“This is going to be so much fun!” Pinkie Pie cheered, bouncing beside her friends, excluding Fluttershy, as the group made their way towards Christopher’s house. “It’s even Christopher’s first nightmare night.”

She was dressed as a white feathered chicken, and each of her hops resulted in a feather or two flying away in the early evening wind.

“Cotton’s as well, the poor thing,” Rarity couldn’t help but voice, her friends frowning at the statement. She was dressed as a princess in a bright purple dress and a matching silver tiara. “I heard Sweetie Belle say that she never got the chance to celebrate it.”

“Then we just have to make this one a night to remember,” Twilight proclaimed, raising a hoof and causing her large cape and hat to jingle as the others all shared a frown.

“Don’t worry, I’m sure Reaper’s got this,” Rainbow Dash replied as she floated over the group in her Shadowbolt costume, the blue’s and yellows of the Wonderbolt outfit switched to black and purple. The mare had taken to calling Christopher by his new name, stating that it was “way more awesome and twenty percent cooler” than his real one.

“Ah’m more curious as to what he’s helping the fillies with,” Applejack voiced as she scratched at part of the costume she wore, the hay for her scarecrow outfit causing an obvious itch. “Apple Bloom rushed over here a few hours ago to get ready.”

“Spike said that he was heading here as well,” Twilight added, pointing out the fact that her assistant wasn’t with them.

They were walking up to the house now and couldn’t help but smile at the decor. It held some of the basic nightmare night decor, but had several things that wasn’t normally found on a pony’s house during the holiday.

Carved pumpkins lined the walk way leading to the front door. Most were obviously carved by foals by the silly designs on them, while a few showed scarier images that seemed to shift due to flickering candles within them.

A few fake tomb stones sat in the front yard, marked for ponies that had died long ago with little quotes that drew the eye. A few fake bones could also be seen in front of one, almost like something was trying to crawl out of the ground.

“Awesome!” Rainbow Dash called as she looked at some of the fake spider webs that covered the front and sides of the house. “Gilda said she was helping with something, but this is even cooler than I thought.”

“I wonder if he has candy!” Pinkie chirped as she hopped towards the front door, knowing he had a large bowl waiting, since she had been the one to force him to get it.

Without waiting for the others, she quickly began to bang on the door, a large smile on her face.

“Nightmare night, what a fright, give me something sweet to bite!” the pink mare yelled before the door handle even began to turn.

“H-here you go…” a familiar voice replied after the door was opened just a crack, a yellow hoof holding out a few pieces of candy without revealing its owner.

“Candy!” Pinkie cheered as she snatched the candy away, causing a small shriek to escape from the hoof’s owner.

After getting her candy, Pinkie looked up only to be greeted with the door slamming shut.

“Fluttershy, darling,” Rarity called as they all stood outside the door. “It’s just us; Could you open the door please?”

“A-are you sure there aren’t any monsters with you?” the shy mare’s voice called back from behind the door.

“Even if there were, Reaper would smash them into next week!” Rainbow answered as she landed beside the others.

“His name is Christopher, Rainbow Dash,” Fluttershy assertively said as she opened the door and glared at her friend.

Unlike most years, where the mare was without a costume and hiding under her bed for the night. Christopher and the others had been able convince her to not only wear one, but to at least stay at Christopher’s for the night.

Her costume was that of an elegant red cocktail dress with a bit of dark eyeshadow. Her lips were covered in a crimson colored lipstick as her free flowing hair was wrapped up into a bun.

“What the hay are you supposed to be?” Applejack asked as Rarity moved forward to fix a few small things she noticed about the dress.

“Christopher said something about a succubus,” Fluttershy replied with a small blush. She didn’t know what that was, but the look he kept giving her after putting the outfit on made her feel warm in all the right places.

“I think I’ve heard of those before,” Twilight commented, mostly to herself, a look of thought crossing her face. She could have sworn Celestia had told her about those before, but for the life of her, she couldn’t remember what it was. “But I can’t remember.”

“At least it’s something,” Rainbow Dash shrugged as she led the charge into the house, past the still glaring mare.

“Just let it go dear,” Rarity sighed as she placed a hoof on Fluttershy to calm her. “She didn’t mean it as an insult, you know that.”

“I know, I’m sorry,” Fluttershy replied as she looked down with a sad frown.

“So, where is everypony?” Twilight asked as the group made their way to the living room.

“O-oh, right!” Fluttershy chirped as she rushed passed the others and went towards a large device set up on top of the fire place. It looked like a set of speakers attached to some strange box that held Christopher’s phone and was marked with Vinyl’s cutie mark.

“I-I was supposed to play this when you all arrived,” Fluttershy said as she pressed her hoof onto the phone and a song started to play. (Ghost Busters)

As the lyrics started to play loudly from the speakers, Scootaloo rode into the living room, pulling the other fillies in a red wagon attacked to the back of her scooter, a flashing red light sat on top of her helmet as the others made siren noises.

All five fillies wore tan coveralls with an assortment of random patches and name tapes. On their backs were paper mâché boxes painted black with a few small lights and small hoses.

Once they made it to the middle of the room, they all hopped out of the wagon and faced the rooms main entrance while taking the small hoses in their hooves. Scootaloo joining them after she removed her helmet and tuned the light off.

The others in the room couldn’t help but giggle at the cute sight, but quickly began to laugh when Spike entered in, wearing a large green fat suit. He was wobbling towards the fillies making weird grunting noises and caring two doughnuts in his claws.

In response, the fillies pressed a small button on their hoses and yellow and orange strimmer’s erupted from the tips and splashed against Spike.

“Scootaloo!” Apple Bloom called over the music as the Pegasus’s streamers began to mix with everyone else’s. “Don’t cross the streams!”

“Sorry!” the small Pegasus replied, fixing her aim.

“I’m putting down the trap!” Sweetie Belle called over the song as she pushed a small box in front of Spike.

The fillies quickly covered their eyes as a bright flash came from the smaller box.

By the time the mares had regained their sight, the song was over, Spike was gone and the smaller box had smoke trailing from it.

“We be fast!” Scootaloo called out, holding the box high.

“And they be slow!” the others replied, hopping in excitement.

“Wow!” Spike called, appearing from around the hall.

“W-what was that?” Rainbow Dash laughed as the others worked to regain their composure.

“Just introducing their costumes,” I replied as I made my way into the room. Instead of wearing a Ghost Busters outfit like the fillies, I instead wore a large black cloak with gold trim around the collar. A large black helmet encased my head with a large piece of purple glass covering my face.

“We’re the Ghostbusters!” Dinky cheered as the others looked on with big smiles.

“I aint fraid oh no ghost!” Apple Bloom proclaimed.

“There’s no such thing as ghosts,” Twilight giggled as she looked over the group of fillies and Spike.

“Then how do you explain me?” Spike asked as he waddled up, eating one of the donuts he had.

“Oh, don’t you all look so adorable,” Rarity gushed as she quickly rushed over and pinched her sister’s cheek. “Even if you’re wearing such garish outfits.”

“Rarity!” Sweetie Belle whined as she pushed her sister way with her pack’s hose. “Your messing up my mane.”

“So, this is what ya’ll been workin’ on,” Applejack said as she got closer.

“They all wanted to do a group thing and after passing a few ideas, they chose this one,” I replied, removing my helmet for a moment.

“I think it’s fun!” Cotton chirped as she stood next me.

“What are the Ghostbusters?” Pinkie asked, drawing a few nods from her friends.

“Fictional characters from my world,” I began as I retrieved my phone and putting it in a pocket. Underneath the cloak, I wore a purple three piece suit with more gold trimming “They were some scientists that had theories that ghosts exist and after an encounter with one, made a job of catching and saving people from them. Had a comedic undertone and everything.

“Luckily, the third one wasn’t cannon,” I finished mostly to myself.

“And your costume?” Rainbow Dash asked as she flew around me and snatched up the helmet. “Are you trying to be a Shadowbolt too?”

“No,” I replied, taking the helmet back and putting it on. “I’m dressed up as a Zero, a character from a anime I watched back home.”

“You mean one of those moving picture shows you told us about?” Applejack asked before a groan drew everyone’s attention back to the rooms entrance.

“Okay, I waited for your weirdo show,” Gilda called out as she, Rachel, Derpy and Geralt entered the room, cutting off the other conversations going on in the room.

Gilda was dressed in ragged clothing and painted up with makeup to look like a zombie.

Rachel had wrapped her entire body in dirty white rages and wore a few small pieces of fake jewelry, claiming to be a mummy.

Derpy was going to simply wear a few paper bags, but I convinced her to work a bit more on her outfit, and now she had on a blue spandex suit with a muffin on the front and a paper bag on her head with holes for her eyes.

Geralt was in a make shift set of clothing to look like he was wearing chainmail armor. A small ball of aluminum foil was attached to a string around his neck and haphazardly shaped into a wolf head. Two wooden swords were attached to his back and were purely decoration.

“So, who wants to go get free candy!” Gilda called with a smirk, holding up an empty pillow case.

“Aren’t you a little old for that?” Rarity asked, throwing the whole room into silence as everyone looked at her in shock.

“Blasphemy!” I called out, pointing at Rarity with an exaggerated flourish of my gloved hand. “Capture the heathen!”

In response, the fillies directed their hoses at Rarity and let fly the streamers.

“Oh, no! Not my mane!” the mare shrieked out as she rushed out of the room, a small smirk on her face.

“After her!” Sweetie Belle called out as we all followed her out of the house.

“Thank you!” the group of foals cheered as they rushed away from another house with their spoils, Pinkie Pie leading the charge.

Once they were gone, I escorted Cotton to the door in front of us. She tried to join the group that Pinkie was leading, but quickly became uncomfortable and hung back with me instead.

“Trick or treat!” Cotton said, saying the greeting I had told her was from my world. While it confused the ponies at each house, they still gave her candy.

Then they would stare at the bag I held open for a few moments before closing the door in my face.

“At least the last one at least gave me a piece,” I frowned, mostly for Cotton’s amusement.

“You can have some of mine,” Cotton offered as she held her small bag up with a hoof.

“Thanks, but I’m okay,” I replied while giving her an ear scratch. “Do you want to keep going with the others, or do you want to go play some games back in the square?”

“I don’t know,” Cotton shrugged while looking towards the group of candy starved foals… and white chicken pony. “I don’t really like candy.”

“Nothing wrong with that,” I replied while waving at a few passing ponies. “We can go play a few games before Zecora’s show.”

“Calling it quits already?” Valiant chirped as she showed up from around the corner. She wore a set of gold armor that matched the day guards’ armor, but looked to be made out of brass instead of gold and reminded me of a Spartan warrior’s set.

“Some of us aren’t built for theses dangerous streets,” I replied with a chuckle, a filly dressed as a sparkling fairy passing by at the moment. “If I wasn’t wearing a helmet, that one would have thrown glitter in my eyes.”

“Yep, quite dangerous,” Valiant chuckled while Cotton giggled.

“How are you enjoying Nightmare Night?” Valiant asked, directing most of her attention to Cotton.

“It’s okay,” Cotton shrugged as she looked around. “There are a lot of ponies around though.”

“Trust me when I say that this is nothing,” Valiant nodded as she looked around. “Back when I lived in Filliedelphia, there were way more ponies there.”

“Oh…” Cotton replied uncertainly as she looked between me and Valiant a few times.

“You wanna come with us over to the square?” I asked the mare. “We were gonna play some games for a while.”

“So, your inviting me to a night of fun and games now?” Valiant smirked.

“Just come on,” I replied with a glare.

While I was sure she hadn’t meant anything by it, it still could have been taken wrong way.

“Oh…sorry,” Valiant said as she realized what was wrong.

“Subject change!” I called out while picking Cotton up and shocking a few nearby ponies. “Would you like to hear more about Halloween?”

“No!” Valiant groaned as she began to walk away. During one of my walks, I had recounted the first Nightmare on Elm Street movie to her and she apparently didn’t like how vividly I described it. “I don’t need any more nightmares for Celestia’s sake.”

“The stories weren’t that scary,” Cotton shrugged as we watched the mare walk around a corner.

“The ones I told you and the other girls weren’t,” I replied while we made our way to the town center. “But she did ask for the scariest stories I could think of.”

“Can I hear one of those?” Cotton asked.

“When you’re older,” I replied by instinct.

“Apple Bloom says that adults only say that because they’re lazy,” Cotton replied as if it were a commonly known fact.

“I will not deny being lazy sometimes, but I will share some of those stories with you later, okay?” I offered as we entered the square.

“Okay!” Cotton cheered as we headed for Applejack’s stand first.

As we made our way up, I could see a few ponies already standing by the apple mare, a few eating apples and a few waiting for their turn to play.

“So, Applejack,” I called drawing the mare’s attention to myself and Cotton. “What do we get for winning this game?”

“Uh…” Applejack began, the few ponies eating looking at me in confusion. “An apple?”

“Apple?! Where’s the candy you son of a …”

“Can I try?” Cotton asked, looking up at Applejack, cutting into my flashback.

“Go right ahead, Cotton,” Applejack replied with a smile, directing the filly to an open bucket. “Don’t be afraid ter go fer whichever apple yah want.”

“Uhm… I can’t reach,” Cotton said as she reached the bucket, only to find that it was an inch or two too big for her to reach.

“I got you,” I replied as I picked her up and helped her with the game.

It took a few minutes, but after a while, Cotton finally caught an apple by its stem.

“I got it!” she cheered as I set her down.

“Good job, Cotton,” Twilight said as she and Spike appeared from out of nowhere.

“What about you?” Cotton asked, looking up at me as she ate her apple.

“Give me a sec,” I smiled, removing my helmet leaning over the bucket. After a few moments, I had an apple firmly in my mouth.

“Perks of being an omnivore,” I chuckled, taking a full bite and looking at the slightly shocked surrounding ponies while I flashed them a smile, canines clearly on display.

“So, what are you two doing here?” I asked Twilight and Spike. “I thought you were doing something for the mayor.”

“We finished that already,” Spike sighed as he used his tail to get himself an apple. “It was really boring.”

“Oh, quite complaining, Spike,” Twilight scolded the little dragon. “Besides, it was to help with the show Zecora’s going to be doing soon.”

“What about the Princess?” Applejack asked, looking over at me. “Ah thought yah said the Princess was gonna come tonight; Yah even asked to borrow one of the open fields on the farm?”

“Princess Luna has a surprise for the town,” I simply stated. “She’s getting things set up now, but it’s not until after the retelling of the holiday’s history and the offering.”

“Oh, this is so exciting,” Twilight smiled. “I can’t wait to see what the princess has planned to add to the festivities.”

“Its not until later Twilight,” I chuckled as we watched the mare hop up and down a few times before she realized what she was doing and stopped, smiling sheepishly. “But I’m sure you will like it.”

“Well, I still have a few things to check before the retelling, so I have to go,” Twilight said as she looked towards Applejack. “Will you need help getting things put away?”

“Ah got it,” Applejack replied with a wave of her hoof. “Big Mac will be around to take over.”

“Well, me and Cotton have an appointment with a pumpkin launcher,” I added, drawing gazes from the others while replacing the helmet. “After that, I gotta head home to get something.

“I got a bit of a surprise for the town myself,” I continued before looking down at Cotton. “Do you want to stay with me, or do you want to go with Twilight and Applejack once we finish?”

“I… I guess, I can go with miss Twilight,” Cotton said with a bit of a frown.

“Don’t worry, we still got a little while before I have to go,” I told her, kneeling down and giving her a quick hug before leaving the group.

“At least I now know why you’re in my head all the time,” I spoke as I looked at the large white screen that had been set up in a large open field just outside of Sweet Apple Acers.

“It helps that you tend to day dream quite often,” Luna giggled as she worked with a few of her guards to set up a large projector that held a shining gem rather than a film reel. “We are beginning to agree with sister when she questions how you can be a working member of society with such an empty head though. We had to do quite a bit of digging to find this.”

“Et tu, Luna?” I asked as Mayor Mare worked to hide her own giggles, while also looking worried. While Luna didn’t ware a costume, the mayor had at least wore a rainbow wig and some clown makeup.

“Uh… I think it’s all set up, Princess,” one of the Night Guards stated as they moved away from the classic looking projector.

“Thank you,” Luna nodded to the guard. “Please join the others on their patrol.”

The guard saluted, looking towards me and giving a nod as well before leaving.

“I must admit, you look quite well in your new armor,” Luna smirked as she moved to join me by the screen.

After spending a little more time with Cotton, I rushed back home to meet Luna and change into my new outfit.

Instead of the makeshift Zero outfit, I now wore full body plate and composite armor developed by Tinker Tom for me to use in the upcoming tournament. The plates were a dark navy blue that almost matched Luna’s coat with dark goldenrod edgings, while the composite material had a dark gray color.

White metal prongs reached from my elbows to the tips of my fingers with small joints that allowed me to move easily, giving off the slight look of bones. The strange metal was supposed to be an excellent conduit for my magic and the prosses for its creation was known only by Luna.

She even explained that her own armor was made entirely of the material.

But the piece I was most impressed about was the helmet.

It was specially made, fully encasing helmet with a lot of impute from myself. It had a snout like protrusion that housed a special respirator and rebreather system that could supply me with a few hours of air in necessary.

All I had to do was replace a special set of gems every month or so to keep it fresh.

While it confused everyone about why I would want such a thing, Tinker Tom had pulled through swimmingly and Luna and Celestia both agreed to having some developed for their own guards after I explained some of the raspatory hazards that had been taught to me in the Corps.

There was even a special enchantment on the helmet that allowed me to see perfectly with it on. But it did make it look like I had large eyes on the outside.

The only real downside I had about the thing was the cowl it also had.

When I had gotten home to change, it had actually been a large cape, and Luna just about begged for me to wear it.

I then proceeded to explain that only Batman and Spawn can pull of a cape and settled on wearing only the cowl that had accompanied it.

“It’s a little stiff,” I grumbled, shifting around in the outfit. The plates were tough and slightly annoying while the composite material felt a little tight. “Do I really need to wear this thing for the next few days?”

“It will help in the long run,” a passing guard answered for me.

“My guard is right,” Luna added. “It will also help with your image to those who have doubts.”

“Bah!” I waved off as the first group of ponies made their way into the clearing, led by Twilight and the others.

“Welcome citizens of Ponyville!” Luna shouted as a few guards directed the arriving ponies to spots where they could sit and view a screen that had been set up.

“It’s Nightmare Moon, Run!” Pinkie blurted out from amid a group of foals as she tried to make a brake for it.

She quickly stopped when a guard held out a piece of candy to the mare, an obvious scowl on his face.

“Oh, candy!” the pink mare smiled as she snatched up the small piece and took a seat back in the group of foals. “Okay, were good.”

“Your knowledge of things worries us some times,” Luna mumbled to me as ponies continued to arrive.

“Dude, what the hay is going on?” Rainbow Dash asked as she and the others made their way up to me and Luna, excluding Pinkie Pie. “And what’s with the weird armor?”

“This weird armor is what’s going to protect me in the upcoming tournament,” I replied, giving Cotton and the crusaders a wave as they looked at me with wide eyes. “It got some pretty bells and whistles too, if what I’ve been told is true.”

“They will be explained more in depth on a later date,” Luna told me before giving the group a warm smile.

“So, what the hay is all this fer, Princess?” Applejack asked as she indicated the group and screen.

“All will be explained soon, fair Applejack,” Luna replied with a nod. “For now, please find a good seat before the show begins.”

“I can just tell that this is going to be so cool!” Spike shouted as he waddled away with the others, leaving me alone with Luna and Cotton.

“Can I stay with you?” Cotton asked as she looked up at me.

“Sure, you can,” I replied as we tuned to wait for a bit longer.

The next twenty minutes consisted of ponies arriving and finding a seat or setting up small food stands. The area by the projector was kept clear of ponies, but there were plenty of glances and whispers about it.

“I still can’t believe you ponies only just started working with film,” I mumbled to myself, knowing Luna would probably hear me anyway.

“And it will still be some time before they get to the point that your kind has created,” Luna replied with a shrug.

“Even with what we’re about to show?” I smirked, only to realize that she couldn’t see it.

“We both know why,” Luna replied, pointing to her horn.

“What?” Cotton asked, looking between the two of us with confusion.

“I’ll tell you later,” I replied before Mayor Mare made her way towards us.

“I believe this would be as good a time as any your highness,” Mayor Mare said as she bowed her head, the rainbow wig falling off in the process.

“Very well,” Luna answered as she led me and Cotton towards the front of the screen where everyone could see us.

Cotton quickly made her way to Derpy and Dinky instead, the two sitting in the front with Twilight and Spike.

“Citizens of Ponyville, we welcome you this fine night,” Luna began, drawing silence and attention. “To celebrate this night, we have prepared something with the help of your own Warden.”

Excited muttering quickly followed this announcement as a few of the ponies in the crowed pointed towards me.

“We are also happy to reveal that you are the first to see our representatives’ new armor, which he shall be wearing to this year’s Equis Tournament!” Luna added as she waved me forward.

This announcement was followed by a wave a cheer’s, whistles and a few cat calls.

“Thank you, thank you,” I called back, waving my hands to quiet the crowed. “Now, let me explain to you what you are about to see.

“As some of you may have heard, my people also have a holiday that relates to your own Nightmare Night,” I began to explain.

“Its called Halloween, right?!” Apple Bloom shouted back.

“Yes,” I confirmed. “Or All Hallows’ Eve as some would call it.

“Like all of you, we would dress in costumes, collect and give out candy and just have fun with scary things in general,” I continued. “What you are about to see is a movie from my world, acquired with the help of Princess Luna, that we generally watched during this holiday with family.”

“Is it safe for foals?” one mare shouted back, a few young fillies sitting by her.

“We ourselves can attest that it should be safe for young foals to watch, but if you do feel like the movie is unsuitable, you are free to leave at any time and please pass on any concerns to myself or a guard,” Luna answered for me. “Please also note that everything you will see is completely fictional and we are quite sure it won’t be hard to mistake that fact.”

This too brought some more muttering and a few ponies seemed to be debating on wither they should leave or stay now.

“There is also a second theme to this movie that relates to another holiday you all like to celebrate,” I added a few moments later.

“It should be quite obvious as to which holiday it relates to, but I’ll leave all questions on that one for after the movie,” I chuckled as I stepped back and moved away from the screen.

With a flash of magic, Luna teleported beside the projector and with a flick of her horn, the projector began to do its job.

Murmurs of awe and wonder filled the air as the fireworks around the CGI Disney castle went off as a classic movie began to play.

“That. Was. AMAZING!” Pinkie shouted as we all made our way back to my house after the show.

“Shhh!” Rarity hissed as her sister slept on her back.

While just about everyone had made it through the movie with only a few parents and individuals leaving, the moment it finished, just about every foal, filly and colt passed out where they were.

“Sorry…” Pinkie sheepishly replied as she looked at all of us.

“But that was still really cool,” Rainbow Dash said as she carried Scootaloo. “I’ve never seen anything like that.”

“I’m still more curious as to how the princess accomplished getting something like that from you, Christopher?” Twilight questioned with a drooling green ghost on her back.

I just gave Twilight a smirk while allowing my magic to flare for a moment, nodding as realization grew in her eyes.

“There’s a lot of things in the subconscious, Twi,” I said as we made it to my home.

“That. Is. Amazing!” Twilight chirped, her cheeks turning red when she noticed all of our looks.

“Sorry,” the mare squeaked as we placed the fillies in Cotton and Dinky’s room and Spike in mine.

The rest of us went down to the living room where a surprising sight greeted us.

“Good evening everyone,” Celestia said as we found her snacking on a piece of cake in the middle of the room, Luna standing nearby while eating a moon pie. “I hear the show was quite nice?”

“It was pretty fancy,” Applejack replied as everyone gave a greeting, myself included after removing my helmet. “Taint never seen nothing like it.”

“I saw it myself the other night and it was quite informative,” Celestia nodded as she looked across the group.

“I’m heading to bed,” Gilda mumbled as she quickly left, Rachel also leaving since she still had to go into work early the next day.

“Just like I remember,” Celestia mumbled quietly, her eyes watching Gilda leave.

“What did you think of the songs?” Rarity asked as the group all moved to discuss the movie as I stood back and watched.

“They were interesting…” Celestia began as I took that moment to wander away and head to the basement.

The basement was basically just a large room half the size of the first floor that held a few pipes and whatnot.

Instead of having things like water heaters and power boxes, there was a small corner room filled with pipes, cables and gems. It was all that was needed for a normal home to function completely and didn’t cost much to maintain on its own.

Replacements were pretty expensive though.

The main room of the basement was left mostly open with a desk placed against one wall and an armor stand to its right. Unlike the first floor though, the distance from the floor to the ceiling was remarkably different and was almost double the distance.

When I asked about it, Celestia said it had something to do with an original weak foundation issue, so they had to dig down farther before setting the base or something like that. I wasn’t a contractor, so I couldn’t tell if it were the truth or not.

“Let’s get out of this damn thing already,” I mumbled to myself while placing my helmet on the desk and working to remove the armor. Unlike regular armor consisting of buckles, straps and Velcro, mine was made using special magic buckles that required my own magic to open and close.

It was still possible for others to remove it with some work, but it would suck if a unicorn just magicked them off me mid battle.

Under the armor, all I had was a pair of shorts and a thin tee shirt, so I didn’t need to worry about a change of clothing, but I did need to put on some slippers because of the cold concrete floor.

“So, this is where you wandered off too,” Celestia’s voice echoed as I finished hanging the armor on its rack. “I thought you would have wondered into that ‘Man Cave’ Spike keeps commenting about in a few of his letters.”

“Eh, I’m thinking of just turning that into a rec room in general,” I shrugged taking a seat on my desk and making a hand motion to the only chair in the room. It was a large cushioned thing that should be able to support Celestia. “I already put in an order for a bookcase to keep Spike’s comics safe and Rainbow Dash said she knows someone that can get me a pool table for cheap.”

“I’d be careful telling Luna that,” Celestia sighed as she took a seat in the chair, curling up on it rather than actually sitting on it. “One of her guards showed her the game a few weeks ago and she seems to enjoy it.”

“She any good?” I asked as Celestia began to look over a few papers and a couple of small gems I had on the desk besides me.

“She’s actually horrible at it and it vexes her horribly,” Celestia replied as she held out a sketch of my motorcycle in her magic. I wouldn’t call myself an artist by a long shot, but it was better than the stick figure drawings most of my family could do.

It was one of my earlier concept drawings and pointed out several things I wanted for cosmetic reasons. Another on the desk pointed out things I wanted to improve.

“This wouldn’t happen to be the strange contraption I’ve been getting reports about, is it?” Celestia asked with a slight look of intrigue.

“Darn, I was hoping you wouldn’t have heard about it yet,” I chuckled, knowing this was bound to happen. Reaching into one of the pouches on my armors belt, I pulled out the three gems I got from the tree and tossed one out into the middle of the room after putting some power into it.

In a puff of gray smoke, my Motorcycle appeared in the spot I had thrown the gem. It sat there for a few moments as Celestia got up to inspect the construct, but it faded away before she could do more than simply look at it.

“Unless I provide a constant stream of power, it just vanishes after a few moments,” I said while retrieving the gem with my magic. “I still have some issues with controlling its speed and how to tell how much power it actually takes to use it, but it’s still just a prototype.”

“Are these the notes you have on it?” Celestia asked as she returned to the desk and looked over the remaining papers on the desk.

“I actually haven’t written much on it aside from these drawings,” I replied as I picked up the rough draft drawing for my second prototype and offering it to her. “This is the one I’m working on right now and I hope to have it ready by the time we get to where the tournament is being held.”

“I’ve never thought of using gems like this,” Celestia mumbled mostly to herself as she looked at the picture in front of her.

The image Celestia was looking at was of a large jeep shaped vehicle. The main point of this one though, was that I would use smaller enchanted gems to provide extra features as well as an alternate power source.

“And it’s those gems that you requested from the tree?” Celestia asked as she looked at the three gems I still held. The Moto-Gem was a shining silver and the one I was using for the jeep was an obsidian black. The third and final Gem was a dull red and was currently empty, but I had big plans for that one after I finished with the first two fully.

“It’s the only place that can provide those kind of gems,” I shrugged. “So, if your worried about others doing something like this, you shouldn’t have to worry.”

“That’s what I have you for,” Celestia answered off handedly while still looking over the image before her. “If somepony gets out of hoof, I’ll just show them an image of you and warn them about how close they are to matching you in incompetence.

“It’s worked on several nobles already.”

The next few moments were spent in silence while Celestia continued to look over my draft images while I glared.

“Whatever,” I sighed, while standing up. “I’m surprised at you though.”

“Oh?” Celestia questioned as she placed down the papers and looked at me. “And what did I do to surprise you?”

“I thought you would ixnay the whole movie thing,” I shrugged. “I got lucky with ponies being too tired to ask me questions about it after, but it’s bound to happen, and they’re going to go to you for answers as well.”

“Which is why I originally came to find you,” Celestia replied with a heavy sigh. “I know its late already, but I’d rather talk to you about this now instead of before Day Court.”

“Its… no trouble, I guess,” I replied, an odd realization occurring to me. “I’m actually… not that tired?”

I couldn’t help but question my own statement as I pulled out my phone and finding that it was already one in the morning and I didn’t feel that tired.

It’s not like staying up late was unusual, but when I thought about it, I realized that I had been sleeping less and less and feeling more active than normal.

“It’s probably because of your magic,” Celestia replied simply. “You tend to focus your magic inside yourself to help strengthen your natural abilities. Something like that typically has the effect of cutting back on how much rest you need. It should change once your body adapts to the power more.”

“Oh…” I said, still finding it odd.

“Anyways, back to what I wanted to talk about,” Celestia cut in. “Do you happen to know how such a movie was made?”

“Uh… it’s called “Stop Motion Animation”, and it’s done by—”

Author's Notes:

Like all the times before, quote the chapter!
Sorry it took so long for another chapter, had a bad case of writers block and some irl issues.
Until next time ^.=.^
Also, here's a rough draft image of the armor