“Clear sky! Perfect for an alicorn hunt!” Haystack said from his cockpit while his squad chased the mysterious white MS from behind. “Yes, you hear that right!”
“Sir, we have the Alicorn in our scope. Should we open fire now?”
“You are free to go, Sargent!”
The group consists of 5 mobile suits, riding on 3 base jabbers, rapidly pursuing the white MS. The commander, Lieutenant Haystack, is possibly the most experienced mobile suit pilot at the moment, though he had just started to sit in an MS cockpit 2 years earlier. His suit, the Jesta commander with a custom antenna on it’s head, is his pride as a pilot, and also what he carried to that mission. The rest of the team have 4 Jegans, 2 on each base jabber. 2 of the subordinate suit carried with it a custom net gun built by a weapon company at Manehattan, which have an effective range of 10 kilometers (according to the manufacturer themselves). This is also shown that their suits are severely slower than what they are trying to chase. However, according to what he has known, the jabbers that he was given are the fastest machine currently available within the Equestria military, as well as in allied kingdoms.
One of the Jeagans starts firing the net gun at the Alicorn. In total, they have fired 5 rounds, and none of them hit. Haystack was ordered to fire at the Alicorn with their beam rifle.
“I don’t care if that thing is destroyed! Fire!”
The group fired 11 times at the Alicorn. But again, the mysteriously fast humanoid machine dodged them all, although one of it nearly hit its shoulder armor and another one also nearly hit it’s head. Then, one of the most breathtakingly beautiful but also extremely dangerous phenomena occurred: the suit, using a magical wave that could have its origin from its glowing “psycho frame”, attacked the team. They have to dodge the attack twice and one of the suits unlucky have the wave hit it’s left hand, causing it to disassemble itself and fall down the sky.
After that, what they see is just the rainbow trail that many creatures have seen before. The suit has flown away into the sky.
“Darn it, another failure? They will defund us if we just keep it like this!”
At the moment, the mission is the third failure since “Operation Rainbow Chaser” started.
“Arrgh! Just… back to the ship!” Haystack ordered “We gonna fix Blue Thunder’s Jeagan later!”
“Hey! That Gundam pilot has woken up! You should check him out!”, Sweetie Drop, the operation director who most creature like to call as Bonbon, said through the com link, “I think you should check that guy out.”
…
“It's… it's painful…”
“Are there any creatures?”
Those mystery voices are screaming in fear and pain.
Flash was terrified. He can't do anything to get those voices out of either his head or at least blocking his ears.
“Please save us, we are here! PLEASE!”
“No… No… NO WAY!”, he screamed and quickly sat up.
“Woah woah dude, you are traumatized!” a yak doctor tries to calm him down. “Relax my friend!”
Flash looked around. He was now lying down on a white bed, it seemed like he was in some kind of hospital. Working along with the yak doctor was a creature that seemed to be a… changeling nurse!
“What… what is this place!” he asked in exhaustion.
“You are just being saved, my man. Relax!” the doctor said. “You just sleep for at least one month straight counting from the day we rescue ya!”
“Just let him rest here for at least a few days. Take care of him, Mirax” The doctor then said to the changeling nurse “The coma has hit him hard.”
“Oh and by the way, there is an officer waiting for another month just to meet you. He will ask some questions. I`ll guess it is time to let you rest in here for a bit.”
Then, they walked out of the room.
“A yak and a reformed changeling? I remember Princess Twilight showed me some of her stories about them.” He mumbled, “So this means… I`m home?”
He started to think of the chase that brought him to all of this. Everything seems to happen very quickly, Flash barely recalls anything that he saw during the chase, except the illusion that those weird creatures have shown to him…
“Those creatures… the curse… what is all of this?”
After a while, a brown stallion stepped into the sickbay. He has a bunch of hay for his cutie mark, a grey uniform and he seems to have a scar on his face. Following him is the changeling nurse that has taken care of him.
“Miss Mirax, you can rest now.” he said with a thick tone to the nurse “I can deal with him on my own.”
She slowly closed the door as the stallion took a quick glance at Flash and sat down.
“Well, unfortunately for you, you will stay here for a very long time, my man.”
Flash looked back with a sharp look to him.
“Don`t look like that, I have waited for ya for a month, as that doctor has said before. Don`t worry, he is one of the best in all of Equestria.”
“So I'm really back to Equestria!”, a quick thought goes through Flash's mind.
“Now, pardon me. Since we have rescued you from a mobile suit, we have to ask you some very important questions. Who knows? Maybe you stole it?”
“Ok! Now let's start asking some questions!” he pulled out some paper . “Where do you come from, though?”
Flash looked around for a while before answered
“Equestria!”
“Equestria? Ok, let's say you are honest.” the pony wrote down “And you seems like you come from a military units, right?”
“Uh… I serve in a faction called the… Earth Federation. Londo Bell…, Antarctica legion to be exact, Sir!” he answered
“Good to know that, despite the fact that I don't know any of them. What do you do there?”
“I`m a mobile suit pilot, Sir.”
“You are a pure treasure, dude!” he exclaimed and started to write again. “Well, there are some more things I want to ask you but I don't have much time. I may ask them personally if I have time. Now, for the best part: what's your name?”
“Brandon Cultrich!”
“Brandon? Fits perfectly for a douchebag like you! I thought your name is Flash Sentry?”
“How… How do you know?”
“Ya don't remember me? It's me, man, Haystack!”
“Haystack?”
“Yeah, I still remember the day you won us all and went to Ponyville to be her majesty`s guard, personal guard! It`s must be hard for ya, right?”
“Yes, yes, Haystack! I remember you, man! Let me remember… You work for the Prince himself? Prince Shining Armor!”
“Yes! I serve under him!”
Suddenly, a hoof just flies straight into Flash's face, causing his head to fall to bed rails rapidly.
“You shameless bastard! You realize me, yet you just acting like you are innocent!”
Haystack squeezed his word into Flash's ear.
“What… what do you mean?”
“You stole Her Majesty's crown, my man! You nearly caused a national crisis! Shoot! I still remember the day I read a newspaper that said you are caught. YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO THE ROYAL GUARD!”
He yelled and made a second slap to Flash.
“Okay… “ he went back to the papers. “Just presume your name is Brandon Cultrich. Be careful, your look may be different, but there are a lot of people who know your name. Just hope they don't notice you here, man!”
“But… how can you understand me?”
“My brain is pretty strange, I don't know why I`m not even your close friend but I still realize ya? May be because your voice, or your ice…”
When he looked into Flash`s eyes, his pupil was just an icy cold color with a little black spot in the middle.
“Man, your eyes scare me! And why do you look so… young?”
“I don't know… But when I woke up there I felt like I had gone through a very long sleep!”
“Hibernation I guess? I don`t know… But listen again: since you have a very high strategic value, you will stay here until the war is over. Be careful not to let any creature you are Flash Sentry and finally: welcome aboard the Canterlot!”
After that, Haystack just slammed the door, leaving the human-shaped Flash Sentry alone again.
“Dang it! How could that bastard be here?” the Lieutenant mumbled “And why did he pilot the mobile suit?”