Commander Twilight Sparkle’s Personal Log
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This is Commander Twilight Sparkle, Personal log number one-seven-eight.

It has been a week since I had the base put into lockdown to be read for the coming Fed attack and nothing has happened, that has been no sign of Federal Army soldier anywhere near us and from scattered reports we are getting from squads stranded outside the base the Feds are going about their normal routines with no sign of any build up for an attack.

What the hell is going on? Private Wallace came straight here after he got away from White rabbit, it doesn’t make any sense why he didn’t have him followed to learn the location of our base, I mean he is a fucking Fed for crying out loud and learning the location of our base would aid the Federal Army as they could attack us and disrupt our operations. So why haven’t they attack or done any sort of preparations?

If I didn’t know any better I’d think White Rabbit didn’t care where our base was, but….if that was the case then what was the point of letting Wallace go? Surely it wasn’t just to deliver that message to me…..it doesn’t make any sense. What the hell is White Rabbits goal in this?

Gah, White Rabbit is too much of an unknown and I hate fucking unknowns. I have already put a kill order out on White rabbit with a High Priority Target for any PFDR forces to gather anything on him and if given the chance, no matter what their mission am at the time, if they get the chance to put him down like the animal he is.

*sound of sighing is heard* Anyways I should go, I need to have the lockdown lifted as we can’t leave our people out there forever, that’s just asking for trouble.

This is Commander Twilight Sparkle signing off.
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Twilight walked down the tunnels of the sewers, she was outside of the base as she needed to clear her head and try to figure out what White Rabbit was playing with Wallace, nothing about the action of the human made sense to her, it was like he was a Fed but yet wasn’t at the same time. He blew up their own buildings, killing any soldiers still inside, had a perfect opportunities to get intelligence from Wolfpack, but if Wallace was to be believe in his madness then he never once asked a single question.

And then there was letting Wallace go, it was obviously so the rebel soldier could be followed back to their base, in the state Wallace as in he’d have gone straight there, and yet no one had followed or done anything to see where the young soldier went. It was like White rabbit did care about the rebel’s location and had a different objective in mind then the rest of the Feds.

Twilight sighed as she walked, White Rabbit made no sense what so ever, he wasn’t like the soldiers she faced in the field, and he was completely different from them in how he operated. Twilight thought back to her first meeting with the human what had he said? “He was tasked with learning why the Rebels had become more aggressive and seeing me who could move onto the next set of orders.” She said as she walked. “After that he brought the building down.” She stopped dead. “After he told me goodbye.” That was it, it had to be! It was the only thing that made any sense; White Rabbit was targeting her specifically.

That meant she had no real way to predict what he would do as he wasn’t acting like a normal soldier. “Who the hell are you…” She said as she began to trot down the tunnel once more, she had an objective and needed to focus on the mission at hand, she could deal with White Rabbit later.

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It was a relatively slow night in Our Angle of Hope hospitals ER, only a few injury’s to deal with and one child running a high fever but nothing to major. All and all for an Emergency Room it was a quiet night and Nurse Yeltiz couldn’t be enjoying it more. While she did enjoy her work as a nurse it could be very stressful when the ER was flooded with injured and sick.
She was in the middle of talking to the other nurse behind the admittance counter with her when the door to the ER opened and she looked over to help whoever it was. What she saw confused her as it was a small four legged animal wearing dark green armor.

“What is that? Some kind of dog? Or maybe a horse?” The other nurse asked as she looked at the strange animal as it glanced around the room. The doctors and patience’s attention being drawn to the animal as well by what the nurse said.

“I don’t know but call security so they can shoo it away.” Yeltiz said and the other nurse lifted the phone and paged security. The animal looked over at the two nurses and started to make its way towards them. It didn’t seem to be dangerous as it was calmly walking toward them.

Still Yeltiz kept her eyes on it just in case. She was surprised when the animal reared up and placed it….metal hooves on the counter and stared at her from behind a visor on the helmet. Yeltiz was able to get a good look at the animal and saw that its four legs were cybernetic replacements and from what she could see of its fur under the armor it was purple, which had to be dye as purple was not a natural color for an animal.

But what caught Nurse Yeltiz’s eye the most was the pistol holster on the things chest, why would an animal have a gun? She was caught off guard when the thing smiled at her in a somewhat friendly manner. “Am I to assume you are the nurse in charge here?” It spoke in a friendly and clearly feminine voice. The fact an anima just spoke in perfectly clear English to her caused Yeltiz to real back and she saw the other in the room all staring with wide eyed confusion or surprise. The animal tapped the counter to get her attention. “Well?” She asked still with the friendly smile.

Slowly Yeltiz nodded and the animal smiled wider. “Oh good!” She said happily. “I need a couple of your medical scanners; can you point them out to me? It would save me so much time.” The purple animal said looking around the room.

“Ah….we…what do you need them for? Are you injured?” Nurse Yeltiz asked as she tried to figure out what a talking horse would need with medical scanners as she looked fine.

“Oh you don’t need to worry about that I just need to take a couple off your hands is all as I need them for a personal project of mine.” The horse said with a chuckle as it reached out and gently patted Yeltiz’s head. Its attention was drawn to a side door as a member of security walked in and eyed the situation.

“Everything okay Yeltiz?” The guar asked as he approached the counter.

“Ah…um…yes.” Yeltiz said taking her eyes off the horse and looking at the guard. “This…animal just wants a couple of our medical scanners.” She told him and the guard looked between her and the horse in confusion.

“Um...ok Yeltiz I think you need a vacation if you think animals can talk. “The guard said as he moved to shoo the animal away. “Ok, come on time for yo—“The relative silence of the room was shattered by three loud bangs and the guard stumbled back as three bloody holes appeared over his heart.

Yeltiz looked at the horse that was still partly on the counter and still had the same friendly smile trained on the nurse, to her side and wrapped in a purple glow was the pistol that had been holster on its chest aimed toward where the guard had been. “Now that the interruption is dealt with. “The pistol moved over and was pressed to Yeltiz forehead. “Where can I find those medical scanners?” the animal said without having lost its friendly demeanor at all.

With a shaking hand Yeltiz pointed to one of the carts beside the counter not trusting her voice. “Oh thank you so very much.” The horse said happily as she pulled the gun away from the nurse face and started to hum while the pistol floated beside her the horse made her way to the cart. Opening it with the same purple glow as what was wrapped around the gun she looked through the cart before she pulled out two of the medical scanner and looked at the nurse with the friendlies smile yet. “Thank you for the help, have a nice night.” She said before she walked to the door and disappeared into the night leaving behind the stunned medical staff of Our Angle of Hope Hospital Emergency Room.

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Twilight sat in her quarter carefully taking apart the two medical scanners she had retrieved from the hospital across town beside her sat her Datapad playing MUSIC at full volume as she had started doing recently; if she could do what she was planning it would make her much more effective as a medic. Sitting scattered around the area were various pieces of cybernetic limbs, all of which were taken apart, the last week on lockdown had been useful as it gave her a lot of time to learn from Dr. Anderson as with only having to take occasional reports from the stranded squads there wasn’t much she really needed to do beside take a few reports and check the soldier posted at the entrances.

In short this week had given her the time to learn what took humans years of schooling to learn and Dr. Anderson had mentioned he was impressed by how well she understood what he taught her as well as the fact she ended up deducing a lot of what he had been going to teach. She had reminded him that she was used to doing a lot of research and working with science and learning cybernetics was no different.

And so after the lockdown was lifted she had a checklist of items she planned to retrieve from the surface in order to build her cybernetics, it would take some time to locate what she needed but actually acquiring them wouldn’t be such an issue as she had already acquired most of what she needed in the last few hours. And now that she had retrieved the first of the items she needed part of her quarters had been converted to a workshop.

“Ah there we are. “She said as she got the final medical scanner taken apart, she separated the pieces she needed from what she wouldn’t and then moved them all to the side till she would need them later. She sat back as she closed her eyes and moved her head side to side, producing a loud pop each time. She wasn’t exactly sure when she had started doing that but for the most part she didn’t pay any attention to minor details like that as there were more important things.

She grabbed up the Datapad and read over where she needed to go to next. “Ok, so next on the list in retrieving the servos I’ll need and that’s not very far from here. “ She said with a smile as she killed the music and got up from the workstation and headed for the door, she had left orders behind so that things could run just fine while she gathered what she needed so she didn’t need to worry about the day to day operations of the base, and if something happened they could reach her by radio. They all knew she was working on a personal project so wouldn’t disturb her unless there was an emergency. And since all that was happening till further notice was getting the stranded squads back in and intelligence work it meant she was the only one going out.

All in all she had the time she needed to gather what she needed for her upgrades and just had a few more items to acquire before she began building them.

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Twilight laid prone on a rooftop half a block down from the factory she needed to get into to retrieve her servo, while this had been going to be a simple mission it had quickly become more difficult by the fact it looked like there had been a car accident near the gate to the factory which meant Feds were crawling all over the area as were fire crews and medical personal. While sneaking past the plant workers and security wouldn’t have been a big deal as even if they spotted her it would have taken time for the Feds to arrive if they called for help, with Feds right outside they’d be on her in moment if she was detected. And she had to curse the fact she didn’t retrieve a suppressor from the Armory before leaving.

She lowered the binoculars she was using to observer both the Feds and plant security’s movement for any gaps she could exploit, unfortunately the wreck had disrupted all normal movements and had the plant security doubled up. She needed a way to move through the plant without anyone seeing her but the place would be full of the night shift workers and guards.

She could teleport but that had the risk of the flash being noticed which would alert people to her presents and location so that was out and without really have much more than a floor plan of the factory to work with she couldn’t guarantee where works and guards would be. She thought about invisibility but she didn’t have the time to try and come up with a spell to do that and even then without proper testing it would be a huge risk it failing at an inopportune time. What she needed was to adapt a spell she knew but what?

She mentally ran through all the spells she knew for one that could be used but came up with nothing. “Ok…I need to think like an infiltrator...” she mumbled as she thought, there was only one time she had met skilled infiltrators and they were the Changelings when they invaded during the Royal Wedding.

She couldn’t use the shapeshifting magic but she remembered something else they had also done to avoid detection. Could she maybe do it? It wouldn’t be too hard to adapt that spell for what she needed.

She looked at the wall that held the rooftop access door on it. “Shouldn’t be too hard.” She thought as she she mentally began to run the calculation to modify the spell she would need. It took her about an hour but by then she had worked out how to modify the telekinesis spell to suit her needs.

She took a deep breath and cast the spell on her hooves as she approached the wall. “Here goes nothing. “She said as she placed a hoof against the wall, then a second, and then a third, taking another deep breath while balanced on a single rear hoof she carefully lifted it off the ground and placed it on the wall. Ignoring the bit of vertigo she very carefully took a step, then another and soon she was walking straight up the wall like the Changelings could do.

She smiled as she reached the top of the wall and looked back at the “ground” this would work. “No one ever looks up.” She said with a broad smile. She walked back down the wall to the normal ground. She would need to take some time later to improve this spell as it was still a bit crude but it would serve her purpose for now.

She used a series of teleports to reach the roof of the plants main building and she used her magic to silent break a window just below the roof. “Ok, time to really test the spell.” She whispered as she recast the spell and walked down to the window and stepped through, she had to fight the vertigo as she made her way to the ceiling and sighed with relief as the spell holds, thought she didn’t like the fact her tail was hanging down but she had to focus on the spell in case it start to fail so there was nothing to do about the embarrassing position shew as in, though she was glad there were no ponies around.

Looking up se saw the floor below was filled with plant workers going alone the automated assembly line to make sure everything ran smoothly and mixed in were patrolling guards though only a handful compared to the hundred or so workers scattered about the main floor and catwalks.

Carefully walked along the ceiling and making a mental note to work on this spell so as she doesn’t have to keep fighting the vertigo of being upside down she made her way through the building, happy to see her theory proved correct about no one ever looking up, though she still made sure to move slowly so the movement didn’t catch some ones attention.

Eventually she reached the part of the plant where her objectives lay, shipping. She looked up at the freshly manufactured top of the line servos being loaded into boxed to be shipped off to be installed in various types of heavy lifting equipment.

She just needed the quality control officers to not be looking so she could levitate up a few. Looking around she saw a forklift lifting a filled box to load, perfect. Once the create was lifted she used her magic to compress the peddle to the floor so the forklift launched back rabidly causing it to drop the box with a loud crash. This got everyone nearby attention s the quality control officers started to beret the driver for being so careless as they moved to make sure nothing was damaged. Without anyone noticing a large number of servos lifted from one of the boxes wrapped in a purple glow and sailed up to the ceiling.

Twilight smiled as she quickly tossed the servos into her storage locker and made her way back to the roof through the same window she had entered, not a single person have once noticed the mare walking along the ceiling.

With these servos Twilight just needed to track down the implants to allow her to control everything and she will be all set to build her cybernetics.

Though she did concede that she had done enough late night missions now as the sun was starting to rise and she needed to check on base operation as well as how intelligence work was going. But all and all this night had gone very well and she couldn’t help smiling.

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“What do you mean there isn’t any information on those black armored fuckers?!” Twilight yelled slamming her hooved on the desk of the Lieutenant who was in charge of the rebel intelligence network.

“I mean what I said ma’am, we couldn’t find any Intel on them, it’s like they simply don’t exist.” The women replied.

Twilight ground her teeth. “That doesn’t make any sense, we have confirmed siting of them, we know they exist, there had to be information on them somewhere.” Twilight said glaring at the officer.

The women just shrugged. “We will keep looking ma’am but I don’t know why we can’t find anything.”

Twilight sighed. “Very well, continue your search.” Twilight said and she turned to leave ignore the salute the lieutenant as she left.

She needed to relax, all these unknowns were getting her over stressed and her mane was going to start turning grey or her fur was going to fall out and she was way too young for either of those.

She knew just what she needed and headed for the one person who could help. Knocking on the door of the General’s office she waited for him to clear her for entrance which came promptly and she pushed the door open and gave a crisp salute.

“Ah Twilight what brings you here, got an intelligence report of interest?” Clancy asked.

Twilight snorted as she relaxed. “I wish, I’ve been having our people try to dig up anything on those back armored soldier but so far they can’t find anything and told me it’s like they don’t exist which is ridiculous.” She said with a laugh. She stopped when she noticed the General wasn’t laughing. “Sir?” She asked tilting her head to the side.

Clancy sighed as he sat back. “So I guess it was true.” HE said calmly running his hand down his face.

“What was true Sir?” She asked confused.

“Back when I was a sergeant we had been going to raid a group of gun runners, we were all geared up and ready to launch when the order came down to stand down and return to base.” Clancy said looking at her. “You can imagine how confused we all were but orders were order so we returned to base.”

Clancy paused as he retrieved the bottle of whisky from his desk and two glasses pouring one for them both. Twilight took it happily as she took as eat to listen.
“I asked my superiors why were called off and they just told me that they had realized the situation and needed an officer for the job.” The General said looking at his drink. “I wasn’t satisfied so a couple weeks later I looked into where the gun runners had been and learned the entire place had been wiped out an hour after we had been recalled but yet I could find no record of who did it. Which was odd.” Clancy took a drink.

“As I dug I started hearing old rumor of units that were well trained and well equipped and only deployed for special mission, but whenever anyone looked into them there was no record of such a unit.” HE looked at Twilight. “As I rose through the ranks I heard the same rumors again this time from an officer so they had more information. IT seems these units that don’t exist were called “Black Operations” or Black Ops for short and they were sent in to do jobs the government wanted no record of.”

Twilight nodded, it sounded exactly like what they were dealing with. “And who did these ‘Black Ops’ answer to? Surely they had someone to command them.”

Clancy nodded. “When I was a fresh lieutenant I met another lieutenant when he came to our base. He just arrived one day in a well pressed officer’s uniform. I still don’t know what he was there for but I ended up bumping into him in the mess hall and we got to talking. “Clancy said as he poured himself another drink. “The man loved to talk but anytime I asked what he did in the army he deflected the topic. I eventually got the distinct feeling I was being toyed with, like a cat lays with a mouse before it goes in for the kill.”

Clancy sighed. “The topic ended up on the non-existent soldiers and the man laughed as I mention I was trying to figure out if the rumors were true or not.” Clancy looked at Twilight. “He told me that I should be sure I am ready to open certain doors that cannot be closed once they are open. I didn’t understand what he meant but he would not elaborate but he did start talking more about himself.” Clancy sighed and looked at his drink once more. “He was a scrawny man, shorter then me with a hand shake like a wet noodle and after he finished talking about himself he was the most terrifying man I had ever met.”

Twilight blinked. “Why? If he was so weak why would you be scared of him?”

“Because he said he studied medical books and biology books.” Clancy said and Twilight blinked again as Clancy looked at her. “And he had no intention of becoming a doctor or saving lives through medicine.”

That actually made Twilight shiver slightly as it brought up the memory of the Merc back in the old base. “He told me if I really wanted to know about the Black Operation soldiers as he called them, then I should come find him.” Clancy said sitting back. “I told him that I can’t very well find him if I don’t know who he is as he never told me.”

“And he laughed against and then introduced himself as Lieutenant Lynch of Federal Army Intelligence and all I need to do is ask the base commander to be put in contact with him and he’d be more than happy to meet with me. “Clancy looked at Twilight once more. “The look in his eyes when he said that made me fear for my life and I wanted to get away from him as fast as I could.” Clancy sighed. “He laughed once more and said he had business to attend to and bid me to have a good day.”

Twilight looked at the General; she had never seen him afraid before, it was very odd to see such an emotion on the man. “What does this have to do with everything?” She asked carefully.

“Everything Commander, absolutely everything. “He said looking at her “Because if Black ops have been deployed and are taking orders from White rabbit which it looks like they are it means but one thing.”

Twilight thought for a moment and then the realization hit her and the general nodded as he saw her reach the conclusion and then downed his drink in one go. “White Rabbit is a Federal Army Intelligence Officer.”

Author's Note

So The Commander has gained an ability I hinted at a couple of Interludes back, did anyone notice it?

and we have part of the Identity of White Rabbit now, I wonder how many people guessed correctly his line of work.

Also I should say no General Clancy did not meet White Rabbit, he met a different Intelligence Officer.