The sun rose above the horizon, welcoming a new day for all. The birds were out singing, the pegasi were out moving clouds, and Celestia had gone to breakfast. The two lovers had just woken up from their blissful sleep to this wonderful morning. The two looked up and at each other for a few minutes before engaging in another kiss to say, “Good morning.”

The two crawled out of bed and started to prepare for the new day. Luna entered the bathroom while Anthony went to the vanity and brushed his mane with one of the many brushes Luna had. With his mane presentable, Luna left the
bathroom to allow her love to use it. The two then walked to breakfast together, occasionally sharing a kiss on the way.

When the two entered the dining hall, they found it to be crowded with multiple ponies eating and socializing. The crowd didn’t notice Luna or her lover walk in, they just kept to their own business. Luna didn’t mind though; the less who noticed her this morning, the better.

The couple made their way to Celestia and sat down next to her, while she was engaged in a conversation with Commander Shepard. Shepard had probably already forgiven Celestia and maybe Luna, but that was unlikely. As the couple walked up, Luna started to hang her head as she remembered what she almost did the other day. Shepard saw her, and walked right on over to them. Luna started to back away a little, but was blocked by Anthony behind her.

“Look, Princess Luna,” Shepard started. “I know why you did what you did. I would do the same thing if I were in your shoes. I forgive you Princess Luna, but I don’t think Grunt does yet though. I would steer clear of him for the next few
weeks.” Shepard finished, turning something that could have gone both ways, into a good joke at the end.

Luna even relieved a sigh, knowing that she did not have a massive guilt over her head, just the fear of a giant pony with a krogan mindset.

“And I am sorry for what I did. It was uncalled for. I promise that I will try to make it up to you in any way I can think of,” Luna apologized, giving Shepard a more trust in the ponies, but she was still skeptical. Shepard then excused herself
and went to find the rest of her squad.

“That went better than expected,” Anthony said behind Luna, earning him a look from Luna that read “your-lucky-I-like-you-are-you-would-be-so-dead.” He just smiled and gave her a light tap that said they should have sat down a while ago.

Now that the happy couple was finally sitting down, they could begin to eat. Celestia had the cooks bring out some appetizing foods out. The dishes ranged from regular scrambled eggs to complex creations of foods none even knew
existed. The rest of the meal went off with no incidents and light conversation between the three.

After the meal, Anthony went off to find his friends, allowing Luna to go get some sleep; she still had to raise the moon at night. Anthony found them all in the royal gardens, enjoying the beautiful morning sun. He walked right to them and
was barraged with a mass pure friendship. After allowing the unicorn to finally regain his breath, they began with the firing of the Orbital Inquiry Cannon. It would have been better if they had him still in the group hug.

He was finally about to start answering questions when Pinkie, yes Pinkie of all ponies, quieted everypony else down. He was able to fully answer their queries by the time lunch had rolled around.

“Hey, my big bro said we should join him and Cadence for lunch. Do you all want to go?” Twilight asked, earning an approving vote from all present. The group of friends got up and followed Twilight on where they were to meet, as none
of them knew their way around Canterlot as she did. The walk took only a few minutes to arrive at the desired location.

They found Shining Armor waving at Twilight and her friends at a long table, with Cadence sitting next to him. They all trotted over and said our hellos, before taking their seats. Shining Armor was happy to see Twilight and her
friends, except for one. That Anthony fellow had a look in his eyes that told Armor that he had a different view on thing that should not be even on a ponies mind.

“So Shining, how have you been?” Twilight started, breaking Shining Armor from his thoughts of the new friend to his little sister.

“Things have been going well for the Guard. They are all getting into shape with how easily the Changeling was able to apprehend the guards so swiftly. They are all being put through a much tougher training regimen that Princess Luna
herself comes down to inspect, as she was the more militaristic of the two. And also…excuse me, but do find this funny?” Shining Armor was being rudely interrupted by Anthony’s laugh. Apparently, he thought something was funny.

“Actually yes I do find it a little funny. You see, where I’m from, the amount of training your guards have would be null and void in comparison to the training that a common Marine would go through. How do I know what regiments they do? I saw a portion of it the night I blew up that tree. In my former-world, to be a marine was no easy task. Just a basic grunt had to go through months of basic training before they even thought of handing him a rifle. Your guards are complete shit compared to that of a U.S. Marine.

"Look, I'm just going through some thoughts and I think that they need a better training regiment. I could actually help if you would like?" Anthony said, sending Shining Armor over the edge.

"Let me get this straight. First you insult me guards and my skills as Captain, then you think it's okay to try and show me how it's done? Who do you think you are? Just because you are a 'friend' of Twilight's, does not mean i have to trust you. For all I know, you could be planning to bring your people here and use this world as your own," Shining Armor had started to stand,and if he hadn't, then he might have been in a world of hurt. At the moment he stood up, the table was blasted by and explosion underneath it.

Armor was thrown back ten feet, and everpony else were flung just a tiny two feet. Anthony was up first as he looked toward the street and saw something he never thought would be near him ever. A Ravager was crlawing its way up the street, ponies running in every direction. The Ravager targeted the group and prepared to fire. Anthony only reacted. He tossed the table on its side and used his magic to throw everpony behind it, before finally jumping behind it as well.

"What in the name of Equestria is THAT?" Twilight asked as she found all of them behind the table.

"A Ravager. They are servents of the Reapers, Sentiant machines from the universe that Shepard is from. My guess is that they came through another portal. This world has been opened because of what you did with bringing me here. I can handle this thing, but i think that if there is one, then there might be more. Just give me a moment to focus on this one spell I found," Anthony said, now closing his eyes and looking as though he was in deep thought. Shining wasn't going to let him do whatever it was.

"And why should we listen to-"

"Will you SHUT UP! I am trying to save you all and you won't stop bagering me. Now Shut the Fuck UP!" the unicorn said, scaring Shining Armor quiet. the next couple of seconds was filled with silence from the group, as they listened to the screams of other ponies. Anthony then opened his eyes and his entire body was covered in a bright white light. What happened next stunned them all. In the place of a unicorn was human in a wierd armor. The human was close to seven feet tall, and the ponies could see muscles bulking up the armor.

The armor itself was an amazing piece of technology just on the outside. The armor covered the entire body, and the helmet had a visor on the front were the eyes should be. There where at least eight different weapons on him; the Plasma Repeater, Brute Mauler, Plasma grenades, Spike grenades, a Needler, the UNSC Sniper Rifle and Sparten Laser, along with Fragmentation grenades and an Energy Sword were splayed on his body on his back and both thighs. The armor was grey on most, except on the lower-leg and shoulders, which consisted of a red that was partily faded. Knifes adorned his upper torso, wrists, and left-lower leg.

The being stood up and faced the creature that was slowly walking towards them, pulled out one of the plasma grenades, and threw it with perfrect precition at the creatures head. The grenade stuck and started to glow bright blue, before exploding and melting the Ravager. This ended the current panic as everypony came out of hiding to gather the wounded and to view their savour. The armored being turned around and looked at the group he saved.

"You should look at your face!" He busted out laughing. All of them could hardly hold up their lower jaws, allowing them to rest on the ground. The complete shock and speed of the situation had left them all silent. "Now I know that wasn't the most shocking thing you have ever seen. Or is it? I don't know, but what I do know is that you all had better go find Celestia, we have a battle here."

A/N: sup everypony. hope you all like this chpater. for images look at the blog to come.