THE FIFTH DAY "PONYVILLE" (ALIEN HOTSPOT) 2:17PM

The doors were fully open, releasing a massive echo throughout the town as they came to a stop. The interior was blinding white, and Twilight had to put her hoof up to her face in an effort to block out some of the light. Some of her friends did the same, some squinted as they all gazed at the triangular spacecraft. A dark spot slowly formed in the light, followed by several more. They all were increasing in size, and it took a while before Twi realized that someone was walking up to them. All this happened as the deafening sound of hundreds of thousands of crafts flew above the triangle.

"Awesome..." Dash remarked, staring at the creatures from another planet.

The alien that was closest to everypony was also the tallest. It was at least a head taller than Anonymous, who had his eyes closed, trying to keep his composure. In their hands, the visitors had silver rectangles that looked similar to the device Anon used to scan Twilight's horn. The tall alien and it's five guards stopped a few meter from the ponies, looking down upon them.

The tall alien made a loud guttural sound, which nopony could decipher the meaning of, but they backed up just in case it was a sound of aggression. Anonymous made a similar sound in a quieter volume, starting a conversation with the alien. The words may have been impossible to interpret, but his face told the whole story. He was very excited.

Everypony watched as Anon ran up to the tall alien and spun them around in an enthusiastic hug, the visitor making a sound similar to laughter.

"Do you two know each other?" Fluttershy asked.

He ignored her and continued the odd sounds while holding the alien tight.

"You can speak English?" The tall being asked the ponies.

"I reckon you can speak it too." Applejack said, raising her head to get a better look at the alien's odd attire.

"Allow me to introduce myself, my name is SRB-54 and I'm here for MSH-33214's inspection."

"But, you two were hugging. Do you know each other?" Fluttershy repeated herself.

"Me and 54 used to date a few million years ago."

"Yeah, and you never returned my texts." She joked, pushing Anon away in a playful manner.

"Anon, you didn't tell me you had a girlfriend..." Twilight said, nudging him with her hoof.

"Eh, it was a while ago, I didn't think it mattered."

Rarity was practically on top of Anon's 'girlfriend', inspecting the illuminating fabric.

"My, this is quite fascinating. Would you mind teaching me how to make this material?"

"That all depends on whether or not the federation's emissary did their paperwork." She let out a fake cough. "Anon."

"It's a substitute name, they don't identify using numbers and letters."

"This is so wonderful! We used to just have one alien friend but now we have two!" Pinkie exclaimed, suffocating the female alien with a hug.

"And three! And four! And five! And Six..." Pinkie trailed off, hugging every one of the guards nearby.

"What do you mean 'paperwork'? I've never heard of any paperwork relating to aliens." Spike asked, checking nearby to see if he brought a Sci-Fi novel with him.

"If I don't get some paperwork done in ten hours, this planet will go into a state of Res Nullius. Which for those of you who aren't Twilight, it means whoever gets here first will own your planet."

"That's ridiculous, nobody owns our planet!" Twilight laughed, questioning her words as soon as they came out of her mouth.

"Actually..." The tall alien took the stack of papers out of Anon's hand and held it up in front of Twilight's face.

"He does."

Twilight made an unsure face while she read the papers that progressively developed into a state of shock.

"Why didn't you tell me you owned us?!" Twi smacked Anonymous with the stack.

He took a while to think up a response, and concealed a smile while he answered.

"I didn't think it mattered."

Dear Princess Celestia,

As you may have already seen, Equestria has recently been bombarded with alien ships. Anonymous assures us that they are not hostile and that they will be leaving shortly. The reason they have come is because they need to determine who owns our planet. I know, I laughed when I heard about it, but I've read the paperwork and it would appear that Anonymous is the rightful owner of, well... everything. My friends are keeping him and his investigator company while I write this. I hope that your subjects in Canterlot aren't panicked.

-Your faithful student,

Twilight Sparkle

Dearest Twilight,

Thank you for letting us know that we aren't under attack. I'm grateful that Princess Luna was asleep otherwise, she might have alerted the Equestrian army. As for Anonymous being the planet's keeper, he told me about it in private yesterday. He has established that while he owns the planet, he will allow our governments to run normally. I look forward to this all being over, not everypony in Canterlot will take my word that they come in peace.

-Sincerely,

Princess Celestia

THE FIFTH DAY "THE GOLDEN OAK LIBRARY" (ALIEN HOTSPOT) 2:42PM

'Why was she with Anonymous yesterday?' Twilight thought to herself as she read Celestia's letter.

She couldn't think with all of the noise from outside. Several spacecrafts had crashed into each other, not only making more noise but killing everyone involved. Twilight was horrified, but Anon and his investigator told her that aliens die everyday, and that they should have been more careful. It was on her mind for a while. The debris, where did it go? Their families, did they care? Would anybody notice they were gone in a world where there are too many creatures to count?

"See, form C-112 has all of the lines filled out." Anon told the investigator.

"You're only supposed to check one box right here." She pointed her finger towards the top of the second page.

Anonymous laughed and picked up a pencil to erase one of the boxes. He didn't care which one, he was too busy looking at her face. Her beautiful, hypnotic face. When she noticed, she blushed and turned her head down to the paper, looking for more errors.

"You know, SRB-54 isn't a common name. Could we call you something else?" Dash asked as she looked out the window at the invasion that was going on outside.

"S for Sarah, of course!" Pinkie exclaimed.

"Sarah sounds fine." She said, still blushing.

Twilight looked restless. "How long is all of this going to take?"

"What's the matter, you don't want more visitors?" Anonymous asked, skimming the lines of his contract.

"No, it's just... Not everypony knows that you're here. Some ponies don't even know that any aliens came out of The Flying Castle. And now, all of this? They're going to panic."

"Poor things." Sarah sympathized.

'I don't know what Anonymous was so worried about, she seems kinder than he does.'

"Why do all of the aliens we've seen so far look the same?" Spike asked Sarah.

"Coincidence. Me and 'Anonymous' aren't from the same planet, we're just similar. Other species look very different from us." She answered, flipping the pages.

"How's Allos doing?" Sarah inquired.

Twilight turned her head to attention, Anon hadn't mentioned having any friends, much less any aliens that didn't identify using numbers and letters.

He looked around the room to see who had heard her before he got closer to her. "They don't know yet."

"Oh man, you haven't told them about him? You also probably haven't told them you eat meat." Sarah jested in a loud voice, hoping everyone heard it. Immediately, Everypony put some distance between them and him.

"What?" Rainbow shouted, flying away from Anonymous.

"I don't eat horses, calm down." He informed them, hoping to defuse the situation.

"You really didn't tell them?" She asked, feeling a little guilty.

"Why would I? I knew this would happen."

Fluttershy trotted up to him.

"I said that you could tell us anything, and I meant it. Girls, don't hold it against him that he needs meat to survive."

Everypony started looking at each other before they started getting closer to him. Not everypony looked accepting of Anon's habits. They received a stare from Fluttershy that convinced them to change their feelings.

"Thanks, Fluttershy."

"Anytime."

"You could have told us earlier, then I wouldn't have forced you to eat hay!" Twilight said, a little disappointed in her alien friend.

Anon leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms, not wanting to be lectured about 'telling the truth'.

"Twilight, could I talk to you in the basement?" Sarah asked.

"Uhh, sure." She responded, a little concerned for her saftey.

"I highly recommend you completely redo this entire page, you didn't read at all." The alien investigator told him as she conducted Twilight down the stairs.

Everyone sat in awkward silence for a while before Spike broke the tension.

"What's your favorite kind of meat?"

"All meat is good meat."

THE FIFTH DAY "THE BASEMENT" (ALIEN HOTSPOT) 2:56PM

"I'm sorry that he can be untruthful at times, he's not the best of us." She said, sitting down on Anon's cot.

"It's alright, it's just that... Well, I trusted him to tell me everything."

"Well, you can't expect that, everyone's got secrets."

Twilight thought about the situation she was in. She didn't know anything about the alien upstairs for sure.

But... The alien's girlfriend was sitting right in front of her.

"How did the two of you meet?"

"Strip club on Xenon 3."

Twi blushed furiously, she didn't know that Anon went to those kinds of places. But she did now...

"Who's Allos?" Twi wondered out loud.

"I'm not sure he would like me telling you that..."

"But..." Sarah continued.

Twilight's ears perked up, apparently she would be getting some answers from her after all.

"I can tell you about when he was mortal."

"He wasn't always like that?" She asked.

"Everyone is born mortal."

"So, the year was 2154 on his home planet. They didn't have conventional space travel, and were pretty much confined to one of three nearby planets. "

"Interesting..."

"He was working at his company, filing forms if I remember correctly. Then, his fiance walked into the room."

"He had a fiance?"

"He used to be a very open person. Anyways, she was telling him about the completion of their latest project, a weapon of mass destruction."

"He never told me he worked on weapons for a living..."

"Jeez, he didn't tell you anything. So, his fiance threatened him, saying that he didn't support her and their kids. He didn't budge, he was very invested in his work and couldn't ignore it."

"Jerk..."

"He might have been able to do it, but he didn't. She came to his office when he was working overtime and yelled at him. She was upset that he was willing to watch his family suffer without putting up a fight. So mad, that she pulled out a gun and shot him."

"What? That's... That's... horrible."

"It is a sad story. Nobody checked his office, nobody found him."

"How is he alive? He should have died from the lead poisoning, and the loss of blood, and the shock--"

"Someone did find him, eventually. It was Allos, his only friend at the time. They couldn't wait for professional help since they would get there too late. So... He talked Allos through doing surgery on him right there."

"That might explain his high tolerance for pain..."

"He said it hurt more than anything he'd ever felt in his entire life. Feeling someone inside you, removing you, replacing you with metal."

"That's when he became immortal?"

"No, it extended his life, but he wouldn't become immortal until he found the federation a few centuries later."

"What happened to his fiance?"

"He returned the favor."

Twilight stared into empty space, terrified. Upstairs was a murderer. An invincible, heartless murderer.

"He regrets it, right?"

"No. And oddly enough, that's not the reason we didn't get married."

"What was the reason?"

"Commitment issues."

THE FIFTH DAY "THE GOLDEN OAK LIBRARY" (ALIEN HOTSPOT) 3:45PM

"Sign your full name here, initial here, and... Finished!" Sarah said, relieved.

Anonymous sighed and massaged his neck. "That was the most painful experience of my life."

"Alright, now that that's out of the way, we can get rid of all of these spaceships, right?" Dash yawned while speaking. An hour of paperwork wasn't fun for any of the ponies who stayed at Twilight's library.

"Indeed, just let me post the paperwork."

Anon hovered the rectangular device over the forms and pressed a few buttons. Five seconds later, the sounds of massive engines powering up filled Ponyville as the larger ships started to rise into space. A few seconds later, the smaller ships zipped up into the atmosphere. After a few minutes the only remaining ships were Anon's and Sarah's.

"Well, I guess this is goodbye." She regretfully informed everyone.

"It was fun while it lasted!" Pinkie jumped up and gave Sarah a hug that was less tight than last time..

They all said their goodbyes and she walked to the door, where Anonymous waited for her.

"I'm glad I got to see you again." He smiled at her.

"You're not thinking of making me stay, are you?"

"Nah, we've both got work to do."

Anon closed in on her right ear and held her tight.

"And when I'm done here, I'll find you. And we can be together again."

"No, I... I can't."

"What's the matter?"

Sarah started to choke up.

"You killed her..."

"I thought you had come to terms with that a long time ago."

Sarah looked around before she brought her eyes up to his. Trying to keep her composure, she placed her hands on his shoulders, and he did the same to her.

"Ganactic." She said, starting to break down.

Anonymous swallowed some saliva and let out a sigh.

"Ganactic, my friend."

She turned away and quickly ran out the door in distress, not wanting anyone to see her.

"What was all that about?" Rarity asked, ignoring the troubled Sarah run away to her craft.

"Alien customs. It means good health, good life, and go in peace."

"Well, sugarcube, at least you got to see an old friend for a while." Applejack remarked aloud, noticing Anon's unhappy face.

"Yeah. I did."

Author's Note

Anyone who can point out the two obscure references will become my favorite reader of all time.