//------------------------------// // Addition // Story: Skyfall: Lightning Strike // by NOBLEDASH77 //------------------------------// The alarm buzzed on and off. '8 o'clock' Lightning thought. Lightning got out of bed, his eyes bloodshot. He rubbed them then got out of bed. Lightning felt slow, like someone who worked an office job and did the same thing each day. Lightning splashed some water on his face, brushed his teeth, and walked out the door. The hallway was empty, except for Glider, Harp, and Nightflash lined up, waiting for Spitfire. Lightning walked over to them and waited for Spitfire. They waited for a half an hour. Lightning got bored and started to hum 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer'. Just as Lightning finished the second verse, Spitfire came out of nowhere. "Attention. Welcome to your first day of training. You'll be training in an old abandoned hotel a couple of blocks from here. The reason you got these nice beds is because you'll be going through some pretty intense training. You've got 30 minutes to eat. Dismissed." As the team started downstairs, Lightning continued to hum his song. Just as he was a few seconds into the song, Spitfire yelled to Lightning, "Stop humming that song, it's just weird." After eating breakfast the team went to the hotel. I was not even close to what the team was in now, but it was a combat exercise. Spitfire and the two other Pegasi from before knocked the door open. The room was dusty and dirty and Nightflash said it smelled like 'dead animals'. Lighting turned on his flash light and walked into the building and looked around. The rest of the team followed. Spitfire and the rest of the team check the rest of the building. It seemed safe. "Well, the the building seems safe." Let's start training." Spitfire started to brief the team,"Their will be teams of two, red and blue. Red starts on the top of the building and blue starts on the bottom. You will be using bullets that leave a paint splatter if you get shot. Don't worry that can't kill. We also have a generator set up to restore power. Well, lets start." "One, two, three. Go!" Spitfire said to the teams. Lightning and Harp were on the blue team and Nightflash and Glider on the red team. Lightning and Harp checked each room on their floor. 'Maybe there on the next floor' Lightning thought. The pair walked up the stair case. Lightning and Harp slowly ascended up the stair case, checking for signs of an enemy ambush. Harp's ear stood up. "I think I hear something." Harp told Lightning. Lightning took point and Harp took guard. Lightning started to get worried. He hated cat and mouse. He wanted to know know where his opposition was. Lightning hear something. His heart started to beat really fast. He turned a corner, just to be met with enemy fire. Lightnings heart skipped a beat. That was one heck if a wake-up call. Lightning hugged the wall. He would turn every now and then to fire at Red team. Lightning hit Nightflash. Glider made a run for it. Lightning and Harp followed Glider. The team chased Glider up two flights until he turned a corner and he was no where to be found. Harp and Lightning cautiously scanned the hallway for Glider. Lightning heard a shot. He turned around to see Harp had been hit. She fell to the ground, clutching where she had been hit. Lightning reacted as fast as he could and shot Glider. Then a bell rang symbolizing the game was over. "Ok, that was good. Lets do that a couple of more times, then I'm gonna mix it up." The exercise went for about for about an hour. Then Spitfire told the reds and blues to work together. "All right team, your working together." "Against who?" Nightflash asked. Spitfire stayed silent. She went to her observation area and started the exercise. "Let's just stay together." Lightning said. All of the sudden the lights went off. "What was that?" Harp asked. All of the sudden she was shot. Nightflash started to panick but Glider and Lightning kept a straight face. The team went up the staircase to see who was shooting at them. Then Glider got shot. Nightflash started to freak out. "Game over man!" Nightflash said. Sounds came from all around. Lightning and Nightflash shot anything they thought they saw move. Then Nightflash got shot. Lightning was all alone. He went down the hallway shooting at anything he thought moved. Sounds of gunshots rang out. Lightning got into a corner and just sprayed anything he thought that moved. Then, he was shot. Then lights turned on. Lightning looked around. A strange pony stood over him. He couldn't tell what type of pony it was. The pony was a black Pegasus, who looked a bit like Nightflash. He was wearing a balvanca with a skeleton imprint on it. A unicorn walked over to the peagasus. He was blue with orange hair. "Ghost, how's our buddy?"said the unicorn. He had a southern accent. "He seems okay."said the Pegasus, who was named Ghost, Lightning guessed. Lightning tried to get up but the training round was painful, and Lightning moaned when he tried to get up. "Woah their buddy. Give it a second."said the unicorn. Lightning wondered why their was another spec ops team here. Union had all ready worked with Skyfall. "I'm Rapid and Ghost. There are callsigns anyway."said the unicorn. Nightflash walked up the staircase and looked at the ponies. "Don't shoot me!"Nightflash yelled. "We're not gonna."Ghost told Nightflash, who was freaked out from lights going off and getting shot at from all around. "We're here to help you with you with training."Ghost told Nigtflash. Glider and Harp came upstairs, followed by a bat-pony and an earth pony. The the bat-pony had a dark lavender coat and a black mane. The earth pony was a female with a light blue coat and silver hair. "You ponies did a good job of freaking the buck outta us."Glider said. Lightning was surprised. He hasn't heard Glider talk in a while. Lightning finally got up. He looked at all of the operators in the room. Spitfire must have something planned if she brought in another fireteam. The team ate dinner in a reserved cafeteria in the building. The food tasted okay. Lightning had better. He ate alone. He wanted to, he needed time to think about why there was another fireteam here. Lighting then realized that besides Union and Skyfall there were no fireteams. This brought up a new question in Lightnings mind, who were these ponies. Lightning decided to asked Spitfire. Lighting walked to the officers bunks, where Spitfire was. Lightning walked into the room but was stopped by two guards. "State you business." One guard told Lightning. "I need to talk to Spitfire." Lightning told the guard. "The commander is busy. Good night." The pony told Lightning. Their was no use of trying to argue. Lighting still wanted to know why these ponies were here.