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I put my friend in a coconut! He lives in my hat!

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The Night Guard was once a highly regarded order, and joining the personal servants and defenders of Princess Luna herself was one of the most prestigious positions anypony in Equestria's armed forces could aspire to. Then the Princess of the Night had her little run-in with jealousy-induced insanity, and her subsequent banishment left the Night Guard in a bit of an awkward position.

Fortunately, the fact that the Night Guard was not really needed anymore never seemed to occur to anyone, and now, a thousand years later, the order is still just sort of... there. However, after centuries of neglect and a complete lack of supervision, the Guard barely resembles a military organization anymore.

Some unquestioning military bureaucrats apparently still take care of pay and hiring, and every now and then, new recruits arrive with purpose in their step and stars in their eyes, convinced that service with the Guard will allow them to achieve great things. But while those hopes unavoidably end in disappointment these days, recruits tend to acknowledge soon enough that the current state of the Guard does have its perks.

The only thing that could possibly ruin this cushy little job would be the return of Princess Luna. But it's been centuries since she was banished, and really, at this point, what are the odds of that ever happening?
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A little just-for-fun side project I did a while ago over a pretty short period of time.
Be warned, within this tale you will find:
- references to excessive alcohol consumption
- juvenile and cringeworthy innuendo
- shenanigans
May also contain trace amounts of bat ponies.

Expertly proofread and edited by the hawk-eyed, diligent, and just all around [insert positive adjective of your choice] 0_0.

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Comments ( 31 )

The Description alone warrants this a automatic like from the images of the possibilities it puts in a persons head

This is perfect in so many ways it's not even funny. Rather than bothering to try and express this adequately, I'm just going to hit those little buttons shaped like a star and an eyeball.

So...Derpy is Pinkie now?

Okay, I'll buy that.

This promises to be very entertaining. I'll be keeping an eye on this story.

Quickly, before this story updates, we have to put forward our version of what Luna in this story will be like. The more hilarious, the better.

We could always get stereotypical Gamer!Luna, who recruits the batponies into being her wingponies in multiplayer games (assuming they get a connection all the way out there).

Or she could be some sort of hardcore military sergeant, fighting the slapstick attitudes of these podunkian batponies. I foresee something like this (warning: foul language).


On that note, Derpy is learning from Pinkie Pie? Would explain her awesome antics in this chapter.

:derpyderp1::pinkiehappy:

I vote that Luna be a mix of like her *new forming Gamer self* after all she has not been back very long yet so she still both in her filly form learns about games ,and stuff, and a fading military sergeant self.:scootangel: P.S. and a Prankster she is after the former bearer of the element *Laughter*!!:pinkiehappy: Also was the former bearer of the elements loyalty and honesty as well! :ajsleepy::rainbowlaugh:

Ok, funny as hell. I really like the conscription at the end. Plz write more!

How is this still in the grey? How has this not gotten enough likes to show the count? THIS IS BLASPHEMY! >:[

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Oh, now worries there. More is coming, in fact, this particular story is already finished. There are two more chapters coming up shortly, I just wanted to spread it out a bit. Glad you're having fun so far.

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Ha :rainbowlaugh: Now that you mention it, Derpy is approaching Pinkie levels of reality manipulation here. But the main idea was to let the Derpster catch a little break. Whenever she shows up in a story (or the show, because amazingly, that's a thing again :derpytongue2:) she has a tendency to mess things up for everyone around her. So I still made her ditzy enough to essentially break reality, but somehow, it all works out in her favor.

I totally love the balance of humour and seriousness in this chapter. Well writen

With a bored expression on her face, Moonlight Sonata looked at the members of the Night Guard hurrying out of the room. “Ah well. Guess we'll have to find another place to crash,” she said to Starlit Sky.

Sky had already stood up and was about to follow her comrades. She looked at Moonlight Sonata, and over the course of about ten seconds, her expression changed from surprise into anger, then disgust, before finally settling on resignation.

“You know, Sonny,” Sky sighed, “I really don't think this is working out anymore.”

Moonlight Sonata frowned. “Huh... bummer.”

YAY!:yay:

Since she was paying absolutely no attention to where she was headed while this was going on, the corridor predictably chose that exact moment to make a sharp right turn, and Shade crashed face-first into the wall.

Man, I love your use of language right here.

I suppose Luna banishing the guards to the guard chambers would already be a big punishment on its own. No more baths with at least two hundred jet streams :trollestia:

I don't know why, but I'm seeing Moonlight Sonata as some sort of deep cover agent just by her general attitude and snarkiness, annoyed at how easygoing and irresponsible the Night Guard has been, to the point she was able to get in as a supposed civvy. She could be a higher-up looking to see the conditions of the palace and reporting it back to the regular army, and Luna could be quite aware of what the palace is like already.

Dan

Batpony is love <3

As someone who has an OC called Starlight Sonata, Moonlight has only been bringing shame to the Sonata name. It's about damn time she was sent packing.

He shot a baffled look at Shadow Charger, who was still busy coughing up water. “I actually think he has the power to make you dumber just by listening to him.”

Now I wonder what that cutie mark would look like...

No,No,NO,NO,No This must continue. this is to good of a start to stop here. The adjustment of this sort of an F troop is a laugh fest just waiting to happen. Not to mention what sort of a sneaky op they would pull on the Solar Guard.

I really enjoyed this story. And I hope that you will come back to it often. I really liked the various characters and am looking forward to their growth. :pinkiehappy:

...I will let Bardock speak for me on my feelings on this fic already being done.

And what an enjoyable ending was. I had sort of expected Swift Shade to keep the Night Guard around for a few days longer to clean the place up a little bit better, though, so there wouldn't be quite as much of a disaster for the cleaning crew to encounter :pinkiecrazy:

it's generally frowned upon to pick your nose with your spear

This fic had a lot of great lines.

NO!!!! I want to read more !!:twilightsheepish:

To bad it ended here. I were starting to really enjoy the characters of this story!

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Oh boy! :pinkiehappy:

Let's see, we have...

request for sequel... request for sequel... :rainbowhuh: request for sequel paired with threats of violence and dismemberment... request for sequel...

Note to self:
- write sequel
- put additional locks on door

Really awesome work here <3

Well I really enjoyed reading this from start to finish so have a like and fave and a :moustache:

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Loved it. Wish to see these characters some more

Loved it. Wish to see these characters some more

I like this story! :rainbowlaugh:

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