War Zone-Equestria

Twilight’s eyes momentarily felt like they were glued shut. She felt cold all over, and had wet patches all over her chest, along with a heavy feeling as if something was resting on her. She started hear the faint sound of Fluttershy’s voice, which became more identifiable as mixed crying and choking, while Applejack’s voice started to also fill her ears with quieter, but just as intense crying. She felt limp and unable to move momentarily, and her horn was starting to sting again. She could easily feel the cuts all around her head, but they weren’t quite as deep as she thought they were. She started to feel warm again, and her vital systems were starting to resume their normal pace of activity. She wondered why her friends couldn’t feel the change; they must be so distressed from losing her that they weren’t paying attention. She found it hard to open her eyes more than a couple of millimetres but that was enough to see what was in front of her. Derpy was pacing in and out of her line of sight, even though her vision was blurry, but she could identify her voice and colours.

She felt a bit more relaxed knowing her friends were ok, but she still wished she could see them and tell them they could stop crying, and give them a hug until they started smiling again. But she couldn’t. She knew she was alive but she didn’t understand why she couldn’t move. She hated the feeling of being helpless while others were worrying about her. She wondered if the spell brought her back, but restricted movement, or if it hadn’t worked properly. She wondered if she’d even be able to say anything to anypony again.

Before she could try to lift her head to see if the other 6 were in the room, her horn started to buzz, and emit a light humming noise, but she still couldn’t move. Fluttershy was crying too hard to hear it, but Applejack’s ears perked up, hearing something odd in the mix of heavy interrupted breaths and cries. The buzzing was getting louder and Twilight felt the pain in her head start to retreat into her horn. She felt the cuts literally start to seal themselves. Derpy stopped pacing when she too heard the buzzing noise. She looked down at Twilight’s horn, and for a split second, she saw a green spark, and could see the cuts on her head starting to seal. She wiped her eyes and wondered if her emotions really were getting the better of her. But as she focused closer on Twilight’s horn she noticed a couple more sparks. Blue, red, yellow, green, magenta, a flurry of sparks started to zip and whir in all directions from her horn fading just inches from leaving it. A light started to form on the tip of her horn and expand. Derpy lit up as her emotions made a massive turn, as she realised the spell was working. Twilight was coming back.

“Princess! Look at her horn! The spell’s working!” Derpy yelled, getting Celestia’s attention, along with everypony else including Fluttershy.

The light started to grow in size, and Twilight’s eyes suddenly snapped open. She felt wonderful, the pain was gone, she could freely move her limbs, and she could breathe clearly. She used her magic to pull the light back into her horn which spread through her head, making her eyes glow with a vibrant bright light that filled up the room. She closed her eyes and the room went darker, but instead of just the faint glow of Celestia’s light, the one Twilight had conjured was glowing through her head with a faint purple aura, and the light started to descend down her neck and rested in her chest. It faded to the point where Twilight resumed her normal state. She jumped up onto her hooves, regaining her balance quite quickly, startling the others. Everyone was lost in a confusing mess of emotions. Fluttershy was the most shocked. She’d been absolutely devastated beforehand, but all of a sudden her friend was back, yet she still found it hard to adjust her state to happiness, just flushing down the feeling of joy every time it tried to rise.

Applejack found it almost as difficult but really didn’t like the feeling. She wanted to just leap over to Twilight, but didn’t know if she was able to just yet. Seeing her die really took a toll on her state of mind.

“Twilight! You’re... You’re ok!” Derpy said walking forward towards her. “You are ok right?” she asked stopping in front of her.

Twilight stayed silent for a couple of seconds thinking, trying to sense for any pain or irregularities in her body, but there were none. She was completely healed.

“I’m better than fine” Twilight told her with a smile.

On hearing this Derpy didn’t hesitate for even a second to spring up and hug Twilight. Twilight was a bit taken by surprise, and nearly got tackled over, but managed her balance and laid her front right leg around Derpy to return the embrace. It was a slightly tight hug, and Derpy also had watery eyes. She knew she’d befriended this version of Derpy quickly, but she didn’t realise Derpy felt this close to her already. She suddenly felt another pair pony join in the hug leaning on the two of them and resting her head on Twilight’s shoulder. She could feel from the length of the hair spanning down around her flank, and excessively wet dripping eyes making the fur around her neck moist, that it was Fluttershy. She slipped her left foreleg out from between her and Fluttershy and wrapped her in the hug as well.

“It’s ok Fluttershy. I’m Fine.” Twilight said doing her best to reassure her distraught friend.

Fluttershy barely managed to choke out a response, and stuttered a lot trying to make sense of everything.

“But... H-h-how? You w-were d-dea...” Fluttershy cut off and cried harder, pulling Twilight in tighter while Derpy moved away to give Twilight a little free space. Twilight popped both her forelegs around Fluttershy and held her, stroking her mane to calm her down. She figured out a way to relax Fluttershy in the past, if she was afraid or nervous about something, was to just stay silent and make her feel comfortable. It wasn’t very effective though. Trying to help Fluttershy cope with seeing her die was a far higher magnitude than trying to convince her that she needn’t fear something small or troublesome. She just sat and supported herself on her hind legs.

After about  minutes of not shifting at all Fluttershy bought herself to inch back and pull away from Twilight. Twilight left her hoof on Fluttershy’s shoulder as she backed away, and could barely see the tiniest hint of a grin forming on the corner of her mouth.

“Don’t you ever p-put me through s-something like t-t-that again Twilight. You’ve almost died enough t-times today. Next time I’m afraid it m-might not be an almost situation.” Fluttershy said to Twilight maintaining a cleaner voice through the mucus and salty tears clogging her sinuses.  She wiped her face and moved back to give Twilight some space. Applejack didn’t feel the urge to assault Twilight with all of her emotion, but she felt it would have been rude to say nothing. She walked up and rubbed Twilight’s back.

“Thank goodness you’re ok Twi. I don’t know what we would’ve done if you had...” Applejack trailed off and grimaced at the word, not wanting to use it. Twilight had no intention of letting her friend sit in a confusing mess of negative feelings. She wanted Applejack to feel better, but all she could think to do was to pull her into a hug as well, so she did. Applejack was a bit taken by surprise, she thought Twilight would like the space, but apparently to her it didn’t matter.

After a short time and mostly silence, Applejack also broke away and backed up, but now she looked like she was fighting of her frown with a smile; just as Twilight had intended.

“I don’t know what you did Princess, but thank you. I thought I might never see any of you again. If you had any idea what I saw...” Twilight said breaking off. She didn’t quite think telling them about what happened after she had died would be a good idea. They might disagree with all the decisions she made. “Thank you Princess. What did you do anyway? I’ve never felt so, restored.” Twilight thought there might have been a better way to say how good she felt at the moment, but that would do for now. The princess had been silent the entire time. She had been so confused, emotionally, mentally and physically. Her spell hadn’t worked, but then it had to a magnitude far greater than she had anticipated, and the fact that her best soldier, and close friend, even if she wasn’t the same one, had almost been taken from her a second time, it almost emotionally drained her, even though she had great difficulty in displaying it.

“Twilight, I... I thought the spell hadn’t worked. I thought you were gone.” Celestia said working forward.

“The effects were just a little delayed obviously.” Twilight lied trying to assure the princess nothing was wrong with her magic, but she felt maybe she should have told her that there was sometimes a choice in allowing the spell to work.

“The spell worked better than expected too. It’s dark magic that I prefer to not use unless it’s absolutely necessary. It’s only meant to revive one close for death and heal the most brutal of injuries, but for you it seems to have cleared up everything.”

“Princess, a spell like that sounds like it would require a tonne of effort. Aren’t you in pain?” Twilight asked starting to reconsider this dimension’s Celestia’s magical talent.

“No Twilight, you see this magic affects my magical reserves. Instead of agony I am unable to cast any more spells for a period of up to 24 hours.” Celestia explained.

Twilight didn’t know how respond. She knew she couldn’t say she shouldn’t have, or everypony in the room would scold her to think it. She kept thinking, but words didn’t seem to fit the piece right now. Instead she just grinned and expressed her gratitude.

“Thankyou Princess. You have no idea how much it means.” Twilight told her.

Celestia gave her a small hug.

“It’s no trouble Twilight.” Celestia assured her.

Celestia stepped back, and when Twilight thought everypony was done one more pony stepped forwards. She turned around to see Bullseye step forward and readied herself for one more hug. Just as she had expected, he put one foreleg around her and she did the same. Twilight could tell his feelings towards this dimension’s Twilight were more than mother and son, but kept quiet for him, and to avoid letting him realise that she knew.

“Thank goodness you’re ok. I don’t know how I’d cope with losing you twice. I know it’s already been said, but after what the other Twilight did to help me... You’re just like her in so many ways.” Twilight backed up as he let go and backed up himself.

“I’m sorry you all got so worried... again.” She added looking at Fluttershy and Applejack. “Where are the others though?” Twilight asked realising that she still hadn’t seen Pinkie, Rarity, or Rainbow.

Bullseye answered her being the one who had taken the girls to the combat training area.

“They’re in the hoof to hoof combat training area, but I may as well go bring them back. Obviously if you’re not going on the mission they won’t be either.” He said making the assumption that she was not going to go to Canterlot after what had just happened. But Twilight had other plans on her mind.

“Oh I’m still going on the mission.” Twilight told him. Everypony in the room just looked at her stunned and yelled “WHAT!” She had expected a negative reaction but Twilight didn’t think they’d be that against it.

“You can’t be serious if you think I’m going to let you go on the mission after that Twilight. There are too many risks.” Celestia told her.

“Or us! Yer crazy if ye think we’re lettin you go to Canterlot Twilight! If ye don’t come back ah won’t be able te live with myself personally, and ah know the other’s will be devastated.” Applejack told her.

Twilight was about to tell them that even if she went on the mission she would be fine, but how could she back it up. How could she explain to them what had happened to her, and expect them to believe it.

“I have to go on the mission guys. Otherwise we wasted all the time practicing for it.”

“Twilight, it was hardly near 40 minutes, what if... whatever happened to you happens again?” Fluttershy asked trying to reason with Twilight.

“That was the princess trying to mentally contact me from our dimension.” She started, making Applejack, Fluttershy look at her confused.

“What happened was she put so much push behind the spell that she broke the rift between this dimension and ours, and when she connected with me, all of the power that it took piled into my head, along with the broken energy from the rift. It should have killed me instantly. But it won’t happen again; Aura told me I’d be fine.” Twilight said, but not realising she had just mentioned Aura.

All at once the confused trio asked a question concerning what they found most odd about what Twilight had just said.

“Who’s Aura?” Applejack asked.

“Twilight, what are you talking about?” Derpy asked.

“How do you know it won’t happen again?” Fluttershy asked.

“Oh it’s a long story... basically when I died; someone I met told me that if I went back I would be ok.” Twilight finished there instead of telling them the rest of what she’d been told. She had no intention of worrying her friends with something that she was going to prevent.

“Twilight you know how farfetched your story sounds right? What if you were just dreaming before you died.” Bullseye said trying to convince Twilight that she was making a bad decision.

Twilight was desperate now. No one believed her and had no intention of supporting her through this decision; it was a feeling she hated and knew too well.

“I wasn’t dreaming! I know it’s hard to believe, but you have to trust me, I’ll be fine. I promise you!” Twilight exclaimed louder than she needed to, but determined to get her point across one way or another. Everypony kept looking at her confused, only Pinkie had ever seen her break a promise, and that was towards Spike. But because neither of them were there she had to hope that they would trust her.

Fluttershy felt the most confused of the lot, but she knew she could always trust Twilight.

“Do you Pinkie Promise?” She said grinning to Twilight.

“Cross my heart, hope to fly, Stick a cupcake in my eye.” Twilight said. While Bullseye, Derpy, and Celestia were all confused by what Twilight had just said, they took Fluttershy’s and Applejack’s reactions as assurance that Twilight meant it. Suddenly the door opened though, and as if on cue the pink party pony who had created the special promise hopped inside the room.

“Did I hear my name?” Pinkie asked joyfully, completely oblivious to the situation at hand.

The three girls just smiled and giggled.

“Don’t worry about it Pinkie.” Twilight said giggling.

Rainbow Dash and Rarity followed through the door along with an unidentified stallion with a light brown coat, chocolate mane, and an hour glass for a cutie mark.

“Commander Derpy. The team is ready to go. Are the 6 extra recruits coming or not?” He asked.

Derpy looked over at Twilight unsure about the decision at hand, but Twilight’s nodding made up her mind for her.

“Yes private Whooves. Report to the departure centre at the back of the base with the team, I’ll bring the other 6 up shortly.” Derpy responded.

“Yes commander.” The stallion said as he galloped off in the direction he had originally come.

“I should go join them,” Bullseye said trotting towards the door.

“Wait just a minute!” Celestia finally managed to burst out. “Do I not get a say in anything anymore?”

“Princess we fulfilled your requirements. Our accuracy with firearms was spot on. We hardly missed any shots.” Twilight informed her. “Tell her Bullseye.” She said looking at the stallion pleadingly.

“It’s true princess. I’ve never seen such fierce accuracy from beginners before, and Fluttershy’s skill is absolutely maniacal. Getting in front of her is suicide.” He remarked praising Fluttershy’s amazing skill she demonstrated with a .50 cal, but also still expressing how weird it was to see her performance. Fluttershy only blushed and gave a week squeak.

Celestia stood thinking for a few seconds trying to figure out which decision was the right one. But she knew she would never hear the end of it if she denied Twilight a chance after doing exactly what she wanted.

“Ok. You’re cleared for the mission then girls. But you all better come back!” She instructed the lot making herself as clear as possible. Twilight thought about what Aura had told her, and gulped down her worries, dismissing the fear of losing one of her friends. She wasn’t going to let it happen.

“Well then Bullseye, join the troops, while I go retrieve weapons for the girls.” Derpy said looking at the soldier.

“Yes commander!” he said content and determined to complete the task ahead. As he left the room Derpy turned to face the girls.

“You girls, follow me. We have one more trip to make before the mission starts.” She said walking towards the door, with all 6 girls starting to move after her. Fluttershy, momentarily waited giving Twilight a small rub on the back with her right hoof before making her way after the others. Twilight smiled and stood up moving after them. She turned around and looked at the Princess, who had gone back over to her desk to send her map to the team, but the princess had momentarily forgotten that she’d used up her magical reserves. Twilight picked it up with her magic and brought it to herself, packaging it all neatly together.

“I’ll take it to for you princess.” Twilight offered.

“Thankyou Twilight. Please be safe.” The princess told her one last time.

“I will. Thankyou Princess.” She said making her farewell, and exiting the room for the last time, with nothing but a look of pure determination across her face.

She ran up and caught up to the others, and they wondered about through the many tunnels of the base. They arrived at a room close to the top of the base. Twilight could only tell because of the faint dying plant life amongst corners of the room and tiny cracks in the edges of the ceiling. Derpy pressed her hoof to a misshapen brick sitting on the wall of stone in front of them. Suddenly a sound of clinking metal came from behind a large portion of one of the bigger rocks, which pulled backwards revealing another room.

“Girls, welcome to the armoury.” Derpy said leading them inside. They looked around the room in awe. Weapons of different shapes and sizes were everywhere. Some of them look liked regular hoof guns, and were all categorized appropriate to their size, and caliber, which captivated Rarity’s attention.

“Now I want to know which weapons you’re all comfortable with before I find appropriate attachments.” Derpy said moving over to Fluttershy first, intent on talking to each of them individually.

“So I suppose you might go for a .28 maybe?” she said, remarking on Fluttershy’s physique, but Fluttershy wasn’t offended. Instead she seized this as an opportunity shock Derpy.

“Actually I’d like a .50 please, if you don’t mind that is.” Fluttershy said faking her usual shy mood to add to the comedy she was getting from Derpy’s reaction. It wasn’t much apart from a mentally affected face and struggled stutter.

‘This is all just getting weirder!’ she thought going over and retrieving a .50 from the low level bench, which obviously housed the smallest available .50 cal hoof gun. She gave it to Fluttershy who slipped it on, studying the visible differences between it and the last one she wore.

“What are all these little empty sockets and bars for?” Fluttershy asked.

“Those are for the weapon’s attachments.” Derpy said moving onto Applejack, leaving Fluttershy confused thinking about what she meant by attachments.

“So will it be a .50 cal for you too?” she asked, confident that Applejack would be more than sturdy enough to handle the force of one.

“NO! No, hehe, ahl be fine with a 30 please.” Applejack said.

Derpy became even more visually confused. She didn’t understand how someone frail like Fluttershy would ask for a gun with the force of a cannon, while a strong mare like Applejack was asking for a regular shooter. Still she knew questioning it would lead to further confusion and instead decided to just fulfil the request. She retrieved a .30 from a higher section of the wall that she believed would fit Applejack.

She moved on to Rarity.

“So, what size would you like?” Derpy asked her.

“I’ll just get a .30 please. What about the rest of you?” Rarity asked the others trying to speed things along.

The rest of them nodded approvingly. Derpy sighed and turned to the wall of .30’s grabbing 4 one by one, and sliding them over to each of the girls, in the sizes she believed were appropriate. Derpy was a very good judge of size and had managed to suit them up with nicely fitting hoof guns.

“Ok before I tech you all up with weapon attachments, I need to get you all clip belts. She trotted over to the wall opposite the one covered in weapons and grabbed several black small belts with up to 4 round holders, sized for different ammo magazines. Derpy grabbed 4 for each of the 6 mares, making sure that they were suited to their respective weapons. She helped each of the girls one attach the belts to their three spare legs, two on their free foreleg, and one for each hind leg for backup ammo. She trotted back to the weapon wall, and opened some black rectangle chests below the categories the girls had received weapons from.

“Alright, I’m going to go to the tech closet and grab a few attachments for your guns. Can you each fill up your ammo belts with mags from the appropriate chests? I’ll be right back.” Derpy said wondering over to a large closet in the corner of the room. The girls each moved up to their respective ammo banks and started loading full mags into their belts, sliding them into comfortable positions.

“These clips are so big!” Fluttershy said comparing hers to the ones the other girls were putting into their belts. Fluttershy had less ammo spots because of her clip sizes and had to settle for 3 on each clip, but she was ok with it considering each clip had around 6 .50 cal bullets in it.

Derpy returned holding a container in her mouth filled with various little metal devices, and dropped them on the ground opening it.

“Right. You each have up to date weaponry which will be able to house more attachments than the older models. I’ve got red dot sight-bars, which are for added precision. The models you practiced with should have had them.” Derpy said picking the small rectangle bars up one by one and passing it to each of the girls. “Just slide them into the bars on top of the front body until they click and lock in. The next attachments I have are muters, they’re small capsules you screw onto the barrel of the gun which negate most of the noise from a shot, but for a .50 cal, it’ll still be relatively loud.” she said looking at Fluttershy. She pulled out 6 one by one all at the appropriate barrel sizes and rolled them to each of the girls who screwed them onto the barrels of their weapons.

“I have two more attachments for each of you. One is standard, and one was one of my original ideas that the engineers modified into newer models.” Derpy said reaching her mouth into the container and pulling out some big cylindrical capsules and dropping them on the ground.

“Ok so these are the standard,” she said pointing at the bulky metal device. It looked like a long cylinder that folded into three, in the same fashion as the gun on the lower third fold was a blunt round end, with a round metal spring loaded handle that was high enough to put their hoof around. There was a split in each section that was made for the handle to travel up and down the device. The girls after a short look could tell this was obviously for launching something. “Recently our engineers figured out a way to safely contain volatile and explosive liquids in capsules called bombs. They’ve been tweaking them to different sizes but their biggest advancement was making them mobile. Then they went further and made special launchers,” she continued pointing her hoof at the contraptions on the ground, “which we use to launch them much farther than we can throw them. But here’s where the choice comes in. You can either have one of these, or you can have my personal favourite attachment...” Derpy said stopping and pulling out a long object in a cloth. Derpy pulled the cloth up and revealed a few long, slender, shining blades. “These babies will be a great asset in a physical combat situation. They clip into the same place a bomb launcher normally would and extend around your shoulder. Once you click your weapon into place it releases and clicks into the front, extending a good 20 centimetres over your hoof; perfect for impaling anyone on it if they get in your way. So what’ll it be?” Derpy asked.

Every pony was admiring their new upgraded tricked out weapons. Twilight had been the only one to pick a blade for her hoof gun. Applejack, and Rainbow had chosen to have the bomb launchers, which surprisingly weighed very little... even the actual bombs which were strapped around their waist were heavier. Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Rarity had all chosen to just stick to the muters, and sights.

“Right, now that you girls have your guns it’s time to get going. Are you all certain you’re up to this? There is no going back from this point!” Derpy said one last time to make sure they were ready.  The girls all gave approving nods. Derpy grinned and trotted over to the closet she’d been at when she collected the container of attachments. She reached inside a small chest inside of it and when the girls finally saw what she was grabbing she popped her right arm out with a very fine looking .50 cal hoof gun, polished to an almost mirror equivalency. It had a special custom sight attachment, with a blue cross instead of red dot, a muter already on the barrel, and a very violently sharp looking blade extending from its mid body to her shoulder.  Twilight noticed a small chamber on the side of the body as well, which had a long sharp rod emerging from the front and stopping next to the top of her hoof.

“Derpy what’s the little tube on the side?” Twilight asked wondering what the little cylinder held.

“That’s a poison Twilight. It paralyses the body and slowly kills the subject injected with it, but unfortunately it only has two uses before it runs empty.

“It certainly is an elegant weapon.” Rarity proclaimed admiring it’s sleekness and shine.

“Thanks. Now are we all ready to...” Derpy trailed off. She looked over and started watching Pinkie who looked as though she was dancing around on the spot, but it was actually only her tail.

“My tail! Girls my tail! Twitchy twitch ‘a’ twitch! Something’s gunna fall!” Pinkie worriedly told the others. Derpy was bewildered though; whatever Pinkie had just said she was completely oblivious to it.

“What’s she talking about?” Derpy asked Twilight. But Twilight didn’t answer straight away. She knew that if they were in a huge underground base, and something was going to fall. It couldn’t be good.

“Oh no... We have to get out of here now!” Twilight said to Derpy. She was still a little dumbfounded but strictly listened to Twilight and bolted to the rock door.

“Come on, let’s go.” She said popping out of it. The others followed her while Dashie nudged Pinkie to move along.

Once everypony was outside Derpy pushed another loose rock in which caused the large rock that housed the doorway to move back into place.

“This Way!” She said galloping down a passage to her immediate right with the other 6 in close pursuit. But as they were running, the whole base suddenly shuddered, with an unnaturally loud booming noise, almost causing each pony to collapse to their knees.

“What in tha hay was that?” Applejack asked, looking at the roof.

Almost instantaneously to her finishing her sentence another boom and Earth shaking explosion could be felt surging through the base.

“Come on! We don’t have time to mess around now! Let’s go!” Derpy said, speeding off in another direction. The run was hard, but they had to push on before the whole place caved in on them. The girls could already see the support beams and walls cracking under pressure.

The explosions continued, for the very few minutes it took for the 7 mares to get there. One of the walls had actually collapsed and nearly crushed Applejack, but Pinkie had sensed the wall early and managed to dive in and tackle her out of the way. Luckily the roof above them didn’t give way with the wall, but it wouldn’t hold for long at this rate. Some of the explosions were far away but others often found the spot right above Twilight and her friends. Derpy opened another door and they found themselves in a round room with about 6 stallions in it, including Bullseye and Private Hooves.

Apple Bloom’s ration packs lay in saddle bags in the middle of the room, along with saddlebags containing the extra ammo Scootaloo had collected. The base continued to shake, and the explosions were now extremely loud, compared to 3 floors underground. They were now on the top floor and there was one door on the opposite side of the room, leading the outside. A stallion was standing in the door way watching the skies outside, trying to find the threat that could be dropping the bombs.

“Commander, Lunar soldiers are dropping large explosives around the forest floor. We think they’re searching for the base.” Bullseye said upon seeing the commander approach the room.

“Have you spotted the attackers?” Derpy asked.

“Not all of them, there are a few griffins, but mostly pegasi. They’re dropping bombs at random; they must have suspicions about the forest. But even if they don’t find us, the explosions could still weaken the base. It would be dangerous to leave everyone in here. We should evacuate everyone to the safety of the sanctuary hall.” Bullseye said. The girls seemed confused by what the two were talking about but kept listening.

“Right. Safety first. Tell your team that they are to instead help evacuate everypony to the sanctuary hall.” Derpy instructed.

“But commander what about the mission?” Bullseye asked.

“We have 6 capable soldiers right here,” Derpy replied nodding towards Twilight and the group. “You, me and them, will go to Canterlot, and extract Spike.”

“Are you sure Commander?” Bullseye asked just to confirm his orders.

“Yes. The situation is actually working out quite well. With the bombers looking for the base all we have to do is sneak through the forest and get through the towns to Canterlot. It shouldn’t be too hard, especially if they’re focussed on finding us out here. Just make sure your team is fast. Not all the levels of this base are secure. We’ve already seen some walls collapse. No quickly private. We have to use the opportunity while we’ve got it!” Derpy said instructing Bullseye one last time.

“Yes Commander!” he said trotting over to talk to each individual member of his team.

Derpy turned around to the girls, with a large grin on her face. She had the whole thing planned out in her head. She readied herself to explain it to them. She cracked her neck to the left and right and spoke to the girls.

“I hope you’re all ready. This is where it gets intense.”