The flight back to headquarters was rather smooth and so was the mission, Although the disturbing site of dead bodies around the facility made the agents on edge. They had found what they were looking for and they hadn't encountered anything dangerous or their mirrored selves in the abandoned facility. Plus they found probably the most adorable-looking pony they had seen in all their lives. though the huge rift was still on top of the sky and over the facility, it was stable for now as Killjoy analyzed. In the passenger side of the plane, Killjoy and Skye tend to the filly, playing with her and even making funny faces for the filly on Jett’s lap. As for Jett herself, She stared off into the plane’s ceiling thinking over what and how she could take care of the filly. Skye was kind enough to lend her the basics of taking care of an animal which she accepted wholeheartedly. On the other side of the plane, Phoenix tried his best to cover up his smile as he stared at Jett’s bewildered face as she thought over her life choices and Sova had slept during the whole trip back. After 2 hours of being in the air, they had finally made it back to headquarters. The headquarters itself was hidden on a remote island with a volcano in the middle. As soon as the plane had gotten closer to the ground, the ground itself opened up revealing a landing dock at the very bottom of a huge cave where other planes were parked.
“And touchdown.” The pilot says as the plane had made a landing. “ Welcome home agents, I hope you enjoyed our flight and we hope to see you soon.” The pilot joked as the 5 agents got up from their seats and exited the plane. The 5 agents stuck close to one another as Killjoy and Skye continued to play with the filly, the filly refused to leave Jett’s arms so Killjoy and Skye had to go so close to Jett up to the point where they were squeezing her entire body as they continued walking. Jett cleared her throat grabbing the attention of Skye and Killjoy.
“Uh, you guys, I appreciate you two playing with the filly and all that, but could you give me some space?” Jett asked calmly, as Killjoy and Skye quickly backed away from Jett but were still relatively close enough to the filly.
“I'm sorry Jett, but this is rather something I had not seen in… well ever!” Killjoy says excitedly before continuing. “ I mean just look at this pony, it has wings!” Killjoy couldn’t help but release a little squeal as if she were a little girl again much to Jett’s surprise.
“She’s right Jett, I had encountered every single animal I could think of… but never have I seen anything like this little bugger,” Skye says scratching the little filly’s ears, The filly lays her head onto Skye’s hand enjoying the sensation while Jett stared at her actions taking mental notes for later usage. Then both the filly and Jett made contact with Phoenix’s back.
“Ow Phoenix, why did you..” Jett paused, as she looked ahead of Phoenix. There standing and crossing his arms by the entrance of the headquarters was Brimstone, his face was stoic as ever as he watched his agents slowly approach him. He saw his agents were quite nervous for some reason, the 3 female agents' eyes were darting everywhere other than to look on Brim's way and Phoenix simply whistled a tune. Only Sova was different because of how the way he stared at them confused. The next thing that came was silence. A long silence. The agents didn't know what to say or do a matter of fact. Brimstone had a strict rule to not bring any animals of any kind into headquarters and he was very specific about it, It was the number one rule and they had just broken it. Brimstone had a way to deal with rule breakers which the agents didn't want at the slightest as old memories came crashing in. The only one that didn't seem to be bothered was Sova, as when he makes a mistake he took those harsh punishments with honor. He was fine with it, but the rest aren't willing to relive it.
The filly, (after seeing her mother's nervous face) decided to peek over Phoenix's shoulder as she slowly rose from Jett’s arms but was quickly stopped by Skye as she gently pushed her back down into a sitting position. Brimstone, however, saw Skye’s actions but not the filly, he raised an eyebrow he’s stoic face still intact as he started light stomping his right booth into the ground as he grew more and more impatient.
Phoenix was the first to break the silence as he cleared his throat profusely before speaking. “Hey, Brimstone…uh… I know you said not to bring…um..uh. Any animals in headquarters.” He briefly paused as Phoenix waited to see how Brim had reacted so far. Nothing. “And I know that Skye was an exception considering her abilities. But.” He moved to the side for Jett to be completely visible to Brimstone. “We had found something else in that facility.”
There the filly came to full view for Brimstone to see, in a second the filly covered her eyes with both of her hooves as she was shaking immensely as she got a good look at Brimstone. If looks could kill then that filly might as well be dead, actually, all of them would be dead. Brimstone pinched the bridges of his noes and released a heavy groan causing the agents to shiver a bit along with the filly. Sweat came down on Phoenix’s face but quickly evaporated as he and the rest of the agents waited for Brim to decide the little filly's fate. After what felt like minutes of silence, Brimstone finally spoke.
“If you're saying that this…pony came from the top-secret facility.” He paused letting those words linger on his agents. “Then this filly won't be going anywhere... So I will let this filly stay, But this will be the last time! Don't come bringing any more animals into headquarters. This ain't no zoo agents.” Brimstone could hear the sighs of relief of the agents as he turns to leave. “I hope you five know what you are doing.” He says in finality as he started walking back deeper into the base.
“Good job Phoenix!” Killjoy says with joy, light punching Phoenix’s shoulder. “ I was actually having some doubts when you started talking to Brimstone. But hey! It went well.” Killjoy could see Phoenix was a bit hurt by her statement but brushed it off. As she turns to Jett, She saw the filly was still shaking in fear while Jett continued to stare at the filly not sure what to do.
“Jett…” Killjoy started.”Why aren’t you comforting the filly? You can clearly see she is in distress.” Killjoy lightly scolded Jett.
“Look... Kj I'm not good at that kind of stuff. Never was the caring type for animals. Hell, never had one to begin with.” Jett admitted with a sigh.
“Then think of this Jett,” Killjoy says whilst pointing a finger at the cowering filly.“Think as if this was some child who had lost her parents recently, and you were so kind enough to adopt her and bring her to your home. And here she was now, probably having the time to reflect on a painful memory of when her parents died. What would you do?”
“...geez, Killjoy that was kind of..dark..even for you.”
“Yeah, but that was the first thing that came to mind so, answer the question.”
“Well… I’d make sure that she was alright.”
“Uh-huh.” Killjoy nods.
“Then I’d tell her that everything was alright and…. I would be there for her.”
“Good..keep going.”
“Then…Then I would comfort her the best that I could?”
“So why aren't you doing it?” Killjoy questioned, Jett, didn't need to answer it as she continued to stare at the little filly with worried eyes. The shaking had died down but she still had her hooves over her face, too afraid to look back as images of Brimstone's menacing face came to her mind. Jett slowly but surely scratched the filly’s left ear in hopes that it would give her some comfort. Slowly the filly removed the hooves from her face as she felt the same sensation again from the other human, only this time it was coming from her carer. The feeling was rather different than the other human had petted her, it was soft, slow, and warm in a way. She rubbed her head against Jett’s palm feeling every inch of it, A small smile came to the filly’s face as she felt the familiar warmth of her caretaker. her mother. Soon she drifted off to sleep in Jett’s palm, the smile never faded from the filly. Jett was utterly lost for words as the filly slept in her hand peacefully in a matter of seconds. Jett lowered her hand so that the filly was rested in her arms again as a smile came from her face.
“Good work,” Killjoy says in a whisper, as the two quietly laughed together.
“Hate to break the moment but um, you guys coming in or?” Phoenix says pointing towards the door that Skye and Sova had left through.
“Sorry, had to comfort the little guy y’know,” Jett says as she started walking toward the entrance of the base. Jett didn't know how far she would go to take care of this filly but in her mind, She would do it till the end. As the remaining agents walked through the door and into a long hallway, they finally made it to the armory and training room where they would drop off their weapons before heading back to their quarters.
Of course, the place wasn’t empty, as of now among Sova and Skye, 4 new agents starred at Jett. they had looks of confusion and shock as to what she was holding, she couldn't tell all of their reactions though for one was a war machine who doesn't display emotion at all, this was going to be a long day but she couldn't care anymore.