Rooster Cogburn wakes up when his internal alarm clock goes off, struts out into the chicken yard and climbs up to his perch on the house and starts his morning crowing, "A new day is here, wake yer lazy asses up ya sons of bitches! It's time ta git started on layin eggs! It's a new day, time ta git started on chores! Git yer lazy ass outta that bed and start yer chores, the Dairy cows are pissed they haven't been milked yet!"

I wake up after hearing Rooster's wake up call and find myself being the big spoon behind Twilight with my arm around her barrel, holding her close for warmth as I slowly extract myself from her grip. I then shift myself back and away from her, trying not to wake her up and then sit up on the edge of the bed and think, "Well that was the strangest fuckin' dream ah've had fer awhile now. Thank god that dream wasn't real and that ya were a gentleman and left yer pants on, ya also managed to not pop a boner this mornin' and give 'er a rude wake up call.". I lean over and close the window so Rooster doesn't wake her up with his second round of crowing, I then get up off the bed and walk over and start getting dressed to do chores first before eating breakfast. I finish putting on a red, yellow, black and white plaid shirt and kick off my yesterdays pants and trade them for a fresh pair of pants. I grab my wallet, my pliers, and utility knife out of the pockets and place them in the corresponding pockets of my new pants. I then put my boots on, and then grab my hat off of the hook, then put it on my head and head out to do chores. I walk down the steps and then out through the front door and shut them softly, then head to the 4240 to start feeding the dairy cows first so I can get them over to the dairy barn. I smile when I see that the lights are on in the shop and the lights along the paths are on, and then reach the shop and make my way to the 4240.

I then see the sun poke it's head out above the horizon and then head over to the dairy barn to begin milking them. I sigh and shake my head side to side, knowing I have to dump the milk out of the tanks because of the power outage lasted for awhile and probably got warm. I pop open the top of the tank and then sniff it and notice a slightly sour smell and curse saying, "Damn it, there goes a thousand gallons of milk down the fuckin' drain!" I then go to the side, grab a drain hose that hooks onto the tank and run it through the hole, then across the cement pad and into the cement ditch I poured to dispose of ruined milk. I then return inside and open up the valves and start the pump up to drain the milk out. After the milk is fully drained, I shut the pump off and then clean the inside out then sterilize the inside. I then continue on to prepare for the cattle to come through. I open the sliding door on the chute and close the v gate in front of it to stop the cows from blocking the others in while they are in the chutes getting milked. I then turn the lights on in the barn and fold out the gates that I have folded up against the building, creating the first part of the alley and then go to the gates leaning up against the side of the Milk Barn and carry them over to connect them to make the middle part of the alley. I then finish setting them up and go to the cow yard, pull the pin that is holding the gate closed, pull them towards me and quickly connect one to the gate on the right first. I then pull the other one towards me and connect it to the last one and then holler out, "Okay Bessy! Bring the girls up to the barn, it's milkin' tahm!" I shake my head side to side, fighting off the freakout that I will have to deal with later once the chores are all done.

Bessy hears him and bellows out to the herd, "Alright ladies, it's finally milking time! Big Bertha, bring up the rear! Make your way tooo the barn everycow so your udders can be emptied. Don't all rush the gate or that boy will be pissed and grab the cattle prod! NOW MOOOVE OUT!!"

I watch Big Bertha as she makes her way toward the rear, driving the herd forward as Bessy leads them towards the barn. I grin as everything is working like a well oiled machine, then open the v gate so they can get into the barn and go into the ten stalls I have set up. I then remember that I still have to hook up the return alley and say, "Ten at a tahm ladies, ah don't have the return alley set up yet. Ah'll git ya'll hooked up and started before ah go do that." I then count ten and close the gate as a big auburn dairy cow stops before it.

The big auburn cow looks at the owner with a scowl on her face and says, "You are screwing up our routine, why can't you just do things the way you should!"

I shake my head and say, "Sorry Red, cut me a break will ya? Ah just found out that ah'm in a fantasy world with mythical fuckin' creatures that don't exist where we're from, ah need tahm to adjust!"

She scowls and says, "That's no reason to be late on our evening milking! What if we dry up or develop Mastits, that could kill us yooou know! Your lucky that yooou got us milked yesterday mooorning, otherwise yooou would be suffering along with us! Just so yooou know, my name's Rosie, not Red."

I sigh and then turn around and say, "Mah apologies Rosie, ah call ya Red cause yer the only red dairy cow ah got." I then make my way into the barn to hook the girls up to the pumps. I start out by going to check the machine out first to make sure that it is clean and nothing is damaged or broken. Seeing nothing wrong with it, I guide each cow into the proper position and close the gate, securing them. I then fetch a clean rag and a spray bottle with soapy water to clean each udder and teat with it. I set the bottle down and go turn the machine on, then go clean the udders and teats on the cows while I wait for it to build up pressure. After cleaning each of their udders and teats with a clean rag, I set the rag aside and grab a towel and dry them off and then hang the towel on its bar and then hand milk each teat on the cows before putting the suction devices on each teat and then when I finish, I say, "Awright, ah'll be right back. Ah'm gonna finish the return alley now, be back in three minutes." I then jog out to the other sliding door and then fold out the gates that are against the sides of the buildings, then unfold the gates that are on either side of the one way gate. I then grab the panels that are neatly set against the fence and quickly connect them to the one way gate and finish up the return alley, then jog back to the parlor and check on the cows and wait for them to finish. I go to the first cow and see that she has finished and watch as the others stop eventually, and then go turn the machine off to remove the devices from their teats. After removing each device, I clean each udder and teat more thoroughly. I then spray some disinfectant on the udders and then open the sliding door, then open each station gate and say, "Awright ladies, skedaddle on outta here so ah can git to the rest of ya."

After a couple hours of milking the two hundred dairy cows I have, I then clean the machine and then let the self managed tanks take care of the milk. I then turn the lights off and fold the gates up as Rosie comes up to the gate and smiles at me.

Rosie looks at her owner with a smile and says, "Thank yoou for getting us all milked this mooorning, some of us noticed that yooou poured lots of our milk intooo the ditch. Why did yooou dooo that, was there something wrong with the milk?"

I sigh and say, "The only thing that was wrong with it was that when we all were brought here, the whole farm went without power for several hours and the thousand gallons of good milk warmed up and went bad. Therefore, ah had to dump it all and clean the tank for the fresh milk. It has nothing to do with ya girls, the power lines didn't get brought over by the storm. Ah'm gonna go inside to have breakfast, so ah'll see ya later Rosie."

She smiles sadly and then says, "How unfortunate to hear, I'm sure that yooou were upset about the loss tooo."

I then turn the frown upside down and say, "Well ya know what they say, There's no point' in cryin' over spilled milk. See ya later Rosie." I then turn and head to my small scale bottling room to get a fresh half gallon of milk for breakfast, clean a single jug and then set it on the machine and then turn it on and grab the finished half gallon of milk and quickly head to the house and get started on making pancakes and bacon.

Twilight is running from a starving mob of ponies all screaming, "Ponies are food, ponies are food!" when Luna interrupts and dispels the dream. She looks up to her and smiles saying, "Thank you for stopping this nightmare again, I wish that it would go away and not come back."

Luna smiles and then says, "It will pass when the food crisis is dealt with, I do think that we will start to see improvements on it this year though. My intuition says that this year, things will start to improve with our food situation."

She smiles and then sighs and says, "I sure hope that the situation improves, it is really starting to bother me now. I sure hope that Roger found me and took me home or at least made me comfortable. I can't believe I fell asleep while checking out his books."

The lunar princess cocks an eyebrow curiously and says, "Oh I think that he did check up on you and made sure you were comfortable. He is after all, a very caring pony. I do think that he would make a very good father, because of an image that somepony had shared with me through a dream."

Twilight cocks her head and asks, "Why, what did you see Princess Luna? Can you please show it to me?"

Luna chuckles lightly and then says, "I could but it would make you blush and know why you will be getting teased for it by those who saw, do you still wish to see it?"

She nods and says, "Please show me what you have seen Princess Luna, I can handle anything!"

The lunar diarch smiles and then nods and says, "Very well then Twilight, here is what I saw." She then conjures an image in the air with her magic and shows Twilight what she seen through another dream.

Twilight's eyes go wide with shock as she sees herself being cradled in his arms like a foal and blushes in embarrassment briefly before saying, "Oh buck... That is so embarrassing to see, but it is also very adorable as well. I will most definitely be getting teased by others who have seen me being held like that. I was surprised that Celestia and the others picked me to be the one to look after him tonight, he made us a candlelit dinner which was very nice and somehow romantic in an awkward way." She then continues to tell Luna about her day.

Luna listens intently, eager to hear what happened during that day. She learns more about his farm that doesn't really pique her interest than she does about him and continues to listen to her story a bit more and says, "He has some really strange and interesting stuff then, perhaps it may be of value to try to purchase some of what he doesn't need and try to study it to advance our technology..."

She nods and then says, "Oh and he has manuals that explain how everything works and how to take it apart to fix the problem! I think it would be very beneficial to the advancement of our technology to study some of it."

Luna smiles kindly and then clears her throat to get her attention and says, "I would love to stay and hear more Twilight, but I have to return to lower the sun in a little while so we shall talk tomorrow at the party. One more thing, do you have enough Moon Tea for this season?"

Twilight freezes at suddenly remembering that she needed to get some more and she looks to Luna and says, "THAT'S COMING UP THIS WEEK?"

She chuckles and says, "Yes Twilight, it is going to be starting the day after tomorrow. I strongly suggest you begin taking it unless you plan on starting a family..."

The young Alicorn turns beet red and stammers, "I-I-I d-d-d-don't ha-ha-have any plans to become a mother so soon, I am too busy with my duties and researching different ways to improve our food situation to have any time to raise a foal of my own! I need to go and try to get some more in Canterlot if they don't have any in Ponyville and Zecora is sold out as well, because I used the last of it last season!"

Luna turns around chuckling and begins to leave and then says, "I do advise you hurry otherwise you will have to be extra vigilant this season. Somepony needs to warn the human of this or he may have difficulty surviving the aggressive mares this year, his survival is extremely important to Equestria's future. Farewell Twilight my duties call me elsewhere." before she departs her dream.

Luna looks around for where the intense fear is coming from and comes to a red and white barn door on a rail that runs along the top and shakes her head saying, "This door is not very secure at all, no wonder this poor pony is so scared." She slides it open and walks through it and her eyes go wide with shock as she sees a vast field of dry wheat ripe for harvest, completely engulfed with fire and somepony screaming for help. She takes to the air and attempts to forcefully dispel it, but to no avail as she tries desperately to locate them when she suddenly spots something very large amidst the field of blazing wheat. She flies above the flames towards it, then focuses on trying to see if there is anypony inside of it and sees a figure trying desperately to get out of it and recognizes that it is Roger inside of it.

I sweat buckets from the intense heat of the field fire that began when the tractor and wagon lost control and slammed into the side of the John Deere 9670. The heavy impact caused the extended auger to break and overextend, crashing against the door, jamming it shut and preventing it from ever opening. I tried to shut down the combine, but the key was stuck and the controls were not responsive. A few seconds later I heard a pulley squealing loudly and started the fire, so now I am trying desperately to find someway out of this death trap. Unable to break the glass due to the raging fire that would kill me in seconds if I stepped outside, I try to call for help using my cellphone. Only problem is, the phone doesn't have service and doesn't accept roaming so I throw it onto the floor and then go to my last resort. I start screaming at the top of my lungs for help, hoping that someone can hear me somehow and save me.

She tries to fly closer to Roger as he continues screaming for help but the flames leap higher, singing her feathers a little bit on the edges and show a face for a brief moment. She then immediately recognizes the face as a very dangerous night terror, making a quick decision to exit the dream and go get her sister to help her with this monster. Quickly flying through the sliding door and exiting the dream realm, she jumps up onto her hooves and teleports directly into Celestia's bedroom and races to her side. She rips off her sleeping mask and starts shaking her violently yelling, "Sister wake up, I need your help quickly! Roger is in danger in the dream realm!"

Celestia wakes up immediately to somepony shaking her and notices her mask was ripped off and sees Luna shaking her awake in a panic and sits up quickly and says quickly, "What's wrong sister, what has you in such a panic!?"

Luna stops shaking her and holds her by the shoulders and shouts, "I need your help immediately in the dream realm, Roger is in danger there from a strong night terror I am unable to defeat on my own!"

Before she can even say ok, her sister touches their horns together and sends them both into the dream realm. She steadies herself and races after her sister down the corridor to a sliding barn door and follows her through it with a jump. She coughs and gasps at the massive field fire before her and hears Roger screaming hoarsely for help and says, "What in Tartarus is going on in here, why is it so hot?!"

The lunar princess looks to her sister and rapidly says, "Be careful, this fire can hurt us. It singed the edges of my feathers when I tried to get to Roger, we must hurry Cece because this night terror may actually cause him to die for real!"

Celestia nods and then she says, "Let's do this Lulu, nothing is scarier in here than us. Let's show this night terror who it should fear!" She then transforms herself into Daybreaker and watches as Luna transforms into Nightmare Moon and then begin to fight against the Night Terror.

I start to cough as my vision begins to fade out when I hear a piece of metal cracking coming from either around me or in my own head. When I look around for the cracked metal, I find an extremely shiny piece of metal that I think came off of a hammer. I pick up the piece and suddenly hear a voice booming inside of my head, "Finally the sole surviving piece of Mjolnir found a surviving descendant of my bloodline! Good Good, is this really the way you are going to let yourself be killed Descendant? How pathetic of you, I am greatly offended by your weakness!"

I clutch my head in pain as the voice rattles my brain and I answer, "Ah'm sorry sir, but who in the sam fuckin' hell are ya and why are you threatenin' to turn mah brain to mush with yer boomin' voice?" I look around me and see two strange creatures that somewhat resemble ponies flying around casting beams of yellow and purple light fighting against something outside.

The male voice grumbles something inaudibly and sighs saying in his booming voice, "How depressing, my own blood doesn't remember me anymore..." He then clears his voice and then continues, "Very well then, I shall reintroduce myself then. I am Thor, you are my son. Though you are a million times removed, you are still my blood son." He then trails off and says, "You humans are such prolific breeders...you fuck and fuck and shit babies out like that gigantic hampster in Nutty Professor 2." He then clears his throat and gets back to the subject saying, "But I digress, Wake up and realize your ability. If you do not realize your inherent ability, Luna shall die first before Celestia goes insane and kills herself. The choice is yours to make, decide quickly for they are nearly spent." The voice then disappears from his head, leaving him to make a big decision.

I rub my aching head as I try to figure out what Thor meant and then scratch my head wondering what my inherent ability might be for a few seconds. I then think back on when I was in the hospital and Pinkie Pie said something about a storm, I then begin to slowly consider the possibilities as an idea slowly forms in my mind.

Luna breathes hard and says to Celestia, "This is no normal Night Terror I think! Somehow I think this thing is a Night Horror, Nightmare Moon made these things extinct during her time in Equestria. I don't know how it managed to survive through those years!"

She looks to her sister and gasps saying, "I have never heard of her doing such things before!"

The lunar princess sighs and says, "Of course you didn't, because The dream realm existed before she rose to power and took it over. She stole a few of the elements and went on the warpath in the dream realm, slaughtering the night horrors by the thousands to protect her citizens and get them to love the night. The Horrors refused to obey her and fought hard to kick her out."

Just then the two are smacked out of the sky by the Night horror, it then lumbers through the blazing field. It moves through the field quickly towards where the two princesses fell, eager to kill them both and reclaim the Dream Realm for itself.

I hear the princesses scream and grip the shard hard enough it pricks through my skin and draws blood, causing it to slowly drip to the ground as I stand up in the cab and softly say with rising anger, "I...will...fight." I then raise my fist in front of my face in defiance of death and loudly say, "I am a farmer, we fight to survive through hard times!" I then bellow out in pride and yell, "We stare death in the face and do not run from it. It is all a part of life, we farmers understand and accept it! Yet we still continue on and do our jobs in the world!" I then look up and see everything around me turn a blinding white, leaving me unable to see anything at all but bright white light.

Luna hears a static building in the air as she watches in fear as a massive blinding lightning bolt strikes the ground where Roger must have been and screams out, "NOOOOOOOO!!!"

Celestia and Luna tear up and hug each other tightly, thinking that Roger was killed. They are forced to close and shield their eyes from the blinding flash and crackling explosion of the bolt staying connected to the ground for several seconds before finally dissipating.

The lunar princess sobs and opens her eyes and sees nothing but a purple box wherever she looks and tries to blink it away, after a few seconds of constant blinking she says, "Sister, can you see at all? This stupid purple box won't go away."

She sighs and then says, "Unfortunately, it is the same with me too. I sure do hope that Roger didn't die from that lightning strike, our food crisis will become critical next year due to those parasprites eating every bucking food item in sight."

I open my eyes and shake my head a little, waiting for the purple block to go away. I then finally start to see something below me, I look down and focus on it. The block fades enough to where I can make out a few small details, the creature I am looking at resembles a really big slime that has the appearance of a cactus crossbred with a sticker and is bright yellow like the fire in the field. I then look at the creature as it continues running away from me and towards something else, I look in the direction it is running and see Princess Celestia and Luna hugging each other crying for some reason. I scowl at the creature and say, "What an ugly fuckin' little creature ya are, ya don't even deserve to be a stain on mah newspaper." I then lift my foot and then start to thrust my foot down to squash it like an insect.

Luna looks around to look for where the voice came from and says, "Roger? Roger is that you? Are you alive?!"

Celestia looks around as the purple block finally fades to where she can somewhat see, she then notices movement above them and sees a massive boot coming down towards them. Unable to cast her magic anymore right now, she grabs Luna and holds her tight as she screams bloody murder.

She folds her ears against her head and looks to her sister as the purple block finally goes away, she then sees her staring and screaming at something and quickly looks in that direction. She sees a yellow spiky blob of goo jumping into the air to attack them and starts screaming, "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!!" She then holds onto her sister for dear life as her magic too is spent as a boot lands on the ground before them, squashing the thing and sending a big tremor through the ground, splattering its juices all over them.

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