The Conversion Bureau: New Tactics Part II

by no sh*t sherlock

Chapter 7: Ledo zūdo netikras

Chapter 7: Ledo zūdo netikras

Ice

The girl was here! She'd attacked me. I knew there was something weird about her. She was working for the ponies. I had no time to think. I was pissed off more than ever before. But I wasn't thinking straight. I shouted something as I pushed back away from her. My breathing became heavy. I was sweating and my heart rapidly pumped adrenaline into my system. I felt light, my skin tingling. My vision focused in on the girl who was not more than eight feet in front of me.

She calmly popped her neck and shook her arms to the side, loosening them up. There was no question about what was about to happen. It was fight or flight...and neither of us had wings.

"Ahhh!" I yelled. I started to raise my gun. But unfortunately, I was already met with a problem. The girl was quick. By the time my gun was raised, she was already on me. A reverse roundhouse knocked the gun from my hand. I made no move to go for it and instead swung my left fist at her. I could feel so much power and strength in the arc.

She saw it coming and brought her forearm up to block, but it was too much for her. The force of it knocked her to the ground. I raised my foot high to stomp her. She saw the opportunity and swung her legs, sweeping my other foot from under me. As I went down, she got back up. I growled and slammed my fist into the floor at the sight of seeing her standing over me

I got back up and she positioned herself into some kind of fighting stance. I ran for her. I put everything I had into my attacks. But I fought like some street brawler. I swung and kicked at her, but she was just too fast. She ducked and dodged most of my attacks. The ones she couldn't, she skillfully pushed aside with a push of her hands. She no longer blocked any hit. She had learned that they were too strong.

The girl hadn't even broken a sweat, while my own energy was getting lower and lower. On one particular right swung, she got in her first hit. It was a lightning fast strike to my side. It knocked me back for a moment, but then I kept going. However, my hits came much slower. After a few more swings and misses, she got in another hit. A powerful one, directly in my chest

I stumbled backwards. The pain was more than I expected. I felt to make sure she hadn't cracked a rib. Thankfully, she had not, but when I looked I saw her running for me. It was her turn.

So many hits. Sooooooo many hits. She was so quick, I had almost no time to block. Even if I did manage to block one punch, there was another kick coming immediately after. She got me so many times. My nose was bleeding and I was spitting blood from my mouth. I didn't have much left in me.

She came forward for another kick. In a last ditch effort, I caught her foot and held on as tight as I could. She looked down at her leg, then smiled back up at me. Using my my hold as a footing, she jumped and kicked my stomach with her other foot.

We both went sliding across the floor, but only she got up. That last kick had done it. I just laid there, bleeding and bruised. I was done.

She got back up quickly in her fighting stance, but when I just laid there, she relaxed. My transmitter had been knocked from my pocket and had landed right in front of her. She reached down and picked it up. She looked at the screen then pulled hard on both ends, breaking it in half. She idly tossed the pieces away and backed away from me. Then she started giggling and that turned into a fit of laughter. She fell on the ground, rolling and clutching her sides.

"Oh man!" She said getting up and wiping a tear from her eyes. "That was easier than Ah' thought." She had calmed down and was now walking around examining the truck. "Ya know my friend told me not to go for this. She said that you might be too much for me." She chuckled again. "But I went for it and frankly, I found your skills to be quite underwhelming." I had no choice but to listen to her talk. Her voice had a hint of country in it I noticed. "And its a good thing I did! Otherwise I might not have found out about this thing." She pointed to the truck.

"Look at this metal beast." She sounding impressed. "What do you think you're going to do with this, huh?"

I tried to say something, but I just spit out blood instead. She saw me struggling and spoke again.

"Oh take your take your time. "She said as she brought something out of her pocket. It was a transmitter, more advance than my own. "I'll just take a picture of this and send it to Celestia..." She snapped the photo and typed something in. "There we go! Now lets talk." She said coming towards me.

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Jacob

We we're silent for a long time. Rebecca looked intently at the ground, thinking hard. Hudd looked the same way at the wall. They both knew what was going on and it couldn't be good. The girl was still bleeding bad, but she kept a sly smile on her face. She knew she had us. It was written all over our faces.

"We need to talk for a moment." Rebecca said to all of us.

The girl nodded back to us. "I'll bet you do." She replied slyly.

Rebecca laughed a bit and reached into her pocket. "But just so you don't get too comfortable..." She brought out a small sliver device about the size of a deck of cards. She moved a slider forward and a LED on the top flashed red. She placed it on the floor by the door, waved to the girl and left. Hudd and I exchanged glances then we too left.

Lefty, Kid and Rain were waiting for us when we came out.

"Sooo." Lefty began. "Get any good informa-" He stopped quickly and looked towards the door, we all did.

We looked through the small, square window in the door and saw the girl vibrating and convulsing in her chair. She was struggling hard to free her hands. Her ears were blood red and yelps of pain came from her mouth.

"Jesus, Rebecca!" I exclaimed. "What the hell was that?" She quickly waved her hand.

"She'll be fine for at least eleven minutes." She pointed to Hudd "Come here." He walked quickly over to her and she pulled him off to the side.

"You got the transmitter?" She asked. Hudd nodded and pulled it from his pocket.

"I'll try to make contact." He said as typed on his transmitter.

Who are they trying to contact? I asked myself. After a few minutes, Hudd started shaking his head.

"No response." He said. "That doesn't mean he's in trouble." He tried to reassure.

"You heard what she said!" Rebecca said pointing to the room. "If they've found the truck then they could know what we plan to do. We need an eye on the bureau."

"But how could we?" Hudd asked.

"What about your other guy?" She suggested.

Hudd shook his head. "Won't work. Hes up there with no one to report to."

"Damn it!" Rebecca said as her hand rubbed her forehead. "We have to do something. I won't sit around doing nothing."

"We need to find out what else she knows." Hudd said pointing to the room. "Especially about that weapon."

Rebecca and Hudd started going back to her, but I stayed put. I didn't want to go back in there. I knew they'd be fine without me.

I turned around and saw a crowd of people had been listening in on their conversation. They all dispersed when I gave them a look.

When only a couple people stayed, I felt something wrong. I only saw Left and Kid.

"Oh no." I said quietly. Where was Rain?

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Twilight

I watched Celestia continue to stare anxiously at the clock. I had found her like this after we had finished moving the humans inside. She was worried and not too many things worry Celestia, so I couldn't help but ask.

"Princess Celestia, whats wrong?" I tried. She stopped and looked at me for a moment, then went back to the clock.

"Shes late" She said nervously. "I do hope nothings gone wrong."

Her answer opened up more questions for me. "Who's late?" I asked. "and for what?"

Finally she turned to me. "A pony of mine in the field hasn't contacted me yet. I'm concerned about her."

I smiled at her. I didn't know who she had out there or how reliable they were, but I thought I should try to put here at ease.

"Just because shes a little late doesn't mean somethings wrong."

"But shes never been late before, never." She said. "And she was doing a dangerous tas-" The knock on the door stopped her.

She opened the door and once more the small, red pony entered, only this time he carried a small tablet on his back. Celestia's face lit up when she saw it.

"Is it from her?!" She asked excitedly.

"No, your Highness." he tried to say sadly with his head down. "No contact from her yet." I could almost see the fake sorrow spewing from his mouth.

Celestia took the tablet from him and he turned around to leave. Now was my chance.

"Excuse me." I said as polite as I could. Instead of responding, he sped up and opened the door.

"Hey!" I shouted. When I got to the door though, all I saw was a quick flash of red. He was gone. "What in Equestria?" I said. Why had he run from me? I only wanted to find out who he was.

I walked back into the room and Celestia had her back to me.

"I've been meaning to ask you who that pony-" I stopped. Celestia was staring at the tablets screen. I walked around to get view and what I saw shocked me.

It was a huge, metal, human contraption. The picture was dark, but I could make out human weapons and wheels. At the bottom of the screen had a message in red letters.

Caught one of your seven around this thing. It could be part of a possible plan of attack. I would take precautions

Celestia continued to stare at the words. No trace of an expression could be found on her face. She made no movements for a couple minutes until she sighed.

"Princess Celestia?" I asked. But she ignored me. She walked to the desk and levitated a microphone to her face.

"How many of the new weapons have been produced so far?" she asked into it.

A fuzzy voice on the other line answered. "Let me check...Uhh looks like just shy of 400, 380."

Celestia smiled. "Good. I want you to start arming ponies up immediately. Send 150 earth ponies, 150 unicorn ponies and 50 pegasi to the Atlanta Bureau. And please hurry, I want them here within the hour."

"It will be done then." The other pony said then hung up. Oh my goodness. Our forces were be drawn in. This was it, an open battle with the last remaining humans. We came to it at last. Luna was right, Celestia had changed.

She turned to me with a blank face

"Twilight, I grow tired of these humans and their schemes. I intend to end this, once and for all."

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Rain

"I'm not useless. I am not useless." I had been whispering that to myself the entire time that I had made my escape. It was true too, I wasn't useless, but I knew it must've looked that way. I was always quiet and tad bit shy. I was young, female and skinny. Because of this, people thought I was weak. I realized my poor performance during the pegasus attack hadn't helped.

I hadn't meant to hide in the cleaners closet. I was just so scared at the sight of Mint getting hit with darts. Even before then, I had heard some of the things people said about me. I let them all slide. However, after the attack they got worse. I had even heard some people in our group say things. But what could I have done? Guns weren't my thing and I didn't have my own weapon. But that was about to change, I was enroute to it now.

My weapon of choice was slightly hard to come by, so I would leave it behind in certain place then run back and retrieve it, usually while everyone else was asleep. My speed and stamina made me a beast on my feet and I could cover miles upon miles a day. But today I didn't have to run very far.

I was approaching the area where we had slept the night after we had broken Jacob out. I pin pointed the tree where I had stashed it and got a running start. using my momentum, I was able to grab a branch much higher than if I had just jumped straight up. I pulled myself up and grabbed another limb. After a couple more, I was looking at my weapon. My recurve bow.

In someone else's hands, they'd be in trouble, but in mine, I became a killer. I could consistently nail deer, or even smaller animals like a fox, in vital spots at well over 45 yards. I was a hunter, a damn good one too. I could stalk prey for hours without them even know I was there. Not even Hudd could detect me. I had been following his group for over 20 miles in Virginia before I revealed myself to them.

I was no fighter, but as soon as Rebecca expressed he need for surveliance on the bureau, I knew I could help. I took my quiver, which was full with eighteen 30 in. arrows, from a higher branch. I jumped down and continued to the bureau.

The first thing I noticed about the bureau was the complete lack of cover. After you slid down the hill, there was no where to hide. I looked around and saw a building a couple yards behind the drop.

I kicked open the door and raised my bow, but there was nothing here. The first floor had nothing but a front desk facing the entrance and a few papers littering the floor. I found stairs in the far right corner and climbed up for a better view of the bureau.

Luckily the stairs went all the way to the roof. This combined with the buildings height gave and excellent view of the bureau-and a good spot to attack from.

I walked over to the edge and pulled out the binoculars. I looked towards the bureau and immediately ducked.
"Oh crap!" I breathed heavily. My heart sunk in my chest. I peeked over the edge again and looked at the same spot. Yep, there was Celestia. She was standing on the roof of her bureau, looking in my direction. When I first looked at her, she seemed to be looking directly at me, but now I could see that her gaze was over me.

I squinted my eyes at her. What are you looking at? I wondered. Suddenly a giant shadow covered the entire field and Celestia smiled. I pulled away the binoculars and just as a gigantic hot air balloon descended into the field.

"Holy shit!" I said out loud. I laid flat on the roof. If I tried to go for the door, they might see me. I turned my head to see four more incoming. Each one landed in the bureau's field and a large number of earth and unicorn ponies jumped out. After all the Balloons flew off, the ponies assembled in six lines of fifty in front of the bureau. I saw Princess Celestia shouted words to them, but I couldn't make out what it was.

She had just finished commending them when I heard wing beats above me. I looked up and saw about fifty pegasi flying over me. A bird I had never seen before flew with them. It was nearly featherless cough and sputter as it flew. They landed on the roof, with the bird perching on Celestia's raised front hoof on and she spoke to them as well.

When she finished, she and the bird both went back inside, but the pegasi stayed on the roof.

i think its time to go. I decided. I walked down the stairs with a smile on my face. Hudd would need to know about the arrival of Celestia's ponies. I knew I was useful .
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Ice

I started at the girl. She had finished sending her message to Celestia and was now walking in circles around me.

"You're probably wondering how I beat you." She said as she walked behind me. "You know when I was just a filly I tried martial arts. I was terrible, sure, but that didn't stop me from getting a passion for it."

"Wha- what?" I managed. "A filly?"

She ignored my question and continued. "My younger pony body just didn't have the power I wanted." She stopped next to me and lightly kicked my leg. "But I've grown up...and obviously ah'm not a pony anymore."

"H-h-how?"I asked, wiping blood from my mouth.

"We are more technologically advance than than you think."

"n-no." I struggled weakly.

"Oh yeah." She smiled."You have no idea how much it took to make me like this. What Celestia has to give for this."

I didn't say anything, but I got a thought. What did Celestia have to give to make her human?

"Of course you don't." She said coldly. "You know our task here is almost done-defeating your resistance I mean. All we need is one last display of power." She started backing away. "Luckily, we have one." She ran back into the office. This made me nervous so I used all my might and started pushing back towards the wall.

I could hear her rummaging around for something in there. "They're are only a few hundred of what you're about to she" She said. I continued pushing back. "This will actually be my first time using it. Funny that It would I would use it on you." She chuckled. "I always pictured myself bagging the big prize, Hudd or that Jacob, but I guess you're not too bad either.

I kept backing up until I hit the wall. Well actually something else hit the wall first. I heard a metallic 'thump' as it hit the concrete wall. I'm a fucking idiot. I thought.

"Ah! Here it is!" She said as the noises stopped. "Celestia really seems to want you and your friends. She'll be so relieved when I bring you to her." She said as started coming back into the room. "Finally, I found something I'm good at." She said happily. She came into the room and adjusted a large weapon that vaguely resembled a pony dart gun. "I'll make her proud."

When she looked up, her eyes widened and all the color drained from her face. She was looking at the barrel of my shotgun from about fifteen feet away.

"Maybe not." I said as I pulled the trigger.

End Chapter 7

Comments

[Dr. Fumbles]

The very idea that ponies could last more than thirty seconds against humans is just laughable.

[BlockBreaker911]

It was a great chapter, but there were a few grammatical errors. I hope you manage to fix those before someone who is far more stern comes around and trashes this delightful story.

[RandomPerson]

YES! DROP HER!!!

[Ponynator]

"You should have listened to your friend."
He MUST say this line when he walks to her

[Zervziel]

The fight against Applebloom was pretty bad. Overall the chapter was good, but that part sucked due to horrific logic. Ok so the pony is better in her new human body than the hardened survivor and can somehow beat him using martial arts adapted to a pony body that AB modified on the fly to deal with the human. Nope, nope, and nope. Try again because that makes no sense. Maybe just have Applebloom taze then kick him while he's down. Would make him being on the floor within convenient range of his shotgun more plausible. There's now way in hell she'd be able to pull off those stupidly fancy martial moves when she's been in the human body for less than a year. Heck she should be having a hard time balancing on two legs with knees that bend differently than her own.

[thelazycommenter]

I could consistently nail deer, or even smaller animals like a fox

I'm sorry but I couldn't not laugh.

[Jack Kellar]

I'm with Zervziel on that one. That half-assed excuse that Apple Bloom likes martial arts in pony form does NOT justify her dishing out "reverse roundhouse kicks" (that term even leaves a bad taste in my mouth) at someone who, while not having a specific form, has experience in the ol' fisticuffs, when she's not even used to her new body.

If I get another one of these SoD-breakers, I'm downvoting this story.

[poisedanimeBloke]

1888309 Yea. Here is the most plausible scenerio...

Princess Celestia: "I have deemed Humanity unfit to continue! I will force you all to get converted, to live in a better, cleaner world! There you will be rid of the violence that contaminates your hearts! Incase you are wondering, if your nations try to resist we will respond with deadly, unstopable force and will destory your resistence to us!"

>Several hours later... In Canterlot...

In the distance explosions could be heard, suddenly several burning chariots come rolling back acrossed the hill which was infront of the city, with no drivers. Suddenly hundreds of tanks and trucks of different sizes from all different nations comes rolling acrossed the hill. More Unicorns and Earth Ponies in their golden armor come charging out of the buildings and try to attack with their potions... only for them all to be gunned down in one volly from the 50. Machine guns.
Within minutes the most Royal Guard is slaughtered and buildings acrossed Canterlot are burning. Celestia and Luna are just about to vacate the castle when several tanks smash through the front gates and fire a massive barage of explosive shells at any tower possible. Killing any pockets of Royal Guards left. To finish it off several A10-Warthogs and AC-130 gunships fly over head and unleash an endless stream of incinidary bullets upon the last of the castle. Killing both Celestia and Luna.

[Swordsmen]

When she looked up, her eyes widened and all the color drained from her face. She was looking at the barrel of my shotgun from about fifteen feet away.

"Maybe not." I said as I pulled the trigger.

[Rocky Runner]

Check, one CMC down. Time to roll in the cavalry, boys! Oh, what was that, Celestia? Didn't see that army of Halo tanks and shit coming? Well, now it's our turn to destroy a civilization.