Chapter 3. The Message

As Sharp claws came out the other side of the portal, he took flight towards the Canterlot castle. He passed the royal guards that stood by the portal. After about two hours of continuous flying over who knows how many trees. Sharp Claws finally reached the castle within the day, exhausted from the constantly flying.

Panting, "gah, why couldn't they have the portal closer", pant pant. I finally made it inside the castle. "Where is Princess Twilight!!!" One of the palace guards went off looking for the princess, while another guard brought Claw a glass of water, which I took it graciously and thanked him.

"So how bad is it on the other side, " asked the guard?

"We are getting our asses handed to us," I told him.
Princess Twilight, Luna, Cadence, and Celestia rushed into the room and the guard went back to his post.

"Sharp Claws please come with us to the war room," said Celestia. Every pony was in their original regalia sat around a huge Oak table, Sharp Claws was the last one in and got the seat in the middle of the table, and all the princesses were looking at her.

"Well Miss Claws, we are waiting," stated Twilight Sparkle, who looked intimated and worried at the same time. Everyone else seemed like, come on spit it out already.

"We are losing ground and troops left and right"!!!! She cried. "Gilda told me to come to all of you to see if we can get any backup or .... send the royal guards to help conquer the threat."

"You know dear that's a very huge demand," stated Luna.

"Please explain what had happened since day one", said Cadence. "I believe we should hear everything that has happened so far and place our judgment depending on what has happened so far."

"Ok," I told them, "The day we arrived to the world, Captain Gilda told us to kill everyone in sight once darkness started to set in. While we waited, more of those hovering beasts that were so close to the ground were all heading to a general direction and there were also of these beast that could run on the ground very fast."

"So why did you start slaughtering them and tried not establish a communications with these beasts and humans", asked Celestia? "How many did you personally kill Claws and be honest?"

"Well I didn't kill any of the humans over there, all I did was tend to the griffins that got injured, but so far their wounds I could not heal fast enough. Gilda was the one who ordered the attack, and when it began to get dark she started to snap." I shivered a bit. "They killed the entire town and set up their base next to the portal, but the next day they realized that they missed two men and they were able to kill 50 griffins alone and today there's four men and they are armed with these magic sticks." I explained how one of them was able to kill Shatter Wing with a Wooden magic stick. So far we've lost about 100 griffins, while they are setting up a outpost outside of the city and they got at least a dozen men waiting, they are ready to attack at a moment's notice. Since we griffins can't use magic, we can't protect ourselves from their magic, the unicorns could use their magic to stop their magic to block their attacks."

"They know that we have two of their hovering beasts", mumbled Celestia, Luna looked at her sister confused. "I'll tell you later," Celestia whispered into Luna's ear.

The princesses talked it over and Twilight was constantly disagreeing until Celestia whispered something into her ear then Twilight agreed.

"Fine, you can have a squad of unicorns but they will not will not take orders from the griffins they will get their orders straight from us", stated Celestia. "Cadence, grab squad four's leader, I believe they are in the mess hall right now.

Cadence went and found the leader bringing him back in and went straight up to Celestia's face. You can't be possibly be thinking I'm going to let you send my husband to that place?" "I won't allow you to take him away from me."

Shining Armor entered the room along with his squad of 10 unicorn royal guards. All were in their armor standing at attention. "Yes your Highnesses," bowed when he stood in front of the princesses.

"Miss Sharp Claws, you are dismissed from here and please wait at the castle entrance for Armor and his men," said Celestia. After that, Sharp Claws left, Shining Armor, I need a squad I can trust and right now you and your squad is the only one I can trust in this sticky situation.

Shining armor is a pure white unicorn with two different blues in his mane, also Princess Twilights older brother and Cadence's husband. He's known for his tactical skills and also being able to get around undetected with his squad.

"Ok Armor here is the plan, you and your squad are heading through the portal, we will communicate through teleporting notes to each other and by going into your dreams with Luna's help. Do not follow any orders that the griffins try and give you, they royally fucked up a simple scouting mission and their forces have been shredded down a bit. What I want you to do is follow Sharp Claws back to the portal, and she is going to play informant for you guys to keep you updated on the griffins and then you update us. Do you understand us so far?"

"Yes" , Princess Celestia, "I understand completely".

"Next you will find the human's camp and please use a shielding spell because only four men are killing all of those griffins and I don't need any of our warriors dead. Once you establish contact with them, try and make friends with them the best you can. I know that we were originally were going to take them out with well planned attack but since the griffins already are in a war, we are going to have to put on hold and try and make a treaty since they are more powerful than we ever imagined. You and your squad are dismissed and you leave in two hours, please follow Sharp Claws back to the portal."

"Understood," said Armor. I walked up to my wife Cadence who had a few tears in her eyes and she gave me a tight hug.

"Please be safe and careful, we don't want to lose you," and she kissed Armor on his lips.

"We?" ...... thought Armor for a few seconds, and then turned around to give his little sister a hug and she said "I'm sorry."

Three hours later the squad of unicorns and the griffin left the beautiful castle in Canterlot on their 2 hour walk to where the portal was located. Through the dense Everfree forest to where the portal was located. The Everfree forest was very scary with all the weird noises and strange plants that grew in the area. As the royal guards went to the portal the path was getting a little rougher and rougher but the guards kept pushing towards the portal.

(Meanwhile back in the Castle)

"I can't believe you are sending my husband into that hostile world, Aunt Celestia," wined Cadence. "I had very happy news for him but I won't be able to tell him now until he gets back."

"I'm very sorry Cadence, but your husband's squad is the best and they have the highest chance of surviving," Celestia said looking at Cadence. "Twilight same goes for you, Shining Armor will prevail he always have in the past.
Twilight was looking down kind of sad, while Luna was doodling something on a piece of paper and the pencil in her mouth. She left a few minutes later leaving the doodle on the table. Celestia saw the doodle there and used her magic to levitate the doodle to where we could see it. (The doodle was Shining Armor standing on top of a pile dead griffins holding the pole which held the Equestrian flag.) After carefully studying the doodle she gave it to Cadence.
Everyone started to leave the war room and went back to their own rooms. The white marble of the castle gleamed beautiful in the evening sun. Tonight, dinner was to be served to each of the princesses rooms.
As Cadence went to her room she went straight to her closet and looked at the crystal armor that was made especially for her, she put a her front right hoof to her belly and for a second and took a breath. The armor multi color gems that matched her mane. She knew that she was only about three weeks pregnant, but told no one, not even her husband, Shining Armor. I was planning on telling him tonight but he got sent into duty... (a tear came down her eye).

Celestia knocked on Cadence's door and walked in to see her looking at the armor that she placed on her bed. Cadence sighed. "Cadence how are you right now?" Said Celestia.

"I'm sorry Auntie, I guess I'm just missing Shining Armor already..." she looked down. Celestia walked over to her and gave her a hug.

"Cadence, Shining Armor will be back before you know it," smiling as I tried to cheer her up. (I was hoping myself that Armor could pull this stunt off and try to make a peace treaty with the men that was killing the griffin scouts.) "Cadence, I also sense that something else is bothering you, what is it my dear?" I knew already what it was but I wanted to hear it from her.

"My dear auntie," I paused for a bit biting her lower lip... "I'm .... I'm preg....pregnant!!!" I started to cry into her shoulder, as she put her hoof around me and reassured me that everything will be alright.

"When did you find out, sweetie?" Celestia asked calmly as her niece was still crying on my shoulder. I used my magic to put Cadence's armor back into the closet by using my magic. I walked her to her bed and as she laid down in the bed, I moved the pink king size covers up to her, right below her head and I sat next to her.

"I found out yesterday..." I saw that she was not mad one bit, which for sure I figured she would be disappointed or even angry at me. She had only been married to Shining Armor for almost a week.

"Everything will be ok Cadence," just as she was going to say something when someone knocked on the wooden door.
"Enter," said Cadence.
Twilight Sparkle entered the room surprised to see Celestia in the room with Cadence who was already in bed. She looked at them confused.

"Umm what's going on? Is this a bad time, I can always come back later?" Asked Twilight.

"It' s ok Twilight", I said as Celestia got off the bed and walked out of the room. "So Twilight how are you right now?" Cadence patted to Shining Armors part of the bed motioning to Twilight that she could sit down on the bed.

"I'm alright, miss my BBBFF, even though he's only been gone almost 2 hours." "How about you? Also why are you in bed already it's like only noon?" I asked curiosity.

"Well Twilight, I miss him already just as much as you do." Sigh, "but the safely of Equestria is first."

(Meanwhile in the Everyfree forest)

Shining Armor and his squad of 10 unicorns had just reached the location of the portal. There were two guards there holding spears allowing no one access to go through the portal. The portal was the old statue of Night Mare Moon the statue, and was in the middle of the clearing and there was a blue offset mist that changed its size as whatever was going to go through it. Shining handed one of the guards his orders and they stepped aside and said "ok your cleared to enter."

"Well comrades, are you ready to do this?" Shining Armor looked at his fellow unicorns who yelled.

"Hell yea, let's get it over with."

Shining Armor was the first to go through the portal, then two by two his fellow comrades went through.

(Back on Earth)

As we stepped out past the portal, Gilda stood there waiting, I looked around as my men continued to follow through the portal. As everything came into focus, I saw that we were in a town that looked like it was just destroyed. There were objects on the road that were smashed and windows in the stores were broken.

"Glad you guys could make it," said Gilda eagerly. "Please follow me into our make shift base as of right now we are trying to secure this area of the town. " As they went into their base (parking garage) they passed through the medical area which a lot of the cots, which were huge to accumulate the size and weight of the average griffin. Most of them were empty but one, the griffin in it was hit by a thing outside (got hit by a car) and had its side wrapped in bandages and hooked up to a few monitors.

I saw in a corner about 50 or more dead griffins that had white sheets that covered them. "Gilda, the reason we are here is to gain information on the humans , so we are going to spy on them," I told her. "We need to gain information on the humans magical weapons." "Also Celestia is talking it over with Luna, Cadence and my sister about your request, so we need to go now while there is still daylight. Shining armor said as the men quietly stood beside them.

"As you wish Shining Armor, just remember we are on the same side," said Gilda. She put on her golden helmet and headed out towards their mess hall area.

Shining Armor and his men left the griffins camp and started towards the human camp. They were lost within an hour of trying to find their way out of the city. They were in shock to see that there were so many dead humans scattered throughout the town. The stench was starting to become overwhelming. They finally hit a break when they found Walnut St.

"Hmm why is it that this road all the bodies are placed on the side of the road all neatly while the other streets they are still scattered about," Shining Armor. "I believe that those humans are using it to get around.... let's go this way," pointing towards the south. (He weren't 100 percent sure, but they were all going the right way.)
They continued to walk for at least a mile until they reached the edge of town when one of the guards pointed out.

"There," pointing towards the huge tents with the boulders surrounding the camp. (The ponies mistook the tanks for rocks, but I don't blame them, they have never seen a tank before.)

"Ok men this is it, we've found the humans camp. From now on we need to exercise extreme caution, we don't know if they will attack us on sight or what," Shining Armor said. His horn glowed as he put a protection spell over his men which everyone glistened pink for a few seconds. (He didn't know it but he messed up by doing this in the open field.)

They saw something shoot up into the sky, which it blew in the sky causing the field to light up for a many seconds at a time. The ponies stood still shocked.

"This is it men," said Shining Armor said in a normal voice."They know we are here, everyone stay in line and we will slowly go over towards them." His men were nervous, not knowing if they were going to live throughout the night. Within minutes the Royal Guard were surrounded with the humans with their magic sticks (just as the griffins described.)

(Twenty minutes before Shining armor found the human camp.)
(Commander Taylor and Wesker on a Video chat on laptops)

"Hey Commander Taylor, it's me Wesker." This was the first time that we were able to video chat instead of using only cell phones. "How are the larger cities holding out against these griffins?"

"Well, Wesker it's about time I get to meet the person that's been giving us very valuable information and we've been eliminating the threat with the help of anti air guns that we have put on the outside of the city limits." "Did Chris give you your present from me?"

"Yes, Taylor and thank you, they worked very well." I told him about using the reference from the evil dead and he laughed his ass off. The two men continued to talk until one of the marines on watched yelled "CONTACTS DUE EAST, THEY ARE COMMING FROM THE CITY". "Taylor I got to go."

"Go take care of yourself Wesker." Said Taylor signing off.

I ran grabbed my AR-15 and the 10 gauge shotgun and ran towards the group of marines who were pointing at something in the distance. "Marine grab that 40 mm grenade launcher and load the illumination rounds, while the rest come with me, we are going to see if we can get ourselves a hostage if possible so don't shoot unless I say so, understood?"

"Yes sir," the marines said.
Chris walked out past Wesker carrying a duffel bag and a backpack along with his weapons.

"Chris where are you going?" Demanded Wesker.

"I'm headed into the heart of the griffin territory and go to where they are coming from and shoot every one of those bastards." He continued to walk past the men , disappearing into the night.

"Dam he's mysterious," mumbled Wesker.

"The marine shoot off a round in that 40 mm and light this area up." Wesker while put a fresh clip into his gun and loaded a round into the chamber. BOOM the 40 mm fired in the direction where the contacts were lighting up the area. "Men follow me and when we get there surround them . Remember no pulling the trigger unless I say so."

The marines followed Wesker into the field as the marine with the 40 mm shot another round into the sky lighting up the field again. After about 100 yards of running they finally surrounded the enemy, pointing their rifles at them.

"What in the hell, these aren't griffins, they are fucken unicorns.... but where in the hell did they come from....... Ah hell, look they are even wearing golden armor just like those griffins... they must be working together", mumbled Wesker.

"We should kill them said a few of the marines. They deserve the same fate like the griffins, we can't let any more people die because of these monsters."

"No", I told the marines we are going to take them to the base and hold them there while we get information about why are they here, walking straight to our base and about the griffins. They might even be able to tell us how everything is coming over here. " I turned towards one of the ponies who had a blue star in his armor while the other ponies had white stars in their armor. "Can you understand us?" Just as I said that, the 40 mm was fired again lighting up the area again.

The pony with the blue star, took off his helmet. "I am Shining Armor, Captain of the Royal Guards. We have been sent by Princess Celestia and the other princesses to talk to the human who is in charge over here." The Shining Armors was a white pony with a blue mane and tail but had a streak of a lighter blue also in his mane. The other members of the Royal Guard just stunned with fear as the men that were only about a foot and a half taller than them pointed their guns at them.

"Armor, you and your fellow guards are going to follow us, but if one of you tries any funny business, I'll personally see that that pony has a slow death while you guys watch." Said Wesker. "Understood?" Armor nodded as the men surrounded him and his men, the guns still pointed at the pony guards.

"Attention men, we are taking our new friends and we are going to put them in the brig till me and Mr. Armor here have a little chat."

"Yes sir," replied the marines.

As everyone made their way back to the base. The marine with the 40mm launcher, shot the last round into the sky that lit up the base. Shining Armor and the Royal Guards gasped as they went past one of the tanks.

"Sir," said Armor. "What is that," as he looked to at the huge metal object?

"That is a M1 Abrams Tank, we are using them to help fortify the outpost."

Shining was taking in as much as possible as then went through part of the base, how incredible that we are moving through an aliens military outpost, Shining thought to himself. I saw all the boxes marked with symbols, I wish I could understand what they meant. I knew my guards were nervous as we continued to a private tent with two guards standing next to the door. I saw them salute the human known as Wesker.
Jim in the meantime had been out in one of the tanks playing poker with the tank crew, they were betting cigarettes and soda. He decided to leave once he lost all of his cigarettes. Exiting the tank he saw that the Wesker led the prisoners to the back tent. He walked up next to Wesker and watched quietly.

"Ah, Jim about time you show up. Where have you been, we've got something interesting here."

"Oh, I saw those ponies that you put in that tent."

(Marine in watch tower)

"The griffins are attacking again, and they are carrying rocks." The men in the tanks , one got on the machine gun, pulling the action lever and started shooting, while the others in the tanks started to fire. The marine with the 40mm grenade launcher started to shoot more of those illumination rounds and started lighting up the area. The tank fired with a large boom as the projectile hit one of the huge rocks that caused it to blow up and parts of rock went through the griffin's wing and front arms causing it to suffer a slow and painful death. Another griffin got close and dropped his huge rock and it missed the front barrel by a matter of feet, the marine that was gunning that tank almost shit himself when the huge ass rock fell in front of him. The marine with the 40 mm shot straight up with an explosion round barely clipping the griffins wing blowing up and the griffin fell in a whole bunch of empty crates. Scott ran over to where the griffin lay trying to get up but unable too so Scott pulled the trigger on his M60 and blew holes into the griffins body and walked off and took post at the tank and started firing trying to hit as many of the griffins as he could with what of his ammo belt he had left. Boom the tank fired again causing Scott to bounce off the tanks armor and into the cold dirt dazed and confused. One of the marines yelled, "They are retreating!!!!! We won this little victory!!!!"

Kevin was doing a head count when he couldn't find two of the stationed marines. "Hey guys have anyone seen Derek or John, I can't find them anywhere," he said to the other marines.

They said, "sorry they haven't seen them " and before you know it, the base went on lockdown. The spotlights turned on scanning around the entire area around the base.

Wesker was in a private room walking to Shining Armor when the Alarms went off. A marine entered the room.

"Wesker, two of our men are missing..."

"How?" The guard exited and went back to searching the rest of the base.

I turned to Armor, "If you want to gain some of my trust, take your men and go to the griffins camp and bring back my men alive."

"Well you aren't giving me any options so ok, we will go and try to rescue your men if they are indeed at the camp." Wesker handed him a glow stick and armor put it in his saddlebag.
"Snap this when you are coming back to camp, this will identify that you and your men are coming." Wesker walked off to one of the computers, and started to write his report to Commander Taylor.

Armor and his men left the base knowingly that they had to find those men before they could come back so they started off into the night. This is either a blessing or a curse, but anyways we have a interesting talk when we find Gilda.
It was starting to get foggy in the city, but they pushed on, this time Armor and his men used a spell so that they couldn't smell the rotting corpses. (They were starting to smell really really bad.) While walking around the destroyed town there was a griffin on the ground trying to move towards their camp but had no luck when the ponies saw that the wings were hacked off, and the amount of stab wounds in its side.

"Dam, poor fella what a way to go, a slow and painful death." Said Armor, "Well me might find one of those people around here.

"Sir, would you like me to end this griffins suffering?" Said one of the royal guards.

A figure stepped out of the shadows. "No don't touch him," it was one of the missing marines. He was holding his arm and spit a little blood on the ground near the griffins. "I want this one to suffer but, I guess he needs to die now before his friends come for me." Pulls out his combat knife and inserts it into the griffins neck causing massive amounts of blood to pour out and the griffin died within a couple minutes. "So how do I know that I can trust you?"

"Well, that guy named Wesker told us to go find you and the other guy and he only gave me this glow stick thingy..." Armor handed him the glow stick. The marine handed it back to him. You need to see a doctor, I'll have to of my men follow you back to your base but only if I had two glow sticks..."

"Don't worry about it," the marine pulled out a glow stick out of his vest, snapped it and made it start to glow. "I always carry 2 of them." They started to head back through the base, the unicorns helped him a couple of times when he fell to the ground, but in the end the decided to carry the marine in a make shift stretcher and using magic to carry him. (The stretcher was made of two pieces of poles and some tarp which they found in the park.)
About twenty minutes of carrying the human, the unicorns were finally approaching the humans base and the marine had his glow stick around his neck shining as he was carried towards the base. Two marines relieved the royal guard ponies and took the injured marine to their makeshift clinic. Behind the closed flaps of the tent, the marine told Wesker everything.

"It came out of nowhere and grabbed me, I think it was going to take me to their camp and torture me... "

"Well marine your safe now," the marine/field doctor was putting some bandages on him game him some Advil.

Wesker looked outside in the night sky and wondered how this war was going to turn out. "Well tomorrow, we are getting another supply drop and I heard we are getting another squad of marines to help," as he scanned over the printed email that one of the marines handed him a few minutes ago. "I still don't understand what surprise he's sending this time."

(Meanwhile back in the City)

Shining Armor and his fellow ponies made it back to the griffin's camp. They found that they were holding the marine hostage.

"Where's Captain Gilda, "demanded Armor.

"I'm over hear, playing with the prisoner as you can see," she laughed, punching the man in the gut, still not refusing to say a thing. "I have to give you credit human, I was expecting you to snap like a twig." She threw the human against the wall and walked over to Armor. "Hello Armor, what's up? Did you come to help me to get information out of this pest?"

"NO!! Celestia wanted me to try and make peace with them, as you can see their magic is even stronger than ours, she wants to get a hold of their magic." Grins, "besides wouldn't you like to get some of that magic and lay waste to your enemies?"

"Ok you got my attention, so what do I need to do?" Gilda asked eagerly.

"I need all your troops to stay here for just a couple of days till we can gain the humans trust, I am expecting a letter to be sent to me from the Celestia tomorrow and I have a feeling that she is going to want me to bring their leader to Equestia and have a chat. So right now go back to your home country and Gilda you come meet us at the Canterlot Castle in two days. It's best if you come while your troops get some rest."

"Hmm, well this will get my men away from fearing the worst and a little R and R never hurt anyone, we shall leave tomorrow morning." Turning towards the human that laid against the concrete wall, (parking garage) "your free to go," said the griffin walking away now.

Armor and a fellow royal guard helped the marine. He was sitting up and coughing up blood his armor had been slashed and torn, trails of dried blood under his nose, and two black eyes.

"Sir, we need to get you back to your camp fast, you don't look too good."

Coughs up a little blood, "uhh you think...." he tried to stand up leaning against the wall but he found out that he had little strength and sat down. "Dam griffins took my C4 and broke my rifle in two," pulls out his standard issued pistol, pulling out the clip too see that he had a full clip. "So uhhh, where are we? The dazed marine asked.

"We are in some structure besides your town square ,"replied Armor. He made the marine lie down while he and his fellow guards were positioned and then Armor, using his magic lifted the marine into his fellow guards back and they all started to head back towards the base.
On the way back they ran into Chris who was stealthy laying on the ground around dead bodies. A sniper rifle in front of him. He was watching the royal guard ponies carry out a marine....

Radios base, "Wesker I repeat Wesker are you here?"

A minute later, "This is Wesker, is this Chris? Over"

"Yea, it's me, I'm lying next to some dead bodies and watching of all thing ponies carrying one of your marines out of a parking garage and he looks like he's been beaten badly. I'm staying here and watching, I found out how they are getting into our world over."

Ok, be careful and report directly to me once you decide to come back because the next supply shipment will be coming in tomorrow and another squad of marines are coming and we are planning to push into the enemy territory over."

"Roger that, Chris out"

(Back to Shining Armor)

"Men we are almost back to the base. " He grabbed the glow stick and activated it just like Wesker explained and carried it in his mouth until the marines ran out of the base followed by Wesker and they took the injured man to the medic tent and laid down as the doctor examined him. Armor followed Wesker to a private tent.

"Thank you for saving our fellow marines, like I promised, you are on your way to having a good rep around here which is good." I had one guy out there watching the griffins camp and he saw the whole thing from a distance so I don't know what you said to them but good job on getting our friend out alive."

Extends hand, then Armor extends his hoof and they shake.

(An hour later)

Shining Armor and the rest of his royal guard squad went into the large tent that Wesker and his men put up for them for the night to rest. Two men were stationed outside the doors.

Wesker in the meantime was sitting in the comm. room reporting to Commander Taylor via video chat.

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"Taylor, just to make sure I understand, the squad that's coming tomorrow with the supplies is to push within the enemy lines and take over their headquarters. "

"That is correct, Wesker." Taylor nodded. "Also you need rest you don't look like you slept in at least 2 days, Taylor out."
The computer went dark.

"Oh well, he's right I have been not sleeping well anyways and we got to be in shape for when the new marines come. We have a busy day tomorrow." He went off to his bunk and laid for a few minutes falling asleep.

(In Shining Armors dream)

Armor was dreaming that he was still in the Crystal Empire with his wife Princess Cadence. They were in the Throne room, Cadence was conducting the royal business as usual and Armor was inspecting all of the royal guards as normal at the beginning of the week. He was about half way through the guards when a flash of light appeared and after the light went away Princess Luna appeared, along with Celestia and Cadence.

"..... Ummm, hello... how can I be of assistance," replied Armor. He bowed his head to the Princesses.

"There is no need to bow Armor, how is everything over there in that world called earth?" Celestia and Luna said together, then looking at each other.

"Well so far so good, I'm within the base and tomorrow more of their reinforcements are arriving and also they know where the portal is...." (Armor)

"Good," said Celestia, "I would like you to invite them to come to Canterlot so we can meet them." She smiled a nice smile. Shining Armor could see that she had a different motives.

"As you wish, Celestia." Princess Celestia left.

Princess Cadence ran over to her husband and hugged him tightly."I'm glad you're ok and safe."

"Same here sweetie," kissing her on her cheek.

"When you come back I got some very special news for you and I bet you'll be super excited," Cadence giggled.

"Why can't you tell me right now?" Shining said sadly.

"Because I want the real you to be next to me when I tell you. ^_^ Well we need to head off and let you get your rest, night my prince in shining armor." Luna and Cadence left, leaving Armor alone in his dreams again.
Shining Armor woke up looking around still tired and noticed the scroll next to him and he put it in his saddlebag.

"...That was both exciting and scary at the same time.... I thought Luna couldn't take people into dreams with her.... Oh well." Lays back down on pillow and goes back to sleep.

The whole base was quiet, except for the marines who were on patrol scanning the skies for the griffins.

Author's Note

Sorry for being a few days late...but here it is. As you know theres going to be a new squad of marines coming and I'm looking for people who would be interested in being in the story??

I'm looking for six marine roles and also one Sargent.

Please comment if you are interested,

Please create your marine:
Rank must be corporal or lower
Guns are modern, so I'll let you pick
Lastly please give me a summary of what you are and a bio for a background.

If you want to be one of the royal guards in Shining Armors team, that can be arranged.