Chrome Ponies: Friendship is Mechanical

The mercenary opened his hatch and stumbled out of the smoke filled cockpit. He looked around and saw the ACVs sitting around like they had been before. Except for one thing. They were now in a thick forest instead of in the Neroimus lands. "Is everyone alright?" He called as the other leaders began crawling out of their ACVs. They all nodded. The mercenary crawled back into his HOUND and tried starting it. "Damn it! My generators fried!"

"Same here." Called back the others.

"My weapons are online and cockpit power is on. I can defend, just not go anywhere." He told the others as he climbed back out.

"Well mines dead." The others told him. The mercenary thought through what to do.

"Ok. We will set up camp until we find out what's going on." He finally decided. Suddenly a flash of something caught his eye. He turned to see a lion-scorpion creature bounding towards them. "SHIT!" He yelled as he jumped into the cockpit and turned his RFZ-WHP-1 to meet the creature. The creature lunged at his HOUND, and was impaled in mid air by the deadly spike. The spike slowly slid back into its casing and the creature fell to the ground dead.

***

Fluttershy watched in horror as the manticore fell dead to the ground. She saw the strange bipedal creatures approach it cautiously and address the black clad bipedal that was emerging from the gigantic beast.

"What the fucking hell was that!" One of them said.

"I have no clue." It answered.

"Where the fuck are we?" Another asked.

"Beats the shit out of me." The black creature answered. He looked around and looked directly at Fluttershy who was hiding in the bushes. "Stay here." It ordered. It drew something shiny and began slowly towards Fluttershy's hiding place. She quickly got up and ran towards Ponyville.

***

A yellow creature bolted away as the mercenary began towards it. Choosing not to lose the opportunity, he followed it. He ran through the thick forest after the creature. He swore he could see it had something like a pink tail.

***

Fluttershy looked behind her and saw she was being chased by the black creature. She heard it call to her, "Get back here you spying vermin!" Shock and pure terror fueled Fluttershy to run faster yet. She saw Ponyville and realized what she had done. She had lead these creatures right back home.

Fluttershy had tears in her eyes as she ran through the dark. She ran up to Twilight's library and began pounding on the door. "TWILIGHT!" She cried. The door was slowly opened and Fluttershy was instantly on top of Twilight while shutting the door.

"Fluttershy? What's wrong?" Twilight asked with a confused yet tired look on her face. "We need the others!"

***

The mercenary looked down at the small primitive village. He had seen the yellow creature run into there. He decided to call in. He reached up for his ear radio with one hand while silencing his medals with the other. "Hello! Who is this?" The voice of the combat leader Silvy Bernard from Tarakia.

"It's me." The mercenary said.

"Really? Where are you?" She sounded worried.

"I found a village. I'm going to investigate. Keep radio silence until I find out what the population is." "Copy that mercenary. Be careful." She cut out. Lowering both hands, the mercenary grabbed up his assault rifle and slowly crept the best he could, due to his medals, towards the village.

***

"Why are we here?" An annoyed and tired Rainbow Dash asked.

"Ok. Listen. This is what I saw." Fluttershy began to tell the story of what happened. By the end of the story, all six of them shared worried faces.

"We need the princess." Twilight simply stated.

***

The mercenary crept through the dark village and saw houses that had an old type of construct. He found a large tree house with lights lit though. He slowly approached it. As he neared, he heard a voice. "So they seem aggressive, but maybe we can reason with them."

A second voice chimed in, "And if we can't, then I'll just give them the old one two!"

The first voice stopped the second, "No Rainbow. We will have to wait for the princess. She will have to talk to them."

'Rainbow? Who the hell names their child Rainbow?' The mercenary thought. He concluded they were talking about him and he approached the door. He stood fully and rose his foot. He brought it down with all his force and was surprised how easily the door came off. The mercenary quickly jumped in with his gun at the ready. Only to be staring at six colorful ponies. They stared right back.

"Umm... Hi." The purple one spoke.