''Are you sure this will work Twilight?'' a female voice says from the meeting room of the friendship castle.

''Well Barb its just a theory and if the spell I created works it should bring that scroll from Star swirl the bearded that Starlight Glimmer had and I should be able to study it more and to see if there are any hidden spells that I missed'' explained Twilight. Who was standing at 5'7 she was wearing a purple skirt,a white long sleeve dress shirt a black tie and a light lavender vest.

'' I'm not sure maybe its a good thing that the scroll is gone that thing has caused us nothing but trouble'' Barb said as she remembered the events from three months ago. Also standing at 5'5 she was wearing a black short sleeve shirt and brown camouflage shorts.

''Aww come on Barb I know what she did was wrong but she has learned from her mistakes'' Twilight explains.

''I still think its a bad idea'' says Barb.

Twilight continues with her new spell and tried to concentrate and find the scroll after five minutes she had found a small familiar magical presence it was faint and it felt like it was at a very far away location but she knew it was the scroll now all she had to do was bring it here.

''ok Twilight you can do this'' she thought. she focused her magic her magic and began to pull the presence to her but was met with some resistance like it was holding on to something. Something big. She began to force more magic into it until eventually she pulled the scroll and whatever it was holding onto with it.

''finally!'' Twilight shouted in victory. Satisfied with her results she began to wait.

And wait.

And wait.

And waited some more.

''OH FOR THE LOVE OF CELESTIA HOW LONG IS THIS GOING TO TAKE?!'' Twilight shouted in frustration.

''Calm down Twilight it just a boring piece of paper'' Barb exclaimed.

''Just a piece of paper? JUST A PIECE OF PAPER!?'' screamed Twilight.

''Uh oh'' (o_o;) Barb thought out of fear.

''THIS ISN'T JUST SOME BORING PIECE OF PAPER THIS IS ONE OF STAR SWIRLS SPELLS FOR PONIES SAKE THINK OF THE HIDDEN SECRETS IT CAN HOLD!'' Twilight screams while sounding a little crazy with a twitching eye.

''Twilight your starting to freak me out a little'' Barb says backing up a little.

Twilight realized this and quickly calmed down and apologized for her actions.

'' I'm sorry Barb I didn't mean to frighten you like that'' Twilight says apologetically while staring down at the floor.

(Sigh) ''its ok Twilight I know you didn't mean it and I apologize for saying that its just a piece of paper I know how important these things are to you I shouldn't have passed it off as something meaningless and I'm sorry'' Barb says.

''Listen Barb I know I tend to get a little crazy at times-'' Twilight begins.

''A little'' (-_-) says Barb.

''Grrr OK a lot crazy'' Twilight says folding her arms.

''Oh relax Twilight I'm only playing with you'' Barb says pulling her sister into a hug.

''You know sometimes I wonder if you like taunting me like this'' Twilight says.

''Hey Twilight your cutie marks are glowing'' Barb pointed out.

Twilight looked at her the back of her hands and saw that they were glowing ''Yes another friendship problem its been so long!'' she said excitedly.

''Woah it looks like your not the only one look'' Barb says pointing at the other throne chairs.

Twilight looked at her friends thrones and saw that they were glowing to which meant that this problem was pretty important if it required all of them.

''Well I guess we should wait for the others then?'' Twilight asked.

''Well while your waiting I'm gonna go find some comics to read'' Barb states.

(sigh) ''she's nineteen years old and she still acts like a little kid.''

Twicha twich Pinkie pie started doing a series of random body movements. ''My Pinkie sense is telling me I'm gonna make some new friends today and I get to help solve a friendship problem. YAY!'' Pinkie says with excitement. Standing at 5'4 she was wearing a red mini skirt and a red short sleeve shirt with a white sleeveless shirt over it that was cut just above the bellybutton.

''Pinkie we need two milkshakes at table three'' says Mrs.Cake.

''Okie Dokie Loki.'' Pinkie replies.

''Man I'm sooo bored I wish something good would happen, I need some action.'' Rainbow says out loud while laying on a cloud.
Standing at around 5'5 she was wearing black spandex shorts, a dark blue mini skirt with a belt a light blue short sleeve jacket dark blue fingerless gloves and a dark blue sports bra.

''Hey Rainbow dash!'' a young voice shouted.

The voice snapped Rainbow out of her thoughts she looked down and saw that it was Scootaloo her number one fan and adoptive not so little sister. Standing at around 5'4 she was wearing blue shorts and a white short sleeve shirt.

''oh hey squirt how's it hanging?'' Rainbow says.

'' I'm doing fine sis I was wondering if we can hangout or do some flight practice today'' Scootaloo asked with a gleam of hope in her eyes.

''Sure thing squirt, I've been meaning to find something to do'' Rainbow says with relief.

''So what are we gonna practice this time rainbow'' asked Scootaloo.

''Hmm how we practice your-'' Rainbow didn't get to finish as her cutie marks on her hands began to flash. ''aw sorry squirt duty calls'' Rainbow says as she noticed her cutie mark flashing.

''Oh, ok, maybe next time'' Scootaloo says with disappointment.

''Hey maybe I can take you with me on this mission Scoots?'' Rainbow says as she noticed Scootaloo's disappointment.

''Really?!'' Scootaloo says with excitement.

''Come on squirt race you to the castle?'' Rainbow says while looking a little relieved that Scootaloo's mood did a complete 180.

''Your on!'' Scootaloo says to Rainbows challenge.

Both with the same location in mind Rainbow dash and Scootaloo began their race towards the castle of friendship.

Thump Thump ''And that's the last batch of apples for the day wouldn't you say Big Mac.'' Applejack says with her usual southern accent. Standing at 5'10 she was wearing a red short sleeve work shirt,brown work gloves,daisy duke shorts,and a brown stetson hat to complete the country look.

"Eeyup" replied Big Mac with a really deep voice. He was 5'11 wearing dark blue jeans and a white muscle shirt that had some dirt on it.

''Come on big Mac lets take these to the cellar'' says Applejack.

"Eeyup" Big Mac replies.

As Applejack was reaching the cellar her cutie marks started to flash.

''Aw shoot come on Big Mac we better hurry and get these in the cellar ah need to get going'' Applejack states.

"Eeyup" replied Big Mac.

''Oh my mister Beaver you really need to be careful you could really damage your gums if you don't take care of you teeth'' Fluttershy says as she's brushing the beavers teeth. She was 5'2 wearing a green turtleneck sweater with grey pants.

As Fluttershy was finishing up on the beaver she saw her cutie mark flashing which only meant one thing for her she has to solve another friendship problem oh my somepony's friendship is in trouble. I hope no poor critters get hurt.

''Hmm a stitch here a stitch there aaand my masterpiece's for the this years Grand galloping gala are complete'' Rarity states with her usual flare. Standing in at 5'7 she was wearing white business suit.

''just a few more pieces of fabric and I'm done'' as she was reaching for more fabric she saw that she ran out.

''oh my Celestia no how can I run out of fabric!. this is THE. WORST. POSSIBLE. THING.'' during the middle of her dramatic panic attack she noticed that her cutie marks were flashing.

"oh heavens no it's just one crisis after another how will I ever get this done now?!'' Rarity states with worry.

''oh no all this stress is gonna give me gray hairs'' Rarity complains to no one in particular.

''oh I hope whoever is having friendship problems can give me some inspiration or some cloth to finish my work or is at least cute'' Rarity says to herself.

One by one the rest of the mane 6 started to show up, first it was Rainbow dash who was accompanied by Scootaloo, after them was Pinkie pie who came in skipping with a glee of happiness and a smile on her face, after Pinkie came Applejack came in who was wiping sweat off of her forehead, after Applejack Fluttershy came in and quietly went to her throne seat and sat down and Rarity was last to enter the meeting room they all took their respectful seats and waited for Twilight to enter the meeting room.

Twilight entered the meeting room seconds later with a ice pack on her head and her mane a complete mess Barb following behind her with a bottle of water and a comic book in both hands.

''Whoa what happened to you Twilight?'' asked Rainbow dash.

''Yes darling what happened you look absolutely terrible you look like you haven't relaxed in days.'' replied Rarity.

''Ah agree with them Twilight you look more tired than Big Macintosh after a long day of hard work and no sleep.'' Applejack says to Twilight.

Before Twilight could give them an answer Barb beat her to it.

''Twilight was trying to find and bring back that scroll that contained the time traveling spell Starlight glimmer was using to time travel and has been spending a great deal of her time and magic trying to find it and she has only been rewarded with disappointment and sever migraines but if you ask me that thing is better of staying lost or being destroyed.'' Barb says giving her opinion on Twilight's actions.

''Why would you want to find that thing if it's caused you guy's and us nothing but trouble I agree with Barb that thing should stay lost and out of everypony's reach.'' Rainbow says wondering why Twilight would want to find that stupid thing.

''Yes darling why would you trouble yourself and try finding that troublesome thing when you can be doing something more important than looking for some troublesome spell.'' Rarity says agreeing with Rainbow dash.

Before Twilight could give them an answer a there was a bright light in the meeting room all of the mane 6 including Barb and Scootaloo had to covered their eye's from the shear brightness of the light. When it simmered down and their vision recovered they saw both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna and Eris standing in the room with a look of worry on her face Luna with a look of seriousness and Eris having a look of excitement on hers.

She is 6'0 and was wearing a brown dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up the elbows a pink tie a grey striped business vest with matching pants with yellow fingerless gloves.

Princess Celestia who is 7'4 and was wearing an elegant white dress and gold hoof covers her royal regalia, and princess Luna who is 6'1 and was wearing something equivalent to a royal blue military dress uniform with her royal regalia and silver hoof covers and black gloves to match.

''Princess Celestia what are you Princess Luna and Eris doing here?'' Twilight asked in wonder as to why both Princesses and the Goddess of mischief was doing here.

Princess Celestia looked at Twilight and the worry on her face was replaced with a motherly smile and then she spoke. ''Twilight you don't have to call me princess anymore your a princess too remember.'' Princess Celestia states as she cant help but chuckle a bit at her former students forgetfulness of her title.

''Sorry Celestia force of habit.'' Twilight says with a nervous chuckle.

''That is alright Twilight you will get used to it eventually.'' Princess Celestia assures Twilight but then remembers why she came here to do. "Twilight I came here to tell you that we have detected a large amount of magical disturbance somewhere just outside sweet apple acres."

''What that magic thing is just outside mah home?!''. Applejack shouts out of shock.

''Calm down Applejack the magical disturbance is probably nothing serious.'' Rainbow dash says as she tries to reassure her best friend.

''Sorry Rainbow but ah cant take any chances that's my home and my family is there and you know how much ah value family and cant risk anything happening to any of them especially Apple Bloom she's in the middle of her teen years this friendship problem can wait.'' Applejack says as she worries for her family.

''Umm girls?'' Fluttershy says but everybody didn't hear her because she was too quiet.

''Yes Applejack you need to calm yourself.'' Princess Celestia says.

Applejack notices her behavior and calms down a bit before apologizing. ''I'm sorry princess it's that i get a little on edge when things happen around mah home or family that's my family's source of income.'' Applejack says with worry still present in her voice.

''Girls?'' Fluttershy says again but was still too quiet for them to hear.

''I understand your distress Applejack but you need to calm yourself, it wont do you any good if you worry yourself and rush in without a plan and get yourself hurt in the process or worst, and i don't think your family needs any tragedy and if this problem is as serious as it appears then i will deal with it personally.'' Princess Luna says trying to calm down Applejack and reason with her and prevent her from doing something foolish.

Applejack calms down a bit and realizes that princess Luna is right if she rushes in without thinking something bad might happen to her and she doesn't want Apple bloom to go through with losing a member of the family they need a plan if this goes south and they need to do something.

''You're right princess Luna we need to have a plan in case something goes wrong, what do you think Twilight?'' Applejack says.

''Thank you Applejack now here's how we-'' Twilight begins but is interrupted by a shout.

''Girls!!'' Fluttershy says loud enough for everyone to here.

''Oh yes Fluttershy you wanted to say something?'' Twilight asks her shy friend

''Umm yes I know we have to take care of the magic disturbance and then the friendship problem after but I think we will be able to handle them both at the same time look.'' Fluttershy says as she points at the map.

''Huh?'' Twilight and the others look to see that the friendship map was telling them that the friendship problem was just outside sweet apple acres the exact same place where the disturbance is.

''What, that doesn't make sense?'' Twilight exclaims.

''Whats the fun in making sense?'' Eris says happily answering Twilight's question.

''Hmm it appears that there's more to this then we know, if the map is telling you all to go to the same place the magical disturbance this is something we must investigate.'' Princess Celestia says to the rest of the group.

''So how are we going about this whole thing princess Celestia, do we go in there kicking flank and taking names?'' Rainbow ask the princess.

''No Rainbow dash first we need to determine if this problem is a threat or not if it is we will apprehend and detain it and find out what its true intentions are, and if it is a threat then we will have retaliate and put a stop to it before it can do harm to equestria or my subjects, after the problem is finished we might stay and help you with the friendship problem I would like to see how goes about in these problems.'' Princess Celestia says.

''Whatever it is better not try anything or give it one of these and one of those!'' Rainbow says as she throws punches in the air with a boxer like fashion.

''Yeah you tell em Rainbow dash!'' Scootaloo says cheering on Rainbow.

''Rainbow?, whats Scootaloo doing here?'' Twilight ask wondering why Rainbow brought her with.

''Well I haven't been spending much time with her so I thought I could bring her along and show her how awesome we are.'' Rainbow says explaining why she brought her sister.

''I don't know it could be dangerous.'' Twilight says unsure to Rainbows actions.

''I agree with Twilight darling it would be too dangerous for a child.'' Rarity says agreeing with Twilight.

''Hey I'm not a child and I can take care of myself I've been taking self defense classes and I'm the best one in my class!'' Scootaloo shouts because she doesn't like being called a child.

''Come on Twilight let Scootaloo come with us she'll be safe she has her big sister Rainbow dash as well as princess Celestia and princess Luna to protect her and the royal guards out side.'' Pinkie asks Twilight while stating that the princesses brought back up.

''How did you know that we brought some royal guards?'' Princess Celestia asks Pinkie wondering how she knew some members of the guard were here.

''My Pinkie sense told me.'' Pinkie says to Celestia.

Celestia was about to Question her but then remembered a letter Twilight sent her long ago regarding Pinkie's Pinkie sense and told her not to question it and that it was not worth the headaches that come with it.

''Sister I don't mean to sound rude but don't we have something to do?'' Princess Luna says getting impatient.

Celestia looks at her sister and realizes she's right they need to handle this problem.

''Yes I agree with you Luna we must hurry, come on my little ponies we have a problem to investigate'' Princess Celestia says to everyone in the room.

One by one they began to leave the room until Pinkie was the last one out the door and when they were in the hallway she remembered that her pinkie sense went off before she had come to the castle so she decided to tell them before they make a bad first impression and lose out on making some new friends.

(Really!?)

(What the hell?...Pinkie stop breaking the forth wall!)

(Sorry hehe)

''Oh oh everypony before we do anything I have to tell you something that happened to me before I got here'' Pinkie says to the group.

''And what would that be?'' Twilight asks Pinkie wondering what she has to say.

''Well, before I was coming over here my Pinkie sense told me that I was gonna make a new friend today and I think it has something to do with the magic thingy which also happens to be where the friendship problem is I think they are connected.'' Pinkie explains to Twilight.

''Hmm if the evidence that you pointed out is true then this should prove interesting.'' Princess Celestia says.

''Yes sister this should be very interesting let us go see this anomaly and see if the evidence holds true.'' Princess Luna says.

"Then what are we standing around here for lets check this thing out!'' Rainbow shouts at everyone.

Everyone looks at Rainbow with a odd looks and the princesses give her a raised eyebrow.

Rainbow realized her outburst got her strange looks from everybody including the princesses.

''Sorry'' Rainbow says chuckling nervously.

"I agree with the element of loyalty sister we must make haste'' Luna says to Celestia.

''Very well Luna lets go everypony'' Princess Celestia says to everyone.

''Does that mean me to?'' Scootaloo asks the princess.

''Yes you to Scootaloo.'' Princess Celestia says with a warm smile.

''All right!!'' Scootaloo shouts with excitement.

"but you have to stay close to us'' Princess Celestia says to her.

''Ok....I can take care of myself'' Skootaloo says quietly.

''I know you can my young subject but it will be safer if you stay close to us'' Princess Celestia says to Scootaloo.

"Yes princess" Scootaloo says to the princess.

After the group had spent ten minute's walking Rainbow decided to speak.

''Hey girls what do you think we'll find or run into when we get there?'' Rainbow ask.

''I don't know Rainbow I just hope it's nothing serious and life threatening.'' Twilight says.

''I assure you tis nothing we couldn't ha-'' Princess Luna was saying but was interrupted by a day guard.

''PRINCESS!!''

Everyone looked and saw a day guard Pegasus who looked like he just flew a merathon and he was really out of breath.

''Calm yourself my royal guard and tell us what has you so frightened.'' Princess Celestia said to the tired guard.

He tried to get the words out but his throat was bone dry, a mare of the guard noticed this and handed him a water canteen.

''*GULP GULP* thanks Trail blazer I needed that.'' said the tired guard.

''Anytime Slipstream you looked like you needed it.'' said Trail blazer.

''Now that you've had your hydration please tell us what has you so frightened?.'' Princess Luna asked the guard.

''Yes please tell us.'' Princess Celestia asks.

Taking a few more sips of water Slipstream began to speak and explain what he saw appeared.

''Well I was arriving at the location that princess Celestia told me to scout and just as I arrived there was a bright light and strange rune symbols slowly coming down from the sky and a bunch of buildings started to appear out of the rune like some sort of portal and they where big buildings too I got to the gate there was a sign that said it was a military base it also said the name of the base was fort Independence.'' Slipstream explains.

''Fort Independence?...hmm what else did you find?'' Princess Celestia asked Slipstream.

''Um yes the sign said this in bold letters it said warning restricted military base authorized personnel only. trespassers will be shot survivors will be shot again.

When he finished telling the princess this. Everyone couldn't help but be horrified that a military base would openly announce that they would kill anyone who would end up there even by mistake this was something the princess couldn't allow to continue whoever these ponies are they will have a lot to answer for when she sees them.

''W-who would d-do such a horrible thing.'' Fluttershy says shivering in fear.

''Hang on everypony, maybe this is some sort of scare tactic.'' Trail blazer said.

''Would you please explain to us miss Trail blazer.'' Princess Celestia asks.

''Yes you'er highness. What I'm saying is this is probably a scare tactic to keep out unwanted guests I've been doing some reading in my off time and the humans did the same thing using this tactic to prevent anypony from going anywhere they shouldn't be because they didn't want anypony getting hurt when they were testing new inventions.'' Train blazer explained.

''That's right humans would always make new inventions before their kind mysteriously disappeared, all explorers ever found of them were old structures and tools and inventions damaged beyond recognition and some are in the museum in Canterlot and we still don't know what they are or what they do even till this day.'' Twilight says on hearing an interesting topic.

''But what if they really do kill ponies?'' Fluttershy says not convinced.

''Oh I almost forgot pulled this off of the gate.'' Slipstream says presenting a metal sign from his armor.

Everyone gathered to see what the sign said.

''High powered binoculars? I've heard of regular binoculars but high powered ones princess have you heard of this?'' Twilight asks princess Celestia.

"Yes I have because I have the science team in Canterlot working on the prototype to replace the standard issue that we give to the scouting teams because the scouting teams can't get too close to the griffon empire without almost being spotted by any of the patrols and wont be ready till next year.'' Princess Celestia states.

''And what about the part of the sign that says that we're in it's shooting range?'' Trail blazer states.

''That's the thing when I finished reading it I decided to take a risk and stood there for about ten minutes and nothing happened either he chose not to kill me or that guard is not at his post.'' Slipstream says.

The group started their long walk to the disturbance and it was during the walk Twilight decided to ask the princess something.

''Why are we spying on the griffons princess?'' Twilight asks the princess.

''That is something we will have to discuss later Twilight right now we have more important matters to attend to right now.

The group continued their trek while Rainbow and Scootaloo were flying around and talking about the next daring do book, Rarity and Flluttershy were discussing their next spa date, Pinkie was humming a cheerful tune, Luna and the guards were on watch in case they got ambushed on the way, Eris was playing with a yo-yo while sipping on chocolate milk, and Twilight was talking with princess Celestia.

''So Celestia how have things been in Canterlot anything new happening?'' Twilight asks princess Celestia.

''Oh you know, same royal business different day'' Celestia replied.

''Oh well you think whoever these ponies will be willing to talk and what their intentions are?'' Twilight asked.

'' I hope so Twilight...I hope so.'' Celestia said.

The group continued to walk to the destination when Rainbow and Scootaloo flew ahead of the group in a rush and started to wave them over in a frantic matter.

''Rainbow whats the ma-'' Twilight didn't get to finish her sentence as she along with everyone else where now seeing the military base and they couldn't believe what they were seeing.

''Sweet mother of Celestia I've never seen anything this big before?'' Twilight said in awe.

''I'll say! This place is as bigger than the wonderbolts academy!'' Rainbow says in awe.

''Awesome!'' Scootaloo says in excitement.

''Oh my.'' Fluttershy says with worry.

''Oh my is right darling.'' Rarity says with Fluttershy.

''Land sake's this place is huge you can fit all of ponyvile an half of Canterlot here.'' Applejack says taking in the view of the base.

''Oh this is going to be so much fun!'' Eris says with excitement.

''Sister maybe we should have brought more guards.'' Luna says to Celestia.

''Oooo this place is gi-mongous how many ponies do you think live here?!'' Pinkie says to everyone.

The group continues towards the gate and as they got closer the group noticed a strange object near the entrance it was surrounded by sandbags and looked really rusty like it had been there for years.

''What do you think it is Twilight?'' Rainbow asked her friend.

''It looks like some sort of cannon but it's in a major case of disrepair.'' Twilight says getting closer to the howitzer it was old and rusted beyond repair like it was sitting here for years left to the elements. As the group got closer to inspect it they noticed some plaques.

''Hey look at this girls.'' Twilight said to the rest of the party.

(Party where?!)

(What did I say!)

(Not to break the forth wall hee hee.)

(Exactly save that for the Q&A here have a bag of cookies.)

(Yay cookies *Munch*thanks.)

(No problem Pinkie.)

The group looked at the plaques and they read.

Fort Independence clearing the path to freedom one shell at a time.

''Hmm it appears there is more to these ponies than meets the eye dear sister.''

''It would appear so Luna.''

''Look there's another sign.''

The group looked at the sign on the fence and it read in bold letters.

Fort Independence base of operations for the Punisher squad mercenary Company.

''Sell swords?...I guess that explains the signs.'' Luna says with some annoyance.

As princess Luna read the sign she got a few nods of agreement from the others.

''I guess we should keep our guard up there's no telling how many mercenaries are here, and if possible speak with the leader of this company and find out what their intentions are.'' Celestia says to the whole group.

''So which building should we try first?'' Asked Slipstream.

''Why don't we just go to the first one I mean they are numbered.'' Rainbow says

The group had no problem getting pass the gate because they either flew over or the ones who didn't have wings or horns were teleported with the unicorns of the group as they begin the walk to hanger one as they got closer they realized how big it really was.

''My stars!..this sure is a really big building.'' Applejack exclaims.

''Ok here goes nothing everypony.'' Twilight says.

As the group opened the door to hanger one they couldn't believe what they saw machines of unknown origin all over the place.

''Holy moly look at all these things!?'' Rainbow says out-loud.

''Who could have built all of this!?'' Twilight says with wonder as she looks at the machines.

''Land sake's what are these things!?'' Applejack says.

''Oh my heavens look at the colors they are just dreadful and look at all these stains on the floor!'' Rarity says over dramatically.

''Mother of us...I think we may have our work cutout for us sister.'' Luna says losing a bit of confidence.

''What are you talking about Rarity they look awesome!'' Skootaloo says with awe.

''I think I agree Lulu.'' Celestia says agreeing with Luna.

''I knew we should have brought backup.''(-_-,) Both guards said.

''Maybe we should go home and pretend we're not home.'' Fluttershy says with fear.

''Oooo these look like fun toys.'' Eris says with giddiness.

''They do look like fun huh Eris?'' Pinkie says in her usual bubbly attitude.

They all got closer to one vehicle in particular that had its hood up putting the engine on display.

''Golly look at all this fancy wiring in this thing it looks almost similar to the Flim Flam brothers Super Speedy Cider Squeezy machine.'' Applejack says looking at the strange contraption.

''You think there's some way to turn it on?'' Rainbow asks.

"I don't know lets check." Twilight says.

As the group gathers around the H1 they tried to figure out how to get the truck started Skootaloo noticed something strange coming from the door that they came from.

''Hey guys what's that?'' She says pointing at the door.

One by one the group turned around and they saw something that resembled a wolf wearing some sort of vest.

*Growl*

''What the hay is it Fluttershy?'' Rainbow asked her animal loving friend.

''I don't know I've never seen that breed of dog before.'' Fluttershy says trying to muster the courage to go up to the dog. ''It's ok little fella nopony's going to hurt you.'' Flutter shy said trying to reassure the dog.

''Little that thing is huge it could be a vicious animal for all we know!'' Rainbow says to Fluttershy.

*Growl*

'' *gasp* Rainbow!..Just because some animals are big Rainbow doesn't mean they are all vicious monsters, I mean look at mister bear.'' Fluttershy says shocked at her friends mean choice of words.

''Well it does kinda look like a wolf, but what is with that vest its wearing?'' Twilight asks out of curiosity.

''That vest is a crime against fashion I mean look at the color its simply atrocious!'' Rarity says dramatically.

*Warning growl*

''Now now i'm sure she didn't mean it Riley.'' Fluttershy says petting Riley on the head.

''Riley?, how do you know its name is Riley Fluttershy?'' Twilight asks.

''Oh its on his vest look.'' Fluttershy says showing them his name.

The first one to approach the german shepherd was Skootaloo, she carefully approached the dog so she wouldn't appear as a threat to him, as she got closer she saw that he calmed down and decided to sit down as a sign of trust when she was right in front of him she slowly stuck out her hand and let him sniff her hand.

*Sniff sniff* Riley sniffed her hand and took in her scent , after he knew he could trust her he hopped on his hind legs and licked her face.

''Hey Hey, take it easy boy.'' Skootaloo says giggling a little.

''See I told you he's just a big softy'' Fluttershy says proving a point to the group.

''Well now that that's settled, lets figure out how this thing works.'' Twilight says wanting to learn all about the H1 and the other vehicles in the hanger.

*Growl*

Twilight stops in her tracks as she notice's that Riley is growling at her.

''Riley whats the matter?'' Fluttershy asks Riley knelling down to eye level with him.

Riley responded with a series of low growls and barks, Fluttershy being the animal whisperer that she is understood him completely.

''Uh huh, ok I will tell them Riley.'' Fluttershy says as she gets up to tell the group what he told her.

''So what did Riley want you to tell us Flutters?'' Rainbow asks.

''Yes what did the canine relay to you miss Fluttershy?'' princess Luna asks.

''He said he would very much like it if anyone would please refrain from touching any of the vehicles and equipment as they are very dangerous and his master doesn't like it when others touch his stuff.''

''Oh?..where is your master?" princess Celestia asks Riley.

Riley responded with more low barks and growls.

"Oh my."

"What?..what did he say Fluttershy?" Rainbow asks.

"Yah what did he say?" Scootaloo says with Rainbow.

"He said that both his master and his little brother are on their way here to respond to the security breach and they are coming with weapons." Fluttershy states with worry.

"Why is he bringing weapons?..does he plan on causing harm to us?" princess Luna asks accusingly.

"Bark!"

"He says only if you attack first or try anything suspicious...or try to steal anything."

"*Gasp* We would never do no such things and I am appalled that your master would even think that we would?!" Rarity exclaimed.

Riley responded with another low bark.

"What he say that time Flutters?" Rainbow asked.

"Yah what did the doggie say did he say his master and little brother like parties? Do they do they?" Huh huh huh?" Pinkie asks excitedly.

" umm no Pinkie he said that his master is a little cautious when it comes to people he doesn't know and he doesn't like party's."

"*GASP* doesn't like party's how can anypony not like parties?!, everypony likes parties especially a Pinkie pie party!" Pinkie asks out of shock that hearing about someone who doesn't like parties.

While Pinkie was having her little shock slash meltdown Twilight was trying to remember where she heard that word before she knows that she has heard it before but can't place her finger on it she decided to ask Fluttershy about it.

"Hey Fluttershy can you ask Riley what species his masters are because I'm really curious as to who they are and if I can question them on how they built all this and if they would be willing to let me study it?", She asks while still trying to figure out where she heard the word people from.

"Oh ok I'll ask him." Fluttershy agrees and proceeds to ask the guard dog about his masters.

"Um excuse me mr.Riley but um if it's not too much to ask I mean if you want can you tell me what species you're masters are?" Fluttershy asked politely and with a little curiosity.

Riley gave her a couple of low barks and growls in response to her question when he was done her eyes went wide Fluttershy couldn't believe what she had heard she decided to ask again to make sure.

"A-are you sure? Are you sure that's what they are Riley." Fluttershy asks Riley wondering if she heard him right.

"What happened Fluttershy what'd he say?" Twilight asked her shy friend.

"Yah what'd he say tell us?" Asked Barb.

"Yes darling what did the dog tell you that's got you so frightened?" Asked Rarity.

"Not frightened Rarity shocked, surprised more so he said that his masters are humans!" Fluttershy says to her friend when she said this everyone's eyes went wide they couldn't believe what they had heard there are humans in equestria they have all heard stories of how humanity was a race of mighty warriors and how much they were able to achieve without the aid of magic because their advancement in technology, they had so many questions how many more of them are there in this base where is the rest of humanity and why did they disappear for so long.

"How is this possible I thought the human race was extinct." Scootaloo shouts.

"Oh this is exciting we get to meet actual humans think of what we can learn." Twilight says with glee.

"I get to make friends with humans yay!" Pinkie screams with excitement.

Twilight seeing a new opportunity to learn something new pulls out a quill and parchment and approached Riley a little too quickly and he gave her a warning growl.

"Now now Riley, she's not gonna hurt you she's just really excited to learn something new." Fluttershy explains to him, Riley carefully explained to her how it's not a good idea to approach him or his masters like she was approaching him because they would think she was about to attack them.

"Oh sorry." Twilight says with a nervous chuckle.

"Excuse me Fluttershy,but can you ask him where and when his masters are going to get here?" Princess Celestia asks her subject.

"Oh,ok princess." Fluttershy replies,she turns around and proceeds to ask what Celestia told her.

"Um excuse me Riley but when are your masters getting here?" Riley was about to answer her when his ears twitched and looked towards the hanger doors and noticed a few shadows under the crack of the hanger door Riley saw this and told her that they were here with backup.

*Bark bark* Riley replied.

"*Gasp* really!" She asked in shock.

"What?, what'd he say? Skootaloo asked Fluttershy.

"Yes miss Fluttershy what did the dog say?" Slipstream asked.

"He told me that they're here and they are at the door." Fluttershy said.

As the group turned to to the door they turned to see two small metal canisters tumbling on the floor towards them, as they came to a stop there was audible *pop* and there was smoke coming from the canisters at an alarming rate.

The princesses thinking it was poisoned gas quickly put up a shield spell over everyone in the hanger the guards readied their spears and swords as they got ready for a fight, the smoke obscured everyone's vision they couldn't see anything outside of the shield everyone was on edge Fluttershy was scared out of her mind she didn't know what was going to happen to them, everyone heard multiple hoof steps but they couldn't see how many other humans enter, as the smoke cleared they saw at least six figures standing in the doorway the light from the outside prevented them from seeing them fully but as their eyes adjusted to the light they all got a better look at the humans.

"Hands where I can see- what the fuck?" Said the squad leader in a really deep mechanical voice.

The first thing they noticed was that these humans were wearing strange armor and were pointing what they assumed were weapons at them they all had the same skull emblem on their shoulders and looked pretty intimidating but the one that stood out the most was the one in the middle which seemed to be the shortest of the group and seem to be the one in charge as he was leading them in the hanger but it wasn't just his height That stood out, it was his armor and weapon and most importantly his helmet looked and it gave him a really scary appearance despite his size and his armor was similar to the dogs vest.

Nobody said a thing for a whole minute until the squad leader decided to break the silence.

"H-how- this can't be real-you're just made up characters from a kids show?" Said the squad leader.

"Who you calling made up!?" Rainbow and Skootaloo say in unison.

Wow these two are practically sisters...man Skootaloo looks kinda cute. the squad leader says in his head.

"Hey I'm talking to you I said who you calling fake!" Rainbow says flying closer to the squad leader the combat drones saw this as a threat and one of them fired a warning shot her.

*BANG*

The sound was so loud that the girls and had to cover their ears even though the shield Rainbow was on her butt, the shot went through the shield and grazed her left cheek(on her face not her butt get your head out of the gutter) the princess saw this and was preparing to attack.

"Whoa whoa stand down soldier stand down!" Said the squad leader says trying to defuse the situation in the hanger.

"What the hay man you could have killed me!" Rainbow shouts at the combat drone that shot at her.

"You do know your shouting at a combat drone right?" The squad leader says to her.

"A what?" Rainbow asked

"A combat drone, you know a robot, a machine." The squad leader explained.

"You mean these aren't humans there just lifeless machines?" Rainbow said sounding rude

"You know that's kinda messed up the way you explained it right." The squad leader stated.

"I agree with him Rainbow, you are a he right?" Rarity asked the squad leader to which he replied with a nod, "as I was saying there's no need for rude comments we are guest after all." She explains to her rainbow mane colored friend.

"That still doesn't excuse the fact that one of his drones nearly shot Rainbow dash!" Princess Celestia shouts.

"That's because she came at me in a aggressive matter and the drones are programmed to shoot at anything hostile and they saw her coming dangerously close to me that's why they opened fire to protect me!" The squad leader shot back.

The princesses and the group didn't know what to do they were trying to come up with an escape plan until the squad leader spoke.

"Look I take it we got off on the wrong foot so why don't we start over I'll start and explain who I am and why I said you didn't exist." The squad leader stated.

As he moved to take off his helmet the whole room was on the edge of their metaphorical seats as his hands went for his helmet his right hand went to the back of his helmet and it suddenly let out a hiss and caused the helmet to collapse down on itself until it was just a metal collar around his neck (think of Dead space) the first thing they noticed about him was that he was just a young teenager no older than sixteen or seventeen years of age they couldn't believe somepony so young was in the military.

"Anyway I am 1st Lt.Tyler Valentine and I'm second in command of the Punisher squad mercenary company and I hear by welcome you all on our base so long as you behave yourselves" he says while looking at Rainbow, "I will be happy to answer any questions you have to the best of my knowledge and the one I'm allowed to answer."

As he finished ponies raised their hands started and started asking questions including the princesses.

"Yes Pinkie what is your question?" Tyler asked as he stood right in front of the pink party mare.

"Why don't you like parties!?" She asked with her voice raised while grabbing him by the shoulders the drones saw this and raised their weapons everyone began to look worried as they thought she was going to get hurt or worse, Tyler saw this and acted quick.

"Squad stand down she's a non combatant." He said to the drones before they can cause harm to anyone.

The drones lowered their weapons and went back to their positions and everyone started to breathe easily knowing that everything was fine now.

"Ok Pinkie it's not that I don't like parties I just don't like them as much as I used to because on more than one occasion whenever me and my brother were at a party or a night club we would always be attacked by some wannabe rookie bounty hunter or gang member whose looking to make a name for themselves when they recognize us because of our helmets or the patches on our clothes,".

He then proceeds to show them their company logo that is on his BDU," and if you're going to ask me why didn't we take our helmets off it's so our enemies don't know what we look like I mean I can take my helmet off but I don't want to risk compromising my identity for our enemies to exploit but sometimes me or my brother have to go undercover in order to get the job done my brother can't show his face because he faked his death and is supposed to be dead so he can't risk possibly getting seen by any government agencies and have them tracking us down, I mean it's bad enough that the government has been trying to find out where our base is and we don't need to give them another reason to try to find us" he explained to the group.

After hearing his explanation the girls and the guards were cautious about the humans why were they hiding from their own government, why do they have bounties on their heads and why do they want them dead, Tyler saw and took note of their expressions and explained, " I can see the look on your faces so I will tell you why we have the bounties on our heads is because me and my brother put a stop to a few very dangerous crime organizations the really bad kind, the kind that deals in all sorts of illegal activities like drug trafficking,child abduction,illegal weapons deals,human trafficking,sex slavery,and murder. We get contacted by government agencies all the time to deal with these sorts of things, but we don't just do that, we also do disaster relief, hostage rescue, EOD (explosive ordnance disposal),espionage, and counter terrorism it's these things that gave our company the number two spot in being the most feared PMC's in the world, we make the bad guys think twice about causing trouble but sometimes they're too stupid and decide to make trouble like doing surprise bomb attacks in highly populated areas, which means we have to got and deal with the problem before they can hurt anyone else."

After he was done explaining about what he and his brother do he saw that all of the girls had mixed looks on their faces some were of shock, others were of sadness and others were in tears and some showed fear then one of them decided to speak.

*sniff* "How can somepony be so cruel" Fluttershy asks in tears.

"Why is there no peace between you're kind?" Princess Celestia asked with tears streaming down her face as well.

"How many innocent lives were taken by these criminal scum!" Princess Luna asked with anger.

"Far too many to count." Tyler said looking away.

The room was silent as they heard his answer and they did not like it.

"We need an exact number of casualties Lieutenant so we can help track down these criminals" Celestia asked Tyler.

Tyler looked at both princesses and motioned them to follow him when they started moving the girls and guards moved in to follow them Tyler saw this and told them that this was for the princesses ears only Twilight saw this as an opportunity to learn more and tried to follow them and Tyler told her that it was for Celestia and Luna's ears only she tried to argue but Celestia told her it was alright and to wait with her friends and the guards Twilight wanted to say something but kept quiet and went back to her friends.

Tyler took the princesses to the other side of the hanger and spoke, "what I'm about to tell you stays between us no matter what agree?" he asked both princesses.

"Agreed"

"Certainly Lieutenant"

"Before we get started do you have a spell that makes sure that this conversation stays between the three of us?"

"Yes I do" Princesses Celestia said as her horn glowed in a golden aura and put a soundproof bubble around the three of them.

Tyler looked at the magic bubble with amazement he never thought he would see real magic first hand the Celestia saw this and smiled it warmed her heart to see a smile on a young adult.

"I take it this is your first time seeing magic?" Princess Celestia asked.

"Yes this is my first time seeing real magic" Tyler responds.

"Now please tell us how many innocent lives were taken by these criminal scum" Luna asks Tyler snapping him out of his distraction.

Tyler looked at both princesses and spoke.

"*Sigh* 687 victims have fallen prey to these heartless monsters, some of which were just children no older than eight years old." Tyler said looking at the princess.

Celestia let out a gasp and placed her hands over her mouth and Luna was gripping the hilt of her blade with anger almost crushing it in the process.

"HOW CAN THOSE HEARTLESS MONSTERS BE ALLOWED TO LIVE FOR THEIR CRIMES!" Luna screamed using the royal canterlot voice causing Tyler to cover his ears.

Tyler always wondered how loud the canterlot voice was, now that he was experiencing it himself first hand he did not like it or the ringing in his ears.

"Oowww what the hell man my ears are ringing!" Tyler shouts while clutching his ears.

Luna saw that the Lieutenant was covering his ears and quickly composed herself.

"Goodness me I'm so sorry Lieutenant I did not mean to cause harm to your ears." Luna says feeling bad about unintentionally harming a child.

"What!?" Screamed Tyler.

"I said I'm sorry." Luna said.

"What!?" He repeated.

"She said she was sorry Lieutenant!" Celestia said to him.

"Who's Carly?, never mind let's just go back to the group so I can finish explaining everything!" Tyler says trying to understand them.

Twilight and the group watched as the Lieutenant and the princesses left to have the discussion of the casualties everyone was on edge a lot of things were happening from the base, the technology, to finding remnants of a ancient race long thought to be extinct what's next she looked to her friends and saw that some still had tears.

"You girls doing ok?" Twilight asked.

"Not really Twilight darling it's just so heart wrenching to think about the horrors that poor colt and his people been through" Rarity says looking at the young Lieutenant talking to the princesses on the other side of the hanger.

" what do the rest of you think?" Twilight says to everyone including the couple of guards that are with them.

The group wasn't sure what to think after hearing what the kid said some were trying to come up with something to say but had no luck until rainbow decided to speak.

"I don't trust him I think he made that story up just to throw us off or something." Rainbow said eyeing the young Lieutenant on the other side of the hanger.

*Gasp* "Rainbow how can you say something like that he's just a colt." Fluttershy says looking at her friend in shock.

"What anypony can come up with some fake sob story just to trick somepony, he said he and his brother specialize in espionage which is a form of stealing who's to say that they also don't lie for a living. Rainbow say looking at her friend.

Everyone was conflicted Rainbow was right he did say that, the guards didn't know if he or his brother could be trusted some were keeping an eye on the drones that he brought as backup trying to make sure they didn't do anything tensions were running high and some were getting nervous before it could escalate any further Applejack decided to speak out on his behalf.

"Rainbow ah don't think the colt is lying at all, in fact ah think he's telling the honest truth." Applejack says defending Tyler from Rainbows accusations.

"How do you know Applejack, how do you know he's not lying?" Rainbow says looking at her.

"I'm the element of honesty ah can tell when somepony is lying and ah can tell just from looking at him that he was being one hundred percent honest." Applejack states some of the others were calming down and others were agreeing with her because she was right.

Rainbow wanted to argue but Applejack was right she could always tell when somepony was lying.

"Fine but I'm keeping my eye on him and his brother." Rainbow says to Applejack.

Applejack couldn't help but shake her head at how unfair her friend was treating the young human colt without getting to know him first.

"Come on Scootaloo you agree with me right?" Rainbow dash asks.

...

"Scoots?"

...

She still didn't get an answer from her so she looked at her and saw that she was looking at the Lieutenant.

"See even she is keeping an eye on him." Rainbow pointed out

The girls looked at Scootaloo and saw that she kept looking in the direction where the princesses and Lieutenant were talking, one by one the girls and the guards were looking the conversation between the young Lieutenant and the princesses trying to figure out what is being said between the three it was during some point when they saw princess Celestia place both hands over her mouth and had tears streaming down her face and princess Luna get a look of anger and use the royal canterlot voice and the Lieutenant covering his ears from her using said voice he looked like he was in pain and saw Luna's face change from anger to worry that she unintentionally caused him pain they then saw her speak to him in a frantic matter then saw the Lieutenant who was still clutching his ears answer her back then saw Celestia speak to him as if she was trying to assure him that everything was ok he was answering he then shook his hand and then the princess cancelled out the spell and they began to walk back with the Lieutenant still rubbing his ears.

"Girls it looks like they're done speaking." Twilight pointed out.

"What do you think he told them?" Fluttershy asked.

"I don't know but I think we're about to find out." Twilight said as the three of them came back.

"Ah hope it wasn't anything too bad." Applejack says with concern.

"I agree darling." Says Rarity.

Tyler and the princesses were walking back and princess Luna was still giving apologies about his hearing and he told her it was alright and that she didn't mean it, as the three continue Tyler noticed Scootaloo was staring at him he could of sworn he saw a blush on her and he couldn't help but blush too but he tried his best to hide it and managed to calm down a little, he saw Rainbow dash looking at him with a glare thanks to his military training he could hear bits and pieces of what she was saying it was clear that she didn't trust him or his brother he could also hear Applejack defending him and he was great full as he got even closer he could hear what the girls were saying.

"Girls it looks like they're done speaking."

"What do you think he told them?"

"I don't know but I think we're about to find out."

"Ah hope it wasn't anything too bad."

"I agree darling."

"Looks like I'll have to make this quick if I want them to trust us can't have them spying on us" he thought as he tried to think of something to defuse the situation.

As they arrived Twilight immediately asked what he told them, as she got a closer look at princess Celestia she saw that her eyes were moist from tears that she had.

"Princess what's wrong?, what did he tell you?" Twilight asked with concern for her former mentor.

"Yes princess what did the colt say to make you look so distraught?" Rarity asked with concern filling the fashionista's voice as well.

"I'm sorry my little ponies but we promised the young Lieutenant that what was said between us will stay between us as this is something that you are not ready to hear." Princess Celestia stated.

"What!?, how come we're not allowed to know!" Rainbow shouts.

Princess Celestia was about to answer but was cut off by Tyler.

"Because we don't think you're ready or ever will be I saw how you all reacted when I explained what me and my brother do for a living and who we fight against, I mean how do you think Fluttershy will react if I told you what we talked about, she would probably have a nervous breakdown and I doubt you want to put her through that because you wouldn't leave it alone." Tyler states leaving Rainbow stunned.

"How do you know her name?" Rainbow asks with suspicion.

"As I said earlier that will be explained and I think I will explain now."

ok I think I got the hang of this whole how to do a story thing but only time and practice will tell