"Is everyone ok?" Alex heard Silas ask, their Helicopter had crashed and burned.

Jäger went to help Mordecai get up, and Kat gripped Alex's hand to help him up.

"We're okay!" O'Leary yelled. O'Leary was a 25 year old man with a PKM, Alex knew already not to mess with a machine gunner.

"Mordecai, place the charges. Alex, get the ropes from the helicopter. Jäger, throw smoke as soon as the hole is blown, Go!" Silas ordered. Alex ran over to the crash, pulling out his Swiss Army knife. He got to the crash site and cut six reasonably sized ropes, and ran back to his unit. Jäger had a canister and Mordecai planted some C4 on the roof. Silas then ordered everyone to back away. Silas clicked the detonator, causing a decently sized explosion. Jäger pulled the pin on a smoke grenade and threw it in the hole, Alex gave everyone a rope, which they attached to the scrap metal, they roped in and started shooting.

Even though the planes caused a sufficient distraction, there were still enough soldiers to give us a run for our money, we took cover behind some crates and started shooting.

A few soldiers went down fast, but there were still enough to slow us down until reinforcements could arrive.

"Grenade!" Alex shouted, pointing the Grenade Launcher at the soldiers once they formed a nice group, The resulting explosion left a few stragglers. Jäger went to one of the injured troops, pointed a pistol at his head, and threatened him.

"Where is 'Odyssey'? Answer me, NOW!"

"There's a hatch in the office down the hall, once you go down, make a right. Then follow that hall until you find elevator 1-D. It'll take you down to our operations. It should be obvious where the device is by then!" The soldier buckled.

Silas grabbed his radio. Probably to tell everyone our findings.

"Attention all units, move to Hangar 18, The device is underground, I say again, Die Glocke is underground, move to Hangar 18, over!"

Alex had one question in mind about the mission.

"How did a machine developed by the Nazis fall into the hands of the Russians?"

"Die Glocke was built by Nazi scientists in Poland. When the Nazis lost, the Russians occupied Poland after the war, they found it and did their own tests on it, it wasn't until a few years ago that the U.S bought it from them." Kat answered.

By now, they were climbing down the ladder to the underground section of the Hangar. But we were met by significant resistance upon entering the intersection.

O'Leary hip-fired his Machine Gun, killing a bunch of them at a time and leaving the floor a bloody mess of flesh and bone.

Kat was shooting multiple backup squads long before they could be a significant threat.

Mordecai, Silas, and Jäger continued moving down the hallway, killing anyone unfortunate enough to be stationed there that night. Alex was shooting enemies in the chest, covering the path behind all of them while they pressed ahead.

It wasn't long until the team reached the elevator. Alex shot his last enemy while Silas worked on the elevator.

"That's the last of them!" Alex called to them.

"Dammit! The elevator's busted, Alex, fire a grenade at the door, but first, Mordecai, place the plastic explosive."

Mordecai places the C4 on the elevator and everyone ran back, and Alex shot the grenade at the bomb and blew the elevator doors apart, obviously Silas' intended effect.

"You still got our ropes, Kid?" O'Leary asked. Alex responded by handing everyone their ropes, he tied his to a locked door, and started going down.

Kat started talking, he wasn't sure why she had to whisper, that sorta concerned him.

"Do you think the machine is operational, Alex?"

"I don't know, probably. The machine is being tested by the government, it's more likely then not fully operational." Alex responded. The machine was definitely operational, it's in the hands of the Military.

"Good, because I have my own plans." Kat answered mysteriously. Uh, oh.

"What plans?" Alex asked anxiously. This was probably going to suck.

"I'll 'test' the machine, then you blow it up." Kat excitedly whispered.

"What?! Why?!" Alex asked, frightened.

"It's completely obvious what they're going to do, they're going to use it for their own ends, for greed. I can't let that happen." Kat told him, where were these wild accusations coming from?

"If you had access to such a device, would you use it?"

"Kat," Alex began, "I'm only here because I have an obligation, I owe them."

"Wrong, you owe me. I can't let Silas use the device to hurt innocent people. I'm only using it to get away from this militia, it's for the greater good that you destroy it." Kat determined. If they she was telling the truth, then...

"Why did you rescue me?" He asked.

"I need someone to blow it up, everyone else is loyal to Silas, I need fresh blood to do this."

"Fine." Alex gave in. Besides, even he didn't trust them.

"Thanks for saving me, if you're right, we need to stop this." Alex actually didn't fully trust her, especially since he would definitely die. But if she was right, he would have to do it.

They reached the main room, with a dilapidated bell-shaped device in the back end of the room, bearing the Nazi, Soviet, and American flags. This was definitely it.

"Okay, it's go time." Kat signaled him. Whatever happened, he figured he owed her this.

Alex ran over and planted the explosives after Kat entered the machine.

"You sure you know what you're doing, Kat?" Alex asked as he fitted the last explosive.

"Yes, they replaced the old German buttons with English ones, I know what I'm doing, Thank you, Alex."

With that, the machine flashed blue, then red, then in one white flash, Kat was gone.

Alex was about to hit the detonator when he heard someone yell at him.

"What the hell are you doing!?" He gasped, looking behind him, he saw Silas, he looked worried, like 'someone about to discover your secret' worried.

"Following your orders, you told me we had to destroy it, sir." Alex remembered the debriefing.

"Not here, back at the base, get the explosives off of there!" Jäger yelled.

"He knows, Jäger, why else would he destroy it here?" Silas whispered.

"Oh, no." Kat was right. And he was standing right there in front. He had to get the hell out. Now. But how could he... The Machine! He could use it and detonate it from the inside as it's in use!

More Militia ran in behind Mordecai.

"Open fire, shoot him! KILL HIM!!!" Silas shrieked

They all shot their weapons at him, he scrambled over to the machine, a few shots hitting him. Sending wave after wave of pain through him. Alex returned fire, but no amount of firepower could be enough to withstand such impossible odds

Alex heard screams of dying militia, Could that be the Task Force?

Alex then saw, in the distance... The, unfortunately, familiar visage of Agent Winchester.

He kept running away, he realized the Agent was shooting at him. And he was actually hitting his chest, continuing the onslaught of pain in his still-wounded body.

Alex got in the machine. He noticed the 'shuffle' button on the control panel inside. And he pressed the 'activate' button. 'Die Glocke' resonated a large hum, charging up to sufficient power for the transport as bullets punched inside the device's hollow interior, a few blasting into Alex, leaving him crumpled to the ground.

His vision flashed blue as he lifted the detonator to eye-level. Vertigo rushing into Alex's head and making him feel sick to his stomach. The room changed to a very bright red color, Alex felt the ground beneath him becoming less stable as he tried to stand, he pressed the detonator, making the explosives outside the hull beep one last time as the ground seemed to collapse from underneath as the resulting explosion burned his face and chest as he continued falling faster and further down the purplish hole, noticing the hole under him made it perfectly clear, he was nearing an alternate universe, being the second person (to his knowledge) to do so. Alex fell hard against the earth as the portal above him spat him out, flames burning his flesh as the portal dilated like it never was to be. Alex was safe, at least for the moment.

Alex, left with a moment to rest, finally noticed how tired he was, and how badly his wounds hurt. He needed to get to the hospital. Looking around, he noticed a town occupied by...small horses? Eh, what did he expect from an alternate universe. He needed help, bad, but in his condition, he wouldn't last long. He needed help. For the moment, he figured he should put away his gun. They probably wouldn't take to kindly to a man with a live weapon at the ready, so to get in the least amount of trouble, he should at least put it away. With the gun at his back, he went to find help, any help.

-Moments Later-

Cloudchaser left the party nearby and figured it would do some good If she took a walk, besides, her sister, Flitter, practically pleaded her to do so. Not that she would argue, it was a nice night after all, may as well enjoy it.

The two Pegasi walked side by side down the path leading near the Everfree. She liked the sounds of the forest at night, always did. The two sisters started talking.

"So, Cloudy," Flitter began.

"Yeah?" She responded.

"How's everything?" She asked.

"Everything's fine, sis, I finally got that promotion. I'll try asking them to give you the same job, we work well together, that's all I have to say." Cloudchaser informed. It was true, they did work well together, that was just how it worked, no question about it.

"What is that?!" Flitter gasped fearfully, pointing to a bipedal figure limping nearby.

"I don't know, looks like one of Lyra's drawings." She muttered that last part to herself.

"Hey, buddy, over here!" She yelled to him. To be honest, he looked like he had seen better days.

It must've heard her, because it started talking,

"Help...shot...hospital." He groaned painfully.

Flitter looked shocked. This thing was hurt. Bad.

"He needs help!" They had gotten close enough to notice he had been burnt, and was covered in some type of wound.

Cloudchaser agreed, whatever it was, it needed help. She flew over to him, grabbing one arm and instructing Flitter to take the other arm.

The two sisters flew the creature to the Ponyville hospital, doctors could hopefully help him. But one question occupied her thoughts.

"What the hell happened to you, kid?"

Author's Notes:

And that's that! Four chapters, released straight away!