Supermarine "Spitfire" (Remastered)
Chapter 2: Grave Danger (Remastered)
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Jacob woke up and found himself surrounded by the six creatures he met yesterday.
"Uh, what are you doing?" he asked, a bit uncomfortable.
"Twilight did say that you should tell us something about you or your world right?" Smolder asked.
"Yes, of course... uh, personal space, please?" The creatures backed away.
Jacob cleared his throat and began his story, "I'm from this planet called Earth, it's a beautiful world, but if could have been better without that war." he sighed, "My planet is at a massive war, you know, people dying. And it all started because of a mad German guy name Adolf Hitler---"
"What are Germans?" Silverstream suddenly interrupted, then she found everyone looking at her, unamused. "Oops, sorry. Continue please."
"Germans are the bad guys in my world, actually, they're not the ones that wanted to conquer the world. They got allies: the Italians and the Japs." Jacob stopped when he saw the confused looks on the six students. He sighed and told them about the history of the war and some other stuff they might get confused on.
"Wait, if you say war is horrible," Sandbar asked, "Why did you attend it in the first place?"
"Well, I don't want to be a part of the war either, but I have to fight back. I have to protect my country and the people I cared about." Jacob said.
"Wow, your world is pretty chaotic." Smolder nodded, "No offense."
Jacob sighed, "None taken, indeed it is. Worst of all, the Nazis; led by that mad guy I mentioned before, Hitler, murdered millions of innocent people; including kids like you guys..."
This time the six students's eyes were widened with horror. Murder innocents? How could him? They all have the same thought.
Suddenly the door opened and Twilight poked her head in. "Oh, morning guys. Sorry of interrupting." She greeted, "Jacob, I told Princess Celestia about you in my letter and she wants to see you. Follow me to the train station after breakfast." she left.
"Welp, sorry guys." Jacob said to the disappointed students, "I guess I'll explain more stuffs to you later."
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On the train, Twilight kept asking questions about Jacob's world. But Jacob did not seemed annoyed at all. Instead he's eager to tell her stuff. He did this so Twilight can know more about him and his world, on the second hand she might find some kind of spell to get him back home.
"So, uh...Mr.Jacob," Twilight asked, "what is that thing you said you're going to fly?"
"You mean the plane?" Jacob answered, "Yeah, it's called a plane. Back in my world, they're machines that used to transport cargos or things that needed to be in a certain place quickly. But most of them were used as war machines. We put these thing called guns on them to fight other planes...."
Twilight seemed to be enjoying what Jacob is telling her, she's the "research" kind of pony.
She kept asking Jacob questions, and the pilot answered them patiently, but then, Twilight asked a question that is extremely sensitive for Jacob.
"Jacob, since you left your world, won't your family be worried about you?" She asked, Jacob froze.
Twilight waved at Jacob, "Jacob? Hello? Equestria to Jacob!"
"Huh? Oh... My family..." Jacob sighed.
"Oh... Is that a sensitive topic? You don't have to answer my questions if you don't want to." Twilight said, but couldn't hide the disappointment in her voice.
"No, its fine, there's this sentence from my world called 'Best way to heal your wound is to share them.'" Jacob said, "See, before I joined the military, me and family owns a library."
Twilight's ears perked up at the mention of library.
"Everything was normal, I have a sweetheart, a little brother, and a sister. Until..." Jacob sighed sadly, "The war broke out. Back in 1940, the Germans launched their arial attack on us. They bombarded the capital of my county, London. Unfortunately, my... my family couldn't make it out. They're in the deepest part of the library when the alarm went out. When I came back with my units, my library is in ruins... and my family... None of them survived..." Jacob felt his eyes watering, he sniffed and wiped away the tears. Then he felt something soft on his arm. He turned and saw Twilight resting her head on his arm, she's at the verge of sobbing.
"I'm... I'm so sorry Jacob..." She sniffed.
Jacob placed her softy on his labs, looked her in the eyes, "Twilight, don't cry your eyes out, it's not your fault... I used to blame myself for not arriving sooner to save them. But the truth is... It's the Germans... They responsible for not only the deaths of my family, but the deaths of children and other family. War is cruel, many families were shattered due to the war." He then felt Twilight nuzzled his chest, Jacob smiled, Twilight is the only one who made him smiled since the deaths of his family. He reached behind Twilight's ears and scratched them gently, receiving relaxed moans from the Princess.
For some reason, Jacob found himself couldn't resist not looking at Twilight's beautiful violet eyes, she's calm, patient, curious, cute... and quite sweet... Jacob suddenly snapped him out of the thought. Holy shit! He shook his head, no Jacob, not the right thought to think.
"Uh... Jacob?" Twilight's soft words brought Jacob back to reality.
"Yes Twi?" he asked.
"Already giving me a nickname huh?" she asked, playfully battled her eye lashes, Jacob felt his face heating up.
"Uh... Sorry, I was just... uh... lost in thoughts, heh heh!" He let out a nervous chuckle, he then had an idea, "Well, what do you want me to call you? Sweetheart?"
Now its Twilight's turn to blush furiously. She too, found herself looking at his bright blue eyes. His blond hair mixed perfectly. Jacob found it kinda awkward because there's a dreamy look on her face.
Suddenly, the train stopped snapping both Jacob and Twilight from their awkward moment.
"First stop, Canterlot!" the conductor called.
"Heh heh, Jacob, welcome to Canterlot." Twilight said as they went off the train, still blushing.
To be honest, Jacob is quite amazed my how peaceful and beautiful this place is. Of course this is way better than the world he used to be in. For some reason, he wanted to stay in Equestria, but another part of him reminded that there's still a war going on back home. Now that he lost his families and most of his friends, maybe living in a new world isn't so bad after all.
"Wow, so this is were the...uh...Princess Celestia lives?" Jacob asked as he approached the giant castle. "Wup! Pretty impressive isn't it?" Twilight said proudly.
When they reached the castle, they are immediately stopped by two pegasus guards, both fully armed and with a stern face. Twilight stepped forward and started to talk. A moment later, the guards nodded and made way for them.
Jacob couldn't stop looking at this.... beautiful palace. Its more impressive then the one in London. He thought, his sight dropped on the golden decorations. But then his eyes widened because these are real golds. Holy shit! These stuff cost millions of pounds!
They stopped in front of a pair of tall metal plate door. "Jacob, the throne room is in there. Be sure to respect it and be on your best behavior." Twilight reminded him.
The door opened and the two stepped inside.
The first thing Jacob saw was a white pony with similar horn and wings like Twilight's but she's taller, and her mane is floating in the air as if there's zero gravity, it sparkled with beautiful colors of lime green, light blue, and light pink. They're dazzling as if it was reflecting lights.
"My faith student." She greeted with a warm motherly smile on her face. She saw Jacob, "And that's the human you told about in the letter?"
"Yes, Princess Celestia." Twilight answered.
It took a moment for Jacob to realize that she's the princess Twilight told him about. "Your majesty." he bowed.
"There's no need to bow," Celestia smiled, "I'm Princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria. And you are..."
"My name is Jacob Willson, but call me Jacob if you like." he said.
"I see..." she said, "You came into our world and with no way back."
Jacob nodded.
"Well, perhaps you can adopt our ways of living until Twilight finds a way to sent you home." she said.
"Actually your majesty..." Jacob sighed, "I don't want to."
There's a brief silence in the room. "Why not?" Celestia asked.
"You see, I lost my family, my loved ones, and my friends back home. It's already filled with painful memories," Jacob said, "And I hated the war."
"Well, you can stay in Equestria and try to adopt your new life." Celestia said, turning to Twilight, "And Twilight, you'll be his guide from now on." The purple Alicorn nodded.
"Your majesty," Jacob asked, "Where did they put my plane?"
"Oh, so that flying metal bird is called a plane..." Celestia said, "Your machine was brought to the Wonderbolt academy to be repaired and for further research...if you like."
Jacob thought about if for a moment, letting some strange creatures study your plane sounds... quite weird, but they seemed harmless and peaceful. So there's no point worrying that they'll use it on some evil purposes.
"Sure. They can study it... and how am I suppose to go up there?" Jacob asked.
"In a normal condition you can't go to Wonderbolt Academy, because they're built on clouds; and only pegasus can walk freely on them. But they can also put a spell on you and your machine to walk on the clouds physically." Celestia explained.
"I suppose I have to go now?" he asked.
The princess nodded, "you're free to leave, and also, feel free to ask any questions."
The pilot bowed, "Thank you your majesty."
He then walked out with Twilight.
"Um... Jacob" Twilight asked.
"Yes?"
"After this could you come to my castle?" she asked, "I need to do some research on you."
"Research?" Jacob frowned, "You're gonna cut me open aren't you?"
"WHAT?!" Twilight gasped before giving Jacob a hurt look, "Why would I do that? Don't you trust me?"
Great job Jacob, his brain said, now how are you gonna clean this mess?
"Uh... No! I mean... Yes! Uh... Of course I trust you... It just that... In my world, if they encounter new species like you... God, I'm not getting to that..." Jacob stammered, "Don't get the wrong idea, I trust you, and don't show me that hurtful face. The last thing I want to see is you heartbroken."
Twilight then realized something, "You're teasing me aren't you?"
"Uh..." Jacob scratched his head, but found himself staring at Twilight's flank, that curve is so perfect, it went all the way down to her... Jacob slapped himself mentally, shut it! Whatcha looking at?! Pervert!
Twilight seemed to know what Jacob is thinking, she wiggled her flanks on prupose while battling her eyes at Jacob, "Like what you see?"
"Uh......" Now Jacob's face is red as tomato. Twilight started to laugh, "Oh! You should see that look on your face, its priceless!" Soon, Jacob joined the laughter too.
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On Wonderbolt Academy's air field:
Jacob couldn't believe it, he's actually stepping on clouds. "In my world, clouds were made of tiny water drops, and if you step on them, you just fall." he said to Spitfire, who's studying his plane.
"Interesting," she said, "how are you going to fly this... plane?"
"We just get into this cockpit, start up the engine and the propellers would stat to spin in high speed. Then the thruster pipes would 'Spit fire'. And once you reach the takeoff speed, the the plane would be flying. But it's a bit complicated." Jacob explained.
"I would like to see that." Spitfire smirked, "A plane with my name on it? Can't call it nothing but cool."
Rainbow Dash, the blue pegasus with rainbow colored manes suddenly flew from the distant, carrying a bag load with a bunch of parts and scraps. "Jeez these are heavy," she panted as she landed next to them. "So how are you gonna fix it?"
"As a pilot, we learn not only how to fly it, but how to fix it incase of an emergency landing." he said, "Here, hand me the landing gear..."
After hours of fixing, with the help of pegasus, the "Spitfire" is almost ready to go.
"Hey Jacob, "Twilight asked, "What is this thing and where do I put it?" she had a long meal thing on her hooves that had a belt with sharp little metal nail like things on them. And a black tube connected to the metal.
Jacob turned and saw what she's holding, his face horrified, "TWILIGHT SPARKLE!!!" he yelled, "Slowly... Put...that....down...."
Hearing the tone in his voice, Twilight slowly placed it down. "Sorry." she muttered, her ears flattened and her bottom lips quivering.
"No need to blame yourself." Jacob said placing a finger on the bottom of her chin, making her look up at him, "You don't know what that is. That thing is a 20 millimeter auto-cannon's High-Explosive round. Glad you didn't blow it..."
He got up to the Spitfire's wings and placed each machine guns back to where they belong, he load up the ammo belt and closed the ammo hatch on the wings.
"There, good as new." he said proudly, "Thanks for all your help!"
"I was thinking..." Spitfire said, "Maybe the Wonderbolt could use these planes as the tools and not ourselves. It would be better, and cooler. Especially the whole "Spitfire" thing."
"Same, maybe you should create some sort of Air Force unit incase anyone tries to attack Equestria." Jacob suggested, "Or you guy can just use it for air shows."
Suddenly out of no where, a gray colored pegasus with yellow manes rammed into Jacob. Causing both of them to collapse onto the floor.
"Derpy?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Mail for you, Mr...uh." Derpy said, but paused when she couldn't recognize this human.
"Jacob." he said.
"Mr. Jacob, a mail from Princess Celestia. Have a good muffin!" then she dropped the mail in front of Jacob before flying away.
Jacob opened the mail and began to read, his expression switched from a smile to a deep, serious frown. The others looked too. And their face expression was also slowly starting to frown.
"Dear Jacob Willson,
Since the day you crashed into our world, I have been researching what brought you here and your species. Just 2 hours after your appearance, my student's friend Starlight Glimmer got a report from the Griffons saying that they also spotted your species in Griffinstone. They looked almost same as you, but they wore gray uniforms and carries what you call guns, long and shorts. And they have many weapons. But what caught their attention is that they have this flag; a blood red flag with a white circle in the middle, and a weird looking black cross in the center. They don't seem friendly, because one of my friend just saw them killing a Griffin. And they did mentioned about conquering this new land.
If you know anything about them, please report to me in the first place.
Your friend,
Princess Celestia"
"What's with all the gloomy-doom face?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Shit, they're here." Jacob muttered.
"Who?" Twilight asked having a bad feeling.
"The Nazis," Jacob turned and faced them with a serious expression, "Equestria is in grave danger."
Author's Note
Hmm... Intersecting... Jacob has feeling for Twilight? Will they become one?
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