Above Fillydelphia, 1500 hours, Tuesday the 6th
The roar from the rotors made it almost impossible to communicate with each other but none the less they still tried. Fluttershy and Twilight were sad thinking that something might happen to them or one of their companions. Rainbow and Applejack were pumped to get into a fight talking about how they'd kill even explode somepony into a mist of blood. Rarity and Pinkie Pie just simply waited for the helicopter to reach its destination where they would meet part of Celestia's united legion and the Wonderbolts since they were an emergency task force as well as performers, but mostly because their HQ was in Filllydelphia.
"Two minutes" one of the pilots said looking back at the ponies that had mixed emotions.
Rainbow spoke up trying to cheer up her friends "hey we're like a secret group thing right? So shouldn't we have a name?"
Her friends looked up at her in confusion.
"Hey I know how about Rainbow six?" a smile on her face as she said it.
"We're not gonna name the group after you Rainbow" Applejack said with somewhat anger toward her feathered friend.
"Oh I know how about the Super Awesome Pinkie Brigade".
"Okay new rule we're not having anypony's name in it".
Rarity had an idea her eyes shot wide open like a door when pinkie had one of her twitch 'combo's'.
"How about the Noble six"?
"I sure do like that one".
"Oh uh yes it's very um…. Nice".
"Great idea Rarity you know what this calls for? A party"!
"I still liked Rainbow six" Rainbow pouted in protest.
"Thirty seconds" the pilot said once again.
Thirty seconds until they touch the ground of Fillydelphia, Thirty seconds until they try to reason with the so called 'enemy' they didn't even have any Intel on who the enemy was just that they are.
The final seconds before they touched ground was spent in a hug between the six ponies.
When they touched down Rainbow and Fluttershy took to the air. "We're gonna go find the Wonderbolts and hopefully gather up some Intel you guys should find the Legion they should be near the border. We'll meet back here in an hour don't any of you go dying on us okay". Rainbow smiled at them and left to find the fastest fliers in Equestria.
The border of Fillydelphia was a ten minute walk through the city seeing all the landmarks and shops, they thought the city was just majestic.
One thing the four ponies noticed was that there was not a single pony walking about the streets. It wasn't at all dark and there had to be at least one pony working or walking someplace.
'Where is everypony' was the thought across each of their minds the whole way.
As they reached an encampment with a barricade of trucks and well… barricades they could see that the Legion was preparing for an attack from the Veneighzuelan ponies.
Twilight walked up to one of the ponies with binoculars and asked where was the pony in charge he pointed to another pony with an M4 around his barrel looking at a map in one of the tents.
"Hello sir I am T-"
"Twilight Sparkle and the rest of the elements of harmony of course we know all about you and your ragtag team of peacemakers. Tell me do you have a name for your team I wouldn't want to call you the 'Elements' when I try to address all of you".
"Yes um The Noble Six" she said proudly.
"Great name, love it, but no time for that we have to prepare".
"Prepare for"?
"Why the attack, haven't you heard anything"?
"Uh no not really C.T.U. didn't mention too much hostilities".
"Well let me tell you something there are 4 million ponies in Equestria excluding the Veneighzuelan rebels and we're the ones in between if we lose this city we lose Equestria".
"I still don't understand the Veneighzuelans are supposed to be negotiating with us".
"Well negotiations have broken down one of our scout pegasi flew above to scout the situation, to see if they were really coming to ugh… negotiate" the word tasted like trash in his mouth as if it had been corrupted.
"Well what happened"?
"He came back severely wounded walked right out the jungle, blood everywhere on him, it was a message".
"I'm sure we can still talk this out" it almost seemed like she was pleading to him that they could resolve this peacefully.
"You can try" as he hoofed her a megaphone.
"I will and peace will be brought back" she said just before walking out of the tent.
He smiled and said "Hmmph mares, think they can change the world" he went to his second in command and told him to tell the others to be on high alert as Twilight addressed the rebels.
"How do you work this thing"? Twilight wondered as she was flipping switches and pushing buttons on the device.
"Here Twilight let me try" the happy pink pony was bouncing waiting for Twilight to hoof her the device.
"Fine" as she hoofed the device to Pinkie "But it's impossible for me to work out I doubt you c-"
"HELLO EVERYPONY"! A bunch of the soldiers put their hooves on their ears to the shrieking noise. "Oops. SORRY EVERYPONY"! The soldiers were now digging their hooves into their ears to try and reach their drums and deafen themselves.
Twilight snatched the device away and grumbled how that pink pony was able to do so many things that Twilight could never do with such ease.
"Veneighzuelans, Are you there"? Five of the soldiers had set up their weapons on the sandbag that Twilight was talking behind. Then another voice came from the jungle also amplified by a megaphone.
"Yes we are what have you come to say"?
"Look there has to be another way to resolve this conflict peacefully. Tell me what do you want"?
"We want to be the supreme rulers of Equestria and if the Princess had died last night we would have".
Suddenly it became all clear to Twilight the assassination attempt on the Princess' life, the Veneighzuelans goal, But what 'it' was to Twilight was not something to be shared to anypony else but Princess Celestia.
"So you've figured it out Ms. Sparkle. That look on your face we can see you but you can't see us". Twilight was shocked by the remark and her pupils dilated from what was shouted from the jungle.
She turned to her friends and said plain and simple "WE ARE LEAVING"!
At that very moment the Veneighzuelans had mobilized and fired upon the blockade.
"EVERYPONY GET DOWN"!
Twilight and her friends were running toward one of the trucks bullets whizzing through the air all around them. Then from out of nowhere a tank shell was fired upon the truck they were running toward. It went up in flames with carcasses of the ponies inside left in the truck burnt to a crisp you could no longer see the white on their bones. Lying on the ground wondering what was happening barely hearing a word from her friends due to the deafening explosion of the truck Applejack picked up Twilight and ran toward the truck that was honking its horn. She threw Twilight aboard and some of the soldier ponies helped her get up onto the bench. Her three friends jumped onto the truck and sat down.
The bullets were closing in on their truck as the cloth covering it was beginning to have holes ripped in.
Twilight shouted at the driver "WHY AREN'T WE MOVING GET US OUT OF HERE"!
The driver opened the small window to look at the back cabin "THE ENGINE WON'T START WE'RE SITTING DUCKS RIGHT NOW"!
Twilight sighed angrily and with a blink of an eye her horn started glowing, then the glow surrounded the truck. The truck's engine then started rumbling and the glow was released.
"Thanks we owe you o-"
"GET US OUT"!
"Right, here we go".
The engine made a loud rumble before the truck took off at a breakneck speed. The rebels didn't give up though they knew they had to kill Twilight Sparkle before their secret got to the Princess. Out from the jungle emerged not a platoon, not a battalion, but an army. They shot down every pony in their path bullets flying everywhere, explosions, and screams of agony were heard from their truck. In front of the army a jeep was following their truck firing mainly at Twilight, but also trying to take out the tires and the other ponies returning fire.
Applejack and Rarity were trying to mend the wounded with their supplies; Pinkie and Twilight were just about to use up their last magazine. With no hope a tear started upon Twilight's eyes. 'Was this the end'?
WonderBolt HQ, 1530 hours
"What's that" asked Spitfire to Soarin. The pegasi were confused when they started hearing static on the emergency radio.
"Zzzt- Help! Zzzt- Emergency! Zzzt Rebels…Negotiations. Zzzt Failed! Immediate Assistance Needed! GET DOW-zzt".
"Our friends were there we have to go help them!"Rainbow said smashing her hoof on the oak table.
"And we will, lock and load boys it's peacekeeping time". The seven pegasi darted out of the room to get outside to where another roadblock had been established and a chopper to get them back to Canterlot was waiting.
Rainbow dashed out from the road block to go find her friends only to be stopped by Soarin. "You'll be killed out there"
"I don't give a flying feather about what you think will happen if I go out there, they're my friends and I have to go find them".
"I can't let you do that" said Spitfire from behind her.
"Oh let me guess you two are gonna stop me right? You're going to pull me back to the barricade and restrain me WELL LET ME TELL YOU I'M GONNA FIND THEM"!
"We're not gonna do anything like that but we need to tell you one thing that just might change your mind about this".
"What's that"?
"It's Cloudsdale". Rainbow suddenly froze and set down on the ground.
"W-What about it"?
"It's under siege as well".
"You two are the only part of the Noble Six that can fly fast enough to get there with us".
"C-Can I at least wait to see if my friends get here safely"?
"Yes, but as soon as we see their trucks we have to go".
"Okay" Rainbow was about to break into tears the thought of a burning Cloudsdale in her mind was gruesome.
Rainbow told Fluttershy about their burning city and said that they could only wait until they see their friends' truck. They wait hoping they could see a friendly truck on the horizon
Fillydelphia Main Highway, 1600 hours
"OH PONYFEATHERS, I'm out Twilight".
"Me too" Twilight said looking for another magazine or bullet anything would have sufficed at this point.
The driver could see the Wonderbolt HQ in sight with the roadblock and ponies shooting at their followers. Just out of the corner of his eye he saw a cyan pegasus with a yellow one heading toward Cloudsdale with the Wonderbolts.
While he was wondering why they were going off to Cloudsdale it hit him in the back of the head. A stray bullet one in over five thousand chances had hit him. His head hit the horn on the wheel. The other pony shooting out of the cabin with a pistol heard the horn and immediately tried to grab the wheel with his hoof while opening the window to the back cabin with the other one. As the window opened he addressed them with a simple "BRACE"!
The trucked then tipped over and fell on its right side. The severely wounded were now dead and the other wounded were carried out by the Applejack, Rarity, and Twilight. The pony in the front cabin that was severely wounded from the crash called out to Pinkie and tossed her a pistol magazine. It wasn't much but it was a chance. "NOW GO! LEAVE ME!"
"I can't" the pink pony was walking closer to him.
"GO NOW"!
Pinkie who was shocked then turned around to get out of the flipped vehicle. She tried her best to shoot at only what she could hit and knowing that there was twelve bullets in the magazine she hit at least eight targets. She then threw the pistol at the vehicles nearing her position and galloped toward her friends who were in the chopper. They were directing her to come in faster as a jeep homed in on her and one of the ponies who was wearing a red beret similar to General Sheatherd's stood on the seat with his hind legs, he then drew a pistol from out of its holster and fired one shot.
Everything then went into what seemed like slow motion Pinkie's hoof stomps, her labored breathing, and the shouts coming from her friends. Then it pierced her, the bullet which felt like it took an eternity to travel pierced right through her heart. She then stopped running and fell onto the concrete road. A smash could be heard from the chopper. She was so close so very very close. She then closed her eyes for the last time.
"PINKIE!" Twilight shouted from the chopper then burst into tears as she saw the pink pony's body growing farther and farther out of sight.
"GET ME BACK DOWN THERE! I WON'T LEAVE HER!"Twilight pleaded with the pilot.
"The area is lost, the rebels have taken Fillydelphia, if we go back down we all die!"
Twilight was crying into Applejack's shoulder and Rarity hung her head depressingly.
The pony that shot Pinkie walked up to the cabin of the truck and dragged out the barely alive pony. He was thrown to the ground and soon coughed up some blood.
"Any last requests?" as the pony in the beret drew his pistol next to the other's head.
"Yeah, tell me who you are."
Another pony then walked out of the jeep that the bereted pony was standing in. The mare then took off her veil to reveal something so shocking to the pony on the ground that was soon met with a bullet to his temple.