"LIEUTENANT DARKSTAR!" The captain of the royal guard himself screamed at the top of his lungs. A few moments later, you can hear the light clacking of armor plates nearing as a young looking Pegasus guard appeared from inside a tent and ran up to him and nervously saluted, "Y-yes sir?" he said under his tired breath.

The snow white colt that with electric blue hair looked down at one of his soldiers in disgust. They were outside of the castle and at the cadet training grounds with a range of twenty to thirty recruits (counting the drill instructors) from all races to earth ponies to pegasi. The dark red Pegasus was still holding a salute while waiting for shinning armor to say what he needs to say.

"What do you have to say for yourself lieutenant?" the captain asked with a stone cold face. "S-sir?" asked the confused soldier. "I've heard from one of my guards that you've been bad mouthing the elements of harmony AND princess twilight herself." He still kept his piercing glare at the officer.

'Time to give up the innocent soldier crap' The Pegasus sighed in defeat. "With all do respect captain, Why do they get all the glory while we the guard get nothing but ignored looks from others, while they get the spotlight and nopony bats an eye to us?" the officer questioned.

"Because they stopped nightmare moon, Rescued the princess herself, defeated and reformed the god of chaos, sent the changeling army flying, and saved the crystal empire from a unicorn tyrant from re-taking the whole kingdom!" He yelled in his face. "While your sorry ass slacks off and complain about how those mares are better than you!" He spat. Some of the near by recruits flinched because of the powerful insult their commander said to him.

"But that's not fair!" Darkstar stomped his hooves on the ground while giving the captain a nasty look. "We've been protecting equestria for generations and the only reason why the changelings defeated us is because it was a surprise attack and some were disguised as our soldiers and you got your flank brainwashed by a bug!" He sneered.

"Don't... you... EVER... talk to me like that that you little grunt!" Shinning armor angrily sneered back while grinding his teeth. The whole training ground stopped doing what they're doing and watched the stand off between the two soldiers. Darkstar thought of a comeback "pshh, your sister doesn't deserve to be princess." He said with a smirk.

Shinning armor raised an eyebrow. "That spoiled little brat thinks she's all that?" In the background, some fellow officers had a look of fear while one of them is trying to stop him by vigorously shaking his head and flailing his arms. Shinning armor gritted his jaws and some shade of red was burning through his white coat. "And your wife, she's such a whore, being the element of love and all that, maybe she even casted some lust spells on some guards when you turned around..."

"And I wouldn't be surprised if she blew half the guards in this castle..."

The last insult triggered something inside the white colt. Like a demon had emerged from the fiery pits of hell itself, Shinning armor pounced on Darkstar and started punching him in the face until the Pegasus retaliated by using his wings to spring him up and slam him down to the cold hard ground. Both of their physical attacks were weakening and both were a bit dizzy,but since the captain had more battle experience, he came to first then sucker punched Darkstar to the ground and bucked his ribs.

Darkstar clenched his sides from pain, it took seven guards to hold down the raging captain and some went to the downed officer to tend to his broken ribs. Not even a second later, Shining armor broke all of the guard's grip and started charging at his former brother-in-arms. He was instantly stopped when an intense bright light came in between the two squabbling soldiers, the light faded and it soon turned out to be the sun goddess herself.

Everypony bowed down to her as she was not looking too pleased to see the turning events. She used her magic on the officer and captain and teleported them to her throne room. In an instance, they both recovered from the teleportation dizziness and see that they are the only two soldiers in the entire hall of Celestia's throne room.

And there she sat, alongside with her sister Princess Luna, Her niece Princess cadance, and her former student Princess Twilight Sparkle. Celestia gave both stallions a death glare, which of course intimidated the knights as they both bow down. "I believe you know why you two are summoned here" Celestia coldly said.

The lieutenant looked away in shame while Twilight cast a healing spell on the injured officer's body. "Your highness, this little grunt was bad mouthing my sister and her friends!" He pointed his hoof at the red Pegasus. "He even called your niece... A whore" he finished.

The gasps of the the four regal princesses echoed through the room as they all look at Darkstar with shocked expressions. Celestia switched her cold stare to the now unscathed guard. The looks were degrading... He felt guilt splash over him like a rock against the torrent ocean waves. He couldn't say anything in return, he couldn't lie to the princess, or say anything that would get him out of this mess.

He couldn't just stand there, before the princess even said a word, the Pegasus quickly turned around and galloped towards the double doors and slammed them open.

"SEIZE HIM!" an ear piercing voice called out. Darkstar just ran wherever his hooves went, by the time he noticed, he was being chased down by Luna and her guards. Her eyes were radiating a snow white light as she was nearing the guard at top speed, he then spread his wings to fly out of the palace and into the Canterlot streets before being intercepted by five familiar ponies.

The rainbow blur tackled him down to the ground hard while an orange mare with a brown stetson hat swiftly tied his legs together while being sat on by a pink hyper pony. The pursuers soon caught up to him as Luna thanked the five familiar ponies as she was dragging the tired body of the officer back to the castle. He looked at the ones who captured him while being dragged.

A rainbow maned pegasus with a smirk on her face, a country orange mare with the same stetson hat, a pink earth pony with a stupid grin on her face, a snow white pony with a purple mane, and last and certainly most least a butter yellow pegasus hiding behind her light pink mane. "It's them, the ones who ruined my life..." He said under his tired breath.

Just then he was bucked in the face by none other than shining armor, who caught up to the chase, which knocked the runaway soldier's lights out and dragged the unconscious body to the throne room.

Darkstar regained consciousness and rubbed his now bloody and broken muzzle. His vision blurred then snapped to normal. He looks up and see the un-amused Celestia still giving him her coldest stare.

"Darkstar, since you have served me and the kingdom for so long, we will be less harsh with the punishment." she ended. Luna then spoke, "We no longer seek service from the likes of you, you proved to us that you are no longer loyal to the guard and Equestria , therefore we hereby strip you from your command and relieve you of duty." she ended coldly.

Darkstar choked. "B-but your highness I-"

"SILENCE!" Celestia stomps her hoof and cracked the marble floor while her ear shattering royal Canterlot voice bellowed. "Now get out of my sight or I will change my mind!" she commanded two of her guards to take him away to his office.

Darkstar was in his office packing up his things from documents to a picture of his family. He sighed and put his rucksack on his back and walked out of the office.

He walked with his head down in sorrow, he passed by the training camp and saw that his own squad shook their heads at him, the female guards were whispering at each other while snickering at the discharged guard.

"If I found out who ratted on me I swear..." He angrily said through clenched teeth as he walked towards the gate. He turned in his dog tags, weapons, and armor to the small building next to the gate and was shown out... The HARD way...

Apparently The guard who picked up his equipment was a close friend of shining armor, he innocently showed him out then grabbed him by surprise and tossed him out of the gate while he grinds the pavement. Before Darkstar can even retaliate, the guard quickly shut the gate and ran back inside the building.

So this is it, since the only way for him to get paid is by serving the military, which he was obviously kicked out. He is now homeless and broke. "Damn the elements, if I gotten away with it, the princess would cooled down a bit and maybe would've stayed in the military." He kicked a small rock in the middle of the street.

He looked up and see that the evening sunset is starting, yet the streets of Canterlot is still filled with life. Ponies of different races and colors walked on the sidewalks and fillies and colts playing in the park. He took his depressing trek towards a street that read 'Sunburst avenue.' He just walked and walked until he can't walk anymore.

He laid his rucksack next to him as he sat down on the curb while watching ponies walk past him with their heads up high and carriages passing by. He opened his bag and took out a small pouch and opened it up. "only 27 bits?" he said. "I thought I had more... This can't buy me anything here with the prices of food now!" he grunted as he put back the pouch in his bag.

Realization started kicking in. He has no home, nearly broke, bad reputation with the royals, and probably have to sleep outside in the alleyways or something. Even though he's a stone hard soldier, he was in the verge of tears until a peach colored earth pony sat next to him.

"You alright Star?" She asked while wrapping her arms around him. The red Pegasus returned the compassion as he sobbed on her shoulder. "Nothing's alright! I got discharged, I'm homeless, and I'm nearly broke!" he explained to his closest friend.

She smiled a sad smile and helped Darkstar on all fours. "You can stay with me if you want." she offered. The sad guard instantly cheered up as he nearly tackled the mare in a tight hug. "Thank you Eclair! I owe you big time!" he yelled. She nuzzled his neck and giggled a bit as she broke the hug and led him to her apartment.

They were both walking from street to street and chatted a bit. They both stopped by the farmers market to pick up some groceries and such. After the shopping, they both continued onwards to the peach colored mare's house. They both stop infront of the door as she took out her keys and unlocked the front door.

They both enter an apartment not far from the market, The place looked decent, had a few rooms counting the bathroom and living room. "Make yourself at home she said while putting her groceries in the kitchen.

"Listen Eclair, I can't tell you how grateful I am for-" She tenderly put a hoof on his muzzle and smiled. "We've been the closest of friends since elementary, so of course I'd take you in." her green eyes fluttered, "And besides, I need a little... muscle around here" she said while rubbing his chest.

Thank goodness his coat was red enough to cover his blush. She then trotted back to the kitchen and sort out the groceries while Darkstar walked to the guest room, which he finally found.

It had the usual single bed, nightstand and lamp, carpeted floor, and a window view of the city. He laid his rucksack next to the bed and un-packed his belongings. He had extra clothes, kept some of his weapons, towel and toothbrush, and his prized possession; his family portrait which surprisingly didn't get a single scratch from the surprise throw out.

He went back to the kitchen and assisted Eclair by putting away the goods and cleaning up a bit. She noticed his small wounds from the previous events and walked up to him. She lifted up my chin and inspected me.

Her shinning green eyes looking at me, her silky brown mane, her petite looking body, her soft and peach colored coat...

"Hey! did you hear me?" She looked at me with a worried look. He snapped out of his smitten state and asked what. "We need to clean some of your wounds." she said while leading Darkstar to the bathroom and motioned him to sit on the edge of the bathtub. She then went to the sink and looked in the bottom cabinet for some alcohol.

He again looked at the petite body of hers. She wiggled her waist while still looking for some cotton balls and the rubbing alcohol. He felt his wings stiffen. 'Uh oh' he then looked away and started pushing his wings down. "Ah ha! there you are." she then took the pure alcohol and splashed a couple drops on the cotton ball.

she then approached him with care and slowly rubbed the medicine around some of his cuts. He hissed in pain as she neared on of the bigger cuts. "Come on your a royal guard you can take this!" she complimented while cleaning the remaining cuts.

After the stinging assault, she put back the alcohol and patched some of the more obvious cuts up.

"There, now that's settled." they both walk out of the bathroom and into the living and sat on the couch. "So where would you like to eat? my treat." She asked. "How about the place where you work at?" He suggested. "You mean clover cafe?" she questioned. She nodded her head, "Alright shall we go then?" I ask. "Be right back!" she yelled while trotting to her room.

'Might as well dress up too.' He went back into his room and took out the nicest shirt he's got, Which is just a collared shirt . He put it on and straightened up His jet black hair and fixed up his collar.

He then walked back outside to see his childhood friend dressed pretty. He noticed that she put on some earrings and put on some vanilla scented perfume and a small red dress to top it all. "Too much?" she asked with a cute smile and twirled around a bit.

"You look beautiful" He said while he opened the door for her. They walked towards Clover Cafe and reserved two seats under the stars. After they ordered, Darkstar was pondering. 'Damn them, I served in the guard for four years, fought overseas, and help fight during the changeling invasion yet they get the spotlight and one of them was crowned a damn princess!?.'

'If They were here right now I would rip their throats off. That annoying pink mare, that arrogant rainbow Pegasus, the little orange hick, that spoiled brat Rarity, that creep who talks to animals, and that purple backstabbing, cheating, motherbucking egghead student of Celestia... The more he thought about them, the angrier he got. He felt his blood starting to boil and teeth slowly grinding.

The whole time he was staring off the second floor balcony to the elegant city lights, but with a serious face. He was soon snapped out of his ranting thoughts from a gentle tug on his arm.

"Um... you alright?" asked the confused mare. "heheh y-yeah just thinking." he nervously laughed and rubbed his neck.

"So tell me, what happened today?" She wanted to know the full story on why he got kicked out of the royal guard even after serving for four years. She took a sip of her wine while waiting for his story. "Well were going to be here for a while..." He said.

"I don't mind, I'm all ears." She smiled reassuringly

Author's note-

Hey you guys! If you've seen the early paragraphs and think 'What is he writing' then I have an answer! I was typing it earlier until my computer plug was pulled my my little brother and lost half of the story and submitted it. So yeah, check out my other story fillified! if you have a chance. Woops! Accidentally added a first person view sentence in the fray.

Remember... The ride Never Ends.