Equestrian Soldiers

“Get moving Dark Frost!” The Drill sergeant yells at me. I growl, and start running faster.

I didn’t choose my nick name. It was the soldiers in my squad that did, and that became my tag name.

I pulled ahead of my squad mates, and slowed to their pace.

We were running around the track at the American Navy base in Oregon.

I slow to a walk as I cross the finish line of the track for the twentieth time today, and the last lap for this exercise.

I walk over to sergeant.

“What’s next sir?” I ask.

“Honestly Dark Frost, I’m going to let you all rest until tomorrow’s combat exercise. I’ve been working you guys pretty hard, and thought I might as well give you some relaxing time before the big test.” He tells me.

“Please stop calling me Dark Frost sir.” I ask him with a grimace at my tag name.

“Sorry, can’t do that after what you did to my tea lieutenant. I still don’t understand how you made the ice black.” He says with a stern look.

“I already told you how I did it sir, it is just if you believe it or not.” I reply in my defense.

“I’ll believe it when I see it.” He replies.

“Give me a chunk of ice, and I’ll show you.” I tell him.

The rest of my squad finish there last lap, and come over to Sarge and me panting as they walked.

“What’s happening next Frost?” Ask Delta Shot. Delta was the squad sniper. He even set a new record in the base for longest distance hit with a single round.

“Sarge is giving us all the rest of the night, so you know what that means guys?” I ask with a huge grin.

“Are you telling us all the truth?” Steel Skull asks. He got his name for getting hit in the head with brass knuckles with a Spartan punch, and having his skull intact.

“Yes boys.” I say as we ready our signature shout for when we get a night off.

“BRONY NIGHT OUT!!!” We all shout as we head for the showers.

We all burst into laughter as we hear other squads groan at our Bronyism.

We were all in our barrack that we all slowly upgraded over the months that we were here. There were six of us. I was there at the back of the group preparing the blue-ray DVD of the, My little Pony: Friendship is Magic series that came out a year ago. Steel Skull was getting our patches that we had custom made.

These patches were our make shift Cutie Marks.

Delta Shot’s was a rifle with a mile marker behind it. Steel Skull’s was a steel skull with a gold tooth. Sharp Thought had a brain with a lightning bolt coming from it. Flame Scepter had a scepter that looked a lot like Loki’s from the Avengers movie that came out a year ago, and was on fire.

Night Terror had a dream bubble, with a demon’s face on it.

Lastly there was mine that I had foolishly aloud my brony bro to buy. It was a perfect cube of ice that had a black base that made wisps of black curling up through the ice cube.

Steel Skull handed out the patches, and we all pinned them on our uniforms.

We were nick named the Pony Company at the base because we all forgot to take our patches off one time. It didn’t bother us one bit. We just did what a pony would, and tolerated the shit out of them.

“Night, what episode are we on?” I ask the African American soldier.

“Season three, episode eight. How do you manage to forget shit so fast?” He asks.

“Shut it or I won’t change your drink.” I reply. This shuts him up.

“So what flavor do you think your darkness will give us this time?” asks Sharp Thought. Sharp is an Asian guy with the fastest train of thought ever. His quick mind pulled our asses out of the fire on multiple missions.

I guess now would be a good time as any to explain my ability.

I was born in sub zero temperatures, and was rushed into the ICU (Intensive care unit) as soon as I was out of my mom. The doctors put me under a sun lamp for a few days to get me to return to a regular color instead of black. I regained my skin color after a few days, and was returned to my mother soon afterwards. My grandfather says there was magic being used when I was born.

My mother told me that the first time I used my darkness, as everyone calls it, was when she put me in the tub for a bath. As soon as I touched the water it turned to ice, and was the darkest black you have ever seen. This ability doesn’t just affect water however. I can do this to all liquid substances.

After my childhood ended I was moving out of my mom’s place, and going to boot camp for the navy, was when I figured out that I could turn blood black, and keep it as a liquid.

The second I got in my car I cut my skin over my bicep and the blood turned black after a few seconds after oozing out of my arm.

Now Sharp Thought was the one to get me to change his drink. We were at a bar, and I was almost drunk, not slurred speech, and stumble all over the place drunk, but enough that I was open to some pretty crazy shit.

So I made Sharp’s drink black, and he slammed the drink down after he chugged it. He completely fell to the floor passed out, and got a good week of clean up duty for being late to the base.

I was waiting for him to complain about his hangover, but he never did. Later on he told us that he didn’t have one, and was thankful, but said it was my ‘Darkness’ that did it.

And true enough the next time we went out I turned all of our drinks, and we didn’t have even the smallest of hangovers in the morning. We also found out that my darkness can make any drink alcoholic.

“I don’t know Sharp, but I hope it will be good this time.” I reply.

“If it turns out like last time, I will never drink your shit again.” Flame Scepter tells me. Now Flame was a Caucasian like me, but he was raised by a black family, so he acts like a black guy.

“Remember how we never get a same taste each time?” I ask him.

“I’m still sticking to what I said.” He replies with a huff.

I got the DVD ready, and we all sat down, stretched out, and watched a few episodes of season three.

“Alright guys, we need our sleep if we’re going to kick ass tomorrow.” I tell the boys. I get some form of agreement from them all.

“Hey Dark, did you check the weather for tomorrow?” asks Delta Shot.

“A large chance of rain tomorrow, and it should start right around the beginning of our test, so we have my ability to help us.” I reply.

“Wait guys, we forgot our prayer to the alicorns.” Night reminds us.

“Right, gather to a circle, and we will do it.” I tell the others. Our prayer was basically asking the ascended alicorns, namely Celestia’s mother, and father, to send us to Equestria.

We were in our circle, so I started the prayer.

“Ascended alicorns please listen to our plea…” I started.

“We ask a favor of you for a ticket…” Delta continued.

“A ticket to the land of peace, and happiness…” Flame said.

“A way to live in a war free world…” said Steel.

“A chance to protect what we hold precious…” Sharp continued.

“We all ask for a way to Equestria…” Night says as we near the end of our prayer.

“To live a better life in the best world there is, and be protectors of its inhabitants.” I say as we come to the final line of our prayer.

“Please grant us this favor King and Queen of Equestria.” We all said in unison for the last line.

After this we stayed silent for a few moments before we all stood from our kneeling position, and go to beds in our barrack.