Fallen Eagle

Chapter I: Saviors

Hello all! Thank you so much for coming back for another chapter of Fallen Eagle. In this new chapter, the events of Dishonorable just finished up and Celestia, Luna and 5 of the Mane 6 investigate the strange craft that crashed in Ponyville near the lake. Various third person and first person points of views are expected!

And I guess you could call me a Brony since I have seen every episode at least once by now, excluding Equestria Girls and Rainbow Rocks. I have no clue if I will ever see those.

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(With the Investigators)

Celestia, Luna, Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Fluttershy, all galloped as fast as they could towards the Ponyville Lake. Two pegasus guards flew forward to clear a path for the seven ponies. "Official Royal business, everypony clear the way!" One of the guards ordered. Ponies on both sides of the main road moved out of the way for fear of being trampled. Celestia flapped her giant wings and lifted off the ground to catch up to one of the guards.

"Does anypony else know of this strange craft's existence?" The princess questioned the guard. The pegasus cleared his throat and turned towards his Princess.

"No, we have four other guards that have quarantined the area so no other pony can discover the wreckage," the guard explained, "the safety and sanity of the populous was our main priority your majesty." Celesita smiled and slowly lowered her hooves back to the ground and began to gallop quickly once again.

"But sister, remember the guard said some creature may have crashed along with the craft," Luna reminded.

"Yes, well if it is true Luna, the creature may be injured and we must tend to it," Celestia replied. Rarity grimaced at the thought of an unknown creature and craft appearing in their world.

"But Princess, what if this creature is highly dangerous and hurts somepony?" Rarity questioned. As the large group approached the lake, they were met with the sight of black smoke rising from the ground and two guards standing still as statues near a tree.

"Rarity!" Twilight scolded, "we have to show mercy and compassion to whatever creature is here. If it realizes we are kind and caring, then there is a good possibility the creature could return the same feelings."

"Yeah, and maybe the whatever it is loves to party!" Pinkie Pie bounced up and down, "do you think they'll like cake and ice cream and loud music?" She asked. The other ponies rolled their eyes and stopped when they reached the lake and gasped. They saw a large metallic object split in two. The back was burning and had two large openings with two large and tall tails atop the backside. The front side had two strange and rounded triangular wings with a long and narrow tube at the front. Inside the tube were various lights and buttons and weird controls no pony had ever seen before. "Oooh! I wanna touch those buttons, maybe balloons will pop out the holes in the back!" Pinkie Pie started to hurtle towards the craft but was lassoed by Applejack.

"Hold on there Pinkie Pie, d'you really think touchin' those strange buttons is a safe idea?" The country pony asked. Pinkie Pie whined a little and struggled against the rope tying her legs together.

"Oh my, the color choice is simply dreadful! The dull grey is boring, bland and simple enough to make me lose my breakfast!" Rarity covered her eyes. Fluttershy meanwhile brushed some dirt and sand away from the tube and discovered writing below the opening.

"Hmm, who is this, Cougar?" Fluttershy wondered, but no pony heard her.

"Twilight Sparkle, look at these strange markings," Luna pointed out as she hovered around the tails of the craft. Twilight flapped her wings and raised herself off the ground.

"Hmm, USAF, F-15, AK? I've never seen markings like these before, we're more than likely dealing with, an Alien source," Twilight gulped. "Princess Celestia, have you ever seen anything like this?" Twilight asked.

"No Twilight, but this provides an interesting opportunity for us to discover and study a new species," Celestia began, "now then guards, where is this strange creature?" The guards nearest the group nervously looked at each other before pointing their shaking hooves upwards in the trees.

"U-up th-there your m-majesty," one of the guards worriedly replied. Everypony gradually looked upward and dropped their jaws, save for Rarity.

"AHHHHH!" She screamed and fell onto her fainting couch, "that color of green is absolutely hideous! Did that creature come from the land of vomit fashion?" Rarity covered her eyes again.

"Twi, what in tarnation is that thing?" Applejack asked. In the tree was a tall monkey-like creature with wires from a parachute holding him up in the tree. On his body was a strange dark green jumpsuit with numerous patches and markings adorning the sleeves and chest area. On his head was a purple colored helmet with yellow piercing eyes on the front and images of claw marks going down the sides. Just below the yellow eyes were the white letters of the name 'COUGAR.' His eyes were covered with a visor and his mouth hanging open, but no noise was coming out.

Princess Celestia flew upwards to the tree, despite various objections from a few ponies. She gently placed a hoof around the creature's neck and lowered her head onto his chest. "He's unconscious, but still alive," she reported, "quickly, let's get him down and bring him to the royal infirmary," she declared.

"Sister, are you sure that's a good idea? We have no clue where that thing even came from!" Luna objected. Celestia glared at Luna and held onto the body while her magic cut the wires of the parachute from the back of the creature. She held onto the body while a large bag crashed to the ground and a black box fell out and smashed to pieces.

"Don't be cruel Luna, it is our duty to nurse this injured creature back to health, correct Fluttershy?" Celesita asked Fluttershy whom just quietly nodded from behind Applejack.

"Oooh, free bag!" Pinkie Pie declared and snatched the bag from the ground.

"Careful Pinkie!" Twilight warned, "we don't know what could be in there." Pinkie Pie glowered and hoisted the bag onto her back. "Princess, what about this wreckage? We can't just leave it here, some ponies will find it and panic," Twilight pointed out. Celestia gently touched back down onto the ground and set the unconscious creature onto her back.

"You're right Twilight Sparkle, Luna, help me transport this wreckage to the largest Dungeon cell," Celestia ordered. Luna stepped forward to her sister and both horns began to glow simultaneously and the wreckage soon disappeared in a flash. "There, now let's take, Cougar, to the royal infirmary. I shall request Rainbow Dash to moved to the Royal Infirmary as well, all of your friends will be valuable assets in assisting Cougar to adjust to our world," Celestia informed. Twilight and the rest nodded towards their Princess whom sprouted her wings and took off for the castle.

"Ah can tell y'all one thing," Applejack began, "that there ain't no Cougar, that's fer sure."

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(At the Royal Infirmary)

"So, what'd exactly you guys find?" Rainbow Dash curiously asked as she was transported to the castle hospital and awaited for 'Cougar' to show up. Soarin' was sitting on a stool next to her new bed and Spike was in the corner, pretending to flip through a comic book, trying to hide his boredom.

"We already told you Rainbow Dash," Twilight annoyingly replied, "Princess Celestia will be here any minute, she had to make sure none of the guards or doctors would breath a premature word of this until she herself made an announcement."

"Okay that totally didn't answer my question," Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes, "Fluttershy, you guys said there was a strange monkey like creature with the word Cougar everywhere?" Rainbow asked.

"Well," Fluttershy began quietly, "yes, but we're not quite sure what it was. It was a male, that was certain, but he had on this strange dark green jumpsuit with various cutie marks all over and he had on these strange sunglasses and a purple helmet with the word Cougar in white letters below yellow piercing eyes," Fluttershy explained, "and he was unconscious, but that's all we know. Even though he was strange and came in a weird craft, I felt horrible for him, he looked really innocent."

"He called himself Cougar? That's actually pretty cool," Rainbow Dash commented, "do you think he was some sort of daredevil? Maybe I could teach him a few things, right Soarin'?"

"You could teach anypony anything on stunts Rainbow!" Soarin' replied with his usual goofy grin. Suddenly, the door burst open with two doctors, a stretcher with the creature known as Cougar laying down on top, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna and a nurse hurrying through.

"Alright, let's get an IV in him and a heart monitor hooked up," one of the doctors ordered. He took off Cougar's visor and quickly looked into his eyes with a flashlight before stick bandages over them. "His eyesight seems fine, we don't want to blast bright lights in his eyes after being knocked out for no pony knows how long," he explained and lightly taped white bandages over his eyes.

"We should probably get an X-Ray scan as well, he may have broken something," the second doctor said to the nurse. The second doctor took a stethoscope in his hoof and placed it in his ear and on Cougar's chest. "Princess, would you please remove the helmet and jump suit?" Celestia's horn glowed as Cougar's jump suit and helmet levitated off Cougar's body and were gently hung on a coat rack in another corner of the room.

"Woah, you guys were right, he is strange looking!" Rainbow stared wide eyed at Cougar. Below the jumpsuit was a dark blue shirt with the words U.S. Air Force imprinted with white letters across the chest. Below that was a pair of dark cargo pants.

"Well, he certainly does work out," Rarity commented on the muscles, though not flustered or anything of that nature. The second doctor ignored all the remarks and placed the stethoscope on Cougar's chest and listened very carefully.

"Heart rate is actually normal, breathing is labored, but he is unconscious so that is to be expected. Pulse is normal as well," he reported and scribbled his findings on a clipboard. "Well he is healthy, just knocked out, we'll have to wait until he wakes up so we can get the full story, and we'll still need an X-Ray scan and maybe a CT Scan as well, we want to make sure he is 100% healthy." Pinkie Pie pulled a cupcake from under her chair and zoomed over to Cougar.

"I know what'll wake him up, a cupcake a day will make anypony play!" She declared and stuck the cupcake under Cougar's nose.

"At least ya got a cool roommate this time Dashie," Soarin' joked and nudged Rainbow's arm. Suddenly, the heart rate monitor began to beep slightly faster and a quiet moan escaped Cougar's mouth. Little shrieks and grunts also began to escape his mouth and his body began to shift. Pinkie slowly moved her cupcake away as Luna approached Cougar and softly laid a hoof on his forehead.

"He is having a nightmare," she said, "I shall see what is the matter," she touched her horn to his forehead and then in a flash, she was gone.

"Okay, let's bring the X-Ray machine and the CT Scanner over," one of the doctors ordered the nurse. The unicorn nurse levitated a machine over Cougar's body and flicked it on. "And let's have a look see here," the two doctors studied the images on the screen.

(With Luna)

The Princess of the Night transported herself into Cougar's nightmare to find out what was bothering him. In a bright flash, she found herself in the sky, flapping her wings quietly. "I don't want to frighten him, I must make myself invisible," she told herself and became invisible. Suddenly, a roar like distant thunder invaded her ear drums. Luna turned her head to the side and ducked as four strange crafts, one of them belonging to Cougar, flew by her at an incredible speed. "By my Sister's name, what is going on?" About 100 more strange objects, all looking vaguely similar to one another, flew past where she was hiding, pursuing Cougar's and the other three crafts. Luna transported back to Cougar's craft and kept up with it.

"He's gonna fire!" A voice shouted out. Luna looked behind and saw a weapon smaller than the crafts flying towards the group. One of the metallic crafts exploded in a ball of fire, causing Luna to cover her mouth.

"Such violence, what would cause any creatures to resort to something so disgusting?" Luna questioned. Luna then jumped as even smaller weapons began to fly at her and Cougar. The little metallic objects pierced Cougar's craft and caused one of the engines to start smoking. A second craft then exploded near the group.

"TEX, BOA!" Cougar and his friend shouted.

"He is a creature of violence and anger, we cannot let something as dangerous as him roam around Equestria," Luna gritted her teeth, but then Cougar's craft started to fly in a crazy pattern.

"No, Reaper, get out of here now! Go back to your family and leave me!" Cougar's voice pierced the sky.

"Just eject Cougar, now, I'll get the Coast Guard to come back for you!" His friend known as Reaper replied. Luna looked upward to see the other craft firing off its weapons to defend his friend when suddenly, the other crafts went away and a demonic laughter came out of nowhere. The black sky turned red as a shadowy figure with two devil horns appeared in the sky. Only its mouth and eyes could be seen on the backdrop of the shadow. A clawed hand reached up and grabbed the second craft.

"REAPER, NO!" Cougar shouted. The demonic figure ripped Reaper's craft apart and held his body. Luna froze in terror, but shook it off as Cougar started to scream and panic.

"ENOUGH!" Luna shouted as the dream began to dissolve and Cougar calmed down before appearing as himself in the hospital bed. Luna quietly walked over to his body and laid her horn on his forehead again. She had him pinned all wrong. On the surface he seemed like a violent creature with the weapons he was utilizing, but she could sense he wanted everypony he knew to be safe and sound. The way he feared for his friend's safety was proof of that, though he would be in for a surprise when he woke up. Cougar was still shaking like a leaf, but Luna whispered into his ear, "You're safe Cougar, now awaken."

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(Cougar POV. Royal Infirmary)

Breathing hurt my lungs. Every time air entered my lungs, it felt like I was breathing in burning gasoline. The scene played over and over again in my head. I just couldn't fathom that my friends were dead. Wait a minute I realized, I'm breathing? How am I alive? Unless this is purgatory. I tried to open my eyes, but I couldn't. Luckily, my arms and legs still worked and I could feel the fabric of a hospital gown and a hospital bed sheet. "Stop, you're going to hurt yourself if you keep struggling," a heavenly voice told me.

"Wh-who are you?" I called out.

"Shh," the voice reassured me, "we found you hanging from a tree by a parachute. Your back was injured in the process; the doctor told me your spine isn't broken, but you need to take it easy for a few days until your back heals," the voice explained.

"Am I dead?" I asked. I know it was a rather brash and bold question, but I had no clue where I was and I wanted answers, now.

"No, we saved you just in time. Your craft was severely damaged in the process, but luckily we had it transported to the castle dungeons." Dungeons? Castle? Before I could ask the voice where exactly I was, I heard footsteps entering the room.

"Ah, the patient is awake, we can finally remove these pesky bandages around his eyes," I heard another voice say. Bandages? That would explain why I couldn't open my eyes.

"Well before you do, could you please tell me where I am?" I asked. My voice was shaking a little, but who wouldn't be a little nervous in my situation? Being tended to in a hospital in an unknown country? And who knew if they were just going to nurse me back to health and use me for target practice? The heavenly voice cleared her throat before replying.

"You are in the royal infirmary in Canterlot, Equestria."

"Excuse me?" I replied in shock. I then froze when I felt the bandages peeling off my face and my eyes were bombarded with bright lights. They were open, but I could barely see anything until my sight was adjusted.

"He has blue eyes huh? I imagined him havin' green eyes fer some reason," a southern accented voice pointed out. I raised my hands and rubbed my eyes before sitting up slightly. I felt a tiny twinge of pain in my back, but that was the least of my worries. I blinked a few more times until my vision was back to 100%. Around me were at least ten ponies of all things, and a small purple dragon, all standing and staring at me. In fact, all the ponies were different colors instead of just brown or white.

"Heya roomie! Bout time you woke up!" I looked over to see a cyan pony with a Rainbow mane and wings in the bed next to mine.

"Welcome to our world Cougar," a large white pony with a mane that flowed without wind, a small sun on its hindquarters with wings on its side and a horn atop its head greeted. I reacted the way I believe any normal person would've. I started to panic and ripped the various wires connected to my body, causing the equipment I was hooked up to to start blaring.

"Please, calm down!" A dark blue pony with a horn and wings begged.

"GET AWAY FROM ME!" I shouted and tried to run away, but I couldn't get a grip on the floor with my bare feet. My hand reached out and grabbed a railing from my bed and I used it to propel myself to the door. A white pony with a horn and diamonds as a cutie mark cowered in the corner at my outburst and the little dragon got in front of her for some odd reason.

"Stop him before he hurts himself!" A pony wearing a lab coat declared. A lavender pony with a horn and wings along with an orange pony with a cowboy hat jumped in front of the door.

"Please Cougar, we just want to help you!" The lavender pony exclaimed.

"How do you know my call sign?!" I demanded as I raised my fists up. I then looked down to find that my flight suit was gone and I had a hospital gown on. "And where is my flight suit?! I swear if you did any experiments on me or did any weird satanic ritual you'll be sorry!" I warned. Suddenly, a pink pony with poofy hair and a joker-like smile hopped up in front of me.

"I like him! He's feisty and has some really nice moves!" The pony exclaimed and held out a cupcake, "wanna cupcake Mr. Cougar?!" She exclaimed more loudly. Then, the orange pony with the cowboy hat slowly approached me, causing me to move back into a wall.

"Now jest take it easy there Cougar," she said in her southern accent, "we jest wanna help ya okay? But you gotta relax and let the doctors here do their job, are ya thirsty?" She asked. I was shaking like a leaf and my breathing was very short as I could only breathe through my nose.

"Where is my flight suit and helmet? I know they didn't come off by themselves during the ejection," I replied. I kept my fists up as the largest pony in the room approached me and laid a hoof on my shoulder. I jumped slightly, but something made me not take a swing at her.

"Please do as our friend Applejack says," she pleaded softly. So she was the heavenly voice I heard, "if you lie down on your bed, we will explain everything to you," she stared into my eyes kindly. I can't explain it, but there was something in her eyes that made me trust her, not completely, but enough to where I listened. My fists were lowered to my sides and I slowly walked back to my bed. The pony smiled and her horn glowed as a glass of water was levitated towards me. I took a few sips before setting the glass down on the table.

"Okay, first thing, I can trust you all enough that you'll heal me, but I'm not just going to trust you on everything all at once okay?" I pointed to everyone in the room.

"That seems fair," the blue pony remarked, "if I woke up in a hospital in a strange world I would have a hard time putting my complete trust in just anypony," she explained.

"Second thing," I continued, "how do you know my call sign?" I asked. The lavender pony levitated my flight suit and purple helmet above me, "oh I see," I blushed slightly at my brainfart. Applejack cleared her throat and walked up to the bed.

"D'you have a real name there Cougar?" She questioned.

"Sorry," I replied, "but I'm not going to tell any of you until I feel the time is ready," I explained. She nodded and dropped her hoof from the side of the bed.

"That seems fair," the largest pony smiled, "I understand your fear and uncomfortable attitude."

"I apologize, but what is your name?" I asked the pony.

"My name is Princess Celestia, I rule over all of Equestria and this is my sister Luna," she used her wing to point to the blue pony next to her, "and myself, her and Princess Twilight are alicorns," she explained and pointed to the lavender alicorn pony.

"Princess Celestia, that's a very holy sounding name," I commented.

"Why thank you Cougar," she bowed her head.

"So, why did you guys save me? I mean, I'm sure my appearance scared some of you." A few of the ponies nodded, except for the Rainbow maned one in the other hospital bed and the pony sitting next to her.

"Well, we couldn't just leave a poor, innocent and injured creature to die, that would be cruel of us," a yellow pony with a pink mane and wings commented.

"I thank you for that, but I still don't have any clue as to how I got here or even survived, I should've died last night," I said aloud. I heard a few gasps and Luna placed a hoof on my chest.

"How could you say such a thing young Cougar? I felt the nightmare you were having and I entered so as to make you feel better. I saw the bravery you showcased by attempting to sacrifice yourself to save your friend known as Reaper," she explained. My heart stopped, and my body went limp.

"Reaper?" I choked out before thoughts of my now dead best friend flooded back and tears started to flow down my face. I covered my eyes and looked away from the ponies that rescued me.

"Oh my, are you alight?" The yellow pony asked.

"No, I had to watch-" I started before I stopped and wiped my eyes, "it's nothing. I don't want to talk about it right now," I covered up.

"Well, is there anything else you'd like to tell or ask us?" Twilight asked. I sighed and looked back at everypony in the room.

"Look, I don't mean to be rude but I've had a very stressful last few hours. If you let me sleep for a little bit or just leave me alone, I will tell you a little more about myself if that's what you want, but there's a lot of things I've got to think about," I instructed. Celestia bowed her head and respected my wishes and led everypony out of the room, save for Applejack for some reason.

"Cougar, I know ya want to be left alone fer a little bit, but I can tell ya don't actually want to be alone, and if ya want, I can stay here with ya if ya ever need somepony ta talk to," she offered with a smile. I opened my eyes and raised an eyebrow. Damn, she was good at spotting lies. I didn't really want to be left alone, I just didn't want to answer any questions.

"Thanks, I'd appreciate that Applejack," I returned the smile. My eyes drifted over to a few of the chairs in the room and I spotted my survival duffel bag. "Hey, could you please bring that over here?" I pointed out to Applejack. She turned her head to see what I was talking about and fetched the bag for me.

"What's in it?" She asked me as she looked at it curiously. Since these ponies were kind enough to save my life, I decided to hide my pistol so I wouldn't scare them. I grinned as I pulled out my iPad.

"What is that thing?" the cyan pony next to me asked as she propped herself up to look at what I was holding," it looks like a book with a screen," she commented. I turned on the power button and entered my password and I was met with the main menu of my iPad.

"This is an iPad, it's an entertainment device that my species uses to avoid doing anything on our days off from work," I explained and hit the music app. I scrolled though the library and clicked on one of my favorite songs.

"Where in tarnation is that music comin' from?" Applejack jumped as the music started.

Out of touch, out of reach yeah
You could try to get closer to me
I'm in luck, I'm in deep, yeah
Hypnotized, I'm shakin' to my knees

"The music is coming from this device," I explained as I clicked the repeat button and laid the iPad on the table next to my bed. My eyes started to feel heavy. I expected that as I used up a lot of my energy trying to escape. Though I expected I didn't have that much energy to spare anyways.

I gotta know tonight
If you're alone tonight
Can't stop this feeling
Can't stop this fire

Oh, I get hysterical, hysteria

"This is a pretty good song," the cyan pony said, "so what was your world like?" She asked.

"Rainbow Dash," Applejack started. 'So that's her name,' I thought. "Cougar said he ain't answerin' no more questions tonight alright?"

"Fine, guess I'll just get some more shut-eye too," Rainbow yawned. Before I fell asleep however, I turned to Applejack.

"Hey, sorry for jumping to conclusions and threatening to hurt you," I apologized as a doctor came by and reattached my IV tube.

"Don' worry 'bout that Cougar, you were scared and confused, I understand yer reaction," she replied, "but what's a satanic ritual?" She asked.

"Nothing, just nothing," I replied as the IV fluid finally made me fall asleep.

End Chapter 1

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Alright, chapter 1 is in the books! I hope Cougar's reactions weren't too rushed. I felt that he responded appropriately and come on, I'm sure Celestia's mother-like voice and reasoning would swing anybody if they were non threatening. Next Chapter, Cougar gets released from the Hospital and Celestia has him explain a little more about his past and tries to get an answer about how he got to Equestria and we find out where Cougar is going to live.