"So, since the Police Building is destroyed, where are we going to stay?" Andrew asked to no one in particular, making everyone stop and think.

"I guess we'll have to split up." Jhon said quietly, making everyone nod.

"Who is willing to take us in?" Fluttershy nodded, Rainbow raised her hoof, Twilight agreed to it, and Applejack offered a place to stay as well.

"Jhon, since you're the quiet one, I guess you can stay with Fluttershy for a bit. Helena, you can stay with Twilight. Nick you're strong so you can help out with Applejack... and that leaves me." Andrew walked up to Rainbow, patting her on the head.

"I guess I'm with you, Rainbow." He said sweetly, making Rainbow blush.

"It's only for a few days, and we don't take up that much room either, so that's a plus." He explained, making them a bit less worried.

"Andrew, Rainbow lives in a cloud house, how do you expect to get up there?" Twilight asked, Andrew laughed.

"If I'm thinking this through correctly, I'm pretty sure I can rappel up there, if my grappling hook can hook onto clouds that is. Hey Twilight, just in case, you think you can enchant this?" She nodded, and the grappling hook emanated a slight purple glow. Andrew tested it out by throwing it at a cloud, and just as expected it stuck.

"Hey, I'm going to check around town, let everypony know we're back." Andrew said, looking at the time. Helena followed closely behind.

"Wow, it's getting late. Hey, is Vinyl's Club okay?" Helena asked, they all nodded.

"We should go then! I'm in need of a good R&R after the run in with the Darkness." She said, dragging Andrew along with her. They were all a bit skeptical at first, but after Andrew offered to buy drinks they all went after them.

"Hey Andrew, what's up?" Vinyl greeted them, Andrew returned the hoofbump.

"Oh, you know. Working counter-terrorism, almost dying for the billionth time." He said, going inside.

"That's cool, you know. Saving Equestria and all that, it's really nice of you."

"It's just my job, I just work as a Police Officer to pass the time." He smirked.

"So, are you deciding to hit up the bar or go out on stage tonight?" Vinyl asked, taking off her headphones to hear.

"I think I'll do a little bit of both." Andrew said, grabbing a microphone.

Just as if on cue, Rainbow walked in just as Andrew went up on stage. He smirked as he scrolled to a specific song, making sure that it was the right one. Helena recognized this song, she loved this one, so she sat back and watched, waiting for her turn.

(Music)

Andrew sighed happily and went down into the bar. He would need a drink, because he hasn't had one in forever. He ordered a glass of Scotch, making him lick his lips as they met with the cold, alcoholic substance. Rainbow sat down next to him, trying not to make eye contact. Andrew eyed her suspiciously, seeing if she was going to make a move.

"Hey Rainbow, what's up?" Andrew asked, she smiled sheepishly at him.

"Nothing really, how about you?"

"Fine, fine. Celestia's making us go to Canterlot in a few days, got a new shipment of recruits in for the Royal Guards, she said she needs more Commanding Officers." He took a sip of his Scotch.

"That's pretty cool. Well, I'm gonna go get Twilight so she can teleport you up to my home."

"Sure, come by to pick me up when you're ready." He tipped his drink to her, she nodded and went out the door.

"Since when did you live with Rainbow?" Vinyl came up to him, he shrugged.

"It's only temporary, our Police Station is incapacitated at the moment, it's being fixed as we speak."

"Ah, the giant Spikezilla incident. A lot happens when you guys aren't around to see it, y'know."

"Yeah, I have no fucking clue why either." Just then, an employee came up to Vinyl, explaining a little situation that would be of concern to her.

"Hey uh, boss. There are some troublemakers on the dance floor, and our security team is on break and we can't find them anywhere." Vinyl gritted her teeth.

"It's always that one pony, I swear!" She said in anger, Andrew smirked.

"I can help, if you want it."

"No, it's fine. I got this." She walked off into the dance floor, trying to restrain the pony who was causing the trouble.

"Hey Andrew, Twilight's waiting outside." Rainbow flew up to him, tapping him on the shoulder.

"Okay, just let me-" He was cut off by another Pegasus, landing at his feet. He moaned as he got straight back up, Rainbow had a disgusted look on her face. Andrew just sat back and drank some more of his Scotch, wanting to know where this will take him.

"Hey, look Dumbbell! It's Rainbow Crash! The one who dropped out of flight school!"

"Hey, what's up Rainbow Crash?! Dropped out of any schools lately?"

"Well.. n-no but..."

"But nothing! You're nothing but a flight school drop out!" They laughed at her, making her almost to the point of crying. Andrew got up out of his seat, a little tipsy by now, but still aware of what was going on.

"Hey, do-don't be pickin'.. on her like that!" He got up, wobbling his way to Rainbow's aid.

"Or what? Is the big scary drunken alien gonna beat us up?" He taunted, making Andrew crack his knuckles.

"I can probably d-do more things drunk, th-than you can so-sober!" He kicked the Pegasus off of the ground, and landed on his stomach hard.

"T-Teach you some.. respect!" He hogtied the Pegasus pony using his spare pair of hand-cuffs, leaving him to be laughed at.

"Thanks for sticking up for me, what you did there was pretty awesome. Now let's try to get your drunk flank home." Rainbow pushed him towards Twilight's direction.

"To tell you the truth, I wasn't drunk. I just did that to insult him further." They both laughed harder than they already were, Twilight was just standing there, waiting, waiting, and waiting some more.

"It's about time! What took you guys so long?"

"Rainbow had a bully problem, I took care of it." Andrew explained with pride, Rainbow nodded silently.

"Should we be going then?"

"We shall dear Twilight, lead the way." They made their way on over towards Rainbow's Cloud Home, Andrew was teleported up there in an instant.

"I'll see ya tomorrow Twilight."

"Likewise Rainbow, good night."

As Rainbow headed on up and into her cloud house, Andrew was jumping on the puffy cloud carpet. Rainbow couldn't help but laugh at him, probably due to him never being on a cloud before. It acted like a trampoline, a very slow one at that. Almost as if it was low gravity.

"This feels like jumping on the moon!" Andrew said, jumping around some more.

"You've been on the moon before?" Rainbow asked, Andrew nodded happily.

"Multiple times, there's a Military base stationed up there. Sometimes I go there for training, which happens to be a lot harder because of the low gravity."

"I will see you in the morning Rainbow, I'm goin' to sleep." He plopped himself on the couch, and sprawled his limbs all over the place.

Rainbow said nothing as she went into her room, closing the door behind her. Once she was in her room, Andrew opened his eyes again, and opened up a holographic projection, which seemed to be a text logging journal. He silently whispered the words and they were recorded into text as he spoke, making sure to log everything.

"Personal Log No. 27,

April 15, 2160

I think I may have fallen for someone, or to be more specific, somepony. I've found out that she has the same feelings for me, but I just don't know how to approach this properly, nor do I know about the laws about inter-species relationships here in this new country. I just hope that I'm safe enough to be around, considering everything that's happened I would say no.

I have greatly improved on my crafting skills, as the resources here are plentiful and inexpensive. I even made a few trinkets and goodies for my own benefit. There are no vehicles here, and no petroleum based machines, mostly steam and magic based operating systems. This was a minor setback, but nothing a little imagination and innovation can't solve.

I don't know if we'll ever make it back to the U.S. and I'm starting to get other thoughts, of perhaps... staying here may not be a bad thing. The Princess said that we cannot return, but she never told us why, nor does she want to. I'm starting to get more and more curious about this place the longer I stay here.

My sanity has been restored for the time being, as we had just recently killed the source of my dementia, though I doubt it will stay this way for long. Anyways, I should be thankful that I am no longer haunted by visions of the past.

I am going to be meeting somepony named Captain Shining Armor in the days to come, to help him test some new equipment, as well as train the largest amount of new recruits for the Royal Guard up to date.

For now I'm curious to see where this Human-Pony relationship will take me, and hopefully my friends can respect that, on either side.

Major Andrew Hartfield, signing out."

He slowly looked up at the ceiling as his eyes started to involuntarily close, drifting off to sleep. Rainbow could be heard snoring loudly, making Andrew frown. He then took out his ear plugs and put them into his ears, which blocked out most of the noise. He then started to drift into sleep again, and more peacefully this time.

He was inside of a dream, and a vivid one at that. He seemed to be in the jungles of South America, where he was sent to rescue government V.I.P.'s. This was the mission he was assigned before he was sent here, by Princess Celestia. He remembered everything that went on, the moment where he breached, where everything was falling to shit, and the blinding light. This time, he really did die instead of being healed, and he could feel everything. The pain of being broken, the sense of dying, the people dying around him.

"Like I said, it's not over yet."