PONIES IN ARMS-2. NUCLEAR WINTER

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My heart skipped a beat at what Grey Hoof wanted us to do. He wanted a top ranking general killed in broad daylight to prove that the N.C.E indeed had some real power and was a force to be messed with. "WORKS FOR ME JUST FINE HECK I’LL DO IT MY SELF IF YOU LIKE" said Kill Shot. Grey Hoof laughed at him and told him that it would have to be a joint effort.

"THAT THERE GENERAL IS THE ONE WHO ORDERD THE BOMBING OF HAYWAII AND IM SURE YOU HAVE SOME FEELINGS ON THAT SUBJECT MAJOR. HOWEVER THAT’S NOT WHY I WANT THIS DEED DONE. YOU SEE WHEN I WAS IN MANEHATTEN WITH YOUR COMMANDER THIS PARTICULAR GENERAL MADE A NAME FOR HIM SELF, A RATHER SICK NAME. HES CALLED BLOODFLANK AND FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, HE ORDERD THAT ALL FILLIES BE RAPED AND BEATEN THAT DIDNT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH HIM. HE THOUGHT HE WAS THE GODESSES GIFT TO PONYKIND. WELL THAT DIDNT SIT TOO WELL WITH YOUR COMMANDER SO HE ORDERD THE CITY NUKED, AFTER EVACUATEING THE PLACE FIRST OFCOURSE. WELL SOMEHOW BLOODFLANK GOT WIND OF THIS AND FLED THE CITY JUST HOURS BEFORE THE NUKE WAS DROPPED. HE HAS TURNED UP IN CANTERLOT FOR A PARADE DEMONSTRATEING THE POWER AND MIGHT OF THE N.L.R IN A WEEK. TAKE HIM OUT DURING THE PARADE AND MAKE IT OBVIOUS THAT IT IS THE WORK OF THE N.C.E, AND GET BACK SAFE. YOUR PAYMENT WILL BE MY BAR. THAT’S RIGHT I OWN THIS FINE PLACE AND I’M WILLING TO GIVE IT TO YOU FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE SOFAR FOR ME.

“My own bar and just for killing a general” The thought made me smile a bit. Kill Shot was already asking me if he could be the bar pony.

Grey Hoof shoved some photos in my direction and my heart felt as though it was going to leap out of my throat; it was as though some long hidden memory had come back to me. The pony in the picture was smiling in one of them revealing 2 gold teeth on the right side of his mouth. I sat in a somewhat shocked state for what must have been 5 minutes. "That pony,, he,,,,,he’s the one who killed my parents" I said in a somber tone. "My father kicked out 2 of his teeth that night before being killed with the shotgun the pony had" Grey Hoof and Kill Shot looked at me and asked me if I was sure about this. "I will never forget that smile. It made me want to hide under my bed for a month of course it’s him” I felt up to my eyebrow and felt the scar that I had above my right eye. "A LITTLE SOMETHING TO REMEMBER ME BY, SO YOU NEVER FORGET ME” I remembered those words like they were spoken to me yesterday. Grey Hoof changed his tone along with Kill Shot. "WELL THEN AINT THAT FUCKED UP" said grey Hoof. I told him to keep his bar and that as long as every pony under me was able to get free drinks anytime they came in that that would be payment enough. Grey Hoof agreed and told me and Kill Shot that he had something to show us.

Grey Hoof took us behind the bar to a room with an elevator in it and we all got in. We went down for what seemed like forever until the door opened revealing 3 black armor clad ponies, one an earth pony, one a Pegasus, and the other being a unicorn. "ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE YOU TO WHAT THE N.L.R SECRET POLICE ARE WEARING” said Grey Hoof. "DONT WORRY, THEY WORK FOR ME; THEY ARE JUST SHOWING OFF THE ARMOR THAT THE N.L.R.S.P HAVE IN THEIR POSSESSION." He told us how he had come to find out about the armor and how before Manehatten had been nuked my commander ordered the city raided for any and all Intel on the once E.L.F forces. "WE UNCOVERD A SITE UNDER THE CITY THAT WAS BEING USED AS AN R.N.D LAB AND WE TOOK EVERYTHING WE COULD FROM THE PLACE" The armor was far better than anything the equestrian military had at all.

Grey Hoof also introduced us to the fact that magic just like a hoof print could be tracked to the user of it. "YOU SEE WHEN ONE USES ANY TYPE OF MAGIC A LITTLE BIT IS LEFT BEHIND ON WHATEVER IS BEING USED; THIS IS WHAT WE CALL MAGIC FILM. I ALONG WITH MY RESERCH TEAM DISCOVERED THIS BY ACCIDENT ONEDAY AND I JUST HAD TO FIND A WAY OF DEFEATING IT. YOU SEE THE N.L.R.S.P ARE NOW USEING TECHNOLOGY TO TRACE ANY HINT OF MAGIC TO IT’S USER AND ARE MAKEING SHORT WORK OF INVESTIGATIONS IN DOING SO. THIS DEVICE HOWEVER CAN MAKE THE MAGIC FILM VERTUALY NONEXISTANT” He demonstrated this perfectly by having both Kill Shot and I shoot a gun then he had the black armor clad ponies come and do a magic sweep. Sure enough traces of magic were detected and the display linked with the pony database in Equestria went to work on processing our magic signatures. The ponies got a positive readout on not just us but our entire background history.

"NOW TRY THIS ON" Grey Hoof instructed both of us. He put a fine mesh net around our horns and we were told to fire the same weapons after they were wiped clean of the previous attempts. Once again the ponies in armor swept the weapons for trace elements of magic film only to come up with nothing. Both me and Kill Shot looked at each other and were shocked. "I HAD DISCOVERD THIS QUITE BY ACCIDENT TO BE HONEST. I ALONG WITH A RESERCH PONY WERE SMOKEING A CIGERETTE ONE NIGHT WHEN I ASKED THE PONY IF MAGIC COULD BE TRACED JUST AS A HOOFPRINT OR D.N.A AND HE LOOKED AT ME AS IF I WAS A GENIOUS. HE QUICKLY SET TO WORK ON FINDING OUT WEATHER OR NOT OUR MAGIC EVEN HAD A SIGNATURE. TO DO THIS HE HAD ME TEST IT ON SEVERAL ITEMS. EACH TIME I USED MY MAGIC HE WOULD COLLECT THE SAMPLE ITEMS, AND ANALIZE THEM FOR ANY ABNORMALITYS. IT TOOK SEVERAL TRIES BEFORE HE BASICLY SQUEEEEEEEED IN DELIGHT AND TOLD ME HE HAD FOUND SOMETHING. NOW THAT WE KNEW THAT MAGIC LEFT A SIGNATURE WE HAD TO FIGURE OUT IF THERE WAS A WAY TO MASK IT OR MAKE IT NON EXISTANT. THIS CAME IN AN UNLIKELY WAY. WE HAD GONE UP TO THE BAR TO HAVE A DRINK FOR CELEBRATIVE PURPOSES AND HE HAD BROUGHT UP THE DEVICE USED TO DETECT MAGIC HE HAD MADE. I HAPPEND TO BE IN THE BACK DOOR TO THE BAR WHERE WE HAVE A BUG NET TO KEEP BUGS AND OTHER CRITTERS OUT OF THE KITCHEN. HE JUST SO HAPPEND TO BE WITH ME AND HE PASSED THE DECIVE OVER MY DISGARDED CIGERETTE BUT THIS TIME THE MACHINE THAT HAD MADE SO MUCH NOISE ON ALL OTHER TEST ITEMS MADE NO NOISE WHATSOEVER. JUST TO BE SURE I LIT ANOTHER AND SMOKED IT DOWN TO NOTHING AND THREW IT OUTSIDE OF THE NETTING HE PASSED THE DEVICE OVER IT AND IT BEEPED.