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// I Used To Be A Soldier Like You...... 
// Story: An Introduction To Madness 
// by Mynameistank 
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An hour had slowly passed since the first cut was made and Thomas was stitching up the guard “Thank god. That went better than I had thought it would on such limited supplies” 
Twilight spoke “How long would it take for the bones take to heal at the least?”
“It’s hard to say, in fact they may never heal but I’d put my money on a few months” the sun started setting.





Twilight walked over to Thomas “hey Thomas”
“Yeah, what is it?”
“Those ‘guns’ of yours take up an awful lot of space”
“Yeah...sorry about that”
Twilights’ face lit up in excitement “well don’t be because it gave me an idea”
What Twilight had just said got him interested “really? What were you thinking?”
“I was thinking of a device which could hold your guns. A dial at the back of your waist which would have your guns downloaded to it”
“Sounds interesting. Who’s gonna make it?”
Twilight lost some excitement “well the thing is that there is no longer anypony in Ponyville who could make it”
“So where would we go?” Thomas asked
Twilight had to look him in the eyes for the next part “Canterlot”
“Well I wouldn’t mind seeing Luna again” he laughed
“Well it’s settled, we’ll leave on a ride in two days times” He got up from his seat and started walking to the bedroom. He pulled the door open, walked in and jumped on a bed. He’d fallen asleep before the ponies had walked in.





Thomas had gotten out of bed to find his guns and blades lying on the ground, he collected them and put them in a duffle bag Rarity had recently made for him. Thomas put his shirt and jeans on and went down stairs, he saw Spike and Twilight, Spike had just breathed upon the scroll “To the princesses”
Twilight turned to Thomas “Good you’re up, could you go back up and wake the girls?”
He nodded “Sure” he back-flipped grabbing onto the ledge with his feet he pulled himself up, he retained balance and opened the door, he woke all the rest. He began thinking {maybe these girls are some main ponies, ha-ha mane ponies} “Come on girls out of bed, we’re leaving for Canterlot today” Rarity was the first out at the mere mention of Canterlot “Well I know what gets you up of a morning” Thomas jumped down the stairs, Spike had belched up a scroll, Thomas asked “Letter from Tia?”
Twilight took the scroll and read it “She wishes to see us, today”





The hours has quickly passed since the letter was received, Thomas took a glance out the window as their ride pulled up “come on girls we are out” Thomas called out, he ran up to his gun and grabbed them while Applejack threw the rest of the blanket over the royal guard Thomas injured the previous day, they both walked outside as Thomas placed his bag of guns in the cart, then he went back inside to place the guard inside the cart. Thomas had picked his seat out and sat down, on the way to Canterlot all that was going though Thomas's mind was why The Princess wanted to see him {Why does Tia wanna see me? Has she found out something from my past? What my job was? No I don’t think so, but that’s still a possibility. Well I hope they understand why I did everything I did} They had arrived in Canterlot Castle this time, all six ponies followed by Thomas, he took a deep breath and hoped for the best.
They continued until they reached the gathering hall, all of them were stoped by the General, his attention was drawn to Thomas “Oh Celestia you, you a-fucking-gain” he muttered under his breath “The Princesses will see you in a moment”
Thomas nodded “Thank you General” {You know I can hear you, right?} the General only responded with a confused look {Oh god how I would go for a bottle of vodka right now. I’m as dry as a bone......HERE’S JOHNNY.......Damn you Stephen King} the doors parted as Luna and Celestia welcomed them in, Thomas carried in the guard whilst Applejack carried his guns, he laid the guard down “I’m so sorry Tia, you too Luna”
Luna questioned him “What has thou do to seek our forgiveness?” he looked at Luna’s mane
“You do something to your hair Luna?”
She was unimpressed “Thou shalt divert the topic of conversation”
He pulled the blanket back showing the guard with the stiches and bruises “I’m really sorry. I am! I just couldn’t control myself”
Luna walked closer to them, she inspected the guard’s armour “Sister come look at this!” Luna called. 
Celestia walked over and inspected the armour number “General! Run a number search with #30-04”
The General left for the files but returned with nothing “Nothing to report on that number your majesty!”
Thomas was puzzled “Thirty Zero-Four...Thirtieth and Fourth....” he shook his head,
Celestia turned her head to Luna “Do you suppose he’s from the other faction?”
Luna returned the glance “It’s quite possible”
Thomas interjected “Excuse me but what do you mean other faction? I thought you two were the only leaders of sort”
Tia looked at him “We are, but there is another. They call themselves: The army of ‘Freedom’. But pretty much all their soldiers are slaves, they also often pretend they are some of our soldiers and take hostage of anypony”
Thomas was shocked by what he was just told “So what do we do with this one?” {We cut him open and leave the bastard to die} he shook the thought out of his head,
Luna called “General! Take this soldier to out our rehabilitation centre. He has been brainwashed to believe bad things” the General had the body removed from the room.