:WARNING! ENEMY SHIP DETECTED!!!: 'oh god, they found me' it's too late now, you look up over the alien horizon only to see the first few ships of the fleet breach through the atmosphere, you would never forget the sight of them with the spinning rings near the hull and the dozens of heavy barrel cannons, each one could throw a chunk of Uranium the size of a small building at over 9000 miles per hour. People are screaming, people are running.....people are dying. You run, you run like you have been for the past eight centuries. From them...the mad doctor Frankenstein that created you, but most of all you run from her. She screams but you can't do anything to save her, you knew they would come eventually that's why you jumped here. Just another universe for a temporary hidey-hole so why is it that every time you do this you HAVE to make friends!?!? You jump onto a rooftop and keep running and by the way your moving you have eight seconds until you fall off into the pit below. CALCULATING, 7 seconds ACTIVATING DIMENSIONAL JUMP DOOR 5 seconds 5 SECONDS TO JUMP 4 5 3 4 1 3 Jump You immediately vault forward over the canopy into the black pit 2,1 "Goodbye" 0 ACTIVATION COMPLE-

"Spike!! Where are you with that inkpot?" The young alicorn mage yelled

"I'm coming Twilight just wait!" replied the rather agitated apprentices assistant.

"Well hurry up! I don't mean to sound rude I can't just stand around all day waiting for you, there are important matters at hoof! If I don't send these invitations to my coronation then all of Equestria will know me as the princess who forgot to send invitations for her own ascension to being a world leader! Then Celestia will wonder if I'm too forgetful to be one and she might take away my title as a princess! And maybe even my wings! What will everyone think!?!?"

"Oh brother." Spike muttered when he saw her disheveled mane and watched her pace a groove in the floor. He remembered the last time she did this, what a day THAT turned out to be. "Come on Twi. When has Celestia ever been that mean?" she pondered for a second

"...Never?"

"Exactly! If she took away your crown for something so silly than I'd think a Changeling had turned into the worlds leader." he chuckled, still nervous she might go full crazy.

"Your right." Spike let out a sigh of relief "Sorry spike I don't know what I was thinking, now let's start writing!" BOOM!!!! The two occupants of the tree house home nearly jumped out of their skins at the sudden cacophony of the explosive sounding boom and the sound of everypony in the town screaming. Spike barely had time to react though because suddenly he was standing outside in the street markets of Ponyville.

"Twilight!" A familiar southern voice called.

"AJ? What the buck is going on!?!" She demanded

"Ah don't know, ah was just standing here selling the latest batch of cider and ah heard that big explosion! It sounded like it came from the Everfree!"

"If it was from the Everfree...." Twilight suddenly gasped "Fluttershy or Zecora might be hurt! Applejack, You check Zecora's hut I'll go to Fluttershy's cottage to see if she's okay."

"Why do I have to go into the dark scary forest while you go to the petting zoo?" The farm mare inquired. Twilight shot her a very threatening glare and Applejack knew instantly that what she said was bucking stupid. "Right, Zecora's...." And then she off towards the forest leaving Twilight and spike in the square. Spike, who had been on the floor from the sickening experience of having his ears almost blown out while running around in a room that he was suddenly no longer in had just recovered and started standing before being vaulted through reality once more, this time he was standing at Fluttershy's house and had accidently landed on a Rooster who thanked him for the unexpected guest by scratching and pecking at him.

"Spike! Get up and stop playing with the chicken! We have to see if Shy's okay!"

The young reptile sat up instantly and angrily stared at Twilight or a second "Yeah, sure."

The duo burst through the doors, "Fluttershy! Are you here?" a small whimper came from under a quilt.

"She's here." Spike said rolling his eyes.

"Tw-twilight Spike? I-is that you?"

"Yep, are you okay? Are you hurt?"

"I'm fine, I was just tending to the cutesy wootsie little kittens and I-I heard that scary boom and I kinda sorta got too scared and ran inside and I mean I um " the timid Pegasus trailed off.

"So your ok?" Twilight asked with concern.

"Oh yes, but we HAVE to see where that boom was! I mean..i-if you don't mind, some animals might be hurt."

Twilight couldn't help but smile at the Pegasus peeking her head out from under the wee little quilt, "Yes, we have to investigate! For science!"

"And to help the cute little critters, I couldn't live without them they're just so!" She let out an excited squeak "You know?"

"D'aww!" She said hugging her friend, as she left the embrace she looked at her and Spike with a determined smile on her face "Let's go!"

After about twenty minutes of hoofing it (What pun? I see no pun here.) Twilight suddenly motioned for a stop, the three instantly stopped dead in their tracks. They slowly approached the smoldering crater, the mages horn lit up and suddenly the smoke clears clearing way to the center of the dent in the Earth.

"Is that a..." Spike began bewilderment filling his eyes.

Twilight looked and suddenly she too was filled with a sense of wonder "Human." Lo and behold, right in front of the shocked trio was what appeared to be a Homo Sapien. 'There's no way!' Twilight thought 'I must be dreaming, wake up! but she didn't and based on her knowledge on lucid dreaming it was clear to her that she wasn't 'It's bipedal, has fingers and opposable thumbs so it can't be an ape, and it has... she was sure of it now only humans possess the knowledge create such machines like guns.

"What is that thing!" Fluttershy said looking quite scared at the unfamiliar creature.

"It's a Human."

"What the buck is a human!!! I-I mean if you don't mind asking..."

"It's quite alright, and to answer your question these Humans are what populate the world I was transported to by the mirror during the Sunset Shimmer incident." She explained.

"S-so they won't hurt us?" the Yellow Pegasus timidly inquired.

"Not without good reason no, they seem to be a very peaceful race but after being provoked too much they are capable of astonishing quantities of violence." she said with a rather concerned air at the last phrase.

"Oh m-my"

"ugh..." The creature groaned as he started to stir from his crash induced slumber.

"Shh! He's waking up! They've never seen creatures like us and he might be a bit sca- AAH!" Twilight was suddenly being pinned to the ground by the human.

"WHERE AM I!!!!"

"AAH!!! EQUESTIA! YOUR IN EQUESTRIA! I CAN EXPLAIN EVERYTHING IF YOU LET ME GO!!!"

"I can't see, my visuals are gone!!!!" Fluttershy who was extremely scared began to step away, instantly the rather angry and deranged looking human snapped his head in her direction.

"O-oh dear!" instantly Fluttershy found herself unable to move as the being was pointing a large weapon directly at her.

"WHERE ARE YOU!!! STAY AWAY FROM ME!!!!!GO AWAY!!!!!! GO! GO ,go, go away

thud Fluttershy (Who had been hiding behind her hair.) finally peeked out to see that her attacker had collapsed onto the ground and wasn't moving. "What was that all about!?"

"Well like I said he hasn't seen creatures like us before, he was going to be scared although I did not expect such a violent reaction. Come on! We have to get him to my house!"

Spike eventually came out of a bush he was hiding in "He seemed like he had seen some shit, I wonder what happened to him?"

WARNING!!!! COORDINATES NOT RECEIVED CORRECTLY!!! ATMOSPHERIC BREACH IMMINENT!!! SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT!!!!! "Henry! Activate paladin EVA re-entry system!" AFFIRMATIVE, SHIELDS ONLINE, HYDRAULIC SHOCK BRACE ONLINE, PREPARING FOR ORBITAL RE-ENTRY Thank the maker everything should be fine now, the system will activate shields and put the braces on your legs to protect against any damage to the endoskeleton. All there is too do now is wait to crash into the alien planet roughly 5 miles below you. CALCULATING ESTIMATED TIME UNTIL LANDFALL...DONE LANDFALL IN TWENTY THREE MINUTES THIRTEEN SECONDS You sigh, "I guess I have enough time to survey the conditions. It seems very stable, local star is quite a long time from burning out, nearest black hole is twelve parsecs away so that won't be a problem now let's look at the atmosphere. Mainly composed of oxygen with trace amounts of CO2 and helium , hmm I hope they don't have squeaky annoying voices hehe." you chuckle to yourself

"Hey what's that smell?" you look down to realize that your synthetic skin has begun burning and is melting away rather quickly. "Oh that's unfortunate." you look at yourself and see that the damage is far worse than expected and basically half of your carbon titanium reinforced endoskeleton has been exposed "OH THAT'S VERY UNFORTUNATE!!! HENRY!!!!" AYE SIR? "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THIS!!!" TELL WHAT SIR? "Oh I don't know maybe that MY SKIN IS MELTING!!!!" TO WHAT SECTION OF SKIN ARE YOU REFERRING TO SIR? "FUCKING ALL OF IT!!!!" DAMAGE BEGAN TWENTY MINUTES AGO, ACTIVATING REPAIR STASIS "Wait Henry! No!!!! Just wait until EVA re-entry! What caused this my skin can withstand 7500 degree's celcius !?!"

SCANNING FOR HEAT ORIGIN...ORIGIN FOUND, UNKNOWN ENERGY SOURCE GAURDING ALIEN CITIES, CORRECTING COURSE, DONE CRASH SITE UPDED TO TARGET NAME DESIGNATE UNKNOWN FOREST "Keep going! Don't activate stasis yeti still want to finish analysis of planet." All we need is to enter an un analyzed planet and end up accidently waging war on their inhabitants like with those weird Dalek things. I still don't know what their problem was. SIR DAMAGE CANNOT BE CONTAINED "Just hold out Henry!" you have to make it, FIRE HAS SPREAD TO CENTRAL MEMORY "Just wait!!!" Only a few more seconds but you feel the fire spreading over the wiring and you can't seem to remember why. WAR-WARNING! SYS-SYSTE-SYSTEM FAILING! "JUST WAIT!" Where am I? VISUAL RECE-RECEPTORS FAI-FAI-FAI-FAILING sure enough you suddenly couldn't see but What am j doing? WAR-WARNING WARN-ER-ERROR- SYSTEM- SYSTEM-AC-ACTIVATE S-STAS-STASIS!!! What? CRASH!!!!!

You suddenly realize your conscious and you hear something in the background that sounds like talking Well so much for keeping to myself, I just hope I can leave them without them caring, I've lost too many people that way....far too many REPAIR STASIS COMPLETE. WARNING SLIGHT DAMAGE TO MEMORY BANK, ESTIMATED TIME UNTIL REPAIR IS TWO DAYS That's right I got damaged, but how? And why? Oh well I guess I'll remember in two days

"So what are we gonna do with him?

"We're here to take care of him spike, even if he did attempt to destroy us I think he was just scared."

VISUAL RECEPTORS ONLINE suddenly your eyes shot open, you wince from the sudden flood of light, VOCAL SIMULATOR ONLINE "Who are you people? And where am I? I need a full in depth telling of any wars, bad creatures, anything that I need to know so that I don't get myself attached to another object by an inclined plane wrapped helically around an axis."

"Um...I-I don't know?" the rather befuddled alicorn replied intelligently

"Ugh! Listen! I have just crashed into this planet with no memory of how I got here and no memory of why I HAVE no memory! I'm a bit agitated so please try and work with me! I cant move, why can't I move?" at first you thought your body must have been just taking time to wake up from stasis but then you look down to see a strange purple energy binding you to the bed, "Why did you tie me up?"

"Well to make sure you don't um...attack us?" she says sheepishly

You look at her and realize, "Holy shit it's a talking purple pegacorn."

"I'm an alicorn,"

"Whatever just let me go so I can be on my way into seclusion and solitude, I don't need any friends."

"But friendship is magic!" the other one piped up

"Oh my god that's the gayest thing I've ever heard."

"I know! It's quite happy isn't it?"

"No."

"But you just-"

"Listen!!! I need to leave now so I don't get attached to you guys and feel everlasting guilt when I get you killed, all I want to do is have you leave me alone, so if you'll kindly remove these energy rope type thingies I'll be on my way."

"No." the purple one said plainly

You slowly turn your head towards her with a look that could stop hearts. "What?"

"I said no."

"LISTEN HERE LADY!!! I'M NOT SURE BUT I THINK I'VE BEEN THROUGH A LOT OF SHIT TODAY!!! AND I DON'T HAVE TIME TO SIT AROUND TALKING TO AN ACID TRIP PONY!!!!"

"Well your hurt and before you leave we're going to help you because that's what good friends do!"

Dear god why did I have to get stuck on somewhere like this, it could have been an empty planet! It could have been open space for all I fucking care! But it had to be some fucking rainbow friendship nightmare! Anyway I'm not getting out of here like this, I need to find a way to make them let me go.

"Hey! You like being a good friend right? Well it would be really nice if you would let me go!"

"Ok"

"Thank Christ now I can-"

"Right after I give you a check up for anything wrong!" she said in a sickeningly cheerful voice.

Oh god she doesn't give up.

"Hmm, eyes are working fine right?"

"Yep all fine let me go now!"

"Eyes check, anything hurt?"

"Actually these bindings hurt a lot could you take them off?"

"Nothing seems to hurt, bruises anywhere?"

"No."

"No bruises, are you sure you want me to let you go without a hug?" the yellow annoyance said.

"DEAR GOD NO LET ME OUT!!!"

"Is something wrong?"

"No! I've just been captured by a bunch of crazy over protective LSD hallucinations! I'M FUCKING PEACHY!!!"

"Oh good! I thought you were angry! Well I guess we should let you go now!" she waved to the purple one.

"Oh dear god thank you!" the strange magic ropes suddenly dissipated and as soon as you can you bolt up and literally front flip out of the bed.

"Why did you flip out of bed?"

"For style!"

"What?"

"Nothing, well goodbye! I'm leaving and please never follow me." Now I can leave this nightmare behind your about to jump, your going to leave! Finally! Bzzt ".....What?" Bzzt, Bzzt, Bzzt "....WHAAAAT!?!?! NO NO NO NO!!!! SHIT SHIT NO PLEASE!! DON'T LEAVE ME HERE! DON'T SAY IT DON'T SAY IT DON'T SAY IT!" you pray, INTER DIMENSIONAL JUMP IS TEMPORARILY DISABLED, TIME UNTIL REPAIR IS THREE MONTHS. "You said it... I just said don't say it....and you fucking said it..."

By now pretty much everyone in the room is looking at you like you have a walrus as a hat, you sigh and wince as you realize I have to stay here. Great, that's just fucking brilliant!!!! And these freaks are obviously going to try to be friends with me, maybe if I explain why? No then they would just try to comfort me. You went over possible excuses and possible reactions to the excuses, you had done this ever since the first dimension you visited when you decided to befriend everyone there like a fucking fool. What made you think that they, the makers would take it easy on them just because they didn't aid my escape. They killed them...they fucking destroyed them... the whole planet even the ones that you didn't know hell maybe even the neighboring planets of the star system, twelve billion lives....gone at the push of a button.

"Excuse me sir? Are you okay?" you look up

"What?"

She stepped back a bit, scared of your possible reaction "I-I mean, if you don't mind me asking why don't you want to be friends?"

You walk towards the door "I have enough blood on my hands..." and with that walk out the door into the alien world and try to find the nearest cave or abandoned building to hide in until the impending and imminent invasion. "Too much blood on my hands."

As soon as you walked out the door you realized you were in a town, a town full of things that had never seen you or your kind before. "Umm" You stammer as you look at all the unicorns and ponies staring at you like you had three heads

"It's a monster!!!!" one screamed setting everyone else running and you realized how bad this looked

"No! No I'm not gonna hurt any one of you...things!" But it was no use and you soon noticed that these things (Fucking insanely adorable as they may be.) are very strong and several of them are rushing towards you "Oh shi-" was all you could say before a cyan hoof facefucked you.

"Who and what are you!?!?!" Your attacker demanded, you looked up to see a Pegasus with a multicolored mane standing on top of you giving you a death stare

"Honey, you wouldn't believe me if I told you. But I can say I'm not trying to hurt you so could you kindly FUCK OFF!?" she raised her hoof again but this time you and Henry were ready and grabbed it, threw her off of you, and started walking away I'm such a fucking boss!

"Hey! I'm not done with you!" she said in a surprisingly angry tone of voice for something with a rainbow for hair, but you didn't care and kept on walking as she proceeded to trot next to you "Well if your not going to hurt us then why are you here? It seems like anything new or weird that has arrived in Ponyville has been evil."

"Wow, that has the chance of being REALLY racist! And is that where I am? Ponyville eh, I'd probably love it if not for the buildings and the things living here."

"Hey! This is an awesome town! And what do you have against us?"

"The only ones that I've met of your kind have either tied me up against my will, forcefully given me a checkup, or kicked me in the face" You say looking at her grudgingly.

"Hehe, yeah I guess I got a little carried away. Sorry about that." she said sheepishly, you look at her walking next to you smiling as if you were a friend she had known for years amazed at how fast she warmed up to you. Aaw, she's kinda cute. No! You can't make friends remember

"Well you know now that I'm a good guy so go away, don't you people have jobs?"

"I do have a job! I help manage the weather at CWC headquarters, I also have a job at the upper rainbow factory but I'm not supposed to tell you about that. But anyways the boss let me off work today and so since I have nothing more to do I guess i'll just play follow the grumpy alien."

You can't help but smile at the small pony but you quickly shrug it off "Well it's been fun but I have to go be alone so please go away"

"Why?"

"Because I want to be alone, duh."

"Why?"

"I just do ok!"

"Why?" You look at her smirking and feel the urge to return the smile but you resist it

"I know what your trying to do, stop it."

"Not until you tell me why you want to be alone."

"Why do you care?"

"Because nopony deserves to be left all alone with no friends, and those who want to be that way normally have something wrong with them so I'm going to help you!"

"Well you wouldn't believe me if I told you why I want to be alone so bye."

"No." Oh dear lord these things are stubborn!!!

"Well I'm not talking."

"Then I'm not leaving." you look at her incredulously.

"Well how can you follow something moving at a hundred twenty miles per hour?"

"What?"

"Henry activate sprint." AYE SIR! SPRINT ACTIVATED, DEBRIS SHIELD ONLINE, and with that you were off at a top speed of 1753 Mph. No way she'll get me now.

"Yo what's up?" you look to your side and your jaw drops when you see the rainbow Pegasus you were just speaking to cruising along next to you.

"How could a living thing move so fast!?!?"

"Pegasi are one of the fastest species on the planet, second only to Griffons."

"Well then let's see just how fast you can go misses..."

"Rainbow Dash is my name, and you are?"

"Just call me Nomad, it's what I am not my name but I don't like my name."

"Why not?"

"Tell you what, if you beat me in a race I'll tell you my story before I leave." As if she was going to beat me.

"Oh you are so bucking on!!! First one to the top of that mountain wins!"

"Let's go!" she was fast that's for damn sure, you checked her speed and she was moving 150 Mph easy.Time to move some dirt! you accelerate faster weaving in and out of the tree's, you spot a ledge and go for it jumping off and catching a branch you swing off of it onto the ground below. But Rainbow Dash was right next to you, you stare in amazement at how easily she could keep up with you.

"Cute little jump you did there, when are you going to go fast?"

"I'm just getting warmed up!"

"Bring it on!!!" Oh I plan to! you accelerate still faster looking up you see the mountain about 12 miles away. Your going about 212 Mph now and she's still right on your tail. Alright, let's see how fast she can keep up with me in the air. "Henry, engage Sabre jet accelerator!" ACTIVATING you see the shock on her face as two boosters emerge from your back and activate causing you to soar into the air and leave her in the dust smiling as you reach 767 Mph and heard a satisfying boom as you broke the speed of sound. "Hehe, try and get me no-" BOOM! your jaw falls to the ground 60 feet below as a trail of rainbow colored light blazes past you, around the mountain three times, straight up into the sky, loops around and is right next to you in ten seconds flat.

"I win." she's sitting there hovering in front of you smiling from ear to ear, you can't help but notice how cute she looks and you feel yourself blush slightly. "Um, hehe you okay?" you shake your head as you come back to your senses.

"How the hell did you move so fast!!! I haven't seen anything move that fast!!!"

"It's called being awesome, now I won the race so you have to tell me your story!"

Damn! I never thought she actually would! But a deal's a deal.

You sigh as you remember back, you hated going through the story. You already lived through every bit of it but everyone always wants to hear it so you've been forced to relive it many times. "Very well... It all started about twelve centuries ago, the day I was made. I wasn't the way I am now though back then I still followed them the monsters who created me to fuel their genocidal war machine, the Ether as they were called. I was made for one purpose and that was to travel with them through dimensions and kill every living thing in them, I must have eradicated all life in about twelve different dimensions. They wanted them all dead, they wanted to be the only living things that existed. They didn't understand that there are infinite dimensions, they knew but were blinded by their goal of being the great and only race in existence. And I agreed with them at the time, and I killed so many...so many. But one day about four hundred twenty years ago I was about to kill the last one of a species inhabiting a small ice planet, it was a child about four years of age. It was a bipedal species that had eyes of cobalt, liquid iron blood, and skin made of the coldest ice ever to counter it's molten insides. I saw her sitting there pure fear within her eyes blank though they may be they were obviously scared, I raised my weapon to her forehead and heard her scream and she kept screaming maddeningly I was about to pull the trigger and completely disintegrate her but as I saw the small creature sitting there screaming I just couldn't bring myself to actually doing it. It was like there was a force acting upon me that told me don't hurt it....and I listened, that was the best decision and the greatest mistake I made since my creation. I turned around and saw the other machines and some of the Ether themselves piling thousands if not millions of corpses, I saw the life of the planet gone... the only thing left being that small girl in the snow behind me, the last hope for the planets reconstruction. And so that day I rebelled I was the only one who ever did, I just started shooting them all killing every last one of them. You can imagine the fear when I turned on them, a machine built only for killing going against them.....the perfect weapon, me. I didn't get far though because after killing roughly 800 of them reinforcements arrived. All I remember was seeing a huge ship breaching the atmosphere and running, I just ran and ran and eventually I realized I couldn't take them all and there was no going back and so I used a device wired into my system to jump to another dimension. Ever since then it's been the same cycle jump, hide, and escape when they get here. But if I make friends then when they arrive they start killing, they consider them just as evil and they won't focus on the rest of the planet unless they knew me. That's why I can't make friends......because for every friend I make is another being just as doomed as that girl in the snow.... the last one I was in I made the mistake of actually falling in love with a girl there, she was the first one to be killed."

You stared solemnly at the ground, you were used to telling the story but it's not something that heals over time so you could just out and say it like some campfire tale. The shocked Pegasus just stares at you trying to find the words. "I-I, Wow, I'm really truly sorry.... I understand now and I'm sorry I kept bugging you about it I..." She trailed off looking away towards the sky.

"It's alright, if I didn't do it I would still be murdering so it's really a great triumph. I mean I'm the ONLY one who broke away from the Ether on my own like that so it's all fine." you sat in silence for about a minute when she suddenly jumped up and hugged you, at first you were surprised but after a few seconds you returned it, she was so warm like a big fluffy blanket and you felt kinda sad when she broke away.

"I guess I'll go then and leave you be, I mean I suppose it's for the best...goodbye." she turned away.

"Please don't let the others think bad of me, It's going to seem like some mean old hermit but don't tell them either because then they'll just come to comfort me."

"Right hehe." she chuckled before flying off. You sigh and walk away, There goes the last creature I'll willingly interact with on this planet. Time to go back into solitude. And so off you went, In hopes that the next day would be less emotionally frustrating...

Twilight sparkle had just settled down to think over the days events, you found a LIVING Human in the Everfree, you were attacked by a living Human in the Everfree, he went unconscious, you took him home and studied him a bit, then after letting him go he ran off, then there's now with the wizard sitting down pondering how the creature got there. "He seemed to have crashed onto the planet at an astonishing speed, but how in Equestria did he survive? He must have had some Human machine protecting him after all there was no way his physical structure could have withstood such damage without magic or machines, they may be tough but they're not invincible. But I have other matters to attend to, I have to send word to Princess Celestia about this recent development...SPIIKE!!!"

"Ah! Wha!? What is it!?" the dragon woke with a start and nearly fell onto his face.

"I need you to take a letter to Celestia."

Spike looked at her with a look of pure annoyance, "Twi you do realize it's two o'clock in the morning right, can't it wait til morning?" he begged.

"There's no time! I'm no psychologist but I'm pretty sure that the princess would want to know about an alien from another dimension arriving." She said with a slight air of superiority.

Spike, defeated fetched a quill, inkpot, and some parchment "Well spit it out." he said clearly annoyed.

"You shouldn't be so rude Spike."

"Is that the first sentence of the letter?" Spike chuckled before receiving a large pillow in his face, he looked up to see a rather angered Alicorn staring at him. "Okay, okay what is it? jeez"

"Dear Princess Celestia, at roughly one thirty PM today I was sitting in my study preparing to make up some invitations to my coronation when suddenly I heard a huge explosion coming from the Everfree, me and spike went to Fluttershy's to check on her while Applejack went to Zecora's hut to do the same. I am happy to say both were unharmed but after checking around where we heard the explosion we found something, well more specifically someone. A Human had crash landed into the Everfree! Shortly after the being woke up he pinned me to the ground and demanded I tell him where he was, after that he went after Fluttershy who was accompanying me and Spike to the crash site but almost as soon as he did he went unconscious. We quickly took the creature to our home hiding him with an invisibility spell as to not alarm the other residents of Ponyville and after about an hour he woke up. He seemed very eager to get out and I could've swore I heard some mechanical voice coming from in his head which would explain the sudden outbursts about how he had to stay there, after a quick medical examination he proceeded to leave. I think you should also know that he is armed and being human is probably prone to violent outbursts upon being angered. Sincerely your faithful student Twilight Sparkle."

"Is that all it?"

"Yes it is, please send it now." and so off it went in a small burst of flame "Let's hope Celestia will know what to do now go get some sleep, I realize your very tired and I'm sorry but I simply had to tell Celestia."

"It's alright, well goodnight." the baby Dragon said yawning

"Goodnight Spike."

12 minutes later...."SPIIIIIKE!!!!!!!"

"Oh Celestia please make the crazy bitch go away... WHAT!?!?! WHAT DO YOU WANT!!!!" A very tired Spike sat up in bed, he was extremely agitated as he had JUST finally gotten to get some sleep which he was rudely awoken from by his master friend Twilight.

"I just got a reply from Celestia! She said she's going to be sending an expert on Humans here to investigate, she should be arriving here by tomorrow afternoon isn't that nice?"

"Yes! Brilliant! Anything you say is awesome as long as it get's me closer to sleeping!"

"Oh, right sorry."

"Yeah whatever." and with that he was asleep for good until morning.

"TWIIIIIIILLLIIIIIIIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

the startled pony quickly shot up and jumped out of bed at the sudden screaming of her name, "What!? What happened!!! Is something wrong!?!"

"What do you want for breakfast?" Spike said standing in the kitchen with a small 'kiss the cook' apron on holding a spoon.

"Wh-wha?" Twilight said staring at him with a look of utter befuddlement,

"What. do. you. want. for. breakfast?" he replied pausing after each word with a sadistic yet cheerful smile on his face.

"........You woke me up just for breakfast!!?!?"

"Oh were you asleep? I hadn't noticed, terribly sorry but since your up now..."

"Waffles I want, no I demand waffles!!! So please make them!"

"Very well, waffles it is then! Should I make extra since we're having a guest over today?"

"Oh buck!!!! I forgot about that! We need to prepare! I'll go clean up, you get a shower after your done with breakfast!"

"Twilight I'm sure it's not going to matter, I mean it's not like Luna is visiting it's just some Anthropologist." Spike said trying to avoid as much cleanup work as possible since he barely had any sleep.

"Doesn't matter!?!? Spike don't you realize that a REAL scientist is visiting our home? Does that matter?"

Spike thought for a moment trying to devise an escape to the trap laid out perfectly for him ".....Pass?" Twilight shot a stern look at him before walking away muttering something about "No appreciation of science" Eh, I'll take it. he thought shrugging.

After a few hours of cleaning and re-cleaning and cleaning again the tree house was finally sterile. "Well we finally did it! And it may be the fumes from all the bleach and cleaning chemicals we used but I feel like a million bits! What about you Spike...Spike?"

"Please don't find me, please don't find me, please don't find me." Spike prayed while hiding under the cupboard not realizing that the cleaning had stopped and he was allowed to have a break.

"SPIIIIKE!!!!!!! WE'RE DOOOONE!!!!!!!!"

What did she say?!?! We're done!? OH THANK CELESTIA!!!! he burst out of the cupboard in a fashion that would put the Kool-Aid man to shame. "FREEEEDOOOOOOMMM!!!!!!"

"Stop screaming Spike!!! Our guest should be arriving soon."

"Ok so what do we do?"

Twilight thought for a moment, "I'm not sure, I guess just wait since the writer is too lazy to fill in the blank time between now and when the next plot motivator arrives we don't really have anything to do."

And so they waited until they heard a knock at the door "Oh! She's here!"

"Hello? Is anyone in here? I was told to visit here at twelve." a voice called from behind the door

"We're here!" The excited mage called as she trotted towards the door "I got a letter from Celestia saying you were coming, I'm excited to have another scientific mi-" she gasped as she opened the door and saw who had been sent and immediately shut the door and locked it behind her.

"What? Who is it?" spike said

Twilight looks at him smiling from ear to ear, "Behind this door is the greatest Anthropologist in Equestrian history!"

"Umm, are you going to let "the greatest anthropologist in history" inside?"

Twilight blushed "Oh! Yes, please come inside Doctor Heartstrings!" she opened the door and in walked a young mint colored unicorn with a picture of a Lyre for her cutie mark, she wore a small black trilby with a red ribbon tied round the brim.

"I hope I didn't keep you waiting too long, I didn't get to bed late because me and my fiancé had a umm date." she said blushing

"Oh not at all! How did your date go?"

"Oh it was great! She took to a cute little place near Stalliongrad!"

Spike looked confused, "Wait, what do you mean she?"

ignoring him, Lyra focused on Twilight again " So what EXACTLY happened yesterday? I need to know everything!" and so Twilight told her the story in full detail and with each word Lyra's eyes and smile got wider and wider.

"So after that he just off and left, he seemed very regretful about something. I heard a ruckus in the market but it calmed after a while, I suppose it's because of everypony seeing a human."

Lyra was writing some things on a clipboard, "Intriguing... you say there were more witnesses?"

"Well yes, the invisibility spell we put on him lasted only a short time." Twilight said

"Did you ask them about where he went?"

Twi froze and blushed in embarrassment, "Oh, well um I"

Lyra patted her on the back, "Hey don't worry! It's what I'm here for, I'm just happy to be on the trail of my fascination. Now let's go ask about and see what we can find." and so off they went In hopes of finding any information leading to the "Humans" whereabouts.

Location: the Ether's ship and capital city, New Charity. The Hierarch's chamber. Date: October 20th 2552

Someone walks in wearing a red and gold robe, he bows down before a woman with hair white as snow and eyes black as coal wearing some sort of armor sitting in a metallic chair suspended by ropes of what appear to be some sort of black energy. "Great Hierarch, we have news of the traitor." the Hierarch looks up at him and scratches at her chin, "Good, tell me everything." the man looks up still bowing, his face wrinkled and his eyes dim "It appears that after he jumped from that planet he didn't plan where he was going, the rift he left behind was random and unpredictable. It was unfortunately too unstable and we had to destroy it." the Hierarch looked at him with a cold angry glare. "You what?" the man felt a cold twinge of fear course through his heart as he looked up. "W-we shut down the rift because it was too unstable and might have caused a dimensional vortex" the Hierarch pondered this but ultimately decided that she truly didn't care. "So you mean to tell me you destroyed the only thing we had that might have led to the traitors location!?!?" the old man covered his face as he started crying "P-please!! M-most noble H-hierarch you must understand! Had we not destroyed it so many of our men would have been l-lost!!!" He was shaking violently with fear and his heart threatened to beat out of his chest "I CARE NOT FOR YOUR SMALL INSIGNIFICANT LIFE!!!! WE NEED TO FIND THIS BETRAYER!!!" the mans blood was ice as he collapsed in front of her hugging onto her legs "Please! D-don't kill me! I-I beg you!!! Take my wife or children! J-just don't put me in the machine!!!!!"

The Hierarch looked at him with a face of anger and amusement "You would turn in your loved ones just to avoid your own death?" the man stared at the floor breathing shallowly ".....Yes" the Hierarchs lips curled into a cruel smile "And would you yourself put them into the machine?" the man looked up at her with a face of pure disbelief "Never!!!" the smile faded from her face as she stood up and walked over to him "What. did. you. say?" "I couldn't do that! I lo-" his sentence was cut short as her hand wrapped around his fragile neck and lifted him off the ground. "YOU ARE WEAK!!! COWARD!!!! WHAT MAKES YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE IN THE BASTION OF ETHER POWER!?!?!" "Please!!! Kill me this way!!! Don't put me in the machine!!! I want to die this way! Just don't put me in the machine!" "Why should I be so merciful? We are Ether! We are cruelty, power, and death incarnate! Guards! Put him in the machine!!!" two great iron colossuses materialized on either side of him and tried to grab him but he started trying to run, instantly they were right in front of him and before he could move he was beaten over the head with a steel club and dragged away.

"Time to watch the show..." a screen lowered and the Hierarch watched intently as the man was strapped into the machine and smiled as dozens of little sharp pincers swiftly struck him each time pulling out a little bit of his flesh over and over for hours while he screamed a blood curdling cry until he was nothing more than bones with a few organs and little bits of meat left over. A chute opened and the carcass dropped through it into the incinerator below. The Hierarch smiled warmly at her sadistic creation and the only thing she ever truly loved. "Wow! That was a juicy one! Well now that that's done time to do a surprise visit to my good friends in the war room." she stood up and raised her hand, her gauntlet glowed a cool cobalt and fired a bolt of energy at the floor and a orange swirling portal opened before her and she stepped in.

The war room was perhaps the biggest section of the ship, it was miles long with a high vaulted ceiling with screens depicting various planets and star systems that they were going to destroy. On the east wall a large mural depicting the Hierarch standing on a mountain of bones with large bold red letters saying OUR ENEMIES SHALL FALL.Several engineers, generals, and visitors walked about. Everyone stopped and looked as a portal developed and instantly everyone bowed down when they saw the mad sadistic leader step out of the vortex. "HAIL TO THE HIERARCH OF THE ETHER!!! ALL MUST BOW!!!" they all said in unison as she walked toward one of the generals.

"As you were." Everyone stood up and resumed what they were doing as if nothing had happened whatsoever. "General Crow, good to see you!" she said in a cheery voice " I take it your preparing your men for deployment onto the planet's surface?" Crow looked at her with a smile on his face, he had dark and deep set eyes with blackish blue circles under them that looked like they were constantly tired, his hair was dark red, combed, and kept neat. His face gave him an eerie look like someone who had mental problems. "Yes ma'am the planet's atmosphere has been tested and should be breathable if we use low grade respirators, nothing too toxic. The temperature get's up to 112 degrees at it's hottest during the day but stay's at an average high of 80 to 85, but come nightfall it drops rapidly to an average of -12 degrees but we should be fine so long as we make sure to give the boys their scarves and mittens." He chuckles "So is there anything that might be too dangerous that we call off your men and just nuke it from orbit?" "Well the lesser creatures inhabiting the planet are very skilled in combat. There are several different races including a feline like species of humanoids calling themselves Khajiit, reptilian humanoids known as Argonians, and unfortunately Dragons." the Hierarch looked at him in alarm. "Dragons!?!? Here!? Damn!!!" Dragons....the only other race capable of inter-dimensional travel that had the combative skill and numbers capable of seriously damaging their society, she remembered the last time they encountered them back on that world called Middle Earth and remembered how they were able to kill roughly 345,000,000 of their troops and destroyed even more of their Combat and extermination androids or CAEA's. Funny, that was the same year they stopped production of the V12.5's due to the Traitor, no more AI's capable of becoming self aware and growing a conscious. They were a hundred times more effective than the remote control V13's but purity MUST be maintained within the Ether society... she thought more about how one of their greatest enemies had found another planet to protect and decided she wanted to be there to kill them herself to teach them a lesson. "Have a stealth carrier with a supply of weapons, ammunition, armor, A-10 Combat Bikes with fuel, and cloaking gear ready for departure onto the surface at cosmodrome 23." "Ma'am!?" Crow said with a clearly surprised tone. She looked at him not pleased at being questioned "Is that a problem General?" "N-no! Of course not I simply did not expect you to lead an attack personally." She smiled "Well let's just say I really want to say hello to those scaled fools who think they can protect these lesser life forms infesting the many dimensions in reality." she clenched her hand into a fist "They fight for justice, I will show them the justice of the grave..."