Griffon Territory / Delta 0-1, Delta 1-1 / Friday, 1:00 AM

Here we are again, back in Griffon Territory, we were sent to stop their violent demonstrations before they got out of hand, but it turned out to be an ambush and caught us off guard.

"Delta Team you are clear to engage hostiles." Ponylord said over the radio, I pulled out Goldie and started lighting them up. I was damn tired of these Griffons too, they invaded Equestria more times than I could count, we needed to stop this before it turns into an all out war. We already killed the crazy general, but someone new took their place, more powerful than the old one was. Why does the Griffon Emperor keep hiring the crazy sons of bitches? Hell if I know, but we need to set these guys straight. Shining Armor had just forned a new squad of Delta Force, Delta 1-1, and it was consisted of the best of the best Royal Guards. We just deployed a little under 2 hours ago, and now we were waiting for the go ahead to engage hostiles. The ponies of Delta 1-1 did not mess around, these guys mean business, they were a lot like us, killing machines. They took out a few of our stallions before we could retaliate, I went over to them to try and patch them up, to no avail, I've lost them. I always hate it when they don't pull through, it's just another life lost to the cause of defending their country. This time around, this general was paranoid, for a good reason. I guess they knew we would be coming after him, he threatened to send Equestria into eternal darkness in the first place. I don't know how he would, but I know it wouldn't be good. The new squad otherwise known as Delta 1-1 was made up of ponies, and they were battle hardened vets from the changeling invasion.

"Just keep pushing them back! We can pull through this!" I yelled to the members of both squads, they all replied back, telling me they understood, I had invented a gun that ponies can use, removing the trigger guard so they can get their hooves on it. I knew the schematics of how to make an M4A1, and an MP7, so I gave them those guns, we had enough material to make bullets for them as well. We were short on time to train them, but the ponies knew how to fire them and basic gun safety. This wasn't going as expected though, the Griffons were actually pushing US back! We knew this was bad, so I ordered a retreat back to our hidden campsite. I knew what we needed, we needed extra help from someone in my old squad, there was a squad I had before the one I had today, we were the best of the best, until one fateful day...

Flashback 12 years ago...

I was just a Sergeant back then, and I wasn't the leader of Delta 0-1 like I am today. I was a member of the squad owned by Captain Jack Harden, my old boss. The other members was the second in command,1st Lieutenant Zachary Mitchell, my other best friend, and followed by Corporal Jacob O'reilly.

One day, we were dispatched by Overlord to retake an outpost in the middle Indies, it was taken by terrorist forces a little under a week ago. Once we had gotten there, there were bodies of our fallen allies in the armed forces, it was bloody. In an instant we were in the middle of a firefight, with the opposing forces we were forced into one of the bunkers, turns out that's where they were keeping hostages. We quickly untied them and gave them some of the guns we found behind a few doors down there. We came out for a retaliation, but they were camping out the door we went through, we managed to push them back, but not without heavy losses.

We managed to eliminate all hostiles within the base and our mission was complete. Just as we drove out of the base in a Humvee, we set a mine off blowing up the Humvee and killing Jack and Jacob inside, Zach and I were knocked unconscious. Once we came to, we were in the military hospital, and were put on leave for now. Zach was now in command of Delta 0-1, and he decided to leave, leaving me all by myself to command it, but he said to call him if I ever needed help. The only thing was, I never called him, even when I needed him the most, we always pulled through in the end. Ever since then I was promoted to a Lieutenant and chose my new team, you know the rest from there.

End Flashback

This was it, I was finally gonna call him up, and when he picks up, I'm gonna teleport him into Equestria, pulling him out of Earth. We were desperate, we always stayed in touch, but I never needed him for help. He was about in his early 40's right about now, but we were good friends anyway, considering the age difference we weren't really that apart.

"Hello? Drew is this you?" He picked up the phone, answering it, I had put the spell to action, pulling him through the cell phone.

"Hey Zach, long time no see. Welcome to the magical land of talking ponies, and we need your help." I told him, he was just overwhelmed at this point, but he knew why I had called him, and he answered that call.

"Drew, it's been a while. I understand now, you need help to defend these ponies right?" I nodded, he was happy just to see me again. From 12 years from now we've been promoted like 2-3 times, he was now a Colonel and I'm a General. We were still good friends, but we never got the time to hang out with each other.

"Okay, here's the SitRep, Griffons are threatening to send this country into eternal darkness. We eliminate the Griffon General, and get out without further casualties." I said, he nodded, understanding what to do. We head out, just the five of us, leaving Delta 1-1 so they get to live another day to see their families again, I don't want to see them get hurt anymore than I just witnessed. We were mowing through the Griffons like grass, heading our way to the main bunker, where the General was hiding. Of course, when we made it to the front gate, they were waiting for us, there must've been like at least 1,000 of them.

"Check your gear guys, this is gonna be one helluva fight." I said, reloading my MP7, and Goldie as well. We all readied our weapons, waiting to see the whites of their eyes before we shot upon them. They charged at us, only to get chopped down like a bunch of trees each time they attempted it. They didn't expect us to be so tough this time around, but they were ready, they took out some artillery, which were like cannons back from the 1800's, and shot them at us. We had to duck for cover to avoid getting hit by one of those cannon balls, dipping and dodging while still mowing them down. Their numbers were depleting fast, dropping into the 500's, wait, make it 400's. We killed or crippled them all while making our way into the bunker, killing anything that stood in our path. With Zach around, we didn't have to worry about anything because he was a natural born leader, he could manage by himself most of the time. We had found the General, he was resisting arrest of course, but we took him in for some interrogation.

We were waiting for Zach to get done interrogating him, and in a moment, he would be done. Ahh, there he is now.

"He says that he has the power to re-awaken this Nightmare Moon person. I believe he has the ownership if what he calls the Elements of Darkness, I don't know what they are, but this doesn't sound good at all." He said, I remember about reading something on the Elements of Darkness, there were only three compared to the Elements of Harmony. Darkness, Fear, and Negativity, they weren't controlled by a pony however. They were actually controlled by just one person, and I thought we had him, locked up in here, but I was dead wrong. The Griffon General was just the host, he was being controlled by the Elements of Darkness itself, and it just escaped back into Griffon Territory. The princesses were immediately notified, they somehow already knew about the Elements of Darkness, which gives me the idea that this won't end well.

"The Elements of darkness are the complete opposite of the Elements of Harmony, they feed off of Negative energy as well. There are only a few ways to stop them from sending Equestria into complete darkness. First, we can get Twilight and her friends to use the good elements on them, and secondly, we can enchant one of your C-4 satchels with the elements' magic and blow it up with the dark elements." She suggested, I didn't want any of my friends back in Ponyville to get hurt on this one so I went with the second one.

Tomorrow is when we re-deploy, and we had to get the girls here so they can enchant my C-4, so we waited for them to get to Canterlot so we can say our goodbyes.

"What do you mean you're leaving again?!" Rainbow was shocked, she didn't want me to leave on an endangering mission again, but we had no choice otherwise. I really didn't want to, but I was left with no other choice, I couldn't and wouldn't let my friends go with me.

"Ah'm sure we can do just fine on yer mission, just let us go with ya'll." Applejack tried to convince us to let them go, but I couldn't take the risks, I knew what I was doing.

"No. And that's a standing order." I had to pull rank on these guys, even though they were the element bearers, I also saved Equestria a few times myself. They tried to do the puppy dog eyes on us, but it wouldn't work this time.

"I'm sorry guys, but you can't come, it's too dangerous. We can't take you with us." Zach had said, they wondered who the new human was, but it didn't matter right now. They enchanted my endless supply of C-4, and we headed out in our newly crafted Humvee, heading out even deeper into Griffon Territory than before. I wished we didn't have to do this, because we'll end up in the damn hospital again, and probably be crippled when we get discharged, but what the fuck, it's gonna be worth it when it's over. We rode into what seemed like a giant fortress, bigger than Canterlot Castle from what I can see, this was gonna be a good stealth mission.

We activated our active camo we had borrowed from Kozak, since we're both in the special forces, we gotta hook a brother up y'know? We activated our camo and went into the giant fortress, fitting our guns with suppressors so we would be less likely to raise the alarm. There was security all over the place, the enemies we were going up against looked like all the enemies we've encountered ever since we first came here, except they were just the silhouette with more vicious looking features, we hope they could be stealthily killed. Jhon came around the corner to try and snap the neck of a shadow griffon, and surprisingly, it worked, it vanished into thin air only leaving a pile of a dark blue, sparkly dust behind. I gave a quick nod and did the same to a shadow dog, making it drop to the ground in the same dust pile just as the griffon did.

Once we made it in, there were three gates, but one was locked, probably leading to the three guardians that were protecting the elements. In this case, we would split up, Jhon and I would go through the big black door through the middle, Kaptn would go into the smaller purple room to the left, and Zach and Nick would stay behind to keep watch, and to back us up if we need it.

Jhon and I breached into the room, to see what we're up against, turns out it was Dark Chrysalis, I should've known better, knowing Chrysalis, she would do anything to get revenge on me. Jhon and I turned into pony form, trying to take her on like that. Chrysalis made the first move, causing an earthquake to happen on the ground right below our feet, causing us to stumble. Jhon and I tried shooting her with bullets, but that didn't seem to work as well as it did with the shadow minions, she was just taking bullets like it was nothing. I tried to throw my enchanted C-4 at her, she just got obliterated with a colorful, Rainbow explosion, turning into dust, and then turning back into her usual form, I decided to let her keep her second chance at life, because you never know if they can change unless you show mercy upon them.

Kaptn's PoV

Okay, Drew and Jhon just radio contacted me saying that their objective has been completed, now it was up to me to finish off this bitch. I was running up against one of what they called themselves the Shadowbolts, but this one was different from the normal ones I've heard from Twilight's stories. This one was a Shadow Shadowbolt, more vicious and very violent as well. I tried to use conventional bullets on it but it didn't work at all. I tried snapping its neck but that didn't work either, so finally, Drew said only the C-4 worked on these guys, I pulled out a C-4 satchel and threw it over to the Shadowbolt, it didn't kill it, but I managed to wound it severely, crippling one of its front legs. I then threw another satchel at it and it burst into a goo pile, it wasn't bloody, but it was like some sort of goo that looked like the night sky. I had completed my part of the bargain.

Drew's PoV

Kaptn just reported to me saying that he had just killed the other element, but something was way off. Where was the third element? I had heard a giant explosion from outside, it sounded like Nick and Zach needed some help. Jhon and I headed outside to see them fending off what it seemed like dozens and dozens of shadow minions, and we wweren't invited to the party. I jumped into the small circle that was made around Zach and Nick.

"Am I late to the party?" I asked sarcastically, they all nodded, saying that I've been missing out on the fun. We were fighting them off until Kaptn could join in as well. We were quickly overrun and we had to retreat into the giant black door, closing and locking it behind us. We were all out of breath as we wandered around the room, trying to find something that may be of use to help out our situation. Until we heard a maniacal laugh at the pedestal at the back of the room.

Well, well, well, if it isn't the high and mighty Delta Force?" A feminine voice had announced, it was Nightmare Moon, but I know Princess Luna wasn't being possessed again, she was an actual being now.