"Alright. So, we got everything we need. All we gotta do next is power the damn thing." Ewok kicked the object.
"I mean, we are in a world full of literal magic." Tankery reminded.
"That makes sense. Who knows what else they can power up. Our phones, radar, your mom's toys, laser weaponry, jet packs, the list goes on. I wonder if it also applies to why we're trying to arm ourselves with a MPAA."
"Aye fuck you for that. But still, we don't have the AI that we need to do all the tech shit for us while we're in the suit." Tankery replied.
"Well actually, I do have one. Took me a while back home but I was extremely bored and thought that I can make one."
"You really need a girlfriend. I mean, shit, you can just go ask out the girl who lended us this room to test in." Tankery suggested as he pointed his arms to the door. Which opened.
"Starlight, I don't think the humans will like that idea. Or even the Changelings." Twilight spoke to Starlight.
"Wait hold, on. Let me explain again. If we show that the Changelings don't need to feed off of love, they can make it themselves by friendship." She explained as they walked into the library and to see a human dressed as an engineer and another one wearing the same pink and Greens at the wedding with his hands on his hips looking at the floor. And a scary metallic suit of armor on the ground.
"Oh, hi." Ewok awkwardly waved. The two waved back. Tankery looked at him and smirked.
"Dude, if you can turn them into anthro then you got that thing rolling. The thing is, we gotta get THAT thing rolling. Soviet wants it tested before we use it." Tankery pointed to the suit of armor on the ground.
"Wait what is that?" Starlight asked as her and Twilight both look closely at the suit of armor.
"Good luck." Tankery chuckled as he left the room.
Ewok scratched his head and blushed as he really isn't good at conversations with new people. "This is uhm.. an.. uhm.."
The two looked at him worryingly, "Are you okay?" Twilight tilted her head as Ewok tried to remember what he was saying.
"So, this thing is meant for Soviet. He. He asked us to make this for the coming attack on the bugs." He rushed his sentence out.
"WAIT! You guys are going to attack the Changelings?" Starlight asked.
"Well, uhm. Yes. Well that isn't unless they surrender." Ewok added.
"So what does this thing do?" Twilight asked.
"It a power armor, meaning that it has energy shields to protect itself from projectiles, enhanced speed, agility, and overall effectiveness by a long shot. But the armor alone is good enough without the energy shields, Anti-Tank rockets are probably the only things that can pierce this Mjolnir armor. We call if the Spartan II Power Armor. But that reminds me, we can't power this thing up, we think your magic might kickstart it. So if you don't mind...?" He pulls out a power block that was from the armor and hands it to Twilight.
"Uhm..." She began getting nervous. "Sure thing." She blasted a beam to the block as she put it on the floor, but much to Ewok's surprise it was glowing. He grabbed his thick gloves and grabbed it.
"Thank you, Princess." He nodded as he moved the suit of armor over with his boots and placed the battery into it's back. "We'll start getting it running once we're ready. But again, thank you very much Princess."
Twilight blushed, "Oh pssh. No need for calling me that. You can just call me Twilight." She assured.
Ewok smiled. "Yes ma'am." He saluted only to make Twilight's suggestion backfire on her making her laugh awkwardly. "Oh! That reminds me. Soviet wanted you to safe guard this. He's off in the forest doing something." Ewok handed Twilight a crystal which she grabbed via magic.
"Why thank you. I'll hold onto this until he comes to retrieve it. But any clue why he's in the forest?" She asked.
"No clue." Ewok shrugged.
"Well, he never tells us anything anyways. But what does this do?" Starlight asks as she inspects the crystal.
Ewok remembering why Soviet gave them it, he went along with the plan. "To pick up signals, footage, or documentaries at a time from different times and universes. Mostly human stuff." Ewok explained.
"Wait. You're telling me that this can contain human information?!" Twilight exclaimed.
"Pretty much. Sometimes it comes with music, don't know why. But it does." Ewok added.
Twilight squealed at the chance of learning. She had a huge smile on her face and her eyes wide open. She took the crystal and took it to the main table room. Starlight followed out of curiosity.
As they left, Ewok spoke out. "Welp, they're going to get traumatized." He grinned.
Mean while in the forest. "So, I'm saying Lucifer would be the best choice because she is dommy mommy."
"Well true, but I'd go for Justice instead. Definition of a tomboy."
"Well you can have the definition of DEEZ NUTS! But maybe... Shit I forgot her name, the coffee demon or even the bitch would be cool."
"Or Cerberus." The two discussed the characters from Helltaker. "Well also The-" Soviet cut himself off as they heard movement. They ducked into the bush and spied over the group.
"Holy.... Jesus Christ that's an entire mountain." Tim exclaimed.. silently... As they saw a carriage full of luggages.
Applejack approached the carriage being carried by Sweetie Belle who was sweating crazily. "Gee Rarity. Did ya remember to pack?"
Rarity who was dressed fancily replied, "Oh well let's see who gets the last laugh when you're absolutely desperate to curl your lashes and realize you didn't even bring an eye curler." She put on her glasses and continued.
"Well. Looks like we're all set now."
Scootaloo excitingly looking around asked, "Wait, what about Rainbow Dash? Isn't Rainbow Dash coming?"
"Course she is sugarcube. She's going to meet us up at our first campsite." Applejack pointed to the trail. "Alright y'all. Let's move them out." They all started walking up the trail.
Soviet got up and tapped Tim, "That's our cue. Let's move."
A few hours later, they set up camp. While Soviet and Tim hid in the bushes. Rainbow Dash was finishing her Olden Pony story, "YOU DO!" she snuck up behind the fillies making them scream for help, except Scootaloo who was trying to look cool in front of Rainbow Dash.
Sweetie Belle who was hugging onto Rarity was shaking crazily. Rarity tried to comfort her, "Oh don't worry Sweetie Belle, no Olden Pony is going to hurt you as long as your big sister is here."
Just as Sweetie Belle somewhat calmed down, they all heard rustling in the forest. "Ah! It's the Olden Pony!" Applebloom screamed and hid behind Applejack.
"It ain't no Olden Pony, it's probably a critter or something." Applejack tried to calm Applebloom.
The two creatures emerged from the bush, it was the two humans in 1980s US Army woodland uniform with masks covering their faces. With both weapons raised and aiming their weapons all of over the place to check if it's clear of any hostiles.
With the voice changer on both humans, Soviet decided to pull off a prank on the unsuspecting ponies.
"Oh, its just the humans." Rainbow Dash sighed.
The two aimed their guns at the group of ponies staring at them. This made them panic, "Woah woah woah, hold on there! Put yer weapons down and for Celestia's sake tell me what in the hay is going on!" Applejack demanded.
The two put their guns down. And approached the group with their voice changers set to the voice of the Combine Soldiers from Half Life. "Wait, you mentioned there were other humans?" Soviet asked Rainbow.
"Come on Soviet, stood trying to prank us. Of course you know you aren't the only humans." Rainbow Dash tried to undermine the prank.
The two soldiers looked at each other worriedly, then Soviet got on his radio. "Command this is 2-3, we have reported from the locals about Soviet infantry. Size and force unknown. Requesting reinforcements."
"Negative 2-3, all units are currently dealing with an aggressive pony. We are taking heavy casualties, proceed with caution." The radio replied. Then gunfire started going on further into the forest, where Soviet and Tim had rigged M16s to fire as Soviet activated his radio.
This spooked the group, with Sweetie Belle screaming, "It's the Olden Pony!" Making the fillies even more scared but the mare more confused.
"Wait, her said that you needed reinforcements. But we only know 4 humans. Who are you?" Applejack asked.
"I'm Sergeant Foley, US Army." Soviet answered. "This is Corporal Dunham, and you mentioned Soviets. Do you know how many of them are there?"
"What do you mean? We only know-" Applejack was cut off by her little sister.
"Sis, at Twilight's school I learned that Soviets are a country, with their enemy being the United States. Now these here folks are U-S Army, put two and two together and you'll see why they're starting to get worried." Applebloom whispered to Applejack.
The radio started blaring with the gunfire starting again, "All units! We've got a hostile pony, seems old as hell and is wearing a rag, she's getting past us! Send help! Arrghhh" the radio was then cut off.
"It r-really is the Olden Pony!" Scootaloo added.
"Shit. We gotta move." Soviet and Tim raised their weapons back up and ran into the forest.
"I don't think it's a good idea to continue-" Rarity was cut off by Rainbow Dash.
"Quit your whining, if the Olden Pony shows up, I'll beat it no sweat!"
"Yeah, especially if there are more humans in these woods. That means we're safer, right?" Rarity asked.
"Exactly! We've got nothin to worry about." Applejack added.
Meanwhile in Twilight's castle..
"So, when do you think it'll activate?" Starlight asked as she entered the table room as Twilight kept staring at it while it rested on the table.
"No clue. You know you could've told Spike to get that popcorn for you, right?" Twilight suggested.
"Yeah, but I might as well do it myself since he's asleep. But jeez Twi, it's already dark and you've sat there for hours, maybe it's my turn to-" Starlight cut herself off as the crystal projected a holographic screen onto the wall. "Well, it's a good thing I brought popcorn." Starlight chuckled as she sat down next to Twilight.
The loud sound of the VHS tape spooked the two viewers watching as it said, "Loading Tape #One".
"Maybe we should take notes..." Starlight suggested as she teleported two notepads and two pencils onto the table.
"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea." Twilight added. The two sat down with their eyes intensely focused on the projection as it started. They kept quiet through the whole thing to focus.
Tape 4 loaded in with some glitches appearing in the loading screen, which startled the two ponies studying this new and terrifying world.
"It has seems that the Shadow State has it's hands in international affairs, especially in-" the moment he was about to say in which nation, the video glitched out and skipped that part.
"Is it broken?" Twilight asked.
"No, I think it's part of the video. Unless it's not, but let's just keep watching." Starlight answered.
A few moments later another glitch happens, "- but nonetheless we must maintain a watchful eye-" the black and white snow screen appeared again but with a distorted voice with the symbol of the SS State.
"YOUR FURHERS DECAYED BODY IS THAT OF HIS IDEOLOGY. A CARCASS UNSUITABLE FOR THIS EARTH YOU HOLD ONTO. THE ARYAN RACE HAS NOTHING TO GAIN FROM THE WORLD YOU TRY TO PROTECT. BUT FROM IT'S ASHES. LET GO OF YOUR FICKLE EXISTENCE. AND TAKE YOUR PLACE IN THE ---S AMONG THE NEW EARTH. THE FIRE SHALL PURIFY THIS EARTH MADE READY FOR NONE SHALL SURVIVE OUR ASCENSION."
This made the two panic as Twilight screamed, "Turn it off! Turn it off!" As Starlight hid under the table, thinking a portal was going to open up, allowing the Shadow State into their world. But nothing happened as the 5th tape started to load in.
"Wait... Nothing's happening." Starlight said as she peeked up from under the table.
The crystal then shut off.
"That was.... Scary." Twilight said as she calmed down.
"Their world is... It seems like it's dying. All the war, and the fact that they're still resisting after defeat is..."
"It's admirable, but it seems like their next war will be their last."
"But their feats are amazing! Especially when they got the moon by themselves! With no magic, these humans are really good with their technology." Starlight admired.
"Yeah.. but at a great cost of their own people." Twilight began tear as she began thinking about all the loss and suffering under the German and Japanese leadership.
"But is this what Soviet and his friends had to go through?" Starlight asked.
"Maybe not, Ewok did say it projects footage from other dimensions or realities. It's probably a different timeline." Twilight suggested. Starlight nodded.
Meanwhile in the forest...
Scootaloo's attempts to impress Rainbow Dash has taken a toll on her, especially after the Olden Pony story and she can barely even sleep. She's been rocking back and forward for countless hours in the night, as the occasional sounds of gunfire in the background aren't helping either. Her trance of insanity was broken as the sounds of branches breaking nearby the tent approached her. She heard a whisper...
"Psst! Scootaloo. Where are you?" A familiar voice called out. Scootaloo became tense, not falling for the voice's trick. "It's me Soviet, we need to talk to you." Now convinced, she slowly walked out of the tent.
She was confused, "Soviet?" She tilted her head, "What're you doing here? But also, there are other humans from the US Army." She reported.
"We know, that was us. It was all a prank, but I need to talk to you about something else." Soviet put his helmet on the ground and sat on it.
"That was... Clever. But... Doesn't the... Olden Pony still.. exist?" She asked nervously.
"Pssh, nah. She was just an old pony looking for her horse shoe. Me and Tim here helped her, she returned back to town." Soviet made up the story. "But hey," he pushed Scootaloo slightly to seem more friendly, "if there was a monster. You'll definitely beat it before it hurts anyone and anything. If it somehow gets past you, which is near impossible. We're here." Soviet assured. Scootaloo's paranoid state was gone, her tired face turned to relief. She let out a sigh and looked down. Soviet got her attention back, "Hey. And Rainbow Dash? You'll definitely be put under her wing, you're practically the perfect duo." Soviet began to seem like a brother figure to her.
"Wait, why are you-"
"Because, I care for you all, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applebloom. Everyone." Soviet got up and looked down at Ponyville. "And I'll make damn sure no one gets hurt on my watch." He snapped out of it, because he saw Scootaloo worrying. He kneeled down to Scootaloo and said, "If you can do a favor for me.. if you dream and see Luna. Tell her I said hi and don't stress much."
"Yeah, sure thing. But.. do you want to talk about what just happened?" Scootaloo asked.
"Heh. I'll be fine, I'll probably talk about it with Twilight, if she knows how emotions work." Soviet chuckled. "But knowing you're all safe, I'll be fine." He rubbed her head to mess up her mane, making her laugh. "Alright, now go get back to bed. It's already late." He picked up the helmet and began walking away.
Scootaloo remembered something to tease him, "Hey, how's it like being the Heroes of Equestria once again?" She laughed.
"Hey! It's been 2 weeks since the wedding. Go to sleep!" He pointed to the tent laughing.
"Yes sir, hero of Equestria." She saluted before going into the tent. As she entered, she can still hear a Soviet trying to hold in his laughter.
She got into her side of the tent and covered herself under the sheets until she turned around to her surprise, Rainbow Dash looked at her with suspicion with a raised brow. "So, how'd you crack that hard shell?" She questioned.
Scootaloo tried to deflect the question. "What... shell?" She scratched her head.
"How'd you get Soviet to talk about his feelings? Ever since they got here they've been nothing but tough and heartless. And now I hear that he's fighting for us? I mean, we can handle ourselves for Celestia's sake." Rainbow stated.
"He doesn't have anything back in his world, I mean, we didn't ask them how they were anyways." Scootaloo replied.
"Huh. Makes sense. But good for you for standing up for him, it shows you got guts. Especially against someone like me." Rainbow nudged Scootaloo.
He walked through the bush and saw a bored Tim playing with his thumbs. "So, how'd it go?"
"Nothing really happened. But at least now she won't have nightmares." Soviet replied.
Tim scoffed, "I mean, sure they are cute but I don't really care much about them. The only reason why I'm helping is because of you, last time I saw you, failed suicide attempts last time I heard. The you sent dark for a few months and HERE I found you in all places." He explained pointing at him. "Ever since I got here we've been fighting, which yeah I'll admit I like it. But still don't trust them ponies that much as you do. What makes you think they won't backstab us?"
"Dude, I'm dating their Princess. We'll be fine." Soviet assured.
"Wait hold on. You're banging one of their princesses?" Tim asked.
"Yeah."
"Good for you for fucking a horse. But still, it's good to see you happy. At least in this world we can do our stuff." Tim exhaled as he looked down to Ponyville.
Soviet also looked to Ponyville in the distance and said, "Yeah, but if there's one thing I'll make a rule for. We'll call it MACE protocol." Soviet chuckled go the fact he's doing something official. "Protect Equestria at all costs. Even if I'm gone or if MACE is disbanded. Thats what we'll do and keep doing. Especially if what we're protecting Equestria from us Equestria itself. Can you promise me this Tim?"
"Yeah?"
"If I die or if we disband. Promise me you'll protect this kingdom. Even if I'm long gone, I just want the people we're protecting to have a full life with no dangers. Because I don't want them to go through what I had to." Soviet asked.
"Dude, you're not going to die. But yeah, if it's from you. I'll continue this order until my last dying breath." Tim promised.
"Thank you. Now.. I'm just hoping we'll make it out alive from the final battle with the bugs." Soviet stated.
Tankery entered back into the Library and saw an engineer fully covered in PPE working on the armor. "So, I'm guessing Soviet wants this only for him."
"Yeah, he wants to make sure that if he goes down, this technology goes down with him so the bugs don't get it. Just in case we don't recover the both of them. But I changed the explosion mechanism after a codeword from a self destruction to a teleportation spell, thanks to Twilight. So he ends up alive, with the armor." Ewok explained.
"Good thinking. I just hope we don't need go use it in the first place." Tankery hoped.
"Don't know why he wants to look like Red Team. But holy shit does it look cool as fuck." Ewok stated as he got up.
"Yeah."
"But thank God you guys can spawn in the materials with the tech intact. Or this would've been hell for me to deal with."
"Surprisingly, yeah. But sadly no vehicles."
"Makes sense. But if you can spawn armor it's good enough. But yeah, I see why Soviet only wants one of these."
The next day arrives. The annual sister hiking trip was rushed and they were on their way back home by the time the sun was setting.
The group arrived over a cliff and overlooked Ponyville. They all stood there and sat to calm down until they heard a whistling sound.
"Uhm... Anypony hear that?" Applejack alerted the group. They all looked around to see what was causing the rapidly approaching sound. They all ran back into the bushes to hide for what was going to come, leaving their things behind, and of course the cart carrying a mountain of luggages. They all ducked into cover, thinking the Humans must've done something. They closed their eyes and covered their ears as a small explosion erupted near the cart.
They all looked back at the cart to see a cloud of dirt and dust covering the entire area, unable to see what hit the ground. Until the wind blew away the dirt and what they saw confused them.
The same body as the humans, but clad in green armor with red lines on certain areas. With where the face was supposed to be covered in a helmet with the face blocked by a dark yellow visor.
It rose up slowly and hit it's helmet with it's hand three times, causing the visor to glow bright yellow. It looked to the right on it's shoulder and saw the unharmed cart. It looked down on its shoulder and checked the other one, and wiped the confetti off of it.
The group was confused to why it had confetti on it or why it was here, or how it was even in the sky in the first place. They all ducked their heads back down as it looked directly at them.
"What are we going to do?!" Applebloom whispered.
"I don't know what it is, it's probably Soviet." Applejack reasoned.
"Whatever it is, I'm going to take it head on!" Rainbow Dash then charged at it by flying at full speed. She aimed one hoof in front of her to hit the suit of armor but it leaned back, causing Rainbow Dash to miss.
"Oh I'm gonna-!" She turned her direction and hit the armor's torso. There was a buzz noise while Rainbow Dash was pushed back. The armor didn't move at all. She fell on the ground
She regained controll and tried to go in for another hit until the armor raised it's hand.
"Calm down. It's just me." Soviet used the suit's microphone to speak. While also still having the voice quality of a speaker.
"Wait, Soviet?!" Applejack raised her head. "Now what in the hay are you doing and what is that?!"
"Pinkie Pie launched me out here with her party cannon. And also.." he turned around and reached out his hand to Rainbow Dash. She was hesitant, so he reassured, "Don't worry, the shield only activated when you try to attack. You're safe."
She reached out her hoof and Soviet grabbed it, picking her up. "Yeah, I knew that. I was just testing!" Rainbow tried to keep her pride intact.
"And this is Mjolnir Armor Mark IV, one of the best designs from the UNSC." Soviet answered Applejack.
"What's that?" Applebloom asked.
"Go ask Twilight. She has the crystal I used before and it might be displaying some stuff right now. Who knows, but it might scare you."
"Wait, why would it scare 'em?" Applejack asked.
"It's footage from alternate dimensions of Humanity. Nuclear War, extinction, destruction, death. You name it, it'll show it. I try to keep notes down to keep track." Soviet answered.
"Yeah, no. Applebloom's not gonna go."
"Suit yourself. Anyways, I need to test this thing. So who's the fastest here?" Soviet asked.
"Why? So you can shoot us?" Rainbow questioned.
"Of course not! Just to see how fast I can run." Soviet responded.
"Huh, then I reckon' it's me and Rainbow." Applejack answered.
"Alright then. I'll race both of you then."
This shocked everyone as they never really thought of comparing who's faster.
"Alright then. It'll be embarrassing for you though." Rainbow Dash readied.
"Hey, at least it'll be fun." Applejack added.
They all lined at a tree and Applebloom raced to another tree in the distance to act as the finish line.
"3, 2, 1!" Scootaloo screamed. "GO!" The two ponies ran as fast as they could to Applebloom as Soviet stood into his running position, they were confused.
"Yo Juan, activate speed boost." Soviet spoke inside his helmet.
A projection of a tortilla chip hat appeared inside of the helmet.
"SÃ, show them horses who they messing with!" A Mexican accent of an AI spoke to Soviet. Soviet's armor on his legs had little ports for lights to appear out of and it activated. A beam sound emitted from them and Soviet ran at unhuman speeds.
"Woah nelly!"
"Jeez!"
The two mares screamed as Soviet outran the two ponies to the finish line within three seconds as it was at least a minute long run.
"Good job hombré!" Juan cheered.
"Thanks Juan. Good work."
"Nah man, that was all you!"
"Nope, all you Juan. Look how good you were, look at their faces!" Soviet laughed as he turned around to see a jaw dropped Applebloom, as well as a jaw dropped pony group, while Rainbow Dash and Applejack slowly walked to Soviet.
"Now that's just cheatin'." Applejack said.
Soviet turned on his microphone "Well, any advantage I'll take to stop the war."
"That reminds me. I overheard you yesterday with Scootaloo, why now do you open up?" Rainbow questioned with a raised brow.
"Oh that.. so I might as well come out clean." Soviet said as he sat down on the ground.
They all looked with interest and sat down in front of Soviet. He took off his helmet, only to be covered by a mask.
He took a deep breath. "So."
"Who do you'll think you'll get with if they were at least in human form." He placed nachos down onto the crystal table.
"Probably the rainbow one, she's literally the definition of a tomboy." He picked up a chip, dipped it in guacamole and ate it.
"Probably the American one, what was her name..." He looked upwards to think.
"Applejack?"
"Yeah, that's her name. What about you, Tank?" Tim asked.
"Starlight or Twilight. Starlight seems to be the one that'll clearly be dommy mommy but Twilight, probably secret dom. Who knows. But that's my guess." Tankery sat down.
"Do they even know we're here?!" Starlight asked as she gasped and blushed. Twilight as they watched the three humans sitting on foldable chairs and a foldable chair talking to each other outside of the throne room doors.
"No, probably not." Twilight blushed.
"But here's something funny we can do, try flirting with the other's mom's just to mess with them. Just like what Tim did to Ewok's mom." Tankery took another chip covered tortilla chip.
"Yeah, MILF hunting I guess." Ewok laughed.
Spike walked up to Twilight and handed her a scroll. "From Princess Celestia." He walked up to the table and took a chip and dipped it in guacamole. "Mmmf, so good."
"Yeah dude, you can take some if you want. We got a whole lot to spare." Tankery handed him a plate of the bowl of guacamole and a lot of chips.
"Are you sure?" Spike asked as he grabbed the plate.
"Yeah dude, that was a warmup, out next sauce is Soviet's homemade spicy salsa."
"Oh no.." Ewok said.
"Thanks!" Spike walked to his room with the plate.
"Woah!" Tim jumped up. "How long have you two been there?" He pointed at the two mares.
"Pervs.." Starlight muttered.
Twilight, who opened the scroll rolled it back up and said. "Princess Luna accepted Soviet's request for a headquarters in my castle. Looks like his 'diplomatic' meetings in Canterlot didn't take much effort after all." Twilight sighed. "Your room already has bunks and two tables as well as several lockers and some space to put your stuff in. Just don't be too loud after sundown."
"Yes, Princess." They saluted.
"Wait tank, are we doing anything tonight?" Ewok asked.
"No, why do you ask?" He... asked.
"Well, slumber party? Might as well since we're all doing nothing tonight. Princess, are you coming? Your rules since it is your castle afterall." Ewok pointed out.
"Well.. uhm... I don't think that's a good idea-" Starlight muttered before getting cut off.. But since Twilight had never been in one before in her entire life, she got excited.
"Yes!" She then pulled out a book about slumber parties. "Ooh I've always wanted to use this!" She began reading it.
"So that's planned, so we got snacks, places to sleep. Drinks! We need drinks." Tim spoke.
"We'll ask Applejack for cider." Starlight suggested.
"Cider sounds good. But does she have alcoholic beverages?" Ewok asked.
"Yeah, I guess so. I'll go ask her once she comes back from her trip." Starlight answered.
"Oh yeah! That reminds me, we did a prank on them." Tim laughed.
"Wait you did?" Starlight laughed, "What did you guys do?"
"We pretended to be US Troops from the 80s with an entire division or some shit. And we encountered the girls and asked if they've seen any Soviet forces and then faked a squad being attacked by the.. Olden Pony or something!" Tim laughed.
"That sounds elaborate and complicated, not to mention traumatizing. That sounds awesome!" Starlight immediately got interested as she is big into elaborate tricks.
Hours pass and the sun has set. It was now dark and the sisters now arrived at Twilight's castle. Applejack knocked. "Hey Twi! It's me Applejack!"
The door opened and they saw an exhausted Spike turn into a surprised and scared Spike as he saw the Spartan Armor look down at him. "W- w- what is that?" He pointed.
"Oh that? That there is just Soviet. Fancy suit he's wearin." Applejack pointed out.
Spike let out a sigh and opened the door fully. And guided them to the throne room. They went into the throne room, but Soviet got distracted by a plaque on a door across the library. It said, "Military Assistance Command Equestria Headquarters".
He entered the room and saw 2 bunk beds on the south wall. A table with radio equipment on the east wall with a MACV flag overhead. 
And an armor stand on the right of the table, with lockers with plaques of the flags of each MACE member's nationality on the north wall, just on the left of an empty pinboard.
The locker's were in the order of apparent rank, US, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand.
Soviet undressed out of his armor and put it onto the rack as he opened his US locker to find his MACE Pink & Greens and aviators. He notices something new about it, he checks the collar and sees the Captain officer pin on it. He opens to check the other lockers only to find the uniforms and shades missing. But he sees an Australian Propagandas poster in his locker. "Definitely Tim's." Soviet sighed as he closed the locker door. He got out of the room and heard yelling from the throne room, he immediately ran to the room and barged through the doors.
"What's the yelling about?!" He frantically said. Then a pillow hit him in the face, caught off guard, making him fall down to the floor laughing. He took off the pillow, got back up and examined the situation.
He saw his buddies ducking in cover with piles of pillows everywhere, he looked at the other side of the room and saw the Mane 6 including their little sister's, Trixie and Starlight. Both sides were throwing pillows at each other. He looked back at his buddies who were yelling at him.
"Captain! Get over here!" Tankery screamed. Soviet dove behind their cover which was a flipped table.
"Let me guess, you guys started a pillow fight?"
"Well, you'd be surprised. They started it!" Tankery grunted as he threw a pillow overhead. "We were waiting for Applejack to bring the drinks but once they realized the littles ones were with them. Trixie threw a pillow at Ewok. He's currently pinned behind his chair." Tankery pointed to an exposed Ewok in the open, only behind a chair.
"Hey! We're not little!" Sweetie Belle screamed across the room. Causing everyone to laugh.
Ewok tried dashing to the MACE holdout but he got hit in the shoulder by a pillow, he dramatically made it seem as if it were a bullet by making the impact seem harder, then on his right shoulder. And finally, a pillow hit him in the face, with him falling down on purpose. "Bullseye!" Starlight and Trixie clapped their hoofs together.
Ewok raised his hand calling out for Tim to grab him back. "I'm coming bud!" Tim crawled to Ewok, but just as he got out of cover he immediately got hit by multiple pillows and is now covered by a pile of pillows.
"This is bad! Game over man! Game over!" Tankery tried to mock.
"We'll just charge at them, we'll use 2 pillows as shields and hit them in pillow-to-pillow combat. We'll move on my count." They both grabbed pillows and crouched into charging positions. "Three! Two! One!" Soviet yelled. They both charged together on one side to flank.
The ponies tried throwing the pillows at them. But they deflected it by using the pillows as shields. Soviet jumped and was about to hit Applejack who was busy laughing at Tim. She looked up at Soviet, he was midair when a pillow hit him, causing him to fall on the ground. "Well that oughta teach ya about messin' with a farm pony!" She taunted, before rightfully being hit by a pillow from Tankery. "And that'll teach you to mess with... the idiots!" Tankery laughed before being sniped by Rainbow Dash.
"Yeah!" She exclaimed. The ponies then high-hooved with the Humans groaning.
"Good game." The humans groaned.
Everybody who got hit got back up and stretched. Ewok looked at his wrist while he was stretching and said, "Ah. It's getting late. We gotta sleep." He yawned.
Soviet looked in confusion, "Wait, you don't even have a watch."
"Yeah, so?"
"Fair point." Soviet yawned. "Well, that reminds me. I have to go send requests to Canterlot. Is Spike still up?" Soviet looked around for the purple dragon.
"I'm guessin' he's asleep by the look of him when he opened the door." Applejack pointed out.
"Makes sense. Hey Twilight."
"Yes, Soviet?"
"Can you tell Spike to send these to Canterlot?" Soviet handed her a folder full of papers and it being marked "[CLASSIFIED]"
"Uhm.. yeah. I'll give it to him first thing in the morning." She nodded.
"Thank you." Soviet fixed his hat.
2 hours later...
Soviet finds himself on the ground, in the middle of a city. It's dead at night and the moon shines all over the city. "Am I in Canterlot?" He looks down at himself and finds that he's in his dress uniform. He looks around as he pulls out an M9 pistol. "I swear to god if this is a nightmare..." He pulls out a flashlight and holds both of them.
"No, it is not." A royal voice spoke.
"Phew. Wait, Princess Luna is that you?" Soviet lowered his weapon and looked up to the moon. A figure similar to Princess Luna appeared from the moon.
"Why yes it is I, Soviet." Luna spoke.
"You know, if it makes you feel comfortable, you don't need to do the whole royal and formal voice. If you're comfortable, I mean hey, what can I say? I've only had sex with the best Princess in Equestria and haven't taken her out to dinner yet. Which reminds me, are you free the day after tomorrow?" Soviet asked.
She chuckled, "Why yes, I am free tomorrow. But I brought you here to ask how you were doing. Which I now see is now focused on me, so that backfired."
"Hey, it ain't my fault you're a goddamn piece of eyecandy." Soviet retorted. His plan of "Operation Woman" consists of:
Step 1: Shower victim with compliments
Step 2: Treat to dinner
Step 3: Simp
For this is the best way he knows that he'll get the best of the Equestrian opinion to allow more freedom for his group. Not only is dating one of the Princesses a big upside, but so is being titled a hero and a powerful weapon for the Equestrian Military, he has a lot of a freedom at the moment. But he keeps thinking to himself how long until the war ends and the importance of MACE is forgotten.
Afternoon the next day...
"Alright boys, we're on duty this time. Now I guess we have to address the Princess as... well, Princess Twilight Sparkle. In case that we're under attack again, just speak faster." Soviet explained.
"Wait, what the hell was the mission again?" Ewok asked.
"I have no clue, but as we're already on the way to Canterlot, might as well wait and see." Soviet replied.
"Still, I hope we do get attacked so you can test out your armor and we can finally have fun with C4 and other explosives." Tankery hoped.
"True, but the suit is in that case that's going with us in the suit station at the back that we had Ewok install." Soviet replied. They all looked at the same suit holder in the MACE headquarters but in their personal train cart that they had specially made in Canterlot for diplomatic missions. It was literally an armored carriage with a twin .50 cal turret on top and 6 windows that can be closed with steel plates for cover.
"Yeah, the same station that took me this entire morning. Still, my hand still shakes from the work that bitch took." Ewok put his right hand up and sure enough it was shaking.
"Good luck with that and do not stay behind me while you're holding a gun, I swear to god." Soviet laughed.
"Remember guys, friendly fire is ON. Which to be fair is making me want to shoot friendlies even more. Just don't, got it?" Tankery asked.
"No."
"No, get railed on."
"No, because fuck you." They all laughed.
"Fuck you guys!" Tankery laughed.
"Wait hold on, Captain. How many times have you visited Canterlot?" Ewok asked.
"No fucking clue." He responded.
"Fair enough." Tankery and Tim shrugged.
"So, you're going to ask about Earshot?" Tankery asked.
"Yeah, we need more intel on the enemy so we don't overextend ourselves by finding whatever we need. So I guess this is our best shot." Soviet replied.
