A strange alliance

Location: Castle of The Two sisters
Time:1200

"Nice Fucking shot Lyra I told you with a few days of practice you'd get better!"

"I can't believe I actually hit the center!" She exclaimed.

I let her shoot the M4 and M50, so far shes been making great progress. We had to work out the kinks like her using her magic and stuff to shoot since she didn't have fingers but it's not a problem for her anymore. I taught her how to take apart the weapons and to put them together again and made sure she knew the basic fire arm safety along with knowing how to clean each component of the rifle.

"Back in basic if we even had a a untightend screw our whole platoon was fucked" I remembered the one time a recruit forgot to tighten his barrel and it fell off during target practice. "There was this-"

One if the traps went off up front. I grabbed the M4 and ran around the side, the smoke from the bladt cleared and parts of a dead Griffin laid at the front of the bridge. A few more Griffins popped up and I aimed at them.

"I thought we came here to talk peace withcthe thing not get blown up!" One of them shouted.

"The creature probably set these up for those Equestrians" The female one said. She stepped forward carefully and and looked towards the castle. "Hello is anyone there!? We just want to talk!"

"Allan what should we do?" Lyra asked from the walkie. I thought for a moment before thinking they could actually want to talk.

"Watch my back I'll go see what they want" I ordered. I stood up and slowly walked to her With my rifle still trained on her.

The Griffin saw me and looked nervous as I got closer. The other Griffins stood behind her waiting to see what would happen.

"What do you want?"

The female Griffin stepped up after getting herself together. "I am Captain Ibara of the Griffin Stone Imperial Guard, I got word that a creature was causing quite the chaos in Equestria and just so happens to hate the princess as much as we do" She pointed to me.

"If you came here to drag me into your war you can go fuck off I had a run in with you Griffins a while back and they seemed eager to kill me" I said with annoyance

"Yes I heard of them, they were supposed to take you alive in a peaceful manner but it would seem killing you was better to them" She looked down in shame at the actions of her soldiers.

I slightly raised my rifle at her and furrowed my brows. "Yeah and killing you seems to be better for me"

The Griffin stepped back and her guards moved next to her. "Look I know what that Celestia did to you in her interrogation room. I've seen her turn my own soldiers against us with that spell forcing us to cut them down"

I lowered my rifle at that. "I know what it to be forced to kill your friends..." I muttered remebering a time back in Afghanistan.

(Flash back)
Location: Afghanistan, FOB
Time:0233

"PUT THE GUN DOWN KYLE!" I ordered. Kyle held the barrel of M9 to a Privates head who was scared shitless. Kevin was going through some shit and we we're gonna send him state side to get checked out but I dont think that'll be happening.

"I WON'T LET Y'ALL KILL ME!!" He screamed. I could see his eyes and tears flooded down his face, he was captured and tortured by ISIS cells and we found him barely alive and planned on getting him home.

"Kevin no ones gonna hurt you but I need you to put the gun down before you hurt someone" I nodded to the marine who was being held hostage. "Kevin I want to get you home but please don't let it be in a bag man" My voice cracked.

He backed up with the marine, we had him cornered so this was going to end one way our another. I didn't want to put down my friend and I sure as hell didn't want to let a fellow marine die like this.

"They made me do it I didn't want to I swear" He raised the pistol at me and I pulled the trigger and the bullet went straight through his skull.

The marine he held hostage fell to his knees and crawled away. I dropped my rifle and and walked over to the body of my friend whom I wanted to save but failed to do so. I cried that night holding him in my arms as the medics came to get the body.

"I'm sorry..."

(End of Flash back)

"So yeah I killed my friend because he was turned agasint us, now if you don't kind leaving I have things to attend too" I said walking away.

"W-We can offer protection for you from the princess!" The Griffin blurted out. I stopped and looked back at her.

"What's the catch?"

She rustled her feathers before speaking. "Well your obviously a good strategist since you've evaded the ponies for so long, maybe you could help direct our troops if it comes to blows with us and Equestria"

"You want me to guide your soldiers if you go to war here?" I tilted my head. "I can't give you my weapons if that's what else you want"

She shook her head. "No No we don't want your weapons we just need a good leader and if it comes to it an assassin"

I chuckled at the assassin part. "Lady I'm a Raider not some stupid SEAL team 6, And even though I would enjoy killing everything here I can't" I loved the SEALs but we all know Raiders is where it's at.

"If we were able to notify your leaders and request help would you then do it?" She proposed.

I sighed in annoyance and deadpaned at her. "I mean if you can some how contact the United States of America then yeah I'll be happy to go run and gun down ponies but you won't be able to contact them since I'm on another fucking planet" I waved my hand around the area stating my point.

Her eyes widened and her jaw dropped. "Y-your and alien? I thought those were myths!"

"Well not anymore now if you will excuse me I have something I need to do before making a decision" I 180'd and walked back to the doors making sure not to step on my own traps.

Lyra jumped down from her post and trotted up to me. "What did they want?"

"They offered protection for my teachings and leading their army agasint Equestria"

"WHAT!? Your not going to help them are you?"

"Fuck no not unless my country calls for it I'm out of this bitch, this ain't my war but that doesn't mean I won't hesitate to kill anyone here"

"So..."

"So I'm not sure what I'll do, I can't go to your princess unless I want to-" I was interrupted by the sounds of fighting and screams outside.

I grabbed my HK and Lyra took the M4 and we ran outside. The Griffins were attacked by Equestrian guards andbthsy brought an entire battalion. I crawled into the humvee and cocked the .50 opening fire on the ponies, the Pegasus were a huge problem as they were dive bombing us with some kind of gas, the Griffins however used some kind of mask to cover their faces and kept fighting. I was hacking up my guts and crawled back inside, I opened the little truck in the back and pulled out two gas masks for me and Lyra.

"Lyra p...put this on!" I yelled dying from coughing. She struggled to put it on so I helped her then put mine on and got back on the .50.

A hoof grabbed me, I looked up and it was a Pegasus trying to yank me out. I grabbed his head and slammed it agasint the edge of my gunner shirld covering it in blood, I pushed him off and continued firing through the thick gas fog. It was hard to see so I decided It was time for phase two, Lyra out the humvee in gear and pulled us back to the castle.

"Yo Fall back to the castle!" I shouted to the Griffins. They flew to us to avoid the traps letting the ponies trigger them. Once we were inside we shut the door and blocked it off with a shelf.

"Where do we go now?" One of the Griffins asked rather worried.

"If we can't hold them here we fall back to the dungeons and there's a broken wall we can escape from," I pulled out a C4 charge and primed it. "I'll cover the escape by bringing down the whole castle I set charges all throughout the place and once I detonate the charge this will be their grave"

The female Griffin stepped forward. "What can we do?"

"What's your name?"

"Captain Ibara of the 2nd Battalion Griffin Army"

"Alright Captain set you men on the left side, me and Lyra will cover the center and right side and with these hallways destroyed they can only come in the front or above" I ordered.

We were set in our positions waiting for them to break through. The sounds of banging filled my ears as the door slowly dwindled down. I reached into my pouch on my vest and pulled out my cross, I closed my eyes and bowed my head.

"Lord I know its been a while simce we've last spoke but I am here now to ask for your strength to defeat my enemy. I pray you allow us to see tomorrow, I pray you show the enemy mercy for I shall show none. Amen" After I finished the door bursted into pieces and they started swarming in. I opened fire on the middle section as arrows and light beams shot past me.

Lyra took out a group of unicorns then I tossed a frag at them causing blood and parts fly everywhere. Screams of pain could be heard over the gunfire and traps exploding, I shot a pony trying to crawl away with his intestines hanging out as a sign of no survivors. Ibara and her guys were holding their own for now so I wasn't worried...until a black ball flew towards them blowing up half of her guys. I focused fire on the left but they were using those magic shields that held of my bullets for a little while

"Lyra grab Ibara and help them get to the dungeons I'll cover you!" I called to her.

"Okay!" She ran towards Ibara and only one of her guards were still alive and they carried Ibara to the dungeon stairs.

I tossed two more frags before getting my stuff and blowing up the humvee knowing I'd find it later. Arrows wizzed by me one of them hitting my pack, I turned around and lifted the C4 charge and squeezed the button. The whole castle shook from explosions in every direction, the force of the blow sent me tumbling down the stairs.

I landed on my pack at the bottom and groaned in discomfort. Lyra stood over me then dragged me over to a wall, I pulled off my gas mask a chuckled for no reason.

"You okay?" Lyra asked.

I nodded numbly. "Never better," I looked over to Ibara and her guard who were fucked up. "Hey captain you broken?"

She smirked "Nope just resting for a second"

We then got back to our feet/hooves and started making our way towards the last cell where the box and exit was. I had to move the box that revealed the hole in the wall to the forest. I had the Griffin Guard go first then Ibara. Lura was next but then the sounds of yelling and hooves stomping came closing in fast.

"Shit they already dug down" I looked to the box and weighed out my options. I could leave it and risk the ponies getting it or hold down the fort while they escape. "Lyra help me get this on"

We moved to the box and opened it revealing the Juggernaut suit issued by the Marine Corps along with a M134 minigun. We pulled it out and I started putting it on as fast as humanly possible, I threw the whole body plate armor over the suit and Lyra slipped on the arm amd leg guards. Once we finished I put on the helmet and picked up the M134.

"I'll cover the escape now go" I said muffled by the suit.

She was about to protest but knew it wouldn't help. "I'll wait for you on the other side"

"Thank you...for everything" I said pushing the box back over the hole. I walked out of the cell and towards the voices with a smile on my face. I pressed the radio on my shoulder letting music play loudly for everyone to hear. They ponies stopped at the end of the hallway and stared in horror at the giant freedom machine that would Baptize them in bullets.

"Semper Fi mother fuckers!"

Author's Note

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"If they stand behind you, give them protection. If they stand beside you, give them respect. If they stand against you, give them hell"