A different war to fight

Wolf and Raptor were stood guard outside of the main hall as Twilight came up to them with another Caydance, who looked dirtier that the one currently at the ceremony. Wolf knew what he had to do, he drew his side arm and opened the main door. Twilight ran in attempting to expose the fake Caydance but everyone quickly shut her down as they thought she was trying to stop her brother from getting married. Wolf entered the room with his side arm aimed at the fake princess's head

He said "Captain, back away from her, she is not who she seems."

Shining replied "What do you think your doing threatening my fiancee"

As he said this the real Caydance ran through the door along with Raptor and started trying to convince her fiance that he was stood next to a Changeling. Once the fake princess heard this she laughed, mocking the entirety of the royal family and revealed her true form, her real name was Queen Chrysalis.

"She's beautiful" Raptor said lowering his weapon

"Keep it in your pants mate, we have a job to do" Wolf replied

The queen looked at Wolf and asked "I get why Twilight didn't trust me, but you, how did you find out that I wasn't real?"

"You have the same heat signature as your minions on the edge of the forest" Wolf replied

"Well it doesn't matter now, my subjects will feast upon this town, Shining lower the barriers" she barked at the stallion, who was now clearly mind controlling

Seconds later thousands of changelings flooded the room, as princess Celestia started to fight with the queen. The other ponies did what they could against the changelings but it was no use, everytime one fell down they changed themselves to look like another pony, confusing them. The two men lowered their firearms so they did not risk killing one of their allies. The fight didnt last very long, once some of the changelings left the main hall and headed for the rest of the town princess Celestia used a powerful spell forcing all the changelings out of the kingdom with a blinding flash of light.

"Ahh, my eyes, it's like someone just let off a flash bang right in front of me" Raptor said whilst rubbing his eyes

Wolf on the other hand was not too bothered, preferring to talk to the princesses about what had just happened and what he knew. Whilst there he also brought up,the fact that two acts of war had happened in three days. He also brought up how his skills would be useful in the Lunar guard. Princess Luna saw that there was no way she would be able to turn down an asset who was offering himself to help. During this conversation Raptor brought up the fact that he would be able to assist the solar guard, as he saw it was the least he could do after equestria took them in.

Before anything else could be said about the now finished changeling attack the roar of a large cargo plane was heard before a load crash in the distance. Wolf and Raptor ran out of the castle, Shining Armour followed with a squadron of ponies along with the Mane six. There were flames in the forest where the plane had crashed, but luckily the fuel tank had not been damaged on impact. As they approached the wreckage they noticed movement inside, Wolf flung a fist up signalling for the group to stop, once the two men had preped their weapons they carefully crept inside. The plane had been carrying large containers, but one of them was missing, but before they could open the rest of the containers to find out what exactly the plane was carrying five changelings dropped down from the roof, only to be met with a swift end. It was clear now that the changelings had taken the missing container, but to even grasp what was in it they would have to open the rest.

Wolf and Raptor searched the plane for a manifest bit to no avail, so instead they grabbed a pair of crowbars and pried open one of the wooden crates. When it opened Wolf couldnt hold back a cheer of glee, it was a 50 caliber sniper rifle along with a large amount of ammo. The next crate was filled with a large Amount of ammunition ranging from 9mm to 7.62 NATO. By this point it was clear that this was an army resupply plane, which was probably being sent to resupply the same war Wolf and Raptor fought in. The more crates they opened the more ordnance they had, by the end they had open 10 crate holding G36C carbines, M4A1 assault rifles and many other assorted rifles along with more ammo to accommodate.

Wolf turned to Shining Armour and asked "How many unicorns are in the guard?"

Shining replied "Way too many to count, why do you ask?"

"Because with this many weapons we should be able to provide most of them a rifle" Wolf responded

Shining looked confused and asked "but nopony will be able to use these weapons"

"That's why me and Raptor are willing to train them" he replied with a sharp grin on his face

Shining was still confused when his sister asked "but why will we need to train them with these weapons, we haven't fought a war in centuries ago, since then we have resolved every problem diplomatically"

Wolf looked back at the fresh changeling corpses and said "we were already on the verge of war with the Griffons before today, but now there is a very slim chance that anypony will be able to back down, as the other faction will see it as a sign of weakness and attack"

Twilight and her brother shared a look of fear before she asked "so why do you want to fight?"

Wolf responded with a glum look on his face "I dont want to fight, i only joined the corps so that i could protect my country, but now me and Raptor are the only ones who can provide adequate training to help you finish this war swiftly"

The group all looked at each other and realised that there was no avoiding conflict. The pegasi of the group, including the ones in the guard, used their magic to move the boxes out of the plane, Wolf decided to make it easier on the group by grabbing the 50.cal sniper and put the ammo in his pack, he was the only person who knew how to use the rifle, let alone fired one. Raptor on the other hand had picked up one of the smaller boxes and carried it back to the castle.

Once the group returned they found the princesses who were already planning for war. The group filled them in on what they had found and Wolf warned the princesses that if the missing crate contained firearms the ponies armour would do little to protect them. Putting this aside for now princess Luna took the group to a room that would act as a firearm storage area until a proper armoury could be made. The group returned to the makeshift war room, which was only a map of equestria on a table, and started laying down plans for training for the firearms, protection for the smaller towns and an actual chain in command for the now formed army's.

The three princesses would still have their personal guard but would they would now be much smaller so that their army's could be larger. Although Shining Armour was against the idea two of the princesses would be leading the fight leaving Caydance in charge of the kingdom in their absence

Celestia would lead her solar army with her second in command Raptor during the day. They would have brightly coloured battle armour to hopefully strike fear into the opponents.

Luna would lead her army of the night after dusk with her second in command Wolf. They would don dark camouflaged armour so that they would easily ambush any opposition.

The two army's led completely different strategies based solely on the princesses second in command, despite this fact the army would stick together unless they needed to separate. During this time the mane 6 would be living their normal lives to the best of their ability and trying to maintain peace in ponyville. The group decided that they would hold off on training the ponies for use of firearms as they saw it to be a nuclear option if needed.

Although they were on the verge of war, it was still princess Candace's wedding so they went through with the wedding, hoping it would cheer the ponies up, which it did. At the end the group decided to take a picture together, so that even if they all get separated, they would remember each other

Although plans were only just being laid, war was on the horizon and nopony could stop it.