Warning, this chapter contains the following: birthdays, ponies, humans, profanity, alcohol, music, rap music, karaoke, break dancing, choreography, Russian hard bass, metal music, Sabaton, guns, vehicles, dancing, social media, excessive use of the middle finger, foreign language. Viewer discretion is advised.

Canterlot Castle
03/07/20
4:30 pm.
Dakota POV

I woke up from my nap after about 3 hours and I felt much better afterwards. I got up and got in the shower since I hadn’t worn anything other than that flight suit for the whole day and I was sweating my ass off in that thing since it was heavy and the B52 had no climate control. I turned the water onto mild and let it run for about a minute before I got in. I always took the time to think about stuff that was on my mind whenever I was In the shower since I had time to myself. I had seen my family once every-week ever since Luna had found a way for me to visit them. I had told them a lot of things that had happened, but I don't know if I want to tell them about our bombing campaign on the crystal empire. Would they think I was some kind of terrorist? a warmonger? or just a flat out killer? When I go to tell them tonight, I'll find out for sure. I finished up my shower and turned off the water. I had some fresh towels delivered last night so I could dry off. I grabbed one from the rack next to the shower and wrapped it around my waist and grabbed another one to dry off my torso and hair with. I opened the door and walked back out into my room and started looking through my dresser to see what I wanted to wear. I decided that I would wear the same clothes that I was wearing when I first came to Equestria and started pulling them out of the dresser. I pulled out my jeans, diesel t-shirt (#Team Powerstroke) my vest, socks, boots, hat, and belt. I got everything on and put on my apple watch as well since that is technically part of my outfit. I also made sure to grab my aviator sunglasses and put them on top of my hat.

After getting dressed, I walked out of my room and into the hallway but noticed that something was off. "Where are all of the guards at?" I wondered out loud. It was eerily quiet. You could hear a paper clip hit the ground without even needing to listen closely. At this time, the palace was usually full of activity. Something was not right, I went back inside my room and grabbed my Ithaca model 37 and my FN five-seven and went back out. I went down the hallway and stayed close to the walls. I had a nerve-racking feeling that I was being watched as I went. There was not a single pony in sight at all, it's like they all just got up and left. I found myself by the kitchen and decided to see if anyone was in there. I opened the door and turned on my flashlight. Nobody was in there at all.

I continued on and kept searching. I looked out of a window and saw that there were no guards on the wall's either, nor were there any ponies in the streets below. Something was very wrong. Alarms would have been going off if there was a security breach, but there wasn't, it was dead silent. I came by the throne room and there were no guards there either. I looked inside, empty. I kept going, knowing that there still had to be at least one pony still in the castle somewhere. I still felt like I was being watched and constantly looked back over my shoulder and looked up to see if there was anypony hiding in the rafters. The sun was starting to go down and I was losing light fast. I switched on the flashlight I attached to my shotgun and kept going.

After about a half hour of searching, I eventually came to what looked like some sort of ballroom and decided to check it out. It was very dark inside and I could barely see anything. All of a sudden, the lights switched on and I was blinded as I fell and landed on my ass and had the shit scared out of me. "SURPRISE!!!!" Was all I heard all around me as I saw very many familiar faces. Guards, Noble's, and even my own friends were all around me as I was trying to figure out what the hell just happened until I saw a large banner hanging above a DJ booth and read what was written on it. "Happy 18th birthday Dakota!" well that explains a lot.

"Happy birthday man, you like it!?" Kevin asked me as he helped me get back up onto my feet. "Bruh, I thought y'all got kidnapped or some shit while I was sleeping. I didn't expect this." I told him. "Don't worry about it man, we ain't going nowhere without a fight. Besides, how can you not expect us to do something like this when it's your special day today?" He replied. "He has a point there. It's only right that we celebrate this day for you since it only happens once a year." I heard Aqua announce as she and Celestia both approached me. "Well if that's the case then, Let's not waste any more time and get this party started right!" I said as I rushed over to the DJ booth and started pumping out that good music.

After about 1 hour into the party, Me, Kevin, and Trevor decided that we were going to show off our rapping skills for these ponies to see. I grabbed three microphones and loaded up a couple of songs and got to work. I let them sing for a bit on their own before I came in. I made quite an entrance and got straight to singing. Even these songs were from 2013, They were still good songs in my opinion. There was a band that was playing their instruments along with our music and they were doing a very good job matching the beat and everything else. The amount of cheering and clapping was thunderous as it echoed all throughout the city no doubt. The air was filled with the sound of Ace hood, future, Snoop Dogg, Problem, Kendrick Lamar, and other rappers as we kept going. The ballroom was attached to one of the courtyards in the palace and I saw our trucks parked out there instead of their normal spot by the front gate. My F350 and my Denali were both sitting right next to each other and I got on top of them and continued rapping. Celestia and Aqua got up next to me and started dancing when we started singing Bugatti by ace hood. We sang the original and the remix of the song and kept going. After about 20 songs or so, we stopped rapping and decided to take a break.

I decided that I also wanted to play my guitar for a bit and hooked it up to a port on the board of the DJ booth. I started playing all sorts of sabaton songs and kept going. I had a passion for metal music as it was part of me. I kept playing songs like union, firestorm, unbreakable, 40:1, panzerkampf, ghost division, cliffs of Gallipoli, and so on. I ended up losing my pic and couldn't find it so I had to stop playing since I didn't know how to play without one. I opened up my presents and got a lot of good things. Celestia had gotten me a bowie knife with the marine corps logo on it, Aqua got me my own royal guard uniform to wear at ceremonies after she talked it over with shining armor, Kevin and Brian had gotten me a TV to put in my room, Trevor and Gerson got me a desktop computer to go along with the tv, Kendall and Manuel got me a Set of steel toe boots, Natalie got me a new iPhone 6S plus, Mr.Hesington got me a pair of apple AirPods 2. We kept dancing until a certain song came on and I and my friends pretty much took control of the dance floor. The Hardbass anthem started playing and then we pretty much went crazy as there was no proper way to dance to this song. About halfway through the song, I pretty much dominated the dance floor for the rest of song until the end when Trevor came in and joined me and we linked our arms together behind our back and did something never before seen in Equestria. There were camera's rolling and recording the whole party. This was no doubt probably going to be in the news in the morning. "Surprise birthday party in canterlot palace leads to never before seen dance moves" I imagined the headline now. I asked the DJ to loop the song for the rest of the party and she happily did.

I was challenged to another drinking contest by Trevor since he was still salty about losing the one in the dreamscape and wanted a rematch. I gladly accepted as I wanted to beat him again and make him rage. We were drinking the strongest alcohol that the castle had to offer. It was a couple of bottles of 55% vodka and we each had our own shot glasses. We made it both to 20 shots before stuff got interesting. Celestia and Aqua tagged in for me while Manuel and Gerson tagged in for Trevor. My two girlfriends having a drinking contest with two of my friends, Who would have thought. At this point, I was completely wasted and could barely even stand up. I just watched as the four continued the drinking game for us. Manuel and Gerson were just slurring in Spanish after about 10 shots and it was funny to watch them get drunk while I was already drunk myself. I just continued to watch until I ended up wandering off and found myself getting in my F350. I just felt around trying to find my keys. I knew that I shouldn't drive while like this, but I didn't care. I found the keys in one of the cup holders and put them in the ignition. I noticed a large bottle of jack daniels whiskey in the passenger seat next to me, I don't know how but I wasn't complaining. I started driving away from the party without knowing where to go. I just kept driving until I found myself in a local park that was closed down to be used as an artillery battery in the event of an invasion. I got out of my truck and just started aimlessly walk around with the battle of jack daniels in my hand while I took swigs from it every now and then.

I sat down next to one of the massive guns and just looked up at the stars above me. I was wasted but the stars still look beautiful regardless of what state a person is in. "What did I do to deserve to get fucked over by you universe? Huh!? What the fuck did I ever do to you to deserve to get put here!? You are a fucking cunt!! you know that!!" I was drunkenly shouting at the dark sky while throwing up the middle finger. I ended up tripping over one of the legs that planted the guns into the ground and grabbed some sort of lever to catch myself but I didn't know that it was the firing mechanism. A massive 240MM HE shell was now airborne and heading to god knows where. I saw the shell land off in an empty field in ponyville. There were some trees that were flattened but that was about it. "Well, shit happens" was all I said as I got back in my truck. I didn't feel like driving again so I would just sleep here for the night. I turned the Heat on and reclined my seat back and reclined the back of my seat all the way back and set down the half-empty bottle of jack daniels and locked the doors. I ended up blacking out before I could lay back and had my head hit the steering wheel. The horn was going again but nothing could be done about it. I just hoped that there was no one around the impact site of that shell. I guess I'll find out tomorrow.

Author's Note

This chapter probably took the least time to write. only an hour and a half to do so. enjoy it. next chapter, hangovers and explaining things.