Ace in Exile

We turned down another hallway heading for the archives. The trip was uneventful really, I was itching to get up into the air. We approached a door that looked locked. Her hands glowed as well as horn as the door unlocked an slid open, following her in I was greeted by tons of books and I mean tons! We continued to walk through the endless labyrinth of books and scrolls until a faint singing caught my ear.

"Follow Sweet Children, I'll Show Thee The Way"

"Through All The Pain And The Sorrows"

"Weep Not Poor Children"

"For Life Is This Way"

"Murdering Beauty And Passions"

We walked around a bookshelf until Luna came into sight.

"Hush Now Dear Children, It Must Be This Way"

"To Weary Of Life And Deceptions"

"Rest Now My Children"

"For Soon We'll Away"

"into The Calm And The Quiet"

She turned around and noticed us. Even under her dark blue fur there was a little pink on her cheeks.

"Don't worry, I promise never to tell anypony or anything about this." I said.

"So thou are saying that he shall not speak of this event again?" she asked.

"What event?" I asked.

"Good." she asked.

"So, back to business. What is my assignment?" I said standing at attention.

"Right, we have suspicions that Cloudsdale a city made up of clouds has been lying to us about a colony of failed students."

"If I may, what do you mean by failed?"

"Cloudsdale is a city of pride, they think any Pegasus that fails their flight tests is a disgrace and exiles them to a 'colony' up north."

"So my mission is to recon the area of this supposed colony, I would also like to give you this." I said pulling out a SCR-300 radio.

"What is this?" Luna asked.

"This is a radio, I can talk to you at long ranges. I will contact you when I am close to the 'colony'." I said.

"Good, best of luck." she said.

"And to you." I gave a quick salute before turning around marching off.

6 Minutes Later...

I had pulled out of the makeshift hangar and prepared for take off. The Solar Guards gave me a thumbs up, I pushed the throttle forward. Gaining speed I pulled back on the yoke lifting into the air. Once out of the cities outskirts I stated heading north west. The sun high above me, this was going to be a long flight.

Hours Later...

It was a quiet night, Luna's moon was high in the sky and her stars shined happily. All of a sudden it was shattered by the sound of a roaring engine of a Spitfire. The pilot of this Spitfire was Liam Garrison of the RAF or used to... anyway he flew high above the clouds his scarf covering his face and cap covering his head. The location of the supposed colony came into view.

"This is Red 2, repeat this is Red 2 calling Luna over." a few seconds of silence later I remembered what I did wrong. "I forgot, use the head set... the thing at the end of the wire." I said. A few seconds later a voice came through.

"Luna here I hear you, what do you have to report."

"I see the colonies supposed location but I don't see anything."

"Is it because of the night?" she asked.

"One No, I can see clear as day it's just not there! All I see is flat land... Two, I have nyctophilia, which means I prefer the night over day. Anyway I'll patrol along the coast and report back to you. Red 2 out."

I began to lower altitude and get closer to the cliffs and beaches. Closing in I couldn't help but notice something coming up behind me when I was at lower altitudes. They where Pegisi all right, I let them follow me for a while until an arrow bounced off the canopy.

"I'm taking fire from unknowns, asking permission to engage."

"Yes thou are clear to engage. Shoot them out of my *night sky!***" I pulled on the clutch and throttle causing me to get behind the group. I pushed the trigger, a majority plummeted from the sky torn to shreds by the .303 caliber bullets. I didn't care how many kills I got anymore as long as I got the job done, but I still kept count. The others broke off flying in every direction trying to escape the threat, I went for the fastest. Lining up the sights I pushed the trigger, tracers light up the night sky in a brilliant display. She flew through the hell storm of bullets cutting her to ribbons. Pulling back on the yoke a Pegasus overshot me flying into my sights. I let a burst of machine gun fire escape my aircraft killing her. The last 2 had disappeared or so I thought. One was close to the water trying to escape, pushing the throttle to the max my aircraft shot forward at terrifying speeds. Catching up I pushed the trigger only to over shoot by a long shot but the poor Pegasus did not deter her coarse. I got behind her closing in for the kill, the sights were perfectly lined up but I couldn't push the trigger. This one knew it's fate and did not change it. I flew there for a moment thinking then I made my decision... she lives. Pulling out I flew beside her, she looked at me with fearful pink eyes, her body mostly covered in spandex. Giving her a quick salute I flew off towards the moon. Then my eye caught the other, this one was charging at me with a bow with determination in her eyes. Lowering my goggles I maxed my speed heading directly at her. My finger was over the trigger waiting to fire, closing the distance. I was diving directly from the moon giving me the advantage of lowering morale. She fired an arrow only to be chopped up in the blades. I pushed down on the trigger sending every bullet into her body. Blood covered my windshield and probably a good portion of my plane. I gained more altitude flying towards the moon, the direction Canterlot was.

"This is Red 2, enemy eliminated... 10 killed, 1 survivor... colony does not exist -long pause- returning to base." I said over the radio.