My New Life

Picture of Emma at the bottom in author's notes. Picture created by Dukacia on Deviant Art.

Ace’s dream

The sun on Canis was setting on the horizon. The colors cascading the sky, was enough to comfort any dog. The intensity of the last rays of light for the day, were like a giant romantic fire in the sky. The clouds were cascaded in a yellow, as if they were made of gold. The scenery was as if a symphony was approaching the end of a song by quieting down. It seemed as more of the sun went down, the intensity of the beauty increased. The grass and trees were casting large shadows, as the sun was setting.

Under such a beautiful sight were Ace and Emma. Emma was lying on her side with her legs neatly curled up to her body. Her bushy frozen fire tail was curled along her body, the tip just touching her back legs. Ace was lying in the same position, but had his head nestled on her soft neck. They were lying on the baby blue, mahogany porch in the front of their two story house. The neighborhood noise was dying, as parents put their puppies to bed for the night. All in all, it was peaceful.

“Happy 23rd Birthday sweetie,” Emma said in her usual silvery voice.

“Thanks," *sigh* "Can you believe our wedding is a week away.” I reply, while still keeping my head on her.

“Yeah, I'm excited, nervous, and scared, I mean, what if something goes wrong?”

“How would it happen, we have preplanned everything down to the final step, minute for minute. All thanks to the most organized, beautiful dog I have ever laid my eyes on.”

Picking her head up, she pushed me playfully with her paw she said, “Ooooh you.”

We stayed on the porch talking until about an hour after the sun had set and the nickel-silver, mysterious orb that is the moon, was starting to peek through the holes in the now dark and silvery colored clouds. The stars were starting the paint the sky in their magnificent arrangement of constellations. The colors of space barely being visible through the numerous clouds, were also showing there beauty.

“Wow, isn’t the night the most beautiful part of the day?” Emma stated while looking at the stars.

“I have to agree for two reasons. One, it involves sleep. Two, if we need to go hunting, I can blend in with the surroundings.” After stating that sentence I look at Emma with a slight grin, knowing that not mentioning her reason to be one of her pet peeves.

“You know what I mean Ace.” She deadpanned “You know I mean the moon, and space in general.”

Fell for it chase, leap, and killer.

“Yeah, I know,” I said starting to chuckle lightly “I just love that face you make.”

“Well Hardy-Har Har, Mr.” she says as a devious smirk works its way across her snout.

Oh no she isn’t going to…

“Padfoot!!” she started laughing knowing that I hated my birth given name. My entire face turned  red in a matter of seconds from embarrassment.

“Fine I get it, you win.” I stated as I started to join in the contagious laughter Emma had.

After a few minutes our laughter reduced to chuckles at the stupid name. I don’t know what my parents were thinking by giving me that name. It was just until a few years ago that I have legally changed my name to Commando, so that it is similar to my commander role in the hound military.

“Well, we should probably go inside and head to bed.” I suggested as it was already around 9 o’clock based on the position of the moon.

“Good idea, since we have to go and set up a few of the final touches for the wedding.” She stated as she walked through the front door.

“I thought we had everything we needed for the wedding. What could possibly be left?” I questioned as I follow her through the house to our bedroom crossing over the tan colored, scruffy carpet.

“Well, there are still some essentials that I know I told you about, like for instance, the suit and dress we will be wearing.”

I was about to say something about me wearing a suit, but she beat me to it. “And don’t say your not wearing a suit, it would look nice on you.”

“Alright fine, I will wear a suit.” As we approach our bedroom I decide to state the truth under my breath hoping she didn’t hear it.

“Bridezilla.” Unfortunately for me she did hear it.

“WHAT!, What did you just say?!” Emma said stopping in her tracks. Turning around I saw she was seething with rage.

“I said I love you, and I will be glad to wear a suit.” I replied, hoping she was in a good mood so that, I am not sent to the place all bad husbands call bed. the Couch. It was very lumpy, and was difficult to find a comfortable place to sleep on.

“That’s what I thought you said!” She said as we finally reached our bedroom.

The bedroom was furnished with two mahogany dressers that were hell to get upstairs. There was a black bedside lamp for bedtime reading and a few pictures decorating the walls. Most of them is from our time together in various places like Colliewood. In the corner was the red and white electric guitar that I played in my free time to help get my mind off of things. I have been playing it a lot recently, mainly to help get focused on the things I needed to do for the wedding. Things like make and mail invitations, order the cake and silverware, and order the food.

(Hey, we all need our outlets to let off some steam, playing guitar is mine.)

As she started to get into bed, I had that feeling, you know the feeling where you have to go to the bathroom and relieve yourself.

“Honey, I'll be back, I need to go to the bathroom.”

"Hurry back sexy boy,"she said in a sultry voice with half lidded eyes. The next thing I see that she is pulling something from the bedside table. When she turns around, she had the collar in her mouth. It was a black spike collar only used for mating sessions. She tossed the collar towards me. “Hurry back and join your master, pet."

It was true, since the dogs on Canis only mated with one dam, we're bound to the ones that took our first lay. It was the culture beaten into us at a young age, which males were supposed to become subservient to our dam counterparts.

With much speed I rush downstairs to release my bladder.

While downstairs I thought heard a window upstairs smash and stopped midstream. I listened and heard nothing, so I brushed it off and continued relieving myself. When I came to the stairs I swore I heard muffled screaming and a flapping sound. I rushed up the stairs very worried that something has happened. When I got to the top of the stairs, I notice that the window was indeed broken, glass covering the carpet by the window. Some of the pictures were knocked on the ground showing signs of a struggle, and the flapping was the royal blue curtains fluttering in the wind.

On the outside of the window on the roof was what looked like a dog only it was larger than any breed I have seen. In place of its paws was just a solid hardened part of its leg. Its coat was a midnight blue and its ears were standing up. In its legs was my wife, a muzzle was on her mouth muffling her screaming. I could see the fear in her eyes and it pained me to see it. I ran to get to my wife and beat the creature to death.

Before I got to the window the creature hopped off the roof and a loud smack was heard as they hit the dirt road outside. I immediately made a mad dash for the door all while thinking

What the fuck does that fucking piece of shit think it’s doing. When I’m done with it, it will be lucky to even be identified as whatever it is among it’s comrades.

Finally making it outside, I notice that there are four more of these things all standing around Emma while the one that had taken her from the bed has started to pummel her in the street. That only made the anger that was already building inside to intensify. I tried to get to the one that was pummeling her. I made a mad dash and tried to jump over the alien creature, but while in midair the creature turned around and bucked me in the chest sending me back to the side of the road. I arose from the ground.

I don’t know what these fuckers want, but I'm going to have to kick these guys' asses, in order to get to her.

I quickly put together a strategic method of attack.

As quick as lightning I ran straight at the one that kicked me. He reared up again, but this time I was ready for it. When he kicked I jumped to the left and tackled the ‘guard’ near him to the ground. Quickly rolling off of him, I turn to the one doing the pummeling and tried to tackle him to the ground only to be tackled by another one of those things. He started to attack me and I could hear the hits from ‘what appeared to be their leader’s leg come down on Emma.

That only fueled the anger as I brought my knees up and flipped the alien from my body before he could make another blow, and threw him a few feet away. Before I got up I was grabbed by the two other ‘guards’. They had somehow grabbed my legs and held them with theirs. I tried to escape only for them to grab on tighter.

*Smack Smack Smack* I had to literally watch as they beat Emma. There was a wet spot on the front of the muzzle. She was covered in cuts. Her fur was matted down with the free flowing blood, and she whimpering in pain.

”WHY… Why the fuck are you bastards doing this…We did nothing to you. Stop…Please…Stop,” I tried to beg.

“Shut Up, you have no right to talk,” The guard I threw said.

At that moment the one pummeling Emma had picked her up and put her head in his legs.

“NOOOO… please.. please… take me…. Just leave her be… please..” I tried pleading. Only to be hit in the ribs.

Unfortunately, those pleads fell on deaf ears. the leader started to apply pressure in a twisting motion. All I could do was watch. The look of total horror in her bruised eyes told the whole story. She was barely able to stay awake and was whimpering in pain. It sent pain through my entire body.

*CRACK* The sound of Emma’s neck made me feel completely cold. As shivers were sent down my spine I wanted to cry, but no tears came. I felt sick. I felt weak, as I watch her now deceased body flop down to the cold hard road.

(You need to get a hold of yourself and fight to live)

Who is this?

(I'm an Alpha that will not stand Idly by as this Evil kind attacks)

How

(Just stop thinking and I will be able to do the rest)

A few seconds later, I could literally feel my blood course through my veins, my heart pump faster. It seemed as if time slowed down, as I start to lose control over my senses. I could feel the strength return to me tenfold. I felt something really heavy. It was as if, I was given a three hundred pound blanket to carry, that covered my entire body.

”ALRIGHT YOUR TURN,” the guard that just became the target of death himself said.

As he neared to start beating me I used the legs holding mine as leverage. I flipped forward and landed a shot to his temple with my free back legs, and he went down. I turned my attention to the ones holding me and stepped backwards. They tried to hold me, but I began biting them with all the force I could. I kept biting them until I freed myself only to be kicked in the side by one of them.  The kick sent me a few feet to the side of the street.

“YOU FUCKERS DECIDED IT WAS A GOOD DAY TO DIE WHEN YOU FUCKING KILLED EMMA. NOW YOU BASTARDS SHALL FEEL THE WRATH OF THE ALPHAS UPON YOU!!!!” I said as I start running at the three aliens that are still standing.

They tried to kick me again only to have me jump on one of their backs. The two on the side tried jumping at me only to meet each other as I jumped off the alien just in time. Their heads collided and they fell to a sitting position on the ground. I turn to the one I was just standing on. He brought his forelegs up to try and kick me. I tackled him to the ground. Still feeling the presence in me I jumped on his neck and brought my teeth down onto it, as if driven by a thousand year old instinct. I bit down on a particularly soft part of his neck with all of my force.

I kept biting down repeatedly with as much force as I could until I could no longer feel a pulse. This was only a few seconds in comparison.

As I jumped off the dead alien, I turn to see the other two running towards me with a lot of speed.

If being a commander of a military has taught anything it is how to use the opponents’ weakness and make them suffer.  I could now tell that these aliens had easily penetrable coats.

When they neared he jumped out of the way and ran to tackle them from the side. Successfully knocking one into the other, they both went down. During their time on the ground I took the opportune time to kill another.

Walking around to the final alien I decided that I would have military grade A fun with him. I grabbed a nearby rock about the size of his leg and smashed his knees by using the rock as a makeshift hammer. Starting to pummel him I could easily start to see the blood start flowing. I went to grab another weapon, when I turned around I could see that he was struggling to crawl. Blood was flowing from his mouth and nose leaving a trail on the ground beneath him. The weird thing was I actually enjoyed it. Deciding to just release him from his misery and went up to him and quickly snapped his neck.

(You may have your body back. We Alphas shall be watching over you, from now until death. I'm sorry that I didn't get here in time)

As the adrenaline left my body I could feel the pain start to build. Like a wildfire it quickly spread throughout my body. It pained me to even move.

Only one thought ran through my mind EMMA.

I gathered my strength and limped over to the corpse that was my wife. Noticing that most of the other houses also had broken windows and doors were knocked down.  Passing by the one who killed her I spit in his face.

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Finally coming to her the first thing i do i remove the muzzle that hid a lot of the damage. Finally seeing that beautiful face I see that the wet spots were indeed blood flowing from her mouth and nose. Like a puppy I start asking her to wake up in hope of some kind of miracle to happen

“Emma.. Emma please you have to open your eyes. Come on you have to get up." I say as I push her  blood covered head with mine. "It's Time to wake up now." Once again pushing her head to the side. "I can’t live without you; you were my first friend, my best friend. I-I love you, I pro-promised I would p-protect you f-from harm." I say as tears start to run, and a knot in my stomach got much worse, I choked out the words. "I'm sorry Emma, I ha-have com-completely failed you."

Um..Ace..if you don't mind could you wake up."

A very faint voice was heard yet I completely ignored it as I was nuzzling Emma

"I-I'm sorry, I have f-f-failed you my love."

I just fall there my body over hers not even trying to fight back the sadness that had now overtaken the pain. I put my neck over hers for what ‘pained me to say’ for the last time.

End Music Here

Then darkness overtook my dream as I was starting to wake up from slumber. I feel a slight poking at my side right beside my injuries. After a few moments fighting to open my eyes, I release a tired yawn as my vision is a blurry combination of green and brown. When I fully awake, I see that it is still nighttime and that the poking was coming from Fluttershy to my right looking at me with worry in her eyes.

“I’m sorry for waking you up, but you were having a nightmare, and I was afraid that you were going to hurt yourself.  You understand don’t you, please don’t hate me.”

Trying to remember what had happened last night was rather difficult. All I can remember is something about lights, ponies, and music.

Ace groaned as a headache seemed to take hold of him. "What in the name of the Alphas, happened last night?” I say rubbing my head hoping to reduce the growing headache and getting a full explanation of what happened, why I’m here, and how did I get here all at the same time.

“Well.. you see.. , you kinda got drunk off the cider, went up on stage, sang. Rainbow dragged you halfway across town, and dropped you on the couch, before going to sleep in the guest room.” Fluttershy replied

With that Ace started stretching like most dogs do in the morning. You know where they have their front half of their bodies down to stretch their backs, eventually moving to their back legs. Well to Ace this was perfectly natural to do this with his eyes closed, But for Ponies it was something completely different.  For ponies this was something stallions did, when they were trying to stud a mare.

As Ace continued his stretches he didn’t notice Fluttershy’s face quickly turning a shade of pink and increasing to a shade of deep red as he continued.

As Ace got to a certain point of stretching his back he felt a very sharp pain course through his midsection. The pain was too much for Ace to bear; he collapsed on the couch hissing in pain. As he hit the couch his leg had also begun to also course with pain.

Seeing Ace in pain seemed to be what snapped Fluttershy out of her thoughts, and into the caretaker state she is in, when an injured animal comes to her.

“Ace, please lay down, I will get you some medicine to help numb the pain.”

“No, I’m fine just overexerted myself.” Ace said through gritted teeth.

“No, you are in pain; otherwise you wouldn’t have fallen back onto my couch. You will take the medicine.”

“No I am not going to take it, since I don’t need it.”

Not wanting to fight, and knowing that Ace needed quick medical attention so that the injuries didn't worsen, she decided to pull out her greatest weapon. ‘The Stare.’ The disapproving eyes of the Pegasus seemed to work on animals when they needed medical attention, and she had yet to see the effects of it upon another living pony.

Ace looked into her eyes as she stared. He seemed to shrink under her unrelenting gaze.

“Ace, you will allow me to mend you injuries.”

Ace huffed “Okay, fine. You win.”

As Fluttershy ran into a small section of her cottage to bring back whatever medical supplies she needed, Ace began to think to himself. How the fuck did that scare me. I have gone through war, and had to fight to live, yet those eyes. Those disapproving eyes, how in the Alpha’s silvery coats do those eyes scare. I have become a big fucking wimp since coming here. As Ace was busy thinking he didn’t notice Fluttershy returning with the medical kit in mouth.

Fluttershy opened the kit and pulled out what looked like a baby blue flower with ruby red thorns.

“Here, this should be able to help you with the pain.”

Listening to Fluttershy, Ace quickly took the bud off of the flower. After a minute after eating the bud he began to feel the effects, as the pain in his leg and midsection began to dissipate.

“So did it work?”

“Yeah, thank you for that Fluttershy; you are one of the only ones I think I can truly trust about medicine.”

“I’m gonna go lie down outside and star gaze.”

Ace said as stepped off the couch cautiously for he didn’t want another incident he had just a few moments ago. Fluttershy was worried, since whimpering was something ponies only did when having a truly, terrifying nightmare, and that if she didn’t at least ask about it now, he might not get back to sleep. But unbeknownst to her, Ace has been having these nightmares every single night since it happened, and Ace didn’t want others to know about these dreams, for they might give a teary eyed sympathy for him.

“Um… if it’s alright with you, would you like to talk about your nightmare, I mean I heard you whimpering in your sleep and you saying you failed somepony.”

After hearing this it reminded Ace of the nightmare that he had just endured about his very final moments with his beloved Emma. It was a very painful memory for him to even remember about how much of a failure he was. The pain was clearly visible on Ace’s face.

Fluttershy was about to apologize before Ace cut her off. “If it’s all the same to you,” *sigh* “This is something that I need to deal with alone.” With that Ace went through the front door of the cottage leaving Fluttershy to wonder ‘what happened to him in that dream.’  She didn’t want to press upon matters like this as it would usually end up with raising voices and arguments. She didn’t want to put more on his plate since finding out that he was stuck here for the rest of his life.

Now when Ace said that the night was beautiful earlier, he meant it. The night sky was as beautiful as Ace had remembered it being on Canis, yet nothing he saw seemed to really help, he felt incomplete, like he was only half of what he used to be.

There was no night Canis ever since the great massacre of Wolverhamperton. There was only blood day and day. We called it blood day because without the sun the sky would turn a deep shade of red, that only served as a reminder of those we have lost in the fight.

We have deduced that the sky had turned red because with the more of us that were dying the planet was also dying, because of the deep bond that each of us shared with the planet. The water flowed through our bodies; the meat gave us strength to fight. In return we planted more trees to appease the planet. The circle of life was in its course. Yet when you halt the circle everything slowly dies. When the horses caught more of us they killed those who were impregnated with puppies, they killed those who were too weak to work, young and old both fell to the hooves of the overlords. With that much death, and no births, the planet was losing the strength it once had because of the broken bonds.

Ace sat outside for a few hours looking at the night presented before him. Behind him, the door to the cottage opened as Rainbow Dash came walking out.

“Hey Ace, what are you doing up at this time?”

“Well Rainbow Dash, this is the time I use to think, this time I'm everything I am going to need to do in order to adjust to living here properly: like buying food, buying a house, and so on. What are you doing up?”

“I have work today, and don’t worry about all of that stuff, you have us. If and when you need help, you know that we will be there.” Rainbow dash stated with certainty.

“Thanks, Rainbow Dash, it means a lot.” Ace stated as a warm feeling washed over him. For the first time in what seemed like forever, he had felt a warmth around his heart. He felt that if he was stuck here he would actually be kind of okay with it. Yet if he learned the culture, it would be a fucking miracle, because he not only disliked having to learn new things, he disliked having to learn everything all over again.

The night sky’s full, nickel-silver moon was starting to descend from the night sky as night was turning into day. The remaining stars were nearing the end and were starting to disappear. The colors of space barely being visible anymore as the day approached and the sun was starting to come up bathing the sky in a barrage of colors.

“What do you do, as it pertains to your job?”

“Well I’m the leader of the Ponyville Weather team, I have to manage the other’s while maintaining the correct weather forecasted, speaking of which I have to go or else I’ll be late.”

Rainbow flew off into the sky leaving Ace there staring in awe and finding out that their weather doesn’t operate without Pegasi, before going inside to clean Fluttershy's cottage.

As Ace was finishing the cleaning, he heard Fluttershy’s yawn signaling her awakening. Walking downstairs Fluttershy notices a completely clean cottage from dusted shelves, to a swept wooden floor. Her little animal friends chirping and chattering to themselves as a tired Ace walks from the kitchen.

“Um..Ace,  Thank you for cleaning, you didn’t have to clean…I mean I was going to get to do it… don’t mind my question, ...um why did you clean?” Fluttershy asked as she was about to hide behind her mane.

“Well the answer is it's a culture thing."

Fluttershy seemed to accept this as she still knew very little of Ace's home planet. She trotted into the kitchen to make breakfast for her, her animal friends and Ace as thanks for cleaning.

“Hey Fluttershy, I’m going to go to Twilight’s, if you don’t need any help around here.” Ace called into the kitchen.

The walk over to Twilight’s library was rather difficult, not because of the injuries, but because I didn’t even know where it was. Well, I’m lost, and there is no way in the four large paws of an Alpha am I going to ask for directions, that would be more painful than being neutered.

So I decided to just keep exploring until I found the Library, which is really odd since, it’s a damn tree after all. Still wandering after what seemed like an hour I hear a high speed flapping sound. I just chose to ignore it. Which it turns out was a terrible idea.

“LOOOOOK OOOUUUT” yelled a voice coming from behind me.

Turning around I notice three fillies on a scooter speeding towards me. They were moving at such a speed that it would be impossible for them to stop in time. I was so terrified that, I just stood there like a puppy caught in a lightning storm.

*Crash* *Thud* we collided in the middle of the road, me falling onto my injured ribs once more eliciting a yelp from me. They fared no better. When the scooter made contact they were sent flying and rolling onto the dirt path in front of them.  When they sat up it was evident that they were dizzy from their small flight.

It was a few seconds before we got back up onto all fours. One thing I notice is that there was a group of ponies looking on to see if we were alright, or they were just asses that needed to be kicked, Haven’t decided yet. An orange Pegasus filly with a purple mane was first to speak.

“Why’d you just stand there, we said look out?” she yelled

A yellow pony standing next to her kicked her with her back hoof and apologized for her.

“Ah think, what she means is, are ya alright, mister?”

“Yeah, I’m alright, if I may ask, why were you speeding through town?”

This time a white filly whose hair reminded me of Rarity spoke up.

“We’re on our way to the library to get a book for a project we need for school. Why are you in town?”

“Well you see, I was going to try and find out where the library was, so that I could speak to twilight.”

“Well, how about you follow us there.” The white filly offered.

“That’s if he can even keep up.” the orange filly grumbled under her breath.

"Don't mind her, she's just mad that this assignment made us miss a Pinkie Party"

"Can we just get going so we can finish this stupid assignment." The orange filly whined.

with that we continued on our way to the library. I must have been more lost than I thought, because it took us twenty minutes of walking to even see the treehouse in the distance. Deciding it would probably be best to introduce myself I

“Well then I guess I should introduce myself, I’m Ace, and I’m new in town.”

The Yellow filly, who seemed to be the leader of the group, spoke up to introduce the three.

Waving a hoof in front of the white one “This here is Sweetie Bell.”

Moving onto the Orange little filly prick “This is Scootaloo.”

“and ah’m Apple Bloom.” She said as Scootaloo fluttered her wings to move forward

"Hey get back here, it's not supposed to rain today." bellowed a voice from above. looking up Ace and notices Rainbow Dash chasing a rain cloud. When she finally caught up to it, the stored rain was released, drenching Ace and the crusaders.

"Sorry about that, sorta lost track of this cloud when I was setting up the weather."

Seeing Ace completely soaked again because of a 'stray' rain that she 'lost' Rainbow started to blush as Ace's mane clung to his neck. He was about to question about it, before being cut off by the orange filly.

"Rainbow Dash!!!"

"Hey what are you squirts up to?"

"Well we're taking the new guy to the library, so that we can finish a school project and he can talk to twilight wanna come?"

Doing a pony version of a shrug Rainbow stated "Eh sure, why not. I have nothing better to do."

As Rainbow finished she and the Crusaders were attacked along with everypony around them by a barrage of water droplets emanating from the shaking Ace. When he finished he was only half wet, no longer dripping he was still trying to ring out his mane and tail, he couldn't help the now exasperated look on everypony's face. Every pony except a female pony only a few feet away from Ace who had a certain half lidded look in her eyes.

Nervously chuckling Ace said "Sorry, I wanted to get dry after an 'incident'," Ace put emphasis on the word incident while looking in rainbows general direction. "With a rain cloud, I am truly sorry."

Everypony seemed to accept this apology as they went on their way leaving everypony except the mare. This mare was a female Pegasus pony with a wisteria coat, pink lace mane and tail with baby pink streaks.

"Hey what's a handsome stud like you doing outside shouldn't you be in a bedroom by now?" She said with a sultry smile walking up to Ace.

"Uhhhhh. what's that supposed to mean?" obviously confused of what she was doing. Rainbow Dash seemed furious at what this mare was doing.

"What the buck are you doing Rainbowshine!?"

"Oh, Rainbow Dash, why don't you find your own stallion, this one's mine."  Shine said as she wrapped a wing around Ace's midsection feathers just grazing his spinal column, causing Ace to jump on contact.

Rainbow Dash had seen enough. she flew up and grabbed Rainbowshine by the tail, and pulled her away from Ace.

"Stay Away from him! If I see you touch him like that again, you'll be lucky if I don't tear your wings off!" Rainbow yelled  as Rainbowshine quickly gained distance until finally slowing to a walk.

As she started walking away she had swayed her hips from side to side more than probably necessary, Ace couldn't take his eyes off the sight. Right before she was out of eye sight she took one last look at the stallion she was determined to make hers. Seeing that he was staring at her, she had put on a  grin before disappearing from sight. Ace shook his head trying to get the images out of his head, and making note to watch that mare very closely.

(Not that way)

After Shine ran off Rainbow turned to Ace and gave him a dead pan look

"Look I don't know how things are on your planet, but you never let a mare touch you like that, because it will lead to a very bad situation if your not careful." Rainbow had whispered to Ace, just loud enough for him to hear or so she thought.

*Gasp* "Your from a different planet." They said in unison

Ace threw an angry look over at Rainbow, who only gave a guilty smile. Turning back to the fillies, he softened his facial expression and lowered his head to meet their eye level.

"Can you all keep this a secret?" Ace asked in a very low whisper. As the crusaders nodded, Ace did reveal he was from another planet. With that the fillies were rattling off questions faster than Ace's brain could process. The few that Ace was able to pick up and answer were about him not having a cutie mark, if he is part of an invasion group, and how long he will be staying here, all while walking or scooting towards the library.

As we approached Twilight's A flashback of what had happened a few minutes ago with that mare raced through Ace's mind. Why did she refer to me as her stallion. Does she believe that she has any kind of ownership over me or something. And why was Rainbow so defensive over me, I mean the wing thing was nice until the feathers grazed my spine. what does it mean, when someone has their wing around someone else.

"Hey Rainbow Dash, why did that mare from be-"

"ACE!!!" Before Ace could finish his sentence he heard his name being called. Looking off to the right he sees Twilight and Fluttershy running towards the group.

"I was looking for you all morning, you see I got a letter from Princess Celestia," She used her magic to levitate a scroll out of her pack and over to Ace. "It's addressed to you."

Ace opened the scroll, and began to read out loud out of habit.

"Dear Ace,

Hello, my newest little pony. I hope that you are enjoying your time in Ponyville and that my Twilight Sparkle and her friends are helping you adjust. Again, I am sorry that aid you in returning to Canis. And I am terribly sorry for your loss, Em-," His eyes widened in shock and disbelief at what he just read. No... No, no, no, No! How!? How the Fuck does she know that name!? There's no fucking way that she could know anything about Emma!!

From where everypony was standing, they could see the letter lightly tremble in his hooves, thinking that something written on it made him sad, but they were wrong. If they could glance past the letter, they'd see it. The look in his eyes, set ablaze, fueled by an unadulterated rage.

Ace continued reading, this time however, to himself. "Emma did not deserve that, nor did the rest of your race. Nopony deserves that kind of tragedy. Undoubtedly, you will have questions as to how I know this, but forgive me, for  I wish to only speak of this in private." Damn Right I got some fucking questions! That Bitch has got some explaining to... Before he could finish his thought, his eyes caught something odd about the next part of the still shaking letter. A small blotch on the paper, a sign of water damage. Without reading, he scrolled down the paper, only to find more. Wiping his eyes, he was washed over by a wave of confusion. Dry? But... Realization struck and the shaking stopped. Ace stood there, holding a letter from Princess Celestia, stained by her tears.

The letter went on, "Please understand. It weighs heavily on my heart that one of my little ponies is forced to live with such pain while I am able to do little to nothing in order to help. If ever you need anything of me, be it favor or advice, please, do not hesitate to ask." Ace took a moment to process this. She... She cried for me. I'm not one of her ponies... I'm not even from this world... and she still cried. I... I... Great. Now I feel like a fucking dick. With a sigh, his anger washed away and continued reading. "If I guessed correctly, then you stopped reading this out loud when you reached Emma's name. Little do you know, this was a very wise decision. I love Twilight and her friends with all my heart, but Pinkie Pie can be... enthusiastic at times. I believe that I do not need to ask this of you, but I would like for this information to stay between us, until you feel that it is time for the girls to know, of coarse. You may resume reading aloud after this sentence, for it pertains to both you and my student. Ace lowered the paper from his face, his smile revealed for all to see.

"Um... Ace?"

His ears perked up, turning to face Fluttershy, "Yes?"

"Oh, um... I hope you don't mind me asking, but you stopped reading and your hooves were shaking. Is something wrong?"

"No. It's fine, just the princess giving me some consoling words." Fluttershy opened her mouth, but was stopped by Ace raising his hoof. "Hang on a second, please. There's more and it seems important."

"Well?" Dash asked impatiently. "If it's important, then spit it out. We wanna know!"

"Yeah!" The crusaders chimed in.

Ace looked back towards the cream pegasus who was giving him a sweet smile. "It's ok. It can wait."

He nodded and continued to read aloud. "Accompanying this letter is a ticket to the Grand Galloping Gala. I have high hopes that you will attend. Lastly, with you being new to this world, I would like for you to start sending me friendship reports, Twilight will explain. I hope that you enjoy your stay in Ponyville.

-Princess Celestia

P.S. I think that Padfoot is a very cute name." By the time he realized what happened, it was too late to stop himself.

"Who's Padfoot?" Scootaloo asked.

"Why are ya'll blushin?" Apple Bloom added.

"She's right. It is a cute name." Sweetie said happily. The other fillies gave her a deadpanned stare. "What?"

"Hey Ace," His ears drooped back at the cyan mare's voice. "The fillies asked you a question," She paused. "Well, two of them did anyway. So? Who's Padfoot?"

Ace lowered his head slightly and looked at the ground. Fluttershy placed a reassuring hoof on his shoulders, "It's ok. You don't have to answer, if you don't want to." Ace looked at the others, before he looked back at Fluttershy, who still had her sweet smile.

He took a deep breath and sighed, "You all know my name, right?" They nodded. "Well, it's Ace..." He paused. "Ace Padfoot." He didn't need to guess what would happen next, he knew what would happen. It always happened. Suddenly, everypony's attention was drawn to the two pegasi rolling around in the dirt , laughing their flanks off. Applebloom and Sweetie shot a disappointed glare at Scootaloo, while Twilight and Fluttershy did the same to Rainbow Dash.

"Scootaloo!" Sweetie yelled.

The filly instantly stopped laughing and sat up to look at her friends. "What?"

"Ya can't jus' laugh at somepony jus' cuz their name's kinda funny!"

"Oh... uh, sorry."

"The girls are right, Dash." Twilight added. "While his name may sound strange to us, you have to remember that he's from another world. That could be a perfectly fine name where he's from."

"Not exactly." Rainbow finally stopped laughing as all eyes fell on Ace. "Folks back home used to ridicule me for it as well." His eyes closed as he sat on his haunches and hung his head in shame. Before he knew what was happening, Ace was swept up in a gentle hug by Fluttershy and the crusaders.

"Used to?" Twilight asked.

Ace tried to struggle free, but they wouldn't let up. He sighed in defeat. "Yeah, used to. I got sick and tired of getting laughed at so I had my name changed to Commando. Now that that's out of the way, can l have my legs back?" He chuckled. They all let go of Ace, the fillies giggling while Fluttershy stepped back blushing madly. "And I have some questions about this... " He paused and looked back at the letter. "Grand Galloping Gala?"

"Oh, that reminds me, I still have your ticket." A golden ticket floated out of her saddlebags. "Would you like me to hold onto it for safe keeping?" He nodded.

"Quick question, what's the Grand Galloping Gala?"

"Oh it's a formal ball that happens once a year, and is located in the castle. It is the most premier event in all of Equestria."

"Yyyeahh, after hearing that, I definitely don't want to go."

"Why, a dance would be fun." twilight rebutted

"I don't like dances, since I don't even know how to dance."

At this moment Rainbow Dash got into the conversation.

"Well there are more things than dancing."

"Like what?"

"There's supposed to be an air show by the wonderbolts, and music."

"I'll think about it."

As the Crusaders ran into the library  to get the books, that they needed for school. A few minutes later they ran out with multiple books and jumped into their wagon. Ace remembered the question he was going to ask Rainbow before Twilight and Fluttershy showed up.

"Rainbow about that question I was going to ask before, why did that mare try and claim me as hers, are males pieces of property here or something?" Ace asks as they all walk into the library.

"WHAT!!" Twilight said in shock as Twilight and Fluttershy stopped in their tracks obviously hearing Ace's question "When did that happen!?"

"Well when after me and the fillies met up with Rainbow. She was chasing a raincloud that let lose all over us and I shook most of it out, everyone around me got mad, since they have gotten wet by my drying. After apologizing this mare came and asked why I wasn't in a bedroom yet?" I don't know what she meant by that, but anyway Rainbow asked what she was doing and she replied with 'Oh, Rainbow Dash, why don't you find your own stallion, this one's mine.'After apologizing this mare came up to me and put her wing around me. It actually felt really nice, until her feathers touched my back. Which is why I'm wondering are males here property, or what would make her act like that?"

"No, males are in no way any type of property here, the only thing I can think of that would cause her to do that would be the male/female ratio." Twilight said

"Why would that cause any problems, isn't it equal here?"

"Oh, no, here it is like 3 mares for every stallion."

"Great, so I'm gonna have to watch out for all mares?"

"Wouldn't you be happy, with all those mares trying to get you?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Well, to put it simply, no. I don't like the roles being reversed, because it makes me feel like a deadbeat loser."

"Um... why?" Fluttershy asked in a near whisper

"Well, remember the culture thing I told you about this morning, well it is pretty much the same thing."

"What happened this morning?" Twilight asked.

"Oh, well... Ace cleaned my cottage." Fluttershy responded.

Turning her attention back to the prior conversation.

"Well, I guess your just going to have to get used to having the roles switched, because like it or not, you now living on this planet." Twilight said reminding Ace of his situation.

"Well If I am going to be stuck here, I think it would be best to get some questions answered, and I think that you would also like to get some answers, because if what I saw yesterday is any indication of who you are, I think your studiousness will make you want to get some more answers."

"Well I can't say that I haven't been intrigued since now it has basically been confirmed, by Celestia that you are from another world." Twilight said as she was going to a door on the main floor of the library. "I just have one quick question."

"What's the question?"

"Mind if I hook you up to a brain scanner."

"A what?"

"A brain scanner."

"What's a brain scanner?"

"Oh, it's just a simple testing device in which I put a wired dish on your head, said dish is able to get readings of certain aspects of your brain, like brain waves and magical energies, and feeds it through the wires to a large control center."

"Well alright, I don't see the danger in that."

"Great." Twilight squeed in delight. "Could you follow me, Fluttershy and Rainbow, if you want you can come as well and ask any questions that you would like, if it's alright with Ace." Twilight said as we began to descend into a deeper section of the library.

"The More the Merrier." Ace replied as he began to follow Twilight into the other room, being follow by Rainbow Dash and then Fluttershy.

This room had a large spiral staircase much like the one in the lobby of this library. In the center of the room was a table, a large metal machine with flashing lights. Next to it was a few shelves with a lot of fancy equipment that Ace has never seen before. Following Twilight over to a metal control unit with what looked like shackles sticking out of the top.

"Can you put your hooves in the locks, so I can get the most accurate results?"

The locks close as soon as my hooves were in position.

"Well it will take a few seconds for me to completely set up the helmet. So while I do that, Rainbow, Fluttershy, if you want to ask him some questions."

Rainbow was the first to speak up with "What kind of sports do you guys have?"

"Well depends on what your definition of sport is."

"A sport needs physical activity and skill." Twilight said, which completely surprised me was the fact, that she spoke in easy terminology, while putting the chords into the helmet.

"Well in that case, we had catch and Chess."

"Wow, that's it huh, what else did you guys do?"

"Well we usually sat around talking, slept in the sun, and thought of new ways to prank others, all of that was before the war though."

"I have a question... that is if it's alright with you," Fluttershy looked at Ace as she remembered last night and how he reacted. "Who's Emma?"

As those words hit Ace's ears it felt like a thousand swords just impaled themselves into his heart, before being burned inside of a roaring fire.

Sigh "She's someone that you, or anyone else, besides me, shouldn't concern yourself with." Ace replied through the pain of remembering the last time he had seen her alive and how he lost her. Even though it was almost 5 years ago, he felt like it was all his fault, since he should've done more to protect her. You know the saying 'time heals all wounds,' well that is a total lie, it's like a knife wound, though the wound heals, the scar will always remain.

While Twilight finished putting the finishing touches on the metal helmet she had placed it on Ace's head. The helmet was a big circular dish with multiple lights of red and green decorating the top. With the flick of a switch the machine started powering up, sending electricity to the helmet to start the test.

What was supposed to happen was the machine was supposed to start graphing his brain activity, but what happened is that when the electricity hit the helmet it started severely shocking Ace. As they stood in horror of what they were witnessing, Ace was being electrocuted so badly that within a few seconds foam was starting to foam at his mouth, and he couldn't get the helmet off since his hooves were locked to the unit.

"Ace!!" Rainbow said as she flew, and tore the wires out of the helmet. She looked back at Ace hoping that she stopped it in enough time, but the damage was done. Ace was convulsing on the unit his hooves were still locked to.

"Rainbow, you to fly to Ponyville Medical and get a doctor." Twilight ordered as she finally snapped back to reality. She quickly unlocked the shackles around his hooves. As he was set free his still convulsing body almost his the ground as Twilight used her magic to catch him and carry him upstairs being followed by a very worried Fluttershy.

Twilight placed Ace on the couch. "Fluttershy can you clear his airways so he can breathe, I'm going to send a letter to the princess informing her of what happened, so in case the doctor can't do anything the princess might."

Fluttershy gave a single nod accepting the task from Twilight.