After we arrived at the castle, we all went to our separate rooms, which most of the other girls were now talking about. Mostly Rarity. She seemed a bit more than excited. I also made sure to stay away from Rainbow and Fluttershy, as to not cause any accidents with my uncontrollable pheromones. Especially if I just got out of a very sweaty suit of armor. I was certain that there was at least some sort of cooling system in there, but I guess not.

There were several ponies who asked me a bunch of questions like, "How did you manage to overcome your obstacles? What kind of armor do you have? What was your armor's enchantment? Why are you running from us? Why was Princess Luna cheering so adamantly for you? Did you ever feel fear of losing?"

After the ever growing reporters wouldn't stop bothering me, I had guards escort them out, since they weren't even allowed inside the castle grounds in the first place.

I was in my room quickly making Twilight's armor, and Rarity's saddlebags. It only took me about three minutes to make them, and most of the time I was trying to figure out what color she liked. I just went with the same design as my saddlebags, except with the color being white instead of black. I also added her Cutie Mark on the side of each bag, since I noticed that everyone had a Cutie Mark on their bags. I didn't have my Mark on my bags, mostly because I was just too lazy to actually do it. And the logo's held a sort of nostalgic value to my old world

Twilight's armor was somewhat easier to make, all I had to do was remove all of the dangerous enhancements and the required neural implants and it would work fine. I made sure to greatly reduce the amount of armor reaction time to not let her kill herself from her own pain induced spasms. She could alter this in case she needed to go faster, but I set a 10 digit code for that in case she ever tried to force her way into it. Power armor, am I right?

I finished and made my way to the bathroom for personal use when I heard a knock on the door. I assumed it was a guard or something, since there were almost always a few of them doing patrols.

"Come in." I called. I just hid everything under my bed and hoped no one would come in and clean while I was eating with the girls. It opened and I saw Fluttershy, shyly opening the door. I was beginning to wonder why Applejack wasn't here. Probably working on her farm.

Oh, um, F-Franz? I was told t-to come get you." Said Fluttershy quietly. Wait, wouldn't they just send a guard or something?

"Okay, What's up?" I asked. I had a feeling that she was wanting to ask me something.

"W-well, I was just wondering if you would like to go to the d-dining hall with us for supper?" She asked. She was being really adorable, I mean, how could you say no to that?

"Sure, I'd like that." I said. I'll bust one later.

She smiled shyly and went out the door, with me following behind her.

"So, how have things been with you?" I asked. She seemed surprised from my question.

"W-well, I have been p-pretty okay." She stuttered. Jeez, she was worse to me when it came to talking to others. I can assume it was because she literately had the word 'shy' in her name.

"A-and You?" She asked. Wow! A female was actually interested in my problems! Yowza!

"I'm fine. A little sore from Shining's sword attack, but I'll get used to it." I said, nodding at a pair of guards who were patrolling together.

"Oh, okay." She said meekly.

We walked in silence for a bit. It wasn't an uncomfortable one, it was somewhat pleasant.

"Hey, why didn't I see Applejack in the stands?" I asked. I hadn't even seen her when we were walking to the castle.

"Oh, she's working hard at Sweet Apple Acres. We actually threw her a ceremony for saving Ponyville from a stampede of cows." She said, answering my question. She looked like she wanted to add something else, but refrained herself from doing so.

"Ah, I see. Isn't she working with anypony?" I asked. She had to have at least had someone helping her.

"W-well, not exactly. Her brother, Big Macintosh, hurt himself before the harvest. And her little sister is too young to actually do much to help. So it's just her right now." She answered. Wow, all by herself, huh?

"Well just make sure she doesn't overwork herself. And tell her I said hi, would you?" I asked. She seemed surprised, but smiled adorably soon after.

We were going to make it to the dining room when I saw Blueblood in the distance. He was currently standing next to a cowering maid, who looked like she wanted nothing more than bolt.

"Is that Prince Blueblood?" Asked Fluttershy.

"Looks like it." I said, continuing to walk towards him.

I felt her get close to me in an attempt to hide herself. It's not like he was going to hurt her, considering his status as a Prince. But I never knew how things worked here and decided to see what he was doing.

"Why don't you just let me court you! It's not like you have anypony else who cares for you!" He growled, trying to get closer. Said maid only backed away slowly, clearly not wanting to be with him.

"Forgive me, Your Highness, but I simply do not wish for you to court me. I already have a coltfriend." She said. I recognized her. She was one of the two maids who was assigned to cleaning my room and bathroom while I was living here. I had found her cleaning the bathroom when I was training one day, after Luna used a extend spell to keep me shaking all over the bathroom. Marble Shine, I believe. She was a Pegasus, so I had helped her with the cleaning, much to her objection.

I set my visor begin recording.

"It's not like he would actually care for you. So why don't you just come to my room after hours and we can rut. I'll show you who is the better stallion." He said, now effectively pinning her against the wall.

Fluttershy looked like she was witnessing a murder happen, and huddled closer to me, now brushing against my side.

"A-aren't you going to help her?" She asked.

"I want to get closer before I can do anything." I said, now shifting my armor into Stealth Mode. It essentially made me able to walk without the sound of my hooves clacking on the marble floors. I also made my armor shift over to Fluttershy and wrap around her hooves and silence her walking, much to her surprised gasp.

"Don't worry, it won't hurt you." I said, trying to calm her in a soothing tone. It worked and she was more relaxed from my words. Her hoofsteps were already quiet, but now she was damn near ambient sounding.

"Please, Your Highness, I don't want you." She said, begging for him to let up. He instead, however, tried to land a forceful kiss on her. I cleared my throat, now being a couple of meters away and effectively catching his attention.

"What do you think your doing with her?" I asked, raising an eyebrow. He just looked at me with a smile. This bitch.

"Why hello there, Prince Franz. What can I do you this fine afternoon?" He said, moving slightly away from the Marble, but not enough to actually let her go.

"I was just heading to the dining room when I saw you with Marble Shine. One of my maids." I said, not taking my eyes off him. He frowned, as if hearing the news was displeasing.

"Well, I was just reminding her that she is to report to me now. So I'll be taking her off your hooves for the time being." He said, turning to her.

"Isn't that right?" He said, his face close to her own. A look of disgust flashed on her face, before she nodded.

"Oh, because I was going to give her a raise for doing such a good job with cleaning my room. I thought it was permanent once you have maids assigned to you." I countered. He can try and play, but the game was rigged from the start.

"I see." He said, now backing off.

"It's just that, my maid is old and needs help to properly clean the rooms. I just thought she would appreciate the company with a new maid." He said. He suddenly noticed Fluttershy barely poking out her face from my side.

"Oh, now who's this! Is she your other maid? Why isn't she wearing the customary uniforms?!" He growled, forgetting his original prey and going after Fluttershy. She now hid behind me as I glared at him, which shut him up.

"She is my escort to the dining room, and she is one of my friends and I would prefer it if you didn't try and court her either. And If I hear that you did-"

I made my eye color flash an angry red, then back to it's calm brown. He froze up in what I assumed was surprise.

"-I won't be so lenient with our next run in." I stated firmly. He nodded nervously before running off, seemingly scared.

Marble let out a sigh of relief, and turned towards me.

"Thank you, Prince Franz. I thought he was going to duel my coltfriend for me." She said. She had a light grey coat on, along with a blue mane and tail. Her Cutie Mark was that of a shining marble and some pieces of a board game.

"Just make sure that he doesn't try that again, and if he does, contact me." I said, nodding at her. She smiled and tried to give me a hug. Wait, I forgot to take a shower! Oh no! Fluttershy!

I pushed it all down and hoped she didn't take an attraction for me. I then realized that I had my visor on my chest still, and mentally let out a sigh of relief. Hopefully, it was only the chest that made the pheromones. I didn't want another Ditzy 2.0 accident, especially in front of Luna.

We hugged and Fluttershy smiled. I wasn't comfortable hugging random ponies, only friends that I've actually spent time with.

"So how did the duel go? I heard you won by default." She said, breathing a little heavily. It must have been with the close encounter with Blueblood.

"Well, I tried to keep him going, but he said that it wasn't worth it and that he knew when he was outmatched. Apparently I outmatch him." I said, feeling upset. I wanted him to keep going, and to not give up, but he wasn't having it.

"But you did beat Nightmare Moon. So I think that it makes sense that he quit after the first match. I wouldn't have even accepted he match and given the other pony what they wanted." She said. I internally grimaced, I didn't win, I was beaten horridly by her. Does getting my ass handed to me on a plate count as winning?

"Well, I should go back to cleaning your room. I still need to clean out your bathroom from your training." Marble said, leaving and going to the direction of my room.

"See you later Prince Franz!" She said, sounding more chipper.

"In a while, crocodile!" I said. I heard Fluttershy giggle from my rhyme. Did they not have that here?

"That went well." I said, once Marble was out of hearing distance.

"I think we should get to the dining room. I bet everypony is waiting for us." Said Fluttershy. I could still feel her close to my side, and I didn't think much about it.

We arrived without much interference, and I saw that she was getting used to me. Even if I was a little weird at times, but she took it as joking, and thankfully didn't dwell in it for very long.

I saw that Luna was waiting for me next to Celestia. I had just noticed the new large chair that was next to Luna. All of the girls were present, including Spike the little man, and Summer Springs was our waiter for the moment. I also saw a couple others here as well, but I assumed they were Celestia's and Luna's butlers.

Summer Springs saw me and smiled happily, as if excited to see me. I had hit it off quite well with her, most of the time she was helping me train for the match against Shining Armor. As moral support, that is.

And he was nowhere to be found. I think he might still be in the barracks contemplating. I'll have to congratulate him some more. I wondered what we were going to eat?

"Hiya Franz!" Called Pinkie. I had a feeling they were going to ask me weird questions.

"Oh, Good Evening, darling."

"Sup!"

"Hi, Franz."

Hey, Franz!"

"What's crackalackin!" I said, deciding to let lose a bit. if I was going to be the center of attention, I might as well get comfortable. They all deflated for some reason, and handed a small bags of what looked like bits to Luna, who was smiling while collecting her new bits. I was confused. Was there some sort of bet I wasn't aware of?

"Uhm... What's going on?" I asked. I knew I was missing something, but I didn't know what.

"We placed a wager that said thou would respond the same way as one of these mares. I said you would respond with something different." Said Luna, smiling afterwards. Damn, I felt pretty used now.

"So, what are we going to eat?" I asked, taking my seat next to Luna. She must have smelled me, because she was leaning pretty close to me. I was going to ignore her for now, and just try and get out of dodge as fast as I can.

"We are having the special today. A large fruit salad and a large side of appetizers. Multiple choice, of course." Said Twilight, looking at me expectantly. I actually noticed that they were all giving me subtle looks as we waited. I felt like they wanted to ask questions, but refrained from it.

"Did you see the way Franz did that finishing move?!" Said Rainbow, starting a topic about me.

"While that last move was definitely a good one, it did so some damage to Shining Armor." I said. They looked over to me and I had to force myself to not shy away.

"What do you mean?" Asked Fluttershy.

"He suffered various scrapes and a broken nose, maybe more but I think the medical staff healed him up before I got to him." I said, trying to not make it sound like it was too bad.

"Well, I think that's what happens when somepony challenges the Warrior Alicorn. Quite a fitting title if I do say so myself." Said Rarity.

"Why did the announcer call me that?" I asked.

"Tis from the olden days when there was a deity named Discord." Said Luna. Celestia's eyes shot wide open and she immediately cast a shield around everyone. The room was bathed in a golden glow and I was taken back, and nearly fell from my seat. What?!

"Whoa! What's going on?!" I said, activating my armor. I checked my motion tracker and didn't see any enemies nearby. Everyone was a blue blip, save for two of the butlers who have yet to be identified as friendly.

"Do you not remember who Discord is?" Asked Celestia, a serious tone in her voice.

"What's the deal with this Discord guy?" I asked. Why did Celestia react so suddenly? She didn't lower she shield at all. She hummed for a second, before speaking again.

"It seems as though you aren't affected by his magic anymore. Tell me, what do you remember before waking up." She demanded. Jesus, what's going on?

"Shouldn't this wait until after everypony leaves?" I asked. I knew that Celestia and Luna knew I was a human, but I didn't want the others to know as well. If I know them well enough, I might consider telling them.

"What are you talking about, Princess?" Asked Rainbow. Celestia looked grim for a second, before it turned into a frown.

"I apologize for my suddenness, but I feared that he was still under the influence of Discord." She said, dropping her magic shield. I, again, was left confused and worried. Who was Discord?

"I'm sorry, but who's Discord?" I asked. I had a feeling they wouldn't tell me, but I could never know for sure. That and I forgot who this guy was already.

"Discord is the God of Chaos and Disharmony. And long ago, you faced him and barely came back with your life, as I explained to you before." Said Luna.

"You told him and you didn't get a reaction?" Asked Celestia. Luna nodded, and Celestia turned back towards me, clearing her throat.

"Once we sealed him in stone, you began down the path of distrust, and anger. And when Luna was corrupted by Nightmare Moon, you took it on yourself to seal yourself away in hopes to rid yourself of his magic. That was over a thousand years ago. And I am still worried on what is left of him magic residing in you." Oh Hell NO!

"So you're saying that I still have some of his magic inside of me? How do I remove it?" I asked. I could always try and imagine it out, but I didn't know where to start. I noticed that the girls were silent the whole time. Just watching with shock and uneasiness.

"I believe somepony has already taken it out. Or, several ponies." Said Celestia. Wait, who?

"Who?" I asked simply. I saw Celestia and Luna nod over to the girls with a smile.

"What?" I asked. What did they have to do wi- oh, right. Elements of Harmony.

"Never mind." I said, looking back to Luna, another question popped back in my head.

"What about the link between me and Luna?" I asked. Everyone seemed to know this, except Spike and the butlers, who I saw widen their eyes in various levels of surprise.

Celestia frowned, now realizing something.

"You were right, this isn't the correct time or place." She said, also noticing the maids and Spike.

I looked over to Summer Springs, who looked excited for me since she was smiling widely. Oh god, why isn't the food here already?

The doors opened and a large group of ponies arrived with plates of fruit and appetizers, such as bread and garlic bread and sweet rolls and, okay, it was a shit load of a variety of breads. And little known fact, I loved bread. It mostly ran in my family, since we were big bread eaters. We would go home with three loafs of Italian bread and when asked, we never got any. How they knew I liked bread, I don't know, but I think my past self told them that. Thank you, past me, very cool.

We ate in comfortable silence. Pinkie and I were eating our third loaf of toasted garlic bread when we had another sudden visitor, much to my displeasure.

"Uh! Aunties, why are you letting the lower class eat with us?" Asked Blueblood. I thought he wasn't going to join! No!

"We have allowed our companions to dine with us this fine evening for our dear Franz's victory in besting Captain Shining Armor!" Said Luna, raising her head at him. He just huffed and took his seat next to Rarity, who looked like she was quite flustered. Wait, is that the guy she was after?

He took a piece of bread and took a bite. It looked similar to Hawaiian bread, and I hoped he would enjoy it. It was another one of these moments I regret wishing for something when the opposite would happen, since he spit it back onto his plate with disgust.

"Is something wrong, Blueblood?" I asked, getting a bit upset from his disrespect to the precious food.

"Well, first thing is, how can somepony like you even manage to eat something like this? I will not eat this, this garbage." He said, earning a dark smile from me.

"Then perish." I said without restraint.

Everyone looked at me with wide eyes and opened mouths. Although, Luna looked more amused at me, since she seemed to know how much I enjoyed staple foods. Like ramen and bread.

Blueblood looked shocked, before shivering.

"Are you challenging me? I'll have you know that I do not take challenges lightly." He said, glaring at me. I rolled my eyes.

"Clearly you don't know what I am capable of. So how about you just take your disrespect towards bread and leave. It's insulting to me and the ponies who made this for us to enjoy." I said, making my voice dark, almost sinister, which surprised everypony except Twilight and Spike, since they knew I could do that.

He looked like he was going to say something, and sighed. He left soon after, as though he had made up his mind. When he was at the door I noticed that he smiled to himself, almost scarily. I didn't know what he was doing, but I didn't like it. I left it for now and watched him leave.

Rarity looked at me with a glare. I suddenly froze up, remembering what a female can do if you're not careful. I may be one of the strongest beings currently, but I can't imagine what an angry woman can do.

"Franz, why did you scare away Prince Blueblood like that! I could have had a chance to court him!" She said, an angry tone in her voice.

"He had disrespected me in the past before, and nothing, I say nothing, will make me forgive him for insulting this bread. These ponies worked hard to make this much bread, and I won't tolerate such rude behavior to it or the ones who made it!" I said, rising on the table and challenging her. She seemed surprised and backed down. Holy SHIT, I just challenged Rarity and won! I never win against women!

"Well you don't have to shout." She said sourly.

"Sorry, but he crossed the line there. And sorry for yelling at you. I didn't realize my tone was improper." I said, now shrinking down back into my seat. I saw Luna look at me with an impressed smile.

"Shall we finish here? Or is there going to be somepony else who would wish to interrupt." Asked Luna, leaning towards me. I just let her because I think she might be a clingy type. I not saying she is, but she's showing the signs.

"I don't think so! Lets eat!" Said Pinkie, now eating an entire sheet of Hawaiian bread. Was she eating the entire time? That's not fair!

After we ate without any more distractions, we all said our goodbyes and the girls left back to Ponyville. I made sure to remind Fluttershy to tell Applejack I said hi, and to not overwork herself. She smiled and gave me a hug, much to Luna's displeasure and my flustered confusion.

"We will see you tonight, Dear Franz." Said Luna, leaning into me as she 'escorted' me to my room. I now remembered that I forgot to give Twilight her armor and Rarity her new saddlebags. Oh well. Maybe next time.

"You keep saying that, but I never see you in the room. Do you teleport there just to draw on my face?" I asked. Last time she said that, it was during my training for the duel. And I didn't see her. But when I woke up I had found that someone had drawn a mustache on my face. Along with a monocle. It was easy to wipe off, but I never found out who drew it.

"Did somepony draw on your muzzle before?" Asked Luna, an innocent smile on her face. It was her!

"Yes, and you can't do that when somepony is asleep. It's like, a breach of privacy." I said. She gave me a smirk. What now!?

"Oh, we shall have much privacy, Dear Franz.~" She said, lowering her voice in a strange way.

"Just shut it." I said.

"Nay th-" I cut her off by showing her another Uno Reverse card. But instead of the normal card, it had the infinity symbol on it as well.

"No u times infinity." I said, now with the upper hoof. She smiled and closed her mouth. I gave her the card and she put in one of her spatial compartments on her body for later use.

We reached my room and she gave me a quick peck on the cheek, much to my embarrassment.

"We shall see you tomorrow morning, perhaps?" She said, gazing into my eyes with smile. I was beginning to enjoy her being with me. Sure, we got off to a rocky start, from my point of view, but it looked like she was expecting it. Even though she tried to forcibly kiss me, and succeeded, but that must've been a lapse in her better judgement.

"Sure. I like being with you. It's nice to open up once in a while." I said, giving her a sudden hug. She gasped, but returned it with passion.

"We... I enjoy it too." She said. I gave her a pat on the back. She was starting to get better with this speech thing. I broke the hug and opened the door. She was watching me with a happy smile on her face. I at least made her feel better.

Quickly giving her a wink I slipped in and closed the door. The look on her face was adorable and it made me feel giddy. It's been a while since I was in a relationship.

I then brushed my teeth and relieved myself of the food I ate. After climbing into bed, I got some much needed rest. Hopefully Shining Armor didn't take what I said to heart about quitting. After another few minutes of letting my mind wander, I erased everything I had unconsciously created and closed my eyes to rest. I wonder what tomorrow brings.

I ran.

I ran as far as I could.

But no matter where I went, they would just keep showing up!

It was very frustrating what they found me in the forest. I had made sure to slow down at least a majority of them. I didn't want to kill anymore of the soldiers that were chasing me, but damn were they getting aggressive.

A few stray bullets flew past me, reminding me of the situation I was in.

I could always try and fly away, but then I would become an easy flying target.

I shot a beam of energy from my palm at them, the blast hitting a few unlucky soldiers and freezing them in their tracks. They would thaw out easy enough. I just made sure to freeze their limbs, and to not permanently injure them.

A bullet hit the side of me leg, and I nearly crashed into the ground. I forced it to heal rapidly, and felt the offending lead leave my leg. Damn that stings!

I was then struck down again, this time from another sniper probably. The bullet hit my chest and I was stopped and fell on my back, the force knocking me down. I sprung got back up and slowed time again. I saw the bullet inches from my face and I traced the trajectory to a few thousand meters away. I used another blast of energy and froze up his gun, knowing it would implode if he tried it again.

I could now hear the shouts of the soldiers behind me, and prompted me to go faster. I materialized an Iron Man suit and took off into the sky. Unfortunately, there was a Stealth Helicopter that shot a pair missiles at me. What the fuck!

I took the explosions from both and crashed into the ground. I think that attack damaged the suit and I ditched it, and kept running. I was furious at the fact that they had tried to use my family as leverage to get me to either go into custody, or leave this world. They even used my four year old sister for god's sake!

I just kept running. I wasn't made for something like this. I knew the government was fucked up, but I didn't think they would actually use the fucking Foundation! They weren't even supposed to exist!

I was hit by another bullet. I was getting pissed at their attempts, but ignored it for now.

And as it turns out, my girl was with them as well! Why did everyone have to be working with them!

I made it over to the border of Canada and crossed, only to find more of these soldiers here, waiting for me in the ambush they set up.

They all shot me and riddled my body with holes as I fell to the ground. I imagined my head to have a very tough, nano armor before they could kill me. I had to protect my head, or else I'm done for.

I lay in on the dirt ground, my body looking like a cheese grater with all of these small holes. They had caught me, and I was going to be some bastards lab rat.

Not when I can do anything about it.

I created a several dozen hard-light shields around me and a Tsar bomb on the outside. I'm gonna blow them all to hell! I set it off just as they all were just noticing it, and a thundering, yet muffled boom filled my ears, and shook the earth I was on.

I hoped they would just leave me alone. I never wanted the power of whatever god this was, if it was even one. I just wanted to be alone.

Yes, alone...

Oof, an explosive finish. How far will Franz be pushed in his memories? Will he fall to the dark side, or will he manage to balance himself before he loses what sanity he has left?

And yes, this is a SCP Foundation thing, but they didn't have a tag for it, so I won't bother with it.

Can you guess what he would be called by MTF standards? Leave a comment on what you think it is!

Edit: Did some minor touch ups, and a bit of tweaking to keep it sensable.