{Rainbow Dash}
When Oliver and I arrived at Samantha’s realm I was surprised to see Oliver’s reaction to one of the Agents that would be assigned to Spitfire's six man squad.
“Hello Agent Oliver!” The Agent said with a shy wave, “I knew we would see each other again one day. I just didn’t think I’d see you as a married man.”
Oliver narrowed his eyes at the Agent. “I was hoping that I’d never see you again. I still can’t believe you were my first girlfriend at the Sixth, you were just as bad as Pinkie Pie, Cleo!”
I nuzzled Oliver on the shoulder and that seemed to calm him down a bit but not much.
“Don’t worry Agent Oliver I won’t do anything,” said Agent Cleo, “honest, I won’t. Yes, I still have feelings for you.”
“If you try any funny business I swear,” Oliver said.
Agent Cleo chuckled, “The fact that you’re so bound and determined to keep your relationship with Agent Rainbow Dash tells me that no matter what I do you two won’t be broken apart.”
“”That’s because they’re each other’s true love,” said Loyalty, “even if you backed Oliver into a corner he would just push you away or defend himself from you.”
“I’m with Loyalty on that one,” said Kindness, “try anything funny with Oliver and I won’t hesitate to help him stop you!”
When everyone except Oliver, Samantha, Gilda and me heard Loyalty and Kindness talk they jumped a foot in the air.
“What are those?” asked Agent Cleo, “Why are they talking?”
Kindness groaned, “We’re the Elements of Harmony. My name is Kindness. The Element of Harmony around Rainbow Dash’s neck is Loyalty.”
“Wait,” said Agent Cleo, “but I thought the Element of Kindness bearer was Fluttershy!”
I heard Pipsqueak say, “Didn’t you know that the Orientation video has been updated now?”
Agent Cleo shook her head. “No I didn’t."
"The Sixth is working on sending out a summons for every single agent except for the Element Bearers of Harmony to watch the updated video," Samantha said. "The new bearer of Kindness is Oliver."
I saw Agent Cleo give Oliver a look like she wasn't happy about that at all.
"I know that look Agent Cleo," Oliver hissed, "it's the same look you would give me every time you wanted to get back together with me. And my answer is no and it always will be no."
Agent Cleo gave Oliver a smug look. "Oh well, I guess I'll just have to find someone else then."
"Good!" Oliver snapped. "You do that!"
"So this is one of your nutcase girlfriend's on again and off again huh?" Gilda asked.
"Hey I'm not a nutcase!" Agent Cleo snapped.
"Yeah," said Oliver, "and being abusive to me when we were together isn't being a nutcase how?"
Agent Cleo stepped back and looked like she was remorseful about something. "You're right, I didn't realize that was the reason why you steered clear of me after we broke up."
"Yeah think?" Oliver snarled.
"Okay, changing the subject," said Pipsqueak, "in any case, I'm so glad to see you again Rainbow Dash. You seem to have done well for yourself. I mean you're married to the guy that destroyed the 7th Gate! You destroyed two Gates of the Machine yourself. I must say you two are the perfect match!"
I laughed, "Thanks Pipsqueak, I can't believe our third year anniversary is next week."
After I said that, Oliver leaned over and kissed me. For a moment we got lost in each other's eyes and I think Oliver did it on purpose just to make a point to Agent Cleo.
Samantha chuckled and cleared her throat. "Okay, while this love fest is nice and all, Spitfire is getting ready to arrive here any minute now."
When Spitfire stepped through the portal we smiled at her.
"Welcome Spitfire," said Samantha, "as a new agent of the Sixth, I'll be assigning you to your six man squad for your breakout assignments."
"Uh…" Spitfire said with a look of confusion.
"I know what that confusion is about," said Samantha, "think of me as your boss from whom you'll be getting your assignments from."
Hopefully, she'll zero in on Spitfire's thoughts and not mine this time. I thought.
"I heard that Rainbow Dash!" Samantha said. "Yes, I know Spitfire, Rainbow Dash didn't say anything but I can hear people's thoughts and I heard hers. Anyway, let's get down to business, this crystal I have and this cauldron in front of you is how I'll be confirming your six man squad."
Oh great, I know what she's going to say next. I thought.
"I heard that too Rainbow Dash!" Samantha said. "I would explain the in's and out's of choosing a team but I'd have to write a book about it. Honestly Cleo! Get your head out of the gutter and if you even think about doing anything to Oliver or Rainbow Dash, you'll be off the team and you will have failed your twelfth assignment! Because you've done this before on your previous teams. If you fail this assignment you'll have to go through your six day training again! This will be your fourth time too. After this you'll get no more chances! You'll be kicked out of the Sixth and sucked back into the Machine. Got it?"
"Hey," protested Agent Cleo, "I said I wasn't going to try anything!"
"But you were thinking about it!" Samantha snapped. "And the more you think about it, the more likely you'll actually do it. Now everyone gather around the cauldron so the crystal can confirm you're a match for Spitfire's team and give you all your codenames."
After Samantha said that, the liquid in the cauldron started to spin and the crystal that Samantha was hanging above it started to spin around the edge of it along with the water. Then the creepy voice came from it. "Round and round the cauldron we go, where we'll stop, nobody knows!"
I was the first one that the crystal pointed to this time. "Agent Rainbow Dash-14 is a match for Agent Spitfire! Her codename is Nancy."
The crystal spun around again, "Round and Round the cauldron we go, where we'll stop, nobody knows!"
The crystal pointed to Oliver. "Agent Oliver-45 is a match for Agent Spitfire! His codename is Kai."
The crystal then confirmed Gilda and Pipsqueak were matches for Spitfire. Gilda's codename was Sia and Pipsqueak's codename was Ben. When it came time to confirm if Agent Cleo was a match for Spitfire, the crystal didn't spin, the water didn't spin, the crystal didn't glow or talk either. The crystal just hung there and turned a dark red color.
"Huh," said Samantha, "that's never happened before! Cleo's not a match for Spitfire!"
"I can explain," the crystal said, "but due to the overwhelming tension in the room between Agent Oliver and Agent Cleo and with the possible threat of harm from Agent Cleo to Agent Oliver, I have changed my mind. I'm sorry Agent Cleo, but I will have to find a different match for Spitfire. Actually I already have someone in mind just in case this happened. Agent Beatrice-74 will be a match for Agent Spitfire."
"Okay then," said Samantha, "I'll summon her now and we'll wait to finish the six man squad for Spitfire. Agent Cleo, you are excused."
"Fine…" Agent Cleo mumbled. She was then escorted away by two agents of the Sixth.
* * *
As we were waiting for Agent Beatrice to arrive Pipsqueak seemed overjoyed about seeing her.
"I can't wait to see Beatrice again!" Pipsqueak said excitedly.
"Why's that?" I asked.
"Because Beatrice has been my best friend ever since I started working at the Sixth!" Pipsqueak replied. "No, she's not my marefriend because she already has a stallion friend and I have a marefriend myself."
"Marefriend?" I said.
"It's the pony term for boyfriend or girlfriend," Spitfire stated.
"Oh," I said.
"Wow Rainbow," said Gilda, "you're never heard that term used before?"
I shook my head. "Nope."
Finally, Beatrice arrived and she seemed excited to see Pipsqueak. She looked like a young mare about my age and she was an Earth Pony. She had purple fur and her mane and tail was a light blue color with a purple streak in the middle of it. Her cutie mark was a red heart with a black arrow going through it.
I wonder what her special talent is? I thought. Maybe something to do with love? Her hair style reminds me of Twilight's hair.
"Beatrice!" Pipsqueak said.
Beatrice laughed, "It's very nice to see you too Pipsqueak! It's always a pleasure every time I see you!"
"Alrighty then," said Samantha, "let's get back to business shall we?"
Samantha hung the crystal over the cauldron and the water spun and the crystal spun around the edge of the cauldron, "Round and round the cauldron we go, where we'll stop nobody knows!"
The crystal lit up and pointed to Beatrice, "Agent Beatrice-74 is a match for Agent Spitfire! Her codename is Zara!"
Samantha smiled. "There is one more Agent that needs a codename. That would be you, Spitfire."
The crystal spun around again, "Round and round the cauldron we go, where we'll stop nobody knows!"
The crystal then pointed at Spitfire, "Agent Spitfire-47, her codename is Maya."
After Spitfires codename was announced, Samantha smiled and put the crystal away.
"Sometimes a breakout assignment happens a little bit later after an Agents Six Man Squad is assigned to them," Samantha said. "But it doesn't always happen that way. It's because this breakout assignment is an important one. He has a strange type of magic that the Sixth knows all too well about. That's because more than one Agent has had this type of magic. A couple of them are high level Agents and a couple of them aren't. Thankfully, the Sixth has a way of controlling this type of magic."
"What type of magic is it?" I questioned.
"It's chaos magic," Samantha answered, "and since we're dealing with this type of magic a breakout assignment like this might take up five years or more to complete. If the trigger responses still don't take effect we'll rotate out the teams. Now gather around the cauldron and get a good look at him. He's been changed into a human and his name was changed to Gary. He works at a grocery store in the backroom. We were able to pull some strings to get your jobs that you'll be assigned to while on this breakout assignment."
Everyone looked into the cauldron to see what Gary looked like. He looked like about Jude's age and was dressed in the store's uniform. The uniform consisted of khaki pants and a white t-shirt, grey gym shoes and a blue name tag that said Gary in big black letters. His hair was a sandy blonde color and he had black eyes.
Samantha chuckled, "Rainbow Dash, you'll be surprised to see who this guy really is."
"And why's that?" I said.
Samantha pointed at the cauldron. I looked at who the guys that needed to be broken out. My jaw dropped in shock and surprise when I saw him. The creature that needed to be broken out was Discord!
* * *
"W-what? You, uh?" I still couldn't believe my eyes on seeing that Discord needed to be broken out of AI.
I guess the look on my face said it all. The only thing I knew was my jaw dropped so low to the ground I could taste it. I didn't pay attention to everyone's laughter because of being shocked about Discord needing to be broken out. Oliver was still laughing when he picked up my jaw off the ground.
"Discord?" I stammered. "We have to breakout Discord? Please tell me you're joking!"
Samantha actually had to sit down at her desk. She was laughing so hard at my reaction. After a while she regained her composure. "No, I'm not joking. This is an actual breakout assignment like it or not."
I sighed and then growled, "Fine…"
"Now," said Samantha, "your job assignments are as follows, Spitfire you will be posing as Discord's manager so you'll basically be his boss. Rainbow Dash, you'll be the supervisor which is the assistant to the manager. Pipsqueak and Oliver, you'll be working in the baler area, you'll be breaking down cardboard and setting up bales of cardboard and stuff like that. Gilda and Beatrice, you two will just be regular co workers."
"At least I don't have to work as a dancer at a strip club as a dancer this time!" Gilda laughed.
"Rainbow Dash," said Samantha, "you'll be the team captain on this assignment. Which means you'll get a crystal in your ear again. I might as well go ahead and do it now."
"Great." I said. I stood as still as I possibly could and Samantha came out over to me and took out her crystal she had for me.
Samantha lifted my ear up and tilted my head to the side. Just like last time she did it, it didn't hurt to have a crystal in my ear, it just twitched from having a foreign object in it.
"Alrighty then, follow me to the portal and you'll end up right where you need to be." Samantha said. With that, we were escorted to the portal that would lead us to where we needed to go.
* * *
{Jude}
I finally got my first day off so I decided to do one of my favorite things to do, keep an eye on my mother, Rainbow Dash. Since I'm able to find her so easily, I found her at a grocery store. So I'm guessing she's on some sort of assignment as an Agent of the Sixth. I had already sent Firewall Eli inside posing as a co worker there. While Firewall Eli was busy gathering video footage for me, I was able to use my listening devices to listen in on conversations that I find interesting. Of course, when it comes down to Rainbow Dash, I'm always interested in her conversations. You know, because she's my mother. This conversation was taking place between Rainbow Dash and Oliver.
"So what was Discord like back in Equestria?" Oliver asked.
"A total nutcase," answered Rainbow Dash, "he could make pigs fly and hell freeze over just with the snap of his claw!"
"Wow, really?" Oliver said.
"Oh yeah," said Rainbow Dash, "I'm surprised Fluttershy was able to reform him! When she did reform him, she actually dated him for a while, but they broke up. That's because Fluttershy got together with Applejack. The funny thing about that is, Discord actually respected Fluttershy's decision to be with Applejack. I wish Pinkie Pie would respect our decision, come to think about it, I don't think she knows the meaning of the word respect. And if she follows us here I swear I might just go ahead and break her arm instead of just twisting it behind her back."
"I wonder how many people in this building are going to fall for you this time?" Oliver teased.
"Let's hope the number is zero," Rainbow Dash replied.
"That goes for me too," Oliver agreed.
After a while of listening to Rainbow Dash and Oliver talk, I decided to head back to the castle. I figured I could get the video footage from Firewall Eli later.