//------------------------------// // Down and Out of Commission // Story: The Unlikley Sanctuary // by Tie RoamingHooves //------------------------------// Note: Seriously, I can't write for Twilight so I'm puting off her dioluge untill I get a writer for specificly that. Anyways I hope you enjoy this because I typed this whole thing twice cause my dumbass forgot to save. Give me your thoughts, I need to know what I need to improve on. Errors? Hit me up in the comments. (oh I will make use of many memes in this fan-fic for the human characters. You want a meme in comment it and I'll try and fit it in some where if I can.) Enjoy! My eyes opened to see Equestria. A sight that I once thought would be an impossible yet a blissful and joyful experience to have witnessed for the first time, was now all to real. I was lost to the problems of the world. In my mind, I didn't feel alone anymore. I recited the poem I had made when I fought thoughts of departing the world I just exited in a feeble attempt at peace. "Though I may never see the day where I am in the land where the sun hangs over the trees of Everfree, filling them with the light of the Princess of the sun, I will behold that hope always. And even into my dying breath, should I get the chance to gaze upon this with my own eyes, I will never regret anything from then or soon after." Just then I snapped back to reality to see Ponyville directly below the burning helicopter that I was piloting against the force of gravity. I pulled back on the stick with everything I had in me to avoid hitting the buildings below. The burning chopper did so protesting the entire time. I managed to steer clear of the town before I lost all control over the green forest of Everfree and fell from the sky to whatever misfortune awaited me there with open arms. Ignoring the screams and beeping from within the mortally wounded aircraft broke through the treetops, I smiled briefly, though it contrasted the reality of the peril me and the others faced, I smiled despite the fact that I knew this could be my last moment of life. I smiled, seeing my life laid out before me in its entirety. All my failures, all my mistakes. All my of my hopes, and all of my dreams. My entire childhood which parts in life I couldn't remember were now clear to me and so were the times where I wished never ended. In front of me, all of the things I had aspired to be but had long since accepted that it was impossible to achieve were standing next to images of me during the bittersweet moment when I realized that fact but quickly moved ahead in childhood wonder. My teenage years rested next to those and were the greatest of my life. I had at an early age found love, and lost it to powers I did not control or have say to prevent her departure. And at an early age, I had experienced loss. I hated the world for years after this, for being cruel and unfair in that unjust twit of fate. I shed a tear still smiling in the ill fated chopper, still reliving my life in what could be my final moments. I saw the moment I discovered My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and how my grudge on the world then ceased with my wonder for the show. I didn't regret the loss of my love or the fact I may have wasted my time watching MLP before the outbreak of war. I regretted nothing and was at peace. If I were to die, great; if not, fine. I've lived a full life though it was short, and I found solace that, still smiling in the face of death. I smiled so long, and so bright and I did so until we hit the ground and every thing went dark and faded into silence. Heat, I felt heat. I wasn't dead. I opened my eyes with blurry vision. I could make out the colors orange, green and brown. I blinked to help clear my vision. I opened my eyes again to see leaves on the dashboard of the downed huey I was in. I look to my right and see Tyler unconscious. 'Still breathing' I thought to myself as I tried to get up forgetting the safety harness that saved my life. "ARGHH!" I yelled felling the pain of several broken ribs. I was awake now. I looked out the window still in pain to see the shadow of the helicopter dancing in orange light in the grass. It was night, though there is some light in the horizon, the sun has since set below it. The forest was quiet except for the sound of fire crackling on the body of the dead chopper. I unstrap myself and get up ignoring the pain as best as I could to see Jake unconscious as well. His right arm was broken and he had cuts on his body but other then that he was fine. How he managed to stay in the chopper without falling out of the two open door on either side is beyond me. His arm was bent between his elbow and wrist at an unnatural angle which was visibly swollen. I dragged him out of the wreckage into the clearing and laid him there. I went back in for Tyler and did the same. I climbed back in the helicopter to find a first aid kit of some sort in crates and boxes that were still left. I took the crates I could carry over to where I left Jake and Tyler, then going back to open the ones I could not. I looked at the crates not knowing where to start searching. "Fuck Tyler, label something for once." I muttered to myself opening a random crate. "Ammo, ammo, grenades, ammo, ammo..." "Tyrin, is that you? God my head is killing me." "Tyler! Welcome to the world of the living, now where did you put the first aid kit?" "It's over here in one of the little crates." "Well, good. Since your already over there you can patch up Jake." I growl annoyed that I opened this crate for nothing. "Ok then... Oh Geez, he got fucked up." "Well, do your best I guess." I say while walking over and sitting on a crate next to the two. "Alright. Well, I don't think I'm the only one who noticed that WERE IN THE FUCKING EVERFREE FOREST!!" he yelled. "Well, were in Equestria, what the problem?" "How are you ok with this?! This doesn't make any sense!" "I doesn't need to make sense. We're here now, thats all that matters. Getting mad won't solve any problems so just cool it bro." "I guess so." he said patching the last cut and snapping Jake's forearm straight with a sickening crunch. "I need a branch or a board to use as a splint". I get up and walk around through the grass and spot a straight enough tree limb to use. I lean over and pick it up groaning from the pain in my chest. "Are you ok? You sound a little hurt." Tyler asked. "No, I'm fine." I said walking back over and sat on the same crate and handed him the branch. "I probably just bruised my ribs." I lied to save him the trouble. "Ok then. So what do we do now?" he said after finishing up with Jake. A wolf howled in the distance. "Uhh... Maybe we should get out weapons from the chopper." "Yeah, your right this is Everfree at night." he said pulling an electric lantern out of a crate and turning it on. We both get up and walk over to the crashed huey and climb in. Tyler grabs the fire extinguisher and puts out the fire near the tail. "Can you help me with this crate." I yell struggling to even slide the crate. "You need to undo the straps first." he said annoyed with my stupidity. "Shit, I'm a dumbass." I chuckle undoing the strap then proceeding to move the rest of the supplies to the make shift campsite. When were finished we opened all the crates. I grab a 9mil. handgun, two frag grenades, a lighter, and a SCAR rifle. "It's not an M-16 but it will work." I then went to the crate I sat at originally and set down my things. I then went to collect firewood. I walk back with a armful of wood and Tyler, who apparently had the idea, made a fire pit and had kindling ready. I place some wood in and lit it up. We sat and watched the flames dance across the top of wood. I looked up at the unfamiliar sky to see the stars. "The skies are much more clear than they ever were in Kansas." I look back to the flames trying to absorb the fact that I'm really in Equestria and this is reality. "One minute, were blowing up Russian fuel trucks or filling the barrel of a T-90 with mud or cement, and the next we crash in a helicopter in the middle of Equestria". Again I look skyward, getting lost in the constellations that were cannon to MLP. "We made it... freedom, bro. We can finally breath easy you know." I sighed realizing that though we had escaped, the war still went on back home. "All that said and done we still have business to attend to. So tell me..." he looked at me, smiled, then kneeled down. "What would you have your Arbiter do?" I laughed, he was trying to lighten the mood and did it well. Long story short, When I first met Tyler his gamertag was IOI Arbiter IOI. I decided to play along with this. "Well, it be the will of the gods that we do not reveal our foreknowledge to the equines." I say impersonating the Prophet of Truth from Halo. "We must make peace with them if we are to survive on this planet." "As you wish my Prophet." he said standing back up. "With all seriousness, don't kill anything unless it harmed you or a teammate first. I've read a lot of Human in Equestria fan-fiction and the all seem to agree that problems start when the humans kill. Another thing, after this do not use any of their names unless they have been introduced. We can't afford to have any MLP references past this point as well, and that goes for memes related to MLP as well." "Okie Dokie Lokie." "TYLER, NO REFERENCES!" "Fine." he said crossing his arms. "I will let them know as early on as possible so it will make thing run easier for us. Please know that this is a very volitile subject and is the most immediate danger to us. They could take it as a threat and bad things would happen. Oh, NO MEAT FROM THIS POINT ON." "I can live with that." "Ok and the last thing is we will probably be found relativity quickly. The most likely to find us is anyone of the mane six, the princesses. the Royal Guard, or the CMC. If not a pony then we will defiantly see a Manticore." "Well I'm glad I brought an RPG." "Sweet. So what to do... I'm kinda bored." Tyler looks down. He looks back up and starts to sing 'Hero of War'. "He said 'son, have you seen the world? Well, what would you say, if I said that you could? Just pick up this gun, you could even get paid.' I joined in at this point. "I said 'That sounds pretty good'." "Black leather boots, spit shined so bright. They cut off my hair, but it was alright. We marched and we sang, We all became friends, when we learned how to fight. A hero of war, yeah that's what I'll be. And when I come home, they'll be damn proud of me. I'll carry this flag, to the grave if I must. Cause its a flag that I love, its a flag that I trust." Its times like these that I can't help but to look forward to. Even though we had nearly died and were stranded in this unlikely sanctuary, we still had our humanity. And its times like these when I wish it would never end, but my track record with these kind of moments said something always went wrong and how right I was when I turned and saw the beast in the distance. RAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A manticore had burst through the trees staring straight at us. Shit had indefinably hit the fan. I heard screams in the woods meaning that there were ponies here too. With an unconscious Jake and defenseless ponies what could ever go wrong now?