Woopdy fucking doo

As I sat down at the nearest table I could find, and looked down at the pile of crap I was just given on my tray. The "meal" that I had on my plate was what we call around here "Shit on a Shingle". Oh what is that exactly? well basically it’s just mush of egg,meat, and any other stuff they bought from the local village market 3 miles out from the base, the pile o' mush is then served on a stale piece of toast, I know what you’re thinking, "doesn't that taste horrible?" in short,

Yes, yes it does.

But it’s a tad bit bearable with salt. And by salt I mean ALL of the salt, like an entire shaker of it. Supposedly, its packed chock full of protein, as well as the chefs that serve it say that "it builds muscle" or "that'el put meat on ya bones". It’s just a bunch of malarkey, I'm a solid 150 lbs (I know, I lift) and I all ways have been since I got deployed here. Any who, I picked up my lame excuse of a meal and considered eating for the millionth time, until nick unceremonious came by and scared the shit outta me,

"Hey Brian!"

"HOLYFUCKINGHSHIT!" I screamed and spazzed about, promptly dropping my "food" in the progress.

"What the fuck Nick?!, I told you not to sneak up on me like that, not after Herat..." I trailed off

"Aw you cant take a little jump scare?" he said

"You know what happened to me dingus." I retorted

So what exactly happened in Herat? Well long story short, I was flying a group of marines into a hot-zone when my Helo or (if you wanna get technical) Sikorsky HC-53E "Super Stallion" and was hit by an RPG, I couldn't re-gain control and fell out of the sky, crashing into the side of a hill. The crash killed 13 of the 15 marines (and my co-pilot), the other 2 where severely injured. After the crash I crawled out of the wreckage and limped away from the helo.

And surprise, surprise! I had crash not even 10 meters away from the RPG team that shot me down, when I walked up the hill, I came face to face with an insurgent from the RPG team. It took to awhile for both of us to figure out what the fuck was going on until he pulled the gun on me and began firing. Lucky he shot like shit and I just jumped out of the way and barrel rolled down the hill like a dumb ass. At the bottom of the hill I could see him and the rest of his terrorist pals loading their weapons. I have never been so close to death in my entire life, I was injured, stranded, without a weapon and about to become a human pasta strainer. I closed my eyes waiting for the enviable.

The sound of a mini gun tearing up some serious lead exploded in my ears as my eyes shot open to see the heavenly sight of a V-22 Osprey flying into a hovering position over me. Apparently a ranger squad in the osprey had seen my chopper go down and went in for search and rescue of the crash they had just witnessed. After that, whenever I round corners or when people make sudden appearances, my mind flashes to the face of that afghan insurgent, staring straight at me with all the hate, malice and pure animalistic desire to kill.

Aaand that's why children, I don't like surprises, SO anyway back to dumb-ass Magee and his heart stopping appearance.

"Yeah, yeah, well, hey sometimes I forget what happened with you at Herat, didn't you get over your fear or something? Like when you went to that on-base therapist?"

Nick took a bite out of his shit shingle, honesty I have no idea how he eats that stuff.

"Well you do know its pretty dam hard to talk about your "feelings" when the base is being hit with fucking mortars."

He almost spat out his food when he snorted,

"PTSHH, HA, I remember that! You went to Dr. O'Donald's office right before the attack."

"Laugh all you want, but until you come face to face with a crazed terrorist that shoots like Helen Keller with a blind fold on, then don't come crying to me." I retorted

*BITTZZ*

*Lieutenant Nick Keloski and Captain Brian Nash are to report to Colonel Hewitt's office immediately *

"What the hell did you do this time Nick?"

"Uhhh"

"Well, that's not a good answer."
_________________________________________Colonel's Hewitt's office, 9:01 AM

"Do you understand why I called you down here boys?"

"No sir" we both replied

Both of us were standing in front of Colonel in his office, something that almost every rookie fears the moment they step foot on the base. Now I'm not saying Colonels a bad guy, he just...imposingly daunting, he stands at about 6'6, VERY large, (and by large I mean muscular). This man looks like he bench presses Abrams tanks every morning, and his eyes are fucking terrifying.
They should be a weapon with in its self. He could look at any hardened veteran and make him shiver with dread, if looks could kill, he could wipe out an entire tank battalion with one glance.

"Well, take a seat." he motion to the two chairs sitting in front of his desk.

As we both sat down he began talking,

"You both have been picked randomly by me and other high ranking officials to do some....military testing."

Uh oh

"The U.S government has been experimenting with cloaking and stealth technology for many years, and in 2011 we had finally been able to reproduce a stealth technology so advanced it could make any aircraft, boat, or vehicle virtually invisible."

"Like, to radar, or something?" said Nick stupidly

No Nick, invisible to flying alien horses. I spat internally

"Actually Lieutenant, the cloak is optically invisible." said Colonel with a smirk

Both of our jaws dropped respectively as our brains processed the information.

"You two heard right, our boys in the lab have been able to make vehicles disappear by using electromagnetism and some other science crap." Colonel then got slightly serious

"Are you boys’ familiar with the Philadelphia Experiment?"

Nick then instantly responded,

"Um ye-yeah, in the forties, th-the navy wanted a way to keep magnetic mines from attracting to ships, s-so they did an experiment, and supposedly the ship turned invisible and disappeared." Nick stammered out, the excitement in his voice was prominent.

"But that's just a conspiracy theory, r-right?"

Colonel then looked at us with a predators smile,

"Who said it’s a theory."

Nick practically fainted at his words. Now if you’re wondering why he so worked up about this, you may need to know that Nick is a HUGE science nerd, he loves science fiction and future technology concepts. Every time DARPA or Boston dynamic comes out with a new YouTube video showcasing those fucking weird ass robot-terminator-deer things, he goes fucking nuts and won’t shut up about it all day. So something like this is like saying NASA found a four legged alien on the fucking moon, basically he's visibly vibrating with excitement.

"So, after we did some testing with a Drone, we had some...problems. There must have been an error in the drone’s computer, when it turned invisible, it flew about a hundred meters away from the testing site and then it just fell off the radar map. As well as having no visual contact, we were never able to recover it."

"And why does this involve us?" I asked

"We deiced that we need human test pilots and test vehicles to test the newer version of the cloak."

Well crap, I think I know where this is going

"You two are going to be flying your Apache and test out the new technology."

Bingo, I was right on the money

Nick practically jumped out of his chair with excitement.

"Really? WE get to fly it? AWESOME." he then proceeded to fist pump the air

"Professionalism, Lieutenant." warned Colonel, narrowing his eyes

Nick instantly sat straight up and cleared his throat,

"Ah," *achem* "yes sir"

"Good, both of you are to report to the hanger at 0930 hours, is that clear?"

We both snapped straight up, standing and locking our arms in a salute,

"YES SIR"

"Great, now go, I have a shit ton of paper work needing to be done."

Walking out, Nick, for the second time of the day, gave me ANOTHER heart attack

"fuck YEAH!" he screamed right into my ear

"AHH what the fuck dude!" I glared daggers at him

"Oops sorry, I'm just so excited! i cant wait to fly Ignus with cloaking tech! I wonder what she'll look like with it on? oh wait, she'll be invisible..." I promptly face palmed at the comment

"Well, Well, Well, isn't it Captain faggatron and his side kick the Amazing-Retardo." snorted a VERY cocky and annoying voice

I came up from my face palm to see a man with blond hair, blue eyes and a extremely smug look on his face. He was wearing a flight suit with a boars head embalm on one of his patches, under his arm was a helmet with the design of shark mouth.

"Richard" I spat

"Yes, me. I just got off from ANOTHER mission, one in which I took out an entire insurgent ambush force on a mountain top with only one J-dam. And my accuracy it was spectacular, and might I say, perfect." his entire face turned into an expression of very proud, VERY dickish smirk.

"J-dams are GPS guided,dumb ass, all you have to do is press a button." I retorted

" And I'm pretty sure a drone could do a better job than your half ass shit." Said Nick

"Whatever" he replied

So, who is this Richard or "Dick" (if you catch my drift)? well, he is a "top" A-10 Thunderbolt or "Warthog" Pilot who constantly brags about how Warthogs are the best aerial vehicle because they help the ground troops ooh so much blah blah blah. Anyhow he is generally a prick and no one likes hanging around with him,mostly because he is such..a..fucking...buzz kill. And by buzz kill, I mean it. it's imposable to strike up a conversation with him because all he talks about is him or his plane.

"At least I can use an ordnance, unlike you." he snickered a little

"That was only ONCE, the fucking sidewinder was defective and it wouldn't fire!"

"Suuuure... but whatever, who cares anyway? I'll leave both of you to do what ever you helo pilots do."

He then walked off in the most douches swagger I have ever seen.

"come on, lets go" said Nick pulling my arm as I seared holes with my eyes into the back of Dick's head.

____________________________________________________Charles Air force base,Shindand Afghanistan, hangar No 5, 9:30 AM

We both walked through Hanger 5, our feet echoing over the noise of mechanics working on aircraft and the chattering of scientist.

wait, scientists?

as we approached a group of scientist who where crowed around our Apache, Aether ignus or "Heaven's Fire" a woman step out in front of us and stopped me could with her arm.

"No personnel are allowed in this hanger unless authorized, do you have an ID?" she spoke with a cold and professional tone, like as if she done this kind of thing every day.

"Um no, but I was told-"

"Nope, no ID, no authorization, get out." she said rather harshly, as she began to push us away from our helicopter.

"But where the pilots Colonel sent, to test the cloak-thing." the pushing stopped as she looked at us and narrowed her eyes, then she clicked her pen and looked at a clip board she was holding, she went though several papers and then cocked her had and raised an eyebrow.

"Captain Brian Nash?"

"That's me ma'am" I responded confidently

"And I presume your Lieutenant Nickolas Keloski?"

"Yup, and you can call me nick for short..he he" Nick responded sheepishly

"Ok then, follow me pilots." She motioned us to follow her towards the Ignus

"I'm sure Colonel Hewitts has briefed you on the new tech."

"Yes he has ma'am, he told us all about it" Nick spoke up

"Oh really?" She huffed

"I'm sure he didn't go through the trouble telling you how it actually works."

Nick stood quite as he pondered the question, as for me, I was now generally interested, how did it work?

"We'll basically it just magnets, but I'll get into later." She said.

I then completely forgot about something.

"Oh, I never got your name, miss...."

"DR. Quartez"

"oh, sorry." I sheepishly whispered

She push a few buttons on a console and the went over to a touch screen monitor,
poking and slide at things on the glass surface.

"So, do you see that ball thing on the belly of the aircraft?" She motioned with her head to the Apache.

Under the helicopter, was a oval-ballish looking object about the same size of a basket ball, it was completely
chrome and was super reflective. When looking at the aircraft, I kinda looked like a tumor growing out of the belly.
I turned to Dr.Quartez, who was now currently copying a diagram of the computer screen onto a notepad.

" Yeah, so what is it?"

"That is what we have dubbed a "Super Magneto" it creates a very high amount of electromagnetic radiation that
when turned to certain frequency, can manipulate light particles and distort wave lengths of certain electromagnetic
radiation waves."

"What." I said pretty stupidly

Nick then perked up,

"It's basically a huge tuning fork with a magnet attached to it"

"Exactly" she said

A scientist that was fiddling with the Magnet came up to the Doctor and began showing her papers,

"The aircraft is ready for take off with the device, when do we start testing ma'am?" He said

Looking over the papers, she said with a hint of excitement in her voice,

"You ready to fly boys?"

_________________________________________________________________10:34 AM above Charles Airforce base

The sound was beautiful, the sound of my lady purring as we did a sharp right. The way she was so willing was I moved the joystick forward, my loving touch of my finger as I pressed a button to unleash a maelstrom of hot lead directly at a dummy tank.

oh the moment was so perfect, every thing felt perfect when was in my lady,

my Apache.

*tzzzt*

"hey dumb ass were about to crash into the tower!"

Shit! I thought as I swerved away from the flight tower, almost hitting it. I probably gave everyone inside a fucking heart attack.

*tzzzt*

"Ok Captain, were about to begin the experiment." said a voice over the radio, who I recognized as the Dr's

"Sure thing Doc, tell me what to do and I'll just fly."

"Great, we are about to turn on the first stage of the Super Magneto, you may feel a small tingling sensation."

Soon enough, I felt a small jolt in the aircraft frame, followed by the same pins and needles sensation the Doc talked about.

"Ok now what?" I asked

*tzzzt*

"see that hoop in the distance?"

I scanned the ground for the "hoop" she had told me about.

sure enough, about 20 meters out, was a large, silvery, half hoop thing on a post that stood at about 50 feet up from the ground.

"What the fuck is that?" Nick asked to nobody

"That Lieutenant, is what charges the electrical field around your aircraft, even more than it is now. the hoop cause the magnetic field to increase by fifty times its original power."

"So what do we do?" I asked

"Just fly through it and you will become optically invisible in about 10 seconds." her voice echoed over the radio.

"Well here goes nothing" my voice was shaken slightly with nervousness.

The Apache tipped forward slightly as I guided it toward the hoop. As we neared it, blots of electricity jumped from the aircraft to the ring.

Welp, I'm about to see whether or not I blow the fuck up, or disappear.

The helicopter passed right through the hoop with out resistance.

*tzzzt*

"Good, now that the final stage of the cloak if finished, we can being visual and radar testing." Doc begin to speak over the radio,

"It a few seconds, a cloud of green mist or fog should appear around your vehicle."

Sure enough, strange green fog seemed to appear out of thin air, and being to envelop the helicopter. i stop flying forward due to the fog obscuring the my view of the outside world. I could not see any thing out side of the canopy, just a dark metallic green cloud.

"Ok pilots" the Doctor spoke once again over the radio

"All you have to do is just fll.....y"

*TZZZZZZZZTT*

Her voice trailed off and was cut by the sound of severe radio interference

"Doctor do you copy? Doctor come in." All I got in reply was the dull, haunting noise of static.

I then transferred over to the radio frequency of the Air traffic control tower.

"Tower, tower, do you copy? this is Captain Brain Nash. Come in tower, I have lost radio contact with Doctor.Quartez." The same static-y noise was heard over the mic.

This is about the point where I start to panic, I quickly then turned off my flight radio and turned my my cockpit communicator.

"Nick, you there?....Nick answer me dammit!"

.
.
.
.
.
.

"Yeah I'm here, you big baby." I breathed a sigh of relief as I heard him chuckling over the mic.

"Oh boy, you should of heard your voice, you where like "I'm Brian, and I cant be left alone cuz I'ma big wuss" HA"

I could feel my blood literary begin to evaporate from my veins with the amount of anger I was holding back.

"If there wasn't four inch ballistic glass between us, I would sock you up side the head so fucking hard right now." I threatened.

"YEAH, suuure.....ok what the fuck?"

"What is it?"

"My gauges are going fucking apeshit haywire! what about yours?"

I looked down at my console, my gauges, where indeed bugging the fuck out as well, the primary flight display was reading we where doing barrel rolls. The Altimeter was spinning around in circles, the airspeed instrument was at full speed, the in-aircraft magnetic compass was spinning like the altimeter.

Basically, my Apache wouldn't chill the fuck out.

vvvvvvvVVVRRRRREEEMMMMM

A loud, vacuum like sound pierced my hearing through the low hum of the engines. Looking up, I saw the cloud of fog start to swirl into a vortex in front of the nose. The Apache started to tilt and lean toward the aperture in the vortex.

"Uhhh..Brian, why are we flying into that thing?"

"I don't know, why you asking me?" I quickly said.

"because your flying us into it!" he yelled through the mic

"No I'm not, my hands aren't even on the stick!"

I looked back at the vortex, we where very close, way to close. I don't wanna know whats on the other side of that thing.

"Well, hang on tight Nick, and PLEASE don't shit yourself like the last time we flew."

"HEY, I was sick and the G's we pulled MADE me stink up the ApaAAACHEEE!"

Nick screamed as the world flashed white, a pit in my stomach formed and I whited out from a extreme sense of exhaustion.

Author's Notes:

And so, that concludes the 2nd chapter of the story, basically this chapter is to show what happened before they got to Equestria and how they did. As well as introducing the characters a little, and giving them a background.

there are a lot of words too, ( a nice big juicy chapter for ya' if i say so myself )

comment on how you guys would like me to tweak the characters personality just a little, and weather or not the plot is going the right way, ( just wanna make you guys happy :D)

and thank you all so MUCH for 200 fav's! love you guys, and keep on reading

/)