Author's Notes:

Hello everyone! It has been FREAKING AGES since i posted a chapter for this story... But here is what I had had written before I had dropped what i was doing... I hope you all have a wonderful time reading this last bit of Teachings of a different kind... I MIGHT, and i cannot stress that enough, MIGHT get back into writing this story out again in the future... I may even find a way to cross this over with one of my OTHER stories... You would have to guess which one though.

I must say that i am extreamly sorry for how long it took me to get this chapter out, but it has been fun writng it in my off time... Good day, and good Luck, may the force be with you, always!

"So... Why didn't you warn me about cutting the connec....tion... Hi... Ryan.... Um what's up?" Spike says shakily as I hoist him up into the air. He is shaking and spluttering none stop as I glare evilly into his soul, see as I saw what EXACTLY THE FUCK they were up to in their heads.... granted I'm not exactly furious... I am pissed off as all hell, but not to the point of me killing the pour little drake, seeing as it was in their heads and not exactly out here in the open. But seeing as only the three of us know, those three being me Spike and Luna, the other two are looking at me like I have lost my mind.

Twilight and Celestia are just staring at me with their mouths agape and their eyes the size of saucers.

"RYAN! Put him down right this instance!" Celestia screams not a second later. I shift my gaze ever so slightly to her and back to Spike that neither of them notice. But knowing that I am rather in the mood for some Dragon fried stakes I place the drake down and vow to have a Word with them both, Luna and Spike, later.

"Well... Before I decide that Spike needs another... Sparing Session, How about You and Luna take a moment and show the Princess and Twilight what you can do... And then you get to fight me... Okay?" My voice is rather forced and hard, making both Luna and Spike look at me wide eyed with fear and apprehension at what they are about to face. I walked back next to Twilight and the Princess and waited for the two little heathens to begin.

"Ryan... why are you so mad?" Twilight asked me with a slightly reprimanding tone. She and Celestia were staring at me with apprehension as to what my reason might be.

"Well... It's not up to me to tell you why... you'll just have to ask your number one assistant that one miss sparkly...." I replied with slight disdain, how in the hell could she not have raised such a irresponsible young man... it is just beyond me.

"Grrr... fine! I'll just get it out of him later... And IF I find out that you had no reason for your anger then I'm coming after you with a really big stick!" She hissed into my ear.

"Fine, but make sure you get all the info out of him first!" I growled back, the entire time Celestia just stared at us like we had gone insane.

Luna and Spike picked up their weapons and got in to their stances and readied for their bout, they were both looking to me for confirmation. So, I raised my hand and let it fall, signaling the beginning of the match.

Luna, standing on her hind legs, launched up into the air and flew back from Spike a ways just as he lunged forward with a strong jab. Spike then used the force to augment his legs and jumped after Luna and swung his training saber in an upward motion, matching it with his upward momentum to get a strong hit out of it. Luna, seeing this coming, batted her wings together and launched spike away from her, she then launched herself down toward him and kicked up at him with her right hind leg, catching him right below the ribs, launching him, yet again, back a few feet.

Celestia and Twilight looked on in awe and fear as their respective siblings fought with such strength and precision. I smirked as their eyes widened at how they were just flying around the field and trading blows with such power and still getting up without any sign of injury.

"How are they able to do this Ryan!? This should be impossible!" Twilight exclaimed, she was just sitting there, mouth ajar and eyes wide, watching her assistant as he traded blows with none other than his girlfriend/fillyfriend and Princess, Luna.

"Well... For Luna's sake i think that some of her past memories seep through when she enters a fight, and those memories are just those that have to do with fighting in general... Which is good... seeing as that thing on her wrist has turned out to be rather useless anyway..." I sigh and look back at the battle unfolding right in front of me.

Luna and Spike then picked up the pace as they used the force to enhance their reaction times and their agility as they started racing around the field. Luna put her saber away for a moment as she galloped towards Spike at high speed. Spike was doing something similar, but he was racing at her at leaps and bound as he use the force to extend his strides almost three fold. When they got near each other they reacted almost instantly, Spike fell down and slid as he swung up with his saber and struck at Luna's unprotected barrel and stomach, Luna had jumped up and swung down towards his head as he slid under her. There was a resounding CRACK as both of them connected with their targets and slid across the field from each other.

Luna was the first to get up as she held a foreleg to her chest, directly over the spot that Spike had hit, and rubbed it. Spike got up seconds later and held a clawed hand to his forehead, there was a large red angry spot just over his left eye, he pulled his claw back and nodded when he saw there wasn't any blood.

Both Luna and Spike then made their way to the center of the field and looked each other in the eye... And bowed to each other and smiled, shocking both Celestia and Twilight at the sudden ending of the match, and at how brutal it was. I then began clapping.

"I am very happy you two, that was well done... But you could have done better. Spike you left yourself open to many times there in the beginning, Luna you shouldn't have just blown him away, you should press your advantage when you have it, and pull back when you don't... But over all you tow did well... Now get some rest, you both will be sparing with me again tomorrow... And you will be answering some questions of mine..." I gave them 'The Look' as they looked at me with guilt in their eyes.

"Celestia, do you have anything to add?" I inquired of the Solar Monarch.

"I do... I have been around for more than a hundred thousand years, My Little Ponies, and i have NEVER in all my years seen anypony, or dragon, use anything like I have seen you two... Even though i have my reservations about Ryan here teaching you... I can say without doubt that you will need his guidance... I would also like to ask you, Ryan, I it would be possible for me to see tomorrows Sparing session as well..." Tia's gaze shifted from the two youngsters to me and the look in her eyes was almost undeniable. She was scarred... Scarred for her sister and her son, i had learned that she regarded spike as her son... seeing as she had taken care of him for years when he was first hatched.

"I don't see why not, what do you say guys? Should we let the Princess sit in on our training sessions?" I asked the other two, I may have been mad at them, but that didn't mean I couldn't still have some fun with them at the Princess' expense.

"I don't know Master... Should we?" Spike said with all do mischief in his voice.

"Yeah daddy... I don't know... Is she even able to?" Luna replied with a small smirk adorning her lips.

"I don't know guys... I think we should just keep it the three of us, what do you think Twilight, should we have her along?" I looked at the dumfounded Twilight whom couldn't believe we were trolling the Princess.

"Um... Yes?" She cautiously replied, a slight twitch becoming apparent in her left eye.

"Alright then! Yes Princess, you can come along!" I shouted right into her face before I glomped her into the dirt, Spike and Luna jumping in seconds later. All of us laughing and giggling away the past hours stress and aggravation, save Tia who was on the bottom of our impromptu dog-piling.

"Ryan... I hate you so much some times... and right now is not one of them..." She sighed as she felt her sister snuggle up between me and her, Spike on the other hand laid on my back and motioned for Twilight to come over and join us. She reluctantly did and just laid down next to us as we rearranged to look at the setting sun.

"Ryan, you are one very random pony... you know that?" Twilight quipped as we all just looked at the beautiful view. The sun was setting and it was setting the sky a flame with all its wonder, turning the sky purple, red, orange, yellow, and pink as the light hit some of the clouds.

"Yeah, I know, but being here does things to man when being surrounded by small talking ponies and having to fight a deranged mad man in the near future..." I sighed and leaned into Celestia as she finished lowering the sun, with some of my help seeing as I was pouring some of my energy into her so it was easier.

"Thank you Ryan..." She whispered into my ear.

By the Force this has been a long day... I have taught two superlative force users the basics in how to control their powers, even though they use advanced force techniques, that usually take years of practice to get right, on a whim.

After we had all gone home, that being said Luna and I had stayed at Twi's, just for conveniences sake. we had all had a good dinner, courtesy of Spike, consisting of a Cesar Salad and a few BLT( Banana Lettuce Tomato) sandwiches. Granted they were weird as fuck they were good... Surprisingly. At the moment though it was about 6:30... and I was awake and very very tired... And coming to terms with the sleeping purple figure resting on my chest... and no... it was not scaled in any way...Which brings me to this conclusion... A sleeping Twilight somehow has ended up on my chest and is now snoring away like a saw on a log.... Yay me...

Well, I guess I could just go back to sleep and deal with this at a later date... Which reminds me... I need to ask Fluttershy out once this is all said and done... Fucking Discord having to fuck things over... Then again I should also thank him, since he put us in that situation in the first-place. Eh, whatever.

'Swish'

'Clang'

'BOOM!'

"FUCK!"

"Ryan! What in Celestia's name is going on in here!"

"Just making breakfast Twilight, Don't worry about it... FUCK YOU FIRE!" 'BOOOOOOOM!'

"...Do I need to call the fire station?"

"Maybe... Luna! Go grab a my writing utensils please... I need to make a list of what you father has destroyed... Spike... Make sure he's OK please..."

"Yes Ma'am... ...He's fine... Just a little singed... And maybe uncouncious... Why do you have a permanent marker?!"

"DAMN YOU TWILIGHT!" I bellowed as I stared at my defaced... face... fuck you pun... In the mirror, she was down stares laughing he ass off as i tried to wash the permanent marker off my face. 'I will get revenge for this you little purple menace... just you wait... BUWAHhahahahahahahahahahahaha!'

"It's not that bad daddy... you missed some under your left eye... and on your nose..." Luna pointed out from the door to the bathroom. She had walked up after me once I had found the offending ink on my face, she was now trying to comfort me while pointing out the spots I had missed in my dash to get the damn stuff off.

After another ten minutes of intense scrubbing, curse you Twilight, I, and the two hoodlums, and Celestia, once she was done with morning court, made our way out to the training fields for another round of ass kicking for the youngsters! Yay child smashing, at least when they do shit that they shouldn't even know about!

Please excuse the rantings of an angry father and let us get on with the show!

"Spike, I want you to go and run the obstacle course... twice... Luna, you get to start by having a warm up match with me. Unless you two want to switch..." Okay, so i was still mad at them, understandably... I had faith in them to NOT do something stupid... and what do they do? SOMETHING STUPID! So, this is a sort of punishment for that... until I can get together with Twilight and agree on something with her for the two of them.

"This is fine daddy, I'll just limber up real quick and then we can spar..." Luna cut off all forms of debate from Spike and they nodded to each other about what would have happened, Spike giving off a slight shake in thought. She then bowed to me, and I nodded in return.

"Alright, you have ten minutes to get ready. Oh, and Luna, I will not be holding back as much this time... Deal?" She nodded and went back to stretching her legs and her wings.

"Ryan, is all of this really necessary? I mean, training two children to go up against Discord of all things is..." Celestia was at a loss for words as she walked over to where i was sitting, waiting for my daughter to be done.

"This is madness Celestia... And they won't be fighting him alone... I will be the one standing with them and the elements for the entire fight... But I need to know a few things..."

"What do you need to know Ryan..." She asked reluctantly.

"How far are you willing to go to defeat Discord... Are you willing to see him die if that means he is defeated? Tell me now, or else pay the consequences for not being ready." I drowned out in a monotone, not caring for the look she gave me afterward.

"I don't want him killed Ryan! We just need to subdue him and reseal him in the stone... But I can also see what you mean... And by what you had told me yesterday... He is much different now than how he used to be. And knowing him... he's pry going to go all out for whatever reason he can think of... seeing as you were able to defeat him outright in a place he had full control over..." Celestia sighed and sank into her haunches after that, looking at her sister and her adopted son train in front of us.

"If there is no other way... but to kill him... then so be it, but only as a last resort... Am I clear Ryan?" She looked sidelong at me after a few minutes of thinking, her weary eyes locked with my own and I nodded my head in understanding. The being known as Discord would not die by my hand, unless he proved to dangerous for re-imprisonment...

Sighing I nodded and walked over to my daughter, snapping my fingers a few times to get her attention. "Luna, it's time... you ready?" I asked, eyebrow raised in question.

"Yes daddy... I'm ready when you are." Luna replied with a slight bow of the head. (For those of you wondering what she might look like right now... here is a glimpse, just add a small brown belt and remove the chest piece and you're good.)

I nodded to my daughter and pulled out my own training saber, just as Luna did the same, we then got into our fighting stances and prepared for the coming battle.

"Ryan... shou-"

"Yes!"

"Okay... Begin!" Celestia shouted, a slight waver could be heard in her paternal tone as it slipped slightly.

Luna, being the quick devil that she is, shot forward and place both her rear hooves right into my face, sending me right onto my ass, HARD, she then swept down with her saber and tagged my left leg, making it go numb from the electrical current in the blade. I yelled out slightly, before bringing up a hand and shooting her away with a sizable force push. I jumped up and made sure to keep my weight off my left leg until the numbing sensation was gone, I then launched myself off after Luna, making small, staggering, jumps to catch up. Luna quickly recovered with a few beats of her wings and shot down after me, her saber being held between both her fore hooves as she charged, ever faster,straight at me. I was in mid jump when she got to me, leaving me almost defenseless... So I took the full brunt of Luna's charge right in the chest and flew backwards into the ground. I made a small impact crater from the force of the blow, making Celestia wince in the process.

I whipped up and onto my feet before reversing the grip on my saber and launching myself at Luna. She saw this and brought her saber up in a mid guard, at which my saber came into contact with and destroyed instantly, pushing through her guard and into her left foreleg. The force behind the blow also sent her back a few yards as I then brought out a shorter saber, a training saber similar to my shoto, and got into a fore and aft battle stance. I bent into my stance, planting myself down low as I waited for Luna to come back around and lash at me. What I didn't expect was a fore warning from behind, I looked behind me and went wide eyed as I saw a large boulder come flying at me. I reacted instantly, flipping around and lashing out with my right leg, augmenting my strength exponential with the force and kicking the boulder away with some resistance.

Then... I went flying. During the whole 'I'M GONNA KICK A ROCK!' incident, I didn't notice my daughter, being the deviant that she is, sneak up on me. She had gotten behind me and placed both her hind legs into the small of my back, using enough force to move a two ton rock... Thus, sending me rocketing across the field... and into the obstacle course... and, to add hilarity to injury, right into Spike as he was bounding over a high jump... making us both crash into the mud pit I had built under it.

At this both Luna and Celestia came rushing over, both yelling out mine and Spikes names. When they got to us they could hear laughter.

"Damn it Ryan! I was almost done... Now i'm covered in mud!" Spike coughed out, he was laughing so hard he was crying.

"Oh shut up Spike! At least you didn't get bucked in the ass...." I laughed out.

"YEAH, and getting YOU tossed on me is any better!? HA!" We were both trying to get out of the mud pit, but we kept slipping and sliding all over the place, making for one awkward, and very hilarious, scene for who ever was watching. Both Luna and Celestia were standing there, gawking at us, as we made complete fools of ourselves, both wondering how I could be fine after that and laughing about the whole thing. Celestia then shook herself free of her momentary shock and gave us a look of embarrassment before lifting our mud covered bodies out and dumping us on dry, kind of clean, land.

"I will never understand who you can go from being so serious to care free, all at a drop of a hat too!" Celestia huffed in exasperation, a small smile playing across her lips.

"Eh, after all the hell I've been through, ya gotta be able to relax when you can... and seeing as I got my but kicked, literally I might add, I believe the match is over." I chuckled as I lay there on my back, breathing deeply from the copious amounts of laughter I had just belted out with Spike.

"Ryan... I was wondering... Would the three of you be willing to come have lunch with me and the elements later? I was just planning on going and eating with them, But seeing as I'm here with the three of you I thought I would... Invite you along..." Celestia, for all her majesty, was somehow at a loss of words when asking if we would join her and our friends/family for lunch. At which I chuckled and shook my head slightly.

"I don't see why not. What time were you wanting to go?" I asked, still laying on my back, covered in mud.

"I was hoping to gather everyone up and go to a small cafe up in canter lot... It's the only place I have found that doesn't go overboard when I decide to show up for lunch or a drink outside the castle." I nodded, smiling sightly.

"Well, let me and Spike go get cleaned up and we'll meet you there... Just head on without us, we'll be able to catch up." I smiled, evilly, and waved them off.

"Um, if you say so Ryan..." Celestia said carefully as she and Luna, whom was still trying to think of how we might be able to get there in time for lunch, walked off towards the Golden Oaks Library.

"So, how are we going to get there in time?" Spike asked me as we walked through town, the mud had since dried on our bodies.

"Well, first we are going to stop by the temple and pick me up some new cloths, and get us both a shower going. Then we are going to pick up... a few things... and then we'll be heading out." I said with a somber tone, I then flashed him a winning smile and took off at a dead run. "Last one there gets to use the cold water!" I yelled.

"DAMN IT RYAN!" I heard Spike yell from behind me. I was running through town square, heading straight for Market Street when I turned and saw Spike catching up to me, using the force to speed up his strides while bounding over any and all ponies in his way, including the CMC as they ran about town doing their thing.

I then started doing the same, instead of just racing around ponies, I leaped over them and even made it over a few stands, while not using the force I might add.

"Come on Spike, I know you can do better than that!" I yelled behind me. I then started using the force to augment my jumps as I made my way through the market place. Leaping over the stalls and other stands the ponies used to sell their goods from, I even saw Applejack as she was putting everything up for lunch and waved at her as I spun over her cart and broke for the forest path. The entire time I could hear Spike yelling and growling not to far behind me.

"See ya AJ! I'll meet up with the rest of ya later!" I yelled quickly before getting out of ear shot.

Moments later we were both on the gravel path I had made out in the forest. Running down the gravel path we would through small rocks at each other to see if we couldn't slow the others pace down, seeing as we were trying to win and all. At one point spike had lifted up twelve small pebbles and pelted them into the back of my head, making me stumble and loose my balance.

"You'll pay for that Spike!" I yelled out after him as he ran past me at full blast.

"Only if you can catch me first!" He called back laughing. I chuckled too and sprang back up after him.

"I hate you soooooo much...." Spike coughed as we both sat on the plaza floor laughing and coughing from our massive amount of exertion used in getting here.

"EH, yell at me AFTER we take that damned shower... You get to go first by the way... You won!" I waved him of towards the men's bath house I had built. He ran off towards it while I went up to my room and took a nice warm shower, rinsing all the grime off my body, including my robes. After that I walked outside to look for Spike, upon coming into one of the many plazas I had installed, I saw him, just sitting on a rock, meditating... For a young drake... he sure has a lot of maturity built up in him...

"HEY SPIKE!" I yelled out, making him fall over and yell in surprise.

"DAMN! What in the heck do you need Ryan... And why'd you have to yell in my ear!?" Spike yelled back at me, getting up off his bum and rubbing his ear. I laughed deeply at his annoyed state.

"Well, it's time we got the heck outta Coruscant and got our happy asses moving." I grinned mischievously, motioning him to follow me. "Lets get going, I still want to pick up those gifts and get my other gear..." I trailed off as he followed after me. We made our way to one of the improvised mag-lifts and slowly descended a few dozen feet into the ground. Once we got to the bottom level, my personal level of the underground, and where I had moved my ship to after the last incident, I had known that this was going to be one of the least walked areas of the Under-Ground, my new name for it... seems fitting anyway, seeing as I built my personal areas far away from the entrances to the Under-Ground, we had to fill our time walking with idle chatter if we didn't want to be bored... yay, on a different planet and still finding ways to be bored out of my mind!

"Ryan, what was it like... being a Jedi where you're from?" Spike spoke up as we stepped off the Mag Lift. HE was looking around at the small glow lights I had stationed around the hallways pulling in all the details.

"Well... Where should I begin?" I asked, not really knowing what he wanted to know.

"Well... Was your training anything like ours?" Spike asked, he had a rather serious face when asking this question, So I indulged him.

"No, my training was... different from yours and Luna's... It took me over a decade to become a padawan when I was in the temple... It took another five years for me to become a knight... and even then it was under special circumstances... The circumstances surrounding my ascension to knighthood had to do with a large fleet movement against Biss... A large insurrectionist force had saw fit to 'relieve' the Prime Minister of his standing... and blockade the planet from all forms of import and export... I was sent with a small detachment of knights and one master to take care of the situation. I ended up boarding their leaders flagship when they had wrecked my fighter. It was that turn of events that lead to me fighting and subduing their leader, a seven foot tall Barabel with a bone to pick with the Jedi." Spike walked next to me, giving me slight looks of astonishment as we walked down one of the many corridors.

"So, your capturing of their leader set you up to be a Knight?"

"Somewhat... It's what happened during the whole incident that set me up for my promotion per-say... When I got to the bridge I found that there wasn't anyone else there... Until I saw the Barabel walk out from behind a console, holding a large variant of the E-11 Blasters the Storm-troopers use... and a hostage... Said hostage being the Prime Minister, and a female at that. So I did what I could and got the Prime minister away from the Barabel and subdued him... after a few broken ribs and an arm on both our parts...."

"Dang... He sounds like a tough guy..."

"You would think so... But he was nothing but a runt compared to the rest of their race... They're a lot like you dragons... In looks and demeanor...but not as big... I don't think..." This caught spike off guard.

"There are creatures similar to dragons where you're from?!" He all but screamed.

"Yep, there are even real dragons... I have seen one of the many Dragons of Tatooine..." I shuddered at the memory of facing the damned thing... stood over forty feet high and was at LEAST twenty feet wide...

"Really! What was it's name!" Spike asked giddily, not knowing the consequences.

"His name was Shezmu... The slaughterer... He was one of the Great Krayt Dragons of Tatooine... He killed over ten thousand people, and tore apart a few cities, before he was brought down by a group of hunters I was leading...our of fifty people only I and ten others were left..." I shivered at the Idea of ever having to fight that monster again. As an after thought I noticed we had made good time and were almost to our destination.

"...Wow... What happened to the rest?" Spike asked, sobered up at the aspect of having instigated a negative memory of mine.

"It's alright Spike... They all died honorably... though a few were eaten in the process... most of the others were either crushed in an attempt to place a charge on the dragon or were stomped on when they slid down a sand dune.... It was a tough fight that's for sure... But we were able to kill it when one of our guys sacrificed himself and took an entire belt of bombs with him into the beasts belly... blowing it up from the inside..." I winced slightly when I remembered the bits of gore and bone that rained over the the desert that day... the entire area was painted red with the amount of blood that came pouring out of the dragon. I then pulled myself out of my reverie and looked at where we were, which happened to by outside my workshop.

"Well, it seems we're here Spike, wait here... I will only take a moment." I left him there and quickly walked in and shut the doors behind me. I made my way over to the counter and picked up two hilts... "I know master... They aren't ready... But they will have to be if what I think is come does... and it most likely will..." I sighed to myself, I knew neither of them were ready for the position they were going to be in... but necessity has placed this upon their shoulders... and mine... and it has little regret when destroying the lives of the youthful. Spikes new hilt had a blue blade in it, seeing as he was going to be a guardian in the future... I could feel it in my bones. Luna will be getting a yellow blade... seeing as she is the most adept of the two, and has been working towards the role of Sentinel.

"I hate having to do this... But I don't think I can take on discord and win by myself... even with the elements..." I sighed and walked over to a large dresser looking station, I opened one of the drawers and pulled out a set of clean Jedi fatigues, they were the bland khaki colors of the Orders rank and file Jedi... My personal robes were yet to be repaired by Rarity So they would just have to wait. Donning my new cloths and putting on a robe I attached the hilts next to mine and took my leave of the room, closing it and lacking it with the force behind me.

"Come on Spike, we need to hurry, I just need to grab Vet, and we can leave..." Spike gave me an appraising eye before shrugging and just rolling with it.

"Whatever you say Master..." Spike said nonchalantly, though it made me freeze for a moment before continuing my pace.

"Vet, come on! I don't want to be late!" I called after the droid, Spike was walking faster than the bucket of bolts!

"Oh just leave him alone Master, I'm sure he has a reason." Spike said jokingly, knowing full well that the droid just couldn't keep up. We rounded a few more corners and went up a small incline, Vet trailing behind us, before we reached our destination, The hanger bay.

"Um Ryan... Why are we here? and why is that thing trailing smoke form the back?" Spike was pointing to the engines, not knowing that they were going through their warm up cycles that I had initiated with my comlink.

"Oh... not much... We're just going to use it is all." I said with a devilish smile, making Spike look at me like I was mad!

"Are you kidding me! We can't use that! It's suicide!" Spike said waving his arms about.

"Oh come on! It'll be fun! Plus, we need it to get there in time... Unless you know some physics warping abilities that can get us there faster.... I thought not... Now, lets go!" Vet rolled up next to the fighter and awaited me to put him in. So I walked over and gently lifted my comrade up and into the the droid slot on the ship. Once he was in the cockpit popped open and awaited for me and spike to get in.

"Come on Spike! It'll be fun!" He shook his head, not budging an inch, until I just lifted him up with the force and pulled him over to the cockpit. I took hold of him and jumped right in. closing the hatch I went over my mental check list and found that all things were in the green, and that I had more fuel than I first thought, seeing as the counter was reading at over two hundred and forty hours of operational standard. Meaning I could stay in the air for almost ten days straight while preforming dogfights and using my shields and other equipment... So if I kept it to a minimum I could stay flying for almost a month or so... if not more.... if I didn't use my shields and such.

"Ryan... This feels like a bad Idea..." Spike said from my lap, he was sitting there fidgeting like a horror struck child.

"We'll be fine Spike, I've logged over five thousand hours in one of these... and quite a bit of that is in single leaps and bounds..." I said smugly, making Spike a little more calm, but not by much.

"Fine... But I still feel uneasy." I sighed and just engaged the repulsor lifts. we slowly lifted off the ground and up towards the ceiling.

"Are we on another lift?!" Spike said expectantly, his voice slightly higher than he thought.

"Nope, we are currently flying my friend, though it is more like floating." I chuckled and turned the inertial dampeners down to half, just so Spike could get the full effect of flying, though not by the full bit. The hanger doors above us had already moved aside by the time we reached them, leaving a large hole in the landscape. We then kept on climbing, though Spike, being the child he is at heart, looked out the cockpit windows and gave awed sounds at what he was seeing.

"Spike, you might want to get back on my lap... this is going to be a bumpy ride..." I smiled evilly.

"Um... If you say so..." He got back in my lap and I pressed the button to turn off the repulsors and ignite the engines. The fighter gave a slight lurch as it fell slightly before shooting off forward at around five hundred mile an hour, leaving Spike rooted to my chest and me into my seat.

"I FORGOT HOW AWESOME THIS WAS!" I yelled over the force of the sudden take off. We shot off over the forest, skimming the leaves off a few tall standing trees as we passed them by. I then got the bright Idea of flipping us over, which in hind sigh wasn't all to bright since Spike wasn't attached to anything. But, thanks to the g-forces he stayed close to my chest.

I then went into an ascending spiral and broke for outer-space. The fighter gave a few groans and rattles as we went up in to the atmosphere, Spike yelling all the while.

"What are you doing!" he yelled.

"We're going into space! What do yo think we're doing!" I laughed as we finally broke free. I then slammed the inertial dampeners to full and slammed the shifter to max for the engines, launching us forward at around mach twelve or so... seeing as there was no resistance in space. WE seemed to move slowly through the mass emptiness of space, our only indicator was the planet below us, which was now spinning away from us.

"Ryan... I thought we were going to meet Celestia at the Cafe... not ride through space... Not that this isn't awesome or anything, I men this is bucking amazing! WE're In OUTER BUCKING SPACE!" Spike gushed, using the ponies equivalent of curse words... which I found hilarious.

"Yeah I know... But I thought we'ed tell them we went around the world a few times before we found the cafe..." Spike looked at me, a slow grin extending to both our lips as we then looked back at the planet below us.

"Eh, I could see it happening... LET'S DO IT!" Spike gave a fist pump and settled into my lap as I pushed the ship farther and we shot around the planet.

"Vielen Dank!" Spike shouted as he ran out of a small cafe in the trotingham countryside. He was carrying two cups of coffee and a few plain donuts, glazed of course!

"Do you think we'll get there in time?" Spike asked me as we dug into our snacks.

"Yeah, we're going there after this anyway, just save your cup and stuff... we need evidence!" I spoke with a laughing conviction, that Spike soon joined.

"Alright, let's go!" Spike declared, I jumped in and levitated him up into the cockpit, once I sealed our drinks and food I sealed the canopy and set our destination for Canterlot. The fighter lifted up off the ground and shot off like a rocket, its nose pointed roughly towards canter lot... sadly we were on the other side of the world... We soon broke through the atmosphere and shot over to the Equestrian continent and made a bee line for Canterlot, to which we were very giddy to get to by now, it had only been an three hours since we had left the temple and went about pulling stunts and picking up a few souvenirs. Once the castle came within view we slowed down to about mach 2 and circled the castle, looking for their presence among the populace.

"I feel them over there Master!" Spike called out, pointing at a small cafe on the far side of the castle grounds. We set off and finally found ourselves floating above the cafe, well, roughly a few hundred feet above it... the towers and skyscrapers did not allow for much room when piloting this thing.

"Vet! I'm leaving the control of the ship to you, just put'er back in the hanger bay and I'll be back later tonight to service you." I got a tweeter of affirmation form my droid friend.

Looking down at the ground I couldn't help but notice that all of the Elements, Princess Celestia and my daughter Luna, along with many others, were standing outside the cafe looking up at my ship in awe and fear.

"Hey Spike, did you grab the doughnuts and coffee?" Spike looked back at me and nodded, motioning to the items he held in his hands.

"Citizens of Ivory Rock Cafe! We do not come in peace.... Though we do bring gifts!" This brought many terrified and confused looks to all of the ponies below us.

"You're evil, you know that Ryan?" Spike gave me a deadpan stare before cracking up and joining me in the cacophony of laughter.

"Spike, my faithful Knight, do you have them!" I asked over the loudspeaker. making us both snicker. "Talk to me as if i'm a dark lord, this'll just make it better!" He almost dropped the coffee and doughnuts he was laughing so hard.

"My Dark Lord, I have the COFFEE OF DOOM, and the DOUGHNUTS OF MISERY! Are we going to give them to them or not?" Spike then fell over laughing, handing me the doughnuts and coffee.

"Yes... Lets jump!" The Canopy then shot open and I placed Spike on my head, handing him back the Coffee and Doughnuts. I then stood up and walked to the nose of the fighter and walked right off, scarring the shit out of Spike and everyone else, until I shot my arms out and used the force to slow our fall to nothing more than a slow hover towards the ground.

"You know.... YOU COULD HAVE TOLD ME YOU WERE GOING TO DO THAT!" Spike then smacked me lightly over the head, making me chuckle at his antics.

"Oh hush you... I bought you Germane Coffee didn't I?!" I shot back, loud enough so that everyone could hear me over the noise of the fighter flying away. We were about fifty feet above the ground when Celestia and twilight, along with the other elements, started yelling at us.

"RYAN! WHAT IN THE WORLD DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!" Celestia called out, her angered appearance almost imperceptible, she was hiding her rage rather well, though it did show in her voice when she yelled.

"SPIKE, RYAN, WHAT IN CELESTIA'S NAME DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING! YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN HURT!" Twilight yelled up at us, steam seemed to be pouring out of her ears, with everyone else yelling just about the same.

"OH HOLD YO' HORSES YA BUNCH AH DIPS! WE'LL BE DOWN IN A SEC!" I called down, making Spike chuckle, The x-wing long since gone. everyone backed away as we neared the ground, the energy from my hands was displacing the dust around the spot we were landing on, making everyone shield their eyes with a hoof.

"Ryan, what might I ask is with all the theatrics! You could have given us a heart attack with all of that! And what in the world was that... Thing! you and my little Spiky-Wiky were riding in! It was simply DREADFUL!" Rarity blabbed as she and the girls came over glaring at me, I could barely see the look of relief on Fluttershy's face as the two of us landed. Luna came running up and jumped into my waiting arms, giving me a solid nuzzle under my chin, earning a hearty chuckle from me as I rubbed her head, being mindful of her horn. Spike jumped down and gave me a slight punch in my thigh.

"Yeah, well this guy," Spike hoked his thumb at me, " Decided it was a good idea to take the... What was it called again Master?" Spike looked up at me quizzically.

"It's called an XJ-14 Fighter, and it's based of the X-wing fighters from the Days of the rebellion..." I tersely replied.

"Thanks, Like I was saying, He decided to take the XJ-14 and use it to get here faster... but we made a few detours....."

"Tha's ahl good 'n dandy there Spike... But what are yah holdin' there?" Applejack pointed a hoof at the two large cups of coffee and the bag of doughnuts.

"I was going to get to that AJ, just hold on." Spike laughed a little, walking over and setting down the food stuffs. "As I said, we made a few stops... Well our first stop really wasn't a stop per-say... Hey Ryan, how long did we stay there?" He looked at me, wanting a little help in explaining why we had done what we did.

"Oh, well, I think we were broke through in about five seconds really... but it took us close to twenty to get there... SO.... Maybe we stayed in the atmosphere a good thirty seconds?" We both smiled as almost all of them, mostly Rainbow Dash, dropped their jaws and gaped at us. Luna just chuckled slightly, until she saw our serious looks and went agape as well.

"You both did what now?!" Twilight and Rarity asked, being the first to reassert their hold on their minds.

"We made a circuit around the world... that's all... We then stopped in Trottingham and decided to pick up some food... Though it was really spike here that got it, seeing as he speaks Germane..." I chuckled slightly at Spikes rosy cheeks, he was getting a little embarrassed from all the attention that he was getting.

"Ryan... WHY IN THE BUCK DIDN'T YOU INVITE ME!" Rainbow suddenly burst forward, yelling in my face.

"Well, cause you weren't there and there isn't that much room in a single person Assault craft... that's all." I replied smoothly, calming her before I smacked her upside the head.

"What the!" She called, rubbing her head.

"That's for yelling at me..." SMACK, "And that is for cussing in front of the girls and spike," I motioned to the CMC Luna and Spike. SMACK, "And that is for cussing in front of the princess.... Now, go sit down before I find another reason to smack ya!" Rainbow looked at me crossly, nursing her slightly sore head, I hadn't really smacked her that hard, just enough to make it register. The elements and Celestia had just stood there and watched me berate our friend in her use of nonexistent manners, just looking like they were about to bite her, or my, head off.

"There was no need to harm Rainbow, Ryan, though I do thank you for chastising her for her actions... Even if your... actions... were questionable in the first place. But, on another note, You two went into space?" Celestia said with nigh perceptible jealousy.

"That we did Princess, and we even went and picked up a few treats from Trotting ham to prove it... though after the fifth time around Equss we got a little bored... So we landed on the moon for a few seconds, just to take in the sight." I smiled tautly at her, making her think for a moment what I was referring to. Her eyes widened ever so slightly before becoming down cast, looking at the filly in my arms.

"Yeah the view was amazing!" Spike butted in, saving Celestia from my cold gaze.

"Well, I know you all have question, so lets head inside and I'll try to answer them all promptly!" I motioned for everyone to follow, rainbow staying close to hear what else we did, while Fluttershy stayed near for a different reason.

"Yes, but did you see the way that cashier was leering at me! It was priceless when I told her I was taken!" I laughed as Spike shed a tear in laughter, Rainbow, AJ and Pinkie were laughing along with us, Fluttershy was rather red and bothered by my statement, though tried to hid it behind her mane. Twilight, Rarity and Celestia were giving me disappointed looks.

"But you don't have a Mare-friend Ryan... Why in the world would you tell a pour mare like that such a lie! It is rather uncalled for!" Rarity cried out slightly, her flare for the dramatic was always a hoot for me, internally anyway no need to give the mare any more ammo against me!

"Yeah, that really wasn't nice Ryan, you must have hurt her feelings!" Twilight quipped, her voice held slightly hurt tone to it, for what ever reason.

"I must agree with Rarity and Twilight on this Ryan, that was most uncalled for, I know for a fact that you have not found somepony yet, so why even make the attempt at lying!" Celestia reprimanded me, though ineffectively.

"HA! When did I ever say I was lying? I may not have a girlfriend right this instant, But I do have my eye on someone, and they happen to be in this very building... Though they pry don't realize it yet." I said cheekily, making all the mares at the table blush slightly, though none but I noticed Fluttershy's relieved look, and slightly less flushed face.