Mares in Black

by MrAquino


The Presentation.

The film wasn't like how Lyra expected: there was no film reel used and the whole film was actually clean looking, again, much more advanced than what she knew. The figure on screen was a actually a pale blue pegasus filly with a curly mane and much more paler eyes that looked light a lighter blue. Obviously, this filly was blind.
Hold on... That's Snowdrop!!!
"Hello there," Snowdrop introduced herself to the audience "my name is Snowdrop. Most of you may remember me as the one filly that went down in history as the one that made the world's first snowflake. Well, there's a bit more to that: I'm also one of the founding & first members of the Mares in Black, along with, most likely alive, Princess Luna. You can replay this video anytime to get a refreshing memory on what to do, but we'll handle the basics on being an M.I.B. agent, with the following better explained: Equipment, Weapons, Interns & dealing with them, and finally, Dealing with the public. Let's begin with Equipment."

*For the following stuff, imagine this as one of the many first day on the job videos many companies have*

"Equipment is only of your daily tools you'll most likely on the field. All agents are required to wear our custom made suits with NO changes, whatsoever. Your suit should always be straight, clean, and presentable to the public, complete with pants that cover your cutie mark. It is a known fact that 90% of all ponies recognize each other by not their physical appearances along, but all around the cutie mark. With your suit, in either your right or left pocket, you must have both in either pocket: our state of the art sunglasses and our Neuralizer. Our sunglasses will help conceal your identity even more and help you look calm & collective. Our sunglasses also help us see through the disguises that our interns wear. Look at these two ponies: one is normal and the other is an intern. Can you tell the difference? Through the bare eye, no, but with the sunglasses, TA-DA!!! You can see who's real and who's not! These sunglasses also have a nifty addition to block off all the rays from our Neuralizers, which is also your most important tool. Our Neuralizers help us erase the memory from anypony that may have had an experience from an intern. This is is usually given to every earth pony and pegasus that's on the job; Unicorns can learn the spell from our library, which will be most preferable. Be sure to set a correct time on your Neuralizer to make the pony forget, be safe and set it for another thirty minutes. In your pocket, you should always have wrist-cuffs to arrest an intern."

"Weapons are like tools, but shouldn't be taken everywhere. Many M.I.B. agents will be given our state of the art, high tech weapon, simply dubbed, 'The Phasor'. The Phasor is our trust side arm that can be set to 'Stun', 'Teleport', or 'Vaporize'. Stun should be used when on pursuit with one or two Interns; Teleport sends a shot target to our underground dungeon, where each shot is teleported to one of our state of the art cells. Works really well against large groups of intern criminals; Vaporize is what it does: turns any target into harmless ash that will fertilize the plants. This mode is only activated to high ranking officers and shouldn't be used unless against a level 3-5 intern. More weapons will be allowed as you rank up, from using weapons that release electric magnetic pulses to deal with interns built with an A.I. system, stylized sonic boom shotguns that release blasts that safely knock down inters, and to our trademark pulse rifles: a perfect medium weapon that has all the necessities of a Phasor, but with the addition of shooting lasers, plasma, electricity, ECT."

"You're probably sitting down and wonder 'what in Equestria is an 'Intern'?'. Well, an intern is short for 'Inter-dimensional terrestrial being', but is shot because it's faster to say, easier to remember, and makes every intern feel special. There's three different classes with five different levels of an intern. The three different classes are as it follows: Equinoid, Humanoid, and other. Equinoid are interns that are usually disguised as us ponies or similar, like griffons, for example. Humanoid interns are disguised as things that walk around on two legs, nothing else can be said about that. Other Interns can be disguised as anything in the world: pebbles, flowers,some bark on a tree, even the wheels of a cart, can be an intern without anypony noticing. These are the trickiest ones to see in plain sight, so keep that in mind. The levels of an intern go through levels 1 through 5, with 1 being the safest to 5 being the most dangerous. Levels 1 & 2 interns can usually be solve with only two M.I.B. agents, since these don't pose much of a threat to Equestria. Level 3 interns may need at least three to five M.I.B. agents, for being more dangerous, but still probably enough to think through. Level 4 interns may need six to ten M.I.B. agents for being really dangerous, perhaps dangerous enough to destroy a city block or two. Level 5 interns... up to 20 M.I.B. agents, at minimum, will have to answer, as this may be a deeply wanted intern for heinous crimes, a full out invasion, or both. Don't be fooled by an intern's look, though: a tall, sharp teethed, red eyed, clawed intern may actually be a level 1, while a super small, huge eyed, button nosed intern may actually be a level 5 intern. Keep calm when approaching an intern, show attention to what it's saying, be nice with said intern, ask appropriate questions to Interns, don't use force unless needed, and, mostly needed, make sure no pony is around when you're with said intern. Follow these rules, and everything should run smoothly. Who knows, maybe you and the intern can be the best of friends."

"Now the Public: we are the best kept secret in Equestria and we must remain that way until Celestia knows what. Keep a calm approach with a regular pony, asking him or her appropriate question on the details of what a said intern looks like if they request our help. We must make sure everypony is safe from an intern, but not reveal ourselves to the public. This is where the sunglasses and Neuralizer come in: when done with anypony, calmly put on sunglasses, set the time to when the pony may have seen the intern, ask them to look inside the Neuralizer, wait until they look, click on the red button on the Neuralizer, and make up a story to the pony on what they were doing and what they saw, perhaps even giving them advice on what to do next time to avoid something like this. Keep the sunglasses with you at all times: we don't want M.I.B. agents to forget what they have done in the last programmed time. Don't individually flash Neuralizer if with a group: the Neuralizer's rays will hit everypony's eyes, just make the made up event a group thing. Our mathematics have told us that there's a one in a billion chance that anypony is immune to the Neuralizers' rays, so think of an emergency plan for when that does happen, but don't worry, you may never have to in your new career. Welcome the the Mares in Black, new comer!!!"