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// Night Guard 
// Story: Who Killed Trixie? 
// by Amazed 
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Almost Two Years Ago-



Sugar Skull Journal:



I see the ruckus around the reserve guards, most new to the job, trying to decide how to go up to Canterlot and help the efforts against the Changelings. I put them in their place.

"Nopony will go up! Stay here! Nopony will go up!"

"C-captain Sugar Skull"

"The hay, you mess things up and we're the ones who have to clean it."

My squad starts to climb. There aren't many of us. The ground troop is made up of me, my deputy Lemon Grass and other eight earth ponies and unicorns. As the aerial backup, we have three bat-pegasi and two Shadowbolts. We don't need more, we're the Night Guard. We have our mission, and as our motto goes, a given mission is an accomplished mission. No matter what.

Most guards wear gold armor, but we wear black.

As we reached the Canterlot main plateau, we gave up our stealth tactics and made our presence known. In less than one minute, eight changelings learned the meaning of tough love. I mean, the ones who escaped our crossbows learned the lesson. The ones we got will not learn anything, never again. We set some citizens and members of the guard free, and that's what matters.

As we reload, I quickly notice our priority was a group of very important mares. Making our way through the invading army, we carefully circled the changelings, targeting the six young ladies.

Then it happened.

Lemon Grass did what I taught him to do. He did protect the Elements of Harmony. The problem was the enchantment we put on our crossbow arrows. They penetrate anything it hits, meaning the changelings we hit instantly died. In the end, Celestia's protégé was now covered in blood and brains of the dead changelings. This was enough to make the remaining bug-critters to scat. I will deal with political consequences later.

"Are you ladies injured?" 

They shook their heads.

"Are you physically hurt?"

Another negative. I pointed to a shadowbolt.

"Right. Please follow Descent here down to a safe place."

Twilight Sparkle, trying to clean the mess out of her face, stepped out.

"We can't. We must get the elements and avoid a carnage."

I tried to make her see the truth:

"The carnage is already happen-"

"Yes, yes, it's already happening, and only we can stop it from spreading. So captain, or whatever rank you are, please step aside."

I sighed. "Lemon Grass, please give Miss Sparkle your armor... the hay?"

The six mares were already galloping, full throttle, to a building nearby. "Descent, you and the other pegasi try and protect Miss Hero-of-the-day there. The others, follow me. Let's check on the Princess."





End of Flash Back