Author's Notes:

There is a history lesson here and hopefully you've picked up where the romance is.

X-67 Chronos: Weapon designed to stop or slow time while not affecting friendly human soldiers.

Dark Phoenix POV: He was now angry and it seemed the whole of Everfree knew it because not a single creature was out nor was a sound being made and if it was it quickly silenced. He could smell the fear in the air from all the animals only thing is he didn't give a damn about what they were feeling. What he did care about was the fact humans had survived after the explosions of the hundreds of volcanos that went active the moment Yellowstone exploded. Not only could have humanity survived but it could have repopulated, grown, advance in techonology, and send a distress signal but they were killed off instead not even allowed to defend themselves or beg for mercy. The children had been killed without remorse they're bones scattered and ground to dust then left there without even so much as a proper burial let alone fully burned and scattered to the wind. If they had been cremated he wouldn't have been so angry because there would have been a sign of respect but no thess ponies or whatever had killed them didn't give two shits and exterminated them like Jews in a damn Concentration camp or a death camp. When he was younger he had seen those who had blonde hair and blue eyes picked on and called Nazis just for being who they were even when they were never racist or cruel to another. He wanted to go into the place these Alicorns lived in and demand answers at gunpoint and despite this urge he knew he couldn't do it. He not only knew the possibilty of civilian casualties but also the fact would worsen things thus making any attempt to get answers harder. This left him with one option which made him smile, Surrender but not in reality, It would be a ploy. He was a soldier and as such in the time he had been alive and a soldier he had been taught by instuctors and by himself how to trick others and make them feel secure, over confident, and prideful before he and the rest of the U.S.E came crashing down on top of it destroying the enemies moral. Sometimes the U.S.E would evacuate civilians pull out all the troops of a planet making the enemy think they were weak thus making they're enemy send they're full force forward into U.S.E territory only to be caught in a large scale ambush of a thousand or so fleets full of very angry soldiers who wanted to tear a chunck out of the enemy which they usually did. It was the one tactic he was going to use before he broke out of whatever damn prison they put him in. He soon arrived at the dragoness's cave only to see her gone. He didn't care as he began to work on the Angel. He set it to respond to an automatic message of distress or need for an assist from him incase he needed extra firepower or the ability to intimidate the ponies. As he worked he came across a X-67 Chronos time based support weapon. It was designed to slow time in the targeted area while not affecting friendly soldiers. He shook his head with a smile on his face as he placed it into the weapons rack inside the behemoth. He found many of the designs of the Angel impressive with it's large metal wings that shockingly looked like blades allowing it the ability to fly using a look of an actual Angel in flight. The purpose wasn't to cut things in half like a wing blade could but to instill a sense of hope and pride in the troops and innocent. He had officially decided that tomorrow he would 'surrender' and try to get his questions answered. He knew he would have to play nice which meant taking the insults (which he very good at taking), battery, and assaults the ponies heaped on him. No doubt they would try to gain acess to his mind to gain what knowledge he had which he was also prepared for. Any attempts enter the mind of a U.S.E soldier without permission was usually met with a force that would shock most. He also planned on the ponies asking for his weapons only problem was they had only seen two or three of them which would allow him to keep certain others hidden. There was a saying about U.S.E soldier. "Just when you think they're safe and disarmed they pull a knife on you." After a while he heard Stravia land behind him. "Well your back I thought you left me alone." He heard her chuckle.

Stravia POV: She had recently gone hunting and returned with a full stomach thanks to the herd of deer I had found. As she was returning home she saw a large group of the guard assembling defenses in the small town of Ponyville. She laughed as she remembered the technology this being had not to mention the large 'Mech' the human had in his possesion. Those defenses would not hold from one of the human's weapons if it came to a full on confrontation between him and the guards. Unfortunately it seemed that was about to happen since a battalion of the best Lunar pegasi Luna had to offer were being assembled in the town. She knew they were warriors of the night and from what she had heard humans while just as able at night fighting were worse off since they're genes did not include those of a cat. The human cracked a joke in which She responded. "I was thinking about it but then I remembered you would be without a friend." She saw him take off his helmet as he looked at Her. She could easily see that she had struck a negative cord. "I'm sorry I didn't know." She watched him sigh before he looked at her. "Forget it you didn't mean to but I will tell you I do have a friend. She's a dragoness like you except she's dark blue with silver stripes running from the tip of her forhead to her front shoulder." He said as he returned to his work. She enjoyed watching this human work watching how his body moved and flowed. He was like a raging river, gracefull, deadly, but beautiful none the less. She snapped herself from these thoughts as she realized she was staring at him. Even if she liked him in any intamate way he was smaller than she was (Get your head out of the gutter) and couldn't support her weight besides he was human the hunter of her kind, killer of many, and some of the greatest warriors in the universe since they were natural born predators.

Dark Phoenix POV: He sighed once he had finished and noticed out of the corner of his eye that the dragoness was watching him. "See anything you like?" He said as he watched her turn red. "You shouldn't stare at me it outs me on edge and me on edge is not a good thing." He continued talking while shutting the hatch to the driver compartment. He had nothing better to do but ask the female a question. "You want to know about my past don't you?" He saw her nod in approval. He motioned for the dragoness to sit and he began his tale. "I was born October 11,1997 at 3:00 in the morning. When I was four months old I caught a disease known by my kind as Bronchitas. I wasn't going to survive if it hadn't been for the efforts of several doctors. In the year 2105 a large volcano known as Yellowstone exploded causing several others to explode and cover this world in ash forcing us off. My country had seen this coming for ten years so we took it upon ourselves to warn other nations. Out of the two hundred that existed only four were saved. The United States, Israel, United Kingdom, and France allowing them to be fully spared the destructoin of the world. Since we didn't want full cultures to die out or entire bloodlines to be lost we resorted to kidnapping families and placing them on the ships while we waited for the end to come. We had a fleet of 40 star ships which was more than enough to hold our population of 567,988,541 people. Unfortunately when the disaster struck only 3.1 billion out of the 9.4 billion of our kind were spared the horrors and pains of a slow death close to nearly 2/3rds of our race died from that event. If that wasn't enough the intitial devistation blew so much confusion between the human fleets that we didn't come into contact with any of them for fifty years. We settled on the planet known as Sky Haven which was two times larger than this planet allowing us to settle on it and grow. We instantly began research on new weapons and defenses since we had been thrown out so violently and as such we needed some form of comfort in our time of need. We colonized two nearby planets in the same solar system ten years after the loss of our home before we came in contact with a race that took pity on us." He looked at Stravia. "Yours. It was through your race's kindness that we felt safer and more protected from threats. To this day your kind has allowed us to ride on they're backs and fight off of them giving hope to children and showing everyone that there is hope for us all. We made a law limiting the population of Sky Haven to 2.5billion people in total due to environmental issues that we didn't want springing up and ruining it's beauty. We managed to save most of our animal species and they flourished on our new home. The eagles were probably the happiest as they took refuge in the floating mountains that rose into space it's self. Anyway long story short I am 2057 years old a soldier and a leader of my people. We are still a democracy but I am always there in the back round making sure my people are protected and that the leaders are making the right choices for my race. I have had to multiple time throw someone out of office for trying to wreck our economy, change our government, or weaken our defenses." He at this time noticed the look of sympathy the dragoness was giving him. He heard her say one thing before he saw her drift off to sleep. "Your kind has faced so much and yet you fight on. It's no wonder your so feared and respected. Your kind is a race that endures" He smiled at this before gazing into the stars reciting his last love's name and profile out loud. "Watch Commander Salina Regros, callsign Night Guardian. Four Guardian medals, two Light medals, and two Peacemaker medals. Serial number 133247655862/551442 died November 25th,3678 at 1445 hours due to infection. Listed KIA and announced dead upon returning to the U.S.I.S Harbringer. Night Guardian I'm so sorry I couldn't save you." He said as a tear left his eye falling as it caught the moonlight before splashing to the ground like a wave upon a beach.