Heroes travels

“So, what did you aliens come to Equestria for?” Vinyl asked Callum. Neon Light was busy in the back, checking the stock for Saturday’s opening.

“Well...We didn’t really come here out of free will.” The human replied, remembering the moment before they were engulfed by the portal. Seeing the face of betrayal before they disappeared from the face of the earth, it looked a lot like their general’s.

“What do you mean?”

“Ashley and I were on our final mission before we could go home and I’m not going into detail about that but we were set up by our own side and used as an experiment for a portal, the power screwed up and we ended up falling into the Everfree.”

“I heard that you two were in the army in your world, is that true?”

“Indeed.” Callum replied casually as he grabbed a glass, filling it with water from a nearby tap and taking a sip “What I want to know is where exactly you heard about us?”

“Oh.” Vinyl began, not only did she hear a small portion about them from Neon Light but apparently, they have been mentioned in several newspapers, one of them being the most important paper of them all; Equestria Inquirer, was the first to reveal the humans only yesterday morning in their latest issue. She wasn’t really sure if she should tell Callum that both he and his friend are in newspapers “I hear stuff around...”

“You’re lying.” Callum gave the unicorn a cold stare but he knew what he was doing.

“What?” The DJ raised an eyebrow, the human’s stare started to make her feel rather uncomfortable.

“You’re lying.” He repeated himself once more. His stare didn’t change at the slightest.

Vinyl sighed in defeat with a small grin “How’d ya know?”

“I didn’t. You just admitted that you were.” Callum smirked in victory. Vinyl realised the small trick he just pulled on her.

“Why you sneaky...” Vinyl smiled but she admired his method, deciding to tell him the truth. “You two are in the Equestria Inquirer newspaper as well.”

“So?” Callum gave a small shrug.

“So? That’s it? They’re the biggest newspaper agency in Equestria!” Vinyl was a bit taken back, getting into Equestria Inquirer was a big issue, and they don’t just let anypony be mentioned in their issues. “They’re the ones that allowed my popularity to shoot up!”

“Yeah that’s it. It was bound to happen sooner or later.” Callum began “Just think, alien life is here, in your country. It’s pretty obvious they would mention us. Oh and well done on your fame.”

“Oh I get ya, and thanks.” The white unicorn felt a bit stupid after hearing what Callum had to say but nonetheless, she didn’t let it bother her much “You do realise that they will want to interview you and what’s his name...”

“Ashley.” Callum answered flatly but he knew what she was getting at. “Besides, it wouldn’t be the first time Ash and I were interviewed but then again...It wasn’t really an interview...”

“What was it then?”

“Do you really want to know?”

“Sure.” Vinyl answered immediately, eager to listen to the humans answer.

“Fine.” Callum sighed “Ashley was captured by our enemy and was being tortured by them to get answers out of him.” Callum pondered his thoughts a minute, recalling the incident almost immediately “And by torture, I mean physical torture which did involve blood.” Although he wouldn’t mind going into the whole story about what happened, he knew that he would have to barricade the gore and more horrible things about his and Ash’s stories.

“That’s horrible! How could anypony do something like that?”

“Easy.” Callum took a sip of his water but savoured it for a moment. “First you take a sharp blade and-“

“I don’t want to hear it!” Vinyl covered up her ears with her forehooves, she wasn’t really one for being near blood let alone talking about it.

Callum chuckled a bit, he wasn’t really going to go into the story but he was waiting for a response like hers. As soon as Vinyl removed her hooves, the questioning started once more.

“Can we change the subject please?” Vinyl removed one of her hooves from her ears.

“Sure. Got anything you want to talk about?”

“Well...Word on the street is that somepony named Ashley is getting it on with a pegasus.” Vinyl wiggled her eyebrows with a sultry tone. By word on the street, she heard it from Neon who said that she has her sources. “Is that true?”

“Pegasus?” Callum asked with a confused tone, immediately knowing the answer “Oh you mean Grey Ink? Wouldn’t say they’re dating...”

“Really?” Vinyl asked “You mean they’re just friends? Or they’re friends with benefits?”

“I wouldn’t say that.” Callum laughed “I think they will be going on a date soon.” Callum grinned, remembering a certain joke he played on his friend Nathan with Ashley ages back “And then Callum ‘Cock block’ Thomson shall rise again!”

“...What?”

“It’s a joke between me and Ashley did to our friends before we came to Equestria. Basically, we ruin the first date by being annoying as hell by being a cock block...But then again, I might not do it this time.”

“Aww come on!” Vinyl pouted “You can’t just throw away an awesome prank like that!”

“Girl...” Callum shook his head with a smirk “You’ve not been here for the past couple of days. We turned Celestia pink. PINK! Did you know how awkward it was for Ashley to do that? I had to go by Celestia’s trust to get him close enough to pull it off.”

“Oh that was you? That was all over the papers.” Vinyl let out a soft chuckle, remembering the article about how Celestia looks good in pink.

“Oh and Ashley turned Celestia into a guy earlier today.”

“WHAT!? BAHAHAHA!” Vinyl slammed her hoof on the counter a couple of times, her laughter could be heard from all corners of the club but then again, there was around four or five ponies in the club now, all members of staff. One of them being Neon, the others were packing away chairs and mopping up the dried sweat on the dance floor.

“It’s true. Celestia got payback by turning Ashley into a pony. He didn’t enjoy it much, he really missed his hands.”

“Really? Didn’t think she had it in her.” She took a sip of her drink. She wasn’t one to expect royalty to act in such a way but she sort of relate to the princess. Working all the time does make life dull so it’s good to have some fun every now and again. Although in Vinyl’s profession, all she has is fun but that’s just because it’s a party.

“Well she did.” Callum smiled “Anyway, a lot happened when Ashley was a pony, Grey Ink fell in love with him and he accidently threw away her affection but they both made up and well...Like I said, they’re probably going on a date at some point.”

“Wow...I should really move to Ponyville, a lot more happens here instead of Manehattan.” Callum chuckled a bit at the name of the town Vinyl just mentioned since it was similar to Earth’s Manhattan.

“So what do you like to do for fun?”

“Hmm...” Callum rubbed his chin with his hand, trying to list a couple of his favourite things off the top his head wasn’t one of his specialties. “I guess I’ll have to go with...Hanging out with my buds...Drinking...One night stands...Doing army stuff...Working out...Being a bartender and I guess I like to beat the crap out of those who mess with my friends.” Callum chuckled “That’s all I could think of right now.”

“You sound like a pretty cool guy, Soooo...” Vinyl began “Since Ashley has a special somepony...Do you have one right now or will you be looking for one as well?” She asked with a suggestive tone.

“Hmm...” Callum rubbed his chin for a moment “Nope, don’t think I will be having one any time soon. I’m more into having a night filled with sex than a relationship...Why?” He leaned towards the mare, his mouth was right in front of hers, but he was not making her feel uncomfortable in the slightest “You want to have a good time with an alien?” He wiggled his eyebrows while he ran the back of his hand down the mare’s cheek gently, licking his lips with the tip of his tongue.  “It’ll be an out of this world experience.”

“You’ll have to try better than that Callum.” Vinyl pushed away the human with her fore-hooves, both human and DJ began to giggle like school children.

“I’ve finally met a pony who didn’t blush or act weird when I done something suggestive.” Callum began after his laughter started to calm down “Vinyl, this is the start of a beautiful friendship.”

“Likewise.” Vinyl smiled “I finally met somepony who acts a bit like I do for once.”

“You know for a DJ...” Callum began “I was thinking that you would be asking music questions.”

“Your species has music?” Finally, something she found something that was the peak of her interest, if she wasn’t wearing her shades, you would see her red eyes gleaming with excitement “Tell me more!”

“We’ve got all kinds of genres. Classical, Rock, techno, dub step, pop, J-pop just to name a few.”

“J-pop? Dub step?” Vinyl confusingly asked “What are those?”

“J-pop means Japanese pop. I used to listen to it when I was younger, didn’t get the lyrics since they’re a different language but it sounded cool. Dub step is basically what you were playing earlier.”

“Oh. Cool, who knew that my music would be like another species?!” Vinyl was becoming rather giddy with excitement, Callum was starting to get afraid that she would start channelling Pinkie Pie, bouncing around the room and speaking at one hundred words a second. “Do you have any samples at all!?” Vinyl grabbed the human by the collar somehow with her hooves. She was really starting to resemble Pinkie now.

“Chill out will ya?” Callum laughed as he pushed off the mare’s hooves “You need to see Ashley, he’s still got his MP3 player.”

“MP3 player?” Callum facepalmed, he forgot that ponies lacked some of the technology from Earth.

“Small device, holds hundreds of songs, play them wherever you want and it...” He held out his palm “Would fit in the palm of my hand.”

“You’re joking...” Vinyl chuckled “You’re clearly joking. Nothing could hold that many songs and be that small.”

“Oh really?” Callum smirked “Guess I’ll just have to wait for Ashley to get back here and show you then. Don’t underestimate the human race lady, we can do wonderful things.”

“Who you callin’ lady?” Vinyl pointed her hoof at the human, laughing before taking a small sip of her drink “And what do you mean by wonderful things?”

“Well for starters, we can build machines to allow us flight, talk to people on the other side of the planet from the comfort of our own homes, be able to launch humans to the moon and back and there’s a lot more. Even though we lack magic, we make up for it with science.”

“Woah...That’s pretty cool. Got any of that alien tech on you at all?”

“Of course.” Callum dug into his pockets, revealing a black, metal object to which he knew as his handgun. “This is a handgun, used to kill.”

“W-what!?” Vinyl edged herself away from the device in front her.

“You heard me, it’s used to kill. I am a soldier remember?”

“Yeah but I didn’t think that you would have such a thing on you!”

“That’s what a soldier basically is except for handling criminals in towns, we protect the entire country with our lives and end those who try to destroy us.” Sliding his weapon back into his pocket, he gave the mare a reassuring smile “Don’t worry, only me and Ashley have one and even then, we only have limited ammo for them before they pretty much become useless.” Vinyl sighed in relief.

“Well that’s good to hear. Can you tell me more about Ashley?”

Callum rubbed his hands together, he started to tell the mare about Ashley from the moment they met...

**

“Why the fuck did I do this?” Ashley groaned, the night sky made the area dark but thankfully, enchanted street lamps lit streets well enough for him to see. The night was accompanied by a small breeze that sent a chill down a pony’s spine when it hit them but for Ashley, it was his second favourite thing about the night.

As it turned out, the group of mares he was helping home turned out to be quite…Drunk and somewhat fans of the humans. They told him about that they had seen him mentioned in the Equestria Inquirer newspaper and that he was basically famous now. Ashley however didn’t like it one bit since the group was drunk. Luckily for him, only one of them came to the point of not being able to walk on their own so he suggested that he could give the earth pony a piggy back ride to wherever those girls were staying.

Her forehooves were wrapped over Ashley’s shoulders, meeting at the middle of his chest. The human held the mare’s hind legs by his waists. It was similar to giving a human a piggy back ride except it was softer due to her fur coat.

“Giddy up cowpony!” The pony that was riding him kicking him in the side as if he was a horse (A bit ironic, don’t you think?), this was really pushing Ashley to his limit. Not physically but emotionally, he was coming to a boiling point of just throwing the mare through a window but he knew he would regret it almost instantly. Not only would there be screaming and blood but there would also be the sheer amount of guilt that would plague him.

'Thank you Nathan for teaching me some restraint.' Ashley thought to himself although his thoughts were overcome by the noise the group of five mares with him.

“Woo! You know how to ride fella’s, don’t ya Ruby?!” One of the mares joked, getting laughs from everypony and Ashley, although he only let out a soft chuckle which wasn’t audible since the groups laugh was much louder.

“Oh hush Emerald.” Ruby slurred with a wide smile “You’ll scare him away!” Even though they were drunk, Ashley was amazed that their speech wasn’t slurred, which was much better than what he was used to back home, or maybe the mares weren’t completely wasted?

Now back in the day when Ashley was helping human girls while they were drunk, he did encounter some that pretty much forced themselves onto him but he always managed to push them off. Of course, he didn’t like taking advantage of girls like that unlike most of his friends. He had standards and he still does. Ashley thought that maybe drunk ponies are less physical than human’s but, boy was he wrong.

He felt something stroking the back of his neck, producing the urge to scratch at the area but a warm sensation breezed over the same area but he also noticed a wet sensation there as well. Little did he know that the mare was actually licking the back of his neck, strange? Yes, did it feel good? No.

“Mmmm.” Ruby licked her lips, her eyes were half open, not that Ashley could see them or anything since he was focusing on following the mares to wherever they were going “You taste like…Citrus fruits.”

“Good to know.” Ashley said, trying to keep communication to a minimum. He didn’t want to say anything misleading to the mares.

Ruby put her lips next to Ashley’s ear and started to nibble. Ashley REALLY didn’t like this but it beat a girl trying to take off his shirt like a wild animal any day or one of them trying to get into his underwear, although this was a good challenge to the past experience. He just hoped that no one he knew saw what was happening.

“And I love my fruits…” The mare whispered sultrily into his ear. Okay, now she was really grinding against Ashley’s last nerve.

“Are you sure you can handle him Ruby? After all, he is an alien and Celestia knows how many partners he’s had!”

“Oh I’m sure I can handle him Sapphire.” Ruby giggled and went into rubbing Ashley’s chest with her front hooves, resting her head over his shoulders with a sultry smile “I’m sure that he’s had at least a dozen mates…”

“You’re wrong.” Ashley snapped “I’ve only had one and stop with all this licking and nibbling bullshit. You’re on your only warning before I throw you through a window.”

“Ooooo~ Kitty has claws!” All the mares except Ruby teased but received a glare of complete anger from Ashley, setting them back in their place.

“Come on! Let me show you a good time.” Ruby whispered with the same tone as before into his ear “I’m sure I’ll rock your world.” She licked the back of his ear with the tip of her tongue.

'That’s it. Fuck this, I’m out.' Ashley lowered himself to the ground. “Get off.” He ordered, the mare however just squeezed herself tighter around the human.

“NO!” She screamed right next to his ear but she was clearly being dramatic due to her drunken state, well that’s what Ashley though. Ruby however, thought that it was a game Ashley was playing with her.

“I said GET OFF.” He had the urge to just flip the mare over his back and walk away but he had to fight it.

“I SAID NO! You’re going to make love to me!” The rest of the group were being loud and obnoxious by giggling but the human blocked out their laughter.

After a whole minute of trying to get the mare of him but some how she had a locked grip around him. Ashley sighed, Ruby was really getting on his nerves so he ditched the plan of trying to get her off his back and continued on the journey for another five minutes. She had finally calmed down after that, much to Ashley’s relief but she was only to be started again by her friends. They were not helping the situation at all.

“You’re so lucky that you’re drunk and I can tolerate this shit.” Ashley said to Ruby but she was too busy talking to her friends about the night she and Ashley would have. The human REALLY didn’t want to hear most of the conversation but he couldn’t grab his MP3 player out of his pocket because he was holding the mare.

'I’m SO going to need a drink after this...' Ashley thought to himself as he saw the hotel the girls mentioned before come into his line of sight. He started to pick up his pace.

**

Callum kept his explanation of Ashley brief although it did last twenty minutes. He told Vinyl about some of their past, some of bad times but more importantly, the good times. An example can be when He, Ashley, Francis, Josh and Simon were sitting around a fire before they went off to the very mission that got the majority of Delta squad killed. Many laughs were had, stories were told and all in all, it was a great night.

Of course, Callum didn’t tell Vinyl how they died but merely told her that they did die. She tried to show sympathy but Callum told her not to. He had come to terms to their death long ago, saying that they should be remembered for the good moments, not how their lives ended. He continued on with his story.

“Wow...” Vinyl was dumbstruck by the knowledge Callum had of his friend. Neon decided to join in listening to Callum go on of their past. “You’re really close to him...”

“Well enough about that.” Callum waved off the subject “Anything else you want to know about?”

“Sure.” Vinyl smiled “How’d you get this bar job?”

“It wasn’t hard for him to get it Vi.” Neon began. Vinyl rolled her eyes at the mentioning of her nickname “You remember Shake’s?” Vinyl nodded “Well she moved town and my new bar mare couldn’t make it tonight because the train to Ponyville was being repairs and well, I was hoping for a miracle and then.” She pointed at Callum “He walked in, asked what’s up and convinced me to let him help out for tonight.”

“You hired a novice?” Vinyl asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Hey!” Callum smirked, pointing to the other side of the room “HOLY SHIT!”

Both mare’s quickly turned around, scanning the area for anything out of the ordinary but came up with nothing. Both ponies sighed before turning back to the bar. It turned out that Callum already poured them both Screwdrivers (Vodka and orange juice for those who don’t know) within the small amount of time.

“Who you callin’ novice?” Callum said in a smug manner. Vinyl was quite impressed while Neon already the human’s speed many times that very night.

“Woah, you’re pre-“ Vinyl began but was interrupted by a loud slam, instinct told all of them to look at the front door.

“Never. Fucking. Again.” Ashley began as he walked up to the bar. The two unicorns and Callum shot looks of curiosity at him, obviously not knowing how annoying the group of mares were when he managed to get them into their hotel room.

“Dude...” Callum began slowly pouring his friend a shot of vodka “What happened?”

Ashley immediately grabbed the shot, downing it like it was nothing, not wincing one but then again, the alcohol seemed to be a bit...weaker to what he was used to.“That fucking group...” He slumped onto a nearby stool, leaning on the bar “Especially that pony called Ruby...Fucking hell...”

Vinyl gave Ashley a soft punch in the arm, she winked but her shades concealed it but everyone noticed her wiggling her eyebrows. “Bet you had a real good time with them, didn’t ya? Tell me, did they like it rough”

“That...Is where you’re wrong and I was expecting that from Callum.” Vinyl and Neon laughed, Callum merely smiled at his friend while Ashley let out an annoyed sigh “Ruby was so freaking drunk that she couldn’t even walk. Being the gentleman I am, I helped her travel to a nearby hotel with a group of her friends.”

“Oh god...Don’t tell me...” Callum began to snicker.

“Hush Callum. It’s story time.” Neon interrupted, not turning to the human but kept her wide gaze on Ashley, showing her interest.

“As I was saying.” Ashley glared at Callum who was styling a grin “It was hard since not only did I have to carry her on my back to the hotel BUT she also made it very awkward.”

“How?” Vinyl asked.

“Licking the back of my neck, nibbling on my ear, saying she wanted me to make love to her and that was followed by a long conversation that she and her friends had about what Ruby and I would do...And I thought Callum was a pervert.”

“Hey I resent that!” Callum chuckled. Both Vinyl and Neon were laughing hysterically. “I’m not a pervert, I just have a high interest in sexual intercourse related...things.” Callum looked around the room, pretending to look shifty.

“Just keep telling yourself that Callum.” Ashley replied with a soft laugh “Man...I was so glad no one saw that. It was so weird.”

“Alright alright, let’s try to forget about that for Ashley’s sake.”

“Thank you.”

“So Ashley...” Vinyl began “I heard your favourite gem was Ruby...” Both mares and Callum started to laugh at the other human. Ashley just wanted to forget what happened. He pulled out his MP3, putting in his earphones which muffled their laughter but it was still audible until he turned on the device.

“Hey...” Vinyl poked him in the arm with her hoof, pointing at the small black device in Ashley’s hand with the other. “What’s that?”

“That’s Ashley’s MP3 player I was talking about earlier.” Callum spoke.

“You told her about this?” Ashley waved the small device in front of Vinyl, her eyes never leaving it. Right in front of her was the music of a completely different race. She was imagining the fame she could get just for remixing the tunes but she was more interested in the experience of alien music.

“Yeah I did. She is a DJ remember?” Callum answered “Thought she would be interested in the music you have on there.”

“Hey Vinyl.” Ashley began, tapping the MP3 on her shades, snapping her out of her trance “Want to listen?”

“R-really!?”

“Mmmmaybe.” Ashley smirked at the mare “I’ll let you listen to a song IF you don’t bring up Ruby ever again. Deal?”

“Ffffine. I’ll do it.” Vinyl sulked, she held out her hoof to the human who shook it in return. With the deal made, a smile had crept onto the DJ’s face.

“Seems like a good trade.” Ashley shrugged.

“Now fill your side of the bargain.” Vinyl smiled, trying to reach for the device but Ashley slid his MP3 to Callum.

“You pick one song for her.”

“Suh-weeeeet.” Callum immediately started to scroll through the list of songs Ashley had. He went straight past the OST segment, knowing it was mostly video game tracks. But seeing one of his favourite games series with remixed versions of their songs, he decided to click on the one he loved the most.

He placed the MP3 on the counter, picking up the earphones and holding them towards Vinyl.

“Put these in your ears.”

Vinyl nodded, letting her magic envelope the small objects, placing them into her ears. Callum pressed play, allowing the music to flow through Vinyl’s ear drums.

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Vinyl closed her eyes as the introduction started. The song did sound somewhat similar to what she usually plays. As the song started to pick up its tempo, her head started to rock back and forth slightly, signalling that she was enjoying the alien music.

[ Time of song – 1:40 ]

The song grew a bit calmer, not by much but it made her wonder what was going on. A couple more seconds played before Callum’s favourite part of the song began to play. The sound shocked the DJ a bit since she didn’t expect it but a toothy grin grew on her face.

The alien music was like a breath of fresh air to her musical talent. If she could acquire this song or maybe even more songs from Ashley, then she would immediately start to churn out remixes like never before.

As the rest of the song played, both humans and Neon sat in silence, watching Vinyl happily enjoying the music. When the song finished, Vinyl took out the earphones via magic and hovered them back to Callum.

“That...That was...” She was breathless, this music was a clear rival against her own, maybe even better and that was just one song. “That was...Beautiful...Amazing...Awesome...Sheer brilliant.”

“Ashley...” Callum whispered loudly “I think the song broke her.”

“Nah, she’s just trying to allow the awesomeness to flow at a steady pace instead of all at once.” Ashley shook his head in disapproval “Shame, I wanted to see her freak out.”

“PLEASE TELL ME YOU HAVE MORE AMAZING STUFF LIKE THAT!” Vinyl burst out, surprising both humans and Neon. Ashley and Callum were a bit frightened by the music crazed mare since she was now leaning towards Ashley in a very creepy manner.

“I think there is.” Ashley replied, his hands held up against the mare in case she grew too close “Just calm your shit alright?”

Vinyl nodded, taking a deep breath but her smile remained. She was completely oblivious to what she just done.

“Are you calmed down now?” Callum asked which Vinyl replied with a swift nod “Good.” He turned to Ashley “Isn’t Grey coming to see you later?”

Remembering what happened yesterday, Ashley did recall that she would visit him at work so they could talk a bit more.

“Oh I know they’ll be doing more than just talking.” Vinyl exclaimed, getting a suppressed laugh from Neon and Callum.

“And I know that you and Callum are sure to be doing something even worse, heck maybe Neon will get involved as well.” Ashley countered with a chuckle himself, silencing all of their laughter. He put his earphones in his ears, turning on the same song that Vinyl was listening to. “I’m going to go find Grey. See y’all later.”

They didn’t bother to say goodbye since he wouldn’t even hear them.  Ashley thought to check out the station first to find Grey Ink since for starters, he didn’t know where she lived and secondly, he was tired so even if he didn’t find her, he could just go to sleep.

Back at Neon’s, the two mares and Callum were talking about that night. Discussing things such as what they heard other ponies talking about but they were mostly about Callum and Ashley since they’re from another planet, some claims were farfetched.  Some ponies claimed that they’re robots, some said that the humans were scouting for a full scale invasion. All three of them laughed at the claims since the high majority of ponies that attended the club that night were from separate towns. The time had passed closing time and Neon was growing tired like she did every weekend of working at her club but thanks to Callum’s help, she felt more awake than previous Friday nights.

“C’mon, time to lock up.” Neon scooted herself of her stool, She looked around to see nopony else inside the club, Vinyl and Callum had left the building. Neon pulled a small key from out of her mane as she followed them outside. Sliding the key into the keyhole with her magic, turning it to receive its signature *clank* sound.

Callum stretched his arms with a loud yawn, the cool air gently sealed across his skin. It felt refreshing since he was inside a hot club for almost seven hours. “I’m going to bed, going to need some rest for tonight.”

“What are you doing tonight?” Vinyl asked for both her and Neon.

“Drinkin’.” Callum smirked. He was obviously looking forward for tonight, drinking with friends after all that had happened in the past few days. He knew that he deserved a break.

“Oh cool, I’ll be playing again tonight as well.” Vinyl smiled, she wanted to see what Callum was like when he was drunk. That is, if he does drink enough “Hey, can you get Ashley to let me play that song on his MP3 player tonight? I’d really like to play it.”

“I’ll see what I can do, see you girls later.”

“Bye Cal. Thanks for helping out tonight, I really appreciate it.” Neon waved as the human walked off to the guard station to get some much needed rest.

** At the guard station **

Ashley walked through the front door, waving to small patrol of three pegasi guards walking past him. They each smiled with a friendly nod as they continued their way. He walked into the reception to find a grey pegasus with brown mane resting the side of her head on a neat pile of papers. Nearby was a cold cup of tea and some biscuits.

’Looks like I wasn’t the only one working late tonight...Hmmm I have an idea...’ He took out his earphones and shoved them in his pocket, alongside his MP3 after turning it off.

He waltzed around the desk to take a spot next to Grey by lowering himself next to her. He rested the side of his head on the table, looking at the mare’s face. He gently blew onto her nose.

“Mmmm.” She let out an annoyed murmur as she wiggled her nose but her eyes remained closed. Ashley found it too cute to disturb her slumber just for a talk they could have another time. By the looks of the paperwork, she had quite some trouble. Some of the papers were scribbled on, some screwed up and thrown towards the bin but none of them landed inside their target.

“Have a pleasant one Grey.” He kissed the top of her forehead before he went off to the sleeping area, taking the same bean bag he used the previous night. It didn’t take long for him to drift off to sleep.

** For those who wanted to know what he was going to do **

’Looks like I wasn’t the only one working late tonight...Hmmm I have an idea...’ He took out his earphones and shoved them in his pocket, alongside his MP3 after turning it off.

He waltzed around the desk to take a spot next to Grey by lowering himself next to her. He rested the side of his head on the table, looking at the mare’s face. He gently blew onto her nose.

“Mmmm.” She let out an annoyed murmur as she wiggled her nose but her eyes remained closed. Ashley found it too cute to disturb her slumber just for a talk they could have another time. By the looks of the paperwork, she had quite some trouble. Some of the papers were scribbled on, some screwed up and thrown towards the bin but none of them landed inside their target.

Shrugging to himself slightly, he blew on her nose once more.

“MMMmmm” Her tone was more annoyed than the last time, Ashley could see her face tensing slightly into a frown. He blew once more on her nose.

“Celestia damn it!” Whispering to herself, Grey Ink’s eyes lazily opened, she immediately lifted a hoof to her nose to rub it. She noticed Ashley smiling at her.

“Dayum Grey.” Ashley licked his lips “I didn’t know you liked it that rough...” He teased, however Grey Ink fainted from the shock, thinking that she had slept with him. “Whoops...Oh well, I’m sure she’ll be fine.” He kissed the top of her forehead before he went off to the sleeping area, taking the same bean bag he used the previous night. It didn’t take long for him to drift off to sleep.

There you are folks. I'd like to thank the following people for submitting some questions for Vinyl to ask (I know I didn't use all of them but you're still being thanked for pitching an idea.

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Hope you enjoyed the chapter.