May the Stars Shine Upon You
Prolouge.
Bullets flew past TimeWarper's head, as he ducked for cover behind an overturned tank, He quickly jumped up, fired off a few rounds, saw one or two ponies fall, and quickly ducked again. He suddenly heard an explosion, and covered his head. A body few over the edge of the tank and he looked at it with swollen eyes. It was a pony from the same battalion that he was sent to after his last spy mission. He looked at him, and remembered him from when they would eat around their campsite. It was another friend of his. He never really knew his name, but he was always making him laugh...
"DAMNIT!!!" He screamed. He threw a grenade over the tank, and somewhat grinned when he heard the fatal explosion. He wondered how the buck he got himself into this mess.
TimeWarper slowly walked up to the sign-up booth. He looked over the form that would soon change his entire life, and maybe even destroy it.
"Don't do it.... She's just a rebel... Celestia has always been there for us." SonicSky said. He had been TimeWarper's friend ever since they were phillys. They were both also one of the "specialized"
"And what about the Rainbow Factory huh?! Was that ok? To kill innocent first time fliers to just make a rainbow?!" TimeWarper snapped back.
"She did what she had to-"
"She did what she thought was best so she could continue being lazy! She could've found another way!" And with this, TimeWarper sealed it all, he signed the form with his magic. The soldier then started to give him a tatoo of the insignia of the New Lunar Republic, a moon with wings.After this, TimeWarper looked at his friend. He just shook his head, and walked away without a word.
SonicSky was left there, alone in line at an army that he thought was completely insane. "I'll show him.." He muttered under his breath. He then left the line and walked over to the other side of town. He noticed how much Ponyville had changed since he was a philly. New developments in technology allowed new forms of communication. Telegraph wires were set up everywhere, and he could here the soft buzz of a television announcing important news as he walked past someponies home. He ignored all of this though, in his anger, and just kept on walking.
When he got to the other side of town, he went straight to the sign-up booth for the Solar Empire. The line he joined had a unicorn soldier, who looked fresh out of the acadamy, signing forms.
"Do it..." He said.
"But Sir, you should really look over the for-"
"DO IT!" He snapped.
The soldier, taken back by all of this, signed the form for him. When he was giving him a tatoo of the sun, he saw his cutie mark. It looked like a standard cutie mark, but this one was different... This one was moving... a sign of one of the engineered ponies. Only about 125 of them existed at the moment, and to see one and even talk to one of these famed ponies was somewhat of of an honour.
Luna won't know what hit her... now that we have one of the "specialized" in our army....
End of Prolouge.
