Continuing story in the Crystal Kingdom.

Wanderer stepped off the train and rubbed the back of his neck, "Why did I have to fall asleep on the hard seat?" he complained. He looked across the empty street, "Am I going to have another run-in with this problem? Goodness..."

He proceeded down the street while stealing glances towards the buildings to see if ponies were watching him. There's nothing creepier than walking down the empty streets of a usually lively town.

He had finally reached the palace of the Kingdom and had enough of the silence, "Ugh... Rysuke! Are you there, you falcon?" a bird came out of nowhere as if in response, "Rysuke, did you find anything about Celestia's whereabouts?" he asked after pulling out his notebook.

"KAAH! KAAH!? (I didn't find anything! How come you haven't seen her either!?)" Rysuke seemed to ask through his own language.

"You don't know anything!? Dang... how are we supposed to find her now?" Wanderer pondered to himself for a moment. He looked Rysuke over several times before grabbing the falcon and looking him over closer, "Y-You got hurt!? Who did this to you?"

"KAAH! KAAH, KAAH! (You are what happened to me! If I didn't go looking for that Celestia in the first place, I wouldn't be hurt at all!)" Rysuke exclaimed

"I-I'm sorry Rysuke..." Wanderer apologized empathetically, "Let me wrap that leg up at least. Stop squirming so that I can apply it!"

"KAAH... (Sorry...)" Rysuke replied.

"Well now you'll be okay." Wanderer finished tying the knot on the bandaging, "Hey, do you hear anything now?"

"KAH... KAAH." Rysuke replied in a sad tone. Translation: "No... It's like this town is dead."

"I was afraid of that..." Wanderer said grimly. "Where do you think they would go?"

"KAAH... KAAH. (If I've followed up so far... they should be at the Cantorlot encampment.)" Rysuke responded. He looked towards one of the buildings. "KAH KAAH. (I think they were last in there when they left.)"

Wanderer walked into said building with Rysuke on his shoulder, and saw the amount of empty space that could befit an entire army's worth of weapons. He found a table near the back that had plenty of papers and dagger stabbed into a map. The dagger was stabbed into Cantorlot and the papers next to the map had plans on breaking into Cantorlot with a magic amplifier.

"Rysuke, do you know what that is?" Wanderer asked the falcon perched on his shoulder. The falcon paused before flapping his wings and flying to a tarp covering something.

"KAAH! (Look under here!)" he tried to lift it, but wasn't able to get all of it.

Wanderer walked over and checked under it, "What the...?" he simply asked after looking at it. The magic amplifier was a cannon-like construction. "If I have this right... it should work like this..."

Three to five unicorns combine their magic on it, and focus on using a specific spell. For instance, if they wanted to make a big fireball, then they all have to concentrate on making a fireball. If they used that on the gate to Cantorlot, they could break down the door, but they could also launch fiery splinters at everyponies houses.

The falcon looked directly at the plans and gave an affirmative screech. Wanderer smiled briefly before continuing down his line of thought, "If they could generate enough power... they could destroy the entire city in one shot."

"K-KAH!? KAAH! (Wh-What!? That's not good!)" Rysuke screeched surprised by Wanderer's sudden accusation. "KAAAH! KAAH! (You should treat these ponies with more respect! They wouldn't do that kind of thing!)"

"Really? Do you know King Sombra? He's quite the sorcerer." Wanderer commented, "I do believe his ability to lead would be impeccable too. He took this Kingdom over and in turn, took an army to destroy Cantorlot!"

"KAAH! KAAH!? (That'd be too obvious! Don't you remember your motto as the Wanderer of universes!?)" Rysuke accused Wanderer of not following his code of honor! It's super effective!!!

Wanderer grunted, and remained silent... it did not last long before he broke the silence again, "If I'm right though, there should be a single witness to this atrocity! The princess, Cadence!"

"KAH... KAAH. (Fine... if you really want to chase down this empty lead.)" Rysuke replied.

They went into the abandoned spire that adorned the city square, and found little to comment about while they went towards the dungeon. They could've commented on how there isn't anything to comment about, but that would be more work than they were doing.

Finally after several flights of stairs, they make it down into the dungeon filled with... lovely swirls of color. "What the... I think our captive someone is a bit insane to be here. Quick, let's save them from the prettiness!"

"KAAH? (Do you even know who you're talking about?)" Rysuke asked somewhat confused by the colors.

"Umm... probably not, I thought we'd immediately find Cadence and then leave." Wanderer admitted in a laidback manner, "Maybe she isn't here and I came here for naught but a colorful dungeon, I thought this place would be dark too!"

"KAH? (You done?)" Rysuke asked annoyed.

"I think so..." Wanderer pondered one moment more, "Yeah, I'm out of complaints now."

The falcon let out a sigh of relief and flew in between the cells, seeing nothing but either corpses adorning the walls or emptiness filling the cells. At the end of the narrow hall of cells, Cadence's cell was occupied by who else... yet there was something off about her. She faced the wall opposite of them.

"Yo, my name is..." Wanderer paused to see if she was listening... she wasn't, "I SAID, YO, MY NAME IS..." another pause, another ignore, "She's not listening to me Rysuke, help!" Wanderer exclaimed.

"KAH... KAAH. (Okay... this is kinda creepy.)" Rysuke replied, "KAAH...? (Do you think she could understand me...?)"

"I understand you very well my little bird." Cadence seemed to speak with a quiet voice. She turned and faced Wanderer with an understanding smile, "I understand you as well."

"So... was this Kingdom taken by Sombra?" Wanderer asked ignoring her statement.

"Yes, it was... however, he's not of his own mind." Cadence answered.

"I think you may be a little stupid to believe that." Wanderer nonchalantly challenged.

"KAAH! (Be polite to the princess!)" Rysuke exclaimed.

"She should know better though, Sombra is an evil unicorn bent on destruction... I just realized he's a stereotype." Wanderer shrugged, "Fine... whatever gets the story moving forward I guess. Where did he go?"

Cadence looked confused, but answered with a simple statement, "Where do you think he'd go?"

"I hope she's actually talking to me..." Wanderer thought for a moment, "At Cantorlot?"

"Yes, that's correct!" Cadence exclaimed.

"KAH? (Doing what?)" Rysuke asked.

Cadence remained silent for a couple seconds... then responded with a simple "I have absolutely no idea..." with a grief-filled frown.

"Well then... I guess as the protagonist I have to see if whatever he's doing is evil... or I could just try to sneak into Cantorlot the easy way. Rysuke..." Wanderer tore a page out of his notebook and wrote a letter with it, "Take this to the ponies trying to break into that fair city." Rysuke flew off with the paper clutched in his talons.

"And what about me?" Cadence asked before Wanderer left.

"I don't know how your story works. Oh wait... you mean the lock." Wanderer kicked the door in almost immediately and ran off without saying anything to the now free princess.

Now let's go into Rysuke's POV!

The air felt very cold/dark on the way to the Cantorlot encampment. Rysuke felt his feather's ruffle with anticipation as he sailed down towards the mane six and two humans of each gender gathered around a roundtable like the one used in court.

"Once we cut through the gate, we should keep an eye out for any survivors that didn't get out." Twilight was in the middle of giving her speech about the plan right then and there.

"Sure... my teams will look for the humans," the human male suggested, "We don't trust you with our kind." this was obviously a non-brony.

"It's for the best..." the female human suggested, "He'll most likely want to find them first over whatever you give him for a job."

"Alright sugarcube. You and him can lead the search for any remaining humans in Cantorlot. We'll try to find the remaining ponies and whoever kicked us out of the city." Applejack spoke in agreement.

Rarity raised a hoof, "Um... may I ask what that falcon is doing in the tent?" she pointed near the tent entrance. Rysuke was in mid-air still holding the letter from Wanderer.

"KAH, KAAH? (Hey, can one of you understand me?)" Rysuke asked in his screeches, "KAAH. (Wanderer gave me a letter for you.)"

"Umm... his letter is from Wanderer..." Fluttershy meekly translated.

Twilight took the letter from Rysuke using her magic and read it loud and clear.

Dear... whomever this reaches first,
I am currently on my way to Cantorlot to infiltrate its depths. So if you could hold your plans to go in back for a bit that would be lovely.
Sincerely yours and mine,
Wanderer of universes

"His handwriting is finer than I imagined." Rarity analyzed. Everyone in the room stared at her for a couple seconds...

"How did he know about the plan?" Rainbow asked.

"I dunno, but maybe we should be nice and go along with his request." Pinkie ecstatically conversed.

"No... I'm not going to listen to him this time." Twilight replied, "He seems to know everything without an explanation, why should we believe that whatever he's doing is to help us?"

"KAH... KAAAH!? KAAH! (Whoa... why do you suspect him of lying!? He really is doing what he's saying!)" Rysuke bit back. Fluttershy translated for him again.

"Because he never seems to give us a good reason to give him our trust. He only told us that he was supposed to save our world, but what if he's lying?" Twilight explained. Rysuke knew he couldn't change her mind... so he went to warn Wanderer.

So... it comes down to this... Wanderer is now suspected of being a liar. Now with the mane six on his tail getting to Cantorlot, how will the situation change? We'll only know in the next epicsode of Wanderer's Journey!

Time for a save state!

Cool, Rom-hack reference.

OR

I hate save states!

Author's Note

Please tell me how I did with Rysuke's dialogue boxes... for I have no idea how to speak falcon.
"FALCON PUNCH!!!" is all I know.