I saw the mushroom cloud engulf the sun as it created its own.

The rush of radiated wind brushed through my hair as I could hear the screams.

They just wouldn't stop fucking SCREAMING, they burrowed through my ears and made nests in my head. My eyes were waterfalls as I saw the bones and ashes of people surround me, the sight burned into my eyes like a TV that was left on for a long time. I feel my skin scorch from the atomic heat as I see figures in the distance, I slowly walk towards them without a care in the world, the heat became hotter and hotter as I got closer to the strangers. The waterfall ceases to flow as I see more and more of the figures...

It was a family, two adults and a small child held in their arms. the adult's faces were blurred like nothing wanted me to see them but the child was unblurred, it looked familiar but I couldn't place my hoof on it. I wanted to look at them more but they faded into ash and floated away.

I hear a loud screeching causing me to spin around, I see a zombie-like person with a gas mask lunge at me with its arms flailing toward me, I step back and wait for it to pounce me but it freezes mid-air all of sudden. I tilt my head in confusion as I hear a woman's voice "It will be fine my subject, tis but a dream"

I wake up to a loud whistle and screeching breaks as the train comes to a stop, I sit up and look around to see that everypony else was also just waking up. I roll out of the sofa I was sleeping on as I pick up my sweater and put it on, leaving it unzipped as I strap on my saddlebags. I suppress a yawn as I lazily walk out of the train behind the girls who seemed to be fully awake already.

Rainbow and Flutters slow down a bit and walk beside me before Rainbow Dash asks me "Did you hear of the Talent show next week?" My ears perk up as I shake my head no "Well you should sign up for it, in fact, we should start a band!" Rainbow practically shouted, drawing a few eyes before they went back to their own things.

I chuckle at her enthusiasm before I answer her "That would be nice, could actually start a little career with that... But who is going to join us?"

Rainbow gives a big toothy smile before saying "Well, I could play the guitar and-"

She was cut off by Fluttershy who said: "I can play the bass..."

I raise my brows at Flutters who blushed and hid behind her mane, I chuckle once more before saying "You're free to join Fluttershy, So we got guitarist and bassist so all we need is a drummer..." I shrug before we finally arrive at Twilights library, we went inside to see Spike snoozing on a pile of comic books. I smile as I sit down on a couch as the girls talked about the little adventure we went on.

I felt the side of couch get weighed down causing me to turn to my right, where I see Spike sitting beside me, wiping the tiredness out of his eyes. I give off a slight smile as I lay back into the sofa, "I know we don't talk a lot but you seem like a pretty cool dude..." Spike says as he looks up at me.

I chuckle as I look back down at him before saying "If you've been through what I've been through, you would say I'm a god damn angel"

Spike laughs as he crosses his legs on the couch before asking "So you're pretty much an alien, huh?"

"You could say that, but I might just be a pony forever, sure is a hell of a lot better than being hunted down by everything..." I reply as I scratch my stomach, I look back to the girls to see them laughing at whatever they're talking about. I look to Spike to see that he was eyeing my hoodie, he realizes he was caught staring so he frantically looks away to hide his embarrassment. I roll my eyes as I say "Just ask it... It'd be pretty hard to offend me or make me mad"

He lets out a sigh before asking "Why do you wear that sweater all the time? You never take it off."

I chuckle as I respond "One, I like it" I take off the sweater, exposing the maze of scars lining my torso "Two, to hide these" Spike stared in awe as he reached out to touch them but I quickly put my sweater back on. I look at the clock to see it's nearing the 12 PM so I decided it would be best to get going, "I gotta get going Spike, I'll see you around."

I get up from the couch and head to the exit before saying to the girls "I gotta go, Blazing Heart can't make a shipment of guns by himself..." I was about to exit before I remember something "Oh, Flutters and Rainbow, come by the gun shop around 6. " They all said their goodbyes as I exit out the front door

I began to walk to my gunshop, greeting other ponies as I moved along. I look down at my hooves for a second before I feel somepony bump into me, I look up to see the local school teacher on the ground, dazed. I immediately feel bad so I apologize "Oh, I'm so sorry."

She shakes herself out of her daze before she looks up at me "Oh my gosh, I'm sorry!" She tries to get up but has a little difficulty so I help her up by holding her in my magic and placing her on her hooves.

"No it's my fault, wasn't looking where I was going," I say before offering my hoof "Names Ray Joseph but call me Ray"

She shakes my hoof as she introduces herself "My name is Cheerliee, the teacher at the school house and aren't you the alien who opened that new shop?" I nod my head with a chuckle before she looks to have a eureka moment and asks "You wouldn't have some time in your schedule? I'm sure the kids would love to hear some stories or teach them some things from your world"

I think about it for a second before realizing I can teach kids gun safety, I nod my head again as I reply "Sure, is tomorrow a good?"

Her mouth spreads into an ear-to-ear smile before saying "It's perfect, I'll see you tomorrow then" I nod once more before we both go our different ways.

After walking for a few more minutes I finally make it back to my beloved gun shop and I internally give a sigh of relief that it's not burnt to the ground, I open the front door causing a small bell to ring and Derpy to look up from the cash register "Oh, hey. How was your trip?" Derpy asked as she closes one of the counter cabinets.

"Just fine and dandy, though I could use a drink," I say with a chuckle which Derpy joins in on. I then ask "How many customers?"

Derpy takes a few seconds to think before answering "4 to 5 customers, most of them purchased melee weapons except for one. Vinyl Scratch came in and got a handgun, a... M1911 I think? She also bought two boxes of ammo and 4 magazines."

I raise my brow, since when did she get a License? I quickly ask "And her License was legit?" She smiles and nods so I nod back and say "Well keep up the good work, might consider giving you a raise." She seemed to get really excited about that as she was wearing a wide smile, I was paying her around 20 bits an hour which is surprisingly a lot in this economic system considering a bucket of apples is 8 bits so a double of her wage would be generous.

I walk into the workshop in the back and saw that Liam was working on something at his workbench so I trot over to him while saying "How goes it?" He turns around for a second before looking back into his work.

"It goes..." he says as he picks up a screwdriver before fiddling around with it. I look at what he's working on and see that he's making a gold-plated trench shotgun.

I go wide-eyed before asking "Who the fuck requested this?"

He shrugs before replying "Filthy Rich, the towns rich snob"

"Of course that asshole wanted something like this, His license good?" I say causing Liam to nod his head in agreement. I shake my head before asking "And how much is he paying?"

He places the screwdriver back where he got it before picking up and inspecting it "Around 3000 bits... I don't want to give him the gun but business is business, I think he's doing some kind of underground crime shit, Like the stuff you hear about in Manehatten. Wouldn't surprise me if he is working for some mob boss in that place."

I shrug before walking to my workbench, I set down my saddlebags next to it before sitting in the chair. I look at the untouched and unfinished Kalashnikov before I suddenly see my father holding it up for me to see, He would sometimes take me to his workplace and showed me some of the guns there. I shake my head lightly to rid my head of the memory flashback before whispering "Бог благословит вас, отец (God bless you father)".

I suddenly think back to Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash before asking Blazing Heart "Hey, do you know anyone who can play the drums?"

I look at Blazing to see him looking at me before he answered "I know who to play, been playing since I was 4"

Convenient. I nod my head before asking once more "So... I know two ponies who are trying to start a band, You maybe wanna join?"

His ears swivelled a bit as he thought before shrugging and saying "Why not, It'd be a good hobby besides building guns" We both chuckle before I begin to finish the AK-47. I worked on the Russian assault rifle for a few hours: milling out the metal, putting pieces to make bigger pieces, putting those pieces into the frame and so on.

I wipe my brow as I stare down at the completed beauty that is the AK-47, I smile as I head over to a small two stall firing range. I pull on the charging handle a few times to test it before loading a magazine with only one bullet in it. I chamber the round and aim for the bullseye on the target which was around 20 feet away. I slow my breathing before pulling the trigger, the gun successfully fires and I surprisingly hit the center of the target. I look at the rifle before giving it a kiss on the wood handle and saying "Beautiful"

I turn around to see Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash staring at me with their heads tilt in confusion, I smile and say "How's it going ladies?"

"It's going good, you seem to be... Happy" Rainbow said with Flutters nodding in agreement

I go to my gun locker and open it up, I take out my Tar-21 and stare at it for a second before asking "Hey Liam, want this?"

He looks up from the golden shotgun and sees my old assault rifle being offered to him, he smiles and takes it in his magical grip before gently placing it in his empty gun locker, he looks to his project before asking "Hey, what about the 2 ponies you said wanted to start a band?"

I was about to respond but Rainbow beat me to it "Those two were us, in fact, we were just picking him up so we could start our first jam session and practice for the talent show next week. All we need is a drummer"

Blazing smirked before saying "Well you got a drummer right in front of ya"

Rainbow smiled as she said, "Well what are we waiting for, let's go!" She zooms out the door with her wings and Fluttershy soon follows, leaving me and Blazing to look at each other before we both shrug and he walks out the door after them.

I look to Derpy and say "Hey, we're closing up early, lock it up and relax at home" Derpy nods before grabbing the door keys from under the cash register, I exit out the door with Derpy in tow and wait for her to lock the door before beginning my walk to Fluttershy's cottage. After the non-eventful walk to the cottage, I arrive to see all the creatures doing their animal things and the others waiting by the shed. I catch up to them and open the door to see multiple gardening tools but I pay them no mind as I head into the next room.

I open the door to the studio which was dark at first until I flicked the light switch. Inside were the instruments and equipment with sound foam covering the walls so the sound wouldn't disturb the animals. I walk in and wait for the rest of the band to enter. I hear Liam whistle as he goes over to the drumset which had a lot of stuff added to it
he sits on the stool, he stares at the drums before he uses his magic to move it around to his liking, he picks up the drumsticks in his magic and tests each drum and cymbal before going on a little solo.

I chuckle before I hear a low strum so I look to Fluttershy to see the bass plugged in and held in her wings.

she strums each string before tuning it a bit. Satisfied with the tuning she plays a familiar riff. I smile as I hear her play, I watch her feathers strum the strings as Flutters begins to bob her head to the timing. She stops playing and quickly hides behind her mane in embarrassment, I stomp my hoof as an applause and everypony else joins in on the applause.

I look to Rainbow who picks up the black and white electric guitar.

She plugs it in and grabs the pick, she plucks the strings with her pick in her feathers. She gives a few more strums before doing her own riff, Dash giggles before they all look to me.

I tilt my head side to side before picking up the acoustic guitar.

I check if the strings are tuned before I go on my riff. I get a round of applause for my performance so I smile, I set down the acoustic guitar before saying "Alright down to business, what type of song do you guys want to do: Soft or heavy?"

"I want to do Heavy," said Rainbow Dash

"Same here," Blazing said

"I can do Heavy," Flutters said surprisingly

I nod my head before saying "Guess its settled. I learned a spell called memory insertion, I can essentially insert song tabs into your head to spare you from the frustration of learning and fighting over how to make a song." They nod so I begin the spell, my horn began to glow and strings of magic began to flow out of my horn and into everyponys head. After a few seconds, I stop the spell and I look at everypony to see if they are alright.

They seemed fine so I go to the microphone and turn it on before asking "Everypony got it?"

They nod so I look to Fluttershy to start the song, she hits a few notes before I begin to sing

"Choices always were a problem for you.
What you need is someone strong to guide you.
Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow,
What you need is someone strong to guide you.
Like me, like me, like me, like me."

Blazing and Rainbow followed along to my singing perfectly so I give them a nod before I continue

"If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me now
Don't you judge or question.
You are broken now, but faith can heal you.
Just do everything I tell you to do.

Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow.
What you need is someone strong to guide you.
Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow.
Let me lay my holy hand up, hand upon you."

I began to sway my head to the beat as the others go along with the song, I brought my mouth close to the microphone and began with a whisper

"My God's will becomes me.
When he speaks, he speaks through me.
He has needs like I do.
We both want to rape you."

I raise my voice and roughen it up as the instruments kick up

"Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life now
Open my eyes and blind me with your light now

Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life now
Open my eyes and blind me with your light now"

The tempo slowed down as Fluttershy strums some stings as I whisper

"If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me now
Don't you judge or question.
You are broken now, but faith can heal you.
Just do everything I tell you to do.

I bend the microphone forward as I raise my voice back up and the others follow along

"Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life now.
Open my eyes, blind me with your light now.

Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life now.
Open my eyes, blind me with your light now.

Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow,
Let me lay my holy hand up, hand upon you."

I take the microphone off its stand and prepare my lungs as the next lyrics come up

"My God's will becomes me.
When he speaks, he speaks through me.
He has needs like I do.
We both want... TO RAPE YOU!"

I hunch forward and scream until my lungs burn but I don't let that stop me and I go as long as I can before my voice slowly fades out, I swing around to the drums and begin to headbang to the guitar notes till the song ends. I wipe my forehead before laughing which I am soon joined by everypony else.

Fluttershy suddenly blurts out "That was fucking awesome" She covers her mouth and blushes.

I roll my eyes before walking over to her, I take the bass guitar off of her before picking her up in a hug "Fucking awesome it was and you were great" Fluttershy calms down with a giggle as I set her back down.

I look to Rainbow who was setting her guitar back onto the stand, she stretches and yawns before saying "Well, this was fun. If we are going to win this talent show, we'll need some animated backgrounds for that visual pleasure, routines, outfits and so on."

I nod and look to Liam who was looking at the drumset and walking around it like he was inspecting an art piece, he looks to me and smiles while saying "Great drumset, might add some design to it. When will our next jam sesh happen?"

I think about it for a second before answering "How about two days from now, gives us time to think things through"

They all agree with 'yeah' before Fluttershy yawns as well so I say "Guess we could use some rest, we all got things to do tomorrow." They nod so I turn off the microphone before waiting for everypony to leave the shed. After no one else was inside, I flick the light switch and turn the lights off while closing the studio door and exiting the shed.

Fluttershy and I say goodbye as Rainbow and Liam trot home. I look to Fluttershy who has already begun to walk to the cottage, I quickly catch up with her and follow her inside the cottage. Fluttershy opens the door and quietly steps in with me in tow, I sit on the couch with a sigh and I'm soon joined by Fluttershy with cups of water. "I think you would like this" Fluttershy says as she hands me the cup of water, I smile before taking a few chugs of water leaving the cup about a quarter full, I set down the cup and sigh once more before looking at Fluttershy who was taking a sip.

She sets down the cup before she looks me in the eyes. We stare for a few seconds before she sets her head against my shoulder, burying her nose into my neck. I sigh happily as I wrap a forehoof around her back. We cuddled each other for a few minutes before I feel a pair of lips against my cheek so I look to Flutters to see her with a smirk and half-lidded eyes, I smirk back before I lean in and give her a peck on the lips.

I try to lean away but I'm pulled back into a passionate kiss, taking me by surprise. I stare wide-eyed in a bit of shock at her for a second but I just go with it and close my eyes while I enjoy the kiss. I feel a wet muscle pressing against my lips, begging for entrance so I part my lips a bit and allow her to enter. We wrestle our tongues together in a tongue war, both of us trying to gain dominance over the other.

We go for around two minutes before we part the tongue kiss, letting air refill our lungs before I pick up Fluttershy in my hooves and carry her upstairs into her room, letting our primal instincts take the night away.

Author's Note

I'm kinda making up the economic system and going off things I've seen in the show since the conversion of Bits to CAD/US money not really clear. I had a brain fart and couldn't think of the name for a shed, irrelevant but funny.
Anyways I'm back and things are getting hot and heavy~ ;3