A different war to fight

The trip back to Canterlot felt longer than the journey to the small village, between the two princesses arguing about making more houses incase of refugees and Raptor trying to walk every 100 feet, Wolf had little time to think of the bigger picture, why are these attacks going on now? It didnt help that when Wolf was walking his wings would suddenly extend and catch a heavy breeze forcing him to the ground. But one good thing came from the wings Wolf know had, although no pony knew how it happened, one side of the wings were covered in kevlar. Everypony speculated on how this was possible but Wolf just assumed that as the wings were growing out of his back the hit the kevlar on his back and matched the strength of it so that they could break through the back plating, nevertheless Wolf was now thoroughly protected from behind and if he could learn how to use the wings properly, he would be able to protect his front and anypony around him.

When they returned Shining Armour asked "Where's Raptor?"

The group stood aside to reveal the brown stallion, Shining Armour was shocked. The group briefed him quickly as they had other matters to attend to, mainly teaching a new stallion how to walk and use magic and to teach Wolf to fly. Shining Armour decided to take Raptor as he knew he wouldn't be able to help Wolf, but instead of the princesses wanting to teach Wolf Princess Celestia decided to send a request to Twilight and her friends to come back to Canterlot as soon as they could, in the mean time Wolf decided to work on modifying his weapons as before Raptor used to, Wolf headed up to his bunk room with a MP5 and a W1200 shotgun with alot of spare parts and spent the next three hours tinkering.

Raptor spent the next three hours stumbling over his own hooves, but after alot of hard work later he managed to walk around the large room without stumbling, then proceeded to try to start jogging, then running, jumping, sprinting. He learned fast, but he still had alot to learn about his new body, like using his horn to use magic, usually a pony would go through a stage where they could no longer control their magic, but Raptor was lucky, the blinding flash of light that forced Wolf back was all of Raptors new power flowing through him. Raptor was learning basic telekinesis when Wolf came in to check his progress and to show Raptor the work he had done.

Raptor was impressed with the work Wolf had done to the W1200, he not only managed to find a longer barrel for the weapon but he had also modified the receiver so that it could do more damage and so that it would hold more shells, as well as modifying the trigger guard into a full hand guard like a lever action rifle. Wolf wanted to know if Raptor was fit to,leave for a little while so that he could do the first test fire with him. Shining Armour agreed as he wanted to go get some lunch.

Wolf took Raptor to a large open area with a handful of tree trunks, he then proceeded to place some cans on three of the stumps. He walked back to Raptor, loading six shells into the shotgun. He stood next to his friend and raised the weapon and prepared to fire. He pulled the pump of the shotgun back and pushed it back to its original position, he squeezed the trigger. BANG. The pellets from the shell scattered into the cans on one of the stumps. with confidence Wolf repeated the same actions as before and blew the other cans off of the last two stumps.

Wolf was more than ecstatic at the sight of his first heavily modified weapon worked perfectly. Although Raptor was upset that he wouldn't be able to do this action he was happy for his friend. Before they could walk back to the castle Twilight and her friends came around the corner ready for battle. Twilight saw Raptor and asked what had happened, but Raptor didnt want to reply so Wolf told Twilight that he was modifying one of his weapons and this pony wanted see what it could do. Twilight went to Introduce herself to the large stallion, suprisingly not asking about his size.

But before she could Raptor surprised her by saying "theres no need to intoduce yourself Twilight Sparkle as I already knew you and you know me"

Twilight recoiled when she heard the stallion's voice and asked "Raptor, is that you?"

He replied "yep, I would tell what happened but it's a very long story and I'm sure that princess Celestia will tell you, but for now your here for something else, aren't you"

She picked herself back up and replied "yes, Princess Celestia said that a foal was unable to fly"

Wolf chimed in "somepony has wings but cant fly" as he turned around revealing his kevlar plated wings

The group gasped and Twilight realised what had happened. Instead of asking questions she pulled out a book on how pegasi fly and gave it to Wolf. He quickly read through the book and once he had finished it he placed the book on the floor and proceeded to slowly flap his wings, the more he tried the faster he got, eventually he gained enough speed to lift himself of of the floor. The group clapped their hooves together at this sight. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy joined him in the air to help him move in other directions. Wolf learned fast as he flew to the top of the castle and back. He went to land but came in too fast, to save himself from breaking his legs when he got about a foot off of the ground he tucked in his wings and tilted forwards, and when he hit the ground he rolled forward, miraculously avoiding any injury. Instead of taking it easy Wolf decided to take flight again but this time he had his shotgun, he loaded in some shells slowly, so that he could focus on flying. He managed to land properly and walked back over to the stumps and proceeded to replace the cans and took flight again. He went around and flew over the group, once he saw the targets he fired three time, but only managed to hit one set. He tried again but this time he shot one set then twisted to around so that he could shoot the second set, on this pass of the targets he managed to get both of the last targets.

He landed and asked "did I do well"

Rainbow dash replied "that was awesome, do it again, please"

Much to Rainbow dash's disappointment he declined as he wanted to place his equipment back into his bunk so that he could practice, then Raptor said that they should go for an adventure around the outside of Canterlot, this would allow Wolf to keep practising and allow Raptor to get used to long treks in his new form. The group headed back up towards the castle when they ran into Shining Armour, they offered to let him come with them which he accepted, as he saw it could be the last time he would be able to see his sister before the war started. They got back to the castle and everypony headed to separate areas to do their own thing as Wolf pit his equipment back. They met up about five minutes later and started their journey, Raptor told Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy and Pinkie about what had about but only told them that he was gravely wounded, in the mean time Wolf raced Rainbow Dash for a while until he admitted defeat, to which Rainbow Dash bragged about.

The group approached a large opening to which the group wanted to stop, out of nowhere Pinkie Pie pulled out a picnic basket filled with goodies, Wolf was about to asked where she had got it from when the group told him that he should never question what Pinkie Pie does. A loud snap came from the forest edge before a barrage of arrows flew at the group, everypony trembled and couldn't move, in a flash Wolf jumped infront of the with his back to the forest and spread his wings. Wolf's wings stopped the arrows that would have hit the group, he tucked in his wings and ran towards the forest. When he arrived the assailants where gone only leaving their primitive bows behind. He returned to the group and told them that there were no tracks to follow.

After the attack the group swiftly headed back into Canterlot, Wolf and the pegasi of the group took to the sky wo that they could provide overwatch. It wasn't long before they got to the gates, but they found more arrows planted in the wall surrounding the gate. The group headed into town and went to inform the princesses on what had happened.