"Well, if you want to. Otherwise I'm going to have to ask someone to watch over you two." You say as Thunderbolt frowns at you.
"I want to. Really how much trouble can he be?" Morgan said with a smile on her face as Falken walked out his projected eyes a little fuzzy from not being awake.
"Morning sleepy." You say to which you just get a grumbling from him.
"Looks like someone's not awake." You say as Falken more or less puts his face into the pancakes.
"You OK there son?" You ask a little concerned as to why he'd go face first into pancakes.
His fuzzy eyes look up at you and you get a "MMhhmm" as his mouth was full of food.
"I'd tell you to eat normally, but I doubt you'd listen." You say to which you get a nod from Falken.
"What are you going to do?" Thundebolt asked.
"Let him. Everyone's got their oddities, why not just let Falken have his weird thing with his food." You say to which Morgan nods.
"What about Morgan" Thunderbolt said as you cut her off and shake your head, that's a no go zone, even for you.
"Nobody talks about that." You say knowing Morgan has some mental issues that are probably impossible to iron out. You know she has a personality disorder for sure, and you just don't want to bring it up.
"Ok then what about you Anon? What quirks do you have?" Thunderbolt asked as you just laugh and Morgan answers that for you.
"Well daddy's got some trust issues, you have to prove he can trust you." Morgan said to which you just smile and nod.
"Yeahh, trust issues," You say laughing a little and rubbing the back of your neck.
"Well, I guess that's settled then. So Anon, when are we going to go and see my parents?" Thunderbolt asked.
"Whenever you want dear." You say
"Well, if we go now, we could be there by lunch and we could go out to lunch to hopefully prevent them from making a scene." Thunderbolt said
"What?" You ask wondering why she'd say something like that.
"Um, I'm a little worried they might not like you." Thunderbolt said.
You spend twenty minutes following Thunderbolt around before she goes up the steps of a Navy style hangar. She goes and knocks on the door, goes in for about ten minutes leaving you to sit in an unairconditioned fighter, just sitting there and waiting, uncomfortably.
"Rex, you can leave the plane now." Thunderbolt said as she poked her head out the doors. Finally, you can get out, and walk up the steps, well more of climb, as they were meant for planes, not humans. You left your flight helmet in the plane, and you attempted to fix your hair before you enter to Thunderbolt grabbing you by the parachute harness again and bringing you before two A-1s.
"This thing is going to be marrying you Thunderbolt?" her father said clearly upset with you being there
"Well dad, I love him and he loves me, You can't stop me." Thunderbolt said through her teeth. You're embarrassed to be held up by Thunderbolt and in the center of the argument without knowing what to say or even how to address her parents. So first instinct, put your hand over your face and hope this ends quickly.
"Thunderbolt, this is going to really upset your mother, what happened with Frogfoot?" her dad said as she went open mouthed and dropped you to the floor, only for you to roll and duck underneath her
"That was a long time ago dad! All he ever did was drink when he wasn't flying. I don't like heavy drinkers!" Thunderbolt said as you still stand and hope for some divine intervention here
"Thunderbolt, who's that standing beneath you?" Her mother asked as you thought it was best to stay quiet.
"Anon, quit hiding and say hello." Thunderbolt said as she took a step back exposing you to them. You smile and wave
"Oh great he's a mute. Good going Thunderbolt, first you bring us a human, and now he won't talk. Just wonderful. Skye, our girl has absolutely no taste in men." her father said partially setting you off
"Listen here, A-1, I'm not a mute, I just don't know what to say right now." You say with a tad of anger
"Oh so the ape can talk." he said causing your face to twist with anger
"I'm not a dirty ape you outdated plane!" You say hoping to hit back where it hurts.
"Outdated? I'm going to show you who's outdated you hairless monkey!" He yelled, as you definitely hit a sorespot, but that sorespot just got you shot at.
"The hell is this?" He asks as your standing there with your arms up covering your face and 20mm holes in the walls around you, with no damage to Thunderbolt.
"Right, I forgot about my own ECM. Damn, that's useful." You say with a rather smug look on your face.
"Thunderbolt explain yourself, and this thing." her father said.
"Dad, that thing is Rex Tremendae. If you'd take your damned blinders off for five seconds to see how he got here you'd know that." Thunderbolt said as she pointed outside to your ADFX.
"Rex Tremendae?" Skye asked.
"Yes, that would be me." You say as her mother now promptly smacks her father on the back of his head.
"You idiot, he could kill us without even trying. Raider, apologize to him." Skye said as you laugh a little.
"Now I know where Thunder gets her senses from." You say as her mother seems pleased by the statement, but her father is still unhappy as all hell.
"So, how about we go and get lunch?" Thunderbolt sheepishly suggested.
"Yes, lunch sound like a wonderful idea darling, Come on Raider, we're going to have lunch with our daughter and her husband to be." Skye said as Thunderbolt picked you up and placed you on her wing.
"God damned it." You say to yourself as the three of them walk off to a restaurant as you hope you're not recognized as Rex, or at least the ADFX is not touched by the others.
It's now 1200 hrs, you're in a restaurant not of your choosing, but they did have things to accommodate to your needs. You weren't particularly happy to be sitting on the edge of the table, but you were at least near Thunderbolt.
"So Rex, what do you do?" Skye asked.
"Well, I'm Avalon's Shadow's Mechanic, so I fix busted ponies all day. So basically I'm the city's doctor." You say
"Did you hear Raider, he's the city doctor." Skye said trying to get her husband to cooperate.
"Oh yes a mechanic, must be pretty busy. So tell me, do you really think you're capable of caring for my daughter in every way possible?" Raider asked in a half sarcastic and demeaning way.
"Well, I already look after her well being. I am the one who maintains her, and makes sure she stays out of harms way." You say with a hint of condescending anger
"Well, what about her other needs? Like children?" He asked, which was something you did not want him bringing up.
"Thunderbolt, perhaps you'd like to answer your father's question." You say as you really don't want to talk about your mentally disturbed daughter and oddball of a son
"Well, dad, he's made two. Morgan and Falken. Morgan's his daughter, and Falken is his son." Thunderbolt said as the both look at you in disbelief
"Morgan? The one who obliterated that T-50 that was terrorizing the country?" they asked.
"Yea, if she were here to hear you say that, she'd be very proud of herself, and me." You say knowing that the story about T-50 goes with Morgan
"Mother of Celestia, you control that filly?" Raider asked.
"Control, well, I more guide her than anything." You say as you want this to not be about you anymore
"Well, I think that's enough about his kids, your soon to be grand kids." Thunderbolt said giving you a slight reprieve.
"Yes, it's clear he doesn't want to talk about them." Skye said as you're mumbling to yourself
"This was supposed to be a simple meet the parents, oh no, it's a clusterfuck" you mumbled barely loud enough for thunder
"Anon, watch what you're saying, if I can hear you so can they." Thunderbolt hissed at you to which you look at her with disbelief and continue to mumble about things that don't make sense.
"What's he mumbling about dear?" Skye asked as you turn away and roll your eyes so they wouldn't see how irritated you are with them.
"Nothing mom, he's just a little upset." Thunderbolt said as she pulls you close to her
"Upset about what? It's just a hairless ape, how can it have feelings?" Raider said as you now know how he feels about you
"RAIDER! Don't say things like that, you'll cause a scene." Skye said as you stood up and threw a handful of bolts at him.
"I don't have feelings do I? Then answer me this why did I just throw bolts at you?" You yell getting a whole lot of attention
"Anon, you're making a scene." Thunderbolt whispers to you.
"No, if your dad wants to make a scene, by all means I'll make a fucking scene!" You say pointing at Raider
"Is there a problem here?" your waiter asks.
"Yea do you know who I am?" You ask to which the waiter nods.
"Yes, Rex, we know who you are, it's such an honor to have you out in our humble city." he said
"Great, I'd like to have a nice quiet meeting with my fiancee's parents, but no, her father's being a fucking prick." You say as the waiter gives Raider a rather dirty look.
"My, it seems you've gathered quite a bit of attention." he said as he looked around to the crowd that was now looking at your table.
"Good." You say to yourself as you smile
"What the hell is everypony looking at?" Raider said as he now stood up.
"You." You say as he stares at you in confusion
"Thunderbolt, perhaps we could take this conversation elsewhere." Raider said, as You Skye and Thunderbolt look at him in disbelief.
"Dad, you created this mess, and you're going to clean it up. Mom and I are not going to, and Rex, well, I think he's heard enough from you today." Thunderbolt said shutting her father up, as it hurt him to hear her say that against him.
"Thunderbolt." Raider said only to be cut off by Thunder
"Enough, I think we get the point. You don't like him do you? It doesn't matter to me, we're getting married whether you like it or not dad." Thunderbolt said as she had your back the entire time, though it definitely felt like she didn't at points
"Don't you two worry about lunch, we're going to take care of it, aren't WE dear?" Skye said as she herself gave her husband a demeaning look.
"Thank you Skye." You say as you sit back down knowing you've humiliated Raider enough today, and his own daughter told him to essentially fuck off, I'm going to do what I want.
So when your lunch came, it was nothing but Thunder and her mother talking while you and Raider exchanged death glares when the women weren't looking.
Thunder and Skye were talking about how you two met, what you did, and well women stuff that you didn't care about as long as your ECM held up you could care less what Raider was doing.
"So Rex, what are your children like?" Skye asks as you turn around and look up at the sky from hearing two familiar, yet very similar turbine sounds
"Thunderbolt, they didn't follow us, did they?" You ask as you turn to Thunderbolt who has the same confused look on her face as well.
"Are you saying we just heard their turbines?" Thunder said
"Well, I know what they sound like. You don't think Morgan would?" You say as Morgan and Falken found you
"Track you down in Hornet?" Morgan said as you're now sinking in dread
"Oh no." You say quietly to yourself before continuing. "Morgan, why'd you fly out here"
"Well, you've been gone for like four hours, and I didn't know where you were." Morgan said.
"You could have called." You say as you have a hand on your face
"That's what I said dad, but no she wouldn't listen to me." Falken said as you know this is a horrible time for them to be here.
"Mom, these are Rex's kids, Morgan, and Falken." Thunderbolt said introducing them to her parents, though purposely leaving her dad out
"Thunderbolt, Morgan's such a lil cutie, Falken, well he's a little." Skye said as Morgan blushed heavily and Falken finished the sentence for her.
"I know. Odd. It's ok, I get it all the time ma'am." Falken said rather unphased by it.
Skye gave him a rather embarrassed smile, Falken shrugged and smiled back, Morgan on the other hand, had a whole bunch of things to say.
"You really think I'm a little cutie?" Morgan asked as you know her sense of self importance is about to go through the roof, again.
"Yes you are Morgan, you're such a cute lil, what are you exactly?" Skye said.
"ADFX-02 Morgan." Morgan said with a near absurd amount of pride and to your embarrassment.
"Well, for something I've never heard of you're really such a sweet filly." Skye said as Morgan blushed again.
You stare into space wondering how this day could get any worse, but you know it can, and you don't want those things to happen.
"Rex, she's so sweet, how could she have done those things to T-50?" Skye asked as Thunderbolt, Morgan, Falken, and Raider left the two of you at the table.
"Let's just say, when things go bad, she's got a kill mode, and she's near unstoppable." You say admitting to her personality disorder.
"Oh so there's sort of two of her?" Skye said as she paid the bill.
"In a way yes, I can see both sides of her at once, but that's because I'm her father, and I built her. Sometimes it bothers me to see such a tortured and brutal soul inside of her." You say knowing that stems from your personality, where as hers is bright and friendly, yours can be rather grim.
"Oh, does she know?" Skye asked as you two looked out at the rest of them, with Morgan and Falken playing a little while Thunderbolt and Raider looked on.
"Morgan? I think so. She doesn't talk about it with me, so I don't bring it up, she knows part of it is from me, and from what she is. Thunderbolt knows something's up, but I won't tell her in front of Morgan. Last thing I want is to upset my little girl." You say