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POV: Impact

I sighed as I heard the sounds of the storm getting closer to the shelter. By this point, my gut was telling me that nature wasn't going to be on my side. I had heard from the princess that the ponies controlled the weather. Now, I don't believe that, but all I need to know at the moment is that I got a storm coming, and I have a dog to protect.

Speaking of which, the dog was no longer in bed anymore. Somehow while I was keeping watch, the dog got off the bed, and he is now lying beside me. By this point, I knew that I was responsible for this pup, or at least until I could find its owner or someone that could take care of him.

I quickly said to the dog, "Until we find out where you came from, your new name is Orion." The dog gazed up at me and gave me what I assumed to be a smile.

If I remember correctly, there was a pony town nearby. I started to think that this pup might've come from there but then that got me thinking."Could this be someone's pet?" I shook that thought out of my head as I remembered that I'm in the middle of the woods. I took my focus off of the door and began to think about where Orion came from. I looked down at him and saw that he was shaking again. I set my gun down and picked him up. I set Orion down in my lap and began to try to calm him down.

I turned my attention back to the door as the pup began trembling even harder. Something was telling me that the dog knew something bad was going to happen. I got up from my spot with the pup still in my arms and I put him on the bed. I made my way to the door and looked outside. As I looked at the storm raging on I could feel something watching me. I immediately put my scanner in front of my right eye and scanned the area.

As I scanned from left to right I could make out something in the bushes ahead. I had a really bad feeling that whatever was watching me wasn't friendly. I kept watching as the scanner picked up something in front of me. I turned around and jogged back towards my weapons and grabbed my sniper and went back to the door. I went prone at the door and set up the bipod on my weapon.

The storm was making it difficult to make out the animal that was in front of me. I zeroed in on the animal as I saw a pair of yellow eyes looking back at me through the scope. Not wanting to take any chances I hurried back and grabbed my DC-15A. When I got back to my sniper and looked through the scope I could see more than one pair of yellow eyes.

"Karabast! Where did they all come from?" I watched as the eyes slowly began to get closer. I could see the shadowy forms of a few animals. Eventually, a bunch of timberwolves came out of the bushes, and they began making their way towards me. I counted six and without hesitation, I fired my sniper at the nearest wolf and killed it. Seeing the fight coming, I quickly began shooting my DC-15A.

Seeing as I was attacking, the timberwolves began to charge at me. I was able to eliminate two of them before they could get close. One of them jumped at me and I punched it right in the face. Another slammed into me as I was getting up, and I fell to the ground. I watched as a timberwolf went into the cave. I realized that they could probably smell Orion. The timberwolf on top of me tried to bite my head, but I quickly moved my head out of the way.

I grunted as I tried to move my gun; I couldn't move my right arm as the timberwolf's paws were crushing it. Trying to get out of the wolf's grip, I fired my weapon and a laser bolt went through the timberwolves paw, it yelped and lifted its paw. Seeing the opportunity, I quickly pushed the timberwolf off of me and attempted to get up. Just as I got up, the other timberwolf that was still alive hit me.

Not wanting to get trapped underneath the other timberwolf, I quickly rolled out of the way. I was lucky I didn't topple over; I quickly grabbed my DC-15A off the ground and shot the two timberwolves. Not wasting any time I ran into the shelter and saw the remaining timberwolf chasing Orion around. I aimed at the timberwolf and fired three shots at it, all of them hit the timberwolf in the head. As it fell over, I took a deep breath and went down on my knees.

Unfortunately, it seems that one of the timberwolves survived getting shot as I heard a growl, I then felt it bite my shoulder. I yelled as I got lifted into the air and slammed on the ground. I felt the timberwolf shake me around, the pain in my shoulder getting worse. I grunted as I elbowed the timberwolf in the face.

It let go of my shoulder and I felt myself bleeding a little under my armor. I quickly spun around, only to see it jump at me. I grabbed my blaster and quickly aimed it up and pulled the trigger a few times. I began to scoot back as the timberwolf's body hit the ground in front of me with three holes in it. My eyes were glued to the door in case any other more wolfs decided to surprise me.

After a few minutes had passed I looked back to see Orion hiding in the corner. I sat up, and I quickly fell to one knee as I could feel the bite wound on my shoulder. I took a deep breath and got up; I made my way over to Orion. When I made it over, I knelt beside Orion and began to pet him. "Its okay boy, there gone now."

Orion looked up at me with scared eyes and it nearly melted my heart. I looked over Orion's body to make sure that the timberwolfs didn't hurt him. I lifted him and looked around my now destroyed shelter. The door and the bed were wrecked by the timberwolves and rain from the storm began to get through.

"Well buddy, it looks like were going to have to move out of this cave." I was now convinced that there had to be a cave of timberwolves nearby. There was no way that there were this many timberwolves here; I also began to think about Orion's safety. The little guy could've been killed by one of those wolves. I set him down and began to gather my things so we could leave. Thankfully, I was given a map by the princess, I got it out and began to look at it.

From what I could tell, the nearest town was Dodge Junction. I looked at the area of the map we were in and began to look for a nearby path. After figuring out the quickest way there I put the map in my backpack. I attached my sniper to my bag and holstered my pistol. I didn't have much on me, but I put whatever was important in the bag.

I then looked to Orion, and then at the bag. I went over to him and picked him up, I did notice when I picked him up that he seemed calmer. I rubbed his head a little and put him in the backpack. He seemed to enjoy being in the bag as I could hear his tail smacking against the bottom of the backpack. I grinned as I went over to the destroyed door and picked it up. The fur seemed to be in decent shape even though a timberwolf crashed right through it.

I walked back over to my backpack and I saw my vibroknife right next to it. I smacked myself in the helmet as I realized that I could've stabbed the timberwolf that was on me if I had it with me. A sigh came from me as I picked it up. I began to cut around the damaged area of the fur. I made sure that the fur was still big enough to cover the top of my backpack. I was trying to make sure that no water could get through the top and into the backpack.

I flinched as I could feel the wound on my shoulder. I'm guessing that the adrenaline had runoff and that the pain is now hitting me in full force. I began to take off the top half of my armor to get a good look at the wound. I saw that it was bleeding pretty badly, but I was just able to see where the bite mark was. I got a few clean bandages and began to apply them to the wound. I wasn't able to tell if there was anything else wrong with it. I flinched every time a layer would go over the bite mark, but I stayed strong and relaxed.

Once the bandages were on I put my armor back on and flinched even more as the plates were pressing against the bandages. I tried my best to disregard the pain in my shoulder, but it wasn't getting any better. I took one last look around the shelter before going over to my backpack. I set the fur on top of the backpack and made sure that Orion could breathe. I carefully lifted the backpack and made sure that the fur was still fully covering the top.

I grabbed my remaining weapons and holstered them with the exception of my DC-15A, which I was going to carry. Luckily for me, the storm seemed to be letting up a bit and the rain was slowly going away. I made sure everything was on me and I stepped outside of the cave. Once I was out of the cave I began to lightly jog towards the trees. I was hoping that I could get to the river before morning.

I was watching every direction, I was hoping that the timberwolves wouldn't be hunting us as we traveled throughout the night. Orion was constantly poking his head out of the backpack as we went. I could tell when he was peeking out of the backpack, when he did I could feel his body move.

Luckily for me, I got plenty of sleep before doing this. Back when I was fighting against the separatists, I remember staying up for 48 hours on scouting missions. My body got used to me staying up for long periods of time. I also don't know if the Kaminoans made it so that clone troopers don't need as much sleep as others, but it didn't matter at the moment. I stopped thinking about all of that and regained my focus on finding Dodge Junction.

After jogging through the woods for a bit I came across the river, I set my pack down and grabbed my map. Looking at the map I found out we needed to go northwest if we wanted to avoid going back into the woods. Judging from how quickly we got over to the river, I assumed that we should reach Dodge Junction by early morning, maybe even a bit earlier if we end don't end up stopping. I put the map back in my backpack and I checked on Orion one more time before putting the backpack on. I started following the river as I kept watching my surroundings.

Author's Note

FYI, I'm going to be using this map of Equestria this story. for
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