Displaced: the grey eyes of the force

With the gala behind him John spent his time focused on expanding the temple and gathering more resources. With the old castle now remodeled with more towers and the wall now a nigh impenetrable. The next projects he has to do is build a hanger for the members starships as well as storage depots.

Another more practical build project is to start making the secured road from the temple to ponyville, this being a trust builder project to ease the locals minds. With construction clone crews dispatched, John leaned back and sighed, for a moment he felt a silence, in that moment everything faded away and the force was calm. John felt this and smiled as he reveled in the peace he felt.

His peace was interrupted, when a burst of fire happened above his desk, and a letter materialized from the flames.
The letter briefly falling only to come open as the ribbon holding it closed split from a mini saber he kept on his desk, which the man had grabbed when the flames appeared. Using the force John read the letter, identifying the writing as Celestia’s.

Noting the main reasons for the letter, as he quickly found after he quickly scanned the letter.

Firstly she wanted to inform him of a world leaders meeting that was taking place in a months time and that He was requested to attend.

Secondly that a trottingham orphanage was burned down, none inside were hurt, but it is completely destroyed, and ponyville is being asked to take them all. This was mostly her asking him to intercede and assist, the best he could figure, not really a big issue.

Thirdly, there was a group of nobles, who she said he could trust, who had come to her for a way to speak to the man. Something that had him both impressed and cautious about due to the multiple times he had to run off stubborn nobles who harassed the locals at ponyville, something he found annoying as it made his current standing dip due to their attitudes, he had taken to leaving several squads of specialists clones and a battalion of droids.

The final part of letter revealed that there was a tournament being held by the world nations two weeks after the meeting. The man's emotions towards it were confused, annoyed, and surprised.

He was confused by that at first wondering why she wrote it, followed by annoyed once it clicked that she wished for him to come with her, and possibly fight in it, and lastly surprised at her even asking him to come with, figuring she would have simply used her best fighters for it. Surprise came lastly when he thought that maybe she did it out of necessity and pressure rather than willing, though she figured he might go regardless.

Standing up John left his room walking along the halls of the temple upon entering the ground floor he could hear the telltale sounds of learning coming from classes. This put a smile on his face as he exited the main doors to see several adept students training with the beginner sabers and speeders. Leaving the classes he walked to where the bridge would be noting the beginnings of a road heading towards the location. Turning around he made his way to his personal temple meditation chamber where he would often go to calm himself and to practice several different force techniques such as force mind walking and mind projecting.

Changing out of his current outfit, his heavy robes and chest plate vambrace and shin high guards. To a set of standard grey robes he uses when he projects from long distances. Upon changing he walked out towards his meditation chair he tends to use. Lowering himself to the chair he began his steps to prepare himself.

As he meditated and prepared himself he remembered a technique that a Jedi had used before to project himself in another area while he remained where he was. Once he had calmed himself enough he began to channel the force while focusing on canterlot, more specifically on Celestia.

With his focus on the solar diarch he mentally projected himself where she was. This ended up with his projection appearing in the middle of the throne room with dozens of nobles and guards all equally shocked at his surprise appearance.

“Greetings, princess Celestia, wonderful day isn’t it?” The man asked watching a slight smirk briefly adorn her muzzle.

“Hello John how are you?” She asked as she walked down from her throne.

“I’m fine, other than a particular letter I received, it has been a fine day.” The man said as he watched the rest of the room.

“Oh and what is troubling you about this letter?” The princess asked knowing it was her letter from earlier.

“Well other than the anonymous tip about an orphanage being burned down and an obvious plea for my intervention as well as said anonymous individual alerting me to an interesting group here in canterlot, I’ve been intrigued.” The man said as he rubbed his beard with his biological hand. His words sent a murmur through the crowd of nobles.

“That is most interesting indeed.” The princess said neutrally, as she motions for John to follow her

John briefly used the force to tap into her mind and receive the name or names he needed, once that was done he moved to match her pace. The two left the throne room as the nobles left seeing as their diarch had, more or less, forgot them.

“There was news that a tournament was coming up soon, I personally enjoy a good tourney, but don't know where or when it is happening. I believe it would be an excellent learning exercise for my advanced students.” The man said watching the princess’s expression changed slightly as he mentioned his students.

“Yes, the pan equis tournament, it is being held in the city state of sheeplton. It was decided that they would have the honor of hosting it this year after the botched tourney last year in the caribou lands. It was majority agreement the tournament was to be hosted by some of the smaller nations for the next few years.” The princess said as she and John walked down the hall. “This was mainly to improve the trade of all the small nations.”

John, having heard her words,nodded sagely and folded his arms as the robes wide sleeves covered his one good arm and his cybernetic one. The two carried on their walk in silence for a few minutes before John spoke.

“When you sent the letter, the tournament, were you expecting me to do the fighting?” He asked as they came to a stop.

“I would have asked you outright, due to the lack of skilled knights here in equestria, but it was mostly if you would bring some of your more experienced students.” She said watching the man’s semi hidden face.

“Like I said it would be a perfect learning opportunity for my current top students. Letting them learn from watching the duels. And letting them get a feel of what it’s like elsewhere on the planet.” The man said getting the princess's hopes up.

“Does that mean you will fight or are you just going to watch?” She asked.

“I’ll mostly watch, but if I see a chance at a decent fight I’ll go for it. Mostly due to my current status as a noncitizen of both equestria and equis. I’ll also be doing some business in that area if I find something worth the investment.” The man said getting a slight frown from Celestia.

“I had feared that would be your answer. I guess Luna was right in her anger over the lackluster skill of equestria’s current knights at the moment.” She said as they entered a library of sorts.

“As I said if I find a fight worth fighting I’ll consider it but I won’t interfere if a student of mine chooses to fight.” John said as he scanned the shelves before pulling a book out and sitting down at one of the tables reading the title and flipping it open.

The princess sitting across from the man summoned a book as well, the two were silent, with only the flipping of pages to disturb the quiet. That was until a guard came running indiverting the twos attention.

“I’m sorry for the intrusion but a commotion happening outside, princess Celestia and we need your help.” The guard said as he stood at attention.

Noting his serious tone she stood up as started out as John kept reading. Making her way out she found the issue was several diplomats were stirring up a fuss and were demanding to see her and her sister.

Upon getting within proximity of the rabble she started to pick up some of what the issue was, namely who, the growing rabble had taken issue with. Chief among them was a Minotaur warrior who was violently shouting at the guards who were doing their best to stay stoic.

“Where is it, where is this so called human? Many say he is dangerous, I’m here to test that!” The mino shouted waving a large sword around getting both guards and other rabble rousers to back far out of his reach.

“He is currently reading in the royal library,after a lengthy talk and discussion, he and I wanted to enjoy a moment of quiet and do some leisure reading.” She said walking up to the guard wall.

“Word is He is powerful I demand to see his strength for myself.” The mino bull said pounding his fist against his armor.

“As I said he is…” She began before another voice rang out.

“It's fine princess Celestia. The man wants a demonstration I’m more than willing to oblige.” The man in question said as he neared the line stepping up to the celestial sister.

“Are you sure, I know you were enjoying the book you were reading.” She said watching the man stretch while calmly stepping past the guards.

“I was but this gentleman will not leave till I demonstrate my power so I figure a quick one will be enough. ” The man said before turning to the Minotaur. “Now you wish to see my power... Ok I will show you.”

Before the bull could charge he felt himself lifted off the ground, the rest watched the man lift his hands higher and higher. The bull was thirty feet off the ground before he came rocketing back down slamming into the ground, this happened five times before the man mysteriously brought the beaten and bloodied bull to face level.

“Now does this satisfy your curiosity?”The man asked as the bull weakly nodded his head.

“Good now I have one more it is two word. The first start with y and ends with t. The second starts with t and ends with an n. Do you know what it is?” He asked, getting an even weaker shake. “ Well it’s called the yeet train, And it is powerful. Guess what bucko you got first class.” The man said grabbing one horn and a hoof.

“All aboard the yeet train!!!” he said as he started spinning around with the Minotaur , he spun five times before he used force push to send the bull off into the distance with a mighty yeet.

The others still shocked at the display, stood there watching the ever fading image of the minotaur tumbling hoof over snout. This lasted for a few minutes before they all turned to the man who was dusting his hands off smiling. The smile faded as he noticed the shocked looks.

“What? He asked for a demonstration so I gave him what he wanted.” He said before popping his neck. “Well small demonstration, gotta keep a few secrets now don’t I?”

With that the man started back to the castle with everypony splitting to let him by.
The princess, looking back to the crowd. Moved to follow the man back, pausing briefly to look back towards where the bull disappeared.

Upon returning to the library she looked at the man who smiled waved and disappeared. Shocked she ran to the spot where man sat and the book he had been reading was marked but the chair was not warm. Confused’ and more than a little scared’ she left the mark and returned the book to the shelf it was removed from.

Heading out she once more looked back in the room before sighing. She knew the headache she would receive from the tantrum the nobles would pitch, after that little display of power.