It was the day after Einuli reached his breaking point, thanks (near fully) to Luna’s invasion of his home and privacy. But, he had sat on it for the entire time, now beginning to feel that it was unfair to blame the others for her actions. Now, outfitted in a different outfit, this one known as the ‘Stalker’ set for it’s dark black look and sleek design, he went back down to the planet. First on his list to apologize to would be Twilight, as she was truly the first of the ponies he could call a friend, and the one who had lead to him meeting all the rest. Sure, Luna had been his first contact… but right now, she seemed to be the worst example of any ponies he’d met. From there he’d hope to make amends for his outburst to the rest of them.

He had come in what appeared to be the early day, and he slowly and uncertainly approached the castle. The morning guards immediately perking up and opening the castle doors for him as he approached.

“Thank the gods your here… Princess Twilight hasn’t been able to sleep since your last visit!” One of them said.

“I… think I know why.” Einuli sighed.

“Neither has Starlight, hell, if it weren’t for her barring Princess Luna from the castle, I’m sure she’d be here too!” The second guard added.

Einuli paused for naught but a moment, and he silently continued into the castle. He didn’t need directions to find her, the pair of goggles he had on were installed with a heartbeat sensor, and various other tracking methods, giving him near perfect ‘sight’ around him. He really didn’t want to be sneaked up on, or taken by surprise right now, he was still agitated and he really, really didn’t want to harm anyone in a jumpy attack.

Immediately as he approached the throne room his sensors went off, detecting one pony in there. His first hope is that’d it’d Twilight, but he still wanted to speak with Starlight, and seeing as it appeared those two were the only ones here he really couldn’t complain.

He opened the doors and stepped in, Twilight was sitting on her throne, looking utterly disheveled, and completely out of it. She was staring at the friendship map which appeared to be going absolutely berserk, specifically over Ponyville. Though he could only recognize one symbol overtop of the town, one that reminded him of Rainbow Dash...

Einuli quickly approached Twilight, “Hey… Twilight?” He said, snapping her attention to him instantly.

“Einuli!” Twilight said quickly, smiling a little for a moment. “It’s goo- W… why are you dressed like that? A… are you planning on l-lea…”

“No! No, it’s just… what I put on.” Einuli shook his head. “I… thought about what happened yesterday… a lot.” He said quietly.

“I’ve been thinking about it too. I think everypony has…” Twilight sighed.

“I was… angry. The moment I truly decided to open up… just having Luna trample on my privacy and home, without even asking if she could be there… it hit me hard. I realized though… I shouldn’t be blaming anyone but her for it.” He began. “It was wrong of me to bar everyone else from stepping foot on my home… and I think… it may have done more damage than I initially realized. I was angry, unlike anything I’ve felt in a long time… and I just felt the need to be alone.” He sighed, “But, I can see why she’d do that. She didn’t trust my intentions.”

“I honestly don’t see why. You came to alert us the moment you detected them. And you told us how to protect ourselves. And, that’s not mentioning how angry you were talking about them! If anything you’re interactions with Applejack and Rainbow Dash have proven your honesty and commitment to protecting us. If they trust you, there’s no reason for any of us not to.” Twilight stood up, and hugged him.

“Thank you… I never meant to drag you and everyone else down… I wasn’t thin…”

“Don’t worry. So long as you don’t hate any of us it doesn’t matter.” She smiled, resting against him. Using both her magic and her natural strength as an alicorn (though he was relatively light) and she pulled him into her lap atop her throne. Einuli nuzzled her warmly, gladly throwing off his garments (he was already hot as is, just he had begun to grow a small sense of modesty- mainly to protect his new parts), and cuddling against her. “Thanks to this good news… I think everypony can finally rest.” She sighed.

“Yeah, all of us can…” He trailed off for a moment.

“I can already tell what you’re thinking. And that’s an amazing idea.” Twilight grinned. “We’ll just need to gather everypony… which, shouldn’t be hard for you, me, and once we get Starlight… well we’ll get everypony here in no time at all.”

“Great! The sooner we get everyone together the sooner we can all sleep.”

Thirty minutes later:

All of the other mares, including Derpy and now Sweetie, Scootaloo, and Applebloom, had gathered in Twilight’s castle. All of them (except the CMC who were here because alien) were more than relieved to see that Einuli wasn’t mad at them.

“So, what are we going to do?” Rainbow Dash stretched out, plopping down on the floor and pulling Einuli up against her.

“I… just thought it’d be a good idea to invite all of you up at once. Maybe spend some time together, and all of us can get some sleep.” He offered.

“I know you said we’re welcome up there…”

“Just… if you want to get into any files or things. Please tell me first.” Einuli said. “I… Trust all of you. And, I feel the best way to show that is… well to just open my home and life up to you.” He explained.

“Sweet! So we’re going up to your ho-” Scootaloo began.

“Oh no, no! Yah girls ain’t goin up there. He don’t need yah managin to destroy anythin! Plus, there’s other creatures up there that are busy!” Applejack scolded.

“Come on! We only managed ta burn the barn down once!” Applebloom retorted.

“Honestly… everything other than the farm, and treehouse are capable of surviving the rigors of space travel unprotected…” Einuli said.

“These three are a force of nature.” Dash said. “They’ve nearly destroyed the town a few times… on their own.”

“We won’t get near anything that can break easily!” Sweetie said.

“Please, we’ll stay in sight and not run off…” Scootaloo offered.

“We want to go! It isn’t fair that we’ll get left out!” Applebloom stated.

“It isn’t up to us. We’re being invited up.” Rarity said.

“OH GODS RARITY WHY DID YOU SAY THAT?” Pinkie blurted out moments before Einuli was tackled by the three young mares, now buried completely under the pile of bodies.

“Rarity!” Twilight stated, only to watch Einuli rise up with all three of the Crusaders clinging to him.

“Please, can we come?”

“We promise we’ll be good!”

“We promise!”

Rainbow Dash, -thanks to her now increased strength- and Applejack managed to pull both Scootaloo and Applebloom respectively off of Einuli.

“We just wanna see it, please don’t leave us down here!” Sweetie pleaded.

Einuli let out a long sigh as Sweetie was pulled off of him by Rarity. He closed his eyes for a moment, he hit a button on the inside of his coat. The entire group were teleported up to his ship, though only a few of the group currently had been up here. This time instead of ending up in the main teleporter room, they were out in the middle of his farm, an area around the size of Sweet Apple Acres, just more compact and with far less apple trees. There was a massive variety of crops, ranging from the common -wheat, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots- to strange varieties they’d never seen before including what looked like…

“Why do those tomatoes look like they’re made of metal?” Sweetie asked, picking an automato off its’ stem. She smelled it, taking note of the acidy smell.

“That little area is specifically for things Nightbloom can eat. That’s a species known as Atumoato. They have battery acid inside instead of water… as well as I’ve been told, at least scientifically speaking, that they have burning taste to any… well non-robotic life-forms.”

“Who ate one?”

“Femanti.” Einuli chuckled. “She got curious and ate a full one, she was sick for a few hours afterwards… they won’t kill you, but… definetly, DEFINETLY don’t eat it.” Einuli plucked it from Sweetie’s hand, carrying it over to a little chest. “All areas of the ship are connected to a storage system that auto-sorts, and keeps everything nice and contained. Things won’t spoil as they’re kept in cryo-stasis, and they require no thawing time thanks to nanites being able to unfreeze every molecule in a short amount of time.” He explained. “Which comes to my first point… what does your species eat?”

Author's Note

I'm just gonna put chapters out as they're finished. There won't be a schedule, and several might come out in one day, depending on how productive I am!