Chapter 1

Bored Begging's

"Celestia it is boring around here" says a royal guard mare as she trots her normal patrol route through the stands and vendors inside outpost Glory. The mare is average in height but with a little more muscle tone due to the training she went through to be a royal guard. She is a unicorn with magenta fur, silver eyes, and a blue mane and tail and a serious case of boredom.

"Come on Hash at least you're not on latrine duty anymore" says the stallion that is walking next to her, the stallion is slightly taller than the mare as a Earth pony would be, he has dark brown fur with orange eyes, he has a light red mane and tail, his cutie mark is a cracked bone being wrapped in medical tape.

"I guess Doc but, when I was assigned to the borderlines I was expecting there would be adventure and action but instead the most we do is patrol the market or other areas inside the outpost, I mean there is hardly anything to do here I've been everywhere in this place and nothing exciting ever happens" the mare breaths a sigh as she finishes her rant as they approach the end of the market.

"Doc, hey Doc!" both the mare and stallion turn to the direction of yelling that is coming from another guard who is galloping towards them.

"Yes what is it?" the stallion (who we will now refer to as Doc) asked as the exhausted guard caught his breath.

"We received.....a distress scroll....the general has ordered you....nurse Flick, and a small team......of guards including Hash to head outside." Hashes eyes glimmered at the mention of being sent outside of the outpost and into the unknown while Docs pupils seemed to shrink. The guard who has now recovered his breath continued the orders he was to deliver "You both are to gear up and report to the gate for the briefing" after saying this the guard saluted them both and trotted off.

"Come on Doc lets go! ooooh, I can't believe we are going out on a mission this is so awesome!" Hash says while she trots with a obvious bounce in her step toward the gate.

"Yeah.....awesome" Doc says as he follows his excited companion with less of a skip to his step and more of dragging chained boulders attached to his legs. As Doc and Hash continue their walk to their destination the make a stop a the clinic to pick up nurse Flick who despite what you may assume from the name is a mare. Flick a white unicorn with a golden mane and tail and her cutie mark was a chestnut.....(don't judge me). As the trio arrived at the designated briefing location Hash noticed three older veteran guards, two earth ponies, and a pegasus, none of which she knew personally were conversing with a large pegasus stallion. The pegasus that they were speaking with was also their commanding officer and general of the outpost Glory guards, general Dark Moon.

The general as previously stated is a pegasus, he is impressively built for somepony in their mid forties, his cutie mark was a cloak and dagger, his fur is a dark shade of gray either from his age or it was what he was born with no pony really knows, his mane and tail is a blend of faded green and brown. His eyes are a deep sea blue and he has a large scar that goes from his left eye to his left ear which fits the scowl he is wearing at the moment.

"Ah, there they are", Dark said sounding miffed "Now that you three are here we can start the briefing, about fifth teen minutes ago a S.O.S scroll was received at communications the scroll details traveling ponies being attacked by a manticore on the mountain side trail, these ponies have dealt with the manticore but one is injured and possibly poisoned it's our mission to head out there provide medical assistance and bring these ponies back to the safety of Glory" Dark takes a pause to let the information of the mission sink into the gathered ponies minds before continuing, "We head out effective immediately gather whatever gear you will need and return here in five minutes understood?" The group of ponies salute the general while saying "Sir, Yes Sir!" in unison before dispersing to get the necessary gear they need for heading out into the badlands.

Meanwhile

Darkness, cold crushing darkness surrounds the stallion but, he is not concerned for he has been here plenty of times. "Huh guess I lost consciousness" He says to himself, his words echoing around him.

"HEHEHE you should be more careful if it wasn't for that filly you could have died" a mocking voice echo's from the darkness.

"Shut it I had everything under control" the stallion says his words full of venom.

"Oh? You had everything under control? Well excuse me if I don't believe that" An image appears in front of the stallion, it is a outside perspective of him slamming into the tree that the manticore whacked him into. "Ah I love that part it will be held in a deep place in my heart" the voice says "Honestly though if you had let me deal with that beast you would not be in the situation you are in right now" the voice continues to speak in its condescending tone all the more angering the stallion.

"If that's all you came here for then piss off cause you know full well that I will never let you take care of things" the stallion says keeping a faceless expression trying to stay calm and cool.

"Very well but my offer still stands, if you need me just call" the voice chuckles to itself as it slowly fades. "Great if that bastard is popping up then I hope that rescue team shows up soon."

Author's Note

Took me a long time to finish this but its finally here for those who may like this story.
Already working on the second chapter but it may take a while to get it out due to work.
Hope you enjoy and thank you for you're support.

Also shout out to Towkio for the kind comment he/she make some good fics themselves and so check them out.