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The COLTS prepared to head back to Ponyville when Recoil went up to Deadeye.

"Have fun, I was this close to killing him." Recoil said referring to Black Soul.

"Oh thanks I'm soooo glad to have him on my team now." Deadeye said sarcastically as he put his armor and weapons away in a trunk. Striper had suggested that the COLTS have their armor and weapons on them at all times in the event of an emergency.

"Black Soul! Come here!" Deadeye ordered.

"Yes sir?" Black Soul asked.

"Put this on." Deadeye said handing Black Soul a full body costume, a pair of sunglasses, and a beret.

"Uh why?" Black Soul inquired.

"Because you scare the crap out of me, imagine what the ponies in Ponyville will think when they see you." Deadeye said.

"No I refuse." Black Soul said. Deadeye stomped hard on the ground and a large crater formed where he stomped.

"If you refuse to follow my orders my next stomp will be on your head than I will have you discharged and jailed." Deadeye threatened. "Now put it on."

"Fine!" Black Soul said as he put on the costume.

"Captain, I seriously hope your joking right now!" Black Soul said when he looked in a mirror and saw how ridiculous he looked.

"That disguise should stop you from scaring the buck of the civilians." Deadeye said.

"Tehehe! He looks so stupid!" Blitz muttered to Macintosh.

"I heard that meatball! Don't make me come over there and gouge your eyes out!" Black Soul yelled causing Blitz to shut up. The ponies that headed back for Ponyville. After about thirty minutes they came to the edge of the Everfree Forest. Macintosh and Shadow recognized Fluttershy's cottage on a hill.

"Excuse me but I have to see her." Shadow said referring to Fluttershy. After Shadow left the rest of the ponies headed further into town. Black Soul growled when he saw some ponies laughing at his costume. Almost right away Shadow came running back.

"What's wrong?" Macintosh asked.

"She's not there." Shadow said. Macintosh figured she was with his sister or one of her friends. He than remembered it was sunday and that the mane six went on a picnic every sunday in the park.

"Hey ah know where she is come with me." Big Mac said.

"Is Rarity there too?" Autumn asked.

"Eeyup, Ah still want you to prove you two have a thing for each other." Big Mac said.

"Hey Mac, is there a 'Pinkie Pie' in that group by any chance?" Blitz asked.

"Eeyup! Why do you like her?" Big Mac teased.

"Well kinda-" Blitz said putting his hoof behind his head.

"You all can go, I have to find out if there's other ways to augment griffons without magic." Deadeye said.

"What about me?" Black Soul asked.

"You can fix that attitude of yours." Deadeye said as he spotted a playground. "Go play around with those foals and if you scare them or mistreat them you answer to me got it?"

"Yes sir." Black Soul said. Black Soul knew he could take out any of the COLTS in a one on one fight but Deadeye was a different matter. Black Soul than walked away towards the playground.

"Macintosh, are there any libraries in this town?" Deadeye asked.

"Eeyup, there's one right over there." Macintosh said pointing to Twilight's house on the other side of town. "But the librarian might not be there."

"I'll take my chances. And troops, be ready for combat." Deadeye said as he left for the library.

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"It's such a nice day, its a darn shame Twilight couldn't make it." Applejack said. Normally Skulllcrusher would have been with her but he was at the gym weight training to stay in shape along with Soarin. Soarin and Skullcrusher had practically become best friends.

"Well she should come out, poor dear has been working rather hard lately." Rarity said as she took a sip of tea. The past three days Twilight had been doing research in order to find a spell that would heal wounds more quickly but was having no success.

"I wish I could join the air force." Rainbow Dash said as she shadow-boxed. "I wanna kick some griffon butt!"

"I don't think I could ever do that, those ponies are so brave and it's so dangerous." Fluttershy said.

"Well I just have to remember to throw one BIG party for when they all come back!" Pinkie blurted.

"So Fluttershy how is that Silent Shadow?" Rarity asked.

"Oh well at first I was really scared because well not to be mean but he has killed a lot of griffons but than I saw he was really nice, he said I had a beautiful voice." Fluttershy said rather fast. All the ponies eyes went wide.

"Is he you coltfriend?" They all asked. Fluttershy squeaked and hid behind her mane out of embarassment. The mares decided to stop teasing Fluttershy since they knew how sensitive she was. Over the hill, four stallions made their way over.

"There they are." Big Mac said as he ran down. "AJ!"

"Big Mac?" Applejack asked as she turned her head. "BIG MAC! Where in the hay were you? Ah was worried sick!"

"Ah was in Canterlot fer the past three days with Princess Luna." Big Mac lied.

"Well next time PLEASE leave a note er sumthing." Applejack said. Fluttershy and Rarity looked up to see Silent Shadow and Autumn Leaf looking at them nervously.

"Shadow, where were you?" Fluttershy gently asked.

"I had to run a message to a military outpost and I left really early in the morning and I forgot to leave a note." Shadow lied.

"Oh please let me know next time! I thought something happened to you!" Fluttershy said in a scolding yet caring tone. Rarity on the other hand wasn't quite so forgiving.

"Autumn Leaf! Where did you go? Sweetie Belle and I were so worried!" Rarity said with an angry look on her face. Autumn had to think fast.

"I went into the Everfree Forest to look for something I dropped and I got lost for three days." Autumn said. Rarity calmed down but was still a little angry.

"The Everfree Forest! Good Heavens Autumn! I know you are a brave strong stallion but you mustn't travel in there!" Rarity said. "We wouldn't want such a handsome stallion like yourself getting hurt now.". Autumn looked over at his squad-mates giving them a smug look.

"Say whose that feller behind you?" Applejack asked pointing to Solar Blitz.

"This is mah friend Solar Blitz, ah met him while ah was in Canterlot and he decided to come back with me." Big Mac lied again. For some reason it was getting really easy to lie.

"Nice to meet all of you." He said happily. Pinkie Pie was facing the other way eating a slice of her favorite cake so she didn't see Blitz.

"Pinkie?" Big Mac said as he walked up to her. She turned around with chocolate all over her face. Solar Blitz smiled when he saw her. "This is Solar Blitz."

"Hello Ms." Blitz said as he held out his hoof. Pinkie took it and shook it, her hooves looked tiny compared to Blitz's massive ones. She slowly looked up at him and gazed into his eyes.

"You're new around her?" She asked. Blitz shook his head. "YOU NEED A PARTY!". She screamed so loud that Blitz's super hearing caused him to get a head-ache. She grabbed Blitz's hoof and ran off with him back to Sugarcube Corner. The ponies all began laughing.

"He's gonna have a fun time with her!" Rainbow said laughing.

"You haven't met Blitz yet. They're perfect fer each other." Big Mac chuckled. As Pinkie ran with Blitz they ran into an unsuspecting Deadeye who couldn't see them coming due to his left eye being wounded. They collided and all went sprawling to the ground. Deadeye was furious when he saw Blitz had run into him.

"BLITZ! You got three seconds to explain yourself before I tear you a new one!" Deadeye huffed as he got back on his feet.

"Please don't be mad at him sir! I was the one who was running with him and I didn't see you! It's my fault!" Pinkie said as she came to Blitz's defense.

"Is that so?" Deadeye said before looking at Pinkie then at Blitz, then at Pinkie again.

"No sir, you and I both know she isn't big enough to send you sprawling, it was me." Blitz said as he stood up. "I was the one sprinting carrying her." Blitz said. Deadeye thought about it and figured Blitz was the one who ran into him even though it was actually Pinkie.

"I'll let this slide Blitz, but if you hit me again I will do unspeakable things to you." Deadeye said as he continued his way to the library. Pinkie looked at Blitz.

"Blitzy, you knew it was me why did you say it was you?" Pinkie asked.

"He's my captain so he won't hurt me too bad and I know he is quite intimidating and I didn't want you to feel scared." Blitz said. Pinkie felt touched by this.

"R-really? you did that f-for me?" She asked as Blitz nodded. She jumped up on her two hooves and gave him a quick hug around his neck. The two than continued their way to Sugarcube Corner. Deadeye was at the front door of the library and began to knock extremely gently so he wouldn't break the door. Deadeye was so used to breaking down doors and breaching the room that this felt weird to him.

"Just a minute!" He heard a feminine voice call out. Deadeye did not like waiting for long but he kept his patience. The door opened but he did not see anypony there.

"Hell-oooowoah!" He heard a young voice call out. He looked down to see a baby dragon, the dragon must have been intimidated by his height.

"Hello, may I come in?" Deadeye asked.

"Uh s-sure." The dragon said as he lead Deadeye in. Deadeye saw the massive amount of books and figured what he was looking for must be here.

"Spike who is it?" Deadeye looked up and saw a beautiful lavender unicorn descending the stairs. Her mane sparkled in the sunlight and the COLT was taken quite aback by her but he had a mission to do.

"Hello my name is Twilight Sparkle." She said.

"I am Captain Deadeye, I am here to do some research." Deadeye said.

"Of course, what are you looking for?" Twilight asked.

"How do I say this without blowing my cover?" Deadeye thought to himself. "I'm looking for ways to augment your body to make it stronger and larger."

"You mean like the COLTS?" Twilight asked. "From what I've seen they do stuff no normal pony could.

"Err yeah like that." Deadeye said getting nervous. This mare was smart and she might put two and two together and realize he is a COLT.

"Well, unicorns are the only creatures in the world that can produce magic like that. The only way would be by using advanced unicorn spells or by the skill of manipulating magic which would be very difficult for anything to do." Twilight said.

"So this grifs must have used a unicorn to make the Steel Talons! There is a traitor!" Deadeye thought. Twilight couldn't help but notice the bloody bandage around Deadeye's left eye. Normally she would have passed it off as an old injury but there was blood meaning the injury was fresh.

"Excuse me captain but what happened, that wound looks like it is only hours old. Twilight asked.

"This? A grif shot me in the eye with an arrow at my last battle it hurt like a mother!" Deadeye said.

"I have some medicine that could help." Twilight said. Deadeye actually felt little pain anymore and he knew his eye would be fully functional in a few days so any medicine would be pretty worthless.

"It's fine really." Deadeye said.

"But it could get infected! You might get Equine Flu! or Hoofatitis! or the-" Twilight said frantically as she listed numerous diseases that Deadeye had never even heard of before. Deadeye finally decided he would do it to make her feel better.

"Okay I'll take some medicine." He said. Twilight went to her kitchen and had a bottle of liquid medicine. He recognized the liquid as Antibody X, the stuff was known for it's terrible and disgusting taste but it was effective against almost all illnesses.

"Judging by your body size you'll have to take five tablespoons of this and you'll be okay." Twilight said as she levitated the medicine to Deadeye. Five tablespoons was practically the whole bottle! He remembered when he was a foal and he had a cough so he took a small teaspoon and he spat it out right away.

"Please take it, I don't want you to get sick." Twilight pleaded.

"Recoil and Earthshock would be laughing if they saw me now!" Deadeye thought as he took the liquid and swallowed it. The medicine tasted bad enough but his enhanced sense of taste made it twice as bad. Deadeye gagged numerous times before he finally swallowed the liquid.

"T-t-thanks Ms. Sparkle!" Deadeye said as he quickly ran out of the house.

"Wait!" He heard Twilight call. "Come back."

"It's okay Twi, he's just another stallion." Spike said.

"He was different, did you see how big he was? I could see his muscles rippling throughout his whole body!" Twilight said. She did not mean this in any sort of lustful way she was just shocked at how big he was.

"Getting a crush are we?" Spike teased.

"NO! I just wanna find out more about him is all." Twilight said blushing a little. Deadeye felt bad about leaving Twilight like that but he felt like he was gonna puke. He went behind a bush a spewed chunks all over the ground. He foul taste of the medicine mixed with the taste of vomit with his enhanced taste almost made him pass out. The funny thing is he didn't need it in the first place and he only did it to make Twilight feel better.

"That had better have been worth it!" He said to himself as he threw up again.

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"Colonel?" Recoil said.

"Yeah Recoil?" Striper responded.

"You better come look at this." Recoil said. Striper got up and followed him outside where he could hear screaming. He got closer and saw Earthshock being restrained by unicorn magic and thick chains that weighed nearly two tons.

"Why is he tied up?" Striper asked confused.

"Take a closer look." Recoil said. Striper got closer and saw that Earthshock's pupils had changed from their circular shape to a slit-like shape. His mane was starting to fall out and he was growling and making sounds no normal pony should make.

"What's wrong with him? Striper asked.

"We don't know, after Waverunner and Duststorm got killed he hasn't been the same." Recoil said. Striper than remembered.

If they are so overcome from grief, anger, or sorrow, they will snap and begin killing everything in sight. Striper than knew Earthshock had gone rampant.

"What do we do?" Recoil asked.

"Come Recoil." Striper said. "I have something to tell you I should have said a long time ago."

Uh-oh! spaghettio! Earthshock has gone rampant! How long will it be before the other COLTS fall aswell? R&R!