"Are we there yet?"

"No."
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"Are we there yet?"

"No."
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"Are we the-"

"Joseph, if you ask again I will knock you, take Thorax and leave you behind."

"Finnne."

"Um please don't."
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"You know we should do something to pass the time."

"And what exactly should we do?"

"Well we could sing some songs."

They both looked confused at me as they asked simultaneously "Whats that?"

Ah. Right.

I wrapped my arms around both of their shoulders "We have much to discuss."
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🎵Who knows when the sun will rise again?

Seems we've got too much time to spend.

Feels like this night will never end,

I guess it just depends,

Who knows when the sun will rise again?
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The world should sleeep tooday,

Think I deserve a breeak,

You'll see this way its better,

We'll all just nap together.

We then all then shouted at the top of lungs.

🎵THE NIGHT WILL LAST FOREVER!🎵

We all stop to catch our breaths until Thorax speaks first "That was so much fun! What do you think Pharynx?"

Pharynx looks away embarrassed "....It wasn't, that, bad."

He then looks up "We should find somewhere to sleep soon, Its getting dark."

I look up at the sky and notice the sun beginning to set " Oh yeah, wow, I didnt that much time had passed."

Thorax turned his head a bit in my direction " Well we did spend all that time trying to remember the, what did you call it again?"

"A song."

"Song! That's what it was and it was really fun once we learned it, though I wonder where did you get the idea from?"
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'Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.'

"Oh I just kinda thought about the concept but I didnt really think about the song bit until a couple of days before we left, Why?" I said

'Take it, take it, take it.'

"Oh ok, just curious is all."

"Oh alright."

'THANK GOD, ok next time,if i ever introduce something not heard of i need a reason to have known about it first.'

"Here should be good." Pharynx said

I pause as I look around as I see nothing but darkness "You sure?"

Pharynx shrugs "Don't really have many options right now."

I just nod as he continues "Ok, well I guess
We'll take turns keeping an eye out for anything that might be out here, I'll go and try to find something that can burn, can't be too hard."

I look at him a bit confused "You think something is going to be out here?"

"We are."
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"Fair enough."

As Pharynx went off to find something to burn me and Thorax just sat in comfortable silence until Thorax spoke
"Hey Joseph."

"Yeah?"

"Do you think we'll be ok?"

I stay quiet until I pull Thorax closer to me, feeling how tense he is as I try convery as much firmness as I can in my answer.

"Yes, yes I do."

I then look down at him "And we'll be there for eachother when it gets too hard on our own."

He then looks up at me before snuggling closer. "Thank you."

After that little talk we just sit there in silence in eachothers company until we fall asleep.
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"Joooseph, Jooooooooooseph, can you hear me Joseph?"

I open my eyes slowly as I see Pharynx with his arms crossed staring down at me with an impatient look. "I see you and Thorax had a nice nap, but now its your turn for watching."

I look over at Thorax and see him still sleeping away on my shoulder "mmh, yeah, ok. Just give me a second."

After waking up I slowly start to give up as Pharynx switches places with me as I go off a little bit in the distance to keep watch incase there's something out here. Though I eventually start to get lost in my thoughts.

'.....I don't know how were gonna get out of this, I mean already stuff isn't like the show with how advanced the changelings are compared to the show, not to mention the supposed 'Desperate Era' that said that the Changelings worked TOGETHER with different species at one point to fight an enemy they couldn't handle on their own.'

I sigh 'I mean I don't even know what I'm doing here. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm grateful I get a second chance at life, in my one of my favorite worlds no less. But, what am I supposed to do with it?

Just spend the rest of my life in the 'comfort' of the Hive? But then what about the others? Especially Thorax, if he's anything like from the show then he's also not going to want to spend the rest of his life in the Hive, but should I let nature run its course, or?'

I look over at Pharynx and Thorax while their asleep leaned against one another 'Should I try to change things a little earlier for the better?'

I shake my head to clear my mind 'That'll be a question for future Joseph to handle, for now, we do what we can to survive and then, we'll see what happens.'
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Afterwards we all took turns keeping watch until the sun came up, we then started moving again as I 'came' up with more songs to sing to pass the time until finally.

"We made it, Dodge junction."

As we reached the town is was like the show only more realistic as the town had a certain wild west feel to it but not to the point of it being rundown as you saw mostly Earth ponies going by doing their everyday things.

Before Pharynx and Thorax walked in I pulled them back, causing them to look at me confusined in the process. "Uhhh guys you forgetting something?"

They both looked lost before seeming to light up in recognition, looking away embarrassed.

"Oh, right almost forgot"

"I was just testing you to see if you remember."

I gave him a flat stare causing to get flustered. "Oh shut up."

After that little exchange we all then morphed into a random pony, with Thorax morphing into the form he used on the show. Meanwhile, Pharnyx changes his form into a Pegasus with light blue fur, white hair, while keeping his purple irises. Finally I change my form into an Earth pony with blue fur and black hair, while also keeping my original eye color.

"OK now while we're out here were gonna need names to fit in so from now on Thorax, your going to be Shining Star Pharnyx, your going to be Dusty Diamond,
And I will be Midnight Shimmer."

"Oh I like that name, it sounds nice."

"Well I don't, why am I Dusty? Makes me feel dirty."

Thorax tried reassuring him "Dont worry Pharynx, I think your name is nice."

Pharynx sighs "thanks bro, ok lets go."

They then try moving again before I grab them back. At this point Pharynx looks a bit annoyed "What."

I point to the ponies walking around "Tell me what do you see when you look at the ponies walking around?"

At my question they both pause and look until Thorax responds "Uhhh, some sort of clothing?"

"Exactly, now I don't know about you but if I were a pony and saw my kind walking around without clothes on I would think that they're kinda weird."

Pharnyx then turns back to me "So what do you propose we do then?"

I think for a second "Well there's gotta be a place where they're getting their clothes from so we just gotta sneakily get some."

Thorax eyes widened in shock "You want to steal from them!?"

"I don't want to but if we're gonna do blend in then we have no choice Thorax."

Thorax was quiet for a bit until he answered "Fine. But I don't like this one bit."

I nod "I understand"

As we get closer to the town we stay to the outskirts as much as possible hiding behind buildings as to not draw attention to ourselves.

Pharnyx then looks across from the building were at "Is that it?"

I peek around the corner and see a store Called Dodgy Clothes "Huh i guess it is."

I turn around to face them "Ok so here's the plan: First, we cause a fight outside."

I tap on a random pony "excuse me sir."

He turns around stopping what he was doing "Yes?"

I point at a random pony sleeping in a chair "He said that your momma should die."

His eyes widen as he now looks pissed "HE SAID WHAT!"

He then rolls up his imaginary sleeves as he holds his arms out to his right and walks over to the guy tapping him awake "Hey you."

The other guy wakes up "mmh?"
Then gets socked in the face sending him falling backwards on the floor.

"Then: we get the store owners attention to get them to break up the fight."

I start banging on the door rapidly "SIR, SIR!"

A gruff looking pony steps out "What, what do you want?"

I point over to the fight "Those two started fighting and we need your help."

He drags a hand down his face "Oh Celestia, this the third time this week, don't you boys worry I'll take care if this."

He then walks over to them shouting "HEY BOFFERS, BRANDYBUCKS, THIS THE THIRD TIME THIS WEEK DAMMIT!"

"Finally: We enter the store, get some clothes, ride the train, get something for the hive, go back and be celebrated for being the best their is, now is everyling ready!"
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"....Guys?"

I turn around and notice their gone "Where?"

*Ahem*

I turn around and notice Thorax and Pharynx with three pairs of clothes in hand "How did you?"

"Well while you were busy blabbering on about some sort of plan me and Thorax went over to the building, knocked on the door, asked for extra clothes, and came back."

"Oh..... well ok then, I guess."

As I finally look at what they got i see that they got three pairs of underwear, a red,blue, and black plaid shirt, with tan pants. "Hmm, daring today are we?"

"What?"

"Nothing, let's just get these on and try to get to the train."

After we get dressed we make our way over to the train station and as we get there we were stopped by the conducter
"Where are you heading?"

Thorax answered first "Uh, Ponyville?"

He starts writing something on his stand "Reason?"

"Uhhhhh, to go to the next town?

He then looks up "Yeah, yeah I know but are you going for personal or business reasons?"

Thorax scrunches up his face while Pharnyx answers for him "Whats the difference?"

The conducter sighs ""kids these days, ok look BUISNESS means your going to work, out of town since this one doesn't have much work to offer anyway. Now, PERSONAL means your going for reasons that are your own, understand?"

We nod "Now reasons for travel?"

"Per-"

I cover Thorax's mouth "Buisness, please."

He writes for a few minutes before asking us "Names?"

"Midnight Shimmer, Dusty Diamond, and Shining Star."

"And last but not least have you received your Revelation Marks?"

"Yes" 'dontquestiondontquestionfontquesti-'

"Alright then." He then tears off three pieces of paper "Here you go."

"Huh, you know I thought that we would have to pay for these."

"Well, like I said their isn't much work going around here so if your telling the truth about your Revelation Marks?" He says as he leans in closer.

We all rapidly nod our heads as he leans back "Then, your deemed responsible enough to look for work to provide for yourself or others if you have any."

"Also may I ask what that is supposed to be?" He points to Pharynx's weapon as I try to say something.

"Oh, its something I made, a sort of a trinket between us you could way."

Seemingly satisfied he nods. "Anyways, hop on we'll be leaving in a minute." When he finished, we made our way on the train and found a couch that was empty allowing us to occupy it with Thorax on the left, me In the middle and Pharynx on the right.

While we're waiting for the train to move i motion for Pharynx to give me the gun to hide it under the seat. Meanwhile, Thorax gets on his knees to look outside the window as I finish hiding our weapons and the sometime to look at the piece of paper handed to me looking at the sand like color of the paper as I see my aliais in big bold letters.

As I'm looking over the paper Thorax starts talking. "So how do you think this 'train' thing works?"

Pharynx shrugs "I don't know for all I know this could be a waste of time and were just sitting here to take a br-."

Before Pharynx can finish the train shifts fowards causing Pharynx to fall over and Thorax to fall onto of me as he starts panicking "Whats happening!?"

I grab his shoulders "Shining, look at me."

He looks down at me "Calm down, its just the train."

"O-oh sorry for overreacting then."

"Its ok we've never heard of this before so thats understandable, though can you get off of me please."

His eyes widen as he crawls off of me "oh yeah, my bad"

As we try to get up I see Pharynx on the floor with his arms on the seat as he looks at us with a shit-eating grin "Having fun?"

"Shut up Pharynx."
"Shut up Pharynx."
He snickers as he climbs back on the seat while Thorax looks embarrassed with how he reacted before glancing out the window only to look back as he sees the land passing us by in a blur "Woahhhh, guys come look at this."

As we get on our knees to look out the window with him Pharnyx also looks amazed "Wow, that is cool."

"I know right! What about you Jo-i mean Midnight, isn't it cool?"

I look out the window with a smile "Yeah its pretty amazing."

We then all just spend the rest of the trip staring out the window as they were enraptured by this new discovery they got to experience while I looked out the window simply content to be in the company with people I care about.

Author's Note

A bit of a shorter one today so sorry about that but like always bash and enjoy.