So as far as Adam could tell, this had been his day; He’d been blown up by a mercenary hired by Taggart, moved his refrigerator into his living room again, woken up on possibly another planet (universe? Dimension? He didn’t know) which was for some reason filled with talking horses, and was now being escorted by two of them to their “Princess Celestia”. It was very difficult for Adam to not laugh at the cheesy name, which is incredible considering he hadn’t laughed since he was seven years old. Fortunately he had been able to keep his laughless streak up and held a straight face.

“We’re here” The guard named Spear said. Adam snapped out of his thinking trance and looked up. His vision was greeted with a bunch of rebooting signals.

‘Oops. Forgot that I turned that off.’ He thought to himself. Once his visual augments rebooted, his vision was filled with massive wooden double doors. “So these are the Royal Chambers?” He asked the guards.

“Yes sir. We’ve contacted the princesses in advance about your arrival. They’re very eager to meet such a unique creature.”

“Alright, thanks Spear. Thanks other guard.”

“For the last time, you can call me-you know what? Forget it. Spear, let’s get him in there.” The other guard said, and began to push open the doors.  And that’s when something Spear said hit Adam.

“Spear, what did you mean, ‘Princesses’? I thought there was only o-“ Adam never got to finish his sentence because of a certain dark blue alicorn as the doors swung open.

“WHO ART THOU, MYSTERIOUS NEW HUMAN?” A very, very loud voice boomed from across the chambers.

“AUGH! Dammit!” Adam yelled, trying to readjust his hearing. He pulled out his machine pistol as he finally reset his hearing augments. “I want to know right now, who threw the concussion grenade?” He said. “Come on, who was it?”

“I think you’ll find that was simply my sister Luna, my dear.” A much more soothing voice assured from the other side of the chambers. Adam looked up and this time, for the first time in 27 years, he truly laughed. And he laughed REALLY hard. Because what he saw was a massive BLUE crossover of two mythical horse-like creatures, a Pegasus and a unicorn, and a white counterpart with a PINK, blue, and green mane. After about a full minute of laughing, he finally composed himself and straightened up.

“Excuse me. I had a childhood of laughs waiting to be used. I assume one of you is Princess Celestia?” He inquired, unsure of which one was the one he was supposed to be talking to, although he had a sneaking suspicion that it was the white one.

“That would be I.” The white one responded. So Adam now knew that the dark blue one was ‘Luna’.

“Well, please forgive me, but where I’m from, this would be called a children’s show.” He said without much respect.

“And here you’re going to be considered a dangerous new creature by everypony except for myself and my sister, so we’d like to give you a little test to see if you’re worthy of being allowed citizenship in our realm.” Celestia said, narrowing her eyes at Adam.

At this point, Adam actually got a little nervous. He knew that he could fly off the handle if he was provoked, and he knew that he’d have to shape up or get out. “Alright, I’ll do it.” He agreed.

“So, first of all, what is your name?”

“Adam Jensen.”

“And how did you get into Equestria, Adam?”

“Well, as far as I can tell, I was blown up by a grenade, which somehow threw me through a dimensional plane or something, and I woke up in your little garden back there.”

“And what was your job back from ‘where you come from’?”

“I was a-“ Adam stopped himself. He knew that telling possibly the largest authority he was a mercenary probably wasn’t a good idea. “I was a security manager for a company called Sarif Industries.”

Celestia rolled her eyes. “Don’t lie to me Adam.” She said flatly.

Adam sighed. “Alright, fine. The truth is, I WAS a security manager for Sarif Industries, but sometimes my boss, Sarif, would send me on missions to find out problems in our world, namely if they were a threat to his company. But I won’t lie to you, I frequently had to use force and stealth to solve these problems, often occurring with deaths and injuries to others. So you could also call me a mercenary. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to go around killing peop-ponies without rhyme or reason. I’m not a violent man, Princess. I won’t hurt anyone unless it’s absolutely necessary to my life or others’.”

Celestia pondered his statement for a moment. On one hoof, he seemed like he could kill even her with a low amount of effort, but on the other hoof, his statement sounded sincere. She made her decision. “Alright Adam, I have one more question. Do you swear to never do any harm to any of my subjects, even if you feel it absolutely necessary, unless it is ordered by a high ranking individual in my country?”

Adam knew he didn’t really have a choice. “I swear on my mother’s grave.” Celestia gave him a suspicious look before levitating a scroll and quill over to herself.

“Then I, Princess Celestia, decree that you are deemed fit to live in Equestria. Adam, I’m sending a letter to my protégée in Ponyville. You’re going to stay with her and her friends there, because quite honestly, I don’t really trust anyone else to take care of you properly. Once you get there, you’ll meet her and her friends, who represent the most powerful source of magic in all of Equestria, called the Elements of Harmony. They’ll decide who you should stay with at that point. If everything goes as I think it will, then I think you should have a lot of trouble making friends with anypony other than them, save for one pony. One of my Royal Chariots will arrive here to take you to Ponyville in about ten minutes.”

Adam made sure he collected all the information, then walked up towards Celestia. “Ma’m, I’d like to ask a few questions about your world before the chariot gets here.”

Celestia wrapped up the scroll and burned it, sending the ashes flying out her window towards a town in the distance. “Alright Adam, what would you like to know?”

Ponyville

2:00 P.M.

Books and Branches Library

“Spiiiike!” Twilight called. “Get down here right now!”

“Jeez Twilight, I just told you, I’m coming downstairs!” Spike said, clambering down the stairs as he said so. “What do you need?”

“You STILL never cleaned up this mess! I thought I told you to do that last night!”

Spike rolled his eyes. “Twilight, I did! You made this mess earlier today when you were looking for that book Rarity wanted, remember?”

Twilight chuckled. “Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Then don’t worry, I’ll clean it up with you.”

Spike waved her off. “Nah, don’t worry about it Twi. It isn’t too big of a mess.” He said, as he began to pick up the romance novels scattered across the floor. Suddenly, he felt something coming up his throat, followed by an emerald-colored flame along with a burp and a letter.

“Oh, Princess Celestia must have gotten my friendship report! Boy, was THAT day an adventure!” She said to herself, picking up the scroll and opening it with her magic.

My Dearest Student,

A new, apparently sentient creature called a ‘human’ has appeared in my castle. He appears that he may be dangerous, but as far as I can tell, he isn’t, and certainly means well. I’m sending him to stay with you and the Elements. He will arrive at your house in a Royal Chariot in about half an hour. Please treat him well, as a guest of mine, actually. I want you to have him help you study the Magic of Friendship, if you can even convince him to do so with you and the Elements. Also, as far as I can tell he’s from another world, and may have some questions for you, so I won’t put a restraint on you for asking him questions too. As I said, please take good care of him, and don’t make him angry. You probably wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.

Your Teacher,

Princess Celestia

P.S. He was a mercenary and security guard where he was from ,so don’t be afraid to ask him to take care of dangerous creatures that may attack anypony.

“What does it say Twilight?” Spike asked.

“It says that a new sentient creature has appeared in Equestria, and she wants ME to take care of him. He’ll be here in half an hour!” Twilight broke out of her happy trance for a moment. “Spike, go gather up the girls, I need to get ready!” Twilight dashed upstairs to get in her shower.

“Yeah, Yeah, I know, leave everything to me.” Spike grumbled to himself as he exited the library to gather up the other Elements.