Rainbow woke up early, again. “I hate this.” Rainbow groaned as she turned in bed and closed her magenta eyes desperate to get at least some more sleep tonight.

….

Nope, she wasn’t going to get any more sleep tonight. Groaning Rainbow threw the blanket covering her off and flew into the air and stenched her body out. She landed on the cloud floor looking around her room for something to do. She had read her Daring Do collection four times over so she wasn’t interested in doing that again. While Daring’s adventures were awesome, they were calm compared to what she had dealt with. Especially compared to the containment breaches she had found herself in.

Rainbow looked around her room for Tank but remembered Fluttershy was taking care of him because Rainbow had been “training for the Wonderbolts” this past week.

Pfft yeah right she was wayyy overqualified for the Wonderbolts, sure they had been a foal hood dream, but that was a long time ago. They made for an excellent cover story though. Rainbow disliked lying to Fluttershy or the rest of her friends for that matter. But it was a necessary evil. They couldn’t find out about her true job, for their own safety mainly.

In truth Rainbow had gone to Protected Site 59 for her 28th birthday, while the Foundation as a whole didn’t care if it was her birthday. Her friends in the Foundation did care, enough to organize their schedules so the four of them could throw her a small party. While that was the highlight of her trip she had been sent to Protected Site 59 for other reasons. She had an in person report to attend and a seminar about new equipment to also attend.

She was also informed that one of her friends, Cogsworth, would be stopping by in two days and staying in Ponyville for a week. He was experimenting on something in the Everfree forest from what she knew and she would be responsible for giving the dragon a place to sleep. Which was fine, she had the safe room for a reason.

At the end she had also been informed that one of Dr. Wondertainment’s many toys was running around the Ponyville area. Its reported anomalous property was the ability to let any creature fly for a set amount of time. Rainbow couldn’t remember the rest of the report but she had the file in her safe room.

Reading it would give her something to do at least and knowing that she would probably come across it. She might as well know more about it, as something as simple as the object turning red on Saturday could get her killed.

“At least it isn’t some Church of Fifthism artifact so you won’t be cleaning up to many bodies this time Dash. It could always be worse.” The pegasus said to herself. The saying ‘it could always be worse’ had become something of a way of coping with the horrific things she had seen throughout the years. 50 ponies dead? It’s not a hundred. Coughing up blood? Good that least it’s blood and not something else.

Rainbow left her room behind and walked down the hallway. She started to pass her kitchen and paused. “Why not.” She walked in and made her way to the frigid. She opened it with a foreleg and using a wing she grabbed a bottle of cider. She then pulled the cork out with her teeth and took a drink. Was it Apple family cider, no. But would it work for now? Yes it would.

Rainbow also took this moment to check the enchantments on her frigid, they were running low a magic. Rainbow would have to ask Twilight to refresh the enchantments in the morning. As the unicorn, no wait, alicorn would probably be happy to help. For free too, Twilight was helpful like that.

Rainbow closed the frigid and started walking to her safe room after her little interruption. Rainbow wasn’t even phased by Twilight’s transformation into an alicorn. But while she wasn’t the Foundation was both interested and annoyed.

Alicorn’s weren’t anomalous; they were just a weird quirk of magic and genetics and while Twilight becoming an alicorn was weird. She still wasn’t anomalous as Rainbow had copied the spell Twilight had used and sent it to the Foundation. It was determined to only work on Twilight Sparkle because Twilight was basically an alicorn when born. She was just missing a small change in her magic signature and genetic structure, which the spell fixed. The process was even reversible with a few minor changes to the spell.

But because of their weird genetics and magical signature they were immune to Class A and Class B amnestics. Which is a problem for obvious reasons namely that Twilight of all ponies could no longer be amnestied. Out of all of her friends Twilight was the one who Rainbow had to use amnestics on the most and by a large margin. The nosy little unicorn was always sticking her muzzle where it shouldn’t belong.

But now Twilight was a ruler of Equestria which meant she was to be informed of the Foundations existence whether Rainbow herself, Celestia or any creature else liked it or not. Rainbow had actually been assigned to tell the new alicorn about the SCP Foundation herself, when she asked why, She of all ponies, was going to tell her about the anomalous. They told her Twilight would be more receptive to a friend then some random creature and she was also to attempt to recruit the mare into the Foundation.

They knew Twilight was absolutely brilliant and having her as an asset would be very useful. Knowing Twilight though she would probably leap at the opportunity to learn about the anomalous, and get herself killed in the process.

So Rainbow had come up with an idea, that when the deadline came around at the end of the year. Rainbow herself would teach the alicorn about the Foundation. She had suggested this idea due to being Twilight’s friend and a follow element of harmony.

The Foundation agreed with this proposal as long as it didn’t interfere with her normal tasks or pose a security risk. Which if everything went the way she planned it to, it wouldn’t. The plan was simply to tell her about the Foundation with Celestia in the room, because if she said what Rainbow told her was true in real time. Twilight would hopefully freak out less. But all that could wait till the deadline the longer Twilight was ignorant the better.

Rainbow took a sip of her cider. Although If she was honest with herself the fact Twilight’s new wings made her look hot as hell would make the whole thing easier. Wait where in the world had that thought come from?

Rainbow stopped herself and looked at the cider bottle she held in her wing, non-alcoholic the label read. Rainbow rolled her eyes and continued her way to the living room. It was a little known fact that Rainbow did not drink alcohol, even at Pinkie’s parties. There were a variety of reasons chief among them was the fact that she just didn’t like the taste of alcohol. The others being ‘she needed to stay in shape for the Wonderbolts’ and so she was always ready for action.

The crack of lighting sounded out and rang throughout her house.

Rainbow briefly looked out the window and watched as it started to rain heavily. “Huh would you look at that CloudKicker did her damn job for once.” With a small chuckle Rainbow walked up to one of the walls and put her forehoof against it in a seemingly random location. Less then a second later with a quiet shimmer of magic and the hiss of steam and steel a door opened and Rainbow walked in the safe room.

First things first, inventory while it annoyed the pegasus. She knew the one time she didn’t take inventory would be when something was missing. So she started the slow process of taking inventory as she had some time before her ‘morning flight practice’ as it was only three in the morning.

Her little saferoom was three meters by three meters by two metal box. Oh the right wall was four aluminum shelves that ran across the room wall to wall. The top shelf was high enough that she would have to fly up to get anything off the shelf. It held canned food for herbivores and carnivores, bottled water and extra ammunition should she and/or any other creature need it.

The next shelf down held ten temporary SCP Storage lock boxes; they were grey in color and were made in varying sizes. Some were bolted to the back of the wall and some were free floating. Each box had its own key that Rainbow was reasonable for.

Should the need arise she could hold minor or benign SCP’s during the construction of a new site or be a pit stop while transferring a SCP to a new site. Rainbow had one such case in box three. In box three was 300 black writing quills that stayed exactly where they were when released. How is unknown but they were made or found by MCD going by the branding.

The second shelf up from the floor was at wing height with many subdivisions built in. This shelf held medical Items and equipment. Everything from bandages, painkillers, adrenaline to surgical equipment. She even had three SCP-038 copies of SCP-500. They were a last resort gamble but just having them removed the worry of her being killed by some random anomalous disease.

The shelf also held her supply of amnestics. She mostly had Class A amnestics in both the airborne aerosol and medical injection varieties, leaning more towards the medical injection as she currently had 34 vs airborne aerosols 10. She had a few Class B amnestics as well in storage.

Rainbow picked up a Class A amnestic syringe with her non cider holding wing and looked at it. The main body of the syringe was a blue plastic with a clear side to let her see the dose she was administering to whoever saw something they shouldn’t have. The syringe was designed so that they could be operated by nearly any creature. After a week of training she could even operate the syringe with a single wing, after she bit off the white plastic cap of course. However with the absolute shit show Ponyville could be sometimes she ended up going through amnestics like water at times.

This had the effect of driving the logistics department mad, they had even sent an investigator once to see how she could possibly go through so many amnestics. The poor griffin showed up on the day Pinkie used the Mirror Pool to make all of her Pinkie clones and ended up watching the chaos from afar. After said chaos the Mirror Pool was discovered, secured and contained the next day.

Moving on to the bottom shelf had nothing of note as it was personal storage and she hadn’t stored anything there as of late. So she moved on.

The left side of the room was the armory and Communication section of the safe room. Rainbow turned to face the wall taking a drink of her cider as she did so. Then she walked to the right side of the wall. This part of the wall had a wall locker in the corner and had three aluminum shelves connecting to the outside of the locker. The little arrangement took up about 1 meter of wall space. There was also a grey table that took up another third of wall space next to the shelf wall locker system.

Rainbow laughed quietly to herself. “If any of the girls saw how organized I can be.”

Rainbow conducted a brief overlook of her guns. She had quite a few as in truth her home acted as a mix of safe house/ observation post namely for the Everfree forest. Hence the bed directly across from the door.

Rainbow started talking to herself “Let’s see three Epsilon -11 rifles and my personal Epsilon-11 mid shelf. How many 5.56mm bullets do we have for good old E11?” Rainbow opened a box full of preloaded magazines located on the same shelf as the E11. “32 mags 40 rounds each. So 1280 rounds not counting the ammo over there.” Rainbow subconsciously pointed a hoof at the ammo boxes that sat next to the food and water on the other side of the room, as she said the words “over there”.

“Next, top shelf, five USP claw guns and two silencers? I guess she took one, which means I haven’t noticed the change for two weeks. Fuck’en nailed it Dash.” Dash berated herself.

Dash went over to her desk located at the end of the bed pulled out a form and listed the missing equipment. Then went back to what she had been doing. “My 44 magnum revolver with Cogwork Orthodox improvements. How many bullets do I have left? 24 disks, six each so 144 rounds good. hmmm maybe I could go Timberwolf hunting later.” Rainbow interrupted herself by taking a drink of the cider she still had clutched in her wing.

After a moment Rainbow decided she would indeed do a bit of Timberwolf hunting. Rainbow levitated her revolver to her and checked it.

Guns were almost nonexistent on Equis as they invented by the far away Dragon Kingdoms and were mainly kept for themselves. Till the founding of the SCP Foundation where, if the stories are true, but are most likely not. Two gods unified the Sarkic Cults and Mekhanite Kingdoms respectfully then struck a deal with the Administrator himself leading to the Founding of the SCP Foundation.

With this deal came the manufacture of guns, however guns were made with claws in mind not hooves. Having quadrupeds wield guns while standing on their hind legs was impossible as the recoil alone would knock the user on to their rear. So the Foundation needed a work around. At first the battle saddle was the solution, mount a gun to a saddle with a mouth trigger to fire the gun. However they were bulky and very difficult to reload, sometimes taking thirty seconds to a minute to fully reload. Nor could you hide it on your person unless you had the thing enchanted and that was costly.

Rainbow remembered her early days working at the Foundation when they still used the damn things. She hated them as they got in the way of flying and moving in general. But during her third year at the SCP Foundation they rolled out a system called Crystal Guided Emission Magic or C GEM. But most creatures just called it GEM.

It had two parts, a varyingly colored gem that was enchanted then embedded in something, armor, clothing, bands, didn’t matter as long as the gem was within a creatures magic field or making direct contact with the skin. Then a gun having a gem with the same enchantment built in, namely near the claw grip or trigger.

The system acted as makeshift unicorn levitation, letting the user have the same level of control as a dragon or unicorn. It did come with some caveats through. One, you couldn’t be too far from the weapon, a meter at most or it drops to the ground with a clack. Two, while you can’t have your gun taken over by another GEM user while actively using said gun. It doesn’t mean a creature can’t just run up and snatch it or knock it away outside control range.

As a Field Agent, Rainbow had her control GEM surgically implanted on the upper right side of her right foreleg and given a secondary enchantment that made it visible to only those she wanted to see it. She was undercover after all and constantly having a band with a gem on it would be weird. At least for her, Rarity could probably get away with it just fine.

All guns made by the SCP Foundation were able to be used by all creatures employed by the Foundation. This fact had saved her life on multiple occasions especially when- The image of a tree with a body hanging, impaled by one of its branches, flashed through her mind. Then the branch going for h-

Rainbow shook her head fighting the memory back. “Stop, get back to what you were doing Rainbow.”

Rainbow put her revolver back on the third shelf and did as she told herself. “Next bottom shelf, lets see five frag grenades, five flash bangs, five smoke grenades andddd five anti magic grenades.”

Then Rainbow looked at the new ‘toy’ she had been assigned after the seminar she had just attended and gulped. “One portable Hume Reality Anchor.” The portable HRA was by far the most destructive weapon she had ever held. Even the Anti-material rifle or the Anti-reality rifle that were both in the locker next to her didn’t hold a candle when compared to the portable HRA.

The thing was a tall rectangle of metal colored a dark gold. And stood at a height of 20 centimeters and had a base of five by five centimeters. It had gears poking out at seemingly random points and along each 20 centimeter side was a piston that connected to four metal flaps that would rest on the surface the portable HRA was deployed on. At the top of the device was what she would describe as two crescents of metal that faced inwards towards the main body and had a pole connecting it to the main body.

Honestly the top looked an awful lot like the symbol the Cogwork Orthodox used, which was fine with her.

When deployed there were two ways to use it. One was to let it strengthen nearby reality by-

“R-rainbow what's all this, if you don’t mind.”

Rainbow instantly snapped her head towards the voice and saw Fluttershy standing just outside the open doorway. Why didn’t the door automatically close behind her, more importantly why didn’t she check to make sure the door closed. A closed door is a happy door damnit.

Fluttershy was by far the quietest pony Rainbow had ever known so it didn’t surprise her that she didn’t hear Fluttershy walking around. The storm outside most likely covered the sound she made when she entered her house. Rainbow didn’t care to learn what Fluttershy was doing here early in the morning but it probably had to do with Tank.

Well this is going to hurt. The field agent thought.

Rainbow put the bottle of cider down on the table and moved towards Fluttershy. Using her left wing the cyan mare silently grabbed a Class A amnestic as she passed by.

“It’s fine Fluttershy just give me a second.” Rainbow knew she could over power Fluttershy easily, but she rather not leave any marks on her friend. So she waited till Fluttershy briefly looked at the floor like she always did when she was nervous.

When the yellow Pegasus inevitably did Rainbow bit the cap off and let it fall to the floor.

“Fluttershy this room is where I store all the pranks me and Pinkie come up with.”
Rainbow answered as she got closer then stopped “You want to see what Pinkie came up with? it's awesome. “ Rainbow said as she pointed to the room.

“Uh, sure.”

As soon as Fluttershy passed by, Rainbow acted. In less than a second she injected the amnestic into the yellow pegasus’s neck using her wing. At the same time wrapping a hoof around Fluttershy’s mouth holding her neck still. Fluttershy started fighting back trying to get free.

“I’m sorry Fluttershy. You’re going to wake up in your bed ok?” Rainbow Attempted to calm the mare.

She hated seeing Fluttershy cry but this wasn’t the first time she had amnestized the pegasus and it probably wouldn’t be the last time.

After a few seconds Fluttershy passed out thanks to the amnestic. Rainbow gave her a dose that would remove the last three hours of the pegasus’s memory, just to be safe. Once she was done with removing Fluttershy’s memories Rainbow looked out the window. The brief storm had ended and the sun was just beginning to rise.

Rainbow laid Fluttershy on the floor and went into the safe room. She had to get going, her ‘morning fight practice’ soon. She picked up her prepacked saddle bag, got her revolver, put it in the bag with 18 rounds. Last she went to her desk grabbed the report for the Dr. Wondertainment toy that was somewhere in Ponyville and stored the paper in her bag. As she put the bag on, Rainbow activated the enchantment that made the bag visible to only those the pegasus wanted to see it.

Rainbow then closed the door to the safe room, picked up the sleeping pegasus in her forelegs. Flew down the stairs to the showroom spotting Tank as she entered. Then Rainbow left her cloud house.

Author's Note

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