I picked Dash up in my arms again and we left the house. Sorry Kyle, but the princess is in another castle! Damn you Mario reference! I took off and started to fly carefully through the air so I didn’t cause RD any more discomfort. I flew in the direction of Canterlot. She better help in some way or else I am going to blow up!

“Kyle, what do you think we should ask her to do about it?” Rainbow Dash said to me as I flew.

“Well, seeing as they crossed the border to get me the first time, and followed us over the border when we escaped, I think I’m going to ask her if she would reinforce the border so this doesn’t happen again, and see what else she would do” I said to her with a smile in reply. If that doesn’t work we always could go with the Kentucky Fried Griffon idea!

“Ok, that sounds like a plan” Rainbow Dash said in reply.

After about an hour of flying I saw Canterlot in the distance. “Dash we are almost there” I said as I held her. After about 5 more minutes we were at the entrance to the city. I landed and walked through the archway and started to make my way towards the castle. I swear, if I see that guard that punched me when I first came here I am going to laugh at him.

The ponies in the streets looked at us like we were the only two soldiers returning from a catastrophic war. “Dash, I am starting to get annoyed from them all staring at us” I said to her in a whisper. Stop looking at us, haven’t you ever seen a human and pegasus injured before? The human probably no, but still!

“Oh stop being a baby, we are almost there” Rainbow Dash said with a giggle as I walked with her in my arms.

I saw the steps to the castle and began to ascend them, taking my time so I didn’t give Dash any discomfort. At the top I knocked on a large door and waited. This door is huge! How can they even open it? After a few moments of waiting the door opened and a single guard was there looking at us, it was the same guard as when I came here. Ffffffff-

“Do you require assistance?” the guard said looking at me especially.

“No you think? We need to talk to Princess Celestia as soon as possible, we have some urgent news to tell her, that and these wounds you see can back that fact up my fine nose breaking guard” I said with a smile at the end. HAH GAYYYYYY, you will never get rid of me, I am like a cockroach, I will be here foreeeeevvvveeerrr!

The guard grunted in response and led us through the entrance hall. All of the other royal guards there looked at us with their mouths gaping. Stop it; you are making me feel self-conscious about how I look! *Sheds man tear* The royal guard stopped at another large door and knocked on it “Princess Celestia, the human and a pegasus are here to speak with you, do you wish to see them?”

“Yes, send them in please” Celestia’s voice said from behind the door.

The guard opened the door and we walked in. Celestia was standing over by a large window that overlooked Canterlot gardens. I walked over to her and stood a little ways behind her “P-princess Celestia, I wanted to talk to you about something very important that I think you should know.” I am contemplating just running away from here, I feel so intimidated by her!

Celestia turned around and saw me holding Dash, she gasped when she saw the cuts on our bodies and Dash’s broken leg. “What in Equestria happened to you two? Were you attacked?” Celestia said startled.

No, we decided to have an all-out brawl with each other! “That is what we wanted to talk to you about. If you want I can tell you the story” I said to her with a soft smile.

“Yes, I am curious as to what did this to you” Celestia said as she looked us over some more.

Oh boy, here we go! I took a deep breath “I had to go to Stalliongrad to deliver something for my boss Vinyl Scratch. Outside of the town I was ambushed by a group of four griffons and they said for me to go back with them to Grydon to be held on a trial for my life, supposedly because I have been an enemy of theirs since I came here. I refused and they jumped me and knocked me out and took me there, where I was kept in a holding cell” Celestia was staring wide eyed as I took another deep breath “I managed to get out and I fled the city I was being held in and took refuge in the mountains, I climbed one and saw Stalliongrad in the distance and I knew that I had to make it back. I started to walk there and then Rainbow Dash came to help me. Rainbow Dash, do you want to continue with your side of it?” I said as I looked down at her.

“Sure, well, when Kyle didn’t come back for 2 days I got worried and left Ponyville to go look for him. I must have stumbled upon where their struggle went on, because I saw blood and I knew that he was probably the one that got attacked. I flew off in the direction of Grydon and I eventually ran right into him and I saw how badly he had been injured. We decided to get back to Equestria as soon as possible so we could talk to you, but we got ambushed by Gilda.” Rainbow Dash took a breath “We both got knocked out and when we woke up we were in another holding cell. Kyle said that he already broke out once and after a while we both broke out again. We immediately flew towards the border and managed to make it across the border, but two griffons trailed us. We hid in a cloud and knocked them out, but not before I got my leg broken by one of them. Kyle here carried me all the way back to Ponyville and we decided to let you see us like this to reinforce our point…..that’s about it” Rainbow Dash finished.

Celestia was stunned. “Y-you two were captured by the griffons and they crossed our borders to do it? I don’t know what to say, you both must have something guiding you to make it back here without further injuries. I will be speaking with the Grydon order and reinforcing our border with them with royal guards, this must not happen again” Celestia said with a frown.

“Thank you Princess Celestia, we will be on our way now” I said as I got ready to turn around and leave. Let me out of here! She makes me scared, I feel like she is going to throw me in the jail again when I look at her!

“Kyle, I don’t know how I can fix this for you, but I am going to try” her horn lit up and she pointed it at us. Not again! She shot a wave of magic into us and I could feel my cuts healing, and it felt great. After she finished RD jumped out of my arms and landed on the ground. I feel like the million dollar man again! No more pain, this feels amazing!

“Kyle, you and Rainbow Dash here are both very courageous. I want to thank you both for coming to me with this information. Kyle, I want to pronounce you the defender of Ponyville, you are extremely willing to help anypony that needs it. I have been looking over you and couldn’t be more happy with what you have accomplished” Celestia said to me. Then she turned to Dash “And for the Element of Loyalty Rainbow Dash, you have already helped Equestria enough as it is, but now you helped Kyle as well, he very well could have died there, but you risked your own life to save another, and that is something that takes courage. You both will be given a statue that will reside in the Canterlot gardens as a reward for both of your courage and bravery in the face of danger” Celestia finished with a smile.

HHHNNNGGG, she wants me to be a defender of Ponyville? *heart attack from not sure if joy, or fear* One does not simply refuse Celestia’s offer without being sent to the moon. “Thank you Celestia, we will go now so we won’t bother you” I said before I walked with Dash out of the room.

The guard led us back through the entry hall and left us at the door. “Let’s go home, I want to put all of this behind me” I said with a sigh as we took off into the air. I’m going to talk to Vinyl sometime soon and tell her that it was a bust, and I will hopefully not blow up from doing so!

“Kyle, I’m glad everything is ok now, we can finally get our lives back to normal again. Also, you should be proud; Celestia gave you one of the highest honors you can get! I can’t believe she made you a defender of our town!” Rainbow Dash said to me with a smile.

I laughed “I was just as surprised as you were, I never thought I would ever get anything from this, but apparently I did. Now, I bet I can race you home!” I said with a sly grin. I will win this time!

“You’re on! Why don’t we have a little bet though? If I win, you have to let Twilight dye your hair any color I want and you have to keep it for a week. And if you win?” Rainbow Dash said to me with a wide grin.

Oh crap, she is going into the hair color changing department, fine I’ll go there too! “Ok, if I win you have to dye your mane and tail the color of my hair, seeing as you are doing the color change bet” I said in reply.

We landed on a cloud and got ready to take off “Ok, on the count of three. One…Two…Three!!!” I said before we rocketed off towards Ponyville.

We flew through the air and I was in the lead for a while, until I saw Dash fly by me and stick her tongue out on the way by. She shot off even faster than that and soon I was seeing just the rainbow trail she was creating. Crap, I have to pick up the speed or else I will have to have my hair dyed! DO NOT WANT!!!

I never caught up with her and when I landed out in front of our house I saw Dash grinning on the steps. “I think I’ll go with rainbow colored hair for you, it would make you 20% cooler” She said with a laugh.

“Fine, you win. We will go see Twilight tomorrow, but let’s just enjoy the day right now” I said before I sat down next to her. Que the Darth Vader scene: NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

A/N: Is it over yet? Maybe, but I still have another chapter to post, let’s see where this goes! Next update in a while!

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