The story of the sentinel part one

Flash awoke to the shine of light that escaped through his window. It was shining on his entire face screaming 'get up you fool its morning'. When Flash got out of bed He stretched his whole body and headed towards the closet. He opened it up, and was greeted by his golden armor. He picked it up and put it on. He then directed all of his Attention to the spear that rested next to his armor. He picked it up and and put it on his back. He then trotted out of his door, ready for the day.

Flash headed towards the mess hall for some breakfast. He picked up a bowl and poured myself a bowl of corn flakes. He then walked to a table and started eating. After he finished He headed up to Shining Armors office where he was to help him with the big show coming up for princess Cadence's birthday. It was meant to be a surprise so armor told him to keep it on the down low. Once he got to his office Flash knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" Ask somepony behind the door.

"A friend to help you out." Flash replied

The sound of locks and gears being moved came from the inside the door as it opened.

"Get in, quickly." Said Shining Armor

Flash hustled in and Shining Armor closed the door behind them.  then he casted a silence spell, making sure no one heard what we said.

"So captain what's the plan today." Flash asked,eagerly.

He looked to Flash and smiled, then trotted to his desk and pulled out a large sheet of paper. It had words written just about everywhere. It might be hard to read unless you were the one that drew it.

"Flash, you understand why this is important to me right?" He asked very sternly.

"Of course I know sir. It's because every-time you plan a birthday surprise for princess Cadence she always finds out about it." I replied

"Exactly. But this time is different, I've got everything all planed out but there is one small thing we are missing."

"And what might that be?"

"How are we gonna hide the wonderbolts from her. We need to find out how to train the wonderbolts for the show and keep them hidden from my wife."

The sound of the wonderbolts reminded Flash of his cousin Soarin. A very fast flyer, probably the fastest in their family even. Flash quickly then got back to the task at hoof. A half an hour went by and the two hadn't come up with any ideas of finding out someway to train the wonderbolts and keep them hidden. Nothing came to mind.

When an hour had passed shining armor told Flash that he needed to return to his guard post. Flash agreed and headed for the door. Flash unlocked it and creaked it open just a crack to make sure no pony was around. Once he knew the coast was clear he headed towards his post. The sound of locks locking into place echoing through the halls as he trotted down the halls. On the way to his post he turned the corner and bumped into somepony he did not expect to see.

"Princess Cadence?" Flash asked a bit confused. Luckily he caught myself and also bowed. He looked up to see that the princess was smiling. Normally she always smiled happily but this wasn't a happy friendly smile. No this was a happy devilish smile that spread across her face. He didn't know why but she always wore that face ever since princess Twilight Sparkle bumped into him. Twice!

"Hi Flash How's it going. Don't mind me asking but I just just wanted to ask you what were you and shining up to in his office?" She asked still smiling devilishly.

Flash knew what she was doing, trying to make Flash tell her everything about her birthday party. Luckily shining armor gave him some follow up lines incase something like this were to happen.

"Shining Armor called me into his office to put me in charge of looking after some supplies that are coming in here in a few days." I replied hoping that she couldn't tell I was lying to her.

She studied me for a bit and then walked off.

"Ok then. But if you see anything, how I should say...hmm...out of the ordinary, please tell me." She said as she trotted down the opposite hall.

"Will do princess." Flash said. Then bowed and trotted off.

Flash made a quick sigh of relief and walked towards his post. On the way he thought he heard the sound of flapping wings getting closer and closer to him. It sounded like it was coming from behind him so he turned around to see what the sound was, only to be met by a force that threw him against a wall.

Flash was a bit stunned at first, everything seemed blurry, he had no idea at what just happened. But soon his vision came back into focus and he saw a dark shadowy figure across from himself. He quickly got up and got into a 'ready to fight' position.

"Hold it there Flash you don't want to hit your cousin do you?" It asked.

The sound of his voice calmed me down almost completely. I knew exactly who it was.

"Well excuse me cousin, but last time I checked if somepony charges at a guard, then said guard should have a reason to defend himself." I retorted

Then the shadowy figure came into light, he looked a lot like Flash, he had jet mane like his but that was a darkish red. His body was the same color as flashes but a bit more darker. And his cutie mark was a lightning bolt with two crossed swords behind it. His eyes where orange like his mothers. Oh and his name was lightning strike

Flash trotted down the halls to his post, as lightning strike followed right behind him.

"So where ya headed cuz." Asked the curious lightning strike.

"To my post light, I am a guard, remember?" Replied Flash.

Lightning just rolled his eyes. "Of course I remember. How could I forget?"

"Uh-Huh." Said Flash. No really paying much attention to his cousins conversation. Lightning saw this and asked Flash a question,

"Okay what is it?" Asked lightning strike.

Flash was a bit confused by the question. "What is what?" Asked Flash.

Lightning looked a bit irritated by his question not being answered. "You know what I'm talking about. What is bugging you?" Lightning asked.

Flash looked at his cousin with the most convincing face he could muster up. "Nothing is bothering me Light." Flash lied, hoping that his cousin would buy it, but sadly lightning knew Flash very well, he knew all his tricks and lies. Lightning just stared at Flash waiting for an actual answer. Finally Flash made a sigh of defeat and looked around to make sure no pony was listening. He then told lightning about shining armors plan and his problem.

"Wait the wonderbolts are coming here?" Asked lightning strike.

Flash nodded in a yes manner.

"That means we'll get to see our cousin Soarin!" Lightning said nearly jumping off the ground and hitting the roof of the castle. Once Flash finally got him calm down lightning wanted to confirm

"So you need to figure out a way for the wonderbolts to train and stay hidden from everypony. Right?"

Flash nodded a yes. Lightning stood there in thought for a minute or two and finally spoke.

"Well that's simple just have the wonderbolts disguised as new recruits and that their training is a new flight pattern." Lightning replied

Flash looked at lightning with his eyes widened to the size of dinner plates.

"Lightning...that's...that's just...geniuses!" Flash shouted.

"Was there any doubt." He said with a smirk. Once they had gotten to Flash's post lightning wave him goodbye and told him that he would set his plan into action.

"How are you gonna get authorization your not a guard?" Flash spoke.

"Simple I'll tell shining armor that the plan was your idea and that we need to get it started ASAP, but you couldn't leave your post. He said. But before trotting off. Flash asked lightning on final question,

"Hold up light." Flash said.

Lightning stopped in his tracks and looked back to Flash to see what he wanted.

thought of how lucky he was to have two great cousins like Lightning and Soarin. He then stood at the doorway and waited until his shift was shift was over.

As lightning walked down the crystal hallway he realized he forgot to ask Flash where Shining Armor's office was. He mentally slapped himself at how stupid he was for forgetting something as important as that. He looked around to see if anypony was around to tell him where it was. He noticed a tall pink pony walking down the hall. He decided to ask her where if she knew were Shining Armors office was.

"Excuse me miss you wouldn't happen to know-" lightning was cut off when he saw that the pink pony was princess Mi Amora Cadenza. He mentally slapped himself for not realizing she was the princess.

"I'm sorry sir I didn't quite understand what you said can you please be more clear?" She asked softly.

"I am terrible sorry your highness, I did not recognize you from afar." Lightning said, bowing before the Princess. He then got and looked at her seeing that she had a beautiful smile on her face.

"It's quite all right, everypony makes mistakes." She assured lightning, who just smiled at her.

"Well if it's alright, I was just wondering were Prince Shining Armor's office might be?" Asked lightning.

The princess looked at him with her right eyebrow up. She then spoke,

"Why do you wish to see my husband?" She asked politely.

Lightning needed to come up with a good lie so Flashes plans weren't suspected.

"Well you see, Flash sentry wanted to tell Shinning Armor about the new recruits coming in today. But he also didn't want to leave his post, so he asked me to tell him." Lightning lied. Lightning was kinda impressed with himself, not only did he he come up with a strong lie that fast, but if she believed it, it would make it unlikely for the new recruits to be spotted. Eventually the princess finally answered him,

"His office is down the hall." She answered.

Lightning bowed and thanked her for the information and trotted off. Once he got to the office he knocked on it. He heard the sound of drawers being shut and papers being wrinkled. Once the noise had stopped lightning heard somepony speak,

"Enter." Said a stern voice.

Lightning entered the office to find a white pony standing in front of him. He had a blue mane and had a stern look on his face.

"Good morning, my name is Lightning strike, I came here to help you with-" Lightning stopped and looked around to be sure no pony was listening, "princess Mi Amora Cadenza's birthday." Lightning whispered.

At the sound of his wife's name, surprised Shining Armor he then pounced on Lightning and held him against a wall and started demanding questions from Lightning.

"Who told you about her? What do you know? Answer me!" Shining demanded from the dazed Lightning strike.

"Flash Sentry...sent...me...to...help you...out." He coughed.

"Oh, sorry. I didn't know." Shining Armor stated.

"It's okay."

Once lightning had his breath back he told Shining Armor about his plan for hiding the wonderbolts. The sound of the idea was brilliant to shining Armors ears. He agreed to his plan and wanted to set it into motion immediately. Lightning couldn't wait to see his cousin again.

Soarin wasn't to happy being in the armor he was wearing. It was uncomfortable, loose, and irritating the hay out of him. He was ready to ditch the armor when a pony with a friendly face showed up at the field.

"Flash?" Soarin questioned himself.

"Alright guys here's what's gonna happen, you will preform a battle tactic known as 'the soaring dove'. Everyone should have already studied the move and know how it works. Okay?" Flash said.

All of soaring teammates agreed and started to practice. Flash gave us all positions for the move. The idea of the soaring dove was to carry water up into the sky, splash it with heat causing it form into clouds and turn them into the shape of a dove. Once the shape is made the Pegasi go into the dove shaped cloud and move it. In the end it should look like the dove is actually soaring. There are 5 steps to the move,

1: splash the water into the sky.

2: heat the water up and turn it into clouds

3: mold the clouds into the shape of a dove

4: enter the dove and move into your positions.

5: move the dove and make it look like its flying.

Each of these steps would be hard for any normal Pegasus, but they weren't normal Pegasus, no they were the wonderbolts, and they could do this. After practice was over Soarin trotted up to Flash.

"Hey cuz." Soarin said once he got next to Flash.

Flash looked behind him to see who was talking to him and smiled seeing it was his cousin.

"Hey Soarin, what's up?" Flash asked.

"Well most of time I am, but not right now I guess." Soarin said.

The both of them chuckled at the joke. There chuckles however were put to a stop when something, no somepony, had crashed into them.

"Hey Soarin it's so good to see you again." Said a voice.

Soarin knew exactly who it belonged to, and the thought of it made him smile.

"Well its nice to see you to, lightning." He replied to the Pegasus that had just crashed into him.

"So what have you been up to lately?"

"Well you know a couple of shows here and there, but still no action. I now see why you quit the wonderbolts Flash, it gets kinda boring."

Flash just stared at Soarin annoyed. "First off Soarin I didn't quit the wonderbolts they kicked me out due to my wing inquiry's. Second we swore to not speak of why I really got those inquiry's in the first place." He said quietly.

Soarin decided to quickly change the subject from there...past lives.

"So, what's it like being a guard at the Crystal empire?" He asked.

"Well. Nothing much yet, I stand guard at some areas and escort some ponys but nothing big yet." Flash replied a bit of sadness in his voice.

"So light, you dissapered last time I checked, care to explain what that was all about?" Asked Soarin

"Well I didn't want to have a boring life like you guys." Replied Lightning Strike. Flash and Soarin stared at the annoying comment.

"No offense." Lightning said.

"None taken." Flash and Soarin said in unison. Which suprised them both.

"Anyways, I went off to travel the globe and discover new sights and new things. Once I heard that Flash was in the Crystal Empire I headed there to say hi."

"Well I best get to my hotel, I can't wait for a nice rest."

"I'll head to my quarters as well, see ya guys."

"And I'll go to my tent I stationed up. Don't worry it's a big tent."