Commander Twilight Sparkle is a soldier; she is a very good soldier with only a few...issues. Being a soldier means she is disciplined and able to stay calm in extreme situations. Which is why she can say with complete confidence that she very calmly has her fingers around her Alicorn counterpart’s throat as they stood before the crater that marks where The Golden Oaks Library once stood.

“WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN IT WAS DESTORYED BY TIREK AND YOU LET THAT FUCKING MONSTER LIVE!!” The Commander calmly screamed into the face of Princess Twilight. The Princess’ friends were trying to pry the two apart but the Commander’s cybernetics allowed her to keep her grip as she strangled the Alicorn.

“I….couldn’t…..kill…..him….” The Alicorn choked out barely above a whisper as her face was starting to turn blue. Suddenly a golden aura wrapped around the pair and though it had some difficulty, was able to pry the soldier’s fingers from around the princess’ neck and separate the two of them.

The Princess took several gasping breaths as her friends rushed to her side, rainbow glaring at the suspended soldier as she threw curses at the gasping Alicorn.

Princess Celestia closed the distance between the group, having arrived on the scene after tending to her guards and sending for more. “Commander you need to calm down.” She told to mare as she approached her. The mare looked at her and Celestia noted that her eyes were red and glowing now which was a bit unnerving.

“The fuck I do! That bitch let that monster live after destroying the Library!” She said pointing at the Alicorn who was just starting to climb to her hooves with help from her friends.

“I understand you are upset Commander but Twilight did what was best.” Celestia said.

“Bull-fucking-shit! That monster lost the right to live a long time ago.” The Military mare said with anger clear in her voice as she glared at the sun Princess.

“Nopony has a right to take another’s life.” Twilight said her voice a bit raspy do to her strangulation.

The Commander turned her glare on the Alicorn her eyes narrowing. “Tell that to the Fallen.” She said coldly. The group looked at her in confusion. “Two hundred and fifty THOUSAND EDF soldiers died trying to protect Equestria from that….that thing! He killed them without a care! He laughed as they tried to fight back and protect the civilians before he destroyed them. That monster shot down transports filled with unarmed recruits as they fled Camp Mendez. HE. HAS. NO. RIGHT. TO. LIVE!!” The mare screamed the last words at the group

The gathered ponies stood in silence, even the small crowd that had gathered do to the commotion stood staring at the mare suspended in the yellow glow as she glared at them all. The silence stretched don as they all processed what they heard; none of them had imagined Tirek would do something like that.

“I-I’m sorry Commander.” Princess Twilight said as she recovered. Her mind filled with images of ponies fighting back only to be destroyed or of terrified ponies running for their lives only to die anyways.

“Sorry won’t bring back the Fallen. The only thing that did them justice was seeing that monster dead.” The Commander said coldly before looking at the Sun Princess.” You can let me down now. I’m not going to hurt her; it would be a waste of my time.”

Princess twilight flinched at how her unicorn counterpart referred to her; she never thought she’d feel bad about somepony not wanting to hurt her but the Commander made her actually feel bad about it.

Carefully Celestia let the mare down and she dusted herself off and adjusted her hat and retrieved her sunglasses from where they fell when she tackled her Alicorn self, her eyes returning to their normal color. “So then, I’ll need a place to stay while I am here and I didn’t exactly bring any bits with me on this unplanned trip and I doubt this Equestria takes Credits.” She said looking at the group as she placed her hands behind her back. She spoke calmly but it was clear to the gather ponies she was not happy with any of them but wasn’t voicing it.

“Um…you can stay in a guest room in the castle. “ Alicorn Twilight said.

“You mean the eyesore?” The unicorn Twilight said pointing towards the crystal castle.

Princess Twilight flinched at how her counterpart referred to her home. “Yes, it’s called the Castle of Friendship by the way.” Princess Twilight said.

Commander Sparkle just shrugged. “Still an eyesore.”

With a sigh and a look at her mentor who nodded the young Alicorn began to make her way towards the large castle, she couldn’t blame her counterpart, she did have to admit the castle didn’t exactly fit in with anything around it.

Her friends walled alongside her as the Commander walked a little ways behind them beside Celestia. “I am sorry that Tirek did that in your home my little pony.” The Sun Princess said.

“Don’t call me that.” Twilight said and the Solar Princess looked at her. “I am not a citizen of this land, there for I am not your subject and therefor I am not one of your little ponies.” She explained without looking at the Princess. “As far as I am concerned you are all foreigner and you are a foreign leader so I will show you respect but I want to be clear that you have no authority over me but I will respect this counties laws and you as the leader but I won’t follow your orders unless it makes sense as it’s just advice as far as I am concerned.”

The Solar Princes looked at the mare. “You know very few would speak to me like that.” She told the Commander who nodded.

“I’d imagine so.” She said.

Celestia allowed a small smile to grace her muzzle as she walked alongside the unicorn, it felt good having someone who would speak their mind around her and not bow and defer to her for everything. While the mare was obviously dangerous the Sun Princess had to admit that she found herself liking the soldier and was sure that the Commander was going to be a very interesting visitor to Equestria.

After a short time the group of ponies arrived at the Castle’s front entrance and the Sun Princess made her leave after putting Princess Twilight in charge of her counterpart before leaving to attend her duties in Canterlot.

Princess Twilight had to assure her friends that she was ok and that they didn’t need to stay as she was sure the commander wouldn’t harm her again, it took some work but finally the Commander ended it by giving them a Pinkie Promise she would not take action concerning Tirek again. It had been a very stranger sight to watch the bipedal unicorn go through the motions and say the chant but it had been enough to convince her friends to leave.

Once they were gone Twilight pushed the door open and walked in with the Commander following her. “Spike! Spike are you here!?” She called, her voice echoing through the castle as they made their way to the stairs.

“Huh….this place would be useful for housing and addressing soldiers as they could all hear their orders with ease.” The Commander said as she looked around at the walls as they climbed the stairs.

“Coming Twilight.” Came the reply from the familiar purple dragon as he made his way from deeper inside of the castle.

The two of them reached the Friendship Council room a moment before the baby dragon did. “Ah there you are Spike; I need you to set up a guest room.” She said and Spike just started between the two mares as both of them looked at him.

The baby dragon rubbed his eyes and looked between them both. “Uh…Twilight….why are there two of you?”

“I’m Commander Twilight Sparkle and I’m from a different Equestria, I got dragged her by accident.” The Commander explained before Twilight could. The baby dragon looked to twilight who nodded and he shrugged before going to set up a guest room.

Once he left the Commander made her way over to the Map and looked it over running one of her fingered hooves over it. “Wow, holograms, didn’t expect to see this.” She said as she looked over the map, studying it.

“What are you doing?” Twilight asked as she walked over.

“Making not of the differences between our two nations, there aren’t many, the biggest being the lack of EDF bases.” The Commander said.

“How many bases are there?” Twilight asked curious about the other mare’s Equestria.

“Classified.” She said in respond and looked up to see the confused expressing on the Alicorn’s face. “You are a foreign nation which means there are certain things I won’t tell you for security reasons just on the off chance you decide to invade or something.”

“We would never do that.” Twilight said quickly.

The Commander just shrugged. “maybe so but it’s my job to ensure the security of Equestria so all I can say concerning our bases is that we have enough to defend the nation from all threats.”

Twilight nodded after a moment, it did make sense really. “So…what can you tell me about your Equestria that won’t put it in danger?” She asked, her curiosity about the other Equestria not diminished at all. As the Commander thought Twilight teleported a quill and parchment to her side, this getting a look from the Commander. “What?”

“Nothing, I just remember the time when I used a quill and parchment is all. “She said with a chuckle.

“You don’t use quills or parchment in your Equestria?” Twilight asked already starting to right.

“Oh no we do, I don’t, I use my Datapad for everything.” The mare said and Twilight paused.

“Datapad?” She asked tilting her head.

In answer the Commander pulled a small black rectangle from nowhere prompting the Alicorn to blink.

“What?” The commander as she taped on one side of the rectangle.

“Where did that come from?” Twilight asked looking at the object.

The Commander stopped what she was doing and looked up at the Alicorn. “You don’t have the pocket dimension spell here? Interesting. “She said and began to type.

“The what?” twilight asked.

“In my dimension unicorns have a spell that create a space outside of reality they can store things in, kinda like an infinite storage locker” the commander answered and Twilight eyes went wide and she franticly wrote this information down while the commander merely chuckled as she watched this remember when she used to be like that.

It was there that a voice spoke up from outside to council room. “Twilight do we have a guest? I saw Spike cleaning one of the guest rooms.” The voice said as the door to the Council room opened.

Twilight turned and saw Starlight Glimmer walk into the room. Then the room was filled with a lot of clicking sounds and Starlight’s eyes when wide and she took a step back while looking behind Twilight. Confused Twilight looked behind her and blinked as she saw the commander was surrounded by a lot of metal objects of different shapes and sizes and she had two silver ones with white grips in her hands, every single one of them were pointed at Starlight and twilight could tell the commander was glaring.

“What the fuck is that bitch doing here?” The Commander demanded not taking her eyes off the pink unicorn mare who took another step back looking very afraid.

“Commander calm down she’s a friend.” Twilight said as she looked at the military mare.

“Bullshit, do you know what that bitch did?” The Commander demanded.

“Yes I know about her desire for Equality.” Twilight said. “We already dealt with the town and helped the ponies.”

“And you let her walk around free? She’s sitting in the middle of a maximum security prison with three inhibitor rings on while under constant guard by four rifle teams with orders to blow her Celestia-damned head off if she tries to escape back home.” The commander replied as she cocked her revolvers.

Twilight blinked at this and Starlight was visibly beginning to shake and looked like she was trying to curl in on herself to make herself as small as she could. “I know what she did was wrong…but she’s learned her lesson and is being taught what true friendship is” The Princess quickly explained.

The Commander finally took her eyes off of Starlight and looked at Twilight. “She’s dangerous Princess.” The Commander said Twilight tightly with a hint of annoyance.

“I now she’s powerful in magic, I had to actually fight her at one point but I can assure you she is a friend.” Twilight said stepping between the two mares.

The Commander stood there for a minute before finally uncocking her revolvers and all her weapons vanished. “For your sake I hope you are right Princess.” She said and pointed at Starlight causing her to jump. “And you, stay as far away from me as you can, the Princess here may trust you but I sure as hell don’t and do not plan to.” Starlight nodded rabidly before fleeing the room.

Twilight sighed. “Did you have to scare her so badly? She’s already having a difficult time as it is.”

“Like I give a fuck, she is one of Equestria’s most dangerous criminals and you just let her walk around unsupervised so forgive me for being on guard around the mare that could steal my remaining Cutie Mark.” The Commander said with a bit of anger.

Twilight sighed remembering what Dr. Hoof has said about the Commander’s Cutie Mark. “I can understand, believe me I do, when Starlight managed to steal mine and my friends Cutie Marks I felt horrible and powerless.” She placed a hoof on the other mare’s shoulder.

The Commander looked at Twilight then and Twilight’s flank and started laughing. “Right you understand. That’s so fucking rich. So you know how it feels to be a fucking test subject and experimented on till one day they decide they want to analyze your Cutie Mark so they fucking remove it, skin and all, and all you get are some bandages to cover it.” The Commander said with a glare. “I’m sorry but I doubt you can possible fucking understand even a tenth of what I have been through, you got your fucking mark back, I never will so don’t fucking pretend to understand.”

With that the Commander stormed from the room slamming the door behind her causing the Princess to wince, she could tell she made a huge mistake in saying that to the Commander.

Commander Twilight Sparkle walked down the halls, her face fixed with a look of disgust. “How dare that little bitch pretend to know what the fuck I went through.” She growled as she walked. “She has a fucking castle, she is a fucking Alicorn, she has her Luna-damned Cutie marks, even if they were stolen temporarily she still got them back and I fucking won’t!” She said and punched the wall, cracking the crystal, she was a bit surprised to see the cracks start to repair themselves but her blood was boiling so it was quickly forgotten as she began to walk again.

The mare didn’t know where she was going as she didn’t know the layout of the castle yet, she would by tomorrow because she wouldn’t sleep unless she knew every exit out of this place, but for now she couldn’t be in the same room as Princess Twilight Sparkle. “She didn’t even kill Tirek for destroying her home, her home that if it’s even half like mine meant a lot to her. By the stars was I really like that?” The Commander shuttered thinking she had once been exactly like the young Alicorn.

She walked down the corridors of the crystal castle till she saw the purple form of Spike exiting a room. “Hello Spike. “The mare said as she approached.

“Oh hey Twilight.” Spike said as he turned around and then stopped for a moment. “Oh right you’re the other twilight.” HE said and smiled sheepishly. “Sorry thought you were Twilight…I mean you are Twilight…but you’re not Twilight so…ah…um…”

The Commander held up a hand. “You can just call me either Commander Sparkle or Commander that should make it easier on you.” The mare said and Spike sighed in relief and nodded causing the military mare to laugh.

“What’s so funny?” He asked looking at the Commander.

“Nothing. “She said shaking her head. “It’s just some things don’t change it seems.” She smiled and patted the baby dragon’s head. “So am I to assume this is my room?” She gestured to the door.

Spike nodded. “Yeah I figured Twilight would want you near her room seeing as you are a her from another world and all so I know she will have all sorts of questions for you.”

“Yeah she does though there are some things I can’t tell her.” Twilight said, she kept her voice level while talking about that mare as the baby dragon wasn’t the target of her anger. “Mind if I take a look around in there?” She asked.

“Go right ahead, it’s your room after all.” He said and the mare nodded before walking into the room.

The room was about the size of her old PFDR Quarters which meant it was decent sized with a bed, a night stand, a couple of chairs by a fire place with a coffee tables in between them and a rug on the floor and a small writing desk. There was a door that lead to a closet and another that lead to a small bathroom complete with toilet, sink, mirror and a shower-bath combo. In the Commander’s assessment it would do perfectly.

She found some parchment in the desk as well as a quill and ink and began to write. Less than a minutes later she was done and walked to the door and opened it to find Spike talking to Princess Twilight. Both looked up as the Commander used duct tape to place the parchment on the door and stepped back to see how it looked. After a moment she nodded. “Perfect.”

“Um….excuse me but what does EDF FOB mean?” the Princess asked reading the sign.

“Simple Princess.” She spat the word to shoe she was still angry at her. “It means that room is now officially an Equestrian Defense Force Forward Operating Base till I get home which mean you stay the hell out unless told otherwise” She smiled presently at the other mare before walking into the room and slamming the door, making sure to lock it loudly so she heard it.

Author's Notes:

well here is the next chapter folks, back to Cannon Equestria where the Soldier sees some differences and the Princess tries to get to know her a bit and ends up royally screwing it up.

will the Princess be able to repair things between her and the Soldier? Who knows.

and Celestia has know the Commander for less then a day and already likes her, though she is weary of her do to her skill. What could be going on behind those thousands of years old eyes?