//------------------------------// // Son of Man // Story: Permission to FREAK OUT!? (sequel to Lost, on the heat of battle. a TF2 and MLP crossover.) // by heavy weapons brony //------------------------------// The party in ponyville had grown huge in size, and ponies and Soldiers alike had been partying to the point that no one (or pony) noticed the single lone Changeling marching through the crowd. He was unarmed and carried himself quite robustly, he walked with his hands behind his back and his shout up in the air in disgust as if the ponies around him had not showered for weeks. After reaching the center of the mass he reached Soldier (again,..the real one, ok to get it straight if i refer to a soldier as “Soldier” like a name then its the original, if i refer to one as “a soldier” or “one of the soldiers” then i mean one of his clones.) Soldier was drunkenly dancing to “America the beautiful” with a bottle of “Red Rockin Cola, the Changeling calmly walked up to him and tapped him on the Shoulder.’ The Bottle of cola shattered on the ground and Soldier cocked his shotgun and stuffed it into the Changelings mouth. The music stopped and everypony's (as well as everybody’s) attention was turned. The Changeling gave Soldier a look of mild annoyance “MI MarryMord mmf The Meen.” He said calmly. “What?” Soldier answered. The Changeling rolled his eyes, he pulled the shotgun away and repeated. “I have word from the Queen,” “The Queen of what? Mars?” Soldier asked. “Shure why not, Anyway the Queen has question for you,” “And what might that be?” Soldier asked in a annoyed tone. “Will you fight? or live?” “Fight! now thank you for your time,” Soldier then reached for another bottle of cola. “What? no! your not suppose to answer it like that!” “How am i suppose to answer?” “Your suppose to Surrender!” “HA! you martians are all the same!” “WHat!? whatever, we stand beyond the trees nearly 1400 strong so i’ll ask again, Fight? or live?” Soldier smacked the Changeling across the face with his shovel, falling him to the ground. “You tell your queen that if she attacks the newly annexed city of ponyville, then shes attacking American soil, so we'll rocket her ass all the way back to the RED PLANET!!” The Changeling growled and held his bloody muzzle, “Fine, i’ll take it you’ll die, i’ll tell my queen,” “Hold it right there twinkle toes, what happens if we capture you?” A Team of Clones surrounded The messenger. “I-I-If i don’t return, The Queen will attack anyway,” The Changeling stammered, his cool demeanor failing him. “Then i guess we don’t need you to deliver anything,” N-N-N-Neck Snap! The Changeling fell dead at Soldier feet, his neck broken and his head was on backwards “Finish off the sodas boys,” Soldier cracked his knuckles, “And pick your loadouts, cuz we’re going to war” The formation of Soldier clones stood at attention in the center of Ponyville before the steps to the town hall. Loadouts between the Soldier varied, between hats, rocket launchers, shotguns, banners, boots and melee weapons. the silence was broken by Soldiers footsteps echoing through the city hall, he approached the stand with the microphone, Soldier kept a stock look along with stock weapons, because he knew how to be a good Soldier. And good Soldiers use stock. “Men, no poor sap ever did any good dying for his county, he did good by sending the martians he was fighting back to their red communistic Planet! He did good by eliminating the threat of communism from the galaxy!” The formation erupted in HOOAHS and “SIR YES SIRS,” “So spay or neuter your pet today and send it into the fight with you! and Today men! you AND you resentful pet can be that poor sap that saved his galaxy! BY kicking the martians back to phobias!” Medic leaned over to Scout, who were both watching Soldiers speech along with the rest of ponyville. “Soldiers knowledge of Mars’s moon astounds me,” Medic whispered to Scout. “I wouldn’t get your hopes up, about a mounth ago I saw Soldier playing DOOM 3 on his xbox,” Scout answered. Medic facepalmed,...”Just when i think he’s,” “The enemy my kill us, it may pull off our toes, kill out pets, pull out our guts, chop off our heads, put us thru a space wood chipper, eat our socks, vaporize us! antagonize us! probe our,...” “OKAY SOLDIER!! they get the idea” Scout said, noticing that many of the ponies had began to cry out. “But there is one thing they can’t hurt,...our haircuts!!! Medic! here cut these ponies hair while we go fight the martians,” Soldier threw an electric razor into Medic’s gloved hands. Medic rolled his eyes,..”Fess,...very well,” “Enemy spotted!!!! at the far tree line!” a Soldier send out to scout for the enemy shouted from the edge of town. Soldier smiled “Okay men! this is it! Today by our rockets red glare, will show that our flag is still there,” Soldier promptly saluted the flag waving from the statue of Princess Celestia, The Group of Soldiers followed suit. Heavy just broke through the tree line, he dropped to his knees panting with sweat falling from his forehead. “*Huff,...it was long trip,” After being cured, Heavy lost sight of them due to his speed, but was happy to see theme again. All standing in a row at the edge of a colorful town? Heavy scratched his head. Then he heard a strange horn blowing, shifting his attention to the far tree line, a huge sea of strange black creatures flowed from the trees, then the horn rang out a second time. The sea of black roared “FOR THE QUEEN!” then charged the group of Soldiers. “AAAATTTTTTTTAAAAACCCCCKKKKK!!!!!” Soldiers voice roared, and his group charged. Heavy smiled and pulled out his minigun, he didn’t care, tiny cowards were tiny cowards. “Scout! stay here and keep ze ponies inside, i’ve got to make sure that they win this, because if he doesn't it could be really bad,” “Aw why do i have to look after the ponies?” Scout whined. “Because i’ll have enough trouble healing some irate patriotic sociopaths that i don’t need you jumping around,” “Fine,..” Scout caved. Medic pulled out his medigun and bounded after the Soldiers. Scout turned to the mass of Scared ponies,”Okay! everybody in your homes! Twilight we need to take cover in your library,” Twilight nodded and the the 6 ponies (And 1 human) shuffled through the mass of panicking ponies to Twilight's library. “FIRE!” Soldier shouted. A massive wave of rockets erupted through the ranks, for several seconds they sped through the air closing the gap between the two armies. The Changelings stopped their charge and raised their shields just before impact. *BOOM!BOOM!BOOBOOM! the wave of over 300 rockets impacted the Changeling front line completely covering it in smoke and fire. The Army of Soldiers High-Fived each other as the breeze carried the dust away to reveal that most of the Changeling Front lines lay untouched. Four of Five lay on the ground dead and several more had been injured, the Changelings dropped their shields and continued the charge. “Nuts! It looks like they have explosive resistance, men! you know what to do!!” Soldier barked to his men, Many switched to their shotguns to find they did significantly more damage to the Changelings, those who didn’t have their Shotguns Rocket jumped through the air, closing the gap Between the two armies and attacking from above with melee weapons. The Soldiers began pounding though Changelings, but as one was killed, several took it’s place. The Soldiers began to be overrun, Several Soldiers blew their buff banners and Concherors, Mini crits were dealt and health was regained turning the tide of the battle,..for now. Medic ducked and weaved through the Battle, healing all he could, he saw a stray Soldier disconnected from the group, Medic charged through it unnoticed and was about to heal him. Then the Soldiers head popped off and he fell to the ground dead, The Changeling that killed him looked up at Medic, He stood nearly 8 feet tall and was clad in black shimmering Changeling armour. Medic gasped, he pulled out his syringe gun and began backpedaling to the group of Soldiers, The Changeling growled and charged him, A few more stragglers began Charging behind him. “WAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAH!!!”” Medic screamed. “RAWWWWWWWWWWWW,” the Changelings roared. “YYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!” a familiar voice rang. The air exploded with heavy caliber fire, minigun fire blanket the assaulting line, the Changelings all were torn to shreds and fell just before Medic’s feet. “GOOD TIMES!!” Heavy bellowed from the over side of the heap of Changling mess, Heavy then bounded over the puddle of bodies and met up with his friend. “Is team time Doktor!” Soldier was having a hard times of his own, The changelings had gathered that he was the leader and started singling him out. “Remember the alamo boys! and how we went in there and kicked hitlers ass right out of new mexico!!” The Soldiers began to break from the front line, Soldiers died left and right, Others retreated to find health, The changelings had began to break through. Soldier held the line with his Shotgun blazing, Plenty of ammo littered the ground from his comrades, as Soldier blew away assaulting Changelings, he failed to noticed one of his friendlies sneaking up from behind. The Soldier walked behind Soldier and looked around to see if anyone was watching, he then became engulfed in green flame and transformed into a changeling. This one looked different from the others, he wore no armour only black ropes and only carried a dagger made from black steel, and wore a mask to cover his face, The Changeling lifted his dagger, prepared to strike Soldier in the back. Just before his arm muscles could bring the knife down, a loop of rope went around his wrists, he turned his head just in time for his head to be reduced to soup by a Shotgun. Engineer riding on top of Sweetie bot bounded into the battle, pouncing into the front line, smashing several changelings into the ground in a single leap. “RAAWWWWWW!!!!!!” Sweetie bot roared. “WOOOOOWEEEE”!! Engie cheered, pulling out his wangler and sending a sea of Bullets into the Changeling army. Changelings began to fall like Harvested wheat, The Soldiers Regrouped and healed from the dispenser behind Sweetie Bot, resupplied the Soldiers began another push. “My queen! news from the Battlefield!” “yes! Yes! what is it? how long will it be until we take Ponyville?” “Well thats just it my Queen,...they're beating us back,” The Queens expression hardened,..”Send out the archers,” “But queen, we only have about 10 ready!” “Yes but they are the best shots in equestria, especially with their new bodies,” “Right away my Queen,” “Oh and one more thing, prepare my personal guard,.. I”m going in myself,” Heavy mowed down wave after waves of Changelings with ease, all the damage they managed to do was quickly healed. The Changelings quickly retreated. Heavy laughed maniacally while Medic smiled, confident in the battle. suddenly an Arrow cut through the air and sliced right through his knee, Medic screamed and fell to one knee, another pierced through his chest. Heavy felt the heal beam cease, he turned to see his friend bleeding on the ground. “Docktor!” Heavy quickly scanned the area for the source of the arrows, he spun his minigun ready to fire. Another arrow flew from the trees and embedded itself in Heavys arm. “GAAA!!!” Arrows erupted from the trees, striking the ground all around Heavy, Heavy quickly picked Medic up and sprinted into the forest, Arrows pleted the trees around them, Heavy sprinted with Medic on his back. After what seemed like Hours, heavy spied a cave on the side of a mountain deep in the everfree, Arrows still at his heels, he squeezed into the small opening. Heavy lay Medic on the cold ground floor, he couldn’t see in the dark but he felt Medic breathing in his arms. “Doktor! what is wrong!?” “H-Heavy,..im hurt pretty bad mein freund,” “But you could,” “nein, i’ve lost too much blood, theres nothing i could do,” “But i,..” “theres nothing you can do either, i'm afraid this is it, no respawn to save me,” Heavys eyes began to swell with tears as the weight of the fact he was going to lose his best friend, Heavy felt his legs weaken, he fell back on his rear. His back slammed into something metal in the side of the cave, Heavy jumped up and turned, he felt the small metal box before him, if felt like a resupply closet, only smaller, in fact, Heavy opened it and felt his wounds heal and his ammo refill instantly. “DOKTOR!!” Happily yelled before slamming Medic into the cabinet. the main Battle was still at a stand still, neither side was gaining or losing any ground, but with the recent arrival Of Worst Possible thing, Applenah, Fyra ,and Bomb Bomb. Fyra detonated, setting several Changelings on fire, the screamed and rolled around on the ground in attempt to douse the flames. “WORST POSSIBLE THING!!” A couch flew from stage right and threw several flaming Changelings into the Air. A Soldier picked up Bomb bomb and pulled off her mane with a *Click then threw her into the mass of Changelings, a huge explosion rang out, sending several Changelings flying through the air. “NAH!” AppleNah Flew through the air and severed the Changelings into pieces, Causing it to momentarily Rain Changeling Flesh. The Changeling Archer stood nearly a mile from from the fight, he used Changeling Enchantments to See farther and to stretch his arrows range, He noticed the gigantic robot cutting through his army, he took careful aim at the human riding it. His eyes narrowed, Then his head exploded, his arrow flew towards Engie. “G’Day!,....Peekaboo!” The Scout, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Twilight and Fluttershy stood in the balcony of Twilights tree house watching the battle. “What's Happening?” Twilight asked. “Looks like dere holding the line, but theres still plenty of those things left, Here didn’t you say that there ones someone they fear?” Twilight's eyes shot open, she levitated a book from her saddle bag. “Yes, theres a passage here on how they where defeated thousands of years ago,...here it is” Back at the battle, things had turned once again without the support from Medic the Soldiers had lost half of their number, but they hanged on strong. Sweeties guns fell silent, Engie gasped and turned to see a arrow had loged into the barrels of Sweeties sentry gun. “DAMMITDANGITDANGNABBIT” Engie cursed, he crawled down Sweetie’s back, He raised his wench to fix Sweetie, but was thrown off when Sweetie became swarmed By changelings, Engie fell flat on his face as Sweetie was tipped on her side and swarmed by Changelings. Engie quickly took out his Frontier Justice and fought off as many as he could was he retreated with the rest of the Soldiers. The whole group retreated to the edge of Ponyville with the whole changeling Army at their heels. The whole group stopped, and stood in wonderment at several tall black figures blocking their way into ponyville. Just a bit of cool music to go along with the scene. The two princess of Equestria stood atop the tallest tower in canterlot, witnessing the battle from afar. “We should have acted,..they're already here,” Luna sated. Celestia looked at ponyville off into the distance, “The ancient scrolls told of their return.” “Their defeat, was only a delay i'm afraid,” Luna returned. “From the time obscurity had been opened,” “When the colts of Equestria, would spill their own blood,” Dic soupcan sat atop Big mac, to his left stood Spyper holding his Sniper rifle, and Scuttlebucket standing idly next to him, the small group calmly walked through the group of retreating Soldiers and strolled towards the fast flowing sea of charging Changelings. “Nopony wanted to believe,... believe they existed,...And when the truth finally dawned,...it Dawned in WAR!” Twilight found the page in the book on AnthroChanglings. “AH! here it says they were defeated by a bipedal creature from another world. Scout lifted his head back to the battle, he noticed Dic soupcan “Hey! Dic s here! whats he doing?,” Dic soupcan rode atop Big Mac towards the charging enemy, and stood their ground 40 feet from the front line. “Heres a passage, it says “Theres only one the changelings fear,” 20 feet to go, dic stared down the charging horde with a face ready for battle “In their tongue he his Demoking,...” 10 Feet, Dic sucked in a large breath. “Destruction-born!” “OI-KA-BOOM!” Dic shouted, his voice was amplified to deafening volumes, and from his words a gigantic cyclone of fire was born. The hundred of so Changelings that were immediately if front of him turned to ash instantly, the ones about 20 feet away where not so lucky, there flesh was roasted black and they died over the span of the next few minutes, and the rest where all thrown from their feet, stopping the charge dead. The Changelings that swarmed Sweetie Bot where roasted right off, Sweetie Exploded from the mass of charred flesh, she roared at the halted Changelings, she spied the wangler on the ground, she picked it up in her mouth and her on board repair systems mounted it to the side of her head, she pointed the laser at the changelings and erupted into Sentry fire. And in a span of a few seconds, the survivors of the Changeling army fled back towards the everfree. “Give’em hell boys!!” Soldier shouted, and proceeded to chase the routing army, but was stopped by a latex gloved hand. “Nien, Don’t running off, we need to regroup! i think i have discovered something about the world but we need the rest of the team.” “But my MEN!” Soldier shouted, pointing to the mass of red and black spilling into the Everfree. “They'll take care of the enemy don’t worry, now where is Scout?” “Looking for these?” a smart voice said in a royal voice. Heavy, Medic, Engie and Soldier turned to see Scout, and Four ponies all bound by Changelings, and the Queen herself held a Dagger to Twilight throat. Soldier growled, he leveled his shotgun “Face it, your planet is ours,” He barked. Crysalis gave Soldier a look of confusion, then disregarded what he said. “You think i would put this much of a fight for this mud town? no,..i got what i wanted right here, so i haven’t lost anything,” She pressed the Dagger softly into Twilights throat, Just enough to draw a little blood. Medic took Soldiers Shoulder and whispered into his ear “Keep them distracted, i,ve got a plan” Medic then bounded to the battlefield. Soldier then got an idea, he slowly walk towards Chrysalis, She eyed him and softly pressed the dagger to Twilight’s throat, causing her to whimper. “If you wish her dead then by all means keep walking,” Soldier stopped, “Then we are at an impasse,” “True I can’t compete with you physically, and you are no match for my brains,” “You're that smart are you?” “let me put it to you this way, ever heard of starswirl the bearded?” “no” “Because he was a complete imbecile compared to me,” “In that case i challenge you to a battle of wits,” “For the elements?” Soldier smiled. “To the death?” Soldier nodded. “Then i accept,” “Good,” Soldier giggled then pulled out to Bottles of cola. Heavy groaned, he hated when Soldier did this, so did Engie “Well, better get some shut-eye,” Medic scoured the Battlefield, he climbed hills if Dead Soldiers and Changelings and finally found what he was looking for. Dic soupcan and his crew, He whistled, getting their attention, Dic and his friends walked up to medic, who took out his solemn vow, and bopped each one (except Big Mac) firmly on the head. The ponies and Changelings watched in awe at the scene before them. “So then i would remember you were from mars, and there for you play picoline and in picoline its a good idea to have a soda to keep you awake, so you can be aware of where you enemys Queen is!” Soldier monoloughed. Both he and Crysalis sat crosslegged with two bottles of soda between them. Scout and the four captured ponies could barely stay awake, the battle of wits started an hour ago and it was getting dark. Fluttershy was shaken awake when the Changeling Holding her unexpectedly disappeared, She saw spy standing above her holding “Your eternal reward” he put a finger to his lips and sshhed Flutters, cut her loose, then disappeared. On the other side of the group of changelings one noticed a red dot on the one next to him, he stared at it and watched it dance on his oblivious Comrades head, he reeled back and slapped his comrade to the ground in an effort to rid him of it, he fell to the ground, then the one who slapped him fell to the ground with a bullet through his head, the alive changeling got back to his feet, but got a Knife to the back via spy, Spy cut a sleeping Rainbow Dash free. All that was left was the changeling that was holding Pinkie Pie, who was Oblivious to his dead friends, Spy waved his hand in the air, as if to signal someone. A fire axe flew end over end through the air from behind the last changeling and split his skull in two. Soldier stopped monologuing and smiled. “The battle of wits is over, the winner, ME!” Chrysalis awoke from her half asleep state with a start “What! how is that possible,” Crysalis looked around and saw that her guard had been killed, she growled “YOU have one NOTHING!!” Chrysalis Lifted her dagger, and aimed it to a sleeping Twilights heart. *BANG! a bullet went through Chrysalis’s hand, causing her to drop the knife. “AAAAAAAAGGAGAG!!” Chrysalis yelled, grabbing her hand. “And thats how we do it in the bush!” Sniper yelled from across the street. Chrysalis ran from the group and into an alleyway and disappeared into the darkness. “This isn’t over Soldier! not by a long shot!!” Her voice echoed from the alley. “Oh! i think it is!” another voice echoed. Chrysalis walked backwards out of the alley, face to face with Demoman wielding his shield and Eyelander. “Ya think ya can just endanger me mates and get away with it? this story isn't getting a sequel that easy.” Chrysalis Started wide-eyed, looking for a way out when. *SHTHINK! in one swift motion, Demo beheaded queen Chrysalis, her head flew off and landed in the street with a meaty THUNK! and her body plopped on the cobblestone trot-way. Spy freed Twilight and Scout from her bonds and all four ponies and all nine classes Surrounded the dead Queen. “Well i guess dats dat” Scout muddered “You didn’t Have to kill her ya know” Twilight stated. “Ya a Know,....hehe but it felt good,” “VICTORY MEN!” Soldier yelled!,..:*GASP! my men!” Medic turned to Soldier, “Soldier, don’t worry, they will find home in the everfree. Eventually they'll build a fort and guard the everfree, considering it needs a good clean out.” “But, they’ll run out of ammo and health!” Soldier stammered. “Ah! thats another thing, Soldier is this the same dimension Merasmus send you?” Soldier thought for a second,...”No i suppose not, i’ve come to realise that,” “Okay, when he did send you to the other one, did you have a resupply closet with you?” Soldier though for another moment,”Yes, yes i did,” Medic then turned to Twilight “Okay frau Twilight, did you ever notice and,..umm peculiar ponies hanging around in your dimension about a week ago?” Twilight blushed “Well, last week was our heat season, we arent exactly ourselves during heat, and out memory isn’t the best Hmmmmm,....i do remember so sort of crazy hostile pony that wore a helmet, your friend here does remind me a lot of him,” “AH HA! then my theory is correct! Soldier how different is this universe to the one you visited?” “Not alot, i remember these ponies had arms and legs among *Shudder, Other things,” “That proves it, Soldier you where in this universe,” “I was? how?” “vell, not you, you,...another you, a pony version of you, you from a parallel universe came to this one, while you went to a different one,” Scout stepped ahead “So that means, his pony version is in the universe this Soldier visited saving it from those things just like us?” “Most likely,,yes,” “I not following doc,” sniper stated, scratching his head. “Try not to think about it,” Medic answered “What i was trying to say is that your men will be fine, they have a resupply locker hidden away in a cave that i'm sure they’ll find. “If you say so,” Soldier said confused. “Thankfully i already don’t remember,” Demo belched, already half-way through a bottle of scrumpy. The group cursed Demo before releasing one thing, they had forgotten about the freaks. They noticed Applenah, Fyra, WPT, Bomb Bomb, Cuitemark me, Sweetie Bot and even Scootaloo had surrounded them, all Growling, prepared to attack. Most of the mens pulled their weapons on the freaks, Twilight whispered “Medic, what did you cure your teammates with?” “With this” Medic held up his Solemn Vow, “One conk on the head is all it takes,” “Ok hold still,” Sweetie Aimed her sentry guns ar Engie, who gulped. Twilight shot a beam of magic out of her horn, it impacted with Medics Slom Vow. *BOOM! a ball of Magic Engulfed all of Ponyville. 11 months later. Soldier slept soundly in his bed back home at 2fort, it was near 2am, Little was remembered of anyones time in Equestria, after they were returned home life returned to normal, fighting and dying. I brilliant blue flash briefly lit up Soldier’s room, shaking him awake. Soldier jumped from his bed with his shotgun ready. He reached over and turned on a lamp, light entered the room. A wicker baby bed stood in the room before him, Soldier stayed vigilant with his Shotgun ready as he slowly walked up and lifted the blanket. Under the blue cotton blanket was a gurgling bumbling Anthropomorphic colt,.. Soldier lifted a eyebrow, then he noticed a note on the side of the bed. Dear Baker from another universe Sorry i never told you, but heres your son, i just need some time to figure some things out -Pinkie. Soldier Gasped he looked down at the small child. “Pishh, he doesn't even look like me,” The little babe took his fist out of his mouth. “MAGGOTS! he gurgled. Soldier winched,....” Oooohh,...Thats what i say,” And soldier Scratched his head, and he felt something ominous, like someone like him in a parallel universe was going though the exact same thing. Then Soldier desperately tried to remember exactly where babies came from.