Okay, first of all, being blown up by a grenade is not pretty, especially if a shard almost sliced off your ass. Oh, sorry, where's my manner? My name is Jake Chen, 24 year-old captain of my awesome Special Operation Task Force the "Leopard". I served the PLA, a.k.a People's Liberation Army, well, until not long ago. I was fighting an intense fire fight with my trusty teammates with a column of god-damned terrorists.

Me and my squad's mission is to sneak into a terrorist camp site where they placed their nuclear warhead. Yes. A. Fucking. Nuclear. Warhead that pointed directly at Bei Jing ( Capital of China) with five smaller nuclear warhead in the big bug's head. We airborne behind the enemy lines as usual from a Xi'an Y-20, at 5 o'clock. Our location is classified, obviously. After half a hour searching through the woods, my scout reported back to me that a small camp-site is spotted near the woods' end. Without a second thought I immediately confirmed that there's our target.

I ordered my sniper team to stay cloaked and t provide fire-support. The scout would also stay hidden to provide me some informations that I'd need. The rest of my boys would come with me to disable the Nuclear Warhead. Simple eh?

No.

It turns out that this entire place is filled with terrorists. Two times more than what I expected.

"War Hawk, do we continue?" One of my buddies, Eric asked. War Hawk is my code name, I replied, "Positive Tiger, you know what a nuclear warhead would do to a city big as Bei Jing." Eric nodded before looking out from the bushes we're hiding in. Suddenly, I heard noises coming from my 10 o'clock. I signaled my boys to stay still, soft breathing coming from them wee the only sounds I heard besides from the trash-talking terrorists.

The movement stopped a few feet from me, but still my grip on my QBZ-95 Automatic Rifle did not soften. Just when I was about to make another move, I felt something wet pouring down from my helmet. I looked up and greeted by a widened-eyed middle-aged guy with an AK-47 hanging from his shoulder. His private part is exposed.

"Sonnova Bitch."

Before he could react, I grabbed his neck and twisted it hard until it snaps. I let go of him as soon as his body went limb, I winced at the "pretty" smell coming from my helmet.

"Well, at least someone is stupid enough to shit on you." Eric said, trying to hold back a snort.

"Shut up." I glared at him.

Maybe it was the sound the dead terrorist made when he fell, his finger somehow triggered the rifle, probably from his fall. With a loud BAM of a gunshot, it set off the entire camp.

"And here goes our cover." Eric said as he cocked his rifle and took down an incoming terrorist.

Now my squad is engaging heavy enemy fire, which included .50 cals, RPGs, and AKs. Though the sniper team is trying their best to cover for us, their location was soon exposed and was blown up a RPG.

"GOD DAMN!!!" Eric shouted, "I DON"T REMEMBER ANYTHING ABOUT HEAVY FIREARMS DURING BRIEFING!!!!"

"WELL THEY CAUGHT US OFF GURARD!" I shouted back, but I doubt he heard me over the annoying gunshots and explosions, "ADVANCE TOWARDS THE WARHEAD AND KEEP LOW!!!"

My squad moved slowly towards the Warhead, but closer we gets, the crazier the resistance gets. Now we're getting pinned down by more than five .50 calibers pointing at us. Without the help of our sniper, we're basically waiting fro our deaths. But I had no regrets. The moment I joined PLA, I was tied to my country. I sweared to protect my country, my families, my people, and my loved ones from harm. And tell you what, an soldier's last wish is to be KIA on the battlefield, it's something glorious instead of scary.

But if we died before disabling the warhead, then millions of innocents would lose their lives. I must make a sacrifice. Why? Cuz first of all, I don't have a family. Yes, I'm an orphan. Second of all, I have no one to love but my country, which I'll be saying good-bye to. I called support from the radio I brought before telling my brothers one last thing from me.

"Ok, I contacted with HQ, they'll send in Helicopters in 20 minutes, I want you to hold this position as soon as possible . I, will go disable the Warhead." Almost immediately after I said this, Eric begin to argue. But I stopped him with glare.

"This is an order. Soldier!" He shut up.

Eric and the rest of my boys took out smoke grenades and pulled the pins before tossing them out. Three thick smoke screen were released. Immediately I sprinted towards the warhead, zig-zagging to avoid incoming bullets. Luckily, I made it to the warhead without being shot.

Suddenly, I heard voices coming from behind, three terrorists ran into me from a corner. They open fired, so did I. The three of them fell onto the ground, dead. I took a few hit too. Two in my stomach and three on my legs. Pain came up to me like never before. I grunted before reaching out for my grenade. The switch is on top of me, I can't reach it due to my wounds. My vision became darker, everything begin to blur out, gunshot sounded more distant, I gritted my teeth and used the last bit of my energy to pull the pin.

Then.

BOOM!!!

My vision went black.

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Pain.

Pain.

Pain.

Pain is all I can feel.

Hold up, I can feel pain? I'm... Alive? That is just simply not possible. Uh-uh, nope, nada. Impossible. No one can survive two shots from 7.62mm rounds in their gut. I doubt even the toughest man in the world can. But here I am, breathing, with absolutely no wound on my gut and legs.

My equipments were still on me. I slowly opened my eyes. But I immediately shut it when a bright light beam pierce through my eyes. No, I remembered that it was 6 o'clock during my fight. And now, the position of the sun looks like it was at afternoon. Am I in heaven? Good guess, but no.

After been flashbanged for about a few seconds, my eyes is slowly adjusting the environment. I looked around, I was in a... forest? I was fighting in the woods am I not? And there's absolutely no gunshot, not even a single word were heard. Only the sounds of bird chirping and inserting calling were heard. No human-made sounds, just the good' o sounds of Mother Nature.

"Where am I?" I asked myself, it didn't helped much, so I decided to explore this new yet strange area.

I haven't heard or smell the nature for about three years now. All those annoying city-sounds is giving me headaches. But this... forest is giving me a strange yet happy feeling. The smell of fresh air and grass,I didn't smell anything from the gunshots or explosives... Wait.

I suddenly realized that gunshots and explosions should be happening around me if I'm still around in that forest where the gunfight broke out, if there's none here... then...

No.

No. No. No.

I was terrified at this thought. But it all sounded ridiculous.

"Okay, Jake, no pressure, I'll radio my way outta here, deep breath. There's nothing to worry about, there's nothing to---" I was soon cut off by some strange nosies coming from the bushes. Immediately I raised by rifle and pointed at the bush. A second later, a white fur ball came hopping out. My glares immediately softened at the sight of the cutest little bunny I've ever seen on Earth. Pretty sure I'm no longer on that... lousy planet.

"Phew, hey there little guy, don't sneak around the bushes next time, you almost give me a heart-attack." I said softly to the little bunny. It eyed me curiously before hopping away.

I turned and my heart stopped for a few seconds, "WHAT THE F--!!!"

In front of me, is a face. No, a creature. It's about 5 foot tall, with creamy fur and dark orange curly furs around its neck and head, it had scales on its back, a wood-shaped horn was on its forehead. What attracted me the most were its eyes. Big. Cute. Golden eyes. But the sudden appearance still made me jumped at least a few inches.

I backed away slightly from this creature, I supposed that it's a she since she had female-like eyelashes. We just stared at each other foe an awkward few moment before I decided to break the awkward silence, "Uh... Hi?"

Almost immediately the creature's eyes widened in surprise and happiness as soon as "Uh, hi" came out of my lips.

"Oh my Celestia! You talked!" It continued, I suppose that she's a talkative type due to her bubbly and non-stop talking mouth, "I thought Rain Shine is the only one who prefers to talk besides other villagers but now there's another one who's willing to talk! Yay!" It continued talking until I snapped my fingers next to her ears.

"Uh, sorry to interrupt you but... could you talk slower?" I suggested.

"Oh, sorry, it just that there's haven't been any visitors and creature who talks coming to our village lately. Where are my manners? My name is Autumn Blaze, what's yours?" she asked.

"Autumn, I liked the name, it sound... beautiful." I complimented, making her blush a bit, "Yeah I'm good at making females blush, name's Jake." I said. Then I looked around and asked her my biggest question yet, "Would you mind telling me where is this place?"

"Of course, I'm the Kirin Foreign Ambassador and representative of the Kirin race to newcomers. This is the Perilous Peaks, you're near my village. And just incase you have any questions, this is Equestria, planet Equis. You're not from around here aren't you?" Autumn asked.

That struck me hard. Kirin. Fuck, am I day dreaming? No, she did her species were called Kirin. But... she looked different then what I read and saw from Wikipedia, movies, and books.

"You... Are a Kirin?" I asked carefully.

"Why yes? IS there any problem with that?" she tiled her head, I tried really hard not to say 'aww'. Cuz that head-tilt is sooooo adorable.

“No! Not at all, it just..." I struggled to find the correct word, trying not to hurt her feelings or make her feel he's a threat, "Ok, here's the truth, I'm not from tis world."

There's a brief silence before Autumn exclaimed, "YOU'RE AN ALIEN?!"

"Yes, yes." I said, "And in my world, Kirin only existed in legends, movies, and books. No offense but, you looked different from what I thought you'd look like."

Now Autumn just got more excited, "Well I can't wait to show you to the villagers! Com' on!" She trotted away. I stood there for a few seconds before catching up to her. I don't wanna stay in this strange place all by myself. I'm not that stupid. And this Kirin is really starting to interest me, a lot.

I had a feeling that our story has just begun...

Author's Note

Got the idea from the story: "Questionable Ethics" by Calex Winteridge. Enjoy. :)