Twilight and company were safely escorted into the castle, where both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were waiting for them. Princess Celestia kept the whole castle on lockdown, and only let a certain few in and out of the castle walls. Which meant that this place was really quiet, with an eerie vibe that was in the air.

"Twilight, my faithful student! It's so good to see you again." Celestia spoke out of the silence, Luna smiled as she nodded.

"It's good to see you too, Princess. How was your vacation?" Twilight responded, Celestia had just finished her vacation in another world, disguised as one of them.

"It was extravagant, I didn't know there were so many sights to see on Earth!" Princess then brought out the royal poker face to get to more serious matters. They all gathered 'round to hear what Celestia had to say, like story time for little kids.

"Now for the reason I brought you here. I saved four humans from their untimely death rescuing me on Earth. I had a little fiasco while I was away involving some not so nice people. They're currently going under healing processes by our top doctors as we speak. One of the poor things broke his arm, but for some reason healing magic seemed to work on them." Luna gestured to follow her into the secret facility, where Echo Team was being held. Celestia said she would explain as they went to the secret facility.

"So, why did you take them here? And just leave them on Eeer-th?" Rainbow asked, Celestia's expression saddened.

"They wouldn't have been in that mess is it wasn't for me. I also don't want to know that their deaths are on my conscious. I also sense something about this bunch, there has to be a reason why..." She trailed off as they continued to walk towards the area where they were keeping Echo Team, in which they were all awake, pacing in their confined rooms.

"We have yet to find out what to do with them, because we can't take them back to Earth. No matter how much they say they need to return." Celestia said. The thought of them being stuck here with nothing to do struck her mind, she cringed at the thought if they were to go insane.

"Why don't you just let them out? They don't look like they can do much harm." Twilight said, and Celestia's eyes widened.

"Twilight, you have no idea what these specific humans are capable of. They took down a flying metal bird with what seemed to be a firework launcher." She explained, Twilight then turned to the caged bipedal figures.wide eyed, somewhat scared of their capabilities. They didn't seem that harmful to her, but if what the Princess said was true, they could be possibly unstoppable if released.

"I-I think they're just scared, they don't look too happy that they're being kept in there. Look at the poor thing!" Fluttershy was barely above a whisper, but was enough to be heard.

"Maybe they just need a party! That always cheers somepony up!" Pinkie said happily, all of them rolled their eyes and continued down the hallway.

"The thing is, they aren't being kept in there. The doors aren't locked, they choose to stay in there by their own free will." Celestia explained, Twilight scratched her head.

Just then all of them looked up and aimed their gaze to one of the captive humans, Twilight and her friends were frozen in place as Andrew came out of his room, it was never locked in the first place. Celestia met him half way to protect her subjects from any harm that could befall them. They stared intently at each other, tension building between the two separate species before Andrew spoke up.

"You were that woman, I saw you turn into what you are now. I want answers horsey." The Captain demanded. Just before Celestia could speak, Rainbow got up in Andrew's face, staring eye to eye at each other.

"Hey! You don't talk to our Princess that way!" You could see the lightning between their gazes, they kept on it until Princess Celestia laid a hoof on Rainbow, notifying her to back down.

"I will not have you disrespecting my authority within my own home. And I happen to be an Alicorn pony, thank you very much. If you want answers, you will have to abide by my rules." Andrew crossed his arms.

"...Fine." Andrew complied.

He followed Celestia into the main dining room, where he sat at the other end of the table, across from Celestia. He was silent for most of the way, usually looking away from the ones he was following. To Andrew the architecture was very interesting, almost Greek or Roman in nature, the only thing he's ever seen that's similar to this is the White House or the Lincoln Memorial.

"Would you like anything to drink?" Celestia asked, Andrew looked up, he didn't think these horses were to be trusted. He looked around to find anything suspicious, but couldn't find a thing. Celestia took notice of his curiosity, but she figured out that it was a new environment for him to be in.

"Yeah... Do you have any iced tea?" Celestia raised a brow, and Twilight seemed to gasp.

"You put ice... in your tea?" She said slowly, and the human nodded.

"Yes, I do. Problem?" He retorted, Twilight opened her mouth to speak, but no words came out.

"Well for one thing, tea is meant to be hot, plus it goes well with a scone or crumpet." Rarity interjected.

"Well, iced tea is meant for when you get hot, and goes well with a mid summer's day." Andrew replied, Celestia took note of this weird evolution, back when she last visited America iced tea never existed, and nor does it exist in Equestria .

She sighed as she took a sip of her hot tea. Andrew leaned forward and folded his fingers as he placed his elbows on the table. Once he was given his iced tea he chugged it down with no sense of manners. They all stared at him in disgust, and he had a sheepish grin on his face. Wiped the cold deliciousness off of his face, and looked around, until he noticed his mistake and he spoke up.

"Oh, uh... sorry about that. I was really thirsty, almost dying and all, you know." He apologized, and he really was sincere this time. Even though he added a little sarcasm to emphasize the "dying" in his sentence.

"Now, about answers. Why did you take us here?" The interrogation has started, for some reason it felt like the lights were getting dimmer, but when you look it still was the same. The mood changed from eerie to serious in a pinch, and everything got quiet, even the wind stopped blowing it got so quiet.

"Well, I thought someone would have wanted to live instead of die in the jungle." She stated.

"True, but why did you save us? You could've just left us there to die, it's our job to see that you're safe." It sounded if Andrew wanted to die, even at such a young age.

"You mean to tell me, that your job is putting your life on the line on purpose?!" Twilight clearly hasn't encountered that before. They all stared wide eyed at him, which made Andrew feel uncomfortable. He squirmed in his seat before continuing with his explanation.

"Well, in a way, yes. We work for the American Special Forces to protect the innocent and keep our country safe. No matter what the cost." He stated, they were still all shocked about this, but the girls understood the basic concept of it now.

"So, like the Royal Guard?" Rainbow asked.

"Well, it's kind of hard to explain." He thought about what to say next, it was something he needed to tread lightly on, if he says too much that could be a problem, "You see, we don't serve a monarch, but we are sworn in to protect our home country. 'Merica." Andrew pounded his chest, they all looked at him as if he did something wrong, he put his hands in the air making himself look like he was innocent. He took a sip of his refill, he just couldn't get enough of the cold deliciousness, it was way better than the ones he drinks out of the MRE's.

"Now, for my questions. What do you want from us? Do you need some sort of test subjects? Or some of my crew to dissect?" Andrew didn't like the idea he was putting into his own head, but these guesses could very well be possible. He guessed what Celestia had to say next, but what came out was completely different.

"No, we planned to release you after you signed some paperwork."

"No! I don't want to be dissected!... Wait, what?" Andrew's eyes widened, he was speechless, until he could find the words that would fit the situation.

"What type of paperwork?"

"Just a peace treaty, saying that you aren't going to do any intentional harm to my subjects." Andrew picked up the treaty, which looked more like a contract to be honest.

"You humans are peaceful, blah blah blah, abide by Equestrian Law, yada yada, any who breaks this code will be executed, blah blah, must apply to be full fledged citizen of Equestria." Andrew summarized it just perfectly, at least for his standards anyways. He neatly folded the parchment and put it in the pocket of his uniquely tailored pants.

"You know, why did you give us clothes that make us look like we were in Colonial America?" Celestia raised a brow, and Andrew tilted his head like a confused dog.

"That was from when I visited Earth last time, some souvenirs of you will. Those were the only clothes my guards could find on such short notice that fit your size. And might I add America has changed greatly, since then. Are you still fighting the same war?" She asked, Andrew shook his head and continued.

"I will explain later." He replied, she nodded and opened the door for the human and her subjects.

Andrew was then guided back to his quarantined room to meet up with the rest of his team. Now that they turned on the lights they could really see who was actually operating on them. When they found out that they were ponies, some were more surprised than others.

"Andrew! They didn't dissect you did they?" Nick asked.

"Did they make you a test subject?" Helena got all up in his face.

"Did they try to brainwash you?" Jhon grabbed his collar and lifted him up, shaking him violently.

"None of the above, they actually aren't so bad. Now all we have to do is sign this, 'Peace Treaty,' so we can be released." He didn't think treaty was the right word for that piece of parchment, it was more of a contract of sorts. They all read the fine print and signed it with no hesitation. They just wanted to get the hell out of the room, they can't stay in one place for very long, especially one full of technicolored ponies.

"Now that's out of the way, can we retrieve our equipment?" Andrew asked through a microphone, which there was an intercom right next to Celestia. Everypony in the room had to cover her ears since the microphone was so loud, and yet so close to everyone. Echo Team was immune, they shrugged it off like it was nothing, gunshots were louder than that. The microphone itself was pretty loud, they used it to listen in on the conversations the humans brought up.

"Yes you may, as long as you don't use them on any of my subjects. You may follow us to the barracks, I would like to see how your mechanism works." And so the four members of Echo Team were off to get their lost equipment, and perhaps find something of use inside the Canterlot Armory as well as their own equipment.

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