Ch.2 The Angel Experiment-future
It hadn't taken much, mom was against it obviously, saying it would be to dangerous. She was right. Dad though was all for it seeing how he was a guard during the Changeling invasion, but was released do to psychological reasons, he warned me of the stress. He was right.
We arrived today, “Camp Purgatory” as it was aptly named beckoned us like the bony fingers of Hades himself beckoned Persephone to the depths of Tartarus. Near the end of our briefing Lt. SpitFire (yes the wonderbolt,who would have thought?) told us that they were looking for recruits for the Angel experiment, and any recruits who thought they were up to snuff would be asked to hang back at the end of the briefing. She then began to wrap up with her closing remarks, but nopony was listening or remotely interested, everyponies thoughts were on Angel.
Later that night i decided to let mom and dad [1] know that i was doing fine haven’t crashed a plan yet or blown up any buildings, as well as telling them about the friends that i have here from basic training. twenty minutes after i had finished my letter and was settling into my cot reading Silver Surf ;my bunk mate and friend from basic, came in and let me know that the officers were offering the recruits a chance to go home for the weekend before major training started, i asked if he and everypony else would want to go to ponyville with me for the weekend.
(later that night)
Flying through the air, hooves flipping switches and dials with a practiced feel all the while playing with throttle control and the yolk. Keeping my plane steady watching the on coming dragon swarm of maybe twenty, looking to my right i see the smiling and grim faces of my friends and wing mates on my left a flight of Heavily Armed Dragon class unicorn fighters.
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“Hey Honey,want to go to PonyVille this weekend?”
”Sure but who else is going?”
“oh you know me,Silver,Cinnamon, and Nicci.”
“okay sure!”
I kept replaying that moment in my head over and over until it hurt, me and Honey Dew on a train for three hours together this is going to be heaven for me and silver[2] knew it,i can’t believe it happened especially not to him.
As the train pulled in the PonyVille station and we disembarked from our melancholy setting that was our train carriage, to the bright cheery visage of PonyVille our parties mood visibly changed for the better. Mom!, Dad! i’m home and i brought friends. Seeing nopony there i invited the girls inside for drinks and food because thats what my parents taught me to do if they were not there. After a light lunch of Daffodil sandwiches and lemonade, and still no sight of my parents, that was still worrying.
After an hour of waiting for my parents, we decided to go ask somepony if they had seen them. Best pony to ask was pinkie, she knows everypony in town,when we got to SugarCube Corner we asked the Cakes if the had seen Pinkie they explained that she was in Canterlot helping Twilight with some errand that princess Celestia needed done something about mirrors in the cellar, I asked if they had seen my parents which they said they had not. I was scared.
When we got back to camp after a weekend of looking for my parents and finding nothing, we took my worries to the police and guards posted in the city; I was approached by a hooded figure the minute we entered camp, someone we had enough sense to salute, after being told to stand easy the hooded figure gave us a message from a higher up that said the presence of all four of us was requested in the Angel office, which in itself is weird, after arriving we were told to prepare for some trials of some sort by Lt. SpitFire.
The trials were mostly stamina and endurance tests with a few practicals; by the end of the day we were, sweaty,bloody,and tired; that was warm up. The hooded figure stopped us at that point and told us to go to the hanger and suit up, night flying something that they save for the more experienced pilots not a the motley crüe of trainees that we were. The four of us stood there waiting for well we weren’t sure what, or who we were waiting for, we got our answer quite quick when Spark Fire showed up and told us what we were doing here and why we why were here. this was the Angel program entrance test and us four were the only candidates that passed warm up, our next task is to get in the MK.III Pegasus, and take them to 20,000 feet up to the Archangel and await for further instructions.