I woke up only when I felt something roll over onto my whole chest. I opened one eye and saw Rainbow Dash lying on my chest looking down at me with a little smile. “So, what’s with this?” I said to her before I put my arm around her back and holding her in an embrace.

“Nothing, you’re just really warm” she said to me in reply. I pulled the blanket further over us so that we were both under the covers completely, and I kissed her on the lips. She was still tired I could tell, and I just let her rest. She fell asleep again after a few minutes, her head resting on my chest up close to my head.

I laid there and rubbed her mane with my hand that was resting on her back and listened to her sleep. I thought about what I needed to do today, which was mostly just me going down to Club Pon-3 and helping clean that place up. I’m a maid now…what next?

RD moved her fore hooves and wrapped them around my free arm and I smiled. She was sound asleep, her tiny breaths telling me that she was sleeping peacefully. I just remained still and continued to rub her mane and back as she slept, thinking of how I ever ended up with such a wonderful partner.

Dash and I got up about 3 hours later, and it was now around halfway through the day, the winter sun high in the sky. I was walking down the dirt road towards the center of town where the Club was, ready to help out and clean the club up.
I walked up to the door and saw a note. I smiled when I saw from VS & OS and read the note. It said:

Kyle,

Thanks again for all of your help. You have been one…no…THE best friend a pony could ask for. I am still away with Octy, but I left you a little something for all of your help. If you could straighten up the club for me, and make sure everything is back on track, which would be great, I would be grateful. I have one other surprise for you, but that will come while you’re cleaning.

Your best friends always,
VS & OS

I opened the door and took the note down and looked around at what I was in for. It was generally messy, nothing damaged or broken from what I could see, just in need of cleaning. Whelp, the faster I get this done, the faster I can go home!

I had the dance floor cleaned up and looking like it was before and now I was cleaning up the liquor counter and bar area. I took inventory of all of the various liquors and wrote down what we needed to restock, which was just about everything. I turned around and saw a small bag on the counter by a tip jar I set out for gits and shiggles, see what I did there?, and another note which I picked up and read to myself.

Kyle, this is for you. You have been a great help to me and were always there, so I am going to help you out. Here is 100 bits for you to do with as you please.

I smiled and took the bag, but I wasn’t going to use it for me. I had other plans for it. I continued to walk around and clean up everything and after a while I was up on the stage where the equipment was. I started to carefully wipe down all the knobs and switches, making sure that everything was still working and clean, and when I finished, I saw yet another note on the top of the equipment. I made a fake frown, seeing as this was the third note today I’ve read in the last few hours and read it. This better be the last one or I might blow up!

Kyle,

This is the surprise you had to find. Sorry for the three notes, but I was a little drunk when I did that….I probably still am now. Anyways, the club is going to be open tonight, but im not going to be there. I want you to run through everything and practice….because you’re going to be the DJ tonight. I made a decision to have you become a full DJ, and you already shown me that you know what to do. If you want some kind of icon, like me and my shades, you can find one, because you’re not going to just do it every once and a while, you might go out of town if the ratings are good. I know you can do it!

Vinyl

HHHHNNNNNGGGGG *heart explodes* “Why in the hell does she want me to do this!? I mean, I know how to do it, but not as good as her! Ugh, fine I’ll do it for you” I said out loud after I finished the note.

After about 1 more hour of cleaning the club was looking pristine again, but that would change when the club opened. I listened to what Vinyl said in the note and began to practice working on some music to line up for the night so I could run both the music and the bar. This is going to be a pain in my big fat assssssparagus; you thought I was going to say ass didn’t you? *wags a finger with a grin*

The club wasn’t supposed to open for a good 3 hours still, so I had a while to practice. I began with the synth, and slowly worked it into a nice smooth line, and then began adding other sounds to the mix. After about an hour of constant flipping of switches and twisting dials, I had become familiar with the equipment and felt I was ready to address the crowd tonight. Wait!....is she going to secretly come here to watch how I perform on my own!? Im going to watch the crowd for any signs of her tonight, and I’ll get her by looking at her if I find her. This will be an interesting night.

I hopped off the stage and thought of something. “Holy hell, that would be perfect!” I said out loud before walking out of the club and locking the door. I began walking down the street until I came to a building that looked like a medieval style enchanter’s workshop or something to that effect. There were two standing torches outside that were lit with these crystals that glowed. I walked up to the door and opened it and walked inside carefully, mostly because I never was there before. I don’t know what to expect! Don’t get on my back!

“Hello dearie, welcome to Madame Luck’s store of sorcery and wizardry. What can I do for you this evening?” a pony called out from the air in a raspy female voice. Yep, getting scared now.

“Umm, I was wondering if you had any of those glowing crystals like the torches outside for sale” I said to the pony that was still hidden from my view.

“Ahhh, sure I do!” the voice said to me before a plume of smoke erupted in front of me. When it dissipated an older pony wearing a basic cloak was holding a large crystal above her head with the magic emanating from her horn. She was light blue and had a dark blue mane. “Now, what do you want done with it?”

“Could you by any chance make it into a mask? I want it to cover half of my face, but have the eye hole on the side that’s covered…is that possible?” I said to her. For some reason I got the strange feeling that this pony reminded me of another, which one I didn’t know.

“Nothing’s impossible when you have magic darling. Just let me get the measurements of your head and eye and we will get you all straightened out ok?” Madame Luck said to me before making a tape measure fly across the room and begin taking the necessary measurements of my head and eye.

After a few more moments of being attacked by the tape measure, Madame Luck set the crystal on a table and used her horn to cut the crystal into the right size. Then she made an eye hole so I could still see out of both of my eyes while I worked. Then she even put a mesh cover over the half mask so I could pull it over and it wouldn’t fall off. “There you go dearie, that’ll be 75 bits” the pony said to me with a smile.

I handed her the bits and she smiled and handed me the mask. “Thank you so much Madame Luck.” I took my leave and left her store and walked back to the club to get ready for opening. I got to the door and unlocked it and walked inside and up to the equipment on the stage.

I looked down at the mask and smiled at it. It glistened in the neon lights and flickered with colors like a bright flame. I slid the mask over my head and set it in place so I could still see and made sure I could work the equipment with it on. Ok, not only do I look like some slasher film bad guy that murders teenagers, but I can actually do this! I hope the image sticks and the ponies like it, or else that was a big waste of 75 bits!

It was opening time and already ponies were filing inside and taking their rightful spots around the club. I was on the stage looking over them and still saw no trace of Vinyl coming to see if I was doing a good enough job. The funny thing about me looking over them is the fact that they all looked up at me and had somewhat puzzled and a little scared looks on their faces.
I turned one of the dials on the equipment and a heavy bass line and an alien sounding wave of synth flowed through the speakers. After a few moments robotic sounds of moving machines began to vibrate through the room and a siren followed into the robotics.

The ponies took the new song well and began to do their thing and I took that as a good sign. I continued to flip the switches and soon the song was finished and I transitioned it into another song on my lineup for the night.

I was still searching the crowd for the electric blue mane and I thought I saw it for a second, but it was very fast. I continued to work on the equipment, but I was getting the strong feeling that she was here too. I know you’re out there, why don’t you just show yourself?

The night went on without any problems and I thought I did really well. The ponies didn’t begin throwing food or anything at me, so apparently I did a good job there too. I didn’t talk once so I would give them the feel of being watched and I think I had a lasting effect on a few of the younger ponies that came tonight, because they were stalling a bit trying to leave.

After everypony left I took my mask off and began to clean up the club so there would be more time to relax before tomorrow’s opening. I walked over to a table that was closest to the stage and saw a napkin under the empty drink glass and picked it up and read it to myself:

Human,

You do not know who I am, and I don’t care who you are or anything about you. You are not welcome here and we are the ones who deal with monsters and those who need to be dealt with in order to keep harmony in this world. We’ve been watching you, and we’re going to ruin your life here. Enjoy these few nice moments while you can human, because they are going to end soon.

PAM (Ponies Against Monsters)

I started to shake after I finished reading the letter. “Who would want to get rid of me here? Am I doing something wrong again?” I said to myself in fear. I had hundreds of thoughts racing through my head as to what this meant…all of them not good at all.

“Great job Kyle, you did just as I expected of you. And nice mask by the way, it’s a nice image for the younger ponies out there” Vinyl said as she walked up behind me, making me jump in result. “Hey, you ok? You look like you just seen a ghost or something.”

“I feel like I did, do you know of anypony that would want to get rid of me in Ponyville? I just found this note under a drink glass when I was cleaning up the table. Do you know anything about it?” I said to her before handing her the note.

She read it over and looked back up at my face, hers now filled with worry. “Kyle, I know PAM, they are not based here, I don’t know where they are coming from, but these ponies are not ones to take lightly. They are sworn to an oath to kill any monster or creature that they feel is a threat to pony kind. If they sent you this, they are targeting you. This could actually be a scare, but I don’t know. Don’t get worried about it yet, but keep an eye open for anything that looks out of place. Now go home and get some rest. You got a few days off and I’ll see you at the end of the week ok? We will discuss what will become of your career then.”

I took her advice and left the club. I was gripping the note so hard that my fingers were turning blue. “If they are as bad as they sound, I am going to not play around with them if they want to try anything on me or my family. Time to invest in a weapon.”

I walked up to the door of our house and I opened the door and walked in. There was nopony downstairs as far as I could tell, so I walked up the stairs to the second floor and saw the door cracked for the room I just finished furnishing. I walked through the doorway and saw RD lying down on the couch. She smiled when she saw me. “Hey, you don’t look so good, is something wrong?” her face turned to worry when she saw the look on my face.

“Nothing’s wrong yet, but I found this on a table when I was cleaning up after my shift” I said to her before handing her the note I found. Is there anything else that wants to start going wrong? Just pile it up for me now and get it over with so I can deal with it all at once!

Rainbow Dash looked over the note and when she was done she looked up at me, her face even more scared than Vinyl’s. “Kyle, these ponies are not to be messed with you hear? If they are coming for you they will do horrible things to try and get you. There is no inclination of when they are going to try anything, so you need to watch and keep an eye out for anything suspicious or out of the ordinary. I will do the same, I won’t let anything happen to you again, because I’ve had it with everypony thinking you’re evil and not meant to be here. You have just as much right as everypony else” she said to me before setting the note down on the table in front of the couch.

I sat down next to her and hugged her tightly. “RD, if anything goes wrong, I want you to make as much of a scene as you can, if they try taking you or Strat, I want as big a scene made as possible. I need to know. If they take you I will kill as many of PAM as I have to so I can bring you home safely. I don’t want to worry about this anymore right now. Right now it’s just a scare tactic, and I don’t fall for those lightly. Let’s go to bed ok? It’ll all be better in the morning” I said to her before lifting her up in my arms and carrying her into our room where I laid her down on the bed and got in next to her.

She snuggled in close to me and kissed me on the lips for a few moments before resting her head on the crook of my shoulder. I rubbed her mane and fell asleep listening to the sound of her breathing a few minutes later.

A/N: Sorry for the long wait for this chapter. I got some ideas mixed up and scattered, but everything is going all as planned now. If you didn’t already find out, this is the next arc that I have in store for you. I will only give out this as a hint: “Storm, what did you do!? I thought I could trust you! I thought you were my friend!” This arc will be full of deceit, treachery, and suspense; I hope you enjoy what’s to come!