The Model's Secretary

by PioneerofImagination

Chapter 48 Visiting Hours

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"You're going to what?" Shiny asked.

"I'm going to visit my brother," Ozzy answered verbatim.

"But," Fleur paused. "Isn't he back on Earth, and in prison?"

"Yeah, for the longest time I never really thought of my father as, well a father but all that stuff he told me from the video made me rethink things about him. And now the stuff I saw with Robert in the album and the DVD, I know that it wasn't much but it made me rethink some things about him too. It's too late to work things out with my father but not with Robert, I don't know what's going to happen when I get there."

"But it's something you feel like you have to do," Fleur answered for Ozzy having known him long enough to see where he was going with this.

"Yeah," Ozzy answered.

"I don't know about this," Shiny answered. "But I suppose I'm not going to able to talk you out of it am I?"

"No Shiny, this is something I have to do," Ozzy answered.

"Well, if that's the case. Then I'll support you."

"We'll support you," Fleur added.

"Yeah," Shiny said.

"Thank you you two," Ozzy said.

"It might take a while though to go through all of the procedures for this Ozzy, plus we still have Fleur's appointments to do in the next few days."

"It's okay Shiny I understand."

"Oh but Ozzy," Fleur said. "Shiny couldn't we simply postpone all the appointments we made?"

"No Fleur really it's fine," Ozzy said. "This will give me time to think about everything I want to say to him."

"Are you sure Ozzy?"

"Yes Fleur really I'm fine with it," Ozzy said with a gentle yet warm smile.

"All right then, if you want to wait we'll support that as well."

"In the meantime," Shiny said as she approached Ozzy slowly pressing her breasts against Ozzy's chest. "There was something we were in the middle of." Shiny then batted her eyes while Fleur approached Ozzy from behind ready to join Shiny. But when she was about to Ozzy slowly and gently pushed Shiny off of him to her surprise.

"I'm sorry Shiny, I'm not in the mood right now. Can we just cuddle while we watch a movie together or something?"

"Well, okay," Shiny said a little disappointed with her ears bent down along with Fleur's. Ozzy quickly looked into heading back to Earth as he and Shiny helped Fleur with her modeling appointments including several for Vouge. On the day when Ozzy was going to head back to Earth he got everything in order such as his passport, as he made his way downstairs he was rather surprised to see Fleur and Shiny waiting for him.

"Are you all set, Ozzy?" Fleur asked.

"Yeah, I'm all set, I don't I'll be very long so don't worry."

"Oh we won't," Shiny said. "Let's get going."

"Huh?"

"We're going with you," Fleur said.

"You are?"

"Of course we're not letting you go out all alone," Fleur answered. "Besides we've always wanted to visit your home world and now we finally have an excuse."

"But you can't just go there you need a passport." Fleur and Shiny then showed their own passports, Ozzy wanted to argue a bit more but stopped himself as he gave a sigh. "I don't know about this," Ozzy answered. "But I suppose I'm not going to able to talk you out of it am I?"

"You better believe it," Shiny said. Shiny gave Silver a call and he arrived before long to bring the trio to an interdimensional portal that brought them to the world Ozzy called home for most of his life. As they came to Earth, Ozzy having gotten the information of which prison his brother was sent to made his way to where it was, and the mares weren't far behind. "Wow, so this is Earth," Shiny said having looked around Earth a bit while with Ozzy.

"Yeah," Ozzy answered. "What do you think?"

"It's strange, it's so similar to our world and yet so different."

"Yeah I agree with Shiny." As Ozzy continued their way to where the prison was Ozzy couldn't help but notice quite a few humans were staring at Shiny and Fleur, some out of surprise others out of attraction, several of the humans wanted to take a picture with Shiny and Fleur. As they continued on they also came across a couple ponies that were living on Earth, they also wanted a picture, but just with Fleur as they recognized her from her ads. But when they made it back to the prison the humans there wanted pictures of both of them.

"Oh my gosh all these photos does it always feel this tiring?" Shiny asked.

"It can be," Fleur answered.

"I think it might have been for the best when I decided to become your manager, who knows maybe I owe Solar Flare a thank you." Shiny then placed her hand to her throat acting like she was going to throw up as if she was sickened by what she just said.

"My my it's just utterly fascinating," one of the guards said after getting his photo. "When I was a kid I always read comics or played video games about people that travel to other worlds and meeting other creatures but for two of them to come right to me as an adult." After that photo and a couple more Ozzy was informed of the process of wanting to visit someone in prison such as the said prisoner has to actually want to talk to whoever is visiting.

"Are you serious?" Ozzy asked when he learned that believing that might be quite the problem.

"Sorry, it's standard procedure," another one of the guards said. "By the way can I get a picture of your friends too."

"Another one!" Shiny nearly yelled. "Maybe we should have let Ozzy do this on his own."

***

After setting things up at the prison Shiny and Fleur wanted to explore more of Earth in the next couples days while they waited. Ozzy figured there was no harm in that since it would take time for the process of seeing his brother to finish. Ozzy also showed Shiny and Fleur a few things on his laptop which they found rather interesting namely a place known as Disneyland which Fleur and Shiny wished to visit someday. They also looked around Ozzy's old neighborhood and even came across a public park that had a swing set, Fleur wanted Ozzy to push her on the swing which he was fine with.

"Fleur cut this out, your way too old for this," Shiny said.

"You're never too old to go for a swing," Fleur said as Ozzy continued to push her. "Would you like a turn after I'm done Ozzy?"

"No thank you," Ozzy replied as he continued to push Fleur. "The motion sickness is kind of too much for me."

"Motion sickness?" Fleur asked.

"It's kind of hard to explain." Fleur stayed on the swing a little longer but when she got off she felt a rather strange pain in her stomach and figured out what Ozzy was talking about.

"Are you all right Fleur?"

"Yes Shiny I'm all right. It's not bad at all really."

"I think it's about time we made it back to the hotel or something it's getting dark."

"Uh Ozzy," Shiny said blushing a little bit for some reason.

"Yes Shiny? What is it?"

"Can, you push me too?"

"Of course Shiny," Ozzy answered with a smile.

***

After going on the swing the mares went with Ozzy to the hotel where the three settled in for the night and were rather surprised to see that several ponies recently got jobs there. "I don't suppose you're in the mood tonight Ozzy?"

"No, sorry Shiny I still have a lot on my mind."

"That's all right Ozzy I'm sure the cleaning crew wouldn't appreciate the mess anyway," Shiny replied.

"If we're just cuddling again tonight that's fine with me," Fleur said as she, Shiny, and Ozzy did just that getting into bed. "Don't worry Ozzy, whatever happens we'll be right behind you."

"Thank you Fleur. I'm so lucky to have you two in my life," Ozzy replied as he wrapped his arms around the two mares he loved very very much. When morning came Ozzy showed Fleur and Shiny more of Earth and in no time at all the meeting between him and his brother Robert had been set up. "Well," Ozzy said before a rather large gulp. "It's time to talk to my brother." Suddenly Fleur and Shiny wrapped their arms around Ozzy's.

"Don't worry about anything Ozzy," Fleur said.

"We're with you every step of the way," Shiny finished.

"Thank you," Ozzy said. The three then made their way inside the prison and Ozzy sat down with Shiny and Fleur standing behind him when they got to the visiting section. Ozzy and the mares made it there first and after a while Robert walked over as sat down picking up the phone. As Ozzy looked at his brother it reminded him of the time he was reunited with Mascara at her trial, because both of them look like hell.

"Hello Shnoz," Robert said.

"Hello Robert," Ozzy replied rather stoically. Suddenly Robert got a rather good look at Shiny and Fleur as he couldn't quite help but stare at them.

"Who are they? What are they?"

"This is Fleur, and this is Shiny a while back portals to an alternate universe opened up allowing people here to travel there and vice versa." After hearing that Robert didn't know how to respond. It sounded like something right out of a comic book or a really out there fanfiction, but with Shiny and Fleur there Ozzy clearly wasn't making it up.

"Okay," Robert said finally responded.

"When I traveled to the other world I quickly met and befriended them, and well, after a while we became more than friends."

"So basically you've been tapping pony ass?"

"Must you be so blunt?" Fleur asked.

"What's the matter Ozzy, couldn't find a human girl that wanted to go to town on you so you settled for pony pussy?"

"Robert we haven't talked in years do we have to start our conversation like this?"

"We haven't talked in years because you put me in here!" Robert said as he stood up while slamming his head on the glass rather alarming the guards.

"Oh come on that's hardly fair, I didn't put you in here!" Ozzy said as he stood up too which rather alarmed Fleur and Shiny.

"Of course you did dipshit, you're the one that called the police on me."

"Because you were the one dealing drugs and killing people!" Ozzy retorted.

"MY FRIENDS AND I HAD A PLAN TO GO TO MEXICO BEFORE YOU DID WHAT YOU DID, YOU RUINED MY LIFE!"

"YOU RUINED YOUR OWN LIFE!"

"I HATE YOU OZZY SHORE!"

"WAS THAT THE ONLY REASON YOU AGREED TO THIS VISIT, TO TELL ME THAT!?" After that Robert's look of rage surprisingly turned into one of regret. Robert then sat back down putting the guards at ease.

"No, that's not all I wanted to say, it just came out."

"So was there something else you wanted to say?"

"There are a lot of things I've wanted to say to you, I've been looked in here a long time. Long enough to do some thinking, that's kind of the only thing I can do."

"What exactly did you think about?"

"At first I thought about if I ever got out of here the first thing I'd do is get my revenge on you for putting me in here. I also thought about how could my own brother do that to me, but then I realized that it made perfect sense for you to do what you did. I never treated you like a brother so why should I have expected you to treat me like a brother," Robert said with a rather sad look that surprised Ozzy. "I treated you like shit, worse than shit, our family was falling apart after mom died and you were the only one that tried to keep it together. I was the worst brother ever and I, I'm, I'm, I'm-"

"Sorry?" Ozzy finished for Robert.

"Yeah, part of me doesn't want to say that, a rather large part of me actually. Probably why you had to say it for me."

"Yeah probably, you know, you didn't always treat me like shit though."

"I didn't?" Robert asked rather surprised.

"A while ago I would have agreed with you but recently I got a package showing times when I was very young, and you were actually close to me."

"I was?" Robert asked for as it seemed that he forgot as well. "What kind of package was that?"

"It was a photo album with all kinds of pictures and a DVD showing a birthday party or yours. Both showing that you weren't so horrible, at least not always."

"Which birthday was that?"

"It was the one where you invited a lady to the house but she died in some sort of car crash," Ozzy answered. Robert didn't say anything as he was suddenly deep in thought.

"Robin."

"Huh?" Ozzy asked.

"Robin?" Robert repeated. "That was her name, I remember that birthday. I don't think I ever forgot that birthday really, I didn't know her very long but I thought I loved her. Not too long after she died mom passed away, maybe that's why I acted like such a bastard. I hurt others so that others wouldn't hurt me."

"I went through, girlfriend after girlfriend after Robin died, but none of them no matter how hard I tried where able to take her place," Robert continued. "I thought life was so cheap since she and mom died and it seemed like the world just didn't give a single fuck, so I didn't care about how badly I treated you or how many people my drugs killed. Ozzy, I'm sorry." Ozzy didn't say anything as he was rather surprised that Robert was able to apologize all on his own. This time Ozzy was the one deep in thought, Ozzy closed his eyes and took a deep breath rather looking into his soul.

"I forgive you," Ozzy said to the surprise of the mares and the rather utter shock of his brother.

"What?" Robert asked.

"I forgive you," Ozzy repeated. "For everything, I doubt we can be friends or that I'll want to hang out with you a lot or even at all when you finally get out of here. But I forgive you. I thought for a while about the things I wanted to say, but that rather tops them all." Once again there was a moment silence as once again Robert didn't know what to say.

"Thank you Ozzy," Robert said with a rather big smile and tears in his eyes this time him being the one to shock Ozzy.

"What?"

"Thank you," Robert repeated as he continued to smile and cry. "I can't believe how wonderful that feels to hear, but listen I don't really feel like talking anymore or at least much more so before I go tell me just how did you meet these two again?" Ozzy then explained how he saved Fleur's life who offered him a job as her secretary and that Shining Star, Shiny to her friends is Fleur's manager. Ozzy then explained a few things they went through together and how they slowly but surely fell in love.

"So like I said we became friends and than more than friends," Ozzy finished.

"Yeah that part I remember," Robert said. "So wait you're a model?"

"Yes," Fleur answered as she looked over to Shiny. "And Shiny here is more than good enough to be one as well," Fleur added which made Shiny blush a bit.

"And the both of you are dating Ozzy?"

"Yes," Shiny and Fleur answered Robert at the same time.

"And you're okay with that?"

"Yes," Fleur and Shiny answered at the same time again.

"Yeah it's fine, on their world they call it a herd."

"Wow, way to go Ozzy," Robert said impressed.

"Ah geez Robert," Ozzy said a little embarrassed.

"So your names are Fleur De Lis and Shining Star?"

"Yes but you can just call me Fleur," she answered.

"I know I kind of gave Ozzy a hard time for this earlier, but you two really are quite beautiful."

"Thank you Robert," Shiny said.

"I don't suppose you two would take your tops off for me real quick?"

"ROBERT!" Ozzy yelled embarrassed while also upset.

"Not going to happen," Shiny answered with a look saying she was ready to rip his head off.

"Same here," Fleur added.

"Worth a shot, I've been in here for a very long time. You two are the first women I've seen in years." Robert then got up ready to go back to his cell. "Sorry you two. For whatever it's worth I'm sure that my brother will take care of you two."

"Oh we have no doubt about that," Shiny answered. After that Robert left to go back to his cell and Ozzy left the prison with his Fleur and Shiny, feeling much better than he had felt in a long time.

***

After talking things out with Robert the trio checked out of the hotel and headed back to Fleur and Shiny's home dimension ready to head back home. But as they left the dimensional portal and made their way back to Canterlot they took a shortcut through the train station that was closed for the day, when they did that they came across another pony cutting through there. "Solar Flare," Fleur said as he stood right before them.

"Hi Fleur," Solar answered not sure what to say.

"Hi," she said rather awkwardly.

"How was your day?"

"Rather fine until now," Shiny answered sounding like she was ready to fight.

"Hello Shiny," Solar said.

"That's Ms. Star to you," Shiny said.

"Right, fair enough," Solar Flare said as he approached the trio. "I've been putting this off day after day, maybe this is some sort of sign, Shiny I'm so sorry-" Solar Flare was cut off when Shiny punched him in the face as hard as she could, forcing him to the ground shocking Fleur and Ozzy.

"It's Ms. Star!" Shiny said clearly not remorseful for what she did.

"Right, sorry about that," Solar said as he placed a hand on the cheek Shiny punched. "But that might have been a bit much."

"It wasn't just for calling me Shiny, it was mostly because of what you did to me five years ago."

"Yeah, that makes sense." Solar Flare then got in a pleading position to the surprise of the trio. "There isn't anything I can say to undo or make up for what I did and how I hurt you two, all I can say is that I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry. If you can't do it today I more than understand, I just hope that one day you will be able to forgive me for being the idiot that I was." Suddenly Fleur bent down getting on her knees and sitting in front of Solar Flare.

"I forgive you," Fleur said.

"You do?!" Shiny and Ozzy said at the same time.

"You do," Solar said as he raised his head.

"Yes," Fleur answered. "But let me get this straight, I am not interested at all in getting back together. I'm glad that you're making an effort to be better but I don't want you in my life because we both need to move on. And being together won't help us do that at all," Fleur finished as she got back up and Solar did the same.

"Thank you Fleur, and I understand. Goodbye Fleur, you'll always have a special place in my heart," Solar said as he put one hand on his heart, while keeping the other on his cheek.

"That's actually kind of comforting, thank you Solar."

"Your welcome Fleur, I guess that's all that."

"Well, not exactly," Fleur said as she tightened one of her hands which Solar noticed right away.

"Yeah," Solar Flare said. "Go ahead, I have it coming." Fleur then punched Solar Flare in his other cheek and once again he fell to the ground. As he did Shiny approached the stallion clearly in pain and bent down to get closer to him.

"I forgive you too Solar, what you did to me, it left serious scars. And not just a physical one, for so long I wasn't myself, I was angry and as a result I constantly took it out on stallions that didn't deserve it which almost cost me the most important friendship I could ever ask for. But the three of us have been helping each other learn and grow together and I imagine we'll continue that. To be honest, I'm still quite angry with you, but I forgive you and like Fleur said I'm glad you're making an effort to be better."

"Thank you," Solar Flare said still on the ground through his teeth. Ozzy walked over to where Solar Flare was and offered to help him up but Solar shook his head keeping both hands on his cheeks.

"Gonna get up on your own?" Ozzy asked and once again Solar shook his head. "Just gonna stay there for a while?" This time Solar nodded and with that the trio made their way back to Fleur's house leaving Solar Flare who gave a wave still on the ground and still in pain.

"I think my jaw is broken," Solar said once again through his teeth.

***

"Well that was certainly something," Ozzy said as he and the mares were almost to Fleur's house. "I'm really quite surprised that you were able to give Solar the way you two did."

"Yeah I think we're still rather surprised by it as well," Shiny replied.

"If we ran into him before we came with you to Earth I don't think we would have," Fleur said. "But seeing what Robert did when you said you forgave him, plus I saw that smile of yours when we left the prison. Forgiving your brother really helped you on the inside, that was kind of all I could think about when we ran into Solar Flare."

"Yeah, me too," Shiny added. "For the longest time I don't think that I could ever be able to forgive him. You helped us do the unthinkable Ozzy," Shiny said as she suddenly turned around gave Ozzy the warmest hug she could. "I love you so much Ozzy Shore."

"I love you just as much Shining Star," Ozzy replied as a certain unicorn tapped Ozzy's shoulder wanting in on the hug. "I love you very much too Fleur De Lis," Ozzy said as he let her join in the hug as well. Shiny and Fleur then gave Ozzy kisses one after the other, which quickly become more and more lustful in nature. "Easy now ladies," Ozzy said moving his head back to stop the kissing. "Wait until we get home."

"Yes home," Fleur said. After that she and Shiny each wrapped their arms around one of Ozzy's and continued their walk. As they made their way back to Fleur's house, but just as they were about to head inside.

"Hello," a stoic voice said causing the trio to turn around seeing a human holding two rather large plastic bags full of food. "Did you enjoy your visit to Earth?"

"You?" Fleur and Ozzy said at the same time which was quite surprising as they looked at each other. "You know him?" They asked each other.

"Do they do that a lot?" Ace asked.

"No, Fleur and I have kind of been doing that a lot lately though."

"How do you know him Ozzy?" Fleur asked.

"When I left to clear my head I ran into him at a park and he gave me the push I needed to visit my brother, his name is, is, is-"

"Ace Sawyer, detective lawyer," Ace answered.

"Right thank you."

"Your welcome."

"Ace, how did you know we just got back from Earth?" Ozzy asked.

"Your passport is sticking out of your back pocket," Ace answered. Ozzy then felt the pocket he placed it in to see that it was indeed poking out.

"My my, a human with quite a sharp eye I see," Fleur commented.

"But how do you know him Fleur?"

"Don't you remember Shiny?"

"Remember what?" Shiny asked.

"I guess you don't."

"Fleur, what are you talking about?" Ozzy asked.

"Shiny and I have met Ace before," Fleur answered to Ozzy's surprise while Ace continued to stand with no emotion on his face. "It happened a day or two ago before I met you Ozzy when Shiny and I stopped at a local store."

***

Fleur in a bit of a disguise was with Shining Star in a small store known as Sugar Cube Corner to get some cake for Fancy Pant's upcoming birthday. "I don't see why we had to come all the way here for a cake," Shiny said. "Couldn't you just get him a monocle or something?"

"It's less likely that I'll run into Fancy, which means the surprise won't be spoiled," Fleur answered. "And it's not so much a gift as it is something to add to the banquet."

"All right fine let's just get it and get out of here Flora," Shiny said calling Fleur by the cover name that she thought up. As they made their way to the register. "Finally, we're here to pick up a cake."

"Then it's a good thing you came to a sweet shop," Ace said who got a part time job at the time Fleur and Shiny arrived there.

"Was that supposed to be some kind of joke?" Shiny asked.

"Little bit," Ace answered putting his thumb and forefinger very close to one another.

"Well that wasn't very good, in fact it was kind of terrible."

"How odd I've been told before that I'm very funny."

"Well I'm not going to be one of them," Shiny said.

"I can tell."

"Look," Shiny said starting to get mad. "We're in a hurry and have to get on a train really soon so can we just our order?"

"All right," Ace said as he worked the register but Shiny was very impatient to get back to Canterlot as she started to receptively tap her fingers on the desk. "May I suggest switching to decaf."

"Well can you be any slower?!" Shiny asked and suddenly Ace started to type on the register much slower than before, and Shiny quickly figured out what he was doing. "Oh very funny!"

"I thought you weren't going to be one of them," Ace replied which actually got Fleur to laugh to Shiny's surprise as she faced Fleur.

"That was funny."

"You're lucky we have a train to catch or I'd smash your face against that register and then rip it off and drop it on your head!"

"Let it go lady, he can't hurt you anymore," Ace said which Fleur really shocked Shiny and Fleur.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Shiny said trying to hide the shock.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about," Ace said as he finished working on the register and gave the cake to Fleur in a box.

"Yeah, you're some kind of asshole weirdo!" Shiny replied as she backed up a bit, ready to turn around and head out of the shop.

"You aren't mad at me you're mad at a male that wronged you in the past and now you take it out on all males, I forgive you." Hearing that Shiny was on the verge of freaking out like Ace somehow managed to get into her mind.

"Flora I'll meet you at the train station and make sure it doesn't leave. And you should just mind you own business!" Shiny said as she left Sugar Cube Corner to try not freak out.

"Such a charming personality," Ace said.

"I'm sorry she really is a good pony, she just, well it's like you said. How did you know anyway?"

"It's a specialty talent of mine, I believe it's what you would call a Cutie Mark."

"I see," Fleur then picked up the cake and was about to head out the door until.

"Have you talked to her about her attitude before?" Ace asked which stopped Fleur in her tracks.

"No," Fleur answered. "I want to really but, I figure if I give her enough time she'll work it out on her own."

"If you know she's doing something wrong and you do nothing about it, you're only helping it happen again." After that Fleur made her way out of the shop and caught up to Shiny in time to spare to reach the train.

***

"That piece of advice he gave me rather stuck with me, and like I said," Fleur said wrapping up the story. "Not too long after I met him I came across you, or rather you came across me."

"I do remember," Shiny said feeling rather bad about how she acted back then as she approached Ace.

"I'm really sorry for the way I treated you back then," Shiny said as she bowed her head at Ace.

"I can tell you mean that," Ace replied still quite stoic which confused Shiny.

"Do you forgive me?" She asked trying to ease her confusion.

"I already did," Ace replied still rather stoic but that answer provided relief for Shiny.

"So you met a human before me?"

"Yes, Shiny and I were in such a hurry and such a shock by his insight that we didn't quite notice at first, when I did notice I kind of wondered if all humans were like that."

"So what are you doing here?" Ozzy asked.

"I felt like buying your groceries for you," Ace replied making Ozzy look at the bags Ace was carrying seeing several items that were things he wanted to buy.

"How did you know what I wanted to buy?" Ozzy asked.

"You left your grocery list at the park bench after you left, and by the time I saw it you were gone," Ace answered as he dropped one bag to give Ozzy the list he had.

"How did you get this, Fleur made it disappear?"

"Not quite Ozzy," Fleur said. "My spell simply put it in your pocket I guess it must have fallen out when you went to talk to him. But that doesn't explain how you found my house."

"After I bought the groceries I remembered what Ozzy said about working for a model from a rather noble family here in Canterlot. After that it was just a matter of detective reasoning."

"Well, thank you for helping Fleur and Ozzy, and the groceries," Shiny said as she stepped back and grabbed Ozzy by his hips. "But we have to get to a little quality time with Ozzy that we've put off long enough," Shiny finished as Fleur wrapped her arms around Ozzy's neck her head next to his and her breasts purposely pressed against his back.

"Yes let's get to that," Fleur and Shiny then dragged Ozzy into the house leaving Ace alone with the bags. The trio had entered the house only moments ago so Ace cleared his throat believing that would be loud enough for them to hear. And we was right for Ozzy opened the door and took the groceries from Ace.

"Thank you again," Ozzy said.

"Your welcome again," Ace answered. Ozzy then entered the house and shut the door not wishing to keep the two mares he loved very much waiting.


Author's Note

Pretty much all the stuff after Ozzy and the mares leave the prison are original ideas to help stretch out the chapter. But I also made sure it matched the tone of the chapter, as for Ace he's the main character of a story set in TMS universe Dudeler also thought this story up that he said I could work on. It's sort of a stand alone sequel, but I'll get to that when I get to that.

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