The Marine

I sat there thinking about what Rainbow had said, I did want to do my best in trying to socialize once again. I spent upwards of 3 years in the forest, by myself. I really hope I just haven't gone insane and imagined all of this. The girls are having their sleepover and have invited me, I don't have a sleeping bag. I don't want to share with anyone, I could just bring a blanket and sleep on the floor. I really don't have anything else to do besides read, and then make more carvings of random bullshit. I still got a few days off and the only thing I'm doing is sitting around reading. I worked my jaw back side to side as I mulled it over. I could use a night of fun, I wonder if there's going to be any alcohol? I guess there's only one way to find out.

I grabbed a bag I hadn't used in about a year or so, I used to bring it with me to work. When I took breaks, I brought water as well but mainly it was just things to fuck around with when I wasn't busy, things like a book I was in the middle of reading, or a knife and a block of wood to make a new carving. I didn't get out much. I had emptied it a long while back when I became a bit more reclusive. Now I was going to use it for something, a little bit more fun. I put some clothing in it, toothbrush, toothpaste, and my memory foam pillow. I have problems with my neck sue me, actually don't. I don't have any fucking money, I built the things I have the rest, were given to me.

With my bag packed and spare blanket tucked under my arm I decided to leave my house, I locked it up and departed towards the castle, you know come to find out. I never got a location, why am I just assuming that it's Twilight's castle? Because it's the biggest, well I wouldn't have been invited if it were in Rainbow's house. I'd literally die, Pinkie lives with the cakes and the babies would be woken up, plus her room is too small for anyone to sleepover besides one or two people. The farm is a possibility, but I'd doubt they'd have it there because of the crusaders, adults gonna adult. Rarity's is too messy, or chaotically organized as she likes to refer to it as. Personally, it's more chaotic than Discord's house, and yes I have been to his house. I didn't even know a toilet could be inside out, the most logical place would be at Twilight's, and since Fluttershy is out of town it won't be at her house.

I walked up to the castle and knocked on the giant crystal door, have I mentioned how much I hate the vanity of this place? Twilight and the girls told me it came from a treasure chest that also gave them magical transforming powers while defeating a centaur, if it hadn't been for the newspapers. I would've thought they were on Shrooms while Celestia just made it for her star student. The door opened up and I was just staring at the castle with my usual face of contempt.

Twilight had opened the door, "Mickey? You're here?"

I grunted while I looked at Twilight, "Oh yeah, I am."

"I'm genuinely surprised, I never expected you to come." She commented.

"I did want to try to be more social. I figure this is a good first step, is there any booze?" I asked.

"Yes, there is. Why?" Twilight answered and questioned when I passed her going into the castle.

"If I'm doing any type of party game or any bullshit like that, I'm going to have a drink in my hand." I explained.

"Is that the only way that you're going to be sticking around?" Twilight asked.

"Pretty much, I ain't ready to bang and I'm not going to be making any groundbreaking resolutions so this is what you're stuck with." I said.

"You're very blunt about your intentions."

"Saves the world for a little more bullshit somewhere else." I said, "Maybe it will be reserved for you and the next villain that's also a synonym for your name."

"Fuck you." Twilight said.

"Sunset Shimmer, Bellatrix Lulamoon, Twilight Sparkle." I pointed out, "You should cut back on the booze as well, it gives you self confidence. I like shy, nerdy, Twiwhite." I walked to where I heard the chattering of multiple voices I knew very well. They soon stopped as I walked into the room, I looked at the girls and Spike. "Please don't let me stop you."

"You're really here? Or did I drink too much?" Rarity asked.

"Rarity, you only had 2 glasses of wine." Spike pointed out.

"It was a strong wine." Rarity countered.

"No, you're just a lightweight." Pinkie said jovially.

Rarity crossed her arms and turned away, only to be comforted by Spike. "Thank you Spikey."

"So you two finally hooking up?" I asked Rarity and Spike.

"After a long discussion with Twilight, and well Princess Celestia, we have decided that we don't care what ponies or dragons think. We're in love and we shouldn't be ashamed of it." Rarity said.

"I couldn't agree more." Spike smiled and kissed Rarity's cheek.

I looked at Pinkie, Applejack, and Rainbow. "Alright, pay up."

Spike and Rarity were shocked. "What exactly do you mean?"

"We had a little betting pool going, just to see how you two would finally end up. AJ said that you would break his heart, Rainbow said that it would never happen because of the gossip and you would avoid ruining your career, and Pinkie said you would give him a pity fuck. I was the only one who pegged you two to start dating." I explained, "I just won the bet."

Pinkie, Aj, and Rainbow tossed me a bag of bits each. I looked inside and all the money was there so I tossed two to both Spike and Rarity and then kept the last one. "Here, that's to save me from being burnt to a crisp or knitted into a straightjacket."

Spike and Rarity caught the bit bags and then looked to the other three girls. Rarity looked to Spike, "Spikey-poo?"

"Yes darling?" Spike turned one of Rarity's commonly used phrases onto her.

"Pillow." Rarity held out her hand which held an empty wine glass.

Spike gently took it into his claws and replaced it with a pillow. "Would the lady like to have her dragon join her?"

"You bet your sweet scaly ass I would." Rarity said as she jumped up and started to chase after Pinkie and AJ with a pillow, while Spike took to the skies after Rainbow with a pillow of his own. "How dare you bet on our love lives!" Rarity screeched as she assaulted Pinkie and AJ with the fluffy head cushion.

Knowing I was spared from the onslaught that was the pillow fight, I got up and joined Twilight in her kitchen. "What's up Twiknight?" I asked her as I was pouring myself a rum and coke, or cola as it said on the bottle.

"Nothing, just having a snack." She said while I looked at her, she was eating an entire pizza.

"Snack? That's a pizza, I can hardly wolf those down on a good day." I said, "What are you, pregnant?"

"No, it's my new metabolism. I have to eat an entire buffet to feel full, it sucks." Twilight said.

"Have you ever thought of shrinking yourself down and just eating one meal while really tiny?" I asked, "I bet it will save you money."

"I-I never thought of that, how come ponies aren't as creative as you?" Twilight asked.

"Some are but they're probably ostracized for it," I sipped my drink. "Humans became apex predators because we learned how to kill each other the fastest ways possible. Many times it was necessary, and necessity is the mother of invention. Though we did have many, MANY failures, and there were several dicks along the way that took credit for shit that they didn't make."

"Wow." Twilight scratched her head.

"You've had a peek into the human world, you've seen what humans can do with the right motivation. Though, some people are TOO motivated, you show me a guy sitting around stroking his penis all day and I'll show you someone who isn't causing any trouble." I said.

Twilight laughed at that. "Okay that was funny, you should be a comedian."

"Nah, I'd just steal material from my world and somehow I think that they would still find out." I said and went back into the living room where there stood Spike and Rarity victorious over their three opponents.

Rarity wiped the sweat from her brow, "Ugh, I may need to shower before I head to bed." She then turned to look at me, "Oh, Michael do you have a second?"

"I had one, now it's gone." I said, "Time is a funny thing, everything is either the near future or the recent past."

"What about the present?" Spike asked.

"I'm glad you asked, welcome to the present." I then made an upset face, "Welcome once again to the present, and now the all new."

That got a few chuckles out of Spike. "That's pretty funny, I didn't know you liked to make jokes."

"I just rip off material from my favorite comedians." I turned back to Rarity, "What is it you would like to ask?"

"Before a joke was made about my phrasing, I was going to ask. I have a fashion show up in Canterlot in a few days, and Spike won't be able to make it. I would feel much safer if there were a friend beside me, and since I know you would like to be a bit more social. I was wondering if you would like to come along?" She asked.

I sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose, I then thought about it for a bit. "I'm not wearing a suit, and if anyone talks down to me. I reserve the right to fire back with swears and sass."

"I understand the latter but, please a suit? I'll make a custom one for you." Rarity pouted.

"Business casual and that's final." I countered.

"Fine, I know there's no budging a soldier once he gets set in his ways." She sighed.

"Oh there are ways to convince a soldier to do what you want, but not in any way that you or Spike would like." I smirked at laid out my blanket and pillow, "But, I'm not a soldier, I'm a marine. There's a big difference."

Pinkie finally recovering from the pillow mugging, looked at my poor conditions of sleeping arrangements and asked. "You don't have a sleeping bag?"

"Does it look like I go to a lot of sleepovers?" I retorted.

"No, but what about camping under the stars?" She asked.

"Oh, I did that once on earth. However, I slept with a knife under my pillow and a gun in my hand."

"You never really explained what a gun is." Rainbow pointed out.

"It's like a miniaturized cannon that you hold in your hands and can reload quickly." I said, "It's made of metal and can deal out death quicker than a card jockey at a blackjack table."

"Wow, d-do you have one?" Applejack asked.

I grimaced at that question, "I'm not going to confirm or deny that, I don't wish to be an threat or enemy to the country."

"So, we're just shrouded in mystery?" Twilight asked as she came from the kitchen.

"If a changeling, came in here and admitted to you, one of the rulers of the country that it had a weapon that could kill ponies instantly what would you do?"

"Lock it up." Twilight answered and then it dawned on her. "Ohh."

"I don't want to spend the rest of my life here sitting in a damp, cold dungeon." I raised my hand and my glass.

"I don't blame you." AJ said, "So now that the pillow maulin' is out of the way, how about we go with a nice ol' fashioned game of truth or dare?"

"Pass." I said.

"Aww, is sompony chicken?" Rainbow mocked.

"Says the person who I beat earlier today." I countered and she quieted down, "It's not that I don't want to play but I feel that you girls would try to pry too much into my past that I'm not ready to disclose quite yet."

"That's fair, then we'll stick with only recent things." Twilight said looking around the room and everyone agreed.

"Alright, fine. I'll play, but only recent things." I agreed and the game started when Spike put an empty wine bottle on the ground and spun it, it landed on Pinkie, then Spike spun it again and it landed on Rainbow.

"Dashie, truth or dare?"

"Pfft, dare obviously." Dash smirked.

"I dare you to take your top off!" Pinkie giggled.

"Pinkie! What about Spike?" Twilight pointed out.

"We're all friends here, besides I know who Spikey is loyal to." Rarity cupped Spike's cheeks in her hand, "I think it's alright to show a little fur."

"But, I uh. I don't have on a bra..." Rainbow scratched the back of her neck.

"So? I don't have on any underwear." Pinkie said, "Take it off!"

I looked at Pinkie, "You don't have any underwear on?"

"Pinkie doesn't own any, no bras or panties. She lived a simplistic lifestyle before moving to Ponyville it's a miracle that her sister Maud had a dress on when she visited." Rarity explained, "After the 12th time Pinkie got arrested for public indecency she learned that she should wear some clothes. She foregoes underwear though."

"Ugh, fine." Rainbow said, she reached at her shirt hem and pulled it off, revealing her cyan 28C breasts. "There, the shirt's off." Rainbow spun the bottle, it landed on Twilight. Rainbow smirked, Twilight gulped. "Twilight...truth or dare?"

"Um...Truth?" Twilight chose.

"What age were you when you first touched yourself?" Rainbow asked and I thought this was getting interesting.

"I was...16." Twilight admitted. "I had just learned about having healthy sex and well...I decided to explore." Twilight said as she got redder and redder. "Now it's my turn." Twilight grabbed the bottle and spun it. The bottle landed on me, "Mickey, truth or dare?"

"Hmm.....Truth." I decided.

"Why live in the everfree forest?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah, I've been wondering about that for awhile." Rainbow said.

"Well, besides the privacy from ponies. It was the closest I could get to home, what you believe to be nature is wrong. Nature in itself is a wild, unpredictable beast that is nearly untameable. I say nearly because both humans and ponies have found ways to conquer it, but the crazy, chaotic nature of the forest is what brought me closest to home at the time."

"So wait, we conquered nature?" Rainbow asked.

"If there were no interference from ponies, plants would grow on their own, animals would take care of themselves, and the weather would change on it's own with no pattern." I said, "I know this because, it's normal for earth."

"Whoa." Twilight said.

I smiled and spun the bottle with my foot. It landed on Applejack, "AJ, truth or dare?"

"Dare." Applejack smiled.

"I dare you to motorboat Rainbow." I said and she looked confused so I explained to her how to do it.

Rainbow got red and Applejack got redder than her namesake, slowly AJ crawled over to Rainbow, "Sorry Dash I have to do it..."

"Just do it already." Rainbow said, Applejack grabbed Rainbow's boobs and started to motorboat her. What I didn't realize is, Rainbow is ticklish. So she started to laugh as Applejack was motorboating her. They eventually stopped as AJ ran out of breath, and Rainbow was struggling to breathe.

AJ took the bottle and spun it, and the bottle seemed to have wanted revenge so it landed on me, AJ grinned. "Mickey, truth or dare?"

"I'm gonna regret this, dare." I looked at her.

"I dare you to sing us a song, from your world." AJ smiled.

"Oh? I thought you would have gone with something more sadistic." I looked around, "Anyone got an acoustic guitar?"

Twilight conjured one. "Here you go." She handed it to me, I tuned it up.

I then paused, "Alright, I got a song."

The girls were in awe of my performance, "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the song is I won't back down." I gave the guitar back to Twilight and spun the bottle again. It landed on Rarity this time. "Rarity, truth or dare?"

"Hmm, dare." Rarity said as she poured another glass of wine.

"I dare you to switch clothes with Applejack, hat included." I smiled and sipped my drink.

Rarity sighed and got up along with AJ and they went into the other room, I reached over while Rainbow was distracted and honked her bare tit. She got red and slapped my hand, "Asshole." She crossed her arms.

"A, I'm your boyfriend and B, I get handsy when I'm drunk." I explained.

"You're a lightweight." Rainbow said.

"No, I'm just an asshole, plus you looked like you were cold." I chuckled.

"Your nipples are so hard they look like they can cut through crystal." Pinkie said.

"I like the attention, especially from Mickey." Rainbow blushed, "This isn't how I'd imagine I would be showing our boyfriend my body."

"Eh, not everything turns out the way we would hope." I said, just as I said that AJ came out in Rarity's white and blue dress, it came down to the middle of her thighs and it looked like her breasts were about to spill out of it.

Rarity on the other hand, looked like she was in Dukes of Hazzard, with the tied up flannel shirt and the daisy dukes cutoff jeans, the hat topped it all off however. "I will never understand how you can show so much skin Applejack."

"This dress is so tight!" Applejack complained, "I can't breathe in it."

"Now we know why you both wear what you wear." I pointed out.

Rarity spun the bottle and it landed on me, "Finally, a little revenge. Mickey, truth or dare?"

I slammed the rest of my drink, "Dare me Rarity."

"I dare you to take of your shirt." Rarity said.

"I'll do you one better." I got up, jumped around a little and then grabbed the middle of my shirt and just like Hulk Hogan I ripped the thing in half while revealing my sculpted abs and envious worthy pectorals. I finished ripping off the shirt and threw the remaining pieces at Rarity. "Fix that seamstress."

Rarity looked mortified but she also blushed when looking at my well toned body, "H-How are you this built?"

"Once a year I work out, day after day, for 13 weeks. I'd be bigger but my metabolism is through the roof." I said, and Rainbow looked up.

"You never told us you had a cutie mark!" Pinkie said.

"I explained this to Fluttershy, it's not a cutie mark. It's a tattoo, it's on my shoulder and arm, not my asscheeks." I explained, I then told them what a tattoo was because I didn't want to go through explaining it again.

"So you wanted that?" Twilight poked it, "Does it hurt?"

"It did for about a week or two when I got it, but not anymore." I said and Twilight started to feel up my arm.

"Do you have any more?" Applejack asked.

"I do, but it's a special one. You can only see it under the right light." I said.

"Where is it?" Pinkie asked.

"Right over my heart. It's the motto of the Marine Corps, Semper Fi." I said, "Semper Fidelis, or always faithful in latin."

"Interesting. Why have that one not visible?"" Twilight asked.

"Because you may not see it, but it will always be there, just like my brothers in arms. They'll always have my back, no matter what I go through." I smiled and sat down, I spun the bottle.

Twilight stopped it. "I think that's enough for tonight. Why don't we get ready for bed?" Twilight suggested and I couldn't argue with her.

I got up and grabbed my clothes, while heading to the bathroom. Now was as good as time as any to take a shower. I got the water started and it started to drip and drop all over me, I breathed a sigh of relief as the moderately hot water relaxed my muscles and wet my hair. I grabbed the shampoo and washed my hair and my body, the hot water lulled me into a deeper sense of drowsiness, the water almost got me in the grips of sleep, almost. I turned off the knobs and stepped out, drying myself off and dressing in my pajamas, I went back to my spot on the floor and lay down. I closed my eyes and soon the hand of the sandman brought me to slumber.