Title:           Love is in the air #3
Author:          Maintenance-Bro
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First Edit:      Thursday 26th of June 2014 12:16:12 AM CDT
Last Edit:       Thursday 26th of June 2014 12:16:12 AM CDT

In the store, it's rather empty allowing Sasha and Lightning to shop in peace. Well, a relative peace that is.
"Lightning, they staring."
"At the blanket. The bump's hardly noticeable, and the blanket's what's drawing the attention." Lightning hissed as they grabbed what Sasha had cravings for.
"Is not my fault. I cold."
"Oh yea. Sorry."
"Moron." Sasha said as she was shivering a little bit.
The two of them continue to gather a few more things they need for home, since they were there they may as well.
"So, how goes it you two?" Antonov, an An-2 asked as he was adding up the prices.
"Is ok, just a little cold."
"Ah, little bit of chill, probably should be checked by Rex."
"Already have, he say it nothing. Will pass."
"Da, long as it passes."
"Da." Sasha said as she nodded and looked to see how much the current total was.
"Will be 238 bits." Antonov said with a smile
"Lightning."
"Oh so I'm buying this?"
"Da, I not bring money with me."
"You're fucking kidding me."
"Lightning."
"Alright, I get it." Lightning said as he quickly counted out the correct amount of bits before carrying the bags back home.
 
A week later, Lightning and Sasha are married, but Sasha still does everything in her power to hide her pregnancy from the world's prying eyes, even in that means she's got to stay in the hangar during Fun 'n Sun.
Avalon's Shadow is cleaning up nicely, with some vendors starting to trickle in from all over the world, setting up for the five day extravaganza of pony aviation. Ponies are now starting to trickle into what will become a flood of aluminum ponies filling the sky like clouds.
The time leading up to Sun 'n Fun goes by quickly, and a few days before when all the preparations are complete and the ponies have all set up their little shops, you can't sleep due to this being your first Sun 'n Fun as the ruler of the plane ponies, and with a family to call your own.
Since you can't sleep, you decide to go on a late night walk through Avalon's Shadow. You're not an idiot so you bring your handgun with you.
The cool night air helps you think as you're just walking along the taxiways. There's a full moon with no clouds in the skies as you walk the dimly light roads. At least Luna was being kind to you this night with that.
You walk for a good hour before you bump into something, well more of some pony.
You had your gun half drawn from under your jacket, but you recognized who it was and put it away.
"Princess, fancy running into you this... nice night." You say bowing slightly out of respect, and due to the fact that you're probably helpless in the night.
"Rex, thou are awake?"
"Yea, couldn't sleep. Figured taking a walk would help empty my mind."
"I see."
"So, how are things going?" You ask a little awkwardly as you and Luna walk around Avalon, you don't care why she's here, and frankly you're happy you bumped into someone else that was awake.
"It has been. Ok. You alright? Is not like you to be wandering at such hours of the night."
"Heh, just stressed out about Sun 'n Fun. Not used to having thirty thousand things going on at once for me to manage, I've also go to be the doc to any of the mechanical flyers that somehow manage to hurt themselves. Guess I'm just not used to being a ruler that's all."
"It shall take some time."
"Time, yea, so I'll be scared as hell for the first few years." You say getting a light laugh from the princess.
"It is not often I find anypony out during the night."
"Well, where I was from, some people would stay up way late and sleep during the day." You say thinking of your bad habits of staying up until dawn
"Interesting, you say they enjoyed the night far more than the day?"
"Well, some of them were forced into the night, but, there's a good chunk that chose the night because of it's beautiful star filled sky, and the almost blinding glow of the moon when it was full."
"Sounds like a wondrous place. There being subjects of the night."
"Sounds nice, but my home, it ain't like here, that "war" that happened is nothing but a skirmish where I'm from. You would hate the place and come right back here"
"Be that as it may, here I hardly have a single subject for the entirety of the night."
"Well, tonight you've got one, you've got me until I either fall asleep or it turns to dawn." You say making her smile.
You are really a nice guy at heart, and since Luna has been kind to you, you feel the need to return the kindness
"That is very kind of you, but you should rest."
"Would help if I was tired, or even remotely sleepy."
"Then walk with me, we shall stay around Avalon."
"Alright, as long as we stay around Avalon."
"Shant be a problem, I need peace away from the minds of ponies. These mechanical ponies have very different dreams." Luna said as the two of you walk around the perimeter of the city.
"Heh, you mind telling me about Morgan's since you're here and I'm awake?"
"Dreams are very personal and they should not be talked about."
"Princess, no offence I'm her father, I just want to know if she's happy in them or not"
"She has yet to have a nightmare to my knowledge if that is what you are asking."
"That's a relief, guess no amount of prodding's going to get what she is dreaming about out of you would it?" You say as you gently nudge Luna with your elbow
"I shall share a recurring dream she has."
"I was kinda joking princess, just tell me if they're happy or not."
"She has very happy dreams of you and her flying with your family. Sometimes you have wings of your own Anon, not a plane." Luna said as you just smile at how cute Morgan's dreams are. Family makes her happy
"Well, I'm just happy she doesn't go into that dark place when she dreams."
"You and I both. Though I must share some of Celestia's guards make her less than ideal to get along with."
"That'd be my fault. She and I are linked together, she's probably subconsciously aware of those who've hurt me in the past, where I don't remember the faces, she does."
"So you know the causes of what triggers her violence."
"Unfortunately yes, but apparently she's good at containing them."
"Those guards wet their armor when they heard her voice lusting for blood." Luna said as you heard the sounds of a plane pony walking around.
"Thunderbolt? What are you doing out of bed?"
"Looking for you. Anon, why are you out here so late?"
"Couldn't sleep, look who I bumped into."
"Princess, I'm sorry, I didn't know." Thunderbolt said as she herself also made a slight bow to Luna.
"It is alright. Anon, you should go with your wife. You should try to sleep again."
"Alright, see you around Princess. Oh, you and Celestia are going to Sun 'n Fun this year right?"
"Yes we are. Goodnight Anon."
"Night princess. See ya soon." You say as you now realize you're incredibly tired and Thunderbolt has to carry you back while you accidentally fell asleep on her back.
 
0800 Hrs. Your home.
You feel as if the bed you're on is moving, in fact Thunder never bothered to slide you off of hers when she got home. Now you could smell pancakes as you sit up to realize you're on her back while she cooks.
"Morning daddy!" Morgan said as she attempted to give you a kiss on the cheek, but it ended up being the entire side of your face.
"Morning sweetie, sleep well?"
"Yea, I usually do."
"That's wonderful. Where's Falken?" You say as you hear a gurgling of a stomach and grumbles of a still asleep pony.
"Still sleepy buddy?"
"Hmm? Meh, sleep."
"Falken, are you always this groggy when you get up?"
"No, just up too late." Falken said as his projected eyes told the story.
"Reading again?"
"Mmmhmm." Falken said
"What were you reading that was so interesting?"
"The latest Daring Do book."
"Seriously? How'd you get that?"
"Purple Horse lent it to me when she saw all the books I was reading. Even loaned me the previous books in the series." Falken said as you watch his holographic eyes come back into a nice and clear focus.
"So Twilight lent them to you?"
"Yup. I had to read them all by the time she came back for Fun 'n Sun. It is for anyone who can fly right?"
"Yea, so is Twilight a friend of yours?"
"No, I just want the books." Falken said as you laugh, you're not sure if he's saying that because you and Twilight don't get along or he truly just wants to get the books from her.
"Breakfast will be ready in a minute, I hope you two are hungry."
"What are you making today?"
"Pancakes. I would make hash-browns too, but that's far too many potatoes for me to peel for the three of us."
"Well, least we have pancakes." Morgan said in her cheery voice as you slide off of Thunderbolt and go change into clean clothes and shower before rejoining them.
 
0900 Hrs. Osprey's Hangar.
"Erwin, you're not going to sleep the day away are you?"
"Osprey, I need my rest."
"You've done nothing but rest when we finished cleaning our sector of Avalon's Shadow."
"Don't want to practice." Erwin said as Osprey pulled him to his feet.
"Fine, then I guess I'll fly alone then."
"No you're not."
"I am if you're not going to practice with me."
"You sound like a girlfriend." Erwin said making Osprey blush yet again.
"Well, maybe.... Maybe I want to...."
"Be my girlfriend?"
"Yes." Osprey said rather weakly, embarrassed that she had to ask him.
"I was almost wondering which one of us would ask that. Looks like you beat me to the punch."
"I... I did?"
"Yea, I was going to ask you when we got outside, but you kind of asked to be my girlfriend before I could ask you to." Erwin said with a bit of a laugh as the two of them go outside and into the skies
0915 Hrs. Skies over Avalon.
The sky is packed with Ponies, anyone who can fly is up and flying, there may be two days left until the start of Sun 'n Fun, but part of that great flying festival is the few days of hard practices and partying leading up to the event itself, which is a week of flight based fun.
The sky is zoned into sections that each plane pony does not violate unless returning to the ground, and the pegasai stay away from the large ponies due to their speed and mass.
Blue is hanging just outside of the MiGs zone yelling directions at them from outside while the Sukhois watch from their zone, seeing what's going on.
"Oi! I said keep the formation tight, not that loose shit."
"Very sorry."
"You will be if the Sukhois win because you can't fly in formation."
"Then show us."
"I can't if the Flankers see me participatin with yer practice, Morgan's on their team for a flight." Blue said as she was still outside of the MiGs airspace.
"Is bullshit. You practice with us."
"Like I said I can't. Rex said I can help you, but I can't compete with you, which means I shouldn't practice with you. Rex has his eyes on us."
"What Rex don't know don't hurt him." Strizh said as he flew up towards where Blue was orbiting around the area.
"Well, the Sukhois are watchin. Ya notice that blip? It's Terminator. He ain't going to let us get away with it."
"Terminator can go fuck self. You practice with us." Strizh said as he pulled her down and into their formation.
 
Across the sky, Sukhoi airspace.
"Told you she'd lie to Rex. Terminator, you remember the plan if she competes?"
"Yea, we get Morgan, and those of us who can keep up with her follow her directions."
"Good, now let's get back to our practice and don't let that Hornet get under your skin." Flanker said as he pulled Terminator's attention back to the Sukhoi's practice.
1000 Hrs. Your office.
"So the entire royal court of Equestria shows up in my office. How interesting. Who do we have? Cadence, Celestia, Luna, and Twilight. All standing before me."
"Are you insulting us?"
"Oh no Luna, why would I do that? It's just a rare occurrence that's all." You say as it really is a rare occurrence to have every royal pony from the east in your office at the same time.
"Yes, it is a rare occurrence, for all of us to be in a single place at once, but I must ask you about security."
"Seriously? Who the fuck is going to mess with any of us after that display we put on with the Gryphons, nearly wiping them from the map?"
"My point exactly, the only two nations that could possibly go to war with eachother are yours and mine."
"And I throw away my parts manufacturers? Celestia, I may be a stupid ape sometimes, but I'm smart enough to know war with you means I lose my runways. No runways means no places for them to land, no places to land means they can't come back for fuel. Get where I'm going with this?"
"Yes, you may be able to take the skies from us, but we can take the land from you quicker than you can earn it back." Celestia said as you nod.
"Which is why war with Equestria is completely out of the question. Sure I'll disagree with the things you all do, but I'd do my best to not let it go to blows." You say as you take your feet off your desk.
"Come on, the party starts in a couple of days, everypony's in their pre party mode, which means they're either hammered or doing something questionable right now."
"What do you mean hammered?"
"They're drunk. Well, some of the Russians are. Come on, some of the vendors have opened up early, primarily the food vendors. I'm sure you all are hungry." You say as you lead them out of your office and into the mass of ponies that line the taxiways as nopony was allowed to be next to the runway for safety reasons.
Though the moment you walked out with the four of them, Morgan spotted Luna like a long lost friend and rushed up to her not before skidding to a halt before you all.
"LUNA!"
"Morgan. It has only been a week since you have seen me last, and yet you greet me like a long lost friend."
"Well, you kind of are my best pony friend Luna, I mean I don't see you as often as I do Terminator or Nora." Morgan said as she blushed lightly as she lowered herself for Luna to climb upon her back.
"I do not think I should be paraded around on your back Morgan."
"Alright, how long are you staying Luna?"
"For the entirety."
"That's great. Are you flying in the show?" Morgan asked as she stood back up and moved behind you.
"We won't be, but the Wonderbolt will represent us. This won't be a problem will it Rex?"
"No, won't be a problem so long as you think they can keep up with these ponies."
"It won't be a problem." Celestia said as you smiled, if you and Morgan could blow Rainbow Dash from the skies just from chasing her, how hard could it be to beat these "Wonderbolts"? Even if you were flying as Morgan, you've got your own ADFX now that you fly, and it's one of those planes that the pilot wears like a glove, which suits you just fine.
The six of you walk through the stalls in the early afternoon, you're talking with the vendors as the Princesses are talking among themselves and to Morgan.
 
1230 Hrs. Edge of Space.
There's eight of you now that Falken and Thunderbolt have joined you for lunch.
"Purple, thanks for letting me borrow all those books."
"Don't worry about it, I'm actually impressed that you managed to read all of them Falken. You do know my name is Twilight Sparkle right?"
"Yes, but I prefer to call you Purple." Falken said getting You, Morgan and Luna to snicker at her expense.
"Celestia!"
"Don't ask me ask his father."
"REX!" Twilight said as she was probably offended by being called purple.
"What?" You say as you choke down the bit of laughter you had.
"Could you make your son call me by my name?"
"Let me ask." You say as you sort of already know the answer
"Falken could you call Purple either Twilight or Miss Sparkle?"
"I don't think I can do that."
"And why won't you?"
"Well, you never call those princesses other than Luna by name."
"Good point, but they do have feeling and I never tend to say those names in front of them. Well, maybe sometimes I slip."
"Oh you mean Sunbutt." Falken said as you're visibly repressing laughter at this point.
"Yea that'd be the one."
"I don't get it. Why call Celestia Sunbutt?"
"Mind showing him Celestia? Your cutie mark?" You say as Celestia is unamused by your request, but shows Falken her cutie mark anyways.
"Oh, that makes sense now."
"Yea, so could...Could you just call Purple... Twilight at least?"
"I guess, dad are you ok?" Falken asks as you're doing your best to not be full out laughing at this point. Your eyes are tearing up from suppressing the laughter, and your sides are in orbit from Falken not understanding all of this.
"Excuse me, but here's your lunch." KC said as he interrupted, if only to deliver your food, to which he's thanked and then he departs.
"Yea, I'm fine Falken, just, just try to call Purple Twilight ok?" You say as you calm down enough to eat, getting a half approving nod from Falken, who, as much as he didn't want to cooperate with you or Twilight, obliged.
Though lunch was interrupted by laughter from one of three at the table at random intervals, getting odd looks from the other two princesses, everyone else around you didn't really care, to them it was their Commander laughing at the expense of ponies they never really got along with in the first place.
 
1330 Hrs. Avalon Runway.
"Oh would you look at that. The Wonderbolts are here now."
"Eh."
"Really Rex? They are some of the greatest fliers in Equestria, and all you manage is eh?"
"Well, they fly like Rainbow Dash right?"
"Very similar."
"Eh, Morgan Falken and I could beat them" You say