General Hurricane held a phone to his ear, rubbing his forehead with a hoof as the mare on the other end spoke.
"I know the armor must have looked great on T.V. General, but trust me. Maintenance is a bitch. Really I'm doing you a favor keeping it to myself," Rainbow said, almost mockingly.
"Ms. Dash, I'm not asking for it. I am demanding you relinquish the Iron Mare armor to the Equestrian military immediately," Hurricane told her sternly.
"What was that? Some things wrong with the signal here," Rainbow informed.
"Everything sounds fine to me," the General said scathingly.
"Right, tell ya what. I gotta go, but I'll be sure to send a shipment of our new non-lethal pacification systems. Even give ya a discount. Bye now," the infuriating mare said.
"No, Ms. Da-" Hurricane was cut off by an audible click as the line went dead. "Insufferable brat," he seethed as he slammed the phone back on the receiver. He'd been trying to get Rainbow Dash to hand over her armor ever since her public announcement, but she kept giving him the run around whenever he called. He'd thought about marching a battalion up to her front door and taking the suits by force, but his superiors would fire him for attacking their best weapons contractor. It didn't help that his credibility had been destroyed over the years.
The General glanced across his office at a picture hanging near the center of a spider web of yarn, connecting various other pictures, news clippings and documents. The picture that had caught the General's attention was of Boot Strap, a soldier that used to work directly for Hurricane.
Damn good soldier. Where did things go wrong for you? Hurricane asked himself.
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General Hurricane sat at his desk smiling as he looked over a report. A knock at the door stole his attention from the document.
"Enter," he said as his eyes wandered back to the file. A second later a brown earth pony stallion opened the door and stepped into the room, wearing a standard army camo uniform.
"Private first class Strap reporting sir!" the stallion said standing at attention, a stoic look on his face.
The General smiled at the show of discipline. "At ease soldier. Shut the door and have a seat," he instructed, setting the report aside. Boot Strap did as he was told. The General looked into the soldiers eyes as he sat in the chair across the desk. "Tell me son, how invested are you in keeping this country safe?" Hurricane asked after a moment.
"I'd die in the defense of my home sir," Boot answered dutifully.
Hurricane smirked. "Good to hear," he replied sliding the file over to the soldier. Boot picked it up and started flipping through the papers, a confused look on his face as he stared at a photo of a yellow Pegasus mare. "Back in the Minotaur war, Equestria developed a Super Soldier Program as I'm sure you know," he began, gaining the soldiers attention. "The scientist who developed the formula that we were using died shortly after creating Captain Equestria. We've been pouring our resources into recreating the experiment, but we've been unsuccessful thus far," Hurricane continued, taking the photo from Boot. "This mare is working on a hormone based performance enhancer that we think is promising," he informed, giving the soldier a moment to process this information.
"Why are you telling me this sir?" Boot asked, more confused than he was a moment ago.
"Because that filly has done everything she can to keep her research from the military. She doesn't trust us. We need you to get close to her," he said pulling out another, much thicker document. "Learn what you can. Help her if she needs it," he explained handing the file to Boot. "That is everything you'd need to know to be at least passable as a radiation specialist. You'll have four months to study before its time to put you in place," Hurricane finished. "Do you accept your mission?"
Boot Strap stood up. "Sir yes sir!" he shouted. However there was still a confused look in his eyes. "Permission to speak freely sir?" he asked. Hurricane nodded solemnly. "Why me?" Boot asked, unsure of himself.
Hurricane smiled. "Because I've only known you for a few minutes," he began as he stood up,"and I already like you. You're a likeable stallion. I'm sure Fluttershy will agree," the General finished holding out a hand. Boot smiled as he shook the General's hand. "Dismissed," Hurricane said, earning a salute from the young soldier, who left seconds later.
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Hurricane was roused from his thoughts by a loud knocking on his office door. "Come in," he said, somewhat distracted.
A mare entered with a file in her hoof. Corporal Winchester, and Hurricane's second in command. "Sir, you need to see this," she said as she strode across the room and set the file in front of him.
The General flipped the manila folder open and observed a newspaper clipping from the Daily Bugle. 'Bird Population Devastated In Small Canistan Village' it read. "What is this?" he asked, not caring in the least for animal plights.
"Read the article," Winchester pressed a confident smirk on her face. The General had seen that smile many times when a new lead had been found on Fluttershy.
Hurricane turned back to the article and read aloud. "A large number of Ravens were found dead near a dump in a small village in the Diamond Dog country. Basset Town, the village in question, is baffled by this unexpected event. Expert biologists have been working around the clock to find the answer to this mystery and most believe the cause to be lethal amounts of Gamma Radiation," Hurricane read trailing off at the mention of those familiar words. Found you, he thought to himself.
Hurricane turned to the Corporal. "Get a team of our best men prepped and ready. I want eyes on that village. Any operatives in Canistan need to get there now. If they see Fluttershy they are not to engage, go," he ordered, blood beginning to rush through his veins as he got more and more excited. He had never had much luck containing Fluttershy up to this point, but this felt different. "Things are gonna change this time," he told himself as he collected several files on his target and exited his office.
I don't think that's how animals die of radiation poisoning..........especally since the blood was supposed to be dry as a rock by the point the raven got to it.
At least in the 2008 film, the blood fell into a liquid, therefore blending into the liquid and making the man sick.
3831620 Radiation in any amount wouldkill quickly and Fluttershy's blood has extremely concentrated levels of it. And once again the coagulation ofthe blood doesnt matter, itwould still be highly irradiated.
Listen I appreciate you commenting and all, but tis isthe the second time you've broght this up and I feel it's a little pointless to nitpick at the science behind Super powered magical ponies. If there are any other concerns you have by all means let me know, but my main concern right now is if I'm telling the story well. You may see it as "lazy" but I would completely obliterate the rules of Science to tell a story I thought madesense. Plus this was all gone over with Spideremblembront before it got posted and he seems to be a bitofa Hulk expert, at least more so than us, so if he has no problems with it it's probably not such a bad idea.
3831789 Yeah I know, and I don't think your lazy....
I just feel that if one tries to have the same things happen, and make sure it makes as much scientific sense as possible, you gain endless bonus points, because you've shown your work and can always explain an otherwise difficult to explain phenomena with simplistic terms.
3831815 I guess, but this is a pretty minor detail in the grandscope of things. We're only on the second chapter. Plus, this is based off of the comicsas much as the movies and Gamma Radiation is extra wacky there, creating all sorts of differnt effects from almost minute differnces in formula, concentration and the method that exposes an individual toit. This is pretty sensible to some of the Science ignoring properties Gamma Radiation has in the comics, which provide nearly fifty percent of my inspiration. I'd say I'm sort of discovering a path between Science and fiction right now. I feel like theres a word for that, but I cant think of it right now. Anyways, yourconcern is noted, but I just don't seeapoint in making any changes.
Actually you got me thinking on another topic. Ijust rewatched theEd Norton Hulk the other dy and thought of something. If Samuel Sterns pretty much just got Banners blood straight in his brain andthats his set up for becoming Leader, How come it killed Stan Lee? Shouldn't it have just killed Sterns too? The only reasonBlonsky lived was because of the serum he'd been injected with prior to the blood infusing.
I'm offtopic sorry. Anyways, thankyou for at least reading the story and giving me feedback. I've been a little dissapointed lately with the lack of helpful input, so if I seem a little extra bitey thats probably why. In conclusion thank you for your input.