Soldier of Magic
Chapter 33: Chapter 22: Psychopathy
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Begin LogWell it seems the Commander found the computer bug I placed in their systems, I can think of only one way it was found and frankly it concerns me as the information I have on her she wouldn’t do something like that. My entire plan was based off of that information, I did account for some deviation caused by Frisk’s screw up but could it be possible that the deviation for the psych evil was greater than I anticipated?
If so then I am not sure what will happen once she gets here. All I can do is move forward with the plan in place though I have altered it slightly it’s the best I have so I will follow through with my End Game.
I am not sure which one of us will walk away from this but she will be coming for me with everything she has so the least I can do is return the favor, she has been a most interesting opponent and I am looking forward to meeting her in person.
Anyways I need to finish my preparation as she will be here soon, if I don’t make it out of this then I am going on record in blaming High Command for sending me after a target without giving me remotely correct information.
End Log
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The lobby of the Federal Press building was relatively peaceful this early evening, a handful of employees were chatting in the lobby about how the day had gone or about their prediction for the next day or chatting about the various article they are working on. All in all a typical end to a work day.
Till the group of people in dark green armor walked through the door. At first no one noticed the rebel soldier as they calmly walked across the lobby, guns held calmly aimed at the floor, if not for the armor it looked as if they were supposed to be there.
At the head of the group was a soldier shorter than the rest and could only be described as a purple horse carrying a SMG as she approached the counter with a completely friendly smile as she calmly rang the bell to get the secretary behind the counters attention.
When the secretary looked up from her computer her eyes threatened to bulge from her head as she recoiled. “Excuse me Mrs., where can we find Mark Erikson’s office?” The horse asked politely. “No we don’t have an appointment.”
“Ah….uh…n-ninth floor….southwest corner of the building…..t-take the….take the elevator.” The women managed to stammer out.
The Rebel soldier horse nodded politely. “Thank you, have a wonderful evening.” She said and the group turned towards the elevator as part of the group moved around the lobby. The horse reached out and pushed the elevator button. “Weapons check.” She called and the loud clicking of magazines being detached then reattached was like a trigger as the lobby exploded into screams of terror and the sound of running feet. By the time the elevator reached the ground floor the only thing left in the lobby were a few scatter papers, spilled coffee, the occasional jacket and the rebel soldiers.
The group of rebels stepped onto the elevator and the mare in the lead pushed the button for the ninth floor causing the doors to close as the two squads of rebels left in the lobby prepared to repel any assault.
It was a simple plan the rebels had, the commander had authorized the use of heavy weapons for the squads to use so they had a large amount of explosives and anti-armor rockets. The plan called for four squads to remain outside the front of the building to deal with Federal Army soldier that were sure to arrive, each squad had two anti-armor rocket launcher, anti-personal landmine and a few anti-tank landmines, plus some plastic explosive sprinkled around the street for good measure. Two squads would lock down the lobby with a mix of assault rifles, LMG and laser trip-mines.
The back entrance to the building was covered by three squads equipped like the ones from the front and two squads inside the building ready to hold incase the first line failed.
Two more squads would hold the elevators and stairways as a third line of defense while Nightmare would move on White Rabbit personally. As the elevator rose past floor after floor the Commander pulled a dark green case out of her storage locker and opened it setting it aside as she began to assemble the item housed within the hard plastic case.
On the ninth floor of the federal press building, outside the elevator slowly making its way up to the floor about eight men and women dressed in grey uniforms and armred with machine pistols took up positions in the hallway, weapons trained on the elevator, they weren’t part of the Federal Army but it was their job as security for the building to stop all intruders and that was their plan.
However when the elevator doors opened there wasn’t a single human inside of it, what was inside of it was a small automated turret that immediately started firing as it registered heat signatures in front of it and within seconds it ceased firing as all targets were eliminated. It was then that the emergency panel in the roof of the elevator opened and a unicorn mare dropped down to deactivate the turret while the rest of the rebels dropped down as well.
Once the turret was safely offline Twilight picked it up in her magic and walked out into the hallway and turned the turret to face the elevators before reloading it, once her squad was behind her she reactivated it, anyone coming up the elevators would get a nasty surprise, she was to worried about other rebels coming up as they had strict orders not to come to the floor that White Rabbit was on and if they did fall back to use any of the other floors.
Once the turret was silently sweeping from side to side Twilight turned towards the bodies of the Federal Press Security Team members, from the looks of it none of them had even gotten a shot off before being taken down by Twilight’s little surprise. “Think there will be more of them?” She asked Desmond
“Probably, I wouldn’t put it past White Rabbit to use them as well as who knows what else.” Replied her second in command.
Twilight nodded. “Well if they try to fight we eliminate them same as the Feds, if they surrender then we disarm them, knock them out, tie them up and stuff them in a closet to something, same for any civvies we find.”
Her squad nodded in acknowledgement of the order and they raised their weapons before moving down the hallway being careful of all the doorways that could hide any number of enemy forces. It didn’t take them long to run into more resistance when they rounded a corner what stood at the end of the hallway made Twilight stop dead. It was a Fed soldier that was for sure and had six other soldiers with him. But unlike any other soldier Twilight had ever seen this one was wrapped in extremely bulky that look like it made movement very difficult and in his hands was a very large gun that he held from the top and had aimed right at her. Twilight stared at the site. “The fuck is with this guy?” She asked a moment before Desmond yanked her back around the corner as the large gun spun up and sent a hail of bullets down the hall.
“The fuck is that!?” Twilight had to yell to be heard over the whine of the large fun.
“Heavy Trooper! They are deployed to defend high value area, they are a real bitch to take down due to their armor and the fact they use a minigun to spray anything that gets in their way!” Desmond yelled back.
“How do we take that guy down?!” She shouted back.
“Usually need to flank them as they can’t move very fast, that’s why they usually work in pairs or have a squad of soldiers with them to watch their backs, however in this situation I have no idea.” Her second yelled back before the gunfire ceased.
Twilight chance a peek around the corner and saw the six soldiers still advancing up the hallway while the Heavy Trooper remained at the far end of the hall minigun still aimed towards the rebels position. She quickly ducked back around the corner as one of the normal soldiers took a shot at her. “Well we are about to have some company but that heavy fuck is staying away.” Twilight told the rest of them and they all moved further down the hall a bit opening door and ignoring the terrified officer workers hiding inside as they took cover.
The Feds rounded the corner and opened fired as they took cover in other rooms as well as the hall. Twilight took aim at the nearest soldier and when he popped around the corner she squeezed off some round that caught him in the chest and staggered him back, it wasn’t a fatal shot as even with armor piercing ammo the SMG didn’t have the same stopping power as an assault rifle but Twilight wanted to save her magic for an emergency.
The injured Fed retreated around the corner while two of his fellows covered him. Twilight growled in annoyance as she ducked back around the doorway she was using as cover to avoid the oncoming gunfire. She could hear the rest of Nightmare returning fire and once the gun fire leased she stepped back out and opened fire with several bursts from her gun managing to down one of the Feds while two more went down from the rest of her squad.
She retreated back around the doorway to reload and tuned out the terrified whimpers of the two office workings pressed to the far corner of the copy room Twilight was using as cover. Once she had a fresh mag in she stepped back around the door in time to see the Fed she had injured had returned and she took the opportunity to finish him off as the other Feds were taken down shortly after that.
That left just one left and Twilight moved back to the corner and a quick peek proved the Heavy trooper was still at the far end of the hall and had moved at all. In fact his gun was spinning up, the unicorn barely jerked her head back in time to avoid having her face meet the same fate as the wall that the barrage of bullets were chewing up. “Any ideas?” Twilight asked her squad who looked back at her and shrugged.
“If we had an anti-tank rocket that could do some damage.” Rook 2 offered nursing a bleeding hole in her arm. Twilight sighed and grabbed the young women’s arm and used her magic to extract the bullet before healing the bullet wound.
“Well we might not have any rocket launcher but we have something just as good. “Twilight said tapping her horn as she charged up a spell. She quickly ran through a spell and let her horn charge. She waited till the soldier paused in his gun fire, most likely to avoid having to reload, Twilight was sure a gun like that took a long time to reload, before she jumped around the corner and let loose a magical blast. The spell struck the Heavy trooper square in the chest and exploded with the force of a rocker and sent him flying down the hall dropping his gun as the blast filled the end of the hall with smoke.
Twilight smiled. “There we go, that shoul—“Twilight was cut off as she was struck in the shoulder with enough force to send her spinning as the hall was filled with some of the loudest gunfire she had ever heard as the Heavy Trooper, the front of his armor shredded and smoldering, with a few places that had blood seeping out, stepped out of the smoke firing a semi-auto heavy pistol towards the rebels. He stopped when he reached his dropped minigun and holstered his sidearm before picking it back up. Before he had a chance to aim the rest of Nightmare came around the corner and unloaded their magazine into his chest. His damaged armor didn’t take long to fail and the bullets found their mark, burying themselves deep in the chest of the soldier inside to armor and he went down.
Twilight lay on the ground clutching her bleeding shoulder. “Ok…that fucking hurt…”She said before using her magic to extract the bullet and head the wound. She got back to her feet and glared at her second. “You did fucking tell me he had a fucking Desert Eagle as a backup!” She said waving her hooves above her head in annoyance.
“Sorry ma’am slipped my mind on account of being shot at.” Desmond replied and twilight rolled her eyes before picking up her dropped SMG.
“Whatever, let’s get moving before more of those assholes show up.” She said and the squad started to move down the hallway.
They made their way down the halls till they started to pass by a door, the word of the door caused Twilight to pause. “Hold up. “She said and pointed at the door. “We are taking a pit stop here.” She said and the other rebel soldiers read the single word on the door SECURITY. “We can get a look at what’s between us and White Rabbit.” She said.
The rest of the soldier nodded and Hudson took position to the side of the door, hand on the doorknob. Twilight counted down on her finger as the other got read to rush the room. As soon as her last finger dropped Hudson opened door and pun through it, only to come sailing back out and crashing into the door across from it with a grunt of pain before crumpling to the floor.
Twilight looked from the downed PFC back to the door just in time to see the largest human she had ever seen step out of the door, the man wore the grey uniform of the Federal Press Security Team and from Twilight best guess was almost sever feet tall and looked like fucking vending machine with a head!
McKay was too close to ruse his rifle so instead he drove the butt of his rifle into the titanic humans back, it did about as much as one would expect. The giant turned to face McKay and before the soldier could do anything her was picked up and thrown like a rag doll into the rest Nightmare, twilight only avoided it do to her shorter stature and by ducking.
She raised her SMG but the security guard backhanded her and sent her spinning, her gun going flying from her grasp. She shook her head to stop the world from spinning and barley rolling out of the way as the guard delivered a devastating punch to the space on the floor he had been occupying, his hand actually going into the floor slight and Twilight got a look at his hand. They were they gray color of steel which meant they were high grade cybernetic, just great.
She rolled to her feet and took a fighting stance as the guard stood back up to his full height and smirked at her. “Hehe, tiny horse wants to play eh? Okay let’s play” He said and charged her. Twilight side stepped him and deliver a hard strike to his kidneys causing him to grunt in pain before he whorled around to face her, only to receive a swift kick to a place no male want to be kicked, causing him to double over in pain. Twilight used the opportunity to deliver an upper cut that sent the giant sprawling.
Before Twilight had much of a chance to really celebrate anything the colossal human climbed to his feet and stared at her with pure rage. “I’m going to break you bitch!” He roared with a slightly higher voice and before Twilight could do much he grabbed her by the horn and hauled her into the air, she gritted her teeth at the massive amount of pain her horn was sending to her brain as the human grab her tail and lifted his knee intent to keep his promise and break her over it.
Before he got the chance all of Nightmare tackled him and caused him to drop Twilight as he stumbled back. “AH fucking pests!” The giant roared as he put his hands together and swept them across them to the side kicking the smaller humans to the side as if brushing leafs off of his uniform. The soldiers sailed through the air and crashed down hard. “Ahh…the fuck they feed this guy? Steroids?” Rook 2 managed to say from the heap as the giant turned to face Twilight once again who had gotten to her hooves and deployed her blades.
The vending machine charged her with a roar arms raised and Twilight barley jumped to the side in time to avoid the bone shattering blow as he brought his arms down and crushed the floor where she had been. The mare took this chance and slashed, her blades slicing through the cybernetic joint at the humans right shoulder causing him to cry out in pain and stumbled back.
“You fucking bitch! I’ll kill you!” The human roared at her before looking at the glass case to his left and smashed his remaining hand through it and pulled out the fire axe housed inside. Twilight readied herself as the now armed human charged her swinging the axe at her, she jumped back and the axe buried into the wall. With a heave the giant pulled it free and swung the spike on the other side at the mare’s head, Twilight brought up a fore leg and blocked it with a load grunt, even with her upgrades the blow nearly drover her to the ground and it hurt like hell. Before the giant could recover Twilight slashed out and separated him from his remaining arm which fell to the ground still holding the axe.
The giant looked at his now armless side and turned back to face the mare only to be staring down the barley of her sawed off. The giant rolled at her a moment before she pulled the trigger and his head vanished in a spray of red mist and his body crumpled to the ground.
Twilight rolled her shoulder of the limp she used to block the giant humans attack, it hurt like hell but was slowly going numb, and that was both good and bad. After that she walked over towards her squad that was untangling themselves from each other. “Is it over?” Rook 2 asked as she got to her feet and Twilight pointed at the headless body. “Ok good, let’s not face someone like that again.”
“Agreed.” Everyone said at the same time before moving to pick up the guns, Chekov helping Hudson to his feet as he was still stunned from being thrown against the door before they entered the security office. As they approached the main computer words appeared on the screen.
AH I SEE YOU BEAT THE SECURITY CHIEF, BRAVO, HE WAS NOT A MAN TO EASILY GO DOWN. THOUGH SADLY I CAN’T LET YOU USE THIS EQUPIMENT TO SPOIL ANYTHING I HAVE SET UP.
And with that all the equipment in the room made electronic pops and went out while Twilight felt a tingle around her cybernetics. “Son of a bitch just EMPed everything.” Desmond said with annoyance. Well that explained the odd feeling, Twilight now knew her the EMP shielding was working in her cybernetics.
“Let’s move on.” She said raising her SMG and heading back to the hallway. They ended up running into more security guard that, though brave in their efforts, failed miserable to stop the rebels or give them much pause, they weren’t exactly trained to fight well-armed and well trained soldiers after all.
“You know I almost feel bad for these guys.” Hudson said as they finished doff the last of the guards in the hall.
“Don’t.” Twilight said flatly.
“Hey I said almost. “Hudson said as they reached their destination, the officer of Mark Erikson.
The rebels checked their weapons before Hudson pulled out the one breech charge they brought and placed it on the door, Nightmare formed up beside the door and Hudson counted down before he hit the detonator and the charge went off. The door was blown clean off its hinges and Nightmare swarmed into the room reading for whatever defenses White Rabbit had for them.
Twilight blinked as all that was in the room was a desk, a computer and White Rabbit himself. “Ah, I see you made it Commander, can I get you anything? Tea perhaps?” The human asked politely.
Twilight glared at him and raised her SMG. “How about a bullet through your head.” Twilight replied but before she could pull the trigger White Rabbit moved faster then she thought possible and she saw a glint of something fly through the air and strike Chekov in the head. Time seemed to slow down for Twilight as the LMG wielding human fell back, the hilt of a throwing knife sticking out form his fore head. Twilight watched with wide eyed horror as his body hit the ground. She screamed as she turned to face White rabbit and squeezed the trigger, but all her bullets were blocked by the large desk sailing through the air at the group. The only thing that save Twilight was Desmond tackling her to the ground as the rest of Night mare dove out of the way, all except McKay who had been in the middle of the group watching the door, He turned just in for the full weight of the desk to crash into him before both he and the desk smashed into the wall.
Twilight shoved Desmond off of her in time to see White Rabbit leap over the desk faster than any human she had ever seen and disappear down the hall. She quickly got to her hooves and with her magic yanked the desk from onto of McKay and tore her Med-kit from her storage locker. But before she could do anything her vision went from listing off everything wrong with the soldier to registering DECEASED.
“No…..No no no no nono” She said over and over as she rolled the PFC onto his back and started CPR. He couldn’t be dead; she couldn’t have gotten him killed as well, no not again. She continued chest compression. She ignored the sickening sound his chest made as she tried to revive him, she ignored that her medical scan had said his ribs had been shattered. She wasn’t going to lose him, no another one, they weren’t dying under her command.
Before she could continue arms were pulling her off of McKay and restraining her.
She struggled, she wasn’t going to lose him, and she wasn’t losing another soldier under her direct command.
A hand slapped her cleanly across the face and she blinked stunned. She slowly turned back to see Desmond standing over her while Rook 2 and Hudson held her arms to keep her from McKay.
“He’s gone commander, there is nothing you can do.” Desmond said. He was right, his injuries were too extensive, she knew that, how could she not know that? She was a doctor, she knew there was no way to revive him from the injuries he had. She looked over at Chekov’s body, nor him. They were dead. He original squad was dead. The Reapers were dead.
No….no they weren’t…..not all of them….she was still alive….and she was a Reaper, the last Reaper. White Rabbit had tried to hurt her by attacking her old squad and there by oldest comrades, he tried to eliminate the Reapers once and for all but she was still there.
Yes….she was still there….the Reaper lived…..and the Reaper was going to make White rabbit suffer for what he had done.
She pulled herself from the two Nightmares holding her as she pulled her helmed off and dropped it on the floor; it was in the way and needed to me removed. She looked back at the three Nightmares and spoke in a voice cold and empty of all life. “No matter what happens…you are not to leave this room.” She told them as purple flames slowly ignited in the corners of her eyes.
The Nightmares backed up a few steps having never seen this before. “Um…Yes ma’am….what….what are you going to do?” The corporal asked.
“I’m going after White Rabbit; do not leave this room under any circumstances.” She reiterated before walking out the door.
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The halls of the Federal Press building echoed with the sound of gunfire as Federal Army soldiers and Federal Press Security back peddled and fired franticly at the thing walking down the hall towards them, behind it lay body after body of soldier and security team alike all torn to pieces. The soldiers and Security were fighting a desperate battle to stay alive, one they were losing as evidence as one of the soldier was wrapped in a dark purple glow and summarily torn in half as the creature they were shooting stepped out from around the corner.
Reaper surveyed the hall before her; she barley registered the bullets striking her shield as the creatures in her way tried to stop her from finding that which she sought. One tripled as it ran and before it could get to its feet black crystals shot from the floor and impaled it and Reaper continued to walk casually past it, she could hear it gurgling as it struggled to breath and gripped the crystals impaling its body.
Once it was out of ear shot reaper forgot all about its existence as she turned her gaze to the next creature in her way, she was vaguely aware this one wasn’t dressed like the others and didn’t seem to be armed but none the less it was in her way so she liquefied its heart as she walked.
As she passed by a window a flash of light caught her eye and she looked out to see a fire ball rising into the air from was used to be a tank sitting in the street below. The street was full of burning vehicles and more of the black and white creatures fighting with dark green soldiers. She tilted her head to the side finding it slightly odd that the creatures were fighting each other and was tempted to flood the street with fire and kill them all just in case they tried to stop her but ended up deciding against it as they were too far away to be any issue right now.
A small metal object bounced off her shield before it exploded and it drew her attention to the group of armored creatures at the end of the hall behind some sort of barricade. Reaper frowned and a moment later that end of the all exploded into fire that consumed them all and she watched them flail in a vain attempt to put themselves out as she walked forward. By the time she reached that end of the hall they had all stopped moving and she stepped over the bodies.
On and on she walked as more of the creatures got in her way, the black and white ones, the grey one and the unarmed ones wearing suits and she killed all of them but not instantly, no she made sure they would be alive for a few moments as punishment for getting between her and her prey.
She turned a corner and saw a large armored creature wielding a large weapon that began to spin as soon as it saw her. The force striking her shield actually managed to give her pause as it held her in place. This creature dared to stop Reaper? It needed to be punished severely for causing her to pause.
Dark crystals shot from the walls around it and impaled it in place, though not enough to get through its armor but enough that it could move, a small magical blast destroyed its weapons and it tried to draw something from its hip. Reaper took its arm in her magic and twisted it completely around, shattering the bones in its arm resulting in a muffled scream from the armored creature.
That would serve as a punishment. Slowly Reaper began to break the creature’s bones one by one, each bone shattered produced a scream from the armored creature but she did not stop till she reached its head. She raped its helmed head in her magi and squeezes. The helmeted collapsed into a small ball and Reaper walked past the hanging creature.
It was not long till she reached a set of stairs that lead to the roof; the tracking spell Reaper had been following told her that her prey was on the roof. Between her and the stairs stood six grey creatures, seven black and white creatures and two new black creatures. They all started firing as soon as she rounded the corner.
Reaper set two on fire, tore the skin from a grey creature, cooked one of the black and white creatures in its armor, and caused dark crystals to form around the hearts of half of what remained and the last ones she speared with magical blasts.
She stepped over the bodies and paused. She looked back down the hall; her bray was just up these stairs but what if more of the creatures arrived to interfere? She couldn’t have that, but how to keep from being interrupted?
Reaper glanced over the bodies of the creatures and slowly she began to cast a spell she knew. She had a vague memory of a large White creature telling a small purple Student of this magic and that small student researching it out of curiosity before being found by the white creature who had been upset, causing the student to swear to never use the spells.
But Reaper made no such promise. As she finished the spell small black tendrils left her horn and extended to the bodies before her, as each tendril touched the corpses they began to twist and spasm by the time the last one was touched the first of the bodies sat up and opened their eyes filled with a sickly yellow light.
Slowly they got to their feet one by one and made their way to stand before their master. “If anything enters this hall it is not to get past you.” She told her small undead army who growled in acknowledgement before either retrieving their weapons from the ground or drawing the ones on their hips and turning to face the hallways.
Reaper saw no point in giving them knowledge of basic tactics, none of the creatures she had fought would be able to bring down the undead soldiers unless they were extremely lucky and even then they would be completely overrun by the others.
Once she they were all armed Reaper turned and walked up the stairs knowing nothing would interrupt her. She got to the top of the stairs and tore the door from its hinges before walking out onto the flat roof topped with an array of antennas and a Heli-pad.
In the middle of the Heli-pad stood her prey. She could see now that both his legs and arms were cybernetic like her own which explained the speed and strength. She walked up the small stairs that lead up to the large raised platform.
“Well I see you made it Commander, I must admit, the purple flames are new and unexpected.” Her prey said. A moment later the platform was bathed in light from search lights mounted on the underside of four flying machines that were the same color as the black and white creatures.
The machines send trails of smoke towards Reaper that exploded against her shield. More and more where sent towards her till the area she had been standing was nothing but smoke.
When it cleared Reaper stood unharmed inside a dome of dark crystal reinforcing her shield. She collapsed the crystals and looked up at the offending machines that dared to try to interfere! With a simple thought she tore the tails from the machines and watched them spin out of control disappearing beneath the roof shortly before there were four loud explosions.
Her prey stared her in bewilderment and took a step back; Reaper could practically taste the fear emanating from him. She took a step forward and then he spoke and everything stopped for Reaper.
“The Federal Army is going to invade Equestria.”
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That did it, the commander stopped in her tracks and the purple flames disappeared from her eyes. If High Command ever learned he used classified information as a fall back plan he would be liquidated on the spot, as is he wasn’t supposed to know about that information anyways but labeling something top secret is just asking for an intelligence officer to dig for it.
“No….no….they can’t…..Equestria doesn’t have any defenses for them….they can’t invade….they wouldn’t stand a chance….” The Commander mumbled as her eyes were clearing seeing into a world only she saw. White Rabbit used the distraction to slowly make his way around the Heli-pad so he wasn’t in front of his target in case she snapped out of it.
HE hadn’t expected her to destroy the gunships so easily but then he didn’t expect her to make it through the Federal Army forces down below so fast or to show up with purple flames in her eyes, he had no information on that so didn’t know what to expect and he hated unknowns. Whoever compiled the dossier on the Commander was going to be getting a visit from White Rabbit as they really screwed up and put him in a very dangerous situation he had little control over, if any.
Once he was behind the mare he drew one of his throwing knives, she was still mumbling about her home land being invaded and this would be his only chance to bring her down. With speed attributed to his cybernetic limbs he threw the knife for the back of her neck, it flew true but inched from hitting its mark it stopped in mid-air wrapped in a purple glow. Damnit.
The mare lifted her head and tilted it back slightly to look over her shoulder at him and White Rabbit froze as he saw the smile on her face. “Oh…don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about you~~~~~” She said in the most innocent and childlike voice White Rabbit had ever heard and it chilled him to the bone. The flames reappeared in her eyes and he took a step back, or tried to, he couldn’t lift his feet. Looking down he saw they were encased in some sort of dark crystal and try as he might he couldn’t pull them free.
He looked back up to find the Commander mere inches from his face with the same disturbing smile on her face causing him to try and jump back, which just resulted in him falling on his ass do to his feet being stuck to the ground.
“Awe, you fell down, I hope you aren’t hurt.” The commander said in mock concern. “You have extensive cybernetic augmentation I see.” She said as she looked him over. “There is just one small thing I see that is normal. “ She said and White Rabbit got to his feet and drew another knife, unable to move or not he still could fight.
The was a pain in his chest and the sound of breaking bone sand suddenly his heart ripped through the skin wrapped in a purple glow and stopped, hovering in front of the Commander as she inspected it.
White Rabbit gasped and fell to his knees as the crystals around his feet dissolved. “Wow this heart is very healthy.” She said and looked at him. "You must take very good care of yourself.” She said and White Rabbit watched as the magical field crushed the organ into paste. “Oopsie, I don’t think it’s healthy anymore. My bad~~~” She said as she left the paste drop.
White Rabbit was trying to draw another knife having dropped the other when she tore out his heart but he was having trouble gripping the blade as his vision was filling with black. Then all at once his vision began to clear and he could feel his blood moving again. He gasped as feeling returned to his body and looked at the mare before him to see her horn lite in a magical glow as she stared at him. “Don’t worry, I’m a medic, I can make sure you stay alive!” She said cheerily as she took a step towards him with the same smile that had yet to falter.
“You’re insane!” He told her and she paused.
“Now, now that’s not nice to say to the mare that just saved your life.” She pouted, actually fucking pouted at him. “Sadly we don’t have much time to play so we will have to make this quick which is a shame as I had so many fun ideas~~~~” She said the smile returning as she stepped toward White Rabbit once more.
The last coherent thought the intelligence officer had was to curse High Command to hell for sending him after this monster completely ill prepared to face her.
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Commander Twilight Sparkle walked down from the rooftop of the Federal Press building, she had just finished white her twenty minutes of play time with White Rabbit, shed have liked more but she had to get back to her squad before they came looking for here and that would be awkward on many levels.
As she reached the bottom of the stairs she saw the undead soldiers she had left behind, one of them was dead again while most of them were filled with bullet holes and they were scattered all over the hall ways, scattered around the hall were fresh bodies that either had been shot with way more ammo then needed or had simple been torn apart by the undead soldier she left behind, most of the new bodies were Feds while a few were Security and the one nearest the single dead undead soldier was a Black Ops, leave it to one of them to actually manage to take down a walking corpse.
As she stood there the undead soldier walked over her and stood before her awaiting more orders. “You did very well.” She told them. “I am very proud of you.” They just stood there, their simple minds not understanding praise. “Now you may rest once more. “She told them as she ran through the counter spell, when she was finished the light in their eyes faded and they crumpled to the ground dead once more.
Twilight looked over their handy work, she only vaguely remember having created the undead soldiers, the time between the officer and the roof was just random images with no context but that didn’t matter, she had reached her destination without much issue.
As she walked past her former undead army she couldn’t help knowing Celestia would be very disappointed in her for breaking her promise, but the thing about that promise was that it was made by Twilight Sparkle the Student, not Commander Twilight Sparkle the Soldier and besides, what Celestia didn’t know, won’t hurt her.
As Twilight retraced her steps back to the officer she had to admire her work, it was nothing but a trail of destruction, blood and bodies. She did pause when she came across the first civilian body, she had nailed them to the wall with dark crystals and she paused to look at it, the officer worker had a look of supreme fear and pain frozen on his face and while Twilight knew she wasn’t supposed to harm civilians she had to admit….seeing them like this brought her joy and…pleasure. Yes that as what that feeling was. She found what she had done to the civilian very enjoyable. What that said about her mental stay she didn’t really care, she was too busy enjoying the art she had made.
After admiring it for a few moments more she turned and made her way down the hall, she had places to be and things to do so she couldn’t only enjoy her art in passing.
It didn’t take her long to reach the office that the Rest of Nightmare was holed up in and when she walked in she found Chekov and McKay’s bodies had be moved to the side of the room and they had been stripped of ammo and weapons. Twilight paused as she looked over them, while she was sure she could bring them back they wouldn’t be the same and the rest of Nightmare wouldn’t understand.
“Commander, what the hell happened out there?” Hudson asked as he got to his feet when she walked in. “We could hear a lot of gunfire and what sounded like screams.”
Twilight looked at him. “Just a few Feds and Security people that White Rabbit had in place to try and stop me. It failed.”
“And White Rabbit?” Desmond asked.
“Dead. Mission is complete.” She said. “He also gave me some useful information that I want to look into. “She said as she lifted the desk back onto its legs and moved the computer back onto it, luckily it still worked as she turned it on. “Once I confirm something we need to fall back as our forces outside are in danger of being overrun.”
She began to type on the computer once it was on opening up the files and using the passwords she gained from White Rabbit to get into the hidden files.
Once she her desire file open she read it over, and there exactly as he had said were plans for an invasion of Equestria to gain control of magic, it listed threat levels with the Princesses being the highest threat, key locations to gain control of, what sort of resistance was expected, how to counter that resistance, everything. It was the entire playbook for a swift takeover of Equestria and her neighboring nations. This could not be allowed to happen.
“How did you get into the files?” Rook 2 asked from her side.
“White Rabbit told me how to access the files as a distraction, it nearly worked.” She said, not a completely lie, but not the complete truth either. She looked over all the files on the computer, all the dirty secrets of the Federal Army right there in front of her. She began to type.
“What are you doing?” Desmond asked watching her. “This is a large amount of the Federal Army’s dirty laundry, and we are inside the biggest news agencies office right now, so I am going to broadcast all of this across the country to every citizen.” She said as she typed, it didn’t take long for a progress bar to appear and quickly fill to confirm the information had just been sent out over every Federal Press line of communication and to every single person in the country. It would be up to them to decide whether to believe it or not.
Once it was done twilight pushed away from the desk and grabbed her SMG from the floor and looked as Chekov’s LMG before she moved it into her storage locker alongside Rook 1’s sniper rifle and it was followed by McKay’s assault rifle. “Let’s move out.” She said heading for the door.
Next Chapter: Interlude: The Hive Estimated time remaining: 3 Hours, 16 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Ladies and Gents, meet the mare that is walking around Equestria unsupervised and with her own army.
Also what she did as Reaper is not something she can normally do, it takes very specific circumstances to trigger that, it's basically a manifestation of her Insanity completely unchecked by what remains of her Sane self so don't expect her to be having that level of power again if ever.
Also this would have been out the same day as Chapter 21 but Real life kept interrupting me.
Edited by: Astro-Mancer