Resting in my room aboard my Orbiter I was laying on my bed, staring up at the ceiling with the fluorescent lighting softly glowing as my eyes traced the lines in the metal. The bed was soft and cushiony but it felt off to me for some reason, like something is missing in it and I just don't know what it could possibly be. As I laid there staring at the ceiling out of boredom I started to recount the events that has just occurred and started to it all over again in my head.

'First I crash landed on an foreign planet and to my shock and awe I have discovered an alien species of a humanoid form of horse with multiple variants as it all ranged from ones with a horn, ones with wings, those with both and lastly those with neither. I do not know what each of the four types are capable of doing but from what I saw the ones with horns have some form of mental levitation if the evidence of the floating quill, ink and paper roll are of any indication, the one with wings are capable of flight, the ones without must have something to them unless they are the runt of the litter and lastly the ones with both horn and wing must be capable of flight and mental levitation.'

'These aliens appear humanoid in nature, they have mannerisms like humans, they are capable of speech, they have reached a moment in their technological advancement to have metal armor and chariots, advanced engineering to construct a castle and city on the side of a mountain and for it to not fall off and collapse from the sheer weight of it all. I wonder what else they are capable of doing.'

With my thoughts racing and my mind not settling down I knew that I would not be able to rest this night nor be allowed to have a restful sleep while I had so many questions running wild in my head.

Sitting up I looked at the closed doors leading into the main compartment of the Orbiter I decided that I wouldn't be able to get much done if I just sat around in here all the time and just waited till it was time for my warframe to 'Wake up' so it can continue to communicate and negotiate with the natives of this world.

Getting off of my bed I went down to the transference chamber and placed myself back in the pod, I knew what I was going to do may seem reckless but I must know what is around my ship and that these aliens might have already placed guards of their own to watch for any sign of a threat. If I am to be leaving my ship without getting caught, I am going to have to be stealthy on this one, and I know just the tool for the job.

Once I have situated myself in the pod I allowed myself to make the connection to my warframe sitting in storage and for a moment I saw nothing but darkness until the hatch leading from storage opened up to reveal the light of the arsenal.

Standing on my two feet once more I let out a sigh of relief as I looked myself over, faint wisps of translucent cloth float beside me as I stood up, arrows strategically placed on my left bicep, small nodules built into my hips, knees, shoulders and the side of my head, a smooth and slim figure, the huntress of the wilds, Ivara.

Grabbing the Paris Prime from the arsenal I slid it on my back as the quiver for it was placed along side it before grabbing the Spira Prime with its holster of knives and attached them to my hips and lastly grabbed the Orthos Prime and gave it a few experimental swings with it before sliding that too onto my back for storage.

"Operator, going for a lunar stroll?"

"Yes Ordis, I am just going to see what is around here now that I think that we are alone and that we don't have to worry about any prying eyes and sticky fingers."

"Do bring me a bouquet of flowers when you get back."

"I'll see what I can do about that, can't make any promises that they won't try to kill me though."

With that said and done I entered the infiltration pod and waited for it to cycle through the air and once it did I was immediately dumped on my head like last time.

'I swear I am going to destroy this floor one of these days.'

Rolling out from underneath my ship I found myself to be entirely alone save for my sentinel scanning the area for any signs of trouble. When it spotted it me it made a chirping sound before resuming its sentry duties, leaving me to go on an expedition into the area around the ship without anything or anyone alerting the local wildlife.

Walking through the empty halls of the fortress I found that this place was once occupied by the alien horse people if the portraits, suits of ancient armor and statues are of any clear indication that they once occupied this structure in the past.

'How long has this place been abandoned? The structure is crumbling and falling apart in varying places and yet the portraits, suits of armor and even a few select statues are in perfect condition, untouched by the ravages of time and decay. How is this not ruined or even outright destroyed? What kind of preservation techniques and methods are they using to do so?'

Stopping in front of a portrait of what must be the two horned winged horse people when they were younger and I must say that they look pretty good, finely made dresses they are wearing but sadly the Orokin elite wore things far more superior in style and material.

Seeing how there is no one around I decided that I may has well confiscate this priceless portrait, wouldn't want some sneaky bandit or thief to come on by and discover this treasure trove of ancient paintings and expensive relics of the past. Waving my hand at the portrait the internal mechanism within the palm activated and although this was meant for hostile capture targets I decided that this would be far easier to transport than to carry it by hand back to the ship each time I want to return with something.

Dematerializing the large portrait took a matter of seconds as it turned orange before breaking down into data particles before finally embedding itself into the inner working of my warframe for storage. I did this several more times as I explored the fortress, so many suits of armor with the emblem of the sun or the moon printed onto their chest, shoulders and back, I don't know if they simply worship the sun or the moon but from what I can tell that it is pretty much their ruling party or their form of government.

The sun clearly rules the day and the moon has no say in any matters that happen during the day while it is vice versa when it is night and the sun has no say when it the moon is up.

I am not sure if this is true or not but I must say that this is a bad idea, if many things happen during the day than the night is left out of several affairs and matters that may be important to the nation. If a side of the government is feeling left out than I can only speculate that it would either try to get the other side to give it some more duties to perform so it would feel like it is pulling its own weight, or it might try to make something happen so it would have work to do. Seeing if that is the case than I hope that nothing has happened to upset the balance, having to scrap a system because it was slowly becoming obsolete must be a tough call to make.

While I was travelling down the hall I soon came upon a door that was locked from the other side, and like any good explorer would do in uncharted territory I must see what is behind these locked doors. Although I do know that locked doors means something of great importance is on the other side, I also know that locked doors also hide...other matters that should not be discussed when there are children nearby.

Jamming the blade from my Orthos Prime into the small open space between the doors I cut downward, cutting through the lock with ease I sheathed my polearm before pushing the doors open and what was on the other side would make an archivist lose his mind.

There was an entire library sitting in here, there was books upon books in all directions that I could turn my head in, books on shelves, isles and tables, nothing but priceless information just waiting at the edges of my fingertips! Just waiting to be explored and exploited!

Grabbing the nearest book so I can scan it to add to my codex collection on foreign reading material I discovered that I couldn't scan it due to being incomplete. And what did it mean by it being incomplete? Well it is simple really, the book fell apart when I grabbed it off the table as its spine and pages fell apart as the cover was reduced to chunks of rotten wood.

'If there was an archivist here they would be extremely displeased with the preservation of knowledge and history here. A book that oh so easily disintegrates into nothing but rotting wood and spoiled paper all over the floor. This is going to be problematic if I can't even grab a book to study its contents when it is so old and aged that it will fall apart so easily just from being touched and moved! There has to be a way to study the native's culture and language on my own without having to rely on them.'

Dropping what was left of the book onto the floor I moved onto the onto the bookshelves and thought up an idea, an ingenious idea, one that would make Cephalon Suda proud if she was here with her strange robotically calm voice. Like hell I would make a good cephalon, I will not be digitalized and have my mind and memories be transformed into an artificial intelligence.

With how fragile the books are and that I would not be able to translate what was written inside, I needed a way to collect the books without damaging or outright destroying them in the process and that was when I came up with the brilliant idea to digitalized them the same way I did with the portraits and suits of alien horse armor I have been collecting.

As it turns out collecting books through this method was a lot smarter and safer than trying to copy it by hand but sadly this took me a lot more time than it should have as I saw daylight slowly breaking through the cracks and holes in the walls and ceiling and that the light was more orange than yellow so it would seem that it was late afternoon and that it would get dark soon. Finishing up my work in dematerializing and encoding the books into data for storage and renewal I left the library behind to continue exploring the fortress before I would be forced to return to the Orbiter to rest for a little while only to resume control of my main warframe.

Walking down a hall I soon came upon a set of double doors that reached the ceiling, the only time I saw doors like these was at the Hall of the Executors, the highest ranking among the Orokin...the ruling party...dictating your life to how they see fit...

'No, the Orokin are no more. I don't need to worry about sliding back into chains and being their slave. The War is over, they are all dead by our blades. We are free from their torment...free forever...'

Shaking my head from the cloud of anger I go back to looking at the massive double doors with the sun and the moon carved into the rotting wood before pushing them open to reveal a crumbling room, and on the other end was two stone chairs with rotting sun and moon banners on the sides of the walls.

I don't know who these horses worship but it apparently is enough for them to bow down to the sun and moon as if they were gods, so many beings thinking that they are gods until they are brought low by their own creations and put to the sword.

Moving over to the twin thrones I saw that they were both made of stone and that neither of them looked comfortable to sit on nor were they a proper fit for a person like myself nor was it a proper fit for my warframes.

Looking them both over I thought that it was just a pair of normal stone thrones and that there was nothing out of the ordinary so I left them alone to continue to crumble as I went back to searching this fortress for anything of use or value that can be traded to the horse people for whatever their currency is. Ancient portraits, rusting suits of armor and even slightly crumbling statues, all of this can probably be sold to the highest bidder and if I can gather enough credits or whatever these natives call their money I can see if they have something akin to a void crystal or at the very least a close second.

As soon as I was done with salvaging the fortress of anything of value I decided to do one last sweep of the place just to make sure that there was nothing that I may have missed. Once I made my sweep of the fortress I returned to my ship only to find that there was a second platoon of guards here and this time they have somehow managed to set up a base camp of sorts around my ship.

I am not pleased with this, not pleased not one bit.

Why are there horse guards here.

Why are they around my ship.

And why the hell is my sentinel not trying to scare them off?

Seeing how my only means of going to my ship was to go through the horse people camp I decided that now was the time to be stealthy and to infiltrate their ranks and slip on by.

Kneeling down behind the door leading into the hallway I allowed the energy within my warframe as I watched my body fade away into a distortion of air before outright fading away from sight. To the untrained eye I am completely invisible and that they are being hunted by a ghost, for those with the perception to notice anything out of the ordinary they might notice a waver in the air but only that and for those that truly have keen eyes they will only notice an outline and that's it.

Stalking through the empty space in the hall I met no resistance until I came up to a palisade wall but that was easily defeated when I jumped over it. If it was the grineer they would have simply sent in an Scorch to burn it down while the corpus would have just sent in their Moa's and Osprey's to wipe them out, me? I only had to climb over it and if I wanted them all dead I would have simply used my Orthos Prime and cut through them all, I fear that if I used my arrows that they would go through them and the walls and never be seen again.

Sneaking through the camp was like liquid mercury on velvet. It was smooth, quiet, and it never left a trace to be found or detected.

The alien horse people here were talking amongst themselves too loudly, it would easily alert their enemies to their position let alone tell them a rough approximate to how many was there in the first place. With every word they said I slinked and weaved my way through their patrol routes with relative ease, not a single one of them was even aware of my presence nor were they aware of me picking their pockets as I passed several of them by. I took from them coins of varying colors and obviously differing values if the colors are of any indication, some shiny looking rocks and even a small photograph of two alien horses hugging each other.

I left that last one behind for I had no need for it and I doubt the one I took this photograph from would be happy that it was gone.

Leaving the photo behind I maneuvered my way to my ship before hooking myself up to the pod, rotated back inside before dropping myself off at the Codex for scanning, cleaning, cataloging all artifacts and finally attempting to decipher and translate everything. While the Codex is busy trying to do its duty I left the Ivara warframe at the arsenal on standby as I would need it on a short notice if the ship was to ever be moved or touched in certain ways by the natives and I would need to put them in line.

I spent nine hours searching this fortress, harvesting ancient relics and books, and the only thing I have to show for is things I can't read or can't touch due to rot or rust. What a waste but soon with enough time the damages can be undone and reversed.

For now I must return to my Rhino Prime, who knows that those alien horses might be doing with my warframe right now.

[Twilight's POV]

I can't believe we have a real live alien staying at the castle! And it is right next door from all of us! Oh I am so excited I can hardly wait to talk to him!

Oh how wonderful this is to finally be able to communicate with a new intelligent species and to top it off it is an alien from space! I know that Spike was right when he told us that aliens are real and that we are not alone out here after all but I thought it was just stuff from a comic book, but for it to be proven true.

I wonder what the professors at Canterlot University will say when I show them definitive proof that we have an alien now living amongst us, and better yet an alien that isn't here to invade us or as Spike's comic says to 'anally probe us for information'. Honestly how is shoving a strange scanning device up our plothole's going to reveal anything about us?

Spike's response was childish and yet it was humorous at best, 'maybe that they are trying to harvest farts' to which I said that is just silly and a waste of resources to do such a thing.

Anyways today was the big day!

We let the alien rest up for a few hours and now that the moon is about to rise in three hours and soon we will try to wake it and see if it is in a willing mood to try and talk to us. I just hope it isn't like Princess Luna in the early nights when somepony tries to wake her up.

Walking up to the door leading into the alien's room I found that the guards that was posted here were still alive and awake, well one is awake the other is asleep and had a pair of eyes drawn on his eyelids. Shaking my head at the sight of the sleeping guard I proceeded to knock on the door to check and see if our mysterious guest is awake yet, but when I waited for a few moments and heard nothing I decided to just take a peek on our guest with the help of my magic.

Taking a step back from the door I concentrated a bit and used my magic to focus on the door, making it temporarily see-through on our end and what I saw, along with the two guards who were now alert and attentive, gasped at the sight before us.

Standing in the middle room was a strange slim being wearing an even stranger gold and grey jumpsuit of some kind, the way the jumpsuit is made is almost like it is some kind of harness that attaches itself to the suit of armor that it is standing next to. From where the three of us are standing it looks male as it is obviously missing breasts, its shape is lacking the feminine curves that we are known for, now that I think about it I am not entirely sure if this is a male alien, I don't know what it looks like underneath the strange hood it is wearing along with the jumpsuit as well. I would really hate to find out that I was wrong and assumed the alien's gender wrong and accidentally offend it in front of everypony!

Oh the horror of what might happen if I did that!

As I mentally berated myself for thinking so foolishly I watched as the alien moved around the room, taking in its surroundings and for a moment I thought I saw it looking in our direction but it just shook its head before resuming its readout of the room. I don't know what it could possibly be thinking of but I can only hope it is accepting its room.

The alien wasn't walking around the room, it was floating, levitating even! And it did this as it explored its new surroundings, lifting things up, looking them over before placing them back down where they once were, it even went as far as going over to the balcony window and pressed its hand against it but when it placed a hand against the glass it flinched. Was it because it saw its own reflection or was it for some other reason that we don't understand?

Preparing myself to enter its room and bring it over to the dining hall for what would be dinner for us but breakfast for Luna, and as I raised my hand to knock on the door the three of us watched as its head snapped to our direction, as if it knew what I was about to do.

Taking a breath I knocked on the door and that moment the alien reacted faster than I had anticipated, it had jumped back towards the suit of armor on the floor before fading away from view, almost like it phased through the armor to put it on. I have to know how it did that, it would make putting on clothes and going through rooms so much easier than they currently are.

Turning the doorknob and entering the room I saw that the alien was slowly standing up from off the floor from its kneeling position, I almost forgot that this alien easily towers over me by roughly two feet.

Putting on a brave face and a smile I showed my intentions to the alien.

"Good morning! Or as I should say in your case a good evening, today is a big day for you my friend! Can you please follow me and these fine gentlecolts to the dinning hall?" I said as I gave the best convincing smile that I could muster and to my credit it worked.

Nodding its head at me I continued to smile before turning around and left its room, it soon followed after me and the guards as we walked through the halls to our destination. Passing maids and royal guard patrols we four walked to the dining hall and it would have been a fine moment for us if it wasn't for a particular stallion walking down the same hall we were in and bumped into me.

"Oh...its you. I take it friend of yours is here as well." Prince Blueblood said as he looked from me to the two guards standing behind me then lastly at our guest behind them.

"Yes, Rarity is here in the castle, she is waiting for me and our guest here along with the rest of my friends and both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna."

"Wait...is this the-"

"Yes, this is the alien we found last night. We are going to try and find a means of communicating with it before teaching it our language while at the same time trying to find a way to translate what it has written down for us into a spell matrix that will help out with the learning process."

"I see...well then I wish you the best of luck." Blueblood said as he walked around us but he stopped when he was standing past the guards and was between us and the aliens.

"Oh and one thing before I depart Miss Sparkle."

"And that would be what exactly Blueblood?"

"That you should lay off the hay burger and fries, you are starting to get pudgy again."

In that moment we all turned our heads to look at Blueblood, even the alien was staring down at him. I am not sure if the alien understood what was said or is just parroting the rest of us, but if it did understand what the prince said than it too knows that one should never call a mare fat, especially to her face.

I was stunned when Blueblood said that to me but it wasn't lost on our mysterious guest as it stared down at Blueblood and if I could guess its eyes must be glaring down at him.

Without any warning or even a twitch of movement the alien lashed out and grabbed Blueblood by the arms, pinning them to his sides as he is lifted off the ground and was taken away from us as the alien quite literally 'Did not give a flying buck' about who Prince Blueblood is as he was removed from our sight by being moved to the end of the hallway and dropped on the floor next to the door before returning back to us. Our mouths were hanging open in shock, nopony has ever done that to Prince Blueblood before and yet this alien did just that and did it without a care in the world.

Before I could say anything the alien tapped his left wrist with a finger and with that same finger it made a circular motion in the air.

Although I didn't know what that meant the guards did as they quickly told me that we were wasting time and that we should get a move on.

I guess somethings are the same when it comes to military matters across species, and apparently across the known galaxy.

Rushing towards the dining hall as we were delayed with Bluebloods little stunt we soon made it to the doors leading to our destination and with a thank you to the two guards who accompanied us before they opened the doors and ushered us in.

Waiting for us inside was indeed all of my friends, both princesses and surprisingly my brother Shining Armor and Professor Short Fuse from Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns.

"Hello girls, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Shiny and Professor Fuse, I am proud to present to you our guest of honor!" I shouted with glee as I waved my arms toward the alien and for a moment all it did was just stare at me for a few seconds before turning his attention to each and every single individual in the grand room before shrugging.

I guess that was a response it could make seeing how it can't talk to us yet.

"Anyways..." I started to speak as I led the alien to a seat on the other side of the table, right beside my brother Shining Armor and a royal guard that won the lucky lottery to be the alien's guardian.

"...I think everypony should introduce themselves properly before we can move onto trying to talk and translate what the alien is saying and then have his words and language translated into Equis so we can understand what was written onto the piece of paper back at the castle of the two sisters in the Everfree Forest."

Sitting down besides Princess Celestia I waited patiently as my friends whispered amongst themselves, trying to decide on who would go first but my mentor took the lead by standing up.

"Hello, I am Princess Celestia Co-Ruler of Equestria and the Ruler of the Day. It is a pleasure to finally speak to you on such good terms." My mentor said as she stood up and gave the alien her usual motherly smile as said alien gave her a nod before returning his attention to the rest of us.

Next up was Celestia's sister.

"SALUTATIONS ALIEN! I AM PRINCESS LUNA CO-RULER OF EQUESTRIA AND THE RULER OF THE NIGHT! IT IS AN HONOR TO FINALLY MEET YOU AND I WISH TO SPEAK WITH YOU AS SOON AS YOU ARE ABLE TO SPEAK OUR LANGUAGE!" Everypony in the room but Celestia and the alien were not covering their ears or trying to not fall over. Luna really does have a great set of lungs on her, maybe she should try to play a role in an opera sometime.

After that was the rest of us, starting with my brother.

"Greetings, I am Shining Armor and I am the Captain of the Solar Guard, it is an honor to meet you and to meet a warrior of your stature." I can tell that he is just saying that, when you live with him for several years you tend to pick out the truths and lies. And from what he just said is just for formality's sake, he doesn't trust the alien at all.

Then to my friends.

My friends all introduced themselves and I watched the alien's reaction for each one. Starting with Rainbow Dash she started with her usual bravado and boasting and the alien let out a huff of what must be annoyance, seems like he doesn't like those that boast or try to make themselves larger than life. Next was Pinkie Pie and it was fairly tame to what she usually does, that is until she started to talk about parties and I had to promptly cover her mouth with a cupcake to silence her, the alien laughed at this if the chuckle-like sounds was of any indication. After that was Applejack and for a moment the two stared at each other before AJ backed down and proceeded to hide behind her hat, I wonder why? And as for the alien it just nodded at her before turning its gaze to Rarity who decided to lay on the noble feminine charm and tried some flirting notions but they went largely ignored, does the alien have a special somepony waiting for them back home? When that was done next was Fluttershy and that ended as quickly as it started as she hid behind her mane before ducking under the table, and as for the alien it just looked at me and shrugged, I was expecting this to happen but come on Fluttershy! This is important!

For science!

Then lastly we got to Spike who introduced himself and the alien looked at my little brother with what I think is keen interest. Has he seen dragons before? Does he have dragons back home or is this the first time he has ever seen a dragon? I wonder how the two would interact with each other if we left them alone?

And finally Professor Slow Fuse himself.

"My oh my, just look at it! The complexity of the armor and how smooth flowing it is to the rest of the body! Such organic design and how it connects to the body itself! The metal composition is beyond anything found in Equestria or even found beyond its borders! This is truly alien in nature and design and I must know more about you!" Short Fuse said as he looked at the alien with hunger in his eyes, his thirst for knowledge is well known throughout the scientific community and he has been known to skirt and bend the laws when it comes to uncovering and learning things that are either freshly discovered from the dig site or things that are under lock and key for good reason.

The alien on the other hand, when it heard Professor Short Fuse talk it reacted in a negative manner.

And by negative I mean it changed its posture into something a little more hostile, it was leaning towards the professor, its arms went from being folded across its chest to being by its sides and were clenched and that it let out a low menacing, rumbling growl.

Does it have something against scientists or does it have something against those that see it as a thing and not as a living being?

Fortunately the alien stood down from its aggressive stance and proceeded to sit down at a chair on the far side of the table but as soon as it tried to sit down the chair almost gave out from the alien's weight. Pinkie and Rainbow were snickering under their hands to which I bop them upside the head with a quick burst of my magic.

"Now I do believe it is your time, Mr. Alien."

We waited for a moment for the alien to do as I have said, seeing how that it seems to trust me a lot more than it does trust the others and at the moment it does nothing before standing up and spoke in its strange echo-y hiss-y voice, its words sliding together before fading off, I don't understand how it is able to speak like this but than again when ponies first encountered dragons and all we heard from them was snarls, hisses, growls and roars.

I wonder what the alien is thinking about right now...

[ME]

The new day has been strange for me, I have returned to my Rhino Prime to find that it was exactly where I left it and I had decided to temporary visit my warframe that is so far away from home to check on it. With how much void energy my body is putting out I was hovering in the air, weightless and frictionless I floated around the room and I must say I loved it. The bed was massive compared to the one on my Orbiter and that the room smelled like pleasant flowers, this room looks nice, almost like a priceless luxury that I would never be able to afford on my own even though I have millions of credits.

It was during my little exploration of the room did I feel a disturbance nearby, a foreign energy source rose from no where and I felt it was nearby. I looked around in suspicion that it was from one of the alien horses with a horn, and my suspicion was proven correct when I heard someone knocking on the door just seconds after I felt the disturbance.

I locked up for a moment when I heard the knocking, I couldn't let anyone find me here, they think that this is just a suit of armor and not a bio-mechanical puppet being controlled by my hands and mind.

As soon as the door started to open up I quickly retreated back to the somatic link and resumed direct control over my warframe that I left behind and acted like nothing was wrong.

When the door opened up it revealed to me the purple horse girl from before and two horse guards standing by my door, the purple one started to talk before waving at me to follow her, seems like stuff like this doesn't change.

I left my Fragor and Braton Prime in the room knowing that these alien horses won't take them from this room and try to study them, I am sure that a powerful electrical void shock will dissuade any would-be thieves from taking what is mine. Leaving my room with nothing but my Lex Prime I followed the three out and down the halls, our destination is unknown to me but to those that I am following I am more than sure that they know where we are heading.

It was when we were going down a particularly familiar hall that I started to see portraits and suits of armor lining the walls, the very same ones from the fortress I just came from. Maybe this castle is a duplicate of the original down the mountain?

But while we were walking down the hall we bumped into a familiar looking blond haired, finely dressed horned horse man, well he bumped into the purple horned horse girl and the two started to talk while the two guards stood where they were and didn't move an inch. I was too busy trying to pay attention to their conversation and decipher what was being said by watching and studying their body language and the tone of their voice.

Standing there like a rock pillar I watched the two talk and for a few minutes they were debating back and forth before finally the finely dressed male left but he stopped when he was half way between the guards and myself when he turned his head and said something that made my purple guide red in the face as she shook from what must be anger or embarrassment.

I decided that this was taking too long and the sooner we can find a translation or a translator of some kind the faster I can return home so I picked up the blond horse man and removed him from our path. Picking the guy up I went to the end of the hall behind me and put him down on the opposite side of the door before returning back to the group.

When they stared at me I thought that I did something bad but for the moment I could care less, we were going somewhere and I hate to be late when we are needed somewhere so I tapped my wrist before making a twirling motion with my finger, the purple one didn't know what I was doing but the two guards that was flanking her did. They whispered to the purple one what it meant and clarity dawned on her face as she understood before saying what must be a thank you to the guards before we resumed our walk.

Eventually the four of us made it to a set of large doors and the two guards opened it up for the purple one and myself and once it was open they ushered us in before closing the doors behind us, the two staying on the other side.

I stared at all of the occupants in the room, the two royal horse women, the officer guard horse man, the five horse girls from the ruins, the dragon, a horse man in a lab coat and lastly twenty horse guards lining the walls.

Seeing the purple one motion me to the table I can guess that they are going to introduce themselves and try to question me, but seeing how neither of us have a means of translating or deciphering the others language, both spoken and written, I had decided to prepare myself a means of being able to speak their language, I just hope that they don't overreact to it.

Soon after entering the room the horse people started to introduce themselves, the recording optical lens in my helmet is doing its job in capturing their appearances along with the voice samples they are giving me, but as soon as the horse man in the lab coat started to talk I felt my blood start to boil. I hate lab coat wearers so much, the things they have done to me and the other children and teenagers that was on the Zariman 10-0, I will never forget what they did to us, so many of us wanted their blood for the things they put us through, I know I got my chance when they gave me the Rhino Prime.

Sadly only two bastards got away from my rampage when they entered a safe room.

I proceeded to get into a hostile stance against the obvious scientist and made a threatening growl towards him, I knew that it would scare him and seeing how horses are herbivores aka prey, that it will work without a doubt. And it did, the scientist retreated back a bit and made every singe guard in the room react by going for their weapons and taking a step forward.

They know that they can't do anything to me because their weapons and armor are beyond inferior to what I have available to me, but before I could put my foot up that man's ass, the purple one calmed me down and I resumed my neutral stance for the time being.

As the ponies talked to me and I in turn listened and for the most part this was nice, but seeing how I can't understand a word they were saying I decided that if I can capture at least one of them and scan their body and mind, learn their knowledge by ripping it out from one of their heads before duplicating it for myself and returning the captured alien back to its people.

But what the dark blue horned winged royal did to me changed my plan dramatically.

[Twilight's POV]

Sitting down beside my teacher and my friends we watched as the alien calmed down and sat down, Professor Short Fuse trying to calm himself down after getting scared by the alien after it displayed a clear sign of aggression toward him. I guess the alien doesn't like him very much as it kept its head looking in the professor's direction and that it kept its hands on the table, unmoving and unflinching.

We decided to keep talking to the alien, trying to get it to speak to us but it kept ignoring and kept on staring at Short Fuse, trying to a burn a hole through his head.

As the alien kept its attention on the professor a thought sudden struck me and I knew that this was risky because I don't know what the alien might do if I reveal its secret out to everyone in the room but seeing how this is starting to not go well I decided that the reward greatly outweighs the risks.

Standing up from my seat at the table I walked around and slowly made my way to the alien, my eyes staying on it and as soon as I was next to it I made my move and hoped my gamble paid off.

Grabbing the alien by the hand I tugged on it and tried to tell it to stand up but it stopped looking at the professor to turn its head to look at me and for a moment I thought that I had earned its ire but instead it made a grunting sound and its body relaxed immediately. Still tugging on its arm I tried to motion it to stand up and after a few attempts it picked up on what I was trying to do and it stood up, towering over me again but this time it seemed like it was starting to lose its patience.

"Come on! Just show them what you look like under the helmet! Show them that you aren't a threat to us ponies! I know you can do this" And with that said I started to do hand motions and other means of trying to convey my message to it and for a good long while I wasn't getting anywhere until finally I heard it let out a long sigh as it stood up from the table and took a step back.

It looked at me for a good long while before it stood up straight and in a bright flash of light everypony in the room watched as the alien in the armor suddenly appeared the alien wearing the strange jumpsuit and hoof from earlier. We watched as it floated above the floor and the table, a strange gold aura surrounded its very form and all of us were in awe as it effortlessly levitated in the air as it looked at all of us and I couldn't believe that it had worked!

There it was! Among us and outside of its armor and to the amazement of my friends, brother and mentor they were all staring at the alien with their mouths open and in shock, hay even the guards are staring in shock and surprise that the alien is almost as big as the armor it was wearing!

And what else that caught everyone's attention was the obvious bulge in its trousers, every single mare in the room was staring intently at it and more than a few of us were now confirming that this alien was indeed a he, something that made quite a few fantasies to start forming in our heads. I myself have...well...I may have already started to think about such things but I threw those thoughts aside when I realized that I don't even know anything about this guy! Would he even be interested in a mare like me?

But before we could stare at it any further the alien suddenly lost his ability to levitate as it fell to ground, his upper body landed on the table with a thud as his arms lay outstretched, catching himself as he let out a muffled grunt just as everypony got up from their seats and rushed to the alien. Fortunately for me I was right next to him as I helped it to a seat and let him rest as I watched its head loll around a bit before he regained his senses and helped himself to sit upright before casting his gaze towards the princesses.

Before I could ask the alien anything I watched as Princess Luna teleported over right to the alien's left and before I could stop her from doing whatever it is she is going to do, I was too late as her horn lit up as she pressed it against the alien's head and in a bright flash of deep blue light we were caught off guard as the alien and Luna were connected by a mental spell.

Whatever Princess Luna is doing cannot be good as the alien is flinching and twitching but what really made this bad was the glare that Princess Celestia was giving her. Luna was breaking several laws just by doing whatever spell she is using, one of them is that she is assaulting somepony with magic, invasion of the mind, and what is the most important one of all.

Assaulting a foreign dignitary.

As this went on Princess Celestia teleported between her sister and the alien but when she tried to force the spell to end it, it ended prematurely as Luna's horn began to glow the same gold hue that the alien was emitting as she was thrown back as the two let out a scream of pain. The pair were holding their heads in agony as they continued to scream in pain, their minds must have been connected when the separation occurred, I just hope that none of them have suffered from any kind of mental trauma.

The alien was the first to recover as the hood on his head opened itself up like a flower in bloom, the petal-like hood lowered themselves down before sticking to parts of the suit as we all saw the matted down black hair on the alien's muted-brown head as a pair of molten-gold eyes stared right at me.

He slowly opened his mouth, coughing raggedly as he tried to regain his voice and from the first time since he spoke, he said something that we could all understand.

"That...shit...hurts..."

And that was all it could say before it slumped back into its seat just as its suit of armor stood back up and took a defensive stance behind him, in the armor's right hand was the same strange weapon that was pointed at me and my friends back in the Everfree Forest.

I can already see this not ending well for us as Princess Luna has just assaulted a foreign dignitary who is also an alien with possibly world ending weapons of doom!

On the bright side though we can now understand its demands!

No wait, that's bad.

Author's Note

College is starting tomorrow so when I post this will be the last day of my freedom from the institution of higher learning and will then become a slave to education and knowledge.

ENJOY!