Foreword: so here it is; Peace Fighter, my biggest project to date. This story is the culmination of one year of thinking and planning, wondering how I could pull off a full-length novel, and this is what I've come up with. It's not finished, not yet, but I believe new chapters will come out every Friday. That should give me enough time each week to complete a chapter.

Also this story is heavily influenced and inspired by Metal Gear Solid, but it is NOT a crossover! I repeat: this story is NOT a crossover with Metal Gear Solid and MLP. Think of it as an alternate universe in the MLP world.

So get reading, and I hope you will enjoy Peace Fighter!

Peace Fighter
Written by Codename: One

The political climate has changed, and with it comes the change of our country's military and ideals. Our hooves were forced by the expansion of several other kingdoms and countries, and our measures to deal with them have evolved.

Really all of this can be blamed on the development of technology, and the ways it can be applied to military and war. Airships fight in the skies, pegasus fighters and bombers strafe the ground and each other, and unicorn and earth pony soldiers move through the bombed out ruins and back alleys of cities, fighting hoof-to-hoof in generally close quarters areas and on other battefields.

The political climate has changed...and as a result pony-kind has split in two, with those still loyal to the Princesses on our side, along with all the Elements of Harmony. And the others...

They are an open group in the sense that they tried not to hide who they are or what they fight for, and did not fight from the shadows. They stood proud, and challenged Equestria and all her ideals.

When a scouting party was found dead a makeshift statue had been found nearby; the leader of the scouting group lay in the center of the corpses, a small hollowed-out missile stabbed into his belly. Welded to the sides of the missile at the bottom and at a 45-degree angle were two stick grenades, and composed in a full circle were eight decommissioned Solar-Pulse rifles, presumably stolen or purchased illegally.

The militaristic ensemble formed the peace sign, and spelled out in shell casings of the pulse rifles were the words 'WE ARE THE PEACE FIGHTERS'.

War has befallen our once-utopian nation, and we all fight in one way or another.

Chapter One
A utopia is built...

Shining Armor stood upon the crest of a hill, the excess of the gray rag wrapped around his muzzle waving in the wind. It was not cold, quite the opposite in fact, but he still wore the cloth around his face for appearance's sake; commanders in his group wore the rags in some way shape or form on their heads.

"Captain Armor, our enemies are on the move. If we are to survive we must do the same very soon" Shining's second-in-command Lieutenant Strong Spear said to him, trotting her way up the hill. Lieutenant Spear was a strong mare and a survivor of the war that split Ponykind in half, having lead her squad against the overwhelming firepower of the forces that came out to battle them that fateful day.

"I understand, Lieutenant. Make sure our mark is left, and then get everypony moving" Captain Armor ordered, shouldering his Solar-Pulse Rifle and making sure it was ready for action.

The Solar-Pulse Rifle Model 16, or SPR-16 for short, was the main combat weapon of the Equestrian Empire and issued to all its front-line troops, combat engineers, reserve soldiers, and really anypony else who could hold and fire a rifle. Capable of semi and fully automatic fire the SPR was complicated to manufacture but surprisingly easy to operate, given its firing and feeding mechanism. The SPR fired a unique blend of a standard brass cartridge and energy composed and formed magnetically. Powerful and neutral-temperature magical energy was shaped into the form of a bullet using tiny magnets and collimators formed in the brass casing, and was fired by the magnets expelling their energy via the collimators. The 'Solar Pulse' part comes from the energy being superheated when fired by the magnets, and creating an orange muzzle flash hot enough to melt grass and similar nature within a two foot radius. The bullets themselves were also incredibly hot after firing to the point where if the bullet didn't penetrate you, it would definitely set your clothes or fur around the point of impact on fire.

To load and ready the SPR, the user must press a button on the right side which will open a flap on the top of the weapon and eject the current clip-stick, allowing them to slide a new one into the channels when they then must cycle the charging bolt on the left side. A clip-stick was a six-inch-long and one-and-a-half inch wide at its widest point cylindrical stick with the bullets stuck into twelve individual holes which fed into one single hole that extended two inches beyond the cylinder and into the chamber of the gun. The clips were nicknamed 'Bottle Mags' due to their shape and overall appearance resembling a glass beer bottle.

The Solar-Pulse design was utilized in almost all weapons used by the Equestrian Empire and in many different shapes and sizes; Lieutenant Spear was partial to the SP-SMG herself.

"Captain Armor, it's time to go!" Lieutenant Strong Spear yelled up the hill, earning a nod from Captain Armor, who made sure his face rag was on tight before heading back down to join his soldiers.

"Stallions, before we leave you must know this; though our enemy claims to fight for peace and tranquility they continue to blanket their people in a shroud of lies while they perpetuate this bloody war. They claim that we are evil, and must be vanquished if Equestria is to continue under its flag of equality and peace. They LIE! WE know the truth, stallions, and will ensure that ALL in this land will know the same! When that time comes, our enemies will bitterly curse our names while we free those beneath them from their sheep-like existence, ALL in the name of true peace!" Shining yelled, addressing his troops.

"Is it ready, Lieutenant Spear?" the Captain asked.

"Yes, Captain! The distraction is very much ready; our enemies will never know what hit them" Lieutenant Spear answered.

Shining Armor was very proud of them all, including Lieutenant Spear.

"Very good! Now, let us move, stallions!" Shining exclaimed, motioning for them to follow him as they cleared out of the base and headed for the nearby mountains and watched as their enemies approached the now empty base, one of their airships gliding over and coming to a stop directly over the ground troops. Close to 250 soldiers entered the base when Lieutenant Spear hit the detonator, igniting the cache of antiquated gunpowder stored under a tarp near the soldiers, killing many of them and igniting the helium in the airship, making it slowly crash down to the earth in an enormous flaming heap.

The fires from the explosions ignited a trail of gasoline the Lieutenant had poured, the trail leading off into the staging area, where the gasoline was poured in the shape of the peace sign, leaving the flaming symbol in the center of the base.

"Very, VERY nice, Lieutenant Spear!" Shining Armor yelled, ecstatic over the successful trap and the luring that had gone into getting the enemy soldiers to fall right into it.

"Thank you, Sir! Another victory for us Peace Fighters, yes?" the Lieutenant asked.

"Yes, Spear! Another victory against the lies of the Princesses!" Captain Armor replied, smiling at the flames which grew and licked into the skies.

Captain's Diary, Month of the New Year 1, 1177 years after the Nightmare Moon Event.

For 19 months we have fought our brethren in the Equestrian Empire, I myself personally leading many of those missions. I choose to lead these mares and stallions as both a message to the Princesses and to instill nobility and bravery in the hearts of my soldiers. I am not a cowardly leader, I am strong, strong enough to stand up to the Princesses and their lies, and to fight for true peace and tranquility.

Really I owe Cadence everything for these victories, for if she had not been as strong as she was and freed us all we would all still be living like sheep, blind to the truth of what the Princesses seek to accomplish and what kind of ponies they are.

But a part of me still worries for Twiley and her friends, who still wholeheartedly follow the Princesses, and would do so until their dying breaths. I can only pray Celestia may not be so soulless as to send Twilight and her friends against me on the field of battle, but even I know better than to think that; Celestia knows my weaknesses, and knows that sending Twiley against me would be the quickest way to end this conflict.

So then, why hasn't she?

Perhaps she believes even her own lies; that we in the Peace Fighters are violent savages, bent on destroying Equestria, and fears that I would not only fail to kill my own sister but instead turn her to our side. Perhaps her most loyal slav- subject is more valuable to her than I originally thought. But she MUST know that if Twilight were killed by us it would be incredibly damaging to our cause and drive. And that makes me wonder: would killing Twilight hurt them or us more? And if it were the latter, then I must wonder what the Princesses have planned for my sister.

If Twilight were dead by my hooves, would the Peace Fighters collapse sooner than the Equestrian Empire? Or would that tear their infrastructure asunder and render us victorious?

To be honest, I don't know which, and that is what frightens me the most.

...End Captain's Diary.

Legal note: Shining Armor, Princess Celestia, Twilight Sparkle, and all related characters belong to Hasbro. Lieutenant Strong Spear belongs to me.