5 minutes until First Contact, Fort Liberty, Military Time: 1858
The entire base was crawling with activity, except the roads designated for vehicles. Mostly the airfields, a CH-53 Sea stallion and 2 Hueys are on standby on an airfield with Vice-President George Bush. With them getting on, two heavily armed squads of Marines started rushing towards the UH-1Y's. A few minutes later they get a message on the intercoms, "Cleared to go, godspeed Marines." The marines were chatting, expecting to see the natives to either be technologically more advanced than them or still catching up after World War 2 era tech. A few minutes later, there was only silence. For that the only way to answer their questions is by seeing it for themselves. A voice through the comms broke the silence between the marines, "Check weapons and ammo, we don't know if we'll be using them." Marines rushed to check their ammunition and weapons, they were all intimidated with the fact that they will be Humanity's spearhead with their future. But now, they just have to wait.
A Marine talked on the intercoms, saying. "Command told me to install this, they said it was 'appropriate'." Fortunate son began to play and several marines and even the pilots said, "Can you shut that shit off?" The song ceased to play a few seconds after they said that.
(Diplomat and Marine Escorts heading towards Canterlot)
Meanwhile at the Gala...
They heard screaming that was heading towards them quickly, the screams finally became clear and people could make it out. It sounded like Pinkie Pie's voice, "HEY! HEY! I'M BACK! THEY LET ME GO!" Rainbow-Dash flew over to Pinkie Pie and Applejack ran to Pinkie pie and asked, "Where were you?! We were worried about you!" Out of breath, Pinkie Pie got a few words out. "Dr. Schmidt, United Something, aliens!" With no one being able to figure out what she was talking about, Rainbow-Dash asked. "So you're saying that Aliens abducted you with the name of Dr. Schmod, schmit, something? And that they are at someplace called United?" Pinkie Pie nodded, and when she was about to tell Twilight to report to Celestia, something else was heard.
"What is that horrid noise?" A pony spoke out. "Look above!" Another shouted while pointing. Twilight looked up and saw metal boxes in the air heading towards them at high speeds. "Those aren't the metal birds, are they different?" She was in disbelief on how metal is being lifted in the air that high, she then asked Celestia, "What kind of magic are they using?!" Celestia didn't respond because she was too busy trying to figure out what they were. "Who are they? They aren't Discord, they must be somepony else!" Luna yelled. "Call the guards, all of them!" Celestia said to one of her accompanying generals. He ran out of the door to get more guards to approach the 'visitors'.
Twilight's P.O.V.
Weird metal box landed first, it caught the attention of most if not all ponies in Canterlot. The crowd below cleared an area for them to land by running in fear. The doors opened, there seemed to be no light emitting from the box so no one could see inside it. No one could see inside the the box besides darkness, then footsteps would be heard. Twilight couldn't understand what was happening, then the rest of her friends ran up to her in fear, asking her what was happening. "Twilight! Who are these guys?!" Rainbow-Dash yelled in an exhausted voice.
A loud bang was heard, a guard rammed into one of the Huey's doors once. Then he rammed up and tried again, when he charged the door opened and a strange bipedal creature covered in green wearing a strange hat, jumped out of the box's side and rammed the strange iron rod he was holding into the guard's face. Knocking him on the ground. A second one jumped out aiming it's iron rod onto the guard's face and yelling "STAY THE FUCK DOWN! OR WE WILL SHOOT!"
(The guard's POV when he was hit)
I thought to myself, that thing can't shoot an arrow, it has no arrows visible! Everyone near the metal boxes were already running away while more guards appeared on the scene. Another one but from the bigger box walked out while more green creatures just like him began running out into what seems to be a defensive circle, with the person in the suit in the middle. The other creatures from the other boxes too did the same but instead of a person, it was what they got out of. They aimed their iron rods at the guards, one of them spotted to Celestia and told the one in the suit.
3rd Person P.O.V.
As the Marines surrounded their transports guarding them, the Vice President was approaching to the guard's line. He then asked, "May I speak to the person in charge before things get heated up?" The guard with a surprise on his face, not knowing the creature could talk, replied by yelling, "STAY BACK! OR WE WILL-" He was cut off as F-18's flew over them in a formation while flying low, it spooked everyone besides the Marines and the Vice President. With the ponies in shock, the Vice President approached the armored pony with his arms behind his back, staring down at the guard who was clearly attempting to repress the feelings of fear within him. “Allow me to rephrase my statement. We desire cooperation, and I wish to speak with your leader. However we won’t hesitate to defend ourselves if we’re attacked.”
Pinkie Pie finally reached Twilight and tried talking to her “Twilight! I don’t think we should attack these guys! They destro-” One of the generals cut her off by scoffing and saying “They think they can beat us? We can easily overwhelm them. And those things they are holding, are most likely nothing more than weirdly modeled spears.” The general said with a smirk.
Twilight asked Pinkie Pie, “So you were ponynapped by them? They must be hostile! Who ponynaps someone and just expect us to be friendly to them!” Pinkie Pie remembered that the Humans were in a desperate state and they were scared, she then replied. “They were just scared! They didn’t know what to do!” Twilight with a confused face told her, “Then why ponynap? Who ponynaps someone when they’re scared?!” Pinkie Pie kept trying to convince Twilight to calm down and help the Humans. But with everyone in fear, they didn’t know what to do.
Meanwhile, the Marines were just as surprised but more focused on defending the Vice President and their transports. Two of them struck up a conversation while still aiming their rifles, “You heard that horse officer? They think that our M16’s are spears, they really are behind us.” The other marine silently laughed, “Bet $50 that we’ll get out of this, guns blazing.”
One of the guards overheard them and asked his sergeant, “Sir, what are guns?” The sergeant replied with, "I don't know what guns are or what they do. Same thing goes for these creatures, we don't know what they're capable of."
The two marines began talking again, one of them sparked the conversation by saying “Again, they don’t even know what guns are. They don’t even know what we’re capable of, I’ll be taking that $50 now because we can easily take them all down.” The other marine replied with, “We’re outnumbered though, but I’m guessing that we can easily overpower them. But our transports can provide some air support, I saw some M134’s mounted on them.” A third marine tried holding back his laugh because of how behind these natives are technologically.
Both sides are in shock while the marines look like they’re stiff, nothing can break them. Even the sight of seeing aliens from another world, they still look as if they’ve been through worse. But nonetheless they are still as frightened as the natives are, but they can control their fear because they already know of the ponies and their technology level relieves them seeing that they can take them all down easily.
(US Marines aiming their weapons at the Royal Guard) 
Celestia walked down the stairs and spoke out, “We may not know who you are, but we also will not hesitate to defend ourselves if it comes to it. But nonetheless, what are your requests since we think that you’re here for something more than talking after all the ruckus you’ve caused.” Celestia stood firm but also was becoming more hostile towards the Vice-President.
Bush replied with, “Well, we can’t expect to let an important asset go by himself, can we? So that is why our fine marines are here to protect me. And we are here just to talk since we didn’t want to cause a ruckus in the first place, so. When will we be able to start diplomatic talks?” Bush said with a smirk, awaiting for what seems to be a royal member to reply.
“We will start now.” Celestia replied. Twilight was ordered to follow her and the Marines followed with Bush up the stairs into the castle. Bush started to ask the princess, “If it’s not enough trouble, are we able to keep this entire thing a secret? We don’t want to release our secrets this early.” Celestia stopped walking and looked at Bush with her surprised face, she is wondering why they wouldn’t want to be known. She then nodded her head and looked to her Generals, one of them began to order the Royal Guards to blockade the witnesses in order to erase their memories of this event.
Twilight with the help of Luna manage to perform the task of erasing the witness's memories of the event, for they do not want to anger those who arrived from the sky. For all they know, they managed to ponynap Pinkie Pie and let her go for some reason? But nonetheless, neither side wanted to cause a disagreement over something this quickly.
They were in a giant hallway with a pink carpet and what was supposed to be a giant room full of ponies for the Gala. Giant windows surrounded the side of one wall and painting of what were thought to be past leaders or important figures. While they were walking towards the end, they stopped and saw 2 grand wooden doors. They opened and what appears to be a conference room.
While the group was headed to the conference room to discuss their situation, a marine with a radio ran up to Bush to hand him the radio. The Princess and the others were spooked because a visitor began running, especially holding something they do not know. While Bush was on the radio, the Princess was wondering why a creature would hold a tin can next to his ear? He then spoke out, "So that's why he wanted me to do that? What can I expect, it's Reagan." He said while laughing a bit. It was regarding the fact that Reagan wanted the entire thing to be a secret and didn't give a reason why.
Bush also instructed the Marine to report to HQ to order the other divisions waiting outside of Canterlot to hold positions and to let an airborne division evacuate him if need be. The outskirts of Canterlot was very tense with thousands of soldiers waiting for the call to attack, for it would be a second time they would have to wait to attack or defend. For it were these divisions that defended Europe when the war first struck out, and now, they wouldn't waste any time to complete their objectives. The echoes of gunfire still rang throughout the soldiers, accompanied with explosions, they may be experiencing these but they are trying their best to stay focused. Then the commanding officer got a radio message saying, "Stand down, alert all units to stay in position until further notice." A few minutes later the message was then spread throughout the awaiting divisions.
They finally reached the conference room. It had a giant round table with tall windows surrounding the room. Princess Celestia was across the table from Bush, two officers and two guards were to enter the room. The officers would stand near their commander while the guards and marines would defend the doorway.
With the room being gigantic, whenever anyone spoke, their voice would echo. Everyone would take their positions, Twilight was also there but in the corner of the room to only observe. The marines saw Luna walk next to Celestia and heard a scoff from her, she then sat next to Celestia to begin the discussions. Celestia then spoke out with a big echo, "Now onto the biggest question, why are you here?" Bush then responded with a serious tone, "Survival."
To be continued...