Equestria 2150

“So, I assume it went well?”

“What do you mean?”

“You know damn well what I mean. The meeting.”

“Oh, yes. That. Razgriz went there, chaos ensued, and now there is a hoof to point for blame, and the war will continue. Everything is going as planned.”

“Everything except Razgriz.”

“What do you mean?”

“He isn’t the aggressive pony that time told of. He’s… soft. If he can’t continue his old ways, he’s a threat to our plans.”

“I understand.”

“I don’t think you do. You must find a way to anger him. Or else this could all fall apart, and Equestria will be doomed.”

“Alright, I’ll find something.”

“I trust you can do this without my help?”

“I can, I’m not as naive as you remember.”

“Alright. ‘Till next time.”

-

Razgriz trotted out of his transport onto the home base of the Lunar Army. He saw Jelly Bean waiting for him, bouncing on the spot. Razgriz could only assume his friend was told the mission.

“So, did they tell you their terms?” He asked Razgriz.

“I assume you were told them already. They were in the transmission that was sent to my tank.”

“Yeah, but you got to talk to the Elements of Harmony?”

“Yeah. What of it?”

“What of it?” Jelly Bean scoffed. “They are only the most highly respected ponies below the princesses. And you’re to have peace talks with them!”

“Well, they weren’t really peace talks.”

“Then what were you doing there?”

“Let’s just say I didn’t find anything new out. Other than Twilight Sparkle’s the leader of her little friendship circle, and they’re some of the most skittish ponies I’ve ever seen.”

Jelly Bean scratched his head, tilting his gaze to Razgriz’s blush.

“Anything else?”

“No. Just go back to your bombers, dude, it’s likely we are moving out soon.” Razgriz said while trotting off at a brisk pace, leaving Jelly Bean to wonder alone.

-

Razgriz was in the war room, planning the movement of the troops. At this point he had found out that Luna wanted to fight. Razgriz had informed her on the way back from the meeting what they wanted, leaving out the fact that they were at each other’s throats half the time and that they wanted to end this before it started. Luna only wanted to show in force what the Lunar Army was after.

The general looked at the magic projection of Equestria. With this he could view any city, town or objective with the flick of a hoof. He zoomed the projection onto the town that they were to invade. It was a small town just north of their location, called Ponyville. It seemed like a quiet town, a place that anypony would want to live in. Thankfully, they were not going to fight for it.

The Lunar Army was going to call upon its sleeping army to help in their fight. If everything was set in place, and remained the way Razgriz left it, there would be thousands of ponies in the Lunar bloodline. All these ponies knew what the signal was to assist their leader, and it was a song.

Razgriz loved the idea. He trotted over to a radio in the room. He used his magic to tune it to the designated channel, and levitated over an old record player. Grabbing an envelope, the general extracted an old record out of it labelled Night Time Waltz from it. The black record had only one side to it, and Razgriz placed that side face up on the record player’s table. He turned the radio on, the device transmitting to several command tanks at the edge of the Everfree forest. These tanks had loud speakers on the outside of them for this reason.

A crackling started to come out of the speaker. The song began. It was played to fillies of the Lunar bloodline, and which they had remembered off by heart. Once the tanks started to play, they advanced into the town, driving at full speed and cranking the song as loud as the speakers would permit.

Some ponies fled, and a few others merely stopped what they were doing. The braver ones had their ears perked, unsure if what they were hearing was real.

And indeed it was. The call for more hooves was here, and over half of Ponyville was ready to answer this call.