> An Unlikely Ally
>  by TheGreatScot
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> Where it all began (Prologue) 
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	2016 Common Pony Era
Our story begins with the mighty Princess Celestia sitting on her royal throne. Celestia was eating her favorite chocolate cake with strawberry frosting. She has been thinking for some time now, about some minor subject that will need taking care at a later point, the 201st Equestria Summer Games. She, as the princess, has the option to pick where the Equestria Games will be played. According to recent qualifiers, the top four cities that were chosen to host the games were, Ponyville, Cloudsdale, Manehattan, and Manechester.
She had some exemplary choices to pick from, Manechester was a booming city for the Scarlet Premier League and Manechester United for they had taken 1st place from Griffinpool. Cloudsdale was known for the World Racing Qualifiers in which Cloudsdale took 1st place led by Rainbow Dash, Manehattan for their love for Hoofball, they recently won the HFC title and are on to the finals, and Ponyville for their nationwide Rodeos led by Applejack. She had evaluated each and every city and has narrowed it down to Manechester, it was their first time ever hosting an Equestria games, so she thought it's their time to shine.
As she climbed up to her hooves, a Pegasus guard came screaming in to alert the princess. This guard has run from the Crystal Empire all the way to Canterlot, his two front legs and face inhabited several cuts that were still gushing with blood and bruises that were the size of the Princess' horn. He had clearly broken his two wings during his run or whatever he was running from. As he came to a halt in the throne room, both sets of legs started to shake for he had run almost an eternity.
"Your highness there has been a breach in defenses all along our northern border!" the young tired guard said,
"My, whatever do you mean," the princess said in stress, "I have not received any new information from the north. Why bring me this news?"
The guard replied, "that's just it, your highness, the Crystal Empire has been occupied." He was slowly fainting because of his pain and his weakness.
"Who....." Celestia tried to reply, but the guard interrupted her just before she got a voice.
"Sombra and the Changelings have returned." He said.
Once Celestia heard him, his weak body slammed against the hard tiled floor, signaling the amount of grave distraught that has been delivered to the quiet marble room. For a short amount of time, he laid there as a tiny pool of blood surrounded his legs. Her majesty was forced to watch him as the guards carried him to the medical wing of the castle. As this happened, her eyes opened wide, and her jaw dropped with this catastrophic moment. Not even ten seconds later, she couldn't withstand the amount of shock she was in and caused her to drop to the floor, passed out, out cold, many more guards came in and called for a nurse or doctor. Then, she was carried away by the other nurses and guards that were patrolling that corridor when the weakened guard was carried out.

Just like any other government, Princess Luna heard the news and, luckily, didn't faint. She was forced to take her sister's position for she was the backup princess to Celestia. In an instant, she started to write a letter to her own third in command, for she had more magical capabilities then Princess Cadence and she was in trouble. She had started writing her letter to Princess Twilight Sparkle. Her letter went something like this:
Twilight Sparkle,
There has been a crisis that could potentially destroy Equestria as we know it. You are needed here immediately.
Sincerely,
Princess Luna
Within five seconds of sending the letter, Twilight appeared within a blink of an eye. Breathing in heavily as she began to start talking.
"Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, What's happening? Is Celestia dead? Did something happen to Shining Armour? Oooooooh, Shining what did you d-?" As Twilight was speaking faster than Pinkie Pie has ever spoken, she was quickly silenced by Luna
"Shhhhh," Luna quickly stated, "I do not know much about what happened, but what I do know is that we are in a worse situation than which the elements can help us."

Finally calming down Twilight to an acceptable level of noise. Princess Luna sighed and rubbed her hooves lightly against her closed eyelids as she and Twilight stood on the marble tile floor that had just been polished. As she moved her head to position her eyes towards Twilight, she observed that the newly polished floor had an imprint of Celestia's fainted body and another imprint of a body but it was smaller and had a pool of blood, and a streak of blood coming from the door and then turning into little drops of blood getting smaller and smaller and gets more and more apart as the blood comes closer to the door. 
"Twilight, we are in a huge mess of a pickle currently," Luna stated trying to keep Twilight calm, "from my understanding," she pauses as she sighs at the news she has to give, "King Sombra has allied with Queen Chrysalis and have taken the majority of our northern border, sadly that includes the Crystal Empire and the land around the city," Luna said gravely as Twilight broke out into tears, "for all I know, that also means, that the status of Princess Cadence, Shining Armour, and Flurry Heart is on hiatus, or as the military puts it, MIA."

Twilight sat on the carpet that separated two sides of the polished floor. Weeping in sadness that her, and I quote, "Big BBBFF" and her favorite former foal sitter was missing or potentially dead. As Twilight weeps for her possible losses, Luna embraces Twilight in a hug and wipes the tears off of her face with a magically levitated handkerchief. Immediately wanting to take action, Twilight pops up off of her hooves and willing to do anything she says 
"I'm am ready to do whatever it takes to get Cadence and Shining Armour back!"
"Splendid news Twilight, but first things first, we need a military, and more importantly people to lead that military," Luna says with what little pride and courage she has left in her, "what we need is a leader, and it can't be any of us princesses for if one of us dies, we risk having no one left to rule."
"Don't worry princess, I have a few friends ready to lead." Twilight ecstatically announced with the courage of a lion. Luna sadly has to interrupt her courageous display for there is a huge problem.
"Twilight, what you don't understand is that we have three branches for this type of war," Luna exclaims, she, however, has a point for the land they are fighting for has no water in sight. "There are only three branches of our military that we can use," she stopped briefly to breathe,"There is the Air Force, with the pegasus, we know whom of your friends will be leading that."
Twilight interrupts briefly and says, "Rainbow Dash."
"That is correct," Luna replies, "Then, there is the Marine Corps, that will be lead by Applejack, she has the capacity to lead others, lift imposing objects and breathe underwater for a long amount of time with her stamina," Luna says with more pride than the last minute, but then immediately drops for on specific reason. "Lastly, there is the Army, our biggest branch of service, we would put Pinkie there but, you know how that would go. So we need someone who is qualified enough to be a leader, knows how to be pressured in a crisis and can stand on the frontlines and says, come and get me!" Luna raised her voice for that last line. There isn't any known pony who inhabit such leadership and bravery. Then, as the word any known pony are said, she gets an idea. An idea so risky that it could lead to disaster but it's the best shot of winning this war.

"How about we get somepony from," Twilight stopped suddenly, "*gulp* that planet?" Twilight was referring to the planet Earth where no horse like entity ruled any other organism other than themselves. Luna stopped to think, was she out of her mind! What kind of pony would bring that idea to this place! Then she thought about the pros, wait, she thought, this could work. Then she immediately asked Twilight,
"It could work, but who would want to help us who is also in an army branch division?" Luna inquired. Twilight quickly responded with,
"I know someone who could help us."
"Okay then," Luna commandingly said, "do it."
*swhoom* *schwiss* *crack crack* Noises filled the room as Twilight began a dangerous spell that she hasn't done in years. *poof* As the purple smoke clears, there is a human, an American soldier more specifically, unconsciously laying on the carpet. As he wakes up he knew he wasn't on Earth anymore.
> Assuming Command (Chapter 1)
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	Christmas Morning, 2025, Earth
It's Christmas morning on the planet we call Earth. The year? 2025. Almost every family in America had children of all ages running or stalking down their wooden, stone, carpeted stairs, waking anybody who was in the remaining parts of the house. Their parents, pets and older siblings awoke to the sound of quick thumping of children's feet down or up the stairs. Once the kid or kids reached the bottom, they were amazed to find that under their tree were tens of perfectly wrapped presents just screaming to the kids, "open me!". Boxes wrapped with goodies and toys that came in small and large boxes, as the boxes came closer to the children's hands. The closer the kids got, the size of the presents grew. 
The children big and small, rich and poor, were ecstatic at the many unwrapped toys, electronics, and goodies laying across the living room.  For some families, however, there was one key part missing on their joyous day. The true meaning of Christmas and the reason why those kids are here to experience this joyous holiday. One of their parents. Most families had their parents recording videos or taking selfies on their mobile devices, but this group of parents, however, could not show for their kids, for they had a duty to fulfill so their kids could be safe at home. A duty that determined the fate of their kids.

Tyrol, Austria December 26, 2025, Christmas Day in America 300 Miles from the European Front
American units stationed in Tyrol, Austria were supporting the European front in the case of a major frontline push from the Russian Commune consisting of Russia, North Korea, Mongolia, the "stans" and Ukraine. The American units stationed at Innsbruck are about to have their much-deserved sleep for they have to go to the  frontlines for a massive assault on the Kiev, Ukraine. In one part of the compound, was a barracks for the Americans to sleep in. This unit was led by our hero, Capt. Tyler Gooding, he was watching his children open their gifts before he  goes to bed. His children are, Charlie, an 11-year-old-boy wanting a new pair of football gloves for his middle school football team, and Susie, an 8-year-old who wants a new robot doll. They have been good to their mom, and have kept almost  perfect grades so they deserve these toys. When they finished opening up their presents, Charlie left to have a snowball fight with the neighbors and Susie watched an episode of My little Pony Season 6. The series had ended 2 years before Tyler got deployed but he has binge-watched the entire series with Susie while he has been away. That's what got him into being a brony,  it was his daughter. Once the episode ended he said goodnight to Susie and turned off his communicator. When he plugged in his communicator to charge, on the nightstand beside him, a purple vortex of some kind had appeared directly in front of him. He closed his eyes as the vortex blinded him for a short time. Then, he notices the character standing in front of the vortex on the other side. It was Princess Luna! With eyes in shock, he approached the 9' vortex very cautiously for it could have been a bomb. Suddenly the base alarm went off and soldiers woke up from their slumber and rushed into the barracks and saw Tyler standing next to the vortex.
"Captain," screamed one of the soldiers, "get away from that!"
Tyler briefly stared at the squad that entered and was quickly pulled in by a dark blue hoof, that once Tyler was pulled in blinded him. As the soldiers were attempting to save Tyler, the vortex closed behind him.
"Well," one of the soldiers said surprisingly casual, "I guess you're in command now Sergeant."

Somewhere in the vortex, heading toward Equestria
Tyler woke up from his quick slumber as he was moving slower than time itself. Images appeared all around him followed by a pink fastly moving vortex going to where he came from, "where were these images from?" he thought. He thought to himself, I haven't seen these images yet. Wait these are from the future." He looked around to see some dark pictures of what he thought will happen. He looked to his left and saw what looked like newly appointed General Rainbow Dash's chest being impaled by a spear and General Applejack jumping in front of a magic shot to save a filly. These pictures brought tears to his eyes as the blood was too much. "I can and I will change this!" he thought. As another blinding light came closer to him, and instantly faded to black.
Princess' Throne room, 2016 Common Pony Era
Tyler is still unconscious at this stage, not knowing where he is. He hears feminine voices of what sounded like a millennial and a much younger Queen of England, using her thou's instead of you. Tyler knew who that was, if it wasn't obvious enough, but who was the other person's voice?
"Luna, I am sure this human can help us, you'll see." This mysterious voice kept Tyler thinking on who it was.
"I hope this thing can change the war dramatically," Luna stated with little confidence. After that statement, Tyler immediately thought, "Wait, War!" he thought with distress, "Another war that I have to deal with; like I haven't had enough trouble with fighting people anyway."

He continued to ponder about what he had seen in the vortex, and all of the sudden he felt a small lump on the inside of his lower left ankle. It was his ankle weapon; more precisely, an M1911 Colt that had a full magazine of 7 bullets. He realized that he could move and leaped up onto his two feet grabbing his gun on the way up. As he stood on his own two feet, he had his camouflage uniform on with 2 extra clips in his left chest pocket. Surprising Luna and Twilight as he popped up Tyler pointed his gun at Luna and screamed louder than he ever has.
"WHERE AM I? WHY AM I HERE?!" Tyler demanded as the guards crashed into the room. His voice echoed throughout the castle alerting almost the entirety of the castle. Strength and sound on Earth are scaled differently than in Equestria. So it's a lot louder there than on Earth.
"Now, calm down, and I will explain," Luna said attempting to calm down Tyler but his voice raised even louder.
"And what is the reason that you have to take me from my unit," Tyler waving his gun around furiously, "what's the reason why you have to...." He stopped, hearing his voice echoing through the castle, and started crying, "to take my family away from me, *sniff* *sniff*, if I don't get back everyone will think I'm dead." Tyler sobbed as he lowered his weapon, and sat down, head angled towards the carpet. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to startle anybody..errp, any pony" Twilight and Luna approached the weeping man and comforted him.
"Now that we have calmed down, may I please explain what is going on?" Luna stated in a more comfortable tone.
"Please," Tyler exclaimed.

Twilight and Luna are a bit tipsy currently with their safety with Tyler now that they know he has a weapon of which no one knows about. Thankfully, they realize that Tyler knows them by heart, so it should be somewhat comfortable. Luna insists that Tyler comes to the War Room where they can identify where the frontlines are falling apart from. While informing Tyler about what will happen, Luna uses a blue wall, pony, and star pieces to identify where the forts, armies, and cities are. The Red pieces were the Changeling front line commanded by King Sombra and Queen Chrysalis. From the looks of it, the entire front is focused on Manehattan and Manechester, they were shelling Manehattan with artillery like magic shots. Thankfully, they evacuated the city before the attack, but if they take control of Manehattan, they only have 200 miles to push, and with their quickly trained Changeling reserves, it will be hard to push them back. Luna and Twilight's plan was risky but it would work. Their plan was to let them take Manehattan and fight them halfway between Manehattan and Manechester. At that point, they would ambush the oncoming army and trap them in a canyon that separates the two provinces. Luna and Twilight, are confident that it will work but they need an army general. 
"Now Tyler, I know things can be difficult at this point but, will you command our Army into battle?" Twilight proposed with hope. Tyler was going to say yes and tell her about something that might happen but, she happily glanced at Tyler with the eyes that a dog would use, but, and I quote, 20% cooler.
"Yes, I will accept your offer," Tyler said with pride and courage. As Tyler ended his sentence, Twilight hugged him and cried tears of joy.
"With this, I promote you to General Tyler Gooding of the Army" Luna declared. Hearing a roar of cheers from all around her.
"Thank you, Ma'am" Tyler thanked Luna and marched out of the room.

"Do you think this will work?" A globally known voice came from the corridor, it was Celestia's. She came back into the room behind Luna with bandages wrapped around her wing.
"Let us hope that it does sister," Luna losing all of the confidence she has after that one sentence, "For our sake.... and his."