~~~===Session 3: Finding Calm in the Raging Storm, Part I===~~~
	As we left our group of ponies last, Swoop was searching madly for her brother in the Base to strangle him to death for having the Vertibuck's engine falling off in a rather loud and painful sounding thud. A strange new pony shows up and is put under observation, and Commander Ironwing to give them orders to investigate the school district for signs of survivors.
	Exodus starts buckling back up his kevlar armor after putting on his camoflage fatigues. "Well gents, grab your tits and saddle the fuck up!"
	Grunt is wandering somewhere around the base, letting his cheeks return to their normal grey complection
	Swoop is still searching for Swept, murder on her mind.
	Swept_Wing is passed out in the barracks.
	<Doctor Harp> is monitoring the patients in the Clinic, and stops over at Sledge Hammer's bed.  "Poor pony...all this tension must have got to him. I hope he's going to wake up soon..."
	Sledgehammer stirs a little bit. He had been...having the strangest nightmares...He thrashes a bit as he begins to become....a little more aware of the going-ons around him.
	Silver_Lining is in the sleeping quarters, still asleep after arriving late at night from helping Doctor Harp. Her saddlebags and the small amount of personal belongings that she owns are strewn about around her cot, and she snores quietly, her forelegs tucked into her chest.
	<Doctor Harp>  "Oh...dammit, where's Hala?"  She strides to get a medical kit and her stethoscope.  "Easy, easy. You're okay, at the clinic."
	Exodus turns and looks at Ironwing, "Well, duty calls, so yea, how many troops you got fer' us to take?"
	Sledgehammer suddenly sits up panting and breathing hard. "W...Where am I?" He seems fairly disoriented.
	Grunt claims a bunk for his own and elects to let some rest take care of the redness in his cheek, taking off his ragged armour and battle saddle and leaving it beside the bed
	Swoop bursts into the barracks! "SWEPT WING!!!"
	"Gah!" Swept_Wing falls out of his bunk.
	Silver_Lining rolls over in her cot, mumbling sleepily.
	Swoop advances menacingly. "Now ya fucked up!"
	<Doctor Harp>  "You're in the Neighayenne Maintenance Depot's Base Clinic. You've been out for a while. What do you remember?"
	Swept_Wing rolls to his hooves. "Oh shit. What I do?"
	Sledgehammer thought for a second. "I...remember hearing the sirens..."
	Swoop fumed. "It's what you /didn't/ do!"
	Kathreptis looks around idly, blinking. "So... What should I do?"
	"How did I get here?" Sledgehammer asked.
	Swept_Wing blinks. "Uhh... what's going on?"
	"The engine just fell the fuck off the Vert! You didn't secure it you ass!" Swoop leaps at him.
	Grunt just covers his head with a pillow and tries to block out the yelling, having worked with heavy artillery helps with that
	Exodus leaves the showers when he hears the yelling and heads for the barracks in the building, walking in, "Ladies! Ladies! Don't kill each othah' yet!"
	Swept_Wing blinks. "WHA-FUCK!"
	Swept_Wing is tackled.
	Swoop begins pummeling
	Swept_Wing writhes. "Stahhhhhhhhp!"
	<Doctor Harp>  "We...we brought you here from the hospital after the bombings. We were worried that you weren't going to make it."
	Silver_Lining groans, still quite sleepy, and wakes from all of the yelling. She looks over to the two tackling pegasi. "What..."
	Exodus watches Swept_Wing and Swoop act like retards before he walks over whistling a cheery tune before cracking his knuckles and picking Swept_Wing and Swoop up by their scruffs, "Foals, foooals, make up."
	Swoop flails, still trying to strike
	Sledgehammer groans his head aching a little. "...I...alright..how badly was I injured...I feel like I've gone through a microwave..."
	Swept_Wing whimpers.
	Silver_Lining groans, rolling over. "And be quiet..." she whines, "I'm trying to sleep."
	<Doctor Harp>  "Well, your radiation levels are still slightly higher than the rest, and I don't know why. Your current count's in the low 200s...we'll need to keep an eye on you."
	Exodus looks over at Swept_Wing, "Die silent er' dun' die at all." he then looks over at Swoop. "Knock it off."
	Sledgehammer's jaw dropped. "Two hundred what?" Well...he can't be too bad...if he's being all stringent on units.
	Swoop sulks and crosses her hooves. "/He/ has to fix it!"
	<Security Personnel> looks to Kathreptis. "Just wait here. We need to finish processing you before we let you wander the base freely."
	Swept_Wing blinks. "What broke?! Seriously?"
	Exodus looks back at Swept_Wing, "Engine fell off, like fell off, my bets sabotage."
	Swoop growled. "I just told you! The engine we just put on the vert fell off!"
	The security personnel eye the Changeling with a certain level of distrust, their memories not having worn off of the Changeling invasion.
	Kathreptis pouts. "Really? I'm just here to smack a few specific heads together until I get my bits back..."
	Swept_Wing growls and squirms. "WHAT?!!??! Sounds like sabotage alright!"
	Silver_Lining frowns. "Stop yelling... please..."
	"We've got a spah around here!," Swept_Wing declared.
	<Doctor Harp>  "Rads, Sledge Hammer. You've been exposed to Megaspell radiation; we all have."
	Exodus roars over Swept_Wing and Swoop, "We have foals trapped in the schools! I dun' fucking care about your vert! Get your shit ready to move in five!!"
	Swoop gives her brother a blank look. "... really? You have to say it like that?"
	Silver_Lining perks up, looking to Exodus. "W-what? Foals?" She looks around at her packs. "N-Need more help?"
	"I know you meant rads. You said radiation...I mean...." Sledgehammer shakes his head a bit. "Sorry I get kind of ranty...part of being a forepony... How...long was I out?"
	Swoop glares at Exodus. "So you gonna put us down yet?"
	Swept_Wing groans. "Well shit. If you'd kindly let us go, let's get moving."
	Exodus looks over at Silver_Lining, still holding both Swept and Swoop in his grip. "Yea, all tah' help I can get." he then looks back at the two pegasi, "Make up."
	<Doctor Harp> replied, "About...fourteen hours."
	"I don't wear any," Swoop replied to Exodus. "Swept might."
	Exodus glares at Swoop, "Well borrow some ah' his." he rubs their faces together witha last effort before dropping them both lightly tothe ground.
	<Ironwing> storms into the room where she saw Swoop go running after Swept Wing.  "What in the HELL is this happy horse shit? What are you animals doing in here?"
	Swept_Wing acks and flails.
	Swoop erfs on landing.
	Sledgehammer sighs. "...guess that means I don't have to worry about rehabilitation"
[05:32.42] * Silver_Lining nods, hopping down. She shakes her head, trying to focus through her lack of sleep, and begins to saddle up.
	<Doctor Harp>  "Don't worry. We have plenty of Rad-Away and Rad-X here. Just...I've heard this stuff tastes awful."
	Swoop glares at Swept, not really buying the 'SPAH' story.
	Sledgehammer thinks. "I...remember I was helping to pass it out...wonder why I was affected so badly..."
	Swept_Wing glares back at Swoop. "You know I put it on right, you watched me do it."
	"...Maybe..." Swoop knew. She had just needed an outlet for her rage, and usually it was Swept_Wing that took the brunt of it. She hadn't really meant harm, and would apologize later.
	Exodus raises his voice again at Swoop and Swept_Wing, "Later! Foals." he turns back to Ironwing, "Family love, ma'am, we're all sorted now."
	Silver_Lining has her saddlebags all set within a few more moments. Fluttering her wings, she lands next to Exodus. She nods, smiling lightly, though her eyes have dark rings under them, showing her lack of sleep. "Ready."
	Kathreptis yawns and covers her mouth, looking at one of her guards curiously.
	<Doctor Harp> sighs softly.  "That's a very good question. It's still settling out from the chaos we're going through right now, so I might never know how it happened." She then goes and gets a Rad-Away for him to drink.  "Here you go."
	Swoop goes and grabs her gear... extra ammo for her pistol. Armor is for pussies. [copywrite Duke Nukem]
	Sledgehammer takes it in his hooves...not trusting his head (for spell casting) to drink.
	Swept_Wing nods, picking himself up, then turns to Ironwing. "I would like to report, ma'am, that I have reason to believe there is a spy in the base who has sabotaged my Vertibuck."
	<Ironwing> "Well, that is wonderful, Lieutenant. However there's a bigger need with the ponies in the *school* that are in better need than you Vertibuck."
	Swoop grumbles.
	Swept_Wing nods. "I know ma'am."
	Grunt is somehow still asleep through this, pillow over his head and hooves over ears
	<Ironwing>  "Spy or not, you have a bigger priority now. And if I see you officers arguing like that again, you'll be cooling your heels in the *BRIG* for 24 hours."
	Swoop sighs. "Fine..."
	Swept_Wing groans, glaring at Swoop before checking his revolver's load.
	Swoop mumbles "'Oh our only transport to anywhere further than walking is damaged.'" Switches to Ironwing impression. "'Don't care.'"
	Exodus looks around before walking away from the small pow-wow and reaches where Grunt was sleeping and slaps his cheeks lightly, "Grunt! We got work tah' do!" he then keeps going right on out of the barracks, dynamically noping the fuck down the hall and banging on Hala's door along the way yelling, "Foals to save Hala! Naps for later!"
	Grunt peers up from under the pillow and nods, putting back his armour and battle saddle
	Swoop trots out of the barracks before she can get reprimanded again.
	Swept_Wing heads out after Swoop.
	Silver_Lining trots out after Exodus.
	<GM> Sledgehammer loses -50 Rads to bring his levels back into the safer parameters.
	Hala rolls out of her bunk and shakes herself slightly, hearing Exodus bang on her door, "Sure thing Sarge." she quickly puts on her gear and grabs her cloak in her teeth donning it with a practiced flick of her head, she steps out into the hallway and trots to catch up to Exodus.
	Grunt finishes strapping the armor and saddle and meets up with Exodus and the others
	Exodus continues onward to where Kathreptis was being held, and he walks inside, looking at the changeling.
	Silver_Lining nods her head to Hala, waving a hoof.
	Sledgehammer sits up the rest of the way to get his bearings.
	Swoop trots down the hall ahead of Swept_Wing and the others. "So where are we mustering to?"
	<Doctor Harp>  "Are you sure you feel okay? I'd like to be able to give you a full examination, but I know that there is a call for rescue to the schools."
	Sledgehammer nods. "I think...I'll take the examination first. Last thing I want is to collapse again."
	<Ironwing>  "You're heading to the School District. I don't have the full details, but from the reports that I heard there has been major damage to the school and possible multiple casualties."
	"Brilliant," Swoop grumbled again. "And we're walking there too. Well, most of you are."
	<Doctor Harp> spends a couple of minutes looking over Sledgehammer, and making sure there is no physical impedements that would prevent him from functioning.
	Exodus dynamically nopes Kathreptis right the fuck out of solitary confinement along with Grunt, Silver_Lining, and Hala, headed back to the barracks then.
	Swept_Wing nods, chuckling. "Wings do come in handy." He double-checks his revolver, pushing his Aviators up.
	Hala follows along quietly, taking a mental inventory of her gear.
	<Doctor Harp>  "You seem to be fine. If you experience any weakness or shortness of breath, make sure that you come and see me immediately."
	Silver_Lining yawns as she follows.
	Sledgehammer nods. "I'll do that." He removes any monitoring equipment attached to him and slowly gets out of bed. "Where can I find my clothes?"
	Grunt adjusts his armor making its sure its comfortable and won't impeed his movement
	Swoop trots to the hanger, looking angrily/mournfully at the broken engine.
	Kathreptis blink-blinks at what just happened.
	<Doctor Harp> points out the door. "They should be in the side room, just around the corner."
	"Thanks." Sledgehammer heads for the side room to get dressed.
	Swoop waits around for orders.
	<Ironwing> says  "All of you make sure you have your gear nearby and your weapons ready, but this is a rescue mission primarily. It'll take you about 10 minutes to walk to the school."
	Exodus nods to Ironwing, "Roger wilco ma'am!"
	Swoop raises a hoof. 	"Could those of us who can fly go on ahead and scout it out?"
	<Ironwing> nods and gestures. "By all means, Sergeant, go ahead. Lieutenant Swept, you go with him too. The rest of us will follow you by hoof."
	Exodus lifts a talon. "We have claws, ma'am. And paws."
	Swoop salutes and takes off.
	Grunt nods at Ironwings
	Kathreptis sighs. "I suppose I'll have to be 'under watch' again, huh?"
	Hala nods and settles onto her haunches to wait for the others to get ready.
	Swept_Wing leaps into the air after his SISTER.
	<Ironwing> gives a short bow to the changeling, more out of courtesy than anything. "Do forgive me, Kathreptis...there are still some of us who aren't very comfortable around changelings."
	Swoop is still pissed.
	Silver_Lining is ready, though she has neither weapon nor armor, and is wearing only a ragged cloak.
	Kathreptis rolls her eyes. "Sure, sure... Can't even let a renegade help."
	Hala looks at Ironwing, "I'll take responsibility for Kath, ma'am."
	<Ironwing> walks up to Kathreptis, looking at her.  "Let me make something clear, ma'am. I had associates that were...'foraged' when your Queen decided to raid Canterlot. These are my personal reservations."
	Kathreptis snorts and keeps her ground. "That 'queen' is a bitch and a misrepresentation of all changelings. I have no ties left to the hive."
	<Ironwing> just shakes her head.  "Well...that's at least one positive move for the two of us. But, you still need to earn trust, and now it's a very prized commodity."
	Kathreptis rolls her eyes. "You ponies are all the same... Xenophobic, distrustful of outsiders..."
	Silver_Lining 's ears fall back as she listens in to Kathreptis.
	Hala sighs and steps over to Silver_Lining, "Please tell me you have no reservations about Kathreptis?"
	<Ironwing> replies, "And you give us good reason to be that way, considering that your race impersonated one of our members of royalty along with potential countless others in an attempt to take over Canterlot. Do not expect opinions to change overnight, Kathreptis, is that clear?"
	Silver_Lining shakes her head. "She wants to help..." She fiddles with her hooves. "I don't see why it matters..."
	<Ironwing> looks down at Kathreptis. "You have my trust for now. Do not do anything to make me want to revoke it, Kathreptis."  She looks to the rest of the ponies.  "Dismissed."
	Grunt salutes and begins to head out
	Swept_Wing flies ahead with Swoop!
	Swoop flies along in an uncomfortable silence. Then, "So... sorry about earlier..."
	Kathreptis grumbles under her breath before muttering out a quiet "Okay" to Ironwing.
	Hala nods to Ironwing and begins following everyone, slowing her pace slightly to trot alongside Kathreptis, "Know this, I harbor no ill will towards you, I know all too well your situation."
	Kathreptis snorts again. "Of course you do..."
	Silver_Lining follows with Hala and Kathreptis, feeling more comfortable with those not racist! She nods affirmatively to the changeling as Hala speaks.
	Silver_Lining smiles lightly. "It's nice to meet you, by the way... Haven't met a changeling before. Silver Lining's the name."
	Hala frowns at Kathreptis, "And you claim ponies are judgmental." she huffs and trots along keeping her distance.
	Swept_Wing nods. "Yeah, uhh, apology accepted."
	Sledgehammer catches up to everypony/griffon/zebra/changeling in time to join the mission.
	Swoop flies on.
	Kathreptis sighs softly, silently cursing her quick tongue before turning to look at Silver_Lining. "Kathreptis..."
	The streets are filled with debris, marred with cracks from the earthquake that resulted from the impact of the missiles. There is an eerie soft green aura to the skyline on the outskirts of town and seems to be fading with each passing hour. It will still be a few blocks until you reach the school.
	Swoopglances around. "Well... Maredi gras is a serious thing around here, it seems."
	Sledgehammer noting the glow wonders if he should have asked for Rad-x.
	Silver_Lining continues, "Sorry about the other ponies..." She raises an eyebrow as Hala leaves. "So... why is it that you want to help us, if some ponies act... like that?" She smiles. "Just curious."
	Swept_Wing chuckles, nodding. "Indeed."
	Kathreptis shrugs. "I dunno... Got nothing better to do, honestly."
	Silver_Lining giggles, shaking her head. "Well, thank you."
	Kathreptis blinks. "You're... Welcome?" She seems a bit confused.
	Hala keeps an eye out as they make their way to the school district.
	Silver_Lining adds, "For helping, I mean. Even if it's just because you're bored."
	Kathreptis nods. "No problem..."
	Silver_Lining smiles, then turns her attention to the road, continuing forward.
	Swoop checks her pipbuck map. "We're almost there."
	Grunt trots along, making sure his shotgun has some shotgun shells loaded into it
	As Swoop has said, the school district is coming into view. It is situation over a nine square block area and is made up of four separate buildings, with the addition of an athletic arena for football, baseball and track.
	Sledgehammer looks a tad uncomfortable. "so...what exactly are we doing here? All I know is this is a rescue mission."
	Swoop, still irritated by the morning's events, goes into sarcasm mode... wait it was already on. Nevermind. "Oh look. It's generic school number zero two five."
	The first building you see--or more accurately hear--is the elementary school. Sobbing and whimpering can be heard as evacuations have not begun here yet.
	Swept_Wing chuckles. "Indeed." He frowns at the sounds. "And let's get down there fast."
	Sledgehammer quickly realizes what needs to be done. "oh!"
	Swoop follows the sound... of sadnes..
	Swept_Wing tilts into a dive after Swoop.
	Sledgehammer keeps a lookout for anypony trapped...or sounds like that.
	Sledgehammer also listens for anypony that is buried wishing that he had a means of detecting them like EFS.
	<Teacher> comes toward you, a bunch of ponies standing in a huddle and shaking. Some of them are still crying now.  "Thank Celestia you are here! They're all panicking...and I can't restore order. I...I also don't know if...if we got everypony out of there yet...."
	Hala stomps a hoof and brings up her EFS, she slowly looks around as they approach the elementary school.
	Swoop always has EFS up.
	The discomfort of the children are creating a negative situation, so all of your Speech checks will suffer a -10 penalty because of their panicked state.
	Sledgehammer looks to the group. "If anypony has a pipbuck with EFS. They can go with me."
	Swoop uses her "No Fucks given" perk to negate the negative.
	"And," Sledgehammer went on, "can somepony try and get them calm so we can get a headcount?"
	Grunt gulps "I'm not really sure how good I'd be with kids... especially now"
	Sledgehammer swallows nervously. "well...I guess I'll give it a shot."
	Silver_Lining approaches the mare. She gives her a faint smile. "We'll be able to find them... Just keep everypony here, and try to keep calm." She looks about the group, trying to see how many children are in the area. She calls out, "Is anypony hurt?"
	Swoop looks at the assembled group. "See, this is the perfect time to need a heavy lifting machine... but noooooo..."
	Hala steps over to the first pieces of rubble that look to be movable, and tries push one out of the way.
	<Students> all wail a bit. There are 25 students standing in the group, and others still inside the school. "WHAT hap-ppenened? It was..." The small filly pegasus wipes away at her eyes.
	Sledgehammer speaks up. "We're here to help. If everypony would please line up. We'll do our best to take care of everything."
	Silver_Lining calls out to her companions, "Hey, start searching for more and bring them here. I'll keep them company."
	Sledgehammer nods.
	Swoop watches her EFS for signs of life, still grumbling to herself.
	Silver_Lining approaches the small filly, brushing her mane with a hoof. "Hey... it's alright. You're safe now..." She smiles. "What's your name, little one?"
	Swept_Wing circles above the area, keeping an eye out for hostiles.
[07:00.45] * Silver_Lining smiles. "Desert Fox... that's a pretty name. Don't worry about what happened. But... do you think you could be a strong little filly and help the others? We don't want ponies to be scared, and we need to help them out, okay?"
	<Desert Fox> "Oh...okay." She turns to the others, motioning for them to follow. She's at the most 7 years old.
	The elementary school (Grades K-3) is a small, two-story building with brick fascia. There will be approximately 130 students and teachers inside it, no fatalities (I don’t kill kids) but lots of injuries from falling debris (cuts, scrapes, et al.) There will be minor structural damage to the building, and many collapsed walls inside.
[07:04.13] * Silver_Lining smiles, patting the filly's head. "Thanks." She looks to the rest of the children, calling to them, "Follow Desert Fox. She and I will keep you all safe, alright?" She nods, looking for any others that are particularly distressed.
	Sledgehammer gives the building a sweep through to make sure no one was left inside.
	The EFS lights up and locates that there are four groups of students and teachers inside the rooms, with some against a outside wall that looks to keeping them stuck. There are signs on the EFS that there is an attempt to free them but it is not working in the chaos of the classroom.
	Hala trots inside as well keeping an eye on her EFS.
	Grunt follows Hala as she seems to know what shes doing
	Swoop flies around the school looking for out of place things. She has nothing else to contribute.
	Sledgehammer looks toward the group on the outside wall, and casts Phase on it to let them out.
	A lone shot flies past Swoop as she circles around.
	Swoop dives for cover. "FUCK!" She quickly draws her pistol.
	Swept_Wing yelps, drawing his revolver as he follows Swoop.
	Another shot nearly nicks Swept in the wing as well, but misses.
	Hala continues deeper into the building trying to locate the first trapped group of students.
	Swept Wing turns and looks toward the hoofball stadium. There is a quick flash of what appears to be light that vanishes into an almost imperceptible shimmer. The shot also sounded as if it had been silenced and from a decent distance away.
	Swoop yells up to Swept_Wing. "Why the fuck are ponies shooting at me??"
	"I dunno," Swept_Wing replies. "Hang tight!"
	Swoop peeks over her cover to spot whoever shot at her.
	Swept_Wing leaps back into the air, speeding low towards the hoofball stadium, weaving and zig-zagging.
	<Teacher> "Kids, just go with the ponies! Go go!" At this point the calm that had been gained has now reduced to screaming and crying of the foals, even thought Desert Fox does the best she can to keep the rest of the younger students from freaking out.
	Silver_Lining tries to keep the students corralled and following the teacher. She flies about as quickly as she can, and frantically, keeping them close and from running away.
	No more fire comes from the sniper in the Hoofball stadium.
	Kathreptis does her best to keep from scaring the foals, going so far as to copy one of them.
	The copying seems to work, and more children start to stream out of the building. Teachers are also helping to usher the students out of the building. There are still five ponies trapped in the furthest away room just as Hala arrives.
	Swept_Wing pulls to a hover over the stadium, searching for signs of the sniper.
	Swoop sees nothing. Starts imitating Ironwing again. "'Oh I don't care that your /gunship/ is broken, you need to save a school...' I hate thaty bitch."
	Hala looks at her EFS to verify the location of the trapped ponies...
	<GM> Swept Wing can not see anything either. This sniper is now very well hidden...if there at all anymore.
	Silver_Lining looks around in the air, searching for any stray children.
	<GM> Hala's EFS locates the five ponies--one older pony and four foals. "Help!..."
	Swept_Wing frowns, circling around the stadium, landing on the edge of the stadium. "Where the hell did he go..."
	Swoop is apprehensive about poking her head out. "You're asking me?"
[07:21.57] * Swoop timidly steps from cover, searching around
	<GM> Hala sees that the wall has fallen and trapped the foals right at their hind hooves. It is pressing painfully on them, but they have stopped crying, which is a bad sign. The piece of wall is 4 feet wide by 7 feet high.
	Hala quickly jumps over the piece of wall and begins lifting the section...
	Sledgehammer goes to free whichever ponies he can...since I've not idea where and what I am.
	<GM> Hala's attempt to lift the wall works mostly--but it snaps in two in her hooves.
	Grunt lifts one of the pieces of the wall
	Swept_Wing lands back near Swoop, grunting. "He's gone..."
	Hala throws the chunk of wall away and groans, "Celestia dammit!"
	<GM> Sledgehammer manages to hear the cry of Hala and Grunt from the room. They need a third set of hooves.
	Swoop continues to scan the area. "Yeah I'll believe that never. So now what?"
	Grunt tries to lift the second chunk of wall - but it fails!
	Sledgehammer looks at the chunk, trying to decide how this is going to be handled...Phase..or try and lift it? he goes with lifting it.
	<GM> Sledgehammer is the needed help, and the wall lifts, allowing for the foals to be able to be plucked up by the teacher. The elementary school is now empty.
	"Is there anypony else?" Sledgehammer asks.
	Swoop, seeing she wasn't going to get an answer, decides being here is no longer a good way to stay alive, and leaves.
	Hala steps away from the now freed ponies and begins heading for the next set of buildings.
	Grunt follows Hala "Doesn't look like it Sledge."
	Silver_Lining continues to look around for any stray children.
	"Alright then lets move on," Sledgehammer replies.
	Indeed, the school is now empty. There are some strange depressions in the floor as you walk down the hallway heading outside.
	Sledgehammer takes a look at the depressions a little curious.
	Swoop is now at the side of the school, having left her oblivious brother where he was standing.
	Swept_Wing totally followed Swoop.
	Grunt doesn't notice any depressions
	The depressions are now very telltale, and if Swoop or Swept was there, they would recognize what they were.
	Swoop is apparently having a really really REALLY bad day.
	Sledgehammer looks back at the group with him and points to the depressions. "Avoid those strange looking spots!"
	Swoop is outside, sees none of them.
	Hala trots along and only notices the depressions as she steps down and it crumbles below her hoof, she rolls to the side quickly as it falls away.
	Swept_Wing is still glancing around for that sniper.
	Grunt stops and looks back, his eyes widening a little at the holes
	"Follow me exactly." Sledgehammer leads anypony following around the holes.
	The floor disintegrates, and Hala avoids falls into it. This does have the unfortunate reaction of attracting two zebras that were below in a shallow hole to look up.
	< Zebras > "Ponies! Kuwaua!"
	Swept_Wing flicks his ears, catching the sound of the zebra voices. "Oh shit!" He charges into the building.
	Swoop follows.
	"Keep on running," Sledgehammer calls. "I've got an idea! Does anypony have any explosives? We got everypony out lets drop the building on them."
	"Swept, if I die, tell Ironwing I said she's a cunt." Swoop follows her brother around the corner.
	"Same to you!" Swept_Wing replies.
	The first Zebra takes the initiative to climb up and start the "invasion" of this part of the city.
	Silver_Lining is still flying outside, looking for any children in need of help.
	Exodus is corraling foals like a champion, rope and everything. Pffft.
	Silver_Lining chides Exodus on his use of rope. No rope for children.
	Exodus would do something to throw Silver_Lining off, like licking her, but seeing as he really was making sure every foal was safe and accounted for, yea.
	Sledgehammer points out the optimal placement for the Explosives. "Place them there and then get close so I can get us out. You too Hala."
	The second Zebra does not climb out of the hole, but lobs up an incindiary grenade.
	Grunt eyes widen "HIT THE DECK!"
	Sledgehammer yells, "Incoming!"
	The grenade flies a good 6 yards away from the party, but explodes and catches all the walls nearby on fire.
	Grunt breathes a sigh of relief that the grenade missed and moves to place some sticks of dynamite where Sledgehammer indicates then runs to Sledge
	Hala quickly charges the zebra standing near her and misses...
	The zebra looks at Hala, swaying and moving out of the way, glaring death at the zebra. "Msaliti!"
	"Hala get over here so I can get us out of here!" Sledgehammer closes his eyes and gets ready to teleport his allies out of the area.
	Hala quickly bounces beyond the zebra and dashes over to Sledgehammer
	Sledgehammer teleports!
	Swept_Wing skids around the corner right as Sledgehammer teleports, revolver at the ready. He takes aim at standing zebra and fires off three shots, before galloping back the way he came to get out!
	<GM> Swept's aim is mostly true, hitting the zebra in the chest and staggering him before turning around and running like hell. The first zebra blinks for a half-second, noticing that all of the ponies are gone. The hissing of the dynamite is clearly heard as he scrambles to jump into the hole that he came out of. As he does, the explosives detonate at all the structural strong points.
	Dust and debris fly out in a billowing cloud as the school collapses in on itself, killing the zebra as well as the dreams and hopes of all those little children that had just been in there.
	Swept_Wing probably ended up tackling Swoop out of the exploding building.
	Exodus looks back as the building explodes and yells, "Everyone down! Down! Duck n' cover colts and fillies!"
	Swoop is apparently tackled.
	Sledgehammer appears outside.
	Silver_Lining 's eyes widen. She scans the group, looking for any foals in danger from the debris.
	A teacher looks back after hearing the loud sound from a block or so away. She then sees the school disappear into a billowing cloud of dust.
	Grunt coughs and hacks at the dust cloud
	<GM> Swoop now has a nasty headache.
	Swoop had one before. No change.
	<GM>...and is now bleeding from her forehead.
	Hala hits the ground after the teleport and skids for a few yards, looking back at the building, "Spineless bastards!"
	Swept_Wing coughs, sputtering as he rolls off of Swoop, groaning. "You okay sis?"
	Sledgehammer shudders looking back at the collasping ruins.
	Swoop was bleeding in her brain already... again no change. "Fine. Can we go fix the Vert now?"
	Swept_Wing nods. "Yes please."
	"They were going to murder foals." Sledgehammer spits, disgusted. "Hope those bastards starve in their holes."
	<GM> Hala and Swoop's Pipbucks flash in protest.
	Swoop stands up and looks at what used to be a school. "So much for education being most important. Let's go."
	Hala looks at her pipbuck.
	Exodus looks back toSilver_Lining, "Imma' go check on the others, you comin'?"
	Swept_Wing grunts, reloading and rolling back to his hooves.
	The Pipbucks read "Incoming Communication == Neighayenne Maintenance Depot == Mayor Razorheart"
	Hala nopes and sets her hoof back down.
	Sledgehammer looks around. "is everypony alright?"
	Silver_Lining nods, flying towards the ponies, zebra, and changeling on the ground. She looks to each of them with concern.
	Swoop glances down at her pipbuck. "The fuck do you want now..."
	Exodus goes with, the NCO griffon landing before Sledgehammer, Hala, and Grunt, "The everlovin' fuck was that?"
	Grunt spits out a wad phlegm "Yeah, I'm fine." he says as he stands up
	<Razorheart>  "Report status, we've just recorded an explosion at the Primay MSchool."
	"Very astute, Razorheart," Swoop quips into her pipbuck's mic. "You get a gold star for paying attention."

	<Razorheart> replies angrily. "Who did it? Who do I blame for this?"
	Swept_Wing chuckles.
	Silver_Lining looks back to the group of students and teachers. "I think one of us, maybe more, should escort them away from here, especially if they're in danger..."
	"Blame the zebras who decided to tunnel under it," Swoop says to the mayor. "We're not taking blame this week."
	Hala growls and stalks off.
	Exodus growls and runs over to Swept_Wing and Swoop, "Hey guys, uh, why'd the building explode?" he hears Razorheart's voice and calls out, "Military business mister mayor! No one was harmed."
	Silver_Lining raises an eyebrow, flying over to Hala. She pokes her side. "Hala, you okay? What happened in there?"
	Swept_Wing blinks at Exodus.
	Exodus looks up at Silver_Lining, "Hey, ah'll help them back. I dun' mind."
	<Razorheart> says in a deep angry masculine voice  "You'll be forgiven later. For now, you better get your butt out to the Middle School after you make sure the rest of the kids that you thankfully didn't kill back to the Maintenance Depot."
	Silver_Lining smiles, nodding back to Exodus. "Thank you."
	Sledgehammer mumbles. "We didn't kill anypony except those zebra."
	Swoop rolls her eyes. Great, more walking. "Yes well I hope their not in a hurry at the middle school. We don't have our Vert right now."
	Hala looks at Silver_Lining and frowns, "Who? Oh... one of my sister's friends,." she scoffs, "Spineless bastards were tunneling under the school."
	Exodus looks over at Sledgehammer, "Well, they're dead now, did they even engage yah' before yah' offed them?"
	"They threw a incindiary grenade at us," the unicorn replied.
	Exodus frowns . "Did yah' you shoot first?"
	Silver_Lining frowns. "Oh... No more children were inside, were there?"
	Hala steps around Silver_Lining, "No."
	"No we didn't," Sledgehammer replies. "And I wouldn't endanger the lives of foals."
	Grunt scratches his mane "Not exactly..." (to Exodus)
	Swoop waits for a response from the Mayor
	Silver_Lining raises an eyebrow. "Hala? Something wrong?" She keeps following grumpy-zebra.
	Exodus looks between Sledgehammer and Grunt, at this point it didn't matter. "Well shit, damage es' done, hope we didn't kill off an asset, 'cause last time I faced zebra soldiers they faced us, make ah' remind you that Grunt." with that he walks off towards the foals, having offfered to escort them back, on the way looking to Silver_Lining, "Right, I'm oscar mike with the foals." he looks over to Hala but lets the mare be.
	Hala looks at Silver_Lining and grins, her usual soft expression replaced with cold menace, "She's fine, just sleeping."
	"They shot first and we burrowing under a school." Sledgehammer says. "I don't want an asset that'd hurt foals."
	Silver_Lining blinks. "Wait... what?" She looks over Hala. "You... are Hala, aren't you?"
	<Razorheart>  "We're working on getting it fixed now, but it'll be a while. Maybe a half-hour."
	"I don't want an asset that wants to set me on fire," Grunt adds.
	Exodus looks back at Sledgehammer, "Prove tah' were goin' to hurt the foals? What they found were soldiers, the fuck you think they shot for? Shits and giggles?" he says before moving off to the foals.
	Swoop groans. "Typical ground pony speed. Let me know when it's done. For now, we're sending the kids and their teacher back with an escort. The rest'll press on to the mid school."
	Hala laughs softly without mirth, "No."
	"Also might want to warn future patrols that there are snipers in the area," Swoop adds. "Most likely zebra."
	<Razorheart>  "Snipers in the area? Well...keep your heads down while out there. We will provide support as soon as we can."
	"So," Sledgehammer says, cautiously. "You are mad that we responded to an incendiary grenade with force."
	Silver_Lining 's eyebrows furrow with concern. "You... but, I..." She frowns. "Then, who are you?"
	"Right. We're moving on. Out." Swoop turns off her pipbuck radio. "Better get those kids moving. Razorheart's chomping at the bit for us to go to the next school."
	Hala looks at Silver_Lining, "I'm her sister," she raises an eyebrow, "She didn't talk about me? I'm hurt."
	"I'm not a soldier" Sledgehammer says in his own defense. "And they were far better armed then we were."
	Silver_Lining shakes her head sheepishly. "Well... no, she hasn't." Silver shrugs. "I'm Silver Lining, by the way... and you?"
	Hala nods politely, "Ghinjo," she steps forward, "Be wary though, I have what ponies like to call an... 'Anger Management' problem."
	woop was ignored.
					~~~===End of Session 3===~~~