A back to the roots chapter, huzzah! And yes, a alternate ending to the original MLP episode 'Magic Duel'
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BRIEFING AUDIO:
"Commander 36 Silver, emergence situation service TAC One, here's Central BCC."
"You on, go ahead."
"A SPAT is requested at Ponyville for an high risk warrant service. Suspect Trixie bought the illegal Alicorn Amulett one day ago. She then proceeded to put Ponyville under lockdown. High caution is advised when it comes to the term of encountering her."
"Roger that, Silver out."
BRIEFING: One day ago, around midnight, our suspect Trixie bought the illegal item The Alicorn Amulett. It is an highly advanced object which gives the wearer a lot of magical power, similar to the magical power of an alicorn, like one of the princesses. The badside is, it changes the wearer's behavior of the amulett to an villain-like being.
And secondly, it was highly illegal.
The third and most mainly fact, she put Ponyville under lockdown by putting a gigantic dome of glass -or fishbowl- over the town. A thrown-out civilian gave those intel to a undercover SPAT investigator who was on his way to the town.
We will try to make Trixie get rid of her amulet peacely, then we will take her into custody. If she attack us, we will strike back with Plan B, since this was the action of a young childish mare.
OBJECTIVES:
Neutralize Trixie
Destroy the Alicorn Amulet
Bring order to chaos
SUSPECTS:
Trixie (23), her occupation is being a magician. She was not so successful, so we assume she bought the illegal Alicorn Amulett to get being rich and famous.
SUMMARY:
2 pm, 14th June
Ponyville Town
High Risk Warrant Service
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It was a sunny day, the sun shone warmly on the dome of glass which surrounded Ponyville. A young childich mare with the name Trixie with inferiority complexes summoned the dome of glass after she threw out a local of the town. The local with the Twilight Sparkle was taken by surprise as she was put into a little magical competition by Trixie.
Trixie won with ease because she had bought the illegal Alicorn Amulett, she overpowered Twilight Sparkle and after that, she threw the loser out.
Twilight was being busy by thinking about a plan how to talk with Trixie and mainly, how to get back to her hometown, while a black magial-driven chariot stopped a few metres in front of the dome of glass on the main road of the town. The sides of it had four letters.
SPAT
The rear opened with sudden and five black-clad unicorns -Silver Vest, Golden Plate, Ferrum, Iron Steel and Zeiss- jumped out. The leader of them, Silver Vest, activated his radio to listen to the beginning of the protocol's record.
"36 Commander, here's Central BCC. Silver, Stallion, Chariot Unit One are responding to Ponyville for High Risk Warrant Service.", came from Silver Vest's radio.
"That's a haul of an bowl...", muttered Iron Steel as he knocked at the glass with his hoof, which resounded with an deep growl of the glass.
Zeiss checked his HK PSG-1 a last time, since his position had the greatest responsibility. His weapon must not jamming when he get the sign to shoot at a target... he also had to find a good spot for his work.
"Bring a C4 charge, we'll make a new doorway.", Silver Vest commanded. Ferrum followed suit as he jumped back into the chariot and came back with a little green bag. He reached over it to Silver Vest, who took it and sticked it at the dome. He then opened it and took out a little remote after he activated the charge.
They took position behind their chariot. Silver Vest held the remote in his magic as he waved three times with his hoof. At the fourth time, he pushed the button on the device.
*BOOM!*
Little and large pieces of glass were flying everywhere as the concussion blowed them to every direction.
They had to use C4, because C2 is not strong enough to blast away a large piece of glass from a glassbowle like this one.
"Move in, go!"
They walked past their chariot and through the hole of the dome. It was big enough for an alicorn, so they had no problem. Their plan was not to blast the whole dome, it would panick the suspect who casted the dome.
Zeiss looked at the roofs of the houses and after a few ones, he found one with a window. The house was pretty near to the edge of the town and it would have a good view to the streets and marketplace.
He knocked at the door, which was opened by a young mintgreen unicorn mare. His teammates stopped and provided cover if Trixie decided to show up and try to attack them.
"Excuse me, we're from SPAT and need your roof for a sniping position.", Zeiss said politely to the mare. The mare looked at first extremely confused, but then she decided this was an emergence situation, guessing from the dome surrounding the town.
"Yes, come in.", the mare said and stepped to the side to let Zeiss in. He nodded to his squadmates, they could continue their mission, as they nodded back and headed deeper into the town.
This was an half-less-lethal half-lethal high risk warrant mission.
The plan was easy. When they encounter Trixie, they would try to settle her down peacely and just ask her to come with them. But if she go berserk and use the amulet's power to attack the officers, then it was Quick Scope responsibility to end it...
They galloped fast when they were in streets and alleyways, but when they were approaching a corner, they slowed down and looked around the corners with Golden Plate's optiwand, who held the gadget in his magical grip at the ready. A few streets later, a chubby green colt and a thin orange but taller colt galloped past them.
"Why we should look after a quake at the dome, Snails?" the chubby one asked.
"Because the great and really powerful Trixie feared of unwanted intruders...", the thin orange said, but then he spotted the SPAT ponies, "Hey you! Did you saw any suspicious ponies?"
"Ehh...nope.", Silver said, as he looked to his friends with a wink.
"Eh...okay, but thanks you anyway." the orange said smiling and mentioned his chubby friend to move up to the edge of the dome. As they galloped around the corner, the SPAT ponies began to laugh.
"Hahhaaha...that was a good one, Silver." Iron Steel laughed as he wiped a tear away. He never have laughed so good in his age. Golden Plate sat on his haunches and howled in laughter while Ferrum leaned against a wall, also laughing. Silver Vest laughed tears, too, but after a while, he said "Okay, calm down, we have a mission to do."
Trixie was sitting in her comfy golden bed, which had been being pulled by Snail and Snip, but as a mysterious sound shook through the dome, followed by a loud thundersound and made her uncomfortable, she sent them to check out. She was ready to throw out Twilight Sparkle again if she decided to show up again. Trixie looked at her Alicorn Amulet.
It's orb was glowing in a red crimson aura, but that did not matter to her. After all, she was the bearer of powerful magic now.
"Hey you!" somepony shouted. It was male and it sounded commanding. She did not liked it when she was being commanded by somepony other.
She turned to him with a groan of annoyance, but then she was quite amazed by the sight of a black-clad unicorn, who stood some metres in front of the bed, pointing a green painted object at her.
Silver Vest was a little bit nervous at that point as he aimed at Trixie with his less-lethal shotgun. He did not know if she would know about the SPAT weaponry and she could summon a strong magical shield. If that is the case, then they have to go lethal and tear the shield apart with the lethal weapons.
Magical shield can be strong; a Alicorns shield is much stronger. But nopony can hold the shield very long if the pony is being continuously attacked with powerful weapons. The SPAT even tested the force of a Alicorn's magical shield, by inviting Princess Celestia. She casted a shield around a object -a normal cardbox- and then the SPAT proceeded to fire at the shield with their weapons. The results were... rather surprisingly for Princess Celestia and perceptively for SPAT.
126 x 9mm FMJ rounds, 25 x .357 FMJ magnum, 94 x 5.56mm FMJ rounds, 13 x .223 FMJ rounds, 19 x 12 gauge slugshots or 6 x .50 BMG are required to tear apart a Alicorn's shield, but a normal one. The strongest shield's were not tested.
All tests were supervised by medical ponies and Princess Celestia should warn the SPAT if she felt different during the test. But she felt nothing out of ordinary. All in one, she was pretty well entertained due of the introductions and loud sounds of the weapons. And of course she and her guards wore ear-protection.
Trixie looked with utter surprise at the SPAT pony and sighed in relief. "Phew..Trixie thought it was the puffy Twilight. What do you want, sillyhead?"
"Put your amulet away and nopony get hurt." Silver Vest said.
"No! In no way!" Trixie shouted, as her eyes began to glow in a red aura, as well as her horn. Silver Vest magic tightened around the trigger of his shotgun, but he did not shoot.
"STOP IT! OR WE HAVE TO PUT YOU DOWN!" he shouted as he trotted backwards. Trixie jumped from her bed and aimed at him with her red glowing horn...
A red beam came from the tip of the horn.
Silver Vest had barely enough time to dodge the beam and found cover behind a cart. He activated his radio to the SPAT sniper "Sierra One, it's your time!"
Zeiss was keeping the cross of his sniper rifle at Trixie all the time. As Silver Vest's command came to his ears, he said back "Understood!". Then he zoomed in at Trixies neck and aimed up the cross...
He fired. The empty cartridge left his sniper rifle as the bullet pierced through the air. It travelled a short time but a long distance, before it met finally it's destination.
Namely Trixie's necklace, the alicorn amulet.
It was a well calculated graze-shot, but the impact was great enough to destroy the linking part of the amulet. Trixie felt a heavy punch at her neck as she felt the amulet sliding off from her throat. It fell to the ground with a noticeable clink, followed with a thunderclap coming from the PSG-1, echoing over Ponyville.
"Hit!" Zeiss said through his radio.
"Then let's get her guys!" Silver Vest shouted. His squadmates came down from another alleyways and they quickly galloped up to the dazed Trixie, who was processing what just happened.
But before she could do anything, Ferrum and Golden Plate jumped on her, rendering her defenseless as they held her limbs tightly.
"AAH! You're hurting me!" Trixie shouted, however, talking in first pony. But they were not bothering to be gentle with her as they cuffed her hooves together with the anti-magic hoofcuffs.
"Entry team to TOC, we have the suspect, secured and restrained, ready for taking into custody."
"Good work, proceed with your objectives."
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Neutralize Trixie Completed
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While Silver Vest covered the situation, Iron Steel walked up to the on the ground lying amulet. He stared at it for a short moment, before he drew out his breaching shotgun, pointed at it and fired.
The breaching round connected with the amulet with great force, tearing it apart to little pieces of metal and crystal. Instantly after, the dome of glass disappeared, popping like a soap bubble.
"TOC, this is entry team. The Alicorn Amulet has been destroyed."
"Nice work, team. Come back for debrief."
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Destroy the Alicorn Amulet Completed
Bring order to chaos Completed
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"What I did wrong? I've hurt nopony!" Trixie protested loudly, but the SPATs ignored her. Instead, Silver Vest commanded Ferrum to bring the chariot into the town, to put Trixie easily into the chariot without carrying her.
Ferrum nodded and galloped off. He galloped past a lavender unicorn mare, who looked after him in disbelief. Twilight Sparkle went into the town through the hole in the dome, to look what was the SPATs business.
She gasped deeply as she spotted Trixie tied by the SPATs.
"What by Tartarus are you doing?! Despite she threw me out of the town, she has done no harm!" Twilight shouted as she galloped up to Silver Vest, Iron Steel and Golden Plate.
"Maybe... but the Alicorn Amulet was in her property.", Silver Vest said calmly.
"And...?" Twilight said, extending the "a" ludicrolously.
"The Alicorn Amulet was an illegal item." he answered in a matter-of-state tone.
Twilight blinked in surprise and confuseness "I didn't know this... so if she has done something illegally..." she looked over to Trixie "Sorry, but I can't help you. You brought yourself into this. I could help you reconsidering, but if you did something illegally and the police is after you... I can do absolutely nothing."
Trixie looked up to her with glassy eyes. At that moment, the chariot came by and the rear side opened. The SPATs put Trixie into the chariot and drove back with the suspect to the HQ for custody.
EPILOGUE:
Trixie received a fair punishment from the Princesses, containing excusing herself to the locals of the town and hundreds hours of social work in educational instutions -kindergarten and school. As she excused herself to Twilight, the lavender unicorn took it easily and said, that everypony do something that nopony would like.