Equestria was at war once more. After hundreds of years of peace, war has once more set its hooves on the country of harmony.

At the head of this all was Shining Armor, the Captain of the elite Royal Guard. However, despite his years of service, nothing in the peacetime service of the Guard could have prepared him for the life and death stakes of the war. Given the task of protecting Equestria, he must now navigate the battlefields on the north and the political intrigues of Canterlot as he and his comrades try to save their country from the ravages of war and the changes it brings with it.

A target drone is dangerously wandering in the skies above Equestria and its up to the Wonderbolts to shoot it down.

Lost in the jungle, a member of the Equestrian Marines fights for his life, trapped and surrounded by his enemies. Luckily for him, a pony named Camouflage finds him.

Based on a song by Stan Ridgway called Camouflage.

For centuries Celestia had been alone, with nopony to call as her family. But as she lived a life of hidden loneliness, she will soon find herself in the company of a young filly, one whom's she'll love and care for as if she were her own. Brought to her through an unfortunate accident, yet treated with love and gently care, Celestia, for the first time in hundreds and hundreds of years, finds herself loving another pony who is now family to her. For this young filly is now her daughter, and she her mother.

As Luna prepares to conduct her nightly duties, she receives a surprise visitor.

All Vapor Trail wanted to do was ask Sky Stinger on a date. But as it turns out, Sky Stinger has a reason why the two of them can't go out.

Not wanting to face Sky Stinger again and feeling that he hated her more than anything, Vapor Trail leaves the Wonderbolts Academy, thinking that Star Stinger would be pleased to see her gone. Without her closest friend, she feels lost and without purpose, separated from the one she loved. But would forgiveness find a way and reunite the two once more? Or would they continue to avoid each other, leaving the wound forever open?

The war has been over for months and yet it still lingers in many. Not a day passed by without them remembering the horrors and sadness the war was brought.

Major Rainbow Dash, national hero and renowned soldier of the Equestrian Army, is praised by ponies no matter where she goes. Her exploits during the last day of the war is a well known story as her face is easily recognized anywhere. Considered as a great icon, somepony who ended the war and saved thousands, she is looked up upon by many and adored by the entire land. But for her, she just wishes to be left alone. The parties, the speeches, the praises, she would trade that for the lives of those she lost or for a chance to join them in their eternal sleep.

When this war hero finally snaps from all the strains she had to go through, she is sent to Ponyville for the long awaited rest she wanted. Having trouble finding quiet and peace in the large cities because of her fame, the small quiet town of Ponyville seems like the perfect place for her stay and get away from it all.

But with the memories of the pass always shrouding her, would she finally be able to make peace? Or will she continue to suffer and wage war in her mind, even after the last shot was fired.

"They said it would be over in a month.... But it went on and on, seemingly no end to it all, with more pain and horrors that anypony could imagine before."
-Lt. Rainbow Dash, 4th Air Dragoons

Rainbow Dash has seen it all, the sadness, the horrors, and the madness of war. But when a new officer comes and join the army against Equestria's new offensive against King Sombra, she believes that she is about to see more madness than she has ever seen before.

The Lunar Guard has been an inactive force for an entire millennia. After Princess Luna's banishment, the unit had been nothing more than just a myth, a story that went along with the mystical Lunar Princess. But with the Princess of the Night's return, the banner of the Lunar Guard shall rise once more. To do their duty and serve their Princess, standing guard for her as she returns to her throne.