//------------------------------// // The new team & new position // Story: Commando Artist // by PurpleArtist //------------------------------// Eighteen years later, Prince Purple is a forty-year-old prince who's still single and hasn't had a date since he and Altidiya were married. Even though the two are divorced the two keep in contact but don't want to get back in a relationship. Unknown to Prince Purple and that is when Altidiya first came to Equestria the two tried again to have a foal. She never told him that he has a daughter she happily named "Sapphire Sketching Pad" or "Sketching Pad" for short. "Come on." said Princess Twilight, "Time to go. You'll see your crush talk again." Prince Purple got up and followed Princess Twilight and the two went to some kind of village that's in the middle of nowhere. "Where are we?" asked Prince Purple, "Is this a romantic thing you set up for me and Sapphire Rose? Somewhere nice and quiet where we won't get disturbed?" "No." said Princess Twilight, "But your crush will be here. Alright Purple just walk over there and be with those other ponies." Prince Purple Artist did standing behind a small mare but Purple wasn't sad but happy. Prince Purple heard his lover speak and announced each Guardian for the Gates of Equestria. Prince Purple wasn't exactly wasn't happy when he was chosen to be a Reserve Guardian which he was sad but knew why because there's always need somepony to be in the reserves. Prince Purple actually wanted to know on who are the other Reserve Guardians are but thought that they'll be known if he has to work with them. He just hopes he doesn't have to work with Pinkie Pie who can't take no for a answer. Since his Twenty-Eight birthday Pinkie Pie been throwing him birthday parties but his birthday is his sad day not because he's getting a year older but his mother was killed where Azure Blue Sapphire's husband came to Canterlot to kick Prince Purple's butt. He couldn't because when he saw Prince Purple he had seven Royal Guards with him not adding that Prince Purple could easily defeat him. So he went and murdered Purple Artist's and Princess Twilight Sparkle's aunt and uncle who raised Prince Purple, his sister Blue and brother Base as there own. Doesn't help that he murdered them on Prince Purple's birthday. After the Guardians were chosen Prince Purple missed his chance of asking Sapphire Rose out on a romantic date because he decided to go back to Canterlot Castle. "Princess." said Prince Purple, "I don't want to invade on your personal and private life not adding I'm not invading your privacy but where did you go earlier?" Princess Twilight told him that she visited his secret lover well he knows on who she is. It wasn't long but she gotten a so called "Sneak peak" of so called Guardians. "Maybe when you two get together." started Princess Twilight, "Maybe Sapphire can tell you more because I'm not going to spoil on what little I know and maybe we'll find out more as the days go." "Got it." said Prince Purple, "I've been thinking that she won't go out with me for reasons." Princess Twilight asked on what reasons? "She might not like me." said Prince Purple, "She might not want to have the responsibilities of a princess. She could be cursed and her curse that she got to roam Equestria for all eternity so if she does get into a relationship she'll outlive her spouse and foals. She could be Bisexual or Homosexual but I do love her. Just saying but if we were married or dated I would do anything to keep her safe and do everything and then some to love & cherish her. I don't give a darn if she is cursed or not. I would do anything to be with her!" Princess Twilight retold Prince Purple to go and tell her on how much he loves her. Again Prince Purple told her he's nervous as heck. "What if she's cursed?" said Prince Purple, " What if her curse what if it's she finds love then she dies?" Princess Twilight told him it's nonsense. Princess Twilight also told him that she's 67% sure that Sapphire Rose would love him and she'll tell him anything that she'll be comfortable with. Prince Purple then sighed where he's getting tired. "Well if she is Immortal." said Princess Twilight, "I was reading some books in the Forbidden Library here in Canterlot and found a spell to make ponies immortal. So if that's the case then I can make you be along with her. Do you love her on who she is?" Prince Purple told Princess Twilight that he'll love her for who she is and he won't care if she has anything wrong with her and he'll be with her if they do date. While walking back to his room Prince Purple was picked on by his twelve different Royal Guards who picked on him. Not adding that he isn't married and haven't father a heir or heirs yet. Even though his guards are married and have families or just have a foal or some before they were between twenty-five to thirty. Prince Purple wants to fire them or dismiss them or give them to his cousin. But it says in black and white that Royalty needs some form of protection and Guards to defend them. Only pony he wants is Sapphire Rose so he could date, love, cherish, then propose to her, marry her and love her. While sitting on his bed Prince Purple was sketching a open field at sunrise and there was a knock on the door. The forty years old placed down the sketching pad and opened the door to see it's Princess Twilight and she wants to talk to him. "Prince." said Princess Twilight, "If you want I can use that spell if you want so you can be immortal like me and my friends. If you want to? It'll change your DNA so there's an 25% chance of your foals will be immortal. So do you want it? Think about it and get back to me when you thought about it." Prince Purple had a gold bit in his hoof and flipped it doing "Heads or Tails" with Heads being he tells Princess Twilight to make him fully immortal. If it's tails being he politely declines of him living out the rest of his life for the remaining 960 years. It landed on heads so he wrote down that he wants to be immortal, not semi-immortal but he'll see ponies come and go. Tomorrow afternoon in a hallway. Prince Purple was with his cousin Princess Twilight and she asked how he was on this rainy day. "Fine." said Prince Purple, "Had another dream of that lovely mare that we were married but we tried to have a foal and each time it didn't happen. So we went to the doctor and found out she can't get pregnant. She was more devastated then I was and I was pretty heart broken so we would be a couple that wouldn't have a foal or some. Is it weird that I've been having dreams about her for the past eighteen years? I say yes but I'm very nervous on asking her out." Princess Twilight told him that he should ask her even if he gets slightly drunk to build up his confidence then he should go for it. "Thanks Princess." said a cheerful Prince Purple, "Thanks for the tip. Wait she'll probably think that I'm a pony that likes to be drunk or drink a lot." "Purple." said Princess Twilight, "What will you do to win her heart?" "If I have to." started Prince Purple, "I'll take a bullet for her. I'll gladly take physical and verbal abuse from her family towards me. I'll do anything to win her heart if she isn't already taken. I'll gladly do anything as long it's legal to win her heart. I'll take her on any date she wants either classy, cheep, expensive, or just a casual one and I actually like a casual date but on what she wants I'll give it to her. Not in that way if that's what your thinking." Princess Twilight told Prince Purple that the Grand Galloping Gala is coming up and she invited Sapphire Rose so he can ask her there. "W-What? No I can't!" said Prince Purple, "Especially in front of several hundred if not thousands of ponies! If she rejects me then I'll be a bigger laughing stock then how I already am." Princess Twilight told him that he isn't a laughing stock. Prince Purple told her that nopony will laugh at him with her around. But when he's by himself everypony and there dog laugh at him for being a prince who isn't married and haven't have a heir yet. "The only ponies." said Prince Purple, "That don't laugh at me are my firefighting co-workers there the only ones that don't laugh at me. Even my dead friends laugh at me. I told my friends before they died that i would get married before I'm or was Twenty-Seven. Look at me still single but helped out other couples by donating my sperm several times." Princess Twilight told him that he did one thing that's good and that is or was that he helped couples out on who can't conceive a foal. That did perked up Prince Purple on what he did of helping others to do on what he can't do. That's because he isn't married and decided to help out his fellow Equestrians in a different way. Prince Purple even though he can't stop thinking about the mare. But Prince Purple was happy to be a reserve guardian. But he gets nervous as hell on the inside when he's around or near Sapphire Rose but on the outside he looks well has either a blank or sad face. "Prince." said Princess Twilight, "If your lover was immortal would you sacrifice your morality and join her to be immortal?" Prince Purple Artist told her that he would even meaning he'll see friends and family members come and go. "If it means I'll be with her." said Prince Purple, "I'll do anything even give up my mortal life to be immortal. I'll hate to see you go when time comes. But I'll do anything to be with her." Princess Twilight had Prince Purple to practice on her so he can get use to of asking mares out so he did for a hour. Princess Twilight asked if he can now ask Sapphire Rose out on a date without being nervous? "No." said Prince Purple, "I feel more nervous then how I was for the past eighteen or nineteen years. Maybe I should go on vacation and try a different way to clear my mind." Princess Twilight told him if he wants to and it's not like Equestria is at war and Princess Twilight hopes they don't go through another war which will end in blood shed. Prince Purple took a few days off going to Chicoltgo and Horsolulu. Out of being nice and kind he got Princess Twilight a couple of souvenirs from both cities even though he didn't have to he just did to be his kind and nice self. "Prince-Guardian Purple." said Prince Purple, "Guardian Prince. Neither of them sound catchy or anything." A pony came and got Prince Purple saying it's dinner time so he went to the dining hall. "So Purple." said Princess Twilight, "How's your secret have you told her yet?" Prince Purple told Princess Twilight that he would like to eat in peace and not discuss on how he has a stranger crush on a mare. Princess Twilight asked what's a stranger crush. "It's a crush." said Prince Purple, "It's where somepony is walking down the street or doing something and you glance at somepony who's pretty easy on the eyes. It's usually the type of crush that the pony never sees the pony they have a crush on again. I have seen Sapphire over and over again and each time my heart beat faster and stronger each time." Princess Twilight asked on what kind of flowers he would give to her? Prince Purple told her that he would give her roses if she likes roses even though it's in her name. Princess Twilight chuckled and told him to do on what he wants to do on try to win her heart before another stallion tries to woo her; his window of opportunity closes before he either gets too old or his 960 year time is up. Prince Purple's life expectancy been raised to be at one thousand when he was turned into a alicorn. But Princess Twilight's offer is still on the table to make him a immortal. Even though Prince Purple flipped a Bit to decide for him he still hasn't made a decision. "If she is." said Prince Purple, "If the mare I have a crush on is immortal or something like that I will gladly take it. Like I said I'll do anything to be with her." Princess Twilight told Prince Purple that she can imagine that the two getting married and having immortal foals. Prince Purple asked what if she doesn't want foals? Princess Twilight told Prince Purple that he always wants a family. It'll be weird especially for ponies he told that Prince Purple would father a foal with a mare. The two then ate in peace. While walking the hall at night Princess Twilight heard some noise coming out of Prince Purple's downtime room so she carefully opened it. Princess Twilight saw Prince Purple attacking a dummy practice target that's fully of hay with a very sharpen sword. Even though Equestria has firearms Prince Purple decided to keep his swordsmanship up to date. Princess Twilight then knocked on the door getting Prince Purple's attention and the two cousin's talked. Princess Twilight gotten word of somepony having rallies across Equestria. They want to revolt or rebel against Equestria for being a mare monarchy. Prince Purple sighed and told Princess Twilight that he'll be damned if somepony is going to take over Equestria. The only way that's going to happen is when Prince Purple is dead. Princess Twilight told him some bad news and that immortality spell she learned well he'll still be immortal. But he can still die if somepony rams a sword into his heart or throat or a cannon or artillery blows him up. Besides that he'll be immortal but can still get hurt. Prince Purple told her that he'll do anything to win Sapphire Rose's heart and don't care if she's cursed or not. "You'll still love her." said Princess Twilight, "Even if she has a blood curse, book curse, Ketamine curse, loathly lady curse? Or any other curse?" "I don't care if she has every single curse." said Prince Purple, "Like I said I'll do anything to win her heart. I don't care if I have to forfeit my mortality to be immortal. I just want to be with her. I don't deserve to die anyway on how many friends I promised that would come home only to walk them right into there deaths. Immortality would be good for me to suffer as well on the friends and thousands of Equestrians that I promised that'll come home and not. Breaking a Pinkie Promise is a nightmare but I promised thousands of Equestrians that they'll come home safe even my best friends and there all dead." "That's why you want a family?" asked Princess Twilight, "For all the ponies you lead and made promises to that they would come back but aren't back alive? You are a honorable pony. Some mare will love to be with you besides your ex-wife even though you two peacefully ended your relationship which I never heard of. Maybe if you play your cards right then you'll have Sapphire Rose shed a tear when you present her with a engagement ring. Just saying and I wish very good luck to you." Prince Purple sighed. "What if she laughs at me?" asked Prince Purple, "What if she makes fun of my small tail? I've been picked on because my tail is five inches long? I just have a big feeling she'll pick on me when I ask her out. She'll probably laugh learning that I was married but my wife I mean ex-wife and my first born was a stillbirth she'll probably tell me that she probably wants a "real stallion" that can give her strong foals over me and have a foal or foals with me." "Purple." said Princess Twilight, "Your the most bravest and heroic stallion there is! Any mare would be insane without dating or marrying you. I've did the calculations because I couldn't sleep last night and there's a 98.8% that Sapphire Rose would love to be with you. You would never harm a mare because your such a fuzzball around them and don't want to see them harmed." "Tell that to my Fanaticism!" said Prince Purple, "In Vanhoofer the ponies that betrayed us and decided to fight along with the Valpis Empire well they surrendered and there were fifteen of them that surrendered. I shot seven of them with my military sidearm then I killed the remaining seven or eight with my combat knife. Do you really think a mare like her would go out with a stallion like me especially on what I just told you. They weren't under any hypnosis they volunteered to help them and fight against us. I highly doubt a cute mare like Sapphire Rose would date me she probably won't even be friends with me." Princess Twilight and Prince Purple then hugged and Princess Twilight told Prince Purple night where she's going to bed and Prince Purple stayed up for awhile. He sketched several designs for Stalliongrad for there navy and air force and some new uniform designs for there army for different biome's if they have to fight in tropical, subtropical, warm tropical, cool temperate, boreal, subpolar and polar regions. In the morning Princess Twilight asked on where's Prince Purple and a Royal Guard gave her a note saying he's going back to Stalliongrad but will be back later. "Prince? Purple?" asked Altidiya, "What are you doing back here?" Prince Purple explained to his ex-wife Altidiya that he got bored last night so he sketched some new uniform designs for them. Altidiya called a mare into the room and asked her if she knows Prince Purple? The mare told her no. "That's the stallion I've been telling you about." said Altidiya, "That's your father. I've told you about him." Altidiya told Prince Purple before they split and they had some private time. It ended up in her getting pregnant so she never told him about he has a daughter and Prince Purple can see it. The daughter he never knew he can see it where she maybe a heterochromia like her mother. But her right eye is a medium blue like how Prince Purple's eyes are both medium blue. Altidiya told Prince Purple that her name is "Sketching Pad" and her cutie mark is a sketching pad with a number 2 pencil and a blue colored pencil. Sketching Pad galloped over and tightly hugged her father. Sketching Pad saw a photo of Purple Artist on his and Altidiya's wedding day but in person, she never met him. Prince Purple and Sketching Pad bonded really quick and Purple asked what she does for a living? Sketching Pad told Prince Purple that she's a high ranking officer that works in a Krepost, Amphitheater, Armory, Workshop, Arsenal building, Military Academy, and volunteer her time at the hospital at the maternity ward. Prince Purple asked on what's a "Krepost". So both of them explained that Altidiya told him it's a fortress and Sketching Pad told Prince Purple that it's Stalliongradian for "Barracks" Altidiya told her daughter to give Purple a song that he can hear. Sketching Pad did on what her mother told her to do and Prince Purple thought he was at a opera house listening to a opera. Prince Purple even wiped a tear from his face on how lovely it was. After Sketching Pad's singing Altidiya told her to show her father around Stalliongrad so she did. Prince Purple wasn't expecting to see some buildings named after him like a hospital, military arsenal building, and a military academy. The hospital that Sketching Pad volunteers at is named "Prince Purple E Artist Memorial Hospital" and where if it wasn't for Prince Purple there medical capabilities will be dated back either the stone age or bronze age. The ponies both doctors, nurses, and even the staff bowed to Prince Purple for helping them advancing there medical capabilities and they can properly treat patients without them dying or being sick. Sketching Pad had to grab something. So he waited but ponies their in the waiting room walked up to Prince Purple and thanked him for him helping them almost twenty-years ago. Prince Purple was shown around Stalliongrad. Stalliongrad changed but also didn't where the buildings are the same but they're more repaired and cleaner. Prince Purple was still bowed to by random ponies. Like the hospital some other civil service and military buildings in the city were named after him. Back at the Palace Prince Purple and Altidiya were talking. Altidiya asked Prince Purple if he got his dream mare yet. Prince Purple told her no because he doesn't know on what a lot of mares want. "A lot of mares like me." said Altidiya, "They want a stallion who'll be truthful, who'll be there for them, a stallion who'll comfort them, and treat her with some respect." Prince Purple thanked her for the advice. Fourteen hours later back in Canterlot. Prince Purple walked up to Sapphire Rose's office door with a hoof up about to knock on the door. He placed his hoof down where his butterflies in his stomach came back. Prince Purple ran off where his nerves and guts when he about to ask her out before he could knock his nerves came back. To him, it felt like if twenty trains collided so he scampered to his downtime room. Princess Twilight knocked on the door and Prince Purple let her in. Princess Twilight asked what on was Sapphire's answer to his date? "She... Uh. She." said Prince Purple, "She said she's busy being a Head Guardian but I should ask her next Wednesday out on a date." "Purple. Look at me." said Princess Twilight, "Don't lie to me. You didn't ask her out did you?" "You caught me." said Prince Purple, "I was so close but yet so far. I was only three inches from her office door but I chickened out! I'll be better if I didn't ask her out on a date then get married sometime after. I don't deserve her somepony else does maybe one of the other Guardians can date her then marry her." "Don't you say that!" exclaimed Princess Twilight, "You totally deserve her. I can see you two getting married, having a house with a picket fence, and having a couple of foals. You two would be a picture-perfect couple. I'm sure she's the type of mare who'll love you on who you are. Just be yourself." Prince Purple then waited for his time to shine and be called up to be a Guardian when one of the Guardians go AWOL, deserts or betrays Equestria and the other Guardians. Prince Purple isn't a glory hound or anything to put him in the spotlight. He mostly just trained in his downtime room or in the Guardian training center which he became friends with them. He just either trained with them, alone or ruled Equestria with Twilight. "I know on what she's going to say or ask." said Prince Purple. Princess Twilight asked on what he means. "Sapphire Rose. I know on what she's going to say when I ask her out." said Prince Purple, " She's going to say "Why because if I say one thing that you disagree with on how I see Equestria over you that your going to kill me." I should not ask her out and I should just die alone. it'll be better for everypony." Princess Twilight then saw a dark moderate blue magic aura around her which Prince Purple had her slide into his room where he then used his magic to slam his balcony door closed and locked it from both inside and outside. Prince Purple then cried his eyes out with Princess Twilight on the other side could hear her cousin cry. Princess Twilight tried to tell Prince Purple that anypony would love him on who he is. Any mare on who he chose won't care on what type of pony he is. Princess Twilight told him that if they weren't related she would've dated him also saying that any mare would be crazy to not to date him. "Purple?" asked Princess Twilight, "I'm 100% that Sapphire Rose will love you for being a kind and friendly pony just don't have your fanaticism side or whatever you call it to come out. She'll love on your kind, sweet, friendly, calm, brave, reliable, mature, hardworking, noble, and mature you are. I don't think she minds on what kind of pony you are as long your not evil." "Like I said." said Prince Purple after a sniffle, "I'll do anything to win her heart. If I have to give up my mortality to be immortal to be with her then I will. If she's cursed then I'll get myself cursed to be with her. Like I said I'll do anything to win her heart." Princess Twilight told him that he should hold off on that until he gets to know her more and don't want to rush right into it and he should learn more about her before making and decisions he might regret. Princess Twilight then told Prince Purple that the Grand Galloping Gala is next Friday and well she'll be there. Next Friday. Prince Purple saw Sapphire Rose so he walked up to her to ask her out on a date. Be just said "Nevermind sorry to bother you." because he's afraid to ask her. "Come on Purple." said Princess Twilight, "You had it but it slipped out of your hooves. It'll be fine. Now about I come with you and if you get cold hooves and I'll ask her on your behalf." Prince Purple told Princess Twilight no but he'll ask when his nerves and guts turn into steel and then he'll ask her. Princess Twilight told Prince Purple that he should move on what he wants to do before his window of opportunity closes for forever. Prince Purple just went up the stairs, made a right and went into his bedroom on the far side of the castle. After the gala, Princess Twilight decided to visit Prince Purple to see him sitting on the balcony railing and she saw his Royal Guards staying back. Princess Twilight told Prince Purple not to jump he has a lot to live for. If he does then he'll miss to have a life or somekind of relationship with the mare of his dreams. Princess Twilight knows on what she's talking about. Prince Purple told her he isn't going to jump but just differently enjoying the view that nature made when the planet of Equus was made. Princess Twilight pulled him off the edge of the balcony wall or railing so he wouldn't fall off and she hugged him. Princess Twilight asked on what he was doing for the past five hours. Prince Purple told her that when he left the gala he just came up to his room, sat on the 3-foot concrete railing or wall, and now the two are talking. Princess Twilight asked Prince Purple on how much he loves Sapphire Rose even though he just has a huge crush on her. "I would buy her anything she wants." said Prince Purple, "If she wants a ring I would buy her one. If she wants a necklace, bracelet or any other kind of jewelry I'll buy it to her. If she wants a nice house somewhere I'll buy or rent a house so we could live there. I'll give her anything she wants. If she doesn't want a Prince then I'll leave Royalty to be with her." Princess Twilight asked what if she doesn't want foals? "We don't need to have foals." said Prince Purple, "If she doesn't want any either birth them or adopt. We can just be with each other. That's up to her if she wants foals or not I do but if she doesn't then I'll respect her wishes and not do on what I want." Princess Twilight asked what if she doesn't want to date or marry a Prince? "Like I said." said Prince Purple. "I'll leave Royalty and not be a Prince anymore. I maybe a simp for a mare if that's the term." Princess Twilight asked what's a simp? Prince Purple told her that it's term for a stallion who are seen as too attentive and submissive to mares hoping to win over a mare. "I can write, draw, cook, train, and sculpt." said Prince Purple, "But actually talking to a mare to ask her out on a date? It scares me more then death. I really do love her but like I said I'm very scared of asking her." Princess Twilight told him that he's like a pony that the CMC and Big Mac ran into called "Feather Bangs" who told the CMC that he's nervous to talk to other mares. Prince Purple told her that the two are the same of a kind. Despite being nervous to ask Sapphire Rose out Prince Purple kept his job professional and would do his best to listen to the pony who wants to overthrow Equestria and take the throne over so he could lead. "I highly doubt a mare like her would like me." said Prince Purple, "I take my patriotism to Equestria to the next level. From a scale of one to ten it'll be at one-hundred." Princess Twilight asked who he's talking to where he's talking to where he told her that he's talking to himself. Princess Twilight told him not to go crazy or to go insane. Prince Purple is still a Reserve Guardian and well they'll never know on when he's needed to go in to fill in a position. If one of the five Guardians go AWOL or if they just leave or betray Equestria and join the other side. Prince Purple kept his calm and told Princess Twilight that the ones who leave and betray Equestria will get on what's going to be coming to them. But Prince Purple won't do it because last time he killed ponies who volunteered to fight with the Vipis Kingdom and he been having nightmares about that. Prince Purple then told Princess Twilight that she should throw him in prison or Tartarus for the remaining 960 years for what he did. Princess Twilight told him that she should but ain't because she loves her cousin. She wants her cousin to be happy and hopefully gets married to the mare who he has a very huge crush on and hopefully they get together and have some foals. Prince Purple hugged Princess Twilight for what she told him. She won't have him sent to prison or to Tartarus for what he did and that everypony deserves second chances. Princess Twilight then asked on why he has dark circles under his eyes. Prince Purple told her that for the past nineteen years with his friends he made in the military with their deaths. They been haunting him wanting to know why he survived but they died which is a question Purple can't answer. Before Princess Twilight could walk out she heard Prince Purple say something. "No pony would or ever date me." said Prince Purple, "No mare would date me or ever will not even the mare I have a crush on. It would've been better if I died in either war. I know that life isn't fair but I just want somepony to date, marry and move on with me life. I shouldn't deserve to be here." Princess Twilight told Prince Purple that it's not the same as she wants. She still wants to be in Ponyville over Canterlot but she doesn't have a choice like how Purple wants his friends to still be alive but they just got to live with it. Prince Purple told her that she's right and he has to move on. But he can't stop thinking about on what if he just let the ones that he killed when they surrendered the ones who fought with the Vipis Kingdom against Equestria with there own will or if his friends were still here. Princess Twilight was supportive and told Prince Purple on the new friends he made. He may have had some bad luck with three previous marefriends but Princess Twilight thinks that Prince Purple and Sapphire Rose will be a cute couple but that's only if they get together. Prince Purple told Princess Twilight that he doesn't see him and her getting together. Saying she's too far out of his league even though he'll do anything to woo her and to be her boyfriend and possible her husband one day. Prince Purple then chuckled which led Princess Twilight asked what's funny. "Just thought that if we were married and have a daughter and our daughter wants her nose pierced." said Prince Purple. "And I tell our daughter that it ain't going to happen in this life or lifetime." Princess Twilight then chuckled thinking it's funny on where neither of them understood why mares or anypony in general, wants parts of there body pierced. Prince Purple then went to Luna Park. He heard a younger him and a younger Scrumptious and Jackpot Star laugh and giggle and had a flashback of a seven-year-old Purple Artist, seven and a half-year-old Scrumptious and a eight-year-old Jackpot Blaze Star running around playing freeze tag. "Feels like yesterday." said the ghost of Jackpot Star. "When you think about it. It seems like a eternity ago for you right? You just get to think about the what if, what could have been. Could you imagine if I married your sister? I mean she's pretty cute but best friends who become brother-in-laws well I think if I did knocked up your sister you would've been chasing me with a chainsaw or a bat." Prince Purple chucked. "I would've been chasing you down and forced you to marry my sister if you did that." said Prince Purple, "My sister actually told me she had a crush on you and she loved you even though it's weird because my sister is five-years older then me." Prince Purple then sighed and looked down in disappointment. "I know you, Purple. Your still kicking your own ass for surviving two different wars, winning medals and losing friends and lovers. You think you don't deserve to live anymore. But you don't get it war is random ponies you care or hate there going to die if you like it or not. It's just rediculous situations." said Jackpot Star, "You can't predict and try to save everypony. You think you failed in both wars but leadership and overprotection isn't something that's going to come and go and not save everypony." Prince Purple told him that he's right and he should stop moping over something he has no control over. He was going to say something but he just closed his mouth. "Your in love with a mare." said Jackpot Star, "You never had a thing of asking mares out because you go so scared it looks like your going to piss yourself so you normally ran off or went somewhere else. I know you have a crush on the Head Guardian. I know you want to date her, marry her, and have a family with her. Don't lie. Lying isn't your strong point I know if your going to lie." Prince Purple told his best friend's ghost that he's deeply in love with the Head Guardian and Jackpot he's right on what he said about that Prince Purple wanting to date, & marry her. Even Jackpot told Purple that he's not in her league won't ever will be to say not even "Hi" to her. Prince Purple told him that he'll try to enter her league where he'll literally will do anything to catch up to her league so the two can be a couple. Jackpot kept telling Prince Purple that not even if Prince Purple and the Head Guardian were the last two creatures on the face of the world she wouldn't romance Prince Purple nor carry his foals. Prince Purple just looked down while Jackpot kept telling Prince Purple that he won't ever win over any mare. He should just forget about her and that he and the Head Guardian won't even be friends or good friends. Prince Purple then got up leaving his friend's ghost still sitting on the park bench. While eating dinner Princess Twilight asked Prince Purple on how was his day was? Prince Purple didn't say a word where. He just doesn't want to talk. Princess Twilight asked Prince Purple if he needs to see a doctor? Because he maybe quiet but he usually responds to something when somepony asks or talks to him. Princess Twilight then heard a clanking sound as the fork that Prince Purple has hit the plate. "Jackpot and my dead friends ghosts are right." said Prince Purple, "They're right I'm very far under Sapphire Rose's league. I can't even convince a pillow to go to sleep. If I can't convince Ms. Sapphire Rose to go on a date with me then why should I even bother with a romantic life." Princess Twilight never ever seen Prince Purple with his self-esteem, morale, and self confidence not adding his self-assurance was at a very low place where on a scale of one to one-hundred Princess Twilight thinks it's abound thirty to forty. Unknown to Princess Twilight and that her cousin's self-esteem, morale, and self confidence is around two. When it's down at zero then he won't be in the mood to do anything just lie in bed eating ice cream or just mope around doing nothing just being depressed. Princess Twilight then saw her cousin finish the glass of ice water he as then he got up to go somewhere else. Prince Purple just wants to be isolated where in his downtime room he just thought on what Jackpot said about him being out of the Head Guardian's league. "It'll be better if nopony ever sees me again." said Prince Purple, "The ghosts of my dead friends are right. No mare would want to date me and I know I'm very far out of the Head Guardian league and I do love her and I would do anything for her. I just should lock myself in here and not show up to public events with my cousin or if the Guardians need me well somepony will replace me anyway if I don't show any way. No pony is going to miss me." Prince Purple won't say anything like that but how since his self-esteem and so like his morale is so low he really doesn't care anymore. Purple he's usually more warm and friendly over being depressed and sad. For a couple of days, Princess Twilight was extremely worried about her cousin so she ordered his guards and her guards to search Canterlot castle. All but one door was unlocked and cleared but one door was locked or jammed or have stuff against the door to block it. Princess Twilight knocked on the door and asked if Prince Purple was in there. "Go away." said Prince Purple, "I just want to be left alone." Princess Twilight ordered a Royal Guard to open the door. A unicorn guard used his magic to open the door only for them to see Prince Purple laying on the carpeted floor with his military sidearm on the floor. Prince Purple is still alive but they seen that carpet around his face is wet and that's where he cried. Prince Purple was weak so Princess Twilight told one of the Royal Guards to get a doctor. Princess Twilight asked Prince Purple on why he's doing this? "Just leave me be." said Prince Purple, "the ghosts of my dead friends are right I'll never find love. If I do go on a date with a mare not even the next night or the next day I'll either get a letter, telegram or in face to face the mare I would date would say it won't work out even though it would be one date. Do you think that the Head Guardian will date me? I think not." In the medbay in Canterlot Castle a doctor told Princess Twilight that Prince Purple is severely dehydrated and slightly hungry but fine. Princess Twilight told Prince Purple that she highly thinks that the Head Guardian will love him on who he is. Prince Purple told Princess Twilight that she should've left him there where he hasn't done no good to Equestria. "WIth Stalliongrad. With donating your sperm several times. Protecting your country." said Princess Twilight, "That's more then enough to help and be good with our own country. You don't feel loved don't you?" Prince Purple told her that he doesn't feel loved by nopony. Everything good that he has done nopony back in Equestria never thanked him for him helping to protect the country of Equestria. He wasn't thanked or welcomed back. When Prince Purple helped another country before they went into a Civil or a Revolutionary war he wasn't told thanks for helping other ponies from starving to death. When Equestria was at war with extended family members he never knew he had he wasn't thanked for his service or as a Prince being the first male prince in the history of Equestria nopony talked about it. It was news around the globe of Equestria having a prince. It was princesses and nopony in Equestria ever heard of a Prince or a King ruling it's always been a mare when all three tribes formed Equestria after killing and driving off the original inhabitants. More or less Everypony in Equestria thinks that Prince Purple doesn't do anything but just sits with a hoof up his butt. Even though he does have a lot to do of being the commander-in-chief of the Equestrian Armed Forces. Even though Prince Purple isn't the type of pony that seeks attention or any form of glory. When he and his fellow soldiers returned from war almost twenty years ago all Equestrians hailed Princess Twilight for leading them to victory. Princess Twilight told the ponies that her cousin did lead Equestria to victory. But they ignored her and continued to hail her as the Princess that lead them to victory. Prince Purple likes to be recognized for what he did even though he ain't a glory hound or an attention seeker. Princess Twilight asked to have the room for a few minutes so everypony in the room left and the doctor had a few other things to do as well. "Is this also about you not asking the Head Guardian out yet?" asked Princess Twilight, "If so then isn't this just stupid?" "No. It ain't about that lovely mare." said Prince Purple, "I would love to be a Mr. Rose or her being a Mrs. Rose-Artist if we do date then get married. But I'm not in the mood to talk about romance or love again. Can we just talk about something else?" Princess Twilight respected her cousin that he didn't want to talk about his crush life or anything to do about love and romance. Princess Twilight asked how was being a Guardian was treating him? Prince Purple told her it's good and he likes them all no complaints. He doesn't have no problems with none of them, not even the blind one. He may not show any sympathies or sadness to the one that's blind. But he's friends with her and he has no quarrels with her and he's actually glad she's a Guardian unlike AJ who still mothers her and treats her like a foal. Besides that he likes them as another family. Once Prince Purple got his hydration levels up and fulfilled his hunger needs Prince Purple was released from the Canterlot Castle medbay. But he was in his room and it became nighttime. While sitting on the floor a pony came into his room and threw a shuriken only for it to hit a board. Prince Purple turned around with a sword. Prince Purple and the pony black jacket, black trousers, light sandals and a black hooded cowl. They had a sword fight and the sound of the swords clanging by hitting each other. Two of Prince Purple's Royal Guards came in where the pony threw two throwing knifes dipped in poison. Prince Purple stood there and the pony in ninja outfit fell down. Somepony sent an assassin to kill Prince Purple but the two royal guards that were killed were buried with military honors. Even though they died and didn't do anything to protect there prince. Prince Purple actually expected somepony would try to kill him. Due to him being Royalty and since he was turned into a alicorn he has royalty in his blood and DNA. At her cousin's bedroom door Princess Twilight heard Prince Purple Artist talking but she accidentally opened his bedroom door. Prince Purple was in front of his plane mirror that's on his dresser and he's talking to himself so he can build up his confidence of asking the Head Guardian out onto a date. Princess Twilight then took Prince Purple to her office only for him to have his nerves and guts freeze up of being afraid. Prince Purple would keep having his fear of asking the Head Guardian out on a date. "She's just attractive as well." Said Prince Purple, "No mare like her would go out with me. I really do want to ask her out on a date but I'm just get very scared and very nervous. I think she'll laugh at me for having a short tail and with my fur, hair and tail being all a moderate purple color with only my eyes being a medium blue. That's one of the things I always fear not adding that if I ask her while eating I fear she'll throw it at my face. I really do love Ms. Sapphire Rose but I'm just terrified in every word of the word "terrified" and "afraid". When I do build up my confidence it comes crashing down." Princess Twilight told him it's ok but one day he'll build up his nerves and confidence to knock on her office door, and ask her out on a date. Prince Purple thanked his cousin for that boost of confidence but he's just afraid to do so. Princess Twilight kept trying to build up his confidence for him to ask the Head Guardian out on a date. "I know you can do it." said Princess Twilight, "I can see you two being together and having a happy family of you two having a picture-perfect family." "Picture-perfect families only exist in movies from Hoofywood." said Prince Purple, "A picture perfect family would be nice but we all have flaws. My flaw is that I'm over patriotic. Like I said she'll find out what I did to those fifteen Equestrias that fought for the Vipis Kingdom against us and I executed them. She won't go for a stallion like me. I can run the numbers in my head and I'm 100% sure she won't be friends with me and 100% sure she won't date me. I'm one-million percent sure she won't marry me if we did date not even if her and I were the last two creatures on the planet of Equus." Princess Twilight told him not to say that. He may have some bad things here or there but everypony will find love and any sane mare will find a way to overlook the bad things he did and will love him on who he is which is a kind, noble, carrying and friendly pony. Later that day Princess Twilight saw Prince Purple sitting on the concrete balcony with his face down on the three foot concrete balcony railing. Prince Purple is looking down to see happy ponies with the missus and a foals or colts and fillies or with mares with there husbands with there children or with two stallions with foals they adopted or two mares with foals they either had by adoption or artificially inseminated. Unknown to Prince Purple that he see's a couple of mares with a couple of fillies and a colt. Unknown to Prince Purple that they used some of Prince Purple's donated sperm. The two mares thought it would be ok to have some royalty in there household. Prince Purple actually chose for some reason to not to keep his identity private unlike a lot of ponies who do want there identity private. "Being a Prince isn't me." said Prince Purple, "I can't do no decision making or anything with politics even though only thing I have say over is military construction, military orders and spying orders but that's rare. I'll have better luck finding fifty bits on the ground then making a military or spying decision." Prince Purple then sighed. Princess Twilight knocked on his wall to not to scare him then she asked if she could join him. Prince Purple wants to be left alone just to be alone with his thoughts on what he has. Princess Twilight sat down next to him and placed a wing around him. "Still thinking about Head Guardian Sapphire Rose and how much of a cute couple you two will be?" asked Princess Twilight, "Or why you were chosen to be on the reserve team?" "No neither of them." said Prince Purple, "Just asking myself on why I haven't been married yet in a relationship that hasn't ended before two years. I mean with a nice mare. Altidya she's nice but she isn't in my league. I'm not into political ponies. Me and the Head Guardian were the unaware love couple. Before you ask it means that I love her but she doesn't know on my feelings. I told you so many times that I'll do anything to win her heart but I'm just so scared on what she'll say. I'm afraid she'll laugh at me or just say a lot of mean things. There's days that I feel like I'm going to piss myself when I'm about ask her out or knock on her office door to ask her out." Princess Twilight told him it's alright but he's just nervous. "More like scared." said Prince Purple, "I've chickened out for the past eighteen or nineteen or twenty years. I've been scared of asking her and chickened out more times then I can count. I must have chickened out around 13,870 times or more. I actually tallied down each time I coward or chickened out." Princess Twilight with permission checked a book that Prince Purple has and counted each tally mark. It took her a long time and each five she counted added more and it took her several hours. There's a total of 13,875 tallies which she counted each and single one which took her late into the night to count. Princess Twilight never expected to see how much tallies there are and shows on how many times Prince Purple tried to ask out Head Guardian each time he just chickens out. Prince Purple was either be in front of the Head Guardian office door or in front of her. Prince Purple usually says "Sorry for wasting your time forgot on what I was going to ask or say. Sorry again and have a good day.". Princess Twilight don't know how badly her cousin get's scared of trying to ask her out. Prince Purple tried to ask her out but he was on the other side of Canterlot Castle one time and he just froze up due to of psychological fears. His heart just races faster and faster then when he's out running or exercising. The next morning Prince Purple went to the Head Guardian's office and entered after being told to and he knocked first. He locked up but instead of asking her out onto a date he asked if he as to do the same training as the regular Guardians and he was told that he has to. Prince Purple would do the Guardian training but he mostly did the running on the track which the area is the size of two hundred buck ball fields but he mostly ran on the track because he was on track and field back in middle and high school. Prince Purple couldn't do one lap. He called himself out of shape even though he's in perfect condition and healthy as a horse. He loved the training but he still couldn't get the head guardian out of his mind where he really does want to date her and like he told himself and Princess Twilight like a million times he will literally do anything to win her heart. At night Prince Purple was in his room sleeping having a nightmare. In Prince Purple's nightmare. Prince Purple finally built up the courage to ask the Head Guardian out on a date. "WHY SHOULD I DATE YOU! "yelled the Head Guardian, "YOU KILLED MY MOTHER WHEN YOU EXECUTED PONIES WHO FOUGHT AGAINST YOU AND MY FATHER YOU HAD HIM GO ON A SUICIDE RUN WHICH KILLED HIM! SO FUCK YOU I WOULDN'T SLEEP WITH YOU EVEN IF WE WERE THE LAST TWO PONIES OR CREATURE ON EQUUS!" Prince Purple tried to explain that he was doing on what he was taught about leader ship where as a Squad-leader and later now as a Prince and the Commander-in-chief of the Equestrian Armed Forces. The Head Guardian yelled at him and for him to get out of her office or she'll use her magic and throw him through her office door. For a couple of days Princess Twilight worried about her cousin. He hasn't come out of his room for a couple of days or night and not even the server pony can get him to open the door to see if he wants any food or something to drink. Princess Twilight told one of Prince Purple's guards and one of her guards to get him even if it means breaking down his bedroom door. They did only to find that his throat has been slit by a knife. They thought he committed suicide only for a lab to come back to find out that it doesn't have Prince Purple's DNA but it has Azure Blue Sapphire's husband DNA on it. He was assassinated. In reality Prince Purple jumped up out of bed and just sat there panting as if he ran a 5K marathon. "What can't sleep?" said the ghost of Scrumptious, "Had a nightmare of your love interest yelling at you for doing something stupid or that you accidentally kicked her while sleeping?" Prince Purple told his dead friend to go away. Prince Purple isn't interested in talking with them. Prince Purple even told them that he made more mistakes then his dead friends. "Unlike you and the other ones." said Prince Purple, "None of you have to live with your mistakes. Me? Every order I made, every decision I made and other ponies I had to fight beside getting killed I have to live with there deaths on my mind and hooves all the time. I have to live with there deaths on my mind and on my hooves." Purple's deceased friend Scrumptious told him that he should walk out onto the balcony and jump off it. Scrumptious told Prince Purple by saying "Do a flip." Prince Purple just got up and stormed out of his room. "Oh I get it." said the ghost of Scrumptious, "Jump off the other balcony where the trees and grass so no pony will find your body so easily where it'll be weeks if not months or years until they find you." Prince Purple told him to leave him alone where he has a lot to atone for but it ain't happening he can't atone for letting a actual total of 160,288 Equestrian soldiers die. Prince Purple usually came across as cold-hearted or soulless because he would have soldiers fight and he wouldn't show emotion which he would do in private. "I think she would've been a fine Mrs. Scrumptious." said the ghost of Scrumptious, "Your crush. Ms. Rose I think we would've been a fine couple." "She would've hit you with a wine bottle." said Prince Purple, "She isn't the type of mare your going to have sex then throw off to the side and forget about her the moment you dump her." As a leader; Prince Purple is the book dumb & naive officer/leader but street smart. Even though Prince Purple is the type of pony that his only ambition since he was twenty-one was and still is to date and probably marry the Head Guardian but he takes responsibility for his actions. In his downtime room, Prince Purple wrote three pages of it saying "Sapphire Rose I want to ask you out on a date? Can we go on a romantic date? I'll do anything to make it fit your style or how you want it to be. Please can we go on a date? If you say no then I understand and your not available for dating." Prince Purple wrote that for three pages thinking it'll build up his confidence of asking the Head Guardian out on a date only for it not to. Prince Purple loves being a reserve guardian even though he made new friends but he fears of losing them like with his past ones. He hates being a prince. He feels more like a househusband with doing stuff that ain't political which his saying on politics is zero. Even when Princess Twilight is out he still doesn't have a say over politics and wait until she's back. He only makes military decisions and that's only in time when in war or when military action is needed besides that he doesn't do nothing. He loves his new friends but doesn't treat them like close family. Princess Twilight even asked on out of all the mares he dated or the one he has a crush on. She asked on what if there different then they are which lead him to say "I don't care if there different or have anything wrong with them. I don't care if they eat beans and be like that foal song of beans beans the magical fruit. I don't care if they do eat some foods and make them smell like somepony got sprayed by a skunk. I remember when my brother decided to get a pet skunk and it sprayed him everyday. I remember when he tried to kill me when he asked me on where his pet skunk was and I told him that I got rid of it by letting it run outside. He chased me with a butcher knife trying to kill me until our aunt and uncle stopped him and told him on what I did was good. They weren't going to spend there hard earn bits to buy tomato juice then in hydrogen peroxide and baking soda to get rid of the skunk smell. Those were the days when we were young and reckless." Princess Twilight wished him luck on his quest or what he calls it to find love with either a mare with a gem in her name and with a type of flower or whatever kind of mare he loves and wants to be with. "Like I said." Prince Purple, "i'll do anything to be with her. If I have to give up my mortal coil to be immortal to be with her then I will. If she's cursed then I'll find a way to be cursed to spend time with her. Like I said I'll do anything to be with her. If she wants I can do a back-flip off a high diving board into a swimming pool hitting my jaw onto the side of the pool if she wants me too. I know it'll make me look like a jackass or a idiot but for love no price is too high for me. Like I said even though I feel like a broken record saying it. I'll do whatever it takes to win Head Guardian Sapphire Rose's heart." Princess Twilight told him that she wishes him with a ton of luck with that but he shouldn't do anything that'll hurt him very badly or kill him. Doesn't help that later on at night Princess Twilight asked what he's drinking. So he told her a root beer float that he made himself even though he should've and waited until the glass bottle he used should've been cold which he got it not a hour ago. "It's 8:30 Pm and you went to the store?" asked Princess Twilight, "You know we got ponies to do grocery shopping for us? Right you do know that?" "Yeah I know." said Prince Purple, "I maybe royalty but I'm not like you, Princess Cadance and Prince Shining Armor who have ponies get stuff for you and them. I prefer well if I want something I'll go get it myself not have somepony get it for me." Prince Purple then sighed because he's getting tired. "I'm not good for her." said Prince Purple, "I'm very far out of her league and she wouldn't go out even if I did do everything right. Even though I say that I'll do anything to win her heart I know she won't go for a stallion like me." Princess Twilight told him not to say that where he'll never know on where he can find love which it can be right around the corner or not. He shouldn't stop believing and she believes in him on finding love. Prince Purple thanked her for what she said but he feels like he'll never find love again. After Prince Purple left to get a full night sleep he continued his physical exercise of being a reserve guardian. Doesn't help when he sees the Head Guardian he just stops and freezes up. He tries but can't put it past him.