“Gee, I wonder why you decided to tag along on this?” I asked Sunset with a raised eyebrow as she trotted along next to me.
“What, inspecting the Solar Guard? Why in Equestria would I miss it?” she answered with a grin, “All those colts standing around at attention...”
I rolled my eyes, “So, how long was it since you saw Twilight?”
“...Couple of weeks,” Sunset sighed, “This long distance thing is getting a bit old to be honest. I really like her, but...”
I frowned slightly at her, “You know, you don’t need to stay in Canterlot. You could move to Ponyville.”
Sunset shook her head, “I have my entire life here now, and I’m not exactly a country pony,” she admitted before she shrugged, “And not like Twi would be less busy with me there. I might be able to see her every day for an hour or two, but… she is always doing her entire friendship thing.”
“I bet she would make time for you, Sunny. She's too smart to be stupid enough not to. It’s just that it takes almost a day on train to get to Canterlot.”
She nodded, “It’s a bit far.”
If I could only see Luna every couple of weeks… wow, that would suck.
I nodded and then hmmed before I smiled at her, “You know… I have an idea.”
Sunset blinked, “What?”
“Well… I’m pretty sure I can move ponies between dreams,” I said thoughtfully, “Me traveling between them is easy and pulling somepony along shouldn’t be too difficult. I should run it by Luna real quick before I do it, but in theory, I could let you and your ‘Twi’ meet up tonight.”
She gasped, “You can do that!?”
I nodded, “In theory? Yes. But I would have to stick around to keep you safe, I really don’t want to see what would happen to a non-dreamwalker if the dream collapses while you are in it.”
“Page, if you pull this off, I’ll kiss you!”
“Promises, promises,” I teased her.
She winked and then grinned, “Oh, and speaking of guards, the first round of recruiting for yours is finishing up. Plan is to end up at twenty or so after basic training.
“Well, at least you aren’t trying to recruit me an army.”
Sunset laughed, “There were a lot of applicants, you know.”
“Really?”
“Yep. We could pick and choose the best ones.”
“I didn’t expect that many,” I admitted, “I would have figured that most that wanted to join would have joined Celestia's or at least Luna's guard.”
Sunset shrugged a bit.
“Lord Page,” Captain Flamestrike said with a nod as I approached the parade grounds, “The Guard stands ready for your inspection.”
“Thank you, Captain,” I told him, “But to be completely honest, I’m not sure how this works,” I then admitted.
That got a grin from the unicorn, “There isn’t much of it to be honest, sir, mainly just walking along the lines and looking calm.”
I slowly nodded, “That I should be able to pull off.”
“I have full confidence in you, sir.”
Grinning I looked at Sunset, “See? That’s how you snark at a superior. Not whatever you are doing, you are way too obvious.”
“I’ll think about it whenever I find somepony superior,” Sunset said with a smile, “Like Princess Luna or Princess Celestia.”
“What, not Twilight?”
She grinned, “Oh, she is. But I don’t snark at her.”
“…Fair point,” I chuckled and rolled my eyes, “Come on, Sunny. Let’s go look at the shiny armor.”
“Make sure to tell me how the armor is,” Sunset teased, “I won’t be looking at it much.”
Somepony is in a mood today.
I facehoofed and looked at a patient looking Flamestrike, “See what I have to deal with?” I asked him, “Let’s get going before she gets started with the rest of her stand up comedy act. Trust me, it gets worse from here.”
“Yes sir,” he answered, sounding amused.
Nodding, I adjusted my cloak and Sunset quickly copied me, adjusting her own before we followed him outside.
Walking out into the bright sunlight I could see row after row of guardsmen lined up, armor shining in the light. Separated between earth ponies, unicorns and pegasi in blocks of five by five ponies.
With so many ponies, they weren’t identical. Close, but heights and builds were slightly different.
Taking a slight breath, I walked up along Captain Flamestrike, Sunset moving up next to me, her face serious and taking an air of looking slightly bored as she trotted along.
Let’s do this then.
Your Sunset is awesome.
thanks for the update!
Snarkset sniper
welp I just binge read all of it.
Gud stuff.
Moar
"What's your name soldier?"
"Private private enterprize!"
"Did you just stammer!?!"
"No sir that is just my name! Go ask doctor doctor!"
a fun chapter i like it.
if i had to guess i would say Sunset was in heat and or just needs to get laid.
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Nah, that's just Sunset being a hornball that hasn't seen her girlfriend in weeks.
This is why Sunset needs to go back to Equestria in canon.
Sunset needs to be captain of this Guard.
“Captain, is it necessary for you to watch us shower?”
“It is, soldier. Lather up, hygiene is important...dirty boy, you dirty dirty boy”
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One of my high school teachers got her doctorate and her last name was Dokter, so the students all started calling her "Dr. Dokter".
Careful page, I've read that bad things can happen from removing someone from their dream...
You know, Page could use his guard to look over all the Doomsday devices the Princesses have. Train them in the art of genre savvyness, then tell them to create special lookouts for each device, which you check over to see that it's up to your standards.
Maybe Page can add passwords for potential evil shapeshifters? Ooh, or a special unit comprised of changelings and ponies with a special talent for stealth as his black ops unit.
Damn, now I want my own guard.
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Don't worry. Updates don't take long.
He is a Captain of Trollestia's guard, of course he knows how to snark like a pro!
Is it just me, or did we just read about the cover picture of the story?
As said in my last comment: 8677227 Sunset "got a chuckle from me too. As always, thanks Hiver, your chapter has once again left me smiling." Seriously I am enjoying coming home to discover a new chapter to this story. Keep up the awesome work!
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And now we have clopfic material here
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She started it
Come to think of it, she also didn’t bat an eye lash when Page said he would have to be going along in here dream date.
(Processsing implications.)
“LUNA!? I can explain!”
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I think Luna would be either happy for him or laughing at his delivery.
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So you want them to take those doomsday devices and Secure, Contain, and Protect them, eh? Sounds familiar.
So true. The trick is to do it and have it shoot right over their head Sunset. It’s a fine art that takes much refinement.
Sunset, you troll. You're recruiting an all mare guard, aren't you? Aren't you?! And Page has no idea. Taking after your teacher, I think you are!
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But with 20, it's more like Page's "Dirty Score"
Yeah, there's a reason they don't... but I won't spoil the surprise
Sunset moral has been raised. Twilight might raise her tail as well
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You to me in the first part there, not gonna lie…
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I wonder if they perform war games to keep sharp.
Solar vs Solar & Solar vs Lunar. Perhaps even:
Pony vs Changelings.
I wonder if a Solarguard, a Nightguard or a Warmage would win in duel situations.
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I love the comment section 👍
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If we take Luna's comment seriously an actual warmage would win the duel against a solar and a lunar guard at the same time.
Wonder if the Griffon have occational war games with Equestria running. Or other nations.
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True, guard are trained to subdue non lethal without lasting injuries, while warmage take someone down hard. Make me dislike the royal guard titel. They are just guards in my eyes. Especially with some pretty badass royal guard stories in Fimfiction
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Don't know why, but that was awesome
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Trolling the guards, I totally see it happening