I walk over to Luna, waving to get her attention. Luna smiles at me and waves off a guard she was talking too. The guard bows and turns away.

“Ah John, have you finished your personal talk with your sister?”

“I have.” I look around. “Where's the others?”

“They have returned to their chores, I have need of your assistance, back in Canterlot.”

“Canterlot? That's a bit far Princess, I would like to spent some time with my family before I get down to business.” I say.

“We won't take long John, I can teleport us there.”

“Are you sure princess? I don't want you to over tax yourself.”

“I think I can handle it, besides I have been researching your MAR and I believe I can use magic on you with out your magic flaring up.”

“Wow, if you can then I say we try it.” I reply.

“Ok, it may take a while to charge as I have to configure it for your body.”

“I'm not going anywhere.” I state, folding my arms.

Luna closes her eyes as I see her horn start to glow. I feel goosebumps manifest on my skin, a strange prickly sensation fills every muscle. I notice Luna's horn was really glowing and sparking, her face scrunched up. I see sweat trickle down Luna's cheeks as finally the spell activates and in one whoosh of air, I find myself standing in a dark chamber. I look around and find Luna was not beside me.

“Luna? Princess?” I say, turning around.

“Ah! My little trap has succeeded!”

I spin around, clenching my fists as my heart rate increases.

“Who's there?” I ask the voice.

“Just someone who has been watching you! And I must say you have been interesting indeed!”

“Interesting? And how exactly do you know me?”

“Oh I have watched you for some time! I even felt you enter this world, it was feint but even in my condition I still felt you dropping in!” The voice chuckled.

“You sound familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on it.”

A sound of clapping comes from all around me. “Oh I just love those phrases! 'Put my finger on it!' I might just use that myself.”

“Who are you and why did you bring me here?” I asked, I was starting to get irritated.

“I am what you would call a spirit, a spirit of chaos to be precise. I brought you here because I wanted to offer a deal.”

“And what deal is that?”

“Freedom, my good man, freedom.”

“Freedom from what?”

“Freedom from my cursed statue form. I want to spread my legs, a thousand years trapped in here can give you a real crick in the neck.” The voice replied, a sound of cracking bone follows it's answer.

“Why don't you show yourself? If you want to make a deal at least show your face.” I say.

“Fine.” The voice says in some bored manner.

A few seconds later a figure appears before me, it wasn't a pony or some creature but it was human. I noticed though that it's eye's were yellow with red irises, the human also had short blond hair.

“Is this better?” The figure asks me, gesturing to itself. “I thought this form would be more to your liking.”

I shrug. “Whatever floats your boat.” I reply.

“Very well then, I shall keep this form for you and to make our interaction more....” The figure waves it's hand. “What is that word? Ah yes......slimline.”

“Well I have to admit the human form does make me think of home, but then again...” I lean towards the figure. “...the eye's are putting me off.”

“Yes.” The figure sighs. “With all my power, I just can't seem to get the eyes right.” The figure chuckles. “Let's get down to business now shall we?” I nod. “Good!” The figure moves towards me and starts to circle my position. “My proposition is this, Help me escape and defeat the princesses and I will grant you your hearts desire.”

I fold my arms. “And how do you know my hearts desire, even I don't know that.”

“Seriously?” The figure gives me a deadpan expression. “There's nothing you want so badly that you'll do anything for?”

I tap my chin as I think for a bit. Of course I would like to return home but it's not a priority, I have several other things, shamefully they all involve Applejack in some form of sexy clothing.

“Nope!” I reply. “Can't really think of anything that I really want right now.”

The figure face palms. “And Luna chose you to be her champion, she must really be desperate.”

“No, it's because I do things a little differently than others.” I state.

“And what might that be?”

“I can do this!” I raise my right hand sharply and several walls of solid metal rise around us, I raise my other hand and a cage surrounds the figure. When the walls and cage form I lower my hands and smile. “Do you really think I am stupid.....discord.” The figure looks at me, I can't help but be annoyed he is smiling back.

“Bravo!” Discord shouts. “You know who I am, I must admit for a second I was worried you didn't.”

“I have read about you, I even asked my sisters about you.” I walk up to the cage. “But there's one thing I couldn't understand. One little piece of information I couldn't get from them.”

“And that being?” Discord asks.

“Why you are so stupid? You always try to influence everyone, even when you know it's going to fail.”

“What can I say, I enjoy the challenge.” Discord replies, shrugging. “Though it appears our time is up!” Discord looks up. “I will say ta ta for now and remember; I'm watching you!” In a flash Discord waves and disappears, leaving me alone for a few seconds.

“Ah it worked! Safe at home.....John? Are you alright?”

I shake my head and look towards the concerned looking face of Luna, I smile.

“Yeah I’m fine, just blacked out for a second.” I reply.

“Hmm, your eyes were glazed over, are you sure your not....”

I raise my hand. “I'm fine Luna really.” Luna nods and turns to walk away from me. “So? Where are we exactly?” I look around and see stars above me, slowly I bring my gaze down and spot white pillars and paintings hanging on walls. “Uh...”

Luna raises her head and the lighting in the area increases. My eye's go wide as I spot a bed adorned with Luna's cutie mark, I turn my head and spot a dressing table with several items, one being a brush. I tense, my body unable to move. I see Luna jump up on to the bed and smile at me.

“What's a matter John, you look tense?” Luna asks, me one eyebrow raised.

“W-We a-are in your b-bedroom?” I stutter.

“Yes, is that a problem?”

“We are in your bedroom!” I state again. I was panicking.

“Why? Do you have a problem being in another mares bedroom?” Luna asks me.

“I-I-I...Guess not.” I lied.

“Good! Now come here my champion, I have something for you.” Luna says, patting the bed next to her.

I swallow hard and slowly approach her, trying to remain calm. When I reach the bed I sit down, relishing in how soft it felt. I flinch when Luna touches my shoulder.

“Jumpy ain't we?” I smile sheepishly. “Now for your present.”

Luna turns away and her horn glows, a few seconds later a small brown chest floats over and lands on my lap.

“Open it.” Luna says.

I eye the chest and shrug, I press my finger to the clasp on the front and the lid pops open. I peer inside, the only contents were a silver ring and a long silver shaft similar to that of a swords hilt. I look to Luna, a large smile on her face.

“What are these?”

“They are yours, or should I say they were made for you.” Luna replies.

“Made for me?”

“Yes, they are your commander items, they will only function for you.” Luna slides off the bed and stands before me. “Pick up the ring.”

I look to the ring and grab it with my fingers, slowly I pull it from the chest and hold it up, gazing at it. I slip the ring onto my right index finger. When I finish a blue light washes over my body causing me to pull the ring off and throw it.

“What the fuck was that!?” I shout.

“John, it's ok, that was normal. The ring has to bond to you.” Luna picks the ring up in her magic. “I assure you, there is no need to panic.”

“You could have warned me, you know how my body reacts to magic.”

“The magic is surface only, there is nothing for your body to absorb.” Luna states, floating the ring back to me. “Please, try again.” Luna smiles, for some reason it calms me.

I take the ring from Luna's magic and place it back on my finger, a few seconds later the light scans over my body. I feel a slight tingling in my skin but nothing major. After about a minute the blue light stops and nothing further happens.

“Was that it?” I ask.

“It should be fine to activate it now.” Luna states.

“Activate?”

“Yes, see the crescent moon symbol on it? Press it.”

I look at the ring and now just notice that the ring was indeed a crescent moon sitting on top of a shield, criss crossed by two swords.

“What's the symbol?” I question.

“It's the Crescent Guard emblem, I came up with it myself.” Luna sticks her nose up and grins.

“Nice, so I just press the symbol?”

“Yes.”

I hover my finger over the ring and holding my breath, I press it. The sudden glow of magic startles me, the ring seems to melt into my finger much to my horror. I feel the tingling come back into my skin as I see my hand starting to turn into metal. I hold up my right hand as my skin is quickly turned into silver, the silver then hardens creating a metal gauntlet. The metal continues up my arm forming a vembrace, then the metal alters and creates chainmail from the vembrace to my shoulder.

The metal expands and a pauldron forms over my right shoulder, however the metal doesn’t stop there. Now the metal had formed over my right arm it changed my left arm the same way in almost half the time. The magic light started down my chest. At first it created a chainmail under vest then after that was finished the light passed back up to my neck creating a metal breast plate, the magic then went down my back. I noticed how the magic bent around my wings and did not encase them in metal.

The metal armour had next moved on to my legs creating the same chainmail under layer on my thighs, then it overlayed the metal plate protection. The light passed down my shins mimicking the thighs in set up, when it reached my feet it created chainmail socks followed by plate boots. The boots had the same design as the gauntlets and vembraces. All the time this was happening I noticed Luna was staring with a glint of pride in her eyes.

When the light finished glowing and the armour stopped being created I quickly moved to the large mirror nearby. I noted how light and agile the armour felt. When I reached the mirror I whistled, the armour was silver with sapphire highlights arranged in a vivid pattern. I reached up and touched the symbol on the breast plate, it was the Crescent Guard emblem. I then saw something that made me almost squeal in delight. I turned my body and saw to my joy the armour had created a cape that ran down between my wings. I opened my wings to get a better look at the cape and symbol emblazoned on it.

I quickly looked away as I heard a gasp come from Luna. Luna had her front hooves over her mouth.

“It's perfect.” Luna whispers.

“I love it Luna. How did you get the ring to do this?”

“You can thank Twilight for that, she is quite thorough in her measurements.”

I think back to the first three days I spent in Equestria, Twilights so called days of intrigue. More like days of standing around and being strapped to pieces of machinery. I laugh, causing Luna to look at me confused.

“Is something wrong John?”

“No princess, everything’s fine, in fact it's great. For the first time I feel like I belong, and now I have a set of sweet ass armour to back it up.”

“And that's not all, feel the gem on the neck?” I reach up and find a small round gem on the armours neck guard. “Press it.” Luna clops her front hooves together. I press the gem.

Seconds later my vision is blocked. It is then replaced by a blue visor becoming clear. I reach up and feel solid metal, a helmet had formed over my head. I turn back to the mirror and see the helmet is completely encasing my head, the blue visor my only window to the outside. I also notice two small slits were my mouth is on the helmet.

“Oh this is so cool!” I state, hearing my voice through the helmet for the first time. It sounded badass. I reach for the neck gem, finding it, I press it again and the helmet folds away. “Princess Luna you have out done yourself this time! This armour is sweet!”

“I'm so glad you like it, but the suit is nothing without this.” Luna says, floating over the long sliver handle like object. “Grab the hilt and press the blue gem.”

I take the hilt from her magic and press the gem on the grip with my thumb. The hilt glows and three seconds later a four foot long sword is in my hand, I was quite surprised that even at full length the sword weighed nothing. The weird thing was that the sword slightly vibrated in my hand.

“Luna, the sword is vibrating.”

“Yes, it is imbued with magic, however it will only fully activate when extended. The sword is called the Sword Of The Moon or Moonlight if you prefer.”

I hold the sword up in front of me. “Moonlight I think sounds better, plus it sounds more mysterious.” I swing the sword a couple of times getting a feel for it. I press the gem on the hilt and watch as the sword blade retracts and the hilt guards vanish leaving the silver hilt behind. I walk over to the bed and place the hilt back into the chest, I turn back to Luna.

“How do you turn the armour off?” I ask.

“Press the blue sapphire on the back of your right hand gauntlet.” Luna replies.

I press the blue sapphire on my right hand, in one quick flash of blue light the armour vanishes from my body and I notice the ring has reappeared. I pull the ring off and place it back into the chest. I look to Luna and smile.

“Thanks Luna, I swear to you I won't make you regret this. As your champion, I will carry your name and strike fear into Equestria's enemies.” I close the chest lid. “And I swear, Equestria's enemies won't know what hit them.”

Author's Notes:

I didn't delve into the Discord area of this chapter as Discord will feature more in the future, however what part he will play in Johns life, you'll just have to keep reading to find out.

And just to add, John will return to Canterlot streets in a future chapter but not the next one. The chapter will feature a cameo by everyponies favourite bad guys.