Once Mason finished freeing the princesses he said "So umm... what happened."

Celestia eyed him and KD somewhat suspiciously "We could ask you the same."

"Well seeing as you are royalty I guess that means I'm going first." Mason looked up at KD and motioned for KD to put him on her shoulder. As Mason was lifted onto the titan's shoulder he began to recount how they got there.

"So me and KD were on a mission to retrieve something called 'The Ark' along with every other pilot and Titan the fleet could muster at the time.The Ark is the power source of the fold weapon."

Princess Celestia raised a hoof and inquired "What is a fold weapon?"

"I'm not entirely sure how it works that's not really my field." Mason took off his helmet witch resulted in his long dirty and sweat covered hair fall into his face. Mason swept the hair from his face and scratched his short beard in mock contemplation.

"Although from what I understand is it folds space and time. Then fires something at the planet its pointed at and to be blunt after that there is no more planet."

Everyone in the room grew visibly pale when he said that. Celestia managed to regain her composure first. "Why would you ever need a weapon that could destroy an entire planet?"

Mason simply shrugged "Hell if I know if you want to know more about it ask KD later. Now returning to the story. Me and KD were fighting a few titans at once and got hit in the back with a laser core. Before you ask a laser core is what it sounds like its a big ass laser, Though only Ions can use them or vanguards like KD when she uses the Ion loadout. KD at the time was using the Ronin class which is one of the lighter classes that has an ability called phase dash. The laser core ruptured the phase drives core thingy."

"IT IS CALLED THE TEMPORAL DISTABLEISER"

"Thanks, KD but can you repeat that in English, please. when the thingymajig got ruptured KD routed power away from it so it wouldn't explode. But then we got cornered between a couple of titans and I figured well we die here because it fucks up, we die here because we don't try or we live to see another day because it worked. Safe to say none of those happened when KD activated it seems to have half worked. It pulled us from our dimension into a dimensional slip space but then it kept going and when it stopped we were 5 miles in the sky and in another dimension, aaannnnnd that's how we got here."

"Well, that's quite the tale. But what do you do as a pilot?"

"Pilots are the elite I am a G10 pilot which means I have been regenerated 10 times."

"What do you mean by regenerated?" Celestia asked with a sight but adorable cock of her head to the side.

"When a Pilot goes through years of battle our bodies become worse for ware. They can fix the damage at the cost of all of our battle experience. Although one unfortunate side effect is it tends to numb you of fear and other emotions so most pilots are bloodthirsty killers by G 10. I was too but they messed up on making me G 10 and I got all of my emotion back. The sad thing is it took them FUCKING UP ON ME TO FIGURE IT OUT!"

All of the pony's ears were back from a combination of volume, language, and horror at the mistake. Mason took a deep breath before continuing "Sorry still frustrates me but to shorten it being a G 10 pilot means I'm the meanest motherfucker on the battlefield basically I'm the elite of the elite if that makes sense."

"If you don't mind my asking how long have you been serving with KD?"

"ME AND MASON HAVE BEEN LINKED FOR 924 DAYS."

"So you two have been linked for two years."

Mason nodded "As I was saying I am a G 10 pilot for the angle city elite who honestly are basically mercenaries who only work for the good guys in a situation."

"What if there aren't any 'good guys' in a situation?" Celestia raised an eyebrow."

"If there is no good cause we walk away and go home. Also, do you have some tape?"

"May I ask why you need the tape?"

"Chrysalis cut the back of my suit and it's coming off. This would be fine but I'm not wearing anything underneath sooo..."

"Oh yes, I can have one of the guards bring some tape." Celestia looked over to one of the guards and nodded. the guard saluted than walked off and returned a few seconds later. Mason grappled through the hole in the tape roll than pulled it back to him. After Mason fixed his suit Celestia said: "now that that has been fixed I assume you have nowhere to stay."

"yea I don't have a place to stay," Mason said putting his helmet back on.

"Very well seeing as it is getting late there is a guest room in one of the towers I can show you where it is."

"Oh no that's fine I usually just crash in KD"

"No, I insist it is the least I can do to repay you."

*Sigh* "Ok if you insist, does this tower have a balcony?"

"Yes, it does. Why do you ask?"

"KD can fly and I'm assuming those wings aren't just for show. So we can just fly there."

"Ah ok then that would be faster than going through the castle. Please follow me."

Mason began to follow Celestia through a short series of halls. 'Not even I could get lost in here KD did one hell of a number on this place' Mason thought as they walked

"It looks like an army went through here this is all KD's work?" Celestia said looking both disgusted by the changeling virtually splattered on the walls and impressed that KD did all of that alone

"INDEED SORY FOR ANY COLATERAL DAMAGE."

"It is fine," Celestia chuckled," The halls needed to be remodeled anyways"

They all reached the exit and Mason embarked. KD switched over to the Northstar and started flying. Celestia looked awestruck that something that big could fly. KD made a motion for Celestia to lead the way. The tower was not too far away or really too high up but Mason could see the whole city. 'Wow the changelings did a number on this place' There were hundreds of buildings burning collapsed or barely standing with a few mostly intact buildings scattered around. Looking back Mason saw they were close and KD speed up to get there slightly faster.

When they reached the balcony Celestia landed and the front of KD opened so Mason could jump out. KD closed the cockpit and said.

"PILOT I SAW A PLACE THAT APPEARED TO BE A GARDEN WITH THE PRINCESSES PERMISSION I WILL WAIT THERE,"

"Yes that is a garden and yes you can rest there just please dint break anything."

KD gave a thumbs up that flew off towards the gardens. Mason turned around and walked into the room where Celestia was waiting. Mason took all of his weapons out of their holsters and placed them on the bed along with his helmet.

"Well princess thank you for being so kind I hate to think what would have happened if Me and KD ended up in IMC controlled space."

"You are welcome and please call me Celestia The whole princess thing gets old. Well, I will leave you to sleep have a good night."

"You too"

And with that Celestia left the room. The room overall was very nice a king size bed a small nightstand with a lamp on it. A dresser with golden accents to match the ones on the walls. A table and chair in the corner facing a window that looks over the city with some other small bits of furniture and nicknacks to decorate. Mason walked over to a door and opened it to reveal a bathroom. Mason stepped into the bathroom and removed his armor and clothes. He looked at his scarred and broken body seeing a few bits of metal that were the only obvious signs of is slight augmentation. If you looked closely you could see wires snaking up his neck and to his right eye.

Mason could remember the day he lost it. He had just avoided a shell from a tone by sliding into a building when he came face to face with another pilot they fought for a solid 10 minutes when the pilot got a lucky shot right to Mason's eye. Assuming he was dead the pilot left but Mason was alive very injured but alive. If the bullet was just a couple of millimeters off it would have went through his brain stem. Luckily a friendly pilot Managed to get to him and carry him to the ship in time off he would be dead. A couple of paychecks later and he was able to get a new eye.

Mason reached up and after a small hiss he took out his eye. Sighing he put the eye on the counter then pulled an eyepatch out of a pocket and put it on. Mason walked over to the shower and turned it on stepping into the stream. Mason let out a sigh of content. On the ships, they don't have showers they have a booth that you step into that spray you with air freshener for 3 seconds. they don't clean you, they make you smell like not shit for a day.

Mason stepped out of the shower and grabbed a towel. After quickly drying off he put his now taped together uniform and grabbed his armor. Mason looked to his eye before grabbing it and walking out of the bathroom. He took his eye and armor than placed them on the nightstand. He then took his guns and did the same. Mason slipped under the covers and after a while began to have the weirdest dream...

So I hope you liked the chapter. this one is a bit more slice of life then I would have liked but hey. Yea a lot of backstory in this one but hey. Also if you have any suggestions for me to say other than Mason this or Mason that please tell me. I'm annoying myself. Anyways bye bye!