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"No." I mumble.

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"OK!! OK I'LL GET OUT OF BED JESUS!" I scream. I open my eyes yet I am stilling being poked by the 'disturbance'.

"Why are you still poking me?" I demand. Dream giggles cutely and shakes her head before pulling me out of bed. I try to regain my balance but stumble and fall. Why are my legs asleep? Dammit... Oh. Yesterday. Welp nothing I can do about that.

"What time is it?" I know for certain my phone's timezone is wrong right now. Even if it was right it would probably glitch.

"12PM."

"Why do you always wake up before me?" I'm serious, because I usually woke up at 5 in the morning before I met Dream.

"I set an alarm, you were just knocked out worse than me. I told you the older you are the less sleep you need."

"How many people and ponies do we even have in this empire?"

"Well apparently... 3.5 million. Is that a problem?" I think I just lost a lot of money.

"Oh thank god I thought it would be 35 million or worse." I say.

"Why must you be antisocial, I'm the one who has to get you out of your shell." It saddens me that this is the truth.

"At least I'm not shy." Lies. Shit did my eye twitch again? Hopefully not.

"Haha, if you are you hide it well." Dream teases me.

"So what's the schedule for today?" I ask my pink and purple maned alicorn. She levitates out a notepad with a pen.

"Finally no more quills and parchment... Ew" I gag.

"What's so bad about living in the past, having inefficient technology and skills?"

"Dream, you just answered your own question." I reply slyly.

"Ok, well would you like to see the capital city? That's the only thing on the agenda at the moment."

"Sure."

"Alfred!" Dream yells. A butler comes over. What the fuck? Batman?! I'm so confused.

"Yes, what do you require?" Alfred asks as he appears literally out of nowhere.

"How did you do that?" I ask.

"This is a logic free zone." He states flatly pointing to the warning sign right below me. I look down and oh...

"I will never understand this world."

"That we can agree on." He adds.

"Ok, so we need top level floor. Level 85 rooftop please." Dream asks of Alfred.

"Right this way." Alfred leads us to a room that looks like an elevator but is a panel with text on it. Alfred types in 85 in it and we teleport to the top floor. The view is... breathtaking to say the least. Imagine an extremely futuristic world where there is technology you probably haven't even heard of. Where buildings take so many shapes that none of them are the same. That's basically the simplest way you could describe this city. The streets are bustling with activity and the usual conversations as some of the pedestrians wait for their jobs to start. This reminds me of Star Wars a little bit, except without all the mixes of aliens.

"How do you like the view baby?" Ah her first pet-name for me.

"I don't even know what to say. It's... more than I could have ever asked for in my life."

"Well it is our capital city so, isn't it supposed to have that sort of charm?" She says as she presses a button which leaves an opening at the top floor from which a floating cable car moves through rather quickly. They don't even use cables! It just floats.

"Works for me." I say happily taking in the view.

The door of the cable car slides open and out steps four royal guards flanking princesses Celestia and Luna.

"How does this even work?! This is way more than just the future. In all my years and trust me on this I have a lot of years, I've never seen such perfection!" Celestia says, amused to say the least.

"It's the product of hard work, combination and collaboration." Dream says cheerfully. I think we can all agree on that seeing as we will probably never have to introduce new technology since it has already been introduced. Though my curiosity is how humans got here in the first place. Eh, we'll worry about that later.

"I have a question though. How are there so many people and ponies here already?" I ask Celestia. She just shrugs. I look over to Luna who does the same.

"We told Equestria about a new city where massive new amounts of technology and futuristic design is present and they flooded in. Though I must admit this is even more advanced than I thought it would be at first." Luna admits sheepishly. We enter the cable car which is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Four Miray Empira guards follow us in and four royal guards also follow us in. One of my guards presses a button on the terminal panel and we start moving towards our destination. You can practically say hovercraft everywhere and jets that probably have autopilot on them.

"So, how have you been taking care of my little baby?" Celestia asks Dream who giggles. I put my face into my hands in embarrassment over this change of events.

"Pretty good..." Dream goes on about what we did together and the like. Oh my god when girls start talking, they just don't stop. I swear by the time we finished we were already at our destination five minutes ago.

"So, what are you my favorite parents doing here?" I ask curiously, which makes Luna blush and Celestia's smile ever so wider.

"We were just checking in on our favorite little son and daughter in law." This time it's me who blushes.

"We aren't even married yet." I yelp as Dream envelopes me in the biggest hug ever.

"You'll actually consider marrying me?"

"Yes... But it was supposed to be a surprise."

"After we marry, I've got a little present for you, in bed." I get a wing-boner when she whispers this seductively in my ear. Good thing my parents were turned around when this happened. My blush is probably scarlet by now. Damn she knows just what to say sometimes.

"Uh..." I am clueless of what to do as I can't make my wings go down. Luna and Celestia are whispering to each other in the corner and the guards have departed ever since we reached out destination, assuming we are strong enough to protect ourselves. Which is a good assumption considering the cable car is practically indestructible and we all are really skilled at magic. Well everyone except me, I just know how to manipulate things and summon, that's about it. My wings finally go down as Celestia turns around with a smirk that makes me gulp.

"Brandon, you might want to think about getting married if you've really known Dream that long and haven't fought." The gears in my brain stop working for a second before they start again. Get married already? Well actually it has been 6 months... I've known her for 5 years. I guess it would be a good decision. She did wait for me all that time and not cheat on me.

"Ok." I say before I can stop myself. Dream literally starts bouncing up and down before tackling me to the ground and smothering me in kisses from excitement.

"Brandon.exe has crashed, please try again later." I say out loud. Everyone giggles and I'm carried to a room marked #113. I finally get a hold of myself after so much affection and stand upright. I step forward, opening the door revealing the mane six, Vinyl Scratch, Octavia, Sergeant Johnson (How the hell would I know he would end up here? He's a fictional character for heaven's sake.) and the Master Chief. I gasp, getting the attention of everyone in the room.

"I can't even...what." I inspect the Master Chief and Sergeant Johnson. Yep Illuminati confirmed.

"That's the usual reaction. Though I didn't expect it from a leader." Johnson states in his usual voice.

"I thought you died?" I question.

"And I thought I would've been your daddy, but a dog beat me over the fence." He replies.

"What are you guys doing here?" I ask the mane six.

"I wanted to see the future, Oh so exciting! Maybe I can bring back some designs for fashion!" Rarity exclaims.

"I wanted to see what was so good about this place. Turns out the answer is everything! This is even better than Las Pegasus."

"I wanted to study the culture and technological advances of this empire!" Twilight says happily. The sound of everyone/everypony facepalming/facehoofing is heard all the way to Canterlot.

"What? It's good for my studies." Yep, that's Twilight for you.

"I wanted to throw parties! And I got to because there weren't and meany pants here!" Pinkie says in one word while bouncing. The fuck? That's my expression.

"I don't think I'll ever understand you." John (Master Chief) says in his usual calm demeanor.

"And here I was thinking you'd never speak, but you know what son? You actually proved me wrong." Johnson says after some chuckles.

"I still can't believe we are from a video game franchise, but hey it beats never existing." Johnson adds.

"Oh yeah, what you guys did... I can't really compare."

"So, to put it bluntly, you are fine with being next to two war heroes / mass murderers?" Rarity says.

"Rarity. Are you seriously starting that conversation again? We went over this. They don't just kill for fun." Twilight says, as she seems very agitated by Rarity's ignorance.

"Fine. You do have a point. But I still don't like it."

"We just did what we had to do to protect. We are soldiers after all." So they still do act like they actually did it. So maybe that gives it some life because what if they actually lived through that life even though it was fictional? It would make sense and wouldn't be impossible.

"Anyways, are you guys retiring or would you like to protect the city and possibly embark on new missions if the need comes." I ask of Johnson  and John 117, while the girls and Dream look at me as I'm in crazy but I know that they would do anything to protect and defend since it was pretty much their life.

"It beats sitting around and being worthless." Johnson states flatly. John just nods as he gets up. (Keep in mind he is still in his MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor. Since when isn't he?)

In a flash I am in the same uniform a general would wear in the Halo franchise. Of course I'm also in human form. I don't think the uniform would fit a pony...

"Glad to have you on board Master Chief Petty Officer John 117, same goes for you Sergeant Major Avery Junior Johnson." I say formally as I salute.

"I just hope we aren't making a mistake." The sergeant major informs John who just shrugs.

"If you say so. For now let's introduce you to the capital building." I walk through the corridors but Celestia and Luna who have been observing  stay back. Just so we're clear, Johnson is to the right of Dream who is to my right, the master chief on his direct right taking the position of honor. We walk towards the cable car again typing in floor 50 on the terminal panel.

"Just so we're clear, I'll need all the help I can get, so if you know how to do something that we don't, don't be hesitant about telling us, we're all ears."

"Yes sir." They both say simultaneously. Hmm, well I have lots of research to do.

"Dream can you show them around their new offices, rooms and et cetera? I have a job to do." I ask politely.

"Just this once." She shrugs. The room goes dead quiet as the everyone else has left.

"So. Let's see how we can get into the UNSC ONI (United Nations Space Command Office of Naval Intelligence) databases and acquire information on technology and strategies."