Equestria Special Forces

NightSound came in; she was the one, who said it,
“Oh NightSound, we were just talking about you,” Sitrep said it in the most innocent manner, but I yanked his tail to shut him up, “Um… Ouch,”
“Quiet Sitrep, don’t want to make things awkward,” I whispered to him with a calm voice, as I held him by the neck,
“Well it’s the truth,”
“Oh don’t make me start squeezing,”
“Don’t make me burn your face,” I was about to choke Sitrep, but NightSound giggled at us,
“You two are like brothers,”
“Technically, we sort of are, can you get your claws off me?” I let my grip off, and Sitrep cleared his throat,
“Huh, care to tell me more?” Night asked, Sitrep was going to open his mouth, but I interrupted him
“NightSound, so how are things?” I said trying to change the subject
“C’mon Airrick, you’ve been hiding something from me and Red ever since we met you,”
“Did someone say my name?” Reddy came in the room and I noticed that he’s now wearing a strange looking glove on his left hoof, it had metal plating and some emblem on it that I can’t seem to describe,
“Where did you go?” Night asked him, not acknowledging his glove
“My uncle just showed me something and now he’s preparing a training course for me,” He seemed a bit excited, “Oh hey Sitrep, what’s going on here?”
“About to tell Night our past,” Sitrep said out loud and I just couldn’t believe him, all I can think of is slapping my hand to my face,
“Fine, I’ll tell you guys,” I sighed to the others,
“I love to hear other people’s personal stories,” Reddy said as he started to grab chairs from… I have no idea where he got it, “it’s funny because we just knew each other for a day and we’re telling our entire personal life.” He is a really random pony,
“Sitrep and I met here in this whole academy of highly trained soldiers, Sitrep and I both started at the age of 8, and yes we are both 20 right now.”
“It was a big coincidence to know that you guys were the same,” The green dragon added,
“Before I joined the academy my dad was a mercenary,” I continued my story, “I never knew my mom, my dad said she died and that was all he said.”
“No details, no background?” NightSound asked,
“Nothing, just dead; my dad was always a bit shady, I mean he had a black body and light grey head, just like me, but the eyes were something different. I can’t remember which eye colour he had, but mines as you can see are brown,”
“Yeah, you’re always forgetful of the simplest things,” Sitrep snickered, I nudged him for saying so,
“He was a specialist with all kinds of weapons, when it was my first time shooting my sniper he said that I had the…” I paused for a moment, trying to remember what the word was,
“Told you guys,” Sitrep snickered,
“So why did you join the academy?” NightSound asked,
“My dad said I was ready to join and he had to do a job that won’t allow him to take care of me anymore,”
“Oh oh, let me guess,” Reddytech was raising his left hoof that had that glove with weird markings on, “And he’s dead right,”
“No!” I yelled, I looked at the others they all had a worried look, I calmed myself down and apologized for the outburst, “it’s just that he hasn’t responded for years that’s all,”
“So you think that?” Night asked
“Still alive? Yes, look I don’t like talking about my past” it was a quiet moment for the time being.
“So wanna hear my story now?” Sitrep said, just as he said it, Gunshow and Cyro came in, “Aw man, it was gonna be good,”
“Maybe next time Sitrep,” Reddy said to the green dragon,
“You guys getting more acquainted?” The commander said,
“Looks like it,” Gunshow walks towards me with the improved knife in the holster, “I made some modifications to it,”
“What did you…?”
“Try it out to find out,” Gunshow interrupted me; I just gave a confused look.
“Alright we’re continuing the mission,” Everyone focuses on The Commander, “thanks to the orbital beacon we managed to locate the pony who wanted to use this in the first place.”
“Then we use the beacon to blow them up right?” ReddyTech said, Sitrep seemed to agree,
“No, we are not allowed to use the beacon. The reason is classified.”
“Of course it is,” I said, Night looked at me with a concerned looked,
“Okay, we’re all set, now all of you to the hanger when you’re ready.”

Canterlot, Armoury
November 30th, 20:10 (ReddyTech)

The armoury is huge and packed with weapons and armour I never seen before; I can see GunShow’s reaction to this place. Anyway my uncle made some adjustments to the glove; so it can make it makes it easier to control and not causes a lot of chaos.
“I realise that the glove is running on a battery,” Cyro is describing to me, “A magic battery,”
“There are always drawbacks in these sorts of things,” I responded, I mean seriously what is with amazing weapons having downsides.
“Red, I don’t want to make more complex information on this, the only magic that can power the glove can only be powered by our bloodline,”
“So, only you can charge it?” My grandparents are dead, so no point looking at them. My grandma was a unicorn and my grandpa was an earth pony. My mom’s side of the family has no relations to unicorns. Cyro is the only one left in our family right now.
“Yes, try it on.” I put on the glove on my left hoof, since I'm right hoofed. “I’m going to teach you a basic levitation spell, give me your hat,”
“Oh...” I took off my hat and passed it to him. I never feel comfortable taking off my hat; Cyro looked at me with a static face for a while. I look like my dad, same mane style, similar colours and identical personalities.
“Aim the glove and focus,” he puts on my hat
“What? Like think to levitate it?”
“Yes,” I aimed the glove at my hat and thought of lifting it. The glove powered up and it was surrounded by a dark red aura, at first it was the glove, then my entire leg was glowing. Uncle Cyro became very concerned as if that something is going wrong. I tried to stay calm and lift my hat, it was slightly floating, but I focused harder.
“Easy there, don’t push yourself kid,” Cyro warned me. I managed to put on my hat with the glove, I stopped trying to focus and turn off the glove.
“How was it?” I asked, he just stared at me, with no response
“It’s Good enough, Get yourself ready,” Cyro said with no emotion coming out of him, but why should I comment about that when I got a magic welding weapon. I got my bullet-proof vest, fixed my hat and turned on the glove.

Canterlot, Hanger
November 30th, 20:20

I would have more comments about this weapon, but there was something else on my mind. The team, don’t get me wrong I can start to like them as a family to me, since I have a feeling we’re going to be with each other for who knows how long. Cyro, he’s my uncle, of course I like him. Night Sound, best friends since we were born, I remember when I first met her she was very… very quiet, go figure, she only talked whenever any adult asks her something. Airrick and Sitrep, I’m not sure about Sitrep yet, I haven’t heard his story, but the relation with him and Airrick is interesting, just like bros they must’ve been through a lot together. The big question is Gun Show, an ex-captain for security in Manehatten; I don’t think what he did makes him get fired, there has to be something that motivated him to be assign to this team. Woah! I just made a monologue I have to meet the others before this gets boring.
“C’mon Red, briefing is inside,” Sitrep was waiting outside for me, we walked in the plane to see the others having the briefing,
“Is everyone here?” Cyro asked, we came in the room just on time “we found out the location where the beacon was going to be delivered,”
“How did they find out so quickly?” Airrick asked,
“We found the shipping information inside the jacked plane,”
“That’s… convenient” Airrick said, I couldn’t agree more with him,
“Somehow they were going to ship it to a warehouse in Cloudsdale” Cyro continued, “And we have to infiltrate the warehouse, located here,” The screen on the wall near the cockpit area, I don’t know anything about planes, so I have no idea how to describe this plane. It has monitors, guns, and controls, that is pretty much all I can say. Anyway back on topic, the screen showed the map of where the warehouse is, which is near the colosseum
“Night Sound,” Cyro asked her, “Do you have an idea, why the Nameless are doing there?” She took her time to think about it,
“The Wonderbolts,”
“I get it, they want to ‘persuade’ them to be their propaganda,” Gun Show pointed out
“I find it strange,” Night continued her point, “It is very early before the Wonderbolts do a special event,”
“We’ll figure that out later,” Cyro said, “Right now, we will be assigned into teams for this infiltration mission. ReddyTech, Night Sound, Gun Show and I, we’re the first ones to go in from the roof.”
I wasn’t sure if I was excited or not, but after how the last mission went how can stealth go wrong. I think I jinxed myself there
“Airrick, you’re the eye in the sky,”
At least I was getting to see Airrick in action,
“Sitrep you do your hacker stuff and make sure their blind,” Cyro assigned our roles, Sitrep left the plane, wishes us luck and went to the communication centre, as always I was glad we’re at least doing a mission where it seems easier.
“All right guys strap in we’re launching,” Airrick said, the engines ignite, the hanger door opens and we’re all seated down strapped.
“Have fun guys,” Sitrep said through the plane’s comms, “Permission to fly granted,”
“And we are off,” Airrick said in a dramatic way, the plane launched and we’re in the air heading to Cloudsdale. I sat next to Night Sound for the, and I wanted to have a conversation with her for Cloudsdale,
“So, Night,” I said, she turned her head to me from, “How’s Cloudsdale?”
“Oh, um, good,” She didn’t sounded like she was expecting that question. “I get noticed a lot since being a Martial arts trainer,”
“Hey, let us not forget that you used to be a Wonderbolt,” Gun Show added, he was sitting opposite to us two, same with Cyro.
“You used to be a Wonderbolt?” Airrick said from the pilot’s seat, “That’s awesome,” Night became shy and looked down, I patted her back,
“Nothing wrong for being one, right?” I asked to her, she looked up to me and came close to me,
“Red, I really don’t want to talk about it,” she whispered in my ear, I was curious of why she doesn’t,
“Okay,” I wondered why, but if she doesn’t want to talk about it she really doesn’t, I know from experience,
“All right filly and gentle colts,” Airrick said,
“And dragon,” Sitrep said over the com, like a kid looking for attention
“Welcome to Cloudsdale,” Airrick slowed down just show us it, and wow I never saw Cloudsdale in person, too bad it was night time so I can’t really see much of it, just light posts.
“I cast the spell on us so we can walk on the clouds,” Cyro said to us mainly me and Gun, I never walked on clouds before, Gun Show and Cyro get ready
“Okay, dropping you guys off above the warehouse in 3, now!” Airrick opens the doors with his incredible timing, and I happen to land face first on the roof
“Why don’t we land next time?” I said, the others landed as well,
“Keeps a low profile,” Cyro explained “We don’t want to attract anybody’s attention around here,” Cyro looked around the roof of the warehouse, he found a roof access door but it has an electronic lock the kind where only heavy equipment can unlock,
“An electronic lock for a warehouse? What’s inside this place?” I asked
“We’re about to find out,” Gunshow said, I walked up to the lock and turned on my glove, Uncle Cyro gave me a nod when I did so, I guess he wanted to see if the glove has some sort of hacking tool. A screen popped up showing me a message saying “Hack? Yes or no?”
“What are you doing?” Night said to me,
“I don’t know, but I’m gonna say yes,” I pressed yes and the lock opened,
“Did your uncle give you this?”
“Actually, my dad technically, but when he died Cyro gave it and-“
“Okay, your uncle gave it,” Night interrupted me,
“Looks like this thing has a lot more than I expect,”
“Guys, I’m in a safe distance,” Airrick said through our earpieces “I got sleeper rounds ready,”
“Good, Red you got the door open?” Cyro said,
“Yeah,”
“Alright, this is a stealth mission without any casualties needed,”
“I hate missions like that, it gives bad ratings,” Gunshow said, and I just realised what he meant, he is one crazy pony,
I push opened the door and there was a stairway down,
“Fillies, first” I presented to Night
“You were always a gentlecolt, Red”
“You know it,” Night and I go way back, it was funny to see her change from a very quiet pony into a… Sorry my brain shut off there, what was I talking about? Oh yeah and that’s why I never hit it with a wrench again. We were going down and Night stopped as we reached the bottom,
“Checking for cameras,” Cyro said, his horn glowed and he started looking around, “Good news, no cameras on where we’re going, the security room is on the right and we can monitor the entire warehouse,”
“Wow, this warehouse has terrible security then,”
“Gun, take out the guard, don’t knock him out, interrogate him,” Cyro commanded “Red, Night I want you two to check the rooms that have any nameless, Gun will tell you where they are,”
“What about you?” I asked, Cyro went invisible with his magic, “I bet he finds that very useful,”
“Well, I’m gonna have fun with this,” Gunshow bumped his hooves and opened the silently, there was a stallion at the desk monitoring the cameras and he was talking to someone on the radio, Gunshow snuck up behind him and held his mouth and pushed him against the wall away from the alarms, “stay quiet and I’ll make sure you won’t have a closed casket,” the guy on the radio was asking if there was a problem,
“Guys, get the radio,” I went to grab the radio on the desk and the guy was getting worried; “Now I want you to say that everything’s fine and please…” Gun was twisting his neck, threatening to break it, “Don’t ruin the show,” I held the radio on the guard’s face, the man on the radio was asking if he’s okay, Gun slowly took his hoof off of his mouth,
“I’m fine,” the guard responded
“You sure? You don’t sound like it, I’m coming to see you to make sure,”
“Your friend is going to have the same experience as you if he comes up here,” Gunshow said,
“No really, I-I’m just tired,” the guard said
“Okay, it sounds like you’re dying or something,”
“Thanks for participating in this act,” Gunshow said and he slammed his head on the wall to knock him out,
“Wow, gun, you’re scary, but I thought we were gonna interrogate him” I said, as I put the radio on the desk,
“Meh whatever, I’m gonna check where the nameless are, best for you two to get a head start,” Gunshow said, “I’ll take care of him,” me and Nightsound left the room and we were at a catwalk that’s very high above the entire warehouse,
“Stay low,” Night shoved my back to the floor as two nameless guards talking to each other, walking below us; I couldn’t hear what they were talking about, “I think we should follow them, they could be important,”
“Nah, Cyro said that Gun will tell us where to go to find the guys behind this,” I said to Night, one of the nameless guards stopped talking and looked up,
“Hey! Anypony up there?” the guard said, me and night stayed down and didn’t make a sound, the guard started to fly up and the other one got his gun out, but something grabbed both his front hooves on his back and knocked him out, it was Cyro, kind of a no brainer to know it was him
“Night, throw Red at him,” Cyro said through the our ear pieces and wait,
“What?” Night threw me and I landed on the guard and we both fell to the ground, he was trying to cry for help but I was on his mouth,
“Red, you have a stun gun installed in your glove,” Cyro said, I thought of electricity and the glove started to spark so I hit the guard with it. It was a quick fry, because it took like a second for him to pass out from the shock,
“You guys done?” Gun said from the security room, “I found where they are,”
“Good,” Cyro responded, “I managed to find info of this place, there are a lot of resources, mostly building materials, and maybe they’re planning on making a weapon,”
“That could explain the EMP or Beacon, whatever,” Airrick said through the comms
“Shouldn’t we find where the nameless are and talk about this stuff later?” I asked,
“Yeah, I’m surprised there weren’t many guards around here,” Cyro said, “I guess it’s because that this warehouse just has building materials and that’s it,”
“Commander, I got some other guys coming in,” Airrick said
“Alright you two get back to finding the nameless, Airrick get ready to shoot, Gun stay where you are in case any of them enter.” We all went on doing our job,
“Red, Night, head onto the bottom floor corridor and go to the door at the end,” I rogered him, do people say that anymore? Anyway, Night and I snuck in the room by the classic air vents. We say three guys and it was one of the nameless we keep seeing on TV, I knew it was him because he had a bright blue mane and a light grey body with a mirror for cutie mark, there was another nameless that looked like a bodyguard and there was a mare with an orange mane and yellow. The nameless was sitting on his chair behind his desk.
“Spitfire? What are you doing?” Night whispered to herself, I was confused for a moment, and then I remembered that Spitfire is the leader of the Wonderbolts.
“No, the Wonderbolts aren’t the kind of ponies that want to make a bad press on the Princess,” Spitfire said talking to the nameless guy,
“I admire your loyalty to the princess, and I'm not forcing you to do this,” The nameless said, “but just remember what I told you about her,”
“Goodbye, Crystal Glow,” Spitfire left and Crystal leaned back on his seat, I never paid any attention to the name for the nameless, wow that sounded stupid, so his name is Crystal Glow
“Red use the gun the commander gave you,” Night whispered to me, I opened my bag and got a pistol that shoots a device that tracks people,”
“Who should I plant it on?” I asked Night
“Anyone of them, doesn’t matter they’re gonna go to the same place” I shot it at the bodyguard, luckily he was paying attention to Crystal rather than feeling a bug biting him,
“Alright let’s go,” I said, Night and I, left the air vents and we met at the security room, there were a bunch of guards on the floor including the ones that we fought and there were sleep darts on all their necks, there was a poorly drawn dart board that was drawn with markers on the wall, the security monitors were showing flashing colours, a couple of beer bottles on the tables and Gunshow was kicking back on the chair,
“Yeah, Sitrep did the flashing lights for me, anyway rendezvous on the roof,” Gunshow started walking to the roof; I never knew he was the fancy type, but we didn’t question and we moved on. Cyro was waiting on the edge of the building, “by the way, I don’t drink, so don’t worry ‘bout that,”
“Night get your head start,” Cyro said and Night nodded and flew downwards, “Red, stand next to me,” I was expecting something is going to happen,
“Best to hold on to your hat,” Gun chuckled, the cloud spell was gone and we were falling through the clouds,
“Why don’t you ever tell me the entire plan?” I yelled as were we falling
“Airrick!” Cyro shouted and we landed on the plane, but I flopped
“Gotcha!” Airrick said, Cyro teleported us in the plane, I was still face planted on the floor. Night helped me up and asked if I was okay. “Did you see the darts?”
“I’m guessing that was you,” I said
“You know it,” Airrick responded in a very cocky voice,
“Red, Night, did you manage to get any info?” Cyro asked, we sat down on the seats,
“Yes, fortunately Spitfire didn’t accept the deal,” Night said,
“And I planted the bug on the bodyguard,”
“The bodyguard?” Cyro responded, “Interesting choice, but that’s also a good one, knowing bodyguards they have to stay with their clients. Good, Spitfire didn’t accept the deal, so that means the Wonderbolts aren’t with ‘em. You managed to get the bug on them so we can track their HQ, get evidence that their actions are against the law and execute the final plan,”
“That was really fun,” I said, “I can see why you like your job,” I said to Uncle Cyro,
“That’s debatable,” he responded, “Airrick take us home,”
“You got it, ETA 30 seconds,” Airrick said, we were heading home, and hey, maybe I can finally get some sleep for the day. Overall about that mission, I still didn’t get to see Airrick shooting live, but he does seem to land good shots. Gunshow still confuses, why is he so different during mission and not? I’m not sure, split-personalities? I don’t know. Nightsound follows orders no matter what; my back is still aching from that fall. And my glove really does act like a unicorn horn, just think or imagine it and it happens. Why did my dad make something like this for me? Especially when it’s a weapon.