"This meteor sower tonight's going to amazing!" Exclaimed Twilight. We were going to see a meteor shower with the others. Spike ran around and grabbed various objects to take with us, throwing them onto a Support Circle I'd summoned.

"Awesome!" Agreed Spike.

"So we're gonna meet the others there, right?" I asked.

"Yeah."

"Are they gonna bring stuff as well?"

"Rarity and Applejack will probably bring stuff."

"Then why are we bringing so much?"

"There's going to be a lot of us there. You and Rainbow Dash will probably get through the cider in ten seconds flat anyway."

"Yeah, fair enough."

"You know," started Twilight as she trotted downstairs, "this shower only happens every one hundred years." Why do random space-rocks have a schedule? Hmm...

Dammit! This happens every time! Stop throwing the Emperors trash towards low level planets!

I can do what I want! Anything living there is probably too primitive to know what it even is!

Why do you do this every day?! Do you get some sick kind of humor from this?!

It's a type Wc3 planet anyway! The trash will be years apart from each other!

I'm reporting you to the boss for this!

How are you gonna talk to him when your mouth is full of his dick?!

Fuck you, Steve!

Up yours, Larry!

I guess I'll never know...

"Spike, did you grab my quill and ink?" Asked Twilight. Spike grabbed them.

"Check!" He answered.

"My scrolls?" He threw them onto the Circle.

"Check! I've also packed a telescope, apples, bananas, fruit punch, and my freshly baked homemade triple-decker nut-crazy vanilla cream cookies!"

"Hibaddy babiddy what?" I asked. Spike rolled his eyes.

"Freshly baked,"

"Okay."

"Homemade,"

"Yep."

"Triple-decker,"

"Sure."

"Nut-crazy,"

"Uh-huh."

"Vanilla cream cookies."

"Oh. Okay."

"Once again you've read my mind, Spike," stated Twilight, "and that's why you are my number one assistant!" We headed towards the front door. I willed the Support Circle to follow me and, as usual, it did. Arcane Circles are so useful. I was lost in thought for a few seconds, and didn't hear what Twilight and Spike were talking about until I bumped into Spike, who had evidently stopped. "Wait! I almost forgot! I wanna bring the Astronomical Astronomer's Almanac To All Things Astronomy!"

"The Astronomo-lomo homono what?" Asked Spike. So many questions are being asked tonight.

"The Astronomical," I started.

"Mm-hmm."

"Astronomer's,"

"Yeah."

"Almanac,"

"Yep."

"To All Things Astronomy."

"You know that really old big blue book on stars, moons, planets, the universe...?" Asked Twilight.

"Right. Check!" Spike answered, running into the first floors back room. I followed with the Circle, arriving just in time to see Spike incinerate the pages with a fiery sneeze. "Oh crap!"

"No worries, I've got it," I said simply, casting a quick repair spell. The book remained charred. "Oh. I guess basic repair spells don't work with incineration."

"What do I do? Twilight'll freak if she finds out I did this!" There's no denying that.

"Hey!" Twilight called from the other room, "what's taking my number one assistant so long?" Gotta think of something quick!

"Disagree with me and play along," I quickly muttered to Spike. "Hey, Spike!" I said loud enough for Twilight to hear, "wanna see what happens if I ignite methane?" I motioned to Spike to play along.

"Uh- No, Cloud!" He replied, also loud enough for Twilight, "wait!" I quickly forced out a fart and threw a small fireball at the remains of the book.

"Oh shit! The book!" Twilight came rushing into the room.

"Cloud, what-" she stopped mid-sentence when she saw what was left of the book. "Cloud! What have you done?!"

"It's fine! I'll just use a repair spell!" I used another repair spell. "Oh no! I don't think this level of the repair spell works on stuff that's burnt!"

"Argh! Do you know how much that book cost?!"

"I'm sorry! I'll pay for a new one!" Twilight exhaled sharply.

"Fine. Just hurry up or we'll miss the meteors." She stormed off to the front door.

"Thanks, Cloud," thanked Spike. We brohoofed and followed Twilight.

We were walking up a hill. There were a lot of other ponies here to watch the space rocks.

"The one night that I needed the book the most just has to be the night that you decide to be childish with magic," scolded Twilight. "That book would have helped me identify different planets and stars tonight."

"Don't you already know them all off by heart anyway?" I reasoned. Twilight sighed.

"Yes, but that's not the point. Somepony else might have wanted to read it."

"...Or they could just ask you about it and get even more details than they would from the book."

"You have an answer for everything, don't you?"

"No I don't; I don't have an answer to why I'm so handsome."

"Is that why you haven't had a single marefriend?"

"What was that?"

"I said because you got lucky with your parents genes."

"I wonder if my parents are even alive? If they are, why haven't they spread news about me being missing?"

"I don't know. Maybe you planned to go away but something happened to you and you lost your memory."

"But it's been months and on day one I was stronger than God-Horse The Second. Surely there would be news about a unicorn as talented as I am going missing?"

"Princess Celestia's looking into it personally and the gala's in a couple of weeks. You'll find out soon."

"It feels like a millennium since she said she'd look into it."

"You've been through a lot. Twice."

"At least finding the stetson was easy. Now I just need to find out about the medical magic and time travel."

"Where is the stetson anyway?"

"I'm keeping it somewhere safe. I need it in good condition for when I kick my own flank."

"Yeah..." Twilight looked distant for a few seconds.

"Are you o-?"

"Oh look! There are the others!" Sure enough, they were just ahead of us. Twilight ran up to them. What was all that about? I dropped the Circle so Spike could get to work setting things up. I went to get the alcohol talk to the others.

"Hey, girls," I greeted the group of mares. They gave an assortment of greetings in return. I cracked open a bottle of cider and took a good gulp of the golden nectar. Why haven't I thought about parents until now? Why haven't I thought about genes until now? Would they have heard about me saving the world? I wonder if I could figure out my age with medical magic?

"Hey, everypony!" Exclaimed a nearby marshmallow, "the show is starting!" Everypony rushed past her to watch the sky. I took another swig before joining them.

Hangovers! Why do you exist?! It was the next morning and I was wobbling towards the kitchen.

"I need toast..." I slurred to myself. An owl grabbed a couple of slices of toast that were already in the toaster and dropped the on a plate in front of me. "Thanks, bird." I sat there and munched on my toast for a while as I waited for the headache to disperse. As soon as I finished the toast, the owl grabbed my plate and dropped it in the sink. "Thanks. I'm not even gonna question why you're here."

"Who?" Asked the owl.

"You. I'm not questioning why you're here."

"Who."

"Oh, you mean me? Cloud Calculation. Savior of the world."

"Hoo!"

"I know, right?"

"Whew."

"You're right, talking is tiring. Well, I need to go and earn some cash to pay for the book. See you later, bird." I went out into town to try and find some jobs to do.

An hour of zooming through the apple orchard on a Support Circle and teleporting apples to the barn later, I went to claim my payment.

"There you go, Big Mac," I said to the stallion, "every apple picked and back. Have you got the payment ready?"

"Eeyup," he replied, hoofing over a sack of bits. I took it and teleported it back to my room.

"Good. I'll be going then." I trotted back to the library. When I arrived, the girls were swooning over the bird that made me breakfast. "Hey, everypony!" I called to them.

"Hey, Cloud!" Rainbow called back. "Have you met Owlowiscious?"

"Yeah, he made me breakfast. How do you spell Owlowiscious?"

"Uh..."

"I'll just nickname him 'Toasty' then."

"Why...?"

"Because he made me toast."

"Oh. Okay then."

"I'll see you later, then," I resumed trotting.

"Where are you going?"

"I have money to count." I headed inside to see Spike talking to himself while walking down the stairs.

"They're trying to replace me..." He murmured.

"Stair murmuring is a really bad idea, you know." Spike looked up, surprised.

"Huh? Oh, hey, Cloud." He went back to murmuring. "I'd better step it up and make sure that Twilight and Owlowiscious know that I'm still number one!" Looks like Stockholm Syndrome has caught up to him. Twilight wandered in with Toasty perched on her back and headed to the book pedestal thing.

"Hey, Spike," called Twilight, "can you fetch me that book called Two-headed Myth-"

"Mythological Mysteries! I know where it is." He ran to a bookshelf, climbed a ladder leaning against it and scrambled up some books piled on top of that. We need a better ladder. Toasty beat him to it and took the book to Twilight.

"Thanks, Owlowiscious! Hey, Spike, no worries, Owlowiscious flew up and got the book for me. Oh, and gee! I guess I need Ferrets of Fairyland too." Toasty pulled a book out of the stack Spike was standing on top of and took it to Twilight. Spike's tower started to wobble and after a few seconds he was falling to the ground. I grabbed Spike with telekinesis and planted him safely next to me.

I heard a snapping sound form Twilight's direction. "Shit!" Her quill had broken. I cast a quick repair spell and fixed it immediately. "Thanks, Cloud."

"No problem," I replied before heading upstairs to count my cash.

It was finally time. I was finally ready. Ready for what, you ask? Nopony else is here, jackass. It was time for a new Arcane Circle! Oh wow, dramatic thinking. So impressive. The idea was simple; Force Barrier couldn't stop any magical attacks, and it took quite a bit of effort so I couldn't easily attack while using it. Therefore, I needed something easy to put up without using regular methods. And that is what the brand new Shield Circle is for! I just needed somepony to throw something at me so I could test it.

I headed downstairs. Spike was wearing a top hat, cloak and fake mustache while throwing feathers around a fake mouse covered in ketchup. He started laughing manically but suddenly stopped when he bumped into Twilight. She looked pissed. Well, he tried.

"I need to interrupt the social quarrel!" I called excitedly down to them. "Twilight, throw something at me really, really hard!" Without answering, she picked up a book with telekinesis and fired it at me like a cannon. I furrowed my brow in concentration and willed the new Circle into existence. Just before the book hit me the Shield Circle erupted into existence, stopping it dead. I released my concentration and the Circle faded away. "Buck yeah! Okay, now try a magic bolt!"

Again without speaking, Twilight fired a magic bolt at me. I concentrated again and another Shield Circle erupted into existence in front of me, faster this time. The bolt smacked against the Circle and quickly dissipated. "BUCK YEAH!" I ran back upstairs to document the results.

Twilight burst into my room.

"Cloud!" She called frantically, "Spike has ran away!" Took him long enough.

"Alright, let's go find him," I replied.

"He left some tracks in ketchup so-"

"Let's go then!" We followed the tracks to a cave. Looking inside, we found Spike receiving a death stare from a fully grown dragon with an incredibly spiky tail. The dragon let out an ear splitting roar, sending Spike flying across the cave. There were mountains of gems all over the place.

"Quick, use your sleeping gas!"

"It's too big. It wouldn't do anything. Okay, here's the plan; I'll distract the dragon while you grab Spike and get out of here. Send a letter to Celestia telling her that she owes me. Again."

"What?! No! That's far too dangerous!"

"Just do it!" I ran into the cave just as Spike was cornered. What're his strong points? Tail, teeth, claws and fire breath seem to be the only ways it can attack. Dragon scales are gonna be really tough to punch through, so aim for eyes and the open mouth. "Hey, snot ball!" I yelled at the dragon, "let him go now before I act like an anti-gravity dildo!" The dragon roared and scrambled towards me. I grinned. "Prepare to be fucked up!"

I summoned a Support Circle and flew towards the dragon. The dragon came at me with a slice of his claws, followed up by a swing of his tail. I dodged out of the way of the claws and quickly summoned a Shield Circle to stop the tail. I was close enough for him to try to bite and sure enough his head lunged at me. I fired a beam of concentrated electricity into his open mouth, tearing open a hole at the back. The dragon roared in agony, flailing about and smashing gems left and right.

I used some healing magic to fix the dragon's throat (I didn't want to kill him, after all), then fired many huge magic bolts at the gems, smashing even more. The dragon began to shrink, and as I smashed more and more gems he was soon small enough to finish off. I smothered his head in sleeping gas, sending him into a deep sleep. That was the most fun I've had in a while! And also a great chance to do the final tests on the Shield Circle. It works perfectly! So... What now? I don't know, early breakfast? May as well.

I teleported back to the library to get some toast.

Author's Notes:

Best chapter in a while?

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This has taken a lot longer to get to season 2 than I originally planned.