SSDW (Same Sh*t, Diffrent World)

Ponyville

Twilight quickly rose from her bed and galloped out the door of her bedroom. She ran downstairs and got her saddlebag and placed books, paper, quills and her binoculars in it. Spike came downstairs rubbing his eyes.

“Morning Twilight…”

Twilight continued to pack. As she ignored him Spike continued sarcastically,

“Good morning Spike did you sleep well? I did Twilight thanks for asking! Oh it’s no problem Spike, Rarity thinks you’re very handsome I think you’ll…”

Twilight looked at him with a funny look then he blushed from embarrassment.

“I’m going into the Everfree forest and observe those creatures.” she said as she put on her saddle on her back.

“I should go with you, it's too dangerous to go alone. What if they are aliens and came here to destroy Ponyville…? *gasp* What if they eat ponies!?” he said as he covered his head with his blanket.

“Don’t worry Spike, it will be OK. I’m pretty sure they don’t eat ponies. Besides I’m sure it’s all just a rumor, if they wanted to destroy this land they would have done it a long time ago.” Twilight gave him a smile and patted him on the head with her hoof.

“But didn’t the princess say that you should stay out of the Everfree Forest?”

“She did, but she won’t know that I will observe them from afar. Besides the only way to get blah blah blah is to see it first hoof.”

Twilight picked up her saddlebag with her magic and placed it on her back. She opened the door and walked out towards the forest. Spike stood at the door watching walk away

“Please be careful, Twilight”

The Everfree Forest

David sat down on a nearby tree stump, he took off his helmet and started to drink from his canteen. Unfortunately it was empty and this made him a little upset.

“…super...”

He looked around and noticed a large tall grassy field in front of him surrounded by tall green trees. A dirt road separated the grassy field with the rest of the forest. David suddenly noticed the sound of running water. He sat up and followed the source of the sound. After walking through the trees for a short distance he found a fresh water river and he walked over to it, rolled up sleeves on his uniform, got on his knees and put his hands in the water and splashed water onto his face and washed off the grime and dirt. He put his canteen in the river and took a big chug. After he took his well deserved drink, he looked at his reflection.

“They gave me a second chance and I fucked up big time. I should of never have accepted this mission.”

Suddenly he heard a faint voice, he quickly ran through the trees and back to the area where he first woke up. There he found the lieutenant laying on his back moaning.

“James, are you hurt?” David said as he knelt next to him.

“I feel like someone punched me in the face and then tossed me into a microwave…” James said as he rubbed his eyes.

“So pretty much the same after you take one too many shots of Jack.” he said with chuckle,

“Yeah, except usually I’m not in this much pain.”

“Walk it off soldier, give me a sit rep.”

David helped him to his feet. James took off his helmet and ran his fingers through his dark blond hair and then put his helmet back on and looked around.

“Permission to speak freely sir...?”

“Permission granted.”

“I have no clue where the fuck we are, we lost our unit, that bastard CIA agent betrayed us and I forgot to call my girlfriend before we left base…she’s going to be so pissed.”

“You still got your sidearm?”

“Yeah, but I only got about two clips left and…”

A bright flash appeared from the dirt road. A vortex opened and out came some soldiers wearing hazmat suits with rifles drawn.

“Quick into the trees!” David and James ran to the tree line and hid in some thick bushes.

Two soviet jeeps came out and stopped right in front of them. James had his sidearm drawn. The jeeps where followed by two US Army tanks, the APC, and a large truck carrying mining equipment. The back of the APC opened up and several Army Rangers piled out, stripped of their Kevlar vests and guns. The soldiers lined up the Rangers side by side and told them to get down on their knees with their hands behind their head. Sergeant Abraham Parks was struggling with one of the enemy soldiers. He broke free from his grip but another one came up and hit him in the back of the head with this rifle. He stumbled a few feet and fell onto his side. The soldier pulled him up to his knees by the collier of his uniform.

The lead jeep had four soldiers wearing hazmat suits. The two in the back seat stepped off the jeep and looked around. One of them looked down at its wrist and pushed several buttons and then the vortex closed. The two took off their helmets, one was the CIA agent and the other was the Russian general.

“You had the chance to kill him, why didn’t you put a bullet in his head instead of throwing him onto the teleporter?”

The general took in a deep breath and with a medium Russian accent he spoke,

“I heard so much about this Captain Cortez, I wanted to see if the stories about him where true. But I guess he wasn’t as tough as I thought he would be, too bad. My question is why do you have so much hatred to Captain Cortez?”

“I hate him because he left my two younger brothers for dead in a war in Dubai. A war, which I might add, you started!”

“Brothers?” David thought to himself as he continued to peek through the bushes

“I didn’t start it; I merely helped out a certain group. Besides one shouldn’t have so much hate for one person in turn you’ll end up destroying yourself.”

“As long as he’s dead and I get my money.”

“Comrade Alex, you’ll get your money soon enough. But you realize that you can never go back to your home country and you’ll be labeled as a ‘turncoat’ or what’s the word I am looking for, oh yes, treason.”

“Fuck America, they screwed me over for the last time! It’s time for a change and the American people need to wake up! They need to realize the corruption that surrounds the government. My brothers died for nothing and Cortez failed as a leader!”

Alex handed him a small USB drive.

“All of the targets are in there, and make sure you get his hometown first. I want to make his family suffer the same way he made mine suffer.”

The general put his helmet on and climbed back into the jeep. He held up his wrist and pushed several buttons and the vortex opened up again. The captured Rangers looked away from the bright flash.

“I am leaving you in charge of the mining operation. Kill the rest of the inhabitants in the caves. We may have alerted the locals and we need to wrap this up soon before they send more of their guards.”

He whistled, the soldier in the driver’s seat started the engine and drove back into the vortex and then vanished. One of the soldiers walked over to Alex.

“What should we do with the captured Americans?” asked a soldier who was standing next to him

Alex looked at them and then back at the soldier.

“Kill them and dump their bodies…”

Alex climbed back into the jeep.

“Take me to the cave.” the driver started the jeep and drove off down the dirt road.

David and James looked at each other.

“They are going to execute Abraham and the others, we have to hurry and think of how we are going to free them!” said James

“I got an idea, I’m going to run across to the other side and flank them. When I give the signal I want you to throw a flash bang. You know what to do from there on out.” David said as he cocked his rifle.

“Roger that…” James said as he cocked his M9.

David looked around and grabbed a big rock. He slowly crept along the tree line. He held back his arm and threw the rock as hard as he can into the big grassy field. The sound of the rock landing in the grass was enough of a distraction for him to run across the road and to the other side. A few soldiers looked out in the field and pointed out the location.

“(Go see what that was!)” Said one of them.

A few started to walk out to the field to locate the source of the sound.

Twilight was always nervous whenever she went to the Everfree Forest alone and she was half tempted to walk back and forget about the ‘mysterious creatures’ but her obsessive sense of knowing everything that the universe had to offer stopped her from turning back. After walking for several miles she noticed a bright white flash appear from down the road.

“What was that?” she said to herself.

She trotted down the road to the source. As soon as she came around the bend she suddenly stopped in her tracks as if she seen a ghost. Her mouth was open and eyes wide. She wanted to run but she couldn’t move her body. There they were...the creatures. It was nothing like she would of imagined. Suddenly she spotted another creature running across the dirt road. As she watched it run by everything seemed like it was in slow motion. The way it moved it’s hind legs, the look on it’s face, she was mesmerized to see the strange creature run upright. She quickly jumped into some nearby bushes. She peeked out with her horn glowing, a scroll and a quill came out from her saddle bag.

“I’ve spotted the creatures. They seem to travel in large packs and they have some type of strange looking metal wagons. Two of them has swollen heads with long snouts, and another looks box shaped. Some of the creatures look like to be wearing some kind of strange looking yellow armor. One of them just ran in front of me, it was wearing a different type of armor then from the others. From the looks if it, it seems to be sneaking around them. But why? I will continue to observe.”

As the enemy soldiers stood out in the field they couldn’t find what they been looking for.

“(Did you find anything?)”

“(All we found was a fuckin’ rock)”

“(Get back here we are going to need some help dragging their dead asses)”

The enemy soldiers started to laugh as they started to walk back

David crouched along the tree line and then found a good enough spot. Then he pointed his M4 at the lead soldier that had his sidearm pointed at the Sergeant’s head. He held up his hand and waved at James, he waved back. David had his five fingers extended…

Then four…

Then three…

Two…

One…

David closed his hand and pumped his fist once in the air. James nodded his head and grabbed a flash bang from his vest, pulled the pin and tossed it. One of them looked down as it landed in front of them and took a second to realize what it was.

“(What the fu-)”

*BANG*

James came out firing at the enemy soldiers as the captured Rangers broke free and fought the other spetsnaz. James picked up an AK and fired at the enemy soldiers. David came out from behind the tree and fired at soldiers that were in the field. The turret on one of the tanks turned and had it's howitzer pointed right at him.

“Aw fuck!” David said as he dove into the grassy field.

*BOOM*

The tank fired leaving a big smoking crater where the trees once stood and rain down debri on David. He shrugged it off and continued to fire Twilight was in shock as to what she was witnessing. The other Rangers freed themselves from their captives. The sergeant quickly tackled him and grabbed his rifle and fired at the enemy soldiers. Another Ranger quickly got on top of the other tank and shot the enemy that was inside.

“These creatures are completely hostile to each other, are they at war? Why are they here? Do they plan on taking over Equestria? I know I should not make any contact but if I can just talk to one of them maybe I could-”

Before she could finish writing, a bullet broke through her scroll and causing her to jump out of the bush leaving her exposed. She just stood there watching as the firefight unfolded before her. She looked out into the field and David popped out and fired a few rounds.

“Secure those tanks!” he yelled out.

James quickly climbed up top on the tank and forced open the hatch. And threw another flash bang and closed the hatch.

*BANG*

The hatch opened and two of the enemy soldiers came out, James pulled out his side arm and pointed at them. He pulled one out and then the other. The other Rangers came running up to them and made them get on their knees with their hands behind their heads. David came running up and slung his rifle around his back. He looked at the both of them with an upset look on his face

“English?”

They remained silent

“Why are you here?”

“We’re not talking, you American pig!” said one of them

“Are you with the NPR?”

David yanked off their helmets and balaclava. The two Russians gave David and the other Rangers a scowl look.

“I’d say we put a bullet in their heads to save us some time, they aren’t going to say shit!”

“Relax Parks” said James

“Tell me what are you planning? Give me a fucking answer!”

David’s voice started to get louder. He grabbed one of them by the collar of his vest and really got into his face.

“Don’t fuck with me! Tell me everything or you are going to end up like your comrades!”

With a straight face he stared back into his eyes trying to intimidate him

“We will burn down your cities, destroy your homes, nothing will stop us!” the other soldier grabbed a two grenades from his vest and pulled the pins out.

“Grenade!”

The Rangers quickly ran in all directions and ducking down behind the tanks as the grenades exploded killing both of them. David ran back out into the field and turned his head around after the explosion

“…goddamn it…” David said

Abraham came up to him

“What do we do now sir?”

“Hide the bodies in the field and take their guns and ammo.” he said

“What’s our next move Dave?” asked James

“First off, we need to secure Santiago. Once we secure him we can head back to base and tell them what just happened. As much as I want to put a bullet in his head we have to bring back alive to he can stand trial.”

The Rangers dragged the corpses into the grassy field and lined them up side by side. Then they took their ammo, guns, grenades and anything they could use. Twilight quietly peeked through the bushes and slowly made her way to the grassy field without being noticed by the hostile creatures. She found one the dead bodies and poked at its cheek with her hoof. Her horn glowed and she used her magic to pull out the quill and scroll. She then continued to take more notes,

“Why would these creatures kill each other? Let alone kill themselves…” She looked down at the body. “This is sad that these creatures would just leave these bodies in the open instead of burying them. This…this is disrespectful…”

“Saddle up, we’re Oscar-Mike!” yelled out Abraham

The engines on the tanks fired up causing a sudden shock to go through Twilight’s spine.

“The steel beasts have awoken. Not too long ago one of them breathed out fire with a loud bang and destroyed a tree. I am starting to guess that maybe I shouldn’t find out who or what these creatures are.”

Twilight shook her head and held her head up,

“No, I have to find out. I am not going to let the Princess down!” she said to herself.

As David was about to walk away, his so-called ‘sixth sense’ kicked in. He turned around and walked to the dead bodies were. Twilight quickly crouched down into the tall grass in hopes he won’t see her as he came closer. He was only a few feet away, she wanted to use her teleport spell but she was too scared and couldn’t concentrate.

“Dave where are you going?” said James

“Thought I seen something moving in the field…something purple…” David said as he looked around the field

James gave him a confused look and blinked several times

“…something purple…right.” he said

“I think we are not alone, someone or something maybe watching us.” Said David as he continued to scan the field.

James rolled his eyes and put his hand on his shoulder

“Come on Dave, I think the teleporter must have fried your brain.”

David looked at him and then back out at the field,

“I want eyes watching our six, whatever I just seen I want to make sure it’s not hostile!”

“You got it. Hey the Captain wants eyes watching our asses! You two watch our six!” James said.

David and James walked away and jogged up as the tanks started to roll away. Twilight peeked up and started to write down on her parchment,

“I’ve just now noticed something they speak the same language as we do. From what I heard the alpha asked the other creatures if they speak ‘eingelash’. What a strange name for a language. I will continue on.”

The captain was in front of the small convoy. He looked around the forest and noticed the wild animals peering around from behind the trees. Another thing he noticed that the air was much cleaner and fresher then is was out in Georgian mountains.

“Hey Dave, I just noticed something.”

“What?”

“You’ve noticed the trees, the ground, and the sky right? Well they look completely different than usual…like they are out of a fucking cartoon or something…”

David gave him a cocked eyed look.

“…Just saying.” James said

“That untested teleporter is now fully operational. It must have sent us random location some place god knows where. Right now we need to locate Santiago and get the hell out of here fast before they send reinforcements.”

“Yeah but I’m just saying that…”

“Zip it Lieutenant!”

As they continued down the road, David suddenly he noticed black smoke billowing up from behind the ridge not to far away. He held up his hand and knelt to one knee.

“Stevens, Parks, up front!”

The three of them crouched down until they got closer to the edge. Abraham pulled out a pair of binoculars and looked down. It was a mouth of a large cave at the base of a large mountain range. In front was a large dirt field with small patches of grass all over the place. The one thing he did noticed was large mounds of dirt also scattered around. A large fire was off to the side with bodies burning in it

“What do you see?” asked David

“Let’s see…bad guy, bad guy, bad guy, machine gun nests, bad guy, bad guy, bad guy, guns, guns, and more guns.”

David looked down at the small camp as Abraham handed him the binoculars. He looked through them and spotted a pile of dead bodies in front of the fire.

“James down there.” David said as he pointed down the hill.

“Holy shit, they killed civilians!” said James,

“They don’t look human, they look more like…dogs?” Said the sergeant,

“Is that one is wearing red vest?” Said James.

Two soldiers dragged a large grey dog out into the open. It had a black collier around it neck, its fur was unkempt, and its upper fore legs where skinny and got bigger towards it fore paw. But looked like a hand then a paw. A man walked up to him and pulled out gun and tapped its forehead. immediately David knew who that man was, it was Alex.

“Just so you know, the more you keep sending your troops, the more of them are going to die. Now tell me once more where are you keeping those diamonds I keep hearing so much about?”

“You ugly creatures will never get our diamonds!”
As it spoke it was like a medium pitched scratchy voice

The three Rangers on the ridge looked at each other

“…did that thing just fucking talk?” said James.

“...this, just got weird...” said Abraham

“Give us those diamonds or you will end up like your buddies over there.”

“NEVER! You come into our den and kill everyone! You too will know what death will be!”

Alex chucked a bit

“You see this is what happens when lower sentient beings do not cooperate with higher beings with a weapon! Once again, where the fuck are they?”

It stared at him with a scowl look

“…Wrong answer.”

He held his gun to its forehead and pulled the trigger.

*BANG *

Its lifeless body slumped over and fell to the ground. The two soldiers dragged the lifeless body over to the fire where the rest of them where being burned.

James had a puzzled look on his face,

“...so let me get this straight, that thing he just killed was a dog, a talking dog mind you. Russia has some wired animals...” said James,

“What do we do now, sir?” Asked Abraham

“No body here just seen that talking dog?!”

“Calm the fuck down lieutenant...sir” said Abraham

David looked at James and Abraham and stood up

“James, do you remember that thing we did in Karkand A few years ago?”

“Yeah how could I not remember, we nearly look out half the damn city” said James.

David looked at him with a slight smile and nodded slightly

“Sir you are not going to do what I think you are not going to do, are you?” said Abraham

David got up and started to walk back down the road,

“Oh god Dave, please tell me you’re not…” said James

“He is…he is.”

“…fuck, I just hope I don’t get a small helmet again.”

“Parks, you stay here and keep an eye on them. Stevens and I are going to get that truck with the mining equipment down there and take them by surprise. One we neutralize and eliminate all enemy forces, we secure Santiago and radio base for an ex-tract. Hooah?”

“Hooah…” Said Abraham

David and James ran back to where the truck was. They took the uniforms off the dead bodies and changed into the ones that were not covered in blood. Hiding not too far away was Twilight with parchment and quill ready. She continued to take notes,

“The two creatures are taking off their clothes and redressing themselves as the other creatures. I overheard the one they call ‘Dave’ talking about ‘neutralizing’ and finding ‘Santiaigho’. Also from what I can tell, they almost have the same body structure as primates at Fluttershy’s cottage. The only difference is that they speak the same language as we do, have very little hair, they are taller, and they can walk on their hind legs with no problems.”

Twilight finished up and placed her parchment and quill back in her saddle. She brought up her binoculars with her magic and continued to observe them. A few minutes passed by and both James and David were fully changed.

“Oh great, now I got helmet that's too fucking big”

“As long as its on your head it fine, and besides you are not going to be wearing for long anyway”

As she continued observe them, she suddenly heard some heavy breathing from behind her.

“What is thaaaaaHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!” she looked behind her and there stood at Manticore staring down at her.

She came out from the bushes screaming. She wasn’t paying any attention to where she was running, all she knew is that she had to get away from the Manticore fast. She looked back to see if it was still following her, suddenly

*THUD*

She ran into the back of David’s legs. He turned and looked down at the purple pony. She stood there looking back up at David wide eyed. She didn’t realized how tall he was up close. As for David he was also in slight shock to see a small horse with huge eyes and had a unusual shade of color for its coat.

“This is bad, what should I do? Should I say hi? Welcome to Equestria? There’s a huge Manticore that’s right behind me that’s hungry!” She thought to herself.

James was wide eyed as well.

“Uh Dave…”

Just when David was about to answer, the Manticore came running out of the woods. As soon as it did it spotted Twilight and with two Army Rangers. It roared and then came charging after them.

“What the fuck is that thing?!” said James,

“How the hell should I know! Open fire!” yelled out David.

David and James drew their rifles and fired round after round at the charging creature. But their bullets couldn’t stop it. David and James both jumped in opposite directions. Twilight ran in the other direction and into a large bush and then peeked through. James quickly stood up turned around reloaded his AK and fired again at the beast. He walked backwards as he was firing and tripped over a rock, the beast started to slowly run in his direction. James started to panic and was about fire again but the beast swiped the rifle out of his hands with its large paw. James then pulled out his M9 sidearm and fired two shots before realizing it was right above him. The manticore raised it paw once again with its claws extended. James closed his eyes tightly and prepared to enter an entire new world of hurt.

Suddenly the beast started to wine and stumble away from James. He opened his eyes and saw David on its back with one hand on the knife in the middle of its furry hide while his other hand had a fist full of fur. The beast swung him around but David held on tight. His rifle slipped from his back and landed on the ground a few feet away from James.

James looked up at David and then back at the rifle and quickly got to his feet and picked it up just as its tail smacked him on his chest. James flew back a few feet and landed right in front of Twilight as she was watching the whole thing unfold in front of her. David saw what happened and then quickly pulled out his side arm, a M1911 .45. He pointed it at the base of creature’s skull and fired several rounds. The manticore stumbled for the very last time right before it fell to the ground.

“…oh my goodness…h-he just killed a manticore…” Twilight thought to herself.

Twilight walked out of the bush and stood a few feet away from James. David stood up and dusted himself off and looked back at the creature.

“The hell is this thing?” he thought to himself

He yanked out the knife out from the corpse and cleaned off the blood and slid it back in the holster and his gun as well. He walked over to James lying unconscious. As he walked closer he made eye contact with the purple horse. They stood there for several seconds before Twilight broke eye contact and looked over at James.

“What a strange looking horse…” he thought to himself as he slowly walked past by it. The one thing he noticed was the horn on top of her head, “what the hell is that?”

“James, wake up! Wake up man!” said David as he gently slapped him in the face.

“Well Twilight, he seen you might as well talk to them” Thought Twilight

Twilight carefully walked over to him and looked down at James and then looked at David

“Is…is he going to be ok?” she said

David looked up at her with confusion, and then looked around.

“…D-did you just talk?” He said looking at her

“Of course I did why wouldn’t I?” she said,

“…shit is getting weird Cortez…” He thought to himself.

“Uuggh what the fuck hit me?” said James as he came too

“Oh good, you’re not dead.” said David with a small chuckle,

“As long as I am with you who knows” he said sarcastically,

“Oh thank Celestia, he’s not dead. I thought for sure that the Manticore would…what?” Twilight looked back at the two soldiers who started back at her.

“…Ok I must have been hit in the head one too many times cause I swear that horse just said some-”

“Ahem, I hate to sound rude but I am a pony not a horse. Ponies are a different breed from horses but we do come from the same-”

James continued to look the purple horse with a surprised look on his face. David stood and started to walk away.

“...S-so we’re going to ignore the talking horse now Dave? Dave!?” James said as he stood up and followed him

“I’m a pony!” yelled out Twilight.

Twilight was offended by his rudeness but she tried her best to not get upset. She trotted up to them from behind.

“I must apologize, we got off on the wrong hoof. Allow be to introduce myself, my name is Twilight Sparkle, local librarian in Ponyville and apprentice to Princess Celestia. She is our kind ruler of our land called Equestria. She controls the sun while her sister Luna controls the moon. And as a representative of my species to make contact with yours, let me be the first to...hey, where you paying attention to anything I was saying?!”

David and James looked down at the purple pony and then back at each other

“So Dave, you are not as shocked as I am that there is a talking horse standing right behind us?” Said James, “And what the fuck was that thing that attacked us?”

“It was a manticore” she said

“Manti-what?” said Dave

“A manticore, a head of a lion with wings and tail of a dragon”

Twilight looked at the two of them waiting for them to talk again.

“James, there has been a slight chance that we might have been transported to...another world.”

James looked at him and blinked several times

“...Another world? Seriously Dave?”

“I am not entirely sure, but the fact that we are in another universe is just a theory”

“A theory? A THEORY! You went to college for this shit, you should know everything about the whole damn universe!”

“I dropped out of college after three years, I told you about this Stevens. Look, I can give the whole fucking explanation which will take hours, on end which we don’t have time for, or I can just half-ass it for you!”

James rubbed the bridge of his nose from the frustration

“J-just half-ass it for me, I got a headache...” he said.

Twilight was standing right behind them the whole time, her ears really started to perk up as David tried to explain the best he can about parallel universes to James. David pulled out his knife and started to draw lines in the dirt.

“This line on the left is our represents our universe and this on the right is the one we are currently in right now. I’m not too sure how it happened but the teleporter must have ripped the fabric of space and time and opened up to this world. I am guessing to whoever stole it tried to reverse engineer the technology and somehow found this world. This is earth but a different earth. We might be in the same universe or we might not, might being the key word. If it was night time and I could get a hold of some star charts maybe I can figure out where we are...”

“So are you a scientist?” Twilight looked at him from top to bottom, “ You don’t look like the real scientific type.”

The two Rangers looked back at the purple creature

“And I usually don’t meet talking horses on a daily basis.” said David

“You are being awfully rude! Do you normally treat everypony you meet like this?”

“Everypony?” David said

he looked over at James. He shrugged while looking back at him

“So what do I call you?” asked Twilight

“David…”

“What is the name of your species?”

He looked back down at her

“Human...”

Twilight’s horn started to glow, the scroll and quill levitated moved in front of her.

“Hmm, ‘Heumin’…”

David and James looked at her with a puzzled look. David knelt down and got eye level with Twilight, with the parchment and quill still floating in front of her.

“How are you doing that?” asked David

“Magic.”

“Magic?”

“Yes magic, don’t you use magic where you come from?”

David looked at the pony with confusion. James knelt down next to him

“Dave, we have to get going before they find out that their pals are dead.” said James

“Alright get in the truck. You horse, pony, thing, you are coming with us.” Said David

“Y-you’re not going to take me prisoner are you?”

“We can’t let you go, you might get captured by the enemy and then THEY might kill you. They also might torture you to giving away our location. We just witnessed them killing some dogs, talking dogs I might add. So you are better off coming with us.”

“I just saw you kill a manticore in front of me. I don’t feel safe right now but I have to cooperate with you. I don’t want to die.” said Twilight

“Look I promise I won’t lay a single finger on you and you won’t die. Not on my watch.” said David.

David was driving with James in the passenger seat. Twilight sitting in between looking around the truck she started to ask David and James more questions about them. James started to answer some of questions but David remained silent as he was still trying to figure it all out.

They both wore the Russian uniforms with black balaclavas covering their faces with lightly tinted goggles covering their eyes. As soon as they reached the rest of the Rangers, David told her to get out and stay with the Sergeant. He stood at the top of the ridge as he watched the truck with the captain and the lieutenant driving down the hill. He then looked at the lavender pony that the captain told him to keep an eye on.

“So…you really talk?” asked Abraham

Twilight was nervous enough, but she still wanted to know more about the humans the just met

“Yes I do. please allow me introduce myself, my name is Twilight Sparkle and…are you OK?”

“Join the army they said, see the world they said, get the credits you need for college they said, oh yeah and you get to meet talking mutant horses…”

She looked up at him and blinked several times before writing down more notes.

“Remember James, we are going to be real subtle about this.”

“Let’s just hope we don’t take out half of the forest.”

David drove the truck down the hill to the entrance of the cave, two of the guards and their rifles drawn and the gunners in the nests had the heavy machine guns pointed at the truck. The guard came up to the driver’s side,

“(Hey, what the fuck too you so long?)” He asked,

David just stared at him.

“(We heard gun fire and explosions, we were about to send a team to investigate. Did you run into those talking flying horses again?)”

“flying horses?” David thought to himself

The guard started to get suspicious as he continued to stare at him,

“(The fuck is wrong with you, why aren’t you saying anything?)”

David looked over at James and then pulled out his side arm and pointed it at the soldier and fired several shots. He stumbled back and fell to the ground. David fired at the other soldiers as he ducked for cover

“Yeah, real fucking subtle Dave.” James pulled out the AK and fired at the other soldiers

“What? Did you want me to ask them nicely to give up and surrender their guns?”

From the tree line Twilight was watching with wide eyes and a slightly open mouth,

“Dose he normally do these types of things?”

Abraham looked down at the purple pony and was still in slight shock that there was a talking horse next to him.

“The captain has outrageous ideas, mostly endangering his life. But somehow he comes out with little to no injuries, in other words he’s got a shit load of luck.”

“…luck, huh?” she said as looked down.

The machine gunners in the nest fired upon the truck David and James ducked behind the dash. He placed his finger on the ear piece that was attached to the helmet

“We’re taking heavy fire, use the damn tanks to take out the MG nests!” he said as he was yelling his ear piece.

“Sir we might hit you and-” said Abraham

“I don’t fucking care! Danger close, danger close!”

“Goddamn it…”

The sergeant gave a heavy sigh and waved his hands signaling the tank gunners to fire. The tanks moved the turrets around and pointed it at the two machine gun nests. Since they had the higher ground they had the advantage. Twilight continued to take notes,

“The one named ‘David’ would endanger his own life to ‘take out’ their enemy. Why would he do such a thing? But I would like to know more about him, he seems rather interesting.”

Several enemy soldiers fired grenades and RPGs back at the ridge. The rest of the Rangers fired back. Twilight ducked down and covered her ears as the tanks fired and the explosions from the grenades and RPGs.

*BOOM*

*BOOM*

The two tanks fired at the nests, hitting one of them on the steel girders and the other hitting the nest itself. The nest that got hit directly toppled over onto the truck while the other that got hit in the girder landed next to the truck. David was still inside the truck covering his head trying not to let debris land on him. James jumped out as the second tower came crashing down. As soon as it started it ended. All of the enemy soldiers have been killed by the Rangers. James came crawling out from under the wrecked truck coughing he yanked off the helmet and the black balaclava.

“Dave! Dave where the hell are you?!”

He came out of the truck coughing and leaned next to the destroyed truck. He took off the helmet and yanked off the balaclava. He had his hands on his knees and looked up at James with a smile,

“Just like Karkand.”

David chuckled and shook his head. His fellow Rangers came running down the hill to secure the entrance to the cave with Twilight not too far behind.

From inside the cave the CIA agent peeked around the corner and witnessed the destruction.

“Damn it! He’s alive? I thought the teleport killed him. I got to get out of here!” he thought to himself

He pulled out his side arm and slowly sneaked his way towards a jeep that parked nearby. He started the engine and floored it almost running over several of the Rangers. David looked and seen that it was Alex.

“It’s the agent, stop him!” said Abraham

Dave pointed his M4 at Alex as drove off, but something in the corner of his eye caught his attention,

“Private, hand me that RPG!” said David.

The PFC tossed him the RPG, David pointed it up at the road leading the target. He fired the RPG and struck the road in front of the jeep causing it to flipped over. Alex was ejected from the seat and landed in some thick bushes. David tossed the launcher to the side.

“Let’s go pick up the trash.” he said

David picked Alex up and punched him as hard in the stomach as he could. Alex fell backwards and landed in the middle of the group. He was grabbed again by David and was about to punch him in the mouth.

“Is that all you got?” said Alex.

“You fucking bastard, why are you with them?” Said David.

“You killed my brothers in Dubai, you left them for dead, and it’s your fault!”

“Who were your brothers?”

“You took off in that Osprey and watched them die!” Said Alex

Something must have sparked in David’s mind, he flashed back and remembered seeing two Rangers running for him and then falling to the ground dead,

“I told that pilot to stay put!” he said

“You should of done a better job, you are a disgrace to the Army!”

David pulled out his side arm and pointed at Alex’s head

Give me one good reason why shouldn’t execute you right now for treason!”

“Don’t kill him we have to bring him in to stand trial like you said.” said James with his hand on David’s arm.

David continued to look at Alex angrily,

“Sergeant Parks!”

“Yes sir?”

“Tie him up and make sure he doesn’t escape!”

“Yes sir!”

Twilight watched the whole thing unfold and continued to take more notes,

“I need to take extra precautions towards these dangerous hostile creatures. I can’t make any drastic moves nor lead them to Ponyville. It’s been a long day and I am very tired, in the morning I will try to sneak out and hopefully that they won’t notice that I am gone. I am sorry princess, I have never came into the Everfree Forest.”