Twilight
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Shepard’s train headed out towards Canterlot, it seems she was in a group of ponies that were also wearing different types of armor, they all looked more like recruits than actual guards.
“Twilight, she seems nice.” We all turned our heads to face Fluttershy.
“What do ya’ll mean sugarcube?”
“It’s just you said that she was hiding something but she seemed rather nice.”
“She did seem rather polite.” Rarity joined in on the conversation.
“You should have seen what she had for breakfast.”
“What did she have for breakfast Spike? Was it cupcakes, or was it chocolate or was it- MmmMmm.” Pinkie was silenced by Applejack putting a hoof into her mouth.
“Let Spike finish his story sugarcube.”
Applejack withdrew her hoof from Pinkie’s mouth. “Okay, so what did she have for breakfast?
“You won’t believe me when I tell you this but she had meat for breakfast.”
“WHAT!” Whoa, that was loader than I expected.
“Yea, she’s an Omnivore like me.” Spike gestured to himself.
“Twi you were right to be suspect something was wrong.”
“I did have a talk with her last night when she came over with Dash.”
“Why did she come over with Dash?”
“I may have gotten wasted last night.” All heads turned to Dash who finally spoke up.
Everypony face hoofed at Dash’s statement. “What? We went out for a drink I sort of got carried away.”
“*sigh* Sugarcube, ya’ll know that drinking that much a’nt healthy.”
“As I said I got carried away.”
“Anyway Darling what did you talk about when she came over?”
“I asked questions about her, she’s been through a lot.”
“What ya’ll mean by that?”
“Well she’s lost everypony close to her.”
“By lose I hope you don’t mean what I think you mean.”
“Dash, has she ever talked to you about this?”
She lowered her head. “Yes, when I first met her she cut herself with a broken mirror.”
“*gasp* why would anypony do that?”
“As Twilight said she’s been through a lot, I guess that’s why she’s staying in the guard.”
“But did she tell you she was never in the guard?”
“Wait what? Then why has she gone off to the guard? And why does she have armor?”
“She said she was in something called N7, from what she told me it was a special operations task force.”
“Do you think she’s a bad guy?”
“No, why would she stop a robbery if she was.”
“What do you mean?”
“Somepony tried to rob Lyra and Bon Bon but Shepard stopped them.”
“Wow, she must be good because I saw not even a scratch on her but she does have that thing on her face, do you know what it is Dash.”
“No.” She started looking around.
“You do don’t you, come on tell us.”
“I don’t know what it is.” She continued eyeing around.
“Do you know what it does?”
“No.”
“Come on Dash, tell us.”
“She told me not to.”
“Ah ha, I knew you were hiding something.”
“It’s just she told me not to tell anypony and I don’t want to brake her trust.”
Pinkie slowly started to approach dash and eyeing her. The glare looked like it was looking into Dash’s very soul. “Tell us.”
Dash looked nervously around, sweat starting to roll down her brow. She just stood there while we all started to slowly approach her. Once we were rather close she jumped up and flew away as fast as she could.
“Were we a little forceful?”
“Girls, we need to subtlety get her to spill the beans as they say.”
“Ah think ya’ll right sugarcube, we can’t be so forceful.”
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Shepard
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The recruit train cart wasn't that big, it was about as big as a couple of shipping containers. When I looked around I saw the other recruits, all of which were male and quite young, no more than 20, dam, I’m the old fart here. As I walked through the cart I got a better look at the other people with me, most of which seemed to know each other, I understand why, them all being from a small town and all. I saw most of them were wearing armor which looked rather old, I guess they all have guard member in the family. As I look around I see most have helmets, should I make one? I have some left over Kevlar and silk but I was going to use it for any repairs that I may need. I’ll get more if I need it, where should I go to make this? Ah ha, there’s a clear area over in the corner of the cart, I may need to borrow someone’s sword, my Omi-blade will most likely burn the fabric before I cut it. Who should I ask? Mmmmmm, would anyone want to lend me one? And also how will I compress the Kevlar? Dam, I’m going to need to get a unicorn to help me.
I walked over to the corner and set down my things, all I had were my old dog tags, my new armor, my eye peace and the old thermal clips which I have no use for, I didn’t want to leave anything. The remains’ of my old armor and locked up somewhere where no one will find it. Anyway I need to try and find someone to help. I look around to try and find a unicorn with a sword or a dagger. Dam, I don’t really know who to ask for help, I’m going to try and do as much as I can do and maybe once we get to Canterlot I’ll get a knife.
I take out the Kevlar and began to fold it to the sizes I wanted. Due to using Kevlar I’m going to segment it, It’s going to be able to cover my whole head including my face, I’ll leave a two holes where the eyes are and add something like sunglass lenses in them, I want to be as badass as possible. As I fold it I put as much force behind my forehooves compressing it down, I’m never going to be able to do this here, if I want to use my biotics I need to be in privet.
I continue to put as much force as I can onto the first piece of Kevlar trying to compress it into one of the segments of the armor, God, this is so annoying. I stop compressing, close my eyes and start massaging my temples to try and calm myself.
“Umm, Miss, do you need any help?”
I open my eyes and turn to the voice. It was an orange unicorn stallion with a yellow and red mane, he had a tattoo of three playing card one on top of the other.
“Yes please, thanks.”
“No problem, miss?”
“Shepard, just Shepard.”
“Hello Shepard, I’m Blackjack, anyway what do you need help with?”
“Can you please compress this fabric as much as you can?”
“What for?”
“I’m making a helmet.”
“With fabric?”
“What, it’s several time’s stronger than iron.”
“How, this stuff looks like I can rip it apart with my bare hooves.”
“You see the armor I’m currently wearing?”
“It’s made out of that?”
“What else would it be?”
“I have no clue, anyway what part do you want me to compress?”
“All of them, just compress them as I put them into the cover.”
He began to compress the Kevlar segments and when he did that I would take it and put it into the cover. We continued to make my helmet for some time, it was mostly spent in an awkward silence until.
“Soooo, why are you joining the guard.” He asked.
I turned my head to face him. “I’ve been doing something like this all my life and I wanted to continue, I still have my old dog tags if you want to see.”
“Sure, why not?”
I reached both my forehooves down onto my chest and took off my dog tags and throw them over to him. “Commander Jane Shepard, Normandy SR-2, Spector, N7 operative, wow, half of these I have no clue about.” He said throwing the dog tags back.
“Would you believe me if I said I did all that and more in 14 years?”
“14 years, wow, my old man was in the guard for 40 years and he only got up to 2nd Lieutenant.”
“Well, I’ve probably seen more action than him.”
“I surprised by that, we haven’t been at war for over 1000 years.”
“I came from far up north, I’ve only been in Equestria for a couple of days.”
“Ah, that’ll explain it, and I hope you don’t mind me asking but what is that on your face?”
“It was a gift from a friend, sadly I think he’s not alive anymore, but I don’t know for sure.”
“Also I couldn’t help but notice you didn’t have a weapon, where is it?”
“The reason you don’t see it is because it would burn everything the blade touches, and besides, I’m going to try and get a cross bow or a bow to use.”
“So you prefer to use a bow, I like using a short sword.”
“Well not everyone has to like the same things.”
We finished up the Kevlar helmet, it looked totally bad as, I tried to base it off my old helmet from when I was still in N7.