Friendship is a life saver ch 11
(Six hours after Marcus and Fluttershy disappeared)
Luna's moon rose over Ponyville, and the town was engulfed into the night. The locals tucked in their children and they themselves went to bed. Everypony was ready for a night of peaceful rest, everypony except the mane five and Discord. After Discord teleported Marcus and Fluttershy back down to Earth, the mane five had a field day yelling at Discord for what he did. Discord couldn't help but feel just a little bad. From what he heard, Marcus was a great guy, who didn't deserve all the pain he received back on Earth, but then again he stole his girl. The only reason he even bothered with helping the mane five was to get Fluttershy back to safety and maybe Marcus if he could be asked. The six colorful creatures had set up shop in Twilight's house, planning their approach. After learning of Earth and the crazy and brutal people there, they took no chances. Twilight made everypony invisibility potions, Rainbow Dash exercised her wings in case they needed to escape in a hurry, and Applejack helped Twilight with the actual plan, while Pinkie and Rarity provided moral support. Discord lay on the couch, drinking a glass of chocolate milk and reading Twilight's book on Earth. He turned to a page with a crudely drawn view of Earth from space.
"This world must be gigantic, how are we supposed to find Fluttershy?" Discord asked aloud.
"Why don't you just teleport us to where you teleported Marcus and Fluttershy to?" Twilight asked.
"Now where's the fun in that?" Discord asked with a smirk on his face.
"Bearded asshole." Rainbow dash mumbled, making sure nopony heard the new world Marcus taught her before he left.
"Okay everypony, listen up!" Applejack announced as Twilight pulled down a map of Earth, this one being much more refined than the one in the book.
"Marcus told me that he lived somewhere around here" Twilight said, pointing to Alaska "All we have to do is teleport there, and find Marcus."
"Is everypony ready?" Applejack asked. They all nodded and turned to Discord. The Draconequus sighed and snapped his eagle claw. A portal appeared in the middle of the room, now was the time. Making sure they had everything, Twilight led the charge into the portal, soon they all disappeared into the portal.
(Marcus' POV)
It felt so weird waking up back on Earth again. Being surrounded by all my childhood things, it felt like I was a kid again, waking up on a Saturday morning to catch my favorite cartoon. But I wasn't, I was back in my own personal hell, which was ready to engulf me in its fire of hate and misery. But at the very least, I have my little flutter butter next to me. Fluttershy slept gracefully under me, her face seemed so calm, as if she hadn't entered the valley of hell the night before. I could smell breakfast being cooked downstairs, and I was hungry, but I didn't want to wake Fluttershy up. I sighed and turned to face Fluttershy. My sudden movement caused her to stir a little bit, but she remained asleep. I ran my fingers through her mane ever so gently; I was all of a sudden engrossed with the creature that lay before me. I loved her, she loved me, so was it strange I had a missile in my pants? I came to the realization that I was attracted to Fluttershy in a more…"special" kind of way. She looked so cute, and a bit…oh who am I kidding, I want to fuck her. I know its blunt to say so, but it's true. On the night of our wedding, I'm going to fuck her silly. My thoughts of certain positions I'd like to perform were cut short by Nick entering the room.
"Ya' mom told me to tell you that breakfast's done." I frowned at Nick, he just barged in the room, and he didn't even have the common courtesy to knock. All the commotion was enough to bring Fluttershy out of her slumber. She opened her eyes and blocked the incoming sunlight with her hoof. I couldn't help but laugh and kissed her right on the nose.
"Good morning my little flutter butter." I said, getting up from the bed. "Did you sleep well?"
"Oh yes Markey, your bed was really comfy." She said as I put on my outfit.
"Mom's cooking dinner downstairs, you want anything?" Fluttershy's stomach grumbled, answering the question for me. Fluttershy blushed and we made our way downstairs. We walked into the kitchen where mom was cooking pancakes, and Nick sat drinking a beer.
"Really Nick? A Bud Light at 10:00 in the morning?" I asked, frustrated. At this point, there wouldn't be anything left for me!
"Yep, my uncle told me that beer and syrup was a good combo, and I'm fixin' to find out." I rolled my eyes and sat down next to Fluttershy who had already taken her seat.
"You boys sleep good last night?" My mother asked.
"I would've if she didn't keep that damn spare room as cold as a freezer." Nick grumbled.
"Well you're the one who says he likes the cold." My mother retorted
"Yeah, but when I can't feel my balls cause it's so cold, that's way too much." My mother laughed and walked up to the dinner table with the plates of pancakes for us. Nick was kind enough to get us the syrup and butter. We began to eat, and I was disappointed. I don't know if the ingredients back on Equestria, or if its Fluttershy, but the pancakes were not on par to the ones on Equestria. These ones tasted, for a lack of a better word, lifeless. They were dry, and a bit undercooked, my mother was a good cook, so this was horrifying. It seemed that every second I remained on Earth I found a new reason to hate it like I had always done. I sighed and ate the slightly shitty pancakes; I didn't want to insult my mother, especially after what happened last night. I looked over to nick who poured the syrup on his pancakes and held his beer.
"Here goes nothin'" He said as he both ate a piece of pancake and took a sip from his beer. His face contracted like someone had farted in the room. He walked over to the trash can next to Fluttershy and spit out what he had just chewed.
"My uncle lied to me, the dirty bastard…" Nick went on a tirade about his uncle and how he used to prank Nick nonstop. We just ignored the angry redneck and finished our meal. As I cleaned the dishes, the other three went into the living room and sat on the couch to watch TV. I looked over at Fluttershy, who was simply infatuated with the foreign object. The three channel surfed though many things: War dramas, reality shows, a news piece about a guy on top of the Washington monument, wait, what the hell? I walked into the living room, forgetting about the dishes, and sure enough CNN was showing news copter footage of a guy just sitting on top of the Washington monument.
" …The question still remains, how did that young man get all the way up there without anyone seeing…what? Did you just see that!?" The anchorman spouted. The man on top of the Washington monument seemingly willed a glass of some sort of beverage out of thin air. He just sat there, sipping from his glass and waving to the helicopters.
"Nick, Fluttershy, I think we're in trouble." I said, putting on my hoodie. This could mean one thing, and one thing only, Discord.
(13 Hours before)
In the blink of an eye, the mane five went from being in Equestria, to being in the human world, Earth. The portal opened and everypony walked out, only to be greeted by darkness. As the portal disappeared behind them, Discord summoned a lantern and held it up.
"Are we all here?" Discord asked. The mane five nodded and they took in their surroundings. For one thing it was bitterly cold, everypony except Discord shivered in place. Second, it was night time, which meant they had a better chance of not being spotted by anyone. But what made the mane six and Discord cringe was the fact they were surrounded by waist height white marble stones that seemed to extend for miles.
"T-Twilight, a-are we in a…" Pinkie Pie tried to finish her sentence, but instead clung on to Twilight for dear life. Discord shines his lantern over one of the stones, which simply read "Unknown U.S. solider."
"Oh my, um, to answer your question Pinkie, yes, we're in a cemetery." Everypony gasped, not out of fear, but out of astonishment. To think that so many dead were buried in one place, the ponies shuttered.
"Okay, we need to figure out just where the heck we are." Applejack asserted.
"Agreed. Discord, can you conjure up a map or something?" Twilight asked.
"Hmm, let me try." Discord snapped his eagle claw and a small brochure appeared in mid air. Twilight levitated the map and began to read
"Arlington National Cemetery serves as a cemetery and a memorial to America'spersons of national importance, including presidents, Supreme Court justices and countless military heroes. The Cemetery was established during the Civil War as a final resting place for Union soldiers on approximately 200 acres of Mary Custis Lee's 1,100 acre Arlington estate.The property was expanded over the years to encompass more than 624 acres of burial grounds of more than 400,000 American servicemen. Each year, more than four million people visit Arlington, attending graveside services and special ceremonies to pay tribute to veterans and historical figures."
Everypony gasped once more.
"400,000 people, all dead, and buried here?" Rarity asked herself, unable to accept what was right in front of her.
"It looks that way, but we can feel sorry for them later, let's see if this thing had a map." Twilight said, flipping through the pages. She soon came across a detailed map of the cemetery.
"Okay, we're currently in the 'tombs of the unknowns' and we need to head south on the trail. Well, let's go I guess." The mane five and Discord trotted though the hundreds of graves that sat before them. Discord in particular was stunned, although he didn't dare show it. He was the master of chaos, but it was all in good nature, he never meant for anypony to lose their life, but what he was seeing, was the result of a chaos too wicked even for him to handle. After a few minutes of trekking through the countless gravestones they found the cobblestone path that lead to the other parts of the cemetery.
"Rainbow Dash, can you fly up and see the way out?" Twilight asked.
"No problem." Rainbow Dash flew up in the sky, and was baffled by what she saw. There were countless illuminated buildings, all of which seemed to reach into the heavens. There was a giant white rotunda in the distance, and a very tall marble stick thing sticking out in the middle of nowhere. The roads were crowded with people and loud machine that moved through the roads. Rainbow Dash wouldn't admit it, but it was a sight to see. She flew back down to the group, her face still looking shocked.
"Well, what did ya' see?" Applejack asked.
"Pure, 100 percent, awesome." Rainbow replied as she led the group to the exit. Before they were able to leave however, they came across a while marble building, with a large marble square at the end of the stairs that lead to the building. At the bottom if the stairs stood a tall uniformed man, marching back and forth, with a strange metal and wood stick thing in his hands. The man said nothing, looked at nothing, he just marched in the bitter cold.
"What is he doing?" Twilight whispered.
"He's acting like one of Princess Celestia's royal guards. He's a guard of some sort." Rarity asserted.
"Yeah, but of what?" To answer Twilight's second question, Discord conjured a pair of binoculars and looked through them. He focused in the marble square that had had some sort of writing.
"Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God." Discord read aloud. "I guess he's guarding that giant tomb." The group shrugged and continued on the cobblestone trail. They eventually reached the exit, where Twilight stopped.
"Okay everypony. If we're going to stand a change out there, we're going to need some disguises. This means we're going to have to…become human.
