The New Lunar Republic- Rebellion of The Solars

The gravity of Skywriter's ship blasting upwards and cutting through the atmosphere pushed her into her seat, almost making her forget her mission for a few moments. Deeper out in space the Solar-Lunar war wasn't that big of a factor but it still had it's effects. Unfortunately one of the effects was rebellion on an isolated mining planet. She had been sent out to help the small mercenary company govern the unruly planet and get the mining operation back into order. She groaned and took control once she could one again relax, "I don't see why I couldn't teleport, Luna...." she stressed the last word, letting it sink in as just plain annoyance at her friend. Once out into Luna's beautiful space, the gravity crushing her into the seat subsided and she was free to move about the small cabin. There was a small viewing panel on either side and sort of kitchen to the left and a cryobed in the back. Though the prototype she was flying in was fast enough that she wouldn't really need to use the bed, it would only take her a week to reach the planet.

Sky unbuckled her seat and proceeded to explore. They had been in a rush to get her there, as Luna was facing other pressing matters and the TARDIS was not in contact, they had no choice but to send the second-in-command to sort out a colonies' rebellion. She looked out the viewing panel on the left to the controls and sighed as the stars flew by. She was the co-ruler of The New Lunar Republic. Her colors were mostly based on blue, as her coat seemed to be icy cold, her mane only a few shades darker. Streaks of even darker blue went through her hair, and together no color over-ruled the other. Her shoes, chest piece, and crown all consisted of a dark shady black, and blue dark-shaded crystals were on the crown and and chest piece, the same colors of her eyes.

For the next few days, the princess spent her time listening to music and playing with stars she had summoned to her hooves. She did use the bed, as she would dream walk just as Luna would. It wasn't really sleep, but it did fill a hole in energy. Upon climbing out of her cryobed on the seventh day, the princess could see dark blue rocky planet out of the right view port. Her ship was slowly circling towards the planet, it's acceleration slowing. She held her breath as it touched the ground for the first time, and sighed in relief she had not crashed. That was the hardest part about air and space crafts, the landing. She opened the door and peeked outside. She could tell the terraforming was working well as a cool blast of air flowed past her and into the ship. Outside the ship it was a cold 50 degrees. A short walk away she could see the lights from a town.

The goddess nodded in approval and spread her wings. She took off leaving the small ship to be taken care of by the crews that worked there and headed for the town. As soon as she reached the town, she could see there was something wrong. The town was very fortified, though it looked like a ghost town, the only visible life was an occasional pony walking the streets and two bat-pony guards standing at the nearest entrance.

Skywriter landed and walked to the guards, her ears pinned against her head as she looked around with a worried look, "What has happened here?" she asked. The guard on the right steps forward, he had Luna's crest on his chest piece. "We heard that a rebel army is heading this way... who might you be...?" He asks, eyeing her curiously. She stands up and fans her wings up in a regal manner she's practiced hundreds of times, "I am Princess Skywriter, co-ruler of The New Lunar Republic."

"Mhm..." He looks her up and down. "We don't see many Alicorns here but we still need more proof than your word."

The second guard trots up, looking at his partner. "You idiot, do you really wanna piss her off? Even if she's lying, she's an alicorn!" He turns to her. "We're sorry for slowing you, your highness, you may pass but I would suggest hurrying through, this town won't be on the map for much longer..." She looked at them with a questioning look, "What does thou mean? I'm sorry, I was not told much of this mission...."

The second guard speaks up. "Basically, your highness, a small cell of solar supporters came here and before we could hunt them down, they had riled up the populace against Princess Luna and started a rebellion... only a couple towns still hold allegiance to Princess Luna now"

"What?! The solars have rebelled?! I thought this was to be just a small uprising.."

"Not here your highness, the Solar's have almost amassed a army large enough to threaten Commander Moon's mercenary forces"

Her ears tightened on her head in anger, "Why was I not informed of this?!"

"The major landing port on this planet has been captured by the rebels, we haven't been able to send out any messengers for weeks, your highness" Both guards back away slightly, an angry Alicorn wasn't something anypony wanted to be near. She calmed down and her head sunk low to the ground, "Oh..."

"Erm well... if we may know, your highness, what is your mission on this planet?" Asks the first guard. She slightly lifted her head, "I was sent here to help clear up the rebellion...but they where in a rush to get me here so I was never really given a full explanation....that's all they told me."

"If you are truly here to help, you'll want to make your way to the capital, it's only a couple miles north-east of here" She lifted her head up and with a frown looked in such direction, "Thank you," she gave a slight head nod and took off. The guards go back to their posts. Miles away she could see a rather large city in the distance, a bit west of the city was a huge mountain range. Other than that though it was just rocky plains surrounding the city.

She landed at the far end of the city and looked around.