As the smoke began to clear, both Twilight and Spike were astonished as to what they saw. The figure was certainly not a pony, that was for sure. For one, it was clearly a man, due to his masculine appearance. He had two legs that he stood up on, like a small dragon, just paler and taller. 

The figure had red overalls, a bright yellow hard hat on and a wrench in hand. His face showed no emotion, though it appeared to be battle-scarred. Spike and Twilight continued to stare at him confusedly. He then opened his mouth and uttered a single, abrupt word.

"Nope."

With that, he stepped forwards dramatically and grabbed a small metal box from behind his back and dropped it on the ground. He spoke randomly again.

"Building a sentry."

Twilight and Spike both stared in awe as the man suddenly began to pound the wrench against the small box, apparently constructing some kind of device with his wrench. 

After about 20 seconds, the man had fully erected some sort of cannon or a gun mounted on a tripod. He  then proceeded to admire his device, pounding his wrench into the palm his other hand. After a few seconds, a strange 'ba-beep' sound came from within the device and it stared to make a whirring sound. 

Without warning, it exploded into action, firing some form of shiny ammunition at Spike. Twilight was completely dumbfounded. This differentiated from everything her textbooks had ever told her. It simply didn't make any logical sense. The stream of what appeared to be gems of some sort flew by Spike and caused him to shout and jump back. But after a few seconds of recovery, his stomach took over his confused brain. 

"Are those - RUBIES?" spike asked hungrily.

Without hesitation, Spike leapt into the growing pile of Rubies. The man with the overalls gave a slight smile. 

"All in a day's work."

He then came over and quickly broke the bonds that held Twilight down. She got up shakily and awkwardly thanked the man. 

"Hey, thanks a lot! I don't know what had gotten into Spike..."

"Ah, it's nuthin'."

He tipped his hat at her and looked at the destroyed wall as he walked out. 

"I'll have to fix this later..."

Before he submerged himself into the darkness of night, he got out a small box and hit a button. The box then played a recording.

"You want it? It's yours my friend. As long as you feed him rubies."

It must be talking about the anti-Spike 'sentry'. She motioned towards the pile of rubies Spike was eating. He nodded slowly and pensively. 

"Ja." he said.

The man made one final remark. 

"Blu team for the win."

The box then began to play a song to which the man happily and triumphantly skipped away.

"I'm blu, da ba dee da ba die, da ba dee, da ba die..."

The tune was unlike any Twilight had ever heard before. But after what she'd seen, she felt as though she had missed a lot of alien things. 

As Twilight watched Spike enjoy his massive pile of rubies, the main thing she could muster despite her mind's broken state was 'what in the heck just happined'.

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