"Oh buck" Lightning thought to himself. The mission was to easy, it was a trap. Lightning ran with his team, jumping over every toppled over tree and rock in his way.
"Oh dang! Lightning pass me a gun!" Alpha yelled. When the team got ambushed, Alpha dropped her rifle when she started to run. Lightning threw Alpha the rifle. She reloaded it and jumped into a hole. Lightning and Glid followed.
"Suppressing fire!" Alpha yelled.
Lightning forgot Plan B. Seemed like everypony else did to. Lightning pulled out his pistol. He fired at one changeling, sending it tumbling down. Another changeling came from behind. Lightning attempted to pull the trigger, but the changeling prevented him from firing. Lightning gave him a punch in the neck. The changeling started to gag, then attempted to stab Lightning with its teeth. Lightning grabbed the changeling and head-butted it. Lightnings helmet took the impact. Lightning then, took his gun and shot the changeling.
"Move, we've got to go. NOW!" Alpha yelled to the rest of the team.
"Union Actual, copy?" Glid asked over the radio.
"Union Actual copy. What's the problem?"
"We've been ambushed! We need immediate evac." Glid said.
"Evac granted. Skyfall is in you A.O. You're welcome. Union Actual out. " Union Actual replied.
"Well hurry up, we're low on ammo." Lightning yelled into the mic. Lightning reloaded his pistol, and started to fire randomly, hoping to hit a few changelings, or at least keep their heads down.
"What happened, Vamp?" Harp asked.
"She's looking into what she can do."
"Great a C.O. is looking into it. This is gonna take forever." Harp said.
All of the sudden, an explosion went off. Then all of the sudden a large amount of snow came down the mountain.
"Avalanche!" Lightning yelled. He ran down the mountain, dropping everything he didn't need. Eventually all he had left was his backpack.
"Where's Skyfall?" Alpha asked.
"Does it look like I know!" Lightning screamed at Alpha. Lightning was sweating. He was surprised. It was 10 degrees. He was very nervous. His stomach turned and he felt like throwing up.
"Union, this is Fleethoof. I'm C.O. of Skyfall. Get to the cliff, were he re to save you."
"Fleethoof. You're from Skyfall. You fought that terrorist organization. The Double-Edge Sword or something like that?" Lightning replied.
"Yeah, now get to the chopper!"
"The what?" Lightning asked. Then all of the sudden, a large black thing flew in front of him.
"Like it, it's a helicopter." Lightning stood in amazement. He felt like he was in some sort of science fiction movie. Lightning just stood there and stared.
"Vampire, were about to be killed, can you move already!" Harp yelled through the mic, at a deafeningly high tone. Lightning got into the helicopter.
"Get us home gentlecolts." Fleethoof said to the two pilots.
"Yes sir, as quickly as possible." The pilots replied.
"HQ this is Blackbird-1, we have the package, returning to base."
Union Actual responsed back, "Thank you for your service Blackbird-1. Objective complete, return to base."
The long ride back to Canterlot seemed to go on forever. Fleethoof got bored, so he decided to break the ice.
"Are you alright? You looked banged up"
Lightning just huffed.
"What's on your mind?" Fleethoof asked. Lightning didn't respond. Maybe he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Fleethoof doubted it though. He was previously a Wonderbolt, so almost dying wasn't anything new.
"Is there anything wrong? I hate to sound like your mother."
"I feel like I've failed the mission." Lightning said. He was glad he was alive, but the mission was a complete failure. They got nothing out of it. Union had only run raids so far and this failure made them seem even more like rookies. Skyfall had been getting the real missions. They were the real operators. Lightning decided to take a deep breath and relax, before he over-thought himself.
Fleethoof had a very surprised look on his face.
"You haven't failed. You took out two weapons caches, fought bravely and got out alive. That's not a failure, that's a major success." Lightning thought about that. Fleethoof was right. He liked this Pegasus. He hoped he'd meet him again under better circumstances.