Gonna Go Far Kid

Ember Spark stood on her platoon lines and everyone was rushing to form up. Ember Spark was pissed off at having to form up at one in the morning and having her night guard shift for her floor in an hour; the night guard shifts were to ensure that no one went to the side of the opposite genders and that no one broke any of the rules. Ember looked to her left and saw a young lad who was smirking, "I wonder who caught fucking? I want to know if it's guy on girl or girl on girl... perhaps dude on dude."

"Shut the hell up fucker." Ember hissed under breath. Her shift was coming up, and the platoon normally would be wakened at four in the morning for physical fitness training. The dude looked over at Ember and had to comment about her figure.

"You got a sexy figure and I'd love to feel those assets of yours...I'd love it if you were to suck me off or let me massage my cock in that cleavage of yours." Ember Spark pivoted on her heel so swiftly and swung her dominant left forward and the perverted boy hit the concrete. Ember having done some jujitsu and judo performed a full mount and began to beat the crap of the boy.

" I told you Coal to shut the fuck up! and I'll never have sex with you!" Coal struck both hands forward; one hand hit Ember in the face whilst the other right into Ember's t-shirt. Ember recoiled and lunging backward placing a boot on Coal's crotch and leaping backward. "Bastard!" Ember screeched. The entire company watched as the fighting duo got ripped apart and Coal was looking smug. Ember Spark looked enraged and she looked like she was trying to keep from going on the attack.

The entire company was punished by three hours of correctional training. The correctional training ended and everyone got cleaned up and were glad they came in time for a weekend. Ember Spark sat against a wall rigid and anger still simmering. Ember quickly stood as she saw a pair of boots in front of her. Ember saw that it was Shining Armor and she snapped to attention and gave a salute. Shinning Armor returned the salute and motioned for Ember Dawn to follow him. "So kid, it's been less than twenty-four hours and you've been in two fights. Why are you so combative?"

"Sir...it's all I know, back home it's a fight to survive and quite literally. Between fighting my older step-siblings in self-defense or protecting my biological mother from my alcoholic stepfather almost every day. I also had to fight in school to stay alive. In the neighborhood I live in and go to school in I would get jumped like four times a dammed week. It also didn't help that I seemed to find the wrong type of friends either; I guess I can say that no one was looking out for me while I was trying to look out for my mother and her poor decisions. I was the result of one of my mother's bad choices, I don't know if I should keep protecting myself or should just step back and let fate do its thing while I set my sights higher. My record kept me of our junior military corpses at school; I read that the Equestrian military had a training division for the explosive ordinance and I also wanted to try to get my wings in a flight program."

"Well Ember I don't know the best answer for that but my sister and her friends might. However, remember they're officers as well and I can see if I can set up an appointment for you."

"Thank you, sir...but I feel like I'd waste their time."

"There's more potential in you than you even realize about yourself."

Four Weeks Later

Ember Spark and a fellow platoon mate were walking along the sidewalk on their weekend off when the Platoon mate, a girl named Topaz began to speak after some silence. "Rumor has it that you and Captain Shining Armor were talking at length four weeks ago. You do know that he is married right?" Ember froze in a rage and spun in her heel to the right and threw a straight left and her fist made contact. The two began to fight and a crowd gathered.

"You lying whore!" Princess Zipp a.k.a Sergeant Zipp to kids ran up and pulled the combatants apart. Ember still pissed off swung at the nearest thing and it stunned Zipp. Ember Spark had Topaz pinned to a nearby wall.

Ember Spark was shorter than Topaz but her vicious and rabid mentality which fed into her rage made her dominant. Zipp had to tackle Ember and slam her to the ground. Topaz tried to run but got stopped by Twilight Sparkle.

In a total time frame since being in the military school Ember had racked up a total of one hundred twenty fights in four months. Ember didn't know why she hadn't been expelled yet, but her gut instinct told her she had to make it through.

Three Days after Topaz and Ember Fought

Ember Spark sat under an overhang of rock trying her best to keep a low profile and stay away from the others. Ember had managed to steal an MRE and was snacking on it since she was currently starving and hadn't eaten in three days. This was because, at the dining hall, she had lost her ration of meals to the floor. Topaz and Coal had it out for her and Ember did what she had to do to survive. "You know that stealing rations on base or even from the company is a federal offense?" Ember quickly stood and forgetting where she sat hit her head on the rocky overhang.

Looking up Ember saw Zipp staring down at her. "I know it is sergeant..."

"I know you've been doing this for three meals a day three days so far this week. We all have noticed. However, the captain said to deal with it privately. Look kid from what the captain said you told him and what I have learned from researching you...you've been through a lot and worse in juvenile correction facilities. So Ember since you've stolen rations and government property I'm gonna have to lock you up for some time and have you work off the debt you owe for the stolen rations."

"Yes, sergeant" was all Ember Spark could say. Deep down Ember wanted to sleep and never wake up. In her mind, her life wasn't worth redeeming or trying to fix. Ember had often lost her fights with her stepdad and step-siblings and the trouble and abuse she suffered and having to watch her mother suffer made things worse. The Meal-Ready-to Eat or MRE was not her favorite to say the least, it was a spinach and alfredo and it was or might as well have been past expiration date. Ember followed Zipp to the MP station to get signed in for lock up and was assigned to detail to compensate for her stolen food. The stallions looked at Ember Spark and wondered how an attractive girl like this end up in such a deep hole.

"Ya know, Zephyr Breeze I think that Ember may end up at the top here, hell I know she's proabaly the most fucked up one here but I see her rising like a Phoenix."

"I know what you mean Blueblood...we'll have to see if she can rise above her past and such and become a good example."

Ember who heard the conversation scoffed in her mind; "Yeah right! Me improve that much has to be the worst joke ever. I'm too far gone."