Captain Carson stepped out of her dune buggy. She examined the stolen vehicle; luckily it was undamaged. A scowl was on her face. "You have a lot of explaining to do," she growled. "You will come back to town and explain this to my superiors and your leaders!"
She hopped into her down vehicle and strapped herself in. "Get in or I'll drag you in!"
The soldier manning the turret got into the stolen dune buggy and drove it back to Ponyville.
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Rainbow and Lt. Martin saw the scene below them and decided to head back to Ponyville.
Luckily, there was a strip of flat terrain just outside the town they could land on.
When they did, everypony's head turned their way. In fact, they were astonished at how large they were.
Twilight Sparkle was the first to arrive. A quill levitated over a scroll as she looked over the two. "So exactly what are you?"
"We should be-" Lt. Martin began before two red flashes of Rainbow's wingtip lights cut her off.
"We are 'living machines'. Lt. Gen Martin is an F-16 Fighting Falcon and I am a F-22 Raptor," Rainbow said proudly.
"Erm, pleased to meet you, I am Twilight Sparkle. Mind if I do some tests?"
Rainbow smirked; she wanted to show off her aerial prowess. "Not at all."
Twilight's horn glowed as she briefly scanned them. "Interesting, Unicorn magic does not seem to affect you."
"Kinda obvious isn't it?" Lt. Martin said.
Twilight's ears twitched. "Not really, all living things can be affected by magic."
"Yeah, we have no organic components."
Twilight's jaw dropped. "What, then how-"
"Our 'brains' are silicon based," Lt. Martin said.
Twilight decided to drop the subject. "Judging from your shape and from what I saw, you are capable of flight. So what do you do?"
"We defend our country from invaders and in peacetime, we perform airshows," Rainbow replied.
"Just like the Wonderbolts."
"Pardon?"
"Equestria's premiere aerobatics team."
Rainbow smiled. "Well, both of us are aerobatics performers. I am Major Allison Douglas but I prefer to be known by my callsign, 'Rainbow'."
Twilight Sparkle suppressed a chuckle. Rainbow's baby blue paint scheme was the same coat color as that of her friend, Rainbow Dash and the roundel painted on her twin tails was an exact copy of the rainbow thunderbolt cutie mark on Rainbow Dash's flanks. Not to mention, she had that same cocky attitude.
"Well thank you for your time-"
"Wait, you have to see this!" Rainbow cut in. "Clear!"
Twilight Sparkle leapt back at Rainbow lit her engines and thundered down the makeshift runway. Even at a distance, Twilight could feel the intense blast of heat from Rainbow's twin jet engines. Not to mention the noise.
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Rainbow soared through the skies over Ponyville at high subsonic speeds. mostly doing some lazy aileron rolls, banks and upside down flying; again, this attracted a lot of attention.
When she was ready, she decided to top it off with Pugachev's Cobra - a demanding and very cool aerobatics trick.
What she did was at seemingly full speed, she suddenly angled her snout upwards at ninety-degree angle, almost as if she were rearing up in the air. Even more amazing was that she continued moving forward. After a moment, she returned to level flight, transitioned into an aileron roll and then landed.
Twilight was at a loss for words. Her quill and paper clattered to the ground.
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"Is this a good idea?" Zachary asked as he watched Rainbow's impromptu airshow.
"Why not?" Dr. Zanasiu replied.
"Well, we don't want to alert Chong we're here or offend the locals."
