'Midas Touch' the place was called. Rarity, Celestia even Luna talked about this place highly. Apparently it was supposed to be the best spa in Equestria or something like that. I walked across a couple of streets and saw the place from afar. The massive complex stood several stories high with golden décor on the outside. I walked into the expansive lobby and stood at the currently empty desk and hit the small bell.

"Yes I am coming," A female voice called. "Now what would..." The mare bowed as she first lay eyes on me. "Your highness".

"Please just call me Lucas," I chuckled.

"Yes...Lucas," The mare said, still lay down.

"Is it possible for me to have a treatment here?" I asked.

"It is, our staff are trained to service a wide variety of species".

"Brilliant! May I see the selection of treatments you have?"

"Here," The mare handed me a leaflet of a massive list of treatments. Some looked too simple but others looked like they should be banned by the UN back home. What's this?

The surprise package: An array of treatments which is selected at random. A perfect choice for those looking to try something new.

"I will have the surprise package," I said.

"Excellent choice, follow me please". I followed the mare upstairs to the highest level and encountered a golden door with the words 'Royal Suite' engraved. The door swung open to reveal a quiet, isolated place with several pieces of equipment enough for one person...or pony. "Members of staff will be here shortly, please get undressed while you wait".

"Members?" I asked. The door soon shut before the mare could respond. I undressed myself and looked around. Well this is not what I was expecting. The golden door opened once more and three mares walked in. I gave a tiny gulp as the door was locked and there stood three mares in front of me, while I am naked.

After some awkward silence and the formalities I lay down on a massage table. The hooves soon got to work as they began to rub my back, shoulders and legs, while I just lay there on the brink of falling sleep from the pleasure of my tense muscles finally being relaxed. Suddenly I heard a hissing noise and a rock was placed on my back. Don't. Move. A. Muscle. Several objects were placed on my back which felt warm, not burning my skin off. My legs began to feel like jelly as the rocks were taken off and I was helped up to the bath. After submerging my body in hot water, several oils were dumped in the water. One of the mares got in and began to massage my shoulders once more. I closed my eyes and gave a sigh of bliss as the hooves began to soothe the sensitive muscles on my back.

"If only I knew that people as talented as you in this sort of work existed, I would of done this years ago," I said.

"This your first time your highness?" The mare asked.

"Yeah, my homeland does have places like this. Not as good as this though". A small bell rang from outside, the golden door opened.

"It is my lunch break sir, my replacement is here though," The mare said apologetically. Another mare walked up behind me, she had a short lavender mane and a pure white coat.

"Well. It has been some time, Violet Brush," I said. The mare was unresponsive as stood collectively and looked out of the window. "How have you been?"

"F...fine," Violet muttered.

"What's wrong?" I asked, standing up and removing myself from the bath. Violet squirmed as I got closer to her, I lifted the large fringe concealing the left side of her face to reveal a large scar. "Who did this!"

"Q...Quartz," She sobbed.

"What did he do?"

"He turned into something, a beast. He managed to find me and promised not to kill me if I sent you a message".

"Which is?"

"How's Luna?" I stood in shock for a moment to process the message, then it clicked.

I picked up my clothes and dressed myself quicker than I have ever done before. I ran out of the room and sprinted down the stairs, I threw a bag of bits on the office desk and barged through the door. Several ponies were crowded by the front door as I barged through and began to advanced towards me. The flashes of cameras and questions began to fly towards me as my head began to ache once more.

"If you all don't move now, I will set the police bots to kill!" I shouted, the crowd went silent as I barged past them. A large stallion challenged me with a knife as I attempted to go through the crowd.

"You know how this goes, money or your life," The stallion grinned. I fished out my wallet and handed it to him. As he went to grab it I took the knife out of his hoof and stabbed it in his throat. I called for the transport pod and it it almost instantly landed, I dashed inside and put on my combat armour as the pod flew towards Ponyville.

After a hard landing I picked up my Lee Enfield and threw open the door and was met by my cottage, still the same as before. I kicked open the door and began to search the place. I entered the main room and saw a startled Luna.

"Lucas! What on Equus are you doing!" She shouted.

"He is coming here, get Alex and put him into the Pod," I ordered.

"Lucas, not this again," Luna sighed, putting a hoof to her head.

"I am being serious, go to the pod. Now!"

"Alex is at school right now".

"Fuck, get in the pod!" I shouted.

"No! Lucas I am sick of your stupid predictions! How do you know this even if they were coming!" Suddenly gunshots were heard and glass began to shatter.

"Get down!" I shouted, pouncing on Luna. A volley of bullets were towards Luna's previous position, filling the room with debris. After the shots ceased, I picked up Luna and ran to the pod. Bullets began to fly again as I dashed to the front door, I unholestered my pistol and began to fire at the rough position of the enemy. I was at the pod and placed Luna inside, I began to close the door before I was knocked to the floor. A gigantic beast was facing Luna. He was approximately seven feet tall and had large talons, his massive teeth protruded from his mouth and he stood arched, ready to devour whatever being stood in his way. A large horn protruded from his head where aura began to glow around it. Luna attempted to cast a spell but was prevented by the beast knocking her out with one swipe of his large hands. He grabbed her and looked at me.

"Long time no see, Lucas," The beast's deep voice mocked. I attempted to raise a pistol to him but it was met by a large foot stamping on my arm. I screamed in pain as his large foot squashed my arm underneath. "I win". The beast picked me up with his large hands and threw me at the cottage. Several pieces of wood pierced through my body and the armour as I flew at great speed. Several infected crowded me and began to beat me down, they left me as I began to fade in and out of reality.

Unknown Time Later

I woke up in a hospital bed with a large variety of equipment attached to me, I turned around where I saw Twilight lying asleep on a chair nearby. I attempted to scratch my head but my worst fears were met as no hand, nor arm was there. I screamed in panic as two nubs where my arms were meant to be, Twilight's head shot up and she fell off the chair.

"My, my arms! I panicked.

"Lucas, please calm down!" Twilight attempted to reassure me.

"Calm down! My fucking arms are gone, my wife has been missing and I have no idea what else has gone on!" I spat.

"Please! If you calm down you can make sense of the situation!"

"Where's Alex!" I demanded.

"He is staying with me, when I saw your cottage being attacked I flew to the school and picked Alex up".

"Twilight your a life saver," I gave a sigh of relief. A mare with a doctor's coat on walked through the door with a clipboard held in a telekinetic hold.

"Ah, you are awake!" The doctor said.

"Sadly," I sighed in exasperation.

"Well, do you want to know the diagnostic now or would you rather wait?"

"Now".

"Well Princess Twilight gave us a record of your anatomy and we have managed to have our robotic surgeons to operate on you using the instructions. The doctors have concluded that both arms are totally destroyed, as well as your legs. The main organs have suffered light damage but can be healed with time, however at least 6 ribs have been broken. Your skull however has taken severe fractures but your brain had been protected with metal plates. I recommend that you are dismissed from duty to the country permanently," The doctor reported in detail off her clipboard. "The full x-ray scans are attached to this clipboard". The doctor placed it on a table nearby and walked out.

"I remember Luna telling me about you using a fungus to heal yourself when you suffered damage in the Manehatten operations," Twilight recalled.

"Wouldn't work, I only suffered burns, cuts and minor fractures that time. This is too much for the fungus to handle".

"Well, we can heal you with magic. There must be a spell somewhere!"

"Even that won't work, the spell is for beings from Equus. Not for humans as we are alien to this world".

"Well, we could alter the spell formula to human anatomy," Twilight shouted in glee.

"Now that's a feasible option, I have several books in the foundry on human anatomy". Twilight soon looked to the ground and rubbed the back of her neck.

"About that..." She trailed off. "When you was unconscious, Princess Celestia ordered the closure of it".

"Well, she has a lot of robots, defence turrets and steel doors to get through," I chuckled.

"That's the thing, the base is locked so we can't retrieve the books".

"No need to worry, I'll just use my PAD," I looked to the left of my head. "Mother fucker!" I shouted in anger.

"I thought you knew!"

"Well, it wasn't exactly the largest object in the world!" I banged my head on the pillows. "Where is it?"

"Apparently it was crushed when the paramedics got to you".

"Well, I can say one thing now. We are fucked!"

"You can make more though!" Twilight said optimistically.

"Not exactly, the schematics were locked by the manufacturer, guess mine was a unlocked industrial grade one for other companies".

"So in other words?"

"We need the foundry up and running, it's the only place that has all the schematics for the technology that we need!"

"But how can we convince Princess Celestia?"

"Has she seen me!"

"I am not sure if the message got to her yet," Twilight rubbed her chin with her hoof.

"I have an idea, lets have a nice long chat with her."

After a fight with a very irate doctor, we managed to get a wheelchair and rolled out towards Twilight's library. After entering Twilight immediately wrote down a letter on a scroll.

"Spike!" Twilight called, the library stayed silent. "Spike!"

"I'm coming!" Spike sighed, he walked into the main room and saw me and froze.

"Hey Spike" I said, smiling.

"What happened?" He asked in concern.

"Rather not talk about it".

"That's cool, you needed me Twilight?"

"Yes, I need you to send this to Princess Celestia," she hovered a sealed scroll towards him and he grabbed it and blew a small gout of green flame on it, turning it into a small trail of fire which soon flew out of the window.

"When do you think she will be here," I asked impatiently.

"Well, knowing the Princess, in ten to twenty minutes."

"Glad she spares time for her family," I said sarcastically.

We waited a few moments that seemed like an eternity and soon a carriage could be heard landing outside. A few seconds later, entered Celestia. She had black rings around her eyes which were bloodshot. Her mane was frazzled and she walked slowly. She looked at me.

"You are alive," She sighed in relief, she walked towards me and wrapped her wings around me.

"Just about, I can assure you that I will get Luna back," I whispered in her ear.

"I know you will".

"If you need to stay in the castle, do not hesitate to ask."

"Of course I need to, you locked down the foundry!"

"What?" She exclaimed in surprise.

"You ordered the closure of the foundry!"

"I would do no such thing, I know that the foundry is imperative for the survival of my subjects in this hard time!"

"Then who in Equestria would close down the foundry!"

"Perhaps a coup d'etat?" Twilight interrupted.

"Then in that case, I recommend we find the ponies responsible for tampering with decrees!"

"We need you better Lucas, I think you know that the entire fate of Equestria rests on you!"

"I highly doubt that, even without my absence DEL can take over things. Until the foundry locked down!"

"Is it possible to formulate a healing spell for Lucas?" Twilight asked.

"Possibly, but it would require very advanced knowledge to heal alien lifeforms," Celestia said regretfully.

"I guess there is another option, but that would be very had to do with the equipment I have now. I really need new equipment if we are to win this!"

Suddenly a gout of green flame flew through the window which then revealed a scroll with fell into my lap. Twilight took it with her telekinetic grip and began to read it out.

Dear Lucas

Perhaps you forgot about me, it has been seven years since we last met after all. You appear to be in a state that you will be useless to me. I will not replace you as you are a valuable asset to my organisation but instead I will re-purpose some technology for you. At midnight tonight a meteor will strike the outskirts of Ponyville, like seven years ago. This contains something I think you will like. A present for your hard work and this is something my organisation does not do very often.

Remember, I will be watching with great interest.

Your Friend

"Him, he took a his time to act didn't he!" I grumbled.

"So, he can predict when meteors can strike?" Twilight asked in confusion.

"Don't be foalish, I think his organisation can send packages using artificial meteors. In this case I think it's best to keep a lookout, do you remember that spell I taught you seven years ago?" I asked.

"I do," Twilight replied.

"What exactly does that spell do may I ask?" Celestia asked.

"It's a spell that unlocks the meteor's outer hull locks".

"So does that mean we could unlock other containers from the other meteorites!" Twilight asked eagerly.

"Not exactly, your spell was for my asteroid but I could create a skeleton spell. However I would exercise caution as it could be anything. From a hefty amount of munitions for a war or a stockpile of assault drones. Who knows?" A young stallion knocked on the door and entered the room with a messenger bag draped around his shoulders. He fished out a newspaper and a letter, he gave them to Celestia and walked out of the room in total silence. Twilight opened the letter for me and gasped in shock.

"What does it say?" I asked in concern.

"I don't want to show you Lucas, it will make you worse".

"Show it me. Now," I ordered, giving her a sharp look. She slowly hovered a picture in front of my face. It was a picture of Luna tied to a chair with several cuts, bruises and blood dripping from her face. "Luna," I whispered to myself as tears began to fall from my face.

"Let me see Twilight," Celestia ordered. She picked it up and dropped it almost instantly.

"Lucas..." Twilight said, putting a hoof on the remains of my shoulder.

"Mark my words Twilight, I will find this freak. When I do, he will not even wish it was born!" I screamed.

"Even the worst of enemies can become best of friends! It is confused and if you try to reason it could even help us!"

"Give me a break with this friendship crap! . Your race sent my wife to the fucking moon for crying out loud, which I assure you is a barren wasteland! Your race want's to control all of the world by trying to use magic, and when it fights back you call it dark magic! Oh and let's not forget my most favourite, you sealed Discord in stone who would more than likely of been conscious then, imagine standing there for one thousand years not moving at all with nopony to talk to!" I spat. Twilight and Celestia stood silent for a while.

"I will gladly help you find this monster, but I will not permit you to kill it," Twilight said sternly.

"Same here, nopony deserves to die. No matter how bad their crimes," Celestia lectured.

"Fine, but I want this thing brought to justice!"

"OK then. Can we stop talking about this and just enjoy each-other's company?" Twilight asked. I looked at her funny at her a moment, that's something couples say. Oh well.

"Sure," I put on a fake smile. Twilight threw the picture and newspaper in the bin before I tried to look at it. Twilight took out a book from the bookcase and we sat down on a couch and read the brilliant piece of work that was Daring Do.