All Along The Watchtower

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!"

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