An Explosive Journey

Nova, Canterlot Castle, Royal Guest Bedroom

I nuzzled my marefriend's cheek again, just enjoying the time we have alone together; I treasure moments like these dearly. After a few more minutes of cuddling, Lyra moved to get off of the bed; I stared at her with a feigned sad expression, though she knew it was a play, which was made obvious by her comment.

"As much as I would love to stay in your arms all day and snuggle in bed, we have to let Twilight and the others know that you're ok, because I have a feeling that Celestia forgot to send a notice about it last night after I fainted." I laughed.

"You're probably right there, Lyra."

I went to get out of the bed, but found that I couldn't move my arms very well... I couldn't straighten out either one of them, they both locked on me. 'This could be a problem.' "Lyra, could you come back here for a second, I need a bit of help with something."

"What might that be, Nova? Please don't tell me you'd like me to rub one out for you; we've just started as a couple, and even though I want to do those kinds of things with you, I'm just not really ready yet." I stared blankly at her.

"I wasn't going to ask for anything of the sort. It's actually the fact that my arms just happened to pick today to not cooperate and lock up on me. All that's needed is for you to pull one, until I say when. I can get the other when one is dealt with."

Lyra's face scrunched up at what I was explaining to her, "Let me guess, it's going to make this weird snapping noise when it's done, right?"

"Exactly."

"Gross."

"Would you rather me be asking for 'favors'?"

"Don't tease me, it doesn't help that whenever I think of us snuggling the way we did I end up getting hot, and it's not even mating season yet."

"So could you please come over here and just pull my arm?"

"Alright then, let's get this over with."

Lyra came back over to the bed, jumped on, and took my right hand into her mouth; she then pulled on my arm, until a very familiar distinct 'snap' sound rang through our ears. Both pain and pleasure from my joint being snapped back into working order ran through my arm; Lyra shuddered at the sound.

"I take it that you're not a fan of that noise?"

"Not particularly, no."

"Well, you're about to get really grossed out, because I still need to crack my other arm, as well as a few other things."

"Ok, why?"

"Because that is how my body is; it just happens sometimes, and I can't get going without popping everything."

I then proceeded to snap my other elbow by pulling my arm; when I cracked my neck, I could plainly see the disgusted look on Lyra's face.

"Doesn't that hurt?"

"Only a tiny bit, it's more pleasure than pain, and I kind of have to do it before I get going or else I'll get pains everywhere. My joints stopped cooperating ages ago, so I started popping them like this so I wouldn't have to deal with it." I finished everything off by sitting down and crossing my legs, I then placed my hands on my legs, and twisted in one direction, then the other, popping my back; I sighed in relief. Lyra pointed a hoof at her open mouth an made a gagging noise. After that she hopped off the bed, and walked towards the giant door that lead to the throne room. Turning we head to me, she asked, "You coming Nova, or am I going to have to drag our sorry flank out of bed?"

"Alright, I'm getting up, don't get your tail in a twist."

I immediately got out of the bed, and then fished around in my personal pocket space for a clean set of clothes; what I pulled out was a pair of black jeans with a lyre embroidered on each thigh, a shirt with a picture of fully Luna wearing Celestia's headpiece and necklace and grinning widely with a caption that says "move over Celestia," and a pair of shoes that had Vinyl's cutie mark on them. Lyra took one look at the shirt, and gave me a sarcastic look.

"Yeah, no one's EVER gonna question that shirt. Why not pick something a little less risky?"

"Yeah true, hold on I'll get another one."

I stuffed the shirt back into my space and fished around for another one. This time it was a black t-shirt with a picture of fluffy Woona with outstretched hooves, and a caption in white text "Free Hugs". Lyra rolled her eyes but smiled as she did so. After I dug out a change of undergarments, I got dressed while Lyra faced the door out of respect, for there was no privacy screen to be found in the room. When I was ready, we both left the room; little did we know that the there were two guards in front of the doorway, doing what they did best, guarding one of Celestia's guest bedrooms. As soon as we opened the door, the guards jumped back and turned towards us, spears at the ready. One of them seemed familiar, which was confirmed when he spoke to us.

"Halt! Now tell me, how did you two get back here, an what were you doing in one of the royal guest bedrooms?"

I put my hand up in the air an backed up slowly, and then sat down on my legs while I let lyra do the talking.

"Nova over here," she said while pointing a hoof at me, "just recently prevented a possible dragon disaster in Ponyville, and Celestia herself gave us permission to use the bedroom after I passed out from an exhausting day."

The guards took in this information for a moment and then spoke again. The other one pointed a spear at me, "Just because Celestia let you in here, doesn't mean that you can wander off and go anywhere. You may have beaten the both of us a few days ago, but you won't be so lucky if we see you where you shouldn't be. There's only room for one species in Equestria, and that's ponies. Though your marefriend here may not be so lucky if word gets out to the rest that she's in a relationship with some other creature." By the end of his little tangent, the guards face was inches away from mine; in that same moment, some insane idea clicked into the back of my mind, and I had the balls to go through with it. I out my fist up to his muzzle, and flicked his nose. He went sailing, and just before he hit the ground, I jumped up and outstretched an arm to catch him with my magic, and blocked a surprise attack on Lyra from the other guard with a magic wall.

While still holding them with my magic, I brought them both in front of me so I knew they could hear what I had to say.

"In all honesty guys, you two should clean up your act. I have never, EVER seen guards as bad as you two when it comes to attitude towards those that are given permission by Celestia herself to be here. Why not take example from the one you guard and show some respect and kindness to those of another species, because frankly, I'm running out of patience when it comes to beings like you. I had to put up with a lot of flak where I came from, and I thought that coming here would be different, though I guess you two ruined that nice image pretty badly." I stared right into their eyes, as if peering into their souls, and continued, "what makes your group so special that you think there should be no other race in Equestria except ponies?"

"We all follow Celestia, and we're keeping the land of Equestria free of scum like you. The last time someone came here we ended up with everything out of whack. Ponies are far superior to the other races outside of Equestria, so we're doing Celestia a favor of keeping the population safe by making sure only ponies live here, though it seems we missed one."

I was about to say something, when Luna walked into the throne room and saw me holding two of Celestia's guards by magic and the both of them wearing looks of fear on their faces, though they were fake.

"NOVA! WHAT ART THOU ATTEMPTING WITH OUR PERSONAL GUARDS! THOU MUST ANSWER OR FACE THINE OWN WRATH!"

I gently put down the guards and approached Luna, and kneeled in front of her, Lyra did the same. There was a moment of tense silence, and I could sense that Lyra was having a hard time calming down. It wasn't until Lyra started sniffling that Luna spoke, though in a quiet and calm voice, like that of a mother.

"Lyra, it is not you that I must speak with, just Nova. If you wish, I could send you back -"

"No, your highness, I wish to stay by his side," I looked up at Lyra, who had stopped kneeling, and was looking right at the princess.

"Nova was there for me when I needed someone to talk to, he helped me realize something about myself that I had forgotten, and most importantly," Lyra moved closer to me and nuzzled my cheek with hers, "he stole my heart, and I trust him fully with it. Now, do you think that someone like that would be attempting some heinous crime with your guards, especially when it's so early in the morning and run the risk of being caught by either of you?" Lyra stayed silent in order to let Princess Luna absorb what had just transpired, which shocked the hell out of me to say the least. An agonizing five minutes ticked away as Luna had still not said a word, and it was another two minutes as she started attempting to say something but kept stopping mid-way. Finally, he sighed and lowered her head.

"I guess I was wrong about the both of you; I apologize Nova, for jumping to conclusions." Not a single second later, Lyra cleared her throat, though I knew it was feigned; Luna continued shortly thereafter, "And to you Lyra, for not taking into account of Nova's nature, and not asking for the full story." A single tear streamed down Luna's face as she started turning to leave. I got up, ran towards her, and gave Luna the biggest hug ever. This was unexpected apparently.

"What is this for? We do not deserve such kindness and affection, for we have disgraced thee in the presence of thou's loved one." I didn't care, I kept her in the embrace, and started rubbing her back. "Luna, everypony deserves kindness and affection, it's all a part of friendship. Not only that, but you're my family. One thing I know about families is that you may not be able to pick them, but you love them unconditionally despite that fact, because they will always be there for you." I felt Luna relax a little, and Lyra came over and hugged both Luna and I. We both let go, allowing the princess of the night to return to whatever she was doing; I could've sworn I heard her mumbling something about pwning some nubs. Letting that slide, Lyra and I left the oversized throne room, and eventually set foot and hoof outside.

The city of Canterlot was like any average upper-class city; pompous snobs, pompous snobs EVERYWHERE! Not a second after I was spotted, ponies began talking in hushed whispers, thinking that I couldn't hear them. Oh how wrong they were. Lyra looked nervous, and very saddened about the kind of welcoming we got. I decided to end their debate about my simple mindedness by heading off to a nearby bookstore, to which Lyra followed. The inside of the store looked very simple, yet so welcoming, almost homey, which greatly contrasted the city just outside the door. Upon entering, a grey pegasus mare with a frizzy orange mane and tail came up to the counter.

"I'm sorry miss, but please leave your pet diamond dog-" I interrupted her right then and there. "excuse me, but I'm not a diamond dog, I am what is called a human. I came from another universe after an accident and I've been staying with Lyra over here ever since I arrived here in Equestria. She's been teaching me about magic a little bit, and I've been playing music for her in return." The mare closed her eyes and shook her head, "I'm sorry about that, it's just that my parents decided to move the bookstore to Canterlot, and I guess I've just been around these pompous airheads for too long already." there was silence for a few moments, until the mare spoke up again. "oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you my name. I'm Orange Box," Lyra and I snickered, earning us a glare from the other pony. "What's so funny?" "Oh nothing, it's just that it reminded us both about something." nice save Lyra.

I shuffled my feet, and then asked Orange a question, "Say, do you have any books on any of the recent technological advancements of this world?" I got an odd look from Orange, "Why would you want something like that?" she started staring at me suspiciously. "there are probably differences in technology levels between our world's. I'm interested to see what's different and what's the same when it comes to technology." Orange seemed to nod in approval, and then ran off to the back of the store; two minutes later she came back with the book balanced on her back and helped by her wings as she trotted towards us. Orange seemed to have tripped on something, as she flailed forwards and sent the book flying. Reacting quickly, I teleported the book into my left hand and caught Orange with a magic field simultaneously, then I gently placed her back on her hooves and dispelled the magic field. Orange simply stared in disbelief, while Lyra smirked, "I teach him one spell, and he goes off and tinkers with it, and uses it to learn a bunch of spells from a pile of books all at once." Orange's expression stayed the same as she asked Lyra a question, "How long has he been here?" I cut in, "Four days, counting today." Orange doesn't seem to believe it, as her expression goes from shock to deep thought, and then she just faints, probably from trying too hard to figure it out.

I turn to Lyra, "Would you mind taking care of her while I tend the store?" She throws back a reply, "I don't think that's such a good idea; why not let me tend the store and you look after her?" I sighed, "Fine.~"

Orange Box, back bedroom

[Orange Box's thoughts]

It seemed unusual that a unicorn would come in with such a strange creature; I don't recall seeing any before today, but it feels as though I have. When I heard how long he was here, and how high his skills in magic were, I guess it came as no surprise to them that I would pass out from the stress of figuring out how his skills and magic reserves were that high. What was it about him? I keep having this feeling that I have seen others like him, and why am I thinking back to that box that I was found in? All of this is very intriguing, and I want to figure this out.

[end of thought stream]

I finally manage to get up, and as I opened my eyes, I saw the same being, I think he was called a human, that came in with Lyra. He was sitting by my bedside, with a tray that had a glass of apple juice, and a muffin that was cut in half and had butter spread on it. I went to sit on my hind legs, but he put his arm up as if to block me. "You need your rest, just lay down, I will give you your muffin and juice." He then floated one half of the muffin over to my muzzle, and I graciously accepted the act of kindness. After I was finished with that half, he gave me the other. "Do you think I could sit up? I can't exactly drink my juice without spilling if I'm laying down on a bed. At least let me sit up." The human stroked my mane a couple of times, and then gave a reply. "Alright, fine you can sit up. Just stay on your bed for a while, we've got the store under control." He then hoof, err handed me the glass of apple juice. "Thank you." "You're quite welcome. Now, I gotta go check up on Lyra." Just after he said this, there was a clattering sound, as if a box of stuff was toppled over, and not a second later, it was followed by a loud curse, "AW CHRIST!"

Nova, Indexes and Chapters

"AW CHRIST!" I turned my head to the front of the store; there Lyra was, sitting in the middle of a mess. She looked up at me with upset eyes. "I was getting the feather duster, when I guess it got caught on something, and then it all just toppled over on me." She was scraping her left hoof on the floor once again. 'D'awwww - WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT D'AAWWWW-ING AT HER WHEN SHE NEEDS HELP!' Yeah, buck you too conscience.

Feeling bad for her, I levitated all of the objects back into the box, save for the duster. "Thanks Nova," Lyra started to look down, feeling sad, "I'm sorry for screwing up so many times. Grrr, why am I so clumsy all of the time?" I knelt down and pulled Lyra into a hug, stroking her mane and back, "Lyra, when I accepted to starting a relationship with you, I knew there was going to be hardships and little bumps. When I said that I loved you, I meant that about every one of your qualities, both good and bad. If everypony were perfect and flawless, life would be very, very different." Lyra sniffled a little, and then asked one of the most overused questions in the universe, "How did I ever snag someone like you?" I had only one reply, "You pulled at my heartstrings. The power of love is strange yet magical." I moved back and kissed Lyra on the cheek; she giggled.

Orange Box, bedroom

I sat there on my bed, listening in on their conversation. 'Why can't I find anyone like that? Somepony who likes me for who I am unconditionally.' Getting up from the bed, I stretched, getting all the kinks out of my joints and muscles. "I wonder what those two are up to?" Setting out for the storefront, I walked into one of the sections to find the two of them right up in each others' face, making out without a care in the world. I couched to get their attention; they both suddenly turned to look at me, the both of them blushing. "You two do realize that this is a book store, right?" They nodded. "Well then, please excuse me for being so rude as to ask you two to carry on with your relationship somewhere else, preferrably at your home; you might make any potential customers uncomfortable."

Lyra, Indexes and Chapters

As soon as Orange Box was finished talking with us, Nova got up and patted my back, signalling for me to follow suit. As soon as we exited the store, we were faced with a huge crowd of ponies, which wasn't really the best thing to happen, considering most of society's opinion on him. Nova used his magic to float up above the crowd to see what all the confusion was for, and he just floated there, with a shocked expression on his face. I teleported up to a nearby rooftop to find out what Nova was gaping at, and was shocked as to who was being crowded. It was MicTheMicrophone and JackleApp. Seeing Nova was still floating there while staring off into space with a distant look, I grabbed him with my magic and brought him over to where I was. I tried waving a hoof in front of his face, but he just looked at me, with distant eyes, the very same eyes that any true fan of someone they idolize would have. I shook him, as he was still in my magic's grasp, "Novaaaaaaa, wake uuuuuuuuuuup. Equestria to Nova, come in Nova." No response. 'Damn, might have to use drastic measures...' I smiled evilly at a thought which had crept up in my mind. I brought Nova close and whispered in his ear, "Wake up Nova, or else I might have to get out my 'punishment hammer' and give you a good 20-pound spanking session." He quickly snapped out of the trance that he was in, "Wai-WHAT!? WHO-WHAT-WHERE-WHEN? Lyra, are you serious?"

I let Nova down and snickered, "That depends, you have to behave today, or else I'm gonna punish you." I couldn't help but put a little sultry voice with that statement. Nova shuddered. "I think it's a little too soon for that kind of talk, Lyra. How about we just head back to Ponyville? They're probably all waiting for us, wondering where the hay we are." I agree, Twilight can get pretty antsy when she's worried about something. I let Nova go from my magical grasp, and he landed on his feet. Cracking his knuckles in that very annoying manner, he leaned down and hugged me. I can never get enough of his hugs, they are awesome. "Let's go to the train station, I'm feeling too lazy to teleport or fly for the time being. Plus, I get to sit and stare at the most beautiful mare in Equestria for an hour." I blush at his statement, and nuzzle my face into his neck, causing his knees to weaken a little. "That's payback for getting us caught in the library, silly colt."

Nova then got up, and jumped down behind the building, prompting me to teleport down beside him, and I teleported us to the train station.

Nova, Canterlot Train Station

Lyra and I teleported to the train station, though we had silently agreed for me to hide somewhere behind a pillar, as not everypony would be used to seeing a human. Sure, most of Ponyville was alright with it, but that's because Pinkie already threw a party for me in Twilight's house. There were still those in Ponyville that didn't like me, as they were either scared of me, or part of the Equestrian Pony Alliance. Lyra came over to me with both tickets in her magic aura, and gave me mine. I decided to shadow walk onto the train, and Lyra followed me into the same car normally; thankfully I got into the right train - wouldn't want to be on a train bound for Manehatten when I'm supposed to go to Ponyville.

Seeing as the car was empty, and the conductor was bound to come over at any moment to see my ticket, I was starting to panic. I didn't want any incidents on the train, and I wasn't sure if news had gotten here about a strange creature taking up residence in Ponyville yet. Lyra saw this, and put a hoof on my shoulder. "It's alright, you'll think of something... wait, you can change forms, can't you?" I looked at her, and felt stupid for not coming up with that answer to the problem in the first place. "Ah crud, why didn't I think of that?" Lyra giggled, "Because I'm awesome?" "Yes, you are pretty awesome. And to answer your question, I guess I can do transformation spells, though it would take quite a bit out of me. Let me try something..." I concentrated my spark magic, and attempted to do a transformation spell. The result looked like this.. When it was taking place, a bright light flashed throughout the car, forcing Lyra to look away and shield her eyes with one of her forelegs. When the light faded seconds later, Lyra gawked at my new form.

"Nova, is that seriously you? You look awesome." I chuckled a bit, "Yeah, it's me alright. And thanks, you're not too bad looking yourself." Lyra blushed yet again. Soon after, the train conductor came by to check and see if we had our tickets. I showed him mine and Lyra showed hers, and then he was on his way back to the front. Yes, we were in the very last car. I just sat there as the train started to move, smiling to myself. Eventually I began to hum a tune, though I hadn't noticed until Lyra pointed it out. "What song are you humming?" I turned my head towards her, "Oh nothing, just a song from a show that I used to watch back home." "Oh, well it sounds lovely, and I think you have a pretty nice voice; I would love to hear you sing a song sometime." Lyra then nuzzled me in that same spot on my neck, this time my wings decided it was a good time to spring out, *FOMP*, which only served to make me nervous again. I folded them back into place after calming myself down, and Lyra suppressed a giggle. "Well well, someone's feeling the heat today." I lightly punched where I thought her shoulder would be, "Oh be quiet you." Silence then fell upon us, as we just sat there, watching the scenery pass before us. About ten minutes later, Lyra fell asleep while leaning against me. I couldn't help but mentally d'aawww at how cute she looked. She slept while propped against me for the entire train ride.

Finally, after another half hour, we arrived in Ponyville. I nudged Lyra to wake her up, but to no avail. 'How the heck does she wake up from a few clatters in her kitchen and sock me with a frying pan, but when she's supposed to get up, she sleeps like a log?' I moved closer and whispered into her ear, "Lyra, if you don't get up, I'll deliver the same punishment you promised, threefold. I may even use a vibrator instead of just a plain old insert." After I said that, her eyes fluttered open, and she stared at me with lust filled eyes, "Hey, I thought that was my job, you silly colt." I sighed, "Come on, we're here. Oh, before I forget, could you give me some memories on you learning to walk, because honestly I don't want to attract attention to myself at the moment, and it would take to long to learn how to walk like a pony on my own." Lyra's face scrunched up in thought, 'Damn, all of their faces are cute. I might end up dying from a hhhnnnnggggg attack sooner or later.'

"I guess I could give you memories of when I learned to walk. It'll take a couple of minutes for the instincts to kick in though." "Alrighty then, fire away." Lyra then placed her horn on my head, giving me her memories of learning to walk and run; the feeling that I got from these memories are slightly different. I could feel the wind flowing through my mane as I ran inside my mind, taking nice jaunts through the public park, and so on. Soon though, the memory replay stopped, and I had accquired the skills necessary to be able to walk among the ponies without being too suspicious, or scary to those that still don't know me. We both exited the train and headed for Twilight's library.

Nova, Outside Twilight's Library

We walked up to Twilight's library, and noticed on our way there, nopony was around, at all. There was a note taped on the door, 'Nova and Lyra, Vinyl wants to meet you at her place. She has something to ask of you.' I shrugged, "Well then, guess we head over to Vinyl's." And then off we went to Vinyl's house. Along the way, the town seemed as if it were deserted. 'What is going on here?' I turned to Lyra, only to get a shrug from her as well. A thought then occurred to me, "Oh, guess I don't need to be a pony anymore. Lyra, you might want to shield your eyes for a moment." I used the same transformation spell and turned myself back to normal. Lyra jokingly pouted. I pulled out a pair of sunglasses, "Deal with it." I smiled, and we both laughed. As soon as we got to Vinyl's house, we found her waiting for us in front of her door. "Nova, think you could help me with something?" "Sure, what might it be?" Vinyl looked thoughtful for a second, "I learned a couple new spells over the time that you were gone, and I need you to judge the new light spells that I was thinking of using later for one of my shows." Vinyl then started to walk towards where she would be doing her shows. I couldn't help but ask Vinyl something, "So, where is it that you do your shows anyway?" "Oh, it's a big stadium just on the outskirts of town; head towards Canterlot mountain, and when you reach the edge of the town, take a left. There's a path that leads right to the place."

The walk was maybe about fifteen to twenty minutes before we got close enough to see Vinyl's stadium. It looked something like this, but it instead had a dj booth where home base would be, the flooring throughout was all magically reinforced hardwood, and no seating going up the walls, thus leaving more room for ponies to move around, leaving just a wall going straight up to the ceiling. The roof is the same, being able to be opened on clear nights. When we got to the building, Vinyl was at the door first, "I need the lights off so you can get a better view of the light spells that I was thinking of trying out for my next show. As soon as we went in, we couldn't see a thing. It was pitch black. I had an idea as to what was going on, but I decided to keep my mouth shut this time.

Seconds later, the lights came on, "SURPRISE," everypony yelled at once, just as they flicked on all of the lights. There was a banner hung in the middle of the stadium, 'THANK YOU, NOVA!' Most likely for stopping a possible dragon attack, even though he wasn't hostile to begin with. Ponies ran up to me and swarmed me, questions flying at me a mile a minute. I raised my hand to silently tell them to back off a little, and I began to wade through the crowd to find Twilight. Lyra went off to talk with some of her friends that she found in the crowd. It took me a couple of minutes, but I finally found her, "Twilight!" Said pony jumped when I called her out, "Oh, Nova, I didn't notice you." She gave me a hug, which I gladly returned. "I was worried when you didn't come back from fending off that dragon. When I heard that you succeeded and was taken to Canterlot, I had a feeling that you would be back soon, but I didn't know you were going to stay overnight, that was, until Princess Celestia sent me a letter to explain the rest of the details." We both let go from the hug, and I made my way over to the DJ booth. Taking the mic in my hand, I raised my voice and spoke through it, "I know you are all happy to see me back," a few ponies in the back somewhere didn't agree with that entirely, "but how about we do what we came here for? LET'S PARTY!"

With that, I took out my iPod and connected it to the equipment, and began to look for a song through my extensive library of music. Finally landing on a song, I decided to play Blood Sugar by Pendulum.

I turned off the main lights before starting the song, and turned on the stage lights, using a spell to move them in a figure eight searchlight pattern, each light being a different color. During the first 40 seconds of the song, the crowd was slightly confused, though the song was about to fix that at 57 seconds. As soon as the beat started, some ponies were already moving to the beat, headbanging and such. Throughout the rest of the song, more and more ponies started enjoying the music, until everpyony in the entire stadium were dancing. Soon after that, the song ended, earning me a collective "awwww" from them. Seeing that they all still wanted to party it up, I loaded up another good song, Propane Nightmares by Pendulum.

Just after I loaded the song, Vinyl came up and stood beside me. She took the mic, and addressed everyone in the dome, "Hey everyone, who here thinks that I should sign this guy to my label?" The only response she got was a collective whistle and stomping from the crowd. Vinyl smirked, "Well you're in luck, cause I already signed him on the day after Pinkie threw that party for him when he first arrived here!" The cheering got louder; I couldn't help but have a smile on my face. 'Looks like I got my dream job after all. Being a dj for a well known record label, and being loved and adored by 90% of the population.' After the song ended, Vinyl started up her music while I got down from the booth. Lyra came up towards me with two ponies following her; one was the ever-so recognizable Derpy, while the other was Berry Punch.

Berry came up to greet me first, "You did pretty good up there. So, you hold your liquor as good as you dj, or do you just pass out after the first drink?" I just smiled and replied, "Oh, it, is ON!"