Last of Earth

Down below the castle of Canterlot, in the Crystal caverns where nopony dared go anymore, a lone Solar guard quickly trotted into a long hallway made to replicate the hallway of Celestia's courtroom. On the very end of the hall stood two large crystals that blocked all view of the room behind them. In front of the crystals stood two heavily armed guards wearing bright red armour and had what looked to be a crossbow with an auto loading system on the sides of their huge saddles. He trotted up to the guards and quickly said the password to gain entrance into the room behind them.

"Technology is the curse and the cure." He said.

The guards nodded and stepped aside while the crystals simultaneously moved aside with them. The Solar guard stepped into the room where his leader sat, looking into his scrying glass with a large cloak draped over his form. The guard could not see anything except for his eyes; those eyes shone bright red just like the guards armour outside. He bowed.

"You have something to report my faithful spy?" his leader asked in a wheezy voice. Almost as if something where covering his face.

"Yes glorious one. I have seen the impossible happen. A pony my worship, has just been instated as the new Captain of the NLG."

"That is something I already know about. Is this all?" His leader asked.

"No. The pony in question......he has.....Technology sir. Technology that has never been seen before. An entire armor system that heals himself."

His master's eyes took on a new shape. One filled with curiosity. "Hmmmm. Armor you say. Could it have a connection between the ship we found in the Everfree?"

"I know not my Lord. Our engineers have not been able to pierce the haul of the ship yet. The metal is to strong. "

The cloaked put a hoof underneath his hood as if he where rubbing his chin. "And what has Celestia said about this?" He inquired.

The guard merely shrugged. "She has not said anything other than to make sure that you get inside that vessel."

The cloaked figure stood. The guard shuddered at the sight of where his back right leg should have been. "Well then, I propose that we hire somepony to do our work for us. Somepony strong, quick witted, and not afraid of an adventure. Get that one mare we had do the temple job and see if she would like to survey an alien ship. Then forge a letter from Celestia to this new pony saying that we would like him to accompany our mare to the ship and make sure that nothing happens. We will be able to kill two birds with one stone."

The guard nodded. "Sir, if it's the same to you. I believe that if we forged a letter from Princess Luna it would go over better. Celestia is not very high on this ponies list of respectable beings."

His master just nodded and swept a hoof for him to leave. He did so without a second thought. He had his list of things to do and he would complete his tasks to the best he could. The first thing to do was to hire that mare.

Daring Doo sat in her home looking over her new volume of her book series. She sighed and set the book down looking for something else to occupy her time. It had been a good five months since her last adventure and she was getting bored. True she had been invited to many a high class party, but those where still boring beyond belief. She needed something new, something that she would never expect to happen. She was brought out of her thinking by quick hoof beats at her front door.  She trotted to the door and opened it only to find a letter on the ground with a bright red seal. She looked around, grabbed the letter in her mouth, and returned indoors to read it. She recognized the seal almost immediately once it was brought into the light. She opened it and after several minutes of reading squealed in excitement. Not only where the bits good, she could keep whatever she could carry.

"An alien ship crash landing in the Everfree? And THEY want me to go and survey it! BEST JOB EVER!" she thought to herself.

She scrambled around her house gathering things and throwing them into her suitcase. She arrived at her wardrobe and quickly threw on her adventurer outfit, grabbed her suitcase, and ran for the door. She was nearly out it when she realized her hat was missing. She reached her hoof through the closing door and grabbed it at the last second before the door closed. Daring threw the hat on and flew as fast as she could for the Canterlot train station. This was going to be the adventure of a life time.