Eight more of my species that all members eight different special forces. That should be interesting.
"So do you even have a fix on their location?" I asked.
"No" Celestia dead panned. Time for the insults. "But I do have an idea on how to find them." Now I'm listening. "We could use your magical signature to find the magical signatures of the other members of your species."
Well that plan is useless now.
Before I could tell her, her horn lit up with a golden hue and a identically colored light formed around me. Like every other attempt when these ponies tried magic on me, it failed. Celestia adopted an expression of confusion. Might have been due to me being the first human in this place. "What?"
"Princess, when I attempted a sleep spell on him, it didn't work" said Twilight.
"Well there's no fucking magic where I'm from" I said. All of them looked me with the same expression as when I punched Celestia in the face.
"No magic?!?" exclaimed most of them.
"And?" I said. Technology or magic? Well technology with no fucking competition. Can magic replicate an aircraft carrier? How about an A-10 flying death plane?
"How do control the weather?" asked Rainbow Dash.
"Or the plants and animals?" asked Fluttershy.
"Or the sun and moon?" asked Celestia.
"Or parties?!" asked Pinkie Pie. What is she snorting?! Seriously, parties?!
My answer shocked them even more. "We don't."
"What?!?" all of them yelled. This included the princess and the guards that were still conscious and functioning.
The first one to recover was Twilight."This does explain why magic doesn't work on" said Twilight. "Wait, this means that we actually have a way of finding the other member of his species!"
"Really? What is it?" asked Celestia.
"Because of his magical signature being in a state of nonexistence, we can create a location point for another void" said Twilight. So a fancy, magic tracking device?
Most of them here were rather confused by her words. "In pony terms" said Rainbow.
Twilight rolled her eyes. "We use magic to find somepony else that has no magic" replied Twilight.
"Then wouldn't we have the risk of finding somepony else with no magic?" asked Rarity.
"That's the thing Rarity. Everypony and thing in Equestria has magic" Twilight said. "And-" Her horn lit up and a purple light surrounded me again. "He's the only one without magic." The purple light disappeared.
Now we're getting somewhere.
I picked up my rifle. "So, where's the first one?" I asked.
Her horn lit up again. "The closest magical voice is somewhere in the.. Everfree Forest" she said.
"What?! That's the most dangerous place in Equestria!" said Celestia.
I wonder if either of them remembers that I don't know anything about this god forsaken place.
She quickly noticed the deadpanned look I was giving her. "Oh sorry" Twilight said. "It's in a forest not far from here." Oh, so she's somewhat competent.
And I can also get somewhere now. "How far and what direction?" I asked. I moved my rifle back into my hands where it belonged.
"What? No!" said Celestia. "We have to deal with this problem first." She gestured at the ponies that I horribly injured.
"Are you really the one that's in charge?" To make my point, I flipped the safety of my rifle. I knew that everyone heard the click and that they feared my weapons, as from the demonstration from my HK. In their eyes, if one of my small weapons did that much damage to the guards that I shot imagine what the big one could do.
"Please, just wait" asked Fluttershy. For some strange reason, it looked like her eyes had somehow grown larger and she seemed smaller in general. "Please?"
Blinking a few times, I answered "No." I looked at Twilight. "Where?" They all glared at me. "Celestia can handle the injured." I pointed at her. "We're in a goddamn town and you are a fucking princess. Use your position and order some other people to help you. It's not any of us are doctors." Again with the lack of common sense. "Now let's go."
Twilight was leading me through the Everfree Forest while Fluttershy, Rainbow, Applejack, Pinkie, and Rarity were following us. They had refused to abandon her friends out of fear that I would do something to her. It was a rational fear. I could tell that Rainbow really didn't like me as she was hovering close behind me. I didn't even have to look at her to tell that she was giving me a bad look.
I don't see why this place is so dangerous. It's just a regular old forest. Then again, it's a forest. There might be bears, wolves, snakes, or other dangerous creatures of that sort. So far, I've seen a few mythological creatures become real so there might be other ones that exist in this world. Probably haven't seen them yet. I don't want to see any others. Unicorns and Pegasi are enough for me. They've done enough.
And what do I do after I find these other humans? Hope they'll keep me company? They're possibly from different countries and I doubt they'll speak English. Well, I speak some Russian so I'd be good if I find any Russians but other than that, I'm pretty much screwed.
Then I/we would have to make living arrangements with the ponies. Would they mind letting me/us stay with them? I doubt they will with how I punched one of their rulers in the face and refuse their cry for help. Food would be another problem, they saw eating meat as a taboo.
Then would the other ponies accept us? I towered over all of them when it came to size and I doubt I didn't appear as anything but opposing. Nine of us, all special forces, in a land of magical ponies. Like that made sense. We're all trained to-
"Excuse me" said Fluttershy interrupting my thoughts. "What are you going to do when you find your friends?"
She makes a good point. "Nothing? Maybe find a way back?" I replied. I don't even have a clue to even start on that. That was when Twilight stopped walking. We all noticed this and stopped to.
"What is it, Twi?" asked Rainbow Dash who was hovering in the air.
Twilight kept her position, looking ahead. "I think we're close" she said.
"Found a clue to his location?" I asked while advancing a few steps.
She kept her position of staring off ahead. "That would be an understatement."
When I was beside her, I found what she meant. Strewn across the ground in front of her were dozens of wolf carcasses. Raising my rifle enough to have it up in an emergency, I slowly tread forward.
Some of the surrounding trees that was facing away from us sported bullet holes. The special thing about the bullet holes was that they were rather shallow and the entry hole sported very few splinters. This meant only one of two things. One, the round had low muzzle energy and velocity when it hit the tree or two, the bullet decided to magically slow down midair by itself. Magic exists in this world but I'm putting my bets on number one.
Taking out my knife, I attempted to dig out the bullet. After a minute or two, my actions were rewarded with a decently intact rifle bullet. What caught my attention was that the bullet was massive! Well, massive for a rifle. I'm not saying it was as big as a .50 BMG round but it was bigger than a 5.56 Nato, 5.45 Soviet, 7.62 Soviet, and 7.62 Nato. Wait, if this bullet was big, why didn't it penetrate more of the tree and why did the entry hole was only a little splintered? Another interesting trait about the bullet was the fact that it was an armor piercing round as evident from the steel penetrator tip. Why was it armor piercing? When I dug out another bullet but from a different tree, I found another large, armor piercing rifle bullet.
Walking over to one of the wolf corpses, I examined it too. The first thing I noticed? It was made of fucking wood! The hell? Is this planet trying to drive me to kill everyone?!?
"They're timberwolves" said Fluttershy who had popped her head over my shoulder.
The hell are timberwolves? "Timberwolves?"
That was when Twilight popped up over my other shoulder. "Timberwolves are magical creatures that are native to this forest. They are creatures that, due to an unknown magic, are entirely made of wood. Despite being made of wood, they act exactly like normal wolves and they often hunt in packs" she explained. Once she was done, she disappeared, leaving me back to my examination.
Looking back at the timberwolf, I looked for the cause of death. Three bullet wounds were the culprit. The flesh of these timberwolves retained the same density and uniformity as a not-so-dense wood so it was much easier to dig the bullet out of it than with the tree from earlier. Again, I found more of the armor piercing rifle bullets that I found in the trees. When this creature died, I have no idea as I have almost no knowledge of these creatures.
Moving over to another wolf, I dug out a few more bullets. Two were the same as the bullets from earlier but one was more familiar to me. It was a 9mm pistol round. Interestingly enough, it was also armor piercing as some of the bullet's jacket had peeled away, revealing a steel penetrator.
This was getting familiar to me. Very few countries issued pistols with armor piercing ammo to their troops. The only two I knew off was Russia and China. I hope to god it's the Russian. I don't speak a lick of Chinese.
Standing up from the timberwolf corpse I was hunched over, I started walking forward.
"Where are you going?" asked Rainbow.
"Were we trying to find other members of my species or were we here to take a dump in the woods?" I said to her.
After a mere four meters, I began to spot shell casings on the ground. A lot of shell casings. In addition to those shell casings, I found more and more wolf corpses.
Had a battle taken place here? The number of shells and the number of corpses was ridiculous!
And where were the footsteps? I had found shell casings indicating a firearm but where were the foot steps? No member of any self respecting special forces would not wear boots. Had they been covered up?
Then there was blood. Not the strange, sap like blood of the timberwolves but red blood that most likely belonged to a human. This was not good.
The others noticed the blood too."Seal..." said Twilight.
"I know" I said.
I was about to began trekking again, when we all heard an ominous and loud roar. It sounded close and we did not need this right now.
All seven of us reacted by hiding. Rarity, Pinkie, and Fluttershy hid behind trees while the rest of us hid behind the same bush.
Rainbow was the first to speak. "What was that?" she whispered.
Twilight was going to speak when I held my hand over her mouth. I held my other hand up and waved it over my throat a few times, hoping that they would get the gesture of silence. Taking my hand away from her mouth, I slowly pulled away a small part of the bush to take a sit rep.
Behind the bush, I spotted roughly four timberwolves. The only difference was that these were alive. Sitting back down, the three of them looked at me. "Three of those wolves" I whispered.
"What!" Twilight shouted in a whispering tone. I clamped my hand over her mouth again. After a few seconds of silence, I took hold of my rifle again.
"That's too loud to use" whispered Applejack. "You'll just attract more."
Flipping the safety of my rifle, I pulled out the large suppressor that I carried for my rifle. Before I attacked it, I took out my other canteen and poured a slight amount of water down the opening of the suppressor before I started screwing it onto the rifle. "What are you doing?" Twilight asked silently.
Once the suppressor was on correctly, I slowly assumed a crouching position, aiming my rifle at the wolves. All four of them were still milling about. They presented easy targets.
Reaching down with my left hand, I grasped a nearby rock before tossing it in the opposite direction. All four of them heard it and held their heads up to find the source. While they were distracted, I started shooting.
Now when you're by yourself and you face a group of enemies that do not know of your location, who do you shoot first? The answer? The last one or the one that the others won't noticed getting shot. Never aim for the leader which would be the alpha(I think) in this case.
The first one went down pretty easily with three quickly placed shots. The suppressor did a good job of making the shots silent but the thing about suppressors is that it only makes them bearable. It would still sound like a little like a quiet firecracker. Just as the wolves noticed this, I put down another one down with two shots.
The other two wolves now noticed me and started running towards me. I focused on the closer one and fired six more shots. Two connected and killed that one. Just as the last one was nearing, I let my rifle fall from my hands and reached for my knife. Just as it prepared to bite me, I stabbed it in the head, stopping it.
Pulling out my knife, I wiped away the blood/sap on my pants leg before sheathing it. "It's good to come out now" I said.
Twilight, Rainbow, and Applejack just popped out of the bush and stood beside me while the other three walked over to us. "What was that?" asked Rainbow.
What is this little pain talking about now? "What was what?"
Does she mean the sound of my suppressed rifle? "That cracking?" I asked for confirmation.
"Yes! What else would I be talking about?" she said.
I held up my M4a1. "Why this of course" I replied.
"What?!" she exclaimed.
"Why didn't it make that boomin sound?" asked Applejack.
"Cause it can fire quietly too" I said.
All six of them glared at me. "You mean when you gave us hearing damage, you did that on purpose?!?" yelled Rainbow.
They were being asses. "Yes" I replied.
Rainbow hovered up to me and held up her hooves in the same way you would hold up your hands to gesture that you wanted to strange them. "One day!" she said. I'd like to see her try. The last time I checked, she's a three foot tall cartoon pony and I'm a six foot tall US Navy Seal armed with guns.
Continuing on, we found more shell casings and timberwolf corpses. Where was he? And how much ammo does he have? I'm pretty sure I've found close to two hundred shell casings so far.
Then we found the first blast crater. The crater was set in the mud and spanned a few yards in diameter. The explosion had been near a tree as there was a collapsed one beside the edge of the crater. "What in Equestria could have caused that?!?" exclaimed Twilight.
I reached into my vest and pulled out one of my frags. "Standard frag grenade" I said while holding it up for her to see. "Do you know what a yard is?"
"A what?" she asked.
"It's a unit of measurement for length" I explained to her. I moved the grenade in my hands to get her attention. "This is a frag grenade. Specifically, it's an M67 frag, short for fragmentation, explosive device that is lethal up to around twenty yards and it can disperse pieces of shrapnel up to three hundred yards."
"What would that be used for?!?" exclaimed a very shocked Rarity
Do these ponies suffer from short term memory loss or something? "Rarity, his species are meant for war" said Twilight.
"Yes but to make something like that is brutish and unnecessary" said Rarity. And that is how I know that she's a prissy little diva.
"Hey, what's that!" said Pinkie.
"What's what?" asked Twilight.
The bouncing pink drug addict was hopping in front of a timber wolf corpse. It was a regular corpse but stuck in its head was a shovel. It was a Spetsnaz throwing shovel/E-tool to be specific.
I gripped the shovel and tore it out of the wolf's head. "It's a Spetsnaz throwing shovel" I said.
"Who throws a shovel?" asked Applejack.
Spetsnaz. Crazy Russian sons a bitches you'll ever meet. They're one of the very few special forces that can actually compete with Seals. Now the question is where is he? Spetsnaz that use throwing shovels treasure them like a serviceman's porn stash.
"Seal..." Fluttershy said. Oh no. The last time she only said one word and it was with the same tone too. Looking at Fluttershy, I found him. The Spetsnaz in question was pinned by three dead timberwolves.
Sighing, I walked over to the corpse. Moving away the wolf corpses, I revealed the Spetsnaz's remains. His body was wracked with various small wounds and blood stained several portions of his combat uniform. He died from blood loss. Must have been injured while fighting these wolves and when three attacked him he was able to kill them. Pinned under the weight of three corpses, he must not have been able to move them as he would have been too weak from blood loss. The knife still clutched in his hand proves it.
A tragic death.
The corpse still had it's weapons, sans the throwing shovel and knife which I currently had in my possession. I recognized his rifle as a Vintorez rifle.
The VSS Vintorez, an integrally suppressed sniper rifle that fires a 9x39mm subsonic, armor piercing round at a fixed full auto rate of 600 rounds a minute(yes, it's a full auto sniper rifle). There is no standard round for this rifle. It's all armor piercing except for training ammo. Despite being a low velocity round, it holds a lot of power because of the fact that the 9mm rifle round it fires is at least double the weight of a regular 7.62 Soviet round. The subsonic ammo and the integrated suppressor makes this weapon one of the very few weapons that I would call silenced, not supressed. Other than the massive integrated suppressor, it had a high power scope.
His sidearm was a GSH18. Basically, it's a 9mm pistol fed from double stacked magazine. It's just like any other 9mm pistol except for the fact that it only has around seventeen parts in total. That's rather low compared to the thirty something parts a Glock is made of.
Both guns were empty. He simply didn't run out of ammunition as he still had full magazines on him. He had no time to reload when cornered so he switched to his shovel, then his knife.
Reaching down, I grabbed a few fresh magazines and reloaded his, now my, guns. After that, I took off my backpack and rifle to sling the VSS across my back before I took his drop holster to fix it across my left leg. Then I took the pouches off of his load bearing vest and attached them to the various molle portions of my backpack. Lastly, I took the sheathes that held his throwing shovel and knife.
"You're just going to steal from his body?" asked Rarity.
"What?" I asked. I turned my head to look at them and found that they were all looking at me. "If it's morality, then I have no issue. He's not using it."
"But it's downright disrespectful" said Applejack.
"You can strip the weapons off of the dead where I'm from" I said. I re-donned my backpack and picked up my rifle, ready to travel again.
In addition to my standard weapons, I now had a VSS sniper rifle with 7 twenty round magazines filled with armor piercing rounds, a GSH18 with 5 eighteen round magazines which were strangely filled with armor piercing rounds, three more frag grenades, another knife, and a throwing shovel.
That Spetsnaz really did used up a lot of his ammo. They're generally issued with close to 400 rounds of ammo for their primary weapon(the primary gunner carries even more), twelve magazines for their pistol, and six frags. He also didn't have a backpack. He either never had one in the first place or discarded it.
One last thing. Reaching down, I removed the Spetsnaz's dog tags and took a look at them. They had no name or anything of that sort. It only had his serial number and blood type. I sighed and hung it across my neck. I hate it when someone in the military dies. They only died trying to protect their country. Here, he was trying to protect himself in a foreign land. I dusted myself off and stood back up.
I was about to take my first step when I realized something rather strange. "Fluttershy" I called out.
"Yes?" she answered.
"You said that you take care of animals, right?" I asked.
"Yes?" she answered.
"What else lives in this forest?" I asked.
"Why are you asking now?" Twilight asked.
"Earlier, we hid from a roar, right?" I said. "Since when do wolves roar?" Adding in to my statement, a large lion with bat wings and a scorpion tale ran out of the brush and roared. Fuck.