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Threat Established

-swap to Aigi’s view, 10 hours later-

I came up to Blitz’s cloud home, and sat down under it.
I wasn’t in my armor, though I did wear shorts and a t-shirt, and I also brought my SMG along with plenty of ammo, just in case.
I watched her take off from her doorstep, do her job in what seemed to be ten seconds, and then land right in front of me, not wearing her suit.
“So, you gonna tell me your name?”
“I… lost it.”
“You lost it?”
“When I joined the Jack Project, I survived, unlike most others, but at a terrible price. I lost my memories of who I am. I was told everything but my name. My friends and family confirmed everything. I wasn’t allowed to ever hear it again. It’s impossible for me to see it, to hear it, to read it.”
“I’m so sorry.”
“If you’re really sorry for the unstoppable, then come here.”
She jumped into my arms and we kissed again, this time, it was even better than the last.
I held her, she held me.
I could tell she wanted to act.
I did too.
We had no place to do so.
She was too small anyways, it wouldn’t be possible.
As we both drew away from it, I heard a soft breath leave her.
“We’re of two different species, aliens to one another. I don’t see how this could work out.”
“My species sometimes doesn’t let love stop, even when the vast expanse of space is between them. I’d have to say your species will end up like that too.”
We both let out a chuckle as she embraced me again.

-Doe-

“Voice log 1-001”
“I am now officially worried.”
I began to pace back and forth.
“Humans and Ponies are mixing far too quickly. It was estimated to take weeks for us to be first encountered, and months for us to truly meet them in society. Years before we reach a state we are at.”
I leaned against the far wall.
“Something about this place, it speeds up events, speeds up healing. I can’t explain it. All I can say is, one of the recruits broke their leg, and soon after it was set and in a cast, they were behaving almost like they never got hurt.”
“End log.”

-view of John-

I didn’t like what was in front of me.
I had just met some soldiers of both species, all male, drunk and in bliss, all of them using each other for balance.
We hadn’t brought Alcohol, the commander hadn’t brought any.
“Those ponies have strong booze?”
“HELLS YEAH!”
I walked away as they were talking about battles, war, and women.

I wasn’t paying attention, and somehow ended up nearly smacking face-first into the library’s door.
I rapped the door five times, and it opened on its own accord.
The place was dark, so I turned on my night vision.
What I found shocked me, to say the least.
Fable was drunk, almost unconscious on the floor.
I entered, turned on the lights somehow, despite no electricity, and kneeled down next to her.
“What happ…”
I slowly took her out of the suit and set it aside.
“You’re drunk. How much did you drink?”
“Twelve bottles…”
“Twelve.”
“Twelve…”
“I can identify at a simple smell that you should call yourself lucky, that was the incredibly light stuff. You almost killed your liver.”
“Quiet you.”
“Ma’am, be careful around what we’re bringing, you don’t know what it is, you could get hurt.”
“Alright…”
She passed out.
“She’ll be safe in here, mainly because it’s her house.”
I slowly stood up and left, closing the door behind me, walking away.

I came upon a tree, and sat down under it, intent on resting more.
I didn’t react when I suddenly felt a pony standing on my helmet.
“Hey there!”
“Hey…”
“What’s wrong?”
“I’m tired.”
“Try some sugar!”
“I’d rather just rest, sleep under this tree.”
I was about to close my eyes when Aigi and Blitz walked by.
I wasn’t worried about how Blitz was hanging on Aigi’s back, her fore legs hooked on his shoulders.
I was worried because he wasn’t wearing his armor.
“Aigi?”
“What, Dol?”
“What are you doing out of your armor?”
“It’s effective R&R sir!”
He stumbled towards me, Blitz clearly keeping him off balance.
“Hey, be more stable!”
“I can’t when you keep swinging!”
“That’s because you’re swinging yourself!”
“Stop bickering like a couple!”
They both got oddly silent after that, but I didn’t care.
I just dozed off.

-Doe time-

I watched Aigi and Blitz walk off, and I followed from the shrubbery.
I had to find out what foolish thing they would do next.
I hoped they wouldn’t start acting like high school children.
They didn’t.
Instead, they entered town and acted perfectly normally.
Not a single pony of human gave them a glance.
I popped the scope off my rifle, brought it to my eyes, and zoomed in on them carefully.
I followed them, and they entered a café.

I waited for them to leave, and when they did they went back to the lake they were at earlier.
I double timed it over.

I arrived in time to watch Aigi sitting down at the shore of the lake, Blitz across his lap.
They were chatting about something, but I was too far to hear.
I moved closer, silently going behind them and into more shrubbery.
They weren’t talking.
I waited for at least a half an hour, before I finally heard a sound
“We could just leave and start a new life.”
“Blitz, as much as I would like to do so, I have a job as a soldier, and you have your friends here. We can’t abandon those.”
“Don’t you have friends?”
“I learned to push them after my duty, after one too many died in front of me.”
“Your friends…”
“Died. Most of them did so the rest might live.”
“Just how violent are you?”
“Very. But that doesn’t make me bad; it just means I’m violent.”
“Shut up.”
“What’s wrong?”
She brought her head up and kissed Aigi on the cheek. Just a light one, but still, she did it.
Then they went full on, and I left.
I couldn’t take much more of their filthy cross species romance.
The Ensidians were close enough to people that is was okay, but ponies was too far.
I was just glad they could draw the line somewhere, stopping at the romance, not hitting the icky part.
Just thinking about it made me want to vomit on them.
I just headed back to camp, slowly putting the scope on my rifle.

-swap to Doa-

I thought about this world and its physics, its laws.
It reminded me of a children’s show far, far too much.
I took off my helmet and spat the tree across from me.
The shot impossibly flew straight ahead, and hit the tree, covering the side of it.
I watched from the hill I was at, observing the ponies at play.
They didn’t work during the weekends, unlike us humans.
We only got holidays off, due to our ever rising power.
“I tell you this is FUCKING INSANITY!”
“Calm down Private!”
“They’ll steal our jobs, then our homes, then our LIVES!”
I glared at the Private, a human.
“Shut. UP! They will NOT steal anything of ours!”
“You can’t prove that!”
“Time can you moron.”
“If a member of Delta squad called you a moron, then you are.”
I laughed along with most of the nearby soldiers as the Private gave up and stormed off.
“He always this crazy?”
“Yeah.”
I walked off to see the sights of the town.

I came across two ponies, both drunk, most likely bat shit crazy.
They were fighting about whether humans would be blight to the ponies or their savior.
I just shook my head as I passed.
I made my way to a small café.
Humans and ponies.
They were everywhere.
Chatting, ignoring each other, doing business.
I swear I saw more than one group performing cross species romance.
It’s not illegal.
But not legal either.
I set my helmet on the table and sat down on a chair meant specifically for me, then ordered a simple sandwich with water.
I checked my cash and looked at how humans and ponies were exchanging cash.
It looked like the exchange rate was $3.50=1 Bit.
The sandwich was 6 bits.
I took out $18, and then 3$
$21 total.
Nice enough.
I thoroughly enjoyed the local cuisine.

-Swap to Aigi-
I fell into the lake again, much to the chagrin of Blitz.
“Careful!”
“NO!”
“Bastard.”
“Some humans would call you my bitch.”
“And? I love you!”
“That won’t stop them. Humans are so varied that-”
“Yawn, I’m falling asleep already.”
“…”
She smiled at me.
I didn’t notice her hooves behind my head until it was too late, and she had forced my head forwards, her lips to mine again.
She wrapped her lower legs around my waist, and her wings slowly unfurled, sticking straight out.
I wrapped my arms around her, and slowly brought us back to shore.
I sat down under a tree as she broke away, then fell asleep.
“Sweet dreams.”

-John-

I opened my eyes, and was alone.
So I looked about and found out they stole my helmet.
“Great.”
I looked about some more and saw Aigi napping with Blitz in his arms.
Then I saw the tell tale sign of a sniper scope in the nearby forest.
“AIGI DUCK AND COVER FUCK!”
Fortunately he was still awake, and ducked just in time, stopping himself from getting his brains all over Blitz.
This sudden movement sent Blitz into the air.
“I’LL GET HELP!”
“ZIG-ZAG!”
I sighed for a moment as she began a random zig-zag pattern to base.
I quickly ran to the hostile’s left and Aigi to their right.
“WHO THE HELL IS SHOOTING US?”
I heard multiple gunshots from the hostiles, and I saw Aigi pull out his SMG.
“If only I were armed.”
I thought for a moment.
“Stupid, stupid, stupid!”
I turned the corner in the trees and tackled the nearest hostile, then ripped their own arm out of its socket.
Blood got everywhere, fast.
Aigi quickly got the rest with a spray of bullets.
“Who were these?”
I checked their dog tags.
“Dammit… Terrorists from Oceania.”
“WHAT.”
“Oceania based terrorists again.”
“No…”
“They chased us.”
“Dammit…”
“Let’s run!”
I took off into a full on sprint, only to have Aigi race ahead.
I didn’t pay attention.

We both arrived at camp at about the same time, Aigi slightly ahead of me.
“Damn commander, you getting lazy? I had enough time to tell them!”
“Aigi, we all know you are one of the fastest people alive.”
I entered the camp and stopped at the huge force that was gathered.
“We have found that, due to the design and location of Ponyville, that these terrorists will want to capture it and stage all operations from there. We must defend it at all costs. Every pony soldier, I want you to go to Ponyville, and get your family out of there and to here. We contacted Celestia via radio, the fastest way that exists.”
The commander was speaking.
“Every human soldier, establish and maintain a perimeter around Ponyville.
He turned to me.
“Delta Squad, you will send Aigi and Doe to find where the enemy is, and exterminate them. John, you’ll stay here. Dos and Doa will head to Ponyville if they aren’t already.”
“Yes sir.”
The commander turned to leave, but turned a moment later.
“Oh, and men? Blow every son a bitch to smithereens.”
“TUSSRAEAA!”
Everyone but Delta Squad, the commander, and a few choice soldiers marched out in staggered formation.
I approached the commander.
“The ponies know how to wield guns?”
He smiled like a child would on their birthday.
“Dol, I do daresay that a child actually earned their cutie mark for it. She’s an excellent sniper.”
“Damn sir!”
“Aigi, hush your mouth. In fact, go find Doe. Sir, my helmet was stolen.”
“We found it.”
He reached into his jeep and tossed me my helmet, which I snatch out of the air and put on.
“Dol?”
“Yes sir?”
“If you find who is in charge of this bitch of an operation, give him a message, will ya’?”
“What kind?”
“Blow his brain up, leave the jaw and below.”
I laughed.
“Yes sir.”
I turned and found Fable right behind me.
“Did you just laugh about death?”
“Takes the edge off ma’am.”

-Swap to Aigi’s more unique perspective of the world an hour later-

“For the last time Blitz, I don’t care how much you care about me; you do not know how to use weapons! Stay in the camp!”
“I can use the weather!”
“How would that help?”
“I can strike them with lightning and soak in front of them.”
“FINE.”
I ran from Blitz with anger and sadness in my eyes and went straight to Doe, who was waiting patently at the edge of the Everfree.
“Took you long enough. I scouted out some of the forest and found they’re on the far side. It’s dangerous, plenty of mythical beings, but we have something they don’t.”
I pulled out my shotgun and pumped it.
“Boom.”
“Precisely my simple minded friend.”
I took no offense to that.
I followed Doe as he made his way through the forest, carefully avoiding making sound.
The whole way not a single hostile was encountered, though we encountered strange blue flowers.
Doe took samples.

We reached what was obviously the camp, and I went in, going from building to building and making a map of the place.
I left as soon as I entered and got back to Doe, putting the map in a nearby tree.

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Trill

Trill #1 · Nov 4th, 2011 · · ·

Fucking talentless hack

havark11

havark11 #2 · Nov 4th, 2011 · · ·

No Doe! Not the flowers u Fool!

havark11

havark11 #3 · Nov 4th, 2011 · · ·

Death to all Pony Haters!

Zyggy

Zyggy #4 · Nov 4th, 2011 · · ·

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Huh?

TechnoBrony

TechnoBrony #5 · Nov 4th, 2011 · · ·

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See, the way people (or ponies) write is not something to critisize outright, unless you cant read it at all bceuase its a jmulbed mses . I get what your talking about with the syfy part (I like their logo), but its science FICTION based on a FANTASY universe with no technology. Thats like saying Robin Hood is a Klingon. So your argument doesn't make much sense.