“Soldier’s today we set forth on a mission that is unlike any we have ever undertaken in the history of the People’s Free Democratic Republic’s history.

Today on the eve of the New Year we set forwarth to help our Commander return to her home. She came to our planet not by choice, but she joined our fight by her own decision and aided us in our fight against the Federal Army and its corruption.

She had our back through some of the toughest times the PFDR has ever faced and with her help we have moved towards the completion of our goal in liberating this country from a corrupt regime.

But it is time for her to return to her home to where she belongs and we shall do everything within our power to see her home. The might of the PFDR is moving towards a single goal and come hell or high water we shall see Commander Twilight Sparkle home.”

Speech delivered before Commander Sparkle’s final mission.
Speaker General Tomas Clancy

Twilight sat in the back of a PFDR jeep as it droved behind a dark green tank, designated Tombstone One. Behind her jeep drove an APC and two transport trucks loaded with soldiers and behind them were three more jeeps. The convoy was rolling down a road outside the city heading for their target location of the hidden lab outside the city. It had snowed somewhat heavily last night and Twilight was glad they had the tank ahead of them to clear a path for the convoy. Twilight had honestly been surprised the General had sent one of their tanks with them though with how well hidden this lab was who know how well defended it was.

The jeep was filled with a SONG that the mare found somewhat ironic do to what they were going to do and who she was. Maybe that was why she liked it so much? Behind the wheel was Rook 2 while in the passenger seat was Hudson. In the back seat sat Twilight by the door on the driver side, Desmond, Rain and on the gun was Rook 1

“You know, for a pastel pony that looks like something a kid would play with you have the strangest taste in music.” Hudson said looking back at Twilight.

“What’s that mean?”” She asked.

“Well…as I said you look like something a seven year old girl would dream up and yet you listen to pretty heavy music.” Hudson said and Twilight looked at the rest of Nightmare who all nodded in agreement.

“Well excuse me for my taste in music not meeting your expectations.” Twilight said with a roll of her eyes then turned up the music up. This resulted in a laugh from everyone but the two Rooks. After a minute she turned it down her point made. “Besides it seemed appropriate as it’s exactly what we are going to do to the lab.” She said with a smirk.

The other’s had to agree. “Yeah I think I’m going to miss your weird taste in music.” Rain said.

“You know this is music I got while here right? You can just get it yourself.” Twilight said.

“Yeah but it won’t have the same meaning when not coming from a kid friendly alien, well I guess kid friendly looking alien.” The women said.

“Hey I’m kid friendly.” Twilight said with a glare. “I’m fucking great with kids!”

“Yes I can tell Mrs. Swears-A-Lot.” Rain said with a laugh.

“Hey I put up with you don’t I? I think that proves I’m more then qualified to handle kids.” Twilight said.

“She has you there Rain.” Hudson aid and was rewarded with the back of his seat being kicked by the small women.

The group shared a laugh. “You know I’m going to miss you guys.” Twilight said as the music played.

“Yeah we are going to miss you too commander, don’t think Desmond will be any good at replacing you. “Hudson said and got a glare form the Staff Sergeant.

“Thank you for the vote of confidence.” He said.

“You’re welcome” Hudson said with a smile.

Twilight shook her head at the antics of the humans. “You are all crazy you know that?”

“No, we are just friends with an alien.” Rain said as the tank turned off the highway and onto a side road that looked like it was rarely used. Twilight shut off the music and put the Datapad in her storage locker.

“Ok, weapons check, we are almost there.” Twilight said as she pulled out her SMG and checked its mag as the other soldiers did as well. “This is it, our final mission together.” She said once everyone was dead.

“Hey, don’t get all depressed on us now. “Desmond said. “We need your head in the game if we are going to pull this off.”

Twilight nodded. “I know don’t worry, just going to miss you all.”

“Same.” Rain said as they drove along the road.

By Twilight estimate they were near the lab when she heard something. Before she had a chance to voice what she was hearing an explosion erupted from the ground beside their jeep flipping it onto its side.

Twilight head impacted the roll cage causing the world to spine a bit but her helmet protected her from any serious injury. “What the fuck is going on!” She yelled as she heard more explosions outside of the overturned jeep.

“Artillery! We need to move!” Desmond yelled as Rain pushed the door open and pulled herself out of the jeep followed by Desmond as Hudson and Rook 2 did the same out of the passenger side door.

Once they were out of the jeep Twilight tossed her SMG up and out before she climbed out as well and dropped to the ground, picking up her SMG as Hudson and Rain pulled a dazed Rook 1 off the turret shaking him a bit to get him focused.

All around them it was chaos, one of the transport trucks had taken a direct hit to the engine and was on fire, luckily it looked like the driver made it out but it blocked the road for the other transports leaving them with just the APC and the tank on this side of the blockade.

Twilight got on her radio and had to yell over the sound of the artillery raining down. “Alright everyone, transports are down, make a run for the labs, we need to get out of the kill zone!” She said and got acknowledgment from the squad leader and watched as they started to run past the burning transport as Tombstone One and the APC raced forward as the soldier started to sprint up the road. Twilight focused on running, ignoring the soldiers that were thrown into the air by the artillery as there was nothing she could do for them if they did survive with death still raining from the sky.

After running for a short time the artillery stopped, either they were out of the kill zone or they had stopped the bombardment. Either way Twilight looked back and saw they had lost about a fourth of their force. “Ok listen up, we need to move quickly, they wouldn’t have just done that for no reason, they know we are coming so get your asses in gear and get to the lab!” Twilight yelled over the radio and the soldier started to move up the road and between the tree as the Tank and APC pushed up.

The soldiers ran through the snow as the tanks and APC rolled along the road. Within minutes the forest ended and in the middle of it was a cluster of buildings with a single tall on in the middle surrounded by a fence.

For all intent and purpose the place looked like an abandoned medical facility, if not for the squad of soldiers at the gate who had to jump to the side as they found a sixty-two ton tank charging them as it crashed through the gate with the APC right behind it.

The squad scrambled to their feet just in time to be gunned down by the charging infantry. Once the soldier made it through the gate more evidence the hospital wasn’t abandoned came in the form of more Federal Army soldiers pouring out of the surrounding buildings and taking up defensive positions.

Twilight took cover behind the tank as it began to fire shell at the Federal Soldiers as the rest of the rebel soldier spread out for their own cover. The Feds had better cover and had more soldiers; while the rebels had a tank they were still at a disadvantage. Till the APC’s back ramp dropped and the four thick armored rebels stepped out and raised their mini-guns. The rebel Heavy Troopers began to hose the Feds forcing them into cover as the normal soldier moved up to better cover

Twilight smirked as she pulled a grenade from her storage locker and with her magic curled it to the nearest group of Feds, pulling the pin in mid-air so it would have time to get there. It landed, bounced once and detonated before the Feds had any chance to react.

“Move up! Keep the pressure on!” She yelled into her radio as the tank started to roll forward, her and Nightmare keeping pace with it. That pace was halted by an AT rocket striking Tombstone one’s left tread and the tank stopped move.

“Shit, treads down, we can’t move!” the crew radio. “We are sitting ducks.”

Twilight swore as she pulled out her sniper and dropped the AT soldier before he could finish off the tank then clicked her radio. “Don’t worry Tombstone, we got your back, we won’t leave you unprotect.” She said. “Any other damage?”

“Negative commander, weapons still online and we have turret control, just can’t move.” Came the reply.

“Alright Tombstone we’ll leave a couple of squads to cover you, can you make sure the Feds don’t come in behind us?” She asked.

In answer the turret swiveled around and faced the direction of the gate. “Can do Commander, good luck.”

With that Twilight abandoned the cover of the tank after order two nearby squads to stay with it and keep it covered The fighting in the area had moved on closer to the main building and that was were Twilight and Nightmare were headed.

As the squad reached where the rest of the soldier were she saw why their advance had stalled when a Fed tank rolled into view from behind one of the smaller buildings, a soldier manning the turret on the top and keeping any rebels with anti-tank rockets pinned down as the main cannon went to work on the rebels cover.

Twilight took cover beside a medic bandaging a wounded soldier’s arm before the tank could see them. “Where’s Tombstone?” The medic yelled. “We need them.”

“Disabled, they are covering our backs.” Twilight told him and the medic swore. “What’s the situation?”

“Bad ma’am, that tank is keeping everyone away and our Heavy Troopers can’t move as that tank would take out their armor.” The medic told her.

Twilight nodded and she looked over the wall they were behind, her mind racing to analyze the battlefield and she quickly formed a plan of attack. She got on her radio. “To any squads south of the tank I need you to draw its fire.” Twilight waited and got three squads acknowledgements. Few second later the tanks armor was covered in sparks as rifle fire ineffectively struck it and the turret operator dropped down into the tank for a moment as the main turret swung around and fired a shot and the tank began to make its way towards the soldiers.

“Stay here.” Twilight order her squad before teleporting near it, she couldn’t teleport to close as she didn’t know if the tank would suddenly change direction and she could either end up right in front of the treads or inside of it, neither option were very appealing.

Twilight sprinted for the tank and gritted her teeth as the main turret swung around to check behind it, which meant a 125mm cannon was now facing the mare. She put up a shield a second before the tank fired and she stumbled as her shield shatter but she quickly recovered, she had only a few seconds before the crew reloaded and fired another shot and the tan was moving away from her.

Twilight pushed her cybernetics to their limits to close the distance and jumped up, grabbed the cannon and swung up onto it. The mare ran along it, letting her cybernetics auto-balance as the crew fired a shot to try and nock her off, as the gunner came out and started to swing the 50. Cal around to gun down the mare.

Before he could she was on the turret and kicked the machinegun back around, tearing it from the gunner’s hands. The gunner wasted no time trying to strike the mare who caught his fist in her hand and gripped it had so he couldn’t escape. With a smirk she held out her free hand and grenade dropped into it from her storage locker. With her thumb she pulled the pin and then shoved the grenade into the gunner’s mouth, shattering his teeth in the process before she shoved him back down into the tan and slammed the hatch closed.

She jumped off and ran from the tan moments before the hatch was blow open by the grenade’s detonation and the tank came to a stop with the death of the crew inside. Twilight got on her radio as she looked back at her handy work. “Alright tanks down, move up, breech the door.”

Twilight watched as the soldier of the PFDR moved to the main doors of the lab and began placing breeching charges as everyone got into position. Nightmare rejoining the mare. “That was awesome!” Rains aid as she got near. “I never heard of anyone taking down a tank like that.”

Twilight smiled at the young women and shrugged before she unslung her SMG and pressed herself against the wall. “Ok, once we are in our objective is to find a security station and see what we are dealing with in terms of defenses. Nearest one is one hundred meters from the entrance, get there and clear it.” The unicorn ordered. They had gotten the blue prints from the lab from White Rabbit’s files but nothing on their defenses. “Where’s Delco?” She asked looking along the line of soldiers.

“Here ma’am.” The rebel hacker said from near the back of the group, the man had an entire squad dedicated to keeping him safe as he was needed to gain access to the security system and then run the device as he was the only computer expert they had that was also a soldier besides Twilight, but she couldn’t run the computers and target the device or keep it running while she went through.

The mare nodded. “Ok good, stay behind the group.” She told him and he nodded back. A few moments later the charges were set, do to how secure the doors were the breech charges were modified to be stronger than normal so took longer to set. “Ok, on my mark.” Twilight said. “Three….two….one…MARK!” The resulting blast tore the doors from their hinges and sent them flying, followed by four flash bangs. When the flash bangs detonated the first squads rushed in and after the brief sound of gunfire they gave the all clear and the rest of the rebels ran in.

The lobby had two squads worth of Feds lying dead on the floor that were quickly pulled to the side. “Ok, Graphite and Deminos squads stay here and hold this position; I don’t want anything coming in behind us.” The two squads acknowledged and took up defensive positions in the lobby as the rest of the soldiers moved for the security station.

The security station was only manned by a single squad that was easily dealt with and the Delco was at the control going through their files as the rebels kept watch outside the door. Twilight was in the room with the hacker looking at the security monitors. She could see Feds setting up to defend the lab from the rebels and then she saw movement in one of the monitors and when she looked again her eyes narrowed.

She gripped her SMG and made her way for the door. “Where you going Commander?” Delco asked looking up from the computer as he heard her steps.

“I’m going to go make sure your guy’s exit is clear, keep moving on the lab and I’ll catch up.” She said over her shoulder and walked out of the room giving the same orders to the other soldiers including her squad, telling them she’d be fine on her own as their exit wouldn’t be heavily defend but she wanted to be sure and could move faster on her own. They didn’t look happy but she was squad leader so there wasn’t much they could do.

With that the mare made her way deeper into the facility with an objective all her own.

Doctor Adam Frisk walked down the hall of the labs, he was never told the name of this place and to him it didn’t matter as long as he could work. Around the scientist walked four Federal Army soldiers, from what he had gathered the lab was under attack and so they were to escort him to safety as a high priority asset. At least some one saw his work as important as most everyone he talked with in the government didn’t see it.

As he and his escorts moved down the hall a single shot rang out and one of the soldiers in the lead dropped a hole in her forehead.

One of his escorts grabbed him and shoved the Doctor down a side hall as one of them fired down the hall before joining them. The group ran down the hall to get away from their’ attacker when another shot was fired from in front of them and another guard dropped.

The two remaining shoved the Doctor into a side door way and shut the door behind them. Frisk looked around and saw they were in one of the medical labs and were crossing to the door on the far side. When the lead soldier tried the door it wouldn’t budge. “The hell?” The soldier said and looked at the door. “Who the hell welded it shut?”

Before they could make a move to try another door another shot rang out from the doorway behind them and the guard in back dropped. The last guar spun around and raised his rifle and three more shoots struck his chest and he went down.

Dr. Frisk turned and saw standing in the door way stood a short rebel soldier aiming a pistol at the man.

“Hello doctor.” The soldier spat the last word with a mix of rage and disgust.

Frisk instantly recognized the voice. “Ah, hello 438. It has been a long time.” He said calmly as the mare removed her helmet with a cybernetic hand and it disappeared from site as she walked into the room using her magic to shut the door behind her.

“I shouldn’t be surprised a monster like you isn’t afraid of having a gun aimed at your head. “She said as she lowered the pistol and holstered it as she stopped a few feet from the man.

“That is a bit ironic coming from you 438.” He said. “I’ve seen the report of what happened at the Federal Press building, there is only one thing I know of that could have done that.” Frisk said calmly.

The unicorn spread her arms to the side. “I’m just what you made me Doctor.” She spat the last word again and looked at him. “But I’m nowhere near as big a monster as you.” She said.

Frisked arched an eye brow at that. “Oh? And what makes you think that?” He asked.

The mare’s hand shot out and grabbed a hand full of his shirt and pulled him down so their faces were inched from each other. “Because I’m going to allow you to die.” She said and shoved him back onto one of the surgical tables as he magic manipulated the controls of one of the labs machines, in this case it was one decided for automated autopsies for handling bodies that have a contagion.

The mare set it for full autopsy and stood back as the machine restrained the “body” as it lowered from the ceiling. She watched as her tormenter struggled in a vain attempt to get free. “Don’t worry doctor, this is all for science! I’m sure you can appreciate that better than anyone. “She said with a smile as the medical device made the first incision and the screaming started.

Twilight walked down the hall of the lab, her SMG was slung on her back and her helmet was firmly planted on her head, in the ten minutes it took for Frisk to be dissected the rebels had made a lot of progress, from the looks of it Delco had turned the labs security systems against the Feds by changing the automated defenses Friend and Foe settings.

It wasn’t hard to find the path her forces took as she just needed to follow the bodies. The mare felt good, better then she had in a very long time. Her tormentor was dead, killed in the most ironic way possible, being subjected to what he did to her till he died from it. Twilight couldn’t help smiling at the irony as she replayed the last ten minutes of the scientist’s life in her head over and over, out of everyone she had killed his death felt the greatest and his screamed sounded the best, she would never forget his death as it was special.

The mare dropped the smile as she came around a corner and found a squad of her soldiers outside a large door that was in the hall. Switching back to a more appropriate mood so as to avoid any unnecessary questions she walked up to the group.

“Status report.” She demanded of the group.

The squad leader was the one answer. “Ma’am they sealed the blast doors and cut us off from the rest of the group, we were trying to find a way around but all routes to the lab seem sealed. “

Twilight nodded and stepped forward. “Alright.” She said as her horn lite and the thick door was wrapped in the same aura. The mare focused and with a quiet grunt and the scream of metal the thick door was torn from its frame and dropped to the ground with a loud thud. “Fuck their blast doors.” She said as she stepped onto the six inch thick steel door and walked down the hall, she was too close to her objective to let anything stop her now.

The soldiers looked after her a bit dumbfounded as she effetely destroyed a door designed to contain a large explosion. She looked back at them. “You coming or are you going to stand there and collect dust?” She said to them and they scrambled to catch up.

There ended up being three more blast doors between Twilight and her goal and they all suffered the same fate as the first. By the time she caught up with the main force she had collected four squads of soldiers and she found the rest of them outside a much larger sealed door.

“What’s going on here?” Twilight asked as she rejoined her squads, she could see Delco had his Datapad hooked up to a panel beside the large door.

“They sealed the lab from the inside and some one inside is fighting me for control of the door.” Delco said not looking up from his Datapad.

Twilight nodded and stood before the door. “Form up!” She barked and everyone looked at each other but obeyed, Delco taking his place behind the group.

Twilight lite her horn and wrapped the door in her magic, she could tell this one was thicker than the last and she was tired from the others but nothing was getting in her way at this point. She clench her teeth and began press on the door harder and harder till with a cry of tearing steel the door warped and tore from its frame and dropped.

Twilight dropped to sitting on the floor panting. “Luna fuck me with the mood that was hard.” She said as the entire rebel soldier rushed the room but Nightmare and the squad protecting Delco. Twilight panted as she heard gunfire from inside of the lab.

“You ok ma’am?” Desmond asked.

Twilight waved a hoof. “Just need to catch my breath is all.” She said and after a few minutes she got to her feet and walked into the lab after getting an all clear from the squads inside and got her first look at the device that both brought her here and would send her home.

This one looked vastly different than the one that brought her here.

The back wall was dominated by two large pillars with cables attacked to them with a ramp leading up to the platform they rested on and hanging from the ceiling were two large devices with that where triangular, with the pointed aimed at the area between the pillars. The rest of the lab was dominated by computer equipment and cables all running to the device that sat beneath the two objects hanging from the ceiling and was attach to the pillars and triangle by cables. The primary device looked almost simple for what it was meant to do, just a sphere with cables attached to it about three feet wide.

Twilight slowly approached the device and placed a hand on it, running it along the marvel of technology that would revolutionize the understanding of science. “Plant the charges.” She said coldly as she dropped her hand, she wanted this thing sent to oblivion where it belonged.

She turned back to the room. “Set up defenses. Delco get to work.” She order and looked at Nightmare and sighed. “I guess this is goodbye. “She told them and her squad nodded before making their way out of the room to help defend it from the Feds that would surely show up to try and stop them as the demolition teams planted their charges so they could take the entire room out in one go.

Delco took a position at a console and started to work as Twilight came and sat beside him taking out her Datapad to help her fellow computer expert. “Well guess this is the last time I’ll be doing a mission like this eh?” Delco said.

“I don’t know maybe.” The mare said as she typed neither looking up from their screens.

“You deal with that bastard?”

“Yeah.”

“Good.”

With that the two hackers fell into a silence as they focused on their work do to the limited time they had. After about fifteen minutes of breaking through layer after layer of encryption the two hackers were in and had control of the room.

“Ok now all we need is a way to target.” Delco said and Twilight nodded as she unhooked her Datapad from the computers and made her way to the device as she put the Datapad in her Storage locker just as the first sounds of gun fire echoed down the hall.

Twilight hurried her steps and reached the device as Delco brought it online. The room was filled with the hum of computer and complex machinery coming to life as lights danced across the device.

The mare looked at it and placed switched back to being a pony as she placed her hooves against the surface, she wasn’t sure what to do but decided just to channel a bit of magic into the sphere as it came to life.

Slowly electricity began to climb between the two distance pillars and a few moments later the two triangles shot beams of pure energy towards the center of the pillars as Twilight channeled more and more magic into the device hoping it would give it a target destination, for good measure she thought of Ponyville on the off chance that would help even though it was unlikely.

The sound of electricity cracking and the hum of machines grew louder and louder till all at once a tear appeared between the pillars.

“Ok, it’s open, you should move through now! I have no idea how long we can keep it stable!” Delco called rom where he was typing franticly on the computer as it flashed messages.

Twilight dropped from the device and made her way up the ramp pausing before the rift and looking back at the hacker. Are you sure you can handle things here without me?” She asked a bit unsure.

“Relax Commander, we can take it from here. “Delco said with a reassuring smile for the mare.

“Well if you are sure…”She said still uncertain.

“Go, I’m not letting you back out now Commander. We will be fine, I know everyone has been working towards this for so long, don’t let their sacrifices be wasted.” He told her looking at her seriously.

Twilight thought of the soldiers they had lost getting to the labs. “Yes…..yes you are right, good luck to you all. It has been an honor serving with you all.” She said with a smile.

“Please, the honor’s been ours, but I’ll pass your words on. “The sound of the gunfire grew louder as a few squads retreated into the labs as the Feds pushed them back. “Fuck, they are getting closer. GO NOW!” Delco shouted as he grabbed his SMG and took cover.

With one last look Twilight gallop and leapt through the tear just as the first of the Feds reached the door. Delco raised his SMG as the rest of the rebels did the same. “Come of fuckers, bring it on!” he yelled at them and pulled the trigger as the rift collapsed behind the rebels.

Author's Notes:

Well here it is, the last chapter and Commander Twilight Sparkles final mission as second in command of the People's Free Democratic Republic.

We got to see what she had to fight through to return home, got to see to see the fate of Doctor Adam Frisk and i think it was very appropriate how he died.

and we got to see what happened on the other side of the rift that we saw in the prologue.

all that's left if the epilogue now and then then this part of the Commander's journey is over.

we have seen what drove her from a peaceful unicorn librarian into a psychotic and sadistic soldier with a very twisted sense of morality.

anyways, I shall see you all in the epilogue, till then, best stay on the Commander's good side.