Love and Honour
Chapter 1: Prologue
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Over one millennia ago Equestria was ruled by two sister princesses: Celestia and Luna. Both contributed to the safety, the well-being and the economic stature of the world. But even as the mighty princesses they both felt the natural emotion of love. However due to their immortal state the older sister forbid them both from loving another living being simply because their immortality would force them to outlive their lover.
Luna was younger than Celestia and never heeded her warnings about love and became romantically involved with a stallion named Star Gazer, his natural love for the night enticed her and the two became inseparable.
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Millennia ago:
The night air was hot, the moon was in full bloom and ponies across Equestria where asleep peacefully at their homes. However in the royal castle in Canterlot there was a dimly lit light in one of the royal chambers.
Luna screamed as she reached the peak of her orgasm, “Yes Gazer, cum inside me… I want to be the mother of our children” she screamed and Star Gazer felt himself reach his edge.
Star Gazer gave one last final thrust and Luna screamed as he came inside her. He was breathing heavily and collapsed overtop of Luna as exhaustion over took him. “I love you Star Gazer” Luna whispered, Star Gazer attempted to talk but was panting to heavily to reply.
“Together we shall give life to beautiful children” Luna whispered, not directly to Star Gazer but just whispered it for any-pony to hear. Star Gazer nodded, he rolled off of Luna and cuddled up close beside her as they embraced each other. Luna flicked off the light that kept the room illuminated and the duo cuddled together under the light of the moon far above the world.
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Unfortunately, for whatever reason, Luna and Star Gazer were incompatible with each other and Luna was never able to become pregnant like they had hoped. As the decades past Star Gazer grew old and eventually past away one night in his sleep, Luna was never able to love again, she had been emotionally distraught from the death of Star Gazer, which eventually led to her becoming Nightmare moon and she was banished to the moon.
After 1000 year imprisonment on the moon and eventual defeat of Nightmare moon, Luna once again became a partial leader of Equestria with her sister. However even now, after one thousand years, she sadly remembers love and all that it was but still vows never to let herself become heartbroken over the death of a lover.
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Present Day:
When Twilight Sparkle found a spell that created a teleportation matrix between Equestria and a world called Earth that was inhabited by humans, the two races quickly became allies. Ponies and humans would travel to the other world in search of anything ranging from: vacation to residence, it even resulted in love interests. Though the two species were with each other at first, the advancements in magic proved powerful enough to cast spells that allowed humans and ponies to have children together. Weird right? Humans and ponies having children, yeah anyway back to the story.
However despite Equestria’s peaceful nature, humanity still had conflicts in their world and eventually the technology of firearms reached Equestria. The new technology eventually caused crimes and even small conflicts but never the less Equestria remained an extremely peaceful nation.
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Sgt. Clare, Sudan in Africa:
“Peacekeeping my ass… this shit is downright fucked up” I yelled to Captain Daniels as I helped him to his feet.
Another RPG round struck the building and debris fell from the roof of the building we had taken cover in. “Shit… Private Sharps, can you hit that bastard with the RPG?” Daniels yelled over the sound of automatic gunfire.
Private Sharps peaked out the window then readied his C7A1 rifle and leaned out the window and took a single aimed shot. “I got em” Sharps yelled, “Good, now get the fuck away from the” I began but just as I was about to say ‘Away from the window’ his helmet was knocked off and blood splattered against the wall behind him as his skull was ruptured.
“SNIPER, GET AWAY FROM THE WINDOWS” Daniels yelled. I leaned up against the solid building wall, my ears were still ringing from the blasts of the RPG. I looked at my assault rifle and remembered I had to reload it, I ejected the spent magazine and loaded a fresh one. “We’re a little outnumbered here eh Captain?” I joked as I racked the charging handle. Daniels rolled his eyes “THIS IS NOW TIME TO BE JOKING AROUND” Daniels yelled. I chuckled and peaked up over the window ceil, as I peered out to the battle field I saw a group of resistance fighters charging towards us.
I swore to myself as I brought my C7 assault rifle and held the trigger back and I sprayed them down with a concentration of automatic fire. The group screamed as their bodies were riddled by 5.56mm NATO rounds.
I caught a glimpse of light from a building not far from us and ducked just as a sniper bullet chipped away at the window ceil beside my face. I opened up the M203 grenade launcher on my assault rifle and slid a 40mm HE grenade round into the launcher and cocked back the slid.
I looked to Daniels, “The sniper is in the second story window of the building on our 9, don’t look. I’ll take him out with the 203” I said through heavy breathing. Daniels nodded and I popped up and quickly took aim on the window where the flash reflection from the rifle scope had come from. I pulled the trigger on the M203 grenade launcher and the high explosive grenade shell propelled through the air and slammed into the window.
The grenade exploded violently and part of the building wall was destroyed as the explosion ripped through the room, killing the sniper. I quickly ducked back down behind the wall and ejected the still smoking grenade cartridge. I nodded to Daniels but soon something didn’t feel right.
“Sir, they’re retreating” Corporal Dickens yelled out. I peeked out the window to see if he was right. I sighed in relief as I watched the resistance soldiers scurry away, “Well that’s a relief” I muttered but I spoke to soon.
A thunder BOOM filled the air and our small building that we had taken shelter in was slammed by a tank cannon round. The explosive cannon round decimated part of our building and blew away Jenkins, Ramirez, Dickens and Stanley. “FUCK!” I yelled and peered out the window to see an old Russian made T-72 battle tank.
“Where the fuck did they get that thing?” I yelled and Daniels shuffled over to me. He pulled out a satchel charge from his waist saddle, “It’s our only shot at this. Cover me” Daniels said. I shook my head and looked to our remaining squad members. “Jameson, Deny and Frankston, you guys give us covering fire, make sure those resistance fighters don’t get off pot shots on us” I ordered and they nodded.
I pulled out a smoke grenade and Daniels did the same. We both pulled the pins on our smoke grenades and tossed them towards the T-72 tank and waited for the smoke screen to build. I looked to Daniels and nodded.
As we both lept out the windows our squad members began to fire at resistance fighters who had dug in. Though resistance fighters did fire at us, their shots were inaccurate and sloppy, usually kicking up dirt in front of us or far behind us.
I slid behind a small wall of sandbags in the war torn street as Daniels rushed into the smoke. I spotted a group of fighters appear on a roof top and snapped my aim to them. They didn’t even realize where I was until it was too late. My C7 chattered in my hands as lead death ripped through their bodies.
Daniels came running out of the smoke screen, “RUN!” he yelled. I swiveled my body and began to run back to the building but as we did the T-72 battle tank fired upon the building. The side of the building was destroyed and our squad members were killed in the blast.
I swore as I swiveled my body back around and fired upon several enemy soldiers. A thunderous explosion ripped through the streets as the satchel charge erupted and decimated the T-72 battle tank. My rifle ran dry and I quickly reloaded the gun. “LET’S GET OUT OF HERE” Daniels yelled, I turned my body around and ran towards the remaining cover of the building that we had taken cover behind before.
Daniels was a little slower than I was and took cover behind some sandbags in the middle of the street to give me covering fire as I lept through the window. I leaned back out the window just as his assault rifle ran dry. “I’m out of ammo” he screamed.
I brought my assault rifle up and began shooting down enemy soldiers. I stopped firing for a moment and leaned my left arm out of the window and motioned for him to hurry up. “COME ON DANIELS, COME ON!” I yelled. He dropped his assault rifle to the ground, probably figuring he’d pick it up later and rushed back towards me.
I took aimed shots at the enemy soldiers that tried to shoot Daniels down, dirt was being shot up just inches behind his feet. Daniels was about to hop through the window when a resistance fighter got a lucky shot and the bullet went straight through Daniels upper leg. Blood spurted out of his wound as he stumbled forwards.
I leaned out of the window and grabbed him by his chest harness. I pulled him towards the building but several other enemy soldiers took aimed shots and the AK47’s shots went through my friends back. His body stiffened for a moment then several other rounds shot through his legs and fell to his knees, I attempted to pull him through the window.
He gave out a grunt of pain and coughed up some blood. He looked to me with a disappointed frown, “God damn you Clare…” he began but several other 7.62x39mm AK47 rounds tore through him and his body went limp as he died in my arms. “NO… DANIELS… NOOO!” I yelled but as I did a resistance fighter launched an RPG round at the building. The rocket round exploded violently and I was caught in the blast and propelled through the air then crashed to the ground.
My vision blurred as I looked to the roof of the building and my world seemed to spin. I heard resistance fighters yell things but I couldn’t understand their language. I reached into my chest holster and pulled out my M1911A1 pistol, I had to go through hell and back to get this pistol as a non-issue sidearm but by god I was determined and finally got it issued to me.
My aim was severely shaky and I felt so weak that I could barely hold the bloody gun in both my hands. As a group of three fighters came into view I emptied the pistol’s entire magazine into the group, the first soldier was struck in the upper chest by a trio of .45 caliber rounds, and the other two received lower chest shots that cut through their ribs and knocked them to the ground.
I ejected the magazine and loaded a fresh one into the gun. I thumbed the slid release and the gun clanked as the slid slammed forward and loaded a new round into the chamber. I waited for a moment as I heard a group of resistance fighters approach. I knew this would probably be my last stand but by god I was gonna give them hell.
Suddenly a thunderous explosion ripped through the streets. I heard the resistance leaders scream and as I looked out to the street I saw why. A Canadian Leopard 2 battle tank had entered the street along with a platoon of Canadian soldiers.
I chuckled weakly to myself, ‘About time they showed up, what kept them? Traffic’ I thought to myself. I heard an infantry soldier run over to our building, he gasped then turned back to the reinforcements. “MEDIC!” he screamed and I reached my hand out towards him, he saw my movement and raced to my side. “MEDIC!” he screamed again then looked back to me.
“Hold on marine, you’re going to be fine… MEDIC!” he screamed, I coughed weakly and brought my pistol up to my chest and rested it on the center of my chest as my world faded out.
Next Chapter: Chapter 1: We need a montage Estimated time remaining: 8 Hours, 58 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
So yes, I am making another romancy story. Though at first I just wanted it to be a purely war story my buddy Derreck convinced me that if I made it a romance story with the war story as the side plot then it'll do better so I took his advice and Eureka. A romance story