Twilight had sent Rainbow dash out to gather the rest of her friends when the Princess' letter arrived via Spike, the note had told her that she should not approach the man unless required to stop him from hurting somepony and to wait for Luna and her night guards to arrive. Within minutes the rest of her friends had arrived to the orchard and Twilight explained to them what was going on.

"Applejack has been watching the barn to make sure that this person didn't escape into the orchard, so far she hasn't seen him leave." Twilight informed them.

"So he's new here?" A pink-coated, cotton candy-esque haired, hyper pony asked the lavender mare. "We should throw him a party so he has a bunch of friends and no longer needs to feel sad that he's alone here!"

"Pinkie... Focus!" A pearl-white mare scolded, "We're not here to throw him a party, we're here to make sure he stays put until the Princess arrives."

"Then what am I supposed to do with this 'Welcome to Ponyville' cake that I made for him?" Pinkie Pie asked Rarity as she seemed to move a three-layer cake into view.

"I don't know, but you can't give it to HIM..." Rarity complained, as if the thought of a creature that had shown up and turned a timberwolf into rotten wood was a very disgusting idea, which... in a way... it was.

Twilight massaged her head with her hooves as she tried to get over the argument that Pinkie and Rarity were having, it didn't help knowing that this creature could kill a full-grown timberwolf with only a thought and a flash of blue light.

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Luna saw the remains of the timberwolf from her sky chariot as her guards flew her towards the Apple farm, she truly felt sorry for the poor animal, but she couldn't help thinking that the creature deserved it for attacking her subjects. She soon landed in front of the house and was met by her sister's protoge.

"Princess Luna, it's good to see you again." The lavender mare said as she bowed in respect to Luna.

"It is good to see thee again as well Twilight Sparkle." Luna replied with a smile, but then her face changed to a look of seriousness as her mind went back to the reason why she arrived.

"Can you take me to see him?" She asked Twilight.

"Of course, he's in the barn around back, Applejack kept her eye on the barn to make sure he hadn't left." Twilight replied with a proud smile.

It only took a minute or two for Luna, Twilight, and Luna's personal guards to reach the barn. The sight that met them when the night guards opened the doors was one none of them expected.

Renko sat on the gound with three fillies in front of him, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and as the barn door was opened by the guards all their eyes had shifted to the entrance. Everypony present seemed to have a neutral look plastered on their face, wondering who was going to make the first move.

The human looked at Luna and she realized that he didn't have as much blood on him or his clothes as the last time she saw him, as well as the fact that he didn't carry the stench of blood and death. The first to move was one of her guards, tensing as he began to ready his weapon for a fight. Luna streached out a wing and told him to stop, when she looked back, the human had tensed his left hand and the device attached to it began to glow a light blue color.

The few seconds it had taken both soldiers to ready their 'weapons' reminded her of a mage battle, where both unicorns' horns would glow their respective color as they tried to estimate their opponent's next move, she decided to try and defuse the situation before anypony did anything rash. She cleared her throat before she began speaking in order to get the human's attention.

"...My name is Princess Luna, I am one of the rulers of Equestria... I have come here to try and find out more about why you are here, can you understand my language?"  She hoped with all the will she had that this man wouldn't try to do anything stupid.

Renko stood as slowly as he could, at first placing his hands in positions that he hoped still translated to the fact that he didn't want to fight... He'd had enough with fighting, it was a good feeling now that he finally had someone... anyone... that wasn't trying to kill him just because he existed. When he finally stood he slowly lowered his left hand to his side, and raised his right hand in a salute, his training in the military had taught him to respect authority no matter who it was.

"Sergeant Nathaniel Renko." He recited, his training had drilled into him that unless he was able to speak with a representative from his embassy he was only to recite his name and rank to any sort of captor, whether they wanted peace or not, even though he had a pretty good idea that there would no longer be any sort of United States embassy left.

All of the guards seemed to relax a bit as they noticed that he was willing to cooperate, but none of them took their eyes off of the device on his left arm. Luna was greatly relieved that this man wasn't as ruthless as she was worried he would be.

"At ease sergeant..." Luna stated, and Renko got himself into a more comfortable standing position. "My guards will escort you to a secure location where you can be assessed as to whether you are a threat to our society or not." she continued, Renko had a confused look on his face... but he didn't question what he was told. The guards soon escorted him off the property and onto one of the sky-chariots as they flew him back to Canterlot.

The trip went by as if his mind was fast forwarding it's way to being holed up inside of what looked like an interrogation room. He no longer had his handgun with him, but he still had the TMD, he had managed to convince the guards that it was like their horns and that he had a near-impossible time removing it without a special machine... which wasn't completely a lie. He was leaning against the back wall when one of the night guards walked in and spoke to him.

"Is there anything you would like to drink before the evaluation begins...?" Renko judged by the voice that this pony was male, and he could see it with the more muscular-shaped physiology, he took a second before answering.

"...Do you guys happen to have coffee? I haven't been able to have that in a long time." The guard nodded, and when asked if he wanted anything with it Renko told him just the coffee, nothing else. Several minutes went by before the guard entered again carrying the coffee, the guard set the tray on the table and sat on the opposite side of the room that Renko was on, Renko walked over to the cup and began to drink. He was feeling much better now that he was actually able to drink coffee again, the beverage began to help him warm up from the inside out, and the guard patiently waited for him to finish.

When Renko finally placed the mug on the table the guard began to speak.

"Now that drinks are out of the way, let's get to business..." The unicorn began, his grey-blue fur and black mane seemed to almost blend into the stone walls that made the interrogation room, his amber-colored eyes scanned Renko as if daring him to try to make a move. And Renko examined the stallion in return, noting particularly how this one didn't have wings, his eyes stopped and examined the guard's horn interestingly as he levitated the mug away from Renko.

"Could it be...? No, there's no way, could there?" Renko thought with piqued interest as he recalled the stasis function of the TMD that let him levitate objects of an insurmountable weight. His attention was drawn back to the guard's piercing gaze as the unicorn cleared his throat.

"First and foremost, why are you here?" The guard asked in a relatively bored tone, one that made Renko think of a way to just get on his nerves in general, Renko had never really liked answering the questions of captors.

"Well..." he began, making sure the guard was paying attention, "...I'm being interrogated on the sole knowledge that I rescued not one, but five innocent civilians from a creature that was willingly attempting to kill them." Hi finished his sentence with mock seriousness and smiled a little as he saw the telltale signs of getting on someone's nerves, from the vein beginning to throb in the guard's temple to the slow breathing that one has to do in order to calm themselves, he suppressed as chuckle now that he knew he could find himself some good 'ol fashioned entertainment.

The interrogation seemed to draw on for almost an hour and each of the guards that were listening in to the proceedings were grumbling in frustration as the man gave them nothing to prove that he was either an enemy or an ally.

"You look like a soldier, you act like a soldier, who are you allied with?" The guard's temper was reaching it's end since all this human was doing was evading answers with half-truths.

"I'm the leader of what is left of something that no longer exists." Renko replied, the look on his face was the best poker face the guard had ever had the displeasure of interrogating, but the guard could barely hold back the fact that he was not pleased with any of Renko's answers.

"Do you even know what we are trying to do here?" The guard growled and Renko did his best to give a convincing clueless shrug. "We're trying to find out whether you are able to be trusted within our walls and nation!" The guard had obviously reached the point where his frustration was being held back with barely any more restraint.

Neither of the guards had noticed Princess Luna enter the room like the shadow she could become and even the attention within the interrogation room seemed to be drawn to the noise of the guard's armor as they fell over in shock. The guards quickly got back up and were quickly sputtering as many apologies as they could think of, silencing immediately when Luna held up a hoof. Renko believed that he had a feeling as to why he heard the commotion behind what he knew was a one-way mirror (or is it two-way? I forget), he straightened his posture a bit more because of his assumption, so he decided that he'd say something that could certainly help them more than the small amount of intel he did have.

"Well, now that your Princess is here... I actually have something to tell you that could influence your thoughts on my loyalties." He paused as the guard turned back to him, the unicorn actually hadn't expected Renko to be honest about anything right now, the statement had apparently caught the guard by surprise. He listened intently to Renko now, even the guards in the room behind the mirror and Luna were now focused on what he had to say, he took a deep breath before continuing.

"In the amount of time it took for your Princess to get here, I could've easily killed you..." He pointed at the guard, "...Destroyed that door..." Once again, he indicated what he was speaking about, "...Killed every guard you have behind that mirror between me and the outside..." He paused as understanding finally dawned on the grey-blue unicorn's face, even Luna was surprised at how he considered the royal guard to be such easy fare, Renko happily continued his speech.

"...And most likely left the city with only a trail of corpses to indicate that I had been there." He savored the look of fear that flashed across the guard's face as he spoke, "But I didn't. I let you guys bring me in, I let you take me down here to interrogate me, and I saved members of your society... I don't know exactly what this means to you guys, but I'm just as confused about why I'm here as you are." He sat back and watched as his explanation sank in, he waited for the guard's response to whether he was going to get out of this room any time soon or not, and the guard got up from where he was sitting and left the room with a shocked look on his face.

"Well... I think I made a good impression..." Renko thought with a cocky smile. Luna couldn't believe what she heard, and the tidal wave of emotions she was feeling right now didn't help, she couldn't understand how this human could be so cold as to inform her guard on how easily he assumed her soldiers could be beaten... and that he had the gall to sit there and smile as his interrogator left the room.