Metal Gear Pony: Day or Night

Chapter 3: The Voice

~Forest in the Solar Empire~

We find our fiery friend making his way through the jungle in absolute silence. After hearing word of something falling from the sky, the enemy soldiers were sent out to investigate. We now come to Blaze taking refuge in a tree, with a couple guards talking to each other below.

“There’s nopony here...you think it was a mistake?”

“The watchtower doesn’t make mistakes you moron. Keep looking..”

Blaze takes this chance to jump down silently behind them. He then sweeps one off his hooves, making him fall and hit his head and effectively knocking him out. Then he quickly kicks up onto his front hooves and sends a powerful kick to the other guard’s face before he could react, knocking him out as well. “That was too easy..” He picks up one guard on his back and drags the other with his mouth and takes them behind a bush to hide them. Then he kneels down in some tall grass for cover and switches on his radio.

“Commander...it looks like some ponies in a watchtower spotted me on the way down. I just knocked out a couple guards that were sent to investigate.”

“Blaze, they’re going to know something is wrong when those two don’t come back. Stay alert. Keep your head down and your ears high. The facility should be a few miles to the west of your position. Can you handle that?”

He smirks and chuckles a bit. “Course I can. After all, I am “the best”, as you put it.”

“Geez..Somehow I knew that would go to your head. Just get to the damn research facility.”

“I was kidding Twi, but alright...?” Another beep sounds on the radio and a mysterious voice starts speaking.

"South...Ruins of Ponyville...”

“What? Who is this? Commander, track that call quick!”

“Way ahead of you. Tech, you get it?” Blaze can hear the voice of a male pony in the background. “Got it. Its coming from...Uh..damn, we're being blocked out. I can't get a location, but the signal is 203.6.”

“Should I go there...?”

“Ponyville...No. Blaze, this mission comes first. We will worry about this mysterious message later. You have to find the facility.”

“...Alright...On my way..” He switches the radio off and continues his journey through the forest.

After clearing his head of what happened, Blaze comes across a clearing with 5 guards standing around keeping watch. “Great..” He sneaks around the clearing, using the bushes and trees as cover, then pulls a guard in when he isn’t looking and knocks it out. As he does so, the other guards turn as they hear sounds coming from the forest. When they get there, it is already too late. Blaze has already hidden the unconscious guard and snuck away and has moved on toward the facility.

He is naturally surprised to see that there are no guards in the area whatsoever. Taking it as a hint of a trap, he cautiously enters the small facility. Upon entering, he finds that there really isn’t much left inside. No machines left intact, no documents or notes left out. Everything is gone.

“Damn...” He says in frustration as he switches on his radio once again. “Commander, they must have been tipped off about my mission. All the machines are trashed and they took any other information with them.”

“This isn’t good...they must have gone somewhere. Try and find some guards and get some information out of them.”

“Roger.” Blaze switches it off and heads back outside, only to find something unexpected.

A blue pony, with a pale blue mane and tail, wearing a black soldier’s uniform, boots, guns strapped to its sides, and a dark blue Spetsnaz-style hat. Embroidered to the side of the uniform appears to be a blue sparkling cape behind a magic wand. A cutie mark perhaps? Of course the most interesting thing about this mare is the fact that she has a gun pointed straight at Flame's head.

“Right on time!"

Blaze grunts and turns his head a bit to look at her. “Damn it...”