(Once you're ready, you may begin. Also, Eclispe is an obvious typo. I have no idea why it's like that.) The palace of Canterlot was in a rush of activity. News had reported of a terrorist organization threatening to reduce the world to ashes if their demands are not met. Celestria was surrounded by leaders of all the major empires and republics in the world. From the Zebra leader to the Griffin leader, all had the same worried face among each other. “What are we supposed to do? If we take them head on at their territory, we would be destroyed. None of our soldiers could do a thing if they were attacking on home soil!” the Griffin leader eventually said. This made then tension in the room much worse. “Listen” said the Zebra empress. “If we attack them, Hundreds of millions of innocents would be wiped out within hours.” A large argument became of the leaders until Celestria spoke up. All of them were scared and had no idea how to control the situation, but Celestria kept her head cool and had a flash of inspiration. “The Elements of Harmony would be useless against them.... so why not take them out before our last day even begins?” Celestria said with a small smile on her face. The leaders looked at each other again until one of them figured out what the princess had said. “Do you know who could possibly do an act.” Said one of the leaders. “Yes I do.” Celestria then typed a sos message to private receivers saying to meet her in Canterlot immediately. “You’ll meet them soon enough. They will be here in three hours. The leaders then calmed down that they have a plan, but they don’t know if it will work.
Ocean was the first to walk into the palace. She had never been inside of the palace and only knew small details such as when it was built, the throne room and some other bits and pieces. She was escorted into the room where Celestria and the other leaders had their meeting. She felt very nervous about the upcoming mission in her new squad, wondering if they will reject her if she fails in the smallest detail. This thought managed to bring her mood down a little until she was spoken to by the princess herself. "You're the newest recruit in that spec ops squad girl?" The Zebra leader said. "You don't want to fail us or Crimson at all, you might know what happens if you do...." "Crimson?, Caesar. Is he another member of our squad?" she asked. Celestia smiled at the new recruit, she liked her for her curiosity. "No Corporal Wave, he's your commander."
Just afterwards Robin emerged from the shadows revealing himself and showing his stealth ability at the same time. "Commander Robin Hoof, reporting for duty. No one can compare to my silent stealth style".
Silver Crescent strolled into the throne room, easily side-stepping the Royal Guards that rushed to stop him. "I just came to tell you to stop dumping your trash in my forest..." He held up a piece of parchment. The words 'YOU ARE NEEDED AT THE PALACE' were written in luminescent silver ink. "... But, I suppose now that I'm here, I should at least find out what's going on."
( I can only post after school, so it's only a one post per day thing for me.) "Good evening you two. I'm glad you can make it, it seems that we might potentially have our last couple days as a civilization. It seems that Sollus, the leader of the terrorist organization known as the Alikara which means united ones in a dead Alicorn dialect has a plan to nuke all major cities if their demands are not met." Celestria said. The Zebra leader then opened up a 3d computer projection of the picture of Sollus and basic details of his organization. "Alikara is unlike anything we have ever seen, their technology seems almost alien to us and their armed forces outnumber all of our lands military numbers combined two times over. But the worst of it is that Sollus is an Ardak Luvanis, a genetic cause that makes the Alicorn’s overall power become colossial in size and have the ability to transform into these Alicorn/Dragon hybrid thing. I'm sorry, but Celestria knows more about the disorder then i do." Said the Zebra leader "Basically. Magic, Speed, Strength, Agility Reflexes and many other unknown qualities of a Alicorn are increased to the extent of demigods. Only three have ever had this in all of Alicorn history and only appear every several hundred or even thousand years. From Caesar, Plague and now Sollus are these three, and my dear sister Luna was rumoured to have this disorder." Celestria said. "Honour to see you Princess." said a mysterious voice at the door. "I hope I’m not too late to see you.” The officer at the door was in his full uniform that was stronger than the toughest steel. He had a dark Crimson coat and sky blue eyes. His mane appeared to be puffy but not in an afro way and went down to the end of his neck. “Ah...Corporal Lionheart. We were expecting you, I have filled them with the basic information about what’s going to happen.” Celestria said. Ocean looked at the Corporal in awe, she could not believe that this was her commander. “Oh... by the way. That wasn’t our trash, it was actually some of the more rebellious citizens of Canterlots as they just dumped it there.” Celestria said. Crimson took a moment to study his squad in detail. “Afternoon everypony, my name is Crimson Lionheart and the famous Archangel that this military talks about. Nice to meet you.....”
Silver had been alone since the day of the one-thousandth Summer Sun Celebration. That was the day that he woke up in a ruined castle in the Everfree Forest, with no memories of who he was or how he got there. He was wary of having allies, and trusted few other ponies. He decided skip the introductions, and focus on the mission. Besides, from the looks of his comrades-in-arms, they wouldn't be alive long enough for him to bother learning names. "When do we leave?"
"We leave with the next hour. Half an Hour of your time will be spent preparing as whatever equipment you have on you will be the ones you take on this mission." Crimson responded. "As long as the Princess and her associates here don't make a full frontal assault on the Alikara stronghold, we are the only ones facing probably a force of over 500,000 soldiers and many more civilians. Remember that we kill with precision, we are not animals." Ocean looked at Crimson talking. She could not help at the fact that he looked much better than many of the soldiers she had been on. She started to blush as her cheeks turned ruby red at the thought. She tried to hide it until Crimson noticed her and that she was all alone at the moment. "You must be Corporal Ocean Wave.... what is a pretty young mare like yourself doing here with the big boys?" Oceans face turned bright red now with embarrassment. She managed to spit out some words until Crimson told her to stop. Crimson smiled at her. "It's OK... i was just teasing." he walked off to see the rest of the squad he was leading. She looked down and managed to calm down. Even through she had just meet him, she thought that she might...no she couldn't. She cant have a crush on him already.
"A force that size... hmm." Silver had come to the palace on a civil matter. He was not prepared for a full scale war. He would have to return home and collect his gear. "I need to gather some supplies. Shouldn't take me long... I'll be back in forty-five minutes. Don't get yourselves killed before I return." He walked outside, opened his wings, and flew towards his beloved forest. As he did, he felt a pair of eyes on him, and turned to see a midnight blue alicorn staring at him from a castle window. The look on her face seemed to register shock, and to a slightly lesser extent, pity. He turned away and headed for home. Princess Luna wasn't his problem.
"way ahead of you, crimson. Seeing as I just got back from a assignment I've already got my gear on hand". He went to shake crimsons hoof. "commander Robin Hoof, codenamed Outlaw also known to the privates of the army as The Spectre. I'm the stealthiest, silentist and best black ops member favouring bows and crossbows over silenced pistols; like the rest of my squad use. Ig you ask me they're not silent enough".
The trip home was uneventful, and within ten minutes, the ruins of Castle Harmony came into view. As Silver descended into the courtyard, a large female timber-wolf, nearly the size of a stallion, exploded from the shadows and tackled him to the ground. Silver laughed. Holly acted so... dog-like. It was easy to forget that she was one of the deadliest creatures alive. "Down, girl. We've got a job... or at least I think we do." It occured to him that he had forgotten to ask about payment. It didn't matter. There was an entire enemy army to loot. He entered the castle and headed for his room. He didn't need much. His armor, a couple of elixers from Zecora, a jar of Parasprites, some powdered Poison Joke, and enough food for three days. He walked back outside, picked up Holly, and flew back towards Canterlot.
Crimson looked at the Commander in his uniform and studied him. "Excellent work, nice to meet you Commander. It's always nice to come prepared and sometimes it's a lifesaver." "I have noticed that your only a Corporal, Mr Lionheart. What happened for some pony of you skill?" Ocean asked. Crimson looked at the newest member of the group. "I decided to leave the Equestrian Military to become the Princesses personal Military adviser and operative. I was formerly the Commander, but i guess outlaw took my place when i was gone." Crimson answered. "I had just recently enlisted again, but going up the ladder should be a breeze." "I guess that the other operative should be back anytime now, because we are leaving soon. Grab your weapons from the armory on the way out the door."
Crag walked in. "Top of the morning fellows, I'm one of your strategists for this mission, I'm Crag, nice to meet you."
"Oh. Good evening Crag. I'm Corporal Crimson Lionheart otherwise known as Archangel and i used to be Celestia's personal Military adviser and operative. This here is my Squad, from Commander Hoof here to Corporal Wave at the end here..." He greeted. "We have another member in our group but he will return shortly after he has his supplies. We were about to leave in five." Crimson greated "Also. It's good to have a strategist on the team, but i hope you can fight just in case it hits the fan..." he asked
Silver strolled in, Holly at his side. Just for fun, the timber-wolf snarled at the nearest guard, who leapt back in undisguised terror. "We're back. This is Holly. She'll be joining us." He studied the team. "This is it? Equestria is doomed."
"Don't worry.... we are a lot better than we look." Crimson responded. "Nice wolf you have there..." Crimson then looked at the Celestria and the rest of the leaders, who then gave each of them a radio ."We are off... we can keep in contact with this radio here just incase the operation changes." Crimson then looked at his squad. "We go to the armory.. then we are flying undetected to the Alikara hq, which we will take Sollus dead or alive. Let's go.
"An armory, huh? The only weapons that I've seen in this castle are the pathetic spears that the Royal Guards carry. Has Celestia been holding out?"
"She certainly has... She stores everything she needs for a last resort takeover of Equestria in the Armory. Everything from a switchblade to Anti Material Rifles and Prototype Laser weapons are stored in there. She gives the guards those spears because it would look to intimating for a guard to carry a enormous machine gun on his back. Lucky for us, we are allowed to take whatever we want from there, including armor." Crimson said. "So.... we can take the most powerful weapons ever created and use them because we can?" Ocean said. "Everything except Nuclear weapons.... of course." Crimson replied. They walked down the hallway for a couple more minutes and down some stairs to see a door with the words "Armory, enter only if the princess says so." "We're here. Think of this as an early Hearth's Warming Day from yours personally."
"That's nice to hear, a tactician with some weapon experience. Now remember that we don't have very long in here, so pick the weapon that suits you and wait outside the door when your done." Crimson said.
Crag looked through the assortment of weapons. He picked out a light weight pistol, sniper rifle and an Electro Staff. They were all surprisingly easy to carry. Crag was used to the big-can-take-off-a-head-in-one-shot weapons.
