After spending a few more days in the medical hut re-reading a select few Daring Do books that were salvaged after Nightmare Moon destroyed Las Pegasus, Spitfire came in and told me that it was just about time to show me what was in the "weapons cabinet," as she put it. As I progressed down the dirt road to the weapons facility, I was constantly wondering what was going to show. Part of me was hoping that it was a sort of... technological Elements of Harmony. Another part was just like, I DON'T CARE WHAT IT IS, JUST SHOW ME!
What I was not expecting one of those vest-things you get at the Laser Tag places. But that's what it was. But instead of being blue, or red, or any of those colors, it was... white. Pretty strange.
"Uh, Spitfire, what is this?" I asked her, hoping for an explanation as to why a notorious thing for fillies and colts with an overdose of sugar was doing in a supposed "weapons facility."
"That's the magic of it." Spitfire responded. And to explain what she meant, she walked over to some sorta gun that I didn't notice until now, and the gun started charging up some strange white energy. She then screamed at me,"GET DOWN! I don't want you blinded when we send you off to combat Nightmare Moon!"
I didn't even have time to ask her about that second part, so I just cowered behind the vest and prepared to atone for my sins, but somehow, there wasn't even a blinding flash of light, and there wasn't even a reaction from the nearby scientists. After making sure everything was alright, I looked back at the vest. It was emanating some sort of energy field, and I heard some voice say "Energy at max!"
"WHAT IS THAT?!!?"
Spitfire looked as casual as a militia leader could be and said,"Oh, this? This is the Yin-Yang Mechanical Counteraction Attire, but that's a bit of a mouthful, so we just call it the Hamoni No Buki. Feel free to admire it. This is what you'll be using to help us combat Nightmare Moon." Again, I wasn't paying much attention to Spitfire, I was admiring the beauty of this marvelous piece of machinery."What did you fire at this thing?" I breathed.
"Solar energy. And check this out." She walked up to the vest and pressed a button on the back of the gun. After a few seconds it turned a VERY dark shade of red. Spitfire then swapped out her solar-beam gun for a darker looking one, which I assumed fires lunar energy. But before she unloaded on the vest, she pressed another button on the back of the gun, and about one dozen lasers appeared and curved out of the vest.
"This one you don't need to take cover for." She then flipped a switch and a MASSIVE barrage of bullets burst out of the gun. The weird thing, she didn't even need accuracy, she just needed to aim in its general direction, and the vest attracted and absorbed the bullets.
"Yeah. You'll be using THIS beauty to take down that monarch. You set to take down some guards?"
"Purification and not murder, and I'll be dealing with guards like it ain't no skin off my muzzle."
"Actually you'll be knocking sense into them-"
"WHO CARES?!!? VENGEANCE INCOMING!!"
Some unicorn grabbed me and dragged me down some stairs. The scientist, who introduced me to someone I recognized as Cloudchaser, said, "Yeah, we kinda have to get you accustomed to using this thing."
After a simulation where I learned how to manage the weapon and some quick tips and tricks, like the interesting concept of "cross-blasting", where I switch polarity as I'm firing off my "homing lasers", and what Spitfire, Cloudchaser, and Thunderlane, who I didn't notice until then, called the "celestial dependency system", Spitfire handed me a headset so I could keep contact with her, and then she told me, "You're ready, Private Dash."
I responded the only way I could: "YES MA'AM!"