When I woke up that morning, the first thought that crossed my head was ‘Today is the day.’ It indeed was. I would be taken over to a camp on the battlefield so I could fight. It wasn’t far from the base so we would still get supplies from it, but we needed to be directly on the battlefield to fight.

I went out of the barracks and went over to the food court. I grabbed a quick meal and then went back to the barracks to get my stuff. The rest of the ponies who were going were there packing as well. We left the barracks in a group without a word. We didn’t talk because we were to busy thinking about what was going to happen to us.

General Armor was waiting for us outside. He looked exhausted and beat up, like he had been up all night. He almost seemed worried about something, but he didn’t explain.

“Alright! I’m going to call your name and you will respond with ‘present’ when you hear it. Understand?”

“Yes sir!” We said in unison.

“Rumble!”

“Present.” said a gray pegasus stallion with purple eyes and a dark gray mane.

“Archer!”

“Present.” said a blue earth pony mare with deep purple eyes and a dark blue mane. Her cutie mark was a golden bow and arrow. She was the only pony in our group to have her cutie mark.

“First Base!”

“Present.” said an orange earth pony stallion with blue eyes and a gray blue mane.

“Dinky Doo!”

“Present.” said a light purple unicorn mare with golden eyes and a light yellow mane,

“Scootaloo!” General Armor called my name last.

“Present.” I replied.

After the roll call, the general talked about several other things that we would need to know. He told us how things would run at the camp. How we could be called into the fight at any time. How we would have certain tasks we were required to complete.

After his speech, we were once again transported by unicorns. It wasn’t as strange this time now that I had experienced it before. But still, I felt so far away from the world… So isolated from everything else that was happening.

When I opened my eyes again, I saw that we were in the middle of nowhere. Just barren, frozen land for miles and miles in front of me. In the distance, some deep purple mountains rose out of the earth, ominous clouds encircling their peaks.

“Where… Where is everyone?” Someone asked. We were all beginning to wonder if we had been transported to the wrong place.

Suddenly, the air began to ripple a little bit in front of us. Like the way a pond ripples when you throw a stone into it. I shook my head, wondering if being teleported by unicorn magic was starting to mess with me. But I could still see the ripples in the air. We all had gone dead silent as we all watched in wonder, confused by what we were seeing. Then, the ripples stopped, and it was almost as if the scenery was peeled away as a large, sturdy brick shelter emerged into our view. We gasped. It was like nothing any of us had ever seen.

A purple unicorn began to walk towards us. She had deep purple eyes and a dark blue mane with purple and pink streaks. She was wearing some light armor much like the armor General Shining Armor had been wearing. I could tell she lead the camp, but she didn’t seem as strict as the other generals.

“Hello.” She said politely. “I am General Twilight Sparkle. You must be the new warriors from General Shining Armor’s base. He’s my brother, so that’s why my camp and his base are so close to each other. You know, so we can work together.”

We were all a little surprised at how normal she talked to us. It was almost like this war didn’t exist. Her tone just seemed to make it feel like we were just living normal lives, meeting each other on the street and saying hello.

Two earth ponies walked up to Twilight and stood behind her. They were in much heavier armor that covered their entire bodies except their heads, but helmets were strapped onto the belts of the armor. One pony had a light pink body with blue eyes and a pink mane and the other had a gray body with teal eyes and a light purple mane.

“This is Pinkie Pie and Maud Pie. They are some of our top earth pony warriors. They will be showing you around this camp.” General Sparkle explained. “It’s not a very big place, but by the laws of Princess Celestia, we have to use a cloaking spell anyway.”

Pinkie Pie and Maud Pie lead us off without saying anything. I could tell they were the silent type. The five of us followed behind them, all nervous about what was about to happen.

Pinkie and Maud showed us where we would sleep and where we would eat, but there wasn’t anything else at the camp. The one building that was there was very large though, so it could accommodate the few hundred warriors that stayed there.

I went to bed early that night. Something told me that tomorrow, I would be needed. Tomorrow would be my first battle. I just prayed that I was ready.

Author's Note

Hey everyone,
Sorry if this chapter seems kind of weird. I'm trying to get this story started, but luckily, the action starts in the next chapter. So yeah, keep on the look out for it!