Chapter 0: Welcome to MH-6
Chapter 0: Welcome to MH-6
When you're a young filly you hear stories about the daring monster hunters that keep our lands safe. How they go on wild adventures filled with danger, adventure, and the spot of romance on the side. How that no matter the odds the good guy always won and got the cute mare that got swept up in the mess.
What we were promised at MH-6 was nothing like the stories. The training was long and tough, almost always bringing many of us to the breaking point. But I knew that I had to push forward. Ever since I was a filly I knew that Monster Hunting was my talent. I was only two when I realized how good I was at it when I discovered that a family of squirrels had moved in and were chewing up everything in our attic. I tracked them for nearly a day before I sprung a trap that caught them.
I decided to release them back into the wild becuase, well they're squirrels. It wasn't as if they were intentionally trying to drive us crazy with the constant scratching and biting of the walls. It was however different when it came to the Parasprites and the Spider swarm that I ended up facing off against. It was after those two that I earned my cutie mark. My true cutie mark, not the one I have now, not the three wrapped pieces of candy. And no, I'm not going to tell you what that is, even now in my ... forced retirement, I keep my real identity a secret. Yes even from you, my dearest best friend.
Anyway, when I could I searched out the best and the brightest of the monster hunters in Equestria. There were plenty of amateur places I encountered. But I wanted the best. That in turn lead me to Canterlot and to Celestia's elite agency, MH-6, aptly named for Monster Hunter Group 6. If there was a threat to Equestria and it was large enough, it were these agents that would be dispatched all over Equus. These were those that you saw films and books written about.
I will say that my time at the academy wasn't what I'd call easy, I am an Earth Pony after all. Where the Unicorns had magic and could manipulate equipment easily, specialized ones were made for me. Grappling hooks, net throwers, magnetic hoof bands to disable traps and other such things. Though I would have to say that my favorite thing they trained us on were the carts that drove themselves and didn't require somepony to hitch and pull. They would always have interesting little things added to them, smoke screens, ejector seats, and active camouflage.
It took a long time and it was extremely exhausting but in the end. I couldn't help but feel pride when my instructor approached me one day. He carried with him a scroll and an expression of pride. As he gave me the scroll he shook my hoof and smiled. When I opened the scroll my pride soared twice than that of before because written on the scroll and spoken by my instructor were the same words.
"Welcome to MH-6 Special Agent Sweetie Drops."
