“Excuse me mams, are you two the Princesses?” I asked and they immediately jumped into the air and spun around, horns flaring with magic.

“Who dares approach us without warning? We should have thy head.” The blue skinned one said.

“Ohh no one just a, how you say, Mysterious Stranger? But alas that’s not what’s important. What is important is getting you to the elements as soon as possible, so let’s go.” I ordered as I began following the directions to the elements.

“And who are you to order us?” Asked the white skinned one.

“The one that’s trying to keep you alive that’s who. Now unless you want to disrupt the timestream I suggest following me, understood?” I said and after that, while they may not have believed me they were smart enough not to chance it that I was telling the truth. Although I just knew that they were gonna ask questions. And wouldn’t you know, not even ten minutes into the walk the first two questions pop up.

“What did thou mean about disrupting the timestream? And who sent thou to make sure it isn’t disrupted?” The blue skinned one asked.

“Well lets start of with the second question, are you familiar with someone named Miss Fortune?” I asked

“You know Aunt Fortune?! Oh this is wonderful news.” The two princesses said in unison

“Miss Fortune is your aunt? Wow did not see that coming, what’s next I turn out to be part of some inter-dimensional tumbleweed association?” I say before quickly looking around for any sign of a tumbleweed and find none. “Whew no tumbleweed in sight, that’s a relief. Now lets get going to what I believe to be a cave, now onwards.” I say with a flourish of my coat with my finger pointed towards the sun, only for every sound to immediately stop and a after a minute of silence a slow moving tumbleweed shows up, stops, turns to where I get the feeling it is looking at me, shakes to the left and right, and takes a few more minutes for it to leave. “I think I just signed up for a tumbleweed association, and did that tumbleweed have a Fedora in it?” I say with a sigh as the two princesses burst into laughter at the scene in front of them.

“Sister I do believe that Aunt Fortune has indeed chosen a suitable protector of the time-stream, doth thou think so?” Asked the blue skinned one.

“Indeed sister, and I have realized we never introduced ourselves. Let us fix that, I am Princess Celestia.” Said the white skinned one

“And I am Princess Luna, and we haven’t gotten your name yet either.” Said the blue skinned one

“That’s because I only give my name to those I consider friends. So for now you can call me Stranger.” I said and that was the end of any conversation for a few hours until we finally arrived at a cave that had the guards I ran into earlier along with a few of their other pals around the entrance fending off what looked like wooden wolves and one or two more of those manticores. *Sigh* “Why couldn’t this be an easy first job? Lets get this over with.” I said before pulling out my magnum and firing all six bullets into the heads of 4 of the wolves and the last two into the back legs of one of the manticores, crippling it and giving the guards a real fighting chance which they took and after about 30 minutes they managed to finally kill the Manticores. And after a couple more minutes they took notice of me and the princesses and one of the guards who I assume is the leader came running up to us and began to give the princesses his report.

“Princesses, we have defended this cave just as you have ordered and up until this man here gave his assistance everything has been normal. As of right now everything is as you left it, and the tree in the caves is as it was.” The guard stallion said.

“That is good to know good guard. Now stand aside and let us pass, for it is time that we wield the tree’s power to defeat the evil Discord.” Luna said before we three continued on into the cave and after a few minutes we arrived at a tree that was covered in what looked to be crystal. And it was somehow still alive.

“We thank thee for thine help but you are no longer needed, if thou would like an escort to a safe place do not be afraid to ask and we shall have our guards escort you.” Celestia said to me as they were getting six gems from the tree.

“No, I may have done what I was told to but I will not leave you and your guard alone in this matter. For now you are stuck with me.” I said to them and began to follow them out of the cave and back into the woods.

Author's Note

Hey everypony... Now before you get onto the part where you all become a mob and start chasing me down the street, let me apologies for the long wait. Also can you tell me which story the Tumbleweed Association is a reference to? Also if you didn't get it, the hat is my token and I am now open for crossovers.