War and Love

War. It is something that no one ever wants to deal with. For the ponies that live in the country of Equestria, it's something that nopony ever wants to deal with in their lifetime. But sadly, that is exactly what happened to Equestria.

It all started about a week ago, when a country known as Mort declared war on Equestria. The pony citizens at first didn't think that much of it, but four days ago there was an explosion of a military ship. This happened just out Manhattan, which left 87 dead, 33 injured, and 56 with critical injuries. This made plenty of the Equestrian ponies upset, and left them wanting to go to war with Mort. All of this occurred within mere hours after the ship was bombed, and although Princesses Celestia tried to reach out to Mort, all she received was a direct declaration of war, which then left them with no choice but to go to war. All of this led to over 5,000 ponies signing up to join the guard in just under four days.

It was an early Monday morning at Sugar Cube Corner, that three friends were there enjoying themselves. The three were named Angel Light, Cyan Streaks, and Jubilee Blossom. The three of them had come to Sugar Cube Corner because Angel Light and Cyan Streaks had something to tell Jubilee Blossom. After they got their food from a pink coated mare named Pinkie Pie, and after some time had past Jubilee spoke in her usual peppy/upbeat voice that she asked what was on her mind.

"So, um... why have you two brought me here this early in the morning?" She asked.

Her friend Cyan Streaks was a unicorn stallion with a cyan colored coat with a turquoise mane and navy-blue eyes and his cutie mark was a golden arrow. He spoke up saying, "Uh yeah... there's something that we need to tell you." Cyan said as he looked at Angel Light.

Jubilee's other friend, Angel Light, was a pure white pegasus stallion with a yellow mane and golden eyes and his cutie mark was of a red shield with yellow wings. "Um Jubilee..." Angle Light said with hesitation in his voice.

"Angel, Cyan? What are you trying to say?" Jubilee asked now confused and bit worried as she took a sip of her water.

"Jubilee, we have been drafted." Angel Light said sadly, as he looked into her eyes.

Jubilee's eyes narrowed as her glass fell to the ground shattering like her happiness.

"W-What!? W-Why!?" Jubilee exclaimed, her eyes fluttering quickly as her heart rate increased. Her breathing quickened as she realized that both of her friends, her only two friends were going off to war. Tears started to form inside of her orange cream colored eyes thinking of the worst possible scenario.

Angel and Cyan quickly rose from their chairs and dashed to Jubilee. They instantly embraced her into a tight hug. Instantly the dam that was keeping back her tears burst open and Jubilee started to cry into Cyan and Angel's arms. They quickly flowed proceeding to dampen Angel and Cyan's coats as she shut her eyes tightly. After a few minutes, Jubilee opened her eyes to see that both stallions had small tears running down their muzzles.

"Jubilee, we really are sorry but... we don’t have a choice." Cyan said.

Before he was able to say more, Jubilee cut in saying, "Angel, Cyan I understand. It's that... you’re my only friends. I-If you d-died then-" She was about to say more when her friend Angel Light interrupted.

"Jubilee, I'm not going to sugarcoat this, there is a chance that we won't come home. However, that doesn't mean that we just die as soon as we get there. We always have just as much of a chance to survive this somehow, and a chance to protect our home from this... fucking psychotic Queen that is trying to kill us."

Jubilee tears started to subside. She looked up with few tears left in her eyes. "S-so when do you have to leave for..."

"Tomorrow morning." Cyan Streaks told her, trying to hide the sadness in his voice.

Any slight chance of happiness that Jubilee had was crushed when she heard those words. After hearing that she quickly ran off, tears streaming down her face.

A few minutes later, Jubilee Blossom found herself in the Ponyville Meadow Field. It is a small meadow that is located next to the entrance of three Everfree Forest. The meadow was covered in vibrant colors of greens, where there was a medium high hill that was in the middle of the meadow. There wasn't that many trees around, just small knolls here and there. Lastly, there were an assortment of colorful flowers, from white to purple blooming across the grassy ground.

Jubilee walked into the vibrantly colored meadow, her memories coming back to her slowly as she entered the meadow that she held so dear to her. The memories of where she met Angel Light and Cyan Streaks seemed so simple and sweet twelve years ago.

Miss Rain Shine’s class was on a little field trip to the Ponyville Meadow for their school projects. Everypony was all around the Meadow, having fun doing their projects. That is except for Jubilee Blossom, she was just on the top of the hill, sitting there as the other colts and fillies were having fun. It wasn't that she didn't want to have fun, it was that she didn't have any friends to enjoy with. It was only a fact, or felt like a fact, that she felt mostly isolated from the other foals in her class.

There were two reasons why she felt so isolated. The first was that Jubilee Blossom had recently moved to Ponyville only about 3 weeks before with her mother and father. Jubilee, like many foals, didn't what to move from her old home and leave the few friends that she had.

The second reason is that she was a blank flank. She was sad, because 80% of Miss Rain's class had already earned their marks. Jubilee, felt that she was a failure for not having her own mark when so many others in her class had one. She tried telling her parents about how she felt, however both just told her that this was due to her being afraid of never getting a cutie mark.

Jubilee Blossom continued to sit there thinking of what to do next.

"Hello there." Said the voice of a colt. Jubilee looked up to see two colts standing in front of her, both seemed to be around her age. She knew that their names were Angel Light and Cyan Streaks. However, the thing that got her attention, was that Angel had a cutie mark and Cyan didn't.

"Um, Jubilee Blossom, are you ok?" Cyan Streaks asked.

Jubilee looked up to the two colts. "Oh, uh, yeah I'm fine. Sorry, it's just I have never seen a blank flank and a foal with a cutie mark being friends before."

"Do you mean like where you’re from? Manhattan?" Cyan asked shocked at what Jubilee had said.

"Woah, that's messed up. But so what? Me and Cyan have been friends for a long time now. Who cares if I have a cutie mark and he doesn't. We’re still friends."

"That's very nice." Jubilee said under her breath, hanging her head down as she said it.

She was about to say something else until she heard, "Hey do you want you hang out with us?" Angel Light asked with a smile.

This made Jubilee's eyes widen, she looked up to him a real, genuine smile. Something that she hadn’t done in a long time. He extended his hoof out towards her and she, of course, accepted it. He pulled her up onto her hooves and they immediately started to play, even if it only lasted about ten minutes. This may not have seemed a long time, but that was okay, because this was the start of a friendship that would last.

A single tear ran down Jubilee's muzzle as she looked back at the memory. From that day forward they had been together through thick and thin. Their friendship has continued for 12 long years and they were the best of friends. Now Angel Light and Cyan Strikes have gone off to fight in a war that they may never come back from. One tear became two, and two tears became a stream of sadness as she thought of the worst possible situation for her friends.

However, her train of thought was broken when she heard something strange, like a crunching sound. As it got closer, it in fact sounded more like somepony was walking around with difficulty. It was hard for her to explain, however she did know this, she was not alone. Slowly she got up and walked towards the noise, her heart rate increased as she walked over to to the sound. Finally after what seemed like ten minutes she arrived at the cause of the noise.

Her heart stopped as she looked at the what was making the noise. There right in front of Jubilee, were two creatures that seemed different. She had no idea what they were. However, they had some similarities like stallions and mares.

The female was of a smaller build and the male dwarfed her in height. Furthermore he had short black hair that was combed forward with brown eyes that complemented his hair. He was wearing a red t-shirt with tan shorts and grey sneakers. The unknown female was a bit smaller than the male. She wasn't as well toned as the male, but was still lean and thin. The female had long blond hair in a ponytail with brown eyes, and had slightly darker white pale skin. She had on a light blue t-shirt with blue jean pants and black sneakers. Jubilee was about to scream, but before she did the male put his hand on her muzzle. She was of course surprised by this, she was about to say something, but the male said something before her.

"Relax we're not going to hurt you." He said smiling at Jubilee. He took his hand off her muzzle put his hands into his pocket and emptied them. Show he wasn’t going to do anything to her.

The mare was of course confused by these two individuals. She was about to say something when the female spoke up, "The name is Crystal and this is Daniel." Crystal said with a smile. Her face seemed to lit up with that smile and it was more prominent than Daniel's.

"O-ok... Daniel, Crystal, what are you?" She asked them straight in their eyes.

The two of them looked at her for a moment, then both burst into laughter. "We’re humans um… wait, I just realized you haven't told us your name little Miss." Daniel said has put his down, staring at the mare confused.

"Oh yeah, sorry (where are my manners), my name's Jubilee Blossom." She chuckled as she extended her hoof to the two humans. Crystal raised an eyebrow but then chuckled as she realized what Jubilee was trying to do. She grab her hoof into a firm handshake.

"Okay, so it’s safe to say that this clearly isn't Earth." Daniel thought out loud, he then turned to Jubilee, "Hey Jubilee, where are we exactly?"

"Oh, we’re currently in the Ponyville Meadow." Jubilee smiled as Daniel and Crystal looked at each other thinking the exact same thing, 'Ponyville, really? Are we in a girls show?'

"Now I have a question to ask you two. Where are you from?" She asked cluelessly, "And if you want, we can go over to my house, it's not that far away from here. The only problem is that we have to go into town, is that going to be okay?"

The two looked at each other and then replied saying, "Sure I guess, I mean their going to find out about are existences any way."

"Alright, it's decided! We are off to Ponyville!" Jubilee said excitedly as she could feel like this was the start of an adventure.

Together three of them made their way to the town of Ponyville.