The Marine

I looked down at the ever expanding landscape that was Equestria in contemplation, I had snapped Princess Celestia out of a funk that must have been there for hundreds of years by the looks of it. I may be happy that I have some microscopic sliver of respect for the princess now but, it still doesn't change how I feel overall. My mind is a terrible plague of a labyrinth with all that out of the way I can really focus on one thing, what the absolute fuck happened at that fashion show? I gotta retrace my steps, I was agitated sure but I was calming down until I went over to the silent auction table and placed my bid when someone said "what was that thing doing here" and then I just lost it with my anger. That's when everyone went weak and started to collapse, then there was that time I was sparring with Rainbow where she felt weaker than normal. She only told me afterwards, after the sleepover and before I left for Canterlot, but what's the fucking connection?

That's why I'm seeking out Twilight, I'm a man with a lot of common sense, which is hard to come by but I've still got it. I'd also like to say I'm fairly intelligent, with my intelligence increasing daily. This shit, this shit is out of my fucking league, the closest thing I can compare it to is magic and I don't know fucking magic. I don't know what else to say, it's magic and I don't know jack shit about this. I hope Twilight has some sort of answer for me, because this is terrifying.

I stared out the window with my now confused mind somewhat focused. I saw the clouds roll by easily and the trees below my feet, there was then a banging at the front. I took it as a signal that we were entering Ponyville soon and I got prepared to land. To say that the landing was rough, is an understatement. For fuck's sake how can Princess Celestia handle shit like that? I've been in a helicopter crash that was less bumpy than that ever was. I looked to the guards and thanked them for bringing me out to Ponyville and then walked out to my cabin to put my shit down and change my clothes. Maybe even take a shower, I smell dirty as fuck. I put my shit down and looked around, nothing changed... well except it wasn't as dusty as I expected it to be, and the only two people that I would expect to enter my house while I'm away are Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy, because they're the only ones I taught how to disarm the traps. Yes, I booby trapped my fucking house everything from the basement up will explode if you don't disarm it correctly. Why is that you might ask? I don't want anyone getting their hands on my gun, if some smart son of a bitch got ahold of that weapon they could make more and I shudder to think at what could happen to the world at that point. Tossing that thought aside for the moment the only one who would do some cleaning around my place is Fluttershy, I love the both of them but Pinkie only cleans when she's done throwing a party. So, I need to thank Flutters with some cuddles later.

Right now I had to take care of some important things though, I took a shower and washed my body off, soaped it up pretty decently, and then I rinsed the soap off. There was still that thing nagged at me as I dried off my body. Just what exactly did I do to those people? I might be beating a dead fucking horse here but that what the music industry does and it still spits out money. I soon got dressed and then walked over to Twilight's with my mind focused on what happened naught but a few moments ago I didn't even notice that I ran right into the crystal doors of the castle until it was too late. "OH SON OF A BITCH!" I screamed out in pain when my face collided with the geode tree.

The door soon opened to reveal Spike, "Mickey, are you alright?" He looked at me concerned and held my shoulders.

"Yeah, yeah, I'll be fine. I just was lost in thought and wasn't paying attention to where I was going." I said to my dragon friend, "I'm guessing you were informed about what happened earlier today?"

"Yeah, Twilight has been waiting, but not patiently might I add." Spike said as he helped me into the castle.

"I'm gonna need a mirror real quick, just check to make sure nothing is broken." I said.

"Yeah sure, just sit right here and I'll be right back." Spike said as he sat me down in a chair, he then spread his wings and took off up the stairs.

He soon came back with a hand mirror and I took it to check to see if there would be any lasting damage. "I think I'll be good, I'll have Flutters check it out later, it just really fucking hurts right now." I seethed in pain, I then shook my head and stood up. "Mind showing me where Twilight is?"

"Yeah sure no problem." Spike helped me up but I gently shrugged him off reassuring I would be fine, so we walked into Twilight's lab and she was frantically pacing back and until she heard the door open.

"MICKEY!" She practically flew at me and hugged me tight. "Oh my Celestia are you alright?" She cradled my head.

"Twilight, I'm fine, other than smearing my face on your castle door I couldn't be better, please just help me figure out what's been going on with me."

"We will get to the bottom of this, I swear." Twilight held me close to her, my head nestled right underneath her boobs. It felt nice, ever since she ascended to an alicorn her tits almost quadrupled in size, they used to be a modest 20C but now they're an 75HH and I was very, VERY lucky right now. I was grinning like a fucking moron, nothing could ever bring me down from this high right now, well except sex, stupid sexy Princess Celestia. Wait...what the fuck was that?

I shook my head quickly and looked up at my alpha mare. "So can we get started?"

"Yes, sorry I was just...savoring the moment. I never get to hold you like this so I couldn't help but try to extend the time." Twilight released me and blushed. Damn, am I really that cold-hearted to them? I get moving slowly but how self restrained are they being right now? Maybe I could speed things up a little, maybe take it from a snail's pace to a tortoise's pace. That's relatively faster when comparing animals right? In fact note to self, ask Flutters which is faster a snail or a tortoise?

"Hmm, okay..." I rubbed my chin with my right hand.

"Now in order to start, I'm going to need some...samples." Twilight whispered.

"What was that? I can't hear you." I said, "Speak up."

"I'm going to needs some samples... before you freak out, there is a baseline that we need to establish and getting blood and hair samples are the quickest way to do so!" Twilight blurted out quickly that I almost didn't catch what she was saying...almost.

I just closed my eyes and thought about it, if this was going to be the fastest way to figure out what in the blue hell is going on. Then I suppose I can withstand it, she's my one of my girlfriends after all. I took a deep breath and let it out, "Okay."

"What?" Twilight's body language changed from defensive to confused.

"I said yes, now hurry up before I change my mind." I said as I shrugged off my jacket. "Just one condition, when you're done with my DNA samples. Destroy them, I want you to pinkie promise."

"I cross my heart hope to fly stick a cupcake in my eye that I will destroy these when I am finished with them." Twilight did the motions and I looked at Spike who did the same repeating the same words.

"Okay, let's do it." I looked around, "Do you want me to sit on a table or something?"

"Um sure, I'll have you sit up here." She motioned to a clear metal sterilized table. I'd seen the sort of thing before, back when I first arrived here, "If you could also take off your shirt that would be very helpful as well."

I gulped and took off my shirt, "You aren't going to strap me down, I know about how you get an itch in your brain when something new is presented to you and you get the opportunity to study it. That shouldn't matter though, I'm still your boyfriend I'm still a person so this may quell some of the cravings for knowledge that you have, don't go crazy."

Twilight held up her hands. "I swear I won't. I know this is a lot for you so I'm going to get this done and over with as quickly as possible."

I got up on the table with relative ease, turning around I pointed at Spike. "You better hold her to that. If she thinks about crossing any lines, stop her." Spike saw the concern in my eyes and simply nodded. I took a deep breath and laid back on the table. "Here we go again."

Twilight wasted no time, igniting her horn in a raspberry aura and washing her hands and putting on gloves, using her magic she put her hair in a bun, and got a needle and an alcoholic wipe. She wiped a specific spot on my arm and slowly inserted the needle into my arm and right into my vein with incredible precision while I looked up at the crystalline ceiling. She soon removed the needle and placed a cotton ball on my arm to slow the bleeding and then when it coagulated enough she placed a bandaid over the tiny hole in my arm. I've been shot at, and even shot a few times, but one thing I can never get over is needles, I've always been afraid of them, ever since childhood. It's a very logical phobia, I don't like the idea of foreign objects going into my body and extracting things from my body. Twilight soon filled a vial full of my blood from the needle I was ready to get up when she said. "Wait, one minute." She used her magic and plucked a few hairs from the top of my scalp and I soon got back up. "I'll run some preliminary tests on these to see your magic output. This should take a few minutes so while that is processing if you don't mind I can hook you up to this machine and it'll measure your aura level."

I put my shirt back on, and looked at the machine. "Isn't that the same machine you hooked Pinkie up to when you were trying to measure her pinkie sense?" I asked.

"No, that one blew up with Golden Oaks, this is the newest model. This baby can run at 60 Megabytes a minute." Twilight looked at it in awe. "However it's nothing compared to the computers you have in your world and on the other side of the mirror. But it's the best we equestrians have at the moment."

"Humans are faster since we have no magic." I said, "Don't ask about the Salem Witch Trials though. That's a very fucked up moment in history."

"How bad was it?" Spike asked.

"Let's just say, a chicken got confused for a rooster and was tried as a witch after laying an egg." I said. "That's what happens when religion runs rampant over a populus."

"That brings up interesting topic, you've never said anything about this but, Mickey are you a religious person? In my time on the other side of the mirror when I was coming up with a counter spell for the Dazzlings the girls over there taught me about religion."

"Well, I am a christian. But I don't let be the ONLY thing about me, one of the things that they teach in the bible is acceptance. Which is why I typically don't judge others for who or what they are but the content of their character."

"Except when it comes to the canterlot high society." Spike pointed out.

"With the exception of a few decent people, most of them can die in a fire." I crossed my arms. "I'm a little religious but that's my own take on it, you ponies worship Princess Celestia, I worship something else. I respect your person, you respect mine."

Twilight paused and looked at me, "Are you sure you're alright?"

"Other than making people pass out for seemingly no fucking reason at all. I'm just fine, why?" I asked looking up at my alpha girlfriend.

"You just referred to the Princess as Princess Celestia, you NEVER do that." Spike pointed out.

"I think you'll learn in the coming days, just why I had a sudden shift in tone." I said cryptically.

"Okay." Twilight said, "So do you mind stepping into the machine?"

I took another deep breath and stepped up, "Let's just get this over with."

"Now I want to apologize in advance, because in order to get an accurate reading I'm going to need to strap your hands down into reader." Twilight said as she pulled over a chair for me to sit in.

"If anything starts to go wrong, shut it all down." I said while she strapped me in, "I don't want to be strapped into a ticking time bomb if it comes to that."

Twilight finished strapping me in and put a hand on my cheek, her hand almost wrapped around my entire head, "Mickey, I've seen you over the years from afar and seen your intelligence, your charisma, and your bravery. I have grown to love you as well as the rest of our herd. I swear to everything I ever hold dear if I think for even a millisecond that you are in any sort of danger I will teleport you out of there and as far away from the castle as possible." She had tears in her eyes, "The last thing I ever want to do is hurt you. Especially not after how much trust you've shown me right now."

I looked in her eyes and could tell that there was true love behind that statement, something I haven't felt in a long ass time. The only thing that was running through my mind at this moment was this. I just simply leaned my head forward and kissed her.

Twilight was taken aback but soon she returned the kiss, closing her eyes as she was the first mare to kiss their boyfriend. She soon broke the kiss and looked at me, "We need to start soon, and as much as I enjoy that. I think you'd prefer if we got this done as soon as possible."

"I agree." I said and Twilight attached a Doc Brown looking device onto my head and started up the machine, it slowly hummed to life as a bell rang elsewhere in the laboratory.

Twilight looked over at Spike who had his gaze averted, "Spike do you mind getting that, it should be the magic results from Mickey's DNA samples." Twilight then looked back at me. "You're doing great sweetie, just a few more minutes and it'll be done."

Spike did as his surrogate mother asked him and he looked at the results, "Uh, Twilight! You might want to take a look at this!"

"Not now Spike, the aura detector is starting to print out the results!" Twilight shouted back.

"But it's really important!" Spike said.

"I'm not leaving my stallion's side when he's vulnerable!" Twilight said, "If it's important then it can wait!"

I grew a little rosy in the cheeks when she said I was her stallion. I prefer it when they call me their boyfriend or just their herdman, they came up with that term I didn't see any problem with that. However, when they use things like stallion or pony, it always left me blushing for some reason. Most likely conclusion is that I was flattered that they think of me as so synonymous with their group that they forget that I'm not a pony. Either way, I liked it a little, my line of sight drifted over to the paper that was printing out of the machine I was hooked up too. "Twilight." I spoke up, "Aren't you going to take a look at that?"

"It's only a baseline of aura detection, the start of it. It should take another minute." She rested her hands on my shoulders. "Just relax and it should go a lot smoother, I promise." She wrapped her arms around my chest and it did help me relax. The minute passed relatively quickly with Twilight by my side helping me stay calm when I was very tense. The paper finished printing and Twilight soon unstrapped me from the machine but she only looked at it with confusion. "What the fuck?" She said.

"What is it?" I asked.

"According to this, it shows that you have no magic aura, in fact. You have a negative magic aura." Twilight said.

"That's what I was trying to get your attention on earlier." Spike said holding the paper in his hand, "His magic element is something different, something new, it's an Anti-magic element."

"Magic element?" I asked.

"I'll explain it later." Twilight said and then looked at Spike and took the paper from his hand. "Holy shit. This is...incredible! It was theorized that there was an anti-magical element but there was no definitive proof of this! Do you realize what this means? We could be famous in the magic community!" Twilight was jumping up and down. "We finally have guaranteed proof of Starswirl's Anti Magicka Theorem!"

"Except for one key detail." Spike pointed out, "It's not our magic, it's Mickey's. The decision is ultimately his, and I don't think he would want to be poked and prodded by more unicorns."

Twilight stopped jumping and looked at me, the papers in her hands, then back at me. "I promised I would destroy the DNA samples and I will keep to my word. I...I just wish you would hear me out."

"I'm not unwilling to hear you out, I just want some explanations first and to get out of this motherfucking laboratory." I shuddered.

Twilight nodded, lighting up her horn she brought up the magic samples and collapsed them into nothing I looked at her, "Impressed?" She asked, "Princess Celestia taught me that, it collapses the object into a parallel dimension. It's like a one way doorway however, you can put stuff in can't take stuff out.

I looked around, "Needle and cotton ball too please."

Twilight bit her lip but acquiesced all the same, sending the named objects into that one way dimension. "Let's talk."