#6

I felt my consciousness return as I felt drops of rain hit my face. I slowly opened my eyes and looked around to see that I was still in the training ground, but it was raining and there were many voices arguing. At first, it was Luna and Twilight arguing to someone, then Vinyl and Dash joining in. I slowly turned my body over and on to my knees and let out a huge breath of air.

"HEY, HE'S AWAKE!" Yelled a voice in the distance.

I lifted my head to see what appeared to be two stallions in golden armor and behind them Celestia. I tried to pick myself onto my feet but stopped when the two stallions told me to halt.

"What? Is something wrong?" I asked as got back to my knees and looked around.

I quickly noticed my friends being held back some of the same golden-armored stallions, Luna was staring at me with a worried look which didn't signal anything good. I then looked at the ground thinking about what was happened but was quickly distracted when I felt my face twitch as I heard every one of my friends' voices scream.

"WATCH OUT!"

I instantly felt a hostile presence behind me, I quickly spun my body around swinging one leg under whatever was behind me, and using the other to kick it as strongly as I could. I then saw another one of the stallions with my sword right next to him against the wall. I then looked back at the other stallions.

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TRYING TO DO!?" I yelled as I quickly lifted myself and ran to get my sword, but was immediately stopped when I saw a streak of lightning hit the sword. I acrobatically threw myself backward and looked at the sword which had been unharmed but was sparking violently.

"I don't think so," said one of the stallions as I turned to face them all. I was starting to lose my temper but tried to keep myself in check.

"Ok…listen…I'll be peaceful if you answer me, what are you trying to do?" I asked again but in a more calmer way, although this had no effect as they didn't answer me.

"Ok…then, Luna can you answer me?" I asked turning my attention to Luna.

"Ben, I can explain-"

"You can't speak to anyone" Interrupted another stallion.

I turned to the stallion, I was on the verge of losing my patience and decided to go against their word. I looked at Celestia, I expected her to answer for all this.

"Celestia, can you explain what's going on"

"Yes, and I expect you to answer me as well," she exclaimed causing me to look at Luna, then my friends, and then back at her. The stallions didn't do anything to stop me from conversating with Celestia.

"Fine, I'll answer anything, but don't harm my friends," I responded giving her my "or else" look. She signaled the stallions to let the ponies be, and they obeyed. The first one to make her way to me was Twilight, she quickly embraced me in a hug. I could feel her shaking in fear, so I returned the hug hoping it would stop the shaking: it did.

"You saved me, Ben, thank you," She said as her hug became tighter. I looked back at Celestia, who was more shocked than stern after hearing Twilight's words. I looked down at the ground and smiled, as I reminisced what had happened before I blacked out.

She let me go when Celestia cleared her throat to get our attention. I looked at my friends giving them a smile, causing them to let out their breath in relief.

"Ben, I have to be blunt with you, you represent yourself as a dangerous, but kind stallion," Celestia said as I looked back at the stallion that I kicked earlier and back at her.

"Yeah, I know and I'm sorry, I don't mean harm to anyone but those who try to harm my friends and me," I exclaimed, Celestia, looked at me and smiled.

"I expected nothing less from you, Ben, guards you may return to your duties," She said, the stallions helped the other one that seemed to be dazed, back on to his hooves and left. I looked down at Twilight who was looking pretty calm, so I decided to calm down as well.

"Ben, I believe this is yours"

I turned to Dash who had my sword in her hooves but was struggling to hold it up. I reached over, grabbed the sword and holstered it, Dash seemed to wipe away a bead of sweat when I took it off her hooves. I then looked at the princesses who both had smiles on their faces, I then remembered the newly acquired talent that I had discovered.

"Hey wait a minute," I said as I placed one hand in front of me with the palm facing upwards, and concentrated on it. Out of nowhere a blue sphere of energy formed, causing everyone to stare, except Celestia who moved over to me. I closed my fist causing the ball to disappear, but it didn't cease to amaze me.

"So, I hear you also contain magical strength, that's truly outstanding," claimed Celestia, as I smiled in excitement.

"That is also the reason for my presence being here, apparently a huge amount of magic was used causing the sky to light up in magic," mentioned Celestia as she hinted me to answer her, I looked at her and scratched the back of my head.

"Yeah, it was me, I didn't mean to cause such an event," I apologized still very excited about the new discovery. Celestia and Luna both gave me look of curiosity, as I rejoiced around with the ponies.

"Hey, Ben, how did you do that?" Luna asked, causing me pause for a moment and ponder the question.

"The Kamehameha?" I asked, they nodded and I looked at my hand again.

"Well, it was originally from a manga I loved to read as a kid, but now I made it real," I said proudly, as I remembered more about my favorite manga.

"The main protagonist was Son Goku, a Saiyan. He lived among humans and befriended them, later on, he learned many fighting tactics/skills, that he would use to protect his friends from all types of evil. To add to his fighting moves his main 4 were: Kamehameha, spirit bomb, Kaio-Ken, and transforming into a Super Saiyan."

Everyone was hooked on the summary I was giving about Dragon Ball, which made me extremely happy.

"After a few years, new enemies appear and try to find these seven dragon balls, which can grant any wish. These enemies were of the same saiyan race as Goku, but Goku refused to do what he was originally meant to do which was to destroy the planet. Goku refused to kill his friends, and fought against them and defeated them leaving him on the brink of death. After that a series of adventures followed and even stringer foes appeared, but Goku never gave up on his friends and always finished strong, no matter how hard the situation was."

"This guy was a huge inspiration for me, and probably the only thing I can remember of my childhood" I finished, I looked around see what they thought of the short story, they all smiled and had amazed expressions on.

"Well I guess we should start calling you Goku, no?" Luna playfully asked, causing everyone to laugh. I laughed as well: I guess it's true in many ways.

I quickly stopped laughing, and looked Luna as I remembered something very important.

"Luna, what about the challenge?" I asked, all the over ponies also gave signs of agreement.

"Challenge?" asked Celestia, but no one listened.

"Hmm…I guess you did win that match, ok what would you like as I reward?" she said, I looked at the ground with my hand on my chin, pondering what to ask for. Then I quickly opened my eyes, and smiled.

"How about one date?"

Luna immediately turned bright red, and seemed to be having a mental breakdown right before me.

"WHY WOULD YOU ASK FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT?! WHAT ABOUT SOME NEW CLOTHES, OR BITS?!" Luna started to say, desperately trying to get me to choose something else. I just

stared in shock as she immediately started spitting out more alternatives. I placed my hand over her muzzle, and sighed.

"Fine, I guess I'll take the clothes, but please calm down," I said letting her go, she looked at me and then at the ground highly embarrassed.

"Sorry, I guess I overreacted, I'll send Rarity a tab for you," Luna said still looking down to the ground. I placed one hand under her chin and lifted her head upwards, she was still red and had a gloomy look on her face.

"Maybe some other day we'll spend time together," I told her as lowered my hand and heard the train coming back. Luna stared at me as I told everyone to get ready to go back, I looked back at her and gave a playful smile.

"See ya Luna and Celestia, maybe we'll all enjoy a day together, I promise," I said before telling Luna to teleport us back. Celestia teleported away, while we were wrapped in the same blue glow as before. I couldn't help but look at Luna, she didn't look at us as we departed.

"Did I do something wrong?" I thought to myself as she disappeared, and a train appeared in front of us. I turned to look at the castle and waved at it, before boarding the train to get back to Ponyville.

"Goodbye Luna…"