Silver groaned as he slow opened his eyes to revile that he was now in an area of complete darkness. I guess I failed again and Nightmare Moon won, ashe stood up bringing hoof to his head. This cause Silver's eyes to widen, he was in his human form fighting Nightmare Moon. What is going on? He thought as he took a tentative step forward, trying to judge the area that he was currently in.

The ground felt solid enough as he continued to slowly walk forward. "Hello? Is anyone out there?" He called out to the black void hoping that somepony was out there to tell him what in the world was happening.

"You can't protect anyone." Answered a voice that seemed to echo all around him.

"Who's there?" he responded, getting himself into a defensive stance

"You're weak. No one is safe around you."

"Show yourself. I'll show you who's weak." Silver growled. As he turn turned around trying to pinpoint where the voice was coming from when a set of different voices rang out.

"Silver, help. Help us Silver."

"No," Silver cried out, "Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie, Fluttershy, Rainbow, Rarity; where are you? I'll save you." He ran in random directions as the cries for help still seemed to echo around him.

"You will never be strong enough." The first voice bellowed out.

Silver stopped running. Sweat poured down his face as the fear of losing the ponies that he swore he would protect. "Ladies, where are you," he whispered as tears filled eyes.

"Silver, keeps these ponies away from me." A deep stallion voice ran out from the darkness.

"No, Mirror Prism, I thought you were dead." Silver yelled back out. What in Celestia's name is going on? He thought.

"No, please, ahhhhhhhhhhh."

"Mr. Prism, Nooooo!" Silver yell out. Tears started to flow freely from his eyes. This must be hell. I deserve this for the lives I failed to save.

"Please, no more." He quietly called out wiping his eyes. Regret filled his mind. "I should have been stronger. I should have been more disciplined."

A soft female voice rang out of the void, "Save me Silver."

Silver's eyes went wide. He knew exactly whose voice it was. It was the voice of the first pony that he couldn't save, the first pony that he also fell in love with. Silver let out a blood curdling scream before with world went black again.

The sun shone brightly over Canterlot Castle. It has been three days since Nightmare Moons defeat. The ponies that help stop her have been taking in the sights and celebrating, except for one. That pony was still in a coma. He had been taken to his old room in the castle with medical ponies constantly checking up on him. It was during one of the routine checkups that the nurse noticed that the white unicorn was finally coming around. After making sure he would be fine, the nurse left the room to inform Princess Celestia.

Silver's eyes slowly opened. Celestia's mid-day sun shone brightly in his room forcing him to shield his eyes with his forehoof. "I guess they did it." He mumbled as his eyes adjusted to the well lit room. "I guess the Princess knew I had my bracelet on me," as he looked down at his left foreleg, seeing his silver bracelet that Princess Celestia had given him. He tried to sit up when a sharp pain shot through his chest. Grimacing, he slowly pulled back the covers to revel his ribs wrapped with medical tape. "I guess Nightmare Moons last attack really did a number me." He muttered to himself as he slowly laid back down on his bed.

Silver began to recount his fight against Nightmare Moon, going over every small detail to see where he did wrong. He was brought out of his mental critique by a familiar feminine voice, "I'm glad to see you are finally awake. You gave us quite a scare." Princess Celestia smiled as she entered Silver's room and made her way to his bedside, "How are you feeling?"

Silver gave her a small smile, "Except for the pain in my chest, I feel fine, Princess. I'm glad to see that you are safe and I'm sorry that I failed again."

Celestia cocked an eyebrow at him. To her knowledge he successfully completed his mission. The only pony that got injured was Applejack and even that was a mild sprain in her hind leg, plus he was able to keep Nightmare Moon at bay long enough for the Elements of Harmony to come to life to stop Nightmare Moon. "What do you mean, Silver?"

Silver Mail began to recount what happened when he and Twilight were in Ponyville; from meeting the ponies in charge of aspects of the Summer Sun Celebration, to Nightmare Moon's return, to everything that went wrong in the Everfree Forest, to his fight with Nightmare Moon herself and revealing a state secret to the Twilight and her new friends. "I failed to save Twilight from falling, I failed to protect them the Manicore, and I failed to stop Nightmare Moon and in doing so revealed the state secret that I am really a human." He sighed looking up at the Princess, "I'm sorry."

Celestia just shook her head. She knew that he was always too hard on himself if he didn't complete a mission perfectly. It was why she knew that he always trained himself into the ground so that he would fail her. "There is nothing to be sorry for, Silver. I'm here ain't I?"

Silver nodded his head, but before he could speak up the Princess continued, "And Twilight and her friends all made it back here. You didn't fail Silver Mail; you did your best during your assignment."

Silver hung his head in defeat. The Princess was right, he did everything he could and his mission was a success, even if it didn't feel like one. Still there was one thing that was bugging him and he was surprised that the Princess didn't bring it up. "Princess, did you tell Twilight and her friends about what I truly am?"

"Only what a human is and that I rescued you from your previous state." The Princess replied as she made her way toward the door. "I'll let your friends know that you are doing well." With that she exited the room.

Silver was glad that the Princess stopped by. Her encouraging words always helped when he was feeling down. Her last words before she left had him perplexed though. His only two friends were Soarin and Lyra Heartstrings. He knew that Soarin was off at Los Pegasus preforming with the Wonderbolts and Lyra left a few days ago for Baltamare to visit family. He let out a small groan when he came to realize who she meant, Twilight and her friends. Silver let out a sigh as he turned to look out the window, "I hope this day doesn't become too troublesome."

Silver sighed in boredom; it's been nearly four hours since Princess Celestia left his room. He tried to get out of bed a couple of times, but his injuries continued to keep him tied to his bed. He was about to go completely crazy when heard a knock at the door. He smiled upon seeing Twilight and her friends enter the room along with the Princess. He noticed that Applejack was walking with a slight limp. "I glad the Applejack's injury wasn't too bad. I guess the Princess is here to make sure I don't give up too many secretes." He thought as the mares neared his bed.

"Silver you're ok!" exclaimed Twilight as she and her friends enter Silver's room.

"Hey girls," He greeted the six mares, "and hello again Princess. Yeah I'm doing alright, just some injured ribs. Applejack are you ok?

"Sure am, sugarcube. It's just a mild sprain that's all. Thanks for savin' my life."

"Yay now that you're up we can have a party when you get out of here." Pinkie said bouncing up and down.

Silver smiled and nodded as he slowly rose to a comfortable sitting position. He may have a small crush on the orange mare, but since his job was done with guarding Twilight, he'd probably never see her again after they left.

"Silver," as Twilight spoke up, "if you don't min me asking, what exactly are you?" She and her new friends where briefly told by the princess, but she still wanted to hear it from him.

"I kind of figured you would want to know." Silver replied chuckling as he removed the bracelet from his foreleg, his horn lit up in a silvery light. The silver light covered his body and with a flash the unicorn they saw was gone. In his place was the same bipedal creature or human was what Celestia had told them, that they saw fighting Nightmare Moon. His chest was bound in white bandages and what puzzled them was the fact he had no fur on him. "So here I am, just a human in world of ponies."

Even though they saw this strange creature fighting Nightmare Moon a few days ago, they mares where still left speechless at the sight of him. Twilight was the first to speak up. "Why are you here?" She asked curiously. She hoped if the Princess permitted it, she could study him.

The human looked over to Princess Celestia, silently asking if it was ok to let them know. Celestia gave him a nod, approving his request. Silver sighed as he closed his eyes, "Do any of you mares know about the Equestrian War that happened roughly 2000 years ago?" He opened his blue eyes and glanced over at the six young mares. The look on all of their faces showed him that they knew nothing about this. "I'm not surprised, by this as the records have been sealed," he continued, "That war is the reason humans were banished from this land. You see up until the start of the war, humans and ponies used to coexist. The humans lived in a city called Nareth, deep inside forest outside what is now Baltimare. The unicorns and the humans use to hold magic competition…"

"Wait, humans can use magic?" interrupted Twilight.

"Well most humans could. I can though, but my reserves are still drained, but I'll be happy to show you later." Twilight nods with a huge grin on her face causing Silver to chuckle. "Now where was I…? Oh yes, that all changed when a new ruler came to power for the humans. Thinking that the humans race was superior to pony races he started to war to unite the continent under human control. Unfortunately for the humans all that did was unite all three of the pony races against them. Feeling despite, the humans tried a risky summoning to bind a creature to this world to help them in their cause. The demon, however, enslaved the humans while creating chaotic havoc that decimated the united pony army. It wasn't until Princess Celestia and her sister Princess Luna used the Elements of Harmony to vanquish the demon which stopped the war. When the demon was defeated, and their city surrounded, the humans quickly surrendered. After the war ended, the Princesses united Equestria under their rule. They tried to reach out to the humans, but there was a lot of in fighting between two different factions in Nareth for control of the city. The fighting threated to spill over and affect the pony settlements nearby. This forced the Princess's hand, well hoof. They went into Nareth, with a contingent of elite guards and put an end to the fighting. Afterwards, they gathered the two different factions and banished the two groups to different planets."

The six mares gasped and turned toward Princess Celestia who had a stoic look on her face. "We had to, to maintain peace that was recently brought to Equestria." The Princess said sadly, "We were hopeful that after the war came to a close that there could be peace between humans and ponies, but sadly the humans harbored so much hate and anger that we had no choice."

"And that's where I come in." As Silver spoke up getting the girls attention, "I brought here by the Princess in hopes of maybe one day, humans might be able to live here once more. When I was brought here the Princess gave me this." As he picked up the bracelet from his lap, "This allows me to transform in the unicorn you first met me as which saves me from using my magic. After I got acclimated to Equestria I received martial arts training, which upon completing I was able to join the royal guard."

Speaking of the royal guard he thought. "Princess I would like to resign from the royal guard."

The Princess stood there for a few minutes, thinking if she should accept his resignation or not. A smile came to her face a plan started to come together. "I will accept your resignation on one condition. When you feel well enough to leave, you will have 30 days to train. At the end of the 30 days, you will have to face your sensei and if you win, I will accept your resignation, if you lose its back to doing missions. Do you accept?

All eyes turned to the injured human. After a min to think about it, a smirk came to his face, "Princess, I accept."