An Advanced Warfare

"Bringing the package in!" Rainbow yelled as I saw a giant machine in the sky. Wow... how is this possible? Twilight rushed over to me and snatched me. She flew over to the big machine. Me and my friends were thrown in as Rainbow's team resumed shooting at the enemy. I was then hit hard and everything went black.

I awoke to somepony throwing water on me. "Alright, ALRIGHT, I'm awake!" I yelled at them, wiping the water off my face. The pony giggled and with that giggle I was able to tell that this was a mare.

Opening my eyes I realized that this was Twilight. She didn't seem as hostile as before though, she seemed like the Twilight I knew. "Where am I?" I asked, which may have been a stupid question.

"You are in the Sentinel HQ or Headquarters. We are currently in your new bunker right now. Your friends are getting up, using the same method I was using." Twilight responded.

Not too long after that I heard a voice yell and some fighting. I heard a pony repeatedly saying to calm down. I got up and pushed opened a curtain, revealing a grand city with many ponies armed with weapons. I backed up into cover immediately. I used my Eagle Vision to find a gun.

"Who are those ponies outside?" I asked. It would be bad to shoot ponies who were not going to harm me. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, Ray, calm down. They are on our side." Twilight said in alarm.

I reluctantly got out of cover and put the gun on a desk. Then I heard tons of shooting and bullet holes went through the walls. I took the gun and asked "THEY ARE ON OUR SIDE? Then why are they SHOOTING AT US?"

Using my Eagle Vision I detected the pony shooting at us. But it wasn't a pony, it was a machine. Or it seemed that way. I pulled Twilight down into cover and I jumped out, firing at the machine using one hoof to fire. Big mistake. Very soon after the third shot I felt the gun all of a sudden not work and the trigger was very spongy like.

I looked at the gun and I used my Eagle Vision to detect the problem. I threw the gun away and just decided to wing it. With my Eagle Vision still enabled I looked for weak points in the machine. I shot a hidden blade into the machine, right through a small hole and into some weak spot which made it fall to the ground.

Climbing a tower is not a good idea right now... but if I fell it wouldn't be so bad. I quickly jumped onto one of the machines and started tearing out the things inside it. It soon stopped flying and fell to the ground. It wasn't the same feeling as killing nor fighting. I feel like I'm just breaking a toy. I fired a hidden blade into the last machine, the machine falling and I heard more gunshots.

There were gunshots all around me as I barged into a door to find Marnix with his hidden blades at my throat. He quickly retracted his hidden blades. "Ray! Thank Celestia you are okay! There were gunshots, we ran into this building for cover."

I nodded and surveyed the area, now we have real ponies shooting. "Use your Eagle Vision, find the shooters we'll take them out, I've already marked the target which is the farthest one from us.

When we all had our targets. We got into position. Marnix used his hoof to pretend to slash his knees, Xerxes pretended to slashed his torso, Kyros pretended to slash his chest and I pretended to slash my throat. At that moment we all jumped from the rooftops from which we were on and leaped onto our target.

Before I reached my target his wrist showed words which was threat above and he rolled out of the way. He pointed his gun at me but I back-hoofed the gun out of their hoof. I swiped at their face, not knowing that my hidden blades weren't with me anymore. When I realized that the shooter bucked me in the stomach.

I delivered a jab to the jaw and a buck to the jaw. I rolled backwards to avoid a knife blow. I rolled forwards and bucked the shooter in the waist. They sliced at my chest but I ran towards the knife and slid under it. I whipped around and twisted their arm, disarming them. I delivered merciless punches to the face. I finished them off with a roundhouse kick into the temple.

Taking the knife, I ran to Marnix's target and jumped on him, sticking the knife into their neck. Blood erupted from the knife stab and they fell over. Xerxes was just finishing his target with a neck snap, leaving the pony down for good. Kyros' target was still armed as Kyros jumped around, jumping around and avoiding the shots. He quickly crippled the shooter and punched him in the jaw.

Kyros went under his opponent and kicked his stomach. The shooter was breathless as Kyros picked him up and threw him down on the ground, finishing him off with a choke.

Two shooters dead and two unconscious. Not too bad. I quickly threw a knife which went straight past Xerxes' head and hit a pony trying to steal under this chaos. Xerxes didn't even blink. We've been trained to be like this, we will not react to this sort of stuff, we will never betray each other.

All of a sudden we were applauded I turned around to see Rainbow Dash and all my old friends. It seems that those two ponies that were masked before were Rarity and Applejack. Should have known.

"What the hay was that?" I asked to nopony in particular. "Well Ray, this is what we call a simulation, where you get put into an artificial world with some sort of situation. We put new ponies here for seeing their reaction to a situation." Twilight answered me.

"What happens if we actually got shot here though?" I asked, will I still feel the pain? "If you got shot or hurt in a fatal area you will just have failed the simulation. You may take these back." Rainbow Dash answered me and threw me my sword and hidden blades back. "You might want to consider using guns, not swords. Using some technology, we've discovered that your brain cells have actually changed drastically. You don't know how to reload guns anymore. Mute charges and tools like that are now foreign to you."

"Mute charges?" I asked. "I don't use mute charges or any kind of technology. I usually don't depend on technology." It was true, last time that I depended on technology I had nearly failed an assassination.

"Very well, but you must admit that technology DOES, come in handy sometimes." Rarity giggled, pointing to my hidden blades. I drew my hidden blades to examine them. It does, but I don't use too much technology. I've noticed that they all seem like the same ponies I knew in Equestria before I came to this world.

"We'll teach y'all how to use them there guns." Applejack said, pointing to the guns on the ground which once belonged to the shooters that we took down. "We usually don't use guns though." Marnix said to them.

"In this world, you'll have to use guns to survive." Twilight responded to Marnix. "Exo-suits will also prove extremely useful." Rarity added. "Welcome to New Baghdad."

Today as an Assassin, we fight a war.