Tension in the small town of ponyvile was at an all high as members of the royal guard were trying to keep the peace and preventing further panic.

"You have to safe my little princess, those bandits could be doing Celestia know what to her!" Filthy Rich demanded as the guard tried to hold him back and another and Applejack comforted his wife.

"I'm sorry sir but we are trying our best efforts to apprehend the bandits and bring your daughter and her friend back safe and sound." The guard reassured him.

"And what about our sister Roseluck? She was taken by them too!" One of the two flower mares shouted as tears flowed from her eyes fearing for the well being of her sister.

"Listen mam we promise to return your si-." The guard didn't finish as he picked up a strange sound he has never heard before. One by one everyone began to look around for the source of the sound as it got louder.

"Look over there!" Shouted a random pony in the crowd.

Everyone looked to the outskirts of ponyvile to see two strange metal contraptions barreling down the dirt road with eight strange looking beings in olive drab armor (the combat drones) holding on to the sides each carrying something in their hand.

"What the hey are those things!?" Shouted another random pony.

The metal contraptions came to a stop and everyone was able to get a clear view of the logo on the side of the contraption that depicted a menacing looking skull with the words Punisher squad on it and every door on it began to open. The first one to step out was Princess Luna while her two night guards came out from the back with Eris and Barb, Twilight came out of the second one and Starlight, the Crusaders and the day guard that had been sent to retrieve them had stepped out of them.

"I managed to find the princess as well getting some help!" The guard reported.

"Who are these ponies princess?" The guard asked keeping an eye on them.

"Worry not guards pony these individuals have come to aid us in bringing these bandits to justice." Luna tells the royal guard.

It was when she finished speaking that Johnny, Tyler and their dog Riley had stepped out of their vehicles each holding metal tubes of unknown origin. the tallest one had a short tube that looked like a mixture of metal and plastic while the smaller one had a different one that was slightly longer. The sight of their helmets were enough to scare everyone in the crowd including some of the guards as some brandished their weapons at them.

"Halt right there and Identify yourselves!" The guard demanded.

Both Johnny and Tyler just ignored the guard and ordered the combat drones to get into formation. This only angered the guard, he moved in to apprehend them but was stopped by princess Luna.

"Stand down guards pony now! These are our allies!" Luna commanded.

"Y-yes princess." The guard obeyed.

"Good. Now report, what at we dealing with?" Luna asked the guard.

The guard looked to the mercs then to Luna and sighed. "From what we can get from witnesses there are at least eight bandits and at least two of them are were carrying weapons similar to the one to what that thing is carrying." The guard says pointing at Tyler's weapon.

"This thing has a name you prick!" Tyler shouts with his voice modulator nearly scaring the life out of him.

"*Growl*"

"Riley down." Johnny tells him and Riley complies.

"We would appreciate it if thou would keep comments like that to thine self." Luna said giving the guard a disapproving look.

"Yes. If you know what's best for you, you will keep that crap in check." Johnny says crossing his arms.

"Guard hath thou attempted to rescue the hostages?" Luna asked.

"We have your highness but with the weapons that the bandits have at their disposal we can't even get close and they've already wounded at least three guards." He explained.

"Have any of your men even bothered to carry shields?" Johnny asked the guard.

"We've tried but some of the mud in the forest won't support the weight and we've already lost two shields to quicksand." The guard explained.

"Have you tried an aerial approach?"

"Yes and they've got it covered by not only those weird weapons but crossbow fire as well."

"Hmm, then these guys ain't your everyday run of the mill bandits so we have to assume that they've been at this for a while. Alright team lets move out!" Johnny commands his team.

"Please sir save my baby girl!" Begged a distraught Spoiled Rich.

Tyler was a little thrown off by the amount of concern that Spoiled was showing for her daughter because in the episode Crusaders of the lost mark it showed her as a complete bitch who wanted her daughter to be perfect to the point being almost like her, but he just guessed that she changed overtime. He looked at Spoiled and then spoke.

"Ma'am. Failure's not an option for us. Your daughter is as good as safe with us on the job." He said giving her a spark of hope.

"Captain our guard and I will be accompanying you on this rescue." Luna told him.

"Sorry princess but we can't-"

"We are not taking no for an answer Captain, this is our kingdom and these are our subjects that are in danger and as a princess of equestria we must protect our subjects!" Luna exclaimed.

"*sigh* fine but if your guards are coming tell them to take off that crap that they have on. I don't want them giving us away." He says gesturing to the armor that they have on.

Luna told her night guard to remove their armor and Tyler handed them and Luna some spare Kevlar vests from the truck. Luna and the guards had equipped the vest and were surprised to how light and comfortable they were but had a problem with how there were no holes for their wings until Luna altered them with her magic.

"We all set?" Johnny said getting nods from them. "Good then lets move!" He said moving towards the forest.

The group had been silently moving through the everfree scanning for any signs of the bandits or the hostages that they've taken.

"Anyone find anything?" Johnny asked the group.

"No."

"Nothing sir."

"Negative sir."

"Nay."

They continued their search of the forest for the past twenty minutes and their search had been fruitless as they have yet to find anything.

"Ok this is starting to piss me off. Why is it that we haven't found any tracks yet!" Tyler says in frustration.

"These guys most likely planed ahead and covered their tracks." Johnny explained.

"But this doesn't make any sense. Why would these guys go through all this trouble and not demand a ransom for the hostages?" Tyler questioned the motives of the bandits.

"Don't know maybe they're trying to send a message to the public showing that they mean business." Johnny says.

"If that's the motive then these guys are probably no different than those Isis assholes which means we have to find them before ponyvile has to book three funerals." Tyler said making the princess and the her guards nervous.

"BARK, BARK!" Riley called getting the groups attention as he was circling a small reflective item in the dirt.

"What is it boy. What'd you find?" Johnny asked approaching him.

As Johnny approached Riley he saw that Riley had found a pair of expensive blue rimed glasses with the lenses cracked, these glasses were all too familiar to Tyler as he knew exactly who they belonged to.

"Hang on I think I know those glasses, here let me see them." Tyler said picking up the glasses. "Riley can you pick up the scent?" Tyler asks having Riley sniff the glasses.

Riley began sniffing around trying to find the owner of those glasses, as Riley found the scent of the owner he pointed his body in the direction the source of the smell was coming from.

"Princess what's over in that direction?" Johnny asked pointing in the direction Riley was pointing to.

"That would be my sisters and my old home. And those filthy bandits have chosen to sully our former home with their presence!" Luna says clenching her fist.

"Then they must be at the castle of the two sisters." Tyler says looking in the direction of the castle. "How far are we from the castle from our current position?" He asked the princess.

"We art not sure, but if we were to guess it we would say that it is probably about fifteen to twenty minutes on hoof. Assuming we don't run into any of the dangers that lurk in these parts of the forest." Luna tells him.

"I doubt whatever's in this forest can survive from a couple of shots from a KSG." Johnny says gesturing to the weapon in his hands. "Now lets go save lives."

"HELP!" Came a small voice out in the distance of the direction of the castle.

"You guys hear that?" Johnny asked getting nods from everyone.

"It sounds like someone needs our help, we should hurry!" Tyler said running toward the cry for help.

"Double time it people lets move!" Johnny said running after his brother.

The group continued running toward the screams for help hoping that they would reach the poor soul in need of help.

"Come on, the calls are getting closer!" Tyler said with determination.

They continued running until they came to a clearing where a royal guard who had an arrow in her chest and an unknown mare in a brown cloak fighting off a creature with a six foot wooden staff. A creature that Tyler knew all to well from the show.

"*ROAR*"

"Shit manticore!" Tyler screamed getting the beasts attention.

The cloaked mare took the opportunity to grab the wounded mare and hide her from the manticore, the manticore looked back to see that its meal and the cloaked mare had disappeared and immediately turned its attention to the thirteen new arrivals looking at them as an all you can eat buffet, it began licking its chops and charged with vigor.

"Fuck evasive maneuver and open fire on that thing!" Johnny yelled as he aimed his shotgun and opened fire.

"*BLAM, Ch-chick*" (couldn't find the correct sound so this will have to do.)

"BANG, BANG, BANG!" (couldn't find anything better that didn't sound like crap.)

The princess and her guards completely surprised and can only watch in horror as the humans weapons made quick work of the manticore, its roars of pain were heard throughout the forest.

(Ponyvile just outside the everfree)

The residents of the small town of ponyvile could only flinch and shake as the gunshots echo through the air, even some of the guards had looks of concern as the shots can be heard.

"Just who the buck are these guys?" One guard said.

"Man I almost feel bad for those bandits." A guard mare said.

"Well don't." The first guard said.

"What I said almost." The guard mare said.

(Back to the others)

The shooting had stopped for about five minutes as Johnny and Tyler slowly approached the manticore with their weapons trained on it.

"Think it's dead?" Tyler asked his brother.

"Should be after we just pumped it full of lead and buckshot." Johnny said lowering his shotgun.

Luna walked closer at the horrific sight of the remains of the once live predator. What she was looking at was almost like looking at a true nightmare, the wings had been torn to shreds with only one hanging by a few tendons the tail had been reduced to nothing but a stub the body was riddled with holes and the head was the most disturbing as one of the eyes was blown out telling her that one shot had hit it in the brain killing it instantly.

"You alright Luna?" Tyler asked with concern.

"Y-yes we are fine, we have never witnessed something like this before." Luna says still looking at the remains of the manticore.

"Yeah go to our world, this sight is quite common depending on where you live." Johnny tells her as he reloads more shells into his weapon.

"Thou can't be serious? A horrific sight like this is common where you live?" Luna said with a hint of sadness.

"Sadly it's quite common depending on where you live in our world Luna." Tyler says to her. Hey where'd those mares go?" He asked looking around for them.

"Over here." A voice called from the bushes.

As the group looked to their left, out stepped the wounded mare with the cloaked mare helping her.

"Are you ok, let me take a look at that." Johnny said as he got closer to the wounded mare.

"Are you a doctor?" The wounded mare asked.

"Yes I have medical experience, now let me take a look at your wound." He says as she shows where the arrow hit. Johnny gave the wound a good look before he spoke. "Ok I have good news and I have bad news, the good news is you'll live." He says making her breath a sigh of relief. "The bad news is you won't live for long if we don't get you to a hospital." He finishes making her blood freeze.

"H-how bad is it?" The mare asks.

"The arrow's in your aorta. That's one of the main blood vessels in your heart and if we pull it out now you'll bleed out in seconds." He says. "Now mind explaining to me why you took your armor off soldier? He asked.

The wounded mare was having trouble speaking as she can feel the arrow shift, not enough to cause damage but enough to remind her that she was hit.

"I took it off because I didn't want those bandits to hear me coming, the armor makes too much noise when it shuffles so I took it off. In hind sight I probably should have left the chest plate on." She tells him looking away embarrassedly.

Though she couldn't see it because he was wearing a helmet she could tell that he was looking at her with a raised brow which furthered her embarrassment.

"Yes you should have kept the chest plate on. Here take this." Johnny says giving her a painkiller.

The mare took the pill without question and waited for it to take effect. It took a few seconds before she could feel the effect of the pill taking hold and she slowly fell asleep.

"Good that should make getting her out of here a lot easier." He says before looking toward the cloaked mare. "Would lend me your cloak miss-"

"Zecora my name is Zecora." She says throwing Tyler off with her speaking normally.

"Huh I guess the show isn't always accurate, I wonder what else they got wrong." Tyler thinks as Zecora hands his brother her cloak revealing her tribal like attire.

"Why do you need my cloak stranger?" Zacora asked his brother.

Johnny scanned the surrounding area and found some sturdy looking branches that were thick enough to a person, he took Zecora's cloak and tied the ends of the cloak to the branches making a makeshift stretcher.

"Excuse me miss Zecora, if it's not too much trouble do you think you can help carry our sleeping friend here to the hospital? I will provide you with two of my drones, one will help you carry her and the other will provide protection." He asked her.

"Of course I will see to it that she does not take an early visit to her grave." She tells him before picking up the front end of the stretcher and the drone picks up the other half running off to the hospital.

"Ok lets continue to this castle." He tells them and starts walking towards the direction of the castle.

"Hmm these guys don't look that tuff." Johnny says as he and the others hide in a bush spying on the tow bandits across the bridge that consisted of one griffin and one earth pony stallion both holding a medieval crossbow.

"Alright Tyler attach a suppressor, pick a target and take the shot." Johnny tells his brother.

Tyler nods and pulls out a small metal cylinder that is almost about a foot long and attaches it to the barrel of the rifle and takes aim at the griffin while a drone takes aim at the earth pony.

"I got the target sighted." Tyler says as he and the drone lined up the shots and Johnny began counting down from three.

"3. 2. 1. Mark!"

"*Fwip*" Both shots hit simultaneously taking down both bandits with out a sound.

"Nice shot, everyone across the bridge move!" Johnny commands.

Everyone began to walk across the bridge one by one as the bridge was very old and could snap if too much weight was placed on it. Tyler was the first to cross the bridge, when he made it across he signaled for Luna to cross, she tried to fly across but Johnny told her walk across, as the other bandits can possibly shoot her down with their ranged weapons and that it would be safer for her and her guards to walk across, Johnny was the last to cross the bridge.

"Alright lets move." Johnny says as they continue with their mission. As they got closer Riley's ears flickered indicating that he heard something.

"What is it boy?" Tyler asked whispering. It was after he said that the castle came into view.

"Well will you look at that, this must be your old castle if I'm not mistaken right princess?" Johnny asks.

"Yes thou are correct this is our old home." Luna says with a small hint of sadness.

"Hey Luna you alright? You sound a bit sad." Tyler asked her.

"We will never get used to this sight." She tells him.

"Hey you two over here." Johnny called from the castle doors. Everyone gathered by the castle doors, Luna and her guards unsheathed their weapons and waited for Johnny to speak. "Ok We've finally made it to the castle, I take it the bandits are in the throne room, I'm gonna see if I can draw out some of them away." He says throwing his shotgun on his back and unsheathing a knife.

"Man I almost feel bad for them. Almost." Tyler says as he and the others trek towards the throne room while Johnny went in another direction.

"Now lets see what damage I can cause." Johnny says with a smirk.

Within the throne room of the castle were Diamond tiara her friend Silver spoon and the flower mare Roseluck, all of who were being held hostage by the bandits and were scared out of their minds.

"Please let us go, if it's money you want I'll pay you what ever you want just let us go!" Diamond tiara begged as she struggled against the rope.

The bandit leader who was a gray griffin wearing leather armor just looked at her before evilly smirking and slowly walked to her. "My sweet little mare, what makes you think I want money and what makes you think any of you will get out of this alive." He says making them turn pale.

"Aw come on boss if we're gonna kill them at least let us have fun with them before that happens." One of the bandit lackies said licking his lips.

"I don't see why-"

"*BLAM*" An extremely loud sound rang through out the castle scaring the life out of everyone in the throne room.

"What the buck was that!?" One of the bandits screamed.

"I told you this place was haunted!" Another said.

"Calm down it was probably something in this castle collapsing." The bandit leader says trying to reassure his men.

"Is it the royal guard!?" The same bandit asked.

"They would have to had gotten passed the two guys guarding the bridge, those guys were armed with crossbows." Another said trying to calm himself with the others.

"It is probably nothing, you two go check out what that sound was." The leader said pointing at two of his subordinates, one a diamond dog holding a spear and the other a griffin holding a musket.

"But boss-"

"NOW!" He shouted making them think twice and ran out to go investigate the noise.

It had been five minutes and the bandits still haven't found any thing and the atmosphere of the castle was starting to get to them.

"This place is giving me the creeps." The griffin said sweating a little.

"You said it. It feels like we're being watched." The diamond dog says as he felt a shivering sensation going down his spine. "What was tha-" He stopped as he and his partner heard strange and ominous music echoing in the empty hallway.

"W-where the tartarus is that music coming from!" The griffin said pointing his musket down the empty hallway. They continued to follow the music down the darkened hallway.

*SLAM* Came a door slam from behind them and then another.

"AHH!" The griffin bandit screamed as the sound of doors slamming scared our whatever bravado had been building up in his diamond dog companion.

"AHH I knew this place was haunted!" The diamond dog screamed running in the opposite direction from where they came from.

"Hey get back here you wussy!" The griffin screamed for his friend but he was long gone. "Well shit, looks like I have to go find him." He said with an unamused tone.

The griffin walked down the now darkened hallway pointing his musket at every sound that he heard, and if that wasn't the worst of it the creepy music had restarted a few seconds after it ended which made the feathers on the back of his neck stand up and it got louder as he continued traveling down the hall, he had the feeling that he was being watched either from the rooms or from behind him but every time he looked in the rooms or looked behind him he ended up with the same results. Nothing. He was starting to get paranoid, the music continued to echo in the hall end got louder as he got closer to the source of the music he began to see a trail of blood on the coble stone floor leading to an old door with a crescent moon, which lead him to believe that this room belonged to princess Luna.

"This is where the music is coming from." The griffin said as he slowly entered the room with the door making a slow creaking sound as he opened it. upon entering the room he saw that the room was in ruins, there were piles of rubble and debris all around the room a broken mirror in the corner on top of a dusty old dresser, and a large queen size bed and a antique music box both seemingly untouched by any damage that destroyed the room, but the thing that drew his attention the most was the chair facing away from him in the middle of the room with a spear resting on the side of it, the griffin then saw his partners hand holding the spear.

"Hey Adrian you doing ok?" The griffin asked.

"..."

"Adrian?" He asked again getting no response. He then checked the other side of the chair only to discover that his partners neck had been snapped, he immediately began to scan the room with his rifle at the ready.

"He didn't put up much of a fight. Hopefully you'll fair much better." A deep voice on his far left said.

The griffin turned his rifle in the direction of the voice and pulled the trigger on his musket.

"*BANG*" His musket shot rang throughout the room and in the halls of the castle but as the smoke from his shot cleared he saw that his shot had hit nothing but the wall.

"You missed." A voice said from behind him.

"AHH-*SHIKK*" The griffins scream was cut short as a serrated knife was shoved in his throat and ripped out causing his blood to gush out, as he turned around the last thing he saw was a tall figure with an angry skull staring at him.

"Too slow." The figure said before the griffin closed his eyes for the final time.

Johnny just looked at the griffin and the diamond dog for a few seconds before he collected their weapons and walk of towards the throne room.

"Manticores, griffins, dogs the can talk and magical ponies. What's next a fucking hydra." He asked out loud.

"I know right this world is getting interesting. I wonder what's next!" Wrath said with excitement.

"Calm down Wrath we're not trying to start trouble here we're just rescuing the hostages." Johnny tells Wrath.

"Oh I just hope those other bandits try something stupid so we have a reason to pull the trigger." He says smugly.

"God I hope they're not that stupid." Johnny says shaking his head.

(Throne room)

"Did you guys hear that?" A bandit said as she and the others heard the musket shot.

"What the tartarus is going on here?" The bandit leader wondered as he tried to make sense of everything.

"Who the buck is in here!?" Another bandit screamed.

"That would be us." A mechanical voice said from behind the throne room door making every bandit and all three hostages focus on the door.

*KA-BOOM* Everyone was in shock as the doors of the throne room were blown to pieces and ten figures ran into the room three of which were princess Luna and two night guards which gave Diamond tiara, Silver spoon and Roseluck hope but the ones that drew their attention the most were the ones accompanying them, nine of the individuals were wearing some sort of camouflage armor while the tenth one was wearing regular clothing but all of them were wielding strange weapons similar to what two of the bandits had and was wearing a strange helmet that looked like a skull.

"Who the tartarus are you?" The leader asked pointing two pepperbox pistols at them.

"Who the tartarus are you?" Tyler heard the bandit leader ask him.

Tyler had his rifle trained on the leader while the drones had theirs trained on the other bandits who were armed with battle axes, swords, spears, crossbows, two pepperbox pistols and one musket.

"Oh we're just mercenaries on a rescue mission." Tyler says making the hostages faces change from one of fear to one of hope.

The bandits were sweating, none of them expected something like this, they thought they would be able to get away scot free and make their gang notorious and feared throughout equestria but instead they were faced down by princess Luna and an entire squad of mercenaries armed with odd looking weapons.

"The way I see it this can end in two ways. You can either lay down your weapons and come over peacefully. Or you can choose option B and turn this into a one sided blood bath, and for your sake I hope you're not that stupid." Tyler says keeping his weapon trained on the leader.

The bandits hesitated weather or not to fight or just give up and turn themselves in, they were outnumbered ten to one and they also had the princess of the night standing before them with her weapon drawn. Not wanting to take on the mercenaries or the princess they did the only thing they could do surrender. One by one the bandits started placing their weapons on the floor and placing their hands in the air, all but one. The leader who couldn't help but be angry at the fact that his followers gave up so easily and surrendered.

"What are you doing you cowards, why are you surrendering!?" The leader demanded.

"Boss we're out numbered and they have the superior weaponry." One of the bandits said to the leader.

The leader just kept his guns pointed at the mercs as he watched his men surrender, he was not going to do the same, if he was going down he prefer to go down fighting.

"Fine if that's what you cowards want then do as you please, but I am not going down without a fight!" The leader exclaimed and then pointed his weapon at princess Luna.

"Shit Luna watch out!" Tyler screamed pushing Luna out of the way.

*BANG*

"AHH!" Tyler screamed clutching his right shoulder.

The drones immediately started returning fire which prompted the surrendering bandits to duck in cover on the floor as the leader took to the air and fired off a few more shots from his pistols at the drones but the shots were ineffective as they just bounced off of the drones armor plating and catching him off guard. The drones took advantage of his confusion and opened fire at the leader hitting him in his left leg and wing causing him to fall to the floor in pain as he's never felt pain like this. The drones immediately converged on his down form and placed him in hand cuffs.

"Ow son of a bitch this hurts." Tyler says as he clutches his shoulder.

"Tyler are you ok!?" Luna says worriedly as she sees the blood soaking his jacket.

"Yeah I'm fine, just check on the hostages." Tyler said still clutching his bleeding shoulder trying to stop the bleeding.

Luna was hesitant to leave his side after he took the shot that was meant for her but relaxed after one of the drones approached them with a first aid kit, she sighed and walked over with her two guards towards the hostages.

"Art thou ok?" Luna says to the ponies that were taken hostage.

"Princess Luna you came to save us!" Diamond tiara said with praise.

"Thank Celestia." Roseluck said breathing a sigh of relief.

"It was not we who saved you but our guests who risked life and limb to come to your aid." Luna says motioning to the wounded lieutenant and the drones cuffing the bandits and grabbing their weapons.

"One of them got hurt." Silver spoon said as she was free from her bonds.

Diamond tiara and the others look to the merc that had been injured during the rescue as one of the drones bandaged his shoulder.

"Oh no I hope it's not too serious." Roseluck says looking at him with concern.

The drone had finished patching up Tyler and placed his arm in a sling as to not move it too much. Tyler winced a little as the bullet was still in his shoulder and caused him discomfort, the combat drones were not properly equipped to handle medical situations like this, not like the medical drones which had the medical experience of a full fledged field surgeon which meant that he would have to wait till they got back to base which meant that it was going to be a very uncomfortable ride home. Tyler then looked to the hostages and began to walk toward them.

"It appears the lieutenant wishes to say something." Luna says to them as Tyler got closer.

"He does?" Diamond tiara asks as he approached them.

"Hello, I'm second lieutenant Hunter, of the punisher squad mercenary company and I'm happy to see that you girls are unharmed." He says making them blush a little. Luna looked at the blushing mares and looked at Tyler with a small smile.

''My, my lieutenant you certainly have a way with mares.'' Luna says making him jump a little. Even though he was wearing a helmet Luna could tell he was blushing.

"A-anyway we're here to escort you girls back to ponyvile and back to your families." Tyler said as he began walking towards the now destroyed door to the throne room. The drones began rounding up the bandits and their now bandaged up leader and began escorting them out of the room in a box formation to prevent any of them from escaping and keeping the hostages by his and Luna's side.

"Hunter?" Luna says looking to Tyler who just keeps walking straight.

"We can't reveal our real identities yet so until then me and my brother will be using our code names, mine's Hunter and Whiplash.'' He tells her getting a questioning look from the lunar princess.

"Hunter and Whiplash? What is the need for those names?" Luna asked him.

"Well since we can't use our real names in the field we have to use a code name or two keep our identity safe from any one who might try to get the upper hand on us." Tyler explains to Luna.

Upon walking out of the castle they met up with Johnny who's code name was Wolf fang, but upon seeing him, the appearance of his helmet slightly frightened Diamond tiara and the others but he quickly reassured them that he was the one in charge of the rescue mission. Diamond tiara and the others gave a sigh of relief knowing that they could put this awful day behind them and followed them back to ponyvile.

By the time they reached the town it was the beginning of dawn and the townsfolk were still crowding the entrance of the forest, they were shocked when Zecora came out of the forest carrying a wounded guard on a stretcher with the assistance of two of those strange green armored beings, they immediately rushed her to ponyvile general. When the others arrived Filthy and Spoiled ran and embraced their daughter.

"Diamond! Thank Celestia you're alright!" Cried Spoiled rich who was weeping tears of joy that her daughter was safe and sound.

"My little princess are you alright those ruffians didn't do anything to you or Silver spoon did they?" Filthy asked with worry.

"No they didn't but they wanted to have their way with us and .'' Diamond says still shaken up then continued. ''T-they were going to kill us." She said hugging her mother and her mother trying to calm her.

Seconds later princess Luna and the rest came out of the forest with the bandits in tow all wear hand cuffs.

''Princess Luna you're ok! Thank Faust." A guard said as he breathed a sigh of relief.

''Of course we are ok, why wouldn't we be?'' Luna asked the day guard.

'' whelp it's just that the everfree is very dangerous, and those bandits had some very dangerous weapons and to top it off you entered the forest with only two guards with an unknown group of mercenaries with unknown weapons.'' The guard says to Luna. He wanted to say more but he was cut off as Luna interrupted him before he could speak.

''Art thou suggesting that we cannot defend ourselves?'' Luna asked in a dangerous tone.

''N-no that's not what I was suggesting!'' The guard says as he feels that he may have hit a nerve with the princess and worried that he might lose his job.

Luna was about to say something but she saw the captain approaching them with his shotgun slung on his back. "Ah captain, congratulations to you and your team on a job well done.'' She says with a small smile.

''I don't know why you're congratulating me, I didn't do anything except kill a manticore and two bandits. It was Hunter who saved the hostages.'' Johnny says pointing at Tyler who was sitting at the truck while the crusaders and the others and the rest of the mane 6 had looks of concern as they looked at his wound.

''Is he alright?'' Luna says feeling bad for him, after all he did push her out of the way and took the shot that was meant for her.

''He's fine, albeit in a little of pain because the bullet is still in his shoulder but I should be able to get it out once we get back to base.'' He tells her trying reassure her.

''Still we feel that we should apologize, your brother was harmed protecting us.'' Luna says looking downcast that she couldn't do anything during the rescue.

Johnny placed his hand on Luna's shoulder making her look at him before he spoke. ''Listen princess, it's do to the fact that we're used to these types of situations. Sometimes they are way worse than this and way more bloodier, this time it was only pesky bandits and only four of them died. I've also taken my fair share of gunshots over the years.'' He said making her understand a bit. ''Besides it's our job to put our lives on the line.'' He says walking back to the truck.

Johnny was walking toward the truck where he saw the royal guard loading up the bandits in two rather large old fashioned wagons with iron bars and the leader not looking too pleased and was glairing at the mercenaries as he was loaded in the wagon. Johnny could only smirk under his helmet as he knows that he and his brother just made their first interdimensional enemy, the whole concept of the situation that they were in was kinda exciting to him, he made a mental note to ask Tyler about everything he knew about this world since he practically knew this place and he hasn't shut up about it, as got to the truck he could hear the conversation between Tyler and the girls.

''Look girls I'm fine it's just a flesh wound.'' Tyler says trying to calm them down.

''Flesh wound? You were just shot, we need to get you to the hospital Ty-'' Scootaloo was interrupted as she was shushed by Tyler.

''Listen Scoots, you can't say my real name in public and I can't go to ponyvile general.'' Tyler tells her and the girls.

''Why not? Ponyvile general's just a couple of blocks away from here.'' Twilight asked questioning his decision of not going to the hospital.

''*Sigh* look girls the reason I can't go to ponyvile general is because I'm not exactly something you guys see everyday or at all in fact.'' Tyler tell them then continues. ''Plus I can get this properly taken care of when I get back to base.'' He finishes.

''Hunter mount up, lets go!'' Johnny call out to his brother.

''Yeah, got it sir.'' Tyler says getting in the truck.

''You too princess, we still need your help with something.'' Johnny say calling Twilight who wore an expression of excitement.

''We shall come as well.'' Luna says as she and her guards board the truck.

''*Sigh* whatever lets just go please.'' Johnny says wanting his brother to be back to his brother.

Luna and her guard get in the back of the truck and sit down while Twilight and Barb got in with them, Skootaloo and the crusaders tried to get in but Johnny told them to stay in town. As he started the truck the ponies started to clear a path for them to leave while others took out their P-phones and started taking pictures while some of the fillies and colts looked at them and the drones in awe. Johnny could only look at the kids as a small smile worked it way on to his face and he began to drive back to base.

''Woah up for a sec!'' Tyler yells causing Johnny to suddenly stop and jerking the truck and its occupants forward.

''What is it now!'' Johnny asked with an annoyed tone.

''I forgot to do something, hang tight I'll be back real quick.'' Tyler said as he re-activated his helmet walked towards the crowd looking for Silver spoon. It didn't take him long before he found them sitting on a bench with a blanket and Diamonds parents comforting them. ''Hey kid!'' Tyler calls getting their attention.

''Huh?'' Diamond tiara looked to see the wounded merc approaching them.

''Oh it's the guy who saved us!'' Silver spoon said as he approached them.

''Oh good I must thank them for saving you two.'' Filthy said as he approached him. ''Excuse me sir, I would very much like to thank you for saving my daughter.''

''You're welcome sir but I just came to speak with one of the girls before I head back to base and get my wound checked out.'' Tyler says gesturing to his wounded shoulder.

''Ah, yes well let me introduce you to them.'' Filthy says motioning him to Diamond and Silver. ''This is my dau-''

''Diamond tiara and her friend Silver spoon.'' Tyler said shocking Filthy rich and Diamond tiara and Silver spoon.

''H-how do you know their names?'' Filthy asked with surprise.

''The Punisher squad make our business to know anything and everything about the peo- ponies that we're sent to rescue, arrest, or put down.'' Tyler says giving them a small understanding of what they do.

''I-I see well, what did you want to speak to them about?'' Filthy asked.

''Actually I just wanted to return these.'' Tyler says reaching into his right pocket and pulling out Silver spoon's broken glasses. ''Here you go Silver, my dog and I found these in the forest while we were searching for you, they're a little broken but it's nothing that can't be fixed.'' He says handing her glasses to her.

''Oh t-thanks.'' Silver says taking her glasses with a small blush on her face.

''Whelp I should be going now, see ya.'' Tyler says walking back to the truck unaware that Silver spoon was still looking at him.

Tyler hopped back into the truck using his good arm to avoid further pain and sat in silence while Gnarls Barkley's Crazy was playing from the speakers, much to the enjoyment of Twilight, Barb and Luna.

''This song is good, who knew music like this existed.'' Barb said as bobbed her head to the Rhythm of the song.

''I must agree, this music is quite catchy and the singer is quite talented.'' Luna says as she listens and one of her guards taps their hoof to the beat as well. Twilight was just silently listening to the song with a smile as she too was enjoying the song. The song ended and was followed by Sean Kingston's song Take You There which they found just as enjoyable.

''Ok ladies, we're coming up on the front gate, and princess? Have that spell ready please.'' Tyler says from the front seat.

The truck pulled up to the gates and waited while two drones armed with M4's opened the gates to let them in, the truck slowly drove into the base and made a complete stop in front of hanger one, Johnny and Tyler got out of the truck and opened the back for their guests.

''Alrighty ladies, please wait in the hanger while I go treat Tyler's shoulder.'' Johnny tells them before he deactivates his helmet.

''Alright I shall have the spell ready when you guys get back.'' Twilight told him as he and Tyler left for the infirmary.

(Infirmary)

''Ow, ow, ow! Take it easy will you this doesn't exactly tickle you know!💢'' Tyler says clenching his right fist as Johnny was using a pair of forceps to extract the bullet from his shoulder.

''Hey you said you didn't want to use morphine or anesthesia, so you're gonna have to tuff it out and stop being such baby and stop moving or I'm going to strap you to this table!'' Johnny says getting frustrated with his brothers complaining.

''I can't believe I got shot with a museum piece.'' Tyler said trying to distract himself from the pain of having sanitized forceps dig into his shoulder.

''Aaand got it!'' Johnny says taking out the bullet and placing it in a small pan. ''Ok now lets get that thing sowed up and get back to the hanger.

(Hanger)

The girls were just waiting in the hanger while Twilight was preparing the spell. It had been nearly ten minutes before the mercs came back without their helmets and Tyler's red T-shirt, Kevlar vest and jacket was replaced with a black muscle shirt and revealing the his female version of him had a very athletic build with B-cup breasts and his arm was in a new sling, but what interested them the most were the marks on his arms that they all assumed were unique form of a cutie mark.

''Wow, I've never seen such unique cutie marks like that.'' Twilight says examining Tyler's tattoos.

Tyler and Johnny could only chuckle at their expressions, Tyler because they thought his tattoos were cutie marks, and Johnny because that was the lamest thing he's ever heard.

''No, no Twilight these aren't cutie marks, these are called tattoos.'' Tyler tells the lavender alicorn.

''Tattoos? What are those?'' Twilight asks looking at his tattoos with interest.

''I'll explain later. The spell please.'' Tyler begs her.

''Oh! Right sorry.'' Twilight said readying the spell as her horn and hands began to glow in a lavender aura.

Tyler walked over to a area a few feet in front of Twilight and waited while Johnny stood next to princess Luna and looked at the scene before him with great interest.

''Amazing!'' Johnny said looking at the scene in front of him.

Twilight's spell was ready and Tyler was standing a few feet in front of her waiting to be changed back to normal. Before he could ask her a question she fired the spell at him prompting him to close his eyes as he was engulfed in a bright light, as the spell impacting him Tyler feel his body changing back but something was off, as he was changing back he felt like something was separating from him, and he wasn't feeling any pain. As the light dimmed down everyone was now able to see that Tyler went from being a she back to a he, but that wasn't all that they saw.

''Hey guys, what's with the staring?'' Tyler asked looking at their faces as each of them had a look of shock. He looked to his left and saw the female version of himself silently sleeping in the fetal position.

OK people, sorry for the long wait but these things take time, as I don't have an editor or proof reader. But enough of that, the next chapter is going to be a Q&A so send me a private message and ask your question and I will select a total of ten. also thanks for being patient with me. Till next time!