To Live This Way

by SpicelessPorkchops

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"How the hell am I supposed to get over that?!" You exclaim, staring up at what seemed to be two parallel rock walls of some sort, yet they didn't have any rocks that you would be able to grab onto.

"You'll find the way. Eventually."
Thunder said, clearly disappointed that you could see how you're supposed to get up and over.

"I feel like you're fuckin' with me. There isn't actually a way up, is there?" You say, glancing at the General, and then back at the walls.

"Oh there is a way," A voice said from behind you, only for you to turn around and see an earthpony mare with what looked to be a robotic leg?

"Who are you? Why do you have a metal lump on your leg? Why are you so short?" You ask, completely disregarding the other questions and focusing on your last one in your mind. Why was she so short? Not the cute kind of short, but the kind of short where her head goes up to your knees. THAT is how short she is.

"Thats my daughter you're speaking to, and she is also the youngest member of SAiBr, so watch your tongue. Her name is Aurora."
General Thunder-Fuck says. You call him that cause he's a total jackass when you screw up on something.

"Hello there! It's nice to meet you!" Aurora chimes out, extending a hoof out to you.

It takes you a moment before you realise she's trying to shake your hand. It doesn't help that you had to crouch down to actually be at eye level with here, and to comfortably shake her hoof. "I'm Robin... …why are you so short?" You ask.

"Is it not obvious? I'm only a filly," She says which results in you staring at the general with a deadpanned face.

"…Excuse me? Mister 'Deadliest Paramilitary Force In Equestria'? Since when were you hiring kids?" You ask, slight concern in your voice. If the general or some other recruit got killed or something, you'd probably just shrug it away as a consequence of being in their position, but letting a kid be in the battlefield? Thats a whole other level of fucked up that you didn't want to explore.

"She bugged me till I gave in. That headache lasted a week" The General said casually, as if it were completely normal to let kids fight in battle.

"In my world that's the kind of thing terrorists would do because God know that Allies wouldn't shoot at children…" You say, reminding you of a movie scene before you were sucked into pony world.

"I can handle myself, thank you!" The little filly shouts, reminding you she was still standing in front of you.

"Yeah? Prove it." You say, with a smug smirk on your face, only for Aurora to gallop past you, and parkour up the rock wall like a fucking ninja, followed by you staring at the mini pony Faith in awe.

"…That.. Was actually kinda fuckin' awesome!" You exclaim and start clapping. "You gotta teach me how to do that!" You say, cracking your knuckles, as if you were about to run at, and flip over the wall or something.

"No can do, Robin. We're moving out in a couple hours," Thunder said, getting up from his chair. "I need to teach you how to use our weapons,"

Roughly 105 Minutes Later

"So basically the lever thing activates it, then the button shoot the thingy?" You ask while inspecting a spear that apparently had some feature where it shoots a bolt of electricity.

"Essentially, yes. Anyways, we'll be moving out in thirty minutes, so gear up and meet us outside," The General said, waving and proceeding out of the firing range.

You grab two short swords, a shield, and throw the spear over your back after adjust the strap to your body. On your way out, you look into the mirror and mutter, "Fuckin' badass," ,before walking out of the range and towards the exit.

Literally 5 Seconds Later

"Time for you to meet the crew, Robin." Thunder Wing says, as he trots up to the first troop in line, which was a bat pony mare.
"This is Amira. Extremely talented marksmare, as well as the stealthiest member of SAiBr," Thunder says, before moving on to a Unicorn Stallion with very little hair as a mane and tail, as well as several scars over nearly every inch of his body. ",this is Ajax. He's the tank of the team. If you need something heavy moved or destroyed, he's your guy." He the made his way to the last one in like, which was an earth pony stallion which looked similar to Ajax, but you know. With hair and without scars. ",this is Lancaster. He's the team leader outside of the base, so listen to him at all times. Understood?" The general says, looking at you with a serious expression on his face.

"Sure thing, Grandpa," You say, earning a glare from the ponies that were supposed to be your new squad.

"You're lucky I'm in a good mood, because normally I'd bust your knee caps for a comment like that. Now get going before I decide to do exactly that." He threatens.

And with that, your squad begin marching off in the direction of the hive without a word being said, in which you take to following behind.

'-TO BE CONTINUED-'


Author's Note

Quick chapter before some of the action. Took maybe a good 15 minutes? I wasn't keeping track, but you'll notice some changes to the title, tags, and Chapter 1. So yeah, I guess thats its for now.

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