//------------------------------// // Outskirts, Hostage Rescue / High Risk Warrant Service // Story: SPAT [Special Ponies And Tactics] // by JustDing //------------------------------// SWAT-style rescue of a pony from thunderhawk7865's story 'The 7th Element', my 'alternate ending' takes place in his chapters 'Eclipsed' and 'The Story of a Broken Heart'. Read his story at first. And his stories is alot better than mine... why are you reading my crap? Get away from the computer and have some time with your friends! Just kidding... enjoy the material :D **** Main Objectives: Rescue Element of Loyalty In Progress Rescue all hostages In progress Capture Anansi (Neutralize if necessary) In progress Secondary Objectives: Bring order to chaos In progress **** The sun beat down furiously upon a lone group of ponies walking up to a plateau in the desert just South of Appaloosa, close to the border of Zebrica. This group consisted of the Bearers of the Elements of Harmony, minus the element of loyalty. A year and three months had passed since the canterlot incident and much had changed. The world that Twilight and her friends lived in had slowly become more violent and crazy, requiring several things to be done, one of those was the creation of more police forces and the training of better officers. The other thing was the creation of additional elements of harmony. It was a difficult process but was having some succes. One such success the was element of love, Blue Bass. Who was with the group and carrying their water supply. The group had just made it over a small hill when suddenly the sky drakened, a familiar closed black chariot flying above them up to the plateau, past a rock formation. The chariot had flwon by so quickly the group had believed it just to have been a bird. It was able to fly thanks to a large pair of magical dragon wings which flapped without making noise and helped the chariot soar through the air without any other means. The wings then began flapping in a figure 8, hovering as the doors on either side of the chariot opened up and ropes were tossed out. On each side, two black-clad unicorns geared up with advanced equipment are lowering themselves down with ropes, which is much more silent than if they used their magic to teleport. They are all wearing similar bullet proof vests with anti-magic effect as they did on the day they captured Queen Chrysalis. The incident that had caused all of this began at the Grand Galloping Gala a week ago. A group of zebra supremacists killed a guard in an attempt to make a name for their movement. They filled the room with a gas form a plant that paralyzed everyone else in the room. They took the stage and their leader, a power mad zebra by the name of Anansi, who was on the run from his home government began to rant. Luckily his monologuing allowed the Royal guard to surround the room and breach it. In the fighitng another Royal guard was killed and several injured but the Zebras were forced out of the main hall. Once the Zebras were forced into retreat Anansi knew they would be killed, unless they had a hostage. So they grabbed the nearest three, one of who just so happened to be Rainbow Dash. Holding their frozen hostage the Zebras managed to escape, a day later Anansi the zebra group gave an ultimatum. In three days either the Elements of Harmony would all be handed over to him or he would kill Rainbow Dash. Of course Celestia had refused to give into the demands of such powermad terrorists. But The other Element bearers would not risk the life of their friend. They stole the elements and ran off to the meeting place after being contacted by a Griffon mercenary hired by the zebra group. This same mercenary later turned in the informnation to the authorities for the reward money. Thus celestia had ordered the best SPAT squad in the buisness to be sent in, led by none other thatn Silver Vest. The squad touched down and Silver waved a hoof in a circle in the air, signalling the squad to form up on him as the black Chariot flew away so it did not expose their mission. Their radios all then clicked with information from HQ. The mare on the other end, affectionatly named "Miss July." due to her background before she chose to follow law enforcement, relayed them info on the mission. "Commander 213 Silver, this is central BCC. Multiple squad units are on the way to the cave but may not make it in time. Current Canterlot time 9:21 pm, Hostage rescue and high risk warrant service, please stand by," said Miss July to Silver Vest. The team was the same one; Ferrum, Quick Scope, Golden plate and Iron Steel. Quick Scope had jumped out of the Carriage and was positioning himself on a rock around one hundred meters away from the cave entrance with his AWM rifle. This time Quick scope had loaded up with Full Metal Jackets. Based on infromation from the Griffon mercenary the Zebra's might have body armor so Quick scope needed the FMJ rounds to rip through their armor if he was called on to take the shot. Quick scope used his magic to pull a sand colored cloak over his body to hide himself and to keep him safe from the sun. He didnt know how long he would be there and didnt want to have heat stroke if the team called upon his skills. The squad listened to information about the Zebra supremacists while they checked their gear before begining the operation. Silver Vest is equipped with a GB36 carbine, an M1911 pistol, three C4 bags, a plier, a CS gas grenade and a flashbang. Ferrum is equipped with a M3 Super 90 shotgun, a taser gun, a sting grenade, a plier and a optiwand. Iron Steel is brinign up the rear with an unsilenced HK MP5, a taser gun, a flashbang, an optiwand. A small can of pepper spray in case anyone needed an attitude adjustment, and his trusty smoking pipe and tobbaco. Golden Plate is equipped with a HK UMP45 submachine gun, a M1911, three C4 bags, a flashbang, a single sting grenade. Once the equipment check was done Silver vest listened to the last messages from the dispatch "Command understands your eagerness to complete this mission, but they have ordered you to capture as many of the Zebras alive...despite them being cop killers" The red maned mare on the other end said as the chief looked over her shoudler. There was alot of politics behind the scenes on this and personal feelings could not get in the way. "Understood TOC, entry team preparing to begin mission." Silver said, relaying the orders to the rest of the team who all hid their real feelings, the job and hostage took priority. "Mirror the corner," he commands to Iron Steel and moves up to the corner to cover him. He begins to wonder why Iron wasn't miroring when he got his answer. "You're in my way, sir." Iron Steel said, walking around Silver when he could have done that anyway, while trying to hide a faint snicker like the others. Silver Vest grinds his teeth and takes some steps back holding his GB36s tightly to his side with magic. The 'Youre in my way, sir' had been funny the first few times, now it was really grating, but it also helped his men relieve stress o Silver did his best not to let it annoy him. Iron Steel straps his MP5 onto his side and draws out his optiwand. He holds the end with the camera out from the corner. "One suspect, zebra, armed," he says as he draws back his optiwand, "Commands?" At that moment the Elements of Harmony were almost to the cave, their pace quickened as they wanted to rescue their friend and were all rushing up at the path up to the cave. Quick Scope reparted that it was the remaining elements of harmony plus the element of love, Blue Bass. "Sierra One to entry team, civilians are approaching your positions!" "We need to move fast, Sir!" says Ferrum, unlocking his Benelli M4, they couldnt allow the guard to report in that the delivery was about to be made, it would complicate the entire mission. "We move on my mark." commands Silver Vest while he switched to his M1911. Then he asks to Quick Scope "Does the guard have armor?" Before stacking up with the others, hoping the guard would have his back turned when they jumped out. "No, just a scimitar..." replied Quick Scope, magic tightening aroudn the trigger of his rifle as he prepared for the order to fire, if it came. With all the swiftness of a cat, Silver Vest dashed out from his cover, lying porne while aiming at the zebra. The others of his team followed as well, keeping the Zebra closed in a semicircle. "Put your hooves up and get on the ground!" Yelled Golden Plate. The zebra guard turned to them, its face blank and emotionless with a faint glow in its eyes. For a moment the SPAT ponies wondered what he was doing as they shouted for him to get down. When he suddenly fell to the ground, like a puppet without his strings. Silver mostions for Iron stee to move up. He does and checks the fallen zebras pulse, while also pointing hsi shot gun at his head. The zebra was dead, no hearbeat. "What the...sir hes dead." Silver curses and issues his next order. "Cover the entrance." The rest of his team are galloping up, weapons trained on the entry way while Silver checked the dead zebra for any indication on what killed him. Something was going on and Silver did not want his squad caught unprepared. "Sierra One to TOC, confirming visual with entry team." Quick scope Reported as he kept an eye on the elements of Harmony "What..where did he come from?" Silver flicked the safety on his weapon and turned to the element bearers, unsure of if they remembered his team. But to his surprise, which seemed to be happening alot that day, he spotsted not only the bearers of the elements of harmony, but also a totally new alicorn. 'You gotta be bucking kidding me. What next?' He thougth as he looked at the alicorn closer, it was slightly taller than the pther civilian ponies and with a Red mane and tail and black fur. "You civilians need to clear out immediately, we are already taking care of the situation. Please leave the area or we will be forced to arrest you and that will just put your friend in danger." he says in a calm tone, despite the impatiance building inside of him, the clock was ticking and the Zebras might wonder what happened to theri front guard soon enough. "No, no way! Rainbow Dash is in there and we won't leaver her behind!" Yelled Blue Bass while Golen Plate scoffed. It seemed that no one wanted to listen ot the authorities unless it suited their needs. "We need to get her out now before she or somepony else get killed." Blue Bass said and then raised an eyebrow as he got a better look at the team. The sight of those weapons was familiar to him. "Are you with the Equestrian Army?" "No, SPAT, Special Ponies And Tactics... now get behind something and wait until the Royal Guards arrive." he replies and turns around. "Are those weapons?" asks Twilight, "I hope that they are not lethal..." Twilight asked, fearing that her friend would be hurt in the middle of the struggle. "They are VERY deadly and because of this reason, stay behind something solid and big. We are better trained than abunch of criminals like those that took your friend." said Silver Vest clear and loud. Begrudginly the civilian ponies obeyed and hid behind a small cluster of rocks, though they would rather be participating. Silver Vest trotted back to his colleagues. At the moment, Golden Plate brought out his radio to report the civilians to dispatch. "Entry team to TOC, suspect at the cave entrance has taken his own life. We have also encountered civilians as well as an unknown alicorn. Send some Royal Guards to secure them and take them to a safe location." "Roger that, Royal Guards are on their way, continue mission, good luck." They finally begin entering the cave, with Silver Vest on point. If someone was going to be shot he would prefer it to be him, not his team. It is far too dark for them to see inside of the cave so use their magic to turn on the small flashlights attatched to their weapons. At a crossing which diverges into several paths Silver holds up a hoof to indicate the team to stop. He dims the light on hsi rifle slightly and then whisperes to the officer bhind him, "Mirror around the corner." "Need to get into position," says Iron Steel, slipping his optiwand out while trotting as quietly as he could to the corner. Once he is in position Iron gently and slowly pokes the camera on the end of his optiwand out from his position. He looks into the screen and reports what he sees before drawing the wand back. "No suspects in sight, but there is a hallway which leads deeper into the caves." "Propably to the hostages, were running out of time so that is the priority." Silver Vest trots around the corner to walk in the hallway, followed closely by his squadmates. They are all stepping as carefully as they could, keeping an eyhe out for booby traps and hidden guards. The stone walls are wet and showing signs of sensitivity, possibly from earthquakes or other cave ins in other areas. At the end of the hallway is a large wooden door, a new one by the looks of things. "Check behind the door," commands Silver Vest and Ferrum takes out his optiwand and mirrors under the door after seeing the zebras, one of them wearing a cloak over himself. "Three armed suspects, guarding three hostages which are in a rusty holding cell," he draws back his optiwand. "Check the door." "Door's locked," says Ferrum after very gently checking the handle. He then draws out his pliers and turns it around, to break the systems of the lock. After some fumbling, he draws back his plier "Door's unlocked." "Open, Bang and Clear." With that, Iron Steel opens the door with his magic. One of the zebra guards spots the magical glow around the doorknob and raises the alarm. "Oh zebraapples... its the fuzz!" He yelled and the guards set about preparing to kill the hostages with crossbows. But at that same moment, Ferrum threw a flashbang in the room and hides behind the wall next to the doorway. *BASH!* The loud bang echoes loudly in the small room, making one of the zebra's drop his weapon as his ears felt pain and his eyes only saw a blinding white flash. The others did not drop their weapons but they are to dizzy to accuratly do anythign else and too smart to fire while blind. Silver Vest and his squad run through the open doorway. Ferrum and Iron Steel are drawing out their taser guns and tasing the guards who were armed while Golden plate tackles the unarmed one. The zebras are shrieking in terrible pain as they to the ground. One of them drops his weapon, a crossbow, immidiately and holds his forelimbs in the air "No more! I give up i give up!" He yells in desperation as a faint smell lets the SPATs know that the electric shock caused him to soil himself. However, the other zebra recovered and charged at Golden Plate with a scimitiar from a nearby table, yelling a war cry. Golden plate fell back in shock as he tried to get his weapon with his magic while the others yell all at once "DROP YOUR WEAPON! DO IT NOW!" The zebra doesn't listen to them, he swipes his scimitar, nearly slicing Golden Plate in two as he dodged this attack by rolling to his side. Then he allowed his training to take over as he felt his sidearm pulled out and instinctively aimed aimed at the zebra. The bang of his 1911 echoed in his ears with each time he magically pulled the trigger a few times with his magic. The zebra was almost thrown back as he felt the bullets pierce his body. He dropped his weapon and fell to the ground, again. He grunts and gasps for air as he writed in pain on the ground. Golden Plate rendered the zebra incapacitated by shooting three bullets in his lower body. He then examines the zebra's wound and reports to HQ "TOC, this is.....entry team," he said between breaths while his heart was till racing. "Suspect needs medical attention, he is in pretty bad shape!" "Medics are informed, continue mission." After reporting, and a quick check up by the other squad members once they finished cuffing the guards, he walked over to the door of the cell and drews out his pliers. Once the rooom was secure the officers focused on the hostage's cage, where the tied up hostages had bags over their heads and socks shoved into their mouths. Once those were removed, thanks to the SPAT officer's unicorn magic, Rainbow Dash was able to speak. "Who are you? Royal Guards?" asked Rainbow Dash. Due to the balaclavas they were all wearing to protect their identities, and their families, RD could not tell that they were the same officers that had saved her and ehr friends before. Golden Plate, checking the other hostages for injuries, replied without looking up to her "No... we are called Special Ponies And Tactics and we are here to rescue you." He said and shusshed her before she could argue that she didnt need any rescue. Meanwhile, Iron Steel cuffs up the hooves of the other zebra guard with the enchanted plastic hoovecuffs, while Ferrum makes sure that the zebra makes no sudden mooves by aiming with his shotgun at him. Silver Vest secures the door that nopony sneaks in undetected. "Entry team to TOC, Suspect restrained and ready for transport," reports Iron Steel after he cuffed up the hooves of the zebra, who says "You will not get away with this! We are the superior race and- aaahhh!!!" The Zebra broke out int a cry of pain as he was hit with a burst of pepper spray. "Shut up Cop Killer before I loose my cool." He said while his radio reported in. "Roger that, Trailers standing by for pickup." **** PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: Rescue Elment of Loyalty Completed **** Suddenly, Quick Scope says "Sierra One to entry team, confirm visual contact with main target Anansi. He is standing on some sort of altar at the other side of the plateau." Quick scope said before relaying more information. "Oh celestia dammit! One of those civilians and the alicorn are arguing with him." "Affirmative, just observe them, if it appears they are in danger take the shot on Anansi." commands Silver Vest while wanting to pepper spray those idiots for risking their lives. Because if anythign happened ot them the media would place all of the blame, naturally, on the officers. "Plier won't work, I'll have to use a small C2 charge," says Golden Plate. The lock of the door is far too rusted and they would not be able ot beat the door down. The team members wished doesn't have his breaching shotgun at the moment, there is nothing more to do as to use a C2 bag. He puts back his plier and takes one bag out, very gently preparing it. "What is that?" asks the another one of the two stallions, as he sticks the bag on the rusted lock of the door. "Just stay away from the door..." Golden plate was saying as he readied to arm the thing before being startled. "RAINBOW DASH, WE'RE HERE TO RESCUE YA'!!" yells a feminine voice, the shout echoign throughout the cave. "WHO'S THERE?!" yells Silver Vest as he held up his GB36, almost turning it on whoever shouted but his mind overrode his body and kept him from doing so. In the light of his flashlight, he could see the outlines of a pony slowly coming into view. Then the rest of the elements of harmony. The rest of the elements of harmony followed them and Twilight says "We are here to rescue our fr-" "clear the room." Ferrum said, quickly pushing everyone a safe distance as the charge detonated, nearly blowing the door off its hinges. Every pony, except for Silver Vest and his team, are jumping in the air in surprise from the explosion. The door was now unlocked wih a gaping hole where the lock had once been. The ponies who are inside the cell can leave it now. It wasn't a big explosion, just a little to blow the lock away. "Rescue your friends? Already done," smirks Golden Plate, "Now get out from here!" Yelled Iron Steel. "You civies dont belong here!" "Entry team to TOC, two male hostages and the element of loyalty have been rescued. The rest of the elements of harmony followed us, we are escorting them all to safety!" "Copy that. Make sure they arrive at the rescue point alive." "Walk behind us, it's safer." commands Silver Vest to the ponies and they are finally following his order as they saw their friend returning. Rainbow Dash walks behind the two stallions. She looks a little bit worried. As they are walking out from the cave, Rainbow Dash runs out from behind the SPAT members and leaps in the air. "STOP! COME BACK!" yells Ferrum, but Rainbow Dash heads to Blue Bass, who stands clad in his armor. Suddenly, Anansi seems to appear from thin air behind her and wraps a hoof around her neck, grabbing her tightly. But he doesn't spot the SPAT team yet. "Elements, move on, go go go!" Silver commanded and didnt even need to mention to his group to follow him. The rest of the mane six are standing on place while the other hostages run out into the awaiting royal guards. As they are running up to the altar, weapons at the ready, Golden Plate yells "Release the hostage you bastard!" Blue Bass, unnamed the alicorn and Anansi are looking up to them in surprise, then the zebra starts to laugh "You are the army? Poor things... HAR HAR HAR!" "THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE! LEAVE THE HOSTAGE BY AND GIVE UP!" yells Silver Vest unfazed by the zebra's words while he raises his rifle, slowly aiming at the zebra. But the zebra holds the scimitar up to Rainbow Dash's throat and smirks madly to the ponies. The pegasus mare screams in shock as the blade gives her skin a faint cut. "RAINBOW DASH!" yells Blue Bass in shock and takes some steps forward, but Iron Steel holds him back "STOP! We are taking care of this situation!" and he gives his leader the nod. "Sierra One, do it!" commands Silver Vest into his radio. A few seconds later the Zebra leader was about to ask who he was talking to when his head snapped to the side as if something hit him. Then his body fell to the ground, blood slowly leaks out from a hole in his head and his corpse twitches as life drains from him. Then a loud thunderclap tears the silence apart, followed by a answere in Silver Vests headset from Quick Scope. "Target terminated." Quick Scope said, breathing in and out to calm himself after seeing Asani dead. Rainbow Dash looks in surprise and shock at the now dead zebra, then she runs up to Blue Bass without a single cut or bruise and embraces him with her forelimbs. Blue Bass returns the hug. The alicorn smiles at the scene. "TOC, this is entry team. Suspect killed, but all hostages are safe," says Silver Vest to dispatch as he examines the corpse of the dead zebra leader. The rest of the mane six are running up to the embracing lovers and hugging them, too. "Good work team. Go back to HQ for debrief!" The team was welcoming of that final order, thhey were exhausted already and needed to go home. **** Neutralize Anansi Completed Rescue all hostages Completed **** "Phew, that was a doozy." sighs Iron Steel in relief. They are all strapping their weapons on their sides and walking up to the other ponies. "Is everything alright?" asks Silver Vest. "Yes... thank you guys! You were awesome... why you didn't show up when we fought Discord?" says Blue Bass with a wink. "That was your job," teases Ferrum then he turns to the alicorn, "Just asking, but who are you?" The alicorn bows politely and says "I am Lunar Eclipse, prince of death. I owe you my respect, you worked clean and fast." "Prince of Death? No wonder that the one zebra died in front of me... I thought he poisoned himself or something." Silver Vest scratched his chin with a hoof. The alicorn prince chuckles shortly at his statement. Silver then sighed internally, it seemed stranger and stranger things were happening all the time now. "Okay, then goodbye!" says Golden Plate. 'We dont get paid nearly enough to deal with all of this.' Silver thinks as he begins heading back to the chariot with a migrane and feeling exhausted. The SPAT members manage to return to their chariot. Another, golden, chariot appears in the sky and lands next to the elememts of harmony and the stallions for picking them up and heading back to Canterlont. Silver sighed and rubbed his forehead. "anyone have a smoke?" **** SECONDARY OBJECTIVE Bring order to chaos: Completed. **** Editor: Sneaky Breeze