Equestria, Ponyville. Three weeks after the Equestrian Civil War (AECW):

The huge and badass looking gryphoon rolled on the ground, leaving a small dust cloud in his way, until he stopped and stood up again, looking around with perplexity, trying to figure out what or who has hit him.

His perplexity only grew even more, when he saw me healing a pretty badly injured Rainbow Dash:

"Come on, girl, come on. Don't give up, come on." I was telling her, worried because she wasn't even moving.

Finally, she slowly half opened her eyelids, and looked at me apologetically:

"S-sorry, m-master... he... he c-caught me off g-guard..." She stuttered.

"Shhh. Breath, Dashie, breath. Don't talk, don't move, just breath." I told her, relieved, and a tear slipped for my cheek, as I got touched by her calling me 'Master' from the very first time.

I finished healing her, and carrying her to Big Mac, that was coincidentally among the small crowd of ponies that had gathered around, to watch the fight, I gently put her on his loin:

"Take her to the hospital, hurry up!"

"Eeeyup." He nodded and galloped there.

I, by my side, turned around to the gryphoon, as I needed to stop him before he hurts more ponies.

"And what might you be?" He asked, shrinking an eye.

"Me? Just a hairless monkey, who happens to be friend of the pony you just hurt, and thus making this... Personal!" I replied, hitting the palm of my right hand with my left fist.

The gryphoon looked me from up to down: Yes, I might be larger than most ponies, but I haven't claws, or beak, or fangs, or wings; not even a weapon. And my little mouth will surely get hurt by merely trying to bite one of his feathers.

The gryphoon smiled confidently, thinking: 'Ha! This is going to be as easy as taking down that puny pony, if not easier'.

"Well, I hope you have made your last prayings, baldie!" He mocked, and quickly, he took off, getting ready to perform the same move he did to take down Rainbow Dash. 'He won't even be able to reach me here.' He thought, smirking.

But his smile dissapeared when he saw me floating up on my surfing cloud, right at the height where he was.

"Where are you going, punk?" I adopted my fighting stance.

The gryphoon shooked the head, figuring out that the word 'punk' must be some sort of strong insult, and getting angry, he launched himself over me with his claws opened, eager to make damage. He couldn't commit a bigger mistake.

"Hadou-ken!" I stopped him short with my force ball, and he fell to the ground.

But before hitting the ground, he used a snubber flying stunt, thus avoiding a direct impact. Then, I launched myself over him, but he rolled over to a side, dodging my earth-shaking pound. He quickly recovered, and tried to hurt me with his right claw. Then, I did a full body turn, grabbing his wrist, putting his elbow over my shoulder and pulling his arm down. His elbow cracked and I could hear his pained yelling.

Then, he yet tried to slash me with his other claw, but I dodged it, and gave him a punch in his jaw with the back of my right fist and another with my left, causing him to turn the head and stumble backwards, moment that I took the oportunity to kick the side of his right knee, breaking it and making him to scream again. Not giving him time to recover, I grabbed his left wrist and twisted his left arm to his back, and, with the open free hand, I hit his left shoulder and pulled the arm at the same time, dislocating his left shoulder as a result.

He screamed in pain and tried to escape flying, but I grabbed his two wings and, violently pulling them to me, I delivered a brutal kick on his back. The base of his wings clacked, indicating that the joints there have been dislocated too, and the gryphoon, screaming and trembling in pain, fell to the ground some meters away from me. Then, I walked to him with clenched fists and grabbed him from his neck's feathers, among the kudos of the small pony crowd.

"No, no, no! Wait!" The gryphoon screamed, scared and pained. "I have diplomatic inmunity! I have diplomatic inmunity!"

I pulled his head, pushing his beak again my nose:

"Does it look I care about?!" I angrily screamed to him, not buying it.

But when I had raised my free fist to finish him off, a male voice sounded behind me:

"Halt there, white monkey! Let go that gryphoon guard! Do you want to provoke an international incident?!"

I lowered the fist, and turned my head to the royal guard stallion that was behind me. Well, it looks this gryphoon thug was actually an embassy's guard from the Gryphoon Empire. Then, what he was doing in Ponyville, and why did he picked a fight with Rainbow Dash?

"The gryphoon started it!" Somepony yelled from the small crowd.

"Silence!" Replied the royal guard stallion, looking around. Then, he looked back to me: "Monkey, our highness Princess Celestia demands your presence at the Canterlot Castle, just before sunset!"

I smiled, because I knew exactly why Celestia wanted me there at that precise time, and no other. Then, I looked to the frightened to death grypoon thug:

"And don't you dare to hurt my friends again... And I'm not bald!"

The gryphoon shooked rapidly the head, and I released him. Then, I stood up and looked to the stallion:

"Alright, alright. I'll be there on time." I pointed with a finger.

"I'm sorry, monkey, but our highness sent us to make sure you'll be there on time, so, you'll come with us"

I chuckled: "What?! I'm under arrest?"

"Only if you refuse to comply!"

I chuckled again: "Ok, ok. But it's still too early. Let me check on my friend first. I'm worried about her."

The stallion shrugged his eyes: "Fine. But we'll be watching..."

Celestia was reading a scroll that has just arrived, and her single eye was twitching. Annoyed, she called a messenger pony:

"Tell Twilight Sparkle to come here to the throne room, at once. No excuses."

"Yes, your highness."

The messenger pony galloped to the Canterlot's library, where was Twilight since the previous night, uncusessfully trying to solve a task from Celestia.

"Twilight Sparkle, your highness requests your presence in the throne room, at once!" Informed the mare.

Twilight, buried beneath a giant pile of books, pushed her head out:

"What?! The time's up already?! Oh, no, no, no, no, NO!" She put both forelegs in the head, sad and despaired "I just need five minutes! Five minutes more, please!" She indicated with a straight foreleg.

"Sorry, miss Sparkle." Replied the mare. "But Princess Celestia said 'No excuses'."

Twilight made a sad and pained grimace: This was her end! Her end!!!

Trembling from hooves to head, Twilight came out from under the pile of books and, with her head and ears down, slowly walked to her demise.

Upon arriving to the throne room, she gulped, and announced her arrival.

"Y-your hig-g-ghness, I-I'm here..." She stuttered.

"Come closer, Twilight Sparkle." Celestia sternly ordered.

Twilight's vision got blurred, and she almost fell to a side. Her heart wanted to get out from her chest. Stumbling, she came closer to the alicorn princess and closed the eyes, raised the head and scrambled the mouth, trembling and waiting for nothing but the worst.

"Look what your coltfriend has done now!" Celestia said, putting the scroll near Twilight with her magic.

Twilight opened an eye, later the other: 'What?' She tought. Then, she took the scroll with her own magic, read it, and her face passed for several shades of purple. "Ohhhh nooooo..." She made another grimace. "Why he keeps embarrassing me like this? Whyyyyyy?!"

Celestia closed her remaining eye, very upset: "I told you that this would happen, Twilight Sparkle. But you simply don't listen." Then, she opened her eye and pointed Twilight with a foreleg "I don't know why you insist in your engagement with that... human. He's nothing but trouble!"

"But I love him!" Twilight cried, still holding the scroll. "I love him too much and I can't live without hiiiiim! Your highness, please understaaaaaand!"

Celestia snorted, still upset, then she spoke again: "How's going the task I gave you yesterday?"

Twilight gulped, as this was the last nail to her coffin, but she was mare enough to admit defeat:

"I'm sorry, your highness. I couldn't solve it..." She sobbed. Then, she added with crying voice: "I've failed youuuuu! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm ready to go back to kindergarten!"

Celestia moved back her head a bit, surprised: "Holy heavens, Twilight, don't be so dramatic! I'm not going to send you to kindergarten for that!"

Twilight stopped crying, and looked her with an expresion of hope and relief: "No?"

"No! My faithful student, how I'm going to punish you for not solving a task that I cannot do by myself?"

"Ow..." Twilight put a hoof in her chest, and sighed in relief.

Celestia then looked to the sky, upset: "Well, it looks that we'll have to wait for the stupid of your coltfriend to get this solved." Then, she raised the scroll again: "And later, he'll have to answer for this!"

Twilight got scared again: "Your highness... What... what are you going to do to him...?"

"I swear for the memory of my parents that I'm going to send him to the moon this time!"

"NO!" Twilight raised both forelegs, horrified. "No please no...NO! Forgive him, I beg you, forgive hiiiiiim!" She dropped at Celestia hooves, crying.

"I simply don't understand, Twilight!" Celestia raised the voice: "He's a violent and destructive being! Why you can't see that?!"

"I don't care!! I love him anywaaaaay! Forgive him, I beg you! Forgive hiiiiim!" Twilight cried, hugging Celestia's forelegs.

Celestia rolled the eye and shooked her head a bit: "Alright, alright. I won't send him away this time. Just stand up, my faithful student. I hate to see you humiliating yourself for this... pesky monkey..."

"Thank you, your highness, thank you thank you thank you!" Twilight happily thanked her.

At that moment, the pegasi royal guards pulling the chariot that Celestia had sent to look for me, and me, arrived. I stepped down from my cloud (Of course I wansn't going to bother in riding that farcical tiny chariot) and joyfully greeted Celestia:

"Hello Cellie! How're you doing? And the family? Still don't want me to heal your eye?"

I almost haven't time to stop with my magic a huge flower jar headed directly to my head. I smiled, satisfied with my catch, when the jar literally exploded in my hands. Whoa! I've pissed off Celestia really big this time! Good!

But, for my surprise, it was Twilight, and not Celestia, the one that had her horn spreading smoke. Then, she galloped to me, screaming in anger: "You're a bucking stupid piece of idiot! How you're going to attack a guard of the gryphoon diplomacy?! Do you want to drive us to yet another war?!!"

I scowled, as it was clear that they haven't told the whole story: "Twilight! He hurt Rainbow Dash! Almost killed her!" I pointed with my arm.

"What?!" Twilight's anger dissapeared like by magic's arts. "Oh no! Is she alright?! Is she gonna make it?!!" She stood on her hinder legs and put her forelegs on my chest, scared and extremely concerned.

"Yes, she is! I was nearby, by luck! Thank you!" I angrily replied, healing my burned hands.

Twilight gasped, when she realized she had hurt me, and added with sobbing voice: "Oh no, my love. I hurt you unjustly. Please forgive me... Please forgive meeeee!" She drooped to my feet, crying.

"Twilight, don't humiliate yourself for this...!" Celestia raised her hoof, very upset. "Monkey! Come over here inmediately, and undo this!"

She lightened her horn, and the sun gave way to the moon, which was featuring a gigantic Batman logo on it.

I put both hands on my face, restraining my laughter a bit.

"This isn't funny, monkey!" Angrily replied Celestia. "I've received countless complaints of concerned ponies, scared about that... thing... could come down at night, to steal their foals and fillies!"

"And why you didn't removed it by yourself, Your Highness?" I mocked between laughs.

"Alright, alright! I admit it! You're stronger than me! Happy now?!" Celestia waved her forelegs up and down, very upset. "Now remove that scary thing from our new moon, at once!" She pointed to the moon with a foreleg.

Yeah. All this was because an argument I had with Celestia about safety measures. I had found quite a few of security leaks around, but when I told that to Celestia, she said that she was powerful enough to manage any trouble that could arise. And I decided to prove her that she was wrong. So, I took the opportunity when she gave me the task of helping in building a new moon...

"That sounded a little forced. You know?" I commented, after removing the Batman logo. "Like you didn't really meant it."

"What?! Are you implying I'm lying?!!" Celestia roared.

"Well... basically." I confirmed with a joyful tone, and my enjoyment was even bigger when I saw Celestia's face turning red.

"My love, please, not again!" Twilight stood up on her hinder legs and put her forelegs on my chest again, shooking her head and talking with fear. "She's really mad with you this time! Please, don't upset her anymore!"

"Can you at least tell me..." Said Celestia, grunting. "...why did you put that thing on the moon?"

"What, Batman?" I asked.

"'Batman'? What's a 'Batman'?" Asked Celestia, with a twitching eye.

Joyfully, I took out a Batman mask that I've made and put it on my head:

"I'm Batman!" I said with a low-pitched voice and a smile, opening the arms.

The silence in the throne room was such, that the crickets could be heard. The smile dissapeared from my face: Another epic fail.

"Twilight Sparkle..." Said Celestia with a stern tone. "Step away from that monkey."

"What?! No no no no no! No your highness no please no don't do that no please no..." Twilight quickly spoke, jumping to my neck and hugging me, trembling and frightened to death.

'Aha! So she wants to fight now? Now I'm gonna put her in evidence!' I thought for myself, smirking and sharpening my eyes, so I told Twilight: "That's fine, my love, step aside, I'm always in the mood for a sparring. Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt her."

"She doesn't want to spar with you, she wants to send you to the moon!" Twilight yelled with panic.

"WHAT?!!" That took me by surprise. 'I can't believe it! She really hates me so much?!' I thought, now truly worried.

"Step away, Twilight Sparkle!" Angrily yelled Celestia.

"No!" She replied.

"HOW DARE YOU TO DEFY ME, TWILIGHT SPARKLE?!!! STEP DOWN FROM THAT SAVAGE BEAST RIGHT NOW!!!" Celestia screamed in the Royal Canterlot Voice, putting her eye with a bright white light and lightining her horn, making most of the ponies present in the room to run away in panic.

'Oh God, oh God, oh God; she's going serious this time! You crossed the line, you piece of shit!' I thought, scared and worried, as I wasn't going to be sent to the moon nice and easy, and that will surely end in a epic battle like I've had with Luna, but with no possible happy ending this time.

"Tia, no, please! Stop!" Fortunately, Cadance came in my rescue. "Please, don't do this! You'll regret it later!"

"Your highness, please reconsider! You're not like this!" Shining armor interceded too. "You're better than this!"

That seemingly cooled her off, because the white bright dissapeared from her eye, and her horn faded it's light.

Celestia shooked her head, recomposing herself a bit, and then she said, in her usual voice again, but still very upset: "How dare you to betray me like this, Twilight Sparkle?! Do you know how disappointed I am with you?! Step down from that monkey already! It's your last call!" She angrily hit the floor with a forehoof.

"That's alright, love. It looks that I'm not going to the moon anymore. Step down." I told to my marefriend, very serious.

"Are you sure?" Twilight was still very worried and frightened, hugging me very tightly. "I'm still scared to death..."

"That's ok. Go down." I told her, and she nodded and reluctantly stepped down.

Celestia calmly waited to Twilight to go to the floor, and then pointed me with a foreleg: "And you... monkey, I want you out of Equestria. Out! And never come back!" She quickly waved her foreleg horizontally.

I put my fists on my waist, very upset too: "Fine!" Then, I turned the head to the right, mumbling: "You ungrateful tyrant..."

"How did you called me?!!" Celestia yelled, getting angry again.

"Shut up, you stupid!" Twilight hit me in an arm with a foreleg. "I'm sorry, your highness, that's his way to say he's sorry... from there where he comes..." She said without being very convinced herself. "Come on, my love, let's go home. We have to pack."

"What?!" Celestia shooked her head again. "Are you leaving with him?!! Don't you dare, Twilight Sparkle!"

"Sorry, your highness, but I'm going where he goes. And that's out of the question!" Twilight replied with her usual unbreakable resolution.

"This is outrageous!" Celestia walked to Twilight and looked her like she wanted to kill her. "Twilight Sparkle, I'm giving you a last chance, and you're defying me again?!"

"Yes, because I love him!" She replied to Celestia in an angry tone too.

Celestia raised a foreleg to slap Twilight, but I hold it before she could strike her.

"Don't you dare Celestia! I won't allow you to hit my marefriend!"

Celestia looked at me and her remaining eye brighted white for a second. "Go ahead, you savage beast! Hit me! Hit me and kill me, so everypony knows who you really are!" She exclaimed with rage.

"You know I can't kill you, Celestia! Who's gonna raise the sun then?!" I replied, releasing her leg and pointing up with my open hand.

"Oh! That's it then?! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!" Celestia laughed, raising a hoof to her muzzle. "Of course, how silly of me, 'who's gonna raise the sun then'." She mocked, turning around and walking back to her throne. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha...! Oh my..." When she arrived to her throne, she sat down and looked to Twilight: "Twilight Sparkle, are you going to take full responsibility for the actions of your coltfriend and your own?"

"Yes, your highness, but I want you to know that I'm sorry that this has come..." Twilight has started to spoke but she was interrupted by Celestia's raised hoof.

"That's enough, miss Sparkle. That's all I needed to hear." Then, she looked at me: "Alright, monkey, you can stay in Equestria."

"Really? Hoorray! Thank you, your highness!" Twilight and me cheered at the same time, and Shining Armor and Cadance sighed of relief.

"But..." Celestia continued. "I can't leave this defiance unpunished, so I'm hereby disowning you, miss Sparkle."

Twilight got pale, and started to sweat cold.

"You're no longer my faithful student, and you're no longer an element bearer. And I don't want any of you to step a hoof back in my castle! EVER!" Celestia shouted. "Now go! Out! I want you two out! OUT!!" She angrily pointed with her hoof to the castle's exit.

Twilight passed out, but I was fast enough to held her head just before it hits the hard tiled floor of the castle. Then, I carried up my unconscious marefriend, and teleported both of us out of the castle.

Cadance then come closer to Celestia: "Tia, I think you overdid it with your punish..."

"Silence, Cadance!" Celestia angrily interrupted her. "Or you're next!"

Author's Note

Yeah, yeah; right. I know it, I know it.

I know that I said that if I got enough votes, I'll upload this Book 2, but then I bumped with
that enlightening phrase that says: "Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience".

So let's give hope a second chance, shall we?