Why Me?

I couldn't remember anything that had happened the night before all I could possibly thing was that I either died or i'm close to death, one of the two.

I awoke to the sound of a feminine voice talking to another person who was obviously confused. My vision started to dilate into focus and I slowly inched my way up so that I was leaned up to looked around. What I saw was somewhat like a miracle and yet a curse in it self. I saw two rather large unicorns with wings and they were both sporting some kind of tattoos on there rear end. One was a clear white with a mane that seemed to have it's own breeze, and the other a very deep blue color with a mane that seemed to be the same as the other ones.

"W-what the hell!?" I was very confused to why there were two talking horses next to me on what looked like a hospital bed.

The white one spoke with a motherly tone, "well I see your awake."

"Y-yeah... Where the hell am I?"

"Equestria"

"What?"

"I said, Equestria"

"Is some kind of land for talking horses?" My bearings were coming loose as I sat there talking to the two strange creatures.

The white one just laughed and said,"no this is a land of talking ponies."

Well at least I got the talking part right

As I was in my thoughts she spoke again,"would you mind telling me your name?"

"Not unless you tell me yours first."

"Alright then, my name is Princess Celestia." She gestured towards the pony standing next to her. "And this is Princess Luna." She simply smiled at me not saying a word.

"Ok then, well my name is Marc Stevens."

"Marc, that is a strange name."

"Well not from where I come from it isn't."

"Well yes probably not, but as you can see your not on your home planet anymore."

"Yeah about that, how did I get here?"

"I simply teleported you here."

"Why!?"

"Well did you want to die?"

"Well no but..." I couldn't really argue with that. "Ok fair enough, but why did you teleport me here?"

"Well I wanted to study you of course."

"So are you going to, like, cut me open or something?"

"Oh no not at all, I simply wanted to study your nature."

"Ok, study me so I can get back home."

"Well you see..."

"Whats the problem?"

"I can't really get you back."

"What." Her answer hit me like a ton of bricks, knowing I couldn't get back home.

"WHAT?" My tone increasing due my anger and stress.

"WHAT!?"

She saw I was getting unruly so she started to calm me down. "Please, Marc, I assure you it will be alright."

"HOW CAN IT BE ALRIGHT!? I'M STUCK HERE NOT ABLE TO GO HOME."

"MARC"

She was getting stressed at my tone so she equally matched hers. "Well ok then, what do I do now?"

"I'm surprised you're taking this so well."

"I'm in the army i'm supposed to be able to change to my environment quickly."

"You're in the military?"

"Yes I am, i'm in the U.S. 9th armored division on my planet."

I remembered about how I saw the bright light and getting transported here, and also about my buddies getting killed.

"Did you find anyone else in that tank?"

"In the what?"

"The tank, that big metal thing outside!"

"Well yes, but them seemed to all be dead..."

"Where are they?"

"Right now we are keeping locked up in one of the barracks so nopony gets suspicious."

I threw off the blankets that were on me and began to run off the bed to find them. The moment I got off and started to walk run away I felt a pain in my right leg.  "OW, SHIT!" I fell on the ground and began to hold my wounded area on my leg.

Oh yeah I forgot to mention that you also got stabbed in your right leg with metal shrapnel

"Damn, brain...."

I looked around and found a convenient wheelchair sitting next to my bed. I quickly crawled into it and wheeled myself out out the hospital room. I heard Celestia vaguely say,"Wait, Marc!" It was no use though I was already out of the hospital wing when I heard her yell for me.

I begin wheeling myself very quickly to try and find the barracks of the castle, I turned to my left and found what looked like to be a guard boasting armor and a spear in hand. My mind couldn't find my mouth so we had an awkward stare off for a couple of seconds before I broke the silence. "Can you tell me where the barracks are!?" He looked shocked to see me considering I was the only creature of my kind here, but he did eventually answer in a shaken tone, "T-to your left and then take the 2nd r-right."

"Thanks," I then wheeled myself in the directions he gave me. I then came to a stairwell that lead to the underground.

This most be the barracks...

I got off the wheelchair and began scooting down the stairs. Once I got to the bottom I heard something coming down the stairs. The wheelchair then fell on me, "Ugh, Damn... Handy, but hurtful..." I got back in the wheelchair and kept on wheeling myself around.

I came to a room that had a small door and a saw 3 bags on a table. I threw open the door to much to my surprise, found 2 ponies with lab coats on examining them. "GET AWAY FROM THEM," I wheeled myself quickly to them shoving the ponies out of the way, they then ran out of the room with  frightened looks on their face's. I saw the 3 men lifeless and just laying there with their eye's closed. I couldn't keep the tears away as I began crying, it started as a soft crying, but quickly turned into a sob.

I heard a ponies hooves clack across the ground so I looked and saw Princess Celestia walking up to me with a saddened face. "What do y-you want?"

"They were your friends weren't they?" I gave her a nod as a buried my face into my arms again. "What happened to them?" I thought about just being silent, but I didn't want to leave her in the dark. "They w-were killed by a panther shell..." She gave me a sad, yet confused look. "A tank shell," I said bluntly. She came up and hugged me the best she could without falling over. I couldn't resist her hug so I simply hugged her back.

"They were my best friends... I knew I shouldn't have gotten to attached to them knowing they would probably die I just didn't think I would be the only one to survive," She started to speak in a sympathetic tone,"It was wise of you to make them your friends. You couldn't help the fact that you liked them." I gave her a nod as she started to pull back from the hug.

I started to regain my emotions and started to talk to her,"I need you to do me a favor." She gave me a nod of approval. "I need you to make 4 graves somewhere, I don't care were but I want to give them a honorably burial." She looked confused as to what I said,"4? there are only 3 bodies here."

"I know, Johnson, he was gunned down by enemy fire and then blasted to pieces by a tank shell..."

"I s-see."

"Yeah..."

"I'll get right on that." She started to to leave before I caught her, "Wait!" She turned and looked to me,"yes?" I found my tongue and spoke up,"if it isn't to much trouble can I stay here?"

"Certainly."

"One last thing before you go."

"Yes?"

"Thank you, thank you for everything so far."

"You are most certainly welcome." I gave her a weak smile as walked out of the room.

So this is my life now huh? Going from a tank gunner to a one-of-a-kind creature on an unknown planet. Well better make the most of it