Tales of a Germane

Chapter 5

The next days nothing special happend. I soonly got used to my new daily routine: Getting up, putting my cloths on, going into the town, finding myself a nice spot to sit and eat something (Whereby I steered clear of Sugarcube corner) while I read in some books about flying wich I borrowed from Twilight Sparkle (Who apparently ran the Ponyville library), meeting with Rainbow to train with her, going to the base and going to bed.

But on one day, I just putted my cloths on and intented to go to the town, somebody knocked at my door.

"Come in, please."
A grey pegasus with a blonde mane, a bubble cutie mark (How did she get that?) and crossed eyes came in (Isn't this restricted area? At least I thought so....), looked around and finall turned to me.
"Hello, I got an registered letter for, ehmm, Franz Siegmann. Is that you?"
"Indeed. Could I please see it?"
"Of course! At least that's why I'm hear you silly."(I thought about answering on that, but I didn't for obviuos reasons)
"Here you go!"
She putted her mouth into the saddlebag and...
"That's a muffin." I said.
"Oops, my bad." she answered.
"Here is the letter."
"Thank you, ehmm, what's your name?"
"Ditzy Doo, but some people call me Derpy (I can't imagine why)"
"Fine, thanks than Ditzy, and have a nice day."
"Thanks, bye."

She wanted to fly out of my room, but instead she hitted the doorframe. Without saying anything, she left my room after she hitted it twice again.
I opened the letter:

Dear Mr. Siegmann

we read your letter about the circumstances in Ponyville. We got similar letters from all other advisors, even though most of them weren't as dircet as you discribed the situation. Therefore, we will send you some equipment wich Equestria can't produce on it's own (At least in the moment). This equipment contains:

-20 assault rifles of the type AR 3
*with 2000 rounds of ammo for each weapon
-20 pistols of the type SP 56
*with 200 rounds of ammo for each weapon
-20 bulletproof jackets
-20 steel helmets
-20 mobile communication systems of the type WCD 69

The equipment will arrive within the next days. You may already noticed, that this is not enough equipment for all soldiers in your base. In fact, we are working at an arms deal with Equestria, but in the moment this equipment is just borrowed, so be careful with it.
You also may noticed, that we won't send you any camouflage suits. Apparently, as it is not very hard to produce them on your own, Equestria will do so. You have to get a local dressmaker to make some for your troops.

The ministry of defence

I read trough it again and again. The text by itself was not very strange and more or less like what I expected it to be. Only the part about the camouflage suits was strange. I mean seriously, would it have been so complicated to send some suits with the other equipment? Anyway, I couldn't make the suits on my own or just conjure them up. So I had to, just as the letter suggested, get a local dressmaker to make me some. And I already got an idea who I could ask.

Raritys boutique was at the eastern edge of Ponyville. As I arrived there, I didn't hesitate and went right in. It was one nice, wide room (Wich in my taste was a bit too pink). Suddenly, a ladylike voice spoke to me.

"Hello Franz, darling, how can I help you?"
"Hello Rarity. Well, as you may know, my job is to improve the Equestrian military. That does not mean only the drill, but also the equipment. It turned out that there is no proper equipment at all here, so I had to order some. But, in fact, they won't send me any camouflage suits. For some reason, they want me to order them somewhere else. And that's why I'm here."
"So you want me to make uniforms? Oh, i got some WONDERFUL ideas! I think the best color would be a dark blue with golden lines and..."
"Nonono, I think you got me wrong. I don't want any UNIFORMS, I want CAMOUFLAGE SUITS. They don't have to look nice, their only point is to diguise myself to make me hardly visible."
"You don't have to explain me what a camouflage suit is, darling, I know that by myself." (Than why did you mistake it for an uniform?)
"Well, as I said I need them, twenty, to be exactly. How fast do you think you can make them?"
"Apparently, I got a lot of orders to work on....Let's say about, ehhmmm, two weeks?"
"Two weeks?" I gasped.
"Sorry darling, I fear I can't make it any faster."
"Sure, no problem. But let's talk about the design instead, shall we?"
"Sure, what do you want exactly?"
"Well, I need some standart camouflage suits, nothing special."
"Some standart camouflage suits..."She thought loudly"Wait a minute, I'll be right back!"

She came back with an outsized hat, wich for some reason had a camouflage design.

"Just like that?" She asked.
"Yes, just like that." I answered.
"Ok, I'll start work as fast as I can. I'll call you once I finished."
"Great, thanks, but we didn't spoke about the payment yet."
"Oh, this can wait. I mean, I don't know how much I'll need to make your suits. It would be... let's say optimistic, to already charge you a bill."

"She's pretty generous." I thought by myself as I left the boutique. Suddenly my thoughts were interrupted by a few bell punches.
"It's alredy 3'o clock? Damn, I'm coming to late to the training with Rainbow!" As I had to work the first time in the past six days, I completely forgot about it. Twenty minutes later (Or rather too late) I arrived at our usual training ground at Sweet Apple Acres.

"Hey Franz, where have you been so long?" Rainbow said. (Way less flatly than the last time I were too late.)
"Sorry Rainbow, but apprently I got a letter from the Ministry of Defence from what I had to take care that the soldiers in my base get camouflage suits because they won't send me some, so I had to go to Rarity to order some."
"Oh, no prob...wait, does this mean you will soon have no time to train with me?" She said, and looked a little sad.
"I fear so, Rainbow." I answered.
"Oh." That was all she said, but now I definitely sure she was sad about it.
"Well, that's in a few days the earliest. And so long we still can work on the "Sucide Pirouette", so, let's go. Apparently, I hadn't time to read in my books today, so I think we will just do again what we did last day..."

Authors Note

You may wonder why it took me so "long" to publish this chapter. Well, first, when I started the story I knowed what it should be about. Apprently, in the moment I still got some ideas, but I need some more inspiration to put them in an actual context.
And second, I'm working on another story in the moment. It's a crossover, so much I'll say, and I got a script for it, so it's not so hard for me to write it because I know what's next. That's just all I wanted to say so you don't wonder if there is a time where I don't publish so much chapters. In fact, I don't have so much ideas left, so I will just look where this story leads me.
At this point I also want to say "thank you" to all who gave me some feedback, this story will go on, don't worry .