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Over one millennia ago Equestria was ruled by two sister princesses: Celestia and Luna. Both contributed to the safety, the well-being and the economic stature of the world. But even as the mighty princesses they both felt the natural emotion of love. However due to their immortal state the older sister forbid them both from loving another living being simply because their immortality would force them to outlive their lover.
Luna was younger than Celestia and never heeded her warnings about love and became romantically involved with a stallion named Star Gazer, his natural love for the night enticed her and the two became inseparable.
Millennia ago:
The night air was hot, the moon was in full bloom and ponies across Equestria where asleep peacefully at their homes. However in the royal castle in Canterlot there was a dimly lit light in one of the royal chambers.
Luna screamed as she reached the peak of her orgasm, "Yes Gazer, cum inside me… I want to be the mother of our children" she screamed and Star Gazer felt himself reach his edge.
Star Gazer gave one last final thrust and Luna screamed as he came inside her. He was breathing heavily and collapsed overtop of Luna as exhaustion over took him. "I love you Star Gazer" Luna whispered, Star Gazer attempted to talk but was panting to heavily to reply.
"Together we shall give life to beautiful children" Luna whispered, not directly to Star Gazer but just whispered it for any-pony to hear. Star Gazer nodded, he rolled off of Luna and cuddled up close beside her as they embraced each other. Luna flicked off the light that kept the room illuminated and the duo cuddled together under the light of the moon far above the world.
Narrator:
Unfortunately, for whatever reason, Luna and Star Gazer were incompatible with each other and Luna was never able to become pregnant like they had hoped. As the decades past Star Gazer grew old and eventually past away one night in his sleep, Luna was never able to love again, she had been emotionally distraught from the death of Star Gazer, which eventually led to her becoming Nightmare moon and she was banished to the moon.
After 1000 year imprisonment on the moon and eventual defeat of Nightmare moon, Luna once again became a partial leader of Equestria with her sister. However even now, after one thousand years, she sadly remembers love and all that it was but still vows never to let herself become heartbroken over the death of a lover.
Present Day:
When Twilight Sparkle found a spell that created a teleportation matrix between Equestria and a world called Earth that was inhabited by humans, the two races quickly became allies. Ponies and humans would travel to the other world in search of anything ranging from: vacation to residence, it even resulted in love interests. Though the two species were with each other at first, the advancements in magic proved powerful enough to cast spells that allowed humans and ponies to have children together. Weird right? Humans and ponies having children, yeah anyway back to the story.
However despite Equestria's peaceful nature, humanity still had conflicts in their world and eventually the technology of firearms reached Equestria. The new technology eventually caused crimes and even small conflicts but never the less Equestria remained an extremely peaceful nation.
Sgt. Drew, Sudan in Africa:
"Peacekeeping my ass… this shit is downright fucked up" I yelled to Captain Daniels as I helped him to his feet.
Another RPG round struck the building and debris fell from the roof of the building we had taken cover in. "Shit… Private Sharps, can you hit that bastard with the RPG?" Daniels yelled over the sound of automatic gunfire.
Private Sharps peaked out the window then readied his C7A1 rifle and leaned out the window and took a single aimed shot. "I got em" Sharps yelled, "Good, now get the fuck away from the" I began but just as I was about to say 'Away from the window' his helmet was knocked off and blood splattered against the wall behind him as his skull was ruptured.
"SNIPER, GET AWAY FROM THE WINDOWS" Daniels yelled. I leaned up against the solid building wall, my ears were still ringing from the blasts of the RPG. I looked at my assault rifle and remembered I had to reload it, I ejected the spent magazine and loaded a fresh one. "We're a little outnumbered here eh Captain?" I joked as I racked the charging handle. Daniels rolled his eyes "THIS IS NOW TIME TO BE JOKING AROUND" Daniels yelled. I chuckled and peaked up over the window ceil, as I peered out to the battle field I saw a group of resistance fighters charging towards us.
I swore to myself as I brought my C7 assault rifle and held the trigger back and I sprayed them down with a concentration of automatic fire. The group screamed as their bodies were riddled by 5.56mm NATO rounds.
I caught a glimpse of light from a building not far from us and ducked just as a sniper bullet chipped away at the window ceil beside my face. I opened up the M203 grenade launcher on my assault rifle and slid a 40mm HE grenade round into the launcher and cocked back the slid.
I looked to Daniels, "The sniper is in the second story window of the building on our 9, don't look. I'll take him out with the 203" I said through heavy breathing. Daniels nodded and I popped up and quickly took aim on the window where the flash reflection from the rifle scope had come from. I pulled the trigger on the M203 grenade launcher and the high explosive grenade shell propelled through the air and slammed into the window.
The grenade exploded violently and part of the building wall was destroyed as the explosion ripped through the room, killing the sniper. I quickly ducked back down behind the wall and ejected the still smoking grenade cartridge. I nodded to Daniels but soon something didn't feel right.
"Sir, they're retreating" Corporal Dickens yelled out. I peeked out the window to see if he was right. I sighed in relief as I watched the resistance soldiers scurry away, "Well that's a relief" I muttered but I spoke to soon.
A thunder BOOM filled the air and our small building that we had taken shelter in was slammed by a tank cannon round. The explosive cannon round decimated part of our building and blew away Jenkins, Ramirez, Dickens and Stanley. "FUCK!" I yelled and peered out the window to see an old Russian made T-72 battle tank.
"Where the fuck did they get that thing?" I yelled and Daniels shuffled over to me. He pulled out a satchel charge from his waist saddle, "It's our only shot at this. Cover me" Daniels said. I shook my head and looked to our remaining squad members. "Jameson, Deny and Frankston, you guys give us covering fire, make sure those resistance fighters don't get off pot shots on us" I ordered and they nodded.
I pulled out a smoke grenade and Daniels did the same. We both pulled the pins on our smoke grenades and tossed them towards the T-72 tank and waited for the smoke screen to build. I looked to Daniels and nodded.
As we both lept out the windows our squad members began to fire at resistance fighters who had dug in. Though resistance fighters did fire at us, their shots were inaccurate and sloppy, usually kicking up dirt in front of us or far behind us.
I slid behind a small wall of sandbags in the war torn street as Daniels rushed into the smoke. I spotted a group of fighters appear on a roof top and snapped my aim to them. They didn't even realize where I was until it was too late. My C7 chattered in my hands as lead death ripped through their bodies.
Daniels came running out of the smoke screen, "RUN!" he yelled. I swiveled my body and began to run back to the building but as we did the T-72 battle tank fired upon the building. The side of the building was destroyed and our squad members were killed in the blast.
I swore as I swiveled my body back around and fired upon several enemy soldiers. A thunderous explosion ripped through the streets as the satchel charge erupted and decimated the T-72 battle tank. My rifle ran dry and I quickly reloaded the gun. "LET'S GET OUT OF HERE" Daniels yelled, I turned my body around and ran towards the remaining cover of the building that we had taken cover behind before.
Daniels was a little slower than I was and took cover behind some sandbags in the middle of the street to give me covering fire as I lept through the window. I leaned back out the window just as his assault rifle ran dry. "I'm out of ammo" he screamed.
I brought my assault rifle up and began shooting down enemy soldiers. I stopped firing for a moment and leaned my left arm out of the window and motioned for him to hurry up. "COME ON DANIELS, COME ON!" I yelled. He dropped his assault rifle to the ground, probably figuring he'd pick it up later and rushed back towards me.
I took aimed shots at the enemy soldiers that tried to shoot Daniels down, dirt was being shot up just inches behind his feet. Daniels was about to hop through the window when a resistance fighter got a lucky shot and the bullet went straight through Daniels upper leg. Blood spurted out of his wound as he stumbled forwards.
I leaned out of the window and grabbed him by his chest harness. I pulled him towards the building but several other enemy soldiers took aimed shots and the AK47's shots went through my friends back. His body stiffened for a moment then several other rounds shot through his legs and fell to his knees, I attempted to pull him through the window.
He gave out a grunt of pain and coughed up some blood. He looked to me with a disappointed frown, "God damn you Drew…" he began but several other 7.62x39mm AK47 rounds tore through him and his body went limp as he died in my arms. "NO… DANIELS… NOOO!" I yelled but as I did a resistance fighter launched an RPG round at the building. The rocket round exploded violently and I was caught in the blast and propelled through the air then crashed to the ground.
My vision blurred as I looked to the roof of the building and my world seemed to spin. I heard resistance fighters yell things but I couldn't understand their language. I reached into my chest holster and pulled out my M1911A1 pistol, I had to go through hell and back to get this pistol as a non-issue sidearm but by god I was determined and finally got it issued to me.
My aim was severely shaky and I felt so weak that I could barely hold the bloody gun in both my hands. As a group of three fighters came into view I emptied the pistol's entire magazine into the group, the first soldier was struck in the upper chest by a trio of .45 caliber rounds, and the other two received lower chest shots that cut through their ribs and knocked them to the ground.
I ejected the magazine and loaded a fresh one into the gun. I thumbed the slid release and the gun clanked as the slid slammed forward and loaded a new round into the chamber. I waited for a moment as I heard a group of resistance fighters approach. I knew this would probably be my last stand but by god I was gonna give them hell.
Suddenly a thunderous explosion ripped through the streets. I heard the resistance leaders scream and as I looked out to the street I saw why. A Canadian Leopard 2 battle tank had entered the street along with a platoon of Canadian soldiers.
I chuckled weakly to myself, 'About time they showed up, what kept them? Traffic' I thought to myself. I heard an infantry soldier run over to our building, he gasped then turned back to the reinforcements. "MEDIC!" he screamed and I reached my hand out towards him, he saw my movement and raced to my side. "MEDIC!" he screamed again then looked back to me.
"Hold on marine, you're going to be fine… MEDIC!" he screamed, I coughed weakly and brought my pistol up to my chest and rested it on the center of my chest as my world faded out.
Drew, several months later at a military hospital:
As the military brings in more wounded soldiers I wonder to myself, 'Will I ever see the battlefield again?'. All I've ever known was war, when I was just a boy I was an orphan. Nobody ever adopted me and when I was 16 I left the orphanage and joined the military. I had never had a last name and when the orphanage had found me on the front door steps all that they found with me was a note that read 'take care of Drew'.
I never knew life outside of the warzone, and whenever I'd take leave time it scarred the living hell out of me. The world that wasn't war torn was so peaceful, so different. People were different and what made it even stranger was now there were ponies in the mix. A lot of the other marines talked about going on vacation time to some place called Equestria and after finishing their term they would move to that place.
Not me, all I ever wanted to do was stay in the battle. I could never imagine living a regular life. But now I was inactive, I had suffered body trauma from the explosion and was unable to prove combat ready so I wasted my days watching the field outside the hospital. Other injured soldiers were outside in hospital gowns, playing chess or sitting at picnic tables conversing with one another.
I just sat in a wheel chair and watched. A nurse came up beside me, "How are you feeling today?" she asked and I looked to her with a weak smile. "Watch this… I've gotten better" I said as I held the railing beside me for support and stood up. I staggered a little and the nurse rushed to my side. I held up my hand for her to stop then let go of the railing and walked slowly without any sort of support but soon my legs gave out from under me and I was forced to grab the railing before I fell to the ground.
The nurse grabbed my arm and helped me stand up straight. "Drew, they won't even give you basic examination until you can walk straight. Maybe you should just apply for medical discharge, it would still be honorary" the nurse suggested and I looked to her with a frown. "Are you going to help me or not… I can't live a normal life" I said and stood up without the support of the railing.
"Well… you could always try another military placement" she suggested and I shook my head. "I don't want to leave the field" I muttered as I turned around and looked back to the hospital field. "Well how about enlistment for another military?" she suggested and I gave her a dire look. "I don't mean something like Al-Qaeda, something like, royal guard maybe?" she asked and I scrunched my nose.
"I didn't know the queen needed new guards" I said in a gruffly voice. "No, I meant the Equestrian royal guard" she replied and I raised an eyebrow. "Are they an underground resistance? I've never heard of them before" I asked and she shook her head. "No, the Equestrian royal guard is the Princess's elite guards. They operate in Equestria" she informed me, I shifted my gaze away and groaned.
"Isn't Equestria that horse place?" I asked disappointedly, she leaned against the railing beside me and nodded. "Yes, and their physical requirements will probably be less demanding than the Canadian military's so you'd have a better chance getting sent back to the field" she informed me. I groaned to myself, she was probably right, I wouldn't see any action for the Canadian army for a long time and even if it is a horse army regiment, at least I'll see action.
"Alright… I'll do it, just don't tell anyone" I replied and she nodded. "Well if you're going to get ready for royal guard then you're going to need to get your health back" she told me and I looked to her. "What do you have in mind?" I asked and she smiled "I think I know just what we need…"
Narrator:
For the next four months Drew went through the most rigorous training with the nurse. At first they did simple walking exercises, Drew would walk without support to get back in the habit of balance.
Soon Drew began to head to the firing ranges. At first his aim was terrible, he could barely hit the paper target at fifty yards.
Drew was brought to an exercise room where he began to regain his balance by standing on one leg, though he usually wobbled and fell over. The nurse also put him on the treadmill at an extremely slow speed.
As he continued his training in the exercise room he used the bench press, though he could barely even bench 135 lbs. because his arms were so shaky.
As the second month came around Drew's aim began to get better, he was able to keep the shot grouping within the paper target at fifty yards. In the exercise room he was able to do a slow jog on the treadmill and was also able to balance on one leg. Though he was still very unbalanced and wobbly he would never fall over. As he used the bench press he was finally able to bench 150 lbs. with only a small amount of shake in his arms.
The third month began and Drew was finally able to keep his grouping in the bull's-eye range on the target at fifty yards. As he exercised the nurse that trained him sped up his treadmill speed to a heavy jog. He was able to stand on one leg but still wobbled slightly. When weight lifting he was able to bench 200 pounds with a little bit of struggle to keep the bar straight.
Finally in the fourth month Drew would use the shooting range and was able to hit bull's-eyes at one hundred yards with an open sight C7 assault rifle. When he went to the exercise room he was able to go at a full paced run on the treadmill. He was finally able to stand on one leg, extend his left arm out to the side, bend his head back and touch his nose with his right hand, all while keeping his balance. When using the bench press he was easily able to bench press 290 lbs. with no struggle.
Drew:
I was panting heavily, I couldn't believe that I had actually improved that much in so little time. I stood up and looked to Nurse Bloom, she was my nurse that had helped me all this time. I extended my hand and shook hers.
"Thanks nurse… I don't think I could've done it without you" I panted and she pulled me into a tight hug.
She soon released me from the hug and handed me my release papers. "They're signed. You're free to go… go show them what a Canadian soldier can do" she said with a wink. "Bloom… I… thank you, I couldn't have done it without you" I said, she nodded and I walked towards the exit of the military hospital.
I exited the hospital and quickly waved down a taxi and ordered him to drive me to the closest teleportation building. It was weird in a way, I had never really thought about this whole Equestria place, but now I was going there and I only knew one thing. That I had to find a place called Canterlot and apply for enlistment.
Drew, World teleportation building:
It was strange, this place almost reminded me of an airport. There was the immigration desk, there was people lined up to go wherever they were going. The only thing it didn't have was the airplanes outback.
"Name please" said the travel receptionist. "Drew" I replied and she looked up from her paper work. "Full name please" she replied, "Uhh, I never had a full name ma'am. Was an orphan and joined the military as soon as I turned sixteen" I informed her. She scribbled something down on the paper and looked back up to me.
"Rank and serial number sir" she ordered, "Uhm, I'm not in the military anymore" I told her and she scribbled something else down. "Okay Mr. Drew… are you traveling for vacation, visitation or permanent residence?" she asked. "Occupation" I replied and she looked up to me with a strange look, "Uhm sir?" she asked curiously. "Military occupation to be exact" I replied and she scrunched her nose.
"Sir… may I ask why you aren't enlisting for a human military army?" she asked and I sighed to myself in self-disappointment. "I am not physically fit enough to be a Canadian soldier anymore ma'am, so I'm looking for another military organization and a good friend referred me to the royal guard" I told her and she nodded.
"I see… okay one moment please… okay all done, he's your papers, when you get to Equestria there will be someone waiting for you to take you to a recruitment office" she said and led me to a teleportation matrix.
"Just step through the portal sir, don't worry it doesn't hurt" she informed me. It looked really sketchy, like something from some old sci-fi movie or something. The portal was a bluish color and I couldn't see the other side. I prayed to god that this wasn't just some wild goose chase and hopped through the portal. My mind went blank and it was like I passed out.
Drew, Equestrian teleportation building:
I groaned as I rubbed the side of my head and stood up. The last thing I remembered was… "Oh yeah" I said in a low gruffly tone as I was met by the face of a female receptionist pony. "Mr. Drew I presume?" she asked and I nodded. Jesus I had never really paid attention to the stories about ponies but when the other guys said they were smaller than us I thought they meant by a few inches, not a few feet.
The receptionist stood maybe 3'5", but I guess if she stood on her hindlegs she would be at least 5'3". "Yes, I'm Drew" I replied and she nodded "This way please".
She led me through the building and to the front entrance. "Do you see that carriage?" she asked and pointed to a yellow carriage. "Yeah" I replied, "That'll take you straight to the Canterlot recruitment office" she informed me. I turned to thank her but she was already gone, "Thanks, I guess?" I muttered and walked up to the carriage.
I stepped into the carriage and sat down, it was so much more comfortable than a car. The ponies attached to the carriage started pulling the carriage towards Canterlot. "So Mr. Drew, I hear you were in the military" the driver called back. I leaned forward so I could talk to him. "Yeah, what about it?" I asked, "Oh well no offence I was just trying to create small talk" he replied and became rather quiet.
"I'm not offended, I was just asking what part of the military did you want to know about?" I asked and he turned his head back to me. "Well I was just wondering what you did? Engineer, pilot" he began but I cut him off. "The military paid me to kill people" I replied bluntly and he became quiet.
"Oh… I see, uhm well how's things?" he asked and I tried to change the subject. "Alright I guess, how's your life?" I asked. It was one of my biggest mistakes I had made so far. He began to go on about his life, like he was telling me every single detail of his life so far.
Drew, Canterlot recruitment center:
"Well here you are sir, have a nice time" Jethro, the driver, told me. I nodded and handed him some money. Apparently our currencies were rather interchangeable, one dollar equalled whatever the hell those gold coin looking things were.
I gave him a wave and walked into the recruitment office. The receptionist looked at me and her eyes widened. "Uhm can I help you sir?" she asked and I nodded. "Enlistment for royal guard please" I replied and she was probably stunned because she just sat there and didn't say a thing.
"Uhm okay… can you please fill out these papers" she said and gave me a pile of papers. I took a pencil and quickly answered all the questions then handed the papers back to her. Most of the questions were easy: name, age etc.
"Okay, if you would be so kind as to follow me to the examination room please" she said and led me to another part of the building. "We have to give you a basic physical examination before we can bring you into training for the royal guard" the receptionist said as she opened a door and let me into the room. "The doctor will be with you in a moment" she said and left the room, leaving me alone inside.
I twitted my fingers as I waited, it was different than the Canadian military recruitment that was for sure.
A stallion walked into the room, his attention was focused on the papers. "Okay Mr. Drew, I understand that you… whoa… okay you're… a human?" he asked and I nodded. "I see… okay well if you would please remove your shirt and pants and attach these monitors to your chest" he told me and handed me these little suction cup looking things, they were probably the same sort of things that the doctors use to measure your heart rate when someone exercises.
I got my clothes off and hooked up the little suction cup wires to my chest. "Okay Mr. Drew, if you would please step on the treadmill so we can begin" the doctor said and I did as I was told.
Third person, recruitment building:
The physical exam had been going on for hours and Drew showed no signs of exhaustion, his rigorous training with Nurse Bloom had really paid off. "I'll uhm… be right back" the doctor said quickly and raced out of the room and to the receptionist desk. "Molasses, call Celestia. Tell her she has to see this" the doctor ordered her and she quickly called Celestia with the desk phone. Recently humans and ponies had shared their technology with each other and now ponies used phones rather than the old styled mail system to talk with one another over longer distances.
The doctor returned to the examination room where Drew was still going. "Uhm… so uhm I'll be back… just uhm keep going okay" the doctor told Drew who nodded and continued to jog on the treadmill.
Soon after Celestia and Luna both arrived, Luna on her own decision to see what had the recruitment doctor so hyped up. "Celestia, you have to see this, come with me" the doctor told her and led her to a room with a one way window that allowed them to watch Drew in the examination room.
Celestia shrugged "So, it's a human exercising" Celestia retorted and the doctor handed her a pile of papers that had recorded Drew's physical exhaustion levels during the examination. Luna looked over the doctor's shoulder and gasped. "He's been doing this non-stop for the last eight hours?" she asked and the doctor nodded, Celestia simply shrugged. "What's the big deal?" she asked plainly.
"Look at his vitals right now" the doctor said and pointed to the monitor in the room. It read that his heart rate was barely above normal. "His body must have been pushed to limits beyond what you push your guards to. I also called in the travel building and asked them to find out about this guy. He was in the Canadian military and was labelled inactive after he was nearly killed by an explosion, he could barely even walk four months ago, then he just got up and began to run again" the doctor informed the princess.
Celestia thought about it for a moment. "I don't want him" she replied bluntly, both the doctor and Luna gasped. "WHAT" Luna gasped and Celestia turned to her sister. "Our royal guard consists of unicorns and pegasus for a reason sister, they have abilities that others do not. Even though this human has extreme physical fitness he cannot fly nor can he probably shoot a gun" Celestia told her sister.
"Actually… uhm the military reports state that he can continuously hit bull's-eyes at one hundred yards with an open sighted rifle ma'am" the doctor informed her but her mind would not be changed. "Even so, he is a different species and would not…" Celestia began but Luna interrupted her "I'll take him. Tell him he's already passed training and have him report to the royal castle throne room tonight at 8pm sharp" Luna ordered.
Celestia looked to her sister and shook her head. "He is your responsibility Luna, I will not take responsibility for your elite guards" Celestia said as they both left the recruitment office.
Drew, inside recruitment office:
My hair was still wet, I had used the shower room behind the examination rooms to wash up before I got ready to go. "So she really said that?" I asked and the doctor nodded.
"Yes, but you better hurry because it's 7:45 now and you don't want to be late" the doctor told me. I nodded, "Thanks doc, see yah around" I called out as I dashed out the front doors and looked around. I saw a castle looming above all the other buildings and figured that had to be the royal castle.