The morning sun rose over the small country town of Ponyville, and it cast an orangish red glow over the surrounding grass fields, farmlands, forests and woodland. A rooster crowed to break the news that it was time for everypony to get up and start the day. All over town, ponies were waking up, stretching their limbs and pulling on their clothes, unaware that a change was coming. A change that would reverberate throughout the lands, stretching all the way from this small town in Equestria all the way to the unforgiving deserts of Saddle Arabia. And it would all start with one simple man, a man named Robert Williams, stripped of his power and cut off from the Morphin' Grid and hated by Princess Celestia herself, Sol Invictus of the Solar Body and raiser of the Sun, the undefeated champion and the being known and feared by the Griffin Kingdom as the Burning Sun, a title earned during the infamous Griffin/Pony Wars and loved by the Princess of the Night and Lunar Bodies, former bearer of the Nightmare Spirit and the Dreamwalker, the Lunar Invictus, Princess Luna. The morning silence that the quiet town of Ponyville was used to was soon broken by a rumbling noise as a green monstrosity, a carriage without horses rumbled across the landscape with its driver in firm control and weaving through the apple orchards of Sweet Apple Acres swerving between rocks, trees and stumps with a song blaring from Robert's phone.

"Way down in Georgia, the girls are fine, With legs so long, they'll blow your mind..." The song's singer chorused with roaring guitars accompanying it and Robert laughed as he gunned the engine and rumbled past a selection of trees before pulling a sharp right turn and smashing through a stack of hay barrels sending them flying every which way. In a nearby house, an orange furred pony with a blond mane tied in a ponytail and with freckles on her face peeked out her bedroom window after quickly throwing on some clothes (No sense in everypony seeing her underwear, after all) to see what all the commotion was about.

"What in the name of...?" Applejack wondered to herself as she saw Robert tearing up the grounds of Sweet Apple Acres in his "Baby" before she snarled.

"Vandalism, eh? Ain't nopony gettin' away with that on mah watch!" Applejack exclaimed and went for her shotgun and took a few shots at Robert putting a few bullet holes in the side of his right side car door. Needless to say, he noticed.

"Wondered how long it'd be before the locals noticed what I was up to. Seems I've overstayed my welcome, eh?" Robert smirked to himself before he tore off down the dirt road leading to Ponyville proper and left Sweet Apple Acres in the dust with Applejack shouting after him and taking a few more shots at him for good measure.

"And don't come back, ya hear!?!" Applejack exclaimed before firing off one more shot before she realized Robert was well out of range and sighed to herself. A few minutes later, Robert received a call on his phone from Sunset.

"Robert, why did I just receive a complaint from my good friend Applejack that you was tearing up her family's farmlands in your... thing?" Sunset asked in an annoyed tone of voice, not knowing what to call Robert's car. Predictably, Robert didn't answer and Sunset sighed as she guessed why Robert was doing what he was doing.

"...You're just doing that to intentionally piss her off aren't you?" Sunset sighed in resignation.

"Yeah, hopefully her friend Twilight will come so I can punch her in the face for shooting me in the back and dragging me before Princess-Dick-With-Wings-And-Horn and nearly getting rendered to ashes in the process." Robert answered, having been informed by Sunset about the Elements of Harmony and their strong friendship.

"Vandalism, really? Weren't you supposed to be a police officer?" Sunset questioned as Robert headed towards the direction of Fluttershy's cottage, the numerous animals catching his interest.

"Never said I was a very good one. Did get awfully close to being fired, after all. Besides, eye for an eye and all that. Talk to you later." Robert remarked offhandedly as he put on Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song and hung up on Sunset as he laughed and sung along with the lyrics and pulled up in front of Fluttershy's cottage. He gaped. This was impossible, in front of him lay a collection of animals that should not be mixing, like seals and hummingbirds, and bears, and penguins, among more normal animals like cats, dogs, bunny rabbits and chickens.

"...I've stumbled upon a mini Animarium, haven't I? Only possible explanation for this... this insanity." Robert mused to himself and shut off the music to analyze the situation. Obviously, the pony who lived here cared greatly about the environment and animals in general, leaving him to wonder why she wasn't chosen as a Wild Force Ranger instead of that bitch Lightning Dust. Evidently the owner of the home, a butter yellow pegasus mare with a pink mane that partially covered her eyes hadn't heard him pull up (Which was a question Robert had to ponder, as his car was loud, and not to mention the blaring music to boot) and came out dressed in her lacy light green underwear and a white bathrobe to feed the animals.

"Uh, hello?" Robert greeted and the mare let out a small "Eep" and quickly covered herself up with her bathrobe.

"Ya know, just a thought, if you don't want to be caught in your underwear again, I'd suggest you put some clothes on BEFORE you walk outside. Just a thought." Robert commented in an offhand tone. Needless to say, the unknown pegasus mare squeaked once more and flew back into her home and shut the door with a rapid slamming sound.

"Huh, shortest conversation I've ever had with a woman that didn't end with me getting slapped in the face." Robert thought to himself before he sighed, knowing he had to make up for his error or Sunset would probably chew him out again and walked up to the tree cottage and lightly rapped on the door to the tune of a "Shave and a Haircut".

"G-Go away!" Fluttershy squeaked out and Robert sighed to himself as he looked skywards and muttered something to himself.

"I'm not here to harm you, I just want to apologize." Robert grumbled to himself and the door opened, this time with Fluttershy trembling and her underwear properly covered up and Robert now noticed she wore pink bunny slippers. Robert smiled, she was cute, that was for sure.

"Um... Hello?" Fluttershy stammered out nervously as she let Robert walk into her home and she picked up a cup of tea and lightly took a sip from it.

"Yeesh, this mare could give Sunburst a run for his money in timidness. Wonder if they're related?" Robert mused to himself as Fluttershy made another cup of tea for him and Robert sighed in pleasure as he drunk it down. He missed that taste. All they seemed to have back at SPD was coffee, ugh.

"Sorry if I spooked you, do have that effect on ponies I've noticed. Don't know why my natural charm seems to scare them away." Robert commented dryly.

"W-Wait, you're that human Twilight found and brought to Princess Celestia aren't you?"

Robert promptly rolled his eyes at being called "That Human" and nodded before he responded "Where I was nearly executed by a bigoted Princess. Remind me to thank both of them for their ever so warm welcome, by punching them in the face."

Fluttershy flinched before she stammered out "N-No, P-Princess Celestia would never execute anypony, s-she just doesn't have it in her." unwilling to believe Robert's words.

"Yeah? Well, I beg to differ." Robert drolly stated before Fluttershy eyed him up and down, more specifically his bandaged chest.

"Ya know, last woman who looked at me like that, slept with her. Women do love men in uniform, as it turns out. Who knew, right?" Robert commented to himself as he took another sip of his tea and walked around the living room. There were pictures of a city in the clouds, among other things and birdhouses and little holes in the walls for mice.

"A-And I assume those bandaged wounds of yours were also something related to Princess Celestia?" Fluttershy asked sarcastically.

"No, that was when I nearly got killed by a one eyed mummy made of barbed wire." Robert responded sarcastically and Fluttershy's eyes widened.

"Wait... You're that Green Ranger everypony was talking about a few weeks back." Fluttershy gasped in realization and Robert corrected her.

"Ex-Green Ranger, but yes." Robert said before he quickly changed the topic, not wanting to dwell on his near brush with death any further then he had to.

"So... Fluttershy, if I'm correct here, how do you take care of all these animals, and keep them alive? Last I checked, penguins and seals live up north in the ice and snow, where the midnight winds and the hot springs blow." Robert asked before chuckling to himself at the reference he'd made and knowing no one but him would get it.

"Well, it's always been a natural talent of mine to take care of animals." Fluttershy explained as she felt herself settle down somehow getting the feeling that Robert wouldn't hurt her, and soon Robert and her found themselves talking well into the afternoon and even into the evening about various things and how their lives had gone so far. Soon, there was another knock on the door.

"Excuse me, I must get that." Fluttershy said as she got up out of her chair and walked to the door, opening it to find Applejack, dressed in a plaid button up shirt and daisy dukes. Applejack's eyes narrowed when she then spotted Robert.

"You." She growled out simply. "We need to talk."

Robert could only sigh to himself. He should have known that would come back to bite him.

Canterlot Castle

Princess Celestia was in a bad mood, a very bad mood indeed. She'd just heard from a very giddy Luna that The Human (She still refused to call him by his given name) had woken up a week ago, and was now wandering around the outskirts of Ponyville, and to make matters worse, Sunset had known about this as well and had refused to tell her citing "I protect my friends." Celestia scoffed, as if a human could ever be considered friendly! She still had nightmares from what that one human had did to her 2,000 years ago...

"You like this, Pony-Bitch?"

"P-Please stop! Please!"

But no matter how hard she tried, that human just wouldn't stop. He took her all night long, and when Celestia earned her magic, needless to say he was the first human to feel her wrath, with her burning him alive and taking pleasure in his screams for mercy. But she had none. She didn't intend to let this human do the same to any of her little ponies, for them to feel the same pain and fear she still experienced every time she closed her eyes.

"Prince Shining, please send a platoon of Royal Guards led by yourself down to Ponyville and retrieve the human and bring him to me." Celestia ordered, but Shining gave her a look.

"On what grounds?" He asked.

"On what he will do. He'll rape and murder anypony he gets within his line of sight, just... just like..." Celestia whispered, lost in memory before she quickly recomposed herself.

"Yes, on what he might do. We cannot change a future that may never come to pass. We don't even know what this human's like!" Shining protested.

"Yes, we can change a possible future that may or may not come to pass, and it starts by dealing with this human." Celestia refuted, ignoring Shining completely. Shining didn't even have to guess what "Dealing with" meant. He shook his head and remembered something his father Night Light had told him when he said he was signing up for the Royal Guard.

"Now remember son, innocent until proven guilty. That's always the creed I've lived by, and I want you to live by it as well. Do you understand, son?"

"Yes, dad. I do."

"I'm sorry Princess, but I cannot in good conscience follow that order. Find somepony else to carry out your little grudge match with Robert, because I will not be involved in it, unless it is to stop it somehow." Shining stated and walked off. Celestia smiled to herself.

"Find somepony else eh? Well, I know just the pony who will do anything I ask of him. He's loyal to a fault when it comes to the Kingdom. Time for the Reaper of Canterlot to do his work." Celestia thought, before another thought stopped her for a few moments. Was this what she had come to? Sending a known psychopath out to do her dirty work? That thought was quickly brushed away and she teleported herself to the Night Guard Barracks, where she found Galaxy Swirls shooting a strange yellow and black laser weapon with green glowing eyes at various targets themed after Changelings. He whirled around to face one target, shot it, and then shot another that popped up right next to it before firing his pistol behind him without even looking at another target taking it down as well.

"Galaxy, I need you to do a task for me." Celestia stated, and Galaxy's sharp and pointed armored faceplate on his armor retracted to reveal his black furred face and almost demonic yellow eyes.

"I know what this is about, Shining sent me a warning to all branches of the Royal Guard that you might be coming around to ask me to deal with a "human problem"." Galaxy remarked and air quoted "Human problem" with his fingers as Celestia's eyes widened. Shining had been able to get the word out that fast?

"This human is a psychopath, just like you, and so he must be dealt with." Celestia stated, the air growing warmer but Galaxy ignored the change in the weather.

"As much as I appreciate the mudslinging being thrown around, he's a Power Ranger, and I can't preform one of my assassination missions on a fellow Ranger, powerless or not."

"I am Princess Celestia, and you shall obey me, Captain!" Celestia snarled but Galaxy still would not budge from his stance.

"You know, I may be a high functioning psychopath, thank you for that label by the way, but the only Princess I obey without question is Luna, and last I checked you're not her, so please leave before I decide to take Blood Moon to you." Galaxy commented in a cheery tone and Celestia took a step back in shock. He would really raise his infamous bloody scythe to her, a Princess?

"I think you've been getting arrogant in your ways, and forgetting who serves who. I serve Luna, Shining serves Cadance and the Royal Guard needs a new captain, who I note you have yet to find still and just keep dragging Shining back from his wife and kingdom to do jobs as you see fit." Galaxy pointed out. "I also note you seem to have forgotten what this kingdom was built on, love and tolerance."

"HOW DARE YOU!?!" Celestia roared in the Royal Canterlot Voice, as her mane became like flames, dancing and flickering. "I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN WHAT THIS KINGDOM WAS BUILT ON, AND YOU SEEM TO HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT HUMANS HAVE DONE!"

"Winners write the history books." Galaxy responded simply before flying off leaving Celestia to fume.

Ponyville: Fluttershy's Cottage

Applejack and Robert stared each other down. Robert noted Applejack had her shotgun again, and he sighed. Looks like talking this out was out the window already.

"Baka, you had to go and be a dick and tear up her farmland didn't you, just to spite a Princess? What a bleeding wundervolle situation you've landed yourself in." Robert cursed himself. He further cursed himself when Applejack took a shot at him and he dodged it allowing the shot to blow up one of Fluttershy's birdhouses causing blood and feathers to spatter the walls.

"Let's take this outside, before somePONY gets hurt." Robert remarked before he kicked Applejack (Her eyes widening and she felt a pang of guilt in her stomach as she realized who she almost could have shot before her anger took over again) in the stomach and sent her flying out the door as Fluttershy whimpered in fear. She didn't want to see this, her new friend and one of her old friends fighting each other. Friends shouldn't fight, it was wrong! Applejack and Robert traded powerful kicks with Robert blocking Applejack's hooves with his wrists and her blocking his own with her shotgun. She pumped it again and took another shot at him and he rolled out of the way allowing the shots to scatter into a tree.

"Applejack, listen, I'm sorry! I shouldn't have torn up your farmland! Eye for an eye, I just remembered the second part of the phrase, everyone ends up blind!" Robert yelled, but Applejack was still far too furious to listen and punched him in the face and then the stomach making him stagger back in pain. His ribs still weren't entirely healed yet, it seemed.

"Shut the Tartarus up! Ya went and wreaked havoc on my family's farmland, in mah family that deserves a bit of retribution!" Applejack yelled back and aimed her shotgun, and her eye was in. One shot, one kill. Suddenly, Applejack felt something, or rather somepony staring her down.

"NOW LISTEN, WHATEVER ROBERT DID WAS WRONG, AND HE ADMITS IT, BUT YOU HAVE TO ADMIT WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS WRONG AS WELL! ROBERT'S RIGHT. TAKING AN EYE FOR AN EYE, EVERYPONY WILL ALWAYS END UP BLIND!" Fluttershy shouted as she put her hoof down and used her infamous stare on Applejack, who found herself laying her shotgun down.

"Now, will you both apologize to each other, or will I have to shout again? I... I really don't like doing that." Fluttershy asked nervously. Sighing, Robert approached Applejack, and she him.

"Now, I've... Uh, kuso, I've rubbish at this... I've never been much good at apologies. Horrible really, but in this case I think one is warranted. I was an idiot, a baka really, and let my temper get the best of me." Robert said, with no insincerity in his tone.

"Same here. Ah've always had a quick temper and a stubborn streak, and I let it get the best of me like you did with yours and nearly killed a very good friend of mine in the process. Can ya... Can ya ever forgive me?" Applejack asked and offered up her hand, and like Robert, Fluttershy could detect no insincerity in her tone.

After a few minutes of consideration, Robert took up her hand and shook it. Then his stomach grumbled and he blushed red.

"Say, uh, anywhere around here where I can find some good crumpets or something of that matter?" Robert asked, still blushing. Applejack laughed.

"Follow me, sugarcube. I'll show you where you can get the best desserts this side of Equestria." Applejack said with a smile and ran off.

"Well, ya coming or do I have to take you by the reigns and drag ya?" Applejack laughed and Robert raced after her...

(To Be Continued...)

Author's Notes:

...Annnnddd we're back to the longer lengthed chapters. Okay, so this time around Robert finally gets back to Ponyville, and already gets in the thick of things thanks to his spitefulness towards Twilight and Celestia getting in his way and getting Applejack ticked off at him and nearly killing him and Fluttershy as well by accident. Speaking of Fluttershy, Robert's made his first real non-Ranger friend in her, despite having a rather embarrassing for the both of them introduction. Of course, back in Canterlot Celestia learns from Luna that Robert's alive and well (And we get a flashback that tells us exactly why she hates humans so much. Can't say I blame her really after that sort of experience.) and tries to get both Shining and Galaxy to bring him in, (Read: Kill him) but they both refuse due to their moral codes. Definitely Ranger material I'd say. The Graphite Energem chose Galaxy well. Anyways, if you're wondering why a SPD and Pai Zhua trained ex-Ranger lost to Applejack, a civilian, remember he was already injured and he was probably deliberately holding back, as not to harm (Or worse) her and give Celestia yet another reason to hate him.

Translations:

Kuso: Shit

Baka: Idiot

Wundervolle: Wonderful

Next time: Robert's introduced to Rarity and her husband, Lyra and Bon-Bon among others and meanwhile, Vapor continues unraveling the mystery that is the Duke Org Zen-Aku...