I woke up, sitting upright, in a chair. Must've fallen alseep in my chair again. I cracked my eyes, and instead greeted by metal and darkness. While I panicked, my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I was in a tank and I was in the driver seat. I opened the hatch and climbed out, I crawled down the front and looked at the tank. It was an M4A3E8 Sherman or "Easy Eight", with a 76mm cannon, two 30 cal machine guns and a 50 cal machine guns. I looked around my surroundings, I was somewhere hilly and behind the tank was a dark forest and I was on the edge of it.
I climbed back up the Sherman and looked around it, as far as I could tell it was fine and on the turret was written 'Devil Dog'. It had extra supplies hung on the back and side of the turret. I opened the commander's hatch and slid in, there was ammo for the main cannon. Armor piercing, high explosive and white phosphorus, I was nervous about that last one, since white phosphorus makes an excellent smoke screen, burns at several thousand degrees. In the bow gunners seat was a messenger bag, I grabbed the bag and went through the contents.
I had a canteen with a first aid kit, water, two changes of clothes, a compass, some fruit, a solar charger for my phone and about 10 MREs. Whoever put me here excepted me to take a while to return. I tried my phone, and got no service. I refilled the bag, dropped it off in the loader seat and climbed back out, closing the hatch. I checked the two guns on the roof, they were already loaded. Perfect.
I slid back down to the drivers hatch and sat in the seat. There was a grease gun and ten extra mags next to it on the bow gunner floor. I moved the gun and two mags to the seat.
"Here goes nothing Dan" I muttered as I tried the engine, it came to life. I've never driven a tank, but I've watched 'Fury' a lot, so I pushed the levers forward and set off. It was a lot easier than I thought, I have no clue where I was but I set off heading west over the hilly countryside. I found a leather helmet and a pair of googles, so I enjoyed the nice early morning summer weather while driving 66,000lbs of war machine.
After about an hour, I came to a halt on a hillside, with the turret just barely poking over. It was about noon, so I took a break. I grabbed some of the fruit and the canteen and climbed out via the commanders hatch and sat on the turret. I saw a village in the valley, maybe a quarter mile away, I put my lunch down and climbed in for the binoculars hanging on a hook. I plugged the solar charger into my phone, sat on the turret with my legs in the tank still. I looked around the town and lost my shit.
They walked on two legs and wore clothes, and that was I had in common with the locals. Some had horns, while some had wings and others had neither and they all had crazy hair and skin colors. There was a sign that said,
"Welcome Princess! "
So this wasn't America, but then again nowhere on Earth did anyone have horn or wings. I kept looking around the town to try and figure out where I was. The homes were old-style; thatched roofs and timber highlighting the walls. In the center of town near a gazebo that was at least three stories, was the center of the party. I looked around some more, kids were playing, people(?) were talking and at one of the tables was the Princess herself, I think, she wore a crown and that's a sign of royalty. She's tall, white, has a horn and her hair moved like there was a breeze, only her hair moved but no else's did. She was talking to a purple unicorn, a blue pegasus, a yellow pegasus, a white unicorn and a tan normal one. A pink one would stop for a minute and then run around. I couldn't see her, just a pink blur. The next time I looked at the Princess, she was looking at me. We made eye contact and she subtly waved, I waved back, dropped the binoculars and started on my lunch.
I started looking around the town again, the Princess was still there. I tried to ignore her, but she kept looking in my direction, and I did the same. A smile made it away across my face at our little game and one on her face, but that could because of her friends at the table. I went back to looking at the town, and they have some messed up buildings, a crystal building and a life-size gingerbread house were the ones that stuck out at me.
Princess Celestia POV
I couldn't help but smirk, I was having fun with this game I was 'playing' with that creature, I couldn't what he was sitting on, the rest was hiding behind the hill. Only a small part of it, which was a metal dome with two metal sticks coming off the top of it was exposed. An enhanced eyesight spell helped me see him, or I assumed it was a male. He looked like a earth stallion, but with no fur. He has a black mane that was long, almost to his shoulders, a small muzzle and ears on the side of his head. He was looking around Ponyville, I could tell he was not from here. He was out of place, alone and curious. I looked back down at my prized student and her friends. While we were talking, several loud bangs rang out, I looked at the creature, he was behind one of the metal sticks and fire was coming it. I watched in horror as two Timberwolves jumped at him.
Daniel POV
I heard a small crack behind and turned around and standing there was a pack of wooden wolf things. They had rough bark for skin and glowing green eyes. They snarled at me, I swung the 30 cal around and pointed at them, waiting for them to make a move. There was six of them, and one of me. They began to run at me, I opened fire and their bodies were ripped apart, with sap coming out of their bodies instead of blood. Only two made it to the tank and jumped on it, the first one I shot off the tank as the second one bit into my shoulder. The best way I could describe the pain was being stabbed by knives in my shoulder, it tried to bite me again . I punched it and was rewarded with splinters in my hand, but the punch was enough to knock him off me. I quickly grabbed my stuff and closed the hatch. I sat in the gunner seat, grabbed the first aid kit and quickly wrapped the wound up, and pulled out some of the larger splinters from my hand. I'll take care of it once I get away from here, the townspeople no doubt think I'm some sort of monster. I turned around and drove into the forest.
Princess Celestia POV
We all looked at the hill expecting for whoever that was to reappear. Nopony moved, I leaned over to Twilight and whispered,
"I would like for you and your friends to find that injured creature, but be careful. I do not believe he is from this world and may be afraid. Send me a latter when you make contact with him."