Heroes travels

Once reaching outside of the station, Shockwave and Grey Ink were greeted by a mixture of both male and female guards; there were nine in total, three unicorns, three earth and three pegasi. Grey and Shockwave were both riddled with worry to what the humans would do and what would happen to them.

“Alright. Give me a brief on the situation.” Shockwave demanded, taking his experience in leadership and using it for the circumstances before him.

The mare that told him about the humans stepped forward, giving a salute as she began “Sir. We’ve received numerous reports from civilians that the humans are both being loud and causing much havoc. Word is that they are currently intoxicated and are ignoring our means of stopping them.”

“Alright. Keep going.”

“Well.” The mare put her hoof back on the cobblestone floor “Last I heard was they are being accompanied by the element bearers, who are also the same except for the element of kindness, Fluttershy.”

“What has she been doing?”

“She’s been trying to help us, sir. But, she can only do so much. She’s trying her best to keep the humans calm but they just keep making each other rowdy again.”

“Alright, I know what we have to do.” Shockwave said with a sigh “We have to separate the humans. If they ever get violent, flee. Trust me when I say this, you do not want to get on the bad side of Ashley. As for Callum, he would probably be the same or maybe worse. I don’t know nor do I want to. Now, let’s go.”

**

“YEEEEE HAAAW!” Callum screamed out in pure joy. For the past several minutes, the human had been wearing a certain orange mare’s Stetson as he rode her around the town. It was a bit shocking seeing the mare being able to lift the human so easily. That, and the fact that Twilight managed to put a spell on the humans to make them feel lighter.

“Alright.” Applejack panted “It’sh mah turn now!”

“Damn.” Callum said as he got off of the mare “A deal’s a deal.” He lowered himself towards the ground, allowing Applejack to hop onto his back before he stood up. Her forelegs wrapped over his shoulders, hooves meeting at the middle of his chest. Her hind legs locked into position at belt height. Callum had his hands gripping each of the mare’s hind hooves to make sure she wouldn’t fall off.

“You good?” Callum asked with a toothy grin. Applejack gave him a nod, taking her hat of his head and putting it on her own. “Great. Now... ONWARDS TO ADVENTURE!”

CRASH!

“Ugh...” Rainbow Dash managed to let out an pain filled groan, learning that having a human on her back during flight is not the best plan she had. After their head on collision with a bunch of crates that were pretty much destroyed now, both human and Pegasus struggled to stand back onto their own feet/hooves.

“Ah told ya that banking left was a bad idea.” Ashley stated with a brief laugh, even though his body was in agony from their recent collision.

Playfully punching the human in the chest with her hoof, Rainbow Dash managed to let out a chuckle “Last time I checked, you leaned your body to the left, leaving me no choice.”

“Oh yeah... Hehe. Totally worth it.” Both human and Pegasus noticed Callum and Applejack laughing at their injuries but they dismissed them almost instantly.

“Hey.” Rainbow poked the brown haired human in the chest, hard. “Remember our deal?”

“Yeah yeah yeah. Ah remember.” Ashley sighed “Ah’ll go ahead with it when Ah’m all sobered up... That’s if Ah’ll remember it at all. As part of the agreement, hop on.” Ashley stood up, wobbling from being light headed and in pain but that soon passed. Rainbow hovered herself onto the human’s back in the same style as Callum and Applejack. Ponies sure do like being carried...

“And what’s this deal I’m hearing about?” Callum leaned a bit with a sly smile plastered on his face “I bet it’s something... Naaaaaaaauuuuuughty.”

“It’s the deal where Ah remove yer balls if ya keep interfering with mah life.” Ashley scolded. Callum glanced downwards for a brief moment, looking back up to his friend with a dead serious face.

“You wouldn’t...” Ashley raised an eyebrow at his pal, accompanied by a rather menacing smirk. Callum finally hit the realization that his friend would do that, all Ash needed was the correct motivation and he would have to say goodbye to one of things that made him a man.

...

“GET AWAY FROM ME YOU CRAZY FOOL!” Callum screamed as he began high tailing it away from his friend, still carrying Applejack who was having trouble keeping her hat on. Although, her giggling could be heard by Rainbow and Ash as the distance grew between them.

“You’re such a jerk.” Rainbow slurred, tapping Ash on the head with her hoof.

“Perhaps.” Ashley shrugged “But Ah’m a lovable jerk, right?”

Rainbow Dash didn’t reply, she was too busy focusing on the human’s warm body against hers. Being past midnight, it was in fact quite chilly but she didn’t feel the cold since she had just been flying, not the best thing to while drunk. Flying requires coordination and focus, both things she lacked in her current state but she still managed to do so.

“...Right?”

Shaking her head to break free of her thoughts, she quickly replied “Huh? Oh, uuhh, yeah. You’re pretty cool. But, y’know, not as cool as me.” Her words were hardly even recognisable, but, luckily for him he could just make out what she slurred.

Ashley rolled his eyes with a warm laugh. It was time for them to try and find the others...

**

“The hay happened here?” The squad of pegasi decided to land after a ten minute flight, due to them finding a bunch of destroyed crates. The squad consisted of two females and a male.

“I don’t know Light Feather.” One of the mares said to the other, pointing at on the fragments of the wooden storage box “Is... Is that blood?”

“Hmmm...” The stallion knelt down next to the piece with a few droplets of blood on it, picking it up in his fore-hooves. Light Feather began searching other parts of the wreckage “It looks like it. But the question is, whose blood is it?” The stallion prodded the crimson liquid with his hoof “It’s still a bit warm so it’s fresh... Got any clue Hot Pursuit?”

Light Feather wasn’t paying attention to her co-worker. She was too fascinated with searching for clues. It reminded her of her foalhood, playing detective with her older sisters. Using her left fore-hoof to push around the planks of broken wood, she immediately found something.

“Hey.” She called out loud enough to the two guards in her patrol “I’ve found something.” She picked up the light, soft object in her mouth, using her teeth to grip it.

“Is that... A feather?”  Hot Pursuit asked, raising her eyebrows slightly.

Light Feather spat out the feather, watching it’s slow, light descent to the cold cobblestone floor.

“Not just a feather... But the Rainbow Dash’s feather. Y’know what this means Torn?”

Both Hot Pursuit and the stallion glanced at one another, switching their attention to their Pegasus comrade.

“Ladies...” The stallion known as Torn smirked “We’ve got ourselves a lead.”

Both mares smiled before the trio took to the skies, in search for the cyan Pegasus to see if she knew the location of the humans.

**

Canterlot Castle

**

This...

This...

This is truly amazing!

Luna was once again alone in her night court. She would’ve fell asleep by now, but, she had to be appreciative towards Ashley for letting her examine his weapon during the night of solitude. The metal object was fascinating just to look at. Of course, she found out that it could be taken apart, but, she wouldn’t want to risk breaking it. She knew that she’d need Ashley to guide her through the process. Then again, she could always just order him to do so. Realizing that she was basically abusing her control of the human, she dismissed the thought. She could always just ask him nicely, hoping he would oblige in guiding her with dissembling the human weapon.

Curiosity, it can either be good or bad, most hope for the first option. Or maybe would the correct term be experiment? Either way Luna’s own thoughts riddled around the out of this world weapon. How does it feel when it is being used? What does it sound like? How fast do these ‘bullets’ travel when fired from a ponies perspective? All these thoughts could be settled, with one. Single. Experiment...

Hmmm... Maybe he won’t mind if I use it... Just this once... Luna looked around curiously, making sure no pony would see her, she teleported to her chambers for privacy, taking both of the humans belongings that were given to her that night.

**

Ponyville

**

As it turned out, keeping the others out of trouble seemed to be not only demanding for Fluttershy, but stressful too. The worse pony for it was Pinkie, it was bad enough when she was sober but when she was intoxicated? All hell broke loose once they left the club. The pink party pony irresponsibly fired her party cannon into several random directions, one of those directions being towards Twilight. Unlucky for the lavender unicorn, using magic was both unpredictable and highly dangerous. She didn’t want to risk attempting to teleport out of the cannon’s range, unless she wanted to end up... Oh, I don’t know, let’s go with inside the royal castle. Not bad? Maybe with her insides on the outside instead... Yeah... Not the best option to go with.

She learnt this from a previous mistake, well, she would call it a mistake but others would see it as a gift of sorts. Those others would be the two humans, to which she tried to catch them with a levitation spell when they ran around with Applejack’s hat. Of course, Twilight was quite mellow and couldn’t really run after the humans without falling into a drunken purple mess on the cold cobblestone floor. There was also the fact that she knew it was all just a joke so, she couldn’t help but playfully try to chase the humans with playful laughter contaminating her.

After around ten minutes of giving chase, humans climbing on rooftops which awoke the inhabitants of the houses...

“What the hay do you think you’re doing!?” This was one of the many things said to the humans this night by the ponies which they had awoken. Of course, there were threats amongst other things. Such as:

“You better get your flank down from there before I pound your flank into the ground!” A rather pissed off, tan coloured Pegasus stallion was the one to say this, not realizing that he could’ve just signed his death warrant.

“Hey.” Callum said from the rooftop to the Pegasus “I guess we both have something in common.”

“And what would that be?”

“We both like to pound ass, too bad I only go for girls, sorry lad.” He replied before going into a giggling fit. Twilight, Rarity and Applejack couldn’t help but join with the infectious laughter. Rainbow and Ashley were talking on the roof top, their laughter could be heard as well.

The stallion clenched his teeth before leaving with a frustrated huff as he went back into his home.

“Hey *hic* Callum.” Twilight called up to the human, who was now hanging from the rooftop like a monkey. He tilted his head to the side slightly “Don’t think *hic* you’re getting away that *hic* easily!” With that, Callum’s feet hit the ground with a small thud.

“You’ll never take me alive copper!” Twilight was already trying her best to give chase, Applejack decided to help as did Rarity. After all, who wouldn’t want to have fun chasing him? Ashley quickly got off the roof in the attempt to flee, only to be tackled by a certain cyan Pegasus from behind during mid-fall.

“Ah-ha!” Rainbow triumphantly shouted “Who’s faster than who now?!”

Shoot. Ashley thought to himself, he wanted to escape, but the question was how. It wasn’t long until an idea struck his mind “If y’all let me go... Ah’ll... Uhhh...”

“Oh, what’sh that? I can’t hear ya over how awesome I am!” Rainbow’s face was styling a well deserved smirk during this time “So, are ya going to beg for mercy?”

She felt the human shrug since her fore-hooves were planted on his back. “Ah’ll do whatever you want if ya let me go.” Ashley replied with a toothy grin, trying sound as desperate as possible but it couldn’t be helped with the breaking of laughter

“Hmmm...” Rainbow lifted a hoof to her chin, a big mistake since Ashley was capable of escaping her capture. She cursed herself for letting her guard down.

“Rookie mistake Rainbow, always keep yer guard up.” Ashley stated rather smugly, wiping the front of his jacket with his hands in the attempt to remove as much dirt as possible.

Quick to think, Rainbow managed to counter “Well, I did let you go so now you have to do what I want.” She set herself to a hover, wobbling from time to time since she wouldn’t always beat her wings at the same time. The cyan Pegasus folded her fore-hooves with a smug grin plastered on her muzzle.

“Oh, Ah see what ya done. So, what’ll it be?” It wasn’t long before Rainbow hovered herself next to the human’s ear, leaning on him for balance once more. She felt a small amount of heat rise to her cheeks, luckily for her, Ashley was drunk enough not to notice her blush. Ashley nodded before taking off after Callum, Rainbow however set herself on the ground and started to chase him, giggling like a school filly along the way.

It wasn’t long until Twilight activated the spell. After a couple missed attempts, she did hit her targets but not with the levitation, but instead the Lightweight spell, which was used to help lifting heavy ponies around and was also used to help mail ponies with bigger packages that would still manage to balance on their backs during flight.

After the spell hit, both humans did receive a rather painful headache, alongside feeling light headed for a few seconds once the spell hit.

“Got you!” Rarity said with the honour of victory as she pounced onto Callum’s back. Everyone looked at her as if she done something rather unladylike. Oh wait, she pretty much did. She gave them a quick smile “Just because I’m a *hic* lady, doeshn’t mean I *hic* don’t know how to jump onto somepony.”

“Mmmmm. Rarity, I guess from this that you like it rough.” Callum said in his usual lust filled voice, making everyone except Ashley blush, Rarity obviously being the worse one.

“Oh, I’m sorry *hic* Callum, I thought you liked it *hic* rough.” She said with a large amount of sarcasm before going into the pit of laughter. “I think Applejack would be suited better off with you!” She teased playfully. Applejack was in a fit of laughter as she took her hat back from the human, placing it proudly on her head before almost falling over from lack of balance.

“Perhaps...” Callum managed to raise a hand to his chin, rubbing it as if he was thinking something through. “Or maybe, since you both like it rough, you two can get it on while I watch.”

SMACK!

...

SMACK!

“Totally deserved that.” Callum chuckled to himself after taking his beating from both Applejack and Rarity. Note to self, don’t piss of Rarity, she’s the only seamstress you know who will make you clothes. Applejack on the other hand, she knows she likes hitting me.

“Yesh. Yesh ya did.” Applejack giggled.

Meanwhile with Ashley, his assailant was once again Rainbow Dash. She had her front hooves planted on his back once more, Twilight was in front of them both, looking down at Ashley with a smug grin.

“Two times in less than a quarter of an hour?” Rainbow lowered her head next to his ear, the smirk never leaving her face “Looks like you owe me for two things.”

“So basically, every time y’all get me on the ground, Ah owe ya somethin’?” Ashley asked, Rainbow nodded in return, raising her head back to where it was before. “And what if Ah win?”

“Beatsh me.” Rainbow chuckled with a shrug. Twilight however, was rather confused at the sight before her.

“Rainbow, what did *hic* you want Ashley to do the first time?”

“That’s a secret Twi.” Ashley groaned. Rainbow nodded, eyes closed with a smile. She basically was saying that what the human said was right. Twilight huffed in annoyance, still wanting to know but she dismissed it quickly, after all, it was a night for fun.

**

Canterlot Castle, Luna’s chambers.

**

Why...

...

WHY WON’T THIS BLASTED THING WORK!? I SHOULD SEND IT TO THE MOON FOR DISOBEYING ME!

It was basically inevitable, Luna was having trouble with firing the weapon. Every time she tried to squeeze the trigger with her magic, it wouldn’t budge. How come it was not working?

She let out a yell of frustration, throwing the object onto her bed. She didn’t want to risk breaking it by throwing it out of the window and over the balcony, or at a high enough speed towards the wall to make it shatter. She took a deep breath to help calm herself as she slowly trotted over to her bed. She removed her traditional royal shoes from her hooves. As great as they were, they still annoyed her.

“Ahhhh...” She lightly moaned in relief from removal of her shoes, feeling the cold marble floor beneath her hooves was relaxing but this was mostly due to the fact that it was cold. Activating her magic, she lifted the hand gun near her face, looking at its side. She shifted herself onto her soft bed, lying on top of her silk blankets.

Tell me your secrets... She thought to herself as she narrowed her eyes at the metal object. She began examining its details more carefully, stumbling upon a key feature of the weapon.

“Safety...?” She said to herself, given to that nopony else was in her room.

Is this what is stopping me?

She shrugged before using her magic to turn off the safety. She brought the weapon to in front of her, looking down the sight.

“What to aim at...” She looked around her room, looking for the most disposable object in her vicinity. She noticed a small pile of books, ones she knew that held no importance any more. ‘How to speak modern Equestrian’ was the book title. She had to thank the author of this book one day. it had helped her tremendously when it came to ditching the ways of old Equestrian. Seeing as she had no use for it any more, as well as knowing that she could always replace it, she levitated the book into the air in the centre of her room.

“Alright...Easy...” She lightly bit onto her tongue, narrowing her eyes as she looked down the weapon’s sight. She held her breath for the worst...

BANG

“OW! O ow ow ow!” Once she fired the weapon, she immediately regretted it. Even though she tried bracing herself, she didn’t expect the ear splitting sound to emit from the device. She threw the hand gun on the floor before she began rolling on her bed. Her hooves were planted against her ears as the ringing continued.

It wasn’t long before a certain bright light had begun to form in her room. Luna looked towards the light as soon as it faded.

There stood a very worried white alicorn prince. Celestia rushed to her sister’s side, seeing how much pain she was in as soon as she teleported.

**

Ponyville

**

“Mhmm. So you’re telling me that the humans were here not long ago?” Shockwave asked a house owner, as it turned out, it was the same tan pegasus stallion that confronted the humans earlier. Up in the sky, was a hovering Grey Ink who was on the lookout for Ashley and Callum, or the element bearers.

She hoped that they would be okay, more concerned for Ashley’s wellbeing but Callum was his friend, and hers as well.

“Yes, that’s right captain.” The stallion replied. “Why are they acting this way? If I might ask.”

The captain chuckled as he began to walk away, turning his head back for a single sentence. “They’re intoxicated.” The pegasus rolled his eyes with a very faint smile, waving off the captain before locking his door and retreating back to bed.

Grey Ink noticed Shockwave walking away from the house, gliding back down to the ground to meet him. “So, did you find out anything?”

“I was told that Callum and Ash were here earlier. Not much to work on but it’s still somewhat useful.” He replied as both ponies began to walk down the dark, near abandoned street. Visibility was okay due to the magic fuelled street lamps. Shockwave and Grey would stray their eyesight to different directions, looking down alleyways, sometimes Grey Ink would have to fly above roofs after learning that the humans had a tendency to climb onto them.

Well... Ashley prefers to do that... Grey Ink thought to herself, but that didn’t stop the worry inside her from rising.

**

“Ah’m tellin’ ya Cal. This night. It’s been pretty swell.”

“I agree with you there Ash, it’s been pretty good.” Callum replied, taking a bite out of a cupcake that Pinkie was able to supply. Nearby, a incredibly tired Fluttershy was panting like mad after chasing the pink party pony for so long.

Cringing as Callum began to chew, Ashley turned away to avoid the horrid sight but it was too late. The alcohol from that night made his stomach more uneasy towards the sugary treat, it wasn’t long until Ashley ran towards a nearby trash can and proceeded to empty his stomach contents into it.

“And he’s outta here!” Callum cheered as soon as he swallowed, Ashley merely gave his pal the middle finger before resuming to vomit.

“Oh my...” Fluttershy immediately rushed to Ashley’s side, rubbing his back with one of her fore-hooves. “Are you going to be alright?”

“Ugh... Ah think so.” Ashley groaned, spitting into the trash can to try and get rid of any excess vomit in his mouth. Fluttershy backed away a bit from him to do so. She was still scared of the human for what he did but he was the friend of her friends, and he didn’t mean to do what he did. After all, she still wanted to help him. It was just part of her nature.

“You should lay down and rest...If that’s okay with you...” She demanded in a slightly louder voice than normal, Ashley nodded before falling to the ground, defeated by the sight of a cupcake. He placed one of his hands on his stomach as he lay there on the cold street floor.

“Um... Ashley... You might want to get off the ground, you might get a cold.” Fluttershy pointed out.

“Hehe... Ah’ve slept in colder places than this Fluttershy, and Ah still came out disease free.”

Fluttershy wouldn’t have any of it. She began to lift the human to a bench, both Callum and Ashley were traumatized by her strength. What they didn’t remember was the spell that was still applied to their bodies, allowing the canary yellow Pegasus to carry the human more easily.

“Cheers Fluttershy.” Ashley appreciate her gesture, but instead he stood back up and began to walk away, leaving a dazed Fluttershy in his midst.

“Huh... I wonder where he’s off to...” Callum said to Pinkie who was too busy having her fill of sugary treats that she pulled out of nowhere, like always.

**

Canterlot castle, Luna’s chamber

**

“Sister...” Celestia began, her voice was tinged with worry “What happened?”

Luna was still recovering from the loud bang that the handgun made. She pointed at the weapon on the floor and then the book. Celestia put one and one together, coming up with the conclusion that her sister used the weapon to hit the book, which she still failed at. The book remained whole while in the ceiling was a small dent, to which she guess was caused by the bullet. She pulled her sister’s head to her chest in the attempt to soothe her.

It took around five minutes until Luna was fully recovered from the ordeal, now Celestia would begin to ask questions.

“Okay. First off. How did you acquire this?” She levitated the handgun onto the bed, right in front of Luna. She stared at it before replying with an awkward smile.

“I maaaay have asked Ashley if I could have a look at it during night court tonight...”

“You did what!?”

“Oh please Tia, you and I both know how tedious attending court is.” Luna shifted her body to sit up against the wall, looking into her sister’s frustrated eyes. “And it doesn’t help when I’m the only one who attends night court!”

Celestia let out a brief sigh, she understood that boredom would eventually lead to curiosity.

“Then why did you activate it?”

“I wanted to see how it worked, to test it on a book to see what it is capable of on a small scale.”

Celestia was quiet, not to mention tired since she was supposed to have her rest right now.

“And don’t you go judging me.” Luna said, grabbing her sister’s attention “You would have done the same thing, I know it. To see a weapon from another world and to have the chance to examine it, tell me you wouldn’t take that opportunity to do so.”

Celestia sighed once more, Luna held a smug smile on her face which was basically saying ‘Yeah, that’s what I thought.’

“Fine. I suppose I would have done the same thing.” Celestia huffed, glancing between the weapon and her sister “What was it like?”

“What was what like?”

“Using the weapon.”

“Oh. It was loud but... Amazing to do at the same time. I want to try it out again but it hurt my ears so much that I do not want to.”

Celestia looked around the room, seeing the two bags that belonged to the humans. She walked over to Ashley’s and opened it via magic, taking a peek at its contents. Some small cartridges Maybe that is the ammunition for it. She thought to herself, levitating them out of the bag and onto Luna’s bed. Luna was slightly confused at what her sister was doing.

Celestia continued to search through Ashley’s bag, coming upon a small black object, levitating it onto the bed next to the ammo. The last object was a small gem next to the human’s knife. She looked at it briefly, seeing that it was clear as a diamond. Seeing as it was Ashley’s and probably held no purpose for the weapon, she placed it back into his bag before closing it up.

She turned around to see Luna attaching the small black object to the end of the weapon. The tip of Luna’s tongue stuck out of her closed lips, eyes narrowed as she focused on the task as much as possible.

“What are you doing?” Celestia asked, rushing to her side once more.

“Seeing how this fits and what it does.”

“But why can’t you just wait until later today to see Ashley or Callum to test it?”

The thought never occurred to Luna. She continued to ignore her sister as she continued to screw on the strange object. It fit the end of the handgun perfectly. Smiling as she levitated the book back up into the air, aiming the handgun at it.

Celestia felt a bead of sweat descend the side of her head. She quickly covered her ears with her hooves, just in case it would do the same to her as it did to Luna.

Luna squeezed the trigger, watching as the bullet sped through the book as if it was nothing. Her eyes were as big as saucers, truly amazed by what they witnessed. The biggest surprise was that her ears didn’t ache, but instead the weapon was incredibly quiet compared to last time. Did the attachment make the gun more silent? It must have done so.

Celestia looked over to her sister, who had a wide toothy grin plastered on her muzzle. Seeing that the sound didn’t affect her sister, Celestia removed her hooves from her ears, shooting a look of curiosity at her sister.

“What happened?” She asked the princess of the night.

“Just... Look at the book.” Luna said with bewilderment, her eyes still attached to the weapon in her magical grasp.

Celestia done so, seeing the book with a rather large hole going through all the pages, straight through the middle though a little bit to the left. Shredded pieces of paper were still floating down to the ground, some already were there by the time she looked. She turned her head back to Luna.

“It... Made it quiet.” Luna said softly “The loud bang is no more!”

“Really?” Luna nodded “Wow...” Celestia’s mouth hung wide open for a brief moment, staring at the weapon.  She couldn’t but help test it out for herself.

“Is it... Okay if I can try?” Celestia asked shyly.

**

“There they are!” Grey Ink called down to Shockwave who immediately looked up at the grey Pegasus. “Follow me.” She shouted as she began to slowly descend to the humans, keeping herself slow enough for Shockwave to see where she was going.

As she neared the humans, she noticed a group of mares surrounding them, accompanied by a couple of stallions.

“Ah’m tellin’ ya. Ah didn’t do shit!” Ashley spat at one of the males.

“Yeah bucking right! I know it was you!” The unicorn stallion pointed a hoof accusingly at the brown haired human.

Judging from how the stallion talked, he must be slightly intoxicated as well. As for the group with him, Grey ink thought that they were his friends, maybe some were relationship partners. She hovered herself down in between the hot dispute, trying to put an end to it all.

“Alright. How about we just calm down and talk like civil adults.” She saw Ashley and Callum ease up slightly.

“Screw you!” one of the mares shouted back, getting closer to the grey Pegasus, gritting her teeth. “Who the buck do you think you are getting in other ponies business?!” Maybe it was the drinking that night that drove her to this, or it was the heat of then moment, or both. The mare raised her hoof to strike at Grey.

Grey Ink was about to flinch, Ashley was about to run over and kick the mare in the face if she went through with hitting Grey. Callum was ready to back up his friend just in case.

But, no sound of Grey being hit could be heard.

Shockwave stood in between the mare and Grey, his hoof blocking the attacker’s hit. The flame of pure rage could be seen in his eyes.

“Are you sure you want to go through with this?” He said calmly, but if listened carefully enough, the tinge of anger could be heard in his voice.

The mare immediately retreated to the group, ashamed when she realized that she was about to strike somepony who was trying to help.

“Good.” Shockwave said. “Because if you were going to go through with it, you would have to answer to me, Callum and Ashley. And for your information, attacking those two humans is classed as assault on a guard. A very severe offence. Not to mention that they know the princesses personally and even so, Ash and Cal would most likely brutally murder you.”

“Pfft, yeah right.” The unicorn stallion snorted.

“I am right.” The captain glared at the stallion. “If you actually paid attention to the news, you would have seen that what I just said is true. If you have a problem, strike it up with the princesses... or would you prefer to let me allow Ashley and Callum to have fun ripping off your horn? I’m sure Ashley has already done it to captain Night Wind.”

“W-what?! The captain Night Wind!?” Shockwave nodded “Nu-uh. You’re lying.”

“I wish I was.” Shockwave replied calmly. “Poor fella, he won’t be using magic for a while because of it.”

“He’s telling the truth Soft.” One of the mare’s spoke up “I watched the whole thing.”

“What!?” The rest of the mares, and the stallions said in shock.

“Why didn’t you say anything it about being them!?” ‘Soft’ asked.

“I did. You’re just a twit for not even realizing who they are! They’re like, the biggest thing in Equestria right now!” The mare gave a ‘are you fucking serious’ look at the group “But you lot were too busy yelling to even hear me.” The mare looked over at Ashley, giving him a wink “You might remember me from last night.”

Grey Ink’s ears perked up Last night? What happened last night?

“...Last night?” Ashley tried to figure out what the mare was implying.

“Remember Ruby?” The mare asked, Ashley nodded “It’s me. Sapphire, her friend who was laughing at you last night.”

“...Ooooh!” Realization hit Ashley in the face. Hard. “Tell her that I still hate her for that. It was so friggin’ awkward for me!”

Awkward? Grey Ink thought to herself, her mind was already flooded with a bunch of situations that could fit that single word. ...He’s got some explaining to do later...

Sapphire chuckled briefly, “She told me that if I see you, I should say that she’s sorry. She didn’t mean to do that. She gets a bit too... Touchy when she’s had too much to drink.”

“Alright. Tell her that I accept her apology. Just tell her to cut back on the booze, will ya?” The mare nodded with a smile.

“Can we divert back to the situation at hoof?” Shockwave asked. Sapphire smiled awkwardly while Ashley nodded at the captain. “Alright. I’ll let you all off with a warning.” Shockwave said to the group “If I catch any doing something like this again, I’m hauling your flanks into the drunk cell to sober you up before we talk.” He pointed to a random street nearby “Now get out of my sight.”

**

Canterlot castle, location withheld.

**

Once Luna passed the weapon to her sister, she believed that they both had a new pass time. Shooting things. Neither of them expected such a thing to happen, they saw it more as practice for how well they can spot things at a far distance and hit the target.

Celestia had gone into Callum’s bag and retrieve his handgun. Both princesses shared the ammo between themselves. It took a lot of getting used to when it came to shooting. Every shot would produce a small amount of recoil, which proven difficult for both alicorns to keep under control. Many shots they had fired at the row of old pans they had taken from the kitchen had missed. Only a few hit their targets, most of them were Luna’s. The biggest problem for Celestia was learning how to reload. It took Luna around five to ten minutes of examining the weapon earlier that night to know how to do it. Celestia kept having problems sliding in the ammo cartridges into the handgun.

“I need another... Um. Cartridge.” Celestia asked her sister.

Luna looked next to her, only to find that all the cartridges were used.

“Um... Tia...” Luna regretted to tell her sister, but it had to be done. “We’ve used them all.”

Celestia giggled “Nice one Luna.” She turned to her sister, only to meet her serious face. She wasn’t lying. She looked over the princess of the night, seeing a bunch of empty ammo cartridges. Her heart began to beat fast.

“Oh no... No no no, NO!” She levitated all the cartridges towards her, checking to see if any still had remaining bullets. They came up empty.

Well, except for. One. Single. Bullet.

Her heart was already beating fast. Both she and her sister had gone behind the backs of Ashley and Callum. She instantly regretted having picked up that handgun earlier that night.

“What are we going to do!?” Luna panicked, shoving Ashley’s ammo cartridges and handgun into his bag before closing it “I went behind Ashley’s trust! He’ll never want to speak to me again! I doubt he will want to even be in the guard anymore!”

“Calm down Luna!” Celestia raised her voice, silencing her sister. She took a deep breath and exhaled. “We should just tell them the truth. If we don’t, it will be worse than them finding out for themselves. We still have one of those ‘bullets’ left. We’ll just have to try and fix this the best way we can. We’ll tell them if we fail to do so.”

**

Ponyville

**

“Cheers for settling things back there Shockwave.” Callum said as he, Ashley, Grey Ink and of course, Shockwave had begun to look for Twilight and the gang. Grey Ink was still a bit shaken by the whole ordeal. Ashley decided to let her ride on his back, helping her calm down and it wasn’t long before she was already focusing on the human’s body heat as she placed her head on his shoulder.

“Yeah well, it took me a lot of restraint to stop myself from electrocuting that mare into a crisp.”

“It took me a lot of restraint from shoving that guy’s horn up his ass.” Callum stated with a small laugh, as did Shockwave. “Ignorant prick.”

It wasn’t long for them to find Twilight and the gang. They stumbled to a group of drunken, collapsed mares with a very tired Fluttershy next to them. All the yellow Pegasus wanted to do now was rest in her soft bed. Callum walked over to Fluttershy, kneeling down next to her. She gave him a weak smile, holding out her hooves towards him. He came up with the thought that she wanted a hug so he complied, wrapping his arms around the mare’s neck.

“Can...C-can you take us home?” Fluttershy whispered, her fatigue almost stopped her being able to even speak.

“Sure. I owe you one for getting them together for us. Do you mind if we drop you off last?” No reply. Callum could hear her calm breathing, breaking the hug to see that she had fell asleep. An adorable sight to see. He gently lifted up the Pegasus, cradling her like a baby seemed to be the best option for him to carry her. She nuzzled his chest as she curled up into a soft ball of yellow fur with wings and pink hair.

“Right, I’ll take Fluttershy home.” Callum whispered. “Ash, can you take Applejack home?”

“Sure thing.” Ashley smiled, looking over to the collapsed mare. Her Stetson covered most of her face, a small drip of drool had escaped the side of her mouth.

“Good. Shockwave and Grey, can you two keep an eye on these lot until we get back?” Both ponies nodded.

**

Fluttershy’s Cottage

**

“Aaaaannnnnd I just realized that the door is probably locked...” Callum said to himself, being quiet to make sure he didn’t wake up Fluttershy. Once he approached the door, he saw Angel jump from the windowsill on the inside. Shortly after this, a small clunk was heard from the door before it opened. There before Callum was rather pissed off looking rabbit that was only visible from the moon’s light. Angel examined the thing in Callum’s arms, realizing it was Fluttershy, his master and carer. Angel moved out of the way, gesturing Callum to follow him upstairs.

As Callum walked inside, he gently nudged door until it closed. He tread carefully as he ascended up the stairs, Angel was at the top waiting for him. Once he had reached the top, Angel hopped towards Fluttershy’s room, opening the door for the human to carry her through.

Angel removed the blanket on the bed, allowing Callum to place Fluttershy on it. She fidgeted a bit when she was placed on the soft mattress. Callum gripped two corners of the blanket and covered Fluttershy up to her neck, watching as she curled up once more with a content smile on her face. The human looked over to Angel who was now giving him a thumbs up and a sincere smile for bringing back his master.

Callum and Angel quietly left the room, trying not to disturb Fluttershy from her slumber. Callum left the cottage, hearing Angel lock the door before he went back to sleep next to Fluttershy.

**

Sweet Apple Acres

**

“Let’s just hope that someone is awake right now... Ah bet it’s around three in the mornin’ now.” Ashley wasn’t speaking to anyone in particular. Applejack seemed to fidget quite a lot as he carried her home. Ascending up the dirt path to the house of the Apple family, he saw a light on in one of the front rooms.

Probably Big Mac.

He walked up onto the porch. The floorboards creaked under his boots with every couple of steps.

There goes trying to be quiet…

As expected, Ashley could hear the sound of hooves tapping against wood inside the house. The door clicked open, the light almost blinding the human but his eyes adjusted fairly quickly. Once done so, the figure in the doorway as large, well, for pony standards. Ashley knew it was Big Macintosh easily.

“…So Ah see mah sister had too much.” Big Mac shook his head in slight disappointment, but, he couldn’t help but smile at how his sister looked. He moved out of the doorway to let the human into the Apple family’s quiet home.

“Eeyup.” Ashley replied as he walked into the house, Big Mac chuckled lightly once he heard the very word that he was well known for amongst ponies. Walking into the household’s front room, he spotted a rather comfortable looking couch.

“Y’all just go and settle her down on there.” Big Mac said quietly but loud enough for the human to hear in the other room as he closed the door “Ah’ll go nab her some blankets and a glass o’ water fer when she wakes up.

…Great… Let me do this on my own, great idea… Ashley thought to himself, continuing the mental plan he had formed to how he would arrange the cushions for the orange mare while being able to stop her from falling off the couch and asleep.

Doing what he does best, he adapted to the situation fast, using his boot to shift the cushions into a small pile at one end of the sofa for Applejack’s head. It was already at the point where he thought ‘I don’t give fuck anymore, I just want to stop carrying her now.’

He began to slowly lower the mare onto the couch, softly resting her head onto the couple of pillows he had arranged for her. He removed her Stetson and placed it on a small table nearby. The candle which lit up the room was at an angle where it wouldn’t cause Applejack to awaken. Ashley swore that he heard her murmur something in her sleep, but dismissed it. After all, many people he knew would murmur in their sleep, he was no exception.

Big Mac returned with a large floral yellow blanket on his back, his gaze never leaving his sister as he walked towards her. Ashley grabbed the blanket and slowly spread it over Applejack’s body, from her hind hooves to just above her shoulders. Both human and stallion watched the mare cuddle the fabric a bit.

“Thanks fer bringin’ her back.” Big Mac whispered.

“Not a problem, y’all should thank Fluttershy fer tryin’ her best to keep them safe.” Ashley said in a hushed tone, taking his leave with a smile “Now if y’all will excuse me, Ah’ve got to help out Cal take Pinkie back to her place.”

Big Macintosh nodded. Once the human left, he locked the door before returning to the front room. He watched his sister rest for a few seconds, seeing her chest rise and fall with each calm breath. He quietly trotted over to the candle and blew it out, snuffing the flame, ceasing the light of the room. He slowly waltzed out of the room, turning his head back to gaze back at his sister, who moved around a tad, curling herself a bit to get comfortable.

It wasn’t long until the red stallion was already in his bed, knowing that his sister was safe and sound was all he needed to fall into a slumber fairly quickly.

**

It wasn’t long for both humans to get Pinkie back to Sugarcube Corner. Callum had lost a simple game of rock paper scissors, cursing himself for always being a sucker for picking rock. Since he was defeated, he had to carry the oddly sugar scented pink pony.

If only I had won… Ashley would be puking his guts right now.

Luckily for them, Mrs Cake was worried sick about Pinkie being out so late without dropping by for even ten seconds to grab a snack. Callum was the one who plopped Pinkie onto her bed before leaving. Mrs Cake could barely fit a sentence without yawning, giving the humans her thanks for returning Pinkie.

**

“Alright… Now it’s just these two…” Callum said to Shockwave. Grey Ink had taken the liberty of having Ashley carrying her on his back. Each of them was staring down at the sleeping Rainbow Dash and Twilight.

“Better make that three.” Ashley spoke. Both Shockwave and Callum turned their gaze to him, seeing a familiar grey Pegasus’ head resting on his shoulder, eye’s closed with a content smile on her face. Of course, it was very early in the morning and she had fallen asleep.

“Now this just complicates things a little…” Callum scratched his head, turning his vision back at Rainbow and Twilight.

“As it should.” Shockwave stated “Ms Rainbow Dash lives in a cloud home. Last time I checked, none of us can carry her up there, not even Grey Ink.”

“We’ll just have to take them both to Twilight’s then.”

“Once we’ve done that, I’ll guide Ashley to Grey’s to drop her off. Then both us will go to the station to sleep.

Both humans looked at one another, then back to the unicorn captain. They shrugged and reluctantly agreed to do so.

**

Twilight's library

**

“Alright… Twilight’s all tucked in. I was able to grab a couple pillows and a blanket for Rainbow Dash to use, only to find out that Twilight has a guest room so I plopped her in there. I put the no longer needed blanket and pillows back since the bed already had them in the guest room.” Callum whispered as he walked quietly down the wooden staircase, being careful to not make the boards creak.

“Alright.” Ashley replied, checking to see that Grey Ink was still asleep. She still was, her fore-hooves were locked over the human’s shoulders, hooves meeting at the middle of his chest. Her head still remained on his right shoulder, the smile never left her face as she slept.

“Let’s get going then.” Shockwave ordered, followed by Ashley and the sleeping mare on his back.

“I’ll be waiting here for ya Ash.” Callum said with a smirk. Ashley didn’t really see the reason why his friend was staying at Twilight’s, but who was going to stop him from returning to the library to do so?

After several minutes of walking in an awkward silence, Shockwave decided to break it with small talk.

“Soooo… Had fun tonight?”

“Well… Let me see…” Ashley replied, doing his best to recall the events of the night “Ah was able to see mah friends drunk, had a nice drinkin’ contest, let Luna examine mah pistol, Ah owe something to Rainbow Dash, Ah almost got into a brawl with some guys and right now, Grey Ink is asleep on me and all Ah can say about this is that Ah friggin’ love how cute she looks when she sleeps.”

“…So you had fun?”

Ashley gave the captain a smirk, followed by a quick laugh “Ah guess Ah did.”

“Glad to hear it.” Shockwave smiled. This human was alright, needed some straightening out. But all in all, he was in a relaxed mood and just wanted to blow off some steam earlier that night. He couldn’t blame him for that.

As they continued down the street, they entered Maple Road. Shockwave was a couple steps in front of Ashley and his sleeping companion.

The house with the number seventy two was where Shockwave had stopped. He activated his levitation magic to lift small flower pot in the front garden, pulling out a small key from beneath it. He slid the key into the keyhole, opening the door once he unlocked the door.

“Up the stairs. Second door on the right.” Shockwave stated, moving out of the way for the human.

“Cheers.” Ashley responded as he stepped up the staircase. He couldn’t help but look around as he ascended. The walls were a calm tone of blue, much like the sky. The entire floor, including the staircase was made of wood, pine to be exact. Alongside the walls were several pictures. All of them had Grey Ink in them (Or what he assumed was younger versions of the Pegasus.)

One that drew his eye was a picture of her with a male pony, arm draped around a mare. In front of them was Grey Ink and another mare, all of them were smiling. In the picture, both Grey Ink and the pony next to her seemed to be in between the age of the CMC and a fully grown female pony, most likely in their teenage years. The everyone in the picture was a pegasus.

It must have been a family photo.

The stallion had a dark green mane, alongside a grey coat. His cutie mark could not be seen due to Grey and, what Ashley believed, her sister blocked him from seeing it. The stallion was most likely their father. Deep green eyes that reminded Ashley of grass in the night just stared at him. Not just because it was a picture, it was just the way he didn’t like looking at the stallion.

Next was the mare. Must be her mother… Ashley thought. He could see the resemblance between her and Grey Ink. Both had dark brown manes and brown eyes. Her coat however was a clear white, slightly brown if one would look close enough.

Next was the pony who he assumed was Grey’s sister. She herself had a sky-blue mane, white highlights. Looking closely, Ashley could see her left arm hanging over Grey’s shoulder. Judging the image, they were probably really close, but then again, it could be just a simple pose for the picture.

Last, but not least, was Grey Ink. She hadn’t changed much except her body now being one of a fully grown mare’s and her manestyle was well-kept than the slightly curled mane she had back then. Even so, her smile hadn’t changed at all. It still made Ashley smile to himself.

Shaking his head to negate all thoughts, he continued up the stairs, arriving at the door Shockwave had told him to go to. Luckily, the door was slightly opened so he wouldn’t have to let go of one of Grey’s hind legs. Walking into her room, he glanced around. It was organized. Bottles of perfume were on the top of a set of drawers, alongside a couple more picture frames, quite a lot of room to move around as well. The wall colour was a calm tone of pink with beautiful white flowers as its pattern. The room had carpet, white to be exact.

Ashley sat on the bed, letting go of the grey Pegasus on his back. Except she didn’t slide off his back like he had planned. Her hooves were still wrapped around him, as if she didn’t want to leave.

“What’s taking so long?” Shockwave called up to the human but he didn’t get a reply.

…God damn it Grey… Ashley’s mind spoke to itself. He tried to pry her hooves off him but they wouldn’t budge.

“Mmmm.” Grey Ink mumbled, the smile still on her face “Don’t go…”

“…”

Grey Ink’s slumbering body leaned to the side, her head hit the pillows with a soft pomf, her body weight was able to pull Ashley down with her due to the Lightweight spell from earlier that night.

((Quick A/n: The Lightweight spell makes it so that those affected can be moved more easily since they weigh less. This does not affect the victim’s strength on others. So basically, Grey Ink could probably lift Ashley with this spell but Ashley can still lift her like normal. You may have already figured this out by now but heck, I put this here just in case.))

The fuck!? Was the only thought to fill Ashley’s mind as he was pulled down by Grey Ink. His head had it the pillow next to hers. How the heck did she do that!? No matter, I’ll just undo her hooves and I’ll be on my way…

If only it was that easy. Every time he tried to pry her hooves from around his chest, she only tightened her grip, smothering her cheek into his back into a warm hug. Ashley let out a sigh, he tried several times but all had failed. Grey Ink was surprisingly strong at the moment.

“What are you do-“ Shockwave walked into the room, seeing Ashley staring back at him with Grey’s hooves coming from his back, meeting at the human’s chest.

“She just won’t let go.” Ashley whispered.

Shockwave only shook his head and laughed quietly for a moment, looking back at the human with a smirk “She doesn’t want you to leave.”

“Really? Ya don’t say.” Ashley replied with thick sarcasm.

“Let me rephrase that. She really doesn’t want you to leave. It’s not the first time I’ve seen her do this.”

“…So she won’t let me go?” Shockwave shook his head “Bugger.” Ashley could feel Grey Ink nuzzling his back, making him throw in the towel.

“Then again… Maybe this isn’t so bad…”

“I’ll just leave you two alone…” Shockwave began to turn around but stopped, giving Ashley a deadly glare “No funny business, you got that?” Ashley nodded “I’ll go lock up. You’ll probably have a hangover when you wake up anyways so have the rest of today off to get better.

“Cheers mate, yer a good guy, y’know that?” Shockwave rolled his eyes with a smile before leaving the room. Once Ashley heard him lock the front door, he rolled over to look at the grey Pegasus who had trapped him in her grasp. He sighed, looking down at her face to see her eyes open slowly.

Grey Ink wondered what she was embracing, noticing the very familiar clothing and allowing her eyes to gaze upwards, she was greeted with Ashley staring down at her with a warm smile on his face.

“…Hey...” She whispered, her smile had returned once more, her eyes were barely open due to drowsiness “What are you doing here in my bed?” She yawned. Ashley couldn’t help but think that she was just doing that to be cute.

“Well, a certain Pegasus used her death grip to trap me on the bed, not allowing me to escape.”

“Why don’t you make yourself useful and hug me tonight while we sleep? I feel a bit cold right now...”

Ashley pondered the thought for a moment before goofily replying with a “Okay.”

After a couple minutes of Ashley removing his boots and placing his MP3 alongside his earphones into them, both human and Pegasus had retreated to hugging each other under the bed cover, falling asleep rather quickly to each other’s body heat. Grey Ink’s head was resting next to Ashley’s chest, listening to his soft heartbeat. She could feel heat had risen to her face, a tell-tale sign of her blushing but she didn’t care, she focused more on Ashley’s heartbeat, its soothing rhythm quickly put her into a slumber.

In the back of Ashley’s mind, he admitted to himself that this wasn’t what he had planned to happen for a long time, nor did he care about that thought any more. All he cared about was sleeping.

**

Twilight's library

**

“Ashley hasn’t returned… My Callum senses are tingling… He’s in bed with Grey… Not sure if I should congratulate him or scold him for doing it with a different species…

…

Fuck it, I’ll sleep it over.”

With that, Callum decided to grab the pillows and blanket he put away earlier to sleep on the front room’s floor.

Sorry I made this chapter quite long. I just had a few ideas for it and well, I didn't want to split it up. Hope you enjoyed this whole drunken fiasco.