Equestria's Supreme Commander

So, a day has passed since the Order tried and failed to take Twilight's parents, and myself, Twilight, sitting next to me in a blue shirt with a white stripe at the top, just below her collar bone, with straps going over her shoulder, and a pair of jeans, her parents, her father wearing a business suit, her mother a gray dress that went to her knees, Rainbow and Applejack, both wearing their usual outfits, were on the train, heading to Ponyville, where the other Elements, those not kidnapped, and Spike were waiting.

I had on a simple pair of jeans, and a black shirt with the Cybran symbol in the middle, and the six of us had our own train car, I imagine due to Twilight being a royal, and, aside from the usual train sounds, it was awkwardly silent. Fortunately, we'd only been on for five minutes. "Soooo," Twilight said, trying to break the silence, "how have you guys been?"

"Fine, dear," Night Light said.

"That's good," Twilight awkwardly said. "Sorry that you guys need to stay some place else."

Velvet giggled. "Oh, it isn't much of a problem, Twily," she said. "Your father and I were planning on remodeling the house a little, and were hoping to visit you while it was going on. We may just be staying a little longer than we had thought. But still, it'll be nice to spend some time with you and Spike."

"And don't forget Josh," Twilight said, dragging me into the conversation.

Night Light glared at me. "So you're th eone who gave our daughter those. . . things?"

"She chose willingly," I said defensively.

"We know," Velvet said. "Princess Luna told us." She smiled a little. "If you ask me, though, it'll be good. Now she doesn't have the excuse of reading to not leave her castle."

"Mom," Twilight groaned. "I don't do that anymore."

"You sure, egghead?" Rainbow said. "You practically left Spike on his own for that weekend when Celestia sent you those books, which led to him essentially being AJ's slave."

"Naw, ah told y'all, ah tried ta make him stop," Applejack said.

"Yeah, but still."

"Ifn ah remember correctly, Rainbow, ya were talking about how nice it'd be ta have one," Applejack said, getting chuckles out of the rest of us.

"Well," Night Light said to me after we had stopped, "if you so break Twily's heart, I'll make sure you regret it."

I raised an eyebrow. "Said to a guy with a giant robot capable of making an army, and a force unto itself," I replied with a slight, joking smile and tone. "I won't," I said. "Besides, I like women for their personality and mind, and, well, Twilight reminds me of me before I came here, personality wise."I don't like them for their status."

"Good," Night Light said. "So, what are you, anyway? Twilight wasn't able to tell us much on the way here because she was worried we'd be late."

We chuckled. "Sounds like her," I said, getting a small glare from the lavender alicorn. "Well, generally speaking, I'm a human. The sub-group I'm a part of, though are called Cybrans. Essentially, we're humans with implants that allow us to be more efficient." I shrugged. "Aside from that, nothing really special, except my ACU, which would include a lot of techno babble you guys wouldn't get."

"He isn't wrong," Twilight said. "I barely get it with my augments, and that I pilot my own."

"Same," Rainbow said.

"You don't even have augments," I shot. "Besides, you could care less about what makes it work."

"Yeah, yeah," Rainbow scoffed, and Twilight, Applejack, and I rolled our eyes.

"So, if you don't mind me asking," I said, "what do you guys do?" I asked Twilight's parents.

"Well, I'm a writer," Velvet said. "In fact, I'm also an editor for A.K. Yearling."

To save you all this, I decide to skip Rainbow's fangasm to where Applejack had forced her back to her seat. "Now calm down, Rainbow," she said, pushing Rainbow by the shoulders to back to her seat.

"The writer of the Daring Do books?" I asked. "Never really liked stories about just adventure," I said. "For me, it needs to have a bit of action, and plot twists in one of two schools: the ones that can be guessed, and those that come out of left field. I like to speculate, and to be surprised."

"I can understand that," Velvet said. "Nighty here used to be an astronomer, but he quit."

"Why, if you don't mind me asking?"

"Because I'd sometimes have to go out of town," Night Light said. "Velvet's job as an author and occasional editor brought in enough for Canterlot. And if it didn't, we would have had moved some place."

"Which begs the question as to what would have happened with Luna's return?" I said, though season five gave a clear answer to that one.

"Probably nothing good," Rainbow said.

"Yeah," I lied. "Probably." If anything, the Nightmare universe was peaceful. Besides, I saw an alternate you in her guard. Which reminds me: are there any displaced in that one, or the other season five finale universes?(1) Meh, guess I may find out later. "Still, is Spike going to tackle me, or has he heard about what's been going on? And I mean tackle because he's protecting you guys."

"I doubt it," Twilight said. "Pinkie's probably told the entire town by now, if they hadn't heard it from the Canterlot newspapers."

"Yeah, probably," Rainbow said.

"Well, I guess, with it being Ponyville, we can just hope nothing out of it's ordinary happens," I said. I had just jinxed my life.