The Russian

by TheLzx


Chapter Two

"Hello, my name is Twilight Sparkle, what is your name?" The purple one looked questionably at him. Her eyes looked full of wonder, longing to be filled with knowledge, the same look Vadim had when he practiced on his medicine. Vadim thought that she was a little naive, as she approached something that had just shot a fast-moving projectile at her group.

Vadim was about to put his gun down, hoping to make peace with these... horses, when the cyan colored one went up to his face. "Hey punk, you think you can just injure Fluttershy's friends like that?" The cyan one then proceeded to hit Vadim, in the jaw with much force. Vadim fell down and pointed his gun at her.

"Сука!" Vadim cursed at her and shot near her head. "I will, uh kill you. Get far from me!" Vadim was never good at English, and he hoped that he learned more, as it would have helped him in this situation. He then looked at the other horses that were accompanying the cyan one. They all had very different expressions. Fear, anger, quizzical, and a mix of these were on all of their faces, which were oddly very similar to human expressions.

The cyan one backed up, with an expression of fear, and the orange one walked next to the cyan one. The two creatures exchanged some words that Vadim could not interpret. That is until he saw the cyan one going towards him and the orange one flanking around. He took out his gun and pointed it at one of them.

"All of you stop!" The purple one went in between the cyan one and himself. "Rainbow and Applejack, we need to make friends, and you," she looked straight at Vadim, "need to stop firing that weapon!" Vadim was then surprised when a purple aura enveloped his gun and taken out of his grasp. Vadim suspected the purple one, as the colors matched up, so he confronted her.

"I want the gun back, give gun!" Vadim demanded his gun back, as it was all he had left from his father.

"No, I will keep this until I deem you to be safe, and that may be a while because you injured Harry." Twilight inspected the gun, and it got dangerous when she looked down the barrel of the gun.

Vadim grabbed the gun from mid-air, as confusing as it was and backed away from 'Twilight.' "Not safe, too dangerous for a horse."

The white one got really mad, as she went up to him and said things very loudly, things he did not understand. He supposed that calling these creatures horses was not very wise, as they took offense to that. The other... ponies pulled the white one back, as she started becoming physical, not that it hurt. "You stupid ape!" the white one said in anger before she got back with the others.

The purple one sighed and asked him a question. "What is your name?'

"My name is Vadim. My English is no good, forgive me for no understand you." He told her back calmly. "Why are your comrades so mad at me?"

"You did injure Harry, our friend and that may end you up in prison." The purple one told him. Vadim did not understand, as he never shot at another horse. Unless they were talking about that bear, which would be ridiculous.

"Who? I did not hurt any of you." Vadim asked with an eyebrow raised.

"The bear, you hurt the bear." She answered with a face that made him think, that to them he was high.

"Bear came, I shot." He answered with a serious face. He was confused inside, it was probably a circus animal that they used for money, as capitalist do. "Why care about the bear?"

"He is our friend." She said as it was normal, then pointed, or hoofed to his ushanka. "Where are you from?"

Vadim went full patriotic, as he loved the U.S.S.R. "This is the symbol of communism and my country's flag, the hammer, and sickle." He proudly looked at it. "It represents farmers and, uh Промышленные рабочие. I cannot think of the English word. It represents unity between the two. We exchange services for services, unlike filthy capitalism." He looked at them. "I am a soldier, for my country. I was fighting in.... Stalingrad...." He closed his eyes as he remembered scenes he did not want to remember.

"I'm not aware of any fighting in Stalliongrad" The purple one told him. "Perhaps you are not in the right mindset, there is no... U.S.S.R in the whole planet."

Vadim sighed and sat down on the grass. "Perhaps I am not on Мать Земля anymore, certainly not Мать Россия."

"What language are you speaking?" She asked him, and her eyes seemed to long for more knowledge.

"I am speaking Russian," Vadim answered her. "What country are we on, and what form of government is it?" He hoped it wasn't something like absolute monarchy or a dictatorship as that would not be good, as the leaders are generally bad. He would also have to act as an ambassador in the U.S.S.R's absence.

Now it was Twilight's turn to go patriotic. "This is Equestria, a land ruled by Princess..." There went his luck. "Celestia and Princess Luna. They control day and night, and rule over us." Vadim grew silent. If the monarchs made their subjects believe this, they have good charisma or a large army. He hoped it was charisma, as he did not want to be a one man army.

"You should come to Ponyville with me as I should contact the princesses, they would want to know about this". Vadim sighed and nodded, getting up to follow them.

"Пойдем"