“You have to sacrifice yourself some time if you want to be a good ruler. I can not emphasize this enough. Every matter of concern that will be brought to you has to be considered like it would be the future of all of Equestria. How can we call ourselves the ruler, if we do not care for our subjects with all our heart?”

“*sigh* Yes I know.” Blueblood gently tipped his forehead with one of his hooves and looked around the throne room. How long did aunt Celestia talk to him? One hour? Two hours? Celestia stomped with one of her hooves on the ground.

“Are you listening to me, dear nephew? This is important.” Blueblood moved back a little after his aunts’ little outburst, but he composed himself again.

“Yes, yes… I know.”

“Listen Blueblood. You really need to pay attention to what I say. I have 4000 years of experience in ruling a nation. You only have two days.” Blueblood groaned.

“Auntie, it surely can not be that hard, as you make it be.” Celestia opened her eyes widely.

“Not that hard? You need to work twelve hours a day. Eight of which, you will be in day-court where you will listen to every problem your subjects bring to you. You need to keep your composure at any time for nearly eight hours straight. Afterwards, you must sign approximately 30 contracts, letters and requests, and you can be happy if they are only one scroll in length.”

“You will work hard from eight in the morning to eight in the evening. Your only breaks are lunch and dinner. If you make one mistake in this whole time, the reporters will quarter you in the air in their articles. So don’t you dare tell me that I exaggerate.”

“But auntie-“

“No! None of that! Shame on you! How can you take this so lightly? I want you give everything you got in ruling Equestria.”

“But auntie, why do I have to do the ruling? I don’t want to take over day-court. Can’t just aunt Luna take over, both day- and night court? I mean, you did this for a thousand years.”

“And those were the worst thousand years in my life. Even if, we alicorns do not need food, water and sleep, we still feel the need to eat, drink and sleep. I would not force Luna to take both shifts under any circumstance. Aside from that, she will also help me in preparing us against Oran.”

“So, if aunt Luna does not run night court, who will?”

“Since you are the only other member of our family, we needed somepony else to fill that roll. Of course, this pony also has the roll of a ruler, but not from Equestria. An empress, from another land, lets us borrow her husband for running night court. Even though he can only perform five days per week since he has other duties in his own land.”

“And who is this, ruler?” Just then, there was a shout from one of the guards.

“Princess Celestia, the new holder of night court has arrived.” The guard bowed deep.

“Wonderful, please let him in.” She turned to Blueblood. “Well it seems like you will meet him earlier than expected.” Blueblood just looked to the gates and waited for his future partner to arrive. Just when the gates opened, the guard shouted again.

“Introducing, King Shining Armor from the Crystal Empire.” Bluebloods’ eyes widened. Shining Armor? That common filth is going to share ruling over Equestria with him? Shining Armor walked into the throne room and spotted Celestia immediately.

“Greetings, princess Celestia.” He bowed only slightly. “And also greetings to you, Prince Blueblood.” The same slight bow.

“Celestia, you can’t seriously mean him. He was born as a commoner. How will he be able to rule Equestria?” Shining armor raised an eyebrow.

“Well well well, I wouldn’t have anticipated such prejudice from one of the future rulers of Equestira, prince Blueblood. On what basis did I earn to receive such harsh judgment?” Celestia let Shining Armor defend for himself. It would be wise to show Blueblood why she chose Shining Armor.

“On what basis? You are a commoner! You do not have the birthright to rule over a land!”

“Prince Blueblood, how does birthright help you rule an empire? A ruler isn’t a ruler because he was born to be.” The king shook his head. “A ruler is chosen by his devotion and love for his subjects. If your subjects have a devastating problem at hoof, then they need a loving and caring ruler to lead them through those bad times.”

“What birthright gives you the strength to work through days and days of problem solving? If we would crown somepony, just because he was born this way, then many nations would have succumbed to revolution already. You are royalty, that is correct, but do you know the reason why you are a special case, in comparison to other rulers in the rest of Equus?” Blueblood did not say anything.

“It is because, in other lands, the heirs to the throne are trained and being prepared because they will be on the throne at some time in their lives. They were forged since they were little foals, to be the best rulers the land has ever seen. In your case, nopony ever thought you would come to be on the throne at one time. The reason why, is the immortality of princess Celestia and Luna.”

“You were not trained and educated in being a ruler because there was no need to. You were just able to live every day in luxury and with no worries. The ONLY reason you are elected to be the leader of day court for the next five years is because princess Celestia believes deeply in you, having a good and caring heart. If it were not for her promise that you will be able to deal with the responsibility as a leader, you would not be standing here right now.”

Shining Armor waited years to say that to Blueblood. Oh, how good that felt. He was never able to talk to the prince in an informal manner since he was a guard and no part of royalty. Oh karma, you lovable demon.

Blueblood did not know what to say. What Shining Armor told him may hold some truth, but how could he dare to speak to him in such a manner? He was just a lowly guard. Just before Blueblood wanted to speak up, Celestia put a hoof between the two.

“Now now, Shining Armor. I think you brought your point across clearly. Let’s just stop at this point shall we?” Shining Armor just nodded.

“But auntie, how can you let him talk to me like that?” Celestia looked to Blueblood and just sighed. She didn’t want to say this, but it seems like he still did not understand.

“Because, in whatever manner he said it, he was right.” Bluebloods’ eyes widened. “I did not want you to hear it this directly, but now I can’t change it anymore. Yes, king Shining Armor is right. You were never prepared to take over the throne, but I still believe in your heart. Even if you act disrespectful at some occasions, I still believe that you have the ability to rule Equestria as a loved ruler.”

He could not believe what he heard. She just told him that his live was worthless from the get go. He was supposed to get spoiled his whole life and die without having done something meaningful, but still Celestia believed in him. He just lowered his head and looked at the floor.

“I am sorry. I need to think about something.” With that said he just turned around and began walking away, out of the throne room.

“Think I overdid it?” Shining Armor exclaimed with one raised eyebrow.

“No. I think that is exactly what he needs right now, to come to the right path. Equestria needs a good ruler in day court, and I believe, that if Blueblood thinks long enough about the things you told him, he will find the courage in him to rule Equestria to its’ fullest. I just hope he realizes that he has a caring heart.”

“Well ok then. Hey Celestia, where is Luna? I need to know how I run night court.” Celestia and Shining Armor were on a normal name basis since the wedding. It was either both of them talk to each other like royalty to royalty, or like friends. They have agreed to speak to each other like friends.

“Luna can’t be disturbed right now. I didn’t see her for a whole month.” Celestia looked sadly at the floor while Shining Armor, again, raised an eyebrow.

“Why is that?”

“*sigh* She told me that she is creating a spell that summons help from out of Equus.” Shining Armor blinked one time.

“What do you mean with ‘help from out of Equus’?”

“She got the idea that if Oran came from the multiverse as the evil, then why should we not try to summon someone good from there? She told me that she goes right on it to create that spell and that she wants no disturbances. Not even for food and whenever I knock at her door she just says through shut doors ‘I can’t.’”

“Wow that sounds serious. Are you sure that she can handle the stress?” Celestia smiled and nodded.

“Yes, I am quite sure of that. She was always like this. Every time she studied something, she never stopped until she achieved her goal. *sigh* It’s just sad for me, because I can’t see her frequently.”

“I am deeply sorry for you, but who will show me how to run night court then?” Celestia just chuckled.

“Well I of course. Let’s get right to it, shall we?”

“Right!”

“What is this room, princess?” Twilight looked around the room, in which she never was before. It was a spacious hall, nearly as impressive as the throne room, but instead of being a long hallway, this room was a perfect circle. Banners of the lands of Equestria decorated the hall. Princess Celestia looked with a slight hint of a smug grin to her student.

“Oh this? This is the Chamber Of Strategy. It just got redecorated some weeks ago. I thought it might need a renovation since we will be here more than once in the next five years.”

Twilight was still looking around the room, but then she remembered why she was here… or better, to ask why she was here.

“This room is very nice princess, but what do you want to talk to me about?” Celestia made a gesture for Twilight to sit down at the oversized round table in the room.

“I wanted to ask you how Canterlot is treating you and your friends.” She smiled at Twilight.

“Oh, it’s going great. They are all doing wonderful, well nearly all. Applejack still misses her family and also the daily farm labor. I just hope she will come around. I mean even Fluttershy managed to find some new animal friends in the castle in the last two weeks. Pinkie seems as happy as ever. It’s as if we never left Ponyville. She still jumps around like before.”

“Rainbow Dash loves flying around the mountains of Canterlot. Although she is kind of grumpy, because she couldn’t start with the lessons you promised her, yet. I think the one that has the least problems is Rarity. She hangs around with those high class ponies all day. It is as if she is even happier now than in Ponyville.”

Celestia smiled warmly. “I am glad to hear that.” Then she raised herself and started walking around the table while looking around the room. “Well then. Now for the real reason I wanted to talk to you. We need to talk about Oran. Do you have an idea what we could improve in order to stand a better chance against him?”

Twilight drew circles on the floor. “Well, I thought a little about it, but I don’t know if my plans are any good.” Celestia walked over to Twilight and put her wing around her.

“Tell me. We need to talk about this as much as possible if we want to plan the perfect tactic and training-plans.”

“Ok princess. So I thought about his power. If what you told me is true, then he has some sort of magical shield or magical immunity to some degree. He definitely is not immune to every magic, or else he wouldn’t have dispelled the elements. If he would be completely immune, he wouldn’t have minded them hitting him, like with your beams. Now is the question, is he immune to some specific kinds of magic, or is he just immune against every magic if it is below some degree of power?”

Celestia thought a second. “Well the Elements Of Harmony use the combined power of every harmonious virtue. It absorbs the energy and then transforms it into a ray of raw and powerful magic. My Sunbeam and Lunas’ Moonbeam are the same. We just take the magical power of our celestial bodies and release them in a raw blast.” Twilight pondered about this for a moment and then sighed.

“Then I am afraid that he has immunity against spells, below a certain degree of power. This is bad news. How are we able to damage him, if he is immune to any kind of power that is weaker than the elements?” She got a little mad. How can they damage him? Celestia walked over to Twilight.

“My dear student. I think you should widen your horizon a little.” She smiled warmly at Twilight. Twilight didn’t know what she meant. Was there more? Was there a kind of magic that could damage him, or was there a possibility to get as powerful as the elements? No, that was impossible. Someone as experienced and old as Oran has to know nearly every kind of magic.

‘And why does she want me to find out? I am not thousands of years old. How can I know about a way to gather more power than with the Elements Of Harmony?’ She grabbed her head with her hooves and groaned.

“Why does this have to be so difficult?!” She nearly screamed and slammed her hooves at the table. What she did not consider, was the sturdiness of the round table. She picked her hooves up and rubbed them ‘ow’.

“Wait…. Ow?... OW! Yes OW! That’s it!” She started sprouting the widest grin possible. Afterwards, she jumped up and ran to her teacher. “That’s it! Magic isn’t the only kind of damage we can inflict. We also have physical damage.” Celestia smiled warmly at her student.

“Oh I am so proud of you, my most faithful student. Yes, we can still manage to hurt him through physical attacks, and there are spells that can transform magic into physical forces.”

Twilight was happy to have finally found a way to bypass Orans’ magical immunity, but this happiness was only short-lived. “But does he maybe also have some kind of physical immunity?” Celestia shook her head.

“No, I don’t think so. He killed every guard that came near him and avoided or blocked every arrow we shot at him. I think he has some kind of armor around his upper and lower body, but I also think that this armor isn’t nearly as powerful as himself or his magical armor.” Celestia summoned a quill and a piece of parchment.

“So what do we have? We know that he can only be damaged by magical power, stronger than myself, and he can be damaged by any physical means. I doubt that he will be afflicted by disease and environmental damage, since he belongs to immortality class one, like me. Do we know more about his capability in fight?”

“Hmm.” Twilight thought about if she missed anything and suddenly she realized it. Oh, how she wished that she did not realize it. Celestia realized that Twilight wasn’t feeling good and went to her.

“What is it, Twilight? Did you figure something out?” Twilight looked at her hooves.

“Well, yeah I did. I think we are still underestimating him.” Twilight sighed. “There happened something else, aside from the battle.” Celestia thought about this for a while, and then her eyes widened.

“You don’t mean… that was also him?” Twilight nodded.

“Who else? How could the entirety of Equestria die at the same time and get resurrected eleven hours later, if not for him? I am pretty sure that it was him that resurrected all the ponies.” Celestia shook her head.

“Why should he? Why would he kill everypony just to resurrect them eleven hours later again? But that would explain why he said that the next enemy might not be as merciful as him.”

“Correct.”

“But if he really has this kind of power, how can we hope to stop him?” Celestia looked down at her hooves and sighed. This just seems to be impossible, but Twilight just smiled.

“The question is, why did he not use it from the beginning? There are only three possible answers. The first is that he didn’t want to. The second is that he couldn’t. The third is that he knew he wouldn’t need to.”

“Now if he knew that he wouldn’t need it, then he wouldn’t have bothered getting hit by everything you could throw at him, which means he didn’t know how strong you are, and it was therefore impossible for him to know if he needs it or not. So possibility three falls out.”

“I think that, by what you told me, he thinks highly of honor. If we also assume that this power he used to affect Equestria is not his own, and I think that is the case since it is highly unlikely that anypony can get this much power all by himself, then he will refrain from using it. He said he wanted to be bested, and I think that he will hold onto his word, which means that he will not use this kind of power in battle.”

Celestia could not be prouder of her student. She just managed to perceive all these little details and managed to do something she wasn’t able to do in a thousand years. She was able to grasp the power of Oran. She knew what Oran wa capable off. Celestia walked over to Twilight and put her wings around her.

“You did wonderful, my student. I knew that you would be able to help me in forming a plan.” She broke the embrace and walked away, back to the other side of the table. “Now for the next point why you are here in this room for the first place. We may know what Oran is capable off, but now we need to gather as much power and allies as possible. Whom do you think we should ask for help?”

Twilight thought about this for a while. “Maybe the griffin kingdom?” Celestia just shook her head.

“Think again Twilight. What use are thousands of normal soldiers against one powerful being?” Twilight lowered her head.

“Nothing… But who do we ask then? There are no real other powerful beings that compare to your power and would be willing to help us.”

“My dearest Twilight, think about what I told you six weeks ago. We need the Elements Of Harmony to persuade some forces. You know what that means.” Twilights’ eyes widened.

“You don’t mean that you plan to ask people like Discord and queen Chrysalis for help, do you?” Celestia nodded her head.

“I am afraid so.”

“But that’s madness. Why would they want to help us?”

“That’s why we need to persuade them, and not just ask them. We may need to make a deal with them in order to get them as allies. So who, do you think, could be considered as a possible ally?”

“Hmm. I think the only two possible beings that would be able to step up to Oran would be Discord and queen Chrysalis.”

“Yes, that is also what I think. Discord and Chrysalis really seem to be the only ones that have enough power. Now the question, whom to ask first?”

“I think Discord only wants to have fun, so it could be hard to persuade him. Chrysalis seems to only care about her changelings. Maybe we should first talk to her, and maybe we could cut a deal. They will be forgiven for their crimes in Equestria and can walk around again without being hunted down and we get her power in battle.” Twilight exclaimed happily. Finally, they made some progress.

“That sounds like a wonderful plan, my student. I will make preparations so we will be able to meet with Chrysalis in a week or two.”

“I am happy that I could help you, princess.” A smiling Twilight exclaimed.

“No, I should be happy to let you help me. Thank you.”

“No, thank you for letting me help you.” Twilight walked up to Celestia and leaned her head against her neck. The princess gladly answered the hug with lowering her own head to Twilights. They stood like this for several minutes.

“Well I am happy that you helped me today. I think it’s time that you go back to your friends.” Twilight nodded her head and walked over to the big heavy gates of the room. Just when she arrived at the gates, they suddenly opened fiercely and threw Twilight across the room.

“I DID IT!” The hall trembled under the power of Lunas’ royal Canterlot voice. Twilight got up from lying on the middle of the table with Celestias’ help. For Twilight, it looked like stars were flying around her head.

“What do you mean, Luna?” Twilight asked.

“I did it! I created the spell!” Luna hopped happily on the spot. Celestias’ eyes widened.

“Already? This normally takes several months and you did it in what, one and a half?”

“Yes, I know, but I got the brilliant idea to let the spell-complexion-calibration handle itself through a spell that controls the controls of the spell that performs the single complexions while I looked into the spell-matrix.” Twilights’ head instantly perked up, and she felt awake again.

“Luna, that sounds brilliant. If you release this theory to the public, we might be able to create new spells in half the time.” Twilight began hopping around the happy hopping Luna. Celestia just smiled happily at them, but then she realized what it meant, if the spell was finished.

“So that means you can perform it right now, and what exactly does it do?” Luna stopped bouncing and looked at her sister.

“Oh yes, I can perform it right now and about what the spell does. It basically searches through every being in the multiverse and brings the one with the most talent here to us.”

“Luna, that sounds perfect. If you want, we can perform it right tomorrow, when the other Elements Of Harmony are with us.” Luna smiled happily.

“Oh yes, tomorrow sounds great.” Luna lets out an enormous yawn. “Wow, but first I think I’ll go to bed. I didn’t sleep for six weeks.” She turned around and left the room. Celestia turned to Twilight and nudged her to go too.

“I will see you tomorrow then, together with all your friends.” She smiled at her.

“Yes, princess. Goodbye.”

“Goodbye, dearest Twilight.”

“So, what did you say does this spell do?” Rainbow asked.

“WUW Dashie, those are a lot of dos in one sentence.” Pinkie got uncomfortably close to Rainbow.
“Yeah… just tell me what this spell does.”

“Well Ah reckon that Twilight said that this spell gets us some fellah that should be able to take this Oran guy down.”

“But then why do we have to be here? If this so called superpony can take this guy down, then why are we still here? Can’t he just get summoned and fights off this Oran guy and all are happy?”

“Rainbow, we can’t risk the safety of the princess. What if this new pony isn’t the most cooperative? Princess Luna said that this spell summons the being with the most talent to take him down. She said nothing about him being nice and cooperative. What if he attacks the princess? We need to wait here with the elements if something goes horribly wrong.” Rarity tried to calm Rainbow down.

“*groan* Whatever.” Rainbow just landed and rolled her eyes. After some time, the gates opened, and the princesses together with Twilight Sparkle entered the throne room. Everypony instantly stood in order and started bowing to their leaders. Celestia immediately gestured them to stop bowing.

“Please my little ponies, you do not need to bow to me while you are living here in the castle. If you would start bowing every time you see me, then you will most likely need more than just a private masseur.” She looked at the blushing Rarity.

“Thank you, Princess.”

“So, now that we are all gathered, I think it’s time to let my dear sister perform her spell.” Celestia nudged her sister to begin, who happily complied. She walked near the center of the throne room and put her horn to the ground. Then she gathered magic. Alot of magic. She just stood there for about five minutes in the same state.

Nothing seemed to happen. There was just Luna lowering her head and releasing magic. Suddenly the light from Lunas’ horn left her and flew straight into the center of the hall. Luna moved back and shielded her eyes from the blinding light. It got brighter and brighter until it bursted into some kind of explosion. Everypony in the room looked away, and when they looked back they saw someone standing there.

There in the middle of the room stood a biped creature. It kinda looked like Oran just younger and cleaner. He had black spiky hair that stood as if he got hit by lightning. On his back was a sword just looking like Orans’ just with reverted colors. The sword had a black edge instead of red, and a red blade instead of black. His clothes looked somewhat modern, with a black jeans west and also black jeans trousers.

He just stood there in the middle of the room and looked around the room. His gaze stopped at Celestia and after some time observing her, he just facepalmed.

“Really? It’s ponies this time? How come every time, when someone summons me to stop Oran, I see the weirdest creatures? Here, I thought that after those lizard-bird-hybride-things, I would have seen everything, but brightly colored ponies, that’s a new high.” Everypony just looked dumbfounded at him. Finally, Twilight asked him.

“What do you mean ‘every time’ you were summoned and how do you know Oran? Who are you?” The human raised an eyebrow and had a smug smile on his lips.

“Why, his apprentice of course.”

Author's Note

First to answer some questions.

No, he will not just simply go gary stu and win this fight alone.

No, he is no random 20 year old guy from an appartment.

No, he is not nearly as strong as Oran.

just wanted to clarify this. Not that people get the wrong idea, about him being the main character.
He is just here to help.