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// Graduation Day 
// Story: Brothers In An Equestrian War 
// by Woodenbrony27 
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	Its been three weeks since I signed up for the Republic. and its been three week since I saw Keyboard. I just hope he is ok... I just finished training and we get today as an off day. The other are going out to have fun. If only I could just make a few friends, that would be nice.
"Hey Techno! You need to stop writing in that lame diary!" Came the shouting of one of the other soldiers followed by a chorus of laughter.
"Its a JOURNAL Bash." I said defensively.
Then a red glow surrounded the book and was swiped from my hooves with a unicorns magic and started to read what i just wrote. "Whos this Keyboard, Techno? some Coltfriend of yours? The colt asked mockingly gaining more laughter.
"He's my BROTHER! And he joined the Holy Solar Empire! now. Give. It. Back. 
"come on Tarquin, give the boy his book back." said Captain Greysketch,  captain of the Republics sky battalion.
"Y-Yes sir." The unicorn said before handing back my journal. "Sorry mate." The red unicorn said. 
"Now as all of you know you have passed your training and will be joining your brothers and sisters in battle, some as engineers, medics, foot soldier, or sky battalion." He said facing us. "I will call off names for medics, then for engineers, foot soldiers, then sky battalion."
The major rattled off names for each, I was getting nervous to see where I would end up
"Couch Tate, Dawn Shine, Baze Blitz, and Techno Aice. you will report to the sky camp over the Everfree Forest tomorrow at 1200 hours tomorrow."
"Sir yes sir!" The four of us said at salute.
"Dismissed, head back to your new barracks in the east wing." He said before walking off and to his tent. 
I looked over at my new squad mates to see what they were like.
The mare that was called Baze Blitz was a orange coated mare with what seemed to be a bottle as a cutie mark and a red mane and tail with a dark green stripe running through it. She seemed to be as tall as me. She noticed me looking at her and winked at me with brown eyes. what was that about? I thought to myself.
The next pony was Couch Tate. He had a grey coat with his cutie mark being a sofa. I guess that makes sense. And his mane was a solid blue but hid his eyes from my sight.
The last of the three was the mare named Dawn Shine, she has a off-white coat and a long purple mane. She is probably going to have to cut her mane and tail down. she didn't have a cutie mark which surprised me greatly. 
Realizing I still was holding my Journal I quickly stuffed it inside my trench coat’s inside pockets. 
I was about to head out to the barracks i was stoped my my new squad mates. 
"Hey man, you can't just leave us." said Couch Tate said. 
"Yeah! We need to get to know each other first!" said the orange mare named Baze. 
"Well ok, how about I start?" volunteered the second mare "my name is Dawn Shine. I like to have parties, I used to live up in Canterlot, I love to read as well.” 
“well i will go next i guess I shall go next then.” I volunteered and soon all eyes were now on me. “well my name is Techno Aice. I used to live in Ponyville, i love listening to music, I also am good at singing often times i got hired by the local night club, I used to run a music shop/ studio along with my brother, Keyboard Aise. sadly he and I choose different sides to fight for in the war.” I said getting that all off my chest.
“Wow. That must have been tough” Couch said putting a comforting hoof around my shoulders.
“WOW! You used to sing?” came the excited voice of Baze. “Thats so cool Techno.” 
“Oh, well if everypony wants me to...” I said nervously. 
“Of course dude!” said the familiar voice of Dawn as she shoved me towards the center of the camp. 
Well there goes learning about the others. i thought as we arrived to the center of the training camp. many different varieties of ponies milled about.
“sing something that is on your mind” Dawn said. “I bet it will be great. By the way, i’m magically amplifying your voice”
what DO i do? what would these ponies like? i hope this doesn't end badly. well singing DOES make me feel better. ok Techno. Choose a song now. I thought to myself
“AHA! I got it! 

“Not gonna miss you when you're dead and gone.
Not gonna talk about you over and over and over.
Not gonna find you under latest nostalgia, not happily ever after.
Not gonna listen to your played out song (played out song).
Don't wanna think about you over and over and over.
Not gonna read about the latest fads on your trendy blog, 
I want nothin' to do with that.”

soon enough i caught everyponies attention and most of them started cheering for me. I even saw Captain Greysketch smiling up at me.
“'Cause you've made a mess of everything, 
(And I'm not listening).”

“You're not a hero, you're a liar.
You're not a savior, you're a vampire. 
Sucking the life out of all the friends you've ever known.
You're just a train wreck, not a winner.”
“Up on your soap box preaching down to the sinners.”
The saints without a cause, we're not listening, we're not listening.”

“I'm gonna a start a revolution, 
Of convoluted disillusion.
(Start a revolution)
I'll need a war with no conclusion, 
And in the final hour I'll be a confident coward.”

“'Cause if we stand for nothing, we'll fall for anything.”

“You're not a hero, you're a liar.
You're not a savior, you're a vampire.
Sucking the life out of all the friends you've ever known.
You're just a train wreck, not a winner.
Up on your soap box preaching down to the sinners.
The saints without a cause, we're not listening, we're not listening”

“Now this is moving in the same direction, 
But I'm a little too spent to care.
'Cause it's a battlefield 'til it blows over, 
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
The time is now, 'til we live in glass houses
We talk shit like it's a clause to bare.
You're only relevant 'til you get older, 
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer (enemies closer).”

“They're gonna miss me when I'm dead and gone.
They're gonna talk about me over and over and over.
They're gonna find me under latest nostalgia, happily ever after.”

“But I'm not a hero, I'm a liar.
I'm not a savior, I'm a vampire.
Sucking the life out of all the friends I've ever known.
We're a train wreck, not winners.
On a soap box preaching down to the sinners.
The saints without a cause, we're not listening, we're not listening, 
We're not listening, we're not listening.”

After I finished singing everypony started cheering and stamping their hooves for me. 
“Was I that good?” I said to a awestruck couch.
“Woah dude. and you were awesome dude.”
“Yeah! you should sing more often.” Baze said patting me on the back.
Wow, I don't think this could be too bad, i already feel a ton better then i have been lately.
“Thank you all of you but if my brother were here it would have been much better.” I said with a twinge of sadness. “but right now I will head back to the barracks to get some shut eye. “Aw... come on man.” Couch Tate said in disappointment. 	“Well see you tomorrow dude.”
“Yeah, see  ya.” I said before flapping my wings and heading back to my small tent. I quickly removed my coat while taking out my journal and laid down on my cot to write about the day.