(A month later)

It has been a full month since our small team of mercs ended up in equestria and a lot has happened. First word about the rescue has gotten out and about how it was a mysterious team of mercenaries with advanced weapons and technology that no one has seen before and even a few pictures were leaked to the press and Twilight and the others had came over to their base with a news paper in hand.

''*Knock* *knock* *Knock* Tyler, Vick are you home? We need to talk.'' Twilight calls to the two youngest humans.

''Are you sure their home?'' Rainbow asked Twilight.

''Of course there're home Rainbow where else would they be?'' Pinkie asks her friend.

''Oh right.'' Rainbow said rubbing the back of her neck.

Twilight was about to speak when she and the others had began to hear music. ''Do you girls hear that?'' Twilight asked her friends.

''It sounds like music darling.'' Rarity says listens to the rythem of the song.

''It sounds like rock music.'' Rainbow says as the group follows the music.

They go to the back of the house to see a large metal shed.

''Wow that's a big shed.'' Rainbow said looking at the shed.

''Well do you think we should knock darling?'' Rarity asks.

''Ah doubt they would hear it with how loud the music is.'' Applejack said as they made their way to the door.

'Maybe the door's open?'' Pinkie said reaching for the door.

''There's no way that-'' Twilight spoke.

''Open!'' Pinkie said holding the door open for her friends.

''Oh.''

As they all entered the shed the door slowly closed behind them and they saw an area closed off by a tarp and the occasional sound of a tool box and power tools. The girls decided to get closer to the tarp to see what was behind it and were moving slowly (mostly Fluttershy) toward the tarp, as Twilight and the girls moved through the tarp they came into view of a shirtless Johnny which immediately made the blood rush to their faces. But upon inspection they saw that Johnny's back had a tattoo that he explained to them a while ago.

''Whoa. Talk about hardcore.'' Rainbow said looking at the tattoo getting nods from the girls. Getting closer they also saw that his body was covered in scars.

''*Gasp!*'' Fluttershy went covering her mouth.

''Oh mah stars.'' Applejack said looking at his scars.

''What the buck happened to him!?'' Rainbow said looking shocked.

''Who could do such a horrible thing!'' Rarity said with her mascara running.

''What kind of meanie could be so mean.'' Pinkie said with her mane deflated.

Twilight couldn't say a thing as she was to horrified at what she was seeing. Getting a better look she saw that he had other tattoos on himself. His left arm had what looked to be a wolf with a cresent moon. While on his right arm looked like some sort of cross with a dragon.

Not paying attention Rarity accidently kicked a empty oil can across the floor alerting Johnny to their presence. ''Any reason why you're in here?'' Johnny says not looking away from the covered car he as working on.

''....''

''*Sigh*'' Johnny puts down the tools he was using and turns to the girls who some had tears while others had looks of shock. ''You girls obviously came here for a reason, so what is it?'' He asked wiping his hands clean of any grease and motor oil.

''Oh r-right here!'' Twilight says handing him the newspaper.

Twilight hands him the newspaper to show him the photos that got leaked.

''The princess has asked that you and your family make an appearance in Canterlot before the nobles get restless.

Johnny thought about it for a second to gather his thoughts. ‘’Hmm, we haven’t been anywhere outside the base, and I guess we should do something to make sure the nobles don’t start hassling the princess, that would make her mad.’’ Johnny says making Twilight breath a sigh of relief.

‘’Oh that’s a relief, here are your tickets!’’ Twilight says handing him three tickets for the train.

Johnny looked at the tickets for three seconds before handing them back. ‘’Nah we don’t need to take a train Twilight.’’ He says getting a confused look from the girls.

‘’But how are we going to get to Canterlot?’’ Twilight asked him clearly confused.

‘’Twilight, we are in a hi-tech military base, how else are we gonna get there.’’ Johnny said with an obvious sounding tone while crossing his arms.

‘’Oh right.’’ Twilight says with a small blush. Twilight and the girls follow Johnny to the house after he turned off the music. The girls continued to stare at his shirtless upper torso from behind.

The group continued to walk in silence as Johnny walked around to the front of his house. Reaching into his pocket and fished out the key to his house and unlocked the door to allow the girls to enter.

‘’So you girls wait here and I’ll go get Tyler and Vicky.’’Johnny tells them as he walks up the stairs.

''Quit cheating!'' Victoria says as she grips the game controller.

''I ain't cheating, you need to play better.'' Tyler says smirking.

'FINISH HIM!'

''Damn it!'' Victoria shouts as she lost for the third time. ''I still think you cheated.'' She said crossing her arms.

''Nope I'm just that good, haha!'' Tyler cheers but was cut short when his door opened to reveal his brother. ''Hey Johnny.''

''Hi big bro!'' Vick said with a smile.

Johnny gave a small smile at her cheery attitude, he also grew to like the fact of having a sister the same as Tyler did.

''So what brings you here Johnny? I thought you would be in the shed for most of the day.'' Tyler says going to the Xbox one menu.

''*sigh*''

''Uh oh I know that sigh, what's going on?'' Tyler asked.

''Yeah, every time you sigh like that it means somethings wrong. What's the matter big bro?'' Victoria asked looking concerned.

‘’The nobles got wind of the rescue and are getting restless.’’ Johnny says tossing the newspaper he had with him. Catching the paper Tyler and Vick looked and saw the company in a blurred out photo and a few pics of Johnny and Tyler with their helmets on, but what really set them off was the caption of the article.

Victoria was the first go off. ‘’Are you kidding me!!’’ She screamed in frustration. ‘’Those jerks have the nerve to call us a menace to equestria!’’ She says looking at the newspaper with a look of scorn.

‘’It’s the Press, what do you expect. They don’t care who’s name they slander so long as they get a big lump of cash to line their pockets with.’’ Tyler says throwing the paper in a small trash bin.

Johnny wasn't happy about the news article either but what could he do? They are an unknown mercenary force with advanced tech that's hundreds of years beyond what they can create.

''Nothing we can do about it now, let's go arm up.'' Johnny says exiting the room. The two follow him down stairs where the mane 6 are chatting with one another.

''Hi girls!'' Vick says as greeting the mane 6.

''Hi Vicky!'' Pinkie exclaimed giving her a hug which Vick gladly returned.

''Look girls we're gonna go and get dressed into our BDU's so we'll be right back, feel free to grab a snack from our fridge.'' Johnny tells them as he, Tyler, and Victoria head down to the sub-levels.

The girls watched the three mercs go down the basement leaving them to themselves.

''Well he did say we could help ourselves.'' Rainbow said going towards the kitchen.

''While he did say that darling, we mustn't take advantage of his hospitality.'' Rarity says to her brash friend.

''Relax Rare's, I'm just grabbing a drink not a full meal.'' Rainbow says grabbing a can of coke.

''Oh, oh, oh, can you grab me one of those too?'' Pinkie asked.

''Sure Pinks.'' Rainbow says grabbing another can.

The girls began converse Riley came down from the stairs and barked happily at both Fluttershy and Applejack.

''Hi Riley, are you doing well?'' Fluttershy says petting him.

''You're looking as spry as ever there, ain't cha boy!'' Applejack says scratching behind his ears.

''Whelp I'm going to grab myself a refreshment girls, I will be back.'' Rarity tells them before going to the kitchen. Rarity opens the stainless steel fridge to see that it is chalked full of fresh fruits and vegetables. ''Oh my! He certainly knows how to stock up on the finer things in life, oh! He even has wine, lets see, Stella Rosa, Stella Berry, IL Conte 1917. He certainly has good taste.'' She says closing the fridge and looking in the cabinets for a glass, after she found one she used her magic to pop open the wine and began to pour herself a glass. ''*Sip* I say, this wine is simply divine! The flavor, the smell, color and the texture! This wine is aged to perfection.'' She says savoring the glass.

Rarity came back and took her previous spot on a comfy blue chair . The girls continued to chat for a couple of minutes before Rainbow decided to ask a question that was on her mind.

''Soo girls? How do you think he got all those scars?'' Rainbow asked making Rarity choke on her glass of wine spilling a bit on her shirt.

''*Cough* *cough* Rainbow Dash! That is non of our concern and I hope you don't plan on asking the captain.'' Rarity says with an warning tone.

''What? Of course not I'm not as insensitive as I was all those years ago, I was just asking a question.'' Rainbow says defensively.

''Welp, he is a mercenary, maybe he got them from missions Rainbow.'' Twilight says.

''She's not wrong Rainbow, he does have a very dangerous job. Even more dangerous than most of what the guard does.'' Applejack states.

''I guess you're right.'' Rainbow says sitting down on the couch.

(Sub-levels armory)

Our small team of mercs were getting dressed in BDU's which consisted in the colors black and light grey while having full gear on that consisted of a bulletproof vest, tactical pads, and Kevlar gloves. Tyler's was more for basic raid missions while Victoria's was more tactical, and finally Johnny's was more of a special forces kind.

''Alright now let's not keep our guests waiting any longer.'' Johnny tells his brother and sister. ''Oh and before I forget, here you go Vick.'' He says tossing a metal collar to her. Victoria catches it and looks it over before immediately knowing what it as and putting it on her neck and activating it.

''Thanks Johnny!'' Vick says wrapping her arms around his neck giving him a smile.

''You're welcome sis, keep in mind that it doesn't have as much armor as your brothers but I will have time to work on that later. It's equipped the standard voice augmentation, wireless com link, thermal and night vision, and a HUD.'' Johnny tells her. ''Alright lets grab a weapon.'' He says dawning his punisher .45's with three spare mags, a M4A1. For Tyler he had aM9 berrata, P90 smg so the recoil doesn't hurt his shoulder, and finally for Victoria her weapons consisted of a Glock 17 with three spare mags, and a Mp5 that also had spare mags.

''Don't you guys think that this is a bit overkill? I mean we are only making an appearance.'' Tyler say sounding unsure about their armament.

''It's just a little insurance just in case.'' Johnny say checking his weapon over. ''Come on lets go, we got a meeting to get to.''

The girls were chatting with one another about their usual activities such as the next galla, the latest fashion trends, the next wonderbolts show ect. They were in the middle of enjoying some granola bars that Pinkie had found in the cabinet when the door to the basement opened to reveal the mercs in their combat gear.

''Soo awesome.'' Rainbow says in awe.

''I must say you three look really intimidating darlings?'' Rarity says looking at them.

Johnny just looks at her and smiled. ''That's what I'm going for sweetheart.'' He says making her blush. ''Now before we go I have two more things to do.'' He says looking to Tyler. ''Tyler get Riley's vest on while I go activate a small handful of combat drones.'' He says getting a confused look from his brother.

''Why didn't you do that when we were down in the sub-levels?'' Tyler asked his brother.

''What, I forgot.'' Johnny stated with a slightly annoyed tone. ''Anyway I'll be right back.'' He says going back down to the sub-levels.

''So Tyler, how are we are we going to get to Canterlot?'' Twilight asks.

''Huh? What do you mean how are we getting to Canterlot?'' Tyler asked.

''Welp, I told Johnny that that we were going to take a train to Canterlot but when I handed him the tickets he just gave them back and said that we don't need to take a train. So I'm assuming that you have a way for us to get there?'' Twilight clarifies.

Tyler thinks for a second before he opens his mouth to speak but his sister Victoria beats him to it.

''That's an easy question Twilight, we're gonna fly there!'' Vick says getting confused looks from the girls.

''Fly? So we're taking a chariot?'' Rainbow asked.

''No, we're taking something faster than a chariot.'' Tyler says getting an excited look from Rainbow.

''How fast are we talking here?'' Rainbow asked with curiosity.

''It all depends on what aircraft we take Dashy.'' Vick tells her.

Rainbow was about to speak but the door to the basement opened up to reveal Johnny with a couple of combat drones behind him each carrying a different weapon from a shotguns, to a sniper, and a assult rifle she couldn't see them all but she was sure that there were more drones.

''Alrighty people, lets get going.'' Johnny says reaching for the door before stopping. ''Dang, Tyler you and the rest wait for me at hangar 2, I need to grab something from my room.'' He says going up the stairs.

''Yes sir.'' Tyler and Victoria say in unison before leaving with the girls and twelve combat drones to hangar 2.

Entering his room Johnny walked over to the nightstand on the left side of his bed where a small box rested next to a digital alarm clock, Johnny walk over to the nightstand and opened the box to reveal a collection of small nick knacks and old photos but what stood out in the box the most was a small necklace the was adorned with a small jade heart with small scratches on it.

''Not leaving without this.'' Johnny says placing the necklace around his neck. ''One more thing.'' He says going to his closet where he kept his second most prized possession. His handcrafted Katana sword that took him over half a year to craft to his liking and another half to craft his second sword. ''Just gonna take one sword.'' He says taking the white one and began his walk to the hangar.

The girls were in complete awe at the sight of multiple aircraft in the hangar.

''Woah, what are these things?!'' Twilight exclaims with excitement.

Tyler and Vick couldn't help but laugh a bit at her reaction. ''These, Twilight are military helicopters. More specifically this type of helo is called the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey, or you can just call it a V-22.'' Tyler explains as Twilight takes more notes.

''Really Twilight?'' Rainbow asks giving her friend a raised brow.

''I can't help it, this is just too good to pass up!'' Twilight whines.

''*Whistles* This here hangar sure is big.'' Applejack says looking around.

''Welp we aren't getting any younger, lets get this thing ready.'' Vick says walking up to one of the V-22's and began the start up sequence.

''Eeep!''

''Getting started without me?'' A voice says over the radio. Vick looked at the entrance of the hanger to see Johnny with his sword resting on his shoulder. ''Welp, lets get moving.'' Johnny says boarding the helo. ''Strap in everyone!'' He shouts getting the girls to comply but were having trouble with the seatbelts so he had to help them.

''Thank you darling.'' Rarity says with a small smile to which Johnny replied with a nod.

''This. Is. So. Awesome!'' Rainbow says with glee.

The girls began to feel a little uneasy as the V-22 began to move out of the hangar and began to rise.

''Wowie, we're moving!'' Pinkie squees with excitement as the helicopter went higher and higher in the air.

''So how long ti- Woah!'' Twilight shouts as the V-22 jerked forward.

''Anyone want to listen to some music while we ride to Canterlot?'' Vick asks letting one of the drones take the Co-pilot seat.

''Sure, music sound great, especially if it's human music!'' Rainbow says.

''Cool, any preferences? Fluttershy?'' Vick asked they shy mare who was trembling from the ride. ''Come on Flutters, it's not that scary.'' Victoria says trying to calm her down a bit. Eventually Fluttershy's trembling calmed down a bit. ''See told you, now do you have any choice in music?'' She asked.

''M-Maybe something relaxing. I mean if that's not too much trouble.'' Fluttershy says meekly.

Vick thought for a second before she thought of the perfect song that she knew that Fluttershy and maybe the others would like. ''Hey Tyler, can I borrow your cellphone?'' She asked.

''Um sure.'' Tyler said reaching into his pocket of his BDU's pants and fishing out his cellphone. ''Here." He said handing it to her.

''Thanks!'' Vick said taking the phone and going onto his music app. ''No, no, not that one, I think that might scare her, here it is!'' Vick says selecting the song and playing it on the speaker system.

The song begins with a relaxing guitar strum, much to her liking the song had the exact effect on Fluttershy that she was hoping for when the singing started.

''My word, this is very relaxing! Who is the singer darling?'' Rarity says listening to the song.

''The original singer of the song is named David Bowie who's a singer, songwriter, and actor who's career in music started in 1969.'' Tyler said as Twilight wrote down notes.

''My word darling, so many talents!'' Rarity says with surprise. ''Are all celebrities this talented?'' She asked.

''No not all of them, some just focus on what they do while others want to challenge themselves.'' Vick tells them.

''Outstanding!'' Twilight says writing down more notes.

The group sat and enjoyed the ride and song for a while till Tyler asked Twilight a question.

''So Twilight?'' Tyler asked.

''Huh?'' She looked away from her notes.

''I take it you told Princess Celestia that we're coming with our own mode of transportation?'' He asked her making her eyes widen with shock.

''Oh my Faust I forgot!'' Twilight screams taking out her cellphone and sending her former mentor a text. ''Um Tyler, how long till we arrive?'' She asked him.

Tyler looked out one of the windows and back to Twilight and spoke. ''Welp, giving our current speed we should be able to reach Canterlot within 15-20 mins.'' He said almost making her drop her cellphone.

''That fast!'' The girls exclaimed at once.

''Dude, It would take us at least five hours on the ponyville express!'' Rainbow Dash says.

''Yeah Johnny doesn't like taking trains unless he has to.'' Tyler says motioning to Johnny who is looking his weapons over.

''Is he always like that?'' Rainbow says looking at him.

''Can you blame him, he's ex-military and he's probably seen some messed up stuff too.'' He said to her.

''What kind of stuff?'' Rainbow asked.

''Yes darling what kind of stuff?'' Rarity asked with concern for the captain.

Tyler just gave them a sad look and replied. ''The kind of stuff that would give the most seasoned of royal guards nightmares for the rest of his or her life.'' He said getting looks of pity from the girls.

''Is there anything we can do to help?'' Applejack asked.

''Yes is there anything we can do for him?'' Twilight asked.

''Sadly no, especially if you are referring to a therapist.'' Tyler says turning toward his brother. ''Everyone has their own way of dealing with PTSD, for me it was the my little pony show, for Johnny it's fixing thing, if he's not fixing things he's making things.'' He finishes with the girls looking at both him and Johnny with looks of sadness. ''Come on girls, don't let what I told you get you down let's enjoy the ride, here let me put on some music that I know you'll love.'' He said grabbing his phone as the song ended and began scrolling through his playlists. ''Now I know you girls and ponies in general are into the pop genre. If Sapphire Shores is the pony of pop, then wait till you hear the King of pop! So why don't I play some music by Michael Jackson.'' He said as he selected a random song a pressed play.

Celestia had just received the text from Twilight and already had the castle staff making the preparations for the captain and his family, Luna had told her about the unfortunate incident with Twilight's spell and the bandits, she was glad that the captain had decided to help and prevent the loss of innocent life, as for the bandits she had them thrown in the dungeons for their crimes as some of them had a few bounties on their heads, she made a mental note to pay the mercs the bounty for their assistance when they get here. She hoped that everything goes well, after all they did, and from the latter that she received from Twilight most of ponyville seems to trust them. Overlooking the preparations she saw that the staff were nearly finished and the nobles and press were beginning to crowd.

''Guards, let the guests in and have them seated, our guests of honor should be arriving shortly.'' Celestia tells her guard.

''Sister?''

Celestia looks to see her sister Luna who is dressed in her usual uniform. ''Yes Luna? What do you need?'' She asked.

''We were wondering when the captain and his family will be arriving?'' Luna asked.

Celestia checked her text from Twilight then looked to her sister. ''They will be here in twenty minutes fifteen at earliest.'' She said getting a surprised look from Luna.

''Didn't you tell Twilight to bring them not too long ago? How can they be here in such a short time.'' Luna asked with a questioning look.

''I am unsure to as how they are getting here as well Luna, but rest assured they will probably wow the audience.'' Celestia says to her sister and approaches the podium. ''Greetings my little ponies!'' She said getting everyone's attention. ''There have been rumors about a group of mercenaries that thwarted the horrendous plans of a group of dangerous bandits, some of which had wanted bounties on their heads. I will put those rumors to rest. The are true.'' She says as gasps were heard and camera flashes go off. ''I along with my sister Luna and the elements of harmony have met these mercenaries and they ha-'' Celestia was cut off as she and everyone in attendance begun to hear a sound like which they've never heard before. ''It appears that our guest have arrived, and a few hours ahead of schedule too.'' She said as the sound got closer.

The audience listened to the sound, it wasn't long before music was heard playing with the sound. The song was unlike any thing that the Canterlot nobles or the guards heard, the guard and a few nobles liked it while others ignored it.

''This will certainly be interesting.'' Both Princesses thought.

''Look Johnny, Vicky all I'm saying is that it would be a bad idea if we show up in full combat gear. Maybe just leave the rifles and armor.'' Tyler says standing in just his BDU and with his helmet.

Johnny and Victoria did not look happy about what Tyler was telling them to do, but Tyler was right, it could send the wrong message to the ponies if they were to show up dressed like they are waging war, Johnny didn't like it because he didn't like going anywhere without armor, and Vick liked how badass she looked but they agreed nonetheless.

''Alright we'll leave the rifles and armor, but that's all!'' Johnny says placing his rifle on the seat and removing his vest.

''And I'm keeping my Taser in case any nobles get grabby.'' Vick says doing the same.

''Aw man this is gonna be a long day.'' Tyler says with a sigh.

The princesses and the crowd listened to the song until they were greeted by an unbelievable sight of a strange black aircraft of with a skull insignia of unknown origin, some looked at it with awe while others looked with fear.

Celestia quickly got over her shock and spoke. ''Citizens of Canterlot, I give you. The Punisher Squad!'' She says in a presenting fashion. The crowd watched as the aircraft circled around the area and landed in a wide opened part of the castle courtyard, the gusts from the aircrafts engines were so strong that it blew away some of the hats and scarves that the nobles were wearing. The engines started to wined down and a door in the back had began to lower, when the door fully opened eight soldiers clad in white armor had walked out in line formation, behind them the elements of harmony had stepped out and finally three soldiers wearing strange black cloathing and intimidating helmets. ''Ah, captain I must say you sure do know how to make an entrance.'' Celestia says with a motherly smile.

''It sure beats sitting on a train for five hours.'' Johnny said with his voice disguised and camera flashes going off.

Celestia turned to the crowd to address them. ''My loyal subjects. I stand before you today to introduce you to the founder and leader of the Punisher Squad, captain Johnathan Grey Phoenix!'' She says letting Johnny take the stand.

Johnny stood at the podium and looked over the crowd that was present, camera flashes were going off left and right, he knew that he had to prepare himself for some hard questions once the helmet came off. ''Greetings citizens of equestria as you've heard, I am captain Johnathan Grey Phoenix, founder and the one in charge of the Punisher Squad, I am pleased to make your acquaintance.'' Hey said in a assuring voice but with his helmet it was hard for the nobles to tell.

''Twilight, I take it that you've enjoyed the trip over here?'' Celestia asked her former student.

''Ooh yes Princess Celestia, you wouldn't believe how exhilarating it was they even played music that could possibly rival Sapphire Shores!'' Twilight squees with excitement.

''Oh? Music that could rival the pony of pop?'' Celestia asked with a smile and a raised brow.

''Yes, where Johnny's from the singer is known as the king of pop!'' Twilight say furthering her interest in human culture.

Eventually some of the reporters got to asking question on what the Punisher Squad planned on doing in equestria and if they planned on world domination, this prompted both Tyler and Vick to facepalm but Johnny reassured them that their intentions were peaceful and that it goes against their policy to harm to civilians, then came the question of the century.

''How can we trust you if you choose to hide behind a mask!?'' A reporter asks.

''How can we trust you if you choose to hide behind a mask!?''

Johnny had knew this question was coming, how could he not, these ponies are like humans. Scared of the unknown, if he wanted to calm them down he would have to do the only thing he can do.

''An excellent question, but first let me ask you this. What do you know about humans?'' Johnny asked them getting confused looks from them.

''What?''

''I said, what do you know about humans?'' Johnny asked the reporter. ''It's a simple question.''

The reporter gave a pause before he gave an answer almost like the one that he got at the party about a month ago. ''Humans are a race of technologically advanced and honorable species with no magic that mysteriously disappeared thousands of years ago.'' The reporter responded.

''Hmm, do you believe that to be real or just a another story for fillies and colts?'' He asked the reporter.

''S-some believe them to be real but others think they're just stories. Why?'' The reporter asks as other reporters recorded the conversation.

Johnny had a smirk under his helmet and spoke. ''Because. Sometimes a legend or two can be as real as the sun and moon.'' Johnny said as he reached for the back of his helmet and manually took it off, revealing to the whole audience his face.

Everyone was speechless to what they were seeing, standing before them was a real life human, a species that practically pre-dated even the princesses! Now there was one standing in front of them and rescued their citizens from a group of bandits.

''What about the others behind you?'' Asked a female reporter.

A small smile works its was on Johnny's face. ''Sergeant, lieutenant. Remove your helmets.'' Johnny tells his brother and sister.

Tyler and Vick looked at each other before simultaneously removing their helmets revealing to the crowd that they were soldiers no older than seventeen years of age and had a high rank, the look on their faces showed the guards and some of the nobles that despite their young age, they had plenty of combat experience.

''Now allow me to introduce ourselves. I'm captain Phoenix, this is 2nd lieutenant Valentine and his sister sergeant major Valentine.'' Johnny says introducing his team/family. ''Guys say hello.''

''Sup.'' Says Tyler.

''Hi!'' Vick says Greeting the crowd.

Over the next half hour Johnny and his family spent most of their time answering questions some of which were the reporters asking where were the other humans, Johnny had to lie a little and say that they didn't know and that it was just him and his family, other reporters were asking Tyler and Victoria how was it possible for someone of their age to be in a military organization with such a high rank, their answer. Training and patience while the rest was classified. Some excepted the answer but the more stubborn reporters tried to press on and get them to answer, but a stern look from princess Celestia told them otherwise.

After a while the final hour of the big reveal was coming to a conclusion and all that was left was for Johnny to take a picture with princess Celestia to let the rest of equestria know that they have a new ally with them.

''Now my little ponies, it is time to make history as equestria's first official encounter with humans in thousands of years!'' Celestia announced getting cheers from the nobles and some of the reporters. ''We and my subject look forward to you and your team working, together we can learn a lot from each other.'' Celestia says holding out her hand.

''Likewise princess.'' Johnny responded shaking her hand while holding his helmet in his other.

As the ceremony was winding down a bit Tyler and Victoria were mingling with the mane 6 while Johnny was just trying to make his way back to the V-22 but was being constantly ambushed by nobles who were trying gain some sort of political foothold by having humans in their pocket but all they were succeeding in doing was trying his patience, he finally made it to the V-22 which had a couple of royal guards around it at the request of the princess to keep them from trying anything foolish, once on the helicopter Johnny took a seat where his rifle was laying.

''*Sigh* God these nobles bug.'' Johnny said with irritation in his voice. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his cellphone, plugged in his headphones and placed one earbud in so he can somewhat hear his surroundings, pressing play on his playlist he decided to listen to some country music, he began to relax as the song started, despite being born in the city, growing up on his step dads farm made him a country boy at heart and made him appreciate the country genre, one of the few genres that could put his mind at ease during stressful situations like these, Johnny never liked political types, nobles especially, he hated their sense of entitlement and their holier thou attitude, it made him pissed how these nobles showed little to no manners at all he only did this so Tyler and Vick would stop pestering him, Johnny wasn't one for social interaction with people or in his case ponies he wasn't working with ,but then again the only one he socialized with was Tyler and recently his sister Victoria.

''Do you know who I am?!''

Johnny was snapped out of his thoughts by an unknown voice shouting at someone. Getting up from his seat he walked to the back of the loading ramp and looked to where his brother and sister was to see some teenage noble unicorn kid glaring at her, he had a light grey coat with a dark grey mane and a formal suit, and Tyler looking ready to knock his lights out.

''Ok what's going on there.'' Johnny says looking at the scene. Johnny can see Tyler's lips moving and saying something to the noble, using his enhanced hearing Johnny was able to hear what they were saying.

''Look buddy, she said she's not interested!''

''I'm not looking for a relationship and even if I was I wouldn't go out with someone as shallow as you, a stuck up pony who only wants a girl for her body and to add another notch under his belt!'' Vick says folding her arms and turning her head away from him.

''Now leave before you make an even bigger fool of yourself.'' Tyler said pointing toward the crowd who were looking at the noble embarrass himself, at a public event no less. Not wanting to embarrass his family further he stepped down and disappeared into the crowd.

''Thank god, I was this close to punching his light out.'' Tyler said looking to his sister.

''I'll say, I was about to pull out my Taser on him.'' Vick says walking to the mane 6.

''You ok sugercube?'' Applejack asked.

''Yeah you alright? That guy was a real creep.'' Rainbow said looking toward the crowd where that noble disappeared in.

''*Sigh* Yes girls I'm fine.'' Vick says with her mood taking a slight turn. ''I think I'm going to be on the helicopter for the time being before I get hit on by some noble in their mid forties or something.'' She says making her ways to the helicopter.

''Great. And everything was going just fine until then.'' Tyler said looking to the girls.

''Do you think she'll be alright?'' Fluttershy asked with worry.

''Yeah I'm sure she'll be fine once she gets some cookies in her.'' Tyler said. ''Hey Pink-''

''Already on it!'' Pinkie says fishing a plate of cookies from out of nowhere and walks toward the helicopter.

''Tyler?'' Princess Celestia calls.

''Yes princess?'' Tyler replied.

''I would like to apologize for my subjects behavior, rest assure that I will have a talk with his family when this is over.'' Celestia said.

''Who was that guy anyway?'' Tyler asked.

''That was Silver Strike, his father Silver Sword is a former guard and his mother is a noble named Flawless Gem who runs a chain of successful jewelry stores in Canterlot and manehattan.'' Celestia tells him.

''Hmm, is he someone we should worry about?'' Tyler asked.

''No Tyler you have nothing to worry about, though I doubt Flawless Gem will be pleased to hear that her son almost caused an incident at a royal reveal.'' She tells getting a smirk from him.

''Someone's in trouble~.'' He said with a smug grin getting the girls to smile at his antics. ''So Twilight why didn't Barb come?'' He asked.

''Oh she wasn't feeling well today so Starlight Glimmer is taking care of her.'' Twilight tells him.

''Aw that's a shame, I hope she gets well soon she's real fun to be around.'' Tyler tells her. ''I'm gonna go check on Vick real quick.'' He says walking to the V-22.

''Ok.'' The girls said.

Walking back to the V-22 wasn't a problem for Tyler since most nobles saw the altercation between the humans and Silver Strike, not wanting to bother the humans out of fear of not wanting to get into trouble with the princess they decided to leave him be. Walking onto the loading ramp Tyler saw Vick, Pinkie, and to his surprise Johnny all eating cookies.

''I'll tell you one thing Pinkie *munch* this is the best batch of cookies I've ever had!'' Vick says happily nibbling on her cookie.

''Mhmm.'' Johnny replies.

''Aww thank you Vicky, it's the least I can do after that meanie pant was so mean.'' Pinkie says with a smile.

''Hey guys.'' Tyler said getting their attention.

''Oh hi Ty.'' Vick said before taking another bite of her cookie.

''Hi Ty!'' Pinkie says.

''Just checking to see how you're doing sis.'' Tyler asked looking at her and Pinkie.

''I'm fine, just a little grouchy.'' Vick says finishing her cookie.

''Well you going to go talk with the girls, they're pretty worried when you stormed off.'' Tyler tells her.

''Yeah I'll be right out, come on Pinkie.'' Vick said walking out of the helicopter.

''Okie dokie loki!'' Pinkie said skipping out of the helicopter.

The girls leave leaving only Tyler and Johnny and a sleeping Riley, Tyler just stood looking at Johnny who was listening to his music Tyler could hear the faint beat of his music telling him that Johnny was listening to country music.

''So. You gonna go out there and mingle or are you just going to sit in here?'' Tyler says with a board expression.

Johnny just looks at his brother before speaking. ''Why bother. Those snobby nobles just want to talk about how much money they have and how important they are as well as try to sucker us into working for them to increase their reputation.'' Johnny says not wanting to be anywhere near the nobles.

''Come on Johnny, I know we've never had good encounters with nobles or politicians in the past but not all of them are like that.'' Tyler points out getting a raised brow from his brother.

''Oh really? Then tell me if you remember our one job in Baghdad when we were working for a politician who hired a bunch of other mercenaries to 'take care of us' because he didn't want us to know that he was a corrupt asshole who was laundering money from the citizens.'' Johnny stated with a little bit of malice in his voice.

''Oh please, I doubt any of them have the power or the balls to do anything like that, plus if they do they'll be very sorry that they fucked with us.'' Tyler says with a smug expression. ''Now come on lets go, we don't want to keep the others waiting.''

Tyler managed to get Johnny out of the V-22 and relax with the rest of the girls and managed to talk to the princesses, they were quite fond of how the rest of the day was going and no other hiccups like the incident from Silver Strike had occurred, but sadly much to the princesses dismay the day was coming to an end and Johnny and the gang had to leave, though Johnny didn't want to admit it he enjoyed himself quite a bit, and he very much enjoyed how some nobles would try to get close to the V-22 only to get scared by the combat drones. As they were heading back to ponyville Johnny and Tyler couldn't help but feel that something important was going to happen soon. If they only knew how right they were.

Next chapter: The Crystalling and the old soviet.

Editing by Sturmtruppen.

Ok guys and gals, enjoy the new chapter, i got to get ready for my job interveiw in a few hours. Wish me luck!