Prologue

Cloudsdale Army Medical Tent, 8 Years into the war...

I lay on my bed in the medical tent, waiting for the infiltration team's return. My wife, Night Rain, went with them, and I would have too if not for being bed-ridden. Our squad consisted of six of us; Rainbow Dash, Night Rain, Spitfire, Soarin, Lightning Dust, and myself. My name is Sharp Shooter, I my coat is red, my mane bright yellow, and my eyes are bright blue. My cutie mark is a circle with crosshairs, my talent, if it wasn't already obvious, is sniping. The reason that I'm stuck on a hospital bed for the next few days is because while I was providing sniper support, I got stabbed in the side by an earth pony who was quiet enough to sneak up on my spotter and I. He had knocked Soarin out, and I had turned around to face him when his knife embedded itself in my left side. I kicked the earth pony off, and put a bullet through his skull before he could get up. The knife still stuck in me, I radioed for help, knowing that I'd probably be unable to fly anywhere and that if I pulled the knife out, I'd probably just end up letting out more blood than was already escaping me.

That was last week, and I'm just about ready to get back on the front lines. I sit up as Dash walks into the tent, a solemn look on her face. She walks over to me, and we make eye contact. I can tell just by looking at her that something has gone terribly wrong, and that she's here to tell me. My thoughts drift to Night Rain, and I fear the worst.

"Sharp," she begins, clearly trying to keep her voice steady, "it- it's about Night..."

My heart sinks, and my gaze drops to the floor. "She's dead, isn't she?" I look back into Rainbow's rosy eyes.

"Y-yes, sh-she's dead."

"Was it quick?"

"I don't know, she went after an earth pony who was trying to escape the firefight. Once we finished them off, we went after her, and found her lying in a pool of blood. I went to her, she was still alive, but fading fast, and I held her as she died." Rainbow doesn't try to hide the tears that are now dripping down her face. "She told me to give you this." she takes a folded slip of paper from under her wing and gives it to me. "I don't know what it says, but I know that whatever it is, it's for your eyes only."

I nod, and, unfolding the paper, read.

Sharp,

If you are reading this, it means that I have died. I know that you will want to know who did it, so you can avenge me, and I am not going to tell you not to. But I am going to tell you not to do something that you will regret. Take care of Dash for me, I know that you'll both be feeling the same impact, but I've known her longer than I have you. No matter what she says, she's probably going to take my death the hardest, and I need you to be there for her. I love you Sharp, and I'll always be in your heart.

Your loving wife, Night Rain.

I turn back to Dash, who is starting to sob. I get up off of the bed, and hug her. She hugs me back, and soon enough we're both crying into each other's shoulders. Several minutes later, I release her, and look her in the eye again, bringing my hoof under her chin.

"She was a good pony..." I say softly.

"Yeah, yeah she was." Dash replies.

Night may have been my wife, but she and Rainbow grew up together. Ever since they were fillies they have stuck together, through thick and thin, they were as close to family as you can get. Then Rainbow Dash's parents died, and Night was the only family that Rainbow had left. They were like sisters, despite being unrelated. I remember Dash's face when Night Rain told her about meeting me, she was scared that I was going to take Night Rain away from her! But after a few months, Rainbow and I got along just fine, and we were, too, good friends. We still are of course, nothing's changed that.

I sit back down on the bed, and Dash follows suit. we sit there, comforting eachother, for another hour before I decide to see Night Rain.

"Is she here? In the morgue I mean?" I ask.

"Yeah, come on." Dash says getting up.

We walk to the morgue, and enter, greeted by rows of past ponies whose faces are covered by sheets. We walk along the rows until we come across a body whose cyan and purple tail is sticking out from under the sheet. I walk over to the deceased pony's head, and pull away the sheet that was concealing her identity from me. Before me is my wife, black coat, cyan, purple and red mane, and her closed red eyes. My hind legs buckle and I plant my head next to her shoulder, the tears starting to come back. I sit there and cry for at least an hour until there are no more tears to come.

I often go back and think about how this all started, the war I mean. It's the kind of thing that you just find yourself thinking about over and over again.

Cloudsdale was in an economic rut. Jobs were being cut, factories shut down, even the almighty Cloudsdale Weather Corporation was shut down. Pegasi left and right were losing their jobs, their homes, and everything in between. The Cloudsdale government was forced to do something that they never wanted to do, and only would use as a last resort so that the population didn't starve to death. They began sending the population of pegasi to live with earth ponies and unicorns. Some of them were nice enough, like the Apple family, and welcomed their pegasi house guests with open arms, whilst most of the other hosts were horrible, abusive ponies who treated the pegasi who they were forced to share a roof with like slaves, forcing them to perform hard labor and giving them crumby excuses for living space. I was one of the unlucky ones, who had to spend month after month of hell with a host that I already hated enough. Night Rain was sent to stay with Dash, who already lived in Ponyville, while I was sent to live with the mother of all drama queens, RARITY! What gets me so pissed about this little problem is the fact that Night Rain and I lived together before we lost the house for Celestia's sake! So why the flying fuck were we sent to different places when the government sent us to Ponyville?! My time living with Rarity was a living hell. Each and every day it was the same thing; "Wash this," or, "Fetch me that," you would not believe the number of times I was just about ready to slit her throat. I even had an opportunity once! And I made the stupid fucking mistake not to take advantage of it and slice up the little bitch.

So many pegasi were miserable, and everypony knew it. Night Rain saw this, and knew that we were starting to be considered 'inferior' by the earth ponies, who would rather see us dead than living in the same house as them. She came up with the brilliant idea to rise up against our oppressors, and take back the superiority that we pegasi are known for.

Rainbow had already joined with her, and I was not far behind. Rainbow was also to be appointed leader of the rebellion once it kicked off. We started spreading the word around Ponyville, and it slowly spread to every pegasus pony in all of Equestria.

Once we had enough forces rallied, and the opportunity that we had so desperately been waiting for had arrived, all hell broke loose.

There were, of course, earth ponies and unicorns who would be left alone, such as the Apple family, Pinkie Pie, and many others who had treated the pegasi with respect even in our darkest hour. An old friend of mine, who was also to be left alone, named Twilight Sparkle, tried to get word to Princess Celestia about what was currently going on, but the princess was too busy dealing with royal affairs. Twilight did not approve of the killing of innocents, and sided with the earth ponies and unicorns. I tried to explain to her that this wasn't a genocidal war, and that we were only trying to show the ponies who had treated us with cruelty that we were still superior. She wouldn't listen. Sure there were a few dead earth ponies here and there, casualties of rebellion, but they were nothing compared to what was to come.

When the pegasi uprising began, the earth ponies and unicorns thought that if they didn't wipe us out, we would take over all of Equestria, and launched their still-going genocide against the pegasus race.

Nopony on the earth or unicorn side of the war knows why the pegasi attacked, only that they had to eradicate us, wipe the pegasi off the face of the planet. We were not going to let that happen, ever.