My Pet Nightshine

"Hey," Raven said as I pulled the car to a stop and saw Luna on the doorstep, "That thing earlier, I kind of enjoyed that."

"Which one," I replied, "Your heart almost exploding or the potions, might I add the weirder ones in."

She looked at me as I shut the car off, "I make those because I can. And I like weird things sometimes."

"How would you like to spend the night with me?"

"Sure."

We got out and went to the door.

"Let me guess," she said, "Helping her with potions?" I pushed a breath out of my nose, bringing a little fire with it, "Yeah, I have my answer."

"Move so I can unlock the door."

I opened the door, letting Luna and Raven in, then we began putting my stuff in the cars.

"Before we do anything," I said, "My Yugo has no power behind it when it comes to this type of thing."

"Meaning," Luna said.

"Just me in it, it takes a third of a friggin' minute to make it to highway speeds," I looked around her, "Plus, I'm sure we ain't fitting a lot of big stuff in it at a time, anyway."

"How long for the other to get to sixty?" Raven said.

"Ridiculously quick, it was upped from 130 horsepower."

"Yeah, the force pushed me against the seat until I got the hang of it," Luna commented, taking my futon to the Škoda, folding down the back seats, and putting it in, "Show me your guy."

"Will do," I replied, taking the mattress off and setting it back in the living room floor, "I will need to keep a few things here until I'm settled in your other place."

"True," she said as I went to get my desk setup and gaming PC, moving them to my Yugo, then going back and setting up a computer that I cobbled together from spare parts in 2000 in its place, "The desk has to stay here. Evidently, it's part of the house."

"Wait," Luna said, coming into the bedroom and looking at the beige box that said PIONEX under the desk, "You built that?"

"I got my hands on some RISC components so I could see what I could do, and what came out was a computer that would've at the time, had you got it from the store like a regular one, ran a little over $2,300. All-in-all, this setup ran a little under $275, plus I didn't use Windows," I said, "Come to think of it, I don't quite remember what I put on it."

"Can it run Doom 3D?"

"Probably."

We finished loading the cars, then followed Luna into Canterlot.

"I'm already going to like this more," I mused to myself as I followed her into a parking lot, Raven behind me.

"It's on the fourth floor," she said as we took stuff to the freight elevator.

Moving the stuff into the apartment wasn't hard, but we had to stretch it out so I could get my house back to the Everfree Central Committee.

The apartment had two bedrooms, one bathroom, and an open-concept kitchen/living room, separated by a rectangular doorway. The place in-and-of itself was rather basic, and it looked as if the only room they had used in the last decade was the kitchen and maybe one of the bedrooms because there was a laptop and gaming hub on the counter with a cable coming from each of its sockets, all being of different colors, and a card table, and the bedroom had a group of large pillows on the floor with an alarm clock plugged into the wall a few feet away. There was also a TV and DVD player in the living room with enough discs to fill a console, most titles being animé and TV shows that I hadn't heard of in ages.

"Yeah, Celestia hasn't really came here since we moved to our house in the late 90s, but sometimes I still come and have a night to myself or call a few of my friends over here to pwn online gamers or just have a night," she said as we sat the stuff down in the living room, "I've got our basement now, though."

"Now I have a few ideas."

"'ey," she said, getting a can of beer from the refridgerator and leaning against a wall, "Least it's goin' to someone cool. Usually when something like this happens, it's over a bloody fight," she opened the can and drank it in one go, "Eh, I got a lot in my basement, so I'll letchya keep some stuff.

"You don't happen to have all of the animé on hard drives or a server at your place, do you?"

"Keep the whole setup if you want it," she said, closing the laptop and putting it in a drawer, "Pretty sure we both have better than a 24-inch TV and God-knows-how-many-DVDs."

"Thanks," I said as we all left, Raven coming back with me to my place for the night.