Rarity kept pulling me through the town of Ponyille, showing me the different locations as she dragged me to her store, which she named "Carousel Boutique." I thought it a decent name for a cloths shop, though I would have proffered "Cerberus Eats Waffles Boutique" any day of the week.

As we were getting close to her shop, a scream rang out across the town, and we both stopped in our tracks to identify where it had come from. The scream came from our left, towards the edge of town. It sounded to us like a little girls voice. Suddenly we saw three young fillies running at us at a dead sprint from our left and coming towards us.

One had fur the color of banana pudding, with red hair flowing down to just between her shoulder blades, and a pink bow in her hair. The one in the middle was a white unicorn with long, light purple and pink hair that came to her lower back. And the filly bringing up the rear was an orange pegasus with short cropped hair of a dark purple color. Each of them could have been no more than 12 or 13 years old.

They got to us and started talking over each other," Help us, we were playing near the Everfree forest when a manticore just came barging out at us." said the young unicorn as soon as they had calmed a little. As soon as she said that, the manticore appeared from a side street.

"Rarity, get the kids inside, i can hold it off!" I say.

"What do you mean, darling, you can't hold off a manticore on your own! You'll be killed!" Rarity says this and I get frustrated, spinning around and screaming,

"GET. THE. KIDS. INSIDE. NOW." not leaving any room for argument or question. She quickly tells the kids to run to the boutique, and follows after them. i sigh as she gets into the building before turning back to the manticore. The beast looks like a saber tooth cat with a scorpion tail and large, bat-like wings.

"Hey fuck face. Come and get some." I say before concentrating and requiping my R-201, firing at it's face to get it's attention on me, and away from the buildings and civilians. I slowly walk down the street towards the monster, firing on the three-round burst setting to maintain a consistent accuracy. Finally having the beasts attention, it roars and charges at me.

I quickly requip my clothing to Sabers knight armor from Fate/Zero, pulling out Excalibur at the same time, and charging the beast myself. We quickly meet up and he swipes a clawed paw at me from the right, which I immediately block with my sword, noticing it is mostly invisible save but a slight shimmer in the air all around the body of the sword, extending out a few inches past the tip and pommel of the sword.

Taking all this in in a second, I disengage from the paw and follow through with a slash at his face, but it dodges out the way and stabs at me with it's tail. I hastily dodge this attack and swing my sword up quickly, cutting into the tail at the base of the barb, almost severing it, but not quite.

The beast roars in pain, swiping at me again from the left, but I jump out the way and charge down it's left side, dragging my blade along it's side, cutting in deep, before finally finishing the cut near it's ass, turning around quickly to keep my eyes on my opponent. The beast is practically screaming in anger and pain, glaring at me before running off, back towards the forest.

I let out the pent up breath I was holding in, which I had been planning to use for my next strike, when I am suddenly tackled by three small missile's, which then latch on and don't let off. I try and drag myself up, but it seems impossible with the three fillies on top of you.

"Wow miss, that was so AWESOME!!" says the purple haired pegasus.

"Yeah, thanks fer savin us, miss." the red headed filly says next.

And bringing it to a close is the little unicorn child, "We didn't mean to make the manticore come into town, we were just trying to get away." she says apologetically.

Rarity walks up behind them to us and says "Girls, get up and introduce yourselves to our friend here before she is crushed by you." she says with a slight smirk. The three fillies then get off me and I stand up.

"Hi, i'm Scootaloo." says the young orange pegasus with the purple hair.

"I'm Sweetie Belle." the unicorn filly says.

"And ah'm Apple Bloom." says the final filly with red hair.

"AND WE ARE THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS." They yell in unison, almost taking my ears out in the process. After I check them to make sure that I don't go deaf, I turn to them.

"Hello, nice to meet you three. I'm Cameron. How come that manticore attacked you?" I ask, pointing over my shoulder in the direction the thing had run off in. I then suddenly realize that I still have my sword out and quickly requip it back into storage, before returning my attention to the three girls. Sadly though, they had noticed me putting away the sword, and immediately started to ask me questions about it.

"How'd you do that?"

"Are you a magician?"

"Why was it invisible?"

"Where did you get that fabulous armor?"

That last one had been Rarity's question, and I decided to answer it first. " I have always had it, I just don't wear it around as it is armor and is not extremely light, just try lifting the skirt and you'll understand." They each do as I say, and they open their mouths when they feel how heavy it actually is.

"Wow, that is not light." says Sweetie Belle.

I nod slightly, and say, "Exactly, and now imagine that across your body, and you will understand why i don't wear it but for battle. As for the sword, that is part of the magic that was infused into the blade as it was forged, so that it makes it harder for anyone to figure out the swords dimensions, making it easier to fool enemies when in a battle." I say.

"But why would you not want anypony to see your sword, and don't that make it harder fer you to fight with it?" asks Apple Bloom.

"How about we go inside and talk more about this, alright girls." Rarity says before dragging them back to the boutique. I slowly walk with them, letting out a small chuckle. I really am starting to like this place.

Author's Note

If you don't understand what I mean by "requip," think of Erza from Fairy Tail. If you haven't watched Fairy Tail, think of the term as putting/pulling a weapon or item of clothing out of an inventory in a game, but you don't have to take the time to get the clothes on, and you can switch weapons and armor on the fly by thinking of what you want. Though you only can requip items that you own that are stored in the inventory. The reason I have the armor of Saber from Fate/Zero, is because it was given to me by Queen Faust when she sent me to Equestria. I also have Erza's adamantine armor, a few changes of some extremely stylish wardrobe pickings, and Bell Cranels light armor from the Danmachi anime series.