Original Story by leo0074

Edited by jak3combat

Used with permission by the original author.

'What the hell happened?' Was the only thing Rex thought after he woke up.

Rex could not hear anything, and when he tried to open his eyes, he felt a terrible headache. When the pain finally began to subside and he was once again was able to hear, to his surprise all he could hear were the murmurs of apparently many people but in a language that he didn't understand.

When he opened his eyes, what he saw was some of the strangest creatures he had ever seen. They were small, colored and apparently some had horns or wings while others didn't, and they were watching him with curiosity. Rex only stare back to the creatures, but he noticed that the creatures had realized that he has awake, and then they started to run away from him, screaming in a strange dialect.

The only thing he could say for a moment like this was, "Strange." After that Rex decided it was time to get up.

Twilight and her friends were having a picnic in the fields outside Ponyville and having fun until Spike arrived with a letter from Princess Celestia.

Rex start to look around and he could tell he was in some kind of square, probably in a city, but it looked very primitive. Before doing anything, Rex decided to check his equipment before doing anything else; he have his two DC-17 blasters, one DC-15 blaster, three thermal detonators, one smoke grenade and one flare.

After see everything was ok he said, "Great, now I'll have to contact the General, I wish everything is ok." He then attempted to make contact with his communicator, "This is Captain Rex here. Is somebody there, I repeat can anyone hear me?"

After about a minute of waiting with no response, then Rex spoke again, "Dammit this thing is not working, I wish I had..." Rex was interrupted by a huge scream.

Rex turned to look, only to find more of these creatures yelling at him in the language again. Then they took a menacing pose, which made him notice they all of them had some kind of armor. Rex assumed they were in some kind of military force.

Rex knew he was in some kind of trouble for some reason, so as to not make more he decided to put his hands in the air, "Ok, ok I surrender just stop yelling!" He shouted, trying to calm down the creatures.

They didn't see to understand his sign of surrender (maybe because they don't have hands), and they didn't stop yelling at him. One of them launched the spear it was holding at Rex.

"Hell, I guess I'll have to do it the hard way," Rex muttered, then dodged the attack and bolted forward before launching a knock out blow to the creature. The others don't look very happy to see their friend on the ground. They all glared at Rex, who went back to his original position and looked around.

'Three in front, two on the right, one to the left, and four at my back. There are too many, but I better not use the blasters, killing is not gonna help me here.' Rex thought before smirking under his helmet. 'But nobody says that I cannot hurt them with the blasters.' Rex pulled out his two hand blasters and shot those on his sides in the legs, incapacitating them. Then he starting to run to the right where he could try to escape, but the other seven started to chase him down the street. Rex could easily shoot the others in the legs too, but Rex did not want to hurt many of the creatures, as they might try to actively kill him.

After Twilight discovered that the letter was about the wedding of her brother, she became very sad, and a little angry. Her brother never said anything about the wedding to her and she didn't even know who was going to be the bride.

Rex was running around the city, thanks to his harsh training he could run very long distances, but then he see some sort of beam that almost hit him go streaking past his head.

"Dammit! What was that?" Rex hissed, looking around only to see a large group of more armored creatures who's horns were letting off a light. They stood on rooftops of the houses while shooting at him. "Oh come on, they can shoot from their horns!?"

All the civilian creatures were running around screaming and taking cover. Rex, with almost no other options, tried to take cover behind a wagon which was abandoned, to gain some time.

"They already found me." Rex muttered to himself, until he saw that both sides of the road had more of these creatures, and they were all converging on him. "Where the hell did they come from?"

Rex with no other options, tossed his smoke grenade in the middle of the road, creating a huge smoke cloud, the confused creatures did not know where Rex was, so Rex started to run to another point to get cover. When the smoke cleared, Rex had disappeared.

A few hours later, already dark, Rex was on the roof of one of the buildings, making some recon in the city. To his surprise the city was on the ridge of a mountain and had some kind of force field around it, meaning he was trapped in the city.

'What is the matter with this place? It's really strange, and how did I get here in the first place? More important, how do I get back to the Republic?' He thought, rubbing the back of his helmet.

Rex was too busy thinking about what to do, to notice the dark figure behind him until it spoke. "(We have finally found thou.)"

Rex turn around to face another one of the strange creatures, but this one was dark, with wings and a horn.

Rex could only say one thing before a powerful beam knocked him out, "What the hell?!"

Twilight and Spike were packing their stuff to travel to Canterlot, to the wedding of her brother. She still did not feel better with the news of her brother's wedding and him not telling her.

Spike tried to make her feel better. "Don't worry Twillight, I'm sure he didn't tell you about the wedding for a good reason." He said.

Twilight gave him a sad look and said, "I don't know Spike, he is my brother, he should have told me from the beginning!"

Before Spike could say something he burped up another letter, which was also from Princess Celestia, and grabbed the letter, ready to open it.

"Another letter from the princess? What's it say?" Twilight asked Spike, tilting her head.

'Dear Twilight,

Before you come to the wedding here in Canterlot, I want to tell you that we have captured a very strange alien. The alien was terrorizing Canterlot, buteverything it's ok, Princess Luna knocked out the alien. I wanted to ask your help to study this creature, because I know how much you would like to do it. So I'll see you during the preparations for the wedding.

Your mentor,
Princess Celestia'

Twilight after hearing Spike read it out loud, felt better. Who wouldn't feel exited? It's a alien!