The War of Equestria

Today was Spike's first day of war training, Spike outfitted himself in the special armor Celestia had made for him and headed to the camps main training field. Spike's body armor was gold with gold shoulder pads, helmet, and leggings and came with a sword holder and two gun holsters, one on each side of the belt able to hold two pistols.

Shining Armor was in charge of training.

"Alright men, we are going to have a game of capture the flag using these paintball guns. You will be wearing specially made outfits that decrease the pain but not by much." Shining Armor said.

"Are we all ready?" Shining Armor asked.

"Sir yes sir!" Everyone said in unison.

"Everypony in teams of 5." Shining Armor said.

Once everyone had chosen their teams, they all got to their bases on each end of the field.

"3...2...1...start!" Shining Armor said.

Spike and his other teammates started planning their strategy.

"So what should we do?"Spike asked.

"Well we should come up with a plan first." Said a purple Pegasus mare.

"I agree." A silver Pegasus Stallion said.

"Okay first, how about we tell our names." Spike said.

First up was a silver Pegasus stallion with a silver coat and snow white mane, and a grey shooting star cutie mark.

"Good idea, I'm Silver Dart." He said.

Next up was a Pegasus mare with a purple coat and an orange mane, and a bright gold lily cutie mark.

"I'm Lilly Shimmer, nice to meet you." She said with a smile.

After her was a yellow Unicorn mare with a red mane and her cutie mark was a arched solar flare.

"My name's Solar Flare."She said with a smile.

And finally was a Pegasus mare with a light aquamarine coat and a cobalt blue mane, and her cutie mark was a peppermint lollipop.

"Hi, my name is Peppermint Swirl, nice to meet ya." She said.

"Nice to meet all of you, my name is Spike." Spike said smiling.

Spike smiled and he and his teammates then planned their strategy and once they did they were ready to attack.

"Alright everypony, we attack on my signal." Solar Flare said.

"3...2...1...go!" Solar Flare said.

Spike and his teammates then started shooting at the other team. The other team fought back but to no avail, as soon as Spike shot the last pony standing he ran to retrieve the flag.

"Go Spike!" Silver Dart yelled with joy.

As Spike got closer and closer to the flag he imagined victory but suddenly a rival appeared from behind a tree and shot Spike square in his chest which caused him to fall over and pass out thanks to a special chemical in the paint balls.

Spike soon awoke and heard faint screams and the sound of firing paintball guns. He then saw a member of the opposite team capture his teams flag and Spike got up and approached the rival to get a closer look. Spike was surprised to see that his rival was a female dragon, she was a dark blue color and her crest and belly were black and she looked about his age and had a human like stature as well. She then looked around and Spike ducked behind a rock to keep out of her sight.

Spike looked up only to see the barrel of a paintball gun pointed straight at his face. Spike shuffled back in fear.

"Whoa, whoa, you already got me." Spike exclaimed.

She then backed the barrel away from his face and looked at him and said.

"Sorry, here let me help you up." She said in a sweet tone.

Spike started blushing as he looked into her purple eyes, her voice was like an angel. She then helped Spike up, Spike stood and put his hand behind his head.

"Thanks, you're pretty damn good at this." Spike said.

"You're not to bad yourself, handsome." She said.

Spike's face then turned red with blush.

"My name's Spike, what's your name?" He asked her.

"My name is Annabelinda." She said.

"Annabelinda, that's a pretty name." Spike said.

Annabelinda then blushed and she looked at Spike and said.

"We need to get back soon."

Spike nodded and he woke up his teammates and Annabelinda woke up hers.

The two teams then walked back to Shining Armor and Annabelinda showed him the flag.

"Congratulations Annabelinda, you and your team have won the first challenge." Shining Armor said with a grin.

"Thank you sir." Annabelinda said with a smile.

"You are all dismissed, we are done for today." Shining Armor said.

Annabelinda and Spike and their teammates then walked into the barrack's and chose their quarters. Spike chose his bed and he got a picture out from his backpack which had his friends and him on his 19th birthday.

"Are those your friends?" Annabelinda asked.

"Yep." Spike said.

She then sat down next to Spike and hugged him.

"I had to let my family go." Annabelinda said.

Spike started to blush and he hugged her back.

"Trust me, I know exactly how you feel." Spike said with a slight chuckle.

The two looked at each other and both blushed.

"Alright everypony, lunch time." Shining Armor said.

Spike and Annabelinda then walked to get their lunch and then headed to the lunch tables. Spike and Annabelinda sat next to each other.

"So, where are you from?" Spike asked.

"Me, oh I'm from Maretonia, my father sent me here." Annabelinda said.

"Where are you from?" Annabelinda asked.

"I'm from Ponyville." Spike said.

"Wait, are you Princess Twilight's assistant?" Annabelinda asked.

"Yep, that's me." Spike said.

Annabelinda then gasped with surprise.

"Wow, this is such an honor." She said.

"Why?" Spike asked.

"Because you're royalty." Annabelinda said.

"Well I don't consider myself royalty but other people do." Spike said.

"Why don't you consider yourself royalty?" Annabelinda asked in confusion.

"Well its just I don't want to be, I see the shit Twilight has to deal with everyday and I don't want to have to deal with the same things." Spike said.

"Well you're a prince in my eyes." Annabelinda said.

"Thanks." Spike said blushing.

Annabelinda then gave Spike a hug and then the two continued eating.

The next day was weapon training and Spike was picked first to try target practice.

"Okay Spike remember, look down the sight and pull the trigger." Shining Armor said.

"Yes sir." Spike said.

Spike then looked down the gun's sight and he pulled the trigger causing the gun to fire and hit the bulls eye on the target.

"Well done Spike, okay Annabelinda you're next." Shining Armor said.

Annabelinda stepped forward and took her place to fire.

"Let me show you how its done Spike." Annabelinda said smugly.

Annabelinda then looked down the sight and then she looked away and fired a shot into the bulls eye on the target.

"Damn, that was a perfect bulls eye and you didn't even look." Spike said.

"Congratulations Annabelinda, alright Silver you're next." Shining Armor said.

"How did you do that?" Spike said.

"Lots of practice." Annabelinda said.

"Do you think you can teach me how to do that?" Spike asked.

"Sure, how about 7:00 tonight." Annabelinda said.

"Alright, I'll be there." Spike said.

The two watched the other ponies complete target practice and a few hours passed and Spike walked out to the target practice area and Annabelinda was standing at the firing line holding revolver.

"Hey Spike, about time you showed up." Annabelinda said.

"Sorry, I'm a little late." Spike said.

"Only by 5 minutes." Annabelinda said.

"Shall we get started." Spike suggested.

"We shall, okay first you need to come stand on the line." Annabelinda said.

Spike stood on the firing line and Annabelinda gave him the gun.

"Okay first I need you to fire the gun, it's a bit more powerful than the gun Shining Armor had us fire." Annabelinda said.

"What was the gun we used before?" Spike asked.

"A Beretta M92." Annabelinda said.

"What's this gun?" Spike asked.

"A Smith & Wesson .500 magnum." Annabelinda said.

"Wow, you sure know your guns." Spike said.

"Thanks." Annabelinda said.

Spike then looked down the sight and pulled the trigger. The gun shot and caused Spike to stumble back a few inches.

"Holy shit!" Spike said with shock.

"I told you." Annabelinda said with a slight chuckle.

"When you said "it's a little more powerful than the gun Shining Armor let us fire" I expected it to be no problem to fire." Spike said.

"Well I need to get you used to bigger guns so when we practice with rifles, shotguns and machine guns you'll be ready." Annabelinda said.

Spike then got himself back on the line and took another shot which again sent him stumbling back.

"You're gonna break your arm that way, here let me see it." Annabelinda said.

Spike then handed the gun to Annabelinda who then shot the gun which caused only her hand to move.

Annabelinda then handed the gun back to Spike.

"The reason you're stumbling is because your legs are to close together, spread your legs a bit and try putting all your weight on your front foot and then fire." Annabelinda said.

Spike then once again stood on the line and took a shot, this time only Spike's arm moved.

"Good job, do it again." Annabelinda said.

Spike then took another shot and once again only his arm moved.

"Good, now try straightening out your arm and flexing your bicep." Annabelinda said.

Spike then shot the gun with his bicep flexed and arm straight and to his surprise only his hand moved.

"Very good, again." Annabelinda said.

Spike once again shot the gun while flexing his bicep and keeping his arm straight and once again only his hand moved.

"Holy crap, it works." Spike said.

"Of course it works, I'm the one who showed you how to do it." Annabelinda said.

"How long did it take you to perfect this?" Spike asked.

"Only a few days, oh and by the way you really didn't need to flex, I just wanted you to." Annabelinda said.

"Wh...What?" Spike said in embarrassment.

"And may I add that you are quite the looker." Annabelinda said with a wink.

Spike blushed and then Annabelinda got in Spike's face and kissed him. Spike's face turned bright red but he closed his eyes and kissed Annabelinda back.

Annabelinda kissed Spike furiously and started to take off his armor exposing his ripped chest.

"What are you doing?" Spike said still being kissed.

"Don't worry about it." Annabelinda said.

Spike and Annabelinda then shared in a courtship that I did not want to go into detail with.

A few hours later Spike and Annabelinda woke up on the gun range and the two then arose and headed to their rooms.

"Annabelinda, that was the best night I have ever had, Thanks." Spike said.

Annabelinda then gave Spike a kiss on the lips.

"I enjoyed myself as well." Annabelinda said.

Spike and Annabelinda then entered their bedrooms and Spike laid his head down for a well deserved rest.

The next morning Spike woke up to a beautiful sunny day and got out of bed and put his armor on.

"Come on sleepy head." Peppermint Swirl said.

"Spike you have to see this." Annabelinda said.

Spike and the others then walked outside where standing next to Shining Armor was none other than Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Princess Cadence.

"Look Spike, its Princess Cadence." Silver Dart said excitedly.

"Yeah I know, she's my sister-in-law." Spike said.

Everyone looked at Spike with shock.

"She's your sister-in-law." Annabelinda said with shock.

"Yep, I'll even show you." Spike said.

Spike then waved to Cadence and called her name.

"Spike, what a pleasure." Cadence said.

Cadence then walked over to Spike and hugged him.

"It's good to see you again." Spike said.

"And it's good to see you too Spike." Cadence said.

"Uncle Spike." Said a familiar voice.

Spike then looked up and saw his niece, Princess Skyla.

"Hey there kiddo." Spike said.

Skyla then ran up to Spike and gave him a hug.

"Look at you, you've gotten so big." Spike said.

"Thanks uncle Spike, and guess what." Skyla said.

"What." Spike said.

"I'm turning 9 the end of this month." Skyla said.

"Well then happy birthday." Spike said with a smile.

"Why are you telling me now, won't you be at the party?" Skyla asked.

"Unfortunately no, I have to stay here for a while, unless your father allows me to attend the party." Spike said.

"We'll see, it depends if Sombra decides to attack again." Shining Armor said.

"Very true, but I haven't seen or heard about Sombra since I got here." Spike said.

"And that's why we are increasing the amount of guards in the city." Luna said.

"Luna, you do realize that this would mean you would have to work a lot more than before." Spike said.

"Why aren't you calling them "princess"?" Silver Dart asked.

"We're close enough that I don't have to call them "princess"." Spike said.

"So how's training going?" Luna asked Spike.

"It's actually going very well." Spike said.

"Last night, Spike and I practiced firing higher powered guns." Annabelinda said.

"It's actually a lot easier when you actually learn how to do it, Annabelinda showed me how to fire a S&M .500 magnum." Spike said.

"A Smith & Wesson .500, those thing are super high powered." Celestia said with shock.

Everyone looked at Celestia with confusion, no one knew she was into guns and weaponry.

"What, just because I'm a princess doesn't mean that I can't like guns." Celestia said.

"Sorry Princess Celestia." Annabelinda said.

"I think knowing about things that others see as unexpected is a great attribute to have." Spike said.

"Thank you Spike, well we must be going now." Celestia said.

"Alright sweetie, say goodbye to your uncle." Cadence said.

Skyla then gave Spike one last hug.

"Bye bye uncle Spike, I hope to see you at the party." Skyla said hugging Spike.

"See you later kiddo." Spike said with a smile.

Cadence, Luna, and Celestia then walked over to Spike and one by one gave him a goodbye hug.

"Be safe guys, see you soon." Spike said.

"Until next time Spike." Luna said.

Celestia, Luna, and Cadence then waved goodbye and then flew off.

"Wow Spike, I would never have assumed you and the princesses were that close." Silver Dart said.

"Well you know what they say about assuming." Spike said.

"It makes an ass out of you and me." Shining Armor said laughing.

Everyone then started laughing and soon after everyone walked out to the gun range.

"Actually, Annabelinda, Spike can you show everypony how to fire the S&W .500?" Shining Armor asked.

"Sure." Spike said.

Spike then grabbed the .500 and held it the way Annabelinda said and fired the gun, which hit the middle of the bulls eye on the target.

"Well done Spike." Shining Armor said.

"Okay the trick is to put almost all your weight on your front foot or in this case hoof and keep your arm straight." Spike said.

"Okay then, Silver Dart would you like to go first?" Shining Armor asked Silver Dart.

"S...Sure." Silver Dart said nervously.

Silver Dart then took his place at the firing line and fired the gun which like Spike sent him flying back, literally.

"Holy crap." Silver said with shock.

Spike and Annabelinda then started quietly laughing. Silver Dart then turned around and pointed the gun at Annabelinda.

"What are you laughing at punk?" Silver said with anger.

Spike then ran towards Silver and tackled him to the ground and pinned him.

"Unless you want every single bone in your body broken I suggest you let go of the gun." Spike said with rage.

Silver then released his grip on the gun and Spike took it and handed it back to Annabelinda.

"Make sure that he doesn't hold a gun again." Spike said.

Two royal guards then took Silver Dart and took him to Canterlot Castle's dungeon.

"Sorry Annabelinda, I'm going to take care of the problem at hand." Shining Armor said.

"Thank you sir." Annabelinda said with a smile.

Spike then started walking towards Annabelinda and hugged her.

"Are you okay?" Spike asked.

"I'm fine Spike, thanks though." Annabelinda said.

Annabelinda then gave Spike a kiss on his cheek and everyone then returned to target practice. At the end of the day Spike and Annabelinda were walking back to their rooms when Shining Armor stopped Spike and smiled.

"Spike, I would like to tell you that Skyla's birthday party is tomorrow and you have been invited as the guest of honor." Shining Armor said with a smile.

"Really, I'm able to go?" Spike asked.

"Yeah, we are going at 11:00 hours tomorrow." Shining Armor said.

"Awesome." Spike said with joy.

"I'll let you get your rest, we have a big day tomorrow." Shining Armor said.

"Wait, are Twilight and the others going to be there?" Spike asked.

"Of course, everyone from Equestria is going to be there." Shining Armor said with a smile.

"Shit, that's a big party then." Spike said.

Shining Armor then left and soon after Spike laid his head down and fell asleep.