Fluttershy's eyes slowly opened, and get senses all starting to come online. She smelt a fire, and the cozy contents of the room she was in. She felt the warm thick blanket covering her body, along with the bandages and small welts from the day before. She saw light streaming in through the windows, and ponies and people passing by the house. She heard loud machines outside, mainly a rapid chopping sound similar to the machine that had chased her and DJ.

     Then, she heard a knock.

     "Fluttershy, we have to go. Are you awake?" A familiar voice said through the door. A voice that had been violent beyond comprehension before, now gently waking the mare.

     "Yes, I'm awake." She replied, easing herself out of the bed. She gave a small yelp of pain as her hooves touched the floor. The injury still present.

     "Are you decent?" The voice asked.

     "I'm fine. Just a..."

     "I meant can I walk in and not get screamed  at?"

     "Yes."

     With that, the sound of buttons being pressed and the door unlocking filled the room. When the door swung open, DJ stood in the doorway. He had in his hands fresh bandages, painkillers, food, and water. "Sit on the bed." He commanded.

     Fluttershy nodded, turning back to the bed. She crawled up and turned to face DJ, who was grabbing something from a dresser. He pulled out four silver objects and put them in his bag. "What are those?" She asked.

     DJ stood up, zipping his bag, and continuing over to the pony. "Ammo." He said. He got down on one knee next to the bed. "Alright, raise your wing up."

     Fluttershy lifted her wings up, allowing DJ to remove the old bandages. "I didn't know you were a doctor?" She said as DJ started cleaning the wound with extreme caution.

     "I'm not, but my mama is a nurse and she taught me a lot." He replied, focusing on the task at hand. "Are you hurting?" He asked.

     "Ummm... a little."

     "Alright, let me finish this then I'll let you eat and get some pills. We have to leave very soon though, Corben is getting impatient in the chopper."

     Fluttershy raised an eyebrow. "Are we leaving?"

     DJ nodded as he finished up the wrappings and opened the box of pills. "Yeah, we're headed south to the docks where we can get a lot of supplies."

     Fluttershy said "Okay," as she took the pills and had the quickest breakfast of her life. DJ went over and held the door open as the yellow pegasus stepped outside. They were the last to get in the chopper.

     As Fluttershy got in, she immediately heard DJ tell Corben to take off. Waking a little more quickly, she took a seat next to Rarity and Twilight, who helped fasten her in.

     As the helicopter slowly lifted off, the humans (who were armed to the teeth with weapons and ammo) began to converse amongst themselves. Talking about girls, loot, guns, and other strange things.

     Fluttershy looked over her shoulder to see DJ. He was near the edge of the door, looking like he was about to fall out of the chopper. He leaned against a massive weapon that had multiple barrels. Every now and again he would hit a button on his weapon causing it to spin at different speeds.

     A yell from the other gunner caught DJ's attention. "Hey, DJ!" DJ turned around, raising his eyebrows in a questioning way.  "What have you got your RPM set at?"

     "Six." He replied.

     "Don't you think that's a little overkill?" Kendrick asked from his seat.

     "The more bullets you put into something, the quicker it dies. And I like my targets dead." He said with a smile.

     Kendrick shrugged as he leaned back in his seat, checking his DMR mag. Another voice came from Tyler. “Alright, Kendrick. You know who Jessica Alba is right?”

     Kendrick frowned. “Yeah, why?”

     “Okay, would you fuck her?” He asked, raising his eyebrows in a concerned manner.

     Kendrick laughed. “Hell ya, who wouldn’t?”

     Tyler held out his hand. “Just wait… What if you were about to fuck her, you know, play with her tatas, smoochin', all that good stuff. Then you take her pants off and there’s a dick. Would you suck it?”

     Kendrick rubbed his chin for a moment in thought. “Probably.”

     Tyler’s eyes widened “Are you serious?”

     Kendrick threw his hands to the side. “We’ve already got that far, might as well!”

     Tyler shook his head. “What about you, Jose?”

     Jose leaned back from his gunner seat. “Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeell no!” He stated.

     Tyler pointed at Jose, with a nod of approval. “DJ, what about you?” Tyler asked.

     "What about me?" DJ asked.

     "Would you suck on Jessica Alba's dick?"

     "Who's Jessica Alba?" DJ asked, real confusion in his voice.

    Jose looked at DJ. "Are you serious? She's the bitch from "Fantastic Four"!"

     DJ's eyes widened. "Oh, that bitch!"

     Jose nodded. "Yeeeeees."

     DJ sighed as he leaned against the gun. “That’s a hard one, no pun intended. But… It depends.”

     Tyler leaned forward in disbelief. “Are you serious? ‘It depends?’ On what! What does it depend on?”

     “Well, I’d fuck her in the ass right now. So a dick wouldn’t deter me from that. But suck it… It depends…”

     “What the fuck does it depend on!” Tyler screamed. It was more of a statement than a question, but brought the older mare's attention to the human's conversation, causing them to close the young one’s ears.

     “Well it depends on if it’s artificial or not!”

     “Artificial?” Tyler frowned, confusion in his voice.

     “Well was she born with a dick, or did she get older and decide, ‘Hey, I want a penis?’” DJ said, turning his eyes from the sky and into the chopper.

     “It doesn’t matter! It’s still a dick!”

     “But it’s Jessica Alba!” DJ yelled back.

     “Okay, let’s say it was someone like… some random chick you see when you go to college, and you and Ry have broke up. She has a nice rack, nice ass, pretty perfect. You kick it off and get to her place, it starts to get hot and heavy when BOOM! She has a dick. Would. You. Suck it?”

     DJ threw his hands out. “It depends if it’s natural or not!”

     “What the fuck does that have to do with anything? It’s a penis. P-E-N-I-S!”

      “Well if she was born with a vadge, then she is a girl! I would be having sex with a women. But if it was a guy that got implants in surgery, then it’s gay.”

     “It’s still a fucking penis!”

     “But it’s a woman from birth, that’s why it matters!”

     No one heard Corben banging on the window from the cockpit.

     “Bullshit!” Tyler screamed.

     “Okay, what if your girl one day came up to you and said ‘So, I’m having surgery and getting a dick.’ Are you going to break up with her?”

Tyler’s mouth slammed shut as he went into a deep thought. “Come on Tyler, would ya?” Kendrick asked with a smile.

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Matt pinched the bridge of his nose as group of linebackers, besides Jose, went on and on and on. He let out a defeated sigh as he looked at the people and ponies around him, looking for any kind of conversation.

"Hey, Shelby?" Matt asked, leaning forward in his seat. "What other sport do you do?"

Shelby looked up to Matt from across the chopper. "I throw shot and discuss."

Matt smiled. "So you're in track?"

Shelby nodded. "Now, I haven't thrown in years, but it's just like riding a bike. You never forget." Shelby frowned. "What do you do?"

"I wrestle." Matt replied. "Me and Colton both."

"Ha, gay!" Trevor said with a wink, getting a quick punch from Colton.

Curiosity eventually gripped the rainbow pegasus. "What all sports do you have?" She asked, glad to get her attention away from the linebackers.

"Let's see..." Dustin said, holding up a finger for each sport they had. "Football, fast and slow pitch softball, soccer, baseball, track and field, golf, wrestling, and... would you consider FFA's shooting a sport?" He asked, looking over to Trevor.

"Uhhhh... well it's a club... I don't think so?" He said, just as confused as Dustin.

    The entire helicopter eventually was filled with different conversations between ponies and humans, all trying to ignore the massive argument that was being has just a foot away. Trevor looked over to the orange mare, with apples on her hip. Sticking out his hand, he gave a weak smile. “I don’t believe we’ve been properly introduced,” he said, “my name’s Trevor. Unlike another Trevor we all know though, I’m actually pretty sane.” He said with a light chuckle.

    Applejack smiled back as she stuck out her hoof. “Pleasure to meet ya, even under these circumstances.”

    Trevor gave a quick nod. “So, Applejack, what do you do for a living? And yes, I know it’s small talk, but it beats anything else going on in this stupid heli.”

    “Yup, that d’scribes it pretty well.” Applejack said. “I help run an apple farm back in Ponyville!’

    Trevor raised his eyebrows. “Funny, I used to… Kinda work on a farm myself… We all have.” Applejack raised an eyebrow in question. “Coach made us haul hay during the summer when we couldn’t practice. Because we can build up weight strength all we want, but nothing beats country strength!”

    Colton laughed. “Seriously? Old man strength would put country strength in the dirt anyday!”

    Trevor thought for a second before nodding in agreement. “That is true, old man strength beats country strength, and both of those beat weight strength.”

    Applejack cocked her head. “So what do ya do now?”

    Trevor made a motion to Colton. “We both work in a boat shop in Norman, old man there is a genius with engines. Can straight up stick his ear to an engine and can HEAR what’s wrong with it!”

    Applejack had an even more confused look on her face. “Ain’t that dangerous?”

    Trevor and Colton glanced at each other before shrugging and looking back to Applejack. “Well, it can be, but I don’t really see how?”

    “Well… Boat engines, aren’t them a bit unstable?”

    Trevor slowly shook his head. “No more unstable than a car engine?”

    “Car engine?”

    Trevor’s eyes got extremely wide. “Oh! What kind of boats do you have?”

    “Steam?”

    Colton and Trevor facepalmed. “God dammit…” They said in unison.

    Trevor let out a sigh and looked over to Applejack. “Our boats are gasoline powered, not steam. We help work on racing boats.”

    Rainbow Dash laughed. “That must be the slowest race ever!” She stated.

    “Erm… Boats aren’t slow where we’re from.” Trevor said with a smile. “They go well over two-hundred miles an hour in a few seconds. ANYTHING but slow.”

    Colton sighed. “You know what I miss already? From the… what? Two days? Three days we’ve been gone?”

    Trevor looked over to Colton. “What?”

    “Fishin’. I. Miss. Fishin’.”

    Trevor smiled. “First thing we do when we get back, we go out to Thunderbird or something for a few hours?”

    Colton smiled. “You know what would be even better than fishin’?”

    Trevor raised an eyebrow in question. “What?”

    “Baseball season!”

    Trevor sighed. “Not really, we won’t get nearly as far this year as we did last year. We lost too many people. Too many good people.”

    Matt looked over to Trevor. “The sophomores are good aren’t they?”

    Trevor looked over to Matt. “They may be good, but they ain’t no Jon-Jon.”

    Twilight looked over to Matt. “Jon-Jon?”

    Matt nodded. “He was awesome, but he graduated.”

    Twilight leaned forward. “So how does your education system work? DJ was a little… unresponsive with any questions he was asked.”

    Matt rubbed his fingers through his hair. “Pretty much, you start when you’re like five, all the way until you’re eighteen, then choose if you want to learn more. College. But high school will probably be the highlight of most of our lives.”

    “Oh, how so?”

    Matt smiled. “Because, we’re still too ignorant to think things out before we do it. We see it better to do and ask for forgiveness than ask for permission.”

    “So, what were you doing before you came into Equestria?” Rarity asked, coming into the conversation kinda late.

    Dustin made hand pistols, shooting everyone and everypony in the chopper. “Paintball!”

    “Paintball? What’s that?” Pinkie asked. “Oh! is it some kind of game?”

    Dustin nodded. “Oh yeah!” He said. “We get a bunch of weapons, like what we got now,” he held up his M16 “But instead of bullets, they are filled with these little balls that are filled with paint. They pop when they hit you, and you’re 'out.’”

    “Do they hurt?” Fluttershy asked.

    “Well, a little. But only if you think about it too much. But you know what pain is good for?”

    “What?”

    Trevor, Matt, Shelby, Colton, Kenny, and Shawn in unison all said: “It let’s you know you’re alive!”

    Kenny laughed a little. “If you’re hurtin’, that means you’re still kickin’!”

    A sudden change in the linebacker’s voice cut off the conversation pretty quickly.

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     Jose just shook his head at the gunner’s seat. “Y’all are gay as fuck…” He looked up to DJ, his eyes turning to the size of pins. “DJ!” He screamed.

     DJ frowned before Jose pointed outside of the Huey. DJ turned, his heart skipping a beat. Multiple helicopters were closing in, as well as a biplane gaining on them.

     Over the intercom, Corben’s voice came in as static. “Dammit DJ!”

     DJ grabbed the weapon, spinning it around at the aircraft. “Jose, If any come to your side, they’re yours!”

     “Got it!” He screamed.

     Twilight started to panic as she heard the jokes switch over to a serious tone. She turned to Jose; the closest gunner. “What’s going on?”

     Jose wiped the sweat forming on his brow. “The Japs have a grudge, and I guess they found us flying around.”

     Twilight frowned. “The Japs?”

     “Japanese. They fucking hate us.”

     “What did you do?” She asked. Jose’s weapon started spinning.

     “We stole their helicopter.” He looked over to Twilight with a smirk. “This helicopter.”

     As Twilight started to understand, bullets whizzed through the huey, almost hitting the passengers. Screams filled the chopper. Static came over the speaker. “Hang on! DJ, get ready!”

     The helicopter banked into a sharp turn, causing everyone and everypony to shift in their seats, the only thing keeping them in was the straps in the seats. Shawn and Shelby leaned over, making sure the little kids, who had tears running down their faces, didn’t slide out. Fluttershy had sunk as far into the seat as possible as DJ’s gun spun. Then, an ear shattering sound. Six thousand rounds per minute shot from the weapon to the biplane, with almost all of them hitting. A bone shaking explosion caused everyone inside to cover their ears. The chopper filled with light as the plane burst into flames.

     “Gotcha mother fucker!” DJ screamed, aiming the gun at the next target, a Mi-17.

     “Jose, we have two tangos on your side!” Corben screamed over the speaker as the heli lurched over. Twilight looked over the edge, realizing that below them was a vast blue ocean.

     Jose's scanned the sky, the noise from his spinning weapon sounding more and more violent. A static came over the speakers again. "I'm getting us over land. Maybe we can lose them in the mountains!"

     "Just get us out of here!" Jose screamed as he let loose four hundred rounds per minute into another Huey that was pulling up beside them.

     Twilight started to relax just a little as she saw solid land getting closer and closer. But then, she saw the sunrise.

    This sun was nothing like princess Celestia's sun. But despite that fact, Twilight couldn't help but be mesmerized by the way the glowing orb's colors reflected of the surface of the ocean. However, this didn't last long.

     DJ and Jose both let out battle cries as they held down the triggers for their enormous weapons. After about five seconds, two more explosions filled the air. The result was a chorus of 'fuck yeah!'

     DJ looked around for anymore hostiles. When he was satisfied there weren't any, he leaned back and started laughing. "Ho-ly shit that was close!" He stated. "Everyone alright back there?" DJ asked, looking around at his passengers.

     Judging by their new pale faces, the answer was a definite no. DJ shrugged. "Ah well, can't do much about that." He chuckled.

     "That was all of them, wasn't it?" Kendrick asked, trying to hide his shaking hands.

     "Should be, unless they are still looting up north."

     Kendrick nodded.

     Twilight looked down onto the land, the massive forest reminded her off the Everfree, only without a thick canopy to hide the forest floor. Despite an occasional road, it was almost untouched. One thing caught her eye in the giant wilderness though. "What are those?" She asked, pointing to two black moving objects.

     Kendrick looked over the edge. "I dunno.... they look like..."

     As he was about to answer, familiar red lines started coming from the black dots. Jose's eyes got wide. "Armored SUV!" He screamed as the bullets impacted the chopper. The harsh *tings* on the metal shell eventually caused the chopper to lurch.

     Corben's voice came over once again. "They hit our ta..." Corben's voice was cut off as bullets from the ground mounted mini guns impacted the cockpit, destroying all the instruments.

     Almost immediately after, the helicopter started to spin. The SUV's had landed some lucky shots on the tail rotor. All the ponies and people were thrown to the side once again, DJ and Jose holding onto the weapons with every ounce of strength they had. But it was too much; DJ was thrown from the chopper.

     As he was ejected, he spun himself around. The heli was spinning faster and faster as more and more bullets impacted the side. He closed his eyes as the air rushed through his hair.

     And he smiled.

     Not because he was going to die, or the ponies. But because they were going to wake up. Because he would soon learn the truth. Because, it was all according to plan.

     DJ knew they were dreaming, and needed a way to wake them all up at one time. He also knew Corben's flying patterns. All he needed to do was say some coords and a time. And guess who showed up.

     DJ spun himself around as he got closer and closer to the ground. He made his body as aerodynamic as possible, he would be the first to hit the ground. He needed to wake up first. He needed to know his surround first. He needed to find his friends first. But most importantly...

     He needed to make sure Ryan hadn't followed him.

     Kendrick let out a groan of pain as his eyes eased open. His vision was filled with twisted metal, blood, smoke, and fire. Slowly, Kendrick released the belts holding him into the seat, his body shaking with every subtle movement. Once his restraints were off, Kendrick looked around at his  surroundings, surveying the damage done.

     The helicopter was wedged into the ground with bodies scattered both inside and out. Supplies from the cargo bay lay thrown across the forest floor. Kendrick let out a groan as he pulled himself out of the helicopter. "Fuckin' Japs..." He mumbled to himself.

     Standing up slowly, Kendrick looked around at the supplies. He gave a small chuckle. "I always wanted to find a heli crash site. This isn't how I wanted to find it though."

     Kendrick started to lean over and grab food, when a noise caused him to whip around with his his weapon shouldered. Kendrick, crouched down, slowly started moving towards the sound. As he got closer and the sound got louder though, he quickened his pace. When he had got all the way around, he was almost in a dead sprint.

     Laying on the ground, was a yellow filly with a red bow. An Earth pony. Covered in a pool of blood from the SUV rounds. Her small whimpers made Kendrick drop his weapon and search for supplies. "DJ... DJ always had medical sh... DJ got ejected from the chopper..." Kendrick started looking on the ground for anything that could stop the bleeding, ease the pain, or bring life back into the pony. Nothing.

     Kendrick started to panic, holding his hands above his head for oxygen. Then, a voice. "It's o... okay..."

     Kendrick looked down at the pony that was managing a weak smile. "What?"

    "You..."  Applebloom seized in pain before continuing. "You tried y'er best."

     Kendrick fell down on both his knees in front of the pony, ignoring the nearing voices in the forest. "I'm so sorry..."

     Applebloom looked up to Kendrick. "I'm... I'm tired..."

     Kendrick looked down at the filly, before gently sitting down beside her, and reaching his hands underneath her. She let out a yelp, but was quickly silenced by the warm embrace in the cold forest. Kendrick slowly started to rock to and fro with the filly in his arms. There was no one else above besides them. And soon, he would be alone.

     "A'hm really tired..." she said again.

      Kendrick thought for a second, before an idea came to him. He would lull her to sleep, ease the pain of death.

     "Hush...." Kendrick had to stop and compose himself, he could feel her heart rate getting slower and slower.

     "Hush little baby, don't you cry.

     Evening's gunna be alright

     Stiffen up that upper lip, little lady

     I told you, daddy's here to hold you through the night..."

     The voices were getting closer, and her heart was getting slower. Choking on his words, Kendrick continued.

     "I know mommy's not here right now

     And we don't know why

     We fear how we feel inside

      It may seem crazy, pretty baby...."

     Her heart rate was almost non existent.

     "But I promise, momma's gonna be alright"

     Kendrick took in a deep breath as the filly let out her last. Tears streamed down Kendrick's face, but he still held the child, and continued.

     "And if you ask me to, daddy's gonna buy you a mocking bird

     Imma give you the world

     Imma buy a diamond ring for you

     Imma sing for you

     I'll do anything for you to see you smile..."

     And with that, Kendrick gently placed the filly on the ground and grabbed his DMR. The Japanese flashlights scanning the burning heli made Kendrick duck down behind what he assumed was part of the old metal plating.

     "And if that bird don't sing and that ring don't shine

     Imma break that birdie's neck!" Kendrick chambered a round to his DMR.

     "I'll go back to the jeweler who sold it to ya

     Make him eat every carat..." Kendrick stood up with his finger on the trigger.

     "DON'T FUCK WITH DAD!" He screamed as he looked down the scope, crosshairs on a forehead already. He pulled the trigger, blood exploding from the head and the body falling to the forest floor. Without skipping a beat, he whipped the rifle around, the crosshairs landing on another Japanese soldier's chest. He quickly pulled the trigger twice as that body fell to the ground. But before Kendrick could make another move, two Japanese soldiers had their weapons to their shoulders, letting the barrage of bullets rain into Kendrick's body.

     Kendrick quickly died. Next Chapter: Wake me up, when September ends Estimated time remaining: 20 Minutes