Hello Again Bronies and Pegasisters, Welcome back to another chapter of The New Lunar Republic: Breaking point. I may have Fucked up a bit in last chapter. if any of you history buffs out there know, i screwed up on one single tank. the M1 heavy. yeah, its actually called the T1 heavy. sorry 'bout that. anyway, i bring to you another chapter, straight out of World of tanks. (not really!)
The room dissolved into utter silence. it fell into somthing like you'd see one of the colt or filly's saturday morning cartoons where there was akward silence with a cricket in the background. yeah, it was that minus the cricket.
It soon dawned on me that the manila folder was not very thick. infact, i bet it had at best, my nine years of expireance in in the NLR and the past Twenty years i had been in the Solar Empire's service.
"Mr. Silver, i take it that you are quite stunned that i have you're entire lifes work all added up into one single folder." came luna's sharp, serious voice. "Truth be told, i had yet to belive it myself, but there are many, many, MANY reports that were filed under your name. all those files pertained to each and ev'ry single victory that your group has succesfully compleated. The Victory's your Group Has procured has been a great boost in many a troops moral. Infact, we have many colts and fillys begging to be let into the tank corps. Just to fight with you and learn from you." luna continued.
Wait, im a hero in the eyes of filly's and colt's alike? when in the sun's great tits did THAT happen? also, yes, Celestia DOES have a nice Rack. but its sad that she keeps them hidden in more protective ways than what most colts see in the video games they have now a day's. Seriously, how is an armored bikini a +10 in protection when it give's less protection than being nude! I'm honestly questioning the pervertedness of todays young gamers.
"And the same can be said for your friend here." luna continued, slapping another manila folder with snipits name in bold black and blue print. It was frightening how much our spys and intelegence could get from the royal canterlot archives. then again, the nerds up in the archives rarely get out and would do and give anything for a good one night stand. or a repeated process of nightly stands for as much info as possible.
"So, in retrospect, i have recieved a large group push to get you and two more ponys of your group a new tank as well as the service of being knighted as Royal Dark Knights. Thankfully, i agree with my congress in its decission on making a new sentenial tank corps. just to get the whole thing up in the papers of canterlot, just to strike fear. But, it is up to you two. on this decission. So Do consider the options on both sides." luna said, a firmness in her voice mad me think about the situation.
This whole War was brought upon us at a hard point in time. the world was just recovering from the imense war across the Great Sea. Prance Had started a revolution and has officially removed itself from its corrupt king and queen, claiming that 'the king was ignoring the needs of the common pony' and that the queen was 'spending the tax ponys money on frivelous things'. saddly, this was compleatly true, but we had sent over troops, myself and my second brother, Golden Quill, over to beat down the rebble-rousers. in all truth, we had lost more troops than we could recover. and the ferocity of the ponys over there finnaly made the general, General Shining Armor, to pull every single soldier of the Solar Empire out of the country.
But i digress. Upon a single minute since the offer was made, i huddled Snippit over to a secluded corner and made the decision with him. He ,for one, was all in favor of it. he and i had been struggleing in our tank recently and it wasnt getting better with age. even then, leading a new tank out into the field of battle would cost us time and recourses that we probably wouldnt have again. But the decision was made when she offered us the Knighting ceramony. meaning that if the rat in our system brought this news to celestia, then all hell would break loose.
A knighting ceramony is ment for those who have shown great strives in a particular field of inquary and was kept to a small minimum. and even then, it was resereved for scientists. not warriors. And Celestia has ALWAYS kept it that way, no matter the Age or Time period. So this is BOUND to ruffle SOMTHING. . . Right?
We both turned around to see Princess Luna standing not four feet away from us. "princess. Me and My second in command have decided that we are going to agree to the offers." i said, stepping forward. she smiled warmly and raised a hand. I then placed my hand in hers and shook firmly. By the small Blisters and caleces that i felt on her hands, it was clear that she was a working mare. but then again, its been seen by all ponys alike that she tends to a garden of night-time flowers and works in the field with the farmers, just to get an understanding of whats happening on a farm on any given day. and sometimes she'll walk about with the ponys in castle town and mingle with them. talk, or sometimes even joke around.
"Good. I shall inform our congress to prepair a banquet and a ceremony for such an occasion." she said, moving from my hand to Snippits, firmly shaking it in the process.
As soon as we left we went down to our garage and got into our work uniform. still grease stained and pretty good in color department. however, the grease heavily stained the uniform.
Within eight minutes, we had hammered out any dents in the hull and turret of our tank. but that time had to be a good and bad moment, as Princess Luna, Her assistant, and a Line of recruits, decided to sneak up on us. of course, i heard them all, but it never dawned on me that they were coming up to our garage. I just thought it was a new group of soldiers getting a tour of the castle grounds.
"General! where art thou?" luna called out. I poped my head out of the turret and shouted back. "Right here ma'am!" i imeadiatly reeled back when i heard my own voice echo. it hurt a few of the recruits, though, so that means that they just came out of basic. I honestly was a little worried for them. If they needed headpeices, we'd get them headpeices, but if they needed Ear protection, than that might prove to be a problem.
"greetings, again, General. I have brought to thee the new recruits for your tank. choose them at your content lesuire." she replied back, almost as if my yelling hadn't bothered her in the slightest.
Nodding in return, i hopped out of the tank as snippit slid over the side and walked up to the line of recruits. me and him reached the line at roughly the same time. upon looking at eachother, we began to scour the line for any irregularity's. It had been our way of precaution. And it usually worked well.
The first Recruits name badge stood out. Pvt. Dim Grin. it seemed like the name suited him pretty well. Full gray coat, black mane and tail, dull lifeless eyes. not to mention, but he had no scent. it was almost like he didnt exist. He wore the standard issue Brigadier cap with accompanying navy blue flack coats and the regular issue stripped J's. his being a privet, made him a Navy blue and black. My colors for being a general are two stripes of Dark red and four stripes of light navy blue's with all blue pants. so he has a ways to go.
next Recruit was a Mare. name was 'Pvt. Third class Brighter Days' and it matched her as well. blond mane and tail with a soft sand colored stripe. Her coats color was a soft spoken teal like color. her eyes showed a large ammount of passion. not much, but it was strong in her. her eyes were a golden amber-ish color. smelled faintly of lavender.
the next recruit was simply put, heavy, he looked like he couldnt fit in the cockpit of the P-26 Thunderlane. let alone the drivers seat of a tank. name was 'Pvt. Snips'. well, well, well, the cat finally dragged in snips, now did it? the cowered hid shyly behind his long shaggy rust colored hair. time has not been kind to him. or his frined for that matter.
His friend, what i mean, is snails. his teal hair and tail swishing about lazely. he didnt even have a pvt. to his name. in its place was the word 'Mechanic'. i wonder how that worked. Casually skipping over the two nincompoops, i swept over the rest of the group.
instead of just listing them off, i'll just give you a shortedned run-down on who exactly I had seen and chosen with snippit.
three ponys imeadiatly stood out. The cutie mark crusaders. all four of them. Yes their cousin is standing right next to them, all had joined. i wonder what happened in their family's to change sides suddenly. the next two stuck out like sore thumbs. "diamond tiara and silver spoon? what are you two doing here?" i asked aloud, forgetting formality. The two looked at me and gave a slight grin. i didnt like that grin, not one bit.
then came the next few ponys and a few more unexpected ones. Ones like Snowdrop, Button Mash, hopper popper, just to name a few.
Upon meeting back with Snippit, we silently conversed, then peered back at the recruits, just to make 'em worry a bit, then went back to silently whispering. after about thirty seconds of non-stop whispering, we had our pick. our tank could only hold four, but there was enough space for an 'in-flight' mechanic.
"Ok, we have our picks, Princess." she nodded before backing up few feet. Me and Snippit walked over to three pony's who were to be our's. Snippit walked up to a young recruit, male, by the name of 'Top Notch' and placed his hand on his shoulder. then i walked over to two pony's who i had spotted. it came out to be the only adult mare of that group, 'brighter days'. she grinned and followed me as i walked up to the next recruit. He looked a little confused and frieghtened. But he accepted his fate with dignity. His name was Gear Girdle, and due to his name, he kept gears in tip top shape and he made sure that they never want out of place.
One upside to having eyes that are ice cold and steel gray, is that even with the name 'silver eyes' I could basically be a god of eyesight. I can see what pony's cutie marks mean, i can see just what they are like from hearing them. i can tell what vehical im driving or what uniform a pony is wearing from eighty meters. I also was good at understanding exactly what was ment by anyone, Anytime, Anyplace. It usually got me good marks and its also what ended me in this general position.
"you hath chosen three? very well. All of thee who hath not been chosen, return to thine bed chambers, those who hath been chosen, move thine items and belongings into this garage. General Silver Eye will tell thou where thee shall be staying." luna spoke, dissmissing a good chunk of recruits to their barracks. Then luna walked up to me and whispered into my ear.
"don't forget about the procession tonight, Mr. Silver. It is the biggest event in the new kingdom so far." she whispered into my ears. I nodded. "Of course Princess. i wouldnt miss it for the world." i responded back. she gave a curt nod before turning and returning to her usual daily buisness.
It had taken a toll on her. She already had bags under her eyes and lately she's had to go see a chiropractor, massage expert and a psychiatrist to help with the whole thing. and the psych is a rather recent addition to it. She only wanted a peacfull protest, i've heard her wail, but celestia had to go and open fire on the protesters. This whole war was started over tyranny, but truley started for luna when celestia killed and injured and even imprisoned ninty-some guards, castle staff and civillians.
(diamond's)
It was nearing the hour of twilight. . . . no not the pony, but the actual setting of the sun. that special hour when all you know is turning a beutifull shade of orenge. when its the last hour before the sun is no longer seen behind the western hills. The hour when the real of the dead and the realm of the living are intertwind with one-another.
Me and my tank buddy, Snippit Heartstings, Had been givin a set of dress blues. sleek dark storm-boot's were on both our feet, our hats, resting firmly in our hands, our medals were shined and givien a hard buffer wax, just to make them shiny. Our blue dress pants being compleatly free of any form of dirt or wear. The Midnight blue jacket was a little unessesary, but i didnt care. I was only doing this for the chance to rub it in Celestia's face.
The sound of Trumpets and buggles began to announce our pressence. The door's began to open to the long winded intake from something called a bagpipe. It was brought over from neighland. An island from across the Marelantic sea. They were givin a lot of crap from other pony's, since they sounded like banshee's. but i could hear the beuty in their majestic call, as they began to play the tune 'neighland the brave'. And it was beutifull. Soon, me and snippit were walking down the asle t'ward the princess, her second and third in command standing off to her left.
The princess was beaming a beutifull smile that I couldn't help but return. Before long me and snippit stood before the Princess, 'nighland the brave' coming to a close and a Pillow with some shiny new and immproved medals were brought out. what caught me off guard, was when she brought out three more pillows, Except two of the four were held in each of her comanders.
"Silver Eye and Snippit Heartstrings, You two are here to recieve an acheivement that very few have ever recieved. This Reward is being given to you for you're brave acts both on and off the battle field. For the Past Nine years, you have given You're Blood, you're sweat, and youre lives to the continued foundation of the New Lunar Republic.
"With all the Graces you two have Preformed, you couldnt have done it without the Many, many friends you once had. Sadly, you're last commrad in arms passed early this morn' when the Solar Empire had struck, once again at our fortified position of Cresent Moon Ridge. His Valor and Bravery are beyond those of the call of duty. He sacrificed all that he had to make sure you two could continue on with you're conquest against the Solar Empire.
"And Thus' with great joy, I Princess Luna of the New Lunar Republic, Present you two with an honerary Spot in the Royal Dark Night Corps. With You General Silver eye, you will have no Authority above you, besides the head of state, And you, Snippit heartstrings, Gain a bolster in you're rank. you no longer are a sergent, but now a Master Sergent. The Weight you two must carry is great, but you shall both be a beacon to the ponys of future equestria!" luna finnished spectacularly, her wings splaying out in a gracefull manner.
Upon the settling of the crowd that stood behind us, still taking pictures, The Princess took the two sets of bars off the pillow and pinned them to our coats, the dark Blue with red outlined wings on the top of the bars was a new addition. But it still felt like i shouldnt even be earning them.
Upon the pins being clasped and her magic dispelled from the pins, she swiched to the next pillow. On it, was a Pair of Gauntlets. The princess swiftly took them off the pillow and saying "Due to you both being knighted, you each recieve a Gauntlet. Each Hand of the gauntlets represents what you are in the eyes of our friends and family. The Left, a Shield of Grace, and mercy. a bringer of peace. While the Right hand symbolizes that hand as the offence, the one who has done the deed no sane stallion or mare would do." she said, slipping each corrosponding gauntlet onto our hands.
The next pillow floated over and upon it were what looked like blankets. but i was mistaken, like usual. "These are the honerary flaps, of which you bring. Under them is your Students, your Deciples and Your friends. With these, you shall move silently in the night, you shall be unseen by the eyes of anypony. I bless upon each of you, the Robes of darkness, and the Waist Robes. Each of these items shall be a status to your underlings." Luna said, clasping them on. the Robes Went on snugly. first came the cape-like Robe which she clasped to the loops on either of my shoulders. Then she proceded to wrap the Waist Robes onto my, well, our waist's. They just looked like normal blankets to me.
"And Finally, to Mark you as honerary members of the Royal Dark Night Corps. I present to You both, Swords. In today's world, swords are still a way of offence, but even thought long-range weaponry has come into play, you shall each wear these on and off the field of battle. putting you're enemy's at a disadvantage." Luna Proclaimed, her magic grasping the grip of the swords. The two didnt look Anything alike. The one that was floated before Snippit was a classic style of Rapier. A classic Pommel, with signature tassles. and although it was a rapier, it was double edged, but one edge was serrated while the other side was as straight as a ruler.
The Sword that floated before me was what only could be described as awe inspiring. Its hilt had wings as the hand guard, a flat-brested pommel covered the handle, which also had tassles, but instead of blue, they were blue, red and black. The Blade itself was what looked like the Pure essence of the moon. What with the fading hours of twilight that shimmered behind her, the blade was a bright white, almost certainly made of pure silver, maybe even pure tungsten. One side of the blade appeared sharper than sharp, while the other side was what looked like little gaps in several parts of the blade. It looked like those were for snapping an opponents sword.
"Snippit Heartstrings and Silver Eye. Do both of you swear to uphold the truth of the New Lunar Rpublic, until the day of your falling" me and snippit replide in time with eachother.
"we Shall Uphold these truths to be fact, and shall never lose sight of them." Luna nodded."Do you both agree to stand against all odds, for the protection of the NLR, both before or after its untimely colapse?" The same thing happened again. "We are willing to stand against the roaring waters of the enemy, if only but to slow their oppression." Luna nodded again, this time placeing the blades on each of our shoulders, tapping both the right and the left with the flats of the swords.
"Untill the end of time itself, you both are hereby sworn into the Royal Dark Guards Corps. May the Odd ever be in your favor." luna finnished, strapping the sheaths of the swords onto the belt that was then wrapped around us, before sliding the swords into our hands. "You may rise." She calmly stated.
Me and snippit stood up and slowly turnd around, before raising our swords skyward, The light of the setting sun glinting off the back of the swords and temporarily blinding me as the crowd roared in applause.
The rest of the night was filled with jubilance, and merryment. most of the entire NLR Army was inside the castle reveling in merryment. Most of the entire town was drinking their lives away as the first ever knights of the NLR.
The night ended with Me and Snippit getting into our garage and falling into Our beds before falling alseep.
Hello bronys and pegasisiters, Bb4h here. so far, Im enjoying writing the story my mind so long ago had been finnished. And I am Truely Loving my time while writng this story. My Mind incorporated tanks into this whole story before i even knew what to say or to write, so this is a great, GREAT stress reliever. Of course, so is writing 'journy of life'. Any way...
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