We stay there like that for five minutes before I turn around. “The thing that I never like to consume anything. I never did it. I only got shared biomass from the others to shapeshift. If it wasn’t for them I would have lost it in the battlefields in Pakistan.” I explained. I felt like my chest would explode from regret.
I felt an arm rap around my shoulder and I did the same to said figure. In the pain I didn’t realize Twilight walked beside me. I gave a faint smile as we leaned into each other, keeping one up with the other. My smile gave way as I retreated my arm.
“But I can’t be forgiven for what I did. I just can’t do it. I guess a start was healing her from the stab. But I still had the intention to kill. I’m a fucking monster.” I whispered the last part quietly. The tears flowing free from my eyes.
I felt another arm rap around me as she embraced me. “Don’t say that.” Twilight said quietly so that I could only hear it. “It’s your training that made you do that. No matter what you still the nice, kind, and generous human I know.” I felt my uniform get wet as she began to cry. I embraced her hug as her quiet sobbing could be heard. “You were gone for so long. I was losing hope. I was scared that you died. Please don’t ever do it again.” She lifted her head to face me. The tears still present on her face. Our faces only inches apart.
“I will Twilight. I still have a job to do though. We can catch up. I can enlighten you on the past nine years.” I get up and offer my hand to help her. She takes it and I lift her up before picking her up bridal style. She blushes before starting to ask what I was doing.
I smirk as Ieap of the roof Twilight screaming the entire time. I under estimated how fast I would go and brake through the sealing. I cover Twilight’s head and twist to my back as I slam into the roof. The pain intensified at the twentieth floor. With my enhanced hearing, I hear Alex telling someone off. At the bottom floor, I fall through the floor one last time. I groan in pain after the hard landing.
“Better than most my crash landings.” I state which earns a chuckle from Alex. “I hurt, a lot.” I get up hearing aloud snap from my back. “THE FUCK! I’m not supposed to have bones!” Alex and James burst out laughing. I feel my body mend and walk to the two, who fell on the ground laughing, and kick them sending them through the wall.
“Was that really necessary?” The posh sounding one asked. I grin and nod.
“If I could, I would hit them with a pillar.” They take a step back.
“Why would you do that?” The meek one asked.
“Last week, when I was asleep, they made me drink alcohol.” Alex and James walk back through the hole in the wall.
“That’s bad how?” The cyan one asks.
“Since we are mostly a virus, the alcohol cleans the virus making it fall off our body. Plus it hurts like hell. And it all so molds in to an anim- holy crap we forgot Sif!” I run to the court yard and open the door. Sif walks out and tackles me to the ground. I pick him up and rush back to the group. “This is what happened when I drunk alcohol for the first time. The second time turned into a brawler. Got more biomass that time.”
Walking into the dining area I see the bane of my existence, blueblood. “Hello aunt Cel- WHAT ARE THOSE THINGS!!!” I groan.
“I already hate this person.” Alex said.
“Who might you monsters be?” I might shoot him in the leg.
“You know me blueblood, Conner.” I say and he gets a surprised expression. “Nine years and you still haven’t changed.” He huffed and turned away. “Like I said multiple times, ponies give respect when it is given. That’s how my team is effective and how governments work. No pony is better that the other.”
“There’s no point of arguing. I’ll most likely get killed by you.” He bings it up once again.
“You shot a hole through my chest! If I wasn’t an evolve you would have killed me! It’s because of me you’re not in prison for attempted murder!” He remembers it and the talk. He grows a kind smile.
“I thank you for it. Back then I might have let my anger flare. For that, I’m sorry.” I was taken aback that he apologized. He never apologized in his life. I look at everyone in the room. They all have dumbfounded expressions. I don’t hold back my laughter as their attention was forwarded to me. I shrugged in response.
We sit down and the questions began.
“Are you always that cruel?” Was the question that got me.
I sigh, “No I lost my sense in the moment. I healed her and gained a bit of DNA to be able to sense them. I’m sick of all the killing, of the war, and the blood. I’m going to change for the better. Even if this changling spy means something more. I will not kill.” My long winded answer was enough to stop questions like that.
“What would you do when you were back in your own country?” Twilight asked. I only smiled. Alex answered first.
“I visited my sister in the hospital to help her through her coma.” Alex answered.
“I looked after my daughter until she went off to her grandparents to live there. The reason was that I would be in the field for months.” That earned shocked looks from everyone. “At least she was safe. Now she won’t have to worry about me.” A lone tear crawled down his face.
“I mostly did community service or attended charity events. I mostly stayed in soup kitchens to help the homeless.” A kind smile crept across Twilight’s, mom’s, The yellow one’s, and ‘Cadence’s’ face. “Oh, in the excitement we forgot to introduce each other. You know our rank, name, and call signs. What about yours?” I asked.
“Sorry Conner, I forgot.” She gave a sheepish smile. “The cyan one with a rainbow mane is Rainbow Dash. The white one with a indigo mane is Rarity. The pink one with the pink mane is Pinkie pie. The orange one with the blond mane is Applejack.” I heard Alex and James snicker. I glared at them. “The yellow one with the pink mane is fluttershy.” Now I got names.
“Thank you. Now I don’t have to ask you one by one when the time comes.” They gave a knowing look.
“Wait, what are your ranks, names, and call signs?” Blueblood asked. I now remember he wasn’t there.
“Sorry, I forgot you weren’t there. I’m colonel Conner Jackson. Call sign: ghost. The one with the assault rifle is Major Alex Mercer. Call sign: Zeus. The one with the shotgun is First Lieutenant James Heller. Call sign: tank. I think that sums it up.” Shining Armor had an intrigued expression.
“So, are you apart of this royal guard?” He asked. All three of us repeatedly slam our heads into the table until blood was present. We healed it quickly.
“We don’t have a royal guard. We have branches of the military. We are apart of the United States Marine Corps. The first into battle and the most prepared team next to delta force and task force 1-4-1.” I explained. My annoyance clearly evident. With that, we finished lunch in relative silence. I finished our food quickly and enjoyed the silence that ensued. “Best silence I’ve had in the past nine years.” I sigh in contempt. The girls get up to go prepare for this wedding tomorrow. The practice was today. “Cadence, can I talk to you privately?” She reluctantly walks to me. “I know what you are.” She had a fire in her eyes.
“Then you know that you must disappear, right?” ‘Cadence’ asked.
“I just wanted to say I’m sorry for nearly killing one of your subjects.” I gave a light bow in apology.
“You don’t want to stop me?” She gave me a questioning look.
“You did nothing wrong, but what you need to do. On that note where’s the real Cadence?” She gave a stern look.
“I must not tell you now. Soon, but not now.” I smile and walk away.
I walk to my team and issue an order to use non lethal tactics when they get attached. They comply, understanding that this place is too innocent.
After an hour I take a patrol route through canterlot. I had my balaclava, sunglasses, and helmet one. I stopped when I noticed a familiar friend. I walk up to him.
“Are you Fancy Pants?” I ask. He saw me and look scared.
“Yes. who are you.” He asked with a bit of fear mixed into his voice. I took off my helmet, glasses, and balaclava. He lit up after seeing a familiar face that was gone for a long time. “Where have you been?”
“Back where I’m from fighting in the front lines.” He looked shocked and had a look of disbelief. Before he could shoot it down, a loud roar sounded through the streets of canterlot.
“This is ghost 1-1 reporting to Zeus, do you copy?” I spoke into the radio.
“This is Zeus, ghost what’s wrong?” Alex asked.
“Brawler roar in ar-“ I didn’t get to finish as it leaps of the top of a building. “Brawler spotted!” I scream.
I pull the trigger and a chorus of bangs accompanied the bullets that flew out the barrel. The brawler charged and knocked the gun out of my hands. Hitting me, I flew into a building where Fancy and his wife hid. It charged me again. I punched it forgetting my shape shifting ability. Punching it three times before ripping the throat out I did the thing that came naturally to me. As it stumbled back I stepped on its knee, then it’s chest. I rip it in half and tendrils shoot out of my back. Clutching my head in unimaginable pain, I scream. Befor I pass out I see the girls and my team run through the hole. I’m pretty sure they noticed the brawler corpse and I heard Twilight scream in terror as I pass out, only to wake up the next day. Fuck that experience.