Harmony and I were standing outside the base waiting on the go ahead from Silver.

“Did I do the right thing?” I had been talking to myself since we left the last camp.

“You need to stop beating yourself up. I respect why you made the choice you did. Please stop beating yourself up.” Harmony laid a hoof on my shoulder.

“I don’t think I can. I just don’t know if I can do this anymore.” I put my head into my hooves.

“We’ll take a few weeks off after we finish with our work. I can understand not wanting to do this anymore. I’ve lived my entire life having to deal with stuff like this.” Harmony lifted my head up.

A flare was fired off in the distance. “Looks like Silver is ready. Let’s get this done.”

Silver’s POV

“How does that armor fit?” Onyx, Stone, and Demo had been given armor to fit in with the raiders.

“It is uncomfortable and too tight in all the wrong places.” Onyx was shifting around uncomfortably in his armor.

“Well I don’t think Demo minds seeing you like that.” Stone nudged Demo.

“Shut up Stone. I might just have to beat you up for saying that.” Onyx turned towards Stone.

“You won’t do it. At least not here and probably not for a few days seeing how Demo is eyeing you.” Stone put one of his hooves up.

“What I can’t help it. You put him in a form fitting suit and you expect me not to look. That is some bad thinking right there.” The entire time he was staring out of the corner of his eyes at Onyx.

“Well try not to get too lost in his flanks we still have a job to do.” I was levitating a flare gun. “Be ready. After I shoot the flare all of you are going to infiltrate the raiders ranks and kill them off stealthily.” I shot off the flare.

“Looks like we aren’t the only ones killing them stealthily.”

“But I thought we had an agreement with the others that these were our camps.”

“They went back on their words. They must die today and we'll make sure they die by our hooves. For the Queen.”

“For the Queen.”

Midnight’s POV

Two stallions were talking.

“Did you hear?” The first glanced around.

“Hear what?” The second stallion looked around for anything out of the ordinary.

“One of our other heavily armed outposts just got attacked.”

“Did anypony survive the attack?”

“No. All of the raiders there were killed.”

“Who did it?”

“Reports say it was a small group of ponies from New Appleloosa.”

“How many?”

“I don’t think the reports are accurate but last I heard six ponies.”

“Any reinforcements?”

“No. It was them and them alone that took down the outpost.”

“That sounds like horse shit.”

“Now you see why I think those reports aren’t accurate.” A donkey walked over.

“Oh hey fred how are you?”

“I’m doing fine how are you?”

“Another day in paradise. Well as much of paradise as we know.”

“I hear that. So what are you two talking about?”

“We were talking about how those reports must be false.”

“What reports?”

“Haven’t you heard?”

“Heard what?

“One of our outposts was wiped out by a group of six ponies.”

“Sounds like a load of shit.”

“Yeah glad to see we’re on the same page.”

A stallion yelled out in the distance. “Penis!”

“What the hell was that? Fred? Fred what are you doing?”

“The names not Fred. I’m death and I’m here to collect.” The two stallions in front of me dropped dead.

“Really. Why did we choose that word as the code word?”

“Because I thought it would be hilarious. Now back under cover.”

Silver’s POV

“Ready up you idiots. The changelings are attacking again. Do you remember the code word?”

“No I don’t.”

“Well you die then.” The two engaged in a gunfight ending in both of them dying.

“You are morons. If you had remembered the code word you would be alive. But I suppose it helps me if you don’t remember. I do need a few of you alive to take back to the queen so refrain from killing each other.”

“How many did she request we bring back?”

“She said we need to bring back two or three for her and one for the rest of us.”

“A bit greedy don’t you think?”

“Yeah and do you have to take that form? You look stupid like that.”

A new stallion trotted over. “Penis.”

“What?”

“Well I thought you might find that funny. But since you didn’t time to die.”

The two changelings erupted into flames. A scream more horrible than the sound of one million ponies crying out could be heard for miles.

“Well that’s one way to alert everypony to your presence. If you see the queen before you are gone tell her I said hello.”

Harmony’s POV

“Well that was horrendous. What the buck makes that kind of sound?”

“I don’t know of anything but I did see smoke so I’m going to guess something being burned to death. Somepony is trying to invade our outpost.”

“Well then we need to be prepared for them.”

“Who are you?”

“My name is. Hey what’s that?”

“Nice try I’m not falling for that.”

“You might want to listen to her.”

“And who are you?”

“I’m the angel of death and I’ve come to collect your soul. If you even have one.”

She unloaded into the raiders surrounding me. The raiders couldn’t see the armor she was in. Not one of the bullets pierced her armor.

“Good job. Next time try not to be late to the party.”

“You could have survived. They do only have small caliber weapons. Your armor is good at stopping bullets.”

“I still prefer not getting shot. It might not kill me but it still hurts like a motherbucker.”

“Well we better go back under cover so they don’t suspect us to be working against them.”

“How many do you think are left?”

“At least twenty maybe more.”

“Let’s get this over with.”

Midnight’s POV

A voice sounded over a speaker. “Everypony to the center of the outpost. We have ponies among us who are going to kill us if we don’t kill them first.”

“Well shit.”

“What was that for?”

“We have ponies trying to kill us. We need to work together to kill them. Keep your eyes peeled.”

“Well I don’t think that will be a problem.”

“Why?”

I drew closer to him. “Because I’m one of them.” I rammed a knife through his skull. “Pay more attention.”

Everypony was gathered in the center of the outpost. Everypony had their weapons drawn and was ready to kill anypony who stepped out of line.

“I have an important announcement to make. I like penis. That is all.”

I walked up to the microphone. “Well that was weird. Does anypony have anything else to add? Well if not we need to decide who needs to die. So I would like to make something known.” I decloaked. “I’m in charge now.”

“If you don’t give me one good reason not to kill you I’m going to shoot you in the skull and rape your corpse.” One of the raiders drew his gun on me.

“Well Silver if you wouldn’t mind dealing with him.” I looked around for Silver.

A bullet slammed into the stallions skull sending him spiraling. His body skidded to a stop and his gun levitated towards me.

“Thank you Silver. Does anypony else want to die?” I grabbed the gun and put it into my saddlebags.

“Do we have a choice?” A raider mare stepped forward.

“Well I mean you could be sex slaves for us. Or maybe we could make you mine in irradiated areas.” I smiled.

“Kill me now.” The mare dropped to her knees.

“Ok. Silver.” I cast my glance over to Harmony.

The mare died. The rest of our group trotted up next to me.

“Now then you will relinquish all of your guns or you will die.” I stepped to the side of the podium.

A mare stepped forward. “I’m calling your bluff.”

“Don’t make us kill you. You would make such a good sex toy.” I winked at the mare.

“Hey.” Harmony gave me dirty looks.

“Oh don’t worry she wouldn’t be just my slave. Oh she shot at us didn’t she?” I noticed the blue shield around us.

“What was your first clue?” Silver facehoofed.

“The fact that you had a shield over us. Or maybe the way the air around us has a blue tint. Either way thank you. Now do we want to continue bucking with them or kill them now?” I drew my .44.

“This is cruel and unusual so I say we just put them out of their misery.” Silver looked down to the crowd staring at us.

“Alright drop the shield after you take their guns.” I motioned for the others to draw their weapons.

“Alright.” All of the guns levitated towards us.

The only resistance Silver faced was the unicorns having stronger magic than he expected. The shield dropped and we opened fire. We left nopony standing.

“Alright one less base to take care of and we still have some daylight left. Call in the group who is supposed to defend this place and let’s go.” I trotted towards one of the gates.

“Can we please choose a different code word?” I sat across from Silver.

“Midnight we are not changing the code word for the rest of the mission. Do you have a problem with penis or something?” Silver had decided to sit with us instead of flying.

“Well seeing as I am not attracted to the thought of bucking a stallion I do happen to have a problem with penis. So yeah in conclusion buck penis but not actually.” I facehoofed.

“You’re no fun.” Harmony was sitting next to me.

“Harmony you should be backing me up here. You have a problem with penis as well.” I looked straight into her eyes.

“Well I have no problem with confusing ponies by yelling it out at the most random of times. So I say we don’t change it.” Harmony kissed me.

“Good because we are keeping the code word until our next mission. So shut up and focus we have to plan our next attack carefully.” Silver motioned for me to pull up the hologram.

“Well just looking at that place I’m not so sure about this.” I had the map pulled up and zoomed in as close as it would go.

“Silver do you think Midnight and I could be dropped down inside the camp?” Harmony was standing inspecting the outpost carefully.

“Well that armor will keep you from breaking limbs for a while longer than without it but we would need to drop you from less than fifty feet.” Silver rose to his hooves to get a better look at the map.

“We could do a couple of bombing runs with the grenades.” I checked my saddlebags for the grenades Demo had given me.

“We would only get one good shot at that. We have three grenades left and after that it is just guns.” Silver looked satisfied that this plan would work.

“Sounds like a plan to me. Unless somepony else has a better idea.” No responses. “Alright let’s do this.” I stopped the projection of the hologram.

“Who will be flying you two over the outpost?” Demo and Onyx trotted over.

“I think I’ll have Silver fly me over. You two get to fight over who flies Harmony over.” I pointed my hoof at both of my friends.

“Why is Silver flying you over?” Harmony was putting the helmet of her armor on.

“Because on the first pass over I will be tossing grenades upon the enemy. After that we will both be dropped into the base.” I grabbed my helmet.

“I guess that makes sense. Onyx you’re going to carry me.” Harmony was double checking all of the seals on her armor.

“Why me?” Onyx stepped towards her.

“Because I said so now shut those lips and let’s get a move on we’re running out of daylight.” Harmony pushed Onyx aside with her magic.

Onyx mumbled to himself. “How about I have Midnight shut your lips?”

“She opens them up more than you ever will.” Harmony kept walking.

I face hoofed. “Let’s just get going the sun is going to set in less than an hour.”

Silver hovered over me and grabbed ahold of me. “I’ll take Midnight over the base once and then we’ll drop them.”

“Alright.” Onyx trotted over to Harmony.

Silver lifted me into the air. I was levitating all three grenades next to me. We flew over the wall and I pulled the pins and dropped the grenades one by one.

The grenades exploded as Silver banked back towards the camp. A few pieces of ponies flew into the air leaving bloody messes where there body’s had been a few seconds before. I had a hard time not hurling thinking about how those ponies last few moments were.

“Three seconds to drop. Be ready.” We continued down towards the camp.

I pulled out my .44 and boar rifle and prepared to shoot anypony who decided to fight me.

“Dropping.” Silver dropped me as he buzzed over the top of the camp.

Harmony had been dropped on the other side of the outpost. The raiders were distracted with her and didn’t notice me until I started firing.

A few of raiders busted out of buildings dressed in full suits of power armor. “Shit.” I slid the .44 and the boar rifle back into me saddlebags switching them out for my .50 and the revolver.

“Do you think you have a chance against all of us? If you surrender now we’ll go easy on you for the first few days.” The biggest of the raiders was in a battle ready position as he talked to me.

“I don’t think so.” I called out to Silver. “Silver burn this bitch to the ground.”

“What the buck are you talking about?” He was able to turn his head just in time to see the fireball smash into him. He was thrown to the ground.

I galloped up to him bringing the revolver to bear on the side of his skull. “Do you want to keep talking?” I pulled the hammer back.

“You don’t have the balls to do it.” The stallion drew closer to me.

“You really want to take that chance?” I slowly started squeezing the trigger.

He looked off behind me. I almost missed it. “Yeah I think I do.” I could tell he was smiling underneath his helmet.

I spun the .50 caliber towards the raider sneaking up behind me. “I don’t think so hun. Stop right there unless you want to be full of lead.” I made a quick glance back to make sure I was on target.

“I will kill you if you lay a hoof on him.” The mare behind me had a sword drawn.

“Good thing you both die at the same time.” Both of my guns fired simultaneously killing both raiders quickly.

“Come in Midnight.” Harmony’s voice was urgent.

“Is something wrong Harmony?” I stopped and looked around to make sure I wouldn’t be attacked while I was talking.

“I’m pinned down in one of the buildings. Most of the outpost is trying to get in here.” I heard a loud thud on Harmony’s end. “Shit. They’re breaking down the door. Get over here quickly.” Harmony’s mic shut off.

I started galloping towards where I had last seen Harmony. I was stopped as a hoof slammed into my side. I was tossed into the wall of the building I had been galloping past.

“Running low on health potions. Stop using these up so much. Those potions are expensive dammit.” Aurora flashed into existence in my helmet.

“Understood Aurora. Great another power hoofed pony.” I turned to face my target.

An earth stallion stood before me wearing a small amount of armor. His front right hoof was held where it had hit me.

“Well I expected you to take a longer time to get back up. I suppose that armor probably saved you from death. I like that. A pony who can take a pounding. You might just be useful if you surrender.” the stallion returned his hoof to the ground.

“I don’t think I will.” I put the barrel of the revolver up to the stallion’s skull. “Now just die.” I pulled the trigger.

The stallion quickly rolled off to his left. He had planned to let that bullet slam into me and kill me. I had moved out of the way as the bullet slammed into my front right leg. I had to give it to Onyx the armor did slow the bullet down quite a bit but it still went completely through shredding my leg to bits.

“What the buck did I just say Midnight? Am I just talking to get myself off or something? Never mind, I’ll administer the last health potion we have. Don’t get hit again and next time maybe shoot him in the face.” Aurora was shaking her head.

I got back to my hooves putting very little weight onto my front leg. The wound healed up quickly leaving me feeling weak.

“Well well well. You just don’t want to go down. I’m going to put a stop to that.” The stallion took a few steps forward.

“No you aren’t.” Silver landed in between us.

“Says who?” The stallion was preparing to attack.

“Says the pony who can do this to you.” He ripped the head off of one of the dead raiders and slammed it into the stallions gut. He dropped to the ground with a solid thud. “Now then.” He put the blade on his wing up to the stallion’s throat.

“I’m going to help Harmony.” I put as much weight back onto my leg as I could.

“Ok. I’ll be along shortly.” Silver’s eyes never left the stallion on the ground.

I spun around and galloped as fast as I could without of tripping. The raiders still hadn’t broken through the door to Harmony. I slipped out the boar rifle and started firing upon the group. Every shot was slightly painful for my newly healed leg. I took out three of them before they started shooting back.

“How are you doing out there?” Harmony’s voice was a bit staticy.

“About as good as somepony who just about lost her leg can be. How are you doing?” I slowed down and put a little more concentration on talking.

“Did you just say you almost lost your leg?” Concerned entered Harmony’s voice.

“Yes. I took a large caliber bullet to the front right leg.” Thinking about it made it hurt worse.

“Are you ok?” I could tell she about ready to make a run for it to get to me.

“Yes. Aurora is taking care of me.” I watched as Aurora appeared on my hud again.

“Yeah and again do not take another hit we don’t have any more health potions.” Aurora flashed a little counter onto my hud.

“Understood. Now then how do we go about killing the rest of these morons?” I ducked down behind some cover.

“I think Silver has it covered.” Aurora looked up as Silver fly overhead.

Silver dropped out of the air and landed in cover next to me. A few bullets had hit his wings leaving small holes.

“Are you going to be okay?” I pointed to his wings.

“Yeah. A few bullet holes never stopped me before. Do you have a health potion?” Silver fluttered his wings.

“All out. Harmony do you have a health potion?” I peaked over the half wall.

A hint of annoyance entered Harmony’s voice. “Did you get hit again?”

“No Silver has quite a few holes in his wings.” I ducked back down.

“I’ve got one or two left if you get me out of here. Shit they broke through the door. Hurry up and kill them please.” Harmony’s mic went silent again.

“You ready Silver?” I shut off my mic.

“Let’s kill these motherbuckers.” Silver jumped out over the wall.

I peeked over the debris I was hiding behind. Silver had sent most of the raiders running with a well placed fireball. Those that were left were burnt and trying to get back up. Silver was quick to put them out of their misery.

“I did say I could use some help right now didn’t I?” Harmony’s voice was full of urgency.

“Sorry we’re on our way.” I rolled over the small chunk of wall and trotted over to the open door.

Silver had thrown himself at anypony who had lived through his fireball. The raiders had smashed the door in with a battering ram that they discarded just inside the door.

“What the buck was that?” I pointed to a corpse that was different from the rest.

“A changeling. I had my suspicions about these little bastards being around here. This just proves we need to be more careful in the future.” Silver was knelt down next to the corpse.

“So what exactly happened in here?” I looked around the room. The walls were scorched and full of holes.

“Well Midnight we are no longer dealing with just stupid and insane raiders. Now we have to deal with these changelings.” Silver kicked the corpse as he got up.

“It seems you dealt with that one well enough.” I stared at the burnt corpse.

“Have you ever dealt with these buckers?” Silver lifted the corpse outside with his magic.

“Once before. It was really easy to figure out which one was the changeling. I just had to ask a question about my personal life.” I looked around for Harmony.

“They always travel in small groups. So any way you killed them before the entire hive knows how to counteract that. Better start thinking up new ways to trick them.” Silver trotted farther into the building.

“Ok. Harmony are you ok?” I finally found her as she rose from cover.

“A whole lot better now that you’re here.” She trotted over to me and tried to kiss me.

“Might help if we weren’t wearing armor.” She stared at me. “Just a thought.” I shrugged.

“What are you talking about?” Harmony tilted her head sideways.

“If you’re trying to play a prank on me then you should probably stop.” I was beginning to be suspicious.

The Harmony before me started shifting. “This isn’t a prank you oaf. I’m a changeling and I have just used you.” The changeling put a hoof to my chest.

“What the buck do you mean?” I slapped the hoof to the ground.

“It fed off of your love making myself stronger.” A wicked grin crossed the changeling’s face.

“Oh. In that case.” I drew the .44 and plugged the changeling with three bullets.

I spun round to see Silver looking around suspiciously. “Is there something wrong?” I kept my gun out.

“Well I do have a few holes in my wings and Harmony is nowhere to be seen. So yeah quite a few things are wrong here.” Silver kept looking around.

A door in the back of the building opened up and a changeling dragged Harmony out. He saw us and looked very displeased.

“I thought you had taken care of the others.” The changeling dropped Harmony to the ground.

Silver transformed into a changeling. “I wasn’t the one supposed to deal with her. But I suppose I could just do this.” He stepped forward and smashed a brick into my skull.

“I’ll kill you.” I dropped my gun.

“Perhaps one day but today will not be the day. Now go to sleep.” The changeling grabbed another brick.

I slipped into sleep after getting hit with another brick.