"Where are we going?!" Shouted the Medic as he ran just behind the Soldier. "The town," he pointed, "just up ahead!"
Sure enough in the late hours of the night in the pinkish glow, the shadow of a town was visible.
"We have to get there, it may be under attack, defend civilians at all cost! Unless you forgot?" The Soldier said. "Nien!" The Medic responded. "Good, that's what I wanna hear!"
Then somewhere from the back Heavy yelled, "Incoming!" They all turned around and were greated by a glowing rocket flying towards them. "Everyone, behind me!" the Medic shouted as a shield of white energy stopped the rocket before it could hit them. "Keep moving!" the Soldier shouted.
"Soldier, jump!" Medic said as he started healing him with the Kritzgun. "Oh yea!" He said as he rocket jumped the Medic and himself into the air through the canopy of the forest above them and shot five rapid fire rockets about 10 yards behind the group.
When they came back down the rockets had just hit the ground knocking over trees behind them. After the sound of a thud was heard another sound, a scream was heard.
"Was that a civilian?" the Scout asked. "How am I suppost to know?" Soldier responded. "Damit Captain you know our regs! No civilans in the line of fire! And, to me that scream sounded a bit too girly to be anything evil."
"Look son, we need to make it to that village. We woke up in the middle of this forest and then we came under fire we have to get a foothold somewhere easy to defend, and that town is looking good to me right now!"
"I agree, but we must reach it quickly, whatever is chasing us is gaining!" called the spy. "How can you tell?" Soldier asked. "The sun is coming up, I can't see them but I can see shadows moving."
"Just remember men, no attacking anyone in the village unless they attack first." Soldier shouted. "Oh sure, now we follow regulation." Scout muttered under his breath.
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7:30, 11 Hours Earlier
"Wow! Ah never knew there was a village in the Everfree Forest." Applebloom said as she walked down another corner. "I could've sworn I saw that thing go into that house." She said as she came up to a dark house with a deep overgrowth.
She slowly walked up to the house and knocked. Upon knocking the door slowly opened, revealing a small house with a small interior and a burning fireplace. "Hello?" She called into the house hoping someone would come out, but nothing.
It was beginning to get dark out and she decided to stay for the night, hopefully whoever lived here wouldn't mind. She figured they wouldn't mind, the whole town seemed so friendly.
So after curling into the only bed in the house she fell asleep. When she awoke the clock read 6:15, she looked around the house checking once again to no avail. She began to shiver, so she walked over to the fireplace, closed her eyes and laid down.
She was curious as to how the fire stayed lit the entire night, but she didn't care. It was as if the floor next to the fireplace was more comfortable then the bed, and it was definitely warmer.
'Help.' she heard a voice whisper, Run. She opened her eyes to be greeted by a burning skeleton skull burning in the fireplace. She shrieked and backed away to the other side of the house. Run! the whispery voice said again.
This time Applebloom took the voice's advice and threw open the door, and ran outside.
Upon getting outside she ran to the end of the path leading to the house and the happy village that was once outside laid in ruin. "What happened?" She muttered as she looked around. Then she noticed more skeletons in front of them, but these ones were animate, these ones were walking. Walking towards her. She screamed and ran back towards the house only to be cut off by ponies with their flesh barely hanging onto their bones. She was surrounded.
"P-please don't hurt me." She said with tears forming at her eyes. "Don't worry-" said one of the zombie ponies, "we won't let the same thing happen to you, we will protect you."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The Angles just reached the village as the sun began to peak up above the rolling hills. They arrived and were surprised to see that the residents were not humans but ponies, unicorns, and pegasi. Not just that but they could talk and were intelligent too. So they decided to talk to the village's leader who also happened to be one of the monarchy's princesses.
"So you're called humans? And you say you have no clue how you got here or who attacked you in the forest?" Asked Twilight Sparkle. "Yes madam." Said Spy, "We wish not to invoke hostilities we are highly trained mercenaries tasked to defend innocent people and defend Mann Co." Said Soldier.
"I'm sorry you are hear and I assure no one we know should attack you, we are a very peaceful race." She said. "Well yea, considering you all are ponies." Said Scout.
"Oh so you have ponies on your world too?" Twilight asked. "Yea, but they are usually not so colorful and small as you."
"Well ok then we promise we will work to find you a way back to your home." She said. "I'm sure you will mate, but we need all focus on these unknown things that attacked us." Said Sniper, "We are very concerned, I've have tracked animals before I saw hoof prints ahead of us in the forest as well. Could've been scouts. This town might be in danger."
"But why us? Why now?" Asked Twilight. "Your guess is as good as ours, but if your town ist in danger we must defend you all!" Said Medic. "But we just met why would you be willing to risk your lives to defend us?"
The group looked at each other and smiled and said, "We live by a code that states, 'We will defend all that are innocent and crush anything that threatens peace and safety of anyone innocent."