As the sun rises over the horizon, slowing turning the landscapes midnight aesthetic, to the warm and bright colors of the day, Red Hawk was flying high in the sky simply observing all that he sees. But he wasn’t alone this time. Held securely in his arms was Scootaloo, still having some lingering sleep hold onto her, but as she watches the world change as the sun rises, while slowly drifting through the sky at such a high altitude. Well, the filly was now fully awake, and has a dumbfounded look on her face.

“So Scootaloo, what do you think? Was this worth it or what?” Red Hawk asked the little pegasus while a small cocky smile was on his face.

“…”

“I’ll take your silence that you liked this.” Scootaloo could only nod, as her brain couldn’t find words to even describe the scenery change of the world she’s lived in. She’s seen the rise many times before, but to see it from this view. It was simply—”

“Awesome!” Scootaloo finally managed to squeeze out of her mouth. Her response causing a hearty laugh to escape Red Hawk.

“Well, I’m glad you liked this little surprise Scoots.” Red Hawk said as he ruffled the fillies mane, causing her to giggle. “Now that you’ve seen one of my favorite sights when flying, how about we get breakfast.” Scootaloo nodded as the pair made their way back down to Ponyville.

A few days have gone by ever since Red Hawk became Scootaloo’s permanent live in sitter, as well as becoming her brother figure. And so far Scootaloo was loving it! Ever since Red Hawk became her guardian, she went flying whenever she wanted, it also helps that Red Hawks loves flying. But Scootaloo noticed something whenever she goes flying with Red Hawk. Unlike other pegasi that uses their flying as a mean of travel, or use to intact with the weather, or like Rainbow Dash who uses her ability to fly just to go as fast as she could, Red Hawk flies…differently.

Red Hawk just doesn’t just fly to get around, or even uses it to fly as fast as he could, Red Hawk just uses his wings to just, fly. Scootaloo couldn’t exactly put it into words. Whenever she and Red Hawk went for a flight, it was like Red Hawk took his time and just soared through the sky, and when she looks up to the young man, Scootaloo say a peaceful, almost tranquil look on his face. As stated before Scootaloo couldn’t exactly put what it was like when she & Red Hawk went flying.

“So what do you feel like having for breakfast?” Red Hawk asked as the pair touched down in front of Scootaloo’s house, his large wings kicking up some dust.

“Oh, how does waffles sound?”

“Sounds good to me.” the young man said as he places the filly on the ground, and the two made their way inside.

Entering the household Scootaloo made her way up to her room, while Red Hawk went to the kitchen to start making breakfast. As she made her way to her room, Scootaloo started to wonder what should she do today? School was out today because Miss. Cheerilee had to take time off to visit her mother, so the filly wondered what she could do. One thing did come to mind, her exercise that Red Hawk taught her, so that she could strength her back and wing muscles, and ever since she has been doing them she certainly has felt like her wings have gotten stronger. If ever slightly. Deciding that would be good enough place to start the day, Scootaloo began her training regimen.

While Scootaloo was doing her training, Red Hawk was finishing making the first batch of waffles, while humming a little tune to himself. So far the young man was enjoying his life in Equestria, it was defiantly a lot safer than Earth was, and the ponies were defiantly a nice change of pace from his isolation in the desert. Or the VERY rare meetings he had with other Un-Naturals, especially the ones that could fly.

“Scootaloo! Breakfast is ready!”

“Be right down, I’m almost down with my exercises!” Scootaloo shouted back.

Red Hawk nodded and just started to place the big plate of waffles on the table, with the butter, syrup, and other toppings on the table, and started to make his own plate of food. As Red Hawk began eating his waffles, Scootaloo came down and joined him. as the pair ate their breakfast Red Hawk asked the filly what her plans for the day was, Scootaloo’s response was to simply go see her friends, and try to earn their cutie marks, since they have a free day to test out more ideas. Red Hawk still couldn’t really understand the concept behind Cutie Marks, after all, why should one have to focus on finding a mark that tells a pony what their general chief trait is in life, instead of just living their lives without such a needless thing. but, the ponies seem happy with this fact of life, and Scootaloo is determine to get her own, so he decided to not comment on the decision.

Once breakfast was over and the dishes were cleaned, Scootaloo left to go find her friends. as for Red Hawk, he sat at the table and just, thought. Thought about what should he do with his life here in Equestria. His education is very…limited, mostly he had to self-taught himself about stuff, or sneak to whatever school he could, and spy an classes, before having to fly away before being seen. And as for work, well…living out in the desert hasn’t garnished much in the ways of common work. and what about a family? Red Hawk was the only member of his species in all the world, and while the mares are cute and adorable…Red Hawk doesn’t think he’s quite ready to make that jump into cross-species relationship. But that’s when an idea came to him.

Leaving the house Red Hawk took flight and made his way to Canterlot, and after about a ten-minute flight Red Hawk made it to the castle, landing in the gardens. Scaring a few of the gardeners, and causing the only two guards to panic slightly, but quickly regained their composure.

“Red Hawk, what are you doing here?” one of the guards asked, knowing the human when he first came to Canterlot, and meet the princess in the throne room.

“I want to see Celestia, I…have a request for her.” Red Hawk said as his wings fluffed a bit, causing one or two feathers to drop. One of the gardeners used her magic to grab one of them, and examined it.

“The princess is currently in the middle of a meeting, but, I can take you to a private meeting room where you can wait for her there.”

Red Hawk nodded, and began following the guard to the meeting room. reaching the room after a little venture through the castle, Red Hawk entered and waited for the princess to finish with her current meeting.

Forty minutes have gone by, and the door to the room opened, revealing both Celestia & Luna as they entered the room.

“This is certainly a surprise Red Hawk. I didn’t believe we’d see you so soon.” Celestia said as she and Luna made their way over to Red Hawk.

“I’m sorry for coming to you two unannounced, I’m not…bothering you at all am I?”

“Nay Red Hawk, you are welcomed here. Now come, the guard said you have a matter to discuss with us.” Luna said as she gestured to the table. The trio made their way over to the table, and when the trio sat down, Red Hawk began to speak.

“The reason I wanted to talk to you is…is it possible to…find away back to my world.” both princesses looked at Red Hawk with shock. From everything they have gathered from Red Hawk, his world is partial harsh and terrible place.

“Do you wish to return there?” Celestia asked. To her surprise, Red Hawk nodded. “But why would you want to go back to live in there when—” Red Hawk quickly raised his hands.

“I didn’t mean to sound like I want to go back to live there. I wanted to know that if you can find a way back there…to see if I can bring other Un-Naturals here?” the princesses looked at each other with slight confusion before looking back to the young man, as he continued.

“Ever since I came here, you’re people welcomed me with opens arms, and never looked at me like I was some kind of…freak. Or monster. You’re people treated me like a normal person. And…I was wondering…if you could find away to Earth, so I can bring other Un-Naturals here. Give those in hiding or on the run from the government, the Collectors…give those people a chance to have a normal life. A life that was taken from them.”

Celestia and Luna felt their hearts soar with compassion. The young man wishes to not only venture into his world, where he could be harmed, just so he could give people like him a chance at a better life. A life that was taken from them, and were forced into hiding, and being unjustifiably feared by the worlds leaders. And the determined, yet hopeful expression on Red Hawks face, is only making the two alicorns heart feel more warmth with each passing moment.

“Red Hawk…by my sun—”

“And my moon—”

“We will search for a way back to your world, so you can help others like you. and we will be honored to help them in any way we can.” Celestia promised, causing the young man to give a hopeful smile.

“Thank you.” Red Hawk said gratefully as he bowed to the sisters.

“This will take some time Red Hawk, but once we have found a way to Earth, we will send you a message.”

Red Hawk gave another bow, which the princess interrupted by bring him into a hug. The trio then began talking about plans for this mission, like how the venture back to Earth will happen, and most importantly, where the humans that Red Hawk does manage to bring back go to live. An hour or so has passed and Red Hawk was now on his way back to Ponyville, already anticipating the news of Celestia & Luna finding a way to Earth, and hopefully he could find some of the Un-Naturals that have flying powers that he’s helped over the years, and help him gather Un-Naturals to come to Equestria. Reaching the town Red Hawk spotted Scootaloo & her two friends, coming out of Scootaloo’s house…with her wagon and scooter in tow.

“Red Hawk!” Scootaloo cried out as Red Hawk touched down. “Where did you go to?”

“I just went to Canterlot to talk to the princess about something.” Red Hawk saw as he folded his wings.

“What did you talk to the princesses about?” Sweetie Belle asked.

“…I asked them if they could send back to my world, so I could help people like me find a better life.” Red Hawk said honestly, not seeing a reason not to tell curious kids. And by the looks on their faces, the trio of fillies looked like their minds were buzzing with hundreds of questions.

“You mean you want to bring others humans—like you—to Equestria!” Apple Bloom asked with a big smile.

“That’s what I’m hoping. There are many people like me who have hard lives, and hiding for most of it.” Red Hawk said somberly. “If the princesses can help me go back to Earth, I hope I can find other Un-Naturals, and bring them to Equestria where they can possibly gain some semblance of an actual life.”

The fillies thought that this was an awesome idea, in fact, in their minds. This idea of wanting to help people like himself, made fillies to look at Red Hawk like he’s a super hero! After all, he was going out of his way to help strangers, and possibly give them a better life. After telling the fillies what his plans for the future were like, the fillies then remembered why they were looking for Red Hawk, and were about to ask if he could take all three fillies on a flight, using the wagon as a make-shift hot air balloon basket.

But Red Hawk could even respond to the request, a loud thunderous, BOOM just echoed through the air. Scootaloo & her friends to drop to the floor, and covered their ears when they heard the noise, while Red Hawk shielded the fillies by using his body and wings. All around the small group ponies could be heard running around and freaking out. Standing up while still covering the fillies with his wings, Red Hawk looked around to see what could’ve caused that thunderous boom, but he couldn’t see anything that looked to out of place. Then again, a weeks’ worth in this world probably didn’t make him fully custom to what this world has.

“What was that?” Apple Bloom asked as she shuffles under Red Hawk’s left wing, the feathers rustling through her mane and bow.

“Don’t know.” Red Hawk said as he looked down at the filly. “I take it that’s not a common sound?”

“No. I never heard that noise before.” Scootaloo said. Red Hawk looked down at Scootaloo for a second, before looking back out into the world, then back at Scootaloo.

“You three stay here, I’m gonna have a look around.”

Red Hawk left the fillies and took to the sky. As he climbed into the air, Red Hawk started to look around, seeing ponies scrambling about. While looking around Red Hawk couldn’t see anything, and it seemed neither of the pegasi that took to the air, didn’t find the source of the sound as well. Just as Red Hawk was about to go back down to the ground, some caught his attention out of the corner of his left eye. Turning to his left, Red Hawk caught a brief glimpse of something bright, as well as very brightly colorful, like someone was aiming colored lights into the air. Flying towards where the light was seen, before they vanished, Red Hawk flew till he was close to the boarder of the Everfree forest, where he found what looked like a crack just hovering over the ground. when he landed on the ground, and the moment he fully looked at the crack from the front, Red Hawk backed away in fear at what he saw.

On the other side of the crack…was an ill-lit room, with a large machine in the back of the room…with a human strapped to it. Cables sticking into the body, as a large helmet was strapped to their head. aside from the large machine, Red Hawk could see various other machines, as well as what looked like a gurney with straps on it…and finally people in lab coats as they stood by the machines.

“No!” Red Hawk gasped as he took a step back, his wings flaring up. even without personally being there, Red Hawk knew exactly what he was looking at, a place that all Un-Naturals never want to see or be taken to.

But as Red looked into the crack, he was brought out of his state of horrified silence…when he heard the footsteps. Turning to face the sound, Red Hawk’s eyes widen in horror at what he saw. Standing ten feet from him, a good full few feet taller than him, wearing bulky and large black and sickly yellow armor, wielding a large rifle like weapon in its hands, the vizor of the helmet blinking with yellow light. Red Hawk coward away from the sight of the figure, his wings instinctively closing around him, as his arms start to transform into their avian forms, and his wings start to spark with fire.

“Un-Natural detected.” The figure said in a robotic voice, cold, and un-feeling. Raising its rifle-like weapon at the young man, its barrel now pulsing with energy, the mechanical biped readied itself.

“Threat level…A. Target locked, and slated for termination.”

Author's Note

Well........it would seem that Red Hawk can't escape the quarrels and fears of his home world, even while on a different planet, in a different reality. what will he do now?

PS: here is an image link to what my Collectors look like at my DeviantArt account.
https://www.deviantart.com/gameoverlord23/art/Collector-from-the-Un-Naturalverse-847542665
.another thing, the top of Red Hawks head only reaches the middle of the Collectors chest.