NOIRE POV

"'Bout time the two of you got out of there. I thought that Curdle turned the two of you into her lab rats," Windy hollered at the end of the hall as both me and Burning left the medical ward, fully healed and rested "Now you've got to tell me what those moves were and all that giant super cool sword thing you did back there," Windy's ranting became to fast to follow as I began to lose interest. I checked outside, the sun was at its peak, meaning we only slept for 2 or 3 hours. Fast healing really has its perks. I turned back to Burning, who was just as lost as me when it came to what Windy was saying but he was more calm about. Figures seeing as he's worked with him longer than I have. Eventually, his ranting became understandable and he began waving a poster in front of us while we walked "... so I've decided that the two of you need to experience that Crystal Empire nightlife! You're coming with me on our day off to the Wub Club!" he finished.

"The Wub Club?" I asked "Sorry but I don't think guards would be welcomed there, let alone mythical human guards,"

Windy only shrugged it off "Don't be such a worry wart! We won't be in our uniforms and I'm a regular there as well as a few of our own guards when they're not protecting the peace," I was about to make another excuse bother he closed my mouth with his finger "And before you say 'I need to protect Cadance. I am her bodyguard.' I already went over it with Cadance and she said you need to make more male friends and who better than your military equals in a booming club,"

I was still hesitant to leave Cadance alone but Burning also pitched in, putting his hand on my shoulder "Your princess is tougher than she looks; She'll be okay. Plus, if we don't go, Windy will moan about it all week," he said, motioning towards Windy's pouting face. It was quite clear he was telling the truth. Realising I was fighting an uphill battle, I sighed and nodded. Windy's frown turned into a cheery smile once again and fist pumped.

"GREAT! I'll see both of you at the end of our shifts, got it?" we both nodded absentmindedly "Good!" he walked away happily, leaving us alone. Burning also left to his business; I guessed being a general was a harder job than it looked. That reminded me I had to my job protecting my princess so I hurried off to the throne.

When I reached my bed, I collapsed on it and embraced my pillow like a baby. I thought that most of the nobles would have at least have a real problem. What made this even worse is that my first and according to Cadance, that was a good day. Sometimes I wish they never decided to move here only because of the fact it was made of crystals. To distract myself from my horrible shift, I turned over and glanced at the open wardrobe, where my clothes from Earth and new uniforms were laid out for me to see. A note was also attached to my casual clothes. I picked it off with my magic and read it:

When I saw your clothes in such a dreadful state from your fight with Twilight's brother, I just knew I needed to help. That's why you now have your clothes back in wearing condition. You also have your regular clothes and a suit for the gala in a couple of months. Make sure you protect Canterlot so we get to enjoy it!

With love, Rarity

"That was nice of her," I said to myself "Also convenient seeing as I have to meet Windy and Burning... OH, SHIT!" I rocketed out of my bed and teleported my armour and uniform off and got dressed. Before I knew it, I was out of my room and running to my destination. On my way, I passed a mentally exhausted Cadance, who gave me a tired smile and wave as if to say "Have fun with the boys!" which I reciprocated. Before I could travel any further, Cadance yelled,

"You do know you could teleport right?!" I facepalmed at my stupidity and teleported to the front gate of the castle.

WINDY POV

"What's keeping Noire? It's been a whole two minutes since the end of his shift," I said, tapping my toe in anticipation "He agreed to come with us to the club and now he's flaking?! I swear when I find him I'm gonna-"

"Noire's a guard and Cadance's personal guard at that. He can't be everywhere you want him to be and on time," Burning said. He was dressed in a grey hoodie, an orange t-shirt and jeans. I was against him wearing that hoodie from the moment I saw it. He had it since before the Empire was sealed away; the thing's probably older than the Crystal Heart! However, he said he had nothing else to wear and he had to hide his marks from the public. I wished the man went out more but seeing as it was already time, I couldn't complain too much.

At that moment, Noire teleported in front of the two of us in his attire. Thank Celestia it looked better than Burning's ancient artefacts he called clothing. "Sorry about taking so long. I had to get changed and I forgot I could teleport half of the way here," he said. I snorted at Noire's stupidity but shook it off quickly as we were supposed to be on our way.

"Save the excuses for later; the Wub Club awaits us!" I took Noire and Burning by the hand and dragged them off to our destination. Behind me, I could hear them whispering.

"Is he always like this?"

"On a good day," I could also hear a loud groan as we continued our trek.

"Welcome to the Wub Club!," I announced, flinging my arms out as Noire and Burning looked at the place. At first, I thought they were in awe as the Wub Club wasn't your average club. The building was completely dome-shaped; large enough to fit 2 stories but still concealed within the streets of the Empire. The neon lights shone through the windows and the sounds of enjoyment were pouring out of every open space. However, the neutral faces on the pair fueled my dissatisfaction "Really?! Nothing?!,"

"Dome-shaped buildings on Earth aren't that uncommon," Noire said.

"There's a giant dome-shaped stadium for the Equestria Games here, Windy. They are not uncommon here either," Burning added.

I pouted my lips and crossed my arms "I'm sorry; Trottingham doesn't have dome-shaped buildings so they're not common to me, okay?," I said passive aggressively "Let's just go in," I motioned for both of them to follow him and hurried towards the building with the pair of them following behind. When we were walking towards it, I could hear their chatter.

"Trottingham?," Noire asked. Burning turned to him and responded.

"It's a town to the south. Windy used to live in the woods, attacking corrupt nobles taxing money out of the poor and returning it to them, much to the mayor's dismay,"

"He sounds like Robin. He did the same thing only he was just folklore in my world," Their discussion took me back to those times, where I yet to meet someone as truly noble as Cadance.

FLASHBACK, TROTTINGHAM WOODS, 3 YEARS AGO

I soared through the dense trees, on my tail was a fleet of Trottingham's finest guard and in my pocket, a small bag of bits belonging to a poor family "GET BACK HERE, YOU SCOUNDREL!," I almost forgot about the no-name noble flailing his arms about in anger as his carriage chased me through the forest due to the dense trees and arrows sent my way. Soon, the canopy of trees cleared to reveal the rays of Celestia's sun; the perfect place to finish this. I stopped and landed on the ground, giving the guards the opportunity to surround me. "Good! He has grown tired of this, as have I. Now return to me my money and I will think about reducing your sentence," the noble then burst into a fit of laughter "We'll reduce your death from tomorrow to today!" his terrible joke made some of the guard facepalms. I got down on one knee and raised both my arms and wings up in the air in surrender. The noble and guards seemed to believe my mock surrender as the noble motioned for a pegasus guard to chain me.

As he approached, he whispered "Sorry, I believe what you're doing is right but a job's a job," it seemed that there were some good guards here after all. Almost made what I was about to do hard.

"Me too," I said with a wink. Before the guard could back away, I brought my wings down with all my effort, sending me soaring into the air. The whirlwind sent a dozen guards flying away as I readied 3 electric arrows and fired at a group of guards, hitting them in the shoulder. In seconds the entire troop was cleared, leaving only me, the pegasus, who stayed in the eye of the storm and the noble, who was cowering in his carriage. I took a deep breath and sighed, just another day.

That was what it was supposed to be until I saw a pink pony above me. A pony with a horn and wings.

All three of us entered the club. As expected, it was packed with ponies drinking partying or trying to get in each other's pants; a classic club setting. I beckoned Noire and Burning over to the bar for drinks "The drinks here are the best in the city; if anything is gonna get you hammered it's this," the bartender served us 3 of the empire's best drinks but the two of them only looked at them blankly.

"I'll have water. I have vowed not to drink by the oath of Burning Fist," Burning said plainly. It was reasonable; gotta stay committed. I looked at Noire for his excuse but he just bottomed the shot entirely. From the squint of his eyes, I could tell that was his first drink. I smiled and passed the other one to him while taking my own shot.

"This stuff is sour as all Tartarus. Got anything with less of a kick, barkeep?" he asked. He served him up a Blue Moonlight; a drink that only started being served when Luna brought it over during her first visit to the Crystal Empire after her return. All three of us kept drinking until the DJ started playing a less terrible song.

"Okay, men! We've had our fill of beverages and now we hit the dancefloor," I yelled drunkenly as I pointed towards the dancefloor.

"I don't dance," both of them said. I pouted and but decided to leave them be. I shrugged and went to the dancefloor but kept my eye on the two to make sure they didn't leave. From where I was, I could see two women approach them.

"Look what we got here, Topaz, a hunky stallion desperate for some action. What do you think of him," said a green unicorn, pressing her boobs between her arms?

"Super handsome! Hey there, stallion, would you like to have some fun with two gorgeous women like ourselves!" said a green Pegasus, turning to the side to show off her ass to Burning. Unamazed, Burning got up and looked at Noire.

"I'm going to use the bathroom. Entertain these two women for me, Noire?" he said as he walked off. Noire was muttering something inaudible but it was obvious he wasn't pleased.

NOIRE POV

"Dammit Burning, couldn't you have held it?" I muttered as the two mares pondered audibly about what to do.

"Celestia dammit, I thought that would've gotten him. Now we're left with his uglier monkey friend," said Emerald loudly. It was like they didn't know I could hear them from less than a metre away. Topaz turned to get a good look at me before turning back to Topaz.

"I don't know, he looks kind of cool with that mane and eyes. Like some kind of strong, silent hero guy," Topaz replied.
I was about to leave until two stallions, one red unicorn and a blue earth pony who were supposed to be their husbands came and took them away. I remained in my position until Windy returned, looking a little down.

"I saw what happened. I'm sorry if you're not enjoying yourself and forcing yourself to stay to keep me happy," he said.

"Don't worry about it; I'm used to feeling out of place. Plus, I came here to not only make you happy but to test a theory of mine, which has proven itself to be true," Windy was confused by my statement, his tilt of the head pleading an explanation. I sighed before continuing "Back on Earth, I didn't really connect with others that well and that caused me to become isolated from the world, only leaving my house to get fresh air and food. I wanted to know if I could make friends here in Equestria but so far, it's been proven that I'm just as bad at making friends here than I was on Earth,"

Windy smiled as he sat down in a seat "Silly Noire, can't you see? You already have lots of friends! Me, Burning, Curdle and that changeling chick you came in with," I was about to question him about how he knew Ayra was a changeling but he beat me to it "As for how I know, that's a story for another day. Know like I was saying, stop worrying about the past and enjoy the present you've been given; a new life in a magical world with a super hot marefriend who is also a princess and a super cool dead shot archer," he patted my back in reassurance.

"What am I; chopped tomatoes?" Burning said, re-joining us at the table,

"It's chopped liver but good enough. Now, let's get out of here before you two get hit on again," he said. We all laughed and left the club.

WINDY POV

When we made it back to the castle, I was completely stoned. I decided to take the three of us on a detour, hitting different bars around the empire and drinking until I felt upside down. At one of them, I almost got into a fight with a bunch of stallions and Noire had to take them down non-lethally while Burning stopped me from joining. During the fight, Noire made a brand, new blade shaped like a gauntlet that I named the 'Smashingblade' in my drunken state. We ventured through the halls, Burning and Noire talking about new training routines and attempting this 'code enchanting' Noire thought of on the train. I couldn't remember much but I could hear them talk once they put me to bed.

"So, I kinda know how you joined the guard but what about Windy? He doesn't appear to be a crystal pony so how did Cadance and Shining find him?"

"Cadance found him after he took out a group of personal guards except for one who he considered truly 'noble'. She was interested in his ability with a bow and creating such strong gusts of wind and recruited him and the stallion into the guard after forcing the mayor to step down. That started the idea of three corps of guards of each race trained in their races' specialities but that's enough for now. I'm going back to my room. See you in the morning," Burning left the room leaving only me and Noire.

"Still, I was never told why he started rebelling," he looked at me, pretending to be asleep "Probably because he thought it was the right thing to do," he said before leaving as well. I opened my eyes and looked towards the ceiling, a faint memory passing through my mind, reminding me of simpler times.

"Mom? Are you proud of what I did back then, of what I am?"

Author's Note

This took longer than I thought but the second part of my general origins is done! Hope you liked this one! Criticism is always appreciated (As much as it hurts my writing self-esteem) and I hope you stay around for the last part.

Stay dizzy. Wuzzy out.