"WAKE UP UP UP YOU PIECES OF SHIT WAKE UP!"
He barely had time to react, he just jumped out of bed and fell flat on his face, that woke him up, he moaned in pain and got up standing in a military position beside the bed while he tried to reason what was going on.
He could only notice his superior with his silver armor entering his field of vision, looking specifically at him with a face of pure anger, today was going to be one of THOSE days.
"WHAT IS YOUR NAME MAGGOT??"
He snapped his thumb and squeezed it hard as he could, so as to not commit any action he would regret in the future.
"Flawless Arrow sir!"
The sergeant just gave an arrogant smile.
" 'Flawless Arrow' huh? Where ya are born comes with rainbows coming out of your ass soldier?!? DO YOU THINK YOU ARE SPECIAL?!"
He gritted his teeth hard, yes, it was a very spoiled name, but he did everything to honor it, he knew what the commander was doing, but he would not let him distract or irritate him.
"Sir no sir!"
The commander placed both of his hands on his back while looking him in the eye.
"I AM NOT A SIR! I WORK FOR A LIVING YA'BASTARD!"
He screamed at flawless arrow, spitting a little saliva in it with his screams, even so he did not come out of his military pose, the Commander would literally kill him if he did.
"YOU SHALL CALL ME COMMANDER!! COMMANDER SILVERHEAD, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME??!"
"YES COMMANDER!"
He responded by doing everything he could in his power to not lose his composure, the commander could be smaller than him, yet he was terrifying.
"What you are SOLDIER?"
"I'm just a guard sir! I'm a nobody!"
He nodded at him and started marching again between the beds while continuing to shout.
"EXACTLY! AS HE SAID, YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF NOBODY'S! JUST AN GROUP OF BUCKET HEADS!"
Flawless arrow only heard him walking away, his footsteps gaining a considerable distance, even so, his shouts practically continued in the same tone and volume.
"WHAT YOU ARE??!"
Several booming voices together that of Arrow shouted trying to keep up with the commander's tone.
"WE ARE THE CRYSTAL GUARD!"
"WHAT IS YOUR DUTY??"
"IS TO SERVE THE CRYSTAL THRONE!!"
A pause came on for a short time, until a huge noise of crash came in the barracks, as if someone were stepping on the floor with great force.
"WHO SITS IN THE CRYSTAL THRONE??"
"OUR GODDESS OF BEAUTY AND LOVE PRINCESS CADENCE!!"
"DAMN RIGHT, GET YOUR ARSES TO YOUR GUARDING POSTS!! HUT HUT!"
Quickly he stepped out of his position and ran to his closet, as he reached out and grabbed the lock and opened the wooden door, he removed his metal armor from the closet and quickly begin to place the pieces little by little on his body.
The armor was extremely heavy but very beautiful, it had pieces to put on all parts of the body and they could all be removed and put on easily, but that doesn't take away the fact that it takes time to do that.
He felt a tap on his shoulder, Arrow turned his head to see who had interrupted him while he changed his clothes. Arrow smiled at the greenish-blue Crystal pony next to him, it was his best friend, Hardwings.
"Damn, Scarface is pretty energetic today."
His smile widens while he put his gloves.
"No shit, but it's the beginning of the summer, so obviously he wouldn't wanna miss a chance to make an commotion about it."
His friend laughed while putting one piece of his silver boot.
"Ain't that the truth? My family is about to move to the capital in the next days."
He widens his eyes at this, but immediately he punched lightly the shoulder of his friend.
"NO FUCKEN WAY! You got the money??"
His friend laughed while passing his arms by his shoulder.
"YES! Our friend mayor decided that for my 'heroic deeds' I had to receive a reward!"
He rose an eyebrow at his friend as he ran his hand through the air with an expression of happiness.
"What? That chase against a couple of starving diamond dogs?"
His smile changed to a mocking one while he poked his friend's chest.
"The chase where you ran away!"
He just looked to the other side while he wrapped his arms around his chest and growled.
"I was calling help."
"You ran away!"
"I did not!"
"Yes, you did!"
"I did not!"
"MAGGOTS!"
Both of them almost had a heart attack and immediately looked with shocked expressions at the entrance door of the barracks where the shout came from, and there was the commander, with his authoritarian position, and he was NOT happy.
"I TOUGHT I ORDERED YOU TWO TO GO TO YOUR GUARDING POSTS WITH THE REST OF THE GROUP!"
Both entered a military position in response to the commander.
"SORRY COMMANDER!" both exclaimed with eyes closed in an attempt to hide their fear.
Both failed miserably.
"GET BOTH OF YOUR SORRY EXCUSE OF CRYSTAL ASSES TO THE GATES! DOUBLE TIME!"
"YES COMMANDER!"
Both of them wasting no more time on small talk, they both ran to finish dressing and stumble a little while running to their posts. Neither of them knew that in that exact day would mark a dark start for everyone in that village, and in the future, the entirety of Equestria.
He slowly marched from side to side, maintaining his serious expression while doing this above the gates, he had been like this for a long time, he had already lost track of time, but feeling the sun's rays on his skin he could say that it was already approaching midday.
Patrolling was very important and Flawless Arrow knew that, but it didn't take away the fact that it sucked. Marching for hours on end doing absolutely nothing but looking good and looking at your surroundings that never changed.
Yes, he already faced problems in his patrols, but they were always either half-mouthed muggers or bad bandits, and if he was unlucky, Diamond dogs would appear. Even though in recent months their number of attacks from mountainous regions have dropped to an absurd level.
Obviously it raised a lot of eyebrows, but each explanation is worse than the other, all diamond dogs died in some way without any explanation, another said that it was changelings that expanded in that area, obviously without any proof, and the most absurd of all explanations, it said that humans woke up from hibernation from a time before the solar crusade and that they started to expand, which he already thinks is absurd, how the hell would they hibernate? Monkeys don't have the ability to do such a thing, possibly runaway slaves?
Possible, but he couldn't believe it, the last rebellion was a massacre and it just proved to everyone that there was not an iota of chance for humans to achieve something like rebelling, they have no magic, that already makes them inferior in everything but strength, they were basically created to be workers and Celestia just took advantage of it.
"ARROW! ARROW!"
Shouts close to him would take him out of his thoughts, he would look ahead to see another guard waving at him.
"W-what?? What is it?" He asked baffled.
"Look! Someone is coming!" The other guard shouted, pointing to something further to his left.
He couldn't contain his wide-eyed expression in front of the gates.
A black hooded figure with a black cloak that covered his entire body slowly walked towards the gates. At first glance he didn't find anything interesting, as he was supposed to be just a lone traveler coming through the city.
But what surprised him was what was behind the hooded figure.
Camouflaged in the snow with their white armor and just visible to be seen by their neighbors and brands, a giant army accompanied him, and with the camouflage and snow it made it even worse, it was not possible to know how many could have been thousands and thousands!
And the flags that they carried, where unlike anything he had ever seen; the symbol was several layers of circles, first red, then black, and finally white, which surrounded a new layer of black, which contained more symbols that circled a black handle highlighted in black on another white layer.
And he then with a quick thought noticed, they did not mark clouds of smoke and dust on their march from afar because of the snow!
An unknown army marching right at them!!
In desperation, he ran to the bell close by his post and began to beat it desperately as he turned to his companion.
"CALL THE COMMANDER! HURRY! GO!"
Slowly the gates opened to reveal a contingent of crystal pony's with their iconic silver armor flanking what Vader deduced as a commander in his golden armor.
They marched towards him, they didn't show it, but many of them were terrified. The dark lord already knew about these types of warriors, they probably had never seen combat in their lives, thinking that the guard's job was just to maintain order and arrest bandits, and now an invading army was at their door.
He could not contain his smile under the helmet as they stopped in front of him, the commander even maintaining his air of authority could not hide the sweat that was running down his face, even so, he built up enough courage to walk away from the group and face Darth Vader.
"W-what's the meaning of this??" he loudly exclaimed at the cloaked figure which in return only tilted his head.
Before Darth Vader could say anything, one of his Supreme Majors would leave his battalion and march alongside his lord.
"Show some proper respect damn horse!" He roared under his helmet while hitting his spear hard on the ground, all the crystal guards just gaped at the black-line knight while his commander just fumed with it.
"Do you know who am i?? I am Prince Blueblood you damn barbarian! I demand respect!" The newly proclaimed 'Blueblood' would say puffing out his chest in pride, while the Major on Vader's side would seem to be more agitated by this.
Even so, the Dark Lord was silent, his interested was peaked in his Major's sudden outburst, and would love to see how far he would go just to defend his overlord.
"I say the same to you horned scum! You are in the presence of Lord Vader! Our Supreme Ruler! The protector of humanity!"
He roared and raised his spear in the air at the same time, while the army behind him who listened to everything in silence responded with their own roars of approval; hitting their spears on the ground in response, hitting their swords on their shields, and raising their muskets in the air.
The Prince and his guards took a few steps back with surprise with the roar from the army, yet he composed himself and took a few steps towards Vader with an arrogant smile.
"Really? Did a little monkey decide to name himself 'Lord'?" He asked with a laugh being followed be his guards.
The Warrior next to Vader took another step to threaten Princepe, but the Sith raised his hand with a signal for him to stop, which he hesitated a little but complied.
"Listen here you ape, your little joke of a title has left me in a good mood, and while you may have taken your grandiose title out of thin air and its legitimacy holds no weight to anypony but to you filthy apes. But on the other hand, I am the NEPHEW OF A GODDESS!", he said posing to show off.
"So I recommend you and your 'Army' to surrender back to their true owners and return those weapons and armor that are likely stolen, Beings like humans don't have enough brains to really-" He was not be able to continue his speech as he begun to stutter and suddenly choked on nothing, running his hand over his throat desperately in an attempt to find an invisible assailant and take off his hands from his throat.
And suddenly, to the shock and despair of their guards, and the major's smile beside Vader, he begun to float in the air while trying desperately to remove the invisible hand that raised him.
"Dear Prince, if there is one thing that I have no greater hatred than slavery is nepotism." Vader's muffled, metallic voice boomed to everyone around him as he kept his hand raised and clutched in the air, using the force to strangle him.
"Your false superiority will not work for me, nor your exaggerated grandiosity, I already know your type, who hide behind the conquest of others to increase their own image." The Sith said with rancor, he was not gonna not lie, he was very pleased to see the looks of despair and horror on his face.
"Still, everyone like you learns the hard way why I am have gained the title of Sith Lord." He sais as he squeezed his neck tighter, making him groan in pain.
"I became a Lord not because I am the blood of someone powerful, i became a lord because I AM POWER." With that sentence, he opened his palm and closed hard in the air, throwing the prince hard at the wall, making it go through the wood and creating a huge hole.
The Crystal guards looked at him in panic, while the human army cheered. Vader threw his rags aside and marched towards the desperate guards.
"Kill them all"