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// Prologue 
// Story: Rick's mission on Equestria 
// by Scorppio500 
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	It was a day like any other. But you know how these stories go, at the end of the day, it surely wasn’t. In my defense, I didn’t think I’d wind up here at the end of it all. Where am I? Equestria. Who am I? Rick. Ex-T-704 sniper. Yes, I am a robot, no I am not some mindless automaton. I am a machine. Like Data from Star Trek. Sentient and considered alive, but made out of machine parts. I am a machine built to kill. I am strong, fast, and I never ever miss.

So. How did I get here? Easy. I was deployed here. Search and rescue mission. What a wash. Anyway, we were trying to find some kind of tracking beacon. Tracking beacons are hard-wired to the insertion capsules, so they never break off. A recon team was dispatched here, and has not reported anything in seventy two hours. And FreeTec military guidelines state that whenever a recon unit goes dark for three days, search and rescue teams must be dispatched. I was in the lead ship. I was also told to provide overwatch. Not the videogame, people. I was to post up where I could see everything.

Problem was we never found the capsule until the second day… in the middle of the forest.