After a rather brisk hot shower with Sweetie Belle, Dai had left the boutique in search of his caretaker, Princess Twilight Sparkle. The mare, formerly a unicorn turned alicorn had been his caretaker since arriving in Ponyville. He had been taken in by the young mare and living with her ever since. She was... suitable at taking care of him at least, but she had her annoyances that got on Dai's nerves, one of which had been her obsession with pleasing Princess Celestia. The soldier knew right away Celestia must have been a powerful individual from how tall she was, the power she seemed to radiate...

And the solitary fact that he saw a pony literally piss themselves upon sight of the alabastar alicorn.

No one does that unless that person is someone of significant importance.

But... back in the past he tried getting her attention, he was cockblocked by Twilight of course, telling him to be respectful to the princess.

Celestia had left shortly during Twilight's lecture about proper etiquette.

He had promptly thrown one of her books out a window.

He was grounded after that.

But, that was years ago, and everytime Celestia had come to the small farming community, he was always preoccupied somehow. Either with the crusaders, Twilight managing to keep him busy or having one of her friends keep him occupied like the foal he was. Needless to say, he was pissed constantly from their efforts, thinking he was going to bother the princess over something so trivial, he was sick of being treated like a child.

But alas...

He had no choice in the matter.

As he walked, his mind turned back to when he first arrived in Ponyville... that fateful day his life changed forever.

Afghanistan - Ghazni - 2026

Ensign Dai sat at outside Camp Echo in Ghazni, sighing to himself as he drank a Bud Light beer while listening to the radio nearby. It had been a month since the mission he was assigned where he had to ambush a convoy heading across a weakened overpass, he had gotten to a good place to snipe... and was about to destroy the support and destroy the enemy convoy...

Only for an A-10 Thunderbolt II to zip overhead and drop enough payload to effectively level the area he was in. It had been fast, and without warning and for some reason he wasn't told by anyone. Dai had been trapped under the rubble of the twenty story hotel he was in for a week, and had to slowly dig his way out. Thankfully he had only broken just his arm, truly a miracle, he thought with enough sarcasm to level a orphanage.

After getting out, and making a very lonely thirty mile trek he met up with some marines who drove him up to Ghazni where he was patched up. Afterards he learned that the A-10 was sent in because of some false intelligence that Dai had failed in his mission, and they went with their backup plan.

Which was bomb the shit out of everything, cause America fuck yeah! Dai had thought, before mentally bitch slapping whoever sent that damned plane.

For now he was given orders to remain in Ghazni and help out Camp Echo to the best of his abilities, which so far... was mainly keeping the locals at bay and making sure there were no unauthorized people inside the camp. The base itself was rather large, with soldiers hailing from just about every branch of the United States Military soldiering around.

Dai was just lazing around, having nothing better to do then drink...

That and he was off duty, so he could do whatever the fuck he wanted.

After a bit more drinking, an Army Ranger ended up stalking over to him... and to his great misfortune it was a woman who, despite her different branch, always seemed to be able to find him on the battlefield, back on the mainland, anywhere. Quite frankly, she was a bitch in his mind, an annoying one who got away with too many morally questionable things in firefights.

The woman was two years young then he was, wearing a tank top and fatigues, along with a baseball cap with sunglasses on top. She had a decemnt figure for a woman her age, nice toned ass and a decent set of tits... and judging from her shirt, she wasn't wearing a bra either. "Well hello Dyke~" The woman cooed, taking a seat nearby and looking at him. Dai just leveled his blue eyes at her, narrowed as he held his bottle in his hand. "Oooo there it is, that infamous Blue Eyed Stare~ How many Afghani's do you give that too before you put some lead between their eyes?"

Dai just stared at her. "None of your business, I don't have to tell you shit." He told her, emptying his bottle and putting it beside him in a small bucket, which had another empty bottle in it.

"Aww, why not? Afwaid I'll tell someone ewlse?" She cooed once more, her green eyes locking onto his own. "Come on, we're both hardened soldiers! Share some stories with me~ Maybe I'll suck your cock afterwards, give you a nice blow~" She offered, tugging down her tank top a little and showing the top part of her cleavege.

"... You do know I have a girlfriend, right?" He asked, raising an eyebrow at the woman who just pulled down her tank top a little more in response, and showing him her perky pink nipple.

"Come on~ You know you wanna nail me!" She chuckled, letting her tank top slip back up as she bounced a little, showing how deliciously jiggly her breasts her, even going so far as to squish them together with her arms as she leaned forward. "I bet you think about me~ All alone up on your sniper's perch, wondering just how tight," She gasped silently, "And juicy I am, ooo~" She squeaked.

Dai was not amused.

Thus, he pulled out his cell phone.

"Mind being a slut somewhere else?" He asked, dialing a number on his phone. "I need to talk to my girlfriend, and I'd rather your slutty whorish ways not block my signal." The man told her as he stood up and walked over to a nearby tower, with the woman in hot pursuit.

"Oh come on, forget your girlfriend and let's go fuck!" She said, "You, me, no condom~ You get to feel me all nice and wet, I'll even let you grope me if you wan-" She was cut off when Dai spoke again.

"Abubububu, shut up, go away, thank you and goodbye." He said, spitting on the ground nearby as the woman fumed.

"God you are one of the worst guys I've ever met!" She muttered before turning away and strutting off. "I'm practically throwing myself at ya and you don't even flinch... pfft..."

Dai wasn't listening to her, instead waiting for his phone to connect. He waited and waited, only he heard the beeping noise of a text coming through, he rose an eyebrow before pulling his phone away from his ear and looking at the screen...

That was the last thing he saw before his world went white, and a loud piercing noise echoing through his ears and he tasted dirt.

"AMBUSH!"

"They're everywhere! Fuck!"

"Get on that MG Stevens! Remirez, move!"

He heard the screams after the ringing stopped, but everything was blurry and muffled as he heard the whistling of explosions, the thudding of bombs impacting the dirt and sand, and the screams of those caught in said explosions. Dai used everything he had to get up onto his feet and take cover, and pulled out his sidearm before slumping against the wall.

He would have continued his train of thought...

But then it ended...

Ponyville - 2030

Dai's train of thought ended when he came up to the Friendship Castle, a fruity name if he ever heard one. The entire world, was a cartoon to him, everything worked in such an odd way that it threw him off at times, like how Pinkie broke the laws of physics and reality just for a silly prank, to make food, or just pop up in a completely different place.

That, and she constantly popped up behind him to scare him, because she thought it was funny...

"HIYA DYKEY!"

Like now for instance.

"GAAH FUCK!" Dai screamed, shooting up into the air in shock and falling over into some bushes with a yelp pf pain.

"Hahaha!" Pinkie giggled loudly, covering her mouth with a hoof as she peered into the bush, staring at the blue eyed thestral... who glared burning hot daggers at her.

"Goddamn it Pinkie Pie!" Dai screamed, climbing out of the bush and glaring at the mare, who just smiled at him. "I told you not to do that! No means no! Not continue!"

Pinkie just smiled. "Hehehe, but it's so funny!" She told him as the doors to the castle opened up, and Twilight peeked out.

Upon spotting her charge, Twilight smiled. "Oh, you're here! Great!" Twilight said before her magic wrapped around the colt, who began flailing.

"Gah! Put me down! I can walk damn it!" Dai yelled, wide eyed from how high up he as Pinkie just watched him and Twilight ignored his protest.

"Now come along, I've got some questions to ask ya!" Twilight said as she trotted back into the castle, followed by Pinkie Pie who led the two... well, one inside while forcibly carrying the other.

Dai just grumbled loudly, crossing his arms together and glaring at the back of Twilight's head as she carried him into the castle. He had no idea why she wanted him, but if he had to guess, it either involved asking him about his past, his family or why his name isn't pony friendly.

That's right, they all thought his name wasn't real either, and tried to get him to tell them his real name. Something he found idiotic, because he wasn't about to change his name, even for these ponies. His body was taken from him, but his mind remained, as well as his memories and his name.

Dai Kitana.

Passing by some doors and an odd break dancing Spike that made Dai raise an eyebrow, he was seated in a room with couches, chairs, and a table and fireplace. Twilight sat opposite of him on a nice plush pallet as Dai was on a beanbag chair, and he made a mental note to get one, because the one he was on was soft as all hell.

"Okay," Twilight started, pulling out a notebook that Dai recognized.

He groaned.

"This again?" Dai asked, rubbing the bridge of his muzzle. "I told you before, Dai is my real name. Dai Kitana, not whatever horseshit you have in that book."

"Now come on, Dai Kitana is such a silly name, and certainly not a pony name." Twilight told him matter of factly, making him raise an eyebrow. "Sounds like something in one of Rainbow's silly video games."

"Oh? So you're telling me that, basically if you met a creature named say... John Stamos, it would be silly?" Dai asked, getting a look from Twilight. "What if you met another pony and their name was something like Richard? Or Sarah? Of Mikey?"

"W-well... that would be... odd, to say the least." Twilight said, tapping her chin as she opened up her book. "But that's no-"

"Odd? So their choice of having a different name that isn't something related to their special talent is odd?" He asked, raising an eyebrow as Twilight looked at him again.

"Wait, what?" Twilight asked.

"Oh please, half of the ponies I see, I've heard their names and I can tell it has something to do with their special talent or something to do with how they look." He pointed to Pinkie Pie, who was balencing on a ball. "Pinkie Pie, she's pink and just so happens to work in a bakery where pies are made. Pinkie Pie." He enunciated her name, as the mare in question giggled. "And take Rainbow Dash, her mane and tail are rainbow colored, hence her first name, and Dash comes from how fast she moves when in the air or on the ground. And put them both together and you have that funky ass trail of rainbow she shits out when she's flying really fast." Dai continued, not even noticing Twilight's odd look. "And your name, Twilight Sparkle, a bit tougher for me to figure out but I got it. Twilight Sparkle, because of that ass tattoo on your flank, and I guess it has something to do with how talented at magic you are, that and when its twilight, time wise it tends to be a little bit purple." He finished.

Twilight stared at Dai for a few seconds, before writing down something. "Regardless... your self given name isn't... appropriate to help us find your family," She told him after scanning through her book, making Dai facehoof. "So... is your name... Ravan Fire?"

"Nope." Dai told her, sighing as he leaned back, rubbing his temple.

"Wind Swept?"

"No."

"Inferno Blast?"

"Nada."

"Nighthawk?"

"As awesome as that sounds, no." Dai blinked. I actually like that one, why couldn't she have asked me that one earlier, that sounds badass.

"Okay, how about..."

Dai groaned... This is going to take forever.

An Hour Later

An hour of name guessing, and Twilight slumped back in her chair while Dai was looking at his hoof, as if inspecting it as Pinkie snored nearby. Twilight had tried as many names as she could find that were Thestral given, but none of them fit the young colt... that or he was lying, which Twilight was pretty sure he was doing, just to mess with her.

Regardless...

"Okay... I give up... for now, anyway." Twilight said, closing her notebook and sending it away with a flash of magic. "Time for the next part."

That got Dai's attention, making him raise his eyebrow at the mare who stood up and shook out her body. Dai couldn't help but notice how certain parts jiggled slightly, such as her rump for example, making it look nice and plush. He shook his head however, the last thing he needed was explaining why he got a boner... or why he was refusing to get up. "What now?"

"Follow me~" Twilight chirped, making Dai roll his eyes before hopping out of his beanbag chair, giving his body a slight shake and causing his wings to flap a little before he followed the older mare.

Dai and Twilight trotted out of the room, heading down a hall as Twilight walked with a slight bounce.

Giving the young colt a nice glance at her rear.

Damn it, these ponies have no idea... Dai thought as he got a nice glance at her rear, the slightly bouncing flesh and her swaying tail. While he did despise Twilight at times, she had a decent body...

Granted, over time since coming here, the to had developed a sort of... sibling bond so to speak, with near constant bickering, so it felt kinda weird to be thinking about her sexually... but he did it anyway. Twilight also babied him at times whenever he got hurt, but he felt... touched, but nonetheless he accepted his fate. Granted it felt nice to have someone to lash out at and they weren't going to bitch about it later, Twilight didn't seem too bothered by it... in fact she seemed to enjoy it at times.

After awhile, the two arrived at a door that Twilight opened up, and when they went inside Dai saw it was a massive open room with a very tall ceiliing and open space.

There wasn't even any furniture...

But there was Rainbow.

"Uhm... why did you bring me in here? And why is Rainbow here?" Dai asked, looking away from Twilight's rear to look over at Rainbow, who had a little smirk on her face.

Twilight just smiled. "Well Dai~" Rainbow said, grinning further. "I'm going to teach you how to fly!"

Dai just stared at Rainbow...

And one solitary thought ran through his mind in that moment...

...

Nope.

Author's Note

To fly or not to fly.

That is the question.

Also, I was going to post this sooner, but I;m having internet troubles, sorry!
I am also unsure of Dai's rank in the Navy... is Ensign correct?

Forgive me if I am wrong.

Enjoy!