Hammer in Equestria

(Next morning)

Rarity woke up to that morning to the wonderful smell of cooking.

"Mmmm that smells so good." She said to herself and got up putting a robe on and walked downstairs to see her human in once again nothing but an apron cooking at her stove. She smiled and walked up behind him sliding her hands around his sides to his stomach and saw a smile go across his face.

She smiled and kissed his shoulder as he turned around and pulled her into a deep kiss. Neither of them heard the door open or the small squeak from a young white filly.

"Mmmmm. Good morning darling, what are you making this morning?" She asked looking at him as he gave her another peck on the lips.

"Well my lady I'm making us toast, biscuits and gravy, grits, fresh squeezed orange juice, and for myself some ham on the side." He said looking at the loving smile she was giving him.

"Luke you are a god send." She said before he gently cupped her face.

"Now we are gonna talk about these bruises. What happened Rarity?" He said as the mare sighed.

"I went and talked to Applejack about why she didn't approve of our relationship when before hand she did. She's still upset about what you did to help and when I called her out on it we said a few things to each other before I decided to leave. She grabbed me rather aggressively and I reacted." She said watching him nod.

"What happened next?"

"Well we had a few more words before we got physical. To be honest she struck me first and I defended myself. Though I did drive the point home that I was the last pony she wanted to fight." She said smirking making him grin and nod.

"Well she did give you a pretty good shiner. Watch, I bet people are gonna thing I did that." He said making sigh.

"Thats another thing to darling she said you were a traitor and violent." She said and saw him grit his teeth and clenched his fist with a look of rage on his face.

"You know what I really dont care anymore. If it was just Applejacks business I wouldn't buy from them anymore but since they had Mac, AB, and Granny to support. I won't do business with her though." He said getting nod from Rarity.

"I agree she needs to see the big picture. I wont be dealing with her business till she makes a meaningful apology to you darling. I won't have her saying such things about my human like that." She said getting angry before he pulled her into a deep kiss.

"Calm down honey. It won't solve anything and besides you have a hearty meal waiting on you. Now I need to get dressed. Where are my clothes at?" He asked getting a smile from her.

"They are in the wash darling. I just put them in the dryer so you'll have to wait about a hour or so." She said as he walked to the laundry room giving Rarity a show as he went making the mare giggle.

"Rarity?"

"AH! Sweetie Belle!? What are you doing here? I thought you were at mother and fathers." She said holding a hand on her chest as Luke came running in.

"Rarity what's the- oh hey Sweetie Belle." He said surprised.

"Hey Luke." The filly said smiling at the human.

"Um I'm gonna go check on my clothes." He said backing towards the laundry room and disappearing.

Rarity giggled at the blush on the man's face before she turned to Sweetie Belle.

"Now Sweetie what are you doing over here so early in the morning?" She asked sitting down at the table with the filly as Luke came back with one of Rarity's large robes.

"Sorry about that Sweetie. Are you hungry?" He asked getting a nod from the filly.

"So what do you want baby girl?" He asked getting a grin from the her and a small smile from Rarity.

"Can you make me some strawberry pancakes please?" She said getting a nod from the human.

"So Sweetie you didnt answer my question." Rarity said making the filly look back at her.

"Well I wanted to spend some time with you like when mom and dad went off together. Do you mind if I do we don't have to today if you're really busy." She said as Rarity sighed.

"Sweetie I would love to spend time with you today but I'm going to be really busy for most of the day and I don't want you to be sitting here all day watching me make clothes." She said and held up finger when she was about to talk.

"I know you would love to help me dear but you know as well as I that you are very.... accident prone." She said as the filly sighed.

" I know but I want to spend sometime with my sister." She said looking down as Luke spoke up.

"You know Sweetie I still need help with getting the fighter from Canterlot and I have some soldiers that I need to look over to be the new pilot of the fighter. If its ok with you sister you can come and spend the day with me. I promise it will be fun. You can help me with the PMFC on the plane." He said as the filly got a big smile on her face and looked at Rarity pleadingly.

"Please can I Rarity I promise that I won't get in the way and be good." She said as Rarity looked at Luke.

"Are you sure darling? I don't want her upsetting the princesses or Colonel Jake for any of your important business." She said as he nodded.

"No it'll be fine. I ironed out all that last night. Its why I was so tired and a little grumpy. I spent most of the day only giving the princesses the non top secret things about the plane while the nobles demanded we give them everything." He said as Sweetie Belle run up and hugged his leg.

"Thanks Luke I promise I won't get in the way." She said as he ran his finger through her hair smiling down at her and kneeled down to her level.

Rarity watched Luke tell her about what not to do while they were at the castle. She smile and couldn't help but think how he would be with their kids.

Rarity's eyes went wide at that thought and choked a little before clearing her throat getting worried looks from the two but she just waved it off. She couldn't believe that she thought of that but couldn't help thinking of what the children would look like. She had a happy smile watching the two talk.

He actually listened to the filly as she went on about some of the things her and her friends did and the random things that popped into her head as she sat at the table and was handed her pancakes. He sat down beside her smiling as the filly continued to talk.

"Sweetie Belle don't talk with your mouth full it rude." He said as the filly stopped talking looking sheepish. Rarity smiled at them and couldn't keep the sigh from escaping her.

"You ok Rares?" He asked getting a nod from the mare.

"Oh yes darling. Just thinking is all." She said getting a nod from him.

"What were you thinking about Rarity?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Just how its nice to have a man in the house now is all darling." She said getting a grin from Luke.

"Thank you love. Now hurry up Sweetie Belle because today is take your girlfriends sister to work day and you're gonna be learning some things about a top secret fighter that no one else knows." He said getting a big smile out of the filly who finished her food and put the plates away before running to her room to get her things.

"Thank you so much darling I really do want to spend some time with her but I just have so much on my plate right now I don't want her to be bored sitting around wati-Mmmmm" Luke pulled back and smiled at her.

"Its fine Rarity you know I adore Sweetie Belle almost as much as you do but you do have a load of work to do. Even if its not a day with her sister I think I can handle a Sweetie and Luke day today. You my dear are beautiful but I need to get dressed and head out again. Tell the others I said hey and we'll be home soon." He said heading to get his clothes.

"I think I Iove that man." Rarity said sighing.

"Then why don't you tell him sis?" Sweetie Belle said making Rarity jump.

"You really shouldn't sneak up on ponies like that darling." She said trying to calm her heart.

"Well why don't you tell him? You've known him since he's been here. You've always talked about him since he came here to get new clothes. What's stopping you?" She asked tilting her head to the side confused.

"I just think its too soon darling." She said getting a nod from Sweetie Belle.

"Ok." She said walking off as Luke came into the room putting on his shirt walking up to her.

"Well let me go grab the kiddo and we'll be back either tonight or tomorrow morning." He said and put his dishes in the dishwasher and went to find Sweetie Belle.

Rarity smiled and cleaned her plate off putting it in the dishwasher and met the two at the door.

"Now Sweetie be good while in Canterlot and stay close to Luke ok." She said kissing the filly on the cheek and looked at Luke.

"Do keep a close eye on her darling for me please." She said as he nodded and gave her a goodbye kiss.

"See you later Rarity." He said and waved heading for the manor.

"BYE RARITY!"

"Bye Sweetie Belle!" She yelled after her sister waving.

Rarity watched them turn the corner just as Fluttershy walked up behind her.

"Um Rarity?" She said seeing the mare turn to her with a smile on her face.

"Oh hello Fluttershy darling, what can I help you with?" She said as the shy mare smiled at her.

"Oh um well I was wondering if that was Luke and Sweetie Belle leaving? Um if thats ok?" She said as Rarity smiled looking back where the two left.

"Yes Luke is taking Sweetie Belle to Canterlot today for work. They'll be staying over night at the castle most likely." She said getting a small nod from the mare.

"So um I heard that you and AJ got into a pretty big fight yesterday." She said as Rarity sighed.

"Yes we did and it got kind of physical as well its why I have a black eye right now." She said as the mare flew up to her fussing over the injury.

"Oh stop darling no reason to fret over something so small. Friends fight just like famlies do. She will see reason soon enough." She said and saw said mare walking towards her with her head down. Rarity walked in front of Fluttershy and gently pushed the mare behind her.

As Applejack reached Rarity she could see the her body was tense in case she started a fight.

"Rarity."

"Applejack."

The two looked at each other before Applejack sighed.

"Look ah ain't here to cause no trouble. Ah just wanted to talk to Luke. Ah thought about what yall said yesterday and your right and ahm sorry ah got so angry at him for just trying to help me." She said looking down as Rarity crossed her arms.

"Well you missed your chance today Applejack, Luke and Sweetie Belle are on the way to Canterlot for military business and won't be back till tomorrow." She said as the mare's head dropped.

"Ah wanted to say ah'm sorry for the things ah said to you to Rarity. Ah know that Luke is a great guy and ah do support yall. Ah was just upset about the whole Caramel thing ah wasn't thinkin." She said getting a smile from the mare.

"So friends?" She said looking at Rarity with hope.

"Darling I never stopped being your friend. I do want to talk to Twilight though on her disapproval of our relationship. And thank you darling for approving of it." She said as she pulled the mare into a hug.

"By the way Luke and Sweetie should be at the train station, if you hurry you might catch them." She said getting a smile from Applejack and pulled the mare into a tight hug before shooting off down the road towards the train station.

(Train station)

Luke and Sweetie Belle stood at the train platform as the excited filly talked non stop to the smiling human.

"And and then we can go to the Canterlot gardens, or or the park oh oh we can even go to the racetrack and see the Wonderbolts Derby! OH! Can we go to the mall there please please PLEASE!" She said as the human smiled at her.

"Sweetie Belle we can do anything you want as soon as we're done with work ok. Besides I have a surprise for you tomorrow." As the filly beamed at him.

"OK!" She said and spotted Applejack looking around for someone.

"HEY APPLEJACK!" She yelled getting the mares attention. She was surprised as Luke stepped in front of her and stood glaring at the mare that was looking down.

"Applejack." He said with venom making her flinch a little.

"Hey Luke. Look ah ain't here to cause trouble." She said as he snorted.

"Then why are you here Applejack?" He said in anger.

"Luke ahm sorry for what ah said ok! Ah thought about what y’all said you and Rarity and yall are right. Caramel could have hurt or even killed someone else and ah wouldn't be able to live with myself. Please ahm sorry Luke. Can y’all forgive me?" She asked as tears went down her face.

"So Im not a traitor or violent? Hmm? Rarity told me what you said about me Applejack and I'm hurt that you would say that about me after all the help I gave you and your family." He said with a stone cold face as the mare cried.

"Ah didn't mean it really! Ah was just mad is all and ah didn't know how to deal with it. Ahm sorry!" She said crying harder.

"Please Luke ahm so sorry. Ah dont want to loose you as a friend and yall have been to good to me and mah family to let someone like Caramel break our friendship up." She said looking at him pleadingly as he sighed.

"Applejack Ill give you a chance but we are not friends until you can show me you really want me as a friend. You called off our friendship and its gonna take a lot to convince me. I'll see you at work after I get back." He said as the train pulled up and he took Sweetie Belles hand boarding the train.

Applejack sighed and wiped her tears watching the two leave. It wasn't what she wanted but it was a start. She really did get herself in a big mess and she didn't know how to get herself out of it.

She walked out of the station with her head down towards the farm. She really wanted him as her friend but it looks like they were going to be starting over from scratch and she had just really started to trust him. Now thanks to her being a little filly she lost what she came to really enjoy.

(3 hours later Canterlot)

Luke and Sweetie Belle exited the train laughing at some of the things that Sweetie Belle was telling him about Twilight before she got her wings. They grabbed their bags and headed to the castle.

"So then she started to freak when she heard that Princess Celestia was coming that it made Pinkie look normal! You should have seen how she was when they were looking for her pet bird." She said laughing with Luke.

"Hm I would tease her if I knew her better and she liked me but Ill leave her be. You do know her so feel free to poke fun at her when we're alone." He said flashing a smile at the filly who got a evil look on her face.

" Oh I will." She said giving a evil laugh with Luke.

They made it to the gate and Luke flashed his ID for some reason before heading to meet with Princess Luna.

They met the mare out by the door and when she saw Luke she got a small blush in her face before smiling at the human.

"Tis good to see thee again Sir Luke." She said as he took her hand and gave it a kiss.

"The pleasure is all mine Princess Luna." He said smiling up at her getting a blush from her.

"Come Sir Luke I will show you to your rooms. We did not expect you to bring company. Any reason for that?" She asked looking back at him as he shrugged.

"Rarity is very busy today so I offered to take Sweetie Belle with me to work today to show her what her sisters boyfriend does and to help me find some possible pilots to fill in for where Iceman left." He said to the nodded princess who looked down at the nervous filly.

"Do be sure to help him choose well my dear and we hope that you enjoy your time in the castle" She said leading them to a tower.

They walked inside to see a teenage dragon preparing a bed.

"HEY SPIKE!" The filly said running over to the dragon hugging him with a big smile.

"Sweetie Belle? What are you doing here? Is Rarity with you?" He said with hope in his voice.

"Sorry Spike Im here with Luke. I wanted to see what he did and they were ok with it." She said.

"Luke? What's the human here for another meeting?" He asked with a little venom in his voice as he looked over at said human that was giving him a bored look.

"Yes Im here for the fighter and to look over some potential pilots of the fighter with Sweetie Belles help." He said getting a snort from the dragon and fire shooting out of his nose.

"Whatever you room's ready." He said walking past them heading back to the castle.

"What's wrong with Spike?" Sweetie asked getting a sigh out of Luke.

"He is upset that I'm dating your sister. We had a fight about it and now he hates me because I "stole his girl" He said using quotations.

"Oh yeah. Spike has always liked my sister since he met her. I don't know why he's so mad. He's asked her out before but she turned him down because he was to young and she only saw him as a friend." She said as Luke sighed.

"Yeah I know. Well lets go I want to check on the fighter first, you can help me look over some stuff but don't touch anything in the cockpit unless I tell you to ok." He said getting a nod from the beaming filly.

"OK!" She said setting her stuff by his and ran to catch up with him and headed for the courtyard.

(Outside courtyard.)

The two found Colonel Jake standing by his fighter as the two walked up to him getting a salute from the two making him laugh and give one back.

"Chief its good to see you again. Is this one of new hopefuls?" He said smiling at the grinning filly.

"Negative sir she will be my helper today with the fighter and selecting the hopefuls." He said getting a nod from the colonel.

"Hmmm the inspectors are so young here. Well little lady I wish you luck with the hopefuls. Chief and Inspector Ill leave you to it then." He said shaking the still grinning fillies hand before heading back to the castle.

"I like him he reminds me of grandpa." She said as they headed to the fighter.

"Yeah he is like a father to me and a very good friend."Luke said

They climbed up into the cockpit and he showed her how to operate the fighter and answered any questions she had.

"Ok so what does the um neural link do?" She asked from the cockpit getting a chuckle from Luke.

"The neural link helps the pilot better control the aircraft. It basically makes the pilot become the plane. Its how I can do a lot of the stuff I do when I fly mine, its also a security feature so if anyone tries to steal one of theses planes their brain would get fried. The only reason I can fly the colonels plane is because he detached his ID with the plane." He said as the filly soaked in the information.

"So if I wanted to I would have to get that neural port that the plane gives you to fly it?" She asked getting a nod from him.

"Thats right but you have to have mine and the colonels DNA signatures to do that." He said as the filly nodded.

"Wow thats so cool what does the port look like?" She asked as he turned around and pressed the base of his neck making a strange black patch appear.

"What happens is when we put the helmet by your leg on I small needle goes into this and establishes a uplink with the net." He said while Sweetie Belle stared at it.

"Cool! Can I touch it?"

"Sure." He said leaning back so she could be close enough.

She reached out and ran her fingers over and around the edges with a grin on her face before she touched it making it change back to his skin color.

"That is so awesome." She said hearing him chuckle at her.

"Glad you like it. Now lets get down to business, since you know just about as much as the princesses do and what works what I want you to open up the solar and gun bays for me so I can check the weapons systems myself. Also run a scan on the drive core for me." He said climbing down while Sweetie pressed the right buttons opening the missle and gun bays before opening the drive core bay.

(5 hours later)

"Ok that about does it. Sweetie hows it look over there?" He called out and saw the oil covered filly pop her head out from where the engines were.

"Its good over here! There were a couple of fuses loose here and there and one of the bay doors were loose but I fixed them want to take a look?" She asked as he walked over to where she was and looked at her handy work. He was very impressed looking around at her work.

"Good job Sweetie Belle! You did a very good job, keep it up and Ill have you over at the barn helping with the fighters." He said making the filly beam.

"Come on Inspector Belle we have some hopefuls waiting on us and I need your keen eye to spot any spy's for the nobles or smug ponies that look like they own the fighter already." He said as the filly giggled and walked with him towards the meeting hall.

(Meeting room)

10 hopefuls stood at attention waiting for Chief Valentine to come and inspect them. They saw the doors open and stood up straighter but were surprised when a filly strode into the room with a flight suit on and aviator glasses on. She pulled the glasses up and put them on top of her horn looking at group of stallions and mares.

"Um little girl what are you-

"SHUT UP!" She yelled making them snap to attention.

"My name is Chief Inspector Belle! Chief Warrant Officer Luke Valentine sent me ahead to see what I thought of you!" She said as Luke walked in with a serious look on his face and stood in front of them.

"Hello you all know who I am and my friend lets get down to business." He said as he questioned the mares and stallions about experience and knowledge of flight while Sweetie Belle yelled for Luke if she found a pony out of place.

"Chief!"

"Number 3 your out!" Luke said as the mare looked at them in disbelief.

"You gotta be shitting me! You take this fillies word over my record!" The mare said as he glared at her.

"You will watch your tone LT or Ill have you kicked from this program. Your records my say your spot on but paper can be forged. Tell me what is the speed of sound and stall speed of most pegasus?" He asked as the mare fumbled over her words.

"Inspector Belle?"

"The speed of sound varies with temperature not pressure or altitude. At standard atmospheric sea-level temperature of 15° C, the speed of sound is 761.21 mph. The average stall speed of a pegasus is 23.16 mph." She said grinning at the dumbfounded expression on all their faces.

"Thank you Inspector Belle. LT you may leave now." He said as the shocked mare walked out.

After they a while they had dwindled it down to two. Which happened to be Spitfire and Soarin.

"Congrats you two. I want you to report to the barn in one week for your training." He said as the nodded and thanked the two.

"Ill see you guys later." He said watching them walk out. They waited to make sure that they were gone before Sweetie and Luke busted out laughing.

"THAT WAS SO MUCH FUN!" Sweetie Belle said and hugged Luke.

"Thank you so much for bringing me today. So can we go to the mall now?" She asked.

"Sure Sweetie lets go change into some street clothes first and I want a picture of you real quick to send the girls." He said while Sweetie put the aviators on and crossed her arms and gave a cocky smirk. Luke snapped the picture sending it to all his friends and even sent one to Sweetie so she could show her friends.

"Ok lets go." He said taking the giggling filly to get changed.

(Mall)

Sweetie and Luke were at the food court since they hadn't eaten all day. Sweetie Belle had a big salad while Luke had a nice salmon.

"Hey Luke where do you want to go after we're done?" She asked taking another bite of her salad.

"Mmm Im not sure what do you want to do?" He asked

"Weeeell I was thinking of looking at those cool video games they have here. Rarity won't buy me one and I don't have the money to get one." She said as Luke nodded.

"Its cool I was gonna take a look at them myself after we were done going to the music store." He said watching her eyes light up.

"Oh oh oh never mind about the games for me lets go to the music store!" She said hopping up with Luke and threw their stuff away and headed towards the music store.

As they looked around Luke could see some ponies looking at him but Sweetie Belle was too giddy at all the music she could get.

"Ok Belle grab the ones you want, I'm gonna go look around." He said getting a nod from the filly.

"Ok."

Luke's arm lit up and scanned the CD's in front of him and listened to some of the tracks on them before deleting the album and grabbing the CD's he wanted.

A few minutes later he found the filly at the check out station with an armload of CD's making him smile at her.

"So is this everything?" He asked getting a giddy nod and smile from her.

"YES! These are all my favorite artists and some of their new stuff." She said while he ran his fingers through her hair.

"I really hope that you stay with Rarity Luke." She said making him turn to her.

"Why because Ill spoil you?" He said smiling getting a serious look from her.

"No its not that at all. When you're at our house Rarity is just all glowy and happy all the time. She really likes you Luke your really good for her and I know you really like her from the way you are with her." She said getting a nod from him.

"Yeah I love your sister but I dont want to say that to her yet. I just feel like its early to say that right now and I hope she lets me stay with her. Your sister is a wonderful mare even with her quirks but I love her all the same. Her, Vinyl, and Tavia." He said getting a smile from Sweetie Belle.

"Im glad to hear that Luke or should I call you bro now?" She asked getting a smile from him.

"If you want." He said paying for his and her music.

(4 hours later)

The two made their way to their room where they planned to crash for the rest of the night. They set their arm loads of stuff down glad they didn't pack much. Sweetie Belle hopped in the shower as Luke went out on the balcony and sat down on the chair outside.

He sat there and just gazed at the night sky happy he didn't have to wear a gas mask anymore because of radiation. He took a deep breath of fresh air catching a hint of mint.

"Princess Luna. How can I help you?" He said as the mare came out of the shadows.

"How did you know we were here?" She asked making him smile.

"Your perfume. It reminds me of my mother's scent when I was a child."

"Oh." She said looking down bashfully.

"What do you need princess? You look troubled." He said concerned.

"We are a little troubled yes. We wish to talk to you of some personal matters." She said making him sit up.

"What is it?"

"Um how do you know when you like someone?" She said as he smiled.

"Oh have a crush on someone princess? Well I knew I liked Vinyl because of how easy it was to be around her nothing was awkward and we are comfortable around each other same with Rain. Rarity and Octavia I knew I liked for the same reasons but also they were different. Vinyl and Rain are like one of the guys and we can rough house and play around with each other." He said leaning over thinking before looking at the mare in front of him.

"Rarity and Octavia are ladies through and through so I can't do all those things I would do with Vinyl or Rain. But I could still pick and play with them and not feel like i'm stepping on eggshells around them." He said

"I guess what Im trying to say is that when you like someone it's someone you've known for a while, someone you can be yourself around and not feel like your trying to impress them." He said as she nodded.

"We thank thee Luke." She said and hugged the surprised human before she stepped back and took flight.

"LUKE YOUR TURN!"

(That morning)

Luke and Sweetie Belle waved goodbye to the princesses and Jake as they headed for the fighter.

They had already sent their things to Ponyville and would pick it up when they got there. They climbed into the fighter with Sweetie Belle in his lap and put his helmet on.

After a pre flight check he took off getting a happy squeal from Sweetie Belle. Luke flipped the Barracuda over in a barrel roll hearing her tell her excitement.

"THIS IS AWESOME!"

(Ponyville)

In different parts of the town three mares looked up as a fighter flew overhead towards the small air base next to the manor on the hill. They all headed for it with smiles on their faces.

They saw a rainbow blur shoot towards the airbase and picked up their pace cresting the hill to see their human laughing with a rainbow mare and a white unicorn filly laughing with them.

"Sweetie Belle!" Rarity called making them all look at her as a wide grin came to the fillies face and ran to her.

"Hey sis!" She said hugging her sister around the waist as they walked to the human who was dusting himself off.

"How was your day with Luke dear?" She asked giving her human a kiss.

"It was fun! I got to help him choose hopefuls and even helped on the fighter." She said as Luke was getting looks from the mares.

"What its true. Sweetie go execute charter delta." He said as the filly ran to the fighter climbing in and pushed a few buttons making the fighter disappear except the smiling face of the filly.

"Ok bring her back. Oh and I expect you back here tomorrow morning to help me with mine and this plane. I'll teach you about its VTOL capabilities and the weapons systems." He said getting a nod as the plane became visible again.

Sweetie Belle had a smug grin on her face as she came and stood by Lukes side.

"Now if you will excuse us we have a few things about to arrive at the station." He said and held his arm out to the filly who took it.

"Shall we Inspector Belle?" He said making her smile.

"We shall Chief Valentine." She said and the two strode to the station leaving the stunned mares behind before they took off towards the two.

"Inspector Belle? What did you do while you were gone darling?" Rarity asked getting a smug look from Sweetie Belle.

"Well me and Luke spent a lot of time working on the fighter, I even helped with fixing it. Then we had to look at some hopefuls that would be the new pilots of the fighter. The only ones left are Spitfire and Soarin." She said getting a smile from Luke.

"I sent you all a pic of her in my flight suit." He said.

"Oh thats right yeah I got that last night." Vinyl said as they reached the station just when the train pulled up and they started to unload the bags. A few carts came out with Sweetie's and Luke's stuff. They went and got their things and walked back to the manor with the mares in tow.

"So what did you get dear?" Octavia asked looking at the bags.

"What did you get me stud!?" Vinyl asked jumping on the mans back.

"You're gonna have to wait till yours gets in Vinyl but I still got you something." He kicking the door open letting the mares in.

"Now present time." He said as they all sat in the living room and handed Vinyl some headphones making her eyes widen and a smile come to her face.

"Your so getting laid tonight stud." She said grabbing the headset as he pulled out a few books and a bow for Octavia.

"Those are on some of the only books of classical music of the cello and I saw how your old bow was getting worn out so I grabbed you another one. Oh and I got Luna to grab some from before she was banished that she enjoyed. She said to keep them since no one ever looked at them anyway." He said getting a big smile from her.

"Thank you very much Luke." She said taking the gifts from him as he grabbed a large box and set it on the coffee table.

"Rarity I got you a new sewing machine since yours looks like its on its last legs and you were telling me how it kept jamming so I got you a new one. You and Vinyl will be getting your other presents in a week or so." He said as Rarity gave him a hungry kiss.

"Thank you so much darling I've been meaning to get a new one but never had the time." She said looking at her present.

"What else you got in the bag Chief?" Rainbow making him smile.

"A little something from me." He said pulling out a game console making Rain and Vinyl smile.

"Just got to hook it up and we'll be ready to play." He said and looked back to see Rainbow and Vinyl giving each other challenging looks.

"So Stud what games did you get?" She asked as he listed off a few games making the mares smile.

"You, me sudden death in Mare Ops tomorrow after work." She said as the others rolled their eyes.

"You two are gonna be over here all the time now aren't you?" He asked getting a beaming grin from both of them.

"Maybe." They said getting a sigh from him.

"Well not tonight. Im pretty tired." He said while they nodded and grabbed their gifts and left except for Octavia.

"You ok Tavi?" He asked before she grabbed his shirt giving him a hungry kiss.

"Oh perfectly fine dear. Come on lets get a shower and go to bed. I just got done with practise so Im kinda tired." She said putting her gift in a bag seeing some of his music making her smile.

"Trying to learn to play something Luke?" She said in a sultry tone.

"Yeah I want to maybe play sometime with you just the two of us." He said as a loving smile came to her face. She climbed in his lap and gave another passionate kiss and could feel his hands roaming her body.

"You sure you're tired?" She asked with hooded eyes.

"Not so much anymore." He said making her giggle.

"Come on lets go get a shower dear Im feeling pretty dirty." She said kissing him again.

"Well lets go get you cleaned up." He said biting her neck and throwing her on the couch getting a squeal out of her and laughing before starting to moan feeling him kiss nip and suck his way down her neck.

"Mmmm you really are good at this." She said making him laugh as he took her top off before he pulled back and headed to the bathroom leaving a very horney and panting mare on the looking at him in disbelief before she jumped up chasing after him.

The two laughed as they played around chasing each other just having a blast before she pinned him to a wall giving a passionate kiss that he was just as willing to return.

"Come on I really do need a shower dear." She said getting a nod from him.

"Ok just let me grab some towels ok?" He said heading to his room as the mare headed to the bathroom.

"Dont keep me waiting." She giving a lustful smile.

"Wouldn't dream of it." He said giving her a kiss and went to grab the towels and stopped seeing himself in the mirror in his room. He sighed and put the towels down before reaching back to his neck tapping his port 3 times before holding it for 4 seconds.

He watched as the the skin on his body faded away showing a cybernetic left arm and the scars of battle along with a cybernetic lower right leg. He looked into the red eye that replaced his original one and sighed running his hand down the arm.

"Would they still see me the same as they do now?" He said to himself.

"There's only one way to find out bro."

Luke turned to see Mai giving him a sad smile.

"You know mom and dad would be upset seeing you like this Lu. You know how dad would tell you to drink water and mom I now would spend the whole day fussing over you." She said smiling getting a laugh from him.

"Yeah they would. I miss them Mai, I know how you think about them to." He said getting a hug from the woman.

"I miss them to Lu but all we can do is make them proud." She said getting a nod from him.

"I hope they're proud of me. I wonder what mom would say if she saw me dating three girls." He said as Mai laughed.

"Please you know mom would be all giddy about 3 times the grandbabies and daddy wouldn't be able to get the proud smile off his face." Mai said looking into his red and blue eyes getting a laugh out of him before she pulled him into hug.

"I know they would be proud of us bro. Dad especially, and you know mom would support us anyway she could." She said rubbing her hand up and down his back feeling the scars making her frown.

"LUKE! WHERE ARE YOU!?" They smiled and pulled back from the hug.

"Well you better go I just came by to say I was going to stay at Shields place." She said as he nodded.

"Got it. Ill see you tomorrow." He said watching her go. He grabbed the towels and redid the skin on his body and then walked into the bathroom.

"Sorry Tavia. Mai stopped by to tell me she was staying at Shields place." He said climbing into the shower after getting undressed to see Octavia grinning at him.

"Well now that you're here I need you to help me get clean" She said kissing him wrapping her arms around his neck pulling him in deeper getting a growl from him as he let his hand slide down her back before cupping her butt giving it a squeeze getting a pleased sigh from Octavia.

(2 hours later)

Luke and Octavia laid in the bed panting with Octavia laying her head on his chest tracing his muscles and having the need to touch him. She kissed his shoulder and grinned up at him as he ran his fingers through her hair and down her back getting a content sigh.

"I could get used to this." She said looking up at his smiling face.

"I could to. You girls are precious to me I don't know what I would do if I lost you girls." He said kissing her head as she snuggled into him more.

"We should get some sleep I got a long day tomorrow and so do you." He said hearing her sigh.

"Yeah your right." She said yawning wrapping her arm around his chest getting comfortable and quickly falling asleep.

(That morning)

Luke woke up to the smell of breakfast and saw Octavia bringing in a tray with said breakfast on it.

"Wow breakfast in bed. I feel honored." He said getting a smile from her.

"You should because I've never made anything for anyone besides Scratch." She said as he sat up and laid the tray over his lap and waited for him to try it.

Luke looked at the food and smiled. It was simple things like cereal, oatmeal, and scrambled eggs with orange juice. He got a spoon full of eggs and popped them in his mouth smiling at her before he swallowed.

"They're really good sweet heart." He said as she got a relieved look on her face and laid down by him and took the cereal and dug in.

"Thank you dear Im glad you like it." She said digging into the cereal as Luke enjoyed his breakfast.

After a while of chit chat they finished their meal and set the tray on the ground and just layed on the bed enjoying the quiet before Lukes arm lit up.

"Well this is a mood killer." He said getting a confused look on Octavia's face.

'What is it Luke?" She asked starting to get worried.

"Nothing serious yet but I need to start work on my fighter there is something wrong with drive core on it." He said getting groan from her.

"Well I guess you better get dressed and get to work. I need to go and get my things anyway so I can go set up in Canterlot." She said as his arm lit up again getting a sigh.

"Ok well I better go now or this thing isn't going to stop before I fix it." He said getting up and getting his clothes on giving Octavia a kiss and heading out to the hangers.

Luke was on top of his fighter with the drive core shield down acting like he was doing something before he saw Octavia leave waving at him as he waved back. He watched her go before he closed the shield and snuck back into the house never seeing the cloud with a rainbow tail watching him.

Luke growled and walked to the door and locked it and closed the blinds before going over to the table and removed the fake skin and disconnected his arm. He tapped the elbow as a keypad lit up above it and typed in a code making a slot in the forearm open.

{voice authorization needed.}

"Valentine"

{Voice pattern recognized. You have two new upgrades}

"Verify"

{Enhanced strength and denser alloy.}

"Begin upgrade. State estimated time till completion."

{Upgrades with take 3 hours and 42 minutes} The computer said making him groan.

"Start upgrade now." He said as the computer beeped and two bars popped up. He goaned as his other arm lit up he saw it was Applejack making him groan louder.

"Hey Applejack I was just about to call you. Look an emergency has come up and I wont be coming in this morning. I'll try to get over there later ok."

{Oh ok Luke ah'll see yall when ah see ya then.} She said before he hung up just a the back door opened up making him curse under his breath.

"HEY LUKE! IM HERE TO HELP WITH THE FIGHTERS!" He heard Sweetie Belle yell getting a small smile from him.

"Morning Inspector Belle. We are gonna have to postpone the maintenance this morning ok. Ill come get you when I'm ready ok?" He said and to his horror she popped up by his side smiling.

"Aww but wh- Um Luke is that your arm?" She asked looking wide eyed at the detached arm hearing him sigh.

"Yes I have a fake arm, leg and eye." He said as she came to the front so she could see him.

"Thats so cool!" She squealed getting a shocked look on his face.

"Cool? It doesn't scare you?" He asked while she shook her head.

"No. Well as long as you don't come at me in the dark I don't think so. What happened?" She asked looking at the arm when a beep went off under the table.

"Oh you have got to be kidding me." He said lifting his pants leg and then detaching his leg while Sweetie Belle looked on in awe.

{Upgrade now available. Denser alloy}

"Start upgrade voice pattern Valentine."

{Voice pattern recognized. Beginning upgrade.}

"That is so cool."

"Thanks Belle that means a lot to me." He said smiling at the filly as the back door busted open and they heard two more fillies run in.

"Hey Luke! Rarity said that Sweetie Be- Um is that your arm and leg on the table?" Scootaloo asked as she ran over to the table with Applebloom.

"That is so awesome!" They said and looked at Lukes face staring.

"Coooool are you like part robot Luke?" Scoots asked as the human smiled.

"I guess you could say that." He said and looked at Sweetie Belle.

"Hey Inspector Belle could you go and lock the back door so no one else walks in please and make sure the coast is clear?" He said getting nod from the filly and ran to the door locking it before running back.

"Thank you Sweets. Now to answer you question my arm was blown off while on a mission by a 50 cal round at the shoulder. I lost my leg on a bad mission and a piece of a old building crushed my leg below the knee. I had to cut it off if I wanted to live." He said as the fillies just stared at him with their mouths open.

"Wow what happened to your eye though?" Scoots asked making him sigh.

"I lost my eye when a bomb exploded in my classroom when I was still a kid. They found me barely alive with four others. Used to before new tech came out I would have to go in for check ups and replacements as I grew." He said touching his cheek three times and the side of his face popped out. It started at the eyebrow and went down to the top of his cheekbone

He laid the eyepiece down while the girls looked at him. They could see little arm like things that were moving around before going back into his face.

"Wow thats pretty cool Luke can you tell me about how it works?" Sweetie Belle asked getting a nod from him just as a knock came at his door making him quickly put his eye back on.

"You want me to get that?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"See who it is first ok?" He said as she nodded and looked the window.

"Its Twilight." She said making him curse.

"Ok go upstairs and grab my bag please I have a extra set of limbs inside a small black box ok." He said as Twilight knocked at the door again when Sweetie Belle ran upstairs.

"Is anyone home?"

"Hold on princess Ill be with you in a minute." He said hearing a grunt from the princess.

Sweetie Belle came back with two black boxes and handed them to Luke while he put in a code for both and the boxes got bigger before he opened them grabbing the limbs.

The girls watched as they saw little wires connect to his new shoulder and leg. He stood up and stomped on his leg and went to the door.

"Sweetie I want you to take those limbs upstairs and can you girls help her with those boxes to? Just set them on my bed ok." He said putting on a long sleeved shirt and a shooters glove before putting his synthetic skin on and opened the door to see a annoyed Twilight.

"Ugh what took you so long and who else is here?" She asked as the crusaders came down the stairs.

"Ill see you later Luke. So this afternoon right?" Sweetie Belle asked getting a nod from Luke.

"Yep meet me by my fighter and we'll get to work. Ill even show you how those other things worked but girls mums the word ok those other things stay between us?" He said as the girls nodded.

"Our lips are sealed Luke." They said and headed out the door while he looked back at the narrowed eyes of the princess.

"What are you talking about? What's going on?" She said as he smiled at her.

"Sorry princess personal." He said hearing her growled.

"Fine but Ill find out somehow." She said as he sighed.

"Twilight why are you so hostile to me? I never did anything to anyone that you love to make you hate me." He said hearing her grunt.

"No you didn't personally but your team mate did." She said crossing her arms.

" So you damn all humans because of one bad one?" He said making her look away.

"I don't trust your kind Luke is all. Rainbow could have died because of Iceman and you let him get- SLAM!"

"Have a good day princess. Come back when you decide to stop being such a bitch." She heard him say through the door making her ears red in anger.

"I DEMAND YOU OPEN THIS DOOR HUMAN!" She yelled but didn't hear anything.

"LUKE YOU OPEN THIS DOOR RIGHT NOW!" She yelled again and heard someone land behind her making her spin around to see Rainbow Dash.

"Look Twilight if you're mad a Luke and the other humans because of Iceman all your doing is just like we did with Zecora. You're judging them over one bad person. That is not cool and I was the one shot. You don't see me all pissed off at them because of what he did do you?" She said as Twilight looked down.

"How bout you think about it for a while and stay at the library ok?" She said getting a nod from Twilight before she walked off. Rainbow knocked on the door and heard something fall on the floor and a few curses.

"Hey big guy it's me. Can I come in?" She asked as the door swung open to see a very frustrated human.

"Im sorry Rainbow but today is not a good day to fly ok I have a lot of things on my plate right now ok?" He said.

"Whats going on Luke? I saw you sneak back into the house after Octavia left and then you closed all the windows up. When I asked the crusaders what was going on they wouldn't tell me. Are you angry at us Luke?" She said starting to get upset that she made him mad some how.

"No Rain I'm not angry at you just frustrated with what's going on now and Twilight isn't making it any better." He said taking a deep breath trying to calm down just as Mai crested the hill.

"Hey bro whats for- Oh its upgrade day today huh?" She said walking up to him and giving the man a hug.

"Yeah and for the first time its both of them so Ill be stuck at the house all day today. This sucks." He said as the side of his face beeped.

"Really! You gotta be shitting me?!" He said as Mai laughed.

"Come on lets get you taken care of. Sorry Dash but Luke can't play today." She said pushing Luke into the house. She was a little stunned as she heard Luke cursing while Mai laughed before she took off wondering about what was going on with her friend. She would have to talk to Rarity and the other girls.

(4 hours later)

Luke sat on the couch grumbling with a bandage around his eye. He had his arm back on while Mai giggled a little at him.

"I HATE upgrade days." He said making her laugh as the back door opened and in walked Sweetie Belle.

"Hey Inspector. You want to learn about my arms and stuff?" He asked as the filly smiled.

"Yeah!" She said getting a look from Mai.

"Wont she be scared of it?" She asked as he shook his head.

"No her and the other crusaders have seen all of me apart and thought I was cool and she wanted to learn about it." He said taking off his arm and walking over to the bouncing filly and began to explain how it worked. Mai was surprised at the questions the filly asked. She couldn't help but smile at Luke's happy face as he talked to the curious filly.

"Now the motor functions are hooked directly to the tendons and nerves. This model is of military grade so its a lot heavier than a civilian model." He said as the filly touched some of the joints watching the fingers twitch making her giggle.

"Now this is the part that hooks to my body see here" He said pointing to a little nub.

"Yeah?"

"That little nub is actually a wire that will shoot out and connect to the holes in my side here like ports." He said as realization hit her.

"Oh so its like the port for the neural uplink right?" She said getting nod from him as his leg beeped.

"Ugh finally." He said taking the other leg and replacing it with the other.

"Now all I got is my eye and we can get to work on the fighters." He said getting a nod from her.

"So does the leg work the same way or is it different since its got to connect to the knee cap?" She asked making him smile.

"Yes it does work a bit different. Since I lost the leg below the knee they had to make a whole new hand shake system because they were attaching it to bone instead of muscle. Here take a look." He said taking off the leg while she got down to look at it.

"Oh ok I see its got a port hand shake system integrated into the bone itself. That had to hurt." She said as he reattached the leg.

"It did a lot actually. Had to go through six months of rehab to walk right again." He said.

"What about the eye? I know thats different since its hook directly to the brain." She said getting a smile from him.

"Yes the port hand shake system was a little tricky from what the doctor said. Since there was so much trauma to my eye socket they had to make a node that the eye could connect to before it could be attached to the port and the handshake system be complete." He said as they heard Mai laugh.

"Wow I bet Twilight would have a nerdgasm if you let her see your stuff. You two though are just to cute to watch. Its like your brother and sister." She said making them smile and look at each other.

As the two continued to tinker with the limbs and Luke told her whatever he could about it they as lost track of time and before long Mai was leaving to Lyra's house only getting a grunt from the two making her laugh.

Luke looked up to see it was dark outside just as his arm lit up.

(Foxy Foxy by Rob Zombie)

"Hey beautiful."

{Hello Darling how are you?}

"Im doing a lot better now thank you. How was your day?"

{Ugh long and tiring darling. I wish you were over here right now I could use some company and my back is hurting.}

"Well who am I to say no to you? I'll be over in a minute just let me get some clothes and me and Sweetie Belle will be on our way."

{Oh Sweetie Belle is over there? Has she been there all day?}

"Yeah me and her have been going over some stuff on the fighter and other things." He said giving Sweetie Belle a smile.

{Oh well ok then I will see you in a bit. Ta ta darling}

"Bye Rares." He said hanging up and put his arm and eye back on before he got a idea.

"Hey Sweetie Belle how would you like to build a port and hand shake system?" He asked as her eyes went wide.

"REALLY!? YOU'D LET ME DO THAT!? But wouldn't I need one of your limbs?" She said as he nodded and handed her the two black boxes along with some ports making the filly squeal and launched into his chest.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!" She said while happy tears ran down her face. Luke smiled down at her and ran his fingers through her hair.

"You're very welcome Sweetie. Now come on let's head home ok?" He said going upstairs and grabbing his overnight bag.

The two walked down the street with Sweetie Belle hugging her gifts to her chest. As they got to Rarity's house they saw the door open and Rainbow fly out before spotting him.

"Luke! How you feeling big guy? The whole upgrade day over with?" She asked as he nodded.

"Yes thank god its over. I HATE upgrade day. Sorry if I was a little mean earlier Rain but I was not mad at you or any of the other girls." He said getting a sigh from her as she pulled him into a hug.

"Ok I thought that I did something wrong or something." She said while he shook his head.

"No I was just angry at upgrade day. Now if you will excuse us. I have a mare in need and Sweetie needs to get ready for bed before I show her more on her new project." He said as Rainbow looked down at the gigging filly.

"So what did you get Sweets?" She asked as Sweetie looked at Luke getting a nod from him.

"They're cybernetic limbs that Luke let me have." She said as the two mares looked at him.

" I have cybernetic limbs and eye." He said as they looked at him like he was crazy.

"Come on lets go inside and Ill show you." He said leading them inside and sat down. He tapped his arm on the shoulder twice and held it for five seconds before the synthetic skin went away and revealed the arm. He did the same with his eye and leg looking at their shocked faces.

"Dude thats awesome!" Rainbow cried but he wasn't paying attention to her as he stared at Rarity hoping a praying she didn't freak out and leave him for this. She stood up and walked over to him and pulled him into a deep kiss.

"Don't ever think I would leave you over this darling. I saw that look in your eye and while I am a little upset that you didn't tell me before hand I think it makes you look dashing." She said with a sparkle in her eyes touching the arm and eye.

"Careful Rares that is almost like a real one and it hurts if you touch it." He said. The weight on him lifted and he couldn't be more relieved that she accepted him how he was cybernetics and all.

"Oh Im sorry darling it's just so fascinating." She said as Sweetie Belle looked up at him.

"Are you going to show the rest of you? They need to see Luke." She said making the mares look at her worried.

"Theres more?"

"Not cybernetics she's talking about the wounds I have from battle." He said and undid the synthetic skin on the rest of his body showing his wounds and scars.

"Dude."

"My word. Darling you got all this from your war?"

"Yeah. I lost my arm and leg in battle but I lost my eye when I was just a boy. A traitor blew himself up in my class room with 20 kids and two teachers. Me and four others survived." He said and felt three pairs of arms around him pulling him into a hug.

"Im so sorry that happened to you darling. I just wish I could do more for you." She said with tears in her eyes.

"I have you girls, my family and friends thats all I need Rares I don't want you going out of your way or treat me any different ok?" He said watching her bite her lip before sighing.

"Ok darling I wont. Its just shocking to really learn that this is the world you grew up in. Is there anymore surprises?" She said as he pulled her into a kiss.

"I think this is enough for tonight." He said putting his shirt back on.

"Very well darling I think we should all head to bed its late and I need to finish those dresses for tomorrow night." She said giving Luke a smile.

"Sounds like a plan. I'll see you tomorrow Rain. Lady Rarity needs her rest." He said picking up the mare who let out a laugh as they headed upstairs with Sweetie Belle giggling to her room with the limbs.

In Rarity's room the two lovers were snuggled up together and Luke had his cybernetics showing with his arm wrapped around the mares waist.

"It feels strange without the skin on it but not unpleasant." She said as he ran his hand along her stomach.

"Yep the skin is state of the art integrated system to the arm and leg." He said letting out a yawn.

"Fascinating. Well lets get to sleep darling I know we've both had a long day." She said snuggling into him. Before long they were both sound asleep with smiles on their faces.