M.A.G.E.by Awesomedude17ChaptersThe Brotherhood Enters the BeyondBrothers, Operatives, TeammatesDays Pass, Wounds HurtTime FliesShadowsLoyaltiesTrue EvilBlood Bonds SeveredThe Last LaughAdmissionThe Brotherhood Enters the BeyondM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 -October 19th, 2026, 0832 hours- -Location: S.V.E.R. Headquarters, Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russia- -Hours to estimated end of war: 957 hours, 49 minutes- Priya Khan was the leader of the Seryi Volk Executive Response, or S.V.E.R. for short. She had just gotten reports that his two main rival companies were going to capture a nearby desert solar plant, which was called 'Radiant Barrens'. She decides that she needs her top troops there to intervene. Two of her top troops were already in the room, so she turned to them. "Gentlemen, both Raven and Valor are going to try to capture our desert solar plant at 0930 hours. We cannot let that happen or else we will lose important stockholders. Do you understand, Dmitri Vulakh and Dmitri Reznov?" "Yes sir!" Responded both of them in a slavic accent. "Good! Do not let me down." "Of course!" The two left, and began to go towards the barracks. Vulakh began to talk. "So, Reznov. You think we'll finally get the promotion?" "I hope so Dmitri. But I'm more worried about your reputation as S.V.E.R.'s finest shotgunner." "Please! Even most of Valor and Raven understand that I am a lethal force!" "Bragging will kill you one day, brother." "Ehh, screw you, we got a half hour to kill." "Yes, preparing for the battle and telling our clan!" Both soldiers were in a subset clan of S.V.E.R. called the 'Masters of Death' clan. They were known in S.V.E.R. ranks as the most ruthless and well-paid members of the PMC. Vulakh walked to his bed and took out his pride and joy to clean and maintain, a T-195 pump-action shotgun. With a 9 round tubular magazine, it was a middle of the road option to the 12 Gauge Pump of Valor and the Boudini 12 Gauge of Raven. It also was lightweight, 4c, so it allowed Dmitri to carry a med kit with him, as well as poison gas grenades. It also had a reflex sight, but even it's owner admitted that it was more for cosmetics, rather than for use. "You know Reznov, we have been fighting this war for a while now." "Yeah, I hear you comrade." Reznov took out his prefered weapon, a PSK MG, to maintain as well. It has 100 round box magazines and the gun was belt-fed. It was somewhat sluggish, but it gets the job done. It had a bipod and a reflex sight on it, both of which increase accuracy greatly. "And during that time, I've noticed one thing." "What?" "Everyone is a damn medic here." Reznov contemplated this for a short while, it was true. There was some reason that could be justified, S.V.E.R. was generally so focused on fighting that most of them learned basic medical skills to at least fight more before dying from another wound, if not to save lives. The two were by far the most lucky of the warriors, only going to the medical bay a couple times. "Well, I guess you're right." Reznov finished cleaning his MG and took out his IZ-443 pistol out to begin to maintaining it as well. The pistol was standard issue and had 17 rounds. It was slow firing, but it also had stopping power. "Even we are medics." Vulakh took out his Kurtis 45ACP and began to work on it. This weapon had hitting power, but it ran dry very often with 13 rounds, even with its fire-rate of near 630 rounds per minute. Dmitri often used it when getting from building to building as a ranged weapon as opposed to his shotgun. "Yeah." The two finished with the guns and went to the rest of the clan to make an announcement. Vulakh came to the center with a megaphone. "My brothers! I am going to go fight in Radiant Barrens to protect our interests! Who is coming with me?" Most of the men cheered, as well as Reznov, obviously wanting in in the action. Some however hated the barren desert, and chose not to go. "We go at 0900 hours!" The men cheered louder, this was going to be a fight for the ages. -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1247 hours- -Location: Fluttershy's cabin, Ponyville, Equestria- It has been 3 months since Dethklok left and pretty much made the changelings extinct, and Fluttershy was happy. Rarity was finally moving in with her and she was excited to see her lover with her at most times. "Fluttershy, Darling." "Yes Rarity?" "I need help moving this cabinet." "Oh sure!" Fluttershy grabbed one end of the cabinet and helped Rarity position it at an empty part of the wall. The two looked at each other and smiled. "Oh, I am so glad that I get to be with you Fluttershy. I really am." "Me too." Fluttershy kissed Rarity gently. "Me too." The two just needed Opalescence to come join the family now. Easier said than done. "I'll be back, I need to get Opal." "Of course Rarity, and I'll be waiting." Rarity smiled as she left the cottage. She had thought only one thought, Fluttershy is so wonderful. Small wonder I didn't fall for her sooner. -October 19th, 2026, 0924 hours- -Location: Radiant Barrens- -Hours to estimated end of war: 956 hours, 57 minutes- Vulakh and Reznov were ready to exit the bunker they set up 15 minutes ago. Vulakh had Triple reinforced armor on, a perfect complement to his T-195. He also had a Medical Kit and Poison Gas grenades. He was going to be on lockdown for the battle, preventing the opponent from getting in the objectives. Reznov had the same thing, except that he didn't have gas grenades. "You ready Reznov?" Vulakh said as he put on his warpaint hockey mask. "Да, я." Replied Reznov as he put on his goggles. "Good!" Five minutes until the mission is go. Пять минут до миссии - идут. The intercom said in both English and Russian. "Five minutes, double check your gear, Dmitri." "Sure Reznov." The two checked their gear, and were now sure that they had what they need. Objectives are now ready! Prevent the enemy from winning! Цели теперь готовы! Препятствуйте врагу побеждать! "Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!" Yelled one of the soldiers. Both Dimitris went over to objective A. Soon they were met with Raven operatives. "It's Raven! Show no mercy!" "S.V.E.R.! Eliminate tangos!" Yelled a Raven operative. The two forces fought each other, but by a slight lead, S.V.E.R. won. "Dmitri! Hack the terminal!" "Да, will do!" Replied Vulakh. His time in S.V.E.R. had gave him important hacking and explosive bomb-control skills, as well as made him hardier than a survivalist in the deep Amazon. We are capturing objective A! Мы захватываем цель A! "Raven reinforcements!" "Kill them!" "We have reinforcements too, you ублюдки" "We can't let S.V.E.R. cap A!" Yelled another Raven operative. "Stop them operatives!" We are capping objective B! Мы - цель лимитирования B! "Для братства!" Cried Reznov as he killed two Raven operatives. He then got shot in the stomach! "AAH!" "Reznov! Don't worry, I got you." Vulakh took out his med kit and injected Reznov with Morphine and antibiotics. "Ahh, Спасибо Dmitri." Reznov said as he got back on his feet. "Пожалуйста, Reznov." Alpha has been captured! Альфа была захвачена! B is under our control. B находится под нашим контролем. S.V.E.R. controlled two of the three objectives, which meant... Fall back to objective D and defend the data center. Отступите к цели D и защитите центр данных. "GO GO GO!" "Move out!" "К D! Торопите товарищей!" "MOVE! ДВИГАЙТЕСЬ!" "Ignore the heat! Двигайтесь в объективную Дельту!" The group went to objective D and was met with absolute chaos. Valor, Raven and S.V.E.R. were fighting in the same place. Valor and Raven were however killing more of S.V.E.R. than each other. "Dmitri! You and Reznov go the center to stop the enemy from taking over the data center!" "Yes, this way Reznov!" "Да!" The two men went over to the terminal. This place was by far the most high-tech place S.V.E.R. had. It was a long term pay off, if it was protected. Reznov deployed his gun on the floor next to the terminal controls while Vulakh stood behind it. To say they had what they were expecting, was an overstatement. Two Valor men, one with a M4A1 with a Grenade Launcher, a x4 sight and a suppressor, and another with M31 CIR with a foregrip, and a reflex sight. They both had M9s, but the M4A1 soldier had a suppressor attached to his. Then there was two Raven men, one had an F90 and a F57 pistol, both with suppressors and the other one seemed to have an empty AM50, he did have a KP7 out though. "Из всех хуже всего удача..." Reznov almost had enough of this, but this was simple enough. "Pierre, we need to stop them!" Yelled out the KP7-using operative with a distinct accent from Central America. "Oui!" Yelled out the F90 operative. "We'll kill the Ravens later, kill the Wolves first!" Yelled out the M31 CIR user, in a distinct southern accent. "Right! I'll smoke 'em!" Replied the M4 user in a Latino accent. "GAS OUT!" Vulakh knew how to use the gas grenades and threw them in a way that covered the two without killing them. "SHIT! MOVE!" Yelled the Valor operatives. "MERDE!" Yelled out 'Pierre'. "До свидания! Вы сыновья сук!" Yelled out Reznov as he aimed at the head of the M4-using Latino. But as he was about to pull the trigger, something happened. The gas apparently reacted with the machines, causing a short circuit. This shocked both Dimitris and they could not fight anymore. The four others saw this as a chance to finish this. "Move!" "Go!" "AARRG!" The four men stormed, only to realize why they stopped defending. "It's gonna blow!" "Déplacer! MAINTENANT!" But the machine blew up... And the six men escaped, but with very serious injuries. "Dmitri! Dmitri! AAAHH!" Reznov had it bad, a broken leg and 3 shattered ribs. "Reznov!" Vulakh's left arm was broken, and he was limping, badly. "Dmitri, I don't think..." Reznov than spit out some blood. This got Vulakh worried. "Дерьмо, REZNOV!" Dmitri had to carry him ou... "AHHG!" Dmitri saw that his knee had just dislocated. Of all the days my luck ran out. The dying duo saw that the other four weren't faring well either, most were bleeding out badly and the one that had the least damage could only crawl to help. They were screwed. Comrades! What happened? The data center exploded, it's useless now! Abandon mission! The stockholders will not be happy! Товарищи! Что случилось? Центр данных взорвался, это бесполезно теперь! Бросите миссию! Акционеры не будут счастливы! Dammit! It looked like the end for the six, except that the machine soon began again and with a flash, made the wounded disappear. A nearby S.V.E.R. soldier saw what happened and could not believe it. "I need to tell Priya!" -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1553 hours- -Location: Canterlot Castle, Canterlot, Equestria- CRACK! "Sister! Was that..." "Yes! Guards, we have some visitors." Celestia could not forget the sound that brought Dempsey over. She went to the source of the sound and was shocked. There were two men in slick black suits, and they were bleeding out. "Guards! Take them to the medical bay now!" One of the men talked in a strained, accented voice, "Qui l'a dit?" "And quickly!" Princess Celestia added. "Yes Sire!" -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1553 hours- -Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville, Equestria- Applejack was checking the hay bushels for a later date, when... CRACK! Two humans appeared in front of her, and from the looks of it, they were bleeding out. "Oh mah gosh! Don't worry, Ah'll help ya!" One of them mumbled in a accent similar to Applejack's right before passing out. "Sarah?" After these humans are healthy, Ah'll take 'em to Twi's. -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1553 hours- -Location: Fluttershy's cabin, Ponyville, Equestria- "It wasn't easy to bring you here Opal, but we're here." Opal just rolled her eyes. She never wanted to move in the first place, especially in a pet cage. At least Fluttershy was nice to her. But Angel... Rarity opened the door and soon put the cage on the ground and opened it. Opal took no time to get out and explore her new home. "Oh Opalescence." "Yeah, she's a bit feisty, isn't she." Rarity turned to her marefriend, and smiled. "Of course, but she's a good pet." "Yeah." CRACK! "What was that?" "I don't know Rarity, but there are two humans outside." "Humans!" The two went outside to look at them and got shocked looks. One's arm was broken and it's leg dislocated. The other's leg had the bone sticking out, and was coughing blood. "Oh no! We need to..." "Save them, I'll carry the smaller one. Leave whatever objects they have, those'll just slow us down Fluttershy." Fluttershy nodded and with Rarity, carried the humans in. As they did, they heard one of them speak. "Reznov... Reznov... Вы ... мертвый? Я ... мертвый?" -Major Defeat- -BATTLE WAS A TIE- -Data Center Destroyed- -1986 XP Earned- -Level up!- -You are now at level 70! White Tiger!- -Veteran Mode Unlocked! Visit character select screen for more details.- Author's Note ALR stands for After Luna's Return for those of you who don't understand. This story is set 4 years after Nightmare Moon is defeated. Also, who are the soldiers that I didn't name? That'll be answered next chapter. Also I choose the last names Vulakh, because it's my last name, and Reznov, because Reznov is most badass CoD Russian, more so than Nikolai Berlinski. Enjoy. Brothers, Operatives, TeammatesM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1857 hours- -Location: Fluttershy's cabin, Ponyville, Equestria- Fluttershy had just finished bandaging the two humans' wounds and set the broken bones. She had done procedures like this to many animals before, so this wasn't too bad. The punctured lung had to be pierced so it would drain the lungs. Rarity came in and became unnerved that her lover was covered in blood. But she ponied up and trotted to her marefriend. "Fluttershy, I brought those objects in." Rarity placed the guns and medical kits right next to the couches the humans were laying in. "What's this?" Fluttershy said as she moved her hoof to the kit. "Don't, it might be a weapon." "Oh, right... humans like these have weapons." "I do have to ask, why are they dressed this atrociously?" "I think they might be... some kind of military people." "Military..." The couple looked at each other with uneasy looks. They might have brought professional killers into their own home. "Well, as long as they are like this, they won't attack, ha ha, ha." Rarity was visibly sweating, but Fluttershy kept the calm head. "Don't worry, they'll just be in for a big surprise." The fashionista smiled, and hugged her lover. "I hope this won't get worse, I hope." "Me too Rarity, me too." -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1724 hours- -Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville, Equestria- Applejack may have just got out of the hospital a month ago after an experimental treatment option involving modified HIV viruses, but she had enough strength to know how to fix up a pony, or a man in this case. After looking at the bandaged duo, she smiled and nodded, then left. One of the Valor agents, Johnathan Richardson, was having a flashback to his time before this event, being with his sister, Sarah, watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. "Ah can't believe ya got me to like this show." "Shuddap, ya goofball and watch this." The two chuckled and the vision repeated. "Sarah..." "...why did ya have to be... in that accident?" The other one, Romero Lopez, was a rare kind of soldier, an Albino Latino. He was out cold, remembering the times he had a child, until the very last war killed his father... And made him into a soldier. -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1654 hours- -Location: Canterlot Castle, Canterlot, Equestria- "Come on human, heal." The doctor pony managed to set all the bones and fix the internal damage, but Celestia needed to talk to the humans before she could send them to Twilight to keep care of them. "Sister, they need their rest. Please get ready to set the sun and get your rest." Luna said in a serious tone. Celestia sighed, and turned towards her sister. "Very well, I have more pressing matters right now." As the two leaders left the room, Pierre Ampathie was slowly stirring. He remembered what had happened to make him join Raven. It was the bio-terrorist attack that nearly killed his family, and himself. Jose Alejandro Bárbaro was a serial killer that decided that he would do satisfy his bloodlust by lawful killing. It felt much better to him, he always like to kill people with his sniper rifle. "Grr... I want... more blood." He then had a flashback, he had met that Albino Latino he was against before... he just remembered. -January 26th, 2025, 1257 hours- -Copper Hills Relay- "One shot..." BANG! "...One Kill." Jose let his demented mind enhance his thoughts as he and his spotter watched the head of a defender's head spurt out a fine, red mist. "Fine shot." Pierre said. "Thanks amigo, this is the best time I had in years." "You are enjoying this?" "Come on, please don't tell me you don't want to kill for fun." "I kill because it's my job. Is your head on straight?" "If it wasn't, I wouldn't be a sniper." Jose said as he took another deep breath in, and shot another enemy. We have captured B! We have captured A! Advance to objective C and demolish the data center. "Time to move up spotter man." "I have a name." "What is it gringo?" "Pierre." Jose had a demented smile and patted Pierre on the back. "Jose, Jose Alejandro Bárbaro." "Nice to meet you. Now can we get a move on? We're going to get caught." "Fine, fine. Borrico." The two ran to one of the relay stations and set up sniping spot there. Pierre had a med kit ready to heal Jose and an F90 fight off the enemy if they got caught. "Let's seeeeeeeeee..." Jose looked down the scope and saw a enemy holding an MG. BANG! And he killed him. "Nice." The AS50 did the job well enough, but then... BANG! An explosive blew up above the two, and wounded them heavily. Jose tumbled backwards and fell down. The fall incapacitated him. Someone approached him. "Listen gringo, we are on opposite sides, so I'll just end it here." The Valor agent said, bringing out his M9. Jose widened his eyes. My one regret is that I didn't kill anymore people. "Goodbye, puto!" "Aucune manière, bâtard!" Pierre shot the Valor agent a few times with his F90 before reloading. "Dammit, you win this time, but next time..." The Valor soldier got close enough for Jose to see that he was an albino. "You'll be dead." The Latino ran off, all while Pierre healed his fellow agent. "I'll kill him Jose." "No, let him run off amigo, he'll just get his just deserts later." Pierre just looked at the Ecuadorian, and shook his head. We destroyed the data center, pack up and go home. "My only regret this mission Pierre..." "What?" "I never got to know why I let that guy go." Pierre chuckled and the two got up and went to the heli zone for pick-up. "Whoa!" Jose woke up, and felt a sharp pain in his left chest. He looked to his left to see his closest friend, Pierre, bandaged up. -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1921 hours- -Location: Canterlot Castle, Canterlot, Equestria- "Damn IT! The me... di... cal... bay..." Jose noticed that is wasn't the high tech medical bay he usually ended up in for one of those missions. "What the hell, this isn't Raven headquarters. ¿Dónde diablos soy yo?" No one answered, and Jose fell back into bed. "Fuck me." Jose said. He was probably captured. It wasn't too far-fetched. He remembered charging at that SVER agent and trying to slit his throat, and the explosion. That God-damn explosion. When I get my hand on that S.V.E.R. agent, I'll wring his throat! Jose thought, before falling back into bed in pain. Ah fuck it, I'm going back to sleep. And Jose was out like a light again. -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1920 hours- -Location: Fluttershy's cabin, Ponyville, Equestria- Vulakh woke up and opened his eyes. He looked to see that he was in some sort of cottage. Did Valor capture me? "Reznov..." "Yes Dmitri?" Reznov responded, having been awake for a few minutes. "Did we get captured by Valor?" "Нет, у нас нет." "How do you know?" "Look... to your right, oh God." Reznov strained out of his throat. Dmitri looked to his right, and saw... two horses, one had wings? The other had a horn? "На прошлой неделе! В прошлом месяце - это те?" "Я не знаю. Ahg, hа прошлой неделе!" "They're speaking like Nikolai." Fluttershy said. "Maybe they know him." Rarity said in a low voice. "Они говорят! В прошлом месяце, этого не происходит. Wait, how do you know... heh heh..." "Dmitri?" "I am speaking to a couple of horses, and I have been in an explosion. I still feel pain. I must be in Hell. That's it, I'm in Hell. And I should be in Heaven for my Hebrew faith. Ha ha..." Vulakh's eye twitched a few times. "Dmirti, do not panic... agh." "Panic? אני מדבר על שני סוסים כי לדבר, אני כאב! אני לעזאזל!" "Dmitri, you know I don't speak Hebrew." "Well then, how do you explain these fucking horses?" "Maybe we should leave." Rarity said, already backing away with Fluttershy in tow. "Oh no, you are telling me what is happening, or so help me... AGH!" Vulakh grabbed his left arm in pain. "Please don't move, we only want to help." "You know what, fuck you, I need to be alone." "We understand, come along Fluttershy, darling." Fluttershy nodded and the two went out of the room. Vulakh then spoke to his roommate. "Reznov, what the hell brought us here?" "I don't know, but I am assuming that we aren't... agh, the first ones to have come here. They mentioned a man.. ah ah... named Nikolai" "Reznov, rest up, you do not sound well." "I do not feel well... ah... You are right cousin." Reznov grabbed the medkit by his bed and put it to his arm. "What are you doing?" Fluttershy said. The device injected the PMC with the usual mix of morphine and antibiotics. After the injection, he dropped the device. "Drugging myself." "Drugging?" "Morphine, it works." Vulakh explained. "Ahh, okay, good night. You'll need it." "Yeah yeah, good night, flying, talking horse." "Umm, we're ponies." "Whatever." Vulakh laid down and rested. Fluttershy nodded and went to the bedroom. "Please get better. Please get better." -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1902 hours- -Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville, Equestria- Johnathan eyes began to flutter open and he looked to see that he was in a barn. "What the hell, where am I?" He looked to see his partner, Romero, bandaged up with him. Valor doesn't use barns as medical bays, where are we? He looked around a bit more, not sure why he recognized the barn. "Glad yer awake." Johnathan look froze, and he turned to see Applejack, looking at the man, stetson and everything. "Yer okay?" Johnathan did not answer. Applejack just shook her head. "Ah get it, yer in shock 'bout seein' a talkin' pony, Ah'll just let ya rest up." Applejack left and Johnathan was still in shock. Was that really... Applejack? Johnathan then fainted, hoping that this was a dream. As much as the show was fun when he was a teen, he'd much rather forget it, to forget his sister. "Why'd ya have to have rupture that kidney, why'd ya have to have that over-inflated tire?" "Why'd ya have to be quarantined? To die?" "Why?" Author's Note So we got Dmitri Vulakh and Dmitri Reznov of S.V.E.R., Johnathan Richardson and Romero Lopez of Valor, and Pierre Ampathie and Jose Alejandro Bárbaro of Raven. Another noteworthy detail is that they all are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, fairly common among most, if not all soldiers. Jose Alejandro Bárbaro is also suffering from a bloodlust that comes from an event that will be shown later on. Hope you enjoy the rest. And Happy New Year. Days Pass, Wounds HurtM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 -October 21th, 3 ALR, 0942 hours- -Location: Fluttershy's cabin, Ponyville, Equestria- Dmitri and Dmitri, they were brothers and cousins in everything but blood, but they really weren't being close at the moment. "How the hell are you so calm about this Reznov?" "Agh, too much in pain... to react in shock." Vulakh hated this place, but at least the food was decent. Stews were a nice change of pace from C-rations. "Listen Dmitri, let us just rest up, we are injured, and it is raining outside." "..." "Dmitri?" Reznov looked to see that his comrade had fallen asleep. He sighed and looked at the two ponies watching him. "So, tell me, who are you two?" "Oh dear, with all of this excitement, we forgot to introduce ourselves. I'm sorry about that, I am Rarity and this is my marefriend, Fluttershy." "Marefriend, what is... oh, oh I get it now." They are lesbians, seems like yesterday that these kinds of people just up and made it 100% public. "Right, I am Dmitri Reznov, and this man here is Dmitri Vulakh." "If you're both named Dmitri..." "You can call me Reznov, it avoids confusion." "You seems to speak our... um... language better than... eh... Nikolai." Fluttershy noted. "Who is this Nikolai?" "A worthless, smelly, alcoholic imbecile!" Rarity hated that man with a passion. "Ruined my bathroom 6 months ago, and he was a general ruffian!" "What did he do?" "He blew up the toilet." Reznov was silent for a few minutes. "... How the hell... does one blow up a toilet?" "It escapes me to this day. He claimed to have come from this time called 2012 and blew up the world." "That is bullshit, I live in 2026!" "Really, this is all so confusing, right now." Rarity put a hoof on her temple and rubbed it. "Look, you just rest up. I mean, look at yourself, absolutely immobile, compared to him." Reznov nodded, Vulakh did seem to just have a bad arm, and a dislocated kneecap. He himself on the other hand had three broken ribs, a punctured lung, a heavily broken leg, and a piece of shrapnel that was pulled out of the area next to his eye-socket. He was in no condition to even be sitting up. He laid down and rested a bit more. "Rarity, do you think that they are in an army?" "Armies, we got rid of them years ago, we now have PMCs everywhere." "PMCs?" "Private Military Companies. Dmitri and I belong to the Seryi Volk Executive Response, or S.V.E.R. for short. We fight against our rivals, Valor and Raven for economic superiority." "So you are a mercenary?" Fluttershy knew that killing was bad, but killing for money... "No, we are a brotherhood. Agh, I'll explain later, need rest." Reznov eyes fluttered shut and he went to sleep. "Oh dear..." Fluttershy decided to go to the kitchen and make breakfast for the animals. Rarity followed, deciding to help her lover. These two humans need to rest up, they were planning on introducing them to the princess. -October 21th, 3 ALR, 0958 hours- -Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville, Equestria- Rainbow Dash flew down to the barnhouse after hearing news about a new set of humans from Applejack. As she flew down, the rain matted down her coat and mane and she began to feel more cold. That didn't stop her from flying into AJ's bedroom and shaking herself dry. "Dangit, Rainbow Dash! At least ask 'fore shakin' yerself dry." "Sorry Applejack, force of habit. Where are these humans?" "In the barn, put on this jacket and follow me." Applejack handed Rainbow Dash a yellow rainjacket and grabbed one for herself. The two dressed up and went to the barn. "Alright Dashy, ya ready?" "Yep, mind asking, are they dangerous?" "Nah, they're injured. They can't fight, even if they wanted tah fight." Rainbow nodded and Applejack opened the door. The two trotted in to see a man, staring blankly at the two, and another one, unconscious. Rainbow flew to the one awake and looked at it. She raised an eyebrow and waved a hoof in front of him. "Wow, this guy's in shock." Rainbow Dash, Ah can't be in Equestria, this has tah be a dream. "What about that one?" Applejack trotted to Romero and took off his helmet. She raised an eyebrow at what she saw. "Well then, this here human is quite... strange-lookin'." "Strange-looking?" Rainbow flew over to the other human and noticed why. "Oh, he's an albino AJ." "Al-bine-no?" "He doesn't have any pigments in his skin or hair, all pale. See?" Rainbow motioned for her to look at the human, and Applejack nodded. "Ah get it." "Ohhh... Johnathan, amigo, are you okay?" The two ponies stepped back slightly as the Latino awoke. "Oh man, my head. Oh... Why am I in a barn? Where am I?" Romero looked at the ponies, looked away, and then back at the ponies. "Que cojones! ¿Lo que el infierno son esos?" "What is he saying?" "Ah dunno, Ah don't speak fancy." "Pueden hablar! Johnathan, ¿dónde diablos está usted?" Romero's cries suddenly took Johnathan out of his trance and he looked at his panicking friend. "Romero, calm down, ya hear?" "Calm down, there are fucking colorful talking horses, and ye want to tell me to calm down, amigo?" "Now Ah know that this is strange but..." "Strange, oh ho, John, this is insane!" "Ah think we should leave." "Oh yeah chicas, you two leave!" "Chicas?" Rainbow wasn't sure if that was an insult. "He said girls, git on out now, we need tah talk." "Okay then, ya two talk, and we'll be in the farmhouse, okay?" "Alright amiga, let us be." The two ponies left, and Romero looked at his partner. "Okay then, this is ridiculous." "And how's it ridiculous Romero?" "We are talking to horses that talk, and I'm not sure, but I think one of them was a pegasus." "Well then, we're stuck in a barn, wit no help in miles, and you just freak out." "Me freak out, where's your freak-out?" "Ah was in shock, didn't move no muscle or nothin'." "You know what, I think you might like this place." "What did ya just say?" "I said you like this place, don't you, Usted enfermo." "You think ah want to be here, fuck you, Ah'm goin' back to sleep." "Fuck you too bastardo, I'll go to sleep too." "Fine!" "Fine!" The two laided down in a huff, and began, or at least, tried to sleep. Applejack and Rainbow were outside the barn, listening in to everything they said. "Ah guess they're in a rough spot in their friendship." "Yeah, and did you see the guns they had?" "Reminded me of Dempsey." "Yeah, he was totally awesome." "He was nicer, if a bit strange." "And you know what, I not sure, but I think they might be part of some military." "And we can hear everything ya say, come 'ere and we'll explain what we are." Rainbow and Applejack were startled a bit by that outburst, but went in anyway. They looked at Johnathan in the eyes, and saw his brown eyes had some kind of torment in them. "What is it?" Rainbow asked. "Romero there and I are part of a Private Military Corporation called Valor, and we fight against two other companies, S.V.E.R. and Raven." "Really, what's the difference between the three of you?" "We are the guys who believe in good, old-fashioned, know-how fighting. Raven believes that technology will win the war. S.V.E.R. believes that the passion for fighting and brotherhoodship, or whatever they call it, are what gonna win the battle fer them." "They all sound very different. So, yer a mercenary?" "That's what some people say, personally, we all fight because it's either starve to death, or bleed out in some hellhole desert in the middle of nowhere, and that's a good day fer us." "Oh mah goodness, ya been through so much." "Personally, I fight fer mah family's well-being, and... somethin' personal." "...Ah get it, we'll just leave ya here." "Wait, what about..." "We're leaving Dash." Applejack had already made up her mind. Rainbow sighed, wanting to learn more about the human. She left and Johnathan fell back into bed, and he began to cry some more. "...Sarah... wh-why?" -October 21th, 3 ALR, -0921 hours- -Location: Canterlot Castle, Canterlot, Equestria- Jose was getting antsy, he hadn't killed anything in hours. He always had this insatiable bloodlust that never could go away. Small wonder he even made it into Raven with his mental stability, or lack thereof. "DAMN IT ALL! I necesidad de derramar más sangre! Más maldita sangre!" That outburst woke up Pierre, and he looked around a bit. "What the, where are we? This isn't Raven headquarters." "Pierre, good to see that you are okay, I'm getting bloodthirsty, three days without killing a damn soldier!" "Jose, you need something to drink." "Oh, you know what, I would go some tequila right about now." Jose's antic agony disappeared briefly, two things cured his bloodlust, killing and tequila. Heureux de voir que l'accès est terminé. Pierre thought to himself. "Did we get captured?" "Not sure amigo, but I know that my guns are out of my reach." Jose pointed at the wall, where all the weapons were laying against the wall, unloaded, and generally made safe to handle. The bullets were even out of all the magazines in all weapons and placed in bags next to the guns. "Who would put them away like that?" Pierre now knew that this wasn't S.V.E.R. or Valor. The former would've simply killed them, and Valor would've just sent the guns over to Raven Headquarters. The door unlocked, bringing the two on edge. If this was a hostile enemy, they were screwed. The door opened, and three figures walked in. The two operatives looked at each other, and spoke at the same time. "Merde." "Mierda." "I understand, so I'll just get to the point." Princess Celestia said, making sure that Twilight or Pinkie Pie didn't get close to the two humans. "I am Princess Celestia, you've been torn from your universe and ended up here. I'm here to make sure you get better, so that you may go home." "Oh ho, better amiga, I have special needs." Jose said, his eye twitching. "Really?" Twilight asked. "His eye is twitching, unless it's a second sense, it might be anxiety." "Pinkie, what makes you..." "Oh, listen to your pink friend amiga, she is right, I am... anxious to get back... he he he..." Jose said, eye twitching some more. "Okay then..." "How the hell..." Pierre tried to talk. "Just don't, we'd rather you wait until you are better before you go home. Thank you Twilight for coming here to see these two." Celestia looked over to her student, who smile in response. "Oui, nice. Listen, are we going to be long here?" "Well, you both have multiple broken bones, so I assuming you'll be better in a few months." "A few months!" Jose needed to shed blood. He looked at his hand and saw it shake. "Are you okay?" Pinkie said, hanging over the sniper. "Umm, yeah chica, come over here, will ya?" "No, no tengo confianza que todavía." Pinkie replied, making Jose widen his eyes. "Oh crap... fine, go." "Alright then. Twilight, Pinkie, if you will." The two mares nodded and left the room with Celestia. Pierre looked at Jose and sighed. "You need to get over your bloodlust Jose." "FUCK YOU PIERRE, I NEED TO KILL SOMETHING! ANYTHING!" Jose looked around frantically, and saw a spider. With his good arm, he smacked it dead. This relieved some stress, but he was still antsy. "When I am free, I'll go for something with red blood, ha ha." "How you got into Raven is beyond me Jose." Pierre fell back into bed. Jose looked at the operative and shook his head. He looked up and saw some shadow thing. He looked at it with awe, and it went out the window. "Holy crap, that was beautiful. I will find out what it is." Jose smiled deviously. He saw something that will help feed his lust. Author's Note What was that shadow thing? Time FliesM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 -November 9th, 3 ALR, 0942 hours- -Location: Fluttershy's cabin, Ponyville, Equestria- "Dmitri, give me some morphine." "No, you'll get resistance. Hold off for a few more hours." Vulakh was at the point where he could move around in crutches and did so. His knee was almost ready to get out of its brace. Reznov however was far from out of bed. He was healing rather quickly, but his leg was far from ready to leave its cast and his ribs were still healing. "I need the damn painkiller." Reznov coughed a bit, feeling pained. "Just rest up comrade, I'm going for some fresh air." "Dmitri..." Vulakh used the crutches he had gotten from his caretakers and went out to the backyard. It was nice and cold, but not snowing. It seemed like the Latvian autumn for him. "This is..." Vulakh knew that he would have to find a way back home when his wounds heal, as would Reznov. What could he do? "This is what?" Dmitri looked to see Fluttershy feeding some birds. He shook his head as he began to speak. "This like my old home, Riga was a very nice place." Vulakh reminisced. "Riga? Is that a city where you are from?" Fluttershy inquired. Vulakh nodded. "Ja, it is, in a country called Latvia." "Must be so nice, especially with family." "Yes, my family is healthy. My mother was Russian Jew, my father was half-German, quarter-Polish, and quarter Latvian. They are alive and well." "And Reznov is your brother, or cousin, or..." "Neither, we have become so good friends, we have become like brothers. I care deeply for him." "Oh my, how deeply?" "Well, I am not gay, if that helps." Fluttershy giggled at that remark. She shook her head, knowing that the two soldiers would go home soon. -November 9th, 3 ALR, 0923 hours- -Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville, Equestria- Johnathan rubbed his eyes as the sun finally hit his eyes. The wounds were healing very nicely, and he could get up again, along with Romero. Johnathan looked to see the Apple family work. He noted one... two things off though. Why ain't she working? And why's her mane shorter? Did somethin' happen after the show ended or somethin'? "Romero, Ah want to go home." "No shit amigo. At least it is fall here; sun is no good for me." "If Ah recall, ya barely could run a mile 'fore tirin' out." "Hey, that was three years ago, and I got better." "And your vision wasn't too good either." "Contacts." "And then there's the thing with the gon..." "She said she was clean! Why are ya doing this to me, amigo?" "I dunno, maybe 'cause ya look funny when ya angry." Romero deadpanned, and looked at the southerner with his very pale blue eyes. "You're gonna get payback soon. For now though, I got to make sure my shit's clean." Johnathan rolled his eyes, Romero used clean as a code for checking equipment. The two weren't allowed to wander off the farm, and they were injured. The two would have at least two more weeks before they were better, so they needed to pass the time somehow. "'Kay, whatever ya say Romero, Ah'm gettin' some more shuteye 'fore the day begins." "Whatever Johnathan." Romero said, cleaning his gun. Once I am done with this shit, I am gonna retire. Blood, blood, BLOOD! -November 9th, 3 ALR, 0923 hours- -Location: Canterlot Castle, Canterlot, Equestria- Jose laid in bed, waiting for the day that he would get out. He'd go to the forest, slit an animal's throat, maybe eat it too. He wanted to just shed blood. Would he say he had a problem? Maybe. He would say that he wanted nothing more than to just go home and kill. Kill. Every. Single. Fucking. Soldier. He was on the run, Raven saved him more than once for the Ecuadorian authorities, not that they were trying, the population growth made such killing necessarily good in a way. Probably the reason why homosexuality was outright made legal last few decades in even the traditional third world countries. All he wanted was to kill... Kill... "RARGH, HOW MUCH LONGER?!" he yelled. "Until your broken bones heal Jose. Shut up." Pierre wanted some shut-eye for sure. But then the doors opened. The two looked over and saw three familiar faces. But the purple one was different. "What happened to you?" "Long story." Twilight said, in full regal attire. She stretched her newly found wings and trotted over to Jose, clearly interested in his strange anxiety. "What are you doing, senorita?" "I just want to help you." "I don't need any help, except from my fellow operatives." "Denying help means you do need help." "Cállate perra, y estar fuera." Twilight rolled her eyes and trotted away. "How much longer?" Pierre asked. "Another week, you're healing quite nicely." Celestia said. "Thank GOD!" Jose yelled out. "Good. Twilight, how about you go to Ponyville now, we need the other elements." "Right. Pinkie, stay in the castle." "!SEY" Pinkie began to trot backward, leaving the two Raven operatives confused. "Don't." Twilight said, teleporting out with magic. "Take care." Celestia closed the doors and trotted to her throne room, ready to start the day. As Jose woke up, he noticed the blackest smoke float above him. "Oh, it you... what do you want?" Jose asked, enamored by the cloud. It didn't answer, but merely flew out. Jose didn't know what it was, but it was clearly amazing to him. I miss it already... And like that, he tried to curl up into a ball, but his casts were making it hard. Author's Note Tyreese-le-Tyler43 is back, he edited this chapter. Go check him out. Glad to finally finish this chapter. I have a few more on hold, later followers. ShadowsM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 -November 20th, 3 ALR, 1058 hours- -Location: Fluttershy's cabin, Ponyville, Equestria- Dmitri Vulakh and Dmitri Reznov had finished their treatment, and were now only on mild painkillers. While they enjoyed the time without fighting, they were still in an unfamiliar world, with mostly unfamiliar people... err... ponies, and they were just begging to go home now. S.V.E.R. needed them. "Let's check our gear Dmitri." Reznov suggested as he took off his helmet, putting it on to see if it was still functional, to reveal that he was a rather handsome man, with black hair combed to a fine style, and greenish brown eyes. "Alright then." Vulakh took off his own helmet to reveal that he had blond hair, which was browning, and blue eyes. The two soldiers took stock. Vulakh still had his medkit, a simple, needleless injector with morphine. His prized T-195 was also still in good shape, but the explosion that crippled him caused the reflex sight to break, not that it was useful anyway. His Kurtus 45ACP was also in excellent shape, and still functional. He looked to see if he had gas grenades left, but it was clear that he used it all. Reznov saw his PSK MG had gathered a lot of dust. The loose tolerances of Soviet weaponry meant that all it needed was a quick wipedown. The reflex sight, amazingly, was intact, but the batteries were dead. The bipod was still attached, and still folded out. His IZ-443 just needed basic maintenance, nothing serious. The two were satisfied with what they had and proceeded to walk to the door. "Wait!" The duo turned to see Rarity, standing alone in front of the private military contractors. "You're not going without Fluttershy and I, humans are rare enough in Equestria as it is." The two looked at each other, and nodded. "Okay, but they might be alarmed to see two people, dressed in military attire." Reznov said. "They might, but I sure they've seen worse." "You know, I just remembered something." "What is it Dmitri?" Reznov asked. "Whatever happened to the enemy?" -November 20th, 3 ALR, 0917 hours- -Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville, Equestria- Johnathan and Romero, two men who just wanted to go home. They had their gear set up fully. Romero's M4A1 was not damaged at all, but required a thorough cleaning to make it a viable weapon. Johnathan's M31 CIR was also well off, and ready to fire, not that they would. "Ready dumbass?" Johnathan asked. "Sure thing, puta." Romero replied. The two laughed a bit and went outside to see it was sunny. Thank God I'm wearing this armor. Romero thought to himself. "Glad to see y'all are okay." Applejack said as she moved to the group with her stetson on and a saddlebag full of bits. "Thank ya kindly, AJ." Johnathan said. "Yer welcome." "Hey guys, come on! We got a train to catch!" Rainbow Dash yelled to the group. The three looked at each other and nodded. "Hmm, I wonder what the leader's like?" Romero wondered. "Probably some bigger pony." Johnathan replied, trying to act sarcastic, and working. "Seems legit, right chica?" "EEYUP, Princess Celestia is a big pony, and an alicorn too." Applejack said as she looked to see Fluttershy carrying some animal feed and cleaning tools, probably for Rarity. "A what-now?" Romero asked. "I think that means she has wings and a horn." "Gee, ya think John?" "Well what else could it be, a monkey?" Rainbow couldn't help but laugh at that remark. "Ya know what, shut up." Romero looked forward and entered a steady march. Applejack looked to Johnathan, who simply shrugged. "He'll do that." "Whatever ya say John." "Ya know, I never did know what happened to the enemy PMC's." "Enemies?" -November 9th, 3 ALR, 0923 hours- -Location: Canterlot Castle, Canterlot, Equestria- Pierre and Jose were now in the throne room, minding their own business. Jose was killing every bug he could find in a vain attempt to quench his bloodlust. Pierre was reading up on what he thought was interesting. Only thing that caught his attention was the rumors of changelings coming back, despite a group of humans that call themselves 'Dethklok' wiping them all out, also in the article. Pierre sighed. "Eh, what are we going to do now that we aren't bedridden Jose?" Pierre said. "Weeeeeeeell..." "Don't." Pierre interrupted Jose, clearly knowing his answer. "Oh, you are no fun at all amigo, no fun at all." "My definition of fun is reading a good horror novel with a glass of wine." "Horror? I thought you'd read..." "Romance? Please!" "I was going to say erotica, but that works too." Jose said with a cheeky smile. Pierre just stared at the mentally deficient Ecuadorian, and facepalmed. "Come on man, let's just go outside, breathe the fresh air, enjoy the nature, kill some animals." "YOU, can kill the animals. I will simply do the rest of what you said." "Neither of you are killing anything." The two turned to see Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Discord look over the two. The draconequus pointed to the frenchman. "Hmm, this one seems boring." Discord then pointed to the other. "But this one seems a bit more... rowdy." "Rowdy, what that supposed to mean, boyo?" "I means you're unpredictable, like me. Why two months ago, I took a vacation to an alternate dimension, I got a couple souvenirs!" Discord took out what looked like a car door, wrapped around a trolley with some cloth, and a samurai sword, clearly used in battle, but has not been bloodied at all. "You call a car door thing, a souvenir?" Jose himself thought that that was ridiculous. "Umm, yes. It killed zombies!" "If I may..." Celestia interrupted. "we still have something to attend to. We have to send you two my student's home south of here, so we need to leave. "Merveilleux! Partons maintenant!" Pierre yelled. "Very well, Twilight and her friend should be at the train station right now." -November 20th, 3 ALR,1001 hours- -Location: Train Station, Ponyville, Equestria- "Two tickets please." Twilight said, putting the exact amount of bits needed to buy two tickets. "Right away your highness!" The ticket pony grabbed two tickets and gave them to the two mares. "Thank you, the bag has exactly 38 bits in it. Thank you." Twilight said. "Hee hee, you said thank you twice." Pinkie said. "I did? Oh dear, I might have..." "No time sister, we gots a train to catch!" "The train's not leaving for 15 minutes." "Yeah, so let's go!" Pinkie grabbed Twilight and the two dashed into the train car. As they came out of view, an earth pony, a pegasus, and two humans came up to the ticketmaster. "Four tickets to Canterlot please!" Rainbow Dash said. The cashier nodded and handed four tickets for the train to them. "That'll be 76 bits please." "Is that a lot?" Johnathan asked. "Umm, is he in an army or something?" "Umm, yeah, let's go wit that." Applejack said, putting the money on the counter. She grabbed the tickets and the four went onto the train. As they came out of view, another two humans came, with a unicorn and a pegasus. "Four tickets to Canterlot Darling." Rarity said, taking out a bag of bits. "76 bits please." The cashier said, taking out the last four tickets. "There you go." After counting them, the ticketmaster handed the group tickets. "Last ones, enjoy them." "Thank you darling, come along boys, Princess Celestia awaits!" "I can hardly wait." Reznov said sarcastically, getting an elbow from his comrade in response. They went into the train, which closed its doors. "ALL ABOARD!!!" -November 9th, 3 ALR, 1042 hours- -Location: Canterlot Train Station, Canterlot, Equestria- Princess Celestia stood over with her sister and the two humans, awaiting Twilight and Pinkie Pie. Pierre noticed the strange looks he was getting, and didn't like them. Jose felt like they were judging him, waiting to riot and kill him. The two were uneasy, to say the least. "Do not worry, once Twilight gets here, we'll sign you out and send you on your way." Celestia assured the two. "I still don't like these upper class stiffies." Jose remarked, getting dirty looks all around, which just made him more paranoid. "Don't worry, as a matter of fact, here's the train." There was indeed a train coming in to the station. It slowed to a stop and the doors opened. Soon coming out came Twilight and Pinkie. "Welcome my faithful student." "Thank you princess, it such an honor." "Indeed. You will now take Jose and Pierre to your home in Ponyville, understand?" "Yes princess, I will do..." "What in tar... RAVEN OPERATIVES!" The group turned to the source of the noise, a couple humans dressed in forest camouflage, pointing their weapons at the other humans. "VALOR!" Pierre took out his F90 and pointed it at the other group. "противника здесь? Введите боевые позиции, товарищ!" The part of the group that wasn't about to fight turned to see two more humans, these two in bright fluorescent orange vests, aiming their weapons at the four humans. "S.V.E.R.!" Jose aimed his KP7 at the number advantage group, as did Romero. The ponies around the standoff began to panic as they thought that a deadly fight might break out all of a sudden. Jose began to feel aroused at the chaos. Twilight noticed that all of her friends were confused, and scared. Using quick thinking, she teleported them to a safe distance away from the inevitable violence. Vulakh kept his finger on the trigger of his T-195, ready to kill at a moment's notice. One of them began to pull a trigger. *BANG* Author's Note They finally meet! LoyaltiesM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 A bang was all that the ponies heard when they saw that the six human disappeared out of nowhere. Celestia and Luna had performed a double spell whammy; a knock-out spell, and a teleportation spell. The six trained PMC's would not be causing any trouble in the train station soon enough. But they were still fearful. "My little ponies, do not be alarmed! We have dealt with the threat at hand. We will question these creatures on why they did what they did, but for now, you may go about your business. Thank you." Princess Celestia and her sister teleported out of the train station, know very well that the ponies there are relieved now. -November 9th, 3 ALR, ??? hours- -Location: ???, Equestria- To say that Jose was having a bad month, would be sugarcoating it. He ended up in an unknown land, had multiple broken bones, hadn't killed anything in weeks, and was starting to hear voices in his head. It was strangely, evil. He woke up in a random bed, alone, and without his weapons. His bullets on the other hand, were at hand. Needless to say, he was pissed off. "Oh goodie, you're awake!" "Huh? Oh... Pinkie... it's good to see you amiga." "Si, senor!" "Tell me, where..." "Uh uh," Pinkie said, wagging her hoof. "the princess told me not to tell you where your gun is, after what happened in the train station." Jose just crossed his arms with a humph. "Aww, what's wrong Jose?" "S.V.E.R., Valor, both of them." "Whatchu talkin' 'bout, foo?" "Valor is the enemy of Raven, along with S.V.E.R." "Why?" "Money, power, land... all the stuff governments want, and I help because it's fun." "Killing people isn't fun, and neither is doing for money!" Pinkie yelled in rare case of genuine anger. "You and I have differing tastes Pinkie, I'll admit that. But you have to look at it from another perspective." "The reason we fight S.V.E.R. and Valor is because our populations, our economies, and our resources, are on its breaking point." "Is that so Pierre?" Twilight asked. "Of course." "But I must ask, why'd you choose to fight?" Pierre perked up at that. It was a very sore subject for him, but it had to be done. "You want to know? I'll tell you. It was when I was younger, about half my age right now." Twilight took out a notepad before Pierre snatched it out of the air. "This is between you and me, Mademoiselle. It'll stay oral." Twilight furrowed her eyebrows, and sighed. "All right, just... just tell me as much as you're comfortable with." "Right. So anyway, about 14 years ago, when I was a teenager, I was with my parents, and my older sister." "Okay." "We were having a wonderful time: breathing the air of the alps, eating gelato, and in general, having a good time. But then, something happened." "What is it?" Twilight asked, hoping it wasn't so. "There were a group of radicals who claimed that the world was going to be doomed with overpopulation, and they released anthrax all over the city, with us in it." "Anthrax! Are they insane?" "They must have been, they were among the people killed by the bio-attack. Only my family lived, thanks to a convenient mutation in our genome." "Mutation, that's unusual." "Of course, we were resistant, but not immune. We were saved, but traumatized. No one in my family committed suicide, thankfully, but... we never really have been truly happy since that faithful day." "..." "..." "..." "...Well?" "...Pierre, you just rest up." Twilight said, leaving the room. Pierre sighed, and fell back into his bed. "Merde." "Oh, sh... what happened?" Romero rubbed his head before receiving a response. "You freaked out a bunch of ponies Romero, what the heck?" Rainbow Dash yelled. Ugh, this. "In my defense, there were four others who did the same." "Yeah, who?" "Raven and S.V.E.R., amiga." "Wait, the two enemy faction group... guys?" "The very same. Why in the Goddamn hell are those guys here?" "I'm going to ask you a different question. Why are you even fighting? It makes no sense whatsoever." Romero put his hand on his head and got an annoyed look. "You want to know? You want to know! Fine then, I'm doing it because of my father!" "w-Wait, your father? Is that why? I've seen that cliche before." "Cliche!" Rainbow jumped up at that outburst and looked at the PMC. "Let me tell you something amiga. In my world, there is no war. You know what there was, corruption. The very last 'official' war in my entire world was a global world war that took nearly a billion lives, my father included, and you want to know how he died? He died, not at the fronts, but at home, when a spy snuck in, and shot the entire base dead! You tell me that that isn't cliche. TELL ME!!!" Rainbow was slack-jawed. He... just said that his father was killed, not in combat at all. It was unthinkable that a country would stoop so low. "No one, NO ONE, saw North Korea the same way again and within a few months, even China helped us wipe the damn country off the map." Korea? China? I dunno what those places are, but... they must've been bad. "That's why I fight, so that no one would get a dog's death like that again. Revenge doesn't bring back the dead, no sir, it just stops more from joining them. Get out of here, I don't want to talk anymore." Rainbow sighed, and just decided that it wasn't worth her time now. She left the room, and Romero clenched his head. "Why me, and why this fucking place?" "Why'd I yell at her?" "Well fuck it! I'll find my way out, even if it kills me!" Johnathan and Applejack looked at Rainbow Dash quietly move down the hallway. Both of them knew that it must've been bad, they knew the mare well after all. "It's just sad to see how the proud could be shut up so easily." Johnathan said simply. "Eeyup." "Mmm hmm." There was an awkward silence. For the longest time, neither spoke a word. Johnathan decided to break the silence. "Listen, Ah'm sorry 'bout that AJ, it was stupid of me an'..." "Uup uup upp, not a word, Ah understand." "Ya do?" "Well, yeah. Ya mentioned those S.V.E.R. and Raven people, right?" Johnathan had a thoughtful look on his face. "Yeah, Ah guess Ah did." "Ya were actin' on instincts, what ya were made to do." "Yep, it's a reflex." "Speakin' of reflexes, ya been hidin' somethin' from me." Shit. "Tell me the truth." Applejack ordered the PMC. Johnathan did not want to reveal that particular secret, but he did have another reason besides the obvious. "No way, Jose. Ah'm not." "An' why not?" "'Cause... 'cause it brings back bad memories fer me." "Bad memories?" Johnathan sighed, and said just two words. "My sister." "Yer sister? Why in the world would..." And then it dawned on the farm mare. She could see it in his face. "Oh, Ah'm... Ah'm so sorry." "It's okay, ya didn't know. 'Sides, twas a long time ago, Ah've moved on now." Johnathan turned around and went back into his room. Applejack did not want to go on further. If she lost her little sister too... "Ah think Ah'll git a thang of cider now." Vulakh slowly got out of bed, clearly disoriented, but otherwise, well. "Oh, goody, you are alright Dmitri." Vulakh turned to see Fluttershy, the pony that helped nurse him back to health. "Oh, Мой друг, Fluttershy. What's wrong?" "W-why did you... start to... fight with... those other humans?" "... Raven, Valor..." "The... enemy?" "Da, the same." "But, they seemed to be nice, from what the others told me." "Let me tell you something, kindness is a good thing to have, but these men, they are who we fight. They do have friends and family, but in war, we have to put them aside. It's a bleak job, one that shouldn't exist, but does anyway, because we need it." "I understand, war is..." Fluttershy paused, not sure what to say. "Hell?" "OH, umm... I guess." "It's true, and war can most definitely bring the worst of us." Dmitri took out a note in his pouch. S.V.E.R. finances meant that only the best operatives would get their combat record on paper. Dmitri was one of them. He took out his record, unfolded it, and showed it to Fluttershy. "What is..." The mare gasped in shock, and could not believe it. "I have over 1000 kills in my record, many of them by the usual means, but some, were flat out executions of the wounded." "WHAT!!!" Fluttershy yelled out as loudly as possible. "S.V.E.R. does not leave behind survivors." "Y-you... you're a m-monster... a monster..." "Yes, and I feel bad." "Stay away from me, please, stay away." Fluttershy flew out of the room, tears flowing out of her eyes. The PMC expected as much from her, having dealt with the fallout between his father and himself after the fact of having half of those kills revealed. I do not know if she will forgive me now. I don't think I can forgive myself either. Reznov had been better, to be honest, but he soon had a familiar visitor after he woke up. "Ah, good, you're awake darling." "Rarity, my friend. How are you?" "Better, but on to more serious business. You and those other humans." "Дерьмо." "I don't know what that means, but tell me, what made you want to... kill them?" Reznov sighed, and just spoke. "Raven and Valor" "Those two? That was the reason? Couldn't you three have... I don't know, worked together to get out of this world?" "If only if it were that simple, my friend. We were trained to fight the enemy at any instance." "Even if it would have hurt more than helped? That's counter-intuitive!" "Maybe, but I could not forget my training. No way." Rarity sighed, but nevertheless pushed on. "I guess I cannot change you, but I must ask one thing." "Yes, what is it?" "During your outing, have you truly... killed others?" Reznov knew the next answer. "Da, all enemies who have made the mistake of falling into my line of sight." "And... how many is that?" "... 152 killed, 673 injured, many for life." "My word!" "Dmitri's is much, much more cruel. My job was suppression. His was defense. And he always made sure that anyone that came close to him, didn't go out." "And you just let him do that? What good is there in being a mass murderer?!" "Infamy among the enemy, and respect in our clan. In S.V.E.R., we get respect for being a major contribution to the brotherhood." "So you murder people for respect!" "No, be it a master medic, my job, an engineer of great prowess, or simply going once, setting a bomb, getting shot while near the bomb and letting it go off while you are literally in the place where you wouldn't be recognized when the body's pulled out, you have to do something major to win respect. In death, or otherwise. Sometimes, you do all of the above. You understand?" Rarity sighed, and lowered her head. "I do. Killing is only one way. Just doing your job earns respect, am I right?" "Somewhat. Doing it well wins respect." "I understand that part perfectly." Rarity was still uneasy, but she could understand the merits of a job well done, in the tailorshop, or in the battlefield. "Good. I need rest. Can you leave me alone?" "Most certainly. Goodnight." "Night?" "It's about 7'o clock now. You just get some rest." "Da, will do. Goodnight." Rarity nodded and left the room. Reznov now had one more problem at hand. What to do about the enemies? Jose tossed and turned. He could not get sleep. He hadn't sated his lusts, he need to kill some more. My child, you will earn your power soon enough. Who in the name of El Virgen María are you? I am the one, who will give you what you most desire. Is that so? Yes. Ahhh... killing... KILLING!!! Good. Just one question? Yes? Who are you? I... am Sombra. True EvilM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 "HA HE HA!" "Ohh, who's that?" "The one, who will take everything from this plane!" "Wha..." Green eyes flashed brightly, and soon enough, the mare woke up, and got up screaming. "Trixie! Trixie, are you okay?" "Wha? Where is Trixie? Answer Trixie!" "Over here." Trixie slowly turned to see two mares, two she recognized immediately. -November 10th, 3 ALR, 0256 hours- -Location: Ponyville Hospital, Ponyville, Equestria- "Oh, it's you two. What are you doing here?" "Trixie, you were struck by lightning, so we brought you here." Rarity explained. "Ha, nice try you... wait... what did you say?" "Umm, you got struck by lightning... and we... uh... helped you." Fluttershy looked down on the floor, trying not to look Trixie in the eye. "... And what of Trixie's cart?" "It was mostly burned..." "WHAT!" Trixie yelled at Rarity. "... B-but we managed to salvage most of what you had in there, photos, spellbooks, clothes..." "Do not look at those photos, or Trixie's journal!" Trixie then groaned in pain, and clenched her barrel. "Oh, don't aggravate yourself. You're still... uh... really hurt from the lightning." Trixie, through gritted teeth, tried to get up more, but it was futile, her body was weak, and soon fell back in bed. Rarity sighed, and looked at Fluttershy. "Why do the Goddesses torment Trixie so?" "I do not know, but I will tell you, we will keep an eye on you." Rarity said, with a mix of suspicion and genuine worry. "Why?" "Partly, because of the last time you were here." "...Really, this again? Trixie already said that she was sorry." "Yes, but does that truly excuse you for what you did?" Rarity's question was piercing the armor of Trixie's thought process. But she had an answer. "No, but I will whatever it takes to make up for it. Tr... I-I promise." Rarity raised an eyebrow, not really hearing Trixie talk like that before, if she could recall. "Very well Trixie, we'll come back tomorrow if we..." *CRAAAAAAA!!!* "What the!" Fluttershy yelled. She was trembling in fear, not sure what was happening, and then there was a voice. "¿Hola? ¿Alguien de aquí? Sólo quiero... hahahaha... JUUUUGAAAAAAR!!!" "Wha... who's that?" "Oh no, hide." Rarity hissed, leading Fluttershy and herself under the empty bed next to them. While the two lovers could hide, Trixie herself realized she couldn't move that well because of the neural damage she sustained. Haha, hopefully this... thing won't notice me. As much as she hoped, the figure came, and saw her. Jose could she her, helpless, in pain, and so... "Ah, hola pequeña yegua. Está listo para algunas... heHAHA...hehe... ha haaaaaa... bueno, ya sabes... diversión?" Trixie felt her heart sink. Whatever this thing was, it seemed ready to kill her. The fact that it was speaking in a language she did not understand made it all the more scary. Jose, this one will do. Take her, and find another pony to do the ritual, as a blood sacrifice. "Ohohohooo! Blood sacrifice? Muy bueno..." Jose said in a low, raspy voice. "Blood sacrifice?" Trixie squeaked out in fear. "Do no worry chica, it would be another who is killed, liiiiiiike..." Jose turned towards the empty bed, and flipped it over. Rarity tried to buck the crazed man away, but he knew this trick a hundred times, and grabbed the hooves. right before kicking her in the head, knocking the mare out. Fluttershy saw all of this unfold before her, and became angry. "STOP!!!" "Hmm..." Fluttershy tried to use the one thing that has only failed her once, The Stare. She looked straight into Jose's eyes, and began to try and talk her down. But, to Jose, all he felt was something else. He knew that stare... "José! ¿Te das cuenta lo que ya hizo?" "No, mamá! Lo siento!" "Perdón? ¡Oh, no, no te lo sentimos todavía!" "Mamá, no mama!" Jose screamed and grabbed Fluttershy by her mane and punched her, and again, and again. "You are no longer the boss of my fate mama! YOU!" "AHH!" "ARE!" "STOP!" "NOT!" "AGH!" "GOING TO STOP ME!!!" One last punch knocked the unsuspecting mare out. Jose was panting and his hands felt clammy. He had wasted enough time, he picked up the white unicorn, then the showmare, the latter trying to get free from his grip. -November 10th, 3 ALR, 0310 hours- "Oh no, Fluttershy!" Twilight and her friends came to check on her. Twilight gave a sigh of relief, and then had a look of concern. "Fluttershy's alright, but she'll be disoriented." "Merde!" Pierre punched the wall. "I have let Jose off easy since he was killing the enemy, but this is too much, when civilians are dying because of him, that is too far! I do not care if he is my friend, he cannot be let allowed to live!" "Heh, never thought I'd agree with a Raven operative." Vulakh replied with gusto. "Fluttershy and Rarity had brought me and Reznov back to health when we were injured severely." "We will help!" Reznov cocked his MG and then pumped his fist. "I'll help too!" Romero joined in. "I now know that guy, I let him go because it was too dangerous to kill him. No more!" "Ah'm in too, if worst goes to worst, we'll at least each other to cover for each and every one of us!" Johnathan gave a great big smile, and gave a glance to Applejack, who smiled in return. "I am glad that you are setting your differences aside, but we do not know where Jose might be?" A soft cough filled the room, and everyone turned towards the source, Fluttershy. "Fluttershy!" Fluttershy coughed some more before she wheezed out a few words. "Jose, Rarity, *cough* Trixie... sacrifice..." "What?" Rainbow came to the broken mare. "What about Trixie? What about a sacrifice?" "Sacrifice? Two mares... Oh no." Celestia said in a mortified tone. "What, what is it, Pri-Celestia?" Twilight asked. "We need to get to the castle in the Everfree forest, now!" "Why?" Romero asked. "Because if we don't stop Jose, either Rarity or Trixie will be dead, and he will take over the body of the other." "WHO!?" Reznov yelled. "Sombra!" Every mare gave a mortified look... This was not good at all. Soon, SOON!!! Blood Bonds SeveredM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 "Huh... wha... where... am I?" Rarity fluttered her eyes open, and found herself bound to some kind of a pedestal. She looked to see herself roped with Trixie, who was similarly tied down. "Wha... H-h-hel-l-l-lo... somepony! ANYPONY!!! HEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!" "Hehe, I was told to make sure the bonds were ex-ssssssss-tra..." The voice took a deep breath briefly. "Tight." "Y-you. Whomever you are, release me, and maybe I won't tear you limb from limb." Rarity said with a heavy trace of anger. "Oh, well in that case, I suppose I won't release you from your bonds, you notice the ring on your horn?" "What ring? What are y..." Rarity found herself looking at a ring on her horn. She tried to take off the tacky object, but found her magic stopping at the ring itself. She went wide-eyed, and started to hyperventilate. "W-W-What the... What is this?" "It's a magic suppressant, bitch! It's meant to prevent you from escaping these little, itty, bitty... bonds." Rarity soon took a deep breath, and looked at the man who had bound her to the pedestal. Jose. "Why are you doing this?" "Why?" Jose began to have a thoughtful look on his face. He didn't know what to think. "Because... my dear friend... It's what I became, after 20 years... 20 years of neglect, 20 years of abuse, 20 years of fear, 20 years, where I was shaped into the man I became today. Was I good to begin with? Maybe." Jose then put a knife to Rarity's neck and began to breath erratically. "But then again, a world without war doesn't seem as wonderful if people just keep coming into the world. I was stemming the population, keeping the monsters greater than me off the streets, permanently." Jose gently moved the knife along her neck, not cutting deep, but enough to cause some bleeding. Jose looked at the result, but became amazed when Rarity barely changed her expression of anger and contempt. "Hmm, you're a new one. Maybe I should've gone with someone more... willing to beg." "Beg? I lady never begs." "Are you sure?" Jose asked. "Yes, I am." "Oh, I think you're lying to yourself." "What?" "You like her, don't you?" "What, are you..." "The yellow one, what has her name? Buttershy?" "Fluttershy, and what have you done to her?" "She's alive, at least I think she is, she was at the hospital when I knocked her out." Rarity lunged forwards, with only the rope stopping her from murdering Jose. "OOOOooo... tst tst tst... naughty naughty." Jose jammed the knife right next to Rarity's face, deflecting off the stone away from the mare. Rarity barely acknowledged the knife when to her. "You're no fun." "And you're a complete monster. One man was drunk, another was egotistical and another five were so mind-numbingly idiotic.." "Oh, there were more?" "Yes." "Interesting. I hope you don't mind me visiting those worlds." "By all means, try." Rarity said in a sarcastic tone. "Maybe I will." "Maybe you should." "I..." Jose took a deep breath, and looked at his sacrifice in the eye. "I will kill you, for my reward." "Reward?" "The Harvest Moon, the scheduled Harvest Moon that will bring him back, and my deep desires as well!" "The Harvest Moon? Why is that important?" "Because blood is my favorite color... like your neck." Rarity just growled at the psycho. Three hours left. Three hours left, haha. "Quickly, if we hurry, we might make there before Jose kills her!" Reznov yelled out, bringing his natural leadership skills to bring an known ally, three temporary allies and six mares to wherever this Jose was. Pierre deep down knew that this was too far, he knew that he had mental issues, but attacking innocents? He said he was done with that. He had his orders from the higher-ups in Raven for this unjustifiable action. "Order number 721-B!" "What?" Johnathan asked, swatting aside a branch. "Order number 721-B is a specific order from headquarters specifically for this situation alone." "And what does it say?" Vulakh asked. "It says that I have to kill the rouge operative, one way, or another." "What?" Pinkie yelled in shock. "Is there no other way?" Luna asked with hint of dread. "No, this order is mandatory to all operatives given this order. I am sorry, for both you and myself, but Jose has to be killed." "If that's true, then I must ask, how do we find him?" "I have used a tracking spell, it helps that his injuries allowed me to get a blood sample to aid in this dire event." Celestia explained, using her magic to track down the psychotic madman. "Do not remind me of those injuries." Vulakh said with a hint of dread. "Yeah, amiga, do not mention that, it wasn't pleasant." Romero said in agreement. "I am sorry, but there is a much more pressing matter to attend to at the moment, and..." Celestia slowed down, as did the others. "Well, where are we?" Reznov asked. "He's there." Celestia pointed to an old castle, with overgrowth covering the walls as the stone started to crumble up slightly. "Oh no... not this place again!" Rainbow yelled, grasping her head. "Well, I'll be fucked, let's go!" Johnathan said as he approached the bridge. He took a cautious step onto the rickety bridge, then another, and another, was now going along in brisk walk. "The bridge is okay guys! One at a time!" The others nodded, and went across the bridge (Except Celestia, Luna, Twilight, and Rainbow Dash, who simply flew across.) "Quickly, we must move!" Reznov yelled, leading the others to the castle, where the Harvest Moon was closing in. It's almost time. "Hehehe... you ready to die?" "Not to you, creep!" Rarity said defiantly, completely aware that Jose had pulled all the stops to make sure she couldn't do anything to let herself go free. "Ooooo... you are sooooooo going to get a good stabbing!" Jose unsheathed his knife and licked it, getting more anxious by the moment. You have to wait for a little longer, then cut her up. Jose smirked violently, and had a twinkle in his eye. "Oh you are..." "JOSE!!!" Jose turned to see five humans, guns aimed at the man, safeties off, guns loaded, and ready to fire. "Jose, it's time, order 721-B, you have to die." Pierre fired shots from his K90 submachine gun, but Jose hid behind Rarity's alter and soon ran off. "Pierre, let's chase after him, Dmitri, Romero, John, help out Rarity and that other mare, now!" Reznov yelled, taking Pierre along while the others began to untie the bonds. "Thank you darlings, Jose has really done everything to make sure I would not go free." "Yeah, a little too well, these knots are tight!" Johnathan yelled, trying to untie the bindings. "Lemme try!" Applejack said, looking at the the knots that bound the mare. "Huh, well Ah'll give him credit, the psycho knows a good knows how to tie a good knot." Applejack said as she began a complex untying sequence for this particular knot. "Don't complement the man who was planning to murder me!" "Hey, he'sh pretty good at knosh." Applejack countered as she pulled a loop. Meanwhile, Jose ran off, and around a particular corner back to the sacrifice alter. Hurry! We have only 5 minutes left! "Keep off my ass for a minute, I'm very busy!" Jose said as he fired his KP7 at the men chasing him. Reznov reacted by firing his PSK MG at the runner. Unfortunately, the PSK MG had a slow rate of fire, and mediocre accuracy, and as such, couldn't do much to Jose. Jose did get shot in the shoulder-blade, but used hid med-kit to heal himself back to full health. "Keep trying, amigos!" Jose taunted the two. "Use your damn gun!" Reznov yelled out. "I cannot hit him at this range!" "Must I do everything?" The two ran off, and Jose double-backed, approaching the alter. Yes, YES!!! Jose found himself getting into the room, only to find it empty. "No... no no nononono! Where is she? Where is that white bitch!" Jose snarled, only find himself facing a shotgun barrel. Pierre came into the room, to see Vulakh, holding his T-195 one-handed at the serial killer he was supposed to kill. "This is for Fluttershy!" Dmitri pulled the trigger, sending buckshot right into Jose's face. The back of his head exploded as he fell backwards, dead. Dmitri then spat onto the corpse. "And that was for Rarity!" The shock of the situation made the room quiet. No one spoke as the castle echoed with the sound of gunfire. "It's over." Pierre said quietly. "It's finally over." The two soldiers looked at each other. The Raven operative walked towards the SVER soldier, ever so closer, and then simply held out his hand. Dmitri looked haphazardly at the hand, not expecting the action, and still cautious. He decided to simple grabbed the hand, and the two shook hands. "Thank you, you have helped me stop a terrible person." "I am sorry that you had to lose a friend though." "I know, I know." Pierre said silently. Vulakh simply nodded, and let go. The two backed up, and stared at each other. That's when everyone came in. "Guys, are you... you..." Rainbow Dash stopped herself as soon as she saw Jose's corpse. "I am assuming that the dead body says enough." Vulakh said. "I... I..." Twilight squeaked out. Celestia and Luna kept a stoic look, having seen this happen before. "I do not wish to commend such a horrible atrocity, but I have to thank you all for doing your part to stopping Jose, and saving two of my subjects' lives." Celestia spoke with a stern tone. "Trust me, thanks is the last thing I want, especially for something that was supposed to be my job." "Pierre, your life my have been a dangerous one, but this man was a threat to all who stood with him, you had to do what you needed to do. Vulakh, as far as I'm concerned, had some major part in this counter-plot." Luna looked at the SVER soldier, and the soldier sighed. "I pulled the trigger, I killed him." Celestia and Luna nodded in understanding, knowing that few would willingly kill someone without motive. "Umm, Celestia, Luna..." "What is it Twilight?" Celestia asked, turning towards her former student. "What is that!?" Everyone turned to see a black smoke, which then suddenly forced itself down Pierre's throat. The Frenchman tried to cough out the viscous matter, but couldn't. He began to convulse, crumpling in agony and shock. Everyone backed away, and then... He stopped. "Pierre?" Pinkie cautiously inched forward. "Pierre?" Luna, just as nervous, inched forward. Pierre suddenly shot up, and began to stand up in a way that seemed like he barely had control over his body. He cautiously stood up, and began to flex his fingers. "Pierre, if you are alright, I can..." Pierre picked up the K90, and cautiously handled it. "Listen Pierre, I don't know what is wrong with you, but I think you should put the gun a..." "SILENCE!!!" The man said as he took the gun fired right into Reznov's body. The soldier fell down, and Vulakh came to the fallen soldier. "Reznov!" "What the fuck?" "You're not Pierre!" Romero yelled out. "No... I know who he is..." Twilight said, backing away. "You do?" "Yes... Luna and I do too." "Then tell me you two, who am I?" Celestia stood silent, but Luna told them who he was with a strong trace of anger and fear. "Sombra..." Sombra, having taken over Pierre's body, merely smiled viciously. The Last LaughM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 The eight mares froze at the sight. Dmitri healed Reznov with the last injector he had. Johnathan aimed at what was once Pierre. Romero took a step back. And Sombra just smiled. "What have you done?" Celestia demanded. "I needed a sacrifice, and a vessel. I would've gotten the azure mare, and gotten rid of one of the elements, but then they came, so I had to improvise. He was useful, but he was a pawn, either way." Sombra replied, smirking as the disfigured man. "You, used him?" Johnathan replied, still keeping a bead on the former king. "Of course, I'd have chosen any other too." "Fucking monster." Johnathan replied quietly. "Shut up, amigo." "And who are you supposed to be?" Sombra addressed the Southern soldier. "Colonel Johnathan Lee Richardson, Valor Industries, the one who's going to bring the terrorist threat like you to your death!" Sombra just smirked. "Cute." Sombra fired his gun once at Johnathan's chest, hitting his left lung, and collapsing it. "Johnathan! We need to move!" Romero yelled out. "DA! Let us go!" Dmitri said as he held his friend over his shoulder. Twilight grabbed Trixie with her magic and carried her out. "Hey!" "Oh, shut up!" Rarity snapped back. "You've been struck by lighting just last night!" "In that case, you're too hurt to so much as stand, so just take this, alright!" Twilight spoke sternly. Trixie turned towards the mare as best as she could and snarled. "This way, we can find our-" Romero said as he accidentally hit a switch, separating the humans from the mares. "I hate this place." Luna muttered to herself, after seeing what all the moronic traps had done to her. "I have an idea, follow me!" Celestia said, leading the group as Sombra came into the room, and found the mares running away. "HEH HEH HEH HEH!" "Motherfucker!" "Where are we?" "I have no idea!" "Everyone, calm down!" Reznov said as he fired a round out of his IZ-443 to make the others alert. "Jesus man, are you crazy? We've got a fucking shadow monster possessing a guy with an SMG out there." Romero snapped back. "He is no better than me up close." Dmitri said as he pumped the slide to release the long-fired-off shell that remained in the gun. "Well, true..." Johnathan said nervously. "Hey, dumbass, this ain't the time!" "Be quiet Romero!" "Be quiet, both of you!" The two Dmitris yelled out at the same time, making the two jump. "You are supposed to be a team!" "We are closer than a team, the two of us, we brothers in all but blood!" "That is one of the things that made S.V.E.R. the dominating force in the Shadow War!" "I thought that was the fact that you had a lot of people to kill off." Romero retorted. "Tell me, have you ever heard of... 'The Sunset Falcon?'" Dmitri replied. "What are you... wait, you're that shotgunner, the one who killed thousands!" "No, 1006." "'Cludin' yer newest kill?" "Yes, err..." "Johnathan." "Dmitri Vulakh." "Romero Lopez." "Dmitri Reznov." "Wait, you are both named..." "Dmitri, yes. Call me Reznov, it is easier that way." "Well I'll be damned." "We'll all be damned if we don go an' stop Sombra now, Romero!" "Agreed, we need a plan!" Reznov said. "Hey, that's an MG, right?" "PSK MG, slow, but powerful." Reznov said proudly. "Right, I got lots of explosives, mines, grenades and grenade launcher, suppressed weapons too." "Explains your flimsy armor." Vulakh said as he noted the disparagingly lightweight, and unarmored mesh composite. "Don't need it. I'm the demolitions guy." "Ah got less ordnance, but Ah got some smokes and flashers, plus Ah'm pretty good wit the knife." Romero said. "I was built to get close to the enemy, and take what he can give me, I can hack many terminals, and resist anything that tries to kill me." "Alright, so! Reznov, you go outside the exit, set up a no go zone, fire at anything not ours. Johnathan will draw out Sombra where he can, I'll lead the mares outta here, and Dmitri, you try to get close! If we can't kill him, we don't go home, got it?" "DA!" "Yes!" "Hell yeah!" "Alright, we got a plan, let's go! I pray that those mares are alright!" "Yes, I just hope Rarity and Fluttershy are alright." "What's so special about them anyhow?" Johnathan asked, not particularly liking the two much from the show as much as the ones he connected to better. "They nursed us back to health!" "Even though that damn rabbit kept hopping on our casts." "Heh, a fucking rabbit?" "Do you want your plan to work, or do you want a deathwish?" Dmitri said in a tone that was gravely serious. "Y-You're right, let's go, now." The group went through the tunnels, trying to find their way around the castle. "Consarnit, another dead end!" Applejack huffed out in frustration. "Hold on for a moment..." Celestia went to the wall, and pressed a stone in. A trapdoor opened below the group, and they fell through, with the door closing in on the group, just as Sombra came in. "GRRRRR..." "Hey, YOU!!! Eat explosives!" Sombra turned to see a grenade fly towards him. He grabbed the grenade and threw it around a corner without much effort, and let it explode. Romero was holding his rifle, aimed to kill. "HYAH!!!" Sombra jumped to the side, then ran forward, taking a strafe every so often to throw off Romero. What really surprised Romero was when he pulled the trigger for his gun. *CCK* "JAMMED!?" "Oh look, you forgot to maintain your weapon." Sombra said as he took a knife, and drove it into Romero's right shoulder. Dropping the gun, Romero replied in kind with a knife stab to the kneecap. Had it been unarmored, that would've crippled Sombra. Sombra kneed the man, and entered a combat pose. "You should not be this good, you just got a body!" "You'd be surprised at how much your traitorous ally remembered everything about fighting, like in January 26th, 2025, in the Copper Hills Relay." "Wait, that guy w- OPH!" Sombra proceeded to lift up Romero, and slam the struggling man's back onto his leg. "GAH, FUCK!" "Any last words?" Sombra asked as he raised his knife. "I do." Sombra ducked when he heard the sound and ducked, then felt a stinging sensation in his left hand. It had a hole in it. "HURR!" Dmitri pumped the slide and prepared for another shot. Sombra fired at what he thought was the sight with his pistol. It missed. "Heh, even if it wasn't broken, it was still a garnish to my gear." Sombra ran off. "You okay?" "Got one in the shoulder, but I'll be fine." "You will be okay later, I have no more healing serum left." "Your friend?" "Da." "It's alright, let's kill that asshole." "Oh yes! Let's." "Sombra, there ya are!" *BA-BA-BANG BA-BA-BANG* "You go help him out, I've came to get the mares before they fell though a trapdoor." "Right. And Romero..." "Yes?" "You are welcome to join us at S.V.E.R. if you like, we always have room for people with your skills." "Depends if I live long enough, and if I care enough." Romero said as he ran off the expansive castle. Dmitri took out his last gas grenade, and ran off to help his ally. "It's dark here!" "Where are we?" Twilight lit up her horn, and illuminated the room. "Okay girls, let's get through this place, calmly, and carefully now." "Hello!" "That's Romero! HEY, ROMERO!!!" Rainbow Dash yelled out as she flew off. "Dangit, Rainbow!" Applejack ran off to catch the cocky mare. The rest of the group sighed, and followed the two, finally finding them, with Romero clutching his shoulder. "Oh my, what happened?" "Got stabbed, it's not fatal, but it hurts like hell." Romero replied. "Hold on..." Celestia said quietly as she put her horn to the wound, and magically healed it shut. After flexing it a few times, he smiled. "Damn chica, that's good." "Well, when you've lived as long as I have, you'd have to learn these types of spells." "Alright, we need to leave, now! Follow me, Johnathan and Vulakh are taking care of Sombra." "What about Reznov?" "He has a job now, lockdown." "Lockdown?" A few slow-paced shots. *BA BA BA BA BA BA BA* Sombra ran back in, not wanting to be torn to shreds. Reznov loved these types of people. If they fail to go through, they get shot. If they did, he wasn't all too horribly off in defense. Either way, Sombra was a dead man. Johnathan on the other hand had nearly escape his brush with Sombra alive. The king had managed to take his own weapon from his, and disassembled it by pure accident, while also losing a critical part. He has reduced to using his M9 and a knife to defend himself. And Sombra just came back. "You, what sorcery have you done?" Johnathan fired a few shots, but the king was only hit non-fatally. "HAHAHAHAAAA!!!" He wasn't like this in the episodes I saw. Johnathan tried getting close, only to get thrown over the shoulder of the king, and fell onto his face. "You are supposed to be highly trained soldiers, and you're barely putting a fight. Disgraceful." "At least, I'm trying to put in a damn fight, you disgusting, little, fuck!" Johnathan yelled out as he fired a shot at Sombra, dead center. "GAH!" Sombra fell backwards. "If ya weren't wearin' any armor, ya'd be a dead one, ya hear?" "Is it the same for you?" Sombra said as he fired off a round at Johnathan, dead center. "JOHNATHAN!!!" Sombra got up and ran to off as Romero went to his friend's side, and check out the injuries. "Heh, should'da learnt ta be a medic they said, ya need ta they said... they were right..." Johnathan coughed a bit, right before coughing up some blood. "Johnathan!" "It's a punctured lung, maybe a ruptured heart artery." Twilight said as she examined the wound with magic. "So he's gonna die?" "He'll bleed out, and I doubt pony blood would help him." "SHIT! SHIT SHIT SHIT!!!" Romero looked at his dying friend, and was met with more blood to the face. "I'm coming Sarah... I'm sorry I for crashin' inta ya, I was really drunk... and stupid...*Cough* I'm real sorry..." Johnathan wheezed, and took his last breath, right before going limp. Romero had no words to say, he had just saw the death of his closest friend in Valor, and probably in real life, dead. "Romero?" Applejack trotted over to the soldier. "Take his body, and get out of here, I have to do this, now." Romero said as he took his rifle, and began to look around the castle to look for the monster. Celestia lifted up Johnathan and placed him on her back. "We need to leave, this something only they can do at the moment." "Right, sister!" Luna agreed. The group agreed quickly after that, and went out of the castle. Reznov took aim, but then noticed that it wasn't Sombra, and took his finger off the trigger. *BMBMM* Reznov turned around and found himself getting tackled by Sombra. Reznov punched him in the face, and then tossed him off, picked his weapon and fired. Unfortunately, S.V.E.R. weapons were rather old. *CICK* And his weapon jammed at the worst possible moment. "Nyet!" "Oh look, you've jammed your gun." Sombra ran forwards, and grabbed Reznov by the throat. A magical blast threw him off before Reznov felt the first signed of unconsciousness. "Reznov, run!" Twilight said, flying around, firing magic blasts at the possessed human. "Insolent wretch!" Vulakh and Romero came to the scene, and saw what was going on. "Dmitri, he's mine!" "No Romero, it's too risky, I'll help you!" "No, he killed my best friend!" "And he tried to kill one of mine, let me help you, we can do this, as a team comrade!" Romero gritted his teeth, and sighed. "Alright, if he doesn't die by bullets, he dies by my knife." "If you say so." Dmitri and Romero ran towards the fight where Reznov was in hand-to-hand combat with the king. "You are good." "Former FSB agent, I've been taught by Spetznaz agents hands-on!" Reznov said as he grabbed a kick Sombra attempted and elbowed his knee. "AHG!!! Maybe I won't kill you when I've conquered your world, maybe I'll make you my personal bodyguard." "In your dreams, suka!" Reznov attempted a punch through a hold in Sombra's defence, only for him to move out of the way and receive a left hook to the cheek. As Reznov dropped to the ground, Sombra grabbed his neck and scowled. "Pathetic." Sombra was then kicked off by Dmitri, who fired a shot from his gun at Sombra's knee, crippling him. "Any last words?" Dmitri said as he aimed his weapon at the king. "... Yes." "Too-" Sombra lunged forward and grabbed his gun. A shot was fired off during the struggle, and Sombra overpowered the soldier. "Do you have any last words?" Sombra said as he aimed the shotgun at Dmitri. "Go to hell!" "You too." *CLCK* "Is pump-action, and not ready." Sombra scowled, before something grabbed him from behind. Romero snuck up on Sombra, and then drove his knife into his gut, and opened up his stomach. He then took out a flashbang, and pulled the pin, right before shoving the thing into his gut, and threw him over the cliff. "RAAAAAAAAAGH!!!" *BANG* The two looked away, and looked down, and grimaced. Romero spat down the cliff and scowled. "Te acompaño en el infierno, pero no hoy!" Romero wiped the dribble off his mouth, and turned towards Dmitri. "You did good distracting him." "Da, it was messy, but he is dead now. I feel sorry for Pierre, he seemed like a good person." "Well I'm glad I'm finally done with that fuck Jose." "Same here, Reznov, let's go home... Reznov?" Reznov did not respond, except with a weak groan. "Reznov?" Vulakh ran up to the fallen man and saw what was wrong. That offhand shot hit Reznov in the Femoral Artery, and he was bleeding out. And there was nothing to heal him with left. "Reznov! Please, do not bleed out, do not bleed out!" Dmitri said as he applied pressure onto the wound. "*Cough cough* Heh, I knew you would care for me until the very end." Reznov said weakly. "It is not the end yet, we can still help you!" "Vulakh, you have been my very best friend, ever since grade school, we have been friends, brother even. Through thick and thin, far and wide. *cough weeze cough cough*" "Reznov, stay with me!" "Vulakh, it is no use, I've almost lost the 5 pints of life..." "You will live, I DEMAND YOU LIVE!!!" "Some orders cannot be fulfilled comrade... but I will tell you this..." "What, what is it?" "My sister, Catherine, remember her?" "Yes, yes, I do!" Vulakh thought back to her. "You thought I was blind to what you... *Cough* ... you thought I didn't see..." "What are you-" Vulakh felt a finger on his lips. "You have my blessing... tell her... what you f-f-feeeeeel..." Reznov went limp. Dmitri place his fingers on Reznov's neck, trying to find a pulse, but no use, it wasn't there. "No." Reznov felt a piece of him die as he looked onto the body of his friend. His teammate. His comrade. His friend. The mares saw this scene unfold, and felt shock. Celestia most of all felt empathy towards Vulakh, and trotted over to the man, and wrapped her wing around the man. Vulakh felt it, and accepted it. It was what he needed the most. One by one, the mares at the scene came to the man, wrapping their hooves and wings around the broken man, helping comfort him in his time of need. Trixie, most of all, held on as tightly as she could with her injuries. Even Romero felt the need to help out this man in his time of need, and joined the hugging. It was a dark time for this group. But the worst had passed. Sombra was gone for good. -November 12th, 3 ALR, 0841 hours- -Location: Hidden Room, Canterlot Castle, Canterlot, Equestria- "We have arranged for you and the bodies of your allies to go home now. It is with my sincerest regards that I thank you for helping save Equestria from this great evil, even if the losses were high and heavy." "Thank you Princess." Romero said as he took a sip out of his beer, while Vulakh took a drink out of a bottle of vodka he kept. "I'll leave you two for the moment, when it is time to go, I'll come back, but please be sober when that happens, or at the very least, capable of controlling yourselves. The two waved off the princess as she left the room. "All of this, for what?" Vulakh spat angrily. "This war, pointless." "That damn satellite uplink at the solar plant, only good for contracts and PR!" "That place in Brazil, disgusting and worthless." "Metals for service, mere decorative trinkets." "Our image, fake as our motto!" "This is the real face of war Romero, and we are stuck in it for all of time." "Do we even want to go back?" "What?" Dmitri asked. "Do we have to go back home? If we go back, we're just going to get thrusted back into battle, and then the two of us will face each other, and one will die. I think we should not bother going back." "You are insane, what of your family, your friends?" Dmitri reasoned. "W-Well..." "Exactly, they cannot be replaced here. I agree, home is hell, but it is still home, regardless of whether or not we like it. If we abandon that home for no reason, we might as well not have a home. Romero, you have friends and family back home, and they need you, you have to help them." "...I guess you're right... what about you, any family?" "I have two brothers and a sister, my parents died from frostbite. I also have a friend, Reznov's sister..." "I overheard something, something about a blessing?" "Sh-Shut up, you bastard!" "Oh my God... Don't worry amigo, I won't tell. But please, just make a move on her when the news of... well... dies down, alright?" Dmitri sighed, and took one more sip. "Gotcha." Dmitri corked the bottle and stood up, just as Celestia and Luna came in. "We have finished, come with us." Luna said, with Romero getting up, and the two followed the princesses to the room where the bodies of Johnathan and Reznov laid. "Ready?" Celestia asked. "Yes." Dmitri said as he lifted up his comrade's body. "S-Sure..." Romero said as he grabbed Johnathan's body. "Alright, time to go home." Celestia and Luna prepared to cast the spell that would send these two back to their homes. Celestia cast her spell to send the Valor agents, while Luna sent the S.V.E.R. agents. "Goodbye Dmitri, you are by far the most wonderful human we've ever met!" Rarity yelled out as tears fell her eyes. Fluttershy returned the smile as she waved goodbye as well. "Later Romero, stay strong, the Rainbow Dash way!" Rainbow Dash cheered on as she floated above Applejack, who just chuckled and adjusted her hat. Twilight and Pinkie Pie just sighed, knowing these two were in good hands now. In two flashes of light, the four men disappeared, leaving behind magical residue. "It is done, they are home now." -October 20th, 2026, 0919 hours- -Location: S.V.E.R. Headquarters, Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russia- -Hours to estimated end of war: 937 hours, 16 minutes- Priya Khan had finished dealing with the latest PR disaster that came with the destruction of her solar plant. And her top soldiers disappeared out of nowhere. It was a bad day. Nothing was going to- CRACK! "BOIZE MOI!!!" She turned around to see those two soldier, who disappeared, appear out of a smoking char stain on her carpet, right before collapsing into a heap. "Oh, you've got to be..." -October 20th, 2026, 1001 hours- -Location: Valor Headquarters, Indeterminate Region, Alaska, The United States of America- -Hours to estimated end of war: 937 hours, 16 minutes- Romero stirred, as he felt something prod his shoulder. "Hey, wake up." "Ugh, where am I?" "The medical wing." Romero woke up, and saw who was talking to him. "Gregory Cavanaugh!" "Yes, your boss." Gregory said. "What the hell happened?" "Aside from appearing out of nowhere while I was discussing a merger with a fellow company with a corpse, not much happened. By the way, you're gonna have to pay for the scorch marks on my hardwood flooring." "Ugh, crap. So, Johnathan..." "Dead, shot through the heart, gonna have to invest in heavier armor if those Raven bullets are just gonna punch through that armor. But enough about me, how was your stay in that new world you discovered?" "Well, it was... What?" Gregory took out a flash drive and showed it to Romero. "Helmet cam was online. It was only one day for us, but this is at least a month's worth of video from this... Equestria." Gregory said, the name of the place leaving a bad taste in his mouth. "Don't you dare harm them." Romero said sternly. "Why bother, we're not able to go back anyway. The most we can hope for to go back is if there was a multi world disaster, and we're called on for a mission. We'll keep on file, but for now, you've been through a lot. Go home, take a load off; you're on paid vacation. We'll call you in in a month or so, see if you're able to come back." "R-Really?" "Of course, it's not every day you kill a shadow king with a knife and a flashbang. By the way, I'm kinda glad it was dark out, The squishing noise was not pleasant, and I bet the results were even worse." Gregory walked out of the door. "Wait! Who're are we merging with?" Gregory sighed, and shook his head. "Confidential information Captain." "Confiden- Wait, I was promoted!?" "Yes, you better lead your platoon well pal, it'll do you good." Gregory said as he left the room. This is not good for reality. -November 12th, 3 ALR, 0954 hours- -Location: Golden Oaks Library, Equestria- The six mares trotted back in, tried at the sudden changes they had to go though. "Man am I glad that's over!" Twilight said. "As am I, darling. It was a trying time for all of us." Rarity added. "Yep, from here on out, nothing will end up ruining everything we stand for!" *CRCKBMMMMM* The six mare shook their heads as they say a strange orb-like object appear out of nowhere. It opened and out came a raccoon. "Aww, it's a raccoon!" Fluttershy said. "..." "Are you okay?" "...What the fuck?" It said a heavy Japanese accent. "What!" "Attention random planet, all your booze are belong to us!" "And your deep-fried tacos!!! Especially your deep-fried tacos!!!" "Shut up Eggman, you fat fuck!" The six mares came out to see a spaceship fly in the sky, with the logo 'Starfox' on the side. "Oh my God, you six are totarry fucked!" "Shut up, you... you... Raccoon!" "And this is how new stories begin for no reason." Pinkie said. -The End- Author's Note And now we've finished this story. Boy, the last set was a serious case of mood whiplash, am I right? Dick Figures for Hire: The Only Crossover You'll See Here out soon. AdmissionM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 -November 9th, 3 ALR, 1717 hours- -Location: Golden Oaks Library, Ponyville, Equestria- "Pinkie, I now know what these two are really like." "And how do you know that?" Twilight made a device visible on her head, a crown. "These thingys?" "Yes, all of the elements; Jose, disturbed and violent. Romero, father killed in a... in a..." "Really bad way?" "Putting it lightly, but yes! Vulakh, guilty killer of many of his own kind." "WHAT!!!" "Yes, he has a list longer than all of Fillydelphia's population combined!" "More than a thousand!" "Yes. Pierre, trauma from a fearful experience. Johnathan, lost his sister... And Reznov..." "What about him?" "He seems to be the only pon... Ugh, sorry, human that seems to be in it for the money. He told Rarity about the ways to earn respect. Some, less savory than others." "Like sauerkraut is not as good as say... muffins! Derpy loves my muffins!" "Erm... yeah, let's... go with that." Twilight cleared her throat and spoke. "The point is, out of all of these humans, only Pierre, Vulakh and Reznov seem to be the only ones unwilling to hurt us." "Huh... Well then, when Celestia lets those humans go home, I wanna be there to at least give them a flash mob party." Pinkie squeed as she said that. "Flash mob? What would these humans even listen to Pinkie? They might have different tastes." "Still." Pinkie shrugged. "Listen, I know you want to throw them a party, but I doubt it the first thing they want." Pinkie was silent for a few minutes, pacing back and forth in a deep state of thought. She had no idea how to party with these humans. Booze, maybe. Music, hard. Fun, YES!!! "I GOT IT!!! Later Twilight!" Pinkie soon blasted out the door, leaving a flustered Twilight in her wake. In an attempt to shake off the confusion, she simply decided to read a book. -November 9th, 3 ALR, 1800 hours- -Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville, Equestria- "Alright Rainbow, the storm's tonight, right?" "Yep, heavy rain, maybe some lighting." "Lightin'? Don't sound too good." "Well, with rain this heavy, you can bet your flank it's gonna cause some thunder and lighting to be unleashed." "Well at least..." "Warn everypony, which I did by telling the mayor the weather schedule." Applejack was flabbergasted at Rainbow's sudden stroke of genius. "Did I shock you more than the Thunda!?" Applejack deadpanned, and simply spoke one sentence. "This better not ruin the crop." "It won't, promise." "Pinkie promise?" Rainbow sigh, and performed the gestures. "Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." Rainbow jabbed herself in the eye a little too hard, and replied with a flinching 'ow'. "And you better not break this promise." Pinkie said as she appeared out of a tree all of a sudden, and went back in, leaving two confused mares. "Uh huh, yeah, later AJ." "Later Rainbow." Rainbow Dash flew off, as the rain began fall. "This is gonna be big, I reckon." -November 9th, 3 ALR, 1942 hours- -Location: Fluttershy's Cabin, Ponyville, Equestria- "Fluttershy?" No answer. "Fluttershy, darling, are you alright?" "No answer." "Fluttershy!" "OH, s-sorry Rarity, I... I'm just... oh..." Rarity sighed, and hugged the mare. "Fluttershy, if there is anything you need to tell me, tell me now." Thunder began to ring in the air. Fluttershy tensed up, but with Rarity holding her, the fear... simply did not come. Fluttershy sighed, and began to let loose a few tears. "Dmitri... he's a murderer, he... he killed so many." "I understand that, but it's... it's his job." "Who would want a job that ends so many lives, good or bad?" Fluttershy nuzzled her face into Rarity's chest. The fashionista gave her marefriend a pat on the back to calm her down. "I do not know. Maybe there were few other options, many less savory than... what you mentioned." More thunder, this time closer. Rain began to fall, and hit the cabin, filling the inside with sounds of the rain pattering on the windows and wood. "If there was one other option he c-could have t-taken that didn't make peop-peo-people die, h-he could've taken it." "Fluttershy... I" A loud thunder sound hit outside. Lightning lit up the room. Despite this they heard a distinct sound. A mare screaming in pain. The two looked slowly outside, and saw smoke rising from somewhere. Much to their shock, they found a mare's body, limp. Normally, Rarity wouldn't go out into the elements unprepared, but somepony's live was on the line. She soon dashed outside, ignoring the cold and wet weather, and grabbed the mare with her magic, disconnecting her from her cart, and putting her on her back. She would get the cart that she was connected later, a she needed to bring her inside. After she was brought in, she placed her on the sofa gently. Only then did they notice who it really was. "Trixie!" "Rarity, check her pulse!" "Uhh... I... I don't know!" Fluttershy quickly decided that Rarity would not be help at this point, so she check the pulse herself. To her relief, the showmare was still alive. "We need to bring her to the hospital." "In... this rain..." Rarity was reluctant, both because of the trouble Trixie has done to her and her friends, and because of the fact that the rain might do more harm than good for everypony involved. "I'll get the parkas, you make sure she's still breathing." Fluttershy flew leaving a adrenaline rushed unicorn, with an unconscious one. "This is the absolute worse. Possible. Thing! EVER!" -November 9th, 3 ALR, ???? hours- -Location: ???, Equestria- "Jose... Jose!" "Gah, where are you?" "Do not fear... I only wish to help you." "How exactly?" "You have bloodlust, insatiable bloodlust. I can give what you need. But you must listen, and follow me..." "What should I do? WHAT SHOULD I DO!!!" "Go... go to the ruins of the Everfree. There, well perform the ritual. Find the weapons, find the exit, run! Run to my freedom, and to your pleasure!" Jose kicked down the cell door with all his might, and ran out. He ran around, and soon found them... the KP7, the AM50, the knife... all his. The rampage soon began afterwards, gunfire rang in the hallways, ponies screaming, blood flowing. The others noticed and ran to where it began. Celestia trotted to the five slowly, look of shock and horror on her face. She turned to the humans and spoke in an angry tone. "Who's responsible for this?" "Jose... I should've known this would happen, but I let it happen!" Pierre banged his head against the wall. The resulting wound let blood flow slowly, also staining the wall with his blood. Celestia looked at the PMCs and spoke only two words. "Arm up."
The Brotherhood Enters the BeyondM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 -October 19th, 2026, 0832 hours- -Location: S.V.E.R. Headquarters, Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russia- -Hours to estimated end of war: 957 hours, 49 minutes- Priya Khan was the leader of the Seryi Volk Executive Response, or S.V.E.R. for short. She had just gotten reports that his two main rival companies were going to capture a nearby desert solar plant, which was called 'Radiant Barrens'. She decides that she needs her top troops there to intervene. Two of her top troops were already in the room, so she turned to them. "Gentlemen, both Raven and Valor are going to try to capture our desert solar plant at 0930 hours. We cannot let that happen or else we will lose important stockholders. Do you understand, Dmitri Vulakh and Dmitri Reznov?" "Yes sir!" Responded both of them in a slavic accent. "Good! Do not let me down." "Of course!" The two left, and began to go towards the barracks. Vulakh began to talk. "So, Reznov. You think we'll finally get the promotion?" "I hope so Dmitri. But I'm more worried about your reputation as S.V.E.R.'s finest shotgunner." "Please! Even most of Valor and Raven understand that I am a lethal force!" "Bragging will kill you one day, brother." "Ehh, screw you, we got a half hour to kill." "Yes, preparing for the battle and telling our clan!" Both soldiers were in a subset clan of S.V.E.R. called the 'Masters of Death' clan. They were known in S.V.E.R. ranks as the most ruthless and well-paid members of the PMC. Vulakh walked to his bed and took out his pride and joy to clean and maintain, a T-195 pump-action shotgun. With a 9 round tubular magazine, it was a middle of the road option to the 12 Gauge Pump of Valor and the Boudini 12 Gauge of Raven. It also was lightweight, 4c, so it allowed Dmitri to carry a med kit with him, as well as poison gas grenades. It also had a reflex sight, but even it's owner admitted that it was more for cosmetics, rather than for use. "You know Reznov, we have been fighting this war for a while now." "Yeah, I hear you comrade." Reznov took out his prefered weapon, a PSK MG, to maintain as well. It has 100 round box magazines and the gun was belt-fed. It was somewhat sluggish, but it gets the job done. It had a bipod and a reflex sight on it, both of which increase accuracy greatly. "And during that time, I've noticed one thing." "What?" "Everyone is a damn medic here." Reznov contemplated this for a short while, it was true. There was some reason that could be justified, S.V.E.R. was generally so focused on fighting that most of them learned basic medical skills to at least fight more before dying from another wound, if not to save lives. The two were by far the most lucky of the warriors, only going to the medical bay a couple times. "Well, I guess you're right." Reznov finished cleaning his MG and took out his IZ-443 pistol out to begin to maintaining it as well. The pistol was standard issue and had 17 rounds. It was slow firing, but it also had stopping power. "Even we are medics." Vulakh took out his Kurtis 45ACP and began to work on it. This weapon had hitting power, but it ran dry very often with 13 rounds, even with its fire-rate of near 630 rounds per minute. Dmitri often used it when getting from building to building as a ranged weapon as opposed to his shotgun. "Yeah." The two finished with the guns and went to the rest of the clan to make an announcement. Vulakh came to the center with a megaphone. "My brothers! I am going to go fight in Radiant Barrens to protect our interests! Who is coming with me?" Most of the men cheered, as well as Reznov, obviously wanting in in the action. Some however hated the barren desert, and chose not to go. "We go at 0900 hours!" The men cheered louder, this was going to be a fight for the ages. -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1247 hours- -Location: Fluttershy's cabin, Ponyville, Equestria- It has been 3 months since Dethklok left and pretty much made the changelings extinct, and Fluttershy was happy. Rarity was finally moving in with her and she was excited to see her lover with her at most times. "Fluttershy, Darling." "Yes Rarity?" "I need help moving this cabinet." "Oh sure!" Fluttershy grabbed one end of the cabinet and helped Rarity position it at an empty part of the wall. The two looked at each other and smiled. "Oh, I am so glad that I get to be with you Fluttershy. I really am." "Me too." Fluttershy kissed Rarity gently. "Me too." The two just needed Opalescence to come join the family now. Easier said than done. "I'll be back, I need to get Opal." "Of course Rarity, and I'll be waiting." Rarity smiled as she left the cottage. She had thought only one thought, Fluttershy is so wonderful. Small wonder I didn't fall for her sooner. -October 19th, 2026, 0924 hours- -Location: Radiant Barrens- -Hours to estimated end of war: 956 hours, 57 minutes- Vulakh and Reznov were ready to exit the bunker they set up 15 minutes ago. Vulakh had Triple reinforced armor on, a perfect complement to his T-195. He also had a Medical Kit and Poison Gas grenades. He was going to be on lockdown for the battle, preventing the opponent from getting in the objectives. Reznov had the same thing, except that he didn't have gas grenades. "You ready Reznov?" Vulakh said as he put on his warpaint hockey mask. "Да, я." Replied Reznov as he put on his goggles. "Good!" Five minutes until the mission is go. Пять минут до миссии - идут. The intercom said in both English and Russian. "Five minutes, double check your gear, Dmitri." "Sure Reznov." The two checked their gear, and were now sure that they had what they need. Objectives are now ready! Prevent the enemy from winning! Цели теперь готовы! Препятствуйте врагу побеждать! "Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!" Yelled one of the soldiers. Both Dimitris went over to objective A. Soon they were met with Raven operatives. "It's Raven! Show no mercy!" "S.V.E.R.! Eliminate tangos!" Yelled a Raven operative. The two forces fought each other, but by a slight lead, S.V.E.R. won. "Dmitri! Hack the terminal!" "Да, will do!" Replied Vulakh. His time in S.V.E.R. had gave him important hacking and explosive bomb-control skills, as well as made him hardier than a survivalist in the deep Amazon. We are capturing objective A! Мы захватываем цель A! "Raven reinforcements!" "Kill them!" "We have reinforcements too, you ублюдки" "We can't let S.V.E.R. cap A!" Yelled another Raven operative. "Stop them operatives!" We are capping objective B! Мы - цель лимитирования B! "Для братства!" Cried Reznov as he killed two Raven operatives. He then got shot in the stomach! "AAH!" "Reznov! Don't worry, I got you." Vulakh took out his med kit and injected Reznov with Morphine and antibiotics. "Ahh, Спасибо Dmitri." Reznov said as he got back on his feet. "Пожалуйста, Reznov." Alpha has been captured! Альфа была захвачена! B is under our control. B находится под нашим контролем. S.V.E.R. controlled two of the three objectives, which meant... Fall back to objective D and defend the data center. Отступите к цели D и защитите центр данных. "GO GO GO!" "Move out!" "К D! Торопите товарищей!" "MOVE! ДВИГАЙТЕСЬ!" "Ignore the heat! Двигайтесь в объективную Дельту!" The group went to objective D and was met with absolute chaos. Valor, Raven and S.V.E.R. were fighting in the same place. Valor and Raven were however killing more of S.V.E.R. than each other. "Dmitri! You and Reznov go the center to stop the enemy from taking over the data center!" "Yes, this way Reznov!" "Да!" The two men went over to the terminal. This place was by far the most high-tech place S.V.E.R. had. It was a long term pay off, if it was protected. Reznov deployed his gun on the floor next to the terminal controls while Vulakh stood behind it. To say they had what they were expecting, was an overstatement. Two Valor men, one with a M4A1 with a Grenade Launcher, a x4 sight and a suppressor, and another with M31 CIR with a foregrip, and a reflex sight. They both had M9s, but the M4A1 soldier had a suppressor attached to his. Then there was two Raven men, one had an F90 and a F57 pistol, both with suppressors and the other one seemed to have an empty AM50, he did have a KP7 out though. "Из всех хуже всего удача..." Reznov almost had enough of this, but this was simple enough. "Pierre, we need to stop them!" Yelled out the KP7-using operative with a distinct accent from Central America. "Oui!" Yelled out the F90 operative. "We'll kill the Ravens later, kill the Wolves first!" Yelled out the M31 CIR user, in a distinct southern accent. "Right! I'll smoke 'em!" Replied the M4 user in a Latino accent. "GAS OUT!" Vulakh knew how to use the gas grenades and threw them in a way that covered the two without killing them. "SHIT! MOVE!" Yelled the Valor operatives. "MERDE!" Yelled out 'Pierre'. "До свидания! Вы сыновья сук!" Yelled out Reznov as he aimed at the head of the M4-using Latino. But as he was about to pull the trigger, something happened. The gas apparently reacted with the machines, causing a short circuit. This shocked both Dimitris and they could not fight anymore. The four others saw this as a chance to finish this. "Move!" "Go!" "AARRG!" The four men stormed, only to realize why they stopped defending. "It's gonna blow!" "Déplacer! MAINTENANT!" But the machine blew up... And the six men escaped, but with very serious injuries. "Dmitri! Dmitri! AAAHH!" Reznov had it bad, a broken leg and 3 shattered ribs. "Reznov!" Vulakh's left arm was broken, and he was limping, badly. "Dmitri, I don't think..." Reznov than spit out some blood. This got Vulakh worried. "Дерьмо, REZNOV!" Dmitri had to carry him ou... "AHHG!" Dmitri saw that his knee had just dislocated. Of all the days my luck ran out. The dying duo saw that the other four weren't faring well either, most were bleeding out badly and the one that had the least damage could only crawl to help. They were screwed. Comrades! What happened? The data center exploded, it's useless now! Abandon mission! The stockholders will not be happy! Товарищи! Что случилось? Центр данных взорвался, это бесполезно теперь! Бросите миссию! Акционеры не будут счастливы! Dammit! It looked like the end for the six, except that the machine soon began again and with a flash, made the wounded disappear. A nearby S.V.E.R. soldier saw what happened and could not believe it. "I need to tell Priya!" -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1553 hours- -Location: Canterlot Castle, Canterlot, Equestria- CRACK! "Sister! Was that..." "Yes! Guards, we have some visitors." Celestia could not forget the sound that brought Dempsey over. She went to the source of the sound and was shocked. There were two men in slick black suits, and they were bleeding out. "Guards! Take them to the medical bay now!" One of the men talked in a strained, accented voice, "Qui l'a dit?" "And quickly!" Princess Celestia added. "Yes Sire!" -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1553 hours- -Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville, Equestria- Applejack was checking the hay bushels for a later date, when... CRACK! Two humans appeared in front of her, and from the looks of it, they were bleeding out. "Oh mah gosh! Don't worry, Ah'll help ya!" One of them mumbled in a accent similar to Applejack's right before passing out. "Sarah?" After these humans are healthy, Ah'll take 'em to Twi's. -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1553 hours- -Location: Fluttershy's cabin, Ponyville, Equestria- "It wasn't easy to bring you here Opal, but we're here." Opal just rolled her eyes. She never wanted to move in the first place, especially in a pet cage. At least Fluttershy was nice to her. But Angel... Rarity opened the door and soon put the cage on the ground and opened it. Opal took no time to get out and explore her new home. "Oh Opalescence." "Yeah, she's a bit feisty, isn't she." Rarity turned to her marefriend, and smiled. "Of course, but she's a good pet." "Yeah." CRACK! "What was that?" "I don't know Rarity, but there are two humans outside." "Humans!" The two went outside to look at them and got shocked looks. One's arm was broken and it's leg dislocated. The other's leg had the bone sticking out, and was coughing blood. "Oh no! We need to..." "Save them, I'll carry the smaller one. Leave whatever objects they have, those'll just slow us down Fluttershy." Fluttershy nodded and with Rarity, carried the humans in. As they did, they heard one of them speak. "Reznov... Reznov... Вы ... мертвый? Я ... мертвый?" -Major Defeat- -BATTLE WAS A TIE- -Data Center Destroyed- -1986 XP Earned- -Level up!- -You are now at level 70! White Tiger!- -Veteran Mode Unlocked! Visit character select screen for more details.- Author's Note ALR stands for After Luna's Return for those of you who don't understand. This story is set 4 years after Nightmare Moon is defeated. Also, who are the soldiers that I didn't name? That'll be answered next chapter. Also I choose the last names Vulakh, because it's my last name, and Reznov, because Reznov is most badass CoD Russian, more so than Nikolai Berlinski. Enjoy.
Brothers, Operatives, TeammatesM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1857 hours- -Location: Fluttershy's cabin, Ponyville, Equestria- Fluttershy had just finished bandaging the two humans' wounds and set the broken bones. She had done procedures like this to many animals before, so this wasn't too bad. The punctured lung had to be pierced so it would drain the lungs. Rarity came in and became unnerved that her lover was covered in blood. But she ponied up and trotted to her marefriend. "Fluttershy, I brought those objects in." Rarity placed the guns and medical kits right next to the couches the humans were laying in. "What's this?" Fluttershy said as she moved her hoof to the kit. "Don't, it might be a weapon." "Oh, right... humans like these have weapons." "I do have to ask, why are they dressed this atrociously?" "I think they might be... some kind of military people." "Military..." The couple looked at each other with uneasy looks. They might have brought professional killers into their own home. "Well, as long as they are like this, they won't attack, ha ha, ha." Rarity was visibly sweating, but Fluttershy kept the calm head. "Don't worry, they'll just be in for a big surprise." The fashionista smiled, and hugged her lover. "I hope this won't get worse, I hope." "Me too Rarity, me too." -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1724 hours- -Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville, Equestria- Applejack may have just got out of the hospital a month ago after an experimental treatment option involving modified HIV viruses, but she had enough strength to know how to fix up a pony, or a man in this case. After looking at the bandaged duo, she smiled and nodded, then left. One of the Valor agents, Johnathan Richardson, was having a flashback to his time before this event, being with his sister, Sarah, watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. "Ah can't believe ya got me to like this show." "Shuddap, ya goofball and watch this." The two chuckled and the vision repeated. "Sarah..." "...why did ya have to be... in that accident?" The other one, Romero Lopez, was a rare kind of soldier, an Albino Latino. He was out cold, remembering the times he had a child, until the very last war killed his father... And made him into a soldier. -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1654 hours- -Location: Canterlot Castle, Canterlot, Equestria- "Come on human, heal." The doctor pony managed to set all the bones and fix the internal damage, but Celestia needed to talk to the humans before she could send them to Twilight to keep care of them. "Sister, they need their rest. Please get ready to set the sun and get your rest." Luna said in a serious tone. Celestia sighed, and turned towards her sister. "Very well, I have more pressing matters right now." As the two leaders left the room, Pierre Ampathie was slowly stirring. He remembered what had happened to make him join Raven. It was the bio-terrorist attack that nearly killed his family, and himself. Jose Alejandro Bárbaro was a serial killer that decided that he would do satisfy his bloodlust by lawful killing. It felt much better to him, he always like to kill people with his sniper rifle. "Grr... I want... more blood." He then had a flashback, he had met that Albino Latino he was against before... he just remembered. -January 26th, 2025, 1257 hours- -Copper Hills Relay- "One shot..." BANG! "...One Kill." Jose let his demented mind enhance his thoughts as he and his spotter watched the head of a defender's head spurt out a fine, red mist. "Fine shot." Pierre said. "Thanks amigo, this is the best time I had in years." "You are enjoying this?" "Come on, please don't tell me you don't want to kill for fun." "I kill because it's my job. Is your head on straight?" "If it wasn't, I wouldn't be a sniper." Jose said as he took another deep breath in, and shot another enemy. We have captured B! We have captured A! Advance to objective C and demolish the data center. "Time to move up spotter man." "I have a name." "What is it gringo?" "Pierre." Jose had a demented smile and patted Pierre on the back. "Jose, Jose Alejandro Bárbaro." "Nice to meet you. Now can we get a move on? We're going to get caught." "Fine, fine. Borrico." The two ran to one of the relay stations and set up sniping spot there. Pierre had a med kit ready to heal Jose and an F90 fight off the enemy if they got caught. "Let's seeeeeeeeee..." Jose looked down the scope and saw a enemy holding an MG. BANG! And he killed him. "Nice." The AS50 did the job well enough, but then... BANG! An explosive blew up above the two, and wounded them heavily. Jose tumbled backwards and fell down. The fall incapacitated him. Someone approached him. "Listen gringo, we are on opposite sides, so I'll just end it here." The Valor agent said, bringing out his M9. Jose widened his eyes. My one regret is that I didn't kill anymore people. "Goodbye, puto!" "Aucune manière, bâtard!" Pierre shot the Valor agent a few times with his F90 before reloading. "Dammit, you win this time, but next time..." The Valor soldier got close enough for Jose to see that he was an albino. "You'll be dead." The Latino ran off, all while Pierre healed his fellow agent. "I'll kill him Jose." "No, let him run off amigo, he'll just get his just deserts later." Pierre just looked at the Ecuadorian, and shook his head. We destroyed the data center, pack up and go home. "My only regret this mission Pierre..." "What?" "I never got to know why I let that guy go." Pierre chuckled and the two got up and went to the heli zone for pick-up. "Whoa!" Jose woke up, and felt a sharp pain in his left chest. He looked to his left to see his closest friend, Pierre, bandaged up. -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1921 hours- -Location: Canterlot Castle, Canterlot, Equestria- "Damn IT! The me... di... cal... bay..." Jose noticed that is wasn't the high tech medical bay he usually ended up in for one of those missions. "What the hell, this isn't Raven headquarters. ¿Dónde diablos soy yo?" No one answered, and Jose fell back into bed. "Fuck me." Jose said. He was probably captured. It wasn't too far-fetched. He remembered charging at that SVER agent and trying to slit his throat, and the explosion. That God-damn explosion. When I get my hand on that S.V.E.R. agent, I'll wring his throat! Jose thought, before falling back into bed in pain. Ah fuck it, I'm going back to sleep. And Jose was out like a light again. -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1920 hours- -Location: Fluttershy's cabin, Ponyville, Equestria- Vulakh woke up and opened his eyes. He looked to see that he was in some sort of cottage. Did Valor capture me? "Reznov..." "Yes Dmitri?" Reznov responded, having been awake for a few minutes. "Did we get captured by Valor?" "Нет, у нас нет." "How do you know?" "Look... to your right, oh God." Reznov strained out of his throat. Dmitri looked to his right, and saw... two horses, one had wings? The other had a horn? "На прошлой неделе! В прошлом месяце - это те?" "Я не знаю. Ahg, hа прошлой неделе!" "They're speaking like Nikolai." Fluttershy said. "Maybe they know him." Rarity said in a low voice. "Они говорят! В прошлом месяце, этого не происходит. Wait, how do you know... heh heh..." "Dmitri?" "I am speaking to a couple of horses, and I have been in an explosion. I still feel pain. I must be in Hell. That's it, I'm in Hell. And I should be in Heaven for my Hebrew faith. Ha ha..." Vulakh's eye twitched a few times. "Dmirti, do not panic... agh." "Panic? אני מדבר על שני סוסים כי לדבר, אני כאב! אני לעזאזל!" "Dmitri, you know I don't speak Hebrew." "Well then, how do you explain these fucking horses?" "Maybe we should leave." Rarity said, already backing away with Fluttershy in tow. "Oh no, you are telling me what is happening, or so help me... AGH!" Vulakh grabbed his left arm in pain. "Please don't move, we only want to help." "You know what, fuck you, I need to be alone." "We understand, come along Fluttershy, darling." Fluttershy nodded and the two went out of the room. Vulakh then spoke to his roommate. "Reznov, what the hell brought us here?" "I don't know, but I am assuming that we aren't... agh, the first ones to have come here. They mentioned a man.. ah ah... named Nikolai" "Reznov, rest up, you do not sound well." "I do not feel well... ah... You are right cousin." Reznov grabbed the medkit by his bed and put it to his arm. "What are you doing?" Fluttershy said. The device injected the PMC with the usual mix of morphine and antibiotics. After the injection, he dropped the device. "Drugging myself." "Drugging?" "Morphine, it works." Vulakh explained. "Ahh, okay, good night. You'll need it." "Yeah yeah, good night, flying, talking horse." "Umm, we're ponies." "Whatever." Vulakh laid down and rested. Fluttershy nodded and went to the bedroom. "Please get better. Please get better." -October 19th, 3 ALR, 1902 hours- -Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville, Equestria- Johnathan eyes began to flutter open and he looked to see that he was in a barn. "What the hell, where am I?" He looked to see his partner, Romero, bandaged up with him. Valor doesn't use barns as medical bays, where are we? He looked around a bit more, not sure why he recognized the barn. "Glad yer awake." Johnathan look froze, and he turned to see Applejack, looking at the man, stetson and everything. "Yer okay?" Johnathan did not answer. Applejack just shook her head. "Ah get it, yer in shock 'bout seein' a talkin' pony, Ah'll just let ya rest up." Applejack left and Johnathan was still in shock. Was that really... Applejack? Johnathan then fainted, hoping that this was a dream. As much as the show was fun when he was a teen, he'd much rather forget it, to forget his sister. "Why'd ya have to have rupture that kidney, why'd ya have to have that over-inflated tire?" "Why'd ya have to be quarantined? To die?" "Why?" Author's Note So we got Dmitri Vulakh and Dmitri Reznov of S.V.E.R., Johnathan Richardson and Romero Lopez of Valor, and Pierre Ampathie and Jose Alejandro Bárbaro of Raven. Another noteworthy detail is that they all are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, fairly common among most, if not all soldiers. Jose Alejandro Bárbaro is also suffering from a bloodlust that comes from an event that will be shown later on. Hope you enjoy the rest. And Happy New Year.
Days Pass, Wounds HurtM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 -October 21th, 3 ALR, 0942 hours- -Location: Fluttershy's cabin, Ponyville, Equestria- Dmitri and Dmitri, they were brothers and cousins in everything but blood, but they really weren't being close at the moment. "How the hell are you so calm about this Reznov?" "Agh, too much in pain... to react in shock." Vulakh hated this place, but at least the food was decent. Stews were a nice change of pace from C-rations. "Listen Dmitri, let us just rest up, we are injured, and it is raining outside." "..." "Dmitri?" Reznov looked to see that his comrade had fallen asleep. He sighed and looked at the two ponies watching him. "So, tell me, who are you two?" "Oh dear, with all of this excitement, we forgot to introduce ourselves. I'm sorry about that, I am Rarity and this is my marefriend, Fluttershy." "Marefriend, what is... oh, oh I get it now." They are lesbians, seems like yesterday that these kinds of people just up and made it 100% public. "Right, I am Dmitri Reznov, and this man here is Dmitri Vulakh." "If you're both named Dmitri..." "You can call me Reznov, it avoids confusion." "You seems to speak our... um... language better than... eh... Nikolai." Fluttershy noted. "Who is this Nikolai?" "A worthless, smelly, alcoholic imbecile!" Rarity hated that man with a passion. "Ruined my bathroom 6 months ago, and he was a general ruffian!" "What did he do?" "He blew up the toilet." Reznov was silent for a few minutes. "... How the hell... does one blow up a toilet?" "It escapes me to this day. He claimed to have come from this time called 2012 and blew up the world." "That is bullshit, I live in 2026!" "Really, this is all so confusing, right now." Rarity put a hoof on her temple and rubbed it. "Look, you just rest up. I mean, look at yourself, absolutely immobile, compared to him." Reznov nodded, Vulakh did seem to just have a bad arm, and a dislocated kneecap. He himself on the other hand had three broken ribs, a punctured lung, a heavily broken leg, and a piece of shrapnel that was pulled out of the area next to his eye-socket. He was in no condition to even be sitting up. He laid down and rested a bit more. "Rarity, do you think that they are in an army?" "Armies, we got rid of them years ago, we now have PMCs everywhere." "PMCs?" "Private Military Companies. Dmitri and I belong to the Seryi Volk Executive Response, or S.V.E.R. for short. We fight against our rivals, Valor and Raven for economic superiority." "So you are a mercenary?" Fluttershy knew that killing was bad, but killing for money... "No, we are a brotherhood. Agh, I'll explain later, need rest." Reznov eyes fluttered shut and he went to sleep. "Oh dear..." Fluttershy decided to go to the kitchen and make breakfast for the animals. Rarity followed, deciding to help her lover. These two humans need to rest up, they were planning on introducing them to the princess. -October 21th, 3 ALR, 0958 hours- -Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville, Equestria- Rainbow Dash flew down to the barnhouse after hearing news about a new set of humans from Applejack. As she flew down, the rain matted down her coat and mane and she began to feel more cold. That didn't stop her from flying into AJ's bedroom and shaking herself dry. "Dangit, Rainbow Dash! At least ask 'fore shakin' yerself dry." "Sorry Applejack, force of habit. Where are these humans?" "In the barn, put on this jacket and follow me." Applejack handed Rainbow Dash a yellow rainjacket and grabbed one for herself. The two dressed up and went to the barn. "Alright Dashy, ya ready?" "Yep, mind asking, are they dangerous?" "Nah, they're injured. They can't fight, even if they wanted tah fight." Rainbow nodded and Applejack opened the door. The two trotted in to see a man, staring blankly at the two, and another one, unconscious. Rainbow flew to the one awake and looked at it. She raised an eyebrow and waved a hoof in front of him. "Wow, this guy's in shock." Rainbow Dash, Ah can't be in Equestria, this has tah be a dream. "What about that one?" Applejack trotted to Romero and took off his helmet. She raised an eyebrow at what she saw. "Well then, this here human is quite... strange-lookin'." "Strange-looking?" Rainbow flew over to the other human and noticed why. "Oh, he's an albino AJ." "Al-bine-no?" "He doesn't have any pigments in his skin or hair, all pale. See?" Rainbow motioned for her to look at the human, and Applejack nodded. "Ah get it." "Ohhh... Johnathan, amigo, are you okay?" The two ponies stepped back slightly as the Latino awoke. "Oh man, my head. Oh... Why am I in a barn? Where am I?" Romero looked at the ponies, looked away, and then back at the ponies. "Que cojones! ¿Lo que el infierno son esos?" "What is he saying?" "Ah dunno, Ah don't speak fancy." "Pueden hablar! Johnathan, ¿dónde diablos está usted?" Romero's cries suddenly took Johnathan out of his trance and he looked at his panicking friend. "Romero, calm down, ya hear?" "Calm down, there are fucking colorful talking horses, and ye want to tell me to calm down, amigo?" "Now Ah know that this is strange but..." "Strange, oh ho, John, this is insane!" "Ah think we should leave." "Oh yeah chicas, you two leave!" "Chicas?" Rainbow wasn't sure if that was an insult. "He said girls, git on out now, we need tah talk." "Okay then, ya two talk, and we'll be in the farmhouse, okay?" "Alright amiga, let us be." The two ponies left, and Romero looked at his partner. "Okay then, this is ridiculous." "And how's it ridiculous Romero?" "We are talking to horses that talk, and I'm not sure, but I think one of them was a pegasus." "Well then, we're stuck in a barn, wit no help in miles, and you just freak out." "Me freak out, where's your freak-out?" "Ah was in shock, didn't move no muscle or nothin'." "You know what, I think you might like this place." "What did ya just say?" "I said you like this place, don't you, Usted enfermo." "You think ah want to be here, fuck you, Ah'm goin' back to sleep." "Fuck you too bastardo, I'll go to sleep too." "Fine!" "Fine!" The two laided down in a huff, and began, or at least, tried to sleep. Applejack and Rainbow were outside the barn, listening in to everything they said. "Ah guess they're in a rough spot in their friendship." "Yeah, and did you see the guns they had?" "Reminded me of Dempsey." "Yeah, he was totally awesome." "He was nicer, if a bit strange." "And you know what, I not sure, but I think they might be part of some military." "And we can hear everything ya say, come 'ere and we'll explain what we are." Rainbow and Applejack were startled a bit by that outburst, but went in anyway. They looked at Johnathan in the eyes, and saw his brown eyes had some kind of torment in them. "What is it?" Rainbow asked. "Romero there and I are part of a Private Military Corporation called Valor, and we fight against two other companies, S.V.E.R. and Raven." "Really, what's the difference between the three of you?" "We are the guys who believe in good, old-fashioned, know-how fighting. Raven believes that technology will win the war. S.V.E.R. believes that the passion for fighting and brotherhoodship, or whatever they call it, are what gonna win the battle fer them." "They all sound very different. So, yer a mercenary?" "That's what some people say, personally, we all fight because it's either starve to death, or bleed out in some hellhole desert in the middle of nowhere, and that's a good day fer us." "Oh mah goodness, ya been through so much." "Personally, I fight fer mah family's well-being, and... somethin' personal." "...Ah get it, we'll just leave ya here." "Wait, what about..." "We're leaving Dash." Applejack had already made up her mind. Rainbow sighed, wanting to learn more about the human. She left and Johnathan fell back into bed, and he began to cry some more. "...Sarah... wh-why?" -October 21th, 3 ALR, -0921 hours- -Location: Canterlot Castle, Canterlot, Equestria- Jose was getting antsy, he hadn't killed anything in hours. He always had this insatiable bloodlust that never could go away. Small wonder he even made it into Raven with his mental stability, or lack thereof. "DAMN IT ALL! I necesidad de derramar más sangre! Más maldita sangre!" That outburst woke up Pierre, and he looked around a bit. "What the, where are we? This isn't Raven headquarters." "Pierre, good to see that you are okay, I'm getting bloodthirsty, three days without killing a damn soldier!" "Jose, you need something to drink." "Oh, you know what, I would go some tequila right about now." Jose's antic agony disappeared briefly, two things cured his bloodlust, killing and tequila. Heureux de voir que l'accès est terminé. Pierre thought to himself. "Did we get captured?" "Not sure amigo, but I know that my guns are out of my reach." Jose pointed at the wall, where all the weapons were laying against the wall, unloaded, and generally made safe to handle. The bullets were even out of all the magazines in all weapons and placed in bags next to the guns. "Who would put them away like that?" Pierre now knew that this wasn't S.V.E.R. or Valor. The former would've simply killed them, and Valor would've just sent the guns over to Raven Headquarters. The door unlocked, bringing the two on edge. If this was a hostile enemy, they were screwed. The door opened, and three figures walked in. The two operatives looked at each other, and spoke at the same time. "Merde." "Mierda." "I understand, so I'll just get to the point." Princess Celestia said, making sure that Twilight or Pinkie Pie didn't get close to the two humans. "I am Princess Celestia, you've been torn from your universe and ended up here. I'm here to make sure you get better, so that you may go home." "Oh ho, better amiga, I have special needs." Jose said, his eye twitching. "Really?" Twilight asked. "His eye is twitching, unless it's a second sense, it might be anxiety." "Pinkie, what makes you..." "Oh, listen to your pink friend amiga, she is right, I am... anxious to get back... he he he..." Jose said, eye twitching some more. "Okay then..." "How the hell..." Pierre tried to talk. "Just don't, we'd rather you wait until you are better before you go home. Thank you Twilight for coming here to see these two." Celestia looked over to her student, who smile in response. "Oui, nice. Listen, are we going to be long here?" "Well, you both have multiple broken bones, so I assuming you'll be better in a few months." "A few months!" Jose needed to shed blood. He looked at his hand and saw it shake. "Are you okay?" Pinkie said, hanging over the sniper. "Umm, yeah chica, come over here, will ya?" "No, no tengo confianza que todavía." Pinkie replied, making Jose widen his eyes. "Oh crap... fine, go." "Alright then. Twilight, Pinkie, if you will." The two mares nodded and left the room with Celestia. Pierre looked at Jose and sighed. "You need to get over your bloodlust Jose." "FUCK YOU PIERRE, I NEED TO KILL SOMETHING! ANYTHING!" Jose looked around frantically, and saw a spider. With his good arm, he smacked it dead. This relieved some stress, but he was still antsy. "When I am free, I'll go for something with red blood, ha ha." "How you got into Raven is beyond me Jose." Pierre fell back into bed. Jose looked at the operative and shook his head. He looked up and saw some shadow thing. He looked at it with awe, and it went out the window. "Holy crap, that was beautiful. I will find out what it is." Jose smiled deviously. He saw something that will help feed his lust. Author's Note What was that shadow thing?
Time FliesM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 -November 9th, 3 ALR, 0942 hours- -Location: Fluttershy's cabin, Ponyville, Equestria- "Dmitri, give me some morphine." "No, you'll get resistance. Hold off for a few more hours." Vulakh was at the point where he could move around in crutches and did so. His knee was almost ready to get out of its brace. Reznov however was far from out of bed. He was healing rather quickly, but his leg was far from ready to leave its cast and his ribs were still healing. "I need the damn painkiller." Reznov coughed a bit, feeling pained. "Just rest up comrade, I'm going for some fresh air." "Dmitri..." Vulakh used the crutches he had gotten from his caretakers and went out to the backyard. It was nice and cold, but not snowing. It seemed like the Latvian autumn for him. "This is..." Vulakh knew that he would have to find a way back home when his wounds heal, as would Reznov. What could he do? "This is what?" Dmitri looked to see Fluttershy feeding some birds. He shook his head as he began to speak. "This like my old home, Riga was a very nice place." Vulakh reminisced. "Riga? Is that a city where you are from?" Fluttershy inquired. Vulakh nodded. "Ja, it is, in a country called Latvia." "Must be so nice, especially with family." "Yes, my family is healthy. My mother was Russian Jew, my father was half-German, quarter-Polish, and quarter Latvian. They are alive and well." "And Reznov is your brother, or cousin, or..." "Neither, we have become so good friends, we have become like brothers. I care deeply for him." "Oh my, how deeply?" "Well, I am not gay, if that helps." Fluttershy giggled at that remark. She shook her head, knowing that the two soldiers would go home soon. -November 9th, 3 ALR, 0923 hours- -Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville, Equestria- Johnathan rubbed his eyes as the sun finally hit his eyes. The wounds were healing very nicely, and he could get up again, along with Romero. Johnathan looked to see the Apple family work. He noted one... two things off though. Why ain't she working? And why's her mane shorter? Did somethin' happen after the show ended or somethin'? "Romero, Ah want to go home." "No shit amigo. At least it is fall here; sun is no good for me." "If Ah recall, ya barely could run a mile 'fore tirin' out." "Hey, that was three years ago, and I got better." "And your vision wasn't too good either." "Contacts." "And then there's the thing with the gon..." "She said she was clean! Why are ya doing this to me, amigo?" "I dunno, maybe 'cause ya look funny when ya angry." Romero deadpanned, and looked at the southerner with his very pale blue eyes. "You're gonna get payback soon. For now though, I got to make sure my shit's clean." Johnathan rolled his eyes, Romero used clean as a code for checking equipment. The two weren't allowed to wander off the farm, and they were injured. The two would have at least two more weeks before they were better, so they needed to pass the time somehow. "'Kay, whatever ya say Romero, Ah'm gettin' some more shuteye 'fore the day begins." "Whatever Johnathan." Romero said, cleaning his gun. Once I am done with this shit, I am gonna retire. Blood, blood, BLOOD! -November 9th, 3 ALR, 0923 hours- -Location: Canterlot Castle, Canterlot, Equestria- Jose laid in bed, waiting for the day that he would get out. He'd go to the forest, slit an animal's throat, maybe eat it too. He wanted to just shed blood. Would he say he had a problem? Maybe. He would say that he wanted nothing more than to just go home and kill. Kill. Every. Single. Fucking. Soldier. He was on the run, Raven saved him more than once for the Ecuadorian authorities, not that they were trying, the population growth made such killing necessarily good in a way. Probably the reason why homosexuality was outright made legal last few decades in even the traditional third world countries. All he wanted was to kill... Kill... "RARGH, HOW MUCH LONGER?!" he yelled. "Until your broken bones heal Jose. Shut up." Pierre wanted some shut-eye for sure. But then the doors opened. The two looked over and saw three familiar faces. But the purple one was different. "What happened to you?" "Long story." Twilight said, in full regal attire. She stretched her newly found wings and trotted over to Jose, clearly interested in his strange anxiety. "What are you doing, senorita?" "I just want to help you." "I don't need any help, except from my fellow operatives." "Denying help means you do need help." "Cállate perra, y estar fuera." Twilight rolled her eyes and trotted away. "How much longer?" Pierre asked. "Another week, you're healing quite nicely." Celestia said. "Thank GOD!" Jose yelled out. "Good. Twilight, how about you go to Ponyville now, we need the other elements." "Right. Pinkie, stay in the castle." "!SEY" Pinkie began to trot backward, leaving the two Raven operatives confused. "Don't." Twilight said, teleporting out with magic. "Take care." Celestia closed the doors and trotted to her throne room, ready to start the day. As Jose woke up, he noticed the blackest smoke float above him. "Oh, it you... what do you want?" Jose asked, enamored by the cloud. It didn't answer, but merely flew out. Jose didn't know what it was, but it was clearly amazing to him. I miss it already... And like that, he tried to curl up into a ball, but his casts were making it hard. Author's Note Tyreese-le-Tyler43 is back, he edited this chapter. Go check him out. Glad to finally finish this chapter. I have a few more on hold, later followers.
ShadowsM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 -November 20th, 3 ALR, 1058 hours- -Location: Fluttershy's cabin, Ponyville, Equestria- Dmitri Vulakh and Dmitri Reznov had finished their treatment, and were now only on mild painkillers. While they enjoyed the time without fighting, they were still in an unfamiliar world, with mostly unfamiliar people... err... ponies, and they were just begging to go home now. S.V.E.R. needed them. "Let's check our gear Dmitri." Reznov suggested as he took off his helmet, putting it on to see if it was still functional, to reveal that he was a rather handsome man, with black hair combed to a fine style, and greenish brown eyes. "Alright then." Vulakh took off his own helmet to reveal that he had blond hair, which was browning, and blue eyes. The two soldiers took stock. Vulakh still had his medkit, a simple, needleless injector with morphine. His prized T-195 was also still in good shape, but the explosion that crippled him caused the reflex sight to break, not that it was useful anyway. His Kurtus 45ACP was also in excellent shape, and still functional. He looked to see if he had gas grenades left, but it was clear that he used it all. Reznov saw his PSK MG had gathered a lot of dust. The loose tolerances of Soviet weaponry meant that all it needed was a quick wipedown. The reflex sight, amazingly, was intact, but the batteries were dead. The bipod was still attached, and still folded out. His IZ-443 just needed basic maintenance, nothing serious. The two were satisfied with what they had and proceeded to walk to the door. "Wait!" The duo turned to see Rarity, standing alone in front of the private military contractors. "You're not going without Fluttershy and I, humans are rare enough in Equestria as it is." The two looked at each other, and nodded. "Okay, but they might be alarmed to see two people, dressed in military attire." Reznov said. "They might, but I sure they've seen worse." "You know, I just remembered something." "What is it Dmitri?" Reznov asked. "Whatever happened to the enemy?" -November 20th, 3 ALR, 0917 hours- -Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville, Equestria- Johnathan and Romero, two men who just wanted to go home. They had their gear set up fully. Romero's M4A1 was not damaged at all, but required a thorough cleaning to make it a viable weapon. Johnathan's M31 CIR was also well off, and ready to fire, not that they would. "Ready dumbass?" Johnathan asked. "Sure thing, puta." Romero replied. The two laughed a bit and went outside to see it was sunny. Thank God I'm wearing this armor. Romero thought to himself. "Glad to see y'all are okay." Applejack said as she moved to the group with her stetson on and a saddlebag full of bits. "Thank ya kindly, AJ." Johnathan said. "Yer welcome." "Hey guys, come on! We got a train to catch!" Rainbow Dash yelled to the group. The three looked at each other and nodded. "Hmm, I wonder what the leader's like?" Romero wondered. "Probably some bigger pony." Johnathan replied, trying to act sarcastic, and working. "Seems legit, right chica?" "EEYUP, Princess Celestia is a big pony, and an alicorn too." Applejack said as she looked to see Fluttershy carrying some animal feed and cleaning tools, probably for Rarity. "A what-now?" Romero asked. "I think that means she has wings and a horn." "Gee, ya think John?" "Well what else could it be, a monkey?" Rainbow couldn't help but laugh at that remark. "Ya know what, shut up." Romero looked forward and entered a steady march. Applejack looked to Johnathan, who simply shrugged. "He'll do that." "Whatever ya say John." "Ya know, I never did know what happened to the enemy PMC's." "Enemies?" -November 9th, 3 ALR, 0923 hours- -Location: Canterlot Castle, Canterlot, Equestria- Pierre and Jose were now in the throne room, minding their own business. Jose was killing every bug he could find in a vain attempt to quench his bloodlust. Pierre was reading up on what he thought was interesting. Only thing that caught his attention was the rumors of changelings coming back, despite a group of humans that call themselves 'Dethklok' wiping them all out, also in the article. Pierre sighed. "Eh, what are we going to do now that we aren't bedridden Jose?" Pierre said. "Weeeeeeeell..." "Don't." Pierre interrupted Jose, clearly knowing his answer. "Oh, you are no fun at all amigo, no fun at all." "My definition of fun is reading a good horror novel with a glass of wine." "Horror? I thought you'd read..." "Romance? Please!" "I was going to say erotica, but that works too." Jose said with a cheeky smile. Pierre just stared at the mentally deficient Ecuadorian, and facepalmed. "Come on man, let's just go outside, breathe the fresh air, enjoy the nature, kill some animals." "YOU, can kill the animals. I will simply do the rest of what you said." "Neither of you are killing anything." The two turned to see Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Discord look over the two. The draconequus pointed to the frenchman. "Hmm, this one seems boring." Discord then pointed to the other. "But this one seems a bit more... rowdy." "Rowdy, what that supposed to mean, boyo?" "I means you're unpredictable, like me. Why two months ago, I took a vacation to an alternate dimension, I got a couple souvenirs!" Discord took out what looked like a car door, wrapped around a trolley with some cloth, and a samurai sword, clearly used in battle, but has not been bloodied at all. "You call a car door thing, a souvenir?" Jose himself thought that that was ridiculous. "Umm, yes. It killed zombies!" "If I may..." Celestia interrupted. "we still have something to attend to. We have to send you two my student's home south of here, so we need to leave. "Merveilleux! Partons maintenant!" Pierre yelled. "Very well, Twilight and her friend should be at the train station right now." -November 20th, 3 ALR,1001 hours- -Location: Train Station, Ponyville, Equestria- "Two tickets please." Twilight said, putting the exact amount of bits needed to buy two tickets. "Right away your highness!" The ticket pony grabbed two tickets and gave them to the two mares. "Thank you, the bag has exactly 38 bits in it. Thank you." Twilight said. "Hee hee, you said thank you twice." Pinkie said. "I did? Oh dear, I might have..." "No time sister, we gots a train to catch!" "The train's not leaving for 15 minutes." "Yeah, so let's go!" Pinkie grabbed Twilight and the two dashed into the train car. As they came out of view, an earth pony, a pegasus, and two humans came up to the ticketmaster. "Four tickets to Canterlot please!" Rainbow Dash said. The cashier nodded and handed four tickets for the train to them. "That'll be 76 bits please." "Is that a lot?" Johnathan asked. "Umm, is he in an army or something?" "Umm, yeah, let's go wit that." Applejack said, putting the money on the counter. She grabbed the tickets and the four went onto the train. As they came out of view, another two humans came, with a unicorn and a pegasus. "Four tickets to Canterlot Darling." Rarity said, taking out a bag of bits. "76 bits please." The cashier said, taking out the last four tickets. "There you go." After counting them, the ticketmaster handed the group tickets. "Last ones, enjoy them." "Thank you darling, come along boys, Princess Celestia awaits!" "I can hardly wait." Reznov said sarcastically, getting an elbow from his comrade in response. They went into the train, which closed its doors. "ALL ABOARD!!!" -November 9th, 3 ALR, 1042 hours- -Location: Canterlot Train Station, Canterlot, Equestria- Princess Celestia stood over with her sister and the two humans, awaiting Twilight and Pinkie Pie. Pierre noticed the strange looks he was getting, and didn't like them. Jose felt like they were judging him, waiting to riot and kill him. The two were uneasy, to say the least. "Do not worry, once Twilight gets here, we'll sign you out and send you on your way." Celestia assured the two. "I still don't like these upper class stiffies." Jose remarked, getting dirty looks all around, which just made him more paranoid. "Don't worry, as a matter of fact, here's the train." There was indeed a train coming in to the station. It slowed to a stop and the doors opened. Soon coming out came Twilight and Pinkie. "Welcome my faithful student." "Thank you princess, it such an honor." "Indeed. You will now take Jose and Pierre to your home in Ponyville, understand?" "Yes princess, I will do..." "What in tar... RAVEN OPERATIVES!" The group turned to the source of the noise, a couple humans dressed in forest camouflage, pointing their weapons at the other humans. "VALOR!" Pierre took out his F90 and pointed it at the other group. "противника здесь? Введите боевые позиции, товарищ!" The part of the group that wasn't about to fight turned to see two more humans, these two in bright fluorescent orange vests, aiming their weapons at the four humans. "S.V.E.R.!" Jose aimed his KP7 at the number advantage group, as did Romero. The ponies around the standoff began to panic as they thought that a deadly fight might break out all of a sudden. Jose began to feel aroused at the chaos. Twilight noticed that all of her friends were confused, and scared. Using quick thinking, she teleported them to a safe distance away from the inevitable violence. Vulakh kept his finger on the trigger of his T-195, ready to kill at a moment's notice. One of them began to pull a trigger. *BANG* Author's Note They finally meet!
LoyaltiesM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 A bang was all that the ponies heard when they saw that the six human disappeared out of nowhere. Celestia and Luna had performed a double spell whammy; a knock-out spell, and a teleportation spell. The six trained PMC's would not be causing any trouble in the train station soon enough. But they were still fearful. "My little ponies, do not be alarmed! We have dealt with the threat at hand. We will question these creatures on why they did what they did, but for now, you may go about your business. Thank you." Princess Celestia and her sister teleported out of the train station, know very well that the ponies there are relieved now. -November 9th, 3 ALR, ??? hours- -Location: ???, Equestria- To say that Jose was having a bad month, would be sugarcoating it. He ended up in an unknown land, had multiple broken bones, hadn't killed anything in weeks, and was starting to hear voices in his head. It was strangely, evil. He woke up in a random bed, alone, and without his weapons. His bullets on the other hand, were at hand. Needless to say, he was pissed off. "Oh goodie, you're awake!" "Huh? Oh... Pinkie... it's good to see you amiga." "Si, senor!" "Tell me, where..." "Uh uh," Pinkie said, wagging her hoof. "the princess told me not to tell you where your gun is, after what happened in the train station." Jose just crossed his arms with a humph. "Aww, what's wrong Jose?" "S.V.E.R., Valor, both of them." "Whatchu talkin' 'bout, foo?" "Valor is the enemy of Raven, along with S.V.E.R." "Why?" "Money, power, land... all the stuff governments want, and I help because it's fun." "Killing people isn't fun, and neither is doing for money!" Pinkie yelled in rare case of genuine anger. "You and I have differing tastes Pinkie, I'll admit that. But you have to look at it from another perspective." "The reason we fight S.V.E.R. and Valor is because our populations, our economies, and our resources, are on its breaking point." "Is that so Pierre?" Twilight asked. "Of course." "But I must ask, why'd you choose to fight?" Pierre perked up at that. It was a very sore subject for him, but it had to be done. "You want to know? I'll tell you. It was when I was younger, about half my age right now." Twilight took out a notepad before Pierre snatched it out of the air. "This is between you and me, Mademoiselle. It'll stay oral." Twilight furrowed her eyebrows, and sighed. "All right, just... just tell me as much as you're comfortable with." "Right. So anyway, about 14 years ago, when I was a teenager, I was with my parents, and my older sister." "Okay." "We were having a wonderful time: breathing the air of the alps, eating gelato, and in general, having a good time. But then, something happened." "What is it?" Twilight asked, hoping it wasn't so. "There were a group of radicals who claimed that the world was going to be doomed with overpopulation, and they released anthrax all over the city, with us in it." "Anthrax! Are they insane?" "They must have been, they were among the people killed by the bio-attack. Only my family lived, thanks to a convenient mutation in our genome." "Mutation, that's unusual." "Of course, we were resistant, but not immune. We were saved, but traumatized. No one in my family committed suicide, thankfully, but... we never really have been truly happy since that faithful day." "..." "..." "..." "...Well?" "...Pierre, you just rest up." Twilight said, leaving the room. Pierre sighed, and fell back into his bed. "Merde." "Oh, sh... what happened?" Romero rubbed his head before receiving a response. "You freaked out a bunch of ponies Romero, what the heck?" Rainbow Dash yelled. Ugh, this. "In my defense, there were four others who did the same." "Yeah, who?" "Raven and S.V.E.R., amiga." "Wait, the two enemy faction group... guys?" "The very same. Why in the Goddamn hell are those guys here?" "I'm going to ask you a different question. Why are you even fighting? It makes no sense whatsoever." Romero put his hand on his head and got an annoyed look. "You want to know? You want to know! Fine then, I'm doing it because of my father!" "w-Wait, your father? Is that why? I've seen that cliche before." "Cliche!" Rainbow jumped up at that outburst and looked at the PMC. "Let me tell you something amiga. In my world, there is no war. You know what there was, corruption. The very last 'official' war in my entire world was a global world war that took nearly a billion lives, my father included, and you want to know how he died? He died, not at the fronts, but at home, when a spy snuck in, and shot the entire base dead! You tell me that that isn't cliche. TELL ME!!!" Rainbow was slack-jawed. He... just said that his father was killed, not in combat at all. It was unthinkable that a country would stoop so low. "No one, NO ONE, saw North Korea the same way again and within a few months, even China helped us wipe the damn country off the map." Korea? China? I dunno what those places are, but... they must've been bad. "That's why I fight, so that no one would get a dog's death like that again. Revenge doesn't bring back the dead, no sir, it just stops more from joining them. Get out of here, I don't want to talk anymore." Rainbow sighed, and just decided that it wasn't worth her time now. She left the room, and Romero clenched his head. "Why me, and why this fucking place?" "Why'd I yell at her?" "Well fuck it! I'll find my way out, even if it kills me!" Johnathan and Applejack looked at Rainbow Dash quietly move down the hallway. Both of them knew that it must've been bad, they knew the mare well after all. "It's just sad to see how the proud could be shut up so easily." Johnathan said simply. "Eeyup." "Mmm hmm." There was an awkward silence. For the longest time, neither spoke a word. Johnathan decided to break the silence. "Listen, Ah'm sorry 'bout that AJ, it was stupid of me an'..." "Uup uup upp, not a word, Ah understand." "Ya do?" "Well, yeah. Ya mentioned those S.V.E.R. and Raven people, right?" Johnathan had a thoughtful look on his face. "Yeah, Ah guess Ah did." "Ya were actin' on instincts, what ya were made to do." "Yep, it's a reflex." "Speakin' of reflexes, ya been hidin' somethin' from me." Shit. "Tell me the truth." Applejack ordered the PMC. Johnathan did not want to reveal that particular secret, but he did have another reason besides the obvious. "No way, Jose. Ah'm not." "An' why not?" "'Cause... 'cause it brings back bad memories fer me." "Bad memories?" Johnathan sighed, and said just two words. "My sister." "Yer sister? Why in the world would..." And then it dawned on the farm mare. She could see it in his face. "Oh, Ah'm... Ah'm so sorry." "It's okay, ya didn't know. 'Sides, twas a long time ago, Ah've moved on now." Johnathan turned around and went back into his room. Applejack did not want to go on further. If she lost her little sister too... "Ah think Ah'll git a thang of cider now." Vulakh slowly got out of bed, clearly disoriented, but otherwise, well. "Oh, goody, you are alright Dmitri." Vulakh turned to see Fluttershy, the pony that helped nurse him back to health. "Oh, Мой друг, Fluttershy. What's wrong?" "W-why did you... start to... fight with... those other humans?" "... Raven, Valor..." "The... enemy?" "Da, the same." "But, they seemed to be nice, from what the others told me." "Let me tell you something, kindness is a good thing to have, but these men, they are who we fight. They do have friends and family, but in war, we have to put them aside. It's a bleak job, one that shouldn't exist, but does anyway, because we need it." "I understand, war is..." Fluttershy paused, not sure what to say. "Hell?" "OH, umm... I guess." "It's true, and war can most definitely bring the worst of us." Dmitri took out a note in his pouch. S.V.E.R. finances meant that only the best operatives would get their combat record on paper. Dmitri was one of them. He took out his record, unfolded it, and showed it to Fluttershy. "What is..." The mare gasped in shock, and could not believe it. "I have over 1000 kills in my record, many of them by the usual means, but some, were flat out executions of the wounded." "WHAT!!!" Fluttershy yelled out as loudly as possible. "S.V.E.R. does not leave behind survivors." "Y-you... you're a m-monster... a monster..." "Yes, and I feel bad." "Stay away from me, please, stay away." Fluttershy flew out of the room, tears flowing out of her eyes. The PMC expected as much from her, having dealt with the fallout between his father and himself after the fact of having half of those kills revealed. I do not know if she will forgive me now. I don't think I can forgive myself either. Reznov had been better, to be honest, but he soon had a familiar visitor after he woke up. "Ah, good, you're awake darling." "Rarity, my friend. How are you?" "Better, but on to more serious business. You and those other humans." "Дерьмо." "I don't know what that means, but tell me, what made you want to... kill them?" Reznov sighed, and just spoke. "Raven and Valor" "Those two? That was the reason? Couldn't you three have... I don't know, worked together to get out of this world?" "If only if it were that simple, my friend. We were trained to fight the enemy at any instance." "Even if it would have hurt more than helped? That's counter-intuitive!" "Maybe, but I could not forget my training. No way." Rarity sighed, but nevertheless pushed on. "I guess I cannot change you, but I must ask one thing." "Yes, what is it?" "During your outing, have you truly... killed others?" Reznov knew the next answer. "Da, all enemies who have made the mistake of falling into my line of sight." "And... how many is that?" "... 152 killed, 673 injured, many for life." "My word!" "Dmitri's is much, much more cruel. My job was suppression. His was defense. And he always made sure that anyone that came close to him, didn't go out." "And you just let him do that? What good is there in being a mass murderer?!" "Infamy among the enemy, and respect in our clan. In S.V.E.R., we get respect for being a major contribution to the brotherhood." "So you murder people for respect!" "No, be it a master medic, my job, an engineer of great prowess, or simply going once, setting a bomb, getting shot while near the bomb and letting it go off while you are literally in the place where you wouldn't be recognized when the body's pulled out, you have to do something major to win respect. In death, or otherwise. Sometimes, you do all of the above. You understand?" Rarity sighed, and lowered her head. "I do. Killing is only one way. Just doing your job earns respect, am I right?" "Somewhat. Doing it well wins respect." "I understand that part perfectly." Rarity was still uneasy, but she could understand the merits of a job well done, in the tailorshop, or in the battlefield. "Good. I need rest. Can you leave me alone?" "Most certainly. Goodnight." "Night?" "It's about 7'o clock now. You just get some rest." "Da, will do. Goodnight." Rarity nodded and left the room. Reznov now had one more problem at hand. What to do about the enemies? Jose tossed and turned. He could not get sleep. He hadn't sated his lusts, he need to kill some more. My child, you will earn your power soon enough. Who in the name of El Virgen María are you? I am the one, who will give you what you most desire. Is that so? Yes. Ahhh... killing... KILLING!!! Good. Just one question? Yes? Who are you? I... am Sombra.
True EvilM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 "HA HE HA!" "Ohh, who's that?" "The one, who will take everything from this plane!" "Wha..." Green eyes flashed brightly, and soon enough, the mare woke up, and got up screaming. "Trixie! Trixie, are you okay?" "Wha? Where is Trixie? Answer Trixie!" "Over here." Trixie slowly turned to see two mares, two she recognized immediately. -November 10th, 3 ALR, 0256 hours- -Location: Ponyville Hospital, Ponyville, Equestria- "Oh, it's you two. What are you doing here?" "Trixie, you were struck by lightning, so we brought you here." Rarity explained. "Ha, nice try you... wait... what did you say?" "Umm, you got struck by lightning... and we... uh... helped you." Fluttershy looked down on the floor, trying not to look Trixie in the eye. "... And what of Trixie's cart?" "It was mostly burned..." "WHAT!" Trixie yelled at Rarity. "... B-but we managed to salvage most of what you had in there, photos, spellbooks, clothes..." "Do not look at those photos, or Trixie's journal!" Trixie then groaned in pain, and clenched her barrel. "Oh, don't aggravate yourself. You're still... uh... really hurt from the lightning." Trixie, through gritted teeth, tried to get up more, but it was futile, her body was weak, and soon fell back in bed. Rarity sighed, and looked at Fluttershy. "Why do the Goddesses torment Trixie so?" "I do not know, but I will tell you, we will keep an eye on you." Rarity said, with a mix of suspicion and genuine worry. "Why?" "Partly, because of the last time you were here." "...Really, this again? Trixie already said that she was sorry." "Yes, but does that truly excuse you for what you did?" Rarity's question was piercing the armor of Trixie's thought process. But she had an answer. "No, but I will whatever it takes to make up for it. Tr... I-I promise." Rarity raised an eyebrow, not really hearing Trixie talk like that before, if she could recall. "Very well Trixie, we'll come back tomorrow if we..." *CRAAAAAAA!!!* "What the!" Fluttershy yelled. She was trembling in fear, not sure what was happening, and then there was a voice. "¿Hola? ¿Alguien de aquí? Sólo quiero... hahahaha... JUUUUGAAAAAAR!!!" "Wha... who's that?" "Oh no, hide." Rarity hissed, leading Fluttershy and herself under the empty bed next to them. While the two lovers could hide, Trixie herself realized she couldn't move that well because of the neural damage she sustained. Haha, hopefully this... thing won't notice me. As much as she hoped, the figure came, and saw her. Jose could she her, helpless, in pain, and so... "Ah, hola pequeña yegua. Está listo para algunas... heHAHA...hehe... ha haaaaaa... bueno, ya sabes... diversión?" Trixie felt her heart sink. Whatever this thing was, it seemed ready to kill her. The fact that it was speaking in a language she did not understand made it all the more scary. Jose, this one will do. Take her, and find another pony to do the ritual, as a blood sacrifice. "Ohohohooo! Blood sacrifice? Muy bueno..." Jose said in a low, raspy voice. "Blood sacrifice?" Trixie squeaked out in fear. "Do no worry chica, it would be another who is killed, liiiiiiike..." Jose turned towards the empty bed, and flipped it over. Rarity tried to buck the crazed man away, but he knew this trick a hundred times, and grabbed the hooves. right before kicking her in the head, knocking the mare out. Fluttershy saw all of this unfold before her, and became angry. "STOP!!!" "Hmm..." Fluttershy tried to use the one thing that has only failed her once, The Stare. She looked straight into Jose's eyes, and began to try and talk her down. But, to Jose, all he felt was something else. He knew that stare... "José! ¿Te das cuenta lo que ya hizo?" "No, mamá! Lo siento!" "Perdón? ¡Oh, no, no te lo sentimos todavía!" "Mamá, no mama!" Jose screamed and grabbed Fluttershy by her mane and punched her, and again, and again. "You are no longer the boss of my fate mama! YOU!" "AHH!" "ARE!" "STOP!" "NOT!" "AGH!" "GOING TO STOP ME!!!" One last punch knocked the unsuspecting mare out. Jose was panting and his hands felt clammy. He had wasted enough time, he picked up the white unicorn, then the showmare, the latter trying to get free from his grip. -November 10th, 3 ALR, 0310 hours- "Oh no, Fluttershy!" Twilight and her friends came to check on her. Twilight gave a sigh of relief, and then had a look of concern. "Fluttershy's alright, but she'll be disoriented." "Merde!" Pierre punched the wall. "I have let Jose off easy since he was killing the enemy, but this is too much, when civilians are dying because of him, that is too far! I do not care if he is my friend, he cannot be let allowed to live!" "Heh, never thought I'd agree with a Raven operative." Vulakh replied with gusto. "Fluttershy and Rarity had brought me and Reznov back to health when we were injured severely." "We will help!" Reznov cocked his MG and then pumped his fist. "I'll help too!" Romero joined in. "I now know that guy, I let him go because it was too dangerous to kill him. No more!" "Ah'm in too, if worst goes to worst, we'll at least each other to cover for each and every one of us!" Johnathan gave a great big smile, and gave a glance to Applejack, who smiled in return. "I am glad that you are setting your differences aside, but we do not know where Jose might be?" A soft cough filled the room, and everyone turned towards the source, Fluttershy. "Fluttershy!" Fluttershy coughed some more before she wheezed out a few words. "Jose, Rarity, *cough* Trixie... sacrifice..." "What?" Rainbow came to the broken mare. "What about Trixie? What about a sacrifice?" "Sacrifice? Two mares... Oh no." Celestia said in a mortified tone. "What, what is it, Pri-Celestia?" Twilight asked. "We need to get to the castle in the Everfree forest, now!" "Why?" Romero asked. "Because if we don't stop Jose, either Rarity or Trixie will be dead, and he will take over the body of the other." "WHO!?" Reznov yelled. "Sombra!" Every mare gave a mortified look... This was not good at all. Soon, SOON!!!
Blood Bonds SeveredM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 "Huh... wha... where... am I?" Rarity fluttered her eyes open, and found herself bound to some kind of a pedestal. She looked to see herself roped with Trixie, who was similarly tied down. "Wha... H-h-hel-l-l-lo... somepony! ANYPONY!!! HEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!" "Hehe, I was told to make sure the bonds were ex-ssssssss-tra..." The voice took a deep breath briefly. "Tight." "Y-you. Whomever you are, release me, and maybe I won't tear you limb from limb." Rarity said with a heavy trace of anger. "Oh, well in that case, I suppose I won't release you from your bonds, you notice the ring on your horn?" "What ring? What are y..." Rarity found herself looking at a ring on her horn. She tried to take off the tacky object, but found her magic stopping at the ring itself. She went wide-eyed, and started to hyperventilate. "W-W-What the... What is this?" "It's a magic suppressant, bitch! It's meant to prevent you from escaping these little, itty, bitty... bonds." Rarity soon took a deep breath, and looked at the man who had bound her to the pedestal. Jose. "Why are you doing this?" "Why?" Jose began to have a thoughtful look on his face. He didn't know what to think. "Because... my dear friend... It's what I became, after 20 years... 20 years of neglect, 20 years of abuse, 20 years of fear, 20 years, where I was shaped into the man I became today. Was I good to begin with? Maybe." Jose then put a knife to Rarity's neck and began to breath erratically. "But then again, a world without war doesn't seem as wonderful if people just keep coming into the world. I was stemming the population, keeping the monsters greater than me off the streets, permanently." Jose gently moved the knife along her neck, not cutting deep, but enough to cause some bleeding. Jose looked at the result, but became amazed when Rarity barely changed her expression of anger and contempt. "Hmm, you're a new one. Maybe I should've gone with someone more... willing to beg." "Beg? I lady never begs." "Are you sure?" Jose asked. "Yes, I am." "Oh, I think you're lying to yourself." "What?" "You like her, don't you?" "What, are you..." "The yellow one, what has her name? Buttershy?" "Fluttershy, and what have you done to her?" "She's alive, at least I think she is, she was at the hospital when I knocked her out." Rarity lunged forwards, with only the rope stopping her from murdering Jose. "OOOOooo... tst tst tst... naughty naughty." Jose jammed the knife right next to Rarity's face, deflecting off the stone away from the mare. Rarity barely acknowledged the knife when to her. "You're no fun." "And you're a complete monster. One man was drunk, another was egotistical and another five were so mind-numbingly idiotic.." "Oh, there were more?" "Yes." "Interesting. I hope you don't mind me visiting those worlds." "By all means, try." Rarity said in a sarcastic tone. "Maybe I will." "Maybe you should." "I..." Jose took a deep breath, and looked at his sacrifice in the eye. "I will kill you, for my reward." "Reward?" "The Harvest Moon, the scheduled Harvest Moon that will bring him back, and my deep desires as well!" "The Harvest Moon? Why is that important?" "Because blood is my favorite color... like your neck." Rarity just growled at the psycho. Three hours left. Three hours left, haha. "Quickly, if we hurry, we might make there before Jose kills her!" Reznov yelled out, bringing his natural leadership skills to bring an known ally, three temporary allies and six mares to wherever this Jose was. Pierre deep down knew that this was too far, he knew that he had mental issues, but attacking innocents? He said he was done with that. He had his orders from the higher-ups in Raven for this unjustifiable action. "Order number 721-B!" "What?" Johnathan asked, swatting aside a branch. "Order number 721-B is a specific order from headquarters specifically for this situation alone." "And what does it say?" Vulakh asked. "It says that I have to kill the rouge operative, one way, or another." "What?" Pinkie yelled in shock. "Is there no other way?" Luna asked with hint of dread. "No, this order is mandatory to all operatives given this order. I am sorry, for both you and myself, but Jose has to be killed." "If that's true, then I must ask, how do we find him?" "I have used a tracking spell, it helps that his injuries allowed me to get a blood sample to aid in this dire event." Celestia explained, using her magic to track down the psychotic madman. "Do not remind me of those injuries." Vulakh said with a hint of dread. "Yeah, amiga, do not mention that, it wasn't pleasant." Romero said in agreement. "I am sorry, but there is a much more pressing matter to attend to at the moment, and..." Celestia slowed down, as did the others. "Well, where are we?" Reznov asked. "He's there." Celestia pointed to an old castle, with overgrowth covering the walls as the stone started to crumble up slightly. "Oh no... not this place again!" Rainbow yelled, grasping her head. "Well, I'll be fucked, let's go!" Johnathan said as he approached the bridge. He took a cautious step onto the rickety bridge, then another, and another, was now going along in brisk walk. "The bridge is okay guys! One at a time!" The others nodded, and went across the bridge (Except Celestia, Luna, Twilight, and Rainbow Dash, who simply flew across.) "Quickly, we must move!" Reznov yelled, leading the others to the castle, where the Harvest Moon was closing in. It's almost time. "Hehehe... you ready to die?" "Not to you, creep!" Rarity said defiantly, completely aware that Jose had pulled all the stops to make sure she couldn't do anything to let herself go free. "Ooooo... you are sooooooo going to get a good stabbing!" Jose unsheathed his knife and licked it, getting more anxious by the moment. You have to wait for a little longer, then cut her up. Jose smirked violently, and had a twinkle in his eye. "Oh you are..." "JOSE!!!" Jose turned to see five humans, guns aimed at the man, safeties off, guns loaded, and ready to fire. "Jose, it's time, order 721-B, you have to die." Pierre fired shots from his K90 submachine gun, but Jose hid behind Rarity's alter and soon ran off. "Pierre, let's chase after him, Dmitri, Romero, John, help out Rarity and that other mare, now!" Reznov yelled, taking Pierre along while the others began to untie the bonds. "Thank you darlings, Jose has really done everything to make sure I would not go free." "Yeah, a little too well, these knots are tight!" Johnathan yelled, trying to untie the bindings. "Lemme try!" Applejack said, looking at the the knots that bound the mare. "Huh, well Ah'll give him credit, the psycho knows a good knows how to tie a good knot." Applejack said as she began a complex untying sequence for this particular knot. "Don't complement the man who was planning to murder me!" "Hey, he'sh pretty good at knosh." Applejack countered as she pulled a loop. Meanwhile, Jose ran off, and around a particular corner back to the sacrifice alter. Hurry! We have only 5 minutes left! "Keep off my ass for a minute, I'm very busy!" Jose said as he fired his KP7 at the men chasing him. Reznov reacted by firing his PSK MG at the runner. Unfortunately, the PSK MG had a slow rate of fire, and mediocre accuracy, and as such, couldn't do much to Jose. Jose did get shot in the shoulder-blade, but used hid med-kit to heal himself back to full health. "Keep trying, amigos!" Jose taunted the two. "Use your damn gun!" Reznov yelled out. "I cannot hit him at this range!" "Must I do everything?" The two ran off, and Jose double-backed, approaching the alter. Yes, YES!!! Jose found himself getting into the room, only to find it empty. "No... no no nononono! Where is she? Where is that white bitch!" Jose snarled, only find himself facing a shotgun barrel. Pierre came into the room, to see Vulakh, holding his T-195 one-handed at the serial killer he was supposed to kill. "This is for Fluttershy!" Dmitri pulled the trigger, sending buckshot right into Jose's face. The back of his head exploded as he fell backwards, dead. Dmitri then spat onto the corpse. "And that was for Rarity!" The shock of the situation made the room quiet. No one spoke as the castle echoed with the sound of gunfire. "It's over." Pierre said quietly. "It's finally over." The two soldiers looked at each other. The Raven operative walked towards the SVER soldier, ever so closer, and then simply held out his hand. Dmitri looked haphazardly at the hand, not expecting the action, and still cautious. He decided to simple grabbed the hand, and the two shook hands. "Thank you, you have helped me stop a terrible person." "I am sorry that you had to lose a friend though." "I know, I know." Pierre said silently. Vulakh simply nodded, and let go. The two backed up, and stared at each other. That's when everyone came in. "Guys, are you... you..." Rainbow Dash stopped herself as soon as she saw Jose's corpse. "I am assuming that the dead body says enough." Vulakh said. "I... I..." Twilight squeaked out. Celestia and Luna kept a stoic look, having seen this happen before. "I do not wish to commend such a horrible atrocity, but I have to thank you all for doing your part to stopping Jose, and saving two of my subjects' lives." Celestia spoke with a stern tone. "Trust me, thanks is the last thing I want, especially for something that was supposed to be my job." "Pierre, your life my have been a dangerous one, but this man was a threat to all who stood with him, you had to do what you needed to do. Vulakh, as far as I'm concerned, had some major part in this counter-plot." Luna looked at the SVER soldier, and the soldier sighed. "I pulled the trigger, I killed him." Celestia and Luna nodded in understanding, knowing that few would willingly kill someone without motive. "Umm, Celestia, Luna..." "What is it Twilight?" Celestia asked, turning towards her former student. "What is that!?" Everyone turned to see a black smoke, which then suddenly forced itself down Pierre's throat. The Frenchman tried to cough out the viscous matter, but couldn't. He began to convulse, crumpling in agony and shock. Everyone backed away, and then... He stopped. "Pierre?" Pinkie cautiously inched forward. "Pierre?" Luna, just as nervous, inched forward. Pierre suddenly shot up, and began to stand up in a way that seemed like he barely had control over his body. He cautiously stood up, and began to flex his fingers. "Pierre, if you are alright, I can..." Pierre picked up the K90, and cautiously handled it. "Listen Pierre, I don't know what is wrong with you, but I think you should put the gun a..." "SILENCE!!!" The man said as he took the gun fired right into Reznov's body. The soldier fell down, and Vulakh came to the fallen soldier. "Reznov!" "What the fuck?" "You're not Pierre!" Romero yelled out. "No... I know who he is..." Twilight said, backing away. "You do?" "Yes... Luna and I do too." "Then tell me you two, who am I?" Celestia stood silent, but Luna told them who he was with a strong trace of anger and fear. "Sombra..." Sombra, having taken over Pierre's body, merely smiled viciously.
The Last LaughM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 The eight mares froze at the sight. Dmitri healed Reznov with the last injector he had. Johnathan aimed at what was once Pierre. Romero took a step back. And Sombra just smiled. "What have you done?" Celestia demanded. "I needed a sacrifice, and a vessel. I would've gotten the azure mare, and gotten rid of one of the elements, but then they came, so I had to improvise. He was useful, but he was a pawn, either way." Sombra replied, smirking as the disfigured man. "You, used him?" Johnathan replied, still keeping a bead on the former king. "Of course, I'd have chosen any other too." "Fucking monster." Johnathan replied quietly. "Shut up, amigo." "And who are you supposed to be?" Sombra addressed the Southern soldier. "Colonel Johnathan Lee Richardson, Valor Industries, the one who's going to bring the terrorist threat like you to your death!" Sombra just smirked. "Cute." Sombra fired his gun once at Johnathan's chest, hitting his left lung, and collapsing it. "Johnathan! We need to move!" Romero yelled out. "DA! Let us go!" Dmitri said as he held his friend over his shoulder. Twilight grabbed Trixie with her magic and carried her out. "Hey!" "Oh, shut up!" Rarity snapped back. "You've been struck by lighting just last night!" "In that case, you're too hurt to so much as stand, so just take this, alright!" Twilight spoke sternly. Trixie turned towards the mare as best as she could and snarled. "This way, we can find our-" Romero said as he accidentally hit a switch, separating the humans from the mares. "I hate this place." Luna muttered to herself, after seeing what all the moronic traps had done to her. "I have an idea, follow me!" Celestia said, leading the group as Sombra came into the room, and found the mares running away. "HEH HEH HEH HEH!" "Motherfucker!" "Where are we?" "I have no idea!" "Everyone, calm down!" Reznov said as he fired a round out of his IZ-443 to make the others alert. "Jesus man, are you crazy? We've got a fucking shadow monster possessing a guy with an SMG out there." Romero snapped back. "He is no better than me up close." Dmitri said as he pumped the slide to release the long-fired-off shell that remained in the gun. "Well, true..." Johnathan said nervously. "Hey, dumbass, this ain't the time!" "Be quiet Romero!" "Be quiet, both of you!" The two Dmitris yelled out at the same time, making the two jump. "You are supposed to be a team!" "We are closer than a team, the two of us, we brothers in all but blood!" "That is one of the things that made S.V.E.R. the dominating force in the Shadow War!" "I thought that was the fact that you had a lot of people to kill off." Romero retorted. "Tell me, have you ever heard of... 'The Sunset Falcon?'" Dmitri replied. "What are you... wait, you're that shotgunner, the one who killed thousands!" "No, 1006." "'Cludin' yer newest kill?" "Yes, err..." "Johnathan." "Dmitri Vulakh." "Romero Lopez." "Dmitri Reznov." "Wait, you are both named..." "Dmitri, yes. Call me Reznov, it is easier that way." "Well I'll be damned." "We'll all be damned if we don go an' stop Sombra now, Romero!" "Agreed, we need a plan!" Reznov said. "Hey, that's an MG, right?" "PSK MG, slow, but powerful." Reznov said proudly. "Right, I got lots of explosives, mines, grenades and grenade launcher, suppressed weapons too." "Explains your flimsy armor." Vulakh said as he noted the disparagingly lightweight, and unarmored mesh composite. "Don't need it. I'm the demolitions guy." "Ah got less ordnance, but Ah got some smokes and flashers, plus Ah'm pretty good wit the knife." Romero said. "I was built to get close to the enemy, and take what he can give me, I can hack many terminals, and resist anything that tries to kill me." "Alright, so! Reznov, you go outside the exit, set up a no go zone, fire at anything not ours. Johnathan will draw out Sombra where he can, I'll lead the mares outta here, and Dmitri, you try to get close! If we can't kill him, we don't go home, got it?" "DA!" "Yes!" "Hell yeah!" "Alright, we got a plan, let's go! I pray that those mares are alright!" "Yes, I just hope Rarity and Fluttershy are alright." "What's so special about them anyhow?" Johnathan asked, not particularly liking the two much from the show as much as the ones he connected to better. "They nursed us back to health!" "Even though that damn rabbit kept hopping on our casts." "Heh, a fucking rabbit?" "Do you want your plan to work, or do you want a deathwish?" Dmitri said in a tone that was gravely serious. "Y-You're right, let's go, now." The group went through the tunnels, trying to find their way around the castle. "Consarnit, another dead end!" Applejack huffed out in frustration. "Hold on for a moment..." Celestia went to the wall, and pressed a stone in. A trapdoor opened below the group, and they fell through, with the door closing in on the group, just as Sombra came in. "GRRRRR..." "Hey, YOU!!! Eat explosives!" Sombra turned to see a grenade fly towards him. He grabbed the grenade and threw it around a corner without much effort, and let it explode. Romero was holding his rifle, aimed to kill. "HYAH!!!" Sombra jumped to the side, then ran forward, taking a strafe every so often to throw off Romero. What really surprised Romero was when he pulled the trigger for his gun. *CCK* "JAMMED!?" "Oh look, you forgot to maintain your weapon." Sombra said as he took a knife, and drove it into Romero's right shoulder. Dropping the gun, Romero replied in kind with a knife stab to the kneecap. Had it been unarmored, that would've crippled Sombra. Sombra kneed the man, and entered a combat pose. "You should not be this good, you just got a body!" "You'd be surprised at how much your traitorous ally remembered everything about fighting, like in January 26th, 2025, in the Copper Hills Relay." "Wait, that guy w- OPH!" Sombra proceeded to lift up Romero, and slam the struggling man's back onto his leg. "GAH, FUCK!" "Any last words?" Sombra asked as he raised his knife. "I do." Sombra ducked when he heard the sound and ducked, then felt a stinging sensation in his left hand. It had a hole in it. "HURR!" Dmitri pumped the slide and prepared for another shot. Sombra fired at what he thought was the sight with his pistol. It missed. "Heh, even if it wasn't broken, it was still a garnish to my gear." Sombra ran off. "You okay?" "Got one in the shoulder, but I'll be fine." "You will be okay later, I have no more healing serum left." "Your friend?" "Da." "It's alright, let's kill that asshole." "Oh yes! Let's." "Sombra, there ya are!" *BA-BA-BANG BA-BA-BANG* "You go help him out, I've came to get the mares before they fell though a trapdoor." "Right. And Romero..." "Yes?" "You are welcome to join us at S.V.E.R. if you like, we always have room for people with your skills." "Depends if I live long enough, and if I care enough." Romero said as he ran off the expansive castle. Dmitri took out his last gas grenade, and ran off to help his ally. "It's dark here!" "Where are we?" Twilight lit up her horn, and illuminated the room. "Okay girls, let's get through this place, calmly, and carefully now." "Hello!" "That's Romero! HEY, ROMERO!!!" Rainbow Dash yelled out as she flew off. "Dangit, Rainbow!" Applejack ran off to catch the cocky mare. The rest of the group sighed, and followed the two, finally finding them, with Romero clutching his shoulder. "Oh my, what happened?" "Got stabbed, it's not fatal, but it hurts like hell." Romero replied. "Hold on..." Celestia said quietly as she put her horn to the wound, and magically healed it shut. After flexing it a few times, he smiled. "Damn chica, that's good." "Well, when you've lived as long as I have, you'd have to learn these types of spells." "Alright, we need to leave, now! Follow me, Johnathan and Vulakh are taking care of Sombra." "What about Reznov?" "He has a job now, lockdown." "Lockdown?" A few slow-paced shots. *BA BA BA BA BA BA BA* Sombra ran back in, not wanting to be torn to shreds. Reznov loved these types of people. If they fail to go through, they get shot. If they did, he wasn't all too horribly off in defense. Either way, Sombra was a dead man. Johnathan on the other hand had nearly escape his brush with Sombra alive. The king had managed to take his own weapon from his, and disassembled it by pure accident, while also losing a critical part. He has reduced to using his M9 and a knife to defend himself. And Sombra just came back. "You, what sorcery have you done?" Johnathan fired a few shots, but the king was only hit non-fatally. "HAHAHAHAAAA!!!" He wasn't like this in the episodes I saw. Johnathan tried getting close, only to get thrown over the shoulder of the king, and fell onto his face. "You are supposed to be highly trained soldiers, and you're barely putting a fight. Disgraceful." "At least, I'm trying to put in a damn fight, you disgusting, little, fuck!" Johnathan yelled out as he fired a shot at Sombra, dead center. "GAH!" Sombra fell backwards. "If ya weren't wearin' any armor, ya'd be a dead one, ya hear?" "Is it the same for you?" Sombra said as he fired off a round at Johnathan, dead center. "JOHNATHAN!!!" Sombra got up and ran to off as Romero went to his friend's side, and check out the injuries. "Heh, should'da learnt ta be a medic they said, ya need ta they said... they were right..." Johnathan coughed a bit, right before coughing up some blood. "Johnathan!" "It's a punctured lung, maybe a ruptured heart artery." Twilight said as she examined the wound with magic. "So he's gonna die?" "He'll bleed out, and I doubt pony blood would help him." "SHIT! SHIT SHIT SHIT!!!" Romero looked at his dying friend, and was met with more blood to the face. "I'm coming Sarah... I'm sorry I for crashin' inta ya, I was really drunk... and stupid...*Cough* I'm real sorry..." Johnathan wheezed, and took his last breath, right before going limp. Romero had no words to say, he had just saw the death of his closest friend in Valor, and probably in real life, dead. "Romero?" Applejack trotted over to the soldier. "Take his body, and get out of here, I have to do this, now." Romero said as he took his rifle, and began to look around the castle to look for the monster. Celestia lifted up Johnathan and placed him on her back. "We need to leave, this something only they can do at the moment." "Right, sister!" Luna agreed. The group agreed quickly after that, and went out of the castle. Reznov took aim, but then noticed that it wasn't Sombra, and took his finger off the trigger. *BMBMM* Reznov turned around and found himself getting tackled by Sombra. Reznov punched him in the face, and then tossed him off, picked his weapon and fired. Unfortunately, S.V.E.R. weapons were rather old. *CICK* And his weapon jammed at the worst possible moment. "Nyet!" "Oh look, you've jammed your gun." Sombra ran forwards, and grabbed Reznov by the throat. A magical blast threw him off before Reznov felt the first signed of unconsciousness. "Reznov, run!" Twilight said, flying around, firing magic blasts at the possessed human. "Insolent wretch!" Vulakh and Romero came to the scene, and saw what was going on. "Dmitri, he's mine!" "No Romero, it's too risky, I'll help you!" "No, he killed my best friend!" "And he tried to kill one of mine, let me help you, we can do this, as a team comrade!" Romero gritted his teeth, and sighed. "Alright, if he doesn't die by bullets, he dies by my knife." "If you say so." Dmitri and Romero ran towards the fight where Reznov was in hand-to-hand combat with the king. "You are good." "Former FSB agent, I've been taught by Spetznaz agents hands-on!" Reznov said as he grabbed a kick Sombra attempted and elbowed his knee. "AHG!!! Maybe I won't kill you when I've conquered your world, maybe I'll make you my personal bodyguard." "In your dreams, suka!" Reznov attempted a punch through a hold in Sombra's defence, only for him to move out of the way and receive a left hook to the cheek. As Reznov dropped to the ground, Sombra grabbed his neck and scowled. "Pathetic." Sombra was then kicked off by Dmitri, who fired a shot from his gun at Sombra's knee, crippling him. "Any last words?" Dmitri said as he aimed his weapon at the king. "... Yes." "Too-" Sombra lunged forward and grabbed his gun. A shot was fired off during the struggle, and Sombra overpowered the soldier. "Do you have any last words?" Sombra said as he aimed the shotgun at Dmitri. "Go to hell!" "You too." *CLCK* "Is pump-action, and not ready." Sombra scowled, before something grabbed him from behind. Romero snuck up on Sombra, and then drove his knife into his gut, and opened up his stomach. He then took out a flashbang, and pulled the pin, right before shoving the thing into his gut, and threw him over the cliff. "RAAAAAAAAAGH!!!" *BANG* The two looked away, and looked down, and grimaced. Romero spat down the cliff and scowled. "Te acompaño en el infierno, pero no hoy!" Romero wiped the dribble off his mouth, and turned towards Dmitri. "You did good distracting him." "Da, it was messy, but he is dead now. I feel sorry for Pierre, he seemed like a good person." "Well I'm glad I'm finally done with that fuck Jose." "Same here, Reznov, let's go home... Reznov?" Reznov did not respond, except with a weak groan. "Reznov?" Vulakh ran up to the fallen man and saw what was wrong. That offhand shot hit Reznov in the Femoral Artery, and he was bleeding out. And there was nothing to heal him with left. "Reznov! Please, do not bleed out, do not bleed out!" Dmitri said as he applied pressure onto the wound. "*Cough cough* Heh, I knew you would care for me until the very end." Reznov said weakly. "It is not the end yet, we can still help you!" "Vulakh, you have been my very best friend, ever since grade school, we have been friends, brother even. Through thick and thin, far and wide. *cough weeze cough cough*" "Reznov, stay with me!" "Vulakh, it is no use, I've almost lost the 5 pints of life..." "You will live, I DEMAND YOU LIVE!!!" "Some orders cannot be fulfilled comrade... but I will tell you this..." "What, what is it?" "My sister, Catherine, remember her?" "Yes, yes, I do!" Vulakh thought back to her. "You thought I was blind to what you... *Cough* ... you thought I didn't see..." "What are you-" Vulakh felt a finger on his lips. "You have my blessing... tell her... what you f-f-feeeeeel..." Reznov went limp. Dmitri place his fingers on Reznov's neck, trying to find a pulse, but no use, it wasn't there. "No." Reznov felt a piece of him die as he looked onto the body of his friend. His teammate. His comrade. His friend. The mares saw this scene unfold, and felt shock. Celestia most of all felt empathy towards Vulakh, and trotted over to the man, and wrapped her wing around the man. Vulakh felt it, and accepted it. It was what he needed the most. One by one, the mares at the scene came to the man, wrapping their hooves and wings around the broken man, helping comfort him in his time of need. Trixie, most of all, held on as tightly as she could with her injuries. Even Romero felt the need to help out this man in his time of need, and joined the hugging. It was a dark time for this group. But the worst had passed. Sombra was gone for good. -November 12th, 3 ALR, 0841 hours- -Location: Hidden Room, Canterlot Castle, Canterlot, Equestria- "We have arranged for you and the bodies of your allies to go home now. It is with my sincerest regards that I thank you for helping save Equestria from this great evil, even if the losses were high and heavy." "Thank you Princess." Romero said as he took a sip out of his beer, while Vulakh took a drink out of a bottle of vodka he kept. "I'll leave you two for the moment, when it is time to go, I'll come back, but please be sober when that happens, or at the very least, capable of controlling yourselves. The two waved off the princess as she left the room. "All of this, for what?" Vulakh spat angrily. "This war, pointless." "That damn satellite uplink at the solar plant, only good for contracts and PR!" "That place in Brazil, disgusting and worthless." "Metals for service, mere decorative trinkets." "Our image, fake as our motto!" "This is the real face of war Romero, and we are stuck in it for all of time." "Do we even want to go back?" "What?" Dmitri asked. "Do we have to go back home? If we go back, we're just going to get thrusted back into battle, and then the two of us will face each other, and one will die. I think we should not bother going back." "You are insane, what of your family, your friends?" Dmitri reasoned. "W-Well..." "Exactly, they cannot be replaced here. I agree, home is hell, but it is still home, regardless of whether or not we like it. If we abandon that home for no reason, we might as well not have a home. Romero, you have friends and family back home, and they need you, you have to help them." "...I guess you're right... what about you, any family?" "I have two brothers and a sister, my parents died from frostbite. I also have a friend, Reznov's sister..." "I overheard something, something about a blessing?" "Sh-Shut up, you bastard!" "Oh my God... Don't worry amigo, I won't tell. But please, just make a move on her when the news of... well... dies down, alright?" Dmitri sighed, and took one more sip. "Gotcha." Dmitri corked the bottle and stood up, just as Celestia and Luna came in. "We have finished, come with us." Luna said, with Romero getting up, and the two followed the princesses to the room where the bodies of Johnathan and Reznov laid. "Ready?" Celestia asked. "Yes." Dmitri said as he lifted up his comrade's body. "S-Sure..." Romero said as he grabbed Johnathan's body. "Alright, time to go home." Celestia and Luna prepared to cast the spell that would send these two back to their homes. Celestia cast her spell to send the Valor agents, while Luna sent the S.V.E.R. agents. "Goodbye Dmitri, you are by far the most wonderful human we've ever met!" Rarity yelled out as tears fell her eyes. Fluttershy returned the smile as she waved goodbye as well. "Later Romero, stay strong, the Rainbow Dash way!" Rainbow Dash cheered on as she floated above Applejack, who just chuckled and adjusted her hat. Twilight and Pinkie Pie just sighed, knowing these two were in good hands now. In two flashes of light, the four men disappeared, leaving behind magical residue. "It is done, they are home now." -October 20th, 2026, 0919 hours- -Location: S.V.E.R. Headquarters, Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russia- -Hours to estimated end of war: 937 hours, 16 minutes- Priya Khan had finished dealing with the latest PR disaster that came with the destruction of her solar plant. And her top soldiers disappeared out of nowhere. It was a bad day. Nothing was going to- CRACK! "BOIZE MOI!!!" She turned around to see those two soldier, who disappeared, appear out of a smoking char stain on her carpet, right before collapsing into a heap. "Oh, you've got to be..." -October 20th, 2026, 1001 hours- -Location: Valor Headquarters, Indeterminate Region, Alaska, The United States of America- -Hours to estimated end of war: 937 hours, 16 minutes- Romero stirred, as he felt something prod his shoulder. "Hey, wake up." "Ugh, where am I?" "The medical wing." Romero woke up, and saw who was talking to him. "Gregory Cavanaugh!" "Yes, your boss." Gregory said. "What the hell happened?" "Aside from appearing out of nowhere while I was discussing a merger with a fellow company with a corpse, not much happened. By the way, you're gonna have to pay for the scorch marks on my hardwood flooring." "Ugh, crap. So, Johnathan..." "Dead, shot through the heart, gonna have to invest in heavier armor if those Raven bullets are just gonna punch through that armor. But enough about me, how was your stay in that new world you discovered?" "Well, it was... What?" Gregory took out a flash drive and showed it to Romero. "Helmet cam was online. It was only one day for us, but this is at least a month's worth of video from this... Equestria." Gregory said, the name of the place leaving a bad taste in his mouth. "Don't you dare harm them." Romero said sternly. "Why bother, we're not able to go back anyway. The most we can hope for to go back is if there was a multi world disaster, and we're called on for a mission. We'll keep on file, but for now, you've been through a lot. Go home, take a load off; you're on paid vacation. We'll call you in in a month or so, see if you're able to come back." "R-Really?" "Of course, it's not every day you kill a shadow king with a knife and a flashbang. By the way, I'm kinda glad it was dark out, The squishing noise was not pleasant, and I bet the results were even worse." Gregory walked out of the door. "Wait! Who're are we merging with?" Gregory sighed, and shook his head. "Confidential information Captain." "Confiden- Wait, I was promoted!?" "Yes, you better lead your platoon well pal, it'll do you good." Gregory said as he left the room. This is not good for reality. -November 12th, 3 ALR, 0954 hours- -Location: Golden Oaks Library, Equestria- The six mares trotted back in, tried at the sudden changes they had to go though. "Man am I glad that's over!" Twilight said. "As am I, darling. It was a trying time for all of us." Rarity added. "Yep, from here on out, nothing will end up ruining everything we stand for!" *CRCKBMMMMM* The six mare shook their heads as they say a strange orb-like object appear out of nowhere. It opened and out came a raccoon. "Aww, it's a raccoon!" Fluttershy said. "..." "Are you okay?" "...What the fuck?" It said a heavy Japanese accent. "What!" "Attention random planet, all your booze are belong to us!" "And your deep-fried tacos!!! Especially your deep-fried tacos!!!" "Shut up Eggman, you fat fuck!" The six mares came out to see a spaceship fly in the sky, with the logo 'Starfox' on the side. "Oh my God, you six are totarry fucked!" "Shut up, you... you... Raccoon!" "And this is how new stories begin for no reason." Pinkie said. -The End- Author's Note And now we've finished this story. Boy, the last set was a serious case of mood whiplash, am I right? Dick Figures for Hire: The Only Crossover You'll See Here out soon.
AdmissionM.A.G.E. By Awesomedude17 -November 9th, 3 ALR, 1717 hours- -Location: Golden Oaks Library, Ponyville, Equestria- "Pinkie, I now know what these two are really like." "And how do you know that?" Twilight made a device visible on her head, a crown. "These thingys?" "Yes, all of the elements; Jose, disturbed and violent. Romero, father killed in a... in a..." "Really bad way?" "Putting it lightly, but yes! Vulakh, guilty killer of many of his own kind." "WHAT!!!" "Yes, he has a list longer than all of Fillydelphia's population combined!" "More than a thousand!" "Yes. Pierre, trauma from a fearful experience. Johnathan, lost his sister... And Reznov..." "What about him?" "He seems to be the only pon... Ugh, sorry, human that seems to be in it for the money. He told Rarity about the ways to earn respect. Some, less savory than others." "Like sauerkraut is not as good as say... muffins! Derpy loves my muffins!" "Erm... yeah, let's... go with that." Twilight cleared her throat and spoke. "The point is, out of all of these humans, only Pierre, Vulakh and Reznov seem to be the only ones unwilling to hurt us." "Huh... Well then, when Celestia lets those humans go home, I wanna be there to at least give them a flash mob party." Pinkie squeed as she said that. "Flash mob? What would these humans even listen to Pinkie? They might have different tastes." "Still." Pinkie shrugged. "Listen, I know you want to throw them a party, but I doubt it the first thing they want." Pinkie was silent for a few minutes, pacing back and forth in a deep state of thought. She had no idea how to party with these humans. Booze, maybe. Music, hard. Fun, YES!!! "I GOT IT!!! Later Twilight!" Pinkie soon blasted out the door, leaving a flustered Twilight in her wake. In an attempt to shake off the confusion, she simply decided to read a book. -November 9th, 3 ALR, 1800 hours- -Location: Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville, Equestria- "Alright Rainbow, the storm's tonight, right?" "Yep, heavy rain, maybe some lighting." "Lightin'? Don't sound too good." "Well, with rain this heavy, you can bet your flank it's gonna cause some thunder and lighting to be unleashed." "Well at least..." "Warn everypony, which I did by telling the mayor the weather schedule." Applejack was flabbergasted at Rainbow's sudden stroke of genius. "Did I shock you more than the Thunda!?" Applejack deadpanned, and simply spoke one sentence. "This better not ruin the crop." "It won't, promise." "Pinkie promise?" Rainbow sigh, and performed the gestures. "Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." Rainbow jabbed herself in the eye a little too hard, and replied with a flinching 'ow'. "And you better not break this promise." Pinkie said as she appeared out of a tree all of a sudden, and went back in, leaving two confused mares. "Uh huh, yeah, later AJ." "Later Rainbow." Rainbow Dash flew off, as the rain began fall. "This is gonna be big, I reckon." -November 9th, 3 ALR, 1942 hours- -Location: Fluttershy's Cabin, Ponyville, Equestria- "Fluttershy?" No answer. "Fluttershy, darling, are you alright?" "No answer." "Fluttershy!" "OH, s-sorry Rarity, I... I'm just... oh..." Rarity sighed, and hugged the mare. "Fluttershy, if there is anything you need to tell me, tell me now." Thunder began to ring in the air. Fluttershy tensed up, but with Rarity holding her, the fear... simply did not come. Fluttershy sighed, and began to let loose a few tears. "Dmitri... he's a murderer, he... he killed so many." "I understand that, but it's... it's his job." "Who would want a job that ends so many lives, good or bad?" Fluttershy nuzzled her face into Rarity's chest. The fashionista gave her marefriend a pat on the back to calm her down. "I do not know. Maybe there were few other options, many less savory than... what you mentioned." More thunder, this time closer. Rain began to fall, and hit the cabin, filling the inside with sounds of the rain pattering on the windows and wood. "If there was one other option he c-could have t-taken that didn't make peop-peo-people die, h-he could've taken it." "Fluttershy... I" A loud thunder sound hit outside. Lightning lit up the room. Despite this they heard a distinct sound. A mare screaming in pain. The two looked slowly outside, and saw smoke rising from somewhere. Much to their shock, they found a mare's body, limp. Normally, Rarity wouldn't go out into the elements unprepared, but somepony's live was on the line. She soon dashed outside, ignoring the cold and wet weather, and grabbed the mare with her magic, disconnecting her from her cart, and putting her on her back. She would get the cart that she was connected later, a she needed to bring her inside. After she was brought in, she placed her on the sofa gently. Only then did they notice who it really was. "Trixie!" "Rarity, check her pulse!" "Uhh... I... I don't know!" Fluttershy quickly decided that Rarity would not be help at this point, so she check the pulse herself. To her relief, the showmare was still alive. "We need to bring her to the hospital." "In... this rain..." Rarity was reluctant, both because of the trouble Trixie has done to her and her friends, and because of the fact that the rain might do more harm than good for everypony involved. "I'll get the parkas, you make sure she's still breathing." Fluttershy flew leaving a adrenaline rushed unicorn, with an unconscious one. "This is the absolute worse. Possible. Thing! EVER!" -November 9th, 3 ALR, ???? hours- -Location: ???, Equestria- "Jose... Jose!" "Gah, where are you?" "Do not fear... I only wish to help you." "How exactly?" "You have bloodlust, insatiable bloodlust. I can give what you need. But you must listen, and follow me..." "What should I do? WHAT SHOULD I DO!!!" "Go... go to the ruins of the Everfree. There, well perform the ritual. Find the weapons, find the exit, run! Run to my freedom, and to your pleasure!" Jose kicked down the cell door with all his might, and ran out. He ran around, and soon found them... the KP7, the AM50, the knife... all his. The rampage soon began afterwards, gunfire rang in the hallways, ponies screaming, blood flowing. The others noticed and ran to where it began. Celestia trotted to the five slowly, look of shock and horror on her face. She turned to the humans and spoke in an angry tone. "Who's responsible for this?" "Jose... I should've known this would happen, but I let it happen!" Pierre banged his head against the wall. The resulting wound let blood flow slowly, also staining the wall with his blood. Celestia looked at the PMCs and spoke only two words. "Arm up."
