Xalcer: Sir, can I have a towel, sir?!  
Lanceor: Not in a million years, Rookie! You can EAT your POPSICLE. Speak out of turn again and you’ll be on your way home before daybreak, understood?
 
I don’t know. Anyway, this is based on something that actually happened to a Danish elite soldier when he was just a recruit. Instead of giving the recruits towels after a dip in the ice cold water in the middle of the night, popsicles were handed out in order to teach the soldiers to accept humiliation.
 
This is seriously one of the strangest concepts I’ve ever had concerning MLP.
 
It was originally my intention to add three more of the Solar Knights, but I had to drop it because of the deadline (Which is also the reason for the half-assed background. That, and the fact that it’s almost 6 AM and the only thing that was done when I went to bed Wednesday was Lanceor). So basically, they’re not supposed to be alone by the pool.  
I wanted to show Xalcer’s rebellious side and thought this would be a nice way to do it. I decided to have the recruits in silver “armor” instead of gold and to add the respective Element of Harmony to show which brances of the Solar Knights the three OCs belong to.
 
Xalcer belongs to Xalcer13  
Lanceor belongs to GeneralDurandal  
And Honeycrisp belongs to Honeycrisp1012
 
The more I look at this, the less satisfied I am with it