Mothball and I were currently sitting in a booth on the train to manehatten. I was busy filling him in on the situation. When I mentioned that our mission was to escort the princess of love he looked nervous.

"This isn't gonna end well."

"Relax Mothy, I'm sure Tia will explain everything to the princess. Might wanna be ready to dodge a magic beam though." I chuckled as I finished the sentence and Mothball face hoofed.

"I love ya boss, I really do, but you gotta get some better jokes."

"Be thankful I'm not the kind of boss that forces you to laugh."

"I suppose you're right." The next ten minutes were spent in silence. "Well, we should probably get some sleep. Big day tomorrow." I nodded and threw my legs onto my seat and rested my back against the window with my arms behind my head.

"Night Mothy."

"Night boss." Sleep came easily. I was having a dream about the camp, the good times I shared with Jason, Josh and Molly. I wonder how they're doing, maybe they found a better place to stay. I can't imagine them still living in the camp if Equestrians have gotten used to me. That should benefit them right? It means that ponies won't just run away when they see them. My thoughts were interrupted by shouting at the other end of the train car.

"Alright listen up, hand over your valuables and nopony gets hurt." I peeked around Mothballs seat to see four earth ponies with knives in their mouths going from booth to booth taking the ponies jewellery and bits. I shook Mothball.

"Mothball, we've got company." Hearing this his eyes shot open and looked around the corner. I noticed that the thugs were wearing bandanas with the symbol of a skull on their heads. They weren't random thugs, they were a bandit group. Mothball noticed this too and pulled out a pile of wanted posters and started flicking through them. He landed his hoof on a poster and read it out in a whisper.

"The Skull Bandit Guild, wanted for 3000 bits." We looked to each other and smiled devilishly. I pulled on my magic gauntlet and rose from my seat. I put my hands in my pockets and pulled my scarf over my mouth. I walked out into the open and looked at them.

"You know, it's rude to wake others from their sleep." The ponies jaws dropped.

"He's...h-h-he's from Lone Wolf, what in Tartarus is Lone Wolf doing on this train?!"

I pulled out the wanted poster and looked over it. "Hmmm. You guys seem a tad too weak and unorganised to be worth 3000 bits. I take it there are more of you in the other cars?" One of them gulped and nodded. We were in the middle car so I could use this to our advantage. "Mothball, you handle the back cars, I'll deal with the front." He nodded and headed into the next car. I looked back at the bandits. "I'm gonna give you guys one chance, give everypony back what belongs to them and surrender, or..."

I used my gauntlet to levitate my throwing knives, having them spin in a circle behind me. "...are you going to fight me?" They looked to each other and gulped. "Is that a yes?" They shook their heads and charged at me. I smiled and threw my scarf over a foals eyes. "Sorry kid but this show is for adults only." I shot three of my spinning knives at one of the bandits and he dropped dead. The other three shouted his name and looked at me with anger. I took advantage of their shook and stabbed two of them in the back, causing them to fall unconscious but not dead. I stopped the last one with my sword and held it against his neck. "You done goofed." He threw his knife away and lowered his head. "Good boy, I didn't want to kill your friend over there but to be fair I did warn you." I spotted some rope at the back of the car and tied the three up, the two I stabbed won't bleed out, I avoided any vital bloodlines. I just punctured a pressure point. I looked at the bag that was filled with jewels. "Alright people, get your stuff back."

I lifted the corpse of the dead bandit and wrapped his body in a blanket. I didn't have to worry about the mess, Celestia taught me a spell for cleaning up the blood. How I love this gauntlet, really comes in handy. "Well, time to round up the rest of the cattle." I lifted my scarf off of the foals head and wrapped it around my neck and covered my mouth. If you're wondering why I cover my mouth with it, it's because I think it makes me look awesome. I walked into the next car, there were six more bandits. They started to panic, seriously, why are these guys worth so much? "Come on guys, chill out." I used my gauntlet to freeze them in blocks of ice. "If Mothball was here he'd scold me for that." After a rinse-and-repeat in the next two cars, I came across a room where all of the guards were tied up. "So this is where you guys were." I cut their bonds with my throwing knives and told them the situation was under control. After thanking me they went to arrest the bandits. I returned to my seat and watched as the bandits were teleported to prison by a magic crystal.

The guards returned with two bags of bits. "The bounty has been teleported here by the Canterlot Detention Centre, enjoy your reward sir." I took the bags from his grasp.

"Thank you kindly." He nodded and went to join his squad. I counted the bits and there was 1500 bits in each bag. Mothball returned with a chocolate milkshake held in his magic. He sat down and I tossed him his share. "I take it everything was ok on your end?"

"Mostly, had to kill two of them, after that I just froze the rest in crystallised mucus." You'd think I'd be grossed out by that, but I've known Mothy for awhile, I've got used to it.

"Great minds think alike." He grinned and yawned. "I think we deserve some rest now, would you agree?" He nodded and cast a sleeping spell on himself. "Cheater." I folded my arms and laid back against the window, resuming my dream.

We were awoken by the train slowing down. I looked out the window to find we had a beautiful view of the city.

"Whoa..." We both whispered in unison. I noticed a large statue of a pony wearing a dress...it looked a lot like...

I burst out laughing, Mothball just looked at me confused.

"What's so funny?"

"I just remembered...Manehatten...Manhatten...oh my God." I said between laughs. I calmed down and explained the similarities between this city and NYC.

"Whoa, that's freaky."

"I swear to God if they have their own version of Times Square I'm gonna die laughing." He looked at me confused. "Earth thing, come on, gather your stuff." He nodded and retrieved his equipment, which contained a small green blade, tranquilliser darts, magic crystals and crystalic hatchet.

We exited the train and took in the site of the station, well, mostly me. It presented your standard city train station, which made me feel at home. I grew up in Belfast City back on earth before moving to Antrim, nice enough city, always had some kind of convention going on, which was nice. I always went to anime conventions as my favourite anime character Trafalgar Law. Don't know who that is? Look him up or something I'm not going to waste my time explaining. I will tell you he's from the anime One Piece, that's all. Oh God, I'm sounding like Symbol now aren't I? Wait, where did that come from?

Doesn't matter. We walked up the steps into the main depot, where a familiar face walked up to us.

"Hey general FireFlight, haven't seen you in awhile, how're the kids?"

"They are well, thank you." After introducing Mothball to FireFlight he began to lead us towards the back of the station. "The princess's waiting for you in the back, she has something for you."

"Aw, she shouldn't have." He chuckled and continued, I shot a cocky grin at Mothball. "At least somepony likes my jokes." He gave a tired sigh and continued on. We reached the rear of the building and walked through a black door.

"The princess is around the corner, it was nice to see you again Gray."

"Likewise, FireFlight." He nodded and went back to his duties. We walked around the corner to see Celestia siting at a table under the light of one lamp on the ceiling, creating a circle of light around the table. "Kinda cliché but alright."

"Hello again, Gray and Mothball. I heard about what happened on the train, thank you for keeping fatalities to a minimum."

"Your welcome, although you might wanna get your guards better training." She nodded and slid a file across the table.

"This file contains a map and some basic information on Cadance, the map will show you the safest route." We nodded and I began studying the file.

"Princess, if I may ask, why did you request for me to come along on this mission? Don't you think the princess will be afraid, after all changelings feed of of love, and she's the princess of love." Mothball asked with worry. Tia giggled and gave him a reassuring smile.

"Don't worry Mothball, I have explained everything to my niece. The reason I have requested you to be on this mission is that I am trying to improve your image around Equestria, if you safely escort a princess across the land and keep her out of harms way, then the public will trust you more." Mothball nodded in understanding, but I could sense his nervousness a mile away. This is gonna be a loooooooonnnngg trip. "By the way Gray, the blacksmiths and mages finished your request a few days ago."

My eyes widened and my grin became devilish. "Show me." She nodded and placed a black case on the table and pushed it towards me. I opened it up and looked at my new toy with an insane smile. Inside the case was a pistol made of solid gold. It was thirteen inches long and one and a half inches wide. The bottom of the barrel was rectangular, the grip was made of fine leather. I took it in my hands and noticed that the bottom of the grip was empty. I looked to Celestia and she walked over to the corner of the room. There was an object was covered in a sheet.

Tia pulled off the sheet to reveal a silver machine, it had three buttons on the front, one red, one blue and one gold. There were also three holes under the buttons. "This is your ammunition dispenser, it can magically produce three types of ammunition, explosive, magic-dampening or enchanted."

"Is there any limits to how much ammo it can produce?"

"As long as you give the magic crystals time to cool down, there should be no problems. There is also a heat meter on the side, to warn you in the event of it overheating." I nodded. I pressed the gold button and a magazine of twelve golden enchanted bullets dropped from the slot. I examined the ammunition and smiled, they were easily 50 callibur. I loaded the gun and gave it a once over. I noticed an engraving on the side. There was no writing but there was a few curved lines. "Those lines are only temporary, if you give the weapon a name, it will change to that name." I thought for a moment, then an idea came to me.

"Alright, I shall call it...the Lancelot." The lines glowed and the word Lancelot was engraved.

"An interesting name, must be something from Earth?" I nodded, she smiled and handed me a belt with nine straps. "This is for holding you extra bullets, take five enchanted, two explosive and two magic dampening." I nodded and selected the amount of ammo. In total I had ten mags. I'm still amazed that they managed to create this thing. They even shaped it like I asked, it looks like Alucards Jackle from Hellsing Ultimate, but gold instead of black.

"Thank you for such a lovely present Tia." I placed the Lancelot in a pouch on the belt.

"As long as you don't go around shooting my ponies, I'm happy to accept your requests. Consider this a bonus for escorting my niece such a long way." I nodded and turned to Mothball. "Don't worry, I'm not going to have you carry this around, I will take it to the Wolf Den and place it in your room for when you return." I thanked her.

"So, when do we meet this princess?" I asked rubbing my hands together.

"Come along, we are meeting her in a hotel downtown." With that we exited the room. We walked down a small pathway and headed into a carriage waiting for them. Many ponies tried to take a picture of us as well entered the carriage. When I shut the door Tia closed the curtains with her magic, giving us privacy. The carriage began moving slowly but them picked up some steady speed. I pulled out the Lancelot and examined one of the three different types of bullets. The enchanted ones had a gold shell with a silver tip, the explosive ones were red shelled and silver tipped and the magic-dampening were blue shelled and silver tipped. The only thing on my mind at that moment was this...

I can't wait to use this baby.

Author's Notes:

Another chapter done, I'm actually surprised I got this done so quickly. It may not seem quick to you, but to me it is. I don't have a lot of free time.

Also if anyone caught the Second Universe reference, thank you for reading my other stories.