A Grimm Awakening

A/N: I do not own My Little Pony, only my OCs; any reviews would be nice, and a shout-out to my editor and characters from other stories will appear.

Standing in front of CHS in his faded black jacket, which Rarity had told him on many times to change or at least let her fix, and his dusty well-worn cargo pants, Chris looked out solemnly, almost forlornly, over the school entrance while laying against the portal that Twilight had come through all those years ago as he had heard from Dash after he gave up the life of a mercenary... or tried to. Blowing out a breath into the cool air he saw two girls came walking over; one was in a form- hugging sun dress. Recognizing his lovely fiancée Rainbow Dash and Sunset Shimmer, he hollered as Dash picked up the pace to get to him

"I'm glad you were out and about cutie, and I'm shocked that this year will end soon and I will be back in the military," Chris said looking crestfallen. Next, the three all gathered at the base of the statue and snapped a group picture, which got Chris sending it to the two before opening a pack of smokes and passing out one apiece to the group. He then flicked the lighter and lit Dash's then Sunset's cigarettes before lighting his own and pulling a long drag blowing it into the air singing,

"Lord, I have loved some ladies and I have loved Jim Beam, and they both tried to kill me in 1973."

Chris was impressed that Sunset had held the smoke with less nerves than he would have thought and he laughed as Rage, a friend of his with piercing dark eyes and brown hair the color of amber, walked up with her boyfriend Buttons hand in hand. "Hey country boy, care to play a song for us?" she asked. Nodding, Chris picked up his guitar as Jack slid close and heard him sing,

"Two men had died this mornin', shot down in the snow. Now the vigilante army was marchin' for Buffalo. When you brand a man a rustler, he's gotta take a side. There's no middle ground in this Johnson County War." As Dash joined in on a duet of the second song of the day, which was,

"Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not," Pinkie, who had decided to visit her best friends before they left, started bouncing, setting everyone on edge as Chris slid his cowboy hat up and dropped to his knee in front of Dash and pulled out a ring. "Are you going to kiss me or not?" Chris quietly asked her. Dash, whose eyes went as large as dinner plates at the sight of the expensive ring, began to scream; Jack and herself had seen the ring, and they knew it would set Chris back 3 months of pay. Dash's screams brought Principals Luna and Celestia running, not knowing what was going on.

"YESSSSSS!" Dash exclaimed.

"Took you long enough... I wonder if Jack knows that you asked another girl to marry you," his friend Rage asked jokingly as she walked out of the office, causing everyone to smile. Luna ran over and asked Jack as Kevin, the captain of the school's airsoft team, walked up on the scene.

"What the heck happened because I heard a scream and it was a surprising one because Dash never normally yells" and Luna smiled as Dash blushed cherry red.

"The boy finally asked one of us to marry him, and she squealed like a little star-struck filly," Jack explained as she winked at Dash, who was blushing bright red. Kevin looked at the soccer captain and said jokingly, "Well, I'm glad the country boy finally asked his princess to marry him; I wonder when the country girl gets her time in the dress." Through all of this, Chris and Dash had started making out passionately, but Principal Luna broke it up. Reminding them in her sarcastic tone Jack muttered

"Well the boy has a soft side which is a shock and does he have anything else to keep from us because I am curious" getting him glaring.

"PDA is frowned upon here, even if you will be married soon," Principal Luna reminded them, taking on a friendly, almost jovial tone.

"Can you stop kissing please, it's scaring me and my little sister," a wire-thin, brown-haired girl said as she ran from the building panting, causing everyone to laugh. "A merc's daughter doesn't like kissing... well, I'll be damned, stop the presses!" Jack said, while still laughing rolling on the ground. The girl blushed warmly, then took out a bottle of bourbon and Coke and took a pull from it; the group then all started laughing while planning on a get-together that summer, and, also, when the marriage would be. Pinkie, who had been starting to zone out, suddenly started shaking with the pinkie sense, which caused the group to be on edge. Dave and Vinyl walked over seeing Pinkie shake and the others all began looking for cover.

"So... what has everyone on edge and I promise I won't laugh ok?" Dave asked chuckling, looking at the collectively paranoid group before looking at vinyl lovingly before saying before walking away with his girlfriend right next to him saying "The cute girl and I have a few raves to plan soon, so enjoy the summer." Dave put in his headphones, his ears being greeted with the wubs of dubstep; the others expected something to go down, and weren't let down as an RPG sailed overhead sending them all to their familiar zone. Hitting the deck fast, Chris grabbed his trusty ACR and started to return fire as the others, whom at this time were not strangers to combat either, all threw themselves against cover.

"Get the others and get them the hell out of here!" Dash yelled to Jack before turning her attention to the G36s fixed sights. As this was relayed it Jack, both girls heard a voice sing, "We fired our guns and the British kept a coming, and we fired once more they began to running on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico." As Chris slammed the fresh mag into place, the RPG gunner stood presenting a target of immediate interest and thus had to die; Chris quickly unloaded, dropping the man who, on reflex, fired the RPG. Rage, who had been watching, yelled out, "Snap shot, 100 points!"

The fact she was huddled near Dash cost her dearly as they ate the dead man's RPG blast from the errant shot, which knocked them out cold; this pushed Rage through the portal as the two had been huddling next to the portal using the stone for cover.

Chris hollered to the others who had sought shelter various places ith his voice barely heard over the ringing of the weapons fire,

"Run, and I'll give them hell!" and stood for a suicidal last stand. As sunset heard the words she grabbed up as many of the others and started a fighting retreat out of their firing range and line of sight. The bullets and RPG that were raining down hit him in the lower legs and body armor, although thanks to the adrenaline flowing through his system he never felt them as he backed up to the portal using it as a back rest in case of a flanking attempt, a high explosive that he hadn't seen landed at his feet, knocking him through the portal in a cloud of splintered rock and gravel. David stood up from his hiding place behind the statue nearest the parking lot and returned fire, as the staccato fire of the light machine gun blocking out his music was pissing him off ad he was also pissed that he hadn't been told to fall back. Dropping the last attacker, Dave, with his characteristic Rambo style and his carbine, grabbed three gallons of gasoline and poured them on the bodies before using a electrical wire to set them on fire. Running to his car with vinyl in hot pursuit, he sought to drink away the memory of what just happened. "Oh damn it this sucks," Chris muttered as he was knocked out on his one way trip.

Chris, still moving across gravel and a variety of other shit, from the impact of the RPG and bullets, bounced along the ground, shattering his arms and leaving them at odd angles; his legs were scraped up drawing blood and burning with the dust and other debris, which bounced him back to consciousness. He moaned in pain before trying to move his arms which had now become black forelegs. Trying to move, he pulled himself to water which had put his legs near a sign were a pink pony was lifting it. Seeing the mangled black forelegs and the red mane and bats wings for the first time, he let out a slightly confused scream which scared Pinkie, who was helping miss cake with the bakery. As she dropped the sign, she heard a raspy and obviously pained voice scream, "Ah goddamn it, there is no way this could get worse... oh wait, I spoke to soon." Dash, who had seen a Pegasus with bat wings fall, went to laugh at them, but came upon the scene that would scar her for a while.

As Dash took off to get help for the obviously wounded and to get away from the blood, Pinkie started to apologize profusely. "I didn't mean to do that, please forgive me!" she pleaded. "I will, but I just need the medical staff now," Grimm said, a pained grimace crossing his face as he tried to move. Right as he said that, he was picked up and taken to the medics, where his dog tags showed him as either a wonder bolt or naval ace.

Princess Luna looked at Dash with concern in her eyes before telling Dash a command she knew the filly would obey. "He seems like you, and I think we need to amputate due to the damage, so be ready to help a flier get back on his feet; he is under your wing." As this all happened, a girl with a blonde mane and tail with angels wings walked in, with castle guards as an escort, as the dog tags on the back had a contact for his little sister, who was internally panicking from being brought in from the school. "My names Angel and as his sister I will help too, in any way that I can" Angel said. "Now, what do we do?" she asked before Princess Luna looked into the girl's nervous, emerald-green eyes and responded.

"Now we wait, and hope for the best."

Dash hugged Angel tight, turning her white. She wondered why she felt so familiar around him, knowing that she would find out, even if it meant asking the new girl for advice about feeling calm with him and the past which she thought was all in her mind.