Equestria Divided: War never changes

Neon Flask was getting ready for the day in her home with her parents in the city of Hoofington.  "Hey mom I'm going to the town square to sell my works wish me luck!"  She yells up in a cheery voice.

"Okay but be careful, the Houses slave warriors have been causing trouble lately."  Her mother warns from upstairs an she too is getting ready for the day.  Neon just giggles as she secures saddlebags on her back, filled with her homemade alchemical medicines.

"Don't you worry I can take care of myself."  and with that she trots out the door to the city of which she calls home.

Neon Flask trots to the Town Square with smile on her face.  Her black coat glistening in the sunshine and her black and neon green mane and tail bouncing.  Such a rare site to see in these times of war and suffering.  But that is what Neon aims to remedy with her medicine.  Neon received her cutie mark, a Flask with scarlet liquid when she first tried to mix an elixir to save her father from a very bad fever.  Ever since she has been growing and harvesting her own ingredients and using alchemy to produce elixirs that she sells to help her family and the whole city.  Lost in thought she almost crashes into her own stand at the town Square.

"Silly me I need to watch were I'm going."  she giggles.  Neon then begins to set up shop separating her homemade elixirs by type and potency and waits for her first customer.

It has been three hours now and not a single pony has bought one of her medicinal elixirs.  Neon was beginning to think that she had maybe put the pricing too high this time or something like that.

"Hmmm should I lower the price or maybe start handing out flyers to advertise?"  She says in thought, but as she is lost in her mind a pony walks up to her stand.  The pony clears her throat to get Neon's attention.  Neon is torn from her thoughts by the noise of a potential customer and turns to see who is in need of her cures.  The mare before her is a pegasus and by the looks of it she is one of the many slave warriors forced into military service by House Moon and Star.

"Please I, i need some medicine for my platoon.  I don't have much money but if there is anything that I can do to pay you for the rest I can-" The mare is stopped when Neon putting a hoof to the her lips.  The slave pony thought that she had somehow angered her but then she saw Neon's smile.

"If you need medicine to save your platoon then you came to the right pony."  The slave was speechless as Neon used her magic to levitate two bottles into a bag and puts it in front of her.

The slave pony looks at Neon in awe.  "Why would a unicorn help a pegasus slave like me?"  Neon giggles.

"Just because I live in a town controlled by House Moon and Star Doesn't mean I agree with all of there ideals."  The slave Pegasus looks from left to right before asking,

"Then what are those ideals?"  A grin forms of Neon's face as she levitates something from her saddle bags, a card with the picture of a jesters hat and what looks like a large grin underneath it.

"Why don't you find out for your self?"  She says as she gives the slave pegasus the strange card along with the medicine.  "Have a smile filled day."  Neon says politely as the pegasus begins to walk away.

"Oh wait I never got your name."

"It's Neon Flask, yours?"

"Thunder Streak, my name is Thunder Streak."  She says as she walks away back to her barraks on the other side of town.  But as she does so she stops to look at the card and upon flipping it over she sees that instructions are written.  Directions to a particular building and the instruction to show this card to the pony guarding the doors.  "Hmmmm Interesting."