Twilight and the Fair Knight.

Waking up you find yourself still naked, but thankfully under your blankets, wait... not your blankets, these are Twilight's. so it wasn't an oddly arousing dream. well... it's time to get up anyway. as you stand up you hear Twilight say, "Oh, Anon you're awake!" she then magics a plate of waffles into your lap. "Enjoy!" You shrug a bit and tear into the waffles, they're so moist there's no need for syrup... would be good still. but soon feel the train stop and you quickly stand up and look outside to see a small town with the train tracks bisecting it. you pull the underwear you had on before, and then the chain mail tunic on and then you work on your armor, you're getting better at putting it on yourself. finally your sword belt goes on, with your helmet on you lose yourself to the persona you have created for the Knight you are supposed to be.

"Sir Anonymous of Pangaea." you turn and find Fluttershy standing in the doorway. "Oh, I'm sorry... Rarity told me your name... and well, I was wanting to say you're nice... I think, Twilight seems to like you."

"Ah, Thank you, I promised to all the princesses that I would keep all of you safe. and I will." with that you clap your gloves together and move to take your shield up and turn back to Fluttershy. "I take it we have arrived?"

"Oh yes, We're going to begin to go into the badlands after we visit with a water caravan to secure out packs of water."

"Alright, I suppose I'll carry most of it?"

"Oh no. we have someone for that." she nods and then turns and trots out, "We're going to go now, Feel free to stay behind and get ready!" you look over yourself and find that you think you're acceptable. so you begin your trek out, with the ponies, and after a big of haggling from Pinkie you get your water half off and a free two liter. which made you a bit pleased to learn that soft drinks still existed at least you had that bit of happiness and familiarity to the world you came from, taking a chug of the pony cola, reminds you of sitting with your family. Watching the television with your family, having conversations with your dad... the day your mom died, you helped them cart her out.

Not that they need the help, but that you wanted to say your last goodbye. You bring the bottle down from your lips and look at the seven ponies... you let a single tear fall as you see none of them are looking, this day is either going to be bad or really bad, walking in hard packed dry salt flats is not as fun as you'd believe, not that you ever believed it would be fun. "My Princess... Erhh, Twilight, How much longer do you believe it will be until we arrive at the changeling -- hive?"

"Yes, hive, the changelings are an insectoid race... they feed on emotion, Love being the most powerful, any emotion will feed them, however, Love is much like canned food. It has no expiration." She nods and looks back to you, you had replaced the cola bottle on the water ponies back, he nods and simple continues on. "Anonymous," She now slows and gets beside you, lowering her voice. "Do you love me?"

"Yes! Why?" you look at her and raise an eyebrow. "Did... Did what happened make it... harder for me to be your bodyguard?"

"No- yes-- I don't know." She sighs and leans into you, "Would you marry me if I asked you too Anon?" She stares up at you and smiles a bit, you can only stare down at her.

"Twilight, it's very soon... maybe... after we get to know each other better?"

"Uhh... uhm, okay." she nods and then raises herself up a bit and smiles, "We should arrive soon... we've been walking for several hours..."

"Heh... you all have been walking, The dash is gliding, this ground has a great updraft." Rainbow, the oddly cock-sure Element of Loyalty grins at you all, you can swear you can see the stains from the shit eating-ness she displays.

"Now, Rainbah, that just ain't kind... ya ain't gotta rub it in..."

"Yes, dahling, my mane might frazzle if I keep walking like this."

"I like this place, it'd be great for a PARTY!" Pinkie pie is now sitting on a cloud floating beside Rainbow, before falling out of it and bouncing from her rump onto her legs. you look at Twilight, who shrugs her withers and then looks back ahead.

"Well... I believe we should do as the princess wishes. as much as I wish we could find a place for me to wash my armor... and my body." you mumble the last parts as you keep walking, as Twilight wanted. though after an hour of walking you notice pony sized burrows in the ground and you see a giant ant hill in the distance. "I believe this is our destination?" the guide/water pony nods and then chuckles.

"Yep. but I'm afraid you won't be meeting our queen." all the ponies look at him to now find him black and with a cracked horn, bright emerald glowing eyes, and a snapped dragonfly wing. "You're all quite valuable." as he says this, many changelings crawl out of the burrows surrounding you all soon, Twilight is the first to speak up.

"Everyone... don't fight... I'm sure something will help us. just, let's be peaceful..." you all comply, you simply because you don't want to shed blood yet. they might just send you back... but why take you all the way out here...? you stand still, shield resting on the ground as you stand now.

"All you 'cept the armored thing come with us... the armor has it's own use." and with that you changelings take to trying to lead you, the majority of the changelings leaving with the mane six, the water-pony stands in front of you, "Come with us peacefully and you'll lead a prosperous live fighting in our pits."

"Hmm... I believe that is a no." and with that you move to kick a changeling in the face, the one that is pushing the hardest on you, as you pull your sword you ready your shield, remembering all of your training you watch the four changelings and the larger water changeling, move to you, the one you kicked looks a bit angrier and the tip of his horn is snapped off. as you lower your shield you bring your sword around and stab towards the closest changeling, his chitin meets your sword and you push, finding a slip in it you slide deep into its chest, green blood flowing from the wound, as you pull outward from his body and smack a changing changeling in the face with your shield you feel the magical green flow around you and the heat of his hit flow around you, your boots get warmer and a little bit of soot replaces the sand caked on the plates that meet the green fire you slide your shield away from it bringing your sword down towards its neck, a glancing strike on it's chitinous exoskeleton.

Your sword bounces off and you stumble away, finding a changeling bucking your chest plate, though no dents form, you find the air leaving you and you gasp suddenly your helmet being pulled off your head by a green aura, adrenaline rushes through you as you remember they will kill you if you fall. this is no skirmish, this is battle, you quickly force yourself to recover thrusting your sword hard in front of you to the changeling, your sword finding its eye and your arm pulls to the side, ripping it's head open, green blood and a deflated eye flopping into it, and your next move truly devastates the changing you had previously kicked you bring your shield edge down, locking it's head down to the sandy salt flat as you stop down, finding a surprisingly pleasing crunch echoing about through your foot, brain matter and blood splatter about, your boots will need a serious cleaning after this, if you survive.But this is not the time to worry about that, you still have two left... two, you can take them! your heart pounds from the adrenaline that flows through you, your eyes dart around to pick up every little detail the last normal changeling seems to be ready to leave. Can't let him do that... you drop your shield and charge and bring your sword down, cleaving the head and part of the body clean in half, spinning around you turn to the last changeling, the water pony... and growl.

Charging forward and bringing your shield up you hit him in the head, and stoop up to kick him in the throat, he stumbles back with all of your attacks being leveled towards him, his magic revs up and grips your shield and tosses it away, landing several yards away you are left without an defense, so you take your Long sword up in both hands, and begin pacing around him like a predator, when he makes the first move you can only step away from his magically enhanced charge, letting him slow and turn back, on his second charge you bring your sword back and swing upward as he passes. You feel your sword rip from your grip and you connect and find yourself back first on the ground, getting up slowly you find your sword burred deep in the breast of the changeling. Green blood pooling around it, as you place your boot on the dead being and pulling up you remove your sword and move to retrieve your helmet and shield, once they are back on you begin to move into the city of the changelings, beings without identity. as you move you don't stop as you simply slice and cut any foolish Changelings down, any fear for yourself gone as you remember the Princesses words. they will blame you if you return without them.

"TWILIGHT!" You call out and find the tunnels alive with scampering now... though they are blocking all but one tunnel and aren't moving, so you follow the tunnel they mark... not wanting to waste time, as you follow you find more tunnels blocked off. They're leading you somewhere. you come across a dead pony though, skeleton all that remains, you find a small charm with a crescent moon being the only charm, and the spear it had was still... sharp, so you keep the tip, snapping the old rotten wood was easy as killing seemed to be now. but as you continue through the tunnel now, you find a room with a small throne with a larger changeling, must be the queen. you might have heard something about that before, you were trying to talk to the queen when you all set out. "Where are my friends?" you speak slowly and keep your visor down, finding the blood splattered on it to be more intimidating than your face alone. so you ask the queen of the Changelings, she giggles and stands moving to you and placing a hoof on your shoulder.

"Oh, they are safe... for now... now do as I say, and be a good prisoner and I'll let them go... as are the rules we all follow." she seems to taunt you with her words. and so you do the only thing you know to do at this moment in your anger.

"Your highness... I believe you forget one thing..."

"Oh? What is that my little weak deary?"

"I don't play by your rules." you say this lowly and drive the blade of the spear you recovered from the dead soldier pony in the cave right into the queens heart, you feel her blood flow over your leather gauntlet and onto your wrist. staining your metal green. as you lift your visor and stare her in her crying eyes you twist the blade. "I'll enjoy turning your head in to the princesses."

"It's.... not fair." she gasps out with a light, weakened sob, her eyes slowly losing their glow as life fades from her.

"It's fair for me... I kill monsters." with that you toss her down and pull the blade out,and move to cut the now dead queens head off. turning around you walk to the tunnels and hold the head high above your head. "I KILLED YOUR QUEEN! RELEASE ALL PRISONERS AND YOU WON'T ALL DIE!" you yell this and find every changeling scrambling to leave, and release prisoners. old ponies scramble by and then the Mane 6 find you, head sitting by you, "Good to see you all, Shall we leave?"

"Anonymous... did you kill them?"

"Yep." you nod and stand up showing the head off, Fluttershy hides behind a wall as a drop of blood leaks out. "Now... I have a present for Celestia. I think we should get going..."

"Yeah... alright... we should get a bag for that..."

"Potato sack." and with that you all head out to walk the badlands, you dragging the water supply behind you, Your muscles ache by the time you reach the town. the water company upped and left the entire town... so jobless ponies picked it up, and when you board the train you immediately pass out, still in armor. You don't wake until Canterlot, after a wonderful talk from twilight about what you did and why you did it, the only thing you can say is "I did it for my princess." and she only responds with a blush. shambling through Canterlot, blood stained and groggy still, you find yourself walking into the throne chambers tossing the head into the room and walking in. "Are you not entertained?" you hold your arms out wide, kicking hte head the last few feet into the room, "I did as you asked... Changeling aggression should stop, I kept the Elements safe... and revealed a changeling in your town... now. I'm going to go clean up and sleep." you leave before Celestia, Luna, nor Cadence can raise an objection. and go to the room twilight told you was her suite. and begin to wash your armor, yourself, your clothes, and yourself again, then sleep.