Typh left the room and the castle holding an official seal, along with a nice large sack of bits.
The deal he arranged with Celestia was to form a PMC corporation with his new advances in defence technology, which would report to the Princesses directly. How he would make money is through accepting contracts from the government, and the royal order he carried on that official parchment allows him and his company to develop and train personnel, and maintain a stock of weapons. With the papers and the money, he went to order the first office of this new corporation built. He chose a plot of land not too far from Canterlot, but far enough along the mountain range that it would be hard to access to unauthorised.

Typh spent the day recruiting staff. He found that some other shared his sentiment of an ineffective Royal Guard, yet still had the drive to protect their homeland. He found 4 ponies during his search, Stormblade and Seawind, who were earth ponies, Misty, a pegasus, and Amber, a unicorn. They were all he was able to recruit before he got his first contract. They were ordered to rescue a town from a changeling invasion.

However, the travel was made far more difficult by the relatively new force, whose equipment drew the attention of anypony who was even remotely affiliated with the Royal Guards. They stopped the group to question their painted over Guard armour and the rifles slung on their backs, to the point Typh pinned the royal decree to his chestplate so that anyone can read it and stop asking questions. Due to the delay, by the time they got to the town, it was already ransacked, with most of the town’s residents having been drained of love. Most of the changelings had left, except for a small group that was finishing up with the rest of the town. The nearest changeling was quickly brought down by the rifle pulses, demonstrating its effectiveness. However this success was quickly overshadowed by the remainder of the changelings now alerted to their presence. As they prepared to deal with the changelings, the fatal problems with their group began to show. With their use of Guard tactics, the group began trying to corner individual changelings, which would have worked should they have been in a large group like in the Guards. In this case, all it did was to split up the group. The rifles quickly lost effectiveness, since they needed to load rounds one at a time, no good for the fast moving changelings.

With the group cut off and scattered, they took shelter in buildings, hoping to weather out the changelings. From his vantage point of the town hall, Typh watched in horror as Amber was spotted and promptly dragged out onto the street, kicking and screaming. Unwilling to let his ponies suffer the fate of the townsponies, he charged in a fury, tackling the changelings and swinging his rifle like a bat. However, it wasnt enough, and he was quickly brought down too. As they were about to be sphioned, the rest of the squad, encouraged by Typh’s actions charged and attacked the changelings hand to hand, which they managed to succeed in, stunning the changelings once they gained control. Afte a freaky journey with unconcious changelings back to Canterlot, they collected their pay, dumped the changelings in the dungeons. They then met in a Ponyville cafe to discuss the mission and detail what went wrong. Each pony seemed to have a differing opinion. Typh felt they shouldnt have gone with just prototype weapons. Stormblade felt that they should have thought of more applicable tactics. Misty thought the failure of communcations was critical. Seawind thought that better armour and protective strategies needed to be in place. Amber felt that it was necessary to have a proper base to operate from.

With all the input, Typh stopped the argument. He realised that they were all right in their own way, and that each aspect was vital to running the PMC properly. So he decided that they should take a fith of the money they got, and use it to further their aspect of the company. So each member took their share and went their seperate ways for the moment, determined to make a difference.