The Visitor

Late one night just outside the City of Portland, Oregon was a bar. This bar was a very filthy place where no respectable person would find themselves, in fact it was the hangout to the local branch of the infamous Gypsy Jokers Motorcycle Club. There were patrons drowning their troubles in various drinks, the bikers were gathered around the pool tables and the television on the counter had on news about the current war.

“The fate of south vietnam's northern provenance seems to rest on the shoulders of soldiers like these, and would also seem to be the hopes of american policy of vietnamization. Will they turn around, fight the enemy or will they keep running? Jim Laurie reporting for NBC NEWS Quang Tri South Vietnam.”

None of this mattered to the two newest patrons who looked over the bar before seeing a man in a brown three piece leisure suit with a plaid shirt and slightly disheveled hair waving them over. “Alright Henry what the fuck was it that was so important that you had to call us out here for?” The man in the grey tweed coat and plain bow tie asked angrily.

Henry got up from the booth he was sitting in and walked over to the two. “Augustus! Bill! It’s about fucking time you two got here!”

The other man in the maroon leisure suit with a new perm and mustache looked back and forth from Augustus to Henry. “As great as it is to see you, your brother has a point. What the hell did you call us out here for?”

“Good point Bill you’re right, come take a seat I got an idea for us to do while we wait for Nixon to get back to us.” Henry said as he gestured the two to the corner booth where he had a series of napkins with various drawings on them.

Augustus sat down and picked up one of the napkins and looked at the drawings. “This isn’t another LSD induced hallucination is it?” He asked with concern.

“No it isn’t. I haven’t had any in a week. These are designs for a machine to travel the multiverse.” Henry said in an excited manner.

Bill gave him a blank look, “You're sure you’re not on something right now?”

“That’s not important.” Henry said changing the topic. “This can change the field of quantum physics for ever.”

As they all continued to talk Henry found himself having problems hearing what the other two were saying. As he looked down at the napkins he found that the drawings looked like a bunch of scribbles. The Further they went He couldn’t even hear what he was saying and, his vision was starting to get blurry. “FUCK!!!!” He yelled out not being able to take it anymore, as he stood up everything around him froze in time and he heard a feminine voice.

“Having difficulty with your dream Professor?”

Henry jumped at sudden voice before turning around and seeing Princess Luna standing behind him. “Luna!?!? How in the hell are you in my dreams?” He asked angrily.

“As the Princess of the night I am able to go into other’s dreams and help those whose dreams are causing them great distress.”

“O-Kay.” Henry said deciding that was the best answer he was getting. He walked over behind the counter and grabbed a bottle off the shelf and poured himself a drink as Luna looked around fascinated with her surroundings.

“So this is your world?”

Henry took a drink and looked at Luna. “Well this is just part of it and it’s thirty years in my past.”

Luna raised her eyebrows. “Why are you dreaming about thirty years ago?”

“Because I was trying to remember the night I wrote the original design for my machine.”

“Then what was the difficulty?” She asked with concern.

Henry sighed. “The problem was that the 70’s weren’t kind to me. I was on the run, a very good friend disappeared, and I was using narcotics at the time.”

Luna’s interest was peaked by the first thing he said. “What were you running for?”

He sighed again. “Let’s just say that all it takes is one asshole feeding on paranoia of stupid people to kill someones reputation and accuse them of being ‘A threat to the American way of life.’”

Luna, deciding that he was not going to elaborate, looked to the two people he was talking too. “Who are these two?”

He poured another drink and looked back at them pointing the one in the tweed coat. “They’re my brother Dr. Augustus Safon and the guy with the perm is my best friend William Perdue.”

“And you brought them here to show them your idea?”

“Yes and in about two years the first inter dimensional portal generator will be created.”

“I see...”

Henry took one final drink before putting the lid back on the bottle. “Now if you don’t mind Princess I need to wake up and get back to work, there’s nothing here that can help me.”

“Very well, just dream again if you ever need my help.” With that Luna encased herself in a veil of mist and disappeared.

“Yeah I’ll be sure to do that.” He said with sarcasm.

It 5:30 in the morning and Princess Celestia has just awoken and now walking out to the balcony of her bedroom. Her horn glows puts power too the sun and it begins to move. A feat that normally requires a large group of unicorns she accomplishes on her own with barley a fraction of her power used up. After taking one final look to ensure the sun was rising properly she turned and gasped as she saw Professor Safon sitting in the small sitting area in the middle of her bedchamber.

"So that's how you raise the sun. I wounded what it looked like." He said calmly to her.

"Professor!! How did you get in here?" Celestia demanded from him before calming down.

He got up and walked to the balcony. "Let's just say I have ways."

"Well then to what do I owe the pleasure of this visit?"

He stepped out on the balcony with her. "Well I came here to discuss the fact that I am still under supervision."

Celestia raised her eyebrow "Oh what about it."

"Well you see I have come to the feeling that I no longer need to be supervised by the guard."

"And why is that"

"Well due to the fact that ponies now know of my existence and combined with the fact that I have proven the fact that I am a danger to Equestria I feel that the presence of your guards are no longer needed."

"I see your point but are you sure you're ready to leave the guard's protection."

"Yes I'm positive."

"Very well grant you your request and tell Stonewall to stop diverting troops to protect you."

Safon bowed "Thank You. Your Highness." He said as he started walking out the bedroom.

Chamberlain was making his usual morning routine ensuring the manor was impeccable when he heard a knock at the door, he answered the door to find Professor Safon on the other side this time wearing a very mismatched outfit consisting of dark plaid trousers with a black paisley print shirt with a tan corduroy vest, a stiff brown leather button up coat and the same fedora as last time.“Ah hello Professor Safon, Master Fancy Pants is waiting in his office for you.” He said in his usual welcoming manner.

Safon looked over at Chamberlain as he took off his hat. “Hi there Chamberlain was it?”

“My name is not important but yes it is Chamberlain.” He said as he took the Professor’s hat.

“Don’t say that I know many like yourself and with out them their employers would be lost.” Safon said with serenity.

“Thank you for your gratitude Professor. Now if would follow me I’ll lead you the Master’s office.”

Inside the office Fancy Pants was sitting at his desk going through many papers sitting in front of him. He heard the door open and looked up to see Chamberlain and Professor Safon enter the room.

“Ah Professor Safon! Its great to see you!”

“It’s great to see you too but, I’m here to talk to you.”

“Why of course.” The entrepreneur said before looking to his butler. “Chamberlain would you be so kind and let the Professor and I talk in private.”

Chamberlain bowed before leaving the room shutting the door behind him, “Of course sir.”

“Now then how are you adapting to our world Professor?”

“Fine fine, it helps that I’ve already lived in a world like this before.”

“I see, actually Professor I was just wondering something.”

“Oh what was that?”

“Well you say you're here by accident but yet you have multiple outfits. I’m just wondering if Miss Rarity tailored those for you. Because if so it seems she’s losing her touch.”

Safon knew that someone would notice eventually but he had thought of an explanation in case the question did come up. “Well you see when my machine malfunctioned I was planning on traveling to other worlds so I had a suitcase full of clothes and other items with me. So when I wound up here the suitcase was with me, in fact I found a couple parts of my machine close to where I woke up. Really this is a more practical outfit to fit in your world as the black won’t stain and the coat is a rugged outdoors type.”

“Ah I see I guess you don’t have much of a selection then?”

“No just what I was wearing, the suit from the other day, a frock coat, this outfit, and one more pair of trousers and a few more paisley shirts.”

“I see, anyways how about we get back to business, what was it you wanted to talk to me about?”

Safon grabbed on of the chairs of the center set and moved it so he could sit closer. “Well you see I was looking in my room the Princess’s provided me and I realized something, the room is too small for me to build a new machine and I highly doubt they would let me blast a hole in the roof to make room. So I was wondering, if you could provide me with a laboratory where I might be able to work.”

Fancy Pants sat back in his chair and thought for a moment. “Well how about I do you one better?”

Safon’s eyebrows rose “How so?”

“Well you see that Patent you gave me.”

“Yes”

Fancy Pants looked at him with a smile. “My financial team went through it and said that if it went into full production for the air travel industry, and if a contract was made with the Equestrian military then my company’s intake could possibly double within a few years”

Safon immediately shot up from his chair and looked at Fancy Pants “You're serious?” Fancy just nodded his head. “Wonderful!”

“Yes and to show my gratitude I’ll buy you a house to do with what you wish.”

“Really!” Fancy Pants nodded his head again. “That would be perfect!”

Fancy Pants got up from his chair and walked over to the door, “Yes and I have a place in mind that’s not too far from here. I’ll get my hat and we can just walk over to it to see if it is adequate to your needs.”

“That sounds like a good idea.” Safon said following Fancy Pants out the door.

Jet Set was sitting peacefully in his chair as he read this morning’s paper with a nearby wax cylinder phonograph playing an instrumental piano piece. He sighed at the fact that yet again the news was being dominated by Professor Safon and the scores of the recent Wonderbolts derby were forced to page 12. He took his fob watch out of his vest pocket and checked the time to find it was almost 9 in the morning. “Oh dear it’s getting late.” He said to himself as he got up and turned his phonograph off. “Dearie I’m leaving for the law office, I’ll try and be home by supper.” He yelled out to his wife.

“Okay dear just be sure to not get too wrapped up with work Hoity Toity is having a ball tonight and we just can’t afford to miss a single social function.”

“I’ll try,” He replied back warmly, “Now I must go.” Before he left he stopped at the mirror to check his appearance. He was as usual wearing what was newest in fashion with a suit consisting of a brand new black sack coat made of the finest wool, a black cherry silk vest with a floral design and ivory dress shirt with a banker's collar and a black neck tie. After ensuring he was presentable he used his magic and levitated his bowler hat on his head and stepped out the door. As he stepped out he looked around his neighborhood and to his shock saw Fancy Pants with is usual demeanor and top hat on standing in front of the vacant house that was next to his own. He immediately ran over to him “My word. Fancy Pants! What ever are you doing here?”

Fancy Pants turned to the source of the sound and saw Jet Set running over to him. Sighing under his breath he looked at the social climber. “Ah hello Jet Set. I forgot you live on this street.”

“Why yes Upper Crust and I live in the home just next door.” He said gesturing a hoof the the next door house. “But I must ask again. What ever are you doing here?”

Knowing that Jet Set won’t leave unless he gets information he figured it would be best to tell the truth. “Well you see I recently entered in a business agreement with an inventor and am now with him to look for a house where he can set up a laboratory.”

“Oh a scientist! What field does he specialize in!?” Jet Set asked with glee at the thought of having a scientist under direct employment of Fancy Pants living next door to him.

“I believe he called it Quantum Physics, but why don’t you ask him yourself he should be out any minute to tell me what he think of this location.”

“I will do that.”

After a few moments the front door of the house opened to reveal to Jet Set’s shock, the Professor Safon.

Fancy Pants looked over to the Professor as he walked down the front steps. “What do you think Professor?”

Safon walked over to the pair “Well the electrical system is basic but some wiring work should fix that, but beyond that I think that this place is perfect.” He said before looking at the shocked Jet Set. “Who’s this?”

“This is a local attorney Jet Set, I guess he’ll be your neighbor. Right Jet Set.” The entrepreneur said as he poked Jet Set.

“Umm.” Was all Jet Set was able to say at the thought of that the creature that has dominated the news for the past few days to his great annoyance now was going to be doing Celestia knows what in the house next to his own.