Twilight perked up after hearing her name called by one of her friends.

"Hey, Egghead! Does this prove useful?" Rainbow asked as she gave her a odd looking item.

Twilight pulled out a magnifying glass from her bag, she hovered over the object closely and noticed the features of it, it looked like silver circle, almost like as if a metal wristband had been shrunk down to a miniature size.

"Hmm, I'll hold onto this, it might prove useful" Twilght said to Rainbow as she put the thing into her bag.

They all sharply turned around after hearing a short lived screamed emitted by Rarity.

"No! It's going to take forever to get this mud out of my luxurious coat!" Rarity said while holding her hood up over the mud in disgust.

They all sighed before shaking their heads.

"Umm... I think I found something Twilight." Fluttershy said in her usual tender tone.

Twilight turned to her and smiled "Good, where is it?" She asked the yellow Pegasus.

Fluttershy walked to a bush before spreading the leaves and branches apart. "It looks like a wagon of some sort." She said while pointing at the structure.

Twilight walked through the bush and observed the structure.

The structure was a big gray looking thing that appeared to have four wheels and some kind of windows on it.

Twilight observed it closer before she moved a piece on the side of the wagon, a piece of the side moved, revealing the inside of the foreign object.

The inside had lots of buttons and pieces of it were sticking out towards what appeared to be the seat.

Twilight slowly climbed into the wagon and investigated the parts. Twilight eventually got the pattern and found out most of the things were able to open if you pressed the right buttons.

Twilight observed the wagon one last time before she got out of it, but she had soon noticed her friends avoided the wagon.

"I found some kind of door! I wonder if there's a surprise down there!" Pinkie said while tugging on a hidden door in the ground.

Twilight held Pinkie back with her magic "Hold on Pinkie! We need to check if it's safe." She said while putting her down beside the others.

Rainbow looked down the deep, dark, scary hole "So, uhh... W-what do you think is down there?" She said to Twilight.

Twilight swallowed hard and spoke "I-I'm not sure... How about we all go down there at the same time? It seems like the safest way to me." She explained to the others.

Twilight awkwardly placed herself on the ladder before stepping down it.

The others followed her lead before they safely got their hooves on the ground.

Twilight provided light by her horn before turning to the others "Are you girls ready?" She asked with a hint of fear in her voice.

They all hesitantly nodded.

Twilight swallowed hard again and turned around "A-alright, l-let's go." She said before walking slowly down the path.

They all walked down the underground trail with extreme caution.

The tunnel had been well built, there were support beams providing support for the dirt ceiling, it also looked fairly new since you could see loose dirt and roots hanging from the ceiling. There was no light naturally provided in the tunnel, everything had a horrifying atmosphere around it, even the wood in the cave looked scary.

Rainbow Dash squealed with terror.

They all turned to her to see she suddenly had a pale face.

"What's wrong, Rainbow?" Twilight asked with concern.

"I-I swear I felt something touch me!" Rainbow responded with fear in her voice.

"Are you sure it just wasn't one of the girls? One of us could've accidentally rubbed against you." Twilight tried to comfort her.

Rainbow sighed "I-I suppose so, Twi." She said while relaxing a little bit.

They all turned back around and continued forth.

The tunnel seemed to go on forever up until they saw a light coming from around a corner.

Twilight stopped "We need to be very careful." She whispered before walking again.

They all came to the corner and noticed around it was a nicely set up room, it had a bed, a desk with writing materials, there were some strange looking clothing scattered around the room.

Applejack went to the desk and looked at the notes, she then spoke up "I think this is The Protectors home, girls." She stated to the others.

They all got closer to the desk, observed the notes, and saw intelligent observation made on ponies written on the paper. The paper dated back to six months ago.

The door leading to the room slammed shut, resulting in the screams from the mares.

The door had a slot in it that revealed a small bit of the area from behind it.

Rainbow slammed into the door with force, but it didn't budge any.

Twilight went to the door "Let us out!" She yelled with hope and fear.

She soon jumped back when she saw a pair of blue eyes quickly appear into view.

"Why should I?" The voice asked with a deep soothing tone.

Rainbow jumped up "Because we want out! That's why!" She yelled with anger.

The expression in the eyes changed to a plain look "Thanks Captain obvious. If you want out then you better come up with something better than that." He stated with the same tone as before.

Twilight hopped up and brought her eyes to meet his "We are looking for something! We have suspicions it's living here and we want to welcome it to our community for its good deeds." She gave a better explanation.

The thing behind the door squinted its eyes "Is this thing a tall creature that stands on two legs?" He asked with curiosity.

Twilight nodded quickly "Yes, we want to befriend it, not harm it!" She answered his question.

He sighed "I don't like being called it." He said plainly.

Twilight looked at him with surprise "Y-you're the protector?" She asked with surprise in her voice.

He moved his eyes to see the others before putting them back on Twilight "If that's what you call me, but my real name is Aiden." He gave them his name.

Twilight looked at him and nodded "Okay, Aiden. Will you please let us out?" She asked with hope.

Aiden went into deep thought before slowly shaking his head "Nah, I don't want to risk anything." He said before while walking down the hall of dirt.

She went wide eyed "No! Please let us out!" She yelled with fear.

No response came to her.

Twilight sat down against the door "It looks like we're stuck...." She said with a sad tone.

The others all sat down with disappointment.

"What're we supposed to do?" Applejack asked with worry.

Twilight shook her head "I-I don't know." She said before looking down at the ground "I don't know." She repeated to herself.

They all sat there, stressing over their problem.

"There's only one thing we can do." Twilight spoke with a neutral tone.

Rarity looked at her "And what's that, darling?" She asked with hope.

"Wait." Twilight responded plainly. She then laid down, resting her eyes.

Rainbow hovered in the air "What do you mean wait?!? You're just gonna let this flank face do this?" She asked with irritation.

Twilight sighed "He's the protector, he won't leave us in here." She stated with no emotion.

They all looked at each other before relaxing. After everypony calmed down, they all eventually fell asleep.

Twilight sat up with a yawn and stretch before she looked at the door.

The door was wide open.

"Girls! Girls, wake up!" Twilight exclaimed.

The others slowly woke up and noticed what Twilight was going on about. They all happily ran out of the door with joy.

Eventually they made it to the ladder they came down through and climbed back up to the surface.

Twilight took a breath of fresh air "We need to get back to the library and write to the princess about this! The protector is real!" She said before sprinting towards Ponyville.

The others followed behind her.

Twilight sat at her desk, putting finishing touches on the letter she scribbled down to send to the Princess.

Spike sat beside her with a concern look on his face, she had told him what happened.

Twilight handed him the scroll to send off to the Princess.

Spike belched his usual green flame, sending the letter off to Celestia.

Twilight turned to her friends "This is definitely something more than just some animal, this being is actually extremely intelligent." She started the conversation.

Applejack nodded "And he doesn't want to be bothered either, which is why he locked us up for the night." She stated a highlight of last night.

Twilight nodded "He also somehow managed to hide in a one way tunnel, so he might have some kind of combat training." She pointed out another trait of the protector.

They were all blinded by a white light immediately.

Celestia appeared and skipped introductions "You saw it? You saw the creature?" She asked rather frantically.

Twilight was slightly disturbed by how her teacher was acting "Y-yeah, what's wrong Princess?" She asked with concern.

"What's wrong is that this creature is outsmarting us! It locked you in a room and then let you out without you even noticing! What's wrong is that this creature is a smarter fighter than one of my guards!" She said quickly, worry present in her voice.

Twilight realized what was wrong "I don't think he means any harm, Princess, he just doesn't want to be disturbed, but we need to find him to show we are friendly." She states to calm Celestia down.

Celestia perked up "He? You know his gender?" She asked curiously.

Twilight nodded "We also know his real name is Aiden" she said calmly.

Celestia nodded "Aiden... Good. We must find this pony, or thing immediately! We need to do some sort of planning and get materials for you girls to search for him." She said, already getting hyped for the reveal.

Twilight smiled "Of course! And I think the first place we need to go to is the castle, we need to make this announcement to the ponies, so that they know you've acknowledged them." She said happily.

Celestia smiled "Yes, my subjects should know, they should know I have heard their requests." She said before turning to the others.

"Come! We must hurry to the castle!" Celestia said while preparing her horn to teleport.

They all got close to her before she teleported them to the castle.

They were standing in the throne room, dazed by the sudden transfer from place to place.

Celestia stood up straight "We have some planning to do! Come with me to my planning room." She said as she walked through the main doors, the others following close behind her.

They all eventually walked into a room with a table that portrayed a 3D image of Equestria.

Celestia smiled "Now, let's find this thing."

Author's Note

I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter, I know I don't write the best, but I do think I have a pretty good project going on.

This was a bit rushed due to a short amount of time to write, since I am actually going on vacation tomorrow. But when I return it will be a lot better, especially with all of the free time I'll have.

Leave a comment down below of any mistakes I made, then I will quickly fix them.