-The hills near Philadelphia-

A lone Pegasus guard cried in pain and horror as he lay on the ground bleeding from leg and wing. He looked around, his squad on the ground, dead. About a minute ago they were all alive investigating an alien presence in the area. They were setting up camp as sharp cracks of sound pounded their ears, then one by one each of them fell leaving him all alone. Two more cracks quickly sounded as he felt searing pain in his leg and wing. He looked around some more, there were dark figures approaching him, he started to feel light-headed and began to close his eyes.

He woke abruptly to the sounds of machines and voices in the background. Their voices could just barely be heard, plus he couldn’t understand them. They were speaking in a strange alien language. Two figures stood in front of him. He figured they were arguing because of their bitter tones.

“Was dying Hole sind wir damit zu tun?”  The one on the left asked with anger.

“Wir waren zu vernehmen,” The one on the right responded, receiving a mad look from the other.

“Verboten? Es ist ein kleines Pferd. Sie dumme ausrede für einen Arzt!” The left yelled.

“Die Soldaten sagten, sie sprechen in Englisch,” The right responded. “Wer ist dumm?” He was now getting a very stern glare. They both looked over at the Pegasus and smiled knowing that he was awake. The right spoke first in a very sly manner.

“Hello. I am Doctor Feinghelm. Welcome to our… lovely abode,” He bowed, chuckling. The pony took a quick glance around the room; he was strapped down on a medical bed in a burnt hospital room. There was one window he could just barely see out of, outside were many buildings on fire and falling down.

“Wh… where am I? Who are you? W… what are you?” He looked at them in terror.

“Ah, so you can talk. To bad it’s English. I always hated that language,” The Doctor explained spitting on the ground in disgust. “But it is what you speak, so I guess I’ll have to pain through it.”

“Should I get the ‘information extraction tools’ so this will go faster,” The other Doctor chimed in, with a devilish smile, purposely speaking in English.

“What are you talking about? Please don’t hurt me. Please,” He was at the point of crying.

“Oh don’t worry, this will be very quick if you tell us the right answers,” He stared at the petrified pony as he put on gloves and laughed even harder than before.

-Fluttershy’s Cottage-

“Aliens! In the town center!” Applejack screamed in Rainbow Dash’s face.

“What? They’re in town? Are they dangerous?”

“Uhm… Well Twilight seemed ah little scared by them when she told me about the letter from the Princess. Where aliens attacked Fillydelphia.”

“What?” Dash asked in disbelief.

“What’s going on?” Fluttershy quietly asked, coming up from behind Rainbow Dash.

“There are aliens back ‘n town. Everypony is hiding from them. Twilight sent me to ask you if you can help us either reason with ahm, or scare ahm away. For diplomacy, we were thinking you could talk to ahm, Fluttershy.”

“Oh, uh… w… why me?” The timid pony asked hiding behind her mane.

“Cause your good with animals. And aliens count as animals. Ah think?”

“I… I guess I could. If you really want me to,” She answered still hiding within her pink mane.

“Awesome, let’s go!” Dash yelled out in enthusiasm leaping out towards Ponyville.

-Twilight’s Library-

“Oh, I hope Applejack made it to them alright. It would be terrible if those things captured her. Where are the aliens anyway? Ah…!” She almost had a panic attack when her question was answered by a loud banging on the door. Twilight kept herself quite as she went upstairs. She could here a slight muffled sound from the door, which was probably the alien’s voice. Luckily after Applejack left, she locked the door for that exact reason.

-Ponyville-

“Is anyone in here?” Glen questioned while banging on the tree-house door. “Hello? United States Army, open up… please?” He questioned again. ‘Eh, they probably think were raiders or something like that.’ Glen thought to himself before moving on to the next building.

The entire team broke up to search the town for signs of people. They only got silence and locked doors. Private Dexter Smith came upon a rather fun spirited looking building, with a sign that read, Sugarcube Corner. Dexter came up to the door and saw that it was unlocked. As he went inside, he noticed the up-beat vibe of the store and the various treats in the display cases. He went up to the counter and awkwardly rang the bell. “Hello, is anyone here? Hello? Ugh… oh well.” He sighed turning to get his radio and calling out. “This is Private Dexter Smith, I’m in what seems like a bakery. I’m gonna look around upstairs.”

“Who are you talking to Private Dexter Smith?”

“I’m speaking to my… my… oh god.” He froze as he stared up at the pink eyes staring right back at him. “D… did you just… talk?” He asked still frozen in place.

“Well of course I did silly, why wouldn’t I talk to somepony that’s new to town?” She asked with a wide smile on her face.

“Oh… g… great. Hehe,” he nervously laughed as he fell onto the ground.

“Oh, whoopsy daisy, I guess I should’ve caught him, her… it.”

The Sergeant walked up to an ornate, carousel, like building. It was also unlocked. He went through the building finding nothing but dresses, designs, and weird horse mannequins. “What the hell is wrong with these people?” Kevin asked out loud, looking at the mannequins and drawings. “Who puts dresses on horses? Probably one mentally disturbed son of a…” He became silent hearing someone crying in one of the rooms. As he got to the room he could someone wailing and saying something along the lines of ‘This is the WORST, POSSIBLE, THING, EVER!’ and more crying. When he burst into the room figuring he had heard enough of who ever this drama queen was, only to find a white pony with a purple mane in a robe lying on a couch, crying. She stared right at him for what seemed like an hour before she was first to react.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!” She screamed and bolted off her couch and fainted onto the ground.

“What the fuck… just happened?” Saundry asked himself trying to find sense in what happened. He quickly reached for his radio and called out. “This is Sergeant Kevin Saundry, I’ve made contact with the residents of this area. You’re not going to believe this shit. At all.”

“Oh, hello, little talking metal box. What did you say your name was?” A very peppy, girly voice echoed over the radio.

“Who are you?” Glen asked the new voice on the radio.

“I’m Pinkie Pie. Why did your voice change Mr. Tiny Box?”

“How did you get on the radio?”

“What’s a radio?”

“What do you mean? What’s a radio? You’re talking through it right know.”

“Ooooooooh. Is that what this is? I thought it was talking to me. Silly me. I got it from Private Dexter Smith who fainted when he saw me.”

“Is he okay? Why he did faint at the site of you?”

“I don’t know. I was going to see he wanted to have some cake, but I’ll just wait until he wakes up.”

“I think I know why he fainted,” Kevin interrupted their conversation. “The native I ran into was a pony. Are you a pony? Pinkie Pie is it?”

“Why yes I am. And yes it is. Who are you?”

“Wait… wait what? Did you say you are a pony?”

“Yesssy yes yes!”

“Yeah, great.”

“ My name is Sergeant Kevin Saundry. I know this because I found one of your kind. The pony I saw was white with a purple mane. And she was crying, a lot.”

“You met Rarity? How did she react to you?”

“Well she did the same thing that Dexter did. Faint.”

“Heheheheh. Yup that’s Rarity.”

“Alright, Pinkie Pie, I’m headed towards your location okay? I will be there in ten seconds flat.

“Hehehehehe. Okie Dokie Lokie.”

“What?”

“Oh, nothing, just something you said reminded me of something one of my friend says.”

“Uhm okay then.” Glen said as he headed towards Sugarcube corner.

-Fillydelphia-

“Now, who sent you to spy on us?” A disturbing voice rattled the Pegasus’ eardrum, as he regained consciousness due to electricity coursing through his body.

“I… I’m not… telling you… anything.” He managed to speak out of his burnt, bleeding mouth.

“He seems to be pretty strong willed. Hmm… some water-boarding might ‘wash’ that out.” He chuckled to himself before pressing a button, releasing more electricity into the stallion.

“Aghhhhhh!” He yelled out, feeling the sharp stinging sensation before loosing consciousness once again. But just enough to barely hear the doctor order something to the soldiers surrounding him.

“Laßt ihn wieder etwas Blut, dann werden wir ihm wasser-board,” Doctor Feinghelm told the soldiers around him, who quickly scattered in different directions.

-Outside Ponyville-

“Ah hope them aliens aren’t dangerous.”

“Don’t worry AJ, I bet we can take em,” Rainbow reassured Apple Jack.

“What if there really scary,” Fluttershy whimpered in fear.

“It’s going to be fine babe, I promise,” Rainbow reassured Fluttershy as well. They ran into Ponyville with great haste finding the town streets completely empty. They could hear a faint noise coming within the center of town. It was a strange mechanical rattling of some kind. They galloped through the town towards the noise until they found what was making it. Right in front of town hall, were two big, metal, tan colored carriages sitting in the center of town. On top of one, was an alien’s head and upper torso sticking out from within the carriage holding onto a large metal tube-like thing. The three of them were hiding behind some bushes so the aliens didn’t see them.

“They look pretty dangerous,” Fluttershy squeaked.

“Ah have to agree with that. They do look mighty threatening,” Applejack agreed.

“Oh please I bet I could take ‘em,” Dash boasted.

“Rainbow Dash, ah highly doubt that you could beat them. They have some big carriage that could do anything. And, we don’t know their strengths or abilities so just stay still,” Applejack quietly scolded. Dash responded with a grumpy sigh and slumped down onto the ground. Then something incredibly unusual came as they looked back to the machines.

“Is… is that… Pinkie Pie?” Fluttershy gasped in disbelief as one alien walked with another slouched over its arm and Pinkie Pie trotting along side them and talking to them.

“Wh… what the hay?” Applejack unintentionally yelled out gaining the attention of all the aliens. “Oh shoot!”

“Whose there? Come out from behind the bushes. We know you’re there,” one of the aliens shouted.

“Hi girls! These are…”

“Don’t worry Pinkie! I’ll distract them while you run for it!” Dash yelled, while leaping out of the bush and slamming into one of the aliens.

“Rainbow Dash! No!” Fluttershy yelled in fear.

“Ahh! Son of a bitch!” Henry screamed in pain as the Pegasus head-butted his guts.

Bang! Bang!

“What happened to my wing?” Dash cried out in terror as she felt a striking pain and blood streaming from her left wing.

“You shot it?” Glen asked in a panicked anger.

“Well what was I supposed to do? It head-butted me!”

“What the hay was that? Rainbow Dash! Of all the stupidest things to do.” Applejack scolded the injured pony.

“Oh my gosh! Are you okay Dashy?”

“Yeah, yeah. I’m stupid, whatever. Now help me! I am in serious PAIN!” Dash cried out.

“Get a medic to patch her up. I’ll deal with these other two,” Glen yelled to the soldiers.

“S… stay away or… I’ll… do something,” Fluttershy wimmpered in fear as Glen stood over her.

“Don’t worry, I’m not going to hurt you,” Glen let out his hand.

“But y… y… you hurt… hurt my R… Ra… Rainbow,” She burst out crying causing Glen to hold her awkwardly.

“Huh, it’s okay pony,” Glen assured while patting her back. “Wait… Did you say “my Rainbow” in the way that I think it means?”

“Get your dirty paws off my marefriend!” Dash yelled over from where the medic was wrapping her bloody wing.

“Marefriend? What the fuck is a mare… Oh.”

“Pardon me, uh, Glen? What are you?” Applejack questioned poking Glen’s head in curiosity.

“We are humans miss. We are military units of our country that is the United States of America, of the planet Earth. My name is Captain Glen Webster,” He spoke confidently as if he was now used to the talking ponies.

“Humans? And you speak Equestrian?” Fluttershy spoke up to the man cradling her.

“Well we call it English but… yeah we speak Equestrian.” Glen chuckled.

“Can you fly?” Rainbow blurted out randomly has she trotted over and started nuzzling Fluttershy’s teary face. “I’m sorry for being stupid.”

“Oh Rainbow I don’t care. I’m just happy that you’re okay,” Fluttershy passionately kissed Dash while being let down by Glen.

“We can’t naturally fly, but we use machines to do that for us.”

“So you were in those big metal things in the sky?”

“Yes, what you probably saw was either a V-22 Osprey, a UAV drone, or a V-45 Stork.”

As Fluttershy was about to ask another question, Glen’s radio started to go off and startled the three ponies.

“Hey Glen… Wasssup!”

“What is it?”

“We are within 10 klicks of the town. Have you gone into the town?”

“Yes I have. We will wait for your forces here in the town.”

“Alright Captain, we will set up a HQ and an airstrip for more operations.”

“Yes General. Captain out.” Glen put his radio down and looked back at the three ponies staring at him and smiled. “What?”

“What is that? And who was that?” Fluttershy asked.

“This is a radio.” He said pointing to his devise that was now strapped to his chest. “It allows me to talk to people very far away. And I was talking to General Shockley of the 403rd Armored Division. Him and his Division of about 12,000 troops are headed this way.”

“D… did you say 12,000? Like 12,000 humans?” Rainbow Dash gasped in surprise.

“Yup. Give or take a hundred,” He chuckled. “So who is in charge of all of you?”

“Yah must be talking ‘bout the Princesses. They are the leaders of Equestria.” Applejack said confidently.

“Will we be able to speak to them?”

“Ah think Twilight can help you with that. She is Princess Celestia’s apprentice.”

“That’ll be great, cause we… technically speaking, just invaded your country.”

“Oh… uh yeah, of course. Lets go get Twilight.” Applejack motioned the captain to follow her.

-Ruins of Fillydelphia-

Amongst the smoldering city the German soldiers rounded up the remaining ponies and sent them to a firing squad. The bodies were then either buried in shallow graves or burned. Patrols roamed the city searching for ponies that are still alive. “Check that store, I’m feeling good about this one.” The Squad commander pointed to a bakery. “Drag them out and bring them to the firing squad.” The soldiers nodded and smashed into the store. A few minutes later a soldier came flying out the window and some shots sounded off into the smoky sky. The event was followed by the other soldiers dragging out a dead, fairly big unicorn stallion, as well as two other unicorn ponies. The small one was screaming at the dead one and the female one was holding the small one closely and crying.

“That big one didn’t give up without a fight.” One soldier said pointing at the dead pony.

“I don’t give a damn. My only care is that these two are still alive. Prepare the firing squad.” The Sergeant angrily commanded.

The soldier spat at the ground and saluted. “Yes Sir.”

“Good. Now go.” He glared at the soldier as he ran off to join the firing squad. The two were backed up to the side of a fallen building as five men with rifles stood in front of them as one shouted at them. The last words the two heard over their crying were a different language. “Fertig, ziel, schießen!”

On the other side of the city the two doctors were discussing with the General about their findings. “We are in the country of Equestria, the capitol, Canterlot is north of here about 290 klicks away. Also the military can be easily overtaken by our forces.”

“Very good doctors. What of our prisoner?”

“Dead, the poor thing died right after it told us what we needed.”

“That is too bad.” He chuckled before reaching for his radio. “Commander, I want airstrikes and paratroopers on the capitol, North 290 klicks.”

“Yes General.”

-Northwest of Ponyville-

The 403rd Armored Division was just coming out of a mountain range as they headed straight into a bog. The area wreaked something awful and they were getting weird vibes. The first tank in the line found something strange coming from the bog and reported it to the General a few tanks down the line. “This is Tank 1 ‘Jack Rabbit’ we are picking up a strange anomaly on the heat sensor. There is something really big in here sir.”

“Alright. All tanks and personnel, be on alert.” When he finished four large serpent heads popped out of the bog and roared at the line of tanks. “Holy Shit!” Was the shared reaction from almost all the soldiers.

“It’s a fucking Hydra!” One soldier yelled to the others in the lead tank.

“A what?” The others yelled back at him.

“A hydra! It’s from Greek mythology and shit. If you cut off one of its heads two more grow.”

“Shit. So we’re screwed?”

“No. Um… If we burn the necks after the head is separated the other heads wont be able to grow.”

“How are we gonna burn it?”

“Incendiary rounds.” He answered, pointing to some tank shells.

“Shit that’ll work.” The tank commander agreed and got his radio. “Switch to incendiary rounds, we can kill it with these!” The tank line quickly switched and began firing at the hydra. As the head blew off the neck, it was singed by the napalm explosives. It seemed to work so they kept at it until the headless body sunk back into the swamp. The hydra managed to flip over two tanks but no casualties. Taking no chances to see if there was more to the attack the line kept on moving down the small trail leading to the main road.

-Canterlot-

“Your Highness! I have spotted a group of aliens down in the town of Ponyville.” A Pegasus guard cried out as he burst through the doors.

“General!” Celestia yelled to the pony to her left. “Send the closest legion to surround the aliens in Ponyville.”

“Of course Princess, it will be done.” He assured and ran off to the barracks.

“Oh dear. Oh dear.” Celestia breathed heavily as she contemplated the different scenarios of what could happen. “Guard, how many aliens did you see in Ponyville?”

“I would say about ten. They were in the town square with two metal carriages. I think I saw pony hostages with them, about four.”

“Oh my… I hope Twilight and the elements are okay.”

“Are you speaking of the Mane Six, Princess?”

“Yes, all six reside in Ponyville. Twilight, my pupil and element of magic, a purple unicorn, Rarity, element of generosity, a white unicorn, Pinkie Pie, element of laughter, a pink earth pony, Applejack, element of honesty, a orange earth pony, Fluttershy, element of kindness, a yellow pegasus, and Rainbow Dash, element of loyalty, a cyan pegasus.”

“Princess.” The guard looked at her in a nervous way. “The last four elements you said were the hostages I saw. Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash.” The princess soon wore the same face of nervousness as the guard.

“The legion is on their way,” The General reported back to the Princess while galloping back in.

-German Air Strip in Occupied Fillydelphia-

“This is Lieutenant Frederick Stovenhoff. Requesting take off.”

“Lieutenant, you are clear for take off. Teach them the fierce power of the almighty Germans.”

The colossal LB-573 Black Dragon lifted into the air with its devastating payload of 150,000 lbs of explosives. The bomber flew off into the sky towards the unsuspecting city of Canterlot. Then nineteen more LB-573’s lifted off for their pursuit of destruction.

-Twilight’s Library-

‘Knock knock knock… Knock knock knock…’ “Twilight are you there? It’s Pinkie Pie!” The voice behind the door reassured Twilight that there wasn’t any danger.

“I’m coming!” She yelled while opening the door. “I’m so glad it’s safe out and… Ahhhhhhhhh!” She screamed and slammed the door shut at the sight of the alien looming over Pinkie Pie.

“It’s okay Twilight, they’re friendly.”

“R…really? If… you say so.” She slowly opened the door back open to the alien and Pinkie.

“You must be Twilight, good to meet you.” Glen spoke kindly and reached out his hand. Twilight looked at him intently and cautiously reached out her hoof towards his hand and shook it.

“Nice to meet you too. You name is?”

“Captain Glen Webster. I am a human of the planet Earth, and the country of the United States of America.

“Yes, I’m Twilight Sparkle and this is my assistant Spike.” She pointed to the baby dragon sleeping in a basket within her home.

“Is that a… dragon?”

“He’s just a baby but yes, he is a dragon. You seem to know what he is, does Earth have dragons.”

“Thankfully we don’t. They’re just mythical creatures on Earth, just like unicorns and pegasi.”

“Really? How odd.”

“I guess so. I have also heard you have ties with this Princess I have been told of.”

“Why yes. I’m her star pupil. Why do you ask?”

“Well my superiors would like to talk to her about negotiations so there won’t be bloodshed. Since my kind… technically invaded your country.” He grinned slightly.

“Oh… I guess that is pretty important. I’ll write a letter to her right away. Oh Spike can y…”

“Captain!” Private Rico Vasquez yelled out from behind him.

“What is it?”

“We have a large amount of possible threats heading right towards us from the Northeast.”

“How many?”

“Like 5,000.”

“Shit. Is Smith awake yet?”

“Yes and affiliated with the whole ponies thing.”

“You four get inside.” Glen pointed at the idling ponies behind him. The rushed inside Twilights Library and shut the door. Glen and Rico ran back to town square were the others were. When they got there everyone but Sgt. Kevin Saundry was around the tank. “Where the hell is Saundry?” Questioned Glen.

“Right here!” Kevin yelled out walking up to them with a sleeping white unicorn in his arms.

“Why are you carrying that?”

“Well I wasn’t gonna leave her on the ground unconscious.”

“Why was she? Never mind, I don’t want know. Just put her in the Stryker for now we have a problem.”

“What’s the problem?”

“The locals.”