The Dark Sentinel

Time: 5:00AM

Year: Unknow

Day of the week: Tuesday

Location: Canterlot

Military instinct starts kicking in, waking up from a deep wonderful sleep, I open my eyes and groan roll out of bed. I hear a 'clop' sound as I land on four of my legs. Looking I notice I still got hooves. I groan out in annoyance, thinking that it was all a crazy dreaming I was having.

Seems like the sun hasn't come up yet, noticing that the moon is still out as I look out a window.

I quickly trot towards the bathroom to do my daily morning routine. After I'm done with all that, I walk out the bathroom and out the room, leaving my equipment in the room under the bed so that no one messes with it. But just in case I run into to some trouble; I grab my suppressored Deset Egale 50. Cal, which is a matte black colored. I holster the weapon, and strap the holster to my right leg.

I love all my weapons with suppressors. Makes my job a lot more easier when it comes to sneaky missions. My rifle choice is a black matte SCAR-H with gold on some places of the weapon. It has a gold dragon on the left side of the rifle. My attachments are a target finder scope which highlights any enemies in red, a suppressor, an extended clip, and finally a fore grip. I quickly stash everything away and hide well.

I'm going to have to ask Celestia if I can have my stuff put somewhere safe, so that no one tampers with my weapons. God knows what'll happen if they get their han-...I mean hooves on them.

As I walk out the room, I spot some Lunar guards posted at my door. Ones a midnight blue therstal mare with slitted green eyes. Her helmet blocks away her mane, so I couldn't tell what color it was, but I look at her tail and see the color violet so I amuse her mane is the same color. The stallion therstal's coat color was a light gray color, his yellow eyes being slitted as well. His tail being the color of turquoise. The marks on their asses are pretty hard to tell what they are cause of their armor being in the way, so I give up on trying to figure out what they are.

They don't even look my way. They just stand there with a stoic look, not even moving a muscle what so ever.

I think I woke up a bit to early. Seeing as the Luanr guards are still out.

Oh well then. I'm up already, so might as well explore the castle for a bit. I said mentally.

I being down the hall noticing that there's Lunar guards lined against the walls, mostly mares I see and a couple of stallions. They seem to be in the same stoic attitude as the ones that are posted at my room. They all looked tired when I take a closer look at them. But my question is, why are there so many mare than stallions?

I just noticed this now. This leaves me with a bunch of questions swimming around my head waiting to be answered. I'll just ask Celestia once she's up.

An hour has gone by now after I finished the exploring of walking around the castle. In that past hour the sun has finally popped out from behind the mountains, and now shines brightly down onto the world. The Lunar guards start heading out to the barracks, and the Solar guards start to ready themselves for thier daily morning shift.

Some of the therstal mares send me winks and a few lewd looks my way. I still don't know what's up with the mares here, and why there's so many of them?

I decide to go back to my room and await the guard that's suppose to escort me to the dining hall.

Once I arrive to my room, I stop my trek towards my room as I see a Earth pony Solar mare guard at my door. She's to be waiting at my door rather flustered looking. She also seems kind of nervous, but why?

The mare has this white gray-ish coat, her eyes being a beautiful golden color that shine from the sunlight. Her silky tail being the same color of her eyes, but a shade darker. Her cutie mark is a shield crossed with dual swords with a crystal blue heart in the middle.

I walk up to her making my presence know to her. Her ears perk up and turns my way, her body going completely rigid and tense, her face having this very deep crimson blush arcoss her muzzle.

"Are you suppose to be my escort? If you are, it's nice to meet you. My name is Major Reyes or Reyes. Either one is fine." I introduce myself to her with a smile.

The mare just looks at me with a gaping mouth and flushed look. She quickly shakes her head, ridding the deep blush she had leaving only a pink hue on her muzzle. She salutes and beings.

"Yes Major, I am your escort to the dining hall, and it's nice to meet you to, sir. My name is Lieutenant Brave Heart, sir." She's says in her saluting form still.

"Um....at ease Lieutenant." I say awakardly, not knowing what to say. Which she eases herself down, and looks up at me with wonder all over her eyes.

"By the way, just call my Reyes for now on. No sir, or anything like that. Just Reyes, okay?"

She nods her head in understanding.

"Good. Now let's head out to the dining hall, so I can meet up with the princess."

"Yes si-...I mean, yes of course." She corrects herself. "Follow me." She turns around and beings trotting down a hall.

I trot next to in order to keep up with her. At times I feel her brush up against my side, or her tail brushing along side mine which I just shrug off, thinking that all this is happening on accident.

We've walked down many halls, done many lefts and rights, and now we've arrived to our destination.

"Thanks for the escort Lieutenant Brave Heart. I appreciated you showing me the way." I thank her with a warming smile.

She smiles with a blush spreading across her muzzle as she looks away, rubbing her foreleg with her hoof.

"It was nothing, Reyes. I was glad to help out." She says.

I nod my head and open the door to walk into the dining hall, but stop as I hear Brave Heart calling out to me. I turn to look at her, giving her my full attention.

"What's up?" I ask.

"U-Uh...um....do y-you want to maybe h-hang out after your done m-meeting with the p-princess?" She stutters out as her hooves tap little against each other, her face looking down to the floor.

I shrug and let out a grunt. "Sure. Why not? Meet me back out here once I'm done, ok?"

Her head springs up with a wide smile, her eyes sparkling as she looks up at me.

"Really?! You mean it?!" I nod my head at her. She jumps up at me, wrapping her hooves around my neck, and she nuzzles the side of my face.

She quickly gets off me, her blush deepening further on her muzzle. She grins up at me sheepishly.

"Hehe, s-sorry about that."

I crack a smile and shake my head. These ponies are way to touchy and to damn nice. I like it.

"It's ok. Now I gotta go meet up with the princess."

We give our goodbyes, and head out our respected ways.

As I open the door, I hear a distant 'squee' going off. Shaking my head to rid of the weird noise, and I walk in.

I spot Celestia conversating with a couple of ponies at the dining table. Two of them being alicorn mares, but not as tall as Celestia. Then there's the two unicorn mares.

I make my presence know, as I walk up the table. The mares at the table pause their conversation and all look up at me.

"Ah! Major Reyes, it's good to see that your finally here. I was just introducing you to all the ponies here today." Celestia says with a motherly tone.

"Wow Auntie Celestia, you weren't kidding when you said he's tall, and looked incredibly dashing." A mare with pearly white coat and blonde wavy mane gasps out in surprise. A blush forming on her face, fanning herself as she looks at me.

"Wait what?! Princess Celestia, his rank is Major?!" Another white coated mare with three different shades of blue on her mane yells out in surprise. Which Celestia replys with a nod of her head.

I nod my head to all of them, ignoring the comments I heard from the mares. "It's nice to meet you all. I'm Major Reyes, as you all know already. I'm a high qualified military officer, trained to do infiltration mission, recon missions, and direct action missions. I'm a lone wolf when it comes to my job." I speak out dully, keeping a straight face as I do so.

"I'm Princess Luna, night bringer of the moon, and co-ruler of Equestria." The midnight alicorn says with much power in her voice.

"I'm Princess BlueBelle, niece of Princess Celestia and of Princess Luna." The blonde mare says, sending a wink my way.

"I'm Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, or just Cadence is fine. I'm the ruler of the Crystal Empire." The pink princess says with a bubbly attitude, a sweet smile spreading across her muzzle.

The mare with the three different shades of blue on her mane, gets off her seat, and walks up to me. She looks up at me with a glare. "Listen up buddy, I know your not from around here, and don't know who most of us are, but if you so much as cause any trouble or hurt anypony, I'll be sure to make your life a living Tartarus. Got that? I'm Gleaming Shield, Princess of the Crystal Empire, and Captain of the Royal Guard. And that pink pony over there is my wife. Try anything with her, and I'll beat you to a pulp." She says in a deadly whisper.

I look down at the mare with a bored look. I let out a grunt, "Hmprh, cute. Your trying to threaten me." I say in my deep gruff voice which everyone in the dining room hears.

Gleaming flinches back, a blush forming on her cheeks from the comment.

"Look, you can't just assume that I'm going to cause trouble or hurt anyony just because I'm not from around here. Ya I get it that your just doing this because your want to keep your family safe, but you can't just make assumptions about me like that before getting to know me."

"He's right Gleaming. Now leave that handsome stallion alone, and come sit back down at the table and stop acting all tough around him. We all know what your trying to do anyways." Cadence says to her wife as the trio of mares start to giggle.

Gleaming's face turns into a fury of red, her ears also turning red at the tips. "Shut up! I'm not trying to do anything."

I scratch the back of my head in confusion. I really don't know what the hell is going on. Gleaming goes back to her seat next to wife, and sits there with pouting blushing face.

"Have a seat sir Reyes, breakfast will be done shortly." Celestia says.

I nod my head, and walk up to seat next to BlueBelle, I sit down and adjust myself to get comfortable.

"Sir Reyes, is that one of your weapons you were talking about last night? The one strapped to your back leg." Celestia asks with curiosity.

I nod my head in reply.

"May I see it?"

I nod again. I take my suppressored desert eagle with my magic, take out the clip, and cock it back to see if there's any bullets in it. After that's all done, I float it to her. She grabs it in her magic, scanning her eyes sharply over it. She scans every little detail about it with much percision.

"What does it do?" Luna chimes in.

"It shoots out 50. Cal bullets, at high speeds. It can shoot from short to median range only. The gun has a lot of recoil to it. It's a very powerful weapon." I state simply.

"Do you mind showing us a demonstration on how it shoots?"
Gleaming is the next to ask, as she seems interested in the weapon.

"Not here. I don't want to end up having the bullets ricocheting anywhere, and hurting somepony."

Questions start bubbling into my head, remembering the certain question I wanted to ask Celestia.

"Hey Princess Celestia, why are there so many mares here? I just noticed this today, so I was curious to ask."

"Well the reason to that is because our mare population out dues the stallion population. It's rare when a foal colt is born. There are so many stallions with sperm that only carry only XX chromosomes, and not many carry XY chromosomes. So the population now is 80% mares and 30% stallions." She states simply, not looking up to me as she keeps her eyes trained on my sidearm.

"What?!" I scream out uncharacteristically.

They all look at me with weird looks from the sudden out burst. They Gleaming is the next to speak. "Jeez Reyes, it's like if you don't know anything that's going on around here."

"That's because I don't." I sigh out. Everyone in the room looks at with confusion now, wondering what I mean. "Look, girls, I'm going to be dead honest with you guys. I'm not from here, and I mean literally not from here as in this planet or maybe even dimension. I'm not even suppose be a pony. Back in my world I was a human. I was on a mission on New Years Eve the year being 2025. I was infiltrating a base to collect intel on the enemy, and then destroy their base. But it ended all to shit after I walked into a room armed with nuclear bombs. I set off an alarm after trying to disarm the bombs, and the whole room I was in got swarmed with enemies. I didn't have a way out, so the only way I was going to complete my mission was to sacrifice myself."

The mares gasp at this. They seem to be listening intently, taking every word I say.

"I blew up the bombs and in return destroyed the base and everyone in it, and now I'm here. Alive. As a pony." I finish off with my normal dull look.

I let everyone soak up the information. But before anyone can ask me any questions, the waiters come out with the breakfast. Celestia floats back me my side arm, and I strap it back to my back leg, putting the clip back in and putting the safety on.

We all ate quietly. Not one daring to speak up about anything or ask any questions. I know they probably don't believe. I can tell that they think I'm some crazy person making up random shit, so I speak up about it.

"You guys don't believe me, do you?" I ask, not looking up from my food.

The one to reply back is Luna. "Sir Reyes, do you really think some foolish made up story like that can get you out of the trouble your in for breaking into the castle?" She says rather dangerously calm.

"Sorry your highness, but it's not a foolish story."

She snorts out rather un-princess like, and continues to her breakfast.

"How do you think I have these strange weapons? Weapons that haven't been seen before, or even the gear I have with me. I'm pretty sure all these things look pretty alien to you, right?"

"He has a point there Auntie Luna. We've never seen weapons like his before. Maybe he's telling the truth and I can also sense in his heart that he has no ill intentions toward anyone. His heart is just......," she pauses, as she turns to look at me, giving a sad look, "...devoided of any emotions. No love in his heart." The last part she says rather quietly.

"I still don't believe him. For all we know he could've made those weapons himself to assassinate us, and we are here just letting him eat at the table like nothing ever happened last night!" She looks to her older sister and continues to voice of all this bullshit. "Sister this is absurd! He's a criminal, and we should have him in the dungeons for breaking into the castle and lying to us by making up false stories."

Everyone looks to Celestia; she just has this calm look on her face, as if saying 'everything is alright.' She smiles. That smile, god, it will never get old. She looks toward me with her warming smile, as I look back at her with my dull look.

"Sir Reyes...," she pauses for a bit,".....do mind letting me use a spell that lets me go into your mind and see your memories to see if your telling the truth?"

I shake my head. "I don't mind at all." I reply back.

Everyone being shocked at this. The rest of the mares look at me with very shocked looks, especially Luna.

She nods her head back and gets up off her chair and walks up next to me.

"I'll be bringing everyone with me to see your memories, if that's fine with you?"

"That's fine."

Celestia's horn glows with power. My body feeling ehxausted and eyelids feeling heavy. Last thing I see is the that warm smile of Celestia's.

Why does she gotta be so damn nice? Damn her and these ponies for showing such affections. They make me feel weird.

I quickly fall asleep. Awaiting for the darkness that awaits for me.