General Diane Pie: Equestria's Elite

Prologue

The Final Battle

General Pinkamena Diane Pie was one of Equestria's Elite Fighters and General to a, if not the, top Earth Pony Battalion dubbed as the Stone Crashers. Her sister Maud Pie was her Lieutenant General and always had her flank just as she had hers, both were dubbed as the 'Twin Titans for their monstrous strength that stood out even among their strong race of Earth Ponies.

The Stone Crashers were one of the strongest, trained personally by both of the Pie Sisters and was a very hard and bone breaking training experience as they regularly punched strong slabs of stone until it either cracked and crumbled easily from one of their punches. Some could even manage to crack or break metals, Pinkamena and Maud were one of those few who could and were even in the more rarer some who could nearly break a magical barrier of a regular Unicorn Soldier from the Crystal Empire.

They trained their bodies well beyond their limit and although they were no match to an alicorns full strength, Pinkamena and Maud proved that they could last against an alicorns strength at its lowest and that was saying something. Queen Celestia had offered to spar with her one time and was quite impressed when the sisters lasted with her even though she wasn't at her true strengths, impressive indeed.

Celestia was appointed Queen a couple of years ago for a reason that not many ponies knew but with the war going on they didn't really care much.

Yes, the war with the Crystal Empire that was ruled by the tyrannical ruler King Sombra. Many years ago the Crystal Empire came back, the pie sisters were mere fillies when the first attack happened. They had lost most of their family in the ongoing attacks, losing their parents and one of their sisters Limestone Pie in the attacks as the years went by. Their last sister was thankfully safe base at Appleloosa, working as one of the miners and farmers at the base and was really disapproving of them joining the militia and fighting at the front lines but could only cheer and hope for them both to return and for the peace to come back.

17 years had gone by since the return of the Empire bringing along the evil being that had started the war, though the war had forced Equestria's technology and magic to evolve the war was bad and nearly half of Equestria was under King Sombra's iron hoof. They had lost Canterlot a few years into the war and that forced ponies to smaller villages and transforming them to bases and some to cities but thankfully they had managed to reclaim Canterlot 3 years later, they had nearly lot Cloudsdale but thankfully it now stood strong besides Canterlot no longer floating adrift along the land but merely staying in place now.

Anyway, back to Pinkamena and Maud. Both had quickly moved through the ranks with their strength and intellect used to their advantage. Pinkamena was strong but was less as strong as Maud but Maud didn't have Pinkamena's sharp and quick thinking and was mostly the tactician of the two. At age 18 they earned the ranks of General and Lieutenant General but that was mostly due to their last General's and Lieutenant's dying breaths and last declarations.

Now they were 24 (Maud) and 23 (Pinkamena) and were strong scarred yet beautiful mares that were forged in the flames of war, and now was hopefully the final battle for Equestria's peace.

After all these years they finally managed to pierce and break their way through the Crystal Empires defenses and here they were now fighting for their lives and futures in this last battle.

Their Queen was confronting the monster now in the castle while her forces were fighting against his own, ponies were being injured and dying left and right staining the once beautiful crystal-made empire's grounds bloody crimson red. Pegasi, Unicorns and Earth/Crystal Ponies from all sides were attacking, horns alight with deadly spells, wings both artificial and flesh were beating desperately fast to out match the attacks, hooves were thundering against flesh, stone and more or were wrapped around a deadly weapon.

On the battlegrounds among the ponies were the two famous earth pony sisters and were fighting with all their might, grounds, bones, armor and sometimes magic cracking underneath their hooves and their blades in a deadly dance. Pinkamena Diane and Maud Pie dressed in snug but protective armor, black suits that were enchanted and sewed to protect with lines of pouches filled with items that they needed ranging from medical pills and pouch-fitted equipment to small deadly weapons hidden within.

Pinkamena had a small scar above her brow in the shape of a cross and a big three slashed scar across her right cheek, Maud on the other hoof had a small chunk of her upper right ear missing and had a single slashed scar going from her left cheek to her neck.

"Cider's on me when we win this Pinkie, and a rematch to boot!" Declared the gray coated mare as she bucked away a Crystal Guard all the while dodging their spear, a sarcastic grin on her face "Cause I swear you cheated the last time!" she continued as she and her sister soon stood on two legs back to back and side by side.

The younger pink coated sister rolled her eyes but had a small smirk on her scarred face "Suuure" she drawled as Maud wrapped her hooves around her torso and twirled as she repeatedly kicked away the incoming ponies and hissed when a battle axe nicked her hoof but thankfully that was just it as it missed chopping off her back leg. That was another close one that she had on her list of attempts to cut off her hooves, thankfully nopony managed to do such a thing as she was much stronger with her real hooves rather than a prosthetic ones.

Maud was always the more cheerful of them both saying if they were both serious than who would make her smile? Long ago Pinkamena would've had the potential to be the one to cheer them up but it simply wasn't so. Out of the both of them she was the more serious one, especially during a battle but her sister always made the effort to at least see a smirk on her face in battle. Strangely it kinda felt... off but she wouldn't do a thing to change it as she focused more on winning the battle with her plans and tactics.

She grunted as a Crystal Soldier tackled her stomach, a pegasi she noted with the wings which were quickly flapping to add more strength in the attack. The underside of her armor/outfit was thankfully padded and more guarded after an incident with a unicorn from one of her previous battles made her paranoid and had their stomachs protected more, she snarled at the nameless soldier as she stood her ground and managed to throw them off and had quickly dislocated the pegasi's wings managing to break the small part of armor that covered the base joints along with it.

Maud was doing alright against the two ponies that were trying to attack and permanently injure her, two earth ponies to be exact. The stronger sister bucking them off and also managed to kill one of them to prevent them from driving a sword to decapitate her head, she had no choice unfortunately with that.

They had both killed, that was war as it always had somepony killing another one. While in battle they were barely affected anymore but they always regretted each pony that stained their bloody hooves, everypony that stained their hooves.

"How *pant*long will this last?! *pant*I hope Queen Celestia's close *pant*to winning soon!" Maud panted as they were bestowed with a brief moment of rest as they hid behind a slab of dark purple crystal.

Pinkamena panted along with her, on her back ignoring the fact it was uncomfortable with her gear on "I *pant*don't know, but hopefully *pant*soon. If we don't win this today then it's *pant* over, we won't be able to retaliate *pant* in a long time! We have most of our*pant* troops and almost all the generals here!" she replied as her sister took out a flask to drink, Pinkamena accepted when she offered and gulped down the liquid potion and felt some of the pain recede bit by bit.

Maud quickly scanned around before grabbing a roll of bandages from one of her pouches and wrapped around the wound that was on her left forehoof to stop the bleeding, it wasn't deep but the bleeding was a problem. She didn't bother to dress the other wounds as they weren't bleeding as much, that and the potion in her flask was already slowly speeding up her healing, she handed her roll of bandages to Pinkamena who swiftly took it but thought twice and just pocketed it again ignoring the pointed glance she got from her sister.

Both sisters twitched as they pushed away from the crystal slab in time for a spell to blast it to smithereens as a group of crystal unicorn soldiers made themselves known. Pinkamena scowled at them, hating the unicorn soldiers the most because of past experiences as she and Maud dodged the incoming spells.

It seemed that this group of hypnotized and controlled unicorn soldiers were trained very very well as they were more coordinated and had more deadly spells in their arsenal.

And so the Pie sisters fought once more in another battle for their lives, before they had been separated from their troops but they managed to regroup with them. The battle that their battalion was fighting merged with the unicorn group as they all fought once more.

"Watch your flank Commander Braeburn! And you! Cadet get your comrade to safety!"
"Sir, yes sir!"
"General, Lieutenant! Incoming Pegasi battle ahead! General Dash is in sight along with Lieutenant Dust sir!"
"Get your flanks moving! Move and evade! Move and evade! We're merging with the Thunder Volts Battalion, defend and evade for now until we've merged with the Pegasi Batallion"

The Thunder Volts were one of the elite Pegasi Battalions out there, just under the Hail Storm Group.

"General Pie, Lieutenant Pie! Nice to see you again."
"Lieutenant Dust, General Das- Look out General Dash!"
"BUCK--!My thanks Lieutenant Pie. The enemy is slowly thinning! Ponies attack!"
"Follow the pegasi's lead and attack! Earth ponies focus on the unicorns for now but defend the pegasi when you have the chance!"
"SIR YES SIR"

Pinkamena panted as she, her sister, General Rainbow Dash and Lieutenant General Lightning Dust stood and fought side by side "Where's the Mana Beam Batallion?!" She shouted out as she kicked a pegasi away from her rainbow maned friend.

General Rainbow Dash and Lieutenant Lightning dust were in similar outfits that Maud and Pinkamena had on but were colored with the Wonderbolts color scheme in honor of the brave fliers that once were the best flying performers/pegasi guards of Equestria, nearly all of the Wonderbolts were dead, injured or in a coma from the first battles and the only difference were that they were different color and had less pockets than the earth ponies.

Rainbow Dash had a big scar over her left eye, a chunk of her left ear was missing and her left wing was a prosthetic, Lightning Dust had the top of her right ear missing and had a scar across her muzzle.

"On the other side of the castle! Unfortunately they're dealing with most of the changelings and the rest of the crystal earth soldiers! Some of our ponies are there but they should hold out for a little while longer, I know General Sparkles and Lieutenant Dancer are there so they should be fine! Hail Storm are out of the borders fighting the rest changelings and the few dragons along with some of the Mana Beams!" Lightning Dust shouted back as she aimed a lightning bolt from her lightning-powered sphere at a unicorn cursing when it blocked it with a strong magical barrier.

The 'Thunder Sphere' contained several volts of lightning and was mostly used by the pegasi's from above.

Rainbow Dash tackled an enemy pegasi from out of the sky and blocked a spell from hitting her face with her prosthetic wing, narrowing her eyes she headbutted the daring unicorn as her fake wing smoked and pulsed as it purged the enemy magic from its metal. It had been enchanted to do that and block most spells.

The blue pegasus whirled at the sound of a pained shriek from a familiar voice "Lightning Dust!" she screamed as she sees her lieutenant being shot out of the sky by a spell to her wings, she was about to fly to save her from crashing to the ground but was interrupted two more pegasi jumping her but thankfully she saw one of her troops saving the green coated mare instead.

But still the pegasi fought hard and quickly to get to her Lieutenant "Status report on the Lieutenant Lightning Dust!" she ordered as she flew across towards the small group of ponies protecting the downed lieutenant.

She stilled at the sight of her friend's charred wings, feathers smoking and mostly black not to mention it looked like one of her hooves was dislocated from the shoulder "Her wings are burned and her left forehoof is dislocated! I'm not qualified enough to treat and identify the total damage on her sir! Requesting to withdraw with Lieutenant Lightning Dust to the nearest Unicorn Healer sir!" the earth pony checking her urged, grinding her teeth she nodded ordered him to protect Lightning Dust with his life and to make sure that he find her the help she needed.

The pegasi general ignored the weak protests her lieutenant had and went back to battle, mentally looking for the unicorn that injured her friend and comrade.

"Looks like Lieutenant Lightning is down!" Maud panted as both sisters stood together, internally sympathizing with her fellow lieutenant and her general knowing fully well on what they were feeling. Pinkamena gulped as she panted, both her and Maud were well nearing their brink of exhaustion as the battle drew on.

While they had large stamina they were nearing their exhaustion point as they had fought since dawn and while she didn't know the exact time she knew it was well nearing night as it was slowly getting darker not to mention they had fought and subjugated a flock of changelings that were in their way as they went to the Crystal Empire the day before.

Everypony were nearing exhaustion with some already there with it, if the battle lasted more than tonight Equestria may very well lose their elites and possibly their ruler and couldn't let that happen! No matter what! But they hope their Queen was near in defeating Sombra soon!

With ending that train of thought Pinkamena glanced at her sister and her eyes widened as she saw her sister fighting a some pegasi on the ground and three unicorns in the background almost hidden, their horns were alight with magic ready to use and her sister was too focused on the pegasi to notice!

'No! I'm not losing Maud!'

Maud breathed heavily as she finally managed to defeat the three pegasi that were attacking her, they were really well trained, she stood on slightly shaking hooves that were shaking from exhaustion dear Celestia she was tired! She managed to sigh before she felt a sudden pain to her side as she was harshly shoved from her spot, she looked back from the ground only to see Pinkamena in her place and not a second later three dark colored flashing spells blinded her briefly.

Her sight returned to the sight of her sister gone, only the charred crystal grounds was there in place of her sister.

There had been no slow motion time, no soundless moment, it all happened in a sudden moment and the sound of battle ringed around her ears as she stared at the charred spot and tears appeared in her eyes as a flood of emotions overtook her.

"PIIIIINKIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

Maud stood emotionlessly as ponies cheered around her, thought some were as emotionless and quiet as her.

On the balcony of the Crystal Empire's Castle stood a disheveled, injured Queen Celestia declaring loudly with determined victory that the tyrant King Sombra had been defeated. The hold he had on the crystal ponies had instantly snapped and now there were ex-soldiers standing around in confusion but that confusion cleared quickly by the cheering and declaration of Sombra's demise and they joined the cheering.

Beside her, Rainbow Dash puts a hoof on her back with a grimace on her face but sympathetic look in her eyes. The grimace was towards the blood that covered her, after her sisters 'death' she had gone unto a rampage killing the crystal ponies in a blind rage until she was snapped out of it by both Commander Braeburn, General Rainbow Dash and Lieutenant Moon Dancer moments before the crystal ponies were freed.

The victory and now won peace passed through her head along with the looks of sympathy, fear and shock some ponies were sending her. Her bloody hooves cracked the crystal ground as she dug them through the hard surface forcefully as she remembered her sister forcing her away from the three-way spells and tears dropped from her eyes but she stayed silent.

Equestria may have won their peace but Maud Pie had lost her sister.... how was she going to tell Marble?

Meanwhile...

A flash of colorful light filled the ruins of the castle as a bleeding injured pony appeared with it. The pink colored pony gasped for air as it collapsed on the ancient floors, desperately reaching for a her flask that she greedily drunk with fervor but a wave of exhaustion hit her and she collapsed completely on the ancient grounds with her very well flask empty dropped on the ground.

But up in their chambers in Canterlot, two ponies shivered as they felt a wave of magic wash over them signalling something that they didn't know of and in Sugarcube Corner within Ponyville a party loving pink pony gasped as it woke up all of a sudden in the middle of the night.

Author's Note

I am Tray! Welcome to General Diane Pie: Equestria's Elite! I hope you enjoyed the first chapter, like I said before the timeline is between The Cutie Re-Mark and The Crystalling.

Things have been changed to suit the story more, there'll be some gory scenes and yeah... ENJOY Hopefully

TrashTyping (aka Tray)