Purple was home where he was eating breakfast where he placed scrambled eggs with cheddar cheese onto a plate.
Purple ate in peace and after he got done eating breakfast he went to brush his teeth, made his bed and did the dishes.
***
Canterlot, Equestria.
In a dark, cavernous room filled with rows and rows of consoles with monitors, radar scopes, and other sorts of Technology.
"Here link this," Said Purple when he put a piece of paper down between two Equestrian Army Communications Specialists who were on a switchboard due to their switchboard operators.
***
In his office.
Purple picked up the phone on the black rotary dial phone.
"Mares and gentlecolts the victory has been set in stone," Said Purple, "The Navy has cut off those rebels on the island, the air force has complete control of the airspace and the Army is moving and capturing the rebel positions swiftly."
Admiral Morning Squall Storm replied, "Lieutenant-General Purple. The rebels have coastal batteries that are wreaking havoc at the landing sites."
"Admiral, take the initiative damn it. The fleet you're in command of has forty destroyers, seventeen light cruisers, fifteen heavy cruisers, five battlecruisers, eight battleships, four super heavy battleships, three frigates, five submarines and two submarine tender ships. Order the ships to provide support. You're a Fleet Admiral, you should know this!" Said Purple.
Sunny Day replied, "Purple should I start converting some civilian factories to military factories?"
"No it's fine," Said Purple, "You can go Mrs. Sunny Day-Storm."
Commander Thunderbolt replied, "Lieutenant-General Purple the Airforce have taken complete control of the air space over the island but I got the Wonderbolts breathing down my neck about me not using them but I did reminded them of a few members of the Wonderbolts trapped by Spike when he grew up rapidly due to greed."
"Excellent, we'll have those rebels on the island who have nowhere to run and we'll soon rescue Free Flyer and bring her home. I knew this mission for her was too big for her but she insisted."
Purple then hung up the phone thing.
***
In the Guardian training facility.
"Purple I spoke with Head Guardian Sapphire," said Master Shi. "She said and I agree with her that if you hurt one more Reserve Guardian then we would have you removed from the fighting training."
Purple rolled his eyes not caring about it but he got into the ring and the other two Reserve Guardians were nervous to fight Purple. But when the match started he didn't move he just sat there. They cautiously approached him and it turns out it's just a hologram, just an illusion of him.
"Right behind you," said Purple before he knocked them both out painfully.
Even though he was warned not to seriously injure them he still did it anyway because he envisioned what he wanted to do to his brother, sister, nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, uncles, and everypony else in his family minus Princess Twilight because the rest they just hate Purple and there's no way for him to ignore them they're in every Equestrian cities and towns.
Purple was kicked out of the training center because he was warned and didn't take heed and got kicked out for it.
***
At home.
Purple went to his bedroom and slid out of his old army foot locker and sat on it.
The top part says "ARTIST, PURPLE EQS ARMY."
"Nothing but a friend's killer and just trauma that I can't talk about," said Purple. "I know what Jackpot and Scrumptious would be doing if they were alive. Jackpot and his bat pony girlfriend they would've raised a beautiful filly and he would've wanted to open a nightclub or something to get away from his abusive parents and abusive brothers. Scrumptious would've worked in a boring nine to five job alongside with his father. I would've become a full time civil servant and me and Scrumptious would've gotten girlfriends and all three of us would've gotten married and had foals of our own. But they're dead and have been dead for almost twenty-one years but it feels like yesterday for me... Can't move on it feels like yesterday for me."
Purple then picked up his military sidearm which was on his nightstand but he just stared at it for a while before putting it back. Then he climbed into bed to take a nap.
***
Twenty- years ago, October 26th, Purple's twentieth birthday.
While at base Purple was staring off at a distance. His friend Jackpot asked on what's on his mind.
Purple just told him that he's fine. Jackpot then nudged him and said. "Afraid of dying single? Afraid of dying a virgin? It's never too late for you to get laid and for you to plant a foal into a mare."
"Dude! Come on. I may be a stallion," said Purple Artist, "But I'm not like you and Scrumptious of wanting to have sex all the time. I'm not a pig like you two!"
While walking on a farm Scrumptious and Purple were having a heated argument. Scrumptious was telling Purple that Scrumptious's sweet mother is a nice and very kind mare but he isn't going to bang her.
Scrumptious asked on why not. Purple told her on how would Scrumptious would like a half brother or sister and what if Purple gets Scrumptious's mother pregnant with his foal or foals.
"Good point," said Scrumptious, "Just saying she also treats you like a son. She'll do anything to keep you happy as if she birthed and took care of you as well as if you were her son."
"Uh, guys." said Jackpot Star, "Will you two shut the hell up!"
Jackpot then turned around to see Purple punching Scrumptious, knocking him down in one punch. Jackpot then turned around only to get shot in the head, killing him instantly.
"NOOOOO!" said Scrumptious.
Scrumptious got up and charged the pony that killed Jackpot stabbing the pony in the neck. Scrumptious was shot by another pony which ended up in his stomach so he scurried back. He took his rifle and shot the bad pony.
"I'm sorry Pur-" said Scrumptious with his final breaths.
"F-Flavor Wings!" Yelled Purple Artist.
Ten Equestrian Commandos galloped to them but nine of them stopped in their tracks and a mare pegasus just casually walked up. She asked Purple what happened while he was on his butt sitting down.
Purple told her what happened.
Flavor Wings got up and lied to the other commandos that he didn't see anything and he got there a minute before he yelled for them.
***
Modern day.
Purple jumped out of bed with his heart racing and he had a look of worry on his face.
"Been having the same fucking dream every night of what happened," said Purple, "Can't get it off my chest because whoever I tell the truth would be killed by a military assassin and whoever knew the truth will know until all who knows the truth dies. Everypony knows the lie and the ones who know the truth aka me and Flavor Wings we will know the truth until she dies then I die. Honestly I don't even know why I go to two therapists because the problems I go to talk to them about I can't talk about it and if I do then I would have to kill them and if I don't then a military assassin would kill them and raze the apartment and office if I don't kill them if I said anything to them about my military service."
***
Los Unicornia, Equestria.
Purple was walking on a sidewalk in the district of Luna Bluffs and he approached a nice fancy narrow house and he knocked on the door on the second floor.
"Purple? What are you doing here?" asked Purple's therapist.
Purple replied, "I've been having trouble sleeping Doc."
The therapist was non-binary with the body of a mare allowed Purple to come in and had him sit down while the therapist went and got a number two pencil and a legal notepad and sat in a rolling leather chair across from Purple.
"Okay Purple, tell me what's been haunting your dreams," said Purple's therapist.
Purple replied, "My military experience has been haunting me. What I can tell you legally is that I was doing assassinations, intelligence gathering, Reconnaissance, sabotage, and search and rescue. I did things I'm not proud of, I said things to my close best friend before he died on my twentieth birthday and what I said he probably died thinking I hated him."
"And you wish you could go back in time to apologize before he died?" asked Purple's therapist.
Purple nodded while shedding a tear. "And I made a promise to my adoptive mother which I never fulfilled."
Purple's therapist replied, "Which was?"
"I promised her that I would've gotten married and give her a lot of grand foals," said Purple, "Yeah I was married for fourteen months but only reason Alitidy and I broke up because she's the leader of Stalliongrad and I'm Equestria Prince of the Military. But I did promise my adoptive mom she would have some grand foals. But I'm just a forty, almost forty-one year old broken shell of my former self."
Purple's therapist replied, "There are a lot of mares out there for you to choose."
"From twenty-three to forty I've been on nine hundred and thirty eight dates and all of them were rejections and half of them got pregnant by my brother or another stallion in my family and they came crawling back looking for a baby daddy," said Purple. "My brother and every member of my family was right that I'm unlovable. I should've died a long time ago either as a stillbirth, as a miscarriage or died during the war. There was only one mare who I did love and she got married when I was in the Army but when I assaulted her husband for partying with another mare she hates me and refuses to talk to me and I haven't talked to her in seventeen years."
Purple's therapist replied, "You are who you are and there's no point in arguing and fighting with yourself about it. Your past, what you did, you did a lot of bad things."
"When I came out of the army I said that 'I sure as hell ain't going to make the same mistakes as my family. I'm going to get on my hooves, get a place of my own and punch a clock ain't going to do it'. I dreamed of money, a mare, foals, freedom, and what that but I was living in constant fear, and the blood of my friends."
After half an hour passed Purple's session was over and he went back to Canterlot and either was in his office in Canterlot Castle or in the Equestrian War Department in a conference room next to the war room or in a boardroom with four glass windows, two doors, five big screens, a podium, and a conference table with ten chairs. He stared at the clocks which under them had names of cities of other countries and the cities are Canterlot, Los Unicornia, Manehattan, the city of Crystal Empire, Griffonstone, Stalliongrad, and Farsari.
***
At Princess Luna Park
Purple sat under a tree wearing dark olive green pants, a dark green t-shirt and a dark olive green over-shirt well he's wearing his dark olive green combat uniform that has a Fairbairn-Sykes knife patch on both sides with the words "AIRBORNE" on both sides and both sleeves have the rank of Sergeant.
"Look at this," said Scrumptious.
The ghost of a mint green pegasus with forest green mane and tail came with a bullet hole in his torso around the central stomach area. A ghost of a charcoal unicorn stallion with dark black mane and tail came with a bullet hole in his head.
"Look at this the bulletproof, explosive proof, and unkillable and the impenetrable Purple," said the ghost of Jackpot.
"Will you two leave me alone please?" said Purple, "You two are dead and you two can rest in peace."
Jackpot replied, "I never got a chance to meet my daughter in person because of you."
"I didn't force you two to follow me into the military!" snapped Purple, "You two followed me! It's my fault for you two dying but I didn't hold a gun to you two heads to follow me into the military so it's 50/50! Can you two please stop?"
Scrumptious replied, "This is not your stop. There's more road ahead."
"Private Sapphire Breeze, Private Starry Swirl, Private Nimble Force, Private Midnight Hoof, Private Little Harmony," said Jackpot, "O.I.M Agent Pearl 'Bubblegum' Petunia, Private Mythic Strike, Private Orchid Fire, Private Onyx Armor, Private Hazelblossom, Private Thunderbolt Lighting, Corporal Ironclad, Sergeant, Shadowstep, Staff Sergeant Frostbite, Sergeant Major Razorback, Warrant Officer Nightshade, Captain Stormchaser, First Lieutenant Blaze, Second Lieutenant Blitz, Major Warlock, Lieutenant-Colonel Avalanche, Colonel Eclipse, Sergeant Thunderchild, First Sergeant Viper, Sergeant First Class Fronstbite II, and Specialist Pyro. All of them you offered friendship and protection."
Jackpot and Scrumptious said in unison, "But they aren't not here either!"
"Do you think I want to keep living?!" said Purple, "Every operation I've done after you two died I was hoping on whatever mission I did next would've killed me! Oh going to land on a heavily defended beach where the defenders have anti-personnel mines, anti-armor mines, eight machine gun bunkers, dual purpose anti-air/anti-tank cannons and artillery not adding snipers. Oh let's kill the ponies who are only eighteen, and nineteen years old but not the twenty four year old Lieutenant-General! All the medals I have I want to throw them into a fucking volcano with the annoying pony named Pinkie Pie! I am waiting for death and unlike everypony else who's afraid of death and don't want to die I'm the fucking opposite! You two don't know what it's like to tell a couple that their son, daughter, transgender or non-bi child ain't coming home!"
Scrumptious replied, "How long, if not permanent summer?"
"I can handle Hell, I can handle the summer," said Purple.
Princess Twilight was nearby and she saw that Purple was talking to himself but she went over to him and asked if he was okay and he told her that he's fine.
***
At night.
"So Purple how have you been?" asked Princess Twilight.
Purple replied, "Fine I went to my therapist earlier. Didn't talk about my military experience which causes me trouble because if I did I would've had to kill my therapist or a military assassin would've killed my therapist and razed the place to erase all evidence of me saying about what I did. I swear if I get paired up with Pinkie and if she gets on my nerves then Grilled Cheese would be a widow and Lil Cheese would be motherless."
"Pinkie is going to be Pinkie. Killing her won't be better," said Princess Twilight.
Purple replied, "And I was trained how to kill or pacify somepony! And Pinkie is on the same list as the rest of my family. That list? The kill list and I find Pinkie Pie more annoying than a foal crying! I find Rainbow Dash as cocky who doesn't know when to shut up, Rarity is fashion obsessed, Fluttershy is shy and can't always stand up for herself and when she does she unintentionally hurts her friends, and you, you always more or less turn the other cheek to villains who say they reform yet you had Tierk, Chrysiallis and Cozy Glow who came and bit you in the ass more or less refusing friendship. Applejack? She's stubborn but that's normal for some country ponies."
Purple ate his Mac and Cheese and extra cheesy pizza in silence and took his dinner to a balcony. After dinner he just went to bed at home in the middle of nowhere with his military sidearm pointed right at him.