AU: This is a completely different universe from the Spellcasting Soldier series, and yes, I am still continuing the Spellcasting Soldier. This is also a Antro fic.
July 4th, 2252
"Command, This is Tiger squad, reporting for orders."
"Tiger squad, Your orders are to establish contact with the extraterrestrial civilisation on this planet."
"Roger that, Command. Moving out."
(Hatch camera identifies a brown haired and blue eyed paratrooper, Tiger Squad leader Felix Verdun in seat 5A.)
"Alright boys, grab your gear and lets go." I looked at all of my squad mates; Jordan McArthur, Dimitri Travosky, Travis and Chris Easton, Alex Martinez, and our jokester, Aaron Dare. Our division, known as the 604th Division, was tasked with the exploration of our newly colonised planet, and we have discovered that this planet has a sentient humanoid species. Along with Tiger squad, Wolf and Bear squad had been deployed along with us to contact this civilisation. Our group had been named Columbus for this operation. Currently, we were flying over a large expansion of forest towards a small town that we had seen during our landing. Our current armament was our forest camo body armour, along with our face-plate helmets equipped with a heads up HUD. our weaponry was our standard issue ARs, modified with a electronic link to our HUDs to show our ammo counters. Our sidearms were our standard issue magnums, also modified with the electronic link.
"ETA to target destination in 1 minute." a automated voice crackled through the speakers, as we neared the outskirts of the forest.
"Alright boys, last minute roll call, because I know how much you love these." I chuckled, as the rest of the squad groaned.
"Seriously Verdun? Only five fucking minutes have passed since we last did roll call!" Jordan called out, and I checked him off. I simply looked at all of them and checked them off in my virtual list.
"All accounted for. proceeding with mission objective." The hatch slowly opened, showing us the dark forest below.
"Alright boys, time to meet our friendly neighbourhood aliens." I announced, as we unclipped ourselves from our harnesses and walked towards the edge.
"Geronimo!" Aaron shouted, as he jumped off of the dropship.
"Feet first to hell, boys!" I shouted over the howling wind as I jumped off as well. I began playing It's All Over But The Crying through my helmet, as I freefalled from the sky.
It's all over, but the crying
And nobody's crying but me
Friends all over know I'm trying
To forget about how much I care for you
I deployed my parachute as our squad began lazily floating down to the ground.
It's all over, but the dreaming
Poor little dreams that keep trying to come true
It's all over, but the crying
And I can't get over crying over you
Our squad touched the ground, as we began to regroup with the other squads.
It's all over, but the crying
And nobody's crying but me
Friends all over know I'm trying
To forget about how much I care for you
"ETA to regroup 10 meters away." Dimitri reported, as we trudged through the forest.
It's all over but the dreaming
Poor little dreams that keep trying to come true
It's all over, but the crying
And I can't get over crying over you
As soon as the song ended, we reached the clearing in which all squads were supposed to regroup. I jogged up to meet the squad leaders of Wolf and Bear squads. The only way we were able to distinguish each squad other than using our HUDs was by the marking of each appropriate animal on our armour.
"The village can be seen 10 meters from here. get your men together and let's move out." Roger, the leader of Wolf squad, told us. I jogged back to my squad and gave them the news.
"Is this a supposed to be a stealth mission or something? because i suck at that shit." Complained Travis, as we snuck in the bushes.
"Just shut it Travis. When we were kids, I remember you were the one that always spied on the girl next door." Chris quipped, and everyone chuckled as I looked through my binoculars at the village.
"Goddamnit Chris, we were just fucking 8 years old, okay?"
"Shut it. Im concentrating." I ordered, as I peered through, not believing my eyes.
"Wolf and Bear leaders, this is Tiger leader, does anyone else see equine resembling humanoid creatures?" I inquired through the radio, as we looked through.
"Felix, Your not the only one thats seeing them. I think we found our aliens." Roger responded, as he clicked his radio off. I moved back to my squad.
"Alright boys, time to move in." I ordered, as we came out of the bushes. Group Columbus moved out of the forest towards the village. Before they could enter however, 6 of these creatures walked out of the village to meet them.
"Hold your fire. Stay in formation." Roger ordered, and we formed a delta, with our weapons down.
"Are you the people that came from space?" The purple one inquired, and me, being tasked with the communication, nodded.
"Kay, What in tarnation are you?" the orange on wearing a… is that a stetson? oh well, I can think about that later. I turned on my speaker and replied.
"We are Group Columbus, tasked with orders to establish contact with the sentient species here. You are this species, correct?" I inquired.
"Correct, we are ponies, And my name is Twilight Sparkle. The place where you are is called Ponyville, which is in Equestria. and your name is?" She asked, to which I answered.
"I am Felix Verdun, Squad Leader of Tiger squad, and to answer your question, *gestures at the orange one* We are known as Homo Sapiens, or Humans. We came to colonise this planet, but discovered that there was a sentient species on this planet, and decided to establish contact with your species."
"Oh I have so many questions! here, follow me to my house, and we can discuss more while we wait for Princess Celestia to arrive!"
"Felix, you go with them to Ponyville. We'll stay posted around the village if we see suspicious activity."
"Ten-Four."
"Okay… who is this Princess Celestia?" Alex asked, as we began walking towards a giant tree in the middle of Ponyville.
"Princess Celestia is the Co-Ruler of Equestria!" Twilight gleefully replied, as my blood ran cold.
"Roger, if you see a pony with a crown and armoured guards, do not open fire. I repeat, do not open fire, these are friendlies. Just stay behind cover, and don't be seen."
"Understood. over." We reached the tree and I noticed a door in the tree.
"Uhh… Miss Sparkle, do you live in this tree?" I inquired, as I looked at the door.
"This tree is also a library, but I live in here with my assistant spike!" She eagerly answered.
"huh." My mind was just blown. A tree that could stay alive, even though it was completely hollowed out and made into a library? the fuck?
My mind became even more discombobulated, however, was when she knocked on the door.
"Coming, Twilight!" A voice yelled from inside the treehouse, and We were met with a young boy that seemed to be growing scales on his body. The boy took one look at us and grabbed Twilight, and then proceeding to slam the door in front of us.
"Ummm…. Sir? Should we leave or…" Jordan began, but was immediately cut off when the door opened again, and we were grabbed into the house.