X looked at Luna and crossed his arms.
"Well?"
Luna was unsure how to reply, so she decided to be diplomatic with this foreign being.
"I am Princess Luna, ruler of the night, one of the two rulers of the nation of Equestria. I believe I do reserve the right to screen the minds of any visitors, hmm?"
X immediately realized who he was dealing with, and he wanted to make a good first impression on the rulers of this world. Not sure what to do, he invited Luna into his main system.
"To be honest, I've never had my mind scanned when I visited another country," X said as he placed his hand on the firewall. When the login prompt appeared, the username and password was filled in almost instantly, and Luna could see that the password was incredibly long. The firewall glowed for a moment, then a passage opened up, and X stepped inside.
"Come on in, Princess Luna."
"Just Luna will be fine," Luna replied as she stepped in.
Luna looked surprised as she examined the blue room. It appeared to be completely empty.
"I know what you're thinking Luna. Only I can see most of the things in here. Admin rights and all." X snapped his fingers, and a pair of blue chairs and a desk appeared in front of him.
"Have a seat."
Luna took a seat in one of the chairs. It was surprisingly soft and squishy, despite appearing to be made of wood. It reminded her of a certain spirit of chaos.
X sat down across from her, his arms resting on the desk. Only now did he realize that Luna had both a horn and wings.
I suppose this is because she is a princess.
"So what would you like to talk about?"
Luna cleared her throat. "When you arrived in the Everfree Forest yesterday, you seemed to have left a large magical explosion where you landed."
X frowned. "That's the same thing Twilight Sparkle told me."
"So you've met Twilight already? She is my sister's personal student, and she has a large amount of magical power. It was probably impossible for her to even miss the powerful burst of magic."
"So your sister is the other ruler of Equestria, I presume?"
Luna smiled. "You catch on very fast...um..."
"X."
"Oh, yes. You catch on very fast, X. My sister Celestia rules the sun, and the day is her domain."
"So do the both of you take turns ruling depending on the time of day?" X asked.
"I suppose we do. But I digress. I have a much more important message for you right now. You see, the magical aftershock may have woken certain creatures that live in the mountains beyond the Everfree. Creatures like dragons."
X's eyes widened. "You don't mean...?"
"I'm afraid so. When the creatures of the Everfree appear to attack the ponies, they always strike Ponyville, but Twilight and her friends are more than capable of repelling them. But I'm afraid that they won't be able to stop a violent dragon head on. Of course, I am not blaming you, X. I know that it was not your intention to harm anypony."
That's just great. Now I feel even worse.
"I will protect Ponyville."
Luna blinked. "We appreciate your concern, but you don't need to needlessly endanger you-"
"No, Luna. I'll protect the ponies. I've come here to attempt to start a new life. I've already lost too much in the past." There was a look of grief on X's face, and Luna knew that look almost better than anypony else.
"I take it that you are skilled in combat?"
"You have no idea."
"Very well then. Twilight will also receive a letter from my sister explaining the situation. In the meantime, you should probably make some friends here. You look like a good...person."
"Alright Luna, I'll keep that in mind." X smiled. "Is there anything else you need to talk to me about?"
"No, that will be all for now. Take care, X."
Luna stood up, and headed for the exit, except there was no obvious exit.
"Err...how do I get out of here?"
"Whoops," X had a big grin on his face. "I'll get you out of here in just a few moments."
X waved his hand, and a command prompt showed up. X typed a line of text into the window.
/kickuser Luna
"To the moon! Hahahaha!"
Luna screamed as she was kicked, for a second time, back into her room in Canterlot.
---
That was certainly an eventful night.
X sat up, his body's motor functions activating after being inactive for a full night. X turned his head; he saw Fluttershy outside, feeding the animals. He walked outside and greeted her.
"Good morning, Fluttershy."
"Eeep!" Fluttershy whirled around and nearly slammed into X.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know it was you."
"That's quite alright, Fluttershy." X looked down and saw a small white bunny kicking at his feet, apparently angry for having its breakfast interrupted.
"Angel! Don't be so mean to our guest!" Fluttershy scolded.
Angel took another look at X before stomping away.
"So, X, would you like some breakfast?"
"Oh, no, I'm fine. I... don't require food."
Fluttershy looked very confused. "How do you get the energy to live?"
"I'm a robot. I'm absorb the energy of the sunlight mostly, and when there's no sun, I can run on my micro-fusion reactor."
"So...you're like a plant?"
"I suppose I am, in a way."
"Wow, that's amazing, X."
"I suppose. I was the only robot that ran mainly on solar power back in the day. The other reploids, they ran on a miniature nuclear generator, but I suppose Dr.Light was always eco-friendly. 'Always go green,' he said."
Fluttershy's eyes widened at the mention of Dr.Light, but did not say anything.
"Anyways, Fluttershy, what are we going to do today? Are we going down to Ponyville to see your friends?"
"Oh, that's right! I almost forgot!"
After telling Angel to be good and watch over the other animals, X and Fluttershy headed out to Ponyville.
---
Rainbow Dash was sitting on a cloud, rubbing her sore nose.
Stupid magical explosion. My nose hurts like buck right now.
Rainbow was about to lie back down on her cloud when she spotted Fluttershy and X walking into town. Rainbow squinted at the figure in blue. Then she remembered the magical explosion and something about teleportation that Twilight had mentioned before.
"Look out, Flutters! It's an alien!"
Rainbow dashed at X at her fastest speed, determined to save Fluttershy from this evil alien. X only had enough time to turn his head to look at a rainbow blur coming straight at him.
"What the...?!"
Rainbow slammed headfirst into X, which didn't make him budge or even flinch. Rainbow, on the other hand, was rolling on the ground in pain, clutching her wounded head.
"Rainbow! Are you alright?!"
Fluttershy raced over to Rainbow Dash, who was lying on the ground a few steps away from X.
"Why is his body so hard..." Rainbow mumbled as she blacked out.
---
"inbow...Rain..bow...are you all right?"
Ughhh...my head really hurts.
Rainbow Dash slowly opened her eyes to see her friends surrounding her, plus the blue alien. She looked to the side and saw the bookshelves around the wall. She realized that she was in the Ponyville library. Apparently her friends had placed her on the table.
"Girls! She's awake!" Twilight cried.
The six ponies and X gathered around Rainbow as she slowly pushed herself up.
"Ugh...what happened?"
Applejack was the first to speak. "Looks like this featherbrain tried to headbutt X here, without knowing that his body was made of metal."
Rarity was the next to speak. "X even carried you all the way here! Such a gentlecolt."
"And he walks on two legs!" Spike added.
"And he likes to party!" Pinkie added.
X laughed at the last one. "Only after we cleared out enough mavericks to take a break."
"How long have I been out?" Rainbow asked.
"Oh, about 3 hours." Twilight replied.
"WHAT?! 3 HOURS? I STILL HAVE CLOUDS TO CLEAR!"
"Rainbow, wait!" Twilight caught Rainbow in her magic grasp as Rainbow Dash attempted to fly through the window. "There's something important we have to discuss!"
Rainbow Dash sat down with an exasperated look on her face.
"We still have to tell her about the dragon, girls." Twilight said.
"Dragon?!" Rainbow instantly perked up.
The gang filled Rainbow Dash in on the details of the dragon attack that may or may not happen, depending on how lucky they were.
"If you were knocked out when the dragon came, we woulda left without you!" Applejack teased.
"Oh, shut up Applejack, I could take a dragon down in ten seconds flat!"
Pinkie Pie had been sitting silently in the corner for some reason. But X noticed that she started twitching in strange and repeated patterns.
"Um...girls. Why is Pinkie twitching in that corner over there?"
"Twitcha twitch twitch!" Pinkie Pie did a knee jerk, a belly flop, and a back flip.
"A back flip? That's new." Spike commented.
The the ground began shaking uncontrollably. Rarity screamed and began to run, but Twilight held her back with her magic.
"Rarity! We're supposed to fight the dragon, not run from it!"
"Oh. Right." She regained her composure and calmly readjusted her mane.
X turned and looked at Fluttershy, who strangely hadn't said anything this whole time.
"Are you alright?"
"O-oh yes. I-I'm fine." Fluttershy stuttered. She was quite literally shaking in her hooves.
X narrowed his eyes. "You don't look fine."
"I-I assure you, I-I'm fine."
X simply nodded and hoped that Fluttershy would be alright.
"Good thing I've already asked the residents to stay in their homes! If we try to keep the dragon at the forest edge, it shouldn't do much harm." Twilight said.
"Alright! Let's move out!" cried Rainbow Dash.
---
The mane 6 plus X and Spike approached the Everfree. They saw that the angry dragon was already rampaging through the forest, its fire breath burning down trees around it. The dragon towered above Ponyville. X estimated that it was probably several stories tall.
"Um... maybe we could persuade it to leave...?" Fluttershy asked.
There was no chance for a reply, however, since the dragon began blowing fire at the ponies as soon as they tried to approach.
"Sorry Flutters, but I don't think this one's gonna listen!" Rainbow cried as she deftly dodged a razor sharp claw swiping through the air.
X stood on top of a tree, trying to get a clear shot at the dragon without hitting any of his friends. He charged his buster and fired. The powerful burst of solar energy hit the dragon in the side, forcing it to stumble, but not causing a lot of damage.
Why isn't it working?! My buster should be able to fire stronger shots than this!
X prepared another shot and fired it at the dragon's head, which made it flinch, but otherwise didn't cause a lot of damage.
These shots are noticeably weaker than how I remember them! Why won't it work?!
The dragon charged up a fireball and fired it at Twilight and Rarity, who were attempting to fire magic shots at the dragon, but weren't having much success. Twilight quickly cast a shielding spell, which took the brunt of the fireball attack, but it was wearing out Twilight, both physically and mentally.
X looked at his X-Buster, and back at the dragon.
This isn't going so well...
Pinkie was trying to launch firecrackers at the dragon in an attempt to distract it, but it wasn't working. "I really wish I had hired a monster hunter earlier!"
Applejack looked at Pinkie strangely. "What?"
"It doesn't concern you." Pinkie replied nonchalantly.
Fluttershy was flying around the dragon's head, attempting to convince it to leave.
"Maybe you could... go back to sleep, please?"
The dragon simply ignored her until a flying gemstone hit it right below the eye. The dragon growled and tried to swat Fluttershy with its tail, thinking that she had threw the gemstone at its eye.
"Oh no you don't!"
X dashed and jumped off the tree he was on, and shoved Fluttershy out of the way, taking the hit for her.
"Ugh!"
Fluttershy watched in horror as the dragon's tail hit X, slamming him against a tree so hard that it knocked the tree down.
"I'm calling for backup!" Twilight screamed as Spike burned a letter to Princess Celestia.
X got up and tried aiming his buster again. The bright flash of light missed as the dragon reached down and grabbed X.
"NOOOOOOOO!" Fluttershy cried as the dragon flung X back to Ponyville.
Twilight attempted to grab X with her magic, but she still couldn't hang on to X.
Why can't I grab him?!
---
X sailed through the air, his auto-balancer attempting to compensate for his lack of balance, but it wasn't quick enough as the dragon had thrown X really hard. X tried to predict where we would land and he braced himself for the fall.
The shed.
X crashed into the top of the shed, the impact smashing it into thousands of tiny fragments. He had hit his head against something hard and...metallic? X looked up, and his eyes went wide as he saw it.
It was a familiar looking capsule, one that X had encountered many times in the past. He had no idea why it was in Fluttershy's shed, nor did he know if Fluttershy knew what it was. The capsule lit up and a hologram of Dr.Light appeared.
"X? What are you doing here?"
"I should be asking you the same thing, Doctor. How did you survive this long?"
"I really have no idea, X. How many years has it been, my son?"
"It's been 500 years, plus we aren't even in the same world, Doctor. It really is a miracle! But why are you doing inside Fluttershy's shed?"
"I was actually in the forest when I came here. Some purple pony found me and wanted to do 'experiments' on my capsule so she left me in this shed and locked it up."
X stared for a second. "Well, the ponies seem to be the sentient species on this world."
"I can see that," Dr.Light replied. A scream suddenly rang out from the forest. "What is going on over there, X?"
X's eyes widened. "We're fighting off a rampaging dragon over there! I almost forgot! I have to go save them!"
X attempted to dash back to the forest, but the pain kept him from moving forward.
"Are you okay, my son? When was the last time you performed maintenance on your body?"
X shrugged. "I...don't remember. It think it was...300 years ago?" The realization suddenly hit him. "300 years ago! No wonder I can't fight!"
Dr.Light beckoned X into the capsule. "Come inside," he urged. "You need repairs."
X, having no choice, climbed into the capsule, where a tinted piece of glass slid down, obscuring his vision.
"Do you have armor for me, Doctor?"
"I'm afraid not, X. You see, you were meant to discover this capsule last."
"What do you mean, Doctor? I don't understand." X said, as a robotic arm reached inside X's buster and began cleaning it.
"You're simply not strong enough to use the armor contained in this capsule, X. You need to find the other armor sets before you can use this one."
"You mean there are other capsules in Equestria?!"
Dr.Light simply nodded.
"Doctor, how do you manage to scatter capsules everywhere I go?"
"It's a trade secret, X. Now go, my son, save your friends!"
The capsule opened, and X stepped out, his body in mint condition.
"And remember, X. There's always a more peaceful way to make your enemies leave."
X looked back at the capsule again.
"Thanks, dad."
X dashed off, with a different resolve in his eyes.
---
"What's taking the Royal Guard so long?!" Twilight screamed, as she blocked another hit from a fireball. "I can't hold out much longer!"
All six ponies were hiding behind Twilight's magic shield now, and Twilight was really straining to keep it up.
"I really hope X is alright..." Fluttershy said, with a tear in her eye.
Suddenly, X rocketed out of nowhere and landed in front of Twilight.
"X! You're alright!" Twilight cried!
"It'll take more than that to bring a Maverick Hunter down."
X glowed blue as he charged his newly repaired X-buster and fired at the dragon. There was a massive explosion as the fully powered shot forced the dragon down. Everypony gasped as the blast left a visible wound where it hit. The dragon roared in anger as it tried to charge at X again, but X was quicker. Dashing at speeds that impressed Rainbow Dash, X drew out the Z-Saber and slashed at the dragon's lower leg. Forcing the dragon down, X charged his buster once more and fired on the dragon's wing. There was a loud roar of pain as the dragon stumbled and fell flat on its back. X approached the dragon and pointed the X-buster at its head, but quickly disarmed his weapon.
Nonviolent way to end this...
He could see some pegasi with golden armor flying towards them in the distance. If he didn't end this now, the Royal Guard would end it for him. So X walked back over to the 6 ponies (and Spike) and asked them how they wanted to end this. Not surprisingly, Fluttershy spoke first.
"I would prefer that the dragon was allowed to leave," she said in a gentle but assertive voice. "After all, it was just woken from its nap."
Rainbow Dash was about to object, but Applejack pulled her down and shook her head.
"Very well then. Stay still, Fluttershy."
X pressed his hand on Fluttershy's cutie mark, eliciting a collective gasp from all the mares. A bright light surrounded X and Fluttershy, forcing everypony to shield their eyes, and it faded as quickly as it came.
X felt a powerful sense of kindness welling up inside him, and maybe felt a bit more timid as well.
Fluttershy gasped as she looked up at X. X looked different. He looked the same, but he also looked different at the same time. More specifically, his colors now matched Fluttershy; his body and legs were now a shade of buttery yellow, and his helmet was pink. Fluttershy's cutie mark appeared on the side of his buster. Even his eye color changed to the same shade of cyan as Fluttershy.
Everypony stared as X walked over to the dragon and made eye contact with it. X didn't say anything. He somehow knew that he had to stare at the dragon to make it leave. He could feel the stare begin to drain him of its weapon energy. X could see the dragon begin to cower in front of him.
Fluttershy watched X stare at the dragon. Then, as if some invisible force was guiding her, she also walked up to the dragon, and stared at it. Having two beings using the Stare on it was too much. The dragon magically found the strength to get up and run away, far from Ponyville, despite having numerous wounds on its body.
The remaining ponies looked flabbergasted as they realized what X had just did to Fluttershy.