Soon we find our heroes Sunbeam and Senny riding out of the City of Enisa towards the countryside, riding on their newly aquired timberwolf mounts. With Sunbeam having a little trouble managing to stay on the Timberwolf as it walks along the road.

"Man these things are hard to ride on!" Sunbeam says as he basically is hugging the wolf to stay on.

"You forgot to put your feet in the stirrups."

"Oh.."

Eventually, with a small stop so Sunbeam could empty his bladder, they make it to the nearest village to the city, Not really sure on what they should do, they are distracted by the fact that there seems to be a gathering in the centre of the village.\

"Hey senny why do you think their all in one place instead of farming?"

"Maybe a festival? Lets check it out." Senny states as she makes her timberwolf gallop forward into the town with Sunbeam right behind her, Soon they get to the crowd and get off their steeds and get past a few villagers towards the center where they see a group of bandits.

"Alright so your going to give us all your valuables and food or these fillies are going to get it!" The lead bandits yells as he holds a young filly with a knife to her neck, as he motions for his group of 5 other brigands to go threaten the villagers.

"But we wont have anything to feed ourselves!" Yells a villager back, cowering when a bandit moves closer and threatens her with a blade.

"Well too bad, now get to it!" The leader yells, as the villagers begrudgingly start putting things such as blankets, jewelry, and tools into a pile in front of the bandits. Some requiring a few of them to barge into their homes to take things when they didn't bring many items.

"There thats much better, see, its far easier when you all cooperate. Is that everyone?" He asks the nearest bandit.

"All but those two, who just rode in on some nice looking timberwolves. Probably some rich folk." He says as the other bandits look at the two and the villagers get out of the way from the bandits as they walk forwards.

"Well be happy to take those Wolfs off your hand, as well as whatever else you got." Leader says with a shit eating grin.

"Yeah no." Sunbeam says, keeping a hand on his sword's hilt.

"Well i guess well just have to take it from you!" one of the Pegassi bandits yells as he takes flight and charges Sunbeam, only to get a crossbow bolt to a chest, causing him to fall to the ground and yell in pain as he skids to a stop a few feet away from sunbeam.

"Now i recommend you give those things back to the villagers or you'll end up like your friend here!" Sunbeam yells while reloading his crossbow.

"Been a while since i had a good fight!" The lead bandit yells while the other 4 remianing bandits head for Senny, who has already taken one out with her sledgehammer.

The villagers all watch from a distance as the the Bandit Leader draws his sword and charges forward recklessly as he prepares to slice with his sword, only to have it blocked by Sunbeams shield. Sunbeam retaliates by stabbing at him but he dodges and grabs the edge of his shield and rips it away, causing Sunbeam to stumble forward as the Leader slices his side, but his gambeson protects him from any major injury.

Sunbeam is quick to get back into a fighting stance and taunts the leader by doing the 'come at me' symbol with his hand, causing the leader to charge him again and stab at him. Which is what Sunbeam wanted him to do, So he activates a Time Slowdown spell, which causes both Sunbeam and the Bandit leader to slow down as if in slow motion, in which Sunbeam deflects the blow with his sword, then grabs the handle of the sword and yanks it from the leader's hands. And with a flick of the elbow, slams his sword pommel into the head of the bandit. Knocking him out instantly, which causes the spell to wear off and time returns to normal.

There is a stunning silence as Sunbeam Elegantly returns to a standing position and sheaths his sword then looks around as the villagers begin to cheer as Senny finishes off the other bandits off. With the villagers rushing out of their hiding places to cheer for us.

"Thank you for saving us!"

"You are our heroes!"

"Thank you all but why did nobody try to fight him? there were only 5 of them." Sunbeam asks after everypony stopped yelling praises and cheers.

"Well we dont know how to fight, we are just farmers, and not only that but theres a whole group of them hidden in the forest. I hear they do the same thing with a couple of other villages nearby. One village even had their mares stolen from them, Celestia knows what happened to them." The Apparent village elder says while walking up to the two 'heroes'.

"Wait now they will come after us!" A random pony yells

"OH NO! EVERYPONY HIDE!" Yells another as ponies run for cover and into houses, leaving the village centre a ghost town with only Sunbeam, Senny and the village elder standing there.

"Somebody has to stop those bandits, before they hear about this and come after us." The elder says, pacing around in a panicky way.

Senny then puts her hand on the old earth pony's shoulder and looks him in the eyes.

"We will take care of them, dont worry." She says making the elder seem much more at ease.

"But.. there are at least 40 of them, How will you two take them all out?" He asks as some villagers stick their heads out to hear the conversation.

"Well.. how about some of these townsponies join us, im sure at least some of them are brave enough to help. Then we can go ask for more volunteers from the towns the bandits have raided." Sunbeam says, yelling it loudly so the town can hear. "Then when we have enough Ponies we can charge in there and make sure they cant harm any more ponies." He continues with his speech, causing more villagers to walk out of their homes to listen to his speech. "We will stop them from raiding more villages and get back things they have stolen from others. Not only that but we can save those poor ponies they have ruthlessly kidnapped for their own purposes! Now whos with me!"

There is a loud outburst of cheers as many stallions and a few mares volunteer to follow him to defeat the pesky bandits. And the villagers giving bread and some grain to aid them in the journey, With about 11 Volunteers going to get pitchforks, axes, and crude shields made of wooden boards to take as weapons for their fight.

Soon they all line up at the entrance to the town with cheering villagers behind them yelling cheers and wishes of luck as a few strap a wagon with the supplies to Senny's Timberwolf.

"All of you are being very brave right now! Volunteering to protect your homes and the homes of others from those bandits. Now im not going to lie to you some of you may die or get hurt, but your sacrifice will be worth it if we succeed. And even if we fail it would not have been for nothing, for they would see that you will stand up to them if they try again and will not mess with you again! Now say your goodbyes to your families and friends and prepare to march out. Were going to the nearest town to ask for more recruits!" Sunbeam finishes his speech with fist pump to the air causing the Recruited ponies to cheer and go back to town to say thier goodbyes before coming back to march off with Sunbeam and Senny.

"Nice job Sunbeam, i didn't know you could make a speech like that. Let alone convince them to fight under you."

"I didn't come here as unprepared as you might think. I studied for a hundred years on persuasion, speeches and battle tactics for this. Since i am a.. you know. Alicorn. I live longer." Sunbeam states as he rides along the trail away from the town of Peshi, which he just found out the town name by reading a sign. "Alright so were leaving Peshi from the north, lets head to Tensia, about an hour's travel if we were just on timberwolf and riding at full gallop but since we have to walk as slow as them then it might take half a day. So we'll need to camp when the sun goes down and then well get to Tensia by Mid day tomorrow."

"Sounds like a plan, For now lets keep an eye out for bandits. Just in case."

"Good idea, Ill tell that to everypony else, and try to keep their morale up..

5 Hours later...

By the time the sun set they are more than halfway to Tensia, But have stopped to make camp and have dinner. With Two of the Recruits using nearby mushrooms and berries to add taste to thier bread and grain while the few who decided to make shields are painting Sunbeam's coat of arms in the centre, with half being orange and half being dark blue.

"Nice job painting those shields but i must ask, why did you paint them?" Sunbeam asks the nearest one with a shield.

"All the nobles have their soldiers paint their coat of arms on the shields of their soldiers. It helps them distinguish their troops from the enemies and makes for uniformity. Though no noble would assist a simple farming village with bandit problems. You are very generous for doing so."

"Why thank you, and great idea with the painting shields. Ill have to remember that for later.." Sunbeam says as he gives a few logs to the two timberwolf mounts. All the while eating a piece of bread with mushrooms stuffed in it. "Oh did i forget to mention I'm paying you all for your service?"

The Recruits all turn towards him and ask if hes serious. Some shocked as they were doing this simply because they wanted the bandits gone.

"Yes of course, cause I'm taking you from your families which will decrease their pony power for their farms. so i need to compensate it. Also if you stay with me after this is over ill raise your pay and get you some better equipment." Sunbeam says to the shocked recruits, who are currently thinking of whether they should stay with him afterwards. "Decide after we beat these bandits, for now rest and be prepared in case of an attack, You two, stay up so we dont get ambushed at night then..."

To be Continued...

Author's Note

Aright another chapter out. Hope you like it guys.