//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 // Story: Rainbows of the Sun // by IBlitz2000 //------------------------------// Canterlot, Equestria The moon shone brightly over the Equestria capital city known as Canterlot; as the stars sparkled in the night. The moon was raised by none other than Princess Luna, ruler of Equestria by night and co-ruler of Equestria by day. The city was lit with bright lamps in the streets and lights in the buildings that resembled medieval castles. The alleys are always tinted cyan and dark desaturated blue. It would occasionally have a cart or two to carry fruits or vegetables. Suddenly, a hooded figure of an Earth Pony peaked out in one of the alleys to see if anyone was there. When the figure confirmed himself that no one was here or watching him, he headed to a dilapidated building with a large steel box on a wheelbarrow. He opened the moss-covered door and carried the box into the building and closed the door shut. He took off the hood and spoke in a young voice. “Guys, it’s me…” Then, several more figures came out behind wooden crates with long and odd devices in their hooves. Their faces were covered with white blank masks. Most of them were Unicorns but some of them were Pegasus. The leader was another Earth pony, but he held a lot of power over the group given by his superiors from another world, far from their own. “Have you got it?” The one in front of the group, who was the leader asked. The stallion that came in to the building smirked and opened the lid of the box, revealing a couple of cylinder-like objects bundled together with leather straps. A strange symbol was shown on the strange cylinder objects. Wires were plugged around a strange rectangular device with numbers on the screen. “Excellent! You have done a good service to our cause young one and for that, we welcome you to our group.” The leader praised as he stared intently at the device while having a sinister look on his face. Copper turned to the group that had been loading their long devices, known as guns; specifically machine guns. He whistled to gain their attention to what he was about to say. “When the time is right, we will have our revenge that we dreamt for so long…” Copper spoke with determination in his voice. “… To blast our enemies into oblivion and overthrow the Princesses who ruled this land that we called home.” His voice suddenly turned into the voice of anger. “Then once that has been done, we will rule Equestria along with our ‘Human’ friends, who mercifully provided their full assistance in just the exchange for our commitment to their cause.” His voice was then filled with ambition and triumph. The group shouted in approval, while shooting their hooves up, facing the celling. No one heard or cared about these ponies, who were in fact about to overthrow the royalty and might have thought they were just some club, only formed to cause trouble. Inside the castle, Princess Celestia was in her room, reading a book about myths and legends about creatures that had never been proven true. It was written by her mentor and close friend, Starswirl the Bearded. One topic was about Humans, which fascinated her. According to Starswirl, Humans are adaptable and intelligent creatures that should never be underestimated. They could build structures that could reach the sky and contraptions, known as planes that could soar through it, faster than a Pegasus. They even flew to space and landed on the moon itself, all without magic! “Your highness!” a gruff voice spoke, which startled Celestia. She looked at the door of her room and saw a guard by it. The guard was a unicorn. The guard’s eyes widened and realized his mistake. He bowed with genuine guilt. “Forgive me, your highness. I never meant to scare you like that.” “Oh it’s alright; I know you wouldn’t intend to do that.” Celestia gave a warm smile. “What seems to be the problem?” She asked. “Oh, uh just wanted to remind you about Princess Cadence's arrival tomorrow.” “I almost forgot, thank you.” “Your welcome your majesty.” “Alright, you may go.” Celestia said with a smile of a mother would have. The guard gave a slight nod and walked off. She continued her reading, until going to sleep. The next morning, the sun was raised by Princess Celestia in an early part of the morning, maybe at the estimate time of four or five o’clock in the morning. When the sun rose, ponies from all types came out of their houses to start their day. The Pegasi were flying in the skies, doing their own daily routine or their job. The Unicorns were shopping with their lists and things they carry around, by using their magic. The Earth Ponies were mostly farmers, who brought their grown goods to the markets. Princess Luna had done her part in ruling Equestria, so she went back to the castle to rest as her sister took over. In Ponyville, lies a castle at the town’s borders. The castle had a resemblance of a tree, except the tree was made of crystal gems. A flag hung slightly horizontally and it bore a familiar symbol of a cutie mark of someone, who is the element of magic and an Alicorn princess of friendship, Twilight Sparkle. Twilight was reading her books again in her library, always filling her mind with knowledge, that she could spill out and talk for hours about the history of Equestria, which could send Rainbow Dash to boredom in just an instant. Suddenly, a call of her name caught her attention and she looked at her left and saw Spike, her dragon assistant at the door. “Oh, hello Spike. What’s the matter?” Twilight asked. “Princess Celestia sent me a message that Princess Cadence is coming to Canterlot.” Spike answered. Almost instantly, Twilight’s widened in excitement as it had been awhile, since she saw her sister-in-law. The last time that she saw her was when she was visiting her niece, Flurry Heart, which is Princess Cadence daughter. “Cadence is coming! Yay! It’s been a really long time since I saw her!” Twilight spoke in an overly excited manner. “Twilight, just come calm down, there is no need to be overly excited.” Spike advised. Twilight took a moment to calm down and regained her composure. “Whew! Sorry about that, just got a little… um excited.” Twilight then remembered something and spoke. “Um, Spike. Could you tell Starlight to come with us? It also had been awhile since she saw Cadence or the other Princesses. You can also come if you want.” “Alright Twilight” Spike accepted her request. Back at the building of the white-masked group, they were busy loading their equipment into wooden crates; the strange cylinder device that one of the members of the group had brought was still in its steel box. The crates and the steel box were disguised as presents and the members of the group had their masks removed, in order to reduce the risk of suspicion when they exit the building. The group looked young and had stoic looks in their faces. Copper was loading his AUG A2 Assault rifle, while his mind was someplace else. He kept thinking about his time in prison after the assault in town hall of Ponyville and demanded the guards to call Princess Celestia. He was holding the staff and the mayor hostage as guards failed to negotiate with him to surrender. At the time, he was so hungry for revenge that his father was imprisoned for doing unfair practices in politics. His father wanted to be the next in command, as ruler of Equestria. As more princesses emerged in the line of the throne, he got impatient. His father wanted to succeed to the throne so badly, that he tried to sabotage the other politicians' chances. He was eventually caught and was sentence to prison for life, which made Copper furious as he was quite fond of his father. Copper after that was filled with so much hate against the royalty that it drove him into madness. But, after he took the mayor hostage, he was later dealt by Princess Celestia, who used her magic to subdue Copper. He was sent to prison after that, but was released less than ten years later, as he did not actually harm the mayor and the staff. Copper then sent himself into isolation and resided in the mountains, due to rage-filled hatred and depression. Suddenly, out of nowhere in his life; a group of strange creatures, known as Humans found him wandering aimlessly through the forest. After a few introductions, He explained to them about his situation and his wanted vengeance. They brought him to their world and talked about their organization, known as the White Masks. They shared their ideals of making their world a better place, though, they had an odd way of communicating through their blank and white masks, they offered Copper their full assistance in exchange for his commitment in their cause, in which of course he accepted their offer, seeing that it was the only way to finally ease his hungry revenge. He was welcomed into their organization. From day one, when he first met them, he started his training, while the White Masks brought in more recruits from Equestria; mainly anti-royalty ponies, which had either grudges or extreme views against the royalty. Months later, Copper and his team of White Masks recruits were done with their training and Copper was given the role of squad leader of his squad. The White Masks shared their plans with him and told him that after the royalty have been overthrown, they wanted him to rule the land and use it as their ‘backup plan’ in case if their foes managed to get the better of them. Again, Copper accepted their request. The White Masks return Copper and his squad back to their home world to commence their first mission into operation. “Boss…” a voice spoke, snapping Copper back into reality. Copper looked up from his gun to a recruit who was standing in front of him. “What is it?” Copper asked with a stern look. “Uh, we are ready. We have loaded everything up for the mission. We had done our best to disguise the crates to prevent suspicion, or at least reduce the risk. We’re just waiting for your orders.” The recruit explained. “Good, now let’s go” Copper said to the recruit. Copper put his gun along with the others in the wooden crates and the squad moved out with wheelbarrows carrying their hidden gear out to the streets, where it was normally filled with Ponies, which could be used to their advantage to avoid curious ponies. Meanwhile… Twilight, Spike and Starlight were on the Pony Express train. Twilight was reading some book, while Spike and Starlight were eating some complimentary cupcakes. Suddenly, the train release its ear piercing horn, which cause them to jump out of surprise. Some of the cupcakes smeared their faces, giving them a whip cream moustaches or eyebrows. They wiped the cream off and looked outside from the window. From a distance, they saw Canterlot castle, which meant that they had reached their destination. They went out of the train and exited the train station. Twilight had the look of excitement, while Spike and Starlight were having smiles on their faces. It had been a long time since they visited Canterlot. When they went into the city, they saw an odd group of ponies walking with massively wrapped presents on wheelbarrows. “Those are big presents, must be somepony’s big birthday party.” Spike commented. “I don’t know how they could carry those presents. It must be heavy, judging by the wheelbarrows.” Starlight said. “Well, whoever it is, it must be either for someone being important, or someone who is very rich.” Spike replied to Starlight, while Twilight was still looking at the castle. “Twilight?” Spike said, breaking Twilight’s state of trance. “Yes, spike?” Twilight replied and looked at him. “You miss this place a lot, huh.” “Yeah, I’m so happy that I get to see this place again, you know seeing Celestia, Luna and Cadence.” Twilight said while experiencing nostalgia. “I understand. You wanted to see those you care about.” Spike nodded slightly. Twilight smiled at Spike for his acknowledgement. They reached to the castle and went inside, only to find Princess Celestia and Cadence talking to each other. This scene causes Twilight’s eyes to widen and smiles from Spike and Starlight. Cadence noticed Twilight and smiled radiantly. Cadence excused Celestia and went over to Twilight as they do their little friendship song and dance. The song ended with giggles from the two Alicorns. Then they embraced each other as Celestia, Spike and Starlight beamed with happiness at the two. “It’s so nice to see you, Twilight.” Cadence spoke jovially. “What are you doing here anyway?” Twilight asked. “Oh, I just came here for a visit. It has been a long time since I saw this place.” Cadence said, while looking at the place. “It’s still nice to see you, Cadence, or Princess Mi Amore Cadenza.” Twilight said with a grin. Cadence laughed a bit at that small joke. Earth, Team Rainbow HQ Glaz, the Russian sniper was checking his HDS flip sight on his OTs-03 sniper rifle to ensure that he could get a big and clear picture from a long range in any operations. He still had his military clothing and face paint on as he recently came back from an operation to infiltrate a White Masks underground base. He and his team of rainbow operators had found several weapon crates, but that’s not all they had found. They had also found a strange arch-like shape machine plugged in by wire cords. They couldn’t figure out what it was, but they do know that the White Masks were doing something with it to benefit their cause. “Hey Glaz!” a voice called him by his call sign. The source came from his friend and former Spetsnaz, Kapkan. “I’m here!” Glaz replied back. Then Kapkan appeared at the door of the locker room. “How is the mission?” Kapkan asked. “Successful as always, my friend.” Glaz answered. “By the way, did you notice that strange machine that my team brought in?” Glaz asked. “Yeah, it’s strange alright. Kind of abstract when you think about it, since you have an artistic view of the world.” Kapkan answered. “Yes, you're right.” Glaz replied with a chuckle. Then a call for both of their names was heard at the corridor near to the locker room. The source was from a German operator and attacker, Blitz. Blitz came in and saw them with a sigh of relief. “There you are, I have been looking for you two.” “Heh looks like we have Kapkan number two over here.” Glaz chuckled again. “Very funny, komik.” Kapkan remarked sarcastically. “Alright, that’s enough. All the operators are needed in the main room right away.” Blitz said. “Alright.” Kapkan replied as he stood up and walked past Blitz. Blitz looked at Glaz quizzically. “Aren’t you gonna come?” Blitz asked. “I will, just wait for a minute. My flip sight has issues at the moment.” Glaz lied as he pretended to fix his flip sight. “Alright, but don’t take too long.” Blitz shrugged and walked out of the locker room. Glaz smirked as he aimed his rifle. However, his smirk faded as he couldn’t stop thinking about the arch-like shape machine and why did the White Masks risked their lives so much for that machine. Whatever it was, the White Masks were not to let that machine fell into anyone’s hands, but themselves. Glaz put his rifle on a bench and walked out of the room and towards the main room. Later, in the main room of the HQ, All available operators, like IQ, Thermite, Sledge, Jäger and the others gathered to see what was going about from the recent mission in the underground White Masks base. They sat around a large rectangular table, filled with various items; photographs, documents and blueprints. A middle aged man stood in front of the table. He wore black clothing and a bulletproof vest. On the left side of his arm showed a union jack patch, representing his nationality. He also had a gas mask, but was taken off to reveal a face full of moral conviction and wisdom. His name was Mike Baker or known by his call sign, ‘Thatcher’. “Alright, you guys might have known about the strange machine that one of our teams had brought back from an underground base, occupied by White Masks, is that correct?” He solemnly looked at the other operators, only to receive nods from them. “Currently, the director and I do not know what to make of this, but we do know it’s important to the White Masks seen as they actually rushed in to attack rather than using more intelligent tactics from what I had been told. Whatever this thing is, they did not want us or anybody to have it.” “If I may, what do you think we should do with it? I say we should study it, in order to find out what it really is and to prevent any unknown dangers that might be a threat to us or anybody.” Jäger suggested. “It may be tempting, as you are so far the most curious operator in Rainbow. I advised that we do not make any physical contact with it, as you said that there are dangers that we are not aware about, I think its best not to make contact with it, just to be safe for all of us.” Thatcher spoke in a voice of concern. Jäger nodded in acknowledgement as he knew well not to argue with the oldest operator in Rainbow. “Alright you all are dismissed.” Thatcher said with a gesture.