Bronze didn't wake up when his alarm went off. He didn't stir when some crashes happened outside. He certainly didn't even twitch when emergency sirens filled the air and police helicopters were out in force. He did, however, jolt awake when he heard frantic ringing of his doorbell and authoritative shouting. “Is anybody home?! We need to evacuate all lawful citizens to the trade center in the face of the mass looting!”

'Shit, shit, shit! Can't let them know we're here. Our pets are at Shy's thank gog, but what about Jeeves and my parents? Also, fucking looters?! We're inland! Was our society on such a tilt that just something this bad would cause even unaffected areas to go batshit?' Bronze remained silent, and his parents must've been in Equestria, while Jeeves stood in his bedroom doorway dutifully silent until the police officers could be heard leaving, moving onto the next house. “Jeeves, where are my parents?”

“In Equestria Sir. I have isolated the dimensional space of their bedroom so they do not hear or see anything outside it at the moment, and have also sealed the windows.” A gunshot rang out just across the street, and numerous sources returned fire, it was over in a few seconds. “It would seem that sir Brant across the street cracked under pressure and forgot his anti-psychotics.”

“Damn...shit...Jeeves-.”

“On it sir.” Jeeves somehow snapped his stone fingers, and suddenly all the commotion was gone. “I have submerged the house within the dimensional void between Earth and Equus. None will see anything different on Earth, but all windows and the sliding glass door are sealed. Things here will function as normal. I shall keep the house in stasis until I can confirm that Earth has ceased going quote “batshit” unquote.”

Bronze looked in awe and confusion at Jeeves. “Jeeves...just...what are you? Who are you?”

“I am Jeeves sir. The same friend you had since childhood, that your mother tried to erase by forcing you into therapy when you were 11. As for what I am; I am a subconsciously summoned alchemical and thaumaturgical construct to act as your remote focus for your intents to carry out magic. What you know, I know. What you don't know...I know as well. I am constantly monitoring the state of things as you subconsciously directed in order to maintain our secrecy.”

“Uh...fine then. I-.” Suddenly, Jeeves was holding a mug of hot tea.

“Tea sir?”

“...Thank you.” Bronze took the hot tea, and breathed in it's herbal aroma before sipping. Chamomile. Far from a favorite, but he needed to calm down. He knew just how to do so. “Jeeves, if you're my...wand, staff, or whatever. Can you change where the Doorways lead?”

“Only the upstairs bath sir. Since you have overcome your crippling fear of heights, it is now detached from a fixed point. Would you like me to connect it to Princess Luna's bedchamber? Or just outside it for privacy reasons?” Jeeves asked, and Bronze quirked his eyebrow at the construct. “Outside it is then.” Jeeves snapped his fingers again. “Is there anything else you require sir?”

“No, that will be all Jeeves. Feel free to do whatever you do to relax.” Bronze quickly chugged the normally scalding hot tea, and was going to take it to the kitchen only for it to vanish, and he sighed.

“Ah, organizing the old video collections. That right mess is taking forever to convert to DVD. A lovely monotonous task to distract.” Jeeves actually smiled as he went to the crawlspace door and went through it, making Bronze chuckle. Leave it to Jeeves to enjoy the boring things...that was why he helped balance Anthon out in his childhood.

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“Of course, I forgot....” Bronze grumbled in his cell in the castle dungeon. “Only the NIGHT SHIFT knows me!” Upon opening his door, Bronze was promptly tackled, chained, and dragged off to the dungeon by an overly efficient series of white stallions in gold armor. They were probably rooting through his house as he sat here. He hoped nothing else bad happens.

“Bronze!” The balrog snapped his attention to Luna, who looked tired and concerned through the bars of the cell. “What happened?! Why are you here?” Luna only knew that he'd “infiltrated” the castle through an “illegal” portal and that said “criminal” was a dark blue minotaur with curled horns. Luna about killed the Solar Guard who reported this with her Royal Canterlot Tone when she realized they'd assaulted her friend.

“Hey Lulu. Kinda wanted to visit, but forgot it was daytime. Things back home aren't...safe right now.” Bronze admitted, and Luna deflated even though she'd perked at the nickname he'd assigned her.

“What further horror hast my actions wrought?” Luna asked in despair, and Bronze sighed before he resigned himself to downing his friend more.

“Looters. My city has fallen to anarchy and there are looters attacking and stealing whatever they want in all the panic. Likely there are gang uprisings, gang wars, all kinds of shit springing up in reaction to the worldwide catastrophe and the moon getting closer. Religions are probably declaring the End Times have come, again, for the seventeenth time in the past couple years. I'm also scared I might not have a home to go home to soon. If things get much worse...my world will destroy itself in the nuclear fires we've been stoking for so long.” Bronze sighed and wilted, Luna looked despondent that she'd done this to him. “Don't you dare apologize. It's been a long time coming. There's little good left in my world that hasn't been perverted or corrupted. What you've seen with me is...sadly...maybe some of the best my world has to offer. Most people are too closed-minded, too scared of change and the unusual or new. We still war with ourselves, we still rape, pillage, plunder. There isn't much left to salvage, and my world's killing what was good as we speak.”

“This is horrible...is there nothing we can do?” Luna jumped in shock at her sister's voice as Celestia rounded the bend and appeared in front of the cell. Bronze clenched his teeth, only for Luna to interject.

“She knows Bronze...I told her because I didn't want you to be the only one I burden with my sins. I don't want anypony else to know however.” Luna stated seriously as Celestia nuzzled her sister in understanding.

“Sister, I've done terrible things too. Why do you think the deserts even exist?” Celestia admitted sadly before she looked at the worried balrog in the cell. “I apologize for my guards zealously apprehending you and attempting to do so with your butler as well. I've had them properly chastised and rotated to latrine duty for a week for not reading the reports I'd put out on your Doorways.”

“Heh, thanks for that. But no. There's nothing you can do. If Luna just moving our moon did this, then what could you do? You who control a star? You'd probably just finish what your sister started. No offense Lulu.” Bronze said sincerely to Luna who huffed in false indignation.

“Well! I guess we'd best leave you in there. Come along sister.” Luna said teasingly, and Celestia grinned mischievously as she trotted away with her sister, leaving Bronze to burst out in laughter at the ploy. They came back giggling and promptly unlocked the door. “Well, you've gotten me up with all this trouble you stirred, so now you have to pay for it with snuggles.”

“Oh? Luna, I didn't know you were courting.” Celestia joked, getting Luna to blush and Bronze to laugh.

“N-no! Tis not like that! If you had slept alongside him you too would know the superior comfort of snuggling a balrog!” Luna shouted in defense, before poking Celestia's peytral. “We demand you join us then! Feel the comfort of laying with a superior muscular specimen.” Luna stated with a straight face, getting both Bronze and Celestia to blush and look at each other.

“Hey, I'm admittedly tired. So long as I get to nap in Lulu's unnaturally soft bed again I'm fine with it.” At his words, Celestia looked thoughtful.

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Bronze snorted as awareness returned to him, and he hugged the mare sleeping in front of him as he nuzzled into the back of her neck. 'Ugh...so comfortable...don't want to wake up....'

He felt and heard the mare he was snuggling yawn and her wings twitch. “Wow...that was *yawn* amazing.” Bronze opened his eyes to confirm from her white coat that he'd been spooning Celestia. “I haven't had a nap that good in...centuries. No wonder Luna demanded snuggles as retribution.” Celestia used her magic to gently pry Bronze's arms from around her and she climbed out, stretching in content.

“Mmph...welcome....” Bronze said as he moved around to get comfortable, only to realize Luna was still sleeping, spooning his back with her forelegs around his sides and her horn nestled between his neck and shoulder with her face nuzzling his right shoulder blade. Pillows being all that saved him from incredible neck pain.

“Thank you for the wonderful nap Bronze. But I have duties to get to.” Tia said softly before she put her accessories back on and left Luna's room. Had that been all, Bronze would've gotten up, but the warm mare spooning his back made his eyes grow heavier and he fell back asleep. He didn't wake up again until the sun was about to set, and Luna was yawning as she got up.

“Ah...that was wonderful. Thank you again for the lovely rest Bronze.” Luna said as she nuzzled his side, getting a chuckle out of him.

“Hey, not there. Sides are ticklish.” Bronze grunted as he sat up and stretched, not seeing Luna blush as she watched his broad back flex. “But I'm nocturnal again. I've got to see...Lulu?” Bronze asked as he turned to face his friend, only to be gawking.

“W-what?” Luna wasn't expecting such a look from him, but when he reached up to her head and pulled her ethereal mane forward, she knew why. Her mane was now filled with far more stars than before. It used to just be a veil of the night sky with soft stars speckled in it. But now, it was black as the night sky proper, the stars innumerable, and she saw galaxies and nebulae in her mane as well. “What? What's going on?” Luna stood, and just realized how much taller she was. “Whoa. Wow. Mirror.”

Luna managed to move her longer legs until she stood before her vanity, gaping at the sight. She was Nightmare Moon again! Only, her fur was still the dark night blue, and her mane and tail were much more magnificent than ever before, seeming to be scenes from the heavens above in living motion. She was now as tall as Tia, only more lithe. If she donned her full set of armor she'd be dead-ringer for Nightmare. But rather than distress, Luna felt...better. Better than ever. “What could have caused this?”

Luna's question quickly answered itself when her eyes widened and she looked to Bronze in amazement. “You've been returning the power I lost when Nightmare was destroyed! You were in the Element's blast too...so the Elements must have used you as a battery of sorts so my power didn't just linger and waste away.”

“Whoa...so...I'm responsible for turning you into a supermodel?” Bronze asked, getting a blushing nod out of the restored Lunar Diarch. “Well, glad I could help!” At a knock on the door, Bronze got up and approached it, opening it to reveal a nervous Princess Celestia, only.... “Why is your mane and tail all pink now?”

“I am...unsure. My hair started reverting back to pure pink shortly after I had returned to my duties from our shared slumber. I haven't had purely pink hair in centuries.” Celestia then peered in, and started at the sight of her sister. “You too Luna? You look even grander than ever.”

“Tis good to see some of your youthful vigor has returned sister. But we have figured it out; Bronze was acting as a battery holding our lost power as Nightmare Moon. His snuggles restored my power, and seem to have sparked some of your own. You had been getting rather plump since I'd last saw you so long ago.” Luna said teasingly, and Celestia blushed in embarrassment and anger.

“Hey! I...I can't resist cake okay? Besides, I wore it well.” Celestia looked back at her thinner barrel and thighs. Thankfully in her eyes; her flanks haven't lost much. She liked having a big plot. Stallions love big plots just as much as others.

“Okay...I feel a little awkward being in the middle of two sisters talking about their bodies so...I'm a go now. You two enjoy yourselves, I've got to talk to Zecora about my manticore coat and see what I'm going to do with the hydra leather.” Bronze stated to them both before focusing on Luna. “Lulu, don't forget the hydra's bones. I asked Zecora to leave them for you.”

“Oh, thank you Bronze. I shall fetch them when the night court has closed. Which shouldn't be long, not many petitioners are aware of my court opening yet.” Luna informed before turning to her sister. “Let us shift the night and day sister.” The two equal-height sisters then went to the balcony as Bronze exited Luna's door and turned left directly into his own Doorway.

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Bronze had visited Zecora, who was sleepy and not willing to hang out tonight. She helped him free the manticore hide and went to bed. The hydra leather was surprisingly still damp, probably from the humid atmosphere of the Everfree, so he left it for now, it'd dry eventually unless it rained. However, any plans to work on the hide changed when it came through the Doorway as a finished hooded hide coat with separate hide pants and gloves. “Jeeves, how do these things work like this?”

“They mostly function off your subconscious sir. If something inanimate changes it is usually influenced by you, save clothing something or someone animate is wearing, then it is up for their own subconscious or conscious thought. But only you have so much influence, others are much more limited.” Jeeves informed from the towering shelves that now flanked the flatscreen TV on the walls, mostly full of DVDs. Likely, since Bronze didn't care for Blu-Ray, his collection was remaining DVD. Which he was absolutely fine with. “I would like to inform you that your parents and other friends have been trying to contact you. Have you been snogging the princess or zebra again sir?”

“Th-that's none of your business!” Bronze defended poorly. “Besides, I haven't snuggled Zecora yet.” Bronze blushed as he realized he'd let that slip. “Not a word.”

“Certainly not sir. I shall not relay your affection for fine members of the opposite sex in any way.” Jeeves stated in his consistent monotone, somehow sounding insincere and sincere at the same time. “Regardless, Lady Robinson has wished to inform you that they'll still want to live here, even if they can't go out in public on Earth anyhow. As for your friends, Applejack and Twilight both have wished to speak with you.”

“I have been a bit distant since the hydra incident...I'd better reassure them, but it's night...ugh...I need to reset my sleep schedule, or figure out how to live without sleep. I don't want to leave out either Luna or my other friends by choosing day or night over the other...jeez...having friends is hard. I want to spend time with them all, but there just isn't enough time or the times don't match up.” Bronze lamented, only for Jeeves to be staring at him. “What?”

“Are you certain? You wish to live without sleep?” Jeeves asked seriously, and Bronze blinked before nodding. “But you want to sleep now and then. How about this; I adjust your magic circuitry to provide stimulus to your brain when you wish to remain awake. You'll still have to sleep to let your body rest, but your mind won't become fatigued unless your magic is strained. This way, you can be up whenever you want, or sleep whenever you want.”

“That sounds great. Do it. Will it make sleeping easier too? Or will it make it harder?” Bronze asked as Jeeves approached and held his hands over his scalp.

“Normally sleep would be nearly impossible in such a case, but I'll provide a sort of “switch” so you can just nod off when you need or desire rest. It will also force you into a deep enough sleep to dream.” Jeeves' words really brightened up Bronze. He'd never dreamed before, not unless it was a disturbing vision of the future that inevitably came true. The Robinsons were cursed with precognition of a sort, especially in their sleep. But, they don't even know they've had the vision until they're slammed with vicious déjà-vu sometimes only seconds before the envisioned scene. This has allowed them to avoid death on more than a few instances.

Bronze would never admit it to anyone but family or his lovers, but he once just barely managed to avoid being hit by a speeding truck rounding a corner because he saw it coming in a flash of déjà-vu. Thing still clipped him because he couldn't react fast enough, scarring his arm from the mirror slicing him open. Of course, the bastard didn't even slow down.

“It is done. Since everyone else is asleep, you can knock yourself out if you wish. You'll wake up normally but the time spent asleep depends on the amount of rest your body feels you need. So don't stay up for too long unless you plan to waste a whole day on sleeping now and then.” Jeeves warned before moving back to the DVD library to keep assuring it's consistency.

“Thanks Jeeves, I'll get right on it then.” Bronze thanked before he turned to his bedroom and decided to take his nap.

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Bronze was woken up by the feeling of a weight on his butt, and firm strong hands massaging his neck. Oh...obvious who it is then. “Mmm...AJ? I owe you a rub-down, not the other way around.” Bronze commented, but sighed in relief of the farm mare turned human relieving the tension in his neck. Sleeping with horns is annoying and hard on the neck, he probably just hadn't found the right position.

“That may be, but Twi told me ya probably would be hurtin' your neck until ya got used to your new bodies.” AJ replied calmly. “So where ya been the past couple a days?”

“Mostly hanging out with Luna and my friend Zecora.” Bronze responded, getting an unexpected gasp and pause from his buff and shapely friend. “What's up?”

“Zecora? Ya mean that cloaked and mysterious mare from the Everfree?” AJ asked worriedly, and Bronze grunted in confirmation. “W-well...what's she like?” The tone of fear and concern in her voice was notable, and AJ seemed distracted as she moved onto his shoulders, which while not as bad as the first time she did them; were much bigger and stronger than before, so she had to practically lean down onto him from her place on his butt to get his shoulder. Why was she focusing on sitting on his butt?

“Well, she's really sweet, and wise. She gives her advice freely and is an impressively world-weary mare for her young age. She's about the same age as you girls, yet she seems so much older. She's been very helpful in teaching me how to harvest animals for their bodies.” AJ was already down his back, and now scooted onto his legs. “AJ?”

“Y-you're not nearly as bad off as before, so there isn't much to do, but Ah'm going to check your plot and legs.” AJ reported, kneading her fingers into his boxer-covered bum, his newly-toned butt not having much give. “Wow, you're not shouting in pain Bronze. Your change must've undone all that knotting and straining.”

“Hm...yeah, you're right. Wow, it's relaxing more than painful this time.” Bronze commented, feeling incredibly at ease with Applejack's skilled hands moving down his legs, but she seemed to be palming him more than before, trying to search for anything out of place. “So yeah, Zecora's a nice mare. I'm glad to have met her. She'd be a great friend for you girls.”

AJ paused, and snorted. “Well, Ah guess Ah'll take your word for it.” AJ then rubbed his feet, and instead of pain, Bronze snickered as he tried not to laugh as she seemed to purposefully tickle him. “Alright, roll over. This time Ah'm doing your front.”

“Uh...okay, but I guess I owe you two massages now.” Bronze rolled over, and gasped as his eyes widened. AJ wasn't naked, but what she was wearing was much worse. She was in a tan faux-leather bikini with almost nothing save small triangles covering her nipples, and a thong covering her nethers. She smirked cheekily as she crawled on top of him, and sat on his pelvis. “Um...AJ?”

“Yeah Bronze?” Applejack asked as she leaned down to him, and pressed her hands into his pecs, making them jump as she hummed, her face in a thinking expression. “Responsive, Ah hope ya don't twitch too much while Ah work to find any knots.”

“I-I'll try.” 'I-is she doing this on purpose? Is she purposefully trying to seduce me, or is she simply rubbing it in? Pfft...just realized the pun I made.' Bronze mentally laughed at his terrible pun as AJ began rubbing his pecs, finding a knot in his upper left pec, and began kneading it out, making him groan at the pain, but grinned at her to show he'd bear it. “Dang, guess I've been popping them a bit much.”

“Well, Ah can get where you're coming from. Ah have so many different muscles in this body that Ah just have to give them some work myself. Ah mean, ya know how weird and interesting this is to me? Using these...fingers, to do something like this?” AJ asked with an earnest grin, taking her hands off him to wiggle her fingers with amusement. “It's darn amazing how much strength these little things have.”

“Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if you had the strength to actually rip the flesh clean off of living beings. I mean, a person with a grip strength of 50 pounds can actually break bones and squeeze the skin off of people-.” Bronze stopped at seeing AJ lean back off of him, looking at her hands in worry. “Sorry, I'm sorta a rambling source of information and-.” Bronze's eyes widened when he felt it. AJ's leaning back on his pelvis was pressing her impressive bum against his groin, and he hissed at the arousing sensation. “AJ. This is quickly entering realms of intimacy.”

“Huh?” Applejack asked with blinking eyes, being distracted from her hands-of-death and blushed when she felt a growing hardness under and between her butt cheeks. “O-oh...sorry Bronze. Guess Ah'll have to cut this session short too.”

“Don't mind, please get off, getting excited.” AJ promptly did so, and he sighed in relief with his eyes closed, but his boner wasn't going away, no matter how much he tried to think of turn-offs, and when he opened his eyes, he realized why. Applejack was staring...at the admittedly impressive tent in his boxers trying to peak through the fly flaps with her eyes wide, cheeks flushed, and hands twitching at her sides. “AJ, I can't calm down if you're going to ogle me like that.”

“Hm?” Applejack hummed in distraction, finally taking her emerald orbs from his groin to trail up his torso and finally look at his his slit blue eyes. “Ya say sumthin?” Bronze couldn't help but notice the way her thighs were rubbing together, how her fake leather bikini top strained against her swelling breasts. She was absolutely turned on right now.

“AJ...we can't just be friends if you can't think of me platonically.” Bronze informed her, and Applejack bit her lip, squirming a bit more as she groaned.

“Ah can't help it!” The farm mare growled, pointing at his groin. “Yer jus' so sexy! Yer kind, sweet, gentle, strong, smart, and honest to a fault at times. Yer jus'-!” AJ simmered, before wilting. “Why couldn't ya have become a pony when ya'll came to Equestria? Ah've been lookin' into it, but there's jus' no way a pony and minotaur are compatible. Size differences, species differences, can't even have little ones together, and I'm not goin' ta doubt Twilight.” Bronze was shocked when she just spilled it out for him, and she looked at him sadly. “But Ah can't help how Ah feel...Ah...Ah like ya Bronze. And more than as just a friend.”

“But we barely know each other. We've only met such a short time ago.” Bronze said as he took some of his blanket and sat up, hiding his groin with the balled-up covers. “But...then again, love acts so strangely. My parents tell me they fell in love over the course of a fateful weekend.”

“And my parents fell in love at first sight.” Applejack said wistfully, only a tinge of sadness in her fond tone as the change in topic helped her calm down a little. “Ah do believe in love at first sight Bronze. But this isn't the case. Ya just kept catching my eye. You proved to be Honest, Kind, Generous, Loyal, and have so much Laughter in ya. And recently, ya discovered Magic too.” Applejack informed, smiling softly at the astounded Bronze, who never thought such things of himself. “You try to tell the Truth when you can, you can be so Gentle at times it's amazing, you Lend yourself to others without needing money and never keep debts, you Jumped off a CLIFF to try and save us, and you found Joy in meeting us, and becoming our friend. You Felt it, didn't ya?”

Bronze gasped, his slit eyes dilated, and AJ could've sworn a Spark ignited in them. “Applejack...I...wow....” 'I knew what I've been through was a life-changing ordeal, but...wow....' He looked at his hands, actually looked at them for once, and didn't just see hands. He saw the hands of someone new, someone who had grown into a better person over the course of a few days through trials of strife and friendship that he'd unknowingly tackled head-on with a Bravery he never knew he had. He just let it roll off his back, just went with the flow as he was used to. “I...I'm...I don't know what to say.”

“Just shut up and kiss me.” Bronze looked up, only to have AJ kneel on his bed, lean against him, and press her lips to his in a swift and precise movement. A shot of pleasurable lightning shot through him at the contact, and the way she hummed told him the same thing happened to her as she leaned into him more, pressing her breasts to his chest as she put her hands on his shoulders, and he hummed in return as he closed his eyes, and wrapped his big arms around her, wanting to envelop her in his being.

They stayed like that for an unknown amount of time, just content to chastely kiss in each other's arms until they broke away, and look each other in they eyes, knowing that wonderful moment could never be taken back. “Well...I'll admit I never felt something so amazing as that.”

“Me either.” Applejack smirked as she sat on his blanket-covered lap, moving a hand up to make sure her stetson was still on her head, having lost track of herself in their embrace. “Well...Ah've never been in a relationship, so what now?”

“Now...we...I don't know. None of my relationships have ever been so...involved.” Bronze admitted, confused and worried about what they were supposed to do next, but then shrugged, AJ finally able to openly appreciate how his body's muscular form rippled with every movement. “I guess we just do what comes natural.”

“Well Ah want to do that again. Can we?” AJ asked pleadingly, hope in her eyes, and Bronze smiled at her.

“Why the hell not?”

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They had ended up kissing and talking for over an hour before Applejack finally got to the original reason she'd gone to Bronze's home. The timber wolves were back and getting “frisky” with the trees on the edge of her orchard, and when she went into further detail on what she meant by frisky.... “Get out. You mean to say these things actually BREED with trees?”

“Eeyup. Now we're gonna have some apple wolves on our hooves soon if we don't burn the trees down. Not a bad thing, not a good thing either. Apples they produce are delicious, but they're just as ornery as their less productive kin if they ain't domesticated young. We weren't planning on it, but we can raise some of the little pups just fine. They eat vegetation more than meat, they're just used to takin' anything they can get their teeth on.” AJ shook her head sadly. “Poor things are just wild critters tryin' to survive. They don't know any better, but they done crossed the line when they jumped mah fence and got Bloomette and Stem knocked up.”

Bronze laughed, even knowing she was completely serious, and adjusted his 50 pound sledge on his shoulder. “Well, I don't have any qualms with hunting some invasive creatures down. How many do you think I'll have to cull to get them to leave the area?” Bronze asked his...marefriend, that's what she said the term was.

“All of 'em.” AJ said, getting Bronze to pause on the walk through her orchard, getting her to blink and look back at him. “What is it?”

“And...how many is 'all of them'? I'm strong AJ, but I don't have any illusions of me fighting off like, twenty of them at once. At least not without armor or some sort of flame weapon, and since I'm fighting in a forest the fire is out of the question.” 'Maybe I should head back for my chainsaw...huh...how will that be affected by the Doorway?'

“Well...mah pa, Faust rest his soul, once told me when I was just a little filly, a story about him fighting off a whole score of 'em to protect the town. 'Course, he could'a just been tellin' a tale to impress me, but Ah got my sense of Honesty from mah parents, so on the worse end...uh...maybe forty?” Applejack finally thought it over, and gulped. “Uh...on second thought, what with me bein' yer marefriend now...Ah suddenly don't want ya fightin' timber wolves....'

“I'm already under contract to hunt them anyway AJ, but I'm not equipped to fight so many of them. I'll have to head back an-AH~!” Bronze screamed in sudden agony, falling to his knees and dropping his hammer as he clutched his head, his eyes completely muted out by a blindingly bright white light that made them seem like spotlights.

“BRONZE! What's wrong?!” AJ moved up to him, seeing his body dumping sweat off of him, his eyes trying to close but unable as the magic pouring out of them forcing them open, and his horns also shimmering wildly with uncontrolled power.

“M-my magic! I can't! Why?!” He panted, feeling tired and weak, so drained. Something was taking all his energy from him.

“Ah'm getting Twilight! Stay awake!” Applejack shouted helplessly over the growing keening sound of his magic flaring, and she galloped away, cringing as he screamed wordlessly in the pain of his violent Magic Flare.

Author's Notes:

I can see myself falling in love with a girl like Applejack. I value Honesty above most things, Loyalty second, and Laughter as being crucial to life. But I can only ever see myself being friends at most with people like Dash or Pinkie, as while I like fun; I prefer it to be a bit more subdued and calm, putting me Twilight's Book Club XD

I was raised around people who were cruel, spiteful, and dismissive of my existence my whole life, so I was always alone until high school. If I found myself in this kind of situation...I don't think I'd come out of it the same person.