Author's Note

Hey everybody, yes im back with a chapter. Now some things to know. Reason I was off for a while was a few things. College, my assignmnets have been biting me hard in the ass and taking much of my time. Work obviously. Lastly....a family member of mine passed away a month ago. its been a rough one for me and my family. This is why I ben off for a while. I did my best to keep up with doing what I can for you all. I hope you all understand. Anyways, thank you all for your patience for this, and i'll try to keep up with the chapter.

Chapter 10: Trust Issues

Chapter 10: Trust Issues

Last night was a wild one, that's all I can say. It will be something that will be on a side note. I was just grateful the event was private and sound proofed for the others upstairs. As morning arrived, I exited the room. My eyes were a bit heavy from last night and my body wreaked of fluids...and my crotch was sore as hell. God, I don't know how Seventy four can handle that.

I stepped in the showers and turned the water on. Cold water bursted against me as I shivered a bit before it got warm. “Uuuuugh...Goddamnit…” I rubbed my baggy eyes as I grabbed a bottle of soap and started scrubbing. Things really escalated quickly in some ways I can describe it. The furries are okay at best. Seventy four is kind, Pink is sweet, yet scary when she wants to. Purple is like Pink yet more mother-like. First she saw me as her son and then….I honestly don't understand how things can change from one thing to another with them.

As I finished my shower, I got out and dried off before getting into my clothes again. I yawned and stretched as I saw Twilight, Barb and Spike up. “Morning.”

“Morning…” Twilight yawned while rubbing her own baggy eyes.

I glanced at Barb reading a newspaper before glancing at me. “She's been up all night studying that key she got.”

I turned to the mare and sweatdropped. “...really?”

“Yup, and no matter what she does, it doesn't work. Like it has an ID code on who is holding it.”

I grumbled while rubbing my eyes. “Twilight, I told you about what damn key, just leave it alone and talk to Seventy four about it later.”

“Can you blame me for trying to know on my own? That key holds secrets about the dimensions of magic.” She defended.

“What type of magic?” I asked.

“I don't know that thing. This defies all use of magic beyond understanding. It like the alteration of magic energy is simulating a form of space that-”

“Na na na! I don't wanna hear another long boring magical lecture, Twilight!” Spike calle out with his hands over his ears.

I glanced to Barb again who rolled her eyes. “He’s heard a ton of these magical lectures when we were infants. Trust me, she broke a record for a magic lecture that went on for almost two days straight.” She snickered. “He nearly popped his eyes and ears off from it.”

I chuckled. “The Prussians would love to have her as a professor.”

“Prussians?” Twilight questioned curiously.

“A nation from my world it’s not important as of now.” she opened her mouth before I held a hand up. “I’ll tell it some other time.” We heard footsteps and saw the three furries enter. “Hey guys.” they all nodded towards us and got some food. I glanced at the clock and saw it was 8:50am. “Ah crap I gotta get to the workshop or my boss will have my ass.”

“You only have a day off?” Barb asked.

“Depends how busy the shop is. He told me the other day we're gonna be slammed today.” I explained as I packed my tools. Purple rushed to me, gave me a kiss on the check and gave me a quick hug. I quickly left the house before making it to Frix’s shop as he just opened. Inside the shop were a selection of cycles and cars. “Morning sir.”

“Morning Daniel.” The pony looked up at me with his eyes having bags under them.

“Guess I’m not the only one coming in tired.” I chuckled a bit as I set my bag down.

“My sons kept me up last night little colts, know no bounds.” he said tiredly.

“Kids can be a handful.” I stretched.

He yawned before he walked to a desk and pulled out five copper bits. “I know you just arrived, but could you quickly head to the sugarcube corner and get me a coffee?” he asked, holding the bits to me.

I nodded and took the bits. “Sure thing...uh, where's this sugarcube corner?”

“It's west of the town. You can get there in five minutes.” Nodding again, I left the shop. I followed his directions, plus some of the locals pointing me in the right direction until I came across a gingerbread like house.

“...okay looks like they ripped this off of hansel and gretel.” I rubbed my neck before I entered the store.

“Welcome to Sugarcube corner.” A bubbly tone greeted me as I saw one of the mares I met a while back.

“Hey...uh...Pinkie right?” I asked as I approached the counter. Her eyes shot open and jumped in front of me which made me jump back in shock.

“Are you Psychic!?” She asked with her face inches from mine.

“Uhhhhhhhh...no? I just assume that's your name since you’re pink and all…” I replied. She pull away slowly, eyes still as wide as ever..does she even blink? I dug in my pocket and set the copper bits on the counter. “I’m in a hurry, I need one coffee please.”

“Oh! Of course!” She chirped and zipped in the back before coming back with a coffee cup. “Here you go.” I was dumbfounded a bit that she got something so quickly.

“Uh...are you on drugs or something?” I asked while taking the cup.

Pinkie just laughed. “Hahahahaha! On drugs that's a good one!” She took the five copper bits and placed them in the register. Okay she was on crazy pony. Without another word I left the store.

‘Note to self don’t give her any Cola or Fanta.’ I gulp at the thought since that stuff had a tiny bit of drugs in it. When I mean drugs, I mean Caffeine. Anyways, I returned to the shop where Frix was setting everything up. “Sir?”

He turned and saw me enter. “Ah, good, you got my coffee?”

“Right here.” I held the cup to him. He smiled and drank it all in one gulp.

“Whew I really needed that.” He sighed happily and tossed the cup in the trash bin. With a crack of his neck, the stallion breathed. “Alright sport, ready to start the day?”

“Yes sir.” I smiled and got to work.

*********

(No POV)

Footsteps crunched over the vegetation of the forest floor as two dark elves have been following the tracks of the cycles that were stolen from them. “How much further did these bastards go?” The first one asked.

“I do not know, but we have to find them. That boy holds the key to freeing our master. If we return empty handed, our lady will have our heads.” The second elf stated.

“Don't remind me.” The elf sighed while rubbing her temple.

**********

(Daniel POV)

The past few hours were pretty hard working. The cars, motorcycles and other vehicles had many problems, from loose pipes, missing parts and clogged tanks. As I was finishing up one of the cycles I got up and wiped some sweat from my forehead while looking at the clock, seeing it was three fifteen pm. “Man, how can these ponies have so much problems with their vehicles?” I asked my boss while wiping some gunk off my hands with a towel.

“Ah they dont know a thing about respecting their vehicles.” Frix answered while tightening a screw on a pipe.

“I agree. A vehicle needs to be tended all the time, can't just depend on others to fix them without a problem.”

“Now there's a lad who knows how to think with a machine.” Frix laughed while finishing up the pipe and pushed the hood of the car down. “So Daniel, you got any fillies or foals of your own?”

“Where I come from they’re called kids, and no, I don't really have a son or daughter.” I replied as I grabbed a bottle of water and gulped it down.

“Never found a woman?” He asked

“Ah.” I sighed while drenching my head with the last of my water. “No. I wasn't really what you call popular back home.” I dried my face with a clean towel before putting it around my neck. “It's been rough growing up for me, so I decided to do good for myself and serve in the army, Well more like going early since the military is mandatory.”

“Well, i’m sure your parents are proud of your service.” My boss smiled.

My hand gently grasped my mothers pendant. “Yeah...I know they would be.” I replied with a small smile. “I just wish they would be around longer to see it?”

Frix formed a small frown. “You lost them?”

“My mother died from a virus when I was five, and my grandfather passed when someone murdered him by injecting poison in him.” I explained as I held my necklace up. “This necklace is the last thing of my mother. It's always been a treasure to me since she gave it to me.”

“What about your father and grandmother?”

My face fell a bit as I breathed. “My father….was not what you call a father of the year. He became an alcoholic when he lost his job years ago when I was four, assaulting my mother and was arrested. My grandmother died during an earthquake when she and my old man are traveling to a place called Russian. She fell to her death and her body was never recovered.”

“I see...i’m sorry for your losses.”

“I appreciate your concern, Frix.” I smiled a bit. Frix got up and walked over.

“Mind if I say a prayer for you?”

I couldn’t help but chuckle a bit. “It would be much appreciated to me and my family.”

He shut his eyes as I did mine. “Dear Goddess of our land, please give Daniel and his family the confureted of knowing he is safe and for him to meet them in a vision of some kind. Thank you, Praise the Night, as it will Last Forever.” he said as he let go of my shoulder and open his eyes. I nodded in gratitude as we smiled. He turned to the vehicles we finished. “Alright Daniel, why don't you head home for the rest of the day?”

“You sure you don't need me to stay longer?”

“Nah, I can take it from here. Besides, I can let you overwork now can I?” He chuckled.

I looked at the time and it was 4pm...if I read the clock right. “Alright then Frix. If you need anything, just give Twilight a call.”

“Will do sport. Have a good day.” I gave a finger salute and walked back to the library as I stretched, popping my joints and spine. I opened the door and entered the tree.

“I’m back.” I called as I shut the door. I looked around and saw Spike, Barb and Twilight.

“Oh welcome back Daniel.” Twilight spoke as they were reshelving the books.

“Hey.” I waved. “Where are the furries?”

“Seventy four is tending the garden and the sisters are at the foster home doing their job.” She replied.

“Did he tell you about the key?” I asked as I placed the stuff down. Both barb and Spike face palmed.

“Oh Celestia he did.” She spoke brightly. “He told me the dimensional pocket of the key works by-”

“Twilight enough with the history about the key already!” Barb interrupted.

“He has MAIDS!” Spike blurted out.

“...oh, sorry.” She smiled sheepishly with pink cheeks. I couldn't help but chuckle a bit. “Oh that reminds me.” She spoke up. “When the sisters return from work in a little bit, we’re gonna head down to the police station. I think you all deserve your stuff back.” I smiled brightly at this. Now I can get my stuff and my sword back. The moment when she mentioned this, the door opened as the sisters walked in. “Oh hey girls.” Purple face lit up and walk over to me.

“Hi sweetie” she said with a small smile.

“Hey Purple.” I greeted. “How was work?”

“A lot to do, really fun.” she giggled as Pink just walked to her room and fell on the bed not even shutting the door.

“I take your sister had her paws full with the kids huh?” I mused.

“Yes with the cubs, How are you missing twilight?”

“I’m well.” The demicorn nodded. “Now that you ladies are home, I’m going to bring you all to the police station to get your stuff back.”

“..Really?” She asked, confused.

“You all have been behaving well the past week, so I can trust you all with your stuff now, long as you promise to still behave.”

“Give me a second.” she said as she walked into to go get her sister.

*SLAP* we all heard that slap and felt it making us cringe.

“WAKE UP SIS!”

“YEOW! PURPLE I TOLD YOU NOT TO WAKE ME UP LIKE THAT!”

“TOO BAD, GET UP OR NO VIDEO GAMES FOR A MONTH!”

“YOUR NOT MY MOM!”

“I’m older then you by two-point-fourty-five seconds now get the FUCK UP.”

“Make me!”

“Here we go again…” I grumbled with a face palm.

*******

After nearly an hour of the two bickering, which didn't stop until Seventy-four came in and broke them up, Twilight told them we’re going to the station to get our things back. Seventy-four and Pink grew excited to get what they had, as did I too. We headed to the police station and Twilight signed a few papers before The officers came to us with trays that contained our items.

“Now don't let us catch you causing trouble again.” The officer warned us before they left us to resume their duties. All of us grab our stuff with my sword, looking over it, I need to clean her. Seventy-four grabbed his pistol and other stuff, the sisters took their undergarments which they didn’t care if the others saw. Twilight looked at Seventy-four with his pistol.

“Seventy four?”

“Yeah?”

“Please be careful while you have that out in public, okay?”

“I know and hey Twilight?”

“Yes?”

“Is your horn ok? it looks like it needs to be..lick.” he launched.

I snorted a bit as the mare flushed a bit before sighing. “Oh ha ha ha, very amusing.”

“Not the first time sucking, we also have hermaphroditism in the Empire.” He said with a wink.

The demicorn’s cheeks burned further before she pinched her nose. “Can you please not talk about stuff like this?” he nodded. Before we would leave the station, A guard came out.

“Miss Twilight we need to talk to you alone.” he asked.

***

The mare was in the interrogation room as she sat across with the officer. “What is it?”

“So you know those two stallions that wolf kid killed two weeks ago?” He reminded.

“What about them?”

“We dug deeper into their files and went to give the news to their parents,” he answered. “Apparently they live alone...but we found these in their bedrooms.” He set on the table two medals of some kind. They were wheel like with jagged ends around it.

The eyes of the Demicorn widened in horror as she held the medals. “This is….”

“Yes. They were cults that work for him.” he nodded.

Twilight narrowed her eyes before conjuring a box and setting the medals in and locked it. “Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I’ll inform Princess Celestia immediately.” He nodded before the box vanished. “So what does this mean for them?”

“Since we found out they were part of his cult….I suppose we drop the charges on them, just this one time.” she nodded before getting up.

“Thank you for letting me know about this.” with the officer nodding, she left to rejoin the others.

*********

(Daniel POV)

“Man it feels great to have my grandfather's sword back.” I smiled while I was rubbing the blade down with a cloth to clean it.

“Where are our Orbs of doom?” Purple asked as She was wearing her armor.

“I checked the bag five times. I can't find them.” Pink replied.

Seventy-four approached the officer at the desk. “Sir, there were bubble orbs in the bag we had, you know what happened to them?”

He adjusted his glasses while looking up in front of papers he read. “Yes. We destroyed those orbs.” Seventy-four faces became red..the reddest i ever seen in my life.

“YOU WHAT?!” His outburst alred the other cops in the station as many grabbed their weapons in alarm.

“Seventy four, cool your jets, now.” I spoke. He started at the officer as I could hear teeth breaking.

“They were from my family!” he yelled as I was worried he would take a step or jump at the officer.

“What is going on here!?” A relieving voice yelled as Twilight approached.

“This officer destroyed my Orbs!” if this wasn’t a bad situation I would have laughed at that.

“The orbs in your bag?” She asked as he nodded. “I told them to destroy them.” Seventy-four face went to rage to sadness and switched in between.

“Those orbs are given to me by my family.” He stated.

The Demicorn sighed heavily and motioned the officers to relax. “Look, those orbs are highly illegal to Equestria. They cannot be brought into our country at all. They are used with forbidden magic. They cannot be used.”

“They where one of the LAST things my family gave to be before they passed!”

She pinched the bridge of her nose. “Listen, I know you’re upset, believe I know that, but those orbs cannot be used or they will kill sompony who uses them by accident.” he calmed down a bit.

“They have an IFF tag so only people of Catic can use them if you tried to use them it wouldn't even armed itself.” he said in a calmer manner but still angry.

“Even if you are the only ones who can use those orbs, Celestia and Luna’s laws are strict. Those weapons are illegal to our country. They cannot be brought here.” he closes his eyes and slowly nods to himself.

“..Fine.” he said as he looked at the officers. “I’m sorry for my outburst.” they nodded slowly before we were escorted out of the station.

Twilight turned to the young wolf and placed a hand on his shoulder. “Seventy four, look...I know those orbs are important to you, but understand we’re only doing what's best for everypony in Equestria. We don't want anyone to get hurt. You know full well we don't wanna hurt you in any way. We want to keep you safe.” She gently cupped his cheek as his eyes locked to her own. “You understand?”

He only smiles before pecking her on the lips. “Yes mommy.” Twilight reared back quickly, clasping her mouth over her hands as her face built up to a glowing red.

“Should I run?” He asked the sisters who where laughing. “What's so-”

*THUD!*

“...funny.” We turned to Twilight who collapsed with swirling eyes, her face still red.

“...I think you broke her.” I snorted a bit.

His eyes widened at this. “Well shit I mean it as a joke.” He chuckled with a dark blush. “My bad.” he said rubbing the back of his head. I finally burst in laughter as the sisters did as well. At least I'm happy this turned out decently well for us.

*********

We returned back to the library once Twilight came to. She was quiet most of the time and kept her eyes averted from Seventy four. Still flustered from his unexpected kiss. Anyways, it felt great to have my sword back. I kinda felt a bit naked without it. I was on the couch grinding some wheat stone across the blade to sharpen its edges and polishing it. To my side was a few of my books from back home. I was a fan of some fantasy adventures. Some include ‘Eragon’, ‘Dragon Rider’, and ‘Jurassic Park’ . A few of my military buddies have talked me into reading the ‘Lensman series’ , ‘Xeelee series’ , ‘Downstreamers series’ , ‘Honorverse series’ , ‘Starship troopers', ‘Bolo series’ they said to read 'Bolo rising’ and ‘Bolo miles to go’ first even got some ‘Hammer Slammer’ and ‘Macross’ Novels the last one is a HUGE hit in the America since it first came to the states has it own games too.

“Hey Daniel.” I turned to see Purple smiling at me.

“Hey.” I replied while rubbing the cloth on my blade.

“I made you something.” She said as she blushed slightly.

I perked up a bit as I sheathed my sword. “What did you make?”

“I made something you call Pizza.” she asked.

“Did you read my mind?” I asked.

“No, When i saw your memories for the first time I saw a look of stuff about pizza.”

“By seeing my memories you mean barging in my head.” I spoke bluntly. “Purple just be honest with me.” Her face went down. “I didn’t mean to make you upset...i’m sorry.” I sighed. “Look, just be honest with me and it won't be as bad. Understand?” she nodded with a..lick to my face. My cheeks burned a bit but I smiled. “You can be adorable at times Purple.” she only smiled and pulled me away from my books, my sword still in my hand.

“Would you like me to bring you your pizza?” She offered.

“Sure. I am a little hungry.” I nodded with a small smile. She led me to the kitchen using her tail like a hand coiling around my arm, we made it and she made..a bit of a mess but the dishes where in the sink as she sat me down next to her as she handed me a piece of pizza. she watched me intently. Okay a bit creepy. I gazed at the slice for a moment before I held it up and took a bite. The taste was….interesting to say the least. The dough and crust of the pizza was a tad raw, the sauce was the most confusing since it was sweet, spicy, tangy, bitter at once. Least the cheese was the same.

I chewed before swallowing. “...well, for your first attempt it's not bad, though the sauce is a bit confusing. What did you put in it?”

“Well when I saw the red sauce I'm thinking red things like peppers, tomatoes, apples, onions.” She chirped.

...no wonder why it tasted so confusing. “Actually purple there's a recipe for making the pizza sauce.” her ears twitch at this before moving towards me like antennas.

“Do tell Donny.” she said with a soft smile. I told her about the ingredients that make good pizza sauce like garlic, basil, onions, tomatoes, oil, sugar and other ingredients. She nods slowly taking in the information.

“Alright I will try to make a better Pizza.” she said while her tail swung from side to side.

I chuckled. “Well at least you did good on the cheese.” her face blush a light green at this. “Why are you blushing?” She then smirked evilly.

“Well you know.~”

“...huh?” her face went blank at this.

“Did my milk make you dense?” she asked with a chuckle. Her mi…...oh she did not.

“....you’re kidding….you’re kidding right?” I asked while my eyes twitched.

“I have to empty them or they get too big for my bras. Besides it’s good milk, I should know, I drink my own. It tastes like chocolate milk, my sister tastes like strawberry milk.”

I face palmed. “Purple you can’t just make cheese out of your own breast milk. No wonder why I tasted a little chocolate in the pizza.” she just pouted her cheeks puffed.

“If they start leaking you're going to suck them dry sweetie.”

“What? When has that been my priority.” I argued.

“Well I want to know if you will like it.” she said with a blush.

“Ugh man…” I sighed in defeat. “I said it and I'll say it again, you furries are nuts.”

“I WISH I was a futanari.” she said as she smiled softly chucking to herself.

“Can we please not mention about bodies, sex or breasts for a day?” I blushed.

“I’ll do it for a week dear.” she said as she leaned in and kiss my forehead.

“....yeah sure.” I wasn't really buying it. One second she says it and later on, it starts up all over again.

“Oh do you like video games?” she asked.

“Somewhat.” I nodded. “I didn't get to play much due to my service in the army.”

“What kind do you like, like the ones you did play?”

“Well, I do first person shooters.” she smiles softy at this.

“To night let's play some video games.”

“Okay sure.” I shrugged with a smile.

***

Pink was worried her husband hadn't come out of their room since they got back from the station, and had his mini-elementals doing his work. She was outside of Twilight door thinking of what to say. She slowly knocked on the door. There a second before the door opened, showing Twilight while she removed her reading glasses.

“What is it Pink? I have some work to do.” She spoke softly.

“We..need to talk about my husband.” she said nervously.

Her tone made the mare blink. “Is Seventy four okay?” Pink walked in and sat down on a chair, the wooden frame cracking a bit. Twilight walked to her work hair and sat. “Pink, what's going on?” Pink shut the door with her tail as she looked at Twilight.

“He’s..scared of us being run out of town again.” she said looking down. “He thinks that joke he made put you on a though train of kicking us out.”

“You mean about thim...ahem, with the kiss?” She asked blushing a bit.

“Yes.” she said nervously.

The Demicorn rubbed her neck with a sigh. “Pink, I know it was a joke. I hold nothing against him.” Pink looked up with a small smile before pulling the Demicorn into a hug.

“Thank you.” Twilight smiled and hugged her back before they pulled back.

“You should tell him things are alright. Besides, I know you guys have been working to earn our trust over the past few weeks.” which the hybrid nods at this.

“Thank you and sorry if he seems too...paranoid.”

“It's alright.” She smiled before remembering. “Oh that reminds me. Those stallions your husband killed, we discovered they were part of a dangerous enemy cult.”

“Huh, guess things say the same no matter where you go.” she said in thought.

“But remember that still won't give you guys the excuse to kill anypony out of the bloom, okay?”

“We don’t kill innocent people, hurt maybe, but kill innocents no.” she said as she looked over Twilight. “Say do you have a boyfriend?” she asked.

The cheeks of Twilight turned a small shade of red. “Uh...no, why do you ask?”

“Well you're beautiful, smart and cute with bespectacled.”

“Thanks.” She giggled a bit. “As for a boyfriend. I don’t. Many stallions did try to court me, but they are mostly into my title as the Element of Magic or have bragging rights.”

“Shame, you know in Catic males can have many wifes?~” She tease.

This made the Demicorn giggle. “Looks like our culture is not that far off. Due to the ratio of stallions to mares, stallions can have multiple mars in their own herd.”

“Tell me are you bi?” she asked.

“Well, yes. Many mares ar Bisexual due to sharing a stallion in his herd.”

“But are you?” Pink asked as her tail coil around Twilight leg.

“Yes.” Twi nodded. “I became Bisexual during a night with one of my old friends in Canterlt named Moon Dancer.” the hybrid smiles.

“Good maybe when we get to know each other better we can let you join in on one of our fun nights.” she said with a wink. The cheeks of the mare went a deeper shade of red. Pink got up as she just smiled.

“Besides we might need your help with some stuff in the future if you're as techy as you are with your scientist stuff.” she paused. “Need some repairs we need to do.” she paused “but i need to ask you for something personal about the human.”

“What about Daniel?” Twi asked curiously.

“My sister is worried about him, he said his race only lives for a hundred years, do you have some tech or magic that will have any life extension?”

Twilight hummed in thought. “I never heard of a life form other than modern animals that can live for a short life expansion….I don't know specifically, but perhaps I can ask Princess Celestia that could help. She knows more about Magic better than I could.” The hybrid smiled at this and thanked Twilight before leaving when she came down stairs. she saw her sister and Daniel hooking up a game console, which she smiled softly, she then went to their room and saw her wolfy.

“Hello sweetie.” She cooed and pecked his lips. He look up, eyes shot green.

“..Hi Pink, are we going to be kicked out?” he asked worried.

“Twilight said she won't.” She assured. “She knows it was a playful joke. She holds no grudge against you.” she then moved next to him with her arms out. “Come here my little Pogchamp.”

he only rolls his eyes and snuggles up to her. “Thank you, my pink dots.”

“You know, I was worried about this place and hated it at first….but...its not that bad in many ways.” Pink giggled a bit. He only smiled as he lay his head on her pillows.

“Come on let snuggle until we go to sleep.” he said as his tail coiled around hers.

“Aw Wolfy.” She cooed as she laid next to him while her ears coiled his body in a warm hold.

****

(Daniel POV)

After hooking up the console with Purple, we sat back and grabbed our controllers. “Don't know how well i’ll do.” I spoke. “Haven’t played video games since I was 14.” the TV turned on and the graphics looked so..real, back home the latest game consoles was 128-bit this looked so real. “Whoa….the graphics are more real than the pixel games I played.”

“Thanks, now what do you want to play, Scale wars, The trench wars?”

“I’m not really familiar with those games, but why dont you choose?” I suggested.

She nodded and picked the The trench wars. An intro was showed of trench warfare with magic being throw around like crazy, tanks and aircraft flying round and i think i saw a fucking super heavy tank.

“Whoooooooa…” Damn this beats the games I played back at Earth. I can get used to this. “Alight, ready?”

“You want to play co-op campaigns or online?” she asked.

“There's online?” I blinked. “We never had that back on my planet.”

“Did you have Land parties?” she asked.

“Yea, me and the guys hook up our consoles to each other and TVs.” she nods at this before giving me a kiss on the cheek. I blushed before we started up the game. We picked our soldiers and stared. Though just a minute in, I got shot out of the bloom. “Ah, the hell?”

“Oh should I not use my upgrades on you?” she laughed. My reaction time was 100 milliseconds, but that..that was like 2 milliseconds what the hell. I respawned. I looked at the operations as I had a squad in my command, one Parvus and three Medios. Once I got back in, my team and I moved in, but then BOOM! Blown up by a trap.

“What the?” I gapped.

“You want me to go easy on you?” She giggled.

“How the hell are you so good at this??”

“I have hundreds of years of practise on this game dear.”

“...Damn.” I breathed while rubbing my head. “I feel like a beginner noob to your level.”

“You are, if you want we can be on the same team going against A.Is?”

“Mmmmmmm, well, I do find it a challenge to figure things out and learn on my own. It's how I became a soldier in the war back home.” she nodded as we went on playing for hours. Every time she would kick my ass in a minute. I did what I could to at least get a hit on her, but nothing I did worked. In the end, the game was over, Purples score from 128 to 0.

She only looked at me with a small frown. “Sorry.”

I chuckled. “It's okay Purple. I dont have the experience like you do. But if it's a real war, MAYBE I might have an advantage.” she only nodded before moving close to me and laying her head on my shoulder. I felt my heart warm a bit before wrapping an arm around her. “You can be a child sometimes Purple….it's cute.”

“Thanks Donny.” she said as her arms came over my chest.

I checked the clock and saw it was late at 10:23pm. “We should get some sleep.” she got up and picked me up and carried me to the room, I saw Pink snuggle Seventy-four well more like she blanket him in her body. Purple laid me next to them before she climbed in and laid on top of me. Her weight smothered me as did her chest on my face. “Murphl.” She played with my hair and held me still. I just sighed in defeat and let her do what she wanted. She smiled at me while she slowly fell asleep. Like I said, they can be bizarre furries….but at least they’re doing better than before. I smiled as I fell asleep in her arms.