Two and a half weeks passed since we got back. Every day usually went by the same as the previous day.

In the morning, I'd wake the trainees up and then train them similar to the training of some of the Special Forces from our universe. PT wasn't needed for the troops because they have already been through basic royal guard training and was already fit. What the troops needed was mental, skill, and resistance training. Currently, we were giving the troops basic training. Advanced training was for later on. Of course, the seven of us dismissed our troops for a week so that they could enjoy Hearth's Warming Eve and I gave my troops back their pony species' characteristics back for the time being.

I also managed to modernize the Equestrian military a bit. The royal guard still existed; I just changed some roles and ranks. The captains of the individual pony races stayed captains but more ranks were introduced. E1-E9, W1-W5, and the O1-O6 were ranks that I introduced because the Royal Guard were using ranks that were similar to the British Army's ranks with the exception of Captain being the highest achievable rank. The seven of us chose ranks, but we didn't chose ranks that were over exuberant. Ike was a Sergeant or an E5, Andy was a Basic Airman or an E1, Austin was a Seaman or an E2, Alex was a Private First Class or an E2, and Nick was a Master Sergeant or an E6.  Because Logan and I were in NJROTC before the zombie apocalypse, we decided to stay with our previous ranks. Logan was a Petty Officer 1st class or an E6 and I was a Senior Chief Petty Officer or an E-8. The favorite thing about my rank was that in the armed forces, you don't address a Senior Chief Petty Officer with sir, you address them with chief.

In the afternoon, I would train the CMCs, Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, and Rainbow Dash. The CMCs and Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were released from school for Winter break after the Hearth's Warming Eve play. They advanced pretty quickly through the lessons. However, I didn't teach them class specialties with their pony races. Sweetie Belle and Silver Spoon were proficient in defensive positions and attacks. Rainbow Dash, Applebloom, and Diamond Tiara were proficient in offensive attacks. Scootaloo was equally skilled in both classes. I was a jack of all trades, master of none.

In the evening, I would work in my shop while Scootaloo either crusaded with the CMCs or played inside my shop, despite the fact that she was Scootaloo and she was in a weapons store. The CMCs often crusaded with Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. Despite the old bad blood, the five of them got together. It turned out that Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara enjoyed hanging out with the CMCs and crusading with them, as they thought the crusades often were fun or adventurous. Somehow, the CMCs still weren't able to get their cutiemarks despite the fact that what they need to get their cutiemarks were the most obvious things in the multiverse. Maybe one day I was to help them crusade.

The three new additions to our group had a difficult time blending in but they eventually did.

Austin made a simple two story house out of clouds with cloud furnishings and such. He worked at Twilight's library because she gained popularity from her books. Despite being a princess of a large nation, she still ran the library because she enjoyed books and she wanted to be with her friends. Yes, Twilight did make three new books about my other friends. Sometimes, there were mobs of fans that would try to swarm the seven of us. Austin's book was titled,"The Violence Of A Pacifist." Alex's book was titled,"Flames and You." Logan's book was titled,"Now You See Me, Now You Don't You Never Saw Me, You Never Will." Austin also got his cutie mark. Can anyone guess what the pacifist's cutie mark is? His cutie mark was the circular peace sign that hippies use. He got his cutie mark when he broke up a fight between two trainees. His cutie mark represented how he preferred the peaceful way over the violent way.

Logan made a hut in the middle of the Everfree forest because he needed a non-civilian populated area to make IEDs and pyrotechnic charges. One time he attracted a three headed-hydra that was pissed. Long story short, the three-headed hydra became a fifty-two headed-hydra that needed the rest of us to kill. Long story short, a 150 pound bomb was used and it rained blood for quite a while. He didn't get a steady job so he just did short odd jobs around the town when one rose. Logan also got this cutie mark. Logan's cutie mark was the pyramid with the eye on the tip, the same on the one dollar bill. He got his cutie mark when he was teaching his trainees spotting. His cutie mark represented his ability as a sniper and the ability to spot things.

Alex got a really small one story house close to Sweet Apple Acres. He tried to make the house by himself but messed up with the foundation which caused the house to collapse on itself. Eventually, he asked me to help with my Minecraft powers and I ended up making a blocky wood and stone house for him. It was fifteen blocks long by ten blocks wide and four blocks high or 48.75 feet long by 32.5 feet wide and thirteen feet tall. The house only had four rooms, a bedroom, a bathroom, a kitchen, and a garage. The house was literally divided in fours, just not with cube wide blocks and with actual nonblocky realistic materials. Believe it or not, he became a firefighter despite his crazed pyromaniac lifestyles. Alex also got his cutie mark. Can anyone guess what the pyromaniac's cutie mark is? A flame. His cutie mark was earned when he was teaching some of his trainees improvised pyrotechnic weapons. Obviously, it represented his flamer ways.

Other minor things happened in the two and a half weeks. Yes, Pinkie Pie did throw my three new friends a surprise party. It did not go well. Long story short, Austin accidently shot a cupcake that Pinkie had been working on for two whole days because he was surprised coupled with his paranoia from the zombie apocalypse. He was then chased around the town while he had cupcakes thrown at him by Pinkie Pie. In the end, he had to eat a five pound apology cupcake and he got sick for a few days.

My six friends also started modifying their motorcycles. Of course, some of them needed help because it may be hard to make some accessories, such as engine parts. Andy needed the most help as he did not know much about engineering and mechanics. Minor things were added to their motorcycles. Different types of tires, different engine parts, modified exhaust systems, different fuel types, light weight alloy shell plating, HUDs (Heads Up Display) on the windshields, and other minor things as such.

What Nick did was mostly cosmetic and aesthetic. He added spikes to the bolts on the tires, there was a small addition to the tires that would make the tracks on the ground where the motorcycle road over, set on fire. It looked badass when he drove his motorcycle. Something non cosmetic to his bike was he changed the engine of his motorcycle from the current modern V8 engine to a modified V8 old 60's Mustang engine. It increased the horsepower to 650 and it now had a top speed of about 265 miles an hour. He also added higher quality tires and a vibrate-dampening seat. His HUD displayed the speed, RPM, and current horsepower. He colored his bike solid black.

What Alex did was meant for speed. He changed the shell of his bike from a high quality plastic to an enchanted titanium shell. He changed anything made of metal to titanium, causing it to lose half of its weight. He changed the tires to racing tires. He also reshaped it slightly to make it more aerodynamic. All of these changed raised the speed from 176 miles an hour to 305 miles an hour. His HUD constantly displayed his speed, RPM (Rotations Per Minute), wind speed, wind resistance, and current motorcycle condition. He colored his bike black and added some flames on the sides.

What Andy did was meant for comfort. He modified his muffler by making it bigger with more chambers to make it quieter. The seat took away nearly all vibrations from the engine. The suspension was modified to basically ignore bumps. The engine was enchanted to make it more efficient. All of this changed the top speed to about 255 miles an hour. His HUD displayed the speed, current weather and time, and it stored data, mainly recipes, how much money he had, etc. Andy painted his bike black with some red highlights.

What Logan did was purely practical. He changed the regenerating fuel from normal gasoline to a liquid rocket propellant made of a nitromethane and jet fuel blend. The liquid rocket propellant would cause the motorcycle's engine to run harder and faster but to the cost of ruining the engine faster. The tires were made wider and were designed to be driven on dirt because there weren't that many roads in Equestria. The muffler was replaced with one meant for speed. The shell of the motorcycle and engine parts were replaced with ones made of an aluminum-titanium alloy to make to make the motorcycle lighter. All these changed the speed of the motorcycle to 315 miles an hour. His HUD displayed the speed, RPM, and temperature of his motorcycle's engine because the new fuel would overheat the engine too quickly despite the motorcycle's coolant system. He colored his motorcycle black with some OD green areas.

All Ike did to his car was by adding nitrous to the car. The same thing are done to police cruisers for the cars to be able to keep up in high speed chases.This changed the speed of his car to 285 miles an hour. Austin didn't change his bike because it was already decked out and it was pretty hard to get any parts for a motorcycle that is literally one of its kind. The two of them kept their motorcycles in the current color and paint scheme.

We also started to modify their armor to fit personal desires while I strengthened their armor.

Andy's armor was the advanced engineering rig from Deadspace and he modified it by coloring all the plating red and all the unplated parks pitch black. I strengthened his armor by changing the armor plates into a titanium-tungsten alloy and the unplated parts turned into a nanokevlar weave. Nanokevlar is basically kevlar made on a microscopic level. It is made of self-assembling nanospheres. It makes normal kevlar look like tissue paper. It was recently created before the zombie apocalypse and it was being developed for easy production and nanokevlar led the development for printable body armor.

Ike's armor was the HEV suit from Half Life and he modified it by changing the colors to black and grey. I strengthened his armor by changing the plating into a titanium-tungsten alloy. Why was I using titanium-tungsten metal alloys so much? Titanium-tungsten alloy armor is easy to repair, maintain, and clean.

Alex's armor was the onyx medium armor from Mass Effect and he modified it by coloring it to orange, red, and yellow, like fire. I strengthened his armor by changing the armored glass on his visor to a palladium fused metallic glass and the metal plating to a titanium-tungsten alloy. Metallic glass is micro alloy glass that has been fused with metal alloys. Any type of metal can be fused to metallic glass but palladium fused glass offers a balance between toughness and strength.

Austin didn't change his armor that much except for the fact that he added more pouches. I strengthened his armor by changing any cloth-like area into nanokevlar.

Logan didn't need modification with his armor because it was fused to his body and his armor was fine unless he ran out of energy. One of his suit's abilities that he enjoyed using was the invisibility cloaking. However, he was only able to stay invisible for a minute at a time and if he moved while he was invisible, he would become a transparent blurred image unlike the game due to the fact that his clothes, weapons, and gear weren't linked to the suit's cloak system and his suit struggled to make those possessions invisible.

Nick didn't have armor because he had the body modifications from his encounter with the aliens and the nanobots. He was also able to slowly regenerate wounds but he was still able to be killed and wounded. To provide him with some armor, I gave him a new black hoodie to replace his old one. This new hoodie that I gave to him was entirely made of buckypaper. Buckypaper is a type of clothe entirely made up of carbon nanotubes. Ever seen carbon arrows? Imagine the same thing except the carbon tubes are 50000 times thinner than human hairs and are woven together. The result is a cloth that is 500 times stronger than steel and over ten times lighter. Buckypaper is one of the toughest materials ever made. If you were to shoot a sheet of buckypaper about as thick as printing paper with light cannon rounds, the sheet of buckypaper wouldn't even be dented because it is a cloth. A knife or sharp object wouldn't be able to go through buckypaper like kevlar. This material was created before the zombie apocalypse and the only reason it wasn't mass produced was the fact that you had to make it on an atomic scale, one atom at a time and I made it by using magic. Nick's hoodie was an eight of inch thick, capable of stopping most anti-tank cannon rounds. The only downside was the fact that his hoodie only protected his chest and the back of his head.

My IOTV vest was destroyed long ago and I used my inventory to carry the items. My chain maille was kept as a souvenir in my backpack because again, I no longer needed it. The only armor I wore was my one eight thick kevlar assassin's robe that would only stop something as small as a 9MM rounds only. Blades and blunt weapons would completely ignore my robe. I scrapped the robe and made a new one, out of graphene. Graphene are sheets of pure carbon atoms arranged in a specific pattern, hexagons. Graphene is one of the toughest materials there is. How strong is it? If you were to shoot a solid sheet of graphene that was as thick as saran wrap with a 30MM anti-tank round from the GAU-8 Avenger Cannon that are used on the A10 Thunderbolt as its primary armament, you would barely puncture the piece of graphene. It was recently created before the zombie apocalypse started and wasn't able to be mass produced because it was made on an atomic scale one atom at a time. The only reason I was able to make enough graphene for a jacket was the fact that I had magic. My robe was a tenth of an inch thick or about 200 sheets (I actually calculated how many sheets it would be) of graphene. My new robe is basically indestructible, save for antitank rounds.

As time passed, we neared Hearth's Warming Eve itself. Everything was decorated for the holidays. Everyone was having fun with snow. Anyone that got in a snowball fight with me would lose because I would turn into a pony when in a snowball fight and blend in with the background completely. One time, I lied down in the middle of the road and no one noticed except for when someone ran me over.

It turned out the ponies had Santa Clause except his name was Santa Hooves and he actually existed for a few years and he actually did use talking flying reindeer. The ponies also did secret Santa. The Mane six, CMCs, Spike, and my friends participated in a secret Santa gift exchange. Twilight was supposed to give Andy a gift, Rarity was supposed to give Alex a gift, Rainbow Dash was supposed to give Applebloom a gift, Fluttershy would give Rainbow Dash a gift, Pinkie Pie would give Scootaloo a gift, Applejack would give Sweetie Belle a gift, Sweetie Belle would give Austin a gift, Scootaloo would get Nick a gift, Applebloom would get Logan a gift, Logan would get Pinkie Pie a gift, Alex would get Ike a gift, Nick would get Twilight a gift, Andy would get Rarity a gift, Austin would get Applejack a gift, and Ike would get Fluttershy a gift. I did not participate in secret Santa. Everyone was a tad bit mad about that but eventually went with it, knowing that I was Tran and I was being Tran.

Currently In Ponyville

I walked through Ponyville, my hands in my new assassin's robe. As I walked through town, ponies looked at me, from fear because I was one of the most dangerous beings that existed, respect because of how my friends and I helped win a war for Equestria and the Equestrian Star that was dangling around my neck, awe because that a real life character from a now Equestria-wide famous book, or from curiosity because I was still an armed six foot tall Asian walking through a town of three foot tall ponies. My friends were doing whatever my friends did. The CMCs were constantly crusading for their cutie marks. The Mane six was doing Mane six schtuff. Spike was being Spike.

Hearth's Warming Eve was tomorrow. While going through other universes was pretty interesting. Traveling through universes was quite simple. You just had to perform a teleport spell destined to go to whatever universe you wanted to go to when there is a tear in the fabrics of time and space in close vicinity. Or you could just randomly go through universes. Searching for a universe was a lot like using Google. You needed a key search topic/word. Four universes stood out from my multiverse adventures, the DMC universe, the Halo universe, the Minecraft universe, and the Dead Space universe.

The Halo universe was the most interesting. The minute I went into the Halo universe, I was put at gunpoint. Luckily, I had demon speed and power to overpower the person. What happened next was I went through the ship on a rampage. I encountered several Spartan-IVs, empowered them, and beat them into submission despite the fact that they were fully armored. Anyone that isn't a halo fan, a Spartan’s armor weighs 1000 pounds and the Spartans wear the armor and move just as easily as they could without it. The most interesting thing that happened in the Halo universe was when I had to fight Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 or as everyone would know him by, Master Chief. Luckily he wasn't wearing any armor but he did have some physical capabilities that outweighed mine. To start, he was nearly seven feet tall and he weighed over 300 pounds that was basically pure muscles. He was tough to beat but the initial fight did take two hours. Afterwards, I managed to make peace with the UNSC, the crew, and most importantly, Master Chief. I also managed to get Master Chief's A.I. friend, Cortana, back with some black magic. It turned out A.I.s were alive and had souls. Long story short, Master Chief became my friend. I also managed to buy several weapons by selling gold. Back before the zombie apocalypse happened, the price of gold rose over 500% in value in less than twenty years. Imagine five hundred years. By then, the government was buying gold for over $40000 an ounce. I literally bribed the government with hundreds of one ounce gold bits. I bought some really nice toys. Like a couple Halo grade nukes and some other stuff that I have failed to mention. After that ordeal I just moved to a different dimension. Despite only staying in the Halo universe for only about nine hours, it was probably the most interesting universe I went to.

The only universe I went to that had an adventure that was close to being normal was when I went to the human universe where the zombie apocalypse never happened. Saying it was normal was saying I was normal. The government tried to capture me and find out the secret to my powers, weapons, and magic. To say that failed was saying Fat Man was a firecracker. I broke off of their holding facility, beat up a bunch of men, stole my weapons back, and bitch slapped six generals of the U.S. military. I also stole a bunch of new weapon attachments and some property of the U.S. military. One more thing, I am one of FBI's most wanted now. I think I am number twenty-four in terms of most wanted.

It was not long until I made it to where I was headed, Twilight's library. I walked inside and saw Twilight reading a book while drinking hot cocoa. I shook some snow off that stuck to my new robe before saying “HI Twilight. Whatcha readin?"

"Huh? Oh. Hi Tran. I'm just reading a book about religions. What do you need today?” Twilight said.

"I was checking if that Starswirl book came in" I replied.

"Oh it's right over there", Twilight said while pointing at a book on the table containing the equine centerpiece in the middle of the library.

I picked up the book and walked up to Twilight's second story floor that overlooked the inside of her library home. I took off my many jackets and gear until I was only wearing my polos. I set my things right next to me as I started to read my book. I also took out a hot mug of tea seemingly out of nowhere to drink while reading. The book I was reading was one of Starswirl the Bearded's personal spell journals. “Twilight, this is important. Whatever you do, don't bother me. I am really sensitive without my jackets."

"Wait, you're ticklish?” Twilight said while she started stifling a bit from trying to suppress a laugh.

"You better not do what I think you want to do" I said.

I continued to read my book but since I was a demon being that made my mind hundreds of times faster than my previous self, I finished the book in a matter of seconds so I just started memorizing the journal.

Then, something poked me in the side. Normally, I wasn't able to be snuck up on easily unless you had a really big advantage. Unfortunately, when I am doing something that involves my mind, such as reading or a Rubik’s cube, I completely ignore everything else. Since I was ticklish and extremely sensitive without my jackets, I ended up jumping off of the second story and landing face forward on the wood ground. I also ended up throwing the Starswirl's journal up.

"ARE YOU ALRIGHT!?!?” Twilight yelled. She ran down the stairs and to my body.

"My names not alright, my name is Tran" I said while raising my head up.

"Yeah. He's fine" Spike said who was walking out of a hallway with a towel on his waist.

"Tran, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to do that" Twilight said, trying to apologize.

"I'm fine. That will just give me nothing but a scratch. Seriously though, I am really sensitive without my jackets" I said.

"Wait. Tran, you're ticklish" Spike said while bursting into laughter.

"Just one more thing Twilight, you know the one of a kind personal journal of Starswirl the Bearded?” I asked.

"Yes?” she said back. “What about it?"

"I literally threw it up through the roof and sent it into planetary orbit" I replied.

"WHAT?!?!?!?” she screamed. She ran to where I was previously sitting and saw the hole in the three floors and the ceiling that I caused with the journal. “Nonononononononononononononononono", she started saying.

"Eeyup. I did tell you I'm sensitive." I took my jackets and gear before I left the library. I walked off while I was resleeving and reslinging my gear.

While I was walking, a snowball flew at me. I dodged and it impacted a building behind me. Then, ponies, children and adults, popped out of hiding spots, surrounding me. I saw that Rainbow Dash was one of them and she was holding a snowball in her hoof. “GET HIM!!!” Rainbow Dash yelled. They started throwing snowballs at me as I just stood there. Then, everything started to move slowly as my mind started to process things faster. I walked out of the way of the snowballs and stood behind Rainbow Dash. Time moved normally in my mind again and everything began to move normally again. Since I moved out of the way of snowballs and that everyone was positioned around where I used to be in a circle, the snowballs ended up hitting everyone that attempted to hit me with a snowball right in the face, including Rainbow Dash. I tapped Rainbow Dash on the back and she turned around and saw me. I threw a snowball that I literally got out of nowhere at her face. “I win."

I walked off and towards my previous destination, which was literally on the other side of Ponyville, hopefully uninterrupted this time. To pass the time while I was walking, I began experimenting with shotgun shells, phosphorus, magnesium, and some other stuff.

Everyone has to love phosphorus. Phosphorus is a nonmetal chemical element that is incredibly flammable. Its only incredibly dangerous, poisonous, and life threatening if used correctly. Magnesium is an alkaline earth metal that is incredibly flammable and it burns at above 5000 degrees Fahrenheit. White phosphorus and magnesium can also be used to turn normal shotgun shells into incendiary shells.

The most common of incendiary shotgun rounds are dragons breathe shotgun rounds. A common misconception about dragon's breath ammo is that it has an incredibly short range, as shown in the Call of Duty Black Ops's campaign level, The Defector. In reality, dragon's breath incendiary ammunition can reach 100 feet.  Of course I made dragon's breath ammo but I did make other types of incendiary shotgun ammunition.

One of the incendiary ammunition I made by taking some of the SCIMTR shells, a type of shotgun shell that's filled with small steel darts, and changed the darts from being made of steel to being made of solid magnesium. This means when the shell is being fired, several darts that are burning at 5000 degrees Fahrenheit are flying at you. The only downside to the ammunition is that the darts create a small shallow puncture wound and the burning at 5000 degrees Fahrenheit part causes immediate cauterizing of the wound. This ammunition was more maim and hurt than killing to lower and dismembering to lower moral. I called these shells dragon's bite. The shells were labeled with pictures of a burning skull and these shells were colored red.

Another type of ammunition I made was made by taking several of the deer slug shells, a type of shotgun shell that fires a one ounce lead slug, and hollowed out the bottom. I then filled the bottom of the slug with magnesium and coated the outside of the slug with white phosphorus before sealing the entire slug back inside the shell. When handling white phosphorus, it can't be exposed to air because white phosphorus ignites and if there is a large amount of white phosphorus, it explodes. When this shell is fired, it ignites and a burning slug of lead and fire hits you. This ammunition was more dismembering, setting things on fire, and killing to just simply kill. I called these shells dragon's punch. The shells were labeled with pictures of a burning fist and these shells were colored yellow.

Another type of ammunition I made was made by taking several buckshot rounds, a type of shotgun that fires several medium sized pellets, and emptied the pellets out of it. From there, I filled each of the shells with rock salt. Everyone knows what salt is. I don't need to explain that. Just one thing about it that most people don't know about, when salt is exposed to a wound; the salt disinfects the wound but causes stinging. A LOT OF STINGING! When this shell is fired, the rock salt inside the shell flies at you at high speeds. When the rock salt impacts, it cuts you and rubs salt into the wound. Getting shot with rock salt doesn't cause any permanent damage. This type of ammo has been handmade by people for self-defense before. This shell was more pain and nothing else for nonlethal purposes. Only pain. A lot of pain. These shells didn't have a name and these shells were colored white with no symbol unlike the others.

The last type of ammunition I made was the most dangerous of all. I started by taking the bird shot shells, a shell filled with lead BBs, and emptied them. From there, I used magical nuclear fusion to make one of the most dangerous elements in the world, francium. Most would say that uranium or plutonium are the most dangerous elements in the world due to their ability to make nukes and how they leak radiation but I think francium is more dangerous. Francium is an alkali metal and is element number eighty-seven. It is the natural element with the Earth only naturally containing less than an ounce of it at any given time. Francium is a strong emitter of gamma radiation, the radiation that is emitted after a nuclear blast. One of the most dangerous things about francium is the fact that it explodes, not burn but explodes when exposed to the air. I made the francium in an air vacuum, an area that is void of space that I create with magic. From there, I sealed off the francium and placed it in several shotgun shells. When the shotgun shell is detonated, a sealed projectile flies through the air. When it impacts the target, the francium that is sealed inside the projectile is exposed to the air from the impact and the francium detonates. The francium shells make a small nuclear blast, 125 feet in diameter. Anything alive that is hit by the shell will basically be disintegrated. If it somehow survives, the gamma radiation that will be leaking will do the trick. Normally, gamma radiation is stopped by the skin on your body but the explosion and possible shrapnel wounds would open wounds and allow the gamma radiation to leak into the target's body. I only made 100 of these shells because of the incredible danger and the danger of possibly making radioactive hotspots in Equestria. These shotgun shells were meant for small handheld mass destruction and death or as I would call it, KILL IT ALREADY YOU IDIOT!!!!. I called these shells, Tran shells. These shells were labeled with a yin yang sign and were colored black.

In the middle of making a dragon's punch round, I started to see my destination, Sweet Apple Acres. As I neared the farm, I heard the familiar gunfire of gunfire. I walked into the farm and saw Nick shooting his M60 at cans that were positioned on the fences about ten yards out. Shooting with Nick, was Alex, who was shooting his B93R's, and Applejack who was shooting her crossbow. I walked up behind the three of them. Nick was having trouble hitting any of the small apple targets. Alex had the same accuracy as Nick but his inaccuracy was due to the fact that he was using pistols. Applejack was doing just as bad as the others because she was using a bipedal position not meant for quadriped creatures. Nick's M60 then ran out of ammo and he stopped to reload. Alex stopped shooting as he waited for Nick to reload. Applejack, was still trying to hit a target.

"Ah gotta get me one ov dose" Applejack said.

"Ask Tran" Nick said.

"No" I said while announcing my presence to the three of them. The three of them turned around and saw me. "You guys exercising your right to bear arms?"

"Hell yeah" Alex said.

"It’s ahr right to bear arms" Applejack said.

"Tran, do you have it?" Nick asked. I nodded and he handed me his M60, still unreloaded. I took off my backpack and then placed it on the ground. I set the M60 on the backpack, using it as a makeshift table. I took out several tools and went to work on the M60. The others watched me work on Nick's gun, two of them not knowing what I was doing. A few minutes passed until I handed Nick his M60 back to him. Now there was a picatinny rail on the cover to the gun's action and on the rail was a triple hybrid scope with all three scopes flipped down to the right. “Nice. Just like I asked."

"Nick, that is a triple hybrid scope. Flip the first one up and you get a nonzoom red dot sight. Flip the second one up along with the second one and you get a 5X zoom acog with a mil dot sight. Flip the last one up along with all three sights and you got a 50X telescopic sight. Or if you want, flip all three sights down and you can use the iron sights. Don't worry about having to charge the scopes, they're enchanted." I essentially gave Nick's machine gun the ability for it to be used as a sniper rifle. Nick may be a hulking tank but there was more to him. He was one of the two people here that was able to understand what I was saying when it came to weapons somewhat most of the time, the other being Logan. Nick, when it came to using a weapon with a buttstock, he couldn't shoot very well because he couldn't shoulder a rifle buttstock very well. When he used his M60, he often sprayed which explains why Nick was barely able to hit the cans that were positioned on the fences. However, he was able to use a sniper-style weapon which was why I got him the hybrid scope. Although the M60 was a machine gun, it could still be used as a sniper rifle. The M60's effective range is 1200 yards for the average gunner and a sniper scope could easily increase that since the M60's maximum range is about 2000 yards.

"Tran, you get Nick a super advanced scope for his gun but you won't get me a shotgun like everyone else?"

I faced Alex and chucked a box at him. The box hit him right in the face and knocked him to the ground. “What the fuck you dick?" Applejack cringed a bit from Alex's cursing because the ponies were more innocent than humans. Alex was the type of person that had fewer morals than the average person and would indulge in some of the other things in life. As a brony? He was a mix between the average brony and a clopper. Yeah. He opened the box I threw at him and his mouth opened up in surprise and awe. He slowly lifted what was in the box and in the sunlight, shined a SSS (Serbu Super Shorty) in a leg holster. The SSS is legally an AOW (Any Other Weapon) because of the fact that it is a 16.5 inch long pump action sawed off shotgun. This shotgun weighs four pounds and it's essentially a small Mossberg Maverick 88 shotgun. The only down side to the shotgun was the fact that it held only two rounds, three if you include one in the chamber but with a 12 gauge shotgun round, it will cause some damage with a lot of spread. Basically, a very short sawed off shotgun.

"Nick, I have one more thing for your backpack, an ammunition backpack." I handed Nick a large camouflaged backpack that had a feed link system attached to it. The backpack feed system shown below is one that was invented by the IOWA National Guard. I modified it to carry twice as much rounds than the previous model. It carries 1000 rounds of ammunition which weighs about 80 pounds. This backpack carries enough ammunition for Nick to fire his M60 for a full two minutes, not that I would advise that to anyone because you would basically melt the action and barrel of the gun. Nick placed the large backpack on his back and attached the ammunition feed lip to his M60, reloading his M60.

Alex took aim at the cans with his SSS and fired one round at them, only to horribly miss. Nick aimed at the cans with his M60, without the iron sights and fired one round, only to horribly miss like his brother, Alex. Nick tried to shoot it again with the red dot sight of the hybrid scope and he still horribly missed. He tried it again with the acog sight of the hybrid scope and horribly missed again. He tried again, this time in a prone position with all three scopes of the hybrid scope and managed to hit one can. Applejack took aim with her crossbow and fired one bolt, barely grazing a can.

"You guys are horrible at this" I said.

"Oh yeah? Why don't you try Tran? That is, if you can" Alex taunted.

I looked at the cans then turned around, my back now facing the cans. I took out Yang and rested it on my right shoulder with my left hand holding the gun. With my right hand, I took out a mirror and held it behind the sights of Yang. Anyone that knows what this trick is and has attempted it, and then you know how hard it is to pull it off. Back before the zombie apocalypse, I tried this trick and have succeeded in hitting my target, except I wasn't using a can as a target; I was using pennies and dimes as targets at the time. I slowed down my breathing to keep Yang still and I slowly squeezed the trigger until... *BANG* One of the cans were knocked off of the post it was set on and onto the snow covered ground. I looked at Alex and smirked.

"Show off" Alex said while holstering his SSS on his right leg.

I walked off inwards towards town, specifically towards shop. My shop was located in the market of Ponyville or slightly west to the center of town. To pass the time I started to make more specialized shotgun rounds, minus the Tran shells of course. Back before the zombie apocalypse, specialized shotgun rounds weren't used in the military, despite their efficiency in stopping and killing power, because of the price of a specialized shotgun round. The average dragon's breath shotgun shell would cost about $5. Yes, $5 for a single shell. Dragon's breath ammo cost as much as .50 BMG rounds. Imagine how much a Tran shell would cost. The francium cores of the shell were made with nuclear fusion. Magical nuclear fusion but humans normally don't have access to magic so the cost would be tremendous. I looked up and saw that it was close to dark by now, since I started walking. I took out my 870 shotgun and unloaded, then reloaded it with one of each of the specialized shotgun rounds I made, minus the Tran shell and the rock salt round. I fired one round off, into the sky, lighting up the entire sky for a short moment. I repeated this with the other shells and this confirmed that my shotgun rounds worked.

As I walked, something impacted the back of my head and knocked me to the ground.

"Sorry Tran" a voice said. I recognized it as Scootaloo. I stood back up and looked at her. She was on her new scooter that I got her for her birthday. Hmm, a small child riding a scooter impacting you on the back of the head at a high speed. That would cause some damage, especially if she carried enough power to knock you down. I picked her up, scooter and all, and carried her in my arms. Scootaloo weighed about fifty pounds, like normal fillies of the same age, so she was pretty easy to carry.

"Scootaloo, why did you tackle me?"

"Oh um. Princess Twilight wants me to get you to her library" she replied.

"Why?"

"Because it's Hearth's Warming Eve!"

"Oh. Hold on, I'll teleport us there." *SNAP* The two of us disappeared from where we were standing and reappeared in  the middle of Twilight's library. In the middle of the library, instead of a giant wood statue of a horse head, was a decorated Christmas tree or as the ponies would call it, a Hearth's Warming tree. Around the tree were several wrapped presents.

"Twilight? You there? Hellooooooooooo" I said.

Twilight appeared on the second story and she walked down the stairs to the first floor. “HI Tran. You're finally here. Still sad that you didn't want to do a secret Santa."

Then Pinkie Pie popped out of the Christmas tree and said, “We need to get the others so we can open the presents then go to the Hearth's Warming Eve PARTY!!! It's going to be so much fun! Everypony in town is going to be there. Let’s get the others already!"

I walked over to the stairs with Scootaloo following me and stopped right next to Twilight. *SNAP* In the middle of the library, where I used to be standing was now where, my six friends, the other members of the Mane six, the other CMCs, Princess Celestia, and Princess Luna.

"Tran, WHY DID YOU SUMMON ME!?!??” Celestia yelled.

I pointed towards the tree and the presents that were placed beside it. Celestia face hoofed. “Sorry Tran about that outburst. It wasn't like me. I was just about to get some cake."

"LET’S OPEN THE PRESENTS ALREADY!!! I want to see what I got" Pinkie yelled.

And that is what we did. Twilight, as she usually would do to anyone else, got Andy a book. When he saw the book, everyone laughed and he threw it out a window. Rarity got Alex a brown beanie, par his request. When he got his present he immediately wore it. Rainbow Dash got Applebloom a new dark pink bow who replaced her current bow with. Fluttershy got Rainbow a new pair of flight goggles. Rainbow Dash immediately placed the goggles around her neck. Pinkie Pie got Scootaloo a basket full of sweets and candies which she began eating right away. Applejack got Sweetie Belle several apple related pastries which she placed on a table for later. Sweetie Belle got Austin a hand knitted scarf. A really long twenty foot scarf. He wrapped it around his neck a few times and each end touched the floor so he wrapped it around his body, making a really big sash. Scootaloo got Nick a new pair of jeans which he placed into his backpack. Applebloom got Logan a bottle of aged Sweet Apple Acres hard cider. How did a child get alcohol? Maybe with Applejack's permission. Logan got Pinkie Pie six Monster energy drinks and a small bottle of caffeine pills. What sane person would do that? However, in this case, the seven of us aren't sane, literally and metaphorically. Alex got Ike a fedora who wore it right away. Nick got Twilight a book. Andy got Rarity a vase, pronounced vauze. Andy made sure it was a vase (vauze), not a vase (vase). He even yelled vase (vauze) at Rarity when she called it a vase (vase). Austin got Applejack a bottle of fine hard cider from Canterlot. Ike got Fluttershy a catalog for her animals.

I sat on the stairs, watching everyone open their gifts. Once they finished, the Mane six and my six friends approached me. I knew what was going to happen from this encounter. “I’m going to guess that the twelve of you got me a present despite the fact that I didn't want to exchange presents like everyone else so you guys could make me smile."

"What? How could possibly know that?” Twilight asked. Everyone's face displayed the classic 'OH SHIT' face. Everyone covered their ears as they waited. When it didn't come, they looked at me.

"It's Hearth's Warming Eve. I'm going to let that one go", I said. “Now what did you guys get me?"

The three CMCs walked out of the crowd of ponies and people with Scootaloo leading and a large wrapped present on her back. I took the present off of her back an opened it. Inside was another wrapped box. I opened that one and there was another box. I opened that box and there was another box. I looked at the others and saw them giggling. I took out my lighter and set the box that was supposedly the present on fire. Several boxes burned away until a small metal box was left. It was about one inch thick, three inches wide, and a foot long. Inside, was a dagger. The handle of the dagger was four inches long and the blade was seven inches long. The blade was about an inch wide at its widest point. I examined the blade and determined that it was a Damascus steel. This meant that the ponies were advancing in metal very quickly. On the blade was the Mane six and my friends engraved into it. Overall, it was a beautiful blade. I placed the blade, along with its sheath, onto my held. I smiled and looked at the others.

"Thank you. Just one more thing. Do you guys know why I didn't want to go with secret Santa?” I asked.

"Here's what we know about Tran...” Nick said. You could have seen the ellipsis (the three periods used in a sentence to show silence).

"I agree with you Nick. No one truly knows much about me. You guys have known me for a while and you have barely scratched the surface. Even you Andy my brother. Where was I? Oh yeah. I didn't want to go with secret Santa because I would only give one person one gift. What I did was I got EVERYONE gifts. I got everyone three presents exactly. Let’s start with yours first, Luna."

I took off my backpack and placed it on the ground before I jumped into it. A few moments later, I jumped back out, holding a wrapped box. I handed it to Luna and the lot of us watched as she opened it with her magic. She lifted two things out of the box. One was striped blue socks, which she wore right away because she loved socks, and the other being..."Moon Pies?” Luna asked. In the air being levitated by her magic, was a box of Moon Pies.

Knowing the meme and being bronies, Nick, Alex, Logan, and Austin face palmed. “Try one", I said. I opened the box and took one of the moon pies out. I opened it up and held it out to her. She took it out with her magic and looked at it. She held it for a few seconds before she took a bite out of it. The response was instantaneous. Her face lit up and she devoured the entire, wrapper and all. She spat out the wrapper and took out another, unwrapped it, and then ate it whole. She repeated this action about three times before she realized that if she kept going, she would have ran out. “If you are running low on those, just use magic to clone any of the ones that you already have." She devoured three more before she became satisfied. “Now Luna, there is a full moon this night, right?"

"Yes. I sped up the moon cycle for the special occasion", she replied.

"Yes? Okay, I want all of you to look out the window and up at the full moon", I said back to her.

Everyone wondered what could possibly be worth looking but they eventually did as I said. I did so too to look at my gift to Luna. Up on the full moon, instead a silhouette of the mare on the moon was a more detailed picture of Luna. Everyone's, minus mine, jaws dropped.

"Who wants their presents next?” I asked. I was basically mobbed by the rest of the rest of them, minus Fluttershy. “Celestia, you're next. NOW STOP MOBBING ME!!!" I took out a flashbang, prepped it, and dropped it where I was standing. Before it detonated, I teleported to the second story to watch what was going to unfold. The flashbang detonated and everyone ran randomly around the tree house, completely blinded. About a minute passed before everyone was back to normal again and they realized that I was sitting on the second story, watching them while holding a flashbang by the safety ring. “Fluttershy, I'm giving you your present next because you decided not to mob me like the others."

I jumped down from the second story and in front of Fluttershy. I walked over to my backpack and toke out a wrapped box and handed it her. Everyone watched as she opened it. Fluttershy took out three things from the box, a large bag of Skittles, a small velvet pouch, and a smaller box. She opened the small pouch and looked inside of it. Her eyes widened as she realized what was in it."T-T-T-Tran, are these..."

"Gold bits? Yes. You are holding about 5000 bits", I replied.

"Tran, you don't need to give me money. I'm fine as I am", Fluttershy said handing me the sack of bits.

I looked at her with a face that said,'O RLY?' I handed Fluttershy back the bag of bits before I said, “Fluttershy, I have more wealth than most dragons. Plus, I know you don't have a job and you do need money to take care of your animals. Especially Angel. I know how you spoil him a bit, which is why I got you those Skittles. You and Angel will enjoy those. Look at the last item."

Fluttershy placed the skittles and bits back into the box and opened the last box. She lifted what was inside and held it for everyone to see.

"Tran is this a g-g-gun?” Fluttershy asked.

"Yes and no. That my dear friend is a tranquillizer gun. Using a small contained pressurized air tank, it fires small needles filled with a mild anesthetic. It can knock anything out, ranging from a bear to a bunny. It will never run out of anything, including loaded darts because I enchanted it not to. Don't worry Fluttershy, anything that is shot with it won't be harmed. Think of it as a forced nap."

"It's harmless?” she asked back.

"Yes, don't worry. I may be the most violent and dangerous one of us, but I am probably the one that cares the most about safety."

"What will I use this for?” Fluttershy asked back.

"One, you can use it to defend yourself if you ever need it. Two, if there's an animal that ever needs something done to it that's painful; you can use that to put it to sleep before you do. Three, if an animal is rabid and coming at you, you know what to do", I replied. "Dashie, let's get you your gift next." I took out a large box from my backpack and gave it to her.

She grabbed the present from my hands and nearly dropped it from the weight. “What did I get? Is it like Fluttershy's? Those guns are awesome! I bet it’s all weapony", Rainbow Dash said while she shook the box, creating a clinking noise from the contents of the box.

"Weapony's not a word", Austin said.

"It is in Rainbow Dash's book of awesome", she rebutted back.

"Open dah darn thing already", Applejack said.

"Fine, if you want to ruin the moment", Rainbow Dash said while she set the present on the ground. She slowly opened it from the box, raised up two things, a large suit of chain maille and a latched box. “Is this chain maille?!? I wanted to buy a set but they cost too much."

"How much do they cost?” Austin asked.

"Fifteen thousand bits", Rainbow Dash replied. “There are only two stores that sell this. Somewhere in Canterlot and some weapons store here in Ponyville. I've got to see that store but I'm too busy."

"Dashie, I'm the one that owns and runs that weapons store", I said.

"You own the War and Peace?!?” Rainbow Dash asked back.

"Yes?” I replied back. For anyone that doesn't know what the name of the store is shame on you. War and Peace/Voyna i Mir was the name of the book by Leo Tolstoy. It is considered as one of the most important pieces of literature ever. It contains an epic about the war of 1812, specifically the invasion of Russia by the French, and has 560000 words. This book is good. That is all I need to say.

"I heard that store sells the best weapons and armor in all of Equestria. The weapons and armor that is hoof made there are supposed to be unmatched in quality."

"Well, they're not hoof made, they're hand made. They're good because they from our world. The longest period of peace we had was Pax Romana. It lasted 207 years and only about a tenth of the world was at peace. Modern humans have been around for over 160000 years at the earliest, 30000 at the latest. In that time, humans have made weapons for all types of uses whether it's for killing and hunting or decorations and entertainment."

"Humans have existed that long?!?” Twilight asked.

"Eeyup. Rainbow Dash, did you see your last gift? It's in the box."

Rainbow Dash slowly unlatched the box before she held out several pieces of metal that had several straps and buckles attached to them. “They’re metal, sharp, something’s for... I have no clue what they're for." Rainbow Dash had about six of the metal objects placed on the ground.

"Rainbow Dash, those are wing blades. I made them for a special weapon for pegasi. You attach them to your wings and then you swipe and slash with your wings. You can still fly unhindered with those wing blades on because I magically enchanted them" I said.

"What?!? How do I put them on? I want to try them out" she said back.

"Hold still them. I'll attach them to your wings for you.” I said while lifting up the wings blades. It took me a while to strap each of the wing blades to her wings but when I did, she started flying with them, nearly cutting a lot of us. “I think I should take those off." I removed them and placed them back into the box they came in originally.

Next were Ike's presents. I handed Ike three boxes. One box was an oversized guitar case that was about the size of Ike himself. Another box was two feet long, a foot wide, and about half a foot thick and it had two latches on it. The last box was a foot tall, foot long, and foot wide and it was a cardboard box.

"Open the smallest one first' I said.

He slowly opened the small box and when he did, he lifted up a..."Ooo a fedora" Ike said. He took the hat out and placed it on his head.

"Eeyup. Open the medium sized box next."

He unlatched the next box and when he looked inside of it, he said "A MARE'S LEG?!?"

"WHAT!?!?" everyone, minus Logan, Andy, and I, said.

Ike slowly lifted up the aforementioned object and when he rose up a small lever action rifle in a holster, everyone let out a breath of relief.

"That is the Mare's Leg. I guess you know what it is. It's a gun chambered in .44-40 but Ike's is chambered in .44 magnum. It holds seven rounds Ike" I said. The Mare's Leg is a lever action rifle. The Mare's Leg is usually chambered in .44-40 but Ike's uses .44 magnum rounds. It is from the TV show, Wanted: Dead Or Alive. The most noticeable thing about this gun is the fact that it is only twenty-four inches long. The Mare's Leg is most famous for its appearance on the movie, ZombieLand, as Tallahassee's main weapon.

Ike's Mare's Leg came with a cowboy style leather holster. He strapped it on and unholstered the Mare's Leg, cocking it and aiming it in the air. “Nice" Ike said. He reholstered the small rifle and looked at the big guitar case. “I’m going to guess the last gift is a guitar."

"Kinda" I replied.

Ike hefted the large guitar case onto the table in the middle of the library and opened his. Ike lifted the top of the case up and from the guitar case; he lifted up a large purple guitar.

"Say hello to Nevan, Ike" I said. Ike knew what this was. What Ike was holding was Nevan. Similar to Agnus and Rudra, Cerebus, and Beowolf, Nevan is a devil arm from the DMC world. Nevan is the devil Nevan the Lightning Witch. The devil arm form of her allows the user to fight with an electric guitar, literally. The guitar strings of this devil arm are made of lightning. The guitar allows the user to wield lightning and bats to fight when the guitar is played. Nevan also has another form as a scythe for melee attacks. With this devil arm, you can either attack an enemy at long distances by using lightning or bats or fight with melee attacks with the scythe form of Nevan.

Ike started to play the same song that Dante played when he first got Nevan. Lightning and bats started to come out of the guitar.

Everyone's jaws dropped and basically hit the ground. Once Ike was finished, he slung the guitar on his back. Even that looked awesome. The shoulder strap of the guitar was made of lightning!

Next were Spike’s gifts. Instead of wrapped boxes, I just handed Spike his presents. First was a large diamond block, which he took a bite out of immediately and gained some jealousy from Rarity. Second was a Gameboy with plenty of games. The last gift was a diamond sword, courtesy of my Minecraft crafting powers. At first, Twilight didn't allow him to keep the sword after I "persuaded" her to let him keep the sword or as I would call it, threatened her with throwing away her gifts.

Rarity's gifts were somewhat normal. The first gift that I got her was a roll of kevlar, about a hundred yards worth of kevlar. The second gift was a bottle of two in one shampoo/conditioner from the human world. The last gift was a in a small cardboard box the size of a Rubik’s cube. Rarity slowly opened the box with her magic and once she did, she lifted up a black egg-sized object that glistened in the light.

"Tran, is this a diamond? A black diamond?!?" Rarity asked.

"Rarity, have you ever heard of blood diamonds?" I asked.

"This can't possibly be a blood diamond. Blood diamonds come from Tartarus?!?” she yelled.

"What’s ah blood diamond?!?" Applejack asked.

"Well Jackie my friend, a blood diamond is a diamond that are normally found in Tartarus. What makes blood diamonds special is that blood diamonds grows from blood and magic. This results in a shinier, tougher, and more valuable diamond" I explained. In the human world, blood diamonds are diamonds that are mined and sold to fun war. The most common use of blood diamonds are the ones African war lords mine and sell.

"How did you get this?!?" Rarity said.

"I grew it" I said.

"WHAT?!?!? HOW!??!"

"Magic" I said.

"Why is this black then?!?"

"I grew it from my blood. If you remember, my veins course with demon powers and magic. It's black because my blood is black."

"Exactly how valuable is that black blood diamond?" Twilight asked.

"This must be worth at least 45000 bits in the Canterlot market!" Rarity said with a squeal.

Next were the CMCs’ gifts. I got each of the CMCs 1000 bits each to fund their adventures. The next gift is what excited the three of them. I got each of them an assortment of nerf guns with hundreds of darts. The minute they learned how to use them, hell seemed like a paradise. They started shooting everyone, except for me. You should have seen the looks on Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash's faces, that was until they got shot multiple times with nerf darts. The last gifts were special for each of them. I gave Applebloom a large tool box filled with hundreds of tools and power tools. I gave Sweetie Belle a karaoke machine.

"Scootaloo, unlike your other friends, I have to give you your last gift tomorrow. Don't fret, it will be worth it" I said.

"What is it?!?" Scootaloo asked.

"You just have to wait Scoots. Trust me, you'll love it" I replied.

Next was Pinkie Pie’s gift. Her's were relatively normal. The first gift was a fifteen pound cupcake which she devoured immediately in an instant with her Pinkie Pie powers that allows her to break the laws of physics. Her second gift was a book of cupcake recipes that I got from a trip to the zombie apocalypse human universe. Her last gift was what caused the most commotion. Pinkie's third gift was in a large OD green case. It was about four feet long, two feet wide, and it rose a foot and a half off of the ground where it was laid. It had several latches on it and was made of metal. The case looked like it was meant to protect whatever was inside. Pinkie Pie slowly opened the case on the ground starting with the latches. I knew Pinkie Pie was slowly opening the case to cause suspense to everyone. She lifted the top cover of the case and looked inside. She let out a gasp that was only possible for Pinkie or some else that can break the laws of physics, was able to do. Then she said "IT'S A NEW PARTY CANNON!!!!" She held up her new party cannon. Instead of a medieval style party cannon, Pinkie Pie was holding a Milkor MGL140 multishot revolving 40MM grenade launcher. The entire gun was colored pinkie and on both sides of the grenade launcher was Pinkie Pie's cutie mark. The grenade launcher's sling was also pink like the rest of the gun. The revolving chamber of the gun had the words "Party Cannon" engraved on each side. The trigger guard of the grenade launcher was enlarged so that a pony could use it. My friend's eyes widened as they realized that I gave Pinkie Pie a pink 40MM grenade launcher.

To assure them of their safety, I said "Don't worry, I enchanted it to fire parties and it never runs out of party grenades."

"How fast does it fire?” Pinkie Pie asked.

Now why would Pinkie Pie ask something like that? Usually, people who are familiarized with combat would ask something like that. “Three shots a second for a total of 180 shots a minute" I replied.

"My old one shot fifty a minute. THIS ONE'S BETTER!! I can't wait to not use it" Pinkie Pie said.

"Isn't the saying "I can't wait to use it"?" I asked.

"Nope! I'm not waiting" Pinkie Pie replied. She started to jump around while simultaneously firing her new party cannon at parts of the library. The first shot, covered the library in party supplies, down to the punch bowl. Whenever she fired her new party cannon, the sound of a party horn that was as loud as a .22 round being discharged was heard. "IT'S BETTER THAN MY OLD CANNON!!!"

I could see the Mane six, minus Pinkie, rubbing their temples in frustration. I could sense the future migraines.

Next were Twilight’s gifts. Like the others, I gave her three gifts. The first one was a scrambled clone of my Rubik's cube. The second gift was a book on human history. The last gift was interesting.

The last gift was contained in a box the size of a Rubik’s cube, just three times as long. She opened it with her magic and took out a white crystal. “Tran, what is this?" Twilight asked.

"Remember how King Sombra would infuse evil into crystals as backups? Well instead of evil magic in that crystal, that holds harmonious magic" I said.

"How did you make this?!? You're a Nightmare!” Twilight asked.

"I have my ways" I replied.

Next was Celestia's gift. The funny thing was when I approached Celestia to give her, her gift; she repeatedly said "What ja get me? It was hilarious to watch and listen to Celestia constantly say that. Her first gift was a MMMM cake from the MLP FIM episode, MMMystery on the Friendship Express. She devoured about a quarter of it immediately. Her second gift were life size plushies of the Mane six. The last gift was a picture of the Mane six, the seven of us, Luna, Cadance, and Shining Armor.

Next was Applejack's gifts. The first were steel horseshoes meant for work, which she tried on immediately. Her next gift was in a similar case to the case that Pinkie Pie's Milkor MGL 140 except Applejack's case was colored black. Applejack's eyes went wide when she saw the case. “Is dis gonna be like Pinkie's?" Applejack asked.

"Open it and check" I replied.

Applejack slowly unlatched the case and lifted the cover before her mouth went wide. She turned the case around and showed us what was inside. It was a heavily modified T1 crossbow. Instead of a crank like a normal one, this crossbow had a pump, similar to a shotgun. The stock of a weapon resembled one of a hunting shotgun and it had a blade attached on the underside of the stock. On the front portion of the gun was a red dot sight. The bow part of the crossbow that held the strings had several pulleys on it. Applejack stood up, bipedal, and picked up the crossbow. She pumped it once and pulled the trigger. Unbeknownst to her, I enchanted the crossbow to hold a regenerable amount of ammo and it was loaded. A bolt was chambered and sent flying at the door of the library. When the bolt impacted the door, it went straight through the door and outside, impacted and sticking to a brick wall.

"Whoo ee dis holds some power" Applejack said while pumping the crossbow again.

"Applejack that holds a regenerable amount of bolts. Now Applejack, take out the quiver of bolts" I said.

Applejack walked back over to the case and pulled out a small quiver that held several bolts. Some of the bolts were colored red, some colored black, some colored orange, some colored white, and the last colored brown. “Tran, if dis has an unlimited number of arrows, why would I need these?"

"Well, those bolts are specialized ones. Each of those bolts have a different use. If you placed the bolt into the magazine of the crossbow and pump the crossbow, you chamber the crossbow with a different type of arrow. The red ones are fire arrows that ignite in the air when fired and it will light targets on fired. The black ones are explosive bolts that explode when it impacts the target. The explosion isn't that big though, it has a five foot blast. The orange ones are paint arrows and will just paint something orange. The white arrows are nonlethal arrows and have dummy tips. They will hurt whatever you shoot" I explained.

Applejack's eyes lit up and she quickly chambered a paint bolt. Then, she aimed the crossbow at Rainbow Dash and shot her in the side, painting part of her body orange.

"HEY! What was that for?!?" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

"Ah'm just messin wit yah sugarcube. No harm done" Applejack replied.

Applejack's last gift was special. I walked up to her and instead of getting something out of my backpack and handing it to her, I lifted the left side of my vest out and pulled out a small piece of paper from a hidden vest pocket. I handed it to Applejack and watched as she started to tear up a bit before she hugged me."Thank yah Tran. I don't know how tah thank yah."

"Applejack, I know how you lost them and I know how you don't have any pictures of them so I traveled through time just to get them. Don't lose it. Just something for you to remember them by."

"What did you get her Tran?” Twilight asked. Applejack showed the picture to everyone. On it was a picture of two earth ponies, one of them a stallion and the other a mare. Both of them had apple cutie marks. As what Applejack knew them by, her parents.

Next was Andy's presents. His first gift was the laser screwdriver from Doctor Whooves. He knew what it was immediately and pocketed it. His next gift was in a large container, similar to Pinkie Pie's and Applejack's. Inside was Andy's favorite gun to use in the Dead Space game series, the javelin gun. The javelin gun is a large tool meant to fire a large titanium stake at high speeds using electromagnetism. The only thing about it that peeved Andy was the fact that it came with an instruction manual and only six rounds, meaning he had to make his own ammo. The third gift was the strangest. From my backpack, I took out a large cardboard box that was a meter, by a meter, by a meter.

"What is this" Andy asked as he looked at the cardboard box on the ground. I looked at Andy before I jumped into the box and disappeared. A few seconds passed before I jumped out of it."IT"S A POCKET UNIVERSE?!?!?"

"Kinda. Inside the box is a three story home. Whatever goes in the top gets shrunken down twenty times smaller than you usually are. Any other entrance won't be shrunken down. It's your new home. Oh, whatever you do, try not to get the box destroyed because if you do, everything inside it spews out" I explained.

Next were Alex's presents. His first gift was a sword in a sheath. He questioned my gift a bit until he unsheathed it and noticed how "special" it was. The sword I gave him was entirely made of fire. The sword was enchanted and magic harnessed fire and made a solid form of it to make a sword. Alex's second gift was an orange hoodie, nothing out of the ordinary except for the fact that it was orange. The third gift was a pair of Desert Eagles. The two magnum pistols were gold plated that came with respective holsters. What most people don't know about is that when you dual wield, reloading is a problem with the left hand because most pistols have the slide release on the left side of the pistol, meant for the right hand's thumb to disengage it, not the left hand's thumb. To counter this, I made one of Alex's Desert Eagles inverted. Of course, the two Desert Eagles were chambered in .50 AE. so there was a high kick. The only way he was going to be able to dual wield both Desert Eagles was if he fired them when he was in his Onyx armor because his armor gave him some body enhancements.

Austin's and Logan's gifts shared one similar gift. Austin's first gift was an under barrel attachment for his MP5 that fired tranquilizers that slowly regenerated. It would fire ten tranquilizers before the tranquilizers had to regenerate which took about five minutes. Austin's second gift was a glowing crimson whip covered in spikes.

"Well Austin, that whip mimics one of my powers. It can suck the life out of someone. The spikes represent how many souls you have in the whip. Right now, there are twenty five souls in it and it can only hold a maximum of fifty souls. For every two souls, it gains a foot in length. You can add up the math for how long it is at fifty souls. The whip is glowing with the souls of others " I explained. Austin took the whip and due to its length, he wrapped it around his body, similar to a sash. Logan's first gift was a Indian tomahawk replica that could be used as a peace pipe. Logan's second gift was pair of .410 revolvers. One was from the Call Of Duty Black Ops 2 universe and the other was a realistic pistol. The left hand revolver was the Taurus Judge. The right hand revolver was the Executioner. Both had four and a half inch barrels. Both pistols had holsters to them which he wore immediately. Logan and Austin's gift that was similar was given to them at the same time.

I handed the two of them each a wood box. When they lifted the cover, it revealed several cigars in them. Logan picked one up and looked at it before he said "Are these Cuban cigars?"

"Yes" I replied.

"How did you get these?!?"

"Let's just say that Fidel Castro will not be happy" I replied. “I modified the cigars a bit though. Inside the middle of the cigars is a little something I found in the Everfree Forest that normal people would call pot."

"You found pot in the Everfree Forest?!?!?!?" both Austin and Logan yelled.

"What's pot?" Twilight asked.

"Twilight, pot is a narcotic that humans have grown and smoked for many things. Imagine it like a drug."

Next were Nick's gift. His first gift was a new pair of jeans because his old ones were basically shredded and Rarity refused using denim as a clothing material.

Nick's second gift was handed to him in the form of a military ammo tin. He opened it up and pulled out a rather large hand gun.

"Say hello to Blue Rose, Nick. That is the Blue Rose revolver. It is a .500 S&W double barreled revolver that holds six rounds instead of the usual five. It fires two rounds for every trigger pull. It's gonna dish out some pain" I explained. “If you looked inside the ammo tin, I made some custom speed loaders for the Blue Rose and your other .500 S&W revolver. Don't lose any of the speed loaders, there are only ten of them for the blue rose and another ten for your other .500 so don't go crazy with shooting. You ready for your next gift?" I said. I was responded with a nod.

"Does anyone know what the term hammer physics means and implies?" I asked. Several no's answered my question. “Hammer physics is when a fictional character has the ability to bend the laws of physics to pull random things out of nowhere. It is usually in violent children's fictional cat and mouse worlds (Tom and Jerry is an example)" I explained.

"How is that related to the topic of Nick's gift?" Austin asked.

I smirked and placed my hand behind my back and slowly raised it up. Instead of my hand being empty, my hand was gripping a rather large hammer.

I handed the large weapon to Nick. Everyone's eyes widened, except for Andy's because he didn’t know much about Halo, because they knew what I just gave Nick. Nick, of course, knew what it was because the gravity hammer was his favorite weapon from any video game. For anyone doesn't know what the gravity hammer is, the Gravity Hammer is a large energy type melee weapon sometimes used by the main protagonists of the Halo world. Using the power of gravity, the Gravity Hammer became one of the most powerful weapons in the Halo universe. How powerful is it? If the Gravity Hammer can completely destroy the shield of a Spartan-II and then send and kill the said Spartan-II that just happens to weigh 300 pounds and is wearing 1000 pound high tech titanium armor that can stop basically anti-tank rounds, flying like a bird in the air, then of course the Gravity Hammer can deal a lot of damage. Nick's Gravity Hammer was seven feet tall instead of the Gravity hammer's usual eight and a half feet height.

"Hammer physics peoples" I said. Nick basically had a smile plastered to his face. “Take a swing Nick." He held the gravity hammer and swung it around a bit. Unfortunately, he managed to hit me in the chest accidentally, which sent me flying. Within a few seconds, I flew through a bookshelf, a wall, a stone wall that was a foot thick, a tree, another foot thick stone wall, another tree, and across nineteen feet of the ground, digging a large three foot deep Tran-shaped trench. Everyone ran out of the hole that I made in all the aforementioned obstacles and stood at the end of the trench where I laid.

"Tran, are you alright!?!?!?!" Nick asked.

"My name isn't alright. My name is Tran, like you said earlier" I replied. Despite being sent through a bookshelf, a wall, a stone wall that was a foot thick, a tree, another foot thick stone wall, another tree, and across nineteen feet of the ground, I was fine. I stood back up, revealing a Tran shaped indentation in the ground. *SNAP* All previous damaged caused by me being sent flying from Nick's Gravity Hammer was undone and the trench was filled in. Then I walked over to Nick and lifted him up in the air by his neck. I glared into his soul with the pitch black eyes of a demon. Then I dropped him to the ground and started laughing. “I’m just messing with you Nick. I know it was an accident."

Then Pinkie Pie spoke up and said "Everypony, I gotta go and setup the party for Hearth's Warming Eve or everyone won't have fun and when ponies don't have fun then they're not happy and when they're not happy they're not having fun!" Pinkie Pie zipped off with her new party cannon strapped to her back with the same speed that she used to chase Rainbow Dash on several occasions. She disappeared from sight and once she did, the sound of party horns started coming from the direction Pinkie Pie was coming from, signifying that she was using her party canon.

The rest of us decided to join the party while Luna and Celestia decided to go back to their castle in Canterlot. Everyone, besides me, went and started partying. I started walking around in the general area where the party was being held. As I was walking, I was approached by a grey pony with a dark orange and light orange striped mane with a cutie mark of a magnifying glass.

"Hi Ruby. Shouldn't you be in Sunny Town as a ghost?" I asked. Ruby was a character in the fan flash game, Story Of The Blanks. For anyone that doesn't know what it is, Story Of The blanks is about a universe where a town named Sunny Town is occupied by earth ponies that don't have cutie marks. The ponies that live in Sunny Town believe that cutie marks will cause an epidemic of the cutie pox because of an epidemic of cutie pox that happened before. Ruby was a pony that lived in Sunny Town. One day, she earned her cutie mark, a magnifying glass, which resulted in her getting brutally killed and then getting burned in a fireplace. Now she roams Sunny Town as a ghost as the town of Sunny Town and its citizens are eternally trapped as zombies that are still rotting. Grey Hoof is one of the current leaders of Sunny Town. Something else to know is that Ruby's mother, Mitta, constantly regrets Ruby's death. (If anyone wants to see the comic form of this story, click on this link. It would help if you did look at the comic. It is pretty good.).

"What?!? How did you know?!?" Ruby asked.

"I KNOW EVERYTHING!!!" I yelled back.

"No one can truly know everything. It's impossible. Wait. I'm trying to get your help. Why am I arguing?"

"Ruby, I'm going to guess you need me help or something because Grey Hoof is planning something to do with Ponyville" I said.

"Now how do you know that?" Ruby asked.

"I KNOW EVERYTHING!!!"

"UUGH!! Since you know what I need, can you help me?!?" Ruby said in frustration.

"I can. Maybe you should ask if I will help you" I said back.

"WILL YOU HELP ME!??!?!" Ruby yelled.

"Yes I will help you. Is Grey Hoof here? How many of the other citizens of Sunny Town are here?

"Eighty" Ruby replied.

"WHAT?!?!? When did Sunny Town get so many citizens?!?"

"Grey Hoof and the others have been making citizens to Sunny Town for centuries. Ponies that come across gets turned into one of them. Eighty isn't even close to half of Sunny Town's population now."

"Then why are we standing here and talking. Shouldn't we be off finding them or something?"

"Good point."

"Are they in their non-zombie forms or in their normal pony forms" I asked.

"I don't know. They are in magical disguises and I have no way of distinguishing them from other ponies" Ruby replied.

"Then how would I be able to find them if someone who has been trapped within their town's vicinity for centuries?!?"

"I was hoping you could do something about that."

"Wait; are the citizens of Sunny Town still zombies?" I asked.

"Yes. They're just in disguises" Ruby replied.

"Ruby" another voice said. I looked to where the voice came from and saw a grey pony with a dark read mane.

"Hello Mitta" I said.

"Good, you found one of them" Mitta said.

"Mitta, I already know everything. Have you a clue on where the Grey Hoof and the others are?"

"They're at the party" Mitta replied.

"WHAT?!?!?" I teleported the three of us to where the Hearth's Warming Eve party was.

The party was similar to the Nightmare Night party except the colors were different.

"Attention everypony, can I get your attention?" I heard a voice say over a microphone. I turned to where the voice came from. On a stage where Vinyl Scratch was djing, was an earth pony stallion talking into a microphone. With him, he was surrounded by about eighty other ponies. Everyone was looking at the stallion. “I hope everyone is enjoying the party because you'll enjoy it forever!" Everyone cheered but I realized what he was actually doing. The Stallion on stage and the ponies surrounding him suddenly turned into zombies. I pulled out my B23R but before I could do anything, black crystals erupted from the ground and a surge of magic came resonated from the crystals. I recognized the magic as evil/dark magic and my soul absorbed it easily.

I looked at everyone else and saw that they were rotting bodies. Their bodies were on the ground writhing and bleeding as I knew that they must be going the most painful experiences of their life. I looked at the stage and saw that the ponies were now magical alicorns covered in auras of power and one of them stood out, Grey Hoof, their leader. I fired a three round burst at Grey Hoof but the bullets were blocked by a magical force field.

*SNAP* I turned myself into my Nightmare Form and looked at my friends, both pony and human, and saw that they were also rotting bodies. I lifted them up in the air with my magic and they were covered by my magical black aura. What I was doing? A transfer of powers. Once my black aura dissipated, the Mane six were wearing their EOHs and my friends had gold dog tags hanging around their necks. I did the same to the other citizens of Ponyville on a lower scale. Once I finished transferring my powers, I became a bloody decomposed body that would rival the bodies of the zombies from our original world. The pain was nothing but the decomposed body parts crippled me. I looked at the others and saw that they had auras of power similar to my black aura when I am in Nightmare form. “Good luck." My vision started to blur as my friends took out their weapons. Nick had out his Gravity Hammer, Ike had Nevan out, Alex had his fire sword out, Logan had his tomahawk in his right hand and hatchet in his left hand, Austin had his ice cream scoop in his left hand and his new whip in his right hand, and Andy had out his staff. The Mane six were standing biped and they also had weapons out. Twilight was wielding a staff, Rainbow Dash had her wing blades on and a ninjato in her hoofs, Rarity had a rapier, Applejack had her crossbow out, Fluttershy had a pair of hook swords, and Pinkie Pie had her Party cannon out. I doubt Pinkie's cannon would shoot parties now. To retaliate, the alicorns on stage rose up in the air and their horns lit up.

"It is on" my twelve friends said.