It's already one week and a half in Afghanistan. She sent into various of missions for that long time. But all of those mission she did before, is much worse than expected.

Twilight was having a breakfast, alone outside the barrack as she guarded the west side with the machine gun on the sandbag. While she was eating, suddenly her phone rang. When she looked on the phone, it was Sunset Shimmer calling her. She then put the phone next to her ear and answered.

"Hello, Sunset?" answered Twilight.

"Hi, Twilight," said Sunset. "How are ya doing?"

"Doing great," replied Twilight in soft tone. "I have a vacation on my own."

"Oh really, where?" asked Sunset, her question had Twilight to think of a lie. She can't let her know she's in war, because she'll never knew what would happen if Sunset heard it.

"Oh, well," said Twilight, agitated a little. "I'm in Las Vegas."

"Oh really?!" asked Sunset, excited. "How was it feel staying there?"

"Pretty hot here to be honest," replied Twilight, losing her doubt. "But it is really a big city."

"Aawww, such a shame," said Sunset. "Well, Twilight, we need you here."

"Why?" asked Twilight. "I though you were super busy."

"Yeah, but..." replied Sunset, with a little tilt of the tone. "Actually we're doing a big project here, to spend the rest of our day.

Twilight was shocked to hear that, she dropped the spoon and she was speechless as she hold still. "Uhh, Twilight, you're okay?"

"Sorry, but, uh, i can't get back to you now," replied Twilight in sad. "I'll be home after one week and a half."

"Wait, what?!" asked Sunset, surprised.

Ramirez quickly ran off to Twilight and called her. "Hey, Dolker wants to meet you!"

"Sorry, Sunset, i gotta go, bye!" said Twilight quickly.

"Wait,-" said Sunset before Twilight turned off the phone and get up and ran meet Dolker.

Back in Sunset's house, Sunset were frowned in disbelieve. She turned around at the five who are smiling waiting for good expectation. The five then felt something wrong after looking at Sunset's frowned face.

"Is anything okay?" asked Pinkie.

"She would be back for another one week and a half," replied Sunset, everyone was shocked to the news.

"Wait, yah must be kidding me," said Applejack, protested.

"No, she really mean it," replied Sunset, shook her head.

"Aw jeez, this is not fun!" said Rainbow in stress as she quickly jumped into the couch.

"Do you think she's up to something?" asked Fluttershy, seems worried.

"I don't know, but she was sound in a hurry," replied Sunset, confused as she scratched her head.

"Where was she anyway, darling?" asked Rarity, folding her arms.

"She said she was in Las Vegas," replied Sunset. "But i doubt she was there."

"Why do you think so?" asked Applejack in wonder.

"I heard a voice, sound like a boy," replied Sunset.

"Wait, she's with another boy?!" asked Rainbow, surprised.

"No, it's sounds not like a boy," replied Sunset, her hand is on her chin. "But it sounds like a man, calling her."

"Huh, a man?" asked Pinkie, confused.

"Yeah, a man," replied Sunset, nodded.

"You know? Ah' suggest we just wait for her to come back," said Applejack. "We then asked her about it."

"I guess you're right," said Sunset. "Let's us work on our project."

Back in Afghanistan, Twilight was talking to Dolker about the mission today. They're going to a small city called Ghorak. Twilight was assigned to be sniper support in Ghorac with Laner while the rest of Lt. Dolker's group is going with Sgt. Foley's group, Hunter 2-1 to sweep the streets and buildings along with the soldiers from the First Platoon. Everyone was heading to the humvees, when Ramirez met up with her.

"Hey, Corporal," greeted Ramirez.

"Hey, Private," greeted back Twilight. "So, you're cleaning the streets out?"

"Yep, should be good," replied Ramirez. "Just hope we didn't get run into some crazy kamikazes on the way."

The both of them laughed, then smiled. "Who did you called back there?" asked Ramirez in wonder.

"It's Sunset," replied Twilight, her face then frowned. "My friend back at home."

After Ramirez sees how's her face was, he knew what's wrong. "You... don't dare to tell them that you're here?"

"Ye-yeah," replied Twilight, nervously. "I don't know what she will react along with the rest of my friends back there."

"What your friends doing back at home?" asked Ramirez.

"They said they'll be super busy for these weeks, but they just said to me that they're doing a big project," replied Twilight, mad. "But i'm fucking missed it!" They both then paused for a moment before Ramirez speaks.

"Sorry to hear that," said Ramirez with pity.

"Thanks," said Twilight, relieved and smiled.

"We should get going, they're waiting for us," said Ramirez, pointing at the humvees with his mother finger.

"Let's go," said Twilight.

They all then get in the humvees and headed to Ghorak city. They had to pass an open dirt road to reached there, which is very risky to get attacked by enemy militias. But, lucky for them, they didn't get attack on the road. Upon reaching, Twilight and Laner headed to the high building in the south side of the city. They both had to calm the civilians down to do it. After they taking positions, Hunter 2-1, Bravo 2-7, and the First Platoon head in and checked every buildings and streets they entered.

"This is gonna be hard," complained Laner as he looked through the scope of his Barrett sniper to see the vast of the city.

"Yeah," agreed Twilight, she saw something in front of the first platoon with the SVU Dragunov scope.

"First Platoon Leader, this is Eagle Eye," said Twilight via radio. "We spotted some suspicious individuals around 3 to 4 man, about 20 meters ahead of you, over."

"Roger that, Eagle Eye, we're checking them now, over," replied back the First Platoon Leader.

"Roger that, proceed with caution," said Twilight.

Twilight and Laner both looked towards the individuals that Twilight spotted. As they watched them, 5 soldiers including the leader himself approach the suspicious individuals while calling them over.

"Oi, you," said the Platoon Leader while he is pointing at them, the 4 individuals were a bit confused with their language except their body gestures.

"Yes, you four! Come here," said the Platoon as nodded and giving a hand gesture to 'come here'.

The 4 individuals approached the soldiers in nervous. But then Twilight saw one of the person behind the three individuals is starting to take something underneath his coat.

"Laner, looked at one of the man behind the three of them," said Twilight.

"I see him," said Laner, they both then looked at the target and found out he was pulling out a grenade.

"Platoon Leader, get out from there now, one hostile behind them is about to throw a grenade!" said Twilight quickly via radio.

The Platoon Leader then panicked. "Everyone get back, now!" he shouted as they ran back to the friendlies.

The hostile burst out from behind the three men and about to throw a grenade. But, Twilight manage to shot him first in time before he throw the grenade. He was shot and died while the active grenade fell out from his hand and landed in front of him. The grenade then blew up. It made all soldiers in the city ducked and the hostile's dead body got burned wound, while the three civilians were dragging themselves backward before ran into their house in panic.

"That was a close one, thanks Eagle Eye," said Platoon Leader via radio. "I owe you one."

"Your welcome," replied back Twilight before she closed the radio.

"How did you know that?" asked Laner.

"When you see someone who is nervous, that's the guy who wants to kill us," said Twilight.

"Makes sense," said Laner, making a straight mouth gesture implying 'oh'.

After 2 hours of securing the city, they all returned back to the COP. No soldiers and civilian casualties, except for the bad guys. Distance from the city to the COP is around 15 kilometers. While driving, it felt like it was a really long day for Twilight. She then starts to remember any battle she encountered before one by one as her eyes looked forward the roads.

It was the third day of week one where she was assigned by Command in Operation Black Eyes. She remembered that time when her squad and Ramirez and Dunn wanted to clear out one of enemy stronghold in stealth. But it was failed and they had to clear it out loudly. Cpl. Dunn got shot three times by an enemy with AK. She shot the enemy down and dragged Dunn to safety that time.

Because that Operation went loud, the enemy managed to get reinforcement to the stronghold. But, they all lucky enough to survive the enemy reinforcement because they were gunned down by US Air Support, a plane called AC-130.
After that Twilight looked around her, dead bodies of enemies are still there, with Dunn who got wounded for awhile by them. She glad they survived that.

It seems a real nightmare to her when she didn't realize that she and her squad and the others have reached their COP. They have reached back on the evening, Dolker and his squad get off from their humvee and see that Twilight was a bit tired than before.

"You're okay, Corporal?" asked Lt. Dolker. "You don't look so good."

"I'm just tired, that's all," said Twilight while looking towards his eyes.

"Is the battles here bothering you?" asked Dolker, raising his right eyebrow.

"Not bothering," replied Twilight, as she walked to the barracks leaving Dolker behind. "It gave me nightmares."

Lt. Dolker just shook his head and then Sgt. Foley came at him from his left and stopped next to him. "Girls these days," said Foley to Dolker before he left Dolker there, making him confused on what Foley said mean as he turned around at Foley's direction.

At night, Twilight, Jeremy and Rendor were talking together at Twilight's room. While they were talking, Twilight was doing some sort of research like back at home, the difference is she was researching to make a new kind of ammo for the soldiers. She was nearly suceeded to make an incendiary bullet. But then, she missed one material for it.

"Damn, i just need one more thing to finished it," said Twilight in annoyed.

"What do you need?" asked Rendor.

"Who got sulfur?" asked Twilight as she turned around at them both.

"I think Laner has one," said Jeremy.

"Why would he have any sulfur, Lucas?" asked Rendor, surprised.

"He is not just a bookworm, he is also a researcher," said Jeremy, with a little of light tone. "I'll go asked Laner."

"Ok," said Twilight, Jeremy then left the room to find Laner, only Rendor and Twilight were still in that room.

"Does these... battles or wars... make you feel good?" asked Rendor, doubting his words to asked her.

"I don't know," replied Twilight in sad tone. "I just felt guilty, you know."

"Does Dolker got annoyed about that?" he asked.

"I don't think so, since i'm just a high-school girl," she replied. "But he seems to be worried about me when i was screaming by my nightmares."

Twilight did have nightmares about it for the past one week and a half. She was sleep talking loudly, only Dolker who got woke up by it and checked on Twilight if she's okay. The rest of them still sleep, like they were heavy sleeper.

"I see, how's your magic doing anyway?" asked Rendor.

"Still doing fine," replied Twilight, then Jeremy came back with the sulfurs.

"Here it is," said Jeremy as he putted the sulfurs on her table.

"Good, thanks," said Twilight, Jeremy then nodded.

After 10 minutes, Twilight just finished her first incendiary bullets for M9 pistol.

"Give me that M9," said Twilight as she points her finger at the pistol on the chair on the opposite side.

"Here," said Rendor, throwing the M9 Berreta to Twilight's hand.

She then insert the ammo to the pistol and try to shoot it at the dart target on the wall. After she shot it, the target leaves a hole but around it, it's fire burning the target around the bullethole.

"Shit, you're kidding me?" said Jeremy surprised as he quickly put out the fire with his gloves.

"Oh, that works out well," said Rendor, astonished.

"Looks like my skill really pays off," said Twilight gladly.

"Yeah, good thing we have you, we just need to be prepared tomorrow," said Jeremy.

"Let's us go sleep then," said Twilight as she nodded.