//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: S1 E3 // Story: The Saiyan // by Blood fallen //------------------------------// The following morning Rodas woke up on a small bed in the basement of the Golden Oaks Library. "Where am I, oh that's right." Rodas said getting off the bed he could see his battle armor on the dresser next to the bed and put it on over the top of his blue body suit. "Remember Rodas, play nice with the locals, at least until a Frieza force scout ship comes by again and you can get back to planet Vegeta." Rodas said to himself as he walked over to the stairs leading to the library. when he opened the door he took in the sight of a circular room with a table and chairs in the middle of the room with a stair case spiraling up to a first floor with book shelves filled with books, he then smelled something like cooked food coming from a side room. "That smells good." he thought as he walked to the kitchen/dining room he saw Twilight sitting at the table still wearing her night gown while a small purple lizard was making toast. Twilight looked up from the book in her hands with wide eyes as Rodas walked into the room. "Good morning Rodas, take a seat." Twilight said pulling a chair out next to her. "Thank you." Rodas said sitting down, he then glanced at the lizard. "What is that?" He asked pointing at Spike. "Oh, that's Spike, he's my assistant." Twilight explained. "Only your assistant Twi?" Spike asked looking back to the table for a moment and froze when he saw Rodas sitting next to Twilight. "Twi what's that thing sat next to you?" Spike asked turning back to the toast. "Oh this is Rodas, he's an alien." Twilight said looking at Rodas. Spike stopped what he was doing and turned to look at Rodas. "No way, your an alien?" Spike asked. "Yes, I'm a Saiyan warrior from planet Vegeta." Rodas answered finding himself somewhat amused by the excitement of the young drake. "Wow, I never thought I'd meet an alien." Spike said. "Believe me you don't want to meet any others." Rodas said letting his pride swale up from the admiration of the young dragon. "So do you have a space ship?" Spike asked excitedly. "Sadly no, the last thing I recall was being put into suspended animation, then waking up in, it was Fluttershy right?" He asked looking to Twilight who nodded while reading. "Yeah so after that I woke up in Fluttershy's house with no memory of how I got there." Rodas explained. "Wait, you were in cryo-sleep?" Spike asked. "I was, but I don't know for how long, it could have been a year, two or even a hundred." Rodas said crossing his arms. "That's so awesome." A voice said from the open window, the three looked and saw Rainbow dash leaning in listening into the conversation between twilight, Spike and Rodas. "Rainbow, didn't anypony ever tell you its rude to ease drop on others?" Twilight asked getting up from her seat and walking to the window. "I know, but come on he's an alien, I just had to know what was going on." Rainbow said through the window. "Is this a normal occurrence?" Rodas asked leaning in towards Spike. "Yeah, Rainbow doesn't seem to use doors." Spike explained. "Oh right, say no more." Rodas said giving the young dragon a thumbs up under the table. "Hay Rodas, do you want to help me and Applejack today?" Twilight asked as she yawned. "Applejack, that's the one with the hat from last night right?" Rodas asked looking over to Twilight. "That's right, I promised her I would help at the farm today." Twilight said as Spike brought a plate of toast to the table for Twilight. "Well it's not like I have anything to do." Rodas said crossing his arms. "That's great, and it means I can show you around Ponyville." Twilight said as she started to eat her breakfast, around an hour later twilight had gotten dressed wearing a purple vest with white shoulder straps, dark blue jeans and simple flat shoos. As the two walked through quiet streets of early morning Ponyville Twilight noticed that every time they passed a pony they would stair at Rodas without even trying to hide it, as they went through the marked a mint green mare with golden eyes who was dressed near identically to Twilight say for the colors rushed up to Rodas getting right in his face and looking him all over. "I can't believe my luck, an actual human." the mare said without even introducing herself before she started touching Rodas to feel his muscular arms, which Twilight could tell from the bulging vain on his forehead was annoying him, suddenly the mare stepped away from Rodas when she saw his tail wrapped around his waist. "Wait humans don't have tails, why do you have a tail?" the mare asked pointing at Rodas. "Because I'm a Saiyan, not a human." Rodas explained ready to blow a fuse. "Lyra, pleas leave him alone." Twilight said as she watched him becoming visibly more angry. "But he's a human, I've literally spent my whole life trying to prove to every pony that their real and now there's one in front of me." Lyra said pointing at Rodas who had finally reached his limit for what he was willing to put up with as he grabbed Lyra by the throat and lifted her of the ground. "Let me make this clear, I am a Saiyan and if call me a human again I'll make you regret it." Rodas said dropping Lyra as he looked at Twilight. "So are we going to this farm or not?" He asked as Lyra walked of with slumped shoulders. "Come on Rodas, lets go." Twilight said leading the way to the farm not noticing that Pinkie and Rarity had seen the exchange from Sugar Cube Corner. "Pinkie darling, am I the only one seeing Twilight walking with a strange creature?" Rarity asked sitting at the window with Pinkie both mares following the sight of Twilight and the strange being they had never seen before as they walked towards the Applejack's farm. "I see it, and you know what this means right?" Pinkie asked about to burst with exactment. "No, I'm not sure I do." Rarity answered almost lost for words. "It means I get to throw another welcome to Ponyville party, and it's only been a week since the one I did for Twilight." Pinkie said getting up and rushing into the kitchen. About half an hour later Twilight and Rodas arrived at the farm and were greeted by Applejack who was wearing a green shirt under a brown jacket with cowboy trousers and boots. "Well howdy Twilight, I thought you were bringing Spike to help?" Applejack asked getting a better look at Rodas now that the sun was up. "He'll catch up once his chores are done, so I brought Rodas to help up until Spike gets here." Twilight explained. "Well I guess it wont hurt, have you ever apple bucked before Rodas?" Applejack asked turning to face the alien. "No." Rodas answered. "I thought as much, I'll show yawl how its done." Applejack said placing wooden buckets under a tree that had branches filled with apples, then she gave it a hard kick that shook the apples lose into the waiting baskets. "See its easy, and now we just take the buckets to the barn." Applejack said finishing her demonstration. "Fine I guess I'll give it a try." Rodas said setting up the buckets but rather than kick the tree he did a one inch punch so that he didn't break it. "Damn Rodas, a one inch punch you really are strong." Twilight said as she used her magic tp pick apples from another tree. "Whatever, let's just got on with this." Rodas said picking up two buckets on his shoulders before running to barn and back in an instant due to his power level, some time later Spike showed up only to find that the work had already been finished thanks to Rodas's speed allowing them to work faster than normal. "Sorry I'm late, I got held up in town." Spike said as looked around confused. "Wait, you guys have already finished, that's quicker than I thought it would take." Spike said looking at all the picked trees. "Yep, turns out Rodas is really fast, thanks to his help we were able finish up faster than usual." Applejack explained as she sipped on some apple juice, suddenly Spike looked like he was going to be sick and belched out a burst of green flame that turned into a scroll. "It's a letter from the Princess, what dose it say spike?" Twilight asked having a sip of her own juice, Spike read the letter out loud and when he was done he handed two golden tickets to Twilight, Rodas meanwhile was leaning up against the barn with his eyes closed trying not to listen, but that didn't stop him from catching bits and pieces of something called the Gran Galloping Gala, Rodas opened his eyes and walked over snatching one of the tickets from Twilight. "What's so special about this golden paper?" Rodas asked looking at the ticket he'd swiped. "That ticket is for the Grand Galloping Gala, it's the most important high society event of the year." Twilight explained as Rodas gave the ticket back. "Say no more, I have no interest in such thing, I'm going back to the library now." Rodas said as he started walking off. "Wait, your going to need this." Twilight said giving Rodas the key. "Thanks." Rodas said walking off not knowing about the utter madness that would befall Twilight that day. A few hours later. Rodas had been in the basement rom since he got back and had been rearranging it into a more proper living space for the last few hours blissfully unaware of the chaos about to happen in the library. "There, all done." Rodas said feeling pleased with himself as he looked at the now tidy basement with Twilight's lab equipment on the opposite side of the room and all of the boxes that had once littered the room having been neatly put away into the utility cupboards lining the wall. Rodas then heard a sudden scream from up stairs. "What the hell was that." he said climbing the stairs into the library. When he opened the door he could see Twilight and her friends two of which he didn't recognize. "Would someone like to tell me what the hell is going on?" Rodas asked. "Basically they all want to be Twilight's plus one to the Gala, but she can only take one of them and she doesn't know who to take." Spike explained. "Um Twilight, who and what is that?" Rarity asked looking at Rodas being enamored by his muscular build and black hair that stood up in defiance of gravity without any hair gel. "Oh right, it's been such a crazy day that I never got the chance to introduce you and Pinkie to Rodas, he's an alien that Fluttershy found yesterday." Twilight said. "Ok introductions are over, now what are we going to do about the Gala tickets?" Rainbow said impatiently as she crossed her arms while hovering next to Fluttershy. "How about you send them back and be done with this pointless bickering." Rodas suggested noticing that Rarity was giving him the look, while Pinkie just looked at him dumb struck unsure of what to say. "Rodas your a genius, Spike fetch a quill and parchment." Twilight said and proceeded to send a letter and the two tickets back to Princess Celestia, only for Spike to belch up Celestia's response letter and six tickets, plus a letter with a ticket fore Spike a few moments later. "Wait, what about Rodas?" Rarity asked looking over to the Saiyan who was leaning up against the wall with his eyes closed and arms crossed. "I have no interest in attending such events." Rodas said keeping his eyes closed despite the fact that Pinkie was hopping on the spot right next to him asking a million questions a second. "So, dinner?" Applejack suggested and the girls began shuffling out of the library followed by Spike while Rodas stayed behind. "That means you too Rodas, besides I still owe you for your help this morning." Applejack added leaning back in after she realized that Rodas wasn't with the group. "Fine I'll come along, but I warn you Saiyans have a huge apatite." Rodas said reluctantly following Applejack to catch up with the others.