2 years ago

Darkness was what surrounded Max as he opened his eyes, darkness and the smell of smoke, and burning diesel. As his senses came back darkness gives way to bright blue sky ringing ears and the scorching heat of sand surrounding him, Max picks himself up looking around finding fellow marines engaging enemy insurgents, one completely destroyed hmmwv and the one he was in turned over onto its side. Looking to the ground Max finds his m4 laying in the sand, picking it up his hearing comes back to him letting the sounds of gun fire and screaming, running to the wall his guys are behind laying down suppressive fire.

"SMITH! WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED!?" Yelled MAX

"I'M NOT SURE CPL, SANDROVER ONE HIT A IED, AND WE PROCEEDED TO TAKE FIRE FROM INSURGENTS ABOUT 500M EAST FROM OUR POSITION."

"WHERE THE FUCKS THE RADIO AT!?"

"STILL IN SANDROVER 2!"

"KEEP THOSES MOTHERFUCKERS BACK!"

"CAN DO CPL!"

With that Max ran back to his vic climbing into the cab and grabbing the radio. Running back to smith Ma slams his shoulder into the wall coming to a stop. Max tries to turn on the radio with no good results.

"COME ON COME ON TURN ON!" Max yells, giving it a good smack the radio starts its turn on process.

"YES!" Max yells in triumph as a round flies over head.

"FUCK!" He yells popping out of cover sending rounds down range before ducking back.

Going back to the radio Max pushes the call button praying that it'll work.

"HORNET-1A DO YOU COPY THIS IS HUNTER-1 WE NEED AIR SUPPORT NOW!"

"We read you Hunter-1 what is your position?"

"3 KLIKS WEST OF MAIN SUPPLY ROUTE BRAVO ENIMES WILL BEMARKED WITH SMOKE!"

"Roger Hunter-1 we are in route eta 2 minutes out." with that the radio went quite.

'Fuck they better hurry their ass's up.' Max thought to him self as he made his way over to smith keeping his head down.

"ETA 2 MINUTES WE NEED TO HOLD THE LINE HERE UTILL THEN."

"ROGER CPL." Smith yells as she lays down more rounds into the on coming insurgents.

*CLICK* "FUCK! IM OUT COVER ME!"

Max jumps up to lay down hate and discontent while smith is reloading until rounds hit right in front of him causing him to duck back down.

"GOD DAMNIT!" just as Max was about to pop back up the radio comes to life.

"Hunter-1 this Hornet-1A 30 seconds out where's that marking?"

" TARGET ZONE 475M EAST OF RED SMOKE!" Max yells as he throws smoke out.

"loud and clear Hunter-1."

"ROGER, NOW BURN THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS!"

"EVERYBODY GET DOWN!" With that jets flew over head with the sound of explosions and 20mm Gatling guns sounded off over head as the jets circled back and head back Max stood up to look out at the aftermath, dust smoke and fire filled the air. untill everything started to shake.

"Max? Max?! MAX!!" then everything went black.

Max's room castle of friendship ponyville

As Max came to everything was blurry, and there was a figure over him, as his half awake mind tried to process flashes of being attacked came to mind and on instinct his hand shot up to the figures throat twisting him and his attacker around he slams them to the bed bringing his fist up about to strike before two more sets of hands grab him and pull him off trying while trying to restrain him as he struggles against his attackers he faintly hears his name being called and the first figure walking up to him.

"Max? Max its alright its us your not in danger its your friends." the figure says as he feels soft hands being placed on the sides of his face, and feels a warmth surround him as a lavender glow fills his vision.

"wha? where am i? what happened? Twilight?" realizing he was still being held by two sets of hands realization struck him as he looks at twilight finding the fur around her neck was ruffled and the under skin was starting to bruise.

"oh shit." Max whispers to himself.

"Twi...Twilight I'm so sorry I didn't mean to I don't know what happened." Max says as the hands let him go and he falls to his knees looking down to the ground.

Twilight Drops down to meet him at eye level grabbing his face and bringing his eyes to up to look at her own.

"Its alright you didn't know where you were, and had a small panic attack brought on by PTSD no one was hurt alright."

"That may be, but if your friends hadn't stopped me it could have been worse I'm to dangerous to be around you girls I should be locked up in a mental hospital, or dead." Twilight and the girls all look at him mouths covered eyes wide at what they just heard.

"Max dear why would you say such a thing about your self there's no reason for you to think that, we all know you wouldn't do such a thing to any of us." says Rarity

"Yea maxi don't be so hard on your self it was just an accident you didn't mean anything by it you where just scared." says pinkie pie.

*sigh* "Girls i think its time i tell you all the truth or at least some of it mainly what exactly happened before I got here and why I had that attack not gonna reveal all of what I've done but its a start."

"But you already told us what happened your team walked into a trap and you saved your teammate which lead you to coming here." says rainbow

"Yes that is a very basic idea of what happened, but I didn't tell you all that happened that night and what happened to my jr marine..."

2 hours later

"And after the jets pulled back all that was left of the enemy forces was burned and torn apart bodies that wouldn't even be recognized by their parents." After what the girls just heard all they could do was sit in silence how could one stallion or even a man in this case go through so much see so much and come out almost completely unscathed. most of them had tears in their eyes pinkies hair was completely straight and fluttershy was full on crying, applejack was hiding behind her hat and rainbow was trying to hold back her tears.

"And now you all know just a bit of what I've done and seen."

"Max I'm... I'm so sorry that you went through all that... I don't even know what to say I..."

"It's fine Twilight I've made peace with what I've done even though the demons don't want to leave."

"I'm sorry I need to go write a letter Girls can you stay here with him?" Asks Twilight.

As twilight walks out of the room leaving the girls to keep an eye on Max she couldn't stop but think of ways she can help him if there was, but any way to help him princess Luna was the one to ask about it.

'I just hope I'm right about this, and Luna actually can help.' after getting to her study Twilight grabs a quill and a piece of paper and sat down at her desk.

~ Dear Princess Luna ~...

Author's Note

hey guys and gals what's going on well news i might have covid yea any way now I'm kind of stuck cant leave my room due to it so yea just waiting for my results so I'm gonna try knock a bunch of chapters out until I'm cleared anyway have a great thanks giving.