Twilight had hardly left the side of Celestia since she had been ordered her sentence of bed rest by the royal doctor.

He had reattached her horn, sealed it with powerful magical agents, and even cast certain spells on it to make it heal faster than normal. But other than that, he could do nothing. Only time would heal Celestia from this point on.

But Twilight wanted him to do more. She had demanded that he fix her immediately. Of course, he couldn't, so Twilight did the only thing that she could think to do.

She gathered her friends around the bed of Celestia, hoping that the "magic of friendship" would heal her faster.

Of course, as Celestia pointed out- many times actually- this was not a situation that could be fixed with the love she received from her faithful ponies.

Twilight and her friends had given up after an hour of trying to "friendship" Celestia back to health. It was in no way helping- as Celestia pointed out, many times- so they were all dismissed from the hospital wing until further notice.

Twilight decided that it would be better if they had something to eat. After all, everyone thinks better on a full stomach.

So after some debate about where to eat, they entered a small diner known for its hayburgers throughout Canterlot.

"Well, this sucks," Rainbow Dash said gloomily, taking a bite out of her burger.

Twilight shook her head. "I just don't understand what happened. I was casting the spell, and then it was there, in front of me. And... and..." she sighed.

"I don't mean that!" Rainbow yelled, spraying everyone at the table with bread crumbs. "I'm mean that it did that and got away with it!"

"It's locked up in the dungeons Rainbow; it didn't get away with anything," Twilight told her.

"Well," Applejack said, "Ah'm just glad that y'all are all right Twi'. What with everythin' that it did ta those guards."

Twilight looked at her hayburger in thought. She was lucky. It could have easily killed her. But for some reason, it stopped when it looked at her. Almost like...

"I still can't believe Celestia or Luna didn't fry that thing!" Rainbow yelled angrily.

"Well, sometimes, when a bear gets scared, it can react, um, violently. Maybe that's what happened?" Fluttershy said quietly.

"Well I think that whatever the alien is, it's a big meanie for hurting those ponies!" Pinkie Pie yelled as she jumped on top of the table, pointing a hoof in the air dramatically.

"Pinkie please! you're going to step on the food!" Rarity scolded. "But I do have to agree with you on that account Pinkie; what it did was simply uncalled for."

"Maybe so," Applejack cut in. "But didn't them guards come after it 'fore it even attacked?"

"Well, yes-" Twilight was cut off.

"Well then, don't ya think that maybe, just maybe, there was a chance that it acted outta fear?"

"What?!" Rainbow yelled. "Are you sticking up for that monster?! Are you crazy?!"

"Ah'm not stckin' up fer anythin' Rainbow! Ah'm jus' sayin' that Fluttershy could have a point!" Applejack countered.

"How could you even think that when it tried to kill the princess?!" Rainbow screamed.

"I don't know Rainbow! Maybe 'cause it's a valid point?!" Applejack screamed back.

"I-" but she was cut off by Twilight.

"Girls!" Twilight yelled. getting their attention. "I don't think this is the best place to be talking about this," she told them, motioning at how the entire diner full of ponies were looking at them. "I think we should get back to the castle before we discuss this further," she said with finality.

***

The six friends walked back to the castle while arguing the whole way. Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity all believed that the creature should be punished for its crimes the same way it acted- violently. Whereas Applejack and Fluttershy thought that it should be given some type of trial or test to see if it really was dangerous to Equestria.

Twilight however, only wanted to know more about it. Sure, she was furious that it had hurt her teacher. But she was also curious about it. What it was dressed in, what it was using as a weapon, what its culture and government were like.

All of them were so busy in themselves that they didn't even notice Luna walking in front of them.

Twilight bumped into her, falling back in her haunches from the resistance she met with on contact. "Oh, I'm sorry princess! I didn't see you, and I was lost in thought and-"

"Do not worry, Twilight Sparkle. You caused us no harm," Luna said calmly.

"Princess!" Rainbow Dash yelled, speeding forward. "I think that you should give that thing a taste of its own medicine!"

Luna blinked. "What do you mean?" she asked Rainbow.

"I mean," she said, "let me in its cell for ten minutes and I'll make that thing sorry it ever messed with Equestria."

"He," Luna said.

"What?" they all asked collectively.

"The creature is male, as we have come to learn from the others of its kind that are residing in the castle," she explained.

"Well, whatever! Just let me show him what you get when you mess with us!"

"That is impossible now," Luna said.

"Why? What happened? Is everything okay?!" Twilight started babbling about the creature, but Luna silenced her with a hoof.

"After he escaped, I locked him in a new cell. One with magical locks that only one with the magical strength of an alicorn, or the proper key spell, could undo."

"He escaped?!" Twilight screeched.

The others were too shocked to say anything.

"Yes, but we were able to coax him back into a cell after he... lost a... fight, with two of our personal night guards," Luna told them reassuringly.

"See?!" Rainbow shouted loudly. "I told you it was dangerous!"

"Wait. Didn't ya take his weapons?" Applejack asked.

"We did," Luna said bitterly. "But he had taken the guards' swords from them. Fortunately, he did not use them in his attacks against them."

"Well, what did he use to attack them then, if not the swords?" Rarity asked.

"Did he use his giant teeth?! Or his claws?! Can he breathe fire?! Oh- oh, can he-"
But Applejack put a hoof in the pink mare's mouth, silencing her."Princess, what did he use ta fight yer guards?" Applejack asked.

"He used..." Luna started, "... food."

There was a silence that hung in the air like a thick curtain above their heads.

"Food?" the farm pony asked. "Like, they was havin' a food fight?"

Luna nodded slowly. "Yes. They were battling each other, in the kitchens, with... food. And... they were all laughing."

There was another short silence.

"So who won?" Pinkie asked suddenly.

Luna looked at her. "the... guards did, as we have said before."

"Really? How did they beat him?" Pinkie asked.

"They... put a large container of ice cream on his head," she told her. "His beard and hair were stained pink, and little strawberries were sticking to him," she added with a light chuckle.

Pinkie Pie laughed at that. "Heheheahaha! Cool! He's still bad, but maybe he's kinda good too if he can have a good food fight!"

"See Rainbow? Applejack scolded. "He's still gonna pay fer what he did, but he's not the monster ya make him sound like."

Rainbow huffed and crossed her hooves in front of her. "I still think he should be punished."

The others went on talking about what Luna had witnessed in the kitchen. But not Rainbow Dash. She was still furious that that... thing had hurt the princess. And could have killed Twilight!

Then, Rainbow had an idea. If the princess wouldn't do anything about that monster in the dungeon, then she would.

***

Wayne was snoring loudly in his new cell. It was furnished with a large cot with a pair a feather pillows and a large quilt. It was incredibly comfortable.

The two guard horses outside his cell were playing some type of game with dice and cups- much like liars' dice, only they had two dice each instead of five.

Wayne rolled over and coughed violently, drawing the attention of the two guards.

They looked at him with questioning eyes. They still had no way to communicate with him, but they managed.

Wayne stood up and looked at them. Then he loosened his belt and pulled his zipper down.

The horses eyes widened as they watched him disrobe. First his coat, then his shirt, and finally, his pants. And there he stood, completely naked in front of them. He sat down on his bed and waved them over to him, smiling the whole time.

They both got up and left their game. They walked to the cell door, and they unlocked it to let themselves in.

They smiled at them as they walked closer to him, not breaking eye contact with him the whole way.

Wayne smiled at them even wider as they both came within reach of him.

The orange one smiled brightly, then she opened her mouth and leaned in closer to him, still at waist height.

His heartbeat doubled its speed as he waited for the touch, the feeling. He wanted this. He needed this. He-

His eyes snapped open and he yelled in shock from his dream. He then rolled over on his cot and threw up what looked like a months worth of food onto the floor. He was retching violently, letting loose a torrent of rancid bile from his stomach. Once he was finished, he took a deep breath to steady himself. The smell made him vomit again. Wayne didn't even know that the Human body could hold that much food, but apparently it could.

The rancid liquid started to flow out through a large drainage grate set in the center of his cell. Yellow and green and red and every other color of the food he had eaten was now on the floor, making a sickening mosaic before his eyes.

Wayne heard the horses say something. He looked up at them, but they weren't looking at him. They were standing at the glowing blue barrier that the blue horse had put up to keep him locked in his new cell, arguing with a horse that he hadn't seen before. It was a light blue color. What was it? Oh damn, he knew he should have paid attention in art class back in school. It was... Cyan! Yeah, that was it! there was a cyan horse with rainbow hair arguing with the two guards that were supposed to be watching him.

The new horse saw that he was looking at them and made a face at him. One that show clear disgust and anger towards him.

Wayne didn't like this new horse.

It started to yell at him, pointing its leg- or was it hoof in the case of horses?- at him accusingly.

Wayne stood up shakily from his tiny cot and one lumpy pillow- no quilt included- and walked over to the bars to look at this new horse. It was small. Smaller than the others he had seen anyways. It was slim; almost unhealthily so. But he could see the muscles under its fur. Even though this horse was small and skinny- and loud- he knew that it was tough.

The horse saw him sizing it up, and it scoffed at him. It actually made such an insulting noise as that to him.

Wayne put his hand on his crotch and pulled, then spit on the ground right in front of it. This was one of the most insulting gestures Wayne knew.

The horse's eyes went wide, then it lashed out against the magical barrier in pure rage, screaming like a banshee.

The white horse tried to calm the rainbow horse down while the orange one simply laughed at its reaction.

Wayne looked at the orange horse and smiled.

The orange horse looked at him and smiled back.

Wayne liked that horse. He liked the white one too, but he liked this one more.

Author's Note

Awwww! Ain't that just too fuckin' cute? I think they liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike~ each other!