At that very night, the Lunar Republic celebrated their first victory. Pinkie was jumping around the room happily, and had also set up the room with balloons and punch and food. The ponies were enjoying themselves while Luna only watched them in silence. She knew they had just killed other ponies, yet it didn't seem that they were affected by it, as though killing was something they had done all their lives. But how did they really feel inside...? She quickly discarded the thought and went to join in the fun that lasted almost the whole night.

  The next morning, The Lunar Republic was almost complete except one thing. They needed an army to fight back the Solar Empire. They had already seen that Celestia would give no chance to them, and she would definitely not hold back, not even a second. They needed an army and fast if they were to have a chance at surviving at all. Luna had already planned for them to go to Ponyville later in the early afternoon to gather ponies to join them. She figured it would be simple since that was the town the mane 6 came from anyway.

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  Celestia stood at her castle gates, awaiting the return of her army with news of their victory. Soon she saw the army's commander slowly limping up the hill, injured. Celestia's face slowly grew an evil smile as she saw the rest of her army closely following behind the commander. But her smile stopped when she saw that only a few hundred of them remained. From her full army force of about 1000 royal guards, now all that remained was only about 100. The commander hurriedly limped over to Celestia's side and bowed in front of her, afraid to report what she already knew.

  "Your highness, we...we failed to defeat your sister Luna...she had some six other ponies with her. They were too strong, we couldn't-" He was cut off by Celestia using her magic to kill him. His head exploded, leaving only his body standing. Blood spilled everywhere and his neck was still spurting out blood like a fountain. The other soldiers were shocked, but dare not say anything. Celestia was fuming mad. Firstly, she no longer regarded Luna as her sister and secondly, how could her army of about 1000 not defeat only SEVEN ponies?! Six other ponies, she thought...and then it hit her. "No..it can't be.." she thought to herself. If Luna had the mane 6 with her, then she would be nearly unstoppable.  Celestia obviously didn't want that to happen, but yet she couldn't think of anything to counter it. She dismissed her army, their commander dead, back to their training. Her royal bodyguards quickly rushed to the dead body and went to dispose of it. That was the thing in the Solar Empire, the guards may have the best rank or excellent skills, but once they were dead, either in battle or by Celestia herself, they were deemed worthless immediately. It was cruel, but once again Celestia didn't care less.

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  Pinkie Pie bounced around happily, she had decorated the room with balloons just for the fun of it. It seems that even with the war going on, nothing affected her. Twilight was reading a book and Rainbow Dash was taking a nap. Luna walked in the room, which was now the mane 6's living quarters, and said calmly, "Come, my little ponies, it is time to find rebels against my sister's tyranny. I am sure we can find a great many, but there is no time to waste."

  The 7 ponies were soon walking down the streets of Ponyville the sun beating down mercilessly on them, hoping to find ponies to join them. However, all their doors were shut and windows closed, very much like how they reacted when Zecora first tried to shop in Ponyville. Twilight saw some ponies peeking out of their windows, but immediately went into hiding again the moment anypony looked in their direction. Twilight didn't know if it was because they saw Luna with them, or simply because they were already scared from the Solar Empire.

  Twilight walked up to one of the houses and knocked gently on the door. Suddenly a scream came out. "No! Leave me alone! I have nothing you need! Get lost, now!" Twilight and the other 6 ponies were taken aback, but they had expected it. Twilight knocked again and said calmly, "We're not from the Solar Empire, nor do we want anything from you. In fact, we want you to go against the Solar Empire. We're the Lunar Republic and we mean no harm"

  There was a short pause of silence before Twilight heard hoofsteps and then the door opened slowly, an unsure face on the colt.

  "Against...the Solar Empire...? You mean you want to fight against them..? No...that's crazy, that's too crazy, we'll all die!" the colt quickly got scared again and was just about to shut the door when Rainbow Dash stopped him. "Look, we know we might not stand a chance against Celestia, but at least we can let her know that we do not obey her, right...?"

  The colt stood there for a while thinking...then finally said, a smile on his face. "Ok...I'll join you. For the Lunar Republic!" he cheered. The Lunar Republic smiled at each other for they had now accomplished what they needed to do, even if it was a small first step.

  The Lunar Republic now had its first soldier.

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  Celestia was pacing back and forth in front of her room, the commander's words still in her head.

  Six other ponies...

  The mane 6...

  Luna...

  She grew angrier and angrier the more she thought about it. How was she going to defeat her and the mane 6...? She knew it would be hard to separate them, and an all out assault wouldn't work too, as she had just seen from her own eyes. She had to think of new ways to fight Luna and her pawns...and fast.

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  The afternoon had passed and the Lunar Republic now had its own small army. 180, to be exact, as Twilight counted. Of course they were still outnumbered by the Solar Empire, but they had the Solar Empire out powered. Ponyville was already hanging with signs of the Lunar Republic, serving to the small army their very own small base, much like how Celestia had Canterlot hanging with her own Solar Empire signs. Luna knew that news of them getting an army would soon reach Celestia, and she would strike down like lightning, leaving no prisoners alive. They had to have the first blood to show Celestia just how brave and prepared they were.

  Soon the army of the Lunar Republic was ready for battle, and the first fight for the Lunar Republic would soon begin...