"Fluttershy. Follow me in. Ghastly George is this way." Rainbow Dash said.

"Uhm…okay." Fluttershy accepted and stayed the same level of her aircraft with Rainbow Dash's.

"This is Eagle 1. We can use some assistance here."

The flights during the operation in the Macintosh Hills were heading back to their air bases. It was surprising to actually meet some aces that were there just to aim their missiles and crosshairs just at Arion Squadron. They believed that they were hired by Razor Whisk to do a special mission to shoot down the nine 'Wing Feathers of Celestia and Luna'. But it seems they failed to shoot down the nine aces. The five Rogues were shot down just by Arion Squadron. But it's a bad feeling because Razor Whisk might be aiming for the aces now, since they are the ones who are improving.

Anyway, that was just before they were finished.

Twilight looked outside the AWACS aircraft's windows and stared at the view. Clouds going past the window, the blue sky, and mountainous areas. She was expecting a view like this in Cloudsdale, but this one was just…breathtaking. She asked herself, 'Do pegasi really see this view everyday?'. The answer was obviously Yes. She then looked at the flights around the sky and saw them just flying smoothly. By the order of the elements, she would be scared to fly one by herself. Even if she was trained how to fly a speed demon. Also, she can't get over the fact that some of her known friends are in the Air Force. But sometimes it feels like she's in it too. She doubted that because Neon Nimbus wanted help in the new AWACS aircraft.

Neon Nimbus looked at her crew, which was only Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie, and saw that they were just relaxing, since the operation is over. She mostly noticed Twilight looking out the window. "Enjoying the view of the sky, eh?" She smirked.

Twilight looked at Neon Nimbus and nodded. "Yeah. I was expecting the sky view not to be this stunning." She said and looked out the window again.

Applejack walked towards Twilight and looked outside as well. "Wowee. Ah've never seen this part of Equestria from the sky. It's dang pretty." She complimented.

"I'll say." Neon Nimbus couldn't agree more.

Rarity decided to look outside as well. Her eyes widened by the view. Wow. Looks like they never been this high in Southern Equestria. Mostly the terrain was the reason why they liked it. Rarity looked around and saw the flight all around them. "Soon, I want a more visible sight."

Two planes seen from outside the window pulled up after she said that. The two was Ash and Meteor.

"There you go, Rarity." Ash said.

Rarity raised her eyebrow. "How did you-"

"Your mic is on." Meteor told her. Rarity looked outside awkwardly.

"Sorry." She covered her mouth.

Rainbow Dash was heard laughing lightly. "No need to be embarrassed or anything. Just look at HandyFlash right now." She pointed out.

"What? The view attracted my eyes like I saw a beautiful mare." HandyFlash rolled his eyes and chuckled.

Blossomforth smirked. "Oooooh. Just like-"

"DON'T say her name." HandyFash blushed. Blossomforth could hear his embarrassment in his voice on the frequency.

"Hehehe. Didn't know you like somepony, boss." Thunderlane snickered.

HandyFlash looked at Thunderlane in his plane. "What about you, Thunders? Do you like somepony?" He asked slyly.

"Yes." Thunderlane immediately answered.

"Wow. That was…simple." Cloudchaser commented.

"Meh. I just answer without hesitation."

"Oh really. Was that you who started the feather flu long time ago?" Blossomforth questioned. Thunderlane stayed silent for about 7 seconds. "Riiight."

HandyFlash looked on his left and saw Raptor squadron just flying smoothly and staring out. "Hey Dimitri. What will you do when you finish your jobs in the Air Force?"

"Nothin much." Was all Dimitri replied.

"Same here. What do you think the Sunspot weapon looks like?"

"Hey HandyFlash, don't you got a mare you should be thinking about?" Dimitri teased. It almost seemed like he wanted to avoid talking about the weapon.

HandyFlash blushed even more and sighed. "Why is every pilot questioning who I like?" He asked.

"I don't know. Probably just for fun?" Rainbow Dash said.

"It's not as fun than knowing her name!" Pinkie Pie said and the frequency.

"I'm keeping it quiet like Fluttershy." HandyFlash refused to say her name.

"But…I sometimes talk to get things off my chest." Fluttershy told him.

"Still."

"By the way, I just don't know why when you see a mare crying and you ask what's wrong and all she says is 'Nothing'." Thunderlane said, curiously.

"Thunders, you don't know what it's like to be a mare. We always hide our secrets." Cloudchaser answered.

Twilight chuckled. "How about I turn you into one, Thunderlane?" She joked.

"I'll pass, Twilight." Thunderlane shrugged.

"Thunder Rain here. What dragged us on this kind of conversation?" Thunder Rain laughed. That question made everypony realize about their talking.

"Rarity started it." HandyFlash blamed without meaning it.

Rarity gasped. "I so did not!"

HandyFlash sighed. "Rarity, have you ever heard of a joke?" He asked.

"Yeah. I got some jokes if you want to here them." Pinkie Pie said and pulled out a book of jokes. Which we don't know where she got that.

Neon Nimbus smiled how everypony was having a good conversation. It felt like they were part of her family. Like her…brother. She frowned by the thought of her older brother. He cared for her like what every other brother does. She didn't know if she should be happy or sad to make herself feel normal.

While thinking about the things in her head, she noticed on the radar that it was starting to buzz. She refreshed the radar to fix the problem, but nothing happened. It just continued to get interference. She contacted the flights.

"Neon Nimbus to all flights. Is there something wrong with all your radars?" She asked if she wasn't the only one. All the pilots checked their radars when she asked. It turns out Neon Nimbus wasn't the only one.

Fireblaze contacted first. "This is Thermal 1. Looks like my radar is acting up as well." He confirmed.

"Raptor 1. My radar as well." Dimitri said.

Blossomforth stared at her radar and saw it was buzzing as well. She began thinking what other flight is around the area. Maybe they had the same problem as well. She contacted Neon Nimbus. "General? Is there any other flights around here?" She asked.

"Lancaster and his Eagle Squadron is around the area as well." Neon Nimbus answered.

Blossomforth switched her frequency and tried contacting Lancaster. "Lancaster. This is Arion 5."

She heard a clean signal from Eagle Squadron. "This is Eagle 1. State your problem Blossomforth." Lancaster responded.

"All flights from the operation in Macintosh Hills are returning back, but our radars are messed up. We're at Bearing One-Three-Zero. Over." Blossomforth told them their location.

"This is Eagle 4. Looks like you're by Ghastly George right now." Spectrum confirmed their location.

Ash looked around the area below his aircraft. Spectrum was right. "Roger. I have visual that we are by the east side of it." He said.

"This is Meteor. My radars are still messed up as well. Keep an eye out." Meteor warned every flight.

Neon Nimbus looked at Twilight. "Ms. Sparkle. Contact Ponyville to notify that the south of their city is locked."

"I will." Twilight nodded and used a radio to contact.

"Lancaster. I want you and Eagle Squadron here immediately. We can use some wings just in case." Neon Nimbus ordered.

"Eagle." Lancaster acknowledged. "Hawk and Ace. Lower your altitudes. Darkstar and Spectrum. Raise up yours. We want a clear eye of where those jammers are coming from." He said.

"Roger that." They all said.

HandyFlash contacted Neon Nimbus. "Hey General. Request for me and my squadron to get a pass around Ghastly George's trenches. Probably the jammers are in there." He requested.

"Permission granted. Go ahead." She accepted.

"This is Raptor 1. My squadron will help out as well." Dimitri waited if she will accept it.

"Roger. Go ahead." She said as Dimitri and his flight followed Arion squadron.

The two flights turned towards Ghastly George and got a good eye view of the trenches. They couldn't see that well. So they lowered their altitudes and flew smoothly above the trench. Dumbbell looked at his radar and saw that the buzzing was even stronger.

"This is Arion 7. Radar is still buzzing like a bee." Dumbbell said.

"Copy Dumbbell." HandyFlash said. He looked at Dimitri's flight. "Dimitri. Have you ever been around Ghastly George?" He asked.

"Yeah. But a very long time ago. I swear. This trench seemed more bigger than the last time I went here." Dimitri said. He looked at Raptor 2's plane. "Daniel. Did Saddle ever had this kind of trench?"

Daniel sighed. "Negative. Although I wish. Kira and Kelly are the ones who went to Changnia's Cora's Crater. Probably looks similar." He guessed.

"It pretty much is. It still is pretty creepy though." Kira said.

"Also, the crater is there for unknown reasons." Kelly added.

"Blossomforth is here for an unknown reason." Thunderlane joked. Wow. He never gets tired of messing around with her.

"Close your tube, Thunderlane." Blossomforth said in annoyance. "Least I come in handy for the air."

"More like 'hoofy'" HandyFlash joked.

"Boss. That was terrible." Cloudchaser laughed. Oh really? Then why was she laughing anyway?

Before HandyFlash can respond to that, something started rumbling on his plane. He looked at his shields and saw that it was now down to 78%. He lost 22% of his shields. He looked down and saw what it looked like were AI controlled AA guns down on Ghastly George's trench.

"This is Arion 1, Under fire. Pulling up." HandyFlash pulled his plane up at a safe altitude away from the AA's range. His squad and Raptor pulled up as well.

Fluttershy contacted HandyFlash. "I think we found where the jamming is coming from." She said.

"Eeyeah." Rainbow Dash agreed. "Neon Nimbus. Confirmed jammers in Ghastly George."

"Roger, Arion 2."

FireBlaze turned his plane to Ghastly George's trench. Eclipse Moon followed.

"This is FireBlaze. We're going to get a closer look." He said.

"What?!" Flitter yelled. "There can be a lot of AAs than you think. You'll be shredded in pieces before you know it!" She tried to tell them not to go. But they just didn't hesitate.

FireBlaze and Eclipse Moon lowered their altitudes as they scanned the trenches. The AAs saw them on scope, then started to open fire. More than possibly seven AAs were firing rounds at them. They couldn't last much longer when their shields were down. Resulting heavy damage.

"This is Eclipse Moon. We have heavy damage. Withdrawing from combat." He notified them as they headed north to Cloudsdale Airfield.

"I told you not to go." Flitter said.

"Neon. We have two pilots out of the game. They're going to Cloudsdale." HandyFlash called.

"Roger. Eclipse Moon. FireBlaze. Say your status." Neon Nimbus checked on the two.

"Heavy Damage on my wing. I need to head back. No time for sight seeing." Eclipse Moon said.

"He's not the only one. Ash. Can you repair my jet's engine when you get back?" FireBlaze asked.

"No problem. Just hope I don't come back with a lot of holes on my plane." Ash said.

As the two went back to base, leaving only a few flights in the air, Arion and Raptor Squadron reached a safe altitude to not let any rounds hit them. Rainbow Dash looked out on the places she tried to remember where the Anti-Air guns were positioned. Since she knew Ghastly George ever since, even when she made a challenge to make animals to become her one pet, she always knows the path.

"I can't believe they made this place into a shredded metal factory, if you know what I mean." Rainbow Dash said while circling around with her flight.

Thunderlane nodded. "Yeah. Scrap metal from jets." He added.

Blossomforth scanned the trenches. There was no way to evade the AA gun fire. A sharp turn to the edge can make you crash you're plane. One jet can fit, but will end up shredded. "Looks like our planes won't work to take out those jammers." She said.

"Wait. I know someone who can." Cloudchaser's lightbulb shined. "Can we call over Hardcase and Boomer for remote air gunship support?" She asked.

Neon Nimbus thought about the idea. There was a 90% chance that it will work. She went for the idea. "Roger. I'll contact them. Neon Nimbus to all flights. Do not engage the jammers with your own planes. Standby for Hardcase and Boomer's arrival." She told all squadrons in the air.

Meteor on the other hand saw another problem. He sees a group of bogeys heading to them using after burns from the south. He contacted all flights to go eagle. "All flights. Engage fighters coming from the south. Unponnied Aerial Drones identified." He said.

"Roger. All planes, cleared to engage. Ash. Meteor. Protect the AWACS." HandyFlash gave them orders.

"No problem. I can play my music while defending." Ash said.

"Hope you don't sing when your frequency is on." Meteor joked.

"Ha Ha Ha. No worries." Ash smirked.

Raptor and Arion Squadron turned to the incoming bogeys that were heading to them. Raptor squadron separated for a good strategy while Arion Squadron did a nine flight delta formation. HandyFlash, Thunderlane, and Flitter were on the front while Rainbow Dash, Dumbbell, Fluttershy, Derpy, Cloudchaser, and Blossomforth were in the back.

"This aughta be fun." Kira said. She sounded brave to fight the drones.

"Hope you have a lot of bits, Dimitri. You're buying us all ciders." Thunderlane chuckled.

"We'll see about that." Dimitri smirked and readied his weapons.

"Arions. On my mark. Flitter. Thunderlane. We fire first. Then you all in the back of us fire when we get out of the way." HandyFlash planned. If they fired at the same time, their missiles might collide and have trouble trying to hit their target.

As the drones got even more closer, the front row had a good lock on and put their hooves and the trigger. "Now!" HandyFlash yelled as Thunderlane and Flitter fired one missile along with him. The three of them pulled up and break left to make a good visual for the back row. "Now!" Rainbow Dash yelled as her group fired one missile as well. Nine missiles were heading to the incoming drones. The drones dropped their flares to early. Resulting the missiles still have a chance. Nine drones have been shot down that were hit from the front. Ouch. Imagine if somepony was in there.

Night Wing from the distance with his flight saw that. "Mother Marey…Okay. That was pretty cool." He commented.

"Rainbow Dash. Bandit closing on you." Gentlestep warned her.

"Roger. Defending." Rainbow Dash flew around drifting and checked around her just in case any other drone was behind her. "I'm not really good at aiming when I'm upside down." She commented. She saw the drone pull up facing the sky as she followed it. She fired a missile and fired her cannons. The drone got hit by her missile and finished the drone with her cannons. "Hah! I nailed that one." She said.

"Getcha head in the game, Dash." Lancaster said.

"No problem, Lancaster."

"This is Arion 6, I'm being chased by two drones. Can I get some help to get one off my tail?" Derpy asked.

Dumbbell responded and went towards Derpy's chasers. "No problem, Derps. I got this one." He fired his cannons very carefully, trying not to hit her aircraft. He clipped the wings on one which has him left with one more. The second one was about to pull it's nose up to break. Dumbbell went pass it, leaving it behind him and Derpy. But something unexpected happened. A missile hit the drone that evaded Dumbbell. The missile hit the drone directly on the engine, resulting a fireball exploding.

"Good shot, Arion 3." Meteor complimented Fluttershy.

"Thank you." Fluttershy replied. She boosted past Dumbbell and Derpy and fired 4 missiles at the drones that were head on. She destroyed two drones. The other two went past Dumbbell and Derpy which got their attention. They both drifted their jet's nose up until it was facing backwards and fired the two drones. One confirmed shot down, but one was still up.

"Picking up Bandit." Spectrum said and tail gated the one drone. She fired a missile as it impacted on the drone to shreds. "Splashed One."

"All planes. Be advised. Hardcase and Boomer are now in the airspace. Provide cover for them and keep the drones away." Twilight told all flights.

"Copy that, Twilight." Rainbow Dash nodded. She continued to fight the drones back as Fluttershy assisted her.

"This is Hardcase. Now approaching the hot fight. Request to get some escorts to defend me and Boomer." Hardcase called all flights if he can get some assistance. Lancaster and his squadron volunteered.

"Roger. Heading on your wings, Demo Fello." Hawk flew right next to Hardcase's air gunship.

In the gunship, Hardcase gave a sign to engage the Jammers. Boomer nodded and put on his mic and turned on his screen. But there seems there was a problem. Boomer's screen was buzzing. He refreshed it and checked again, but still buzzing. Boomer tried fixing it, but ends up failing.

"Darn it!" Boomer said angrily.

Hardcase looked back again. "What? What's wrong?" He asked.

Boomer kept refreshing his screen. "Looks like the jammers are effecting my screen to." He told him.

"Shoot. General, the jammers are effecting my aircraft as well." Hardcase told Neon Nimbus.

"Our aircraft." Boomer corrected.

"Our aircraft." Hardcase rolled his eyes.

HandyFlash heard the bad news and groaned. "Fudge Nuggets. Arion 5, can you do something about it?" He asked Blossomforth.

She started to search for more controls in her ESF-26 aircraft. She checked and checked until she found a possible mode that can fix the problem. "This is Arion 5. Activating Electronic counter-countermeasures." Blossomforth said.

"Wow. Say that five times." Flitter randomly commented.

Twilight in the AWACS aircraft with Neon Nimbus looked at the radar and saw it was partially fading away the buzzing. "It's working!" Twilight said happily.

Boomer looked at his screen and saw the same effect as well. The buzzing was lightly fading away. "Aw Yeah! Here we go."

"Good job, Blossomforth. How did you do that? Our aircrafts are getting the same effect as well." Fluttershy asked.

"I'd thought I maybe boost it all up a bit. Thanks to the E.R.A.F training." Blossomforth said, proudly about herself. Every pilot said thank you to her as she laughed and said Your Welcome.

"This is Hardcase. Be advised. The jammers still can't be seen much along with the AAs." He told them. "Is there a chance somepony can fly above?"

"Negative. We would be in shreds if we were above them." Cloudchaser responded.

"This is Neon Nimbus. I scanned the Anti-Air Guns in the Ghastly George trench." Neon Nimbus began explaining her findings. "It seems the AAs are not only meant for very low fire. Only for high altitude. Well, that finds out why the AAs are supposed to be in the trench."

Rainbow Dash nervously questioned. "What are you saying?" She asked.

"One brave pilot has to go through Ghastly George's trenches in one peace. Literally in One Piece. While Boomer takes out the jammers and AAs. Your Electronic counter-countermeasures are capable to make a clear radius for our radars to make Boomer see the targets." Neon Nimbus told them. Twilight's eyes widened by the tricky plan.

Arion squadron stayed silent. They all stared at the trench of Ghastly George very nervously. Rainbow Dash stared closely than the others. She tried to remember the ways to get passed Ghastly George. Since she experienced going through there more than once, she can probably be the one.

Rainbow Dash turned her plane unexpectedly and headed to the trenches as she lowered altitude. "This is Arion 2. Leave this to me. I know Ghastly George than you think." She volunteered.

"What?! Rainbow Dash! Are you insane?!" Twilight yelled.

Night Wing saw her plane lowering altitude. "I don't think that's a good idea, Arion 2." He said.

"Well. What other choices do we have?" Rainbow Dash questioned him. Night Wing stayed silent. She smirked. "Exactly. Hardcase, I'll give you a clear radius. I'm going in."

"Copy that, Arion 2. Boomer? Are you a good shot?" Hardcase asked.

"More good than yah think." He replied.

Applejack looked outside. "Rainbow?! What do yah think your doing?!" She yelled.

"I'm helping." She answered.

"All planes. Just let her do it. We know she can." HandyFlash said and wished her luck.

Rainbow Dash kissed her hoof for a good fly luck and entered the trench. It was more different flying through than in the open sky. Every time she was heading to a wall, she turned one way that she remembered. She started sweating nervously as she tried her best not to hit the rocky trench wall. Boomer began aiming his guns at the jammers that was being open on Rainbow Dash's radius. When she got close to one, he opened fired on the jammer.

"First jammer down." Boomer said.

Rainbow Dash continued focusing on not crashing. She had to do a tight turn once which increased her adrenaline rush. She was heading towards the holes that had Quarray eels. She used her afterburners to pick up the speed so she can make it. Once she went passed one hole one by one, the eels got stunned by the loud sound of her aircraft. They cowardly got back in the holes. Poor things.

Boomer saw another jammer and fired another round. Causing a direct hit on the second jammer. "Second one down."

Rainbow Dash kept flying through the trench flawlessly. From a far distance, one enemy drone fired a missile without guidance. The missile ended up hitting a weak rock wall which collapsed and falling down that was about to hit Rainbow Dash. She sped up and went lower to prevent from getting blocked or hit. HandyFlash pursued that drone and shot it down.

"Thanks Flash." She thanked.

"Wing feathers are like team players, right?" HandyFlash chuckled and moved out of the way.

Boomer saw the third jammer on radar and fired a bird round that destroyed the jammer. He noticed that his screen got all clear and non-static. Same went to everypony in the air.

Rainbow Dash pulled up and noticed that the AA guns weren't firing anymore. The jammers must have been the AA's power source.

"YAY! Rainbow Dash made it!" Fluttershy cheered out loud. She hasn't cheered like that ever since Rainbow Dash did the Sonic Rainboom.

"I told you all." HandyFlash laughed.

"Ah can't believe you made it, Dash!" Applejack said speechlessly. Twilight was in a lost of words. All she could do was smile on how brave she was for being the one who volunteered to do a dangerous stunt. Well, that's Rainbow Dash.

"Good job, Rainbow Dash. Darn good work." Neon Nimbus gave her credit.

"Yeah. Thanks Dash. Good job." Hardcase and Boomer said.

"Hehehe. Anytime fellas." Rainbow Dash chuckled.

Meteor checked his now clean map and confirmed no threat is in the airspace. "This is Meteor. Airspace is clean as a cloud." He said.

"Roger. All squadrons. Follow me in. You too, Wing Feathers of Celestia and Luna." Neon Nimbus smirked.

"Ma'am. Don't embarrass the Equestrian Aces." Dimitri laughed.

Thunderlane chuckled. "That doesn't embarrass us at all."

All pilots saddled up…no joke intended…and flew in a group back to the north. Rainbow Dash, who has minor damage in her aircraft, flew safely with her squadron.

From a far distance, an unknown aircraft was watching them from a higher altitude. The pilot kept and eye on them with his/her red tinted visor. The aircraft he/she was in was blue and black striped. The pilot was alerted when a radio transmission was heard.

"That's enough reconnaissance. Return back to me." A voice said in the radio.

"Copy. Should I head to Saddle-Arabia, sir?" The pilot asked. It seems like the pilot was a female.

"Immediately. Rogue Squadron will be the first ones to go in. Let's see what our aces can do." The voice said.

"Yes, Razor Whisk." She said and turned her aircraft to the direction to Saddle-Arabia.

-(Task Force X Air Base, Canterlot.)-

It was now nighttime in Equestria. Princess Luna was at the top of the palaces tower keeping an eye out. She looked down at the Task Force X's airbase and saw that the pilots were taking a break after the jammer elimination on Ghastly George. She saw Rainbow Dash getting credit from her fellow squad mates and other pilots. She seems to be getting a title as well like the others. Luna looked up and saw the stars and noticed a few E.R.A.F stealth planes flying by for exercise. They made a very quiet roar as they glided.

Princess Luna decided to fly down to the pilots and check on how they are doing. When she flew down and landed by the runway where the pilots were at, they all bowed. She smiled on how kind they were greeting her.

Neon Nimbus nodded her head a bow. "Your highness. What brings you to see my pilots?" She smiled.

"I'd thought I would stop by and congratulate those Wing feathers of my sister and I." Princess Luna smiled and looked at the nine members of Arion Squadron. They bowed down, again. "I heard about the situation from the south and Ghastly George. Some pilots said that you took down some unknown pilots. Correct?" She asked.

HandyFlash nodded. "Yes, Princess."

Luna looked at him and smiled. "You led your squadron quite well. You did it right, again. Good job Colonel HandyFlash." She bowed her head lightly.

"Thank you." He said.

She then looked at Rainbow Dash. "And good job to you for having a brave side at Ghastly George."

"Thank you so much." Dash thanked.

Luna then lastly turned to Twilight and the rest. "My sister's student and her friends did well, didn't they, General?" She looked at Neon Nimbus.

She nodded. "Yes they have."

Luna smiled at Twilight and bowed her head. "Very well done Ms. Sparkle. My sister would be proud if she was awake right now." She gigged.

Twilight gave a happy smile. "Thank you, Princess Luna."

"I must report to the tower. I'll talk to you ponies tomorrow night. Good luck." Luna winked and flew up to the Canterlot tower.

Rainbow Dash yawned. "I'm gonna hit the hay. Nighttime makes me think my eyes are completely closed sometimes." She said while stretching her body and wings.

"A certain somepony must've eaten your hay." Thunderlane joked. Blossomforth went close to Thunderlane's face that their snouts touched.

"Pardon?" She asked while glaring at him.

"Nothing." He responded. She backed away and smirked on how Thunderlane was shocked by her reaction.

Twilight realized something and jumped in the air. Fluttershy squealed and hid behind Rainbow Dash from the unexpected panic from Twilight. "I forgot to make Spike some dinner! Oh no. He might be eating my books that have pictures of food." Twilight wandered around in circles.

Cloudchaser raised her eyebrow. "Won't that make him smart?" She grinned about the joke.

"Very cheap, CC." Flitter rolled her eyes.

"You can just buy him food. I got a few bits." HandyFlash offered her enough bits to buy a to go tray.

"Are you sure? I can't just use somepony else's money." Twilight made sure if he would take it back. But he shook his head yes.

"It's okay. I have my savings ever since I was a little colt. Thanks to my parents." HandyFlash chuckled.

Twilight smiled and took his bits by using her magic. "Thank you Flash."

"Anytime."

Thunderlane's stomach growled loudly just like Rainbow Dash's long time ago. Blossomforth looked at him.

"Okay. That was him now." Blossomforth pointed out. Thunderlane chuckled.

"Okay fine." Thunderlane admitted. "Twilight? Can I go to? I'm gonna buy me some apple dumplings." He asked.

"Same here because SOMEPONY owes me because I got the feather flu from him." Blossomforth glared at Thunderlane. He nervously looked away with a curly smile.

The three walked into Canterlot so that Thunderlane and Blossomforth can get something to fill their stomach and get Twilight some food for Spike. They decided to just head to the restaurant where they usually hang out to buy some. The place wasn't surprisingly closed just yet. It was only 8:46PM. Some ponies were still in the restaurant having their dinner as Twilight went in the counter and ordered what she needed. It led to Blossomforth being confused about something.

"Twilight? Don't dragons mostly eat gemstones?" Blossomforth asked.

"Yeah. I'm just getting some of the food here so I can let Spike mix his food with some gems. He needs his vitamins and fruits, you know?" Twilight answered.

As the three of them got their orders, they stopped and noticed an E.R.A.F member sitting down drinking some cranberry juice. It was a red coated stallion with the colors orange and gold on his mane and tail. His outfit seemed like he wasn't a Task Force X pilot. His name on his outfit was FireBlaze.

He seemed empty. This made Twilight and the two head over there to talk to him. He noticed the three of them and waved 'Hello'.

"Hey FireBlaze. How you doin?" Blossomforth asked him.

"Good. Just kinda exhausted from the south." FireBlaze answered quietly.

Twilight patted his back. "You flew well. But, what's on your mind?" She asked.

FireBlaze stared at his glass juice. "Thinking about my past." He told her.

"Cool. You want to tell us about it?" Thunderlane asked.

FireBlaze stayed silent and drank his glass. "I'm not sure If you might find it very weird."

Blossomforth smiled. "C'mon. You can tell us. I was born with good flexibility on my wings and stuff. And HandyFlash, my squad leader, was born with a weird mutation. You know? Weak horn but strong wings?" She told him.

Twilight agreed. "No need to be embarrassed, FireBlaze."

FireBlaze shrugged and breathed in. "I'm wasn't raised like a regular Equestrian pony. My mom was an average pegasus…while my dad was…a dragon." He looked away.

They all looked surprised. A pegasus and dragon hybrid? That seems a lot more bizarre. Twilight looked in his eyes and saw no emotion at all. She knew he was hiding something, but she knew it might be none of her business.

"How does that even work?" Thunderlane stupidly AND rudely asked. He sounded innocently curious though. Blossomforth covered his mouth with her wing to not ask anything else.

"That wasn't a nice thing to ask." Blossomforth rolled her eyes.

Twilight frowned. "What happened to the two of them?" She asked. Hoping if it was okay to ask.

FireBlaze took a sip of his cranberry juice. "My mom was presumed passed when I was little. My father raised me to have a good future. But I rarely see him because he is one of the guardians of the dragon migrations. So he's pretty busy." He told them.

Twilight, Thunderlane, Blossomforth felt depressed for him. After what FireBlaze has been through, it would've been worse to experience it. He didn't lie. His eyes still resembled a dragon's. Wonder what would it be like if Spike met him.

"You should get some rest, Airman FireBlaze. Those AAs must have been a rough time getting shot at." Thunderlane suggested.

"Yeah. I'll go home after anyway." FireBlaze said.

"Feel better." Twilight wished him and walked away as Thunderlane and Blossomforth followed.

As they got outside as the cold breeze blew, they noticed that some ponies were going in their homes and closing some shops. Thunderlane walked while eating his dumplings with Blossomfroth while Twilight was looking up at the skies. She noticed that no stealth planes were in the sky now. Looks like their training was over. They headed back to the Task Force X airbase and talked for a little bit.

HandyFlash, Flitter, and Fluttershy decided to improve their aircraft. So HandyFlash bought in some of his tools from his parents house in Canterlot.

Thunderlane finished his food; which resulted him to become sleepy. He looked for a cloud, moved it down by the runway and laid down on it.

Twilight along with Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie went home in around 25 minutes later to get some rest.

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