When James fell asleep he entered his dream world. Once he entered he saw shadow waiting of him. They each gave each other a friendly wave and went off walking around. Through the walk the human saw the dream world changing into his old house. He entered the familiar home and felt happy to see his old lifestyle he had. He remembered that he didn’t have his old comrades’ dog tags with him when he ended up here in Equestria.

He climbed up the stairs and went to his father’s old library where he kept them hidden. He looked around the room trying to find the picture of him and his squad together, celebrating David’s birthday. He found the picture hanging on the wall next to the shelves that held photo albums of himself and his life and even some of his squad. He removed the picture to reveal a safe.

He punched in the number in the electronic lock and placed his thumb on the scanner, unlocking it. Inside there were six hanging dog tags and a smaller photo of the human and his squad. The dog tags from left to right read Demarco, Blake, Connor, Jacob, David, and James. He grabbed his dog tags and put them around his neck. He then grabbed the five others and the picture and put them in his pocket.

“You know that if you tried harder they would still be alive.”

“How can one try any harder to save his friends when he is already giving his all?”

“You weren’t giving it your all. I kept offering to help, but you kept refusing it. If you allowed me to take control they would have survived.”

“Yeah, I could have let you taken control, but what would keep you from taking over completely?”

“True, I may not have return control back to your body, but you would never know for certain would you.” Shadow was mocking him for allowing his friends to die right in front of him.

He just took the insults in stride until he finally decided that it was time for Shadow to learn its place in his mind.

“I will allow you to take those with you when you wake up that way you can do your stupid ceremony tomorrow night.” The world started to slowly change to a white room with nothing in it.

Then in the center of the room was a beam of light. He knew it was time to wake up now and walked toward the light. Once he stepped into the light he felt the warmth that it gave off and allowed himself to wake up.

He awoke to Twilight standing over his bed, looking down at him and smiling. He smiled up to her, showing his gratitude for waking him up. As he got up, the mare left his room so he could shower. He went over to his drawers and pulled out his black t-shirt that had three balloons on it. He thought that it would be festive since he was going to a party and all. He headed for the shower and stripped down to nothing and got in.

He turned the shower on and stood in the water as it went from cold to warm water. He let the water cascade down his body, allowing him to relax his muscles. He finished his shower and started to towel himself off. Once he was finished he pulled on his boxers and then his pants. As he pulled his pants up he heard something jingle in his pockets.

Curious as to what was in his pants, he stuck his hand in his pocket and felt around. He felt something that was metallic and it felt like six of them were there. He could also feel some type of laminated paper with the metal. Pulling out the paper first he saw that it was the small photo of him and his squad from his dream. Interested how this picture came to be real he went into his pocket, seeing if what he was thinking was true.

When he pulled out the metallic objects he saw that he was right and his dog tags came with him. All six were there in his hand as real as they could be. Quickly looking through them he pulled out his dog tag and put it around his neck. He then grabbed his shirt and pulled it over so that it hid his dog tag. He went back into his room and put the other five in the drawer with his pants and put them underneath them. He would make sure to take them with him when he went out to the forest.

Once he got his shoes on he left his room and didn’t see the unicorn anywhere. He walked around the library hoping to find her so they could head to Pinkie’s party together since he had no idea where it was. He arrived in the kitchen and saw a note on the refrigerator saying that she already headed out to the party. She was also nice enough to leave directions on how to get to Sugarcube Corner. He took the note and left the kitchen, heading for the front door. He saw Spike behind him sorting through books.

“You’re not going to the party, Spike?”

“Nah, Twilight asked me to look after the library for her and said that Sweetie Belle may be coming around to pick up a book for school.”

“Well that seems kind of boring but I wish you a good night man.”

“You have a good night to, James. And trust me when I say that you should conserve your energy until near the end so you can survive the night.”

“Why do I need to conserve my energy for? It’s just a regular party with music and drinks.”

“Then you, my good sir are in for a surprise since you never had a Pinkie Pie party before.”

He couldn’t understand what the little drake was saying so he just decided to cut the conversation short and leave. He walked around Ponyville for several minutes and was looking at the note for the turns that he needed to take. He never fully read the directions when he first saw it, but as he looked closely at the directions the last one mentioned that he would find a giant gingerbread house.

He just thought that was a crazy thing as there was no way that a gingerbread house could exist no matter what crazy world he was in. Apparently fate just loved being cruel to him by proving him wrong all the time. He came to the end and saw a house made of gingerbread. Not only was it made of gingerbread but other assorted sweets like candy canes and gumdrops. He then face palmed at the site and decided that the next time he sees something to be impossible he won’t shrug it off until he can prove it.

He walked towards the door and opened it to see the lights turned off for some reason. As he entered further in the house, looking for the light switch, the lights quickly turned on and there all over the house were ponies that nearly gave him a heart attack when they all yelled ‘surprise’ in unison.

“Hello, James and here is your welcome to Ponyville party that I had made for you,” Pinkie came in from the side wearing a party hat on her head and a little alligator missing all its teeth.

Though his attention was drawn to Pinkie because instead of wearing some type of child’s clothing that he usually saw her wearing when she came out of nowhere. This time she was wearing a bright pink dress that hugged her body, showing her curves and helping to accent her breasts that he couldn’t stop looking at. The dress just seemed unable to contain them and that at some point would come busting out.

“Hello? James? Are you okay? You haven’t said anything yet and you look like you are running a fever,” Twilight apparently decided to show herself and the red that was growing on his face just grew more intense as the unicorn was also wearing the same type of tight dress as Pinkie’s.

The human knew he needed to go to the bathroom and splash cold water on his face before he passed out from just the sight of these mares. So he did just that. Walking past everyone he made his way to the bathroom. As he worked his way around he spotted Lyra, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, and interestingly enough Octavia standing together in a group near the punch bowl talking to each other.

He saw that every once in a while one of the mares would turn to look at him then quickly look away. Even they were wearing skintight dresses and he felt like that this was what Spike meant when he never had a Pinkie Pie party before.

He finally made it to the bathroom and went up to one of the sinks. He turned the cold water on and started splashing water on his face. After that was done he punched himself in his thigh to kill the erection that had started to form in his pants. He took a few moments to collect his breathing and regain his thoughts so he could easily walk back out there and maybe this time not get a nose bleed. Once he felt that he was calm enough he gave one last splash on his face and went back to the party. As he got back out he saw Pinkie pull out a giant cannon.

“Pinkie, what exactly are you doing with that cannon?” James was a little worried because he didn’t know what a hyperactive mare with a cannon could possibly do.

He had a few ideas, but really hoped that none of them required him being shot out of it or shooting it at some random people.

“This is my party cannon, silly. I use it to get decorations put into place and it’s also an easier mode of transportation that I can use to get a party going anytime it’s needed,” Pinkie was just ecstatic about the party going on and wanted to really get it going.

“There is no way that is going to work. Actually hold on a second, I promised myself that I wouldn’t doubt anything until I was proven wrong. So go ahead and fire that thing,” Pinkie fired the cannon and the whole entire inside was covered with streamers, confetti, food, drinks, party hats, and games.

The human just walked over to a wall and just started to bang his head against it. He was pretty much convinced that if he were to have some kind of argument with the pink mare, he would lose and the reason would be some outlandish thing that ends up making sense.

“James, why do you keep hitting your head against the wall? You’re just going to hurt yourself and put a hole in the wall,” James heard this voice once before and that was just a sound that the pony made.

To make sure it was the same pony that he has met before, he turned around to see out of all the mares that were here, Fluttershy was talking to him. He noticed that her cheeks she were a little red.

“She probably had enough to drink to gain enough courage to speak to me. I mean every time I saw this timid mare she would hide behind her mane, play dead like a goat, or fly away quickly back to her house,” James thought to himself as he heard Pinkie gather everyone’s attention.

“Alright everypony let’s get this party started. Please give a warm inviting round of applause to our DJ of the night, DJ PON-3, also known as Vinyl Scratch,” Everyone busted out cheering for the DJ.

He saw the DJ and was amazed to see what she looked like. She was a white unicorn with electric blue hair and she wore purple shades that covered her eyes. She wore a sleeveless hoodie and tight jeans that stopped at her thighs. She wore plain sneakers and gloves on her hands. The human was astonished by this mare that is until she started to play her music and nearly blew out his eardrums.

After the little ear shattering bass drop that came with the music, he found the music quite good and felt like dancing to it. He got to the dance floor and just started to dance. He didn’t care what others may have thought of him or his dancing, he was into the beat and let it flow through him and let it do the dancing for him. The human just danced away, unaware of the stares that he was getting form the girls.

Vinyl And The Gang

Vinyl set her songs on auto play since she didn’t need to control these songs since they all used the same setup to get the maximum effect out of them. So she decided while that was going on she would go over and talk with Octavia and her friends.

“So, Tavi how are you enjoying yourself?” Vinyl knew that Octavia never liked the nickname she gave her, but called her that just to get her riled up.

“Vinyl, please, why must you use that nickname that you gave me? It’s just so unprofessional even if you are a DJ. You could at least have the courtesy to call me my real name every once in a while.”

“I could, but I just love watching you react every time I call you that. So is that the human that you find so interesting?”

“Yes he is and I believe that you would find him interesting too if you had a conversation with him. I think you two would get along very well together. He may even be good enough to handle your wild side of partying even though you have never been with a stallion before.”

“Ouch, Tavi that was a pretty low blow even for you. Though I must admit I would like to find a stallion one day to settle down with. I love my music and going out to perform for everpony, but I would like to at least settle down at some point,” Octavia was surprised how calm her friend was when she was telling her all of this.

She never fully expected that the DJ would be fine with a slow life if she wanted to, what with all her partying and music that she did. The grey mare felt pride towards her for being so open to having a relationship with someone. As both Octavia and Vinyl watched the human from afar, Rarity came walking over.

“So, darlings, what do you think of our little human friend?” Rarity smiled knowing well enough what they felt, but wanted to hear it from their mouths.

“Well, to tell you the truth, Rarity, I believe that he is probably a well sophisticated man that would always be a good conversationalist to be around. He is just gorgeous when he gets really embarrassed,” Octavia gave a slight grin at Rarity knowing that would get the fashionista flustered.

“Yeah, he seems like a good partier and seems to enjoy the little things that don’t mean much, but will always be caring to you,” Vinyl replied to Rarity, but never took her eyes off of the human and his dancing.

Rarity easily saw how these two mares felt towards him and frowned slightly that she would need to make two specially designed t-shirts for him that held their cutie marks on them.

Vinyl decided to make her way to the human to see what he was like. As she got closer she could feel her heart pounding in her chest. She never truly felt this kind of feeling before, but she actually liked it. Once she reached him, she started dancing next to him. He didn’t seem to mind so she just kept dancing next to him. As they got further in to the dance, she turned around and looked at him, wanting to start a conversation with him.

James and Vinyl

He noticed the mare turn around and look at him. She took off her goggles and he was surprised by what he saw. They were a beautiful crimson that he never thought he would see. His heart sped up in rhythm as he stared into her eyes. He was quickly knocked out of his trance when he heard the unicorn clear her throat. He shook his head and began to talk to her.

“I’m sorry, I was just staring at your crimson eyes.”

“They look awful, don’t they? That’s why I wear these goggles. They help to hide them so no pony gets scared when they look at me.”

“Now why would you go and do such a thing? I think they look very beautiful especially if it’s your eyes that are this color,” Vinyl was surprised to hear him say this.

His voice sounded genuine and caring. She never had anyone compliment her eyes before. Most ponies would run away in fear or call her rude names because of her eye color.

“Do you truly mean that?” Vinyl just had to know if he really meant what he said.

“I do and I think you should show them off more often,” Vinyl couldn’t take it anymore.

Her heart rate was going insane now and her face started to burn from the blush that was forming. She left to go back to her DJ stand because her first set was almost done.

The night went on with the human dancing and having a few drinks. He was surprised completely that these ponies knew how to make good alcohol. As the party was nearing the end most of his new friends were drunk off their asses and couldn’t even stand. They were drunk enough that during a few of the dances more than once that one of the mares started to grind up against him.

Luckily he was able to keep his cool and control himself. Once the party was over he saw that most of his friends were passed out on the floor or the multiple couches. He headed back to the library that way he could take a shower and get some rest before he went out into the forest for his yearly visit.

He returned to the library to see Spike asleep on the couch with Sweetie Belle curled up with him. Not really wanting to bother them, he picked up the blanket off the floor and put it over the young drake and unicorn. He reached his room and stripped down to just his boxers and went to bed. The party left him more tired than he thought because once his head hit the pillow he was out like a light.