An Elite Guardian

'Tis official. I hate Timber wolves. I stood at the gates to the industrialized Sweet Apple Acres, Needle Rifle in hands, and waiting for the twenty large wolves to come into view as I heard Applejack lead this version of the Crusaders to safety. I can only hope the wolves come after me, and not them, because I highly doubt they can fight. When they came into view, I placed my finger on the trigger, waiting for the reticule to turn red.

When it did, I pulled the trigger, and the needle was sent flying out of the barrel, and the rifle kicked up slightly, but i set it back as the needle I fired hit the wolf in the head, but, I imagine because of magic and the fact it was made of wood, it survived, so I went plan B. I fired two more shots into the wolf, the third causing a super combine explosion, killing the wolf as it was blown to bits. I am so screwed. I only have seven supercombines, and there were twenty, well, nineteen, now, wolves.

Anyway, I fired off the remaining eighteen shots, every three resulting in a wolf's death. The remaining thirteen closed in before I could fire off enough to kill them and I dropped my Needle Rifle, and drew my sword in my right arm, and ignited the energy dagger in my left. "Come on," I yell at them. The one nearest me jumped at me, but I sidestepped the attack, and brought my sword down on its neck, before turning to my right, and putting the dagger into the throat of another, before pulling the arm out, and then thrusting the sword at another. Ten left, I thought. The next four were smarter, two distracting me at the front, which allowed two to sneak around, and tackle me to the ground, but, as I fell, I turned around, and sliced the head of one off, but the arm was held by the other, and the one with the dagger held down by one of the other two. The other six circled, but two split off, and held my legs. This pack, it seemed, was smart, leaving those four to circle, one at my head, and I could smell its terrible smell. It opened its mouth, and was about to bite mt head off, when a rainbow colored blur it hit, and shocked the other wolves into letting go.

I looked in the direction the blur went, and saw a familiar pegasus. "What are you doing here, Lieutenant," I asked Rainbow Dash.

"Keeping an eye on you," she said, slicing the wolf she tackled into pieces with her wing blades. "The Princess told me to keep an eye on you to make sure she could trust you."

"A smart move," I say, getting up, and getting into a stance with the tip of the dagger blade just barely on the blades of my sword. "Why not bring reinforcements, though?"

"Because," she said, flying back over to my position, "by the time we got here, you probably would have been eaten. Which reminds me, why are you at the farm?"

"I helped a young filly find her pet dog, which had been eaten by this pack, grabbed her and her two friends, and rushed here as quickly as I could. These beasts followed me here," I say. "The filly's sister and the filly herself with her friends should be finding a place to take shelter in form this pack if it gets past us."

"I doubt they'll be able to get past us," Rainbow said. "After all, you have that energy sword and dagger, and I'm one of the princesses bodyguards as well as her Lieutenant for a reason. Other than me being slightly awesome, of course."

At least this version has modesty. I like her better than the show canon already. "Then let us show these beasts why they shouldn't mess with two soldiers."

"Oh-rah," she said. It seems her kind and humans have much in common, including battle chants, or whatever that is. As soon as the last syllable left her muzzle, the last of the wolves attacked, but they were quickly, and quite literally, cut down by my blades, as well as Rainbow's. When they were all dead, I deactivated both of my weapons, and holstered my sword.

"My thanks, Lieutenant," I say.

"No problem," Rainbow said. "Now come on, we should head back to the camp."

"Not yet," I say. "I must inform the denizens of this farm that it is safe to come out."

"You do that, then," she said. "I'll be waiting."

"I shall be quick, then."

With that, I entered the farm grounds, and made my way the most likely place Apple Bloom and the others were hiding, the house. "It is safe to come out," I say with enough volume that I was certain they could hear me if they were in the house, but no response, not even a sound. I made my way to the barn, and did the same, but no sound was heard. Well, no thankful sound.

"Get off our farm, ya monster," I heard Applejack yell. "An' take your wolves with ya."

"The wolves are not mine, and they are dead," I say. "But if you wish me to leave, then so be it." With that, I turned around to leave the farm, and made my way to the main gate.

"So, how'd it go," Rainbow asked.

"The elder sister, and the rest of the fillies family, I believe, think I commanded the wolves," I say, "and wish me gone. I am on their land, so I have no argument for that."

"Ungrateful bunch, apparently," Rainbow said, following me as I walk past her on the trail. "If it was the royal guard, they throw us a bucking parade."

"Yes, but you forget one difference, Lieutenant," I say. "I ma not one of your kind."

"Fair enough," she said. "So, how did you make it to where the Timber wolves didn't reform?"

"They reform?"

"Damn it," she cursed as the sound of sticks being drummed together came from behind.

And that brings us to now. Both Rainbow and I had our weapons drawn, me having my sword drawn, her wing blades extended. "I hate Timber wolves," I said as the large, nearly the size of a Scarab, Timber wolf looked down at us.

"You and me both, Ruso," Rainbow said. "You got anything to kill the thing with ease."

"I had thought you did," I said.

"So, no, then?"

"Correct."

"So, run?"

"In your case, fly," I say, "but yes, run."

"Then what about that farm?"

"You run, I'll take care of that," I say. "Go. Now."

"I'll tell the Princess how you died," Rainbow said before taking off and making her way to the camp.

"I don't plan on dying," I say. "Large creature means low agility, and quite a bit of mass to overcome when it begins to run." I deactivated and holstered my sword, and drew my needle rifle, and fired at its eye, making it roar before I began to run away from the farm. Thankfully, my prediction was right, and it began to chase me, taking a while to get up to speed.

Every time I thought I was close to losing its interest, I turned around, and fired three needles, causing an explosion that got its attention before turning around and continuing, my destination being the ruined town of Ponyville. Before I could reach it, though, I tripped, and fell. "Damn it," I say before turning around to see the large wolf's mouth reach toward me. Double damn it.

Due to the size of the maw, I was unable to stop it with my dagger, and it swallowed me, with out chewing. Just as I went down the throat, I drew and ignited my sword, and plunged it into the beast's throat, stopping my descent. "You won't eat me," I growl. I then begin to scale the inside of the throat, and make my way to the mouth. "This is why you chew the food, beast," I yell as I make it to the mouth. "Now, you will pay." With that, I thrust my sword upwards into the wolf's spinal cord, or its equivalent, and I felt the beast falling before a large thud was heard, and I fell to the floor of the mouth. After a few seconds of clearing my head, I got up, and yanked my sword out of the roof of the mouth, and walked over to the teeth, and I used my sword to slice the teeth away, making a hole large enough for me to walk out.

What I saw was the royal army, Rainbow included, staring at me in awe and maybe fear, Rainbow excluded there, her giving me a confident smile and mouthing, "Show off."

"Are you alright, Ruso," I heard Princess Celestia say beside me to my left. I turned and knelt.

"I am, Highness," I say. "Though my walk was much more eventful than I had expected it would be."

The Princess chuckled. "Yes, I can see that. Perhaps when we arrive in Canterlot, you can tell me the whole story."

"If that is your wish, Highness."

She nodded. "Then we'll leave tomorrow at dawn, just after I raise the sun."