//------------------------------//
// IV - Secret Operations 
// Story: Half-Hoof: Dire Circumstances 
// by Alfoals Trottenbauer 
//------------------------------//

"I remember when this used to be City 6, then we used those headcrab canisters, ponies were running around screaming. They all ended up as zombies, it was priceless." A yellow patrolman remarked with his head turned to the guard next to him.

"Yeah, good thing we never had to walk these useless streets before then." The lower ranking guard replied.

Sven shot the yellow guard's head, the guard's legs buckling.

Sweetie Belle and Button Mash came up behind the other two and knocked them out.

They took their uniforms and threw the bodies into the dead sea.

The disguised three cantered past building after building.

A camera emerged from a door and scanned them.

"Hey, Doctor Sparkle, take a look at this." Barney Calhoof motioned her over.

"Yes, Barney?" Twilight Sparkle asked as she cantered over to the camera monitor.

"Looks like we've been found out!" She panicked.

The three on the monitor took their helmets off.

Twilight noticed their blue jumpsuits under the uniforms.

"It's just citizens, let them in." She said, calming down.

The doors opened.

Sven, Button Mash, and Sweetie Belle trotted in. The room was a  monitoring chamber. Twilight observed them in the chamber's slit window.

"Take off those disguises and we'll let you in." She clarified.

They did so and the entrance opened to a large mass of Resistance soldiers. Twilight trotted in front of the squad.

"We haven't had any recruits since Gordon and Ace were captured." She observed.

"Dr. Bray said that Gordon was dead." Sven said, confused.

"We know they're both in Nova Prospekt. We've tapped into the prison's cameras." She answered, "Bray just wants to scare the remaining rebels into submission."

"Let's get you in uniforms and equipped." What Sven presumed to be the armorer said while directing them to the armory.

After receiving their uniform, the armorer pointed a hoof at the pegboard in the back.

"Pick what suits you." He stated.

Sven took a Submachine gun, with an underbarrel grenade launcher.

Button Mash took a shotgun, and Sweetie Belle took a .357 Magnum revolver.

"You three came just in time, as well. We're shipping out tomorrow." Twilight commented.