Officer Strike's Adventures- Aftermath of the changelings attack- Royal Guard Diaries

For a while we continued our conversation, me and Jumping Jacks.

"Wow I know your becoming a Senior Officer! I can imagine you being really good though. I mean you are loud and confident!" I said patting my friend's hoof.

" Me, now I am different you know I mean I am loud. You have seen me screaming down the streets of Pony Ville and waking up the neighbours.  I have anger issues but we will not go into that! You know I am not as confident as I could be. I love the challenges that I face in the royal guard but I could never be ordering Junior Officers around since I will not have the guts!" I admitted to her and she rolled her eyes.

She was sick of hearing "I can't!" all the time from me. I always put myself down and got teased a lot for it. I was quite sensitive as well meaning I got upset very easily.

In the royal guard though, I felt like I was at home.

"Oh come on your a fine royal guard! You have learned a lot! You have learned what a patrol is and how to defend yourself!  I guess everyone needs to face challenges though. I mean I am really nervous! I am sure one day that you'll become a Senior Officer in the royal guard as well!" Jumping Jacks flashed a smile.

"Yeah you are right I suppose. I do want to become  a royal guard Senior Officer and train up our future. The royal guard I have to admit couldn't really handle the threat of Queen Chrysalis but they did try. How can you use spears against a mad Queen?" I shrugged as I continued to polish my armour and Jumping Jacks did not have a clue.

I remembered that particular day. It was the wedding day and I was invited so I could guard the place. It was another Junior Officer drill that we had to take part in. It was good practice as well but when Chrysalis came I was stuck.

I began speaking.

"I mean I was there at the wedding guarding the place when I spotted her army of changelings. I looked for a Commander or a General and warned Commander Courage but then it was too late. Her changelings had tied up the lot of us officers!" I started to remember the incident that had occured.

" Thank Celestia that my mother wasn't there or she would have probably got involved as well. At the end though, the wedding was fun since they organized a party for every pony and the royal guard were allowed to join in! I danced a bit too much there though!" I laughed.

I would chat a lot when it was with Jumping Jacks. Otherwise I would mostly shut up and obey orders. That was what we had to do in the royal guard though. At home it was the complete opposite. I disobeyed any order.

"Yeah . Queen Chrysalis is a damned mean one. She is horrible!" Jumping Jacks said closing up her eyes trying not to remember the sight of Queen Chrysalis.

"I know that she does not look to good. She should pay a visit to Carousel Boutique! However you have got to admit she is kinda cool just busting in like that! Her entrance and the way that plan was conjured up. That is pure evil dude. I hated her for trapping me in that rope though I was stuck in it for a long time and I couldn't get out! Im not exactly good with knots!" I lowered my voice as I spoke.

Many of the royal guards had been hurt in that incident and I had fought off one or two changelings but that newfound glory had not lasted at all. I also saw the mane 6 running around frantically and away from the changelings but the one thing I remembered was Chrysalis coming face to face with me. It had been very scary for me. I had never seen her up that close. She had spotted me in the castle hall when and I had seized my spear. I had soared up as high as I could have done but she kept on tricking me by shapeshifting into different beings and a royal guard I had mistakened her for and Jumping Jacks at some point.

When I had told Jumping Jacks about that one day ago she just glared at me.

I shuddered remembering what the villainess had said.

"Look who we have here! A bunch of young Junior Officers from none other than the royal guard! The Commanders are all kidnapped you know and spears cannot do much against me now!" Chrysalis spat coldly.

However....

I had always had a soft spot for villains in the books that I had read in Pony Ville but that was  if a villain was not real! I would have become a fan of a fictional villain and start writing stories about them but this one was real and that meant that I was on the good side here.

I usually took the evil side's point of view. It was interesting.

Jumping Jacks was unstoppable back when Chrysalis had caught us. She bounced up so high that she gave Chrysalis a slap on the nose and that I had found quite funny. It didn't help though since it just drove Chrysalis even more madder and savage.

Then I had to think serious.

Jumping Jacks was almost killed with a blast of dark magic from Chrysalis herself in that fight. I should have been a little more careful about what I was thinking. I heard Jumping Jacks scream in pain and so I seized my spear and bashed the heck out of Chrysalis's horn and she was quite shocked.

I might have been a Junior Officer but I packed a punch!

"Apart from all the stuff you have done to us. You know you could take a break from it and get interviewed by me for my latest story if you want! I am curious!" I had managed to blurt out loud the day that Chrysalis attacked me and Chrysalis just stared at me.

"Interested hmm? Well maybe we shall have a chat later on......" Chrysalis said sarcastically and then the fight had continued.

I came back to present and got out of my thoughts.

I blinked and Jumping Jacks laughed.

"You always have a soft spot for evil and villains and always feel sorry for them. You know Strike you are so sad sometimes!" she had figured that out by now.

We both finished polishing our armour and we were told to put it back into our lockers in the hallway of the royal guard academy.  I knew we had a training camp tomorrow and then a shift to guard Canterlot Castle. Guarding could be boring as you just stood there but it was interesting to learn to do and there was so much more to guarding a castle than I had thought.

I had also a lot to study. I had so much textbooks about the royal guard. Such as the History Of the Royal Guard and How to be A Royal Guard and Beginners Royal Guard Handbook.

Soon enough, the royal guard were dismissed from the academy.  I held my satchel around me which was full of the books and textbooks that I had to read back at home since it was homework from the royal guard academy and I had to do it.

My satchel was marked with a shield as a royal guard logo. It told everypony that I was a royal guard and I also had a badge which was clipped onto the satchel showing my rank and my name.

I shrugged and gave a wave to Jumping Jacks as she turned the corner and left in a hurry since she told me her mother needed help back in Pony Ville.

"What now?" I thought to myself.

I was in Canterlot and I knew that I needed to take the train back home and so I trotted over towards the train station and waited for my train to come. As I did I looked through the massive and long but pretty interesting textbooks. I loved reading and I could read anything from a filly's book to the royal documents in the archives.

I was allowed to borrow books from Canterlot Castles library since I was at the royal guard academy and I loved that opportunity.  The books were mostly aimed for my studies but I could borrow anything there.

As I waited for the train I spotted one of the Mane 6 heading out onto the platform. It was none other than Rarity. I was quite unsure what she was doing there but I said nothing. Rarity and me had hardly spoke to each other but that was not because we hated each other or anything of course. It was because you would have never seen me walking to Carousel Boutique for anything. I hated wearing fancy mane styles and I wanted to stick to the plain royal guard me.

I did not actually act like a mare at all half the time.

She would have never recognised me if Spike had not been with her. Spike had seen me around before. Spike only lived a few streets down so he was my neighbour. and he wondered off everywhere. He was a  close friend of mine. I treated him like my own dragon.

"Hey Strike!" he called waving high and I smiled and looked at Spike.

"Hi Spike! What the hay are you doing here? Isn't Twilight supposed to be with you?" I asked and Spike sighed dreamily.

"Rarity asked me to help her sell her jewels back in Canterlot and when Rarity asks you to do something with jewels you have to go!  The jewels  and diamonds are yummy!" Spike said as he was dribbling all over me. I sighed and rolled my eyes brushing the dribble away. Rarity was looking at me curiously in the distance.

"Spike who is this?" Rarity asked curiously and Spike did the introducing.

"Oh she's just a neighbour of mine! Her name is Officer Strike!.well Lightning Strike! She is in the royal guard and a Junior Officer there! That must be so cool! It must be hard to pass the entry test though but you did it! We often chat!" Spike said lighting up the mood and Rarity smiled.

"Well hello there Strike! I have heard that Rainbow Dash has raced with you! Me and Spike were just around!" Rarity explained and I understood.

"Well that is cool! I guess thats my train back to Pony Ville! Wait! You guys live in Pony Ville as well so your going on the same train?" I asked.

"Of course we are!" Rarity cried.

I was on the train soon enough. I  then shuffled through my book and began doing my homework in the train. Once you got into your homework it was not so bad after all. I was also very tired and wanted to slump down at home and tell my mother and sister everything and then my father would come home back to the house and we could have a chat.

"So you are aware of the attack that had happened recently?" Rarity asked as she looked through the paper and I was aware.

I told her the story of clearing up the place when there was damage done everywhere and I told her the story of Queen Chrysalis.

"I didn't even know the changelings attacked Pony Ville as well! So you royal guard had to clean up the whole of Pony Ville! Those disastrous changelings. I suppose the royal guard came to the rescue once again and made Pony Ville a nicer place! You should be proud of yourself. I mean of course you were involved in cleaning up Pony Ville!" Rarity pointed out and I smiled.

"Oh yes I am proud to help!I do like to help I guess and it  was kind of fun! Well that is Pony Ville after all!" I swallowed and then saw that I had to get going.

"See you around later Rarity and Spike I really have to get going!" I cried and Rarity and Spike waved and I flapped my wings and soared right into the air.

I was in the air flying around Pony Ville and looking down at the town. I loved to speed around and have some fun just flying and practicing to race.  I spotted Rainbow Dash but it must had been best to avoid her or I would get caught up in another challenge. Instead I decided to land and landed back down onto the floor and decided that since I had some bits I could spend them on something nice.

I looked around the Pony Ville's stalls that were in the market square. I could quickly buy something but I was unsure what it was going to be.

Then it struck me.

My mother did want some apple pies and I could buy them for the whole families. I sniffed and could feel the scent wafting to my nose and it was coming  than none other than Apple Jack's store.

"Howdy there! Let me guess! I spotted you cleaning up the place when the damage of the latest attack was caused! Mighty! You are a royal guard officer! Well then what would the young officer like to buy?" Apple Jack asked cheerily.

Those pies smelt so good.

"Oh those smell delicious! I suppose just four pies then for the whole family! How much do you want for that?" I asked while I was thinking about the homework that I had been doing beforehand and wondered if I would get a good mark.

"Four bits! Each of them are only one bit each!" Apple Jack explained.

I took the offer. It was really cheap, and I handed her four bits and she gave me four apple pies back and I stuffed them into my satchel and darted off towards home. I felt the wind whistle through my blue and yellow mane as I flew and soared high and dodged obstacles bravely. Finally I landed at my house and knocked on the door.

My house in Pony Ville was a nice little house. It had a good amount of rooms but it stood out because it had a palm tree next to it that was planted there. It was quite a rare plant.

"It's Lightning Strike! Mum! Hey Strike come in! Rarity popped over beforehand and she handed me some extra supplies for my latest sewing work I have been doing!." Stylish Mare cried out.

Stylish Mare was my little sister but she was the complete opposite and it was hard to see that we were really sisters at all. She popped by a lot of times to Rarity's boutique and borrowed many items such as wool and thread.  I was surprised that Rarity had not known that the mare she had been giving lessons was actually my sister's sewing lessons. Stylish Mare loved to style around and her cutie mark was a beautiful button with a needle with thread going through the eye.

She was in fact a unicorn. That was because my mother was a unicorn but my father was a pegaus and so I was a pegasus whilst she was a unicorn. I was not really interested in using magic for anything anyway but Stylish Mare found it easier to sew using her magic. She was not really interested in learning any spells however.

Mum came trotting to me (too tired to call her mother now) and smiled letting me in. I raced up to my room and smashed my books all over the floor. I lay in my bed and locked my room door since I was tired and didn't want to be bothered. Typical for a teenage mare like me of course as I began continuing a story that I was writing.

I was totally absorbed in writing my story. It was about Queen Chrysalis the changeling queen herself. I knew a lot about her since I had borrowed books from the library about her and was interested in the whole character of her. I always wanted to know whether she was destroyed and had died or she was out there planning revenge.

I had written many stories about the villains that threatened Equestria from their point of view and what the world was like to them and how it felt to be cast away all the time and how it felt to be defeated. I tried to understand why villains would do things and how as well as it could have maybe been because something had happened to that certain villain in life which made them turn into an outlaw or maybe because they were simply evil and black hearted.

Although I was obsessed with writing about evil nothing could drag me away from being on the good side. I was glad that I was still good.

Later on however I raced back to play a game with my sister. After finishing my homework and taking my mind off my story we both had played a game of cards because she was bored.

I was a very sour loser against her since I didn't want to be beaten by my sister. We immediatly started fighting.

Sibling Rivalry. The most common thing in Equestria.

"Who would want to play with a cheater!" yelled Stylish Mare and I lashed out. I was boiling up now and being a hot head.

"Just get on with it and play with me!" I shouted back and it became heated.  I soared right up to her and wrestled the stupid mare down to the floor and she screamed. We hurt each other quite badly and she had pinched me.

That was when mum stepped in.

"Just stop it both of you right now! Go and do your own stuff!" she cried and I was fuming and ignored my mum but realised that it was no point in fighting now.  Stylish Mare and me had made bruises all over each other since we were hitting and wrestling with each other and we were both hurt and too tired. Stylish Mare had even thrown a ornament on my head with her magic and the bruise throbbed.

"Annoying mule" I thought to myself. I hated all these stupid fights me and my family got into and I had forgotten about the game completly. It was obvious that I was quite tired since I wrote stories all night and read books all night instead of sleeping. That was why eventually I had needed to wear specs for certain things. I popped them on my face.

Later on my mum called me and said that I was allowed to go and have some fun for a while and maybe play some games with my pony friends or something. I dashed down without saying anything and spotted Rainbow Dash chilling outside. She was staring at me.

"Race let me guess?" I sighed as I asked this and Rainbow Dash grinned and nodded.

I grinned back. I knew that I would enjoy this even if i was in a bit of a bad mood and so I started with her as we began racing. She was so fast and her rainbow shot behind her and she performed a Sonic Rainboom. I adored that move. I continued flapping and racing as high as I could.

I overtook her a few times but then the wind pushed me back. Rainbow Dash laughed and kicked me back and I yelled out. I tried to go faster but the bolts were not charging out of me anymore. I had lost my focus and landed with a skid and a halt.

"Come on lazy bones." Rainbow Dash urged and I caught my breath and shook my head.

She knew clearly that we had been doing this for over 3 hours but she was a super pony and she had obviously also been trained in the wonderbolts academy but she knew that I was not one of the mane 6. I was a normal pony from the village and a royal guard.

I was fairly fit.

After a while I had practiced combat skills with my spear and was doing wing ups.

"So then what is up with the royal guard thing?"

Rainbow Dash was always curious to know about the royal guard. She would have been quite a good royal guard officer in my opinion if she was not stuck with that wonderbolt craze of hers but yet again I had a royal guard craze as well.

"Yeah wicked! I'll be recieving the highest reward for my rank soon and it is The Royal Guard Sergeant award. I am moving from Sergeant at last!  Training is fine and good and Jumping Jacks is cool. Love her." I told her about everything.

Rainbow Dash nodded again and again. She was eventually bored.

"Chow! See you later then!" I said waving my hoof and she had been off so fast.  I zipped right back up in the clouds after resting my wings for a while. For a while I just flew gently and paced myself but it turned into a dangerous race back home as it began to grow quite dark and I could see that Princess Luna was rising the moon.

"I have to get home!" I told myself.

I was back home soon.  Stylish Mare spotted me and it had taken ages for us to get ready for bed. We had heard that my father was staying at his mother's house somewhere out of Pony Ville for the time being and that meant that it was a mares night!

"Cool so what do you guys have planned?" I asked Stylish Mare and my mum and I got my answer. Throughout the whole night we mostly snacked and talked and played games. We played a game of pin the pony on the tail and we all burst out laughing at stupid jokes of ours.

I loved mares night.

That night was the best night that I had ever had with my family.

But the worst night was about to come.

I yawned and stretched waking up in the morning and realised what the time was. My eyes widened. I should have been back at the academy by now and today I realised I was going to stay there for a night and I could not believe that I had forgotten! My mum had woken me up fast and Stylish Mare and me said goodbye to each other.

"Have a good time royal guard sister!" Stylish Mare said winking.

"Wicked! Thanks sis.....hey and have a good time too. Just don't go and touch my stuff while the cutie mark crusaders come and stay over!" I yelled and Stylish Mare obeyed.

Royal Guard Training Camp Here I come!