//------------------------------// // Chapter 34 // Story: The Angel of Equestria // by Robobrony //------------------------------// Chapter 34 AN: Fair warning to my readers, this chapter and another I have coming up will be similar to one another as they will both involve two OC’s Carbon and Stunner getting married and do something to deal with what happened to them in the past. This was a request from Jman796 who submitted those two OC’s. He has also been a big help to me in making my fic all it can be. It’s been about a month now since Charles left on his journey to find the elements of life. Carbon was at the Train station waiting for an old squad mate of his to come, Mobius. They were part of a squad known as the Night Stalker unit. Mobius lost his parents at the age of 5 to a group of bandits and was taken in by the buffalo tribe near Appleoosa. The chief raised him as his own, at the age of 17, Chief Thunderhooves told Mobius what had happened to his biological family. Shortly after, Mobius joined the royal guard and, after four years, joined the Night Stalker unit where he met Carbon. They became friends soon and have been good friends ever since. The train soon pulled up as Carbon waited with a smile on his face, his wedding was coming up and he sent a letter to Mobius who was on vacation to spend time with his adopted family. Carbon wanted Mobius, or as he is also known by his indian name as Sky Viper, to be one of his best stallions for his wedding. The train came to a stop, let out a burst of steam from the front and the train car doors opened. Mobius stepped out and was happily greeted by Carbon. “Mobius, so good to see you again, it’s been far too long.” Carbon walked up and Gave Mobius a hug. Mobius was a Pegasus with light brown eyes, a dark grey coat, a spikey black mane and tail with yellow streaks and had a winged dagger for a cutie mark. He had three feathers on the right side of his mane with a black tip, white in the middle and red at the base of them. He had an accent similar to the buffalo (Indian). “Carbon, so good to see you too. Congratulations on getting married. “Thanks.” They broke the embrace. “So how’s your family doing?” “They’re doing fine, in fact, I brought someone along to meet you.” A little buffalo girl emerged from the train, she had a light brown coat with darker brown hair, she had a white headband with a red zig zag pattern running through it and also had three feathers sticking out of it. “Hello, it’s nice to meet you.” The little buffalo girl greeted. Carbon came up to her. “Well hello there, you must be Little Strong Heart, it’s nice to finally meet you.” Mobius came up next to Little Strong Heart and stood next to her. “When she heard I was coming to Ponyville to meet you, she got excited and practically begged me to take her with me, she said she was curious about other pony towns and also said something about having some friends here.” Mobius explained. Little Strong Heart spoke up. “Sky Viper, don’t you remember that incident I told you about, when our tribe had a problem when the ponies of Appleoosa planted that orchard, some ponies from this town had come and managed to help us work things out.” “Right, I remember. And they live here right?” “Right, that’s why I wanted to come, I was hoping to get a chance to see them again.” Carbon smiled. “Well then, let’s get going. I’ll show you around, and just so you know, I got Apex and Lightning Thrash to be my other best stallions.” They started to walk as they talked and left the train station. Mobius was surprised by Carbon’s statement. “You managed to get that stiff to be your best stallion, HAH, I would just love to see him in a tux, but who’s Lightning Thrash?” Carbon face hooved. “OH right, sorry, I forget to tell you, Lightning Thrash is the captain of the royal guard here in Ponyville.” “I see, and what about this human creature we’ve been hearing about, I understand he’s part of the guard here, correct?” “He is, but you won’t get to meet him I’m afraid, he had to leave on a mission about a month ago.” Little Strong Heart was disappointed at this. “Awwe, I was looking forward to seeing this human thing.” Carbon looked over to Strong Heart. “Charles isn’t a thing Little Strong Heart, he’s a human, and he is a very good one at that. He’s strong, he a skilled fighter, he’s really nice, not much of a funny side to him though. By that I mean he knows how to take a joke, just not make them, heh heh.” Carbon laughed at his own joke a little. “Little Strong Heart?” A voice sounded from just above the trio. They all looked up to see Rainbow Dash hovering just above their heads. Little Strong Heart smiled big upon seeing her. “Rainbow Dash!” She galloped away a little as Dash came in for a landing. Dash smiled big upon seeing her. “Hey Little Strong Heart, what are you doing here? Good to see you again.” “You too, I’m here with my big brother, he’s going to be the best stallion for a friend of his.” Dash gave a quizzical look. “You have a brother?” “Come on, I’ll introduce you.” Little Strong Heart led Dash over to the two stallions. “Rainbow Dash, this is Sky Viper, my big brother.” Mobius said his greeting. “Hey Rainbow, good to see you again.” “Oh, hey Mobius, how’s it going?” Little Strong Heart was surprised by this. “You two know each other?” Mobius began to explain. “We used to be together, but because of the dangers of the job I had, we had a mutual break up.” He then faced Dash. “We’re still friends though right?” “Sure, we’re cool.” She said with a smile. “So how are you doing Dash?” “I’m getting married, that’s how good I’m doing.” Mobius turned to Carbon. “So this is the mare you’re marrying Carbon?” Carbon and Dash started laughing. “HA HA ha ha, no silly, I’m marrying a mare by the name of Octavia, she’s a real classy mare.” Dash laughed too. “HA ha, as if, Carbon is fine and all, but he’s just not my type. I’m marrying the captain of the royal guard here in Ponyville, his name is Lighting Thrash.” Mobius furrowed his brow as he looked at Carbon. “Well how was I supposed to know, you never told me who you were marrying.” Carbon managed to stop his laughter. “Sorry Mobius, guess I forgot to mention it, come on, I’ll show you two around.” Dash stopped her laughter too. “Carbon, you don’t mind if I tag along do you, me and Little Strong Heart have some catching up to do.” Mobius made a suggestion. “Actually Dash, why don’t you show her around yourself, if you want.” Rainbow Dash smiled at the idea. “Perfect, what do ya say Strong Heart, you want me to show you around?” Little Strong Heart had a big smile on her face. “Sure, I’d like to see the others too.” “Of course, come on, I’ll show you around and we’ll meet up with the others.” Rainbow Dash then happily led Strong Heart away to see Ponyville. Two days later: Carbon’s wedding was all set now, it was being held in the Canterlot gardens and would be starting in two hours. Carbon decided to pay a visit to the Canterlot grave yard and pay a visit to his old squad mates. Carbon slowly made his way through the grave yard as his vision seemed to become distorted the closer he drew to the graves of his old squad. Flash back: Carbon and his squad were part of the Guardian force. Call sign, Vampire Four, his unit was known as the Night Stalker unit. The unit consisted of six ponies, counting Carbon. Name: Biological name: Mobius Indian name: Sky Viper Rank: Sergeant First Class Race: Pegasus Eye Color: Light brown Coat: Dark grey Mane: Spiky Black with yellow streaks Specialty: Air assault, recon, tracker Mark: Winged dagger Armor: Light armor in Tiger Stripe pattern, olive drab bandana, vest Weapon: Parrying dagger, tomahawk Name: Snow [KIA] Rank: 2nd. Lt Race: Unicorn Eye Color: Blue Coat: White Mane: Short cut gray Specialty: 2nd in command Mark: Crescent moon Armor: Light armor in Ghostex Camo with special holsters for knives, tomahawks, shurikins, etc (Nightstalker trademark) Weapon: Ballistic knives Notable features: The quietest member of the unit, originally from the Frozen North Bio [CLASSIFIED] Name: Bạch Ngọc (Onyx in Vietnamese) [KIA] Rank: Staff Sergeant Race: Unicorn Eye Color: Ice blue Coat: Grey Mane: Black Specialty: Medic Mark: Medic Cross Armor: Light armor in Ghostex Camo with special holsters for knives, tomahawks, shurikins, etc (Nightstalker trademark) Weapon: Shurikens Notable features: Very smart, bullied as a colt but overcame it unlike Black Heart, originally from Vietmane Bio: [Classified] Name: Mlazni Potok (Jet Stream in Sebian)[KIA] Rank: Sergeant 1st Class Race: Pegasus Eye Color: Blue Coat: Grey Mane: Black with tips Specialty: Sniper Mark: None, covered by scales Armor: Ghillie suit Weapon: High powered crossbow with variable zoom scope Notable features: From Serbneiga Bio: [Classified] Name: Jalatē Sitārā (Burning Star in Hindi)[KIA] Rank: Master Sergeant Race: Earth Eye Color: Brown Coat: Dark Brown Mane: Long black Specialty: Combat engineer Mark: Chakra Wheel Armor: Light armor in Ghostex Camo with special holsters for knives, tomahawks, shurikins, etc (Nightstalker trademark) Weapon: Chakram (throwing disks) Notable features: The only member of the team from Neignpon, speaks with an Indian (from India) accent Bio: [Classified] The unit was deployed to Saddle Arabia on a stallion hunt for a wanted and dangerous terrorist hiding in the mountains. This terrorist was not only linked to detonating a bomb in Appleoosa and killed 50 ponies and cost the EOD operator his leg, but an assassination attempt on both Celestia and the Saddle Arabian ruler. The mission was running smoothly, capture/kill the terrorist with the Saddle Arabian National Army acting as support, until the terrorist led Guardian and the SANA into an ambush. A mine would wipe out the SANA and left Guardian disoriented where they were captured as POW. As part of the torture, Carbon and surviving teammate Mobius were forced to watch as their team was tortured, slaughtered, and butchered. Carbon and Mobius were rescued 2 months later by Pheonix Unit. As punishment for their resistance and defiance. Carbon's eyes were destroyed and has lacerations on most of his body, Mobius had his wings and a majority of the bones in his body broken. End Flashback: Carbon’s vision soon returned to him as the flashback faded. He had apparently fallen down on his belly as the vision took hold as he had to pick himself back up. He looked at the graves of his fallen comrades. A single tear ran down his cheek as he hung his head. “I’m so sorry guys, I should have been better, I could have saved you somehow. Now because of me, you’re all dead.” A voice rang out. “It’s not your fault.” This got Carbon’s attention. He looked up and couldn’t believe his eyes, the ghostly apparitions of his squad stood before him over their graves. “It…..It can’t be…..Snow, Onyx, Burning, Jet Stream. It can’t be, wh-what’s going on here.” Snow spoke first. “Carbon, it wasn’t your fault, what happened was something none of us could have seen coming.” Jetstream agreed. “You shouldn’t blame yourself.” Carbon was still having trouble accepting what he was seeing as he spoke. “But…..I. Onyx then spoke as well. “Carbon, we don’t blame you for what happened, and you shouldn’t either.” Carbon argued. “But I was in charge of the mission, I planned the whole thing that lead to your deaths, how am I supposed to not feel responsible!” Burning Star came in. “Because you couldn’t have known about the trap we got caught in, none of us could have seen it coming, you need to stop blaming yourself for what happened.” Carbon sat on his haunches, lowered his head, and closed his eyes as a few more tears escaped. “I’m so sorry guys, I never meant for this to happen.” Jet Stream spoke. “We know, that’s why we don’t blame you, it wasn’t your fault.” Carbon looked back up with a sad smile. “Thanks guys, I can’t tell you how sorry I am. I guess it’s time I finally let go of the past then.” Snow responded. “Yes, it is, you are getting married after all.” “So you need to stop living in the past and look to the future.” Onyx added. “We’re glad to see you moving on with your life, so get out there and live it.” Carbon stood up, wiped the tears from his eyes and gave a smile. “Your right, it is time I stopped living in the past, thanks guys, I appreciate this, I do miss you all though, but now I know that I can move on and forget what happened. Thank you.” They all gave Carbon one last smile before fading away. “Goodbye my friends.” Carbon said quietly as he turned around and walked out of the graveyard. “I can’t believe I’m in a dress again.” Vinyl complained as she was with Octavia and the two other mares that would be acting as Octavia’s brides maids. “But you look so wonderful in it.” Rarity said. She was one of the other’s that were acting as Octavia’s bride’s maids. “You should know me by now Rarity, I don’t do dresses, I’m only doing this cause Octy asked me to be here, I’m willing to put up with this for her sake.” Octavia looked to Vinyl. “And I thank you for it Vinyl, I know you hate dressing up, but this is my wedding, and I wanted my best friends to be here for me.” Vinyl just smiled. “Don’t worry about it, I’m honored to be one of your best mares.” “Oh, I’m so nervous, are you sure you want me here too Octavia.” Fluttershy asked nervously. Ocavia gave a smile to her as well. “Fluttershy, I can think of no other to be here for me than you, you’ll do fine, all you have to do is stand there next to me, all eyes are really going to be on me and Carbon anyway.” “Well, ok, thank you for asking me to do this.” Meanwhile, with Carbon and his best stallions, Lightning and Mobius couldn’t help but snicker with each other as they saw the serious Apex in a tux. “Tch, I never thought I’d see the day.” Lightning Thrash said. “The general of the Equestrian military wearing a tuxedo.” Apex brought a hoof up to his neck and fiddled with the bow tie he had on as he tried to adjust it. “Don’t get used to it boys, I’m only doing this cause Carbon asked. He’s a good soldier and I have respect for him.” Mobius was trying to hide his laughter as well. “Mpf, sorry sir, it’s just that with how serious you tend to be, it’s a little amusing to see you like this.” Apex narrowed his eyes at Mobius. “Whatever, well it may not be the last time, with the way things have been going with me and the princesses………I don’t know.” Carbon picked up on this. “What do you mean sir?” Apex looked at Carbon. “No need for sir here at the moment, I’m off duty so no need to be using ranks, second, what I mean is that I am honored Celestia and Luna have an affinity for me, so……well…..” Carbon gave a sly smile. “Apex……are you blushing?” “Of course not!” He immediately defended. Lightning then posed another question. “What about Night Shine sir….uh…Apex?” “She seems nice too, but I’m still wary around her after what happened. But if Luna says she can be trusted, I suppose I can trust her judgment.” Carbon broke up the conversation. “All right fellas, I think that’s enough chatter, it’s time for my wedding, so let’s go take our places, and Apex, thanks for coming and doing this.” “Don’t mention it Carbon.” The four stallions made their way out of their room and to the Canterlot garden. It was a beautiful spring day as the sun shone down. There was a white archway with vines and white flowers decorating it to mark the entrance of the isle. A podium was set up on a white stage with another even bigger archway with more white flowers. The rest of the main six, as well as Little Strong Heart, a few of the Royal guards from Ponyville, Black Cloud, Stunner, Dusk Fang, and Dawn Fang were present for the wedding. Even the two princesses and Night Shine were there. The other guards stayed behind so Ponyville wouldn’t be unprotected. Carbon stood at the altar with his best Stallions at his side. He was smiling so big at the moment. He turned and saw Octavia begin her march down the isle with her maids behind her. She was wearing a long flowing white dress with a veil over her face. The other three were wearing white dresses as well but weren’t as long as Octavia’s. Octavia took her place by Carbon’s side as she smiled brightly. He returned the smile as well. They both turned to the podium where an earth pony wearing a black robe and a white scarf like thing. (Ok so I don’t know what those things priests wear are called, sue me.) He had a grey coat and a white mane and tail. He looked over the podium and at the ponies before him as he began. “Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to join two hearts in the journey that is life, they have shone their love to be true, their bond to be strong, their commitment to be unquestionable. Today, we are here to witness the binding of these two souls in life and love. If there be a soul here that feels these two should not be joined, speak now or forever be silent.” A moment passed and no one spoke. “Then by the power vested in me by our beloved princess Celestia, I hereby announce you husband and wife, you may kiss the bride.” Carbon turned to face Octavia and lifted her veil. He leaned in and the two shared their kiss as a new couple. The ponies all cheered at the scene. The two looked back at the crowd with smiles. They began their walk back down the isle together. At the reception, the party was in full swing as the ponies present were enjoying themselves. The newlyweds were chatting it up with the girls first. The two princesses and Night Shine made their way over to the group. “Hello my little ponies.” Celestia greeted. They turned and bowed before them. “Greeting your majesties, I am honored you could grace our wedding with your presence.” Carbon said. Celestia smiled. “It is always a joyous day when two hearts find each other as you two have.” “We are pleased to be here to see such an event.” Luna stated. Apex soon approached the group, he came up next to Celestia as he spoke. “Carbon, congratulations on your wedding, I just know you two are going to be happy together.” Carbon responded. “Thank you Apex, I couldn’t be happier.” As soon as the three alicorn mares noticed him, they started blushing a little. Celestia was the first to comment after composing herself. “Hello Apex, my but you look handsome in that tux.” Apex looked to Celestia as he responded. “Don’t get used to it your majesty, I prefer clothing that isn’t so…..constricting.” Rarity chimed in at this. “Oh dear, is your tux a little tight.” Apex looked down at the fashionista. “A little.” “Well you should have come to me for a tuxedo my dear, I would have gotten the measurements and such spot on. Perhaps if you’d like, I could make a new one for you sometime for special occasions.” “That won’t be necessary miss Rarity. I don’t plan on wearing another any time soon.” Luna gave a mock pout. “Oh, but you look so good in it, you never know when you want to look your best.” Night Shine giggled at Luna. “Heh heh, yes, you never know when you might discover that special somepony…..or three.” Apex just rolled his eyes. “I just wish Charles could have been here for this.” Carbon said. “Me too, I miss my hubby wubby.” Pinkie stated, feeling a little sad that Charles wasn’t here. “Me too, I sure do miss him.” Applejack followed up. “It just doesn’t feel the same without him around.” Rarity pouted. “I miss him too.” Twilight stated. Celestia gave a sad smile at the four. “I think it’s safe to assume we all miss him, but we must remember that he is on an important mission and will return in time. We must have faith in him and hope for his safe return.” “Yeah, what she said, Charles is a tough guy, he can take care of himself. Just you wait, he’ll be back before we know it.” Rainbow Dash declared. “So Octavia, where will you two be having your honeymoon?” Fluttershy asked. “We are going to Las Pegasus, I hear it’s splendid this time of year. I just know we’ll have a good time.” Octavia answered happily. “Why couldn’t we have gone on a honeymoon with our hubby?” Pinkie complained. Twilight, Rarity, and Applejack gathered around her to comfort her. “Oh Pinky, I know you miss him, we all do, but we have to remember that he left to get something so he can better protect us.” Twilight said as they hugged her. “That’s right sugar cube, we just have ta try and be patient and wait fer him to come back to us.” Applejack followed up. “I just hope he comes back in time to be here for our little surprise on the way.” Rarity pointed out. The party soon wound down and it was now time for Octavia and Carbon to head off on their honeymoon. “Farewell friends, we’ll see you in a month.” Ocavia called as she and Carbon boarded the carriage ready to be pulled by four pegasus guards to sweep them off to Las Pegasus. “So long fellas, I’ll be back on duty when I get back.” Carbon called out as well. They took their seat in the carriage and waved goodbye as it took off into the air and to the start of a new life for the two.