Like a Bullet from a Gun

What Alex saw nearly made him wonder if he was high, but it also convinced him that Rhod was telling the truth. Six colourful equines had entered the clearing, and when they saw the wreckages the expression on their faces was pure horror. Alex guessed they probably had no idea whatsoever was going on. The one that was leading the group of six had a purple coat and a dark mane, with a stripe of purple and magenta going through it. She had a horn on her head, so Alex presumed that she was a unicorn species of the race. There was also an equine - Alex got tired of using equine, so he swapped it with pony,- with a bright yellow coat, a pink mane, and wings, so she was a pegasus. They were the first two to enter the clearing.

Bringing up the rear were four more ponies. One had a white coat and a purple mane, and a horn. Another was orange, with blonde hair tied into a ponytail (No pun intended) at the bottom. She did not have wings, nor horn. There was one with a cyan coat and a rainbow mane, and she had wings. The last one had a pink coat and a darker pink mane.

There was one thing that confused Alex the most; they all had tattoos on their asses.

Alex looked to his left and saw Rhod sitting there, looking like he was about to explode.

Alex leaned over, and whispered "What in sincere hell is going on?" with a hint of confusion in his voice.

All that came out of Rhod was a disgruntled squeak, so Alex guessed that it would be best to leave him alone for the time being.

"Wow, I wonder what in tarturus happened here..." said the purple pony.

So they could talk. Great! (sarcasm)

"Ah don't know, but it sure ahs hell doesn't look good!" said the orange pony, with a strong southern accent.

"Well... whatever crashed here surly is injured, I'm going to go see if it is alright." said the yellow pony, as it made it's way over to Alex's crashed jet.

"Umm... Are you okay?........... Hello?......... Girls, I think it might be dead...."

Alex couldn't help but stifle a chuckle that the ponies thought an inanimate object was a living being, but Alex soon regretted making the decision to make noise.

"HEY! I heard something!" shouted the  blue one. "Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie and Applejack search the ground, me and Fluttershy are going to check the treeline!"

"Got it!"

The only think going through Alex, Connor's and Daniel mind was "Shit!", while the only thing going through Rhod's head was "Find me and love me find me and love me!"

The squad  tried to remain as silent and still as possible, but the aerial ponies soon found their position.

"HEY GIRLS! THERE IS SOMETHING UP HERE!" shouted the blue one.

"Squad," Alex said through his headset. "Prepare to jump!"

"3, 2, 1!"

All four of them jumped backwards off of the tree, and as soon as they hit ground, they started running towards, well, anywhere.

"Are they following us?!" asked a concerned Daniel.

Connor took a glance behind the squad and saw that they were, in fact, following them.

"They are following, and they are at full pelt!"

"Okay, I'm gonna fire a warning shot into the air!"

The next thing the squad heard was Alex discharging four rounds of his SIG Pro into the air, and as Connor took a look behind them for a second time, he could see that they were all stood still, shocked at such a loud noise.

The squad continued running for the next five minutes, until they reached the edge of the forest.

"Well, *pant* that was, *pant* interesting!"

"Don't I know it!"

"Uhh... guys?" said a worried Daniel. "You might want to take a look at this!"

As Alex made his way over to Daniel, he could see what he was talking about. There was what looked like a medieval village, complete with thatched roofs and wooden houses; but it was populated by ponies.

"Well isn't this just great. Well not a person of many words but I can tell you right now that I am not gonna walk in there guns blazing!"

"Me neither."

"Well, any ideas on where we can hide out?"

"Well," said Daniel. "I can barely recall seeing a stone structure to the west of where we came out of the forest." We could try looking there."

"I suppose that isn't completely suicidal..."

Their conversation was interrupted by Rhod as he walked over.

"Hey you two! I don't know how you are feeling but I'm feeling so very HAPPY! YayayayayayayayayayayayayayayYAY! YIPPEE!" said Rhod as he walked away.

"Umm... That was... what's the word... interesting! Yea, interesting." mumbled Alex, his head full of WAT.

"I think he might be high, or something like that anyway."

"Nah. I think he is just happy. I mean, what would you do if you were transported to the world of your favourite TV show? I can't help but feel a bit of envy for Rhod."

"You're kidding, you're kidding, right? We're trapped in a world of talking anthropomorphic horses, and you feel envy for him?! What the hell happened to you?!"

"Remember that Rhod can like what he likes, Dan."

"Ugh. I suppose so. Now come on, I wanna get to that castle so I can sleep. I'm exhausted."

"Me too. Squad! Get your asses over here now, we're moving out!"

"Yes sir!"

Piledriver made their way in the general direction that Daniel had said he had seen the castle, and it turned out that he was telling the truth. In front of them stood a ruined castle, with plants and shrubbery growing inside. Half of the roof was missing, but it provided enough shelter for a place to set up camp.

"Okay, lets get this place cleared out so we can set up!"

"Yes, sir!"

After walking into the clearing, and deciding to search for the noise, Rainbow Dash had finally found the creatures.

"HEY GIRLS! THERE IS SOMETHING UP HERE!"

Shouting had obviously startled the creatures, and they jumped backwards out of the tree, and immediately broke into a run. Rainbow and the rest of the girls kept chase, until one of the creatures said something inaudible, and then something happened that scared the life out of everypony that was there, except for the creatures.

It raised it's piece of equipment, and shortly after a large bout of fire and sparks exploded out of one end. This repeated 4 times. The girls were so shocked at the display that they all stopped in their tracks.

"What the?" asked a curious Twilight.

She had seen equipment before, but nothing that could have fire explode out of the end of it.

"For the record, I don't even know." said a timid Fluttershy. "It scared me, though."

"Whatever those things were, we need to alert the Princess right away!" said a concerned Rarity.

"Yeah, I don't want it to do more damage than it already has done!" said a bewildered Rainbow Dash.

"And what's even more confusin' is that they ran on two legs! Ah've never seen anything that walks on two legs other than Spike!" said Applejack.

"The word is bipedal, AJ."

"Okay, now calm yerself down!"

"Whatever they are, we need to find it quickly. Rarity, you go and find the Princess and tell her about this. The rest of us will warn the guards of what to expect." said Twilight. "Let's get going!"