1426 Hrs. VTOL hangar.
"So Rex gave you a plate of cookies?"
"Yup for being soo good during the inspection."
"Isn't that something Lightning?" Sasha said as she looked up to Lightning
"I didn't even know he had those."
"You told him yesterday you were bringing her over right?"
"Last night, just very late."
"No wonder the stallion seems so tired."
"Not my fault. Someone put a restless filly in the way." Lightning said as he only got a glare from Sasha.
"You that stupid?"
"Sometimes."
"It shows." Sasha said as Lightning was being a moron.
"Heh, I guess so."
"You stupids at time."
"I know Sasha, but she's fine, Rex didn't find anything wrong with her, since well, you know the reason why we had her checked?"
"Da, is good she ok."
"Yea, makes you wonder doesn't it?" Lightning said as Lilya was preoccupied with Uncle Sergei.
 
1600 Mobius' hangar.
Things between Raptor and Nora have finally fallen back into a somewhat decent relationship. Their fighting has stopped and Raptor's learned to not be such a self centered bitch
"Well, you two getting along?"
"We're fine Mobius, really we're fine."
"Heh, good."
"Yea, it is, it kind of now resembles a relationship." Raptor said with a smile as Nora was nappin on the couch.
"Good, keep it this way sis."
"I'm trying Mobius. I'm gonna keep trying."
"You should, Hopefully all the rough air is behind you." Mobius said as he went outside to go and look at the evening sky.
1130 Avalons Shadow Fields.
Cuda and Emily were laying on the ground on their back. "Man... this is like Vacation... just without my dad." Cuda looked at Emily. "What do you mean? Vacation?" Emily giggled at her. "Yeah. Having completely nothing to do. To be free." She looked back into the skies. Hoofsteps were in a distance, slowly coming near. "Oh for lunas sake.... please don't be Lumyia..." Emily groaned, closing her eyes as she heard the steps coming closer. A Shadow fell upon their faces. "What do you need-" Emily opened her eyes again and was quite shocked. "Lum.... Luna? Princess.... Luna?!" Luna stood over them with a confused look. "Have thou seen Morgan?" Emily and Cuda shock their head. "We... are not from here....we are from germaneigh..." Luna tilted her head. Emily jumped up and bowed down. Luna blushed and looked over to cuda who were still laying on the ground with a confused look in her eyes. "Germaneigh? Is this maybe the Drone my Sister send to Germaneigh?" Emily looked up. "Sister? You mean Celestia? We don't know where the drone comes from. It was simply brought into my hangar for inspection... since she was acting weird and not alike the other Drones." Cuda looked at Emily worried. "Besides that... The Starwings would have never let anything by Celestia on the Base. Ever." Emily grunted. "Perhaps it was another Base in germaneigh, we beg forgiveness." Luna lowered her head. "We will on our way, have a good....day." Luna sighed and walked away. Emily lowered her head and sighed. "Come on Cuda... it's time to find some food." Cuda nodded and both trotted off towards Rex's Shop.
1210 Avalons Shadow - Lumyias Hangar
Lumyia were stitching more on the foal, finishing the last few stitches on it's back. She sat the little white bat foal with white middle long mane and the shining pink eyes on the table. "One day..." She sighed and stood up walking towards her equipment. Lumyia almost rebuild her laboratory in one night with just the parts of other drones and planes laying around. Taking anything without permission. She did not care. While she started singing a lullaby, she pinned the note of the measurements to a machine. On the laptop she brought she typed in the size and measures and plugged the cables from each machine to the laptop.
The machine responded with the enter key being pushed. It started to steam and work. Like a giant weaving machine it started to weave a pale fabric of rubberish material. Lumyia bursted out in singing her lullaby outloud watching the Machine doing it's job. She turned around and grabbed the foal with her magic and filled it up with it a bit. Playing with it like a Puppeteer with their Puppets. She got quieter still singing. "Soon my dear, you will live, for that i will give my heart. And soon mommy will play with you like i failed to with my lasts..." A few tears ran down her Cheek. She embraced the little foal and hugged it tight. Suddenly the machine would start to whine. Lumyia sighed and sat the foal back to the Table. She checked on the fabric while the machine took a rest. "Heh... my machine back home could have done the job without needing to rest." She muttered to herself as she took a close look over the 'skin'. "This will need a bit more time... i am hungry..." Lumyia looked at the Foal and smiled. "I will be back my dear. Mommy is hungry." She said to the lifeless prop and went outside, smashing the door. The Plushie fell from it's Position on the dusty ground.
0000 hrs. Your shop.
Well, when Luna said that she'd deliver the destroyed GLEX, she delivered it to your doorstep.
"Whoa, that thing is fucked up."
"Yes, as you say the GLEX is 'fucked'. I would like you to go through the wreckage to discover what exactly went wrong, and if there is anything my sister missed."
"That I can do." You say as you being to comb through the wreckage to find out what brought the GLEX down. Though you find everything to be a charred and smashed wreck.
"How the fuck did anything survive this?" You say as you comb through the rear wreckage of the plane to find it's hydraulic pumps completely disassembled.
"Luna, was everything brought with this?"
"I hath brought all that was not nailed down."
"Well, we're missing a lot of engine parts, which isn't a good sign."
"And that means what?"
"It means someone's tampered with the evidence too, I never leave anything in shape like that, huh, here's part of the hydraulic pump, there's a fucking rag in this pump." You say as you pull a tangled up rag from one end of the hydraulic pump, but it rips on the way out due to it being tangled.
"Is that supposed to be in there?"
"No, which means someone tampered with the reservoir. Not only that the black box said that the oil.... There's no oil pumps on this thing. They should be right here." You say as you point to the place where the turbine driven pumps should be.
"And those are necessary?"
"they're 100% vital, without those there's no lubrication for the turbines, no lubrication means the bearings seize, bearing seize, and the turbine blades go flying everywhere like knives due to the kinetic motion they had." You say as there is evidence of the right turbine doing just that.
"Is there anything else I should know?"
"Luna, that's gonna have to wait until I'm done with all of this wreckage, I mean the only thing that really stayed in one piece is the cockpit, but that's because I reinforced the area to use the COFFIN system." You say
"The thing that saved Ark's mind?"
"Yea, that thing."
"Tis a good thing right?"
"Yea, he's still alive technically." You say as you go through the wreckage still searching for some sign of tampering despite what you've seen, there's signs of it everywhere. Though your inspection has revealed that the main gear doors stayed locked in the up position, and even if they did deploy, they weren't bolted in, they would have dropped clean clear of the aircraft.
"Well, paint my ass white and glue a horn to my head."
"What?"
"She really went overboard on this. The main gear is so fucking loose the they would have sheared clean off in an actual landing, but then Ark might not have been so fucking mangled if they had. GOD DAMNED IT." You say as you now punch part of the aluminum fuselage breaking pieces off of it as you slam your metal fist into it.
"Tis a remarkable finding, this airplane is shattered."
"No fucking kidding. I'm surprised there's this much left. I know my report, this thing was brought down. Cause: Tampering, not faulty maintenance, Ark and I did all the maintenance on this and if these were not done properly this would have happened long ago, trust me." You say with an anger as you go to clean the soot off your robot and then change back to your regular body.
"So official report?"
"Official report is, due to underlying circumstances, with all pieces of evidence here, with confirming data from the black box, is that the GLEX was brought down due to tampering, exact cause of tampering various. The hydraulic and oil systems were tampered with, a rag found in a hydraulic pump. The landing gear was also tampered with, since the main landing gear was missing some important bolts. Conclusion, the GLEX's crash was caused by unknown tampering." You say as Luna was writing this down as her official secondary source assessment for the incident, and a much more accurate one, since the official one you read didn't say what exactly had happened.
"Oh Rex, I hath stolen all that is here."
"And why does this not surprise me Princess?"
"Because it hath happened before."
"Yea, and I'm guessing she's gonna want this twisted heap of metal back?" You say as you now work on getting the wreck off your doorstep.
"Do you require any help?"
"Yes, that would be really nice, if we can move this out into the AA defense grid system it'll be out of sight." You say as you point in the general direction of where you want it moved, and Luna just teleports it there with her magic.
"Well, ain't that convenient." You say as you go to shut down your robot. Though when you return to Luna she does have a question for you
"She shall be here by daybreak, what shall you say to her?"
"Simple, I'm gonna turn up my ECM, and tell her that I'm a thief, and I keep what I steal." You say with a slight smile on your face.
"Tis a good answer, but what if she tries to arrest you?"
"I'm going to tell her that there is an independent investigation going on in a third party nation. And if she doesn't like it, she can bite my shiny metal ass." You say getting a laugh out of Luna.
"I doubt she could get close enough to bite thy ass if your ECM is turned up."
"Exactly, so how's your stay with Morgan?"
"Tis going very well, she hath told me of her young admirer."
"Ah yes, Lilya. Interesting don't you think? A VTOL looking up to a pony who's purely made for fighting in the sky."
"Tis not strange to me. It only makes sense that she would look up to somepony so strong."
"Heh, yea." You say as you and Luna look up at the night sky.
"It's a beautiful night, shame it's only got a couple more hours until sunrise."
"Yes, it is a shame that the sun shall rise early today."
"I don't know who to thank for keeping the night sky here in Avalon so clear. Is that your doing or am I going to have to talk to someone else?"
"That would be my doing."
"Well, you've got my thanks. I forgot how beautiful the night sky is." You say with a smile on your face
"Thou think my sky is beautiful?"
"Yea, a long time ago, when I was a kid, there was a once in a lifetime event, an asteroid was on a collision course with the planet, and we blew it up, the resulting meteor shower was a night I could never forget."
"What was it called?"
"We called the asteroid Ulysses, the resulting meteor shower was also called Ulysses. Was one hell of a nighttime show." You say as Luna is now openly smiling and hanging on your every word.
"Could you show me?"
"I'll need to be in my office, I think I can project those memories onto the wall for you." You say as the two of you go inside of the shop, as you're remotely booted up the projector and are now trying to figure out if you can project memories for Luna. Turns out that particular one you can, and until the sun rises you show her the meteor shower, which was one of the many times you've stayed up all night to occasionally watch some astronomical event.
 
1030 Hrs. Your shop.
You're tired from staying up all night, Lumyia bothered you about the terms of payment, which you were not feeling up to at the moment because as you were about to tell her not now, Celestia showed up and Lumyia left in disgust of seeing her. Apparently you're not the only one that snow white bitch offends.
"Celestia, what brings you to my humble nation?"
"Rex, you know why I'm here right?"
"Frankly I don't know what you're talking about."
"Yes you do. Where's the wreckage that I was keeping safe?"
"Oh, you mean the wreckage that came in for a third party unbiased opinion of what happened to the GLEX? That wreckage?"
"Yes, that wreckage. Where is it?" Celestia said clearly through her teeth in a rage.
"I'm afraid I cannot release it as I have not fully concluded my incident report on what brought it down. It's interesting how much our reports vary, and mine is still in the preliminary stages. Yours lacked...... detail." You say clearly making Celestia nervous and on that note, you were slowly turning up your shielding.
"Oh? My report lacked detail? What detail? There's not much to say, there was poor maintenance on the aircraft, and pilot error what else is there to report?"
"Ah, that's going to have to wait, until my report is out that is, oh, and I'd revise yours to match up with mine if I were you. Don't want the truth to sneak out on you would you?" You say as in your vision your radar shows up with a transponder code of GALM.
"You stole the wreckage from me."
"Then I guess I'm a thief, and I keep what I steal." You say with a slight smile and your ECM on it's second highest level, which will protect you from Celestia, and if she's not careful, give herself a nosebleed from the electromagnetic waves you're emitting.
"REX! TURN IT OVER NOW!"
"Bite my shiny metal ass you bitch!" You say backing up nearly into your shop and pulling Luna along with you due to a message you've recently received. Luna gave you an odd look as you shelter her beneath you as Celestia just looks extremely pissed off as you look up to an Airbus coming in extremely fast and low. What then occurs is rather odd, as Celestia's drenched in a wave of piss
"Not my fault. Someone put an Airbus in the sky." You say as you put your hooves up in somewhat defense, as Celestia looks off to the Airbus that just landed. As Belle approaches, you can't help but to stifle a laugh.
"Luna, a little assistance here." you say as you now have to hold your sides, to keep them from launching into orbit.
You're on the ground trying not to lose your composure, as Celestia's white coat is now stained yellow. Luna looks at you like that the fuck just happened. You're still trying not to laugh as you hear an off sounding Belle say "Hey there Buddy.... I brought the Sunny D."
while she says that you just barely mumble "my sides! My sides!"
Again Belle says
"So, I heard you like killing defenseless humans? Well I praise the sun, and I brought the Sunny D. Not that purple drank." There's laughter in the air, as Celestia storms towards you and Luna, as you're still laughing she looks to you and realizes what's going on, and stands on her hind hooves and raises her forehooves into the air and yells "PRAISE THE SUN!" you Belle, Ark, Luna, and Morgan completely lose your composure and instantly laugh, Celestia's so flustered by the situation that she gets back on her chariot and has her guards take her back to the castle.
At this point you've lost all control and you're on the ground laughing.
Again you say "My SIDES! My SIDES! They're in orbit"
"Yea buddy..... just like when we used to flour bomb the convoys........ Thunderhead, it's okay..... I know who it is." You say as you're slowly trying to recover from your laughter as Luna's still lost it.
"Dad? What's going on, well I mean I know what's going on but you didn't tell anyone."
"Best par.... part is.... is that I didn't even know!" you say as your laughter is now barely under control.
"Well, there's a lot of confused ponies out there, so what are we gonna tell them."
"My problem Morgan, that's my problem. Good thing many of them don't really like her too much." You say as you get up and then you and Morgan attend to Luna.
"That was the.... the most.... fun I've had at my sister's expense.......... in millenniums."
"Well, I'm sure she's pissed off." You say and have to laugh at your shitty dad pun.
"Way to go dad, thanks for the shit pun."
"No problem, it's what I do."
"DAD!"
"Right, right. So Demon Lord what brings you here?" You say as Belle and Ark calm their laughing.
"What brings me here? Oh I don't know I thought I'd do a little sun praising."
"That's one hell of a way to do it. Even got Luna to join in and laugh. Holy hell, Ark, Belle, that was fucking hysterical."
"I'm fucking traumatized and at least I don't have to piss anymore."
"Heh, guess that explains the low level flying. So, anything else I can do for you two since you're here?" You ask?
"Eh, not really, you mind if we hang around for a bit, I don't think Belle wants to get into the air for a while."
"Heh, yea, oh and we've gotten started on work for your android, it's even gonna be covered in an artificial skin. It's in the shop if you wanted to see it. Well, the robot at least" You say as you point back towards your shop.
"Na, think I'm gonna wait on that one."
"Alright, help yourself to any one of the open hangars, or ask KC for a room." You say as they, well, she walks off as you and Morgan attempt to get Luna's composure back.
"Dad, I know what you did back there."
"Yea, so?"
"That was smart to get Luna out of the way."
"Yea, I know. So what's going on Luna?" you say as Luna is now standing back up after regaining her composure.
"That was an experience, I must attend to my sister."
"Well, that's all fine and dandy, but I don't think you're really in a state to 'comfort' her in any sense. Just make more fun of her, so it's probably safer if you stay, for at least a day." you say as Luna picks up her tiara that was launched deeper into your shop.
"Yes, that would probably be for the best. So where shall I be staying?"
"With us of course." Morgan said which got you to laugh. Of course she's staying with you, where else would she stay?
"Heh, this doesn't surprise me."
"What does not?"
"The fact that you're staying with us Luna, that does not surprise me."
"Yes, your family does treat me well. Is this the thing that Ark would inhabit next?"
"Yea, that's the android he's gonna be in, so whatddya think?"
"I think Twilight and Falken hath outdone themselves with their construction of it."
"Of course they have. They've improved the design, though that's because it's just limited in its operation. It's limited to use in a cockpit, and minor operations outside of it. It's for more flight oriented tasks than my maintenance oriented." You say as Luna looks over the skeleton while you watch over her.
"Yes, these machines do appear to be specially outfitted for a specific task."
"Which was the point Luna. That's for fixing ponies and this one is for walking around, but it's not for me, since I kind of prefer this body." You say as you feel like a damned ghost possessing someone.
"Yes, and I can't help but wonder what was going through my sister's head as she demanded that you turn over the wreckage."
"I think we know well enough what she was thinking, that I'd find out the real cause of the accident. by the way, how's the investigation going?"
"I have tasked fair Applejack with getting information from any of the witnesses around Ponyville, as for incidents in Garuda, I do not think that there is any need for us to further our investigations there."
"So, you're thinking the problem happened after he dropped Twilight off?"
"Yes, Twilight hath said that she and the girls treated Ark to lunch."
"How kind of them, but that leaves the GLEX unattended for a while." You say as you and Luna just talk about what's going on with Morgan standing guard, you're letting her listen in on this, and it's not like she won't hear it from Luna again anyways.
"Yes, and that is why I gave Applejack the task of finding out what happened at the hangar."
"Luna,"
"Yes, Rex?"
"We know the end result, we're just trying to figure out who.and we know it was your sister, otherwise she wouldn't be trying to cover this up. I'm surprised that she hasn't tried to pin this on me yet."
"The latter statement is impossible, as you seem to know Ark, why would you?" Luna said as you laugh a little
"Well, we used to have a little aggressive competition about who was the better pilot, every damned time it'd be a damned even tie. That's all past though, and that's where it'll stay unless he brings it up. Hey, have you talked to Sasha lately?"
"No, I have not talked to many a pony under your rule."
"Well, you want a free escort to go and talk to her?"
"That I would not mind." Luna says as Morgan obliges.
"Huh, then I wonder what's gonna happen to the poor guy."
"Is best we not think about da Luna?" Sasha said changing the subject off of Morgan.
"Yes, that would be ideal, since we all know Rex can be short tempered at times."
"Da, he not always happy about things. You enjoyings things in Canterlot?"
"Well, lately I have been very busy, Celestia is paranoid about something. Which is quite normal for thy sister, but tis more than usual."
"Perhaps when Sasha takings to sky we can visit you?"
"That would be nice, though I am a pony of the night."
"Is not problem, Lilya can be sleepings while you and I talk." Sasha said getting a slight laugh out of Lightning.
"And what am I doing while you get to have tea with the princess?"
"What you think? You watch Lilya."
"So things as usual?"
"Da." Sasha said as Lilya came over to talk to everyone, well primarily to talk to Morgan's friend after Morgan told her that Luna was one  of her best friends
"Lilya, what bring you over here?"
"The Princess, Morgan said that she's one of her best friends."
"Oh, that's interesting, I didn't know the two of them were such good friends." Sasha said as she looked up to Luna a little confused.
"What hath the little one said?"
"She say you friends with Morgan."
"Of course, she can be a bit of a problem at times, she is wonderful company despite that." Luna said as Morgan comes over to see what's going on.
"Hey what's going on Luna?"
"Talking about you."
"Really? Oh, about what?"
"About how you can be quite the hooffull if I'm not careful who's around you."
"Heh he, Yea, I can be kind of a problem sometimes." Morgan said as she put a hoof behind her head and smiled.
"Morgan, you know you can be a problem for ponies and yet you're still smiling?"
"Yea, just because I cause trouble now and again doesn't mean that she doesn't cause trouble for me. I mean dad's paranoid about how much time we spend together. Since he's not too keen to Falken and Twilight, but that's all Twilight's fault. But we're not, Luna and I are just friends, let me make that very clear to you Lightning." Morgan said as she slightly spoke through her teeth for the last sentence.
"I get it I get it. Your dad know?"
"Of course he knows Lightning, otherwise he wouldn't be okay with me going out to Canterlot all the time, him also being able to see exactly what I'm doing doesn't hurt his case either." Morgan said a little irritated with Lightning for bringing up her situation with Luna, and at you for actually being able to see what she does sometimes.
"He is not prying now is he?"
"No, he usually gives me a warning. He really does try not to pry Luna."
"It is a good thing?"
"Yea, he trusts me, just not when I'm angry for obvious reasons." Morgan said as much of this went over Lilya's head
"Princess, what are you two talking about?"
"Morgan, may I tell the little one?" Luna asked only getting a sigh and a nod from Morgan, but knew to censor most of what she was about to say.
"Well, Lilya, Morgan occasionally has a few issues with her temper, and it is not a good thing. Though she can keep her temper under control. Sometimes her father has to assist her."
"How?"
"By finding an area where she can let some of the issues go. Mostly anger issues."
"Oh, Morgan why didn't you tell me?" Lilya asked as she now looked to Morgan.
"Lilya, it's no big deal, it's just something I live with. Really, it's just part of life for me." Morgan said with a smile since she really doesn't know any different or better that's what she says.
"Why do you get mad at ponies?"
"Oh, I don't think it's a good idea for me to tell you why."
"Why not?"
"Lilya, because when I start to think about what makes me mad, I tend to get mad, and I don't want to be angry around you." Morgan said with a smile, and had to look away, she knew she was a bit annoyed by Lilya's asking and had to hide the heterochromia now appearing in her left eye.
"Morgan, I believe it is time we went to check on your father."
"Sure." Morgan said as Luna flew up on to Morgan's back as she made her way towards the door, hoping the change in eye color would go away before she met up with you.
"Luna, why'd you bring that up? You know if dad sees me like this he's gonna think I'm mad about something."
"But you are."
"I know I know I am, but really how could you make me mad at Lilya for asking such a simple question?" Morgan said as she was trying to calm down on the walk to your shop where you're actually at home, not just casting external parts.
"Hey Falken, Twilight, either of you seen dad?"
"I think he's at home Morgan. Which is surprising since I thought he would be here working on those radial engines."
"Yea, that is kind of surprising, thanks Falken."
"Yea, oh, and what's wrong with your eyes? Aren't they normally blue?"
"Heh, yea.... got a little frustrated."
"That's not a hydraulic leak in your cockpit is it?"
"No, I have a tendency to develop heterochromia when angry, or really really annoyed." Morgan said with a bit of sadness in her voice since her brother was a little too stupid to pick up on that.
"Oh right, that thing dad had asked me not to talk about around you or him. Odd, that doesn't make any sense to me."
"Falken, I think it's time that you stopped talking."
"And why do you say that Purple?"
"Just shut up would you?" Twilight said as she tried to get him to focus on building the android which was at best 50% done.
 
1700 Hrs. Your home.
You're passed out on the couch from trying to think of a way to pay the ponies from Germaneigh who left in a rather big hurry after leaving the skin for Twilight and Falken to put onto the robot. Fair compensation was something you're not normally good at, but you're sure you could figure out something that told them you appreciated what they did, but regardless, you're passed out on the couch.
When Morgan and Luna come in, Morgan's eyes have mostly returned to normal, but Thunderbolt catches the faintest hint of red in her left eye and calls her into the kitchen.
"What got you so upset?" Thunderbolt asked with a concerned look on her face.
"Mom, I kinda don't want to talk about it, I just want to calm down."
"And I don't blame you, but I still want to know, before your dad finds out. You know he's gonna make a big deal out of it."
"Ugh, I know. I got a little irritated at Lilya for asking about what makes me get upset and puts me into those 'combat modes' you know which ones I'm talking about."
"Oh, who brought that up?"
"A combination of Luna, and Lightning. So I'm more mad at those two than Lilya." Morgan said as the red now faded from her left eye.
"Well, if Luna keeps trying to tickle Rex's nose, she's gonna get swatted away. Just like that." Thunderbolt said as she motioned over to Luna who was nearly clear across the room if it weren't for another couch being across from where you were laying, and you didn't even really push Luna away that hard, just enough to get her clear in a somewhat gentle fashion. Since you could at least sense she was there and you really didn't feel like hurting her.
Morgan walks over to Luna who's a little surprised that she was lightly tossed across the room onto a couch.
"You alright?"
"Yes, and yourself?"
"Yea, I'm good." Morgan said as you woke up, still pretty tired, but since Luna looks absolutely fine you're not terribly concerned.
"You hurt at all Luna?"
"No, I am fine. Thank you for your concern."
"No problem, just don't do that again okay?"
"Of course, but what are you doing?"
"Going back to sleep."
"Tis only 5:30 in the evening, the night hasn't even started yet."
"Luna?"
"Yes?"
"Most of us sleep at night, and I'd like to for once, since I've got work to do, and personal projects I'm behind on." You say as you attempt to go back to sleep,
"Oh, and Morgan, Nice try, I already knew."
"About what?"
"Lilya. Was only a matter of time before that was brought up."
"How?" Morgan asked as you just went into her mind.
"How do you think Morgan, don't you forget that this system was for me to be able to control you as a human? Well, aren't you happy that I normally don't do this?"
"Get out of my body dad!"
"And why should I Morgan?"
"Because I'll take your.... Damn it."
"Can't take my body from me can you?" You say with Morgan's voice as she needed a reminder of how you know things about her that she hasn't told you.
"What else have you found out like this?"
"Not much. Like I've said many times before, it's your life, I'm gonna stay out of it, I'd say why don't you take Luna to go and get Ice cream, but she's gonna end up paying for it." You say from your own body, since you've tormented her enough, and she needs to be left alone.
"Can we just go up on the dam?"
"That's fine, just don't go in it." You say as you roll over and look up with sleep in your eyes.
"Why do you do that still?"
"Thunder, you know what happens when she gets angry, someone has to help her control that. Until she finds someone to share that with, she's my responsibility, and I'm not going to let her do anything stupid" You say getting a smile out of Thunder
"So is that why you're tired all the time?"
"Only a small part of it. You think I just sit on paperwork Celestia wants? Oh no, I have reports from all over. With the Smiths everywhere, there's a lot of information that Echo wants me to run through. Most of that information is harmless, well to us, so I don't bother with much of it. Only when there's a threat do I ever task someone to go and take care of it. They're almost always minor."
"Well, that's comforting, anything on Falken and Twilight?"
"What don't you want to know? Once they leave Avalon's Shadow, they're under full surveillance from the Smiths. Since Falken's schedule is pretty well known, they know when to head out before him so they arrive just as he does, if not before. You know the best thing about those drones right?"
"We don't pay any attention to them, except for you and a few others."
"Right, and Falken doesn't notice, or care." You say eyes still closed and carrying on a conversation with Thunderbolt.
"Well, did you want to help with dinner or was your nap not long enough?"
"I'll help. Since I did kind of throw Luna across the room."
"Yes you did, though she did aggravate it a little." Thunderbolt said as you roll onto your feet laughing a little, but from getting up so quickly you're a bit disoriented.
"Should not have gotten up so fast."
"Really?" Thunder asks as you're stumbling around a little as you make your way into the kitchen.