{Rainbow Dash}
The next day when Oliver and I went to do Spitfire's training, we were just standing there as if we were waiting for someone to show up.
"Who are we waiting for?" I asked.
"We're waiting for the Agent who's going to be training Spitfire with her weapon," Oliver answered. He looked at the time and sighed, "She's late, I would think she would be on time. Considering we only have two more days left to complete Spitfire's six-day training. Then after your weapons training Spitfire, you'll still have to teach you the blood barrier."
Spitfire frowned, "I'm not looking forward to learning the blood barrier at all. It looks painful."
"Yeah I know," I said, "it's not a field day either."
Oliver chuckled, "Yeah I know."
"So why am I here if we're waiting for who's going to be training Spitfire on her weapon?" I asked.
"Because the rules for training an Agent of the Sixth is that two trainers have to be in the training room at all times with the trainee." Oliver stated.
Finally, there was a knock on the door. Oliver answered it. "Good it's about time you got here!"
When Oliver opened the door I smiled because for once I was happy to see Agent Rarity. "Well hello darling! Agent Oliver sorry I'm late, I just finished training another Agent with his weapon and he did excellent at it! Is Agent Rainbow Dash here? It's been ages since I've seen her darling!"
Oliver snorted and pointed at me, "Oh yeah, she's here alright. She's itching to get out of this white room that makes her skin crawl!"
Agent Rarity laughed, "I don't blame her, that's the way I felt when I first started training but over time I got used to it. So who's the new Agent I'm training today?"
Agent Rarity entered the room when she saw me and gave me a big hug. Agent Rarity paused when she saw Spitfire. She gave a shriek of joy and had a look on her face that I knew exactly what that look meant she was flirting with her. I bit my hoof trying hard not to laugh.
Spitfire shifted on her hooves and looked uncomfortable with the look Agent Rarity was giving her. "Uh… What's with the googly eyes?"
"Don't you remember me Commander Spitfire?" Agent Rarity said in a flirting way.
Spitfire was confused by this. "Uh, no… Not yet at least…"
"I'm your girlfriend you had back in Equestria," Agent Rarity said, raising both of her eyebrows in a flirtatious manner.
"And why would I date somepony as girly as you?" Spitfire asked.
"Now that wasn't very nice Spitfire," I said.
Then Agent Rarity went into drama queen mode by overly enunciating her words, "Oh the time I've longed to see you again!" She started acting like she was in a school play or something like that. Her overexaggerated expressions of joy were very comical to me because I forgot how she was like when she's passionate about something or someone. "When that awful machine kidnapped you and kept us apart, my heart yearned for you to come back to me."
I couldn't hold in my laughter anymore and to my surprise, I let out a little giggle. Oliver must've heard me because he smiled and teased. "Did you just giggle Rainbow?"
"Uh, what, no I didn't giggle! I uh, sneezed!" I faked a sneeze and rubbed my nose. I could tell Oliver wasn't buying it because he snickered and had an amused look.
"Yeah I must be allergic to the room, too many dust mites or something," I mumbled.
Agent Rarity snorted. "No one can be allergic to the training room darling. Unless you're really sensitive to light."
Oliver laughed, "Okay Rainbow, since Spitfire's trainer for her weapon is here you can go now. Gilda's going to keep an eye on you and I specifically told her not to let you do what you did when you almost killed yourself."
I did a facehoof and groaned, "Seriously? I don't need a babysitter!"
"Until we can figure out why your partial sonic rainbooms are out of control, then from the way I see it, you do." Oliver said.
I scoffed and crossed my forehooves. "Fine.
As soon as I left the training room, Gilda was waiting outside for me.
"Hey Rainbow," Gilda said.
"Hey Gilda," I said.
"Are you going to take a break finally?" Gilda asked.
"I think you know the answer to that question." I said after rolling my eyes.
"You know what I think you should do. I think you should just pick a cloud and take a nap on it for once," Gilda suggested.
I shook my head. "Nah, no nap, I'll just go into my pocket dimension and train. You can watch if you want, you know since you're my babysitter now."
Gilda's jaw dropped and she gasped, "You, the most pro napper in Equestria, doesn't want to take a nap?"
"Key words," I said, "in' and 'Equestria'. In case you didn't notice, we're not in Equestria anymore. I'm not the same Rainbow Dash everyone knew back then."
"I think you should reconsider it," said Gilda, "besides, you look tired anyway. Have you been getting enough sleep?"
I didn't realize I was actually tired until Gilda said something so I reconsidered taking a nap and thought it was the best thing to do instead. "You know something Gilda?"
"What?" Gilda said.
"A nap isn't a bad idea after all."
Gilds smiled and nodded. That's what I did, I went outside the Sixth with Gilda and I went up into the sky. I picked a cloud and curled up on it like a cat. Gilda did the same thing on a nearby cloud. No sooner had I curled up on my cloud, I went to sleep.
* * *
{Jude}
I was sitting in my computer room watching the latest video footage that Firewall Eli gave me with a curious look. "Huh, she's just laying on a cloud sleeping. It's about time she took a break. She doesn't even do that on her days off!"
Ivy raised an eyebrow and looked at me. "Days off?"
I nodded, "Uh-huh, apparently the Sixth actually gives agents days off according to Rainbow Dash. But that only happens after an agent has passed ten or more assignments and gets past new agent status. The last time I saw her, she was flying and it made me nervous because I thought she might have another out of control partial sonic rainboom and crash because of it."
Ivy laughed, "Now I know where you get your stubbornness from. You're just as stubborn as she is."
"Maybe you should take an extra day off other than days when you do your Feeding Rituals Lord Jude?" I heard First Mother say.
I snarled at First Mother when I saw her, "Seriously First Mother? Can you at least send a servant ahead of time? These unannounced visits of yours are getting on my last nerve!"
"Oh come on Lord Jude," said First Mother, "can't a Mother of the Mainframe visit AI's ruler every now and again?"
"Once or twice every so often is fine," I snapped, "but six times in a week? Don't you think that's a little bit overboard?"
First Mother shrugged nonchalantly. "Okay you got me."
My jaw dropped so low I could taste the ground. I looked over to see Ivy narrow her eyes at First Mother, "Did you just agree with my husband on something?"
"Yup!" First Mother said. "And I'll have you know that Lord Jude agreed with me on something a few weeks ago!"
Ivy laughed, "Oh yeah that's right! Jude told me about it."
"So..." First Mother said.
I could tell by the look on her face what she was going to say next and it made me uneasy about it.
"Who would be in charge if you did take an extra day off?" First Mother asked.
I was about to reply when I heard Second Mother's voice, "Well definitely not you First Mother!"
First Mother turned around and glared at Second Mother, "And why not?"
"Because you have a grudge against Rainbow Dash!" Second Mother answered. "Knowing you, you would find a way to turn her into a threat to AI. To tell the truth, you've been acting really strange lately, so Third Mother and I have been keeping tabs on you. What have you been up to lately?"
First Mother shifted her gaze. "Oh nothing."
I gave First Mother a pointed look. With the shifting of First Mother's gaze, it told me that she was indeed up to something. I didn't want to know what she was up to because knowing First Mother, it wasn't anything good.
"The question is," I said, "who would I leave in charge if I take an extra day off?"
"Me and Third Mother have been talking about it," said Second Mother, "even though I take over when you're of commission after the Feeding Ritual, Third Mother has agreed to take over for you on your days off. We just told First Mother to make that suggestion to you."
"What!" First Mother gasped. "You two were talking behind my back, when I'm the one in charge of you?"
"No one is in charge of the Mothers of the Mainframe, First Mother," Second Mother snapped, "you know this just as well as we do. AI just gave us the titles. It wasn't until Lord Jude was born that you decided to make yourself the head of the Mothers. You have had nothing but contempt for Lord Jude and Rainbow Dash. So no, you won't be taking over on his days off." She turned to me. "So what are you going to do? Are you going to do it, Lord Jude?"
It felt comforting to me that I least had someone sticking up for me. I nodded. "Sure I'll do it."
"Now since your second Feeding Ritual for the week is tomorrow," said Second Mother, "so we'll make your first day off in the middle of the week. Now come along First Mother, I think it's time for you to relearn how to do your job."
I couldn't stop laughing as First Mother hung her head and followed Second mother out the door.
* * *
{Rainbow Dash}
It was Spitfire's last day of training and that meant we would have to teach her the blood barrier.
Oliver sighed, "It's your last day of training Spitfire. Which means the only left we have to teach you is…"
"Oh boy," Spitfire gulped, "you I have to learn the blood barrier? Can we don't and say we did?"
Oliver looked at the floor and shook his head. "Unfortunately, we have to teach you this. It's necessary for you to do your job as an agent of the Sixth. Not to mention if you don't learn it, you won't pass your six-day training."
I knew that just like when Oliver didn't want to teach the blood barrier to me when I trained, he really didn't want to teach the blood barrier to Spitfire either. I wonder if that's a trend with him in training new agents? If so, I don't blame him for that.
Oliver took a deep breath and let it out, "Okay Spitfire, in order to access your pocket. You have to access the blood barrier for six seconds at first. After that, you'll be able to access it no problem and it will help you gain entry to your pocket dimension just like that."
Spitfire's ears dropped and her eyes went wide in terror. Oliver took out Spitfire's doorbell needed to access her pocket. "Now just close your left eye and I'll get things started from there."
Spitfire took a deep breath and did as she was told. Oliver tapped her forehead right above her left eye with his index finger. When Spitfire opened her eye, it looked like she was having a hard time keeping it open because it looked like it does when Oliver accesses the blood barrier.
"Now," said Oliver, "what number do you see on the wall in front of you?"
"Forty-seven!" Spitfire exclaimed.
"Not bad," said Oliver, "you've accessed the blood barrier the same amount of time a Rainbow did."
Oliver did the same thing to Spitfire that Gilda did to me when they were teaching me how to do the blood barrier. He took some of Spitfire's blood and dropped it on her doorbell.
"Okay, you're good now," said Oliver, "close your eye and shake your head and you'll have some double vision for a little bit but after a while your eye site should turn back to normal."
Once Spitfire's eye turned back to normal, he handed Spitfire her doorbell. Spitfire looked confused as to what to do next.
"All you have to do is toss the doorbell up in the air and it will stick onto an invisible door that leads to your pocket dimension," I instructed.
Spitfire nodded and did as I instructed her to. Once again, she had a look of confusion on her face.
"Oh, just ring the doorbell to get inside." I said.
Spitfire pressed her doorbell and when the door opened we stepped inside only to see clouds everywhere. While I looked around in awe, Oliver looked as if he had seen this pocket dimension plenty of times before.
"Looks like you have the cloud dimension," said Oliver, "the clouds are trap doors that lead to different parts of AI. This will be very helpful when you're going to different assignments or different areas where you chose to train."
Oliver went up to a cloud and pressed on and it opened up just like he said it would.
Spitfire smiled, "Huh, interesting."
While Spitfire looked like she wanted to explore her pocket dimension even more because she was looking around excitedly. Oliver and I looked at the time and saw that it was getting late.
"So," said Spitfire, "how do I get out of here?"
"The doorbell goes inside the pocket dimension with you," I said, "just press it and then you're out. Oh and you won't lose your doorbell will stay behind your left ear. So you won't lose it wherever you go."
"When you're summoned for assignments, the doorbell will give you two rings that only you can hear. If you don't answer your summons by the second ring, you'll get a small electric shock to the ear." Oliver explained.
"Trust me, it's not pleasant either." I growled.
"What if you're asleep when you're summoned?" Spitfire asked.
"The doorbell enters into your dreams and does the same exact thing." I said. "Let's just say getting woken up in that way is, how do I put this, it's shocking!"
Of course Oliver found that statement funny because of what happened to me on my first summons. He couldn't control his laughter on that thought and the more I thought about it, I started to laugh too because it was pretty funny when it happened to me.
After Oliver and I stopped laughing, I yawned and stretched. "Well I guess it's time to say goodnight. So tomorrow you'll meet your Predictor and you'll get assigned to your six-man squad to do breakout assignments with."
Spitfire paused and tilted her head. "Uh, Predictor?"
"She'll be your boss and will give you your assignments and will be summoning you for them." Oliver explained. "Well, it's time for us to go."
Spitfire nodded. "See you tomorrow."
After we left Spitfire's pocket dimension, we escorted her back to her room and went our separate ways.