Defender ch 1

The Lost Stranger

Twilight Sparkle was walking back to the library that she called home. It had been a full month since her brothers wedding and the whole changeling incident. She had just bought an interesting book about the stars and planetary movements of wich she was very exited to read.

"hey twilight," twilight turned to the familiar voice to see a pink pony with overly poofy pink mane and tail.

"hey pinkie what are you up to this morning?"

"I'm not up anywhere" replied the hyperactive pony a little confused, "cause i'm down here on the ground"

Twilight rolled her eyes at her friends antics, "what I meant was 'what are you doing"

"talking to you" pinkie pie stated with a smile that shouldn't have been physically possible on any pony. Her right rear leg suddenly started vibrating her eyes widened at this, she instinctually knew what this meant "a new ponies coming to Ponyville. " she suddenly reached a new level of excitement as sped away to set up one of her famous welcoming parties. Twilight sighed as she decided to warn her other friends of pinkies prediction.

She trotted over to Sweet Apple Acres. The purple coloured unicorn found her friend apple bucking in the orchard. The orangish tan earth pony kicked at the apple tree causing the apples to fall into the waiting baskets below. " Applejack," called out Twilight catching the earth ponies attention.

"Oh hey Twi," responded Applejack, " what brings all the way out here, now?"

"Pinkie says that a new pony is coming to town,"

"how in the hey does she figure that?"

"had something to do with that 'pinkie sense of hers" answered Twilight, Applejack made an oh face.

Applejack suddenly remembered something " oh ah twi' last night I saw sometin' strange last night,"

The lavender unicorns natural curiosity perked up "what did you see?"

"well not really sure ma self self, but it was a bright streak going across the sky and it was moving fast. I also heard an explosion too. It was almost like Rainbow's sonic rainboom but it was white. I saw it go down somewhere over the Everfree forest."

Twilights mind went to work on finding a logical explanation for her friends description " Maybe it was a meteorite"

"maybe," replied Applejack but did not look totally convinced that it was.

Twilight on the other hoof was exited about examining a real meteorite. "we should go check it out, who knows what we could discover from this finding, it could change all of Equestria!" little did she know that she was only half right...

Twilight had gotten everything that she believed that was needed to examine a meteor crash sight. She had all of her friends rounded up in her library with the exception of pinkie pie who was waiting for her predicted pony to arrive. Rainbow dash to take arial shots of the crash sight. Fluttershy to take care of any animals injured in the impact. Applejack to help haul supplies. Rarity to help examine any possible jewels inside the meteorite. And of course Twilight Sparkle to organize the investigation.

"okay team," Twilight said in her authoritative voice, "last night a possible meteor landed in the Everfree forest, we are to go there and find the crash sight, if you do find it you are to go find the rest of us and lead us to the point of impact. I suspect that there will be a crater there. Team move out"

Two hours passed since their search began when rainbow spotted the crash sight. She found the others and led them to the place. What they saw was complete destruction. Trees were uprooted, rocks, dirt and debris were littered all over the area.

Movement caught twilight's eye, there in the middle of the crater was a filthy pegasus staring half-dazed onto his surroundings, "hello!" called twilight as she jumped into the crater to greet him, the pegasus pony jumped and stared at her still half-dazed.

"uhhh, hi?" he answered,

"My names twilight sparkle, I am here investigate this meteorite landing, and may I ask what your name is,"

He looked at her with lost confused look on his face. There was almost an awkward silence between them before he answered,

"I don't know..."