Today It's a rainy day, even though you love rain, it makes you feel uncomfortable while you fly your military aircraft, even with all the missiles the ANM forces you to dodge, the weather is unpredictable and it's quite a mighty foe, you remember how many pilots died with an inconvenient storm or fogs, most of them had zero visibility and couldn't spot the SAM missiles that were sent to them from the enemy, today was a real bad day to patrol around the island.

Man Down

The skies over Hawaii
28th April, 09.00

"Mayday! Mayday! Eagle Nest from Eagle Four, I'm going down... I'm punching out!"

You receive a radio transmission coming from Colonel Talbot.

"Eagle One, this is Eagle Nest, we have a pilot down near Waikiki and we're tracking enemy aircraft moving in to pick him up.
You are the only thing we have in that area, land at the crash site and get him out before enemy forces arrive."

MUSIC

"Darn, I need to speed up, the enemies can't be that far away from him."

You accelerate and reach 457 knots, you open your laptop and the intel dept. sends you the crash location site, he is located northeast just two miles away. The data shown in your laptop transfers to the AutoNav. in your plane, your mission objective is pretty specific. "RESCUE PILOT"

A little more speed... 640... 670... 700 knots... you finally find Eagle Four, he dropped a red-smoke grenade and painted a white cross next to his destroyed harrier so anyone could easily find him.

"HOVER MODE SELECTED" You land next to him and quickly open the canopy, you are glad that your harrier has two seats. He quickly hops in.

"Go go go go!" He says. You elevate a hundred feet and switch to jet mode.

"Four what happened?!" You ask him.

"A damned SAM took me down, I couldn't see shit and it was too late when I figured it out where the hell it was."

He's a rude guy but a good element, and you can't blame him if he's annoyed, this was his first accident since he completed the academy training, he had more experience and a thousand more flight hours than you.

"At least you are alive" You mutter.

"God-fucking-dammit! I can't believe I was shot down. FUCK!"

"Calm the hell down, you would be a goner if the ANM aircraft showed up to pick you up" You respond to him.

"What aircraft?"

"That one..."

Three Apaches... No big deal, you switch to the Sidewinders and get closer to them, the legend locked shows up and you release a missile... a successful hit... the other helicopters try to turn around, but they know it's useless, they arrived late to the party, and now the hunters became the prey.

"TARGET DESTROYED".... "TARGET DESTROYED" You rescued Four, now it was time to return to the base...

"Wait wait, turn 30 degrees to your right!"

"What for?"

"See that Earth unit? That bastard was the one who shot me down."

You don't want to argue with him and descend 60 feet, turn 30 degrees right and switch to Mavericks, the legend LOCKED shows up and you release the missile.

"YEAH! How do YOU like that you son of a bitch!... Alright, let's get back to our base!"

You sigh...

You arrive to the base a couple of minutes later and land properly on the runway, Colonel Talbot receives you both near the runway. You hop off and he walks over to you.

"Well done son, you rescued Four's sorry ass out there, AND you destroyed the aircraft coming towards him, you are doing great, your harrier doesn't even show any damage, that requires a lot of skill. I think you earned this..."

"But YOU Four... you piece of SHIT!, do you know how much those planes cost? We are supposed to liberate Hawaii all by ourselves, but with sissies like you we'll never do it, dammit! I'll ask for another plane, meanwhile, you'll have to stick to helicopter missions from now on! GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY SIGHT!"

Four gives you a deadly glare, he's obviously blaming his screw up onto you, you can't help yourself from making an eye contact, reminding him that he was the failure, not you. He finally leaves. The Colonel sure has a unique way to scold his men, he had a reputation of making a lot of tension between his soldiers. Usually by stating his favorite element, in this case it would be you... crap.

"Rest up a little, Eagle One, you deserve it after a shitty day. Dismissed!"

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You wake up, just in the middle of the night, damn, you just can't sleep after long hours of rest, you glare at the window and see a full moon, it's beautiful... and it's also closer to the earth than it was in your world, everything is totally different in this place, you look after your aircraft but you can't find it, you could swear it was in the middle of the corn field a few hours ago, but it's gone now... OH NO, you had many important things in the plane, like magazines of your two weapons, an ammo box, a combat knife, your laptop, your medals that Talbot and DeLaro gave you, and the most important one, a collection of photos of your family that were inside the ammo-box. You couldn't start a mission without looking at them and promising them that you would come back in one piece. You better find those things before you have to ask Applejack for answers, your mind has an anger stage when it pictures the image of Applejack or Granny Smith disposing of your things. It's impossible for her to move 12,500 pounds all by herself, maybe she brought many ponies over to get rid of it! That's it, you need to get off the bed.

*THUD*

"OUCH" you fall off the bed, you were inside a frigging' bundling bag! Dammit, that Granny Smith was serious about it, that old fart is out of control! The only thing you do is curse, then you hear a knock on the door.

"May Ah' come in?" A deep voice mutters from the door. It must be her brother. "Ah' heard a loud noise comin' from here, are ya' OK?"

"Yes. I'm fine, and sure, you can." He slowly enters the room, it's a big red coated stallion with a wood yoke on its neck.

"Ah' guess ya tested our granny's traditional bag." He lets out a small chuckle, "Sorry about that, we don't get many visitors to stay here and you sure ain't a common one, let me help ya' get up." He bites the bag and lifts you back to bed. Damn, he lifted you from the ground using only his teeth.

"Thanks for that, I guess you are Applejack's brother right?"

"Eeeeyup, I'm Big Macintosh, Ah' was in the center of the town looking for some tools, when Ah' arrived your... thing... was in the middle of the corn field, Applejack told me everything about it, but she told me not to disturb you, you were asleep after all."

"Yeah, about that... If the plane was there, where is it now?"

"Oh that, well, we took care of it and stored it in our barn, It was pretty heavy, but mah' sis and Ah' put it there safely with all your stuff in it. Ah'm pretty tired, I'll give ya stuff tomorrow, Ah'll be going to sleep now..."

"Well thanks Big Macintosh, rest well."

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Sweet Apple Acres, Ponyville
?????, 07.15

The sound of a rooster crowing wakes you up, man, what a night, you are growing up tired of laying on the bed without nothing to do, you hear a knock on the door.

"Sugarcube, are ya' awake? Mah' friend is here. She's going to check out yer' injury. May we come in?"

"Sure AJ, but if she's going to do that, you might want to get me out of this bag, it's pretty uncomfortable!"

You can hear AJ muttering things like "Dagnabbit Granny" that only makes you chuckle, she opens the door and the two ponies enter the room.

"Okay, here he is Twilight, Ah' told ya Ah' couldn't get those weird gray thingies in his leg, I only gave him some bandages and cleaned the blood."

She's actually a unicorn... A friggin' purple unicorn, you can't believe it.

"...Wow... he's quite... different...don't worry Applejack, you did what you could, you are a good pony, but why didn't you take him to a hospital?" She replies.

"Ah don't think the town is prepared for him, maybe everypony would be scared of him ran away, remember the way we treated Zecora?"

"We?" Twilight raises an eyebrow.

"Well, me and the others." AJ rolls her eyes.

Twilight chuckles a bit, then looks at your face. "Well, she's right about that mister...human, ponies tend to act a bit nervous around...strangers, it seems that you are the only one of your kind, how did you got injured? Were you attacked by any creature of the Everfree forest?"

You decide to play cool so she can feel relaxed around you, you didn't like to be referred by your species so you tell her and Applejack your name and your rank and start to describe your world, the conflict with the ANM, the situation in the USA and the Hawaiian islands, your aircraft, the weapon technology and finally how you ended there. Even though AJ looked a lot confused, Twilight listened carefully to every detail you gave her.

"Okay then, so you saved thousands of beings like you before being teleported here, it seems you are quite special, aren't you? She lets out a small giggle "Maybe my brother would like you to be in the front lines, after all you are taller than anypony."

"Ah' don't think he'd like to be in another war Twilight, not after all he went trough."

"I know, the way he described the ANM techniques of torture made me cringe."

"Yeah right, humans sound evil and it seems like they can't talk their differences, like us ponies!"

You glare at Applejack and tell her that not every person in the world is evil, and of course, if the army never responded to the ANM attacks, they would've become a stronger threat to every country in the world."

"Sorry sugarcube, Ah' would like to know more about your world, but that people... were very different from you, you are a nice guy, a kind soul."

You smile, nobody told you that kind of things like you, especially when you were in the military, most anti-war people just insulted you and judged every action the army made, while the supporters didn't gave a fuck about the deaths of your friends or civilians, they only wanted the enemy to bleed...

Finally Twilight gets a book out of her saddlebag...with levitation... "I'll start to heal you, I'll use a quick restoration spell, your muscles and tissues will be fine in no time... why are you looking at me like that?"

"How are you doing that?! That's creepy as hell!"

"It's not creepy, it's magic, all of us unicorns can perform it, it only requires a bit of research and a lot of practice. Judging by your reaction, it seems magic doesn't exist in your world right? Twilight says.

(You don't say?) "Sorry, it's very... impressive, I've never seen that kind of tricks."

"...Alright then, I can't picture what exactly are those... bullets, how did they got inside your leg?

"I'll show you... AJ, get me out of this bag please."

She loosens the rope of the bag and finally releases you. (Finally, that thing was getting on your nerves.) You notice a wood support beam in the middle of the room, perfect for a little demonstration, you take out your pistol and release the safety device.

"You might want to cover your ears." They look at each other in confusion.

*BANG! BANG! BANG!*

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH" both ponies let out a big scream. They slowly open their eyes and look at the support beam only to see three holes on its surface."

"See Twilight?, that's what happened to me, an enemy unit shot me while I retrieved the warhead, I got three rounds in my leg, they are quite dangerous, if one of those made it to my head, neck or chest, I wouldn't be talking with both you now, and maybe the warhead would've teleported the enemies, civilians and my allies to this place ."

"Oh my, NEVER DO THAT AGAIN. I almost had an attack!" Twilight furiously says.

"He he he, I wish I had a camera, you should have seen the look on your faces."

"Thank Celestia mah brother is in the orchard or he would have kicked yer' butt outta' here!" AJ huffs.

Twilight then proceeds to search a spell on her book, she finds it two minutes later. "Here it is, first, I'll get those things out of your body, and then I'll restore your tissues, I hope this spell works in humans as well" Her horn glows in a light reddish aura, she finds the metallic objects stuck in your leg and gets them out using a teleportation spell."

*Cling... Cling... Cling...* The objects reappear in the air and fall on the tray that was on the nightstand, finally those things were out of your body...

"Ermm... Twilight, he's bleeding now!"

"Don't worry Applejack, I'll fix that in a second."

A bright light comes out of her horn, it has an spherical shape, it eventually arrives to your leg, the bleeding stops, and your skin starts to regenerate, you feel no more pain.

"It worked!" You stand up and walk, you can't believe it. You kneel down and give Twilight a hug, she only blushes.

"Thanks Twilight, you are incredible!"

The door violently closes behind you and you notice Applejack was nowhere to be found.

"Ummm... where's Applejack?"

"I don't know" Twilight replies. "Maybe she is upset about something. You should go find her, I'll go home and write to my teacher about you and how you ended up here, she might be able to find a way to bring you back to your world."

"Okay Twilight, that's pretty helpful, see you later."

She leaves the room and closes the door with a burst of magic, now the question is... why did Applejack left just like that?...

To be continued...