"Come on can't this flying box go any faster?" Dash whined to the clones in the cockpit. The pilot looked at her.

"Ma'am this is a troop carrier, not a starfighter were still going slightly over Mach two..."

"Only two! Celestia, I could outfly this thing in my sleep!" Dash groaned slapping a hoof to her face. The second clone looked irritated.

"I don't think you understand what that means light bright." The second pilot was less formal and blunt. Dash puffed up

"Mach two is twice the speed it takes to break the sound barrier. I've clocked myself at Mach 10 on my worst day pal!" The clones laughed

"That doesn't seem physically possible small fry." The first pilot jabbed, and Rainbow groaned.

"That's it! let me off I can't be in this box anymore." She stormed to the bay doors. The door opened slightly with a rush of wind.

"Fine by me but it's a long way down."

"75 what are you..."

"Relax I'm just having a bit of fun with her it's not like she'll actually jump out of this thing." 75 waved his brother off.

"Pilot! why did Oh Five just leap out of an open door!" Boss yelled running to the cockpit.

"OH FRAG!" the pilot pushed the yoke to angle the noise to try and catch the pony only for tapping on the glass to startle them all. 75 looked up.

"I don't believe it..."

"What you see her!" his brother asked in a panic.

"Ya, I see her alright... I'm just having trouble believing it." 75 sounded like he was ready to eat his helmet.

"Where is she? The Princess will have our heads if she splats!"

"76, look up," Boss said putting a hand on the pilot's shoulder.

"What do you mean look up did we pass..." there flying above the canopy was Rainbow keeping perfect speed with the carrier. She had a shit eating grin the size of the moon as she waved at the pilots. Boss laughed in disbelief.

"Looks like Oh Five wanted to stretch her wings a bit. Open the bay a bit pilots." He walked back to the doors and motioned Dash closer. She angled herself over still grinning. He held out an earpiece and mimed to his helmet. Dash nodded and put it in her ear.

"You scared the blazes out of us." Boss's voice came through the piece, and he got cackling from the cyan pegasus.

"Sorry, your boys were going a bit to slow for my tastes, Sir," Rainbow spoke with her usual bravado a far hill from where they'd first met her scared in chains.

"Get your stretch and come in, We just rescued you I'm not hunting you down all over again Oh-Five." Rainbow raised an eyebrow

"Names Rainbow Dash and I'm the fasted thing in the sky." She crossed her hooves smugly still keeping pace.

"Delta lead Three-Eight." He pointed at himself "We all have numbers on the comms makes radio traffic easier." Dash brightened in understanding

"Ok, I got you Three-Eight, Sir." She saluted, and Boss raised an eyebrow.

"Hey, Light bright! so I'll admit your pretty fast." 76 called out, and a Daredevil grin spread across Dash's face.

"You want fast I'll show you fast!" She angled herself and speed ahead of the carrier with a Rainbow trail. Past the cockpit and up higher in the sky. She circled around the ship both pilots craned there necks trying to follow her. She flew a straight line down the bow of the ship picking up even more speed. 75 pushed the carrier back to top speed trying to catch up. They heard a thunderous crack like the sound barrier being broke, but instead of a white cloud of pressurized air, the sky split open a rainbow ring pushed all the clouds in the area away leaving just a trail of rainbows telling Dash was on her way back.

"DID THAT PONY! just go light speed?" 75 asked putting his hands on his head.

"It's not... I don't believe it!" 76 tried to comprehend what just happened.

"What did you just see." 75 pointed to the evidence right in front of them.

"But!" He tried to argue, but his brother pointed more forcefully at the sonic rainbow.

"What did you just see!" 75 urged 76 just shook his head.

"This world is fucking crazy." 76 admitted and 75 laughed.

"I love it." 75 cheered as the rainbow trial came careening back towards them. The pilot grabbed the control to try and move out of the way but too late. Only for Rainbow to make a ninety-degree turn mere seconds before the collision and stop near the bay doors to casually land and re-enter the aircraft.

"That felt good." she slicked back her hair to reset it to her usual messy look.

"Woo hoo! you rock." The quiet voice of Fluttershy cheered in her barely audible way, and Rainbow laughed at the inside joke they shared.

"Boss if she can do that and the yellow one can flip bears. how the hell did these ponies get captured?" Scorch asked over the comms as he looked over his gear. Boss-eyed the ponies wondering the same thing. Four-Oh's statement ran through his head something didn't add up.

"The bastard drugged our cider." Rainbow's voice filled the coms and Boss, and the rest of Delta looked at her.

"Ah forgot you were on the Com Oh-Five." Scorch trailed off.

"So this is how you talk without talking pretty neat." She changed the subject. "So He's Three-Eight, I'm Oh-Five whats your numbers?" She asked

"Six-Two, Scorch."

"Oh-Seven, Sev."

"Seventy-Six, Dece." The first pilot called

"Seventy-Five, Pycho." The Second pilot exclaimed with more energy.

"Pycho's a pretty hardcore name," Rainbow commented, and the clone laughed.

"Earned it when I flew one of these ninety degrees up the side of a Separatist ship." He chuckled, and his brother groaned.

"Don't remind me you had every clone on there ready to hurl from that stunt." She could hear the shutter in Dece's voice.

"Not sure I fully understand but sounds awesome." Dash complemented but a word caught in her mind.

"Wait, Clone?" She asked looked at them, and Boss removed his helmet and Scorch, and Sev followed, and Dash studied each of them

"Are you all suppose to look like each other?" she asked nervously seeing the same face on different people unnerved her.

"Dash! don't be rude." Fluttershy lightly scolded not fully understand what she missed only hearing what Rainbow had spoken out loud.

"Were clones Ma'am. Each and every one of us. Some just slightly more handsome than others." Scorch shrugged with a smile, and Sev rolled his eyes with a sneer.

"Our friend cloned herself once." Fluttershy offered, and every clone looked at her with the same raised eyebrow.

"How in Blue blazes did a pony manage that?" Boss asked, and Fluttershy idly rubbed her front hooves together.

"Well, she found this magic pool called the mirror pool. It lets you make copies of yourself."

"Ya, but she went WAY overboard. Making hundreds of herself, they totally destroyed the town. The creepiest part was they just kept shouting FUN over and over mindlessly." Rainbow interjected with a shutter. A smile spread across Scorch's face seeing her discomfort.

"I don't know Oh-Five I do like fun." Rainbow cringed, and Sev met his pod brother's eyes with his own grin.

"Fun? Fun is good." He let out, and Rainbow went into a full on war flashback of the incident. She could hear it all around her. A squirming hopping sea of pink and noise.

"Oh-Five?" Scorch asked watching the ponies eyes glaze over. "Um, Oh-Five?" He crouched to look at her.

"I think you broke Oh-Five nir'rod." Sev said crossing his arms waiting for her to snap out of it. Scorch snapped his fingers a couple times, and she snapped out of it shaking her head.

"You ok Rainbow?" He checked her over as she nodded

"I'm cool, I'm cool." She brushed her hair back with a hoof. "So how far till we reach Applejack?" She asked to once again change topics.

"Thirty-Mins Oh-Five." 75 said "Then we can see how much FUN Oh-Four and Four-Oh are having" Rainbow groaned, and the pilot laughed.

On the grassy hill outside of the castle, they were kept. The green commando and the Orange mare were talking around a small Campfire sitting on logs they'd found. As the sun set off in the distance.

"So you're telling me you and all your kin were made to fight some war for a place you've never seen or had anything to do with until they needed grunts." Applejack waved a hoof in disbelief. Fixer nodded, and she shook her head. "It ain't right, but I think I can relate."

"Oh?" the clone asked intrigued,

"Ya see I belong to one of the biggest families in Equestria. The Apple family span all four corners of most of this earth. But somedays when things are tough on the farm I wonder if I was born just to work on the farm. Same as you I just never knew any other way to live. Well until this whole element of harmony business then my simple life became one mission after another." Applejack put a hoof under her chin. Fixer grew hyper-focused on this pony again.

"What kind of..." He was cut off by Boss's voice over his Coms

"Were coming in. The L.Z clear delta?"

"Crystal Sir no enemy contacts since the escape." A sudden yell made him jump up with his rifle.

"Applejack!" With a flash of Rainbow and blue Something collided with Applejack hard enough to bowl the mare over. Fixer almost shot Rainbow Dash until he recognized her holding the farm mare in a hug. He lowered it and let out a breath shaking his head.

"Fir'Fek Oh-five." 40 cursed but neither mare heard him as they hugged. After a moment Rainbow stood up over the farm mare then seemed to consider something.

"Dash?" AJ asked raising an eyebrow over misty eyes

"Nope not done yet." She collapsed back onto her resuming the hug. AJ chuckled warmly.

"I'm glad to see you two Rbd."

Fixer watched the LA-AT descend the belly doors were open and Boss stoop holding the hand strap.

"You enjoy your vacation Delta?" Boss asked, but the other two wanted to take it a step further.

"See any cool sights?" 62 asked

"Kill any Mins?" 07 added. And 40 chuckled.

"Watched Oh-Four take down a Full sized Minotaur in two kicks." He could feel there stares through the visors and the distance.

"Boss are you sure there wasn't a leak in his tube?" Scorch asked but Boss ignored him. He extended his arm to 40 who grabbed it by the wrist

"Good to have you back."

Author's Note

I kept getting 75 and 76 mixed up in my head. so if you notice something off tell me. Overal i not super happy about this chapter but it's done