A Soldiers' Heart
Chapter 4: Chapter 4: Return and Return again.
Previous Chapter Next ChapterAs Andrew awoke, he felt two large bodies beside him. He didn't open his eyes, but he remembered the night before. He opened his eyes, and there were two mares ... By each of his sides ... And he was naked. Andrew went wide-eyed.
"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-"
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Andrew gasped, breathing heavily as he awoke in his bed, back home. "Ponies ... Wha... What?" he questioned, sweating bullets. His breathing calmed. The smaller TV was still on. He seemed to have woken up from a nightmare. "Thank god ..." Andrew said, lying back down. "Heh, I thought ponies were real ... Ha ..." Andrew laughed at himself.
The soldier got up, stretching. It was early in the morning, and he looked out; he saw the highway, and further, he could see the base he worked at. He looked down, and his belt was still on, unalike the nightmare. He sighed in relief, going downstairs. He made himself some sunny-side up eggs and toast, and sat down at the table in the kitchen. Another sigh passed as he ate his breakfast. "Ponies ... Pfft ... What the fuck was I watching ..." he laughed. He turned on the big-screen TV and laid down on the couch, watching the news. "Nothing but politics ... Fuck the news!" he exclaimed, turning to the Food Network. Eeyup, The Food Network. He was watching 'Diners, Drive-ins and Dives'. "Too bad I can't have a FUCKING PULLED PORK SANDWICH! ... Oh wait, there's that restaurant downtown that I think sells them ... Hell, I'll go there for lunch ..." Andrew said, going upstairs. He was trying to forget about the dream, but he couldn't. "It was so realistic ... But why did I dream about ponies?" he questioned. When he got back to his computer room, the note from Julie was still there, along with the computer. He threw the note out, already knowing its contents from the dream. He turned on the computer, went onto YouTube and the first video thumbnail he saw ... Had the ponies from his dream. He went wide-eyed.
"What?!" he exclaimed. "THEY'RE CARTOONS!?!?! FUCKING CARTOONS?!!?!!" he yelled. "No .." he said, clicking on a video.
My Little Pony, My Little Pony ...
Aah, aah, aah ...
My Little Pony!
(I used to wonder what friendship could be,)
My Little Pony!
(Until you all shared its magic with me!)
Big adventure, tonnes of fun, a beautiful heart, faithful and strong,
Sharing kindness, it's an easy feat, and magic makes it all complete!
My Little Pony!
Do you know you're all my very best friends?
"AGH!!!!!! MY EYES!!!!!!" Andrew fell over. "FUCK! FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK! OW- FUCK!" he yelled, scrambling from the chair. "THE SHOW IS MADE FOR PREPUBESCENT GIRLS!?!? WHY THE FUCK OR HOW OR WHEN THE FUCK WOULD I WATCH SOMETHING OF SUCH MANOR!? MY DIGNITY AS A MAN IS NOW FUCKING GONE! MY PRIDE! AUGH!" he calmed down after his yelling. The episode played out, and he couldn't take his eyes away from the screen.
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"Why ... The fuck ... Did I watch 16 episodes ..." Andrew questioned, standing up. "They're so ... So ... Intriguing and ... C-c-colorful ... AGH! My pride ... Dissolving ... Dignity ... Burning ..." he curled up into a ball on the ground, rocking back and forth. "NO! I WON'T GIVE IN TO WHATEVER SICKENING DISEASE THIS SHOW GIVES OTHER MEN!!" he yelled.
"A SONIC RAINBOOM! SHE DID IT! SHE DID IT!!!!! WOOO!!!!!!"
"NOOO!!!!!!!!!" Andrew groaned. "WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO MEEEEEE!!??!!??!!"
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Andrew was going insane. He paced around his room, shutting the show off from his computer screen. "I won't give in ... I won't give in ... Ever ..." he maniacally laughed. His personality split in two between resistance and giving in, "But how could I? They're so delightful and adorable."
"NO! SHUT THE FUCK UP! I AM A MAN, NOT A FUCKING BABY!"
"You say that now. But it shall get to you. You can't resist."
"QUIT SEDUCING ME!!!"
"Seducing? I am not seducing you. I am simply tempting you."
"WELL I WON'T LISTEN! FUCK OFF!"
"Deep down inside you, you know that you want to continue. Don't let your stubborn pride blind you."
"It's not pride ... I'M UPHOLDING MY STATUS AS A MAN, YOU DICK!!!!"
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"Andy, who the fuck are you talking to?" Andrew's friend Thomas looked at him crazily, then noticed the ponies on the screen. "Wow ... You don't look too good. You alright man?" he asked.
"Alright?!?! Y-you ask me if I'm alright!?!? DO I LOOK ALRIGHT TO YOU!?!? GET THE FUCK. OUT!!!!!!!!!!" Andrew yelled, causing Thomas to bolt downstairs, out the door.
"Now look what you did. You scared the daylights out of him. What happened to love and tolerance, Andy?"
"URGH! STOP!"
"Stop what?"
"GAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" Andrew's mind shattered. He dropped to the ground. "I was a man... WHAT AM I NOW?!?!" he yelled angrily and nervously, submitting to the 'dark side' of manhood.
"You're ... A brony."
A maniacal smile crossed Andy's face, and then turned into a relaxed smile. A new sensation of fulfilling, peace and satisfaction filled the entirety of his body. He was a brony now.
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After about twelve hours, Andrew was in bed, watching My Little Pony on his laptop. He never got to finish Episode 16, so he did. "WOO! GO RAINBOW DASH!" he exclaimed, as the rainbow-maned pony broke the sound barrier on the screen. A sonic Rainboom. AWESOME!
Andrew said, "I should be awarded like ... The fastest man to become a brony ... Or something like that." Andrew, in the back, very far back, of his mind, still was mad at himself for liking such a show, but 99/100 of him overpowered and crushed his doubt and hatred. He saw a comment on a video;
'TWILIGHT IS BEST PONY!'
He replied, "Nope. Rainbow Dash is best pony. Have you seen the plot on that fine piece of ass!?" he typed and said his reply aloud. "Muah. Rainbow Dash is both best pony and sexiest pony." he blew a kiss, flipped his laptop, and drifted to sleep.
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As Andrew awoke, his mind was clouded with peace and ponies. "Aah ..." he said, getting up. "Mm. I wish that dream came true now."
The cellphone beside his bed rang. He answered, "Hello?"
"This is General Adams calling. Some trouble stirred up again in the Middle-East. You're in the army." came back a voice.
"General... AHHHHH!!!!!!!" Andy screamed. "NO! THIS IS NOT HAPPENING! NO!" he yelled into the phone.
"CALM DOWN BOY! What the fuck is wrong with you!?!" the older man yelled through the phone.
"I had a nightmare ... I got this call ... Police ... Jail ... Ponies ... Light ... Arghgh..." Andrew fell to the floor, unconscious from shock. A light began engulfing his unconscious form. He opened his eyes, "Whoa ..." and he was entirely engulfed, his entirety disappearing into thin air.
"Ponies? What? Andrew, answer! Andrew! ANDREW!" the General hung up, "DAMMIT!"
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"Okay girls! The spell should bring a living specimen from another planet! Let's hope it's something we -- I can study!" Twilight said to the girls, exhausted.
"Sugarcube, Ah don't think any kinda' spell of yers' is gunna open some sorta' portal to another world." AppleJack sounded serious.
"Knee itch! KNEE ITCH!" Pinkie said, her Pinkie sense tingling. Her front knee began to become irritated, itching. The other girls gasped.
"What does that mean again?" Twilight asked.
"SOMETHING SCARY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN!" Pinkie replied, pupils shrunken to the size of a dime, ducking under a table outside.
A light exploded from the sky. The girls heard a very, very faint yelling whilst they closed their eyes. They finally looked up, and they saw a form falling from the sky, screaming with fear, plummeting towards what seemed to be the Everfree Forest. Although they couldn't exactly see everything since the form was falling from so far away, from what it looked like, to Twilight, the specimen would land not too far into the forest.
"Girls! The specimen will land in the Everfree Forest! Let's go!" Twilight said, rushing ahead.
"Twilight! Wait fer' us!" AppleJack called out, running after her, followed by the others of the Mane Six.
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"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" Andrew screamed. He was too afraid to do or think of anything else. His form went limp at least half a mile before he would impact on the ground. Even though unconscious, he could feel the ground rupture and give way to the 235 Lb. human, shattering the terrain around, causing smoke to rise from the crater.
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The girls approached the Everfree Forest, and gasped when they saw smoke rise from the canopy. They went in hesitantly, and eventually found the smoldering crater.
"Twilight! We can't see anything through such thick smoke!" Rarity complained, coughing.
"Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, if you will ..." Twilight gestured the two Pegasi to clear the smoke. The two ponies flapped their wings, causing the smoke to part slowly but steadily.
The form they finally saw was bipedal. The girls gasped, stepping away from the beaten-up creature. "Twi' ... What is it?" AppleJack asked.
"I ... I don't know!" Twilight nervously replied. The creature's features were entirely bipedal in appearance. It had four main appendages and a head, the two upper appendages owning long, flexible fingers. No fur covered the creature except the hair on it's head, and it wore a black, soot-stained white t-shirt, along with baggy, soot-stained forest-camouflage pants. The creature's skin was also soot-stained, somewhat bloody. Rarity, along with Fluttershy shed tears from the sight.
"Is it ... Is it alive?" Fluttershy asked.
"I don't know. I'm going to check." Twilight said, hesitantly, curiously and nervously descending into the now calmed from smoke, shallow crater. She investigated the foreign body. She could see it's midsection slowly rise up and down.
It was breathing.
"It's alive! It's breathing! Help me get it out of here!" Twilight nervously but excitedly exclaimed. The other girls hesitantly complied, nervously dragging the being from the crater, onto the ground outside of the forest.
"Cool! An alien!" Rainbow Dash's eyes were dilated with excitement.
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Andrew slowly opened his eyes. He groaned in pain, and he heard muffled voices.
"Cool! An alien!"
His eyes slowly moved around, investigating the speakers. He let out a surprised and fearful gasp, followed by his eyes widening. The speakers were ... WERE ... P-p-ponies ... Andrew was entirely speechless. His mouth was clamped shut. He couldn't say anything even if he wanted to. He was absolutely stunned.
"Girls! It's awake!" one of them exclaimed, absolutely scared.
"Oh ... My ... I hope it's okay ..." one added.
"Can it speak our language?" another asked.
"I dunno. Lemme try. Hey! Can you understand us?" the question caught Andrew off guard. He nodded slowly and nervously. "Wow! It can understand Equestrian! AWESOME!!!!" the questioner exclaimed, it's cyan wings unfurling.
Andrew attempted to stand up, but ended up screaming in pain, holding his legs, dropping to the ground, "ARGH!" he screamed, making the ponies jump.
"Oh my, are you ... Are you okay?" a yellow pony asked in a timid yet soft voice.
"Fluttershy, Ah don't think it's okay ... Whatever it is." an orange, stetson-hat wearing pony replied.
Andrew winced in pain, holding his legs. He rolled up his pants, to reveal one thin but long gash on one of his legs, and the other with a seething, red-hot scrape from impact. He was sore all over. His eyes were watering.
"Mah oh mah. You alright there?" the stetson-hat wearing pony asked. Andrew shook his head quickly, 'No'. Blood slowly trickled from both injuries. He gritted his teeth.
"If I was okay ... Urgh ... I'd be able to stand! Which I can't!" Andrew exclaimed painfully.
"I know a place you can stay for now. AppleJack, you wouldn't mind allowing him to stay with you a night?" a lavender unicorn asked AppleJack.
"Ah'd be fine with it, Twilight. Can y'all walk?" AppleJack asked Andrew.
"I personally don't think walking'd be a good idea right now, unless I want these cuts to rip open." he replied, sorely, making Fluttershy cringe.
"What is your name, darling?" Rarity chimed in.
"Andrew. Andrew Colby." Andy replied. "Just call me Andy."
"Alright Andy. Rarity! He looks a bit weighty, I'll need a bit of your levitating powers to get him to AppleJack's house, alright?" she asked another, white unicorn.
"Absolutely." Rarity replied, the two unicorn's horns glowing, lifting Andrew from the ground, carrying him via levitation from the forest path, all the way to Sweet Apple Acres.
"Well, we should all introduce ourselves to him. Hello! I am Twilight Sparkle." Twilight introduced.
"Ah'm AppleJack, please ta' meetcha!" AppleJack followed.
"I am Rarity." the white unicorn added.
"I'm ... Fluttershy." the timid yellow Pegasus stuttered.
"I'm Rainbow Dash! Fastest flier in all of Equestria!" the cyan Pegasus exclaimed, beaming, eyes gleaming at Andrew, who went wide-eyed.
"Hi! I'm Pinkie Pie! It's super awesome to meet you!" the pink, frizzle-maned pony exclaimed, hopping along.
Andrew smiled. His dream came true, but at a price; pain all over his fucking body. "It's good to meet you all, I guess ... Er ... I'm curious ... Aren't you the least bit frightened of me?" Andrew asked.
"Well, we all were at first. But we learned in our past never to judge a book by it's cover, right girls?" Twilight replied, followed by a collective array of 'yeses' from the other ponies.
"Well, I can judge only one thing; your clothing! It is absolutely horrid! That crash must have left you beaten and dirtied!" Rarity said, levitating off the t-shirt from the being's body, revealing it's muscles.
"Whoa ... Nice muscles!" Rainbow Dash said, eyes gleaming as she laid eyes upon the being's muscles. Rarity was about to pull down it's pants, when the being blushed and grabbed the top of the pants.
"What?" Rarity asked.
"Our species requires to at least always wear clothing. It's not a fashion statement, but sometimes it is, but most times, we're just keeping ourselves concealed. Quadrupeds like you, equines I can only guess, have sheaths and tails to cover your genitals, unalike us, where it would be OPEN. FOR. EVERYBODY. TO SEE." Andrew made his point really clear, and every pony around him blushed.
"Oh ... Darling I am so sorry! I didn't mean to ..." Rarity was cut off by Andrew again,
"It's fine. Don't stress about it. I just didn't want to feel awkward ... Y'know." Andrew interrupted.
"Well, that too, is understandable. I can see why you don't want to be ... Er ... Revealed ..." Twilight said.
"Andrew, if you do not mind, I can take your clothing and wash it if you want." Rarity offered.
"Thanks. I'd be appreciative. Thank you, Rarity." Andrew said.
"Can I ... Feel your muscles?" Rainbow Dash blushed.
"Er ... Well ... Uh ... Erm ... Sure ... If you want to." Andrew replied, blushing as well. Rainbow Dash rubbed a hoof up and down his abs. "Ay! That tickles!" Andrew exclaimed. "Eh .. It'll pass."
"So ... Mind answering a couple questions while we're going to AppleJack's house, Andy?" Twilight asked.
"Not really. Go ahead and ask a few." Andrew replied, not noticing the cyan Pegasus feeling his abs up.
"Well, I want to know where you came from." Twilight asked.
"Oh ... I'm from another planet ... But ... You ponies are nothing like the ponies back on my planet. The ones back home are MUCH bigger than you, weigh like 650 - 1000 Lbs, are much less colorful, ranging from shades of brown to white, black, grey, etc. Not cyan like 'Dash, sometimes orange like AppleJack though, not pink like Pinkie, not yellow like Fluttershy, not lavender like Twilight, some are white like Rarity. And most important, they can't talk or think, make decisions on a scale like you. But they're smart for animals back home." Andrew said.
"Oh my stars! Darling! What ever happened to the ponies where you lived?" Rarity asked, dramatically.
"That's the way they are. They are born that way. Back home, their young are called ponies, and the adults are just horses." Andrew replied.
"Another question. How many of your species are there?" Twilight asked.
"Over seven billion humans on Earth. Estimated to be ten billion in ... Uh ... Seventy-one years from now." Andy replied, making the girls gasp.
"Wow!" Pinkie hopped up and down.
"That's an immense population. How big is your planet?" Twilight asked.
"Lemme see ..." Andrew said, reaching around in his pocket. "Aha," he said, pulling out a thin, black object, which shimmered to life.
"What's that?" Twilight questioned.
"Communication device from home. No service, but I'll show you a picture labeled with some ... I mean a lot ... Of facts about Earth." Andrew said, scrolling to a picture of a large, blue planet. "That's Earth. Now get ready, lots of facts here. There are 7 continents on Earth, along with 196 countries. The distance from Earth to the sun is an estimated ninety-three million, twenty thousand miles. The distance from Earth to it's moon is an estimated two-hundred thirty-eight thousand, eight hundred fifty seven miles. The highest elevated point on Earth is Mt. Everest in Asia, twenty-nine thousand, thirty-five feet above sea level. Earth's age is four point five to four point six billion years. There is 70.8% water on the entire planet compared to 29.2% land. The rotation on axis of Earth is twenty-three hours and fifty-six minutes. The revolution around the sun is approximately three-hundred sixty-five days, *Gasp!* the lowest recorded temperature was on the south pole, ranging at minus eighty nine point two degrees celcius, along with the highest recorded temperature was in Al Azizyah, Libya, it was fifty-seven point seven degrees celcius. The lowest point in the oceans would currently be the Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench, Western Pacific Ocean, thirty-five thousand, eight hundred forty feet below sea level. That's all it states." Andrew tossed facts like frag grenades like a noob in Black Ops with Warlord Pro. Rainbow Dash was now licking his abs, but he didn't even pay her any mind.
"That is ... Amazing!" Twilight exclaimed, eyes agleam.
"That's one heck of ah planet you have, Andy." AppleJack followed.
"Wow ..." Pinkie Pie was dumbfounded.
"I can't believe how much facts you have ... It's so amazing ..." Fluttershy looked interested.
"What about you, Rainbow Dash? What do you think? ... Rainbow Dash!" Twilight snapped Rainbow Dash out of her mental stupor.
"Uh ... Sorry, I- I wasn't paying attention." Rainbow blushed, looking up. Andrew's abs were glistening after Rainbow Dash licked them.
"Er ..." Andrew blushed.
"Sorry!" Rainbow apologized. "I just ... Got curious ... Er ... Sorry!"
"It's fine. I guess training in the military paid off. Haha ..." Andrew laughed at his own joke.
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Finally, they reached Sweet Apple Acres. Twilight and the others waved goodbye to AppleJack and Andrew as Andrew had his arm on AppleJack, supporting his walking. They entered the farm house, where AppleJack helped him up the stairs, resting him in her bed. "Now y'all need ta' get some rest there, sugarcube. Along with mahself, if y'all don't mind." AppleJack said, climbing into bed with him.
"Not at all. Not at all." Andy replied, somewhat awkwardly.
AppleJack and Andrew quickly fell to sleep, snoring. They slept beside each-other, but ended up snuggling up together. Andrew wrapped his arms around the pony in his sleep somehow, and they slept in an embrace.
My fingers hurt. Meh, I hope y'all enjoyed this chapter. Check out my other stories!