MLP : Guardians are magic

MLP:Guardians

'General Disclaimer'

Book the Tenth a.k.a. Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Whimey and The Knight

Ace and I had finally discovered the caverns after wasting what was left of the afternoon and getting into the night trying to find it. Ace shook his head, “How did it take you this long to find this place? You said you knew where everything is.”
I gave him a funny look, and smiled, saying, “The first thing you need to know is that I am not that pony, not yet. Second, please refrain from telling me any more.”

We began into the caverns and after a few hours of searching found the Doctor and we began up. I turned to the Doctor and said, “Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Whimey stuff is happening, Doctor. Meet Ace. I'm going to meet him later, and by later I mean earlier. You know how it goes.” The Doctor Chuckled and we finally exited the caverns. Ace turned to us with a look of disbelief, saying, “Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Whimey stuff? What do you mean by that? You need to start making sense. I couldn't understand you when I was a foal.” He stepped in front of us and we stopped. He looked at us and continued, “I thought I would be able to understand you when I got older, but I still can't. Start explaining or else I'll tell them that you're a changeling. So start talking.”
I sighed as I began to answer him, “The first thing you need to know about me is that I never tell any-pony anything, or everything. But if I did, I would tell you that you shouldn't worry about the timey-whimey stuff unless you want to join us. We're recruiting outstanding ponies to help us out with problems that threaten the whole of Equestria. If you want to join you need to know something. You'll see things that you could never believe in a hundred thousand years, you'll also see ghosts of the past and the day Equestria burns in a ball of fire. . . assuming, of course, your sun works like the one I imagine it does. Never mind that, just a bit of dark thinking, back to what I saying, let's see. You said I met you in the past, so lets imagine for a second that time is like a line.” I drug my hoof through the ground and made a line. “Ok, now,” I drew an X through two points in the line, “The X on the far end of the line represents when we 'first meet', and the second line also indicates where we 'first meet'. This is mine and your personal time-lines crossing and melding together. And,” I carved a perpendicular line through the middle of the time-line, “Here is where we are now. Any questions?” He looked at me after a minute contemplating this and only had one question.
“If both X's represent our first meeting, why is one further along the time-line than the other?”
The Doctor chimed in finally, “You see, time is a funny thing. It hardly ever goes in order to people who really pay attention to it. You remember Leonardo? Famous inventor, artist, philosopher, to name a few of his advancements. His idea's seemed to be lifetimes ahead of every other advancement in the time period, right?” Ace nodded as The Doctor took a breath, “That's because they were lifetimes ahead because, well lets just say that he had some help for inspiration.”
Ace gave him a sideways look. But as he made connections he started to stare intently at The Doctor. Before he began to ask any questions I chimed in, “That's not getting answered until you give us an answer. Now, it won't be quiet, it won't be calm, and it won't be safe. What it will be is a role of a lifetime, Guardian of all Equestria. What do you say Ace. Join, or not, it won't matter to us. The difference between the two positions, Royal Guard of Canterlot and Guardian of Equestria, is the amount of time your going to spend with 2 mad ponies, and your looking at the two.” He stared at us after I had finished and thought about it. Before we entered the main gate Ace gave us his answer. “No, sorry you two. I feel like I'm needed here. Your needed elsewhere. Have fun, with your adventure, but I don't think I can put up with you two.” We nodded as he declined the offer. That was the reaction I had expected and was no real loss to me. But imagine it, a companion named Ace, it would be awesome. We were about to open the door to go back when I turned to The Doctor saying, “I feel like I've forgotten something, something that was important, but whatever it was it couldn't have been that important, if I forgot it, right?” The Doctor nodded and we entered the castle with Ace. We made it back to the throne room, and what we saw in there made my heart stop. A knight, in full armor,was kneeling in front of the celestial sisters. I caught the tail end of a vow of loyalty. He turned to us and put a hand on his sword. “Identify yourselves,” he ordered, “or face your destruction.” I merely turned, walked out the door, grabbed the nearest guard and made a request. The guard brought me the desired items and I walked back into the room.
“Miss Sparkle, I have to ask you for a favor,” I began placing a quill, parchment, and an ink well on the ground in front of her, “Please right down everything that is said in this room.” The knight began walking towards us and I held up a hoof, saying, “Hold up there Rusty, this is the lead pegasus guard, Ace, and I am Tyler, and this stallion is with us.” He stopped shortly as he accepted this explanation and turned to a more pressing matter, “You do not seemed too surprised to see a person. I am, as far as I know, the only human to exist here.” I nodded and answered the unspoken question, “No, I'm not going to tell you why I'm not surprised to see a human here. Besides, I know some-pony who would be quite excited to meet you. You're in history only no one can remember the influence, unless they pay very close attention. A sudden shift in policy during the dark ages from military power, to the arts. Why? No pony can say, for obvious reasons. If I were a betting stallion, which I'm not, but in the off chance I was, I would say that a human with a huge heart made a plea to the Empress and that was enough to stop meaning bloodshed. Now how can no one remember that day? Simple, because when you take your eyes off a human you forget they ever existed. But with all rules there are exception, this one being that if you believe that humans exist in the deepest part of your heart, you'll be remembered. And I know of at least one pony like that, one Miss Lyra Hearthstrings. A few more come to mind, but they are going to be a surprise.” I sat down and closed my eyes while explaining it to him, a smile on my face. I could imagine the stunned faces of the six mares in the room as well as Ace's. I opened my eyes and saw the stunned faces I excepted to see and one that I had not, The Doctor's. I was slightly puzzled by his confusion but didn't show it, projecting confidence you know. When I had finished what felt like a speech for me, my heart was pounding in my chest, I had only the faintest idea what I was talking about and if anything called me out on it, well that would be bad.
Luckily no one did call me out on the obvious bluff and we continued the conversation finding The Knight, a man who threw away his name after he failed to protect someone, I wasn't really paying attention, from the date of October 24, 1356 after he had found a strange stone, one with a set of three diamonds in it. I nodded as he continued his tale, not really caring after that point. After getting his entire life's story up to the point where he had been miraculously transported to a land with magical talking technicolor ponies, Luna turned to me. “You had said,” she spoke like any other thing here, and I could hear the fear in her voice, “that there was something about Nightmare Moon, attacking the ponies in Equestria. Would you care to explain, for every-pony else's sake.” At this every eye in the room turned to me, and I could feel the pressure. I swallowed a lump that had formed in my throat and I began. “Right, umm, I'm came from Trottingham,” there was a scoff there but I ignored it and continued, “after hearing that some ponies had gone missing. I set up a little trap for it and it worked much to my surprise. A unicorn had come along and tried to abduct the pony that I had used for bait and I confronted him. He dropped the pony and ran away but he didn't get far. I caught him in a net I had set up before hoof, and the mayor questioned her, and, well, I guess you know as much as I do now.” There was a collective gasp in the room which I ignored and was pondering two things. One, Nightmare Moon was pony-napping ponies for some reason, why? The second being that, Nightmare Moon was really her name. I mean yeah it was on the show, but I thought that was for simplicities sake. Now what was going to be the next move?