"I said I want to see her!" I demanded, slamming my fist on the desk. I'm in the Fillydelphia hospital standing at the receptionist desk where a white mare stares a death glare at me and Lyra at my side helping me stay upright. I had refused treatment for my leg for now and am more concerned about Twilight.

"Sir, she in testing right now. And besides she said she doesn't want to see you at the moment." she repeated for the third time. "Until her mental health exam is over you're going to have to wait until she's ready to see you. There's nothing I can do about it."

I glare back at the mare but she doesn't faze. "Fucking horses." I say as I limp over to one of the chairs. The mare snarls at me in return. Lyra gave me a worried look. "Why the hell aren't you in a mental health exam?" I trivialized.

Lyra shuffles her hooves nervously. "Because I didn't really see what was going on. I was too busy pulling you to the pelican to pay too much attention." she replied quietly.

I let out a heavy sigh. It was my fucking luck that right after we make up that something has to fucking screw it up again. As far as I knew both princess are dead having not seen either one. That or they were just making rounds and checking on all the ponies. I really hopped that at least Celestia burned in the explosion.

"Taylor," Lyra speaks up, anxiousness heavy in her voice. "don't you think you should get your leg checked on?"

I look down at it. No bone stuck out or anything, but it hurt like it was being stabbed multiple times. "Yeah, I guess." I say as I try to stand up, but Lyra stops me. "What?" I demand.

"Stay here, I'm going to get one of the doctors." she then trots back over to the receptionist desk.

"Fucking horses." I repeat to myself, sinking into the chair some. I wait some time before Lyra comes back with a doctor behind her. Luckily they're human and I get up, standing on my good leg. We walk to one of the empty rooms -with the help of Lyra keeping me from falling over- and they have me sit on the hospital bed. They go through the standard medical check up procedures before taking me to one of the few x-ray examining rooms.
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It took Twilight several hours to get released from the hospital and maker her way to cafiteria -which was basically an apartment converted into one- after they determined her mental health was fine. She more concerned what the new threat -along with the Covenant and the humans already invading their world- would mean for pony kind and the other native species. She pondered this while slowly eating dizens of MREs to keep her mind from depicting the flood. Every few seconds her mind would try to imagine them again but she would purge herself of the thoughts before they ruined her appetite.

She has just finished another one and tossed the package aside and brought another one to herself with her magic. She ripped open the package and dug her spoon in before shoveling the food into her mouth. This must have been her seventh one. She felt full but she kept eating anyway. It comforted her, which probably wasn't a good thing. Either way she stuffed another mouth full and chewed it.

a bunch of the human marines watched her from the other tables and she glared at them when they stared too long. A few faces she could recognized and gave them a weak smile instead sense she had made a few acquaintances. They usually turned back around and talk with their buddies but some look as if they were talking about her..

Twilight soon decided she would do some more research on both the Covenant and the Flood, maybe even some human history. Acting on this thought she attempted to teleport her pad to herself but when nothing came she realized she had left it at Canterlot where it is now probably a smoldering pile of ash.

She scanned the room and noticed a few marines using theirs. Twilight got up and trotted over to one of the groups. The marines noticed and started to whisper amungst themselves until Twilight reached the table and cleared her throat, grabbing their attention. She offered a friendly smile -despite her now growing hatred for the human race- and spoke calmly. "Hi, I lost my tac-pad and was wondering if i could borrow one of yours?"

The men look at eachother with varied expressions as if they are having a private conversation. After a few seconds they turn back to Twilight. "What exactly do you need it for?"

"Research." She stated giving them a questoning glance.

"What kind of research?" One of them questions almost in an accousing way.

Twilight kept her calm collected self as she attempts to reason with the group. "Does it really matter? I know there's classified information and all but I don't think what I want to research is."

"Well if you're not going to tell us then no, you can't borrow our tac-pad."

Twilight sighed on the inside. "Fine, not a problem." she turned and began to make her way to another group, but was stopped when she heard the one marine from the last group talking to his buddies. The word 'crazy' echoed through her mind when the marine said it and she turned and went back. "I'm sorry, what did you just call me?" she asks through gritted teeth and an angry glare.

The marines look between eachother, exchanging nervous glances. One of them turned back to her. "I called you cra-" the marine is cut off as Twilight's magical hold grips his neck and throws him to the floor.

Twilight hops over the table and lands on top the marine. "You think I'm crazy? I'll show you fucking crazy!" she tightened her grip on his neck and cut off his air. The marine tries to struggle free but Twilight extends her magical grip and pins his arms and legs to the floor. "You humans fucking disgust me! You come here and you take over our land, make us part of your army, and expect us to fight your war and to deal with it like it's an every day occurre-"

Twilight is cut off as she feels arms wrap around her mid section and pull her off the marine. She tries to struggle free of the persons grasp but couldn't shake them off. She charged her horn and used her magic to pull the person off her, tossing then aside like a ragdoll. Twilight quickly turned around to find almost everyone in the cafiteria staring at her, some standing ad looking like they're going to charge her.

One of them steps forward and Twilight points her horn at him, causing the marine to back down. "You're all assholes!" she yelled at them, some of the ponies in the room giving her looks.

"Twilight!" a very stern voice calls oht to her. She knew who it was but hopped it wasn't him. She turns to face Taylor and he's standing amoungst the marines with his arms crossed. His leg now has boot on it. He steps toward her and Twilight poiints her charged horn at him. "What the hell is this?" he asks as he stopps just in fron of her.

Twilight glared at him, her hatred burning in her eyes. "Fuck you." Taylor and Twilight continue their stare down before Taylor steps up to her, Twilight feebly trying to back away, and snatches her in his arms with a firm grip. Twilight starts to struggle, kicking her hooves against his chest. "Let go of me! Put me down!" Twilight yelled at him, kicking harder but Taylor just ignored her.

Taylor took then to an empty hallway and dropped Twilight on the floor. "What the hell is wrong with you?"

Twilight got up, brushing herself off momentarily before glaring ar Taylor. "What's wrong with me? You are! You're what's wrong with me! Everything that you put me through is what happened."

"I didn't do anything to you! Everything that happened to you I was against it. You want to complain, complain to the Officers. Or better yet go AWOL because I'm getting sick of your bull!" Taylor countered. "Go be like Fluttershy and go hide somewhere like the fucking coward you are!"

"I'm not a coward!"

Taylor crosses his arms. "Prove it then."

Twilight fumed. She has no idea what to do except stand there defiant and with her chin up. She looks down at Taylor's leg again. "What did they say about your leg?" asks, randomly changing the topic.

Taylor continues to glare at her for a moment longer before letting out a sigh and sitting down. "They say it's just a small fracture and that I should stay off it a few days for it to heal. They injected something into my leg, some sort of experimental healing agent."

"Oh..." is all Twilight said in reply.

"So why didn't you attack me?" Taylor asks after a while. Twilight looks at him, confused. "When I picked you up, how come you didn't use your telekinesis on me?"

Twilight looks down at the floor like she's ashamed. "Because I didn't want too. I could have but I didn't want too." she replied with what almost sounded like regret.

"Well either way you're probably going to get written up, and I'm not doing jack shit to help."

Twilight let out a short sigh. "He called me crazy-"

"And a crazy ass horse you are." Taylor cut Twilight off. Twilight looks at him with her jaw dropped at the statement. A small and simple insult that any pony took offense to sense the humans had explained what ponies were like back on their home world, horses being a larger cousin of the ponies.

Twilight closed her mouth and let a low growl out. "Take that back!" Taylor doesn't even acknowledge her. Twilight grits her teeth and hits his shoulder with her hoof. "Answer me dammit!"

Taylor looks at her, rubbing his shoulder. "That actually hurt." he states. Twilight just gives him a look. "Fine, I'll take it back." he finally says with a sarcastic tone, dismissively waving his hand at Twilight. Twilight hits again, this time a bit softer. "You know I'm a bad influence on you."

"How so?" Twilight inquires, sitting next to him.

"Well for starters, this." he waves his hand over her whole body. "I liked you better when you had a bit more meat on you."

Twilight cracked a small smile. "So you're saying you like a chunky Twi?"

Taylor shrugged. "I wouldn't say chunky, but yeah if that's how you want to put it. Not to mention your attitude is worse, you're more aggressive and you curse a lot too. I remember how you used to act really cute for me so that I'd read you a book before bed." he continued with a chuckle.

Twilight leaned against Taylor, letting her head rest on his chest. It's a bit uncomfortable for her considering that he still has his chest piece on. "Yeah, I remember." she says quietly. "It's just this whole thing with the Covenant and now this... flood. It's hard."

"I know. And so do they." he says pointing towards where they had came. Twilight lowers her ears and looks at the floor. "We're all going through the same crap so you don't take people seriously when they call you crazy. You just have a different way of handling things."

Twilight doesn't reply, she just continues to sit there in shame realizing that Taylor is right. She feels his hand and the back of her head, lightly scratching behind her ear and running them through her mane. Twilight sighs and sits upright again. "We should probably go back."

Taylor stood up along with Twilight. "Yeah, you probably need some r&r anyway. Just take it easy for a few days. Relax." Twilight nods in response before Taylor leads them back. When they enter the cafeteria again Twilight receives a few looks but other than that she was ignored. He continues out of the building with Twilight close behind up until Taylor dropped her off at their bunk area.
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Author's Note

Guess who's back after a few months? Just a small chapter to get started up again. I got the urge to continue writing this so here I an with a new chapter. If there are any mistakes ignore them sense I did write most of this on my phone and it likes to not show mistakes I've made. Anyway expect more chapters. Also you may have noticed chapter 1 is down that us because I am re-writing it to better transition into chapter two. That's all I have you until the next chapter, enjoy!