Chapter 1 - Save the children, the Power of Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū is Revealed!

*Everfree Forest – Present Time*

“Orororororororo.” Was all Kenshin could say as he lay in the crater.

After a few hours of trying to wait for the pain to subside, Kenshin slowly got up and dusted himself off, as he checked himself for any injuries, he seemed to be completely fine other than some soreness. Kenshin looked around and saw sakabatō lying on the ground to his left. He walked over picked it up and slid it into his obi. Kenshin was quite amazed at the fact that he was even able to move after the way he hit the ground, but remembered all the times that he survived worse injuries, such as the times he accidentally walked in on kaoru while she was bathing.

As Kenshin was looking around trying to figure out where he was, he heard what sounded like the loudest roar he had ever heard followed by the sounds of a woman and children screaming.

“SOMEPONY, HELP US PLEASE!!!!!” Someone screamed.

Kenshin’s suspicions were confirmed, someone needed his help and they needed it NOW! Kenshin broke out into a full sprint in the direction of the screams. “Hold on, help is on the way, that it is!” Kenshin said to himself while preparing himself to do what he does best.

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*Everfree Forest- 1 hour earlier*

Fluttershy had been searching the forest 2 hours now. With each passing second causing her worry and anxiety to sky rocket. She tried to stay calm but it was no use no matter how hard she tried, she could not get her nerves or fears under control. She tried to call out for the three young fillies, but with her timid nature her voice would only come out as a whisper. As she continued making her way through the forest she began to let her fears get the better of her as her mind began to play the worst possible outcomes of what could happen to the three young fillies that everypony cared so much for. She couldn’t shake the images of the girls being hopelessly lost or being attacked by some viscous predators out in the cold dark woods.

After another thirty minutes of walking she managed to come upon a clearing in the dense forest. She immediately broke out into a run when she saw the Applebloom, Sweetiebelle, and Scootaloo. She began callout to the three young fillies as she ran towards them relieved that they were alright, but her relief was short lived when she saw what they doing which caused her to immediately come to an abrupt stop as she looked in fear. All three Cutie Mark Crusaders were standing around a sleeping and fully grown adult manticore, when all of a sudden the three little fillies pulled out a blow horn, put it to the beasts ear, and blared the horn as loud as possible.

“NOOOO! STOP!” Fluttershy screamed for the first time in her life, not a whisper or normal volume yell, but a loud as hell scream. But it was already too late.

The manticore’s eyes shot open and it roared in a fit of rage at be awoken from its slumber, causing the CMC to run to Fluttershy in fear and terror and hug her in fear. Fluttershy and the others only knew of one logical thing to do in this particular moment…was scream.

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*Ponyville Library - 3 hours earlier*

A young lavender colored unicorn with a dark purple mane and a pink streak running through it, she was wearing a light purple suit like vest over a white dress shirt with a dark blue mini skirt, her whole outfit resembled a school uniform. The young mare was busy trying to arrange all of the books in the library that she called home with the help of her young assistant.

“How much longer is this going to take, Twilight?” the young baby dragon asked impatiently.

“Oh come on Spike, isn’t this fun, what can be more fun the rearranging the library on a Saturday?” Twilight said with excitement.

“It’s Tuesday today, we’ve been at this for 4 days straight.” Spike said with a deadpan look on his face.

“Wow, time sure does fly when you’re having fun, huh Spike, but I have to agree, it was kind of tiring. At least we’re done and we don’t have to do it again for a while.” She said as she slid the last book on the shelf, thus completing the grueling task.

BOOM!!!

As the large explosion shakes the entire library, it causes all of the books in the library to go flying off the shelves and on to the ground in a huge heap.

“AWW, COME ON!” Twilight screamed.

“What was that?” the baby dragon asked in alarm.

“I don’t know, but whatever it was it must have been huge.” The lavender mare said

“Well whatever it was-*BURB*” Spike was cut off as he let out a belch of green flames which produced a scroll out of the green flames.

“It’s a letter from the princess!” the lavender unicorn said excitingly.

Dear Twilight Sparkle,

As I am sure you already know by now due to the explosion, something strange has happened in the Everfree forest. While I do not know what could have caused the explosion, I do know that it was caused by something very powerful. I have sensed its coming for the past few days now, at first I thought it was nothing but now I see that I was wrong, this presence is far more powerful than anything I have ever felt before. I need you and the other elements of harmony to find out what this powerful presence is. Also, I sense Fluttershy’s presence in the Everfree forest. Please make sure that she is alright.

Sincerely, Princess Celestia

P.S. please be careful my faithful student.

The lavender mare looked at the letter in astonishment and worry. She had so many questions that needed answers, but the question that was eating away at her was

“WHAT IS FLUTTERSHY EVEN DOING IN THE EVERFREE FOREST BY HERSELF!” Twilight bellowed.

“Spike get the others quickly, Fluttershy might be in trouble!” she said after regaining some of her composure.

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*Everfree Forest – Present Time*

*POV – Fluttershy*

The cream colored Pegasus managed to grab all three fillies and made a break for it, but unfortunately no matter how hard or fast she ran, she could not seem to get away from the enraged manticore. To make matters worse she could not fly herself and the frightened fillies out of the forest and to safety due to the fact that her wings were literally scared stiff.

No matter how hard she tried to get away she the hungry manticore was always right behind her. She eventually found herself cornered while still holding the three frightened little fillies in her arms. Fluttershy was at her limit both physically and mentally; she was exhausted and had no idea what to do.

“F-F-Fluttershy I-I’m scared.” Said Scootaloo while shivering out of fear.

In that moment the manticore began to slowly creep forward, baring its fangs.

“I-I-It’ll be okay.” Said the cream colored mare to the frightened fillies in her arms as she was tearing up upon realizing that it was going to take some kind of miracle for them to make it out of this alive.

At that moment the manticore raised its giant scorpion like tail in preparation to kill it’s cornered prey.

Upon seeing this Fluttershy’s eyes shrank to the size of pins upon seeing that this was it, she was going to die. She held the three little fillies tighter and did the only thing she could think of.

“SOMEPONY, HELP US PLEASE!!!!!” she screamed at the top of her lungs in pure desperation, casting aside all shyness.

She clenched her eyes shut as she saw the manticore bring it’s stinger down.

*CRASH*

Fluttershy slowly opened her eyes only to find herself and the three CMC in the arms of a strange looking creature with a long red mane and a cross shape scar on his left cheek, that appeared to be male. Her eyes went to the size of dinner plates when she saw him.

“You are all safe now, that you are.” He said with a warm and gentle smile on his face.

Fluttershy cheeks turned a light shade of pink as she looked at her rescuer; she couldn’t help but feel like that she somehow knew him in some way.

*ROAR*

Her thoughts were interrupted as she heard the manticore let out a rage filled roar as it pulled its tail out of the spot where they were just standing a few seconds ago and turned its attention back to them.

“Please find somewhere safe for you and the children to hide ma’am.” The mysterious red mane creature said politely as he turned around to face the roaring predator.

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*Everfree Forest – Present Time*

*POV - Kenshin*

Kenshin stood before the enraged manticore which he gave a death glare that caused the predator to take a few steps back in caution.

“I don’t know what you are nor do I care, but I suggest you just turn around and leave this woman and her children alone.” Kenshin said with while still maintaining his death glare on the creature.

The manticore regained its nerve and roared at the red headed warrior in anger to which he did not even flinch or blink.

(Start Badass fight music)

“I see that there is no other way than, how unfortunate.” He said, as the angry predator raised its tail and began to through a flurry of strikes at him at lightning speeds that made its tail appear as a blur as it attacked. All of which Kenshin dodged with relative ease.

The beast thought that its attacks were fast enough to catch Kenshin, but to Kenshin the manticore appeared to be moving in slow motion. Kenshin ducked under a claw swipe and drew his while smashing the blade into its lion face, thus breaking its nose, causing it to roar in pain and rage.

“I will give you one last chance to leave this place peacefu-“ Kenshin was cutoff as the angry beast caught kenshin off guard as the creature lunged at him with a new burst of speed that almost rivaled kenshin’s, allowing it to slash him across the chest with its claws.

“AGHH!” The red headed samurai screamed in pain. Causing the mare and fillies he was protecting to panic as they saw the blood running down his chest, causing Kenshin to become just that much more determined to defend them.

He launched himself at the manticore with such amazing speed that it caused him to disappear before everyone’s very eyes. Causing the enraged beast to look around in confusion for its opponent until its attention was drawn to a voice directly above it screams.

“HITEN MITSURUGI-RYŪ: RYŪTSUISEN!!!!!!!”

Kenshin brought his sword directly down onto the dumfounded predators face from a 100 foot drop which gave him enough force to knock out the manitcore the second the blade made contact its face.

The second the manticore hit the ground 9 more came out of the forest and into the clearing and began charging at Kenshin at full speed, Kenshin managed to dodge all the swipes and slashes from their tales and claws in the beginning, but the sheer increase of their numbers proved to be a problem for Kenshin. Kenshin would duck and leap out of the way of one strike just to be hit by another. “I have fought countless enemies and opponents in the past but nothing like this.” He thought himself. Despite his injures Kenshin managed to catch on to the group of manticores attack pattern very quickly. He saw that one would attack him in the front while 2 other manticores would go for his left and right sides at the same time while swipe at his back with its claws or tales, Kenshin learned very quickly to stay clear of the manticores tales as he saw a purple liquid drip from their scorpion like stingers to which he could only guess was poison.

When the maniticores tried this strategy again kenshin managed to dodge the first attack that was directed towards his front by lunging at the manticore to his left to which he gave 2 rapid strikes to its jaw and face, knocking it out. He turned around to see the three manticores charging at him at full speed with the other five not far behind, he sheathed his sword and charged at the oncoming onslaught.

As kenshin approached the first manticore he drew his sword at such a high rate of speed that the charging manticore never even saw Kenshin’s attack.

“HITEN MITSURUGI-RYŪ: RYŪSHŌSEN!!!!!” He screamed as he delivered an upward slash to the first manticore’s jaw knocking it out from the sheer amount of pain of the strike. As the creature collapsed Kenshin locked his sights onto the next attacker that was intent on ripping him to shreds. As the beast came within just a few feet of him, Kenshin sidestepped the attack.

“HITEN MITSURUGI-RYŪ: RYŪKANSEN!!!!!!” Kenshin shouted as he pivoted on his right foot, allowing him to spin in a full circle and slamming his sakabatō into the back of the creatures head sending it flying into a tree due to the momentum from its charge and the strike combined.

*CRASH* was the only sound the sound the creature made as its head slammed into the tree rendering it unconscious.

“Four down, six to go.” Kenshin thought to himself. Kenshin began to feel the effects of the battle taking its toll on him as he felt himself slowing. “I will not give up!” He said to himself as he continued his charge.

Kenshin leaped high into the air as another charging manticore to a swipe at him, managing to slash his left leg with its razor sharp claws, causing Kenshin to scream in pain.

“HITEN MITSURUGI-RYŪ: RYŪTSUISEN!!!!!!!” He screamed as dropped from the sky and slammed his sword down on the top of the manticore’s skull causing it’s head to slam down into the ground face first knocking it knocking it out cold and smashing its face in a bloody mess.

As Kenshin landed he was struck by a manticores tail with enough force to send him fly back into a tree. As his back slammed into the tree kenshin felt the air go out of him from the impact alone. Only one thing was going through his head at the moment.

“This can’t possibly get any worse.” He thought while trying to get up.

The manticore drew its tail back and sent it forward aiming for his chest with all its strength, only for Kenshin to try and roll out of the way. While Kenshin did manage to dodge the worst of the attack, he felt the manicore’s stinger slash his arm as he rolled of out of the way of the attack.

“AGH!!!!” Kenshin screamed.

“Apparently, it can.” He thought to himself as he felt the poison flowing through his veins, feeling like liquid fire under his skin as causing his breathing to become labored as he tried to stand, only fall to his hands and knees as the five remaining manticores surrounded him.

(End Song)

. Kenshin vision was starting to get blurry from the poison and blood loss caused by the wounds that were all over his body. To make matters worse, Kenshin also felt like he was about to pass out from exhaustion. He had to end this fight soon or else everyone one was about to be these things next meal.

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¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬*POV – Fluttershy*

As Fluttershy watched in amazement she couldn’t even process what was happening in front of her eyes. She couldn’t believe it. She saw the manitcores all charging at him at full speed. She stood in awe as she saw him charge at them at such a high rate of speed that there was a loud whistling sound being emitted from the speed he was traveling at which also made him appear as nothing more than a blur.

She was amazed at how he brought down the mantores with his sword.

“FLUTTERSHY!!!!!” Fluttershy turned to see the rest of the elements of harmony running up to her and the three fillies that were with her with shocked expressions.

“WHAT HAPPENED AND WHAT IS THAT THING!!!!!?” Twilight yelled over the sounds of the battle as she pointed at what looked like a red mane creature that was fighting a bunch of manticores all at once with nothing but a sword, who was winning no less.

“I don’t know, but whatever he is he saved all of us, please help him! I don’t know how much longer he’s going to last!” Fluttershy said pleadingly.

“Wow, he’s really kicking flank out there.” Rainbow Dash said in awe.

“AGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!” They heard the mysterious creature scream as he was cut by the angry manticore’s tail. They stared in horror as they saw him scream in pain from the poison.

“COME ON WE GOTTA HELP HIM!!!” The orange mare wearing the Stetson yelled.

“I'M ON IT!” Twilight yelled as she teleported herself and her friends in front of the strange creature and created a shield with her magic around all of them as the red maned warrior passed out on the ground.

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*POV – Kenshin*

He couldn’t believe what he just saw, Kenshin just witnessed the young girls along with the woman that he saved from these strange beasts along with 5 other women appear in front of him in a flash of light with some sort of weird purple bubble surrounding them, but that was the most he saw as he slowly slipped in to darkness as he passed out.

Kenshin found himself surrounded by darkness and silence. That is until he heard a voice.

"Its been a while, hasn't it?" The mysterious yet very familiar voice said to him.

“Who are you?” Kenshin asked cautiously.

“You seriously don’t remember me? That hurts me deeply; we used to have so much fun together during the Meiji Restoration.” Said the voice growing closer, putting Kenshin on edge and sending a chill down his spine.

“What are you talking about and who are you?” Kenshin replied.

“Why don’t I show you.” The voice said as it stepped out of the darkness. Making Kenshin go wide eyed at what he saw in front of him. Standing directly in front of Kenshin was himself. It was like he was looking into a mirror. The only differences were the fact that it had pale yellow eyes that glowed and a demented grin plastered across its face.

“What are you?” Kenshin said taking a step back.

“I’m you, the side of you that is Hitokiri Battōsai.”

“What!? That is impossible!” Kenshin said with his eyes the size of dinner plates.

“Calm down, I’m actually here to help believe it or not.” Said Kenshins dark side with an emotionless expression.

“How is this even possible?” Kenshin asked

“No time to explain, you need my power if you’re going to win this fight and survive.”

“I’ll never go back to killing and why should I trust you?” Kenshin said with an edge to his voice.

“I never said you said you had to go back to killing…… yet. And you really have no choice if you want to live.” He said as Kenshin glared at him.

“Besides, how are you going to save those women and children without me, don’t worry you’ll be in control….For now... So what do you say?” He asked Kenshin with an empty expression as Kenshin looked like he was unsure of what to do.

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*Everfree Forest – POV – Kenshin – Present time*

Kenshin’s eyes shot open as he tried to get up only to be stopped what he thought was a woman with orange fur that covered her whole body, wearing a western style hat and clothing with an accent he had never heard before and a woman with cream colored fur with pink hair who had wings. What got his attention the most was the fact that their faces didn't look human, they had muzzles like a horse along with the fact that they had tales, fur, and ears on the top of their heads instead of at the sides. He was even more amazed by the fact that some of them had wings while others had horns.

“Hold on their sugarcube, ya need to take it easy. Ya just gonna make the poison spread more if you keep moving.” The woman wearing the Stetson said.

Kenshin could see the five remaining manticores slashing at the lavender bubble that was surrounding everyone. He could see cracks starting to appear on it from the constant barrage of attacks. He saw what appeared to be a young woman with lavender fur with a horn on her head that was glowing and she appeared to be very exhausted.

“It’s not gonna hold much longer.” She said through labored breath.

Kenshin didn’t say a word or even look at the six woman and three children as got up and grabbed sakabatō and walked towards the shield made of magic as if he were in some kind of trance. Before anyone could stop him, he walked through the shield and absorbed it into his body causing everyone to stare at him in shock as his body began to glow and become surrounded by a dark blue aura that surrounded him like flames.

(Start badass music 2)

As the first manticore charged at kenshin he drew his sword and struck the angry beast in the side so hard that the strike sent it flying and crashing through a bunch of trees knocking it out as it crashed to the ground.

As the four remaining manticores looked at the blood covered Kenshin they began to back away in fear as they looked into Kenshin’s eyes which glowed an eerie yellow.

Shaking off their fears the four manitcores all charged at Kenshin at full speed, all of them slashing and stabbing at him with their claws and tails. The red haired swordsman dodged all of the attacks as if they were nothing as he moved at such a rate of speed that it appeared as if was disappearing and reappearing everywhere as he dodged.

As Kenshin ducked under a claw swipe from one of the manticores, he delivered an upper cut with his blade directly to predator’s chin causing it to land on its, scoring another KO for Kenshin.

As Kenshin disappeared again he reappeared behind another manticore, causing it to turn around in which Kenshin took the opportunity to slam his sword into the angry manticore’s face sending it flying 20 feet through the air before crashing to the ground in an unconscious heap. As Kenshin turned towards the two remaining and now frightened manticores. Kenshin disappeared and reappeared in front the mane six and the cutie mark crusaders and simply said in a very calm voice as he sheathed his sword.

“HITEN MITSURUGI-RYŪ: RYŪSŌSEN”

Both manticores roared in pain as they were both engulfed in flurry of slashes that seem to come out of nowhere, causing them to pass out and collapse on the ground from the pain and intensity of the strikes.

(End song)

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*POV – Mane 6*

All six mares stood in awe struck silence as they looked at the strange creature that stood in front of them.

*POMF*

“So awesome.” Was all that Rainbow dash could say as her wings jumped to attention, both now fully extended.

“Really Rainbow, really?” Applejack said as she stared at her friend disapprovingly.

“How did you… What are you?” Twilight asked in shock and amazement. Only to see the blue aura around the red mane creature disappeared completely as he passed out on the ground, covered in his own blood. Causing all six mares to run to up to him, trying to help him.

“Twilight we need to get him to a hospital!” Applejack said with worry as her and Pinkie Pie both worked together to try and carry Kenshin with his arms slung over both their shoulders.

“I’m already on it!” She said as her horn began to glow as they were all engulfed in a bright light as she teleported everyone to Ponyville Hospital. They all reappeared in a bright flash in the Ponyville ER.

“THIS PONY NEEDS HELP!” Twilight screamed as all the doctors and nurses ran to them when they saw the bloodied swordsman. Putting him on gurney, they wheeled Kenshin off to surgery and began hooking IVs into him.

“Will he be alright?” Fluttershy asked meekly, with pure worry and fear in her voice.

“I don’t know Fluttershy, I really don’t know.” Twilight said with fear in her voice.

Author's Note: Here is how the mane six will look in anthro form for the story. I will go more into how they look in the next chapter.

Author's Note

Sorry about this chapter being late, I kinda rushed it. I had to rewrite it. Anyways here it is and I hope you enjoy it.
I will try to have new chapters posted ever 2 to 4 weeks.

Also I need everyone's opinion on whether or not I should add another character from Rurouni Kenshin, and if so which character should I bring to join Kenshin on his adventure through Equestria.

Here are the choices

Aoshi

Sanosuke

Saito

Yahiko

P.S. The character won't appear until much later
P.S.S. Kenshin took on 10 manticores.