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“Isn’t this a house?” Magnum Rune said out loud.

Yes this is. I don’t think we have forgotten about that.

“Sorry it’s just been so long.”

It’s been longer than we can remember that’s for sure.

We should take it for ourselves. We deserve one for ourselves.

“Jeez, we can’t take a house for ourselves just because we woke up in it?.....Wait”

You’re thinking about how we got here.

Be on your guard. Whoever has brought us here might have bad intentions for us.

If that had been their intention wouldn't they have tied us up or put is a cage right?

“That’s true but then what if they turn mean and nasty?”

Then you destroy them.

Hate to agree with the oaf but that is the best options. Finding someone with a mental instability is about 1 in 2341 and if they are the type that kill once pushed to far we don't have a choice. We don’t want to draw to much attention to ourselves so no murderous rampages. One death should be enough to hide our identity. No more no less.

“Can we stop talking about killing? It might wake him up”

Good idea. Then again what if we just change out appearance.

The mechanics of such spells doesn't work on changing Cutie Marks.

I know but we could wear something over that. What important it’s our color. If we can cover up the mark than all we worry about is the color.

“I kinda want to change color too. Its better than running away or having to hide every time some soldier walks by.”

“Change color. I haven’t heard of a pony doing that.” Said a voice from behind Rune. Rune jumped and immediately turned around falling into a fight stance. Whoever the pony was that startled him seemed to be even more startled and scared and disappeared behind the door way she just entered through. Magnum was actually a bit startled by the pony’s fear and relaxed a bit. It had appeared that the pony hadn’t heard his conversation with him selves.

“I am sorry, it is just that you had startled us- I mean me.”

Good. Keep messing up like that and we will be in back in the white rooms in no time.

Magnum sat back down on the couch bed he had woken up on. As he did so, he saw out of the corner of his eye that the pony was coming out slowly. To his surprise, it was a mare and a good looking one at that.

Hellooooooooooo hot stuff.

You know she can’t hear you.

And thank God she can’t hear you.

“Hello.” Magnum said tentatively. He wasn't very comfortable talking to mares as much as he wished.

“Good Morning. Are you alright?” the mare asked coming slowly showing Magnum that she was carrying a tray of food.

And she can cook. Guys I think we have found a keeper.

Any mare can cook. But can she fight?

Why would a mare need to know how to fight?

It would be nice to –

“Zip it fellas” Magnum whispered to himself. He cleared his throat and asked “What do you mean?”

“Well when we found you, me and Angel that is,” the rabbit popped out from behind the mare’s mane, “You were sleeping so hard that even Angel couldn't get you up. Not only that but you seemed to be surrounded by a circle of ash. We were wondering if something bad magical happened”

“Oh no its nothing. We- I mean I haven’t slept in a while so I light a little fire to warm myself up while I slept.”

“How long has it been since you slept?”

“568 years” Magnum said instantly. He had been counting in his cell for years and had the number memorized as it was some of the only things he could do.

“What?!” the mare asked stunned.

“I meant days. Sorry. I get my words confused sometimes. You know, sleep deprivation.” Magnum corrected himself.

Smooth save.

Close indeed.

I was being sarcastic.

“Oh ok then. Well I have some food for you if you’re hungry”. She laid the tray on the small night stand next to the bed. It was good looking meal of buttered toast, milk, some chopped dandelions and an assortment of fruit.

Real Food.

Finally, nutrition.

Magnum grabbed the food and began to scarf it all down. It took about a minute and a half to eat all the food and he knew he was still hungry. He turned to the filly he seemed surprise that the food had basically disappeared and said “Thank you very much Ms.…”

“Fluttershy. It’s Fluttershy” she said.

Lovely name.

Seems fitting.

I don’t like her.

“Well, Ms. Fluttershy. Could I get some more food? It’s been a while since I’ve eaten food this good.” Magnum asked. Fluttershy nodded and said “OK coming up.” As she went out the room she asked “And, um what is, um your name, sir?”

“Magnum Rune” he said. She nodded and left the room. Magnum smiled and as she saw the nice lady go make some more food.

You realise you just used your real name. Meaning that if she ask about you; you can't bamboozle your way to escape your predicament.

“Buck” Magnum said putting his hoof to his head.

It’s fine; she doesn't seem like pony who would just give up someone to the prison.

She knows too much. We must eliminate her.

Your just saying that because you don’t like her.

True but she knows our name. That should be enough.

“We aren’t killing anyone” Magnum got up and started an incantation, “Now let’s change the color palette” The incantation completed, magical aura covered him and he thought of the new colors. Once he was done the magic aura dropped and his new coat and mane glistened a bit. He had decided to go with a darker shade of sky blue and his mane was dark green with purple highlights. During the transformation he felt that he should change his eyes while he was at it, they were now too dark to distinguish from the pupil which he liked.

Color is definitely different.

They shouldn’t guess it’s you now.

“I am going to have to get used to it.” Magnum said looking in the mirror. Magnum turned around and saw the little rabbit he remembered as Angel. Angel had his little jaw open which made sense considering what he'd seen Magnum wasn't surprised.

We should destroy him.

Why?

He has seen us.

But he can't talk. So he can't really do anything.

So. They might cast a talking spell on him.

"The thing is. I invented that spell and never released it to the public"

Oh yeah.

How did you forget we all share the same mind? Are memories are linked to Magnum so how do you forget something?

Magnum kneeled down and looked at the little rabbit still with his jaw hanging low near his large feet. Magnum had his hoof to push the move closed and said, "Look. How about we make a deal, you don't talk about this and I don't turn you into a fly. And trust me, I can do that."
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Fluttershy was a bit scared of her new resident. He seemed off a little bit; this wasn't helped by his constant slip ups of referring to himself as 'we'. Also talking about changing his mane and coat made her wonder what kind of a past he had. Yet even though all of that, she had a genuine feel that she would like this pony. It was the same feeling she had when she first meet Twilight. She knew that she was going to be her friend just after talking to her for a while and of felt the same way with this strange pony.

"Oh, I wonder where Angel went." Fluttershy wondered out loud. Then she heard the thumping of Angel’s feet and saw that he was jumping down the stairs in earnest. Once he was on the table he starting gesturing wildly. Fluttershy couldn’t make out all of it, as he was going a bit too fast. however she was able to make out that he was talking about someone. She was about to ask what she was talking about but she heard the ding of toaster. She turned to and grabbed the toast and cut up some fruit and decided to take out the cake that she made a few days ago for Rarity who couldn't come due to sickness. She cut a piece of corn bread cake and place on the tray along with the rest of the food.

“I am sorry Angel but could you tell me later. Mister Magnum Rune seems a bit hungry and I have to give him food.” Fluttershy said. Angel shook his hands, then thought for a moment and then nodded vehemently. Once Fluttershy got up stairs she looked to see a pony who looked a lot like Magnum just with a different coat and mane. The pony looked at her and smiled, Fluttershy thought that this was an uninvited guest and squealed in fear yelling, “Please don’t hurt me! You can take what you want just don’t hurt me Mr. Robber thief sir”

“Oh god, I am sorry Ms. Fluttershy. It’s only me, Magnum Rune. I just did a bit of changing up”
Fluttershy took her hooves from over her head and took another look at the stallion in front of her. He looked exactly the same as Magnum Rune; same physics, same hungry look, same eye shape, same mane and tail style. She looked at the cutie mark he had as it was the first time she took a good look at it. It should a hat that were common to magicians but had four other smaller ones yet different hats. One was slouched, one was pristine, the third was tattered and the last was outlined as the entire hat was black.

"See. Good ol'. Me" he said having to stop for a millisecond to say 'me'. Fluttershy managed to stammer out "H-h-how did you..? Your coat!? Your mane!?"

"I used what you had the bathroom. Don't worry. Nothing was ruined" he said, gesturing to the bathroom. There a couple of bottle on the floor and a small bowl that she uses for face painting when he young fillies came over.

"But I don’t have any hair dyes. How could you do that in the short amount of time it took for me to make you your breakfast?"

"I am a chemist. Making dyes is what I do for a living" he said picking up some of the food.

"Really? That sounds interesting" Fluttershy said getting to know him a little more, "what company did you work for?"

"It went out of business a while back. It was called Pharmacy Dreams" he said after finishing his tray again.

"So what have you been doing that has made you so tired?" she couldn't help asking.

"Oh just stuff. Nothing important." he said inadvertently, "But what about you? I have noticed that there are quite a few animals live here. Are you a vet of some sort?"

"You could say that? I am the caretaker of all the forest creatures here."

"That’s amazing! You take care of all of them? How do you know what's wrong with them?" he asked amazed. Fluttershy could see that he was genuinely surprised at this. She smiled responding, "I have a gift that lets me speak to animals."

"You mean like through words? Like they say things that get translated into word in your mind?" he asked showing a little bit of worry.

"No not like that. I just understand what they mean to say, like if they want something then I can get a general idea of what they want." she consoled. He gave a little sigh of relief.

"Well since I am here, where am I?" he asked turning to her.

"You’re in Ponyville. It's a town not far from Canterlot."

"Do you have a world map? I have been.... Um..... Out of touch with today society for a while now" he said scratching his mane. Fluttershy nodded and left downstairs to go get one of the map she had. She always had maps for times to go into the forest to get some herbs for medicines, but she also had some world maps too. She had to look through her desk which took some time due to it being terribly cluttered. It took her while but she got it. She turned to go back up the stairs but almost ran into Magic Rune who had decided to come down.

"Actually, I have a better idea. Why don't you show me around town."

"What?" she said in surprise, "But what about the map"

"No time for that." he said opening the door, "As one wise pony once said 'No time like the present'" and he took off outside.