Act:1 Shadow Bolt. Prologue

Prologue

To start, I wish for you all to keep an open mind about reading our stories. If the events that take place and phrases used to describe the war and those apart of it offend you, please do not take it personally. This is just an account of what had happened during that meaningless war.

Now, with that out of the way, I should go into more detail as to why Luna and her follows left Equestria. Although it is true that Luna had wanted a free society so the people could speak their mind. However she did not want to rule in absolute power. Another monarchy or empire would just lead to the same problems as Equestria had, the problems she had founded a new country to avoid. So, to help this problem of absolute power, Luna decided to form the world's first Republic.

It would be run by an elected council of 7 members, while Luna resides as a permanent 8th member. Luna would still have a high place in power, and her vote would count as 3 points. This way her people would run the nation even more than she would, at the same time, she could use her experience to greatly aid the nation. A nation run by its people can become the strongest kind of nation in existence. Such was proven during the war.

One of the most frequent questions I'm asked is who was on who's side. You already know which sides me and the other CMCs chose, but our sisters and their friends had also been split.

Twilight, being Celestia’s student had gone with her without question, and would be the only one of the 6 that never even considered leaving. Celestia was like a second mother to Twilight, she would never abandon her.

Apple Jack also stayed with Celestia. Her life was run off the sun,that was how she worked. Heck, she would always wait for the sun to rise before starting any kind of work. Not to mention she felt that Luna might have secretly become Nightmare Moon again.

Rarity left for the Lunar Republic, to be honest, she didn't really expect a war to start. But she went all the way for Luna's side when the Solar Empire attacked. Knowing that the princess she had known would attack her own sister simply because she didn't agree with a choice of her’s was almost unbelievable for her. She realized she could no longer follow a tyrant pony like that. It would have been: “Uncouth.” As she described it.

Fluttershy wanted almost nothing to do with the war, alongside Sweetie belle she became one of the founders of the Peace Corps. It was created for 2 reasons. Disrupt, and if necessary, destroy all means of fighting on either side of the war. And guard the wounded.

No one really knew what happened to Pinkie Pie, when the war started and the mane 6 went their separate ways, the ones that remained loyal to Celestia practically disowned their friends that left. Pinkie’s hair went flat and deflated. Not long after she heard of the Peace Corps, she ran as fast as her hooves could carry her to their hideout.

No one really knows what happened after that.

Dash…

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When I found out that Princess Luna was starting her own nation, I was excited. I came to Dash to ask if she would come with me, and guess what…

She laughed. She honestly thought it was a joke.

It wasn't. I truly wanted to go. I was going no matter what happened. It wasn't just the fact that Luna helped me get into a sisterly relationship. Luna had helped me overcome my fear, and had also offered me something I could never refuse.

The ability to fly.

One of Luna's first programs she was putting into motion was for handicapped ponies. A lot of time effort, and money would be put into this project. Because of the government system and because of the smaller size if the country, she was able to always keep a watchful eye on her subjects who were in need of her. She at times could even help directly.

Now onto the war itself.

War had almost never been seen anywhere in this world. Our technology at the start of the war consisted of basic Spears and javelins, with an occasional sword. Nothing like what some worlds had.

Celestia had ordered Twilight to gather some technology from the mirror universe. From there the war became more deadly. Twilight only brought back some minor technology, but it was enough to create a weapon we all know as a crossbow.

Celestia was winning quickly, the Republic had been losing ground faster than the sun traveled over the sky.

That was until we were able to get our own hooves on some of this tec. We made it better.

One advantage of having the princess of the night on our side was that we were able to work during both the day and night. With Luna's power over dreams, she could connect several ponies together and combine ideas while the Empire was asleep.

This played a major role in our counter attack. Soon someone came up with the idea of a repeating crossbow. Instead of having to fire one shot then reload, the string would automatically pull back, allowing the next arrow in the line to slide into place. The weapon this way would fire once every second. However it was too large to be used by a single pony.

On a battlefield, it would take a crew of six to man just one of these things. But the votes were cast, and they were put on the front lines. They did work however and started holding back the enemy forces. But we kept running into a problem.

The enemy kept a constant watch on us from the air. The wonderbolts and their team controlled the skies over our own country. We really had no way from stopping them from doing so however. We could carry crossbows; but they were small, single shot crossbows.

Once again, a crazy ‘what if’ from a random pony helped us with this problem. The solution was rather basic, but effective. We took an automatic crossbow, or AMC for short, simplified it, increased its automation, and made it smaller. This design fired mini arrows about as long as the width of one of our goggles used for when we fly.

Then we hit another problem. It was still too heavy to actually fight with. But we were making progress.

Then powered flight came into play.

It was based off of the same mechanisms used to help me fly. The wing design sucked in air at the front, pressurised it, then shot it out of triangular nozzles behind it. These nozzles would angle themselves up and down upon command, like a feather on a bird’s wing. This gave more lift, thrust, and it required a totally different style of flying.

For the first time in a long time, we controlled the skies over our territory. Shortly after, we began taking back our territory on the ground. Very slowly, we were pushing them back.

We were winning.

Even the Wonderbolts couldn't even faze the might of our air force. We now were known as the Shadowbolts. Warriors of the night, bred from darkness.

Soon, however, before we could reach our original borders, they copied our technology. Now they also had AMCs. The AMCs they had however were not as powerful, and they were prone to jam quite easily considering they had been rushed into production. But their number of ponies in their air force…

For every Shadowbolt, there were 4 wonderbolts. They kept sending them at us, wave after wave. But with our technology, and much better training on how to use such technology, it was almost a fair fight.

The age of the dog fight was born.

That brings us to now.

When I first created a name for myself.

When I visited someone that was both a friend, and an enemy.

Author's Note

Just want to say I'm sorry it took so long.
Please comment for quicker updates!
Also, I noticed that someone put my prologue story in the group "cutie marked crusaders". This would be inaccurate for these stories. It takes place sometime during season 4. So they are not marked. Also, only Scootaloo has been visited by Princess Luna for her problem. Not the other two.