The flapping of the helicopter's wings buzzed around them all as they held tight to the straps above their head. Nine soldiers, three from each race of pony all dressed in the same attire. Purple cut tight full-body suits with blue gloves and blue boots, with blue masks and purple large brimmed hats.

They were all gathered together with one purpose and as the sounds of blades outside altering into a hover they took in a gulp of fear almost in unison. They knew what was coming next. They all faced a screen at the front of the room.

Light from it shone over them, but a shadow broke the light as quickly as it appeared. The shadow was black and always void of a face or any form of an appearance outside of a small hat brimmed differently from theirs and a single solid red circle where the left eye would be.

"Maredowells, Dos, Cinco, Siete, Nueve, Catorce, Diecisiete, Diecinueve, Veintidós, Veinticuatro," the figure called out each of their numbers. Though the voice was hidden behind static, it was clearly female. "You nine are my best soldiers. Therefore I expect the best.” The floor opened under them; they gripped tighter to their straps. "Strich Blauer will allow us in this airspace for only a few minutes, so Uno will drop you off and leave there as soon as possible. Complete your mission and find your own escape routes. Dos, Catorce and Diecinueve will be in command until you return to base." With that, the figure saluted them.

They saluted back, and in better unison spoke, "Of course, Commander Mad Jack." The transmission ended. The three in the front nodded to their soldiers and pulled up some explosives and let go of their straps. The rest followed, falling into the pitch-black night.

******

A faded purple batpony with a gray beard twitched at the booming sounds above him. Nevertheless, he walked down a hallway and looked over the experiments. Around him, several tanks filled with liquid and each of them had ponies with tubes hooked up to them. "What are the results?"

Another pony - files on hand - followed him and spoke, "Sir, it's only been ten days. These tanks can only harvest so much."

"Do you not hear those?" The purple batpony pointed his metal fingers to the ceiling. "He'll be very angry if I don't deliver an ample amount to him."

"Of course, Night Fright," The other ponies flipped through the files. "We have gathered about two tons of the source code."

"Only two!" Night Fright finally gave into his frustrations.

"We can only harvest so many from these bodies, and finding more appealing bodies is even harder."

"True, radiation level varies with each of them. Though maybe I should add you to the harvest list at the next base!" On that, Night Fright's thick brown gloves clenched and needles popped out of the tips.

"No, please, no!" The pony held up the files in a poor defense.

Another loud boom stopped them. Night Fright knew this was different from the other explosions as he pulled out his wings and finally rushed down the hallway. "They’re inside! Send out all the soldiers we have!"

"Yes, sir." The pony pressed a button on his earpiece before rushing to catch up. "Send everypony, now!"

******

Above, the Maredowells landed in through three openings that had to be torn through. The battalion split into three groups, each one taking a certain entrance and going down a certain path. The earth ponies pulled out their axes, the pegasi their long blades, and the unicorns their shurikens.

The earth ponies soldiers were unheeded by the enemy guards. Chopping and bashing enemies left and right. They moved quickly through the first hallway until they reached the tanks.

Dos stood watch over them as they bashed open every tank. She held up her arm to her eyes and looked over a green screen. On it she could see the other teams moving. The pegasi and unicorns quickly moved into place to grab their targets.

She pressed a few buttons before aiming it at the large screen in front of her. “Please, be right Button Mash,” She whispered under her breath. The large screen opened four files and showed images over each file. The first was a deer skull, second was a dragon, third was a fogged-up tank, the final one was a faint image of an alicorn. She couldn’t tell which alicorn it was, but smiled either way. She pressed another button which allowed her to start downloading the file of the alicorn. However, she sneered when she found that the file was heavily encrypted.

“Did you get it?” Cinco asked.

“Yeah, but I won’t be able to read it just yet.”

“Mad Jack isn’t going to like that--” Cinco was stopped as a loud explosion echoed above them. “Looks like the rest of the mares are ahead of us.”

“Yeah, looks like it,” Dos smiled and lowered her hand once the file had been taken, “We better get these ponies out of here and to our exit.”

The group moved toward their escape routes slowly yet aggressively to ensure the rescued ponies could keep up and remained safe.

******

Further ahead of them, at the far end of the base, Night Fright watched through cameras. Fear grew more than anger now as his guards fell left and right. "Damn it, he will be far more angered now!" He shouted to the camera workers.

"Maybe this whole idea was wrong in the first place." Seeing all of this made the other pony finally break down. "We should have just called in the King--"

Night Fright jumped back as blood splattered over the screens. The other pony fell, chopped in half, from top to bottom. Standing over his corpse was an all too familiar ally. "You're early, Captain Flash."

"If he were, or anyone else, to tell the king what is happening here, we will all be dead!" Flash shouted out to the rest of the workers beside Night Fright. He swung his massive bladed wings splashing blood everywhere to emphasize that point. He looked to Night Fright and questioned, “How far ahead are you?”

“I only have two tons of liquid to work with.” Night Fright walked over to a free screen and typed up a few files. The screen showed the image of a deer skull. Opening the file revealed a strange monolith and level monitors. “With the poor samples you keep bringing me, I can only harvest so much.”

“If I aim for large amounts, the locals will begin to notice the amount missing.” Flash sneered but walked forward. “What about the current stock we have?”

“What current stock?!” Night Fright questioned in defiance. “I may be the best scientist in this whole land, but I can’t work with no resources.”

Flash laughed, “Your son is far better than you; it’s just a shame he refuses to work for me.” He approached the screen and started typing.

“Don’t bring him into this--” Night Fright was stopped as Flash raised his wing blades to his neck.

“Either way, you have far more than enough resources.” Flash pulled up the camera feeds specifically to his monitor.

“What are you talking about?”

“I mean this,” He pulled up the scanners over the feeds.

Night Fright’s eyes went wide. “That’s the same radiation.” He looked over the intruders.

“Exactly--” Flash pulled out his wings at the sound of another explosion and readied himself. This one was directly above them. He looked up to see three pegasi falling down toward his position. Flapping his wings twice he took up to the sky like a bolt of lightning.

The three aimed their blades and swung at him as he flew by. Unfortunately, he had the advantage of being one of the few pegasi in existence that could access flying magic. The others were forced to fall. They knew this just as much as he and fought their hardest before pulling their grappling hooks.

Flash refused to let them gain the upper hand. He punched the nearest one hard into a wall, making sure not to kill it. From that position he flew to the next one, grabbing it in mid-air and swung it around, breaking it’s arm before throwing to the ground. In the same move, he caught sight of the final one. Pouncing forward, he crashed it through a window. This pegasus gave a far better fight. The two tumbled through a few rooms before landing in front of the earth pony group.

Dos jumped back at the sight of Flash as he lifted the pegasus and punched it several times in the gut. “Catorce!” she shouted, knowing this one all too well. On instinct, she rushed forward swinging her axe toward Flash’s side.

Flash caught the axe with his other wing, knocking the attack away before launching his own attack. Dos dodged and swung again. This second managed to stop the gut strikes to Catorce.

Catorce finally got a stab in, tearing her blade through Flash’s shoulder. He sneered and dropped before kicking her in the face. With both wings free, he grabbed the axe away from Dos and threw it to the side.

Dos jumped back and looked to her soldiers. “Cinco, go check on Catorce’s group and escape with them.” She looked to the other earth pony, “You get those rescued out of here.” They followed her orders without question as she turned her attention to Flash. Just in time as Flash flew her into a wall. She coughed hard but punched him anyway. “Is that all you got!”

Flash smiled before throwing her over his shoulder -her back landing right on some glass and right beside Catorce. Catorce herself was still fighting the pains of her tumble, yet she helped Dos up.

“What are we going to do, BB?” In the fear of battle, Catorce dropped the numbers and switched to the nicknames.

“I don’t know NG.” Dos couldn’t help but answer her. She winced at the pain in her back before charging back in, then threw a few punches into Flash’s chest before he knocked her away. Catorce rushed though the knockdown to throw some swings with her blade before being knocked away herself. They quickly found themselves being pushed toward the edge of the window where Catorce had come through.

Seeing no way out, Catorce gritted her teeth and whispered, “Hand me all your bombs.”

“What?” Dos looked at her with shock, but even with their masks on tight, they could sense each other's words. It was clear there was nowhere she could convince her otherwise. “... Don’t do anything stupid.” She handed her what she had before charging into Flash.

While Dos fought Flash, Catorce tied up all the bombs. She looked at Dos and smiled. “Sorry about this?” She aimed her arm device at Dos. Pressing a few buttons a laser pointed to Dos. Catorce waited for the right moment. Seeing her chance as Flash went in for another charge she pressed the enter button. A vortex opened below Dos pulling her in.

Seeing what Catorce was planning she screamed, “No, don’t!!”

“Goodbye Bon Bon!” Catorce activated the explosives as Flash flew toward her. A massive flame tore through the entire room, searing heat of the shards of glass in Dos’s back.

Dos turned around and screamed, “Night Glider!!” The vortex closed before she could reach out, sealing her off from the base.

******

Author's Note

So that was chapter 1, this story is going to have plenty of high intense moments so I hope you enjoyed it. Yeah, Bon Bon was Dos the entire time, this is where the 007 aspect comes into play. The next chapter is the first clop scene.