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// Boot Camp 
// Story: Equestria Needs Saviors 
// by DashyJ 
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"OH Please don’t tell me we have to live in... THERE!" Wined Rarity. As the mane six were escorted to their military quarters by a handful of guards. It was true, The cabin that the mane six would be staying in kind of sucked, even by Applejack's standards. It was run down, saggy in spots and even had a few holes in the roof. The inside of the cabin consisted of three rooms. The tiny bathroom, (Which they would all have to learn to share, mostly to Rarity's dismay.) A living quarters where the heat would be coming from: A fire stove. And then there was the sleeping quarters all in the same room. This had emitted "The worst possible thing!" from Rarity a number of times.

"We'll I aint complainin, but why in the world did the princess assign us this to this cabin?" Applejack asked her eyebrows raising walking towards the guards, somewhat intimidating the them. Applejack is the biggest pony of the mane six, almost reaching the size of the standard male guard. Plus she's and Earth Pony, and Earth Ponies have untold strength.

The guards who were either brave enough, stupid enough, or were rookies had followed them to their so called house. It was just the two rookies in the end. To all of the guard: Lunar or Solar alike, escorting The Elements Of Harmony was like escorting the Two eternal sisters themselves. They wielded untold power and were not only respected  for that, but feared. Now almost on their haunches, one of the bolder rookies (Who was still trembling beneath his armour.) Nervously replied. "Th-The princess, thought it would help further your training miss! You honestly d-don't expect to be living in a mansion if you are fighting things like Widego's.

"Yes thank you sirs. you are dismissed." Twilight said giving a look to her friends that told them not say anything. The guards bowed their heads out of fear and respect of the mane six (maybe not Rarity but all them same... Mostly.) 

"Oh just one more thing." The guard said quickly as he was leaving the doorway, obviously afraid to carry out his next order. "Youarenottofixyourhouseinanywayshapeorformgottagobye!" 

There was a long silence among the six friends. Rarity's left eye couldn't stop twitching.

"I don’t think It’s all that bad girls." Commented Fluttershy after the guards had left breaking the strange silence. "When I crashed down from Cloudsdale I had nowhere to live, until Rainbow Dash found me three days later." 

This caused a blush from Rainbow. Fluttershy didn’t know it, but those three days were the loneliest days of Rainbow's life. Fluttershy had been her only true friend when they were kids, all the others were either massive jerks like Skyscraper and his gang, or were drama queens who hated her because she was better than them. Always.

Applejack saw her opportunity to give her input, if Fluttershy was brave enough to break the silence the least she could do was keep the conversation going. Moral was going to be needed, and Celestia knows how much Rarity is going to fussy things up in the first while.

"Well heck, it aint gonna be as bad as livin in the barn when me and Big Mac had to rebuild our house from the Parasprites a while back." Applejack said re-enforcing Fluttershy's point, also hoping to build some much needed moral for the days to come.

Rarity would have none of it though, all she could do was hyperventilate. Rarity wasn’t going to make it easy for her friends. 'Hopefully Celestia will Straighten that out...' They all thought it, but none dare say it.

"This is going to be a long two months of boot." Commented Twilight flatly. 

"Just wait until our SPECIAL ELEMENTAL training!" Chirped Pinkie. That meant an extra four months of training... Everypony thought. Pinkie was actually excited for her special training She is after all the element of laughter, and what could be more fun than spreading that?

Twilight was right though, the next six months of training are going to be the hardest thing they have ever experienced, or so they thought...





The sound of DJ Pon3's Dubstep came literally erupting from the morning speakers. Actually no. This Music was blasting an hour before dawn. Vinyl Scratch was now a huge sensation all across Equestria after the Gala, and The Royal Wedding only further increased her popularity. And APPARENTLY she was such a sensation that her music had actually reached the Eternal sisters ears. Specifically Luna's. Apparently she liked this song alot. seeing as how the past week it was played and hour before dawn, at ear splitting volumes.

The First month had been mostly intense workouts and lectures in the morning from four in the morning, until, nine in the morning. 

For the Unicorn's it was mostly magical strengthening. It started with magic dumbbells, bench presses, and all the work outs from the base of the horn to the tip. The longer and wider the Unicorn horn the stronger the magic is. The weights enchanted by Princess Celestia herself, of course. A magic weight was the equivalent to 5 times the amount of weight, of any normal weight for an item. So if it were 5 pounds in magic, it was truly 25 pounds, greatly increasing any unicorns strength with holding items in Telekinesis. Celestia had taken on teaching the unicorns for the morning magic workouts. Twilight was much Stronger than Rarity was in Every magic field, even if this was Rarity's strongest current field of magic. Five hundred magical pounds was Twilight's maximum curling power, and 235 for Rarity, at the beginning of the week Twilights maximum was 350 magical pounds and Rarity's was 100, quite an improvement by the end of the week. After that, Celestia tested their endurance with spells. Magic makes you tired mentally and physically very quickly, and that just can happen on the battle field. Then basic weapon enchantments, and how to use a weapon with magic. After that it was lectures about magic, until breakfast at nine.

For the Pegasi, Luna had taken them under her wing. (Figuratively.) They would be doing wing push ups or an hour every morning, then stretching for half an hour. After that were speed tests, with lead armour placed on them. It would take two Pegasi guards to lift the chest piece alone with their wings. This certainly was something very difficult for Fluttershy, seeing as how she wasn’t very strong to begin with. For Rainbow it wasn’t the weight of the lead armour that bothered her, it was the movements she was restricted to. By the end of the week they both had seemed to get used to it, sort of... After two hours of endurance runs without the armour, it was an hour of flight wrestling, and wing sword fights with the Wonderbolts. For an hour every day Rainbow was in heaven, and she had learned that she didn't need to show off anymore in front of them seeing as how she beat Soarin in 10 seconds flat. Fluttershy never won or lost a match, even against even Soarin or Spitfire, she was just too agile for them. It looked like the Wonderbolts had some major competition. And after the four and a half hour work out it was lecture time with Luna, Of course Luna and Rainbow just got into random conversations about flying after about an hour, so it was nice and peaceful for Fluttershy. Sure they learned things, but four and a half hours of lectures weren't all going to sink in to any Pegasi mind like Rainbow Dash's.

And for the earth ponies it was actually involving small amounts of magic as well. For the first hour Pinkie and Applejack Learned about manipulating the earth, it was fairly simple, all you had to do was become one with the earth in a mindset. After that it was heavy lifting, sprints, and how to use swords and hammers in the mouth without completely blinding yourself. It was harder than it looked, especially for Applejack the swords they made were so small and light she seemed to specialize in the heavier weapons like great swords, and war hammers. Pinkie was very good with the dagger, those clunky swords just weren't how she rolled anyways.

After that, they would have a two hour break for breakfast and some rest.

Next was skirmishes with on another first: Unicorn vs. Unicorn (which really wasn’t fair for Rarity.) Pegasus vs. Pegasus (which wasn’t fair for Fluttershy.) And Earth Pony vs. Earth pony (Who were evenly matched most of the time.) After that it was Merged combat, This gave Fluttershy and Rarity a better chance to learn combat without being completely smooshed in the first ten to fifteen seconds. In the end The list of successors went like this: Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie, Fluttershy (who actually fought savagely) And then Rarity at the bottom, apparently her representation for the Element of Generosity, was so great she had allowed her friends to win every fight.

The first two weeks in the second month of boot was more mental training, and boy did it get personal. Apparently according to Shining Armour Who personally taught this class along with a Unicorn pony named Dr. Mind Sweeper, brother's and sister's in arms should know everything about their comrades, their personal life, their want's, belief’s and fears. EVERYTHING. Also in this time they were taught how to utilize their dream, harvest them even. While sleeping the mane six could manipulate their dreams how ever they pleased, unless... Something else was more experienced in dreamscaping, then they could manipulate their dreams. The Elements of Discord were definitely among those few, but Discord would have to be free, and in full power or the Elements of Discord to be present.

As uncomfortable as all this sharing was, Luna and Celestia had moved the mane six out of the run down cabin, into some royal living quarters for their psychological training. So they all had their own living quarters again, the only down side was that this attracted media attention, and that’s not what they went there for. 

By the last week of boot Luna and Celestia had taken three Elements each to brief them on their next segments of training.

Luna would take Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie. While Celestia took Twilight, Rarity and Applejack. Boot was a breeze. Or at least that’s what Luna and Celestia told them...