Rainbow eyed the sword at her friend's throat and growled. "What are you doing here?" she demanded.
Blueblood harrumphed. "While it's none of your business, I have been instructed to supervise some military VIPs."
Applejack still felt the saber on her throat. "And we were told tah protect some VIPS." She gently pushed the saber away with her right hoof.
Blueblood realized his mistake and pulled the saber away. "Apologies." He returned the saber to its scabbard, the one attached to his side. He reached into his pocket with his telekinesis and opened it up. After a few seconds of perusing it, he stuck it back into the same pocket. "Have either of you been told who your charges are?"
"No," Rainbow Dash replied. "We were just told to meet them here."
Blueblood raised an eye at her statement. He also hadn't been given the description of what the VIPs he had been instructed to supervise. All he knew was that they were given the very room he was standing in. Just who were these VIPs? "I'll be taking my leave now."
He had started making his way towards the door but stopped when he heard hoof steps. Yes, hoof steps. The ones in question were only dropped one hoof at a time, therefore minotaurs. He could tell that there were four of them and oddly enough, their steps were very muffled. Were they wearing horseshoes instead of pads?
He unsheathed his sword and prepared himself. Why were there four minotaurs walking by themselves in this barracks?
"What are you doing now?" Rainbow asked.
"Shhh," Blueblood said.
Rainbow stared at the mad prince and his actions. Her ears twitch when she heard the familiar sound voice of a very strange somepony she had met.
"I think this is the room." Immediately following that, the door to the room was opened. Blueblood immediately threw his saber towards the throat of the newcomer, in a fashion identical to what he had done to Applejack. In an impressive feat of agility, Blueblood's saber was stopped midair when a gloved hand caught the handle.
All four newcomers drew their sidearms and aimed it at the offending stallion. "Nice catch," Eric said.
Applejack looked at Blueblood. Despite having four firearms aimed at him, he kept his composure. "I'm surprised you aren't pissin your pants right now," Applejack commented.
Blueblood snorted. "And why would I be?"
Applejack chuckled and took a glance at his choice of wear. He was wearing a crisp, official-looking dress uniform of the Royal Equestrian Army. It was the type of uniform one would never wear in real combat. Technically, all soldiers were supposed to wear the dress uniform when not in combat but no one upheld the rule. "Just a hunch that yer a mite wet behin the ears."
"Wet behind the ears!?"
Wilson let out an irritated sigh. "You're carrying a fucking sword! Who the fuck uses a sword?!"
Tran looked at the sword that he was still holding and threw it towards Blueblood. "Think fast."
Blueblood's eyes widened and he lit up his horn. A foot before the sword would have struck him, he caught it with his magic. "Are you insane?!"
Tran, without a second thought, replied, "Yes." He holstered his revolver a second later; The other three did the same and holstered their respective sidearms. "And you, should not be running around swinging a sword, willy nilly."
Rainbow Dash snickered. "So, what are you bucks doing here?"
"Your illustrious leader has arranged for us to stay in Equestria as some kind of military VIPs. Apparently, we're assessing whether your nation should be provided with foreign military assistance."
Applejack and Rainbow Dash looked at each other. "Figure they'd do somethin like this," Applejack said.
Blueblood looked at the four humans. "So just who might you four be?"
Tran was gonna answer but he looked to Logan. Logan smiled and looked to Blueblood. "Americans."
Applejack raised an eyebrow. Americans? That was an odd name. "So now what?" Applejack asked.
Rainbow Dash yanked Tran's S&W Model 500 out of its holster. "I want to give this thing a try!"
Tran looked at the daft pegasus for a second before reaching out with a hand to take back his revolver. "Mayhaps."
Blueblood looked aghast. "We can't just run off and shoot guns!"
Logan raised an eyebrow. "We're Americans. That's literally the only thing we do."
-X-X-X-
Immediately upon entering the nearest shooting range, all gunfire stopped. It wasn't an everyday occurrence for four humans to suddenly walk in unannounced, escorted by one of the most famous dogfighters of the war and the cowgirl of the Equestrian Army. A few ponies noticed Prince Blueblood but most of the attention went to the other six.
Elsewhere
Fluttershy looked up from the medical chart she was reading. "Hmm." Her left ear twitched. And then it twitched twice more. "Oh no."
-X-X-X-
Rainbow Dash looked down the sights of Tran's S&W Model 500 in her right hoof. Attached to the revolver was a small trigger mechanism that was designed to be attached to griffon firearms so that ponies could fire said guns; Without any modifications, it was found that it could be attached to human weapons in the same fashion. Despite every humans' attempts to persuade the pegasus, she had insisted on shooting it with just one hoof. Applejack, Prince Blueblood, the four humans, and everypony else at the range watched the mad pegasus as she was about to be taught a very important lesson.
Before she could fire it, a yellow pegasus dropped in from the sky behind her. "Wait!" Fluttershy screamed. Rainbow Dash pulled the trigger to the revolver.
*BANG*
It came as no surprise when the revolver shot out of Rainbow Dash's single hoof from the recoil and straight towards her forehead.
*BAM*
Everypony cringed as the cyan pegasus hit the ground. Rainbow Dash raised her head and looked around. "Did anyone get the license plate of that carriage?" She went unconscious.