Octavia and her team headed just due East of the fortress to the power station. She remembered that place well. It was were she had gotten her scar and her jank eye from. They arrived and hid behind a broken transformer. "Okay, Vinyl. Phase one complete. Where do we get into this place at?" Octavia asked. "Okay, Tavi. Can you see the first set of transformers next to the front of the building?" Vinyl replied. Octavia looked around and saw the set she was meaning. "Yes." She said. "Okay, just between those two. If you can just pry that crate open, you can get into the facility without any alarms or anything." Vinyl replied. "The sewer? Is there not a better option?" Octavia asked. "Sorry, Tavi. The only other way is to go through the roof, but, unless you guys can survive a ten point twenty-one gigawatt blast of electricity you have to go through the sewer." Vinyl replied. Octavia just sighed and motioned for the other two to follow her. They approached the grate and Octavia pulled out a crowbar. She rammed the crowbar into the side of the grate and tried to lift it, but it was too heavy. "Let me get that." Applespice said as he grabbed the crow bar and pried the grate up. The grate thumped to the ground and they all jumped inside. Applespice pulled the grate shut as he jumped in. "Oh, dear Celestia. It smells awful down here." Marigold said. "Well, it is a sewer." Applespice said as they walked through the foul smelling water. As they continued to walk, a growling noise came from around a corner up ahead. Octavia threw up her hand in a signal to stop. They all listened as they heard something moving toward them through the water. They saw a shadow of what appeared to be a couple of dogs. Applespice began whistling at them. "It's just some lost dogs guys. Come on fellas, we won't hurt you." He said as he moved closer to the corner. As he moved, the 'dogs' came around the corner. They looked like dogs, but, they were made completely out of steel and had red lights for eyes. "What the hell?" Applespice asked as the dogs jumped and began attacking them. The largest one took Applespice to the ground and the second one attacked Marigold and clamped onto her hair as she turned to run. Octavia pulled out a pistol and began shooting the hound. "Octavia, what the hell is happening down there?" Vinyl asked in her ear. "We encountered a couple steel hounds. They were patrolling the sewers. How do we take them down? My bullets are just bouncing off." Octavia said as she ran over to try to help Marigold. "I don't see anything in Twilight's files about destroying them." Vinyl said frantically. There was a loud crunch noise. Octavia turned to Applespice with the hound's head between his clenched fists. It was leaking oil from it's crushed head. He threw the hound into the murky water and charged over to the one that had Marigold in its grip. He pried open its mouth and gripped its jaws in his hands as he pulled in either direction. There was an echoing snap as the hound's head split in half, sending oil and metal shards flying. He was breathing heavily as he threw the second hound into the water beside its counterpart. He turned to the others and regained his composure. "Let's go. We shouldn't be far from the entrance." Octavia said as she walked around the corner with the other two following.
The jail-bot clasped a metal ring around both of their chests, securing their wings in place and dropped them into a large courtyard. Their were several run down looking buildings made of wood and aluminum scattered around. At the far end was a much larger building made of concrete and steel. It had two giant searchlights at the tops of two towers on either side of it. Wind ducked behind a tree and retrieved the earpieces. She took the plastic off of them and stuck one in her ear and handed the other one to Shadow. "Okay, Vinyl. We're in. You said we should find Luna?" Wind asked. "Yes. Ask her how you can take out the prison security." Vinyl said. "Got it. Come on, Shadow. Let's find Luna." Wind said as she made her way further into the prison courtyard. They entered one of the buildings and Wind recognized one of the people inside as the teacher of the elementary school. She ran over to her. "Miss Cheerilee." Wind said. She looked up as the two approached and her eyes widened. "What are you two doing here?" She asked. "Don't worry Miss Cheerilee. We're here on purpose." Wind said. "On purpose? Why?" She asked. "Vinyl sent us to put this prison out of commission. But, we need to find Luna, have you seen her?" Wind replied. "No, sorry. You should try the building across from this one. They have each race separated into different buildings." She said. "Thank you, Miss Cheerilee." Wind said as he made her way towards the door. "Good luck." Cheerilee called after them. As they made their way across the courtyard, Wind could see several other pegasi with the same steel clamp around their midsections as well. The unicorns had some sort of steel cone contraption on their horns. They entered the building that Cheerilee had sent them to. As they looked around at all the depressed pegasi and unicorns all trying to keep one another alive, Wind spotted Luna at the end of the room. She was lying in a bed facing the wall. Wind slowly approached her and sat on the edge of her bed. Luna sat up and looked at her. "What do you want. Can't you see I'm busy?" She snapped. "Princess Luna, Vinyl sent us. She said you could help us shut down this place." Wind said. Luna looked around and pulled a piece of parchment out from under her pillow and unfolded it. It was a map of the courtyard. "This is the guards station. You'll need to get in there. But, to do that, you'll need to get a keycard from one of the guards. They patrol every couple hours and usually stop behind the trees to smoke. That will be your ideal time to strike. Once you get rid of the guard and have the keycard, come see me." Luna said as she tucked the parchment back under her pillow and laid back down. Wind and Shadow left and stood outside watching the guard station. After a few minutes, two guards exited the doors and started to patrol the area. They split up and headed to go behind the buildings. Wind made her way around to behind one of the guards. He stopped and pulled out a cigarette. Wind wrapped her arms around his neck and squeezed as hard as she could. There was a snap and the guard crumpled. She searched his body as she hid it in the bushes. She grabbed the keycard and headed back into the building.
