Friendship was magic: the Lunar Republic

Luna trotted down the hall, stepping out of the way for a soldier or two every so often. Tesla followed right behind her, trying to keep pace. After a couple of long hallways and turns, Luna stopped at the briefing room. She was about to open the door, when a certain scientist decided to stop her.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Where do you think your going?"

"To talk to Leo of course." Luna said, she had become increasingly annoyed at Tesla for the past couple of days.

"First of all, you need to stop exerting yourself. Second of all, you might interrupt them."

The lunar mare just groaned, and with a dark-blue glow with her horn, she moved Tesla aside and burst into the room. She was met with the gaze of three confused generals standing around a table. After a couple minutes of awkward silence, Leo coughed and broke the stillness.

"Looks like your better."

"Yes I am, what is th-"

"You know you could've gone without busrting through the door, right?" Hydra sarcastically asked as she interrupted Luna. Luna just blushed at this.

"Well, yes..........ummm.......I was in a bit of a hurry.........now.........ahem........Shall we review the plan of attack?" Luna stammered out.

Leo just smiled, then just started explaining their plan. "In the three days you were unconcious, one of our spies was able to smuggle out a blueprint of maelstrom." On the small table, there was a blueprint of a large structure composed of clouds, stone walls, and large armaments. A large wall surrounded the fortress, while the blueprint indicated a mess hall, barracks, and captains quarters. The captains quarters was large enough to be the size of her old home. "As you can see, the exterior is made out of and protected by a large stone wall on the exterior, while armaments on the inside fire anti-pegasi rounds. There currently near galloping gorge, making their way towards us." He looked at the stallions and mares around the table. "First, Luna, Tesla, and Twilight Sparkle will be disembarking in a few hours to scout out and infiltrate Maelstrom by cover of darkness. You shall each be accompanied with a small group of our best scouts. Once their armaments are disabled, Phoenix shall lead an airstrike from above, while I shall Lead a blitz towards the front. Any questions?" Luna spoke up.

"How will you be able to fly, let alone walk on clouds?"

"Ah yes. Twilight Sparkle was able to cast a spell on Tesla, herself, and I in order to proceed with the plan. As for the flying part....." Leo took a small backpack with two, metallic cylinders on it. Accompanied with a small red button on the left strap. "Hydra said that her and Tesla were able to correct their problem." Luna looked over at Tesla curiously. This caused Tesla to blush.

"Oh, it was nothing really, all we had to do was rewire the hydraulic system to only kick in during an emergency. Either than that it'll function like an adrenaline boost for the engine with this button." He pointed to a green button on the right strap.

" All right, now that everypony is informed, lets head out." Leo said. He and the others were heading out before being stopped by Tesla.

"Hold on, everypony, you'll need this." He handed each of the stallions and mares a small, blue gem that could fit inot someponys ear. They all looked confused. "There small communicators, all you have to do is put it in your ear and push it when you need to talk. I already gave one to Twilight." Leo put his into his ear and walked out.

"Now, lets get this show in the road."

Twilight gazed into the night that enshrouded Galloping Gorge, looking for any movement. Even though the rest of her group complained about not being able to see their own hooves, she could see as if it were the middle of the day. She thought it was a bit of a blessing from the contract, forgetting the task at hand, delving into her own thoughts.

Would she be able to save her friends, let alone herself from the forces hunting her down? And who is Tesla really? Even though she's known him for a couple of months, she still has her suspicions. Twilight still doesn't understand why he decided to help Luna after they were declared enemies of Equestria. She still didn't get it.

"Squad Alpha, do you read me?" Leo asked through the communicator in Twilights ear.

"This is Squad Alpha, what's the situation?"

"Maelstrom is crossing over the gorge now. Beta and Delta, are you in position?"

"Beta is in position, the night shall be our cloak for now." A certain blue mare said.

"Delta is in position, Science shall be my guide in this situation." The leader of Delta said.

"Good, operation Hidden Night is a go."

Twilight looked at her squad with a determined look.

"Alright everypony, you heard him."

And with that, she activated her jetpack as her group flew off into the sky, towards Maelstrom.

Two guards stood at the southern wall. One guard had his armor painted orange because of defiance towards his sergeant, while the other painted his armor maroon because he overheard that was the sergeants favorite color.

"Hey dude." the maroon one asked.

"Uhhh, what?" The orange one replied.

"You ever wonder why here?"

"Philisophically, or physically?"

"Surprise me."

"Well we're here bec-" the orange one stopped mid-sentence.

"Because.......?" He looked over before being knocked out by a dark blue wing. Luna then dragged the two away as the rest of her squad came over the wall. One of her squad members came over to her.

" You alright?" He asked.

She just looked upped after hiding the two. "Yeah, I was just getting tired of that conversation." She waited for the rest of her squad to pull themselves up, then signaled the others. "Beta is over the southern wall." Luna looked into the courtyard, observing the enemy patrols from the shadows.

"Alpha is over the northern wall, waiting for instructions."

"Delta is over the western wall, waiting for instructions."

Luna spoke into her communicator. "Proceed with the plan. Alpha shall take the barracks armaments, Delta shall take the armaments near the mess hall. I shall take the armaments near the front entrance."

"Roger." Both of the other patrols said in unison.

In the following hours, The armaments were disabled one by one, right under the noses of the patrolling soldiers. The armaments were fairly simple to disable from the outside, but in order to make sure they couldn't be repaired, a couple of gears was delicately taken out in order no to rouse suspicion. The process took about thirty minutes for each armament. Even thought this took a delicate touch, that didn't mean the entire group couldn't do the same thing. And within the few quiet hours before dawn, the armaments had gone from powerful weapons that could reduce a city to ash, to piles of useless junk. Luna could see the gentle rays of dawn creeping over the horizon. she talked into her communicator for step two.

"Operation hidden night was successful, initiate Morning Thunder."

As the sergeant rose from his bed, his red fur and armor, groaned under the sudden weight put on them. Even though he loved to sleep in his armor, he really had to stop because of the midnight chafing. As he trotted towards the entrance that led to the barracks, he could hear a low rumbling from the other side. He shrugged, thinking that his incompetent private had screwed something up yet again.

"Private! Quit slacking off and get back.....to.......work." He saw a large batallion of pegasi rushing from above his head. He immediately reacted, galloping towards the nearest alert bell. He rang it as loud as he could before being knocked out by a light brown hoof.

Tesla just sighed, locking up the barracks before trotting over to the front gate. By now, the soldiers had figured that they were under attack, and the ones that weren't locked in their barracks rushed into the air to defend their base. All the while Tesla, Twilight, and Luna were fighting their own battles.