Chapter 11: The Whole Truth, Oh God . . .

As Princess Celestia and I were in the royal carriage, heading to the castle, I could tell she wanted to tell me something. "Is there something on your mind, Princess?" I asked her.

"Well, I have yet to inform all the ponies in Equestria about your existence here. Do you think you can go to your pony form so we won't scare my subjects? It is only until we are inside the castle walls."

"I totally understand. Have you informed your guards I am coming, or am I going for another incident like at the Ponyville ceremony for me?"

"I knew I was forgetting something. It is a little late now. Just stay close so they know you are with me."

"If we do get separated, I will try not to harm your guards if they do attack me."

She smiled and we remained silent for the rest of the flight. I transformed to my pony form feeling more muscle tone than the last time I was a pony. Hmm, looks like the applebucking is building my muscle tones in this form. Once the castle in Canterlot was close, the Pegasus pony guards began their descent into the front courtyard. We landed and I helped the Princess out of the carriage. I turned to the castle as was truly amazed by how beautiful the castle really was.

I soon realized Princess Celestia was at the top of the steps and entering the big front door and I am still at the bottom of the stairs. Great, I got sidetracked from sightseeing. I quickly made my way up the stairs. The earth pony guards at the front door stopped me from entering. "Halt! State your name and business for the reason for coming to the castle." One guard said.

"My name is Swift Blaze. I am not from Equestria so she has invited me to come and fill out some paperwork to become a citizen here." I reply back with a friendly tone.

"Hmm, you must be an outsider wearing that odd clothing." The other guard said.

"This actually does have a purpose. Now if you excuse me, I need to catch back up with Princess Celestia."

"No can do, we don't let in any outsiders in without orders from the Princess."

"Can you get her then? I came here on her carriage and got sidetrack looking at the castle."

"No can do. I don't trust you so go back to where ever you came from, freak."

Oh that's it. I am no longer responsible for my action. "What did you call me? My face went from friendly to being pissed off.

"You heard me. Now leave the grounds or we will throw you into the dungeons."

"You want to see a magic trick?"

"Huh? What in Equestria are you bucking about?" One guard said with a confused look on his face.

"For my first trick, I shall transform my form into a creature you have never seen." I release the shadow transform jutsu and returned to my human body.

"It's a monster! Get it!" A guard yelled. Both guards started to charge at me.

"For my next trick, I shall make you tackle your co-worker." They continued to charge at me. I performed a combo substitution and transformation on myself and one of the guards. This caused the area to be filled with smoke. Once it dissipated, an earth pony guard has pinned Blaze.

"Go get some guards so we can take this to the dungeon. The other earth pony nodded and headed inside. Blaze was fighting against the hold he was in.

"Get off me you dolt! He performed some magic that caused me to look like him and him to look like me." Blaze lookalike said.

"Prove it."

"Do you want me to go into detail about your date last week and of where I found you in the aftermath?" He shook his head no and quickly got off his co-worker. The fake Blaze suddenly transformed back to his original body. "Come on! We need to sound the alarm about the intruder that has entered the castle and performed some sort of magic to make him look like a guard."

They entered the castle and made their way to the courtroom where the Princess spends most of the time to hear what ponies wish to complain about. They rounded the corner and almost bumped into Princess Celestia. "Your Highness! There is a strange creature that can change its form running around the castle. We must get you to safety." One guard said.

"That will not be necessary. Swift Blaze is my guess and will be staying in the castle for a while. I invited him here to fill the forms to give him citizenship."

"You sure you can trust that creature? It performed something causing a guard to look like the creature and traded positions."

"I am sure he only did that so he would not deal damage to you directly. Did you provoke him somehow?"

"I may have called him a freak due to how he was dressed in the pony form."

"Then it is your fault for what happened. You both are suspended from duty for a week and can't leave the training ground during that time. "

"Yes your Highness." The guards both said and left her sight.

Princess Luna came up walking to her and said, "I thought thou were in court when we last saw? We hear Swift Blaze is somewhere on thy grounds."

"You probably did see me there and Blaze is closer than you think." A puff a cloud formed around Princess Celestia and revealed Blaze in his human form.

"Blaze! Why was thou disguise as thy sister?" Princess Luna said with a shocked tone.

"The guards were chasing me when I said I am a guess of Princess Celestia while in my pony form. I even came here in her carriage with her and they still wouldn't have let me in. Would you mind escorting me to Princess Celestia? I have something that I need to show to both of you and only for you. The reason will be explained when we are all together."

"Very well. Let's go see thy sister." I followed Princess Luna through the halls until we reached the big doors leading to the royal throne room. The unicorn guards standing by used their magic to open the doors for the Princess and myself. Inside, I saw Princess Celestia is sitting on the throne and working on filling out some scrolls.

She looked up to see who entered and saw us. "Ah, Blaze, glad to see you were able to get in. How much trouble did you cause?"

"Nothing big your Highness. If you hear about two guards being suspended by you and told to stay in the training grounds, sorry about that."

"Now why would they think I did that?" Princess Celestia said as she already figured out why.

"Um, maybe because they were chasing me when I changed human and escaped into the castle."

"Care to elaborate on what happened?"

I began to tell them what happened from when I exited the carriage to the point Princess Luna saw me looking like her sister. "I am sorry for impersonating you. There are just certain words I don't like being called. I can somewhat understand in my human form as they never see my species. They called me that in my pony form of how I dressed."

"Thank you for being honest with me. Now then shall we go over those things we discussed while at Twilight's?"

"Very well Princess Celestia. If you could please clear the room, except for you and Princess Luna, I shall go over it."

The Princess nodded and told her guards to leave the room and do not wish to be disturbed. Once they left and closed the doors, Princess Celestia cast a few spells with her magic. "Ok Swift Blaze, I cast spells so we can't be seen or hear by anything. I also cast a spell so nopony can teleport in here."

"Thank you Princess. As I said when we were at Twilight's, I gained my abilities from my God from two cartoon shows I liked to watch. There is another series I like to watch."

"Pray tell what is thou speaking of?" Princess Luna asked.

"Guess I should catch you up to this point so you understand what I will be getting at." I told Princess Luna about my last day on Earth and then when my God gave me a choice to live and I asked for these abilities. I could not have shown her the shows themselves as we were not in my mind.

"We are still confused what a 'cartoon show' is and why thou is talking about a third." Princess Luna said.

"Sister, I shall share my memory of this morning with you later to help explain. Let's get back to the question at hand. So what is this third show you wishing to only include me and my sister in knowing?" Princess Celestia said.

"The only way you can truly believe me if I show you. We won't have to go into my mind for this one."

"How in Equestria can you show us when you don't have that device with you from the first meeting?"

"By doing this." I performed the hand signs and said, " Summoning Jutsu!" as I placed my hand on the ground. A puff of smoke appeared and revealed my backpack that I left at Twilight's.

As I was digging in the back for the iPad, a trail of smoke came into the throne room and changed back into a scroll in front of Princess Celestia. She opened it and read it out loud.

Dear Princess Celestia,

Something tragic has happened. Swift Blaze's saddle has disappeared! He is going to be so mad at me as I was the last one with it. We need to send out the Royal Guard to find the culprit and retrieve it. Please don't inform Blaze about this as I could not handle him being angry with me. I expect your swift response.

Your faithful student,

Twilight Sparkle

"I think you should write her a letter saying you used your jutsu to retrieve your bag." Princess Celestia suggested.

"Yea, seeing I am the culprit that took it. Got a quill, ink, and a scroll for me?" Princess Celestia used her magic and brought the items to me. I wrote Twilight the following letter.

Dear Twilight Sparkle,

There is no need to send out the Royal Guard. I am the one who summoned my bag to me. I shall explain how when I am back in Ponyville tomorrow.

Your friend,

Swift Blaze

P.S. I would have not been mad at you for losing my bag. I would have gone after the culprit and made them wish they never done it.

"Ok Princess, you may send it to her." She used her magic and the scroll disappeared in a blink of an eye. "Now then, back to the third show. Please don't do anything rash when I show you the first episodes of the series. I will explain after I play them." They gathered around me as I pull up the episode and pressed play. The episode was the first one for My Little Pony. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were shocked and confused about how their world is a cartoon show on the human's world. After the second episode finished, I stopped the player and closed up the iPad.

"Ok, let me first explain that I had no idea how the creator of this series, Lauren Faust, was able to capture events here. Plus the fact this was first shown just over 2 years ago in my time." I started.

"So you knew about us before we even met?" Princess Celestia asked.

"That is correct. I fell in love with this world when I watched the episodes. I started to read fan fictions about this place and how wonderful they were creating it. This world was showing humans how good and peaceful a race can be without war and destruction. The males that really like the series are called Bronies and the females are called Pegasisters. A bunch of us wish to come to this world and leave Earth behind with the influence of greed and power behind."

"Is that what you think we are? A fantasy world you humans created?" Celestia asked with a little anger tone."

"In the beginning, yes, I did think that way. But now I realize this world truly exist and I am still in love with all of its inhabitants. I will do anything to protect everypony here. You may scan my mind as I took down my defensives to prove I am telling the truth. I only wish to live here and be a loyal subject." I said as I took one knee to them. I could feel both Princesses scanning my mind looking at everything.

Once done they nodded their heads showing I was telling the truth. "I take it that the Summer Sun Celebration event was shown to you two years ago. Then you have more knowledge of more events. Am I correct?" Princess Celestia asked.

"That is correct your Highness. In the episode timeline, we are about to the end of number four. There is a total of 65 when I left my world."

"Will thou share them?" Princess Luna said.

"Let me tell you about an episode similar to this. Twilight was minding her own business when a flash appeared behind her. It was her future self came back in time to warn her about the future. The future one was a mess and could not deliver her message as the present Twilight was asking too many questions. Worried what might be happening soon, the entire town went into a frenzy to make their town safe from any disaster. Everything was made safe and nothing occurred. Twilight stayed up several nights trying to spot the disaster that might be coming. Nothing happens. Turns out future Twilight was trying to warn her past self not to worry about the future. Do you still wish to know what might occur?"

"We see thou's point."

"I will help with some of the painful ones so it is less tragic, but I too don't know when they will occur. My knowledge is only of what the episode shows. I don't even know even if since I came here, will these events ever occur"

"Thank you Swift Blaze for sharing this with us. I know it wasn't easy as how it is knowledge of possible events in our future. Seeing you with to be a protector, I propose you join my Royal Guard to gain authority when disaster occurs. Do you accept?" Princess Celestia asked.

"Thank you Princess. I must regret to decline the offer and allow me to explain. Your guards fight on the front lines and in the open. That is not the way of the ninja. We are behind the scene, gathering intelligence and preventing these conflicts. I will help when needed, but allow me by as a ninja, not a soldier."

"Then allow me to propose a counter proposal. You offered to teach Taijutsu to some of my guards. You said you need time to adjust it for a pony. How about you go through basic training in your pony form to learn how a pony fights, once done. I will hire you to be a drill sergeant to teach my guard in your style. Will you accept this one?"

"I shall Princess. Is there anything else you wish to know before we go and take care of those forms?"

"Yes, please show us the other weapons in your pack."

"I figured you were going to ask that when I allowed you to scan my mind. May I have a couple targets and target dummies to demonstrate them?" They obliged and summoned them to one side of the room. The first thing I pulled out was the throwing stars. "Ok, these here are popular in the ninja world. They are called throwing stars. As you can see, they are small, easy to get them to spin as they fly towards your opponent, and can be deadly. Let me demonstrate on that target at medium range. Please get behind me." They did so and I prepared myself. I threw all three quickly and they hit the target near dead center as they formed a triangle. Both Princesses were astonished how they worked and how accurate I was. "As you can see, they are very quiet and can either be used to incapacitate your target or kill them."

I went back to my bag and pulled out the daggers. "These are daggers and a hunting knife, or very short swords. They are easy to conceal and can also be thrown like the previous weapon. I shall demonstrate hand and thrown use." They nodded as I went to work. I walked casually up to the dummy first acting casually and buddy like. I quickly pulled the knife out and slit the throat of the dummy. Then I threw the dagger at another one impaling in-between the eyes. I can see the Princesses were scared of quickly I killed my opponents. "During times you have threat against you and your kingdom; I suggest you search the ponies and other creatures for concealed weapons as assassins don't need much time to take down targets like this."

The next weapon I showed them was my short sword. "Now let's go to the next weapon. I know you are aware of swords and how to use them. I shall just demonstrate how creatures with hands are able to hold and use these." I went over to four dummies and went to the center of the circle. With quick action, I pulled the sword out and made quick slicing actions against the other dummies, cutting off limbs, heads, and through chests. They were impressed this time on how I can handle the sword while in the middle of enemies.

I decided to show them my samurai sword this time. "Ok then, Princess Celestia, I am sure you recognize this weapon from the demonstration in my mind. Now I shall show you how non-lethal it can be. Would it be alright if you summon the ponies who insulted me? I promise not to injure their bodies badly." She agreed and used her magic to bring them here and clear the area for the duel matchup. They looked confused as to why they were summoned and why I was standing with the Princesses.

"Here is what is going on gentlecolts. I have convinced Princess Celestia to give you a chance to redeem yourselves. You are to engage in battle with me till either side gives up. If you win, she will give you a bonus. If I win, you will just be able to go back to work, once you are well again. Do you accept the terms?"

"It is not really fair when he can somehow do magic spells." One guard said and the other nodded.

"Then I promise not to use any chakra or ki ability to aid me in this duel, only my natural skills and talents. If I do, you may throw me into the dungeon for a week. Do you accept now, or do you want to go back to the training grounds for a week?"

The guards talked among themselves for a few minutes. They are probably thinking of a plan to take me down. "We agree to the terms. Two on one and the first side to give up loses. Prepare for a beating you freak of nature."

I turned to Princess Celestia and said in her mind, See what I was talking about? Do you mind if I don't hold back for calling me that again?

I can see how you can get frustrated from that, just no broken bones.

A huge grin came to my face as I am going to enjoy this. The guards were getting their weapons on. One went for a spear and the other went to a sword. I had my samurai sword attached to my belt. Once everypony was ready, we entered a circle that appeared in the middle of the room. I bowed to my opponents without taking my eye off them. They looked confused at this gesture and just ready their weapons. I placed my hand on the sword, but did not draw it out of the sheath. Celestia raised a gong and banged it.

They quickly charged at me like before. I ran to them also, but at a faster pace. I drew the sword and made quick slashes at their weapons that no pony notice. I reached the other side of the arena as they did. When they turned around, their weapons just broke into several pieces. Even a more confused look came to their faces. "You used your abilities! That is the only way this could have happened!" The guards shouted.

I turned to the Princesses and asked, "Did you detect me using any chakra or ki?" They both shook their heads no. They got angry at me and charged me again. I ran at them again and made slashes at their armor where it connected. They tried to hit me as I was swinging my sword, but I manage to dodge each hoof attack. I jumped from out of the middle of them and landed on the edge of the arena. They turned to me and started to pant heavily. Their armor suddenly came off and broke into several pieces. "Do you ponies give up? Or do want to continue?" I said calmly as I hadn't broken a sweat.

"The Royal Guard never gives up. We would rather die than to give up."

"Such courageous morals, but somepony has to give up. Guess I have to inflict pain now."

We charged at each other one more time and I made contact with several joints on them. They started to cry out in pain from the sudden hits they never saw. "WE GIVE UP! WE GIVE UP! JUST DON"T HIT US ANYMORE!" They both cried out."

"Are you sorry for calling me a freak?" I asked them.

"WE ARE TRULY SORRY FOR CALLING YOU THAT! PLEASE MAKE THE PAIN STOP!"

"I accept your apology. Just remember to not call a pony names for how they dress. Princess Luna, you make take them to a hospital and tell the Doc he just needs to reposition their joints back in place."

She nodded and teleported out of there with them in tow. Princess Celestia walked up to me as I was placing the sword back in its sheath. "Is these skills from another show from your world?"

"Technically yes they are. But I actually trained in this style on my planet and has this sword made. As you can imagine, if the sword edge was on the other side, I would have killed them in one swing. I took away their weapons, then their armor, and finally disabled them without making them bleed."

"You are truly gifted in the art of battle. I am a little afraid for my subjects knowing what you are capable of."

"As I said before, I would never cause harm to any of your subjects. I give them a chance to give up so they can learn from their mistakes so they can get back on the right path. I know these things as I am human and my world was dark and dangerous to live in. I don't plan to use these weapons while here after demonstrating them. Once I get my house, I will build a secret room to keep these in so nopony will see them again."

Princess Luna teleported back as I prepared the last weapons. "These are the last weapons I have and the most dangerous. These are designed to kill your opponent. I will not be demonstrating this one as it is too dangerous. I will explain however how they work." I took a bullet out of an ammo case. I went on explaining how the blasting cap in the back ignites the powder inside is launching the projectile at super speeds. I then explained how the guns worked and the purpose of the design. "As you can see, these are too dangerous for this world. If I knew I was going to come here, I would have never brought them."

"We agree the last one is too dangerous for pony kind to know about. We would like to thank you again for showing them to us and being honest about what they can do. Seeing it is dinner time, we would like to invite you to dinner with us. Our chef can make anything you desire." Princess Celestia said.

"Thank you your Highness, it would be an honor to eat with you. Let me just back these back up in their hidden locations and we can head to the dining room."

"Very well Blaze. If you please excuse us, we need lower the sun and raise the moon."

"Even knowing about this world, I am still amazed at that ability to do that."

"Why's that?" Princess Luna asked.

"I can explain during dinner. I am currently starving." I said as I finished packing my bag back up. They both nodded and started to use their magic. I looked out a nearby window and saw the sun was setting. Soon in another direction, I saw the moon was rising. This is too cool. Well Spike, this is one thing I won't be able to do. Once they were done we made our way to the dining room.

Inside the dining room was the longest table I will ever see. Over 50 feet long and decorated nicely. We all sat at the end of the table at the other end of the room from where we entered. A waiter came out caring some menus. He handed two green ones to the Princesses and for some reason I received a red one. "Um Princess, can you explain why my menu is a different color?" I asked.

"Oh, when we first met, you said you were an omnivore. Here at the castle, we get special gets from other nations that also eat meat. We keep them happy by supplying some of their favorite dishes from their lands." Princess Celestia said.

I can eat MEAT here? OH GOD SWEET MEAT! I shouted in my head as the biggest grin formed on my face. I carefully looked at all the choices and wondering what to have first. While trying to decide I got a head rush as the clones on the farm just release the jutsu. I started to feel their exhaustion and wanted to satisfy it with more meat.

The waiter came back to get our orders. He started with the Princesses and then came to me. "Let's see, I will first have some Manticore Meatballs, then I will have some Bourbon Hydra, and finally I will have a Spaghetti with chunks of Quarry Eel."

All the ponies looked at me with strange looks. The waiter then just shuffled back to the kitchen to get the orders going. Princess Luna then asked me, "Swift Blaze, why did thou order that many?"

"Well I was just going to get one dish. During trying to decide, if you hadn't noticed, I got a little dizzy for a sec. That happens when clones I created are done with their task I gave them and they released the jutsu on them. I received all their memories and their body condition. I have four working on Applejack's farm so they were exhausted and hungry. The other thing is I don't eat meat often and all these dishes sound like they are very good."

"Thou can clone thyself? Pray tell when that occurred?"

Yea, need to catch her up on all the new jutsu I have learned. I then started to explain to her the new jutsus I have learned since the last meeting, from shadow clone, Genjutsu, earth style, and water style. She nodded in the astonishment of how I am able to learn so much and this is only the tip of the iceberg. I then went on explaining on ki energy and how I could fly. I demonstrated that by flying around the room.

Once I landed back in my seat the head waiter and a few others came from the kitchen with the first course of the meal. I looked to see what they ordered and it was a cream like soup. I looked at my dish of 3 juicy meatballs. Using the silverware I have, I cut a piece out of one and ate it. OH MY! MEAT SO JUICY AND JUST MELTS DOWN YOUR THROAT! I dug into the rest of the dish as I enjoyed the flavors they were giving. Once done, the staff came and collected the dirty dishes.

"So, Blaze you said you still could not believe that my sister and I could raise and lower the sun and moon. What do you mean by that?" Princess Celestia asked.

"Well, back on my world, where we don't have magic, it was founded about the properties of gravity on massive objects." I went on explaining about the solar system and the different planets that encircle the sun and how the moon encircles the planet Earth. I then went on explaining how we don't control the weather like how they don't control over the Everfree Forest. The scientists have developed methods to predict weather patterns to warn the humans when dangerous weather approaches.

"It is amazing how your species were able to last without any magic."

"But they didn't. My God wiped out the ones who didn't pass that Mayan test. There were over six billion humans on my planet. Now there could only be a couple thousand to a few hundred left. It is true I am glad the ones that were corrupt and/or greedy did not make it, but there were some who could have changed and got back on the path of good." They could see I was getting upset talking about this.

The head waiter came from the kitchen again with the next course. Salads were given to the Princesses and I got my Bourbon Hydra. We ate in silence and the dish did bring a smile back to my face as I enjoyed it. Once we finished, the staff collected the dished again. My smile disappeared again I began to think about all my friends and family that I left behind. I had no picture, no voice or audio recording, only my memories of the time we had. The Princesses knew they needed to get his mind off his world so he can enjoy being here.

"So, Blaze, is there anything you wish to know about us?" Princess Celestia asked.

"Hmm, well I know quite a bit from the show. How about you tell me what your earliest memory you have."

"Then let's see where we shall begin. Well, my earliest memory is of our parents, Father Time and Mother Nature. They created all you see of the world and the creatures. As they created everything, it did not feel like a family. They decided to create one they could love. They wanted a female to share the love of the world. They wanted the child immortal so they can love her for a long time and not have the burden of losing her to age or illness. Trying to decide on the form, they look at all the ones they created. Out of all them, three were the most beautiful. They were the Earth pony, Unicorn pony, and Pegasus pony. They could not decide which form to go with, so they combined the three. They called the creature an alicorn due to how unique and beautiful she will be. They loved her every day and cared for her. After a few years, they decided to make another one for the first one will have a sibling. Years past and the sisters were growing up. They had fun playing with the other creatures of the world and those adored them. Time came for Father Time and Mother Nature to move on. Not die, but they felt it was time for their daughters to rule the land. It was a big ceremony as me and my sister was crowned as Princesses and co-rulers of Equestria. All the subjects bowed to them. That was roughly 2,000 years ago."

"That was beautiful and I must say you both don't look older than 30." I said with a smile forming on my face.

"Thank you Blaze. Glad to see you smiling again."

"Princess, if you don't want to answer this next question, I understand. Being an immortal, you realize that you will lose your friends when they die. How are you able to handle it?"

"That is a difficult question to answer, but I think you should know seeing you are going through what we did. It is true we have lost many friends over the centuries. At first, we sulked like you wanting them back. Our younger friends did their best to cheer us back up, saying our subject did not like how sad we were. We soon realize how we were making our friends feel and realized that those that died are not really gone. They are in our memories that we cherish to enjoy the happy times that we shared. Once a year, we take a leave of absence for a day to honor our friends that died and to recall the memories."

"Thank you for sharing this with me. I realize now how I was acting around my new friends and making them feel. Would you mind if I join you on that day you honor your past friends?"

"It would be our pleasure."

The waiter staff came in with the last course for dinner. The Princesses received a vegetable stir fry and I got my spaghetti. We ate in silence as I was enjoying another delicious meat. Once we finished the meal, we left the dining room so the staff can take care of the dishes and clean the room. I was feeling better than I was now that I told them everything.

"If you would excuse me Blaze, I must retire to my room as it has been a long day of learning and I will be getting up early so I can raise the sun." Princess Celestia said.

"But of course your Highness. Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite." I said.

"Bed Bugs! How in Equestria did they get into my bed!?" She said screaming.

I was laughing at this and then said, "Sorry Princess. It is a saying from my world we say to children when they are put to bed. What I was meaning was have sweet dreams and no nightmares."

Princess Celestia began to blush for the way she reacted. You can see that Princess Luna was doing her best from laughing with me. Princess Celestia headed to her room and I stayed with Princess Luna. "Would thou like to see thou's room" She said.

"I would like that."