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AHHHHHH! GOT YA! Next chapter.
The next day the COLTS were called down to the Canterlot Armory. They were not enthusiastic about getting up early but it was nothing they weren't used to.
"Gentlecolts, you are probably wondering why I called you down here." General Blue River said.
"Yes we are." Deadeye said.
"We have forged and upgraded new COLT armor for you five." Blue River said. "It is lighter, tougher, and more flexible than your previous suits. It also has the glider and has built in grapple hook launchers."
"COOL!" Blitz shouted. The COLTS began the process of putting on their armor. They started with the full skin tight body suit which covered everything except their faces. Next came the dragon scale suit which also was a full body cover.
"Wooh! I feel like its not even there!" Blitz said as he jumped around effortlessly in the suit. Next the COLTS put on the actual armor components. Starting with the boots and knee pads to the thigh and buttock pads. Then came the gloves for the forehooves and the arm armor with the shoulder pads. Next came the chest and back armor which came together to form one plate. Finally they put their helmets on, unlike the previous models this COLT helmet sported one visor instead of two eyeholes. Blue River stared in awe and admiration of the lethal beauty in front of him.
"Never thought I'd put on one of these babies again!" Deadeye said as he practiced jabbing.
"That's not all, we also upgraded your weapons." Blue River said smiling.
"Do tell." Shadow said interested.
"We have replaced your automatic crossbows with magical crossbows. Instead of an arrow it fires out a magical blast however it is not the quietest thing in the world so on stealth missions you will have to use regular crossbows." Blue River said.
"How does it work?" Big Mac asked.
"Inside is a unicorn horn that some unicorns donated to the project after they were deceased. The horn is enchanted by the Princesses themselves to be self generating magic so your ammo for this is practically unlimited, be warned if it is overused or is fractured it could cause a magical explosion."
"This thing is sick!" Blitz said as he fired the new weapon at a nearby target and shattered it to pieces.
"What about the twos? Do they have these as well?" Deadeye asked referring to the second generation of COLTS.
"No not yet, that armor and crossbow is extremely hard to make and at the moment we only could make five so we figured it best to give to the best. Well what do you say? Is COLTS Omega back in buisness?" Blue River said.
"Ha-ooh sir." Deadeye said in response.
Spike yawned as he woke up and stretched his limbs. He let out a large flame as he belched. He looked over to his left to see Sweetie Belle sleeping.
"Oh no please don't tell me I did what I think I did!" Spike thought as he shuddered. Waking up next to a mare when you couldn't remember anything from the night before never ended well. Spike's memory began to flood back as he remembered the former cutie mark crusaders falling asleep at the cider pub at around three in the morning so the COLT-IIs had to carry them home. Spike must have passed out in the same bed Sweetie did.
"S-Spike?" Sweetie sweetly asked as she began to wake up.
"Hey Sweetie." Spike said. Even though it was her name, if felt weird calling her 'sweetie'.
"What happened? Where are we?" She asked, her mind a little dark. She looked up to see the muscular dragon looking down on her. She couldn't help but realize how massive Spike really was. She quickly looked away after realizing she had been staring for a while.
"Hotel room, we passed out last night." Spike said.
"In the same bed?" Sweetie asked innocently causing Spike's face to flare up.
"Well-I didn't mean to- I just-" Spike blubbered incoherently. How could he honestly explain that.
"Why are you freakin out?" Sweetie asked. "All we did was sleep."
Really? She is still a foal sometimes I swear!" Spike thought to himself surprised at Sweetie Belles naiveness. "Well Sweetie I better get going, the teams got patrol today."
"NO!" Sweetie said louder than she meant to. Once she realized what she did she covered her mouth with her hoof.
"Sweetie I have to go or I'll get in trouble." Spike said taking her hoof in his hand. "I'll be back tonight."
"Okay if you say so." Sweetie said sadly as Spike walked out. He felt bad for leaving her but he had a job to do. He soon ran into Pip and the others and they made their way to the forests outside of Canterlot. Featherweight and Pip had gotten into a huge argument that was annoying both Spike and Rumble to hell.
"I'm bloody tellin you mate! Your armors cracked!" Pip yelled at Featherweight who had a mark on his left shoulder pad that Pip thought was a crack.
"No its not! It's a scratch look!" Featherweight said moving his hoof across it to prove there was no crack.
"Shhh! Did you guys hear something?" Spike asked as he picked up a noise with his enhanced hearing.
"I heard it too." Rumble said as he loaded his weapon. The COLT II's moved forward as the bushes in front of them continued to move. Out came four griffons.
Four Steel Talon griffons.
"GRIFS!" Rumble screamed as he tackled one of the griffons to the ground. The other griffons went to help their comrade and the ponies went to pull Rumble off of the griffon he tackled.
"I'LL KILL YOU!" Rumble screamed as he pulled out his knife on the griffon before being tackled by another griffon.
"Rumble get the buck off!" Spike yelled as they tried to pull the enraged Rumble off of the tackled griffon. Spike's stronger dragon body overpowered the pegasi and he eventually pulled him off.
"AHH WHAT THE BUCK!" The griffon yelled as it rubbed its face. Pipsqueak figured it was male by its lower voice.
"Clawthorne are you okay?" One of the other STs asked the griffon known as Clawthorne.
"Yeah I'm fine." Clawthorne said as he rubbed the dirt off his armor before turning to Rumble. "Put a freakin leash on that thing will ya?"
"Watch it grif." Rumble growled.
"Stuff it pony!" One of the other griffons yelled. This one was unmistakably female due to her voice and curves.
"Or what?" Rumble said walking up to Gilda and stared her straight in the eye. The tension was so thick it could be cut with a knife.
"ENOUGH!" A loud voice from the last griffon yelled. He was much larger than the other three and he had the battle hardened face of a veteran. "Gilda stand down."
"Gilda?" Spike said. That name rung a bell for him but he couldn't quite figure it out.
"Lame ponies." She whispered but Spikes enhanced hearing allowed him to hear it. Thats when it hit him! This was Rainbow Dash's friend from eleven years ago! He could remember she was very rude, hotheaded, and an overall bully. She had even made Fluttershy cry!
"Who is your commanding officer?" The leader griffon asked.
"That would be me." Spike said. He wasn't an officer but he was the highest ranking out of the COLT-IIs.
"Captain Eaglebeak, Steel Talons Team Four." Eaglebeak said. "This is my team: Private Clawthorne, Private Gilda, and Private Goldbeak."
"Sergeant Spike, COLT II Squad Epsilon. This is Corporal Pipaqueak, Private Featherweight, and Private Rumble."
"COLTS eh?" Eaglebeak said. Out of all the ponies and griffons present he was the only one who had fought in the war eight years ago. He remembered how many of his fellow STs perished at the hands of the Equestrian super soldiers. He tried hard to push back old resentment remembering what King Lionheart had ordered him to do.
"What brings you here mates?" Pip asked.
"Reports of missing griffons near caves, im sure you guys are having the same problem." Goldbeak said.
"Yeah, that and these things called 'darklings'." Featherweight added.
"Wait you guys have those too?" Clawthorne asked as he rubbed the area where Rumble had hit him.
"Yeah, little buggers attacked the mines where we found COLTS Omega." Pip replied.
"You boys ever hear the saying the enemy of my enemy is my friend?" Eaglebeak asked.
"NO! I don't care if Faust herself declared war on us! I will NEVER EVER consider you scum my 'friend'!" Rumble yelled.
"Who you callin scum?" Glida asked stepping towards Rumble.
"I'm callin you scum grif!" Rumble scowled.
"If you two don't bloody mind!" Pip said coming between the two and breaking them up. "We've got bigger problems then you two lovebirds quarrelin."
"Your corporal is right. The bigger threat remains the darklings." Eaglebeak said.
"Come with us, we will take you to Canterlot where we can further discuss this." Spike said.
"Are you crazy? We might as well hand over Equestria!" Rumble yelled.
"Bloody hay Rumble!" Pip said facehooving.
"Come on man, cool it." Featherweight said trying to calm Rumble. Featherweight was the only pony who could calm Rumble down since the two had practically been friends since birth.
"Fine but if you try anything sketchy." Rumble said pulling out his sword at lightning speed decapitating a nearby tree to prove his point. The COLT-IIs and the STs made their way towards Canterlot. Pip and Spike had started up a conversation with Goldbeak and Clawthorne while Rumble and Gilda shot death glares at each other. Featherweight did his best to keep Rumble from snapping and causing trouble while Eaglebeak said nothing.
"If this is how Rumble reacted then I really don't want to imagine how the Ones are gonna react." Featherweight thought to himself as the soldiers disappeared over the horizon.
Two months since an update fuck me! Im sorry but im having a hard time filling in the stuff up to the climax of the story, this chapter was mostly to let you all know I wasn't dead.
"If you can see the enemy, the enemy can see you." - USMC
