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Looking at the mares in question as each one stares at me with inquisitive, wonder, and even smirking eyes as I sat down in my oddly comfy puffy chair, the thing at best I can tell was made of the softest fluff money can buy here, knowing that it was all payed by royalty and that having a princess in your pocket can be a good thing. Cracking open a cold bottle of soda, taking a small sip as I realized it was orange flavor and downed it in 10 seconds flat, looked at the cyan mare and smirked as I put the bottle down on the floor next to my foot.

"So ladies...ask me any question that comes to mind, just remember that they better be good questions, nothing silly or just plain stupid." I said while looking at them, Kara was still glaring daggers at Rarity for putting the dress on her and the make-up while Rainbow Dash and Pinkie were trying hard not to explode with laughter, Fluttershy was staring at me like a prey would when a predator is looking at its next meal while Twilight was waiting with uneasy tension to ask a question that she has been waiting to ask.

"Roran, how old are you?" which was met with my eyes trying to shoot a lazer out and melt a hole in her head.

"Well Twilight...the age I am while being stoned would be I can guess ten million years old...but my current and actual age is 28." she looks at me a bit confused but shrugs it off as Spike writes it down, wearing a pink frilly apron and to my surprise it has small hearts stiched into it.

"So big guy what was the biggest explosion you have ever made?" that brough a twinkle to my eye as the old memories of my past started to sift through my head at that moment.

"The biggest explosion...well that would have to be when me and my squad led a Reaper Destroyer to a small opening that was once a harvesting facility, and when it was at the center I used the only Cain I had left on it right when its eye was charging up to glass us. That thing lit up like a fucking christmas tree and when it went off we were a few blocks away it exploded and took a whole city block with it." that seemed to make the rainbow one smile with glee at my accomplishment.

"Erm...Mr. Zidane...if if you don't mind me ask but...are the Reapers...still out there?" a question with no answer to.

"Well Miss Fluttershy, I truly do not know...in the millions of years I was in stone they could have been wiped out by the species after me or that they still live, stronger than before." that got her to start shaking in fear. "But don't worry Fluttershy, they only target those that are strong enough to make an actual resistance against them and have a massive population count and Equestria has neither so you are safe." which was true, I highly doubt they will ever be attacked by them.

"Ah got a question Mr. Zidane that ah have been meanin to ask ya. How did ya'll lose with all that fancy gear you all got?" .............how the hell did we lose? I sighed deeply as my hands caught my head from touching my knees, old terrible memories rearing its ugly mug to light as I mentally fought against seeing them again after being free from their nightmareish grasp.

"Well Applejack I can clearly say....we lost because not every species was entirely united at the time of the attacks...we were all seperated and fueded over stupid things...when the attacks came it was to late, we were already shoring up our own defenses against the Reaper forces...it took us to many worlds and too many damn civilian casualties to make us band together at our darkest hours of our lives...but in the end it wasn't enough...as you can so plainly see by looking at me." I said while pulling out one of the last cigerates I had in my breast pocket and lighting it with my thumb as I breath in toxic death and exhale smokey doom.

After a few moments for the cigerate to calm my increasingly unsteadying nerves the pink one raised a hoof.

"So what was the greatest party you have ever been to?" greatest party....oh dear lord.

"Well my pink friend...I would have to say was the New Year's Eve party on the Citadel Presidium, I forgot what year it was but on that particular day I was away from duty and had the whole day to myself, so I did what any regular human being would do with his off day from the military..." the girls leaned in a bit, Spike was handing out cookies and drinks while still wearing the silly apron, which I had to say took guts for a man to be wearing that much pink and not be called fruity.

"We would have the time of our lives and go wild, I was drinking hard rum and booze by 8am and was downing krogan liquor by 1pm, I was going strip clubs and bars all over the Citadel and I punched an embassy worker in the face for pissing me off, I kicked three C-Sec guards in the nuts for trying to ruin my bar-hopping and I stabbed my hand at a game of Five-Finger-Fillet." the looks on all seven of their faces was magical.

"When it was 10pm I sorta relaxed a bit until I saw the crystal sphere high in the Presidium be raised to full height and the timer for having it lower began to count down so I went to the nearest club and danced my ass off. As it got close to midnight I challenged an entire band of krogan merc's to a game of strip poker and many of the people in the crowd that saw the game began to cheer all 10 of us on and as the game went on and we all started to strip pieces of our attire as we kept losing and of course kept drinknig harder and harder booze...eventually I was wearing nothing but my briefs and the krogans...well I was not entirely sure but I knew a few of the female ones were glaring at me with the intent to kill me." the girls were now giving a few questioning stares but when I explained to them that all of our goods, no matter what species except a few that I can't clearly remember that our goods were external and always on display unless protected by our daily attire.

"Anyways it was only ten minutes to midnight and I knew that I had to speed things up so I did what any decent man would do at a time like that." Rainbow Dash and Twilight slightly leaned forward, Fluttershy was somewhat cowering behind her hair while Spike was somewhat listening and zoning out at the same time. "I quickly dealed the next set of cards and got the royal cards and won, as they stripped the last I took a bottle to the back of the head and was half-way out cold. While slowly losing the will to keep my eyes open I took off with my hard earned credits and clothes, quickly got dressed in an alley way and deposited my earnings and about half way to my room I keeled over." their faces was so magical that even I couldn't hold myself properly as Rainbow Dash and Pinkie were laughing their asses off, Spike was snickering as he went back to the kitchen while Rarity was facepalming...facehoofing, Twilight was just shaking her head in shame.

"Next morning I woke up on top of the Citadel Tower, outside, with no way idea on how I got there in the first place. Took me three hours to find a hatch that was unlocked and was even more pissed off when I saw the krogans from last night laughing at me on the otherside, I got payback by using Lift and Throw on them, tossing each one into the Presidium Lake." smirking in triumph over my greatest party night I ever had, Pinkie was somehow bouncing in place while sitting down so I can clearly guess that she is happy with her answer.

As we all settled back down Dash raised a hoof at the same time as Rarity so I just shrugged and pointed at them both waiting to hear what they both had to ask.

"I have always been wondering what were the clothes of your time made of what kind of fabrics?" eh...no idea.

"How long was this war of yours?" hmm....good question.

"Well Rarity...all of our clothing is made of synthetic fibers and silk....synthetic is basically fake fabric that acts and feels like the real thing, easy to produce and cheaper to buy. Silk is more fancy and was often used for the more formal attire for most species of the Council." she gave me a small smile and a nod as she finally got her question answered.

"Well...I am not entirelly sure how long it was...maybe many years or a few months...I didn't really count the days that passed during it." she snorted and crossed her forelegs and turned her head, I just shrugged it off at her.

"Roran...I have been meaning to ask you this but how does your magic work?" her eyes gleaming like the puppies would do when they want something really bad, the whole teary eye and quivering lip thing. She was doing this with the skill of a child that has been doing it their entire life.

"Well Twilight....I am not entire sure how it works..." she frowned and her ears fell to the side of her head in disappointment, "But I can tell you as much I know of it." she immediately perked up and was sitting at my feet with a scroll and quill floating in front of her face. The shit I do to keep my ass safe.

"Well...for starters we humans were never born with magic, never had and we had only recently acquired the ability to use it. Not sure when or how we managed it but when we first started to acquire the ability to use Biotics we had to go to other species to help teach us the ways on how to properly attune to it and had to be given implants to help with the focus and flow of it. These implants were new to us and we were not entirely ready for them and for that reason many of us were in pain or killed by it, and as time went on our implants improved and got better and so did we, the most recent of implants was the L5x and the best of biotics were the best to have on the battlefields as allies and the worst to have as enemies." she was litterally writing everything I was saying down with a smile that screamed crazy.

"Biotics is all mental, you must have a clear mind and stead-fast focus or otherwise it will backlash and screw you over, and one must first create a mass-effect field to begin to use the most basic of Biotics is Lift which is as its name suggest, it lifts objects of any shape or size as long as it is not bolted to the ground or to heavy. Throw and Pull are the same except that for Throw, you are shooting a sphere of pressurized gravity at someone, litterally breaking bones and tossing them several feet from where they were, as for Pull, same thing except you are bringing them closer to you. Another thing Biotics must know is that unless you are trying to only injure your target you are to never combine biotics." Rarity was the first to raise a hoof out of the group.

"Why not? It seems more efficient to use it like that to save on energy right?" Nope.

"No actually, when you combine Biotics of any two types the results will be an explosion as the two forces tear each other apart." she gasps at what would happen, I only smirked cause I made a Batarian pirate explode like that once.

"As the Biotic user becomes more attuned to it they are taught much better abilites such as Singularity, Barrier and Warp. Singularity is basically a sphere that disrupts local gravity where it is planted and anything that not tied down to the ground will be free-floating around it, it is actually very fun to use when you are bored and with your friends...assuming you don't land on the ground head first. Barrier is a defensive Biotic ability, producing a thin shield around the body acting like a second skin and protects against any attacks against the user, Barrier's created by some people can actually create a large sphere that can instead of protecting just the caster but also those within the sphere itself. Warp...is a bit more nasty and lethal...it doesn't directly damage someone but instead attacks them at the molecular level, destroying their body slowly and very painfully." most of the ponies and even Spike was shocked to hear what Warp does while Twilight was somewhat green to hear it, I casually shrug as I kept speaking.

"Next we got Shockwave, Stasis, Lash and Reave." I was getting bored with this topic as I began to play a game of charades with Pinkie. "Shockwave is basically a distraction of sorts, it creates a rippling effect as it goes in a straight line, in any directiong that you use it at, and its pretty much a way to force enemies out of cover. Stasis is pretty much freezing some poor sucker in place. Lash is well like Pull except its like using a whip on someone and than throwing their sorry ass away. Reave...not entirely sure what it did but it was meant for fleshy people." I shrugged as Pinkie guessed right that I was acting like zombie, not sure how she knows what that is.

Pinkie this time raised two hooves so I can guess she wanted to say two things, hopefully something good.

"What is a mass-effect field thingie that you said and also how come those things you had folded up into perfect boxes?" ...did she just say a smart question?

Coughing a bit from the sudden brain burst coming from the overly hyper-active pony, not even knowing how she could manage to keep focus since she is bouncing in place.

"Well Pinkie, a mass-effect field is what Biotics and our transportations use to get around, the field itself is created with an electrical current alongside Element-Zero, with a positive current mass is increased while a negative current mass is decreased, for low mass it allows our ships to easily leave orbit and move around because of the lessened gravity that is being pushed onto it, while higher mass creates a small gravitational push that moves debris or anything unwanted away from the ships. And as for my tools, they fold into themselves to form the rectangles and boxes to preserve space." Pinkie wasn't even paying attention but Twilight was now onto her fourth scroll and just swapped it out for a fifth one.

I saw Pinkie and Dash whispering to each other and snickering as Spike came over to me, was holding out a cup of still hot tea on a mini plate, and being the classy gentlemen that I am I take it with a silent thanks to him and took an ever so gentle sip...until Dash asked me something I wish she would never ask me.

"How many mares have you slept with in your entire life?" in one motion I spat out my tea, threw myself backwards into my chair, fell out of the chair, rolled backwards and hit the bookcase forcing every single book to fall off and land on top of me.

Rarity was somewhat screaming how gross that was, Dash was laughing her ass off, Pinkie was giggling like the Joker from the old Batman movies, Fluttershy I think is passed out from such a question, Spike has no idea what it meant, Applejack was also laughing her ass off and Twilight was blushing a bit while looking away. I was under the books with my left arm out of the pile giving a middle finger to the general direction of Rainbow Dash.

As Twilight and Spike started to unbury me from the book pile with haste, I was busy trying to figure out a way to answer that question, but when the answer popped up I gave a very twisted grin as I slowly crawled out from under the books, Spike coming to my rescue by pulling on my left arm and for a baby dragon he actually managed to slightly pull my fat ass from out under.

Dusting myself off and helping with the reshelving of books back into there proper place, which was a task that reminded me of sorting ammunition types at the ammo dump...which was hard as hell except instead of sorting the different types of thermal clips and grenades I was sorting books, books that had very familiar names from old Earth.

Going back to my seat and looking at Dash with a pissed off glare I resume my sipping of the tea which was refilled and was slightly cleaned off with a rag, courteousy of Spike but sadly he was still wearing that pink apron.

Sighing a bit while pinching the bridge of my nose I braced myself to give the answer that the now obvious preverted pegasus was waiting for. "Well Dash, you wanted to know how many ladies I bedded....well lets see...." as I started to remember and count all the ones I actually fucked in my time alive in the past, and as I started to remember my face took on the whole preverted look while slightly drooling at the best of fucks I ever gave.

"Well...give or take ten to twelve...eh around those two numbers." I said while pulling out another bottle of orange soda, popping the top off with my pinkie finger since I turned that into the universal bottle openner, my thumb the lighter.

Before anyone else can say anything else Dash asks another question in which I almost cough half the soda back into the bottle and the floor. "What was the longest you ever lasted while rutting?" I nearly choked while going into a coughing fit.

"Longest was three days...and I almost had to go to the hospital because of it..." I said while looking away, that night was not only amazing but it was also one of the scariest fucking nights I ever had to endure with another woman, I mean that krogan was good but damn my pelvis and leg bones were practically shattered when it was over, I had to crawl out of the room with just my underwear on and call for an ambulance to pick me up.

As soon as Rainbow Dash was about to ask another seemingly embaressing question a hard knock was heard by the front door and a armored grey unicorn walked in wearing the Royal Guard's armor but the field medic's version it seems by the red cross on it and what I hope are medkits on his sides.

"Mr. Zidane, Princess Celestia requests your presence at Canterlot immediately." saved by the random call.

"Okay, so when can we go?" I said while getting up and threw the chair pillow at Dash and since she was still in a state of shock of how long I can do the horizontal tango and how I almost broke my pelvis while doing it.

"We are going right now." and before I knew what he meant by that I felt all the air get sucked out of my lungs, put into a bottle than shoved back into my lungs as we both reappeared in the waiting room. I have never been teleported before in my life, phase-shifting doesn't even count since I am still partially visible while doing it.

Canterlot Palace, Early Afternoon

"Remind me again why we teleported when we could have just flew or...hell just walked here..." I said while coughing up a storm, I put my lungs through many things, a high powered Geth rifle, a shotgun, a grenade, three knives, a fist and poison gas but this took second place on the painful lungs award.

"Sorry sir, but I have orders to bring you to Princess Celestia immediately." well at least this soldier cares about his career than, unlike me I can give two shits about orders unless they have the power to back those words.

"Tis alright...what is your name anyway?"

"Private Oakleaf sir." and right on his ass is a picture of an oak leaf ontop of a bronze round shield.

"Well lead the way than Private, I want to get this over with, was gonna go to sleep and relax and plan my life but I guess it can way for now." it really can't wait since I got no idea on what to do for a job or pretty much anything.

About ten minutes of walking down long halls filled with fancy ass paintings and most likely priceless urns and other fancy shit you would normally find in a palace or otherwise known as a rich persons home. During that walk I overheard a few of the ponies whispering about me, saying how I saved Celestia from an assassination attempt and how we are having an affair of sorts, the shit I used to hear in the army was way better than this but eh, it was juicy gossip.

The silence as we walked down the halls was all consuming until we got to the throne room and inside was a pissed off Luna, an angry Celestia and a smirking Discord.

"Okay...what the fuck did you do this time dude."