"Well Doktor, where are we off to?" I said.

"Again with the doctor thing" commented the Doctor. "But our destination? The future."

I sat down on the couch, the one that I borrowed from Rarity. "Oh a trip to the future. We haven't had one of those yet."

The Doctor trotted over to the control console of the TARDIS. "How far ahead?" he asked.

"Surprise me."

The Doctor smiled at me. "Good choice!" He started to flip some switches when Tardy tackled him.

"Can I choose the time!?" she asked.

"Sure, why not" the Doctor replied.

Smiling, she jumped off of him and somehow onto me, right on my head. "And onward!" she yelled while leaning forward. I nearly fell over from her doing this but managed to stay standing... For about ten seconds. After which, I hit my head on the console, mashing a few buttons.

Coincidentally, the buttons that my head managed to press/smash were also the correct ones to start the TARDIS. Unfortunately, they were also the correct buttons to cause turbulence which, at the current moment, felt like the earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010. The first thing that happened? Me falling, still with Tardy on my head. It was worsened when the Doctor fell on top of me, also on my head.

Soon, the shaking finally stopped and everything was still again. "Would the two of you remove yourselves from my head?" was what I intended to say but what actually came out were muffled grunts.

"What was that, Tran?" asked the Doctor.

I stood up, knocking the two of them over. "I was telling the two of you to get yourselves off of me."

Tardy got back up on her hooves. "Terribly sorry about that."

The Doctor also got up. "Yes, sorry about that."

Walking over to the control console, I looked at the dials. "Three thousand, eight hundred twenty-seven years into the future" I read off of the console.

"Not bad for dialing in the coordinates with your head via the assistance of gravity" said the Doctor.

I made my way to the door. "Let's see how far Equestria has gone into the future."

"Wait!" said Tardy.

I turned to look at her. "Yes?"

"You're still a human" said Tardy. "You're going to scare the food out of everyone!!" What is with her obsession with food though what she did say was correct. My human form might scare someone just not enough to literally scare the food out of a person. Snapping my fingers, I was once again in my small alicorn form, wings tucked inside my jackets. "Now you're good" she said with a light smile.

Turning around, I pushed open the doors of the TARDIS revealing hundreds of tall buildings, lots of concrete sidewalks and foundations, and cars. What made this different from the past?

The buildings seemed to reach the sky and all of them looked much more advanced than simple sky scrapers. One of the most easily visible examples of the advances were the big floating attachments to each of the buildings, such as billboards or balconies.

The sidewalks that I stood on were made of concrete but unlike the concrete jungles of Manehattan of Equestria or New York City of the United States, it sported no deformities and felt baby-skin soft to the touch, even to hooves.

The cars that zoomed by moved at sound breaking speeds and hovered. Yes, they had hover cars! The need to purchase a hover skateboard is rising.

Another giveaway that it was the future were the ponies that walked on the sidewalk. It included more than just ponies. Among the ponies, I saw changelings, griffons, camels, dogs, diamond dogs, zebras, hippogriffs, sphinxes, giraffes, and even some pink fluffy ponies, similar to Fluffle Puff.

Running towards the closest fluffy pony, I picked her up and hugged her. The adorable!

"Hey, get your hooves off of me you asshole!" he yelled with a deep masculine voice. Dropping the fluffy pony, I gaped at her, well him. "That's what I thought!" he said while walking away. People nearby gave me odd looks while I stood there.

Shaking my head, I walked back to the TARDIS doors. I pushed them open and stuck my head in to yell "Oi. Let's go!' Just as I pulled my head out, I found a griffon and a sphinx looking at me.

"Do you have a permit to put that there?" asked the griffon.

I reached a hoof into my robe's pocket. "Why yes. Here it is." I pulled out the psychic paper and held it out for him to see.

"Right. Apologies for the interruption of your actions" said the sphinx. With that, the two teleported away.

"Who were they?" I heard the Doctor ask. I turned around to face him and Tardy standing at the open doors of the TARDIS.

"Eh. Probably some police officers Doktor" I replied.

The Doctor sniffed the air a little bit. "Good environment. Nearly identical to the past. So, where should we head to first?" asked the Doctor. "No places of relation to weapons or food." Both Tardy and I looked at the Doctor degenerately. "What?"

-X-X-X-

Tardy stared at her drink. The thing resembled a soda cup filled with soda like the one you would get after buying fast food but it was anything but that. Poking it once, she continued staring at it.

"Oh just drink it already" said the Doctor.

She didn't comply and continued looking at the drink. "I don't trust it" said Tardy.

The Doctor rolled his eyes. "The restaurant scanned your tongue to determine what you would like. Just drink you good already!" said the Doctor.

I looked at the meal I was drinking and set it down. "To be fair, there is some fun in chewing a meal" I said.

The Doctor threw up his hooves in response. "Fine. Let me drink it and we'll be on our way" said the Doctor.

Tardy quickly snatched up her meal in a cup and basically cradled it. "No, it's my meal!" said Tardy.

"What!? You're not drinking it!" said the Doctor.

I put my hand over his shoulder. "Doctor, the three of us gave logic an existential crisis long before time existed." I took out a new piece of gum and popped it into my mouth.

Restaurants in the future were weird. Everything consumable was a liquid and you no longer chose what you order. You simply walked up to a cashier, pay for a meal, and then the said cashier hands you a drink that was specifically made for your tongue that was created upon entering the restaurant.

Drinking it was an even weirder concept. Imagine drinking something that was flavored like steak but felt like you were drinking sludge. That was what mine tasted like. I didn't like it.

Tardy absolutely took this to another level as shown. Still, she did not want to drink her meal.

"So, want to see if they still have guns?" I asked.

-X-X-X-

The griffon in front of me slammed his talons on the counter. "No we do not carry any gas propelled firearm weaponry! We sell current use, offensive role tools, not relics from the past. Does it look like we're a museum?!?" said the griffon store clerk.

"Then what do you have?" I asked them.

"It's dependent on your preference. Which of the following greet your mind better, magnetic assisted kinetic impacted, light based projection, or matter riders?" I blinked a few times. "New to weapons eh?" Well don't I feel offended now. "I'll let you test all three out and then you can make your choice."

I looked at Tardy and the Doctor. "You sure you don't want to try anything out?" I asked the two of them.

"Nah, just have some fun. We'll be waiting right here" said the Doctor.

I looked back at the clerk. "So, where are we going to test those out?" I asked the clerk.

He looked at me with a questioning look. "A holo room of course. Where have you been in the last century? The past?" he asked.

Would it be called the past? Technically, I'm from that time so I'd be from the past but right now, I'm in the future or would that be called the present now? Am I in the future and from the present or from the past and in the present? "Right... Let's go to that holo room... Right now?" I said, with a questioning tone.

He face palmed with his left talon before snapping with his right. The next thing I know is that I'm suddenly in a bright white room. I immediately started looking around, almost spinning in circles.

"Easy, easy now. It was only a simple mind to holo room transfer" the griffon's voice sounded out. "Seriously, where have you been in the last century?"

"I guess I'm just too old fashioned." I said.

"Anyways, look behind you. Demo weapons have been added in behind you."

I turned around and found a large weapons rack filled with various pistol-like objects. The problem? They were all unfamiliar to me. Every universe that I traveled to all had one thing in common, I could recognize how the weapons worked. Here? I might as well have been Andy.

"Don't know where to start?" asked the griffon. He still wasn't physically present. His voice just came out of nowhere when he spoke. "Let's star you out with the basics." The weapons on the rack in front of me disappeared in an instant only leaving three remaining.

All three of the weapons resembled pistols but were obviously different than what I was used to. The only commonalities that these weapons had to to actual pistols were the fact that the three of these had hoof triggers, a set of sights, and that they were vaguely pistol sized.

The one on the left differed from the others with how it sported a barrel with a very, very small diameter and how it was the only one of the three with a magazine release, or at least what I thought was a magazine release. It reminded me of an FN Five Seven with how plastic and toy-like it looked.

The one in the middle didn't differed from the other two as it appeared to not even have a barrel. Where a barrel would have been, was a small, bulb like device. Large sections of it were covered in a glass like substance that reminded me of a mix between solar panels and mood rings. Strangely, there were no visible sights on it. It reminded me of a mix between a laser/ray pistol and a 1911.

The last one also had a barrel but it appeared to be of no use to the weapon as the barrel appeared to be filled after an inch in depth. Strangely enough, it had only a rear sight. It reminded me of a Hi Point C9 with a closed revolver cylinder on the slide.

I picked up the one on the left first. The first thing I noticed? It had almost no weight to it. Seriously, it felt like I was holding a pencil.

"Targets are up. Take aim and fire when ready." In front of me, past the table, large circular red and white ringed targets popped up.

Taking aim, I pulled the trigger once. There was no gunshot but a slight whiz sound that was a lot like the sound of a paint ball gun being dry fired. There was also no recoil to it.

The holographic target downrange registered a hit directly on the bullseye of the target. "Huh. Fifteen yards and you hit the bullseye. Must have been a lucky shot" I heard the griffon say.

Lucky shot? If these sights are correct, then let's give him a show. I took aim again and pulled the trigger with speeds that would have made a machine gun jealous. The almost nonexistent recoil coupled with my demon strength and speed made it a cinch to do this. The gun started clicking after I had expended around fifty rounds in the two seconds that I had been firing it.  The target downrange wasn't peppered like with what would happen if I had used a machine gun. No, every round had neatly landed in the bullseye in a half inch grouping.

Looking at the gun thing, I tried to figure out why it started clicking. Ran out of ammo? Probably. I did fire fifty shots. While looking at it the AI, Nguyen, inside my glasses was able to scan the weapon. Turns out it had a commonality to the other weapons that I had seen in other universes, it was a kinetic energy weapon. Specifically, it was a rail gun. A very, very advanced rail gun but that doesn't make it more effective to the rail guns that I had created in my time period for my friends and I.

Sure it held fifty rounds but that was probably the only trump it had to the weapons I created. The design was easily more refined and Nguyen clocked the projectiles from it going at roughly 36000 feet per second. That's amazing and all, especially with my M4a1 fires projectiles at 9000-10000 feet per second with its rail gun mod, but the problem with it is that the the projectile it fires was a .95 grain round. That is excessively tiny compared to the 55 grain round that my M4a1 fires. This is worsened by the fact that the 5.56 round that the M4a1 fires is consider small.

With these numbers, the estimated amount of stopping power that these rounds deliver is about 2800 foot pounds of stopping power. That's horrible compared to what I created but to be fair, it's pretty amazing compared to any modern sidearm from the 21st century. Seriously, a pistol that holds fifty rounds, all of which delivering 2800 foot pounds of stopping power, is insane!

However, the size of the round brings up another issue. Muzzle energy and stopping power means nothing if none of it is dumped into the target. When a bullet passes through a target, a certain amount of it's energy is loss in going through a target. The bigger the bullet, the more energy that's dumped into the target. Many factors goes into how much energy is put into a target from a projectile but the biggest contributor? The size of the bullet. What caliber is my M4a1? Well, it fires a 5.56mm round which means its a .223 caliber projectile. What caliber is this rail pistol? According to Nguyen, it's a .4mm weapon which means it's a .016 caliber weapon.

Comparing the usage of  this rail pistol(like the one I was holding) to a conventional firearm(a normal gun from the 21st century) is like stabbing someone with a hypodermic needle versus stabbing them with a #2 pencil. Of course the pencil would do more damage, the needle is just more efficient at passing through an object without effort.

Now this introduces another problem into using very high powered, small caliber weapons. If it passes through a target, losing very little of its power, what does it do? Well, it keeps on going of course! This endangers anything or anyone behind the target.

"Can you bring up some flesh analogue targets?" I asked. I waited a few seconds but nothing happened and no on answered back. "Hello?"

"What you just did. Impossible. How did it happen!?" the griffon said.

"Could you bring up some flesh analogue targets?" I asked him.

"How!?" yelled the griffon.

"Um, could you bring up those flesh analogue targets?" I repeated.

"What? Oh sure" said the griffon.

The targets disappeared and extremely realistic pony dummies appeared in its place. Taking aim, I pulled the trigger, only to be met with clicks. I had forgotten that I had ran out of ammo. I pushed what I thought was a magazine release and the slide slid back like a drawer. I looked into the opening and saw the mechanics of the gun. How the heck do I reload it?

"What? You can shoot that well but you don't know how to reload?" asked the griffon. "Then again, you didn't even know what it was earlier."

"Okay, how do I reload it?" I asked him.

"Push the slide back in place and you'll be good for another fifty shots" said the griffon.

"How does that work? Nothing happened!" I said.

"Wrong. The mechanisms are exposed letting the nanos take in matter to craft more shots" said the griffon. Also, holy crap is that insane.

I pushed the slide, closing it back up and it dinged. Taking aim again, I fired three rounds. All three landed in the pony's midsection. What Nguyen told me was rather strange. "It appears that the rounds simply disintegrate after exiting the body" said Nguyen.

"Really? Well that solves one of it's design flaws" I said back.

"Who are you talking to?" asked the griffon. "An AI?"

"Yes?" I replied. "I don't think this is my style."

"Eh. Kinetic weapons aren't for everyone" said the griffon.

I set it back down in its original position and picked up the next one, the one in the middle. "What's this?" I asked.

"Light projection pistol. Fires a concentrated beam of light at a target" replied the griffon.

So it's a laser? I took aim at the dummy's head and fired. The beam that came out of the pistol was bright green and bright. The beam had landed on the dummy's head and completely disintegrated it, leaving a cloud of dust where it used to be. What was really interesting? How the pistol had recoiled downwards.

"Not for me" I said, placing it back down.

Then I picked up the final one. "That is a simple matter riding frequency weapon" said the griffon.

I have no clue on what that means but it sounds dangerous. Taking aim, I fired and hit a different dummy in the face. which made the head explode. I widened my eyes and looked down at the thing, amazed at what it did. "Yeah, that's the most popular type."

"Can I go home and think about my choice?" I asked.

"Sure."

In an instant, I found myself back in the gun store, looking at the griffon. I almost jumped but realized it was the future. "Do you know where my friends are?" I asked him.

"We're right here" I heard Tardy say. Turning around, I found the two of them. Strangely, they were exactly where they were before I had gone to that demo shooting range. "You guys just waited here for me?"

"What? No. You just went to a holoroom" said the Doctor.

"A what?" I asked.

"A holo room. It's a room where a person's mind is placed in to experience certain scenarios. No time passes in reality but an unlimited amount of time can pass in a holoroom" explained the Doctor.

"You really need to get our more" said the griffon. "You asked me for a weapon system that has not been used for well over two millenia."

"Museum anyone?" asked the Doctor with a smile.

-X-X-X-

Since the Doctor went with our choices and brought us to a restaurant and a gun(not really) store, we went to a nearby museum of history. Unlike early in the day, I was in my human form. Multi-species Equestria has its perks.

To say it was interesting things was an understatement.

"And here" continued our AI tour guide. "Are the technological remnants of the past!"

The three of us, our hologram AI, and a dozen other tourists filed into the room. Inside, the room was detailed and stylized like a music store. Various pieces of devices were spread around the room, similar to how an apple store was arranged. The supposed pieces of technology that were found in the room ranged from simple things, such as phones and computers, to other things that I could barely recognized but this was only because of my trips through the multiverse, such as shock burst generators(imagine something that creates small earthquakes) and stasis fields(slows down just about anything). What really caught my interest were the simple things such as some tools, and the musical instruments.

The tour guide walked over to a few stray socket wrenches. "Some, society knows nothing of there use while others-" The AI walked over to a piano without a bench. "Have had their way of operation forgotten over the time." I walked over to the same piano and played a few keys.

"What is it supposed to do?" asked a tourist.

"It's a musical device. When played correctly, sounds of unbelievable beauty were supposedly created" explained the AI. "As I had said, no one knows how to play it. Only recordings of a few songs exist nowadays."

"Can we listen to a recording?" asked a different tourist.

"I'm sorry but we do not have any recordings on record" replied the tourist.

I pressed some different keys, testing out their tune. Smiling, I looked back at the Doctor. "Yes?" I asked.

"Why not" he replied.

I stood a position in front of the piano and played a few arpeggios in addition to a few chords.

"That was good" said the AI. "Unfortunately, the songs and how to play them were lost throughout history."

What he said is/was unfortunately true. Back in the US(I am talking about real life), the number of ponies that can play the piano are lessening. It has gotten to the point where you can adopt a piano. I'm serious about this. Look up "adopt a piano" on Google and you'll be surprised. Why? The piano is outdated and has been outdated since the digital age started.

And so, I played.

Once I played the last few keys to the aging piece, I played the the outro to shave and a hair cut.

"And they're not called songs. They are referred to as 'pieces' and they always have" I said.

The AI, even though it was a piece of technology, looked like it was about to have a migraine. "Let's move on to the next exhibit."

Both the Doctor and Tardy covered their mouths with a hoof to stop themselves from laughing. It didn't work.

Moving on, the tour guide led us to a new section of the museum. "This is the hall of heroes!" Walking down the hall, he continued. "Throughout this hall are the stories of this world's greatest heroes." Everyone started going off on their own tangent to look at the exhibits.

I stood in front of a statue of Fluffle Puff. Below the statue was a small plaque that read the following.

Fluffle Puff

Lived a happy and fluffy life

Created the first successful domesticated alliance between the changeling species and the pony species

Started Hug Day

Hug day? Oh god the fluffiness.

Walking away, I went over to a set of statues of the Mane Six. Their plaque read this.

Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie

The original six bearers of the the Elements of Harmony

Founded a new form of magic for the world to use

Defeated countless villains throughout history

Seeing something like this always gives me a little bit of nostalgia. Sure I'll be returning to the past today but time is fleeting. I'll eventually die or see my friends die. You simply can't escape it. I'll just have to enjoy the time I have left.

Wandering around, I found myself in front of a statue of myself. Unlike the other statues that were smiling, mine had a neutral straight faced look to it. It looked like me except that it wasn't wearing my signature robes and the eyes were... Older. This statue version of me had this more aged look to it, one that said told stories of experience and wisdom. Something I currently did not have enough of to give off this image.

My god did they make these statues realistic.

Tran

Leader of the six interdimensional warriors

Led Equestria through war and revolutionized the military

Enjoyed chewing gum

I laughed at the last line. If you ever touch my gum, I will end you. Yes. I'm talking to you.

I turned to see the hologram looking at me. "I see that you've stumbled onto the statue of Tran" said the hologram.

Exactly how does he not see that I am Tran."Exactly how did he revolutionize the military?" I asked.

"Nearly four thousand years ago, he created one of the first lasting special forces unit, the Hunters. Today, other special forces units have formed as a result but the hunters still exist and are still currently the most feared unit" the hologram said.

Hmm. I named them "the Hunters" and they became feared? I like it. I'd like to meet them and see how they work. "Is there any way that I could see the Hunters?" I asked.

"Four Hunters guard his memorial no matter the time or condition at the four eight seven RL District" said the hologram.

"Memorial?" I asked.

"In the twelfth month of the Griffon Equestrian War, Tran attempted to sacrifice his life to ensure that his friends could escape. To do as so, he utilized a primitive nuclear fission device to hold off the enemy and succeeded in the process. Prior to the event, he had lost his powers to prevent another enemy from stealing and using said powers" explained the hologram. "After he was given the status of KIA or killed in action, a memorial was erected in his honor."

I blinked at what the hologram said. 'I only have a little under nine months left to live.' Looking back at the statue, I stuck both my hands in my pockets and fumbled with the contents.

Then I felt someone grab my hand. Turning around, I saw Tardy was the culprit. "I heard what the hologram said." She proceeded to hug me around the waist.

The Doctor wandered over and noticed the hug. "What's the occasion?" he asked.

I didn't face him. "According to the hologram, my death is in the twelfth month of the war" I explained to him.

The Doctor's eyes widened. "Don't even try to-"

"Stop my death?" I finished for him. "It's a fixed point in time. I know." Fixed points in time were events in history that are set in stone and could never change. A fixed point in time is defined as fixed when there's written, mental, and or physical proof of the event in the future. If a fixed point in time is changed, all of time and space would be horribly damaged.

"I'm sorry Tran but it has to happen" said the Doctor.

"Yeah." I looked down at my feet. "Well, I should probably make the best of what little time I have left" I said. "Let's go see my memorial."

-X-X-X-

My memorial was a statue of me standing there with a smile plastered on the face. In it's left hand was a 1911 and the other hand held a untitled book. Guarding the statue were, like the hologram said, four soldiers. Two were ponies(one an earth pony and the other a pegasus), one was a griffon, and the last was a diamond dog. Each and everyone of them wore a cloak/robe like I did but colored black. They weren't visibly armed but a quick scan by Nguyen told me that each of them carried three pistols, one of each weapon type.

All four of them looked like they were simply standing there instead of actually guarding the memorial. They weren't showing disrespect. They were actually showing more respect as they were standing like how I would while waiting. These hunters were really dedicated to my figure.  In fact, they were all chewing gum! Now what I wanted to know was what could they do?

Standing behind me, Tardy and Doctor just stood there, waiting to interfere if necessary. To be fair, I recently found out that I had under a year left to live.

I looked at the guards. Then, I took a few steps and a few more and more until I was within ten feet of the statue. "Sir, step away from the memorial" came the pegasus.

"You four are hunters, right?" I asked.

"Eeyup" came the same guard/hunter. Of course they would mirror how I say that.

"Why do you mirror him so much?" I asked. "The way you stand, the preference of a sidearm over a primary weapon, specific words, what you wear as a uniform, and you even chew gum. Why?"

All four of them looked rather offended at my words. "He started the Hunter unit four thousand years ago and it still exists today. You should know that, rookie" said  the diamond dog Hunter.

"Rookie?" I said out loud.

"Are you not a Hunter?" asked the griffon. "You're wearing the same uniform as our beginners."

"Are you telling me that this-" I gestured to my clothes. "Is a uniform for your rookies? Sword included?"

"I doubt that you just accidentally dressed up in the same way our rookies did" said the pegasus Hunter. "Or are you the real Tran but from the past" he said jokingly.

"Did the Hunters start out looking like that?" I asked.

"What?"

"Did the Hunters start out dressed up like that?" I asked.

"No. When the Hunters started out, regular combat uniforms of the Equestrian military was worn. Our modern uniforms are slightly aesthetic in use" said the earth pony Hunter.

"So kinda like the royal guard, right?" I asked.

My statement seemed to anger all four of them as they stopped chewing gum. Simultaneously, they all said "What?!"

"You do not compare us to those mockeries of soldiers!" yelled the diamond dog.

"You're sure showing the tact of a royal guard" I said.

The diamond dog started stepping forward but the earth pony stopped him. "But Captain!"

"Do not engage him" said the pony. "You don't and can't attack him for that."

"Yes captain" replied the diamond dog.

"Because I will." The earth pony back flipped and threw a backwards side kick at me to which I deflected to the left before striking him between the front left shoulder socket. A loud pop sounded out, telling everyone that it was dislocated.  

"You're going to have to try better than that" I said. "You know Vovinam. You know it well but not enough to stop me." Vovinam was one of the martial arts that I achieved 'mastery' in. They knew it well enough to perform aerial kicks so they were pretty good.

"I know" said the Captain. The Captain grabbed the dislocated shoulder and popped it back in place with a grunt.

"Now that is impressive" I said. Relocating your shoulder back in place is a rather painful experience. I've done it before without much difficulty(real life included) but I understand that I have nowhere near a normal pain thresh hold and understand that for normal people(ponies), that it would be incredibly painful or difficult.

The Captain darted at me again. This time, he threw out an inverted drop kick. Instead of striking. dodging. or deflecting his attack, I grabbed him out of the air and dropped him where I stood. He then grabbed me with his back legs and rolled in an attempt to throw me. I simply flipped over the direction that he intended to throw me in, landing on my feet.

He reacted to that with a leg sweep but I had jumped away. Standing back up, the captain looked at the diamond dog and nodded to which the dog nodded back to. Then both of them charged at me. When they were within arm's reach, I jumped and did a 180 turn in the air before kicking out with both legs, catching them both in the chest and knocking them away. While they were sent flying away, I started falling to the ground. I put both my hands in front of me and pushed myself back up, facing away from the two Hunters.

Turning around, I found the other two Hunters charging at me. I quickly removed the Sparda from my back, scabbard still attached, and bashed the griffon Hunter in the face before throwing a punch at the pegasus Hunter. To my surprise, the pegasus blocked my punch with a left wing and slashed at me with her other wing.

I jumped backwards to dodge the slash before I swept her legs. Instead of falling to the ground, the griffon caught her and set her on her feet. Unexpectedly, they flew backwards away from me. Two clicks sounded out from behind me.

When I checked, I saw that the other two had drawn out their sidearms. Almost identically to how I was, the captain and the diamond dog were dual wielding pistols. To mirror me even more, the pistols that they were armed were identical in appearance to 1911s and one was colored black while the other was colored white.

"Nonlethal mode only" said the Captain. I immediately drew the Sparda and held it in front of me. All four of them laughed at me.

"Good luck dodging" said the pegasus.

"Or blocking the shots with that cheap replica" said the diamond dog.

The Captain was the first to fire. Even though the bullets to their weapons were flying at a much faster speed and smaller than the rounds from the firearms that I were used to blocking, I was still able to deflect the shot. Seeing this, the diamond dog fired too and in a flurry of slashes, his shot was deflected also.

The other two drew their sidearms and all four open fired. My sword continued moving at an impossible speed in front of me in an attempt to block their shots. Sparks were created in front of me as each and every shot was deflected or blocked. This process continued for quite a while and over two hundred shots were deflected or blocked. When it finally ended, I held the Sparda pointed down as they looked at me in awe.

"To answer your question, yes. I am Tran from the past" I said. I spun the sword in a display of skill before I returned the Sparda to it's scabbard.

"Do you have them?" asked the captain.

"Yin and Yang?" I asked. Reaching behind me, I drew the two pistols and held it out for them to see.

"Holy makers" said the diamond dog. All four of them took a kneel. "It is an honor."

"I like how my little group has evolved. Shooting skill, martial arts, and you know a little bit about respect. I like it" I said. "You can stop bowing."

All four of them arose and approached me. "If I may ask, why are you here?" asked the pegasus.

"Just spending time here while the mares are in heat" I replied.

"By the makers, I hate going through heat" said the pegasus, who was the only female of their group.

"Yeah well, six of my friends tried to rape me and later they rounded up the entire town in a manhunt for me" I said.

"Didn't you start a riot over who was going to use you first?" asked the captain. I smiled and nodded. "So the myth is true!"

"Myth?" I asked.

"There was a myth about you starting a riot over  who was going to use you first" replied the Captain. "And it's apparently true."

"Oh" I said. "I was disguised in one of their manhunt meetings disguised as a mare. I was actually the first to ask who was going to use me first. When they started arguing, I walked away."

"That is ingenius" said the griffon. "So how do you like the future?"

"Yeah. It's been fun and the sight's have been good though I hate the guns. They just seem horrible" I said.

"How so?" asked the Captain.

"Well, think of it like this. Your guns are like getting stabbed with a needle. It's much more efficient at passing through a body and clothing. The guns from my time period are like pencils. They are less efficient at passing through a body but they definitely cause more damage" I explained. "I'm also a bit honored yet weirded out by how you mirror me."

"It has been a tradition to mirror you for the past century" said the Captain.

"Again, honored but still weirded out" I said. "Another thing, why is one of your pistols black while the other is white?"

"They're supposed to mirror your primary pistols, Yin and Yang" replied the griffon.

"Yeah but they look nothing like Yin and Yang, besides the color of course" I said. "Here, trade sidearms for a moment." I held Yin and Yang out to the Captain. With wide eyes, he exchanged sidearms with me.

"You lucky bastard" said the pegasus.

The pistols that he handed me handled and looked like 1911s but they were obviously weren't. They were much lighter and felt like plastic. "What do these fire?" I asked.

"Digital rounds. It's the latest in military technology and only we have access to it. It can be set to lethal, stun, or party" replied the griffon.

"Party?" I asked.

"Imagine lasers that are for show" replied the griffon.

"Yeah well Yin and Yang only fires in overkill" I said. "Last time I checked, Yin and Yang could punch through at least half a foot of steel."

"Well, to put it in the same context, these digital pistols will go through maybe half an inch of the same material" said the griffon. "How did you achieve such power in your sidearms?"

"Technology mixed with magic mixed with the powers of a devil" I replied. "Here." I held out both of the Captain's pistols. The two of us returned our sidearms.

"Having fun there?" I heard the Doctor ask. Turning around, I met him face to face.

"Yeah, we should get going." I turned to look at the four Hunters. "Peace." I turned around and I started walking away with the Doctor and Tardy.

"The others will never believe us" said the diamond dog.

"Who the hell cares! We met Tran" said the pegasus.

"I can still hear you!" I said from the distance.

-X-X-X-

Sitting on the "borrowed" sofa, I held a .22 caliber round in my hands. "Nine months left to live" I said.

The Doctor sat down beside me to my right and patted me on the back. "You'll be alright" he said. "What's that?" He pointed at the .22 round.

"There was a situation where I was stranded on a house that was surrounded by hundreds of zombies. I tried to shoot myself with my father's pistol and the gun failed to go off" I explained.

"That's the round that didn't kill you?" asked the Doctor.

"Yeah" I replied.

"And you just carry that around with you?" asked the Doctor.

"It kinda serves as a good luck charm" I said. I stuck it in my pocket. "So nine months left to live."

That was when Tardy sat down on the sofa beside me to my left. "Try to make it the best nine months that you have left" said Tardy.

"Yeah" I said.

Somewhere in Canterlot

Logan, Ike, Alex, and Austin hid in a bunker that was buried hundreds of feet below Canterlot. In Logan's hands was his AR10. In Ike's hand was Nevan, the electrical guitar that was really a demon. In Austin's hands was his MP5. In Alex's hands was his Saiga 12.

"I really hope to god that he never finds us" said Ike.

"Who never finds us?" I asked.

"Tran you dumbass!" said Ike.

A few seconds passed before they realized that I was there.

Back in Ponyville

"Where is he?!?" demanded a very angry, heat driven Rainbow Dash. In front of her was hundreds of mares that had also been searching for Tran.

"We haven't found him like you haven't" said one of the mares.

"Well I'm right here yah fools!" I yelled out. They all looked at me and started to charge. Drawing Yang, I fired three shots, stopping them all in their tracks. "Hold up." Snapping my fingers, Austin, Alex, Logan, and Ike appeared in the air and fell to the ground in front of me. "Enjoy!"

Snapping my fingers once again, I teleported.

Somewhere in Neighvada

I reappeared and landed on my feet in front of the TARDIS. I fiddled through my keys for a few seconds before I chose the correct one and opened the doors to the TARDIS. Walking through with a smile, I sat down on my sofa and popped a new piece of gum into my mouth. "All's well, ends well."

Then Tardy fell from the ceiling and landed on my lap. "Okay." I grabbed her and hugged her. "You are quite possibly one of the softest things I have ever held.

And then the Doctor fell from the ceiling and landed in front of me. "There you are! Give me the sonic screwdriver back!"

"Help me!" said Tardy. I picked her up and tossed her like a foot ball.

"Run laddy!" I yelled while she flew away.