Unlikely but Possible

In Ponyville, there was a rundown looking house, a place most ponies left alone as a condemned house.  was a massive laboratory. This lab was fully equipped with everything a scientist would love; one section had scientist ponies focusing on chemical reactions, another group focused on writing theories and formulas on what could be the biggest chalkboard in existence, but it  was the last and largest section of the lab that had the most ponies. The room was massive and bright, and there were several ponies of the three races, some wearing strange looking devices on their hooves, wings, and or horns. The other groups were either waiting their turns or relaxing in body casts, in a medical corner. To the side of the group was a dark grey unicorn with a subtly long black mane, long red scarf around his neck and mouth, and a lightning bolt and wrench in an X shape cutie mark on his flank.

"Alright." The unicorn with the red scarf intrusted the small group. "As you've hopefully noticed, you are all wearing my latest inventions; the earth modifier, the sky boaster, and the magic enhancer. Now your jobs, your reason why I'm paying you by the hour, is to test out these inventions. Now to answer any questions; no, nopony has died from these experiment...Just badly injured....yes, you will be paid regardless of the results, and I am..decently sure that the experiment is completely safe."

Right before the less than eager ponies were about to start the experiment, a pony in a lab coat ran over to the red scarfed unicorn.

"Ocean?! Ocean!" The lab pony ran up. "We need your help sir!"

"What is it?" Ocean's expression wasn't too happy that his experiment, unlike the more than happy test subjects.

"Read this sir." The lab pony handed over a a long sheet of data to Ocean. Ocean didn't take much time to look over the date. Suddenly, his orange eyes grew to the size of small plates.

"How accurate is this?!" Ocean demanded.

"We aren't too sure sir." The pony explained. "We were hoping you could explain it."

"The experiment is canceled!" Ocean called out to his subjects. "Take a break and go to the receptionists for your pay."

You've never seen a happier set of ponies an they took off the experimental gear and left. But Ocean had no time for that; quickly, he and the other pony headed over to the other end of the lab to find no less than five or six other ponies running around, crunching numbers and running through data.

"Ocean sir!" Another lab pony called over. "Look at this!"

Ocean maintained his calm composure, but you could see a sense of excitement in his eyes. The readings of data spewing out of the machines were staggering and almost impossible. But there it was, something had to be causing these spikes in energy.

"Have we traced the source?" Ocean asked.

"We have a direction but even our long range scans can't reach that far." A pony apologized.

"I want a report written and on my desk immediately!" Ocean instructed. "I have to contact the Princesses."

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It was now several hours later and Ocean was waiting in his office. The office was small and covered with countless maps, charts, designs, various other sheets of data. But despite what could be called a clutter, it was surprisingly organized. Ocean was known for his OCD, and he made sure to keep his office neat regardless of clutter and work. Even his desk was organized despite the mess. The most notable thing was a smooth crystal ball on the right corner of his desk. For the last few hours, Ocean stared at this crystal, as if something was supposed to happen. Suddenly, the crystal began softly shaking and a small flicker of light began blinking inn the center.

"Finally." Ocean sighed with impatience, taping on the crystal with his horn.

Ocean's horn glowed its shade of orange and a projection of both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna emerged from the crystal.

"Hello your highnesses." Ocean bowed.

"Hello Ocean Stardust." Celestia and Luna politely replied.

"I take it you both received my report?" Ocean asked.

"Yes." Celestia answered. "And I am interested in what your opinion of the matter is. What do you believe this energy is?"

"Unknown." Ocean explained calmly. "I have looked over the data several time and compared previous scans of the suspected area of origin and nothing matches. This energy signature is unique and has never been seen before. There is only one other source that can produce such energy."

"And that would be?" Luna asked.

"Alicorn magic." Ocean stated, adjusting his scarf.

Both Princesses' expressions were almost beyond shocked. Ocean made a mental note of the Princesses' expressions, clearly they knew just as little as he did.

"So knowing that this source is unknown and what its purpose is equally unknown." Ocean proposed. "I suggest you allow myself to study this source."

"Would you bring a team with you?" Celestia asked.

"Normally I would say so." Ocean disagreed. "But given that the circumstances of this source is unknown; assuming it is an active being or possibly a living creature, a team may intimidate it and cause it to retreat. I myself should be enough."

"We cannot allow you to go out on your own." Luna interjected. "Our sister and us believe you require at least one guard for protection."

"Very well." Ocean made sure the Princesses didn't see him sigh. "Who is to be sent? Shining Armor is in the Crystal Empire, and Flash Sentry is too inexperienced."

"You are to report to Princess Twilight Sparkle for your guard." Celestia answered. "I believe there is somepony we have in mind there."

Ocean's face almost cringed at the thought of who she meant. "Very well Princess. I will report to the Castle of Friendship."

"We await your report when you've identified the source." Luna instructed.

"Of course." Ocean bowed and the connection was disconnected.

Ocean sat back in his chair, adjusting his scarf. He knew exactly who the Princesses were planning to send with him, and he wasn't too happy with their choice.

"Why'd it have to be him?" Ocean asked openly to himself.

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Standing guard at the Castle of Friendship was a a black unicorn stallion. His red, with blue pointed mane was long, unkempt and covered most of his eyes, only one ruby colored eye was visible in such a mess; his tail was the same. Letting out a tiring yawn, the unicorn showed a small set of fanged teeth and then scratched an itch on his spiky ears. His itching hooves spread to his flank, and over his cutie mark that took the shape of a crescent moon atop two red blades in an X formation.

"Man this shift is boring." The unicorn yawned again. "Stupid day guard getting sick and forcing his shift on me, I haven't slept yet."

"Lieutenant Crescent-Blade Nocturnis!" A voice shouted from the side of the unicorn. Nocturnis quickly straightened up his body then looked over to where the voice came from.

Walking towards Crescent was a rather attractive looking silver filly, who was a similar species to Nocturnis but lacked a horn. Her tied up red and pink mane caught the jealous eye of several guards she passed by. In her teeth was a small wicker basket.

"Ruby?" Crescent asked. "What are you doing here?"

Ruby placed the basket gently down. "You never came home this morning. So when I found out you were given a double shift, I made you a lunch to help you through the day."

The other guards cracked jokes and small teases at Crescent's "Wife" as she was nicknamed, bringing him a "love lunch". This caused a rather embarrassed blush to form across both Crescent's and Ruby's faces. Before Nocturnis could tell the other guards to piss off as he always have, another guard ran towards him.

"Lieutenant!" The guard saluted and handed a scroll to Crescent. "Princess Sparkle has summoned you."

"I wonder what she wants?" Crescent joked, opening the scroll and quickly reading it's contents. Crescent let out a sigh as he finished. "Looks like they need me for a "special" mission."

"Oh?" Ruby responded. "Does it say what kind of mission? What you'll be doing?"

"Nope." Crescent replied. "We'll have to do lunch later Ruby. I better see what she wants."

Ruby let out a disappointed sigh but knew Crescent took his role as Lieutenant Night Guard quite seriously.

"Just make sure you come home before you leave." Ruby reminded.

"I will." Crescent nodded, giving his friend a good-bye hug.

As Crescent made his way down the hall leading to the main chambers. Crescent wasn't the most keen on being a guard for Princess Twilight. Although he didn't have any major personal issues with the Princess, he did find her easy acceptance over Princess Celestia almost controlling her destiny as less than satisfactory. Crescent was equally annoyed by Celestia's manipulating and secrecy. He found it distrustful and dishonorable. He did, however, have great respect for Princess Luna. Luna helped him become a night guard, and it was Luna who pardoned Ruby of a past crime.

Upon reaching the main chambers, Crescent cringed a tad. The room was always too bright and too reflective for his taste. But he endured.

"You summoned me your highness?" Crescent may not respect Twilight, but will remember his role as a guard and maintains his manners...when he felt he had to.

"Thank you for coming on short notice Lieutenant." Princess Twilight smiled.

Besides Twilight was her dragon companion Spike, who was coming and going with several stacks of paper work.

"Your orders didn't give much detail on what I'm doing." Crescent became more casual.

"Sorry about that." Twilight almost matched his casual tone. "I have been so busy with these forms, regulations, and legal bills. Anyway, both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna contacted me only this morning with news and instructions."

"(Princess Luna too?)" Crescent thought to himself.

"There has been a large reading of magical energy in the far north." Twilight explained. "And both Princesses have agreed to send one of, if not, their top scientist. To compensate for the lack of science team the pony refused to have formed, you have been chosen to protect and accompany this pony."

"Okay, I'm gonna have to stop you right there." Crescent extended his hoof. "A few questions...one, who am I guarding and two, when do I leave?"

"He's the top engineer of Princess Luna's research teams." Twilight started her answer.

"(Oh Luna.)" Crescent's ruby eye widened and he mentally began praying. "(Please don't let it be that pony.)"

"His name is Ocean Stardust." Twilight fully answered.

"I understand completely." Crescent's mouth spoke, but in his head. "(Oh Luna, NOT that pony!)"