Defender Ch 4

Craters at Canterlot

They followed Shining Armour through Canterlot up the mountain that the city stood upon. The came to a large clear pink bubble. Shining's horn glowed and opened a hole in the protective shield and traveled inside and the others followed. They saw Princess Celestia and Princess Luna standing at the craters edge looking at something still hidden from the mane six's and the amnesiac Pegasus' view. Shining Armour trotted up to the two princesses and began to discuss something. Celestia's gaze locked on to silver flight and then to the mane six. Silver flight looked at the younger alicorn and saw that she was staring at him with eyes like daggers. She and her sister walked toward the group, Luna's gaze still locked on to silver flight.

"greetings my most faithful student," Celestia said seemingly ignoring silvers writhing under luna's relentless stare. "I am glad you and your friends could make it. Luna would you like to tell them what happened?"

Luna broke her gaze much to silver flights relief, "oh yes my dear sister, two nightfalls ago I was guarding the night as always when I heard a loud bang, I look up t' see a streak o' light head t'wards ponyville, and a large object fall and land here as you can see. But ye wish to know something else? When I took a closer look at the streak o'light it was no object it 'twas a pegasus pony." her gaze travelled towards Silver flight making him fidget, "and that pony was him!" All the ponies present looked at Silver flight then at Luna.

"Are you sure, sister?" the other princess questioned.

"I am positive that ye is the the pegasus I saw in that night," Luna replied, "the cutie marks are one and the same,"

"I'm sorry but I don't remember anything beyond the morning after the incident," Silver flight said, still trying to break the night princesses hard gaze.

Celestia walked up to him and said, "hold still, I wish to see something," Silver obeyed the princess of the sun as her long white horn glowed, a strange tingling sensation came upon him, from the point of view of the bystanders it would looked like a murky halo had formed around the Pegasus' head. The white alicorn withdrew her horn and announced her discovery, "he's been enchanted,"

"What!" several replies came at once.

Celestia continued with her diagnosis, "it seem some-pony has enchanted him so that he can't remember a thing,"

"can't we disenchant him?" spoke twilight.

Celestia shook her head, "the pony who did this must have been highly skilled as he or she designed it so that any tampering would cause the victim to permanently lose his memory, though it seems to have a flaw, it is slowly wearing off,"

"so in other words I'll have to wait to gain my memories back, but trying to speed it up would cause me to have permanent amnesia," silver flight inquired, Celestia nodded.

Twilight was to speak, "it would also mean that someone doesn't want him to remember something that he had witnessed,"

"but who in tarnation would do that?" applejack asked.

"I'm just about as clueless as you are," Silver Flight responded.

"maybe it has something to do with that thing in the crater," said Shining armour. All the ponies travelled to the craters edge and saw what was one of the strangest things they have ever seen. At first it looked like a heap of orange red and yellow metal but a closer look said other wise. It seemed to have the vague outline of an animal. It had the resemblance to a Feline curled in extremely tight ball.

"oh what is it?" cried out Pinkie Pi.

Shining was the one to answer, "We don't know pinkie," he turned to see Silver Flight who had a expression of deep thought and slight look of confusion, "what is it?"

Silver Flight answered, "I don't know but i know I should know, plus it feels extremely familiar," he then saw that Pinkie somehow got past security and was down in the crater. She was jumping around looking at it from different angles. She saw a red button on the back mechanical cats 'skull' and became entranced by it. She raised her hoof and pressed it. The metal beasts one cycloptic eye glowed an menacing red as it came to life..