Two months, two months since I moved in with Rarity. Iv'e kept a journal dating everything Rarity and I have done together. I fear that I may not make it back from my next mission.

"Listen Rarity, I promise this is the last mission." She sat next to me on the couch, crying into my shoulder. I put my arm around her. She pushed me away.

"I know," she looked up at me through teary eyes. "I just don't want to lose you."

I got off the couch and knelt down, eye level to her. "You will never lose me, where ever you are, I'll be there too. I love you."

She wiped her eyes and smiled, I grabbed a small black box from my pocket and opened it to her, revealing a Gold wedding band. "Rarity Belle, I love you with all my heart," She stared at me with a surprised look. "and I want to spend the rest of my life with you." She smiled, tears streaming down her face. "Ms. Rarity Belle, will you marry me?" Without hesitation, she answered.

"Yes, I will, I will marry you." She jumped, tackling me to the floor before planting a kiss on my lips. I kissed her back. She got off, allowing me to get back up. I pulled the ring out of the box and reading the engraving allowed, put it on her horn. "Always my Rarity Belle."

She looked at her self in the mirror. "I love it." She said before jumping into my arms. I hugged her back, planting a kiss on her lips, not noticing a tiny filly behind me.

"What's going on in here?" Said Sweetie Belle, who came down stairs, rubbing her eyes.

I looked down at Rarity who looked up at me then back to her sister before replying. "Sweetie Belle, Daniel and I are engaged. She pointed a hoof to the ring on her horn."

Sweetie Belle's eyes shot wide open. "So, he is my..." She said, slowly leaning in.

Rarity didn't let her finish. "He is now your brother-in-law." She squeed, before nuzzling my neck.

Sweetie Belle smiled. "I'm so happy for you sis, I guess you will now get to try out your fantasy of rubbing things all over h- MMPH!" A pillow hit Sweetie Belle. Rarity's cheeks were now red.

I looked down at her. "Uhh...what fantasies?"

She grinned, her sister was wrapped in a blue aura of magic and was whisked away upstairs before putting a hoof on my chest. "You'll find out in a little bit." She said it seductively. Now I've been in the Military for a good portion of my life, but nothing made more nervous than thinking of what could possibly happen tonight. She levitated a red piece of ribbon and loosely tied it around my neck before pulling me upstairs. "Follow me, Mr. Armstrong"

"Ok, Mrs. Armstrong."

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Canterlot Dungeons: 4 weeks after proposal.

Now I know why I haven't been called upon all this time to attack the base. It was mobile, those fucking pegasi. They were literally able to sit above us and plan out attacks. I'm being sent in to deal with them head on. No more covertness, no more silencers, no more surprises. I'm being sent up with support this time, six other ponies, all pegasi. I asked Celestia why they were going with me, they were just armed with spears and knives. I tried to tell her that I could do this by myself. But she insisted that I pick the team If I'm so unsure. She didn't seem happy with me, probably because they found my M9 at the bank. I knew It would come back. I picked Mic Cobalt and five other pegasi to join me.

I stood in the Canterlot Dungeons, before my fellow soldiers, it's been a long time since I last had anyone with me on a mission. I spoke with authority, showing these ponies that I am not to be messed with. "We are to be flown up and dropped off at the insertion point here" I pointed at the map on the wall. "I am to defend the Chariot until we land on the cloud. Celestia has been so kind as to grant me a three hour cloud walker spell. That means that you have exactly three hours before I drop like a rock." one of the Pegasi laughed, I glared at him

"Sorry sir."

"After we land, I am to cover all of you while you all 'cloud kick' the area. Due to us being on clouds, No explosive's will be used."

One pegasus spoke up. "Why are we not using explosives, wouldn't that be faster?"

I looked at him, with a look of 'are you fucking serious?'. "You are a pegasus, what happens if a heavy object touches a cloud."

He looked at his buddies who were giving him the same look. "It will go through?" Mic rolled his eyes.

I sarcastically started clapping. "Ding ding ding. You got it." Mic laughed.

He piped up again. "Wait, if you can't use explosives, then why are you coming?"

His buddies beside him put their hooves to their faces.

"I already told you, the only reason I'm going is so that I can defend your dumb ass while you cloud kick." I looked back to the entire group. "When all is said and done, we are to eliminate all KKP members. Dismissed." I picked up my rifle before walking out of the room. Mic caught up with me.

"So, I heard that you and Rarity finally tied the knot. Congratulations man." Memories of that night came back to me, I blushed.

"Thanks, brother." I stopped, giving him a bro fist/hoof thing.

"You plan on having Foals?" He asked, eyeing me suspiciously.

"She and I were curious about that so we went to the doctor and he explained that because of the pony DNA in my blood, I should be able to have kids."

"Well congratulations."

"Thanks Mic."

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Location: Somewhere over Ponyville.

"Alright guys we're approaching the LZ, get ready for some heat." Said one of the Pegasi flying us up there. Two of the Pegasi were flying us there while the other four were in the chariot with me. I opened the hatch and attached my M240 to the chariot. I convinced the ponies building this to make a hatch on the top so that I could turn and aim from the safety of the cab. I grabbed the ammo box, attaching it to my LMG. I pulled the belt out, opening the feed tray, before inserting the belt. I closed it, slamming a fist down on the feed tray, locking it into place. I focused out in the distance, There was the compound.

"Mic, you might want to take a look at this." I said, pointing towards the floating compound.

Mic poked his head through the hatch and gave a surprised look. "Holy shit. It's massive."

Now I know why Celestia gave me the three hour Cloud walker spell. This was gonna take a while.

An alarm sounded from the base. They must have seen us. "Mic, get back inside, I got this." He nodded and disappeared through the hatch.

From the base launched at least forty ponies. I clenched my buttcheeks, I was actually nervous, I had mowed down ponies before, but that was on the ground. And these things could fly all around us. But I had something these pegasi didn't, A fully loaded M240 and a pissed off attitude.

"Prepare for Contact!" yelled one of the Pegasi pulling us. I cocked my LMG and aimed. The enemy was still far off but was traveling quite fast. If I could take them out before they got to us, then we could circle around and shoot down at the pegasi stupid enough to stay on the cloud.

DADADA....DADADA....DADA....DADADADDAD

I used burst fire to conserve ammo, even though it was unlimited, there was still the five second reload time. I saw my tracer rounds connect with a few of the pegasi, one was hit and dropped down, another one had it's wing blown off. I looked down to see them hit the ground, they turned into red paste. I looked back up to see that they were now very closer.

I aimed and concentrated fire on the biggest group of Pegasi first.

DADADADADADADAD...DADADADADADAD...DADADADADADAD

Pegasus after pegasus was blown out of the air. Some were split in half and others would just drop.

DADADADADADADD click click

"Shit, reloading." My gun began to reload as some of the Pegasi got within striking distance. I pulled out my M9 and began shooting.

BANG BANG BANG

one Pegasus dropped, hitting the chariot with a loud thud.

My gun vibrated, I pulled it up and turned it into an AA12 with a drum mag. A pegasus landed with a knife in his mouth. I out the barrel in his face and pulled the trigger,

BOUM

His head exploded along with most of the upper half of his body, Blood flew every where, painting the side of the chariot. The Pegasi pulling us cringed. His body flew off the chariot, a bloody streak was all that was left. I then went back to work.

BOUM BOUM BOUM

Pegasi exploded into red bits of bone and viscera, I think I saw an eyeball fly past me at one point. I dispatched the last pegasi in the air before we approached the compound. There were ten big buildings, all made of cloud. I trained my weapon on the buildings, Some of the Pegasi were cowaring inside, probably thinking that the clouds were going to protect them from my fury. They were dead wrong. I aimed and began pumping rounds into the clouds.

BOUM BOUM BOUM BOUM

I saw blood fly from the windows in the clouds, my rounds were hitting their targets. We started our decent and landed on the cloud. The Pegasi unhitched themselves from the chariot and began cloud busting. I went down and opened the side door. Mic along with the rest of the Pegasi soldiers, jumped out and joined the group. They went from building to building, destroying it piece by piece. I slowly stepped out of the chariot. I didn't have a lot of faith in those spells. I stepped down and was greeted with the familiar feeling of having something beneath your feet. Realizing that i wasn't going to fall, I ran to my soldiers and covered them as we went. We didn't have much opposition, many of the Pegasi were either cowaring or trying to get away. I mowed them down without mercy. I was having fun, perhaps a little too much fun.

I was clearing one of the buildings while my team was off clearing another building, I stopped when I saw a little pegasus filly, her mane was yellow and her coat was pink, tears streamed down her face as she stared at something behind a box in the corner, I slowly approached her.

"Hey, are you alright?" She looked at me before falling on her flank, trying to run away. I lowered my weapon, lifting up my hands, showing her I was unarmed. She slowly walked over to me. "What are you doing here? Were you taken captive?"

"No." Tears streamed down her face.

I was confused. "What are you doing up here then?"

"Me and my mommy were told that we would be safe here." She started sobbing.

"Where is your mommy?" I asked, hoping that the Pegasi here hadn't killed her.

She pointed to behind the box.

I walked over, and almost lost it when I saw it. It was a Pink pegasi. I couldn't tell what her hair color was, because her head was missing. Blood and bone were splattered all over the wall and part of the box. I looked at my AA12, and then back at the body and came to a grim realization. I had just killed a mother, I was now a murderer. I kept looking at her body, even as my fellow soldiers came in.

"We found another one." shouted on of the Pegasi soldiers.

"No get away from me!" I looked behind me just in time to see Mic Cobalt slit the Filly's throat, The filly screamed, but nothing came out. I stared in horror as the filly fell to the floor, her lifeless eyes staring at me, staring at my soul.

I pointed my shotgun at him, Pissed off and confused, I yelled. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!?" Before he could answer, I picked him up by the throat, and slammed him down onto a table with a loud thud. "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!?"

"We were told to eliminate everyone in the compound." He said, choking. I picked him up and threw him towards the wall, it busted and he flew down and hit the cloud floor.

"She was just a little filly!" I yelled.

He chuckled. getting up and grabbing a knife off a dead pegasus. He walked over and laid it down next to the filly. "Well, ARES, It looks like I just saved your life."

I pointed my shotgun at him. "She was just a little filly, You bastard." I was tackled by the other five Pegasi, my AA12 dropped, falling through the clouds, but was still attached by the strap. "Why?" I asked through gritted teeth.

"Because, these ponies were monsters, they deserved to die, the judgement of Celestia does not discriminate based on gender or age. She was just as guilty as the rest."

I struggled, trying to get up, I was shoved back to the ground. "FUCK YOU!"

"I was actually hoping we could be good friends, but you just have to make it so difficult." He gave me a look of sorrow. "I guess you now have to die." One of the Pegasi brought a knife to my throat. "I'm sorry it had to end this way, don't worry, I'll keep Rarity company after you are gone." He snickered

I freaked out at the mention of his plan. "AAHHH!" I closed my mask, the blade deflecting off the mask, catching the guard off guard. I grabbed the knife from him and stuck it through his neck, blood flying from his mouth as he went down. With my arm now free, I pushed up and rolled over grabbing my M9 from the holster and putting three rounds into each Pegasus on top of me. The Pegasi on top of me never new what hit them. I stood up, Mic had a knife in his mouth, He started to move when I pointed my pistol at him. "End of the road, Mic." His eyes opened wide. I pulled the trigger.

click

click

Mic Smiled. "Out of bullets, Daniel?" He had never used my real name before. He lunged at me with the knife, I holstered my pistol and side stepped, dodging Mic. I picked him up by the wing and slammed him on the ground. I stepped on his wing, cracking it. He screamed, before thrusting his knife between the plates of armor and into my leg. I let out a scream as I fell to the ground. I grabbed the knife, trying to pull it out. Mic got up and held his wing, gasping in pain. "You do know that Celestia lied to you right? The mirror was broken the in the attack on canterlot, you can't get back, No matter how hard you try." He calmed down."You know, I've been counting the minutes and from what I know, you only have about two minutes before the spell wares off and you fall to your death. I of course, will stay up here. They will come looking for us, you know. I'll be the only one left and I'll be hailed as a hero. Don't worry, you'll also be a hero." He painfully smiled at me. "I'll tell them that you fought bravely but you got injured and didn't make it to the chariot in time. And don't worry about Rarity, She'll move on. She won't ever think of you again, especially after I give her the ride of her life." He laughed. He walked over to the edge of the cloud and looked down. "That's a long way down." He said, shaking his head.

His plan pissed me off, I no longer felt the pain of the knife in my leg, but I felt a pain in my chest. I got up, disregarding the knife. "Fuck you!" I don't know how I did it but I pulled the knife out of my leg and threw it at him. He gave a surprised look as the knife connected with his chest. He stood up on his hind legs. I got up and grabbed my Rifle, now an M4. Using one hand, raised it towards him.

He asked me a question "You know-cough- I never asked, what do you feel when you shoot a Pony?"

I looked at him and answered his question. "Recoil."

BANG

He fell backwards off the cloud, I walked over to the edge, just in time to see him splat on the ground. "Rot in Tartarus."

I hobbled my way back to the chariot, and sat down, waiting for someone to come find me. After four hours, somepony did.

"ARES?" said a lone pegasus soldier. I looked up at him. "Where is the rest of your team?"

"Dead" I replied, pointing to my leg. "Get me the hell out of here." He and another Pegasus hooked up to the Chariot and flew me back to canterlot.

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We arrived and I was given a healing spell. I jumped off the chariot and made my way to the throne room.

I opened the door and slammed them. Celestia looked quite startled, her guards running over to me. They both lunged at me and I grabbed them by the throats and knocked there heads together. They fell to the ground, unconscious.

"How Dare you come her and disrespect me like this!" Screamed Celestia.

"Shut the FUCK UP!" I pointed my rifle at her, I didn't care, I needed answers. "Can I really get back to my home word or are you lying to me?" She gave me a blank stare. "Answer me GODDAMMIT!"

She sighed. "No, the mirror was destroyed in the attack on canterlot, the day you came here."

"Another question, Why did you really send us to the KKP Compound?"

She looked at me, disdainfully. "There is no such thing as the KKP, The pegasi you killed were part of a group trying to take over the Government. They wished to break it down and turn it into a democracy, It would have been utter chaos."

I held my rifle tighter. "Did you know about Mic?"

She looked confused. "Mic... Cobalt? Know about what?"

"That he was planning on killing me and stealing Rarity away from me?"

She looked hurt. "I knew no such thing." Her face quickly changed from hurt to anger. "Did you know that people believe that you are the one who killed the two guards at the Ponyville bank? After you left, I had everyponies Minds erased."

I lowered my rifle. "You didn't erase-"

"I did, she knew too much." I raised my rifle and aimed for her head. "Know that for this act of treason you are hereby banned from Equestria." immediately, Shining armor and around thirty Guardsponies surrounded me, at spear point. "You can either leave peacefully or, you can die here."

I had nothing, I lowered my rifle and turned around, walking past the Guardsponies. "Know Princess, Celestia, That I will come back, and when I do," I stopped at the door and turned around to face her. "I will come for you."

Author's Note

While this is the end of Daniel's involvement with Princess Celestia, this isn't the end of his journey. He will be in another fic being created by my very good friend, Thatguywiththeface Click the link down below to visit his page and see his stories.

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