Upon Salvation

by Nespher Mcel


Chapter Three: A Second Chance

"Now, where was I?" I say upon sitting down in the chair sitting by a table in the dimly lit room. "Oh yes, before Twilight got there..."

[---] Break in the line [---] (Time rewind)

The two fillies who were still with us, as they had been sitting there for a little bit just staring at us and our equipment, spoke up or at least one did. "What's all this stuff anyway?" Scootaloo asked looking to me with a confused look on her face.

I chuckled as I looked at the adorable orange Pegasus who had the best puppy dog eyes you have ever seen, "It's just stuff that we needed back on our world, stuff we couldn't live without," I said not really answering the question fully, (with and discord approved smile.

"I mean what ARE they?" She asked again, with a really creepy smile coming across her face.

"Well," damn that is creepy I started as I took out my Glock 17, "is a gun,, or a pistol in this case, it is used for defensive or offensive purposes, but enough of that," I said as I put away the pistol and started pulling out one of the many MRE's that were laying around on the ground, "this is the shi- I mean food that we get to eat, heheheh...," I said while rubbing the back of my neck, then I pointed to the Humvee that was on it's side, "This beauty is our lovely Octavia," I said with a smile, the scooted over to Grace, who weakly smiled up at me.

"Oh that's cool- WAIT Octavia! what'd you do to our friend!!" Scootaloo said running up to me, scaring the hell out of me, just sayin'

"Huh? wait no, nothing happened, we just called her that because the name fits," I said with a slight twinge of fear in my voice. 'I hope she don't punch me, those hooves look like they'll hurt' I thought to myself.

'Well you would deserve it,' kuno said in my head

'Why do you always talk to me at the worst of times?' I answered

"Oh okay... sorry," the little orange filly apologized while running her hoof though the sand with her head down. she still didn't trust these "humans" all that much.

We all just sat there after that, not doing real much, until Sarge thought it would be a good idea to start putting all the equipment and supplies in organized piles. So I tried to get up, but after being pushed down by Da'Goof a couple times, i gave up and relaxed while cleaning my Athena and my Glock. All the while Da'Goof and Sarge were walking around and gathering the random equipment that was lying around. But everyone was soo distracted with what they were doing that they didn't notice the two mares that walked into the clearing.

The violet one coughed into her shoulder to grab their attention, looking up from my cleaning i saw quite a sight. The first mare that i laid my eyes on was the violet one, or more specifically- a purple/ violet mare with a dark purple mane and tail that had a fluid stripe of pink through both, her mane didn't even part for her horn, that stuck out of her short bangs. Behind her though showed what looked like to be a cyan Pegasus mare with an impossible rainbow colored mane and tail, she wore a confident look like if it was her second nature. "Eh'hem!" the violet mare said with enough volume to further gather all present's attention.

Once she knew that she had our attention she started, "I am Twilight Sparkle, student of Princess Celestia, ruler of the sun, I am pleased to meet one of another sentient race, I hope that we keep a close relationship between us," she said with a rather monotone voice.

"Likewise, I'm Sargent Crawford or Jeremy Crawford, you can just call me Sarge. I'm the leader of this group, and I guess now the Ambassador in this sense," Sarge said while dropping the heavy gun that usually was mounted on top of the Octavia.

"I'm Private First Class Alexander, you can call me Alex or Da'Goof, everyone else does," Da'Goof said while still working on the equipment.

"I'm Lance Corporal Leavitt, you can just call me Leavitt or Jake," I said then I looked down to see that Grace had fallen asleep, "This is Grace she is injured and needs to rest, so you'll meet her later,"

"Nice to meet all of you, but I'm certain there is no 'humans' in Equestria, so you must have been transported here from your own planet, probably a mishap on one of the spells I was working on," Twilight said while looking over all of us and our stuff, "We will have to work on living spaces while we figure how to fix this rather big problem. Though I am surprised that this even happened."

"We are just as surprised that this happened as you are, but I can say as the voice of our group, that this is a much better fate than what could have happened," I said gaining nods from my two teammates.

"I have to admit, this is a surprising occurrence if you ask me," Twilight said with a thoughtful voice.

"If you ask me, I say this is more of a second chance," Sarge said before zoning out, "This place seems much more peaceful than back where we came from."

"I have to agree with ya' on that one," Da'Goof chimed in while leaning on a nearby tree.

"I can't exactly disagree with you, this place is like ten times better than back there," I said while trying to get up again, and winced as I put some weight on my foot. Then I noticed that these ponies were about as short as my bro back home, 'about 5 foot for the two big ones, and about 3 foot for the small ones, tho the cyan one looked smaller than the purple one, oh yeah what was her name again?' I thought to myself.

"Well if you guys are done geeking out on me, i don't think I've introduce myself yet," She said noticing that i was starting to stare at her, I allowed myself a small blush and looked away. "My name's Rainbow Dash, fastest flier in all of Equestria! Besides the Wonder Bolts of course."

"Nice to meet you miss Dash," Sarge said with a smirk on his face seeing me.

"I'll stop you right there, none of that missus stuff, I hate it," Rainbow quipped before adding, "Just call me Rainbow."

"Huh, now we are only missing someone with some sort of bubbly personality, with pink-" I joked while looking to the sky, but then was suddenly interrupted by Rainbow.

"Wait, how do you know about Pinkie?" Rainbow said getting in my face.

So I did the only reasonable thing i could think of, "..." I face palmed.

"Somepony call my name?" A pink mare said after popping up in front of me in a bunch of streamers and confetti, again I did the only thing that a reasonable person would do and face-palm myself again

"What... The... Fuck..." I said in-between face-palms, then looked around to see Sarge and Da'Goof training their guns on the pink blur. I just raised and lowered my hand to tell them to put their guns down. "I'm fucking tired of all of these fucking surprises," I said to myself.

The pink mare's hair slowly deflated hearing this, "Sorry, I'll leave," the pink mare mummered barely being able to heard.

'Wonderful, fucking wonderful job Jake, no one else could be as cold hearted as you' Kuno quipped

'Kuno?'

'Yes?'

'Shut up.'

'Okay' I limped over to the now crying mare and placed a hand on her shoulder. She didn't resist and turned around and jumped on me, hugging me till I couldn't breathe, "C-can't... B-breathe...!" I gasped still unable to speak correctly.

The pink mare looked up at me as if suddenly realizing what she was doing, after a second or two she stopped hugging me and backed off It kinda looked like she was blushing and let out a giggle, "hehehe, sorry, I guess I don't know my own strength," she let out another giggle.

"Eh'hem! I think we have business to deal with here," Sarge stated looking at me in the eye with an angry death glare, "Miss Sparkle, I'm sorry about the comment my soldier said about your friend, we'll take care of him later..."

Twilight looked over to me seeing the fear on my face, "Oh no need, It was just an accident, it looks like all was forgiven, and please just call me Twilight,"

"As you wish Miss Twilight," Sarge said with a smile on his face, 'Damn that lady charmer, he always knows just how to talk to a girl, even if they are a different species' I thought to myself as i laid myself against a tree.

Twilight blushed at the comment and said that she'll take her leave, as did the three little fillies. Rainbow saying that she had to leave because of a Weather patrol. Pinkie said that she wanted to stay a little longer. I just closed my eyes and dozed off quickly, so quickly that I didn't even notice Pinkie was sitting next to me when she kissed my cheek, i didn't even notice it and kept sleeping.

[---] Break in the Line [---] (Time skip)

"That's about it, for the first day in Equestria, other than that it was just of me sleeping and the others laughing around a camp fire," I replied. All the while the General walks into the light to show the face of a guy whose seen hell and more, "General, I don't really understand why you want to hear my story, you already have the report from Sarge,"

"I'm doing this, cause that "report" was so incomplete it only talked about many months later!" The General looked clearly irritated. "You are the only one who is even willing to give me the full story!"

"Whoa! Whoa dude, take a chill pill, I was just asking. No harm done in asking, right?" I said putting my hands up to show I'm not there to fight.

Just then a pink pony walked in the room, bringing it into silence. The General was the first to speak, "It's time to go, isn't it? Mrs. Pie I'm sorry for keeping your husband so late."

"No prob," She bounced, "And I told you to call me Pinkie, Mister Ando," she said jumping on me, and nuzzling her muzzle in my chest. "As long as I get him back in the end of the day, I don't care if he's here talking to you."

"Heh, well I bid you goodbye General Ando!" I yelled before getting dragged out out of the building by the jumpy pink mare.

[---] Chapter Three: End [---]