It's been... 3 days now. It's not that bad. The food sucks and Niko's losing it worse than David. These kids these days can't handle anything. It's always sex or money. I had to work as a kid... how is this fair? We were sleeping on our cots when an officer walked up to our cell.

"Hey... Big Red. Your being released."

"Finally!" he left me without even looking back.

"...bye." I told him quietly. The officer closed the cell and left me alone in the cell.

~What a friend. He didn't seem to mind us at all.~
[He's a great friend! *sniff* He just wants to calm down Vinyl before we get out.]
<Beta... it's not your fault.>
[*sobs*]
~Aw...~ Eden flew down to hug the sad colt. ~Shh shh... it's okay.~
{You know what I miss? Tomb Raider.}
<Dustin shut up!>

I let my conscious have their talk. I blacked out their noise. Just like I did in school. I only thought of Vinyl for the past few days... and how she's holding up. She's pregnant and she's pissed. I'm gonna have to do something drastic... and hopefully it doesn't involve a ring this time. What it's been... 3 months since I traveled to this time and she's holding my kid. I don't know what to do...

"Come on #42." said the officer opening my door. I walked out with him escorting me. This is a first. "We got a job for you." Sometimes when a prisoner is lucky the overseer might give him a job besides laundry duty or cleaning.

"Ah... Mr. Strings."

"Ah... Warden." I said to the pony in his office.

"Please call me Mr. Hold."

"What do you want Hold?"

"I figured you might like a job at our library."

"Sure. Beats me waiting impatiently every day." The guard took off my ball and chain and took me to the library. The place was in great condition with plenty of books for me to read. I took a seat behind the desk and slipped on my reading glasses.

"Will you be fine by yourself?" asked the officer.

"Yes sir."

"Good boy." He closed the door leaving me to my books. They were unorganized so I decided to catalog them.
<This is great Dustin! We get a library!>
~I feel like Twilight.~
[Dustin?]
{So now you guys want to talk to me?}
<Yeah... I was a little harsh.>
{A little. This is kinda cool... but lonely.}
~Cheer up! We'll get out in a few days.~

17 hours later

"-And... done!" I cleaned the library fixed the damaged wall and reorganized the books alphabetically. Huh... it's almost morning. Oh well...

"Mr. Strings. My my... what a sight... I haven't seen the library in such a good condition since I was a youngster." said Warden Hold walking in. "Did you forget to sleep?"

"Who needs sleep?" I asked him. "I've spent two weeks awake once."

"Your just an odd pony."

"Tell me about it."

"Well... we've been talking. We're going to release you today on such good notice. And by we I mean the princess and I."

"Oh groovy." I walked out with him. We made it outside of the jail when the guards all waved goodbye to me. This is... odd. I figured they would make me do some paperwork or something.

"Bass!" said Celestia running up to me picking me up for a hug.

"Whoa! Hah hah! Hey there Tia!" She began to spin us in circles.

"Thank the heavens your okay."

"Why wouldn't I be?"

"Sorry you got put in prison for only doing your duty."

"What was that?" asked Warden Hold. "Duty?"

"Oh... Bass was officially knighted."

"You mean you were imprisoned for nothing?" asked the Warden.

"Yep! I was just having fun!" I told him. He breathed a sigh of relief. "We were just on our way."

"Bye Warden." said Celestia. She teleported us to the castle.
[So you were just having fun?]
{Oh yes!}
<You asshole! You fucking asshole!>
{Oh come on. It wasn't that bad.}
<You fucking asshole!>
~I had fun! We also learned about that Slend-~
[{Shut it!}]
~Okay.~

"Dustin!" said David picking me up for a hug. Oh I just love hugs.

"That's right. Bring it in." The door opened and all of our friends ran in.

"Bass!" they yelled.

"Group hug?"

"Group hug!" I was just piled on with ponies.
~I want in!~ Eden began hugging my neck.
[Bro-hug!]
<...Fine.>

"Alright. That's enough." I said. They all let go and allowed me to breath.

"*sigh* There we go!" I gave my back a pop. "I'm back!"

"I'm still mad at you." said Vinyl.

"And I know why. You were mad because I was just having fun in prison."

"Why didn't you tell me you were knighted?"

"That's like saying why didn't I tell you that I was potato farmer?"

"You were?"

"Uh... no. Now let me get out of this orange." I said leaving the room.

1 hour later

"Oh jeez it's been a while since I've had a good dinner." I said stuffing a salad in my face. "Even if theirs no meat."

"Dustin." said Niko. "What were you doing before we left?"

"I was organizing a library. Not bad. A little rubbish but I fixed it." I said rubbing my hoof on my brown coat. God I love this coat.

"I missed you." said Vinyl.

"You left in a hussy fit."

"Sorry..."

"It's fine."
[No it's not.]
{Shh...}
<So... Eden. How about you, me, later?>
~We'll see.~

"So... Bass. Should we still call you that?" asked Twilight.

"What?"

"Your guitar was destroyed."

"Uh oh... right... just stick with Dustin."

"How about Mur-" started David.

"Don't even go there David!"

"Okay okay."

"Hey..." I looked around the table. "Where's Fluttershy?"

"She's scared to death of you!" yelled Rainbow. "I uh... mean... she's feeling ill."

"I feel bad now."
~Aw... don't be sad.~
"Can't help it. I'm scaring Shy. That's like... the worst brony rule broken."
<No one's going to know about this.>
"We were the only ones who didn't know about this."
[Than we'll help her tomorrow.]

"So Dustin..." started Vinyl. Now that I think about it. She's gotten a bit... bigger. Right... two months pregnant. "What was it like?"

"The food was shit and the entertainment was lacking. Although I did see Hard Break hehehe 'break' Dark Night's neck."

"WHAT?!" they all flipped out except for Niko.

"Yeah. I also saw Gilda the griffon kill another griffon. Sucks to be you RD." I told the cyan pegasus. "Other than that the books were decent and the bed's were comfy."

"That's your opinion. Those cots sucked." said Niko.

"Niko I've slept on rocks and needles before. That cot is nothing." I told him.
[Mmm... true story that.]
<Aye.>
~Was that 2002 or 2003?~
"It was... 2002."
~Right.~
"Oh well... so Fluttershy didn't come because of me? Well... I'm going to her."