//------------------------------// // Chapter Four: A small force arc one // Story: SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron: Equestrian Squad // by Megaskullmon //------------------------------// Chance opens his eyes he groans sitting up in a strange bed. He noticed he is down in the bunker he and Jake created. He gets out of the bed and when he goes out to the living area of the bunker. He sees many ponies so many of them are crying and scared. He only sees one guard from Cantorlot the poor guard is not even wearing all his armor. “Is that all the ponies you could find?!” A mare that Chance never got the name of stares at the guard. Her eyes showing the anger she has for him. Her horn glowing brightly about to smack the guard. Another mare comes to stop her. “Trixie it’s okay we couldn’t get the others..” Trixie takes a deep breath to relax her magic. She lifts her head to see Chance. She tilts her horn to Chance. “OH, you’re awake.” Chance strokes his head, he is not happy to see the ponies in the bunker. He wanted to try to kick them out because he had no reason to protect them. “Listen why are you ponies here before I force you out of here? I have no respect for your species. I doubt you would ever be ready for a battle and all you do is talk about the magic of friendship. With that type of thinking it can’t win you a battle.” The one is known as Starlight he did get the name of her. He was told a lot about her by Jake. His eyes open wide he quickly looked around the entire bunker screaming the name of his friend. “Jake!!!” After looking around the bunker even in the turbo kat itself he didn’t even find Jake. He groans and grabs the shoulders of Starlight. “Have you seen my friend?” Starlight stares at Chance like she has no idea what he is talking about. Then she realizes a deep gasp comes out of her mouth. She tries to speak to Chance with a soft gentle voice. At least gentle enough to make sure he doesn’t get upset “Jake risked his freedom and life to rescue all the ponies you see here. He knew he wouldn’t be able to get them all. He even saved you after one of those creatures smacked you in the back of the head. He told us to bring you down here and he went off in that strange machine and we never saw him again.” Chance hates these ponies but deep in his mind, he knows he has to work with them. He looks at the gear and weapons that he and Jake created with the magic of this land. He looks to the ponies  “I know I am going to hate myself for asking this. Are any of you willing to help me go into the town and try to rescue other ponies and Jake? Now I need you to understand if you join me with this. It won’t be as simple as giving them hugs and then giving them cupcakes. There is no way they will accept those. We will either have to beat them down or kill them.” When Chance saids the word kill many ponies gasp holding their hooves to their mouths. The only one that didn’t gasp at the word kill is Starlight. She stood fully upon her hooves he heard about her how she used to be an evil ponies.  “I will come. I may have done many awful things in my past. But to move on and fight for ponyvile if I have to.” Chance watches as two more ponies come up to become part of a small force. “I am Trixie I will always work with my friend.” The blue unicorn removes her magic hat bowing her head.  “Just my question to you I thought all of you were at that friendship thing. How did you all end up here?” Starlight chuckles weakly. “Uh well a lot of us started running after we saw what happen how we got here so quickly though that was my doing. Not all the ponies here went to Cantorlot. Heh heh...Just what do we need to do to get ready?” Chance sighs stroking his head. This is going to be hard but he has to train these ponies. Looking at Trixie Starlight and the guard he hasn’t got a name for yet. Just three of him meaning it will just be four. A small force is the only way to try to break through the lines. “Listen I have no idea how we are going to do this. But I need to train you. I can’t do that much training for you. So you would have to wing it.” The three ponies look at each other. “Well, there is one way you could train us to make it fun. Why not sing?” Chance stares at Starlight like she is crazy. Why in the world would he sing? But Jake told him not too long ago. When the ponies sing it allows them to do amazing things. It keeps them from getting bored. “Fine. I guess.”   He looks through his memory of a good training song. Then it hit him he goes to his boom box. He turns it on. Heavy rock music plays and it’s the music that has no singing. “So you wish. To learn to fight. So you wish to learn to do battle to protect those around youuu.” Chance sang. “Take a weapon get some armor.” Chance puts on a heavy armor meant for him and grabbing one of his guns. The two mares Trixie and Starlight do the same the guard pony uses his guard armor floating the gun in his magic. “Remember that battle is always bloody. Remember that there is no right way to win!. Fight fight fight fight!!” Starlight and Trixie fire at targets and do as much heavy training as they can. The two mares fire at many targets working in unison firing at the targets in sync. While the guard fires with great targeting blasting a large hole through one of the targets. “Train train train. Never allow yourselves to fail. If you fail you might be dead!! Let the blood flow let your hearts beat.” Trixie laughs. “ I have always been jealous of the princess Twilight Sparkle. I have always wanted to one-up her. But now I do not need that. She is now my friend!!! I shall help her fight for this town. I shall do what I can!!” Trixie’s singing voice was pretty impressive Chance thought to himself. But now it’s time for more training. They all start singing together. “Become stronger to protect our land. To protect our friends. It’s time to fight it’s time to fight.” Finally, it wasn’t much of a training session but Chance could only do so much. They come out of the training room after four hours of training. It was all the time they had without using an entire month to train. They don’t have enough time since no one has heard from the protectors those mares those powerful mares. “Come my friends… Lets fight… Let’s do what we can… To win..” The song ends and the four head up to get ready to battle. The ponies below cheer them on and when they leave the bunker door closes. A small force has been formed. Can this small force help ponyvile and Jake? Tune in next time same kat story same Kat chapter.