Personal Log
Staff Sergeant Alex Grimm
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This is Grimm, decided I should make another one of these logs as it’s been a few days since my last one but hey I’ve been busy. Got a Rook assigned to the Reapers a couple of days ago to replace Devon as our medic and I kid you not it’s the purple unicorn I’ve seen around the base.

At first I questioned how well she would mesh with us being an alien and all but she seemed to be fitting in well enough, Wilkerson and McKay seem to like her and Chekov is indifferent as usual, me and Raymond are reserving judgment till we see her actually in the field.

So far she has been spending her free time when not in training with us in the barracks mostly playing cards, she is a terrible poker player but she seems to enjoy Blackjack well, the Rook has already won a tidy sum of Credits off the rest of us though unlike us she can’t really spend them so she mostly just uses them for betting.

Anyways think I’ll end this here as word has come down that from on high that we are being sent out on a recon mission in order for our medic to get her feet…um…hooves wet, damn that’s going to take some getting used to. Anyways this is Staff Sergeant Alex Grimm signing off.

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Twilight followed her squad through the base as they headed for the staging area. IT had been a couple of days since the meet and greet and after Mendez intensifying her training he finally gave the ok for her to actually enter the field, though he did say she still had a lot to learn but time was short so the rest would either be learned in the field or in the random chances she has to train with Mendez.

Twilight had to admit, she was excited to finally be going into the, it was partly because while she liked being with the rebels she was missing being outside, but it was mostly because she was finally able to do something to help her friends. It wasn’t long before they reached a room near one of the tunnels that lead from the main room and she followed her squad in.

She looked around the room as she had never been in it before as she never really had any reason to go near the entrances to the base. The room was about the size of her quarters and had some table to one side with guns and ammo laid out on it and in the middle of the room were some chairs and on the far wall was a map of the city and surrounding area and standing before it was Major Briggs.

Twilight followed her squad and took a seat in one of the chairs. “Alright now that everyone is here we will start the briefing.” Major Briggs said. “We have heard reports of some increased activity at the Penton Armory near the edge of the city.” He said and gestured to a highlighted area of on the southern edge of the city. “Whatever they are doing there is very interesting to us as preliminary reports stay they have tripped the security for the Armory, I want to know what it is they are doing there.”

“And that’s where you Reapers come in, you Primary Objective is to get as close as you can safely get and observe the Armory for a few hours, learn their patrol routes and what gear they are using so we can hit them later this week. I shouldn’t have to say but avoiding detection is a high priority as we don’t want to tip them off that we have noticed. Am I Understood?” Major Briggs looked at the reapers and they all nodded including Twilight. “Alright, grab your gear and move out when ready, Dismissed.”

With That Major Briggs left the room and the Reapers made their way to the table of guns and started to grab weapons and ammo. Twilight stood looking at the weapon. Till Grimm stepped up beside her. “Something wrong Rook?”

“Um…what do I take? No one told me which gun I’m supposed to us.” She said looking up at him.

“Well we aren’t exactly military so we aren’t issued our weapons; it’s more you grab whatever you want though we do try to coordinate a decent assortment of firepower to make things as balanced as we can but mostly just take whatever you want.” He told her as he grabbed one of the MX3Bs and some of the attachments for it.

Twilight looked over the guns and grabbed a combat one of the Grops and slipped it into the holster on her chest and slung a MX3B onto her back before grabbing some mags for it.

Twilight and the rest of the Reapers slowly made their way through the forest south of the Armory they were to recon, all of them were scanning the trees around them for enemy patrols. It has three hour since they had all geared up and made their way from the sewers. So far it had been an uneventful mission and if everything went well it would stay that way.

Like Grimm had told her they had all grabbed an assortment of weapons though mostly MX3B in the case of Twilight, Grimm and McKay, while Wilkerson and Raymond had grabbed SMGs and lastly Chekov had grabbed an LMG. Twilight had also been given a combat knife by Grimm that went into the sheath on her shoulder.

“Hold up.” Grimm said and everyone stopped and took up positions watching the trees as he took out his Datapad and check over the map. “Ok, we are about 10 minutes out; we will need to keep an extra eye out for Feds.” He said as he slipped the Datapad back into his pack. “Let’s move out.”

With that the Reapers start to creep through the forest once more keeping extra care to watch for Feds. After ten minutes the Reapers were laying prone on top of a small hill looking out over an empty lot at the Penton Armor, even Twilight could there were a lot of the black and white armored soldier around it then there needed to be for the small Armory.

The armory itself was a cluster of 5 small buildings around a much larger central building and the entire perimeter was surrounded by a large chain-link fence topped with razor wire. Near the only gate into the area was a small guard house and two tall guard towers. As Twilight watched she saw groups of 6 soldiers walking the inside of the fence as well as every few minutes a black and white armored jeep would drive by.

As they got settled in Raymond took out a small video camera and started to record the armory while Grimm took out binoculars and got a closer look, leaving Twilight, Chekov, Wilkerson and McKay to watch the trees.

As they sat there watching the Armory Twilight’s ears swiveled towards the trees and she looked but didn’t see anything. “Hey…Sarge I think something’s wrong.” She whispered turning to look at the Staff Sergeant.

“What is it Sparkle?” Grimm asked taking his eyes from the binoculars to look at her.

“I’m not sure just…thought I heard something but I haven’t heard it again.” She told him.

“What did it sound like?”

“I’m not sure, it was only for a second but it wasn’t very distinct.” She told him a bit uncertain.

“Probably just nerves.” Grimm told her. “But just to be on the safe side we will only stay her another half hour before leaving.” HE said before going back to watching the Armory.

Twilight nodded and settled back down but after a few minutes her ear swiveled towards a barely heard sound again and when she looked she didn’t see anything. She still couldn’t tell what the sound was but something was there. She looked at Grimm but he was focused on the Armory and she thought it best not to disturb him. She looked back at the forest, something was there and she needed to know what it was.

She slowly started to slip down the hill and was soon in the woods. She made her way through the trees as silently as she could her eyes scanning the trees. As she moved she heard the noise again this time louder, she still wasn’t sure what it was but she had a direction.

She started to make her way through the trees and as she rounded a tree she dropped to the ground and quickly slid back around the tree. Taking a quiet deep breath from the scare she just got she peeked around the tree and saw about 16 black and white armored soldier crawling through the trees towards the hill the Reapers were using to observe the Armory. They were going straight for it like they knew exactly where the Rebel soldiers were.

Slowly Twilight started to back away from the tree; she had to report this to Grimm before the Feds were in position to ambush the Reapers. “There you are Rook.” McKay’s voice said quietly behind her and Twilight nearly jumped out of her skin and barley kept from crying out as she spun around to find McKay and Wilkerson standing behind her. “What the heck are you…” Twilight quickly cut off McKay and putting a hoof to her mouth and shushing him. He looked at her confused and she pointed toward the tree.

McKay and Wilkerson looked at each other and made their way toward the tree and looked around it before yanking their heads back and making their way back as fast as they could while still remaining silent.

“We need to tell the Sarge.” Wilkerson whisper and Twilight nodded till she thought about it.

No…there’s no time to get back and then for us to get clear before those soldier would be on us and that hill doesn’t provide any cover.” She looked at the two humans.” We need to stop them here or at least distracted them enough so Sarge knows somethings wrong.”

The two rebels looked at each other then looked at her. “You got a plan don’t you?” McKay asked.
Twilight nodded. “Yes, we are going to ambush the ambushers.” She said and could see the smile split the two humans face and felt one creep onto her muzzle. It took her less than a minute to explain her plan and the Rebels moved off to get into position.

It was a simple plan, neither of them had brought any explosive and only had their guns but they also had the element of surprise as she doubted the Feds had been expecting some one with Twilight’s level of hearing to be with the Reapers, so they wouldn’t be expecting to come under fire while out of cover.

It was a simple plan, Wilkerson would start things off with his SMG and sidearm then when the Feds moved into cover to from Wilkerson’s gunfire McKay and Twilight would open fire from the sides and catch them in crossfire with the more powerful assault rifles

Shortly after Twilight Got into position she heard Wilkerson open fire with his SMG from behind the Feds managing to take two of them down before they reacted. Once they realized what was happening they scrambled into cover and started to return fire. A few second later the Feds farthest from Twilight started dropping as McKay opened fire on them and Twilight took her assault rifle into her magi and aimed down the sight.

And froze as she took aim at the nearest soldier. They weren’t like shooting paper targets they were actual living people. Yes she had killed one before but that had been an accident, she hadn’t meant to do that, but her gun was loaded with armor piercing ammo so it would rip through the Feds armor.

As she watched the Feds were repositioning into cover from both sides and returning fire and they had the numbers to overrun McKay and Wilkerson on sheer firepower. And the Feds wouldn’t hesitate to kill them and neither would the Rebels. The Feds would either kill her for being a rebel or capture her and put her into another lab to experiment on her, she was not going to be a test subject in a lab, never again!

As she watched the fire fight she remembered what Mendez had told her after he broke her ribs and she laid gasping on the training room floor. “It’s kill or be killed.” She whisper and took aim before her magic squeezes the trigger.

Staff Sergeant Grimm cursed under his breath as he, Raymond and Chekov through the woods towards the sound of gun fire, what the hell did Sparkle get into. When he had noticed she was gone he had Sent McKay and Wilkerson to go and find her and not 10 minutes later the woods are filled with gunfire. If she blew this mission he was going to personally beat the shit out of her for endangering the squad.

The fun fire soon stopped as he and the rest of the Reapers pushed onto the scene of carnage and they stopped dead as they stared down at the bodies of the Fed soldiers. “What the fuck is going on here?!” He demanded as he saw Sparkle, McKay and Wilkerson stepping out of the tree from three directions. “Ambushing a Fed ambush sir.” Wilkerson said as he got close.

“Ambush? What the hell are talking about?” He said his anger waning a bit.

“The Rook found these Feds.” McKay said kicking one of the dead soldiers. “Trying to sneak up on us and came up with a plan to take them out before they got close.”

Grimm looked at Sparkle who smiled sheepishly up at him. “Ok, fine the Rooks a fucking hero, good, now let’s get the hell out of her and report back to base as this little fire fight has put the armory on alert and they’ll be all over us in a few minutes.” He said and the three soldiers in front of him nodded as they turned and headed off into the woods rapidly.

Despite the fact Grimm was still pissed off at Sparkle for running off be still had to give her credit for finding the ambush and taking it out, if not for her running off he’d recommend her for a commendation, though taking out the ambush is what kept her from being thrown in the brig when they got back.

Though despite thinking on the issues of Sparkle one thought was at the forefront of Grimm’s mind, how the hell did the Feds know they were there to send out a group to ambush them?

Twilight followed the rest of the Reapers into the main room of the base. They had dropped off their gear, though she had been told to keep her side arm. Her ears were back as she had gotten scolded by Grimm do to her running off during the mission and he made it clear the only reason she wasn’t being thrown in the brigs, something the new base did in fact have was that she had saved the squad. He had told her that if she ever hears something again like that and honestly thinks it is an issue to tell him and he will make the call, not her.

She now was with the Reapers as they headed for the mess has all the entire mission had lasted 8 hours with only water and candy bars in the case of those who had them. As they reached the mess hall and got in line Wilkerson stood behind her. “Hey listen Rook, despite what Sarge may say; your plan was brilliant all things considered. we showed the Feds they can’t get the drop on the Reapers.” HE said and Twilight couldn’t help but smile up at the human.

When she finally reached the head of the line the cook leaned over to look down at her. “What you going have darlin’? He asked her

“I’ll take an apple and some carrots please. “She said smiling up at him and then thought, she couldn’t believe she was about to ask this but she had had a lot of time to think on the way back to base. “And...Some chicken if you have any? “She said

The cook blinked down at her. “Aren’t you a vegetarian darlin’?” He asked in a bit of confusion.

Twilight gave him a sheepish smile. “Ehehe….yeah….I’m…kind of wanting some meat.” She said and the Cook blinked again before shrugging and getting her order and placing it on her plate. She thanked the cook as she took the plate in her magic and left the line going over to the table where the rest of the Reapers were sitting.

She took a seat and started to eat her carrots first. “Aren’t you a vegetarian?” Wilkerson asked as he took a seat.

Twilight sighed. “I…don’t think I am anymore….I noticed a few days ago after I stopped eating meat I…kind of missed it…and when we were on the way back I found myself looking forward to fruit and meat. “She said sighing again. “Apparently I’m an omnivore now cause….I… Really like meat.” She said as if confessing her deepest secret.

The reapers stared at her. “Uh…congrats?” Raymond said looking unsure how to react to how she spoke.

She looked up at them and then fachoofed “Right…you aren’t ponies. “She said dryly as she remembered they were omnivores to start with. “This is just kind of big deal as ponies don’t usually eat meat.” She told them.

“Well…congrats on becoming an exception to the rule Rook.” McKay said. “I get it’s a big deal but I’m not going to pretend to understand it as I’m not a pony.”

She nodded to him. “Yeah thanks for your honestly. Just like I said this is kind of a big deal and…well…yeah just going to take some getting used to I guess but at least I won’t have to worry about being hungry here.” She said as she ate another carrot. Now that that was out of the way conversation at the table resumed on the random topics that the humans seemed to flow from despite none of them really being connected in any way shape or form, least none that Twilight could see but she found herself joining in on them more.

As Twilight was heading to the Armory for more firearms training she saw an older human in a in a dark brown suit she had never seen in the base before and when he saw her they both stopped in their tracks and stared at each other.

The human’s hair was completely grey and his face wrinkled so she guessed he was older then Clancy and he wore a think brown suit jacket and red bow tie of all ting and behind his glasses she could see his eyes were green.

“What are you?”

“Who are you?”

They both said at the same time. Twilight horn light with her magical aura and her side arm was half way out of its holster when she heard Major Briggs shout from down the tunnel. “Stand down private!” She stopped and quickly spun around as she let her side arm go and snapped into a salute. Major Briggs walked up to her. “Dr. Anderson is an asset that has recently joined us; he is supposed to be here as his skills will be of use to us.” HE told her.

“Yes sir, my apologies.” She said.

Major Briggs waved his hand.” Don’t apologize, your reaction was the right call to encountering an unidentified person in the base, if he had been a spy for the Feds he could have done a lot of damage if he escaped.”

Twilight didn’t say anything but inside she was smiling wide as she had done well.

“My apologize Dr. Anderson.” Major Briggs said before he left

Twilight dropped her salute and turned and looked at Dr. Anderson. “Sorry about that.” She told him a bit sheepishly.

“Um…no it’s fine…but….what are you?” Dr. Anderson asked staying a bit away from her looking at her with curiosity. “I’ve never seen anything like you.”

“Oh, I’m a Unicorn, my name is Twilight Sparkle.” She said.

“Are you some sort of biological experiment?” the Doctor asked.

“No, I’m a pony.” She said. “I’m…not from here.”

“You’re an alien?”

“Well…sort of, yeah you could say that.”

“Fascinating, the things we could learn from each other, I wish I still had access to my lab—“

“Fuck you I’m not going to be some test subject again.” Twilight yelled and the doctor recoiled putting his hands up and Twilight as she was staring down the sites of her pistol aimed right at Dr. Anderson’s chest. She didn’t recall drawing it but that didn’t matter right now.

“Ok…calm down….no lab….I don’t even have access to mine anymore…” Dr. Anderson said calmly but there was a thread of fear in his voice.

Twilight stared down the sight, her whole body shaking. She was not going to be anyone’s test subject again, she would never let anyone do that to her again, she’d kill them all first.

She felt her magic started to tighten on the trigger of her side arm and she blinked. What was she doing? Major Briggs said this Doctor was one of them and she was about to kill him. Slowly her magic relaxed on the trigger and she lowered the pistol. Her breathing was ragged as she stared down at the floor.

Slowly she got her breathing under control and her body stopped shaking.

“I…take it your arrival to our world was….unpleasant?” She head Anderson ask cautiously.

“Yes….I…they tortured me for what I knew…” Twilight whispered.

“I’m sorry that you’re first…encounter with humans was…so….unwelcoming. I can assure you we are not all that way. I only meant my lab so I could take blood samples…with your permission of course…..a real living alien could teach us so much about biology and what we could learn from your culture and what you could learn from us…though….you may not want to if your first meeting I can understand if you wouldn’t want to.” He said calmly.

Twilight closed her eyes as she took a deep breath and returned her sidearm to its holster as she looked up at Dr. Anderson. “No it’s fine, my first month was a nightmare but…my time here. “She gestured with a hoof to the walls around them. “Have been far better and I have made friends and I know not all humans are….like those from that lab.” She said and shuttered.

She heard Dr. Anderson slowly walk over to her and crouch down. “I’m Doctor James Anderson; I’m an expert in cybernetics.” He said as he offered her his hand.

She put her hoof in it. “Twilight Sparkle, personal Student of Princess Celestia and the Element of Magic.
She said as they shook.

“Magic?” He asked.

“Yeah.” She said as he took her hoof back and pointed at her horn. “As a unicorn I can use magic, it’s how I hold things here in this world as they aren’t exactly designed for hooves.” She said and Anderson nodded, seems he was worried about upsetting her as he didn’t press. “What’s Cybernetics?” She asked tilting her head.

“Oh they are artificial robotic limbs used to replace those that someone has lost. They behave a lot like the old limb though they don’t look like they used to.” He informed her.

“That…sounds interesting.” She said blinking as she thought of the thought of replacing limbs that have been lost. That could help a lot of ponies.

“well the soldier that picked me up also stole a truck load of cybernetic limbs so perhaps I could show you them sometime.” He told her as he stood up.

She nodded. “I’d like that but right now I’m late for firearms training so another time.” She said smiling up at him.

“Ah well good luck Twilight.” The older human said and she bid her farewell before trotting for the armory, Dupo was going to be annoyed at her for being late but at least it wasn’t Mendez.

Twilight slipped her armor on and hid behind the door to her quarters. She knew Mendez was going to come and ‘help her’ wake up but she was ready this time. she had used some spare clothes and blankets to make it look like she was still in bed.

The door opened silently and she tenses as she heard footsteps. And then a bucket was slung around the door and she got a face full of water causing her to recoil and sputter. When she wiped the water from her eye she saw Mendez standing before her holding the bucket. “Points for trying but the day a purple horse gets the drop on me is the day hell freezes over.” He said as her headed out of the room.

Grumbling Twilight followed him out, she didn’t have training today as the Reapers had a mission today. It had already been two days since they did recon on the Armory and helped take out the Fed ambush. She had killed three people and yet…she wasn’t bothered by it, she knew she should be but when she thought of the Feds she thought what they would do if they caught her and she knew that if she was taken alive then she would end up back in the hands of Dr. Frisk and thinking that made her have no feelings what so ever about the lives she had taken.

She sighed as she walked for the staging area deciding to think of more pleasant things rather than the mission. She had become good friends with Dr. Anderson as she met up with him and learned about cybernetics and he had shown her some. They were amazing to say the least and he had ones for every limb on the human body that wasn’t one that would result in death if lost; he even had replacement eyes and internal organs.

It didn’t take her long to reach the staging area and when she walked in she saw she was the last to arrive and she quickly found herself a seat and once she was settled Major Briggs began the briefing. The Reapers were being sent on another recon mission it seemed. She had suspicion they were getting recon rather than raids because she was in the squad and Major Briggs wanted her to gain some experience before being sent into a heavy combat situation.

The mission was an easy one, just to check on some Fed patrols in the surrounding country side as the Feds change the patrol routes and frequency every few weeks to try and catch the rebels so that meant the Rebels needed to learn the new schedule.

Once the briefing was completed the Reapers geared up, Twilight grabbing another assault rifle, thought she was trained on SMGs now she had more experience with the rifles. This time though the humans each grabbed a grenade incase another incident like that time. Once they had their gear they headed moved out.

Twilight slowly moved into the woods with the rest of the Reapers, it had been a rather uneventful mission as they observed a cross road to time the Fed Patrols for the last 12 hours. Twilight had spent the time organizing her gear, randomly inspecting her rifle and sidearm and engaging in quiet conversation with the other Reapers when she wasn’t being the one to watch the road and just generally doing thing to keep herself entertained as she couldn’t read on a mission as she needed to be able to keep watch.

“You think we got everything we need?” McKay asked Grimm as he moved up next to him.

“Yeah this should give us an idea of their schedule unless they change it day to day now but that is unlikely as it would cause too many issues with the rest of the military.” Grimm replied.

Twilight decided to speak to Chekov as he was the only reaper she hadn’t really talked to much as he didn’t seem to speak often.

“So…how are you?” She asked.

Chekov looked down at her. “Fine.” He said simply, she still hadn’t been able to place the slight accent he had.

“Yeah…that’s good.” She said. “So do you prefer LMGs?” She asked as the Reaper had taken the large box fed machinegun again like last mission.

“Don’t need to reload very often. And 200 rounds being sent in one direction can make the Feds duck and not want to pop back out for a while.” He replied as he went back to looking away.

“That make’s sense.” She said as she checked the trees around them.” So...been with the rebels long?”

“3 years.” He said scanning the trees as well.

“Oh? “She was surprised as he was the first rebel besides Dr. Grey that wasn’t there from the start she had met. “Why did you join up?”

“My father was an activist against how militaristic the government was.” He said. “He was very vocal about his views.”

“And so you joined up because of his views?” She asked looking up at the rebel soldier.

“No, I joined because the Feds killed my family.” He said darkly. “So I will kill them.”

Twilight stopped in her tracks and had to move to catch up. “How do you know they did?”

“Because I was going to visit my parent and saw smoke rising from their home, I ran inside to get them and found them both dead, shot in the back of the head and the fire had been started. I escaped out the back so no one saw me. The official report was that they died of smoke inhalation and that the fire was electrical. I knew if I said anything I would be killed to so I found another way to get justice.” Chekov said and she saw the grip on his gun tighten till his knuckles were white.

Twilight opened her mouth to say something when she heard a thump from the trees to her left and started to tear to see what it was when the ground next to her exploded and she was sent flying, the air being driven from her lungs when she crashed to the ground.

She gasped for air as she heard gun fire near her as the Reapers engaged the Feds hidden in the trees. She could hear Grimm cursing about how they knew where they were.

Once she got her air into her lungs she opened her eyes and something was wrong, she couldn’t see out of her left eye and her face was wet. She reached up with her hoof to wipe whatever was on her face off so she could see but her leg wouldn’t respond.

She tried to stand so she could air her squad but her left leg wouldn’t hold her up and she looked at her. Her eyes widened as she saw the mangled mess that was her left leg. It was nothing but a bloody mess only being held onto her body by bits of flesh and muscle and then as if her seeing it finally told her brain something was wrong the pain from both her leg and the left side of her face hit and she started screaming as she laid there in the dirt bleeding.

A shadow fell over her and she looked up to see Raymond standing over her as he crouched down and wrapped an arm around her before picking her up. She saw Chekov, his armor scorched from the blast spraying the trees with his LMG as the Reapers fell back into the trees. “Don’t worry Rook, you’ll be fine as soon as we get to the Doc, Reapers don’t leave their own behind.” Raymond told her as dark spots were starting to fill with black spots. She fought to remain conscious but it was a losing battle and it claimed her.

Twilight slowly started to come to, the left side of her face hurt as did her leg. She was slowly becoming aware of voices nearby and carefully opened her eyes…eye only to be blinded by a bright light and squeezing it shut.

“Doc she’s awake.” She heard a voice next to her and she slowly opened her eye and looked over to see Staff Sergeant Grimm sitting by her. Looking around she saw she was in the infirmary and the rest of the Reapers were standing next to the door looking at her.

“Twilight, do you know where you are?”” She heard another voice and looked to see Dr. Grey standing beside her. As she looked she saw she was lying on a cot.

“Yes…I’m in the base’s infirmary.” She said, her voice sounded horse.

Dr. Grey nodded. “Ok that’s good, do you remember what happened?”

Twilight had to think about that, they were on their way back to base when there was a thump in the trees and then…an explosion. Her eye widened and she pushed the blanket that was covering her off and froze as she looked where her left leg was supposed to be. It was just bandages. “Wh-where is my leg?!” She said.

“We….we had to amputate. It was so badly damaged by the grenade…the only way I could stop the bleeding was to remove the leg. “She said calmly.

“I could have fixed it with a healing spell!” She yelled at Dr. Grey.

“Twilight you were unconscious and bleeding to death, it was the leg or your life. The only reason you didn’t die in the blast was because your armor absorbed most of the blast and protected your internal organs.” Dr. Grey said calmly.

“But…but how can I help without my leg?” She asked.

Dr. Grey sighed.” You can’t least not in the field, I’m sure we can find something for you to do that doesn’t involve walking around or depth perception.” Dr. Grey said.

“Depth perception? What do you mean?” Twilight asked quietly, her iris shrinking a bit.

“Your….your eye was completely destroyed Twilight, there was nothing I could have done to save it.”

Twilight was quiet as she looked at the Reapers, her squad, she couldn’t serve with them anymore. She had only been on two missions with them but...the thought of them being out there without her. There had to be a way. She just needed to think.

“Dr. Anderson.” She whispered.

“What was that Twilight?” Dr. Grey said still beside her cot.

Twilight looked up at her. “I need to talk to Dr. Anderson.” She said.

“Twilight...” Dr. Grey said.

“Doc he can help, all he needs to do is modified some of what he has, from what he’s told me it shouldn’t be too hard and then I can go back out and help rather than just sitting around taking up space.” She said.

“Twilight they aren’t designed for you.” Dr. Gray said.

“It’s my choice doctor.” She said firmly. “Get me Dr. Anderson.”

Dr. Grey sighed and sent a medic to get Dr. Grey from his lab.

After about 30 minutes Dr. Anderson arrived with the medic. “My presence was requested?” Dr. Grey pointed at Twilight.

“I want cybernetics. I need a left leg and eye.” She said firmly. She was not going to be stuck back at base while the Reapers were out there risking their lives while she was safe and sound. Dr. Anderson stared at her and started to open his mouth but Twilight cut off his objection. “I am sure I want this and I don’t care about the risks. I want this.”

Dr. Anderson sighed. “Very well. But it will take a few days to modify some to work for you and I don’t know how the brain implants will affect you if they will even work for you.”

Twilight nodded.” That is a risk I am willing to take but I am not staying back at base while my squad is out there risking their lives.” She said and Saw the Reapers, who had not left since she woke up, look at her, Wilkerson and McKay with smiles on their faces while Raymond and Grimm with new respect, Chekov nodded his head once at her. They were her squad, she wasn’t going to abandon them as long as she was alive she would do what she had to keep them alive as well.

It took three days before Dr. Anderson had modified a cybernetic limb for her and a squad had been sent out on a raid to get some supplies so he could make an eye for her as the human one wouldn’t fit her and there was no way to modify one.
But once they were ready Twilight was brought to Dr. Anderson’s lab and placed on the surgical table. The lab wasn’t much but a large room with some stolen equipment so that Dr. Anderson could work with his cybernetics and maintain them as needed.

“Are you sure you want this?” Dr. Anderson asked her, he was dressed in surgical scrubs she was all to familiar with, while it made her uncomfortable she kept it under control by thinking about the Reapers and how this would allow her to go back into the field.

She nodded. “More sure then I was three days ago.” She said looking at him. “Do it.” With that Dr. Anderson pulled up his surgical mask and Dr. Grey who was there to assist slipped the familiar mask over her muzzle.

“Please count backwards from 100 Twilight, out loud.” Dr. Anderson said.

“100…99…98…97…96…..95………94……………….93……”Twilight blinked and she was lying back in the infirmary, her shoulder and side of her face hurt a lot.

“Twilight….how do you feel?”” She looked over at Dr. Grey who was seated beside her cot, she saw Dr. Anderson sitting beside the door. He stood up and made his way over to them.

“Hurts…a lot.” She said, her brain was slow.

“That’s normal after the surgery, it should dull as you get used to things.” Dr. Anderson said.

“Why can’t I see out of my left eye still?” She asked.

“Your cybernetics aren’t online yet, its normal procedure to wait till the patient is awake so we can know if anything is wrong.” Dr. Anderson said. “Are you read?”

Twilight nodded and e reached around behind her neck and pushes moved something and she felt a click. Pain shot through Twilight body coming from her eye and left foreleg and she couldn’t help crying out. “Remain calm, the pain is normal for when they come online, it will pass in a moment. “She heard Dr. Anderson say and after a few moments the pain subsided.

She slowly opened her eyes and blinked as she saw numbers scrolling across half her vision for a moment. She blinked a few times and they ended. Slowly she looked around the room, she could see everything just like with her old eye but yet it felt different at the same time. Slowly she looked down at the blanket covering her again and with her right hoof pushed it off herself to stare down at the metal appendage, it seemed Dr. Anderson had gotten some purple paint as the limb was purple and not grey as the other cybernetics were, it wasn’t an exact match to her coat but was close.

She slowly lifted her legs and moved it around a bit, it moved a bit faster then what she wanted and went further or not far enough but slowly she got the hang of it. She slowly moved her hoof in a circle and could hear the slight shirring of the legs servos work; she’d need to use a spell to make those be quiet. As she moved her new limb around she heard Dr. Anderson telling her that since she was so insistent on going into the field he had had the squad get military cybernetics rather than the civilian models he had in stock. She heard him say how durable they were and that they had increased strength so she could actually lift it as it weighed about 3 times as much as her old leg. As she listened to him explain she felt a smile start to spread across her muzzle, this would work this would work so very well in the field, she could keep the Reapers alive and with what Dr. Anderson as telling her, she wouldn’t have to worry about the Feds ever getting the chance to put her into a lab again. Oh the things she could do if someone even tried with just this one hoof.

Author's Notes:

Well Twilight got some field experience and the first of her cybernetics.

also I wonder if anyone will get the indirect reference I made.

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