Displaced: The Traitorous Gunslinger

Chapters

Chapter 2
Chapter 4 (Edited.)
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 1 (Edited.)
Chapter 3

Chapter 2 Chapter 2: Eye Have You.

A couple hours into the ride I felt someone nudging my leg, I lifted up my hat as I saw a ticketmaster pony standing there. “Your ticket sir?” he asked as he raised a brow. “Right, sure, it’s right here.” I reached into my pocket and pulled out the ticket to the pony, he checked it and gave it a small clip with a hole puncher. “Thank you kindly, enjoy your ride.” he said he walked away and asked other passengers for their tickets.

I just let out a small yawn as I ran a gloved hand over my face, looking out the window as I watched the scene pass by me. Multiple thoughts race through my head, who is this Lore Master, what’s their connection to me and Equestria, why did the merchant send me here, what’s the endgame of this timeline and how would the ponies in Ponyville react to him.

‘I could lie and say I'm some kind of minotaur, but there’s Applejack, she’ll see through the lie being the Element of honesty and all. Then there’s Rainbow Dash, she’s usually the one that suspects new strangers and is willing to rush into a conflict, but playing into her ego can gain some points with her. Pinkie is easy to tame, just enjoy her parties, go with the flow and hope to god she doesn’t do her reality bending schtick on me. Then there’s Rarity, she’s rather tame and probably would like to hear the stories and gossip I might have, though I don't know how she’ll react to seeing my attire.’ looking over to my reflection on the glass , looking over my outfit and boots.

‘Lastly there’s Fluttershy, a very timid and easy to manipulate pony, I just have to be subtle with her and steer her along, but when push comes to shove, she will not hesitate to give “The Stare.” so long no one is threatening the animals and her friends.’ I thought as I felt the train slowing down to a halt. “Guess I reached my stop.” I muttered as I stood up and exited the train.

As I stepped out of the train, I adjusted my hat and looked around. Some of the ponies stopped and stared at me, some like deers in a headlight, some out of curiosity and a few out of suspicion and fear. ‘I swear, Ponyville is so xenophobic at times, first from Zecora, than Iron Will, and now me. Speaking of a certain Zebra, I have to keep a low profile from the rest of the Main 6, especially from Pinkie.’ I thought as I walked away from the small crowd of pony near the platform and snuck off somewhere secluded. Once there I brought out my stealth camo and equipped it, turning it on as I faded from sight. ‘Alright, time to see if Twilight has arrived in town.’ I started to book it into the town.

Even though I was technically invisible to the naked eye, I did my best to stick to cover, because walking through the middle of a crowd will cause me to bump into other ponies. The last thing they need is that there’s something invisible and solid among them.

As I snuck through the town I spotted the lavender pony in the middle of town with her baby dragon companion ‘There you are.’ I thought as I kept an eye on her until something fast and rainbow colored crashed into her. ‘And cue the rainbow dash scene. I already know how this will play out, so I don't wanna stick around too much.’ I thought as I moved away, accidently knocking over an empty can as I stopped mid step.

A large ? popped out of the two mare’s head as they turned to the noise, seeing the empty can that fell. “Eh, probably just the wind.” Rainbow dash said as she shrugged while Twilight was more curious but ultimately believed it was just a small breeze as the two mares continued their conversation.

I let out a held breath as I quietly snuck past. Once out of their view I turned into a nearby alley and turned off the stealth camo. “That was close, though i couldn’t help noticing that even they have Metal Gear Solid Question marks pop up over their heads.” I muttered quietly, scratching my chin before crouching down and popping up the codec menu.

I moved the selection over to 140.96 and gave it a call. Soon the UI popped up as I got an Image of an Asian Woman, around their mid 20’s as she answered the call. ‘Wait is that…’

“Ah Ocelot, you need to save your data?” She asked as a Yes and No popped up.

I hit yes as I felt a wave of relief wash over me, feeling a weight over my shoulder being lifted. “There I saved your progress on the mission.” she said.

“Hang on you’re…Mei ling?” I asked her as she nodded.

“Yep, that’s me, surprise to see me assisting you?” she asked with a small cheeky smile.

“Well yeah, i am kinda surprised, so you’re my data analyst and one that saves my record and data?” I asked Mei Ling.

“That’s correct, I'm here to assist with not only recording your data but also help with anything that is radar, data and maps.” she replied.

“Hang on, i don’t have a soliton radar, so i gotta rely on the try and true using my eyes and ears.” I told her as she let out a small hum.

“Hmmm, maybe your Nano machines aren’t active at the moment.” she answered.

“Nanomachines?” I repeated to her.

“Yup, from what i’m seeing here on the computer that your Nanomachines aren’t active and need to be turned on, i would activate them here but you’re already out on the field.” Mei ling said to me.

“So how am I going to activate them?” I asked.

“Hmm, there’s a way of using some kind of injection, an enzyme that uses the blood in your system to start a chain reaction that activates them.” She replied.

“And is there someone out there that can do it?” I asked.

“Lemme check…..Ah there is someone close, but they are in the Everfree forest though, it’ll be hard to find them since their vehicle uses Octo Camo.” she answered.

‘Fuuuck, I think I know who uses an octo camo vehicle..’ i thought before speaking out “How far is their location?” I asked.

“Just about 2 clicks east in the forest, be careful in there, that forest is full of monsters, poisonous plants and insects.” she warned me.

“Don’t I'll be fine, I did have some survival training in me for forested areas, jungles and frozen tundras.” I replied.

“Alright, I believe in you, don’t forget to call in when you need your data saved.” she said before the call ended and i got out of the codec UI.

I stood back up as I cracked my neck “Oh god, i have to meet him do i…” I sighed out as I turned on the Stealth Camo and jogged out of the alley, running my way over to the forest.

Once I made my way to the Edge of the EverFree forest, I deactivated my stealth camo and pulled out a revolver, twirling it around before checking the chambers, 5 are loaded in and one empty. ‘Cowboy safety huh, well I might need 6 if I’m going in' as I reached to my bandoleer and pulled out a .45 long colt and open the side cover for the chamber, putting it in half cock to move the chamber and loaded the round in before giving the chamber a spin before closing it.

“Alright, two miles east huh, I think that’s close to the castle ruins. Still he had to pick that spot to set up shop, damn it Drebin..” I muttered before walking my way into the forest. Thankfully there was a dirt path to follow, making this trip through the woods at least a bit easy and safe, though no time to lower my guard while in a killer forest, there’s things that want to kill me.

Speak of the devil and he shall appear before you as slithering onto a path was a chicken mix with a snake body ‘Damn it, of all things to find, a cockatrice decides to show up.’ I thought as I raised my revolver to the thing cocking the hammer back, it turned its head to me, seeing those red glowing eyes as I shielded my eyes with my other arm and fired a round at it. I heard a loud bang from my gun followed with a “bawk!” as I looked over, the cockatrice was slain before me, dead on the floor before its body started to slowly disintegrate before me before a circular object appeared, floating in the air, spinning slowly.

“Well, I guessed this solved the food storage problem .” I said as I walked over to the floating ration and grabbed it as the text appeared “Cockatrice.R” before disappearing like before.

Hang on, does this mean I have a survival viewer? Do i even have menu for this, How do i bring the fucking menu up, it’s not like i have a controller on me.

Again, I feel like I'm living in a show or a cartoon. My stomach starts to grumble, feeling hungry as it has been several hours without eating. So i just picture a ps2 controller in my hand and I hit start, and right before my eyes time paused again and popped up was the survivor viewer from MGS3.

‘You know what, I'm done questioning shit, right now I'm hungry and I need to eat that cockatrice… that sounded bad in my head.’ I thought as I navigated the menu to the food menu, opening it as I saw the cockatrice ration and the 3D model of it. I selected the chicken snake as it appeared in my hand, looking over it as a thought occurred in my mind ‘I have to eat it raw, like how Big Boss did… wonder how it tastes…’ I thought as I took a bite to the body, sinking my teeth in ‘as I tore away the scales and ate the flesh.

Oddly enough, it tasted just like chicken, like a spicy version of the KFC original thanks to the mixture of both its chicken and snake body. I ate away at the snake, spitting out any bones and scales that got in my mouth and eating away until most of it was just guts, bones and its head. I wiped my mouth of blood as the rest of the snake body was thrown away. “Great Stamina Recovery” textpopped up.

“Damn that’s good.” I said as I looked out of the corner of the menu and saw my LIFE and stamina gauge as my stamina shot up from half empty to full bar. The LIFE gauge is at least more than half way of the stamina gauge, so I have pretty good health standing, taking plenty of damage before going down for good.

I closed the survival viewer by hitting the imaginary start button again as everything returned to normal. “You know what, being able to pause time like that could come in handy.” I said as I dust my hand off, heading back down to the dirt path.

After what felt like around fifteen to twenty minutes of walking, wiping the sweat off my brow as I navigate through the woods “Why..did i..have to wear...a damn black jacket…in the middle of spring…” I complained as the humidity of the woods was slowly getting to me.

I heard a branch snap behind me as I quickly pulled out my revolver, whipping around behind before I got pounced on by a Timberwolf, luckily my gun was in its jaw as it gnashes and bites on the metal as I struggle with the wooden wolf. “Get the hell off me!” I yelled as I swiftly kicked it off me. I swiftly rolled onto my stomach as I aimed my gun at the prone wolf as it started to get back onto its leg. “Oh no you don’t!” I screamed as I fanned the hammer, firing 5 colt .45 rounds into it, blowing large holes into the creature’s wooden body before firing the final shot. The round flew as it landed on its head,blowing off a big chunk as the green glow of its eyes faded away. I quickly holstered the now empty revolver and grabbed the second one, spinning the chambers as I heard the sound of claws running around me.

I heard the pack of Timberwolves howl before they all started to run away, obviously intimidated by the loud gunfire. “That’s right you better run! If you come back to haunt me, I'll turn you and your entire pack into kindling for my next campfire!” I yelled at the retreating wolves as the woods got quiet.

Adrenaline runs through me after a quick brush of death as I scan around my environment, hoping nothing else wants some of this smoke.

Suddenly someone started to clap. “What a hell of a threat there Major, what’s next gonna tell them that you’re gonna turn their next of kin into Ikea drawers?” a voice spoke out as I turned to spot an African American male standing there, wearing a dark three piece suit with a black tie, eyeglasses and with blonde hair.

“Woah there, lower ancient piece of a gun down, it’s just us now. I should know, I've been working out of this wood for some time.” he said as he raised a hand with a handkerchief in his fingers, waving in a sign of surrender.

“Was hoping when you’d show up…Drebin.” I said as the man gave a small smirk, adjusting his Glasses.

“Was wondering what’s taking you so long, got busy sightseeing in the woods?” Drebin (Voiced by Khary Payton) Said as he looks around the trees.

“Had a bit of a hiccup with a Cockatrice in the road, had to turn him into lunch.” I replied as I spun my revolver before hostlering it.

“Hey, ain’t nothing wrong with grabbing a quick bite to eat, personally more of a crag-odile guy, hard to get the stone off them but once you get to the meat of things, add some salt and spice, and you have one good meal.” He said as he walked over a large tree before doing his little handkerchief magic and the octo-camo faded away, revealing his APC with the trademark saying “Eye have You” on the side.

“Got a call from Mei Ling saying your Nano-machine ain’t working, so she sent you my way. So..Step into my office.” he said as the back door of the APC opened and a monkey wearing a silver looking diaper on it walked out of it, letting out its little hoot and hollers.

“Well, you coming or what?” he asked as he climbed into the back. I let out a small sigh as I walked over, the monkey was hooting at me, gesturing with two fingers for a smoke. “Sorry little man but I don't smoke.”I said to the monkey as it let out a small disappointed whine as I climbed in.

Once in the Stryker APC, I sat down on the chair, sighing in relief as I could finally rest my legs for a while. I looked around seeing the assortment of rifles, handguns, shotguns and an AT4 sitting in a rack. “Yo Drebin, mind if I get a drink?” I asked as I looked over to the vending machine with the word “Narc Cola'' on it. “Help yourself, walking in the woods with the clothes you're wearing must have made you hella thirsty.” he said with his back turned to me, looking around for something.

I leaned over to the machine and hit the button as a cold can of soda vended out. I grabbed the can and cracked that cold one open, placing the opening to my lips as I started taking big gulps of that sweet, cool, refreshing cola. It was like a gift from the gods themself, liquid ambrosia as I drank down.

After a few more gulps I finished the entire can, letting out a sigh of relief as I wiped my lips before letting out a hell of a loud burp. The monkey hooted and cheer from hearing that loud burp as i heard a chuckle from Drebin ``Chug the whole damn thing down, didn’t know you were that thirsty for a drink.” he remarked as i tossed the empty can to a trash can “Swish, nailed it.” I said, pumping my arm as I nailed the throw.

“Front the three point, Mr. Revolver Ocelot.” Drebin said as he had a rectangular epipen in his hand, sitting down next to me. “Now, how bad are you with needles?” he asked.

“If i don’t see the needle being injected into me i’ll be fine, so where are you gonn- AAH!” I cried out as I felt the needle hitting my neck, feeling the enzyme being injected into me before quickly being pulled out.

“Fuck! Should have known you’d go for the neck..” I said as I placed a gloved hand onto the injected part of my neck, rubbing it to soothe the soreness.

“Relax, it’s all done now, want a lollipop for being a good patient?” he said jokingly before pulling out a red lollipop from the handkerchief.

“You’re lucky cherry is my favorite flavor..” I said as I took it from his hand. He let out a chuckle as I looked at him. “So, still running that Gun Laundering business after the fall of the SoP system?” I asked as I looked at the spare guns around the APC interior.

“A man’s gotta make a living somehow, and since we’re in this world of talking horses, magic and all bullshit, I'd say we might be able to make a good business relationship here. Not only will I provide all the latest tech and guns I have in my stock, but I'll provide some intel in exchange…” he wiggled his hands around, showing that’s empty, he reached behind my ear and pulled out a gold coin.

“For these lovely gold coins, you’d be surprised how far gold goes around in this world, my guess is that Canterlot must be sitting on one massive gold vien if they print these bad boys easily.” He finishes saying as he flicks the gold coin around before putting it in his palm and closing, blowing on his fist and opening it, making the coin disappear.

“So what do you say, willing to make a deal?” he said with a sly grin on his face.

“Alright, you got yourself a deal.” I reached out for a handshake, he met my hand with his as he shook it.

“I can tell this is going to be a nice little friendship we’ll have here. Now, how about a little gift before you part ways. Don’t want you to die of heatstroke if you keep wearing that dark outfit.” He got up and crouched, walked and grabbed a wrapped parcel and handed it to me.

“A little thing I made as a hobby, all thanks to a certain white unicorn with an eye for detail.” he said as I slowly opened it, and inside was a new outfit. “Huh, thanks. It’ll help in hotter climates.” as i put the new outfit away into my hammerspace backpocket.

“Anytime, your nanomachines should be kicking in a few minutes or so, your HUD should pop up soon and so will the radar system, remember, if you do get spotted by an enemy, that thing will go down.” He said as he went to the vending machine and pushed the button, grabbing himself his own drink.

“Got it, thanks for the assist” I thanked the local gun launder as I was heading out of the back of the Stryker.

“Remember this.” he called out to me as i turned around and looked to him “Eye have you.” pointing to his eyes, clenching his fist before pointing to me before the Stryker door closes. The Octo-camo turned back on as the engine started as I backed away from it as it drove forward into the woods.

As the APC sped off I quickly headed to the survival viewer, going to the uniform tab and swapped outfit, it's a pretty weird feeling that your outfit just switches on you without having to change into it, just poof and now you’re wearing it. I blame the nanomachines for this, when in doubt just say
nanomachines, it’s a Kojima tradition on explaining how things work.

I hopped out of the viewer as I looked over my new look, smiling to myself ‘Yeah, I dig this fit.’ I thought as I started to follow down the dirt path where the Castle of The Two Sisters should be. After a few minutes I made it to the rickety rope bridge that led to the castle ruins. “I may have the codename of a cat, but I do not want to fall.” I said as I started to slowly cross the bridge, hearing the wood creek under my boots as I grip onto the rope.

After a tense minute of crossing I made it to the otherside of the bridge, seeing the castle ruins ahead of me in the distance. ‘Another long walk.’ I thought as I looked westward, seeing the sun was starting to set. ‘Great, night’s approaching, might as well use that ruin as shelter for now.’ I thought as I started a quick jog to the castle.

Finally, I made it. The Castle of the Two Sisters. The old castle stands in slight ruin, nature slowly overtaking it as I slowly pushed open the old wooden gate. I walked inside as I started to look around inside, seeing old cracked pillars standing to the side, an old banner hanging up on the ceiling, now torn and eaten by time and moths. “If this castle were really made by the two sisters, my guess is that this place is gotta be big. Maybe I can find the chamber that holds the Elements.” I muttered as I started wandering down the hall, trying to use memory of the show as what the camera showed and angles it had.

Soon Night approached as I looked out of a shattered window as I saw the full moon in the starry sky with the mare in the moon image still present there. “Sooner or later we will meet Princess Luna.” I said to still air as I gazed at the moon before resuming my walk.

After a minute I opened up a door, seeing a stone pedestal with several stone orbs being held by a small column of marble. “Bingo.” as i walked over to the Elements, seeing that’s a good 9 feet up on the pillar as i couldn’t reach up to it.

“Well Twilight did have to use her telekinesis spell to grab them.” as I look up to the stone orbs. Soon a minor headache came over as the top left corner of my eyes appeared my LIFE and stamina bars and to my top right corner was a small cube with a white dot in the center with what looks to be the map of the area I'm in, it was my soliton radar. “Finally it kicked in, took it long enough.” muttering to myself as I rub my neck, stiff from the injection. Soon a codec call started to ring. I pressed two fingers to the back of my ear and answered the call.

Once I answered the call, the codec UI popped up with the frequency number 148.93 and I saw a Revolver cylinder logo with the number 893 on it. “Thought I might give you a ring since you haven’t received my codec number yet.” the voice of Drebin said through the call.

“Mighty kind of you Drebin, that did slip my mind.” i replied to the gun launderer.

“How about a little story? It’s called The Mare on the Moon.” he said as I felt hesitant to answer, “Fine, tell it.`` I replied.

“Once upon a time there are Two Sisters, One ruling the sun and One ruling the moon, big sun sister always the one getting the praise whenever she brings out that bright ball in the sky as the little ponies run around playing and enjoying their life while little sister moon bought out her night and all the pony slept through it, never once thanking her bringing them blissful sleep or enjoying the lovely starry nights she brings.”

“ But not all is well in ponyland, back then the three pony races were at odds with each other, jealous of what others had, and you know what that usually brings, when a country or rather in this case, pony raceshas something you don’t have that usually leads to war. And war did happen, war between the unicorns, pegasi and earth ponies broke out as bloodshed spilled.”

“The big sun sister , not wanting to ruin her image of a warm loving mother to all, sent her little sister to handle the war problem. At first she asked for peace between the three but it fell upon angry deaf ears. Soon she had to show force, but they didn’t break easily, thus with no other options, she had to kill them. Thus became the Equestrian Civil War.”

“So while Sun sister was out having tea and having diplomatic talks with other races, Moon sister was out there in the war, killing all the soldiers of the three races, and thanks to her immortal ascended body she can fight day and night, fighting army after army, healing away her wounds with her alicorn magic. Days and Nights, killing off the warring armies took a toll on her mind, hearing the pleas of not wanting to die, knowing that some of these stallions and mares aren’t returning to their loving families, haunted her in her little mind.”

“Once the war was over and the bloodshed ended, peace finally reigned throughout Equestria, the road to peace is usually paved with the blood of the many, specially their own kinsman. So Moon sister went to go her Big Sun sister about how her war ended, needing for a sibling shoulder to lean on and to hear her troubled soul about the war, the blood she shed, seeing the life fading from the ponies little eyes, she went to her dear older sister for comfort, but her sister gave her the cold shoulder, barely giving her the help she needed during her troubled time, always too busy playing politics and acting like she's the one who truly brought peace to the world, so whenever she see her little sister, all she saw were hooves stained with the blood of the many ponies she took, even though she was the one who ordered her little moon sister to handle it.”

“At that point she snapped, if her sister won’t listen then she’ll force her to listen, when it was time for her to lower the moon she refused, demanding her sister to listen to her pleas and what she had endured. Sun sister, blinded with her arrogance and pride, continues to demand Moon sister to lower that damn moon or see this as an act of treason.”

“Hearing this from her own sister caused something dark within her to spring forth, all that anger, hatred and fear from all those souls who died by her hooves took over, claiming poor little moon’s sister psyche, turning her into what we know as Nightmare Moon.”

“The two sisters fought, both were equal in term of power and strength before Sun sister used those very same elements to banish her sister onto the moon, ever since that fight, Sun sister did her absolute best to purge and change history into something more harmonious, a lie filled with sunshine and rainbows.”

“There’s no pony alive that knows the true history of Equestria and its foundings, any history books of its true story are either burned by the sun princess herself or rotting away at some ancient library.”

“So anytime you see the Mare on the Moon, remember that it was the act of a desperate young sister who wanted to have her sister to console her and the spirit of those who lost their lives to her that took possession of her mind and soul.

“ And that was the true tale of the Mare on the Moon.” Drebin ended as I just stood there, silent after hearing the story.

“So over a thousand years Celestia finally realized her mistake of shunning her young sister during her most vulnerable state, that’s why I saw that hint of desperation in her eyes.” I said.

“Being immortal gives you all the time in the world to lul over your mistakes and find ways to make amends, now she has to be that supportive big sister to heal that broken heart.” Drebin said as I let out a sigh.

“Thanks for telling me this Drebin, I'll make use of this.” I said before ending the call.

After that long story time I let out a sigh, leaning against a wall as I thought about what Drebin told me about the sister’s history, the real history and not the one we saw on the show. I ran a gloved hand over my face before letting out a yawn.

‘It’s gonna get late, gotta find a place to rest and call it a night.’ I thought as I pushed away from the wall and left the room. I spent several minutes trying to find some kind of guest room or bedroom before finding an old bedroom that had an ancient looking mattress and covers on it.

“Well beggars can’t be choosers.” I muttered as I walked over to the old bed, grabbing the cover as I shook the old cover as dust flew off it, leaving me to cough a bit before dusting it away with my gloves. “Fuck this thing is dusty as all hell.” I muttered before slowly taking off the bandoleer and holsters, sitting them aside on the bed as I lay upon the very old mattress.

As I lay on my back, looking up to the old ceiling, I haven't saved my progress yet. I turned and sat on the bed and ringed Mei Ling. “You want to save Ocelot?” she asked as the prompt showed up, i hit yes as a few seconds of silence went by and a large wave of relief washed over me.

“Done, your progress is saved.” she said.

“Hey Mei Ling, can you give me a proverb?” I asked her.

“A proverb, like what I usually give to Snake when he was on Shadow Moses?” she replied.

“Yeah, those proverbs are always interesting to hear and learn, how about one about siblings.” I asked her.

“One about siblings, hmm, I think I know a few. How about this one? “An older sibling is a friend and defender — a listener, conspirator, a counselor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too” She finished saying as I let out a small sigh.

“From what I learned today, it’s all too true. Thanks Mei Ling, I'm gonna call it a night.`` I said.

“Alright, good night Ocelot.” she replied as the call ended.

I lay back down and rest my head on the old pillow, taking off the scarf as I just lay it down to my left with the rest of my stuff. I start to slowly shut my eyes as I slowly fall asleep, awaiting what new challenges life will bring me.

Author's Note

I feel like I hit a homerun with how Drebin acts in this story, not exactly 1 for 1 but I think I nailed his magician act and attitude. Hopefully this gun launderer find some business here in Equestria, if not maybe somewhere else in this massive world of magic and mythical creatures.

And for those who are confused who's Drebin is, he's a support character in Metal Gear Solid 4: Gun of the Patriot game. He helps Old snake out with selling him weapons, items, ammo and other items, plus he also play a key factor in the story too. Check MGS4 out, it's a good game but sadly it's trapped in the PS3 only categories.

Chapter 4 (Edited.)

Chapter 4: Well Earned R&R

With a quick flash we arrived back at the castle. I grabbed my head and shook off the feeling of vertigo. ‘Man, I don't think I'll ever get used to teleporting around like that.’ I thought as I watched Celestia trot over to her throne. She sat down on her golden seat as she smiled down at me, her horn glowing a golden yellow as several sheets of paper appeared.

“I hope you don’t mind a bit of paperwork, if I am going to offer you a position here, you need to abide by the contracts here and write a full report of what transpired during your encounter with Nightmare Moon.” She said as she slowly floated the stack of papers towards me.

“Lots of people think being in the military or any kind of law enforcement would be filled with action, glory and fights. But what they never tell you is the grueling hours of paperwork and accounting all of the things that happen. Do you know where I will be staying for the night?” I asked.

“We do have a spare guest room available, you’ll be quartered there for the night and after that, I'll introduce you to the rest of the Equestrian Military. Oh I guess I do owe that Steak and Wine, in all my life I’ve never met a minotaur that would consume meat.” She said as she stood back up, walking over to the door and opened it with her magic.

“Actually I'm not a minotaur at all, I'm what you call a Human, our diet is omnivorous, we can pretty much eat veggies, fruits, meat, fish and nuts.It’s really handy when you’re out in the field.” I replied. “So, you lied to me about being a minotaur?” she asked, raising a brow. “I never lied to you, you just assumed I was a minotaur and just went with it.” I retorted and gave her a small smirk. “Still, I've never heard of a human, just what is your race?” she asked. So I gave her the quick rundown of humanity, technologically advanced, intelligent, mastered nature, master of war, went to space and the only sentient race in our world.

“Fascinating, your race sounds very complex and to think, war in your world is such a common thing. Were you in a war, Major Adamska?” She asked. “Well… Yes and no.” I replied. “How so?” she asked, curious to find out. “I was part of something called ‘The Cold War.’ There were no soldiers being deployed, no active battlefield but it was fought using spies and counterintelligence. Pretty much just spy games and seeing who can outsmart each other. I was more along the line of being ready for the cold war to turn hot but it never happened.” shrugging my shoulders as the two of us made it to the dining hall. “I see, well thankfully the war never did break out and suffered any loss of life, now give a few minutes as I’ll tell the head chef for your meal and I’ll find us some wine to partake in.” she said as she walked into the kitchen.

After a minute or two she walked out and came out with a bottle of wine and two glasses. She sat down opposite of me as she placed the two glasses down and popped the wine open. “An old Canterlot vintage from one of my personal collections, I never thought I would open it until now.” she said as she started pouring the white wine into the glasses. She levitated one glass to me as I took it in hand, swirling the wine around and getting a nice waft of the sweet liquor.

‘Mmm, smells like grapes mixed with a hint of strawberry?’ I thought. I looked over to the princess as she gave me a smile. “Again, I truly thank you for not only helping me with getting the Elements back but also for saving my sister Luna. I’ve… made several mistakes in the past, letting my pride and arrogance get the better of me… costing me my only family member left and shunning her away… Do you think she’ll forgive me?” she asked.

I took a small sip of the wine, savoring the taste before gulping it down. I let out a sigh as I set down the glass. I looked her in the eyes, elbows on the table as I had the Gendo Ikari pose going. “They say time heals all wounds Celestia, and from what I’m guessing you have close to over several hundred years of regret inside. Deep down inside she still loves you, she’s still the little sister that looks up to you, to care for her and protect her. So do your best to lend her that help, she’s gonna be way out of her time and you have to catch her up with what she missed over the past thousand years.” I said as I grabbed the glass of wine. “So, how about a toast? To your family and the future of this new employment.” I smirked at her.

Celestia gave me a small smile as she levitated her glass and clinked with mine. “A toast, to having Luna back and to see how well your new job goes.” she said as she moved the glass towards her muzzle and sipped at the wine and I sip along with her. After a minute or two later a waiter carts in a platter with steaming hot steak with some potatoes and sauce on it. They place the dish in front of me as well as a knife and fork. “Thank you.” I said to the waiter as I cut into the steak, seeing that it was indeed, cooked medium rare, the only proper way to enjoy steak. I take a piece and take a bite of it, and god damn this beats eating that raw cockatrice, hell it beats eating raw anything from the Everfree forest. I took my time savoring this well cooked dish, small occasional sips as I looked over to the princess. “Don’t you have a Sun Celebration to look over?” I asked.

She downed her wine before letting out a small sigh, smiling. “That I do, I shouldn't postpone it any longer. I’ll have somepony show you to your room. Have a pleasant night Adamska.” she said as she got up from her seat and walked out of the room. I just sat in silence, enjoying my wine and steak, savoring each bite and sip before my codec started to ring. I let out a small sigh, putting down the fork and reaching the back of my ear, answering it.

The codec UI booted up and time froze, appearing as the familiar static image that I know is Lore Master. “I’m in, I’ve gained the princess' trust by helping her with Luna and The Elements. She’s already placing me in the ranks of her army. So I might make good use out of this situation.” I said.

“Very good ocelot, you’re playing your role here very well. Keep an eye on the princess’ activities, both Celestia and Luna. Also you’ll be having Gilded Cross as your contact to other agents in Equestria. She’s already in the process of acquiring a spy for the Griffon Kingdom.” They said.

“A spy in the Griffon Kingdom huh, how many other kingdoms are out there in the world? I know about the ponies and the griffons, I think there’s also the Yakyakistan kingdom as well? Are the zebras a major player here?” I asked.

“Zebras are one of the major trading partners with Equestria, trading in raw material, spices and medicinal herbs. While not powerful politically, they are a major pillar for economic trade. They may not be as advanced as the ponies in the way of magic or architecture, but are very spiritual in the shamanistic ways, some may say being able to contact the other side or be one with the earth elements.” they said.

“I see, what about the dragons? I remember later down the seasons there's this whole Dragon Lord thing. Is it possible to make any contact with the dragons, considering that they’re flying death machines that can breathe fire and can possibly destroy the countryside.” I asked

“At the moment there’s a peace treaty between the Draconic kingdom and Equestria, so there’s a moment of peace, but it is a very delicate and flimsy treaty, so at the moment we don’t need to start a war… yet. There’s also the Cat kingdom known as the Abyssian Kingdom, They’re located far south in the Bone Dry desert.”

“A cat kingdom, that’s new to me…” I muttered

“Well the pony hasn’t fully discovered them at this time, since It’s just Celestia at the helm and Luna just returned. Plus as you know ponies are ignorant to the vast world around them, so they don’t know there’s more than just Equestria. And from the sound of it, you didn’t know about the cat kingdom either.” They said.

“Really haven’t heard about them until now, so I’m guessing they’re friendly?” I asked.

“They're a friendly bunch of cat folk, but as of now they’re a bit hard to get in contact with since they’re far from the rest of Equestria thanks to their large lake cutting them off at the moment. I’ll see what I can do to reach them. It’ll take some time. In the meantime take a small R&R, you earned it for beating Nightmare Moon.” They said.

“Thanks, I earned this Steak Dinner, being in an actual castle and civilization beats camping out in the old ruins and forest.” I replied.

“I’ll call you back when the time comes for the griffon spy meeting.” Lore stated before ending the call.

Time resumes as I finish up with my steak, wiping my lips and face with a napkin and finish off the last bit of wine. I stood back up and pushed the chair back, heading out to the door and saw a guard awaiting for me. And to my surprise it was the first guard I met, Gilded Cross. “Kept you waiting huh?” I asked with a small smirk.

She gave a small smirk back “Only for a tiny bit, did you save any wine?” she asked. I looked and turned back to the dining room. “Give me a hot minute.” I asked as I walked back in and nabbed the bottle and headed back out. “Got it right here.” I said as I wiggle the half full bottle in hand. “Oh score, it's a Canterlot vintage!” She reached her hoof out and nabs the bottle before putting it away in her armor hammer space pocket. “Here let me show you to your room.” she said as she guided me down the hall and I followed beside her.

“So, a little birdy told me that you had a hoof in helping with dealing with Nightmare Moon.” Gilded stated as we rounded a corner.

“I can neither confirm nor deny my involvement with it.” I replied as we kept walking down the marble halls.

“Really, so you got nothing to do with it? Cause a few witnesses say they saw a strange pale creature standing up to Nightmare Moon, making a loud bang noise and yelling about ‘Find the damn elements.’ sure that wasn’t you?” She said, smirking a bit.

“Hey it's not my fault that Ponyville is very secluded from most of Equestria, for all they know it could have been a weird minotaur. I bet most of them are scared of their own shadows if they didn’t know any better.” I replied as we finally made it to a door. “As much as I wanna talk about this, I’m dead tired and I need my beauty sleep. So talk to you later Cross, oh and let me know when the next rendezvous is due, alrighty.” I said as I opened the door and entered inside, shutting it behind me.

I let out a sigh as I head over to the large comfy looking bed as I fall face first into the bed, letting out another big sigh of relief. ‘Fuck me, it’s been long as night. Time for me to hit the hay.’ I thought as I started to remove the rest of the gear. Once they’re off and hanging off a coat rack nearby. I took my boots off as I let out a relieved sigh. I took the beret off and took off the coat, just leaving me in the clean shirt and pants. I climbed under the sheet and just instantly fell asleep in a very comfy bed.

Elsewhere…

‘Am I… Alive? I thought Jack killed me… no, I was supposed to be dead but something denied my death and brought me back.’ She thought as she slowly opened her eyes, she reached her hand out to the starry night sky, staring at her gloved hand and arm. She then looked over to herself, still in the white sneaking suit she was given by her soviet ‘allies’ at Groznyj Grad. Her suit still opened at her chest and looked down and to her surprise, her snake shaped scar was gone. She traces her finger once the scar was, nothing, no scarring, no stitch lines, nothing, just her smooth pale skin. ‘How could this happen, the scar that shows that I was once a mother is now gone. Like it slithered off my body…’ she thought as sit up, placing a finger on the side of her neck and feeling her pulse, confirming that she is alive.

“This isn’t possible, I saw Jack pull the trigger, I knew he finished his mission but how, how am i alive.” She asked herself, alone under the night sky. She moved her left arm a bit and felt something she hasn’t felt in a long time. She turned her head and saw her sidearm, right next to her. “My Patriot…” she muttered as she grasped her gun, giving a firm grasp at the pistol grip before standing back up. She zipped her sneaking suit close and fixed her wavy blonde hair back into a ponytail.

‘Okay, I’m back from the dead but that doesn’t mean I should forget my training. I’m a soldier, loyal to my country and the mother of espionage and CQC. I must first learn my surroundings and where I'm at.’ she thought as gazes around her location, seeing large mountains far off east, an ocean to the west and in the middle were arboreal and what seemed to be a large city built on top of a massive growing tree. ‘Now that’s peculiar, never have I heard or seen someone building their city on a giant tree. I know of native tribes building their homes inside Mesas and canyons but not in trees. This requires further reconnaissance, it might take a few days' travel.’ she thought.

She looked up to the stars and used the constellation as reference for her direction, finding the northern star and with a bit of following of little dipper and big dipper, she can tell that she’s somewhere southeast and the town she saw was somewhere northwest, several miles away. ‘I must stay cautious, I don't know what region I’m in nor what world I was in. One thing is for sure, stealth is my only option here.’ she thought as she pulled out her knife out of her sheath, readying her carbine in one hand and knife in the other. “Commencing Reconnaissance Mission.” she said as she marches down the hill and through the woods.

Meanwhile back at the Everfree Forest…

The Mark II saw Ocelot get teleported away with the princess and now it’s stuck in the scary forest, alone. The Mark II looked around the dark forest, shaking a bit as it now lost his human companion with the guns to protect them from beasts in the forests. Well, it can’t stay in the forest forever as it starts to beep for a bit, using a tracking system as it starts to home in on Ocelot’s nanomachine coordinates. After a minute or two it got a bead on Ocelot’s position and realized that he had teleported all the way to Canterlot…

If the Mark II could speak it was start cussing but alas, It has no mouth and it must scream.

A loud howl pierce the night as it's high time to get out of here. With the active camo still on it starts to carefully zoom his way out of the forest. As it wheels itself down the path it came across the old wooden bridge, it slowly and carefully drives itself down the bridge before stopping at a gap in the way. It moves back a bit before going full speed and jumps, waving its side screen like a wing to help gain more distance and landing on the other side of the gap. It let out a silent robot sigh as it made its way to the other side of the bridge. The Mark II found the dirt trail that they used and followed the road.

As the Mark II slowly goes down the road, still invisible to the naked eye as it scans its environment, keeping a camera eye out for danger. As it was preoccupied with looking around the forest, the tiny metal gear bumped into something or rather someone as they let out an ‘Eep’ and jumped a bit.

“What is it? Did something happen?” A female voice called out as the Mark II froze in place. The other five mares turned and carefully approached their timid friend.

“S-something just bumped into me!” She turned her head and saw nothing there.

“Are you sure, I don't see anything there.” A rainbow mane pegasus said as she hovered in the air.

“I-I swear something bumped into my leg, I-I’m sure of it.” the timid yellow pegasus said.

The purple unicorn starts to walk over to her friend “Maybe it was just your imagination, you’ve probably brushed against some leaves or somethi-” she tripped over something on the ground, she couldn’t see it but it was something solid. “Aah!” she cried out as she fell on the floor.

The active camouflage the Mark II was relying on deactivates, letting out a small ping and static as the small Metal Gear was now clearly visible to the six ponies.

All Six of the ponies stared at the tiny little metal creature that just appeared out of nowhere, taking a few seconds before ‘!’ appeared all on top of their heads. The small robot jumped in surprise as it started to kick its wheels into MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE as it zoomed past the girls. “Wait!” the purple unicorn cries out as they chase down the tiny mech.

A loud ‘Swoosh’ flew overhead as the rainbow hair pegasus cut it off. “Where do you think you’re going?” she said as she towers over the small robot. She was ready to pounce on the small robot before the Mark II little wire arm pops out and whips at the rainbow pegasus.

Suddenly volts of electricity surge from the small arm and enter the cyan pegasus body, she tenses up as she's tased by the robot, it pulls its arm back as the cyan pegasus stumbles a bit, stunned from the shock. With the opening it made it zoomed under between her legs, ducking down to avoid her as it continued to run from the six mares behind it.

As it was close to reaching the edge of the forest and leaving, suddenly all of its momentum stopped, its wheels stopped hitting the dirt and just revving in the air. It notices it's floating in the air as a faint purple aura glows around its chassis. “Got it! Keep your distant girls, don’t want it to shock you.” a voice spoke out as the Mane six finally caught the running robot.

“Finally, I wanna give it some payback for that sneaky shock!” the rainbow hair pony says as she hovers in the air next to her friends.

“I swear that critter looks sorta familiar…” the orange pony wearing a Stetson hat muttered quietly.

“From the look of it dear, this small creature is made entirely out of metal.” a white unicorn with curly purple pointed out.

“Ooh Ooh! What if it’s a toy!” a pink pony with very poofy pink mane bounces in place.

“T-the poor thing looks... Scared..” the yellow pegasus softly spoke out.

“Let’s bring it back to the library, we’ll figure something out there. I’m very curious about what this thing is.” The purple unicorn said as she kept a telekinetic hold on the robot.

Once the girls made it all the way back to the tree library, they all entered inside. “Spike, can you get me a crate or something, I need it to contain something.” Twilight shouted out. “On it!” a young boy’s voice called out as she heard a shuffle of feet around the place.

“Well, as much as I want to stay and chat but I have to get some sleep, dealing with Nightmare Moon for the night is tiring.” the cyan pegasus yawned and stretched.

“Same here darling, I must catch on some well needed beauty sleep.” The white unicorn mare said as she headed over to the door.

“Same here Twi, got some farm work tomorrow, just been feeling awfully more tired today.” The orange country mare says as she yawns, following the others behind.

“I also have to go, I need some rest and check up on some of the animals… If that’s okay with you that is...” the timid yellow pony said.

“It’s fine girls, I hope all of you have a good night's sleep.” the purple unicorn said as all of her friends said their goodbyes and left the library.

With all of the girls gone, all that is left is just Twilight and the Mark II. “Now, let’s see what I can find here…” she said as her horn glowed as she started levitating books out of their shelves, quickly scanning over some pages of several open books, trying to find any reference to this mystery metal creature.

The closest thing she could find was a book of constructs and artificer artifacts from the Minos kingdom. “Hmm, it’s lacking the arcane crystals to fuel the little construct, and the exterior seems to be made from what appears to be lighter metal material and plastic.” She examined the mini metal gear in the air and spotted markings on the right side of the robot. “Metal Gear… Mark II. Hey, those are Ro-mane numerals! Wow, so this must be the second model they created. They must be one skilled artificer to create such a highly advanced construct at such a small size too! I would love to trade notes and discuss their methods of creating these machines.” she said as she pulled out some quills, paper and ink, quickly writing down her notes on the machine.

She heard footsteps going down the steps as she saw her number one assistant walking down the stairs with a wooden crate in hand. “Found a wooden crate for ya Twilight, whatcha need it for?” the small drake, who was named Spike, asked his adoptive unicorn sister.

“It’s for this.” She replied as she held the Mark II in the air.

“Twilight, what is that?” the young dragon asked as he pointed to the robot. “It’s a Minos construct we found in the Everfree Forest. At first we didn’t know it was behind us until I tripped over it and caused it to turn visible. We chased it down a bit and it has this weird little wire arm and shocked Rainbow Dash.” she said as she pointed at it.

“Is she alright?” Spike worryingly asked.

“She’s fine, it was just a small stunning shock is all. Like a basic stunning spell for self defense, Fluttershy checked her for any lasting damages but so far she’s ok.” Twilight explained as she hovered the crate out of the small dragon’s claws as she placed the Mark II down and placed the crate on top of it, trapping it underneath it. “There, tomorrow morning I’ll write a letter to the princess. She'll probably have some answers about this construct and might know who it belongs to.” placing several heavy books on top of the crate, trapping the Mark II under the crate.

She let out a small yawn as she climbed upstairs to her bed, climbed into bed and pulled the blanket over herself, sighing lightly as she closed her eyes and fell asleep. Hopefully tomorrow she’ll get some answers from her mentor.

Author's Note

Oh boy, the Mark II has been caught is now under Twilight's custody, hope Ocelot realize it's disappearance soon.

And what's this? A new challenger has entered the story! Who's this mystery woman in the white sneaking and suit. She got the Patriot, a knife and her soldier instinct. Let's see how gryphon handle her.

Big thanks to those who's sticking with this dumb story of mine, I'm having fun coming up with so many ideas and scenario for this, it's a blast having my creative mind go many ideas a minute.

Chapter 5 Chapter 5: Reporting in.

Morning has arrived as dawn broke over the horizon, slowly cresting over the hills and trees as it greets the peaceful world of Equestria. As the rising sun reaches the sky its bright light shines over Canterlot. Celestia was standing over a balcony, her horn glowing a bright gold on her white horn before dimming as she let out a small sigh, happy to finally only use her energy on the sun and not the moon any more since Luna’s back. She gazes over her wonderful city, seeing the ponies waking up and getting ready to head to work, the bright sunray reflecting off the shining glasses on the castle towers and many of the buildings. ‘After over a millenia, I feel like Equestria has finally reached its full harmony and peace. With Luna finally returning back home, the two of us will make sure nothing will go wrong.’ she thought as she walked back into the castle, closing the balcony door behind her.

I was just snoring lightly in bed, drooling a bit on the pillow as I was in a deep sleep. Soon my wonderful sleep was interrupted by the blasted sun, hitting me in the eyes as I let out a groan. “Curse you morning light…Let me sleep.'' I grumbled before feeling the beam grow brighter. “Fine! I’m up!” I yelled as I slowly roused myself out of bed. I let out a mix of a yawn and a guttural sound that only cthulhu would understand while I stretched, hearing some of my joints pop. After that morning…stretch if you can call it that, I got up off the bed, cracking my neck and finger. Once I got up on my feet, there was a knock at my door. “Who is it?” I called out loudly.

“It’s me, Princess Celestia, mind if I come in?” she called out from the other side of the door. “Gimme a second.” as I walked over to the door, opening it as i saw the alabaster alicorn standing at the door. “Good morning Ocelot, I hoped you slept well last night.” she asked. I gave her a small nod as I went to the side.

“I did, nice to sleep in an actual bed rather than an ancient mattress in a castle ruin. Please come in.” I said as Celestia walked in the room. She took a small look around the room and eyes the blank papers on the table. “I see you haven’t done your full report yet, I expect it to be complete in around the late afternoon.” she said in a slightly serious tone, as a commanding officer would say to their subordinate. “Ah damn it, I was planning on doing that today, but I lack writing material and I was dead tired from yesterday, I'll get it done when I have a chance.” I replied as I walked over to the paper stack, fixing them up. Her white horn glowed a yellow color as a white quill and a jar of ink materialized in the air and was floated over to the desk. “Thank you, I'll get it done after breakfast.” she gave a small nod.

“Once you bring in the report I want you to meet up with our captain with the Royal guards, Captain Shining Armor at the barracks. I’ll see you later today, Adamska.” she walked out of the room, closing the door behind using her telekinesis spell. Once she’s gone I let out a small sigh as I start changing back into my Major uniform and re-equip myself with my holsters and bandoleer. Once everything was on, I walked over to the door and walked out the room.

Since I got familiar with where the dining room was I made my way there and entered. In there I spotted Celestia and sitting next to her was Luna, looking like her small light blue self than the dark blue and taller version of herself later in the show. “Good morning, your highnesses.”I greeted the sisters as I sat down across the two alicorns.

“Good Morning Adamska.” Celestia greeted me.

“Ah..yes. Good morrow Major..” Luna greeted in her ye old speech.

“A pleasure to make your acquaintance Princess Luna. And please, can both of you use my codename, call me Ocelot.” I replied.

“Are you sure?” Celestia asked.

“Tis an odd name to call somepony, using a jungle feline as a name.” Luna said, raising a brow, confused.

“I feel more comfortable using it, you never know who’s listening in.” I replied, eyeing the room.

“That’s just paranoid talk, you’re among friends here. But if you insist on calling you Ocelot, we’ll do just that.” Celestia replied.

Soon a waiter walks in as the two princesses ask for their breakfast of salads, Celestia leans in close to the waiter and whispers something to them, they nod before they walk to me. “And what would you like for breakfast?” The waiter asked. “Can I get scrambled eggs with toast, and Orange Juice please.” I replied as they wrote it down and nodded, giving a small smile as they headed to the kitchen.

We sat there in a bit of awkward silence, I was just drumming the table with my fingers, waiting while the sisters just politely sat in silence. Soon the silence was broken by Princess Luna. “We… apologize for what transpired in the old ruins… We weren’t in the right mind when we fought Sir Ocelot.” Luna apologized to me, lowering her head with a sad guilty look on her face.

“Princess Luna, It wasn’t you that fought me, it was Nightmare Moon. So please, take a deep breath, relax and move on. It is now in the past, I already forgive you because you were under dark influences.” I replied as I gave a small reassuring smile.

“B-but…we nearly slain ye in battle, and we saw you fall in combat with our dark selves! But you cheated death and beat our dark half!” She exclaimed, pointing a hoof at me.

“Wait, you were killed in battle? But, how, you’re still here and fine?” Celestia asked, looking a bit confused as she had her muzzle left a bit agape.

‘Crap, this is gonna be hard to explain.’ I thought before clearing my throat. “Well yes, but actually no…” I replied leaning back into the chair.

“Would you care to explain than, Ocelot? How did you cheat death while facing Nightmare Moon?” Celestia asked, raising a brow.

“I’ll write you the full report on how I did it, for now, I want to keep it a secret so that way I can have an upper hand against the enemy.” I replied, wanting to keep the Fake Death Pill as an ace in my sleeve.

“Please Ocelot, we must know if it’s some sort of dark sorcery you’re hiding from us, Equestria doesn’t look kindly to dark magic and necromancy.” Celestia pleaded.

‘Huh, so there’s necromancy in the world, better keep note on that.’ I thought before replying “No, I promise to you it’s not any form of dark magic or anything of that sort. Hell humans don’t even have magic!”

“Are you positive it’s not magic?” Luna asked.

“Yes I am very positive it’s not magic, all I can tell you is that it’s something akin to…Alchemy than magic, it’s something I used to appear dead and come back to life.” I explained. Soon the waiter carted in our breakfast and carefully placed them in front of their proper owners. We gave them our thanks as they took the cart back into the kitchen. “Princess please, I will write it all down on the report, trust me on this.” I pleaded.

Celestia let out a small disappointed sigh before nodding her head. “Fine, But I expect that full report in the next 2 hours, you hear me Ocelot.” she said firmly as I gave her a quick salute. “Yes ma’am.” she smiled as we started digging into our breakfast. I gotta say, whoever this chef is, I want to give them a handshake or is it a hoofshake, either way they really know how to cook some soft scramble eggs.

I can taste the hint of salt inside the eggs to add more flavor to it, the light seasoning of pepper on top and as well a small shred of cheese too. Every bite of the eggs was good, just a nice lovely burst of flavor in my mouth, beats eating Everfree forest fruits any day. I added some of the eggs on a piece of toast and it tasted amazing, the perfect crunch of the toast that was lightly buttered and that perfectly brown coloring makes it so damn appealing as well with the smoothness of the eggs. This was the best damn breakfast I’ve had in a long time.

After a few minutes of all of us eating and enjoying our breakfast, I finish drinking my orange juice as I sigh happily, placing the glass down as I look at the princesses. “Well, it’s nice eating with you two but I have some papers to write on and later on meet a certain captain. See you later you two.” I got up from the chair and left the dining hall.

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As the two sisters watch Ocelot leave the dining room, Luna turns to her sister. “Sister, we feel uneasy with this stallion.” Celestia nodded her head as she stared at the closed door. “I know, I have my suspicions about this Ocelot character. He already knew about the Element of Harmony and your return as Nightmare moon, but what disturbed me more is that he already knew about my protege Twilight Sparkle and her connection to the Elements. He knows more than he let on, and as much as I hate to admit it, he did save you from your corruption, so for that I at least owe him one.” she sighed as she leaned back into her chair.

“So what should we do dear sister?” Luna asked, placing a hoof on her shoulder.

“For now, we should work with him during his time here, I don’t know if he has any ulterior motives but we best keep an eye on him in secret.” Celestia replied as she turned her head as the waiter walked in and placed a slice of strawberry shortcake in front of Princess Celestia. “Thank you.” She pulled out a dessert fork and took a piece out and took a bite out of the sweet cake.

“Seriously sister, cake this early in the morning?” Luna asked, raising a brow to her older sibling.

“Hey this is the best way I can cope with all the stress of Equestria, plus I can’t help it, it’s soooo good.” Celestia took another piece of the cake and ate it as her sister shook her head and smiled.

“Some things never changed over a thousand years, such as thou’s sweet tooth.” Luna eyed the cake as she tried to sneak a hoof towards it before Celestia playfully batted her hoof away. “Nuh uh, mine.” as she pulled the cake closer to her.

“Pleeease, just a piece of cake…” Luna pleaded, giving her older sibling puppy dog eyes. Celestia's heart melts a bit as she looks towards her sister’s pleading face. “Fine. just a piece.” She said before she noticed her sister’s horn glow as a large chunk of the cake was pulled off and flew into her mouth, chewing the large chunk of cake before swallowing it down, licking her lips. “Hey!” Celestia cried out while Luna giggled. “Thou never said how big it should be.” she grinned as Celestia smirked. “Touche Luna.” Leaning in to her sister and nuzzles her.

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I walk my way back to my room, closing the door behind as I grab a chair and sit in front of the table with all of the paperwork, ink and quill for me to use. I pop open the little ink jar and grab the quill, dipping it in the ink and looking at the paper. I just sat there for a solid minute or two, thinking on how to write this report to Celestia without revealing too much. I can make up a reconnaissance run on the castle and the Everfree Forest, but then how does it explain how I knew when Luna returned as Nightmare moon or my supposed death and revival against her with the pills i bought from Drebin.

“Fuck! I’ve gotten myself in a bit of a corner with some contradictions. I already showed my hand too early to the princess. Really need to lay low on this, just have to stay out of the way of the show, let the girls handle their own issue and hope nothing goes off script.” I said to myself, getting up from the chair and pacing a bit. That’s when it really hit me, I’m stuck in this world, a world that was supposed to be a god damn children cartoon, possibly no way to get back home. And the scariest part about this is that I nearly died in this supposed cartoon world, alone and I went along with it like it was nothing...

Not wanting to alert the whole castle I walked to the bed and grabbed a pillow, stuffing my face in it and let out a muffled yell of pure frustration. I was pissed, at this world, at the merchant, and at myself for buying these damn revolvers. ‘It’s all his damn fault! If he didn’t show up I would be back home, back on my computer, playing games, texting friends on Discord and watching streams! But nooo…I had to buy cursed revolvers from the resident evil merchant.’ I punched the mattress hard as I sat on the edge of the bed. ‘Should have believed those fucking threads on the X board on 4chan, thought it was just someone shitty idea of a creepypasta story or one of those backroom ideas but no, it turns out it’s real, and I fell victim to it.’ groaning lightly as I rub my face with my gloved hand.

As of now I’m speedrunning the many stage of grief; At first, denying the reality I’m seeing and how any of this make sense and how all of this is some messed up dream, soon i got angry at the merchant, at myself, and this entire predicament I’m in, it wasn’t fucking fair! Later in the stage if I ever do meet the merchant some way or some how I would bargain my way back home with him, hell I’ll even return the revolvers to him just to return to my old life. Soon I just slump forward, the wave of dread and sadness rushing through my body, hitting the depression part of the process as I feel so useless and powerless at the moment. I looked down to the revolver in my holster, a very dark thought rushed through my mind but I pushed that notion very far back in the part of my mind. “No, I’m sent here for a purpose. I have to find out why and get to the bottom of this…” I muttered as I stood back up, taking a very deep breath, trying to calm my nerves.

At the final stage of the grief process I was ready to accept this, as of now this is the current hand I’m dealt with and I have to play with it. A deep sigh was released as I took out a revolver, spinning with the expertise of a master gunslinger, spinning it upside down, in circles and a quick toss before catching it, doing the pose that was in the movie poster of the film Desperados that starred Antonio Banderas, I muttered a silent prayer to whatever god out there that can hear me and holstered it. I walked back over to the desk, grabbed the quill and started writing down the report.

After an hour and a half of writing, using half truth and white lies, I finished my initial reports and actions of what happened during the Nightmare Moon Incident, with the small reconnaissance of the old ruins, the survival in the woods and my minor surveillance in the town hall. Later in the report I explained that I carried out this mission with the Equipment I came with when I arrived in Equestria.

At the end I explain I had an encounter with Luna in her Nightmare Moon form, fending her off in ranged combat using non-lethal methods and deceiving her with the fake death pill I had with me and the use of the revival pill I had installed in my tooth. I later explained in the report a brief explanation of how these pills work, in the best way. One pill puts me in a death like trance while the other wakes me out of it, without using the name of the chemicals and medical jargon that would take more time writing.

With how the report looks I felt satisfied with it as I took the small stack of paper and walked out the room and headed to Celestia’s court. I finally arrived after a few minutes of walking. I made it to large golden doors with two guards posted at each side. “Halt, state your business with the princess.” A dark gray stallion earth pony wearing the ceremonial golden armor spoke out. I rolled my eyes as I looked at the two guards. “Yeah, I’m here to give my report regarding the Nightmare Moon Incident.” waving the large stack of paper in my hand. The other guard appeared to be a white unicorn stallion in the same uniform giving a small smirk to his buddy.

“Sorry but any and all reports should all go to the captain of the royal guard, now if you please leave I’m sure the princess is extremely busy at the moment.” The white unicorn said with a small grin on his face.

“Are you denying a superior officer from meeting his commander and chief?” I asked the two of them as they looked confused.

“You, a superior officer, yeah right, you look like one of those pencil pushers in the recruitment office, all decorated to impress the youth.” The gray earth pony said rather smugly. ‘Alright fuck this.’ I thought as I walked over to the door and banged on it with my fist, hoping this would get the princess’ attention.

“Hey! Back away from the door or we will use authorized force to detain you!” The white unicorn shouted out as his horn glowed a dim pink. “Really, are you threatening me with a good time?” I replied as I gave a smirk as the two guards growled at me. Soon the golden door opened up as Celestia was standing right in front of me. “What’s going on here? Oh Major Ocelot, I see you made it.” giving me a small courteous smile as I give her a small bow.

“Your highness, this creature here said they were to report to you about the Nightmare Moon incident, is it true?” The gray earth pony guard asked.

She nodded her head. “He is to report to me today with a written account of his involvement, did you two deny him entry?” She raised a brow to her two pony guards.

As of now the two pony guards were sweating bullets under their armor, gulping a bit. “Um…er…Yes, but only because we were doing our jobs as guards.” the white unicorn replied as he gulped down his nervousness.

She gave her a reassuring smile to the guards. “I commend you for honesty and I believe you were doing your duty but if somepony claims they have a report for me and have said report in hoof, do let them in. Don’t be too concerned about my safety, I can take care of myself.” She smiled before waving me in to follow and so I did.

Once inside her courtroom I saw a few stacks of paperwork near her throne as we walked up to her golden sun throne as she sat down. “Here’s what I wrote down, all from my perspective and the explanation of my ‘Death’ and ‘revival.’ princess.” I handed the report to her as she levitated in front of her, quickly reading the report.

“Hmm, This Revival pill, is it still in your molar?” she asked. I nodded in reply. “I see… and from what I’m reading here, you used a-” squinting her eyes to read it out properly. “A Mark 22 Mod 0 Hush Puppy tranquilizer gun? Such a long and unnecessarily needed name for a device. And you use this for subduing Nightmare Moon. Do you still have this device?” She asked as I pulled the tranq gun from my back pocket.

“It’s right here, specifically made for non-lethal takedowns using modified darts.” I explained as I took the magazine out and revealed the modified rounds.

Princess Celestia hummed as she stroked her chin with a hoof, eyeing the tranq in my hand as I popped the mag back in and put the gun away. She kept reading and looking through the report as she raised a brow to something in the report. “What does a young male pony have to do with taking down a timber wolf!? How did you even meet this colt?” She was very confused about the matter. ‘Ah, wondering about the Colt Single Action Army.’ I thought before I chuckled a bit.

“Ah, It’s not an actual pony I’m talking about, it’s about what I have in these holsters.” I tapped the twin revolvers on my hips.

“I was wondering what those are, you’ve been spinning those around when we were first introduced.” She said as she eyed the twin black revolvers.

I smirked to the princess as I took out one of the revolvers and carefully held it in my grasp, resting the barrel on my gloved hand. “This my dear princess is one of the greatest handgun ever made in human history. The Colt Single Action Army revolver, these bad boys fire .45 Colt rounds that can easily punch through any unarmored targets, Six bullets, more than enough to kill anything that moves.” I grinned as I spun the revolver on my finger, showing how dexterous and skilled I am with the weapon before holstering it.

Celestia eyed the revolvers carefully before looking back up and stare me dead in the eyes. “I suggest you stick with using the non-lethal one whenever you’re around my ponies, and do not use your revolver unless your life is in immediate danger or when dealing with dangerous creatures in the wild, understood.” She commanded as I nodded. “Understood Ma’am” crossing my fingers mentally.

As tension was slightly built between us a pink wispy smoke flew in from the window and over to Celestia, a letter soon popped into existence as Celestia read it. Curious, I had to ask. “What does it say?” walking over to the princess as I peeked over to the note. “It’s from my student Twilight Sparkle, she wrote here that she found a small metal construct in the Everfree Forest when returning to Ponyville, she believed it was a minotaur construction that was abandoned in the forest. She’s asking me for advice on what to do with it.” rolling up the scroll. ‘Shit! The Mark II! I forgot about it when we got teleported!’ panicking mentally as I kept a straight face.

I looked over to the princess. “Princess, think you can get a chariot ready for me for Ponyville?” I asked as she raised a brow.

“I could get you a chariot but you have to explain why?” slightly curious to my reasoning.

“That metal construct she has, belongs to me.” I replied.

“I didn’t see it with you when we first met.” looking at the scroll and reading more in depth from what Twilight wrote.

“That’s because it was invisible to the naked eye.” I replied.

“Impossible, I would have detected an invisibility spell.” she said, looking skeptical of the claim.

“Because it’s not magic at all, it was bending light around it to appear invisible. I could explain more in depth but I don't want to waste too much time here. I feel like I ate up plenty of your time already.” I said as the Princess sighed as she grasped a blank scroll and quickly wrote a response to Twilight as she turned the letter into a puff of smoke before grabbing another one and writing on the scroll before grabbing a stamp and stamping the scroll and handing it to me.

“Here, take this to the Chariot Hanger and they’ll take you to Ponyville. Now, you’re dismissed, Major.” she ordered as I gave her a quick salute before leaving her day court.

Back at Ponyville…

Twilight was pacing in the library, eyeing the crate that held the Mark II. Spike walked over to the worrying unicorn as he placed his claw on Twilight’s side. “Relax Twilight, no need to worry about the princess' response time, she is an important pony after all.” reassuring his adoptive pony sister.

“I know Spike, but I’m just nervous about what to do with this construct…” she said as she nervously stroked her mane with a hoof. Soon Spike started to retch and gag before letting out a fiery burp as a message appeared in front of them. Twilight gasps as she quickly snatched the letter in the air with her magic and read it.

“Dear Twilight, I read the letter you sent me about your newest finding in the Everfree, a minotaur construct you and your friends found. Luckily for you I have the owner here in Canterlot and is arriving in Ponyville today to collect it.

Please be polite to the visitor as he’s new to Equestria and its custom. He goes by Major Ocelot, a strange name I know but he seems more comfortable being called Ocelot. I hope you and your new friends treat him with kindness and friendship during his visit to Ponyville.

Sincerely, Princess Celestia.”

She finished reading out before scratching her chin with a hoof. ‘That name sounds oddly familiar…’ she thought before shaking her head. “That’s great Twilight, we’ve got to meet the owner of this mysterious construct, though ocelot is a funny name, you think he’s some kind of talking cat?” Spike asked as he took the scroll and rolled it up, putting it away in a drawer.

“I don’t know Spike, I’m going to go get the others and see what they think about this.” Twilight replied as she trotted over the library door and turned to Spike. “Can you keep an eye on the place while I get the others?” she asked her assistant. “I’m on it!” he saluted as Twilight smiled at the baby dragon as she left the library.

She walked her way to the Sugarcube corner, entering the bakery as she saw Pinkie behind the counter. “Ooh Hi Twilight, What can i get ya today!?” the pink pony bounces in place as Twilight Approaches.

“Morning pinkie, how are you?” Twilight greeting her hyper friend.

“I’m doing super duper great this morning. First I brushed my teeth this morning using my favorite toothbrush in the shape of a cupcake, after that I had breakfast with the cakes, eating my favorite sugar cereal ‘Sugar Crunch Oats’ and after that I had-” Pinkie rambled on before Twilight cut in.

“Pinkie I’m happy to hear your morning is going great but I received a letter from the Princess.” Pinkie gasped at the news as she stood still for a few seconds.

“What is it about, was it about a super ultra party that’s gonna happen?! Ooh ooh I know, it’s about a mega death nuke robot! No wait, maybe it’s about how she’s about to come to Ponyville for a party!” the party pony rambled as Twilight looked ever so confused.

“A mega what now?” she asked the hyper pony. “It’s nothing, so what did she say?” The pink pony ignored her friend's question as she smiled and bounces in place.

Twilight sighed as she rubs her forehead to soothe the upcoming headache from her friend’s ramblings. “It’s about that little construct we found, it turns out it does have an owner and they’re coming to Ponyville today to pick it up!” she explained as Pinkie smiles there for a bit before letting out a very loud gasp, hovering in the air before zooming off in a pink smoke. “And there she goes, I hope this Ocelot character likes surprise parties.” She muttered quietly before leaving the bakery.

As Twilight was walking down the street, making her way to Rarity’s boutique shop, she heard a ‘Swoosh’ sound as Rainbow Dash flew by. Seeing her pegasus friend Twilight shouted out to her friend. “Hey Rainbow Dash, down here!” The Rainbow hair pony turned and spotted her unicorn friend down before and flew down to her.

“Sup Twilight, what got you all in a huff?” Rainbow asked as she looked at Twilight.

“You know that small construct we found in the Everfree Forest?” she asked.

“You mean that tin can jerk that zapped me?! What about it, please tell me you threw it in the trash.” Rainbow smacked her hoof together.

“No I didn’t throw it away, it would be a waste of such an advanced piece of minotaur artifact. Well the news is that the owner of this construct is coming to Ponyville today.” She explained as Rainbow Dash huffed angrily.

“Maybe I’ll tell this pony to not teach their toys not to be such jerks.” Crossed her forelegs.

“Well they’re called Ocelot, and the princess said to be polite to them, she also mentioned they’re a Major. This means they’re a very high ranking official, so please Rainbow, don’t start a fight with them.” Twilight pleaded as Rainbow Dash hovered in the air and tapped her chin.

“Well if he’s Major in some army, just means he probably has a very cushy job, bossing people around, he can’t be that tough.” Dash stated before Twilight facehoof.

“Dash, please just be nice. Oh also Pinkie is planning a surprise party for them, so I guess it’s gonna take place at the library like last time.” Dash pumped his foreleg in excitement.

“Oh heck yeah, a pinkie party and getting rid of that hunk junk, today is gonna be awesome.”

Twilight sighed and shook her head. “I’m off to see Rarity and tell her the news, wanna come with me?” she offered.

“No thanks, got some clouds to clear up this morning before doing my practice routine, Later Twi.” She zoomed off into the sky.

Once Rainbow Dash was gone Twilight walked all the way over to Rarity’s shop and knocked on the door. She heard a muffled voice talking in a singsong fashion. “Comiiiing!~” before the door opens. Standing at the doorway was Twilight fashionista friend Rarity.

“Oh, good morning Twilight. Hope you’re doing well this lovely morning.” Rarity greeted as she smiled at her friend.

“Good morning Rarity, hope you’re doing well.” Twilight smiled back.

“I’m Doing wonderful dear, now what brings you here today?” Rarity asked.

“You know that construct we found yesterday? Well its owner is coming in today and I was hoping you girls would want to meet them.” She explained.

“Hmm, that does sound interesting dear, and do you have a name for this mysterious owner?” Rarity asked.

“Well, from what I read, they’re called Major Ocelot, though they prefer to be called Ocelot as strange as it sounds.” Twilight replied.

“Hmmm, the name sounds a bit familiar but I can't put my hoof on it…” Rarity muttered as she tapped her chin.

“Oh almost forgot to mention this but Pinkie is planning on a surprise party when Major Ocelot is coming to town.” She informed Rarity.

“Thanks for informing me, Twilight, gotta make a good first impression. As much as I want to talk, I do have a custom order to finish, so I’ll see you at the party.” Rarity said as she gave a small and closed the door.

With Rarity done, Twilight headed off as she walked away from the boutique shop. After around ten minutes of walking she was able to make it to Fluttershy's cottage. She gently knocks on the door as opening the door was the buttery colored pegasus Fluttershy, shyly peeking her head. “H-hello? Oh it's just you Twilight…Good morning.” The meek pegasus smiles softly to her friend.

“Good Morning Fluttershy, hope you’re doing alright.” Twilight replied.

“Oh, I’m doing fine, Thanks for asking. N-now is there something I can help you with, if you don’t mind me asking that is…” Fluttershy meekly asked, hiding behind her soft pink mane.

“Oh I just came by to tell you that small construct we found has an owner and they’re coming to pick it up. Oh and Pinkie planned on throwing a party for them.” the purple unicorn informed her shy friend.

“O-oh i see… well I hope they take better care of it, the poor thing was probably all alone and scared in the forest…” Fluttershy said.

“Well I’ll make sure to tell Major Ocelot about your concern about his little construct.” Twilight replied. This causes the yellow pegasus to perk up from hearing the name.

“Did you say his name Ocelot? Is he a talking jungle kitty?!” Fluttershy asked enthusiastically, squeeing a bit as she imagined a small walking jungle kitty.

“I’m…not so sure but if he is I bet you have a lot of questions to ask him.” Twilight replied.

“Oh yes, so many questions for him. I hope to see him at the party.” Fluttershy said before a small white bunny hopped over to and tapped at her flank. She turned her head and saw her pet bunny Angel. “Oh, what is it, Angel bunny?” she asked her little fluffy friend. The bunny pointed to his mouth and rubbed his belly. “Oh you’re hungry, don’t worry I’ll make you something. Sorry Twilight but I have to care for Angel for a bit, I’ll see you at the Party.” Fluttershy said to her unicorn friend as she gently closed the door and went to make Angel his breakfast.

With that Twilight walked away from Fluttershy’s Cottage and headed on over to Applejack’s farm. With some time Twilight made it to Sweet Apple Acres, as she followed the road down as she spotted her orange county pony friend bucking at a tree.

With a mighty buck the apples on the tree fell into the awaiting baskets. Applejack took her stetson hat off for a bit and wiped the sweat from her brow. “Phew, just a few dozen more…” she muttered.

Twilight walked over to her hard working friend and greets her. “Morning Applejack!”

Applejack put her hat back on and turned to the voice and saw her friend Twilight. “Morning Twi, what brings ya to the farm?” the farmer pony asked.

“Got a letter from the Princess this morning.” Twilight replied.

“Golly, what’s it about?” Applejack asked, looking a bit more attentive now.

“You know that small construct we found? Well I sent Princess Celestia a letter about it.” Twilight replied.

“Is she coming here to pick it up?” Applejack asked, raising a brow.

“Not exactly, she’s sending over the true owner of this construct and they’re picking it up today. Oh, speaking of their arrival, Pinkie is preparing a surprise party for them.” Twilight explained.

“Is that so, well any party Pinkie throws usually is a great one. Oh speaking about that metal thingy, I can’t help but get a small sense of seeing it before… I don’t know but I think it’s around the time Applebloom said she found a trespasser on our farm but after that I kinda blacked out and can’t remember much.” Applejack explained, scratching her head trying to remember.

This caught Twilight by surprise. “Wait, someone broke into your farm?! Did they steal anything? Did you report it to the guards at least?!”

“When I came too there wasn’t anyone or anything on the farm plus none of our crop was stolen or missing, we just chalked it up to Applebloom’s imagination again. Sometimes that filly comes up with the oddest of ideas.” Applesaid as she shook her head.

“Glad to hear nothing was stolen, Applejack, though it is strange you blacked out and had no recollection of what happened.” She said, scratching at her chin.

As the two ponies stood there and pondered on the mystery blackout, Rainbow Dash flew in at high speed, stopping mid air and hovered. “Girls! A Canterlot chariot was spotted in Ponyville airspace, I think our mystery visitor is landing!” This catches Twilight and Applejack’s attention as Twilight cries out “Already!? Oh gosh we need to meet them there now!” as AJ nodded her head as the three ponies rushed to the town center.

As Twilight, Applejack and Rainbow made it to the town center, waiting for them there was Fluttershy and Rarity. “There you three are, Rainbow dash told us about the chariot's arrival and made it here first.” Rarity said to her arriving friends. Twilight looks around and notices they’re lacking a pink party pony. “Where’s Pinkie Pie?” Twilight asked.

“Pinkie is still setting up for the party, she’ll be at your place Twi.” Rainbow replied as Twilight nodded. “Alright, girls , let’s greet Celestia’s guests with some friendship and hospitality.” Applejack called out as they watched the golden Chariot come in for a landing. They watched as the pegasi guards touched down, bringing the golden chariot to a grinding halt as it skidded, the guards whinnied out as they saw something standing inside the chariot.

The bipedal creature stepped off the chariot, the metal stars on their boots let out a small metal clang as it hit the dirt. It turned to the chariot pilots and spoke. “Don’t fly off yet boys, I’m just here to pick something up and we’ll be back to Canterlot in no time.” he turned his head back and looked at the girls.

Twilight couldn’t believe her eyes; The black uniform he’s wearing, the red beret, the furless skin, the very same black items hanging off his hips. This was the very same creature that saved her from being killed by Nightmare Moon. Twilight and her friends are standing there, speechless as this was the very same being they all saw last night. He stood there at the stunned mares as he gave them all a smirk. “What’s the matter, cat got your tongue?”

Twilight shook her head and finally spoke. “Y-you, you’re the one from yesterday! The one who stood up to Nightmare Moon!” pointing a hoof to the Biped. This caused him to smirk as looked down at the purple unicorn. “Then you must already know my name, well, say it.” he said to the flabbergasted mare. “Y-you’re…Ocelot…” She said as all of the other mares screamed out ‘WHAAAT!’ as they all turned to the gunslinger, doing his twin finger points. Finally, the Element of Harmony met with the legendary gunslinger himself Revolver Ocelot…

Chapter 6

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Chapter 1 (Edited.)

Displaced: The Traitorous Gunslinger

Chapter 1: That’s Major Ocelot to you.

It was a warm afternoon, an anime mixed with gaming expo was happening close to town so I thought now was a good time to head over and do a cosplay as someone more low key, definitely a gaming character but only if someone got the reference to it.

I kinda regret going in a bit of a warm outfit, a black officer outfit complete with ribbons and shoulder ranking along with the red beret, red scarf around my neck, a clean shirt underneath with matching black pants, was a bit hard to find boots my size but managed to get some cowboy boots complete with spurs.

Had to cut my hair shorter and bleach it yellow since my original was a darker brown color, either way had to match the buzz cut look of a military officer.

I fixed the red gloves on my hands as I spun a cap gun revolver around my fingers before pocketing it.

I walked over to the mirror and looked at myself, grinning as I did the two finger pointing that ocelot does. “You’re pretty good, and handsome to boot as well.” I said to my reflection “Why thank you, and must say you’re gonna kill it out there.” I replied back to myself before cracking my neck and popping my shoulders. “Alright, let’s head to that expo and have some fun.”

An hour of driving later.

After paying for a parking space nearby, I head over to the main entrance to the place, letting security check me for anything illegal or dangerous.

“What about the revolver you got there?” A security in the front asked.

“Oh this?” I pointed over to a dinky little revolver on my waist band. “It’s a snap cap, you know those old toy guns that have those little rings on the cap that go snaps and make a spark. Things are safe.” I replied as I handed it to one of the guards.

They checked it out and like I said, plastic, crappy and just a toy. “Alright, but don’t go causing any trouble with them.” the security guard said as he handed it back to me.

“Don’t worry, we’re all responsible adults here, well most are but trust me, I’m a good guy.” Taking the gun back as I spun it for a bit before putting it away.

“Come on in.” they waved me in as i entered the venue as i did the double finger point at them as my spur clang while I walked away.

Gotta say, been a long while since I been to an expo like these, maybe like two or three years since I last attended one, plenty of people walking about with their cosplays, some from bleach, some from demon slayers, few western media like star wars, marvel and DC, Hell I even spotted the rare Spy with a paper mask walking around.

“Huh, always thought the spies are usually the ones that walk in those furry cons. Whatever, time to mingle.” I said as I walked through the busy convention.

After around half an hour of walking I spy a cardboard box, just sitting there. “No fucking way…” I headed over to the box as i give it a small knock, waiting for response…Nothing. ‘Alright, time to have some fun here.’ I reached over and picked up the box, slowly lifting it up as I spotted a guy in a big boss cosplay.

He looked at me and I looked at him, it took us a few seconds before we felt our Invisible exclamation point pop up over our head.

”Aha, so I finally found you Snake!” I said to the snake cosplayer as he got up and got into his CQC pose “Ocelot!” Snake replied.

“That’s MAJOR ocelot to you, and I got a score to settle with you.” as I pull out the dinky revolver as I start to twirl it around in my finger, tossing up before catching it. “Six shots and no more accidents.” I said to the snake cosplayer as we made a standoff.

Of course since this is big boss we’re talking about I had to let him win as I was more slow to the draw before he does the signature CQC grab and disarm, gently pushing me down onto the floor, just opening the cap gun open and dropping the cylinder onto the floor “Gotta say, that is some fancy revolver tricks, you’re pretty good.” he said as I reach out and place an hand on his arm.

“Pretty…Good…'' I replied before pretending to pass out before letting out a laugh and he laughed back. I dust myself off as I get back up “That was fun. I’ll see you around the con man, peace.” I said to the snake cosplayer as he gave me a thumbs up as we part ways.

As I walked over a thought occurred to me ‘Shit, forgot to ask for his name. Aw well, I'll ask if I see him again.’ shrugging my shoulders as I walked.

As I walked past some of the booths, some selling mostly anime posters, art and souvenirs, I heard someone whisper to me “Psst, over here stranger.” I turned and I kid you not, the merchant from Resident Evil 4 was standing at his own small booth.

“The fuck..” I quietly said to myself as I walked over to him.

“Welcome. Got somethin that might interest ya..” the merchant said as he opened his cloak as he pulled out two holsters with revolvers In them and a bandoleer with what seem to be metal cartridges for revolvers.

“Holy shit, how’d you get these past- never mind you’re the damn merchant, either way how much?” I asked as I took out one of the revolvers, seeing that it was indeed a Colt Single Action Army.

“I always wanted to own these things.” I muttered to myself as I gave it a test spin.

“I see you’ve got an eye for things, gun’s not just about shooting, it’s about reloading. You know what I'm talking about.” the merchant said as he eyes me twirling the Revolver around, something inside me just...Clicked, like I was made for these.

“I’m buying these, how much?” I asked him as I reached over to my wallet. “ Well, usually I'd charge you pesetas for them but for you Stranger, around 60 U.S Dollars. I’ll even throw in a special gift for ya.” he replied as he reached into his cloak and pulled out a long strip of cloth.

‘A bandana?’ I thought as I pulled out a fifty dollar bill and a ten dollar bill “Deal.” as I handed him the cash as I took my new goodies as I put on the new holsters and bandoleer.

The Twin black Colt SAA hung nicely around my belt. I took the bandana and placed it into my pocket. “Hehe, Thank you, Come back anytime.” The merchant said as I started to walk away from the guy. ‘I swear that guy always gives me that creep.’ I thought to myself as I took one last look at the merchant.

As I walked down the expo I suddenly felt my head killing, my vision blurring, slowly losing my consciousness. ‘Fuck, fuck fuck!’ I started to panic as I made my way past the other people through the crowd, somehow I found myself alone, vision slowly darkening as I lost my footing, falling, sinking into the floor as I was swallowed by darkness. That was the last thing I remember.

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Don’t know how long I was out, days, weeks, months, hell maybe years but one thing is for sure. My body hurts, my head hurts, and I need a STRONG drink.

I slowly open my eyes as I slowly push myself off the floor I was laying down on. I dust myself off as I look over myself and see that my suit is a bit dirty but nothing too bad.

“I feel like this is that merchant’s fault but I have no fucking clue where I am.” I looked around as I found myself in what seemed to be an alley. Before I had a chance to step out I heard a ringing, a very familiar ringing.

It was coming from my head, more specifically behind my ear. I reached behind my ear and placed two fingers behind it as what seemed that time stopped around me and the codec visual appeared before me, one is myself, looking like ocelot himself while the other window was static.

“Hello?” I called out to the codec as I waited for a reply… “Ah, I see that Shalashaska himself has arrived in Equestria, good, this is all going according to plan. Now let’s see how well you can play the part of Ocelot.” a mysterious voice replied as I looked confused.

“ What are you talking about, I'm just a guy who went to an expo and found himself waking up in an alley, for all I know I got drugged and probably robbed.” I said to the mystery voice, a bit annoyed.

“If so then why do you still have all your gear with you huh? Either way I think you know where Equestria is and what it's all about.” the voice said as I looked puzzled.

Soon it dawned on me ‘Equestria.’ the land of the magical pony land. I let out a shocked gasp and expression as the voice chuckled.

“Seems like you’re catching on. Hopefully you’re all caught up on FIM lore but if you need some extra help with Equestria and its land, call me on the codec, my number is 140.85.” the voice said as I looked at the static.

“Just who the hell are you!?” I yelled out “ Just call me, Lore Master.” they replied as I let out a scoff.

“Guess we’re using code names huh, fine, Since you knew about the other name, Call me ocelot, Revolver Ocelot.” I replied with a small smirk.

“Good, stick with that code name, right now you’re in the capital of the pony land of Equestria, Canterlot. Right now I want you to make contact with a guard’s pony with the name “Gilded Cross.” you’ll find them near the water fountain close to the center of town. She’ll know it’s you since you’re well...the only other human here. After that, make contact with the princess, you need to gain her trust as she’s the only current ruler.” the voice instructed.

“Only the current ruler? Wait, that means we’re in season one of the timeline, that means Nightmare moon will appear in a week's time, correct?” I said.

“Correct, use that knowledge as leverage if need be. I think the smooth talking Ocelot can handle anything, but if you feel like something doesn’t feel right or need to save your progress, call 140.96 on the codec.” the voice replied.

This time I gave a confused look as I saw the number appearing on my option to call. “Got it, Ocelot out.” The codec call finished as the UI closed and time resumed around me.

I take in a deep breath and let out a big sigh, I quickly reach out and took out the twin revolvers, with ease and expertise I spun them around, doing tricks that would took me years to get down and master just coming to me naturally, as I finished spinning the twin revolvers around and pointed them out in front of me.

“Twelve shots, plus an extra 52 on the bandoleer. Let's see if this Princess is willing to let an Ocelot live among ponies." I spun the twins revolvers for a bit more before holstering them into their place.

I took a look around the alley, knowing no one was around to hear this, and since I was dressed up as MGS3 ocelot I had to do it, I had to let out that meow.

It echoed in the alley way as I started to facepalm at myself, hoping that it would do someth- are those…boots I hear? I turned to see Men in similar attire to the Ocelot unit from the game, black balaclavas, their black AKs, shotguns, M63 Stoner LMG, and I looked up, saw one with a Dragonov Sniper Rifle on the rooftop, taking overwatch.

‘Holy shit…I can summon the ocelot unit to me…’ I looked at the men, all looking at me awaiting orders. “Commander, what are your orders?” The GRU soldier asked me as I looked at him.

“At ease men, making a quick roll call to see how many men we have on the ready.” I replied to the soldier. He gave a salute as he looked at me.

“Sir, we have over a Hundred men awaiting your call and orders, Sir. If you ever need us, just let out the signal and we shall arrive to back you up.” He said as all the other GRU operatives gave the salute as well.

“Alright, for now, this ocelot is going out alone, remember, ocelots are proud creatures. You and your men are dismissed, return to base.`` I gave the order to them as they saluted and nodded and slinked off back into the shadow of the alley and out of sight, not hearing their boots and equipment clanking around.

I let out another sigh as I wiped my face with my gloved hand “Great, not only have I arrived in pony land but I now have an entire private military platoon to lead as well. This day keeps getting better and better…” I said as I took off my beret for a bit, wiping the sweat off my brow and forehead before putting it back on.

“Still, I have a mission to do, don’t know what it is but it’s my only lead here.” I muttered softly as I walked out of the alley, boots clanging onto the cobbled floor under me as I looked around, seeing the Canterlot pony walking about town, some stopping to look at me before going back to walking wherever they needed to go. I followed the main road in the city, since I don’t have a map on me or a radar system of my location, this is the best way I can do for now.

As I continue passing through I can feel my hand not like being idle, needing something to do, so I took a quick minute to stop and look around ‘I think this may be an easy and fun way to earn some cash or two.’ I thought as I took off my beret and gently lay it onto the floor.

I took the twin revolvers and did what I do best, SPEEEN. It started with simples back spins then follow up with a front spins, then I follow up with switching to side-wide spins as I move them in a circle motion before resuming my spins, soon I follow up with the gun juggling as I did an under arm toss before catching and resume the juggling. This stunt starting to catch the ponies attentions as they start to applause, giving some cheers here and there as they watched this “furless” minotaur performing very talented juggling and spinning tricks with his interesting “Toys” this gave me a small smug grin as I continue, some start tossing in some gold coins into the cap as I do a final spinning trick before doing a bow as they clap for me. “Thank you, Thank you, I'll be here next week,” I said to the crowd as I took my hat, collecting the coins and pocketing them before dusting off the hat and making my way over to the main center of the city.

I spotted the fountain that the voice told me about and standing guard nearby was a pony dressed in golden armor. ‘That must be my contact.’ I thought as I made my way to them.

Their ears flicked a bit as they heard the clinging of my spurs as they turned and saw me “You must be the contact I'm meeting, a mister Ocelot I'm assuming.” The pony said, hearing a feminine voice coming from them.

“That’s Major Ocelot, and I'm guessing you’re my contact to meet the princess.” I replied as I looked over to the pony, which I assumed was Gilded Cross.

“You guessed right, don’t know what your reason is for coming to Canterlot but it’s something urgent to meet the princess directly, then stick close to me.” She said as I nodded, the pony guard escorted me through town.

As I walked through the town with the guard pony, I was taking small notes of key buildings, places I might need to visit later on in the future. A clothing store, a smithing place and several restaurants.

After a couple minutes we made it to the castle, as Gilded Cross walked to the main gate as it had two other guards pony covering each side. They saluted her as she walked past, and as soon as I reached the door their wings flared out to block my way. “At ease you two, he’s with me.” She called out before the two other guards looked at her and lowered their wings.
I let out a small scoff as I gave the two the trademark salute as I followed behind her.

We walked down the halls before reaching a twin set of doors “This here is the princess day court entrance, She’s expecting me. Wait here for a minute.” she said before entering past the door. After a minute or two she stepped out and held the door open “She wants to see you now.” Gilded Cross said as I nodded to her, entering the room.

The door shut behind me as I walked down the carpet, looking ahead as I saw the princess of the sun herself Princess Celestia. (Voiced By Nicole Oliver)

“You must be the visitor that Lieutenant Gilded Cross must be talking about. It is a pleasure to meet you Mister..” She kindly asked for my name.

“Adamska.” I replied.

“Pardon?” She asked in a more softer motherly tone.

“ That’s my name but I also go by something else.” I said.

“Something else, what else would that be?” She curiously asked.

“Special Operation Foxhound and Commander of the Ocelot Unit…” I said as I took my revolver, giving that infamous spin from Twin Snakes. “Major…Revolver……..Ocelot.” finishing my spin as I held my revolver in my grasp, pointing skyward (Voiced by Max Castle.).

“I see… Well Major Adamska, I welcome you to Equestria and to the town of Canterlot.” She gave a smile and gave me a regal bow.

“It is an honor to meet the princess that raises the sun and moon, though I have a feeling you’ll be raising only the sun when the week is done.” I spoke cryptically.

She caught what I was saying as she gave a more cautious look to me, squinting her eyes a bit at me. “And how do you know of this Mister Adamska, know something privy?” she pressed the question.

‘She noticed the hook and bait, now let’s see if I can hook and reel her in.’ I thought as I started to slowly pace around the room. “Well, as we all heard that this coming week is the Summer Sun Celebration, a very important event in Equestria, where you let the summer solstice take its course and let the days go longer, the day gets hotter and you pretty much enjoy the summer day.” I said as I looked at the princess, casually spinning my Colt SAA with my finger.

“True that the Summer Sun Celebration is nearing, what about it?” She asked, raising a brow.

“Well, I would say that it would be…The thousandth year of Summer, correct?” I asked her.

“You assumed correctly, it is the thousandth year of doing my duty of raising the sun and moon. What of it?” she asked with a tiny bit of force to it.

“I was wondering if you’re gonna have a little family reunion with her…” I said, stopping mid step as a bright golden beam hitting the floor in front of me. ‘Gotcha..’ I smugly thought as I turned to her, “Oh I'm sorry, did I hit a nerve?” I asked coyly as I saw her white horn in a golden glow with a glare at me.

“Just who are you and how do you know?” She asked firmly as she took a step towards me as I holstered my revolver, holding my hands up in a non threatening way.

“Lady, I'm on your side here, we both know about Nightmare Moon's return and you have a plan to handle this. Trust me on this Princess, I want to help but there’s a small problem with your plan.`` I said to the princess as she looked with a raised brow at me.

“And what plan do you think I have in case of Nightmare moon's return?” she asked.

“It’s the Elements, the problem is that they’re inert, no longer active to your command nor you wielding them again. You used them back in the past but now the elements are in several new hosts.” I said as I walked to a pillar and leaned against it.

“The Elements are Inert? That’s impossible, they’re in the castle of-``

''of the two sister’s collecting dust as a bunch of stone orbs with no way to power them. Though I have a way.`` I interrupted her as cracked my knuckles.

“I know how much your sister means to you Princess, and I know you want her back to her old self, there's a way.” I said as I looked her in the eyes, seeing the tiny desperation in them to have her sister back hiding behind her strong ruler glare.

“What is it, what is this way you know that I don't.” She asked calmly as she looked over at me.

“Do you have a student by the name Twilight Sparkle? Don’t ask how I know, I'm just that good.” I said as I gave her a dismissive wave of a hand.

She lets out a small huff as she looks away for a bit “I do, what about her?” she asked defensively about her personal student.

“There’s a small town to the west of Canterlot, goes by the name of Ponyville, send her there to make some friends. Trust me on this, this is vital to Nightmare moon’s return and the elements.” I said to the princess as she thought about it.

“Not sure how this correlates with the Elements and Nightmare but I have no choice but to trust you on this. And I have your word this will work Ocelot?” she asked.

“You have my word princess, she’ll probably send a message about her return and you need to dismiss it as an old folk tale, tell her that you’ll be making your Celebration in Ponyville and she needs to supervise it while making friends there.” I advised, and right on Cue, a purple smoke floated in and a letter appeared in front of her.

“Speak of the devil.” I shrugged as Celestia read through the letter and sighs.

“It's just like you said, she expects Nightmare’s return. Must I really dismiss it?” she asked, conflicted with wanting to go along with the lie.

“You have to Celestia, it’s the only way little Luna returns safe.” I replied as I heard her sigh as she quickly wrote back to Twilight and used her magic to turn the parchment into smoke and it flew away.

“If your plan doesn’t work, I will have you rotting in the darkest part of the dungeons for many years.” She said in a cold tone as she gave me a dead serious look.

“Trust me your Highness, why would I lie.” I said as I gave her the two finger points.

“For now, I must ask you to leave, I have day court to attend.” Celestia said as I gave her a small bow as I walked to the door.

“Until we meet again, Princess.” as I opened the door and walked out.

I walked down the hall before slinking somewhere more secluded and knelt down, placing my fingers behind my ears and made a call.

Time froze around me again as the Codec UI popped in front of me, answering me with the same static image from earlier.

“Ah Ocelot, I'm hoping the meeting with the princess went well?” the voice asked as I gave a nod.

“Everything went according to plan, Lore, she took the whole hook, bait and sinker when I mentioned her sister returned, she already knew about the Elements of Harmony and to use them on Luna to cure her of her corrupted state of nightmare moon.” I replied.

“Hmm, typical of the princess, use the elements to solve all of her problems. Either way, be careful when mentioning her sister, she is the older sister and will do anything to protect her little sister.” they warned.

“Yeah I can tell, she already fired a warning shot at my foot when I mentioned her little family reunion, was walking on eggshells there but I did lead her on the elements reactivation, just had to send her little protégé to Ponyville, that way it’ll kick start this whole show event, though there are a few things I can speed up the process on.” I said, scratching at my chin.

“What would those be?” they asked.

“Well, for one would be Discord, though it would be very difficult to control the being of chaos to our side, guy’s already manipulative as I am, plus he has those chaotic spells that can turn the world upside down.” stating the facts to Lore Master.

“But, you know it is possible to get Discord trust if you promise him true freedom, it worked when he was teamed up with Tirek.” Lore replied.

“Oh shit you’re right, I remember that finale, Tirek was able to convince Discord to join him, after he drained every pony of their magic he betrayed him and drained his chaos magic.” I replied.

“As of now, we don’t want to release Discord too early or else Celestia will think we have something to do with it, we have to wait until the three fillies make the argument at his statue.” Lore stated.

“You mean the CMCs huh, alright, we’ll wait until that happens.” I replied.

“Good, now I suggest you keep an eye on Twilight’s progress in the shadows, you’ll find an item that’ll help you with sneaking around, and no it’s not the cardboard box, you’re not Solid snake nor Big boss, so it won’t work out for you too well. It’ll be in the closet down the hall, you’ll see it floating for you.” Lore replied before disconnecting from the call.

Again the world resumed back to normal as I stood back up, looking down the hall to see if anyone else was around as I casually jogged down the hall, and to Lore Master’s word there was the closet.

I reached out to the door handle, twisting it as it was unlocked, I mean duh it’s a closet it has all the cleaning supplies.

As I opened the door, on the floor was an object just floating and spinning in circles in the air. It looked familiar to me, I walked over to it as I picked it up, and soon I did white text floated up in the air “Stealth camouflage”it read out before the text slowly fades away.

“No fucking way he sent me this..” I muttered as I look at the device in my hand before putting it on and pressed a button, soon I became nearly invisible, trying to look at myself as to me as I became transparent.

“Well it works but don’t know how long the battery life is, so gotta keep this on reserve.” I muttered before turning it off and pocketing the thing. I slowly stepped out of the closet and shut it behind me. With my new equipment in hand I left the castle, asking a maid nearby where the exit was as she kindly gave me directions to it.

“Leaving already?” a female voice called out as I turned to See Gilded Cross walking my way.

“Yeah, about to head out of the castle, already had my meeting with the princess and had a nice discussion with her.” I said to the Lieutenant.

“What did you discuss with her?” she asked as she started to walk alongside me.

“ Talked about the upcoming Summer Sun Celebration coming up, asked if I can participate in the event and if she needed extra security. She said I could watch the celebration but kindly declined my security offer.” I said to her, lying to the guards pony with ease as we were making our way to the exit.

“Security detail, what for? She already has plenty of Royal guards to protect the venue and the princess.” she stated as she looked up to me. I let out a small little chuckle as I looked down to the 4 foot tall pony.

“You forgot, I’m a Major, meaning I’m part of the military, what military I’m in, eh, I’ll tell you later. For now I'll let you know that I lead an elite group of soldiers that follow my command.” I replied to her as we made it to the courtyard of the castle.

“Really? And where are your troops right now?” she asked, looking around the courtyard and raising a brow.

“They’re all waiting for my signal to show up, but right now I have somewhere to be at the moment, so it’s nice talking to you Miss Cross, until we meet again.” I gave her the Ocelot signature salute as I walked away from the castle and its courtyard.

Gilded Cross watched the human walk away, scratching at her chin with her hoof as she also heard a small phone buzzing from her armor. She pulls out a small flip phone from her pocket as she puts it to her ear “Yes? He just left the castle now….My guess is heading to the station…Alright, I'll try to see if I can make contact with the Griffin Empire…You want me to make him the next agent?.... I see… Alright, I'll do it…” she answered before closing the phone and putting it away. She lets out a small sigh as he walks back into the Castle.

I continued walking down the main street, asking around for the direction for the train station and once I got the info, I started making my way down there easily.

Once at the station I walked up to the station booth “ One ticket to Ponyville please.” I asked the booth teller as they punched out a ticket. “That’ll be two bits please.” they asked. I pulled out two of the coins and placed them on the table and slid them to them.

They slipped the ticket to me as I grabbed it, heading to the station landing. After several minutes a train did slowly roll in as ponies started entering and exiting the train. I walked in through one of the train doors and walked down the narrow path, finding an empty chair as I sat down, sighing softly as I kicked my boots up on the other side in front of me as I placed the beret on my face. ‘Might as well catch a power nap, for all I know it’ll be a looong day..’ I thought to myself as I felt the train move as I shut my eyes for a needed nap, next stop Ponyville…

Author's Note

If you wanna know what scene I'm mentioning, it's this well made scene from the gamecube remake of MGS 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqpZGJWiZKM

An amazing scene, and I had to make use of this when meeting the princess. Would be sin for me not to.

Chapter 3 Chapter 3: Boss Encounter

Morning has finally arrived, slowly opening my eyes as I let out a yawn, stretching out as I let out a loud groaning yell as I felt my joints pop and my bones cracking. I was hoping that yesterday was just a weird ass fever dream but no, I’m still here, trapped in Equestria as Revolver Ocelot. I smack my lips as I'm definitely dealing with morning dry mouth as I grabbed my gear, taking out the Colt SAA that fired all of its rounds as I started to drop the spent rounds onto the floor.

As i start loading in the new rounds, my heart races, maybe ocelot was right, there’s nothing more satisfying than slamming a long silver bullet into a well greased chamber…I just now realized that it was a sex joke the whole time. “Kojima you sneaky little rat…” I muttered as I spun the chamber and lowered the hammer.

I placed both the bandoleer and holsters back on as I cracked my neck, still a bit stiff from the shot I received. My stomach rumbled in hunger as I placed a hand on my belly. “Guess I better hunt down breakfast.” as I exit out of the old bedroom.

Once back out of the castle I crossed the old bridge again, hearing one of the wood boards splitting as I pulled my foot away from it. ‘Okay, the bridge is slowly giving out on me here. Gotta move fast now.’ I thought as I quickly crossed it in a hurry. I let out a sigh of relief as I made it to the other side again as I took out my revolver as a precaution of an ambush.

I waited for a minute or two and nothing showed up to attack me. I kept my guard up as I started to slowly walk down through the forest, looking for something to hunt down and eat. After a minute or two of wandering I spotted a few fruits hanging in the tree, i took a chance i aim my revolver shot the fruit down.

Once the fruit hit the floor it immediately turned into a ration item. I shoot down another fruit as another ration item spawn before I put the revolver away, walking over to the two new items and picking them up. Everfree Fruit A.R text appeared like always before fading away. I popped open the survival viewer as I went to the food option and saw the two fruits. Strangely enough these fruits look like a hybridization between a mango and a melon. I selected the fruit as it appeared in my hand and I took a bite out of it. The flesh of the fruit has a bit of a crisp crunch to it, sweet with a bit of tang to it. I eat away until I reach the core and toss it away.

“Good Stamina Recovery” text appeared as I finished eating. “This is pretty alright…” I said as my stamina recovered two third of the way as the feeling of hunger went away.

With breakfast solved I think now is a good time to leave the forest and head back to civilization. Took me an hour to follow the trail out of the forest and finally exit out of the creepy forest. “Now what’s next on the agenda.” I muttered as I scratched my chin, thinking.

On cue my codec started to ring. I placed two fingers on my ear as the UI popped up.“I see you finally left the forest Ocelot.” the voice of Lore Master said through the static.

“Was wondering when you’ll call, I was able to meet up with Drebin and get my Nanomachines working again, hopefully there’s no other surprises he gave me with that shot.” I remarked as I rubbed my neck.

“Relax, he didn’t give you a strain of FOXDIE inside you. If that was your concern, why kill off his only customer in this world?” he responded as I let out a small sigh of relief.

“So, how long until Nightmare Moon makes her reappearance?” I asked.

“If i got the time of day correct, this should be the night of the thousandth year, meaning she’ll make her grand appearance tonight. We both know that Celestia won’t show up at the town hall as she too is expecting her return.” Lore said.

“Any suggestions on how to handle this?” I asked.

“At this time, let the girls continue on through their daily routine, we don’t want them to be alerted to our presence yet. Also I was able to pull a few favors with Drebin, head towards Sweet Apple Acres Farm, it’s to the south of your location and go behind the red barn, you’ll find your new equipment there, not only that but a way to receive new items and weapons from the gun launderer himself.” Lore explained.

“Apple Acres? The same farm where Applejack and her family lives? Isn’t that a little risky being spotted by someone there?” I asked, raising a brow at the static.

“So long as you keep that Stealth Camo active and at hand you won’t have a risk of being spotted, plus with how close her farm is towards the Everfree forest, you can use the woods as a means of covering your movement.” Lore advised as I nodded my head.

“Got it, will the new items be secured at a hidden location?” I asked.

“Correct, it’ll be contained behind a few old wooden barrels there. Now, head to Apple Acres and receive your gear.” Lore commanded before the call ended, booting me out of the UI.

I took Lore Master’s advice and followed south down through the woods, using the treelines as cover as I headed my way towards the targeted location. After over half an hour of running down and taking a quick minute to eat the other fruit to regain more of my stamina, I finally made it to the apple orchard. With a quick press of a button I turned on the stealth camo as I made my way through the farm.

I gotta say with how many apple trees there are, I'm surprised that her family can handle this many work hours with just three ponies alone. Hell, I'm tempted to steal an apple or two but that’ll just leave evidence of someone sneaking through their farm, right now this is a sneaking mission. They may be apple farmers but they would definitely know if someone was stealing from their hard earned crops, they’d probably have the math of how many apple orchards are planted around here but I digress, I gotta reach the barn.

After a solid few minutes walking through the orchard I spotted the red barn, gotta say, looks bigger than in the show online. I headed right where Lore told me to go and checked behind it, and there the old barrels were right there alright, I carefully pushed them aside as I found a gun case waiting for me in there. I popped open the case. Inside was a handgun with several magazines with what seemed to be modified rounds and a suppressor, then it hit me, this was a Tranquilizer gun. ‘A non-lethal option for sneaking around huh, I'll keep that in mind.’ as i reached out and took the handgun and the mags inside. “Mk.22 Mod 0” text showed up as I let out a small scoff as I placed the handgun away in my pocket.

‘Normally this is snake’s schtick, using tranqs and CQC for his missions but guessing how this world is treating this, anything he can do I can do. I mean Ocelot did match Snake in terms of CQC prowise and accuracy.’ I thought before I heard a small buzzing from my stealth camo as it deactivated. “Shit,it must have run out of juice.” I said before I turned to see and spotted a yellow filly with a red mane and a red bow on it several yards away, staring at me as I just “appeared” out of nowhere. ‘Ah shit..’ I thought as I spotted a red exclamation mark pop over her head. “No, no wait!” I yelled out as she immediately booked it to find one of her siblings.

“Not good.” I muttered as I quickly ran from the spot and looked around for a hiding spot. There I found a rotted out old log on the field as I quickly prone and crawled into the old log opening. Several seconds later my soliton radar picked up three dots with a yellow cone of vision, being alerted by Applebloom ratting on me. From my location I can see Applejack with her older brother, a larger Red looking stallion with blonde short mane, Big Macintosh was his name i think.

I can barely hear out what they're saying, being several yards away but my guess is that Applebloom insisted she saw someone while the siblings were doubting her. Hoping they would just walk away my soliton radar changed and entered the Caution mode as the two siblings started to patrol around the barn. ‘Damn it, this makes this a lot harder. I haven’t finished getting everything.’ I thought as I peek out and in the hoof of Big Mac was a familiar looking little robot.

'Wait, that’s Otacon’s mark II!’ shocked on seeing the little mobile robot being in the hands or rather hoofs of the farmers as that means they got evidence of something fishy going on in the farm. ‘I need that damn robot before they leave with it.

I crawled out of the log as I took out the mark 22 tranq gun and carefully threaded the suppressor on as I slowly crouched walk my way towards the lone Applejack, still looking around and patrolling around the barn as I quickly aimed up a shot at the cowgirl mare.

If my thinking was correct, in most MGS games a tranq to the head means instant knockout, so i looked down the sight and fired a quiet shot at her. The dart hit her on the side of her head as the Orange mare went down like a sack of potatoes. I hear her quietly snoring away as a couple ZZZ floated above her head.

‘One down, one to go.’ as I slowly made my way around the barn as I spotted the big red stallion himself, trying to make his way to the house. ‘No you don’t’ as I cocked the gun with a new round as I lined up a shot and hit him in the back of the head, the big stallion stumbles befores hitting the dirt asleep. I slowly walked over to the sleeping stallion as I took the robot out of his hoof “Metal Gear MK II” . I smirked as I turned to see Applebloom walking to the sleeping Applejack.

‘Sorry bloom, but snitch goes night night.’ I thought as I aimed down to the filly as she was about to kick Applejack awake before the dart hit her on the forehead. She crossed her eyes up seeing her new dart horn before slowly falling asleep. “Sweet dreams Apple family, no hard feelings.” I said as I carefully snuck through the orchard, hearing a beep from the stealth camo as it was fully charged again. I popped the stealth camo on and booked it to the woods.

Once back behind the tree lines, I placed the Mark II down onto the floor and booted up the machine. The machine shook a bit before looking up to me, jumping in surprise before turning invisible to hide. “You know I can still barely see you right, plus you’re showing up on my radar.” as I tapped the side of my head. The Mark II uncloaks before tilting his head camera to me, like a confused dog. “Yeah it’s the nanomachines that’s giving me the radar and such, plus I think you know why I'm here right?” I asked the little robot as it nodded its head as its little cable arm came out as it popped open its top compartment and pulled out a pair of aviator shades.

“Shades? What does it do?” I asked as I took the shades out as I placed them on. With its little cable arm it places the little claw on his lens and does a twisting motion “So it zooms in like a pair of binoculars?” I asked as I noticed a little switch on the side, flicking it as it started to zoom in onto a tree. “Sweet, anything else these bad boys do?” I asked as I zoomed back to normal vision. It jumps a bit as it reaches up and flips the switch again, showing off a night-vision mix with thermal imaging. “Oh damn, thermal night-vision too, it’s like the solid eye but fancier.” I said as I turned off the night-vision.

“Thanks little man.” as I patted the robot head as it does a little zoomie spin around before falling onto its side before getting back up. “Oh, do you know how I can access Drebin’s inventory?” I asked for the Mark II. It popped open the side monitor as a screen popped up, showing a large menu with the same revolver logo with 893 as I heard a small monkey hoot. “Alright, now we’re talking. How about we do some browsing.” I said as I started pressing through the menu.

From what I'm seeing Drebin had a good selection of weapons here, plenty of automatics weapons, sniper rifles, shotguns, handguns, explosives, weapon modifications and even support items.

As I scroll through I spot an interesting pair of items: “Fake Death Pill with Revival Pill.” costing around 5 bits per pill. For curiosity sake I bought the item as I heard the monkey let out a happy hoot.

The Mark II top compartment opened up as I placed the bits inside and closed up. After a few seconds it popped out as I saw the two pills inside. “Convenient.” I remarked as I installed the new revival pill into my tooth, adjusting my jaw and took the fake death pill into my inventory. I continued to do a little bit of shopping as I bought LIFE medicine for 10 bits each and a stock for 20 bits for my revolvers.

Noticing I don't have much coins left I hopped off the store as I looked down to the Mark II “Mind staying invis while I do my thing?” I asked as it nodded and turned invisible.

I knelt down and decided to ring up Lore Master. The UI popped up as I looked at the static image.

“I was able to retrieve the items you left me, though there were some minor complications.” I said.

“Were you spotted?” he asked as I nodded

“Unfortunately the Stealth camo ran out of charge in the worst time, Applebloom was the one to spot me, but thankfully I was able to recover the Tranq but not the Mark II. Had to hide real quick.`` I replied.

“Who found the Mark II?” they asked.

“It was the other two apple siblings, from what I'm guessing they doubted bloom about me but still decided to patrol their farm. I had to use the tranq gun to reacquire my gear and book it.`` I said.

“Any lasting damages?” they asked.

“None, the only thing they’ll feel is just being groggy.” I replied.

“I’ll try to see if I get a more updated stealth camo that lasts longer in the field.” he muttered before clearing their throat. “Ocelot, your new goal is to intercept Nightmare at town hall at night of the Summer Solstice Celebration, I’ll be sending the blueprint of the building to the Mark II, find another way to enter the building and await her arrive, be there before the sun sets.” he said before the codec UI closed as I was back to standing in the woods.

‘Now’s a good time to save before going out.’ I thought as I rang up Mei Ling. The UI popped up again as I saw the data analyst “Want to save your progress Ocelot?” she asked as the prompt showed up as I hit yes. “Alright, done. What kind of proverb do you wanna hear today?” She asked.

I thought about it for a bit. “How about something you know, hit me with a classic.” I said to Mei ling.

She hums for a bit before smiling “You must cross the river before you tell the crocodile he has bad breath.” she says as I scratch at my chin. “That mean?” I asked , raising a brow.

She replied saying “It means a wise man avoids danger first. Gotta use your head and think about the dangers that could be around you and avoid potential enemies.” I nod my head as I smile at her.

“Got it, I'll keep an eye and ear out, gotta go now, got a villain to meet.” I said before ending the call and closing down the codec UI.

I went over to the nearly invisible outline of the Mark II as I knelt down to it. “Alright little buddy, time to check this blueprint out.” I said to it as it decloaks, opening its side panel to reveal the map. From the look of the design, it appears to be the town hall, slightly bigger than the show has shown it but either way I spot a back door exit behind the building, a possible entry point for this building. I tapped at the screen as it zoomed in closer to the map, showing off inner layers and the numbers of floors in it and conveniently enough the back door leads up stairs to the back inside the building. “Guess I'll make my grand entrance there to her.” I said before closing up the map and standing back up.

I looked up to the sky and saw that it’s still bright and sunny out. I decided now will be the time to kill some time in the forest. Doing some small bit of fruit foraging, some game hunting and reloading my weapons.

This took me a few hours of my time, discovering some new fruits, taking out a cockatrice or two for the protein and cataloging some of the wild life. A strange looking beetle, a sleeping manticore, a crag-odile, and an odd looking avian creature. Things to either hunt or avoid in the future.

Once I saw that sunset was approaching. Now was the perfect time to head out to Ponyville as I swap out my phantom pain outfit for the darker major outfit from snake eater, helping me blend in more to the night. With a new outfit on I made a quick dash into town.

It only took me around ten minutes to reach the Town hall as the streets were mostly empty because of the approaching Summer Sun Solstice Celebration. Makes my life a lot easier by sneaking to the back of the door as I reach for the door knob and twist it, only to find it locked.

“Damn. Should have known, if only I had a pair of lockpicks to open it.`` I muttered before I heard the Mark II decloak as it reached its little cable hand up to the door’s lock, jimming it a bit before I heard a click.

“Well, aren't you full of surprises?” I said to the Mark II as it did a little hop before turning invisible. I opened the door as I slowly peek around before stepping inside the hallway, shutting the door quietly. I slowly ascended up the stairs until I made it to the balcony area and if I remember right this is where Nightmare Moon will make her grand appearance. ‘And now we play the waiting game.’ as I snuck behind the curtains, using the shadows to remain hidden as I waited.

It felt like an eternity waiting but finally I hear the mayor of pony giving out her grand speech of the festival, not really caring about what she has to say until she calls out for Princess Celestia. I looked to where the spotlight shined and to the ponies surprised but not me that the Princess Isn’t there. ‘In Three...two…one…’ I counted down mentally as the room darkens, an evil maniacal laughter echoed throughout the room and as I heard ponies murmured in fear and confusion.

Forming from the shadowy mist was the villain of the hour, her fur black as the void, her purple mane flowing like ethereal tendrils, her green cat-like eyes ever so glowing in the night as Nightmare Moon appears in front of the ponies. I hear her do her evil monologue, doing her evil spiel of bringing in eternal night to Equestria, declaring herself as the eternal ruler of the new dark ages. She lets out her evil laughter as I can see all the ponies starting to panic in fear. ‘And now, to make my grand reveal.’ I smirked.

I start to do the slow sarcastic clapping after Nightmare Moon finished her laughter, this made her and all of the other ponies confused as they don’t know who and why someone is clapping. “Wow, that is by far the most stereotypical evil villain speech I've heard in a long while.” I said as I continued clapping.

“Who dares mock the Night! Reveal thyself!” Nightmare commands. I continue to do my slow clap as I start to walk out of the shadow of the curtains, my boots clanging on the floor as Nightmare stares me down.

“Well, well, well, look who finally got out of the moon, I gotta say did you come up with that speech while you’re up there? Surely you could have gone with something more threatening.” I said as I stopped clapping, staring down the alicorn mare as she glared daggers at me.

“And Wherefore is a peasant of a minotaur such as you down in a horrific town.” She asked as she eyed me carefully.

I let out a scoff, looking at the alicorn with a bit of disdain. “Peasant? That’s MAJOR to you.” I said turning away from her before doing a little theatrical spin “And don’t you forget it!” as I pointed at her.

She let out a bark of laughter before revealing her sharp teeth in a smile. “Thou, a Major? Thou art a comedic one, please, tell us thine name before we smite thee as an example.” she asked as her dark horn glowed with a dark blue hue.

I gave her a small smirk of my own as I swiftly took out my revolver and started spinning it. “Special Operation Foxhound and Commander of an elite spetsnaz unit, Major…Revolver...” I tossed the gun up before catching it, cocking the hammer back and aiming it at Nightmare Moon. “Ocelot.” I finished as I stared at her.

The tension in the air was thick before she lost her composure and started laughing. “T-thou’s name is that of a jungle feline!” she said as she continued to laugh for a bit. She catches her breath before letting out a small sigh. “Thou would maketh an excellent jester, perhaps we shall spare thee for now.” her horns stopped glowing before she looked over the rest of the ponies to the crowd. “See, thy Eternal Night queen can be merciful, submit to us and thou’s life shall be spared.” she addressed as some of the ponies were shaking in their hooves, a couple even bowed to her in fear of their lives.

“No!” A purple unicorn shouted back, I looked over and it was Twilight Sparkle that defied Nightmare Moon. “Oh, doth thou protest against your queen? Brave, yet foolish.” She eyed the young unicorn mare as her horn glowed, ready to deliver a fatal shot. With a quick pull of a trigger I fired my revolver, the loud gunshot made a lot of the ponies scream in fear. My bullet flew and hit a thick part of her armor, denting it heavily as she let out a yell of pain. “THOU DARE!” she yelled in her Canterlot voice as she whipped around and fired a deadly beam of magic at me.

I quickly rolled out of the way as I fired another shot, this time grazing one of her legs. She yelled in pain as her leg bleed from the wound. “Thou hasn’t seen the last of me!” She yelled as she quickly formed into a dark purple mist as her shadowy mist flew out of the window. I ran over to the balcony and looked over to Twilight. “Don’t just stand there! Find the damn Elements!” I yelled to the purple unicorn before running down the stairs. As I quickly opened the back door and slammed through it, I saw the purple mist flying over to the Everfree forest. “Got to get to her before they do.” as I book it to the forest.

I quickly took the shades out and put them on, turning on the night vision mode as I quickly ran through the woods, panting as I ran through a low hanging branch, jumping over small stones in the way as I quickly made it to the bridge. With caution and haste I made it over to the other side, turning around to see a dark blue aura on it as it pulled the bridge off the dirt and let the one side fall. “No turning back now.” as I made my way towards the castle.

Once I made it to the castle, I walked past the old castle doors as I entered the main entrance hall. ‘I know where she is.’ I thought as I started walking down the hallway, carefully with revolvers in my hands as I cleared my corners. I made it to the room that held the Elements of Harmony as I quickly looked around for the threat. The door closed behind me as I heard Nightmare Moon’s evil chuckle.

“So, thou knoweth wh’re the Elements art. Clev’r little knave but this beest thy fatal mistaketh!” she yelled out as she reformed ahead of me, standing near the pedestal that held the Elements.

“T's been ov'r a thousand years since i lasteth did see mine own owneth blood being spilled, i wilt maketh thee payeth with thy owneth.” she said as a her horn glowed brightly, i shielded my eyes from the bright flash before we were teleported to the same area that Twilight had her own duel with Nightmare Moon.

“Enough of the Shakespearean dramatics, if it’s a fight you want, I’ll gladly give you one!” I yelled at her and took a gunslinger stance. The two of us stared each other down “FEAR THE NIGHT!” She yelled out as a small flash of light appeared and the fight began.

I quickly ran towards a pillar as a dark blue beam was shot at me, small chunks of the marble pillar flew off as I saw from the corner of my eyes, just under my LIFE bar was Nightmare Moon’s LIFE and Stamina gauge. This was a boss fight. ‘If this is like any metal gear solid boss fight, you’d get something special for going for a non-lethal take down.’ I thought as I reached back and pulled out the Mark 22 tranq gun.

She quickly blasted a beam of magic onto the pillar i was hiding behind, cracking the marble pillar before I peek out shot the tranq gun at her, hitting her on the exposed part of her armor as she let out a small grunt as her stamina gauge went down a bit. ‘Alright, got a good hit in.’ I thought as I quickly chamber another shot and fired another one, hitting her again before she cast up a dark blue shield around her.
‘Shit, she can cast a shield on herself.’ I thought as I took cover again. “Thou shalln’t penetrate through our shield.” She boasted as she slowly approached my cover. This time a powerful blast exploded the pillar I was behind and sent me flying, taking some minor damage as my LIFE dropped a bit “Ow…” I groaned as I slowly pushed myself back onto my feet.

“Ah there you are!” she called out as she fired quicker smaller beams of magic towards me, hitting me as small grunts of pain, slowly chipping at my LIFE before I retaliated with a few more shots of my own, strafing towards another pillar before reloading the tranq gun.

I took a quick look at both our LIFE and stamina. My health dropped quite a bit, already losing 1/5th of the bar as her stamina was down 1/3rds the way. ‘Can’t really tank all this damage, if this keeps up i might actually die here..’ I thought as I heard Nightmare Moon’s laughter as she approached and started firing her magic at the pillar.

This time I quickly moved away from the cover, quickly sneaking around to another pillar as I watched her destroy it, looking confused. “Where are thoust hiding!?” she screamed out as she patrolled around the area. ‘Now I have my strategy to beat her now.’ I thought, smirking as I fired the suppressed tranq gun at her, hitting her in the neck as it drained her stamina heavily. A few more hits before she popped her shield up.

“Coward! Hiding in the shadows like a common thief!” she yelled out as she spotted me firing a quick beam before I ducked back behind covers.

“Says the mare who’s been living in her sister’s shadow all these years!” I yelled back, running from the cover as it exploded violently as she screamed in anger.

A sharp piece of marble shrapnel flew and hit me in the leg, imbedding in it as my LIFE gauge now has a red bar in it. “Shit!” I yelled out as I grabbed at my leg. I hissed in pain as I heard the codec ringing in my ear. ‘Really?! Now is the time for a call?! Hang on, time freezes when I'm in a codec call or menu.’ a break really would help.

I answered the call as time froze around me and the codec UI popped up, the codec number that is calling me 145.73 ‘i recognize that number..’ I thought as another young woman’s face popped up, an American woman with brunette hair, a scarf around her neck and a camo jacket around her beige blouse. “Ocelot you are suffering from a shrapnel wound.” she said as I remembered who she was now.

“Paramedic, is that you?!” I called out in disbelief.

“Now’s not the time for that, right now, you’re suffering from an injury and it’s reducing your maximum LIFE. First head to the survival viewer and go to the CURE menu, there you’ll have to treat the wound. First you need to dislodge it, use a knife or something to pry out that shrapnel, next you need to apply a styptic to stop the blood loss, then apply disinfectant to the wound, after that wrap it with a clean bandage and the wound should be healed.” She instructed.

“Got it, you owe me an explanation after this fight.” I said to Paramedic.

“Only if you get out of it alive, don’t you die on us Ocelot.” she replied before the call ended.

Once the call ended, I hit that imaginary start button and entered the survival viewer. I saw the CURE tab and entered it, I then saw myself in a third person view as a line was pointing to my injured leg. On the right tab was surgical and the left tab was medical. ‘Right now, this is a surgical emergency.’ I use my mental controller to open the surgical tab, seeing the tools I have and the quantity I have left in them.

All the items except the survival knife have 5/20 uses so i have to make the most out of them. I followed the instructions that Paramedic told me, gritting my teeth as I dug the shrapnel out and poured the disinfectant on my wound. After that, I applied the styptic to stop the blood loss and quickly wrapped the bandage around it. Once I fully dressed the wound the red bar went away and my max LIFE increased by a bit.

‘Ah, much better… Now I have to be careful from now on. I don't have much supplies, unless I can buy it from the Mark II. Right now, I have a dark evil princess to fight.’ I thought as I ‘Unpaused’ from the survival viewer and back into the fight.

The fighting resumed as Nightmare Moon cackled like the crazed mare she was as she fired a large blast of magic, hitting me in the back as I was sent flying. “Gah!” I yelled out as I rolled on the floor for a bit, hearing that dreaded beeping of low health. ‘This ain’t looking good, one more hit like that and I’m dead…Wait I have the fake death pill. Maybe this might work on her.’ I thought as I took out the fake death pill. ‘Hope this works…if not, biggest mistake I made in life.’

I took the fake death pill, already feeling the effects as I let out an echoing death cry, hand reaching out before “dying” in front of Nightmare moon. As I lay motionless on the floor, having this out of body feeling as a text prompt popped up typing OCELOT IS DEAD with the words Continue and Exit below it. Nightmare moon walked over to my “corpse.” looking over at me as she lets out a triumphant laughter “Foolish Knave, t’was a mistake facing the queen of the night.” she boasted as she turned away from me.

‘Now’s my chance.’ I thought as I bit down on the revival pill, playing my death animation in reverse before staying prone on the floor. I quietly took out the LIFE medicine and injected that good stuff into me, restoring a large portion of my health. ‘Oh yeah, back into the fight.’ I grinned as I stood back up and lined a shot at her right in the flank.

The dart flew and struck her right in the flank, hearing her let out a loud gasp as she turned around, gazing at me angrily. “Oops, dart in your the butt!” I gave her a smug grin before firing one last shot, hitting her right in her angry face as she flew backward ,letting out a scream of pain, draining the last of her stamina.

An item box flew from her body and hit the floor. I carefully walked over to it, gun pointed at her as i picked it up “Nightmare.Camo”.

‘Neat, new camo.’ I thought as Nightmare Moon slowly stood back up onto her legs, panting.

I quickly duck behind a pillar. “You’re pretty good, just what I expected from the little sister of Princess Celestia. As much as I wanna continue, I think you have company coming in around fifteen or so minutes, best you entertain them, cause they’ll also have the same goal of retrieving the Elements of Harmony.`` I said as I looked to my right and saw a window. “I must take my leave now, take care, Princess Luna.” I said as I rushed to the window, jumping through it as I was just a few feet up in the air.

I rolled to soften the landing as I quickly ran from the scene. After a couple of minutes later I catch my breath, putting the Mark 22 tranq away as I smack my face a bit and yell out “WHOOOO! Yeah baby, that’s what I'm talking about. Fought the immortal corrupted moon princess, outwitted her with a fake death and beat her ass. I’m the goddamn best!” I cheered loudly before the codex rang.

I answered the call as I saw Drebin's revolver logo. “Way to handle that corrupted princess there ocelot, I'm surprised you can handle an alicorn in a fight.” said Drebin.

“Drebin, you were watching the fight?” I asked.

“I was nearby, and saw the whole thing. With you fighting Nightmare Moon, I think you make things a bit easier for the Mane 6.” he said.

“The Mane 6, you mean Twilight and her new friends right?” I asked.

“The very same, with Nightmare’s strength weakened, Twilight won’t have to worry that much about being turned into dust by the alicorn. Best part is you got yourself some new digs too.” he said.

“Oh yeah, I did get something from her, it’s called Nightmare camo.” I replied.

“Nightmare Camo eh? Well with that thing on, you’ll be as quiet as the night, very hard to spot in the dark and your stamina will decrease at a slower rate. You got yourself a keeper.” Drebin said.

“Sweet, gotta jump off the call for now, I have a Paramedic to call.” I said as I ended the call with Drebin and called the new codec frequency I received. It rang for a bit before the call was answered and I saw ParaMedic in the UI.

“What’s up Ocelot?” she asked as she raised a brow.

“Sup, calling in to say thanks for giving me the information on how to treat my wound. Kinda owe you one there.`` I said.

“I was just doing my job Ocelot, you’re vital for the mission at hand.” she replied.

“You also said you’d explain why you’re also here. Care to explain?” I asked.

“Well I was asked to join in the operation here in Equestria, and with the new guide I was given and with my years of medical knowledge, I joined in. Hearing that it was going to be you in the Mission, at first I was hesitant but I gathered my nerves and accepted to help you out. Someone is gonna need someone to watch out for them.” She replied.

‘“That’s...very kind of you Paramedic, thanks. I’ll do my best to stay alive during my time here. If I need help for an injury I'll call you up or I need help with a new food option I find in the wild.”

“Alright, and please don’t end up like Snake, always asking me if something that shouldn’t be edible is edible.” she pleaded.

“No promises.” I replied with a smirk.

She let out a small sigh and shook her head. I just let out a small chuckle as I gave her a smirk. “You have my codec number, so call me anytime when needed.” she said before the call ended. With that done I looked back over to the castle, scratching at my chin and thinking what to do next. ‘Better check on Twilight and gang to see if they made it at least.’ I thought as I walked back towards the castle.

From the castle a massive bright light shot through the windows, shielding my eyes from the sudden light. After a few seconds the light dies down as I quickly snuck back inside the castle.
I slowly approached the same room I was once in as I saw Twilight and her friends with their elements of harmony relics on them, on the ground was a small blue looking alicorn mare with shattered metal armor around her lying body. ‘And there she is, purified and back to her old self.’ I thought as I looked at Luna. Another bright light filled the room as Princess Celestia appeared in front of Twilight and her friends. From the look of things they all bowed to Celestia as the sun princess looked around the room, seeing her prized pupil, her new friends and her little sister.

She saw me way in the back of the room, I gave her a small smirk and the signature ocelot finger point before slinking away from the scene. This was their show, I just helped move things along. I left the old castle, walking away for several yards before I heard a small ‘pop’ and a small flash of light behind me. “So, was my method correct? Did it save your little sister, Princess Celestia.” I said as I turned around, facing a nice smiling Celestia as a small trail of tears were seen on her cheek.

“Yes… You were right…and for that...you have my eternal gratitude for not only helping me bring back my beloved little sister but also with bringing the elements back to power.” She said as she bowed her head down. After giving me a bow she raised her head back up and looked over to me. “As Princess of Equestria, I wish to reward you for your effort in rescuing my sister Luna. I wish to ask you if you would like to join me in Canterlot. From what I remember from our last talk, you did say you were a Major, meaning you are in the military correct?” she asked.

“Correct, I am a Major. Though from where I originally was, I was an acting Major for a military branch from another nation.” I replied as I crossed my arms, raising a brow. “ Why, are you telling me you have a position for me in your army?” I asked.

“Very astute of you Ocelot, yes I am asking if you like to join our Equestrian military. Even from your youthful appearance you have the knowledge and experience. I can see it in your eyes.” She says as she looks at me, eyeing me over, giving me a small smile.

“Well they do say eyes are the windows to the soul. And when I first met you, I saw the tiny hint of desperation for your sister. Thought I could help with that. If I am going to join your military, I want my role to be more…active. I already have soldiers at my command so you can keep your soldiers to their pony commanders. I’m guessing the pay is good as well for being a high ranking official?” I asked as Celestia nodded her head.

“All military officers are paid a high wage since they’re already proved their worth for not only Equestria but also the entire lands of Equis.” she said.

“I see… Alright I’ll gladly accept your position, but under one condition.” I said, raising a pointer finger.

“Name it, and it will be done.” She said, ears perked up and at attention.

“Can I get a Medium rare steak, light on sauce and some white wine. It’s a good time to celebrate and why not bring out the good stuff.” I said with a smirk as Celestia let out a small chuckle and smiled.

“I think that can be easily done.” She replied as she raised a hoof for a shake.

“I’m gonna tell you this, eating some actual dining would beat eating out here in the woods.” I said as I grabbed her hoof, shaking it firmly. Her horn glows a soft yellow color as we both blinked out of the woods, teleporting us back to Canterlot.