I spent the next week or so at home sleeping in my own bed and not some weird dream world. I had a few questions to ask Rose about what I had heard in the dream world.

We were sitting in what Rose had made into my classroom.

“So Rose I have a few questions to ask.” She nodded her head. “Well in my dream everypony kept saying they would explain things when I was older. And Blaze started saying something like.” I put on my best impersonation of Blaze. “‘When two ponies really love each other they’ and then Violet smacked him. So what are they talking about?”

Rose stared at me for a few seconds before turning around and writing on the board. She wrote for about one minute before finally nodding her head and stepping away from the board.

I read what was on the board out loud.

“When two ponies love each other the do some crazy stuff. Just know I don’t want you to do any of this until you are much older.” I looked at her but she was just looking away from me.

“After they get to know each other they will eventually rut. What is rutting?” No response. “Rutting is when.”

I read a few sentences in my head. “Um Rose can we go back to learning about something else?” I was not happy about any of this.

She shook her head.

“Please.” I was begging for this to stop.

Another round of shaking her head.

“Well now that I know what they are talking about I am very grossed out. Please tell me this is all we are going to talk about on this subject.” I put my head down.

Rose walked up to the board again and erased everything she had written. She went about drawing something for about the next fifteen minutes. Once she was satisfied with her work she stepped to the side of the board and I had to try not to puke.

She had detailed the process on the board very thoroughly. I tried to look away but she had walked over to me and was making me look at it.

“Let’s just stop. I think I know enough for now.” I was super uncomfortable with all of this.

She shook my head as her response.

“Ok so you just want me to read all of this and remember it?” I knew I wasn’t going to get out of this.

She nodded my head.

“Ok, but after that we aren’t going to talk about this anymore right?” I had hope that this would be the end of my lessons.

She didn’t do anything.

“Ok.” I started to read.

“Ok. I’ve read everything on the board so can we be done now.” I was desperate to get out of this.

She shook my head.

“Ok what else do we have to learn.” I was really reluctant to stay in my seat but I knew that I wasn’t going to get out of this.

Again rose drew on the board. After she finished I stared at the picture in confusion. She pointed to me and then pointed to a drawing labeled penis. The other drawing she pointed to herself. I nodded my head showing that I understood. She smiled and went back to drawing.

I flopped backwards onto the ground and stayed there before Rose tapped the board a few times. I rolled back into a sitting position to see what she had drawn this time.

At the time I wasn’t sure how to feel since I was just a kid but I now had a lot more information to remember. After about another hour of this Rose decided I had learned enough for the day. Thank Celestia I was about to lose my lunch. I walked out of the room and went and sat down in a corner. Rose eventually found me and grabbed a hold of me.

“Why did you go into so much detail with those drawings? That was disgusting. I am never going to do anything like that ever.” I rocked back and forth.

She smiled happily and put me onto her back. I was uncomfortable up there having seen what I just had.

“If it’s ok with you I think I’m going to keep my hooves on the ground from now on.” I knew she was testing me.

She nodded her head before walking away.

I walked outside to get some fresh air and think over the things I had just learned.

“Why would anypony want to do that? That seems like it would be no fun. Well maybe it would be. I don’t know about any of this. The more I think about it the more I am both disgusted by it and drawn to it.” I stopped after I had walked aimlessly for a few minutes.

The house wasn’t too far behind me but I didn’t want to return there for a little while. So I sat down on the ground and looked up to the sky.

I knew I had one place to go that wasn’t home and that was to my dream world. Weird things happened there but I knew I could at least escape from this for a while. The sun was low in the sky and I was getting tired. I got up and trotted back to the house to get some sleep.

“Maybe I can avoid talking about this in my dreams.” I laughed and then cringed before walking back into the house.

Rose had a plate of food ready for me on the table. I ate the food quickly before heading to my room. A quick time later I was asleep.

“Well there he is, the prodigy who beat Spitfire in a race. How are you doing Silver?” Blaze was sitting in one of the chairs in my room.

“I’m doing alright.” I swung my hooves towards the edge of my bed.

“Why just alright?” Blaze stood up from his chair.

I planted my hooves on the ground. “Well I asked Rose about what you had been talking about.” I kept my eyes to the ground.

“I see. A little more than you were ready to know I assume?” Blaze had trotted over and knelt down beside me.

“Yeah. I don’t want to talk about it.” Despite Blaze’s efforts I kept my eyes pinned to the ground.

“Well I can respect that. Somepony your age usually doesn’t know anything about that. Most ponies wait to educate fillies and colts on that until they’re a few years older. But enough of me talking. Do you want to go on a mission?” Blaze had stood back up.

“A real mission?” I looked up to him.

“Yeah. You are part of the army now so you need to go on a few missions to get the feel for it.” He smiled contagiously.

Violet and Ace trotted over to us. “Hey Silver. Been awhile since we last spoke.” Ace was clutching his side a bit.

“He hasn’t exactly had a good day.” Blaze did my talking for me.

“Well what happened?” Violet had a worried expression on her face.

“Rose gave him the sex talk.” Blaze was staring into Violet’s eyes.

“Oh so he learned a lot today.” Violet looked down to me.

I muttered. “I don’t want to talk about it.” I kept my eyes on the ground.

“Good because we are going on a mission and I’m taking the lead.” Spitfire had landed behind me.

“Oh great just one more thing to ruin my day.” I wasn’t even trying but I continued to mutter.

“What was that private?” Spitfire had a hoof raised.

“Oh sorry I forgot to call you a bitch. So how have you been bitch?” I threw a shield in front of her oncoming hoof. She slammed her hoof into and I knew she was regretting it.

“So how did that feel. It looks like you hated it.” I smiled.

She tried to hit me a few more times before realizing it wasn’t going to happen. I smirked before leaning right to avoid another punch.

“Ok you two knock it off. We have a mission to go on and we can’t have you two trying to kill each other.” Ace stepped between us.

Crimson Skull walked over to us. “Welcome back Silver. You have been assigned to go on a few missions with these fine soldiers so you can learn the ropes.” Crimson knew what had been going on. I saw him waiting just outside the door.

“Do I have to be in a squad with this bitch?” I pointed a hoof towards Spitfire.

“Yes you do. And don’t complain about it. You’re going to have to deal with quite a few ponies you hate. Now all of you get going.” Everypony saluted before trotting away.

I caught up to them and remained silent. The last thing I wanted was to have to deal with Spitfire for even one more minute much less an entire mission.

“So what is it we have to do?” If I was stuck here I might as well know what we were doing.

“Well Silver we have to go save a few people from a group of bucked up stallions. They’ve been experimenting with drugs to make them better soldiers. We need to stop them before they can sell these drugs.” Blaze took a soft tone with me.

“Yeah these ponies are not what you might consider to be the bearers of Harmony.” Violet was keeping her eyes on me.

“Ok so how far do we have to go?” I had seen lots of bad ponies so I just thought of them as raiders.

“We have to go into the city to stop them. That’s about a fifteen mile trip.” Blaze thought about it for a few more seconds.

“Well we should be there in a day's time then.” I knew that most trips I made were by hoof and we stopped quite often.

“Silver we have better technology than you do. We should be there in less than an hour.” Violet stopped me from going any farther forward.

I had to stop for a few seconds to comprehend that. The fastest I was able to go even when flying was less than half that fast.

“That’s amazing. How did you make things that fast?” I was still a bit stunned.

“Again better technology. Your world might have had something like this before the war.” Blaze pointed to a metal box thing.

“What is this?” The object he was pointing to was like a rounded box with a harness at the front.

“This is a Sky carrier. It is designed to carry a small group of soldiers into battle quickly. This isn’t even the best of our equipment. I doubt you’ll ever need to use anything of that caliber. Now climb aboard we have a mission to complete.” Violet slid open the door.

“Ok.” I stepped into the carrier.

Spitfire and Ace took to the front and strapped in. The carrier took off and we headed into the city.

The city was quiet. Most ponies had already gone home and to sleep. It was about midnight when we landed onto a rooftop.

“So this is the city? It looks pretty.” The night sky illuminated the city in a vibrant blue.

“Yeah it is pretty beautiful at night. And this is one of the crummier cities across Equestria. One day we might show you one of the better ones.” Violet knelt down next to me.

“I like the sounds of that.” These ponies had a way of confusing me and making me feel happy at the same time.

“Quiet you two we have a job to do. On me.” Spitfire’s voice was a harsh whisper.

“I bet Silver would like that.” Ace had to bite his paw to not laugh.

I really wanted to punch him. Fortunately Violet got to him first.

“Shut up Ace.” Spitfire had spun around and was staring Ace down.

“I would prefer to keep talking it’s funny to see you all worked up and to see Silver not understand anything I’m saying.” Ace was wheezing as he spoke.

“I hope you explain these things to me because I’m lost.” I was sitting staring at the scene unfolding before me.

“Yeah I had hoped so.” Ace pushed Violet off with one of his wings.

“Shut up and follow me. They’re below us. They haven’t heard us yet so this might just be easy.” Spitfire opened the door on the roof and we started to make our way down the stairs. We walked down many flights of stairs before Spitfire stopped us.

She whispered. “They are through this door. Prepare your weapons. Silver you can just watch if you want. You are only here to learn the ropes.” Spitfire put heavy emphasis on me just watching.

I nodded. Spitfire bucked the door open and opened fire on the ponies inside. They fired back but in the end they had no chance against us. After the gunfight was over I walked into the room to see if anything was left.

I looked around and saw a filly about my age sitting in a corner shaking. She was scared. I walked over to her.

I reached out to her with my wing. “Hey are you alright?” She spun around and hugged me.

“No. I’m scared.” Her voice was sweet even with the tones of despair.

“It’s ok. We are here to help. So you don’t need to be afraid anymore.” I wrapped a wing around her.

“Thank you.” She pulled away from me to look me in the eyes.

To my surprise and discontent she kissed me. I froze up and didn’t know how to react.

“Are you ok? You look a little red.” She wiped a few tears from her eyes.

I looked back at her before falling to the ground. She giggled a little bit.

“What never gotten a kiss from a mare before?” The filly stood next to me.

“No he hasn’t. Oh by the way I believe he thinks you’re cute.” Spitfire was the one to metaphorically kick me while I was down.

I was blushing really hard and trying to find words to express myself.

“Well thank you for the compliment.” I had a feeling she was going to kiss me again.

“Do you have a place to go? A home maybe?” Blaze joined in.

“I was foalnapped by these stallions when I was young. I don’t remember my parents.” The filly sat back down.

“So no.” Blaze shook his head a small bit.

“Do you think we can bring her with us? She does seem to get along with Silver pretty well.” I saw Violet smile brightly at me.

“I don’t know Violet. Do you really think Crimson Skull will actually want a new recruit so soon?” Blaze looked to the both of us.

“I don’t think he has a choice if we choose to adopt her. So what do you say Blaze? You ready to have a foal?” Violet nudged Blaze.

“Well if it makes Silver happy then I think we owe him that much.” Blaze held Violet’s hoof.

The filly looked to me again. “What do you think? Want me to come back with you?” Something in her voice had me hypnotized.

I finally found my voice. “Yes.” It was all I could say.

“Well then it’s settled we are bringing you back with us. What’s your name?” Violet stepped closer.

“I’m Amethyst Rose,” She grabbed my hoof. “It is a pleasure to meet you.”

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