All in a nights work

I am gazing out the window, watching the scenery slip past me like water. Half-day train rides sure do take it out of you.

Twelve hours had past. Fifteen minutes were spent reading through Twilight Sparkles file (over and over again), Half an hour was spent reading a book on the Gallop-agos islands, Five hours spent reading every single book on the books for sale table.

All in all, a very boring trip.

"LAST STOP! PONYVILLE!"

Good. I stand, stretch and levitate my saddlebags onto my back. I have my weapons concealed inside them. Trotting outside I scan the crowd for Twilight but it seems like she isn't actually here. Strange, she hates being tardy. A candy pink mare seemingly bursts out of nowhere, ahead of me and at my pace, I crash headfirst into her, causing a huge, loud explosion to go off onto some clueless member of the crowd.

The crowd parts from the unlucky pony, driven by a loud ACHOO!. I get a good glimpse of the glitter covered mare who is none other than... Twilight Sparkle. A stroke of genius hits me and I walk over to Twilight, Lending her a hoof. "Hiya Twilight..... Twinkle!" I burst out laughing due to my lame joke and the candy pink mare joins me, rolling on the ground. I compose myself and give her a friendly smile,noticing the scowl on her muzzle. I help her to her hooves and introduce myself.

"I'm Archer. Princess Luna organised for me to stay here for a while, She said I was to stay with Miss Twilight Sparkle and she would help with whatever I need. You must be Twilight."

Twilight's face brightened in an instant

"So you are Archer, my house guest! Come on, Ill show you around."

I glance behind me, spotting the pink hyperactive mare still rolling about, still laughing. Twilight's hoof draws me back to reality. "Don't worry about her Archer, she's just being Pinkie pie." I turn and catch a glimpse of my host, Glitter coats Twilight's purple coat, confetti hangs from her horn and back, as well as a party blower that is hanging from her mouth, unfurled. I stifle a laugh.

"I think we need to get you home for a bath."

Twi scans herself, taking in the mess then blushes. "I think we do too."

She leads me to a large tree in the middle of Ponyville but what surprises me the most is the windows and doors carved into the oak and the balcony coming off one side. Twilight looks at me strangely. "Its my home... and a library. The whole tree is hollowed out but it still lives! How absolutely fascinating is that!!"

"Fascinating..."

I wander up to the darkened library and magically open the door.

SURPRISE!!!

Pairs of hooves reach out in my moment of distraction ( much to my eternal shame) and grab me, pulling me into the library. Inside the main room, it looks like most of Ponyville's population is here. Pinkie pie bounds into my vision and starts blathering illegible words. I spin around just in time to see Twilight being lead up a set of stairs by a suspicious looking stallion with red fur and a blue mane and tail. His red eyes flashed green for a second before he disappeared onto the upper floor.

I push Pinkie pie aside, sending her off to talk to an orange and yellow earth mare and I begin dodging unfamiliar ponies, making my way to the stairs. I pick up my saddlebag with my magic as I leap over a orange and purple pegasus filly and charge up the steps, extracting my quiver and bow as I go, discarding the bag itself and flinging the quiver onto my back.

As a Galaxy agent I was prepared for the scene before me. Several changelings in natural form surrounded Twilight, the purple unicorn blasting bolts of pure energy at her captors. When one went down, another took its place and the struck changelings would get up within a few seconds.

"Damn"

Every changeling in the room looked at me, hesitating before lunging at me. I extract a arrow from my quiver, load it into my bow and shoot, sending it into one changelings face. He falls and as I reload and shoot again, I magically drag my saddlebags into the room, remove several throwing knives and send them flying through the air, causing several changelings to fall again. Disposing the remaining creatures, I power up my horn and throw a memory bolt at Twilight, muttering a quiet sorry before she passes out, the memory bolt removing all memories of my changeling battle.

Trotting over to the bathroom next to her bedroom, I leisurely remove all traces of blood from my weapons that I retrieved from the corpses before I stow them away and turn to the room. I tie a length of familiar blue ribbon to each of the fallen before I get my horn to spark and send them to E&I. A quick spell fixed the room and I levitate Twilight's sleeping body down the stairs before I wake her up in the party.

Her head moves slightly before she looks up groggily. "Urrg... What happened?"

"You tripped."