Rainboom Revolution

"Is this the place, number two?"

"Correct, that's his city house. I know it like the bottom of my hoof."

"Good, then it's time to enact revenge for his support of harmony!"

The rebel squad wearing the sickly-green lozenges representing Greed's squadron had made it through the streets of Canterlot - unopposed, due to distractions by fellow rebels - to the elaborate, gated city residence of social leader Fancypants. As Fancypants was both a "horned one" and a lower-key member of those aiding Princess Luna's rehabilitation, he was high on the target list of the rebels, and thanks to an "enlightened" (read: submissive to the idea of pegasi superiority) unicorn in the Royal Guard they had chance that night to strike him in his residence.

Agent Greed, one of the six main "lackeys" of Lieutenant Captain Aten/Agent Snake, would lead the attack intending to assassinate the prominent unicorn and his entire staff. The aforementioned "enlightened" unicorn, a Guard Upper Class under investigation for ties to the Agents of Chaos due to Fancypants' suspicions, was the second-in-command of the squad. The objective was to storm the residence, allowing in a rebel squad that would loot and vandalize the place before dispersing across the city while Agent Greed went after Fancypants and his second-in-command (with the help of a few other rebels) rounded up the staff to dispose of them via cyanide canister. If the mission was successful, a timebomb trap would be laid to destroy the house the following morning, with the possibility of inflicting further injury to the loyalists in the process...

"There's a weak point in the security gate, I'll show you where it is. Once through, you should be able to batter the main door down and get in that way. There's no other security doors, just cameras and laser lines." the unicorn second-in-command explains.

"Meh, we won't care much about those things this time. Let the alarms blare, our fellow rebels will ensure that nopony will come to them." Agent Greed explains, a sinister smile spreading across his face. Behind him the group of eight or so rebels, all pegasi marked with the sickly-green lozenge, would be the ones to carry out the other tasks in the Fancypants mansion.

The second-in-command pointed to a specific spot on the security gate, and Greed ordered several pegasi to push as hard as they could at that spot. They flew up to the weak point, ear-to-ear against the gate, and gave it all the wingpower they had. Slowly, the gate was forced to open against the locking mechanism, letting in the rest of the party to the grounds of the mansion. The rebels, Agent Greed in the lead, ascended the elaborately carved marble steps to the gilded main door, and this time more conventional ramming tactics were employed, setting off the first alarms inside the mansion.

When the doors were busted open, two ponies serving Fancypants as servants were waiting in defense. Sadly, without weaponry and facing overwhelming odds, they were grabbed as soon as the rebels stormed through the door, preventing Fancypants himself from preparing for the rebel attack. The only real defense was his "escort" Fleur Dis Lee, and Agent Greed believed she could be defeated and assassinated at the same time Fancypants would be.

"Lock the two in a closet, find any other staff and throw them in there as well!" the second-in-command shouts, referring to the pegasi holding the stunned staff prisoner.

"Initiate looting and vandalism! Destroy everything that's too big to carry off in your bags! Once loaded up, escape through a window!" Agent Greed shouts, confident that on the way out after his assassination that he could help himself to some of the valuable trinkets and artifacts in the residence.

Once the rest of the squad scatters through the elaborate main lobby, Agent Greed ascends the main staircase in a fast walk, a determined and demented grin on his face, and disappears through an ebony door...

About a minute later, Fancypants and Fleur Dis Lee awake into nightmarish confusion, shouting and shattering noises coming from outside their gilded bedroom. Fleur dares a quick look behind gold-flaked curtains over the picture window to reveal the results of the other rebel attacks in the city. The two social elites are debating what to do and what should be done when the door into their master suite shudders violently, stopping the discussion in its tracks!

Both ponies' attention are riveted to the door into the suite - it shudders again, and then shatters as the fully-armored pegasus stallion called Agent Greed bursts through into the suite! Quickly the rebel squad leader spots his target, fire in his eyes as he lunges toward a horrified Fancypants!

Fleur acts quickly, her unicorn magic yanking a ceremonial sword off the wall, the blade's swing checking the lunge of the spear Agent Greed was wielding and ensuring Fancypants was not harmed by it. The rebel Agent Greed rises on his hindlegs in rage and for a moment he stares down at the undaunted Fleur, the sword floating by unicorn magic beside her as Fancypants scampers into the suite's bathroom, closing and locking the door behind him as he does so. All around, the shouting and shattering noises continue in the background.

"Shall we dance, assassin?" Fleur asks through snorting contempt.

"Gladly, horned one. I would love to see you and your charge die!" Agent Greed replies just as contemptuously, again lunging with the spear after he speaks. Fleur dodges the strike, and the duel begins in earnest...

"Get 'em in there! Get 'em in there!" the rebel second-in-command was shouting, directing three more rebels carting in the household staff serving Fancypants and Fleur Dis Lee. These ponies, most of them unicorns, had followed Fancypants traveling from Trottingham to Canterlot - some had had ancestors who served the ancestors of Fancypants. Now, all of them would suffer a horrible fate at the hooves of the rebel attackers.

The captured household staff were heaved into a large closet, the space hindering any attempt at an easy escape, as the rebel second-in-command primed the large cyanide gas canister. When he had confirmed that all the household staff had been found, he activated the canister and with a mighty shove pushed it into the closet, slamming the door shut as the canister began hissing out gas.

The second-in-command calls another rebel to support him holding the door shut against the panicked shoving of the ponies inside, rearing up on hindlegs against the pushing. The shoving quickly ceases as the almond-scented gas takes its hold, coughing and pleading for help or mercy replacing the resistance and then shortly after dying out completely.

As the gas canister finishes emptying its lethal contents inside the closet, the rebels back away from the door and begin to disperse again, grabbing smaller items as they go. The main lobby was already a mess, paintings smashed through by hooves and vases shattered in pieces on the floor, and for a moment the rebel revelled in the sights and sounds of chaos unfolding around him.

A subtle internal voice tells the rebel second-in-command to go help his leader, but he ignores it - he knew he already had orders to work his way back to the rebel rally point at the Canterlot opera house, along with the rest of the rebel force, once the household staff was dead. As such, once he hears the last hisses of gas come out of the cyanide canister, he makes a quick exit back into the streets of Canterlot...

Unfortunately for the rebel second-in-command, Agent Greed could've used the help at the time. The Agents of Chaos, like so many other ponies, had seriously underestimated Fleur Dis Lee's combat capabilities, as well as her willingness to get her hooves dirty (qualities that Fancypants would later come to admire in the young mare Rarity). Greed found himself on the losing end of the impromptu clash of weapons, and realized he was in serious trouble when a swordswing snapped his spear in two.

As Fancypants watched peeking from behind the safety of the master bathroom door, Fleur now began attacking more aggressively, forcing Agent Greed to keep dodging the sword swings. In desperation, he starts taking off pieces of armor and throwing them at Fleur - both ineffective, due to Fleur being proficient enough with the sword to deflect the objects, and a mistake that proves fatal.

Without anything else to attack with, Agent Greed is forced on the defensive, dodging the sword swings that leave notches in the walls and slices clean through other objects. Finally, the dodging skills fail the rebel squad leader and the swinging sword's tip clips his right wing. The distraction of the pain is enough for Fleur to stab Agent Greed's now-unprotected belly, causing him to crumple down to the marble tiled floor of the master suite and leaving him unable to respond to the sword slicing cleanly through his neck. Needless to say, death was very quick in following for Agent Greed.

Fleur Dis Lee drops control of the sword, which clatters to the floor besides the dead pegasus stallion, and looks back to see the unharmed Fancypants, fighting back both shock and nausea at the horrifying sight before him. Only the panting Fleur has enough self-control to speak: "We need to see what's going on out there. Now!"

Fancypants, more out of simply not having any idea what he should be doing than anything else, nods and carefully steps around the corpse and bodily fluids puddling around it to beside Fleur. In a stunned daze, both unicorns travel through hallways littered with smashed and torn objects to the top of the main entrance staircase, where a total mess of shattered vases and ripped paintings litter the floor below. A faint almond odor fills the room, and Fleur stops her charge from proceeding down the staircase.

"Something else has happened here besides the vandalizing. I'll check it myself." Fleur warns with a stern look, and Fancypants is too shaken up by events to object to Fleur's proposal.

Fleur slowly descends the staircase, sniffing the air around her as she goes. Finally she stops in front of a closed closet door, and after a moment's hesitation slowly opens it. She gasps very loudly and Fancypants rushes down the staircase to beside her. Very quickly, he sees the source of her shock - his entire household staff dead as a result of inhaling concentrated cyanide gas released by the activated canister!

The self-control of Fancypants finally fails, him levitating his trademark monocle into a suit pocket as he lets the tears flow down his face. These rebel intruders seeking chaos had taken much of his wealth, and ponies that had served him loyally for many years, in their impulsive rage and demented desires. For half a moment, he wondered if he was really still asleep, that this would be a nightmare he would shortly awake from.

Fleur's next words dash even that fragile hope, her looking out the damaged front door as she talks: "This nightmare isn't over, it's just beginning. Ponies are dying, and there's nothing we can do about it..."

Fancypants once again moves to Fleur's side, looking out into the nighttime city of Canterlot. Shadowy figures of pegasi, some armored, are moving among the buildings of the skyline, only made out clearly when passing over scattered fires blazing in the city. Over by the castle of Canterlot, a magenta-colored bubble of a shield is being rammed over and over by pegasi, raising dreadful fears of war within the city walls itself.

The two high-class unicorns are temporarily frozen by their emotions, unable to do nothing but look into the night and shed tears freely. They had already suffered greatly, and would continue to suffer from the efforts of the Agents of Chaos...