Welcome. I want to say that I saw TMNT and thought that it would be cool if that happened with the disguised building. Enjoy.

North Carolina. The Charlotte fire department where our job is to preserve life and property through rapid emergency response, code enforcement, education and planning. My name is Alexander Cross and I am part of Station 10 as a rescue member and my job is to provide the specialized equipment necessary for technical rescue situations such as auto accidents requiring vehicle extrication, building collapses, confined space rescue, rope rescues and swift water rescues with my Heavy rescue vehicle. I call her Angel because every time we help someone from a fire, they would say that God has sent an angel to help them. I am only the driver and the technician to help the true hero's save lives, but I always wanted to be a hero myself. I stand like a shadow of the greats and I wonder when is my time to shine and be the hero for once. And this is where my story begins. Inside the fire station. A staff meeting is taking place.

"Alright ladies. Today we have 4 rookies and they are going to be working with us for the next few weeks." Gordon Smith. 40 years old and a legendary hero who carried 4 people out of a burning apartment building and was wounded in the shoulder and couldn't return to work. So now he is our fire chief and tends to the rookies.

All the firefighters groaned and looked at the new recruits who looked like they barely graduated high school.

"I don't like it either but there is nothing I can do. Cross you get Chacon and Ibarra."

"Come on chief. I don't want to work in a daycare. Give them to Sanders, look at him he is sitting there on his was all day." Cross said while pointing at Sanders who was watching TV.

"Fuck you Cross." Sanders said out loud no even turning around to see him. Sander's story is a sad one. His family was killed in a hit and run 3 months ago and the police still didn't find the culprits yet. He basically shut down and almost committed suicide if it wasn't for a dream he had that said to keep fighting and to never give up. And he never did, so now he is back working and giving the job all he has but is still the most likeable person at the station at the age of 48.

"You guys are animals. Just take them already." Carmona, the soldier of the squad. Did 10 years in military, 2 tours in Afghanistan and 1 in Iraq. Received 4 medals for bravery in the battlefield and a goddess among us. She is very beautiful and can seduce any male with a smile and a wink. Age 28 and has more balls than anyone in the fire station when she ran into a burning building that was ready to collapse at any moment and saved 2 children and one baby but had a piece of metal pierced through her chest and was still able to continue after 4 months of rest.

"Then why don't you take them then?" Hudson said. A 50 year old man with the most experience but has a short temper and uses that to his advantage in a fight or an argument. He saved a woman who was 18 when she was stuck in the water filter in the deep end of a community pool and nearly died if it wasn't for him. He took off all his gear and jumped into the pool and pulled the woman on the edge where he started performing CPR. After 10 minutes the squad declared her dead, but Hudson kept performing CPR and with one final attempt the woman responded and was alive again. Hudson was rewarded for his bravery with a $5,000 donation to the firehouse and is just 2 weeks from retirement.

"Here's an idea. Why doesn't Flores take them?" Cross said.

"Hmm." A sound said in the corner of the room. Everyone looked to see a person sitting in the shadows smoking and with one deep breath you can see his face with an angered look. That is Flores, the mysterious one of the bunch. No one knows anything about him other than his name. Only Gordon knew his past from his transcripts, but he never talks about it and Flores does a he'll of a job. If you ever need muscle or tickets to any show or concert, then Flores has the connections. This one time there was a rare Babe Ruth card with the actual autograph that Gordon's grandson wanted for his birthday, the card was worth $10,000,000 since it was in mint condition. One call from Flores and he got the card for free. It was crazy how he can do that with anything. Whether it was sold out tickets or VIP passes, Flores was your guy to go to.

"He can't since Flores has to go to 'bring your parent to school day' at his son's school." Gordon said while looking at a clipboard in his hand.

"Holy Shit. Flores, you have a kid?!" Almost everyone except the rookies and Gordon said in unison.

"Yup." Flores said with no emotion.

"Well now that that's out of the way. Carmona, you get the other two." Gordon yelled out.

"Sigh. Fine, but if they get in my way I'm going to kill them." She said with as much seriousness in her voice and glared at the rookies who gulped as soon as seeing her mad face.

"Ok. Cross, give them gear and show them the ropes." Gordon said and walked back to his office.

"Hear that bro? Gordon wants you to gear up the rookies." Cross said out loud and turned to the vehicles where a clang was heard. From behind the fire trucks came a member of the team. The joke. That's me. And the guy who called me was my twin brother Thomas, but everyone calls him Tom for short. I'm Alexander Cross the II. Even though I was technically the oldest by 3 minutes, my brother was taller, stronger, and had a better education than me. We are basically identical with our blond hair and teal eyes, but then my height and strength separates us. I was 2 inches shorter that Tom and he had more muscles than me with a better Six Pack. We always wanted to be firefighters ever since we lost our parents who one day smoked in bed and forgot to put it out. We lost our family and our home that day, but thank god that we had a sleepover at our grandparent's house and they took us in that faithful day. We lived with our grandparents until our 19th birthday when they died at night right next to each other. That was the same day when we got accepted to Fire Recruit Academy FAQ where we trained to become firefighters.

"What was that Tom?" I said while cleaning my hands with a rag. I had oil on my uniform, hands, and a little on my face.

"The Captain said to suit the rookies up and check all of our equipment so that we can be ready for the next fire." He said and was about to leave.

"I thought the Captain told you to do it." I was confused but tried to remember the conversation we had.

"Right. He told me to tell you. So stop standing there like an idiot and get back to work." With that said, Tom left and the rookies stood in front of me.

"Hello. I'm Alexander, but you can call me Alex. Who are you?"

"Samuel Chacon from South Carolina and I'm excited to be here." The guy just grabbed my hand and was shaking it fast. I had to use a lot of strength just to escape his grasp.

"Well it's nice to meet you Samuel. And who might you be?" I turn to the other guy who looked tired.

"Gabriel Ibarra. Happy to be here." He didn't do nothing like Samuel so I just ignored it.

"Well now that we got the formalities out of the way, let's get you geared up."

1 Hour later

"Ok and that is the tour of the fire station. You know all the team and your things ready. Any questions?" I looked to see the rookies only to notice that they weren't there anymore.

"Hey Alex. Pizzas here." Tom tried to yell out but his mouth was stuffed with a slice of pizza.

"Come on. Tell me sooner since you know there is never enough for me!" I yelled out and raced to the counter where the pizzas where. But when I got there, there was no more.

"Sorry little bro. Better luck next time." Tom said with a chuckle and turned and was about to leave until he looked back at me. "One more thing. Pay pizza guy $37.80." He chuckled and I started to get irritated.

"And why can't you do it since I didn't even get a slice. Again." As I said this all my anger started to boil my blood as I remembered all the mean things the ever did to me.

"I would, but I need to talk to the captain. Sorry." He left me and the pizza guy stood there waiting. I sighed and pulled out my wallet only to see it empty.

"WHERE IS ALL MY MONEY!?"

"Forgot to tell you that I borrowed it to pay for the rent. I would pay it myself but there was a date and I had no cash so... yeah." Thomas ran away and I grew more annoyed and pulled out my credit card.

"Do you accept VISA?"

"No. Cash only." The pizza guy said and I felt like I could explode at any second.

"Will you excuse me while I go across the street and use the ATM.?" I told the pizza guy and ran across the street and pulled out $200 for the pizza guy and my date later today. Sigh. "Keep it together Alexander. He is still your brother who helped you when we were kids. But he is also the one who takes my car without permission and never refills the car, is living in your apartment because he doesn't want to pay rent, he eats everything in the house, and takes advantage of me. "OH THAT'S IT!" I ran back to the fore house and played the pizza guy and ran to the captain's office where I saw Thomas having a beer with him.

"Hey. There is my baby brother. So what happened?" He rubbed his hands together and when I looked into his eyes I just wanted to kill him.

"YOU SON OF A BITCH!" I yelled out and picked him up and threw him out of the office and when he tried to regain his footing I charged at him with full speed and tackled him. Everyone else in the station heard the commotion and saw me fighting Thomas and they stood there watching.

"Why are you doing this Alex?" Thomas said while blocking punch after punch that I was throwing at him.

"YOU HAD THIS COMING FOR THE LONGEST TIME!" I yelled at him and sent a powerful uppercut to him, but he blocked it.

"Is this because of the pizza?" Thomas said while chuckling and that pushed me over the edge.

"IT'S ABOUT EVERYTHING. YOU JUST HAD TO BE BORN, DIDN'T YOU!?" I then punched his ribs and didn't stop. I then made him move back until his back was against the wall.

"What do you mean by that?" Thomas said while his voice cracked a little.

"I WISH I NEVER HAD A BROTHER!" I then punched him in the jaw and I was breathing hard and gave him a hated look. And Thomas was still there looking at me with wide eyes, not even caring about his jaw.

"That's messed up."

"How can he say that?"

"This is very awkward."

I heard from behind me and I just ignored them and still looked at Thomas who still looked wide eyed.

"You don't mean that Alexander." He then punched me in the stomach and I was on my knees and tried to catch my breath. "Tell me you don't mean that." He was standing right beside me and was waiting for my response.

"I meant every word." I said with as much emotionless as I could into my voice. As I said this I heard a lot of gaps but then I look at the legs of my brother and he just walked away from me. After I got up from the floor I saw everyone looking at me with sick looks on their faces and I hated being the center of attention.

"WHAT!?" I roared out at them. Then I felt something thrown at me from behind.

"Here, the chief said you finally get to ride with us. Looks like you got what you wanted Alexander." Thomas threw me a fireman jacket and it had my initials on it, I was happy that I can finally be a hero, but I knew that Thomas would never forgive me. I had to make this right and to do that I had to admit my mistake.

"Hey Thomas, I just want to say that I-"

Alert. Alert. Fire at the CDC. All units respond.

"CDC?" Samuel said in confusion who ran next to me to get suited up.

"Central for Disease Control. But why are they calling all units?" I asked confused. Especially since they have a fireproof system.

"Can we finish this later Thomas?" I looked at him with wide eyes hoping that he would at least hear me out. And I only got a nod as my answer. I knew that I would have to do something special for him later, but we're needed now. 4 minutes later we started battling the raging inferno and we started containing the fire.

"We have reports of people trapped in the basement. Cross, get your team inside and try to rescue them." Hudson said.

While they talked about the best way to enter the building, I saw someone standing in front of the flames and went inside. I went wide eyed and tried to warn my team, but they were busy as it was. So I took an axe and survival tools with me to try and save the day. As I charged into the fire with the proper suit and extra oxygen tanks, throughout the fire I could tell that I was lost and the mysterious man was nowhere in sight. My gut instincts told me to try the staircase, but I didn't want to until I heard a voice.

"Help me. Someone, anyone. HELP!"

The voice came from the lower level and I ran down as fast as possible to save the civilian who entered the burning building and finally become a hero. But as I reached the basement, there was no one in sight.

"HELLO!?"

Silence. I was about to report back on the radio until a small light shined in my eyes.

"This is Alexander Cross. I made my way to the basement, but there is no one down here. Tom do you read me?"

Static

"Tom this is serious, come in."

Static

"Check it out." I said while walking towards the light and noticed that it was a whole in the wall. I wanted to inspect more, but then a chunk of the ceiling fell and smashed the wall. What I saw made me wonder. In this building was another building, but this new building had computers and machines everywhere. There was a path for me to take, but it was high and one wrong step and I'll die before I get to be the hero. I then heard the same cry for help and I ran inside to try and find the woman who needed help. I ran inside and checked everywhere I could for 2 minutes and when I was about to leave.

"Alexander. Are you here!?"

That got me out of my thoughts and I had to respond.

"Carmona. I'm here!" I was about to run back until I saw the man who entered the building walking up to a room. "Sir. I need to get you to safety." The man turned around and saw me, but instead of running towards me he ran inside. "For the love of God. Carmona I'm going to try and save a civilian, try to clear a path for me for when I get back." I was about to run to the man but then I heard a familiar sound.

"ALEXANDER YOU GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE NOW!"

I turned around and saw Thomas running up to me.

"This whole building is going to collapse on us if we don't get out of here. We need to leave!" Thomas said.

"But there is a civilian trapped in that room. He ran into the building and I came in here to save him." I said while I heard this video play in the background.

"Alexander, there is no one down here but us and Carmona. Now let's go." He grabbed my helmet and started to run. As we ran I heard a voice, it was like a tape recorder.

"Mankind's technology is advance, but once we get this teleportation machine to function, we will-"

"Alexander focus! I can't run for you!" I heard and tried to hear more while running.

"After our first attempt to teleport simple household objects to another world, we found out that only living tissue can teleport when our assistant accidentally fell into the Chromo Zeus machine."

"Ok Alexander we are almost there. Hurry up." Thomas said and I decided to forget about this place and run to safety. Then an explosion occurred, shaking the bridge and a small piece of the roof fell without warning and hit Thomas and was now unconscious.

"Thomas. Oh God, please be ok." I rushed next to him and turned him over and checked his vitals. He is ok but is unconscious and this place can come down on us at any second. I picked him up over my shoulders and carried him to the exit. Halfway through the bridge and there was a metal crunching sound that I heard and when I looked up I saw a beam falling. Without thinking I threw Thomas further across the bridge and ran backwards just in time before the beam destroyed the bridge.

"Alexander. What are you doing?" Carmona said while checking Thomas.

"Where we're you?"

"A civilian ran to me and I had to lead him to safety. But what happened?"

"No time. Just get Thomas out of here." I looked down to the fire and knew that death was claiming me today.

"What about you?" Carmona was lifting Tom and ready to go, but had to stay and try to find a way to save me.

"I'm dead. Get out of here and tell Tom that I'm so-" Another support beam fell and the place was falling apart before my eyes. "GET OUT OF HERE!"

"I'm sorry." Carmona said and ran with Thomas on her shoulders while shedding a few tears. After a minute of waiting I shed a tear myself.

"Well, looks like I'll never tell you how I feel about you Carmona. *Sigh*. Well better just end my life now." I walked to the edge of the busted bridge and all I have to do is take one final step and then I would die on my own terms. After a few seconds I fell backwards and breathed heavily." I can't do it." I then heard a voice.

"The machine can send anyone to another world, but the coordinates are unknown. We used luck many times, so hopefully the next attempt will be our success."

I stood up and ran downstairs and saw a map of the facility. There was 10 emergency exits, but those where blocked with fire and fallen building parts. Then the building started to collapse and I ran to a room that I saw. As I entered all I could see was darkness and heard the door close behind me. After a second there where lights turning on and saw a long tunnel with black boxes inside it and when I turned to my right, there was a mirror in the room. I looked carefully and knew that this is a window that is used by the police. I gripped my ax and was about to swing until another explosion stopped me. Looking around I tried to find a corner to die in until a machine was being lowered from the ceiling. I walked up to it and then it started to make a strange noise and then a blinding light was appearing. I ran to the window and swung my ax to see a room with a lot of papers everywhere and recorders being played.

"Our attempts have been devastated due to the deaths of all participants. Many have been horribly mangled by an unknown species."

I knew that this would be my last minutes of my life so I jumped the broken window and grabbed a video camera that was on top of a desk and turned it towards me.

"Is this working?" I tapped the lens of the camera and continued. "Hello there to anyone who finds this video camera. My name is Alexander Cross the 2nd and I am or was part of The Charlotte fire department. Today is December 2, 2013 and am dead at 3:15 P.M here in North Carolina inside the CDC. For my brother Thomas I just want to say that I'm sorry. Please forgive me." I started to cry as I the room started to crumble and shaking. "Well, looks like I'll wait for you with mom and dad, little brother." I turned off the camera and jumped to the big room on the other side of the glass. But without realizing it my foot and hand moved some buttons to go to the other room and stepped on the big red button.

Coordinates locked. Firing in 5 seconds.

I heard from behind me and knew I did something wrong. I ran to try to fix the mistake, until the roof collapsed in the room I was just in and knew that my time was short. I took out the tape for the video camera and placed it on my hand and held onto it, but I pulled out a picture of my brother and held that even tighter and just shed tears while I waited for death to claim me.

Firing Zeus.

The next thing I knew, there was thing blinding light and this high pitch sound that was ringing in my ears. I tried to block it out but it was no use and then I felt like I was floating and I knew something was up. Looking around I saw all pieces of the building being levitated and pushed through what appeared to be a while portal and it was sucking everything in. All I can do is hope that it would be a quick death and close my eyes once and for all while my body was sucked into the portal with fast speed. Then the room collapsed and the building exploded destroying the secret building with an explosion. The only thing that was left was rubble.

I just want to say that this is my first shot at my little pony and I wanted to know if this is a good story. I put the human part 1st then the pony story next. If anyone has any comments or ideas, then pm me. Review and I'll post the next chapter hopefully tomorrow.