PONIES IN ARMS-3. MARECENARIES

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As we watched and played with our dog I thought back to better days, something I would often do when I had time to myself, Harmony could see that I was in a trance and gave me a slight kick and a kiss. "Snap out of it sweetheart you're fine I know you just get lost in thought sometimes but that's not going to help you, the past is the past and we can't change it." I looked at her and simply said to her that I knew that was the truth but I just wanted to have some time to myself, and her giving her a loving glance which she quickly caught and motioned for me to go upstairs with her. Knowing just what was on her mind and knowing that Dinky was still at work I gave in to my second in command.

As we got done with our fun I looked at the clock to see what time it was, and said I had to be at the post office in an hour, time was a strange thing these days sometimes it went slow but others it went by way too fast for its own good, for it was now just about 1600 and I had an hour before I had to meet Dinky. I kissed Harmony and trotted out of the room asking her if she wanted to join us to which she nearly squeed so loud I thought it was going to be heard all the way to Neighvada and motioned for her to join me. I along with Harmony went out the door with our dog again, this time we went to the post office to meet Dinky.

"Well then Dinky are you ready to do this, I mean it was your idea and I figured Harmony would wish to join us." 'Well then that sounds fun, shall we go then?" Dinky trotted out of the doorway of the post office followed by us and we were on her way to the spa for the treatment we all were looking forward to. We got there at 1630 and went inside to chat with the spa ponies who told us this one was going to be on the house and there would be no need for payment. "OH MY SWEET FUCKING CELESTIA!!" the spa was filled with steam and we all just melted it was a much needed break form planning, meetings and other garbage, I simply enjoyed the time off from any form of work and just chatted with my friends for an hour. After an hour I was indeed a new pony, I felt amazing and as though I could sleep all night long but it wasn't going to happen, more than likely it was going to become a drinking night and we all would get drunk, but I wasn't going to allow that to happen and was going to make that clear.

We all had a meeting in the little fillies room talking about the upcoming night, "now I don’t want tonight to turn ugly ok, if we do drink we will do it in moderation and if any pony decides to get out of hoof they will be dealing with me in the morning, after all aren’t we all still in the n.c.e aren’t we." The two mares looked at me and agreed, this will be a fun night Buckshot seems to be a very nice colt doesn’t he? If anything happens tonight it will just be in fun ok you 2 I want nothing to do with it ok." I had a sick feeling in my gut knowing just what and who Buckshot was along with Harmony, but Harmony had a huge grin on her face almost giving away the fact that she in fact knew him, but not saying anything incriminating.

All 3 of us met up at the town hall with the rest of the ponies we were in town with, and to see just how the Black Widows would react to the news that we would be having dinner with the n.l.r. "I am not a fan of this you ponies I mean you do know that the n.l.r is the enemy to us all right, if something happens I want to have my weapons with me while we eat ok. If anything happens trust me we will all have our weapons on hoof, but seeing as Harmony knows these ponies I think everything will be fine." I said back to her to which she agreed to eat with them.

Dinner was set for 1900 at the same place we had been the other day and the wind had at least died down and was no longer a problem. As we got close to the place it became apparent that there were going to be a lot of ponies there, almost 150 ponies were supposed to gather in the small place but they had the outdoor seating as well so it wasn’t all too bad. The night started fairly awkward with a few tense looks, and comments. I along with Grey Hoof put a stop to the situation by allowing Harmony to introduce us all to each other. "Dinky was a bit shocked at the fact that Harmony knew them all and the truth was finally reveled to Dinky.

"How do you know these ponies Harmony? Where did you meet them I mean I just met them this morning along with Ruby, so how do you know each other?" "Well Dinky the truth is that Buckshot is in the n.l.r don’t be alarmed though he’s on our side in a way, and I have known him and these guys ever since I was in the n.l.r. I met them in Detrot and haven’t seen them in forever. I was myself shocked to see them chatting with Ruby and Grey Hoof in the dining hall of the hotel when I came down to eat this morning and let them know that first hoof. Now I would like to properly introduce you both to each other ok. Dinky Hooves, allow me to introduce you to Buckshot, Buckshot the same. Now let’s not just stare at each other like a bunch of want to be tough ponies, LETS EAT!"

Harmony had a way with words and after her shout out to just eat we all got to work on getting to know each other, even the Black Widows got into the swing of things and in no time it had gone from a tense almost stand off to a party atmosphere with chatting and music. I sat at the table we designated for leadership along with Black Widow, Grey Hoof, Buckshot Harmony and Dinky and got to hear some of just what Harmony had been through while she was with the n.l.r, most of which was pranks and jokes on each other no real fighting at all, yes she had her first encounter with the raiders, but those weren’t the ponies she was paired with and she had been lucky to be placed with Buckshot in fact. It was interesting to say the least having dinner with a sworn enemy but it felt somehow right.

"Luna has been waiting to see the major again, and feels sorry for the way things have gone. Don’t worry though as soon as she sees all of you I’m sure she will once again smile, seeing as she hasn’t since any of this started it almost seems as though she regrets al the choices and events leading up to all of this and wishes to just go back to the way things once were. I have had the distinct honor of being a personal guard to her and have been close to her since the beginning and let me just say this, as much as it may upset any of you and please don’t try to hurt us, but the Celestial empire is to blame for all of this. From Celestia condemning Trixie to death to breaking up the eqng Luna has been against everything of the sort, in fact she valued the eqng with saving all of Equestria not just Ponyville in the first war, yes she was there the night that Trixie was killed but she really had no clue just how it all would play out and even told Trixie to wait on advancing on Ponyville knowing that it was so heavily defended but she just wouldn’t listen to reason and in the end it got her killed.