Kirby: Equus Defender

by QuartzScale


01. Star Warrior on Equus

Long ago, out amongst the stars a spacecraft in the shape of a large star hurtled through the cosmos escaping a fate that was unfathomable to any mortal mind. The stars shifted leading the craft to a destination where it could finally be in peace… but that peace would last only so long.

Out in the distance was such a planet, peaceful and ever unaware of the dangers around it. The star quickly honed in on its target as it dived down to a special town where every pony was gathered for a new beginning.


Twilight looked over the procession as everypony celebrated the return of Princess Luna. She looked over her new friends and tears threatened to take over. She knew her mission was over. She didn't want to leave them now that she knew who they were. She had friends… friends she wanted to be around. Spike had been so elated that she had been able to even see her again.

“Is something wrong Twilight?” Celestia, the Alicorn of the Sun, looked down to her seeing the frown form on her face.

“It's just… I made all these new friends and now I've got to leave them.” Twilight pouted as she looked over her new friends.

“Spike, take a message.” Celestia announced while Spike pulled out a parchment and quill from somewhere.

“What's that!?” A random voice from the crowd called out.

Out in the sky was a very bright shining spark. It was hurtling down for Ponyville.


The spacecraft had hit a bit of turbulence as an asteroid hit the craft’s side. With the sudden destabilization of the navigation system the craft was forced into a dive towards the strongest gravity field around. Apparently the star shaped planet of Equus was the only possible landing point.

The sole inhabitant of the spacecraft was still blissfully unaware of everything going on. Lost in their dreams they hurtled down towards the planet as the spacecraft caught fire.


Celestia barely had time to react as the object flew straight for the center of Ponyville. Using her magic she erected several barriers made of solar magic to catch the falling object.

It didn't work.

The object tore through the first seven shields like they were wet paper. The eighth barely fared any better crumbling from the speed that the object was falling.

The next ten barriers all crumbled only managing to slow the object down. The following barriers did better catching the object as it started to come to a halt barely missing a small rabbit who was nearly crushed by the object.

His life had passed before his eyes… he needed to have more carrots. With a new lease on life Angel vowed to eat more before his eventual demise.

“Angel Bunny!” Fluttershy called out as she pulled the rabbit from beneath the falling object. It was a close call and his little bunny heart could have stopped from the fright.

“What is that?”

“Why's it shaped like a star?”

“See Bonnie I told you aliens were real.”

The murmuring of the crowds and the falling object from the sky made everypony forget they were in the presence of royalty. Celestia had to regain her composure because it was so shocking that something like this happened and in her dizzy state she placed the craft on the side of the stage where everypony could see it. Twilight was one of the few who didn't shy away from the craft looking over intently.

“Made of… metal it would seem. There are parts on it that look like the undercarriage of a carriage… but far more advanced. The lump on the center seems important. Oh there's a button here.” Twilight narrated as she examined the craft in more detail. There were other details but the button she found was the most important. It might even be the thing that would open the object in question.

“Twilight, please don't get too close to the object. We don't know what could possible happen.” Celestia quickly gather Twilight in her magical field making certain she didn't press the button or touch anything else.

The guards surrounded the area, spears at the ready. Luna, still depowered, kept a close eye from behind Celestia’s wing. The only pony not carefully watched was -

“Pinkie! Get away from that!” Applejack called out as everypony noticed the party pony precariously perched above the weird star.

“But parties from outer space! We have a duty to give them a little pony hospitality. Besides they're probably nice and harmless.” Pinkie gleefully chuckled only to lose her footing as planting her plot on the button.

The sudden hissing from the star caused Celestia to grab the newly minted Element of Laughter before anything else could happen. The hatch atop now at an angle slowly lifted as steam poured out from the hatch. Everypony that could see would have started to panic had the guards not been there before hand.

Celestia watched alongside everypony else as a small pink blob rolled out from the hatch and onto the ground. It was a large circular pink blob with two oval like red feet which rolled to a dead stop in front of Twilight Sparkle. Nopony could breath as the blob stopped.

Before anypony could say anything the blob slowly turned around getting back up onto its feet. As it turned to face the princesses the being opened its eyes staring into their eyes.

“Poyo…” The small pink puffball muttered as it yawned from the nap it had taken. The pink puff had had a strange dream that he had landed on a world filled with ponies of various shapes and sizes, some with horns and others with wings. As he wiped the sand from his eyes there was an immediate squee going off somewhere around him.


Fluttershy couldn't stand it anymore. It had been subtle at first but she knew what it was. Her inner nurturing nature immediately took hold as soon as the small pink ball rolled out of the scary thing.

It tightened the moment it got up on its little feet. It strangled her the moment the creature went poyo. It bucked her in the heart when the creature rubbed its eyes as if waking from a nice nap that she couldn't ignore it any longer.

Faster than even Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy swooped forward grabbing the creature who she cuddled with as if her life depended on it. The sheer amount of cuddling was so powerful all the guards nearly fainted from the purity of it. Even the two celestial sisters were nearly brought to tears from this display of cuddling prowess that no mortal nor god could ever replicate it in all its splendor.

It took a while for everypony to realize what just happened. Celestia and Luna blanched at the sight and cautiously stepped forward and slowly began to peel Fluttershy off the creature who by the sound of his voice sounded to be male.

“Hello there… little pink puffball.” Celestia cautiously chuckled. Her many years of diplomacy and speech rendered to smaller venues by how strange thing had gone. He looked at her and tilted his head… body, she was unsure whether you could separate one from another.


The small star warrior looked upon the large majestic being before him… and the only thought running through his head was wondered how her hair seemed to flow without any wind around. He looked around noticing several other eyes watching him and with his best smile he he shouted aloud something which made everypony startled.

“HI~!” Kirby shouted out to everypony.

There was a large scuffling as everypony either blanched or said hi back with much less intensity. Twilight was one of the few who was still stunned at how brazen Fluttershy had been. Regaining her senses she immediately paced over to the star shaped ship from space apparently wanting to figure out what was going on when she noticed that something landed on her back.

“Spike, now's not the time - wait… you're over there… then who's on my back?” Twilight shuddered as she realized Spike had stayed near Applejack.

Celestia held a hoof to her muzzle, whether to express shock or stifle giggling she would never say. The small creature had effortlessly jumped up onto Twilight’s back the moment she made her way closer to the strange star.

“HI!” Kirby shouted as Twilight immediately flew into a panic and did her best impression of a bucking bronco. And through it all Kirby held on with all his might laughing the entire time.

“Ugh… she forgot didn't she…” Spike growled out.

“What did the egghead forget?” Dash muttered as she tried to keep her laughing to a bare minimum.

“She has a horn.” Spike deadpanned which made Rainbow Dash laugh even harder than before.

It took several minutes of Twilight thrashing around until she finally collapsed in front of Spike while Kirby jumped off and landed on his star again. He seemed to fumble around the ship for a bit while Spike took one of Rarity’s fans to cool her down.

“Thanks… where did she have that…?” Twilight coughed out, nearly hyperventilating from the sudden physical work.

“She thought she would need it yesterday. Two, why didn't you use your magic?” Spike asked at the first moment he had.

“What?” Twilight coughed as she realized what he was getting at. “Spike, I was panicking!”

“It took until he said hi for you to even realize he was on your back.” Spike deadpanned. Twilight grumbled under her breath until she could think of the best retort possible.

“Shush Spike…” Twilight growled out only to fall flat on her face from exhaustion.

Kirby waved at all the ponies as he dove back into the ship and pulled out a large tomato with a giant M on it and happily munched on it. There were many dumbstruck looks on everypony’s faces and nopony wanted to break the mood.

“Um… little one. What is your name?” Celestia called out stepping forward as Luna followed.

“Kirby.” Kirby managed to answer as he pulled out another tomato and swallowed it in one bite. With a contented sigh he fell asleep against the star shaped craft and everypony visibly flinched at how carefree he seemed to be.

“Sister… I know that things have changed over the year when it comes to foreign meetings but… is this a normal thing or am I going crazy?” Luna questioned Celestia with stage whispers which at the very least were very quiet.

“No Luna… no they aren’t. I didn’t expect this to happen and I have to head out and meet with the monarch of Dream Land later this week. Now this happens.” Celestia shuddered at the thought of the meeting luckily only Luna and Twilight were close enough to notice.

She remembered how boisterous that penguin figure King DeDeDe was. His manservant, a Waddle Dee and citizen of Dream Land, Bandana Waddle Dee while nice, acquiesced to his king’s demands far too often. The only respectable figure was his Head Knight, the mysterious Meta Knights. Though even he kept his intent close to the chest far too often for her own liking.

“I could do it for you Princess Celestia.” Twilight interjected her mentor’s thought process bringing attention back to her… even though she was limping towards her from exhaustion.

“I couldn't ask you of that Twilight. I was going to announce that you would stay in Ponyville to study the magic of friendship but it seems that Kirby’s arrival put a small kibosh on that plan.” Celestia wistfully chuckled as the crowd finally calmed down enough and began chattering amongst themselves about aliens, space, and how funny it was to see Twilight get ridden like a bronco.

The comment wasn't lost on Twilight who was blushing indignantly yet keeping enough composure to show Princess Celestia that she was okay. With a heavy sigh and plans far in the making for much much later she made a decision. A decision that would change everything. Such a catastrophic decision that Twilight would forever remember that day as her DAY OFDOOM.

“Yes… you can meet with the Dream Land representative in my place.” Celestia relented feeling a great weight off her chest at finally not having to deal with that problem… plus Twilight would need experience eventually.

“Uh… sister. Me thinks you have forgotten something.” Luna chirped up while Twilight began to gush about not letting Celestia down.

“What is it sister?” Celestia turned her head only to catch the small pink puff attached to her mane waving at her.

Celestia, the unflappable princess of the sun and ruler of all ponies, jumped in surprise landing on her back legs splayed out while several of the ponies around gawked at the sight. Kirby for his part rolled around as he was tossed through the dirt utterly confused at what had happened.

“Poyo?” Kirby muttered as he ran up to Celestia to try helping her up.

“Ah little one… what are we going to do with you?” Celestia sighed realizing that Kirby was like a child. Curious and a bit of a prankster but relatively kind and fun loving she noted that he seemed at the very least sorry about things.

“Poyo!” Kirby cheered as he ran around everypony taking in the sights and sounds jumping on random ponies backs who looked unperturbed by his apparent lack of weight.

“Uh… Princess, are you okay?” Twilight trotted up looking so sheepish about talking with Celestia.

“Of course Twilight… though I think I have a second job for you. Can you keep him safe as well?” Celestia pointed at Kirby who was watching butterflies flap around with Pinkie who had immediately jumped around to play with him.

“Uh… you got it Princess. I'll do my best.” Twilight reaffirmed even though Kirby was kind of hyper.

And with the celebration in full swing Twilight was announced to be staying in Ponyville while Kirby sat on his ship looking over everything. He didn't know why he was there but the ship had never let him down before. Though he did crash land so there was at least some room for error.

He waved at all ponies and by the time the two princesses left he was surrounded by six ponies and one dragon.

“We still need to clean up everything.” Rainbow Dash groused since she was getting sleepy at this point.

“C’mon Dash. Faster we do this the faster we get home.” Applejack muttered as she led several of the other earth ponies to take down the stage.

“Let's go!” Pinkie shouted as she rushed through the town cleaning up everything she could.

“Oh dear…” Fluttershy whimpered as she tried her best to keep up with Pinkie Pie.

“Darling, why don't you head home for now and get settled in. I'm sure Kirby will also need some rest after everything that had happened.” Rarity offered to Twilight.

“I can't do that now. Don't worry I can help out before we head back home.” Twilight insisted as she started to pick things up in her magic.

“Oh thank you darling.” Rarity mentioned as everypony started to clean up the town.

Kirby, meanwhile, sat down. He felt slightly uneasy at the moment but he couldn't tell why. It felt as though something bad was happening soon. Though just as easily as he felt it, it soon disappeared. A tad unsettled Kirby got back up and began running around with Spike to help carry things around.


Far in the Everfree Forest, beyond the Castle of the Two Sisters, at the border to Dream Land, stood the illustrious Fountain of Dreams that King DeDeDe boasted could give good dreams to all his citizens without needing anypony to head into their dreams to fix them. Rumors abound that even Luna had used it to help with her own citizens dreamscape.

A small wisp of shadows eked out through the waters… battered and broken it made its way towards the main fountain and the famous tool known as the Star Rod. But for as valiant as its struggle was it couldn't reach the prize.

As the last of its form started to fade into nothingness from the concentrated Rainbow Death Beam a hand slowly picked it up out of the water. The hand was larger than even Princess Celestia and was horribly gnarled and gray with long sharp pointed claws.

The remnant of the shadows, also known as Nightmare Moon, managed to weakly turn her slitted pupil towards its savior… only to feel even smaller and more insignificant when it saw what had saved it.

The figure was almost as large as the castle hanging off of Mount Canter. It wore a long purple robe that seemed to have stars swirling around it without much effort. The face was masculine, with a long pointed chin and sharpened teeth adorning its mouth. Nightmare Moon couldn't see its eyes through the conspicuous shades it wore over them though the crown it wore and the horns peeking through it said more than it wanted to know.

“Well little nightmare… I shall take care of you.” The Nightmare chuckled as he pulled out his pendant and allowed it to absorb the remnant of Nightmare Moon into the red jewel.

With a sharp laugh the large wizard shifted into its other form, a large orb with a constant stream of stars circling it and fled towards the moon. He still needed to bide his time until he would strike.