Friends and Rivals

In the past years of Equestria, there were many different armies fighting for dominance of Equestria. In the end, only two armies remain. The Aachen and the Paama. In the last years of the war, the Paama sent a group of soldiers to Criteria, the present-day Ponyville, to stop an uprising, but they were ambushed in the Galloping Gorge. The battle was disastrous. Both sides were completely destroyed. Over 6,000 soldiers died.

As the dust storms finally moved on, the bodies remained were they lay, motionless and lifeless, filled with arrows and sword cuts. Out of the sea of bodies came a pony. A Paama soldier. A arrow had pierced his armor, but not his heart, which could have. Rico. Rico looked around and saw nothing but bodies, bodies, and more bodies. In the distance, Rico could see the Aachen flag still standing, It was dug into the ground to prevent it from falling. Not far from there, Rico also saw the Paama flag, standing as well. Rico spotted a carriage. He could use that to get home.

As Rico walked over the bodies to the carriage, he could feel something grab his leg. He jumps and turns. Another soldier with Paama armor was on the floor, bleeding. Rico kneeled down and tried to tend to the wounds. The soldier spotted the Aachen flag and pushed Rico out of his way. Apparently, he wanted to cut the flag down.

He continued to limp towards the flag, but is stopped by a Aachen soldier, who had his sword drawn. They immediately engaged in combat. The  Paama soldier struck first, swinging at the Aachen soldier, but the Aachen soldier ducks and slices the Paama soldier across the gut. He grips his wound, but he shakes it off and continues to attack the Aachen soldier. This time, he swings from above. Due to a wound that he already got, the Aachen soldier was not able to dodge in time. His leg was cut off. The Aachen soldiers falls to the floor. The Paama soldiers runs and attempts to cut down the Aachen flag, but the Aachen soldier managed to get back up. He grabbed a spear that was on the ground and made the Paama soldier trip. He fell face-first. The impact bought the Aachen soldier some time to grab his flag. He pulls it out of the ground and turns towards his enemy, who was already up and was coming towards him. The Aachen soldier quickly cuts off a piece of the flag pole and stabs the Paama soldier right through the stomach. The Paama soldier drops his sword. He then knew he would die, but not until he took down the other solider. He picked up his sword and stabbed the other soldier in the face. They then both collapsed to the floor.

Rico was hiding the entire time. Behind a body. After seeing that the fight was over, he came out, grabbed a sword he picked up off the ground. And pack all he could, along with the Paama flag, in the carriage. He began to set out. But he first had to find a way to get the carriage out of the ocean of skin.