> The Unlikley Sanctuary
>  by Tie RoamingHooves
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> The World We Live In
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AUTHORS NOTE: Ok my first fan-fic, I would like some constructive critisim. I've changed how I was originally going to start this story into this for technical reasons. Tell me what you think. Errors? Hit me up in the comments!

(July 6th EDIT: I may rewrite the first couple of chapters to get them up to par with my improved writing. For any new readers I ask that you sit through the first couple of chapters. This was my first fic after all.)




THWUMP! TA-TA-TA-TA-TA! WOOSH! The sounds of the bitter fighting between the two super powers was constant in the air. In the year 2013, Russia invaded a now lone United States. The United Nations had dissolved and the entire planet was at war. The Europeans were caught up fighting between themselves and could care less about the U.S. and the peril that so many faced in her borders. Its been a little over four months since the invasion. The Russians had Paratroopers land in various cites to overwhelm the defenders. They were crushed in the east but gained complete control of every thing west of the Rocky Mountains. The Americans line is 50 miles west of the Mississippi River. Between that is a thousand-mile stretch of bitterly contested soil that has claimed millions for both sides already. They fight in the cities, in the farmlands, and in our backyards.

Russia had launched a surprise attack. The Americans did there best to evacuate the civilian population before the fighting got to heavy and did for the most part but some were unlucky enough to get stranded in the hell that was to come. The cities were bombed out leaving much of them in ruins. Those left behind had a choice to flee from the area or to hold there ground and take up arms. Many fled, but many stayed as I did as well. 

Its July, a time I loved a little more than a year ago. I imagined sounds of the distant fighting in the once fair city of Topeka was the sound of fireworks celebrating the anniversary of our once great nation. I relished the sound and remembered the look of the night sky alit with the glowing reds. blues, and greens, that fade only to be replaced by more in a brilliant explosion of sparks of another color. I did this until I remembered that the sounds I was enjoying and smiling in delight to were the sounds of my fellow countrymen fighting to the death for the place they once called home. I sighed at this and returned to the task at hand.

"Fat Cat, this Neck Tie, over." I said into the mic. We were a resistance cell, but we did try to sound professional in case we were over heard by the U.S. Military. We used our parts of our old Xbox Live gamertags as our callsigns, but for those who didn't own one before the war used nicknames. We didn't have a clue how the military really did it probably because of the fact most of us are teenagers. I was sixteen, Tyler AKA Fat Cat was seventeen, and Jake was fifteen. The three of us were friends on Xbox Live and ran a successful clan as well. On Battlefield 3, Halo: Reach, or any first person shooter, we were a team. Jake was always the sniper online and does a damn good job in the real world as one. Tyler and I were always the kind of players who worked as a team, stayed back and gave cover fire for the rest while they got the kills or went to complete an objective. Here in this mess we still fit that description well.

"Solid copy Neck Tie, what is your mission status, over."

"I have eyes on enemy armor heading into Deer Creek Apartments, and uh... Jake Force you said you saw friendlies heading that direction. Confirm, over."

"Affirmative, about twenty plus and a humvee went in five minutes ago." Jake sounded nervous and hadn't thought about it until now. Deer Creek Apartments is a little over six blocks up the street. We were watching from the treeline on the edge of the Deer Creek Woods which has served as our base since the invasion. We caused problems for the Russians and have been a thorn in there side for a long time. This was a little close. 

"Fat Cat, This is a little close for comfort. Be prepared to pack up if needed, over."

"Neck Tie, say again. I'm picking up a lot of noise on your end, over."

I didn't notice the sound if another tank which was no more than thirty feet in front of me. It smashed its way through a play ground that once filled neighborhood kids with joy. They would never have done this unless the were looking for something. "T-90 closing on our position. Footmoblies not far behind! Jake Force, Fat Cat pack it up were leaving."

I crawled back from the tank which stopped until I was out of sight, then dashed through the trees covering my face with my M-16 hitting me on my side dangling from my shoulder strap. I came out of the trees into our camp only to see that every thing was ready and waiting in the helicopter. Various crates and boxes were stacked in. They were moderately sized but didn't look to heavy to keep us down. "Tyler, I don't know how you managed to do that this fast but I won't complain now." The UH-1 Iroquois was an icon during the Vietnam war. Today it is our escape pod. "I do have one question though. How did you manage to get this back in the woods with out flying it?"

"Magic." he said jokingly while looking for the detonator for the C-4 we had around base of the trees. 

"TIE WE NEED TO GO. RUSSIANS ARE IN THE WOODS START THE ENGINES!" Jake yell into his com as Tyler blew down the trees which allowed the helicopter a clear path to take off. I jumped in the cockpit t


"Jake, DO SOMETHING ABOUT THOSE RUSSIANS!" I scream at him annoyed with the constant sound of bullets hitting us.

"Just keep flying." he said nonchalantly picking up his SV98 looking through the scope ignoring the machine gun mounted to his right.

"Jake, there is a MACHINE GUN FOR A REASON!"

"I GOT THIS TYRIN! JUST SHUT UP!" he yelled back picking off two or three Russians.

"WERE NOT GOING TO BE FLYING MUCH LONGER IF YOUR KILLING THEM ONE AT A TIME!" I yell before I notice our altitude of descend a little. 

"RPG! LEFT SIDE!" Tyler yelled. I looked left to see and RPG heading straight for us. I rolled the huey Right and evaded the RPG. When we got out of range things calmed down. 

"We made it." I said to the others.

"Yeah I guess so. Anyways where we heading?" Jake asked.

"Well, I guess as close as we can get to the Mississippi. I doubt we have enough fuel to make it that far so We'll land and walk when we get close to empty." I tell him.

"Whoa..." I said looking at the city. I had been so focused on flying I didn't notice the view. We are over what used to be downtown. The city burned and layed in waste. Many of the taller buildings were still standing but were skeletons and filled with holes. The Capital Building was still there but the dome had since been destroyed in the brawl between Russia and the U.S. I looked up and said to myself, "Even without a Capital, Kansas can't suck anymore than it ever has." I also noticed the sky was looking dark. It might storm.

We flew for another minute before we started taking fire. "WHERE IS THAT COMING FROM?!" I yell.

"I got nothin."

"I see it." Jake said looking at a bombed out school the Russians are using as a base. He shots the machine gunner. "Boom, headshot."

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP! "CHRIST! WERE LOSING HYDRAULICS IN THE TAIL." I look at the clouds which were almost black and had electricity surging through them but lacking the sound of thunder. "What the hell...?" I say before a bright flash of light blinds me and I lose my hearing.

MEANWHILE IN EQUESTRIA!!!
(Sorry, couldn't help my self)

It was evening and Twilight was heading home when she noticed something unusual. The clouds looked dark, almost black. She was standing there pondering until the clouds started getting brighter and bolts of lightning were jumping through them. Then there was a flash more brilliant than the sun for a split second which revealed an alien looking flying machine. The sound it made was a thunderous chopping sound. It had a fast spinning blade over top and seemed to be on fire. Her jaw dropped when it flew overhead in flames and wobbled as in went leaving a trail of thick black smoke. "What in Equestria!?" she said. Just then it spun out and crashed in the Everfree Forest. She came to her senses and galloped to the library as quick as her hooves could carry her. "I have to warn the princess!" she said to herself. She bucked the door open. "SPIKE!"

The baby dragon was asleep at the table. Twilight teleported to him. "SPIKE!!!!"

"Huh... what...?" he said falling out of his chair and hitting the floor with a thud.

"I need to write a letter to the princess. Its an emergency." she said urgency evident in her voice. He picked up a quill and a piece of paper and nodded to signal he was ready.

"Dear Princess Celestia," she began. "I have dire news. I just saw a flying machine crash in the Everfree Forest and there is smoke coming from where it landed. I looked alien but I could be wrong. Your most faithful student, Twilight Sparkle." she said aloud making the letter as short and to the point as possible. She then had spike incinerate the letter and it was on its way the only thing she could do now was wait for the Princess's response because she didn't want to do anything without her permission first.
> Down and Out of Commission
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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?


> Action and Introductions
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Athours note: I will have a couple of point of veiw changes in this chapter. Just letting you know so no one gets lost. Spelling Errors? Hit me Up in the comments.





"FAT CAT, CONTACT FRONT!" I yell raising my gun. I pulled a road flare out of the box and tossed it to the manticore so I could see my target. Time seemed to slow as I did so. I turned to where I had heard the screams and saw the rainbow maned pegasus that I knew all too well as Rainbow Dash bursting through the treetops. Just then I realized how different the manticore here was from the show as I turned to face it again. Its had the body of a scorpian rather that just the tail of it but it still had the face of a lion that looked as tough as the rest of the outer shell armoring its body. It stood ten to fifteen feet tall, and was definatly a threat.

By this time, time had caught up with me and I fired at the manticore scoring a hit in its eye while the rest of the bullets simply bounce of its armor. Blood shot out of its eye and it roared enraged by the wound.

"I thought you said not to kill any thing." Tyler yelled over the roaring.

"I did, but this is self defense. Besides it will kill us first." I yell back. The manticore charged catching me off gaurd but I managed to to dive away on my chest. I couuldn't ignore the pain after that. "ARGHH!!" I breathlessly scream from the pain of several broken ribs smashing against my lungs.







"Oh I don't know about this Rainbow Dash, its dark out and I don't think we should be out in the forest. Especialy with aleins around." Fluttershy said softly with fear in her voice.

Rainbow Dash facehoofed. "Come on Fluttershy, really? Equestria to Fluttershy, you're an Element of Harmony. Besides, we've stopped Nightmare Moon, Discord, and a changling invasion. What's different about this, well... besides the fact that its aleins?"

"I guess your right... but what if they're friendly? What if they're hurt?!" she said worried looking up at the orange glow of fire in the distance but then stopping when she heard an unexpected sound.

"Is... that... singing?" asked a very surprised cyan pegasus.

"Oh they couldn't be dangerous if they can sing. I mean we can too so they have to be something like us, right?" she asked in whimsy back to an unsure Rainbow Dash.

"I wouldn't exactly call them friendly yet Fluttershy. We know nothing about them and I sure won't let them near anypony before I know they can be trusted!"

The duo trotting thrugh the woods had reached the edge of the clearing and were gobsmacked when the lyrics became clear.

"Are they singing in Equestrian?!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed then hushed herself while watching the aliens from behind a bush.

"They're like... hairless bears almost... but... they aren't bears." Fluttershy said watching them sing. It was to dark to make out any more features than that, but their vocies were male but then again she couldn't be sure. 'They seem so happy' she thought to herself then noticing another alien wrapped up in what seemed like bandages and had a stick tied to its arm. "Rainbow Dash! One of them is hurt!" she whispered in urgentcey.

"Well what the hay are we supposed to do? Just walk up to them and say 'hey welcome to my planet or something'?"

"Well we need to do something!" Fluttershy said still staring at the wounded alien. Just then a load roar shattered the silence of the forest and a scream was heard behind them. A Manticore had come out into the clearing and was staring down the aliens.

"FAT CAT, CONTACT FRONT!" one of them yelled startling Fluttershy. Rainbow Dash had flew up out of the treetops.

"I heard Rarity scream, I'm gonna go see what in Equestria that's about. I'll be right back Fluttershy, DON'T GET INVOLVED." Rainbow Dash yelled to the Fluttershy who simply nodded. Fluttershy watched her fly back until a loud series of bangs scared her and made her jump. She looked back over the bush to see what it was and she saw the manticore being hit in its eye with something that must have came from the pointy stick loking thing that one of the aliens was pointing at it. There was blood coming out of its eye witch nearly made Fluttershy faint. The manticore let out a roar in rage of the pain afflicted to it.

"I thought you said not to kill anything!" the other alien yelled to the first one. Fluttershy cringed at that comment.

"I did, but this is self defense. Besides, it will kill us first!" the first one yelled to the second to Fluttershy's relief a little. She didn't like the fact abut them killing anything but at least they are civilized enough to know right from wrong. The manticore charged without warning and caught the first one off guard who dodged it by diving onto its chest. It yelled out in pain. Fluttershy had heard a soft crunch meaning it had broken ribs ausuming it had ribs.

"Oh no!" Fluttershy said into her hoof as she watched helplessly.

"TYRIN GET JAKE OUT OF HERE! YOUR HURT TOO SO DON'T ARGUE!" the other alein yelled selflessly which had surprised the yellow pegasus. But she didn't think the injured alien could get up by itself. She had to do something. She decided she had no choice but to get involved. She quickly mentally apologized to Rainbow Dash before galloping to the aid of the ailing alien. 







I lied there wheezing unable to get up because of the pain in my chest. I needed to get Jake away from this mess but I couldn't. I cursed my body for being weak in the time of need then I saw a streak of gold coming my way at high speed. 'It must be a Royal Guard' I thought to my self pulling out my side arm raising it at the figure standing before me and with all the air I could force into my lungs I yell, "FRIEND OR FOE?!". I insantly regreted it becuase I had obviously just mistaken Fluttershy's yellow coat for gold and I just raised a gun... at Fluttershy.

"F-F-FRIEND!" she replied quickly in mortal terror. I lowered my gun and facepalmed at my stupidity for raising a gun at Fluttershy of all ponies. "I'm here to help." she added quickly.

"Great I need to get my friend out of here can you help me up?" I ask the very scared fluttershy over the roars and cracks of gunfire. She noded and did so. I quickly went to retrive Jake and started to drag him into the woods.

"I Could carry him to back to Ponyville and and take him to the hospital... he is a he right?" Fluttershy asked blushing a bright red.

"Yes he is a he and am I and Tyler over there. Speaking of, I need to go help him out. I'm going to trust you with him, can I do that?" I ask loking back at the firefight.

"You can count on me. My name is Fluttershy by the way."

"Nice to meet you Fluttershy, my name is Tyrin. Now if you will exuse me I need to go help my friend." I say activating my com and saying the following: "Ok everyone, Let's do this, ITS LEEEERRRRRRROOOOYYYYYY JJJEENNNNKKKIIIIIINNNNNSSSS!!!!!!!!!!" I yell unable to let this perfect chance to do that slip by while running like an idiot back into the fray.

"Tyrin really?" Tyler asked through the com.

"Yep"

"Ok then. Well hurry up and grab the RPG and let's end this already."

"Roger roger." I say sounding like a droid. The manticore wouldn't have the slightest clue whats about to happen to it. I swipe the RPG and rest the butt of it on my sholder and kneel down. I lind up the sights and I fired. I watched the RPG soar to its target and when it got there I think one thing. KAABOOOM! It had exploded into peices but the front half of its body was largely intact, Messy, but intact nonetheless. Until now I didn't think about it all that much but why would Fluttershy not say anything about us killing the manticore. My thoughts were interupted by a wave of Royal Guards soaring in to the clearing as to be expected from this situation.

"Halt in the name of Celestia!"
> A Very Touchy Subject
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Sorry. I couldn't Wait to get this chapter out but expect another by saturday at the latest! Spelling Errors? hit me up in the comments.



"Halt in the name of Celestia!" The Royal Guard had swarmed the clearing. Celestia must have been notified of our arrival and thought of us as dangerous to send this many. This will be difficult now that we have killed something. There had to be at least 100 of them.

I look to them and say the only thing I can think to say right now. "Hello, we mean you no harm." It was blunt and to the point.

"So I take it that you can understand me then?" asked Shining Armor. If it weren't for MLP I wouldn't know him from the rest.

"Yes." I reply.

"Are you in charge?"

"Yes I am. I am the leader of me and my men."

"May I ask how many of you there are."

"Well... three. Tyler and I, and then Jake who I left in the care of Fluttershy because after we crash landed, he was injured and that manticore over there attacked us and I had to get him out of here so he didn't get hurt worse than he already is." I say flatly.

"You did that?" he asked sounding surprised.

"Yes... unfortunatley. I don't like having to kill things but it attacked us so we defended ourselves". I had to give him the idea that we don't do this for sport. We don't but we do kill people.

"I see." he said staring at the remains of the strange manticore with the obvious look of disgust written so clearly upon his face. just then Fluttershy rushed into the clearing with the rest of the main six trailing close behind.

"Hey Fluttershy!" I said waving to the suprise of the Royal Guard and the rest of the main six.

"I told you he was friendly." Fluttershy said back to the group.

"Yo Tyler, get over here I got someone for you to meet!". Fluttershy was Tyler's favorite pony. He looked over and nearly died from excitment. He regained his composure and walked over.

"Tyler, this is Fluttershy." I say teasing him only to recive a punch to the arm.

"Hi Tyler." she said shying back. He just jizzed his pants.

I decided to quickly end the introduction before Tyler said something stupid in his euphoria. "So Fluttershy, did you get Jake to the hospital?"

"Yes I did. He is still unconsious but he's fine."

"Good to hear". The moment was shattered when Celestia teleported into the clearing. She was, what only could be described as beutiful. Her mane blew gentley as if there was a light wind even though there was an absence of any wind at all. She stood nearly as tall as I did and was far more intimidating than anything I've ever encountered in my life. Everypony kneeled down before her. Tyler and I reluctently did so as well kneeling with the butt of our rifles on the ground and the barrel in or hand with our head down, much like a knight would before a king.

"You may rise, my little ponies." she said in a soft but commanding voice. We continued to kneel. Celestia chuckled a bit and said, "You two may rise as well." We did so and looked at the alicorn standing before us. "Shining Armor, Report." she said turning around to consult with him for a breif momnet.

Celestia returned and looked at us. "My name is Celestia, ruler of this land. I see you mean us no harm but I have questions for you."

"Ma'am I have no problem answering them but if its about our world it would be best done in private."

She nodded and motioned for me to follow. "Tyler be nice." I say in sing-song then continue to follow the white alicorn.

Her horn glowed a moment and she turned to face me. "I have sound-proofed this area." I nearly made a fan-girl squeel. I was staring at the royal poker face. I was scared shitless but it was amazing to see it first hand WOOT! 

"Ok then. What do you want to know."

"What are you, and where are you from?"

Easy question. "We are Humans from the planet Earth."

"Why are you here?"

I knew that was coming. "Honestly, I don't know how we got here but were not here to hurt anyone if thats what your getting at."

"I see. Thats good news considering the fact of how easily you handled the manticore."

"Ma'am, that was self defense just so you don't get the idea that we go around killing everything in sight. We are soldiers but we're not brainless." I say trying to lead into the war on Earth quickly.

"You said you're soldiers." she said sounding suprised but maintaining the poker face.

"Not exactly Ma'am. We're a resistance cell. Back on Earth, World War 3 is still raging on. Our home country was invaded by a country called Russia. My country the United States of America and Russia were the two super-powers on the planet so the fighting is brutal. Our cities laid in waste, no more seas of amber grian waving in the wind of the countryside. Its all been replaced with a thousand mile stretch of land contested by the two forces that fight in what me and my men used to call home."

"World War 3?". Celestia didn't sound like she belived me on the WORLD WAR part.

"Yes, our entire planet is at war."

"What of the people?"

"Well in America, the Russians shoot them for sport."

"Shoot...?"

"Shooting is the word the means we've fired our weapon."

"Tell me, what do these weapons of yours do?"

I hold out my SCAR rifle in front of me. "This is a gun, more specificly an assault rifle. Humans built these to fight one another on my planet. They are designed to fire hot peices of lead called bullets into a target. If the target is living it is made so the bullets enter the body and tear arteries and blood vessles to make the target bleed out and die. It sound barbaric when I say it like this but its generaly how guns work." I look up to see I have broken the royal poker face. Wait... what? She looked digusted and appaled at the weapon. Fan fiction had it wrong. The royal poker face can be broken easier than I thought.

"That is completly terrible. Why would your people used this on one another?!"

"Politics and to get the upper hand on one another. I never liked this fact about my people". I was trying to dig myself out of the hole I've just created with the princess. "Always so violent. it was generaly those in power who told their poeple to go to war and many did it blindly."

"So I take it you are different from your people."

"Princess, don't get me wrong, many others besides me hate the fact we are violent."

Celestia copped an eyebrow. "I never mentioned anything about me being a princess. I simply stated I was the ruler of this land. How could you possibly know that I was a princess without me telling you?" she said staring me down intently.

"About that... um... we.. well, I specificly have a bit of foreknowledge of this world and its inhabitants."

The royal poker face was sent flying out the window. " How could you possibly know anything about this world or us if we know nothing of you?" she said with a look of shock.

"Well this is going to be an awkward conversation that you may need to sit down to hear. This is an especialy awkward position for me being that I feel like I know some of the Inhabitants of this world as if they were my friends but they know nothing of me."

"I see. But you must tell me every aspect of your foreknowledge. I haven't had any reason to mistrust you, except for the fact that you killed that manticore, but I don't need more."

"Honestly, it would be better if I showed you. Is there a spell where you can see into the thoughts of others?"

"So you have magic where you come from, and yes there is."

"No we don't have magic on Earth. That was a thing of myth. But please hurry with the spell the faster we get this done the better."

"Ok I see. I can only see what you show me."

"I know". And with that her horn glowed and I showed her every thing there is about MLP: FIM and the fan base of it as well. Unfortunatly my thoughts strayed into some clopfiction. But I don't think Celestia minded that much.

"Hmm... so I see what you were saying. You indeed know the elements of harmony as well as you say you do."

"Not only that but you should be honored to have devoted fans of this magnitude. I would like to say our world was a lot like yours before the war. We aren't always violent."

"I'll take your word for it but still... I'm not quite sure how I feel about the fact that you know us more than we know you. And before you ask there is not any way to send you home. Your fan fiction as you call it is right." My heart jumped. I get to stay! WOOT!

"Well that can be fixed. I want to get to know the main six but I'm not sure how they would react to this kind of news but they do need to know." 

"Yes I agree. They will come around eventually. Maybe sooner than you think." she said smiling  pointing a hoof at the main six Tyler having a conversation. I will do the memory spell with Twilight to get her up to speed with the situation but there is a pressing matter I need to get back to."

"That works, and thanks for being understanding about this."

"Think nothing of it. You never introduced yourself though. May I ask your name?"

"Of course your highness..."

"Just Celestia is fine."

"...Celestia, my name is Tyrin Roberson" I say as she takes down the sound proof barrier and walks over to the main six.
> Close Calls and Awakenings
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Celestia had quickly done the memory spell and was on her way. She teleported back to the Equestrian/Griffon Kingdom border to settle a border dispute. "The human..." she thought to herself while walking through the many tents in the staging area along the border crawling with the Royal Guard. "This human may prove to be a difficulty in the near future. Wait... human, human.... Where have I heard that term before?" she continued to ponder until her train of thought was interupted.

"Sister, you have returned. Tell us, what of the alien?" Luna called from a tent across the way. Celestia walked in and sat facehoofing after this stressful night.

"Aliens Luna, there are more than one."

"What?! What did thou do about these aliens?"

"Well, about that, I spoken to one..."

"THOU DONE WHAT?"

"Yes, its the most amazing thing. They speak Equestrian, but..."

"But what sister?"

"Well, they are soldiers."

"WHAT?! WHY HATH THOU LET THEM STAY?!" Luna yelled losing all volume control.

"Luna you must calm down. They've been nothing but respectful. Yes, they are dangerous but I don't think they will hurt anypony, Its just..."

"WHAT DOST THY HAVE TO SAY?! SPEAK SISTER."

"Luna you need to stop yelling."

"We are sorry but we must know what thou are trying to say. Do not hide it from us sister, you look troubled."

"They know of us."

"THEY..."

"Luna."

"They what!?"

"Apparently on the world they are from, we are a cartoon to them. On this device called the Television which is essentially a series of moving pictures in a box-like casing, they have seen the lives of us from 1000th Summer sun celebration to the Changling Invasion of Canterlot. Its not everything but the just of thing in that time span." Celestia finally managed to break it to her sister who is left speechless by the news.

"W-w-we just do not know what to think." she stammered trying to articulate any form of thought to no avail.

"Sister I know its hard for you to understand and the Human said it would be for me as well so he asked me to look into his memories. It honestly isn't all that bad, but I can do the memory spell if you need me to, Just ask."

"We think it would be for the best." Luna said and with that it was done. Celestia did the memory spell on Luna and understood what she was getting at. They had fans. Luna had thought the Humans were spying on them but she was dead wrong. These fans were devoted, some obsessed, but they still loved the show with legitimate feeling. And the show brightened the lives of many. Honestly it was something to be proud of but the fact remains that they did know and it was a bit unsettling.

"We see."

"Yes, humans watching the show was commonplace before the war ravaged their planet."

"War?"

"Oh, yes I've failed to mention the war."

"Sister go on then, tell us more."

"Well their world is in the middle of its third worl..." A Royal Guard walked in interupting their conversation.

"Your Highness... The ambassador would like to see you now." he said.

"Luna we shall continue this conversation later."

"We understand sister."

Luna walked out leaving Celestia to her thoughts for a brief moment. 'Humans, I know I've heard this word before' she thought. The ambassador for the Griffon Kingdom walked in so she immediately dismissed the thought and returned to the task at hand. This will have to wait. The Griffons are the most present threat.







"So what happens now?" Tyler asked everyone.

"Celestia has arranged for you all to stay in Ponyville." Twilight replied

"But what about our things?"

Shining Armor cut into the conversation. "The princess has ordered us to carry these boxes and crates to where ever you need them."

"Well that was awfully nice of the princess to let us keep our weapons and supplies."

"About that, we've also been ordered to take them unless you give Twilight here a complete list of how your weapons work and details of that nature."

"I don't see a problem in that." I say then start to cough up a small amount of blood.

"Ya alright there sugarcube?"  asked Applejack with concern in her voice.

"Uh *cough*... Yeah, I just broke a few ribs on the crash landing. nothing too serious."

"Oh my, you should have gone to the Hospital with Jake." Fluttershy said in her usual soft caring voice but with urgentcy.

"It can wait. Need to organize the moving of our supplies with the Royal Guard..."

"No... your hurt and you need to get help." Fluttershy said grabbing my hand with her hoof and started to pull me away.

'I could check on Jake' I thought to myself. "Tyler, can you handle this while I'm gone?"

"I got this mister boss man, go on now." he said earning a giggle from the group of ponies he stood in.

"Ok then. I guess I can go." I say reluctantly.

"By have a wonderful time." he said in singsong.

"STFU Tyler."







Jake's eyes shot open to see a hospital room and he didn't here the sound of explosions or gunfire outside. 'Did we make it?' he thought when he saw that his arm was in a cast. His body was battered, bruised and had cuts which were patched all over him.

The door opened and Jake put his head back down to the pillow not looking at what he knew must be the nurse. "So, your awake then." said the faceless nurse.

"I guess so." he said staring to the ceiling. He could have sworn he herd trotting but pushed the thought out of his head because they had to be people not horses.

"Well let me just check that arm of yours." she said and he heard trotting again.

He looked over and saw walk-... trotting over a white pony with a red cross on her flank.

He looked back to the ceiling as the new information began to organize in his head and he realized, it was the pony who was talking to him.







I walked into the door of the clinic. Funny, they said hospital but I beg to differ. I then here a scream from down the hall.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!" Jake must be awake. I laughed at this as I ran down the halls looking for the correct room and saw it. The Royal Guard's that were posted to stand guard outside were rushing in.

"WHAT ARE YOU?!" I hear. Yep definitely Jake. I rush in the room Jake holding the IV machine like a sword and backing into the corner.

"Jake calm down." I tell him in a soft voice.

"What ARE THESE THINGS?!"

"Jake, don't be rude. They aren't things, they are ponies and they were nice enough to fix up your sorry ass." I say annoyed with this nonsense.

"Ponies? *laughs and facepalms* For the love of god." Jake said looking as if he was questioning his own sanity. Jake had been an anti-brony back on earth before the war. I couldn't wait to rub this in his face when he accepts the fact that he is now in a world full of ponies. But first things first he's going to hurt somepony if he doesn't calm down.

"Jake are you ok? Your scaring me a bit."

"Really? AMAZING. I must have been drugged or something because this is not happening." he yelled scaring the nurse out of the room.

"Jake this is real and I wish you would stop yelling so we can get on with this. I got things I need to get done but I'm spending my time here with you because you won't sit down and accept the fact that there are ponies here and now!!"

"So there really are ponies?" he asked calmly to my surprise.

"Uh... yeah. Are you done yet cause I got broken ribs that need to be taken care of." I state.

"Yeah... *slumps down in corner and wipes his face, facepalming in the process* I-I just need a moment."

"Ok then but don't freak out like that. You scared the nurse away."

"Huh... yeah." he said uninterested.

"Can I leave you here? Your sure your not going to freak out again, right?"

"Yes, just go."

"Ok then, I'm going to trust you. Guards you can back off now he needs some space." I tell them and the nodded and returned to there respective posts. I walk out the door to see a disturbed Nurse Redheart. "Ma'am, I'm sorry for my friends behavior. It won't happen again." I say catching her off guard but she soon acknowledged me and I was on my way. I knew there wasn't much that could be done for broken ribs except to let them heal on its own. I was given a potion which is supposed to make the healing process faster. 

I left with Fluttershy and we started walking to twilight's tree. It was still a late hour so not many ponies were out but those who were there stared at Fluttershy and I.

"I hope everypony isn't going to be like this tomorrow." Fluttershy  said noticing the staring ponies who were few and far between.

"They will Fluttershy but I don't mind. If I'm going to stay here in Ponyville, I will have to get to know everypony here right?"

"Yes, I sure Pinkie Pie could help out with that." she said.

"I'm sure she..."

"Neck Tie, this is Fat Cat. The supplies have been moved. How copy?" Tyler interupted through the com.

"Solid copy Fat Cat. What's you AO, over." I say confusing Fluttershy to who the disembodied voice is. 

"Uh Sweet Apple Acres..." he said and that's all I hear. Sweet... Apple... Acres. I need an Apple, NAO!

"Fluttershy, would you know how to get to Sweet Apple Acres?"

"Yeah sure... but who were you talking to?"

"Tyler. He said that he and the rest of your friends are ant Sweet Apple Acres."

"But how? He isn't here so how could you possibly talk?" she asked me with wide eyes.

"It's technology Fluttershy." I say getting trapped in a conversation about technology with her during the entire walk to Sweet Apple Acres.
> A Place To Crash and Troubled Thoughts
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

I was running dry on Idea's for this chapter but through many amounts of magics... like this:

This chapter happened. It won't be like the other chapters, But I have decided to add a story arc (if I used the term correctly) for a future conflict in the story.




"...And that's how electricity was discovered." I say to Fluttershy looking up. To my relief we had reached Sweet Apple Acres and I would no longer be stuck in this conversation. I hate it when I'm asked to explain something I am not knowledgeable in.

I walk past the Royal Guard stationed just outside and open the doors of the barn to see Tyler again, laughing with the main six. I couldn't help to feel left out. I've been so busy with things I haven't been able to get a real chance to talk with anypony (except Fluttershy but still). Though I would like to talk, it has been a rough night and I need to hit the hay.

"So, you back from the hospital?" Tyler said trying to start a conversation.

"Yeah, why?"

"How's Jake doing?"

"Oh, well when I got there he had just woken up and he freaked out at the nurse."

"Well why would he do tha-... oh right."

"Yeah. He seems to be over it and he said needs space."

"We need to get him soon so we can figure out what were doing." he said. I kind of agreed with him on this. Jake may be an anti-brony but I don't need him explaining his hatred of ponies to the hospital staff.

"Yeah, I should have brought him back with me. Uh Fluttershy?"

"Yes?"

"Do you mind going back down to the hospital with Tyler to pick up Jake and bring him back here?"

"No, not at all."

Tyler looked at me and whined. "Hey I didn't agree to this."

"Just go with Fluttershy and grab Jake. It'll give me a chance to have a have a chat with Miss Sparkle."

"Actually, I may head home and get some sleep. It is pretty late." Twilight said much to my disappointment. "We can always have this conversation tomorrow."

"I know but I want to get everything out of the way ASAP." Everypony in the room gave me a confused look. "You know, as soon as possible.

"Ohhh!" they all exclaimed in unison.

"Well I guess it is pretty late. I might hit the hay too... so to speak of course. Tyler is still going to get Jake though."

"Come on!" he yelled.

"But Tyrin, Where will you all sleep?"

"Well we could just stay here. Our stuff is here so why not?"

"Equestria to Tyrin, if you haven't noticed yet... ITS A BARN!" Rainbow Dash yelled looking at me like I'm crazy.

"I know but I don't want anyone to come snooping around and touching something in these crates. Somepony could blow them self to pieces doing that."

"But what ever do you mean dear? I don't think there would be a guard here for nothing. I don't think a barn would be an ideal place to sleep either." Rarity said rather disgusted at the prospect of us sleeping here.

"But..."

"No I don't want to hear anymore about it. You can stay with me." 

Ah, the Element of Generosity. Should have guessed she would have offered me a place to stay. "Um... excuse me Rarity but what about Tyler?"

"Well he can always stay with me." Fluttershy offered. At the mention of this, Tyler's brain had exploded and exploded again. It had exploded twice. (See what I did there anyone?)

"Tyler is that ok with you?" I ask him.

"I... I... I..." he sputtered unable to make words.

"Take that as a yes Fluttershy. Are you sure he won't be any trouble to you?"

"No, of course not. I couldn't possibly say no. He could get sick sleeping in this barn at night and I wouldn't want that."

"Good to here, but what about Jake?" I say hoping Twilight would take him in. I would rather stay with Twilight because on top of the fact that I have business to attend to, she is kinda my favorite. But to my knowledge she hasn't explained the whole MLP situation to the rest of the ponies so it would be better for Jake to stay there. This way if he has any anti-brony hatred still, Twilight knows what to deal with. I myself am surprised at the fact that Twilight nor the Princess have not said more on the subject. I may need to worry about this  some.

And to my relief, "I guess I can have a guest over." Twilight said with a sigh.

"Well times wasting lest get some sleep. And Tyler, that doesn't mean leave Jake at the hospital either." I say walking outside with the rest in tow.

I saw all the crates and boxes on the inside but as the outside goes, it was minus one helicopter. I stop and turn to face him. "Tyler... where is the helicopter?"

"Oh, I left it there..." he nonchalantly stated.

"You did WHAT?!" I yell. Tyler is as smart or smarter than me. But this... no, this was beyond brainless. I refrained from facepalming because I would put a hole through my head.

"Were just going to get it tomorrow. It was to heavy for the Royal Guard to lift so Shining Armor and I decided it would be best to come back tomorrow with more help."

"Well that was stupid because YOU COULD HAVE HAD A CERTAIN SOMEONE TELEPORT IT!"

"Oh..."

"Well its too late now were already here. But don't be sorry when the morning dew seeps into the electronics and ruins them." I say unable to resist the urge to facepalm and do so knocking myself to the floor. to be laughed at by the others.


"Tyrin, you need to calm down. The helicopter was totaled bro... unsalvageable..." I cut him off.

"You forget, this is a land of magic" I say emphasizing the word magic to drive my point into his head. I decided to end this before it distracted me any further. "Never mind just go get Jake." I say pointing to where he needed to go. Fluttershy and Tyler walked away and the remaining group said their goodbyes and headed to there respective homes. I only hope Jake can get over himself. It would make his life easier.







"Get a hold of yourself man, come on Jake pull it together. There just ponies." he said sitting in the corner with hiss head in his hands racking his brains to judge whether this is happening or not. The better half of him told him this was a dream and this couldn't possibly be real. But though half his mind was convinced, his entire body told him otherwise. He was sore from the helicopter crash.

"Wait... I'm dead... yes I must be dead and I'm in hell now. Make sense. No but what if this is real? What if I accidentally hurt one of these... ponies and they come after me?! W-wait no this is a dream. I'll wake up in bed and see the others and no ponies." he thought out loud. Something in him snapped. He came out of the spiraling thoughts and calmed down but... he needed to hurt something, soon. He needed to hurt something... alive.
> A Mint Green Morning
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

I was walking with Rarity through the empty streets of Ponyville still with my rifle, still with my gun. I keep dawning on the fact that Celestia had let me keep my weapons. What could have possibly made her even think of letting us keep our weapons. Did she trust us that much? I thought we would have had a harder time dealing with the Equestrian government. The fan-fiction says so. Where did they go wrong?

"Tyrin dear, are you ok? You keep staring off into space and its rather disturbing."

"Oh, um what... sorry just deep in thought."

"Well, I'm glad to see somepony else besides Twilight does that. At least I know now that she is not crazy."

"Oh I don't think she's crazy. Anyone who does this probably has a lot on there mind and is under a lot of stress." I say as we arrive at Rarity's place.

"I guess you're right. She does work her self to her nerves end a bit more than the average pony but I see where you are coming from. But here we are, Carousel Boutique." she said with much pride in her voice.

"Its a beautiful place Rarity."

"Yes it most certainly is. Why don't you come in and tomorrow I can make you all something other than the ghastly attire your in now."

"Rarity no offense but I would feel a bit more comfortable in this anyways." I say taking off my helmet and holding it with pride. I wouldn't call it my helmet though. Times were tough and when you needed things you took them from the dead. "Rarity this is in fact a military uniform. I thought Tyler would have told you all by now."

"Your a soldier?" she asked with slight fear but much admiration.

"Well... yes and no but this is a story for another time. I hope you can respect that."

"Well I must apologize for my rude behavior..."

I cut her off, "Think nothing of it Rarity. To be honest these are an eye sore, but they help it blending in with your surroundings. Well at least where I'm from. Its too colorful here." I told her about it without going into the war. I just hope Tyler doesn't drop the ball. "Rarity I could use some sleep. I've had a long night. Would you mind showing me to my room for the night?"

"Yes right this way." she said ushering me inside. We walked down up the stairs and down the hallway to the guest room. I quickly thanked her and she went to her room. I placed my things next to the foot of the bed and slid in as quietly as I could. I haven't slept in a bed for so long. It wasn't long before I was taken into a deep sleep.







"Overwatch come in, over." I yell into the radio seeing Vipers flying over head. We were pinned down in a Wal-mart with a Russian defector. We had the support of the U.S. Military for once. It didn't make things any easier.

"Copy Neck Tie, whats your status?"

"We have a prisoner and he needs an evac, We've got armor closing in on our position. Foot mobiles close behind."

"Sorry Neck Tie, evac is unavailable at this time. We can give you a hand that enemy formation. Kilo 5, I have a priority target, friendlies are pinned down and need air support. There's an armor column heading east towards a Wal-mart. Give em hell."

"Copy Overwatch, I have a visual and I'm engaging." The A-10 streaked through the sky flying low to the ground and dropping high explosive cluster bombs on the infantry.

"Kilo 5 you need to take out those tanks now there almost on top of us!" I yell to be silenced by a long time friend.

"Shut up you damn shizno and let him do his job." Josh yelled at me.

"Well if you haven't noticed, THERE ARE TANKS OUT THERE!"

"JAKE BEHIND YOU!" I yell seeing a Russian about to hit him with but of his rifle. Josh pulled out his pistol and fired into his chest and killed him.

"I thought we cleared out this whole store already!"

"Guess not."

"Jake foot mobile next to that pick up." I tell him and he immediately shot down the enemy.

"Kilo 5 were the hell are you!?" I say then biting my tongue to see the A-10 getting shot down by Flankers. The flaming wreck was hurdling towards earth. It was falling towards... US. "MOVE!" I yell to the others pushing Jake and Tyler to the side. I got up to run but tripped and fell. Josh picked me up and threw me out of the way with inhuman strength before the crippled A-10 slammed into the wall where he was standing.







I jumped out of bed hitting my head on the floor in a cold sweat. I pick my self up and look to the dog tags hanging off my bag. "Josh." I say solemnly looking at the floor. I decided to get my things and go for a walk. I left a note for Rarity on the dresser.

I silently leave the house and shut the door behind me. There was light in the horizon and the birds were chirping. I decided sitting the hill I walked to would be a great place to watch the sunrise. It would be a great way to clear my head. I set my back pack down and lied my head on it and looked east. The sky in Equestria is truly something to behold. The sky was a dark blue to the point where it met the horizon where it was a golden orange. As the sun slowly crept over the distant hills and mountains the orange became yellow and the sky became its normal shade of blue. I smiled as my thoughts melted away in the warmth of Celestia's sun.

Beautiful. Only that word can describe it. "There isn't anything like this on earth." I say to my self.

"OH! MY! GOSH!" said a mint green unicorn who I already new as Lyra, the human fanatic.

"Can I help you miss?"

"A human! A real life human and they all thought I was crazy but not now I have proof!" she squealed. She looked like she was going to explode with excitement.

"Yes, I'm a human but can you please stop staring at me like that? Its kinda creepy." I ask nervously. She had instead started to poke me in various places. She then picked up my hand and started to play with my fingers.

"Hands, real hands. Not like those scaly hands from that baby dragon but real life hands!" she said hopping up and down with my right hand still in her hoof. "You just have to come with me so I can show you to Bon Bon!"

I decided to just go with her to let her get this out of her system. "Fine miss, I'll go with you but I do have somewhere to be later today."

"Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!" she thanked me at the speed of light. I was dragged through Ponyville to an average looking cottage.

"Is this the place?" I asked to receive no answer.

She tried to open the door but it was locked so she proceeded to furiously beat on it. "BON BON, OPEN UP I HAVE SOMETHING TO SHOW YOU!" she yelled.

The door opened up and a messy-maned Bon Bon walked out rubbing her eyes. "LYRA, do you have ANY idea what time it is?!" she yelled.

"Bon Bon, open your eyes. Look I was right, I was right all along and I have proof now look!" she said still hopping around like a school girl... er, uh school filly.

"Not this human stuff again..." she said before her jaw dropped and she saw in the hand of her room mate, (Possible lover, I need to remember to ask later) a human. "Is that a..."

"Yes, a human in the flesh." I say staring at the dumbfounded pony.

"I TOLD YOU SO!" Lyra yelled to Bon Bon's face.

"I... I... I..."

"Human, you must come inside and tell me everything about you."

"I guess, I have nothing better to do at the moment and I do have a name. Just call me Tyrin" I say looking at Bon Bon's face trying not to laugh. "I she going to be ok?"

"She'll be fine. Come on in.." she said leading me into her home. The inside was simple. Two couches a table, a few chairs and a bookcase as well as other various things. "So, human whats it like having hands?" she asked after I sat down leaning in closer and waiting for my response in bated breath.

"Uhh... I guess like having hooves. I wouldn't know how to explain it because I've never been a pony. And please just call me Tyrin."

"Fascinating." she said in wonder. She looked over to the door a laughed a bit because Bon Bon was still standing near the open door with her jaw still hitting the ground. She continued to ask various questions and I answered the ones I could truthfully. Anything question pertaining to earth I told her what it was like before the war. Bon Bon had since came out of her trance and came over to sit right beside Lyra who looked over and laughed in her face. Bon Bon looked mad only for a moment but soon giggled as well. This was my chance to ask.

"So ladies, I have a question for you."

"Go ahead human." she said. I gave up on trying to get her to call me by my name.

"So you two, are you an item? You seem to be happy together." I say not knowing how to ask but wanting to know the answer.

Bon Bon and Lyra shot a look at each other and smiled. "Yes, Lyra and I are together." Bon Bon said while Lyra hugged her close. Well there you have it. Lyra and Bon Bon are in fact, a couple.

I looked over at the clock. "Hey Lyra I should get going. I have somewhere to be right about now."

"Awww... but I have more questions." she said whining .

"Hey, hey, I'll stop by again soon if you want me to but I really should get going."

"I'd like that very much human." she said walking with me to the door.

"Well I'll get out of your hair." I say turning to head out into the streets of Ponyville

"Bye human! Come back soon." she said waving.

I walked out and immediately got stares from the ponies.

"I TOLD YOU SO EVERYPONY! ITS A HUMAN!" Lyra yelled out her door pointing a hoof at me.

I paid the ponies no mind and continued on my way. I need to talk to Twilight so I can get everything the princess asked me to do out of the way so I can get on wit my life. But then again Twilight always was my favorite pony. I related to her more than anypony. I genuinely enjoyed learning something, my anxiety did get the better of me and I did enjoy reading (at least before the war which would harden anybody's or anypony's nerves). I guess I want a chance to talk more than I need it.

I was still walking to the library but I stopped near the statue of Celestia. I couldn't help but to have a feeling that someone was watching me. More specifically, somepony was watching me.
> Twilight and A Nice Afternoon
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I turn and double take to see who was watching me. Nopony was there so I dismissed the feeling and walked away. I rounded the next corner following the tree in the distance which I could easily see over the roofs of the houses. The feeling came back again and I stopped. I turned around and saw the CMC trailing me. They were acting sneaky and probably just trying to earn a cutie mark in stalking or something so I left them be. I kept walking through Ponyville with everypony stopping what there doing to watch me go by in awe and horror.

I arrived at the library and opened the tiny door and ducked upon entry. I looked t o see if anypony was there but I saw no one. I walked to the desk and rung the bell. "I'll be with you in a minute." said a voice from upstairs which belonged to a certain scaly dragon. I waited silently for a minute and he walked down stairs. He looked at me with pupils the size of peas for a split second but then continued down the stares.

"You must be one of those humans Twilight told me about." he said still a bit fearful.

"She told you about us?" I ask.

"Huh, told me, no. More like yelled. She woke me up in the middle of the night and practically screaming about how shes so excited to meet you guys or something."

"That's seems a bit excessive don't you think?"

"Exactly, she woke me up for something that could have waited until morning."

"Yeah it could of. But speaking of Twilight is she around here?"

"Yeah, shes upstairs pulling out books for the talk you two are going to have."

"Oh... well can I go up?" I ask trying to mask the eagerness in my voice.

"Sure. she is actually expecting you."

"Ok then. See you around."

"You too bro."

I walked upstairs to see the familiar sight of everything scattered and messy with random papers strung out here and there and books lying on the floor. I look to see her mane is a mess and she probably didn't go to sleep either. "Twilight you don't look so good." I say startling her causing her to yelp which I found hilarious so I burst out laughing.

"Don't sneak up on me like that." she said in a dead serious tone that effectively shut me up. 

I walked over and sat down on the floor and casually tried to get a better look at her. Despite the fact that her mane was 'all out of whack', she looked... cute. Wait... fuck my life. 'BRAIN DON'T DO THIS TO ME NOW' I mentally yelled at myself. I didn't want to be thinking about that now. In an attempt to get my mind off this concept I decided it would be best to do what I came here for but before that, I needed to know something.

"Twilight, I need to know this now... exactly much do you know?"

"If its about My Little Ponies, well everything you know. All the fan-fiction you've read, every episode you've seen, and even some of not so polite things it had to offer." she said and I knew I fucked up. Twilight knows about Rule 34. Oh Gawd! "I am a bit confused on some of the things but as you can tell I'm a pretty smart mare." she stated tooting her own horn (Ha, its a pun).

"So you didn't get any of my personal thoughts or preferences on the matter right?"

"No, that's not how the memory spell works. But if you don't mind me asking, why are you so worried about that?" she asked with a genuine need to know.

I want to hug that mare so badly. We think so much alike. "Well I don't want Rainbow Dash to feel competitive if she finds out that she's not my favorite. I doubt she will care because she doesn't know me but what if?"

"Well... I can't argue with that. She is rather competitive and might take it offensively."

"Oh, also need to ask, how accurate was the show?"

"It is a perfect match to life in Equestria except for one thing. There are plenty more stallions here than the show led on, but Ponyville still has a rather high population of mares than most places." she said and then started to look a bit nervous like she wanted to say something but didn't know how to say it. "If you don't mind me asking who was your favorite and why?"

"Do you really want to know?" I say not sure whether I wanted to tell her.

"Yes." she said sheepishly.

"Well I guess if I'm going to be here for a while I might as well put this out on the proverbial table. My favorite character from the show is you." I told her and she looked away and blushed profusely. "I related to you the most because I genuinly like learning things, I think about things scientifically, my anxiety does get the better of me sometimes, and in my early years I didn't do much friend making."

"I... I-I don't know what to think."

"Just consider me a HUGE fan of yours." I told her which seemed to put her mind at ease.

"I guess that makes it a bit easier to deal with. I still don't like the fact that you know more about us than we know of you."

"That is exactly what what the princess had told me but just as I told her, this can be fixed."

"Indeed it can be fixed. Now lets get on with the business at hand."

"Actually we need to go back to Sweet Apple Acres to finish everything up. But tell me, why is everypony taking us being here so well?"

"I don't know what its like on your world but here we don't judge anypony until we know who they are. You don't seem like you want to hurt anypony so we are accepting the fact that your here now and we need to live together in peace. Equestria is a peaceful place and our princess works hard to see that it remains so. I don't think that was unlike her "

"That makes sense."

"You don't have to take the fan-fiction word for word. Celestia isn't that uncaring or cruel like in some of what you have read and you shouldn't be taking it literally because its fiction not fact."

"I know but what am I gonna do?" I asked rhetorically. "I know I'm jumping topics but how are you going to break it to everypony about the show?"

"I don't know how I want to approach this so I may leave them in the dark on this one for a while."

"I can respect that but they do need to know eventually."

"I know but it can wait for some time while I gather my thoughts."

"I could tell them for you if you needed me to."

"No offense but it would probably be better if I do it." she said chuckling slightly.

"Ok then, since we have everything is out of the way for now, we need to worry about this place." I say looking around the room and again at Twilight. "This room and you are a mess. What happened?"

"Oh nothing just a night of research. Look don't worry about the mess. I got this."

"I'm not an expert but I think you need some help."

"Why would I need help when I can just use magic?"

"Oh that's right you can use magic here. Please excuse my stupidity." I say earning a giggle from my favorite pony. She then proceeded to use her magic and picked up every book on the floor putting them in there respective places. Its an amazing thing to see this first hand.

"So I take it you don't have magic where your from."

"You are a perceptive mare. Yes, in fact we don't possess magic or the ability to fly. Humans build machines to do what we normally could not." I say again getting a giggle out of the mare.

"Machines like the one you flew in on?"

"You saw us flying?"

"More like crashing but yes."

"Speaking of, I need to know if there is any way to fix my helicopter with magical assistance from somepony such as yourself."

"Well that depends on what the nature of the damage is and if any parts need replacing."

"Oh, I see. Wait is there a spell that can duplicate items?"

"Yes but you see the problem with that is you have to know what the end product of the duplication is going to be. I have no idea if I would even know what to do. I have no clue about your technology..." she said before I cut her off.

"I can teach you what you need to know as we go along. Don't fret. If you can't do anything, I just have to get over my self. The helicopter I a little more important now than it used to be because of the fact that here it is the only one of its kind. Its one of the few connections I have to my world. But if it can't be done, then it can't be done." I say wisely.

"Ok. I just don't like being put into situations where I am not knowledgeable in the subject." she said as I look in her eyes seeing there is much more to that dislike than she is letting on. I won't pry though but I want to hug her. I told that exact same thing to Fluttershy yesterday night.

"You know, we aren't so different you and I." I say acting like Bond (James Bond) villain and laughing to the confusion of the purple mare standing before me.

"What's so funny?" asked Twilight who is still trying to deduce whether I am laughing at her or at what I said.

"Oh nothing, its a quote from an old movie. Its funny how it fit this situation perfectly but don't feel bad if you don't get it." I say laughing now at Twilight's confusion and the look on her face.

"Ooook then..." she said while I was practically dying on the floor from laughter.

I looked up to see Tyler and Jake standing there with an almost identical look of confusion which made me laugh harder than I already was. After about a minute and a half of straight laughter and another minute of recovery from the fit I calmed down enough to see that Pinkie Pie was there the whole time laughing with me.

"So what are we laughing at?" asked the pink party mare happily.

"What..." I say before facepalming.

"Don't worry about it. That's just Pinkie being Pinkie." Twilight explained

I looked up through my hand still facepalming, "I know, but its new to me."

"I got used to it." Tyler said as a mater of factly.

"News flash Tyler, I don't give a damn."

"Hey whats wrong with me being me? I like Me! OH! This is like that one time where Fluttershy meet this big old meanie Iron Will which m-mmph mmmph mmmph mph mmmmmmph mmphmmph..." Pinke said before being silenced by a hoof in the mouth.

"Ok well I don't mean to rush but the princess would like a list of your weapons and other items just so she knows what shes dealing with. I'd like to go to Sweet Apple Acres to get this done already." Twilight said still covering the party mares mouth.

"I thought you'd never ask." And with that everybody and everypony set out to Sweet Apple Acres.








Its not much of an ending but Tune in next time for The Unlikely Sanctuary chapter 9: Meeting the Stalkers and Granny Smith!
> Meeting the Stalkers and Granny Smith
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I guess its a filler chapter. Gaawd!!! WRITERS BLOCK IS A BITCH!!!



As Tyler, Jake, Twilight, and I walked down the dirt path to Sweet Apple Acres, I noticed a certain group of fillies were still following me. I don't think the others have noticed yet but I decided its time to confront the Cutie Mark Crusaders. I turn and look at a small purple maned orange pegasus. Scootaloo had on a mustache and a hat for no apparent reason. Sweetie Belle's disguise was better. She was a completely noticeable bush that followed us the entire time. I haven't spotted Apple Bloom yet.

"Can I help you?" I say indifferently to the two fillies behind me. The others had turned around to face our stalkers as well.

"O-oh I have no idea what you are talking about sir." replied Scootaloo in a gruff voice still holding up the act.

"Look, It was a nice try but I see through your disguise. You can cut the act already. I see you too over there in that bush so come on out now." I tried to sound a bit less annoyed to spare the fillies feelings.

"Oh come on! I worked so hard on this disguise. How did could you tell mister monster?" Sweetie Belle asked from where she was standing.

"Hey, he's not a monster, he's a human." Twilight corrected.

Sweetie Belle walked up and looked at me with confusion on her face. "Twilight, what does human mean?"

"Oh, human doesn't mean anything. Its simply what he is, just like you are a pony."

"Ok, that makes sense. But why is a hu-man here? I've never seen anypony like them before."

I cut into Twilight's back and forth. "Well that is a long story and I don't want to get into it right now but I can tell you later if you want."

"Ok sure!" Sweetie Belle exclaimed while Twilight nudged me and motioned me to lean down closer.

"Tyrin I don't think there ready for that story. They are far too young and they wouldn't understand a thing." she whispered into my ear expressing her concern.

"I know. I was just going to tell them a watered down and cleaned up version just to make them happy." I tell her.

[Point of view switch, third person]
(sorry it might be annoying but I feel its needed for this situation)

Twilight was taken back back by his response. She thought he was just leading on the CMC and was lying to them about the story. When she asked she had expected him to respond by telling her that he simply wouldn't tell them a thing. She had misjudged his character.

"Well that most certainly was not the response I was expecting but I'd be lying if I said I disagreed with you." Twilight said staring at Tyrin with an unreadable expression 

"I just thought it was a win-win situation. The CMC get a story and they don't get any info that they aren't ready for."

"What are you two whispering about down there?" Tyler asked raising an eyebrow.

"Nothing. Nothing." I reply nervously rubbing the back of my head.

"Riiiight." he said disbelievingly.

"Look girls, We've got somewhere we need to be right now." Twilight said to the CMC

"Yeah we've had a nice chat but we need to go."

"Ok then." Scootaloo replied disappointed about this.

"Bye, stay out of trouble." Twilight said relieved to done with conversation.

[Back to first person]

The two crusaders had walked away and we were back on track and heading to Applejack's farm. When we arrived I saw the ruined helicopter was there in all it's glory and Granny Smith arguing with the Royal Guard stationed to guard our things with Applejack trying to calm her down.

"Ah wanna know why ya puttin' this gosh darn contraption on my property!" Granny Smith yelled in the Royal Guard's face.

"I told you already ma'am, these things were to be placed here under the orders of Captain Shining Armor of the Royal Guard! Please ma'am I'm not going to ask you to stop yelling again. STOP YELLING OR I WILL HAVE YOU DETAINED!"

"Don't ya yell at me young man! Oh I oughta paddle yo behind fa bein' so disrespectful!"

"Granny please! Just come inside and we'll jus talk about it" Applejack pleaded to no avail.

I decided I should jump in. "Look ma'am if its a problem I can just have these things moved away." I say with the utmost respect.

"Granny Smith jumped back at the sight of me but quickly moved in and inspected me and the others from top to bottom. "What in tarnation are ya?!"

"Granny, these are them aliens I done told ya about yesterday. Ya bein' mighty rude."

"Ah know! Ah jus wanna here it from them."

"Wha-" Apple jack said before facehoofing.

I decided to introduce us all just to gain the respect of Granny Smith. If I can get her to warm up to us, then I can get everypony to do so. "We are humans ma'am and it's nice to meet you. My name is Tyrin and behind me are Tyler and Jake." I say and they acknowledged Granny by nodding at the mention of their name. Jake was glaring at the Royal Guard. I'll have to ask him about that later.

"Ya names are mighty unusual but ya ain't disrespectful like some ponies are 'round here." she said also glaring daggers at the Royal Guard.

"Why would I be anything but respectful? I've just meet you."

"Ya know what? Ya'll hu-mans is ok. Ya can leave that contraption there until ya'll got a place of ya own."

"Thank you kindly ma'am. Honestly I'm surprised to be hearing that. I was expecting to have to move ALL this stuff again."

"Think nothin' of it. Applejack said ya was mighty respectful and look at me thinkin' ya was some kinda monster after the hide on my back. Ah guess ah was wrong fo judgin' ya befo' ah done laid eyes on ya myself."

"Hey no harm done."

"Hey can I grab an apple. I haven't eaten since we got here." Tyler asked the old mare with his mouth watering at the sight of the apple orchard in the distance.

"Sure thing. Don't be shy, take as many as ya like." As soon as she finished her sentence Tyler bolted for the nearest tree and grabbed the first apple he could and bit down into it. He closed his eyes at the taste and sat down continuing to 'om nom' the apple.

"THIS IS DELICIOUS!" he exclaimed after finishing the apple.

"Apple family apples are the best apples in Equestria if ah do say so myself." Applejack said with pride. I decide it was time for me to try 'The best apples in Equestria' myself. I took one and bit into it. It was hands down the best damn apple I have had in my entire life. It far sweeter, and tangier than the apples on earth. In comparison, the flavor of earth apples were watered down a 'metric shit ton' (standard unit of measurement for anything exceeding 999 shit tons).

"This is the best damn apple I have ever tasted in my life." I say tossing an apple to Jake. Granny smith looked at me and made a face. I don't think she liked the word 'damn' but what the hell, it was definitely needed. "Dude you have to try that apple."

"Fine." he said sounding a bit angry. He bit into the apple and I could tell no matter how much he tried to hide it that he was enjoying that apple. We continued to 'om nom' the apples and by the time we were done we had killed all the apples from two trees.

"Ya musta been mighty hungry eatin' that many apples." Applejack said standing next to the pile of apple cores that we'd accumulated from our feast.

"No. Those apples were just so good. Those were nothing like the apples we have on earth." I tell her while I get up.

"Ya have apples where your from?! What are they like?" she said excitedly.

"Well not to burst your bubble, but the flavor of them seems watered down compared to these."

"That's a shame. Ah don't think I could stand apples like that."

"Tyrin I don't mean to interrupt but I don't like to keep the princess waiting. Can we get on with this?" Twilight said impatiently.

"Sure thing Twilight. Applejack its been nice talking to you. I hope we didn't cause a problem clearing these trees of apples." I say laughing lightly looking up at the trees.

"Don't worry about it sugarcube. Ya get on now. Ah ain't want ya to keep the princess waiting either so hop to it."

"Yes ma'am." I say to her getting a chuckle out of her. I got up and walked over to Twilight and we walk over to the crates.
> Blue Spiral Notebooks
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OH MY FUCKING GAWD! Writers block seriously sucks. You guys have no idea. I've been forcing my way through it the best I can. I'm sorry if the story suffers in quality and chapter size.


Twilight and I walked down to where the crates were placed. It wasn't done neatly but everything was here. I started to open the everything up to separate the weapons from the other supplies.

There were about seven crates and five boxes.  Five of the crates had weapons and ammo inside so I grouped them together on the left. Everything else was placed on the right next to the chopper which was propped upright enough so that I could sit in it. "Twilight, do you have any extra paper?"

"Yeah sure. I always bring extra just in case." she replied handing me a quill and a small stack of paper. "Why do you need it?"

"Oh I thought I would take inventory on everything we have just so I know what were working with." I tell her. I sat in the back of the huey and look at the contents of the two crates sitting on the ground in front of me. The first crate had separate compartments dividing the various items inside. Inside the first compartment was about fifteen road flares, and an assortment of every type of battery from triple-A's to a fist sized sixteen volt battery. There even happened to be a car battery in the bottom. The next one had two spare electric lanterns, a flare gun, various tools, rope and and extension cord.

The second crate was larger and had a generator with four canisters of fuel each holding fifteen gallons a piece.This might be useful. I then move to look in the boxes which unlike the crates were labeled. The five boxes were labeled Tyrin's stuff, Jake's stuff, Tyler's stuff, radio equipment, and food water and important stuff. I won't complain. Tyler at least had labeled our possessions.

I open my box of stuff and look inside. Sitting under my various crap and scattered possessions were three blue Air Force spiral notebooks. I got them at the back to school fare that gave school supplies to low income families. My family wasn't ever that well off. I drew in these notebooks during my free time. I wasn't the best artist but I was good at what I drew. Two of these notebooks were notebooks I used before the war. The one on the very top of the stack was the one I began to draw in the week before the invasion began.

I lifted the notebooks out of the box and looked at them remembering how it used to be. I remembered how I used to be so obsessed with MLP that I would literally dream about it. No matter whether it was a good dream or a bad one, I would wake up in a cold sweat from the vividness of them. My friends were bronies, but I was a die hard brony. I would live breathe and sleep ponies. The top two notebooks were filled almost entirely of something pony related.

I looked back into the box and saw that my phone was inside. Of course I couldn't use it here or on earth but what I used it for was to keep brony music in. It was mostly instrumentals from artists such as Derpidety because they helped calm my nerves. I did have a lot of other music from more famous brony artists like TheLivingTombStone, and Wooden Toaster. I had jury rigged a small solar panel that gathered enough energy to charge the phone. My phone couldn't use headphones or earphones. It however use my old gaming headset. I used Turtle Beach XC1's on my phone. I looked stupid with the headset on but I didn't care.

I put it down beside the notebooks when I noticed Twilight staring at me intently but I decided to ignore her and leave her be. I took the notebooks and held them in my hands. I couldn't help but to smile. These notebooks were my most prized possession. They held all the memories of a simpler time. Next to MLP, it was one of the few good memories I had.

"You ok there Tyrin?"

"Yeah, just thinking. Twilight I think I know how to tell the girls about MLP. Can you see if you can get them up here?"

"Actually Pinkie Pie was going to bring the others up already. They should be here anytime now."

"Good." I looked to the sky and saw it was orange and the sun was close to the horizon. "Holy crap, time goes fast!" I exclaimed. I didn't realize I was leaning on the back wall of the cabin propped up with my elbow and my leg right leg lazily hanging out. I must have spent a long amount of time in thought.

"Uh maybe we should start listing these weapons..." I say to her chuckling lightly.

"No need to be embarrassed, I get lost in though all the time." she said calmly walking over. "Are you sure you can do this?"

"Yeah I think I need to do this. The sooner its done the better. I'm going to just tell them everything.  Rainbow Dash can bite me, you're my favorite." I tell her while going weapons crate and looking over the pile of assorted firearms.

"Well I'm glad to see you aren't intimidated by her anymore." she stated. Just then, Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie walked over. "Speaking of, guess who's here?"

I turn just as I pull out an AEK-971 assault rifle from the crate. I noticed Fluttershy had stepped back at the sight of the weapon so I placed it back into the crate. "Hiya everypony, have a seat." I say to the present members of the mane six. I then look to Twilight who now looked a little frustrated. "Twilight look, this can what. You and I both know this kinda takes priority." I whisper to her.

"Fine." she said with the frustrated expression still an her face. She sat down with the rest in a circle around the electric lantern I placed on the ground. Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie all looked uneasy.

"Something wrong girls? It looks like somethings troubling you all."

Nopony said a thing. They all just looked around nervously. "Nopony is gonna ask him?" Rainbow yelled with annoyance obvious in her voice. Again, nopony  answered and she groaned. "Fine, if you all are to chicken to say anything then I will." she said turning to face me. "Tyrin, those foals over there want to here more about you and where you came from. I could care less but I'm telling you since they can't." 

"Umm... if that's ok with you. you don't have to tell us if you don't want to." Fluttershy said softly. Applejack walked over and joined the group.

I burst out laughing. "I was actually going to tell you all now! I kinda guessed that you all were curious. If you want to know, I'll tell you." I pick up my spiral notebooks and look at them. This story may be hard for them to hear but they need to here it. I just hope they understand the fact that even though we've killed so many, we are not monsters. I then muster up what courage I have and open my mouth and start to speak.
> My Fair Planet and An Unresolved Problem
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I retyped this chapter because I decide the story needed something. I still have writers block LIKE A BOSS.




They're all here. Waiting intently for a story I'd rather not tell them... but it needs to be done. It has to to be done. Looking at their faces I see they are expecting my planet is a whimsical fantasy world full of peace and harmony just like it is here. These faces will either change to expressions of disgust or empathy. A fifty-fifty chance, I don't like my odds but I need to do this.

"Twilight before I begin I have a question." I say sounding a bit more pained than I wanted to sound. "How much did the princess tell you about my world?"

"Nothing at all. Why do you ask?"

"Well, no reason at all. It just means this story got harder to tell." I say looking up at the night sky. I then look at Ponyville in the distance with lights flickering off as ponies go to sleep for the night. "Girls I wish I could tell you that my world was as cut and dry as your world. I wish I could tell you that my world was a peaceful place where the people cared for each other and lived comfortable lives and never had a care in the world such as this places inhabitants do. I wish I could... but this is simply not the case." I say as I let the pain in my voice play more audibly now. I look at them all. I can see in their eyes that they have never had to struggle at any point in their lives. Sure maybe with social drama but never with anything that could uproot their lives.

"My world used to be like this one to some degree but about four months prior to my arrival everything changed." I say with a hint of anger in my voice.

"What happened to ya world that coulda changed everything?" asked Applejack who leaned in closer as did everypony else eager for an explanation.

"War." I say taking my combat knife and driving it into the wooden part of a crate to punctuate my point. "World War III to exact."

"World War? I don't think that is possible... is it?" Twilight asked with a hoof on her chin thinking about the answer.

"Yes it is. Where I'm from it has happened twice before. So your right Twilight, it couldn't happen. Not here at least." I say still looking at the quaint town of Ponyville. "It is highly unlikely that your kind will ever see conflict on the scale it is in my world here in Equestria. That is if your kind sees any conflict at all."

"What could cause your kind to hate each other so much?"

"Well I can't really say that I know. Russia is at war with the United States and thats all I know. I treat it as given information and I work with forward with what I know. I didn't have time to question why. I just had to act on what is. I'm not a soldier. I don't get that luxury."

"Wait, you told me you were soldier and now you say you aren't? Would you care to explain?" Rarity asked.

"Well Rarity like I said I am essentially a soldier but not officially. Hell, technically I'm not even an adult yet."

"Wait what?!" Twilight exclaimed. "You seem like an adult. Exactly how old are you?"

"I'm sixteen. Humans don't hit adulthood until eighteen. I'm not sure if its the same for ponies. Anyways like I said, I am nor are Tyler and Jake, soldiers. We are a resistance cell. Our country is being attacked by a foreign power and its our job to help slow them them down. Every inch of land we help get back is a victory to us worth celebrating." The ponies looked at me with shock and pity. "Look, it isn't all that bad. At least the Russians didn't use nukes."

"Nukes?"

"Imagine a weaponized firework with the power to level a large city. Then the after effect would instead of pretty lights would be a flash more brilliant then the sun. It would get so hot someones shadow would be burnt into the wall while they would be turned into ash. After all that was said and done any survivors would have to deal with the nuclear fallout. A nuke is the most powerful weapon on the our planet and I consider myself lucky the Russians nor the Americans used them."

"T-that is just ghastly. How can you be so calm about something as terrible as that?! Don't take offense to this but your world sounds simply barbaric." Rarity sputtered.

"That it is Rarity but in all fairness my world was much like yours before the war. I can stay calm because I grew up knowing the dangers of my world which are way to numerous to list. It isn't as bad as you think."

"It isn't that bad?! ITS HORRID IS WHAT IT IS."

"It may be horrid but its home nonetheless." I say flatly which came out as an expression of annoyance.

"Look here sugarcube, Rarity may have been a bit harsh but shes right. Ah don't even know how ah could handle myself in a world like that." Applejack said in agreement.

Looking out into the distance I saw a familiar sight. A flare was fired out of the Everfree Forest. "Um... girls? I think this story will have to wait." I say with worry and urgency in my voice.

"Whatcha mean sugarcube, we got all the time in the... oh." she said seeing the red flare shoot intp the night sky.

"What in Celestia's name is that?" Twilight said with a bit of fear.

"Its nothing but a flare. It means were not alone on this rock." I say getting my rifle and putting on my helmet. "Girls I'm only going to ask you once to stay here while we take care of this. I'm gonna be frank here; assuming that flare was man-made, if they are they aren't American we will likely see a firefight." The ponies were about to protest but before they got the chance I turned around grabbed some ammo and walked away with my gun in hand. "Tyler, Jake, saddle up were movin' out we got some company!" I yell into the farm house.

"Dafuq do you want man?" Tyler yelled rushing out the door with Jake close behind to see the flare falling below the tree line. Jake looked at it and had a smile on his face for some reason.

"We got company guys. We need to find out if they are friendly or not. We are heading into the Everfree Forest without the ponies so weapons free if we get engaged. Lets go." I say to them as they grab there respective weapons and we run through the orchard towards where the flare was spotted leaving be hind a group of confused ponies. When we got to the edge of the forest I stopped hearing the distinct sound of gunfire in the air.

"I missed that sound." Jake said to himself.

"That sound only means we need to hurry up. We don't know what kind of trouble these people are in." I ay resuming the journey.

We trekked through the dense forest and I forgot to pick up a lantern before we left. It wasn't completely dark due to the fact that some of the plants here glow. I was a little nervous that maybe Russian's were here fighting of some Americans. Here we definitely didn't need that.

After thirty or so minutes of walking in this dense foliage  we started to near the source of the gunfire. We reached the edge of the clearing when I noticed it was the same clearing that we crash landed in. Then I heard the distinctive BOOM of a tank firing its main gun. To my surprise, its was an American made M1A2 Abarms tank. Not only was there a tank but there were five humvee's and about fifty or so men. They were all fighting a hydra which wasn't fairing to well. It was missing one of its four heads (probably because of the tank) and was riddled with bullet holes that were bleeding profusely. The beast was swaying back and forth and then fell smashing a humvee and about five men. Its great to see some other faces. But I needed to let them know whats up so I walked over to the tank.

"Excuse me but who is in charge here?" I yell at the gunner.

"Who the hell are you?" the gunner yelled back.

"A friend now tell me who is in charge here."

"That would be Sergeant Major Richardson. Tell me kid, what the hell are you wearing that for? Your not a damn soldier."

"I'm the leader of a small resistance cell based out of Topeka. I picked this up so I could distinguish myself from civilians. Sit tight though because that hydra isn't going to be the only shock for you guys tonight." I say gesturing over to the dead hydra.

"Is that what that thing was? Hot damn. By the way kid could I get a name? My name is Jackson but I go by Jack." he told me. What the hell, he just went from suspicious to friendly in ten seconds flat.

"The names Tyrin. Nice to meet you. But with all seriousness I have some important information for you commanding officer. Can you please get him over here."

"Sure thing kid. Hey Sarge, you got a visitor!" yelled Jack.

Running over was a tall and skinny white guy with a cut on his face. "Tyrin?"

"Daniel? What the hell man! Good to see you! Your face looks like its gonna have a badass scar on it when it heals." Daniel was a good friend of mine back before the war. I routinely was around people older than me instead of people my age because I found a lot of them to be immature and annoying. Daniel was always there when I needed something too. My family wasn't exactly your average one to say the least but thats a story for another time.

"Yeah I know. Anyways, why don't you tell me about why you are wearing that because your not a soldier."

"I'm part of the resistance. I'll save that story for later becuase I have important information for you. I'm going to have to ask you to stay calm when I tell you this."

"Well we just teleported to god knows wear and fought off a giant four-headed monster.Nothing you say will surprise me now." he deadpanned.

"Yeah good point." I say turning and signaling my men to come over. "Look, you teleported to another planet entirely. This one is full of colorful sentient ponies." I told him. He raised his brow at this. "I know its unbelievable but its the truth. Me and my men have already met with them and made peace with the locals and I can't have you men sully that. This land is called Equestria and we are guests here."

"I'm having a hard time believing that, even from you."

"Its true. Why would I lie about something this big to you?"

"I guess but I need to see this for myself."

"About that, it is the middle of the night so a lot will be asleep. Some ill be out and- oh wait. That tank will probably wake them up so they are in for a show."

"Um seeing that we are in the middle of the woods I don't think we can take it any where anyways. The humvee's are small enough to fit between the trees but the tank might get stuck."

"Actually, Fluttershy's cottage isn't that far from here. We could blow down the tree's and drive the tank through. After that we could just ride into Ponyville and head to Sweet Apple Acres from there." Tyler piped in. 

"Great idea. I did notice the trees here aren't exactly the biggest ones I've seen so we should have no problem blowing them down." he said rubbing his chin. "Also we just so happen to have a load of C4 on us." 

"Good but you need to know a few more thing so you can make sure we don't start a war." I say to him before giving him a complete rundown of Ponyville, its inhabitants and the story of how we got here.

He then turned to his men who were running about performing various tasks and treating their wounded. Out of nowhere he summoned a voice I've never heard him use. "MEN GATHER 'ROUND." he said with a commanding voice that would give Celestia a run for her money. "As you all know weird shit has been happening since we ended up in this godforsaken place. Men I was just informed that were not in Kansas anymore. In fact were not on Earth." he told them and they fell deathly silent. "Hear are your orders. I need the explosives unloaded from the humvees and the wounded placed inside. We will be blowing down the trees to get the tank out of the woods. As soon as we do so, we will ride into a settlement. The inhabitants are not human from what I am told. I'm having a hard time believing this myself but we'll find out soon enough. I'm going to say this once: if they aren't human, DO NOT FIRE. They are peaceful with these three already. I don't want to anger the townsfolk." he said ending his short speech and the men went to fulfill their orders.

I see Tyler directing them to the direction of Fluttershy's cottage. Fluttershy's gonna either be pissed or sad about her trees. I'll apologize later.
> A Parade, Heartstrings, and Humans
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"Bon Bon!" Lyra yelled into the ear of a sleeping Bon Bon.

"mmhhm, five more minutes."

"NO REALLY, WAKE UP BON BON!" she yelled as the house rumbled making the various pictures on the wall clater and bang.

"I'm up what in Equestria was that anyways?"

"Humans, more humans arrived and this time they have machines with them come out side and look!" Lyra squealed.

"Gah. I'm going back to bed. You can keep your human business to yourself." Bon Bon said before laying down and immediately falling asleep.

"Fine. I'm going outside and watching." she yelled at Bon Bon. Lyra trotted downstairs and walked out her front door to join an ever growing crowd of ponies who all had feelings of mixed fear and curiosity. 

The humans were walking down the cobblestone road under the bright starry Equestrian sky. She was amazed to see oddly shaped horseless carriages rolling with the group of humans with lights coming from the front. The one in front didn't even have wheels. It was a very strange but welcome sight to Lyra who went into the street and trotted to the front where she spotted Tyrin. She decide to keep calling him human to annoy him.

"Hi Lyra!" Tyrin said cheerfully as if he just won the lottery. Tyrin was standing next to another human who was tall and skinny.

"Hi Human. Who's your friend or should I say friends?"

"H-hi I'm Daniel nice to meet you miss." said the tall human shakily.

"Nice to meet you too Daniel. Please, just call me Lyra."

"Oh come on!" Tyrin whined. "Why do you call him by his name and yet still refuse to call me by mine?! Me no gusta." he said crossing his arms.

"I just do it cause you react to it hilariously, human."

Lyra had looked back to see the rest of the humans looking uneasy. "Why do the rest of you look like you've never seen a pony before?"

"Thats because none of have seen a talking pony before." Daniel deadpanned.

"Lyra I though I told you that the ponies from where I from weren't intelligent like the ones here." Tyrin said.

"Oh yeah you did didn't you?" she said thoughtfully. Dismissing the rhetorical question she looked back at the humans. "Where are you and the other humans going anyways?" she asked.

"Oh were headed to Sweet Apple Acres."

"Oh can I come along?" she asked hopefully.

"I don't know..."

"Oh please, I won't get in the way. you won't even notice I'm there." Lyra said pleading to the two Humans who looked at each other and laughed.

"Fine, you can come but don't bother the the others please. They are kind of unnerved by the whole talking ponies thing. I'm still trying to get used to the fact that I'm having a conversation with one." Tyrin lied to Lyra who didn't catch on, making here jump to a height that would make you think she could fly.

"Thank you!" she squealed before wrapping her hooves around Tyrin giving him a hug.

"Hey, hey, your welcome. Anytime Lyra, Anytime." he said while waiting for her to break the hug.

Lyra noticed the awkward feeling and let go of him. "Heh heh, uh sorry... its just nopony will talk to me because they think I'm crazy or something. But then you of all ponies show up and talk to me like I'm normal and I just... sorry." she said looking at the ground.

Tyrin immediately stopped and looked down at her with sorry eyes but also with another look that said he understood. "Hey, look at me. Let me tell you something, I used to be called crazy like you. You know what? I got a story to tell back at the farm to the Elements of Harmony and I think I'd like you to join us. You could appreciate this story of more than anypony." he said before pulling the sad pony before him into a tight embrace. "I know what it's like to be misunderstood." he said to Lyra.

Lyra couldn't place help but to feel safe. She felt understood for the first time in a long time."Thank you, Tyrin. I needed this." she said to him breaking the hug and continuing down the road.

"Hey like I said, there no need to thank me. Whenever you need someone to talk to, I'm all ears." he said to her.

"Good thing to see that you wised up kid." Daniel said to Tyrin while giving him a friendly punch to the shoulder.

"Well Daniel, Life got tough before the war." Tyrin said looking solemnly at the ground but immediately perked up as they reached the entrance of Sweet Apple Acres. Lyra noticed that look and decided she would ask about what happened later.









Lyra broke the hug and said, "Thank you, Tyrin. I needed that." I couldn't help but to feel for her. She was misunderstood much like I was back on Earth. My level of obsession with MLP had me believing in ponies for a short time. All I would talk about was ponies. I couldn't help it. I just wanted to share what made me happy and what made my life easier with everyone else. My intentions were in the right place for what I was doing, right?

"Tyrin!" Twilight called galloping over as quick as she could. "I got that there could be more humans, but this is a lot more than what I was expecting."

"Yes I know." I say turning to Daniel. "Sarge, take your wounded over to the barn, we can set them up there while Twilight contacts Princess Celestia."

"I already did but she's going to be surprised at how many humans there is going to be." she said before turning to look at Daniel. "Hi, I'm guessing you must be the leader of these humans correct?"

"Well I'm the leader of my platoon, so yes. I'm Sergent Major Richardson. And you are?"

"I'm Twilight Sparkle and it's very nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too. Now if you will excuse me, Corporal!" he barked and within two seconds the scrawny corporal came running over.

"Yes Sarge?"

"I need you to have the get the wounded into the barn over there to have them treated." 

Yes sir!" he said before running off to do so.

I remember that I still need to apologize to Fluttershy about the trees on her property. One of them fell and smashed the chicken coop in the back. The chickens are ok but I don't know how she'll react. Why am I so nervous about telling this to Fluttershy of all ponies? Its nothing serious. She should be fine. "Lyra come with me. I got to talk to Fluttershy." I say walking away leaving Daniel to command his men and wove the vehicles out of the way. "I sure hope Applejack doesn't mind." I say to myself realizing I should be more worried about Granny Smith than Applejack.
> A Story For Lyra
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WOOT! No more writers block! Here's another chapter and I'm going to start another one right now.




Lyra walked at Tyrin's side through the chaos that has filled the once quiet apple farm. She walked with him through the new group of humans running to and from fulfilling their duties, a strange sight to any normal pony, and yet she could care less. She had made a friend today. In her book, today was perfect.

The two had reached a spot with many boxes and crates with the rest of the Elements of Harmony sitting there talking amongst themselves.

Lyra watched Tyrin sit down but she remained standing outside the group because she didn't feel welcome. "Lyra, there's no reason to be a stranger. Come on and have a seat." Tyrin said getting a look from Rainbow Dash that read "Are you crazy?!". Tyrin picked up on this and looked back at the ponies and introduced Lyra. "Everypony, this is Lyra. I meet her some time this morning after I left Rarity's place." he told them.

"We know her." Rainbow Dash deadpanned. She gave Lyra a dirty look and made her feel more unwelcome. "We were going to warn you about her but I guess its a little late for that." she said glaring at Lyra.

"Hey I don't mind, she isn't all that bad once you get to know her." Tyrin said making her feel a little better although Rainbow Dash was still glaring at Lyra.

"Rainbow Dash, you stop that right now. You are being quite rude." Rarity told Rainbow Dash.

"Why should I? She's bucking crazy." she yelled but Tyrin cut her off there.

"That was uncalled for. I know what your talking about; everypony here thinks she's crazy because she believed in humans but news flash Rainbow Dash! I'm fucking real and so are all the other humans around here! So you need to go somewhere with all that because I won't stand for any of it!" he snapped at her in righteous fury leaving her with a gaping mouth. "Lyra may have believed in something you once thought never existed but it doesn't give any of you the right to judge her because of it. That is just low for anyones character. Tell me Rainbow Dash, have you ever stopped to talk to Lyra or did you just feed into what everypony says about her instead of using your own opinion?"

"..."

"Thats what I thought. Let me tell you all about something. I knew about ponies before I arrived here. I watched a show called My Little Pony on the TV. The show was frilly and girly to most people but if they ever took the time to actually look at it they would see the show wasn't half bad. At one point in my life I became obsessed with the show and I started believing in ponies for a short time and I was shunned because of it. I didn't pay them any mind but it still doesn't change the fact that it hurt knowing that my people were so petty, so close minded, and so hateful." Tyrin said with his voice going from anger to sadness. Tyrin walked over to a pile of notebooks and picked one up and opened it. "I was always an artist. My obsession started to leak into my creativity and before I knew it..." Tyrin looked away in shame as he turned the notebook around and show the ponies its content. Ponies. It was a picture of Princess Luna on the moon crying in sorrow looking away from the planet in shame of what she had done."I was going to tell you about the show before I left."

Lyra sat there in shock. She understood what he meant earlier. He was as misunderstood as she was.

"When I realized I was in Equestria, I thought I would finally be able to get away from the kind of hate branded to my planet... But I guess I was wrong." he said getting up and grabbing his things and walking away. Everypony sat there trying to process all the information. Shock would be an understatement.

"Lyra..." Applejack began. "Ah don't know how well ya know him but he needs a friend something mighty right now." Lyra stood up, nodded and went after him.

Lyra was rushing through the crowd of humans looking for any sign of Tyrin. She saw his things at the base of an apple tree and looked op to see him staring at the moon. She looked at him trying to think of what to say but couldn't formulate any words.

"I'm sorry for that Lyra." he said from the tree not once turning to face her.

"Sorry for what? You stood up for me and nopony has ever done that for me. Instead of you apologizing to me, I should be thanking you." she said to him."

"I guess..." he said climbing down from the tree. "I might run down to Ponyville to get a chance to clea-" Before he could finish that sentence he had a set of hooves wrapped around his neck pulling him into a tight embrace. Lyra hugged him for the better half of thirty seconds before she broke the hug. "Thanks Lyra. I needed that."

He then got up and looked back t the farm. Lyra did the same and noticed the Royal Guard had arrived their absence as well as Princess Celestia. "Hey kid, get you ass over here. we've got company." Daniel yelled.

"Heh heh, Lyra you may have to sit this one out. You don't need to leave now but don't expect to stay either." he said to her

"I understand."

The duo walked to over to the what Tyrin had called a tank. Celestia was there as well as Captain Shining Armor and Daniel. "Lyra if you will excuse me." she nodded and walked away. She was trotting over to a tree to sit and wait for Tyrin but was stopped by Applejack.

"Look Lyra, ah want to apologize for Rainbow Dash. She bull-headed and just don't know how to act respectfully."

"No need to apologize, everypony has their problems. I won't hold it against her. I mean I get it all the time."

"Glad ta here that ya can cause I ain't gonna let Rainbow Dash live it down 'till she apologizes herself." she said. Applejack looked  to the ground and back at Lyra. "Ah'm gonna be honest, I thought ya was crazy to, but after Tyrin's rant ah had my opinion changed. Can ya forgive me fer that?"

Lyra looked over at Rainbow Dash who was sitting with a sorry expression on her face. "Sure thing Applejack. I believe everypony deserves a second chance. Even Rainbow Dash."
> Theories and Meat
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 YAY! Another chapter. This chapter was awkward to write but this is info that needed to be exchange for a while so this is it this is it. Please take into consideration: the chapter may suffer.





"So now that we have the introductions out of the way... I have to inform you of a problem." Celestia said to the two humans standing before her.

"Just what exactly do you mean by a problem?" Daniel said worriedly.

"I'm afraid we've identified what's been pulling things from your world to ours."

"Well... go on." I tell the Princess.

"Somepony has been experimenting with teleportation spells in the area surrounding the Everfree forest. Instead of it teleporting them, it has been teleporting things from your world to here. The pony performing the spell most likely doesn't know that they are doing it wrong. Until we catch this pony, there is no stopping anything from being pulled from your world."

"Wait, if you ponies can teleport things why can't you teleport us back to our world?" Daniel asked raising a good point.

"Because in order to teleport something whether its a pony or an object, one must think of point 'A' and point 'B'. This pony is not thinking of of point 'A'. The pony is also probably learning and not doing this on purpose. I will have the Royal Guard patrolling the edge of the looking for any unicorn practicing magic until we find the one responsible."

"That makes sense. Also what about us then? We need to arrange housing for my men."

"Yes about that, I'm having engineers construct barracks on the outskirts of Ponyville. I'm sure your men are used to sleeping in barracks, correct."

"Damn. Yes they are... but now I don't see the point of barracks if we are trapped in this world. I was honestly hopping to get a house sometime in the near future."

"Daniel has a point Celestia." I say agreeing. I wouldn't want to stay in barracks here. Even if I was in the military, without any real sort of command, they are refugees, more than soldiers.

"In time that can be arranged but for now this will have to do. I will have a meeting with the mayor and let them know you and your men have the right to roam Ponyville as you wish. If you need any help organizing, you can always contact my faithful student Twilight Sparkle to help."

"Twily has always been a good organizer and a egghead." Shining Armor gloated.

"You sound like your trying to find a way out of this conversation quickly Celestia. May I ask why?" Daniel said knowingly.

"Well you are most certainly a perceptive one. But if you must know I have to return to the border as soon as possible. We are having a border dispute with our neighbor The Great Griffin Kingdom which borders us to the north. I've keep my country at peace for a thousand years and I will not let that record falter for the sake of my little ponies."

"Your a good leader miss and I'm sorry if I've been keeping you."

"Its truly no problem Sergeant. I will leave Captain Shining Armor here in charge while I'm gone. If you need anything let him know and he will make it so. Goodbye and good luck." Celestia walking away.

"Wait..." I say to the Princess.

"Yes Tyrin?"

"We may have one more problem that you may need to be present for."

"What would that be?" she asked raising a brow at the statement.

"Well it involves our diet. I don't know how to say this without freaking out the other ponies but it needs to be know." I say working up the nerve to tell the Celestia what needs to be said. "Humans may not eat ponies but we do eat meat."

Shining Armor took a step back in fear. Celestia was looking as shocked as Shining Armor. "I see." she said plainly.

"Yes we are omnivores your highness and if it helps any we are not mindless predators. We eat our meat cooked."

"I understand, but I am not quite sure how to go about this problem."

"Well... it would help if I told you the kind of animals we eat. Then from that list we can take out any one of those that are sentient on this planet.

"Yes that will work. But for the safety of my little ponies, I will have it known that you are only allowed to eat meat inside the confines of your barracks."

"I understand Princess. Now these are the primary animals we do eat: pigs, fish, chicken, cow, and turkey." I say trying to think if I missed anything. "Daniel did I miss anything?"

"Not that I know of. That sounds about right to me."

I look back to the two ponies before me and they look absolutely horrified. "I know its terrible to you ponies but asking us not to eat meat is like asking you not to eat plants. Its an essential part of our diet." I say to them. I know I told Tyler no more meat earlier but I can't say the same for the newly arrived soldiers. I don't think they can survive off plants and I have no intention of telling them so.

"Yes I guess you right. I will have to accept that and deal with it I suppose."

Daniels face lit up. I knew this face but I haven't seen it for a long time. He was about to be brilliant. "Your Highness, I think we can survive on fish for a long while while something like like this is set up and organized. I mean I know this is something that obviously is going to be a hassle and I would hate to impose. We can gather our own fish so nopony will have to do it for us. I would hate to drive a wedge between our two races." he said to the Princess. He was brilliant.

"Yes that would be much easier, would you agree Captain?"

"Yes Princess." he said staring at us with an unreadable look.

"I hate to be rude about this but is that all? I don't want to keep Luna waiting."

"No ma'am other than that, all I need to do is get my more seriously injured men to the hospital and I'm sure the captain is more than capable to handle something like that."

"Ok then. It was nice meeting you Sergent. I should be going now. Goodbye."

And with that the Princess teleported back to where she came from. "That could have gone worse so I count myself lucky she didn't think we were monsters." I state.

"Yeah with our luck it could have been bad." he said before hes stomach growled.

"Hey, have you tried the apples here yet? If not, your in for a treat." I say looking at the platoon of soldiers and then at the seemingly endless amount of apple trees in the distance. Applejack is going to be pissed.
> Trixie's Misfortune and Hope on the Horizon 
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I wrote and read this chapter to this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSFvbAiwJxU&feature=player_detailpage
(it may make the reading easier)



Trixie was in laying on a bed of leaves in the cave which she had called home for two months as a wolf howled in the distance not making it any easier for her to sleep. She usually cried herself to sleep but tonight was an exception. She had a run in with a wolf earlier and was lucky to be alive. The howls didn't make sleep an option tonight.

Trixie just lied there trembling as the cold wind blew around inside the cave. She decided to get up since she wasn't going to be sleeping tonight. She walked to the mouth of the mouth of the cave and sat staring up at the moon. "What have I become?" she said sorrowfully to the moon. She looked back into her memories after she left Ponyville.







Trixie had hit hard times after she left Ponyville. The stage that the Ursa Minor had destroyed had doubled as her home and had all her possessions inside. After she left from Ponyville she had nothing, not even the cape and hat her mother and father gave her when she learned her special talent. She went from town to town only to find she wouldn't receive much charity from anypony like she used to under the name of "The Great and Powerful Trixie". She was even forced to have to find nourishment from the lowest form of food; grass. Without her cape or stage she was nothing but another homeless pony.

One day the mare had wandered into Canterlot during the Royal Wedding. When the changelings attacked she ran for her life as powerful magic bolts rained down upon the city. She ran inside a building in to hide from the swarm. She hid there for ten brutally slow minutes hearing the screams of the ponies outside unlucky enough to be caught by changelings. Suddenly a magic bolt had blew out the front of the building and left a gaping hole in it effectively ruining her hiding spot. Three changelings flew in through the front of the building while Trixie ran further into the building trying desperately to find an exit. She got to the end of the hallway to find a door. She quickly ran out and ran through the ally with the three changelings gave chase. She stopped to find her path was blocked by three more. Trixie could only watch as tears rolled down her face while the changelings inched closer. "This is the end" she thought to herself.

She closed her eyes awaiting her fate when she heard the confused shriek of a changeling. She opened her eyes to see a purple wave of light coming out of the castle. It came through the ally and knocked the changelings away. For a brief moment she thought she was safe, but that thought was short lived as one of the changelings smacked into her and sent her skyward.

She flew through the air screaming the whole way. "This is the end" she again thought to herself. She fell from the mountain city of Canterlot into the Forests of Everfree. She closed her eyes waiting for the end to come. She waited and was rewarded with a lack of oxygen as she fell into a lake. She quickly swam up and surfaced and gasped for air.

She dragged her self to shore and lied on her back in the grass coughing up a lungfull of water. She looked up to the sky. She needed to get back to civilization as quickly as she could because she wouldn't last in the wilderness. She was disoriented during her flight over so she had no idea where she came from. She decided anywhere was better than here so she started walking. She continued walking as minutes turned to hours and hours turned to days. On day two of her walk she had found no source of water so she decided to go back to where she came from. She again walked for a day or two but unfortunately she never found the lake.

It was cloudy on day number four. Trixie had long since collapsed from dehydration and lied on her side unable to go any further. She looked up at the overcast afternoon sky. The clouds moving on there own was no longer bothering her due to her current situation. She was watching the clouds go by but felt herself losing consciousness. Just before slipping under, she felt something, something wet. Rain. It had started to rain. Quickly she turned her head to the sky and opened her mouth genuinely thankful for a gift as simple as water. 

She drank as much as she could and when she got her fill she still lied there letting the water move through her body and help her regain her strength. With enough strength to get up she did so and trekked through the woods and in the rain. After an hour of walking she came a cross a cave and took shelter. She walked in, sat down, and let out a sigh of relief.

She went further into the cave and saw a puddle. She looked into it and didn't recognize the pony that stared back from its reflection. Her mane once beautiful was now a mess with grass and various twigs a sticking out. Her coat had grown to a pale shade of the once magnificent blue that it had been in days prior. Her eyes were bloodshot and had lost the glimmer of light which gave everypony's eyes a sense of life. There was only two empty purple orbs staring back at her. She saw a tear roll down the reflections cheek realizing she wasn't the mare she used to be.







Trixie's thoughts were interrupted when she saw smoke billowing over the moon in the horizon. It was a thick black column of smoke which meant it wasn't a forest fire. She'd seen two of those during her time in this cave. This was definitely different. Something artificial was burning which meant there were ponies. Trixie felt hope for the first time in two months. She knew this may be her only lead to civilization. She picked up two buckets full off water she made from hollowed out logs and tied a vine around them and strung her creation over her back much like a saddlebag and started her journey. She had her sight set on the hope on the horizon.
> Everypony Deserves a Second Chance
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Trixie was exhausted, and thirsty but after a day's walk she had arrived at the edge of the forest. To her surprise, she saw the place of her greatest shame; Ponyville was in the distance. She didn't want to have to show her face there again, but due to the circumstances, it was mandatory. The past two months have humbled the mare by leaps and bounds. She was no longer the boastful self-righteous mare she used to be. The only problem was that nopony else knew that.

She was on the edge of an apple orchard. She could use something that wasn't grass or wild berries for a change. She was thinking of just taking them but saw a farm house in the distance and extinguished any thought of the sort. She wasn't going to steal any more. She was different than who she used to be. Frankly her old self disgusted her. She decided the best way to do acquire apples was to ask. She left the treeline and walked to the road leading to the apple farm. She then noticed strange creatures and the Royal Guard were there as well as the Princess. She wasn't paying attention to where she was going and tripped over a hole in the path landing flat on her face, knocking her out cold.







"Oh my fucking god, this is delicious!" Daniel exclaimed eating the apple in ten seconds flat. No, really. I counted; Ten... Seconds... Flat... and the apple was gone. "Captain I think I know what on the menu for dinner tonight."

"And what might that be?" he said knowingly.

"Apples. We need shit ton of apples."

"I think you find we already have them."

"Well in that case... MEN! HELP YOURSELVES TO SOME APPLES. I WILL LET YOU KNOW NOW THAT THESE ARE THE BEST GODDAMN APPLES YOU WELL EVER HAVE EATEN IN YOUR LIVES." he bellowed getting a mixed response from the platoon. After a while they started letting out grunts of approval. (Can't really describe the "Mmmm" sound so grunts were the next best thing. I would have said moan but that sounds sexual.)

"Hold on a gosh darn second!" Applejack said coming up to Daniel who just looked at her unimpressed by her anger. "Who told ya'll that ya can jus go on and help ya selves ta my apples?!" she finished stamping a hoof on the ground at a still very unimpressed Daniel.

"The Princess did." He deadpanned effectively shutting up the angry mare.

"Fine then, take my apples." she said angrily but defeated.

I then spotted Lyra running over to me with a fearful expression on her face. "Hey, Lyra what's wrong?"

"Rainbow Dash was leaving but she found somepony on the road unconscious." she says quickly. "Come on." Lyra pulled me to the gate and on the road where several soldiers were standing around as well as Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight.

"I'm here someone tell me what's up... wait is that Trixie?"

"Yes. Nopony knows what happened to her but she looks awful." Twilight said looking at her.

"Yeah, looks like karma got her pretty good." Rainbow said indifferently, obviously not feeling sorry for the mare.

"What do we do with her?" Fluttershy asked softly.

"Hey, the humvees are about to take off with the wounded. We could put her in one and take her down." an anonymous soldier in the back suggested.

"Great idea. I will go with them so I can direct them to the hospital. I also have some questions for Trixie." Twilight said.

"I might head to the hospital too. I have a couple things I need to take care of up there anyways." I say getting a look from Twilight. "I want to thank the doctor who helped patch up Jake when he was taken to the hospital. I also want to see if Nurse Redheart is ok. I apologized for Jake's behavior but she was pretty shaken by it." I tell her. I was really wanting to see what happened to Trixie after she left Ponyville. Back on Earth I had seen a lot of fan-art depicting a sad or misunderstood Trixie. "I'll carry her back too the farm before the humvees take the wounded."

I pick up the unconscious wreck of a unicorn. She was much lighter than I expected. She must have been through a lot. Her mane was a mess, her coat was matted and pale. I didn't want anypony to give her shit after this. I will make sure of it. If she is the same boastful Trixie she was in the episode "Boast Busters", I try to change her outlook. If she doesn't change, at least I can say I tried.

I walked into Sweet Apple Acres with Trixie in my arms and went to the nearest humvee. Applejack walked over while I was looking for one with enough space to accommodate me and an unconscious Trixie. "What in tartarus is that mare doin' on my property?" she asked, distrust and hate evident judging by her tone.

"She was found unconscious on the road not far from here. Don't worry she will be off your property quickly. I know all about the fiasco with the Ursa Minor-"

"First of all, I'm gonna stop ya there sugarcube. The Ursa Minor wasn't her fault to begin with." she began. "Secondly, don't be goin' around actin' like ya know me cause ya don't... or at least not in person. I don't like her cause she went and tied me up with my rope. Not to mention she did things to my friends too. Thats all I'm gonna say about that."

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean like that Applejack."

"HEY KID HURRY UP AND GET IN OR WERE LEAVING YOU BEHIND!"

"Sorry Applejack but I need to go." I say plainly while stepping into the back of the middle humvee. Only three were needed for the ten injured men. Six able bodied soldiers were to accompany them during there stay at the hospital. The line of vehicles started to move. I assumed Twilight was inside the lead humvee because we arrived to our destination quickly.

The staff of the hospital must have been notified of us because they were outside waiting for us and as soon as we arrived they the staff had started to unload the wounded with the help of the six healthy soldiers. They were placed on hospital beds which were designed with ponies in mind meaning the beds were a little small for the soldiers but would have to suffice. The injuries they sported varied from a broken bone to gunshot wounds. One of them had their legs crushed, obviously from being stepped on by the hydra. I stepped out and had to carry Trixie in as they were not told about the unconscious pony.

I walked in seeing various medical ponies running to and from performing their jobs and helping with the wounded. I flagged down a doctor. He was a light brown unicorn with grey hair and a mustache of the same color wearing a lab coat and glasses. I opened my mouth to speak but stopped me pointing a hoof to an empty room to my left as if he knew what I was going to say. "How did you know what I was about to say?" I ask while walking in setting Trixie down in the bed.

The doctor followed me in and got to work checking Trixie's vitals. "I'm a doctor. I've seen it all and this is no different than any busy day. Besides you got an unconscious unicorn in your arms, what else could you have asked?" he said.

"Thanks I suppose. Hey, I mean no offense when I ask this but why is nopony scared of any of us?"

"Oh, when the first one came in two days ago all the staff got a chance to look at him. We even had time to study his anatomy will he was unconscious. So I guess we just know what to expect. Also when he woke up, he was more scared of us than we were of him which meant he couldn't have been much of a threat. Oh, I've forgot to introduce myself. My name is Urgent Care."

'Damn these pony names' I think to myself. "Nice to meet you Dr. Care, I'm Tyrin Roberson." I say. "So Doc, how is she?"

"She is fine for the most part. She is a bit malnourished but other than that she should be fine. Can you tell me what happened to her?"

"No actually. She was found near Sweet Apple Acres like this half an hour ago."

"Hmm... We'll find out when she wakes up. Excuse me I have to go check on another patient." he said looking out the door. "As you can see we are pretty busy."

"No problem. Thanks Doc." I say watching him walking out. It was just me and Trixie now. I had time to kill and I was kind of tired so I might as well catch up on some sleep. I sat in the corner a set my backpack and rifle down and sat in the corner. I've seen MLP so many times I've memorized them to the point to where I can watch any episode in my head. I close my eyes and let my memories play season 2 episode 20: "It's About Time". I mentally watched it until I drifted of into sleep.







"Bro, you should have seen the on your face!" Tyler said holding his sides and laughing.

"Shut the fuck up!" Jake yelled getting up and walking away pissed off at him.

"Come on Jake you can't say that wasn't funny!" I say to him.

"Funny?! That was fucking hilarious!" Tyler said between fits of laughter. 

It was sometime around the beginning of June. Tyler had hidden Jake's SV98 and he told him he had lost it in the woods. He believed him and searched the woods for two hours straight. When he had came back the rifle had been placed next to his seat. He was for lack of a better word, PISSED.

We had continued laughing when Josh had returned with his back pack unusually larger than normal. "Bro, you will never guess what I found in the concession stand at the baseball diamond up the street."

"What?" I say wanting to know.

"Guess."

"Come on, just tell me so I can get on with my life."

"No, just guess."

"Augh, fine." I looked at his backpack intently trying to figure out what he could have possibly found. "Is it a box."

"Well, yes and no."

"Come on bro. This isn't 20 Questions."

"It is now."

"Fuck you man."

"Fine, I'll tell you. You are going to be so freakin' happy." he said pulling out a 24-pack of Mountain Dew.

"No. Fucking. Way." 

"Christ! Is that what I think it is?!" Tyler yelled no longer laughing.

"I know, right? I found this thing stashed in a cabinet. You want one?" he asked pulling out a can.

"Fuck yeah." Tyler said catching a can.

"Do you even have to ask?" Josh tossed a can my way and I opened it with my two front teeth like I always did. I drank the pop and savored the now somewhat flat tasting pop. It still was carbonated but lacked the sting of the fresh stuff. "Hey Jake, you want some Mountain Dew?!" I yell.

"Are you shitting me?! No way!" Jake yelled setting his rifle down and running over, grabbing a can, and opening it and enjoying it with the rest of us. Its times like this that I've always thought times like these were always bound to end with something ruining it. But for the first time since the beginning of this war, it was a moment I got to enjoy for the fullest. That day we sat around a case of Mountain Dew and drank it all telling jokes and reliving the past. What more could you ask for in this world like this. But the moment soon had to end. A jet flew low over the treetops and knocked me to the ground.







I woke up smiling at the dream. I looked up to see Trixie was awake staring at me with an expression of primal fear. I decided an introduction was in order.

"I see your awake then. You had everypony pretty scared when we found you. My name is Tyrin and I carried you here."

Her expression of fear eased up a bit but it was still there. "W-what are you?"

"Well, I thought one of the hospital staff would have told you by now but I guess not. I am a human. Trixie you don't need to be scared of me. I won't hurt you, you have nothing to fear from me or the others."

"I'll take your word for it. I want to thank you for carrying me here. I appreciate it."

"It seems like you've changed since the Ursa Minor incident."

The fear on her face vanished and one of offense and sincerity took its place. "I guess news travels fast." she said chuckling darkly. "Trust me when I say that I have changed a lot since that shameful day."

"That's good to hear. He if you don't mind me asking what happened to you?"

"I was lost in the woods for two months. I saw smoke rising one night and followed it to here." she said. I gave her a look of pity. "I don't need your pity. I've lived without anypony taking pity on me for months so I don't need you to start."

"You don't even know how much easier you've made my job."

"Oh and what is this job you speak of?" she asked raising a brow.

"I'm going to help mend your wounds with Ponyville.

Trixie was taken back by this. A complete stranger, let alone an alien wanted to help her while nopony in all the places she'd been to would. "Why are you doing this for me?"

"I can't stand to see anybody or anypony alienated for any reason. Not even somepony like you."

"I-I don't know what to say."

"Well you don't have to thank me. I would do this for anyone. Besides you are truly sorry for what you've done right?" I ask the mare in the hospital bed. Trixie simply nodded. "That is reason enough."

"Thank you. I mean it. Thank you.

"Your welcome. You really don't need to thank me at all. I believe everypony deserves a second chance."


> Discharged and the End of a Peaceful Existance
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I will say this now: Shit. Gets. Real. Oh, also heads up on the russian diolauge in this chapter. Just Google Translate it. If somepony is to lazy to do it I just might put the translations in the comments. 




Trixie had just been offered help from an alien and really couldn't articulate thoughts on anything at the moment. It was the first time in a long time anypony had offered her any form of help. She was quite honestly thankful but didn't know how to express her thankfulness properly. All she could say was a handful of simple words. "Thank you. I mean it. Thank you." she said with the utmost sincerity.

"Your welcome. You really don't need to thank me at all. I believe everypony deserves a second chance." Tyrin said looking out the window.

Dr. Care walked in with a chart. "Its great to see your up. There really isn't any reason to keep you here so I'm going to discharge you. I recommend getting different types of fruits and vegetables in your system but other than that your fine."

"Thank you doctor."

"You're quite welcome miss. Its my job and my special talent." he said motioning to his cutie mark. It was a red cross with a syringe running diagonally through it.

"So it is. Well doctor, we should be getting out of you way. I'd hate to keep you from doing your job." Tyrin said getting up and walking to the door. Trixie got up and walked to the door as well.

"Bye Doc."

"Goodbye now. Stay safe." he said as Trixie and I walked out the door. 

We went through the hallways of the hospital as ponies and humans walked to and from. Trixie looked from side to side into each of the rooms on the way out. "May I ask how all these humans were injured?"

"The fought and killed a hydra soon after being teleported from our world to a clearing in the Everfree Forest."

"Hmmm... a hydra? You humans must have powerful magic to do so."

"We actually have no magic where we come from. We have weapons that did the trick such as this one." Tyrin held out a the pointy stick looking device and presented it to Trixie.

"That is a weapon?" Trixie said unable to hide the unimpressed tone from him.

"Yes, it is. I've explained this to the other ponies already but since you don't know this is called a gun. Guns shoot out metal projectiles at the speed of sound and are designed to enter the body and tear blood vessels and arteries making the target bleed out." Tyrin tells her. Trixie immediately had recoiled at that. "It is a weapon of war Trixie. Its no different than a sword or a spear. It is meant to kill and it does its job effectively."

"Thats horrible!"

"Hey don't get mad at me now. You wanted to know."

"I suppose you right." Trixie said.

The two stepped outside and there was light in the horizon. They duo walked down the hill into town and the sun had crept into the sky at this point making a magnificent sunrise. "So Trixie, I guess we should head to Sweet Apple Acres. I got some business to take care of up there and you can get a chance to apologize to the Elements of Harmony."

"I'm going to be honest with you, I am not looking forward to this."

"It'll be ok Trixie, if it comes to it, I'll keep them from skinning your hide."

"Thanks I guess." she said sheepishly. Trixie looked at the human and a couple of questions came to mind the most prominent one being what was his world like. She honestly wanted to ask but something told her not to, at least not now.

"Whoa, I never noticed that in Ponyville before." Tyrin said. Trixie's thoughts were interrupted and she looked up to see a number of buildings large than the average house. They were enclosed by a fence and had a sign in front dubbing the place "Humanville". "Humanville, how creative." Tyrin said sarcastically. The two walked past the newly erected buildings.

"I think its fitting. I take it the humans are to be living there correct?"

"Yes, and I'll say I'm not that impressed with the name."

"Oh the name isn't that bad is it?"

"Yes it is kind of." he said facepalming. The two walked the remainder of he way to Sweet Apple Acres going through names that would be better than Humanville.

The two got to the gate of Sweet Apple Acres and Trixie stopped and gave Tyrin a nervous look. He gave her a reassuring nod and they both continued there way in.







I don't really know how I'm going to pull this off. It sounded so much better in my head. Just have Trixie apologize and make sure it sounds genuine. Now I'm not so sure this will work. I walked with Trixie over to the chopper's remains. The main six minus Rainbow Dash were sitting in awkward silence. When they noticed Trixie, Rarity and Applejack immediately shot her a look which looked as if it had successfully unnerved her. She looked up at me, the expression on her face saying she wanted to do nothing but turn tail and run. I just gave her a look that said that she needed to do this.

Trixie opened her mouth to speak but stopped hearing the sound of an explosion in the distance. Sweet Apple Acres fell silent as everypony and everybody turned to see smoke rising from Ponyville to be punctuated by the pops and cracks of distant gunfire. "Trixie your apology may have to wait."







Lyra had walked home in the early hours of the morning. She was tired and decided it would be best to just catch up with Tyrin later. She walked into Ponyville, now bustling in this clear morning. Lyra decided to take a short cut to her home through Ponyville Park in the middle of town. She was walking and keeping to herself but as she was a bout to exit the park she noticed a young unicorn straining himself with magic over next to a tree away from the main path. She stopped and stared at him. His mane had started to flow from the amount of magic he was trying to force out. He then rose into the air and a bright flash of light engulfed the entire park.

When Lyra's vision recovered her jaw dropped at what she saw. More metal machines and humans were in the clearing and were all getting up obviously confused at what happened to them. There were more than there was at the farm by far. The colt shrunk down as the human stood up in front of him with a hand on its face. 

"Что, черт возьми, эта штука?!" It had looked down at the the unicorn and shouted in some unknown language raising the pointy stick looking weapon that the humans referred to as a gun at the helpless colt. The human lowered the gun and knelt down and reached its hand out towards the colt. The colt looked at the hand with mortal terror. Following his primal instincts the colt bit the humans hand. "Это просто укусил меня!"

The human had raised its gun at the colt again. Lyra bolted towards the colt and placed herself in front of him getting a laugh from the hostile human. She sat there and looked up at the human and glared death at it. "Я убью обоих этих жалких существ!" he yelled at directing his rage at Lyra now.

"Ой, что зеленый должен быть его матерью. Давай теперь Иосифа, это было только страшно. Вы не должны убивать бедняжку". another human said from the back. Just then one of the friendly human vehicles pulled up and a for humans jumped out and ran over and looked as if they we going to come to Lyra and the colts aid. She recognized these humans from the farm.

"Hey you two, run! These humans are dangerous. Get out of here now!" one of the friendly humans said. Lyra was too scared to move. The colt then tugged on her tail. Lyra looked down at the colt and in his eyes she saw fear. She snapped back to reality and grabbed the colt and fled to the relative safety of the other group of humans and hid behind them. She noticed one of the humans pull a device out and talk to seemingly nopony at all but couldn't make out the words.

The hostile group of humans raised there guns and the friendly group soon followed suit. "Что, черт возьми, американцы делают в мире, крошечный лошади?"

"Я не знаю. Капитан, что наши заказы?" a hostile human yelled to another in the hatch of a machine the humans referred to as a tank. Just then the Royal Guard had rushed onto the scene and stood on the side of the friendly humans. The ponies took up defensive stances. The unicorn members of the guard charged there horns and the pegasi had spears which were pointed towards the larger group of humans.

"Эти крошечные лошади, очевидно, с американцами! Они сделали свой выбор. Привлекайте их все сразу!" the one in the tank yelled. At that moment everything broke down into chaos. The hostile humans fired on the ponies and friendly humans.
> Prelude of Battle and the Wrath of the Alicorn Princess
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This chapter is purposefully small. The next one is gonna be good. It may be delayed though cause my goal is 2-3k words.


Celestia had been in a conversing with her sister when a letter materialized from a puff of smoke and landed in front of her. She opened the letter and was stricken with horror. The letter had told news of an attack on Ponyville by a hostile group of humans. She immediately teleported out without a moments hesitation to Ponyville.

She was crestfallen at what Ponyville had been reduced to. She had teleported just outside of Ponyville, once a beautifully quaint little town was now brought to anarchy and sported the scars of a vicious battle. She walked through the crowd of fleeing ponies being directed by the humans from the farm and the Royal Guard. The wounded were carried out by anypony willing to help. The sound of the fillies crying hung in the air and almost drowned out the sound of the constant gunfire. She walked up to the nearest human and glared death at him making the soldier shrink under her gaze. "Who is responsible for doing this to my little ponies?!" she asked with malice lacing every word.

"R-r-russians, your highness." said the cowering human. "Were holding them off as best we can until we get the civilians out."

"Under whose command are you?"

"Sergeant Daniels and Captain Armor."

"Your Highness please leave him be. These humans have nothing to with the attack. It was another group of humans." Shining Armor said rushing to the humans aid. The soldier went back to his duties as Shining Armor led the Princess away.

"How do I find these humans and tell them apart from the rest?"

"Their attire is slightly more green in it. But Princess with all due respect, these other humans are beyond diplomacy. You can't reason with them."

"Well Captain, I don't plan on doing anything of the sort." Celestia said chuckling darkly. Her horn glowed a golden yellow and she summoned battle armor of her own. It isn't much different than that worn by Nightmare Moon except the it was golden clad as to be expected from the goddess of the sun. "Nothing deliberately hurts my little ponies and lives to tell about it." she said. Shining Armor had never in all his time in the Royal Guard had ever seen the Princess like this. Her voice had carried with it, a lust for blood. The Princess galloped past the friendly line and rushed into Ponyville. Shining Armor could only watch as the Princess went in alone. He then saw an immense light equivalent to the brilliance of the sun over the rooftops and an explosion punctuated the light. thick black smoke billowed out into the sky. Then he heard something he never thought he'd ever her. Celestia used the Royal Canterlot Voice.

"No one hurts my little ponies. You all shall face my wrath." Shining Armor shuddered at the proclamation. The way she spoke reminded him of Luna when she is angry.

"Celestia have mercy upon their souls." he said quietly witnessing more flashes of light.
> The Battle of Ponyville: Into the Fray
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I have reached and shattered my goal but I am not done. This is part one. Enjoy cause this took long enough to type. Just to help organize I have added rough locations and time. I hope it isn't too annoying.






The Battle of Ponyville


Into the Fray


Ponyville Park, 10:19 hours

"RUN!" shouted a human just before taking a bullet to chest. Lyra watched in horror as the human fell to the ground in a bloody heap. Lyra then noticed a green rock being thrown at the group of ponies and humans land just at her hooves.

"GRENADE!" another human shouted diving for the rock, picking it up and tossing it. The rock then exploded not far from them sending Lyra to the ground. She got up and looked to see the world was a silent and blurry mess. Bullets whizzed past her head and she watched emotionless as a humans head was reduced to a blob of pulverized flesh and bone as he fell to the ground with blood squirting from his neck. 

Lyra looked into the face of a Royal Guard yelling at her but she couldn't make out what he was saying. "..." he yelled but no sound escaping his lips. She looked at him blankly earning her a hoof to the jaw. The world immediately registered to Lyra as the deafening noise of gunfire came back to her. She noticed she had been dragged behind the vehicle the friendly humans had arrived in. The two remaining humans were firing from behind the vehicle as well as some of the unicorn guards that had just gotten to the scene. "YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE NOW! TAKE THIS FOAL AND RUN!" he yelled shaking her still trying to get her to listen.

She looked at the colt at her side who was holding on to her for dear life and looked back at the Guard. "Ok." she said. She scooped up the colt and ran into Ponyville. She turned back in time to see one of the hostile humans pull out a tube like weapon and put it over his shoulder. The weapon fired at the vehicle and it exploded turning it into scrap metal. Anything alive next to it was incinerated. She turned away in fear of what she would see when the smoke cleared. 







Ponyville Markets, 10:23 hours

Tyler and Jake had went into Ponyville for a bite to eat that wasn't an apple related meal. They were in the markets when they heard gunfire coming from down the street. The two ran as fast as their feet could carry them but stopped momentarily as an explosion rocked the city. Ponies screamed and had began to scatter. Tyler noticed Lyra in the crowd, her coat was stained with blood. "Lyra, whats happening?"

"More humans just appeared in the park and the started firing their weapons after shouting at his colt in some random language." she yelled. Tyler looked at the colt who was holding on to her like his life depended on it.

"Jake, lets go." Tyler told him and the she was was left Lyra where she stood. Tyler immediately stopped when he saw a tank and looked to the nearest buildings and kicked in the door. A male and female pony as well as foals were just behind the door and stared at the humans who just kicked down their door.  The stallion was a yellow earth pony with a brown mane. The mare who stood in front of her foals was a pink pegasus with a yellow and green mane. Both foals were pegasi. The colt had taken after his father and was grey with a brown mane. The filly had a pink and white mane and her coat was a cream color. Tyler looked into to the faces of each of them. He only saw fear in their eyes.

The stallion charged at Tyler. "Whoa hold on now, were here to help." he yelled at the oncoming stallion.

The stallion stopped and looked up. "Huh, likely story." he said preparing to charge again.

"Look, we don't have time for this. You need to take your family out the back door of this place because there is a tank outside. If you don't, you and your family will die."

"Tyler we need to go! Russians are starting to check the houses!" Jake yelled. He pushed Tyler aside and walked past the family of ponies. "Let me say it like this. I'm going to walk out and leave you to do what ever you want. You go ahead and walk out of that door and get pumped full of led and die in front of your family if you feel like it because I don't care. Otherwise listen to Tyler and go out the back." he said kicking down the back door and walking out. Tyler followed suit and walked out as well. Looking back he saw the family was following them out into the ally.

A Russian soldier flew out the back door and Tyler instinctively squeezed the trigger of his AR and put three bullets into his chest over the heads of the ponies he was escorting. They ducked ducked and turned around to realize the human had just saved their lives. "Thank you." said the mare who was cradling a her two foals.

"Don't mention it. We need to keep moving though." he said getting up and continuing through the ally. 

Jake had stopped at the end of the ally and was peering around the corner. "Ok, the coast is clear you all make your way out and I'll cover you." The ponies and Tyler did as they were told and made their way out into the open and started down the street keeping close to the buildings. They made their way up the street for the better half of ten minutes without running into any pony. Tyler tilted his head up to the air as he heard sirens much like the siren that sounded in the episode of MLP when spike is consumed by greed and grew. This siren only added to the scene making it resemble earth. He checked his watch to see the time. 10:57

The group looked up to see pegasi guards flying overhead and one of them swooping down in front of him. Tyler recognized this guard as Swift Wing. Tyler had struck a conversation with this one about various things back on the farm and before he knew it they were talking like they'd known each other for years. "Swift Wing, good to see you! Glad to see you've joined the fray as well." he said.

"Hold on to your friendliness now my friend. There is no time for that. I'm supposed to tell you that all forces, including humans, are to assist in the evacuation of Ponyville. We've been ordered to give up Ponyville for now. We're out matched."

"Why are we giving Ponyville to these damn Russians?  Whose orders are these anyways?" Jake yelled catching Swift Wing off guard.

"It was made put to a mutual agreement that Captain Shining Armor would be in charge but the leadership would be split between him, Sergeant Richardson, and for some reason, Tyrin. They all agreed the it would be best to evacuate the civilian population and the have all forces regroup so we can mount a successful counter attack."

"I see... So I want to know, How does Ponyville look? How many casualties?" he said not sure if he wanted an answer.

"South Ponyville is has been set ablaze and we aren't sure on any specific number but the number isn't too high." he looked to the sky at the smoke billowing into the sky. "I'd head over Town Hall if I were you. It would be best to get your orders from the Captain himself. You can also get rid of these civilians."

"Yeah I guess that would be for the best." Tyler agreed. He turned his head at the sound of gunfire not far behind them. "I think we should get out of here before more fight comes our way.

"Well then stop talking and go." Swift Wing said looking up to see he was left behind. "I'll see you in tartarus!" he said flying away.







Ponyville Town Hall/FOB, 11:43

Tyler, Jake and the family of ponies had finally made it to friendly lines. It had taken them a sizable amount of time to get there due and engagement near Carousel Boutique. Town hall had a dense concentration of Royal Guard. Humans were scattered in the mix here and there but Tyler guessed most of them were helping with the evacuation. Civilians were being directed to some location unbeknownst to the group. The American tank was there and he saw the Sergeant standing atop the machine. "Hey Sergeant!"

Daniel turned towards them and motioned for them to come over. "So kid, it looks like you know what to do already." Dainel motioned toward the family he was escorting. "So I'm not going to brief you. We are going to give up Ponyville because we are outgunned in every way. We are facing a total of at least five to six-hundred men. They have the support of five T-90's so we can't just use the Abrams here as we please." he said looking at the crowd of ponies. "I'd like to say that its kind of nice to have something else from back home. But it had to be in the form of a hostile force."

"Hey man, at least we got something to do. Am I right?" Tyler said trying to lighten the mood.

"I guess your right. But look here, We can't be wasting our time here. We have a job to do." Daniel looked to the pony family and back at the two teenagers turned soldier. "Those civilians can go with the rest of the crowd back to Sweet Apple Acres to be evacuated by chariot. Jake I want you in the upper floor of town hall. We need a sniper here just in case the Russians decide to attack our lines. Tyler I'm going to put you with a squad helping with evac as soon as one returns until then wait here." he told them.

Tyler turned to walk to Town Hall but was stopped by the Stallion he had save. "Thank you for saving my family. Really, thank you."

"No problem. Hey I never caught your name."

"Its Iron Bar."

"Well Iron, I look forward to seeing you after all this is over. If I were a pony I'd think we'd make great friends."

"Well after saving my family, friendship is the least I can do."

"See you around then." he said turning around and heading to Town Hall. Iron went to gather his family and started to head to Sweet Apple Acres with the rest of the panicked masses. Tyler walked in side Town Hall and saw that it had been turned into a war room. There were Royal Guards and human soldiers moving to and from and maps scattered about with marking tracking troop movement. The was a large radio on a table with Mayor Mare and Captain Armor standing next to it. The captain acknowledged his presence and went back to listening to the chatter over the radio. Tyler scanned the room for any sign of Tyrin and saw him standing over a map with members of the Royal Guard watching him and nodding in agreement. "Hey Tyrin, What going on?"

"I'm planning. We need to contact Princess Celestia but apparently spike is still trapped in the Library which is behind enemy lines. Without him, getting a message to the Princess would take a four days give or take." 

"I can help if you need any volunteers."

"Actually I want you to go help with the evacuation... but if you want to go so be it."

"Hey I forgot to ask, how were you put in a position of leadership."

"I honestly don't know. They both said that they valued my input and that was that. Now I'm here organizing troops to do a rescue mission." he said looking down at the map and nodding. "Steel Cloud, I think were ready. I will be accompanying you during this. Tell the team to be ready to head out in two minutes."

"Yes, sir!" Cloud said and dashed out to fulfill his orders.

"Sir... I could get used to this." he said chuckling but then returning his focus to the map.

"So fill me in who all is going?"

"We get ten American soldiers, ten pegasi guards, and thirty unicorn guards."

"What are pegasi going to do... No offense to the pegasi or anything but they can only use spears and swords."

"Well that is a good question. As you know the pegasi control the weather. Do I really need to explain the rest?"

Tyler's eyes went wide in amazement. He knew that Tyrin was a good strategist but this was clever. Weaponized weather may prove to be a great asset. "No you don't. You surprise me sometimes."

"Don't you remember our gaming days? I was always squad leader and we kicked ass."

"Yeah that was always fun."

"So..." he said getting up. "Why don't we get this show on the road." Tyrin grabbed his SCAR rifle and walked out the door with Tyler trailing him.

"Lets do this."







Ponyville Markets, 12:17 hours

The road was littered with bullet holes. There were dead ponies strung on the ground here and their laying in pools of blood. Twilight's tree could be seen over the roof tops of the various houses we passed on foot. I had sent a pegasus scouting ahead and I was waiting for his return. He flew down in a hurry and saluted me. I swear I can really get used to this position. "Sir, there are humans advancing towards the library as we speak. They have a tank and if we hurry we can beat them there."

"Alright everyone you heard him, double time!" I yell as I start running forward. The pegasi take to the sky and move to gather clouds. The unicorns were much faster than us having four legs versus our two. I took a right at a street corner and see the library just a head of us. The unicorn guard had already arrived and bucked the door down and moved into the house. I ran in the door to see a groggy looking spike being carried out by a unicorn guard.

"Tyrin... wait what's going on?" he asked apparently clueless to what has been happening.

I facepalmed. "Spike, don't tell me you've been sleeping through the entire battle."

"Battle? What do you mean by battle?"

"Ponyville is under attack and you apparently have been sleeping through it."

"What?! Who is attacking Ponyville?!" Spike asked genuinely surprised.

"A group of humans called Russians. I would like to explain but we don't have time. There is a tank heading this way and I don't want good ponies dying fighting it off. Spike you are needed at Sweet Apple Acres. It is a safe zone and Twilight is there waiting to send a letter to the Princess. You are the only one that can do it quick enough." I tell Spike.

"Tyrin we need to go I can see the tank!" Private Smith calls from upstairs. Then the side of the tree exploded. I looked out and saw the tank. I had at least fifty to sixty Russian soldiers on following it.

"CONTACT!! EVERYPONY GET DOWN!" I yell diving behind a couch to dodge a volley of bullets. I look up to see that the unicorn standing next to me had a hole in his head and he slumped down to the floor. I look back at my self to see I was covered in his blood. "Everypony, return fire!" I ordered the group. Magic bolts and bullets flew through the air. The tank fired again taking out the supportive fire from the second floor. I look up to see clouds zipping to and from being centralized at a spot ahead of the tank. "Come on, come on." I say waiting for the tank to get under the clouds. A unicorn down the street waved signaling me that they were in place. A pegasus on the cloud did the same. "Come on." 

The tank crept forward and was exactly where I wanted it. I tossed a grenade in front of the and it exploded causing the tank to stop. That was the signal for the twenty unicorns lying in wait to jump out horns glowing. They were straining themselves trying to lift the heavy tank. The Russians turned to fire at the ponies but were stopped by lightning raining down from the clouds above them. The pegasi were doing their job perfectly jumping up and down on the clouds causing lightning to rain down on the Russian soldiers below either killing or disorienting them. By that time the the humans and the rest of the unicorns fire at the surviving Russians. By the time the firing cease, there was a cheer to be heard. The ponies and humans cheered for there victory over the Russians.

I stood up and got a couple of pats on my helmet. The human soldiers were not happy about being led by a sixteen year old but they definably were now. I stepped out of the hole in the library to look at my handy work. The tank crew was could be heard pounding on the in side of the tank screaming to be let out. I looked over at spike. The poor thing was shaking like a leaf. I pumped my fist and getting a laugh or two out of the soldiers and then picked up spike and threw him over my shoulders. "We got to get you to Sweet Apple Acres." I tell him beginning my journey to Town Hall. I walked and I realized something Tyler wasn't with us.







Ponyville, Town Hall/FOB, 13:25 hours

We arrived at Town Hall where Captain Armor was waiting for us. The evacuation was nearing completion with the exception of a few ponies caught behind Russian lines. Shining Armor motioned me to come over to him so I did so. "I see your mission was successful. Before you head out I have some information for you."

"Oh what would that be?"

"One of your men, Tyler I believe, was injured while rescuing Derpy Hooves and Dinky Hooves. He is currently at the our field hospital Sweet Apple Acres."

"Hmmm... I was wondering where he went. I'm guessing it isn't a serious wound is it?"

"From what the doctors told me no it is not."

"Well thats good to know. I should really stop wasting time and get Spike over to Sweet Apple Acres." I said looking behind me noticing Spike had fallen asleep on my back.

I nudged the baby dragon awake. "Huh, what, I'm awake!" he stammered. He looked out to the sky seeing it was filled with smoke. He looked to the ponies walking, some covered in ash or blood. Some limping or carrying the dead or wounded. He looked back at Tyrin. "It wasn't a dream was it?" he asked solemnly.

"No, no it wasn't I'm afraid. It is real. And you my friend have a duty to perform. We need to get you to Sweet Apple Acres now. Celestia needs to know what happened here. She needs to know what happened to her ponies."

"You're right. Let's go."







Ponyville Outskirts, Sweet Apple Acres, 13:45 hours

I arrived at Sweet Apple Acres and it was hell. There were medical tents set up and it looked like trees were cut down to make room. Humvees were coming to and from town hall with the seriously wounded, ferrying them to field hospital. The view of Ponyville was spotless. The smoke rising and the siren still sounding in the burning town reminded me of earth. I looked for Twilight all around the farm. I couldn't find her but I was then flagged down by Applejack.

"Its good to see you Applejack."

Applejack looked at me with a fearful expression. "Tyrin... yer covered in blood."

"Oh thats ok. Its not my blood." I say then realizing that it wouldn't make her feel any better. "Anyways... where's Twilight? We need to let Celestia know whats happening."

"She's on her way. Her and Fluttershy were helpin' with the wounded." she said. Twilight rushed over. I half expected her to be covered in blood to but I forgot she has magic. Fluttershy walked over. I was disheartened to see the shy pegasus covered in the blood of others. She looked at me no longer scared or shy. There was no emotion. Damn this battle, I looked into her eyes and saw something I that made me mental cry. She no longer had her innocence. She had seen death first hand. This damn battle took it away from her. It made me angry.

"Girls... I'm sorry you had to see all this." I say not knowing what else to.

"Don't be... I'm just glad your safe. Spike send the letter now please." Fluttershy said without flinching or shying away. Son of a bitch... I was right. Why? Why Fluttershy?

"Ok..." Spike said. I could tell he wasn't used to Fluttershy being assertive. He walked away with Twilight to some unknown location.

"Tyrin... Lyra needs you right now. Something happened."

My heart skipped a beat. "What? What happened to her? Is she alright?"

"She's fine. Bon Bon didn't make it. She watched her die and she is was devastated. She could really use a friend right now." she told me. "She is that way."

I immediately went the direction she pointed and looked into each room until I found her. What I saw was depressing to say the least. Lyra was crying on Bon Bon's body. The body had a sheet draped over its head. I took off my helmet and set down my rifle. Lyra looked up and saw me there and dashed over and jumped into my arms crying into my vest. I held her close as she openly sobbed. "I'm here Lyra, I'm here."

"Hey Tyrin I'm heading out and..." I glared at Tyler and he promptly left the room.

"Lyra, its going to be ok." I tell her gently stroking her head. "You have to be strong for her now. You need to be strong for her now more than ever." This only made her cry harder. I was holding back tears of my own. I couldn't help but feel a pang of guilt. 'If only I was there for her before this happened.' I felt it was my duty now to be here for her. She needs a shoulder to lean on and mine has plenty of space.

I sat and held her tight as she cried in grief. I hope Celestia makes the Russians pay for what they've done. They do not deserve mercy of any kind. Not after what they've done to Lyra.







Ponyville Square, 14:27 hours

Tyler was with a squad of soldiers moving from house to house in the combat zone looking for anypony left behind in this mess. They were almost done searching our sector and the only place left to search was sugarcube corner. They walked from house to house not wanting to use the streets in fear of snipers. The group made it to a house on the edge of the clearing between all other buildings and the home of the pink party mare. The front of the building was blown out and there were dead ponies scattered around this clearing. Mostly Royal Guard but there were still some civilians in the mix. It was a horrible sight that left him wondering what could have caused this much death to be concentrated in this area. He looked to a second story window to find my answer. A well placed machine gun nest was perched in the window. Tyler look back to the building and notice movement. There were Russians posted here and they were defending something. I then see a tank roll by and stop in front effectively ruining any kind of attack plan as we used all of the explosives we had on the first tank we encountered. And to our luck another tank rolled in and stopped outside of Sugarcube Corner. 'Just our luck.' he thought to himself.

The squad leader motioned for us to spread out we did so distributing ourselves evenly amongst the row of buildings that separated us from the clearing. Tyler was with Corporal Smith and First Sargent McClendon. He poked his head out again but unfortunately was spotted. The machine gun turret opened fire. 'We're fucked' he thought.

Tyler returned fire for a couple of seconds before losing his jaw on the floor. Princess Celestia walked through the back door of the house we were occupying and walked out the front in what seemed like battle armor. 'No, I can't be seeing this. Celestia just walked through in battle armor... that can't be right.' He looked out the window to see that the machine gun was now trained on her and was still firing. The bullets simply hit a shield and were deflected away some random direction. The armor must have been enchanted. She was walking forward nonchalantly but also wore a face that had an unbridled rage on it. She glared death at them... but with a smile. It was a sickening thing really.

A grenade was tossed her way and she looked at it and laughed and then stomped on it and it exploded. After in the cloud of dust and debris was an alicorn shaped silhouette. I was dumbstruck. Celestia was just toying with them. They had stopped firing at the Princess and were starring at her. Then one of the two tanks trained its turret on the Princess and fired. The shell made contact with the shield with sparks of electricity shooting out as the shield and the force behind the shell did battle. However the heavy shell soon stopped trying to move into the shield and feel to the ground with a metallic thud. She was laughing again but soon stopped and adopted a serious expression on her face.

Her horn began to glow and she looked at the tank that fired at her and it was enveloped in a bright light and melted. The tank had literally been melted into molten metal. She looked to the other tank and used her magic to open the hatch and drag the tank crew out and throw them into the sky. Their screams were only heard for three seconds, I don't doubt they achieved orbit. She looked to the soldiers who all wore the same horrified expression on their face which only fed Celestia's dark laughter. Was this really Celestia? She then used her magic to levitate a Russian soldier under her hoof. This one screamed as she brought a hoof to his skull swiftly ending his existence. 

At this point, most of the men had turned and started to run but Celestia held them in place with her magic. Out of the men she had already killed there were thirty-four of them remaining alive. The sun goddess flared her nostrils and reduced five of them to a pile of ash. She then threw another into the wall of Sugarcube Corner. She slammed this human into the wall again and again tainting the wall of the pastry shop with the red bodily fluid of the wad of flesh and bone that used to be a person. She laughed again doing this to another human and another . She continued doing this to another five humans and then stopped. "I'm not usually the kind of pony who would torture but I have to admit this is quite the stress reliever!" she said and began to laugh manically again.

She then looked at a human who was glaring death at her. She took notice of the bravery of this man for doing so but decided to punish this one for staring. She did so by crushing this human to the ground with a sickening crunch. His insides lay strung across the street and she laughed at the thought of the poor pony that was to be tasked with cleaning the mess up. She had had enough torture... for now. She stopped laughing and she then turned dragged another Russian to herself. He flinched as she brought her glowing horn to his forehead. She had stayed like this for a minute before lowered the human. She then ripped his leg off his body and threw it and him into another soldier. Using the Royal Canterlot Voice she looked at the soldiers and yelled making sure her voice was loud enough for all of Ponyville to hear. Вы сдаться, либо столкнуться с последствиями! Это ваш единственный шанс сдаться. Любое сопротивление будет подавлено быстро. Любой, что выбрать, чтобы скрыть будут найдены и казнены.
> The Battle of Ponyville: Remember the Fallen
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I wrote the first half of this chapter to this song. Also consider this chapter as a season finale.
Play this.




The Battle of Ponyville


Remember the Fallen

Ponyville, Town Hall
2 days after The Battle of Ponyville

The walk back into Ponyville was a depressing one. The once beautiful town had been reduced to this. To some miracle, very few Americans were killed during the battle... but at what cost? Many ponies were killed during the battle. I don't think things will ever be the same with the mane six again. Not after what they've seen. Neither will the citizens of Ponyville ever have ordinary live again. They experienced war for a day. They will definably change just as their city has. The once peaceful streets covered with bullet casings and blood. The homes with the blood of the fallen sprayed across the walls. It was earth... in Equestria.

I was walking into Ponyville for one reason only. I was going to the mass funeral. Lyra would be attending and could use any support she could receive. I walked through the partially ruined city and arrived at Town Hall. Ponies hung there heads low as they walked in. I noticed there was a list of the dead on the wall and I looked over it. Three names caught my attention. Scootaloo. The CMC must be taking the death of there friend hard if they even know about her demise yet. Pumpkin and Mrs. Cake. Pinkie Pie... I may go see her after this. She might have returned to a Pinkamenaish state.

I went in to see the building was filled with coffins lying on tables with ponies walking to in from between the rows of them, paying their respects to the dead. I saw the girls standing over in the near a coffin with the exception of Pinkie. I scanned the the place for Lyra and didn't see her meaning she hadn't arrived yet. "Hi girls." I say solemnly. Looking over the crowd I see the faces of the towns folk had lost its usual luster. I blamed myself and us humans as a whole for this. Ponyville had been tainted by the worst of humanity.

"Tyrin you need to stop blaming yourself. Its not your fault." Fluttershy began. "Nopony could have stopped this from happening. If I've learned anything over the past couple of days it is that some things just happen and can't be prevented no matter how hard you try. If at all, you just have to except it." she said offering her newly acquired wisdom. I looked at her face. I could tell she's been through hell and back during her stay at the field hospital. I was told by Rarity she'd stayed there and wouldn't leave. She had continuously  stayed to selflessly help the wounded. This poor mare. Fluttershy of all ponies had to go through that kind of hell. Why her? Why not somepony thats made of tougher stuff?

"I can't help it. I just can't help but to think I could have been there, or I could have done more-"

"I said you need to stop that. You were there Tyrin. You were there. You couldn't have possibly done anymore than already have. In fact you should be proud. You're a hero Tyrin. Without you we would've lost spike. Without Spike the Princess would have never came to put a stop to the battle."

"But she didn't put a stop to the battle. Some of the Russians surrendered but the majority stood up and fought, Ponies continued to die long after that. I didn't think this place would ever experience war but it did. And you ponies were caught in the middle of a battle between us humans. For that, I feel responsible."

Fluttershy looked down a for a bit but then looked at me in the face. "I can't say I can argue about that much but but it doesn't mean you need to carry yourself like you were the enemy. You were a hero and you need to act like one. You need to quit moping and be strong. Haven't you forgot about Lyra? If you can't be strong and hold your head high, then you are of no use to even try and comfort her."

"..." I couldn't really say anything. Fluttershy has bested me in the battle of inquiry. Fluttershy arguing with me was hard enough to get used to but changing do to the the fact that she was right was a whole new thing. She was right and told me what I needed to hear. "Thank you Fluttershy... I needed that."

"Your welcome. I just don't want to see my friends moping around like that."

"Hey I have a question. Where is Pinkie Pie?"

"Shes with Mr. Cake. He's been a wreck since... ya know." Applejack said.

"That's too bad. I also noticed on the list of the dead, Scootaloo was among them. How i-"

Rainbow Dash gasped. "WHAT!?" she exclaimed then putting a hoof over her eyes in an attempt to hide her tears. She flew off to the nearest list of the dead. Tears were streaming down her face but she wasn't crying yet. She had ripped the list from the wall and placed it on the floor. Her hooves were following the names as she read her way down the list. She stopped and stepped back when sure enough she found Scootaloo's and immediately broke down right then and there.

I couldn't fathom the kind of heart-wrenching pain that must have been inflicted on the normally strong mare. In the wake of the news of Scootaloo's death, Rainbow Dash had reverted to a crying filly. My heart exploded looking at the sight of this. I went over knelt down and held her close. The available members of the mane six followed suit and joined the hug in a futile attempt to comfort the ailing pegasus. The rainbow maned mare suddenly made her way out of the hug tears still streaming down her face. "I-I-I need to go." she said then making a quick exit and flew off into the skies of Ponyville.







Rainbow dash had just learned of Scootaloo's demise. She laid in her cloudhouse and wept thinking of the filly that had looked up to her. Rainbow Dash considered the orange filly a sister, and a close friend. She was remembering if she hadn't died, today would have marked the beginning of her flight training.

"So you want to learn flight from the best huh squirt?" Rainbow Dash said hovering above Scootaloo who was standing atop her scooter.

"You know I do!" she yelled enthusiastically. 

Rainbow Dash had seen the filly ride her scooter through town a couple of times and had to admit, next to herself and the Wonderbolts she was the most awesome thing she'd ever seen. This filly had a lot raw talent and would make an excellent student. Although she'd never really taught before, she wanted to do this. She could probably make this filly as awesome as herself, if that was even possible with her being the most awesome thing she knew. "Sure thing kid, you got the part. I'll tell you what, you meet me under my cloudhouse in a week, and we'll start your training. What do you say?"

The filly gave a smile that just about left the sides of her face. "Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou." The filly to Rainbow Dash's surprise had her wings fluttering in excitement and managed to lift herself of of her scooter.

"Hey squirt?"

"Yeah?" she asked eagerly.

"Your training is going to be a lot easier now that you're airborne." she said to the filly who gasped in amazement. Scootaloo had somehow managed to smile wider than she already was. She fluttered about but lost flight and fell onto her flank. She looked disheartened when she did.

"Don't worry about that squirt, your still a rookie. Keep working at it and you'll be flying like a pro in no time."

"You mean I'll be flying like you?" she asked hopefully.

"I wouldn't say you'll be flying like me just yet, but in time... maybe."

"Oh my gosh!" she her wings again were fluttering in excitement, lifted her off the ground.

"But Scoots you got to remember to work them wings and get stronger. If you somehow manage to control your flight before the weeks out, I don't want to see you trying any trick's yet. We can't have you dying before me now. Your not ready for that kind of stuff yet."

Scootaloo looked at her with a grin. "I'll try not to but I can't promise you anything."

"Scootaloo?"

"I know, I know. I won't. Sheesh."

"Hey, by the sound of that you seem ungrateful."

"No no no no, I'm really grateful. I am." Scootaloo yelled back genuinely worried dash won't teach her.

Rainbow Dash noticed and decided to play along. "I don't know. I'm still not convinced.

"I am, I really am." At this point the filly started to tear up and Rainbow was surprised. Scootaloo really wanted this.

She went down and hugged Scootaloo. "Hey Its ok, I was just kidding around. I'm still going to teach you you don't have to worry."

Rainbow smiled at the memory. She had to do something. It couldn't end like this. She flew down from her cloudhouse and flew into Ponyville.






Ending theme for this chapter. (play it now)

Looking at the depressed faces in this room made everything even sadder than it already was. The Princess was going to address the town and by extension, the nation. News of the attack on Ponyville had traveled fast. Aid was arriving from Cloudsdale, an extra garrison of Equestrian troops were sent to help with the plight Ponyville faced. Newsponies were sent to Ponyville from all over Equestria to record the Princess's address. She held her head low as she walked out in front of the crowd, hungry for whatever comforting words she had to offer.

"Today I wish to address ponies of Equestria. I want to inform the populace that two days ago, Ponyville came under attack from a hostile group of humans known as Russians. These Russians arrived in Ponyville park after what can only be described as a freak accident. The Russians threatened the lives of a ponies and were killing anypony in sight." The crowd of newsponies gasped.

"But fortunately due to the same kind of freak accident another group of humans calling themselves Americans came and helped us bring a swift end to the battle. Without them, we would have lost many more good ponies to the Russians and for that I am in debt to them. For this reason I would like to ask that the Americans are given respect and thanks for all they've done. They went out of their way to help us and it is the least we can do to thank them."

With that the Princess walked out. She couldn't do any more. Celestia hadn't slept in the past three days and it was getting to her. She needed to sleep and clear her head so she could think properly but she new sleep was out of the question. She needed to make sure that the Russian prisoners were taken care of. After that she could get all the sleep she ever wanted but for now she needed to get this done. She new her nerves were starting to get to her but whether or not they did wasn't important right now. She'd handle the Russians and let the negotiations with the Griffons be handled by Luna. There was way to much going on and Celestia desperately needed a way to relieve her stress.







While the whole town had been present at Town Hall, Rainbow dropped by Twilight's library to look for books on magic. She looked tirelessly for two hours ripping through books like that egghead usually would while studying for the Princess. But Rainbow Dash had a purpose. After the third hour she found what she was looking for. She ripped the pages out that she needed. "It'll be ok Scoots, just you wait. I can fix this." She put the pages in her saddle bags filled with supplies for a long trip and took off in the direction of the Western Everfree Forest. She looked towards the horizon with new found determination, and new found hope.

She flew off knowing that she may very well not come back but she had to do this. If she didn't try she wouldn't be able to live with herself. She had a goal and nothing in tartarus was going to stop her. Not the Royal Guard, not the Princesses, and most of all... not even her friends.
> The Storm on the Horizon
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This short chapter will serve to tell you where I am going with this story. Hold on because the ride gets bumpy!



Rainbow Dash had flown for a couple of hours and the moon was high in the sky. She decided to set her things down on a cloud and take a quick break. She slumped down panting tired and exhausted from her flight. She would sleep now. It would be for the best. She could fly all she wanted tomorrow, but now she needed rest. She could sleep knowing in about three days time, everything would be ok. No matter what happened to her, she will continue. Even if it kills her she will try. Tomorrow she will begin her journey much like Daring Doo. And with that thought she found solace and drifted off to sleep.







New Yoke City, Equestrian State Building
3 days after the Battle of Ponyville

Lyra had decided to leave Ponyville. She didn't want to relive the bad memories. Tyrin for what ever reason, had left with her the day before. She honestly enjoyed his company and he helped take her mind off of Bon Bon. Lyra had family in New Yoke that were more than happy to house the human who helped win the Battle of Ponyville. 

Tyrin and Lyra decided to go sight seeing and went to the Equestrian State Building to view the City of New Yoke from its tallest building. Lyra noticed that in every city they had stopped in to change trains, there were more and more heavily armored ponies. All there armor was golden clad but they weren't Royal Guard either. They were even in New Yoke. It was strange to both Lyra and Tyrin but they probably were just extra security dispatched by Celestia so the two didn't think anything else of it. They continued their sight seeing and continued towards Central Park.







If Celestia was ever nervous, she was definitely nervous now. She had got word that Luna accidentally insulted the Griffon Kingdom's ambassador, which meant she had indirectly insulted their king. This could end very, very badly and was the absolutely worst thing that could possibly happen. 

Equestria did have a military but it was not active. One day after Ponyville was attacked however she had called the military back into service and dispatched to every town and major city. She was glad she did this. The only real threat Equestria faced was the Griffons. This wouldn't have been the case years prior but unbeknownst to her the Griffon Kingdom has been strengthening its army and now had a army far bigger than hers. She would need time to prepare now becuase it was only a matter of time now before the Griffons would declare war. Celestia tried her best to keep he ponies in a country prospering from times of peace but failed.

She had an army over a million strong which was dwarfed by the Griffon Kingdoms three million and still growing. Even with her allies, Equestria was still at a disadvantage... but they had two thing that the Griffons don't: The Elements of Harmony and now... Humans and their technology. Celestia smiled. "We might still have a chance after all."








Star Light was sitting near a tree on the outskirts of town. He had three days prior teleported the group of humans that attacked Ponyville. The colt looked out to the morning sun rising over the temporary base which was erected in Sweet Apple Acres. Star had only been trying for days to master the teleportation spell but every time he tried, he failed. He couldn't have been doing the spell wrong right? No thats not it. He was doing it right, maybe he just needed to put more power into the spell! Of course! That had to be the problem.

The colt proceeded to charge the spell. He started to get a headache from how much power he was putting in this one but was not going to stop. This time he would get it. He clamped his eyes shut partly from concentration, partly from the blinding light coming from the end of his horn. He bit he started to feel weightless and then heard a loud warbling sound.

At this point a Royal Guard patrolling the edge of Everfree took notice and as part of his orders attempted to stop the colt. "HEY KID STOP-" he was cut off by a thunderous explosion and then dropped his jaw at the sight of large square buildings, weird machines, and a lot of humans on the ground getting up and looking very confused.
> The Army of Familiar Creatures
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The plot thickens!



Shining Armor and Daniel were conversing when they heard a whistle from ever free and noticed pegasi guards moving a twowards bright light coming from the edge of Everfree. There was a thunderous explosion prompting everyone on the farm to turn their head to see what made the noise. As the two moved to get a better view of what is happening their jaws practically fell off. Daniel was stunned to see a fully operational airstrip appear out of nowhere. There were humans strung cross the ground all getting up. Daniel knowing what this meant ran to grab a humvee and swiftly had Shining Armor climb aboard and he drove through the orchard towards the base. Out in front was a sign that was comically hanging off its post. It read Marshall Airfield. Thank god, they were American.

The the airfield was equipped with its own surplus of supplies stock piled behind the hangers. In front of the hangers, on the giant slab of flat concrete that was the tarmack rested approximately 30 or so CH-47 Chinook's. These transport helicopters were all neatly spaced and looked like they were ready to take passengers. In the open hangers rested various aircraft from the A-10 Warthog to the F-22 Raptor. The runway had looked like it had been repaired from bomb impacts as the grass surrounding it was riddled with craters. The hangers and the rest of the base also sported battle scars.

On the ground were soldiers who were very confused at what just happened. Some of those who came to their senses were surrounding A golden clad pegasus and dark blue unicorn colt who sat on there haunches shocked at what just occurred. The Humans had their guns raised and were moving in to aid those already on the scene trying to figure out what they are looking at. Daniel slammed his foot on the accelerator and sped up before the soldiers did something they would regret. Shining armor was not enjoying his time in the vehicle which he was holding on to the dashboard of for dear life. Being off road at these speeds obviously weren't his kind of thing.

The humvee was nearing its destination when the soldiers at the airfield took notice. Looking at the light armored vehicle speeding towards them, some lowered their weapons but some kept them trained on the creature before them.The humvee stopped and Daniel rushed out. The humans pointing their weapons at the were of lower rank than Daniel judging from the patch on their arms. "Stand down. They're friendly!" he yelled at them who looked at each other in confusion. "I said stand down! Stop pointing guns at them before you do something you regret." he shouted some more soldiers reluctantly lowered their guns but a few continued to aim at the two ponies. The more Royal Guard starded to arrive with spears pointed and horns flared. The Americans had again raised their weapons.

Shining Armor hopped out of the humvee and joined the Daniel's side. "Enough!!! Stallions stand down! Daniel I got things I need to do but this is getting us nowhere. You need to get these humans to listen to you or were going to have a repeat of Tuesday. We lost too many good ponies already."

"Men I will tell you one more time to stand down. Now. Stand. Down." he said with his voice growing dark. Looking between each other they nodded but didn't lower their weapons.

"Sir, with all due respect... I think I speak for all of us when I say this but there is no way in hell I am letting go of this trigger. Have you not noticed they are talking horses, sir. I know this ain't normal, no way, no how." 

Daniel shot them a look that made them all lower their guns. His expression then lightened and he addressed the group. "Look, I would much like to tell you all what is going on but you wouldn't believe me if I told you. For now all you need to know are that these ponies are friendly and are not a threat. Shining Armor and I need to have a word with your CO if that wouldn't be too much trouble."

One of the soldiers ran off to find their commanding officer while the rest were standing rather unnerved by the talking ponies that were standing in front of them. Daniel now had to break it to what looked like at least 3,000 men and women, that they are no longer on earth.







I was suffering from writers block at this point until I heard this. I found that this song fits nicely with this part.

Rainbow had flown from the cloud hours ago and was nearing her destination. The book she had looked in told a legend of a race of creatures that no longer exists but had been much more advanced than any other sentient species on the planet. Their name was lost and long forgotten but the book said that they were able to raise the dead and restore them back to their former glory. This is exactly what she was looking for. Legend has it that this race did it with their advanced technology and it was what they had left behind. The ruins were located in the snow covered mountains at the border between the Griffon Kingdom and the pony nation of Caneighda.

She knew she'd likely never find the technology but she would stay their until she died if she had to. Who is she kidding? If anypony was to find it it was definitely somepony as awesome as her. She then realized something else. What would everypony think of somepony who died suddenly being brought back to life? This was a giant 'if' that unnerved the pegasus. The ponies would most likely frown upon her... Oh what the hay? Who the buck cares? Ponies can think what they want to think as long she had Scootaloo. Rainbow wouldn't care in the slightest... but then again what would she tell Scootaloo after the deed is done? She would definitely need to the think out her explanation to her more than anypony... that is, if she even understood what happened. No. Scootaloo of all ponies would be owed an explanation. Rainbow could not leave Scootaloo in the dark about this. She would just have to come clean.

Leaving her thoughts and returning to reality she looked up to see the mountain range that served as her destination. As she neared the Unice (pronounced yoo-nis) Mountains, she felt the air start to chill. She rose higher while still in  semi-warm air so she wouldn't have to do it later. She was far above the clouds that moved themselves much like in the Everfree Forest and could only stare in awe at the mountains as they grew closer. Equestria didn't have mountains like this or at least she hadn't seen mountains like this in Equestria.

She flew for another thirty minutes and she entered the mountain range and looked over her saddle bags at the magnificent cliffs as they went by. At this particular spot in the range she came to a valley and at the bottom, were pillars sticking out of the snow. She then realized why the ponies in the first expedition never would have found this place. The first expeditions had been made by mainly unicorns and earth ponies. The pegasi likely had to stay with the group of grounded ponies and never would have made it this high up. She flew down and noticed at the base of a rise to another mountain there was a door. A pillar had fallen in front of it and had slightly obscured the entrance because the color blended with the snow to some degree. But then again, it was visible nonetheless. She walked to the door and gawked at the designs carved in the stone arch that supported the entrance. She walked in and pulled out a device called flashlight she had picked up at a town in the Griffon Kingdom. She turned it on and held it tightly with her teeth as the cold made its way into her mouth. She pointed it at the wall and promptly backed away. There was a picture on this wall with many creatures... very, familiar creatures.







Celestia was speaking with Mayor Mare when she suddenly remembered what she was perplexed about only days earlier. She thought the word human sounded familiar. She remembered seeing ruins with pictures of creatures remarkably similar to the humans stranded here now. She dismissed herself from Mayor Mares office and walked out. She got out and took flight and headed towards the Griffon Kingdom. She had to be sure of her hunch. If she was correct this could change everything.
> Requiem of an Orange Pegasus
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Another sad chapter. I'm sorry but I need these to show character development. I'm a monster for killing my favorite CMC but... *tears up* I had to do it. I'm so sorry Scoots. Rest in peace.


This will give you a sad.

Gunfire was heard as the orange filly lie on her side. Her vision swam, coming in and out of focus. She could vaguely see the outline of her friends looking over her with worried expressions. She willed her vision to focus again and looked up at the other two Crusaders who were distraught, yelling at each other over what to do.

"We need ta get her out of here!!" shouted the red maned filly over the sound of an explosion.

"Are you crazy? If we move her we might make it worse. Oh... I don't know what to do. We can't just leave her here. She just saved our lives."

The bleeding filly looked at them and gave them the best smile she could muster. "G-girls... you need to leave. Leave me behind. I'm done for and I'll only slow you down."

"No don't say that! Stay with me Scootaloo, you here me?! Stay with me!"

"Girls... really. You need to leave. If you get hurt then I did this for nothing. Look I'm not sad. I'm actually not in pain." Scootaloo said trying to comfort her friends. She was in pain but she didn't want them to stick around. "I wouldn't want you to get hurt. *cough* Can you girls do something for me?" 

"Anything Scootaloo." Sweetie Belle said leaning in close to hear.

"Tell Dash, I love her. Tell her... I always though of her as a mom. Can you do that?"

"Of course Scootaloo."

"Now I want you to leave. I don't want you both getting hurt." she said. The two weren't leaving but Scootaloo wasn't having it. What she was going to do wasn't right but it was the only way. She decided to fake her death although she was already dying. Ignoring the pain and her body's need for oxygen she slowed her breathing and then stopped it all together. She left her eyes cracked just enough to make sure she could see.

"Sc-sco-Scootaloo? Scootaloo? Scootaloo!? SCOOTALOO!?! WAKE UP! WAKE UP WAKe up wake... u-u-u-up!" Sweetie Belle sobbed. An explosion rocked the streets.

"Sweetie Belle, she's gone! We need ta go!" Apple Bloom yelled promptly grabbing Sweetie Belle and dragging her back.

"NO-no-no-no-no-no! We can save her!! LET GO OF ME!! WE CAN SAVE HER!!!!!"

"No we can't and ya heard her! She ain't gonna want us stickin' around much longer anyways. Come on! We gotta go. Do it for her! Its what she woulda wanted!" she yelled. Sweetie Belle stopped struggling and looked at her solemnly and nodded. They quickly galloped away. Sweetie Belle looked back one last time before disappearing in the distance.

The filly gasped and filled her lungs with life giving air. Scootaloo opened her eyes but only had the strength to do it half way. She hoped her friends would be okay. She then remembered what her idol had said days prior.

"...We can't have you dying before me now..."

"Well Dash I never did promise not to die before you." she said chuckling darkly as her vision started to fade. "Hey it looks like I finally beat her at something. I died first." she laughed before falling silent and lied in the pool of blood that drained away from her body. She felt herself begin to slip out of consciousness and looked up at the sky for one last time. She hadn't flown much but the sky was still calling to her... even in death. The sky was filled with ugly black smoke but admits the black was the skies magnificent blue which calmed the filly as she closed her eyes and slipped away. The last thing she saw was the image of Rainbow Dash smiling at her before bringing her into a tight hug. It was bliss.







The two Cutie Mark Crusaders held their heads low as the walked to town hall. They wore their capes and Sweetie Belle had Scootaloo's cape and carried it with them. They watched Rainbow Dash fly away crying. It added to the depression that the CMC faced now that they down a member... now that they were down a friend. The went into town hall and Walked past their sisters not even acknowledging their existence. They found Scootaloo's coffin and looked over it sadly. Sweetie Belle put Scootaloo's cape over her coffin ceremoniously and backed away. Apple Bloom then placed a picture of the three crusaders all standing to together, smiling on top of the cape. "Once a Crusader, always a Crusader." the remaining CMC said in unison. They looked down and had a moment of silence before Sweetie Belle broke out into a fit of crying. Apple Bloom pulled her into a comforting hug and held her there.







The main six and I had watched the CMC pay their respects to Scootaloo. Not one eye was left unwatered by this display. Applejack and Rarity looked at each other both deciding whether they interrupt the CMC's ceremony to go comfort their younger siblings. They both nodded and started to walk forward but were stopped by an arm. "No. I know you want to comfort them but they need to do this. Trust me. They need to do this." I say remembering Josh. Sweetie Belle regained her composure and looked to the ceiling in a futile attempt to halt the flow of tears coming from her eyes. The two fillies then stood back in their original positions. 

Apple Bloom broke the silence. "We are the Cutie Mark Crusaders. We'll go out into the world and discover our talents. We'll leave no stone unturned..."

"...No mountain unclimbed..."

"...And no meal uncooked."

The two Crusaders looked at the ground again. Sweetie Belle looked at the picture of them. "I'll miss you Scootaloo. Thank you." And with that Sweetie Belle walked away. 

I looked into her eyes. They were hollow. They were empty. I then lowered my arm and turned to Rarity and Applejack. "They will need your help through this, but for their sake let them have a little time. I'd say by the time they get home they will need you more than ever but they won't act like it. You know what to do."

I looked again at Sweetie Belle. She looked sad but then again... angry.  I feel for her. She reminds me of myself when Josh died. Of all ponies she reminded me of myself... God, what is Equestria coming to?
> Daring Dash: The Mountain City
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I know Dash was supposed to be the focus of this chapter but I decided to follow the hijinks of Tyrin and Lyra for a bit before we get to Dash.  Deal with it. I need to use the comedy tag more often.



Lyra and I made our way to Central Park. I was honestly surprised that this was Central Park was actually called by its name instead of some pony equivalent. Central Park being in New Yoke City was filled with ponies who were going about their. The Children played while the adults would sit on a bench and read or do some other time consuming task.

When I first entered New Yoke, I was surprised at how much it resembled New York. The sky scrapers were huge, the sidewalks were crowded, and most surprisingly had tons of traffic. The vehicles they drove were steam powered carriages. I knew there was a technology gap in Equestria but this is kind of ridiculous. They have freaking cars. The carriages moved at decent speeds and would beat walking by far but then again with the tech the combined humans have brought to Equestria, we could probably advance their technology by leaps and bounds. But then again the ponies seemed unaware of the technology gap and Lyra thought of the carriages as normal so I really shouldn't get worked up over it.

As we walked through the park I got an occasional stare but for the most part was seen as some what normal. That was fast. I kept walking and noticed a pair of armored ponies following us. I turned around and stopped them. "Can I help you with something?" The ponies stood at attention. "At ease gentlecolts."

"No, sir. You are to report to the midtown police station on orders of Princess Luna."

"Princess Luna? Are you sure?"

"Yes sir. We've been looking for you all day. She asked us personally asked us to find you when she got word you were in the area."

"Hmmm... strange. Ok then... orders are orders and I wouldn't want to offend her in any way. So then... lead the way." I tell the two who promptly walk off motioning for us to follow.

"Tyrin whats going on?"

"Oh its probably nothing. I met Celestia but I still have yet to meet Luna. I'm pretty sure that Luna wants to meet me, nothing more than that."

"Are you serious? Luna is crazy."

"Have you meet her?"

"Yes but-"

"Have you personally met her?"

"No but-"

"Then don't judge."

"But-"

"Lyra?"

"Fine."

"So... apparently I'm some kind of hero. You know what that means, right?" I say putting emphasis on the last word.

"Are you trying to hit on me?"

"What the hell? No nothing like that. What gave you that idea?"

"Nothing... so what were you saying?"

"Well what I was saying was that since I'm some kind of hero, maybe I might get a medal or something."

Lyra stopped and stood on her hind legs and comically waved her forehooves. "Watch out everypony! We got a bad flank over here!" The armored ponies in front of me started to laugh. I shot them glares and they shut up.

"Ok then Lyra, your fucking cool."

"Oh I made it angry!" she said making the ponies in front of me laugh again.

"Oh yes, I'm so very angry." I say with mock anger.

"Calm down then Tyrin you don't want to cause a scene!" she said sarcastically.

"Methinks you want to wait outside the police station while I talk to Luna."

"Oh you don't mean that."

I smiled and looked down acting like I have a monocle . "Oh but I do miss Heartstrings."

"Yeah and then I can tell my uncle how much of a plothole you are being now and you'll be out of a place to live."

"I say! You have bested me in the battle of inquiry and I lower my head in the bitter shame of defeat. Good day sir!" I say like 19th century high society snob.

Lyra laughed and we proceeded to the police station being escorted by the two heavily armored ponies which I really should ask if they are part of the guard or not.

"Hey you two I got a question. Are you in the Royal Guard? I'm not sure if you are because you are armored more heavily than the average guardspony."

"No, were with the Equestrian Royal Army."

"I didn't know Equestria had a military."

"Equestria has always had a military. Celestia had seen fit that the military only be called into active duty when their was a prominent threat to the nation."

"So if you guys are here what is the threat?"

"We haven't been told but we've been mobilized. I'm actually not sure why you wouldn't know yet. Your rank is equal to that of a Colonel."

"Wait... WHAT?"







Dash stood in the ruin in mild shook that she was staring straight at a picture of humans in what looked like a park. She immediately thought of the humans at the farm compared to the humans in the picture. These humans were definitely taller but then again she couldn't be sure because it was just a picture. She noticed there was a female human, a foal at that. She had purple hair... just like Scootaloo. A tear bled from her eye, rolled down her face, and fell to the ground leaving an echo in its wake.

She then turned away and looked down the corridor to see where she should head next. She walked forward and met a fork in the road. Left or right... she shined the light at the path on the right and found that the tunnel had collapsed only leaving the left path. She started her way into the corridor which apparently led down further into the earth and was cut off from the light from the initial entrance. She walked further and further and noticed the air down here was stale. She knew this place had to be thousands of years old. She walked even further until she met a giant chasm. The drop looked endless but she knew better than to assume that. She spit down the chasm to listen for the drop. Rainbow waited for a two whole minutes but he tell tale splish never came. She looked up. Further down the walkway that hugged the sided of the internal cliff was a bridge she could walk over... Wait a second she's a bucking pegasus. How did she forget she had wings? Rainbow took flight and flew to the other side which took about a minute. The chasm was huge.

She got to the other side and noticed there was light coming from the entrance in the wall a little ways from where she stood. Wait... no that can't be right. She was in a Celestia forsaken mountain. Thats in possible but low and behold, light continued to come from the entrance. She edged closer to the entrance, nervous at what she would find waiting for her. She was more curious than she was afraid... because somepony as awesome as her isn't afraid of anything.

She stopped just outside of the entrance and poked her head around the corner. She then proceeded to walk into the entrance that seemed to go even lower into the mountain which was lit by electric lights. She'd only seen those in hospitals. Strange... they emitted orange light instead of white light. She walked further for what seemed like an hour and then finally saw the end of the tunnel. She galloped towards it and was gobsmacked by what she saw. The entire mountain had been hollowed out and inside rested a massive city. She had to practically pick her jaw up off the ground but was assisted in the matter when she swallowed a fly. After a fit of coughing she went back to gawking at the city.

The city was huge and stood high over the ground. These building were the biggest that she'd ever seen in her entire life. The inside of the mountain was big enough that it housed its own cloud layer. The city had lights throughout it which meant she wouldn't have to waste the flashlight. Dash wasted no time and put the flashlight in her saddle bag. She jumped of the ledge and spread her wings. Looking down she noticed she was as high from the ground as Cloudsdale. Thats like... no... this place is huge. Cloudsdale is like 5,000 feet off the ground. This place is impossibly huge. Wait... if she was this high then that meant that she misjudged the actual size of the city. This place was bigger then Canterlot. This was Canterlot times ten.

She flew for an two whole hours when she finally made it over the city. She swooped down on top of a building and looked down to see if the coast was clear. Nopony was there but she noticed the streets were surprisingly clean. She then heard a rumbling noise which grew louder and louder. Her head turned skyward. A large flying machine was heading her direction with a light coming out of the front. The light was moving back and then the light was on her. The vehicle then started to hover around her and a rope descended from it. For once... Rainbow Dash was scared.
> Daring Dash: Two Thousand Years of Sleep
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Ok please don't be afraid to comment if something doesn't make sense. This chapter was a tough one to write for no reason at all.


Celestia went into the valley in the peaks of the Unice Mountains and swooped down in front of the entrance of the ruins. She walked in and noticed the large mural of humans in a park. She then looked to the top of the picture and gasped at the text at the top. It was ancient Equestrian.

Ancestral bonds broken by the plight of man, imprisoned for a thousand years and a thousand years again. But on this day a song was sung, how soft and sweet the sound. Behold this was the key, they were released... in time for her final battle.

She backed away and looked back at the picture noticing the human foal with purple mane. She looked up at the adult human who was holding her hand. The color of the mane was faded with time but it was definitely rainbow colored. She looked back at the entrance and noticed a second set of hoof prints. She ran into the ruins cursing herself for not coming here sonner. She didn't have time. Rainbow Dash could be in trouble.







For once in her life, Rainbow Dash felt genuine fear. She watched the rope fall from the flying machine and some creature slide down. She couldn't make out any features against the light but could tell the creature was walking closer. She clenched her eyes shut and braced for whatever was to come. She felt something grab hold of her and pick her up. She opened her eyes and looked up and saw the smiling face of a human who wore a helmet. It wasn't a malicious smile but a warm and understanding one... she had been scared for nothing. The human carried her over to a basket that was attached to the rope which was lowered from the flying machine. She was placed in the basket and the human shock its fist in a circular motion confusing Dash. Then suddenly the basket started to rise of the ground. When the basket reached the top of the flying machine she was again, grabbed by a human and pulled into the the flying machine the inside glowed an ominous red. The human on the ground was raised into the machine. The human then shut a panel on the side of the flying machine which effectively sealed them off from the outside.

"Miss Dash all your questions will be answered shortly when we arrive at base!" the human yelled over the sound of the flying machines engine.

"How the hay do you know who I am?!"

"Like I said your questions will be answered soon!" replied the human. "Pilot get us out of here!" Dash suddenly felt the entire machine lurch forward making her a bit queezy. She rode in the machine for about five minutes before she felt the machine begin to lose altitude. She didn't know what to think of it but guesstimated that it was landing. With the panel of the flying machine open and the sudden appearance of solid ground outside made her guess correct. The two humans disembarked the flying machine and one of them motioned for her lo follow. Reluctantly she did so and walked out to join the human.

"So what is this place?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"I'm not at liberty to say."

"And what does that mean?

"I'm not allowed to tell you."

"Oook. So can you tell me your name?"

"David. Pleasure to meet you."

"Whatever."

"Where are you taking me?"

"I can tell you that. I'm taking you to speak to Star Swirl the Bearded."

"I heard of him. Wait that pony is still alive? I thought he lived like a thousand years ago."

"Well he is immortal."

"Impossible. Only the Princesses are immortal."

"I can't really tell you more than that. You should ask him yourself. I'm not really knowledgeable on the whole magic concept. I just work here."

"This is your job?"

"Yes I run and keep maintenance on the city to keep it in working order."

"The whole thing?"

"Yep, shes my pride and joy this city. I am head of maintenance."

David was leading the small group to a door. Dash looked up a the giant building she didn't notice while trying to figure out the human. The building was massive and went way past the clouds. Rainbows jaw dropped at the immensity of the building. She then realized what she came for.

"Hey do you happen to have some kind of thing that can bring somepony back from the dead?" she asked bluntly not wanting to beat around the bush.

David looked at her with wide eyes. "Not being sneaky I see."

"I like to cut to the chase."

"Well I am allowed to tell specifically you that yes we do." The group came to where three hallways met. The humans that David had refereed to as pilots and one other human walked to the right while David and Dash took the left path.

"Whats with all this 'allowed' stuff?"

"Just ask Star Swirl when you see him." he said sounding annoyed.

"Fine, but I have one more question. If you are the maintenance pony, why did you come to get me? Why not somepony else?"

"Well this is something better explained by Star Swirl. I'm not really good at explaining this kind of thing to anyone."

"So you've explained this before?"

"I tried at least." The duo walked to the end of the hall and the human pushed a button on the wall. The wall opened and revealed a small room. David walked in and she followed unsure of what to expect. She decided not to ask and continue with the conversation.

"But this place is hidden in a bucking mountain. How would anypony else find this place?"

"How did you find this place? They found it the same way. Apparently this city is a place of legend. To me its an everyday thing."

"Huh, thats neat... I guess." she said then hearing a beeping noise. The wall opened again and they walked into a spacious room with a desk near a wall of windows that had a clear view of the city. On the right were a table, lamp and a comfortable looking red chair all arranged next to a wall with a built in bookcase complete with a red rug with various designs. On the right was a featureless white area with an aquarium along the wall.

Looking back at the desk she noticed that sitting in the chair was a grey stallion with a white beard. He wore attire much like Twilight did on nightmare night. The difference is that his looked old. Really. old. The blue was faded and the hat had a tear in its brim. This pony, obviously Star Swirl the Bearded, looked up at the new arrivals and smiled warmly.

"Ah Miss Dash, Element of Loyalty and the performer of the legendary sonic rainboom, it is so nice to finally meet you. Please come in and have a seat. His horn glowed gold and a another red chair appeared in front of the desk. "David you are dismissed."

"Yes sir." David left with out saying another word.

"How do-"

"How do I know that?  First off I am not a spy. I simply heard the stories of you when I check on Equestria from time to time." Star Swirl cut her off.

"Ok... then what is-"

"This is a place that the inhabitants call Valhalla." he interrupted again.

"What in-"

"I was just getting to that."

"How-"

"How do I know what your going to ask? Because I can see parts of the future."

"Like ma-"

"No. Not like Madam Pinkie Pie. And by the way this is as far as I got in this particular part in time. I know how awkward you must be feeling but I will tell you that it is over."

"Oook, Do you know why I came here?"

"Actually, yes I do. I am sorry for your loss."

"And that David guy was saying I'm not the first to come here. Were the others looking for the same thing?"

Star Swirl looked out the window and down at the city. "Sometimes they did, other times they came looking for treasure or other things along that line. I even got a scientist from the Zebrican Republic who chose to stay after finding this place."

"You never answered my question about what this place was."

"Oh this city was made for the people that arrive here."

"You mean humans?"

"Yes in fact. Here's an easier way to put it. What if I were to tell you that this world was nothing more than a drain?"

"What?"

"That's it simply put, but in fact our world is a drain for things and ideas from the humans world. For as long as our world has existed things have been sucked through portals which apparently cover both planets. The portals however all seem to be one way only bring things from there to here. This brings me to the next topic."

"When I first discovered this fact I had been working on a long range teleportation spell. It was in the early stages and was bound to misfire. When I began the spell I had channeled all my energy into my horn and... oh wait, how could I forget your a pegasus? You wouldn't understand anyways!"

"Hey! Did you just call me stupid? I may not be an egghead like Twilight but I am not stupid!"

"Hold on, I wasn't implying that you were stupid but rather that your simply not a unicorn and trying to explain magic to you would be like trying to teach it to a wall."

"Ok..."

"Anyways when I had the spell charged and fired it I instantly ended up teleporting to various places between this world and some how theirs. While I was jumping randomly I ended up picking up a few things I apparently had somewhere in the process teleported the inside of this mountain out because this is where I came to a stop. There were ponies and humans scattered in the mix that brought us here but for some reason there were more ponies than humans and since then I've been in charge. I may have told them that they came to our land which was true but what can I do? The ponies that were here aided in that in the fact that they all followed me from the get go. And just so you don't get the wrong idea I will have you know that everyone was free to leave at their own accord but since we were located under the peaks of the Unice Mountains no one could."

"Ok so let me get this straight, this is a city of humans and ponies?"

"Yes, that is correct."

"Then why is the city empty? I didn't see anypony when I flew over the city."

"Ah yes, that. Well Miss Dash, this is where it gets complicated." he said with a pained sigh. "About five years into the history of this city, a disease broke out. This disease was called the H-virus. It only appeared in humans for a short while before it jumped species and started to affect ponies too. In an effort to contain the disease a part of the city was quarantined by my order. Those afflicted by the disease were sent there and were told they were to stay until a cure was discovered. But even that measure was hindered."

"What do you mean it's airborne?!" Star Swirl yelled into the radio.

"We have 13 reports of ponies with the virus. mostly pegasi if that has any significance." said the human on the other end of the radio. Star Swirl looked down at the city from his office. All his hard work, could be gone. "We also have confirmed the mortality rate of the disease. It is ninety-five percent." Star Swirl was horrified. The city of Valhalla had a population of over thirty million people and ponies, leaving only 1.5 million immune. So many will die if a cure is not found and its been over a year since the H-viruses appearance. To save many a last ditch plan was to be enacted. He logged onto his computer with his magic and began to type up a simple one page document that would seal the fate of the infected. It would also mean the survival of healthy. He printed and signed the document then calling his assistant into the office.

"Paper Crease, I need you to have this sent out to every hospital, and police station in Valhalla. I also want a copy sent to Fort Langston. It is important that you do this now. Do you understand."

"Yes sir. I will get right on it." the yellow maned pink mare said before swiftly rushing out the door."

Looking out at the city he cared for for so long, he continued to explain. When the virus became airborne I knew it meant that time was short. I had to do something drastic."

"Where are you going with this?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Did I fail to mention not only did I teleport through space but time as well?" Dash gave him a blank stare. "Its seems I did forget. Well in the process of myself teleporting uncontrollably through the humans world and ours, I picked up various technologies and things from our future and theirs. At one point I ended up picking up a human device called the cryogenic freezing chamber and a human engineer skilled in the field of science that revolves around the device."

"A cryogenic freezing chamber basically freezes someone or somepony and halts all aging until they are thawed out. And on that note I would like to ask you to follow me." he said trotting to the wall and pushing a button.

"So why are you here if you have all this technology?"

"Well there is a limit to what technology can do." The wall opened up and the two walked in. he pushed another button with his hoof and the doors closed. "Like this elevator for example. It can only take us up and down. That is its limit. It can't go side to side or any other direction for that matter." Rainbow felt the elevator decelerate.

"Ok I still want to know what happened to the ponies and humans of the city."

"Thats what I'm getting to." The doors opened and Dash's eyes widened. "Rainbow Dash, I would like for you to meet the citizens of Valhalla. They've been frozen for two thousand years." Dash walked into a massive blue and foggy room filled with large cylindrical metal containers for as long as she could see. "In a last ditch effort to save the population I had ordered those who were not infected to be placed into cryogenic hibernation to sit out the infection. I was forced though to leave the infected to their fate. It was a very necessary evil and I've never forgiven myself for doing it although it had to be done. Those in cryo sleep have been sustained through a mix of technology and magic."

"T-t-this is everypony?"

"No not all of them. As you can imagine making this many cryo tubes would take a long time. Even with duplication spell at my disposal it took me, human engineers, and a hoofful of unicorns a little over two years to do this. During those two years millions died from the disease. You looking at about ten million survivors, of coarse this is just the top floor of the cryo levels out of hundreds. The humans you saw earlier were the offspring of those who were immune and didn't want to go into cryo sleep. They help me keep the city in working order as their families have for generations.

"Two thousand years is a long time to be frozen. Why didn't you unfreeze them sooner?"

"Ah, that is where the problem lies Miss Dash. I can't bring them out of cryo sleep without a code or  password of some sort which for some reason wasn't taught to me before the engineer who made it went into hibernation. I've spent most of my time trying to crack this code but even after two thousand years I still haven't done it. It is a voice password so I tended to stay down here until I lose my voice trying to figure it out." he said chuckling. "But anyways Rainbow Dash, It looks like we've reached our destination." The two walked through double doors and were in a room with a large machine in the middle. The machine was completely new to here and she really couldn't compare it to anything she had ever seen. "This my dear Rainbow Dash is the machine that will answer your greatest wish at the moment." He then looked at the mare and seemingly stared into her soul. "Now tell me Rainbow Dash, how would you like to defy the laws of nature?"
> Daring Dash: Reserrection and Awakenings
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WOOT WOOT!!!! 7000 TOTAL CHAPTER VIEWS!!! Sorry everypony, short chapter but the story arc isn't done yet. There will be more. I also know this isn't my best material. Just deal with it. I tried to use the comedy tag once or twice and I think it may have detracted from it but oh well. A penny for your thoughts?



"Now tell me Rainbow Dash, how would you like to defy the laws of nature?"

Dash looked at Star Swirl in mild confusion. "The laws of what now?"

Star Swirl quickly facehooved and dismissed the remarkably stupid question. "Ok... let me rephrase that. How would you like to bring somepony back from the dead?" he said a little annoyed.

"Ohh... Ok."

"But first I need a DNA sample. Would you happen to have anything that belonged to Scootaloo? Like a hair or something?"

"I have a feather." she offered.

"Great, even better." Rainbow Promptly gave the feather and he opened a compartment to the machine. He then began to start pressing buttons which Dash couldn't make any sense of. She watched curiously as he finished up.

"So... how exactly does this work?"

Star Swirl the Bearded cracked a wide smile. "To be completely honest I have no Idea. The humans apparently are masters a technology and look what they invented!" he yelled laughing manically. "Isn't this magnificent? A device that actually brings back the dead and can do it with no less than a few simple cells let alone a feather. I can't help but to wonder at the marvels of the human world, past and future. I've been inclined to ask some of them about there world. I started with the more primitive looking ones and then asked the more technologically sound humans about there world in the time they inhabited it. Oh wht they told me made my imagination wonder... Oh look at me going on off on a tangent." He slammed the door shut and went to a panel across the room which had a giant monitor that dominated the wall that said "Ready to proceed" and had a dot on the end that blinked in and out of existence. "LETS DO THIS!" he yelled comically and flipped the switch.

The compartment had a glass view port that allowed ponies to view the processes that the body was being reconstructed from. The machine whirred to life as the crackling of electricity could be heard and light began to pour out of the view port making it redundant. Rainbow Dash turned away from the blinding light as she faintly heard Star Swirl laughing over the powerful noise of the machine. There was then a small whining noise which grew louder and louder to the point where Rainbow had to cover her ears from the audio assault. She looked back at the machine and could see a small body silhouetted in the light. She watched as muscle grew over the bones that had been formed and then watched skin grow atop that. She turned away again because the sight of so much of the body exposed the way it was sickened her a little.

"ONE MORE MINUTE!" Star Swirl yelled over commotion. Rainbow Dash gave him a quizzical look. "What? I like to really act out the moment! It makes things more fun!"

Rainbow shrugged it off and returned her focus to the machine. She noticed that the light had dimmed considerably and that Scootaloo lie in the belly of the metal machine as she was a week ago. She lie there unmoving, and not breathing. The sound in the machines "gut" had stopped and everything went quiet. Rainbow Dash stared at the unmoving filly and a tear crept from her eye. She furiously shook her head to stop herself from crying not let Scootaloo see her in such a state. She started to walk forward towards the machine. She still had her eyes locked onto the filly and blocked out all reality under her gaze.

"GET BACK ITS NOT DONE YET!" Star Swirl yelled snapping her to attention.

"Huh?" This was all she could utter before a blinding light shot from the machine into her eyes. She yelled out in pain as the light burned her retinas. She held her eyes closed and had fallen to the ground while wallowing in the immense pain she was in. She opened her eyes to find there was nothing but blackness. She waved a hoof in front of her face but could still only see empty featureless blackness.

"Sorry... heh heh. I should have warned you earlier to avert your eyes. Um you may be blind anywhere from and five minutes to five days."

"WHAT?"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I didn't remember. It was my fault. Just don't get angry. We don't need an angry blind mare running around a dangerous lab with machines that I don't even know how they work... ah look who's awake. Hello there little one. I wouldn't try moving around too much because your new body has to adjust to... you know, being alive."

"Wheres Scoots?" she practically screamed.

"Shes right here. You must allow her a minute to recuperate. She was just zapped enough electricity to power a small village. Her mind also needs to catch up with her. I swear I will never know how these humans do it. This machine can somehow get memories from a feather of all things. Brilliant I say."

"R-r-rainbow?" the filly squeaked. She simply stared at the ceiling allowing her minds gears slowly start to turn. She looked over at Rainbow dash again. As soon as she realized she was alive she rushed to Rainbow Dash and hugged her as tightly as she could, breaking into tears.

"I'm here squirt, I'm here." Rainbow Dash said trying to contain her own tears. She knew this wasn't her style at all but it was defiantly needed. She decided to sing a lullaby to the crying filly to help calm her. She racked her mind over a song she knew and she then remembered something Fluttershy taught her.

"Hush now, quiet now,
its time to lay your sleepy head.
Hush now, quiet now,
its time to go to bed.

Hush now, quiet now,
its time to lay your sleepy head.
Hush now, quiet now,
its time to go to bed.

Drifting off to sleep,
leave exciting day behind you.
Drifting off to sleep,
let the joy of dream land find you.

Hush now, quiet now,
its time to lay your sleepy head.
Hush now, quiet now,
its time to go to bed.

The orange filly was asleep in the blind pegasus' hooves. Rainbow couldn't be happier. She cradled the filly and smile at her while gently stroking her mane. She wouldn't let anything happen to her again. She continued to hum in the middle of the floor with Scootaloo safely in her arms, not caring about anything else in the world.







Star Swirl was going to leave to give the to some privacy but the tenderness of the moment made him stop midway in his exit from the room. He stood there with the door hanging open. He was going to compliment Rainbow for her singing but then a beeping noise caught him off guard. He looked up at the monitor. It read "Password accepted. Beginning defrost procedures". Star Swirl's smile threatened to leave his face as galloped as fast as he could to wake everyone that helped the city run. They were in for a surprise.







Celestia got to the end of the tunnel and was taken by complete surprise when she saw that inside the mountain was a city that dwarfed Canterlot in size. She gawked at the city wondering what could possibly be responsible for creating something so massive. She then flared her wings and took flight towards the tallest building. Rainbow Dash had to be there.
> Back to School
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Ok, a little break from Daring Dash but yeah.



The foals had to return to school despite the repairs being done on the town. The Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle were walking up. Apple bloom tried to cheer up Sweetie Belle but decided it best to stay quiet during the walk to school. Sweetie Belle honestly looked angrier than she had ever seen her. She was hiding it well but Apple Bloom could tell knowing the filly as well as she did. The two walked to the school house noticing that everypony was seemingly happy except for them. The duo held their heads low and walked through the schoolyard not saying a word to anypony. They made their way to a tree and sat under it staying silent as they retreated into their own thoughts.

Diamond Tiara noticed the two and decided to pay the two a little visit. "Hey Silver Spoon, look what the cat dragged in." she said using enough volume to make sure she was heard by her victims. Apple bloom looked over to Sweetie Belle whose expression turned to an emotionless one but her eyes retained the rage that she knew the unicorn held inside.

Diamond Tiara noticed the new expression and didn't like it. She wanted to make her feel bad but the poker face that Sweetie Belle just threw up needed to be broken so she could be sure of her victory. She motioned for Silver Spoon to follow and they moved towards the crusaders. "So why did you blank flanks even come back to school anyways? You know that nopony wants you here right?" she asked them. Apple Bloom looked up angrily but her intended target still held fast to the poker face which was starting to annoy her to no end.

"You know you could just  make this easier by leaving here now right? You could save yourself the trouble. Wait scratch that, you could save us the trouble of having to look at you worthless blank flanks." she said. Silver Spoon laughed but Diamond Tiara waited until she could be sure she actually did some damage. Observing the faces of the crusaders she noticed Apple Bloom looked hurt indefinitely but Sweetie Belle again was somehow unaffected by her words which agitated the attacking filly.

"Oh it doesn't look like the crusaders have any fight in them. How pathetic." she said in a mocking tone. She then noticed that the crusaders were minus one and smiled at her new found ammunition. "What the matter, you lose your bite without your chicken? I know she is the one who usually says something first so I should have guessed that would be the reason." she said preparing for her leaving with remark. "I never thought it possible, but without Scootaloo you both are more pathetic than yo-" 

Within two seconds the stoic unicorn broke the poker face and had tackled Diamond Tiara to the ground then was on top of her proceeding to hoof her in the face mercilessly. Silver Spoon was going to come to her friends aid but she was quickly enveloped in a soft white light and was thrown into the slide before she could figure out what was happening to her. She looked up to herself helpless to stop Sweetie Belle's onslaught. Diamond Tiara could do nothing put scream between punches. Sweetie Belle then stopped for a brief moment and glared into Diamond Tiara's soul. Diamond Tiara looked up fearfully at Sweetie Belle. "DON'T TALK ABOUT SCOOTALOO!!!" she screamed and put all her strength into one last punch and the hoof connected with Diamond Tiara's jaw this time, knocking her out cold. 

Sweetie Belle got off of her and then set her sights on Silver Spoon who like Apple Bloom, stared at the unicorn in complete shock. Apple Bloom snapped to her senses and rushed over to Sweetie Belle who was advancing on Silver Spoon. She grabbed Sweetie's tail with her teeth and started to pull her back. Sweetie could try with all her might to get away from the young farm pony, but she knew she was outmatched in the area of strength. 

"Sweetie Belle its not their fault! you ain't gotta do this." Apple Bloom told her through the tail she had in her mouth.

Sweetie Belle looked back. "Fine."

"What?"

"I said fine." she said calmly. She then turned her gaze to Silver Spoon who lied on the ground trembling. The grey earthpony looked up as the usually carefree unicorns face grew dark. "Silver Spoon, I'm going to say this. If you or Diamond Tiara talk about Scootaloo again, I'm waring you I will not stop." With that Sweetie Belle walked home. Apple Bloom just watched her leave while she was in mild shock about what just happened.







Rarity was walking back to towards the school house when a medical chariot flew overhead. She then looked at Sweetie whose face bore no emotion. Rarity was beside herself. Her Sweetie Belle would never hurt anypony on purpose would she? She had come home early prompting her to ask why. When she got her answer she was shocked.

"I put Diamond Tiara in her place. Then I told Silver Spoon That next time I wouldn't stop." Sweetie Belle told her with an emotionless face.

"What?!"

"You heard me. She was talking about Scootaloo so I put her in her place. And after that I walked home. Does that answer your question?"

"Sweetie Belle, I hope you aren't telling me what I think you telling me. For your sake."

"I'm not proud of it but... I'm not sorry. I don't regret it at all. Do what you want to me."

Rarity didn't know what to think anymore. Sweetie Belle had told her she had intentionally hurt somepony. She wasn't even ashamed in the slightest. Rarity then began to steel her nerves for the conversation with Cheerlie and Diamond Tiara's father. This was definably going to be a long day.








A week later in the city of Stalliongrad...


Commander Long Sword crouched behind a wall as artillery pounded the city of Stalliongrad. The Griffon kingdom had stopped all negotiations and told those at its embassy in Canterlot to burn its documents. That report came in a little too late. A rocket harpoon hit the building next to him and knocked out a unicorn giving him covering fire from a fourth story window. He died when hit the ground. A griffon ran out from cover and lobbed a blast geode his way. The Commander caught it with his magic and threw it back quickly ending the attackers life. He then looked back behind him into the trench that was carved into the street by explosives. His stallions were giving it their all but through the Griffons superior numbers, it was doing them no good. Magic bolts, and arrows flew in the air over the proverbial noponys land that stretched over to thee adjacent trench carved into the street through a similar fashion to their own.

Over the noise of the shouts and explosions he heard a new noise. It was a low rumbling noise that grew louder. He then looked up to see flying machines. Hundreds of flying machines coming in from over the horizon. One hovered over the street and a loud repetitive whooshing sound was heard and the trench adjacent to them exploded in a fit of flashing light and flying rocks. Everypony cheered at the victory. 

Another flying machine had landed in a parking lot of a Hay-Mart a block down from them. This one was bigger and wider than the one that just saved their hides. A panel opened up out of the back creatures he immediately recognized from the newspaper as humans started to pile out of the flying vehicle. Reinforcements... finally.







Star Swirl the Bearded had yet another vision of the future. War was coming to Equestria. And the worst part the Griffons were better trained and equipped for war. Equestria could be in for a long gruesome fight. Star Swirl looked down at the tarmack far below his office where helicopters piloted by humans were taking off. If only he could find a way for everyone to get off the mountain. The helicopters couldn't fly through the thin mountain air let alone exit the mountain through tunnels. He had to find some way to aid Equestria.
> Daring Dash: Before the Storm
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Sorry for taking so long I will start to introduce the OC characters that have been submitted to me in this chapter. Most will be shown in the future though so if your OC isn't in here don't freak out. Also, the plot thickens somewhat! This chapter is raw and unedited so there are bound to be grammar errors.


Rainbow Dash was annoyed that Star Swirl would leave her alone especially when she was blind. She still needed to get up off the floor. She was starting to get a little sore. "Hey Scoots, wake up." she said while gently shaking the sleeping filly.

"Ugh... five more minutes."

Rainbow decided to just let gravity do her dirty work. She opened her fore hooves and let the filly fall. She woke up instantly and glared at the cyan pegasus before her for a moment before smiling and hugging her. "I thought I'd never see you again." the orange pegasus said into Rainbows chest as she continued to embrace her.

"You know I could never leave you like that."

"Hey I never knew you were this soft Rainbow." she said playfully while breaking the hug.

"Well don't get used to it, Scoots. I had to track down an ancient civilization to save your sorry flank."

"I was going to ask about that but I really don't care. All that matters is that you saved my life and now your here."

"Oh come on. I was hoping I could at least tell you my the epic tale of how me, Rainbow Dash, cheated death." she said effectively stroking her ego for the time being. She then gave the smaller pegasus a hoof-nogie. "I missed you squirt."

"I do have a question. Why do you keep staring off into space like that? Its kinda creepy."

"Eh, the machine that Star Swirl the Bearded used to bring you back to life blinded me. I should ware of any time in the next five days..." she trailed off. She just realized she would be grounded.

"You're blind... does it hurt?"

"What? No. Its just dark. Everything is just black."

"Oh. Do you need help?"

"As much as I hate to admit it, yes I do. I won't be making it out of here anytime soon like this. Thats for sure."

Unbeknownst to Rainbow Dash, the orange filly was grinning mischievously. Slowly the pegasus moved from her last position as silently as she could and then stopped behind the rainbow maned mare. "Scootaloo?"

Silence.

"Scootaloo?"

More silence.

"Come on squirt this ain't funny."

She still was only replied by silence. To make the joke even funnier Scootaloo silently trotted to the door and opened and closed it again.Rainbow's head immediately shot to where she last heard the noise. As soon as she recognized the sound she frowned.

"Ohhh I swear when I can see again I'm going to get that filly. Ok Dashie, we can do this." she said getting onto her hooves. She started to make slow and unsteady steps towards where she thought the door was. "Come on this isn't even cool." she said hating on her situation. One more unsteady step later, her face had greeted the wall. Rainbow Dash fell to her flank and rubbed her snout with a hoof while Scootaloo was giving it her all to not laugh. Rainbow then extended a wing to fell the wall as she followed it to another wall and again hit her snout. "Ow! I swear Scootaloo, if your in this room you better let me know now!" she yelled and was rewarded with hysterical laughter. "Scootaloo, that wasn't funny."

"You're right, it was hilarious!" she said laughing harder.

Rainbow Dash's expression lightened and she moved to the source of the laughter. "Ok, you got me, but I'm gonna get you back."

"Well I learned from the best."

"Ok well I've had enough and I want to get out of here."

"I know so lets-"

Star Swirl burst through the door. "I'm sorry Rainbow Dash, I had completely forgotten that you were blind but something amazing has happened. That song you sang was the password! What are the chances of that?! One in a million? Well enough of that, lets get you out of here. Bite my tail." Star Swirl stuck his tail in front of Rainbow Dashes face and she bit it.

Scootaloo started to laugh. "Go ahead, laugh it up" Dash said through the tail in her mouth. She was led through the doors and back into the chilly cryo floor.

"Soooo... how does it taste?"

"Scootaloo, shut up."

Star Swirl looked down and winked at Scootaloo. "You seem upset. I don't think eating hair is going to solve your problems." he told her.

Dash spit out the tail and looked furious. "Ok! That's it! I'm finding my own way."

She started to walk forward but tripped over herself. "Rainbow Dash, you know as well as I do that that is simply not going to happen."

Rainbow Dash groaned and wiped her face with a hoof. "Fine, just shut up about it." Star Swirl put his tail back into her face and she bit it and was led to the elevator. She felt a unsettling feeling of the room moving as the elevator rose and she heard the electronic beep as the elevator doors opened. Rainbow Dash heard boots and shoes running to and from. "What's everypony so running around for?"

"Ah your other senses are starting to heighten already. Well, Like I said those in cryo sleep are going to be up pretty soon and everyone here is getting the city ready. We have to restore power and water to the homes and buildings and fire up the artificial sky."

Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo both tilted their heads to the side. Rainbow Dash was the first to say something though. "Artificial sky?"

"The artificial sky was an idea thought up by a very smart pegasus by the name of Matrix. He had missed the sky but didn't want to leave either. He had complained to a human friend by the name of Alexander Mazburg who just happened to be working on a way to project an image over a large area. He had an idea that instead of projecting a sky on the ceiling he would have placed the brightest lights possible over the sky to make a giant TV screen. Then the projection would cycle through day and night every twelve hours and it looks like the real thing from the ground. Its only until you get within a thousand feet of it that the illusion starts to fail."

Rainbow blinked and then facehooved. "Ugh. Twilight would love you."

"I don't know about that but we should get moving. You're attracting a lot of attention." Rainbow Dash bit down onto his tail and was led away.







Meanwhile...

Pinkie Pie was walking out of the recently rebuilt Sugarcube Corner. She hopped through town waving to everypony she saw. The human's flying machines flying over Ponyville was now a usual sight for everypony now. she hopped past Town Hall and waved to the group of humans and Royal Guard that walked by. Some of them waved and others didn't but Pinkie didn't really mind at all. She continued to Sweet Apple Acres when suddenly, she started to shudder violently. This was her Pinkie sense warning her about something. It was going to be... a doozy.







Rainbow Dash had walked for what seemed like hours which turned out to be really be just ten long minutes of boredom. "Where are we going?"

"Were heading tarmack to airlift you to where you will be living during your stay in Valhalla."

"You know I'm leaving with Scootaloo as soon as I can see again."

"I don't honestly think you can at the moment or for the next couple of days. The winds on this mountain make it impossible to fly out."

"What do you mean wind? There was practically no wind at all when I flew in."

"Yes, well you just were extremely lucky. why do you think everyone in this city was trapped here? Its impossible to get down unless you have everyone who lacks flight trained to climb mountains. Actually some pegasi did leave but they were told not to say a word about this place. I'm sure few made it though. And judging from the way you found out about this place, they apparently turned it into some sort of legend."

Rainbow Dash felt like she was being given a lecture by Twilight. It was as annoying as it had always been. She was surprised when her vision went from black to a grey blur. She had let go of Star Swirl's tail and sat on the ground to wait. As light started to register to her eyes, they instinctively tried to focus and it made her dizzy.

"What's wrong with Rainbow?" Scootaloo asked.

"I'm guessing that her vision is starting to return. Am I right Miss Dash?" She nodded and put a hoof to her head. She had a migraine now from her eyes sight and decided to close her eyes and wait out the pain. After two minutes she opened her eyes and saw her hooves on the ground. She then looked up at a worried Scootaloo and hugged her.

"I'm fine squirt. I'm glad I finally get to see you with my own eyes." Scootaloo broke the hug when she saw an intimidating human approaching. Dash turned to see what she was looking at when she saw him. 

The human was six feet tall and had tan skin minus his right arm which was a dark red. His hair was green and spiky and he carried a sheathed sword on his back. He wore a red shirt and blue pants which had a hole in the right knee. He walked up with a frown. His expression then turned to a happy one like he had just played a joke on someone. "Hey Beardy! How's it goin'?"

"Ah, of course you would be the first out of cryo sleep. Protrokalos, it has been far too long. How was the sleep?"

"Eh, It was cold. How long has it been ten years?"

"Well, its actually been two thousand. Chris forgot to tell me the password to start the defrost procedures before he went into cryo sleep. I'm going to give the moron a piece of my mind when he wakes up."

"Well you know Chris..."

"Always forgetting, I know." Star Swirl and Protrokalos laughed.

"Eh hem."

"Oh I'm sorry Rainbow Dash I forgot to introduce you. Dash, this is Protrokalos Morrow, the most delightfully random human I've had the pleasure to meet."

"Hey." he held out his hand. Rainbow Dash extended a hoof and he shook it lightly. He then knelt down and extended his hand to Scootaloo who was given a hand/hoof shake. "I know, I look mean and scary but I'm really nice once you get know me."

"Hey I wasn't scared!"

"Yeah, she not scared of anything." Scootaloo added.

"I could kick you flank anytime, anywhere."

"I doubt that." he said chuckling. The only thing you have on me might be speed."

"What do you mean might be?" she said getting into his face.

"I think I may be as fast as you. Maybe faster." he said with a grin.

"Is that a challenge?"

"Maybe it is."

"You know what? I'm not even going to race somepony who can't even fly. It just wouldn't be fair."

"Oh, I can fly. Check this out." Protrokalos set his sword on against the wall and backed up. He brought his wrist to his chest and electricity shot out from his body. With a flash of light he was then he was garbed in golden armor much like Celestia's golden regala. He had two blue transparent wings on his back and he flared them out. Rainbow Dash had to clench her jaw shut to keep it from dropping. His wings were as big as Celestia's.

"How?" she stammered.

"This is transformation three of four. I'd rather not go into how I can do this now, but I can fly and I think I might kick your sorry flank in a race."

"Oh its on!" she yelled. Dash then looked at Scootaloo and sighed. "Maybe some other time, I need to look out for Scootaloo."

"I'll be fine!!! Now go and race him already."

"I can watch Scootaloo while you two race each other." Star Swirl offered.

"Are you sure Scootaloo?"

"Yes! Now go show him who's boss!"

"Alright then, lets race!"







Celestia flew for about an hour when she saw something she never thought she would see here. It was a flying machine. Actually, multiple flying machines flying throughout the city. Some where lifting crates by a wire while others were landing. She saw pegasi in the distance clearing the clouds. She flew past them wondering why they were all wearing clothing. She neared the tallest building when she saw Rainbow Dash being tailed by a human... with wings.

She immediately flew in to save her. She flew in front of the human and flared her wings in front of the human. "You will not hurt any of my subjects!"








Just outside the City of Gryffio...


In the Griffon Kingdom, all was not well. The King had been overthrown by General Hawkeye because he was believed to be weak after refusing to declare war on Equestria. Gilda and Valian flew away and watched as the capital city of Gryffio burned in the night. They were two of many griffons who had stayed loyal to the King. The Griffon Kingdom's military had split eight to one, the Royalists taking up the minority. They heard the victory chant of the Rebels even at this distance from there burning home. The Royalists were going to leave the country but would soon return. They had to maintain the honor of their species as a whole. Gilda scowled. "Why would that feather brain do this? Declaring war over an insult is dishonorable and pointless."

"You know as well as I do that this is not the time for this. We need to keep moving before the Rebels start to hunt us down." Valian said looking back one last time before he flew off again.

"So where we heading?"

"The only place where we can go. Equestria. The rest of whats left of Royalists are going to regroup there as well. We have to warn them of the coming storm and help them if necessary."

"Well, at least they have a little warning." she said thinking of Rainbow Dash. She may have been mad at the time but it still hurt to lose a friend like that although she didn't show it. She then looked back once again. The hated having to retreat but it was necessary. She would return and help take back the Kingdom one day. She then was shocked when an explosion decimated the Grand Palace. She shook her head and willed herself to move forward.


God with the music, I feel like I should have added end credits and the phrase "TO BE CONTINUED..."
> Daring Dash Finale Part 1: Putting the Pieces in Place
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Ok guys here's the deal. School happens five days from now and you'll be lucky to receive another chapter by then. I want to say some of the things that went into this chapter are risky and I'm throwing myself out there doing this. I REALLY WANT FEEDBACK. I may change things in the chapter accordingly. I know I'm procrastinating with the OC's but I'm looking for the correct place to introduce them with out detracting from the story. Anyways, I wrote this while being a little burned out creatively so please keep that in mind. To be honest, I'm scared to publish this.

Putting the Pieces in Place


The two racers had set up there terms and were lined up at the starting line. The two were to race around the edge of the city then over the river and back to the tarmack for three laps. The racers grinned at each other and looked ahead again. Somehow they have gained a small crowd and the humans and ponies were placing bets. Most bets were on Rainbow Dash.

A human with two red flags walked out. She held them up and the crowd went silent. It felt like minutes before she brought them down and the two racers took off like lightning. Rainbow Dash had gained an early lead but was being tailed closely by Protrokalos. She stayed in front of him to keep him from passing ahead. Protrokalos jinked right and then performed a barrel roll gaining the lead.

"Oh no you don't!" Rainbow Dash pushed herself faster and the two were tied maneuvering between the buildings. They flew dangerously close to a helicopter but evaded and continued on their way. As the two neared the edge of the inside of the mountain they both veered right at break neck speeds, neither giving the other and inch. They rounded the edge of the mountain and started to fly over the river and went over and under the bridges that lined it. Rainbow looked back at Protrokalos who was still directly behind her. She smirked and speed up even faster. She looked forward and evaded a pole she hadn't been paying attention to. When she looked back again he was gone. She looked in front of her once again and Protrokalos was flying upside down with his arms crossed directly in front of her. He had a smirk on his face.

She was messing with him before but she knew now she needed to up the ante. She gave a powerful flap of her wings and she thrust herself forward and once again gained the lead. They made it to the end of the river and the two jinked left and flew back to the tarmack. The crowd cheered as the flew over leaving a gust of wind in their wake. Once again they were flying over downtown and were swerving between buildings. Protrokalos had been keeping up with her the entire time and she was getting annoyed. She tilted her self slightly upward to gain altitude while maintaining her lead. Protrokalos stayed at a medium height of two thousand feet while Dash was still gaining. When the two went to over the river again she dived at forty-five degrees steadily gaining while a cone was forming around her body. She was getting faster and faster and then suddenly the cone elongated and then broke, exploding in to a brilliant rainbow. She streaked down and leveled herself out over the river. As she flew over the river, water was being kicked up obscuring Protrokalos's vision but he continued to fly through the water following the rainbow the Dash left. Then suddenly she veered left and Protrokalos's reaction time was not fast enough to react before he slammed into the wall. He quickly recovered and shot after her. He started to gain on her, slowly but surely. 

Rainbow Dash left a rainbow over the tarmack and it was being closely followed by a furiously determined Protrokalos who vowed not to lose. He started to gain more and more speed and his wings started to glow bright. Then he noticed that he had a cone of his own forming around his body and he smiled. The rainbow trail had since ceased but the pegasus who created it was still flying strong. Protrokalos jinked right to follow the wall of the mountain and lost his speed. He cursed at himself but kept flying as fast as his wings could carry him. He flew over the river again dangerously close to the water and was fifty feet behind Rainbow and was still gaining. He flew up over a bridge when suddenly a white alicorn came out of nowhere and flared her wings in front of him. He immediately stopped to avoid crashing into alicorn. The alicorn which he knew as Princess Celestia. 

"You will not hurt my subjects!" she said with anger in her voice. The Princess charged her horn and fired a beam of light at Protrokalos before he could say anything. He had enough time to deflect the beam with his wrists and then he let them down in front of a gobsmacked Princess. "What are you?"

Protrokalos smirked because he had the perfect opportunity to say a line from a classic cartoon. If Discord would have understood the quote he would have clapped at its randomness. "I'm a Super Saiyan."







Lyra and I were at a club in lower Bronklyn. I wasn't much for clubbing and I couldn't say I've actually been to a club. I sat at the bar while the flashing lights constantly reminded me of where I was. I felt out of place like I usually would at a party but this time it was because of the fact that I'm human. I tried a some hard cider. Sure I wasn't twenty-one but who gives a damn? After the past couple of days I think I earned my right to drink. I was going pretty hard on the stuff. I was trying not to be a bummer but hell. I was on my fourth mug of it and I'm surprised that I was feeling the stuff. Fan-fiction dictated that hard cider didn't pack a punch but fan-fiction was so wrong. I wasn't drunk but I was getting there.

The bartender looked over at the sad piece of shit that was me. "You know drinking isn't going to solve your problems."

"Hell I know that but I don't give a damn though. I just want to numb everything."

"Well its not going to help if you try and drink away your problems instead of facing them."

"Ugh. I don't care right now. I need another one." The bartender filled another mug full of cider and slid it across the counter to me. I took a swig and looked at my reflection in the cider.

"I think you should lay off the stuff. Judging by your size you look like you have you'd have a tolerance for it but your not fooling me. I know a light weight when I see one."

"Well I'll be honest with you. Where I'm from the legal drinking age is twenty-one. I happen to be only sixteen but I really don't care. I've earned my right."

"That's the same as it is here but I'm not going to stop you. It may be illegal but I've seen many souls and you look like you've experienced much more in you time than most ponies would in their entire lives. I still think you should stop but who am I to stop you?"

I looked over to the blue earthpony stallion behind the counter and smiled. It was actually pretty irresponsible for him doing that but I had to thank him. I then thought about what he said. "You know what? Maybe your right. I have been going pretty hard on the cider." I then wondered how the hell he managed to change my mind when he said he wouldn't stop me but I dismissed the thought and looked back down at the cider.

"You look like a stallion who has a lot on his mind."

"You can say that again."

"I'll get straight to the point. In all the time I've spent behind the counter I've found the best way to deal with problems is to talk about them rather than drowning them in cider."

"True, but I've been through hell and back. I'd rather not burden anyb-... anypony else with my problems."

"All you have to do is talk. All you have to do is tell a story. I don't think a story can really be a burden. Trust me when I say that I've heard my fair share."

"My story, huh? Well, its a long one. And there is a lot of things that you wouldn't even believe."

"I've got time to spare and I've heard it all. Surely it couldn't be that wacky except for the fact you come from some other planet."

"So you've heard of me?"

"Of course. You are the human who helped win the The Battle of Ponyville."

"I only helped save a baby dragon to send a letter to the Princess. After that I only coordinated a few troop movements here and there. It was really Celestia who is the hero."

"Kid, you selling yourself short. I may not have been there but I can say that you are definitely a hero. Look at us going off topic. Anyways your story couldn't be that wacky."

"You honestly have no idea. Are you sure you want to hear this?"

"Hit me."

"Alright then. It all started with an invasion..."

I told the stallion my story over the next two hours leaving nothing out. It honestly felt a little nice to vent. When I explained MLP to the stallion and for some odd reason he wasn't shocked by it. "...After I had my chat with Luna, I went and took Lyra out to dinner to help keep her mind off Bon-Bon. I seems like I'm helping cheer her up because she seems happy but she could just be hiding her sorrow. The next two days nothing really important happened. We went to a couple of places and did a few things. Anyways, here I am now. A teenage Colonel telling a complete stranger his life story."

He had a hoof to his chin in deep thought. "Hmm, I have a question. What about Lyra? Didn't she come here with you?"

"Yeah she did, but I don't really do much partying. I insisted for her to go enjoy herself and not sit with me because of my problems. Besides she came with and old friend of hers she should be fine."

"It sounds to me like you didn't want her to see you down."

"Yeah basically."

"You don't like having to be the strong one but you seem doing it for her. Is she that special to you?"

My mind shut down for a brief moment in time. "Well yeah sure she is. I'm just being a good friend by being there for her. I can't stand to see somepony else hurt when I can hurt for them." I say. My mind was currently at war with itself. I never had thought about Lyra being more than a friend but a lot of my recent actions started to make sense.

The bartender smiled knowingly. "Don't lie to yourself."

"Nonononono. I mean sure I care for her but as a friend. She's probably a couple of years older than me and besides I'm a human, she's a pony. It could never work."

"Love has a funny way of finding ways to work."

"Whoa hold on now. I think its a little early to be calling it love."

"I could see it in your eyes when you talked about her."

"Look it couldn't possibly be love. I only met her about a week ago."

"I can't argue with the facts. I've been doing this for years now and I can see it. You my friend, are in love."

I sighed and mulled over the possibility. "So, maybe I am... but I couldn't. It would be too soon. She lost Bon-Bon not even two weeks ago."

"My friend, I'll tell you from experience that sometimes when a pony has lost someone dear to them, all they want is for somepony to hold them. Lyra is no exception. She may not look like it but she is probably feeling lonely at night wishing for somepony to be there. I know it'll take time for her to truly get over it but at least she'd have somepony to be there for her. Somepony like you would fit the bill perfectly."

"Are you telling me I should ask her out now?"

"Not now but soon. Maybe not even that. Just confess your feelings to her. At least if she initially rejects you she knows she has the option to come back."

"No. I couldn't do it. I wouldn't want to hurt her."

"I can respect that. I do think you should give it a shot though. Telling from your story, you both have be through tartarus and back. You said yourself she won't leave your side in public. You make her feel safe. Isn't that what you want?"

"You are being a very successful word magician you know?" I say shaking my head.

The pony shrugged. "I try."

"Tell me, I know you're pulling the wise bartender gag but why are you giving me of all peo-... ponies advice?"

"Simple. You needed it so I gave it."

I sighed and looked at the ponies on the dance floor. "Huh, I underestimated the kindness of this world."

"It has nothing to do with kindness. Its just what friends do."

"Friendship is magic." I said with a light laugh.

"You know you should probably go find her."

"Naw I'm sure she's enjoying herself. Coming to the club was her idea anyways." I look back to see if I can spot Lyra over the crowd. I had no such luck though. "You seriously do the bartender gag too well."

The bartender smiled. "Years of practice. I've been doing this for a long time so I've made it into a form of science." Meanwhile in Ponyville, Twilight raised her head.

"Eh, I guess I'll look for her to make sure she's ok."

The bartender looked past me and frowned. "No, I don't think you need to go find her." I look back and sure enough Lyra was making her was trough the crowd towards the bar. I was going to look away but I noticed there were tears streaming down her face. I looked back to the bartender who nodded once in the affirmative. I got up and rushed to Lyra.

I knelt in front of her to get to he eye level. "Lyra, what's wrong?" Lyra didn't say anything and had instead hugged me tight and cried into my chest. I hugged her back and puled her close. She hasn't wept like this since the funeral for as far as I know. "It's ok Lyra, I'm here. I'm here." I say softly into her ear as she continued to cry her heart out.







The Royalist forces had decided it best to take refuge in the middle of the country rather that near its borders. The threat of being attacked by the Rebels was too great. Gilda had suggested Ponyville which was basically in the center of Equestria. The Rebels wouldn't dare attack them this far into the country... yet. The flight to Ponyville was slowed because they had to carry there weapons and supplies by talon. There was a total of two thousand griffons in the particular group that were nearing the town of Ponyville. They as flew, they were met by an unfamiliar sight. Flying machines and strange creatures working with the ponies.







Celestia was starring directly at Protrokalos with genuine shock. "AAWWW YEAH!! I broke the royal poker face of Princess Celestia! Huzzah, how many points do I receive?!"

Celestia then adopted another face, this one being of utter confusion. Celestia looked at the winged human before her trying to figure out what to make of it. Protrokalos noticed and decided to enjoys the heck out of this. "I'm sorry Princess that was a joke. Now with all seriousness, you are trespassing on sovereign lands and I will ask you once to leave with that blasted pegasus who blew past my guards." Celestia face contorted with many too many feelings to single one out at this point. Protrokalos tried his best to not laugh at the Princess's facial expression but couldn't resist and doubled over in fit of laughter. "OH MY GOD!!! You should have seen the look on your face! It was priceless!"

Celestia then raised an unamused brow. "You will stop your laughter at once. I want to know whether you are joking or not because I don't have the luxury of time at the moment."

Protrokalos took about ten seconds to recover but then had a friendly expression on his face. "I'm Protrokalos Morrow, it is an honor to met you Princess Celestia. Now you seem to be lost. What brings you here to Valhalla?"

"Valhalla?"

"The city were in."

"I've gathered as much. Now I'm here for the pegasus you were chasing."

"Rainbow Dash? Yeah, sorry if I gave you the wrong idea. I was actually racing he-... sonuvabitch!" the winged human yelled and suddenly shot off leaving a confused Princess behind.

The princess flew after him but the sun goddess was nowhere near as fast. Protrokalos flew towards the tall building that had been Celestia's original destination in the first place. She needed to get back to Equestria quickly but first she needed to figure out what's going on in this strange place and who this place even came to be.







Lyra held me sobbing like a foal. I wondered what could have caused her to go from one extreme to the other. From being so happy, so full of life, to being reduced to this. I hated it when she cried. "Lyra you need to tell me why you're upset." I say as softly as I can. The music was starting to get louder and would soon drown out. I look over to the bar and again the bartender nodded. I was stroking Lyra's mane and she looked up to me with tear filled eyes. I smiled at her. "Come on, lets go outside."

We walk outside and across the street to a horribly placed park which was between to brick buildings and was bordered by a major street on both sides. Lyra had stopped crying and we sat at a bench and she hugged me again.

"Lyra, listen to me. I can't help you if you don't tell me what's wrong." I say softly. "Now what's the matter?"

"I.. I was with Octavia and we had a few drinks. She apparently had a mare friend that worked as the DJ. I mean I sound like a foal saying this but when I saw them together, they just looked so happy and I felt so alone- " 

I hugged her and whispered into her ear. "Listen, I'm going to tell you once. As long as I'm here, you will never be alone, ever."  I broke the hug and looked at her only to freeze up in fear at what I would her next.

I looked around confusedly until I realized what the sound was. I gripped the pistol at my side and I looked down to Lyra and gave her a sad smile realizing the hell that was going to come.







Ending theme.

Star Swirl the Bearded clutched his chest as he felt what could only be described as a disturbance in the force. He had always been able to tell when Equestria was in great peril. He hadn't felt this way since the return of Discord. The old pony then noticed his vision began to swim and waited for the images to flash before his eyes. When they came he was absolutely horrified. New Yoke was burning, screams of the citizens playing over and over in his head. He came out of the premonition in a cold sweat and was gasping for air. He then thought about what he just saw.

Wait, that's impossible! The first battle was supposed to happen until five days from now... unless... something changed the future! No matter! I need to find a way to aid them quickly because they are going to need it.

"Sir, are you ok?!" asked a concerned human.

"I'm fine." he said while getting up. "I'm just concerned that Equestria is in dire need of assistance." Star Swirl then saw none other than Princess Celestia flying onto the tarmack. He then had an idea and smiled. "And assistance I might be able to give after all."

Celestia walked up and looked at Star Swirl. His eyes met her piercing gaze and he smiled. "I can honestly say I've missed that look, Celestia."

Celestia's eyes widened. "Wait... you couldn't be..."

"My, my, it has been a while hasn't it old friend?"
> The Siege of New Yoke: Assuming Command
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Ok, for those of you who don't know... School has been absolute hell. I work on homework for at least 4 hours a day. So expect sparse updates and filler chapters. I'm still typing part two of the Daring Dash finale and it will take a while because I want at least 5k words. Anyways, I'm done my head hurts. This is raw and unedited but you can bite me. I have many idea's for Equestrian tech and possibly my next story arc. I'm discombobulated... look at me rambling on. I'll just blog post a few future plans.

Until next time,

Tie RoamingHooves.








The Siege of New Yoke

New Yoke City
Bronklyn Express Tunnel
July 18, 1543PH (2013)

Lyra and I made had joined up with a group of civilians along the way through the city. We were navigating through the subway system under New Yoke. I was in front and had my AR raised pointing straight ahead as we approached a station. I signaled for the group to stop as I continued forward when I heard voices. An explosion from the surface rattled the tunnel covering me with a bit of dust as I crept up along the wall and looked atop the paltform. I had expected griffons but was relieved to see friendly faces for once. 

Civilians were being ushered in by armored ponies as the sounds of battle flowed in from the entrance. I waved my hand and the ponies behind me came to the platform. I had startled the soldiers at first but they then recognized me and gave a salute. I didn't return the formality as I lifted up Lyra and put her platform and a few soldier came to aid me in getting the rest of the ponies off the tracks.

We get the rest of the collective onto the  platform and I start walking. "Colonel, sir!" a mare said from behind me. I turn around and find that an red unicorn mare clad in armor saluting.

"At ease." I say through clenched teeth. The saluting was getting extreamly annoying. "Who is your CO?"

"Your speaking to her. I'm Major Arrowhead."

"Well Major, what the hell is happening up there? I've been in the this tunnel for god knows how long. I'm sure the situation has changed by now." I look around at the ponies being led down the stairs

"Griffon airships have arrived and are bombing the city. We have some anti-air but we didn't expect a fleet. If things keep going the way the are, we could lose New Yoke. On top of that, with mountains to our west, the city is surrounded. We can't evacuate the civilians."

"I'm not exactly familiar with Equestrian tech but don't you have any airships?"

"Yes but most are not fitted for battle. The few that are would be docked in Canterlot."

"We need to contact Canterlot then."

"We sent out our fastest messengers to Canterlot and Trottington. Even so, it will take a day for the message to get to Trottington and two days to Canterlot. Those are in good conditions and as you can see, these are not."

"So were on our own then?"

"For now, yes." 

The tunnel shook and the lights flickered. I look over to the entrance and decide to step out to get a look at the situation. "Excuse me Major." I walk through the crowd of civilians and up the stairs. I reached the stop and my eyes got a view of the city. The city burned and smoke rose against the orange sky. Ash fell as panic-stricken ponies fled into the subway. Airships were over the city dropping explosives while they were being pelted by red beams of light that shot into the air. Once again, I have been reminded of Earth.

There was then a thunderous sound as an airship streaked over head leaving a trail of fire before crashing into the harbor. I watched it sink into the waves and rubbed my face. I look at the ponies and gave a sad sigh. I honestly didn't know what to do, although there was only one thing to do.







I was brought into a makeshift command center in the station office where maps were tacked sloppily to the walls and placed on tables. Ponies stood around a single map which dominated the center table. Upon closer inspection the map was revealed to be enchanted if I guessed correctly. It was displaying various troop movements and positions as well as the many lines that were being held around the city. But it also displayed enemy movements and positions as well and the entire thing looked to be "updating" for lack of a better word. The lines shifted and the positions of what I guessed were airships were constantly moving or disappearing from the map signaling that they were destroyed. I looked down at the map and noticed there were several large groups green on different parts of the map.

The largest contingent was held up in the industrial district. It had a caption thus identifying them as 3rd Battalion. Another large group was cut off near the business district in upper Manehatten. It seemed that the Griffon air support was tearing this group a new one. Several other large groups were spread out around the city but most were located on the west side of the harbor which was indefinitely under Equestrian control as of now. We had some territory on the east side of the harbor and well into downtown. Another battalion was holed up in the Bronx, cut off from the rest of our forces and were several miles into enemy lines. Other than that we had lost a considerable amount of the city and lines were threatening to collapse to the north of Stable Avenue.

I then look up and away from the map to meet the collective gaze of a room-full of officers. They were looking at me in silence and some were wary of me being double their height while others had mixture of hope and determination in there eyes.

"I know what you've heard of me, but don't expect me to have a brilliant plan to save the day. I swear it was a fluke and only as such. Just continue what you were doing." I say backing away from the table much to the disappointment of the commanders. I sighed because despite the fact that I was lucky the first time, I knew the ponies were dependent on me right now. I had to do this. I look up and the commanders were looking at me, hoping I would do something. "Alright, fill me in on the details and I'll see what I can come up with. If I'm doing something that is "wrong", let me know because I'm not used to leading armies on a daily basis despite what you would think."

The officers started to fill me in on troop numbers, distribution, and the works. We a grand total of 10,000 defending. Within those are about 5,000 pegasi, 3,500 unicorns, and 1,500 earthponies. We control everything to the west of the harbor and have our front lines about three miles inland on the east side. AA (Anti Airship) batteries from what I was told are just heavily enchanted gems which discharge potent beams of concentrated magic when focused through an equally heavily enchanted firing tube. AA batteries were concentrated around the harbor making it nearly impossible for airships to penetrate that far into our territory.

Griffon troops were staged mainly in the outskirts of downtown. The decided to stay on their lines for some odd reason which is a grave mistake. "Tell me Lieutenant," I say to the black pegasus next to me. "Is it possible to discharge the gems used in the AA batteries alone?" Everypony in the room was quiet when I spoke.

"Yes but they would just discharge outward instead of directionally."

"Major grab me a map of the subway tunnels running from Stable Avenue to Canter Street. Lieutenant, how powerful would the blast of a single gem would be?" The Major levitated a map over to the table.

"I'm not sure," he started. His face then lit up and he caught on. "I do know that six of them going off at once is enough to take out a city block."

At this point everypony else in the room caught on to my plan and started contributing. Messengers were sent to rally any volunteers for this mission. The plan is relatively simple. Take AA gems through the subway and underneath their lines. Detonate them a little ways back behind them to kill as many as possible and confuse the rest. Afterwards the forces topside will charge in and kill and take back as much ground as possible before the Griffons can react effectively. If this works we could get closer to the Bronx and possibly rescue the troops stranded there.

As the officers are talking amongst themselves, I stare at the map. With a mountain to the west and open sea to the north, the only ways out of the city were south and east. The only way we'd get out was to fight a force with superior numbers and training. This of course, was not an option. What we need right now is luck. Dumb luck and time.



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> Daring Dash Finale Part 2: Of the Many Impossible Possiblities
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I used a PlayStation to type this motherfucker. I live with a friend now and he's being a "troll" by not letting me use his computer. I'm stuck with a piece of shit PlayStation so I apologize for any inconveniences with grammars or spellings. I WILL NOT use a PlayStation to write again. EVAR! It was a pain in the ass. I would have said fuck it but I love you all and your hilarious comments (You know who you are). Here take this and have a nice day. By the way, No I am not dead. There has to be a Part 3 so yup. Heavy: Cry sum moar!



Tyler was sitting at a table in the newly constructed suburb of Ponyville know as Humanville. It sat on a hill and had a perfect view of the town and airfield which has grown in the past three days. With the combined effort of magic and human construction, the airfield as grown into a base which has been renamed Fort Independence.

After serious negotiations between humans and the Princesses, they had struck a deal. The land that the base sits on as well as a few square miles of land behind it would be given to them to do as they please. They would also be provided food, metal and funding for any project they wish to pursue, with approval of the princess of course. Tyler didn't know much else about the details of the humans side of this.

However, in turn for this, the humans are allowed to stay in Equestria indefinitely but when war looms they are to fight alongside Equestria. Also the humans are to aid a team of Equestrian scientists in replicating some of their technology. The humans reluctantly agree some of this. Any attempt to replicate vehicles or any kind of explosive ordinance would be the ponies problem. The last part of this deal is that no harm is to be brought onto any of her subjects unless in self-defense or with probable cause. Once again, the rest of the details elude him.

As far as he new, the ponies have already replicated short and long range radio coms as well short range radar. The current project is to make pony operable firearms. These would only be supplied to armed forces and police.

Tyler looked over at the view of Ponyville and sighed. Jake was sitting over under the shade of a tree cleaning his rifle. Tyler then had an epiphany. "I'm bored!" he whined to Jake.

"Well what do you want me to do about it?"

"I don't know."

"Why don't you keep it to yourself then?"

"Because I wanted to let you know."

Jake sighed. "You know what? I don't even care." He turned back towards his rifle only to find a pink pony playing with the scope. "Hey! Don't touch that!" Jake rubbed his eyes and was staring at the pony who only looked back. They were both equally confused. "How did you get here?"

"I... don't really know." The mare put a hoof to her chin which prompted Jake to bring his palm to his forehead.

"Hi Pinkie! When did you get here?" Tyler asked happily.

"Just now. So what you up to?"

"Nothing much. Just a bunch of sitting around being bored."

"Well that stinks. We need to fix that. You want to head down to Sugarcube Corner and grab a cupcake?

"Sure thing. Jake you want to come?"

"Of course I don't want to come."

Pinkie Pie opened her mouth to say something but was silenced by Tyler. "I think its best if we leave him be for now."

"What gave you the hint?"

Pinkie had opened her mouth to answer the question but was stopped by Tyler's hand. He shot her a look that said lets go and she nodded and trotted towards town.







Sergeant Williams was walking his patrol route with the four lackys assigned to him. They were fresh from the coast and the only combat they've seen was against the challenges of boot camp. It annoyed the hell out of him too say the least. They completely lost any and all sense of how to act since they arrived in this world of magical ponies. He honestly didn't know what irked him more; the fact that he had lead group of four year-old's with guns, or that this world seemed to suck the masculinity out of everything in sight.

The Sergeant froze for a second when he saw that damned curly-curly haired pink pony walking with one of the teenage resistance fighter that ended up here too. That pony pissed him off more than anything in this world or his ever could. He wasn't the only one who shared this sentiment. Even though it has been made clear to everypony in the town that the base is off limits to civilians, that pony does the opposite. Not only does she get inside the base, this damned pony somehow manages to evade every patrol assigned to keep curious ponies out and ends up popping out of containers much smaller than herself. It has gotten to the point where a squad has been specifically assigned with the duty of preventing her from getting in and removing her if she does.

Her reputation is known to everyone. Especially those who have been on the receiving end of her antics. Just yesterday Williams had been stocking up on ammo. While he reached down to grab another clip for his M-16, she appeared out of  cardboard box on top of a shelf that was next to him. This box was big enough to be put in a microwave. She had just kicked physics and every bit of logic in the face, drenched it in gasoline, lit it on fire, and threw it into the sun for good measure. She then managed to stretch her hoof down to him and shove a cupcake into his mouth smearing frosting on his face, all the while her lower half remained in said box. She then smiled in his face and receded into the box of which she came leaving behind a group of confused marines and one pissed off Sergeant. This was not the first time this happened.

He stopped leaving about ten feet between him and this pony. If he were any closer, he would beat the living hell out of that pink monstrosity. Even now he is fighting the urge to raise his rifle and shoot her in the legs, and then proceed to beat the living shit out of this pony.

It pissed him off even more that no matter what this pony did, she wasn't to be harmed in any way. You would think that she'd be imprisoned but nope, according to the Princess she was only to be removed and nothing more. There was nothing he could do so he just waited for the human-pony duo to pass before he continued on his way. The other soldiers followed, confused as to why he stopped.







Tyler noticed the death glare Pinkie was receiving from a nearby soldier and smiled. He new how much people hated her getting into things. When ever anyone questions how and why Pinkie Pie does what she does, they are quickly told "Its just Pinkie, being Pinkie" and to expect it. Although, some of the soldiers in the squad that had been assigned to keep her out enjoyed the challenge of finding new ways to keep her out. Nothing they've tried has worked yet.

As soon as the they were out of range of the daggers coming out of the soldiers eyes Tyler started up a conversation. "You know a lot of people don't like it when you go inside of the base right?"

"Yes, I know. All I'm trying to do is get them to smile. It works sometimes but not every time." she said in deep thought. Pinkie shrugged. "Meh, tough crowd. It just means I need to try harder."

"I want to ask how you manage to do that but I'm afraid of the answer."

"How I do what?" she asks innocently.

"You know... how you get into places smaller then yourself or manage to appear out of nowhere."

"Oh that! You know what...," she began. Pinkie looked at him and was accessing everything about him. She walked back in fourth and nods while adding wise sounding "mhm" and muttering under her breath. Tyler was starting to get nervous. "I usually play dumb and tell everypony I don't know but... you're different. I can't put my hoof on it but you seem to be made of the right kind of stuff."

"Uhhh... what kind of stuff?"

Pinkie turned around and started counting everything, keeping track with her hooves. "Fun stuff, smart stuff, partying kind of stuff, stuff that makes things into smaller kinds of things. You know."

"What exactly is... stuff?" Tyler was beyond worried. He was being examined by Pinkie Pie and didn't know why. The things that could happen or explode twice were endless. Tyler was officially freaking out.

"Stuff is stuff, everypony knows that. Its this kind of stuff that means you get to learn about this kind of stuffidy stuff. Tyler, you asked how I do what I do, and since you seem like you have the stuff, I'm going to teach you how."

"Uh... um... OK?"

Pinkie smiled and turned towards the town. "Great! Now come on. We need some things before we start."

"Things like what?"

"Well first things first. Just to start we're going to need 30 maracas, three pounds of glue, half of a green crayon, tape, some wood, an eye patch, and a rubber band. The rubber band is very important. Don't forget that." Pinkie said as if it made sense.

"What is the rubber band for?" he asked. If he was going to do this, at least one thing needed to make sense.

"The rubber band is to play with silly!"

Tyler blinked. Pinkie Pie started to walk away and Tyler followed. "That... makes sense?"

"Great! Your starting to learn!" the party pony exclaimed and threw confetti in his face, which she had acquired from nothing. "Well I guess I can start teaching you some things now."

"Ok." Tyler said. Behind his head was a metaphoric trail of smoke coming from both of his ears. This was accompanied by the sound of the gears in Tyler's head grinding and stalling.

"What do you know about physics?" she asked seriously.

"Well-"

"Let me stop you there. If you about to start with something about gravity then you have it all wrong."

"..."

"What if I told you that everything you know is a lie?"

Tyler stopped and his head snapped toward Pinkie. His expression was one of complete and utter shock. "How... H-how do you know that meme?"

"I let you in on a secret." Tyler kneeled down to listen. Pinkie Pie whispered into his ear the following phrase: "On the fourth wall of every room, there is a window."

The HMS Tyler's Mind has hit an iceberg. It capsized and sank killing hundreds of know logic.







The Princess of the sun was dumfounded again as she has been many times already today. Standing before her was a pony which she thought was long dead. A pony she was proud to call a life long friend. The wheels in her head began turning and she managed to speak. "But... this is impossible."

A very much alive Star Swirl the Bearded chuckled. "I remember telling you the exact same thing Celestia."

The alicorn remembered back to when she had taken him deep within the caves below the castle. He was still training in art of magic.

"I never knew these caves even existed. The gems here are amazing." Princess Celestia and Star Swirl walked through the dark caves under Canterlot. The blue tinted, rocky cave walls were lined with gems that appealed to the eyes with the a reflective and cloudy red coloration to each. They ventured ever deeper into the tunnels that seemed endlessly long.

"Many ponies have forgotten of these caverns and how far they extend. And yes the gems here are quite amazing. Knowing you, I'm guessing that you have many questions."

"Of course not."

Celestia smiled. "I can see it on your face, Star Swirl."

"Well... yes, I do but are you sure I should ask? You seem a bit more, um... serious, for lack of a better word."

"Its always ok to ask questions. I have told you this."

"Really?"

"Yes. Ask away."

"What are we doing here!?" he blurted out suddenly and blushed in embarrassment at his rudeness. "I mean... we never finished the lesson."

"This in fact, is part of your lesson Star. For this I'd like to tell you a story that less than a dozen or so souls have heard or know. Would you like to hear it?"

"Yes, Princess."

Celestia stopped in front when the tunnel opened up into a natural chamber. Stalagmites hung from the ceiling at least a hundred or so feet above them. On the far wall of the cave, a completely different type of rock was fused seamlessly into the natural rock that composed the cave entirely and contrasted from the natural feeling of the rest of the cavern. 

"Long ago my mother, Queen Nova, used to take me through these very caves." she began with a heavy heart. "She had carved them with her powerful magic around twenty-thousand years ago. This place served as a sanctuary for her to get away from the stresses of ruling an empire."

"This empire covered most of the world and she ruled not only ponies, but almost all sentient species on the planet with a few exceptions. But everyone under her rule was happy and she would strive to keep it this way. It was burden that was hers and hers alone. When she was given a chance to come here she took it."

Celestia's horn glowed and the wall just to their left opened up. It led down to a massive chamber that resemble greatly to the surface. It was a grass covered meadow that sported its own forest in the the distance. There was a river not too far from them that glistened in the artificial sun. At this Star Swirl's jaw dropped. This luminescent ball of light that was made completely of magic. It glowed orange and which made the enclose sky appear to be in an eternal sunset. Surprisingly there seemed to be wildlife as he saw birds flying about the plains.

"Luna and I would sit on this very ledge and listen to her sing. These songs were lively and filled with so much life but were impossibly sad at the same time. Mortal ponies lucky enough to hear her would have her melody etched into there soul but could never sing it themselves or play it with instruments of any kind."

"This very place where she had sought to ease her stress had been the very place where evil decided to spawn. This place brought Discord into this world. When he first appeared he brought with him his army of chaos and plunged the world into anarchy for seven years. Nova had put Luna and I in a magical sleep to wait out the war between herself and Discord to make sure nothing was to happen to us." Star Swirl and Celestia reached a large tree on the edge of the river. This tree was much larger than a tree had any right to be. I towered over the two of them as the reached the base.

"In this very place the final battle between the two had taken place. Discord had beaten her back to the point of defeat and as a last resort she had the power she had stored in her regala to imprison him inside of this tree. Even with all of this power she was failing to do so and started to pour her life force into it. Nova's regala broke and she forced to use what little life she had left to finish the seal."

"Unfortunately even with all of the power she had, this seal only accomplished in sealing the mind that made Discord truly evil. The most evil and dark parts of Discord's mind lie within this tree." She walked up to the tree and gently laid a hoof on it.

"What about you and Luna?" Star Swirl said while still digesting the information.

"Well, without Nova to wake us herself we remained hidden away in the forest just out there. Nopony knew to look for us as they had thought we perished along with our mother. Ponies lived without us for thousands of years and when the magic wore off we awoke. We rose from the caves and the rest is history."

"So why are you telling me this?"

Celestia smiled sadly. "Well to honest, the story of what happened has little to do with what I specifically brought you down here to do. But I do want you to know so you can respect the complex magic here a bit more. Go ahead and touch the seal with your magic. Its perfectly safe."

"Ok then..." Star Swirl said as he hesitantly prepared. "Here I go." His horn glowed as his magic brushed against the seal. Celestia watched him visibly shudder at the immense power put into it. A few different emotions went over his face as he felt the magic. As Celestia and Luna had before him, Star Swirl was feeling Nova's melody which was intertwined in the magic. "But... this is impossible..." he stammered.

"How so?"

"I heard it. I heard the music." he said softly. His voice also carried a bit of awe and simultaneous regret. "I... can't describe what I heard. I understood what you said about it"

"Yes."

"Impossible." he said again. Celestia raised an eyebrow which prompted him to continue. "First of all, you've had me try and break your best seal but your work is basic levitation compared to this. Further more, I can only imagine the amount of magic she wielded to imprison him with this much being put into the seal alone. Secondly, music can't be put into a seal. This is kicking everything I've learned in the chest."

Celestia sighed. "You greatly underestimate the power Discord possessed in those days. Succeeding in what she had attempted was a miracle in that of itself. Nova was far more powerful than I could ever dream to be. As for the music, she had poured her life force into this in its entirety. The melody she sang was part of herself. You've heard it too and know this song makes anypony feel so many conflicting emotions."

"She was the creator and composer of this song. All music whether sang or played have origins. You are smarter than this, Star Swirl. You need to think. This song tells of her life, however long it may have been. Nopony could ever live as long as she had and the history of her life would be lost to all but her as time progresses. Whether she did this purposefully or not, she left this as her legacy. Nova, like all living things, wanted to be remembered. The only trace of her ever living would be this very melody you hear. And with all the power she held during her last moments, one of her greatest wishes became a reality. She left her mark on this world in the form of a song. This is how she made the impossible, possible."

"Her other wish was for myself, Luna, and for all living things on the planet to be safe. She wanted for us to be safe and have a defense against evil should it rise again. You know the legend of Nightmare Moon. You know how I used the Elements of Harmony to banish my sister. But do you know where the elements came from?" Star Swirl shook his head. "The very regala that Nova wore and used to imprison Discord was left for us to defend life from evil. Another part to her legacy."

Star Swirl continued to soak in the information but wore a small look of confusion. "I see you are lost as to where I'm heading with this. Here's my point. I am telling you this to show you that with magic, some things considered impossible happen to very well be possible. One should strive to do something if they believe it will work. I see so much potential in you that others fail to comprehend. What is deemed impossible should be tested constantly rather than be a limit to what one does. You see so much as "impossible" that you lack a view what something would mean to the world if proven wrong."

Star Swirl took a nervous step backwards. "What are you asking me to do?"

"I'll answer your question with a question. Why would I take on a student, of  whom many thought it to be impossible for him to even perform magic? The answer to that is simple." Celestia leveled her eyes with his and adopted a serious tone. "Those in history that have done the impossible live as a beacon for those to follow... and sometimes those who have yet to do the impossible need somepony to believe in them. You will do great things in your future, Star Swirl, and many will follow in your hoofsteps."

Celestia raised her head and looked to the small orange sun. She smiled and looked to the forest before returning her gaze to the pony before her. "This is the end of your final lesson and is where I bid you farewell." Celestia's horn glowed Star Swirl found himself alone in his study atop one of the castles tallest spires. "One day, you may tell me the very same thing I've told you today. If that day ever comes." the disembodied voice of Celestia said cryptically.

Celestia chuckled at the memory and smiled at Star Swirl the Bearded. "I guess you have. Its been far too long old friend."

"Indeed it has. I would really like to catch up but there are more pressing matters that need to be addressed." Star Swirl's horn glowed as used his magic to power the memory spell. Celestia was given every bit of information on Valhalla, and the coming war. However, Star Swirl left out information of Rainbow Dash's reasons of being here and the now alive Scootaloo.

"I'm sorry for that but it was purely for the sake of time."

"I feared this was going to happen." Celestia said with a heavy sigh. In all reality she had expected it to some degree.

"This is where I say I have a proposition for you. The people and ponies both are more than willing to fight for the sake of Equestria. We however have been marooned here in this mountain due to the altitude and weather. Technology does have limits. I am not nearly powerful enough to stall the weather but I think you can tell where this is going.

For the first time in a while, Celestia genuinely smiled. "I see your already putting me to work. Straight to the point as always. Some things never change."

"Well you can't blame me for wanting to help. We should really get started with this though. It will take at least acouple of days to move equipment and everyone else."

"I suppose so." Celestia unfurled her wings and prepared to take off. "Also one more thing Star Swirl."

"Yes?"

"Tell Protrokalos to keep his trolling to a minimum. That is my domain and he has a lot to learn before he can compete." There was a pause before Celestia conjured a long yellow piece of fruit and levitated it to Star. "Give him this. I have a feeling he'll know what it means."

With that, Celestia flew off leaving Star Swirl the Bearded with a single banana. He shook his head and levitated the banana off the ground. Star Swirl trotted away to begin preparations for the move. He hoped he will run into Protrokalos because he is going to look a little stupid carrying a banana around for no apparent reason.







"So you mean to tell me, that that thing can do a sonic rainboom?" Swift Wing said skeptically to the tank gunner next to him. Jackson and the laid back pegasus next to one of the many discarded crates that sat on the edged of the pavement and the grass. The spot had an excellent view of the hangers of human base.

"It can do a sonicboom if that's what you mean. So yep, sure can."

"I'll believe it when I see it. I doubt those things could even make it in the air being made of metal and all. That reminds me, I haven't seen those things even move let alone fly."

"Well, I'm not exactly a pilot but I'm pretty sure its a fuel issue. Also, we really have no use fighter jets here. Same issue with the tanks. They eat up on gas like a fat guy does doughnuts."

"I heard that your commanders have made some sort of deal with the whether factory in Cloudsdale. Rainbow extract worked in one of your helicopters."

"Really, no shit?"

"Yeah. First shipment is supposed to arrive by airship in a few hours."

"Damn. Rainbow powered vehicles. Whats next?"







Sweetie Belle opened her eyes only to be met with sunlight. She clenched her eyes shut and rolled to her side. She quickly removed herself from her bed and opened her eyes again to normal light levels and grumbled something about mornings. It was Saturday which meant no school. Sweetie Belle didn't care either way though. Its just another day. She walked up to her mirror and sat down in front of it while levitating a hair brush to herself. She looked into the mirror and was again met her own empty gaze. Her eyes were dull and empty. They differed from what they would have been not two weeks ago.
She started to brush her mane. For just a split second, a smile found its way to her face as she was pleased with herself for being able to perform magic. But her smile faded and she cast upon herself once more. She set the brush down and sighed. Sweetie Belle walked out of her bedroom leaving her tear stained pillow on the floor next to her bed.

Sweetie Belle opted to skip breakfast this morning and headed straight for the door. She walked out into Ponyville, which was much busier that she was used to. She trotting into town without a particular destination in mind. She avoided Sugarcube Corner as to keep the chances of her running into Pinkie Pie to a minimum. Sweetie rather not deal with her for the time being. 

She turned a corner and cut through the market and maneuvered her way through the crowd of shopping ponies with the occasional human mixed in. Applejack had spotted her and waved. Sweetie mentally grimaced as she put on the forced the friendly smile she could and waved back. The farm pony went back to selling apples and Sweetie Belle continued her on her way.

A helicopter flew over head towards the middle of town which was a little unusual. They mostly flew outside Ponyville for the most part because of the ever increasing amount of noise complaints. Most of these, came from Sweetie Belle's sister. She looked back to quell the small bit curiosity she had in her mind but didn't see much and quickly gave up on whatever that was. She continued walking past the shops, past the park and past everything around her. She then noticed a tree. This tree would make a nice place to sit and look at relax a bit.

She made her way to this tree and sat underneath it in the shade of its leaves. She'd rather be back in her room at the moment but it wasn't worth having Rarity beat down her door trying to talk to her by far. She set her head on her hooves and exhaled deeply. Then suddenly... pink.

Of all the ponies she could have run into, it had to be the one she was trying to avoid. In front of her stood Pinkie Pie, in all her glory. To Sweetie Belle's misfortune, she was smiling like a mad mare. Pinkie is going to try to cheer her up like so many others before her. To say its annoying is an understatement.

"Hi!" the party mare squealed.

Again, Sweetie Belle threw up a fake expression of cheerfulness which she'd slowly been perfecting as of late. "Hi, Pinkie."

"So what you up to?"

"Nothing much. I was gonna take a nap."

"Why would you take a nap out here silly filly? This is the outside you know. Wait, I've never really tried sleeping outside before. I should try it." Pinkie Pie plopped down and closed her eyes. 

Sweetie Belle wasn't really going to take a nap but decided that it was better than nothing. She wouldn't take her chances trying to walk away from Pinkie. She she closed her eyes and relaxed and soon felt like she would soon drift off into sleep. Her thoughts drifted to what her cutie mark would be and then to her friends and then too...

A tear rolled down from her eye as Pinkie shot up and started saying something along the lines of "I'm not tired" but then stopped and focused her attention on Sweetie Belle. Sweetie opened her eyes to meet Pinkie's sympathetic expression and turned away.

"Hey now you don't have to cry. Was it something I did?"

Sweetie Belle was doing her best to hold herself together. She normally did but for whatever reason be had, today was different. "No. Its nothing. Really."

"No its not nothing. Whenever somepony is crying it has to be about something."

Sweetie Belle hated herself for being so fragile all of a sudden. She was tempted to run but instead stayed, determined to get a hold on her emotions. "Look, I'll be fine. I just need to be alone."

"No. You won't. I know Sweetie Belle. I know it hurts. You just have to talk about it."

"NO! I don't want to talk about it. Almost everypony I've seen keeps giving me the same story but I don't care."

"You do care Sweetie Belle. That's the thing. You do care."

"I Don't! I really don't care and I don't want to talk about it! Why won't you leave me alone?!"

"Because I don't like seeing somepony like this. I know you don't like it but you need to talk about it with somepony. Its the only way you'll fell better. I completely understand what you're going through. I know it-"

"YOU DON'T HAVE A CLUE WHAT I'M GOING THROUGH! Don't say you do because you don't."

Pinkie Pie stood there with the same neutral expression she had since she started the back and forth. After a tense moment of silence she spoke. "You think I don't know what you're going through? Do you think that I haven't been going through the same things you have?" Pinkie Pie's tone had darkened and started to unnerve Sweetie Belle. Pinkie took a step forward and lowered herself to Sweetie Belle's level. "I've cried myself to sleep almost every night after that day you know. Ever since I moved here I've always tried to be everypony's friend."

Sweetie Belle knew what she was saying instantly. If anypony knew what she was going through, it would be Pinkie Pie. In Ponyville, Pinkie Pie knew everypony by name; she knew their favorite color, food, activity etc. and even the day of their birth by memory. She was honestly everypony's friend. Pinkie Pie had lost more friends than anypony. 

"I'm sorry. I didn't mea-"

"No. Don't apologize. Just talk."

Sweetie Belle opened her mouth to say something but at this point couldn't hold back her grief any longer. "It- its- not fair!"
Sweetie Belle broke down and hugged Pinkie tight.

"It isn't fair at all Sweetie Belle. Not at all." She hummed a softly as Sweetie Belle sobbed into her fur.







The blue unicorn galloped as quickly as her hooves would carry her. The determination of getting to her destination was clearly written on her face as she went through the streets of Ponyville. She rounded the corner running past the quills and sofa shop and closed her eyes when they caught glare from the sun on this clear day. She was nearing her destination but was then stopped by a purple unicorn with an angry expression on her face.

"Trixie..." growled the purple unicorn.

Trixie backed up under the gaze of the purple mare. "Uhh..." Trixie said not knowing what to say to the seemingly enraged mare before her. "You see Twilight... uhh... I was..." she said before being stopped by the glare of the purple unicorn growing more intense.

"Don't explain yourself." she said darkly to Trixie. Twilight expression then went to the complete opposite and she motioned her to move forward. "You're late Trixie. Nopony would start eating without you." chirped the purple unicorn which the caused Trixie's demeanor to ease up slightly.

"I'm sorry... I was caught up in something and got here as fast as I could. I'm sorry I'm late." she said sheepishly as the two walked forward to the picnic with four of the six Elements of Harmony waiting.

"No need to worry Trixie but what were you doing?" asked Rarity asked.

"I was caught in a conversation with a human in the markets. I think he said his name was Tyler."

"Oh you ran into him? He's pretty nice but he acts strangely around Fluttershy."

"Yes he is a delightful human to say the least. He says strange things though."

"Actually, I think he's pretty nice. He is a bit different but that is just who he is." No matter how long anypony was around Fluttershy, nopony that actually knew her was used to her speaking her opinions clearly unlike being shy as her was her namesake.

An awkward silence ensued for a few moments be fore being broken by Applejack who changed the subject. "Tyler's fine an' all but I don't take kindly ta that Jake fella. He seems a bit menacin' ta me."

"I've never really had a chance to talk with him but I have to agree with Applejack on this one. He is rather... eh, dark." Rarity agreed

"I don't know what's going on with him but he just seems angry all the time." Twilight added in.

Suddenly, the picnic basket began to wobble and then stopped. It had gained everypony's attention at this  point which meant nopony noticed Pinkie sit down in the group.

"MMPH MHM GHPHMM MHMPHMAHM!"

Now everypony is focused on Pinkie. Staring in silence.

Pinkie swallows  the cupcake she had eaten in one bite. "What?"

Applejack shook her head. "Pinkie, yer somethin' else."

Pinkie Pie was going to ask what else she was but decided against it. "Anyways, I said that Jake just needs cheering up."

"I don't think that's a good idea sugarcube."

"Of course it is. I just need to find out what he likes. He's going to be a tough cookie to crack but I can do it."

"I'm going to agree with Applejack. Pinkie I thin-... you're not even there." Twilight said staring at the pony shapes cloud left where Pinkie had been.







Gilda broke off from the flight of griffon warriors bound for Ponyville. She had other things to do at the moment. The cloud house of the pony who used to be her best friend came into sight and Gilda sighed. Honestly the more she thought about that day, the more ridiculous it seemed. So she may have yelled at the ponies and called them lame; the thing that really bothered her is that she had always been this way and Rainbow Dash should have known this better than anypony. Then she decides to just break off their friendship like that? It made her angrier rather than sorry. Dash had always been a loyal friend but maybe she was wrong.

Gilda landed atop the white and fluffy clouds that made up the platform that led to the door of the cloud house. She was going to walk in but she decided against it and instead knocked because they were no longer friends. After the first minute she turned around to see the yellow pegasus she had yelled at land land on the cloud. Gilda sighed expecting a confrontation of some kind that she didn't want to deal with.

The pegasus eyed her curiously and Gilda walked past. "Dash is in Vanhoover helping with their weather team."

"That's ok, I was just leaving anyways."

Gilda flew away towards town to regroup with the rest of the griffons. In a way, she was glad Rainbow Dash wasn't home because apologizing seemed less and less likely.







Jake sat on a hill overlooking Ponyville with his feet propped up on a conveniently placed crate. He sighed and looked over the surrounding landscape. It was beautiful to say the least. This place was paradise... but it wasn't home. Sure home was riddled with bullet holes and craters caused be a war that made no sense, but those were the bullet holes and craters that made home... home. It wasn't ideal but given the chance, Jake would go back into that hell in a heartbeat.

That's something Jake didn't understand, they were fighting for freedom and then suddenly they get here and Tyler and Tyrin both give that up. He knew that a lot of others share the feeling. Especially that weird guy, Archangle or whatever the guy called himself. This was not home. It wasn't the same bombed out city that he'd been in for months. This place may have some of the scars of war since the Russians entrance into Equestria but still, it isn't the real thing.

The thing he doesn't like about this situation is that all the ponies are a little to friendly and the humans are being FAR too trusting. They could just be using them. For all he knew, there really was a way back and the Princess kept it secret for her own gain. The reaction of the native population to the mention of wanting to go back usually is "Why would you want to go back to that place?" or something else along those lines.

Jake noticed a flight of griffons heading toward town. All of whom, were garbed in armor. Sighing, he grabbed his rifle and stood up. For such a peaceful place, there sure as hell are a lot of problems. It's something he could get used too.

If there is any kind of logistical problem with this, let me know. There bound to be something I missed. I had an amazing editor, but PLAYSTATION BE DAMNED. I fear there is some kind of universe exploding paradox in this.
> The Siege of New Yoke: Dumb Luck
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Well here you go. another interruption to Daring Dash. If there are any hiccups in this let me know.


Longshot - a pony/griffon sniper or marksman.

D-rifle - a griffon made weapon that is preferred by longshots. It shoots D-bolts(diamonds that have been carved into cylinder-like shapes). It is cause devastating damage to a target and is fatal most of the time.





The Siege of New Yoke

New Yoke City
Frontlines, 6 blocks north of 56th Street
July 18, 1543PH

Magic bolts, arrows and dirt flew through the air between the two groups of fighters. The griffons were slowly gaining territory as time progressed. This part of the city has been cleared of civilians for the most part but those who remain only serve to hinder the defending ponies.

"PRIVATE, GET YOUR FLANK UP HER NOW!!" yelled Corporal Howling Wind from behind the cover of an overturned steam carriage.

The orange pegasus clenched the sword he possessed in his teeth and peered out from the shop he'd holed up in. He briefly considered flying out but decided against it as it would equate to suicide. He gulped and mustered up whatever bravery he had and bolted out of a blown out wall and towards the Corporal.  A few D-bolts and arrows embedded themselves into the ground as the Private ran for his life to cover. Morning Fog dived for cover and slid across the ground successfully avoiding death. He laughed at his survival ignoring everything around him.

Howling Wind hoofed him in the jaw to get his attention. "Private, we need to kill the bastard in the in the window with the with the D-rifle. I need you to take this blast geode and get as close to him as possible and blow his sorry flank to tartarus. Do you understand?"

"Yes, sir!" he said reflexively and immediately regretting it.

"Good! Get it in gear, Private! I'll cover you!" The green unicorn raised his head and let lose five or six magic bolts into the griffons cover. With successful distraction the Private eyed an open door to a seven-story apartment to his right and ran as fast as his hooves would carry him and rushed into the building. He ran up the stairs until he reached the top floor and kicked in the door of an apartment which was now abandoned. Morning Fog made his way to a window and found he was about two stories above the longshot's position. He broke out the window and lined put the blast geode in his wing. He lined up his aim and threw it into the target building. The walls blew out of where the griffon used to be leaving an exposed kitchen several stories above the ground.

The debris was wrapped in a light green aura and its fall path met part of the griffon line in the street below. The Private's eyes went to the roof. He decided to press his luck and grabbed the sword in his teeth. It was surprisingly light and the Private still hasn't gotten used to that fact. Morning Fog took flight and went up to the roof of the adjacent building and landed on top. There he found two griffon soldiers. They were bigger than him and better trained. Odds were that he would die here.

The first griffon flew towards him and pulled out a dagger from under its wing. Morning Fog reacted by rolling to the right. He got back onto his hooves and placed a solid kick into the griffon before it had a chance to correct its flight path. Letting out a deep grunt of pain he could identify the griffon as a male. The griffon plummeted off the roof and into the wall of the one across the ally with a crunch that signified broken bones.

The Private turned around to see the second griffon had a crossbow raised. This griffon was less much less muscular smaller than the other that meet its doom. The female griffon held the crossbow in her talons shakily. He looked to her eyes and it was all he needed. Her green eyes were the size of pinpricks and begged him to leave. She was a rookie and likely hasn't killed. The Private took his own dagger from its respective sheath and advanced on the trembling greenhorn. No matter what kind of advantages you have be it size, training, or weaponry, it equates to little in the hands of a rookie, especially against a hardened killer.

Continuing his advance, he looked into the griffoness's eyes with cold indifference. She clamped shut her eyes and pulled the trigger implanting a bow into the ground. The Private didn't flinch and kept moving forward toward the griffon. She then flared her wings and fled. The Private shook his head. She was just following orders and he probably couldn't have hurt her if he tried. He sheathed his dagger and looked down.

Where she was standing there was a single blast geode. He picked it up and looked over the edge and had a clear view of the griffons cover. He looked back to his comrades' positions and they weren't faring too well. He took the blast geode in his wing and lobbed it into the street while simultaneously taking flight and diving down. The geode hit the ground and prompting those who noticed to jump away before it exploded killing six and injuring more. The Private landed directly on the helmet of a griffon with his legs taught. The griffons spine compressed inward and he fell dead immediately. Morning once again went skyward and brought his dagger out while speeding towards another foe. While maintaining flight, he cut the wing of a griffon who stood flat on the wall. The griffon reflexively took his own dagger to where his attacker would be but only to find it plunged into another griffon. Shocked, he stepped outward only to take a magic bolt to the face.

Ponies on the other side of the street started to press forward and force their enemies back. Morning sighed mentally and continued diving on the wounded griffon squad below. Upon another descent, a lucky shot placed itself into a gap in the pegasus's armor. This caused him to lose focus on flying momentarily. Realizing he was still earth-bound he pulled to the right to avoid falling directly behind the griffons cover. This however, proved to be a mistake as he slammed into building disorienting him. The stunned pegasus was an easy target so a nearby griffon leveled a his cross-bow with Morning Fog's head. The streaked toward him and placed itself into a wall after the Private found himself in a magenta glow and was thrown forwards. Unable to orient himself, he slammed into the ground and was quickly pulled behind cover.

"You are one lucky stallion, Foggy!" Lance Corporal Fresh Mug yelled while taking a few shots with her bolt caster.

"I am aren't I?" he replied stupidly before trying to get up.

"Hey, stay down. Your done, Foggy. We got this and you've done enough."

"No can do. They're still out there and I ne-"

"Thats an order, Soldier! Stand down!" Staff Sergeant Loose Bolt yelled from and over turned steam carriage adjacent to their position.

"Dammit, Sarge!"

"I'm not gonna let you kill yourself kid! Your through!"

Fresh Mug's Bolt caster jammed and she ducked behind the rubble that provided them cover. "Seriously, Foggy.  Listen to the colt. Its not worth killing yourself. Please, just stay down."

A sparkly rock found itself behind them on the ground. Mornings eyes widened and he shot to his hooves. He ran over to the rock and kicked it away only to be blown through a widow of a cafe when it exploded. He lied on the ground and stared at the ceiling laughing once again at his survival. He vaguely saw Fresh's blue face over his body shouting at something that he couldn't hear. The building shook violently causing her to flinch an look back momentarily before she set her gaze on him. She was shouting something at him which was useless of course as he faded into blackness.







Morning Fog shot up from the bed. He was in a field hospital. Ponies lined the beds and he relaxed knowing he was safe. Turning to the other side, he saw something out of place. A biped walking past with papers in his hand. Recognizing the human from the news, he hopped to his hooves. He was a little sore but other than that, he was fine. Wasting no time, he galloped out of the tent. It was starting to get dark but it didn't matter. The sun was only behind the mountain. Foggy ran between the various ponies in the area, which was difficult because of how busy it was, and caught up to him.

"Hey." he said.

The human turned to face him. He raised an eyebrow and seemed like he was staring through Morning Fog's very soul. "Can I help you..." He glanced at the band on Fog's upper foreleg. "...Private?"

"I- uh... um, just wanted to talk." came the nervous reply.

The human smiled a bit and chuckled. "Any other time I would have said sure. But I kinda have..." He motions to the papers in his hand and then motions to the rest of the buildings and tents with a weird arm flail. "...everything to do."

"Oh, alright. You are pretty busy." Disappointment would be an understatement. 

"I'll tell you what, come find me sometime when we're not doing anything important and we'll see, Private..."

"Fog, Morning Fog."

"Alright then, Private Fog. I'll see you around." The human started walking away. Morning Fog started to do the same when the human started talking again. "By the way, your lucky I hate being called "sir" because I am a superior officer."

"You didn't seem like the type!" he yelled back.

Morning Fog started walking back. After getting assistance with directions, he found his way to his squad mates. They were in the "mess hall" which was just a clearing in between the massive shipping crated that were stacked in the docks he was located in. Ponies weather they were refugees of soldiers, were grabbing food from the line of tables that held various pots and containers. He scanned the crowd for a minute before locating his squad at the far end of the crowd. He started walking and had to ease through multitudes of seated or moving ponies, often using the words "excuse me" or "pardon." Being polite to strangers is important. It was a hassle to get through, but he did.

He walked in and heard Private Orange Peel telling a story. "...and then when I finally made it into the kitchen, the cabinets were empty and half of the neighborhood was on fire! And let me tell you that to this day, nopony has ever found that rabbi- Well look who's alive! Foggy, get over here!"

"Hey." he said rubbing the back of his head with his hoof. He trotted over and took a seat next to Fresh who smiled as a greeting. He looked around. A lantern the sat in the middle of the group and lit up the area between the seven ponies. Corporal Howling Wind, a green unicorn with a wavy mane which was slightly darker than that of the green of his fur, sat behind a crate and was levitating cards. His color had earned him the nick name of "Celery Stick". Wind's cutie mark was a cloud that had a slightly noticeable green glow around it and was surrounded by lines that were curled at the end to signify wind.

Staff Sergeant Loose Bolt sat at the same crate looking at the cards standing up in his card tray. The frown on his yellow face told everypony that the earthpony had a bad hand (which it was called for whatever reason.) His light brown mane was deliberately blown out of his line of sight as he smiled and grabbed a card in his teeth and placed it on the table causing the other patrons groan. His cutie mark was that of an iron bolt with a pair of pliers. He was an iron worker off duty.

Sergeant Ember Glow sat at the crate and gained a smirk on her tired. She was light red but the end of each hair in her fur seemed to be orange if not given focus. Her mane was the color of embers rising from a fire which gave her the name she has. Her cutie mark was simply a torch. Ember levitated a card down to the table leaving the others to envy her brilliant play.

Lance Corporal Fresh Mug ran a coffee shop in Trottington. She was a deep blue pegasus with a red straight mane, which was cut short for easier management of it. He cutie mark was a cappuccino which Morning Fog would die for. She and Morning had been long time friends since they grew up together. When Morning joined the army he was surprised to have been placed in the same squad as Fresh. He was glad for that now because she saved his life more times than he could count.

Private First Class Fine Print was a lawyer from Fillydelphia. He was the squads resident kiss-flank. He was beige with a dirt brown mane that he liked to keep nice and neat whenever possible. He sat looking at the city in the distance. This earthpony was obviously homesick. His cutie mark was a legal document with a quill and magnifying glass.

Private Deep Frost was as ice blue with a lighter blue mane. The pegasus was part of the weather team in Vanhoover. His cutie mark was as snowflake and was self explanatory. He was good at making it cold. He was a cousin of none other than Rainbow Dash. The were close since she had little family left. However, he hated her fame because he would be questioned about her constantly much to his annoyance.

Private Orange Peel was a resident to Detrot. He was part of the Orange family but wasn't one of the ones from the city much to the luck of all who know him. He was a farmer through and through. Everypony knows of his relation to the Apple family but didn't bother him about it like they did Frosty. His cutie mark was a partially peeled orange as to his families namesake.

"So I'm guessing we won?" Morning Fog asked.

"Of course we did. Stop asking stupid questions." Howling Wind said sounding offended.

"You got lucky... again. You need to stop relying on luck cause that's going to kill your sorry flank one day." Ember joked from the middle of the card game. "So, how you holding up over there?"

"Well I'm sore but that's pretty much it. A D-bolt grazed my shoulder but I won't complain." Morning replied, rubbing his shoulder.

"Your lucky it only grazed you. Any more to the left and it would've killed you."

"If I had died back there, it probably be from the the two griffons on the roof."

Everypony stopped. Loose Bolt was to first to speak. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you took out to griffons by yourself. Private, that was luck if I ever saw it. Your luck is just uncanny."

"Actually I took out one and scared the other away. She was a rookie and probably couldn't hurt anything if she tried."

"You didn't kill her?"

"No. She's just following orders like us. She didn't need to die if she couldn't put up a fight."

"Still though, taking a griffon hoof to hoof is near suicide." Ember added.

"Well, what can I say? I just got lucky."

Morning Fog was hit upside the head by Fresh. "Ow, What was that for?!" Fog whined.

"You almost died because of your luck." Fresh said harshly. "I admit, you are one lucky stallion but luck only goes so far. Stop doing that." she finished almost whispering the last part.

Before anypony could say anything else, the medium pitch chirp of an AA gem firing was heard closely followed by an explosion. An airship burst into flames and started to descend towards the docks. Griffon occupants of the doomed aircraft flew out . A few were intercepted by pegasi but most escaped. The craft was glowing with magic as any unicorn present tried to steer the flaming wreck away. The nose slammed into the beginning of the dock and the rest fell into the water.

"That was close." Fog commented.

"That was too close." another voice added. Everypony turned around to see the human flanked by Major Arrowhead.

The ponies scrambled to their hooves. "Sir!" they said in unison with the exception of Morning Fog.

"At ease. I need you all to report to command immediately. You'll be briefed there."

"Yes, sir."

"Alright then, I'l see you there." The human walked off with the Major leaving confused ponies behind. They all looked at each other.

"Does anypony know whats going on?" Orange asked.

"No clue." Fresh replied.

"I don't like this."  Bolt said bitterly.

"It'll be fine. Lets just get there before command throws a fit."

With that the group walked back through the crowd. It was an uneventful walk to the command which was a complex of many tents. When they arrived to their destination, the Major and the human were waiting inside for them.

"Ok, it looks like everyone is here so we'll get started. Before that, know that you are free to ask questions at any time. My name is Tyrin Roberson. I've been appointed to the rank of Colonel for whatever reason but that's besides the point. You are here because we need bombs delivered. These bombs needs to go under the griffon lines in the storm drain here, here and here. They will explode when a unicorn in your squad releases a relatively strong burst of magic causing the ground underneath the griffon defenses to collapse sending them to what ever fate meets them. In the confusion caused by this, it will allow our forces to push forward considerably before they can regroup. During this time, an focused attack on their lines at the surface and a little ways from will act as a diversion leading away most defenders. There you have it. Any questions?"

Staff Sergeant Bolt spoke up. "Just one."

"Name it."

"Why us and not anypony more qualified?"

"Ah, that's because our best are defending the command center and civilians. You can pull this off just as easily and you were due to head back to the frontline anyways. You also seem to be lucky. Your squad has no casualties whatsoever all the others aren't that fortunate. Call it a gut feeling if you want but you're the right team for the job."

"When would we be leaving?"

"As soon as possible. I won't lie to you, this is a last ditch attempt at turning the tide of this battle. We need this to be done. Can you do it?"

Fresh Mug and Morning Fog looked at each other and nodded. The rest of the squad seemed to be doing the same. "You can count on us." 

"Good. When you are ready report to me. Until then get armored up and prepare. You are dismissed."

The ponies made their way out of the tent and walked to the armory. Morning Fog and Fresh Mug were chatting it up while on the way.

"So do you think we can pull this off? Fresh was obviously worried.

Morning scoffed and waved a hoof dismissively. "Of course we can. Luck is right up my ally and he's asking for it."

"That's why I'm worried. Their letting him give orders on gut feelings? Things couldn't be that bad could they?"

"Well, the Colonel said that this was a last ditch effort so it probably is."

Fresh had her body armor on and was carrying her helmet with a wing. Fog was doing the same. "I hope not because that's only going to put more pressure on us."

"It doesn't matter how much pressure is on us Fresh. We're going to do it. Remember, I'm lucky." he said as he slipped on his helmet and walked out with Fresh in tow.

It had long been dark out and the moon was rising. She looked out to the city which was only alit with fire rather than lights of the buildings. The orange reflected of the water of the harbor. She'd be lying if she said it wasn't a little bit pretty. She then sighed and started walking after her squad. "I hope so because were going to need all the luck we can get."
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Here's something I started drawing and It inspired my next story arc. I don't have photoshop so nope. Only on paper. BTW, I say possible cover art because I may do something like this once given the technology. (This was not finished)