Chapter 2: getting settled in…alone
"Well… what was your job back home?" Twilight butts in
"I had no 'job' back home, fate played its cards and stuck me where I was needed so I have never had an actual job. But if it helps I was a guardian." Rage replies to the purple pony
Twilight had the thought that he would fit in as a Royal Guard for Equestria if he was a guardian at one point so she called her brother to come see them,
"I'll be there in a few hours, right now I have to keep watch on the portal that Sonic was sent back in, it closed about ten minutes ago but I have to wait until the energy is gone." Shining Armor says to Twilight over the small phone she was using she hangs it up and walks back into the main room of the Library with Rage and Lunar,
"Well? What's up?" Rage asks her as she walks in with a look of uncertainty on her face
"Well I have some bad news; Sonic found a way home but it closed soon after he went through, my brother the captain will be here in a few hours to evaluate you for the Royal Guard, I am so sorry your stuck here alone Rage…" Twilight looks at the crimson pony afraid he was going to be furious,
Instead his face lightened up a bit, "I can handle myself I am just glad Sonic got home… now if you will excuse me I am going to go for a fly, I hope that will help clear my head…" Rage walks out of the door and down into Ponyville. "If I want a good spot to safely take off without scaring anybody I will need to head to a secluded area…" Rage looks around and notices the Everfree forest off in the distance, "Perfect!" he proclaims and starts his way down the road to the forest.
After passing a cupcake shop Rage was startled by a large canon fire from his near left. "Whoa!" he yells and flies up into the air and destroys the pink canon with a Chaos Spear out of instinct. Shortly after confetti rains down over Rage confusing him,
"Aww…" A pink pony comes out from behind the canon and looks at Rage "You broke my party canon…" she frowns at him "No new pony has been so jumpy like that…"
"Look I'm sorry about that…" Rage sighs upset that he broke the canon for the wrong reasons "It's just where I am from a canon shot is normally someone trying to kill you..."
"Oh its fine! I have plenty more!" the pink pony jumps up and down "Hi I am Pinky Pie I love parties. Who are you? What are you into? What-"Pinky was cut off by Rage putting his hoof to her mouth,
"I'm Rage, and are you always this hyper?" he asks her
"Oh trust me she is!" a voice says from above, Rage and Pinky look up to see Rainbow Dash floating above them
"Let me guess… Rainbow Dash?" Rage asks the pony flying above them, the pony comes down and lands looking at her
"Yeah! But how did you know that?! Are you psychic?" Rainbow asks glaring at Rage accusingly
"No, no I just flew by a group of ponies with a picture of you joking around with it I heard them say Rainbow Dash so I though that's the name." Rage shakes his head
"How were you flying with no wings?" Rainbow asks surprised before Pinky began jumping up and down trying to guess
"He's a ghost!" Pinky yells out
"No… I have a power that lets me… watch." Rage crouches down leaps and flies off at supersonic speed causing a sonic boom near instantly. Shortly after Rainbow Dash catches up to him
"Hay I have an idea!" Rainbow Dash looks at Rage with a flare of Challenger in her eyes "let's race! First one to the Library wins!" Rage nods with a grins in acceptance.
"I was heading back anyway! Ready?" Rage responds
"Set…..GO!" Rainbow dash darts off near instantly before Rage reacts and catches up
"See you there!" Rage says slowing down flying on his back with a taunting wave before picking up speed again.
Back at the library Twilight was talking with Shining Armor when Rage flies through the door and high speed shortly followed by Rainbow Dash who had a shocked look on her face. "You beat me and with no wings!" she pants. Rage just stood there with a cocky grin.
"Rage!" Twilight yells "You need to get serious my brother Shining Armor just arrived to evaluate you." Rage looks at her and Shining Armor next to her and stands up straight
"Sorry bout' that" Rage apologizes to the large colt
"It's fine. Now then I have to make sure you are able bodied for the Royal Guard. If you are still interested please meet me at the castle's training grounds around 22:00 tonight for your test mission" Shining Armor reports before heading for the door "I am in a hurry so if you have questions please ask them tonight," Shining Armor was soon gone after that,
~Castle Training grounds 22:00~
Shining Armor was standing out waiting for Rage who soon lands across the yard from him.
"Good to see you're here, Rage." Shining Armor acknowledges Rage's timing "Now we must get right to briefing; normally I would have a basic training course run but because of these desperate times I need you to perform a recon in place for one of our scouts. We fear that Discord is not the one up in the Northern Tundra causing havoc, I want you to find out for me"
"No problem," Rage smiles
"Hold it aren't you scared?" Shining armor asks Rage a bit surprised by his answer. Rage just shakes his head. "Well then… here is a small picture of Discord if it's him just fly right back? If not I need a picture of whom use this camera for it." Shining Armor drops a pouch with a camera built in and shows Rage a small picture of Discord. "To take the picture just bump the bag with your hind leg. Good luck." Rage nodded before flying off at his high speed once again flying through the clouds.
Rage shortly reaches the crystal kingdom and flies past it to see a sinister looking castle just like the one in the Crystal Kingdom just black. Rage slowly floats in front of the throne room sky light to see not discord but a dark pony with a sinister red horn and emerald eyes. Quickly Rage bumps the pack and snaps the picture with a small flash before speeding off again with another Sonic boom
Down at the throne room the dark pony looks at where the flash came from,
"Must have been some lightning…" he shakes his head "No pony could make a flash like that and get away fast enough for me to not notice…"
Shining Armor was sitting in the Training yard awaiting Rage's return. When he swooped in Shining Armor stood up. And looks at Rage who slowly came forward. "Well report." He demands
"It was not this Discord guy, this is who it was." Rage uses his own magic to grab the photo he took and hand it to Shining Armor. When he looks at the photo his eyes shrunk in what looked like fear.
"We must inform Celestia and Luna at once!" he exclaims "Quickly!" he runs off into the castle signaling Rage to follow him
In the throne room Celestia was standing half-awake with Luna to her side as normal. "This must be real important Shining Armor to wake me for this…" she yawns
"It's about the issue in the Northern Tundra… Discord is not the one responsible!" Shining armor says in almost a yell "It's even worse… it was King Sombra!" He takes out the picture Rage took of him
Celesita's eyes almost burst open hard enough for them to pop right out as she looks at the picture "This is worse than I thought!" she exclaims in fear "Shining, Rage please head to bed we will discuss this in the morning. Rage make sure to inform Twilight of this matter." The two ponies left the princesses alone and walked out
"Rage!" Shining Armor stops him from leaving. Rage trots his way back over "Before you leave. Welcome to the Royal Guard!" he says bowing "To perform a mission like that so fast is incredible. We can get you some armor fitted in the morning."
"I have a better idea watch this!" Rage chuckles he emits a small dark green light from his small horn and his Chaos Battle Armor he used back on Mobius formed around him adapted to his pony form "pretty neat huh?"
"That's incredible! I have never seen a pony with his own magical armor like that before!" Shining Armor looks at Rage in awe. "No you really should be heading back to Twilight and inform her of what is going on" Shining armor replied before walking off.
Rage walks back out to the Training yards and soon takes flight back to PonyVille. By the time he arrived Twilight was waiting for him to see how it went
"That was fast how'd go Rage?" she asks curious to know what had happened back at the castle.
"Well I did make the Royal Guard." Rage starts
"That's awesome!" Twilight interrupts Rage before he could continue
"Yes but that's half of it, for my training mission Shining Armor had me fill in for a recon mission to the Northern Tundra to find out what was happening. What we found was not good… Discord is not the one causing all of this it is somepony named King Sombra. We alerted the Princesses right after I returned and I was told by Celestia to inform you of this." Rage explains all that had happened that night to twilight.
"This is totally not good!" she gasps in horror waking up Lunar
"What is so important that you have to be so loud about?!" Lunar asks her still half asleep.
"King Sombra is the one causing all the issues up north." Twilight replies back "we will talk more tomorrow about this but for now you should get some sleep Rage." Rage nods in reply and heads for his bed in the Library
To be continued…
Just to clear up why I have Rage flying, he can fly in his Hedgehog from on Mobius but he is faster when running. but because he is not used to four legs his speed form running was transferred to his flying when he became a pony