Yet again receiving a quick reply "you have been truthful with every question we have asked you."

satisfied with this answer he asked his final question "have you ever encountered humans or any creature like us before?"

This question took a bit longer to get an answer but she responded with "no we haven't encountered creatures like you before."

As she answered they reached edge of the town. off in the distance is the everfree forest, but the men weren't paying attention to what Twilight was saying, they were more focused on what was staring at them from the edge of the forest.

"Twilight, what are those?" Raptor asked only to get a shocked expression for the purple unicorn.

She answered "Timberwolves" visibly trembling.

It was like the timber wolves were waiting for someone to recognise them so they could start there rapid approach.

"Run!" Twilight shouted, but the plea fell on deaf ears.

Instead of fleeing like Twilight was hoping, the marines grabbed their side arms and raised them in the direction of the approaching wolves. As soon as they were in range they opened fire on the wooden wolves, shattering a few of them within the first few shots.

As the wolves got closer and closer the men reached for their CQC weapons, Raptor drew a standard combat knife with an engraving of a horse on the blade, Wolf drew a large kukri blade from his hip. The small amount of timber wolves left from constant fire didn't stand a chance against the well trained marines. Whilst looking at the wreckage from the fight that noticed something strange on the leftover bark. It was an insignia of another species, the Griffons.

Twilight taking in what has just happened looked at the piece of back leftover from the Timberwolves and a look of horror came over her face.

Before the men could see the horrified look on Twilight's face, she took her mind off of what see just saw by asking "so, do you two still want that house?"

Wolf responded "as I'm sure Raptor would love to have a nice place to sleep in, I'm going to set up camp just inside of the forest."

Twilight looked shocked "why in the name of celestia would you want to live in the Everfree forest?" She asked in utter confusion.

Wolf quickly responded "I've been living a barracks for far too long so I'm going to stay in the Everfree so that I can get a chance to camp out for a little bit, I can also act as a scout in case more Timberwolves decided that it would be a good idea to attempt to attack the town again, if mine and Raptor's radios still work I can easily send a warning to the town."

Wolf started to head towards the everfree before being stopped by Twilight "if you're sure you want to stay out there I can only warn you that there is much bigger creatures than Timberwolves out in that forest."

Wolf took a minute to make his decision before replying "I know that there's bigger creatures out there, but it's more reason for me to act as a scout, if something that big is close to town it would be great for you to have a warning."

Knowing she couldn't stop Wolf Twilight let him go and disappear back into the everfree.

She turned back to Raptor "so, are you still interested in that house?" she asked.

Raptor without thinking twice replied "there is no way I'm going back into that forest without a good reason."

So the pair set out to see the mayor of ponyville.