It was 8th of April, and a war had just ended, a war that had ravaged through the entirety of Ponyville, destroyed Canterlot, and left Manehattan and many other places as shredded debris scattered in the floor… Or atleast that’s what would’ve happened if it were an actual, realistic war. What had really happened was an event, supported by Princess Celestia and Princess Luna (One could even say orchestrated by them both in juxtaposition), that simulated a fight between the New Lunar Republic, loyal supporters and crusaders of the princess of the moon and darkness, and the Solar Empire, the advocates and defenders of the sun’s chosen and bringer of light. While it could look like a skirmish had started between the ponies, which ended up in an epic conflagration at the very end, the real thing was just some sort of ‘war-game’ where ponies would do their best in helping their team… In retrospect… that could possibly explain the cartoony and silly design of the game, despite its war theme focus…. Think of it as a match of airsoft, laser tag or paintball, complete with the fake ‘guns’ to score points in Equestria as a whole, but right now we’ll focus on the capital of the country; Canterlot.

After everything had finished and the time period that was predicted for the event had passed away, it was called a ‘ceasefire’ of sorts, in order to count the amounts of points that every team won for their favorite princess and to hand out the badges and medals for everypony depending on how many points they scored (Thankfully the weaponry they used had the magical characteristic of counting how many votes the user had based on how many hits they did). During this time it was when ponies from both teams meet together and they chatted, shared stories and just generally hanged out. It was probably the first time that regular folks from the capital hanged out with the ponies from places such as Ponyville or Las Pegasus, somehow making aside their differences momentarily as they fought together for a same goal, whether to make the SE or NLR win.

In this context of friendship and socialness that arose from this complex version of tug-of-war, we could find two cute little plones that had participated in the event. One of them was Azure Interdictor, who had taken the role of a sniper, sitting on some ‘abandoned buildings’ with her silenced anti-materiel rifle, her gray-ish camouflage smock and her black uniform with pith helmet. She had managed to score a fair amount of points herself as she stood where she was, occasionally moving to other different spots in the vicinity with stealth and subterfuge, not even the tip of her weapon was visible as she slowly, carefully, and cleanly took accurate shots towards important enemy positions and equipment. She had been discovered a couple times, and got shot atleast twice, one of the ‘fake bullets’ hitting her in the cheek, but thanks to Bashful Interceptor, one of the many medics of the team, she was capable of ‘resurrecting’ and getting back into action.

As for the latter, the cute little red and blue plane pony, he chosen the medic loadout, including the white uniform with medic patches and tactical corpsman gear they had offered. He knew that it meant that he’d be shot often, since he could revive teammates, but he was agile enough to avoid most shots fired at him, take cover quickly, and generally his teammates had his back. Also, the fact that there was more than one healer in the group meant that the four times he was shot he was able to get back up. This didn’t mean he was defenseless though, he had a PDW and took out a few enemy ponies with it.

All in all, it was a rather fun event that wanted to portray these two factions fighting for power in a harmless, funny way. And whoever didn’t want to participate just had to mention and they could stay at home and go shop or anything, being considered ‘civilians’, but maybe seeing the occasional player popping from windows and foxholes. But alas, the event was over now, it was nighttime, and that meant that everyone could return to their normal lives… except perhaps remain with their uniforms since they actually looked really cool. In this context, the mostly white plane pony walked through the streets and roads of Canterlot, being like a confusing maze for him as he tried to find his hotel room, carefully stepping past a multitude of ponies all cheering and smiling. Even the SE players, despite having lost, kept themselves cheery.

“Hey! Lil plone!” Someone said from across the corner. Bashful didn’t pay much attention to it, imagining they were calling another plane pony (Though he was fairly certain there weren’t other plane ponies aside from him and Azure), but when he heard the sound again, this time closer, and felt a hoof gently bap him on the side of his shoulder, he looked around to see a gray batpony with dark blue mane, black leather jacket, and a NLR medal hanging on his chest. He seemed to have used his own clothing for the event instead of the ones they were handing… wait… wasn’t he…

“Oh, hi? Um.. d-do you need anything?” Bashy asked, smiling shyly and a bit timidly, imagining that the only reason he might’ve talked to him was to ask for help or indications about anything. Surprisingly for him, this didn’t seem to be the case, as the bat pony shook his head with a negative “Oh no no, I was wondering if you’d like to join our group” He said, as he pointed with a fluffy hoof towards a bunch of ponies reunited, mostly of the New Lunar Republic but, if he recognized some of them, there were also some Solar Empire players he saw before. For some reason, they were all outside the front entrance of a giant mansion, adorned with NLR paraphernalia and overall moon-related add-ons, like a picture of stars and constellations above the entrance. Everything made it look like if this was used as a HQ for the lunar troops during the event; there was even a flag in the highest part of the roof!

“Hi!” Somepony amidst the group said, a unicorn, noticing that both the plane pony and the dark-haired batpony were staring at them, in particular the hoof gesture that the slit-eyed pony did. She waved adorably towards Bashful and co., showcasing her lilac coat and her bright pink mane, and she also seemed to have heterochromia, if the plane pony’s eyes weren’t fooling him, with one green eye and one cyan eye. Overall she was an adorable cutie that wanted to be friendly, and the cute anxious plane pony waved back with a hint of timidity.

The plone was a bit conflicted, on one paw, he actually was happy of meeting new people, and they seemed friendly enough, on the other side, the anxiety was working up his mind and making him feel like if he should rather flashbang this batpony and run to the safety of his home. After a bit of deciding, he walked alongside the batpony towards the group of players that were casually chatting and hanging out, one of them sitting in a bunch of sandbags and palisades that were lined in the exterior of the building, alongside what seemed to be like a water-cooled machinegun in one of the windows, positioned strategically to face against the street. He spotted the lilac unicorn, confirming she indeed had heterochromia, and also saw a white Pegasus, a gray unicorn, a yellow Pegasus and a gray batpony.

“Hey Dark, who’s the new guy? Wait is that the one you were talking about?” The gray unicorn asked towards the jacketed tall horse. He looked towards the lil plone on his side, allowing him to present himself in front of the entire group, something that he sadly was very fearful of since it gave him quite a bit of anxiety. The cute plone shifted uncomfortably on his spot, as everyone looked at him expectantly. “W-w-well… u-um… I-I’m Bashful… Bashful Interceptor… a-and, w-well… Hi?” He said, almost stepping back out of fear, but unexpectedly, they didn’t mock him neither laugh off him, like his inner panic told him, but they reacted nicely and greeted him warmly, one of them, the yellow Pegasus with some face-paint scars, approached him and gently patted him on the head “Don’t worry, we’re all friendly here, and we don’t mind if you’re part of the SE. Nice to meet you Bashful, I’m Sweet Bun! The guy who brought you here is Dark, and they are… Dust, Background Pony, Lightpoint, Blood Moon and Jade the Bat” She signaled towards the rest of the ponies that were forming a circle, all of them waving back cutely.

Bashful felt a bit more at ease with that kind introduction, while Sweet, realizing the little plone was anxious, continued patting his head as the group resumed with the talk they had before. “Wow, you’re really soft… I’m surprised because you… actually what are you?” She asked uncertain and not wanting to be impolite to their new guest. The plone just purred contently and smiled “Oh, I’m a plane pony cat pony”. Upon hearing this, the batpony suddenly had an idea and went to search something inside the mansion. “Huh, that’s interesting, never heard of an species like you… and you seem to be enjoying this heh? I can see the kitty part of your biology” the yellow Pegasus said, continuing to pet, which elicited more purring.

Atleast before there was suddenly a snap and the plone felt something hanging from his neck. A surprised and confused “Wait wat” was reacted by both baker Pegasus and kittypony, until the batpony stepped to Dark’s side, with one hoof pointed towards the plone who wasn’t sure what was going on. “Aight, he’s SE, but perhaps we can keep this one as a pet” Dark mentioned with a laugh, meant to be mostly a joke. “I mean just look at him, he’s adorable like a cat… well he’s a cat! Can we keep it as a pet plz plz plz plz?”

The group erupted in laughter, Sweet Bun managing to retain herself to a snort at the comical event, which was further made hilarious by the abject confusement that the poor plane pony hybrid was currently dealing with. Although a bit afterwards he loosened up, seeing so many ponies happy, and he giggled a bit too, smiling cutely. One of them, the unicorn with gray coat, expressed their thoughts with a loud “Haha, he’s definitely a cute little kitty, I wanna pet it!”.

But the poor unicorn didn’t manage to turn his plan into fruition and feel the plone’s soft and silky fur as somebody from behind Dark and Bashful, very far away, suddenly shouted “Hey! Give us back our cat! He’s from the Solar Empire! We’ll reclaim our kitty!” They either had listened to the joke Dark had just did, or they connected the dots seeing the silly leash tied onto his collar, either way their voice was definitely teasing and in a kidding demeanor, as Dark continued on with the joke with a fake hiss and a devious smile, spitting back “No! He’s mine now!” and proceeding to take Bashful from his midsection and run away, to the utter comedic delight of everyone present, except Bashful, who wondered in what crazy den he just got himself into…

I swear I was very drunk when I decided to draw this, that or I was actually sober and going through abstinence symptoms, I don’t know but I feel like I wasn’t really sane when I drew this Xp

Anyways here you have a cute Bashful dressed as a military officer with a very cool white uniform and armbands with red crosses signaling he’s a medic. He also has his epaulettes identifying him as a lieutenant and his collar borders too. I based myself heavily on German uniforms (In particular the pant stripe I got inspired from the Heer generals, and the ‘yellow bands’ on the arms, the golden corners of his upper lapels/collar come from the Kriegsmarine Naval Infantry original uniforms) and I think it looks really cool :D This is basically what I do when I get asked to draw a military uniform XD
I also got a lot of inspiration from these beautiful uniforms people drew of Solar Empire troops:
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Oh, and also I hope that Dark doesn’t mind if I portrayed his OC in such a way, I know he’s usually very very very serious and could easily break me in half for doing something weird with his OC but I just had to after he said this on the thread, I just found the mental picture absurdly adorable and cute and silly XP. Please don’t kill me Mr. Dark D: