Location: Canterlot Castle Guest Room

Date: Possibly May 7th

Time: Morning Interval

Waking up, I felt much less tired than I had in the past few... Well, days, actually. I stretched my arms outwards as, letting out a yawn, I opened my eyes with a groan, the sunlight beaming at me with an almost 'good morning' like gesture. I pulled myself up, getting a look around my surroundings as I did so, just barely remembering what had happened the night before. How I had gotten here, why here specifically, and my reason for having come here in the first place. Finding and asking the princess- Er, princesses, to let me deal with my own belongings, mostly my jet. Different species or not, I didn't want any of these ponies to get hurt... I may never get used to saying something like that.

Lifting myself out of bed, I quickly realized that, much to my embarrassment, I still had my suit on. The muscle strain definitely helped to prove that. I really need to find something else to wear other than this suit, sooner or later. Plus, this isn't exactly made for daytime operations. Like Mr. Johnson had said, it was called 'Project Night Stalker’ for a reason. Shrugging off the muscle pain to the best of my abilities, I stood myself off of the bed, stretching my arms and back in some early morning exercise to help relieve some of the muscle tension. As I finished up though, rolling my shoulders with a satisfied sigh, there was a knock at the door.
“You can come in. The doors unlocked... I think.” Besides, do they really have to ask for permission to enter a 'prisoner's' room? Either they're really polite, or they're too nice for their own good... I'm gonna go with the former.

A small moment after I had given permission to enter, one of the pony guards, like the ones from before, opened the door and came into the room, taking a statue-like pose as usual. “The princesses request your presence in the throne room.” He said.
Nodding, I replied, “Okay then. Lead the way."

The guard nodded as well in return, turning around and gesturing me to follow with a move of his head. I quickly complied, following the armored pony out of the room and into the long hallway, the sound of his hoof steps, and my footsteps, echoing as we went on.
Eventually, the two of arrived at the familiar, large pair of double doors that I presumed to be the throne room. What had made it better this time, was that I wasn't in shackles this time. Much more comfortable, really. The guard, still stoic as usual, walked, or trotted, over to the left of the double doors, much to my dismay, as the doors were each individually surrounded by a gold and blue ethereal glow, opening before me. Taking in a deep breath, I walked into the room as calmly as possible, while at the same admiring some of the decor used around the room.

Looking ahead, I noticed the two monarchs of this land sitting upon their thrones, one of the two being the one that I had met last night, and the other, a white furred one, with a flowing rainbow mane, and a larger stature than the former. Along with them, the six ponies that I had previously seen in the village, Ponyville, were spread about them, each of them sporting the necklaces and crown that I had heard them call 'the elements of harmony'... I'd need to take a careful approach at this.
Considering that I was before the presences of monarchs, I bowed at the two, mentally hoping that that tradition hadn't changed in between worlds. "Arise, creature." The white pony monarch said, likely the 'Princess Celestia' that I had heard Twilight so prominently speak about.

Follwing what she said, I stood straight again, looking to the monarchs blankly, though truthfully, i was kinda nervous on the inside.
"Okay James, you need to present yourself in a professional and orderly manner. In other words try not to sound hostile." Mentally nodding at these thoughts, I silently gulped as, with a deep breath, I began to speak. “Good morning," I began, "I assume that
everyone is ready to start?“

At this, all the ponies gained questioning looks, the monarchs raising brows as well as they looked on. “Everyone? Don’t you mean everypony?” Twilight asked, her head tilting slightly as she did so.

“No, I mean every-... Oh, heh, I’m sorry, I'm missing the proper vernacular here, aren't I? Very well, everypony then.” I corrected, looking to the purple pony as I did so. "Thank you Twilight."

... Did I just? My eyes widening, I slapped my hand against my face and mask as everyb- pony, gained a shocked look to them.

"Way to go, James. Now you're royally screwed... No pun intended."

Though shocked, Twilight spoke up again. “How do you know my name!?!"

Next, the cyan colored pegasus spoke up, flying herself higher as she did so. "Yeah, were you spying on us? Trying to plan an invasion, huh?!?"

I shook my hands as head at this, desperately trying to clear up this little flub that I had caused.

“No, no, no, you have it all wrong! Believe me, there's no need to be paranoid, everypony! I have no intention of causing an invasion, or anything like that!" I explained, crossing my arms as I moved on to some other matters. "And a few things. One, I have a name. Being called a 'creature' isnt exactly the least demeaning thing, you know? Two, I took an oath to protect those who cannot protect themselves, and never would I even consider harming any one of you unless you have given me reason, like committing an evil or fowl act, in which case I devote to chasing down and eradicating that evil. Now, since thats out of the way, I'll move onto your questions.” I said, continuing on shortly after.

“Starting off with what Twilight and Ranbow Dash-was it?- said, yes, I did spy on you. And yes, I know your names. But I found that out in a different way than you think. You can ask in between while I tell you how I got here in the first place.” The surprise, and waryness, on the six ponies continued as I went on, but the princesses, who currently held neutral expressions, looked to one another, and nodded, returning their gazes to me shortly after.

“Very well, you may continue." Celestia said, gesturing to me with a hoof, to which I responded with a nod.

“Alright, where to start?" I mused to myself, putting my hand to my chin in thought. "...Well, I was flying over Manhattan on my usual rounds of the city-”

“Manhattan? Darling, don't you mean 'Manehattan'?" The white unicorn known as Rarity asked.

“No, I don't, but you do bring up a strange connection. Where I come from, it's called Manhattan. Maybe this world, or universe, or even dimension, holds more similarities than I thought...” 'Manehattan','Manhattan'. Honestly, it's a real play on words, and a resemblance to them too... Hm…

I would have continued in my thoughts, but was soon interrupted by Rainbow Dash.
“Hey, you said that you were 'flying'. How do you do that without wings?” She asked, flapping her wings a couple of extra times for emphasis.

“Oh, I use my jet to fly. It gets me to places faster than I would walking there.” The pony's mouth opened to say something, but I cut her off before she could. “Now before you start asking what a jet is, let me tell you first. That way, I can continue with my story." She nodded at this, waiting patiently for me to explain. "A jet is an object that uses super heated air to propel itself forward, and metal 'wings', of sorts, to lift itself into the air fast enough to stay in the sky for a while. Back where I'm from, air travel is one of the many preferred modes of transportation, because it can get you from one place to another in a few minutes, where it would normally take hours and the like. Some are big, and some are small, like mine, but mine is only used for smaller distances, making it easy for me to get from point A to point B in a matter of seconds.” At this, she seemed to grow even more curious.

“You said it was fast, right? How fast is it?” She asked. I smiled as she said this, though she couldn't really see it below my mask.

“Think of it this way. If I wanted, I could get it to break the sound barrier second after launching.”
This seemed to get her excited for some reason, but, shrugging it off, I continued with my story.

“Like I was saying. I was flying over Manhattan when, all of a sudden my jet was enveloped by a strange, colorful glow. Don’t ask me why in that regard, because I'm honestly clueless. It was crazy in there, colors changing every second, like red, blue, green, yellow, and so on, and so on. Eventually, it stopped, but then, it got worse, a bright light coming out of nowhere as what looked a portal formed, sucked me in. I don't remember much of that night, really. All I remember is, I crashed into a forest, and then I woke up a few moments later to find you ponies going towards my jet.” The ponies all nodded at this, looking to each other in silent acknowledgment before returning to me.

“ Now, this is where I found out your names. When you were speaking to each other, I noticed your eye contact and body position directed towards the pony, you were talking to like Rainbow there would be talking to Applejack, and so on. It wasn't that hard to guess either. Then, after one of you pressed a button in the jet, you sounded off the anti-theft alarm, which, by my guess, lured that wooden wolf that I had stopped. When you had left the forest, I followed you to that tree house, literally, to see if there was anything else I could find out about while I was here. I listened in on you, which I understand is rude, so I'm sorry, and heard how Princess Celestia wanted to study the jet. And thats why I came to Canterlot shortly after. To try to have her reconsider that idea.” One of the princess's brows rose at this, as she looked to me questioningly.

“Why would you want me to reconsider that?" Princess Celestia asked.

“Because, it has a weapon system on it, and one of you six had already triggered it's first stage defense systems. I didn't want you to risk your researchers, or anyo- anypony,"

"Now I'm starting to catch on."

"Else."

Celestia cringed at this, gaining a worried expression to her, which made me curious as to the reason.

“... Princess Celestia, may I ask why you seem so-….” It was right then that my wrist screen alarm went off, myself closing my eyes and letting out an exasperated sigh as I once again slapped my hand against my face.

“... Its here, isn't it?” I asked, looking up to the princess with a peek, the princess closing her eyes and nodding.

"... Okay... Stay calm... It's not necessarily that ba-"

“DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT DANGER THEY MAY BE IN RIGHT NOW?!? WHERE IS YOUR LAB WE NEED TO GET THERE NOW!” Well, so much for keeping calm. Her eyes narrowing, Celestia stood from her seat, followed shortly by Luna, didn't even hesitate to tell me.

“This way!” She exclaimed, as she, Luna,Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow, Rarity, Fluttershy,the pink one (note to self: need to ask her for her name), and I, all darted out of the throne room, hurrying after Celestia to the lab where Celestia’s researchers were in. Hopefully, they wouldn't do anything they would regre-

I and the other ponies stumbled slightly as the ground below us shook.

... Tell me those weren't the missiles.

Author's Note

editing credit goes to brightlight please comment and tell me you guys thoughts