Shades of Violet

by Blackjack2176

Rating: teen
Tags: Dark, Alternate Universe, Adventure
Length: 2339

Equestria's government has become greedy and militaristic, starting wars on forigen soil in an attempt to expand. It worked until the soilders rebelled aginst the princesses and started a civil war...

The princess have become greedy and want to own all of the neighboring lands the soilders do as told until Celestia orders a squad to kill a town full of civilians. The soilders rebel and are imprisoned, while they were locked away the rest of the army sees how the princesses have wronged them and begin an uprising… That sparks a civil war…

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2015-08-26 02:14:23 UTC

Chapter 1: Extraction

     "I can't believe it's been almost 12 years since those princesses put us in this prison!" said Violet to her cell mate, Ditzy Doo (AKA: Derpy). "But look on the bright side, we get three meals a day and no one can hurt us for disobeying the princesses!" Ditzy replied. Then there was a feint sound coming from out side, and it grew closer and closer every second. "What's making that noise, Ditzy?" Since she was on the top bunk, she could see though the bars and to the outside. "I can't really tell, it sounds like gunshots, but my therapist says I have PTSD, so that could be anything." Then the prison sirens went off, blaring a loud, annoying tone.

    "Let me see!" Said  Violet as she moved Ditzy. Violet looked out the window and saw a small figure that was all black, it looked up at her and started running towards the prison. "Someone's coming this way, but why?"

   "Maybe they will break us out of here Violet!" Ditzy said as sarcastic as possible. Then the sound returned but this time louder and clearer. "Wait, I know that sound! It is gunshots!" Said Violet., "But they're heading in our direction! Are they mercs here to kill us, or rebels to break us out?"

    Ditzy, Violet and the rest of the squad all knew about the civil war between the army and the princesses, the gaurds came by every week with the newspaper just to yell at them about how they caused this and that the nation has fallen from greatness. The only reason the princesses haven't lost yet is because the Air Force has sided with the princesses, the two branches of the military are in constant conflict and have been since Violets squad was arrested and inprisoned. The army saw it as they were imprisoned for doing good. The Air Force saw it as disobeying the princesses. With the two disagreeing, the nation was no longer conquering foriegn lands.

     Gunshots rang throughout the prison halls, these ponies were determined to get to their target, it appeared they would stop for nothing. "My bet is they're mercs." Said Ditzy, "what do you think?" Violet sat on the floor with her back aginst the wall, next to the beds. Violet was quiet for a few minutes until the gunshots stopped and the two could hear ponies running up the steps. "I don't know Ditzy, I guess we're about to find out."

     About ten seconds later the door at the end of the hall flew open and voices screamed, "EVERYPONY ON THE GROUND, NOW!" Violet looked at Ditzy who was still sitting in the bed and then got up and walked over to the beds and sat on the bottom bunk.

     They could hear the cell doors being opened one by one, after a few minutes a pony covered in black armor looked into Violet and Ditzy's cell and said, "I think these are te ones were looking for!" Then a response from down the hall replied, "It better be!" Followed by footsteps.

     Violet thought to herself, 'wait a minute, I know that voice from some where... But where?" Then another pony, who was also dressed in black looked at them and said, "Well, I'll be damned! Haven't seen you in twelve years!" The pony the pulled of his mask and looked at Violet and said, "I missed you sweat pea." Violets mouth fell open as she looked at him, he was the last pony she expected to see. "Dad? What are you doing here?!" Ditzy got off the top bunk and said, "Not mercs, I lost yet another bet."

Chapter 2: Escape

"What the hell are you doing here dad?" Violet said, still confused as to why her dad was standing in front of her. "My team and I are here to get you out of prison and where you belong, at our HQ."  said Violets father, Indigo.

     "Well how do you plan to do that, because every guard in the prison is heading to this spot to kill us?" said Violet.

     "Yes, and I was planning on it" he said as he levitated a small hand gun to her, and a second to Ditzy. "Hope your not to rusty." Then the sound of hoof steps came from the stairwell at the end of the hall. "What about the rest of my ex-squad?" said Violet, "Are we taking them with us?"

     "This is what used to be the Princesses army, we might have changed a few things, but we still never leave a soilder behind." Then handguns were passed out to the other now free prisoners. The hoof steps of the gaurds grew louder in the back ground. "On my mark we move out!" Then everypony loaded their guns and got ready to fight, "MOVE OUT!" yelled Indigo and the ponies responded with a chorus of "Hoorah!" then they filed out the door to the stairwell, intercepting the gaurds and the sound of gunshots rang through out the prison.

     Several of the gaurds had been killed before Violet and Ditzy had gotten through the door. The gaurds had managed to fell two ponies, one a prisoner and one from the rescue squad. Violet stepped out and a shot hit the railing next to her and bounced off, finding a home in the concrete ceiling. Violet crouched and levitated the pistol so she could line up the shot with the gaurd pony head. With a slight pull of the trigger, Violet had given his head a new hole and the wall behind him a new paint job, red with pink chunky pols dots.

     Violet slowly crouch-walked down a flight of stairs, avoiding being shot, till she reached the landing. She then stood at full height and fired five bullets into a gaurd. He looked like Swiss cheese then slowly fell to the ground. Another gaurd quickly replaced the one Violet had just killed, he then shot at Violet three times, two missed and found homes in the wall behind her, but the third hit Violet in the side, it cracked a rib. Violet immediately winced at the pain and was to distracted by the blood slowly flowing out of her and soaking her lilac coat to shot back. The gaurd would have killed her if Ditzy hasn't been there. She lined up the shot with the speed of a jet and fired twice. The gaurd's head suddenly exploded as two bullets ripped through his head, turning it to red and pink applesauce with a few teeth mixed in.

     The escapes prisoners and combat squad fought the gaurds for the better part of a half hour, there seemed to be no end to the amount of gaurds coming from the lower floor. The gaurds had many casualties and lost three floors after the half hour. The combat squad had lost 5 ponies and there were 8 of the 30 prisoners left. The combat soilders fed the prisoners into the hallway of the fifth floor the led to te stair well.

     "There is no way we can fight our way out, there's to many!" One of the soilders yelled as she fired upon the prison gaurds.

     Violet then got an idea and screamed to her father, "Got any frags?" While she too fired upon the gaurds. Then Indigo threw a baseball shaped item to Violet. She grabbed it in a telekinetic grasp and threw it down two floors, only keeping the pin behind. There was a chorus of screams from the lower floors and three seconds later, a small boom. The gaurds and and most of the stairs were gone.

     "That was great how you got rid of 'em, but how're we supposed to get down now?" said Ditzy.

     "We'll you can fly us down one at a time or we could jump... But I prefer the first option, only if your up for it." Violet said.

     "Or we could take the slide?" said Indigo as he pointed at the laundry chute.

     A few minutes later they were all in a giant laundry basket one by one, jumping over the sides and landing on the floor, some on there feet, others on their face. The room was dark, the only soured of light came from the small window of the back door. The group of prisoners and soilders slowly moved towards the door. Violet looked out the window and didn't see any pony. One of the soilders slowly opened the door and looked around, still no pony around. The group slowly exited the laundry room one by one, and the last pony out closed the door as quietly as possible, so no pony would know they went out through the laundry room.

     Then they looked around for the extraction point and found a group of similarly dressed combat ponies.

"On the count of three, we run for those ponies and don't look back, they're our ticket out of here. 1, 2, 3!" Then everypony ran for the hills like they were being chased by murderers. After a full minute of sprinting, the group had made it to the trees and meet up with the second group of combat ponies. "Welcome back exfill team, was the mission a success colonel Indigo?"

     "Heavy casualties... Got primary targets.... Prison on high... Alert." Indigo said between breaths.

     "Time to roll boys!" The combat pony said, then four ponies started up their trucks. The prisoners were put in one truck, Violet, Ditzy, and Indigo were in the second truck. The rest of the exfill team got into the third and team two got into the final truck.

     "Next stop, rebel HQ." said the driver and the truck rolled away from the prison.

Chapter 3: Inside the War Room

     "Luna, what are we to do now? The rebels have broken into the prison and released the ponies who denied our will." Celestia said while pacing around the war room. "This will surely bring our down fall. We must act fast!"

     "Easy sister, we do not know what they are planning, if we attack now that would leave us weak. We don't know what they have in the means of weaponry. They could have missiles! Sister please wait, once we know what they have, then we will plan." Luna explained to her Sister.

     The two sisters sat on opposite ends of the table in the middle of the room. The war room was an addition to the palace built after the military split, the army took over a few small bases and a large armory. The Air Force uses cloudsdale and other small pegasi cities.

     In the war room, maps of Equestria were pinned to the walls, thumbtacks were placed in accordance with know rebel locations. In the middle of the room, a single wooden table, 6 seats were placed around the table, two for the princesses, one for the head of the Air Force, one for the head of the army (which is now empty), one for the head of the magical warfare development team, and the last one is for a Crystal Empire diplomat.

     When the civil war broke out the MWDT (Magical Warfare Development Team) split into two, one side joining the rebels and the other staying loyal to the princesses.

     The rebel half of the MWDT sabotaged most research stations near Canterlot, setting off bombs or burning the buildings after taking as much of the research as they could. Bomb designs, new spells for healing or destruction, and all sorts of advanced weaponry.

     The head of the princess loyal MWDT was in one of the buildings when it was burned to the ground. Scars and burn marks now cover most of his body, leaving almost no trace of his once light blue coat and test tubes cutie mark. He barely escaped before the building collapsed, taking the most advanced weapon designs and schematics with it.

     The most powerful was called EAL (End of All Life) capable of destroying entire countries with the press of a button.Without it, the civil war will rage on till one side loses. Either way Equestria will suffer massive loss of life, but the EAL would be able to reach the conclusion of the war much quicker.

     Now the princesses needed to come up with a plan to get rid of the rebels without the EAL. The war room was dead silent, nopony coming up with ideas.

     "Does any pony have an idea?" Said Celestia, breaking the silence.

     "Princess, the EAL was our only hope for getting rid of the rebels, without it we have to engage them through normal combat." Said the head of the Air Force, Rainbow Dash. "We also can't use the elements because Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Twilight have joined the rebels."

     "So what's our next line of defense?" Said Celestia.

     "We can send in spies, find out what they have, and what they're capable of."

     "Astral, how long till you have the EAL research done and ready to go?" Celestia said to the MWDT leader.

     "At most a year, the earliest is 3 months." Astral replied

     "That should be a sufficient amount of time. Rainbow Dash, send in the spies. Astral, continue research. I want this war over as soon as possible, now go." Celestia said while pointing her hoof to the door. The others stood up, saluted and walked out the door. Celestia and Luna were now alone in the war room.

     "I hope this works sister or else we will be paying a heavy price." Luna said, then walked out.

     "I hope this works, those rebels want my head, and they're not going to get it without a fight." Celestia whispered to herself as she walked to the door.