I woke up as usual; but this time in a different house in a different city. Nonetheless my beautiful wife Rarity laid there next to me, peacefully sleeping. I didn’t want to wake her so I managed to barrel roll out of the bed; doing good before I landed on the floor giving out a loud clunking sound.

“Thanks for the wakeup call” Rarity said getting out of bed herself. She got up and walked over to the kitchen, probably making some breakfast for the 2 of us.

“How’d you sleep honey?” I asked

“Pretty good I guess” Rarity said “I promised the girls I’d meet them at Brony Square in an hour; those mares sure do like site seeing”

“Yea work has been tough for me” I said “I met my old friend Nico, the head of the guard, and he seems to be just like his old self. Sucks he is immortal”

Rarity looked up from her cooking “Nico has immortal?”

I nodded “Yup got it from Luna; that must be a sucky STD” I had to admit immortal life seemed terrible without some pony to endure it all with. Who would want to start as a cave man and watch as life died around him? Why would any pony want to watch the cemetery of the universe for the rest of day?

“True” Rarity said “The Gala is coming up soon huh? I guess you guys are going to host again?”

The Gala! God bless Celestia!

“Yup I think so, we just have 1 more job and then we get some nice R and R.” I said with a smile; it would finally be nice to have a day in Canterlot without being shot at.

“Sounds good to me” Rarity said giving me a kiss on the cheek

After my breakfast I got up and left, I headed down to the lobby and went to the nearby train station; a private car was there for me and my friends. When I entered I was relieved to see Tyler, Nico, Ayan, and Mike all sitting down having drinks, and one other guard who I had not seen before.

“Thank god you’re here Vespi we have 1 more mission” Nico said; I didn’t notice it at first but when I noticed it I nearly dropped my glass. Every pony was dressed up like a juggernaut; that massive armor, and that cumbersome helmet commonly wore by our very own accident prone Ayan.

“Like the suit?” Tyler asked with a grin; noticing my facial expression

“But ponies don’t know how to make Kevlar” I said “How will these things survive bullets?”

“Celestia has some kick ass powers” Nico said with a smile; or what I thought was a smile through that near opaque helmet.

I took a moment to study the other guard I didn’t know. He seemed to be a young colt like us; he was a white unicorn with curly brown hair nearly hidden by the golden helmet. He seemed to be sticking to himself in his own little corner of the train car; ignoring every pony else.

“Where’s my suit?” I asked excited; I’ve always wanted to feel like a juggernaut, just walking in front of hazard after hazard letting dangerous stuff just fly by me without a fear.

“You aren’t getting one” Tyler said with a smile “We need one guy to go with Silver Shield to find an informant; and you are it.”

I frowned “Wait why me? Who Chose?”

“I did” Tyler said “I chose you because you turned me yellow; you know dam well I hate yellow!” It seemed more like a joke than anything else; Tyler seriously didn’t like yellow though.

“Okay… who is this informant?” I asked

“Our old friend Dan; you, Twilight and Silver Shield are going to go get some info from him; maybe even turn him to our side”

“Silver Shield and Twilight” I asked “Where does Twilight come in?”

“You are meeting up with her at the Wonderbolt training center; I guess you want to meet Silver Shield?” Nico said; the other pony looked up for the first time and cleared his throat.

“Umm hello I’m, I’m Silver Shield” He said “Pleased to meet you”

“Sup” I said “So anything else I should know? Or do you like blind siding me with everything?” I looked around; everyone began to laugh

“2 things” Mike said; he tossed me a bag, I looked inside. There was a golden chest plate and a helmet inside

“You’re in the Royal Guard now” Nico said “And Silver Shield is now your subordinate; any questions?”

“Do you ever bother to ask me about any of this stuff?” I asked “What was a vacation now became my job!”

I quickly tossed my new uniform on as Nico began to talk

“Whatever here is your stop; the informant is waiting for you; Twilight Sparkle with explain everything to you.”

The train began to grind to a halt; the door opened and Silver Shield rushed for the door

“Enjoy” Tyler said; before I could flip him off the door closed again and the 2 of us were stuck here in the middle of the street.

“So this is the Wonderbolt HQ eh?” I asked; I had to admit it was a building fit for professional athletes. It almost looked like the Pantheon in a way, or an old library with those marble pillars outside; but other than that I could tell it was a massive building; was there some sort of training field in there too?

“Okay let’s go find the informant” I said, motioning for Silver Shield to follow, he didn’t

“Um I think your friend wanted us to um wait for this Twilight Sparkle” He said shyly. Without a second to spare I felt a tap on my shoulder; I turned around to see Twilight Sparkle standing there.

“Well hi Vespi! I guess they sent you on this mission huh?” She asked; for Twilight Sparkle she seemed to be excited

“Yup” I said “O Twilight this is Silver Shield, Silver Shield this is Twilight” Silver Shield silently approached her and smiled he gave out a hello before I began heading into the building, the 2 others obviously followed.

“Yes I’m looking for Royal Royce” I said; I sure hoped that Dan kept to his name, if he didn’t we’d be screwed.

“Royal Royce is in training and cannot be disturbed now thank you and have a nice day.” The mare at the front desk said. These were the types of people I hated; the mares like this that had their heads of their asses all day; doing nothing but act like dicks for the sake of acting like dicks because they can get away with it.

“We are working on behalf of Princess Celestia” I said “I advise you give me some directions.”

The accountant scowled “Fine; he is on break in the break room; do you need directions for the break room?” She asked in a snide voice; I could feel my hoof begging me to bitch slap her; but I couldn’t do anything stupid.

“No thank you very much” I grumbled; we headed through the door and immediately got lost. I didn’t really know where the break room was; fortunately I knew some pony that did. I saw Ace out on the first floor; talking to some mare.

“Sup Ace” I said; Ace instantly turned around, the mare on the other hand began to shy away.

“Thanks for cock-blocking bro, what do you need?” He asked

“Where is the break room? We need to talk to Dan” I said

“And I think I need to talk to this one” Ace said with a chuckle looking at Twilight; she just began to grimace.

“Fine, fine, fine be that way; 2nd floor first door on your right.” He said

“Jerk” Twilight muttered as we were walking away. We headed up the stairs closest to us and found the room that Ace was talking about. Inside was a lot like the inside of the VIP lounge at Mike’s club; on one of the couches was the lounging Dan, taking a nap as it seems.

“Doctor Faggot” I said; shaking him to wake up “Doctor Faggot” I repeated

“Umm how should we wake him up”?” Silver shield asked; I simply grabbed a nearby book and smashed it right into his balls

He fell off the couch and with cat like reflexes jumped up

“What the hell was that for Ace?” He asked

“It isn’t Ace; Silver Shields hold him” I said; Silver Shield just shied away

“Fine Twilight hold him down with your magic” I said; fortunately she complied and pinned Dan to the wall.

“We need some answers” I said “What do you know about smuggling operations?”

“What you mean Conor’s business?” He asked

“Umm yea” I said “You know a lot about it?”

Dan shrugged “Yea; Conor’s mini army is about to through a coup; need my help?” He asked

“Sure why not; how’d you know we were working for the princess?” I asked

“Because your obviously in the Royal Guard” He said; I had to admit the armor looked badass but wasn’t much for blending in

“Fine I’ll help you; we got to hurry though the others said that they were going to start the coup pretty soon and that will be pretty bad. “ Dan said “Do you have any guns?”

Silver Shield coughed a little bit “Umm do, do we have to fight then Vespi?”

“Of course we have to” I said “Now stop being a pussy and let’s hurry to the smugglers hideout. Dan you know the way?”

“Sure” Dan said

“Okay, Twilight get on my back we can fly there” I said; Twilight jumped (A little too enthusiastically) on my back

“Wait ponies can hold onto you while you fly?” Dan asked “Pro”

“Dam right, Silver Shield get on Dan’s back and let’s fly”

***

If you were 5 blocks away from Mike, Tyler, Nico or Ayan you’d only hear cursing, screaming and gunshots.

“Hey were is Ayan” Tyler asked; it was hard to breath, hard to see, hard to hear and hard to basically do anything in the suit. If it wasn’t for microphones inside the suit no pony would know what was happening.

“He fell and still can’t get up” Nico said “Noob”

“Noob” Tyler repeated “Okay so now what we just go into this building?”

“Yup” Mike said “Damn this is like Cod but real life! I need 3 more for an attack helicopter!”

“Whatever let’s keep moving this is awesome” Tyler said “How are you guys doing on ammo?”

“Meh okay I guess” Nico said

“Good I stole all of Ayan’s ammo” Mike said with a laugh

“Okay guys this is the place” Nico said; the trio looked onto a normal looking 2 story building, well normal enough besides the armed guards camping with a flak cannon, trenches and barbed wire right outside. So this stuff would be normal in Newark…

“UAV ONLINE”

“Wait what? Who said that?” Mike asked; he turned to the other 2 juggernauts that were both slowly jogging towards the building with him.

“I called in my UAV before I fell over” Ayan said; he was still lying on his back like a turtle.

“Attack Helicopter online” The mysterious voice said again

“Nico was that you?” Tyler asked

“No?” Nico responded

“TACTICAL NUKE IMBOUND” The voice said again

“Jesus you guys got a tactical already?” Mike whined

There was a cackle and the mysterious voice revealed itself as none other then the scientist.

“Alright I’ve been gone for 6 months and I return to this?” He asked “What happened?”

“Shit happened” Mike said

“Fine, fine, fine; I have great news too! My grandson was born yesterday” The old scientist gave a smile

No one spoke

“Aren’t you guys happy for me?” He asked again, his voice filled with glee and joy

“Sure; we are just busier shooting smugglers then hearing you talk” Mike said

“Fine” The Russian sighed “Have a nice day faggot”

The voice was gone

“That was mean of you!” Nico said

“Fine we need to find a way inside” Mike said

Five minutes later *** Five minutes later

“Come on you 3 we need to see what is going on!” I said; we managed to fly to the area Dan was talking about and seemed to miss the main fire fight. Several dead smugglers lay dead on the street and also 1 Juggernaut Ayan laid there, alive but unable to move.

“O my god are they dead?” Silver Shields asked

“Yes now come on” I said; pushing him inside the house. I was stunned to see the inside of the house was an even bigger blood bath then the 1 outside, several more smugglers laid dead.

“Good evening chaps” I could hear in the distance; I didn’t care what danger there was now, my juggernaut comrades were sure to of cleared out the house with ease. Although Silver Shields still hid behind me and Dan like a mare we quickly found the room where the voice could be heard from, echoing all over the house. In a small white room was a swivel chair; on it was little Conor in a tweed suit with a white cat on his lap.

“Sup Conor” Nico said “Sup Vespi, Twilight, Dan, Shields”

Silver Shield was about to say something but I cut him off

“What is going on”

“Me and Barkers over here were discussing world domination before you lads dropped by” Conor said; his accent a surprising English tone.

“We were sent here to stop your smuggling operation.” Tyler said “Stand down or face our ass kickery”

“Whatever” Conor said; he tossed his cat Barkers off his lap and got up “These guys were going to throw a coup anyways; now what?”

I looked around and smiled; in this room were my favorite 6 friends on an adventure, even though we all were originally against one another.

“I don’t care let’s go to the castle” Nico said with a smile

“To the castle!” We chanted

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