I swore as I stumbled on some debris, I was coming up on the weird spaceship thingies. Then I sighed, there was a downed building that I would have to climb over. The debris was at least 15 feet high, and there seemed to be no way around it. I debated whether or not I should wait for Anthony and his force to get here. If I did climb up, I wouldn't be getting back down easily. But I couldn't wait.
"Welp, here goes nothing," luckily, the slope wasn't completely at a 90 degree angle, so it was easier to climb. As I took my first few steps though, I heard a voice from behind. I couldn't make out what it said because at that moment, I lost my footing and fell back down to the ground.
"Damn," I said, as I slowly got up and turned around. Immediately, I froze, right in front of me was a group of weird looking...horses? At first glance I thought they were, but then I noticed a lot of differences. They were much shorter than your average horse, more like a small pony. Except for one, that one was pretty much my height. Then their faces, the eyes were huge to say the least. Even weirder was the fact that they all had different color coats and manes, ones that horses really shouldn't have. But the weirdest thing? Some had horns, or wings, or even both. Then my mind was blown when the big one opened its mouth.
"Who are you?" it asked.
I was pretty much speechless, talking ponies?! Then another one spoke up, this one was blue with both wings and a horn, and it's mane! It was always flowing, and seemed to have the night sky in it.
"Sister, we already know what it is, and that it's dangerous, that's all that matters!" the pony said. The pony stepped forward with a glare in his\her eyes.
Unconsciously, I pulled out my pistol. If they saw me as a threat, God knows what these alien ponies could do to me. That's when things went downhill fast. All of them gasped, one of them shouting 'it's got one of those gun things!'
Immediatly, a rainbow blur hit me head on and I flew back into the debris. As soon as that happened, a sharp pain hit me in my side. It felt like something impaled me! I grunted as I fell to the ground, hands and knees on the grass. Somehow, I had still had my gun, I wasn't planning on killing anybody, I just needed to get out of there. Slowly, I stood up and looked at what had caused me to go flying. It looked to be a mare pegasus with a light blue coat and rainbow hair.
We glared at each other for a few seconds. After a couple seconds the big white pony spoke up, this time she seemed somewhat angry.
"Put the gun down!" she said.
"I can't," I said, I couldn't just get rid of my only protection. What if they were leading me into a trap?
Then Rainbow here got all riled up, "Listen to the princess!"
Then I got punched...er 'hoofed' in the face. I fell right onto my butt, and grunted as the pain in my side spiked. Rainbow was about to go at it again, even though her friends were telling her to lay off a bit, when a shot rang out across the decrepit street.
"Anthony!" I yelled, "Thank God!"
The bullet from Anthony's pistol was lodged in the debris near me and Rainbow.
"That's just a warning shot!" Anthony said as two more officers came around the corner of a building. "Now get away from my friend!"
"Who the hay are you?" one of the other ponies said. I couldn't tell which one. It was then that I realized that all of the ponies were paying attention to Anthony, not me.
Quickly and quietly, I grabbed my gear, which had fallen off me at some point. I looked at Anthony, he saw me for a second and slightly nodded. Then I stood up and crept away from Rainbow, who was too busy getting angry about something. I listened in on the conversation as I set my sights on an intersection not far from where I was. Going left on the intersection would block their view of me, because of a small building.
"The name's Anthony, head of the police force, and it's my job to protect everyone in the village. That includes Jack."
I smiled, thanks Anthony. Sadly, the smile didn't last long as I stumbled on a root of a nearby tree creeping up out of a crack in the pavement. I must've caused enough noise because when I looked back, everyone's attention was on me. The only option now was to run.
"Scatter!" I yelled and started running, Anthony and the two officers followed suit. I was at the intersection and was about to round the corner when I looked back, it looked like they weren't following us. Good. But, as usual, my happiness didn't last long as I ran into something head on. Wait, not something, someone.
My momentum carried me over whoever it was and I landed hard on the ground. Groaning, I sat up and looked around to see who I tripped over. To my horror, it was another one of those damn alien ponies! I started to wonder if I was just hallucinating all of this. I mean now that I thought about it, this all seemed a little too...unrealistic.
But I was brought out of my thoughts as the pony, who had wings and a horn btw, groaned, sat up and looked at me. Quickly I went reached for my gun, but it must've fallen out of it's holster. That's when I looked back at her, at least I think she was a she, my pistol was floating next to her.
"W...who are you?" I stuttered out.
She just smiled and said, "My name is Princess Twilight Sparkle."