The night before was a blur, he remembered he was in a library but that was about it. Michael looked at some of the titles.
"Super Naturals........" he trailed off reading one. Twilight was up and in the kitchen leaving the soldier to the books, he felt something grab the back of his helmet and lift it off his head. "The Fuck?"
"Oh thats spike!" Twilight shouted from the kitchen
"Uh huh, hello spike." Michael said too the small purple dragon "Mind giving me that back?"
"Hi! What are you?" the dragon said, Michael sighed
"Here eat this." Michael said pulling a candy bar from his bag, the little dragon gobbled it up without removing the wrapper and then proceeded to belch. Much to Michael's surprise the belch was accompanied by a scroll of paper. "Twilight? Is it normal for Spike to belch scrolls of paper?"
"A LETTER FROM THE PRINCESS!" Twilight shouted, she ran from the kitchen and picked up the scroll. "My dearest student, would you mind bringing you new friend to the throne room tomorrow?" she read aloud
"Give me that!" Michael said nervously, twilight gave it to him and he read it. He dropped the note and started pacing back and forth. "Meet a princess? Meet a Princess!" he started repeating, he fumbled through his things and pulled out a small book titled "Field Manual"
"Hey Michael calm down." Twilight said, Michael continued to pace back and forth flipping through the book until finally he threw it back with things. "CALM DOWN!" Twilight shouted before blushing a bit "Sorry"
"Okay you’re gonna be there right? Okay Mike you can do this." Michael began to put his fatigues on, he wiped as much dirt and grime from them and then took his helmet from spike, placing it on his head he smiled. "Can't be that bad right?" Twilight nodded
"Why are you still pacing?" she asked, Michael was just walking back and forth.
"Need to get outside." After a day of recuperating he wanted to do something, his trigger finger was itching like crazy. Twilight looked at him with a bit of worry. "I would like to spend time doing something.”
“Well I would like to learn more about who you are, where you’re from.” Twilight said with a smile, Michael smiled and sat down.
“Okay, go ahead and ask.” He said
“How did you get here?” Twilight asked, Michael frowned
“Bad luck, I was part of a project called time walker. More specifically the pentagon’s little Lab Rat.” He replied, while he was talking he began to take the metallic object he had apart.
“What’s the Pentagon? And what’s that?” Twilight continued, Michael grunted a bit.
“The pentagon, it’s the military headquarters of the entire American military.” Michael replied as he pulled a piece of metal from the odd thing he was working. “And this? This is my rifle, there are many like it but this one is mine. It can put a round up a flea’s ass at 200 yards.” Michael smiled when he had finished dismantling the “rifle”
“So it’s a weapon? How does it work?” Twilight said with a look of intrigue “How do “’Rounds’” factor into it?”
“A round is a small metallic capsule like this.” Michael began to explain, he tossed a round over to twilight. “Basically the rifle ignites a very small explosion in that capsule propelling the bullet, this thing here,” he pointed to the lead point “out the barrel and into whoever is unlucky enough to be in front of it. This thing moves faster than the speed of sound.” Michaels said, he began to clean different components of the rifle.
“So is there a conflict in your world?” Twilghts questions continued for several hours. After Michael had finished his rife he moved on to a “Pistol” and then describe something called a “Grenade”. Twilight had two more questions “What is it you do when you aren’t on duty?”
“I listen to music, The stones, Elvis and so on.” Twilight raised an eyebrow, Michael laughed. “I’ll explain later, anything else?”
“What are these “’Commies’” doing in this place called “Vietnam” if they aren’t supposed to be.” Twlight said with an expectant look
“War by Proxy, I’ll explain that to you later as well. I could use some food.” Michael said, Twilight’s stomach growled in agreement.
“I could have spike go get some cupcakes.” Twilight said but Michael shook his head.
“I need something with a little more protein, you have any steak?” Michael said with a grin, it’d been a while since he had had a quality rib eye.
“Steak? What is Steak?” Twilight said raising an eyebrow, Michael facepalmed.
“I take it you don’t eat meat here then?” he said with a frown, twilight looked horrified.
“OF COURSE NOT! WHY WOULD I EAT A CUTE LITTLE ANIMAL!” Twilight said in shock, Michael growled.
“Guess I’m stuck eating MRE’s for a while.” He said, from his back pack he pulled a large grey package.
“Whats that?” Twilight asked, her interest overcoming her shock that her new friend was a carnivore.
“MRE or Meal Ready to Eat.” Michael said before he began to eat the food that had been in the package. “Tastes horrible but it beats cupcakes.” Twilight was about to say something when a loud crash came from the upper floor of the library. Michael grabbed his reassemble rifle instinctively and aimed it up the stairs.
“Twi! Twi are you in here? We haven’t seen you all day!” A voice called out, Michael recognized it had an accent like a guy he knew from new York. Twilight looked at Michael and shook her head. Michael lowered his rifle as a rainbow maned pony with wings appeared. “Fluttershy has been….” The pony began but just stared at Michael for a moment. “What’s that?
“Rainbow this is Michael.” Twilight said, rainbow just looked at Michael for a moment before bursting into laughter. Obviously this did not go over well with Michael. He growled at the cyan Pegasus, when he did she stopped laughing and instead flew over to Michael.
“It can talk?” She asked
“Of course I can talk” Michael snapped, rainbow looked at him with a grin.
“That is so COOL!” she said, Michael stopped glaring and smiled. Michael, Twilight and Rainbow talked for several hours. By the end of the day they had run out of things to talk about. Michael excused himself to go to his bed, sitting on the side of it he took the picture of him with his mom and dad from his wallet and put it at the side of his bed. The night had set in and Michael just stared out at the stars and sighed, he missed the stars over his home town in Colorado. He hadn’t mentioned it to Twilight but the farm hs family owned was a horse farm, all manner of equine lived there but he figured Twilight would look at him differently if he told her. Settling into his bed he thought about what princess celestia was like, would she be kind or harsh?
Twilight sat downstairs while Michael went to his makeshift bed, dash was there yawning.
“So whats he like?” she said abruptly, Twilight giggled a bit
“He’s kind of like a puppy, he feels things differently, does things differently even speaks differently. Didn’t you notice that accent?” Twilight replied “I think he really misses his home but I think he’s warming up to life here.”
“He’s certainly weird looking, I mean he has no fur except the mane on his head. He always clings to the metal thing like it’s a child. I wouldn’t be surprised if he ate meat.”
“Well he explained some stuff to me about that, apparently they call their manes “’Hair’”.” Twilight said with a smile. “That metal thing is a weapon as I understand it, I don’t think it can do what he says it can do though, and he did ask for cow flesh earlier.”
“Wow, that’s weird.” Dash said with a laugh, she yawned again. “I’m gonna head home, night Twilight.”
“Night.” Twilight said as her friend walked out the door, after she had closed the door Twilight walked upstairs and saw Michael curled up in his bed. She saw the photo next to his bed and sighed. She saw that he didn’t have a blanket so she conjured one up and tucked onto him.
Michael looked around and saw he was home, his mom was tending the garden. His dad was fixing the plow, the horses were running around in the pen. The air smelt just a sweet as he remembered. Before he could say something he saw a bright flash, a massive heat wave hit the farm causing it to burst into flame and the people and animals he loved vaporize. Only he stood in the burning ruins then another flash….