My Little Pony: Friendship Is Grievous

The party had been fun, after all it had been a Pinkie Pie party so naturally it'd been a total blast, but now it was time to get down to business. At least for Twilight Sparkle it was. As Celestia's best student it was her duty to learn about Grievous as much as he would permit her too. The only problem she faced now was finding him, while nopony had noticed, he'd somehow sneaked out of the party; she had deduced it had been when Rarity was trying to pin the tail on the donkey...and ended up pinning it to the face.

“Whoah hold up Twilight,” Spike dashed after her, “are you sure you wanna find this guy?”

“Of course why wouldn't I?” She smiled at her assistant's over protectiveness.

“Pfft am I the only one who remembers how we all found him? Fluttershy crying, dead manticore, Rainbow Dash on the ground...any of this ringing a bell?” He tapped a foot on the ground impatiently.

“Its Fluttershy Spike you know how she is.”

“Okay,” he held up his clawed hands and began backing away, “but don't blame me when Grievous maims you with those light sword things-,” he bumped into something. Turning around to be greeted by a metal leg...then his gave traveled upward and he saw the piercing eyes of the general staring directly at him.

“Hehe...bye!” The young dragon ran by Twilight with such speed her purple mane blew back for a few seconds.

“There you are, I was hoping I'd find you,” she galloped over to the currently silent cyborg and beckoned with her head for him to follow. Without a word he walked after her.

The three stood over the mutilated and dead manticore. The lifeless eyes staring out at the leader of the trio blankly.

“He survived,” one of them said in a stunned voice.

“Of course her did,” their leader spoke in a knowing voice, glancing out at the dying rays of sunlight. It wouldn't be long until Luna's Night began.

“You're not surprise Milady?” The other asked in a whisper.

“Not in the slightest but it still is an impressive feat of skill to kill a creature such as this. He truly is a warrior,” the female spoke with a sense of admiration before  glancing back up at the sky.

“Come along now we best be getting back into the forest.”

The Ponyville library was one of the more tolerable places for Grievous. For one thing it was quiet, it was big and wide enough to a point where he didn't feel like he might crash into anything. Twilight's little horn glowed purple as she summoned a quill, ink, and piece of paper. The library was inside a hollowed out tree, on the ceiling was a painting of the sun, a set of stares leading up to a bedroom.

Dozens of books kept neatly in shelves. It was very organized.

“Name?” She asked cheerfully.

“I am General Grievous, Supreme Commander of The Droid Armies.”

“Oookayy,” Twilight wasn't sure how she would write that...so she just put 'General Grievous.'

“Do you go by any other names?”

“No.”

“Just 'Grievous'?”

“Yes.”

'That can't be his real name...but I guess its none of my business.'

“Place of birth.”

“Kalee.”

The quill scratching against the paper once again became the only noise between them. Twilight herself felt incredibly awkward, and she hadn't felt like that since she'd first arrived in Ponyville. Grievous was definitely the most...unfriendly being she had ever met. He wasn't glaring at her necessarily but she could sense his overall dislike of her and of Ponyville. But then again it also seemed like a possibility that Grievous wasn't the type to really like anypony.

“Do you have any special requirements? Food? Medicine?”

“No.”

Twilight fake grinned and looked around for a few seconds with only her eyes, just wishing for this moment to end.

“Could you elaborate please?”

“My cybernetic enhancements have practically made me a self sustaining organism,” he said casually, tapping a talon on the wood floor twice.

Before anything more could be said a knock sounded at the door making Twilight jump slightly. Carefully she lowered the quill's tip back into the ink and calling out:

“Coming,” she hurried over to the simple door and used her magic to open it, just a crack.

“Princess Luna!”

At Twilight's words Grievous became interested, so one of their precious princesses had already discovered that he was in their world? At least that was his assumption.

“Good evening Twilight Sparkle,” a soft but proper voice spoke from beyond the door, “I was just wondering if I may come in for a moment or two.”

“Um actually princess I'm kinda in the middle of something,” Twilight didn't want to tell either Luna or even Celestia about Grievous just yet.

“Twilight...I know that he's in there,” Luna stated bluntly completely ruining Twilight's feeble cover up.

“Let her in,” Grievous spoke.

The door opened and the Princess of The Night stepped in.

Princess Luna was quite a sight to see for anypony and General Grievous. Her appearance was drastically different from the other ponies he had seen thus far. A dark blue mane that seemed to sparkling with dozens of tiny stars and never seemed to floating and moving despite the fact there was no wind. She had a longer horn and had dark feathered wings. Her tail was similar to her mane in both physical look and the fact that it to was flowing. And on each flank was a splotch of black and a little crescent moon in each. She also were sparkling shoes and had a large necklace that also had a white crescent moon in its center. And as usual, she wore he little black crown.

She was indeed royalty. From what the cyborg had heard of the two princesses...Luna was the more severe of them, when she'd first reemerged to the pony public it had been on a holiday know as Nightmare Night. After a thousand years of exile, Luna's socialization skills were still, even now...developing.

The two stood before each other, blue eyes meeting glowing reptilian yellow eyes. In the background Twilight shuffled a hoof uncomfortably at the tense silence.

“So...you are the one my sister and I sensed.” Luna stated formally, never breaking eye contact with the unblinking warlord.

“I was unaware that I was sensed,” the general replied back. Rather uninterested.

“Princess?” Twilight asked quietly in hopes Luna would elaborate.

“This morning, while my sister was raising the sun...we both felt what I could only describe as a shift. A drastic one, as though our world had been altered,” she blinked once, “and it was.”

Grievous didn't care in the slightest about how the ponies world had been so “altered” as the princess had said, his only real concern was one thing.

“Well if my presence in your world is so unnatural then why don't you send me back?”

“That would require a massive amount of magic-”

“You and your sister raise the sun and the moon!” Grievous hissed back venomously, “sending me back to my true domain shouldn't be that hard!”

Silence...it was even more intense than the last one. While both Grievous and Luna stood motionless, they glared at each other dangerously. Luna did not like the cyborg not just because of his openly abrasive behavior but it was the fact that somepony had brought him into their world. And for what reason she did not know and apparently neither did Grievous.

“Um, Luna, why not just use the Elements of Harmony to send him back?”

Luna sighed.

“I wish it were that simple Twilight Sparkle, but in order for the Elements to do that it will require something much more complex than...,” she...rather unsure of how to proceed.

“Well?” Grievous growled darkly.

“In order for something as powerful as that to work it requires friendship on both sides. Twilight, you and your friends will have to befriend-” she glanced at the paper, “General...Grievous.” She said his name hesitantly.

“WHAT?!” Both Grievous and Twilight yelled so loud it even made Luna who was still famous for the use of The Royal Canterlot voice cringe.

“Yes.”

“You mean I,” Grievous snarled contemptuously, “will have to befriend a group of ponies!?” The implication was preposterous! Conquer of worlds and slayer of Jedi...friends...with PONIES!?

“Even the pink one,” of the six, he detested her the most.

“Yes, even Pinkie Pie,” Luna said with a suppressed smile. She turned and majestically strode out the door.

“Good luck to you all.”