Equestrian Chronicles: Discordian

Manehatten, 1030 hours

Discord sighed, and looked down at one of his generals. "You let them invade the Everfree forest. Without even a fight." The general looked up. "Without a fight? We lost some 500 ponies, and we're STILL losing them! And who knows how many of Celestia's we took out!"

Discord rolled his eyes, and summoned a glass of chocolate milk. He sipped the glass, and gave his general a look over the milk. "Once we wipe out all of Celestia's warriors in the forest, then I'll call it a fight. Otherwise, it's just a rumble. Now," he conjured up an Easter egg basket filled with explosive eggs, "I have a certain flying city to take over. Send an order out saying that all platoon leaders need to send all the ponies they can spare to our headquarters. It's time to equip some ponies with wings."

Snowsly was a little shaken about the attack on the Everfree Forest. It was a well-planned out attack, and that showed there would most likely be more of them. She put her hoof to her chin, the pony leading the charge was a stallion named Mintyfresh. He had also had another assistant, called Icefire who lead a smaller regiment behind Wildberry’s forces, therefore flanking her troops. Now she knew one of them needed to be taken out, and she was just the assassin to do it.

She bravely walked up to her commander, Ocean Gleam and asked if she could alone attempt to kidnap either Icefire or Mintyfresh. She granted her permission to do the assault. She only asked that she wait till after the siege on the Everfree Forest. She accepted the request.

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Everfree Forest, 1100 hours

Icefire was just waking up in a field hospital, she sat up immediately and ran out of her room. In her rush she ran right into a green-maned unicorn.

“I was just coming to check on you,” Mintyfresh breathlessly said.

“Oh, how is the battle doing?” Ice asked blankly.

“Good......enough,” Minty said looking down, “We’re losing too many troops in there.”

“I’ll be on my way then,” Ice said trotting down the corridor.

“Don’t you want your pay?” Minty asked. Ice stopped dead in her tracks.

“Umm...” Ice started remembering what Berry had said earlier, “I am no longer a mercenary, thus meaning I don’t need your bits.”

“Suit yourself, I’ve been meaning to ask you. What did Wildberry say to you that made you stop fighting her?” Minty asked the new recruit.

“She was offering me a job as a Discordian. I-I was thinking about taking her up on the offer but then I saw you getting attacked and I thought better of it, so I attacked her,” the white mare admitted, “I would have died if you didn’t come and save my flank.”

“It wasn’t anything special,” Minty started to blush. This is so un-stallion-like.

“It is special! I would’ve died if you didn’t save me!” Ice half-shouted at the unicorn.

“I know okay, just one of my old friends taught me to always save a pony in need.”

“Who?” Ice wondered out loud.

“A earth pony named Applejack,” Minty stated.

“Oh.” said Ice sounding awkward.

“She died in a battle a while back...” Minty said trailing off.

Suddenly a pony dressed in the royal guards’ clothing came galloping towards Mintyfresh and Icefire. He said, “The Princess has requested both you and Ms. Icefire to immediately go to Canterlot. She told me she is giving you a high honor yet never told me what it was.”

“Well, I guess we go then.” Minty said.

“I guess so.” Ice responded.

They headed towards a train that would take them safely towards Canterlot.

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Manehatten, 1200 hours

After getting the OK from Ocean, Snowsly started galloping towards her quarters to get her supplies. She was a hoof-to-hoof fighter, so she had plenty of weapons to choose from for a kidnapping. About half an hour later, she set out to find out any information as to where her target was going today. She soon found out that the two would be heading to Canterlot, to receive an unneeded and pointless award from Celestia. Snow rolled her eyes, and set out for the city. It took her awhile, and fighting a few of Celestia’s warriors, but she finally made it.

Snow flew over the city, looking for a place to land that wasn’t swarmed with the enemy. She soon found one, and in a prime spot- right by the train tracks, where the leaders and high uppers in Celestia’s armies came into the city. She hid in a bush, got her weapons at the ready- a knockout gas bomb, a few ninja stars, and a knife in case things got extreme- and waited.

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Canterlot, 1245 hours

Ice and Minty boarded the train that would take them into Canterlot. “What do you think the honor is for?” Ice asked.

Minty shrugged. “I have no idea. Not even the guard knew.”

Ice cocked her head. “Don’t you think that’s a little strange? Celestia not telling her messenger what she specifically needs us for?”

Minty shook his head. “No. There’s always the chance that the guard could have gotten kidnapped and tortured for information. Or the guard could have been a spy for Discord. You can’t trust many ponies anymore.”

Ice nodded. “That makes sense.”

Minty nodded. “Now, let’s just relax.”

The ride took almost no time at all- all the extra tracks were closed off, and this part of Ponyville was almost deserted, save for a few of Celestia’s guards.

Soon enough, the pair reached the big city. They couldn’t get off right away, since the guards had to clear the debris from the end of the tracks, ‘secure’ the area- Snow chuckled silently at this- and fight the door for it to open. After a few minutes, Ice and Minty got off the train. Snow saw her chance. She pulled the pin on the knockout bomb, and threw it. It landed with a soft thud on the grass near a few guards. They didn’t notice a thing until they started to get drowsy. The guards muttered incoherently, which caught Ice and Minty’s attention.

“What the hay...?” Minty asked, the gas getting to him before he could finish his sentence. He quickly fell to the ground, which alarmed Ice. “What the buck is going on?” He yelled, fighting off gas-induced sleep. Snow stepped out of the bushes, her knife in her mouth.

“Now, do you want to come quietly and in one piece, or silent and multiple pieces?” She asked around the knife. Ice’s eyes widened, and before he could say anything, he dropped to the ground, asleep. Snowsly laughed. “Quietly it is!” She threw Icefire onto her back, and flew back to Manehatten to show Ocean and Discord her accomplishment.

“Buck, you’re heavy.” Snowsly said, throwing Icefire onto the floor of her quarters. Discord and Ocean both praised her for her capture, but were disappointed that it wasn’t someone higher up. Snowsly made a mental note to find out how high up her targets were next time. She hid her weapons for when her capture woke up, and locked the doors and windows. “Guess I have to watch you until other orders,” Snowsly said, looking down at the pony.