//------------------------------// // The New Recruits // Story: Foals Next Door-Operation:R.E.C.O.M.M.I.S.S.I.O.N // by Th3FileWriter //------------------------------// "Well maybe you could start with this." "Uhhh what was that?" Button Inquired. "I have no Idea" replied Spike. The five of them slowly and carefully walked backwards towards each other making a circle while keeping their eyes peered towards their surroundings. Now the dimly lit room that seemed cold and empty started to make them feel anxious and paranoid. Their eyes scanned the entire room from the walls, to ceiling, across every single object to find the source of what made that statement. "Now now don't be scared there's nothing to be afraid of." All five of them jumped and huddled around each other in fear of whatever had said that. In the middle of all their quivering and whimpering in fear, Spike noticed the giant monitor that originally was off with a black screen had turned on showing a bright Neon blue with white marks creating a simple smiley face with 2 dot eyes and a line for a mouth. Spike pushed all of them off of him as he started to walk towards the monitor. "what are you...?" said Spike with slight hesitancy in his voice, still being cautious of whether or not this thing was an enemy. Hi! nice to meet ya! the Name's Motorized Intelligence System Sustaining Youth! or M.I.S.S.Y. for short! "Missy..... hi..." He turned his around to quickly look at his friends before looking back. " the name's Spike, and behind me those are my friends Button Mash, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Apple Bloom." The other foals all waved their hoofs at M.I.S.S.Y. while still hiding behind each other being afraid of this giant Artificial Intelligence which they have never seen before. "Oh Yes! I know about you all." "You do?" questioned Spike "Of course! We've had our eye on you for a very long time now!" "and who exactly is we?" He inquired once more. "The F.N.D duh! well more specifically me and Mr. Macintosh." As soon as she heard her big brother's name Apple Bloom perked her head up from the pile foals. "Macintosh? as in mah brother?" "Well of course Apple Bloom who else would have the idea of reinstating the Foals Next Door after such a long period of dormancy!" "Hold on before we go on" Questioned Button Mash. " One thing has been bugging me.... Why is it that you sound exactly like Princess Luna... ok well not exactly, you still have a slight electronic twang to your voice, and some slight phonetic pronunciations are off and well you could.. ahh! you get the idea!" "Of course button." She chuckled. "The reason why I sound similar to the princess is because it was Celestia's idea" "Wait.. Hold Up." said Spike. "Celestia... wanted you to have a voice that sounded exactly like her sister." "Well you see when the F.N.D was being formed there was a need for some type of over-arching system that would connect all sectors across Equestria, which would connect back to the main HQ. That's where I came in. You see Celestia was informed about the project and she gave it the greenlight, however her one condition was that the automated voice process had to sound like her sister. Why she wanted it that way we're really not sure but if I had to guess is that it was a way for her to pay tribute to her sister, since Luna was the one who really built close relationships with colts and fillies. BWONG BWONG Suddenly an alarm went off with a bright red flashing light spinning its beam around the room started to go off. This caused everyone once more to go into panic. As the foals started running around the room looking for a place to hide, Spike went up to the main Computer. "Missy whats going on" "I'm not entirely sure... Hold on lemme check." Missy's screen went black as she tried to search for the cause of the Alarm. Spike just stood in place looking around for an explanation to what could be causing the alarm. He thought to himself could someone be trying to break in, or did something in the system break... or could something have happened to Big Mac. Just then as Spike completed his thought Missy screen turned on again, but instead of her blue face it showed a complete map of Equestria with a bright red blinking dot flashing on the Eastern side of the country, right next to the city of Baltimare with a tag above that says RM-362. "Missy what in the world does that mean?!" Said Spike with a sense of panic in his voice. "That's the license plate of C.O.O.L.B.U.S. that Big Mac took it seems to have crashed in the middle of that forest" "CRASH?" exclaimed Apple Bloom. "Yes crash!" replied Spike. "And if we don't do something about it Big Mac could be in real big trouble... and I don't want to imagine what happens if he gets caught by Sombra's forces!" "But Spike were not secret agents with years of training like him were just kids, with bare experience fighting bad guys." cried Scootaloo. "I know, but we have to do something we can't just leave him there to die. There has to be something we can do." "Spike you're completely right! There is something we can do. Now we'll have to skip a lot of the initiation process and a lot of the pre-training plus the final. But I'm sure he can forgive for this one time. Now hold your hooves cause its about get insane up in here!" Suddenly a new set of colorful lights started to flash on and off, causing a strobe effect. The sound of metal gears that haven't moved in years started to scrape against one another. Then suddenly the whole room started to shake vigorously almost as if an earthquake was occurring. Then a small round hole appeared on the floor with a cylindrical column coming out of it. On top of the column was a small wooden box with very intricate engravings on all of its sides, and the letter F N D at the top. And on the front side was a small hole, small enough to barely fit an index finger in. The 5 of them carefully observed the wooden box, intrigued of what it had had in store, and then suddenly the box started emitting a blue light that seemed to follow the trail of all the engravings. "Umm Missy?" questioned Spike. "What is this thing supposed to be" "That Spike is the thing that will get you formally inducted in the Foals Next Door" "Okay... so do we fill out some kind of application form, or say some kind of magic phrase like.. Bibidi Bobidi Boo?" "Silly Spike... its much more simpler than that. All we need from you so that you can be registered is a DNA sample. You know like blood, saliva, snot, pee, poo, se..." "OKAY...." he interrupted before she could finish that final thought. " I think we get the picture." Spike looked at the box with dread in his eyes. He thought to himself Sweet Celestia this has to be one of the most embarrassing things i'm going to do... oh well it's a small price to pay for saving the world... I guess. Spike without hesitation took his claw and shoved it up his nostrils roughly pick around to get some snot out. The other foals looked away getting squeamish at the the sight, with button being close to throwing up on the floor. Once he got it out Spike put his index claw inside the small hole. Then the entire box glowed a bright green light and an automated voice came from the box. "Welcome Operative: Spike the Dragon- Numbuh: 001" The other four followed suit and put a piece of DNA inside the box causing to glow green once more and acknowledge their initiation. "Welcome Operative: Sweetie Belle- Numbuh: 002 Welcome Operative: Apple Bloom- Numbuh: 003 Welcome Operative: Scootaloo- Numbuh: 004 Welcome Operative: Button Mash- Numbuh: 005" "Congrats everyone!" Missy Cheered with glee. " You are all now official members of the Foals Next Door." The other foals started to cheer and celebrate, shouting things like Yeahand we're secret agents! wooh. As they kept celebrating in the background Spike went up to Missy wanting to inquire about something. "So Missy since were now official, what are we supposed to do. I mean we haven't had any type of official combat or espionage training" "You do bring up a good point. Because of the circumstances none of you have the required skills, however you do have an understanding of the basics, and for now that's good enough. But there is no need to worry because what are agents without their arsenal of weapon and tools, which help improve the user." "We have WEAPONS?" yelled Button Mash from the back of the room. Yes Button, there are weapons which will aide you in your missions, for example the Ball Loaded Artillery Shooter Tanks Enemies Rapidly, or B.L.A.S.T.E.R. for short and then there is Giant Rope Allowing Pulling Past Leverage Easily or G.R.A.P.P.L.E." "Alright y'all this is the moment we've been waiting for comon we gotta save my brother!" exclaimed Apple Bloom. "She's right" replied Scootaloo " we can gawk at all of these cool things all day but if we don't save Big Mac we could be totally doomed." "Alright then what are we waiting for guys lets go save Big Macintosh." "Now hold up Spike! as the designated leader of this sector is that the way to rally the troops?" " Then what do you want me to do?" questioned Spike. "Well you have to say the famous phrase that all F.N.D. leaders says before going on a mission" "and what would that be?" "Foals Next Door! Battle Stations!... okay now you try." "ummm alright... Foals Next Do.." "Hold Up!" Button Interrupted. " Why is Spike the one who is designated the leader" "Well Button you see all of you have a very special set of skills and Spike is the most well rounded in all of the categories, plus time and time again he has shown the qualities of a good leader." "Well i guess that makes sense... Spike you may continue" Spike gave a light smirk at Button Mash after his comment. Then he looked at the rest of them seeing the determination and excitement in their eyes, their legs slightly vibrating getting ready to jump into action. He took one big breath before he continued. "FOALS NEXT DOOR! BATTLE STATIONS!"