//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 Reunion // Story: Power People Metropolis Last Defense // by Nightmarity19 //------------------------------// Unity is strength...when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved ~Mattie J.T. Stepanek. Vehicles of all kinds entered the rooms as the 6 girls stepped out their and took their individual seats awaiting for Princess Celestia's arrival. "Why is she always late?" Twilight asked looking at her watch. But as soon as she looked back up, Celestia arrived and stood in the middle of the room. "Hello everyone welcome to your new HQ it's 15 stories of heaven on earth," Celestia began. "Huh it's amazing what you can do with just a wave of your finger and a few billion dollars," Dash admired the construction of their headquarters. "So we're an official team?" Spike asked. "Yes I was asked to create a team to stop Kate Taiga's band of most wanted criminals," Tia said. "So with this Kate person does she have some kind of grudge against you or something like that?" Applejack asked next. Celestia let out a low sigh to signal the country girl to not say anything else about that. "Now fortunately this base can be used for battle tactics as well housing your super suits," Celestia explained showing 6 pods with all the suits from Masked Matterhorn to Saddle Rager. Everyone looked in awe, mostly Twilight who couldn't believe her suit was first. "Princess since mine is 1st does that make me the team leader?" Twilight questioned, wondering if Tia picked her as the head honcho of the Power People. Celestia gave a gentle nod to say no before explaining that she wants everyone to participate, not just one person doing nothing while the other teammates do the dirty work. After Tia explained Dash along with everyone else understood what had to be done. "Now for your first mission I received an SOS message from a Lunar Base downtown but something was questioned in that signal," Celestia said thinking something isn't right. "You think it might be a trap?" Fluttershy asked a possible outcome. "Maybe but I can't be too sure," Celestia replied. Twilight got out first then Rarity. "Alright guys we got our first mission as a team so let's suit up and ride the jet downtown," Twilight said. Everyone nodded then went into the tubes that dropped each one of them down put their super suit on and land in the skinny 16 ton jet Spike constructed himself with Celestia's help of course. Once everyone was strapped in Spike opened the hatch, turned on the engine lifting it above ground before shifting it to driving mode and flying through Metropolis. Fluttershy looked outside in amazement considering she hates flying in any fashion whether it's a helicopter or a commercial airline plane but this time she was comfortable with Spike driving. "How close are we to our intended target?" Dash asked ready to drop down for the element of surprise. "We're about 2 kilometers from the target," Spike replied looking at the sonar device near some switches. Twilight did some last minute checks on her weapons just in case they fired what she used and not what it wanted. "So Fluttershy what were you doing in Ohio?" Rarity asked, wanting to start a conversation. "Oh I was studying nuclear science for an environmental program at least that was I wanted to do until that shadowbolt Nighthawk had a SWAT on me while vacationing in Rio," Shy explained. "I see," Rarity said seeming to increasingly intrigued. Their conversation would end when a holograph version of Tia showed up. "What's going on Celestia?" Pinkie asked getting close. Applejack backed the party girl back just a little so everyone could see her too. "The SOS was sent about 12AM early next morning until a problem with communications posed a problem so far all we know someone was there and had intentions," Tia explained about her findings. "You know anyone at that base other than Luna?" Rarity asked. "The only other person who was present at the base was Spitfire so you may able to talk to her just to get a general idea of what's going on," Celestia suggested. "Ok princess we will get on that and contact you should the need arise," Twilight replied. Celestia nodded and the hologram turned off. "We're here," Spike announced, finding a safe place to land. Twilight stepped out first then her friends followed close behind. "Where to now sugarcube?" Applejack asked looking around. "I'll go find us a way in," Pinkie said zooming around to find an entrance. "While Pinkie is looking for an entrance way I think this is a perfect time to see if our culprit left any clues lying around," Twilight thought now was a good time to check on clues. Everyone agreed to do so all of them searched the area around the base for anything helpful. Dash found some torn tapestry paper with half of the moon on it. I wonder where this came from? Dash thought. Pinkie searched high and low for some kind of entrance but as she went to search, Spitfire happened to be in her path even though something wasn't right. "Hey Spitfire you ok? You look pale," Pinkie said concerned. Spitfire happened to have 2 bite marks on her neck and fangs extended that signaled she was hungry for blood. "Uh oh," Pinkie said. She came at the same speed as Pinkie but she avoided a claw attack only to unleash a wicked good kick in the face knocking Spitfire through the Lunar Base, causing Twilight to run over to her until she saw what just made that hole and Spitfire flat on the wooden floor. Dash, Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy walked over as well. "Well we don't have to worry about going in," Dash said trying to make a joke when it clearly isn't funny to everyday else. "Come on," Fluttershy said walking through the hole Pinkie made. The others followed Shy into this dark part of the base so Twi activated a light function in her suit so they can all see what or where that SOS laid. "This place doesn't sit well with me Twilight I'm scared," Fluttershy said shivering. "It's ok Shy I'm here," Twilight reassured her friend with a smile. The front part was in shambles with broken computers and bodies laid in chairs or on the floor. "Looks like someone was here," Applejack assumed from what she could see. I think it was odd for Spitfire to have two bite marks on her neck when she attacked me," Pinkie recalled. Rarity stopped and looked over to Spitfire noticing bite marks deep in her neck. Twilight scanned those marks so Spike could analyze later on today. Applejack grabbed some rope then with Dash's help, tied up Spitfire tightly so she wouldn't escape. "That should keep her out of our hair for a while or at least till we find a way to change her back to what she was before becoming this...thing," Twilight said sharply. The others agreed. "You all go on ahead and I'll keep Spitfire entertained," Pinkie said willing to stay behind. "Are you certain darling?" Rarity asked skeptical. Pinkie shook her head smiling brightly and giving her friends a thumbs up. "Ok be careful and don't fall for any tricks she may try to pull," Applejack warned. "I'll be alright," Pinkie said. Twilight and the others left the party girl with Spitfire who was still tied up. They went deeper into the Base unknowing of what kind of horrors that may surface. Still, Twilight was determined to find out who sent that SOS distress signal to lend them here. Dash looked around a weapons/war room where chess players portraying battle tactics and map of Metropolis laid but something was odd, looking at the map closely. On what looked like the city wrote word play smeared in fresh blood. Bloody Mary Has Risen Applejack took a peak at it as well and was appealed with she started at. "What do you suppose it means RD?" Applejack asked turning to face Dash. "To be honest this could be anything at this but isn't Bloody Mary an urban legend or something?" Dash questioned not believing she's real at all. "She is but this is fresh blood meaning Mary may have been here before," Applejack replied. Dash ran her finger up on the blood then sniffed it, giving on assumption that it was recent. Twilight noticed an open coffin near the kitana right below Luna's portrait. "What is this doing here?" Fluttershy asked inspecting it further. "Dunno but I can tell you it might have something to do with Spitfire having bite marks," Twilight stated. Fluttershy blinked. "Shy the only thing capable of producing bite marks and causing Spitfire to attack one of our teammates is a blood sucking night walker," Twilight concluded. Dash and Applejack joined up with their friends. "Did you find any clues?" Twilight asked. "Yea we did; on the map of Metropolis someone scrawled Bloody Mary Has Risen in fresh blood," Applejack replied. "We think it might be a night walker," Twilight said. "Don't you mean vampire?" Dash corrected. Twilight was slightly annoyed that she was interrupted and corrected. Rarity came out from the computer control center with a folder of important classified documents. "Where did we find those?" Dash asked wondering how Rarity got those without being discovered. "They were just sitting there baiting me to take them and well I gave in and plus it can aid us about who sent that distress signal," Rarity explained. Twilight nodded in intriguing face at Rarity's thirst for information. They all headed back to Pinkie who still had Spitfire tied up despite awakening after being kicked hard by the pink speedster. Huh, I guess she wasn't kidding when she said it was all handled Twilight was thoroughly impressed. Soon enough the band of heroes walked out and into the jet, being greeted by Spike who smiled at them as they came aboard. "So did you find who gave that distress signal?" Spike asked flipping his sliding chair to face them. "We have found some classified documents; a threatening sentence and some other things we need to look into further; think we're ready?" Twilight questioned being right for the job. "Yep," Spike answered turning his chair away from them and to the switches. He pressed the ignition which started it up the engine before flying off. A woman with dirty dark red hair wearing a low top and skinny jeans looked up at the jet taking off and stared up at Masked Matterhorn aka Twilight very closely licking her lips. I will get her to be mine the woman said.