I felt my eyes suddenly force themselves open after I awoke from yet another horrible dream from the incident on Pluto. I must have moved too fast because I felt a sharp pain in my stomach which then made me realize I had a terrible migraine. I had to lay back and close my eyes so I could try and calm myself.

‘Oh god my head feels like someone took a shock stick to it.’ My thoughts were all fuzzy and it was hard to focus. I am definitely spending far too much time knocked out today, at least the ground was comfortable.

“Wait, this feels like a bed.” I said and for a moment hoped that the last few years had just been a terrible nightmare.

I once again propped myself up and hissed in pain at my still healing wound, apparently I had been moved into a dwelling of some kind, it looked made out of wood, far too primitive for SICON buildings.

This was confusing as the only two intelligent races on Nemerosa were humans and Arachnids... Neither of us used wood to make out bases (Or hives in the bug's case) so me being in a wooden, surprisingly well-furnished room just added to my weird day. I rubbed my forehead again, taking a moment to run a hand through my hair to make sure it was still there and not covered in filth.

“okay, lets recap, see where we got lost.” I told myself and started running through everything I could remember.

1. I find a bunch of empty unmarked power suits impaled on some spikes alongside some bugs.

2. A seemingly ordinary mirror being studied by SICON scientists and explodes when it should have smashed during an attack by bugs.

3. I wake up in a strange forest at night when it was meant to be morning.

4. Got chased through said forest by Wolves made completely out of wood.

5. Run into a trio of Ripplers and get shot.

“Busy day.” I said and moved my armor and the clothing underneath so that I could get a better look at my injury. I was relieved to find my wound was actually taken care of, though someone had apparently stitched me up.

“Who the hell uses stitches besides civilian doctors on little kids?” I asked, SICON docs would use a surgical laser to seal up an injury, or an auto doc or grow some synthetic skin and attach it to the injury.

As I pondered this I knew there was going to be scaring on the injury for sure but I could live with that, it was better than being dead. So I decided to get up and look around the room, it was pretty small with a set of drawers and a cupboard which were both empty, the room even had a small bathroom.

I decided to wash the last of the foam and walked into the bathroom, not bothering to take off my suit since the thing was water proof and after few tries I managed to find a light switch which lit up the room, which gave me a good look at the room. Who lived here, a dwarf? Was I suddenly in the land of OZ? I mean the whole place looked like it was made for someone half my size!

I keeled down and turned on the cold water tap and cupped some water in my hand and splashed it on the foam which dissolved quickly and let me see the stitching.

“yuck... I really hope it fades because it looks real nasty.” Actually scratch that, I just hope whoever stitched me up used clean tools, I don’t want gangrene.

I gently finished washing the foam off and splashed water into my face, the rush of cold waking me up and removing some of the grime from my face. I was thankful that it was dirt. Dry bug juice is really hard to get off.

I spent several more minutes thoroughly washing my hair and face to make sure I was as clean as possible, but in reality it was to give myself something to do. I didn’t want to think too much on the situation because I was afraid it would give me a panic attack. I was all alone again, without my squad and lost in munchkin land with bugs running around.

When I was as clean as I could hope to be I left the bathroom and saw my helmet laying on the floor, I almost face palmed at the fact that I had forgotten all about my helmet. Such a rookie mistake. I scooped the thing up and placed it firmly on my head, I then tried and raise anyone from my squad on the emergency frequency.

"This Is Sargent Shimmer of Zebra Squad. Does anyone read me?" I whispered so whoever was the owner of this dwelling wasn't woken up, if I was going to talk to them then I wanted to be ready in case they were less then friendly.

"I repeat this is Sargent Shimmer, Is there anyone on this frequency?!" I said louder than I had meant to, but soon I began to hear a voice penetrating the static.

"....... Sunset?......That you Lass?" Oh thank god, I felt as if a massive weight had been lifted.

"Y-Yes its me, that you Gauss?" Maybe lady luck was taking a shine to me after all.

"Yea lass, got Doc and a few of Vectors boys with me too."

"Good to hear, where are you guys?" If they were close enough to me then I was in a good enough condition to start moving.

"We all woke up in some weird forest, that’s all we know.”

"I woke up there too, a few Ripplers attacked me and I was hit, but I'm alright though, I was knocked out but I woke up in someone's home"

"Any idea who it belongs to?"

"Not yet, I think their still asle-"

Knock knock knock! The noise nearly made me shout in surprise but I was better than that.

“Scratch that, looks like their up, I'll contact you again soon."

"Alright lass, be careful and we'll see you soon, out!" Well that is a load off my mind, maybe they could trace my signal or something.

"H-Hello?" whoever my host is they were definitely a girl and a young one at that, maybe in her late teens.

"Are you alright in there?" the young voice asked.

I debated whether I should answer the teen since I couldn’t see my rifle anywhere, but a quick check revealed my pistol was still holstered at my side so at least I wasn’t unarmed if this went pear shaped. I decided to take the chance.

"Yes, I'm fine" I called out.

"I-I'm coming in ok?" Why was the voice so nervous? I decided to try and seem less threatening so I sat down on the bed which I now noticed was too small for me and put on my friendliest smile.

"Ok, you can come in."

I was not prepared for a purple little horse to open the door and step inside... Were those Wings? And a horn! The hell did I wake up to? Maybe the person who talked was still outside.

"Are you ok? Sunset?" the Horned/Winged horse asked completely shattering my theory, maybe I was still asleep. I gently put a hand to my injury and

‘.... Ohhhh... Nope still hurts which meant I wa- WAIT DID SHE JUST SAY MY NAME!?’. Remember that panic attack that I was worried about earlier? Yeah it came back.

"W-W-What are you!" I exclaimed as I pointed at the very strange (and oddly cute) creature before me

"And how do you know my name!" the creature seemed confused. Yea well it could join the club.

"What do you mean, Sunset?" She (or at least I assume it’s a female.) asked.

"I'm a pony, and we met back at Canterlot High. When you stole the element of magic"….c…C..Cantralot high? Element of magic? Pony? Never been, magic does not exist and ponies aren't techno colored, neither do they have wings and horns and talk.

"Sorry whatever you are but I've never met you before in my life, and I have certainly never been to a Cantralot high." The pony looked shocked by this and I decided that it was a really good time to leave and tried to get by the pony.

"Well I can't say I'm not grateful for the rescue and place to rest. But I really need to be going." But the pony made no move to get out my way and instead had a defiant and determined look upon her face.

“Sunset you aren't going anywhere until you explain how you got here without the mirror!" Mirror? She knew about it? Maybe I should stick around for a bit longer and find out what this pony knows, but then she said something that set me off.

"It’s the least you can do after killing those creatures in Everfree tonight."

Was she talking about the Ripplers I killed? Because if she was then she and I are going to be having some very harsh words.

"The least I can-" I scoffed in disgust at how this girl (Or was it mare?) was showing concern about me killing a few bugs "They were bugs!" I found myself yelling and startling the mare. I so angry I could see the faces of so many troopers who id seen die because of the bugs.

"Bugs don't feel, don't love, their only instinct is to kill and devour. They can smell blood through skin, through suits, through steel, if you’re feeling sorry for a bug then this conversation is over." I shoved past the surprised pony.

“You can’t feel pity for something that has no soul!” I said and found a set of stairs which I took, two at a time. The stairs led me to a library of all things, a big public library, the whole place now I thought about it looked like it had been made in a massive hollowed out tree which at this moment in time I would not be surprised about.

I spotted my Morita on a small coffee table and scooped it up, the thing looked relatively intact but the current clip was empty though. I guess I must have emptied it. Good thing I didn’t try to use it on the last Rippler or else I’d be dead.

The purple mare came running down the stairs after me, just in time to see me eject the empty clip onto the carpet and slam a fresh one into place and cock it and reset the ammo count to 500.

"Sunset, wait!" the pony cried out.

“No thanks, I’ve got places to go and bugs to ki- Hey!” When I had tried to leave I had found my Morita snatched out of my grasp. When I looked to see who had done it I was shocked to find it floating with a kind of pinkish, purple-ish aura around it.

‘Just great, the pony is a psychic and can use TK to top it all off! Fuck this planet!’ I though and pointed the index finger on my right hand at the pony.

"Give…me back…my weapon." I growled through gritted teeth while giving the mare a look that would have made a fully grown Plasma cry for its mommy but to the mares credit she only flinched for a moment.

"Not until you calm down and talk to me!" she shouted at me and her horn flared the same color as the aura surrounding my rifle and for a moment I was reminded of the Roughneck's resident psychic, Carl Jenkins, who could fry a room full of bug's brains with just a though and I was very afraid. Well afraid may have been watering it down a tad bit.... Scared shitless would better describe how I was feeling at that moment in time so I felt it was a good time to use my trump card, this pony wasn't the only one who had psychic talent!

I closed my eyes and breathed in and out to calm myself, I wasn't a potent enough psychic to be noticed by Psy-ops or to show up on anyone else’s radar. I had also slowly worked on my ability's in secret, I wasn't anywhere close to on par with other psychics in SICON and I couldn't read minds but I did have a slight gift in the Telekinesis department.

I opened up my eyes and could feel the energy rolling behind them. I raised my hand and reached out for the rifle with my mind and was relieved to feel my psychic grasp on the weapon solidify and I pulled. From there it became a game of tug of war, with me on the losing side, I was good with my TK enough to deflect the odd stray round from a friendly trooper or trip a bug over mid charge but only when it was absolutely necessary and never in view of my squad mates. This purple mare however was way more powerful than me by far and I was sure that she could have won in a heartbeat but I guessed she was waiting until I admitted defeat, which I sadly had no other choice but to do.

Screaming in frustration I released my grasp and collapsed on the very small coach behind me feeling a trickle of blood going down my noise and a killer headache coming on which were both symptoms of me using my gift. They were also reasons why I tried my best not to use them often.

‘Ooohhh my head is going to feel like crap later….’ I thought and felt the blood reach my lip. Good thing I didn’t wear lipstick when I was on deployment, only when on leave and among civies.

The mare watched me with concern as I wiped the trail of blood from my face. Her face then turned to one of sadness that almost made me want to pet her.

"You used to be such a good magic user... What happened to you Sunset?"

"Why do you keep talking to me like were old friends, I've never met you before kid and I didn't use magic. It's psychic talent." I called her kid because by the looks of her and how she acts she was way younger than me. Getting angry wasn’t likely to get me anywhere so I decided to switch up my approach.

"Look, I will answer all your questions, as long as you give me back my weapon and let me leave." I know I was asking allot from the very powerful and dangerous psychic but I had to ask. Besides now that I thought about it she knew something about that mirror the bugs destroyed and I was going to need that information if me and the rest of the troopers were to get back to our squads.

The Mare thought over her proposal and surprisingly agreed to it with a nod.

"But I will only give you your weapon back after you've answered my questions." I nodded in agreement.

"Well now that I your acting more civil-" Must resist the urge too shot in face "I will introduce myself, My name is Twilight Sparkle." Really?

I leaned forward with a annoyed look "Well Ms. Sparkle, shall we begin?"

Twilight had been asking her questions for a full hour and a half. With every question answered she grew more and more concerned.

Sunset Shimmer had no memory of ever being a pony or the events that had transpired at Canterlot High, and even said that no such place had existed, she was apparently aged 21, nearing 22, and was part of the mobile infantry. The military arm of the ‘Strategically Integrated Coalition Of Nations’ or SICON for short. An alliance of most of the nations of the human world which promised to support and defend one another.

Sunset had then gone onto explain that humanity had first discovered the Arachnids on one of the planets in their solar system called ‘Pluto’ and had come to blows after the Arachnids attacked many civilian research outposts. After some time it was discovered that the bugs were not from Pluto, this lead to the first interstellar war where SICON fought the bug's on any planet they found them on, using a tactic called ‘Planet Hopping’ which was inspired by ‘island hopping’ from the human’s second world war. The very fact gave Twilight a headache trying to contemplate the scale of it all.

Twilight had been shocked to find out about how the Arachnids had used a type of bug called control bugs to enslave a race we called ‘The Skinnies’, mostly because it’s too difficult to speak their language without a translation device, who after being freed fought alongside humanity. After much strife and combat SICON eventually found the Arachnid home world called ‘Klendathu’.

The war was the fiercest there, it was also where the most casualties occurred, as humanity fought the bugs tooth and nail for every inch of land. But we found their queen and chased her out of her nest, after the queen escaped an assassination attempt she made her way to earth, humanity's home world. The war finally ended with the death of the queen by the hands of the marauder suited Lieutenant Johnny Rico when he led several strike teams with mini nukes into a new nest the queen had dug.

But the victory was not without cost. They were still counting the civilian losses, rebuilding Washington D.C., The Kremlin and the Eifel tower. Much more needed to be done to rebuild.

By the end of the tale Twilight had filled three notebooks with notes and thoughts, to say she was shocked was a great understatement, she was actually slightly pale. She had never heard nor imagined of a race so hostile and willing to do anything to win, like sucking a sentient being's brains out for information, it was sickening enough to make even a Griffin warlord faint. And enslaving a whole race to use as miners didn't bode well with Twilight.

Sunset had then gone on to explain the events that had transpired today, from the massive bug attack, to being unable to stop the bugs destroying a mirror eerily similar to the one in the crystal empire, to the events leading up to now.

"And then I woke up here." Sunset finished.

The news that a race that hated any life other than their own were in Equestria alarmed Twilight. Especially as she now knew that the Guard would be unable to fight them with the weapons they possessed which included swords, spears and crossbows. But for now there was nothing she could do about it, but Twilight had a hunch that Sunset was somehow the key to all this.

"S-so you really have no memory of ever being a pony?" Twilight asked.

"I am Human, always have been." Sunset stressed the word human "And I attended Los Angeles High not Cantralot High" Twilight thought of the implications of this over in her mind, if this was the Sunset Shimmer who had stolen the Element of magic from Twilight then something had happened to her memory to make her forget, there was only one way to find out.

"Look Sunset, you are exactly like the Sunset I knew, only you’re older. It's too much of a coincidence that you look exactly like her and I'm thinking you have a mark on your flanks of a crimson and yellow sun am I right?" Sunset's cheeks turned rosy red as she nodded.

"Well I may have a way to find out once and for all, there's.... A spell that can allow me to look through your mind to see if your memories have been tampered with and you really are my Sunset Shimmer." Sunset looked unnerved by the suggestion.

"Don't worry it's completely safe and it will allow me to learn more about your conflict with the bugs than a simple interview could ever do. I would be experiencing everything you did" Twilight truly meant it, she could learn more about the bugs from some pony who had actually come face to face with them on a daily basis. Of course Twilight didn't mention that she had never personally tried the spell herself, but that was her secret.

"I-It's not that Twilight." Shimmer said wile nervously brushing her hand against her other arm.

"You’re a Psychic, where I come from people don't like letting people inside their heads, its technically a crime in some places, and I'm no exception. I don’t like the idea of someone looking into my mind and seeing things that should only belong to me.” Twilight opened her mouth to say something but Sunset cut her off.

"I know you call it magic but take it from a psychic when I say you are using psychic potential, granted your nothing like any psychic I've met before but a psychic all the same…” Shimmer took a breath and made a leap of faith.

“As long as you promise to keep away from any memories that I don't want you seeing then I will allow it." Twilight nodded, she could understand that as a human Sunset didn't believe in magic so she let it slide and set her mind to the task.

"Ok, you'll be fully aware of what memories and you can steer me away from any personal memories" Twilight looked Sunset in the eyes "Are you ready?"

Sunset swallowed nervously and nodded a wordless confirmation.

Twilight closed her eyes and channeled the spell, feeling her power flow into her horn which glowed with her usual aura. She felt the minds of Everypony in the library including Spike who was still sound asleep upstairs dreaming about Rarity, Twilight ignored him and concentrated on Sunset and slowly pushed into her mind.

In that moment her eyes flashed open and glowed hot white as she watched the memories flow into her, Twilight watched them in flashes going backwards from tonight where Sunset was attacked by the Ripplers to the battle on Nemerosa. Unknown to Twilight and Shimmer was that all the Sargent's tactical knowledge was also flowing into Twilight's mind as now she was understanding and remembering information that she never knew before such as military tactics and information about every bug Sunset knew about. Even Sunset's military training was becoming second nature to her, as Twilight was completely oblivious to this she continued seeing Sunset and Zebra Squad making a distraction for the other squads in an operation against the bugs on Earth.

Some memories seemed to have an almost magnetic pull on them and while Twilight wanted to see them all quickly, a few of them made the choice for her. Such as Shimmer’s first day of fighting on Klendathu. It almost felt like being told a story.

“Live forever Apes.” Lieutenant Cadmus said form his drop pod and I, and the other troopers of Zebra squad, replied with a gut filled.

“HA oh!” before the doors closed and the transport entered Klendathu’s atmosphere. I felt safe in my Marauder, I always preferred the Ape model. I then heard the panels underneath my Marauder open up as I was launched out along with many other troopers.

“Yaaaahhooooo!!!” I indulged myself for a moment and looked up, seeing so many other troopers dropping down. ‘I guess this is how it must have felt for the Euros during the blitzkrieg.’ I thought and soon heard the orders.

“Deploy jump-jets!” Cadmus ordered and I quickly pressed the buttons on my console and felt the jets on my Marauder’s feet and back activate. Suddenly I was floating down slower to the ground. With all the others doing the same it almost looked like the stars were falling to Klendathu.

“Incoming hopper bugs!” Someone yelled over the general band radio and as if on cue I saw Hopper bugs fly by me. I guess they ignored me because I was too heavy for them but I saw them use their scythe like claws to attack other troopers.

They moved so fast that the victims didn’t know they were under attack before they lost arms, legs, or heads. All one would see was a hopper flying close to a trooper and then a puff of blood before the limb would fall away.

I knew I had to do something so I turned on my shoulder Gatling and fired off random rounds to scare away hopper bugs. Little did I know, it was only the beginning. Things would get a lot worse though the day.

Twilight managed to get herself out of that memory just as Sunset touched the ground and lifted her arm guns up. The rest of the trip was much easier. She only saw snapshots of previous campaigns, the Tesca, Tophet and Hydora Campaigns, a time spent on a medical ship and befo-

"N-No, not that one." Twilight momentarily backed out Sunset's mind to look at her, the woman was very alarmed and was actually shaking, she looked almost sick.

"That one's.... Personal, go back three weeks before that." Twilight nodded, what she didn't tell Sunset was that she had seen one image of that memory before she stopped her, a dark rocky landscape with damaged trucks and bodies of dead troopers.

Going back in and skipping the memory Twilight watched the Pluto campaign from Sunset's eyes, all the way back to basic training, but when she tried to go further back she found something odd. The memories were there but filled with, static. Twilight could hear odd echoes that made no sense and all she could see was vague figures. Like trying to see someone in the middle of a blizzard. When she tried to look deeper she suddenly found herself thrown back as the spell backfired into the surrounding area.

Sunset was up in a moment and by the fallen Alicorn's side.

"Twilight? Twilight! Are you ok?" Twilight shook the stars out of her eyes and nodded shakily "Y-Y-Yes"

"What just happened? I didn't do that"

"I was about to past your basic training days but something blocked me" Twilight explained while getting to her hooves "When I tried to get past.... Well, this happened."

Twilight still had her spell going but the blast had accidentally made her widen the range of the spell to include the area around the library. Twilight was shocked however to find 31 minds outside, including her fellow Princess and mentor Celestia. Twilight could tell that the other minds were that of Royal Guards and they were all blocking any means of escape, her interest peaked Twilight briefly passed her mind over Celestia's. When she did Twilight's eyes widened in alarm.

"Sunset we need to get you out of here now!" she told the trooper as she moved to a nearby window and peeked through the blinds. She saw Celestia standing with her honor guard with a calm expression on her face which conflicted with her inner thoughts.

"What's wrong Twilight?" Sunset asked as she as she picked up her Morita, safety off.

"It's Princess Celestia and a whole lot of Royal guard." Twilight stepped away from the window and quickly locked the door with her magic.

"I just brushed her mind and from what I got she somehow knows about SICON and holds no love for it, even if your our Sunset Shimmer she's going to take you and lock you up." Twilight was panicking, She was a princess, yes, but she knew Celestia wouldn't listen to her and would take Sunset anyway. Twilight could literally feel the hate radiating off her mentor.

“Can you talk her down?” Sunset asked while she hunched low near a window and caught sight of two ponies in golden armor sneaking around.

"No, she won't listen." Twilight started pacing "we've got to get you out of here somehow."

"Twilight..."

"Maybe I can teleport us outside Ponyville..."

"Twilight!"

"Oh but the guard will be on us in seconds... May-"

"TWILIGHT!" Sunsets cry stirred the young princess out of her thoughts.

"I didn't ask anything out loud" She told Twilight who paled, she checked her horn to see if she was still casting the spell but her horn was not emitting any aura, yet she could still feel Sunset's concerned thoughts.

"I think that blast may have done more than force you out of my head" Sunset suggested.

Twilight could not read minds without a spell...

Remembering a curse that she had seen Sunset use many times in her memories Twilight thought this the best time to use it.

"Well Shit..."

Celestia stood as still as a statue outside her former student's home and library, the face she wore was a mask of calm, but inside she was furious. A SICON trooper was taking refuge in Twilight's library subjecting her to who knows what.

‘Savages, murderers.’ Celestia thought but noticed somepony coming near her.

Celestia's captain of the guard flew over to her and landed next to her.

"Your highness, we have a secured a parameter around the building." he reported "If the human makes a move to escape we will capture them before they knew what hit them. I have my best men sneaking around the area."

"Very good, Swift wing" Celestia praised him while keeping her tone neutral.

"Let the human make the first move, we will not be the aggressors here. We will give the human a chance to surrender."

"Yes, Princess!" He said and saluted before he flew off to inform his stallions. Celestia felt a scowl form on her face as she though she saw Twilight peek out of the blinds.

‘Don't listen to what they say Twilight’ she thought to herself

"I will not let their propaganda poison your mind, you must see them for the genocidal monsters they really are."

"Look Twilight we'll figure this all out later! But right now we need a way out." I was still trying to calm down Twilight, who had not stopped pacing since she had discovered her new talent.

"I know but it's hard to concentrate." Twilight told me and rubbed her head.

"I can hear their thoughts out there and they won't stop. So many voices." she was really having that much trouble with her with her psychic abilities? Well, I may not be a psychic in that sense but I do have an idea about how to help the poor mare.

"Twilight, I think I know how to make the voices stop." I told her making her stop pacing, thank god, and pay attention to me. I got onto one knee infront of her and made her look into my eyes so she had something to focus on.

"Try imaging a bubble around you that blocks out all a sound, you got it? Good, now think about putting that bubble around your mind like a shield that stops anything getting in... Alright?"

Twilight sighed contently after a moment.

"Yes, the voices stopped" she looked up at me "How did you know that would work?"

"I spent a year trying to make sure other psychics couldn't see that I was a psychic too so I did some reading and found that technique." I told her with an embaressed smile.

"Worked for keeping people out of my head so I guessed that it would work the other way." I shrugged, I really didn't know it would work so it was just a lucky guess.

"Now that that's done, can we get back on the topic of getting me away from the angry princess who wants to lock me away for the rest of my life?"

"Could you ask if your friends could create a distraction?" Twilight suggested.

"Or if they have a way to get us out fast" Oh of course.... Why didn't I think of that?

I cupped my hand over my helmet radio "Gauss this is Shimmer, you read me?"

"Loud and clear lass, what's up? The locals friendly?"

"Mixed, the local who's home I'm in is friendly." I glanced at Twilight and gave her a warm smile

"But her leader apparently knows about SICON and does not like us troopers, she's surrounded the building so I can't escape."

"Shit... Well we see the town you are in, a pair of retrieval ships ended up with us from the reinforcements that were heading to the lab and I was on my way to pick you up. If you can get to the field between the town and the forest, then we will have enough room to pick you up." I put Gauss on hold and relayed the information to Twilight.

"So what do you think?"

"We wouldn't make it there with on foot." Twilight told me, confirming my suspicions before she came up with an idea.

"But I think I might be able to teleport us both to the edge of that side of town." so she could teleport as well? This mare is full of tricks, wait.

"We?"

"Yes, the only way we're going to get the princess to listen to us is if I'm with you and we have backup." Twilight said with a determined look that dared me to disagree.

"But if we fail then she could lock you up alongside me!" I pointed out, I didn't really know that she would but it was a possibility and I didn’t want her to suffer for me.

"As a fellow ruler of Equestria, it is my duty to do what I think is right for my people." Wait she's a princess?

"And if we are going stand a chance against the bugs then we need your help." She had a point, but what if-

"No ifs, no buts. No coconuts!" Twilight exclaimed, reminding me that she could read minds now.

"Now tell you friends to meet us at the evac site!" Twilight said, using the new words and terms she had gotten from Shimmer’s mind.

"Gauss meet me at the evac site in five I will be bringing a companion along, we'll be coming in hot but do not use deadly force on pursuers, Tranquilizers only."

"Sure thing Shimmer, see you there." I cut the line and looked at Twilight who, while I was speaking, had written a note and packed a saddle bag with a few notebooks, quills and ink as well as some food.

"Just something for my assistant to let him know I'm alright, ready?" I nodded "hold on to me, Oh it's your first time teleporting so you'll be a bit dizzy at first but it will pass." I held onto her back as she charged up her horn and in a flash of light the well-lit space of the Library-

-Was replaced but a long dirt road leading up to a field. As Twilight had Warned Sunset, the Trooper was disorientated for a minute but was fine a bit later

"Come on!" Twilight told her as she started to run with the Trooper keeping pace. "It won't take long for Celestia to realize where we went."

Twilight was right and the beating of wings announced the pursuit of Royal Guard Pegasi and among them was Celestia herself! Twilight doubled her speed while looking back to Sunset.

"Sunset, use your concussion grenades!" She yelled while using her magic to pull three grenades out of Sunset's pouch, Twilight didn't know how she knew anything about Sunset's gear but at that moment all she cared about was getting Sunset away from Celestia. Pressing down on the detonators she threw them into the pegasi. The guards had not seen devices such as those before and did not react in time.

The resulting blinding blast and ear deafening bang sowed confusion and panic in the ranks of the Royal guard with a good number of them colliding with one another and falling out of the sky. Twilight made a mental note to send apologies personally to everypony when this was over.

There was a high pitched screeching as the black hull of a retrieval ship soared over head and landed a few meters ahead of the fleeing duo. The side hatch opened and a boarding ramp extended, two troopers stood at it with Tranquilizer guns held at the ready.

"Come on you bonny lassies get up here!" A voice yelled out loud enough for the two to hear.

The two men on the ship fired tranqs at the ponies behind the two as they dashed up the ramp which retracted behind them. Once they were on board Twilight looked back through the closing hatch to see Celestia speeding towards the ship, her calm demeanor gone and replaced with panic as she desperately tried the reach Twilight.

Twilight knew she couldn't catch them now as the ship lifted into the air and rocketed off at full burn leaving the solar princess in it's dust and unable to see clearly.

With a sigh Twilight went to find a seat to strap into.

"I've made my bed." Twilight said out loud as she looked over and saw Sunset Shimmer talking to her fellow troopers "Now I have to lay in it" she said to herself, hoping she had made the right choice.

Author's Note

How and why Celestia hates SICON will be. Revealed in the next few chapters and the new bug offensive will finaly begin so stay tuned.
also I know there are allot of errors in this and my search for a proofreader and an Editor is still ongoing so please bare with me. And I will have this done as ASAP.