Heroes travels

Quick A/N: Had some trouble with FiM fiction when it came to uploading the other chapter, which made it late. This one is a bit late because I was doing some formatting.

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Canterlot Castle

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Celestia finally found a comfortable spot in the royal garden. The sound of birds chirping was soothing as a gentle breeze would flow past him. In his magic’s grasp, he held the recent issue of The Equestrian Inquirer. From what he could tell from the huge header on the paper, Equestria would now know about the humans. He smiled to herself as he began to read the article.

“How they got all this information is beyond me.” Celestia muttered to himself when he was half way through the article, but he noticed something off about the article.

And it involved Luna.

Oh for the love of me. Celestia thought to himself, not looking forward to see why Luna was in an article about Callum and Ashley.

“Princess Luna herself admitted to us privately that her brother (Brother? We’re not sure what she means but she said that she will tell us another time and that it does in fact, involve the humans.” Celestia mumbled to himself. Anger started to rise from deep within him. He was going to have a talk with Luna.

He used his magic to instantly teleport himself to Luna’s chambers, leaving his signature warm mist as pages of the newspaper started to drift away from his old seat. Desperately look around his sister’s room, only to find it empty. There was only one thing he could do.

“LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

***

Meanwhile in a more secluded spot in the castle A.K.A. Luna’s secret library

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After hearing her brother’s earth shaking scream, the moon princess burst into fits of giggles.

“This is for my babies Celestia.” She smiled to herself, reminiscing her ‘babies’ or as others would see them, her books and constellation notes that were basically destroyed by Celestia over a millennium ago. Her horn grew brightly and then she was gone, only to leave her cold mist behind her.

The next thing she knew, she was in Ponyville’s guard station, and she wondered how her newest addition to her guard was doing.

***

“So...” Ashley began as both he and Grey walked down the hallway to the reception “How’s it going?”

“Oh! Um...N-not much.” Grey Ink had a slight delay to her response, still thinking about all the things the human discussed with the captain not to long ago. She tried her best not to look at the human just in case he would see her slightly red eyes from crying. Not that she even knew that they were like that but she didn’t want to risk it.

Letting out a long sigh, Ashley decided to make a one off question about why Grey was near the door when he and Shockwave were talking about her “You...Didn’t happen to hear what we said...Right Grey?”

The Pegasus did not reply, her thoughts were distracting her off the current conversation. This however, confirmed Ashley’s theory of Grey Ink eavesdropping but he didn’t want to make a false accusation, just in case.

“Y’know.” Ashley began “I find it pretty cool that Shockwave see’s you like a sister.”Grey Ink turned her head towards the human, not thinking twice about her eyes but gave the human a warm smile. Ashley however did pick up on her slightly pink eyes, immediately setting himself down next to her.

“You’ve been crying?” He asked with slight concern, she nodded once slowly. He placed his hand on her shoulder “Want to tell me why?”

Despite being fully capable of explaining her eavesdropping, Grey decided to tackle the human to the ground into an embrace. The slightly audible thud of his back impacting onto the hard floor echoed through the empty hallway. She rested her head on his warm chest while he chuckled lightly.

“I think I’m going to need some sort of warning when you do that missy.” He said as he began to softly stroke her back “So, are you going to tell me why you tackled me to the ground like this without buying me dinner first or am I going to have to make this situation awkward to get you tell me?”

“I heard everything you said.” She whispered into his chest, Ashley’s eyes opened a bit wider as a bit of heat formed in his cheeks. He was not one for blushing but when Grey looked up at him, she couldn’t help but giggle at the sight “Oh my Celestia, I thought I’d never see you blush.”

The way she giggled at him melted his heart almost instantly. His heart was already beating faster than normal with his chest feeling slightly heavier, not because of the mare on him physically but that she was near him just made him feel good.

“So…” Grey Ink began, shuffling herself into a slightly more comfortable position but she still remained on top of the human, she looked down into his eyes and frowned slightly “What’s all this I heard about you wanting to take this slow?” She cocked an eyebrow with a serious tone but either way, she was only teasing.

“I’d like to get to know you better.” Ashley said with a shrug and a sly smirk “And taking it slow would do pretty well.”The grey pegasus burrowed her muzzle in his chest once more, nuzzling it gently with a warm smile.

“Well well well…” A voice called out from nearby “What do we have here?”

Both human and Pegasus looked to the side, seeing a dark blue alicorn in their midst.

…

“P-princess L-luna!” Grey Ink immediately got off Ashley and bowed down to the night princess, acting like nothing happened between her and the human.

“Oh hey Luna.” Ashley raised his hand to wave “As you can see, I like the floor.” He said with a small laugh to which Luna just smiled at. “What are you doing here anyways?”

“You may rise, Grey Ink.” The Pegasus complied with the order “Besides, the reason I am here is because a certain human didn’t tell me how it went with a certain receptionist yesterday.” Both Ashley and Grey smiled sheepishly, diverting their gaze away from the princess for a brief moment “But I think seeing you two like that will confirm that everything went well?” Both Pegasus and human nodded.

“Good.” Luna smiled as she turned away “You two can tell me all about it!” She said as she began to trot down the hallway like a small filly learning they’re going to get their favourite treat. Half way down the hallway, she coughed and regained her composure, immediately trying to forget what she just done.

Once Ashley made it back to standing up, he took his side next to the princess of the night while Grey took the other side of the human, the gap between him and her was closer than his and Luna’s. Ashley’s stomach decided there and then that it wanted something to fill it by letting out a loud grumble, both ponies laughed a bit at him but he shrugged it off.

“I think we should grab some breakfast.” Grey Ink said, taking herself to a small hover to poke Ashley in the stomach with her fore-hoof, receiving another loud grumble from within Ashley “I think you’re stomach would agree with me.”

***

After a brief discussion with Granny Smith, Applejack had already gone down to the market to sell the fresh produce of apple’s they acquired that morning. Callum decided to pay a visit to the guard station to see Ashley, but half way to the destination, he thought it would be best to see if Twilight and the others would be capable of joining both humans for a night of drinking. He headed to Sugarcube corner first, not only because it was the closest nearby at the moment but he also wanted to grab some well earned breakfast.

“Hey Mr and Mrs Cake.” Callum greeted the confectionary store owners with a warm smile and a wave.

“Oh hello Callum.” Mr Cake smiled back, as did his wife “What can I get you?”

“Uhh….” He looked at the menu, each and every food listed on it sounded delicious but would be packed with sugar. Sure it could give him the needed energy boost he needed but that was short term, and the fact he really ached for some of Ashley’s pancakes but unfortunately, he didn’t see himself getting any that morning. “I’ll just go for… Some coffee and…two donuts?” Not really the most balanced breakfast after working at the farm but it was better than nothing and besides, he needed some of the sweet nectar of the gods known as coffee.

“Coming right up deary.” Mrs Cake said with a beaming smile as she turned towards the kitchen to make the order.

“That’ll be five bits.” Mr Cake stated as Callum took off his bag, getting the necessary amount of bits, he kept a mental note of how many remained.

’Let’s see...I should have around one hundred and forty nine bits left...Add on yesterday’s pay from Neon’s that I need to pick up later...

...

Fuck...I’ll worry about that money later.

Placing the silver coin on the table as payment, Mr Cake smiled as he slid it off the counter towards him and put it in the cash register.

“You wouldn’t happen to know if Pinkie is here, would you?” Callum asked.

“I think she went to see Rainbow Dash just not too long ago, that’s all I’ve got.”

“Cheers mate.” Callum replied, it wasn’t long until Mrs Cake returned with a tray balancing on her back with Callum’s order, the scent of coffee burst into the air almost immediately. If he could have one thing to smell for the rest of his life, Callum would wish it was coffee. Its smell was all he needed to feel wide awake.

Deciding to have his breakfast on the go, he slowly walked towards the library. He could always search for Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash some other time. The donut’s were almost instantly consumed and then washed down with blistering hot coffee. Not one of Callum’s smartest ideas to try and chug down the beverage at the high temperature. Luckily for him, he wasn’t far from Twilight’s so he burst through the door, towards the kitchen sink. He planted his lips around the taps nozzle and turned it on. Screw searching for a glass.

“Uhhh...Callum?” A voice asked with curiosity, immediately pinpointing it as Twilight’s, he had one last gulp of cold water before turning around. “Why did you burst into my house and attack my sink?” She asked with a slight chuckle.

“Hot coffee... Don’t ever chug it while it’s still hot.”

“Ah.” Twilight nodded “So how did it go at Neon’s last night?”

“Not bad.” Callum said as he leaned himself on the counter with his left arm “Was a bar man for the night, Ashley had awkward moments and I answered some questions from Vinyl.” He looked around the room, starting with the table, noticing a newspaper. He walked up to it.

“Oh that’s the latest issue of The Equestrian Inquirer.” Twilight stated “I’ve already read it, I’m sure that you’ll be quite surprised with the front page.”

“Read the article Twilight.” Callum replied flatly “The thing I want to know is how they got so much information on us...”

Twilight’s eyes widened a bit, trying to not look suspicious is not her best trait since when Callum turned around, Twilight was trying to avoid eye contact.

“Twilight...” Callum began with a serious tone “Did you have something to do with this?”

“What!? Me!?” Twilight protested, going slightly over board with her defence “How could you accuse me of something like that?”

“Well for starters...” Callum began “The article said that the information came from Ponyville. Secondly, the information is mostly from stuff both Ashley and I have said around you and the others.” He noticed a bead of sweat trickle down the unicorn’s forehead “Now I’m all for interrogation of course but my methods...Are not the most...Necessary.” His tone changed from one of seriousness to one of lust, he also accompanied the voice with bed room eyes and biting a small part of his bottom lip “I’m sure that you and I can get... Acquainted.”

“Alright alright it was me!” Twilight blurted out, not wanting to know any more of what the human was going to do. She didn’t want to put it to the test, Callum let out a brief giggle.

“You’re too easy Twilight.” He said as he walked past her, ruffling her neat mane with his hand. Twilight groaned as she went to find her brush to fix her now messy mane. It wasn’t long until she returned from upstairs with her brushed mane.

“So you’re not mad?” She said as she trotted down the final steps, her hooves tapping against her library’s wooden floor.

“A teeny bit.” Callum replied “But only because you went behind my back and besides...I could have gave you some more information to use.” Callum held up his hands around chest level “Not that I’m saying that you did an excellent job and all that, but if you’re going to do this again then please, consult both me and Ashley beforehand, alright?”

“Alright. I promise.” Twilight nodded with a warm smile “Is there anything else you need?”

“Actually, yes there is.” Callum replied, Twilight’s head lazily tilted a small amount to the side. Adorable, that’s all Callum could say about that movement. “Are you up for drinking with Ash, Applejack and I? Those who are going are coming here to meet up at half eight before we go to Neon’s.”

“Sure. Although I doubt I’ll be having much.”

“That’s cool.” The human shrugged “That shouldn’t stop me from getting pissed.” Twilight cocked an eyebrow “It’s a term from home, it means getting drunk but may also be used as telling someone you’re angry or agitated. For example, I’m really pissed off that you told me it was you that gave the paper that information.”

“Oooohhhh.” Twilight said with realization, Callum noticed a small shine in her eyes and he didn’t like it. “Have any more words from your world?”

’Fuck, dug my own grave with that one.’ Callum thought to himself as he took a seat against one of the many bookshelves, cracking his knuckles.

“Babe...You don’t know what you just got yourself into...” Callum smirked, making Twilight gulp loudly.

***

Meanwhile at the guard station

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“So...” Luna began. Since she already had her dinner not long ago, she decided to go with some tea for the moment. She would go for coffee but she wanted to get some rest later that day. Staying up at night was her favourite pass time but it was brought down with night court. Oh how boring it was! Not to mention that barely anypony even shows up. She felt a little saddened by this, she didn’t meet many ponies that preferred the night against the day which explained that she was thrilled to have Ashley as her guard, now she had somepony to talk to at the night without having to worry much about waking them up. “Tell me EVERYTHING.” She said with a mischievous smile.

“Well it all began with me running away.” Grey Ink began, shuffling herself to lean against Ashley who was eating a slice of toast at the time, his other hand held an open napkin under his chin to stop crumbs from falling on his uniform and Grey. “I just wanted to be alone...So I hid inside an alleyway. I just laid there...C-crying about how much of an idiot I was.”

Gulping down his toast and wiping his hands on a napkin to get rid of as many crumbs as possible, he resting his arm around the Pegasus, over her shoulder and brought her closer.

“You never were an idiot to start with.” He said looking down to her with a smile. Luna found it slightly heart warming just witnessing the small moment.

“Hush you.” Grey poked him in the side with her fore-hoof before continuing “To be honest, I guess my crying was a bit loud since he heard me. He immediately apologised about his behaviour and well... I guess I talked myself into liking him again. He told me that he done the same as well... And I just lost it.” She began to rub her cheek against the side of the human’s chest, being on his left side, she could hear his heart beat slightly faster than before.

“I can vouch that I did admit my feelings for her and that she didn’t want to see me any more then that would be fine.” Ashley spoke as he began to gently stoke side of Grey’s left arm. Her soft coat made his hand tickle slightly. “I’m really glad that she forgave me. Not only because she’s a wonderful mare but that I’m really lucky that I found someone who I love to be with...Not to mention she’s really cute.”

Luna smiled warmly to the couple. Even though throughout her lifetime she saw both love blossom and burn, she always loved to see couple show minor pieces of their affection towards each other. An amazing shock was that Grey was able to put aside the differences of them being an entirely different race from one another but, from the princess’s perspective it seemed like true love.

“We pretty much fell asleep hugging each other on the floor.” Grey Ink added. A slight blush had formed on her cheeks. “And when we woke up, Callum, Shockwave, Twilight and the others were there and then we walked back to Twilight’s to fix Ashley’s pony problem so he could go to work at Neon Light’s club that evening. I was going to go visit him but I was swamped with work and I fell asleep on my desk.”

“You’re really adorable when you’re asleep.” Ashley said, looking down to Grey “Y’know that?”

“Shush.” Grey poked him in the side with her hoof again gently with a small chuckle “its story time.”

Ashley sighed “Alright alright.” He looked back towards Luna “Before I went to work, Shockwave and I had a talk about Grey Ink which we continued this morning.” He looked down towards Grey once more with a light scowl but it was more for fun rather than anger or annoyance. “Then a certain Pegasus heard everything I said about her about how I want to take things slow and that I want some time to come to terms about us being a different species but other than that, I think that I got Shockwave’s approval of our relationship.”

“Well...” Luna looked back and forth between the human and Pegasus, twice to each of them “I have to say that I hope you two the best. I never expected somepony to fall for you Ashley and for you to do the same.” Letting out a suppressed chuckle, Luna continued “I guess you’re full of secrets, aren’t you Ashley?”

“Everyone has their secrets Luna.” Ashley grinned towards the princess of the night “And let me tell you.” He pointed to this forehead with his right index finger “Just don’t make me lose my sanity and everything will be fine.” He gave a weak smile to her. Of course, she had already witnessed what the human was capable of, but she had yet to see him go all out and she didn’t want to either.

As Luna shuffled out of her seat, standing onto her four hooves, she looked over shoulder at the couple. “Oh and Ashley, I hope that you accept that interview with The Equestrian Inquirer. If not then I order you to do so.” She said teasingly. Of course, she would pull out the ‘Do as I say.’ card on him, he was regretting the decision of letting her be in charge of him but he dared not to piss off the alicorn. Who knows? Maybe he could have some alone time on the moon or maybe she could make him feel the cold side of the moon for the rest of his life? He doubted she would do such a thing but he didn’t want to test her power.

“Wait...What interview?” Ashley asked with a look of concern.

“Why the one about you and Callum being interviewed for The Equestrian Inquirer. They had a message asking that if you were able to answer some questions for their next issue.” Luna replied “Haven’t you read their latest issue yet?”

“No.” Ashley said nonchalantly.

“Well you should.” Luna raised her nose upwards slightly with a sly grin, trying to look boastful “After all, I helped give them some information about you two after all... And I want you two to be with me when I tell them about what happened in the past couple of days with Celestia. You know, with you admitting how you turned Celestia’s coat pink in detail AND that it was you who turned my sister into my newly found brother...Which I appreciate for, I’ve being having some fun at her expense with that one.”

...

“WHAT!?” Ashley shouted, grabbing the attention of all the ponies in the dining hall, he noticed that he almost practically destroyed Grey’s eardrums from his volume since she had the tip of her left fore-hoof inside her left ear, her right ear was pressed solidly against the humans chest. He decided to pull her into a hug “Sorry Grey.” He whispered next to her ear, luckily for him, she heard his apology but that didn’t stop her giving him a playful slap on his head.

“Alright.” He said “I deserved that...And maybe a bit more.”

***

Twilight’s library

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“It’s a shame you only let me do one word Twilight.” Callum said with an amused tone “I would’ve had plenty of fun with you.”

“That’s why I asked you to stop.” Twilight retorted “I didn’t think you would go with such a disgusting word to begin with!”

“What’s so bad about wank?” Callum smirked, even though he didn’t get to explain any more, he still thought he chose a good one to start off with.

“...ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!” Twilight screamed furiously which was loud enough to hear all across Ponyville. Callum however couldn’t help but crack out in fits of laughter. Ponies are ridiculously easy to manipulate? Check.

***

Guard station

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“ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!” The shriek was muffled by the walls that surrounded those inside the building, but everypony (and Ashley) knew that it was Twilight Sparkle.

“My Callum sense is tingling.” Ashley said, putting the fingertips of his right hand to his forehead, pretending he actually had a mental power.

“Callum sense? Really?” Grey Ink asked flatly, giving the human a ‘are you serious’ look.

“My Callum sense tells me that he is the cause of the disturbance...That or he’s having some fun at someone else’s expense somewhere else and Twilight is freaking out about I don’t know...Some books I guess.” Both Luna and Grey Ink rolled their eyes. Luna would have suggested the same thing while Grey would not know what to say since she doesn’t know the lavender bookworm that much.

“So what did they say Luna?” Ashley asked.

“Why don’t you have a look for yourself?” She replied “I do need my rest after all. I have to stay up all night and rest during the majority of the day after all.”

“Luna...” Ashley said, grabbing the princess of the night’s attention “What do you do during the night?”

“I manage the night court.” Hanging her head low, looking quite saddened “But I’m really the only one who shows up. You know, it being night and everypony sleeping at night and all...”

“Luna...” Ashley said flatly “Remember, I like the night so if you ever need someone to I don’t know...Hang out with during the night then come to me.” He looked over at Grey Ink who was staring at him with her luscious brown eyes “That’s of course. If I’m with Grey then it’s up to her if I’m allowed to come hang out with you.”

“Really Ashley?” Grey Ink spoke “You’re going to make me decide?”

Giving the Pegasus a sincere smile “Only if I’m with you of course. Oh! And if we could find a way for you to contact me while I’m with Luna then that would be pretty cool...Too bad ponies don’t have cell phones.”

“Human stuff?” Luna asked.

“Human stuff.” Ashley replied nonchalantly “Allows you to talk with whoever you want across the world.”

“That would come in handy.” Luna put a hoof to her chin “Maybe I could get some unicorns to work on something like that. I’ll try to keep you posted.”

“Alright Luna, have a nice sleep.” Ashley waved to the alicorn.

“It was nice meeting you Grey Ink. Good luck with Ashley, do try to keep him under control while I’m not around.” Grey Ink nodded with a light chuckle. Luna waved back to the human before her horn began to glow, her magic enveloped her as she teleported, leaving her signature cold mist which sent a shiver down Grey Inks spine.

“Well...”Grey Ink said after the brief awkward silence “This morning has been eventful.”

“The same could go for the past few days.”  Ashley added.

***

Time skip to 3PM

***

Trying to catch up to Pinkie Pie isn’t as easy as one would think. Callum tried to find her to ask the pink party pony about tonight but she had other plans, thinking that she and the human were playing a game of tag. The chase had been going on for a couple of hours now. Callum thanked the training he was put through which greatly helped with his stamina, sure he was tired but not at breaking point. The caffeine from his morning coffee had worn off a while ago and since Pinkie seems to always be on a sugar high, he had no hopes of catching her.

He thought of trying Rainbow Dash to help him, or Twilight. But after explaining that one word to the lavender unicorn, he thought it was best to get the hell out of there since she basically rambled on about him being inappropriate, not that it bothered him mind you, he’s been called immature and worse things earlier in life. Being serious all the time makes life boring, evidence can be shown with Twilight for example. She seemed to be the type of person that would stay with a task until it was complete, no matter what the difficulty was unless someone like Celestia told her to stop. Of course, being fun all the time is great but can be slightly annoying, evidence would be Pinkie Pie. Then again, he didn’t find her annoying but she was getting there by randomly showing up in places away from the human as he chased her.

Fuck it. Callum thought to himself as he slowed to a halt to catch his breath, his chest felt like a ton of bricks had just smashed on top of it. Fuck everything.

“You really need to work on your stamina.” A voice called out from above. Looking up, a familiar cyan pegasus with her natural rainbow mane hovered above the human, a smug smile was plastered on her face.

“Yeah well...” Hmmm...She’s competitive. How can I put this to my advantage...

...

Got it.

“Look babe.” Callum began, getting a scowl from the pegasus “I’ve got the stamina where it counts and it goes all night long...” Putting on a sultry smile “If you know what I mean...”

“Ugh.” Rainbow groaned with a face-hoof “You just have to make things weird?”

“I do as I please.” Callum said with a shrug, the smile already gone “And I like to please others...If you-“

“Don’t.” Rainbow Dash double face-hoofed with a loud groan“Just don’t.”

“Hehe...Fine. I’ve had a bit of fun at others expense today anyway, not to mention what happened to Ashley last night.”

“What happened to him?” She asked with concern but secretly, she was slightly worried as well.

“Well it all started with this group of mares...” Callum began to tell her the brief story of what happened with Ashley and Ruby. Rainbow couldn’t help but fall into the pit of loud laughter when she heard the complete story. Of course, she wanted to ask Ashley about it soon.

“So how’s it going with you then Cal?” She asked, hovering herself to the ground, her hooves softly hitting the ground, taking her place next to the human.

“All good.” Callum replied, motioning the cyan Pegasus to follow him “Helped out Neon last night by being her bar man-“

“Oh that’s cool.” Rainbow interjected “Wait. Why were you here bar...Man was it?”

Callum nodded “Her previous bar pony had moved town and the next one doesn’t arrive until today, seeing her stress out about not having help behind the bar, I offered her my help. I think she was glad I did assist her since for starters, she was amazed by the speed I filled orders which gave her some time to talk to Vinyl Scratch for a bit.”

“Wait, Vinyl Scratch. As in THE Vinyl?” Judging by her tone, Callum was easily able to pinpoint that the Pegasus was a fan of the white DJ unicorn.

“Vinyl Scratch?” Rainbow Dash nodded “Yeah she was there. Pretty cool girl, she asked me some questions and I convinced Ashley to show her some of his music.”

“What did she think of it?”

“All I can say was that she found it to be awesome.” Callum grinned “Can’t blame her, I know some awesome stuff.”

“Well...” Rainbow stopped walking, putting a hoof to her chin, Callum stopped as well since he noticed he was trailing a bit ahead of the Pegasus. “Maybe you can convince Ashley to let her play some songs tonight while we go to Neon’s.”

“So you’re going too?” Rainbow nodded “Excellant, that’s you, A.J. and Twilight down. We’re meeting up at Twilights beforehand at half eight tonight.”

“What about Pinkie Pie?” Rainbow Dash asked, trotting next to the human. They didn’t have a destination so they were just walking around the town randomly.

“That’s why I was running.” Callum answered, receiving a puzzled look from Rainbow “I was trying to ask her about tonight but she thought I was playing tag.”

“Sounds like Pinkie Pie to me.” Rainbow chuckled “Anything else happen that is interesting?”

“Well...” Remembering back to that morning, the newspaper article to be exact “I need to see Ashley about accepting an interview.”

“For what?” Rainbow asked.

“Newspaper called The Equestrian Inquirer.” Callum answered almost immediately “And this morn-“

“WAIT, HOLD UP.” The cyan mare sprung her fore-hoof in front of Callum, stopping him. She slid herself to in front of him “Did you just say The Equestrian Inquirer?” Callum nodded “That’s like, the biggest newspaper in Equestria!” Rainbow Dash’s volume was near a shout and did turn a few heads from nearby ponies “How the hay did you get an interview with them!?”

Closing his eyes half way, Callum pointed to himself with both thumbs “Not from this world, remember?” He replied bluntly, seeing the pegasus face-hoof since she completely missed the most obvious thing about the human “As it turned out, Twilight... And Lyra, sent them some stuff about Ash and I. They want to interview us to get more insight on what they said about us in their latest issue.”

“Wow...” The only word the Pegasus could muster with her jaw hanging loose. “You should totally accept that!”

“Well, I plan on doing so if Ash agrees with it. Otherwise it’s a no go.”

“Oh he’s going to go to that interview.” Rainbow said with slight hostility “Or he’s going to have some problems.” Callum could tell that the mare was making a joke, he took it to himself to play along.

“And so will you, from me of course.” Callum said with an amused tone, defending his friend. “And don’t think I’ll go easy on you.”

Rainbow let out a warm chuckle “Nah don’t worry about that, although I’m sure I can convince him to go.”

“If you can’t, then I’ll just have to give him the choice of eating nothing but cake for a year or I get to remove his liver and kidneys.” Callum said with a grin.

“What’s all this I ‘ere about me bein’ forced ta eat cake?” a voice was heard from a nearby rooftop. Looking up, both human and pony saw Ashley lying on the top of the building. His chin lay on his fists “You guys need to be more aware of your surroundings.” He said as he used some crates to jump down “I could have killed you both right there and then if I truly wanted to...And no one would expect a thing.”

“Yeah you could have.” Callum agreed, holding out a fist for his friend to bump “But you love me too much to do that.”

Returning the bro-fist, he shrugged “Just don’t do the unmentionable and all will be cool. And besides, I’ll only break something like your arm because well, you’re you.” Ashley said with a brief laugh as he walked on ahead of the Pegasus and human, not going to anywhere in particular but just walking around.

“Has anypony told you two that you’re weird?” Rainbow spoke up with a smirk.

“I know for sure Grey has.” Callum replied with a small grin “Besides, weird is exciting.”

Rainbow rolled her eyes and chuckled, both human and Pegasus continued their journey to nowhere. As they walked through the town, Callum noticed ponies reading the same newspaper he read earlier that day. Some would look up from their reading material and smile at the human, some would struggle to beat the urge to talk to the human about the article but were too embarrassed to do so.