Two Months Later

The war had come to a complete stand-still, as no either side has ever attacked each other ever since the PMC's tried to take Appleloosa. The defenders, the Equestrian Army, fought diligantly, and barely managed to push them back, all thanks to the M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle.

The crew that operated it, the United States Delta Force, Fire Team Echo, were commended on such bravery and were rewarded with a promotion and were given the Silver Star. The IFV they used was destroyed, however, and they took it back to try and salvage parts out of it. Lieutenant Strong Hide, the commanding officer of Alpha Team, has lived and made a full recovery. In the mean time, Andrew was still in the hospital.

It had just turned winter in Equestria, and everything slowed down. The shops in Canterlot started to sell jackets, scarves, and other winter based accessories, and the dense city population wasn't as dense, since most families are out seeing relatives. Canterlot was far rom empty though, the city streets bustled with residents and tourists alike, some were here for vacation, while others are taking just another stroll downtown.

Snow started to fall over Canterlot, and it was a very cloudy and gloomy day. Helena cuddled up inside of her scarf, trying to keep herself warm as she walked down the streets. She made a direct route to the hospital, trying to make her way around the crowd, not wanting to bring any attention to herself than she already did. It was hard to blend in with the crowd when you were a tall, biped alien not native to this world.

I checked into the Canterlot Hospital without any second thoughts, I was thinking in my head that today was going to be the day. The day that Andrew finally woke up. The bright white lights of the hospital re-adjusted my vision, because from being outside in the cloudy weather didn't help at all.

When I walked into the room, he was lying there, with his eyes closed and the heart monitor beating slowly. You could see the fog that covered up the breathing mask everytime he exhaled. Nonetheless, he was still asleep. My head had begun to fill with disappointment, I wasn't the only one there who felt that way either.

"Hey Helena, you came to visit him, too?" I looked behind me to find Rainbow Dash, sitting in the chair. You could see that she'd been crying for some time, it does make sense since they both liked each other.

"Yeah, how's he doin' anyway?"

"The doc said he could still be asleep for a very long time, they haven't specified anything." She said quietly, looking over to Andrew.

"I know he'll wake up eventually, you can count on it!" I assured her, which made her crack a smile.

"Hey, why don't you come with me? I'll treat you to lunch." She shook her head, but her stomach said otherwise. She lt out a small empty laugh and got up out of the chair.

I exited the hospital stretching my limbs, hearing multiple joints cracking and muscles re-arranging. Rainbow's ears flopped downwards at the sound of it, she must've not liked the sounds too much. The cold didn't make it any better for my sake, to me it just made me all that much stiffer, just more stretching to do, and hopefully I won't throw anything out while I'm at it.

"What? You can't tell me you've never done this before!" Really, if she hasn't, she can't really be telling the truth.

"No, no, it's not that. It's just that I've never heard so much at one time." She laughed. I smiled at her as I continued to stretch.

"It comes with the job really, it's back breaking work most of the time." She rolled her eyes at me, what else would you expect?

"You know any good places around here? Usually we eat at the castle, so I don't know what's where." I turned on my tacpad on my wrist, and scrolled through my contacts to find Nick and Jhon. I tried calling them, but they wouldn't respond, probably doing something elsewhere.

"Yeah, there's a really good restaurant across the street! Follow me." She trotted off without hesitation, and I dragged myself slowly behind in her wake.

Once I caught up with her, she already had a table ready and everything. Drinks were already provided, and there was bread on the table, must've been a pretty fancy restaurant to me. I shrugged my shoulders and sat down across from Rainbow, who was already stuffing her face full of bread. I couldn't decide whether to laugh or to stare in amazement.

I took a sip of my tea and thought for a second, "y'know Rainbow, I always wondered something. Why did you decide to go after Drew?"

"Other than he can survive explosions and blow stuff up like a boss? He's kinda cute, actually." She laughed. I couldn't blame her really, Andrew has had the worst luck since forever, but despite that, he's survived virtually everything thrown at him.

"True story, let's change topics though," I picked up the menu in front of me and looked to see what I could pass by as food. Surprisingly, most of the things on here were edible, enough I guess.

Rainbow thought it was a good idea to dine out in the snow, much to my disappointment. I didn't favor the cold like the others did, but I preferred that cool seventy degree weather back on Earth, especially next to a fire or something. Luckily the unbrella kept the snow from getting on our dining plates, otherwise I would have a really soggy lunch.

"So, anything new with you?" I tried to make conversation with Rainbow, who already downed her mug of hot chocolate. I giggled at the sight of her moustache, and once she noticed it herself she joined in on the laughing.

"Nothing really, I'm just in town for the Wonderbolts show in a few hours. Andrew really wanted to take me, but I guess that's out of the question, huh?" She let out an empty laugh of displeasure. You could see in her eyes that she was depressed about Andrew's accident.

"I guess so, I'm sorry about that." I responded.

"No, no, it's fine. I mean I knew it from the start what the risks were. I just... didn't expect it to happen so soon, and for so long too."

The waiter came up with a pen and paper, waiting to take our orders. I was too busy at the time talking with Rainbow rather than to pick a dish, but I just had the greatest idea in mind. Once Rainbow ordered her dish, I just closed the menu and smiled at the watier.

"Surprise me." I haven't used that request for a long time, and whenever I did, they would usually choose something I didn't like or something that was overpriced.

As we waited for our food to come out, we kept talking about our interests, and it turns out we had a lot in common. Multiple things in fact, had to do with sports, as well as interesting stories to tell.

"One time, we had to detain a zombie apocalypse believe it or not!" Rainbow's eyes widened in shock.

"Alright, so you know how we're a counter-terrorism unit, right?" She nodded, "well we were sent into a quarantine zone due to a bioterrorist attack, and were forced to take out infected persons. The gas itself wasn't harmful to the skin, but once you breathe it in you're already dead, so we could've been naked and wear gas masks, and not get infected!"

Rainbow started to laugh as she pictured it, naked people fighting zombies wearing nothing but a gas mask.

"That's only something a fool would do though, we actually had to wear a full body suit, safety protocols and all that."

"Well, in the end, we found the mad scientist, and we killed him with his own creations, a funny sight to behold. You had to be there to understand."

"Oh! There was this one time Applejack and I had this thing called the 'Iron Pony Competition,' and we were playing tug-of-war. I flew up into the air and Applejack landed straight in the mud!" The both started to crack up laughing, Rainbow banged her hoof on the table because she couldn't control her laughter, I tried to supress my own laughter, but it couldn't be helped.

As our food came out, I literally was surprised at the food they gave me. Turns out it was a platter of spaghetti with marinara sauce, I haven't had this stuff in forever! The fact that I was in the year 2160 back on Earth, quality food was hard to come by, and overpopulation became a huge problem.

"Oh wow, that looks good." I say out loud, not noticing the drool rolling down the side of my mouth.

"You just gonna stare at it or are ya gonna eat it?" Rainbow asked, and as a repsonse I only shrugged as I grabbed a fork on the table and dug in without any more hesitation.

Princess Celestia walked down the halls of her own castle, having a worried expression on her face, she made her way down to the barracks just a few blocks away from her castle. She tried to pace herself, but she had found herself in a rush on her way over there. Night Shade had informed her of a crucial detail concerning the war, and she wouldn't want to miss a thing.

Celestia hadn't seen Night Shade like this since the last great war, and that was way before he died and was resurrected. She thought that with his help the duties would've been split among the three of them, but with Night Shade fighting a war it's only gotten worse for her and her sister. The polotical involvement during wartime was not to be underestimated, especially with the Griffin Empire on edge with Equestria at the time.

She found out that she wasn't the only one there, but others too. Nick and Jhon were also making their way to the same place, not wanting to make any conversation with all the seriousness in the air. They both had their uniforms on and in perfect condition, the clean black fabric remained stainless for the time being.

"So I heard you boys were in town. How are you?" Princess Celestia spoke, they both smiled back at her.

"We're all very good, ma'am. I hope you're doing well yourself?" Jhon replied back, he pushed the earpiece further into his ear, touching buttons on his tacpad.

"I'm doing well, Jhon. May I ask what you're doing here in Canterlot?" Nick snickered at her question.

"We were here to visit Andrew. I heard that he was gonna wake up soon from the doctors." He explained, and Princess Celestia silently nodded.

"If he does wake up, let him know that I need to talk to him. Something's come up and I need him to help me figure it out."

"Yes ma'am."

"Oh, and one other thing," Celestia paused to turn around, facing both Nick and Jhon, "since you all are considered a 'special forces' unit, I'm taking you off of the front lines for other work. See me again tomorrow when I have more time to talk to you all."

Nick and Jhon saluted Princess Celestia, who continued to walk into the barracks, leaving the two humans in amazement as she passed by. Jhon's earpiece fell out of his ear, and he stopped to pick it up. When he bent over to pick it up, he heard something up in the sky.

They both looked up into the sky and saw heavy storm clouds being moved in by the weather patrol, and it started to snow again. Nick and Jhon were met with cold little icicle formations touch their exposed skin, soon melting into droplets of water. As he opened his mouth to speak, he was suddenly stopped with a cold sensation touching his tongue, and he let out a small chuckle.

"Haven't seen snow like this in years," Nick licked the water off of his forearm, "not polluted either."

"Hey, we need to get to the hospital, it's almost closing time." Jhon hurried to the hospital, with Nick following close behind.

Author's Notes:

I'm probably going to need multiple editors, for both Trottingham University and Cleared to Engage. The one I hired hasn't been on in forever! Anyways, I'm still looking for a few more, check out my blog about it if you seem interested!
Also, I was wondering if you wanted multiple, short chapters like this (2,000 or less), or less chapters but much longer in length (about 3-5,000+) words or so. Take note that longer chapters will take longer to make, thus less updates. That's why I'm looking for an editor basically.