Like a Bullet from a Gun

"So you are saying," asked Celestia, who had a very concerned face on at the moment. "That the creatures have weapons that we do not know of? How dangerous are these weapons?"

"It must be pretty powerful if it can scare of all the birds in a one mile radius and launch something out of it at ridiculously high speeds! It could have killed a pegasus for pony's sake!" Rarity shouted.

"Now, dear. Can you please just calm down. We need to know the exact details of what happened so we can see if we can find them. After all, we need to find them to forge friendships with them."

"Okay, I'll tell you exactly what happened."

Rarity then proceeded to tell the Princess every single little detail about what had happened. She told her about the loud noise and how Fluttershy had gone to gather her and the girls.

"Yes, I was with Fluttershy when she went to gather the Elements. Could you kindly skip to when you entered the forest, please?"

So Rarity told the Princess about how they reached the clearing and saw lots of burning objects, and Fluttershy thought that it was a living thing thing but it wasn't. And she told her about how they all heard chuckling coming from the trees, and how Rainbow Dash had found the creature and they ran off, with the Elements behind them. She then described in excruciating detail what the weapon did, looked like and sounded like.

"Hmm. This seems very dangerous. I will send more guards to Ponyville to assess the current situation, in the meanwhile I would like you to just keep an eye out. Do not approach them, I don't want to lose an Element Bearer. Don't worry your pretty little head about anything, the guards will take care of it."

"Umm... Okay, Princess" said Rarity, a little flushed.

"Now off you go now, I have important buisiness to attend to."

Alex looked down at his watch. 12:34 pm. He was standing on the roof of the old, ruined building they now resided in.

"Ugh. How did this even happen?" he muttered to himself. "I just wonder why."

He walked over to Daniel, who was looking through binoculars which he had brought with him on the flight. He was just staring contently over the hillside.

"Daniel!"

"EEK! DON'T DO THAT, ALEX!"

Alex could not help but laugh at this.

"What are you looking at anyway?"

"I'm just keeping a lookout if anything was to come our way."

"Nice thinking, smartass."

"Alex, you should go to sleep. I have this surveilance coverered. Go get some rest!"

"I guess you are right. See ya."

"G'night."

"Alex! ALEX! You have to get up, quickly! Now!"

Alex opened his eyes and found himself staring into Daniel's.

"What is going on?!" asked a befuddled Alex.

"We've got company!"

"Shit! Connor, Rhod, get up!"

"Oh my god what is it?!"

"Company!"

"Crappity crap crap!"

"Daniel, give me your binoculars."

"Yes sir!" said Daniel as he handed them over.

When Alex looked through the binoculars, he did not like what he saw. There were a dozen ponies clad in gold armour approaching their position. The platoon was made up of Unicorns and ponies with no wings or horns, there were no pegasi. All the unicorns had their horns glowing, ready to shoot a spell, and all the Earth ponies -Alex decided to call them that- had spears in their hooves, which Alex didn't even think was possible. They were approaching rapidly, so Alex decided to take the situation into his own hands.

"Please, hold your fire!" shouted Alex, his hands cupped to his mouth. "We do not want to wish harm upon you, but you must not hurt us either!"

What looked like the leader of the platoon replied.

"Please step out of the building with your forelegs up!"

"I am not surrendering to you, so I suggest just turning around and leaving!"

The platoon leader gave a nod towards a unicorn, and the unicorn fired a blast at Alex, and it only missed him by an inch.

"Why did you do that?!"

His response was that 4 four unicorns started blasting the walls of the castle, knocking out a few dark grey bricks.

"Now you are asking for it! Squad, OPEN FIRE!"

The only thing that Alex could hear was now the rattling of rifles being discharged towards the platoon of poor ponies. The ponies had no defence against bullets, so they started dropping like flies. The remaining unicorns started pelting the squad with lots of different spells. Sadly one of the unicorns actually had good aim, and a magic bolt struck Alex in the chest, sending him flying backwards. After five minutes the fighting had subsided, due to the fact that all the ponies had retreated. Connor rushed over to the slumped, bloody mess that was once a healthy Alex Casual.

The last thing Alex heard before he blacked out was:

"Yooooo Aaaaaleeex, yaaaa aaaalriiight?!"