• Published 29th Oct 2017
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The First Stand - A Typical Reader



A fun skydiving trip gone weird and wrong, a U.S. 'Citizen' skydives into Equestria to have the most fun experience of his life. But what if that Equestria wasn't the peaceful Equestria as everyone knows it...

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Chapter 1

The First Stand
Chapter 1
Into the Forest


Chris groaned, shaking his head as he looked around to take in full consideration of his surroundings.

First off, he was hanging in a tree branch, about 12 feet above the forest floor.

Secondly, his emergency parachute, torn and ripped, was caught on some leafy and sharp branches.

Thirdly, there were fucking wolves made out of WOOD barking at him, trying to sink their teeth into his legs or foot to drag him down from the tree as their meal.

"Fuck off wolves!" Chris shouted at them. The wolves seemed fazed for a few seconds, before continuing their annoying and repetitive bark-ing (Ha Ha, get it, 'Bark'-ing! Because they're made of wood. No, its time to stop with this.)

10 minutes passed, and the wolves had stopped barking, now just laying at the spot below where Chris was.

"Fucking wolves. I wonder if they're flammable?" Chris said softly to himself.

Suddenly, lots of crashing and noises started coming out of the trees above. Chris looked up, his face turning to horror.

A huge piece of metal plating/body came flying out of the trees above, crashing into the wolves below him, crushing several while scaring the few still alive away.

"Holy shit! What... the fuck was that...whatever, that was pretty convenient." Chris said to himself, before examining the huge piece of scrap metal.

It had blue and red lines painted/spray-painted on its body, with a serial code: N223IF on it. That piece of metal was from the Cessna 182-Skylane Chris was in.

Chris sighed, before thinking to himself, "Now where is that release cord?".

Just like that, another piece (A smaller one, though.) crashed into the forest, cutting the emergency parachute's line that were attached to the skydiving pack Chris was wearing. Chris came tumbling onto the forest floor.

"OOF!"

Chris said as he bursted into blocky pieces, while a 7 year old kid was screaming in the background groaned, rubbing his sides as he slowly got up.

"Well, that's one way to get out of that situation." Chris said to himself. He pulled the parachute harness off his skydiving suit, and then the red skydiving suit he was wearing himself as to not stick out of the forest environment. He ended up wearing a forest green shirt and some dark green cargo pants.

"Don't know how I managed to slip on that skydiving suit with some cargo pants now, but I'm glad that I managed to do that." Chris remarked.

Chris started to head southeast slowly and steadily as he thought that maybe that village has people that could help him back him.

He stepped over a tree root, and ducked under a branch as he walked slowly due Southeast, looking for things that could help him in this environment.

'Man this is one hell of a shithole, especially with wooden wolves running around, is pretty strange and weird by itself.'

Chris then took one step up a rock and tripped over something blocky in the process.

"Gah!" Chris said, before regaining his balance.

Chris then turned around and looked at what tripped him, which was a dark-green rock. Chris examined it more closely, to end up realizing it was some box of some kind. Chris squatted down, and started to pull on the box. Chris pulled and grunted, until it slowly came out.

"What's this, eh?"

Chris inspected the box, and started dusting overgrowth, dirt, and moss off the box when he saw some small, but faded, white letters.

"U.S.-Mi-ita-y..." Chris read aloud, and then he decided to open the box.

Chris dusted off some more dirt to reveal the lactches to the box (Or I should say Locker.), expecting some military-grade weapons in it. He lifted the locker cover up to reveal a dust-and-moss-covered M4 Carbine with a suppresor and ACOG attached to it, 5 5.56 NATO Magazines for the M4, a military vest, some chicken MRE's, some broken glasses, a smashed bottle of beer (Probably Budweiser Brand.), and a small box-full of Bang Snaps. Chris pulled the straps of the military vest on, clicking the snaps into place, before loading the 5 5.56 NATO magazines into the vest's frontal magazine pouches. He put the MRE's into the remaining pockets of his military vest, and put the box-ful of Bang Snaps into his pocket.

'That was a convenient find. Having a weapon and some food will help keep me sustained for a while and will help me protect myself from those wooden wolves and any other bullshit mythical dangers that come to have me for breakfast.'

Chris thought as he pushed the box behind a tree, and continued on his way Southeast. He started looking upwards when single drops of rain started to fall, increasing in severity.

"Look like there's some rain today. Wish I had a hat." He said to himself.

He continued cautiously across the forest so as to not slip on wet mud, and stopped in front of a huge gathering of trees, all solidly growing right nest to each other! Chris then started to exanmine the gathering of trees, pushing away vines, ripping off branches, to reveal a metal surface beneath the tree.

"What's This?" He said, as he started dusting off dirt and dust, to reveal an Iron Cross, specifically, a German Iron Cross. Chris gasped, and started ripping branches to reveal the front part of an entire German Tank!

"Jesus, is that a Panzer? I think its a Panzer, from what I learned from History Class back in High School. Anyway, what the hell is a WW2 Panzer doing out here in the forest? Maybe I'm in Germany, and that this could be a WW2 Battleground that was overgrown?" Chris rambled about, before he heard a snap. He turned around to the source of the noise,safety off, aiming through his ACOG on his M4 Carbine.

He waited, in the midst of the rain, silently breathing, having steady aim, waiting. He hear a growl, and whispered to himself:

"Oh god, is that some sort of Tiger or something I'm hearing?"

A Manticore, of all things, jumped out of a bush and roared at him. Chris reacted, firing a 3 bullet burst at the Manticore's heart. Three suppressed whooshes, as three 5.56 NATO Bullets flew out of the M4 Carbine's Barrel, and struck the Matnicore's heart, slowing it down for a couple of seconds. Chris aimed at the Manticore's head, and fired one shot, clearly putting a bloody hole in its' head, and letting it drop dead to the floor.

Chris got up, and observed the Manticore, muttering something about the forest he was in a home to mythical creatures.
He popped out the magazine, grabbing it, exchanging it for a fresh magazines. He stuff the used magazine (That still has bullets, I mind you.) into his military ammo vest pouch.

"Welp, I best be on my way." Chris said, as he started again walking Southeast, looking back at the destroyed Panzer Tank remains before concentrating on the way in front of him.


Meanwhile In Ponyvile...
Twilight Sparkle, esteemed student of Empress Celestia, Princess of Friendship, bearer and leader of the Elements of Harmony, slowly walked down the stairs of her crystal castle to the big dining room on the First Floor. She yawned, as she groggily rubbed her eyes with a hoof.

Downstairs, and in the dining room, she saw Spike carrying out two plates full of hay bacon, in which he setted it down on the table which contained scrambled eggs, 2 bowls of oatmeal, 2 daisy sandwiches, and some tea.

"Good Morning Spike." Twilight mumbled, with Spike burping up a letter from Empress Celestia as a reply.

Twilight picked up the letter and floated the letter towards her and unrolled it with her magic, reading:

Dear Twilight Sparkle,

It has come to my attention that I have sensed a disturbance in the magical field, particularly a strong magic spell of some sort being used above the Airspace above the Everfree Forest.

I want you and your friends to go investigate the magical disturbance to see and check if nothing dangerous has arrived or awoken.

I am also sending you a squad of soldiers from the 2nd Grand Equestrian Army to escort you if the situation of a dire trouble arises that could potentially be of a harmful threat to you and your friends, as I am currently dealing with some riots in Baltimare.

Gather your friends quickly, my loyal soldiers will arrive at your castle anytime soon by the time you receive this letter.

Good luck out there.

Signed,
Empress Celestia, Royal Monarch of the Holy Equestrian Empire.

Twilight rolled up the scroll before taking a sip of tea.

"So what does the letter say?" Spike asked.

"Celestia is dealing with riots in Baltimore, and she wants me and my friends to go into the Everfree Forest to go investigate a strong magical disturbance there." Twilight Responded.

"But isn't the Everfree Forest Dangerous?"

"Celestia sent a squad of soldiers from the Grand Equestrian Army to escort and protect us if any monsters out there try to threaten us."

"Still, the Everfree Forest has been acting a little bit too quiet over the past few weeks, and that doesn't comfort me about going in. I'll guess I'll stay behind Twilight." Spike responded.

"Okay then.Actually, could you do me a favor Spike? Could you go get my friends instead? I got things to pack." Twilight said.

"Fine." Spike replied, before heading off while muttering about Twilight conducting crazy science experiments.


Back in the Everfree Forest...
Chris P. Bacon looked around, as he had stumbled upon a dirt path in the middle of the forest.

'Well, this path could lead me to that little village, or send me deeper into the forest. I'll keep going in a Southeastern direction then.' Chris thought, as he walked down Southward down the path.

It had been five minutes when he stumbled upon the end of the path, and a little tree hut sitting next to it.

'Somebody lives in these woods.'Chris thought to himself as he pushed the door in.

Chris bent over to peek in (Most likely by the fact that the door was about half his size.), and he saw lots of little trinkets, potions, herbs, various herbal equipment, African-Looking Masks, and a cauldron on top of a fire pit sat in the middle of the small hut. He decided to crawl through the door, and the height inside the hut allowed him to stand up with little-to-no difficulty.

Chris took a look around, and found nothing useful to help him in his trek southeast.

He crawled back out the hole called a 'door' and walked back onto the path, when he heard growls coming from behind him.

'Must be those bloody wolves from earlier.'Chris thought to himself, as he slowed down to a cautious pace, silenced M4 Carbine at the ready.

That was then, he saw them. Green, unwavering, evil eyes in the darkness of the forest. The wooden wolves slowly advanced, some of them growling or showing off their teeth to Chris as a sign of intimidation. Chris counted 6 wolves in front of him, two circling him from behind.

"Come at me!" Chris shouted, before a 7th larger wooden wolf appeared from behind the 4 wolves in front of him.

'Probably the Alpha.'

It bark-ed, and two out of the five wolves leaped at him. Chris quickly fired off a burst of shots, only injuring the first 2 wolves. The wolves behind him then leaped at him. He rolled to the right to avoid the attack, only having to see the wolves behind him jump and crash into the two other injured wolves.

Chris quickly aimed his gun, and pulled the trigger, letting lead fly. The first few bullets made a nice comfy home into two wolves, a bullet sadly missed it's chance to buy off a home in another wolf's head from passing through and exiting the skull.

"That's Right!" Chris taunted, before he emptied the rest of his magazine into the rest of the wolves. Two more wolves went down, the alpha managed to not get hit, and another wolf that was injured backed off.

'One left.'Chris thought, eyeing the alpha wolf.

Chris backed up slowly, while trying to quickly pop out the spent magazine to put in a fresh one. The alpha pounced him, knocking him on the forest floor. Chris grunted, dropping a fresh magazine and the m4 carbine as the alpha started swiping at his chest.

Chris quickly grabbed a small rock nearby him, and smashed it into the alpha's head, causing it to stagger and stop it's fury swipes at his chest. He kicked the wolf off him, and grabbed the M4 Carbine and the filled magazine. He quickly ejected the spent magazine, pulling back the charging handle. He then putting a fresh one in, releasing the charging bolt.

The alpha wolf, in the meanwhile, recovered and looked at Chris, half of it's head injured and one of it's eyes had lost it's greenish glow.

"You little sneaky dirtbag." Chris said as he fired a three-round burst at the wolf's head, knocking it over with its greenish-glow drained from its non-existent eyes.

Chris sighed, and looked at his chest. The alpha had not managed to attacc scratched his chest, but it had ripped up his military vest significantly, with holes that let his chicken MRE's, the bang snaps, and the remainder of his 5.56 NATO magazines fall out and get scattered everywhere during the scuffle. He started picking up all the items he dropped during the fight and placed it in a pile next to a tree. He grabbed a chicken MRE out of the pile, ripped the package open, and started to look through the contents inside.

"At least I have chicken."


Back in Ponyvile...
Twilight Sparkle was tightening the straps on her saddlebags when she heard a knock on the castle doors. She went up to it, and opened the door to reveal a squad of 8 Equestrian Soldiers (Mostly pegasi, but there were a unicorn and Earth Pony in the mix.) waiting at the front door.

"I suppose you are the squad of soldiers Celestia sent me?" Twilight questioned.

"Yes Ma'am. We are here to escort you into the Everfree Forest so you can observe the magical disturbance Princess Celestia told you about." the Unicorn at the front answered.

"Twilight!" somepony shouted.

The squad of soldiers stepped to the side as Twilight's friends Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Spike walked up the steps and stopped in front of her.

"I gathered them all Twilight. I'm going to take a nap now." Spike said before rushing inside.

Twilight rolled her eyes, and then turned to her friends, where some of them were giggling a bit.

"Why were we called here Twilight? I got some napping to do as well." Rainbow Dash remarked.

"Celestia told us to go into the Everfree Forest to go study and find out the cause of a strong magical disturbance there. These fine soldiers will be escorting us if any monster threatens to hurt us."

"I don't think we need some soldiers to fend off a few monsters. We can kick monster butt on our own!"

Twilight rolled her eyes for the second time, before Applejack spoke.

"So what this 'magical disturbance' thingy ah' ya talkin' about?"

"We don't know, so we're gonna find out!"Twilight said enthusiastically, before they headed out.


20 minutes later, in the Everfree Forest...

"I like chicken." Chris P. Bacon Chicken said, eating some fried chicken in a KFC brand fried chicken bucket, surrounded by KFC brand fried chicken buckets and Chicken MRE Rations.

Wait...hold up...

*Papers rustle in the background*

That ain't part of the script!

"But I like Chicken. You can't complain about my opinion!" Chris shouted.

I ain't paying for you to go off on your shenanigans, now lets roll again.


20 minutes later, in the Everfree Forest...

"I like Chicken." Chris said, as he crumpled up the Chicken MRE wrapper before throwing it on the ground.

"Well, best get going."Chris said, before picking up the pile of things he dropped during the scuffle with the wooden wolves and carrying them in his arms.

Chris continued walking down the path before he ran into another military crate submerged in the ground next to a tree sitting next to the path.

Chris slowly and painfully dug the box out of its Earthly Confines, before dusting dirt off of the crate.He saw that there were rotting ropes keeping the crate closed and in one piece. Chris got up, and walked around, looking for a sharp and medium-sized rock to cut the rope open. He found and picked up a long and sharp rock, and managed to slice the ropes with little difficulty.

"Now what's in you, pretty?"Chris joked, as he lifted the crate cover off the crate, then peering inside.

The crate contained a bunch of partially-used notebooks, a smaller box that contained 12 pencils, 2 black pens, 1 highlighter, some scissors, a glue stick, and a brown backpack.

"Eh, might as well." Chris said, as he took everything and stuffed it into the brown backpack, including the rest of the Chicken MREs. He managed to successfully put his remaining 2 5.56 NATO magazines into the torned remains of his military vest, and putting the bang snaps into his pant pocket.

'Man, do I feel like I'm going to school again. Old memories, old times. Except that I'm carrying a gun and from that, I look like a school shooter.'Chris thought, then shaking his head. He closed the crate and was going to leave the crate by the tree when he heard faint chatter from the Southeast on the path, then clip-clop of hooves. A lot of hooves.

Chris hustled to about 10 yards away from the path, and started climbing a tree. Soon, he was hidden in the gnarly branches and dark leaves, but he had a clear line-of-sight on the path.He waited, and soon enough, a group of 14 ponies of various types walked by, talking among themselves.

Chris shook his head, before thinking to himself again.

'I definitely think I'm not in Kansas anymore. I don't even think I'm on Earth. Those wooden wolves, the manticore, and now ponies with horns, wings, that could talk verifies the fact that I'm definitely not on Earth.'

Chris shifted his position to get a better view on the ponies, and in the process, stepped on a branch that snapped off the tree and fell to the forest ground below. He realized his mistake, but it was too late. Immediately, he jumped back onto a bigger, stronger, and thiccer thicker branch and hugged the tree to stop himself from falling out of the tree. The ponies reacted quickly, their conversation stopping and their attentions quickly turning to the source of the noise. Chris pulled out his M4A1-S Carbine out at the ready, as the ponies quickly had their horns ignited and spears/hooves at the ready.

"Show yourself!" a pony shouted at his current location.

"Well shit."