Meet the Medic
The interviewer walked silently through an older section of the team’s home. She looked apprehensively at the worn doors of an Operating Room. She raised a hoof and quietly opened it, poking her head through. On a bed, a dirty white alicorn rested her multicolored hair on the lap of a dark blue alicorn.
Luna could’ve participated in the combat, but a lot of her offensive spells were a bit slower compared to the rest of her allies. Instead, she lent her magic towards more defensive arts. She stayed in the general flank of the team, using her magic to send raw healing energies to any injuries her allies may have received. In case somepony gets through, she made sure to keep a bit of lightning magic charged. It was often enough to stun her target long enough for her to charge up more powerful spells or for her allies to take him or her down.
Luna and the Pyro popped in when the Engineer was packing up, getting ready for the break in. “Ow,” she grumbled. For some reason, the rune based teleportation always squeezed on her ribs. She shook the feeling off. With a sigh that spoke of tired resignation, she cantered after them, healing up any injuries they may have received from stray bullets.
Inside the building itself was even more chaotic. The phrase “I hate enclosed spaces” pretty much described her feelings on the matter. Firefly had less room to fly, Discord needed to get his eyesight checked, and Sombra was a little more noticeable of a target under the florescent lights. Nightmare, despite her natural hardiness, often damaged herself from all the reckless explosive tossing she employed in her combat strategy. Engineer helped out a bit, but she still had to hop around dodging bullets as she worked to keep her teammates at full health and or magic.
“How much longer are we doing this show?” she asked the Engineer, backflipping over a grenade. A glance out of cracked window from the third floor she flew past revealed that reinforcements were still pouring in. They apparently planned to overwhelm them by sheer numbers. It was a reasonable plan, Cadence couldn’t shoot all of them down after all.
If they managed to get them here in time.
Twilight poked her head out from behind her emplacement gun, her hoof on an earpiece. “Chrysalis says that ...” she held up a hoof, then slowly nodded. “She has taken the Intelligence.”
“Well, I guess your plan worked.”
“Of course. I will never let any of you have to go through a failure. We’re better than that. Now if you would please, the last stage?”
Despite the statement's nonchalance, Luna couldn’t help but feel a little bit of irrational apprehension. She always did near her. But she didn’t have time now, Now is the time for ending the facade. She took a deep breath and employed the Voice. “BACK OFF!”
Everypony in the room, paused, looking over their shoulders. They quickly remembered what her shout meant and quickly gathered around her. Discord pulled out a large piece of chalk and drew a circle around them as the rest of the team fought to defend their position.
“I wonder where Chrysalis-” Luna started. A tingle ran up her spine. She spun around, a bone saw crackling with electricity at the jaw of a unfazed unicorn. He gave a smirk as green fire swirled around him.
“Oh, you,” Luna grumbled, sheathing the bone saw, its glowing Moon cutie mark dulling as the mana within evaporated.
Chrysalis chuckled. “As long as you do your job, you have nothing to worry about,” she said, flicking blood off a veined, dragonfly inspired butterfly knife.
Discord lit the edge of the chalk circle, which blasted a ring of destructive energy. Luna summoned a dark miasma that acted as a shock absorber as the team plummeted through several floors. Nightmare seemed to enjoy the feeling of falling multiple stories while smashing through every single floor along the way. Discord just laughed all the way down while bouncing off the concrete each time they hit an obstruction. Luna was mostly impartial to it. She had felt a similar feeling many times when she made the occasional dream walk.
Everyone else was less than comfortable. Yes, some of the others had wings, but it was hard maintaining a hover over a wildly unpredictable bouncing concrete circle, so they had to submit to a freefall they couldn’t quite control.
*CRASH*
A plume of even more dust surrounded them as they finally reached the ground floor. Crushed machinery was strewn everywhere from the shockwave and the occasional explosive. It hid the shadows from the defenders until it was too late. A beam of fire burned through the smoke, causing a weak dust fire, along with igniting everything from the front of the team to the doorway. A tall, white coated alicorn with a flowing mane stepped out of the smoke, her face obscured by a gas mask and wearing two pairs of rubber shoes.
Well, she would be white if it weren’t for the dark blue nebula surrounding her. Luna sent her magic towards the Pyro, who collected the energy and supercharged her flames. The pair charged forward, clearing a blazing trail for the rest getting a milder version of the overcharging spell Luna channeled.
Outside, a small army raised weapons at the signs of smoke from the windows, but were utterly surprised at the blazing alicorn blowing the entire wall completely off and into the yard.
“Merrrmmmmph!!” the Pyro yelled, bouncing bullets, explosives, and other projectiles off the black armor surrounding her and charring massive swaths of the yard in her path. ”Muh hu hu hu!” she roared into the sky, charred corpses flying from the sky from a massive point blank solar flare.
Luna cut off the spell, sweat coating her mane. “Let’s move,” she rasped. “Cadence is waiting for us.” The team dashed off into the forest, following tiny splashes of glow-in-the-dark fluids on the trees and grass, markers the Sniper left to help guide Luna through the near featureless forest. Plus to prevent the others from tripping, seeing not all of them had nearly as good night vision as she and Nightmare did.
The team dashed through the forest, following the stars on Luna’s and Nightmare’s tail. They soon arrived at a small clearing. Cadence was barely a shadow, leaning against a tree with her machine gun propped up against her and a rifle sheath across her back. She waved a hoof at the grass. “The mass teleport stabilizer is drawn, just like you specified.”
Twilight trotted forwards. She channeled a bit of energy into the grass, scrutinizing the faint glow in the dirt. “It's exact and precise. Perfection. Thank you,” she said, smiling appreciatively. Cadence nearly imperceptibly relaxed her stance.
Twilight fully charged up the rune circle and with a bright flash of light, teleported the entire group away.
Twilight cleared her throat after the glow faded from her horn. “We have captured the intelligence.”