Distress Call from Fort Helstien, 250 miles east of city of Calten:

Mayday, Mayday, This is Major Thompson acting commander of Fort Helstien requesting immediate reinforcements. I say again we are desperately in need of reinforcements. Our soldiers have gone rouge, I say again our soldiers have gone rouge and are rounding up all of the command staff and executing them on the parade grounds.

We need help here! Surviving command staff and troops still loyal are holdup in the admiration building but we are outnumbered and running low on ammunition. I don’t know how long we can hold out; send help as soon as possible.

*A loud explosion is heard followed by the sound of gunfire and yells*

Oh god they’ve breeched the building, I say again our defenses have been breached Send help now!

*The sound of a door being kicked in is heard followed by an unidentified voice*

DEATH TO TYRANTS!

*Gunfire is heard and the radio goes dead in a blast of feedback*

Twilight Sparkle stood in an abandoned apartment overlooking one of the main streets of Calten. Down below a Fed convoy was just moving onto the street. It had been a month since White Rabbit had been eliminated and the government’s dirty secrets were brought to light and since then much has happened. The biggest being the entire country was now at war with itself between the Federal Army still loyal to the governments, and the various Rebel groups that have formed all vying to take control. While there were many Factions now the People’s Free Democratic Republic was the most well organized and equipped do to being around far longer than the others.

As such many people from Calten joined up with them as did some soldier from the base outside of the city though the base still was under Federal Army command. There were of course those who did not believe the evidence before them and thought it was just Rebel lies so they either joined the Feds or stayed out of the fighting just trying to stay alive. Regardless of the peoples choices though the City of Calten was for all intent and purpose a war zone now.

Entire neighbored hoods had been burned to the ground, the unfortunate collateral damage cause by being caught in the crossfire between the PFDR and the Federal Army as both sides were about even in strength now as the Feds that defected to the Rebels brought with them a lot of equipment from Guns and ammo to Tanks and Gunships. The PFDR had gone from Rebel’s scrounging for supplies to fully equipped Rebel Army as such they had managed to secure areas on the surface as outposts of a type for their soldier to use to resupply and rest while the Command Structure remained down in the sewers for safety purposes.

“They are moving into the kill zone.” Desmond said as he watched the Fed convoy move into the middle of the street between interactions, drawing Twilight back to the present.

The purple mare smiled. “Well then let’s greet them shall we?” She said as she hefted the Anti-armor rocket launcher onto her shoulder and took aim at the lead vehicle. She waited for a few moments before she depressed the trigger and let the rocket fly. The rocket propelled destruction flew through the air till it struck the hood of the armored jeep and detonated, causing the jeep to exploded along with it and bringing the convoy to a screeching stop moment before another smoke trail launched from a different building and took out the vehicle in the back, partly blocking all routes of escape for the soldiers bellows.

The turrets on the surviving jeeps swung around and began to fire on the windows where the rockets had come from at the same time soldier began to pour out of the two transport trucks that were in the part of the convoy and move to cover as Rebels began firing on them from the windows and alleyways of the buildings on both sides of them catching them in a cross fire from which there was no escape and soon the street went from normal road to a killing field as Federal Army soldier fell one by one.

One of the jeeps had the bright idea to get around the flaming wreckage before it by driving onto the sidewalk. Do to the Rebels Objective they were able to plant mines in the street so the Jeep was speedily making its way clear. “We got a runner.” Twilight said watching the jeep speed off. “I’ll take care of it. “She said hoofing the rocket launcher over to Desmond before disappearing in a flash of purple light and reappearing above the street in the direct path of the speeding jeep.

As she started to fall she ignited her horn and cast the smell she had developed to help her walk on walls and ceilings without her mane and tail hanging down for all to see. It had bene a simple idea but actually making the spell had been a real pain but when she got it right it had far more applications then allowing her to walk on walls.

Such as now as she increased gravities pull on herself causing her to plummet much faster then she normally would while she wrapper her rear hooves in magic that would absorb the coming impact. She laughed as she saw she was right on target and the Jeep was just passing under her a moment before she landed on the hood of the speeding vehicle.

Her natural heavy frame coupled with the increased speed of gravity pulling on her much stronger then normal, effetely doubling her weight from around five hundred pounds to half a ton and dropping with the speed of a rocket propelled grenade turned the small unicorn mare into tool of destruction as when her hooves hit the hood of the fleeing jeep it was instantly crushed and the axle snapped like a twig causing the front of the jeep to dig into the road with the rest of the jeep tried to continue forward resulting in the back wheels leaving the ground and dragging the rest of the jeep through the air.

As the jeep sailed through the air Twilight canceled her spell and drop from the hood of the jeep, turning in the air her rear hooves dug into the asphalt and he slide left two large groves in the road as the jeep rolled end of end behind her, throwing the gunner clear and letting him slide across the road for about a hundred feet till he was stopped by a parked car, snapping his neck.

The jeep finally stopped rolled, coming to rest on the roof, the turret having been torn clear three rolls back. Twilight looked back at the totally jeep and could see the soldier inside were still very much alive thanks to their restraints holding them in place and the roll cage built into the frame of the jeep.

After the soldier recovered enough of their senses from being tossed around in their seats they looked over at the short rebel solder who pointed at a dark stain on the road that lead to the jeeps ruptured gas tank. The mare lite her horn and with a smirk the gas trail ignited and rabidly raced along the trail of gas straight for the fuel still in the tank.

As the Soldier began to struggler to free themselves from the soon to be bomb the unicorn calmly turned around and started to walk back up the street towards the firefight that was rabidly dyeing down. The resulting explosion behind her cause a pressure wave that ruffled her mane and tail but didn’t do much else from the distance she was from the now burning jeep.

By the time Twilight reached the convoy the Feds were dead and the rebels were drilling the lock off of one of the armored transport trucks that had been in the middle of the convoy. It didn’t take long for the drill to completely pierce the lock and the soldier pulled the drill back before opening the door to revel the people locked inside. “Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to your parole day.” He said as the Rebels began to unload the prisoner from the transport. Most were civilians but a fee were rebel soldier that the people had been either aiding or hiding as they had been injured in a previous mission, when the Feds found them they had arrested the whole lot, an entire apartment building regardless of whether or not they had had any direct contact with the rebels or not, just being in the same building was enough to charge them.

Once the prisoners were all freed and their cuffs cut the rebels and their new charges began to quickly move for the alleyways between buildings so as to make their escape before back up arrived. By the time the other Fed jeeps arrived the only thing left in the street were burning vehicles and the bodies of the dead Feds, the rebels long gone.

Twilight walked into PFDR HQ hew Squad right behind her. A lot had changed since White Rabbit had been eliminated. Twilight had promoted Desmond to Staff Sergeant and Hudson was now a Corporal while Rook 2 was now PFC Rain do to having a new Rook 1 and Rook 2, normal names Private Edison and Private Fillmore. Both the new Rooks had joined up with the rebels after the broadcast of secrets and it did help Nightmare a lot as Rook 1 used to be a cab driver so knew every street around the city as well as where just about everything was while Rook 2 had worked in the zoning officer so knew a lot about the buildings around the city, at least to what they should and shouldn’t have based on the type of building they are.

The civilians that had been rescued had been taken to one of the PFDR outposts so as not to revel the location of the HQ just in case one of them was a plant, it was better to lose the outpost then the entire Rebel Command. It didn’t help that they didn’t have just the Feds to worry about now as there were two other Faction fighting in the city by the names of the Communists Coalition and the One Free People. While both groups were small they both had former Feds in their ranks and the Coalition liked fighting the PFDR as much as they fought the Feds while the OFP was more or less neutral towards the PFDR as they were more focused on protecting the civilians and providing aid to the sick and injured as long as they weren’t Federal Army and were mainly made up of hospital workers and EMTs. Both the PFDR and Coalition agreed in an unspoken truce not to attack them as both group needed their help more than once since everything started a month ago.

“Well I’d say that mission was a total success.” Rook 2 said as the squad walked down the tunnel towards the Mess Hall, Twilight in the lead, hands clasped behind her back. Since gaining the ability to go bipedal she had been spending time on mission and a little after in that mode do to the fact it allowed her to manipulate things without her magic. She had never realized how the innate magic in hooves was so important till she no longer had it and since gaining her fingers she wasn’t wasting any chance to use them. Plus it gave the added help of not having a light on her head that could draw the attention of an enemy sniper, and she did not was to become well acquainted with a .308 round and what it would do to her head.

“Yes it was a very successful mission. “Twilight said to the dark skinned human without turning to face him. “We got out people back and got innocent people clear.” Twilight wondered whether the civvies would stay or take the PFDR offer to get them out of the city. When everything got bad a lot of people start to flee the city as it was being torn apart by rioting. While it would have been a good opportunity for the rebels to attack the Feds as they were trying to restore order the Rebels had decided that to many innocent people would have been caught in the cross fire so choose to allow the Feds to restore order as best as they could.

It had been bad that first week with so many angry civilians rioting through the city. It had reached a point near the middle that the Rebels had to actually aide the Feds in order to keep the city from being burned to ash, it was the only time Twilight had ever used non-lethal take downs as most of the people the rebels dealt with were just scared and trying to stay alive in the chaos. The Rebels didn’t deal with the more violent sections of the city as the Feds had cordoned off those sections and based on reports they had intercepted a few times had to resort to sending in assault teams and stroke teams to regain control. The Number of dead was still unknown but based on how some of the rioters were acting the mare could understand the Feds having to resort to live fire.
The Federal Army was trying to keep control of their crumbling county that they themselves had caused with all their secrets and lies, granted Twilight wasn’t naive enough to think Governments shouldn’t keep secrets, but what the Feds hid was beyond was needed for national safety; it was just so they could stay in power.

Even still Twilight had to admit she was glad they had restored law and order, even if the city was still under Martial Law but it was nice the rebels could now go top side without being attack by random civilians, only needing to watch out for the Feds and the Coalition for the most part.

Though even with the Feds Having restored order they only controlled part of the city fully, which was how the PFDR was able to set up outposts top side which made strikes at the army much easier as they didn’t need to walk through miles of sewers. The city was more or less divided up between the Feds, the PFDR, the Coalition and the OFP with everything not under their control a sort of no man’s land control by the criminal element of the city. While all the factions had the equipment to take those sections they did not have the man power to do so and trying to control them would put them in easy strike distance of the other group. In short, no man’s land acted as a buffer between the groups as it was dangerous for squads to go in alone as it was impossible to tell who was a displaced civvies and who was one of the criminal elements that would not hesitate to attack anyone given the chance.

The city was a mess in Twilights opinion and she part of the blame was on her for releasing the files but the people had a right to know what their government was up to and it did give the PFDR an advantage as the Feds were much weaker while the Rebels were stronger then they had been and the Feds weren’t just focused on dealing with them anymore do to everything all over the country happening.

Twilight had even heard of some bases back east going completely rouge and killing the high ranking officers and then killing the Feds that showed up to try and stop them as they were housed within bases designed to repel attacks.

As far as Twilight could tell the only place that was still fully under Federal Army control and had only experienced short lived rioting was the capital city as that was where Feral Army High Command was located and that place was a fortress that anyone would be very hard pressed to take. It was why the PFDR weren’t fighting in the capital, they needed to take the rest of the country first so they could take the capital from all sides or force surrender by cutting the city off from everything.

Yes the entire country was a mess where violence was the rule of law in many places and Twilight couldn’t help admit she was having an absolute blast!~~~~

“So how goes sifting through the files we got from White Rabbit’s computer?” Twilight asked the team of Rebel intelligence officers and hacker that had been tasked with going through all of the files found on White Rabbit’s computer to see what was there.

“Well, same as before, slow but worth it. This guy seemed to take time to break into their files just to find what was there and kept it for himself. “Said one of the hackers not looking up from his computer as he typed. “You should see some of the shit they have had their hands in.”

Twilight nodded. “What about what I asked you to look into?” She asked eyeing the human.

“Nothing more besides what we already knew of their plans for the invasion of Equestria but we are still looking.” The hacker said looking at her. “His computer had a file that linked it to an offsite storage area that contained more then what he had on his computer but we are still looking ma’am, don’t worry.” The hacker gave her a reassuring smile. “Can’t let the Fed Fucks invade out commander’s homeland and fuck it up as bad as they have ours.”

Twilight couldn’t help smiling at the Hackers words of reassurance. These people trusted her and cared about her as if she wasn’t an alien on their planet and because of that she knew that come hell or high water they wouldn’t let the Feds set a single foot into Equestria as long as they still stood.

“What about Frisk?” She asked.

“All we have found so far is that he was transferred to some sort of hidden lab, no real word about it but that he was listed as high value to the Federal Army.” The hacker said going back to his computer. “And going by the fact he built the machine that brought you here, it’s safe to say he has a hand in their plans for Equestria.”
Twilight nodded and sighed, it was the only logical conclusion concerning Frisk as he would be needed to rebuild the device to get to her homeland, which meant Twilight would need to eliminate him, not that she needed much excuse to do horrible things to the man, she had many fantasies about hurting him.

She looked back at the team. “Carry on and report any major finds to me as soon as you find them.”

“Will do.” The hacker said as Twilight turned and headed out the door. She had reports to go over from their topside outposts and squads to debrief and it would all just pile up unless she got to it sooner rather than later. She needed an assistant or a soldier that worked directly under her that she could delegate some of the paper work to but unfortunately there wasn’t anyone really available that she would trust with the work so it was just her.

She sighed as she walked into her officer and saw the piles of paper work, what she wouldn’t give to be able to go have some fun on a solo mission, she hadn’t been able to play since her time with White Rabbit and that was a depressing fact. Now that’s not to say going on missions wasn’t fun and all, it was a lot of fun, but she wasn’t able to cut loose and get creative with witnesses around.

Maybe after she did half the paper work she could go for a walk and clear here…..yes….that would work…..that would work perfectly~~~~~

Author's Notes:

I know not a lot happens in this Chapter and it's mostly just talking about what happened the past month between the Arcs but frankly I needed to explain things and this was the best way to do so.

hope you all don't mind.