Just Another Day; Good Work Delta
Chapter 9: Chapter 8: Answering the Call of Duty
Previous Chapter Next ChapterPonyville / Delta 0-1 / Friday, two months, 2:30 PM
"Well, if it means to protect Ponyville from these Sons-of-Bitches, I'm in." Drew had said, his squad nodding in agreement. Delta has been called to answer the Call of Duty once again, but this time, he had been told by the Princess that the changelings are back, and they plan to take Equestria by force. So, they evacuated the civilians from Ponyville and transported them to Canterlot so the princesses would look after them. Delta had to make sure everypony got on those train cars, even the Mane 6, they didn't just want to leave Delta behind like they did last time, but they've been told by the princess that the changelings are stronger than they were last time.
"I'm sorry girls, I have direct orders from the princess herself to get you on that train, you're leaving!" Drew had to push them into the train, locking the door from the outside so they couldn't escape.
"We don't want to lose you guys again!" They all cried out, tears welling up in their eyes, but Drew had replied.
"It's better to lose us than to lose everypony. This is goodbye, for now." Drew and the team polarized their visors and went into battle, leaving the trainstation.
"This sucks, I don't want them to die again!" Rainbow said, hitting the door, but it didn't budge, she had a crush on Drew, and she knew by the way he was acting that Drew had a thing for Rainbow as well. The train had left the station, the girls saw explosions in the background as they saw falling buildings of what was once their home of Ponyville.
The changelings were already attacking the poor town, all they needed to do now was to eradicate them, for good. Drew and Kaptn used their rush tactics they use in Virtual TDM, while Jhon was camping on an MG on top of Sugarcube Corner, while Nick was sniping inside of the same building as Jhon. No matter what the changelings did, the couldn't stop what the Diamond Dogs called the 'Demons'. If they knock them down, they get back up, if they shoot them with magic, they would still get back up, if a house fell on them, they would STILL get back up, they were just mowing down the changelings as if they were cutting butter with a hot knife, quick and clean. Chrysalis had taken notice of these demons, she knew what had to be done, she had to fight for herself against them. She had used magically enchanted armor that deflected these high velocity projectiles, but didn't count on them using knives or C-4. Drew and the team were doing fine until Chrysalis joined the fight, since she was there, she had a magical field around her that deflected their bullets, when they tried to get close, they would be repelled away, the only thing that they could do is throw C-4 at her, which will completely catch her by surprise.
"YOU INSOLENT FOOLS! YOU THINK YOU CAN MATCH THE POWER OF QUEEN CHRYSALIS!?" She wailed at us, she didn't know we could change into ponies yet, or that Drew was an Alicorn either, but they had to keep it along with the element of surprise. She eventually caused Sugarcube Corner to collapse, knocking out Jhon and Nick, now it was me and Kaptn, versus the evil Queen Chrysalis. The changelings' numbers dwindles under the hundreds after we were done with them, not it was the rest of her army and herself, against us.
"Well, it seems that you're outnumbered demons." She laughed evilly at us, but Drew had made up a good comeback.
"We may be outnumbered, but we're not outmatched. It seems pretty fair to me, I'm just sayin." He gave back a smirk, causing Chrysalis to flinch and then released the anger inside of her. She immediately rushed Drew and tackled him into a building, making an imprint the shape of Drew's ODST armor, but Drew shook it off like it was nothing. Kaptn on the other hand sneaked up behind her and snapped her neck Steven Seagall style. It didn't work like it was supposed to, she snapped it back into place, acting like it didn't happen in the first place. She then shot a beam of bright light toward Kaptn, knocking him out as well as the other members of the squad.
"Well, now I guess it's a 1v100 now isn't it?" Chrysalis just gave out a maniacal laugh, thinking it was the end for Drew, but then he walked over and revived his fallen friends, with the magical powers Drew could use as a human. They all got back on their feet, splitting up into all four directions, Drew for some reason always had to take down the big boss, while the others dealt with the minions.
"Well, I guess this is it Chrysalis, give up, and I'll let you live." Drew threatened, he could actually sense the fear in her voice. She looked all around to see her children being either crippled or killed. She didn't want to back down though, she saw that there was under 25 of them left, but she used forbidden magic, or at least that's what it looked like from Twilight's spell book. She managed to duplicate herself, making 5 of her, they all surrounded me as they formed a fight circle. Drew had unsheathed his lucky tactical knife, she was made of pure titanium, had a serrated edge, stainless too, she was a work of art. Turned out Drew wasn't the only one armed, all five of the Chrysalis''s had conjured a spear tip and placed it on top of her, horn-thingy. Based on his outstanding performance record on hand-to-hoof combat, Drew hoped that that was enough to take on five of them.
"ARGGH!" Drew immediately made the first move, climbing on top of Chrysalis #1 and slit her throat, He heard a gurgling noise, which was disgusting, and then she disappeared into a green dust. Chrysalis #2 had caught him off guard as she stabbed Drew, impaling him into his calf. Drew was in serious pain, but he managed to grab Chrysalis #2's neck and snapped it, hearing a very satisfying crack. Chrysalis turned into dust, dropping Drew onto the ground as he injected his first stimpak into his leg that had gotten impaled.
Meanwhile, in Canterlot Castle, Princess Celestia had offered the Mane 6 to cast a spell to see the point of view of that designated person, and his or her's condition. They had decided to see in Nick's perspective first, he was quickscoping the shit out of those changelings, doing 360's and 720's and all that shit, of all of those shots he made, they were all headshots. Then they took on Jhon's view, since he was the lightweight traveler, he was throwing knives at his opponents, impaling them onto walls, slitting throats, snapping necks, everything that had to do with CQC. Kaptn, was the demolition and heavy weapons specialist, so he was seen using claymores, C-4, anything explosive, they watched Kaptn walk away from an explosion, walking in slow motion, Rainbow was screaming at how badass it looked at the time, until they turned to Drew's perspective, they were all shocked to see the three remaining Chrysalis's just stabbing him over and over, but Drew wouldn't give in, though he took multiple stab wounds to the chest, he got up, grabbed Chrysalis #3's horn, and snapped it in half, they knew Drew had a violent side, but this was off the charts, Twilight tried really hard to not throw up at all the screaming and the blood pouring from the clone's horn, before it turned to dust.
"Fuck you, and FUCK YOUR CHANGELING ARMY!" Drew had yelled, Chrysalis #4 tried to stop him, stabbing him in the chest only god knows how many times, but he took it like a champ, he just grabbed Chrysalis #4 and just whirled her away into the Everfree Forest, hearing her being mauled by a Manticore, then hearing a poof, turning to dust. He then turned to the final Chrysalis, which was the real one, he started to cough up blood, but it stopped as he injected himself with his final stimpak. The crew had just finished killing off the changelings, and disposing of the bodies as well, they all tried to give Drew some support, but they were blocked off by a green force field.
"NO! This is our fight! And our fight only!" Chrysalis barked at them, only to have Drew jump on her back, riding her like a bucking bronco, she tried everything to get him off, only to make him hold on harder. The crew knew what he was about to do, he was about to banish her from this dimension. He opened up a portal, which visualized Dead Wind Cavern from Fallout: New Vegas, and pushed her in, leaving her to her fate. The portal had closed, and so did the force field, Drew ran over to his friends, thinking that it was over, but all of a sudden, Drew's adrenaline wore off, and he collapsed, blacking out in front of everyone.
The ponies who were spectating Drew cheered at first seeing that he was okay and he had banished Chrysalis to who knows where, but when he blacked out, they all let out a GASP. They had immediately made their way back to Ponyville, trying to get there so they could look after their unconscious friend, hoping that they would make it in time to save him.
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Ponyville Hospital / Drew / Saturday, the next month. 11:00 AM
Rainbow had been at Drew's side the whole time he was out, waiting for him to come back into reality. Until, she lost hope, the doctors said that he may be in a long term coma, until he finally woke up that Saturday of the next month.
"Ughh, why do I wake up, half the time I always end up in the hospital?" I had asked myself, I felt like I have been out for a long while. I rang the nurse, I was going to ask her for that shitty hospital food. Hell, it was free so why not? She just went into my room, shocked, as if I were dead or something. Apparently, the doctor came instead of the nurse.
"Well, it's good to see you finally awake Mr. Drew, you've been out for quite some time. A month to be exact." The doc just let out a hearty chuckle. But a MONTH?! I was out for a MONTH?! I can't believe I was out for that long in the first place. I mean, yeah, I took some bad hits, but I didn't know they were that bad. A few hours later I was discharged from the hospital, I tried looking for everypony, but they weren't home, I was told by Derpy that they were at an awards ceremony in Canterlot. So I think it was time to try out my long distance teleportation spell, so I changed into an Alicorn. It had taken me a few weeks to master it, but I think I finally got it down. I had successfully teleported to the antechamber of the awards ceremony, changed back into a human, and waited for my cue. I had finally heard Princess Celestia say, "If anypony thinks that these heroes shouldn't be awarded, please speak now." I replied to her, I don't think she was expecting for anypony to say anything.
"Because I wasn't invited to the party!" Everypony gasped, Princess Celestia was very offended at my remark, until I kicked open the door. They stared at me, and I stared back, then out of the silence, they cheered at my pretty dramatic entrance. The guys rushed down the altar to come up and group hug me, they do it to me because I just hated hugs, I guess. Everypony was just so shocked at my sudden recovery, and my unexpected appearance at the ceremony, they were just speechless, going up to me, giving me a hug, but since they were adorable ponies, I let it pass.
At the ceremonies after party, Celestia had made a toast, for Delta being so badass, the defeat of the changelings, and my return, we made a toast three times, by the time she got to my toast, the Princess was drunk, which was actually pretty funny. That night I fell asleep on the train back to Ponyville, with Rainbow cuddled up on my lap. Which, she did after I fell asleep, it felt good, but also awkward at the same time, but since I was gone for a month I let her sleep on my lap. She gave an adorable snore too, even the crew and the girls were giggling at the sight, looking at how peaceful we looked.
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Ponyville / Drew / 1:00 PM, the same day...
The next day, Rainbow got me up to speed on what happened for the past month, and surprisingly, I never knew what that warm feeling was when I was asleep, to find out that it was her? D'awww, she cares for me! Oh well, back on track, she said she won this year's running of the leaves, hopefully without cheating, and now apparently, we're in winter. I can't wait to celebrate Christmas with the crew, and now with ponies too! I had just found out from Twilight that it's not Christmas here, but it was called Hearth's Warming Eve, the holiday that celebrated Equestria's founding. Oh well, it's not a big difference, so I didn't give a fuck, you still get to give and receive presents to and from friends in the end.
Today, I was asked by Miss Cheerilee if I could give the kids a surprise visit, in which I loved kids so I agreed to it, and today was the day I would visit them. I waited for my signal hearing Miss Cheerilee say for me to come in, all the colts and fillies just looked up at me in awe as if I was their role model or something.
"If you have any questions feel free to ask away, I don't have anything to do today anyway." As I said that, everypony in the classroom, even Miss Cheerilee, raised their hooves into the air, I decided to go with the teacher first.
"Mr. Drew, is it true that you just woke up from a month long coma?" She asked, I nodded, the colts and fillies in the room just looked at me with awe-struck faces. The next question I wanted to hear was from a filly with a red mane with a pink bow in it.
"My sister Applejack said that a human beat her in a drinking contest before? Were you the one who beat her?" I had told her about that night, she just looked so surprised at how much I could really drink. The next question came from what looked like a stuck-up filly, her name was Diamond Tiara from what I've heard when I walked in.
"Do you have a cutie mark? I don't think you do because you keep your flank covered all the time!" She boasted, I was about to show her up, suddenly, a bright white light lit up the classroom, and I was gone, leaving Lightning in my place. Everypony's jaws just dropped.
"Why yes, I actually do, it's right here, and it means that it's my sworn duty to protect those who can't defend themselves against any evil." I pointed to the Delta Force symbol on my butt. They had all asked how did I get here, and where did the human went.
"Actually, I am the human, right now I'm just an Alicorn. Princess Celestia gave me the power to do this herself." I responded to their questions. I changed back into a human, their jaws dropped once again. I had answered Scootaloo's question next, "Is it true that you and your friends stopped the changeling army from destroying Equestria just a month ago?" I had told her everything on my account of what happened, I even told her why I was out in a coma.
"That's AWESOME! Not as awesome as Rainbow Dash though." I had instantly figured out this was the Scootaloo that Rainbow was talking about, how she hosts the Rainbow Dash Fanclub every once a month, she's pracically a role model for the little filly.
Next up was Sweetie Belle, I heard Rarity mention that she was her younger sister a few times before, I even got to see her a few times as well. "How did you change into an Alicorn just now?" I had told her what happened, everything from me having Alicorn blood in my family to where Princess Celestia cast the spell on me. They all wanted me to change back into an Alicorn, because they all did their puppy-dog yes, I couldn't resist, so I changed back into Alicorn mode, they all looked at my electric blue mane though, wanting to touch it.
Once I had answered all of their questions, Miss Cheerilee thanked me for my time as I heard an argument going on outside.
"Don't worry Miss Cheerilee, I'll handle this." I said as I walked up to Diamond Tiara, making fun of Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle about not having cutie marks.
"Blank Flanks!" I heard Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara making them cry. I got fed up so, I sneaked up behind them, levitating them into the air and made fun of them.
"Well, at least they don't have a Tiara or a Spoon on their flanks. What are they supposed to mean anyway?" I asked them, they protested about what they were, in which I had NO idea why that was their talent.
"Wow, that's, the worst talent I've ever heard of. Ever. A talent just to be a spoiled brat that likes picking on other ponies? Wow. Just. Wow." By now I made them run home probably crying to their mommies about how mean I was to them.
"So, why were they picking on you guys just because you don't have a cutie mark?" I had asked them, they told me about the CMC's, what they did for a living, and what they liked to do as a hobby.
"So, why don't you guys just try to find your talent through your hobbies?" I had asked them, they thanked me and asked themselves why didn't they think of that in the first place. Sweetie had told me about her love of singing, Apple Bloom about her love of arts and crafts, and finally Scootaloo about her love of action-y type stuff, like dancing, scootering, and climbing stuff. ' I just hope this day won't come back and bite me in the ass one day. ' I thought to myself as I thought about the situation with Rainbow and I.' Would I really come through with this? I mean, Rainbow and I are a good match, but what if I die while on a mission? That would certainly break her heart, and I wouldn't want to do that. I guess I'll ask Jhon later, he'll know what to do. '
I had nothing to do the rest of the day, so I just went dimension jumping, grabbing what I can get, and then jumped to another dimension. I managed to grab a few stasis and kinesis modules from Dead Space, some plasma cutters, some ammo for the plasma cutters, four pulse rifles, ammo for that. Purchasing an Advanced Suit for myself, going into the Fallout Universe, getting some more Nuka-Cola for myself, and all that good stuff. Once we hit the end of the day, I decided to confront Jhon tomorrow morning.
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