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// Chapter 1: Trouble in Islamabad 
// Story: Ghost Recon in Equestria 
// by redhawk2398 
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Somewhere in Islamabad,Pakistan...

Below your feet is a room full of Bodark Leaders. You had believed that Hunter team had taken all of them out, but it seems the remaining soldiers reconstructed the cause.

Everything has a failsafe, right?

It was a good place to hide, too, in an urban enviroment far away from Russia. Plenty of towers to watch from, easy to blend in. But that doesn't matter when you have high-powered sniper rifles and augumented camo. Getting here was easy, Kill the Snipers on the rooftop first, then kill the soldiers on the ground at the same time to prevent alarms being raised.

Now, right below your feet is what remains of a terrorist organization. It would have been a lot easier to airstrike the building and destroy everyone there in the process, but that would kill civilians in the process...

Oh, and there was also the experimental weapon that could be set off in the process.

No one had any idea what it actually was, besides an Anonymous tip from someone on the inside. Funny, your full name put together was Anonymous.

Anon Y. Mous

Y for Yuri, you were part Russian. You heard that another Ghost was part russian. Can't remember his name though. Was it Kenny? Or Kyle? Definately started with a K.

Oh well, back to business.

You look to your Squadmates to see if they were ready. Salt, the sniper, nodded, as did 20k, the LMG specialist, along with GhostLead, leader of the squad.

3...2....1...GO!

You quickly throw a flash bang through the above window, wait for it to go off, and slide down the rappels. Within a time span of a few second, you and your team take out every leader and soldier in the room, "Good Work, Boys. Let's grab the weapon and head back home" Said GhostLead.

By Home, he obviously meant the closest Aircraft Carrier, as your team was always doing missions. But then you notice something.

Something you would never be able to notice with a drone.

The walls are moving. And you know exactly what that means.

The Bodark Spec-Ops were waiting for this moment the entire time. And that means these guys were decoys. You see one of their guns raise and you yell instinctively.

"DUCK!"

However, you are the only one to get to the floor in time. That is, until the rest of your squad hit the floor unvoluntarily. That was when you felt a sharp pain in the back of your head and fell into darkness.

You are chained up against a wall, and you can here the faintest voices from the other room, and you barely make out, "Test the weapon.....Prisoner....only beneficial".

Obviously, they are going to test the weapon on you. You don't like the idea of this, your intel didn't even specify what it was. So, seeing your inevitable fate, you think of what the weapon could be.

Biological, Explosive, Mutation, Infection

All seem quite valid, but before you can come up with an answer, your train of thought is interuppted by a soldier opening the door. "Ваше время истекло, собака. Подготовить для удовлетворения ваших решений." Good thing you knew Russian, otherwise you would be confused over the situation. What he said roughly translates to "Your time is up, Dog. Prepare to meet your makers."

Harsh

It was quite a grim moment for you. You had so much of your life left, and now you were gonna be killed from some experimental weapon. If they succeed, then what could be your free country today could be under communist control the next.

No.

You were not going to let this happen. If this meant certain death, it was worth it. You would never be remembered. You were a Ghost Operative, a soldier on a team that never existed.

But that never mattered.

You did what you did for the love of your country. Now was not the time to worry. Now was the time to create a plan.

After about 5 minutes of being dragged to the testing area, you had devised a plan. Things looked better than you had hoped. In the room, including the two soldies who dragged you in here, there was a count of 6 people there.

3 soldiers, 2 Generals, and a Scientist.

What was even better was they left your MSR sniper rifle and ACR Assault Rifle Lying next to each other. These weren't the smartest of the Bodark Leaders.

The Scientist Spoke in English, "You and your squad are like a building's foundations. Take away one at a time, and it crumbles." You stand silently. "Obedient. Like a good dog." Well that's mean.

"I don't think I need to explain the nature of this weapon to you, other than it shoots something and you are never seen again. Literally." Vaporizers? Where are we, Nazi Occupied Germany?

You know, cause they experimented all kinds of shit.

"Fire when ready." As the scientist turns around, you quickly punch the guard nearest to you in the throat, imobilizing him for the time. You run over to your ACR and MSR, put the MSR on your back, and ready your ACR.

The other guard is taking aim as you shoot him in the chest, and the other guard in the room is behind cover. You quickly throw a table over for makeshift cover, and turn on your magnetic visor. The guard is the only one left in the room, the scientist and the Generals left and locked the door. You were definately not getting out of here alive.

You wait for the guard to pop out of cover to shoot him in the head. You see a large ring in the circle, and it is charging up some blue light in the middle. This is the only chance you can take down this weapon once and for all.

You grab a grenade off of a stray guard, pull the pin, and run like hell, straight into the weapon. You can definately hear the Scientist yelling "NO!" behind the steel door. You throw the grenade at the metal ring, hoping it will be blown to bits, when the blue light shoots at you. The exact moment it shoots at you, however, is the same moment your grenade blows up. It hits you, and darkness invades your vision.

You had always wondered if there was a heaven and a hell. You also wondered where you would go to, if there was either. Heaven sounded right, you did serve your country. Also, Hell sounded right, too, you did kill a lot of people to do so.

But where you are right now? You can't tell

At the moment, you were lying on the greenest grass you've ever seen. Well, it may not be that green, since you are used to seeing it stained with red. Nevertheless, you can't decide whether this is heaven or hell.

Is it even either? Isn't Heaven supposed to have clouds? And didn't Hell have fire and lava, and scary shit like that? Or was this just a coma related dream? No, it couldn't be, you can actually feel the grass. Maybe reincarnation was real? Definately not, you are still your normal self with your armor and weapons. Wherever you may be, you might as well get up and have a look around.

As you stand to your feet, you hear a loud scream. It came from a woman, and sounded not to far from you. You, being the great guy that you are, decide to help and see what is going on.

Wait, this could be a trap by someone or something to kill you.

Luckily, you were prepared for something like this. You turn on your augumented camo, and climb a nearby tree.

Now, you were no Tarzan, but you knew how to climb and jump from tree to tree. You can hear running, and you start to swing from each branch to the other, running along the bigger ones. Back in your youth, there was a video game where you did this. You think it had something to do with Assassins, but you can't put your finger on it.

After a minute or two of jumping and swinging, you find a spot where you can hear the running and screaming coming towards you. You also notice it is near a cliff, and could be a steep drop to your death.

Well, second death, but that doesn't matter.

You take out your silenced MSR, and prepare to fire at whatever creature is causing this woman to be scared. What comes to the cliff first shocks you beyond all belief. What you see is a....a bright yellow, pink maned, winged horse? Or maybe it was a pony? It was too small to be a horse.

And it had wings!

How does this even happen? Putting all things aside, you realize it is the pony that is screaming. Before you can register any thought process, the beast causing the little pony to scream is a monstrosity.

A winged lion with a scorpion tail comes out, hunger in it's eyes, ready to feast on little pony flesh. It is closing in on its target, pushing the little pony closer to the edge of the cliff. This may not be a human you're saving, but you feel that saving the innocent is your job.

Neigh, it's your duty as a Ghost to save the innocent. You line up your shot to the Lion's head, and pull the trigger.

Aannddd.....

It knocked it over a bit, but didn't do shit beyond that. In fact, it made it more pissed.

Your augumented camo is off, and the Lion-thing is looking over at you. You strap your MSR to your back, and take out your ACR, ready to die yet again. Jumping down from the tree, you do an awesome parkour roll, and start running straight at the beast. The Beast stands its ground, ready to maul you to bits when it has a chance. You shoot off a few rounds into the beast's chest, pushing it back, closer to the cliff.

You pull out your knife, ready to slice open its intestines.And in a split second decision, you tackle the Lion and force him off the cliff.

With you.

Even though you just risked your life to save a small pony, it felt good, knowing you saved the innocent yet again.

And now you're free! Free Falling!

You loved that song so much. You start stabbing the Lion-Thing in the chest, trying to cause it as much pain as you can before you reach the bottom. You look over the Lion's shoulder, and see you are descending into a lake. There still is a chance that you could live

You hold tightly on to the lion, and right before you hit the water you push off with your legs and jump to the side.

FUuuuckk, that hurt like hell!

Not as bad as getting shot, but pretty damn close. Alright, Anon, stop being a pussy and get out of the water. You exit the lake and walk into the nearby brush of trees. However, you can hear voices from the top of the hill.

"Fluttershy! We came as fast as we could!" said a raspy voice. "Whe- Where's the Manticore?" said a matter-of-fact type voice.

You can see a yellow...hoof? Yeah, a yellow hoof pointing over the cliff at the lake below.

"What happened?" again, said the Matter-of-fact voice. "H-he saved me..." you could barely hear that.

"Who?" 

It took a bit of time for an answer until...

"I think...I think it was a Ghost." 

Then you guessed correctly.

"Come on now, sugarcube, tair ain't no such thang as ghosts" said a voice was a Southern Drawl.

"Fluttershy, let's go home and we can talk more about what you saw..." there is a bit of a pause "...And what you didn't see"

Oooh, spooky

Recently, you have seen some weird things, such as a winged pony, and a scorpion tailed lion. But right now?

You got to make some shelter