Commander Twilight Sparkle Personal Log
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This is Commander Twilight Sparkle personal Log two-three-nine December 29th 2037

Well Hearths Warming Eve, known as Christmas here, has come and went a few days ago and I was surprised to see the PFDR took the time out of the war effort to semi celebrate it, it was mostly spent just singing together, a few drinks a HUGE dinner in the Mess Hall and the exchanging gifts when someone was able to get them. I didn’t know we were going to celebrate so I didn’t get anyone anything but a lot of the soldiers got me gifts.

I’ll give you a chance to guess the two different items they got me……ok times up. Guns and books!

You have no idea how excited I was seeing the gifts, especially that Anti-Tank Rifle! That was such a fucking beauty I was practically cuddling it. But I was order by the general not to turn in the guns and to keep them in my storage locker along with the ammo as its all mine, and there is a shit ton of ammo to. Seems the men had been planning this for some time and secretly gathering the items without my notice for some time.

After the guns I also got a crap ton of books covering just about everything from firearms history, to a history of warfare and a copy of something called “The Art of War” by a guy who lived a really long time to books on computer programming and AI Programming to basic mechanics to a lot more it would take too long to read, when I get home I need to expand the library for all of this.

I’ll admit I may have been locked in my room the past few days enjoying my gifts, don’t judge me I have a lot to read now. I may have also ended up passing out while snuggling the Anti-Tank rifle, yes it was unloaded.

Anyways I just wanted to give an update as it’s been awhile since I made one of these.

I’m going to go now; this is Commander Twilight Sparkle signing off.
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A knock came to from the door of Twilight’s quarters drawing her from her reading as she looked over the battlements. “Come.” She called and the door opened to admit Nightmare squad who all paused as they entered and stared at the sight before them.

What lay before them was a miniature castle made of books set up beside Twilight’s bed with their squad leader’s head peeking out over one of the walls and staring at them. “Uh….need something?” asked the mare.

Desmond was the first to recover. “We were just wanting to check on you as no one has seen you in days.” He said as the others started to recover.

“How long has it been?” Twilight asked glancing at the clock in her room.

“Four days Commander since the party.” Hudson said.

Twilight nodded. “Riiiiight, I seem to have lost track of time a bit.” She said rubbing the back of her head smiling sheepishly.

“More like a lot. “Rain said while trying to cover her laugh with a hand.

“Hey it’s not my fault! I have so many new books to read what was I supposed to do!?” The unicorn half whined.

“Hey we get it, you are a bookworm, everyone knows it, it’s why you got books as well as guns, and it’s the two biggest things you like.” Hudson said not even hiding his laugh. The two rooks looked at each other, even after a month they still weren’t used to how Nightmare squad spoke to their squad leader and second in command of the army.

“Anyways I’m sure you didn’t all have to come here to check on me so what’s the second reason?” Twilight asked once her squad got themselves under control.

“One of our squads just brought in a shipment of Mark 3 sentries so now we have more to take the load off of Celestia and Luna.” Desmond said and Twilight nodded.

“Does the team working on upgrading them have the book I wrote on the subject?” She asked.

“Of course, they wouldn’t touch them without reading it first as they know you’d come down on them.” Desmond chuckled.

Twilight nodded as she walked out of the gate built into the castle. “Damn right I would, I’m not having people breaking equipment.” She said as she slipped on her armor. “Anyways let’s go see this new shipment.” She said one her armor and helmet was on and she moved the book castle into her storage locker for safe keeping before heading for the door.

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Twilight stood in one of the rooms of the hotel that served as a PFDR Outpost within Calten as she looked over the dozen of sentry bots stacked in the rooms waiting to be upgraded and reprogrammed. “Now you are sure you checked them all for trackers right?” Twilight asked the squad leader who was in the room with her.

“Yes of course, we were very thorough; there isn’t anything that shouldn’t be there.” He said.

Twilight nodded. “Very well, tell the techs they can proceed.” She said and turned from the room and left, hands behind her back as was her habit. She made her way through the outpost with no destination or goal besides just seeing how the outpost was holding up with food, ammo and moral. She could hear laughing and talk of soldiers in some of the room as soldiers chatted with each other about one topic or another.

Everything was right with the Outpost and that brought a smile to the mare’s muzzle as she finished her stroll through the building. The PFDR now had more sentries to help defend the outposts and main base taking some of the weight off of Celestia and Luna, though the manual the techs were using would make the other as advanced as Celestia and Luna in terms of their AIs but they would be effective none the less.

As Twilight stepped onto the roof of the hotel and spotted Luna patrolling the edge of the roof. “Hello.” Twilight said walking up to the hovering machine.

Luna turned to face her and beeped.

GREETINGS COMMANDER

The message appeared in the bottom of Twilights vision as the bot sent its greeting directly to one of Twilight’s implants, she had made that implant so she could better work with the two sentry bots by allowing them to actually communicate with her rather than just beeps that everyone else heard, something only Celestia and Luna would be able to do as the mare didn’t want to be bombarded with messages from every sentry she walked past.

“How goes the patrol?” The unicorn asked walking up to the bot.

NOTHING TO REPORT. NO ENEMY SIGHTED

Twilight nodded. “That’s good to hear. You hear we got more sentries?”

AFFIRMATIVE.

Twilight nodded and patted the bot. “Means you won’t have such a large area to have to cover.”

THAT IS GOOD. TACTICLY IT WAS NOT SOUND HAVING A SINGLE SENTRY PATROL A LARGE AREA

Twilight chuckled. “Agreed but with just two of you we didn’t have much choice.” Twilight said as she looked out over the city from the rooftop. “So how’s your sister?”

CELESTIA REPORTS SHE IS LOW ON AMMO DO TO REPELING SCAVENGERS WHO ATTEPMTED TO TAKE HER OFFLINE.

“Status of the scavengers?” Twilight looked at Luna

NEUTRALIZED

Twilight nodded and went back to looking over the city. “Good.” She said and stood beside the bot as they looked over the city.

COMMANDER WHAT IS YOUR STATUS?

“Oh I am good over all. Got a shit ton of books and a lot of guns and more ammo then I know what to do with. “Twilight said with a chuckle as Luna bobbed in the air, the bots form of a nod.

WELL THOSE ARE YOU TWO FAVORITE THINGS SO YOU MUST BE HAPPY.

“Oh I am believe me.” Twilight said and sighed.

BUT SOMETHING IS WRONG.

“Just the same as usual, missing home and my friends there.” Twilight said as she watched the city. “Don’t get me wrong I have great friends here as well and they mean a lot to me but it’s been months since I’ve seen my home or the friends there much less talked to them. They are probably worried sick about me if they haven’t already assumed I’m dead and grieved.”

The mare sighed as she watched the city in silence for a few minutes. “It makes me wonder how they will react when I am able to make it home….if I’m ever able to make it home.” She said. “I mean we have a vague idea how I got here but it’s not a simple thing tearing a hole between realities.” She sighed. “It would have been a lot easier if I was just from another planet as it would be simpler to find a way to another planet then to another dimension. “

YOU WILL GET HOME AND YOUR FRIENDS WILL BE HAPPY TO SEE YOU.

Twilight looked at the bot. “How do you know?”

BECAUSE NOTHING HAS STOPPED YOU FROM ACHIEVING YOUR OBJECTIVE YET AND THEY ARE YOUR FRIENDS, WHY WOULDN’T THEY BE HAPPY TO SEE YOU ALIVE AND WELL?

Twilight chuckled and waved a cybernetic limb. “Right alive and well.”

I SAID WELL NOT IN ONE PIECE, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. YOU ARE MSSING PARTS YES BUT YOU ARE STILL COMMANDER TWILIGHT SPARKLE AND THAT HAS NOT CHANGED

Twilight stared at the bot. “Sometimes I question how I got your AI to be this way you know that?”

YOU ARE A SKILLED PROGRAMMER AND ABLE TO LEARN WAHTEVER YOU PUT YOUR MIND TO?

Twilight chuckled at that and patted the bot. “That is true.” She said and looked out over the city for a few more minutes. Before turning back for the door. “Well I suppose I should let you get back to your patrol, see you later Luna.

AFFIRMATIVE COMMANDER, HAVE A GOOD DAY

With that the Commander walked back into the outpost as the sentry bot went back on patrol.

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Twilight was walking through the PFDR HQ when her radio squawked at her, demanding she answer it. Twilight placed her hoof to the side of her helmet. “Go for Commander Sparkle.”

“Commander you may want to come down here.” Came the voice of one of the hackers assigned to help sift through White Rabbit’s data.

“On my way.” She replied and turned around to head back towards the room set aside for their work. It didn’t take long to reach the room and when she walked in she saw the team all staring at her. “Um….is something wrong?” She asked as she looked back at them, this wasn’t what she had expected to find when she arrived.

The lead hacker smirked. “I don’t know, depends what you mean by wrong. “ He said as he typed on his computer. “Seems we weren’t the only ones White Rabbit had slipped a spy program into the systems.” He said.

“He had been spying on a hidden lab, where the head researcher is one Doctor Adam Frisk. “The hacker turned the screen around and showed the profile picture of the one human Twilight wanted to see dead more than even White Rabbit staring back at her; there was no mistaking the face of that monster. The hacker turned the screen back towards himself. “It seems he has been doing the same research he was doing when you arrived only more focused on creating a stable opening rather than just dragging something at random.” The hacker said as he typed and then looked up at the mare. “And he has a prototype ready to be tested once he finds a way to target it for Equestria.”

Twilight stared back at them as they looked back at her. Frisk had continued his research to reach her home even as the country was plunged into civil war, the Feds probably were still finding him with the intents to use the portal once things stabilized but knowing Frisk he wouldn’t wait, the man was obsessed with going down in history and what better way than to be the first human to gain control of magic?

He had to be stopped. He would be stopped. But this raised other issues, she had a way home, she knew she could aim the device, being from Equestria it wouldn’t be too hard to use her own magic to lock onto Equestria but the issue was….she’d be abandoning the PFDR with little to no chance of ever being able to return to help. Twilight was torn. She had a chance to go home but didn’t want to abandon her command in the middle of a civil war. All she was sure of was the device needed to be destroyed and Frisk killed and that would happen whether she got home or not.

“Where is the lab?” She asked.

“About fifty miles outside of the city, it’s hidden within a military hospital that from what we can tell is still operating as a hospital.” The hacker said and Twilight nodded.

“Good work. Continue your search for anything of use in the files.” She told them before leaving, she didn’t continue her walk around the base as was usual for her, and instead she went straight for her quarters as she needed to think.

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A knock came to Twilight’s Quarters. “Come.” Came the slightly slurred response. She was surprised to see the General walk in and she quickly got to her hooves, swaying slight as she saluted. “General Sir, I didn’t expect to see you.”

Clancy looked at her. “At ease Commander.” He said and the mare flopped back onto her bed and took another drink of her whiskey. “I’d have thought you’d be celebrating finding a way home in the Mess hall, not hold up in your room with half a bottle of whiskey in you.” HE said as he took a seat on the stool beside her work bench.

“I don’t know if I should celebrate or not.” She slurred as she swirled the bottle. “Yes I’ve been working towards getting home but I didn’t think I’d find it so soon and not in the middle of a civil war.” She said looking at the general.

He nodded. “And you aren’t sure you should go.” He stated and Twilight nodded before taking another drink. The general sighed as he sat back against the work bench. “I have to admire your dedication to helping us Twilight and out cause, I really do.” HE said.

“You are my friends and the Feds need to be stopped.” She said with conviction.

“That we are and that they do but not at the cost of something as important as you returning home Twilight.” He said.

“But—“

“No buts Commander, this is our home so there isn’t much we have to sacrifice to fight, but you have far more to lose then us, You have a home full of people who care about you and I am not going to let you sacrifice that for a war wasn’t yours to fight to begin with.” He said and looked at her as she looked back. “I am ordering you to return home Commander.”

Author's Note

Well here it is, the begging of the end, there are just two more chapters after this and the Interlude then the epilogue and we see the end result of Commander Twilight Sparkle's adventure. who knows what the future may hold for the Commander as we see what happened on the other side of the portal.

I know a the war is still going on but I never planned for Twilight to see the end of the war as it will probably take YEARS to end and Twilight was never going to stay that long. She did play a key role in getting the PFDR to where they are now where they actually have a chance of taking down the Feds

We also got to see a little interaction between Twilight and Luna-bot as see just what sort of AI is housed with in them, yes they are very advanced AIs and that could be a side effect of Twilight using magic to help her create the program or it might not be who knows?

We also see Twilight struggle with the choice of going home or not till that choice is made for her by one of her closest friends.