Author's Note

Woohoo, it's back! Yep, the Adventures of Alex shall continue and let me tell you that I have quite the assortment of weird shit ready for him to face. Note: I have never watched Equestira Girls, so everything you will read in this chapter comes either from a pretty lazy research or is simply just completely made up.

Also, in case you are wondering: this takes place about a year after he was made the protector of Equestria.

Dimensional Travel... Again. (Prologue)

It was a normal day in the Crystal Empire. The streets were filled with Ponies on their ways to their work or sometimes even already on their respective shifts, guarding the Empire or cleaning the streets.

Despite the high number of Ponies on the streets, it was a fairly quiet day. Nopony found it necessary to shout at another, nopony found the need to express their disgust at another's sense of fashion and overall, nopony had any intention of breaking that truly peaceful silence. Thus, it likely isn't hard to imagine that suddenly everything stopped and the whole empire looked skywards, when the shield surrounding it flickered and a gigantic silhouette broke through and made its way towards the palace.

Normally, this would have caused a mass panic, seeing as the Crystal Empire in particular has had some very disturbing experiences with dark silhouettes intruding into their lands. However, this time it was different. It certainly wouldn't have been, if it wasn't for Celestia visiting a year ago with this exact being in tow and announcing it as the newly chosen Protector of Ponykind. And so, instead of screams and shouts of fear, his appearance today simply caused a few hopeful whispers.

"The protector is here!"

"Amore bless us, now nothing can hurt us!"

"Did somepony say cupcakes?"

And with their newfound morale boost, the normally so easily saddened Crystal Ponies went on with their days, the smiles on their faces turning slightly more pronounced than they were before.

Meanwhile, high over the streets of the empire, a white Dragon flew. His wings and scales were as white as the snow surrounding the shield and his eyes were slightly glowing a bright green colour. On his back, there lay five mares, peacefully sleeping in the soft, down-like scales on his back, seemingly undisturbed by the cold winds whipping past during their flight in the snowy regions.

They touched down in the yard before the palace and Alex slightly shook his back to wiggle the five sleeping mares awake. they all yawned and stretched after having awoke from their peaceful sleep. well, almost all of them.

"Rainbow, come on! We're here, time to get up!" Twilight commanded, but Rainbow just stirred slightly and growled.

"Ugh, not yet, gimme five more minutes."

Twilight rolled her eyes. "Oh, come on, Rainbow, you know we have something to do."

"But I'm comfy..." Rainbow whined.

"Well, the alternative would be that I cast a fire-spell at Alex..."

Rainbow cracked an eye open and gave Twilight a one-eyed glare. "You wouldn't..." she challenged.

"Oh, do you think so?" Twilight said, as she lit up her horn and aimed at Alex's back.

"Okay, okay, I get it, I'm up!" Rainbow finally receded. She lazily flapped her wings to get airborne, before stretching and yawning, similar to the other mares. she then flew over and set down on Alex's head. "Yo, thank's for the ride. That was probably the best nap I've ever had."

"You mean apart from the 256 times you've slept on my back during wather patrol?" Alex teased.

"Hey, I didn't sleep, I just... I... I, uh had to watch the weather over the Everfree, yeah, that's it!"

Twilight and Applejack giggled in amusement over their antics, before Twilight then got their attention.

"Okay, everypony, we should really get going. But first, let me check if we're all here, lest anypony fell of and we don't notice." The others gave her a deadpan look, as if saying 'I think we would've noticed that', but then simply just shook their heads, letting Twilight be Twilight.
"Alright, Rainbow?"

"Here."

"Applejack?"

"Here."

"Fluttershy?"

"Uhm... here."

"Rarity."

"Present."

"Alex?"

Alex looked over to her with a questioning expression. "How should I fall off my own back?"

Twilight gave him a sheepish look. "Right.. sorry." She cleared her throat. "Uhm, anyways: Pinkie Pie?"
No answer came. Twilight looked around, seeing if she was maybe still asleep. Something that was highly unlikely, as in fact nopony has ever seen her sleep at all.
"Uhm... Pinkie?" She asked again, but still nopony answered. Then, just as Twilight was about to panic, a pink blur zoomed past Alex's feet and jumped up to his head.

"Ohmygoshohmygosh, haveyouseeneverponyissohappy! Ooooooooh, wegottahaveapartysoon!!!" Pinkie screamed into Alex's eye, while hanging from the upper rim of his eye socket.

Alex blinked a few times, trying to get the dried spots lubricated again. "Pinkie, could you please tell us the next time you run off? You nearly caused Twilight to twilight here. Oh and also: get off my eye!"

Pinkie sheepishly looked over to Twilight. "Sorry." she apologized, before dropping back down, seemingly unfazed by the fact that she just fell almost four stories.

"Wait, you made me a verb?" Twilight asked curiously.

"Yeah. you know how you always lose your mind when confronted with a poblem? First you get a panic attack, then you go on drawing charts, maps, diagrams and whatever, until you notice that you've completely overdone it and the solution is actually pretty simple. Twilighting." Alex answered.

Twilight wanted to deny that she ever did those things, but before she could even open her mouth she heard the voice of her former foal-sitter call out.

"Here you are! I was wondering what was taking you so long."

"Yeah, Twilight just had a little moment when she couldn't find Pinkie." Rainbow said.

"Did she twilight?" Cadence asked.

"Well, almost, I... wait, you too?!" Twilight half asked, half shouted as she realized what Cadence just said.

"Careful, Cadence, before she starts to twilight!" Rainbow said mockingly.

"OOOOkay, I think we have some things to do, now come on." Twilight quickly commanded, before she glid down from Alex's back and made her way towards the Crystal Palace, her friends sharing a short giggle, before following her.

"And you actually expect me to fit through there?" Alex asked, as he was looking through a window into a room, where the remaining seven mares stood. "Well, excuse me for being blunt, but I think you are highly delusional."

In the middle of the room stood a mirror, around which the seven mares had gathered. Twilight was zooming around the mirror in a way that normally only Pinkie could manage, checking if everything was in order. "No need to get offensive, Alex." She said, while she was checking a few magic readings, "don't worry, I checked multiple times. Once activated, the mirror will pull you in on its own. All you need to do is touch the surface and let it do the rest."

Alex was looking around the room, where he found five encouraging faces smiling at him, as well as two mares, one in pink and one in purple, who were gleefully grinning at him for completely different reasons.
Alex sighed and looked to the mirror. It was a standing mirror, about two Ponies in height and one in width. Obviously these measurements made it way too small for Alex to fit through, not to mention that he couldn't fit into the room in the first place, due to his size. Thus, the only way for him to even touch the surface was to rear up on his hind legs and rest one foreleg on the wall of the palace, while the other was trying to squeeze through the small window and at least tap it with a claw.

However, as soon as he did so, he felt a wave of nausea wash over him. It felt like the world around him was rapidly expanding... or was he contracting? No matter what, after what he thought were several minutes, he finally felt a pull and he saw, how the now massive window he was reaching through slipped past and he was heading directly for the mirror's surface.

He braced himself for a shattering crash, as well as the feeling of thousands of glass shards piercing his skind, but this feeling never came. Instead, it felt somewhat akin to stepping through a giant soapbubble. Immediately after he had passed the membrane between worlds, he felt changes being made on his body. He couldn't quite tell their nature, but he definitely knew they were there. And then, he saw the sky. A pure blue stretching as far as the eye could see, until it met with the roofs of what looked like skyscrapers in the corners of his vision.

Alex quickly sobered up from the implications that his observation made and he finally heard the winds whipping past him, as he was rapidly approaching the ground. He turned around and looked downwards and found that he was at least half a kilometer in the sky and even though normally this would be no height at all for him, he somehow felt like he was definitely misplaced this high up. He tried flapping his wings, but it seemed to have no effect. So, in a last attempt to soften his landing, he turned back around and stretched every limb he could still feel as far outward as he could manage, hoping to muster enough air resistance to--

WHAM

He met the ground full-force, causing a loud crashing sound, as well as an earthquake to ripple though the neighborhood. Strangely enough, though, he felt no pain at all. All he felt was... kind of a pushing sensation, as if something ran into him (which kinda was the case), but other than that, he felt fine.

Fine doesn't mean 'normal', though, and he quickly came to this same conclusion, as he noticed that his legs were all laying flat on the ground instead of pressing agains his belly. Also, he didn't feel anything from his wings at all, which put up the question, f they were even still there. Another thing to note was that his hind legs were stretched backwards, bu it didn't feel strange. Quite the opposite actually, it felt normal. He looked down to see what was going on and was surprised when the colour he saw wasn't white, but black. He was looking down at a black coatjacket like he had worn it back when he was still human. He held his foreclaw up to his face and couldn't help but smile in nostalgia as he saw not a claw, but his hand, complete with the fingernail that wouldn't regrow ever since he'd lost it in a work accident.

He pushed himself up to his feet and found it strange, at first, to be walking on two legs again. He looked around and gawked when he saw the crater he had left where he landed. He also noted that he seemingly had landed in what looked like a school yard, right in front of a statue depicting a rearing stallion. He made a few testing steps, which ended up being made at a snails pace and ending with a very loud finish. Turns out, while he now has the proportions of a normal human again, he has retained his mass and, from what he could feel, even his overly thick skin and his glands.

"Yeah, when Twilight said she would bring somepony from equestria to help, I didn't think that you'd made such a loud entrance." suddenly someone said from behind Alex. He turned around and spotted a girl, who seemed to be barely of legal age. Her skin was orange in colour, while her hair was red with two light green stripes in it. She also wore an orange shirt with a symbol that depicted a sun that was half red and half yellow. Over that she wore a black leather vest , as well as a purple skirt.

Alex recognized her almost immediately. "So, I take it, you are Sunset Shimmer? Former Student of Princess Celestia?" He asked her in his old, human voice.

"The one and only." she answered. "So, where's Twilight? I thought she wanted to bring more than just one person with her?"

Right at that moment, the base of the statue started to wobble and six girls stepped through, each bearing the colours of their pony-world originals.

"Hey, Sunset." Twilight greeted, as she laid eyes on her former arch enemy. "Have you seen Al.....ex... what the buck heppened here.... and who are you?" She asked as she noticed the big crater, as well as the man in black coat and with black hair standing next to Sunset.

Alex narrowed his eyes in an annoyed expression. "I'm Alex. You know? That guy that saved you from the Dragon Islands?"

Twilight narrowed her eyes as well. "There's certainly a lot more black and a lot less white than I can remember on you. And also you are a lot younger than I would have expected."

This had Alex slightly awonder. He turned to the base of the statue, which somehow now had the properties of a mirror, and looked himself over. sure enough, he was back to his old, human self. Complete with black hair, latino skin and his black coatjacket that he had bought for only 10 pounds during a sale. Totally worth it.

"I don't know what you mean. I think my 30 years are quite apparent."

"30 YEARS?!" Everyone, except Sunset shouted in unison.

"No offense, but I thought you were, like, over a hundret or so?" Rainbow said.

"Why would you think that?" Sunset asked, visibly confused.

"Well, he is an adult Dragon." Twilight answered.

There was a short moment of silence, and one could actually hear the gears in Sunset's head clicking. She then looked over to Twilight with an almost annoyed expression. "And you think that such a young dragon can actually help us?"

"Hey, he may not be a hundret years old yet, but I tell you what: this guy totally smashes those evil dragons back in our world.

Sunset wanted to say something again, when suddenly a new set of voices joined in. "Well, Well, well, if those aren't the failbooms, standing next o what looks like their newset failure." The group turned to see who was speaking and they saw a group of three girls and one boy coming towards them.

"Yeah there's the group whose singin' sounds like comin' from a trash-can, but wait there in the middle, yeah I think that is a new-man." the boy rapped, as he closed in on Alex.

"Man, you're the worst rapper I've ever heard." he said.

"Yo, ah tell ya, I'm the biggest rapper man of all time. Im a swag and with these raps these gangsta-girls are all mine!"

Alex looked around, smirked and spread his arms. "You do realize that my harem's bigger than yours, do you?"

The girls around him looked at him with surprise. "What?"

"Nigga, 'bout those girls here I don't give. You. A. Damn! Motherfucker, do you even know, who. I. Am?"

"Not a clue." Alex said bluntly.

"DUUUUUDE, I'm the brain-whacking, bone-smacking, boulder-breaking Big Bang. Recognize me by my super-douper smashing black fang." Bang opened his mouth to show off a tooth that was obviously painted black. (Paint it Black. Yeah!)
"Man I tell ya, dudes like you, they always gimme brain-sting, now stop hiding behind those girls like a fuckin' weak-ling!"

Alex raised an eyebrow, before he exhaled and introduced himself: "I'm the all-starin', super-smartin', never-partin' A-Lex. My brain and skin, my bones and muscles always go to full-max. In my hometown everybody always called me face-drum and if you don't stop rappin', I will show you where that came from!"

"Whooooooo!" Rainbow and Pinkie cheered.

"Nig, ma bones are super-strong, my muscles 'bout to burst! And if ya want a slappin', man, then I will get you first!" Bang rapped, before he swung one at Alex's jaw. It connected with a loud slap, but Alex didn't even flinch.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Bang suddenly screamed, holding his fist and sinking to the ground. The three girls he had with him instantly were by his side and helped him up and intelligently decided that it would be better to just go. "Man, this guy's jaw-line's stingin' like a brute! When we get home I think I'm gonna see the doctor-dude."

"Who were they?" Alex asked.

"Those were the ones, because of whom you're here. They've been behaving... weird lately." Sunset answered.

Alex looked back after the group. "Are you sure? apart from that rapper-guy, it seemed like pretty normal clique-behaviour to me."

"To the outside, maybe, but... Twilight, you felt it too, didn't you? That dark aura that surrounded them?"

Twilight had a serious look on her face. Sunset had told her about this dark influx, but she didn't know that it was so strong. She looked over at Alex and started to finally give him some much.needed explaination. "A few weeks ago, Sunset felt dark magic seep into this universe. When she located it, she tried to dissolve it with the help of this world's equivalent of the Elements of Harmony. Sadly, they weren't strong enough and so, she asked me for help. We are hoping that the doubled Power of the Elements would be enough to banish the darkness from those four."

"And just in case it doesn't, you brought me along." Alex finished.

"Exactly. Even if we are hoping we won't need you, the fact is that this dark magic is strong and if we are unable to reform them, then you would have to..." Twilight didn't finish. Everyone around knew what she would say and everyone except Alex dreaded the thought.

"Well, anyways, we should really go and see the others." Sunset finally said and led the group towards the school building and into a room, from where one could hear pop songs being played. She opened the door, revealing five girls playing various instruments, but they abruptly stopped, when their counterparts stepped into the room. The two groups eyed one another for a moment, before happy chatter erupted among the. After all, there really is no one that understands you better than yourself, is there?

Meanwhile, Alex seated himself off to the side, trying to grasp what he was seeing. Originally, he had thought that they would just use two rainbow-beams of death, but instead their plan seemed to be to sing the darkness out of them. Great. just great.

The rest of the afternoon was spent with countless rehearsals of various pop songs that they were planning on singing this very evening. Then, when said evening came, they went outside, where an open-air stage had magically been built during the few hours they spent with their rehearsals. The crowd was already waiting for the song to start when they got up onto the stage and so, Alex simply placed himself in front of it and pretended to be a security guard. Well, he kind of was a security guard after all.

It wasn't long, before the target clique, minus the boy was spotted among the crowd. One would think that after being blasted by the rainbow once or maybe even twice for them, they would have learned to stay away from these concerts, but apparently not.

The refrain came and with it the rainbow. It hit them on-point and they were quicklly engulfed in a bright light, which held on as log as the song lasted. when they finished, the glow dissipated and the three girls collapsed. the crowd cheered for the song and the twelve girls on stage cheered for their apparent success.

"I must say, that was quite the song you had there." A voice suddenly came from the crowd, before those same three girls suddenly grew wings and floated upwards. "Sadly for you, it won't be enough to defeat us!"

The crowd panicked and quickly dissipated, leaving Alex the only one standing before the stage. He hopped over the safety barriers and stood directly in front of the floating sirens. "So... it seems plan A has failed. Now we're off to plan B."

"I hope by that you don't mean yourself, do you?" One of the sirens said, before all three of them burst into laughter.

"Actually yes, I do." Alex said bluntly.

"Oh really? Well, too bad for you. We don't have time to waste on such a maggot." All three of them breathed in deep. Six of the twelve girls on stage shouted 'watch out' to Alex, just before the Sirens let out three streams of fire that were whipping down on Alex.

The six that had tried to warn him now stood there in shock, while the other six just stood there, wome with a knowing smirk. Meanwhile, Alex remained standing, seeminglyunfazed by the flames and when the Sirens were finall done, he remained burning. His skin had turned a bright red and his eyes were glowing yellow. He looked upwards and said: "Wrong move, bitches.", before unleashing a dark red and blue flame himself, which the sirens barely managed to shield themselves from.

When Alex's flames subsided, the Sirens screeched in anger, knowing that he wouldn't simply let them get to their targets, so he would have to be dealt with first and the fastest way to do that would be up close and personal.

Meanwhile, the girls on the stage had finally managed to get out of their shock and Twilight was hopping around them. "Quick, next song, next song!!!"

They started the next song, while Alex was fighting off the constant barrage of melee attacks from the three sirens. Though, in all seriousness, Twilight didn't really need to hurry that much. due to him actually being hundrets of times more massive than his opponents, he was easily taking anything they threw at him. One of them came from the front, trying to make a flying kick to his face, but he simply grabbed her leg and threw her away. The next one tried to grab him from behind, but had to notice with shock that she simply wasn't strong enough to lift him up and was then quickly met wit a slap to the face. The third cirled around him a few times, trying to confuse him, before going in and scratching him a few times. However, she, as well, only achieved to slightly ripple his coat, before she was met with a fresh taste of dragon-fist.

"Girls, this doesn't seem to be working!"

"I know. We need to play our trump!"

"Got it!"

The three sirens flew up into the sky again, breathing in and after a short while releasing three beams of, seemingly, pure light. This was their gravest mistake thus far. Alex felt the familiar trickle of an odem unlocking itself, and he began to glow from the power he was charged with. For, you have to know: Alex is an Albino Elemental Dragon, who carry grave weakness against dark, but are immune against the light.

"What?! How are you still standing?! Your colour is black! Your weakness should be light magic!" One of the sirens lamented.

Alex smirked and looked upwards towards them. "Well, let me tell you... that you've been misinformed."

At that moment, the song reached its end again and another rainbow shot forth. It hit the three sirens and Alex added a beam of light magic to its power. The same glow appeared again, before the sirens lost their wings and slumped back to the ground, unconscious and slowly breathing. Sunset closed her eyes and after a while, she smirked. "The dark auras are gone! We did it!" She proclaimed.

Everyone cheered. Everyone, except Alex. Twilight ran over to him, cheering around him. "Alex, we did it!", but alex remained stoic.

"Not quite, I'm afraid. those three were shrouded in darkness, yes, but I don't think they were the source." He said.

Twilight stopped her cheering and looked at him quizzically. "Huh? Why'd you think that?"

"Well... did you see those beams they shot at me? That was light magic. Problem is that I don't think dark entities can use that by themselves."

Twilight and Sunset shared a serious look, before both closed their eyes and scanned for dark auras. However, both found none.

"Well, no matter what, there's no darkness anymore, so maybe they weren't fully dark entities yet, but got tainted by themselves? Wouldn't be the first time that happened." Sunset said, rubbing her shoulder guiltily.

"Really? Well, I don't claim to know magic, so... maybe I'm the one overthinking things this time around? Ah, doesn't matter. come on, let's get home." Alex said, making his way back to the portal.

"So... Twilight, have you told Cadence to move the mirror outside before we get back?" Alex asked her, as they were standing in front of the statue again.

Twilight stiffened up and looked sheepishly at Alex. "Ehehehe... ehm, maybe they thought of it themselves?"

"Why would it have to be moved?" Sunset asked.

"Well, back in our world, I am actually way bigger than this, you know? And now I'm afraid that I will rip half the crystal palace apart when I get back."

Sunset formed an 'o' with her mouth.

"Well, I guess we just have to try and hope to be lucky." Alex finished and thus, the six girls and one man went through the portal.

On the other side, six mares exited the portal shortly after. "Hey, the Palace is still standing, so maybe, Alex came back outside?" Twilight said to her friends, as they looked around them.

"Euh, Twilight, I think we have some slight complications." They heard from behind them. They turned around and saw Alex standing there. He was back to being a Dragon. However, he was no longer a giant, but looked somewhat like a male, white version of Ember.

"Euuh... well, at least you're back to being a dragooo...." Twilight trailed of, as her eyes wandered downwards and her cheeks flushed bright red. Her friends followed suit shortly after.

"What?" Alex asked, before looking down himself, where he found an old companion, long thought to be lost. "Well hello, me lad. Long time no see."