Chapter 16
I opened my eyes from my peaceful slumber before sitting up and looking around. I was still in the guest bedroom of Canterlot palace so that was a plus.
I climbed out of the super comfortable bed and made my way to the bathroom and looked for my damaged camo pants. They were still near the bath, where I left them last night.
I picked them up and looked them over. these pants were once the most comfortable thing in the world. What I have in my hands is the last surviving pair, but they were so damaged that I was surprised that they were even still holding together.
I sighed as I began to pull the on over my briefs and look down at them again. I just shrugged before walking back out into the room. That's when I spotted a box on the table in the middle of the room that had 'For Orion' written on the side.
I walked over to said box and opened it up. Inside was a pair of black boots that were similar to my old ones, a few pairs of jeans, white shirts, socks and briefs. There was enough clothing in this box to last me a entire two weeks.
-Well, it's good to see that they think that you needed new clothes; which quite frankly, you did.-
'Hey! You were the one who destroyed the last set.'
-Yeah well, you would still be that bug's pet if I hadn't.-
I lowered my head when I heard Halex say that. He was right. I just gave up and took the easy way.
-Hey, chin up. I'll always have your back.-
'Thanks Bro.'
I began to change clothing From the ones I had on to a new set from the box. After I finished tying up my boots, I threw on a shirt and made my way for the door. But just as I was about to reach for the doorknob, there was a knock at said door.
I reached for the doorknob and opened the door slowly, Only to have it barged open and Rainbow Dash flying in.
"Woah! The room you got is huge!" she exclaimed before she flew over and landed on the bed.
The sound of hooves of me floor behind me made me turn around to see Twilight, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack and last but not least, Rarity. All of them were looking around the room besides Rarity, she was looking straight at me.
"So you are wearing the clothes I made for you. I hoped that you would like them. I knew from your last set that you wern't a stallion of class, so I took the liberty of making you something more... 'Casual'." Rarity said as she looked me over. I could tell she wasn't happy about the 'Casual' part.
"So you made these?" I asked. "There great. But I have to ask, How did you get my size?"
"I managed to get my hooves on your other set of clothing on your last... visit, per say." she explained.
'Makes sense.' I said to myself.
"Orion?" I heard Twilight say. I turned to her and she was digging at the carpet with her hoof. "I- We just wanted to say that we are sorry if we offended you last time."
"It's ok. I still stand by what I said back then, but I'm aware that I did kind of overreact, and now Shining Armour will probably try to kill me." I said truthfully.
"Not quite. Cadence managed to talk him down and he said that he might forgive you if you apologize." Twilight said.
"Why would Cadence stand up for me if my anger was directed to her?" I asked.
"She said that you were just having an anger spike in your emotions. And no, she didn't read your mind to know that. She is an expert on emotions and can tell them apart just by looking." Twilight said.
-Yeah, if anyone tries something with your mind, I'll let you know.- Halex said to me.
"Ok, when do I have to apologize?" I asked.
"Right now. That is actually why we are here, we were going to take you to breakfast." Twilight said.
'Damn, that gives me little time to think of a decent apology. Looks like I'm going to have to make one on the run.' I thought to myself. "Alright, lets go and get this over with." I said.
Rainbow Dash basically shot out the door leaving a rainbow trail while the rest of the ponies and myself just simply walked out.
As I left the bedroom, I closed the door and continued to follow the ponies to where it happened to be that they were leading me. And within a few minutes, we were in a hall with a large dining table in the middle.
Celestia and Luna were already at the table, sitting at its ends. I walked over and picked somewhere in the middle and ended up having to sit between Dash and Applejack. I swear Applejack was giving me a cold glare just because I was different.
We all sat at the table in silence for a few minutes before Shining Armour and Cadence walked in, sitting on the opposite side of the table to me, Shining now also giving me a cold stare.
I looked to Cadence and she was looking at me with a hopeful smile on her face.
'Well, I'll just get this out of the way quickly' I said to myself. "Shining Armour? Cadence?... Look Cadence, I am sorry about what I called you a few days ago. It was rude and uncalled for. But you must understand that I was only angry, and you manipulating my thoughts wasn't exactly something that I would like when I am in that sort of mood. I have a habit of just getting angry sometimes, and when I do, I just wish to be left alone. I hope that maybe we can forgive eachother and try again." I said with my best apology voice.
Cadence smile grew into one of happiness. Shining Armour however...
"I will forgive you on one condition." Shining said while placing his front hooves on the table and leaning toward's me.
-There is always a catch.- Halex said as I just rolled my eyes.
"In one month from tomorrow, I will be taking in another group of recruits to join the royal guard," he stated before he sat back down and pointed a hoof to me. "And I want to see you there as well."
I coughed. "ME!? Why the hell do you want me in the guard?" I asked.
"I have reasons." he said while he closed his eyes and levitated a small teacup to his mouth.
"Enlighten me." I said with a hint of sarcasm. He set the teacup back down and gave me an angry look.
"Lets start from the beginning. Reason one: The encounter where we discovered you. You managed to very quickly, and with precision I might add, disarm 5 of my best guards and beat them down so you could escape. Reason two: After you called my wife that name, you managed to not only evade all the guards that I had looking for you, but you even managed to escape the city unnoticed before being spotted going into the everfree that is next to Ponyville the next day. Reason three: When Princess Luna located you, you managed to escape her into the basement of the the ancient castle of the royal sisters. Then you managed to silently knock out three more guards that we posted in the basement as a precaution and almost get away again. That is if it wasn't for Star Wind spotting you and pursuing you, which leads me to reason four. You managed to escape a changeling hive, with their queen as a hostage, violently kill 4 changelings-" I cut him off there.
"That wasn't me. That was Halex." I said earning a burning glare from Shining.
"Even so, Halex was it, managed to save one of my guards and return her here still with Queen Chrysalis as his hostage." Shining finished.
"Oh yeah, what happened to her anyway?" I asked putting a hand to my chin and looking up.
"She is down in the dungeons for her crimes." Shining informed.
I looked back to Shining and he was still glaring at me.
"Oh come on man. I can't be a 'Royal Guard'." I said while moving the hand that was on my chin over my face.
"And why not?" He asked in his still angry tone.
"Well firstly, I'm a human being, It just wouldn't be right and make no sense. Secondly, I have a problem with authority of those who try and push me around. If you tried to give me an order, I would probably slap you hard enough to make you do a 360 on the spot." I said.
"I'm afraid you don't have a choice in the matter. I have already gotten Princess Celestia's permission to include you to the guard." he said while gesturing to the princess.
There was a moment of silence.
"Halex says no." I said quickly.
-No I didn't!-
'Just shut up and roll with it man, please.'
Halex just groaned in annoyance that I had brought him into this.
"He dosn't have a choice either." Shining said.
That made me gain a look of anger.
"So if I said no, what are you going to do to try and make me?" I asked while I glared back at him. He lost his glare and began to try and stutter out pointless excuses. I took a breath and calmed myself down. "Look Shining, I just don't think that it would be in your job's best interest to add me to the list." I said with closed eyes.
"But I can see you have so much potential. I believe that with a little training, you could become one of my finest soldiers." Shining pleaded. I looked at him and he looked like we really wanted me to join.
"You said it's in a month right?" I asked, receiving a nod from him. "I'll give it some thought. That dosn't mean yes, but maybe." He seemed satisfied with this.
A door to the room opened in in walked 11 waiter-ponies. They all walked around the table and placed a platter in front of everyone.
I looked at the food that had just been placed in front of me. It kind of looked weird, so did most of the prissy foods here. I picked up a fork and took a bite. It was nice, but still not as great as last nights salad.
"Do you like you dish Orion?" Celestia asked.
I swallowed my mouthful and began to speak. "Its nice. May I ask what it is called?"
Celestia smiled to me. "I know humans need the increased protein consumption compared to us ponies, so I took the liberty of ordering you a Quinoa citrus salad. It's protein rich." She explained and I felt my heart stop.
'Does she know of a human's natural diet?' I asked myself. She looked over to me and winked.
-Yeah, I think she does. Perhaps you should ask?-
'Uh... No.'
-Why not?-
'Dude seriously? That's asking to die. If Celestia knows, she hasn't told anyone and that's for a reason.'
We ate in silence for the next 15 minutes, although Pinkie basically flipped her pate and caught all of her food in her mouth in one bite and swallowed it without chewing, then kept trying to ask me questions the entire time.
She said something about throwing a party, but I said no and her hair seemed to deflate dramatically. All the ponies around the table angrily looked to me so I was kind of pressured into giving in.
Now that Breakfast was out of the way, all the ponies began to chat to eachother while I just sat there in silence.
"Orion?" came the voice of Luna.
"Hu? What?" I stuttered.
This caused all the ponies to Giggle.
"I asked how was your room last night. I notice that you snuck out last night and went for a flight." Luna said.
"Yeah well, I hadn't flown in ages, and I felt as if I needed it. Too bad it was short lived." I said.
"What do you mean?" Luna asked.
"I ended up being pursued by two pegasi in blue latex suits." I said before having Dash shove her face into into my own.
"You met the Wonderbolts!?" she yelled right into my face.
"I don't know. I saw a stallion with a blue mane trying to get to me at 15, 000 feet, so I just dropped and out flew him. I hid in an alley and he began to look for me before another mare in a blue suit got his attention and began to scold him for something. Then she too began to look for me so I teleported back and stayed in my room from there on." I explained.
"Oh! Oh! Pick me! I want to hang out with you today!" Dash shouted as she was hovering around the room with her hoof raised.
"Why would you wan't to hang out with me today?" I asked.
"Don't you see? I have been trying to get into that club for like... ever. If there interested in finding you, and I'm with you, the are sure to notice me."she said in a fangirl like voice.
"And who said they were going to find me again?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh come on. This could be my one chance. Pleeeeeease?" she begged while plopping on the ground, grabbing my hand and holding it tightly.
"And what if I don't"
"I will sit here punching you in the arm until you do." she said as she punched me in the arm once to prove it.
"Alright fine." I groaned.
"YES!" she just shouted while jumping up into the air and doing a hoofpump. She then grabbed my hand again and more or less dragged me away.
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Within minutes, Dash had more or less made me transform into my Hybrid form. Not too long after, we were in the sky. Dash was flying around, doing all kinds of stunts and tricks.
I however, was just floating there, watching her as she did. I tried to stand on a cloud like dash did when we first got up in the sky, but unlike her, I just sink through.
"Did you see that!?" Dash shouted at me.
"Yeah. it was great." I said sighing.
"Hey, what's the matter?" She asked as she landed on the cloud that was next to me
"I came out here so you could meet those ponies you so desperately wanted to meet. But here I am doing nothing and you are just flying around doing tricks and stunts. I mean... where are they?" I asked. Dash opened her mouth to say something, but I cut her off. "Anyway, I'm bored. You can do as you wish, I'm going for a fly myself."
Without warning, I shot up as fast as I could, actually managing to break the sound barrier as I did. And soon, I was at 15, 000 feet again.
It took dash a moment, but she soon reached the same altitude as me.
"How did you do that!?" She shouted at me.
"Do what?"
"Pull a Sonic Rainboom? Sure yours was black and red and not the color of a rainbow, but still!"
I went to explain that I've always been able to do it, but I was cut of by someone grabbing my leg.
"HAHA! I've got you now!" I looked down and saw the same stallion from last night was clinging to my leg, only he had a bruise on his face.
"Dude, what happened to your face?" I asked.
"After you teleported, I kind of... crashed where you were standing." he said as he trailed off.
"That's great, can I have my leg back now?" I asked with sarcasm.
"No! You're just going to run again. I can't let you do that until the captain has said what she wants to say to you." he said.
"Seriously dude? Let go or I'm going to make you." I warned. He just clinged harder.
I rolled my eyes and focused some of my energy to my hand and pulled him off with my telekinesis and held him up-side-down in mid air.
"HEY! Let me go!" he shouted as he thrashed against nothing.
I was about to speak to him, but was cut off by someone yelling.
"Let my lieutenant go right now!" I turned around and saw the fire color maned pegasus that was with this stallion last night. "This is no way for a future Wonderbolt to act in front of a superior." she said.
I looked to Dash and saw that she was just floating beside me. I looked back to the fire colored mare and saw that she was looking at me.
I dropped the stallion. "OH NO! I don't think so!" I shouted. I grabbed Dash and held her between myself and the mare. "This one would love to join your latex group" I said pointing at Dash.
I unexpectedly shot down and flew away as fast as I could. Remembering that these ponies could keep up, I just teleported back into the room that Celestia let me use during my stay.
I sat on one of the couches for about 10 minutes before I heard the unmistakable sound of someone crying. I walked up to the bedroom door and saw Dash running down the hall in tears.
'Oh god, what happened?'
I like where things are going he's no push over but has shown to have a good heart.
3600832 That is what I aim for. But its so hard to make it believeable
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If you want my opinion, the royal guard bit in HiE fics Is kinda cliche. You could make him spec ops... that'd be pretty cool to see...
3600907 I have an Idea of what he will be if he gets voted for yes. This is an adventure story remember
Im interested in see any other options for him if any
Meh, royal guard seems over done. Make him either a body guard to the princesses or a specialized response team. Also, expect an email with the fixed cover art tomorrow
3600951 Like...?
3601009 I know royal guard is over done, but he has to go through training first before he can be anything else
I might have dash and all but that was a bit more for the wonder bolts.
3601021 And I think Shining needs him to increase the fight power of the royal guard. I mean, what have they do by the Changeling Invasion?
Would have expected a little Daring Doo about now, considering the state she was in after what happened to her. I would believe that she still would have a need for him to be her emotional 'safety blanket'. By now she's probably an emotional train-wreck.
Good to see that Orion still have a spine left in him.
Also that guard duty thing.... no. Just no.
To pull up an example of why, when Discord was released for the first time, he was more than a match to Celestia, Luna and all their guards. Yet when he was reformed, no guard duty. Then why should Orion?
Shining Armor should get that stick out of his ass. Why?
1. Orion was stressed out because of PTSD.
2. Cadence comes and tries to manipulate his emotions (wasn't that Chrysalis shtick?).
3. He brought back Shining's guard and the one responsible for trying to ruin his wedding (and Equestrias most wanted).
Dash... have you never heard of the saying ''Never meet your heroes''? Btw, love the wonderbolt encounter!
I am also waiting for that official talk between Orion and Celestia and get some real concrete answers (for us the reader, Orion and maybe Luna). Especially about that PDA, unless Orion suddenly redacted his statement about the technological leap being to big for Equestria. And do Celestia actually know the details about and around the three ''Projects'' and their origins?
And when are the ''Mane 6'' going to be barring down on Orion and Celestia, on how he could use ''Elements of Harmony''? After all, it was kinda their shtick.
When I think about it... sounds like Orion have been severely under-powered due to some reason.
1. He's a dragon without fire breath.
2. can't land on clouds.
3. seems to have just about equal amount of magical power as Twilight (no where near on a cosmic scale).
3601157 Dont worry about Dee, she will be back soon.
The questions from the mane six and Celestia are going to come in slowly, They don't want a repeat of what happend last time, especially now that he has his powers back.
Speaking of which, Orion has not yet learnt his full potential, you only saw his super over powered mode once so far
3601198 1. Good. *Rubs hands in anticipation*
2. The lack of clarity in information was what seemed to b the thing that mostly set the whole thing off.
And if their belief in the EoH is as we are lead to believe... and how Orion used them, then that in itself should be enough proof fr them that he is a good guy.
3. Fair enough.
But I still think that if Shining still continues to be a general douche and major dick towards him, those very reasons should be brought into his face.
I don't think Orion should become a guard, but that is my own opinion.
i think he should join, it would make the story more interesting in my opinion.
also, great story so far, a few spelling mistakes here and there, but it's still very easy to read.
so far 4 out of 5 hearts:
that might change, but so far its that great, only downs, are the few spelling mistakes and a few other things(though the last is just my personal opinion)
If you made him a guard make him somehow on the same level of Armor just to spite him.
Like he gets put in the guard and challenges him for his rank and wins.
It is a good story keep writing.
Aww... Poor Dashie...
And no, I think he should go through the training, but ultimately he should not become a guard.
don't let him be made in to a tool and pushed around
The contraction “That’s” means “That is” if you have “That’s is” you are basically saying “That is is”. Remove the ’s
Should be “a”
I may be wrong about this, as I am not a grammar expert, but I believe the comma after clothes should be a semicolon. Correct me if I’m wrong
I would rewrite as: -Yeah well, you would still be that bug’s pet if I hadn’t-
The mistake should be obvious
Who are you and what have you done with rarity? Casual… pff yeah I’d like to see that happen.
Heres a rewrite, since I cant point out all of the errors in this one:
“It’s OK. I still stand by what I said back then, but I’m aware that I did kind of overreact, and now shining armor will probably try to kill me.” I said truthfully”
MUST CAPITALIZE NAMES
Sense emotions? Is she a changeling again?
You may want to rewrite this, it no make sense to me. I cannot decipher.
In one moth tomorrow? Lol rewrite as: In one month from tomorrow
Change to Enlighten
Change the period to a semicolon
Well well well… we meet again, random capital letters
He lost his glare and began trying to stutter out pointless excuses.
WATER PONIES… wait are we talking about seahorses? Or ponies carrying water?
It kind of looked weird, but then again, so did most of the prissy foods here looked weird. I picked up a fork and took a bite. It was nice, but still not as great as last night’s salad.
Plate* add a comma between “chewing” and “then”
Why is there a space.
Should be a comma
Rewrite as: Then she too began looking for me
Rewrite as: “Oh! Oh! Pick me! I want to hang out with you today!”
The word “Wan’t” is not a contraction, the apostrophe has no purpose there
*curls up in a fetal position* too… many… commas…
(replace the strikeout words with a period and change the “to” into a “too”)
Do I even need to say anything?
Celestia… what?
(add: let me use during my stay.)
Replace with: I sat down on a couch for several minutes before I heard the unmistakable sound of crying. I walked up to the bedroom door and opened it to see Dash running down the hall in tears.
Good chapter. Although I don't think he should become a guard just cause...I don't know I just don't think he should also am I the only one who has this feeling that rainbow dash isn't crying because she's sad but because she's h---y.
3602170 Fixed besides one thing.
I WONT USE THE WORD SEVERAL!!!
I HATE IT!!!
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that is all
Really? Its “Month” with an N
“Enlighten me.” I said with a hint of sarcasm. (I think this would fit the sentence better)
Bug’s it is possessive, there MUST be an apostrophe
there... a few extra
3602801 fixed them too
I personally don't care if he becomes a royal guard or not. As said earlier, it's cliche. But it could also be interesting to watch him rise through ranks and become a league of his own.
TL;DR do what you will, I'll support it either way.
3601021 Touche. I leave it to you then. You haven't steered the story in a direction I have been disappointed with yet so I trust your judgment. Now I'm off to watch LoTR until I can't see straight anymore. Later Fellas!
3603285 At this rate, Orion wont be a guard. But he might make his own militant group
Make the military group the demons XD
3603342 That actually sounds like a better idea... Now what would it be called...
3603805 I dont know yet. Never got that far.
Don't do it. Don't make him a guard. That is an over done cliche. When the hero has any kind of fighting ability, they join the guard or something similar. It's a dumb idea, even more so now seeing as Orion doesn't really like the ponies. So please, don't do it, keep Orion a less then willing player in this game.
I mean, you already had him forgive Celestia. Which, in my opinion, was stupid. What, she killed her own mother, so now she deserves sympathy? Fuck that, she committed mass genocide. At best, she should reach a level of dislike. Maybe not hate, but Orion should probably still dislike her quite a bit. And, by proxy, dislike the ponies a little... Just saying.
SHE WAS MANIPULATING YOUR MIND WITH MAGIC! WHY ARE YOU APOLOGIZING!!!!!!!!!!
Im loosing all respect for the character and am quickly loosing interest in the story. It went from a well done fic, to completely ridiculous. I mean completely utterly unrealistic joke.
No one treated like that would act that way. No group of people who acted like that deserve to be forgiven or to win. To watch a great character roll over like a lap dog is just so unrealistic its unbelievable. The story at this point is loosing all credibility.
Monk