Gunfire. So much gunfire. It was basically the only thing you could hear. Heck, I had trouble listening to my thoughts. Anyways, the gunfire was an unfortunate necessity as we had unfortunately appeared in the middle of Canterlot after we had finished raiding a military base during a zombie apocalypse. Now that is not something that happens to people on a normal day basis.

Maybe I should start with how this started. It would make more sense that way.

-X-X-X-

School had just ended and I was walking up to some of my friends and my younger brother. "Hi guys," I said while approaching them.

"Tran!" three of my friends called out. In front of me, five of my friends stood. Their names were Elijah, Nick, Ike, David and Austin. Along with the five of them, my brother, Andy, stood with them.

"Hey Tran, Andy's been acting weird" Elijah said.

I stared back blankly at him. "That's standard Andy."

"Something bad is going to happen" Andy said.

"What?Its Tuesday right after school, what could possibly go wrong?” Almost immediately after those six words left Elijah's mouth, Elijah, Austin, and I were tackled down by three people.

"Du ma!! (motherfucker [Vietnamese]) Get them off of me!” I said while holding the man while he was trying to bite me. Nick tore the person off me and threw him onto the pavement. I watched as the man was send flying and cracked his neck against the same pavement.

I ran over to the guy on top of Elijah and pushed the guy off with a good kick before stepping on his neck, pinning him to the ground. Ike copied my actions to the other guy on David. Unfortunately, the two of us were too late and both Elijah and David had suffered bites to the neck and had died.

I looked down at the man pinned under my foot. He was thrashing heavily with his arms and legs, trying to get out of the pin. His mouth was not only bleeding from his mouth from the obvious attack on my friends but seemed to ooze new blood from their body.

"Zombies?" Ike said.

"Attacked us and bit David and Elijah. Probably" I said.

"Then where should we head to?" Austin asked.

Everyone looked at me. "My place it is. First, we gotta go to to the PE room. Baseball bats are good weapons" I said.

"Why are we heading to Tran's?" Austin asked.

"I collect weapons for fun" I replied.

We made our way to the P.E. room without trouble from zombies. When we were twenty yards from the P. E. room we saw around twenty or so zombies. Since we had no weapons and only our hands, we dashed behind a wall to formulate a plan. "We need somebody to distract those zombies so we can get bats. While somebody distracts the zombies we'll get baseball bats."

"I'll do it. You guys will have to survive without me" Austin said. We all gave him a look before he ran in the opposite direction of us while taunting the zombies.

In the PE room, we borrowed (stolen as Andy would say while fake coughing) baseball bats for the each of us and I had noticed Andy leave a paper I.O.U.(to which I smacked him upside the head for)

It took us a while but we eventually made our way to my home. The bats did indeed make good weapons and we encountered very little trouble. At the most, we had a few zombies to deal with.

The first thing I noticed when I was home was my dad's car which was covered in blood. I proceeded to open the front door with my house keys. As fast as I could, I swung the door open and immediately saw my dad eating my mom who was on the ground not moving. I brought my baseball bat down on my dad's skull and then bashed my mom's head in.

"Tran I'm sorry you had to-" Ike began until he was interrupted by me.

"It's fine. Board up the windows. I'll go gather my weapons" I said. I went into the garage and took out some planks, nails, and hammers. "Here."

As they started to reinforce the home, I started collecting my weapons from the various places in my home.

-X-X-X-

From there, we waited a week for the chaos of the zombie apocalypse to pass before heading outside because we knew there would be people raiding, riots, random killing, and zombies, lots and lots of zombies. After the chaos we just survived for the next year we just went outside for supply runs, zombie killing missions, or going off to kill thieves. Austin also never made it back. In that one year, we were able to make new weapons out of scrapped objects and found new ones. All was well until one strange day.

“We are running out of ammo again guys" Ike stated.

"Damn, get the city map so I can check for stores" I said while being handed a map. I checked the map for any good supply source. "Okay we've hit every possible minor area that has ammunition, so maybe we should head for a major location."

"How about here?” Andy said while pointing to Sun Splash.

"That's a Sun splash."

"I know. OW!!” Andy replied while getting slapped on the back of the head for probably the billionth time.

"It's the zombie apocalypse and probably the end of the world and you’re acting like an idjit. "

"You act similarly" Andy said.

"Point taken."

"Hey, why don't we hit Luke Air Force base", Nick said.

I checked the map. "Yeah that could work. It's a little far thought. Alright get your gear and weapons, we're going to Luke Air Force Base", I said while grabbing my Vietnam war-era jungle camouflaged army BDU with Tran, US ARMY, and the big red one on it. It belonged to a family member who was a member of the 1st infantry division.

Character Bios

Nick A.K.A. Dimitri Domovoi

Age: 19

Height: 5 ft. 7 in

Weight: 275 lb.

Weapons: a sledgehammer, chainsaw, standard survival knife, brass knuckles, and a .500 Smith & Wesson

Signature Things: a hooded sweater jacket and brass knuckles

Gear: football gear, clothes covered in duct tape, a lighter, and a satchel backpack hybrid

Possessions: an iPod touch with a solar charger and glasses

Skills: boxing, low cqc skills, and low shooting skills

Mane 6 Character Whose Personality Matches: Fluttershy

Description: Nick is the tank of the group. If you were to ever get in a fist fight with him, he'd lift you up and throw you with one arm. Nick is just strength. There are occasions where he will black out and will stop only when he is finished killing, knocked unconscious, or killed. During the zombie apocalypse, he was given a pair of steel brass knuckles from me and Tran taught him how to speak Vietnamese. Nick is a brony

Weaknesses: Nick relies too much on his strength, has bum knees, and suffers from mental breakdowns from having to survive the zombie apocalypse for a long period of time. Nick also has a relatively simple fighting style because of his reliance on strength. Outside the zombie apocalypse, Nick is relatively shy, just to new people, and nice even though he's the hulk of the group, making him most like Fluttershy.

Ike A.K.A. The Greaser

Age: 17

Height: 5 ft. 10 in

Weight: 180 lb.

Weapons: a baseball bat, stiletto knife, straight razor, machete, a zippo, butterfly knife, and a double-barrel shotgun

Signature Things: a 50's era styled leather jacket and jeans

Gear: tools (universal crescent and socket wrench kits, pliers, screwdrivers, hacksaw, normal saw, and a hammer), clothes covered in duct tape, 10 yards of rope, 7 rolls of duct tape, a heavy chain, and a back pack

Possessions: a stiletto comb and a guitar

Skills: boxing, normal cqc skills, normal shooting skills, and high knife fighting skills

Mane 6 Character Whose Personality Matches: Rarity

Description: Ike is a guy that enjoys the classics. If you fought him it would be similar to fighting with a boxer. Tran taught him how to fight with a knife before the zombie apocalypse. During the zombie apocalypse, Tran taught Ike to speak Vietnamese. Looks notoriously like a greaser (a 50's gangster) but he acts with class, making him most like Rarity. Ike also notoriously likes knives and to cut people. That and playing the guitar. Never touch his guitar ever. Ever! Ike is a brony.

Weaknesses: Ike only knows how to fist fight, making his close quarter combat limited.

Andy A.K.A. The Troll

Age: 15

Height: 5 ft. 7 in

Weight: 135 lb.

Weapons: ek commando dagger, a gasoline-powered weed whacker with the plastic wires replaced with 4 knives, riot shield, bamboo bo staff, and a 995 TSFG (a 9mm carbine)

Signature Things: a t shirt with a troll face, extreme sarcasm, extreme randomness, extreme seriousness, and screwing around

Gear: binoculars, riot armor, a backpack, clothes covered in duct tape, air horn, and a megaphone (CAUTION: DON'T MIX THOSE TWO ITEMS TOGETHER!!!)

Possessions: glasses, electronic watch, and a pocket watch

Skills: lower than average shooting ability, high staff fighting ability, strictly short ranged combat, decent knife fighting skills, and terrible at close quarters combat

Mane 6 Character Whose Personality Matches: Pinkie Pie (The world is going to end [again] when he meets her)

Description: Andy is the scout of the group. He is also the really annoying troll of the group as he tends not to take things seriously. Andy also happens to be Tran's brother. Before the zombie apocalypse, Tran taught him how to fight with a bo staff. Andy is relatively lazy and annoying. When it comes to close quarters combat, Andy will be defeated unless he has a staff, gun, or knife. Andy suffers from PTSD from surviving the zombie apocalypse. His PTSD is usually unnoticeable due to his randomness and weirdness making him most like Pinkie Pie (but seriously the world is going to end when they meet). Andy tends to care about things that he likes and is relatively lazy. Andy does not care or notice other things and tends to have low common sense but is still very smart. Other than that, Andy speaks Vietnamese. Andy is not a brony.

Weaknesses: Andy has a limited combat ability when it comes to fist fighting. Andy is also very scrawny but not nearly as close as his brother. Andy has a short to medium shooting range.

Tran A.K.A. The Crazy Asian

Age: 16

Height: 5 ft. 11in

Weight: 120 lb.

Weapons: a heavy kukri designed for chopping trees (not branches but actual logs), a cowboy style bowie knife, an actual samurai sword (from the 1400's), 80 pound recurve bow, 3 tactical throwing knives, lanyard (yes a lanyard, the kind you hang around your neck with keys on it) with 40 attached keys (yes 40), a crudepivoting hidden blade, a hidden blade that shoots out also crude, 2 boot knives push dagger variants, 2 hidden daggers, 2 switchblades and a .22 Walther PPK

Signature Things: a Vietnam War era jungle camouflaged BDU, chewing gum, a polo, jungle camouflaged pants, a fleece jacket, a sweeter, and steel toed combat boots

Gear: a chain maille shirt, gas mask, a tactical plate carrier with protective steel plates, clothes covered in duct tape, 4 pipe bombs, 7 soda cans filled with thermite, 2 padlocks, 2 pairs of needle nosed pliers, bandages, a lighter, salt packets, 3 rolls of duct tape, and a garrotte

Possessions: iPod touch with solar charger, a Rubik’s cube, watch, glasses, pencil, and a pen

Skills: martial arts, knife throwing abilities, advanced knife fighting, archery, really extreme shooting ability, lock picking, and parkour

Mane 6 Character Whose Personality Matches: All of the main six

Description: The typical Asian. Lives up to the stereotype of one. Very smart, enjoys parkour and martial arts, has a photographic memory, and enjoys the Rubik's cube. One rather ironic trait of Tran is that he's six feet tall unlike most Asians. Before the apocalypse he was always working and reading. When fighting me, you might as well give up so you don't die due to me knowing martial arts. In a fight, Tran will fight you with any weapon available ranging from tonfas to hook swords to lanyards and shirts. Will ignore pain and emotion as Tran is both a masochist and mentally ill, even before the zombie apocalypse. Most of the time Tran is calm, but when he's not, he acts rather odd as he has ADHD. He has three black belts but it is it the most dangerous trait of Tran. His most dangerous trait is his intelligence. A photographic memory and boredom caused this intelligence. Not only that but Tran is a gun nut. Tran is a brony.

Weaknesses: Tran scrawny and weak. Also mentally ill.

"God damn. I hate using this" Ike said, loading his double barrel.

"Well the other pump actions are broken so you're stuck with that" I said. How did the other pump actions break? It's a long story.

"Where'd you get this by the way?" Nick asked while holding up the .500 S&W revolver. He popped open the cylinder and loaded in five rounds

"Found it on a roof. It was just abandoned there with a few boxes of ammo" Andy said.

"That's weird but I like it" Nick said. Once loaded, he stuck the revolver in his belt.

We then began the long journey to Luke Air Force base. When we were in seeing range of the base, we noticed the gates were missing and there were three cars parked in front of the base. A loud engine noise was coming from the inside of the base. When we were close enough, I noticed that they were attempting to cut into a building with what looked like a power saw. "I'll take point" I said while stepping out of the car and putting on my boonie. Inside of the base, there were twelve people." When you hear a gunshot, shoot them all" I said while pulling out my garrote. We weren't thieves or raiders, we've seen these people before killing other survivors for their supplies.

I snuck behind a guard that was armed with only a pistol and wrapped the previously aforementioned garrote around his throat. After the garrote was correctly around his neck, I pulled out my Bowie knife and stabbed him in the throat. Taking his pistol (an 1911a1) in my right hand, I pulled out my PPK and prepared to dual wield. If I wasn't ambidextrous, I would be wasting so much ammo.

Sneaking behind another guard, I shot him the back of the head with the PPK in my left hand. With the 1911a1 in my right hand, I shot a guard twice in the chest. Andy shot a guy four times, twice in the chest, once in the arm, and the last in the head. He wasted the rest of his mag missing and shooting myself once (thank god for my armor) while Ike had shot two guards in their midsections with his shotgun. Nick, with his .500 S&W, shot three people, only missing once. I used up the rest of my ammo left in my pistols at the two of the last people. I saw one man who was shot by Nick pull out a sidearm. Reacting, I implanted one of my three throwing knives into his left eye. "Andy grab me my knife will you?"

"Sure" he said while grabbing the knife and wiping the blade on the shirt of one of the dead bodies.

"Andy, you also shot me once in the back!” I yelled while slapping him on the back of the head for yet another reason while receiving yet another OW from him. Again, thank god for body armor!

As I moved to what they were working on, I noticed something that one of them had. Picking it up, I looked at it in the sun. "Oh my god, a Desert Eagle!" It was indeed the famous pistol and yes, it was the .50 AE version. In addition to the pistol, I looted around fourteen magazines from the body. Then I checked the body of the first man that died, adding several 1911 magazines to my possession. I love the 1911. Plain and simple. It's a little outdated but it's kinda like owning a muscle car.

"Hey! Look what I found!" Nick said while picking up a Taurus Judge.

"Dear god! A .410 shotgun revolver" I said.

"And look at this" Ike said while holding up a Colt Python and a S&W M29.

"Can I-"

"No" Ike said, cutting me off.

"But I wants" I said.

"No" Ike repeated. "These are staying with me.

I looked at what they looked at what they were cutting through. "HA! Those idiots thought they could saw through the door to a military armory with a concrete cutter. Luckily for us, I brought some thermite" I said while placing two cans of the aforementioned low explosive. Quick explanation for those that don't know, thermite is low explosive(which means it doesn't go boom) that burns at several thousand degrees(dependent on the type and grade of thermite), capable of melting through nearly anything.

"Everyone step back" I said before lighting the fuse to the thermite. After the two cans lit, the door's locks melted away in a matter of seconds. After the door fell forward with a loud thud, we stepped in and saw the mother load of weapons. All of us dropped our jaws to the ground staring at rows and rows and rows and guess what more, rows of guns, ammo, and explosives. "It's a dream come true. Well don't get any guns yet. Let’s check the base's mechanic's zone for a vehicle."

The door to the mechanic's zone was the same as the armory and was ended the same way as the armory. Inside, we saw tanks, APCs, LAVs, hummers, deuces, and more. Unfortunately, most of the vehicles were missing either engine parts, tires, or sections. The good vehicles were gone. The military must have been deployed as many of their vehicles as fast as possible to contain the earlier events of the infection. The only vehicle left functioning was an M54 that was equipped with a troop transport bed instead of its usual cargo bed.

"This is the only vehicle in this place that can move. Guys load this up with anything usable." After scavenging from the garage, Nick pulled the truck up to the armory.

While at the armory, I said "Load up all the ammo, tactical gear, food, explosives, gasoline, diesel, medical supplies, and armor that you can find while I pick your weapons. Then choose your weapon. Don't take too much, we still have to be able to drive." After everything was loaded up to the truck I took out 150 pounds of RDX, a blasting cap, and an electronic timed detonator.

"Tran, you Crazy Asian, what are you going to do?” Ike asked.

"Well I am blowing up the armory so no one else has access to them. We've seen how bad the raiders/thieves can get and we don't need them with anymore weapons. Timer's going for twenty-five minutes and it's going into the armory with the rest of the ordnance, so we need to get out of here before it blows" I replied while preparing a bomb.

After we left Luke Air Force Base and drove twenty-five minutes away, we heard a loud boom in the distance and felt a shock wave. Nick and Ike were sitting in the front while my brother and I was in the back. The trip from the base and where we lived would take four hours to travel back and forth, but our trip was going to take longer due to some complications.

"Scheisse (shit [German]). We have three cars tailing us. They must have seen the explosion" I said before some of the people in the cars started shooting at us."Ohooiet!!!!! (holy fuck [Russian])" I yelled before getting hit once in the vest and another grazing my unprotected leg. "Verdamin (damn it [German]. Andy hit the deck. I'll get rid of them" I said while pulling out an M4a1 fitted with an M203 along with a box of 40mm grenades and four extra beta mags. Then I quickly wrapped my grazed leg in bandages.

Back before the zombie apocalypse, I was getting ready to join the military. I started at a young age and gained many skills and also read up on a lot of things about the military along with other things. When you are shooting at cars, you have to shoot at the engine and this should preferably done with a good dose of ammo. The bullets will kill the engine of the car and eventually the car will slow to a halt.

I quickly disabled two of the cars by dumping 10 rounds into one engines and another with a grenade. I had started reloading a new grenade into the M203 when a golden flash blinded me. Thinking I was simply blinded by some outside source, I randomly fired the grenade hoping to hit the last car. I felt the truck crashing. I slowly regained my eyesight.

While rubbing my eyes I noticed we had crashed inside of a building and I shot a group of zombies with a grenade, blowing them all up. "Que demonios? (what the hell [Spanish])" I said while looking at the zombies I shot. "Guys was I the only one to get blinded by a bright golden light?"

"No" they all said in unison. We had all jumped out of the Deuce and notice large doors.

"Ike lock up that door with a chain" I said while tossing him a lock. After locking the door, we went to the group of zombies we blew up, or so we thought. Upon closer inspection of the corpses, I found green blood and pony-shaped bug carapaces. The only corpse that wasn't blown up resembled a small, cartoonish mix of a pony and a bug. Wait a minute, I recognized it.

"What the hell is that?” Ike asked.

"Nick is that what I think it is?"

"Yes" he replied.

"Well guys, if this is what I think it is, then we are probably in Equestria."

"Wait Equestria. As in MLP Equestria?" Ike asked.

"Yes I think-" I began until we heard loud clanging from the door.

"Who issss in the armory. This is the changeling captain and this isssssss an invassssssion. You Canterlot guardsss are doomed. SSSSurrender and get out of your armory and we will enssssssure your quick death.” a hissing voice said.

"FUCK YOU!!” Ike said. "And what is with the god damn hissing?!"

"Then you will die!"

"Enter a different fucking dimension that is supposed to be filled with love and tolerance and we have to kill something already" Ike said.

"Why should we help them?” Andy asked.

"Well, we must help the good and if we don't, those changelings will just kill us." We had begun to arm ourselves, throwing off our old armor, and putting on a set of IOTV armor. I took off my current plate carrier, taking off pieces and parts of it. I replaced the ceramic plates of my current vest with the steel plates from my old vest. Although steel plates were significantly heavier, they were capable of stopping more bullets and would not shatter unlike ceramic plates. Then I treated my leg.

Our Weapons

Tran

Primary: M4a1 with an M203, hi capacity beta magazines, and a suppressor and an Barrett M82a3/M107(not currently used and stored in the truck)

Secondary Primary: AA12 with 32 round drum magazines and 870 tactical shotgun

Secondary: a Walther PPK, Springfield 1911a1, Glock 18, and a Desert Eagle 50 AE

Backups: all previously mentioned melee weapons

Gear:  an IOTV vest with steel plates, a chain maille shirt, a gas mask, 3 M67 frag grenades, 4 flashbangs, 3 concussion grenades, 8 pounds of C4, 3 blasting caps, 3 detonators, 10 yards of det cord, 12 paperclips, and a field medic's kit

Nick

Primary: M60 (MK43) with a grip

Secondary Primary: RPG7

Secondary: 500 S&W and .410 shotgun pistols

Backups: all previously mentioned melee weapons

Gear: an IOTV vest with ceramic plates

Andy

Primary: Vector SMG with dual mags and a red dot/acog hybrid scope

Secondary Primary: M1216 shotgun

Secondary: 3 M9s

Backups: all previously mentioned melee weapons

Gear: an IOTV vest with ceramic plates

Ammo Count: 7 Vector mags, 4 shotgun mags and 2 mags an M9

Ike

Primary: AK47

Secondary Primary: double barrel shotgun(he forgot to grab a shotgun)

Secondary: M29, a Colt Python, and a HK USP with a suppressor

Backups: all previously mentioned melee weapons

Gear: an IOTV vest with ceramic plates and several grenades

We preceded to the armory doors that were still emitting sounds of thudding. My guess was that they were trying to break in. Probably with a battering ram. "Okay, everyone step away from the door" I said.

"What are you going to do?" Ike asked.

"Dusting it with fairy dust" I replied while pulling out explosives.

"Oh shit!" Ike said. All three of them ran away from the door, ducking for cover behind the truck.

I laughed at their common sense. "Nick, come back here. I'm going to need some help."

"What? Why me?!" Nick asked.

"I need a lift." A few minutes later, several charges of explosives were set up on the door in a spiderweb design. We all ducked behind the truck. "Blasting!" I yelled out. I slammed the detonator on my head. The doors exploded outward. Apparently, there were a lot of them trying to break in here as enough blood had pooled out under the remains of the door to create a large puddle.

And this was where we left off at from the beginning of the chapter. We had grabbed plenty of ammunition for each of our weapons as we knew that we would be using them up pretty quickly as our intended targets were relatively easy to hit. We also didn't have to worry much about them being able to kill, much less injure us. Their weapons were mostly melee and they weren't able to get within swinging range.

Everywhere we went there was a trail of changeling bodies and eventually I was down to my 870, Nick was down to his hand cannons, Andy was down to his M9s, and Ike was down to his double barrel shotgun.

The four of us were in front of two doors. I recognized the door from the old TV show. It was the door to Celestia's throne room. I took out whatever C4 I had left, a detonator, and some det cord. With duct tape, I applied the mentioned materials to the door. “Everyone stand back" I said while handing Ike the detonator and prepping a flashbang.

The second the door blew open, I threw in a flashbang. After going inside, we saw the Mane Six, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Princess Cadence, six guards, and Shining Armor. "Guys guard the door" I said. I looked to where the Mane Six was lying and noticed one familiar pegasus lying on the ground. It was Fluttershy. She had an arrow embedded in her side and was bleeding profusely. That's not good.

Immediately the guards went up to us with spears. Pulling out my kukri and Bowie, I chopped the spearheads off of all their weapons. Then Shining Armor came up with a sword in a magical aura and swung at me. I blocked with my bowie knife, turned the sword sideways, and brought the kukri down on it, snapping the blade. With a last ditch attempt, Luna put up a shield around them. Seeing the shield, I pulled out my Desert Eagle and put one round in the shield experimentally. When the bullet made contact with the shield, it cracked just a tad bit. Pulling out my M4a1, I took my last 40mm grenade and reloaded it. Shooting the M203, the shield completely shattered and went down.

"Thou will not capture us alive" Luna said.

"Can it, we are on your guy's side and we are helping you" Ike said.

"Sister just do as they say. We are in no position to demand anything and they are not attacking. Either they are of good nature and helping our nation or greedy scavengers. Either way, they don't seem to be hostile towards us" Princess Celestia said trying to calm her sister down.

"Now that you guys are calm I can treat the person with the arrow in her side" I said while taking out some medical gear, 4 shotgun shells, pliers, and a lighter. I took out gauze, medical alcohol, a suturing needle, and suturing twine. "Andy come over here and help me. When I signal, pull out the arrow." I took out a small syrette of morphine and injected it into her side. I signaled Andy. After Andy pulled out the arrow I poured alcohol on the wound making her wince slightly. The morphine must have not have been enough. I began suturing the wound. With, the pliers I took apart the shotgun shells, pouring the gunpowder on the wound. With the lighter, I lit the powder, effectively cauterizing the wound. Finally I wrapped the wound with gauze. I took out another syrette and injected it into her side.

Suddenly I had an idea. Fluttershy was Nick's favorite pony and he would often go into fits of rage where he's short of the Hulk. "Nick come over here." The minute he laid his eyes on Fluttershy, the member of the mane six he most favorited, he had a look on his face, the look that he would make before he would get angry and black out.

Nick finished looking at Fluttershy, he dropped his guns and pulled out his brass knuckles. He growled a little before he started walked away. "Ike step away from the door!" Ike turned around Nick to see him in his rage and quickly jumped out of the way.

Nick walked out of the room and started attacking some changelings. I took one look at Nick attacking the changelings. Hmm. I should get him to be in this rage mode more often. Nick was punching changelings. I noticed that when he punched a changeling, his fist would go right through the changeling. When he punched a changeling’s head, whatever changeling's head seemed to explode. I knew nothing was going to stop him besides anything short of a god.

As Nick seemed to easily slaughter the last of the changelings, we joined in. I started using my samurai sword in conjunction with my various pistols as I had ran out of ammunition for my 870. Andy picked up a nearby spear that had its spearhead missing and was using it as a staff to beat changelings. Ike had also joined in, using his handguns. After killing the rest of the changelings, we were all knocked unconscious all at the same time by a blue light. Presumably, this was done by Luna because that is the color of her magical aura.

-X-X-X-

When I woke up, I found myself in a cell. I noticed that I had been stripped of my weapons and gear. I looked over to my friends and noticed that they were missing their weapons and gear too. I tried to move, until I was restrained by my ankle to a wall. I pulled out a paperclip from my pocket and unlocked the keys that were around my ankles. Then I did the same thing to my friends. After unlocking us all I kicked them all awake.

"Aw what the hell!??!" Ike said.

"Hi Tran. What happened?" I guess he wasn't mad. "I feel like shit. The last thing I remember was seeing Fluttershy" Nick said.

"Well you blacked out and began punching changelings to death. By the way we are all trapped in their dungeon. They took all our weapons and gear” I said before unlocking the dungeon door with the paperclip . Wait a minute, I felt several familiar weight. I still had some of my hidden weapons!!! "I still have my PPK, my Glock 18, my hidden blades, my lanyard, two switch blades, and my boot knives." I handed Ike my PPK, Nick my Glock, and Andy a boot knife and switchblade. I was going to use the rest.

"How the hell did they not take these?!" Ike said.

"Magic?" I said.

I proceeded to the cell door and started picking the cell door. Normally, it would be impossible to pick a lock without looking at it but luckily, all locks in Equestria were simple, as most were from the "olden" times.

We made our way to the throne room looking for the princesses. At the entrance to the throne room (still missing its doors from the breach), we saw the Celestia, Cadence, and Shining Armor. Running inside we brandished our weapons and I ran up to the Celestia holding a switchblade to her throat while Andy did the same with Cadence.

"They're attacking the princess!!!" Shining Armor yelled out.

"We want our stuff back because you took it after we helped you with those changelings and it is not attacking... I am threatening her."

"GUARDS!" Cadence yelled. Hearing the call for help, eighteen guards came in.

"After we helped you with the changelings, this is how you repay us? We just want our stuff back and we'll just be on our way."

"You will not get away with this mon-" Shining Armor began.

"Enough!!!!" Princess Celestia yelled. "Did you not notice that they were helping us with the changelings?"

"But Princess, look at what they are doing. Threatening you and demanding irrational items."

"Yes, but Luna did use a knock out spell on them, and we did lock them up for helping us. If you were hit with a knockout spell and then put in a dungeon, wouldn't you do the same?"

Shining Armor sighed. "Guards back down” Shining Armor said while motioning the guards to lower their weapons while we lowered ours.

As the guards lowered their weapons, I noticed a few things about some of them. "There are changelings here."

"What do you mean?" Celestia said.

"Well, I saw some guards act slower than your real guards, they looked to their left and right to make sure they did something right. That means the guards that looked around for guidance aren't really guards, but are fake because your guards that are already trained, would instantly know what to do. Nick, Andy, and Ike give me my weapons back", I said while being handed my weapons. With my PPK I shot three guards in the head. The three guards that I shot lost their disguises and reverted back to changelings.

"By the way your guards and military are absolutely terrible. We managed to stop those changelings with the four of us while you guys failed with probably thousands. By the way if you imprison someone you take away all their weapons. You left me with several of my weapons", I gloated

"You guys had superior weapons!" Shining Armory exclaimed.

"Pick five of your best fighters and I will be able to beat them in a fair fight, weapons or not. If they are using any sort of weapon I am using my hidden blades."

"Hidden blades?” Celestia asked. I then proceeded to put the hidden blades in their extended position. "Where did you get those?"

"I made and designed them myself." They were simple mechanisms that had to be reset by hand unfortunately.

"Are you willing to show us your weapon designs?"

"Possibly. Now did you choose your five best?” I said while handing Andy my weapons except for the hidden blades. In front of me were five unicorn guards similar to Shining armor armed with simple broad swords. "Simple sword designs?

"No attacking this area" I said while gesturing towards the mentioned area. "Its my groin."

One guard lunged his sword at me with his magic. Side stepping, I dodge the blade and brought my elbow down on the back of the unicorn's head, knocking him unconscious. Using a hidden blade, I blocked an incoming slash, tapped the attacker's horn, and then punched him in the nose twice, causing him to get unconscious. The third guard slashed at my vertically, slicing a small amount of hair off the back of my head while I bent forward to dodge. Standing back up, I swept the third guard's leg and stomped on two of his legs. Going on the offensive side, I ran and drop kicked the fourth guard in the face. I bashed him on the head with the broad side of the sword. The last guard tried to buck me in the balls. Grabbing both his hooves, I slammed him into a wall. Then I slammed him into three more walls.

"You just took out five of our best stallions!!” exclaimed Shining Armor.

"Well, let’s get our weapons back" I said completely unfazed by the battle.

"How can you be so casual with such violence?" Cadence asked.

"With what I do every day, I have to deal with this. We have to deal with this. You should be able to deal with this. We just come from an even worse situation. My friends have mental illness from all of it. I had mental illness even before it happened."

"What happened to where you lived?"

"I'll tell you later. Maybe when we get our schtuff back. Where?"

"We put them in my sister's room so she could study them" replied Celestia.

"Ok lead the way." After going through four tunnels, we approached a flight of stairs.

"We need to go to the bottom of these stairs to get to the hallway that leads to Luna's room" said Celestia.

Just as I took the first step Andy tossed something at me. "I forgot to give these back!” I turned around to see that he tossed me the weapons I lent him causing me to fall down four flights of stairs.

"You may be my brother but I will kill you one day!!” I said before being rehanded my weapons at the bottom of the stairs. "Great you got the graze wound on my leg to start bleeding again." We continued walking until we hit a door with Luna's cutie mark. When I opened the door, I saw the stupidest thing that will or could ever happen. Princess Luna, a wise god-like being, was staring down the barrel of a possibly loaded .500 S&W. Running forward, I flicked Luna's horn, making her magical aura on the hand cannon disappear and making it drop on the ground.

"How dare thee commit an act of sexual assault against royalty!!” Luna said in the royal Canterlot voice.

"You were staring down the barrel of a deadly weapon capable of killing bears!! Now give us our possessions back" I replied." Also, I didn't know unicorn's horns were like that."

"This defeat a bear? Thou art lying and thou can't have them back. This, at best, is a mere club!"

"Sister I have agreed to give them back due to a deal and in thanks for getting rid of the changelings. Could you demonstrate what these does?” Celestia said.

"Sure" I said while we geared back up with the load out of the previously mentioned weapons, except without the ammo, grenades, tactical grenades, and explosives." How much ammo do you guys have?"

"18 for the .44 and twelve for the Python" Ike said.

"A good amount for the hand cannons" Nick said.

"3 total mags" Andy said.

"Hey Nick, put one in the wall with the .500." With a loud bang there was a new hole in the wall in Luna's room. Everyone that was a pony winced from the loud bang while Luna was in awe. "Told you so. Now can you teleport us to the door in front of the armory?" After being teleported, I climbed up onto the Deuce.

"What is that?” Celestia asked.

"Princess Celestia, Luna, and Cadence, Shining armor, and other guards I introduce you to our vehicle. It's essentially a small train."

"What are you doing?" Nick asked.

"Checking what we have" I replied while rifling through the items in the truck. Not only did we have ammo and explosives but we had a large amount of tools, gasoline, medical supplies, and various other things.

"Princess Celestia when is breakfast? I am a bit hungry” I asked.

"It is about time in fifteen minutes" she replied. We had then started walking to the dining hall while Ike drove the deuce in a good parking space. In the dining hall there were the princesses, the four of us, Shining Armor, several other ponies that were nobles, and unfortunately Prince Blueblood.

"Auntie why do we have such creatures dining with us" Blueblood asked. "We sometimes allow commoners to dine with us but this is just ridiculous."

"They are eating with us because I invite them to, so just let them be Blueblood' she replied. "And you are not to refer to them as creatures, they are guests."

"Auntie, why would you invite commoners to eat with royalty? They could be changelings from that attack we had yesterday. Have you not seen their appearance? We also need to get better guards, the ones we already have deserved to be sent to the dungeon due to the fact they put royalty in danger."

"Oh hey, a penny!” Andy said while picking up a bit. "What kinda coin is this?"

"That is a copper bit you fool. It's the money we use. Gold ones are worth 100, silver ones 10, and copper worth 1. That being copper probably made your wealth increase tenfold."

"Well these commoners are the only reason the changeling invasion was stopped" I began, "so if you do not want me to tear out your throat and eat it in front of you. Then shut the fuck up."

"How dare you threaten royalty? You shall ACK-", Blueblood began until I grabbed his throat and took my bowie knife out.

I pointed the knife to his throat. I heard dripping and saw that he pissed himself. I released Blueblood and punched him in the side of the head while putting my knife away. We heard nothing from him for the rest of the wait. When we got our meals, it was a salad with hay, lettuce, tomatoes, and daisies. “Sorry to intrude, but my friends and I can't eat this."

"Why not?” Cadence asked.

"Well you guys are herbivores right?"

"Yes."

"Well my species are omnivores and can't digest some plants such as hay, grass, and flowers."

"I see” Celestia said. "It is not common that we get omnivores or carnivores."

"Yes, but don't worry we won't eat any ponies. Although ponies do taste very good."

"What?!” everypony said in unison.

"Kidding. We'll just eat some MRE's from the truck."

"MRE?"

"MRE stands for meal-ready-eat; they are really high calorie foods that will last for a fifteen to twenty years in the best conditions. Our government gives it to our troops. It is supposedly the worst tasting food in the world but I like the taste."

"By the way, do you guys know how we got here?” Ike asked.

"We don't know" replied Luna.

"Same here" Cadence replied.

"I do not know" said Celestia. Wait a minute. The way she said that...

"Celestia, you are lying, I can tell" I said.

"How dare thee accuse our sister of lying!" said Luna.

"Celestia you tensed up when Ike asked that question and when you said that you didn't know, you swallowed, meaning you are lying. Now how come you teleported us here" I said.

"Now why do you believe that I I teleported you four here? The amount of magic required to do that is tremendous."

"Well right before we were teleported, there was a bright blinding light that was golden. I'm guessing that was your magical aura because you are levitating a tea cup right now with a gold aura. Your body and your magical aura betrayed you."

"Smart. You've caught me. I performed a summoning spell searching for the most capable warriors, but for some reason the spell took you four from your home. I apologize taking you guys from your home."

"Celestia, you did us a favor. Instead of summoning something from nearby, you summoned us from possibly another dimension. We do not plan on going back to that hellhole."

"What happened to your world?"

"A rather long story. We'll explain later. Can I get something to drink?” I said before being served a glass of a dark red liquid. "What is this?" Guessing it's wine.

"That is wine."

I quickly drained the glass of its content. "Ugh! Taste like incredibly sugary grape juice. Needs more sake. Even at my age, this is basically fruit punch."

"Wait, this wine is rather strong in alcohol content and what do you mean too young?” asked Celestia.

"In our world we did not meet the age requirements to be able to drink, but with everyone dead, no law, and government we were able to do anything we wanted, same with other people and if that is strong for your alcohol, then you ponies are really, really, really, really, really light weight drinkers."

"What was the age requirement to be able to drink from where you're from?"

"21."

"It is 18 in Equestria. If you were too young to drink there, how old are you?"

"16" I replied.

"17" Ike replied.

"19" Nick replied.

"15" Andy replied.

"Wait so let me get this straight, four minors managed to take down a changeling invasion, while our entire army and royal guard didn't" said Celestia. "This is an embarrassment to our nation."

"Wait we aren't minors" said Nick.

"In Equestrian society minors are everypony that is 24 and younger" said Cadence. "Though the age of consent is 16 and the required age to own weapons is at age 14."

"I have one question. Tran if you are only 16 why do you act as if you are as old as a middle aged stallion and how do you know so much and fight so well? You should be in school" Celestia asked.

"Mental illness, a photographic memory, and my home world" I said.

"Yes. Here is a map of the castle and a pass. We also need you four to meet the element of harmony bearers."

"What are the elements of harmony bearers?” Ike asked. Celestia had begun to explain what they are as I left to the library. Inside of the library I got a book about the history of Equestria. I began speed-reading the book while listening to this tune quietly.

Weirdly I like listening to rock, metal, and or heavy metal quietly while doing something calming and listened to classical music blaring louder than a cannon going off while doing something dangerous or demented.

As I was listening, some random guard had decided it was a good idea to pull out my headphones. Looking at the guard, I said, “Who touched my music? Nobody touches my music."

"Well what happens if I did? he replied while brandishing a spear. I then pulled out my kukri and chopped off the head.

"That." The guard started trembling a little bit. These Royal Guards are horrible!

"Don't hurt me. I just have to tell you the princesses need you back."

"Ok, let me finish reading." I finished my book and placed it back where I got it.

After I finished reading, I realized everything was the same as it was on the TV show except for the history previous to Nightmare Moon. Previous to Nightmare Moon, there were several wars. Between Nightmare Moon and the reappearance of Luna, there was a time of peace. After the reappearance of Luna, everything was the same as it was on the TV show. The land of Equestria also lost the knowledge on how to make steel after Nightmare Moon.

I then walked back to the princesses, Shining Armor, and my friends. "You guys done talking?"

"Yeah" replied Ike.

"Well, you said we were going to meet the elements of harmony bearers? When is that?"

"Yes, we need you to meet them. Also, we need you to live in Ponyville because you can't live in Canterlot with your weapons and green wagon. To answer your question, we are meeting them today. When we get to Ponyville, can you answer some questions?” replied Celestia.

"We can answer some questions, as long as they are not too personal. Anything else, we can answer. Can we go to Ponyville first and you guys arrive four hours later?"

"Yes we can."

"We can finally have thy questions answered by thee" Luna said.

"And you can answer ours. Also is there a way to enchant our miniature train so that it never has to be fueled or refueled."

"I can enchant it so that it runs on magic. It would constantly recharge, making it never have to be fueled."

"Can you do that to our deuce?"

"I most certainly can" Celestia said before her horn and then the deuce were covered in a golden glow. A few seconds later we received a," It’s done." I then checked the engine and noticed the engine was glowing bright yellow and every part was basically brand new, even the tires. I checked the gas and saw that it was full. "The enchantment should last about eight months before it fades away."

We had begun to drive to Ponyville in our five ton deuce. When we were within seeing distance of the small town, we stopped the deuce. While exiting the deuce, I noticed my friends leave all their weapons except for their sidearm. "Guys why are you leaving your weapons?"

"We might be giving an imposing figure if we're carrying large metal stick, club things" Andy said.

"Then here" I said while handing them M26 tasers. "Tasers."

As we walked into town, everypony ran away and had the same reaction as meeting Zecora for the first time. "Talk about love and tolerance" Ike said.

"More like run the hell away when there's scary stuff" Nick said.

We had continued to walk until we approached a giant tree. Knocking on the door, we had no response. After knocking we looked through the windows. We saw nothing except Spike trying to hide. “There is nobody in the library. Let’s just wait here until Celestia comes."

Out of nowhere, Nick was bucked in the balls making him fall on the ground and ball in pain while Ike was hit by a purple light and Andy was shot by confetti in the face. I found myself tied up by a lasso and pulled to the ground.

"You have five seconds to release me before I retaliate."

"Hah! There is no way you take all six of us" said Rainbow Dash. Ah Rainbow Dash, you are so cocky.

"Five."

"You ruffians won't hurt anypony like you did with those guards in Canterlot" said Rarity.

"They didn't hurt those guards" said Fluttershy. Of course, she was too quiet and or she was being ignored by the others.

"Four."

"Do you like parties?” asked Pinkie Pie.

"Three."

"Good luck getting outta mah lasso" said Applejack.

"Two."

"You won't hurt us with your weapons like you did with Fluttershy" said Twilight Sparkle.

"He wasn't hurting me, he was helping me," said Fluttershy. She was still too quiet.

"One."

"Twilight, darling, can you knock him out like the one with the black coat? asked Rarity.

"Zero" I said while pulling out my bowie and cutting Applejack's lasso. I hogtied her with her own lasso. Twilight then charged up a spell and shot it at me. I ducked down. Before she could use another spell, I got up and tapped her horn hard, dazing her and knocking her to the ground. Rainbow Dash shot forward at me, trying to tackle me. I simply sidestepped and she flew into a wall knocking herself unconscious. While Dash's attempt of attacking me failed, Rarity was throwing rocks at me with her magic. I grabbed one of the thrown rocks and threw it at her. The rock hit her horn and knocked her out.

I was then blasted in the chest with air and confetti. Due to the set of body armor I was wearing I was wearing, I only stumbled back. Using what was left of Applejack's lasso, I hogtied Pinkie Pie, same as Applejack. After the fight had subsided I noticed, Fluttershy staring into my eyes, staring into my soul and mind. I returned the stare, sharing memories of my life.

"Your actions speak of violence. Your eyes speak of what you really are" Fluttershy said. She flew up and hugged me around my chest.

"What!?!” everypony yelled(minus Rainbow Dash of course).

"It attacked us!” Twilight yelled.

"We did attack his friends and him first."

"It was going to attack us like in Canterlot!!"

I pulled out my 1911 and fired a round into the air, shutting everyone up. "You attacked my friends first, so it is self-defense. In Canterlot, we were deterring the invasion. I only attacked those guards back there because they were in the way when I was trying to help Fluttershy with her injury. We were set here by Celestia to meet the Elements of Harmony A.K.A. you five idiots and Fluttershy. Also, Applejack you kicked my large friend here that can throw ponies like they are pebbles with one arm, in the groin. If I wanted to kill you ponies, you would be dead because we four were able to single handedly stop that changeling invasion when your so called military did squat. I also have all some of my weapons on me so same as the previous statement" I lectured.

"How are we supposed to trust you?" Twilight said.

"Are you dead? Is Fluttershy still impaled with an arrow?" I asked. I quickly dug through my backpack and pulled out some painkillers.

"What are those?" Twilight demanded.

"Painkillers" I replied. I turned to Fluttershy and took out a few pills. "Take these." She took the pills and quickly downed them

"Time to wake up my friends and Dashie here" I said while taking out my taser and taking off the barbs. I then tased two of my friends and then replaced the barbs.

"AAAAAAUGH!!! You need a better way to wake me up" Ike said.

"Fuck!! I'm going to get you" Andy said. I untied Pinkie Pie and Applejack.  I took out a bottle of water and spilled it on her face. She sputtered awake. Taking out some morphine, I injected Nick with it. He stopped writhing on the ground while clutching his groin and stood up, albeit slowly and pained. I somewhat feel pity for him. Getting kicked in the groin by Applejack.

"Sorry bout that" Applejack said while blushing. Nick then picked up Applejack and threw her into a puddle of mud.

"That was for kicking me in my balls. God this hurts" Nick said. "Can you heal me with a spell or something?"

Twilight quickly lit up her horn and started casting a spell on Nick.

"Oh my god that fucking hurt! Now I can finally stand again" Nick said before standing up straight without irritation.

"We need to bring in our wagon. Just wait here." A few minutes later, Ike brought in the deuce.

"What is that!?” asked Twilight Sparkle.

"It's our wagon" I replied.

"That is not a wagon."

"Yes it is."

"No it's not."

"Yes it is."

"Isn't."

"Is."

"Isn't."

"Is."

"Isn't."

"Isn't."

"Is."

"Fine, it's a wagon."

"AHA. You admit it's a wagon, wait..."

"Ha! He got you good!" Pinkie Pie said.

"Well, I'm going off for a run, so bye" I said before climbing a wall and jumping onto a roof. Then I leaped to another building. Gotta love parkour.