//------------------------------// // Old Faces in New Places // Story: On The Brink of Friendship // by The Number 1 Bushwacka //------------------------------// Chapter 2: Old faces in new places When Twilight woke up at first, she couldn’t remember what happened or where she was. But she then remembered the mission that Princess Celestia had given them. She got up slowly and observed her surroundings. It looked like hundreds of steel crates packed on top of one another, but some of them had fallen over. She noticed some signs hanging up, as if creatures were living inside them. The place looked abandoned, and everything was rusted. She turned her head and saw a huge tower that was piercing through the sky. As she looked towards the tower, the others started waking up. They all looked around, same as Twilight, until their eyes came upon the tower. “whoa…” was all that Rainbow Dash said. “That’s a tall building’,” Applejack commented. “Those heights look scary from down here,” Fluttershy sheepishly said. Twilight turned toward her friends and said, “Ok girls, we’re still on a mission for Princess Celestia. She said the creatures here were warriors, so be careful when speaking to the ones we need to bring back.” Everyone nodded. As they walked towards the ocean, they saw a what looked like a metal boat. “Maybe that can take us somewhere where we can find the six warriors?” Rainbow said. “It’s worth a try.” Twilight said. They all got into the boat, which started automatically. It would take them to the place were they can find their six warriors. The Resort. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Resort… /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Rafael was in a state of shock. Less than five minutes earlier, they were in their boat heading towards the resort. But now their boat had crashed, and they were trying to get back to the assigned landing zone. Rafael aimed down the C-U-Gone red dot sight of his Gerund, killing any security he saw and covering Viktor, who was carrying and injured survivor of the crash. Nick’s Barnett had run out of ammo earlier, so he had to leave it. He now had his Kross SMG with a Yeotek Red Dot Sight attached to it pulled out. “How much farther!?” Nick yelled over the gunfire to Rafael. “I don’t know, but command said that it was not far. We just have to keep heading this way!” /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ In a different area of the resort… /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ The ponies were just coming into the resort, where they heard strange noises in the distance. “This looks like an expensive mall, but that noise seems… disturbing,” Rarity said. “Well, there’s nothing much we can do besides split up, so we can find these six warriors faster,” Twilight said. Everyone nodded, splitting up into groups of three. Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity went one way, while Twilight, Applejack, and Fluttershy went the other. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Some time later… /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Rarity could hear voices as her, Rainbow, and Pinkie walked farther, they could hear voices, along with the other noise. “Do you ponies hear voices?” she asked. “Yeah,” Rainbow said. “Maybe they are the six warriors Celestia talked about. “I hope your right, my hooves are getting sore from all this walking,” Rarity said. Rainbow then saw a young creature, 18 (though she didn’t know it’s age.) He was wearing all green, wearing a mask, a green armored vest, and black and leg pants (The Bug.) He was running and jumped over a counter, aiming a strange looking object at somthing and pulling something on it, making a loud, deafening sound. “Maybe he is one of the six warriors,” Pinkie said. “Lets say hello!” she said, bouncing over to him. “Pinkie, wait!” Rarity and Rainbow said, going after her. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ A few minutes earlier… /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ “You see were that boat crash?” asked Mark. Mark was 20, American, had a medium body build, and was his squadron’s leader. He was wearing “The Shield”. “yeah, they crashed west,” Said Carlos. Carlos had a light body build, was of Mexican decent, was 18, and was wearing “The Bug”. He had a tattoo that said “Preserve” that ran down from his right shoulder to his right elbow. “Right,” Mark said, “Jackson, lead the way! Get that Chinzor MG spinning!” “I’ll lead the way!” Said Jackson. Jackson was 24, had a heavy body build, and was wearing “The Bomb”. As they were walking towards the crash site, they heard a gunshot rang out, and a fellow officer fell beside them. “Sniper! Get to cover! Don’t bunch up!” Mark yelled, giving out orders. Everyone found cover as the other Resistance fighters started to lash out. One got cocky and charged towards Carlos. He jumped over Carlos, but after he landed, Carlos but put him in a choke hold and stuck a knife into his chest, killing him easily. “One less terrorist to worry about,” Carlos said. The fighting grew intense, but the survivors of the boat crash were starting to fall back. The sniper, that was wearing The Anger, dropped his Sniper rifle after he heard a click-click from his gun. “We got them on the run!” Jackson said, firing at them with his Chinzor MG. Carlos was taking cover behind a counter he had just dash vaulted over (if you don’t know what a dash vault is, look up Parkour moves) a counter, when he heard a voice. “Hi, I’m Pinkie Pie, what’s your name?” Carlos turned around rapidly and pointed his Sea Eagle pistol towards the voice, but what he saw, least to say, scared him to death. (remember, if the world flooded, animals wouldn’t have survived. As far as I know, no one brought animals onto the ark.) Carlos was staring at a pink pony with a puffed up pink mane, who was staring back at him. Carlos just paused for a second, unable to speak or move. “Are you there?” Pinkie asked. Carlos responded by screaming and running off. “MARK!!!” “Now look, you scared him off.” Rainbow Dash said. “Well, how was I suppose to know he was going to run off?” Pinkie replied. “Don’t worry Pinkie, we just have to follow him. Come on,” Rarity said, chasing the Creature in the green suit. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ “MARK!” Carlos screamed. Mark turned around quickly, looking at Carlos. “What is it, are you hit?!” he asked worridly. “No, there are some kind of weird creatures following us!!” Carlos yelled. “Carlos, has the fight finally gotten to you?” Mark asked. “No no, look!” Carlos said, pointing. Sure enough, mark saw 3 ponies following them, dodging bullets and grenades. “What the Hell?” Mark said. Jackson came over to them. “Are those ponies?” he asked. “What?” Carlos asked. “Ponies. They use to live on earth before the floods. I thought they all died out.” Jackson said. The 3 ponies came up to them now. “My goodness darling. You do run fast.” Rarity said, looking at Carlos. The three Soldiers, all experienced with war, blood, and near death experiences, were intimidated, not just by ponies, but by the fact that they were talking, magical ponies (they saw Rarity use magic to fix her hair.) Wha- What the Hell are you?” Carlos asked. “Well, allow me to introduce ourselves. I’m -” Rarity started, but she was cut off by a war cry. “Look out!” Carlos yelled. A Resistance fighter, wearing the fortress, jumped at the six and started to fire his rifle, but Carlos was faster. He jumped in front of Rainbow dash, catching the rebel and snapping his neck. “Wow, you were so fast!” Rainbow commented. “It’s my job” Carlos said. “We have to fall back, the Resistance is getting stronger.” Mark said. “All units fallback! We can’t hold the resort any longer! Fallback to the tower!” Mark ordered. The ponies followed, and after they got to the tower, they explained there situation to them. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ “Keep moving brothers!” Rafael said. Instead of falling back, they were now moving ahead. They were winning, and would soon be one step closer to escaping the Ark. Nick was moving silently, picking his targets out one by one. “Their falling back.” Nick said calmly. The Resistance moved up and kept going until the Security had fallen back completely. “Well, turns out we can make something good out of something bad,” Viktor said. “Yeah.” Nick said, fist bumping with Viktor. “Funny, I could have sworn that I saw 3 ponies with 3 of the security’s men,” Rafael said. “Ponies? You mean like, the ones from the old history books?” Nick asked. Rafael nodded. But they were interrupted by a voice. “Um, excuse me.” Everyone turned around, weapons drawn, until they saw what it was. It was a small pony, with a light purple coat and a dark purple-blue mane with a single brilliant rose highlight running through it. Nick looked at it. “Why, a real pony. I thought they all died out. At least that’s what my dad told me when I was young.” Twilight looked at the creature. She was intimidated by all of them and their looks, but this one looked like an evil spirit, especially with the Red bandanna with the Roughly stitched evil smile. But she tried to hide her fear and talk with these humans. “My name is Twilight Sparkle, and these are my friends, Applejack and Fluttershy.” Applejack looked brave, but Twilight could tell she was nervous. And Fluttershy, well, it was pretty obvious. Viktor looked at them. “Why are you here?” he asked. Twilight responded, saying, “We are in because we need help. We ask of you to come to our world and help us keep our land free from the evils of what we call the Griffons.” she said. “We can provide you with food, shelter, medicine, and other things if you need them.” Twilight thought they would look at her as if she was crazy, but, surprisingly to her, they looked happy. “You mean we can escape this wretched place?” Rafael asked. “Well, I suppose so.” Twilight replied. “What are we waiting for then?” Viktor said. Nick was the only one who seemed troubled. “What about Brother Chen. What if he needs us?” he asked. “This is our chance, Nick, we can escape the Ark.” Rafael said, trying to convince him. “But, Brother Chen is counting on us to help free everyone on the Ark, shouldn’t we at least ask him?” Nick replied. “It would seem like the best option,” Viktor said. “Ok then, we’ll let the ponies tell Brother Chen.” Rafael said, and with that, they went to an abandoned boat to go back to Container City. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Security Headquarters… /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ “Captain Mokoena, you have *cough* visitors.” Captain Mokoena was surprised, thinking, “so was the Resistance right this whole time?” he wondered. But he pushed the thought to the back of his head, and said. “send them in.” He was a little shocked when h saw three ponies enter his room, but he kept his cool. “Welcome,” he said. “Good day sir, I hate to go straight to the point, but I believe it is urgent.” Mokoena was not sure why, but he seemed to not be even more shocked when the ponies started speaking. “Well, then, state your business.” Rarity explained the ponies situation, about the Griffons and Canterlot, and look at Mokoena. Mokoena just stared, still taking in what he was told. “So, you are telling me, that you 3 are from a different world, and ask to take 3 of my best warriors, back with you to help you fight against a force that wants to take over your land because they think they are right?” Rarity nodded, saying, “Yes sir, that is correct.” Mokoena thought for a while. Just when Rarity thought he was about to say no, he spoke. “Alright. The way you talk about these “Griffons” reminds me of the resistance, and the last thing anyone needs is resistance.” Rarity’s heart jumped, saying, “Thank you sir!” Mokena simply nodded and said “have you found your 3 warriors?” Rarity said, “we chose these three,” pointing at Mark, Jackson, and Carlos. Mokoena nodded. “Men, do you except this mission?” The three nodded, the mall saying in unison, “We will protect and preserve.” Rarity and the other ponies stared in awe. “They are very well trained Captain.” “They are the best of the best.” Mokenea responded. He saluted his men as they left. “Well then, now we have to find Twilight,” Rainbow Dash said. Carlos looked at her. “There’s more?” /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Container City… /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ “Brother Chen, you have *cough* visitors.” Brother Chen looked up. “there is help,” Chen thought to himself. He did not expect 3 ponies, and was surprised when they came in, but he kept his cool. “Welcome.” Twilight smiled and said “Hello. I know we have just got here, but we are on urgent business,” she said. Chen nodded and listened to Twilights story. He was amazed at how they came form a different world, and the situation there in. “So you are threatened by another kingdom that wants to take control and rule your princess kingdom?” Chen asked. Twilight nodded. Chen had a thoughtful look on his face, and he arose. “I will let you take Nick, Viktor, and Rafael. The yare the best that I have. The way you talk of these “Griffons” and their lust for control and power is as strong as the Security’s. No one should suffer from the rule of others as we do. I allow you to take my 3 men.” Chen said. Twilight was thrilled. “Oh, Thank you Brother Chen! Thank you!” Brother Chen simply nodded. As Twilight and the others walked out, Chen looked out towards the Ark. “The cancer of their “order” spreads now to other worlds! I thought when we finally destroyed the Earth, we would stop fighting and would help each other. But as long as we exist, someone will think they should control everything.” Twilight looked at Nick and the others. “Ok, now we need to find Rarity and the new can teleport back. Nick looked at her. “There’s others?” /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ As the ponies joined up, they hugged each other because it felt like years that they were apart. “Is everyone alright?” Twilight asked. “yeah, and we found three warriors!” Rainbow Dash said. “really? Us to!” Twilight said. “Well, what in tarnation are we a waitin fer?” Applejack asked. “Where are thay anyway?” “Were here.” said Nick. Rarity, Rainbow, and Pinkie looked at the three warriors that Twilight, Applejack, and Fluttershy found. Rarity nearly fainted at the sight of their choice of clothes. Rainbow flew up to eye level with Viktor, who stared coldly in return. “Why is there a scar over you eye?” she asked. “It is to long of a story, I will tell you later.” Viktor said. “So, where are the 3 guys we’re working with?” Rafael asked. “Oh, here they come!” Rarity said. As everyone turned to look at the other three, the six warriors were staring at each other. “SECURITY!” “RESISTANCE!” Both sides suddenly pulled out melee weapons and charged at each other, the ponies in between. The ponies screamed, but before the warriors could cut each other, they were teleported back to the pony’s world.