Life Is Like a Flow

by Surplus Flow

Rating: teen
Tags: Dark, Alternate Universe, Human, Adventure
Length: 6272

The griffon war took its toll on Equestria. The Royal army was wiped out while Lunar army stood tall and proud. But what happens when a commander takes a vacation?

The griffon war took its toll on Equestria. The Royal army wiped out while Lunar army stood tall and proud. But what happens when a commanders takes a vacation after the war. This is the story of Commander Surplus Flow of the Lunar army.

First story so criticism all you want. Also, please tell me your thoughts on my story.
Tags will be added along the story.
Picture is not mine.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-11-22 04:45:52 UTC

Chapter 1: Aftermath

Chapter 1

Its been about 10 years after the War against the griffons. Celestia’s army was wiped out in the process, but the Lunar army stood tall and proud. What made the Lunar army so strong was their 2 commanders.This is the story of one those commanders, days after the war.

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???- five days after victory

        It was morning, Celestia’s sun stood proud over the horizon. There could  galloping heard from inside the Lunar barracks. Inside the barracks, a neon-blue unicorn could be heard yelling at the soldiers to double-time. It was days after the war against the griffons and this was one of the barracks established during the war. This was also the barracks including the commanders.

        This barrack was known as the central command for the Lunar army. The current commander on duty was Surplus Flow, one of the top most dangerous unicorn in all known history. His 2nd in command is the son of Princess Luna, Prince and commander Penn Sill.

        Today, the barrack is being taken down because there is no more use for it. The unicorns are loading the mountain load of files and documents into caravans. The earth ponies are busy boarding up the empty rooms. The pegasi are patrolling and clearing the sky. It was going to be a one and a half day march back to Canterlot.

        As the last room was boarded up, the last pile of paperwork loaded into the caravan, and the last apple eaten, the battalion was ready to join with the rest of the Lunar army on their trek back to Canterlot. On how the 4 generals took charge of the various Lunar regiments was quite simple.

        Since Surplus is one of the top most strongest unicorns, he could teleport an entire regiment of soldiers without breaking a sweat. It sounded OP but it always took a toll on him in the mornings. For example, headaches and migraines would also be what he felt after doing a plethora of very complex spells. He would teleport the 3 generals and himself to the various regiments of the Lunar regiments.

        There was going to be a large celebration for the Lunar army but followed after that was going to be the mourning of the Royal army.

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Canterlot Castle- 2 days later

“Get those files into the the vault. And you, what in Celestia’s name are you doing!”

        You had such a headache right now. Now I wish I hadn’t teleported those hydras out of our path You were currently walking back to your office in the castle.

        As you near your small office you look at the dusty door. Damn, you really need to clean your office. There on the middle of the door lies a small golden plaque.

Commander Surplus Flow

You never thought the day you would be in charge of the Lunar army. You silently chuckle as you open the door. The smell of scotch enters your nose. Inside your office is a desk with a swivel chair with cabinets on the side. You flick on the lights and walk over to one of the cabinets on the wall and open it, there lays a bottle with 2 glasses next to it. You pop open the bottle and pour yourself a drink.

        You trot back to your desk and plop on your swivel chair. You take sip of your liquor, the burn is relaxing as you close your eyes. On the desk to your left is a picture that proudly shows you, your parents, and your sister, River Flow.

        Vacation, no doubt that was on your mind. You always wanted to buy a vacation house and lounge around. Looks like a good time too, the war is over, and you got a great deal on a 2 story house in some small town called Ponyville. You finish off your drink and pour another. You quickly finish and put the glass and bottle back in its hidey box. You lie back on your chair. A nap feels nice right about now.

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Ponyville Townhall- 3 days later

        You walk into the Ponyville’s Town Hall carrying a suitcase. The suitcase carried your family photo, a toothbrush, a sombrero, and your Lunar guard rank. You near the reception desk and ask for your keys. The receptionist hoofs over 2 keys, a spare you suppose. You take it and stash it in your sombrero. You say your goodbye and walk into Ponyville.

        All around you as you trot to your destination is peaceful, the foals are playing, the mares are gossiping, and the stallions are working. So peaceful yet so vulnerable. As your trot comes to an end, you look up at your house. It was a 2 story house with a new coat of green paint. You take out one of the keys hidden in your sombrero and insert it into the keyhole and hear the satisfying click of the door opening.

        As you enter, you look around, the first floor has the kitchen on the left, the living room in front of you, and a study on your right. The door closes behind you as you walk up the stairs in the living room, on the second floor is a restroom and 2 rooms. you open the room on your left, in the room is a queen sized bed with a cabinet and mirror. You set your suitcase down including your sombrero. Guess its time to meet the locals, got time to waste until nightfall.

Before you left the room you inspected yourself in the mirror. In the mirror stood a stallion with a neon-blue coat. His mane is a dark blue, his tail also had the same color as his mane.

His cutie mark or emblem as the other Lunar guards had called it, was a 4 tip spiral with a blue ball with 3 rings around it, surrounding the spiral are 4 stars. It was a very unique cutie mark that the Flow family all bear.

You had earned your cutie mark when you had executed several complex spells that would’ve taken a normal unicorn a large amount of magic. The Flows had always been the greatest magic users stating back from Starswirl the Bearded.

As you start your way out of your new vacation house, you are greeted by a pink mare with very poofy hair. Her cutie mark is 3 balloons. Celestia’s mane for whatever her  cutie mark ment.

“Hey are you new cause I know everypony in Ponyville, wait a minute!”

One second she was there the other she was gone. As you try to wrap your head around this, a orange mare with a stetson slowly trots up to you and says.

“Try not thin’ too much of it sugarcube, pinkie jus’ likes to throw parties for new folk”

Huh, as you teleport a map of Ponyville out of nowhere, you start looking for a nice to place to settle down. As you skim the map, your eye catches the Golden Oaks Library. Might as well relax by reading, so you start your trot towards the library as you teleport the map to Luna knows where. This day might be boring but that doesn’t matter, the war has taken a toll out of you, just gotta relax and stay sane.

Chapter 2: Party

Chapter 2

        As your trot comes to an end, you look up at the massive tree that was suppose to be the Golden Oaks Library. As you open the door in the tree, a bell rung. You look around the shelves full of books. Reminds you of the time you were a great Lunar mage teaching some apprentices. How you would test their abilities, and how you would help them when they think they are failures. The good old times where you were just a teacher.

        As you walk towards one of the shelves, you could hear hoof steps behind you. You turn around and come face to face with a purple mare. You, as the gentlecolt you are say.

        “Good afternoon miss.”

        “Good afternoon to you sir, my name is Twilight Sparkle, what may I help you with?”

        “My name is Surplus Flow and I’m just picking out a book.”

        “Do you have any preferences mister Surplus?”

        “Well, I do have a knack for adventure stories I suppose.”

        Twilight just smiles as she looks around for a book, then she levitates 5 books out from the shelf across the room. She hands over the book to you. You look at her curiously as you use your magic and set the books on the floor. Twilight justs stands there waiting for me to do something.

        I teleported a satchel that I enchanted with a weight cancelling spell on my back. It felt like a cloud was on my back. Then I levitated the 5 books into the left side of my satchel. I was about to leave when I turned my head and said.

        “Have a nice day miss Twilight”

        As you walk out of the library, it eerily silent, like a ghost town. You shudder at that thought and pull out your map. Lets see, Sugarcube Corner, Sweet Apple Acres, Carousel Boutique, Ponyville Schoolhouse, and Day Spa You decide to go to Sugarcube Corner. Your belly starts to rumble, you chuckle, yeah a cupcake or 2 might be nice.

You start your way towards Sugarcube Corner taking the scenic route and admiring what the view had to offer. Yeah I could teleport there, but where was the fun it that. You pass the Sofa and Quills store, strange indeed, wonder if there was a Chair and Ink store also. You chuckle at that thought in your head.

As you pass the locals some greet you or wave at you, you wave at them back or have shot chit chats with them. You spot a store made out of treats, then you look at the sign.

Sugarcube Corner

Wow, never thought it would be this decorated. You open the door and walk inside, you smelled cupcakes, and cakes, and assortments of all kind. But it was dark inside, you make a light orb but was you do this, the lights turn on.

“SUPRISE”

But as they said that, you had already deployed multiple shields around you. Then you glare at all the ponies gathered in the shop. You see a banner saying Welcome To PonyVille New Pony That I Don’t Know and then it all hits you. Duh, this is a party probably that pinkie pony from earlier. You take down your shields and walk over to a table full of goodies. The ponies around you disregard it and continue on with the party.

You take levitated the ladle and a cup and pour yourself some punch. Grape, definitely grape as you take a sip out of your drink. As you finish off your cup a group of ponies approach you. A white pony with an elegant mane comes forward and greets me.

“Hello my name is Rarity, what would be yours?”

“My name is Surplus Flow madame.”

“Ooh what a gentlecolt.”

She giggles as you walks away to another group of ponies. As you return your attention to the group in front of you a cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane flies up to you and says.

“My names Rainbow Dash, fastest flyer in Equestria.”

OH we got a tomboy here, you’ve met a couple of tomboys when you had been reinstated as a drill sergeant back in the days after your teaching years. 3 more ponies come up and greet you.

“Names Applejack, say weren’t you tht’ pony earlier?”

“Yes”

“Well see ya around”

Applejack walks away to get more grape punch.

“I’m Pinkie Pie, you're the new pony, well I threw this party just for you!”

Pinkie smiles as you hear a squee come out of here. Damn these ponies are crazier than a pair of diamond dogs fighting over a piece of gem.

“We met before, I’m Twilight Sparkle.”

“Yes, I still have those books you gave me.”

“Anyways, I want to know about you where are you from, what do you do?”

“Well, I’m from Canterlot, I have unicorn parents and a little sister, and I am the personal guard and teacher of Prince Penn Sill”

“Wow, you must really close to the Royal family”

“Yes I am, but I am also the commander of the Lunar army, never thought of the day I would be a commander. I was nothing more than a Royal Lunar mage, a teacher, and a drill sergeant. I didn’t think the griffons wanted to fight us, but in the end we fought them.”

You sigh as you think about all those terrible memories fighting the griffons.

“I’m sorry, I never thought about it like that.”

“Well can you say my thanks to Pinkie for throwing a party for me.”

As you say your goodbyes, you go and eat some cupcakes, socialize, and maybe play a game of darts against some pony. As the day nears it end, the party starts to dissipate and only about a dozen or so ponies are left. You say your goodbyes as you leave the store. It was dark outside as you hurried your way back to your house. You take out your key and open the door.

You close the door behind you as you make your way towards your bedroom. You take out your toothbrush and you brush your teeth. As you make your way onto your bed, you thought about your family. What was River doing, how are my parents faring. You close your eyes as you dream about surfing on a giant wave while being cheered on by the fellow surfers.

Chapter 3: Vacationing Prince

Chapter 3

        Morning hits like a block of marble. You fumble out of your mess of blankets and pillows, since you always move during your sleep. Your horn poked through several of the pillows releasing piles of feathers. It takes you some time but you finally bring the strength needed to perform you magic because you are lazy and lazy ponies take their time. The feathers all go back into the poked pillows and you sew them up using some thread and needle that your sister always put in your suitcase.

        *Thump*        Great, you just fell off your bed. Great job protector of the Royal Family. You rub your hoof against the bump formed on your head. Its too bad you don’t have any spells or ointment to fix it. You decide to put an illusion spell on the bump so no one sees it. Then a knock comes from the door downstairs.        You put on your sombrero as you walk out of your room and towards the stairs. As you come near the door, the pony knocks again. You open the door using magic and come face-to-face with a Royal guard. Some had survived staying at the castle or just mere luck. You look around the guard and see a small crowd of ponies have gathered around a pegasus drawn carriage. The guard force contains mostly Lunar guards. The guard in front of you is just a pegasus, as you turn you attention to him, he salutes.        “Sir, Private Scroll Wings”        “What is the meaning of this private, and who is on that carriage”        You ask with a stern voice.        “Sir, we are escorting Prince Penn Sill on a vacation in Ponyville.”        “Dismissed private.”        The pegasus turns around and returns to the guard force surrounding the carriage. As you walk out, you see the Prince smiling at you. The Prince is wearing a crown similar to the one Princess Luna wears, with a small moonstone encrusted on it. His coat has a nice shade of black with a tinge of orange. While his mane and tail is reddish with black trailing around the middle. Next to him is a familiar guard. You near the carriage and ask.        “My Prince, welcome to Ponyville, I find rather interesting you are vacationing in the same area as me.”        “Princess Luna wants me to go have a long break after the war. She says that this town is the perfect place to relax.”        “I also see that you have gathered quite a crowd,” you glance around the growing crowd of ponies, “I hope you do not plan on staying here for a long time?”        “Ahh, but I am commander, I’m sure a squad of guards can accompany me while the rest return back to Canterlot.”        “Well, while I can not interfere with the Princess’s command, I hope you have a nice stay here.”        As you run to leave you stop and look at the guard next to the Prince. He wears a suit of armour that all Lunar guard wears. From his insignia on his armour, he is a Lieutenant. He has a wooden spear with a metal tip, something similar to a halberd. His coat is a really white blue with his mane and tail having the same color but darker. As you continue your walk into the crowd and outside of the ponies, you hear whispers from them.        “... why do you think the Prince is here?”        “... I hope he visits my shop.”        “... can anyone explain to me why we are here?”        You just snicker until a very large boom comes over everypony. Everypony looks in the direction of Twilight Sparkle’s Library. You could sense the amount of magic and energy coming off from that direction. But what terrified you the most was how close the magic you could sense resembled when Discord broke free from his prison.        “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”        A scream was all that you heard before you took of running towards the library with a group of guards following after you.

Chapter 4: Strange Creature

Chapter 4

*Crack*

You had barged into the library with such force that the magical barrier around you shattered. As you regained your senses, the other guards had arrived and were scanning the room, on the left side of the tree was a scared purple unicorn and a little purple dragon.

In the middle of the library was a figure, it was kneeling down clutching its middle half with its appendages. By the look of it, the creature was bipedal but was skinnier and less muscular than a normal diamond dog, including it had no hair on its body nor fur. It was wearing a shirt of some type on its upper body with pair of pants on its lower buddy.

You could see a puddle of blood dripping from where the creature was clutching its sides. You did a check on the creature using a spell you learned from interrogating griffons. What you saw in the creature was unexpected, there was chaos magic in this creature and around the air. Puzzle parts clicked in your mind as you also felt a chaotic feeling coming from Canterlot.

The creature lifted its head, eyes full of sadness and pain, mouth quivering, the creature started to spasm before dropping into the floor, unconscious. As you look at the scene before, you turn and face the guards that have gather around and said.

"Who here is in charge of the this squad of guards?"

"I am", said a lunar guard bearing the rank of a lieutenant.

"Get a medical team in here and help that creature, restrain him at all cost, and never leave your eyes off it, is that clear lieutenant?"

"Yes sir.", said the stallion before he saluted you and went off to get a doctor. You glance at the creature before you cast a spell that summons upon a cage upon the creature. You smile contently before looking over to the unicorn and a dragon. You walk over to them. Twilight was sitting on her rump holding her dragon close.

"Are you okay Twilight?", you ask facing the unicorn.

"Yes I am."

"What did you do?", sternness in your voice.

"Well I attempted a warp spell, and then the creature appears.", fear in her voice.

"I fear that you have warped a creature from another universe or  dimension, I fear your spell may have released Discord."

Twilight gasped and held a straight face as she said.

"I must write a letter warning the Princess of this matter."

"No you are to go to a friends house for night and maybe for tomorrow until we can relocate the creature. I have everything under control, ok?"

"Yes sir.", a tint of sadness in her voice as she ushered her dragon to get his stuff.

Sweet Celestia I'm getting bored of this shit. You conjure a blank parchment and a ink and quill. You write,

Dear Princess Celestia and Luna,

It seems that your student Celestia has warped a creature from another here in Ponyville. Luna, your son is fine, he is currently inspecting the creature. As for my other concerns, I fear that since I sense a lot of chaotic essence in and around the creature, Discord has been released. I only hope that my buffer spell has stop Discord from returning, and will buy us some time before he returns.

As for other news, my stay in Ponyville is uneventful until today. There was party because I was new pony in this town and then this giant UFO began shooting banana peels and somepony exclaiming ‘I LOVE BANANAS’. So much yolo & swag in this town and then a midget from another universe dropped from a banana cloud and moles-.

PINKIE, GET OFF MY COMPUTER!

Fine meanie pants, I was just adding more awesome details in this story.

*Sigh* Pinkie, just get the fuck out of my swivel chair and go sit in the thinking bean bag chair.

*Humph* Fine.

As for other news, my stay in Ponyville is uneventful until today. There was a party because I was a new pony and I secretly ate half the party's muffin pile. Anyways, keep an eye on Discord as I try to get the Elements of Harmony. Oh, can you send me the Elements, you never gave me access to the Element of Harmony vault.

With best regards,

Commander Surplus Flow

There that oughta do it. You roll the paper before casting a dragonfire spell on it. You throw the letter into the air, the letter never reached the ground as it was incinerated half way down.

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Ponyville Dungeon - 2 hours later/center]

Pain. That was all you felt all over your body. You woke with a start sitting upright in a bed. You could hear beeping from a machine that was hooked up from you. You scan around and find yourself in a jail of some sort. You were restrained with leather straps around your hands and legs.

You look to the side of the bed and saw a blue horse in a chair. It was reading a book in blue aura surrounding the book as if it was being levitated  You pull on straps to try to free yourself. Then you wince as a pain flares from your stomach. You look down and see a cast around your belly. You become desperate and pull on your restraints more.

“Thats not going to help you you know.”

You look at the horse, jaws wide.

“You can talk!”

“And you can too apparently”

The horse chuckles as the book is set down. A flash blinded your eyes for second before realizing a orb of light had materialized on of the ceiling. You adjust your eyes from the change of light. You look at the horse, inspecting it.

It had a dark blue mane and tail while its coat was a neon-blue on its but was a tattoo resembling a 4 tip spiral with a blue atom in the middle. On the outside of the spiral were 4 stars. It had a horn protruding from its forehead. You chalked it up that it was a male unicorn. As you stare at the unicorn, Surplus got a better inspection at it then before.

The creature could talk and was intelligent, after discussions with the doctors, it could not use magic. This creature looked intimidating. It had a sleek brown mane, no tail, 5 digits on each end of its appendages. Its eyes were olive green while its skin was a whitish yellowish tone. The doctors said that it was an omnivore, B+ blood, its clothes had been cleaned and fitted onto the creature.

Then the creature started thrashing out. Yelling,

“This isn’t real, this isn’t real, you're probably on drugs or maybe this is all a dream, yeah a dream.”

The creature started hyperventilating, theres probably one method that could get him out of his delusional daze.”

You teleported in your most prized and most terrified weapon against your enemies in your magical grasp. You aimed the the metal piece at the freaked out creature before you cock the weapon.

*Click*

The creature faced you and its face instantly turned into a terrified expression. You had selected sedative ammo, they look like small green cylinders, similar shape to a bullet. You carried bullets, sedative, explosive, magic ammo.

The bullets were identical to the bullets you found in the weapon 8 years ago, copper head bullets. The explosive ones were yellow, while the magic one were for substitute for bullets, they were a blue color.

You make the sedative, explosive, and magic ammo by condensing them into pure magic, then shaping them into a bullet like shape, then add the flavours, like a sleep spell for the sedatives, or condensed explosion in an explosive bullet. The magic ammo was your pure arcane magic, same way but without the flavours. You only used it when practicing or when you want to conserve your copperhead bullets.

And by the looks of things, the creature was afraid of your weapon.

“Where did you get that!?”

“Oh, its just Woona.”, Luna hated it when you said Woona, or when Celestia says it. It was Celestia and the Prince to convince me to name the weapon Woona.

“What the hell, you're a talking unicorn holding a gun in front of my face. Who the hell are you?”

“My title is Commander Surplus Flow. And yours?”

“Steve Jinks, so let me get this straight, why am I restrained and where in the world am I?”

“Steve, I ordered that you be restrained, for the safety of everypony, or everyone, I hate the puns really.” Taking deep breath before saying, “As for location, you are in the Equestria, Welcome to Ponyville.”

“Ok, I’m in the land of ponies?”

“Yes, I have question for you, how do you know what this weapon I'm holding is?”

“Dude, thats a revolver, or as they say in my world, a gun, a bit futuristic with its bulky design, and what's with the glowing from the chamber?”

“I just call Woona, as for the glowing, I use magic ammo, this is sedative ammunition that I hoof crafted with my magic and sleep spells.”

“So if you shoot me with that, I go to sleep? Is it like a tranquilizer?”

“Yes but i also got copperhead, explosive, and magic ammo.”

“Explosive ammo, dude you gotta show me that sometime.”

“Nope, anyways, as the royal guardian yada yada yada yada, I present your royal guards to make sure you stay put and watched.”

Then 2 guards enter the cell, they wore midnight armour, standard Lunar guard armour. They held nothing but a gun like weapon in each holster on their armour. It was an old-fashioned hand cannon, fires nothing but a medium sized cannonball at anywhere they point.

“These are 2 of my own trained soldiers, the rest are posted throughout Equestria, and some are part of the Princesses and Princes royal guard. I must say, I’m quite proud of my soldiers, best of the best.”

“So, I’m just gonna stay down here like an animal?”

“No, you are deemed safe, and the Princess Celestia made you a Equestrian citizen. On another topic, neither the Princesses nor I can send you home sorry, best wishes, and stay away from a pink pony with frizzly hair.”

You teleport in your sombrero, stash the revolver and book in the sombrero, then you put it on. You make your way outside of Ponyville.

Chapter 5: Spa

Chapter 5

        When was the last time I got a back rub or massage, lets see, when I was a Lunar mage 13 years ago, the other time was when I was a drill sergeant 9 years ago. But hey, I always wanted to go the spa, don’t get me wrong, being all high and dandy is fun when you get to yell at people. But there was also that one thing In my life that made It unbearable but somehow I keep on going.

        Paperwork, god you thought that when you got a job, its just office work, no homework. No, Luna insisted that I study those great tomes and spell books. It felt like homework, having to read all those bucking books. I mean, when I became commander of the entire military, I thought I was gonna go kill stuff, but no, they need my skills for bucking planning, let Prince Moonlight do it, he has “creative” plans and ways to fight a battle.        But no, I’m the commander, I have to make the plans, why can’t I appoint a Captain for each branch of the military. I mean, can’t I send orders to the 6 captains, then relax while my orders are carried out? Maybe I could make the captains do my paperwork, but then Celestia would be mad at me.        I pulled a bag of bits out of my sombrero as I near the Day Spa. As I neared the Spa, I could make out the shape of the building. Its shape was similar to that of a tent except it was solid. There was a glass door, so I opened it and a small chime followed. I smiled as I saw the list of services on the side of a desk.        There, a blue earth pony with a pink mane and a white headband was behind the desk. Her cutie mark was a flower thingy, I never really studied plants and shit. You look at the list of services before asking.        “Can I get a massage and a sauna please?”        The pony replied, “that will be ten bits please.”        I opened my bit bag and pulled out two 5 bits before handing the pony the bits. As she leads me through a door to room with a bed. As I take my sombrero off, the spa pony prepares the bed. I walk over to the bed before lying down. I place my head down on the bed as the spa pony started massaging my back.All my tense muscles start to relax as the massage lasts on for about thirty minutes before it was time for the sauna. I got up from the bed before following the spa pony into a another room. Inside, a wood paneled room with steam inside that welcomes me as I step inside. I walk over to a bench lined up to wall before setting my rump down.The sauna works wonder for me as I relax and start sweating, my cost getting more wet. Then, a letter and a box appears in my face with an audible pop before dropping onto the wood floor. You groan loudly but not loud enough for the spa pony to hear. you levitate the letter to you face before opening. You read out loud,Dear Commander Surplus Flow,The spell is helping but not for long, I can see cracks on Discord. His head has already broken and now I can see him yelling at the guards surrounding him. It is a matter of time before he is released. In this box are the the Elements of Harmony. Also, Luna and I have agreed on something. You are now taking three jobs instead of two because we feel we can only trust you. This third job is going to be Keeper of Artifacts. I hope you make good use this job.I skim the paragraph over and over looking if I was hallucinating from the steam and scented candles. Nope, I was not hallucinating. I let this process in my mind. ‘I’m going to be the Royal Guardian, Commander of the Military, and the Keeper of Artifacts. Great just great… or maybe I can take advantage of this new position.We would you to round up the Element bearers; their names are Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity.

Sincerely,

Princess Celestia

I teleport the letter to you room as I face the box in front of me. I reach for one of the latches on the box before flipping it open. The lid falls backward revealing five gold necklaces with various marks. In the center is a gold tiara with a familiar mark on it.I close the lid before laying back on the wall, still holding the box in my hooves. 'Maybe Straight A would like to be a Keeper of Artifacts?' I muse over this thought as I got up while levitating the box heading towards the door. I exit the room and dry off the excess sweat. I looked around for my sombrero before eyeing in on one of the hat stands.I walk towards it and brought the yellow hat on the ground before stuffing the box into it. I smile as I pick up the hat before slapping it on my head and walking towards the doors. You smile at the sun before walking towards the Golden Oaks Library. Grinning as I see a pegasus fly over you carrying a package.

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Ponyville Dungeon - 45 minutes ago

        I looked at the 2 ponies guarding me, hand cannons on their holsters. Their armour was like a midnight black flowing wave, with white stripes under the armour. In the middle of the was an encrusted blue vortex, the same mark you saw on Surplus’s butt, except his had an atom and 4 stars around it.  Both their coats are uniformed grey, including their hair. Their eyes were a crimson red color with a hint of green.        Their helmets were the same design as a spartan helmet from the Roman times. The helmet extended to their shoulders covering their necks from possible attacks. The helmet was wavey like the armour which allowed fluid motions and 180 degree turns.        I thought about how he said that he has a personal army, about 100 soldiers I remembered correctly. I also thought of how Surplus got that revolver, and why it was futurized. As I concentrated, the guard on my left poked me with his hoof and said.        “What are you suppose to be?”        I noticed that her voice was like a woman’s so I guessed the pony was a mare. I replied sarcastically, “a homo sapient.”        “What kind of a name is that?”        “Just kidding, that is the scientific name for us, we call ourselves humans.”        “Huh.” was all she said before taking out a notebook from under her wings and began writing something down with a pencil that she got from her other wing.        “What are you doing?” I asked, curiosity filling me.        “Studying you, commander’s orders.” She replied writing a bit more before stashing them away in her wings. She looks at me before saying, “I’m staff sergeant Red Glaze and this here,” she said pointing at the pony right of me, “is corporal Block Crasher.” She holds out her hoof and you shake it.        Red Glaze opens her mouth to ask me, “what is your name?”        “Steve Jinks, hey do you two know anything about Surplus’ gun?        “You mean Commander Surplus’ weapon, Woona right?”        “Yeah that.”        “Well, the other soldiers say that he got it from the gods themselves. Others say that he summoned it using black magic.”        “What do you call yourselves, like the army you are in?”        “Oh, we are the Vortex, see this,” she said pointing to the encrusted blue vortex, “that represents what army we are in. Currently there are four armies and two guard details. We are not part of the Equestrian Military, we only answer to Commander Surplus Flow. Most of the Vortex used to be in the Princess’ personal guard detail. Currently, we are at full capacity, 100 soldiers. The Vortex includes 50 unicorns, 25 pegasus, and 25 bat ponies.”        “Where are the rest of the army?”        “The rest of the army is posted throughout Equestria in case of an emergency. Very convenient for the commander to think of that.”        “Huh, so now what?”        “Well, more questioning of course.” Glaze said before smiling. I groan before saying.        “Fine, what else do you want to know?” And that was my mistake, questions after questions, most of which I could not answer, was asked of me. I didn’t realize that Glaze has taken out her notepad and pencil while we were talking.        After an hour later, she closed her notebook and took out a vial what appeared to be green dust. She opened the vial and poured the dust over the notebook. The notebook catches on fire before disintegrating leaving behind nothing, not even dust. My jaw literally dropped, an hour of interrogation and she burns it. Great waste of time.

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Golden Oaks Library

        I had just finished reading the first book of the Daring Do series before a swirling of green and red appeared on the table where I was currently seated at. A notebook and a parchment landed on the table. I looked at the notebook. ‘Good, notes on the creature.’ Then i glance at the parchment. I levitate the paper to my face and read it out loud,        “He has agreed”