Another day, another mission. But Fluttershy was still locked on the infirmary. In fact, she spent the whole night there. Rarity knocked on the door.

"Fluttershy, darling." she called. "The mission is about to begin."

"Right. Have fun." Fluttershy replied.

"We need you there."

"No, you don't. Without me the teams will be balanced."

"But you're a part of this team."

"No, I'm not. I'm just an extra."

"Mission begins in 60 seconds." said the Announcer's voice.

"Fluttershy, please..."

"I can't. I'm busy."

"But--"

"I SAID I'M BUSY!" she shouted, surprising Rarity.

"I... You..." she sighed. "Alright. See you later, then."

Rarity wore her mask and walked away. Inside the room, Fluttershy looked at the papers and sighed.

"How am I supposed to get those? I don't have access to RED equipment." an idea came to her head and she smiled. Fluttershy unlocked the door and went to Rarity's room, glad her friend only locked the door at night. She opened the nightstand drawer and grabbed her friend's Cloak And Dagger. "This goes agains the rules, but since I'm not joining them this round, I suppose it's ok." Fluttershy put the watch on her left forehoof and cloaked herself.

Big Macintosh was standing on the Control Point, shooting with his Natascha at the rock where Spike and Derpy were taking cover. Rarity, disguised as Rainbow Dash, backstabbed the Heavy Weapons Pony.

"Surprise." she said, a smug smile on her face.

The real Rainbow Dash pressed her Force-A-Nature against Rarity's back and shot twice.

"Hehey, look, you shapeshifted into a dead mare!"

Rarity uncloaked herself behind the same rock where her teammates were hiding, levitating her still recharging Dead Ringer.

"Derpy, we're counting on you." she said.

"Ma'am, yes ma'am!" she saluted, grabbed her Black Box and ran toward the Point.

"Pinkie, place a Dispenser here."

"Erectin' a Dispenser!" she said, placing a blue box on the ground and pressing a button on a controller, making the Dispenser start to build itself.

After the Dispenser was finished being built, Spike used it to reload his Backburner. After a battle cry, he ran toward the Control Point.

"We have captured the Control Point."

"Perfect!" Rarity said. "Dead Ringer recharged, time to take Twilight down before--" they heard a loud bang, followed by Spike's muffled pain scream. "Merde!" she facehoofed. "Pinkie, place a Sentry near the Point. We can't afford to lose it."

"Okie Dokie Lokie!" she said, saluting her.

Rarity smiled and ran toward the building where Twilight was taking cover. She didn't noticed the blue silhouette following her. Fluttershy noticed she was half-visible and eeped before stopping.

"It's hard being sneaky..." she whispered to herself.

Twilight was using her Scope this time and aiming at Pinkie Pie's head, who was looking around, completely oblivious to the red dot on her hard hat. The unicorn pulled the trigger. Headshot.

"Thanks for standing still, wanker!" she shouted happily and waved, but her smiled disappeared as soon as she felt a cold metal gun barrel pressed against her cheek. Rarity was standing there, pressing her Ambassador against her face.

"Are you really going to kill a fellow unicorn?" Twilight asked nervously.

"I never really was on your side." she answered and pulled the trigger.

Fluttershy entered team RED's deposit, where dozens of weapons were scattered all over the place.

"I'll assume that Twilight never stepped a hoof in here..." she said, uncloaking herself. "Finding what I need won't be easy." she sighed and started looking around for the necessary items.

Derpy, Spike and Pinkie Pie were standing on the Point. Applejack tried shooting pipe bombs, but Spike repelled them with his compression blast

"Five. Four. Three. Two. One."

"Victory!"

Spike raised his Backburner above his head, laughing. Pinkie pulled her Party Cannon and shot confetti and streamers. Derpy took off her helmet, stepped on it with her right hindleg and saluted. Applejack ran away, but tripped on invisible Rarity's hoof.

"Bonjour." she said, uncloaking herself and reloading her Ambassador. "Sorry to 'pop-in' unannounced."

"Bloody hay!" the Demomare tried getting up, but Rarity was faster and headshot her.

"Fluttershy is not here and we won." she sighed and took off her mask. "Her self-esteem will go down to zero."

"I told you." Fluttershy said, wiping her tears with her hoof. "The reason why we always lose is because I'm there to slow the team down. I'm not only dead weight. I'm also a hindrance."

"Don't say that, Fluttershy. It's not true." Rarity said.

"Then explain this: how come the BLU team never won a round before and when we achieve our first victory I wasn't there?"

"Um... Luck?"

"Thanks for trying to cheer me up, Rarity. But it's no use." she slowly walked toward the infirmary and locked herself inside again. "Don't worry, though. Überstute is on her way!" she placed a crate on her table and opened it. The content was a BLU Medi-Gun, a RED Medi-Gun, a BLU Kritzkrieg and a RED Kritzkrieg. "Now, let's go practice medicine!"

Second and last round of the day. Rarity, Spike, Pinkie and Derpy were standing in front of the Intelligence.

"Let's do this way: Pinkie, place a Dispenser, a Sentry and the exit of the Teleporter here. Then place the entrance near their base's entrance."

"Okie Dokie Lokie! Erectin' a Sentrispenseporter." the Engineer mare placed three boxes on the ground and pressed a button on a controller, making her gadgets start to build themselves.

"Spikey-Wikey, follow Pinkie to the battlefield. Once she place the Teleporter, protect it with your life. Got it?"

Spike nodded, blushing inside his mask. He loved when his crush called him his favorite nickname.

"And Derpy, you distract them while I sneak in their midst."

"Ma'am, yes ma'am!" she said, saluting.

"Gentlemares, Spike, shall we?"

They all cheered and ran.

Fluttershy drew with blue paint a target on the wall and pointed the Medi-Guns and the Kritzkriegs at it. She then stood in front of the target, holding a controller. She took a deep breath and pointed the controller at the weapons.

"For science."

She closed her eyes, took another deep breath and pressed a button on the controller. Two red energy rays and two blue energy rays hit her. Fluttershy turned glowing blue, as if she was being Übercharged, and screamed in pain. She suddenly turned glowing red, her scream of pain turning into a maniac laughter.

She turned blue again and the scream of pain returned. The excruciating pain subsided as the left side of her body turned glowing red, while the red half remained glowing blue.

The Medi-Guns, Kritzkriegs and all the machinery they were connected to exploded.

"Alright, Rainbow. Ya know the plan." Applejack said, holding her Grenade Launcher.

"Yeah, I got it, I got it." the Scout mare said, grabbed a can of Bonk! Atomic Punch (Cherry Fission, now with Isotopes!) and drank it. As soon as she finished drinking it, her pupils widened and the world around her seemed to be in slow motion. Rainbow Dash grinned and entered the BLU Intelligence Room. Pinkie's Sentry started shooting at her, but she easily dodged all the bullets and rockets.

"Un-freakin'-touchable!" she said.

Applejack rolled her eyes and threw pipe bombs at the distracted Sentry, destroying it. Rainbow Dash approached the Intelligence.

"I'm not even winded."

She was about to pick it up when she heard a shot and fell to the floor, her right hind leg bleeding. She rolled to see who shot her and saw Rarity standing on the Teleporter, the RED Briefcase on a hoof, her Ambassador on the other.

"Weren't you supposed to be good at dodging?" the Spy mare asked, grinning.

"You shapeshifting rat..." Rainbow Dash said, grabbing her Force-A-Nature and pointing at her. She was about to pull the trigger, but Rarity was faster and planted a bullet in her skull.

"Here lies Rainbow Dash. She flew fast and died a virgin!"

She laughed evilly, ocasionally snorting, but her moment of happiness was cut short when her head flew to the other side of the room.

"Dominated, ya alley-skulking backstabber." Applejack said, holding a bloody Eyelander.

"The enemy has dropped our intelligence."

The Demomare looked at her dead teammate and shook her head.

"And ya should spend less time braggin' and more time actin'." she then destroyed the Teleporter and grabbed the briefcase.

"We have taken the enemy Intelligence."

"Ah know, miss." Applejack said, equipped her Splendid Screen and ran.

"Alert! The enemy has taken our Intelligence."

"Merde, merde, merde, merde, merde!" Rarity cursed and she galloped at full speed toward the Intelligence Room.

"Heads up!" a female voice said.

"What?" Rarity turned around and saw a glass bottle flying toward her, hitting her face and covering her in a suspicious yellow liquid. "Is this...? Mon Dieu!" she then smelled herself. "EWWWWEUGH!"

Twilight pointed at her, laughing.

"Ew! Ew! Ew! It got in my mouth! Ew! Ew!"

"Stop whining, ya two-faced mongrel."

Rarity growled and levitated her Knife.

"Take that back, you ruffian."

Twilight smirked and levitated her Bushwacka.

"Now this is a knife."

Rarity's eyes widened and she tried running away, but Twilight followed her, eventually catching up and hitting her with it.

"Spies, bloody useless."

"Success! We have secured the enemy Intelligence."

"There ya go!" Twilight shouted, smiling and waving at nopony.

"We did it, mate." Applejack said, hig-fiving Big Macintosh.

"да."

She then grabbed a bottle of hard cider and drank it.

"But remember who's the one who made this victory possible." Rainbow Dash said, pointing at her own chest.

Applejack was still drinking her cider and Big Macintosh was now eating a Sandvich.

"Is-Is anypony even paying attention to me?"

Still no reaction. She turned red in anger and stomped her hoof angrily.

"Look at me!" she shouted demandingly.

"See? That's why we almost lost the round." Applejack said, pointing at Rainbow Dash. "Ya want everypony to pay attention on ya, to praise ya for everythin' ya do, to worship ya. Ah'll be veeeery honest now, Rainbow, and honesty hurts sometimes. Yer nothing, Ah repeat, nothing until ya learn how to be a little more humble. The world doesn't spin around ya, ya know!"

Rainbow Dash glared at Applejack, but didn't said anything. She only turned around and left the room.

"Good work, Rainbow Dash." Twilight said, raising her hoof. "Okay, mate!"

Rainbow Dash ignored Twilight, still walking toward the exit.

"Dash?"

The Scout mare left the building, took off and landed on the top of the RED base. It was her favorite place, since nopony could go up there and see her crying.

Author's Notes:

- RED:
Twilight (Sniper); Rainbow Dash (Scout); Applejack (Demomare); Big Macintosh (Heavy Weapons Pony).
- BLU:
Fluttershy (Medic); Rarity (Spy); Pinkie Pie (Engineer); Derpy (Soldier); Spike (Pyro).
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