Meet Echo Team, one of the most elite special forces unit in the Delta Force. When there's a mission that's pretty much impossible without having casualties, they call in Echo Team. Known for surviving suicide missions, and getting in and out, clean. Their mission success rate is very high, if they can't get it done nobody can. Believe it or not, it isn't a big squad either, only a team of four.

A lot of standards have changed in the U.S. Military, as well as its Special Forces group, that includes having women on the front lines and the special forces. That's because one of the team members is a woman. The squad leader of this crazy group of individuals is Captain Andrew Hartfield, a very young individual, only 25 believe it or not. He is somewhat immature at times, and very serious at other times. His second in command 1st Lieutenant Helena Wilson, age 27 as well is very smart and witty, the designated sniper of Echo Team. Chief Warrant Officer 4 James 'Jhon' Lamar, age 29, the close quarters expert, a calm and collected one, and very quiet. And lastly, Sergeant Major Nick Churchill, age 31, the Assault expert, very demotivational at times.

This time, Echo Team has been sent in to rescue hostages, but they're not just any civilian hostages either. They had to rescue five American Representatives that were taken captive when they were on their way to Brazil.

"Alright, we're nearing the target building, ready up." The Captain ordered, Helena dropped out early to get her sniper's nest set up. The others got their gear together quickly.

"Alright, we're here to rescue five V.I.P.'s, so watch your trigger finger." Andrew stated. They all then rappelled out of the helicopter and secured the area. This was to be as stealthy as possible, because they dropped about 2 klicks away from their destination.

"Attention Echo Team, this is Overlord speaking. You've got 3 hours until evac, make sure nothing goes FUBAR."

"Copy that Overlord, Echo 0-1 out." They cancelled the communication as the team headed out into the jungle. The safehouse should be isolated from looking at satellite images.

The team quickened their pace as they got closer, Andrew stealthily took out an unsuspecting guard as he hid the body in the thick underbrush. This building was in very bad condition, it had vines and plants covering most of the stone walls, and the concrete itself was crumbling under the pressure. Not to their surprise they were holding the hostages on the third floor, which wasn't going to be easy to traverse. Luckily Echo Team didn't alert any of the armed sentries stationed to protect the hostages. Not yet anyways.

Once they had made it to the third floor, they got ready to breach, so they stacked up shoulder to shoulder. They blew the metal door open with a C-4 charge and went inside. Jhon threw his hatchet at a nearby mercenary and slit the throat of another. One of the hostages was being held at gunpoint, and a mercenary had her in a headlock, threatening to kill. Andrew took the headshot and got him right between the eyes.

"Are you alright ma'am?" Andrew brought the woman to her feet, and she nodded.

"Captain? We've got company, I recommend you get out of there now!" Nick was holding off the reinforcements to the best of his abilities, as well as Helena providing sniper support.

"Ma'am we need to get you to safety. Come with us." Jhon ordered, the anonymous woman nodded and followed close behind Andrew.

They untied the rest of the hostages and followed behind, as they did so Echo Team gave cover fire to get the the evacuation LZ. Helena rappelled down from the canopy of the jungle, but as she did so she saw something they all didn't expect.

"Helena! Enemy helicopter!" Andrew yelled over the radio. Just as he said that the enemy helicopter fired at Helena, one of the bursts cut Helena's rope and she fell to the forest floor. Luckily she fell half way to the LZ, and she limped the rest of the way there.

"We gotta get rid of that heelo, Jhon, Nick, do you have anything?" Andrew asked, they shook their heads. In an instance they were almost hit with an RPG rocket, and Andrew snapped his fingers.

"Jhon, Nick, protect the V.I.P.'s. I'm gonna try to get an RPG." Andrew stabbed a mercenary in the back, taking his rocket launcher. Luckily the helicopter was flying dangerously close, within range of Andrew's RPG.

Andrew shot down the helicopter, but not without a price, the flaming helicopter crashed right beside Echo Team. Echo Team shielded the V.I.P.'s to keep them from harm, Andrew was bleeding badly, and his left arm was bent at a funny angle. Jhon had no serious injuries, only deep cuts and bruises. Nick just had a dislocated shoulder, and Helena was doing her best to pull them out of the fire. The evacuation helicopter was here, but could only stay for a brief moment due to the fact that there were more reinforcements coming their way. They desparately tried to hold them off as they loaded the rescued hostages into the helicopter. The woman from earlier had a look of regret on her face, for unknown reasons.

"Just go, we'll hold them off!" Andrew said, holding his Assault Rifle with his good arm. The woman couldn't stand to see them just give away their lives for the sake of them.

Just then the mysterious woman jumped out. The thing is she wasn't a woman anymore, but a horse instead. There was a flash of light and knocked Echo Team unconscious, the flash was long enough for the helicopter to get away, but Echo Team was no where to be found, nor the mysterious woman.

Andrew woke up inside of a white room walled with plastic, and he looked around to get his bearings. All of the injuries he had sustained were all gone, and not a single scratch was on him. He was wearing a patient's gown and was separated from the rest of Echo Team, his gear was missing as well. There was an icon on the plastic that looked all too familiar with him.

"Why are we being quarantined? How long have we been out? Where are we?" Andrew asked himself, he was very confused at this point, and had so many questions to ask.

"We'll answer your questions all in due time. Alien." He heard a voice say, Andrew quickly whipped his head around to find the source of the voice. He couldn't see anything outside in the darkness of the room, and he guessed that there should be a reason why him and his team are being contained. There was another being there, looking at Andrew in the dark, until she revealed herself.

"Self sacrifice, a noble cause just to save the lives of innocents. You know this all too well, don't you Captain?"

"Who are you people? What have you done to my team?"

"Don't fret Andrew, they're just asleep. And now you are too."

"Wait, wha-" Andrew was blasted with a sleep spell, and he was lifted back to his bed.

"You will understand why I did this, you all will." Princess Celestia said, she knew something Echo Team didn't.

"I can't believe Princess Celestia found a new sentient species! It's so exciting that she's invited us to come and see!" Twilight was very excited, she could barely contain herself.

"Well she has been gone for two months. She had to at least find something in that given time." Spike responded. Twilight, who ignored him was already on her way to greet the girls, who were informed the day before that they were going to Canterlot.

"Sorry for the wait. Are we all ready to head out?" They all nodded and got on the train to the capital city of Canterlot.

"So, what's the big deal about these aliens?" Rainbow asked.

"They're not just any aliens! They are smart aliens!" Pinkie responded.

"Whoopee, more eggheads you could hang out with Twilight." Rainbow laughed. Twilight had a deadpan expression as she tried to continue her explanation.

"As I was saying, these aren't just any aliens. Princess Celestia said they had multiple abilities, and that they're called humans." They all went silent.

"Hyoo-manes? Isn't that those types of things that Lyra's fascinated into?" Pinkie asked, but she was ignored as they neared Canterlot.

"Get ready girls, we don't know what we're gonna be facing. So be ready for anything to happen." Twilight warned.

Author's Notes:

This is my re-write so far! I hope you like it.