Sunrise over Equestria

The troops awoke to knocking on the door. As they got up one of the Rangers got up with his pistol and cracked the door,"Hello? Who's there?" he said looking around. Soon he saw a group of white horses in gold armor standing outside.

"By order of the princess Celestia; ruler of Equstria and patron of the day. All occupants of this barn are to evacuate immediately, turn in all weapons, and report to the transport chariot in Ponyville by Eight A.M today. If you do not then you will be escorted their by this party of guards, and searched for any and all weapons." Said one levitating the parchment ahead of him.

"Sarge, we got a problem!" yelled the Ranger at the door to his NCO.

"What's up?" He called back.

"These guys are making demands, I think we're being arrested."

Walker, Matt , and Patton all looked at each other and ran down stairs. "We got it, go get dressed." Patton said patting his shoulder. They ran outside to see the Guards pulling spears. "Stand the hell down! Or I swear to god we'll turn you into Swiss cheese." He yelled to the gold plated stallions.

"You're bluffing. Nothing but a very powerful spell from a unicorn could do something like that!" yelled what appeared to be the Commander of the guards. As the last word left his mouth Walker kicked the barn door. The doors and the few windows on the barn flew open; each filled with soldiers aiming at the guards with their rifles.

"Wanna bet, now stand down and turn away before we fire." Out numbered 3:6 the guard commander turned and marched away. His troops fallowed soon after. They went back in and got dressed, as each troop walked out the barn door Walker and Matt were already walking toward town. They arrived at Twilight's tree house only to find the alleged 'transport' waiting outside.

They all walked in and called for Twilight, she stuck her head out from the kitchen and asked them to join her. "Boys this is Corporal Swiftwing. Celestia sent him to invite you to Canterlot."

"More like arrest..." said Matt. Twilight looked confused and asked the Corporal what he meant by that. His only response was handing her the parchment with his orders on it.

"What? This doesn't make sense, why would the princess do something like this?"

"If I may interject," said Swiftwing with a heavy Canterlot accent that sounded very British to the guys. "Perhaps because she doesn't trust these killers, I mean no one in Equestria kills. We guards don't even hurt people, we just look tough and make arrest." he said inspecting the tip of his spear.

"It doesn't matter why, let's go meet this 'Princess Celestia' and see what she wants." said Walker lifting his rifle. The other soldiers nodded and turned toward the door and went out to the transport. Twilight and Swiftwing just shrugged at each other and followed along to the transport.

The ride to Canterlot was long and boring, the heavy transport was slow and had to have guards in the back and front to keep it stabilized. Along the way Swiftwing apologized. "I was just following orders, I actually asked Celestia and Luna to just have us invite you to Canterlot for a brief meeting. With the brewing storm a few men like you would do us good."

"What kind of brewing storm?" asked Tate.

"Apparently some big light show over the Everfree happened a few nights back and then the Discord statue disappeared. The princesses are so damn scared they've practically had us turn the city into a fortress. With the captain of the guard up in the northern kingdom with his wife. We've been trying hard but if anything happens we'll be screwed harder than Philips head."

"What's a Discord statue?" asked Aranda.

"He's the god of chaos, we trapped him in a stone prison using the elements of Harmony, or the elements of Kindness, Magic, Laughter, Generosity, Honesty, and Loyalty." The guys snickered. "To girl for you guys?" he asked with a smirk.

"Little, now about our weapons... we ain't giving them up. And we damn sure ain't gonna find a compromise. These guns are sticking with us." said Walker. Swiftwing simply nodded, he didn't seem to care.

Some Time Later

They arrived in front of the Castle doors to the palace only to be greeted by a presentation of arms. They were surrounded by guards all holding large pikes, the tips only a few feet from the group who had just emerged from the transport. "Put away your damn weapons before I have you all court marshaled. Now!" The guards stood their ground.

"They won't be doing anything Corporal." said a deep gravely voice from behind them. "Not unless I say so." The guards parted and up stepped a large stallion in a red dress blouse and a blue sache, much in the style of British royal guards that stand guard around Buckingham Palace. He had a dark green drab coat and a light blonde mane. He had a set of bloody sabers as his Cutie Mark (Not so cute). His piercing green eyes shot through Swiftwing like a hot knife through butter.

"General Gut Saber, Sir. What are you doing here? I thought you retired?" asked Swiftwing.

"When Shining Armor left; Celestia asked me to come back until she could find a replacement. I accepted, and I plan on thoroughly whipping these lily liveried little fillies into War Horses. Now I'll take care of our friends here, you go and get into formal, I'm giving a speech to everyone tonight." Saber said. Corporal Swiftwing saluted and marched off to get ready. "And as for you, what'd she say....humans, you will follow me. I will take you to the throne room, and you will not give me back talk. Now come." and with that the General turned and marched away. The guys looked at each other and followed suit.

They arrived in the throne room where two large thrones sat. One was solid cold with a red velvet cushions, gem stones were engraved in the top. The other was what looked to be black marble and had blue silk cushions, pearls were engraved into the top. The golden throne was the largest. In it sat a large white pony, almost the size of a real horse. She had large pink eyes and a rainbow flowing main. She wore a large golden crown.

"Hello Gentleman, we have a lot to talk about."