Fallen Angels

by drwhooves32

Rating: teen
Tags: Pipsqueak, Tragedy, Random, Sad, Main 6, Gore, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Cutie Mark Crusaders
Length: 3371

fast planes, impending war, and a cliché ending just like a lot of war stories

author's warning: this story jumps back and forth from the past to the future and back again within a three month span!
"How soon does one forget who or what he is? How soon does a nation forget what it stands for?"-Guardian Angel
My name is Guardian Angel and this is my story of how I was thrust into a war with two immensely powerful nations. the world hasn't been the same since the technology started rolling out of PonyVille, and what is this household whisper of the "angel" program...

Published 2013-09-07 13:30:03 UTC
Last updated 2014-05-09 18:28:09 UTC

the background to make sense

Have you seen them the Blazing Angels, the greatest air squadron in Equestria?
Do you understand what they have gone through? Do they?

This is the story of what happens when an angel falls, while his kin watch with sorrow and pain, what could’ve lead to this?

Sometimes I think back to that day, back in Cherilee’s class when that pegasus came, the leader of the Angels, Spark Fire. Normally we were a peaceful nation, but due to increased tensions with the griffon and dragon empires we were forced into an immense overhaul of our relatively pathetic military. We may have the greatest magic systems on the planet, the elements of harmony, a commander thats primary magic spells are impenetrable shields, as well as the three, err… four Alicorns?

We needed a major offensive against the dragons, they don’t fly special planes or anything, they just fly up and incinerate all opposition. The griffons on the other hoof currently had the fastest planes and airships without sacrificing fire power, something we could work against, but not to the effect that the military wanted. We had very limited flight power with something close to 36 MK.II fire-kites a very limited and slow plane with a single .50 caliber machine gun that jammed more often than it shot.

My name is Guardian Angel and this is my story.

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Three months ago

“Gotta get these papers to mom, for some sort of field trip to Canterlot.” I thought to myself as I was skulking towards home. “Probably more military themed trips like we had last month... And well, basically all this year.” I had hoped it would be different, with less boring museums and a little more displays of the current era. “Probably not I thought but a colt can dream.”

“Hey Guardian, pay attention or you will be left behind.” Dinky called to me. I guess I should be paying attention, but this is so boring with all this old museum junk. Just like I had thought three days ago, this field trip was filled with boring museum viewings. “Now class, we have a special opportunity today!” Oh great, more parades. As we concluded our visit to the museum, Ms Cherilee said: “We get to see what Mr.Fire was explaining when he came for his visit a few days ago”. As we meandered through the streets of Canterlot towards the main plaza, we realized that it was a lot cooler than it had been when we had entered the museum. Looking up, we saw a vast cloud system moving in over the city. Always the first to voice a complaint, Diamond Tiara wondered what was happening and decided that it was in her power to call all pegasus on the weather team in Canterlot lazy, uncaring dolts who had too much hot air under their wings and not enough sense to keep the skies over the capital clear, only to be shot down as the largest noise any of us have ever heard split the sky, there where the clouds had been was the largest airship any of us had ever seen. It was easily the most imposing structure on this side of the dragons valley. Its name was emblazoned across its hull and balloon: “EAFRSFS LUNA” (Equestrian Air Force of the Royal Sisters Flag Ship) it was easily the size of a small city. Out from behind the LUNA came a smaller but still imposing airship that nopony knew anything about only that it was marked by an A with angel wings. While we looked in awe at this amazing spectacle taking place the smaller airships hull doors opened releasing about 50 planes each was identical to one another except for the last it was bright red with silver wings, it was breathtaking.

These new pilots were insane the way they dipped and corkscrewed through the skies, took away the breath of the class a few times when we thought they were about to crash into a building only to pull up at the last second.

After one hour of this the lead plane came and landed in the courtyard and out jumped a familiar pegasus, Spark Fire. He walked coolly over to Cherilee and simply asked what she thought when she replied with a positive word and tone he seemed to get a little serious and whispered something to her which she took with a gasp and a step back only nodding her head, “How many of you would like to go up in the new Pegasus MK.III?” Spark Fire asked the assembled class. Us go up, in those?... Buck yeah. I guess those permission slips made sense now when asking if we were afraid of heights and speeds that could possibly breaking the sound barrier. “Well?” came the question from Spark Fire. “YES SIR!” We all shouted in unison with as much zeal as a foal who had gotten their Cutie Mark. As he went through the class list we realized that the rest of the planes were landing in the courtyard. Upon inspection we realized that each plane was marked by a number all the way up to 49 making the one behind Spark Fire the 50th plane in the squadron, and coincidentally there was 49 of us and Miss Cherilee making... 50. They had planned this from the start, those sly devils. After going through the list multiple times and making sure everything was in order he started calling out names;
“Applebloom you're in plane 1,
Scootaloo plane 2,
Sweetie Belle I want you in plane 27…”
The list went on like this for sometime until I realized that I was the only one besides Miss Cherilee that was left she was looking around, and realized that there were two planes on the ground. 49 and 50. Suddenly Spark Fire called me over. “I want you, Miss Cherilee, to go up in 49. I'll take him with me up in 50.”

While I was in the air daydreaming, I almost missed the beginning of the conversation that Sparkie - what he told me to call him - was trying to have with me. “So what are your plans for your future after school?” He asked me. “ Nothing really, probably just work in construction just like my dad.” “Why not join us? We are looking for new recruits for the Angel program and we are specifically looking in the area of PonyVille.” “Sorry sir, but I won’t do that. I can’t put my mother and father through that stress. Not now at least.”

Nothing matched what we had seen before lunch for the rest of the day, not even meeting the princesses (though that was a close second). Turns out that the group name or squadron as we were taught was the blazing angels the fastest most dangerous squadron in the air force flying the brand new pegasus MK.III a lightweight heavy armament interceptor around as if they were toys.

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Author's Note

this is my first time doing anything of this sort and i hope i get a chance for others to read and enjoy this

please feed back will be much appreciated both good and bad

thank you

The angel experiment- future

The angel experiment- future

Ch.2 The Angel Experiment-future

It hadn't taken much, mom was against it obviously, saying it would be to dangerous. She was right. Dad though was all for it seeing how he was a guard during the Changeling invasion, but was released do to psychological reasons, he warned me of the stress. He was right.

We arrived today, “Camp Purgatory” as it was aptly named beckoned us like the bony fingers of Hades himself beckoned Persephone to the depths of Tartarus. Near the end of our briefing Lt. SpitFire (yes the wonderbolt,who would have thought?) told us that they were looking for recruits for the Angel experiment, and any recruits who thought they were up to snuff would be asked to hang back at the end of the briefing. She then began to wrap up with her closing remarks, but nopony was listening or remotely interested, everyponies thoughts were on Angel.

Later that night i decided to let mom and dad [1] know that i was doing fine haven’t crashed a plan yet or blown up any buildings, as well as telling them about the friends that i have here from basic training. twenty minutes after i had finished my letter and was settling into my cot reading Silver Surf ;my bunk mate and friend from basic, came in and let me know that the officers were offering the recruits a chance to go home for the weekend before major training started, i asked if he and everypony else would want to go to ponyville with me for the weekend.

(later that night)

Flying through the air, hooves flipping switches and dials with a practiced feel all the while playing with throttle control and the yolk. Keeping my plane steady watching the on coming dragon swarm of maybe twenty, looking to my right i see the smiling and grim faces of my friends and wing mates on my left a flight of Heavily Armed Dragon class unicorn fighters.

* * * * * * * * * * * *

“Hey Honey,want to go to PonyVille this weekend?”
”Sure but who else is going?”
“oh you know me,Silver,Cinnamon, and Nicci.”
“okay sure!”
I kept replaying that moment in my head over and over until it hurt, me and Honey Dew on a train for three hours together this is going to be heaven for me and silver[2] knew it,i can’t believe it happened especially not to him.

As the train pulled in the PonyVille station and we disembarked from our melancholy setting that was our train carriage, to the bright cheery visage of PonyVille our parties mood visibly changed for the better. Mom!, Dad! i’m home and i brought friends. Seeing nopony there i invited the girls inside for drinks and food because thats what my parents taught me to do if they were not there. After a light lunch of Daffodil sandwiches and lemonade, and still no sight of my parents, that was still worrying.

After an hour of waiting for my parents, we decided to go ask somepony if they had seen them. Best pony to ask was pinkie, she knows everypony in town,when we got to SugarCube Corner we asked the Cakes if the had seen Pinkie they explained that she was in Canterlot helping Twilight with some errand that princess Celestia needed done something about mirrors in the cellar, I asked if they had seen my parents which they said they had not. I was scared.

When we got back to camp after a weekend of looking for my parents and finding nothing, we took my worries to the police and guards posted in the city; I was approached by a hooded figure the minute we entered camp, someone we had enough sense to salute, after being told to stand easy the hooded figure gave us a message from a higher up that said the presence of all four of us was requested in the Angel office, which in itself is weird, after arriving we were told to prepare for some trials of some sort by Lt. SpitFire.

The trials were mostly stamina and endurance tests with a few practicals; by the end of the day we were, sweaty,bloody,and tired; that was warm up. The hooded figure stopped us at that point and told us to go to the hanger and suit up, night flying something that they save for the more experienced pilots not a the motley crüe of trainees that we were. The four of us stood there waiting for well we weren’t sure what, or who we were waiting for, we got our answer quite quick when Spark Fire showed up and told us what we were doing here and why we why were here. this was the Angel program entrance test and us four were the only candidates that passed warm up, our next task is to get in the MK.III Pegasus, and take them to 20,000 feet up to the Archangel and await for further instructions.

Author's Note

chapter not completely done thought i would get something out though

The Recruitment

Author's Note

sorry for the long wait i had hoped to get these chapters out a lot sooner than i have been, hope you all enjoy thanks !!

The Recruitment

“MOM!, DAD!, i’m back and i have something to ask you”i yelled as i came back from my field trip to Canterlot and our flights in the Pegasus’ only to realize both my parents were in the living room looking at me like i was a lunatic. “honey do you need to yell?” my mother asked in that annoyed motherly tone. sheepishly i blushed and apologized while i came in and told my parents what happened in Canterlot and the meeting with the Blazing Angels as well as the princesses and judging by the pale colour of their faces i could tell they were a little queasy about my whole field trip experience. “... and he said they were looking for recruits particularly in the PonyVille area so i was thinking of s…” my story being cut short by a quick cuff to the back of the head by my father and a strong no by my mother which led to lots of yelling and crying and anger, feeling like they just told me my dog died I fled to the whitetail woods just at the edge of town to sit down and have a think in a spot I discovered long ago when I had another fleeting moment of running away.

Once I reached the woods I slowed down and taking a quick look around making sure nopony was around I trotted off the path for about 15 minutes or so til I hit a spot that looked picture perfect a beautiful cascading waterfall into an underground pool and unnoticed by the Pegasi that lived around the forest by the tall trees obscuring the view from the sky but just before the sun sets it shines on the falls and shows a cave that was previously obscured by the shadows of the cliff face and falls. Still a little upset about what my parents told me I sped around to a bush near the cliff face and pulled out a rope attached to a bag full of camping and spelunking equipment (that I bought after I found this place), tying the rope around a tree and the other end around the bag I lowered it down the gorge till it was level with the opening of the cave
Swinging like a crazy pony I pushed through to the cave and pulling on a slip knot realesing the bag and myself into the cave. After checking to see that nothing was damaged or broken I picked up the bag careful of my wings and trekked into the cave amazed by the stalimites and stagnimites and the glowing veins of celestial metal ore that I would mine if it wasn't considered a scarce and sacred metal meaning that mining it might get me arrested and it is easy to trace back to its origin thanks to the fact that it leaves a residue aura on the person that can only be seen with the right spell. After a few minutes of stumbling through the dark since my matches are wet and the lighter was also wet, meant no laturn and no light but up ahead was a gleaming blue light that I had never seen before on my past adventures in the cave, upon arriving at the source I realized it was a plant that seemed to be metallic and phospholumineciant but I couldn't place what it was since I had never learned about in school and had never read about it in a book, maybe it was a new undiscovered plant but what made me doubt that was what was being luminated by the plant a small text on a stone that read
" it happened today the plant blossomed and produced a bud what was in the bud I won't know the odd thing is looking and working with this plant has made me learn that I am missing something I feel a yearning like my sister was keeping something from me but I wasn't sure what I'll take some samples and a few seeds back home and run experiments from my room determining if this is an edible or toxic plant more notes to follow. - Luna"

I wasn't expecting that I wonder how old that plant is and why it's in that cave, maybe I'll write to princess luna asking her about it since it has her seal on the notes. As I thought through this and proceeded back out of the cave not even mad about what happened earlier with my parents back at the house.

Once I got back I noticed that my parents had gone out and dinner was left out for me along with a note that read
" Guardian Angel,
We won't try to stop you if you believe that by joining this group you will do good for Equestria but be careful out there war is a scary thing and not for the faint hearted and promise you'll come back and write often
-love mom & dad
With the note in hoof and determination on my face I galloped over to the recruitment station by the library and knocking on the door, I see that the person who answered was none other than spark fire who just smiled and said " glad you could make it kid, we were waiting for you!"

Chapter 2.5

As we headed to the Pegasi in the hangar ,we chose four blank marked planes from the 20 or so that were still left in the hanger probably left for the other candidates that never made it this far. as the others got into theirs and pulled out and got up into the air, Spark Fire came out from behind my plane and walked up to me; “be careful in this next part, and i’m sorry.” he said in that cryptic way he spoke when not doing presentations or lessons.

I was terrified our next part of the exam was to not fall 17 500 feet and go above 22 500 feet in a live combat training with emp rounds so they won’t kill us, unless we can’t get our planes restarted in three seconds, and our opponents were the 27 Angels, a few i recognized, and we had to take them out before we got taken out.

After six hours of dog fighting we came to the hanger with our heads down hung in defeat we had all lost even though we took out 10 Angels we still lost; as we started to head to our respective locker rooms a central door opened exposing Spark Fire who simply asked “where are you four going?” we just stood there slack jawed at least until Cinnamon stammered out “w-w-we are going back to barracks sir we failed the last part of the exam.” it was designed to make you fail and you four by the way took out more Angels than any of us ever did in our training the record was 7 held by my flight, but there seems to be bigger fish in the sky now. Welcome to Angel. We just stood there slack jawed and dumbstruck once again we were in and we beat a record. That night was a good one, for all of us.

Dear mom and dad,

I am now my namesake i got into the Angel program, the fastest most amazing squadron in Equestria.

Hope to hear from you soon

Love Guardian Angel G.A.

Author's Note

sorry for getting this out later than expected hope you all enjoy this story