My Little Pony : The Lunar Republic

by chipmunkfanantic

3,000 years before the Second Lunar Rebellion there was the First Lunar Rebellion . Journey back in time as to how the lunar repbulic was formed , the events that lead to the final stand , the events that lead up to the banishment of Luna AND Nightmare Moon , and the events that lead up to the Second Lunar Rebellion read as the history of the New Lunar Republic unfolds R&R

11. Chapter 11

Chapter 11 The training of the lunar air force

a/n : hey it's been a while since my last update of this story , but I have some plans and trust me there good . I still have to work on the FNAF adaptation , along with starting the adaptation but I'm going to need help for pulling it off , I'm going to be needing voice actors , that's after I have this done and completed ,Read and Review :)

Location : Moon Town

Princess Luna's POV

After all that walking to each city and recruited every single pony , now we can train them to use our fighter planes , and hopefully we can begin to upgrade our tech from simple swords and shields to now tanks and fighter planes , already air fields are being worked on . And now factories are being built to replace most of the old armor of today .

It won't be much longer before we can launch a massive , assault against the solar empire and when we do , we shall slaughter Celestia's forces with ease. I may as well keep myself busy and go and check on the construction of the factories I thought .

I walked out of my bed chambers out of the castle , and towards the main part of Lunar Star city , the local market place . Already ponies were setting up to sell there crops and other things that they have made .

At least they have some kind of normal life to live , and they are well informed of what is going on the front lines though sometimes I tend to brush off whatever is going on around me , though I am surprised that it's taken Celestia this long to try and find out where we are already , unless she planted a solar agent with in the lunar republic! , and if that is possible , I should try and find him or her if possible who ever he or she is they will be dealt with.

After hours of walking I had made it to the construction of the first lunar factory . And already they were putting in the final touches , a small smile had crossed my face as I saw various machines and parts being hauled inside the building .

Various unicorns , pegasi and earth ponies were moving heavy equipment , while one pony oversaw the entire operation , his name was Static .

"Static , how is this operation going?"I asked standing beside him . "Everything is proceeding on time princess , we will have our first factory up and running , I'll have multiple ponies building the rest in various towns through out Moon town" said Static . "Very well , I look forwards to reading your report" I said .

"I'll have it to you within the hour , once our first factory is completed and pumping out tanks though the body armor is going to be a different story , and trust me when I say this . We will need to upgrade from swords and shields , to some kind of better weapon if we want to win this war much quicker" said Static .

"I'll be sure to look into it , however though focus on getting this factory done" I said . At that point I walked away , and headed back to the castle to try and catch up on some reading , when I saw something overhead . Looking up I saw a solar air ship , taking photos of our location . Narrowing my eyes , I had to think of something and fast ! , I couldn't let them get away at all .

I ordered Captain Starstream to attack that solar air ship . Nodding he grabbed several shadowbolts , and flew as fast as there wings could carry them , hopefully we take it out before it has a chance to escape . That's when I saw Nightmare Moon rush towards me , with concern etched on her face .

"Luna what in the name of the moon is going on ?" asked Nightmare confused . "A solar air ship was taking photos , I had the shadowbolts attack it" I stated . "I see , well good job , had they gotten away things would have been complicated" said Nightmare .

With that she walked away , leaving me where I was . I looked back up , and sure enough the solar air ship was gone . That's when I saw several shadowbolts come back but with several injured , and a few more dead .

I sighed , and would have them buried soon. I have to keep my mind focused ! , I can't let the death of a few shadowbolts get to me I thought as tears began to well up in my eyes .

I quickly wiped them away with a spare hoof , and made my way back to the castle and continued to read , but at the sametime . I also had to look into other things as well .

Location : Downtown Lunar Star City

with Dark Rose

I couldn't believe it ! , ME of all ponies chosen to train in the lunar air force . I knew my time was calling , I couldn't afford to let the princess down let alone anypony else .

My husband , Blueberry Blitz was feeling the same way as myself . "Don't worry , we can pull through this , besides I'm looking forward to training along side you" said BlueBerry .

I sighed and smiled a weak smile , I knew we were picked for one reason and one reason only . To fight against Celestia of the solar empire , I plan to really give her a bloody nose and then some .

"Your right , we were hoof picked for one reason to fight for our freedom" I said . I heard a knock at the door , I opened it to reveal Captain Stardust and two guards on his left and right .

"May we come in?" asked Stardust . "Yes please do , what is it?" I asked . "My names Stardust , with me is Corporal Moonshine , and Lieutenant Evening Star we want to talk to the both of you about joining the Lunar Republic" said Star Dust . With that all of us took our seats while I served up some tea that I was making , along with some hay burgers .

Everyone got done with there food and drinks , thankfully though , two of her soldiers were quite thirsty , can't say I blame them after all . "Now , you both were hoof picked by Gunslinger and Princess Luna , for one reason and one reason alone" said Stardust .

"But what reason?" asked Blueberry blitz . "That's a good question , your both going to be serving in the air force and Gunslinger is going to be training you along with several others that were also hoof picked , I know that Celestia is quite a tyrant but have no fear we will win this war" said Stardust .

"I hope your right about this" I whispered . She put a hoof on my shoulder as I looked up at her . "we will , I promise you that" she said .

"Don't make promises you know you can't keep" I murmured . "I plan to keep this one , even if it costs me my life" said Star Dust . With that the three of them walked out of the house , I knew for sure that I was doing the right thing .

Saving Equestria from it's self , and I plan to do just that and more . "Well honey , the sooner we have everything wrapped up here , we should head towards that air force base and see what's going on" said Blueberry.

"yea good idea" I said . With that we began to clean up the dishes , and after that we closed and locked the door to head towards the air field , we weren't the only ones headed there .

Others joined us as well , ones like Dizzy Drops , Aquaflor , Nebula Star ,Night Wish , Peppermint Mocha , Silver Rush , Storm Chaser , Transfern , Cold heart , Cogs , Night Arrow , Starway mirage , even Ulfric Greymane a pony whom I never heard anything about . We all got there and saw Captain Stardust , Corporal Moonshine and Lieutenant Evening Star .

"Greetings Everypony that could make it here , as you all know there is a war going on and we need good stallions and mares like you to join the air force , some of you had lived lives in Equestria far away from the war . I can't say I blame any of you when news reached your ears about this , but now more than ever let me introduce you to the planes that you will be training in and flying throughout this war" said Gun Slinger . Several planes were rolled out in front of him the likes of which ponykind has never seen before .

" This is one of the best planes around , the Douglas A1 Skyraider , she's the best in the entier air force , followed up by the T13Bf Pillager , the Fulmar 803NAS1 , the P38 Lightning , the P51B Mustang , the P40 Warhawk , The Spitfire MKII c the Republic P47B Thunderbolt , the Mitsubishi KI21 Sally and lastly the Vought F4u1 Corsair. These planes are going to be one of the very best ones used against the solar empire you ponies are going to be trained in hoof eye coordination , and working with your squadmates , your going to eat lightning and crap thunder once I'm through with all of you" he added .

Not a one of us said a single word , each of us were escorted to our barracks where each of us were going to be staying for the rest of our lives .

I knew far better , than to speak out against my …. drill instructor ? It is a strange name and all , but frankly as long as I can learn to fly a plane and gun down any and all solar traitors , I shouldn't have a problem . As the sun made way for the moon , we all woke up and were ready to train .

"Alright now that your all up , your training begins now ! I want each and every single one of you to wear a uniform , and to what squad your going to be flying in before your training is over with" said Gun Slinger .

We all got our uniforms on , looking mine over I was in Nights Fury squadron , while husband got the Lunar Squadron I knew that we were going to be separated but in the end it was going to be worth it . "now then , you all know what squadron your in lets keep it that way , however though to be honest we are all going to be having fun together as one big happy family" said Gun slinger .

With that he he walked away , not a single pony even complained about there uniforms , I didn't hay I really like the design of it all.

With Gunslinger

This is it , now I can train these ponies into lethal pilots , pilots that can give the solar empire a run for it's bits and then some ! They'll have no idea of what's coming to them , and by the time they do it will be too late . One thing that puzzled me , was that I will have to fill in the squadrons with ponies that already know how to fly , which shouldn't be too hard though .

But who should I add in once I have these ponies trained ? I thought in question . I headed back to my office and simply tried to figure it out , taking a seat behind my desk I had to figure out who I was going to choose . That's when I remembered I drew up a list of pegasi to help fill in various squadrons .

I figured that I could easily set that aside for the moment and focus on these ponies for now . Closing my eyes , I decided to just rest while they got aquainted with themselves , cause starting tomorrow night the training begins ! .

This isn't going to be like the army or anything like that , it's going to be different I suppose we could work on formations and issuing orders and what not we could have simulations to help train them that way there ready for the real thing, but simulations can only prepare you so far that you have to face the reality sooner or later I thought . And I was right , I didn't have a lot of time to train them . I would have to work fast cause we are going to take the offensive , I'm not sure what our first target is going to be but I"m sure we can draw up something .

Location : Lunar Castle

With Luna and Nightmare Moon

Nightmare , and Luna were plotting out there first next attack since , there first battle outside of Stallion Grad . "Luna , I would recommend we hit Dodge Junction and setup a forward base there" Said Nightmare .

"While that would work , I say that we take Trottingham it's closer to Baltimare but further from Canterlot and we would be in striking distance of the capital , we could also hit them with everything that we have and then some" I said .

Nightmare was confused but agreed none the less . "Very well then , if we are going to be taking the offensive , we need some new technology in order to win" said Nightmare .

"I'm well aware of that , in fact I'm having the best of the best ponies working on such a thing the human race called it a 'tank' and by building our first one , we will be able to use it along side our normal siege weapons" I pointed out .

"That's not a bad idea , but we will have to work on upgrading our weapons as well" added Nightmare . "I happen to agree on that" said another voice entering the room .

We turned out necks and saw a pony whom we haven't met before , we allowed her to walk inside . "Very well , speak your mind" said Nightmare . "Good , now then the reason why I happen to agree is number one , having tanks alongside your normal siege weapons will give you a chance to really do some damage to them hit them where it hurts" said War Drum .

"And how do we know we can trust you?" I asked. "You don't know , in fact though I am here to warn you though that sooner or later the Solar empire will find you all and Celestia will end your lives or worse just be aware of that" said War Drum seriously . "Very well , if you wish to help then we need a tactical adviser in order to help win this war" I said .

"Well sign me up then, I'm your mare" said War Drum . "Excellent , now which town should we take Dodge Junction or Trottingham?"I asked .

"I would say Dodge Junction cause it's further away from Canterlot , and you can setup a forward base inside the woods and nopony would notice" she pointed out . "Very well , then that's where we are going to make our next move , Dodge Junction" I said .

With that , we began on how we were going to deploy our troops , I believe I have the answer to that" said another voice . "And who might you be?" I asked . "My name is Orange Cane , I have the answer to deploying your troops" said Orange . "Very well , lets hear it" I said .

"Take a look at this" said Orange pulling out blue prints. It was a huge ship with a landing pad on it . "what's your plan?" I asked . "it's an air craft carrier for your planes , however what I have is different than that" . He quickly pulled out another set of blueprints and showed us that it was indeed a dropship .

"Orange , if I may ask …. what is it?" I asked confused . "That is a dropship , using rotating propellers , it can do a vertical take off and deploy troops all the while it will have several guns to defend it's self , should something happen .

An air craft carrier , we could use it along with our drop ship , I know both would come in handy thing is , we still need to rebuild our navy back to it's strongest , but I do have a plan while that's going on , we send spies into Equestria and behind enemy lines to discover what the solar empire is planning plant them all over Equestria it's self , once we learn of there plans we can make our own move …. we still have to deal with the traitor though , shouldn't be too hard to do so I thought . "Very well , we want you to work on both of them our construction crews are at your disposal" I said .

"Excellent , the both of you won't regret this" said Orange Cane . He grabbed his blueprints , rolled them up and tucked them away in his saddle bag and walked out of the wardroom . One thing I have to consider is that , number one , we can't be taking too many risks or Celestia will catch on and fast .

I'll have to keep an eye on things , and once we find that traitor we shall deal with him or her and get some information … hopefully . I decided to take a walk , to clear my mind and hopefully try and tackle this with a fresh mind . After walking out of the castle , I headed right for downtown the sun was still overhead and most of the ponies were still working others were sleeping .

That's when I noticed that , most of the service crew were working on the planes that had already gotten . "Excuse me , but where's Gun Slinger , I need to talk to him" I said.

The maintenance pony didn't say a word and pointed towards the stairs leading to a door that lead to his office . With that I took my leave and walked up the stairs and opend the door to walk into his office . "It's time , we need to talk" I said . He opened his one eye and noticed me .

"Oh sorry, I didn't hear you come in" said Gun Slinger . "That's because , I have some things that I want to talk to you about" I said . "Oh and what about ?" asked Gun Slinger . "Why were you sleeping during the day?" I asked . "I'm planning on training the ponies at night that way there eyes can adjust to when we go and strike" said Gun Slinger .

"That would make sense , most of the ponies that I saw are mostly others are going to be headed in soon , I recommend that you stay here as well don't go into the sun and be sure to drink lots of water , cause it's going to be a scorcher today" I said .

"I'll keep that in mind" said Gun Slinger . With that I teleported out of the room in a blight flash of light . Gun Slinger closed his eyes and went back to sleep for the rest of the day , some of the ponies were mostly out and about living there lives as if nothing ever happened . Others were scared out of there own minds as to what was going on .

I know I can train them , it's just going to take a while longer than I thought with the threat of the solar empire , I won't have a lot of time on my hooves tonight I train them ! , tonight I'm going to make them the best pilots the lunar republic ever saw ! , it's a tall order but well worth it all I thought .

So for the rest of the day , I rested all the while my secretary began to plan out various training exercises for the ponies that I plan to train .

First Lunar Training night

Location : Lunar Star City , Air Field Baker

Everyone woke up , put on there flight suits and waited outside there barracks for further instruction . "Good to see your all up and ready , your first lesson is going to be coming from me . Now then report to your assigned planes I'll see you all in the air" said Gun Slinger . With that everyone headed towards there planes , training was about to begin .

In the air

"Good your all in the air and ready , our first target is going to be a solar wooden ship your objective is to use any means necessary to blow that ship up , work together and everything should turn out fine" . With that , several fighters flew straight down past the cloud line revealing themselves , the bombers remained above said cloud line not wanting to be spotted .

Several of the fighters launched there rockets at the ship completely blowing it to ribbons , leaving nothing to be found among the rubble or what was left of it . Dummy targets popped up , making the fighters turn around and use there machine guns to fire shredding the dummy solar targets .

"Good job , all of you each and everyday , we are going to be doing these kinds of exercises so you can all be ready to face the real thing , the threat of the solar empire , I should warn you all though . They may have there own air force ready to defend there tyrant of a ruler , we have to be ready to do the samething as well".

With that everyone flew back to base , landed there fighters and decided to tell stories about there first exercise ,some over exaggerated a bit , but to them it didn't matter .

With Captain Star Stream

I sent out several of my shadowbolts on patrol , one of them was Aurora . I knew that she was the best flyer out of the most of the shadowbolts here .

That's when I heard a knock at my door , thinking it strange that somepony would come knocking at my door I opened it , revealing it to be Rocket , Power up , Sprinkle , Dark Cloud , Crimson Rain , Lightning Blaze, Skybolt , and Sprite .

"What are you all doing here?" I asked confused . "Well we wanted to talk about these new air force squadrons" said Rocket . "I see , well grab a seat I guess" I said .

Each of them either took the couches or the chairs . "What we are trying to say is that , we support what the Princess is doing , besides I think it is awesome that she implemented something like this , squadrons to back us up" said Sprinkle .

"I happen to agree with what both Sprinkle and Rocket are saying , we can always use extra help and this would be a perfect idea" said Power up . It was time that I got my own two bits in . "Well I too am in support of this , with Princess Luna now having the air force squadrons , this could be perfect they would lay down covering fire , and we would be able to hit the wonderbolts hard and fast and they wouldn't even notice us coming until it was too late to even realize what in the hay just happened" I said .

"The other shadowbolts are also in agreement , that with these squadrons we won't have to worry if somepony is covering us all we have to do is focus on the pony right in front of us" said Sprite . "Good , that's all we should do just focus on the enemy pony in front of us and not worry about anything else" I added .

"There is one other thing , the traitor!" said Dark Cloud . I raised an eyebrow at this , and at the sametime curious . "Traitor ? , who?" I asked . I knew I wasn't going to like the answer to my own question . "I think this traitors name is Starshine Glimmer , it's quite possible that she was sent here to learn of our new location , then later on Celestia sends in the troops slaughtering us" said Dark Cloud . I thought this over in my mind , I knew I wasn't liking this one bit .

But at the sametime it did make sense once again , how in the world did Celestia know to send one of her own to evacuate with us to now Moon Town ? And at the sametime how did Celestia know who to send ? .

"Very well , find this traitor and bring him or her before me. I'll deal with this traitor myself" I said . "At once Princess , move out!" ordered Stardust . With that they all left the castle and began to search for this traitor . Just what do you plan to do to me Celestia? I thought .

I kept staring up at the moon , and began to also plan out what our future base would be like . I know building a future base on Equestria was risky , but I think that in the future we build our base on the moon , that would work and it would be far away from Celestia's prying eyes and those of her spies .

I then began to draw up a few things that we would need in the nearby future , but also I had the blueprints locked away until we need them .

But I would have to hide this safe , make sure that it's never discovered …. Underground , I highly doubt that she would look there and it would be perfect .

I then grabbed the blueprints , the safe , and left through one of the many passage ways that runs throughout this castle . One of them lead me right to the underground mines . I opened up one of the secret small chambers , opened the safe and put the blueprints in there I had hoped that she wouldn't find them here .

I thought to myself I know what I'm doing is right , besides the research department was able to copy the files and put them into blueprints and left them with me to do as I please , I think that this is the right thing to do . That and Celestia wouldn't find them I thought .

I put the now closed safe full of blueprints all in a folder that I grabbed before I left for here labeled For the New Lunar Republic : for Princess Luna's Eyes Only .

I quickly closed the safe , and put a combination on it . One that I would remember easily . 23 , 8 , 10 , and 11 a simple combination and an easy one at that I thought .

I put the safe in it's small chamber , closed up said chamber and walked out . I knew that I had just saved the entire future of pony kind , and hopefully I can plan for the next generation … whenever that maybe .

I walked out of the tunnel and back into the castle . You did the right thing Luna , you now hold the future of the lunar republic in your hooves even if this rebellion is crushed , the next generation can pick up where this generation left off , and i'll be there to lead them to freedom.

With that , I walked back to my chambers , and continued to wait until the sun had gone down which would allow me to raise the moon and bring out the wonderful night sky . I already knew somehow , that my subjects loved my nights , I could feel it as I walked through there dreams .

I would notice it on there faces as they work , still plants grow while the sun is out . I noticed Nightmare , simply reading a book just minding her own business . Not wanting to disturb her , I continued to my bedchambers and decided to simply take a nap .

Air Field Baker

Night Time

Gunslinger's POV

Already several nights had passed , and every single pony had past most of there exercises. I couldn't feel happier , and I had something to say about that .

"Each and every single one of you are some of the best pilots the Lunar Republic has ever seen , this last exercise if your all up to it , will consist of a mock dog fight with other lunar pilots who have there planes painted the colors of the solar empire .fake rounds and rockets will be used , to simulate either a hit or a miss , but I couldn't be happier to train ponies like you . I hope that one day that this is continued each and every single one of you should feel proud , we are going to show the solar empire that they have picked the wrong bunch of ponies to mess with ! I swear that on this night , we will lay waste to any and all solar targets ,cripple there military and finally we will lay claim to victory" I said proudly .

Each and every single pony proudly cheered at the speech I had given , but still there was a bit of doubt in my mind , I knew that the solar empire was only waiting for us to attack . Sooner or later we would already committed most of our forces to attacking equestria it's self , leaving everything here wide open for us ourselves to get attacked .

As I saw the ponies get to there planes , I knew that I had trained some of the best pilots that the lunar republic has ever seen . Hopefully those ponies don't come back in wooden crates or body bags . I stood there for a while , wondering if this was right sending these ponies into the war that was about to happen …. no they signed up , they knew what they were getting into .

I trained them , and they know that . I did my job , now it's time that they do there's fight for the lunar republic ,and kick some solar tail .

I soon saw the planes land , I couldn't help but put on a smile as I told them that they were now a part of the lunar air force , each of the ponies jumped for joy as they heard that . Not that I couldn't blame them . But that's when I saw the princess of the night walking towards us .

"Great job everypony , you all performed well , but I have a mission for all of you tomorrow , we are going to take one of there cities and set up a forward base of operations , that way we can better monitor what is going on and find out what in the name of the moon really happened after we left" said Luna .

She turned to me our eyes locked for but a second . "Gunslinger you did an outstanding job , training these ponies in fact I'm going to have you do it full time now" said Luna. "Thank you your highness , I won't let you down this I swear" I said . "I know you won't let me or the entire lunar republic down" said Luna with a smile . With that several pictures were taken to commemorate this occasion mostly of the squadrons and the squadrons and myself included . With that the planes were all parked and the ponies were headed for home flight suits and all .

With Dark Rose

I couldn't believe it , finally I can make a difference in this world . And put Celestia in her place ! , all of us will make her pay for what she did . I looked over at my husband Blue berry and he and I couldn't agree more .

"Don't worry Dark Rose , we will win this sooner or later we will launch a massive invasion of Equestria and start taking city after city in the name of the lunar republic" said Blue Berry . "Thanks , I really needed that .

Eventually we put our flight suits away since we were going to be launching that massive invasion tomorrow . Throughout the rest of the night we simply laughed and told stories until we heard a knock at the door . Opening it , we saw somepony that we didn't know , we both took him in and quickly got him to a couch since we both tended to his wounds , we wanted to know everything . "Can you tell us your name?" I asked .

"My name is Prince Silver Moon , I was sent by Luna's mother and father to help her with the invasion of Equestria , seems Celestia had other plans for me" said Silver moon . "Alright Silver moon , you relax don't try and move I'll get in contact with Luna and nightmare Moon" I said . I got one last look at Silver moon before I headed into my room , got out a quill , some ink , and paper and began to write .

Dear Princess Luna and Nightmare Moon ,

as you are no doubt aware of the invasion tomorrow , we found an injured alicorn named Prince Silvermoon , I was hoping you know more about him , I'm not sure as to why he would wind up here but I need the both of you here to help me figure out what to do with him , signed

Dark Rose

with that I handed the letter to my husband who had walked in and said he would send off the letter bright and early tomorrow . Later in the night myself and my husband turned in , but not before the letter mysteriously disappeared. But before we did , we heard a knock at the door .

Opening it we saw Luna and Nightmare Moon, I let them in and filled them in on what had just transpired . "Prince Silver moon , is one of fathers best friends , I'm unsure as to why he would send his best friend all the way out here , when we ourselves are planning an invasion of Equestria" said Luna confused .

"I happen to agree on that one Luna , why in the world would Silvermoon show up out of nowhere while we were planning an invasion of Equestria ? It makes no sense" added Nightmare .

"Well sense your both here , why don't you rest here for night I was just about to turn in myself" I said . "Very well then , it would be a good idea to rest up .

Because we are all going to need it" said Luna . With that , we all went to bed in either a bed or a couch it was quite interesting to have this happen , hopefully it can be resolved and Prince Silvermoon can help us in this invasion .

TBC in Chapter 12 Equestria invaded !