Encrypted Transmission

The target is being sent out on a mission that will take some time, now is the best time to move in as she is less likely to get hurt if the those Helios Mercs are in control of the base when she returns as she will just have her Squad with her.

Don’t worry about the patrols spotting the Mercs; I’ll personally take care of them so they can come in from the north tunnel. Just make sure my Credits are in my account, I want to retire to a nice island south of the equator after this is over.

Once you have P438-29T I am out of this damn city….

Twilight slowly made her way down the halls of the base, she was being careful not to step on any of the bodies of her fellow rebels that lay in their own blood. After getting over the shock of finding their fellow soldiers dead and displayed like some horrible pieces of art Twilight had told them all to be quiet as they didn’t know if whoever did this was could still be on site. Desmond had cursed the Feds but Twilight had been quick to put that out by explaining the simple fact that the feds were a lot of things, but they wouldn’t string up a body and use it for target practice. The Feds were a lot of things, but they weren’t twisted, they’d have executed the Rebels yes but stringing them up is too far.

The first thing Nightmare had down was carefully make their way to the bodies in the middle of the room, Twilight had feared they had lost their entire command structure but the highest ranking soldier was a Lieutenant, the rest were lower rank and two of them were recruits Twilight had trained with when her magic was burned out. There wasn’t any reason to have executed them which lead Twilight to conclude that there was no reason they were executed for the same reason their fellow soldiers were hanging from the ceiling, they could.

After that Twilight had ordered Nightmare to split up, Hudson had tried to protest but Twilight had put a stop to that by explaining there could be survivors and that Nightmare could cover the base faster with less chance of detection in smaller groups. So she sent Desmond and Hudson to check on the Infirmary and Training Area, while Chekov and Rook 2 were sent to the Armory to both check for survivors and collect ammo that Nightmare desperately needed. Which left Twilight to check on the mess hall and the SHOP she had given strict order to maintain radio silence and to hold their fire unless they had absolutely no choice as stealth was key to their survival. After they searched their assigned areas they were going to meet in the command wing and sweep it as that is where either the enemy was or any surviving Rebels not in hiding.

And that was how Twilight found herself silently bushing the door to the mess hall open. She peered around the corner and saw bodies of soldier lying on the floor beside tables or slumped over the tables as they had been caught while eating. In one corner Twilight saw some tables over turned and after scanning for threats made her way to the tables. When she peered around the tables she couldn’t stop herself from sighing as she shook her head. There were about 5 soldiers and one recruit lying in their own blood behind the tables, their side arms lying beside them and dozens of spent brass mixed in with the crimson, a desperate final stand by soldiers caught completely off guard while eating.

Her ear swiveled towards the kitchen as she heard something and she raised her riffle as she left the doomed final stand and slowly made her way around the counter and into the kitchen. She carefully peeked over the counter but didn’t see anything. She started moving down the aisle stepping over knocked over food and cooking utensils. “Where are you…”She whispered as she looked for the source of the noise though being a sewer it could be a rat though the cook was very good about keeping them out of the kitchen.

There was the sound of a slide being drawn back behind her. “There you are, been looking all over for you.” Someone said behind her and Twilight looked over her shoulder to see a…human wearing only an armored vest, black cargos, boots and a black T-shirt under his vest while on top of his head rested a pair of sunglasses. And aimed right at Twilight was a pistol with a flashlight under it and a suppressor. “You’d think it would be easy to find a horse shaped alien but no, after we swept this base we learned that you weren’t even here.”

“Who are you, you’re clearly not Feds.” She asked.

“Well you got that right we aren’t those stuck up assholes.” The humans laughed. “As for who you are, that doesn’t matter, what does matter is our employer is very interested in getting you so if you would kindly drop the rifle and any other weapons you have we can get going.” The human smiled. Based on what he said Twilight’s theory had been correct as this was clearly a mercenary.

Twilight laid her rifle down and dropped her other weapons. “Now then come with me and we will get out of this—“ The mercenary was cut off as the cabinet beside him swing open and there was a flash of steel and the Merc stared wide eye as where his arm had be as everything bello the elbow had been cut cleanly off. Be opened his mouth to scream but was cut off again when a rebel dressed in an apron and with a fry cook hat plunged a butcher knife into his neck and pull it out, nearly decapitating the merc who dropped to the ground bleeding out in seconds.

The cook turned to face Twilight. “Sorry darlin’, kitchen is closed right now. “He kicked the dead Merc. “Got roaches.” He said and Twilight blinked at the man. In his right hand he held a meat clever and his left held the butcher knife. His normally pristine apron was now splattered with blood.

“What? How?” Twilight said in shock. Out of everyone she was surprised to see the cook as he was the only rebel that never wore a gun as he said it got in the way of cooking.

“Darlin’ when the shooting started I was in the kitchen, saw our boys try to fight back but it was for naught so I hid like any sane man would have done.” The cook said. “I’ve been in there for I don’t know how long but every time I thought they had left another one of them would come in to grab some of my food then leave. Then heard you and knew the cavalierly had arrived finally.”

Twilight blinked at the cook. “Well….not really cavalierly, just one squad. What happened here?” She asked.

“Don’t rightly know darlin’, was in the middle of cooking when these all black wearing rats burst in through the doors with their suppressed guns and started shooting everyone in sight. Our boys tried to fight but as I’m sure you saw they didn’t win but I think their shooting alerted the entire base cause shortly after that I heard gunfire echoing from all over the base. “The cook said then looked at her serious. “And before you go thinking I was a coward for not grabbing myself a gun and joining in two of those rats sat in the kitchen while the rest of them left for parts unknown.”

Twilight nodded. “Alright well as far as I can tell the way is clear behind me, the rest of Nightmare is searching other key areas of the base and I still have to search SHOP before meeting up with them at the command wing.”

The cook nodded and then stomped on the merc’s hand a few times till the finger broke and then grabbed the pistol from the mangled hand. “Well then let’s get going.”

Twilight nodded. “Oh yeah, what’s your name by the way?”

“Cook.”

“No your name, what is it?”

The cook looked at her. “My name is Frank Cook.”

Twilight blinked. “Wait, you’re actual name is Cook and you are the cook?” Cook nodded. Twilight sighed. “Of course it would be.” She picked up her weapons.” Ok then Cook, follow me.”

Twilight and Cook approached the door to SHOP. So far they hadn’t found any sign of other survivors but having found an unarmed Cook still alive had given Twilight hope that others were alive as well. When they reached the door Cook took one side and raised the suppressed pistol as Twilight took the other side. She nodded her head and wrapped the door in her magic before swinging it open then both her and Cook swept into the room guns at the ready.

Twilight relaxed as she saw the room empty. She scanned the room and paused as she saw there were three pools of blood on the floor by the door under the bodies of three more Mercs that was a good sign she thought as it meant there may be some Rebels hold up in the SHOP. “Cook check the back room, I’ll check for supplies I’ll keep an eye out here, be careful.” Cook nodded and made his way to the back room, disappearing through the EMPLOYEES ONLY door.

Twilight made her way around the counter as it was the only cover in the room and froze. Sitting slumped against the shelves that lined the wall, his formerly white shirt stained red, was Liston. The Pinkie like human sat in a pool of his own blood, from what Twilight could see he had taken over a dozen shots to the chest.

“No….” Twilight whisper as she stepped closer to the supply clerk’s body, a quick check proved her fears correct. Liston had long since died. “No no no…”She said as she looked at his blank face that she had never seen without some form of a smile on it. It was unnatural to not have a smile on it.

As Twilight looked at the body of her friend she noticed that the note pad he always carried and kept his notes in was partly sticking out of his suit jacket. Carefully Twilight took it in her magic and lifted it out and blinked as she read the cover. “FOR THE LITTLE PURPLE UNICORN” was written in a hand that clearly was barely holding the pen. Looking around the floor she saw Liston’s pen lying beside him where he had dropped it. Even after having been shot so many times the supply clerk had still managed to write a message for her. When she opened the notebook she saw it contain information he had managed to dig up on her concerning how she got there and how to get back. “Heh….even in death you kept your promise…” She said and had to wipe some tears from her eyes as she looked at the Pinkie like human who would never smile again.

She slipped the notebook into her saddle bags and as she took a step her hooves hit something and sent them rolling across the floor. When she looked she saw large shell casings littered the floor behind the counter. When she looked she noticed something held in Liston’s right hand she hadn’t noticed before. It was the largest pistol she had ever seen. Its nickel plated outside was polished to a bright shine and the grip was of some of the darkest wood she had ever seen. She carefully picked up the gun and looked it over, noticing an inscription in gold on the grip. PARTY TIME. “Hehe…you would have a gun called that….” She said smiling sadly at Liston before looking over at the bodies by the door. “Seems you took your attackers with you…” She couldn’t help but smile as she saw the Merc’s bursting through the door thinking to take the supply clerk unaware only to be greeted by the gun Party Time.

“You ok darlin’?” Cook said as he came around the corner and stopped when he saw Liston’s body. “Damn….out of everyone I thought that crazy son of a bitch would survive….”Cook said quietly.

Twilight nodded and put Party Time in her pocket dimension and wipe some more tears from her eyes before turning to face Cook, he was dressed in standard issue Rebel armor now and had a pack on his back. “Ready to go?” She asked and Cook nodded. Twilight took one last look at the Pinkie like human’s body before turning and heading for the door. “Then let’s finish our search then hunt these bastards down.” She said darkly. These Merc’s were going to pay, as was whoever hired them.

Twilight and Cook arrived at the tunnel that lead to the command wing. Twilight saw Desmond and Hudson were already there as were two medics, a couple armored rebel soldier, and three recruits armed with pistols and Mendez standing silently with his own pistol drawn.

“Somehow I knew you’d be just fine Mendez. “Twilight said smiling despite what she had found in SHOP.

“If you think some mercenary scum could ever hope to take me down then you don’t know me at all you big eyed freak.” Mendez said.

Twilight laughed despite herself and shook her head. “No I guess you are right. Is this everyone you could find?” Twilight asked looking at Desmond.

“Yes ma’am, most of our guys retreated into the tunnels once word came down the base was lost. “Desmond gestured with a thumb at the group of survivors. “They either got cut off or refused to leave.”

“Refused to leave?” Twilight asked in surprised and Mendez coughed. “Right, you wouldn’t leave the base to the Merc.”

“Damn right.” Mendez said.

“You find anything Sarge?” Hudson asked.

“I found Cook.” She gestured to the cook behind her. “And….”She swallowed. “Liston is KIA.”

Twilight saw everyone faces drop at the news. “Damn….that freak was annoying but he didn’t deserve that.” Desmond said.

Twilight nodded. “Anyone heard from Chekov and Rook 2?” She asked and everyone shook their heads. “Damn, we need to go check that wing to make sure that it’s—“

“Don’t need to do that, we are fine Sarge. “Rook 2 said as she joined the group followed by Dupo who was carrying a large duffle bag slung over his back and was armed with a semi-auto shotgun.

“Well that’s good but where’s—“Twilight was cut off as Chekov walked up to the group and dumped the body of a Merc who was bound and gag in the middle of the group. Judging by the Merc’s bruised face some one had beaten him into unconsciousness.

“I thought we may need one alive.” The PFC said simply.

“Yeah we came across that guy near the armory and Chekov just went to town on his face, even gave him a few good kicks to the ribs after he was out cold before dragging him to the armory.” Rook 2 said.

“My armory had mostly been cleaned out by these bastards but they didn’t get it all. “ Dupo said as he unslung the duffle bag and dropped it onto the unconscious Mercs body before opening it to revel full mags for the rifles and two SMGs. Night mare started to grab the ammo and the Medics received the SMGs as well as ammo.

Once everyone was resupplied Twilight lifted her rifle. “Well then, let’s find the rest of the rats and show them no one fucks with the PFDR and gets away with it.” She said and the group lifted then guns in a silent cheer before they moved for the command wing.

As Twilight had though the bulk of the Merc were held up in the command wing of the base. When the survivors came across a group of Mercs the only warning they had the rebels were there was when Twilight yelled weapons free a moment before the Rebels open fired on the invaders.

After that it became a moving fire fight though the command wing with the rebels staying on the move constantly so as not to risk penned in. Chekov lead the way with Desmond, Dupo and one of the other rebel soldiers right behind him. The medics stayed in the middle along with the recruits while Twilight, Hudson, Rook 2, Mendez and the other soldier covered the rear.

The Mercs put up a fierce fight but they didn’t know the tunnels like the rebels did plus the drive they got when they found one of their fellow soldiers dead in the hall and add the Unicorn with healing spells to deal with the injuries they sustained and the Mercs stood no chance.

Even with the advantages the rebels had the fight was hard and draining to Twilight doing so much healing as well as taking out Mercs that tried to flank them from behind. Despite the Twilight best efforts they lost one of the recruits as well as one of the rebel soldiers that had been found, but still after what felt like hours of fighting the last of the Mercs was found and eliminated.

That left just the Merc Chekov had captured and after searching all of the command wing it was learned most of their command was dead but they couldn’t find any sign of the General or Major Brigs. This lead Twilight to believe they had been captured which would make sense; the Feds would pay a lot of Credits for the two leaders of the rebel army.

It had been a few hours since the base was retaken, a few of the rebels that had fled into the tunnels had returned but there were still many missing though searching for them would have to take a back seat to re organizing what remained of the Rebels as well as find a new base. The rebels couldn’t risk using the original back up base as most likely its location as known as well. That left what remained of the officers to try and find a new base. This disorganization left Twilight with a golden opportunity she couldn’t pass up.

She made her way to the brig where the Merc prisoner had been tossed till the rebels could think what to do with him. As Twilight approached the private that was guarding the brig snapped to attention. “At ease private, I am here to relieve you.” She said and the private looked at her confused. “We’ve had a rough last few hours and it’s only going to get rougher, go get some rest, I’ll guard the prisoner.” She told him and he saluted and left.

Twilight waited a few minutes to make sure the private was well and truly gone before she unlocked the door to the small room that was the brig and walked in. The merc prisoner looked up from the chair he was tied to and smirked at her. “Oh look they finally decide to pay me a visit and they send the mutant horse, how cute.” The Merc said with a sneer.

Twilight looked at the man. “I am Sergeant Twilight Sparkle and you have some information I need.” She told the man calmly.

“Oh do I?” The merc mocked. “What you going to do? Stare at me till I tell you? Maybe hit me a few time to get me to talk? Bring it on.” The merc laughed. “I know all about you PFDR dipshits and how you feel about torture, hell even the Federal Army frown upon it for the most part.”

Twilight nodded. “That is true we of the PFDR don’t believe in torture but the way I see it, you have three things working against you.” She said

The Merc raised an eye brow at her. “Oh? What is that you little freak?”

“One, your group either killed or capture some good friends of mine. “She said calmly. “Two I am a very well trained medic and know everything about the human body. “Her horn lit up and the walls glowed for a moment. “And three, I just made it so no sound will be heard from inside this room.” She said with the same calm voice and the smirk slowly dropped from the Merc’s face as Twilight drew her knife. “Shall we begin?”

Twilight searched through what remained of the armory for any supplies that that may have been missed, I hadn’t been hard to gain entry to the cage as the door had been cut away and tossed to the side. She was on a time table if what the Merc told her was true and she had no reason to think he didn’t tell her everything in the two hours she spent with the man.

She was sure he had told her everything he knew right down to his darkest secrets. Twilight didn’t dwell on the fact that what she did to the man with both blade and magic had basically destroyed the humans mind to the point there was no way to fix it. She had been forced to make it look like he had managed to get free from his binding and hung himself to avoid talking. Twilight was a skilled medic, she had fixed his body exactly as it had been but even she can’t fix some one’s mind once it has been shattered so completely.

The thought that what she had done should be disturbing here never crossed her mind. She was focused on her objective and that was rescuing what remained of the rebel command. Without it they would fall apart and the Feds would just mop up what was left of them with ease.

“Damnit there has to be something here….” She said under her breath.

“Lose something kid?” Twilight froze as Dupo spoke from the door to the cage and she looked at him as if he had caught her as a filly sneaking a cookie from the cookie jar. He just looked at her impassively before walking into the cage and reaching under the counter and opening a draw. “You may need these” He said tossing her a few suppressors for her guns.

She blinked at him. “What?”

“A suppressor for your sidearm, rifle and that sniper you never turned in. If you’re going to sneak into a Fed compound you are going to need them.” Dupo said and Twilight blinked at the armory officer. “What? You thought someone wouldn’t figure out you’d go after the general kid?”

Twilight slowly nodded and Dupo took out a cigarette and smiled at her before lighting it. “Kid anyone who spends enough time with you knows you’d never abandoned your friends and everyone knows you and the General are drinking buddies. Besides you and I both know we need the general if we are going to survive this mess.”

Twilight slowly nodded. “Thank you.”

“Don’t thank me kid, I’m just doing my job as the armory officer and making sure kids like you have what they need for their missions.” Dupo said and blew smoke at Twilight. “Now if you don’t mind kid, get the hell out of what’s left of my armory.”

Twilight sighted down the scope of her rifle. She lined up the shot and squeezed the trigger once…twice…three times and watched the three Feds on the roof of the building dropped silently to the ground. She did a quick sweep to see if any other Feds were in a position to see her and found none.

With a nod she put the sniper back in the pocket dimension and lifted her rifle before teleporting to the roof. “Ok, now how do I…a will do.” Twilight whisper as she spotted a vent cover. Using her magic she undid the screws and pulled it off before she climbed in and replaced it.

Casting a silence spell on her hooves she began to make her way through the vent of the Fed compound that held what remained of rebel command. She was careful when passing other vent covers, making sure no one was looking at the vent before she passed. The vent was clearly not designed for someone to climb through which made sense, luckily Twilight was much smaller than the average human so I she was actually able to fit in the vent.

She had an idea what she was looking for she just needed to find it. She crawled through the vents for a while till she finally found what she was looking for.

She smiled as she peered into the security station. The dark room was dominated by multiple screens surrounding a large central screen. Sitting at two desks with terminals that controlled the systems this station commanded were two Fed technicians and no guards. Perfect~

With her magic she silent unscrewed the vent and lifted it away before she slipped down to the floor. Drawing her surpassed side arm with a smile. Two shots later and she was alone in the room. “Now then where are you?” She said as she started to flip through the security cameras, thankful for the map that was displayed on the computer monitor showing where the cameras were located. “There you are.” She smiled as she found her first target. “Now for the second.” After a few more minutes of flipping through the camera she found her second target and she was in luck according to the map he was near this room. She quickly memorized the map then pushed away from the desk. “Thanks for the help boys.~~~” She said to the two technicians piled in the corner in a drying pool of blood.

She climbed back into the vent and put the vent cover back in place before making her way to the nearest target.

Major Briggs dozed on a small cot in a relatively bare room. He was startled awake by the sound of metal crashing into concrete. He quickly rolled to his feet and came up in a fighting stance only to find himself staring down the barrel of an assault rifle wrapped in a purple aura. He looked behind the riffle and saw what he expected. “Ah Sergeant, you’re here good we need—“

“Shut up! I know it was you that let those mercenary fucks into the base.” The Sergeant yelled at him. “And since you are the one that let them in I can assume you are also the one that’s been telling the Feds where our soldiers were.”

Major Briggs blinked at the Sergeant. “What are you talking about, why would I—“

“Don’t bother fucking trying to lie your way out of this. We didn’t kill all the Merc’s and one of them gave it all up, how you personally killed the patrol in the north tunnel and how you fucking handed over the General on a silver fucking plate.” The Sergeant yelled and the rifle started to shake in her magic grip. Looking at her Major Briggs saw her armor had multiple bullet holes in it and her helmet had a few grazes on the side and strangely enough she had tears in her eye. In his professional opinion she looked like hell.

“Don’t bother hoping for Feds to be showing up, no one can hear us outside of this room.” The Sergeant said. “All I want to fucking know is why you fucking turned on us! What was it that made you fucking sell us out and get so many of your own soldiers killed!?” She demanded.

Major Briggs didn’t see any point in keeping up the charade as it was clear the Sergeant wasn’t going to buy it. “Simple, Credits and no jail time.”

The Sergeant blinked at him. “Credits? You threw so many of us to the wolves for fucking money!” She screamed at him.

“Oh come off it Sergeant have you see our base, it’s a sewer. Before that it was a hole in the ground. And no matter what we do, we never make any progress. “Major Briggs said. “unlike the others I saw the writing on the wall, we are either going to be locked in this cat and mouse game till we die of old age or the Feds will wipe us out. Unlike the rest of them I took steps to ensure I had a life boats for when the ship sank.”

The Sergeant just stared at him and Major Briggs could see the rage in her eyes, she wanted his blood. “I surrender.” He said and put his hands up.

“What?” The sergeant said.

“I am surrendering to you. I am a prisoner of the People’s Free Democratic Republic so come on take me back to whatever cell you have planned for me.” Major Briggs said. One thing he had to admit about the PFDR they were easy to manipulate thanks to that rule of not killing those who surrender.

“Ok, so great I can’t kill you as you are a prisoner.” The Sergeant said and Major Briggs couldn’t help smiling as he saw the rage be snuffed out, such useful ideals. Then a large smile spread over her face. “It’s a good thing when I found you, you attacked me then.”

“What do—“Was all Major Briggs was able to say before the Sergeant's knife plunged deep into his throat and she tore it free completely slitting his throat. Major Briggs stumbled back clutching his destroyed neck as she slide down the wall his vision already starting to go black. The last thing Major Briggs saw was the Sergeant climbing back into the vent and replacing the cover.

Twilight sparkle crawled through the vents, her first objective accomplished by eliminating the traitor now for her primary objective. It didn’t take her long to reach her last target was and a quick kick had her inside the cell. She dropped down and ran to the older human who was sitting in a chair, his hands handcuffed behind the chair.

“General Sir.” She said as she reached him. He looked up at her and Twilight could tell he had been beat severely either by the Merc’s or the Feds. His face was brushed one of his lips was busted, his left eye was swollen shut and Twilight was sure his nose was broken.

“Sergeant, what are you doing here?” He asked her, blinking at her.

“Getting you out of here sir.” She told him going around behind him, wasn’t time for her to try the lock picking Hudson had taught her so she just used her magic to break the cuffs. “Can you walk Sir?” She asked moving back around in front of him as the General rubbed his wrists and slowly got to his feet.

“Well enough Sergeant.” HE said and blinked when she shoved her side arm into his hands.

“Good. I got point sir, stay behind me.” She said unslinging her rifle and moving to the door.

“How are you going to—“The general was cut off as the cell door was wrapped in her magic and she narrowed her eyes. Then the cell door was torn from its hinges and she set it aside.

“This way sir.” She said and moved into the hall glancing back to make sure the general was behind her. Twilight readied her rifled and ripped the next door off its hinges, catching the Fed manning the desk on the other side by surprise. The soldier tried to stand but Twilight put a stop to that by bringing the security door down on top of him hard.

She made her way down the hall running through the map in her head. It shouldn’t take long to reach an exit if she had read the map right, she just had to worry about the general if they ran into trouble.

As if on que they rounded a corner and were face to face with a Fed who had been walking down the hall, twilighted needed to find Murphy and kill him. The Rebel soldier and the Federal soldier stared at each other. The Fed’s eyes flicked to the alarm button on the wall. “Don’t.” Twilight said he rifle trained on the Fed. The soldier glanced between her and the alarm again. “Don’t.” Twilight said through gritted teeth.

He went for it. Twilight fired and struck the Fed in the side of his chest causing him to turn slightly but he was still moving towards the Alarm. “Shit, it’s about to get loud.” She said a moment before the Fed’s hand smashed into the button.

Red light started to flash in the hall as an alarm blared. “Attention all personal intruder in the holding area, all Federal Army personal mobilize, commence full lock down.” A female voice over a PA system.

“Shit, time to run.” Twilight said before he and the General started to run down the hall as the sound of boots started to echo down the side halls.

They turned a corner and came face to face with three Fed soldier. Twilight raised her rifle and fired, killing two but before she could shoot the last one he lunched forward and wrenched the rifle from her magic.

Twilight launched herself at the Fed before he could raise his own rifle and head butted him in the stomach causing him to stumble losing his grip on his own rifle. Twilight chance a look back at the general to see him firing back around the corner at more Feds.

She looked back just in time to see the Fed she was fighting draw his combat knife and thrust it at her. She managed to side stepped him. She tried to trip the Fed bust he pivoted and dodged slashing with his Knife. Twilight barely ducked in time. She spun around and bucked the soldier in the stomach causing him to stumble backwards.

She drew her own knife and charged him. Before her knife could find its mark the soldier blocked it with his own blade and delivered a quick jab to Twilight face causing her to stumbled and lose her focus dropping her own knife.

She blinked the spots way to see the Feds’ knife coming straight down, she pulled her head back but wasn’t fast enough and the blade bit into the right side of her face and continue on causing her to cry out and stumble back. She knew he had gotten her eye because she couldn’t see out of her right side anymore, hell she couldn’t even feel it anymore.

The soldier move to stab her but his body jerked several time and he fell.

Twilight looked back and saw the general holding her rifle. “Thank you sir. “She said and cast a quick healing spell to stop bleeding and partly close the wound. Her eye was still fucked but there wasn’t time for a full heal as she could hear more Feds coming their way.

She picked up one of the feds rifles letting the general keep hers and together they ran for the exit.

After gunning doe the squad of Feds guarding the door Twilight sent the said door flying with a magic blast and ran out into the night air looking around with the one eye she did have. Damnit this was annoying having only one eye.

“There!” She yelled pointing at a large trucked pared nearby. The two rebels ran for it and Twilight jumped up and looked through the driver side window using her magi to unlock it. She opened the door. “I’m driving” She said as she climbed in and the General moved to the passenger side that she unlocked before dropping to the floor boards and ripping down the panel

After going over what one of the other rebels had told her, said he had been part of something called a “Chop shop” she got the truck running before sitting in the driver seat.

“Do you even know how to drive?” The general asked.

“I read up on it but you’re in no shape to do it. “Twilight said as she closed her door. She couldn’t reach the peddles with her hooves so she would have to use her magic. After a bit of gear grinding she got the truck rolling and floored.

Feds dove out of their way as she turned for the gate glad for the bullet proof windows as several Feds started to open fire on the truck before being stopped by the fellow soldiers.

“Why aren’t they shooting at us?” The general asked as he looked at the Feds heading for their own Jeeps.

Twilight looked out the back window. “Probably because this truck is loaded with explosives.” She said turning back just in time to crash through the gate.

“What?!” The General said looking at her with concern.

“Relax; I’m sure they won’t explode.” She reassured him as she pulled onto the road, the crates in the back shifting causing the truck to lift onto just the left set of wheels for a moment.

“You sure you can do this?” The general asked bucking his seatbelt.

“Relax I got this.” She said a moment before she side swiped a parked car and corrected the drifting truck and chucking nervously.

It wasn’t long before she saw the red and blue flashing lights of the Feds behind their truck as it sped down the street. “We got company.” She told the general who nodded. “Hold on!” She yelled before cutting the wheel sharply to the right to take a side street, the crates shifted again and threatened to drag the truck onto its side before it slammed back down onto all its wheels.

She saw the Fed jeeps took the corner much better than her truck did much to her annoyance and they were right behind them. “Federal Army, stop the truck and surrender!” She heard one of the feds say of their jeeps loud speakers.

“Fuck you. “ Twilight yelled back even though the Feds couldn’t hear her it felt good to respond. Twilight didn’t let up off the gas as the truck sped through the streets. Whenever she came across a civilian that had been out on a late night drive for whatever reason or other she made sure to hit the truck air horn so they would move, though a few didn’t move fast enough and she ended up plowing through them but she did try to miss. It wasn’t her fault she was being chased by a group of people who either wanted her dead or to put her back into a lab again and there was no way either of those were going to happen.

After taking several more sudden turns that nearly rolled the truck Twilight found them driving onto a bridge over a large river. On the far side she saw two Feds jeeps parked across the road and at least a dozen Feds in front of it, she also noticed that unlike the jeeps chasing the truck, these jeeps had turrets on the top, turrets current aimed at the approaching truck. She saw the Fed in the middle of the group wave his hand forwards and could practically hear the order to open fire.

The front of the truck was hit with a wall of bullets and Twilight desperately looked for a way to escape, the truck would be disabled before she reached the roadblock and stopping was not an option.

Suddenly a smile spread on her face. “Holds on!” She shouted at the general who gripped his door as Twilight jerked the wheel sharply to the right and headed straight for the guard rail. The massive truck rammed the railing at nearly full speed and with the sound of screeching metal tore through it.

Time seemed to slow down inside the cab as truck plummeted towards the river below, the only sound being the laughter coming from the mare behind the wheel with a large smile on her face and then the truck splashed down into the raging river below.

Author's Notes:

Wow this was a long chapter, I had planned to make what was in the base and the rescue mission two different chapters but felt they'd work better as one.

so much happened in this chapter, Twilight lost a close friends that reminded her of one of her friends back in Equestria.

we also leaned why when Pinkie said Party time it caused Twilight to become depressed as well as where she got one of her guns.

What Twilight did to that Merc speaks a lot about who she is becoming.

found the traitor and dealt with him, I wonder how many people suspected him.

and we see how Twi lost her other eye.

even got a little humor mixed into what in my opinion is a rather dark chapter.

think I'm going to do an Interlude after this as this is the end of a major arc in the story so that makes two arcs down and I wonder if anyone can guess what the next story arc will be about?

anyways hope you all enjoy reading this.