//------------------------------// // Chapter Six: Secrets and Lies // Story: The Conversion Bureau: The Last Job // by Da Bunnana King //------------------------------// The Conversion Bureau: The Last Job By Da Bunnana King Viewer Discretion is advised during this chapter Chapter Six: Operation Secrets and Lies -Somewhere near Waco Texas- Jack and Rafael were running against the wall with their weapons drawn. Rafael had an AA-12 he had found in the back of the Humvee. “In position.” Said Jack over the radio, “Roger, I count six tangos in the building.” Responded Ulysses over the radio, “James how many do you see over the IR scope from where you are?” “I count ten, and two in the guard posts both with high powered rifles. Permission to engage the tangos in the towers?” Asked James on the radio, “Negative, Alpha 2-1, breach and clear. Alpha 3, provide over-watch for them.” Responded Ulysses while chambering a round into his rifle, he looked thought the scope to view Rafael and Jack place a breaching charge on the door. “Breaching!” Cried Jack over the radio, the charge went off and Rafael threw a flashbang into the room causing more confusion and blinding most inside. Ulysses floated his sights over a solider that wasn’t stunned and held his breath. He squeezed the trigger and let his breath go steadying the shot, the bullet shattered through the glass and straight into the soldier’s chest knocking him back off his feet and into the wall. Jack and Rafael cleared the room but some of the HLF extremists had run for cover and were returning fire with an enormous suppressive effect, pinning Jack and Rafael. “Can you guys take care of them!?” Yelled Rafael over the radio, “I got this.” Replied James then the soldiers began to drop and shards of glass began to cover the floor. “Ok James, Move up to the next rendezvous point with Alpha 2-1.” Ordered Ulysses, “I’ll meet you inside lads.” With that Ulysses folded the bipod up on his M98B sniper rifle and placed it on his back. He pulled out his M16A and checked the magazine to make sure it was fresh. He slid it back in and cocked the rifle and started down the small hill he was perched on. ==== He arrived at a large air vent used to exchange air between various parts of the fort and the surface. He found a metal grate and pulled on it as hard as he could to rip it off, he succeeded and he then proceeded to clime into the air vent, “Ok, I’m in. How’s things on your end?” he asked over the radio, “This is Alpha 0-3, I have entered the complex undetected and I am proceeding to the rendezvous point, over.” Said James over the radio, “This is Alpha 2-1, we are at the rendezvous point and there is a locked door, do we have permission to breach and clear?” said Rafael over the radio static, “Alpha 2-1 you have permission to breach and clear once Alpha 3 has arrived.” “Repeat Alpha Actual couldn’t hear that” “Alpha 2-1 you have permission over.” “I thi*static*k that their b*static*ng our sig…” said Rafael over the radio before it turned into static feedback. “Dammit, this is going to be hard. Hopefully I can find what ever is blocking our radio’s and get rid of it.” Said Ulysses to himself in the air vents, he continued to crawl around in the vent until he came to a grate that seem to be big enough for him to fit through. He ripped off the grate and slipped his body through it feet first. He landed unceremoniously on the ground with a loud thud. He picked himself up off the ground and readied his rifle; he scanned the room looking for anything that would resemble a jamming device or Intel he could gather. The room was bland filled with rows of metal shelves contain food, boxes and various miscellaneous objects. === He continued down the concrete and metal halls; he came up on a heavily armored door. He knew that most people kept their secrets safe and what isn’t safe about a large metal door. So he placed two bricks of C4 on the doors hinges. He moved to the side of the door way and pulled the trigger on the detonator, the door exploded but still stood strong, standing up strait. Ulysses walked up to the door and kicked it down with one massive boot, it took several attempts but the door finally fell down crating a loud thud. He entered the room with his weapon ready checking every corner to see if anyone was inside. What Ulysses expected was just some computer with a hard drive for Intel. Here there was a whole room dedicated to it. Filling cabins stacked the left side of the room; there were two large plastic tables with manila folders and sheets of paper with vital information about the terrorist organization. On the right side of the room were maps of the United States of America with red circles, string and thumbtacks. He began to search through the vast amounts of information looking for anything that looked valuable or included the whereabouts of HLF Labs. He came upon a document that had classified written upon it. He opened the document and scanned over the contents. It seem to mention that the PER were secretly funded by a mole in the Royal Treasury Department of Equestria, it also mentioned that they seemed to be developing an airborne version of the ponifacation serum and one that was apparently more vigorous that the standard serum, so he stored the document behind his tacvest. He continued to search through me small mountain of Info gathered, he came to some manila folders with maps inside of them and several pieces of paper, the map outlined where several labs that ran experimentation on both ponies and humans alike. The one part he found was that they were developing some sort WMD that could traverse the barrier between Earth and Equestria. There was also another document bearing the same symbol as Celestia’s Cutie Mark and some other strange symbols on it. He opened the document only to find that the Intel inside was written in some other language that was slightly similar to the Standard English alphabet. He could make out the headline which seemed to say ‘Purification’ but surly his eyes were deceiving him. Maybe when he gets back to a Bureau he was sure he could find an English to Equestrian dictionary somewhere. He heard footsteps approaching; instinctively he raised his gun and pointed it at the door. “Friendly’s coming in!” yelled James voice, “Alpha Squad, spread out over the room and search this whole place for anything that is important and or the where about of more HLF lab bases. Were on a time limit here. We have thirty minutes before we’re pulling out.” Commanded Ulysses to his squad. “Roger Wilco.” Said James, with that the squad spread out of the room tearing through filing cabinets and taking photos of the maps on the walls. ==== “Alright times up lads, lets get out of here and get to the drop off point.” Said Ulysses, “Roger, who’s on point?” asked James, “You’re up greenhorn, Raff swap guns with him.” Commanded Ulysses, “Fine, and stop calling me Raff. I sound like that silly children’s show with the turtles.” Replied Rafael solemnly handing over his AA-12 to James who intern was handing back a SR-25 to the grumpy Marine, “Why do you think I’m calling you that?” Replied Ulysses smugly, The squad exited the room in a near on line fashion, they were constantly were checking the corners and their backs. They came up to a room with a sign saying ‘Security’. Ulysses raised his hand to halt the squad, “Stack up on that door.” He ordered, the squad did as he asked. James placed a breeching charge on the door, and then rolled to the side. “Breach and Clear.” “Breaching!” Said James, James entered and then three shot were heard from inside the room. Once the squad had entered Ulysses spotted a HLF guard wearing a Kevlar vest with two large holes in it that were seeping out blood. “Jack see if you can trigger an alarm to make a distraction.” Said Ulysses, Jack walked over to the computer console and started hitting buttons on the keyboard. “How does tripping the fire system sound?” he replied while continuing to type on the keyboard. “Do it away from the extraction zone. Let’s move out. James you’re still on point.” Said Ulysses while turning around to the door, after a few moments there was the sound of a siren sounding off in the distance signaling that the alarm had gone off successfully. ==== They arrived at a large metal rolling door that had been secured with a chain and lock. “Get that door open James.” Ordered Ulysses, “And how in Sam’s hell am I going to do that!” Replied James, “You have a shotgun. Use it.” replied Ulysses gesturing to the AA-12. “Oh… well stand back.” And with that James pointed the gun at the lock and shot at it causing the locking mechanism to brake, James then proceeded to remove the chain and open the door only to be faced with what looked like a small company of HLF soldiers, who were pointing their rifles right at them. Accompanying the soldiers were two jeeps armed with machine guns. “Shit.” Was the only word that escaped Ulysses mouth. “So you thought you cold infiltrate the worlds most armored Human Liberation Force base?” came a voice over a megaphone, “Not only that but invade Alcatraz to free a prisoner then hijack a cargo ship only to knockout the head of the Human Liberation Forces in San Francisco and kill his right hand man without being noticed?” “Oh I’m sorry, did I piss you off?” Responded Ulysses to the disembodied voice, “You must be new to begging for your life.” “You must be new to dying.” Responded Ulysses taking out a high explosive grenade and throwing at one of the jeeps, “Get to cover men.” “GREN…” came a HLF soldiers voice before being cut off from the loud explosion from the grenade and jeep exploding. “Jesus Christ Ulysses what was in that thing?” yelled Jack, “C4 and more nitroglycerin, I made it my self when I was at the bureau that night. Strange the cluster part hasn’t dis…” said Ulysses before being cut off by another explosion, “There it is, now lets put them out of their misery.” The squad exited cover only to be greeted with burning corpses and chard faces of fallen soldiers, this brought back painful memories to Ulysses as he has seen this done to his best friends back when Australia was invaded. “Put your gas masks on.” Said Jack. “That won’t stop the smell.” Replied James. “But it will stop the smoke.” Said Jack, placing his mask on. They continued through the small field of burning coupes only to hear pleads from the unfortunate ones that didn’t die from the explosion, the only thing they could do was to put them out of their misery as Ulysses had said earlier. They all pulled out their side arms and whatever soldier they came past that was alive they shot. One of the guards were able to grab on to Ulysses leg, he wasn’t burned like the rest of them but only badly blistered over his face and arms, “Please… help… me.” He begged, “The only thing I can do is to put you out of your torment.” Ulysses said pointing his pistol at him, “Nooo… take me to… the Bureau… you win… I’ll go pony… just let me… live.” He said struggling to breath. “Alright, just call yourself lucky.” Ulysses said picking up the man only to notice that the lower part of his torso was gone, but he wasn’t bleeding profusely since the flames had colorized the wound. He draped the torso of the man over his shoulders and caught up to the group. “Ulysses. What are you doing to the poor man?” Said Rafael, “He said he wanted to be converted rather than to die among the flames and the field of dead.” Responded Ulysses walking towards a sand colored tarp. “He was polite enough to ask.” Ulysses added, remembering what his friends went though, and even though this man was an enemy, he couldn’t let himself become so jaded. “Let’s load him up and drop him of at the nearest Bureau near the drop off point for Celestia.” “Sounds like a plan.” Said Rafael entering the drivers seat. ==== The Humvee’s engine hummed quietly while on the motorway to Huston, the HLF soldier was in the rear of the cabin being treating by Jack, he was slipping in and out of conscious and babbling about this wouldn’t have happened if he just went with his parents when Conversion was offered. Ulysses looked back and asked Jack, “So is he going to make it or is he a goner?” “He’s stable, but I don’t think he is going to live as a human anymore. Even with all the advances in medicine and prosthetic organs and limbs the only way he would survive is with instant Ponifacation.” Responded Jack giving a distressed look to Ulysses, “But will he make it to the Bureau in time?” “Yes but they better have some Serum on hand or hoof.” “Alright, well we got some time to kill so,” said Ulysses looking over to James, “Why don’t you tell us about your self James.” “Ummmm… ok, well I’m James Milner, I’m nineteen and I used to be in the American Army.” “Ok then but explain to me why you know how to breach and clear like a commando and you have precise shooting like a sniper.” “My grandpa taught me, just like he taught you, and he also had stories… my dad had stories about you. So is it true that on your first mission you killed that Cyclops in his one good eye.” “Yep, I think… I couldn’t tell since there wasn’t much of a head left.” Boasted Ulysses, “So how about that time you absailed down that mountain to infiltrate a terrorist base, is that true?” “Yes it is and then we road off into the sunset.” Sarcastically replied Ulysses, “Ererggggg…” came the voice of the half alive guard, “Where… where am I?” “Whoa there, your ok, we picked you up and taking you to the Conversion Bureau to fix you up ok.” Said Jack who was next to the man, “… Ok, but… but why can’t I feel my legs.” “They must have been blown off in the explosion you were in. But can you tell me your name?” “Nick… my name is Nick…” he said breathing heavy, “Ok so you know your going to be converted in a few hours.” Said Jack, “Yes… I know… I give up… there is nothing left for me on Earth… my family is living in Eques… Equestria now and there also happy… I… I should have gone with them… Now look at me… I’ve killed both ponies and people and look where its’ got me… half dead and legless…” Nick ranted unobvious to the rest of the world or the fact that they were pulling into the Conversion Bureau in Houston, Texas. “Raff come with me to talk to the staff while you two get Nick ready to move.” Said Ulysses taking of his combat armor and stepping out of the Humvee with Rafael doing the same. “So how are we going to do this?” Asked Rafael. “Walk in there tell them about Nick, get him ponified, and then walk out.” Responded Ulysses nonchalantly. ==== “What do you mean he can’t get ponified? This is a Conversion Bureau. Isn’t it your jobs to ponifiy us humans!” said Ulysses to the green and pink Pegasus, “There isn’t enough serum for us to make an exception this one time and there have been people waiting a week to get ponified and how do I know that this… man is even real?” retorted the small mare, “Alright I’ll see if he is stable for transport on one condition though.” “And what would that be Mr. Valera?” “Get him in the room where they get ponified.” “Fine, bring him in and I’ll talk to the technician and the convertee that is going to get ponified today.” “Thank you Ms. Lime.” Said Ulysses who walked back out the door flanked by Rafael, “That went down swimmingly.” Said Ulysses to Rafael, “You do have a way with words don’t you.” Rafael chuckled, “Alright prep Nick for movement to the Conversion Room. We’ll meet you there.” Said Ulysses over the radio, “Roger Wilco.” Responded James over the static, Both Ulysses and Rafael went down a maze of corridors until they came to a pair of metallic double doors with the words in bold white letters ‘Authorized Staff Only’, they pushed through them and came into a large, what seemed to be surgical room with a metal operating table with a sheet of paper stretching from one end of the table to the other in the center of the room. The room had also a large Red Brief case in it that seemed to be reinforced and had a pin pad on it with the numbers ranging from zero though nine with an enter button and a backspace button. “Patient coming through!” Jacks voice sounded bursting through the door with Nick in an impromptu stretcher; they placed Nick on the metal table, “Ok, so did it work out on your end?” Asked James, “I hope so. She said that she would talk to the tec-head and the person that’s up for conversion today to see if they would give up their spot.” Replied Rafael, “You’re in luck gentalm…” said Lemon Lime happily trotting in through the doors before noticing the charred legless man lying on the table, “Oh sweet Celestia… Who did this to him?” “Urr that ma…” said Jack before Ulysses placing his hand over his mouth telling him ‘let me do the talking.’ “The HLF did this to him, we went out to do some recon for the government and this poor man was caught in a explosion that was made by the HLF.” Said Ulysses nervously, “Oh my… this isn’t good… MAGGIE! GET IN HERE WITH THE POTION ASAP!” yelled Lemon, “I’m coming, hold yer horses.” Came a very famine voice, in through a middle aged woman with brown hair warring a while lab coat carrying a small Styrofoam cup, “Oh my… I think we might need to inject the potion into the poor man.” So she proceeded to walk over to one of the various benches and removed a large hypodermic needle and sucked up the contents of the cup into the needle. “Ok now we need to inject this into the heart, so is he ready?” “Im… as ready as ill ever… HUUUR!” said Nick while Maggie injected the serum into Nicks heart, the response from it entering the body were almost instantaneously. His skin turned waxy and his something at the base of his legs started to shoot out. Bone shot from his leg forming what seemed to be equine legs and hooves, his skin turned fuzzy as small hairs began to emerge from the waxy skin, which was slowly starting to solidify. A tail started to form at the back of his legs and his neck elongated it with his face. His coat had finished coming in. It was fire truck red. But something came protruding from his head, it seemed to be some form of horn. His mane was fully formed. It was a deep blue with a red highlight running through it. With in the time of fifteen minuets Nick had gone from being a charred human corpse to a four-foot red unicorn pony. The whole process scared Ulysses down to his bone, ‘Wow. That’s what happens when you get ponified.’ Thought Ulysses but at the back of his mind he wondered if getting ponified was the right idea. The red pony stirred from his sleep and opened his eyes to look upon the new world. ==== -Houston, Texas- -Conversion Bureau in an operating room POV is of Nick Hedrick- As I opened my eyes to look upon the new world and wow this feels great. I feel like all the problems I had as a human were gone. My skin didn’t burn like before… in fact I could breathe properly and wow are those my hooves! “Hey how you feeling buddy?” said the deep Australian accented man, “I feel… awesome!” I said in my higher pitched voice, “Wow that’s wired, I didn’t know I my voice changed.” “Yeah doc what’s with that?” “Umm most mares usually have high pitched voices.” Said the doctor in the white lab coat, “IM A MARE!!! BUT IM SUPPOSED TO BE A BOY!!!” I yelled, “What did you give me? “We gave you the standard Ponifacation serum. I don’t know how you came out as you did.” She said in her defense, “Maybe it has something to do with the missing of a lower torso or something?” came a gruff Hispanic voice, “I think you may be right but your going to have to stay here for test on how this happened that any you also have to learn how to be a pony if your going to live in Equestria.” “Okay but can I have a word with the man that saved me?” “Sure, just who did save you?” asked the doctor turning to the four men covered in sweat and dirt, “That would be me ma’am.” Said the Australian stepping forward, “Ok you have ten minutes before we have to come get him for orientation.” “Alright, see you in a bit.” He said while watching the doctor and the other pony exit the room, “Well you heard the lady, out you go lads.” Then what seem to be the other members of the squad left the room so it was just the one Australian and me. “So I don’t think I properly introduced myself. I’m Ulysses Valera of the Special Air Service of Australia.” Said Ulysses puffing out his chest in pride, “I’m Nick Hedrick from Texas… I guess.” I said, “So I’m guessing you want to know why brought you here?” “Yep.” “Well out of the other people who were dying you were the only one that looked like who could actually live. And you asked for my help.” “But I still don’t get it? Why?” “I wasn’t trained to be a stone cold killer. I was trained for people who couldn’t defend themselves from the mad men of the world. You are young from what I could tell, no older than sixteen. You didn’t deserve to be their fighting for them or dying a painful and horrible death. You have a life had ahead of you. You asked me to help you and I wasn’t going to put a bullet between your eyes. So I picked you up and brought you here.” “Ok then, thanks Valera.” I said bowing my head, ‘Wow I have a long neck.’ I thought to my self before attempting to hop off the table, I more so rolled off the table and landed on the ground with a thud, “Ow.” I said before pulling myself of the ground, “This is weird standing on all fours. Now let’s see if I can’t walk.” “Are you sure?” Ulysses said with a look on his face saying ‘This is going to be fun to watch.’ “Yes I’m sure now let’s see, one hoof forward and move my… AHHH.” I yelled before being reintroduced to the floor, “Hehehehe.” Ulysses laughed, “Here lean against me and I’ll support you.” He said before lifting me up back again and leaning me against him, wow he is warm. I blushed a bit. “Ok try it again.” So I did so and in no time I was trotting around all by myself. “Ok times up. Nick if you would follow me and Ulysses your squad's waiting for you outside.” Said the lime pony, “Ok, well I guess see you around?” “Sure if we meet up in Equestria we’ll have lunch together? How does sound?” “Sound great. See you around.” He said walking out the door. “OOOooooo how cute. You have a crush on him don’t you.” Said the other pony in the room after Ulysses had left the room, “No I don’t. He’s a man and I’m a…” I said blushing. “A mare. Its perfectly fine honey, nopony will judge you. Now come on lets get you to that orientation meeting.” She said trotting out the door, so I followed two. ==== -Changing back to Ulysses- “Right let’s get to the drop off point. So where we meeting the Princess?” said Ulysses stepping into the back of the Humvee, “Well what did you two talk about?” asked Jack, “Why I saved him, now lets go since were late and I don’t want to get on Celestia’s bad side anymore.” Said Ulysses putting on his armor once again, “Ok it says here to meet in an old warehouse off of 3rd and Maple.” Said Rafael reading the scroll and punching in the destination into the GPS, “Alright, let’s roll.” Said Ulysses. ==== Authors Notes: yay! Chapter 6 is done! Next chapter Ulysses falls off into a volcano… Wait that’s not for another six chapters, but next chapter we have the meeting going down. Special Thanks to my Editor Randall and the whole MyLilPWNY gaming clan for support. But Comment on what I have done wrong or what I have done right. So Rate, Comment, Subscribe and Favorite since that’s what everyone on the Youtubes say. So I have also been working on Project Sexico (not a clop fic so put the lube away) and the prologue is looking good so far so expect it. And as always BUNNANA AAAAWWWWAAAAYYY!!! -Bunnana King. ---Randall Says Hai (O_O)/” (If there’s anything wrong, its Dylan’s fault.) And I maybe might write about Nick... if I have time. Anyhow Im going back to Steam. I wove you all. Goodnight! Hey I went back and edited this but if you want to see what happend to Ulysses after this whole story then check out my other fanfic To Sexico where I will explain some stuff about the whole CB and how I view it and other stuff so check it out.