Heroes travels

The next couple of hours were filled with questions and answers from both species. The ponies were told more about Ashley's life and what his planet was like. Let's just say they didn't like what they were hearing with all the killing, starvation, diesease and hatred. One of the biggest shockers for the ponies was the fact that the sun and the moon raised by themselves as well as no control of weather and animals took care of themselves.

They were disgusted about all the evil on Ashley's planet. The human told them about some of his adventures of him and Callum. One particular event he remembers was a prank they performed on a friend.

The victim was a stoner, a drinker but an alright guy to hang out with when he didn't have any of these. One time, the friend was completely drunk and walked to Ashley's house at 3:30am-ish and knocked on the door. Ashley peered out the window after being woken up to see his friend vomiting on his door before walking off. Ashley told Callum about the incident and they decided to perform the following

Step 1: Acquire black clothing, black ski masks, katana (easy to obtain due to a close friend of Ashley's being a weapons collector who was more than happy to help) and Russian phrases they could use as threats.

Step 2: Get the victim either stoned / drunk and kidnap him and lock him Callum's tool shed at night.

Step 3: Use the katana to threaten the victim as well as shouting the Russian threats to scare the crap out of him and make him do embarrassing things.

Step 4: after about an hour of doing so, make it look like they were going to kill the victim but at the last second. Reveal themselves and get the victim to clean up the vomit on the door.

Step 5: Get drunk and party together.

The ponies didnt find this very funny except Rainbow Dash who couldn't stop laughing. She raised her hoof in the air towards Ashley who highfived / hoofed her. Ashley was felt like he knew Rainbow Dash his entire life...

It was midnight. Luna's moon hung brightly in the sky as it was surrounded by starts in the sky. Fluttershy went home a couple of hours ago while Ashley and Rainbow talked the hours away. Twilight was taking notes as well as taking part in the conversation.

Callum started to wake up. A pounding headache greeted him, he tried to move his hand towards his forehead but it had limited movement. He looked at what was causing this to find out he was tied to the table by his limbs. All he could remember was him about to kill the pony-like thing before something hit him on the back of the head with a sheer amount of force.

"HEEELLLLOOO!?" he cried out...he could faintly hear voices upstairs...

The 2 ponies ears perked as they heard something, Ashley also heard something and decided to walk down to the basement in which the 2 ponies followed.

Callum shifted his eyes to the stairs to see a shadow moving towards him. It grew closer to the light to reveal his best friend and he didn't look very happy.

"Oh thank god your here, get me out of this thing so we can get out of this place" Callum's voice grew quieter as the 2 ponies made there way into the light. "What the fuck!?" his expression turned to confusion

"Glad to see you awake Callum" Ashley said as he crossed his arms "nice job I did on you eh? quite proud if I must say so myself" he pointed towards the rope holding down his friend

"So this is Callum? he is quite violent from what I can tell" Twilight whispered to Ashley and Rainbow but Callum still heard her

"Wait...How does it know my name?! The fuck is going on Ashley?!" Callum tried to pull himself up but the rope restricted him

"Calm down and I will explain...then I will untie you" replied Ashley. Callum stared at him before releasing a sigh, staying quiet for about a minute before saying anything.

"Okay...I'm calm"

"Good, now then. When you were about to kill Twilight here" making a gesture towards Twilight "I woke up and saw a nearby heavy book. I just couldn't stand there and let you kill something which was innocent so I knocked you out which im sorry about by the way"

"That's fine...I think I overreacted...continue with your story"

"After which I untied Twilight and tied you up. I communicated to her by writing on paper until it came to the point I communicated verbally. She was quite welcoming even though what she just witnessed. She was curious about our species so I answered some questions..."

Callum just laid there in silence, processing what his friend just said. He couldn't bring himself to apologising because he was trying to protect his friend not to mention that the name Twilight reminded him of something that Ashley has told him about before. "What happened next?" he asked.

"Well...I told her about that we humans eat both meat and plants and told her what meats both you and I eat to avoid any confusion" Ashley walked over to the table and started to untie the knots. After the first one which held down one of Callum's arms. Callum moved the newly free arm around to gain feeling back in his arm. "I came to check up on you and then I heard yelling upstairs so I went to check what was going on"

At this point Rainbow looked away from the event taking place as she knew what was going to be said.

"Then I took a headbutt from this pegasus" he pointed to Rainbow Dash "which had enough force to make me vomit twice" he untied the other arm which allowed Callum to sit himself up. Callum rubbed his back with his hand due to lying on a hard surface for so long before untying one of his legs as Ashley done the other.

"Where did it hit you?" questioned Callum

"First, you mean she and second of all...she hit me in where it hurts the most for a man"

Callum sat there confused for a couple of seconds before getting what Ashley just implied "Ouch...that must've hurt, are you okay?" showing his concern for his friend

"Oh it did...couldn't move much due to the pain but i'm fine now" responded Ashley.

Callum slid himself off the table, slowly putting his wieght onto his legs and used the table as support. He rubbed the back of his head to find some blood on his hands which he showed to Ashley with concern.

Ashley turned to Twilight "do you have any bandages?". Twilight replied with a nod and made her way upstairs. Callum walked up to Rainbow Dash and examined her body. Mostly to see her mane and tail which he pointed towards with his finger

"Nice dye job"

Rainbow Dash replied with an unamused look "It's natural..."

Callum shrugged and contiue to examine the ponies body. His eyes were drawn to the image on it's behind, again which he pointed at with his finger "Hey Ashley, its the exact same thing on your handgun"

Rainbow turned her head to look at her cutie mark "That's my cutie mark and why do you have it on whatever you just said...in fact, what is a handgun and why does it have my cutie mark!?"

Ashley searched his bag to find his handgun and inspected the grip, he looked back and forth beween it and Rainbow's cutie mark "Well I be, that is something. Rainbow, promise to keep this quiet?"

She nodded her head and brought a hoof to her mouth and moved it sideways to signify she will keep her mouth closed. Her eyes grew wide when Ashley took out a small black object.

Ashley checked the clip in his pistol. Full mag. He took the magazine out and put it into his pocket and turned on the safety on his pistol; better safe than sorry. "This is a handgun. It is used to shoot projectiles at very fast speeds and its purpose is to kill. This baby has saved me countless times...I always keep it near me...As for the picture on the grip, I have no clue how that got there Rainbow"

"Wait a second" Callum interupted "did you just say Rainbow? Oh now I see what's going on..."

Both Rainbow Dash and Ashley tilted their heads in confusion towards Callum. "Whats going on?" Ashley asked

"Rainbow, your second part of you name is Dash isn't it?"

Dash nodded her head, still confused that they just met and that Callum knows her name without nopony telling him. To be honest, she was growing quite suspicious. (I mean, 2 aliens appear out of the sky and one knows your name? Totally not suspicious at all. Nope)

Callum gave a small chuckle "It's so obvious now. Ashley here is a fan of a TV show back on our planet and he would talk non-stop about it. Saying things like Rainbow Dash is his favourite which is one of the reasons he put that cutie mark of yours on his gun"

"What's a TV and what has that got to do with anything?" questioned the curious pegasus, tilting her head slightly

"it's a device humans made to be able to view things that happen across the world by showing moving pictures and playing sound. To shorten it down...Humans are capable of watching things across the planet without actually having to be there. All they need is a camera and some other technical stuff and there you have it. Anyone can watch." Callum replied. He saw Rainbow Dash rub the side of her head with a hoof, still confused.

Rainbow tried to process what was being told to her. The key points she picked were  and the fact Callum knows who she is...

"Wait a second!" said Rainbow Dash as she turned her head to look around the room to see if anypony or anything else was around. Nothing else was around "What did you see?"

"Well, I haven't seen anything but Ashley here has seen quite alot. From what I recall, he used to mention something about pony named Rainbow Dash and something called a sonic-ray-boom..."

Her eyes grew wide with excitement "Do you mean my signature sonic-RAIN-boom!? Something on another planet has witnessed my true awesomeness!?" she yelled, but not loud enough to grab Twilight's attention

"WOAH...Calm down or am I going to have to smack a bitch!?" Callum countered as he raised the back of his hand only for it to be pulled back down by Ashley who was giving him a stern look

"We can talk about this stuff later. Back to the discussion we were having before that whole outbreak. What the hell are you talking about Callum? if I done something like that then I would be sure to remember it..." Ashley said, putting away his weapon.

"Wait if you don't remember...that hit on your head must of fucked up your brain there Ashley. To be honest, i'm glad you don't remember anything about that show but who else knows what else you forgot. Looks like im probably going to have to try my best to restore your memories, won't I?"

Ashley sat on the table. looking at his boots as he didn't know what to say next. He felt that other points of his life were missing. He looked towards Callum with a smile on his face "Yeah...let's do it"

"Excellant but a warning to you. I can only tell you what I actually paid attention to, which wasn't much" he stared at Rainbow Dash who was watching the conversation "Rainbow. Not a single word of what we just said shall be spoken again unless us three are alone together. Do I make myself clear?"

"Yeah yeah...I still don't trust you" pointing a hoof towards both the humans who made their way towards the stairs

"As you shouldn't Rainbow but strangely enough, I trust you" emphasising the I and you "Well, I'm sure Twilight will want to ask you some questions Callum. Just try to steer clear what we did on the army. I think we should tell everyone when we think they are ready and we get to know them better"

Rainbow squinted her eyes "What DID you do in the army?"

"All will be revealed in time Rainbow..." making his way up the stairs

Callum nodded his head in agreement and followed Ashley upstairs, followed by Rainbow Dash.