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// One World to Another 
// Story: Coffee vs. Equestria 
// by aegishailstorm 
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Whilst the forces of the griffon empire retreated back behind their borders, the Windigos were headed straight for Canterlot.   They were drawn to the greatest collection of magic on the continent, which in this case was Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. Alongside the population of Canterlot. They needed emotions and magic to feed on after their long slumber, and Equestria was just the place for it. It was at about this time that Celestia began to once more raise the sun. Though it made little difference to the storm created by the Windigos. 



Angry had decided to go on a morning run, around Canterlot. Being that he had not yet had the time to fully explore the city. He left through the main gates, and proceeded to the city walls, where he began making his loop. Angry kept to a light jog up until the point when he was right over the waterfall which fed into the Canterhorn river. He stopped at the halfway point to gaze out at Eqeustria, and quickly noticed an anomaly in the otherwise clear deep blue sky. A singular storm cloud which appeared to be slowly approaching the mountainside city. He looked at it with mild confusion. Storms- and clouds in general were an extremely common occurrence on earth, the same could be said about the Everfree forest. But not the Equestrian heartland. It seems as though ponies, pegasi in particular. What with their ability to control the weather, had decided against constant cloud cover.  Or any, for that matter, though he and the others had heard that it was permitted to occasionally rain. 

Which was what made this singular storm on the horizon all the more interesting. He stood there for about a minute and watched as it got closer, and closer, and closer. He heard wings flapping, hooves, and the memorable noise of boot's on cobble behind him. He glanced over his shoulder.

"What's so fascinating?" It was Lucas Botkin, with Princess Celestia and Matt Best in tow. Lucas, to his surprise, was hovering roughly 6 inches above the ground. " How's hooves working out for you?" He snarked. Celestia shifted her gaze from Lucas to him. "He's quite the natural."

" Shooting isn't that much of a problem either. I can still draw pretty. Heck, I can hold a tighter MOA than I ever could with this new horn. It's effortless." He half drew his Glock from the holster on his right side to further his point, before dropping it back into place. Oddly enough, his human clothes all seemed to fit his new equine form perfectly. With the exception of his boots, which didn't fit his hind hooves for obvious reasons. He was fine letting John hold onto them for the time being. 

"See that storm off in the distance?" Lucas squinted, "Yeah, it's a storm, so?" Celestia was far more concerned. Angry and Matt looked up and over at her. "Well? What is it? The Luftwaffe? E.T? Ivan?"  Matt chuckled. " Look's to me like we've got a case of Independence Day on our hands!" A roar of laughter rose up from behind them, Angry looked to find the other Americans, fresh out of breakfast. Matt looked over at Lucas and Celestia, " And hooves, of course. We can't forget our Equestrian friends. And Botkin." The alicorn chuckled.


Celestia's face grew pale... Well, as pale as an already alabaster white alicorn could. Brandon cupped his hands around his eyes and looked at the distant storm. "What are you so concerned about?" She turned to him.

" Tell me Mr. Herrera, are you familiar with what a Windigo is?" He raised an eyebrow. " No... But I know what a wendigo  is. They're a huge problem down in Texas, almost as much as Chupacabra's, Florida men, fire ants, and feral pigs." Celestia stared at Brandon. A couple of the Veterans behind him snickered. Garand raised his left index finger, " Ma'am, Brandon is kidding. There are no evil bipedal canids with a thirst for blood within the borders of the Lone Star state... That we know of, that is." He shrugged. " Well, I would suppose that's good news for you... But I was referring to Windigos, massive flying equestrian creatures which feed off emotions and bring massive storms with them wherever they go. They terrorized pre Equestria, several thousand years ago. But disappeared shortly afterwards. Never to be seen again." The team looked at each other as though this was a story they had heard dozens of times before.

Celestia continued, "My sister and I heard tales of them back when we were still foals. Luckily, we never had the chance to 'experience' them personally. " Jared tapped his foot. "So... On a scale of one to ten, how much of a threat-"

"It isn't that simple, sometimes they will ravage an area until there isn't a soul left. Othertimes they will simply pass an area by. And nopony quite knows why." Mike and Lucas stopped her simultaneously, but Lucas decided to let Mike speak his mind first." Nopony... That implies just ponies. But what about other creatures?" Evan Hafer laughed. " And where are we going to find one willing to help us?"

"How about Zecora?" Standing on the far northern side of the bridge was Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie. The BRCC team stared at the half dozen colorful equines in confusion. It was Brandon Herrera that responded to them, simply because that he was the only member of the team that knew who Twilight was talking about. He had actually met Zecora before on a walk down the road leading to Point Liberty. They had gotten along well. Through he wasn't fond of the fact that she only seemed to speak in riddles.

Princess Celestia greeted Twilight and her friends with a warm smile. " That is a good idea, but at the rate that those Windigos are approaching us, we won't have the time to speak with her. " Twilight groaned. " Then what do we do?"


"Have you tried bullets!?" Angry cried out, suddenly turning to Celestia. She shook her head. Angry put his hand to his forehead. When he raised his head again, Mike was biting his lip and looking over at Twilight, " Weren't there 6 of you?" John pointed to a quickly fading rainbow light streaking towards the storm. " There goes Rainbow Dash." Rarity murmured. Logan  from the BRCC team found her though his binoculars. "Heh, it's like the time that Taliban guy rushed our armored convoy with nothing but a rock." The other vet's laughed. "Which one?" Jared added. Celestia sighed, she can't possibly take those windigos on and win by herself. " This is Rainbow Dash you're referring to Princess, it doesn't matter if she can or not. You know she's still gonna try." Applejack responded. Logan responded with a "Mhm." As he watched as Rainbow Dash flew into the storm cloud, and flew out even faster a few moments later. 

" Oh well... C'mon guy's. Let's go get kitted up." Scott waved them back towards the castle. From the gates they headed to their respective guest rooms. Where they donned their equipment. And all met up at the grassy knoll where their vehicles were parked. 

"Alright, does now... Does anyone have a plan?" Evan tapped his foot on the pavement and stared off at the storm, which now appeared to be just a few miles from them. "Celestia, Luna. Do you know of any weaknesses that those creatures have that we can exploit?"

"I believe we might be able to utilize the Elements of Harmony. Though to do that we would need Twilight and all her friends. And Rainbow Dash is out of commission. Her gaze shifted to Lucas." What, me? No. Absolutely not. I'm a shooter, an operator. Not a mage. I don't even know the first darned thing about spellcasting!" He threw his hooves up in protest. Brandon sighed. " Well, guess we'll just have to do this the old fashioned way." He walked to one of the trucks and came back half a minute later with an RPG 7 slung over his shoulder. "Where'd you get a new one?" Donut pondered. Brandon winched. "... Anyway. We are going to wait still that storm is right overhead, then we fire this into it and- See what happens?" Celestia was skeptical. " Brandon, I might do well to remind you that it is my kingdom's capital that is at stake. 

Scott laughed. " We dealt with that Nightmare Moon character relatively easily. And we've all been through our fair share of hurricanes. The team all nodded in agreement. "What are we going to to do while it's making it's way over here?" John Lovell asked Brandon. 

" Let's take some potshots at it with our rifles. " Matt Best was skeptical. " Won't that just make it mad?"

"It a magical storm made by ethereal equines. How bad could it be?" Lucas and John shook their heads. "Man, haven't you learned yet? Never say 'how bad could it be?' Right before a mission." Matt paused, and then grinned as the dozen or so humans and one alicorn went to their vehicles and set up their long guns. The whole scene was so absurd that it could be considered comedic. 

Whilst this was unfolding. The Mane Six were in the process of getting down Rainbow Dash-who had gone down after a rather anticlimactic  skirmish with the windigos. Back to Canterlot. 





"Alright, who'll  go first-" Lucas gave up trying to direct things when they all simply began firing at once. The humans had brought with them an assortment of AR and AK style rifles to use. With the exception of Ian. Who instead preferred to use an old Mauser bolt action rifle. Together, they fired a few volleys at the storm. To no effect. At least Matt could take solace in the fact that he was right. It did indeed only serve to make the creatures madder.  By this point, it was nearly above the castle. Alarms had begun to sound across the city. And they could hear a cadence of distant screams. 

"Alright, it's here!" The team grabbed their rifles and ran for the castle. Brandon meanwhile, took aim with the RPG and let loose a single rocket. Which detonated somewhere up in the clouds. But just as rest of the humans began to realize the gravity of what was going on. "Oh well." Was Brandon's anti climactic response. He drew an M1911 from his belt, raised it into the sky, and fired off a single .45 Auto slug. Just as the casing hit the ground, an rather horrifying cry of pain emanated from the storm cloud. All at once, one eightied and nose dived into the lake at the base of the Canterlot waterfall in a flash of ethereal light, momentarily turning the surface to ice.  A few moment's later, the sky began to brighten again. "

"Huh, guess that's why the call it the Lord's caliber." Scott laughed. The rest of the team was completely fine with what had just happened. With the exception of John Lovell and the still ponified Lucas Botkin.  Celestia was in utter amazement as well.

"That... Actually worked. It is a surprise, but a welcome one at that. Good work Americans. Equestria, and I thank you once more. On that note, do any of you happen to know where Twilight Sparkle and her friends went?"



Meanwhile, somewhere in the Southwestern United States...