I came out of the shower wearing my boxers and pants with a towel around my neck and saw a peculiar but welcomed sight near the door. Right there on a cart was a flat screen tv only a little bigger than the cart, like my old tv back at my grandparents house. I was confused on what it was doing here until I heard snickering come from the bed. I looked over to see Lacy giving me a knowing grin and I connected the pieces together. "You got the blueprints from my phone and built a tv while I was down there didn't you?"
"Of course we did though it took a little longer than we thought. We just got it done yesterday and I went digging into your bags for your games so we could play. Everypony is actually really curious on what they are so they're coming over today to watch our match." Lacy explained as she moved over to the cart and removed the sheet that covered the bottom the reveal my gaming systems were there and looking brand new. "Also asked Princess Celestia is she could refurbish them without destroying them. For the most part she was able to though all of your saved stuff is gone, sorry."
"It's alright, just as long as she didn't get the games I had downloaded on the PS3 and DS deleted I'm good."

"Oh alright, well it'll be a while before everypony else gets here what do we do until then?"

"Well I don't know about you but I'm hungry."

"But you ate breakfast not to long ago."

"Tell that to my stomach." As if on cue a loud grumbling could be heard from my stomach.

"Okay, point taken you pig." Chrysalis stated as she got off of the bed and put Lily on her back. She trotted out the door as I was putting my shirt on though I didn't mind since Lily has been in here since I was brought here.
"Never thought I see the day you grew a six pack." Lacy stated as she examined my figured.

"Yes well neither of us thought that we would end up in a world of magical talking ponies either but here we are. I can honestly tell you that I'm glad things turned out this way." I tell her as my head pops through the collar.
"I like it here too but don't you miss being back on Earth sometimes?"

"No." I state simply.

"But why not? What about your family and friends?" Lacy asked with genuine curiosity.

"Because I have nothing for me there. My family hates me and treats like a slave while my friends left to god knows where. I was alone on Earth Lace and no matter how hard I try I will always be alone in had stayed there. Those who knew me hated me and if they didn't that's because we rarely had contact we one another. No girl would have ever loved me because I'm murderous psychopath with the capability to destroy the world whenever I damn well please and I have so many trust issues that I can't really make any friends. The only one I would have left is you and that's assuming that you weren't brought here and we met up again. But here I have everything that I thought I could never have. I have friends here, a family, and a beautiful mare that loves me despite all of that and I wouldn't trade that for anything in all of time and space."
"So then you really do hate your family then?"

"Lacy there was a time I hated the entire human race, including myself, but I moved on. I will never forgive them for what they did to me but I'm not going to seek revenge if I ever see them again it's beyond me at this point." I tell her as we move through the halls and get to the cafeteria where we spot Chrysalis and Lily waiting for us. Lily hovers over to me as I wait for her with open arms and she plops down into them. Chrysalis decides to hoof it and trots over and nuzzles my side. We move over to the line, Lace grabbing a tray for herself and Chrysalis grabbing one for me and another for herself and Lily.
"Hey daddy can I ask you something?"

"Sure sweetie."

"What were your parents like before they didn't want you anymore?" She ask bluntly. Chrysalis was about to say something about it but I stopped her with by raising my hand.
"Well my view of them now is tainted since I found out that I was not wanted but I can still tell you what I did think of them beforehand. Before I found out about my parents apparent hatred I always thought my mom and stepdad were the best parents in the world even as I got older. My mom took care of me and my siblings basically alone since my stepdad was always working to make sure we had enough money for the bare necessities and a little more. I thought they were even more so when I learned that not only was my mom young when she had me but that she also did it without having finished her schooling so that she could get a better job other than working at a stadium though that was great considering that whenever when went to ball games we got free snacks."
"Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that. Your parents would always taunt whenever we got a hotdog or nachos to share or we would end up falling asleep leaning on each other because we were that bored at those games." Lacy said as she started reminiscing about those occasions.
"And let's not forget the kiss cam."

"The kiss cam, what are you..oohhh, god that was embarrassing." She said as she put her head into her empty hand.

"For you maybe, I got a nice kick out of that, especially since it was the perfect opportunity for revenge after the prank you pulled on me just before we left."
"What's this kiss cam you're talking about?" Chrysalis interrupted before we could get into it.

"Well at these ball games there are cameras that are recording them so that other people at home can watch them from their tvs. Some of these cameras also broadcast to these big screens in the stadium so that people that are farther away from the playing area can see it more clearly. During the game though or breaks they have thing to keep people entertained and one of these things is the kiss cam that will show random couples sitting in the stands and when they see themselves they gotta kiss. You don't have to it if you don't want to but most people do. But anyway, one day the kiss cam was going around to different people when it landed on us. Of course no one were expecting two kids to make out but rather a give each other a kiss on the cheek. This one was too embarrassed to do anything that she tried hiding behind me so I took it upon myself to get a little payback and kissed her on the cheek in front of all those people. Till this day I have never seen her get as red as she did that day that it made getting punched in the face all worthwhile."
"You punched daddy in the face?" Lily asked innocently.

"Yeah, it was not one of my best moments. I had just gotten so embarrassed that I panicked and accidentally punched him. Of course I forgot about what just happened when I realized that I just hit my best friend and was all over him when I did, apologizing profusely. Since then David has made it his mission to make sure to remind of that day whenever we're together and he has a chance to bring it up." Lacy stated as we were walking back to my room. When we walked in we saw that everyone was there and waiting for us.
"There you guys are, we were wondering where you had gotten off to." Twilight said as she saw us walk in. "So are you going to show us how these work?" She asked, gesturing towards the consoles.
"Yeah sure, just let me hook it up and then you can all watch Lacy get powned.

"We'll see about that mister. I've gotten better since the last time we played."

"So have I Lace, so have I." I tell her as I hook up the 360. "Hey where's the plug?" I ask once I noticed that there wasn't a power cable for any of them.
"You don't need them, we put in a power cell that runs on magical energy so that we could get it running without having to plug it in."

"Sweeeeeet." I say as I turn on the game put in Halo 2 and tossed Lace a controller as we sat on the bed next to each other. Everyone was watching the screen with rap attention as the XBox logo came up. As she had said everything was gone so I had to make a new avatar before I could start the game. "Here Lily why don't make an avatar?" I tell her as I set the controller down in front of her as she sits on my lap. I tell how to move and select things then let her have at it.
"So what's the purpose of this avatar?" Luna asked as we watched Lily try to make look like me.

"Nothing really, other than marking which profile is yours so that way you can make your progress in the same game without playing off of someone else's."
"Is it really ah big deal that ya make your own?" Applejack asked.

"Meh, it depends really. If you like playing through the whole game and watch the storyline then yes, but if are just in it to win it then not really though it also helps when you want to play with someone else so that way you can twice the fun as you and your partner act stupidly in the game, right Lace?" I asked her with a knowing smirk.
"Hey you can't say crap you fucking kamikaze." She shouts as she laughs, no doubt remembering the antics we used to get into during co-op.

"Kamikaze, what's that?" Rainbow asked.

"It's what we called suicidal japanese pilots during World War 2. They would go into a dive and try to smash their planes into allied ships, it's also another name for this idiot whenever he decides to go suicidal and run into a horde of enemies even though there's no chance of survival. He mainly does it when he has explosives on hand so that he can at least take a chunk out of them so that we can kill them when he respawns on we can move on. As much as I hate to admit it it's saved our asses more than a few times in the past and how he's managed to beat me." She added that last part with a glare directed towards me as Lily finally handed me back the controller and I looked to see what she had made. I'm not sure if it was me or not because it looked tall as fuck for some reason, had squinty eyes and was a ghost. I can get why she made it look white as fuck considering my skin has paled thanks to the lack of sunlight, though I'm slowly regaining my color, and I must look like a giant to her so there's the tall thing but the squinty eyes man, what the hell. Everyone was laughing at it as Lily looked up at me.
"Do you like it daddy?" Lily asked and I was tempted to say no but I stopped myself and looked at the avatar again. I did say she could make it plus it what she sees so I look down to her with a smile and wrap my arms around her.
"I love it sweetie." I tell her as I rub my nose with her's. I continue on and allow Lacy to go about making her avatar which actually took longer than Lily since she was being picky. "Would you pick already woman, you should have been buried into the dirt several times already by now."

"Fine I just hate the selection they have for clothes on here for the female avatars." She complained as she finally choose her avatar's appearance and I started the game.
"What does it matter it's not like you're going to be wearing the clothes."

"So that doesn't mean I have to make my avatar look hideous." I only groan as the game finally comes upon the title screen and I go about creating my design for the multiplayer character as well as Lacy who took less time. I went into competitive and set it for Slayer in Coagulation with an all vehicle spawn so that we could demonstrate just about all of them and because, Warthog Rally, it's the funniest thing out there to do when you're fucking around with your friends. Everyone scoots a little closer to the tv as the countdown starts. After it's ended me and Lacy start moving about looking for our weapons. For her it'll be the rocket launcher for when I eventually take to the skies in a banshee and the battle rifle. For me I go with the sniper and plasma rifle. We both have to travel out into the middle of the field to pick up our higher caliber weapons so right off the bat the warthog rally begins. As I drive from the red base I hit every hill I can as fast as I can until I see her coming straight for me. When she's close enough I hit the power brakes and do a 180 and bash her with the back end of my ride and send her off course. She manages the flip herself and give me enough time to grab my snipe and bail, or so I thought as I turn around and, wouldn't you know it a warthog straight to the face. "First Kill" The AI says as I'm flattened.
"And the war starts my friend." Lacy states as she drives away with her brand new rocket launcher and sniper.

"Well you stole my sniper so of course it does." I say as I climb into the banshee at the red base and go after her. She locks onto me with the rocket and fires, each shot missing as I barrel roll out of the way at the last moment and start firing back once I hear that satisfying sound of an empty clip. She switches over to the sniper, my sniper, as she tries to take me out that way. She gets off one shot before I bomb her, snatch my sniper and run off into the caves. From there it was a constant back and forth as neither one of us could get a lead on the other and the room had been divided between those rooting for Lacy and those rooting for me. The side rooting for her was bigger as I only had three on my side. I've been abandoned since I had Rainbow, the Changeling Captain, and Celestia on my side as Chrysalis and Lily went were cheering for Lacy. Rainbow Dash and Applejack placed fifteen bits on who was going to win and all I could say was Applejack was going to regret that. It was first to fifty since me and Lacy tend to have one hell of an eye when spotting, and killing each other from long distances but as I said, I had gotten better since the last time me and her have played together and although she's proven her skills I have yet to show mine so it came as a shock when she tried to run me over again only for me to duck under it and blast her in the ass end of the vehicle and take her out with a well placed plasma pistol shot.
"And it's downhill from here." I mutter to myself as an evil grin comes across my face and I begin to annihilate Lacy. My memory each vehicle's weaknesses, the fastest way to take down shields, and the timing needed to jump over ghost, warthogs, and spectres come into play for said annihilation. What people don't know is that I'm at my best when I'm the underdog but that doesn't mean I'll make myself start losing on purpose and judging by the look on Celestia's face she knew that from the start.
"How are you doing this? Last I checked you were never this good with long range combat."

"Yeah last you checked, but last I checked I've gotten better with tracking my opponent's movements once I started online and learned that you need one hell of a reaction time, or a shotgun, to actually pull off the close combat successfully without having to just shooting up the place and hope you get lucking, either that or get really good at knowing how far you need to be so you lunge the shit out of people."
"I say that you're cheating." She accuses and I just shrug it off as I go kamikaze when she sticks me with a plasma and take us both out, gotta love suicide penalties.
"Game Over," The announcer says as I place a sniper round to her head and the final score coming out to 50-40 thus declaring me the winner and everyone on Lacy's side groans as Applejack hoofs over a bag a bits to Rainbow.
"That was rather fascinating, I see now why you humans enjoy these video games so much." Celestia says as I switch it over to co-op on put it on harden, I don't like restarting to the nearest checkpoint when I go kamikaze, kamikaze good, restarting bad, and me and Lacy begin going through the first level.
"It's fun as long as you're not playing with a rage quitter, those people just ruin everything after they get their asses kicked and I guarantee there would have been more than a few if me and David ended up a team." Lacy tells her as I go ape shit on a squad of elites.
"Do you think we could give it a try?" Luna ask as she eyeballs Lacy's controller.

"Sure I don't why not though it might a little difficult to do anything for those of you without magic." I address the whole group as I give Luna my controller and Lacy gives hers to Chrysalis which actually surprised me. We let them take our spots on the bed and sit in the corner and out of the way.
"You know you didn't have to toy with me during that match you asshole. I would have been fine if you owned me by a thirty point difference or something like that." Lacy states as we take up our spots.
"I wasn't I was observing your style of fighting. I do it to nearly everyone I play with though it doesn't always work out."

"Should have figured you would win though. You are the one with real combat experience of of the two of us."

"Yea but my speciality is swords not guns. I can do close combat just fine in games but not as well when there's guns involved and all I got is a knife. Without that speed or resilience it's kinda useless you know?" She nods in understanding as we watch Luna and Chrysalis dispose of the covenant swiftly and without mercy. I hope Lace had them make four controllers.
"So what has it been like for you since you've gotten here?" Lacy ask suddenly.

"It's been one hell of a ride but no matter what I would much rather be here than back home. I've felt like I belong here even when everyone here turned on me."
"You do know it's everypony right?"

"Yeah but I think it's narcissistic considering there's more than just ponies that inhabit this world. No matter how many times I'm corrected I'm always going to say everyone instead of everypony. Besides you've been saying it too so you have no right trying to correct me."
"I've been doing it because of you. I've actually grown accustomed using pony terminology but then you show up not using it and it's gotten to me." Lacy accuses with her hands in the air. I look at her questioningly and after a moment she realizes that silence has enveloped the room and now everyone else is staring at her like she's crazy.
"See what happens when you let yourself get riled up?" I ask with a smirk.

"I hate you sometimes you know that?" She states with a glare.

"Everyone does when I pull this crap on them so don't think I'm not use to it." I state casually as I lean back in my chair and she sighs as she sits herself down. "So how has it been for you?"
"*sigh* Well everyone here was first super suspicious of me and kept their distance though I couldn't figure out why. This went on for about three months before I got tired of it and asked why they all kept looking like I was about to turn into a monster and they told me about the other human that had shown up before I did and how he was banished from Equestria because they did turn into a monster a month before I got here. I had my suspicions that it was you but I dismissed those thoughts when I remembered that there was no way that you would try to harm them, not unless they did anything to you before hand." She tells me as she lays a hand over mine and squeezes it. "I tried to tell that I was nothing like that other human but none of them would believe me. After another I couldn't take it anymore and started packing up my stuff to leave without telling telling any of them. I left in the middle of the night with a note saying that I was going to go live somewhere else since they didn't trust me so I couldn't trust them. I was at the train station when the girls found my note and came looking for me. They apologized for the way they acted and ask me not to leave. I did stay, but reluctantly so because I didn't know whether or not they were lying but I also didn't know where else to go since the only places I've been to are Ponyville, Canterlot, and Appleloosa, places that had ponies that knew me and reported me to the princesses. Sure enough though they held true to their word and started treating me better and I soon became a part of the community. I even there to help when Tirek was terrorizing Equestria though I think that you would have been better suited for that."
"I doubt it. That problem was solved with the Elements of Harmony which meant that it was a friendship thing. I'm good for anything that requires having to harm others which no one here beside me, Chrysalis, and Princess Luna can actually handle without some form of guilt hanging over their head."
"What about Lily?"

"I'm trying not to take her down that path, sure she'll see a lot of it while she's around me but I will try with everything I can to make sure she doesn't end up like me." I tell her as I look over to Lily who is playing with Cadance and Twilight.
"Hm, you know I never thought I see the day where you of all people would be worried about not screwing up a kid's childhood, especially when we were together and talking about marriage and having kids and all that junk."
"Ugh, don't even get me started on those." I state as I slam my face into my hands.

"Trust me, I won't, those were some of the dumbest conversations we've ever had." She states while laughing a little."But you have to admit that thinking about them now they were funny."
"Hehe, yeah, I do but that doesn't make them any less stupid."

"I know."

"Hey you two, why don't you stop being so serious and come have some fun with the rest of us. I want David to show us his swordsman skills on this." Chrysalis say to the two as she holds up my copy of Devil May Cry 4.
"Alright, alright I'm coming, just calm your tits." I tell her as I get up.

Chrysalis sits on her haunches and looks at her teats, "They are calm." I couldn't help but facepalm at her actions which earned a few laughs and giggles from the mares while the changeling captain was trying to decide to join in or keep quiet.
"It looks like this is your life for the time being." Saboru stated as I looked at everyone in the room.

Yeah, I just hopes it able to stay this way even after the battle starts. ............You know what, no, no more than in relying on hope, no more relying on others. I'm going to start actually fighting to keep things the way they are. I'm going to fight with all my power to make things work out from now on instead of just hoping that things don't go wrong. Who cares about my, about what monsters and demons lies within me, I'm not letting any of that hold me back anymore! I thought as a new determination started growing within me with every word. Along with this fire that's ignited I feel something else that is bubbling up to the surface. I'm not sure what's going on but I'm soon enveloped in a blinding light.
"David!"
"Daddy!" Were the last things I heard before the world turns black.

Author's Note

David has gotten back his old flame and it seems to have literary ignited something inside of him but what it is you'll have to wait until the next chapter to find out but it will be something that will determine the results of his fight with Chrysalis's mother and sister.