Canterlot Castle
What a fine morning it was. As Celestia raised the sun to begin a new day, shops were opening, ponies were rising from their peaceful slumber, and the daily routine would begin as usual. After she had completed raising the sun, Celestia went to the castle dining room to begin making her daily pancake breakfast. This was usually her favorite time of day, as she would also take this time to read the news, which was usually good news in this world. She would also read letters from her personal friends in Ponyville. After she finished making her pancakes, she suddenly felt like something was... off.
"Ow.. Such a headache.." she thought to herself as she rubbed her forehead. She dismissed it as she thought it was just her body ominously looking forward to the daily grind of dealing with snooty nobles, holding her head high for the press, and of course, the black operation going on in the Western territories. As she started eating, she noticed several letters were left for her by one of her guards. She picked up one from Twilight and read it. She giggled a little bit, as it was one of Twilight's OCD moments about whether princesses should do the proper "princess wave" every time they greeted somepony. After reading this letter, she opened up another one. This one came from Daniel Ramirez. She was drinking a little bit of coffee as she read, however, halfway through the paragraph she choked up and dropped the cup. Tears began forming in her eyes as she read the dreadful report...
Dear Princess Celestia,
It grieves me to update you on our current progress dealing with the agents. We think they've caught on to our plan, and now they're out shooting at ponies indiscriminately in order to draw us out. They've already massacred that village that we saved from timberwolves about a month ago. Worse yet, they killed Corey when he tried to protect a filly!
Now, we're actually killing the agents. So far, we've taken down ten of them. I'm so sorry Princess, but I think we're gonna need Royal guard support sooner than expected.
My deepest regrets,
Sgt. Daniel Ramirez
Celestia closed the letter and began weeping gently. These agents had actually killed even more of her beloved subjects, including one of Equestria's own humans! The reality of human warfare was now upon Equestria: total destruction was the name of the game. After crying for a few minutes, she called forth one of her guards from outside.
"Yes, Princess?"
"Please forward this letter to Shining Armor immediately. The survival of our species may very well depend on it." The guard saluted and took off with the letter. If the agents were no longer following the Rangers, then there may be nothing that stops them from actually invading a major city like Vanhoover, Los Pegasus, or Canterlot!
Base of Smokey Mountain, early afternoon
"Another morning, another damn firefight..." Finn thought to himself. At least he finally managed to draw out the pony-lovers to where he and his men could engage them. Unfortunately, his team was now taking losses. One man was killed earlier and two were wounded, but they were able to force back the pony-lovers with their nemesis-humvees.
"I'm sick of this place, sick of these horses, and sick of these-" Finn was suddenly cut off when one of the humvees shot by him and raced into the woods.
"HEY!!! STOP THAT TRUCK!!!" Tyler turned around and saw two of his men trying to chase down the vehicle.
"What the hell is going on??" He turned around and shouted at the men who chased the humvee.
"Rodgers and Josh are going AWOL!"