//------------------------------// // Rush // Story: General Twilight Sparkle // by MMM WATCHA SAY //------------------------------// "So Twilight, tell me more about yourself. Kinda need to get to know you before we work together.", Vinyl stated, sipping her coffee. "Where should I start?" "When you joined the military." "You've heard of me making the first weapon for Equestrian Military, right? That's where are started in the military. Princess Celestia wouldn't want me to start at the very bottom, and well, I didn't. The only problem was, I had no idea what to do." Twilight Sparkle read books on military strategies, and books and firearms and weapons, but to be actually commanding, it was a whole different story. You probably wouldn't have recognised her before as she is now. She didn't wear the noticeable uniform or hat she wears now. Her first mission was well, successful, but a better word to describe would be, eventful. I'll sum it up for you. The plan was simple. A B Rush, flash crystal the tunnel, and rush in, but that messed up when the troops thought they heard A rush, so they did that and well, they won. Probably because all the enemies were at B, and the enemies were completely oblivious to what was going on. Huh, and they were called "The Elite Crew." Not very elite, now I think about it. To top it of, why did the enemies label the bomb sites? Most importantly, the Princess didn't even tell Twilight what her assignment was. This was her first commanding assignment, and it wasn't pretty. "So, what was your first mission like?" Vinyl asked. "Uhmmm......I'd rather not say." Twilight said nervously. "Aw, come on! It can't be that bad? Right?" Vinyl said while smiling. "All right, I'll explain it in the most sensible way possible." At the end of all of that, Vinyl was laughing. "Man, I haven't heard such a hilarious mission take place like that!" "It's not funny! Ponies could have died out there!" Twilight shouted angrily. "All right, whatever you say." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 2nd, 3024 "Contact!" A loud burst of gunfire rang in Twilight's ears. She was going to have to get used to that. With a burst of confidence, she peeked and shot the opposing pony in the head. A fine, clear trail of red liquid flew in the air. "Move, we don't have time!" This was her first field assignment. She didn't want to do, but did she have a choice? Probably not. In fact, she didn't get to question anything, her commander, who's name was Classified, controlled everything she did. If she didn't follow those orders, she would most likely perish to the hands of the mercenaries. The Elite Crew is rich. They have enough money to support their entire group, and hire mercenaries. Twilight and the rest of her team were to take out these opponents. There were only nine of them, but those nine were professionals. "Status!" "I got shot in the arm, Zane over here is healing up, but we got one down." Strange names, Twilight thought to herself, but said nothing. "Sparkle, check for remaining targets, tell us if you spot any. If you do, throw a flash crystal and open fire! We cannot let any of them get away. You got one, but it's just only one." Twilight gave herself a burst of confidence, and peeked around with her Sunset (Steyr Scout), and spotted two targets, one with a rocket launcher, the other with some sort of...sword? She shook her head, and carried on with the plan. Taking the cap of the crystal, she threw it, and plugged her ears with her hoofs for the incoming sharp blast of sound, looking away. "2 targets, watch out, 1 of them has a explosive weapon.", she called out softly, as to hopefully not alert the intruders of her still being there. "Go, go, go!" More gunfire was heard, and a faint explosion near her. "Zane is down, requesting assistance!" Twilight quickly scoped in on the pony with the helmet and rocket launcher and scored a headshot. "Nice work Sparkle, but we still have 5 more to go.", said Wolf. "What happened to the 4th target?", she was unsure, as she only counted 3. "The others re-grouped in an alternate route, and by mistake, killed one wearing a suit, although we can't confirm his death." She took this information in, and said these words that she would regret later on. "I'm going in alone." "What, that's crazy! You'll never be able to take them on!" "I'll be fine." She was not fine. After a long sprint, her firing back at her opponents, she took one down with her Night Hawk, repeatedly firing back at the enemy. What was scarier, was that the enemy was chasing her with fire. She could feel the fire's heat on her skin, but she kept running. She could swear that she even got part of her skin burnt off. Nevertheless, she got out alive, but she had word that another one of her teammates were down, being stabbed before he could shoot his assailant. Cursing, she ran to her remaining teammates, which were herself, Wolf and from what she could remember, Ivan. She had been briefed on it, but forgot from the "heat" of battle. Pun intended. "Alright, I'm not one to take charge, but at this point, we're out of idea." Twilight sighed as she told her teammates "Well what can we do Sparkle? It's 3 versus 6, we can't win." said Ivan. "The only thing we can do." Twilight picked up an AK47 from the ground and told them, "On my mark, throw every single crystal you have, flash, incendiary, frag, what ever you got. Then, we rush in." "But Twilight, that's suicide!" whispered Wolf, hoping to not alert the enemies. "Well...may Celestia be with us." ----------------------------------------------------------------- "1, 2, 3!" The high pitching sounds, blinding light and burst of pain along the mercenaries alerted them. By unlucky mistake, one of the mercs dropped down dead. A healer, it looked like, with a cross on his shoulder. Twilight gazed at the body for a split seconds before turning around and shooting a pony in the face. Bursts of red splattered down onto her uniform. The pony with the tie. How on earth was he still alive? Well, he was done. Only 4 left to go. Suddenly, Ivan dropped to the ground, a sharp pain in his stomach. Twilight gasped as she peeked the corner and saw a pony that looked like to be a sniper aiming at her face. She quickly hid back behind the wall as the bullet whizzed past her face. "We need medical attention!" she shouted over to Wolf. Here goes nothing, she said to her self. Aiming her rifle at the sniper's face, it took one bullet to finish him. 3 down, 2 left to go. Then she heard the phrase she didn't want to hear. "I'm sorry Sparkle, there's nothing I can do. He's going to die." "No! I was hoping that nopony else would die! Come on, is there nothing we can do?" "I'm sorry to bring you down, but both of us weren't trained in medical practice or magic, there's nothing we can do." Twilight sniffed. "That won't bring us down. We will fight for him!" "That's the spirit, let's get them Sparkle!" For the last time, they rushed the remaining enemies, and killed them all. Both mercenaries, both heavily defended by an automated turret. That was quickly taken down by Wolf's AWP. The one with the bandolier and minigun was also eliminated as Twilight spray bullets at the pony's face. The body crumpled down in a heap. The last one that looked like a construction worker had no emotion displayed as everything was destroyed. He just smiled and sprinted at them with his wrench. He hit Wolf in the face, but Twilight stabbed him. He died with a smile. "Well, we did it", Twilight said to Wolf's unconscious body. Just then, a voice was heard in her headset. A distinct voice that was calm but still had an accent. "Good work Sparkle, report back to the extraction point. Oh, and bring Wolf with you." Twilight smiled to herself. The mission was complete. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Wow, your first field mission was that brutal?" Vinyl Scratch was shocked. Not even her's was that bad. "Yea, I've learned from that. I'm not cold-hearted, but I don't express myself either." Twilight was unsure of the choice of wording she used, but thought nothing of it. "Well General, I hope we get another occasion like this to talk. Now, we have a mission. Let's go." Vinyl ran back to the control room. Twilight smirked. Maybe this will work out after all, she thought as she ran after Vinyl.