We had walked all night to get back to New Appleloosa. When we eventually did arrive the sun was rising on the horizon. We were all tired with the exception of Silver who still seemed to be extremely awake for what he had just gone through.

“Silver how are you holding up?” I kept trotting next to Harmony.

“Well for everything that we’ve just been through I’d have to say I’m holding up pretty well. What about yourself?” Silver trotted up to the gate and knocked.

I looked over to Harmony. “I think that no matter what it is that I go through as long as Harmony is by my side I’ll be able to hold strong through most anything.” I kissed Harmony. “I would still very much like to take a few weeks off from our usually bloody work.” The gate opened and we trotted in.

“Understandable seeing as how we were just captured and had to kill many ponies just to keep our own lives.” Silver shrugged. “This world gets to even the best of us. For those of us who are lucky we find friends to slow down the process of inevitable insanity because of the wasteland. So let’s hope none of us go insane because that would probably end in total destruction. Now to be a little less morbid let’s go talk to Spitfire.” Silver headed straight for Spitfire’s office.

Harmony held me back so she and I could walk together. “What do you want to do when we take some time off?” Harmony whispered in my ear.

I looked into her eyes. “You know exactly what I want to do.” I kissed her.

“Well I don’t know if we can find somepony to make that official. Especially not here.” Harmony smiled at me.

“Not what I meant, but that does sound nice. Maybe once we actually find a good place to settle down we will. But until then I say we just relax and have some fun.” I gave Harmony a seductive wink.

We had just arrived at Spitfire’s office and everything was quiet. I was a little bit freaked out that this place was this quiet. We trotted up the stairs and into Spitfire’s office.

Silver was there with Spitfire looking at a map. The map looked unlike anything that would be here in this world. I trotted over and Spitfire made the map disappear.

“What was that all about?” I took a seat in one of the two chairs on this side of Spitfire’s desk.

“We have a few problems in my universe that Derpy has warned me about. I’m needed back there and I must leave immediately if I am to be of any help to my friends. Which means many things. First of all I need to turn over my rule of this city to somepony else. I was only here to vacation from my usual responsibilities. Secondly I am leaving you the Revolving sun.” Spitfire turned around and opened up her safe.

“Ok so we need to find somepony to lead this town. What is the Revolving sun?” I thought for a few seconds before it came to me.

“The Revolving Sun is the revolver I gave you. It was originally Celestia’s prized pistol and her own personal defense weapon. I earned her favor and she decided that I needed the gun more than she did. Since Luna had her own gun and they are never far apart Celestia figured Luna would be able to protect her. And seeing what you have done for me and this city you have earned the right to keep that gun and the last of the bullets I have for it.” Spitfire hoofed me two full boxes of bullets.

I grabbed the bullets and dropped them into my saddlebags. “Thank you.” I checked the Revolving Sun to make sure it was fully loaded.

“The box that is labeled Sun has bullets that are much more powerful. Celestia had a few of Twilight’s friends design special ammunition for guns. Those bullets were designed to look like a miniature sun had been fired after the gun was shot. Powerful bullets that will most likely melt through the armor of most of your enemies. You’ve got ten of those to use. No doubt the rarest ammo you’ve ever seen. Now then we need to decide who will be the mayor of this city.” Spitfire emptied the rest of the safe’s contents into her saddlebags.

“I could lead this town for you.” Rose trotted into the room.

“Rose. Why do you want to lead this city?” Silver turned around to face Rose.

“Well I wanted to surprise you with this but I’m not going to be going out on adventures for a while because I’m pregnant.” Rose kissed Silver.

“Pregnant? But how? I mean.” Silver was looking for the right words. “How long have you known?”

Rose laid a hoof over Silver. “When you left so suddenly I knew. I had planned to tell you when you returned but you never did So I had to venture here to find you. I’ve known for two months.” Rose kissed Silver.

“Well I’m happy for you. I’m happy for us. But i’m not letting you stay here alone with a foal on the way. We’ll need somepony to stay here by your side.” Silver kept Rose close to him.

Stone stepped forward. “I’ll stay here with her. I’ve seen what the wasteland has to offer and I think I’m ready to leave all of that behind and settle down and live my life as best I can. And don’t worry about Rose Silver. I have no intentions of hurting somepony by trying to bring a relationship into this shit.” Stone put a hoof on Spitfire’s desk.

“Well I’ll skip the formalities and all that shit. Do you both believe that you will be good leaders of this place and help the ponies of this city to survive?” Spitfire put one of her hooves on the desk.

Stone answered first. “Yes. I will do whatever I can to protect this city and it’s ponies from harm.”

Rose stepped forward. “I will do as much as I can and rely on Stone to do what I can’t. Along with the help from Silver we will keep this city protected.” Rose smiled at Silver.

“Then it is settled and you two will lead this city.” Spitfire turned on a speaker system hooked up all around town. “Fair ponies of this city, I have discovered that I must leave for personal reasons. Rose and Stone will now be in charge here and you will respect them. This is Spitfire bidding you all a good life.” Spitfire turned the speakers off.

Derpy flew in through the window. “Spitfire we need you to leave now. We are running out of time here.” Derpy tapped her hoof on the ground impatiently.

Spitfire nodded. “Silver I give you access to my own personal forge here in town. You won’t have to buy yourself a new one for the time being. Now I must go before the situation back home escalates any farther than it has. Goodbye.” Spitfire dived out the window.

“Well it looks like we are the leaders of this town now. Stone are you sure you’re ready for this responsibility?” Rose took a seat behind the desk.

“Well there ain’t no turning back now. Even if I wanted to I couldn’t leave you and this town alone with my conscience intact. So I guess that I am ready to help out where I can. Did Spitfire leave us any missions to go on?” Stone stepped behind the desk.

Rose looked through the drawers before producing a small packet of papers. “These look like missions she had for us.” Rose looked through the papers. “Nothing that needs to be done immediately. We do have a few days off before we’re supposed to go on our next mission. Also Silver you will be staying here in the mayor’s personal quarters. As for the rest of you we do have a few rooms that could be changed into quarters. Otherwise you do have a house that you can stay in.” Rose leaned back in the chair.

I got up from the chair I sat in. “Well we have some time off we should probably make the best of it while we can.” I turned around towards the door. “Come on Harmony. Let’s leave these three to attend to the business they have and we can go and take a break from the violence we have to survive in the wasteland.”

Harmony trotted up next to me and bumped my flanks with her flanks. “Yes my beautiful wife. I say we go and have ourselves some fun while we can.” Harmony winked at me and trotted out the door.

I looked back at my friends and waved before following Harmony. I was always happy when I got to trot behind Harmony because I always had time to stare at her glorious plot. I would have been drooling had she not turned around and dragged my gaze to meet hers.

“Did you hear what I said?” I stayed quiet. “I’ll take that as a no. I said if we do regain access to Tenpony Tower that we could get married there. The tower has a church of it’s own and we could get officially married there. I asked if you would be ready for something like that.” Harmony looked into my eyes.

My brain was processing what I had just been told. I was a bit nervous about getting married in the wasteland but I loved Harmony. “Yes. I do have my concerns but with you by my side nothing can get in my way.” I leaned in for a kiss.

Harmony leaned back and tsked. “How about you wait for a few minutes so we can have a bit more fun than just kissing.” Harmony dragged me out the door and towards home.

The next morning Harmony and I woke up to the sound of knocking on our bedroom door.

“What do you want.” I rubbed the sleep from my eyes.

“Are you two decent? Or at the very least covered up?” Silver was standing beyond the door.

I pulled the covers over Harmony and I before responding. “Yes you can come in now.” I tapped Harmony to make sure she was awake.

Silver walked in the door. “Rose wanted me to tell you that we only have another two days off before we have to go back to work. Spitfire had a bunch of caps ready for us when we returned.” Silver tossed me a bag. “Here’s your share. I think that’s about five hundred caps. That and this house is now fully in your names. You can do whatever you want to the place.” Silver lifted a deed out of his saddlebags.

I grabbed the deed and hoofed it to Harmony. “Well at least we have a place to return to now. That’s good news. Now are there any catches to all of this.” I sat up in bed.

“Well the only thing Spitfire wanted was for us to keep working for her. That was the one thing she specified in all of her notes that she left to us. You will continue to work and help out the city and in return you get to keep this house and earn a few hundred caps on the side.” Silver trotted back towards the door.

“Ok. So how big actually is this house?” I swung my legs out of bed.

“Well it has a basement in it which is a pretty large room. Some special technology is down there from what I understand. It’s not functional at this moment in time. I think I read something about it being able to record your memories exactly as they happened. But they need some high grade parts that you will probably never find. Anyways I have to return to Rose and do some more work.” Silver trotted out the door closing it behind him.

“Well Harmony we have our own house now. We can make it look any way we want. Any ideas?” I pulled a set of clothes out of the closet and put it on.

“Why don’t we ask one of the ponies in town who runs a store or something. They seem to know what it is that makes a house look good.” Harmony buried her face in a pillow.

“Well maybe we just stick with what we have now. I do like the look of the wasteland housing decor.” I nodded. “Yeah why go through the hassle of doing too much do this house if we’re going to find a place for ourselves somewhere out there.” I slipped out of bed and walked out into the hallway.

I went downstairs and looked around in the kitchen for some food. I smelt something cooking and looked around. Somepony had thrown something together and was cooking it for us.

“Woah Midnight would you mind putting that away please?” Onyx was behind me.

I spun around hiding my flanks. “Sorry I didn’t realize you were here.” I was blushing.

“Who else would be here? I don’t think anypony else lives here anymore. I was just cooking something for breakfast and I come in here to see a whole lot of you that I didn’t want to see. Why would you walk around the house with no clothes on?” Onyx was still not letting his eyes return to me.

“I thought Harmony and I were the only ones here so I thought I might try to do something sexy for her. That and I really didn’t want to wear clothes when I came down here. So sorry about that. I’ll get out of your way so you can check on whatever it is you were cooking.” I sidestepped Onyx and headed back upstairs.

Harmony had heard everything. “So you were going to surprise me with some sexy things down in the kitchen? I like the sounds of that but you should probably check to make sure nopony is around before you do it next time. I don’t think most want to get a face full of your plot when they don’t expect it. I might want some of that plot when I don’t expect it but most ponies don’t.” Harmony kissed me.

“Well maybe I’ll just start surprising you with sex everywhere. Maybe when it is the least appropriate time I’ll play with you so you have to keep a straight face while I do.” I leaned really close to Harmony.

“Well you’ve got to remember anything that you do to me I can do right back to you. And we both know that you can’t keep a straight face when I get started.” Harmony nibbled on my ear.

“Maybe I’d like you to do something like that. Maybe when we get into some sort of meeting you can just go down on me while we sit there. I’d like that. And maybe I’ll repay the favor at the most inconvenient of times.” I bit down on Harmony’s ear.

Onyx yelled from downstairs. “Would you two stop that. Or at the very least close your door so you can’t be heard.”

I slammed the door and turned back to Harmony. “So are you ready for a bit more fun?” I didn’t wait for her response.

“Fun with you is always welcome. So please do what you do best.” I didn’t see it but I knew Harmony was smiling