Archangel Of The Rebellion - A New Lunar Republic Fanfiction

600 years ago, somewhere near Ponyville…

The sun, bold and beautiful, floated peacefully in the expansive ocean of the sky. It was a perfect day. Pinkie Pie began it by opening her window and yelling "GOOD MORNING, PONYVILLE!" at the top of her lungs. Then, eager to have fun with her friends, she bolted down the stairs and, quite literally, bounced out the door, but not without yelling a good morning to Mr and Mrs Cake, the baker couple, and their twins, Pumpkin and Pound.

The pink earth pony continued on her way to her friend Twilight Sparkle's house, firing off rounds of "Hello!"' and "Good Morning!"' to everyone she passed. She wondered what Twilight was doing today, hopefully doing something fun cos she liked fun things, like magic tricks or something, but maybe she's just reading those dusty books of hers, but she couldn't really blame her cos she does live in a library, even so, maybe Rainbow Dash was practicing her Sonic Rainboom and needed somebody to cheer her on, cos Fluttershy isn't very good at cheering, oh, but maybe Fluttershy is doing something even more fun than Twilight and Rainbow COMBINED, like bear-wrestling or having a tea party, but maybe… Pinkie Pie's thoughts went round and round like this for some time, and by the time she realised that she probably had enough time to have fun with ALL her friends, she had already arrived at Twilight Sparkle's tree home.

Pinkie Pie found the purple unicorn hunched over a something at her desk. with the little dragon Spike and the other 4 Elements gathered around her.

"Hey everybody!" She bellowed cheerily. The gang to look at her with grim faces, except Twilight, who was wrapped up in thought.

"Why the long faces everybody? You all look like this," Pinkie put on an exaggerated frown.

"It's because of this really weird letter from Princess Celestia. It's not written like her at all." Applejack said.

Twilight looked up, her face torn between puzzlement and anger because of said predicament. "It says that we are "special war potentials" and that we "must go to Canterlot Castle at once, for our own protection". It sounds like she's expecting us to be attacked, but… something seems strange about this whole thing. I just can't put my finger on it…"

A knock on the door interrupted the conversation.

Rarity walked up to the door and opened it, gasped, turned to her friends and said "They're Celestia's guards!"

Without warning, the two soldiers barged past Rarity into the room, and pointed their spears at Pinkie.

"Pinkie Pie, we've come to take you with us. We have orders from Celestia to require your assistance." They stated.

"W-Why? W-What d-do you want with her, um, sirs?" Fluttershy asked tentatively.

"Shut up."

"Hey, don't talk to my friends like that!" Rainbow Dash shouted angrily, holding her fists up in a boxing stance. One of the guards smashed Rainbow Dash in the face with a gauntleted fist. "I said BE QUIET."

RD fell to the ground, unconscious. The soldiers grabbed Pinkie Pie roughly, "No more games, give us the location of the cloning pool right now, or ELSE."

Pinkie pie was thrown down into a chair in a dark room, she looked at herself, still in shock. During the ride to wherever they were, the worry and fear had caused her mane and tail to go straight. “Oh no, not good, not good at all.” She thought. When her hair did this it was only a matter of time before she flipped, before her other self took over.

Suddenly a bright light appeared in Pinkie’s face, she turned away to avoid the blinding rays. As her eyes adjusted to the light, she saw two armour clad Royal Guards appear from the gloom.

“Miss Pinkamena Diane Pie, we have some questions for you. Please oblige and this will be a lot easier on all of us.” The guard on the left said in a soft voice.

“Hey, what the hell happened to her hair?” The Right hand side guard whispered into the other’s ear.

“Who cares, what difference does it make.” Came the reply. “Anyway, Miss Pie, do you pledge allegiance to the excellent and just princess Celestia of Equestria?”

“Um, yes, I suppose.” The cowering pinkie Pie answered, “What’s all this for anyway” She asked, looking at the guards in turn.

“Princess’ orders.” Barked the second guard, raising his chin slightly and looking down his nose.

“What’s all this for? I mean, I know Celestia, she’s cool. I don’t think we need all this.” The pink pony questioned, growing less nervous.

“Shut up, you saw what happened to your friend. We ask the questions.” The first guard snapped angrily.

“Whatever,” The second one said, pushing him aside. “We happen to know that you have information on a certain duplication pool in the everfree forest.”

“Why do you need to know?” retorted pinkie impulsively, her voice becoming more growling. Oh no, here she comes! The pink pony thought to herself.

“You stupid cunt!” yelled the second guard, pushing the chair that pinkie was tied to onto the floor, her vision went fuzzy and there was ringing in her ears as a guard leaned down and snarled:

“We ask the fucking questions.”

“I’m so sorry, that wasn’t me, I couldn’t help it!” Cried pinkie desperately. She thought about why Celestia’s guards were doing this, she remembered ponies going missing and not coming back, about the increase in soldiers around. Pinkie worked out what was going on, Celestia had gone bad, she wanted the pool to make more soldiers.

“I aren’t telling you where the pool is!” Pinkie said defiantly, preparing herself for another blow. None came.

“Oh really.” Jeered the first guard, smiling, “Are you sure.” He clapped his hooves and lights appeared down the length of the grimy white room. At the far end was a large cage, with smaller cages branching off, the main one contained pinkie’s five friends, the smaller ones were restraining starved dogs, growling angrily.

“Pinkie! You have to help us!” Shouted Twilight, her voice echoing off the walls of the room.

“You let my friends go!” Pinkie snarled, her voice deeper than usual. Her eye twitched. “Now.”

“You know the deal.” The second guard said, shrugging. “Help us, and they will be fine.”

“I’ll never help you to oppress Ponyville, if I die the location of the pool dies with me.” She retorted courageously.

“Fine.” The guard said, and clapped his hooves again, the partition between the cages opened slightly.

“Ok, ok, I’ll lead you to the pool, but you won’t get away with this.” Pinkie said.

Later in the day pinkie was led to the entrance to the everfree forest, one of the guards pointing a spear at the back of her head, the other one trailed behind slightly. The rear guard heard rustling in the bushes across the track.

“Hey, there’s something over here, I’m just going to check it out.” He said, walking over to the bush cautiously.

At the front there was a fork in the path. The guard stopped at the junction and prodded pinkie with the spear.

“Which way?” he asked. A muted gurgle and a thud could be faintly heard from behind. The rear guard caught up.

“That way.” Pinkie said reluctantly, pointing up the left path with a hoof before staring at the ground again. The party continued up the path.

“Where were you?” the front guard asked, turning his head to look at the other guard.

“It was nothing, just a rabbit.”

“Oh, ok.”

“Here.” Pinkie said, stopping suddenly in front of a large rock partially in the ground. “It’s under there.”

“Hey!” The guard shouted “Come and help me with this!” The other soldier trotted over and they both heaved the boulder out of its indentation. They both stared with surprised expressions at the tunnel that it revealed.

Several minutes later the group arrived at the duplication pool, in a forest clearing that defied physics because they were underground last time they checked. Pinkie sighed and looked at her muddied hooves.

“We’re here.”

“Good, now alert the army.” The first guard said, loosening the spear in the pink pony’s neck. The second guard fumbled around in his pouches until he found a strange object, a weapon new to science. It looked like a metal tube with a wooden handgrip, and Pinkie had never seen anything like it before. The guard looked at it, seemingly confused, before pointing it in the air. An ear-splitting boom rocketed through the trees, reverberating for a few seconds.

The guard with the spear produced a small purse, containing a light blue powder, he emptied it onto the path they had made and the hoofprints showed up glowing blue all the way back to the entrance to the forest.

“Right, the troops are on their way. I’m afraid we have no further use for you, Miss Pie.” Said the first guard, drawing his sword and raising it in the air above the pink pony’s neck.

Suddenly the other guard turned black in a flash of green flame and twisted into a toothed insect like being. Pinkie recognised it well as a changeling, and regarded it with horror. The first guard paused to see what she was gawping at when the creature launched himself at him, clawing at his face and torso until it was unrecognisable. The guard eventually stopped struggling and the changeling crawled off him, regarded Pinkie for a second with its expressionless blue-green eyes then shot up into the air, letting out a piercing screech. In seconds a swarm of black was swirling around above the pool, Pinkie looked around and bolted into the woods.

Half an hour later the two armies closed in on the cloning pond, and violent skirmishes broke out, limbs flew and the ground was soaked in blood. The blue and orange armies locked in battle for several hours, pegasi flew overhead with bombs and some were even carrying the newly invented guns.

When the fighting eventually cooled off, the two sides noticed that the pool had been destroyed in the fighting, the explosions causing the banks to burst and the magical water to seep slowly into the soil and leaf litter. The NLR eventually drew out their soldiers and allowed the Solar Empire to realise that the area that they had sacrificed so many lives for was now a scorched wasteland. They also drew out the next day.

After 6 centuries the pool still hadn’t replenished itself and it was expected to never recover. Back in the fortress in Stalliongrad 600 years later, Luna recalled the events of the battle, she wondered if there were any other pools with the same magical ability, but it was unlikely. The doors opened at the end of the room and the chubby unicorn general Dragonheart entered. Luna rolled her eyes and sighed, she was really getting sick of him, a replacement would be needed very soon.