Prologue

[Read the author notes at the bottom before hand. No, seriously, I put them there for a reason.]

“Dear Mom and Dad,

I know I haven’t written ever since I got off the transport ship, but I just want to send you one last letter. It’s been about a year and a half here on Umbra, but in earth time that would be about three years. The planet is beautiful, it resembles earth a lot, but nothing beats home. There are several planets neighboring Umbra that are visible from the ground, the colonists still have yet to see if they are habitable or not. The indigenous creatures seem to be passive, though I’m not quite sure that they are happy with our coming to Umbra. I just wanted you to know that I’m alright, you can stop worrying now. I won’t be able to write after this, the military is only taking one more letter from me to send back home. It’ll take about six earth days to reach you guys.

I love you,

-Maverick"

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July 4, planet ‘Umbra’

Maverick glanced up from the letter and out the window. The night sky was clear, a few fireworks exploding in the distance. Even on a new planet and seven hundred and fifty five years later, the colonists on Umbra still celebrated Independence Day. Maverick smirked at the display in the sky, but the expression was quickly wiped off his face as he remembered what was coming for him and his partner.

It felt like only yesterday he was on top of a building looking down the scope of a sniper with Hunter beside him doing the same. Two weeks have passed since the incident, and their fate has been sealed. Maverick turned his head from the window to Hunter. He was laying down on the bed of the cell, lightly snoring with a blanket over his body. Maverick still couldn’t believe that Hunter was born from his DNA, he was nothing like him aside from their physical appearance.

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Born out of a test tube, Hunter never had the feeling of a parent’s love, and never had the feeling of that love being stripped from him as he was taken from his home to become a killing machine for the military.

Maverick could still remember the day he was taken. The soldiers informed Maverick and his family three days in advance before they would come to take him to Umbra and serve in the army. Maverick was only sixteen at the time, however, age was not an issue for the military. Realizing it would be useless to run or hide, Maverick and his family hesitantly agreed to Maverick’s draft. Three days later, the military took Maverick away and shipped him off to planet Umbra. But what the military had planed for Maverick was not told to the sixteen year old boy or his family. For the next three years, Maverick was experimented on, developing into an Alpha unit, a super soldier taken from their home and augmented with genetic mutations and enhancements. Maverick was lucky, few Alpha units could handle the experiments and the majority of the unsuccessful Alpha units would either die or go insane within the first year of development.

Seeing how Maverick’s DNA could easily co-exist and accept the enhancements given to him, the military would continue on with Maverick to create a Beta unit.

Beta units are super soldiers born from test tubes, clones of a sort, the DNA taken from successful Alpha units to create a Beta unit. Hunter McNamara, Maverick’s Beta unit, was born four years into Maverick’s training, Hunter first introduced to Maverick a year after his birth. As anyone would have been, Maverick was furious with the military’s actions without his consent.

However, over the course of the year, Maverick accepted Hunter as a brother he never had, both of them serving as soldiers in the military.

Hunter was taught by Maverick, teaching Hunter everything he knew about normal life and the capabilities of a super soldier. Hunter eventually became a full fledged soldier like his Alpha unit, Maverick, after two years of training, Maverick twenty three years old and Hunter only three.

But both of them wold prove to be too big of a hazard to keep alive. Out of anger towards the military for making a Beta unit of him, Maverick equipped himself and Hunter with fully loaded sniper rifles, giving an excuse of further training Hunter on fire arms. Unknown to the military, Maverick’s true intentions were to eliminate the lives of several of the higher ranked officers in the military. On top of the training facility, Maverick and Hunter aimed down their scopes at the ceremony below, both of their crosshairs on two different officers. But before they could pull the trigger, a group of military operatives that had followed them in suspicion captured them and took them down to the holding cells.

Two weeks went by and Maverick and Hunter were sentenced to execution for treason by a new device the military had been working on.

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“Maverick?” Hunter asked. Maverick turned his head back to Hunter. He was sitting up in the bed, rubbing his eyes and fiddling with the ruby pendant around his neck.

“Yeah, Hunter?”

“What are they going to do to us?” Maverick sighed at the question, staring down at his hands. Maverick didn’t know how to answer the question without upsetting Hunter.

“They’re going to send us to another world, Hunter. Don’t you worry, though, I won’t ever leave your side.”

“What for?”

“We did something bad... and now we are going to have to pay the price.” Hunter stayed silent and laid back down in the bed, staring up at the ceiling. A group of soldiers walked up to the cell’s door and tapped on it with their flashlights.

“Let’s go, you two. The general is waiting.” One of the soldiers said. Maverick got up and helped Hunter onto his feet. The soldiers opened the cell door, cuffed the two super soldiers, and started taking them down the hallway. The general was waiting at the other end of the hall, his hands behind his back. He opened the door as Maverick and Hunter got closer and followed the group into the room. The general and the group of soldiers walked into a door on the other side of the room, which sealed shut as they walked through it. Maverick and Hunter were left in the chamber outside of the room the general went in, their hands still cuffed. A voice spoke through a speaker on the side of the room, distorted through the magnetic interference in the chamber.

“Maverick Blackburn and Hunter McNamara. You two are here to be executed for the attempt to eliminate several high ranking officers of the military. Do you have any last words?” Hunter and Maverick stayed silent, impatiently waiting for the soldiers to start the execution.

“Then start the machine.” The speaker turned off and the two super soldiers were left standing in the room in silence. A low hum started to come from the chamber and a glow started to form on the ground beneath Hunter and Maverick. Hunter looked around frantically, but was calmed by Maverick slightly leaning against him. The lights in the room started to dim as the glow on the floor grew brighter, the hum growing in volume with each second. But death would not come for the two super soldiers yet.

There was a loud pop and the chamber shook violently, Hunter and Maverick falling on their backs. The glow was still growing in intensity along with the hum, fear starting to set into Maverick and Hunter's hearts.

“What is wrong with the machine!? What did you do!?” A voice yelled over the speaker, yelling at the soldiers outside of the chamber Hunter and Maverick were in. There were faint voices in the background, but they weren’t audible over the hum of the machine below the chamber.

“Maverick, what is happening!?” Hunter yelled as he got up, but was knocked down by another violent shake.

“I don’t know! I don’t think they planned this!” Maverick yelled over the hum of the machine. The glow on the floor of the chamber turned red for a split second, and there was a bright flash of light. The lights in the chamber burst, the chamber becoming pitch black. The hum of the machine faded and the chamber became silent. The general walked through the door and into the chamber, furious at the events that had just taken place.

Hunter and Maverick were gone, the only evidence of them being there were their hand cuffs laying on the floor.

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Author Notes

(Don’t get mad at me, but this is a human in Equestria fic)

Hello! Here are some things I want to say before you go into the story if you choose to:

1. If you find any mistakes in spelling or grammar (grammar I could care less about), please inform me of them (preferably through a private message) and I will fix them as soon as possible.

2. While this story has some language and violence, I can assure you that you won’t be forever scarred by it. (Meaning it won’t be too graphic. The violence, at least. {there will be a few brief moments of gore, just letting you know now})

3. Events happening in the story will be explained, so if you find yourself getting confused, just keep reading. If you still find yourself confused, just ask me and I’ll try to explain as best as I can.

4. The prologue is meant to be shorter than the other chapters, it’s just explaining the situation.

5. [Adventure] for... well, adventuring.

6. Constructive criticism is ENORMOUSLY appreciated, do not hesitate to tell me if you liked the story/chapter or didn’t like it and what made you think that way. Just don’t be a dick about it [Ex: LOL, THIS STORY WAS TERRIBLE BECAUSE IT SUCKED], or I will be very angry and disappointed with you. >:(

7. Hunter’s last name, McNamara, has no specific way of pronunciation, so pronounce it however you see fit, whether it be ‘Mac-nam-air-ah’, ‘Mic-nom-ar-ah’, or a different pronunciation.

8. While this fic is placed during the year 2531 in our world, time has not really progressed too far in Equestria

That’s all I have for you guys right now, I hope you like it! Next Chapter: A Foreign World Estimated time remaining: 2 Hours, 44 Minutes