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// Episode 8: Operation Sundown Pt 5 
// Story: Sparkling Harmony EQG: Agents of SMILE: Operation Sundown 
// by Captain_Cosmos 
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SMILE HQ
Canterlot City
October 31st, 2022
2000hrs

Microchip and his fellow agents raced down the halls of SMILE HQ, weaving in and out of returning agents from missions. “Do you think they started the process yet Micro?” Chase asked.

“For the sake of everyone involved they BETTER not have started the cleaning process yet!” Micro responded as they came up to a door and unlocked it. After recovering from their shock that the vault tbe De-Evilizers were held in was empty, security logs showed them being removed for their routine cleaning, which was HORRIBLE timing.

As soon as the door opened, Micro barged in and yelled at the top of his lungs. “Don’t start the cleaning process!”

In the room he barged into, multiple scientists jumped at his outburst and barging in. “Microchip?” Asked one of the scientists. “What’s going on?”

“We have a code Sundown going down. We need the De-Evilizers!” Micro responded as he quickly spotted the devices through a window and started unlocking the door to the room they were in.

“But Micro, they’re due to be—“ one of the Scientists tried to say before being cut off by Micro.

“An hour overdue won’t hurt them. We need them NOW!” Micro said as he opened the door. “Chase, Lyra, Bonbon, grab one and let’s get back to the school.” He said.





Canterlot High
Canterlot City
October 31st, 2022
1950hrs

Sparkler brought her glowing blue batons down and crashed them into Sundown’s manifested sword, engaging in a lock. Sundown growled. “Sparkler. Do you not see what you could gain from joining me?” She asked. “You could be queen of a whole world!”

“And what makes you think I WANT that?” Sparkler asked as she pushed hard against the lock, trying to knock Sundown off balance. “There’s only one thing I want right now, and that’s your defeat!” She pushed even harder and knocked Sundown back, nearly making her fall.

Autumn aimed at Sundown with her laser pistol again and fired, aiming to knock Sundown out. Sundown dodged and proceeded to charge at Autumn. “As for you. I will gladly destroy you!” She growled as she swung at Autumn, who kept dodging out of the way.

“Not today Sunbutt.” Autumn said.

With Sundown’s back turned on her, Sparkler took the chance and attacked from behind, managing to get one of her batons around Sundownms neck. She pulled hard against Sundown trying to push the baton away, trying to knock her out that way. “Gah! Sunset! I know you’re still in there!” She said, speaking directly to Sunset. “Any help you can provide would be appreciated!” She said.

Sundown grabbed Sparkker’s arms and with surprising strength, threw her over her head and sent her flying into Autumn, sending them both to the ground. “Sunset May hear you. But she won’t help you!” Sundown growled at them.

Sparkler and Autumn got to their feet, Autumn looked at Sparkler. “Any ideas?” She asked.

“Just stay alive. Remember the plan.” Sparkler said. She and Autumn assumed combat stances and charged at Sundown again.

In Sundown’s mind, Sunset calmed down from laughing for a whole five minutes. Suffice to say, she LOVED how Sparkler tricked Sundown. “Oh god. Just when I thought Sparkler couldn’t get anymore awesome. I freaking love that girl.” She said.

Manifestation Sparkler chuckled. “She’s one smart cookie, that’s for sure.” She said. She nodded. “Right, everyone ready?” She asked.

“Let’s do this.” Sunset responded.

Manifestation Sparkler nodded and powered up her watch. “Ready…now Daydream!” She said as she aimed at the ground and a shockwave burst from it.

Right at that time, Daydream lowered the shield and the shockwave slammed into the horde of monsters Sundown sent on them, clearing all of them away and leaving a direct path to Sundown. “Let’s knock that demon off the throne!” She exclaimed as the three of them gunned it for Sundown. “Daydream and I will keep her busy. You take back control Sunset.” She told them.

“Copy that.” Sunset said.

Back outside, Sparkler, Sundown, and Autumn continued their battle. Suffice to say, Sundown was doing fairly well against the two SMILE agents. No matter what they did, their opponent always recovered fast enough to retaliate. All the while, Sparkler was thinking What’s taking the Rainbooms so long? We should’ve heard music by now! The plan was for the Rainbooms to essentially sing the zombies back to normal, but that should’ve happened by now. I swear to god if they’re having problems… She thought as she swung at Sundown.

Before it could connect, Sundown growled in agony, before shaking her head. “Ugh. God I hate—“ Sundown was interrupted when she was smacked across the face with Sparkler’s baton, which was already mid swing and too close to stop. “Ow! God that’s gonna hurt tomorrow!” The familiar voice of SUNSET SHIMMER cried out as she fell to her knees.

Sparkler and Autumn jumped when they heard Sunset’s voice as opposed to Sundown’s. Sparkler, after recovering from her shock, immediately knelt down beside Sunset. “Sunset! Is that you? Oh my god I’m so sorry!” She said.

Sunset nodded as she rubbed her cheek. “Don’t be. I knew what was gonna happen when I saw you two in mission gear.” She said. “Gah, I can feel her fighting back.” She said. feeling Sundown fight for control.

“Don’t worry Sunset. We have a plan.” Autumn responded.

At that moment, muffled music reached their ears. “W-what’s that?” Sunset asked.

About time. Sparkler smiled. “That is Sundown’s zombie horde being turned back to normal.” She said. “And soon we’re gonna get that demon out of your head permanently.” She added.

“Great.” Sunset responded, before she felt a splitting headache and she cried out accordingly. “Gah! She’s taking back control, run.” She told the agents.

“What?” Autumn asked.

“Run! Get out of here! I can’t keep her back!” Sunset told them as Sundown started taking back control.

Sparkler stood back up, set her watch to fire a stun shot, and aimed at Sunset. “We’ll get you back Sunny. I promise.” She said before she fired a stun shot at Sunset. Knocking her out cold.

With her out, Spadkler glanced at Autumn, before nodding. They both took off in a sprint out of the gym as Sundown awoke and let out a roar in rage. Sparkler pulled the geode out of her pocket and handed it to Autumn. “Take this and get to the field. I’ll lead her on a wild goose chase.” She said.

“Are you sure?” Autumn asked as she took and pocket the geode.

“Go!” Sparkler told Autumn as she glanced behind them and saw Sundown chasing after them.

Autumn nodded and turned the corner. Sparkler turned another corner. She glanced behind her after a few seconds and saw Sundown chasing her. As she had predicted. Either she loves me that much, or she thinks I have the geode…oh who am I kidding. She came back BECAUSE of Sunset’s jealousy so it’s probably both. She thought as she ran.







The rainbooms, after experiencing some technical difficulties, causing Rarity to use her diamond powers to shield them, rocked and rolled a performance for the crowd, drawing them in.

Flappy monitored the situation through the drones and the millisecond every one of the zombies were within range, he activated the field generator and a massive shock wave generated from the Sparkmobile and swept through the crowd.

As the shockwave hit them, the crowd was immediately dehypnotized and were returned to their normal selves. The resulting confusion over what happened only lasted for a couple of seconds before the Rainboom’s performance caught their attention and the beat got to them.

By the end of the performance, the hypnotization was all out and the crowd cheered and applauded the performance.

Autumn reached the field and smiled when she saw the crowd dehypnotized. “Excellent.” She said. She said.

The rainbooms sighed in relief, glad that it had actually worked. Rainbow got on the mic. “Yeah. Thanks for the praise, but no time!” She said. “Everyone needs to get out of here now!” She yelled. “Sundown Shimmer is on the loose!”

It took all of two seconds for that to sink in before the crowd gasped and ran. Those that could drive drove off and the rest just ran. All of them were screaming in panic.

Twilight facepalmed and turned to Rainbow. “Did you really need to say it like that?” She asked.

“Hey, needed to get all of them out quickly.” Rainbow responded.

“Well, you certainly accomplished that.” Applejack said.

Twilight nodded, before her eyes widened when she heard a voice in her head. A familiar voice.

“Gah! Finally! I made it! God why did you have to make so many walls for me to break through?!” Asked the voice of MIDNIGHT SPARKLE.

“No. No no no not you. Not now! We already have enough to deal with!” Twilight thought. She dared not speak it out loud. They already had enough to worry about that night. Several questions ran through her mind.

She didn’t get to ask any of them to her inner demon since Autumn ran up to the stage. “I got good news everyone.” She said as she held up the Geode of Empathy. “We tricked Sundown into giving this up.” She said.

Everyone gasped in surprise. “Whoa. How did you manage THAT?!” Rainbow asked as Autumn climbed onto the stage and they gathered around her.

“Apparently she’ll do just about anything Sparkler tells her to. Sparkler turned Sundown’s feelings for her against her.” Autumn explained.

Twilight completely forgot about Midnight being back too when she heard that. She smiled widely, proud of her girlfriend for being that clever. “Huh. What do you know. Sunset loving Sparkler actually came in handy here.” She commented.

“Yeah. It was shocking that it actually worked.” Autumn said as she raised her watch. “Chase, Micro, the school’s been dehypnotized and we managed to get the Geode of Empathy away from Sundown. What’s your status?” She asked.

“Leaving SMILE HQ now. ETA 5 minutes.” Micro responded.

“And how long will we need to distract Sundown until they’re ready for action?” Autumn asked.

“They require a four minute total activation process. Two to set up, two to charge up.” Micro responded.

“Acknowledged. We’ll be waiting.” Autumn responded. She turned to the Rainbooms. “Ten minutes. In ten minutes, this will be over.”

“Good.” Twilight responded.

Suddenly, they all heard a roar, and all looked up to see a sight that terrified Twilight to her core, and terrified everyone else but not as much. Sundown and Sparkler were on the roof, and Sundown was dangling Sparkler over the edge by her throat. “Sparkler!” All of them cried out.

To be continued…