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// The War; Part 3 
// Story: What It's Like on the Other Side 
// by Dimitri_Domovoi 
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	I reappeared high in a tower, I watched as Echo appeared outside the bunker a little more than a football field away from the forty-five foot tall tower I had chosen to go to think. He looked at the tower and started sprinting faster than any human should ever be able to, going into cloak, appearing next to me two minutes later and sitting down next to me. "Hay. What's up man?" Echo asked.

I didn't move, "You know what the fuck is up." I stated before loading a fresh clip into my rifle.

"Look man, we didn't get as close to the p.o.w. camp as we should have, but we did find that empty bunker, so cheer the fuck up, it's not healthy to bottle your anger, otherwise you go off on people like you did just a minute ago." he paused. "And I know her question was... beyond personal, but she didn't know anything about us until we met, and now that she knows your one of the smartest people on this planet, she is probably going to ask more questions about humans." He stood, turning around, to return to the bunker.

"What the fuck is that?" I suddenly ask making Echo turn back to see what i was talking about; a fresh hoard, and a large one at that, was advancing accompanied by four tanks.

"sunova bitch!" Echo said in disbelief, as the Battalion marched forward.

"Echo, go warn the others." I said, but he did not move. "NOW!" I yelled, making him flinch as he turned and lunged forward over the edge of the tower. "C'mon you little bastards." I stated almost inaudibly.







Everyone in the bunker was asleep aside from Twilight and PK when Echo burst through the doorway, slamming the door open, waking everyone up. "PK, we have at least four tanks, and an entire army on our hands in thirty minutes." Echo yelled as a shot bigger than my rifle rang out seconds later there was a loud explosion near the bunker, and Echo ran out sayinG "PK, c'mon were gonna need you for this!"

"I will be but a second." The titan called, turning to Pinkie and crouching to be closer to eye level. "Pinkie, I may die today, so I wanted you to know that I kinda started to like you, you were the only who was not intimidated by my size or silent disposition, so no mater what, stay here and keep quiet, please, I will return for you." he kissed her to prove his point, It lasted but a second, however it was evident she wasn't resisting. Then he stood and walked out, closing the door ripping the handle off, and denting the door were the latch slid through to enter the bunker wall, so no one could open it from the inside or out.

"You better come back." the pink mare whispered, almost to herself.

"Pinkie, are you ok?" Twilight asked.

Pinkie flinched and looked at her friends with a smile "Oh, yea, I'm ok. . . and I think, I just found my special somepony!" Saying the last part excitedly.


I looked from my tower to see PK suddenly appear in the middle of the army, devastating one of the tanks, and taking a nasty red chunk from the opposing army. this would have been a third of the job done, but this was an entire army not just the small waves that they usually throw at us. As I jumped into the sea of opponents I brandished my custom gatling while yelling, "Die you little bastards!" as my words stopped I was drenched it blood and medium sized chunks of organs and started to laugh psychotically 'I really should stop enjoying things like getting covered it entrails, but what'l ya' do?'

I soon found myself in an open area and switching to my shotgun, and back to back with Echo, "Just like old times, eh?"

"You know it man, hay your not still pissed, are you?" he asked as we destroyed the enemies that got within our combined range.

"No, that gatling spree got me out of it, and we need to get this hoard outta the way so I can apologize." I yelled over the sound of gunshots and screams of agony, just as the worst Possible thing could have happened, happened.


"Think about it girls, he may be not a pony, but he keeps showing a sort of chivalry, that for some reason nopony can find in any colts back home." Pinkie said in hopes her friends would let up a little.

"Pinkie why are you getting worked up over him, once we are no longer in a place full of these 

, I'm teleporting us home, end of conversation!" Twilight said aggressively.

Pinkie's eyes started to water, and she was going to say some thing but was cut off by something that sounded like my rifle but way smaller, accompanied by the words "Shoot all three of them, but start with that yellow one!" she looked at the window to see four soldiers pointing bulkier looking versions of that thing Echo was always carrying, just as they were pulling their triggers a flash of static appeared and Dimitri appeared just in time to shield Fluttershy from death. The flash didn't stop them from unloading clip after clip into the now Slightly shaking form of the Spetsnot that had been keeping them alive since they met, for no reason he was giving his life for someone he just me literally this morning.

All the soldiers chests exploded as Echo showed up in the window, but when his suspicions were confirmed about what the four were wasting their ammo on, he dropped all his equipment and climbed through the window in the bunker, dropping to his knees at Dimitri's side, the other three did the same as PK showed up, funny how you ignore some sounds you recognize when your oldest friend is dying, he immediately took charge. "PK, can you handle the rest? I need to get the bullets that didn't exit his body out, now!"

PK simply nodded and ran out re-closing the door, as Echo started to work, taking Dimitri's pliers out of his left breast pocket, and pulling out as many bullets as he could and started to patch him up, stopping at his right elbow noticing he was missing a quarter of his upper arm, he patched it up as best he could.