The yellow flag was up and Arrow led Unit 17 into a cruise and easy landing.

“Lieutenant Arrow,” Nova greeted them.

“Mom! Dad! What are you doing here?” Arrow asked as she hugged them.

“Lighting told us you were busy getting things set up and said you asked her to contact us. She told us to arrive here, today,” Azure Charm explained.

“I am in the middle of training!” Arrow growled before letting out a frustrated scream.

“I am going to punch her,” Arrow declared. “She can’t push me around any longer. She probably has gotten soft with her head in that Cloudship.”

“I can’t just step out from this training,” Arrow said, mostly to Nova. “I have to lead my Unit so that our trainee can pass ACS. I have to keep an eye on the officers training so that we can make the best decision to round out Unit 17.”

“Why does she have to ruin everything?” Arrow whined.

“It’s okay,” Gusty Star said hugging his daughter. “Its going to work. Somehow. We only just got here and put our stuff in our room. We will figure it out.”

Arrow nodded with a smile before fear struck. If her parents were here, Lighting must not be far behind.

Little got up from her spot on the bridge. “Lieutenant, bring us in. The Captain and I will head above to be able to depart when we arrive.”

“Yes Ma’am,” Deke smiled.

The Squad Barracks were in sight. Deke waited until he got confirmation that they were at the nose of the Buttercup and ready to depart. It was time for some payback.

“Engines, I need full power,” Deke said over the intercom.

“Coming Sir.”

Deke pushed the Buttercup to it’s limits. He adjusted the heading so they would be off to the side of the Squad Barracks.

“Everything looks clear,” Bronze Valve informed Deke.

He knew the plan and approved of it. He was the only other one who knew the plan. Right now, Ruby Snow and Little had to be pressed against the wall as they sped forward, unable to move. Even better, they were wearing their dress uniforms. They were not in any real danger.

When they began to pass the Squad Barracks, Deke reversed the left engine and applied the left break flaps. The ship swung around at an impressive speed. It hooked to the left and Deke ran a full stop right in front of the main doors to the Squad Barracks. A perfect 180 at high speeds.

“Congratulations,” Bronze Valve smiled at Deke. “A perfect bootleg turn. I am going to get so much heat from Ruby for letting you pull this stunt. Especially where he is.”

Deke chuckled and prepared the Buttercup to descend into a landing. On the flight deck. Cutting it in half.

Little recovered as the Buttercup touched down. She hopped off the nose to get to safety. Her uniform was a mess.

“Mother fucking idiotic Lieutenant with shit for brains and no sense of safety, regard for others, and class. All he thinks about is himself and being in charge, ignoring doing his fucking duty. Damn Bastard.”

“Sorry,” Little blushed when she saw her parents were right there. “He was supposed to take it in nice and easy. Safely since there are teams in the sky. But no, he had to make an entrance for himself. Whatever that was.”

“That was,” Ruby Snow said as he came over straightening his uniform. “A bootleg turn. Now the crew is going to have to recalibrate the engines. But something tells me he had that planned. Not even you have tried that. You have not even asked permission. Plus, you wanted to make an entrance.”

Little growled.

Deke dropped out of the sky next to them. “I gave you your entrance.”

Nova chuckled. “My flight deck officer is not going to be happy. That was beyond dangerous and we are in the middle of Aerial Combat School. Thank goodness they are still in the conditioning and team building stages.”

“But,” Nova shrugged. “She will be here in 3… 2… 1…”

“WHO IS THE MOTHER FUCKER THAT PULLED THAT IDIOT STUNT. I AM GOING TO MAKE YOU MY BITCH UNTIL I FUCK WHAT LITTLE BRAINS YOUR HAVE LEFT AND THEY ARE TURNED TO LIQUID AND POUR OUT YOUR EARS AND DRIP OUT YOUR NOSE!”

Marble Falls barged her way in, pushing aside Azure Charm into Gusty Star, almost toppling him as well.

“You idiots!” She screamed. She pointed at Deke. “I knew you were not the brightest, but!”

Marble Falls was out of words. Cardinal Spitfire was behind her. She just shook her head.

Marble Falls finally figured out what to say. “I am going to burn you alive! I am a Wonderbolt and am in charge of the safety here! And we are in training!”

“It was Deke,” Little pointed.

“You wanted an entrance,” Deke shot back. “For seeing your sister and parents. I delivered what you asked for. Sorry you can’t take the heat.”

“I can’t take the heat!”

“You mind must still be ice from up north!”

The two of them were face to face and moving further and further away from the relevant conversation.

“When did she become that, hot headed?” Arrow asked. “I mean, she always could push me around. A standard big sister, but I have never heard her that, argumentative.”

“Oh, its just a little bit of, training,” Ruby Snow chuckled. “It is making them both better officers. They are taking bigger risks and pushing themselves to stay sharp. Deke executed that perfectly. Sorry about that.”

“So I get to flay him alive,” Marble Falls smirked. “He was good when I trained him, but this is a new side of him.”

“Yeah,” Cardinal Spitfire chuckled. “He was confident, and a bit arrogant, but he played nice.”

Ruby Snow chuckled. “Iron sharpens iron.”

Marble Falls rolled her eyes, still pissed off.

She growled. “That thing needs to get off of my flight deck and parked safely where it belongs!”

Ruby Snow turned to the Buttercup and waved his hoof to signal the bridge to move. Bronze Valve carefully moved the Buttercup up and away. Gently, exhibiting great skill and fines.

“That is how you move a Cloudship,” Ruby Snow declared.

“I don’t give a shit,” Marble Falls spat. “It is a miracle nopony was hurt.”

“I HAVE SKILL!” Deke yelled at Marble Falls. “That was not a miracle! I was in full control of the entire area!”

“YOU DO NOT HAVE SKILL!” Little screamed. “I can’t believe we let you fly that, let alone man the guns!”

“You let him man the guns!” Marble Falls yelled at Ruby Snow.

“YEAH!” Deke declared. “I can do it all and do do it all! If I had some blanks I would have given you a real grand entrance. I couldn’t convert any of them. Bronze Valve checked.”

Little let out a huge right of relief and then regretted it.

“Damn it!” Deke exclaimed. “I did have blanks on standby! Bronze Valve...”

“Was making sure your minimized your stupidity!” Little growled.

“He helped me orchestrate your perfect entrance,” Deke huffed.

“You are getting dangerously close to seeing why they call me Lightning!”

They were back at it and, again, off to irrelevant arguments.

“Uh, what does she mean?” Arrow asked Ruby Snow. “That is her name.”

Ruby Snow raised an eyebrow and then smiled.

“That sly little…” Ruby Snow said shaking his head. “Its got to be her gimmick. I have always heard her say that. She is confident and strong, and has no trouble commanding, but she uses it for her final leverage. She has never shown any ‘lightning.’ I bet she has no lightning. Deke has pushed her enough she should have let it go.”

Gusty Star laughed. “That would be our daughter.”

“We are getting nowhere,” Arrow stated. “I still need to punch her for scheduling this. I didn’t plan it. I am a trainer at this school.”

“And I need you,” Olive Pit sighed. “Badly. I need something right.”

“STOP!” Deke said putting his hoof on Little’s mouth to shut her up.

“Need something right?” Deke asked Olive Pit.

“A long story,” Olive Pit stated. “After she deals with you. If you are alive to find out out.”

“Yeah,” Marble Falls growled.

Deke chuckled nervously. “Lieutenant.”

Cardinal Spitfire rolled her eyes. “It’s Captain.”

“Captain?” Deke gulped.

“Cardinal Spitfire?” Marble Falls growled. “Suggestions?”

“All out,” Cardinal Spitfire sighed. “Fucking Unit 0.”

“Unit 0?” Deke asked, pushing his luck.

“No heckling them,” Olive Pit ordered. “Either of you. I am having a little bit of unexpected trouble with those under my command and I don’t need to add either of you on top of it!”

“Yeah,” Deke stammered. “Right. I won’t. Maybe I can-”

“No!” Olive Pit cut him off. “Stay out of it. It is my Unit and my problem.”

“Lieutenant Olive Pit!” Fountain called out.

They parted open to let her in. Unit 0 was begin paraded up and stopped a ways off, but in sight. The group had grown to include Tuff, Astral Sunrise, Flags and several other top officers there to confirm the current operations and the interruption.

“Sorry to break whatever this up,” Fountain said, tossing a bottle to Olive Pit.

Olive Pit caught the bottle as it rebounded off his chest. It was unmarked but he knew it wasn’t good. His heart stopped as he opened it. The smell was undeniable. He popped the top on and launched it at Deke, who expected it and caught it.

“I don’t get it?” Deke said looking inside. “What is it?”

“Buck,” Olive Pit spat. “Cut so its less potent. The smell is the give away. And after the breaks I have given them. And the perks to help them get back on their game. They spit in my face me with this shit.”

Olive Pit stormed over to Unit 0. For once they were organized, at attention and looking proper.

“We’re done,” Olive Pit snorted. “You can go back to your rooms. Enjoy the time you have left. Dismissed.”

They fell out and Olive Pit dropped his head, defeated.

“I said I was having problems,” Olive Pit said stumbling over. “But I still have to pass ACS.”

“Lieutenant?” Sunset Fury called.

“There is no excuse,” Olive Pit replied.

“I was not trying to make one,” Sunset Fury said. “Permission to speak freely?”

Olive Pit couldn’t look at him. “Granted.”

“I am sorry. I trained you in CMS. I know how great you are as an officer. I know how skilled you are as a Combat Medic. You gave us everything you could. You fixed the schedule. You reminded the whole Squad Barracks what Unit 0 was supposed to be and that it even existed.”

“I am sorry I failed you. I let them get to me. I wasn’t a strong enough Master Sergeant for you. I wasn’t a Master Sergeant to you. But I am still a Master Sergeant. Your Master Sergeant for Unit 0. What are you going to do?”

Olive Pit turned around to face him. “Unit 0 has not see the twelve Lieutenant Razzleberry is training. I haven’t let you see them for a reason. They will pass ACS. If I need to, I will promote from within. However, I won’t need to. All Unit 0 technically needs is one officer. Just me.”

“I understand. Thank you,” Sunset Fury said walking away.

“FUCK” Olive Pit scream as he dropped to the ground. “So fucking simple.”

“Nova,” Marble Falls asked in a panic. “Permission to tear this place apart.”

“Granted!” Nova shot back.

“On it!” Astral Sunrise said. “I’ll have them organized in pairs in two minutes. Cardinal Spitfire, with me.”

“Yes Ma’am!” Cardinal Spitfire saluted before dashing after her.

“Lieutenant Arrow,” Nova said. “Sorry, but I need Unit 17. Take 32, 39 and 65. Split them into pairs and make them stand guard. No Unit is to head to their Unit.”

“Yes Sir!” Arrow said rushing off.

Nova shook his head. “I am sorry you had to see this,” He said to Arrow’s parents. “We have never had a drug problem. I am not even sure how they got it there.”

“Colonel,” Ruby Snow said. “That unit is not at their normal rooms?”

“No, we moved them to a regular Unit that was free to try and help them make it. They all have a larger unit for the Combat Medics with individual rooms.”

“Then we need to tear it apart,” Little said, on the same track with Ruby Snow. “Before they get there. I don’t think they will rush.”

“I’ll block the door!” Marble Falls said zipping off at Wonderbolt speeds.

Little hugged her parents and then was right behind Ruby Snow. Deke helped pick Olive Pit up.

“Lieutenant,” Nova said. “Take him to my office. I will be up there shortly.”

It didn’t take Nova long to finish up and meet them in his office. Olive Pit was in his chair, slumped against the wall.

“Alright Lieutenant,” Nova said sitting down. “What is your plan.”

“Retire most of the senior NCOs, transfer those sergeant level or below. Start fresh with Razzleberry’s group. They are good picks and will make strong medics.”

“With no guides,” Nova replied.

“I have the next ACS to deal with that.”

“They deserve another go,” Deke said. “You don’t give up. I know you can find a way to motivate them.”

“He has tried,” Nova stated. “For weeks. They have the best trainers, but they are not responding to any forms of positive or negative reinforcement techniques. They failed themselves.”

Deke slammed his hoof on the desk. “Not good enough! I will not let Olive Pit fail.”

“He hasn’t,” Nova smiled. “They say there are no bad students, only bad teachers. But this is a real situation where there are bad students, and many good teachers. But you are a good friend for not letting him fail.”

“Then I will take charge,” Deke declared.

“It’s over,” Olive Pit reiterated.

“Tomorrow I go to them and try again,” Deke said, not backing down. “For you and you alone!”

“No,” Olive Pit said shaking his head. “But if you want, you can try the day after. Let them think and recuperate.”

“I will allow this,” Nova nodded.

The phone rang.

“Yes?” Nova answered it. “Wonderful. Well, not. But good to hear.”

Nova hung up and leaned forward onto his desk. “That was General Red River. They have launched a full investigation and are ripping headquarters apart for any illicit materials. They will finish with the recruits. We do not believe there is any problem there. They are tightly controlled.”

“The Wonderbolts are aggressively ripping everything to pieces. Tomorrow will be a clean up day. I do not know how they got that Buck, but it will be taken care of.”

“It’s not that hard,” Olive Pit replied shaking his head. “Not in the medical field. The clinic has several bottles. It is a steroid and has it’s medical uses. But they cut that into small doses as a booster. Otherwise, it would have been a noticeable difference.”

Olive Pit stood up. “I am one of three who have the key to that cabinet. The other two are Master Sergeant Sunset Fury and Sergeant Major Willow. One of them is on duty at all times. Although, currently their keys are with the senior NCOs watching the clinic.”

“I will let you get to work,” Nova said. “I think I will catch Lieutenant Deke up on some things.”

Olive Pit headed down stairs with renewed purpose and to the clinic. He scared them as he barged in.

“Lieutenant!” They scrambled to attention and to salute.

“At ease,” Olive Pit ordered. “I am not here for you. Has anypegasus accessed the restricted medications?”

“Yes,” The First Sergeant said. “I did. Two days ago. A routine inventory check, on my schedule. I check the stock I watch over on a schedule I use, outside of the required routine ones. Even here I stuck to my schedule and my personal notes for my records. I have all of that paperwork properly filed with the rest. I know its been a few days since you came in to collect them. I know I can find it.”

“Please do,” Olive Pit said pulling out his key. “Did you check every bottle?”

“Yes,” The First Sergeant. “And I counted every pill if it was open.”

Olive Pit ripped everything out in an organized fashion. There were three bottles of Buck. None were open. Olive Pit did his own inventory check of the entire cabinet. As he expected, it matched the First Sergeants and the previous check.

Olive Pit took it to his office. Marble Falls was keeping them all out of Unit 0 to their quiet disdain.

“Lieutenant,” Marble Falls nodded as he approached.

They were smart enough to leave him a wide berth to pass through. Olive Pit unlocked his office door and then locked it behind him. One of the file cabinets held every single inventory they had done. Since it was a locked and secured cabinet, they had to only do quarterly inventory. Each report for the restricted cabinet was pulled out and matched up fine. The drugs did not come from their cabinet.

Olive Pit picked up his phone and called over to the Headquarter's hospital.

“Hello?”

“This is Lieutenant Olive Pit.”

“Checking in on the drugs?”

“Yes Sir.”

“We are cross referencing the past few years of medication use. But there are not any immediate discrepancy.”

“Good,” Olive Pit sighed. “Just as it should be. My cabinets are squared away. I don’t want these from our medicine cabinets.”

“I am sorry to hear of this issue, and of your other problem. We over here are routing for you.”

“Thank you.”

Olive Pit hung up and looked at all the papers on his desk. He didn’t feel like cleaning up, but if he didn’t, it would only make things worse. Right now, he remembered where they belonged.

He was almost done when somepony tried to open the door. They were not expecting it to be locked and slammed their head into the door.

“One moment,” Olive Pit called. “Just putting a few things back.”

Olive Pit unlocked it to find Ruby Snow and Little there. Little was still rubbing her head where it had hit the door.

“Come on in. I keep it locked most of the time. Medical records after all.”

They sat down down at the sitting area.

“It is good to see you coherent,” Ruby Snow said. “But we do have a problem.”

Little dropped a bag onto the table and Olive Pit sighed.

“Buck wasn’t the only thing we found,” Little stated. “Or the only thing we found that we decided should not be around.”

“Any real problems I should be aware of?”

“Yeah,” Ruby Snow said passing Olive Pit a list.

“Damn,” Olive Pit said taking it.

Staff Sergeant Summer Bolt was caught with several bottles of unopened Buck and several more that had been cut. Sergeant Gemmed Fortune had a stash of Med-X, some Dash and Rage.

“The Staff Sergeant appeared to be passing it off to others. She had the equipment to do it hidden away. We found more bottles in the possession of others.”

“Great,” Olive Pit said shaking his head. “Suggestions?”

“Yeah,” Little said sliding a piece of paper across the table. “Send these to rehab and can those two.”

Olive Pit flipped over the paper. The list was: First Sergeant Moonlit Charge; Staff Sergeant Spring Moon; Sergeant Black Burn; Sergeant Flawed Topaz; Sergeant Star Hooves.

“Damn,” Olive Pit swore. “I am calling in the Colonel and Pony Patrol.”

“Pony Patrol?” Little asked.

“The Wonderbolt team that has been training 0. Oh, and Lieutenant Razzleberry since he is training wave three of Unit 0 troops.”

It took a bit for them all to assemble. Tuff and Astral Sunrise had to switch out with Marble Falls. Olive Pit had the time to chart things out. He moved things to one of their conference rooms.

Olive Pit hated to have to open this meeting.

“First off,” Olive Pit stiffened up. “Did we have any problems outside of Unit 0?”

“Four,” Nova replied. “One has a problem with Mint-als. But that Sergeant has been working in the mess hall for years and unrelated. The other three are Buck. Cut and the same as the original found. From what we could immediately tell.”

“Well,” Olive Pit shook his head. “I know the Buck dealer.”

Olive Pit pulled the cover off first chart.

“This is what was uncovered in Staff Sergeant Summer Bolt’s possession. I do not know when she started dealing, but this is beyond simple use. Sergeant Gemmed Fortune’s habit has nothing to do with the Buck issue, but it is bad.”

Olive Pit took a deep breath in. “I want to can both of them. Throw them before the board. Neither have been performing well and still do not meet current physical standards.”

“Done,” Nova nodded. “We will clean that matter up for submission after this.”

Olive Pit continued as he moved to the next chart. “I have several others I want sent to a rehab facility.”

“That is a quarter of your Unit!” Raspberry Lemonade gasped.

“Yeah,” Olive Pit snorted. “Yeah. But, it may actually take care of the problem.”

“It might,” Lemon Lime thought. “But you threw them out.”

“There is always next ACS,” Olive Pit pointed out. “And my friend, Lieutenant Deke, wants one go. The day after tomorrow, they get their last chance. He is doing it for me, not them. But they do not know that and he may recant after seeing these stats.”

“All seven of them are off duty effective twenty minutes ago,” Nova decreed. “And these five get the option of canning their career or trying rehab. With no guarantee this post will be offered back to them. Or any other for that matter.”

Olive Pit snorted. “I won’t let them come back here.”

“Now sit down Lieutenant,” Nova softly ordered. “We need to all have the Unit 0 talk. Its probably on the late side. But the opportunity has never presented itself so clearly.”

“I have my thoughts charted out,” Olive Pit said moving to the next one. “Half are question marks.”

“But your hoof picks are solid keepers,” Marble Falls said. “Biased?”

“Yes,” Olive Pit nodded. “At least for Specialist Winter Fire and Specialist Ebony Bolt. Every thing I have seen indicates that they can make the cut. Yeah, they are friends and I trained with them, but I know them, so I don’t feel it’s a bad call.”

“And Master Sergeant Sunset Fury, he trained me. I really do believe he can make it. The other four too. I hoof picked them for a reason.”

“I agree,” Fountain said. “Your seven can make it. And Nova’s six can make it.”

“Wait,” Fountain froze. “Am I able to call them Nova’s?”

Nova chuckled. “Yes, you can. All at this table can call me Nova. And they really are his seven, my six and the original eleven.”

“And the Razzleberries,” Razzleberry added.

They all chuckled.

“Fun names,” Olive Pit smiled. “We need that laugh with this shit. As much as we have tried to keep them one unit.”

“You did,” Marble Falls stated. “You spread them out in a great balance between the four squads. Every day I examined them, wanting to fix the balancing, but they were perfectly balanced for the unit.”

“But now they are not 24,” Cinnamon Swirl pointed out. “That number is 17 and each squad lost at least one member.”

“Olive Pit,” Nova said. “We are going to turn these numbers to our advantage. We can’t afford to play nice anymore. Too much is on the line. I need Unit 0 operating immediately. Even down seven.”

“Plus 12,” Razzleberry pointed out.

“Still, 29,” Cardinal Spitfire said annoyed. “Its not even 30. We are about to have 400 Units. We have 150 finished or waiting on a member or two. You better get the Razzleberries their wings.”

“You doubt me?” Razzleberry asked, playfully hurt.

“Well,” Cardinal Spitfire shrugged. “I was trained by the better half.”

Cardinal Spitfire was smacked in the head by Marble Falls who was sitting behind her.

“Although it is true,” Marble Falls chuckled. “But I know you will make sure they pass. I haven’t seen them, but you will.”

“Risk of them being brought together?” Raspberry Lemonade asked. “Rebalance the squads?”

“Too risky,” Olive Pit immediately replied. “I thought of it, but it is the same reason why they have been kept separate from every other Unit, including eating. They were pulled out of Combat Medic School right before the application period began.”

“They were the top in CMS. They know their medical training. All they needed to show was that they could apply them correctly in combat situations. All types of combat situations. ACS is their CMS practicum.”

“It is a big enough gamble removing them from CMS. If we fail them, we have to recycle them to the next CMS. That isn’t their fault, but they get to deal with the consequences.”

“The first question,” Ruby Snow said speaking up. “Should we put them in their named groups?”

“Doing that hinders team building,” Olive Pit said.

“Why? Did they all come from the same unit?”

“No, they were hoof picked from all over.”

“They are only a team in the groups you picked them to join you, nothing else. Your logic is flawed.”

“Originally, I needed to merge the groups,” Olive Pit replied with a smile. “I needed to make the old eleven work and be comfortable with the new thirteen. The old eleven was inexcusably top heavy in the ranks and I not only needed to spread that out, but pull them into the leadership roles expected for their ranks.”

“A solid plan that has failed,” Ruby Snow replied. “And everything points to the failure coming from your soldiers, not you. In the Third Fleet, I am known to take on a lot of riskier soldiers. My ship is understaffed and an experimental design that never left that stage. You friend Deke, was one of those risky endeavors. But it has paid off.”

“My point is, how long has Sergeant Major Willow served here at Unit 0?”

“That would be 12 total years served, 9 here,” Olive Pit replied. “In that time here, she has never served under a direct officer.”

“Damn,” Ruby Snow said “You really are rebuilding this from the ground up.”

Olive Pit nodded. “But its a broken and unsteady foundation. Captain Nova told me that the definition of what leadership is: The art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations. To get those you are leading to want to struggle. Not because of the leader, but because they see the value.”

“We have given them everything to succeed. Every way we can think of to get them want to do this, but they are not holding on. Individual performances on some do, but the others. Not even the wager held long for them to pull it together. And that board is still up in the mess hall.”

“Which,” Olive Pit said directing things to Razzleberry. “I know you have everything needed. I lose.”

“I am not going to hold you to that since drug use came into play,” Razzleberry replied.

“For seven,” Olive Pit shrugged. “Maybe the end of the wager will be a good incentive.”

“Okay!” Razzleberry said with a smile. “This will be fun. But only for you, not the others backing you.”

“That is a good finish,” Nova agreed. “But how are we going to restart them?”

“Colonel?” Little said. “Could you train them?”

“I am too old,” Nova chuckled. “And I mean that as I really am too old. Sergeant Major Willow might say she is too old, but she is just hitting her stride. By her service years, I already had captained my own Unit for seven years and then put in over a dozen missions below.”

“And now I suffer from a mass from the time below. I can’t fly. It is either pain meds and keep the wing, or remove the wing. I am staying on the pain meds. I legally have a stash to administer to myself and a doctor routinely checks up on me. I know the balance required.”

“And I got off point. Without flying, I can not train them.”

“Would they respond better to Olive Pit joining them?” Little asked. “Round out their numbers to three squads of six?”

“No,” Marble Falls immediate said. “Not good. Olive Pit joining them would lose his credibility as their officer. And 17 needs him. Arrow needs that second officer for more than forced structure.”

“17 needs some stability,” Olive Pit chuckled. “Great soldiers, really talented, but some things need to reinforced before they can can really compete. The are all young troops and almost as off the wall as Arrow is. I have been calming things down.”

“And that is why I know he is a great officer,” Nova announced. “His performance training with them has been exemplary. He has been calming them down and sliding them into line. A good focus and perfect support for Arrow. Arrow’s performance has increased from his support.”

“17 will be a Unit to fear. They have the energy to do anything and the heart to get it done right. Once they straighten out.”

“Too bad I have to leave,” Olive Pit chuckled. “But squads. I am hesitant to just toss them into the names we gave them. The four originals left are stacked pretty high on the ranks. A Sergeant, Staff Sergeant, First Sergeant and Sergeant Major.”

“We are keeping them together,” Nova decreed. “We will move over Corporal Lightning Measure. He is Olive Pit’s seventh and he can handle the switch.”

“So,” Olive Pit said standing to write on the board. “Squad A will be: Sergeant Major Willow, First Sergeant Morning Spark, Staff Sergeant Morning Thunder, Sergeant Bright Starr and Corporal Lighting Measure.”

“Squad B will consist of: Master Sergeant Sunset Fury, Staff Sergeant Star Chaser, Corporal Scarlet Heart, Specialist Ebony Bolt, Specialist Lavender Star and Specialist Winter Fire. Squad C will finish out with: Corporal Rare Bloom, Corporal Dark Pyre, Specialist Bright Storm, Specialist Orchid Twilight and Specialist Diamond Clash.”

Olive Pit surveyed the room. It looked good to them all.

“Lets get these guys training,” Olive Pit smiled, once again believing it was possible. “After Deke evaluates them.”

“Now the tough stuff,” Nova grimaced. “Although I know how to make things a bit smoother. I can assign all of them to rehab. We can move them and follow up the big proceedings for Summer Bolt and Gemmed Fortune. It will get them out of here quickly so we can calm this place down.”

“And we shall make formal arrests,” Marble Falls said standing up. “On all seven. The other drug users are already being held by Tuff's team. For now, we shall place them in their old wing under room arrest. After all, Pony Patrol is free for the rest of the day and tomorrow.”

“Let the others in,” Nova said. “But none of this leaves this room.”

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