As the group entered the house they were greeted with the sight of a beautifully well decorated house interior.

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Everyone was impressed even the princesses as they've never seen a house decorated like this, it gave them a warm simple feeling, it made them feel relaxed the white walls went well with the wood floors and complemented the wooden supports as they were a darker shade of brown and had a few lights on them and the chimney showed recent signs of cleaning.

"My stars, this living room is absolutely breathtaking, and the decore is simply marvelous the floors are spotless and go perfectly well with the walls, and the lights and fireplace are perfect for a romantic dinner." Rarity says as she marvels at the living room.

"I agree with the element of generosity thine home is very cozy Lieutenant." Luna says to Tyler.

"Oh, thank you but my brother did most of the work I just helped finished it." Tyler says being modest.

"Eh, I guess it's alright, I mean it is nice and all." Rainbow says trying to play it off.

"This is just the living room, the kitchen has more of a country look to it." Tyler says.

"This couch is very comfy and I like the color is nice." Scootaloo says as she sits down.

"I know right it's so sooofft~" Pinkie says

The gang was looking around the house Applejack noticed something on the wall, upon closer inspection she saw that it was a framed newspaper.

"Hey girls come look at this." Applejack says looking at the news paper.

Everyone gathered around while Tyler was getting refreshments for everyone and gathered at the newspaper and started to read it the headline was in bold letters.

On July 8th, 132 bodies all confirmed to be members of the mercy gang and it's leader Benjamin Black were found slaughtered in an abandoned hotel in the red light district of hunts point, witnesses say they've seen a lone assailant storm the hotel wearing what could be described as military-grade equipment and wearing two swords crossed on his back and two pistols, witnesses say the fighting lasted for a few hours and went on floor after floor before it reached the top floor and Benjamin was thrown from out of the penthouse window and onto his Rolls Royce, they then saw the same assailant coming out five minutes later wearing a skull helmet and carrying a young child out in his arms and then disappeared into thin air, it is unclear as to what happened to the child but reports say that he was returned to his family and all known remaining members of the gang have been arrested for child abduction, drug trafficking and murder in the 3rd degree and all other hostages were returned to their families, we don't know who the hero was but from all of New York, we thank you.

At the end the article showed a picture of the gang leader who was a Caucasian male in his late thirties with brown eyes, black hair that had a little gray in it and a scar going across his left cheek.

Everyone couldn't believe what they were reading Tyler's brother had fought through a hundred and thirty two gang members single handedly to save his brother, the stories about humans being powerful warriors is true and will stop at nothing to protect the innocent and his brother was the perfect example of a warrior.

"132 gang members!?, just what kind of human is Tyler's brother." Scootaloo says.

"Yes, this Johnathan Phoenix must be a very skilled warrior, we would like to have a meeting with him and see if he has any interest in joining our guard." Luna says thinking about if she can convince him to join.

"I doubt it, my brother won't even think about giving up the mercenary business, especially if that means he gets restrictions from government treaties." Tyler says coming from the kitchen with two boxes of twelve cans of brisk.

"Why would he not want to join the guard Lieutenant?" Celestia ask him.

"Because like I just told you Celestia, our company is international and if we end up joining yours or Luna's guard that would mean our actions would be restricted do to the treaties you have with other kingdoms." Tyler says explaining why that would not be the best course of action. "Think of it like this, if member of your counsel or your sister was secretly being held against their will and you knew but didn't have the troops or resources to mount a covert rescue operation or launch an investigation do to the permission you would have to get from said kingdom and possibly others and by the time you get the OK it would be too late as they would have been moved to a different location or killed and the bodies disposed of to cover up their evidence of having them." He finished.

The princesses wanted to say something they saw the logic in his explanation, the girls were a little worried and some had a skeptical look on their faces.

"What are those?" Rainbow dash asks.

"These are drinks, you girls can hang out in the living room while I go get Phoenix and if you need to use the bathroom it's down the hall and the first door to the left." Tyler says walking to the basement leading to the sub level of the base.

(3rd person view Tyler)

As Tyler was walking down the flight of stairs he began to think of how to he was going to tell Johnathan about the ponies in the living room.

"Man I'm surprised that the sub levels came with us when we were transported to equestria." Tyler thought as he continued as he reached the door to the sub levels.

"Ok let's see 4-2-7-5-3-1" he said as he punched in the code to the sub levels, the door opened and he walked in unbeknownst to him he was being followed by a certain orange Pegasus.

(Scootaloo's head)

"Come on Scoots you can do this, just follow him and make sure he doesn't get lost in these strange looking halls." she thinks.

Scootaloo continued to follow him passing many other door that had different numbers and names, she even passed one that said firing range on it this continued for five minutes until he stopped in front of a set of steel doors that had the name arc reactor on it, she saw him punch in the code for the door and enter the room and she quickly followed him in before the door could close but in doing so she ended up crashing into Tyler knocking them both over as he turned around.

*Crash*

Scootaloo was a little dizzy from the crash but comes with crashing into ponies but the strange thing is that she felt something soft on her lips so she opened her eyes and when she did her face was instantly red as it can be as she accidentally locked lips with Tyler when she crashed into him.

(Back to Scootaloo's head)

"OhmygoshohmygoshohmygoshwhatinthenameofCelestiaamIdoing!?''

(Tyler's head)

"Oh.My.GOD!!!"

(Outside his head)

"Oh sweet Celestia I'm so sorry Tyler I didn't mean to kiss you, n-not that I'm saying that your not attractive you're very attractive-"

Scootaloo was so busy fumbling over her words that she didn't notice Tyler's brother looking at the incident with the most confused look one can have.

(3rd person Johnathan five minutes before the incident)

Johnny was in the reactor room trying to get the power back because it was knocked out by whatever that bright light that strange scroll emitted, not only did it temporarily blind them it also emitted an electric pulse that forced the arc reactor to shut itself down to save any vital systems.

"Come on baby don't be mean." Johnny says as he tries to restore the security systems "Just need to reset the firewall input the password, aaaand done, ha piece of cake." He says as he finally restored the security systems, it wasn't that long before they started reading that there were some uninvited guests in his house, and there are a lot, seventeen in total and one was with Tyler.

"Hmm, Tyler must be bringing one for questioning or he is being followed." As he went to get his sidearm from the drawer, upon opening in there were a set of twin .45's better safe than sorry *Ka-click* "better prepare for the worst." He said as he was putting the .45's in their respective holsters and as he was getting ready to go meet Tyler he turned around and saw him enter the room and turn around and was crashed into by what Johnny could assume was a girl but she looked very unusual he could only assume his head was playing tricks on him because of his working nonstop and when they both fell over Johnny then saw them accidentally lock lips with each other he then saw that she realized what just happened and started to freak out and try to apologize to Tyler but he couldn't hear her as he was passed out from his first kiss and leaving Johnny with a confused look on his face.

"Well, there's something you don't see everyday." He said as looked at his brother who was still passed out on the floor with his face as red as a tomato and Scootaloo was still trying to apologize to him while he was still passed out, Johnny approached the two of them and spoke directly to Scootaloo.

"Excuse miss, I don't mean to sound rude but who are you and what are you doing here, this area is strictly off limits to anyone but me and Tyler, the kid you just surprise kissed." He said pointing at Tyler who was still on the floor.

"Wait, your his brother!?" Skootaloo asked in surprise" the same brother who took him off the streets and saved him from the mercy gang, that brother!?"

"Yes, why is there someone else who did those things?" He asked sarcastically.

"N-no it's just I expected you to be a little more scarier for somepony who took on 132 gang members to save his brother." Scootaloo says.

"Somepony?, why are you saying it like that, don't you mean somebody kid?" Johnny says correcting her grammar.

"No it's somepony, that's how we say it here in equestria." Scootaloo says to him.

....

"Umm, you ok?" She asks.

"I'm sorry, my head must still be playing tricks on me but did you just say equestria?" He asks checking to see if he heard her right.

"Yah I did say equestria, the country your base is in." She told him.

"Um, ok I'm having a hard time believing that so unless I see more people who look like you I will believe you, and I'll give you a pass to enter this base whenever you like." Johnny said calling her bluff.

Hearing this Scootaloo couldn't help but grin at what he had said, since her friends and the princesses were in the living room doing who knows what.

(Living room)

"Mm mm mm, this tea is soo goood~" Pinkie says as she takes another drink of her ice tea.

"I agree Pinkie this tea is absolutely delightful." Rarity says as she sips hers.

"Eh it's alright but it's not Apple family cider." Rainbow says casually drinking hers.

"I also agree, this tea is delicious I wish I had some cake to go with it." Celestia says sipping her tea and causing Luna to roll her eyes at her before she took her first sip.

"*sip*,*gasp* My stars!, this beverage is worthy of a princess!" Luna says praising the beverage.

"I agree Princess Luna this tea is delicious, who knew humans could have such a delicious brand of tea." Twilight says as she and barb happily sip theirs.

The whole room was enjoying the drinks that Tyler left for them even Applejack who was sitting with Fluttershy petting Riley who was loving the ear scratching while the guards were drinking the tea and talking to one another.

"Hey Scoots, what do you think?" Rainbow asks but gets no reply.

"Scoots?" She asked again and got no response.

Rainbow looked around and saw that she was nowhere in sight she looked at the guards she wasn't there, she looked at the princesses she wasn't with them, she looked at each of her friends and she wasn't with them.

"Girls where's Scootaloo ?" Rainbow asked sounding a little worried.

One by one the girls the princesses and the guards looked around and couldn't find the orange Pegasus and Rainbow did not like this one bit.

"Did anypony see where she went?" Twilight asked everyone in the room.

One they all shook their heads and they all kept looking around the house but couldn't find her.

"Maybe she's in the bathroom." Barb says

"No I just came from there and they have a really nice bathroom." One of the guards states.

"Oh!, I just remembered something." Pinkie said.

"What did you remember Pinkie?" Twilight asked.

"It's about Scootaloo ." She said.

"What?, what is it?, where's Scootaloo?" Rainbow asked sounding a little more worried.

"I saw her follow Tyler in the basement when he wasn't looking a while ago." Pinkie told them.

"It's true, I also saw her follow the young human like a love struck filly, blush and all." Eris stated.

"Scootaloo has a crush on him?" Twilight asked with surprise.

"Of course she has a crush on him you didn't see the way she was looking at him and I also saw the way he looked at her too, ah young love." Eris says as she floats around with a yo yo in hand/paw(whatever).

"Aww our little Scootaloo has her first crush how adorable!" Rarity says cooing a little.

"Well we better go get her and make sure nothing bad happens." Rainbow says.

Just as some were about to go check the basement the door to the basement opened up and Scootaloo walked out with a small blush on her face.

"Scootaloo why were you down there with Tyler?, and where is he?" Rainbow asks her sister.

"Umm he had a small accident and his brother is bringing him up." Scootaloo says to everyone present.

"Oh no he's not hurt is he?" Fluttershy asks with concern.

"N-no he's just r-really umm, tired and his brother is going to um put him to bed." Scootaloo explains with a droplet of sweat coming down her face and a nervous smile.

Applejack seeing this knew that she wasn't telling truth so she decided to call her out on it mainly because she wanted to know what happened.

"Scootaloo you know you shouldn't lie to them especially the princesses, what happened down there?" Applejack asked as she questioned the orange Pegasus.

Scootaloo was sweating a little more as Applejack knew that she was lying and she wanted to know what had happened, but she couldn't tell them that she accidentally kissed him and knocked him out from said kiss, she silently hoped that a distraction would happen soon, and as if by miracle she heard the voice of Tyler's brother calling her to hold the door open for him.

"Hey kid!, can you open the door please my hands are kinda full here." A voice called from behind the door.

"Scootaloo, who was that?" Twilight asked the orange Pegasus.

"Umm Tyler's brother." Scootaloo says moving to the door with a nervous smile.

That immediately got everyone's attention as they were about to meet the one in charge of the whole base and the genius behind the combat drones as well as Tyler's big brother Twilight got some fresh quills and parchments for more notes, Rarity checked her makeup so she can look presentable when he lays eyes on her, Fluttershy was shaking as she didn't know what to expect, Pinkie fished out a camera from her mane so she could capture the moment, Applejack and Rainbow dash were getting ready for the worst, Barb was focused on the door, Eris was drinking another can of Brisk, Celestia and Luna were preparing to talk with him and the guards had their hands on their weapons incase he tried anything.

Scootaloo walked over to the door and opened it and the first thing that Fluttershy saw was Tyler's face which was still bright red, and he was still passed out.

"Oh my!, Tyler are you ok" Fluttershy says as she goes to check on him, as Fluttershy was checking Tyler everyone who was present in the room had a deep blush on their faces and the male guards were in shock because carrying Tyler was who they could assume was his brother, Johnathan Phoenix who they can see was 6,2 wearing a dark green mechanic jumpsuit that had the top half tied around his waist and wearing a black long sleeve polyester shirt that showed them every muscle he had, with blue eyes with a diagonal scare on his right eye with some smaller ones on his face such as his bottom lip, chin and left cheek, he had short jet black hair and had a mustache goatee combo.

"What. The. Fuck?" Johnny said as he laid eyes on everyone in his living room he thought he was just hallucinating when he saw the girl who gave Tyler his first kiss appearance but now he was sure he was not seeing things.

"G-greetings mr.Phoenix, I am princess Celestia this is my sister Princess Luna we are co-rulers of equestria and we welcome you and your brother to our kingdom." Celestia says as she greets the captain and older brother of Tyler.

Johnny said nothing as he was still in shock that there are eighteen human like creatures in his home and one of them gave Tyler his first kiss.

"Excuse me captain, but art thou alright?" Luna asks the captain.

"Huh, um no I'm not alright, I have no idea what's going on at first I thought my head was playing tricks on me when I saw her" Johnny states pointing at Scootaloo "but now I don't know what to think, is this some weird dream?" He says clearly confused.

"Of course it's not a dream silly" Pinkie tells him.

"So what I'm looking at is real?"

"Yes" Twilight tells him.

"And that means we're not on our planet anymore?"

"Pretty much dude" Rainbow said.

"Oh, ok"

"You sure you're ok partner, you don't look to good." Applejack asks.

"U-um e-excuse me but um can you tell us what happened to Tyler, um you know that's if you want." Fluttershy shyly asks as she's is now seeing Johnny's looks.

"Umm sure ask her she caused it" Johnny says motioning to Scootaloo who's eyes went wide "um excuse me I'll be back, here hold this" Johnny says handing Tyler to Celestia and heading up stairs.

The girls couldn't help but worry about him as he looked like he was having trouble taking this all in so Celestia had Eris follow him so he wouldn't accidentally hurt himself.

Eris disguised herself as a fly so she could go unnoticed by him as she followed him to his destination, she followed him up stairs and saw him go into a room that she assumed was his room, when she entered she was greeted with a nice looking master bedroom.

Oh wow this room really nice, it's got that nice country feeling to it. Eris thinks as she continues to follow Johnny, he went passed his bed and went straight into the bathroom, when she entered the bathroom the style matched the bedroom.

Wow even the bathroom looks nice and I like the shower. she says in her head, as she was taking in her surroundings she notices Johnny turning on the sink and splashing water on his face when he was done she saw him reaching in the medicine cabinet and grabs a bottle of pills, on closer inspection she sees that they are anti-anxiety pills he popped the lid and poured out a small handful and popped them into his mouth and crunched down on them without even bothering to get water.

"*Inhale,exhale* Ok Johnny calm down, your just in another world with anthropomorphic horse things, the good thing is that you're not here alone and you still have your home, family and equipment, the bad thing is that something like this shouldn't be scientifically possible, holy fuck it's like Chernobyl all over again.

Eris couldn't help but feel bad for him, he's having a nervous breakdown and just crunched down some anxiety pills to keep himself calm she had to tell Celestia and let her know what's going on, so Eris flew under the crack of the bathroom door and went downstairs to the living room where she saw that Tyler was awake and Scootaloo face was buried in her hands with embarrassment and Tyler was no better as he looked just as embarrassed as she was.

"Um did I miss something?" Eris says surprising everyone.

Five minutes ago

The princesses and the mane 6 watched as Johnny went upstairs to go do something and as he was out of sight they all turned to Skootaloo who was trying to hide behind a guard.

"Scootaloo what did he mean by you caused this?" Rainbow asked gesturing to Tyler who Celestia is laying down on the couch and his face still red.

"Um you see the thing is umm." Scootaloo was having trouble with her words, she know how to tell them that she accidentally kissed Tyler, and on the lips no less.

As Scootaloo was trying to come up with an excuse Riley saw that Tyler was knocked out on the couch so he did what all dogs do in a situation like that, he licked his face and started to wake him up, Tyler shot up and started spitting out the drool that got in his mouth from Riley licking him.

*Bleah*"Aw man gross Riley why do you always lick me in the mouth." Tyler says as he tries to get the taste of dog out of his mouth.

"Lieutenant thou has awakened" Princess Luna called from behind the couch he was on.

"Huh where am I?, how'd I get here?" Tyler says rubbing his head a little.

"You are resting on the couch in the living room, Scootaloo said she followed you and said you had an accident and your brother had to carry you up here." Celestia explains to him.

"Wait, so my brother saw all of you guys?" Tyler asked Celestia.

"Yes and we had a small chat but then he handed you to me and went upstairs holding his head, I think he's having trouble processing these recent events." She tells him.

"Ah man I had the strangest dream, I dreamt that Scootaloo crashed into me and kissed me, what?" Tyler says making everyone's eyes go wide and Scootaloo's face explode with embarrassment.

Everyone was shocked at what Tyler just told them, he was knocked out because Scootaloo crashed into him and kissed him in the process Rainbow was looking at her sister with shock and a little bit of pride on her face, Fluttershy had a huge blush on her face and responded with"Oh my", Applejack had a small grin on her face, Twilight's and Barb's mouths were hanging, Rarity was congratulating Scootaloo who's face was buried in her hands, Pinkie had a wide smile on her face and reached into her mane pulled out a sign that said "CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR FIRST KISS" on it and the princesses were speechless.

"Wait you mean to tell me that wasn't a dream!?" Tyler asked as a blush was starting to form on his face.

"Judging by young Scootaloo's reaction I'm afraid not lieutenant." Celestia confirmed.

That confirmation was all it took for Tyler's face to explode in a deep blush that covered his whole face, he couldn't believe it he had his first kiss with one of his favorite characters from the my little pony show.

"Oh my god" Tyler says in disbelief.

"Um did I miss something?" A voice says startling everyone in the room.

Everyone looks to see Eris who had a look like she just missed something good.

"Oh we were just talking about how Scootaloo is the first mare in equestrian history to kiss one of the first humans in centuries." Pinkie says nonchalantly.

"PINKIE!" Skootaloo and Tyler scream in unison.

"Ohh this is just precious!, our little Scootaloo is growing up." Eris squee's.

"Eris how is Tyler's brother, is he doing ok?" Princess Celestia asks.

Eris got a saddened expression on her face and turned to her and began to explain what she saw.

"I really think he's having a hard time digesting what he just heard because when I followed him into his room, which is very nice by the way, but anyway I followed him into the bathroom-"

"Wait, you were spying on my brother, how did he not notice you?," Tyler asks.

"Oh I turned myself into a fly so he wouldn't notice me." She stated.

"Right I forget you can do that, anyway continue." Tyler tells Eris.

"Yah anyway, I followed him into the bathroom and he started to freak out so he turned on the sink and splashed some water on his face." Eris tells them.

"That's not so bad" Pinkie says.

"That's not all because after that he reached into the medicine cabinet and started throwing some pills into his mouth, I think they were anti-anxiety pills because that's what the bottle said."

"Oh no the poor dear having a nervous breakdown, is he alright?" Rarity asked with concern.

Some couldn't help but feel a little sorry for him as some would probably be having the same reaction if they were to end up in a strange world that they knew nothing about, even some of the veteran guards felt bad for him.

"And then after he had the pills he said something that really confused me." Eris told them.

"What'd he say?" Twilight asked her.

"Yah what'd the human say?" Rainbow dash asked.

"He has a name you know." Tyler says sounding a little annoyed.

"Oh sorry." Rainbow says rubbing the back of her head.

"So what did he say?" Tyler asked.

"He said and I quote 'holy fuck it's like Chernobyl all over again'." She said to them.

"Umm what's a Chernobyl darling?" Rarity asks Eris.

Hearing this made some bad memories inch their way into Tyler's head as he got an uncomfortable look on his face this didn't go unnoticed as Applejack saw Tyler's face.

"What's wrong sugercube, you look a little pale." Applejack asked getting the attention of the rest of the mane 6 and the princesses.

Tyler just looked took a deep breath and then he spoke.

"Chernobyl's not a what, it's a where and it a very dangerous place." He says to them.

"What makes it so dangerous?" Twilight asked.

"Yes little one what makes this place so dangerous that it would give your brother anxiety?" Celestia asks.

Tyler took a deep breath and began to tell them about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the many people who died from the heavy doses of radiation and the many forms of cancer that affected them from said disaster and the many citizens that had to flee from their homes, a huge wave of shock went through the whole living room as some of the ponies had looks of horror and others just couldn't believe how something so horrible could happen to one species.

"*exhale* we never thought we would ever have to set foot in that place ever in our lives, but that all changed when we were contacted by a Russian general and asked us to help find his niece who disappeared somewhere in there when she shouldn't have been there in the first place because it was quarantined by the government do to the high radiation levels in some parts of the city so we had to enter it with hazmat suits along with some Russian black ops troops."

Everyone was intrigued by the story Twilight was taking notes, Barb, Rainbow and Scootaloo were listening like they were getting an exclusive preview to the next Daring doo book, the princesses were interested in finding out what could have happened in the city as well as everyone else.

"So we ended up getting dropped off in APC's which are troop transport vehicles built for heavy combat, anyway we arrived at the entrance of the city and we began our search for the girl, we had searched multiple buildings and found nothing so we had to go deeper in the city it wasn't until we came to an abandoned hospital and one of the Russians found Anfisa's cellphone, she was the generals niece , even though the hospital was abandoned we found signs of a struggle so we went deeper in the hospital and began searching every room from top to bottom it wasn't until we got to the second floor one of the Russians found someone but it wasn't the generals niece, it turns out she came to Chernobyl with two other people which made our job a lot more harder, we had to find a man and a woman both in their early and mid twenties and American male with short black hair probably twenty five years of age he was scared out of his mind he kept on mumbling some nonsense about deformed monsters he then started begging us to find his friends and to get them out of there so we had to split up to widen our search, I volunteered to take the guy back to the APC while the others searched for the other two missing girls, as I was walking I began to ask the guy questions about what his name was and what he and his friends were doing here, I later found out his name was Rick Samson and his girlfriend Valery Coleson were hanging out with Anfisa when she asked them if they wanted to come explore the city of Chernobyl, they agreed because they'd thought it would be fun to explore an abandoned city." As Tyler was telling the story they all noticed that Johnny had came back from the bathroom looking a lot more calmer then he was earlier.

"Ah captain you've returned, how are you feeling?" Princess Luna asks.

"Better than before." He says in a normal tone.

"Your brother was just telling us about the time you and him were at a place called Chernobyl and what happened there." Twilight tell him.

"Oh you mean the disaster mission, how much has he told you?" He asked her.

"Up till the part where you had to split up to find the generals niece." Rainbow clarifies.

"Oh well since I'm here why don't I tell you girls my side of the story." He tells them.

"Aww yeah we get to hear it from the badflank!" Rainbow cheers.

"What?" Johnny asks not understanding what she said.

"She means badass J." Tyler tells him.

"Oh, well anyway after Tyler volunteered to take the guy back to the extraction point I had ordered the Russians to split up and try to find the other two, it was a little difficult because non of them spoke English which meant I had to speak to them in Russian-"

"YOU CAN SPEAK OTHER LANGUAGES!?" Both Twilight and Rarity scream in excitement.

Everyone looked at them with bewilderment and they both realized that their little outburst was uncalled for and a small blush of embarrassment appeared on their cheeks.

"Sorry " they both replied.

"So thou speaks multiple languages?" Luna asks.

"Yes"

"How many do you speak?" Twilight asked.

"Yes darling how many can you speak?" Rarity asks.

"I speak six different languages and my brother only speaks one." He tells them.

"What are they?" Twilight asks with a quill in hand.

"*sigh* I speak Spanish, German, Japanese, French, Latin and Russian which is the language I had to use to speak with them here's what I told them (мы должны разделиться, чтобы расширить наш поиск, и мы встретимся снова здесь, если вы найдете что-нибудь.) that means we have to split up to widen our search and meet back here if you find anything." He tells them.

"Oh wow I had no idea the language sounded so complex." Twilight states as she takes more notes.

"The language is cool and all but can we get back to the story I want to find out what happens next." Rainbow tells him.

"Yah I want to know too was city haunted with ghosts, Ooooo" Pinkie says trying to sound spooky.

"Pinkie there are no such things as ghost, that's nothing but an old ponies tail." Twilight tells her.

"Actually ghost and spirits do exist on our world, some are just lost souls who haven't crossed over to the other side and others are vengeful spirits filled with hate that want nothing but to cause pain and suffering to the living." Tyler clarifies.

"It's true just because you can't explain it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, I learned that the hard way." Johnny explained.

"Anyway I'm getting off track here, so after I gave them their orders we began our search of the city starting with small convenience stores and alleyways we were at this for about fifteen to twenty minutes, I was searching one of the staff apartments when one of the Russian soldiers had radioed in and told us that he had seen some suspicious activity over in one of the smaller houses, one of the Russians told him it was probably some of the wildlife that moved in after the city was evacuated but to proceed with caution, not two minutes and we all heard that same Russian had left his radio on and we had heard him screaming for something to stay back and that he was give it a warning and then we all heard gunshots so we all ran to his last known location, I met up with one of the other soldiers and we continued to the soldiers location, when we got there it was starting to get dark and the gunfire had stopped we were not prepared for what we saw, upon entering the building we found that the soldier had been ripped in half because the only things we found were his rifle and the lower half of his body-" when he told them that part everyone's face had a look of shock and some were turning green at the thought of finding a body ripped in half," seeing this I immediately warned Tyler of what happened and to stay on alert, after I warned him me and the remaining three Russian soldiers began following the blood trail and it was leading to a basement and we each tried to prepare ourselves for what we might find, as we entered the basement we each turned on our flashlight attachments on our rifles and started to search the basement, we didn't need to search long as we found the other half of our deceased comrade and it looked like something was eating him which made us even more cautious and made the Russians even more paranoid than they were because on closer inspection showed that some of the teeth marks looked like they were made by some vicious predator and as I was inspecting the body we heard something else moving so we all shined our lights in the direction that the noise came from, and what we saw waiting for us could only be described as something of nightmares it looked like it used to be human but years of radiation exposure turned it into a abomination, it had rotten grey flesh with razor sharp teeth with blood and small bits of flesh in them, cold and lifeless eyes, whatever clothes it was wearing was in tattered rags all of the hair on its head was almost completely gone and the flesh from its fingers were gone and the bones sharpened to a point to tear into its victims"

When he explained what he saw the ponies couldn't help but be terrified at what he described, what he described was something that only exist in horror stories.

"Hang on here are you telling us that you actually fought Zombies!?" Rainbow shouted in disbelief.

"I think the correct terminology would be ghouls, because last time I checked zombies never came sprinting at you." Johnny stated.

"This all sounds a little far fetched, there is no way that zombies or ghouls can exist." Twilight say to Johnny.

"You mean like the time you ignored the book of supernatural remedies and cures because of its title." Tyler stated matter of factly causing Twilight to blush.

"Can I continue." Johnny says sounding a little annoyed.

"Sorry J, please continue." Tyler says.

"Anyway as soon as the lights hit it the thing let out a nightmarish screech and pounced at the four of us and we immediately opened fire at it, we riddled it's body with bullets and managed to get its back against the basement wall and continued to unload our weapons into it until our mags ran dry, we reloaded fresh mags into our guns and I was about to check and see if it was dead but it lifted it's head and tried to sink it's teeth into me but I used my rifle block it and causing it to bite the barrel of the gun instead, I then took out my pistol and unloaded two rounds in its head killing it for good" everyone breathed a sigh of relief knowing that he managed to put the abomination down and they listened closely as he continued his story," after we made sure it was dead we headed out of the basement and I radioed in to warn Tyler what we were dealing with but he wasn't responding, care to tell them why Tyler" Johnny asked causing all eyes to go on Tyler causing a small blush from being put in the spotlight.

"Well you see what happened was after I took Rick to the APC I tried to radio in and inform the General of the situation but the radiation was interfering with the radio transmissions so it all came back as static, I was trying to increase the signal power and I didn't notice Rick sneaking behind me trying to reach for my rifle after I turned around and I spotted him reaching for it, as soon as I spotted him trying to reach for it he immediately jumped for it and it turned into game of tug of war as we fought for control of the rifle, he eventually saw that he couldn't overpower me and went for my pistol and before I could react he grabbed my gun and shot me in my left shoulder, the bullet went clean through my shoulder" Tyler then moved the collar of his shirt and showed them the scar on his shoulder causing them to gasp in shock.

"*Gasp* oh my goodness are you ok!?" Fluttershy asked with concern.

"Are you ok Tyler?" Scootaloo asked with worry.

"Yah I'm fine it happened two years ago it's the consequences that come with this kind of work" he explains to them.

"Why would you do a job that's so dangerous Tyler?" Celestia asks him with concern in her voice.

"Because if we don't do this job then who will, like I told you before our world is not the most hospitable place you want to be the weather controls itself and is unpredictable depending on where you live and in most cities your mostly looking over your shoulder making sure you don't get mugged, I mean there are times where look around enjoying the scenery but other times you have to watch out, don't get me wrong there are some places that would be great to live and raise a family but those are hard to find." Tyler explains to her.

"Man you guys have it rough" Rainbow says.

"Tell me about it, anyway where was I?" Tyler says trying to remember where he was. " ah yes that's right so anyway after he shot me took off towards the city taking my pistol with him and I was just clutching my shoulder in pain from the bullet and I tried to stop the bleeding by applying pressure to it but it's kinda hard when blood is coming from both sides of your shoulder so I headed to the back of the APC and opened up the trauma kit and grabbed two packets of Coagulant and applied them to both sides of the wound and patched up it with some medical tape and gauss and then gave myself a dose of morphine, after that I radioed in and told Johnny what happened, Johnny it's your turn." Tyler tells his brother who's not present.

"J?" Tyler looked around the living room but couldn't find him" did anyone see where he went?" He asked everyone who was present.

"I think I saw him go into the kitchen not too long ago" Trail Blazer said.

"Oh, thank you please excuse me, hey Joh- oh there you are." Tyler says as he spots his brother coming out of the kitchen with two bottles of Angry orchard hard cider.

"Sorry the pills gave me a case of cotton mouth, thought I'd grab a drink." Johnny says as he pops the cap off the bottle and takes a sip.

"What is that?" Rainbow asks with curiosity

"What, this is just Angry Orchard Hard Cider" he says taking another sip.

"Aw what you guys had cider the whole time and you gave us tea!?" Rainbow says in disbelief.

"Uh yah it's my house, and their my drinks" he says taking another sip of the drink.

"Can you just continue the story J (-_-)" Tyler says in a bord tone.

"Huh, oh right, so after Tyler told me what had happened I had to tell the others the news of what happened which meant we were back to looking for three survivors and one of them was an untrained civilian with a weapon, we continued to search the city even as the day was starting to turn to night, we decided to take a small risk a call out for Anfisa, turns out that was a bad move on our hand because we remembered what else was lingering in the shadows of the old city so we head to be very quiet, but it was too late as there was ten of those things coming out of one of the smaller buildings that had its windows smashed, we quickly took aim at their heads and opened fire but they were moving all over the place making us miss some of the shots in the process, we managed to get some in the legs and slow them down a little but even then they still came crawling at us, we ended up getting pushed further into the city as more and more showed up out of the abandoned buildings so we had no choice but to run and find a place to hide and catch our breaths so I took out a smoke grenade and a 9-bang flash grenade, I primed the 9-bang and threw it first to distract them and threw the smoke grenade to cover our escape and we ran into the closest building to us and hid behind a large receptionist desk and waited as they ran past the building, as we waited none of us noticed the two figures hiding in the supply closet coming out to see if it was safe but one of them ended up dropping a box and alerted us to their presence and we turned our guns in the direction of the noise and it's as if god decided to give us a break because the ones that were hiding in that supply were the very ones that we were looking for, Anfisa and Valery and they were scared out of their minds, Anfisa was 5,5 with brown long hair wearing skinny jeans, a red shirt and a grey zip up hoodie and white tennis shoes and was holding a bloody crowbar while Valery who was an inch shorter and had short hair that came down to her shoulders was dyed white with purple highlights at the bottom and was wearing jeans with brown boots, a white shirt that had some blood stains and a green jacket that also had some blood stains on it and was wielding a table leg that also had some blood and small clumps of hair on it, they asked us if we were sent to rescue them and I told her that her uncle sent us to find her and only her but since she's not the only one here we wad to come up with a plan to get them all back to the to the APC, Valery was shaking like a leaf but she wasn't scared for herself, she was scared for her boyfriend Rick who was somewhere in the city, Anfisa was trying calm her down least she attract more of those thing to our location, I told the soldiers to look around and secure the area and report back anything they find, as I was looking around I got a call on my radio, one of the soldiers told me that he found an armory of some kind, it turns out that the building we were hiding in was a police station and that there were still some weapons inside but some of them were rusted beyond use and some only had a little bit of rust but were still useable and most of the ammunition was also rusted beyond use and some of the casings were ruptured making them useless, we quickly checked the ammo and reloaded our mags with some rounds it was a little more difficult for me because my rifle took a different caliber so I was flat outa luck I had to find a replacement rifle from the armory so I grabbed a AK-47 that had it's stock removed and loaded up on some mags for it and took a few extra rounds for my pistols, after I was loaded up I decided that I was going to go distract the ghouls and provide the survivors and the soldiers who's name I later found out were Ivan, Ace and Vlad a chance to escape so we could get out of the city, before I could begin the distraction Valery asked us if we've seen her boyfriend Rick and that they got separated when they were running for their lives, I told her everything that transpired when we arrived in the city including the part where Rick shot my brother and ran back to the city, she repeatedly apologized for her boyfriends actions and begged me to find him and get them out of the city, I told her that I would promise to get them all out of the city but Rick was gonna have to spend a few months behind bars for trespassing and for shooting military personnel, she reluctantly agreed to the terms and I switched out my filters for my mask and ran outside the station and fired my newly acquired AK-47 in the air and waited for the ghouls to show up no sooner after I did that about thirty two of them started sprinting towards the noise and as soon as one saw me it let out a screech and he rest started sprinting towards me, when I spotted this I turned around and sprinted as fast as my legs could carry me-" Johnny paused as he took another sip of his Cider "*Sip* Aw man that's good Cider." he says as he enjoys the taste.

"You're enjoying this aren't you." Rainbow says a little miffed.

"Oh you have no idea." Johnny says with a grin.

The girls began to get a little worried because they knew how much Rainbow loved Cider and Tyler's brother was taunting her with it, Johnny saw the look of torture on her face, he could tell that Cider was her favorite so not wanting to make a bad first impression he decided to humor her.

"Sigh, here you go kid, knock yourself out." Johnny says tossing Rainbow the second bottle of Cider.

"Aw yeah finally some Cider!" Rainbow cheers as she pops the cap on the bottle and causing her friends to shake their heads at her childish antics, when Rainbow tasted the Cider she was greeted with a sharp tangy taste, almost sour like a Granny Smith apple but also with a smooth and sweet undertone, " holy smokes, this is the second best Cider I've ever tasted, Applejack you have to try this!" She says passing it to her, Applejack was a little hesitant about trying Cider that wasn't brewed by her family but she decided to try it and gauge the possible competition of her family's Cider, when she tasted the Cider she was greeted with the sharp tangy taste that Rainbow was greeted with.

"Land sakes how can somepony make Cider that taste like this, it's even stands up next to my family's Cider. Applejack thought as she worried about her family's income in the Cider business.

"Anyway I was running as fast as my legs could carry me and picking off a few ghouls every chance I got, but it seemed for every ghoul I put down two more would take its place and I didn't want to use up all my ammo so I just focused on keeping some distance between me and them while still looking for Rick, I managed to lose them while hiding in an alleyway further into the city and was able to catch my breath as they ran passed the alley I was in, as I was catching my breath I spotted some movement in through one of the buildings but it was to dark to see what it was and turning on my flashlight was out of the question because I didn't want to alert any of those things to me, I began a slow approach to it and it was completely unaware of my presence, I was almost close to it when I accidentally stepped on some broken glass on the floor and the figure immediately got scared and fell over on the ground and tried to hide behind some rubble, I called out Rick's name to see if it was him and lucky enough it sure was him, he looked like a wreck he was covered in small patches of blood and his shirt had rips in it and in his left hand was Tyler's pistol that had it's slide jammed-"

"*giggle* A slide can't fit on that tiny thing silly." Pinkie says interrupting the story.

"It's not that kind of slide I'll explain it later, can I please finish the story." Johnny says annoyed.

"Sure!" She says innocently.

"As I was saying, Rick looked worse for wear and on closer inspection my brothers pistol that he had in his left hand was jammed but before he could say anything I raised my rifle at him and told him to place his hands above his head, mainly because I didn't trust him while he was in possession of my brothers gun and I was a little pissed that he shot my brother, so after I took the handgun away from him I radioed in and told my brother that I found our missing survivor and was heading back so we could leave that hell hole, but it turns out it's easier said than done because the ghouls are more active at night and we had to find a way around them or risk becoming ghoul chow and neither of us weren't fond of the thought it happening so we had to come up with a plan to distract them while we made our escape and the only thing that made sense was a very large explosion since those thing had the attention span of a four year old and can be easily distracted so I took one of the four grenades that I had and threw it into a second story window of a small office building that was across the street from us, as the grenade went off it provided the distraction we needed as many of ghouls were flocking to the building thinking that their next meal was hiding there so we took that opportunity and began making our way out of the city but Rick ended up kicking a glass bottle and got the attention of the ghouls and one let out a shriek and they all started coming after us which made him run like a bat out of hell and me running with him while trying to gun down as many as I could before I had to change mags but for every ghoul I took out it only made them more angrier and more and more started pouring out from the buildings they were attracted to the sound like moths to a light, I tried to radio in and ask Tyler if he and the others could bring the APC at the entrance of the hospital and provide us with some cover fire, no response came from the radio because apparently they were fighting them too and the Russians refused to go because they refused to leave us behind which I was great full for but were also risking the mission and the safety of the generals niece but she also agreed to stay and her friend too because Rick was still here but she was too scared to fight so she stayed in the APC, as we got closer to the extraction point we could hear the gunfire and the ghouls screams getting louder as we got closer we had to stop inside one of the buildings and catch our breaths and I told Rick that if we wanted any chance to survive we had to fight our way to the transport, he said that he couldn't fight without a weapon so I hesitantly handed him the AK and the spare mags I had for it and before I gave it to him I warned him that if he tried anything that he would regret the very day he was born, after I gave him the rifle I told him how to use it correctly and to aim for the legs or the head of the ghouls and to use short controlled bursts after that I switched back to my M4 carbine and we began our dash back to the transport and as we turned the corner we were met with the sight of the Russians and generals niece fighting off the ghouls the Russians using their AK's and Anfisa using Tyler's rifle while Tyler was using a pistol the he got from Ivan and was picking them off one by one, we began shooting at the ghouls and clearing a path as we made a mad dash for the transport as I was shooting my rifle jammed and I didn't have time to clear it so I switched out to my dual 45's and began unloading on any that got too close to us with a clean shot to the head, and just as we were about to reach the transport Rick was tackled by a ghoul and it sunk it's teeth into his leg" he said getting gasps of shock from everyone in the room "when I saw it sink it's teeth into him I quickly unloaded four shots into it's head and picked him up and carried him over my shoulders and made a mad dash for the transport trying to hold them off us using one pistol and the others providing me with cover fire I managed to make it on the APC and the others began to pile in the APC and Tyler got into the drivers seat of the APC and we basically high tailed it out of there, I immediately dug into the trauma kit and pulled out an elastic hose and used it as a tourniquet to stop the blood flow in his leg incase those zombie theories were true about the bites so we could get him help as fast as we could, searching through the kit I gave him some antibiotics and some water from my canteen while Valery and Anfisa thanked us repeatedly I had Tyler radio in and let the General know to have a medical team on standby and a decontamination room for us so we could have whatever germs sprayed off us and back into our regular gear, after we arrived Rick was immediately rushed into quarantine and Tyler was getting checked by the medics and Valery and Anfisa were taken to the decontamination room and given a change of clothes and Anfisa was hugging her uncle telling him that she will never do something like that ever again and he was just glad that she was safe, after all was said and done I managed to convince the general to give Rick a three week sentence instead of the four months he was supposed to get and he thanked us and ask how we would like to be payed so I told him to pay half in cash and the other in ammunition for our weapons and to seal off the city so this doesn't happen again." Johnny finishes leaving everyone stunned and amazed.

"So there you have it, ever since then me and Johnny have started questioning a lot of things and he repurposed about five hundred of the combat drones to deal with those types of problems specifically ghouls or zombies if that's what you want to call them." Tyler explained.

"But what happened to the guy who got bit,did he turn into one?" Rainbow asked them.

"Well after explaining what we encountered in the city the general got really worried and immediately tried to have him executed out of fear of a pandemic happening but I told him that I gave him a moderate dose of antibiotics and tide off his leg to prevent infection and that he was placed in quarantine, it was at time that we began to hear a commotion and discovered that the infection in Ricks leg was starting to take effect and turning his leg a sickly green color and he was starting to panic, I told the doctors to strap him down and prepare him for surgery and if we wanted to save his life than we had no choice but to amputate his leg" another gasp went through the room "so the doctors quickly brought out the surgical equipment and began prepping him for surgery including me because of my medical background so I had to switch out of my gear and into a surgeons garment and we also had guards on standby in it didn't go well and he turned, but long story short the surgery was a success and we saved his life but he now has a prosthetic foreleg." Johnny explained to them.

Everyone was relieved that the human lived but saddened to hear that he lost his leg, after the story some of them began to ask more questions mainly from Twilight in regards of their equipment but he refused to answer her and told her that kind of information was classified.

"Excuse me Captain but why is the information on your equipment so secretive?" Princess Celestia asks.

Johnathan just looks at her and speaks.

"Because these are very dangerous weapons that are ment to take lives and seeing that your military still uses shields, swords and outdated armor, I'm also going to guess that you haven't even invented the automobile yet, " Johnny states.

"Outdated?, captain our armor is top of the line and provides our guards maximum protection and as for our automobiles they are still a new advancement in our kingdom, what would you use to describe our armor captain." Celestia asks sounding a little offended.

Johnny just looked at the princess with a bord expression and looked at the armor and then spoke.

"Ok let's start off with your armor, first it's made of gold which is terrible for armor and it's basically like painting a giant target on your troops, secondly because it's made of gold that means it's a very reflective and conductive material, reflective on the sun which could give away their position if any of them are on reconnaissance and gold happens to be a very conducive material if introduced to electricity which will practically roast them alive, and the armor looks heavy, bulky, noisy and movement restricting." The captain states as he bluntly answers her question.

Everyone was stunned by the bluntness of his answer to the but some couldn't help but agree with him about the armor even Luna could agree that the armor for both day and night guards were movement restricting when she decided to try some on out of curiosity, she wondered how the newest guards were even able to fight if the moment called for it and he was right about the electricity being highly conductive to the armor as there were a few reports that some criminals would use electronic based spells on the guards and leaves some heavily wounded and some of the guards began to question the effectiveness of the armor.

"Umm I'm gonna step outside to get some fresh air." Tyler says grabbing a bottle of water from the fridge and heading out the front door.

Scootaloo took this as an opportunity to talk to Tyler and get to know him but she didn't want to be too obvious so she grabbed Barb and ask her to follow her outside.

If you're wondering how the kiss went, it went something like this