"Swift Runner go and get the guard!" a large grey earth pony called out to a smaller tan colored earth pony who took off like a shot.

"Right boss." she called over her shoulder as she bolted for Ponyville. Megan watched as a large grey dog readied a spear it was holding.

Megan instinctively blitzed the six foot canine. "Oh no you don't!" she yelled as she rushed the dog. Closing the distance faster than either of them thought possible, she raised her left hand and slammed it into the dog's face knocking his helmet off and snatching the spear from its grasp. She pointed the spear at the rest of the dogs. "You don't do anything to hurt these ponies!" Megan said raw fury evident in her voice. The dog whimpered from the ground before passing out, while the ponies lined up beside Megan.

The burly grey pony stallion trotted up to Megan and stopped beside her. "The name's Rock Crusher, it's nice to meet you. And even nicer to see a friendly face, especially when that face is a human face." Megan stared at the pony.

"Human?" Megan queried.

"Yeah are ya related to that human in da night guard, his name's Bryan." he asked.

"I think I know him, maybe. Look we can talk later, we need to focus on the problem at hand." Megan said. The stallion smirked at the dogs who were standing and looking nervously at the interloper.

"All right ya mugs, ya heard tha lady. Line em' up and get ready to by some time till the guards get here."

"Right!" the ponies said in unison.

Swift Runner true to her name was running to Ponyville at top speed. "Just hang on everypony, just hang on. I'll get Ace and Bryan I promise."

Ponyville........

Bryan came out of the restroom at the teahouse. He stretched and was met with satisfying pops as his joints released the built up pressure inside them. Then the building shook almost throwing him to the floor, as he regained his balance he heard a crash from his right. His head snapped around towards the sound he saw Lyra on the floor shaking lightly looking shaken and sick. "Lyra!" he shouted as he ran to friend's side.

She looked up weakly "Oh hey Bryan, could you help me up, I feel kinda sick all of the sudden."

Bryan picked Lyra up and shouted "Chamomile! We've got a problem!"

The teahouse owner poked her head out from the kitchen area. "I know Bryan I've got half a dozen sick unicorns back here!"

"Yeah and one more out here. "Oh shit! Vinyl! Cami I'm gonna take Lyra over to our table and see what Twilight and Octavia can do to help." The mare nodded and ducked back into the kitchen and began barking orders to the rest of her employees to begin helping the stricken unicorns.

Bryan carried Lyra to their booth "Twilight, I've got Lyra here how's Vinyl doing?"

The lavender alicorn looked up at him somewhat frantically "She's not so good Bryan. It's like she suddenly has spell shock." Twilight looked at Lyra as Bryan put her down on the table after clearing it to make room. "Bryan what's going on here? That magic surge, what the hay caused it?"

Bryan looked out towards the survey site. "I'm not exactly sure Twily, but that magic felt vaguely familiar somehow. Like it's something I've felt before." He looked thoughtful "I've got to get out to the survey site. Unless I'm mistaken, that's the epicenter of the event."

Twilight placed her hoof on Bryan's shoulder. "I'm not letting you go alone, I'm coming with you."

He shook his head "No Twilight, your first duty is to Ponyville. Chamomile has six sick unicorns in the back, and there are bound to be many more in all of Ponyville. They'll need you to organize things so that everypony gets to the hospital. Besides this is the other duty I have to Equestria, and Swift Runner will probably be at Ace's by now so I won't be going alone."

Twilight looked at Bryan with uncertainty "Al-alright Bryan I'll take care of things here." She reared up and kissed him before letting him go.

As Bryan left the teahouse he heard Vinyl speak. "Uhhhh, Tavi I feel like shit."

Octavia stroked Vinyl's back as she held her. "Shhhh, just take it easy Vinyl. I'm right here and I'm gonna help Twilight to help everypony out so you and everypony can get better. Ok?" The white unicorn smiled weakly at her marefriend and closed her eyes.

Bryan tore of to Ace's house, thankful for the endurance training that the Apple family had helped him with. As he ran he was also thankful for the military training he'd received from the lunar guard. "They must have felt that magic surge all of the way in Manehaten. Damn this is bad, I hope nothing happened to Trixie in this bucking mess!" He ran like mad to Ace's house.

Ace had just stepped out of the shower having desperately needed to clean up after last night's events. He wiped the steam from the mirror at that moment the house shook. "What the buck!" the red pegasus shouted, all farther profanities where cut off as he was suddenly shocked by his own magic with a loud ZAP!. "Owww," he said "that sucked." there was a pounding on the door matching the pounding in his head.

"Ace," a mare's voice said from the other side of the door "I need you out here something's wrong with Trixie."

"Buck!" Ace shouted as he opened the bathroom door. He was greeted by the sight of an amber colored unicorn with a red and gold mane and tail. "What happened Sunset?" he queried.

She fixed her aqua eyes on her mate "I don't know, we were cuddling and all of the sudden a huge magic surge came out of nowhere. I only had just enough time to shield myself and couldn't shield Trixie in time. She's really sick Ace!"

"Ok, ok calm down Sun Sun." He looked at her appraisingly " What you need to do is get Trixie to the hospital. I'm gonna try to find out where that magic surge came from."

"Alright." Sunset said "By the way what happened to you in there? I heard a loud zap, and I'm worried about you Ace."

Ace chuckled and leaned in to kiss Sunset Shimmer on the cheek "I got shocked by my combat magic, but I'm alright." He said as he pulled his armor from the chest he kept it in. There was a knock at the front door while he was getting dressed. "Hey Sun Sun will you go and get the door please?" Sunset merely rolled her eyes at the nickname and went down stairs to answer the door.

The sight that greeted her would have been comical, had it not been for the circumstances. She opened the door to a disheveled tan earth pony who was sweating profusely and an out of breath human. "Bryan, Swift Runner I take it you're here about the magic surge?" she questioned. Bryan leaned against the outside wall of of the house while he recovered. Swift Runner recovered first though.

"Well yes Sunset." she said still panting slightly.

"So What's going on?" she asked the other mare.

"I'm not entirely sure, but those diamond dogs that we were told to look out for invaded the survey site. And then just as we were getting ready to fight them off something fell out of the sky and crashed into the ground."

"Something?" Bryan asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah we had no idea what it was at first and then the dust settled. And well it was a human!"

Bryan and Sunset's eyes widened "A human?!" they said in unison.

Swift Runner simply nodded. "She said something about not touching her little ponies. And glared at the diamond dogs like she was pissed, I didn't see what happened next because I needed to come and get you two."

Bryan looked at Swift Runner "You are absolutely certain that was a human female?" Swift Runner nodded again just as Ace appeared in the hall in his armor.

"So," he said "what's the situation?"

Bryan looked at Ace who was looking at him funny "What?" he said.

"You're out of uniform." Ace replied

"This is not the time to whine about regulations Ace." the red pegasus snickered "We've got a situation, and one my people seems to be at the center of it somehow." Bryan turned to Swift Runner "I need you to help with Sunset with Trixie, Swift Runner. Since she's not at the door with you Sunset I presume she's got spell shock like the rest of the unicorns in Ponyville." Sunset nodded. "All right then," he said "help Sunset get Trixie to the hospital. And then the two of you see if you can help anypony else out, Ace let's roll out."

Ace spoke up as he headed out the door. "Hey Bryan."

"Yes Ace." he replied

"If you die cause you're not in armor, can I court Twilight?" he said with a grin.

Bryan rolled his eyes "Yeah that'll really happen Ace." he said sarcastically.

"What do you mean one of your people might be at the heart of it?" Ace said as trotted out the front door.

Bryan spoke "I have no confirmation beyond Swift Runner's word Ace. But she said that there was a human female at the survey site. We have no way of being totally sure until we see her for ourselves."

The crimson pegasus nodded and took of into the sky without a further word. Ace launched himself towards the survey site.

Swift Runner watched as Bryan clapped his hands together an disappeared in puff of smoke.

Sunset Shimmer smiled at her friend's theatrics as Swift Runner stood there blinking in disbelief.

"Come on," Sunset said catching Swift Runner's attention "we've a lot of ponies who need help. Just hang in there Trixie." Sunset said aloud.

Bryan reappeared not far away from the survey site and took cover. He cast a hearing enhancement spell to listen in on what was going on.

Ace touched down a few moments later, thought not as fast as Rainbow Dash the crimson pegasus was no slouch by any means. "So what's going on down there?" he asked.

Bryan opened his eyes and stopped concentrating on the spell. "There's definitely a human woman down there. But that's not all." he looked at Ace."Do you remember that diamond dog shaman Princess Luna said we were to capture or kill if the need arose." Ace nodded "That literal son of a bitch is behind this attack."

"I'm gonna buck him to Tartarus and back!" Ace said coldly flaring his wings and crouching low.

Bryan placed his hand on Ace's shoulder "Easy there Ace. First take a look at what's down there, specifically the human woman."

Ace complied wondering what his comrade was getting at. He gazed at the standoff with his keen hawk like vision. What or rather who he saw seemed vaguely familiar somehow. He continued to look at this woman, she was fairly tall hardly shorter that Bryan himself. She had long blonde hair with a red bow tied in it at the base of her neck. He sharpened his focus and realized that she was dressed in a familiar fashion as well. She was clad in a brown vest with an orange shirt, blue jeans and a pair of boots.

"You do realize who that is don't you?" Bryan asked.

Ace stared in disbelief. "You mean that's..." He trailed off momentarily and snapped to a realization "That's Megan!" he said his voice barely a whisper. Bryan merely nodded.

*POMF!* his wings sprang up from his sides, stiff and unresponsive.

"You never told me she'd be that hot Bryan." Ace said shock evident in his voice.

"I haven't seen her in ten years Ace. Let's stand down for the moment. I wanna see what she does, then we can move in when the time is right and that mangy bastard can't escape."

"Right!" Ace said. "Then we'll take him out for good." he said clopping his front hooves together.

"Uh Bryan," Ace said breaking their momentary silence with a low whisper.

"What Ace?" Bryan replies somewhat exasperated.

"Hey if you die can I date Megan and Twilight? I mean you don't have your armor and all, so I figure they'll need somepony to take care of them afterward."

Bryan laughed quietly "Ace you don't court Megan Williams, she courts you. And after ten years of being forced apart from her you bet your flanks I ain't dieing today. Now pay attention or we'll lose our chance."

"That's different." Ace said quietly.

Ace resumed watching the survey site with Bryan. The two of them watched carefully, waiting for their best moment to intervene.

Megan looked over her pony allies and noticed a pegasus nervously looking at the dogs lined up opposite to them. Megan walked over to the purplish pegasus and looked her in the face. "Hey what's wrong?" Megan said soothingly

She looked up with her magenta eyes and spoke in a shaky fashion. "I-I'm just here to manage the weather team for the survey site. I, I can't fight!"

Megan ran her hand over her turquoise mane "What's your name my little pony?"

"Flitter my name is Flitter." she said still nervous.

Megan smiled "Ok Flitter, is there something else you can do?"

Flitter stared at Megan, this human was strange to her. She carried an air not unlike Princess Celestia's. She was warm, kind, and strong. Flitter smiled despite the circumstances. "Well the unicorns on the survey team are stuck in that building over there." she said while pointing with her hoof off to her right.

Megan's smile was reassuring and warm. "Ok Flitter I need you and the other pegasi to go in there and watch over those unicorns until we can resolve this and get them some help. Can you do that for me?" she asked softly.

Flitter simply nodded and trotted over to the building with the other pegasi.

Bryan smiled as he watched this. Flitter, Thunderlane, and Cloudchaser all entered the building.

Ace gave a low quiet whistle.

"Impressed?" Bryan asked.

"Very." the pegasus replied.

"That's merely the start of it Ace. Next comes that ass whipping of the century." Bryan stated.

As Megan walked in front of the lined up earth ponies it was clear to the diamond dogs. This newcomer wasn't going to surrender, she was going to fight.

As Megan did this Bryan cast his gaze to the sky looking very carefully for something.

Ace noticed his friend's unusual behavior and spoke up. "What in Luna's name are you doing B man?"

Bryan's face lit up like Hearth's Warming "Ah ah!" he exclaimed quietly "Ace I've found a lone cloud over the survey site."

"I see it." Ace responded "What do you have in mind Bryan?" he queried.

"See if you can get up to that cloud when the fighting starts. And if you get noticed Rex will figure out that something's up and escape."

"I'll give it a shot Bryan, but I'm not Shadow." he said.

"Well then," Bryan said with a sly smile "you'll have something to talk about with him when you pull this off. Now won't ya?"

Ace smirked "What about you?"

"I'll take advantage of the confusion and slip around behind them. "It'll be just like Tambelon all over again."

Ace crouched low and waited "Finally," he thought something to work with."

Megan walked back in front her pony allies and faced the diamond dogs "I'll give you one chance to walk away and give yourselves up. If you don't I'll be forced to hurt you, I'd rather not but I can't let you hurt these ponies." she leveled her spear at the dogs punctuating her point.

The diamond dog leader, who had been quiet the whole time, finally spoke. "So who do you you think you are? You stupid human! You're nothing I rule all of Equestria, the ponies don't want you to know this. Because they are afraid..."

Megan said nothing but instead chose to act she rushed the diamond dog line and slammed into two of their brutes with the shaft of the spear which shattered knocking the dogs nearly out of their armor. As the brutes hit the ground and bounced to a stop at the feet of their leader she spoke once more. "I'm gonna beat the living hell out of you then." Megan snarled menacingly.

Ace for his part was awe struck, his jaw hung open, his pupils shrank to pinpricks. He just couldn't believe that Bryan ever dated this woman!

"Yeah," Bryan spoke up with a smirk "I still can't believe it either. Now would be a good time by the way."

Ace shook off his reverie and rocketed into the sky landing on the stray cloud without so much as a poof. He crouched low once more and waited.

Bryan began sneaking around the enemy lines as Megan generated nothing less than absolute mayhem in the diamond dog ranks.

"What are you waiting for? GET HER!" Rex shrieked in his gravely voice. As the dogs started to rush Megan they were intercepted by Rock Crusher and his crew. The slate grey earth pony crashed into a group of diamond dogs flinging them into the air with sound not unlike the crashing of bowling pins. He stopped and reared up to avoid a spear thrust from a brute. He caught the spear shaft in his mouth and bit down, he then flung the diamond dog like a hoofball who went crashing into the ground some distance away.

Megan didn't stand idle though she cocked her right arm back and slammed her right hand into the face of yet another brute. They were going down quickly and Rex didn't understand how this soft, weak, human could be beating his troops so easily. The stunned brute flew with great force into three others knocking them all to the ground and out.

Rex was annoyed this human had caused him to much trouble. "ENOUGH!" he shrieked. "Now you have to deal with this, you stupid human!" he started chanting. the action stopped as a large earthen construct began to rise from the ground. "Ha stupid human now we see how you deal with this."

Megan stood firm refusing to back down even a little. "Is this it?" she queried. "I faced down Lavan with the princess ponies, and I'm still here!" Megan began to glow with a rainbow hue. She slammed her fists together and shouted "Come on!"

Rock Crusher and the other earth ponies backed off not sure what to do. But Megan stood firm, she would not back down. She didn't back down at Midnight Castle, not at Tambelon, and there was no way she was going to back down now. She stood ready as the massive stone construct raised it's right arm and brought it down with tremendous force. But Megan was gone.

"Where? Where is she?" Rex shrieked in a near blind panic.

Megan had jumped clear and was now running up the golem's arm. The golem tried to pull its massive stone arm back to throw the bold young woman off, but it was to slow and to late. Megan continued her fearless charge up to the construct's head. She reached the golem's shoulder and stopped. She drew back her right arm, and threw the most powerful punch she could. Ordinarily this would have resulted in a broken hand and certain death.

But Megan had changed in ways that were not currently understood, and with a bright poly-chromatic flash Megan poured the rainbow's power in to the surprisingly flimsy construct. It shattered from the sudden and violent introduction of a superior magical force. Rex was a very poor summoner, and it had finally come back to bite him on the tail.

Megan was falling, she thought she might die this time. It was not to be however Rock Crusher galloped at full speed and leapt into the air catching Megan before she hit the ground and became Equestria's first human grease stain.

"Now that was something, do you think you could do that again?" he asked as they landed.

"I don't think so." Megan replied as she got off of his back. She was sweating, panting, and she felt drained. But there was no way she was giving up.

Bryan had finished his approach up to the enemy rear ranks and had Rex, the shaman in his sights. He waited and watched, he knew the moment would soon arrive. Ace watched from the cloud knowing exactly what he was to do when that moment came.

The two watched the battle unfold, it was going well at first. But both of them could see that Megan was starting to tire, she wouldn't last much longer. She didn't yet have the stamina and she hadn't adjusted to her new powers, not yet. After the earlier display she didn't have much longer, and they knew it. It was no or never for the the two warriors.

Ace watched from the cloud and smirked. "Ok it's time." he told himself. Ace launched himself from the cloud diving into the fray generating lightning as he crashed into a group of brutes. A sound not unlike thunder sounded across the battlefield stopping the action for moment.

Rex turned to run and make good his escape but his run was stopped short by Bryan cutting off his intended escape route. "You're going nowhere Rex. Princess Luna gave us very explicit orders. You were to be captured or killed." Bryan clapped his hands together and electricity began to crackle around his hands. "Frankly we don't have the time to take you in, so you're going down." he said coldly.

As the diamond dog struggled to his feet and turned to run Bryan moved his hands apart forming a javelin comprised of lightning. Rex hit his feet and took off in a dead run. Bryan just let the weapon form fully in his right hand, he took aim at Rex and hurled the projectile at his target shouting "Lightning Javelin!" It struck the diamond dog from behind in the back of the head. He was dead before he hit the ground. That caused the rest of the dogs to break ranks and run, a few surrendered on the spot, it was well and truly over.

"Aghhh." Bryan grunted in pain and fell to one knee breathing heavily "D-damn." he said wincing.

Ace trotted over to him "What the buck Bryan? That spell wasn't ready you and knew it! What were you thinking?" Ace looked at Bryan confused, being reckless wasn't Bryan's M.O.

"Sorry about that Ace, I didn't have time to gather my armor and weapons before I left the teahouse. Your sister is gonna be pissed at me." he sighed "Twilight is gonna lecture me so hard for this. And I'll catch hell from Trixie as well, when she's better."

The red pegasus cast his gaze to the ground and scuffed it with a hoof. "Trix won't be giving you a hard time real soon Bryan." Ace looked up as Bryan's eyes widened "The magic surge did get her, and by now Sunset and Swift Runner have gotten to the hospital, I hope."

"I thought as much" Bryan said bitterly "We've got a real mess on our hands Ace, damn!"

Megan walked up to the two of them. "This is not the time you two! According to what Flitter said we've got some sick unicorns right here that need our help."

Bryan rose unsteadily to his feet. "Ok here's what we need to do then. Megan if you could go and get Thunderlane for me I would appreciate it. Actually bring Flitter and Cloudchaser here too."

She looked at him and asked "Why do you need them?"

Ace replied for Bryan "Because we need Thunderlane to fly to the Ponyville hospital and tell them we've got three more unicorns coming in. Also I'll bet Bryan wants him to deliver a message to Twilight too." Bryan nodded "As far as Flitter and Cloudchaser goes." Ace continued " We need them to help with getting the unicorns into the carts so the earth ponies can take them to the hospital. Is that right Bryan?"

Bryan stretched and spoke "Almost, what we need from Cloudchaser is for her to go to Fluttershy's cottage and bring her here to treat the wounds of the earth ponies who got hurt. The hospital will be to busy to deal with such minor injuries. At least for now they are minor."

Megan looked over at the ponies many of whom were covered in bruises, cuts, and other currently minor wounds. "I'll be right back. Oh and Bryan."

"Yeah Megan?" he asked.

Megan lunged at Bryan throwing her arms around his neck and kissing him very deeply on the lips. When they separated Bryan was blinking. Megan kept her face really close to his and whispered "I missed you so much Bryan."

Bryan sniffled slightly "I missed you too Megan. I don't know where to go from here but I still love you."

"I do too." Megan said before giving him a peck on the lips and walking back to the building.

"She's awesome. " Ace said "I don't think I've seen you speechless since you met Hammer." He cracked up at Bryan who drew in a breath after having forgotten to breath for a moment.

"Yeah," Bryan responded "she was always something special. When that part is done I'm gonna have to take her to Ponyville and send a letter to the princesses. So you'll have to take charge here in a minute."

"Hey," Ace said "it's me so don't worry about it alright" he said with a broad cocky smile.

"When you say there's no need to worry, that's when I worry the most." Bryan replied with a laugh.

Author's Note

There are a good number of references in this chapter. Who knows them all? Thanks much to my fellow Megan lover Gundam Dragon for the use of his OCs to help deepen this story's cast and add more life to it in the long run.

Gundamdragon's OCs: Ace Crimson Moon: pegasus, Shadow Wing Crimson Moon: pegasus, and Hammer Crimson Moon: ????.

Edit: This chapter has been revised with a larger part in the battle for Megan. Before anyone cries "Mary Sue" there is an explanation of what happened coming up at the beginning of chapter four, other than that Rex was bad summoner. Thanks go to Gundamdragon for helping me to come with the idea as well. Further edit: I also want to thank Drakalian for advice he gave me as well.