Just Another Day; Good Work Delta
Chapter 8: Chapter 7: Getting to know James and Leon
Previous Chapter Next ChapterPonyville / Jhon and Kaptn / Tuesday (After estrus), 10:00 AM
"Well, I better go Kaptn, Rainbow says she's gonna teach me some new tricks today!" I yelled after him. Kaptn said he was gonna help Applejack on the farm, because Big Mac needed some help doing some heavy lifting. I jumped from the balcony from my room, changed into a pegasus, and flew away. In which I thought was pretty dramatic if you asked me. I had met Rainbow pacing on a cloud just a little away from her house.
"Hey Rainbow, what's on your mind?" I asked, and I also caught her off guard, well I always was a quiet one, but I never thought I could startle somepony being that damn quiet.
"Oh, hey Jhon, It's just that, I need some advice." Rainbow asking me for advice? Well, this was a first, but I guess I can help her out.
"But first, you need to Pinkie Promise me that you'll never tell anypony about this." She said, she was being quite serious about this, but I could keep promises, because I was always pretty quiet. I promised her that I wouldn't tell anyone, and she let out a sigh of relief.
"It concerns Drew though." She told me, I understood what was going on, but I had known about Drew's commitment ever since he told me about it, which was when he made it. I had to break it to her, most likely would it make her really upset about it.
"Rainbow, I know what you're getting at, but I'm afraid to say, he's not looking for a relationship. I need to tell you something about Drew." I whispered her ear, telling her about the attack on Las Vegas, and what he committed to after he heard about it, she understood everything. She looked very upset after the news, I had her promise me that she wouldn't tell anypony about it, because only his closest friends knew about what had happened, and his commitment.
"I'm sorry Rainbow, but he still loves everyone, as a friend though, he cares about you though, he looks at you like you were the sister he never had, actually, he looks at everyone like they were his siblings. He was an only child just so you know." I told her, chuckling at how Drew looks at everyone like they were his new, modern family, Rainbow let out a little giggle as well.
"Okay Jhon, thank you for telling me this. Okay now, by what Drew has said about you, I heard that you are really fast. Is he correct?" She had asked, I nodded telling her how fast I really am.
"Great! How about a race, and chances are, you can pull of a Sonic Rainboom like me!" She was back to her usual self, as if we never had that conversation before we got started in the first place. I had accepted her challenge to a race I knew about endurance, conditioning, how to pace yourself, and all the tactics on how to run, or fly in this case, successfully.
Once the race started, I looked at her zip off into the clouds, but I started out slower than her, gaining speed gradually. Eventually, I caught up to her, she was in for a surprise. I had known what a Sonic Rainboom was because I saw it before when Rainbow pulled it off when I was a statue. Yes, I was still self aware when I was turned to stone, damn hungry too. Apparently, she pulled off another one once I caught up to her, but I wasn't far behind, while she was leaving a rainbow scale streak behind her, I was leaving a golden-yellow scale streak behind me.
Once I built up enough speed, I heard a giant BOOM, and then there was a golden explosion from where I broke the sound barrier, leaving a sparkly golden scale rainbow trail coming from my tail. Rainbow just looked at me in awe, because I passed her, but she wouldn't give up that easily. I was the first one to make it to Canterlot Castle, just barely though, because that was where the finish line was chosen, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna just looked at me, in total shock, because I wasn't as out of breath as Rainbow dash when she came out a smidgeon behind me. I let her keep her title of fastest flier because I was part human after all. She just high-hoofed me because I pulled off a Golden Rainboom, except that it was different in color from Rainbow's Sonic Rainboom, which was an actual rainbow. I had to admit that was awesome though.
"Well James, it seems that you've taken a liking to your pegasus form I assume?" Princess Celestia came up to me, I had bowed in both her and Princess Luna's presence because she did gift me the ability to change into a pony and back into human at my own will.
"Yes Princess, and I have you to thank for that." I had responded, changing back into my human form, getting back to standing on my feet. Luna just looked surprised at me changing right in front of her.
"Tia, you weren't kidding when you gave the humans that ability, were you?" Luna had asked giving out a nervous laugh as she just witnessed it happening just now.
"Why would I kid about that Lulu? You know I was being serious, but you just laughed at it in my face." Princess Celestia gave a stern look at her sister, Rainbow and I were just giggling at the little argument between the two sisters.
Switch to Kaptn's PoV
' I better change into a pony before I get there ' I pondered to myself. What Applejack would need if she needs two stallions to pull something? Oh well, at least I'm making myself useful. I changed to my earth pony form, and yes, I felt stronger when I'm in this body for some reason, I have no idea how Drew got the princess to do this for us, but it's pretty cool to change from a pony and back. This may be useful to have if we get assigned another suicide mission.
"Well howdy Leon, thank you fer comin' we need all the help we can get today." Applejack greeted me, I had greeter her back and asked what she needed help with.
"Well, ya' see. We need to do some heavy haulin' today, we are gettin' rid of this old barn, we need help to clear th debris so we can make a new one." Applejack said. Well, I'd better get to work if I wanna do this in a hurry. I didn't notice how fast I was going, but all this debris wasn't all that heavy, I looked over to Big Mac, it looked like he needed help so I decided to assist him since I was done doing my share. Big Mac's jaw just dropped at how fast I was going, not to mention how heavy it was for him.
"Why, thank ya' kindly Leon, without you this could've taken weeks! You just took like 2 hours to clear it! Well, we always need help on tha farm so come back if you get bored or somethin' around yer house." Applejack was surprised at how strong I was, I just chuckled as I turned back into a human, Big Mac was even more surprised at this.
"Well, you must be Big Mac. Applejack tells me all about you, don't worry about the whole Human/Pony thing, the princess gave me and three other people that ability. Well, It's nice meeting you." I said as I walked into Ponyville, I decided to go check on Pinkie Pie if she needed any help.
"Hello Leon! How are you?" Pinkie said as I walked into Sugarcube Corner.
"Well hello there to you Miss Pinkie. I was wondering if you needed help with anything? Because Jhon's off training with Rainbow, Drew's taking lessons with Twilight and Rarity about magic, and Nick's just pulling pranks on ponies around town." I had told her, she needed help delivering some orders to ponies around town, so I put the boxes into by backpack and started my scavenger hunt.
"Thank you for doing this Leon, I am quite busy today. Well, see you later!" Pinkie said as she teleported back into the kitchen, not knowing how though.
Okay, first off is a Miss Ditzy Doo. I went to her address as I pulled out a box of what it smelled like muffins. I knocked on the door and I heard someone say inside the house, "Mommy! Someone's here!" I heard hoofsteps come up to the door and a gray pegasus appeared, I had just taken notice of her eyes.
"Uhmm, ma'am, are you miss Ditzy Doo? I have this package to deliver from Sugarcube Corner." I said, she nodded confirming that it was her, I gave her the box. She opened it saying, "MUFFINS!" thanked me and ran back into the house, giving me her pay, and invited me inside.
"Well, thank you Miss Ditzy Doo, but I have some more packages to deliver, so I should be going." I said trying to walk out of the house. She had introduced me to her love of muffins, and her little muffin, Dinky, she was a cute little unicorn I had to admit, very obedient to her mother too. I may have to visit them another time. I know Derpy, she asked me to call her that, was the town's mailmare, and she doesn't have a babysitter, so I may have to ask her if I can babysit Dinky for her one day so she's not so lonely. She was a school filly too, so she's all by herself on Saturdays, I felt bad for the poor kid, just sitting there bored out of her mind inside that house.
' Next on the list is a Miss, wow, there's only mares' names on the list, a Miss Lyra Heartstrings, she had an apple pie ordered from Sugarcube Corner. ' I came up to her door, but before I could knock she had already answered.
"Yes, that order's for me. Please, come inside." Lyra had rushed me inside her house, what I saw were ancient posters of what looked like to be humans inside her basement, I also saw another mare inside the house too.
"Bon Bon, this is a human. I SO TOLD YOU THEY WERE REAL! IN YOUR FACE SUCKA!" Lyra boasted, the mare that was named Bon Bon apparently just stood there, shocked at the sight of me. I had placed the pie at the center of the table, still steaming like it was just taken out of the oven. As I walked out the front door Lyra had stopped me and asked, "what's it like to walk on two legs instead of four?" I chuckled at her curiosity.
"Well, Miss Lyra, walking on two legs is much harder than walking on four, I know that from experience." I had responded.
I had finished delivering everything and I decided that I would check up on Drew and how he was doing with magic. "Well, Leon, Drew has actually been doing better at first than I anticipated, he can actually pick stuff up with telekinesis now, look." Twilight pointed over to Drew, he was holding his favorite Desert Eagle in a magical, blue aura, I was surprised he could learn so fast.
"I've never seen anypony learn how to use telekinesis so fast, Drew must be a natural to this." Twilight said writing stuff down about Drew, what he looked like as an Alicorn, what his aura field looks like, everything.
"Yo Lightning, how ya doin over there?" Drew in his Alicorn form only responded to Twilight Lightning or just Lightning because he didn't feel like it was natural calling him Drew when he was an Alicorn. Drew had came over, and picked me up into the air with his telekinesis and told me that he was doing fine, actually, better than he was before. He dropped me onto the ground, with me landing on my ass, I got up and dusted myself off and Twilight let out a little giggle at what just happened. I went back to the house, turned on my data pad, and started watching TV from Earth, it projected a hologram screen right in front of me, it was on the cartoon channel, then it hit me. These aren't just ponies, they were from a show on Earth, I guess either the show was based on a real world, or Equestria was built based on the show, I didn't want to know, but they were there, on Earth, in a cartoon. After that discovery I just fell asleep, bored out of my mind.
Switch to Jhon's PoV
I had to say, I felt bad for Rainbow, being torn by what I've told her, but maybe Drew has a soft side for her, maybe. Maybe he's willing to put aside that commitment he made 12 years ago. He was so willing to keep that commitment, one time a hooker from a nightclub wanted to sleep with him, he almost beat her to death, the hooker didn't press charges after we told her about Drew, plus she was sexually harassing him, and molesting him too. Drew didn't like it one bit, but maybe, just maybe Rainbow had a chance with him. I know when Drew was holding out on something, he was holding in something lately, but I can't tell what he is holding out on us.
I had decided to check up on how Drew's doing with his magic lessons from Twilight, but he wasn't there, just a white hole, with Twilight staring at it.
"Hey Twilight, what's going on? Where's Drew?" I had asked she had told me that Drew was performing a spell that enables inter-dimensional travel, I hope he knew what he was doing. Then, out of nowhere, Drew was in his human form and he was wearing what seemed to be ODST armor, and he was wearing a Pip-Boy! He also had some goods in his backpack. He had 3 other folded sets of ODST armor, three other Pip-Boys, 4 sets of Six-Pack Nuka-Colas, 2 Halo magnums, and some other stuff too. I was amazed at how much goods he had grabbed while in the other dimensions.
"Man Drew, you got the hook-up!" I said still awe-struck at the haul.
"I know right? We got ourselves some new armor, new technology, and Nuka-Cola!" Drew replied back to me, he wanted to send a Six-Pack to the princesses because even though it was inter-dimensional, it was still made by humans, and he always wanted them to try human soda, so he got out a box out of nowhere, wrote a letter saying,
Dear Princesses Celestia and Luna,
I have mastered inter-dimensional travel already, so I went ahead and got some Nuka-Cola from another dimension for you two to enjoy. I heard that this brand soda is delicious, but never got to try it for myself, and I must warn you about consuming this, it contains radiation. So, write back to me once you have tasted it, and tell us about what you think.
Sincerely, Drew a.k.a. Twilight Lightning (my name for myself as an Alicorn)
He placed the letter on to of the Styrofoam peanuts and placed the Nuka-Cola underneath it to prevent it from breaking, even though it was a package, Spike said he could deliver those too.
I went ahead and tried on my new set of armor and my Pip-Boy, and it was the real thing, it wasn't like some sort of costume. I had Drew shoot a bullet at me, and my chest plate deflected it. So it really was real and the Pip-Boy showed me what I had in my inventory, it said I was wearing my ODST armor set, I had my M1911 in my holster, my HP was full, and my AP was full. This was just so awesome, inter-world clothing and technology, I couldn't wait to surprise the others. I started to go home because Twilight said that Lightning needed to concentrate, bringing all of the stuff Drew brought from the other dimensions with me, locking the guns up in our basement vault, putting the armor sets in our closets, and putting the delicious Nuka-Cola into the fridge. I had Spike come along with me so I can show the little guy our house, because he never saw it before, once he saw it, his jaw dropped and stayed open, looking at how big this house was.
"Better close your mouth before a fly flies into there." I laughed, Spike did the best he could to try and close his mouth until he finally just zipped it together. I had also let him try a bottle of our Nuka-Cola, as he finished it and burped, a note came out of a green flame, I had picked it up and read it.
Dear Drew and Co.,
Luna and I have finished your human soda. We have decided that it was the best we've ever tasted, but the radiation might be dangerous if you consume too much. I decided to have it made to be sold to all over Equestria and without the radiation, but we don't have anymore to copy the recipe, we must ask for one more bottle before you drink it all.
Sincerely, Pincess Celestia
"Hey Spike, go grab another Nuka-Cola from the fridge and sent it to Princess Celestia please." I had asked him to do so, he did, but only if he could have one more bottle, since this was going to be all over the streets of Equestria, I let him drink another and he sent another one to the princess. I decided to try one for myself, and boy, was it good, I see why it was all over the streets of America in the Fallout Universe. Since Kaptn was home I went to go give him his Pip-Boy, even though we were in Delta doesn't mean we didn't like video games at one point. Today, and for the past few weeks, have been unusually eventful, first, we get teleported here because apparently Drew has Alicorn powers, then we almost die, and now, we have Pip-Boys and ODST armor sets! Well, I've had enough events happening lately, hopefully tomorrow would be considered normal in my book. I laid back into my bed, which was surprisingly comfy, and drifted to sleep.
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