"Have you ever been suddenly taken away from everything you once knew? For some the answer is no, but for others it's yes. These ponies, however, know not what total loss is nor do they grasp the concept of death. Now that I've returned from a time not akin to theirs, how would they react knowing the truth of the past? Would they share no thoughts, or would their world's ideals shatter? I don't know that, nor do I wish to see the results of my reintegration into this time period. Should they accept me, would it be for my actions today, or would it be out of self pity on the creature with no place to go?

"How can one live in another time so unlike their own, yet find comfort knowing they can never return to loved ones long deceased? I know not these answers, nor do I care. What matters now is for me to accept my past, and embrace my future on this planet, in my great opportunity of life, I need to accept my fate and take it in stride. All I need to do is find my calling in this timeline, and adapt.

"Perhaps the things we need most aren't physical, but rather personal items. Buildings are replaceable, lives are not, so I shouldn't dwell on the past or present, instead, think to my future." I finish saying to myself, as I write along to my voice, setting my quill and journal down next to me and my statue basin. I then grab my rucksack and place the items inside,

"Those are some interesting thoughts Garrett, what caused you to say those things?" I hear a voice say from in front of me.

"Gah! Oh, Twilight, sorry, I didn't notice you there. Along with your friends. Is something wrong? Celestia only sends people to me if there are no other foreseeable alternatives." I say in confusion.

"Cut the crap wise guy! We know who you are, and where you're from!" Rainbow Dash interjects.

"Do you now? Alright, let's see what dear O'l Celly told you six." I say snidely, hoping they'd catch on to my sarcasm.

"Rainbow, darling, you can't just barge in here and provoke ponies like that. Now, tell the nice man you're sorry." Rarity says. She is an alabaster colored Arcanian, wearing a white revealing dress, showing off her impressive hourglass figure. She also has a royal purple swirled mane and tail, with high heels that match. I never will understand why, even though their feet are hooves, these ponies wear shoes.

"It's quite alright ma'am, I'm just a little caught off guard, people don't normally get to belittle me and walk away unscathed." I say with a little more malice than I'd have liked, "Anyways, did any of you need something, or are you going to stand around here being useless?" I say in hope to get a response, the results are more than desirable.

"Useless? I am not useless! I was going to ask you if it's true that you're a prince, but nope! You had to go and call me useless, well let's see how you like it! You stupid little dipshit!" Rainbow shouts in a barely contained rage.

"Ooh, is that the best you've got? Anyways, if that's all you needed and/or wanted, then yes, I was and still am, technically, the Prince of the Night. Here's a few other things; No, Lunarkinesis is not magic, after using it I can heal any damage done, even if I depleted my energy reserve. I can replenish my reserve in two ways, moonlight and negative emotions, the latter of which comes at the cost of my emotional stability. The final point to note about Lunarkinesis, is that t has to recharge after a large amount of your energy is used. No, I can't fly. I'm an omnivore, if I ask for meat, then I'd better damn get it. I think I look good in my outfit, even though I have more. I normally try to keep to myself, and I don't like social gatherings, unless, they are small and I know everyone in attendance. Finally, I think I'm showing the proper amount of compromise in a situation such as this." I drone with a rather placid tone.

"Easy there pardner we was jus' stopping by ta check on ya, well, more like we was sent here ta speak with ya 'bout what you'd do if y'all was ta be kept here with us.' That's 'bout all she wrote there pardner." Applejack says hesitantly.

"Oh, is that all... Wait what!?" I shout, "Stay here!? As in, live with one of, or all of you? Explain!" I shout in a bewildered manner.

"Calm down there sugar cube! We only need ta know this if a certain event arises in which y'all would need ta stay here in Ponyville with one of us. Would ya kindly give us tha courtesy?" Applejack asks sincerely.

"I'll answer this once and only once, if it ever comes down to it, then yes, I'll stay with one of you." I say with a smirk, "One!" I reiterate my point in an attempt to make sure they get the message. The group seems to get it and starts to debate whom I'm getting stuck with. I decide to wait it out, by walking over to my pedestal and siting down on it, and listening from afar. The slight breeze makes it challenging, but I was able to hear most of what they were saying.

"Garrett... Garrett? Where the heck are you!?" Twilight calls out bewilderingly.

"I'm over here Twilight." I call out. Twilight and the others walk towards me each with a contempt smile on their face.

"Alright, we've decided that you'll do a bi-weekly rotation among the six of us. You'll be with me for two weeks, then Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and last but not least, Rainbow Dash." Twilight says pointing an arm at her friends as she calls their names out. "You sure you got that?"

"Sure, you first then the rest. I got it, I got it." I say doing my best punk-kid impression, "Lets go already, this place is so depressing." I say grabbing my satchel and walking ahead of the group.

"Wait! Do you know where you're going?" Twilight asks.

"Yes." I say making a right through the nearby foliage.

"Then you do know Ponyville is the other way, right?" Twilight says smugly.

"Not one word about this." I growl as I rejoin the group. We walk for what seems like an eternity, with the girls having to stop every hundred yards or so, just to let me catch up to them, they may be faster than me normally, but I've got a little human intuition on my side. While we're walking through a rough patch in the forest I take advantage of this opportunity, and climb up a nearby hickory tree. As I climb up the forty foot tree, using my height and small body frame to my advantage, I notice the girls caught up in what appears to be a lotus grove. I choose to ignore them and finish my climb, once I find a sturdy route to use as a pathway.

I start jumping from tree to tree, keeping the girls in my line of sight, and trying to make as little noise as possible. I stay in my treetop free-run course, all the while, as I stay nearby the girls the rest of the way back from the Everfree. Now, after about the fifth time of the girls having to wait for me, I had told the girls to only wait for me at the exit of the forest, which they happily obliged to.

Presently, I'm standing just overhead of the girls right on the edge of the forest. I take note of how they seem to be lazing around, waiting in astute boredom. So, in an act of good clean family fun, I decide to jump from my pine tree to the nearby oak tree, grabbing onto one of its many available branches. I repeat this process, each time I go from pine to oak, getting lower and lower to the ground. Once I'm on the ground I walk out of the forest, I'd have left those girls there if not for two things; One, they're the Elements of Harmony. Two, the pink one was on the verge of crying.

I sigh to myself and walk back towards where the girls were, stopping just short of their field of vision, but keeping them in auditory range.

"*sniff* W-W-where d-do y-you think he went? D-do you think he left us because he f-f-feels like we-we've b-b-betrayed him? Or maybe,*sniff* i-i-it's due the fact that he hates us and only wanted us gone?!" Pinkie Pie wails, as she tries to fight back another wave of tears.

"Ah don' think so Pinkie. Ah'm sure he's still coming, he don' seem quite like them types O' fellers keen ta break a promise." Applejack says as she attempts to reassure her friend. It was at this moment that, and after losing my internal battle, I made my presence known to the group.

"She's right you know. Besides, if I wanted any of you assholes gone, you'd all have been dead a long time ago." I say walking into the group from my hiding spot near the brier bush. The girls reactions ranged from confused and shocked, to wondrous and quizzical.

"How'd ya manage ta do that? Y'all were b'hind us this whole trek." Applejack says in shock. I simply smirk and say nothing. I simply raise my left pointer finger to my mouth and press it over my lips, similar to how people would ask for silence when I was a kid.

"Shh, what I do and how I do it is not of your concern. But what I do need is for one of you to show me the way to Twilight's house. As so that way I can acquaint myself with my temporary living area." I say quietly, the girls hesitantly nod collectively, and say their parting blessings/words of malice to me. I shrug in response to their harsh insults, simply because I don't know what they mean and I'm a guard, it would look bad on my record. I start walking in the direction that the girls pointed me. My walk was relatively uneventful, that is, until a certain purple Arcanian decided to join me.

"Hey Garrett, wait up!" Twilight calls out from behind.

The mare I'm living with, Twilight, is the pupil of my quote-unquote enemy, Princess Celestia.

"So Garrett, what's it like being the last of your kind?"

"Really Twilight, I haven't even settled in yet, can we at least get to your house first? " I desperately plea.

"Hmm, oh, right. He he he... Yeah. Right this way, follow me!" Twilight says as she bounds ahead of me towards the settlement nearby.

The trip into and through the town was rather uneventful, except for everyone barring their doors and hiding from my mere presence, shame, knowing that I'll pretty much be doing the same thing. That seems to be my life cycle; hide away until I'm needed, repetitions from old transferred to new. While I plaguing myself in self-loathing, I barely noticed the giant oak tree we were standing in front of. Choosing instead to focus on the cool autumn breeze blowing the grass around, flattening it, but not killing it.

"Garrett, I'd like to welcome you to the Golden Oaks Library, and my house!" Twilight beams with pride. I look up and respond, to make it look like I was paying attention.

"This... this is a tree, no? Yet, it's also a building. How is it still standing despite being almost completely hollowed out?" I ask in resounding fascination.

"Magic. They also use magic to keep the building fireproof and safe during the most severe storms." Twilight replies, "Well go on, get in." She says ushering me inside the building. Inside I'm left in total awe, a tree that's still living, yet has been hollowed out to make it a library and a house.'Is that a basement?' I was about to walk across the room and investigate what's behind that door, but Twilight had other plans.

"No disappearing on us this time, I still have some questions for you, and so does my mentor." Twilight says shutting the door and pulling me next to her by levitating me over encased in a magenta hued aura. I was about to speak out, until I saw Celestia standing next to the table in the middle of the room, and Luna sitting on the horse head statue resting atop the table. Twilight set me down gently, and by that, I mean she slammed me onto the ground head first. That earned everyone a free ticket to hear my long chain of expletives for a good five minutes.

"Are you done yet?" Twilight asks, "We only want to ask you some questions." she deadpans.

"Fine, I'll stop, but until this Q and A is over, you three keep your nick names. Got it Twicunt. You to Molestia, same goes for you as well, Little Miss Lunacy." I say in defiance. They sigh in defeat and I slightly smile at my mini victory.

"I'll start, what did you do when you were still considered a prince of Equestria?" Twilight asks right up-front.

"Well Twicunt, when I was still considered an 'active' prince, I kept to myself, and intervened in situations where the tension was electrifying. After my twentieth year as Prince of the Night, King Solaris put an enchantment on me, one that would let me live forever, I 'unofficially' resigned my power. With that done, I quickly joined Luna's royal task force, we called ourselves 'Gladiatorus Lunarum' better known as the Moons Gladiators, or the Gladiators of the Moon." I tell her mindlessly. "Any other questions?" I say sounding as bored as possible.

"As a matter of fact, yes, I do have more questions. We'll start with this one, what is it like being the last human on the planet?" Twilight says not fully realizing what she'd said, and how it just impacted me.

"Well... I... Hmm, I don't know." I say solemnly.

"What?" Twilight asks in slight shock.

"I don't know. Just, I mean, how would you feel if someone just told you 'Hey, I know you're from the past and all, but, how does it feel knowing that you've officially got nothing to live for?' It really does smack you in the face with reality." I say flatly, "But if I had to give you a truly honest answer, and not a fake honest answer, I'd have to say that being told I'm the last survivor of the human race forever is a very rude awakening." I say scornfully.

"What I mean is this; I'll openly accept my fate, but I am still going to keep up the facade I've built up from over 1,316 years ago." I tell Twilight in a serious tone.

"I have a question." Luna begins.

"Go on," I interject, "Ask away."

"Alright, even though thou art residing here, wouldst thou still wish to be our personal guard? Or at the very least, reinstate the Gladiatorus Lunarum?" Luna asks

"I'll do this, and only this. I will hereby swear my loyalty to the Gladiatorus Lunarum, but only under my former rank, also; I will still be the 'unofficial' Prince of the Night. Is that a good enough answer for you?" I ask at the end of my rant.

"Almost, where whilst thou reside?"

"Among the Element Bearers of course." I say courtly. "Alright Molly, your turn, and then the Q&A is done, and I can get some sleep!" I cry victoriously.

"Fine. My question is this; what are we to do if you decide to turn against the Element Bearers?" Celestia asks authoritatively.

"Well, that could go one of two ways; the first, is that I'm able to remove only one of the new bearers, and since all six either have to be alive, or be willing to relinquish their bond to the Elements. Thus rendering them useless due to their 1,000 year cool down. The second, well, you both know how that goes; I remove every bearer from their elements, and destroy the source of their power. I think we're done here." I say, leaving an awestruck Twilight in the wake of the flash from the Princesses' teleportation out of the library.

"Finally, now to get some shut eye." I yawn at the end to add emphasis.

"Would you really do that?" Twilight squeaks out.

"What?" I respond.

"Betray us. Like you said, would you really betray us?" Twilight asks, tears welling in her eyes.

"No, it takes a lot for me to hate someone, even if they are my arch-nemesis. I don't have a reason to revoke my trust from you or your friends, now don't worry. I won't let anything happen to you." I say giving a soft smile at the end, showing Twilight that she can trust me, and I can trust her. As Twilight walks away and up the hardwood stairs a thought crosses my mind.

'For now. I can trust her.'

Author's Note

Look, I know I said I'd do a chapter vote, but after I uploaded Serenity, I was disgusted. I not only loathed that chapter, but it was a mockery of my abilities as a writer. So instead of chapter voting, you can vote on specific events you want to happen , or if you want me to add your OC (no Mary Sue/Gary Stu), but please note that I'm writing the chapters my way. I know it sounds like I'm pissing and moaning like a little four year old, but bear with me. Please comment on anything you see wrong with this chapter (and my other chapters as well) along with ways to improve as a writer. Now, I think I've taken enough of your time; I hope you enjoyed the newly* detailed update to 'For Every Action'.

This chapter went through five revisions and two deadline reschedules. I did have fun with Garrett's anger filled rant, hitting all the basic elements you'd see the main characters ask a human in these kinds of stories. I also included five references in this chapter, see if you can find them all. First one to spot all five references gets to add their OC and their own personal story request!**
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and that you all have a wonderful New Years!
AND AS PROMISED, I UPLOADED THIS ON CHRISTMAS!!!

*Note; that this was/is a redo and completely fresh chapter, the newly applies to the six or seven times I've edited this chapter, and/or was delayed when writing.

**Note; OC must have a full and complete character description, meaning; any abilities, Cutie Mark (If it has one!), colors used, personality, race, species, you know the rest. (No Mary Sue/ Gary Stu characters! If yours is[and it's unavoidable], I will need to know their limitations/weakness/Mary Sue type power you're willing to remove.)