When I saw the smithing car, I geeked. I was thinking on the lines of Oh my Luna, Holy-. There was everything I could ever ask for in one car. Full metal sheets of stainless steel and gold leaned up against the walls. A furnace built into the side of the wall lit up the room with an orange glow. There was a large black chest with a label that read “Leather and Kevlar.” A wall stand with pegs holding all the tools I could ever imagine was displayed to the right of the furnace. A lone manikin stood in the far left corner. It had detachable wings and horn. The windows were high up so there was only a small stream of light flowing in. I just realized that I need their measurement and their weapons to make their armor, so I trotted back into the passenger car. When I got a bunch of weird looks I noticed that I was smiling like an idiot.
“Oh, I just need your measurements and weapons” I said nervously.
They still looked at me weird. I sighed and trotted over to Midnight.
“Can you stand up straight?” I asked him. He stood up straight.
“Thank you” I told him.
“Hey uh, Middy”
“Yes?” He said to me
“You want me to change anything on your cloak?”
“No. I like it the way it is.”
“So ah- Why am I measuring you then.” I asked him feeling quite awkward.
“I don’t know,” He responded obviously
I stood up feeling awkward. Then I walked over to Anaphora and Dusk Cloud. They were still talking. They must’ve really hit it off. Not in a mare-friend, mare-friend way. I went closer to Anaphora. I was too busy to listen to their conversation, but it was something about barrowing something.
“I see you have your own goggles.” I said
“Yeah, had’em for a while now.” She said in an accent I couldn’t quite identify.
“Any ideas for your armor?”
“Preferably light, obviously, but other than that, no” I nodded but she still looked nervous.
“I’m not gonna say your height and weight aloud, or anything”
She calmed down but then looked confused.
“Wait how are you gonna get my weight?”
“I just said that so you wouldn’t be nervous”
She looked even more confused. After I finished writing down my measurements, I went to Aurora. Being the tank and all, her whole body had to be protected. I started to take measurements.
“Just gonna be creepy and measure me without saying anything?”
“Uhhh… It’s for your armor? I’m not a creep or anything?” I said questioningly.
“Oh sure you aren’t.”
I snickered
“Just Shut up.” She laughed at me.
I tried to measure her hindquarters but she hit me in the chin with her wing.
“Perv” she said looking disgusted in me. I rubbed my chin and yelled
“Ow! It’s for your armor!”
“Fine, don’t be weird about it then. If you be weird about it I’ll hit you harder.” I measured her the words Daammmnn Gurl! Whatcha ya gonna do with all dat ass?! Came to mind. Her glaze as pure evil, but it was ruined by her blushing. I snickered again but she hit me in my side with her hoof which only made me laugh even more.
“You are a perv” she mumbled t herself quietly. I trotted over to Cloud who was still just talking to Anaphora. I used my horn for the measuring tape, pencil, and my notes.
“Hey!” she said a little too friendly.
“How was your day?”
I’m not used to mares asking me how my day was. Whenever I do talk to mares, I usually ask the all questions.
“Oh, ahh… not much you?” I said, completely socially awkwardly.
“Going to war and doing missions for the princess,” she said blatantly
“Same here,” I said in response still trying to focus on my notes
“So when did you start archery?” I asked, pointing my pencil to her cutie-mark
“I started archery when I was a Filly. It was the only thing I was good at. When I was the only one in my class to nail all ten arrows on the bull’s-eye, I got this,” She pointed to her cutie-mark.
“After that its train, eat, sleep, repeat. The princess chose me to be on one of her elite teams, and now, here I am.”
I wrote down my results and walked up to the doors toward the smithing car.
“Weapons Ready!” I shouted and stamped my hoof.
They all complied by pulling their weapons out and holding them forward.
“Sir!” they all shouted in unison.
“Thank you,” I said calmly.
I levitated all the weapon behind me as I left for the smithing car. Just as I was about to enter, I overheard two ponies. I peered through the window of the door and saw the two ponies with golden armor and suns plastered to the chest pieces.
“Take all that you can,” I heard the older one say. He had a buzz cut mane and beard. A younger scruffy looking assistant complied.
“Sir yes sir.”
I sat outside the door waiting until they both had their hooves full. I pulled out Aurora’s spear. Just as they were about to leave I launched it straight into the window, nailing the older one in his throat. The other one dropped all the thing he was carrying while I thrust the door open. I screamed at him as hard as I could. Using my horn, I revolved a sheet of metal, which had to be at least 2cm thick and taller than him, right into his side, nailing him against the wall.
“For the Lunar Republic!” I shouted as I bucked the sheet of metal with all my might. Once, twice, three times, silence. I turned towards the older one. He was just about to bleed out.
“This is my war now,” I said low and threating.
His eyes dilated, I knew he was gone now. I looked around, then it hit me. A wave of grief, I had to sit down.
“I killed somepony,” I thought to myself. Everypony came running in.
“Are you ok?!” they asked me.
“I killed somepony,” I said aloud, not turning towards them.
“But we heard the screams and the-“ Anaphora stopped.
“Not just one pony, but two…” A knot began to form in my throat. I stood up and sucked it up
“Let’s get these bodies-“ I managed to choke out.
“Let’s get these bodies off of here”
The conductor wouldn’t let us stop the train, even after we told him what had happened. So we went to the caboose of the train and dumped the bodies off to the side of the tracks. I wanted to bury them. They were our enemy, but I still had respect for them. Everypony left to the passenger car. I stayed in the smithing car to make their armors. There were no more attacks that day, and I spent the rest of it making everypony’s armors.
