A Hunter In The Dark

Dreamscape

Sgt Woods is alot of things but to just throw away the worries of a mission like that brings him an all new disrespect for himself. Woods is currently watching the scene of the fight play out in front of him an hass been watching it on replay for a while now he isn't sure how long He's been there but he has a guess that it's been at least a day or two.

"Young one it was. Not your fault for what has happened you saved your friend's, shouldn't that make you happy?"

Woods doesn't say anything this god like female that he learned was called a pony has been coming to him since he got here he hasn't payed much attention to her mainly cause he fears what she will see in his eyes from being in combat and he doesn't need that can of worms opened just yet. As of right now shes just been trying to get him to talk but he isn't giving in.

"Sigh... if you will not talk then you will listen. I am sorry for what has happened but I hope you will see that you are not to blame for the out come that has befallen you the sooner you talk the sooner you can go back to the waking world the only reason I keep you here, is so you don't end you life as soon as you wake up."

Woods just listens to what she has to say knowing she was right that it wasn't his fault, but why cant he accept it. Why does his mind keep telling him he was the reason behind it.

"Fine then say it wasn't my fault who's is it then because if it wasn't for me ignoring my bad feelings on the mission and just calling command saying it was off none of that would have happened but no I said fuck that and we went in any way! I WALKED MY TEAM INTO A FUCKING TRAP! BECAUSE OF MY CHOICE THEY ARE DEAD AND THERE IS NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT AND YET IM STILL FUCKING HERE WHY!" The enraged Sgt yells while standing in front of her glaring daggers that could kill if he wanted them too.

"Believe me when I say this Sgt your friends are not dead but living thanks to your sacrifice."

"How can I believe you!" The Sgt says while getting closer to the mare.

"Because I saw what had happened, and that is also why I brought you to this world so that you may have another chance at life, you died to early on your world."

Woods just stares at her not knowing what to say but decides to turn away and stare back at the scene before him.

"Show me. I want to see if they really got out of there safely."

With a nod the goddess walks beside him lighting her horn to show what had happened after the explosion.

Woods just watches as the scene begins to play out again as the dust clears from the explosion he sees his team laying on the ground, as he's watching he notices movement among the bodies to see cpl Smith get up and begin to open fire on any insurgent that got close a few seconds later lcpl Grey gets up and joins her in the fight just as they were gonna run out of ammo, and be over run the sound of a 50 cal is heard mowing down the insurgents that got close to the injured team. Smith and Grey turn to see Humvees rolling down the road. A few seconds later the humvees pull up all of the gunners unloading into the enemy force while corpsman and other marines grab the team and get them loaded into the trucks. As soon as they were gone a jet flew over head dropping bombs onto the village destroying the enemy with devastating explosions.

As the scene ends Woods just looks to the mare nodding at her with a look of relief on his face his stance relaxing a bit.

"Alright I believe you, and I feel better knowing that they are ok but I still got one more question for you. Why did you bring me here because a second chance ain't it."

"All in good time young one but I'm afraid our time here is up and you must wake up now."

"Wait what's your name!"

"My name is Faust the former queen of equestria now I must go, and do be nice to my daughters when you awaken."

"With my life I shall see to it, thank you for giving me a chance at life again."

With that the former queen disappears leaving the Marine in the void by himself plundering what she has told him and wondering as to what reason she brought him here.

"Why have you brought someone as dangerous as me to your world Faust? Why?"

Equestria
Date unknown
Time unknown

Woods wakes up in a panic looking around the room he was in noticing no one was there he lays his head back down on the bed wondering who was gonna see he was awake first. As he looks around the room he notices all of his clothes are on a chair in the far corner, but none of his gear is there. 'They must have taken my stuff incase I was hostile, but if they thought that then why not throw me into a prison', with that he attempts to get up but immediately goes back down to the bed as he feels pain rocket threw his body. Woods tries again this time going much slower than he had wanted to, once he was up he made his way to his clothes adorning his desert trousers first the his socks and boots after he was done blousing his boots he put his shirt on, then seeing his dog tags on the chair he grabs them putting them on he decides to go with out his blouse as there is a large hole in the shirt. He just then notices that they washed his clothes for him. Woods starts to think the kind of panic the staff were in when he showed up. Looking around for anything else in the room, and seeing nothing of importance he goes to the door. While initially he had thought they had it locked he was shocked to see that it wasn't, and there was no one in the halls. While holding his side in pain Woods makes his way down the hall at a snail's pace while trying to see if he couldn't find anyone, as he makes his way down he starts to hear chatting coming from on of the rooms it sounded like there are a few people inside so he makes the choice to go inside. Cracking the door slightly he can see it was a large dining room with a large table at the center of the room sitting at the table were two pony's that looked like Faust one white and one a midnight blue the others either had wings horns or none of the two while one that he just realized had both like the other two the other six varied in color, the other alicorn that he had learned to call them was a deep lavender color with a two tone pink strip going through her mane and tail another was a unicorn that was pure white with a purple main one of the pegasus was cyan blue with rainbow colored mane and tail while the other was yellow with a pink mane and tail the other two being what's called an earth pony, one was orange with a blond mane and tail while wearing a Stetson and the other was bright pick with a curly pink mane and tail they were all wearing varying styles of winter clothing.

'At least the time of year is the same.'
Woods hesitates to go further inside but he's not gonna get anywhere by just standing there so with a hesitant breath he pushes the door open a bit more before slipping inside the room. As Woods makes his way to the group of mares that are completely oblivious to his presence he gets to the table and clears his throat gaining the attention of the group, they turn to look at him and their jaws drop and their eyes go wide, none makes a noise and the only ones present that don't show any sign of shock or confusion are the two at the head of the table the white one with a flowing rainbow mane and tail and the midnight blue one with a flowing bluesman and tail that seems to depict the night sky its self... 'was that a shooting star?'.

"Uh.... hi." Was all Woods could say before a blue blue knocked him to the floor.