Chapter 3
In the morning, Hoodwink was awakened by Bubbly’s screams of terror.
“What! What is it?!” she sat up.
“THEY’RE GONE! HELP ME LOOK FOR THEM!” Bubbly panicked.
They turned their room upside down and inside-out, but there was no sign of the colts anywhere.
“WE LOST OUR BABY COMMANDING OFFICERS! THE PRINCESSES ARE GOING TO KILL US!” Hoodwink and Bubbly pace the floor frantically.
Suddenly the speaker clicked, and a familiar stern voice spoke, “Pvt. Hoodwink and SPC. Bubbly Turtle report to conference hall 2 immediately! Pvt. Hoodwink and SPC. Bubbly Turtle report to the conference hall 2 immediately! That’s an order!”
The two mares quickly got into uniform and rushed to the conference hall, but this time, many of the PFC. guards stood at the side of the hall while the commanding officers meet their eyes right away but then darted up.
“Pvt. Hoodwink.” Hoodwink began.
“and SPC. Bubbly Turtle.” Bubbly continued.
“Reporting sirs.” They shouted.
“Face your fellow soldiers.” Col. Firebrand commanded.
As the two faced the crowd of judging eyes, thoughts raced through their heads.
“Due to the events that happened yesterday, which shall stay classified, do you take full responsibility of you and your fellow officers’ actions?” he paced in front of them.
“Sir yes sir.” The two responded.
“Good. Pvt. Hoodwink, step forward.” He ordered.
“Sir yes sir.” She complied.
“Do you know why we called you here?” he questioned her.
“No sir.” She began to panic on the inside.
Suddenly the other commanding officers marched over in line.
“Oh no…” she thought to herself.
They pulled out a small, black box and presented it to Col. Firebrand. When he opened the box, two shiny new stripes were sitting there. He pinned them to her uniform.
“We, the Captains and I, have made the decision to promote you to Corporal. Congratulations CPL. Hoodwink.” He saluted.
When she looked around she saw everypony in the room saluting her. She was overjoyed. She saluted the officers. No longer was she to be mocked to by the immature PFC’s. She was in charge now.
“You are all dismissed!”