Personal Log
Doctor James Anderson
Begin Log:

Well Twilight seems to be taking to her new cybernetic leg and eye very well, she adapted very quickly to them and learned to control them in just a couple of day. Her alien biology is amazing I do wish she would let me run some tests but after the incident in the hall when I so much as mentioned my lab I know better than to ask, next time she might not stop.

So far my observation of her haven’t seem to shown any issues with the brain implants that I have noticed, though I haven’t known her long so I don’t really have a profile to work off of her, about the only thing I’ve really noticed is that she seems to swear a bit more than she did in our few conversations though that may be from her near death experience as humans have been known to become less inhibited after such events but honestly I have no idea about her alien psychology.

I’ve spoken with her squad and they have mentioned her swearing more and being more open to talking with them but that could still be from her just getting comfortable with them or the near death experience.

Honestly I have no way to know if the implants are affecting her psychology or not as I have no information on her. All I can do is observe and make sure she doesn’t become a danger to herself or those around her.

End Log

Twilight slowly opened her eyes and stared up at the ceiling and lights running past her. Where were they going? Didn’t they know it was scientifically impossible for them to go anywhere? Someone should tell them it wasn’t scientifically possible.

As she watched she noticed her head felt weird, as she focused on her she realized her helmet was missing, that wasn’t right she should be wearing it, the Reapers were in the field, why was it off?

As she thought about it she remembers Chekov pulled it off her head and then punched her hard in the face. Why would he do that, she was sure she hadn’t angered him and why was he crouching in the memory?

As she thought she tried to remember what the Reapers had been doing. They had been going out to recon some Fed activity again, same as before. It had been early morning, the sun just starting to rise.

As she watched the ceiling and lights run past she remembered that Sarge had stopped them as they made their way through a small clearing, they all had been watching the trees and then Sarge said something was off and that they should…something….he didn’t finished whatever he had been saying as Twilight heard a strange high pitched sound and a small hole appeared in Sarge’s forehead and the back of his head exploded.

Before she could react Raymond had yelled something about a sniper and then his head exploded too. Twilight and the other Reapers ran for the trees. As she neared the trees Twilight had heard a strange click under her right front hoof, a human probably wouldn’t hear it but her hearing was better than a human’s so she heard it clearly. She had just registered the click and then her right hoof lifted off the ground and then she was flying through the air a little ways and then she landed on the ground hard.

Shortly after that was when Chekov pulled her helmet off and punched her in the face because she was screaming for some reason.

She moved her head and looked at her Right front legs and was trying to figure out what was wrong with what she was looking at. After a minute she finally realized it was because the bloody bandaged were wrapped poorly around the stub that was there and the tourniquet was loose. That needed to be tight to stop blood flow. She used her magic to tighten it.

She then looked over and saw McKay was behind her and when she looked to her side she saw Chekov running alongside her, his LMG slung on his back so that meant Wilkson was in front of her. Why were they running? Were they late for a briefing? The Major and Sarge would be annoyed at them so it made sense to run.

They soon turned and passed through a door and Dr. Grey was standing over her saying something but Twilight couldn’t hear her, well she could but it sounded like she was under water and was very indistinct.

Why did Dr. Grey look so worried? Was she late for something too? But she was the lead Doctor, what could she be late for when she was the one in charge. As Twilight was trying to figure out why everyone was looking at her so worriedly her eyes started to get heavy. Dr. Grey seemed to be yelling something at her but Twilight couldn’t hear her, didn’t she know that? Twilight would need to tell her after she woke up but right now she was too tired speak, she needed to rest.

She closed her eyes as she thought she would need to make sure she woke up before Mendez showed up to wake her up as she didn’t want a face full of water today.

Twilight slowly opened her eyes, her head was pounding and she blinked a few times, why could she only see half the room, what was wrong with her left eye? She tried to lift her right hoof to see if something was over her eye but it wouldn’t move. She tried to see what was wrong but her body was stiff and she couldn’t see anything under the blanket. She was in the infirmary it seemed.

She felt a hand on her shoulder and she looked over to see Dr. Grey holding a piece of paper that said EASE NOW. Why was she writing it out? Why didn’t she just say it? Twilight asked her why and blinked, she couldn’t hear her own voice, her pupils contracted as Dr. Grey franticly wrote on the paper before holding it up. REMAIN CALM, EVERYTHING IS OK, AND YOUR HEARING DOESN’T WORK RIGHT NOW. DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED?

Twilight slowly shook her head and she saw Dr. Grey sigh before she started writing again. Not being able to hear or move was causing Twilight to have a mini panic attack.

Dr. Grey held up the paper. YOU STEPPED ON A LANDMINE; IT BLEW YOUR LEG OFF AND RUPTURED YOUR EARDRUMS. YOU NEARLY DIED AGAIN. Twilight blinked as she vaguely remembers a clicking sound but that was it. Dr. Grey held up the paper. YOU LOST A LOT OF BLOOD AND I COULDN’T STOP THE BLEEDING. DR. ANDERSON ARRIVED AND WE DECIDED THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE YOU WAS TO REPLACE YOUR LEG, THAT’S WHY YOU CAN’T MOVE, THEY ARE OFFLINE. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

Twilight nodded slowly, she had nearly died? To the pint Dr. Grey couldn’t save her and they had to augment her again? She shivered.

She saw Dr. Grey holding the paper. ARE YOU READY FOR THEM TO BE TURNED ON? With nothing else to do Twilight nodded. She saw Dr. Anderson walk over from where he had been standing where she could see and he reached to the same place at the base of her skull and she felt him do something and then felt the click and the pain washed over her body and she clenched her jaw tightly, she had been ready this time.

After a few moments the pain faded and she opened her eyes, the number danced in her vision again. “There we go that should do it.” She heard Dr. Anderson say and she blinked as she looked at him. “I’m assuming Dr. Grey didn’t tell you that we fixed your hearing while you were out so your hearing is also augmented and you won’t have to worry about being deafened by loud noises anymore.”

She blinked up at him and slowly pushed the blanket off of herself and looked at her metal hooves, she just stared at them. “What about the Reapers?” She said not taking her eyes off her hooves.

There was a long pause and Twilight slowly pushed herself up to sit on her haunches as she looked at the two doctors. “What is it?”

“Staff Sergeant Alex Grimm and Corporal Victor Raymond are KIA.” Dr. Gray said slowly. “The rest of them made it back, you the first one into the minefield so when they saw what happened they were able to avoid them and recover you.”

Twilight looked down at her hooves again. “Twilight, I’m sorry for your lose I know the squads are close. They are currently looking for replacements now though I’m not sure what’s going to happen to the Reapers at this point.” Dr. Gray said gently.” If you need to talk I’m always here.”

Twilight just started at her hooves, her steel hooves. She didn’t need to talk. No what she needed was the crush the Feds beneath her hooves. She understood what Chekov meant about Justice. She will get Justice for Grimm and Raymond and she would crush the Feds beneath her hooves. Dr. Grey and Dr. Anderson couldn’t see the wide smile that spread across her muzzles as she imagined crushing Fed soldier with just her hooves alone. Yes steel hooves where just what she needed.

Twilight trotted down the halls of the base, she wasn’t in her armor as Dr. Anderson recommended she get used to her new Cybernetics without. She had already enchanted them with a noise canceling spell that blocked the sound of the servos and made with where she doesn’t make clanging noise when walking across metal as that was fucking annoying.

She was currently making her way to Clancy’s office as he had requested she report there. She didn’t know why but it had been a couple of days since she woke up from her augmentation so it probably had to do with the Reapers. When she reached Clancy’s office and was admitted her theory was confirmed as Chekov, McKay and Wilkerson were there.

She walked up and stood beside her squad and salute alongside them. “At ease.” Clancy said and they all snapped into the same stance or as close as a quadruped could be. “I’m sure you’ve all figured out that you are here to talk about the future of the Reapers as a Squad.” Clancy said, none of the reapers said a word as they didn’t have permission to speak.

“Unfortunately there are no sergeants in need of a squad and all we have are fresh recruits so I have two choices. Either promote one of you or I break up your squad and fill the gaps in other squads.” Clancy said leaning forward, hands resting on his desk. “Frankly that last one is a bad idea as with the exception of Private Sparkle you have all been together for a long time and that sort of cohesion is not something I want to break.”

Clancy then leaned back in his chair. “Now I know McKay and Wilkerson have been together since boot so I’m not going to promote one of the other and Chekov I am very away of your thoughts on being in charge so...” Clancy reached into his desk and pulled out two small pins consisting of three chevrons each. “Congratulations of your promotion Sergeant Sparkle.”

Twilight blinked.” What?!” She couldn’t stop herself from blurting out before quickly recovering her composure.

“I know you don’t have much experience in the field Sergeant but you are the only out of the squad that can be promoted no matter how unorthodox it may be.” Clancy said calmly. “Besides you’ve already showed some skill as a leader on your first mission and I don’t think Chekov will mind being your acting second till you find one yourself.” Clancy said as he looked at Chekov. “Am I right PFC?

“No sir.” Chekov replied crisply.

“Then I think the matter is settled. You are dismissed.” Clancy said. The others started to file out of the room but Twilight remained. “Something on your mind Sergeant?” Clancy asked once the door closed.

“Yes sir, why am I the squad leader? I don’t have any experience leading troops into battle and I’ve only been on four missions and two of them ended with me getting a limb blown off.” She said “What in the name of Luna makes you think I can lead a squad?”

Clancy chuckled. “I must admit your curse are some of the most interesting I’ve ever hear.” He said and Twilight couldn’t help but stare at him flatly. “And what about on your first mission where you McKay and Wilkerson took out a much larger force by yourselves?”

“That was different; we had the element of surprise.” She said.

“True, but why did you choose to attack rather than report back to your squad leader?” Clancy asked.

“There wasn’t time, by the time we got back and explained the Feds would have been in position and attacked as soon as we tried to leave the hill.” She said.

“And that is exactly why I am comfortable letting you lead the squad.” He told her and she stared at him. “You made judgment call, you took command of the situation, calculated how long it would take you to get back vs how fast the Feds were moving, made a call and came up with a plan then executed the plan, all in the course of a few minutes.” He smiled. “You are a leader sergeant even if you don’t know it.”

Twilight sighed. “If you say so sir.” She said and turned to leave.

“Don’t forget these.” She heard Clancy say and when she looked he tapped his finger beside the two pins. Sighing again she picked them up in her magic and carried them out the door with her.

Out sound she found the former Reapers waiting for where, when the door closed they all three promptly pushed her left shoulder rather than her right as it was still sensitive from the surgery. The punched hurt a lot more when not wearing armor. “Congratulations sarge. Looking forward to serving under you. “McKay said then scratched his chin. “Though I guess we need to come up with a new name as we can’t be the reapers as your name is Twilight Sparkle so it doesn’t fit.”

Twilight could only sigh, she didn’t want to be the squad leader, she was just a medic with very little field experience, and how could she be expected to lead?

“Hey don’t be like that Sarge, we got your back.” Wilkerson said and patted her shoulder. That brought a smile to her face and she smiled up at the three humans, she could see in their eyes they were ready to follow her even if she didn’t know why.

“Thank you. “She said as she put the pins in her pocket dimension. She saw the three humans blink. What is it?”

“What did you just do with the pins?” McKay asked.

“I just put them in my pocket dimension till I get back to my room.” She saw them staring blankly at her. “Right no magic here. It’s a spell that unicorns can do that creates a small pocket outside space and time that they can access and story an infinite amount of items in that they can pull out whenever they want, it’s a very useful spell.” She said and the three humans blinked again.

“So….you basically have access to an infinites storage locker and you’ve been carrying around very little gear?” McKay asked looking at her.

Twilight opened her mouth to say something then closed it shortly before she facehoofed. “Yes, yes I have.” She said then ran her hoof down her face, how could she forget about the damn pocket dimension, it would be so useful for carry large amounts of supplies. Come to think of it she had a large array of spells that could be useful in the field if she got clever. As she thought about everything she could do and hadn’t been she sighed. “I’m a total fucking idiot.” She looked up at the three rebels. “Let’s go get some dinner and try to pretend I haven’t been a total fucking idiot the past few weeks.”

“Sounds like a plan Sarge.” Wilkerson said with a laugh and the four rebel soldiers headed down the tunnel together.

Twilight and the rest of the former Reaper were in the barracks playing cards like they usually did when Twilight had free time from training, Wilkerson acting as dealer like usual when the door open and the Rebel soldier looked up as two other humans walked in. The two Humans walked up to the four card player and saluted. “Let me guess, you are the rookies assigned to our squad?” Twilight asked.

“Yes ma’am.” Both the rookies said at the same time. Twilight looked over the two new soldiers. One was a male that from what Twilight could tell was average height and build for the rebels while the female solider was at least half a head shorter than the rest the soldiers Twilight had seen. Both soldiers were wearing the standard armor minus the helmets.

Twilight slipped off her chair and walked over to her two Rooks. She had her armor on but her helmet was on the table, pinned to her collar was the sergeant insignia, while she still didn’t think she should be the squad leader, she was so she would act it as best as she could.

She sat on her haunches before her new soldier and looked them over. “At ease.” She said trying her best to sound like Grimm. Both soldier dropped the salute and entered the normal stance everyone took when not saluting. “Well, suppose I should say welcome to the squad, we don’t really have a name as we have had some restructuring recently, as I’m sure you have guessed by the fact you two are here.”

“Yes ma’am.” Both said in unison. .

“Oh come on, relax, this is a meet and greet type of thing loosen up.” She said as she turned back to the table and took her seat as the two soldiers followed her over and took up positions around the table to watch. “So what are your names?” Twilight asked as she tossed some credits into the middle of the table.

“I’m Private Grove.” The male said.

“My names Rain… erm, Private Rain.” The female said sounding nervous.”

Twilight nodded.” Well welcome to the squad Rook 1 and Rook 2.” Twilight said already deciding the male was Rook 1 and the female was Rook 2. Both Soldiers looked at each other.

“Which one of us is Rook 1 and which one of us is Rook 2?” Rook 1 asked.

Twilight looked up from her card at them. “You’ll figure it out if you just pay attention.” She told them before going back to her card to ask for a hit.

The 6 rebel soldiers stood in the staging area. It had been about 3 days since Twilight became the squad leader and they met Rook 1 and Rook 2. What was different about this time compared to all the other times Twilight had been in the staging area was that there were two other squads with them.

From what she gathered the other squads were called the Bulldogs and the other was Old Boys. As was normal Major Briggs stood at the head of the room and once everyone was seated he began the briefing. “Alright, now that everyone is here I’ll start the briefing. “He said as he tacked up an image Twilight recognized as the Penton Armory, looked like the image was taking straight from the video Raymond had taken. “This is the Penton Armory. The Feds have increased security here and we want to know why.” He said as he looked at each squad leader.

“That’s where your squads come in. We are going to be launching a night time raid on the Armory to both find out what they are doing there and to cause as much damage as we can.” He said. “What we do know is that there are three times as many Feds on site and every 10 minutes a patrol drives by so expect heavy resistance. We have no real intel on how fast they could get reinforcements or what their strength will be so it’s recommended you conduct this raid has quickly as possible before reinforcements can arrive. IF there are no questions then gear up and move out.”

There were no questions so with a nod Major Briggs left the room and the Bulldogs, Old Boys and the former Reapers went over to the weapons table and started to grab what they wanted, Twilight grabbing extra ammo and storing it in her pocket dimension. She already had extra medical supplies stored in it. Twilight noted that Rook 1 grabbed a sniper rifle while Rook 2 grabbed the standard assault rifle. Once everyone was geared up the three squad headed out the door.

Twilight and the rest of her squad we on the same hill that the Reapers had used to observe the Armory before, her squad’s job was creating a distraction to draw the attention of the Armory guards so that the Bulldogs and Old Boys could then hit them and enter the Armory in the confusion.

The only problem was figuring out how to do their part of the plan without them all getting killed. “So any ideas Sarge?” Wilkerson asked lying beside her as they watched the Armory.

“No at this time, we could just start shooting but we would be overrun very quickly.” She said with a sigh, why was she in charge? She wasn’t cut out to lead people into combat. She went back to watching the armory, she knew by now the other squads were in position and most likely getting impatient as they had all been sitting there for over an hour.

Twilight sighed again as her eyes roamed over the Armory, how to do this where they all make it out alive. Her eyes drifted over the fence, the towers, and the buildings. Then her eyes slowly made their way up above it all. “Hey Wilkerson, what’s the weather supposed to be like tonight?”

“Uh….partly cloudy. Why?” HE told her.

A smile slowly crept onto her face. “I have an idea.”

A few minutes later Twilight looked down at the Armory from above, a large smile on her muzzle. All their defenses ready to defend from all directions, except one. She heard uneasy muttering behind her and turned her head to look at her squad shifting uncomfortable as they all stood on a cloud.

“How is this even possible?” Rook 2 asked looking like she was expecting to fall any second.

“I told you, I cast my cloud walking spell on your boots so we can stand up her and get a better look at the Armory.” She turned back to watching the Feds bellow. “And what a view it is.” She watched the soldiers move around on their patrols while the cloud the rebels stood on slowly drifted over the Armory, it had been about 45 minutes since she spotted a cloud that would work, cast the cloud walking spell then teleported them all up onto the cloud and they were almost directly over the Armory now.

“Hey Rook 1, trade me your Sniper Rifle.” She said turning back to look at the man.

“Ma’am?” He said in confusion.

Twilight rolled her eyes and spoke slowly.” Give me your sniper rifle.” Twilight used her magic to hold out her assault rifle and Rook 1 took it and held out his sniper which twilight took. “Now then I recommend you all clustering together.”

“Why ma’am?” Rook 2 asked.

Twilight smiled wide.” Because you lot are going down onto the roof of the Armory while I provide sniper fire from this cloud.” The Squad looked a there, McKay and Wilkerson had wide smiles on their faces, Chekov looked indifferent and the two Rooks looked scared shitless. “So get ready.”

The soldier slowly shuffled together, the two rooks being dragged close by the more experienced soldier and Twilight lit her horn. The 5 soldiers vanished in a flash of light and a moment later there was another flash of light in the middle of the Armory’s roof.

Twilight stood close to the edge of the cloud as she moved the sniper so she could aim straight down into the Armory. “And now the show begins.” She said lining up a shot on an unsuspecting Fed. While she had just started learning how to sue sniper rifles she had the basics down and she from this angle there wasn’t much chance for her to miss.

Once she was sighted and pulled the trigger and the rifle kicked in her magic and the soldier dropped. Twilight couldn’t help but laugh to herself as she watched the Feds start to scramble for cover, too bad they took cover to defend against an attack from outside the fence not above.

Twilight sighted and fired 4 more times by the tie her squad was in in position on the edge of the Armory roof and a moment later they opened fired and more Feds dropped as all their defense were to stop an attack from outside, not from the inside.

Twilight laughed loudly as she watched the Feds panic more and she sited another enemy solder and fired. After a few minutes and about a dozen more kills the Bulldogs and the Old Boys launched their attack catching the already panicked Feds completely by surprise. Twilight watched as the two squads cut their way through the Feds and the feds looked like they had no clue where to go to defend as they were being attacked from both within and without of the armory. “Nowhere to go little bastards.” She said with glee as she fired another shot and another Feds crumpled, a bullet going through the top of his helmet.

A manic grin plastered on her face Twilight fired more and more as the Bulldogs and Old Boys made it to the armory building and entered it while Twilight’s squad continued to cut down every black and white soldier in sight. When one of the armor jeeps arrived Twilight sited the soldiers that jumped out of it to back up their fellow soldier, only to drop as Twilights sniper fire rain down from the heavens.

“Run run run, you can’t escape my sight.~~” Twilight said in a sing song voice as she dropped another two soldiers that tried to run for cover from a sniper they couldn’t figure out where they were. After a few minutes the Bulldogs and Old Boys emerged from the Armory and made their way to the gate and headed for the trees.

Once they were clear Twilights squad retreated from the edge of the roof and clustered together. After empting her rifle again she reloaded and then turned from the edge of the cloud and caste the teleportation spell and her squad appeared before her. “Good work, I don’t think they know what hit them.” She said smiling proudly at them.

“That was fucking awesome Sarge.” Wilkerson said. “They were total caught off guard.”

“Yeah I pet they are going to have nightmares about how we just appeared from nowhere behind them.” McKay said.

“Nightmares…..hey how about that’s our name? “Wilkerson said and everyone looked at him, Twilight cocking an eyebrow at him. “Think about it, we are standing on a fucking cloud and just teleported onto the roof and back. Our sergeant can use fucking magic to do all sorts of things! “He said excitedly. “we are going to be a nightmare for the Feds.”

Twilight thought about it, about the panic her squad had caused to the soldiers in the Armory. Glancing over the edge she saw they were still panicking having no idea where to take cover. She turned back to her squad and smiled. “Sounds like a perfect name for us.”

Wilkerson did a fist pump. “Yeah! We are the Nightmare Squad!” He said triumphantly and Twilight couldn’t help but giggle at the rebel soldier’s enthusiasm about their new name.

“Anyways, group up, we need to go meet up with the Bulldogs and the Old Boys and return to base to report a total success.” She said and the soldiers grouped together and twilight caste the spell and they all vanished in a flash of light to return to base. Twilight looked forward to report they had suffered 0 casualties on her first mission as a squad leader.

Author's Notes:

So I had a lot of free time last night and today and the urge to write just hit me so....here's another chapter! Enjoy!

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