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// First Assignments 
// Story: The Equestrian Civil War. 
// by Grandore 
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Chapter 5: First Assignments.


It was late when Thunder Flash was called into meeting. He walked in to find his squad waiting for him. Pinkie Pie was waiting eagerly, two other ponies with her, both were Unicorns. Luna stepped out from the shadows and greeted all of the ponies with a smile as they bowed. “Please stand, I wish to have you all greeted and ready to move by dawn.” Luna said and motioned for them to stand. “P.A.R.T.Y squad, you consist of,” She began by pointing to Pinkie and continued on, “Pinkie Pie, Vinyl Scratch, Flim, and Thunder Flash.” Thunder Flash looked at the white pony with the mixture of blue mane, and the yellow stallion with a red and white mane. They went on to greet each other and turned to Luna when she cleared her throat. “Your first assignment,” she motion to the map on the wall behind them, putting her hoof on the circle with the label ‘Ponyville’, “Is to set a perimeter around Ponyville. Everything that goes in or comes out must be recorded.” With that the squad was dismissed, and they soon later were leaving the camp in the Everfree, wearing armors of different types. Pinkie was wearing a light cloth-like armor, metal protecting her chest, and back. Thunder Flash was wearing light metal, same of what Luna’s Pegasus guard wore, the metal was red and the trim was blue. Vinyl scratch and Flim, however, refused to wear armor. They continued on through the Everfree and made a camp at the boarder of Ponyville.
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“Get set, We’re moving!” Grandore said as he slammed the door open. “Celestia gave us our first mission.” He said as he threw on his new cloak, a white silk cloak with gold trim and the emblem of The Solar Empire on it.

“What, already?” Archmane said, sitting up looking at his mentor. He soon found himself throwing his Solar Empire cloak on too. “We just got together, and we’re being sent out?”
“It’s about time! I was getting bored up in this tower!” Silverspeed said, putting on her light Pegasus armor.

“What’s the assignment?” Octavia said, walking up to Grandore, already wearing her armor, her weapons and a bag were strapped to her back.

“Celestia is sending us to Ponyville, we are to set up a series of wards around the perimeter so the mages can build a protective bubble around Ponyville, like they’ve done here.” He said, pointing out the window. When the ponies looked out the window they noticed that the sky was yellow, and soon noticed that it was a shield, not the sky itself. “We are to move immediately.” Grandore said as he walked out the door, the ponies following him. They found themselves flying out of Canterlot on a chariot.