All Along The Watchtower

Chapters

Welcome To The Jungle
New World
The Marine And The Ponies
Diffrent World, Same Hell

Welcome To The Jungle

Welcome To the Jungle

He sat on a crate as he looked out into the jungle, watching, waiting. He knew they were gonna come back; they didn't accept defeat so easily. They were gonna come back, just like at the fort. But he wasn't the only one that knew; everyone at the base knew that they were gonna come back, the only problem was that no one knew when. So he opted to sit there, most of the night, wathcing the jungle for anything. And that quickly became boring.

"Sir? Are you still out here? You should really get some sleep."

He looked to his right and saw one of the newly transfered marines(a.k.a New blood), comming towards him with a beer can in his hand.

"Private, how long have you been here?" He said casually.

"Uh, about two weeks, sir." The private replied.

He turned to fully face the private, and stared him directly into the eyes.

"You better prepare yourself kid, you're on a one-way-trip to hell, now you're gonna take watch for the rest of the night."

The private frowned at this but didn't say anything, as he walked to the mounted M-60.

He stood up, stretched, and began walking back to his bunk. As he did so, He looked around at the base, which had almost been completely destroyed by the combined forces of the North Vietnamese Army(NVA) and the Vietcong(VC). It was a miracle that they were able to hold the base, but no one knew how they had gotten to the base without anyone noticing.

The base wasn't very big: around the size of a football field, but it had what a base needed. Or at least, it used to. Now, it was all destroyed.

"Hey, Alex."

He turned around to see who disturbed his thoughts.

"Hello, Carl, how are you holding up?" he said to the man infront of him.

Carl Wilhelm was from the Philippines. He was about the same height as Alex, and also the same built. He had black, short hair, and brown eyes with a scar that went verticaly down his left eye. He was a sharpshooter, and was armed with an M40 sniper rifle.

"Pretty good, but i'm kinda worried about you."

Alex raised an eyebrow. "Why is that?"

"Look, ever since the attack you've been restless. You need to get some sleep."

Alex sighed and looked at the ground. "I know," He looked to his right, looking at the jungle. " but i can't help but feel that they're out there, right now, wathcing us,"

Carl nodded and looked at the jungle himself. "I know, i know." They stood there for awhile, just looking at the jungle, looking for anything out of place.

"Hey, Carl?" Alex said.

"Yeah?" Carl responded.

"Do you remember The Valley of Fire?"

Carl shivered and looked Alex in the eyes. "I dont think anyone can ever forget something like that,"

"Yeah," Alex looked at his hands, and for a second, he could have swore that his hands were covered in blood. "That shit will haunt me for the rest of my fucking life," He looked back to Carl. "I'm gonna go sleep now."

"Later, Alex," Carl pointed a finger at Alex " but if i find out that you didn't sleep, you're gonna get arm pit sweat,"

Alex chuckled at this. "Alright, goodnight."

Alex made his way back to the place he had come to call home: a little room that had been dug out to become a small space just big enough for a desk, a bed, and a locker. He walked in and began removing his uniform for the night, placing it on the chair by the desk, and placing his M-16 by the side of his bed. When he was down to his t-shirt and underwear, he took a little hand mirror from the upper drawer in his desk, and looked at himself.

Alex was a six foot (1.82m) tall man with an average build, and short, messy, dark brown hair, and blue eyes with a scar that went diagonally down his right eye, and another scar that went horizontaly across his left cheek.

He put the mirrior back into the drawer and grapped a little picture that was on his desk. It was of three marines, all of them smilling; rifles raised above their heads, as they stood on top of a destroyed Vietcong bunker. The upper parts of their heads were mostly obscured by their helmets. He smiled a little. Ah yes, back when we were the new blood. he thought.

He put the picture back on the desk and went to his bed to sleep.

* * *

Early the next morning, Alex and the rest off his teammates were gathered at the command bunker, being briefed of the situation.

The commander paced back and forth, looking at all of them one by one.

"Alright, listen up ladies. We have come to the conclucion that the Vietcong has multiple hidden weapons, and munitions stashed somewhere. We need to find them, and destroy them. You will be given a map that shows your patrol route. You all know what to do when you find those weapons. Sergeant Merserver, you're gonna be leading the fireteam on this patrol," his eyes narrowed and his tone became much colder. "and if you see any VC, you are cleared hot. Dismissed."

After the commander finished up, everyone went to prepare. Alex went to the munitions shed by the firing range and began loading up on ammonition and grenades. He had his standard loadout: his M-16, his Colt .45, his Ka-Bar, several grenades, a black bandana, and a zippo lighter with the insignia of the 1st Marine Division. When he was done he went to the Bell UH-1 helicopter where the rest of his team were waiting. He got on and soon they were in the air.

* * *

"Alright boys, this is your stop. Stay safe down there," The pilot said to them.

They had reached the drop off point: a little clearing in the dense jungle.

They all got out of the huey, and formed on Sergeant Merserver

Sergeant Merserver was a tall, heavily built man, who thought nothing could touch him; he was armed with an M-60

"Alright." Sergeant Merserver said, as he pulled out a map from one of his pockets. "This is where we are," he pointed to a spot with a red circle. "And this is where we are patroling." He dragged his finger across the red line on the map to another red circle, he looked at the three marines. "Any questions? No? Alright, lets move, we're gonna fuck up Charlies party plans," Merserver said, with an evil grin.

There was another marines with them. A newly transfered marine who had only been in Vietnam for a week. His name was Jimmy Gaines. Jimmy was a little smaller than Alex, and looked like he was constantly shaking. He was the new corpsman on the team, and was armed with an Car-15. Carl was also with them, he was looking around at the jungle, looking for any signs of movement.

With everyone ready, they began their long walk through the jungles of Vietnam.

* * *

They had been walking for roughly an hour with nothing happening, besides a few monkeys fighting over a banana.

"Hey, Alex?"

Alex looked to the source of the voise, finding it to be Carl. "What is it?" he responded.

"Do you hear that?"

Alex looked around, trying to hear something.

"No," he said eventually, "i dont,"

"Right," said Carl, "it's quiet, it shouldn't be this quiet, and it's been one hour since we began this patrol, and we haven't even hit a punji trap,"

"That's just fine with me." said Gaines.

Sergent Merserver raised his hand. "Everyone get down,"

The four marines crouched down and stayed completely still.

"I think there might be some VC up ahead. Wilhelm, get up here," said Sergent Merserver.

Carl quickly made his way to Merserver's position and crouched down.

Sergent Merserver pointed to a little Clearing in the jungle. "Do you see anything?"

Carl looked through the scope of his rifle. "Yeah, looks to be a small camp, dosen't look like anyone is home, though,"

"Alright, Conllin, Gaines, get up here," said Merserver

Alex and Gaines quickly made their way to Merserver and Carl.

When they were there, Merserver pointed to the camp. "Alright, here's what we're gonna do: me, Conllin and Gaines are gonna scope out the camp, Wilhelm," he pointed a finger at Carl, "you provide sniper cover, alright, everyone ready?"

"Ready," Carl said.

"Let's do this," Alex said, raising his rifle.

"Do we have to? I mean, can't we like, wait and see what happens?" Gaines asked.

"Yes we fucking do, and if you don't want to, i'll rip your dick off and feed it to a monkey, then catch that monkey, and make a hotdog out of it ,and then force feed it to some random gook, and watch as they choke on a dick-monkey hotdog." as sergent Merserver finished, everyone stared at him.

"What?" asked Merserver.

There was an awkward silence for several seconds before Carl spoke up. "Wow."

Gaines began to chuckle. "yeah, real funny sarge, heh-heh."

"I wasn't kidding,"

Gaines smile disappeared. "Uh, what?"

"It's true, he'll really do it." Carl spoke, much to the dismay of Gaines.

"Are you guys done fuckin' around? If you are, then lets fucking move it," Alex spoke, getting everyones attention.

"Right, Conllin, Gaines, lets go," said Sergent Merserver

The three men slowly made their way to the camp, which consisted of three tents that looked like they were made out of bamboo. When they reached it, they began their search.

"Remember, we're looking for any clues of VC activity. Look for maps, notes, letters, anything." spoke Merserver.

Alex made his way to one of the bamboo tents, in the tent were a few crates and a map. He looked over the map, it had several spots with red rings around it, there were also words on the map, but sadly, they were in vietnamese.

He then went to the crates. He craked open the lid of the first one with his Ka-Bar, and peeked inside. What he found made him smile beneath his bandana. We hit the motherload.

The crate was full of russian AK-47's. He saw more crates behind the one he opened, so he began moving it.

Click

He froze. He knew that sound, he'd heard it before, he could recognize it anywhere.

"GRENADE!" Alex shouted as he ran out of the tent, which then exploded seconds later, knocking him to the ground.

"Giết lợn mỹ!" he heard someone yell, as he got to his feet and raised his rifle.

"Ambush! Everyone get down!" Sergent Merserver shouted, as he began firing his M-60 at anything that moved.

Gaines on the other hand, looked like he'd wet himself. He was clutching his rifle close to his chest, and was trying to make himself as small as possible.

Several Vietcong soldiers came running out of the jungle, where they were cut down by Merserver. Alex began firing from his prone position, looking for muzzle flashes, but other than that, he just fired away.

"Chết mỹ cặn bã!" He looked to his left, and saw a VC Running towards him with an SKS rifle; the bayonet extended.

Alex didn't have enough time to aim his rifle, but he didn't need to as a 7.62 round connected with the VC's eye, blasting blood and brain matter on the ground as he fell. Alex knew where that round came from. Thanks Carl.

Carl was too busy picking of VC's, to notice the man sneaking up behind him with a machete.

The VC were losing more and more men, but it seemed like, everytime one died, two more would appear, and they had RPG's.

"Fuck! RPG!" shouted Merserver, getting everyone's attention.

Alex eyes widened in shock. "Run! Get out here!" he shouted as he got up, just in time too, as the rockets connected with the spot where he had laid. but he didn't stop, no, he just kept running as he could feel the dirt raining on him.

Fueled by adrenalin, he kept running as he could hear the bullets flying around his head. He took cover behind a tree and took aim at where he just came from. He waited, but nothing came, until a bullet connected with the side of the tree he was hiding behind. He turned to his left, seeing a VC coming at him with an AK-47.

He fired his rifle at the VC just as he jumped at Alex. Alex thought he could relax for a moment.

"We kill you, G.I!" Alex looked to his right, and saw a VC shouting and runining towards him. The strange thing was, that he didn't have gun, but Alex didn't think about that when he put three rounds in his chest. But then something dropped out of his hand, which began rolling towards Alex, to which he just stared until his mind registered what it was:

a grenade with the pin pulled.

He turned to run away but didn't get very far before the grenade exploded and sent him flying through the air, his helmet flew off, as his head connected with a rock.

He began to feel queasy as he felt a hand to his head, and when he looked at it, he saw blood. He began looking around for his helmet, finding it a few feet away from him. He began to crawl towards it, growing more and more queasy the farther he went. When he reached it, he put it on, and laid on his back. He tried to move but his body refused to listen, so he just laid there, and listened to the sounds of rifles and explosions in the distance.

As he looked skyward, he began to see a white light, that gradually got brighter.

Is this it? Is this how i'm gonna go? he thought.

As the light got brighter and more intense, he began to feel numbness in his entire body. When his vision was filled with nothing but white, he heard what sounded like thunder. Then everything went black.

End of chapter.

New World

New World

Alex stood in a completely white place. Everywhere he looked, there was white.

What is this place? Am i dead? Is this hell? he thought, as he looked around.

Seeing he wasn't going to get answers by standing still, he began walking. He didn't know where he was gonna go, but he certainly wasn't going to stand still. As he continued to walk, he began thinking.

Is this my eternal punishment? Am i going to wander around here forever? Did i make that one gooks death, bloody enough?

He suddenly heard a noise behind him, and when he turned around, he saw something that he did not expect.

A man with black hair, a headbandana, and an M-60 stared back at him.

"S-sergent Ramirez?" Alex stammered.

The man stared at Alex for a few seconds, before opening his mouth. "It's not your time yet marine. Get back into action." he spoke in a deep, gruff voise.

As he finished, he began fading away into nothing.

"Wait! Sergent Ramirez!" Alex shouted.

Alex then felt a weird, tingling sensation all over his body, and as he looked down at himself, he saw himself begining to fade away as well.

He began to hyperventilate as he saw his body disappear in front of him, untill he was completely gone.

* * *

Alex awoke with a sharp intake of breath, and immediately began feeling a hand on his body, to make sure everything was there.

"it's still there... oh shit... oh fuck me." he spoke, as he fell backwards; looking at the sky, trying to catch his breath.

okay, think Alex, think. What the fuck just happened? he lifted his head to see that he appeared to be laying in a crater.

"Holy shit, what the hell happened here? Did i do this?" he said, as he got to his feet, and walked to the top of the crater. He reached the top, and saw that he appeared to be in a sort of clearing, in the middle of a forest, and there was a little pond a few feet to his right.

He walked over to the pond, removed his bandana, and looked at himself in the water.

There were some dirt on his face, which he washed away with water. He felt thirsty, so he took out his canteen. He unscrewed the lid and brought it to his mouth. Nothing came.

Empty. What kind of sick joke is this? he thought

He looked at the canteen, then at the pond, then back at the canteen, and back to the pond.

"Ah screw it." he muttered to himself, as he filled the canteen with pond water. When the canteen was full, he put it on the ground, and took out a little bottle from one of his pockets. He popped open the lid, and took out a globaline tablet(*) and put it in the canteen.

He then stood up, and a thought hit him.

"My gear!"

He looked and felt a hand around his body; he relaxed when he found he had all his gear. At least i still got my stuff.

He put the bandana back on his face, and looked around a little more, until he saw a mountain with a castle on the side.

Wait. What? He did a double take, and sure enough, there was a castle on the side of the mountain. He looked at it for awhile, until he came to a conclusion.

"Either i'm beginning to hallucinate, or the people who built that were high as shit," it was the only conclusion he could come up with that made any sense. For him that is.

They don't have castles on the side of mountains in Vietnam, do they? Ahh, might as well get moving. he thought.

He checked his eqipment one more time, and with his rifle ready, he began to walk in the direction of the mountain. Until he stepped on something that made a *squish* noise.

"Oh no," he said "please god no," he looked at the underside of his boot and yep... he stepped in something that did not look nice, or smelled nice for that matter.

Five minutes and i already fucking hate this place. he thought as he tried to wipe it off in the grass. When it looked like it had finally gotten off, he began walking again.

Ponyville. 10 minutes earlier

Pinkie Pie happily skipped through the streets of Ponyville, waiving and smilling at everypony, as she went her way.

"Hello, Pinkie Pie!"

Pinkie Pie stopped and looked behind her, and smiled.

"Heya, Twilight," Pinkie said to her friend, "whatcha doin'?"

"Well, i was just on my way to see Fluttershy," said Twilight, "she said she had got a new tea recipe, and she wanted me too try it."

"Oh, that sounds like fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun..." Pinkie began, but then she started shaking uncontrollably.

"Pinkie? Whats the matter?" Twilight asked, worriedly.

"Iiiiiiiiiiiiiit iiiiiiiiiiissssss aaaaaa dooooooosssssseeeey," said Pinkie, as she shock, and then it stopped.

"Well, would you look at that, it stopped." Pinkie said, her trademark smile back on her face.

"Pinkie, what did your Pinkie sense predict now?" Twilight asked.

"I don't know," said Pinkie, "but whatever it is, it's gonna be a real dosey, something that nopony, not even the princesses, could ever have imgagined would happen, is about to happen," as Pinkie spoke, he neck began stretching more and more, until she towered over Twilight, and when she was done speaking, her neck returned to normal.

"Oh-kay," Twilight said, "but it dosen't look like anything is goi-" Twilight was interrupted by lightning in the distance, and when she looked, her jaw dropped.

A large storm appeared to be brewing over the Everfree forest, with lightning going everywhere.

Twilight looked on, amazed by the phenomenon, until a large lightning bolt, struck somewhere in the forest and suddenly, her vision was filled with white.

A few seconds later, it was over. Twilight's vision returned, and she began looking around, the sky had returned to normal, as if nothing had happened. She looked at Pinkie Pie.

"Pinkie, did you see that?" Twilight asked.

"Nope." Pinkie responded with a smile

"What?" Twilight deadpanned, "how could you not have seen that?" Twilight waved a hoof in the air for emphasis.

"Silly, how could i have seen it if i was blinded?" Pinkie said.

Twilight let out a frustrated sigh. "Pinkie, we need to get the rest of the girls and find out what that was,"

"Okei, dokei, lokei, let's go get the rest of the girls, and make friends with an alien," Pinkie said with a large smile.

Twilight gave her a confused look. "What makes you think there's going to be aliens?"

"Who says there coulnd't be aliens?" Pinkie said matter of factly.

"Let's just get the girls," Twilight said, as she began walking to Rarity's, with Pinkie in tow.

* * *

I hate my life.

Alex had been walking for around half an hour, and the entire time, he kept feeling like he was being watched.

When i find civilization, i'm going to get me some boom-boom.(1)

*Squeak*

He stopped, and looked around.The fuck was that?

*Chirp*

Sounds like it's coming from over there, Alex thought, as he began making his way past some bushes, which lead to a little clearing, with a little black form laying in the middle of the clearing.

The hell? Alex thought, as he slowly made his way to the black form, and when he reached it, his eyes went wide.

It was a little black creature, with a horn coming out of it's forehead, and it had holes in its legs, plus some nasty looking fangs, and what looked like bug-wings which also had holes. It kinda looked like what would happen if a horse did it with a bug, and this was the ugly child.

"What the fuck are you?" Alex asked out loud.

The creature must have heard him, because it opened its eyes and looked at him. It scanned Alex with its eyes, just like he had scanned it. Alex eyes began going to its right back leg, where he saw a nasty little wound.

Uhh, that dosen't look nice. he thought, as he knelt down.

The creature tried to shuffle away, but stopped as it got a pained expression on its face.

"Hey relax," Alex said, as he began moving a hand towards its head, "i'm not gonna hurt you."

It stared at his hand, but began relaxing a little as he began rubbing its head.

"There, see? I'm not gonna hurt you, now let's see here," he said, as he leaned in to get a better look.

Uhh, looks like i'm gonna need to use some bandages.

He looked back to the creature's head, which he had been rubbing the entire time, to see that it had its eyes closed, and wore a little smile. Alright. let's see if i can do someth- the fuh?

When he looked at the wound again,he saw that the wound had begun healing and was getting smaller and smaller by the second, until it was completely gone.

"What the fuh?" Alex said, as he looked back at the creature to see that it began to stand up. When it stod up fully, it looked at him with its blue eyes, and he looked back with confusion in his eyes.

They looked at eachother like that for a few seconds, until a loud roar made Alex look to the right. He stood up and raised his rifle.

He could fell the ground trembling, as a large lion looking thing came out of the forest, roaring as it ran at him.

"Eat lead, BITCH!" Alex shouted as he pulled the trigger.

*BANG* *BANG* *BANG*

The lion thing gripped its chest and roared in pain, as blood came pouring out of the holes in its chest. It looked at him: pain and anger in its eyes.

Alex took the opportunity and studied it a little, seeing that it had bat-like wings, and a scorpion tail.

It opened its mouth, and let out an earsplitting roar.

"Just shut up and die already!" Alex shouted as he pulled the trigger again.

Another loud bang could be heard, as the lion thing slumped to the ground; a hole in its forehead.

Alex lowered his rifle. "That takes care of that. You okay little gu-" Alex began, but stopped when he saw that the little black creature was gone.

"Motherfucker pussied out on me." Alex said as he began walking in the direction of the mountain again

* * *

"So, why exactly are we here?" Rainbow Dash said, as she hovered in the air inside the Golden Oaks Library.

"Aliens!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed.

"Pinkie, how many times do i have to tell you? It is not aliens." Twilight said to her pink friend.

"Then what was it Twilight?" Applejack asked, " I've never seen anythin' like it."

All the element bearers where gathered in the library.

"That's what we're going to find out, i send a letter to Princess Celestia, she should reply any second now."

Not even a second later, did Spike burb out a scroll with the royal insignia.

Twilight immediately grabbed it with her magic, and tore of the binding and began reading.

Twilight's face went from excited, to confused, then to frustrated.

"What does it say Twilight?" Rarity asked.

"It says that we're not to do anything, and that the guard will take care of this," Twilight said sounding more and more frustrated. She looked at her friends. "Why does the guard get to take care of this? They'll probably just ruin it all!" Twilight looked like she was about to explode. "Why am i not allowed to see the possibility of aliens!" Twilight shouted, and stomped her hooves.

Applejack put a hoof on Twilight's shoulder. "Relax sugarcube, just relax."

"Okay," Twilight said, as she took a deep breath. "okay, i'm fine, i'm fine, it's just," Twilight looked out the window. "I can't help but feel that that storm brought something with it."

"Well whatever it is, i'm sure we can take it," Rainbow said, while punching the air.

"What if it's nice?" Fluttershy spoke up.

"Girls!" Twiligth semi-shouted. "We don't even know if anything did come with it for sure," she looked out the window again. "Maybe we should just wait and see.

End Of Chapter

(*) A tablet that was given to soldiers/marines in the Vietnam war, that would purify the water.

(1) Slang for sex.

The Marine And The Ponies

The Marine and The Ponies

A castle on the side of a mountain, a little black thing that looks like a cross between a mini-horse and a bug, and let's not forget about the big lion thing with bat wings and a fucking scorpion tail. Yep, i'm 90 percent sure that this isn't Vietnam.

The rest of his walk had been uneventful, except for some howling, but it was pretty far away. It almost felt as if the rest of the creatures living in this forest were trying to avoid him

As Alex walked, he began to think back to that white place: why did it happen? Why was he there, but most of all; why was Sergent Ramirez there?

Thoughts of Sergent Ramirez began to enter his mind, and he began to think back. Back to when he was a New Blood.

Somewhere over South Vietnam

January 8. 1967

0730 hours

(A little something to set the mood if you want.)

The helicopters were flying over the jungle; carrying fresh, new troops. On one of those choppers, were three men, where one of them was looking down at the jungle as they flew by.

"If you keep leaning like that, you're gonna fall out,"

The man leaned back in his seat and looked at the man to his left. He pointed a finger at the jungle as he spoke.

"Those Vietcong guys, they could be down there right now watching us, and we wouldn't know."

"Relax, they don't have the balls to fire at us, and besides, i got this," he lifted up an M-40 sniper rifle. "I'm gonna pop 'em before they get the chance, right Alex?" He looked back at the man next to him.

"Right, Carl." Alex responded.

"So y'all think ya can just go in, guns blazin', and kick some ass?" The helicopter was filled with laughter. "Let me tell ya, if you do that, then y'all are gonna get shot quicker then a coyote trespassing on mah farm,"

Both Alex and Carl looked at the man sitting in front of them.

"Oh yeah?" Alex said, "And what do you know about 'Nam?"

The man shifted a little. "Well, ah don't now anythin' 'bout it personally, but mah brother was in Vietnam back in '65."

This caught Alex and Carl's attention. "Your brother was in 'Nam?" Alex asked.

The man nodded.

"So, what, was he at La Drang, or something?" Carl asked.

"Actually, he was," the man responded.

Now he definitely had their attention. "So, what did he tell you?" Alex asked.

"Well," the man began, "He told me that if ah ever were to get drafted, that i should be extremely carefull about everythin', and that anything could be booby trapped,"

Carl snickered a little.

"What's so funny?" the man asked

"I just can't get over that name." Carl said, still snickering.

"Right. Mah brother also said that the Vietcong could pretend to be civilians, and that you should always keep your finger on the trigger, both in the jungle, and the villages." the man spoke.

"Alright boys, we're going to reach the base in five, so get your shit together." the pilot said.

"Looks like we're about to reach our destination," the man said, "y'all ready for this?"

"I hope so, Applejack. I hope so." Alex said to the man.

Equestria

The Everfree Forest

Present time

Alex train of thought was interrupted, as he began to her the loud chirping of birds, next to his head. He looked at the birds, and they looked back at him, probably confused and cautious, but also curious about him.

Alex looked forward, and saw that he had gotten to the edge of the forest, and was near what looked like an orchard of somekind. He walked to the orchard and saw that it was apples that grew on the trees.

He walked over to one of the trees, slung his rifle over his back, and he reached up and picked one. He just looked at it.

It's been way too long since i last had an apple.

He turned it around in his hand, taking in how red and delicious it looked. He just wanted to take a big bite out of it.

*Gasp*

He heard a gasp and looked to his left and saw something that made him go wide eyed. It looked like a mini-horse, kinda like the black creature from the forest. It had orange looking fur, a blonde mane and tail that was done up in a ponytail, and it had green eyes, and was wearing a stetson. And it was looking at him, as if he were Godzilla.

They both stared at each other like that, for several seconds, before the mini-horse turned tail and ran away. Alex stared after it for awhile.

First a bug-horse, then a lion fuck, and now a mini-horse wearing a cowboy hat? What's next? A dragon? he thought.

He looked at where it ran a little more, before a thought hit him. Maybe it's running back to its owners, might as well go after it. He then began to walk in the direction that the mini-horse went; taking off his bandana as he did, and took a bite of the apple. Oh my god, this is delicious. he thought.

unbeknownst to him, a pair of blue eyes were looking at him from behind one of the trees.

* * *

Applejack had never run as fast in her life as she did now. She needed to tell her friends about what she just saw, about that thing. What was that thing anyway, she had never seen anything like it. It was so big and the way it looked at her.

Applejack sped through the streets of Ponyville, avoiding obstacles and ponies, as she ran for the library. When she reached the library, she burst through the door, startling Twilight, who was reading a book.

"Twilight *gasp* big *inhale* green," Applejack tried to talk but she was to exhausted.

"Applejack! Calm down," Twilight said, as she put a hoof on her friends shoulder.

Applejack began to get her breath back, and started to relax.

"You okay, Applejack?" Twilight asked her friend.

Applejack nodded. "Okay, now tell me what's wrong." Twilight said.

Applejack took a deep breath. "Okay, ah was walking through the orchard to get some fresh air, when ah saw this thing.

Twilight gave Applejack a confused look. "What do you mean? What thing?"

Applejack looked Twilight in the eyes. "A-ah don't know Twilight, it was big, really big, and it stood up on its hind legs like a diamond dog, but it didn't have a tail for support, and it was wearing all this green clothin'," Applejack shivered a little. "And those eyes, Twi, there were somethin' about its eyes. As if it could kill me by just looking at me. Twilight?"

"Yes Applejack?" Twilight asked, eager to her more.

"Do you-do you think that thing might have been brought here by that storm?" Applejack asked her friend.

Twilight was processing the information she was just given. Could it be? A being was brought here with that storm? She looked at her friend. Applejack's all shaken up, maybe we should look into this.

"Okay Applejack let's go get the others, and see what we can do," Twilight said, as she headed for the door.

"What if it's dangerous?" Applejack asked, walking after Twilight out of the library.

"Don't worry, Applejack, let's first get the others, then we'll come up with something." Twilight said.

"Okay, alright." Applejack said uneasily.

Twilight looked worried at her friend to see her looking at the ground as they walked, occasionally giving a little shiver.

"Applejack? Is something wrong?" Twilight asked. She was worried about her friend.

"Huh? Wha? Oh, it's nothin." Applejack went back to staring at the ground.

Twilight stopped dead in her tracks; Applejack looked back at her, confused.

"Applejack, tell me what's wrong," she walked up, and put a hoof on her friend. "Please."

Applejack looked at her, opening her mouth, before closing it again. She finally found her voise. "It was those eyes Twi', ah don't know what it was, but those eyes had somethin' in 'em. Somethin' horrible,"

Applejack looked at the ground, before looking back at Twilight. "What should we do Twi'?"

"Like i said, we need to get the other girls, so let's hurry up," Twilight then began to gallop to her destination, Applejack running close behind, as a thought came to Twilight. Let's just hope this thing isn't dangerous. Whatever it is.

* * *

Whoever planted these trees needs to die. Alex thought as he walked past tree after tree. The orchard was huge, and he had picked another apple to munch on.

I hope the owner won't be too pissed about me, eating their apples. Maybe i could pay them back somehow. He walked past a tree, and then he tripped, and got a face full of dirt. He lifted his head, spitting out dirt as he looked at his feet to see that he tripped over a stump. I take it back, fuck the owner.

He stood up, dusted himself off and picked up his apple, only find that it was covered in dirt. He sighed as he dropped the apple on the ground, and put his bandana back on his face.

When he looked up, he saw that he had reached the exit of the tree labyrinth. "About fucking time." He said to himself, as he walked out of the orchard and looked around.

Some distance away from him, was a red barn, and behind that, a field of carrots. He walked to a door on the side of the barn, and gave it three knocks. He waited for an answer, but nothing came.

Fucking great, now what do i do?

"There it is!" He whipped around to see who shouted, and found more of the mini-horses standing at the entrence to the farm. There were six in total, he couldn't make out their features from this distance, but he did see their colors: one was purple, another one was white; a third was yellow, and a fourth was pink; a fifth was cyan blue, and he recognized the orange one. They began running towards him, so he ran aswell; he ran for the orchard, and in between the trees.

"Hey! Get back here!" He heard someone shout, and then he was tackled to the ground.

"I got you now!" He was laying on his stomach, and was about to turn and punch whoever tackled him, when he saw a green glint from in between the trees, and suddenly, the one who had held him down was thrown off. He got up and began running until he reached the forest again. He entered and began running in a random dirrection. He then jumped behind a few bushes, took out his rifle, and waited.

He didn't have to wait long before he could hear them closing in, and he began to hear voices.

"Dang it, where could it have run off to!" He heard a womans voice speak. "How could i have lost it? I had it pinned for Celestia's sake!" The voice sounded very pissed.

"Relax, Rainbow, it couldn't have gotten far, we just need to keep looking," He heard another womans voice speak up.

"What if it was just scared?" He heard a quiet voice speak up.

"I doubt that Fluttershy," He heard the pissed voice say. "when i get my hooves on that thing, i'm really gonna let i have it,"

Fluttershy? Rainbow? The hell kind of names are those? And did she say hooves? Those horses cam't be talking, can they? he thought I better get out of here, pronto. He quietly sneaked away from the voices.

*Snap*

Oh no. He looked down and saw that he stepped on a branch.

"Hey, did you guys hear that? Sounds like it came from over there," The pissed voice spoke.

Oh hell no. He got into a full on sprint, but didn't get very far before he was tackled from the side into some bushes. He was about to struggle when he saw who tackled him; it was the little black creature from the clearing. He heard the mini-horses run past the bush.

"Come on! This way! It won't get away this time!" He heard them shout,

When it sounded like they were gone, the black creature looked down from on top of him, and he pointed a finger at it.

"You pussied out on me."

End of Chapter

Diffrent World, Same Hell

Diffrent World, Same Hell

"Just what the hell are you?" Alex said confused, as the little black creature walked beside him.

It had been a little while since they got away from the mini-horses, and they had just wandered around a bit. They saw a few woodland critters running around, and they passed a bunch of wierd looking blue flowers.

The black creature turned its head and looked at him, as it continued to walk beside him.

"You don't talk much, do ya?" He said, but it just continued to stare at him.

"Alright," he stopped dead in his tracks. The black creature turned around and looked at him. "Why did you help me?" He asked with a raised eyebrow. The creature walked up to him, it was around the same height as his stomach, where it began nuzzling his leg.

Alex was now fully confused. "Oh-kay. You nuzzling my leg doesn't exactly explain why you helped me." He said, but it didn't look like it cared.

What is up with this thing? Okay think Alex, Think. He placed his hands on the sides of his helmet, as he began pacing in a circle.

"Think, What was the last thing i did? We were out on patrol; we found some huts, and were ambushed by VC and-- Oh shit!" He shouted as a thought hit him.

"My team! My friends! My guys! My bros! What happened to them? Are they alright?" He said in a panicked voice. He was getting more and more worried. The little black creature just sat on its rump as it looked at him. It began to annoy him, how it just sat there, not caring at all that he was freaking out.

"And you!" Alex turned, pointing a finger at the little black creature. "What the fuck is your deal, huh?" He began to walk towards it, his worry turning to anger. "You just fucking sit there, not giving a fuck about anything. Why the fuck don't you just go back to where you came from?!" He was now standing over the little black creature, who looked up at him with fear in its eyes.

He turned his back to the creature and walked around in circles again, but this time, he was swearing and saying mean stuff about the creatures mom.

"Fuck this. Man fuck this shit! Where the fuck am i! What the hell is all this?!" He looked skyward, took a deep breath...

* * *

"It has to be around here," Twilight said to her friends. She was frustrated that the alien had gotten away. Her friends were equally frustrated, except for Pinkie Pie; she was just skipping and smiling like always.

"I still can't belive it got away from me." Rainbow Dash said, while she hovered over her friends. Her pride was a little wounded from knowing she could have caught the alien.

"Oh don't worry, Dashie," Pinkie said, smiling at her friend. "I'm sure we can find him around here somewhere."

"How do you know it's a he?" Rainbow asked he friend.

"I don't!" Pinkie said happily. "I'm just guessing."

Applejack came into the conversation, "Ah just hope we can find it and get outta here. Ah wanna--"

"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!"

They all froze at what sounded like somepony yelling. They all looked around confused and on edge.

Fluttershy had taken to hide between Raritys legs, and the others were looking in every direction.

"What was that?" Rainbow Dash said, while she hovered over her friends.

"It sounded like somepony shouting," Twilight said to her friend. "but there's no reason for anypony to be out here. Unless..."

"Unless it's Greeney!" Pinkie said enthusiastically, which caused her friends to look at her with confused faces.

"Um, Pinkie pie?"

"Yeah, Fluttershy?" Pinkie said to her shy friend.

"Um, who's Greeney?" Fluttershy asked the question everypony, except Pinkie, had on their mind.

"Well, since the alien wore green clothes, i thought we should name it, Greeney." Pinkie said, matter of factly.

"Pinkie Pie, you can't just--" Twilight never got finish her sentence as three loud bangs could be heard.

"Oh, i got you now," Rainbow said, then she flew off in the direction of the sound

"Rainbow! Wait!" Rainbows friends shouted after her, but she was too far away to hear them.

"C'mon girls, lets get after her!" Twilight said to her friends, as she began running in the direction Rainbow went. Not a second later, her friends were with her in tailing Rainbow Dash.

* * *

Alex stood with his pistol in the air, its barrel smoking a little. Alex got more and more frustrated up to the point where he took out his pistol and fired three rounds into the air. He began to calm down.

"Okay," Alex let his arm with gun fall to his side. "okay, i'm calm. I am calm." He put the gun back in its holster and turned around to look at the creature. "I am calm, i just needed to get that, that's all." The creature looked at him catiously, as if he would explode.

"Look, it's all this shit that's going, you know?" He touched a hand to his face, noticing he was still wearing his bandana. "I don't know any of this, it's just so messed up. I mean i saw sergent Ramirez, and that is fucked up for two reasons: one--"

"There you are!"

He looked up into the air, and saw the cyan mini-horse.

Is that fucker flying? Are those wings? He looked back to the black creature, only to find it gone. Again? Really?

He was about to turn and run when he had a thought.

Ah, what's the point?. He then looked around a little, until he spotted a nice sizable rock. He walked over to it, took out his rifle in his right hand, sat down, and looked at the ground.

He heard the mini-horse landing, and begin walking towards him.

"You're not gonna get away from me now," he heard it say, but he didn't care.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a picture, his head still facing the ground as he looked. It was of three marines with their rifles raised above their heads.

"You think you can get away from the fastest-flyer in Equestria?"

As he looked at the picture, a few images entered his mind.

"Incoming!"

"Fire in the hole!"

"Be careful, there may be booby traps,"

"Stand up and fight, marine!"

"Don't worry, man, we'll get outta here."

"Rainbow Dash! What are you--*gasp*"

"Kill that VC prick,"

"Guys, i got it!"

"But he surrendered. We can't kill prisoners,"

"Be careful, darling, that thing could be dangerous,"

"I don't care, they're all animals, *bang*

"Don't worry i can take it, i can take anything,"

When Alex heard this, he began to chuckle.

"What's it doing?"

"I-i think it's chuckling."

"Hey, whats so funny, huh?"

Alex slowly lifted his head to find that the six mini-horses were standing in front of him, and that the cyan one was almost up in his face.

They all recoiled slightly when he looked up.

"You think you're tough?" They all gasped when the words left his mouth, wich was stil covered by the bandana. "Do you think you're tough enough for 'Nam? Do you? Do you?"

They all stared at him, mouths wide open, except for the pink one, it looked at him with bright blue eyes and a large smile that creeped him out. He looked the cyan one directly in the eyes.

"I-i... you..." it stammered, then the pink one stepped forward and offered her leg. "Hi, Greeney, my name is Pinkie Pie." it said. Alex turned to look at it. "Greeney?" He said.

"Yeah, since i don't know your real name, i decided to call you Greeney!" She said with a smile.

Alex pointed a finger at her. "Don't ever call me that again, you pink asshole,"

"What does a donkey have to do with this?" She asked confused, "and what hole?"

Alex was about to insult her mother, when the purple horse intervened. "You can talk! Oh, this is great!" The purple one pulled out a pen and notepad from nowhere, and began scribbling notes and asking questions."What's your species called? Where are you from? Do you have magic? Do you like books?"

Alex was about to tell her to shut up when the white horse with wierd wavy hair interrupted the purple ones scrippling. "Darling, i think we should introduce ourselves to this," she looked Alex over for a momment, searching for the right word. "this gentlefellow." She said a little uneasily, then she stepped forward, extended her right foreleg. "I am Rarity, and i must say those are some, eh, 'interesting' clothes you have there,"

Alex looked at her hoof, then bumbed it with his left hand. Rarity shifted a little uneasily. "Well, that was--" She was interrupted by Twilight. "Hi! My name is Twilight Sparkle!" She said with her hoof extended and a grand smile.

"Twilight Sparkle?" Alex asked to make sure he heard that right. She nodded.

"That's the gayest fucking name i've ever heard in my life," He said casually to her face.

Twilights smile disappeared, and a sad expression came to her face. The rainbow one got up in his face. "Hey! You can't talk to my friends like that," She said to him angrily. Twilight almost looked like she was about to cry, and the others were giving him mean looks, even Pinkie. But the yellow one didn't. It didn't look scared or angry, it looked curious.

He looked the rainbow one in the eyes again. "I talk however the fuck i want to talk, and if you don't like that, well then go fuck yourself," She gave him a confused look, then turned to her friends. "What does fuck mean?"

"No idea, sugarcube." said the orange one from the orchard.

"Relax, Applejack, we can take this thing, no problem." Alexs eyes widened when he heard what the rainbow one called the orange one. He looked at the orange one, the so called 'Applejack'. Applejack must have noticed him, cause she looked back at him, but began to shake a little when their eyes met.

Applejack? No. There is only one Applejack. He looked down at the picture again, or more specifically, the man standing a little taller than the other two. Images once again came to his mind.

"Be careful, y'all, ah can hear 'em,"

"Here's a gift from Uncle Sam!"

Here comes arty,"

"Uhm, mister Greeney?" Alex looked up to find the yellow horse standing in front of him, the others were behind talking about stuff, probably related to him.

"What?" he asked a little ticked of that she called him Greeney.

"Uhm, i was just wondering if, well, since you don't wanna be called Greeney, uhm, what's your real name?" she asked, he could hear she was a shy person, but she seemed very curios about him.

"Alex Conllin." He said and held out his hand for her. She looked at it, then hesitantly shook it with her hoof. "I'm Fluttershy." She said with a little smile. Alex almost couldn't contain his laughter. Fluttershy. Seriously? Who names their kid Fluttershy? Alex then noticed that the chatter from the others had stopped, and that they were looking at the two, shaking Hands/hooves.

He then pointed a finger at the rainbow one. "And who is this dick?" He asked Fluttershy.

"Oh, that's Rainbow Dash, she kinda has a temper," she said with an inncocent smile.

"Hey!" Rainbow said, as she walked up to the two. "I do not have a temper!"

"Girl," Alex began, "you have a temper worse than Charlie when you take away his rice," this got a confused look from Rainbow Dash.

"Who's Charlie?" She asked.

"Don't matter." He said, as his eyes fell on Applejack.

"You," he pointed to Applejack, who swallowed a lump in her throat. "yes, you, come here," he made a "come here" move with his left hand. Hesitantly, she came over in front of him, but averted his gaze.

"Look at me." She still didn't look at him.

"Fucking look at me." He said with a little more force.

She finally looked at him, and she began to sweat.

"Your name, is it Applejack?" She nodded, still nervous. "Alright, Applejack, tell me where i am."

"Oh, you're in The Ever--" Twilight began, but Alex cut her off. "I did not ask you, shut up." He looked back at Applejack. "Now answer the question,"

"Yer in The Everfree forest, in Equestria." She answered, still shaking a little.

"I knew it!" He said as he raised his arms and stood up. "I knew this wasn't 'Nam." The horses took a step back when they saw his full size.

"Okay," Twilight said, "now she answered your question, you can answer ours." the notepad was floating in front of her in a purple glow.

"Before you do, i have two questions," he held up two fingers. "one: what are you?"

"We're ponies, silly!" Pinkie happily said.

Ponies? Close enough. he thought. "Alright, second question: how are you doing that?" He pointed a finger at Twilights floating notepad.

Twilight gave him a confused look before she realized what he meant. "Oh, that. That's my magic." She said proudly.

Alex raised an eyebrow at this. "Bullshit. Magic isn't real."

"Yes it is." Twilight said, sounding offended.

"Prove it," Alex said, crossing his arms.

Twilight narrowed her eyes and her horn began to glow. Alex stood there, unimpressed.

"Am i supossed to be impressed by a glowing carrot on your head? Because i'm not." Alex said to her.

"I-i don't understand, i tried to lift you. Why didn't it work!" She almost shouted.

"Simple," Alex began, catching Twilights and the others attention. "Because magic isn't real."

Twilight began to get angry "YES IT IS!" She shouted at the top of her lungs.

"Whatever." Alex then turned to his right and began walking away.

"Hey, where are you going?" He heard Applejack say.

"Don't know..." he responded.

"Why don't you come to Ponyville with us?" Pinkie said, wich made him stop. Ponyville? Really? I mean, seriously?

He turned back to them, to see that they where whispering to each other. This went on for a while, until they walked up to him.

Twilight began, "We have decided to take you with us to the town of Ponyville,"

Rainbow then began, "But if you try anything, we'll kick your flank,"

"Alright," Alex said, "lead on." Pinkie then began to skip off, and Alex followed her, who was then followed by the rest, except for Twilight. "Wait! I wasn't finished!"

End of Chapter