Jack didn’t want to get up today. It was the day the inspector came to check on the preparations and frankly he didn’t give a damn. That doesn't mean he didn’t do his best job at it, after all, Jack took pride in his work no matter how much he didn’t like it. He remembered back after Ditzy read him the letter, it turned out the inspector would come to his bar first to see the drinks he made for the celebration and see if it was safe for minors. And with his luck he will have to show the inspector where everyone else is since his place was really the only place you can find with ease, other than the place holding the actual celebration. Jack felt that having the celebration would be saved for last.

So, after Jack got his daily routine out of the way and opened the bar, people started coming in. He started to relax he thought as he started serving people at the bar, “Maybe the inspector won't come and I don't have to deal with this whole thing.” However, seeing as fate was a fickle mistress with a cruel sense of humor, moments after that thought crossed his mind he heard a feminine voice .

“Are you Jack Wilder?”

Jack Turn around to see a young girl, twenty one if he had to guess , she was about five inches shorter then him at his hardy six three. Jack couldn’t see the bottom half of her because of the bar but the upper half was just fine. She wore a bright purple sweater vest with some weird star thing on it, she had a white long sleeve shirt underneath. After he got done with how she was dressed he looked at her face. Her complexion was rather pale, almost like she’d never seen the sun before, she had dark purple eyes and her hair was the same color as her eyes with the addition of the pink streak.

Jack smiled at her. “Thats right, and if your looking for a drink girly, I'm going to need to see some I.D.”

“Actually sir, you’re not too far off.” She handed Jack her I.D it read.

Twilight Sparkle resident, Canterlot, age 21.

Jack stopped after that and back tracked to Canterlot, Jack sighed. “If I was a betting man I would say you're the inspector.” He tossed her back her I.D.

She looked at him and smiled. “Good guess, I’m here to inspect the drinks you prepared for the celebration.”

Jack sighed as he raised his left hand, lifting his index finger. “Give me a second.” Jack went underneath the counter grabbing three bottle filled with strange liquids. One bright green, one light blue, and the last one a dark red. He placed them on the counter with a glass. Jack poured the green in first then the blue and lastly the red.

Twilight looked at the drink in awe the, liquids didn’t mix but instead rested on top of each other.

“Drink up.” Jack said, giving her a cold look as he spoke.

Twilight grabbed the glass and downed the whole shot. Her eyes widened with amazment, each drink had an explosion of flavor.It felt warm at first like the first day of Summer, it was probably that red stuff. The next taste was a wild cold feeling, not too cold but just enough to be refreshing, like when you take a cold shower on a hot day. The last taste was calming and freeing, like laying in a field. When she was done and all the flavors had cascaded over her tongue, she was left with a feeling as though she had experienced all the good parts of the year with one drink.

“What is this?” She asked, still recovering from the drink. “It’s impossibly good!”

Jack smiled. “The red stuff is called the Devil's Kiss, which is an enchanted water that can liquify fire. The stronger the flame the better the flavor, lucky for you I finally fixed the pesky burning problem thanks to the blue stuff. I put it on top so it can warm you on the way down. The Blue stuff is what I like to call Wild Chill, it's flakes of Never Melting Ice and Poison Joke soaked in soapy water to take care of the poison. Then I had them drained of all it’s liquid with the ice, then waited for it to mixed properly. And lastly the green stuff I call Nature’s Soul, it’s made out of the sap of a living Timberwolves.”

Twilight looked at him in wonder. “How in the world did you think to make all of this?”

Jack smiled as he put the bottles away. “I’ve been to almost every place in all of Equestria, when travel like I did you pick up a thing or two.”

Twilight smiled.”What made you want to serve this drink?”

Jack rolled his eyes in annoyance. “This celebration is about starting fresh and experiencing the new year. What better way than having the years season come to you in their best form, taste?”

Twilight nodded in agreement, she held her hand out for Jack to shake. Jack grabbed it giving it a gentle squeeze, making sure not to hurt her.

“Thank you Jack, these drinks will do nicely, I hope you have a nice day.” She pulled her hand back from Jack, gently rubbing it. His grip was still too tight.

“No problem.” Jack said, relieved that she was leaving, and from the looks of it, wasn’t going to ask for his help.

However, as she stepped through the door, not a second later she turned around and walk right back through the doors “Um, I'm sorry to ask this, but could you show me around? I know you're busy but you're the only one I know who I can at least kinda trust.” Twilight said, a sheepish grin on her face as he gently rubbed her forearm. “After all, Celestia picked you to help, so you can’t be all bad.”

Jack rubbed his face, he knew this would happen, why did he have to go and jinx it. He sighed as he got out from the bar. “You serious kid?”

Twilight said nothing, only giving a sheepish smile as she nodded.

“ Fine, Berry!” As he called, an average sized woman with purple colored hair wearing a light purple shirt and blue jeans jumped up from her seat a few feet away.

“What’s up Jack?”

Jack tossed the woman a set of keys. “Watch the bar, and don’t do anything stupid or I’ll add it to your tab, got it?”

Jack walked out the door as Berry went behind the bar, Twilight followed him out soon after.

“Thank you again for doing this.” Twilight said, following closely behind the bartender. “I wouldn’t have asked if I didn’t need it.”

“Forget about it,” Jack said, huffing out his nostrils. “ Let's just get this over with.” Jack didn’t want to do this but he didn’t want to have her wander around town for hours. While Jack’s mind was elsewhere, he was caught quite by surprise when he felt himself knock into something scaly. Jack looked down to see a small purple and green dragon in the dirt.

Twilight walked over to help the little dragon up off the ground.

“This runt of a dragon your’s?” Jack asked, getting a little testy as his face got a little hotter. He looked down at the little dragon to see he was glaring up at him.

“Hey,” the reptile said. “Watch where you’re going, dude.”

Jack bent over and covered his mouth , picking him up in the process. “Thats enough out of you.” Jack was getting ready to throw him if not for Twilight stopping him with two two frantic hands grabbing his arm.

“WAIT!” Twilight shrieked.

Jack looked at her. “So, this runt is with you?”

“Yes, please don’t hurt him, his name is Spike, he’s my assistant and I must insist that you put him down!”

Jack sat him down and watched as Twilight rushed over to check on the dragon.

“Are you alright, Spike?” She asked, gently brushing him off and looking him over.

“I Would feel a lot better if this guy stop calling me runt and apologised for kicking me.” Spike got all big and pouty as he looked at Jack.

Jack scoffed.”I’m sorry for kicking you, but I’m not going to stop calling you runt. Compared to most dragons I’ve seen you’re a runt kid, so suck it up.”

“That’s a bit rude don’t you think, mister um… what was your name again?” Twilight asked, dawning another sheepish grin.

“It’s Jack, and for the record, when did I say I wasn’t rude?”

Spikes glare hardened, but as he stared, his gaze suddenly lightened as a cold sweat started dripping down his neck as he looked up at Jack. What was this? Fear? Terror? Whatever it was, Spike didn’t like it and all he could do was lock eyes with Jack as he backed away.

“What are you trying to do there Runt?” Each world was clear and cold, like someone just opened a freezer door and it was below two-hundred degrees.

“N-n-n nothing.” Spike barely managed to get those words out, it felt like he was falling under a paralysis spell. Lucky for him Twilight intervened.

“Alright boys, let’s get going.” Spike broke out of the the spell Jack had him under as the began to walk.

“Where to kid?” Jack asked.

Twilight looked at her scroll,levitating the parchment in front of her. “It says here that we should head over to Sweet apple Acres.”

Jack Nodded as he started to lead the way. He smiled as he let out a small chuckle. “This is going to be fun, it’s been awhile since I showed my head there. ”

It took them about thirty minutes to get them to the entrance of Sweet Apple Acres, apple tree’s as far as the eyes to see . Jack told Twilight it would take them about five more minutes to get to the farm house. They walked in silence the for the first few to minutes till Jack finally decided to break the silence..

“What did Celestia tell you about the people she picked to help in the celebration?” He asked, not bothering to look at her.

Twilight was caught off guard by Jack’s sudden inquiry.“Well, I know that you're in charge of drinks, a girl name AppleJack is in charge of food, and that she’s a terra being which means she’s very strong and is very good at working the earth, as most terra’s are. Then after her we will meet a girl named a Rainbow Dash -obviously an elemental- whose job is weather control. And she’s tasked with making sure that the sky is clear for the event.” Twilight Stop talking as her eyes turned to Jack. The man seemed to become more uneasy as they approached the barn. Then she notices something from Jack his left ear was twitching it got worst as they got about thirty feet from the barn house.

“She should see me about now.” Jack mumbled, Twilight looking to Jack in confusion.

“What do yo-,” she was cut off as the door flew off it's hinges as a blonde hair girl with a stetson on her head, checkered shirt, cut off jeans and cowboy boots came charging out holding a medium sized table, sporting a vicious scowl.

“JACK!”

Twilight looked at him as the girl threw the table at him with surprising speed. Twilight was ready to catch it with her magic, but to her surprise Jack was perfectly calm. Twilight was a little shocked as Jack caught it with one hand and gently placed it on the ground. He proceeded to repeat the act twice more as the matching wooden chairs joined the table

“Jack, todays the day ah beat you.” The girl Spoke with a southern accent. She walked up to the table as she rolled up her sleeves, Jack did the same as they both sat down.

“Jack, what's going on?” Twilight asked, eyes nervously darting back and forth between the two.

The blonde hair girl looked up at Twilight and smiled as she stood up , extending her her hand to be shaken.“Oh, sorry bout that, ah done forgot my manners. My name is AppleJack, but most folks just call me A.J.” Twilight grabbed A.J’s hand. She soon regretted it after thinking her shoulder was just dislocated by the tremendous amount of force put forth by woman.“As you can see, me and Jack here got a little score to settle.” She sat back in the chair and put her arm on the table. “For the longest time ah haven’t been able to beat his arm in a game of arm wrestling, but that changes today.”

Jack scoffed at her. “Sure kid, whatever helps you sleep at night.” Jack grabbed her hand and set his arm down, ready to go. “Twilight, would you and Runt judge this so she doesn't flip out over it later.”

A.J smiled. “Please, I got ya’ll this time.”

Twilight put her hand on top of there’s at this point just trying to go with the flow. What they didn’t notice was that more people were coming out to watch the event that was taking place.

Twilight got them ready. “ Three..two...one GO!” She let her hands go, the veins in A.Js forearm bulged, as she fought against Jack’s strength. But Jack just sat there, holding her hand in that one place, displaying little to no effort.A.J on the other hand was struggling quite a bit, as the veins in her neck looked like they would pop any second. Jack yawned as he slowly pushed her arm down until it touched the table.

Spike climbed up on said table and he yelled. “Jack is the winner.”

Jack stood up trying to leave but felt something pull on his shirt. He turned around to see A.J ready to go another round. Jack took his hands and rubbed his temples. “A.J, as much as I would like to sit here all day and beat you, I'm on a time crunch. You see I left Berry incharge and I already feel like she’s downed half of my stock.” Jack gestured to Twilight. “Now, if you don’t mind I have show the inspector hear what food you have so that we can move on.”

At this point the number of people surrounding them were around thirty and all of them gave a collective whine of disappointment as they dispersed.

A.J stood up and walked over to Twilight, an ear to ear smile on her face. “Well, sorry for all that, I guess this isn't the ideal way you wanted to check the food for the celebration now was it?”

Twilight smiled at the farm girl. “It’s alright, as long as the food is good everything should be fine.”

A.J smiled as she draped her arm around Twilight’s shoulder. “Well then, how about a taste test?”

(30 minutes later)

Jack and Spike were grinning as Twilight tried to hold in the mass amount of food in her stomach. She groaned as she glared at them once again, seeing Jack’s ear twitch.

“I’m so happy my pain is funny to you two.” Twilight growled.

Jack smiled. “Not our fault you didn’t have the guts to say no.”

Spike laughed. “He’s not wrong Twilight. Why didn’t say you already ate or something?”

“When did you get on his side Spike, I thought you didn’t like him?”

Before Spike could respond, a blur slammed into Twilight, knocking her into a puddle of mud. She looked up to see a dark pink eyed, rainbow haired girl wearing a blue tank top, black tights and sneakers with two bright blue transparent wings jutting out of her back.

They both stood up, both wet and covered with mud.

The elemental girl started floating up and laughing. “Sorry about that, here let me help.” She flew up onto the sky, bringing a dark storm cloud and started jumping on it. True, this helped her get the mud off, but now she was soaked. “Oops, here, this should work.” This time she flew around her making a small tornado. Although this did make her dry, now her hair looked like a swarm of bee’s had a party in it. The elemental started laughing at her, Twilight was not amused.

After almost a minute of laughing she finally calmed down. “Sorry about that, my name’s Rainbow Dash, what’s yours.”

“Her name’s Twilight Sparkle,” Jack said, “and she’s the inspector for the Celebration.” Jack walked up behind Rainbow and wrapped his arm around her waist.

Rainbow eye’s widen at Jack touch. She quickly pushed him off with a flustered look. “Jack, what are you doing here?”

Jack laughed. “I’m introducing the newby to the people in charge of preparations for the celebration.” Jack smiled at her as he stepped to Twilight side. “Aren't you supposed to have cleared the sky by now? The celebration is tomorrow.” Jack raised his right hand and pointed his index finger to the sky to the many clouds still hanging around. “And from the looks of it, the job was to much for you kid.”

Rainbow Dash eyes widened at the poke at her pride. She got into Jack’s face, floating a few inches off the ground so she was a little taller then him as she looked down at him. “Listen here you, I know for a fact that you’ve seen my skills first hand. And I know, that you know, that I could do it in ten seconds flat.”

Jack smiled at her as he poked her in her stomach. “I don’t know kid, you’re lookin a little pudgy to me.” Jack added with a smirk.. “If you can’t that's fine, but why don’t you prove me wrong?”

Rainbow Dash cheeks turned a furious shade of red as she huffed at Jack. “Fine, you asshole, I”ll show you, in fact, I’ll do it in nine seconds.”

Jack shrugged in response, causing Rainbow to redden even more. As she flew into the sky with remarkable speed, she punched and kicked each cloud, dispersing the puffs with each jab. . The whole sky was clean of every cloud in the sky.

Jack smiled as she floated down in front of him striking heroic poses and sporting a smirk of her own. “I told you I could do it.” Rainbow huffed.

“Oh I know,”said Jack, “but it's so fun, and even easier to screw with you.” Jack laughed as he slapped his hand on her shoulder. “Well, we should be going, let's go Twilight.”

Twilight was still trying to figure what just happen as Jack grabbed her by the arm, but, seeing as the sky was clear she didn’t pay much mind to it. Spike quickly followed suit.

Twilight's’ day so far had been rough as they walked into the ballroom the Celebration was being held as Spike checked decorations off the list while they walked in. “Beautiful,” the little dragon said.

“Yes,” Twilight said. “They are quite nice aren't they, this should be fast.”She said, looking over to Jack.

Jack laughed. “Sorry to break it to you, but he’s talking about her.” Jack pointed down the hallway to see a gorgeous l woman wearing spotless white pants suit, with long luxurious purple hair combed, brushed and groomed for ultimate perfection. She looked back up at Jack to see his ear was twitching again.

At this point Twilight found it odd, why did his ear keep twitching?

Twilight walked up to the woman as she noticed that she had light blue magic coming from her hand as enveloping several ribbons in the same blue aura, holding them in front of her face . “Good afternoon.” Twilight started for her only be cut off by by the woman.

“Just one moment please, I’m in the “zone” so to speak.” She brought a big red bow covered in sparkles to her face . “Ah sparkles always does the trick, does it not? Rarity you are a talented one, now how may I he-.”She started before gasping in sheer shock at the monstrosity that was Twilights hair. “Oh my stars, darling whatever happened to you cheveu?”

Twilight tilted her head in confusion, only to look up at her hair. “Oh you mean my hair?”

Jack started chuckling. “I’ll give you a hint,it rhymes with crash.”

Rarity looked over at Jack with a glare in her eye. Jack quickly froze up as she hastily approached him. “Jack, I can’t believe you would let this happen with the amount of pride you take in your own appearance , and your bar.”

Jack smiled as he shrugged. “Sorry, but I thought it would be funny, and in my defence, I was pretty right.”

Rarity glared at him for a few more moments before taking Twilight by the wrist and started to drag her away. “Rarity, where are you taking her?” Jack asked.

“Where do you think darling? Im taking her to boutique to fix her hair and maybe give her a makeover, with her pale skin she could use some makeup.” Twilight was about to interject but Jack got in front of them.

“Now Rars, I know how much you love giving makeovers, but she’s busy, plus you won't let her go if you think she has any juicy gossip about her home.”

“Now sweetie, Jack, why would I not let her go, where is she from?” Jack didn’t say anything he was smart enough to know when to keep his trap shut… Spike on the other hand.

“She’s from Canterlot.” Jack almost punted Spike then and there.

“We are trying to get that stupid list done not make it take all day you stupid runt!” Jack shouted at Spike

“Why, what’s going to happen?” Spike asked, confused.

Jack pointed to Rarity as her eyes widened in awe at Twilight.

“Canterlot?!” The fashionista squealed. “Darling you simply must tell me all about living in Canterlot.” Rarity gushed with the enthusiasm of a girl who just got asked out by her crush. Jack tried to grab Twilight and run, but before he could, Rarity used her magic and enveloped the man in a blue aura, causing Jack float in the air as she proceeded to open a nearby window and ever so gently toss him out of said window.

“Why would you do that?!” Twilight asked beyond confused at why this very lady-like woman would do such a brutish thing?

Rarity smiled at Twilight. “He’s fine dahling, he’s as tough as steel and then some. But to be frank I didn’t want him pressuring me to let you go out with hair like that.” She gestured to Twilight’s hair as she walked out of the hall Spike following in pursuit.

After several minutes of Rarity forcing her into new clothing, hairstyles, and asking her non-stop questions about Canterlot, Twilight finally had a moment of silence as Rarity left after Rarity left the room to retrieve an emerald for a dress Twilight was modeling at the moment.

“Psst.”

Twilight and Spike looked over to see a slightly scuffed up Jack waving his hand signaling them to hurry up. At that note, Twilight took off the dress, put on her regular clothing, and ran out with Spike under her arm. They quickly fleeing before Rarity realized they were gone.

(A few minutes later)

The three were on a dirt road by the time they stopped running. Twilight was dog-tired as Jack looked as cool as ice. He put his hand on Twilight's back as he began to speak.

“Sorry if she freaked you out. When ever she sets her mind to something you can’t really stop her.” Jack smiled at Twilight as she caught her breath.

“It’s alright,” she said through heavy deep winded breaths. “Let just get going. the next person is an elemental named Fluttershy.”

“Yeah, I know everybody on your list,” Jack said, removing his hand from Twilight. “I just didn’t know the order, after all I am working on it with them after all.”

Twilight nodded. “That makes sense,” she said looking at her list.

Jack put his right hand on her shoulder and with his other hand pointed down the dirt road. “If you follow this road you should find Fluttershy very easily. She likes to practice down this road by some weird looking tree that grows alongside the road.”

Twilight looked at him confused.

“Aren’t you coming with me?” she asked.

“Sorry kid, I got to get back to my bar. I'm scared Berry might have drank away my stocks of alcohol at this point.” And with a pat on her shoulder and a small nod to Spike, he left.

Jack was walking for about twenty minutes now and he figured he had five more till he reached the bar. But he decided to take a small detour down a dark ally way. Jack looked around to see garbage cans and boxes. He looked at the brick wall that was in front of him and turned around to see the entrance, the walked through was about fifteen feet from him now. “I know you can hear me, so you best get out of the shadows before I make you.” Jack smiled as he heard laughter coming from, well everywhere, until a bunch of shadows came together to form a massive woman that was at least seven feet tall. She wore black armor that covered her whole body excluding her face, biceps, thighs, and her stomach. Her hair looked like the night sky as it flowed down her back moving as if it had wind blowing through it.

She kept laughing for a little bit after showing herself until she spoke with one of the strongest voices Jack has heard in awhile. “Hello mortal, We are not surprise you could sense Us from the power We’ve been feeling from you.”

“The name’s Jack Wild, and do whom do I owe the pleasure?” Jack asked, looking her dead in the eyes.

She smiled, revealing a nasty set of fangs as she stared down at him.s. “Do forgive Us, We forgot Our manners, you see We’ve been away for far too long. Our name is Nightmare Moon and We have an offer for you Jack.”

Jack quirked an eyebrow.

“And what would that be, Miss Moon?”

“We would like you to be Our general in the revul-,”

“No,” Jack interrupted, a hint of rage and annoyance in his voice.

She sighed, giving an annoyed huff in response “Very well then, We have another offer for you then.”

“What?”

Nightmare Moon smiled at him. “Don’t interfere and We will spare this whole town from my wrath.”

Jack started to laugh hysterically, clutching his stomach. Nightmare Moon looked at him furiously, almost as if she was ready to pop a blood vessel. “What is so funny, Jack Wild?”

Jack looked up at her and wiped a tear off his face. “Its funny that you think you’re a threat. I know exactly who you are, Princess Luna.”

The dethroned ruler flashed over to Jack, closing the distance in seconds grabbing Jack by the throat, throwing him up against the wall to his left, and pinning him against it.

“How do you know that name?!” She asked, furry dripping through every word.

Jack smiled at her as he grabbed her wrist with his hand and started to squeeze. Her grip slowly loosen as her wrist started making crack and popping noises, releasing himself from her grip as she fell to her knees. Jack smiled down at her “You think you’re a threat to me?” Jack threw her to the brick wall. Jack loomed over her crumpled body. “But I like the fact that you have the gall to come to me and ask me to betray my friends, then you tell me to sit out of the up coming fight. When you start your war, you better be damn well sure that you can stop me at the start. Because if you don’t, you're the one I'm coming for first.” Jack slams his fist into the brick wall, his arm sliding in like butter.

Nightmare Moon held her wrist, the black armor covering it broken and shattered blood dripping from it. “How dare you!” She screamed. “You insolent man We shall make an example of you when We conquer this miserable kingdom !” Jack smiled a devil's grin at her as he turns and walks away.

“Good luck with that.” he said as Nightmare Moon vanished back into the shadows.

Author's Note

think this for rainbow dash wings but blue.