Never Bring a pony to a gunfight

The violent swoosh of wind brushed against Pvt. Avery's face as he dashed towards the ground, it felt like the very air around him would catch fire and with a mighty splash Pvt. Avery cut straight through the water like a hot knife through butter. Gasping for air Pvt. Avery breached the surface of the lake and clawed his way out shaking off trying to dry himself, Creeping through the bushes in the early morning darkness and peeked through a little opening seeing a bright light through the leaves,

"What the hell?" Pvt. Avery whispered to himself looking deep into the light, it was a fire burning in a German outpost at the mountain foot beneath Canterlot, a small piece of flaming ember went into the shrub next to him,

"ACHOO!" went a small voice in the shrub, Pvt. Avery's neck snapped towards it like a dog to a piece of ham, slowly creeping up Pvt. Avery clutched his rifle and aimed it towards the shrub, he reached out his sweaty palm and grabbed the shrub tearing the leaves off, to his surprise he saw a Rainbow mane, a baby blue body and some magneto eyes gazing up into his Hazel eyes,

"What the?! Who the hell are you?!" Pvt. Avery exclaimed jolting backwards landing on his back,

"Me? I'm Rainbow Dash! The greatest flyer in all of Equestria!" Rainbow Dash said doing a loopty loop into the air, Pvt. Avery was silent as he stared up at her in bewilder,

"Best flyer in all of Equestria, seems like a bit of a brag worthy title...Wait, why are you here?" Pvt. Avery asked the hovering Pegasus,

"Oh, um" Rainbow Dash stuttered scratching her Rainbow mane, there attention darted over to a nearby sound that sounded like a boot stamping through a shrub, "Get down!" Pvt. Avery commanded with his finger signals as a German scout had popped out for a smoke. Pvt. Avery accompanied by Rainbow Dash lay down together in the tall grass will the barrel of the Enfield poked out the side, the German soldier was looking around with a fag in his mouth staring up into the silver moon and dreaming of returning home, there was a rustle, a "gerrof!" and one startled German staring at the gleam of an Enfield barrel in the moonlight, Pvt. Avery had no choice, he was compromised and delivered a single bullet to the Germans left lung, trying to scream his lungs filled with blood silencing him,

"That was SO AWESOME!" Rainbow Dash squealed pushing her cheeks together, the two rushed to grab the body, surely the other soldiers had heard the bang...oh, and so they had, the alerted Germans were already aiming there Semi-Auto's at the man and the pony,

"Put your weapon down! DO IT NOW!" Shouted the German Sgt.,

"If you've got a plan, I hope this is part of it Terry!" Rainbow Dash whispered to Pvt. Avery,

"Of course it is" Pvt. Avery responded aloud, but was quickly silenced as he was smashed across the face with the butt of a Germans gun, he fell and was caught by Rainbow Dash,

"Really?" Rainbow Dash asked once again with Pvt. Avery lying in her arms.

"*Grunt* No" Pvt. Avery grunted quietly rubbing his cheek,

"So...A British soldier has made it to ze new vorld?" the German Commander introduced aiming his revolver at the British Tommy,

"Good evening, Fritz...Hows the war going?" Pvt. Avery said smugly trying not to show fear. The German Commander clicked his revolver and shot Pvt. Avery in the foot as he'd just picked himself up,

"ARRRG!" Pvt. Avery cried falling onto the grassy knoll panting and clutching his bloody foot,

"My Name is Adull Von Galeheart, Commander Galeheart to you though, Private" Cmdr. Galeheart boasted on,

"Now ve are short on food in this new land, which we vill claim to Germany, and we need to pick off soldiers in our camp to...Keep us sustained?" Cmdr. Galeheart explained bringing Pvt. Avery to his feet,

"I am a noble man, and vill give you a fair chance to keep your life. Do you know how to play Russian Roulette?" Cmdr. Galeheart whispered into Pvt. Avery's ear standing on his bloody foot.

Later the two had been dragged back to the German camp were around 40 soldiers had gathered around the wooden table as Pvt. Avery, Cpl. Gevuara and Sgt. Talarchik had gathered for a game of Russian Roulette, the dreaded revolver was slammed down on the table with the violent roar of Germans being silenced, "PLAY" was bellowed sharply and the revolver was spun, the first spin landed on...Sgt. Talarchik who picked up the gun, aimed it at his head and clicked...Nothing, just a cheer from the German crowd in relief that a friend had survived, "PLAY" was sharply bellowed again and the revolver was spun a second time...It landed on Pvt. Avery, a cheering uproar filled the air as everyone beckoned Pvt. Avery to shoot himself, his sweaty palm grasped the revolver and he slowly lifted it to his head and...*Click!*...Nothing, another blank but now the cheer had gone into a furious cry. The third time it also landed on Pvt. Avery, *Click!* Nothing! Are there any bullets in this damn thing?

"ENOUGH!" Shouted a nearby German picking up the revolver looking into it's barrel, maybe there's something jamming it? No, Pvt. Avery's young but not stupid, he's jolting the Gun backwards and making the clicking noise with his tongue, unbelievably it's actually working, here was Pvt. Avery's chance to escape this nightmare, Pvt. Avery punched the Revolver forward into the Germans eye, snatched the Revolver and aimed it at all the unarmed soldiers,

"AH!" The British Soldier gasped as he tried walking backwards but his foot was in no condition to even stand, everyone stood there staring at the soldier grasping his leg and to make matters worse, the silence was broken by a sniper shot swiping past Pvt. Avery's ear, he was surrounded with nothing but a gun that may or may not have blanks loaded...all hope seemed lost, it SEEMED so but as quick as a flash, WHOOSH! A Rainbow Trail snatched Pvt. Avery and carried him off into the dawns early light,

"What the?! Who's that?! Rainbow Dash?!" Pvt. Avery cried as he soared up into the sky,

"YEP! Sure is!" Rainbow Dash replied with an excited look on her face with the wind flowing in her mane, but suddenly a violent SWOOSH Snipped past Pvt. Avery's head and imbedded itself in Rainbow Dash's wing,

"YOWCH!" the Pegasus squealed as the two started spiraling down into the mountain side, they screamed in terror as they were falling uncontrollably to a cliff face, there was a loud THUD! And then...nothing...the morning breeze flowed as normal with the regular sun rising over the horizon and the moon vanishing bellow it.

Blurs filled Pvt. Avery's vision as the only thing recognizable was the color blue, tightly closing his eyes and groaning Pvt. Avery opened them again trying to unblur reality, with everything solidifying, Pvt. Avery looked directly forward, he could feel his back on the ground with some leaves down his shirt for some reason all he could see is blue, light blue to be specific, suddenly the blue object moved and revealed a comfortable smile, it was Rainbow Dash, sleeping on top of his body, he tried to move but the two were tangled in a vine,

"Mmmm...No, Mom...Five more minutes..." Rainbow Dash groaned nudging her head slightly,

"Get off...my face..." Pvt. Avery said sternly,

"Huh? What? Oh, Morning, sweet cheeks" Rainbow Dash said with a smile,

"Oh sod off" Pvt. Avery said blushing, he was at least making an effort to wriggle his was out of the vine,

"Woah there buddy! Slow down!" A voice said from yonder, Pvt. Avery looked around to try and see who the voice belonged to, but the two of there heads where tangled and neither could budge,

"Don't worry there pal! I'll cut that there vine of yers!" the voice said again as the sound of a knife unsheathing sharply cut the air, a vine snapped and Pvt. Avery pushed Rainbow Dash off his body, they looked up and saw a man garbed in green with a flag on is arm with 48 stars and 13 stripes, it was a noble American soldier holding his trusty Double Barrel Shotgun and saluting Pvt. Avery,

"Names Private Taylor of the United States Military!" the Soldier said with a spring in his step,

"Ah, thank you. Nice to see a friendly face...Wait, I thought the Americans were staying out of the war? And how did you get here?" Pvt. Avery asked not sure weather this man was friend or foe,

"Good point, Americans went on the western front in April 1917! Yep, sure was hell for those Frenches and those British guys all gettin' shot to pieces by a German machine gun! Also how I got here? Don't rightly know, I thought I got shot in the battlefield" Pvt. Taylor said with a proper South Carolinian drawl.

After a particularly foot wrenching hike round the mountain side they made it to the American outpost with a flag raised proud and clear to state the American glory,

"So, you found somebody else here in this new land eh, Pvt.? Well, just how do we get back home, Terry Avery?" The American Commander questioned popping a cigar in his mouth.