Morning had shined over Ponyville, but at the Sweet Apple Acres, a new face would be awakening on the on the farm.

Inside the family's guest room, Xavier, a anthromorphic hedgehog from outer space who's species were known as Malitronians, was waking up to the sun shinning into the room. He looked around before rising from the bed. He did a few stretches before looking out the window to the sun.

"After so long. It feels good to wake up to sun shine for once."

Xavier looked around a bit more, noticing something was missing. "That's weird. Where's Circuit?"

Xavier then threw his clothes on real quick before walking out of the room and heading downstairs. On his way down, he had crossed paths with Apple Bloom who was carrying a plate of apple buttered toast on it.

"Oh. Mornin' Xavier. Applejack asked me to bring some breakfast up to you."

Xavier was handed the plate and he began taking a few bites. "Morning to you to Apple Bloom. Hey. Have you seen Circuit? I couldn't find him when I woke up."

"Oh. Your little floating friend? He said something about you might need to know your way around our homeland so he went over to Twilight's to look over some maps for you guys to use."

"Sounds like Circuit. Where's the rest of your family?"

"Outside. We're doing our usual apple and pear bucking."

After making sure Xavier had his plate, Apple Bloom was about to head back out when.

"Mind if I come help?"

"Well. We don't wanna have to ask a guest-."

"It's okay. I could use a something to do."

"Alright. I guess Applejack won't mind a little extra help. Follow me."

Xavier walked out of the house behind the young filly as she lead him to where the rest of the Apple family were doing they're usual morning routines to make their living. Applejack and Big Macintosh were both bucking trees, knocking some apples and some new pear trees free of their fruit while Granny Smith and Grand Pear were grabbing and hauling them to the barn. Applejack was the first to notice Xavier following her little sister. "Well howdy there partner. You feeling okay after that crash of yours yesterday?"

"I'm feeling great. Thanks to Circuit's treatments, I'm healed up pretty quickly. Thought I might help you guys out if you don't mind."

"Well... I suppose it wouldn't hurt. Just don't hurt yourself partner."

"No problem."

"Well for now. Would you mind helping Granny and Grand Pear with them buckets to the barn?"

"Sure thing."

Xavier walked over to a tree and picked up a few buckets and began following the two elder ponies to the barn. After dropping the buckets off in the barn, the three headed back to pick up their next load of pears and apples when they heard a snapping noise. The three and Applejack were the first to notice that an old tree was on the verge of snapping... With Grand Pear being the one right in front of it.

Applejack watched as the tree began giving out. "Grand Pear! Look out!"

The tree would've came down on the old stallion had the most shocking thing to the ponies had occurred.

At a speed that could rival even that of Rainbow's, Xavier moved in between the tree and Grand Pear and, beyond anyponies surprise, Xavier held the tree back with one hand before moving it so it would land on the ground with ease.

"You okay old timer?"

The ponies were speechless as the looked to him in astonishment. "What?"

"How did you-? The only time I saw somepony that strong was when Tirek was still around."

"Oh. That. Well you see, my kind are know to have enhanced strength and abilities. How do you think I survived the crash."

Applejack was surprised a bit to learn this about her new friend. "Well... That's pretty amazin'."

"Eeyup."

Apple Bloom then ran over and hugged Xavier's leg.

"Thank you so much for saving Grand Pear Pear."

"Even I have to say thank you for saving me young man."

"Hey. It was no problem."

"Well young ins. Now it's time to collect from the special one."

Xavier was confused at the term "special" as he followed the family to a hidden area where there were two trees grown together into one with an empty space between two top branches. One was growing apples, the other growing pears. "Wow. I've seen quite a few things in the galaxy, but two tree intertwined and is a perfect symbol of a family. That's beyond amazing."

Applejack pulled her Stetson hat off as she looked to the two in one tree. "Our parents planted these two trees side by side when they first got married. Our mah was a part of the pear family while our pa was a part of the apple family. And when they finally became husband and wife, they planted an apple seed and pear seed together. And this tree here is to immortalize the love they had that brought us into this world."

Xavier looked to the tree in astonishment. He even had a small tear in his eye. "I'd say you guys were lucky to have such wonderful and loving parents."

"Mr. Xavier? You alright?"

Xavier shook his head a bit while whipping away his tears. "Yeah. I'm okay kid. Just a few memories. So you guys wanna pluck the apples and pears from it."

Applejack placed her Stetson back on as she looked to the tree. "We certainly do. But it may take a while. See we prefer to pick rather than buck from this tree. We'd rather avoid damaging something planted so long ago by our parents."

"I may have a solution to get them down quickly."

"I don't know."

"Applejack. I promise I won't lay a scratch on it. You have my word."

"Well... Alright. What the hay. What do you have to do?"

"For now, just put some buckets around the tree."

The family did as they were told and after they were finished, Xavier smiled as he approached the tree and raised one finger. Everyone was surprised when the finger he held up began to be covered in a kind of blue glow. He then gently tapped the tree and after a few seconds all of the pears and apples came falling down into the buckets.

"There you go big fella. I may be strong. But I'm also gentle."

"APPLEJACK!"

They all turned to see Twilight and the girls along with Spike and Circuit running into the farm land.

"What's goin on y'all?"

Twilight was the first to speak. "I just received a message from Princess Celestia! Somehow King Sombra has returned and is attacking the Crystal Empire! They want us to meet them there and help stop Sombra!"

"All you had to do was say something sugar cube! Granny Smith?"

"I know Applejack. I know. Get going to help your friends."

Applejack smiled as she and the others took off running. As soon as they were out of sight, Grand Pear looked to Granny Smith, his grandchildren, Xavier, and Circuit. "Well. Let's get these to the barn."

Big Mac, Granny Smith, and Apple Bloom all gathered some buckets and began heading to the barn. Macintosh noticed Xavier and Circuit were hanging back. "Y'all comin?"

"We'll catch up. You guys go on ahead."

Big Mac stood confused for a moment before following the rest of his family, leaving Xavier and Circuit as the hedgehog looked in the direction the girls ran off to.

"Circuit? Apple Bloom said you went with Twilight to scan maps to review all of their Equestria land right?"

"Yes sir."

"So by chance do you know where this Crystal Empire is?"

"Indeed I do sir."

"One more question. Is my sword still on our ship?"

"Ummm... Yes sir. Why?"

"Because we're about to take a trip."

Meanwhile, at the Crystal Empire, things were beyond troubling. The empire was filled with what appeared to be shadowponies and some were even the same soldiers that once served the Storm King. In the center of all of the evil soldiers stood King Sombra himself. He and his army were making their way towards the center of the empire, and what was there. The Crystal Heart itself. However in his way stood Princesses Celestia, Luna, and Cadance, Shining Armor, Flash Sentry, and some others. These others included Starlight (who was there to visit Sunburst), Sunburst himself, Trixie(who had come with Starlight), and surprisingly, Tempest.

Sombra approached the group as they all stood in front of the Crystal Heart. "Thought I was gone for good didn't you Princess?"

"How did you come back Sombra?!"

"Oh that's very simple. It turns out your little dragon friend getting you the Crystal Heart didn't completely finish me off like you thought. Small parts of my dark magic remained which stored my life in it. For many years I was doing anything and everything just to keep myself alive. However I soon found myself in Canterlot, where at the same time, you had defeated the Storm King himself. And while you did drain his staff of your magic, there was still just a little left for me to merge with my own. Using it, I managed to recreate my body. But I knew that still wouldn't be enough, so I sought out a magic you had banished most of but not all of. The leftover magic from the Pony of Shadows. Combining both with my dark magic, allowed me to gain even more powerful abilities. Then as time went by and I began regaining my strength, I soon began creating my army of shadowponies. But I had feeling that wouldn't be enough to retake the Crystal Empire. Then I found out there were some of Storm King's old followers who were still loyal to him and were seeking vengeance against those who destroyed him. I made a deal with them. In exchange for joining my army, I would give them the chance to take that vengeance." Sombra looked towards Tempest, who glared in return.

"You won't harm anyone while we're here!"

Everypony was surprised when the Mane 6 appeared in flash beside their friends. Sombra simply smirked at the group.

"Ah. The very group who stopped me once. But I think you'll be more than willing to not stand in my way this time. Instead I'm sure you'll be willing to hand over the Crystal Heart this time."

Rainbow flapped her wings arrogantly. "Don't bet on it pal!"

"Oh. I believe you will. Because you only have two options. Either you all step aside and hand over the Crystal Heart to me. Or..."

Sombra motioned for one of the storm soldiers to approach to the front. And when he did, to everyone's shock, the storm soldier was holding a struggling Flurry Heart in his hands. "I drain the magic from the Crystal Princess's daughter."

"You monster. If you harm my daughter I'll-."

"Ah. Ah. Crystal Prince. You don't have too long to make your choice. And all that time your making pointless threats to me, you could be thinking about what choice you want to make. But let's be honest, I'm not giving you a choice at all. Either you give me the Crystal Heart, or you daughter loses her magic, and possibly her life."

The group stood strong as Sombra began charging his horn and aiming it a bit towards Flurry's. "Going... Going..."

Though hesitant at first, Cadance knew the only choice she could make. "Okay. Okay. We'll step aside."

With that everyone moved out of the way. But to their surprise, Sombra laughed as his horn kept charging. "Oh you ponies are far too trusting. Why exchange the raw alicorn magic this child holds in exchange for the Crystal Heart?... When I could easily have both."

The ponies then watched in horror as Sombra was about to use his magic on Flurry's horn when...

In the blink of an eye, Sombra found the storm soldier on the ground and Flurry nowhere in sight. "What the!"

"Hey buddy."

Everypony turned to see Xavier standing on the nearby statue of Spike. With Flurry Heart in his arms. "I've seen a lot of messed stuff in the galaxy, but seeing a power mad maniac willing to harm a child. It took the cake every time."

Then, before anyone knew it, Xavier appeared in front of his friends and walked to Cadance and Shining. "I believe Sombra said this little girl belongs with you two."

Cadance took Flurry in her hooves with Shining by her side. "Flurry. Thank heavens your safe!"

"Xavier?" Twilight and the girls approached him with astonishment. "How did you get here? What are you doing here anyways?"

"I'll explain later Twilight. Right now, I want you and your friends to step back and let me take things from here."

Xavier began walking off towards Sombra and his small army while the girls looked on in shock. "Xavier? With all due respect, but even with how strong you are, do you really think you can take them on?"

Xavier continued walking off while Circuit appeared in front of the girls. "Ladies. I wouldn't worry about Master Xavier. He's handled worse than this before."

Flash stood beside the girls as the all watched Xavier approach Sombra. "I hope your new friend knows what he's doing Princess Twilight."

"You and me both."

Xavier had stopped walking as soon as he was in front of Sombra and his army. "So you're Sombra? You know how about we do things simple. You and your friends there give up and back off. Or I start bringing the pain."

Sombra simply looked to Xavier with a blank expression before he began laughing arrogantly. "You? The princesses, the elements of harmony, not even the entire Crystal Empire guard all together could stop me. You think you can?"

"Think? No... I've faced guys who were ten times worse than you are. I don't think. I know I can bring you down."

Sombra scowled at Xavier as he looked to his two lead shadow ponies. "You two. Dispose of this arrogant fool."

The two shadow ponies nodded and charged in at Xavier, who stood his ground calmly. Once the shadow ponies were in reach and about to strike, Xavier, to everyone's shock, grabbed them both by their necks. After a couple of seconds of having the two struggle, Xavier threw the right one to the ground before blasting the left one into nothing with some kind of energy from his hand before doing the same to the downed right shadow pony. After the two dark magic creatures were gone he looked back to Sombra. "That all you got?"

The Mane 6 and the others stood in shock at what they had just witnessed with Fluttershy being the first to speak up. "Did... Did anypony else see that?"

"He took them varmints down like they were nothin'."

"Wow... He... Is... AWESOME!"

"Ummm... Girls? I wouldn't celebrate just yet. Because by the looks of it, Sombra's not giving up just yet."

And Twilight couldn't have been more right. Sombra glared at Xavier as he gritted his teeth. "Impressive. You can handle a couple of my shadow minions. But let's see you handle all of them! Shadows! Attack!"

Every single shadow pony came from behind Sombra and charged at Xavier all at once. The others watched as Xavier simply stood where he was while reaching his for the handle to his sword.

In a flash, the shadow ponies stopped in their tracks and the ponies looked on in surprise at the sight that followed. Xavier was now behind all of the shadow ponies with his sword held firm in his hand and a smirk on his face.

Then, without even a second passing, the shadow ponies all disappeared. Everyone stood astonished at the sight with Rainbow breaking the silence first. "Did... Did anypony else see that?"

"Ah don't think Ah saw anything sugar cube. Ah didn't even see Xavier move."

Sombra was the most surprised... And angered by the outcome he now saw. "Who is this fool? And how could he be able to do any of this? He took out every single one of my shadow minions with one move. Storm soldiers! Finish this fool off!"

The soldiers looked to each other before all of them looked to Xavier who looked to them with a confident smirk on his face as he sheathed his sword. All of them then looked to each other again before they all took off running while screaming in fear. "Hey! Get back here you cowards! Destroy this fool!"

Every single storm soldier ignored Sombra and kept running until they were all out of sight. This left the ponies even more shocked, especially Tempest. "Wow, I've seen plenty of them in action and never have I ever seen them run away so scared."

Xavier looked to Sombra with high confidence. "So. What do you say we call it a day and you give up?"

Sombra glared at the hedgehog once again as he began to glow with all of the magic he had. "If you want something done right. You have to do it yourself."

Sombra soon had magical tentacles, not that different from the Pony of Shadows, that he then sent striking at Xavier. However, once they got extremely close, it appeared Xavier had disappeared, causing the tentacles to strike the ground and create a cloud of dust. "What the?! Where did he go?!"

"Try looking up pal."

Sombra looked up and went wide eyed when he saw that Xavier appeared to be flying. "Y-You can fly?!"

"Yep. And that's not even the most of what I can do."

Sombra threw his tentacles up into the air, attempting to strike Xavier. To his annoyance, Xavier was dodging every single strike with ease. "How fast is this rat?"

"Fast enough to dodge you slow poke."

Xavier continued dodging for few seconds before pulling his sword back out. He then began striking each tentacle with at fierce speed. He then charged down at Sombra and delivered a powerful kick that sent Sombra crashing into a nearby building. "I'd advise giving up if I were you buddy."

"RAAAAHHHH!"

Sombra charged out of the rubble while covering his horn in a blade of dark magic and brought it down on Xavier once he was in reach only for Xavier to bring out his sword and block it with ease. Sombra kept clashing his magic horn blade against Xavier's sword multiple times before Xavier pushed him back again with a strong kick. "Gotta admit, for a guy who doesn't have hands, you sword fight pretty well."

"You dare mock me boy?! You are nothing!"

"If I'm nothing, what does that make you?"

Sombra charged his horn and began firing multiple blasts at Xavier. Xavier simply held his sword tightly as he began deflecting the shots with his solid steel blade. At one point, Xavier managed to deflect a shot right back to where it struck Sombra in the chest armor, making a break in it. Sombra clutched the broken armor plate before noticing as Xavier came running at him. Sombra charged magic into his hooves and slamming them into the ground causing dark crystals to shoot up from the ground. Xavier simply kept going and to everyponies' surprise, he simply broke right through them with strong strikes. "Im- impossible!"

Sombra was then struck by a strong punch from Xavier that sent him to the ground. Xavier slowly approached the down Sombra with confidence. "Had enough?"

Sombra rose to his hooves as she glared daggers at the hedgehog. "Of you? YES!"

Sombra then charged his horn with all of the magic he held mixed with that of the storm and shadow magic and fired a massive and powerful magic blast at Xavier, who was then engulfed in a cloud of smoke.

The mares and stallions who stood around the Crystal Heart were shocked and also worried that their new friend and hero was destroyed. Sombra, however, was chuckling at what appeared to be his victory. "Now then. To finish what I started."

"I wouldn't bet on it."

Sombra was shocked at hearing the voice and turned to see the, as the smoke began to clear, Xavier stood without a scratch on him and was holding all of the magic thrown at him in his hand as an energy sphere. Xavier looked to see Sombra was looking to him in fright as he took a few steps back. Xavier simply smiled a bit before crushing the energy sphere in his hand.

Meanwhile, the mane 6 and the others were beyond shocked at witnessing Xavier's strength.

"That... That must've been every ounce of magic Sombra had."

"And he stored and crushed it like it was nothing at all."

Xavier cracked his fingers a bit before looking to the frightened Sombra with a grin. "I take it that was your best shot. Now... Let me show you mine."

Everyone witnessed as Xavier was soon surrounded by a blue energy forming around him. He held his hands out in front of him as small energy ball began to form and grow in size as energy began to build up. He looked to the frightened Sombra and appeared to be taking aim. "Magna... SPHERE!"

Xavier launched the sphere of energy right at Sombra. Sombra watched as the sphere closed in, frozen in fear, and let out a scream as he was engulfed in the attack. After light and smoke faded from the attack, everyone, except Xavier, was shocked to find all that remained of Sombra was his curved horn laying on the ground. The horn sparked a bit with dark magic until Xavier brought his foot down, shattering it into pieces. "And that's a wrap."

Xavier looked behind himself to see everyone looked at him with amazement and astonishment. "Ummm... What's up?"

After still standing in shock for a few more seconds, everypony in the empire began cheering for the action.

"Well... Wasn't expecting that."

The girls and Spike all ran up to Xavier in a rush. "Xavier. That was amazing! Sombra was one of the most dangerous villains in all of Equestria's history. Not to mention he also had the magics of to other villains with him as well. And you took him down like he was nothing."

"Seriously?"

"What are you talking about "seriously" partner?"

"What I mean is I don't see how he's that dangerous. I wasn't even trying against him."

"WHAT!!!"

Xavier was surprised at his friends reaction as they all surrounded him with wide eyed looks on their faces."

"Well... Maybe I should tell you all a little be more on what I can really do."

Author's Note

Btw, just to let everyone know, Xavier's sword is similar to Link's from Zelda, though more dark colored and with a bit of smaller blade.

Also if anyone sees errors. Let me know.