I was sitting on my couch again, the ponies sitting across from me on the other side of the couch while I held up the rifle as I spoke. "This is a M1 Garand rifle, its a semi automatic 30 caliber rifle, it was created during the second world war and has stayed very popular with hunters and for shooting contests."

Celestia, whom had finally finished that cake slice on her own, despite it being bigger than herself, and had cleaned the cake off with magic, went wide eyed, at the words 'world war two', she spoke up. "World War Two? Your planet has had two WORLD wars?"

I nodded. "Yes, the first world war started on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918. the second world war started on September 1, 1939 and ended on September 2, 1945, in that time many advancements in weapons where made, this M1 Garand being a product of the second world war."

The ponies where shocked into silence, war had only really happened during the beginning when Equestria was founded, and when Nightmare Moon had tried to take over the world, even then Nightmare never killed anypony, rather she'd brainwash them to worship her.

Celestia spoke up. "The second 'world war' ended in 1945? What year is it for you now?"

I chuckled. "The year is 2019, more than seventy years after the second world war, just cause its been so long don't mean other wars haven't happened however, like the war on terror, and things like that, this rifle is old but it has stayed popular due to how powerful and accurate it is."

Twilight, along with the rest of her friends just looked mortified, the only one who didn't was Celestia, who spoke up again. "So wars are common enough where you are from that weapons technology advances at a fast rate?"

I nodded. "Yeah, this rifle is very old compared to most modern rifles, and nowadays the military uses machine guns, such as the M16, which is slowly being replaced, but how come your so interested in that?"

Celestia sat down. "Because griffins are becoming more and more hostile due to us not wanting to ship humans to them so they can just eat the poor things, humans here are pretty much animals compared to you, like a cat is to a pony."

I paused for a minute, taking that in, before I shrugged. "Not the first time I've heard something weird, however this IS by far the weirdest thing I have ever had happen to me, or seen before...wonder why I ain't flippin the fuck out...eh, problems for later perhaps, but anyway my point is, I assume your goin to ask me for this rifle to make smaller copies for your ponies against the griffins then?"

Celestia chuckled. "No need, I scanned it when we came back inside, all I have to do is copy the plans for it onto a piece of parchment and then it is as easy as making the parts and building the weapon, however I plan to place this kind of weapon on airships, not for ponies to just carry around for battle, swords shields and magic will be much better, and less violent."

I shrugged, not giving two fucks why they wanted the design for the weapon, as its almost a century out of date compared to modern weapons. "Sure, I guess, that little airship you had reminded me of zeppelins of world war one, but I wanted to know if I would be able to explore? and possibly not have your little town go into a panic at seeing me?"

Celestia nodded, before writing a letter, seemingly about me, and teleported it off to who knows where. "Mayor Mare will notify Ponyville within an hour as I have instructed her, however I'd stay here for today and just explore tomorrow, so to not cause panic and so everypony has time to accept their new neighbor. Just have Twilight notify me if you require anything." Celestia teleported back with everypony to her airship, leaving only Twilight there.

Twilight payed me no mind, instantly going to a bookshelf I had filled to the brim with books, looking like she had died and went to her own personal heaven, I laughed at the idea of her prancing in a field of books and just sat down to watch her, she tried to read one of the books I had about rockets but was having a hard time turning the pages, so she, I shit you not, shrunk the book down to her size and CHIRPED happily while she read on.

I shrugged after watching her for about two hours, and went into the kitchen to cook myself up somethin to eat, some hash browns on bread with a slice of spam and some ketchup, if you don't know by this point, I love that canned meat, best food in the world. After making my sandwich I headed back to the living room and just continued to watch Twilight read, shrink, and resize my books once she was done, she went through about half of the damned shelf, about 50 books, before she fell asleep mid page on a book about the history of the USA.

I chuckled at that and set her onto a napkin, along with the book, before deciding to read myself, from the 'On The Run' series, loved those books, and other books like 'Hatchet', abit I didn't like the sequels to that one as the first story had ended perfectly, I read for a few more hours before realizing the sun was setting, and decided to grab a coke, and I continued till I was finished with the book, as I had been more than half way through the book when I started to read it again to pass the time, after headed into the kitchen yet again, I sat down with another sandwich, thinking of what I could do, as I was used to staying up late at night, and sleeping all day, or going on only 3 hours of sleep, I had nothing to do and it was maddening! least I thought it would be till my face decided to meet the table in a loving embrace.

Author's Note

Hiya all! sorry this took so long, but the 27th was my birthday, and I was busy with that this past month, getting things ready for it, if you liked the story lemme know! and also wow! 91 followers! never thought I'd get past two lol XD if we reach a hundred I might do a chapter where fans can ask questions, however if I do you actually need to ask questions, unlike the last time I tried to do that, and only got two replies!