Trigger warnings: no trolling, no sex, few jokes
(This has to be the only subject where those count as triggers.)

At a sleepover, the mane six start telling dirty secrets. Twilight comes out as bi, and everyone is so accepting of it that Fluttershy's tempted to come out herself.

If they're friends, what's the worst that could happen?

The year is 1989, Afghanistan.
The USSR, having recently suffered defeat after defeat in this 'desert Vietnam', has begun with withdraw its forces from the combat zone. A tank crew commanding a T-55AM-2 gets bogged down by a sand-storm, buttoned up and alone, they wait it out.

However, upon unbuttoning their tank, they find themselves no longer in the land of sand, but on a dirt road with trees all around them and a small village not to far ahead.
Trouble ensures when a Pink mare decides to bring her friend over to investigate this strange machine, and after dubbing it a golem, they attempt to study it.
The crew is not so please on the idea, and quickly make their escape with some rather unusual means.

When the commander of the tank team is captured by Celestia, the crew devise a plan to rescue him, but during the process, are manipulated by a certain villian to free him from his banished state.

(Done in 2nd person)

>This was a short AiE story I want to paste here as well as an off-shoot for another story with the similar context to be done in the future.

On his way to Seoul, Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce comes across an unconscious, hurt Twilight Sparkle, and takes her back to the 4077 to take care of her. There, she meets the odd creatures known as humans, and learns about their chaotic activities, about both their good and bad sides. The 4077th's crew learns about her world as well.

And during it all, they heal each other's hearts, even if they don't mean to.