Soldiers Among Equestria

The soldiers were walking around the castle, admiring the beautiful interiors, the garden, the ballroom, and other parts of the castle.

“I got to say, I feel like we’re in a resort in Dubai,” Evan commented.

“Yeah, this is beyond anything of I’ve ever seen before,” replied Daemon.

“This is bigger than all of Temple of Japan.”

“I can’t believe zhat she would let us walk around her castle.”

Because the castle had so many things to sightsee, the soldiers forgot about time. Luckily, one of Celestia’s personal guards found them looking at a painting.

The painting they were looking at was an portrait of an Alicorn with crimson red hair. It turns out to be a mare because of the long hair and black eyelashes.

The Alicorn was dressed in gold lining and holding what appears to be a script of something in its left hoof. And the picture was framed in find oak wood trimming with a gold plated name "Lauren Faust" on the bottom of the painting.

"What a nice painting. The artist must have a lot of talent" Evan was looking the painting.

"Who is that?" Takashi was also looking at the painting.

Daemon was looking at the name on the bottom of the painting, "I think it says Lauren Faust".

The guard interrupted them of their questions of the painting. “There you guys are!” he said grabbing the attention of the soldiers. “I’ve been looking all over for you.”

“Is something wrong, sir?” Evan asked.

“You’re late; Princess Celestia has been waiting for you for the past hour!”

“Oh shoot! I forgot about that. Come on guys!”

In Celestia’s throne room, she was getting impatient with them. Very impatient. The throne room doors opened, and in came the seven soldiers and her guard.

“Where have you been? You’re supposed to be here an hour ago,” she said sternly.

“Sorry, ma’am,” Evan said sheepisly. “We got caught up admiring the castle that time became a second priority.”

Princess Celestia look at him a while, then she returned to her kind self.

“It’s okay. One would always forget about their priority when they’re occupied.”

“Alright then, did  you wanted to tell us something important?” Evan asked her.

"I certainly do," she replied.

She levitated a chair with her magic and a table, she ordered him to sit down. Princess Celestia trotted up to him and began to sit down in front of him next to the table.

“You said that your Delta Squad Six right?” she asked.

“Yes, ma’am” Evan replied.

“How did you develop that name?”

“Our team involves six guys, except Daemon,” Evan started.  “We decided to call our team, Delta Squad Six, since there are six of us, excluding Daemon. He’s just a rookie.”

“How did you meet each other?” Celestia asked Evan.

“Oh man, that’s a long story, it started a long time ago.” Evan said as he sat down.

“I just keep this brief.”

“It all started back five years ago, I was just a lieutenant.” he started his tale. “Then Chris came in and joined me, first it was just him and I.”

Chris  nodded, this was true.

“We both did missions that only required two people. Then, two years later, Samuel and Takashi joined my team. They were both new. Samuel was still learning hand-to-hand combat, and Takashi was nervous because he didn’t speak English very well.”

“Then a year later we were given our first real mission. It was a hostage rescue mission in a hotel in Ukraine. Then later on, two more guys joined my team. Those two were Alejandro and Dimitri. They were starting out also. Later on, we became a full fighting squad, we gotten better over the years.”

“Now that we became a squad, me and my guys were decided to give ourselves a name, since we are the fourth squad in the G.D.I., and there are six of us. We called ourselves Delta Squad Six.”

“Three years later, I was promoted to Captain by the G.D.I., and my other guys were promoted to high ranking positions.”

“Finally we got a new guy, Daemon, who takes care of the headquarters, and gives us mission briefings given out of the G.D.I. He’s pretty good for a first timer.”

“Fast forward three months, and we were given a very risky mission, which was taking down a wanted person in Russia.”

“Blimey, I remembered that! That was the most dangerous mission we were ever assigned!”

“So, there you have it. That’s how Delta Squad Six was made.” Evan finished.

“My, what a good story that was. Do you guys do anything else besides your normal routine?”.

“Well, when we have free time, we do other activities such as, sports, games, and social gatherings,” he replied.

“Social gatherings? As in talking to other ponies?” she asked

“Ponies? I think your referring to your world right?”

“Yes. Are there more of your being’s from your world?”

“Tons. There are a lot of people like us.” Evan replied. “Now back to social gathering. We get together with other people and we have a conversation about social life, and our interests.”

“Do you guys have your own social gathering?” Celestia asked him while looking at the other soldiers.

“Of course” he replied. “How else are we going to get to know each other?”

“If ve didn’t introduced ourselves, then ve voundn’t know each other, and ve vould be strangers towards each other,” Dimitri ackwoledged.

“I speak no perfect English, but when we introduce each other, they help me practice my speaking.”

“Good on there mate. It’s always good for us to get to know each other’s bits ‘n bots.”

“That’s right. Y’all if don’t get to know each other how are we gonna know each other?”

“We would all go our own ways, disagreeing, fighting, it would be utter chaos.”

"Yeah,” Evan said to his guys. “I can’t imagine going on missions with having those right?”

“You all are a great team.” Celestia told Delta Sqaud Six.

“You can say that, but honestly, I prefer sqaudmates.” Evan replied

Celestia turned her head towards Evan.

“Do you guys spend your entire adult life doing missions?” she asked.

“Of course not, life’s more than just that.” Evan replied. “We're not those war crazed soldiers who grew up in warfare, we’re just your average soldiers, who fight for the good. We also get free time, and we use that time to go out and have fun.”

“You guys remind me of my protégé, Twilight Sparkle.” she chuckled.

“Really? How?” Evan asked her raising an eyebrow.

“She’s my personal student who find books to be more valuable than life.” she said to them, smiling.

“She’s must be a very hardworking student,” Evan replied.

“Yeah, especially when she’s really hitting those books,” Daemon chuckled.

“Wish I was dedicated to reading like her,” Takashi said to himself quietly.

“I told her to reside in Ponyville to make some friends.” Celestia said to them

“Ponyville?” asked Evan.

“Its small town south of here.” she replied.

“How she’s doing?” asked Evan.

“I haven’t received anything from her yet this week Evan.” she said dejectedly.

“Maybe we can give her a hand—or hoof, in your case.” Daemon said.

“Yeah, It’ll just be like the day we met each other,” Chris agreed.

Celestia came up with an idea. An opportunity for the soldiers to introduce themselves to her subjects.

“I have heard what you guys were saying; this would be a perfect opportunity for my student to associate with other beings,” she said to them.

“That’s a great Idea Princess, but won’t she get freaked out when she meets people that are completely different like us?” Evan said.

“Don’t worry, I shall write her a letter in advance telling that you guys will visit Ponyville first thing tomorrow in the morning.” she replied.

“Thank you Princess. That should ease up the anxiety a little.”

“What time should we arrive there tomorrow?” Evan asked Celestia.

“I’m thinking around 8:00 in the morning. The earlier the better.” she said.

“Alright, thank you.”

They all continued to stare at each other before Evan broke the silence.

“Okay, I think we already seen your lovely Castle ma’am.” Evan said to her.

“Ve should explore Ponyville and ze other parts of your Kingdom,” Dimitri suggested.

“Yes, we shall explore new world, and learn your customs and traditions.” Takashi agreed.

“We probably should get back to our base if we are going to explore this new world, so we can prepare for our journey,” Daemon suggested.

“Yes, we should get back to our base. It’s almost night time, and I feel like we overstayed our welcome,” Evan said.

"Very well, I shall allow you seven to return to your headquarters to rest up, you will meet with Twilight Sparkle first thing in the morning,” she smiled.

Celestia went to her chest and pulled out a scroll which is a very detailed map of Equestria.

“Here’s a map. It shows the pony who holds the map where they are. It will be very useful for exploring Equestria.”

“Thank you ma’am. This will come in handy.”

“Shouldn’t guys be on your way? You got a very important day tomorrow.”

“Yes ma’am!” they all said to her.

As the soldiers left Canterlot Castle by their helicopter, the were enjoying the sights around Equestria even when they're in high altitudes.

“Man, I haven’t seen scenery this breathtaking for a while” Evan said, “Yeah, it feels like were in a fantasy world” Chris said, “Got that right ‘mate,  fancy as the way the sun sets eh?” Samuel said looking towards the sunset, “So beautiful, like Mt. Fuji” Takashi said looking at the mountains from the front view window.

“Check out the fields y’all, well I’ll be a dicker for that land” Alejandro said looking down at the land, “Thiz reminds me of a beautiful movie I zaw… except we’re living zin it!” Dimitri said looking at the scenery.

“If there’s more than just these, I can’t wait to see what’s in store for us” Daemon said.

“I can tell we are going to enjoy this new world” Evan said to himself as he looked at his guys.

Neigh-veda State, Delta Squad Six headquaters

As the helicopter landed on the helipad, Takashi and Alejandro remembered their vehicles.

“Oh shoot” Takashi remembered,

“Whats wrong?” Evan asked Takashi

“Our cars are still in the middle of the desert”

“Oh darn it” Alejandro cursed to himself.

“Evan can you drive my car back to base” Takashi asked.

“Sure thing, you guys go ahead I will assist Takashi and Alejandro” Evan ordered

The three soldier flew the helicopter towards the deserted vehicles, Evan and Alejandro went down to test  the engine to see if it still works, luckily both of their engines worked perfectly fine.

The three soldiers drove back to the base, Evan driving Takashi’s car, Alejandro driving his muscle car, and Takashi flying the helicopter back to base because he’s the only one who knows how to fly.

It was now 8:00pm Equestrian time.

The soldiers were at the main room having their dinner, which was nothing compared to lunch they had with Princess Celestia at her castle.

It was fruit night, so they ate various kinds of fruits, along with other healthy cereals.

They were talking about the events that happened today, meeting new species that can talk, and discovering new worlds, “Well gentlemen, I got to say today was the most adventurous day we have ever encountered” Evan said to them as they all agreed.

“I got a question Evan” Takashi asked, “What is it” Evan asked him, “We are in different world , won’t we miss our place back on earth?” he said.

“Takashi, we been through missions that took us around the world, we even had to stay in one of the countries” he said to him, “We’re like one of the hundreds bases developed by the G.D.I” Evan said to Takashi.

“You got good point Evan, sorry” Takashi apologized.

“It’s okay, I understand" Evan replied back to him

"Anyways, I got a map of her kingdom, I suggest we should make a copy for each of us and leave the original here” Evan said as he pulled out the map of Equestria.

“Chris  can you make seven copies of these please?” Evan said, he nodded and took the map to the office to get it copied.

After he scanned and copied the maps, he went back to the main room to give the maps to Evan. Evan give each of his guys a copy of the map and kept the original in a safe place in the room.

“Here is a map of Equestria, it will be very helpful for exploring this new kingdom” Evan said to his guys.

It is now 10:00pm, the guys were getting ready to go to bed.

“Alright guys, let’s get some rest, we got a very important day tomorrow with Princess Celestia’s student, Twilight Sparkle, I want us to have a good impression on ourselves” Evan said.

“We’re leaving here around 7:30am tomorrow  morning, I want you guys prepared and ready to go when we leave for Ponyville ” Evan said to them.

“Yes sir!” they all replied to him as they went to their respected quarters.

“I hope everything goes alright…” Evan quietly said to himself as he went to his quarter.