The Protector
Chapter 7- Making A Plan
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Aiden smiled down at Spike "I just went ahead and assumed you could come. They honestly can't expect you to stay here at home alone." He told the little dragon.
"Yeah, I'm sure they won't mind. They know I'm not a problem so they'll just have me organize some of Twilight's stuff." Spike said while looking up at the human.
Aiden nodded "That sounds about right." He said before seeing a figure approaching from the sky. "I'm guessing that's the chariot." He said to Spike.
Spike nodded "Yup... I guess it's time to leave home." He said while watching the chariot land.
One of the guards approached "Mr... Aiden?" He asked unsure of who he was.
Aiden nodded "Yes sir." He answered the guard.
The guard gestured for him to get on the chariot "Go ahead and get on. Celestia would love to have your help ASAP." He said before walking back to the straps that hold the chariot.
"Let's go Spike." Aiden said before stepping into the chariot.
Spike hopped in and sat down beside Aiden "It's been a little while since I've been in one of these." He said while putting his miniature suitcase beside him.
The chariot soon lifted off after the guards got properly secured.
Spike grabbed Aiden's attention "Look! The ponies are waving goodbye!" He said while waving down at them.
Aiden turned and saw the ponies that were watching were waving at them. He waved back at them with a smile on his face.
After the chariot left Ponyville they could no longer see any of the ponies waving. All they could see was Canterlot approaching off in the distance.
Spike pointed at the castle "That's gonna be our home until you guys get this mess sorted out." He said with some excitement.
"I more than likely won't be there for most of my stay." He admitted to the dragon.
Spike nodded "You'll probably be out kicking tail! Won't ya?" He asked Aiden.
Aiden chuckled "If that's what you want to call it then yeah." He smiled at the dragons enthusiasm.
The guards landed at the area of the castle where all of the chariots station at. "We are here sir. Do you need somepony to show you where to go?" One of the guards asked Aiden.
Aiden shook his head "No thank you. I've been here before." He told the guard.
The guard nodded "Very well, the best of luck to you then." He said before turning around and walking off.
Aiden and Spike got off of the chariot, then they proceeded to walk towards the castle entrance, where the guards instantly let them in.
Spike lead Aiden through the castle where they could find the guest bedrooms. Spike approached one of the rooms and knocked on the door to see if it was occupied. No answer came in return so Spike opened it and saw it was empty and ready to be slept in.
Aiden put his stuff down and unpacked his things into a dresser that was in there.
Spike unzipped his bag and pulled out his miniature bed that he had stuffed in there, he put the bed down in front of Aiden's new bed.
"I didn't even realize you guys were here yet!" A voice called from behind them.
Aiden and Spike turned around and saw Twilight standing at the doorway.
Aiden smiled at her "We got here not to long ago. We're just unpacking a few things." He said while putting down a pair of his boots.
Twilight smiled "When you get a chance then come to meeting room. We want to know what you think a good plan would be." She told him.
"What about me?" Spike asked her.
"We're gonna be talking about a few adult things Spike. You should just relax in here or do something around the castle." Twilight told Spike.
Spike sighed "Alright... I guess I can understand that." He said with disappointment.
Aiden looked down at Spike "I'll make it up to you later Spike." He told the dragon.
Spike nodded "Alright." He said before hopping into his little bed.
Twilight giggled "Follow me Aiden." She said before exting the room.
Aiden followed her out into the hallway and walked beside her.
Twilight turned and looked at him "What are you thinking about all of this?" She asked him.
"I need to find out how to get to it so I can kill it." He stated plainly.
"Why not just banish it?" She asked him.
Aiden sighed "This thing is pure evil, there is no way it's gonna become a better thing." He told her.
Twilight nodded "I suppose you're right... Do you have any ideas how we can avoid its evil magic?" She asked him.
Aiden smiled "You guys are harmed by its magic, it doesn't even effect me." He told her.
"How come?" She asked him.
"I'm not sure... Perhaps I'm just as evil it is." He theorized.
"But in a good way right?" She asked him.
"Of course." He said before looking at her.
"I'm just scared of the fact that it might get to us." She admitted.
Aiden smiled "Twilight... I can promise you that it will have to kill me before it even touched you." He promised.
Twilight smiled "Hopefully it won't ever have to come to that. It's nice to know how much you care about me." She said with a slight blush on her face.
They approached the doors to the meeting room "This is where we are going to make a plan. Try to think as hard as you can about how to approach this problem." She told him before opening the door.
Aiden nodded and followed behind her into the room.
The room had the rest of the elements and Celestia in there. There appeared to be generals sitting at the tables alongside the rest of them. The seats had names on them so you would know where to sit.
Twilight sat down beside a captain named Shining Armor.
Aiden sat down at the opposite end of Celestia.
Celestia spoke up "Now that we are all here, we may begin planning out a few things." She announced to them. She picked up a marker and began drawing some notes on the board.
Aiden observed what she was drawing very closely.
Celestia drew some ways they could approach the situation "We can go in loud and very powerful, or we could go in slow and sneaky. Our enemy isn't stupid, so it can most likely guess what we are going to do either way. We are here to make a plan that it can never guess." She told them.
Shining Armor spoke first "Well, slow and sneaky obviously." He told the princess.
Celestia smiled "How will we go in slow and sneaky in Manehatten? Our enemy took one of our best cities and one of the hardest cities to hide in. They hold the high grounds and the low ground." She told the captain.
While the two debated back and forth, Aiden had a idea pop into his head.
Twilight saw Aiden's expression and smiled "Princess, I think Aiden has an idea." She got Celestia's attention for him.
Aiden looked at the princess "They have the high grounds and the low grounds, what about the under grounds? The subways, the sewer systems. You can't forget about these things." He pointed out to her.
Celestia smiled at the human "good thinking, but how would we get close enough to access the entry points?" She asked him.
Aiden stood up and walked to the board before grabbing a marker "The guards there are insane, so they can't tell the difference between each other, so your guards just need to act normal around them." He said while drawing some arrows "And these subways have multiple service tunnels, according to some blueprints I read a while back, the service tunnels lead up to multiple service departments scattered throughout the city. Some service departments are towers, so there's an instant way to gain a high ground." He said before drawing a arrow leading to a word called sewer "The sewers lead to multiple hotels and homes, so we can gain high ground through there, but the main question is, where does the evil live? My guess would be the best hotel in the city, the mareiot, a hotel for only the richest. Now why does the exact location matter? Well, we need to bring this battle to the ground, so we should plant some thermite and explosions on the support beams of the hotel, to well... Literally bring this battle to the ground. And for fighting the evil? Leave that up to me, after it's on the ground you guys need to fall back, because it's gonna get ugly." Aiden said this while making a list of supplies needed to make this battle successful.
Celestia was shocked at how quickly the human solved the problems out "well, I can certainly say I'm impressed." She said while observing the board.
The others in the room just stared him with awe.
Celestia nodded "Everything looks correct, this plan definitely looks better than any of the other ones we've created." She said while turning to Aiden.
Aiden smiled "I do know we need a little bit of time to prepare, and I'm planning on adding to the plan some. I have a few things to improve on before making a move." He told the princess.
Celestia nodded "Yes, we do need to gather all of the supplies, and we can let you get prepared. Please feel free to use the training room at any time, you'll find every piece of equipment for training you could ever imagine in there." She informed him.
Aiden nodded before returning to his seat at the end of the table.
Celestia smiled at everypony else "We have created our base structure for having a successful battle thanks to Aiden, if any you have any questions then feel free to ask now." She asked them.
Shining Armor pointed his hoof at Aiden "How in the hell do you know all of this?! You haven't even been here that long and you already know the blueprints of a city?" He asked Aiden.
Aiden chuckled "As William Shakespeare had said in one of his stories 'Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.'" He told the stallion.
It took Shining a few seconds to process what he said before nodding "That's... Actually a really good quote to live by. I guess that was a good way to answer my question." He admitted.
Celestia giggled "Anypony else?" She asked them.
They all remained quiet so that answered her question "Very well, all of you are dismissed." She allowed all of them to leave.
Aiden exited the room and waited in the hallway for Twilight to exit.
Twilight exited the room and instantly hugged Aiden "You did such a good job! I'm so proud of you!" She said while hugging him.
Shining watched her with confusion "Uhh, you know this guy?" He asked Twilight.
Twilight hopped down and nodded "He's been staying with me ever since he was introduced to Equestria. Aiden, this is Shining Armor, my brother. Shining Armor, this is Aiden, my best friend." She introduced the two to each other.
Shining stuck out his hoof for a shake and resulted in Aiden shaking it with a good grip.
Aiden smiled "Nice to meet you." He told Shining.
Shining returned the smile "You too." He told Aiden.
They both stopped shaking and looked at Twilght.
Twilight smiled at them "I'm sure you two will get along just fine, especially since Aiden served in the military himself back on his home planet." She told Shining.
Shining looked up at Aiden "It's nice to know you're not just full of knowledge, but you're also full of battle experience too." He said to Aiden.
Aiden chuckled "I suppose my experience is what made me good for this position." He told the stallion.
Shining looked down at his watch "It was nice meeting you man, but I've gotta get home to the wife." He told Aiden.
Aiden waved goodbye to him as he walked off. He turned to face Twilight and saw she was still smiling.
Twilight looked up at him "I'm just still so happy how you proved yourself useful to all of them." She told him.
Aiden smiled "I'm just glad that most of them like me." He told her.
Twilight turned and walked towards her room with Aiden following behind "I can tell you I definitely like you." She said with with a grin and slight blush on her face.
Aiden chuckled "Well, of course you do! None of your friends can sit in a room and speak pure intelligence for over an hour straight." He said with a smirk.
Twilight giggled "And none of them can remain as fit as you are while doing it." She admitted.
Aiden raised an eyebrow "What do you mean?" He asked her.
"I feel like you're about as smart as me, and you're also one of the most physically fit guys I've ever met. That's pretty rare around here." She told him.
Aiden smiled "I guess that just means all of the mares want me then." He joked.
"You've got that right." She said to him.
"What?" He said confused.
"Nothing, nothing." She said before opening her room door.
Aiden sighed "I guess I'll see you later?" He asked her.
Twilight nodded "Of course! Do you want to go to dinner later?" She asked him.
Aiden smiled "Sure, as long as I get to pay." He told her.
Twilight giggled "Of course, you always pay for dinner anyways." She said to him.
Aiden nodded "And I always will. Do you just want to come down to my room when you're ready to go?" He asked her.
Twilight nodded "Sure thing. I'll see you then." She said to him before closing the door.
Aiden sighed and walked down to his room where he found Spike sleeping happily in his little bed. He smiled at the little dragon before walking towards the bathroom door to change out into a outfit more suited for exercise.
A few minutes later Aiden stepped out of bathroom in a pair of gym shorts and a white exercise long sleeve that gripped his body better than usual. He opened the little fridge that the room had and pulled out a bottle of water to take with him to training room.
Aiden left the room and entered the hallway where he saw almost nopony around. He shrugged and walked down the hallway, towards the training room.
Aiden walked the castle for a good ten minutes before finding the training room Celestia spoke of. He entered the room and saw nopony in there "Shit, I guess the ponies in the castle don't really feel the need to improve themselves, do they?" He said to himself.
Aiden performed several stretches to make sure he didn't pull any muscles during his exercise. After he did that he went to the punching power machine to see where he stands compared to the average stallion. Aiden took a breath before throwing a straight punch as hard as he could in the machine.
The machines numbers climbed very quickly to eventually land on one-thousand and three hundred pounds of punching force.
Aiden was slightly startled to hear a feminine voice speak from behind him.
"Very impressive, I never would expect those numbers to come from a bipedal creature." The voice said.
Aiden turned to see Celestia standing there with a gentle smile on her face "It all comes from years of hard training." He told her.
Celestia nodded "Yes, that is very true but that number surpassed all of my spec ops soldiers. Spec ops train hard for a majority of their life, but you... You seem just to surpass all of my expectations." She said while walking closer to him "I just want to ask you Aiden, are you who you say you are?" She asked him.
Aiden chuckled "Yes I am. My name is Aiden Northstar, I was a Navy soldier, I have one brother named Tyler Northstar, my father is dead, my mother is a bitch I wouldn't mind putting an end to. My whole life I've always had one goal, and that is to do what is right." He told the princess his information once more.
Celestia smiled "Do you think your brother is worried?" She asked him.
Aiden nodded quickly "Oh yeah, he's probably looking everywhere. He was a Navy Seal after all." He told her.
Celestia raised an eyebrow "Navy Seal? What's that?" She asked him.
"It's a part of my worlds military, but if you're a Navy Seal then you are highly skilled." He told her.
Celestia nodded "Okay... Do you possibly think your brother could get to Equestria?" She asked him.
Aiden instantly caught onto what she was doing "Princess, my brother is not that thing. That thing just so happened to have a similar form as me." He told her.
Celestia sighed "You are very quick on solving problems. I have one question that I hope you can answer," she told him "This thing has already placed its evil into other countries when it was literally discovered a few days ago. How can it do this? How are you gonna stop it?" She asked him.
Aiden sighed and blinked a few times "It's trying to take over the planet. No pony has slowed it down, no pony can slow it down... But someone can. This thing cannot hurt me as easily as it can hurt ponies, but I think this going to be a battle between good and evil." He told her.
"That doesn't explain how you are going to stop it." She told him.
"Look, I can't explain my years of experience and need for a good cause! I believe if you just trust me, carry faith for me, then I can promise you everything will be okay." He promised her.
Celestia sighed "Very well. Just know after you end it that you will not only save Equestria... You will save the world. Every country will respect you, and hopefully that can make us be on better terms with everypony else." She told him.
Aiden sat down on the floor before rubbing his head "Just... Just have faith in me." He told her.
Celestia sighed "Okay... I have faith in you. I hope you have a wonderful day Aiden Northstar." She said before exiting the training room.
Aiden sighed "Fuck...." He said before standing up to train.
Hours had passed while Aiden had been training, it was now approaching dinner time so Aiden was in his room getting ready to take Twilight out to nice meal.
Spike wore a smirk while watching Aiden getting dressed "So you and Twilight are going out on a date, huh?" He asked the human.
Aiden chuckled "Nah, I'm just going to hangout with her, that's all." He said while putting on cologne.
"Hmm... She likes you ya know?" Spike told the human.
Aiden turned and faced Spike "Twilght doesn't seem like a mare to fall in love with a alien that can kill somepony without feeling guilt." He said before turning back around to make sure his hair wasn't messy.
Spike shook his head "One, you're no longer an alien. Two, she actually does love the fact that you fight for what's right. Why do you think she blushes all of the time when you say something nice or cool. I figured a guy like you could pick up on the signs pretty quickly." He stated to Aiden.
Aiden sighed before looking at Spike "I've been here for a few months, she doesn't really know me... Well she does know, but she... I don't know, it's too early." He told the baby dragon.
Spike chuckled "Just know she has some kind of feelings for you. If she makes a move then do what feels right." He told him before laying down in his bed. "Oh yeah, can you bring me some food on your way back? I really don't want to deal with the chefs here." Spike asked the human.
Aiden smiled "Sure thing Spike. I'll bring you something back from the restaurant we go to." He said before leaving the room.
Aiden stepped out into the hallway and walked to Twilghts room that wasn't to far away. He sighed before knocking on the door to only have it instantly open, revealing a prettied up Twilight.
Twilight smiled at Aiden "Wow, you look really good!" She complimented him.
Aiden smiled "Thanks, you do too. Are you ready to go?" He asked her.
Twilight blushed a little "Umm, yeah. I know a really good restaurant we can go to." She said before walking ahead of Aiden down the hall.
Aiden walked behind her and followed her to wherever she was taking them.
They eventually made it out of the castle and into the city with very little sunlight remaining to light up the sky.
Aides walked beside her "So you said you used to live here?" He asked her.
Twilight looked up at him "Yeah, I grew up my whole life living in Canterlot being a student of Celestia. My parents still live here, even though their children aren't here anymore." She told him.
"Who are your parents?" He asked her.
"My mom is Twilight Velvet, she's a book writer that mainly stays at home. My dad is Nightlight, he is an engineer." She told him.
Aiden chuckled "That's funny. Harvard wanted me to go and get a engineering degree so I could do something medical. I guess that just means I'm smart." He told her.
"But you still chose to help ponies instead of making millions a year." She said with a smile.
Aiden nodded "I've always done what I felt was right. That's why I'm the man I am today." He said while looking down at her.
Twilight smiled "You're a good hearted stallion Aiden. I know you're gonna do great things, I'm sure you'll even be awarded with fame and fortune in the future." She told him.
Aiden smiles kindly at her "Thank you. I just hope this evil won't hurt Equestria horribly, I just want to stop it." He told her.
Twilight walked closer to him and leaned on him "You will, I can feel it." She told him.
Aiden smiled down at her before walking up to a big restaurant called 'Canterlots finest foods'.
"This is it." She said before walking into the restaurant with Aiden following behind.
The host recongnized Aiden and almost had his eyes pop out of his head "Mr. Protector! It's such an honer to meet you sir! Come right this way please!" He said with excitement and kindness.
Twilight and Aiden looked at each other before following the host.
The host set the menus down on the table of the booth "You two enjoy your meal. Keep up the good work Mr. Protector, it's takes guts doing what you do." He said before walking back to his station.
Aiden sat on the opposite side of the table from Twilight "I didn't realize I was famous everywhere." He told Twilight.
Twilight giggled "After defending Ponyville and keeping it a piece of Equestria everypony heard about it on the biggest news station in Equestria. Everypony in rooting for you now. Didn't Celestia tell you about all of the letters about citizens thanking her for bringing you into the war?" She asked him.
Aiden shook his head "No, I never heard about that. I didn't know ponies liked me that much." He admitted to her.
"Ponies love you! Look around, you can spot a few looking at you and talking about you." She said while pointing out a few ponies looking at him.
Aiden chuckled "That just motivates me to put an end to this." He said before looking around.
Their waitress walked up with huge smile on her face "What may I grab you two to drink tonight?" She asked them.
Aiden looked at Twilight before smiling "A bottle of your finest wine please." He asked the waitress.
The waitress nodded and smiled "I'll have it right out for you two." She said before walking off.
Twilight stared at Aiden with a smile "You are one sly dog. You know exactly how to make a mare happy." She said while resting her head on her hoof.
Aiden chuckled "If I'm gonna eat at a expensive restaurant then I might as well have a expensive meal." He told her.
Twilight giggled "I don't know how wine is back on your planet, but wine here has a good bit of alcohol on it." She informed him.
Aiden shrugged "Oh well, we need a damn break after what's happened within the past few days." He said to her.
Twilight nodded "I agree." She said before watching the waitress come back with two wine glasses and a bottle of red wine.
The waitress poured the wine into the glasses "What can I get you two to eat?" She asked them.
Twilight ordered her food first "I'll have a house salad with ranch and a order of the chips and cheese dip." She told the waitress.
The waitress turned to Aiden for his order.
"I'll have the same as her." Aiden told the waitress.
The waitress nodded "It'll be out shortly!" She said before walking off.
Aiden took a sip of his wine and noticed the good taste of alcohol in it "I've always been a fan of beverages with good alcohol in it." He told Twilight.
Twilight took a sip and noticed it was very strong "Wow, I'm gonna be wasted by the end of this bottle." She told him.
Aiden chuckled "Good, hopefully you won't worry about anything for the rest of the night." He told her.
Aiden helped Twilght to her room in the castle since she was stumbling all over the place. He was definitely drunk, but no where near as drunk as she was.
Twilight slurred out a few lines "Ya know, I've always wuved you Aiden." She told him.
Aiden laughed "Ya know, I love me too." He told her.
Aiden stopped in front of her room before opening the door, he helped Twilight to her bed and was surprised to have her pull him down with her onto the bed.
Twilight giggled "I really really love you Aiden." She said before pulling him in for a deep kiss.
Aiden's eyes got wide before kissing her back deeply.
Twilight broke the kiss and stared into his eyes deeply "I'm not actually as drunk as you think I may be. I've always just wanted to do that to you." She said before giving him another kiss.
Aiden kissed her back before grabbing her flank.
Twilight moaned before pulling his shirt off of him "Looking sexy as always!" She said before grabbing his groin "This is going to be mine for tonight." She said before bringing him into another kiss.
Aiden moaned into the kiss before finally getting down to the dirty business.
Author's Note
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you enjoyed the chapter, and put down in the comments of what you think about some Aiden X Twilight action!
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