A women watched from her door looking at the coming snowstorm heading her way while she watched the snow blow over the tundra. She had on a white uniform with a armored vest on and eight pouches for her rifle that was slung across her chest.

She had blonde hair that was in a bun and sharp green eyes that seemed to capture everything. She had a strong curvaceous build to her with D cup breast that were wrapped under her uniform standing at 5' 8".

"AJ? What are you doing out here?" She turned to see a man in a Russian white camouflage uniform. He had white hair and blue eyes, he was built from his work as a farmer standing at 5'11" before he joined the military and met AJ

"Watching the storm come in, it looks like a really bad one." She stated moving back over to her fellow captain patting his shoulder as she past.

"Artyom, lets go see how the umnik are doing before we hit the sack." She suggested getting a nod Artyom as he followed her down into the base as a few soldiers walked past them snapping a salute to them getting one in return.

"Artyom, what do you think they are doing down there anyway?" AJ asked watching him shrug.

"Don't know but the official report was that a new energy source that's suppose to replace fuel. If it works we will be the most powerful nation in the world, even the Americans will come begging to get a taste of what we have." He smiled as she laughed.

"You will make a great leader one day comrade captain if you keep that attitude up." She smiled lightly punching his arm as they walked down a narrow passageway that little cubby holes dug into the ice for firing positions incase they were ever attacked and they got in while two more soldiers came up beside them smiling.

"Ah, AJ good to see you comrade! We missed you last night for cards." The man behind her said as she huffed.

"Yall just like an easy win Mihail." She grumbled hearing him laugh as she turned back to glare at her fellow captain. He had brown hair and was tanned with greenish eyes in the standard snow uniform. He was built and powerful like the rest of them standing a good head taller than AJ at 6' 3".

"Oh ease up, AJ he's only messing with you." She sighed and turned back to Artyom with a smile.

"I know but it's so easy for him to do it." She grumbled when she felt a hand on her shoulder making her look back at Mihail.

"Hey AJ, you know I don't mean anything by it. You're like my little sister, I have to bug you every once in a while." He grinned while she sighed.

"I know Mihail, I don't know why I let it get to me." She grumbled as the others laughed while Artyom threw a arm over her.

"Don't worry AJ we all know that even if you can't keep a poker face for shit, that you can still beat us all in the ring." He smiled as she nudged him with her shoulder smiling.

"Alright you two don't get all lovey dovey in front of us." Mihail said winking at them as they blushed.

"How much longer do you think it will be before these two will be retired and married with 4 kids Nikolai?" Mihail asked looking over at the shorter man. He had blonde spiky hair with aqua colored eyes with a small stubble decked out in standard gear besides his old school M-4 and a special carbon colored DE .50 on his hip.

"Don't know Mihail, I give it another 6 months. What do you think?" He asked smiling at the two blushing.

"I give it the next 2 months with the way these two are." He chuckled only to get a punch in the arms by the two.

"Shut it Mihail." AJ grumbled as she turned to glare at Nikolai who raised his arms in surrender.

"Don't encourage him Nikolai." She growled while he smiled and nodded.

"Of course ma'am." He grinned getting a huff from her.

The three fell into silence as they walked down the hall and down further into the ice.

"Brrr, why do we have to guard these civilians while our friends are enjoying some nice liquor back home?" Mihail asked grumbling as he rubbed his arms.

"I've told you before Mihail, orders are orders. Now hush up and look presentable, we're about to head down." She stated getting a nod from the others as they once again fell silent as they boarded the elevator down.

The elevator opened show a massive room long with blue orb in the middle of the room making them stare in awe.

"That's incredible! I've never seen anything like it before." Artyom said getting nods from his friends.

"Indeed, what you are looking at is pure energy. with just that size of a ball we can power our whole nation for another 1000 years on it alone and once that is in effect and our nation adapts to it, our cars, planes, and military will run non stop with the need of fuel to slow us down. We may even be able to weaponize this for our military." AJ looked back and smiled at the head researcher Dr. Luka.

"How long do you think that will take sir?" She asked while the older man smiled.

"Oh not anytime soon I'm afraid. Would you like to see it up close?" He asked getting a nod from the group as the doctor led the way through the security scanners.

AJ looked amazed at the large orb while she ran her in front of the orb as lights went across it while she got the readings from it.

"What did you find captain?" He asked as she looked at the numbers.

"The energy readings are beyond off the charts sir. I can't even begin to explain it." She said as he chuckled.

"Well captain if you could I would gladly give you my job." He smiled looking back at the orb.

"So AJ, what do you think of the future of our nation?" Artyom asked as she smiled up at him.

"I think it's looking very bright." She said and heard their two friends chuckle.

"Oh that have that look in their eyes Nikolai." Mahail laughed as the two blushed.

"What did I tell you about that-" BOOM!!!

The four heard the alarm sounding as they looked around.

"We're under attack by a unknown military group! They've cut our communications, there's no way we can't call for help!" She looked up to see one of her soldiers running up to them.

"Der'mo! Mihail, Nikolai secure the room no doubt those bastards have already got inside and will be heading this way. Evacuate the research team and secure the power source." AJ ordered as they all nodded while they radioed for their troops to regroup inside the hallways to slow them down while they took care of the project and the researchers.

She could hear gun fire as she watched a lead casing start to seal around the power source while a few of their men made it inside the room to help with the intruders.

"Sargent take your team and set up near the elevator, they will have to use it to get to the project." She ordered as they saluted and set up in front of the elevator as the last of the researchers were evacuated.

AJ and the others set up in front of the orb as the casing slowly started to close just as the elevator came down and she saw her troops firing into the elevator while they were being fired on by the unknown attackers.

"Be ready boys, here they come." She stated pulling off her heavy winter gear showing a heavy armor plated body suit that had the rest of her gear under it. She watched as her troops were blown apart by a rocket making them duck down before looking over the computers to see blood and body parts all over the place.

(Area secured no hostiles in sight.) She heard making her grit her teeth.

'American's?' She thought as she watched 12 soldiers walk around the room heading towards them as she ducked back down and looked at them and nodded. Using her hands she signaled for Mihail and Nikolai to flank from the right while she and Artyom would flank from the left.

She looked over the top again spotting them huddled up around one of the computers.

'Arrogant pricks.' She thought as she moved down further where she could get a clear shot and could see her other friends from where she was.

"OPEN FIRE!" She screamed standing up behind her cover as she unloaded into the soldiers along with Mihail and Nikolai taking down half of them while the others were hit by shrapnel from a mini rocket out of Nikolai's shoulder launcher.

"Haha! Don't mess with the best stupid dogs!" Mihail shouted rushing up to them kicking away their weapons.

"Who are these guys?" Artyom asked aiming down the sights of his LMG while Mihail came to his side.

"I bet they're American's, bastards are greedy and want to take what they can't have." He growled jabbing a soldier who was lung shot.

"Try to get communications back up Nikolai, I want command to know what's been going on here. Also I want a full count of our dead and wounded." AJ ordered as she looked down at a black masked soldier that was pointing a pistol at her.

"SHIT!" She dived out of the way as he fired while the others blew holes in all of them.

"Captain are you ok?" Artyom asked rushing to her side with fear and worry in his eyes.

"Yeah I'm fine!" She yelled before they all heard the sound of creaking metal making them all turn slowly to see the orb was starting to bulge and bubble making them stare at it in fear.

"RUN!" Mihail screamed as they all jumped to their feet and sprinted to the emergency exit before a blinding flash swallowed them.

[Unknown snow field]

AJ woke up with a groan and looked around to see the remains or the lab while she rolled over trying to stand up only to fall as she felt a pain in her leg and a weight on her back.

"Damnit! Mihail! Nikolai! Artyom!" She called out to her friends hearing a groan to her left.

"Artyom! Are you ok?" She asked watching as he sat up.

"Yeah I think I'm ok." He said rubbing his head as they heard two more groans behind them.

"Mihail! Nikolai! Are you guys ok?" She called out to them as they rolled over looking up at the sky.

"Yeah we're ok captain." They said looking around.

"Well could one of you help me out here I thank one of my legs are broken." She said as she heard Artyom get up and moving over to her.

"I got you captain." He said hefting whatever was on her off before he gasped.

"WHAT THE HELL!" She heard Mihail yell making her start to panic.

"What?! What is it?!" She screamed crawling away before she looked down to check herself and froze.

"WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO ME!?" She screamed looking down at a horse body starting to freak out.

"What happened to me, where did my body go?!" She cried as Artyom came to her side.

"Whoa easy AJ calm down." He said while trying to keep come himself as they heard the others rush to her side.

"What happened to her Artyom?" Nikolai asked in shock.

"How the hell should I know?" He snapped while holding the small mare in his chest as she sobbed.

"What's going on?" She whimpered while he ran a hand through his captains mane.

After a while he pulled back to see she had exhausted herself from the emotional shock of what had happened.

"What are we going to do Artyom?" Mihail asked while the man picked AJ up while they gathered their weapons and ammo from their dead comrades.

"I don't know but we need to find shelter before we freeze to death, grab the others gear and anything salvageable and we'll set up camp here till we figure this out." He said as they nodded and began to gather up as much gear as they could before digging into a snow dune not to far from where they were.

A few hours later AJ woke up with a moan as she looked around to see Mihail and Nikolai sound asleep in little cubbies that they dug into the snow. She looked to her left to see Artyom near the entrance of the small cave just looking out into the blizzard that was raging outside.

"Artyom?" She called out making him jump and turn to her pulling down his face mask smiling at her.

"Hey AJ, about time you woke up." He said crawling over to her wrapping her in a hug while he felt her hooves go around his back.

"What's happened to me?" She asked as she pulled back with tears going down her face before she felt them wiped away.

"I don't know AJ but we'll find a way to fix it." He smiled down at her running a thumb over her face and wiping the tears away from her face.

"Thanks Artyom." She sighed leaning into him as before he pulled back and covered her with a few heavy winter coats.

"Stay here and keep warm." He suggested while she smiled and nodded snuggling into the coats catching his scent making her smile and burrow her face into it.

"Hello?! Is anypony out here?!" She heard outside the cave making her look up as Artyom came in with a confused look on his face as he took his coat.

"I'll be right back, I hear some horses outside, so maybe there is someone out there that needs help. Stay here with these two and stay warm." He ordered as she looked at him worried.

"Be careful Artyom." She said trembling a little from the cold while he smiled and nodded.

"Be back in a minute." He said crawling out of the cave.

"Hello? Is anyone out there? Do you need help?!" She heard him yell before his voice was lost in the blizzard. She got up and moved over to a pack and rummaged through it looking for a flare so he could find his way back to the cave.

"Ah ha!" She cheered finding a green flare grabbing it somehow with her hoof and crawled to the mouth of the cave and cracked it making it flash and burn at the top before tossing it just outside the cave.

Before long she heard the sound of a rifle crack through the air making her jump up along with Mihail and Nikolai as they grabbed their rifles and ran out the cave.

"Artyom! Where are you!?" AJ called out as they heard two more shots from over the dune.

"Go move!" She ordered as they rushed over the dune to see five white ponies surrounding Artyom.

"Stay away from me!" Artyom screamed and fired another shot into the air making the ponies jump back.

"He's can't take all of us! Let's rush him." She heard one say.

AJ panicked and pulled the trigger guard from her rifle off as she took quick aim at the one in the purple armor.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you!" She screamed at them making them all stop and turn to her while her other two friends picked a target.

"Lay down your weapons and come quietly monsters!" She heard the purple armored one yell as she chambered a round.

"Lower yours first freaks!" She yelled back and looked at Artyom and smiled.

"Pick a target boys we got us some horse meat to cook tonight. I'll take Mr. Purple." She sneered while she heard them lock and load. She looked out of the corner of her eye to see a figure moving through the snow towards Purple.

She smiled as she recognized Michael a fellow captain as he grabbed the stallion disarming him and put a pistol to his head while he held his rifle in one hand aiming at another stallion while AJ switched targets to the stallion closest to Artyom.

"Lay your weapons down or your leader dies." Michael ordered while the mutant horses looked at each other tensed.

"You heard him! Lay your weapons down or the loud mouth gets a hole in his head!" She shouted watching them drop their weapons with a grumble while her team tied them up. She smiled trotting over to Michael stumbling every once in a while because of the snow and being in a horse body.

"Michael!" She squealed wrapping her arms around him.

"AJ?" He asked looking down and blonde and orange horse in front of him as she nodded.

"What the hell happened to you?" He asked shocked as the others walked up to them dragging a horse behind them.

"We don't know, after the orb went crazy we found her like that. Maybe these things know something about it." Artyom said as Mihail nodded while Nikolai headed up the dune.

"Where are you going Nikolai?" AJ asked as he smiled back at her.

" Going to make room for our comrade, you don't want him freeze in the snow do you?" He asked getting a smile from the mare as she waved him away.

"Carry on then." She stated and looked at Purple.

"Ok buddy boy you're going to tell me everything I want to know or I'll let Mihail skin your friends one at a time till you do." She said while the stallion stared at her like he's seen a ghost.

"Applejack?" He asked while she looked at him confused.

"Who? Look who are you and why did you attack Captain Artyom?" She asked.

"AJ, Twilight's friend? Element of Honesty? Any of this ringing any bells?" He asked as she growled.

"I'm gonna ring your bell if you don't start answering my questions." She snarled making him jump.

"My name is Prince Shining Armor of the Crystal Empire, we felt a massive surge of energy in this sector and came to investigate. You friend over their came out of no where and scared the crap out of us! When we tried to talk to him he started yelling so we took that as aggression." Shining stated as she looked at Artyom.

"What? They scared the crap out of me and purple over here started to used some kind of energy on me before I made him taste the bottom of my boot." He stated getting a nod out of her.

"Let them up, it seems we have a misunderstanding here." She stated and held out a hoof to Shining Armor who took it as she hauled him to his hooves.

"My name is Captain AJ of the the third Spetsnaz unit. This is Captain Artyom, Mihail, Michael, and the big guy that walked away is Captain Nikolai." She introduced him to the others who nodded to the prince.

"Sorry for ruffing you up but you have to understand the situation." She said getting a nod from him.

"Well why don't we all head back to the empire where we can talk and get warmed up." He suggested getting a nod from AJ as she looked back at her men.

"Ok boys lets pack it up and move out we got some walking to do." She said as the soldiers nodded and ran back to get their gear while she stayed with the horses.

"So Applejack, you don't remember anything about us?" Shining asked while she looked over at him.

"I think I would remember if I was a horse." She said are they huffed.

"We're ponies captain." Shining huffed looking offended.

"Same difference to me." She shrugged as a few of them grumbled

"So what are those things if you don't mind me asking?" Shining asked as she watched one of the stallions reach for a spear and she moved quickly digging the barrel of her rifle into his head making him freeze.

"Don't even think about it, just leave it there and stay by your friends." She ordered as he moved back to the group while the others glared at him.

"To answer your question Prince Armor, they are my comrades in arms and some of the most elite of my nations military and have killed many people for our motherland." She said just as her men came back.

"Captain what of our dead?" Mihail asked as she sighed.

"We'll collect them once the blizzard is over, did you already mark them for pickup?" She asked getting a nod from Mihail.

"We moved them into the cave so no animals with get to them and gathered their weapons as well." Artyom said as he handed her, her gear as she slipped it onto her back before securing the straps around her front.

"Ok lets go." She said and looked at Shining Armor who nodded while his soldiers gathered their weapons and led the way to this empire.

As they walked AJ started to hum making the men smile as they joined her in singing.

Unbreakable Union of free-born Republics

Great Russia has welded for ever to stand,

Thy might was created by will of our peoples,

Now flourish in unity, great Soviet Land!

Sing to our Motherland, home of the free,

Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong!

The Party of Lenin, the strength of our peoples,

To Communism’s triumph lead us on!

Through tempests the sunrays of freedom have cheered us

Along the new path where great Lenin did lead.

To a righteous cause he raised up the peoples,

Inspired them to labor and heroic deeds.

In the victory of Communism’s deathless ideals

We see the future of our dear Land,

And to her fluttering scarlet banner

Selflessly true we always shall stand!

As the group trudged on they kept looking at AJ curious at how she could talk to these strange creatures and from the way she looked at one of them she was very attracted to him.

"So what are those things around your chests?" One of the guards asked Mihail who just looked at him confused.

"What?" He asked.

"He asked about our rifles, didn't you hear him?" AJ asked while Mihail shook his head.

"I heard him but it sounded like a bunch of horse noises to me, I guess you get to be the translator." Mihail chuckled as she groaned.

"Just great."

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