This is crazy. This can't be... Am I losing it?
"What the hell? Is it just me or are we hearing things?" Sergeant Petrenko said, as the patrol team went back to their respective place in which their commander were.
"What the hell is he talking to a pony?" A confused Ulyanov said
"Well, i only loved ponies. Because i am not gay." Captain Sherman said as all were noticed about Sherman's likings to ponies.
"Can you really talk?!" Jackson was in a shock... He couldn't believe his eyes and ears of what he is hearing and seeing!
"A mare that can talk?!” he whispered to himself... This is absurd! In all the times he'd been to war, he never encountered a talking animal before! "Whoa, Jackson! What the bloody hell are you talking?" Andrey aka Andy said as Sergeant Howard was awaken, only to find an AKS-74u given by one of the operatives.
"You'll not believe this guys! This mare is talking!" Jackson tells the team, as Sherman said that he kept watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
“I’m Dreaming! Yeah that’s right! I’m dreaming." he thoughts as he tries to accept the concept of this young mare talking before him! He then asked her a question..
“What were you doing there, with those giant snakes?!” he asked, he obviously is shaking that the fact he met an animal that can talk! He still is trying to piece it all out... If it’s a dream, or real.
“I-I was picking some herbs in the forest, that... That the Hydra came out of nowhere and chased me through the swamp” She timidly said to Jackson...
Jackson was in a daze... “She really is talking!” He then pinches his face to wake himself up several times.. But only got bruises from his actions... It hurts a lot.
Convinced that he wasn't dreaming, He looked back at the mare and saw a confused expression in the mare's face
“What were you, D-doing?” She asked calmly, as one operative by the name Staff Sergeant Scarlet watched.
“Nothing... nothing that you have to concern off” He shrugs it up and looks at the mare’s injuries.
“Can you move it?” He asked her... Showing him that she can move it just fine.
“That's a relief” He sighs, as he knows that she was alright..
Just then Vasquez returned with the fire wood just outside of the cave, he hears Jackson talking to someone.. Thinking that he might have found another survivor he went in to see, only to find the mare and only Jackson there.
“Who were you talking to Jackson?” Vasquez asked as he drops the firewood in the floor and starts a fire. "He's talking to this mare." Private Grant Francis, also known as Stalker-3, said.
“I’m talking to this little one over here...” Jackson points to the mare already awake and sitting near Jackson and resting its head at the soldiers lap.
“You’re talking to the animal now? Have you hit your head that much there bud? or are you just lonely?” Vasquez laughed a bit at Jackson. Felling a bit silly for him to talk to an animal.
“Her name is Fluttershy, Vasquez”
Commander Sherman and the rest of the team noticed the talking mare while Private Yura checks through his laptop which is nuclear-powered. Yura looks through his laptop and noticed that they were somewhere, and also he noticed his laptop wasn't satellite-linked.
“Now you named her, Fluttershy? How girly can you get?” He further laughs a bit at Jackson even more.
“Damn it! Lieutenant, she can really talk!” He argued at him, telling Vasquez that she can really talk... Fluttershy looks at the creature that probably saved her life and gets the idea that he needs help on this.
“A-actually, He’s telling the truth” Fluttershy spoke, stopping both Vasquez and Jackson’s conversation... They both looked at each other, and looked at her. Vasquez accidentally snaps his plastic lighter causing it to implode and spills flaming oil all over the fire wood..
“YOUR KIDDING ME?!” Vasquez literally shouts in surprise...
“So, you heard it too?” Jackson asked the dumbfounded Lieutenant...
“I heard it alright, but... Is it really?” Vasquez still in shock still didn't believe his eye’s if he saw it anyway.
“It’s true Vasquez, She IS talking.. I tried to pinch myself up earlier. It’s not a dream.” He said assuring Him that this is all real. As they were to know more, Yura calls Sherman and Lieutenant Makarov to look through the laptop and said they are not in Saudi Arabia.
After much explaining, and talking to Fluttershy. They slowly understands her bit by bit...
“So you live in a town called PonyVille?” Jackson asked her.
“And there are others like you?” Vasquez adds another question.
“Actually, yes but we are different in many ways...”
Fluttershy, took off her yellow saddle that completely blended with her coat and set it aside.. her wings propped up, as she stretched it up high.. Now both of the men really are surprised and didn't saw that one coming at all.
“I haven't told you everything... I am a Pegasus Pony” She said to them..
“A Pegasus....” Jackson said...
“Pony?” Vasquez adds
“Y-yes... I Umm...” Fluttershy barely continues on her words...
“It’s okay.. We understand...” Jackson stopped her to speak as he pretends to know what she was talking about...
“You do?” Vasquez completely Oblivious of Jackson's thought that Jackson gave him a shove in the elbow, to let him know to play along of what he is saying. He soon gets what Jackson is implying to.
“Do you have a house nearby for you to go home?” Jackson asked, standing up and looking outside...
“Actually, yes I do. It’s in the other side of the forest but it’s far from here...”
“Then, we should go there first thing in the morning... If we go now, we might see much more than what we just killed before.” Vasquez looks out of the cave as Jackson is thinking of what they might encounter tomorrow...
“Tell me, are there anything more monsters, except that giant snake earlier?” Jackson asked..
“Yes... There’s a Manticore. An Ursa minor and a major... also dragons.. and snakes that look like chickens..” from what Fluttershy had said. It seems all of those monsters are suppose to be ancient creatures in Greek Mythology... Looks like they’re real here...
"God Almighty! Team, go back and patrol this section. I'm gonna, I'm gonna......" Sherman said and he vomits as he and Makarov were looking at Yura's laptop.
“Then its best to stay here for now... And never wandering outside tonight, Understand?” Vasquez gave a command to Jackson and took it seriously.
“Copy, that!” Jackson replied to the Lieutenant...
Jackson told Fluttershy to sleep, while they stand guard... Fluttershy, was a bit persistent that they don't have to do that, and doesn't want to be a burden to them.
“It’s no burden at all Fluttershy... Please... Get some rest... For tomorrow, we’ll get you home safely..."Jackson says to the canary-yellow Pegasus with a smile in his face. Fluttershy, did just that... She closes her eyes and drifts off to sleep...
Although, she only just met the strangers... She already trusted them with her heart...
Jackson stood up and went to Vasquez who was standing outside the cave
“Say Lieutenant, do you think those... Creatures she mentioned are they true?”
“Well... If what we saw and killed is real enough... I don't want to know anymore.”
“Me neither.”
Jackson then looks towards the night sky, thinking about something. “You think tomorrow.. We’ll meet her friends though?”
“Why? Are you exited to meet ponies?”
“Real funny Vasquez... It’s not like; I wanted to see them that bad. It’s just.... I want to know how we got here in the first place... maybe somebody there might know...”
“Well, that’s not a bother... Since we just survived a nuclear blast!”
“That's just it! We should be dead! But we ended up here instead!”
“Maybe we went to an alternate universe or something.”
“Yeah, like that’s going to happen.”
After their conversation, Vasquez went outside holding his Pistol as he walks away.
“Hey! I thought you said were not supposed to go out after dark?” Jackson said as he keeps walking
“I just need to find some food for us! I’m starving over here!” Vasquez shouts to Jackson as he disappears through the darkness. "Stalker-3, you're with me."
"But why Vasquez?" Private Grant Francis, callsign Stalker-3, was asking him.
"Because we need to get some food, man." Vasquez told him.
"Uh, yes sir." Stalker-3 replied. "Hey Vasquez, are Mongoose-2, Wolverine 1-5, Warhorse 5-3, War Pig-3, and the others contacting us?" Stalker-3 asked as Vasquez tells Sherman and replied with a yes.
"Sergeant DImitri Bodanov, you are to be sent to Ponyville. Once they arrived already, stay where you are, possibly in the center or something, until further orders are sent." Commander Sherman told him.
"Yes sir!" Sergeant Bodanov said as he moves on.
Jackson can only watch them go, Even if he stops him. He knows he that he's still go for it anyway... so he went back to the cave and just laid back to the rock walls and watches over Fluttershy as she sleeps...
Jackson thinks back to where he was back at the USMC Annual Thanks Giving Diner last year... It was much more fun than this year was...
He goes back in his memories to think of the time he nearly broke the LAW rocket launcher..
"On October 10th in Canada. I visited a friend on the barracks who was having a Thanksgiving party along with the other soldiers.. They were having a time of their lives. My friend asked him to drink but refuses... But my friend insisted for me to drink... I had no choice. I drank almost 3 bottles and told them I had enough, but he keeps telling me to drink. After a while, I was completely drunk and had no idea what I was doing... The last thing I remembered before blacking out that I took the L.A.W rocket launcher and pointed it on to something and literally passed out.. That morning I found out that my friend was kicked out of the Barracks because he destroyed 4 of the Humvee's inside the compound... I looked at the damage and remembered about last night... He took the fall in order for me to stay in the Base, My rank was recently promoted from Corporal to Sergeant and my reputation is well put out, so if I get kicked out my reputation will be down the drain. I don't know if that's the reason why he chooses to take the blame instead of pointing it on me or not, I was grateful to him. He truly is a friend... I just wonder if he made it in the 5th regiment in the US Army Rangers...