What if Goku Landed in Equestria as a Baby?

by Desert Tortoise 22


A Night Unlike Any Other

Leafy Breeze stands in the threshold of Lunar’s bedroom with his eyes fixed on the small child he’d been raising for so many moons he had lost count.

However, his eyes showed a deep and unsettling fear as the small frame of the child started to grow. What was once bare skin now grew a thick brown coat of fur. Lunar’s tail stiffens and grows with his body as it gains mass and slams to the floor with a mighty and furious thump.

“Ssssweet Celestia... Lunar... is that you?

The ever-growing body doesn’t answer. It simply growls as it continues to stare at the moon.

Leafy hesitantly approaches him and rounds the corner of the room.

Red.

That is the color of this thing’s eyes. No, not thing. Leafy thinks to himself. This is Lunar, it has to be. The tail, the hair, the torn clothes on the ground, there was no mistaking that this creature was the little one Leafy had been caring for for so long.

A small mixed wave of white, black and blue color began to swirl in the creature’s eyes before isolating themselves into pupils. The creature stops growing but lets out a mighty roar that shakes the very foundation of the castle.

Lunar grips the frame of the window and breaks the solid stone into bits and chunks as he leaps out of the room, a gust of backlashed wind pushing Leafy back.

Leafy has no time to even process what just happened. He has to do something.

“SOUND THE ALARMS! SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED TO LUNAR! HE IS NOT HIMSELF! PLEASE! HELP ME SAVE HIM!”

Leafy gallops frantically through the halls of Canterlot, grabbing the attention of any who could follow.

Captain Goldshield catches up to Leafy and the two make haste to the outer rim of the castle where loud thumps and the sound of stone breaking and crumbling could be heard falling to the ground.

“You two, to the throne room immediately! Ensure nothing gets to the princess!” Goldshield orders two guards the group passes on their way out of the gate.

The guards comply and make haste for the throne room.

Meanwhile, Lunar is flailing about in the garden outside the ballroom. The animals flee their homes as the large furry creature thrashes about, reducing trees to splinters with the sheer force of his limbs.

Lunar lets out a mighty roar that shakes the very foundation of all of Canterlot. The citizens trotting about the night streets look around in fear, wondering what that horrid noise could possibly be.

Lunar’s eyes glow redder with that swirling white, black and blue pattern in the center as his body trembles, as if to resist growing any further. A dim aura of the same color as the center of his eyes surrounds his beastly form.

As this is happening, the Captain, Leafy and a sizable entourage of guards rush towards the garden.

Lunar beats his fists against his chest and stomps about, causing further damage to the surrounding area of the garden. The trees were all but gone, the flowers all stomped out and the surrounding stone walls but mere rubble now.

“Lunar... is that you?” Captain Goldshield approaches the beast hesitantly.

Lunar’s now larger eyes twitch and lets out a mighty roar that pushes the squad of guards back. The pegasi among them try to circle back and around the sky but then...

The aura around Lunar’s body begins to glow again. The colored pattern in the center of his eyes envelops the redness until they swirl, as if to mimic the stardust in the sky.

The aura extends from Lunar’s body and like a wave, forces them back like a gust of wind.

Lunar roars and the aura grows more intense.

Leafy shakes, steps forward and adjusts his helmet.

“Lunar... It’s me son. I don’t know what’s going on and to be honest you know how scared I can get sometimes... But I’m here for you Lunar. Just calm down and we can...

Leafy was far too focused on trying to get through to the boy so he couldn’t have noticed. How could he. The aura envelops Lunar’s tail and like swift unforgiving lightning striking the ground...

“LEAFY! LOOK OUT!” Captain Goldshield shouts.

SLAM!!!!!!!

In between Leafy and Lunar, Captain Goldshield teleports himself to take the full brunt of the tail’s attack.

This sends the Captain hurling quickly through the threshold of the ballroom and into a sizable hole in the center staircase.

“CAPTAIN!” Leafy shouts.

One of the pegasi that was flung away earlier rushes into the ballroom to check on him.

“He’s okay! He’s not getting up any time soon but it looks like a barrier he put up to cushion the blow is fading!” The guard yells to her squad.

Leafy shakes his head but firms his resolve. This was the boy he’d been caring for for years. He'd fed him, taught him how to read (not well but he could do so well enough), they played together, laughed together and more often than not got into a bit of trouble together with Lunar being blunt in his lack of manners but genuinely apologetic to Leafy in true sincerity.

“Lunar... please son... just calm down. We can... I can help you. We can figure out what’s happening to you together. I’m sure the princess has the wisdom to...”

Lunar’s body pulsates as the aura does. He starts to grow larger, the brown fur now overtaking his hair, now flat atop his head. His chest and legs now becoming more and more engulfed by the fur. The beastly form was now at least twice as large as before, and that’s saying something, as he was already twice the height of Princess Celestia.

Without warning, Leafy jumps in to hold Lunar. To try and further reason with him, throwing all caution to the wind.

The guards all stand at the ready. They know they can’t do much against the beast, knowing who he is but beyond that they aren’t sure if they can do anything against him at all given what he did to the strongest among them. The one leading them. All they could do was hope he would recover to give them the order to do something, but for now, trusting Leafy and being at the ready in case he could escape and hurt the denizens of Canterlot was the best they could do.

Lunar’s body continues to grow. Now easily overtaking the height of the tallest trees, the aura subsides and refocuses around the center of his eyes.

Leafy can’t hold on any longer. He falls as the beast turns. Lunar's tail slamming him mid air into the garden below.

Before he could do anything, Lunar’s gigantic foot raises itself as he begins to walk. Leafy stares in horror, unable to move, unable to speak and only one thing races through his mind in this moment.

I’m sorry... I guess I messed up just like when we first met, son... Leafy passes out.

The guards look on in horror, the pegasi try dashing to his rescue but in their hearts they know not one of them would be fast enough. Even the unicorns among them couldn’t clear him in time with a teleport spell. The foot was moving too fast for the exit to allow enough time to focus.

Just then, a figure appears in sphere of brilliant light. The beast reels back, stumbling and closing it’s eyes.

It was Princess Celestia.

“This has gone on long enough.” Celestia says as she readies her spell, the bright light behind her glowing more intense.

She fires a beam of magic straight at Lunar’s beastly form, but despite it’s impressive size...

It misses...

But how? Celestia pondered.

She looks at the ground and notices the ground at Lunar’s feet showed the imprint in the dirt grew larger around his feet. As if his feet were no longer the size they were when he planted them there.

Celestia flaps her large wings and flies closer slowly to Lunar. The closer she gets, the smaller he becomes. She looks carefully at him, his eyes losing the swirling pattern until they were simply red.

Lunar lets out a roar and something shines bright in the gaping mouth. He fires a yellow beam surrounded by the same stardust pattern in his eyes. It is unlike any magic Celestia had ever seen, and she is forced to teleport away. Lunar fixates his gaze to the sky and begins growing rapidly to his prior size, the pattern of stardust returning to his eyes.

“Of course! That must be it!” Celestia looks up to the moon.

The princess spreads her forehooves as her horn glows with the bright intensity of the sun from which it shares.

Lunar is blinded but remains in his current state. His form only shrinking slightly like before.

Before Celestia can think, Lunar swings his arm trying to swat her away. Celestia holds his arm in place with a large beam of magic. However, she is unable to hold off the incoming second arm from behind her.

With no time to react, Celestia puts up as strong a barrier as she can and teleports to the ground to where Leafy lays.

“Princess... I’m so sorry... please don’t... Lunar isn’t well...” Leafy pleads with tears in his eyes.

“I fear that him not being well may not be enough for me to consider holding back an order to the guards... unless you have any ideas, we may have to restrain him in the deepest pits of Tartarus.” Celestia pants, trying to catch her breath.

Leafy turns his head in silence. He can’t move, let alone think of any way to revert Lunar to his original form and size.

“Then... by sunrise... we will have to say goodbye to him?” Leafy whispers.

Celestia snaps her attention once more and darts to the sky again, leaving Leafy Breeze to his fears of saying goodbye to the little one he has cared for for so many moons.

Without a moments hesitation, Celestia zooms through the skies, dodging the one two punches from Lunar as she flies higher and higher until she takes a familiar stance that everypony around her knows well.

Her horn glows again, the moon begins to lower and sun starts to rise.

Lunar stops in his tracks, his body pulsating and the stardust pattern in his eyes fading. His body begins to shrink much more rapidly this time the less the moon is in sight. His fur rescinds to his body until his flesh is bare and the hair on his head regains it’s original pointy shape.

Celestia floats down towards Lunar, the light of the morning sun behind her bathing her body in it’s glow as she lands before him and the guards that approach.

“Princess... we...” A pegasus guard tries to apologize.

“What happened here tonight, you all acted with courage and bravery the likes of which history’s greatest legends couldn’t imagine. I have seen many things in my time as the ruler of Equestria, but none quite like what Lunar had become. Not a single one of you should feel any less than proud of your actions tonight, no matter what part you played. Not many could expect any more than what was done, but I for one am most proud of you all. How is Captain Goldshield? And please, do help Leafy Breeze up so we may tend to his wounds.” Celestia looks to her guards with a warm and kind smile that fills each of them with pride and inspiration.

“The Captain is alright Princess! He says he’s a little shaky, but says he will recover!” A white male unicorn guard salutes her.

“Excellent, then please escort him and Leafy to be treated.”

A guard on each side use their magic to slowly lift Leafy Breeze onto a stretcher and begin to take him away.

“And Leafy?” Celestia calls out to him.

“Yes Princess?” Leafy winces.

“You more than any should be very proud of the bravery you’ve displayed tonight.” Celestia smiles.

“With all due respect princess, if Lunar is safe and healthy, that’s all that matters to me.” Leafy looks over to the unconscious Lunar and smiles as he sees the guards tending to him.

Celestia nods and smiles once more.

“I assure you Leafy, Lunar will be safe and well taken care of. Which reminds me, if I could have everypony's attention please!” Celestia raises a hoof to gesture to all guards present to gather around her.

The pegasi fly down, the unicorns and earth ponies approach with pride in their step with captain Goldshield being helped over, and all bow their heads before the princess.

“While this is quite a mess, I do believe it was a rather unfortunate accident during a routine exercise, wouldn’t you agree captain?” Celestia gives him a knowing look.

Goldshield almost chuckles but remains steadfast.

“Yes princess, it most certainly was. As a token of our appreciation for your understanding, we’ll have this all cleaned up before breakfast. Hop to everypony!” Captain Goldshield commands and steadies himself up so those helping him can join the efforts.

Not a single guard pony there questioned what was said and all accepted their orders with a smile and carried on.

A pair of guards began hesitantly placing Lunar on a stretcher to take him inside. Leafy throughout all of this couldn’t contain his tears and salutes the princess as he and Lunar are carried off to the castle.

Goldshield coughs nonchalantly and approaches Celestia.

“Princess, if I may. Thank you, for being so generous to Lunar and especially to Leafy. It’s been quite a challenge raising the lad, especially given how little we know about what he really is. For me... if I may be so bold as to speak Princess...”

“Please Captain, you may speak as freely as you wish.” Celestia looks down at his flustered face, trying to hide his feelings.

“Thank you for protecting my family. I know I’ve been hard on Leafy ever since he joined the guard, but it’s because I can’t show any signs of favoritism among the ranks. My son should be no exception. However, his acts of responsibility in taking care of Lunar all this time have surprised me and made me prouder than I could ever imagine. After all that... after tonight... I believe I can...” Goldshield pauses.

“It’s alright Captain, I’ve suspected for some time you’ve been ready to tell me something very important.”

Goldshield breathes in deeply and sighs.

“I believe I’m ready to scout out a suitable replacement and hang up my helmet. If tonight was any indication that I’ve been doing this for far too long, it’s become... painfully clear now.” He grunts and rubs his joints.

“While I will miss your presence leading my guard greatly, your services as my Captain have been more than appreciated and I could not have been more happy than to have you for all this time you have given. If you truly believe the time for you to find a replacement and step down has come, then I will absolutely support you.”

“Thank you, princess.” Captain Goldshield removes his helmet and with a grunting pain, bows his head to her.

“You needn’t strain yourself any further Captain. Let’s get inside and have you patched up, shall we? Also, if I may have a moment of your time afterwards, I have a thought I wish to discuss with you and would ask for your perspective on the matter.” Celestia requests.

“Of course, I will do my best to offer whatever you require Princess.”

“I know you will, please take care Captain.”

And with that, the guards are left to clean the debris of Lunar’s rampage, Goldshield is escorted to be tended to, and Celestia is left in the ball room looking up at the new dawn with a look of pondering in her eyes.