As we started the journey to town I noticed the shy yellow one was kinda standing awkwardly like she wanted to say something, if I remember correctly her name was Fluttershy. "Yes Fluttershy? Did you want to say something?" I asked startling the poor mare half to death. She hesitated for a second before speaking.
"Well... I was wondering what you do in your spare time when your not protecting others... if you don't mind me asking that is..." She finally asked, it was a good question as while I didn't have a ton of free time on my hands I had some.
"Well Flutters, is it ok if I call you that?" I asked, when she nodded I continued. "Well Flutters, generally I either spend my spare time with my adopted sister Nyx or with Thunder but if I'm at earth and I don't have anything better to do I like to sit and listen to the sounds of nature or if they let me I play with some of the wild kubrow that live all over the planet. Though if I can't do any of those things I generally meditate or train with other Tenno."
"Oh that's um very nice." She said as she started to give Thunder who had taken to the shy mare rather quickly a belly rub. It was weird she reminded me so much of Nyx, when she wasn't mad that is. Nyx was a rather shy girl, which was one of the reason I was so protective of her in the first place. She never really had someone to look up to when she was younger though I guess she had Tenshi and I guess to a lesser extent me as I was one of the first Tenno released from cryo sleep as well as being one of the first Tenno created. I suddenly had an idea that might help the mare get over her anxiety. I signaled to Ordis to start taking us in a circle so that I would have enough time to do this. I also had him load up a very quaint song one that was an old favorite of Nyx and one of my favorites as well.
"Hey Flutters you wanna hear a song from my home?" I asked her hoping she would say yes which she did. I then had Ordis boot up an old song from the my little pony fandom funny enough.
After the song started playing Fluttershy surprised all of us by actually swaying to the beat with a giant smile on her face. She further surprised us by actually singing along with it like she knew it word for word. By the time the song was over she was even asking she could listen to it again. I was more than happy to allow her to take home a small mp3 player with ear buds and a solar charger for it. However I was far from done with the songs, next was Rarity. Once again having Ordis load up another song I asked her if she wanted to hear more music to to which she agreed.
Once the song started Rarity started to sway and sing along with it just like Fluttershy. Once again when the song was over she wanted the song to take home like Fluttershy, which I did giving her the same things I gave Flutters. Moving on to Rainbow Dash it was very much the same thing.
By the end Rainbow was bobbing her head to the beat like the others. Giving her the same things as the others I moved on to Pinkie.
Once again giving Pinkie what I gave the others I moved on to Applejack. I had a rather special song for her something different then the others.
Hey author! This is getting kind of monotonous isn't it? GA! PINKIE WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL IN THE MIDDLE OF AN IMPORTANT PART! Sorry I couldn't resist! BYE!
Her eyes started to tear up during the first fifty seconds or so and by halfway through the song she was fully crying. The others had started to comfort her asking her whats wrong she just looked up staring at me intently. "How? How did you know they were gone?" Was all she asked before she went back to crying. I crouched down beside her and started to gently hug her telling her that it didn't matter just that she was able to get it out of her system. I asked her if she wanted to have a mp3 player like the others already getting it out of storage and before the others could object she snatched it out of my hand faster then the others could see. "Thank you." Was all she said and that was the end of it. Deciding to move on I next stopped at Twilight. While I wasn't sure if she would totally like the song or not, it was the first thing I thought of for some reason.
She had started to sway to the beat about halfway through but it was clear she was enjoying it. Giving her the same things as the others I finally came to Celestia and Luna, I decided to start with Luna.
Luna just kinda stood there not really commenting on the song only moving her hoof so she could take the mp3 player. After giving Luna l the mp3 player I finally came to Celestia. "We need to talk in private do you understand?" I whispered to her, she nodded and I went ahead on with the song.
After the song had finished and I had given Celestia her music player and solar charger I told Ordis to take us to the town...
POV: 3rd person
It had taken only five more minutes for them to get to Ponyville but when they landed it was completely deserted which kinda freaked the others out. The group had just gotten out of the Liset and Excalibur was about to say something before he was thrown on his ass by the magic of a certain mint colored unicorn.
"GET BACK! DON'T YOU HARM THEM!" Lyra shouted at the top of her lungs, she had focused all of her magic into keeping the creature down for as long as possible so that the others could get away quickly. "Hurry get over here now!"
"Lyra! What are you doing!" Rainbow exclaimed. "He helped us!" Excalibur had quickly gotten to his feet and was watching the situation with curiosity. It was strange to him, to see someone or in this case somepony who had only met him about half an hour ago defend him so quickly, it was truly mind boggling to him. The others had also been rather quick to defend him as well yelling at this newly named "Lyra". It was getting rather tiresome however and while he would normally not do this with in the first hour of meeting a new alien race, he decided fuck it why not. Without the others noticing he materialized a ginormous revolver, about the size of his forearm in total length, from storage, he had found the plans for it hidden in an old data bank on earth it was an extremely powerful sidearm, even though it only had a clip size of five its stopping power far out weighed that rather small inconvenience in his opinion. Raising the gun into the air Excalibur squeezed off one round into the air and all was silent.
"Thank you for your attention." He said while dematerializing the revolver back into storage. "Now then, if you all would be so kind as to listen and not be so judgmental. First things first I want to congratulate the young mare that knocked me on my ass, that is quite an achievement considering how experienced I am. Now if Lyra would be so kind as to apologize then we can get on with our day." Excalibur finished waiting for the others to respond.
"Um sorry mister I thought you were going to hurt them sorry." Lyra spoke, suddenly gaining a very large interest in the ground beneath her. Excalibur chuckled lightly at this before walking over to the unicorn and crouching down on one knee before lifting her head to be level with him.
"Hey now don't beat yourself up about it I'm fine see? Now you did a good job you acted quickly and very efficiently there you have to have quite the good reflexes to catch me off guard, have you had self-defense training before?" He asked her, his curiosity getting the better of him. She nodded saying that her father had pressured her to take some self defense classes when she was younger.
Now that everything was more or less back to normal they could all finally rest from their journey though what would happen in the coming days could not be anticipated, the heroes would need their strength in the near future.