My Little Pony: Proud to Serve

Chapter 2

Timothy and Anthony

Neo, his pony friends and Spike were walking through the Everfree Forest, looking for 2 humans that they heard had been causing some trouble in the forest. They had already found some dead forest creatures that appeared to have been killed by guns, so they knew that the creatures had to have been killed by the 2 humans.

As they searched, it was very quiet in the forest, suddenly, they heard more gunfire, and it sounded awfully close by. The friends tried to stay low for safety reasons. They slowly moved around some trees and then they saw the 2 humans. They were shooting through trees with military rifles and they were both wearing camouflage clothes just like Zecora had described. Neo tried to tell them to stop shooting, but the humans couldn't hear them because of the gunfire, but Twilight told Neo not to get their attention or they might shoot at them, she said they would have to disarm them first.

Rainbow Dash flew over to them and tried to stop them, but the 2 humans tried to shoot her, Rainbow Dash quickly flew out of their line of fire and Twilight and Starlight Glimmer used their magic to disarm the humans. Their guns floated up out of their hands and Twilight and Starlight floated them over to Neo, Neo now had the guns and the humans tried to run away. But Rainbow Dash quickly tackled them to the ground and held them on the ground. Neo, Spike and the other ponies went over to the humans, the humans got up and Twilight told them to stay where they are. The humans looked like teenagers and they were both men, and they looked like twins. The humans had confused looks on their faces, they couldn't believe they were looking at colorful ponies, creatures that they had only heard about in fantasy books.

Twilight introduced herself and said she was the princess of friendship, and she asked the humans their names. One human said his name was Timothy and the other human said his name was Anthony. Twilight asked them why they were in Equestria. They were very confused, they had never heard of Equestria. Timothy asked what year it was and Neo said it was 2001. The boys were shocked, Timothy said a few days ago, it was the year 1965. Neo and his friends were confused, Twilight asked the boys to explain what happened before they got to Equestria.

Timothy said that he and his brother were young teenagers who were drafted into the Vietnam War, they worked for the U.S. Army and were in Vietnam fighting the war, and one day while fighting in the war, a bright light suddenly appeared, engulfing the 2 boys in light, and then they suddenly ended up in this forest. They must have time traveled since they now ended up in the year 2001. Neo and his friends were mesmerized by the story, Twilight asked the boys why they were shooting up the forest and the boys explained that they thought the war was still going on and they were scared. Neo and the ponies understood, Twilight said that there was no war in Equestria and everything was fine.

The boys were happy to hear that, suddenly, there was a forest noise, the boys freaked out for a second, but Rainbow Dash tried to calm them down, Fluttershy gave them the stare and told them to sit down and behave. The boys tried to stay calm, but they were very nervous, they seemed more nervous than Fluttershy when she's nervous. Neo told his friends that the boys must have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Of course his friends didn't know what that was and Neo explained that it's a disorder that some humans can get, especially soldiers, soldiers that have PTSD after they've been in war, when they are back home and they hear loud noises, they think it's a military tank or a bomb exploding, in other words, they think the war is still going on.

Then they understood, Twilight calmly told the boys that there is no war now and everything will be okay, she also said that she knows someone who might be able to help them and make everything better for them. The boys were willing to accept any help, so Twilight asked the boys to come with her and her friends, the boys began to follow Twilight and her friends and they headed out of the forest.

End of chapter 2, chapter 3 coming soon.