I know this story seems kind of mushy right now but it will get darker and more violent in the later chapters I should warn you now some human characters will die at the end of this story but it will have a happy ending. And someone PM me about there being any sexual activity in this story and the answer is no, i'm not writing a sex scene between a human and a pony.
Sgt Danny Kowalski had found Twilight with a sightly sad expression on her face.
"Hey Twilight whats the matter?" Danny asked.
"Oh just last time i came here" Twilight said as she told him the story of last years gala.
"That sounds like it sucked!" Danny said to Twilight who explained the disaster at last years Gala. Last year Twilight had wanted to spend time with her mentor, Princess Celestia, but she wound up getting to occupied welcoming guests. Twilight was impressed with Danny's grooming
"He sure does look more handsome when he's clean" Twilight thought to herself.
"It did but now that I look back on it, it was actually kind of funny" Twilight said letting out a small laugh.
"Sounds like the time Tommy Dean was invited to a dinner at the generals house and he spilled hot coffee all over the general's wife and he wound up getting demoted!" Danny said laughing.
"Demoted?" Twilight asked.
"Usually in the military you get promoted which means you get a higher rank but if you do something bad you get demoted, Tommy Dean used to be a Lance Corporal but now he is private because of the incident" Danny said.
"Thats sounds way worse than what happened to me!" Twilight said chuckling.
"By the way i got these for you" Danny said as he pulled a bouquet of flowers from behind Twilight's head. Twilight didn't know if she shocked at the magic trick or the fact Danny got flowers for her.
"Danny that so sweet of you" Twilight said as she used her magic to take the flowers."Except i don't where i can put this, i can't carry it around all night". Danny slapped himself in the face, he had not thought of that.
"Luna? Son of a bitch!" Navarro said quielty as he saw the princess of the night in her Gala dress, he was shocked at how beautiful she looked.
"Dom I'm so glad you came!" Luna said enthusiastically.
"Wouldn't miss it for the world!" Navarro exclaimed. Luna noticed the sword at his thigh and felt a little uncomfortable about it.
"Please excuse me Dom but why do you have a sword?" Luna asked.
"Huh this?" Navarro said pulling out his sword causing some of Luna's Royal guards to step toward him thinking he was going to attack her but Luna ordered them to stop. The sword had a golden hilt and had Navarro's name inscribed on the blade. "Just part of the uniform it's too thin to cut through anything anyway its just for show" Navaroo explained making Luna feel much better.
"You know Dom this is the first Gala I have attended for a thousand years" Luna said,
"Well then we will just have to make it the time of your life! Lets go" Navarro said as the two departed for the ballroom. Iverson had to shield his eyes, Celestia's pure white coat along with her bright golden dress nearly blinded him.
"James are you okay?" She asked smiling.
"Yeah it's just you look so bright it hurts me eyes" Iverson said causing Celestia to blush.
"Thank you James but I must ask what was that commotion earlier when you arrived?" Celestia asked refering to the screaming from the Marines.
"Oh that" Iverson said embarrassed. "I ordered my men to left and Tony went right so of course Andy started yelling at him and I had to scream to get them to be quiet". Celestia just started laughing.
"THERE THEY ARE! OVER THERE!" Rainbow said excitedly as she pointed to the Wonderbolts. Tony did not see anything great about the pegasus ponies and was not the kind to be easily impressed but he went along with her excitement.
"They sure look fast" Tony said.
"Fast? THERE THE BEST FLYERS IN ALL OF EQUESTRIA! OH MY GOSH HERE THEY COME!" Rainbow said as two of the Wonderbolts Spitfire and Soarin came up to her.
"Well if it isn't Rainbow Dash you know we never repaid you for saving us at the Flyers Competition, how bout you and your pal hang with us?" Spitfire offered. Dash was excited but the same thing happened last year and they eventually forgot about her but she went anyway.
"Hey Soarin! Soarin!" Rainbow said trying to get the stallions attention but he was talking to paparazzi. A crushed look crawled onto her face. Tony was extremely aggravated by this and grabbed Soarin by the mane.
"HEY THE LADY IS TRYING TO TALK TO YOU PUNK!" Tony shouted at the scared stallion.
"Sorry" Soarin said frightened.
"If you ignore her again you can come play with me i dont think you want that now do you?" Tony said as he cracked his neck.
"No sir!" Soarin replied. "So Dash what is Ponyville like?" Soarin started asking Rainbow as she looked back and Tony gave her a wink to which she replied with a happy smile. Applejack wasn't having much luck selling apples year again, only two ponies had gotten something from her stand. Tommy felt bad to see her like that so he went up to a wandering unicorn stallion and whispered in his ear. Applejack had no clue what Tommy said to the stallion but the pony ran over and bought ten different things than ran away stricken with terror
"Thanks so much Tommy what did you say to him?" Applejack asked as she put the money in her money jar.
"Heh heh let's just say I'm not exactly his new buddy" Tommy said as he repeated the tactic to everypony that passed by and soon Applejack had enough money to rebuild Ponyville.
"Boy howdy I think this is more than I need!" Applejack said. She looked over at Tommy.
"Tommy I really don't know how i can ever repay you for this" she said.
"Don't worry bout it, it's my job to help people" Tommy said as Applejack gave him a quick kiss on the cheek.
"Well I-uh uh uh deh" Tommy said babbling nonsense after Applejacks kiss.
"What do you see we go inside now?" Applejack asked as she grabbed a dumbfounded Tommy's hand and led him inside. Rarity and Ritchy were walking into the ballroom from the garden where Rarity saw an unexpected and unwanted sight.
"And after that-OH NO THERE HE IS!" Rarity said as she spotted Prince Blueblood walking through a door being held open for him by an aggravated mare.
"Who is that?" Ritchy asked.
"Prince Blueblood" Rarity said with her head down.
"Wait right here I'll be right back" Ritchy said as he went to the stallion prince.
"Hey didn't mummy and daddy ever teach you some manners!" Ritchy yelled.
"And just who are you? You are interfering with my walk!" Blueblodd retorted.
"Oh I'm sorry do you want me to wipe your arse for you?" Ritchy said.
"How dare you talk to me like that! I am royalty!" Blueblood declared.
"Yeah a royal pain in the arse" Ritchy replied. "Who do you think you are treating Ms Rarity like crap?"
"Well I am royalty and she is just a regular, low class-" Blueblood didn't get to finish his sentence as Ritchy punched the unicorn in the head knocking him out, everypony was staring at him.
"No manners" Ritchy explained as all the stallions began tending to the needs of any mare they saw.
"Alexander how chivalrous!" Rarity complimented.
"Someone needed to show him he aint the boss" Ritchy said. He saw Andy and Pinkie dancing together, Andy picked up the pink pony and twirled her around before an older obviously rich stallion began to scold them.
"Pardon me what do you two think you are doing?" The stallion asked. Pinkie immedialty looked down, it was a replay of last year's gala.
"Why dancing of course" Andy replied. Pinkie saw the disgusted look on the stallion's face.
"You call that dancing? This is a formal event not some party for fillies!" Act your age young man!" The stallion scolded.
"Woah who do you think you are pal?" Andy said in an intimidating voice.
"Hey i recognize that young lady!" A mare shouted pointing at Pinkie. "She's the one who sang that ridiculous song last year". Pinkie felt extremely embarrassed at the thought. "And you are acting so immature! Stop that behavior this instant!" The mare yelled at Andy. Andy was shocked, he was not taking orders from some stuck-up snobby rich ponies.
"Listen here, I only take orders from Captain Iverson not you!" Andy yelled. "And for your information Pinkie has much more spirit and laughter than any of you could hope to have so go back to your clean little stables!". The older ponies all backed off and the younger couples joined in with Andy and Pinkie's dancing. The ponies eventually swarmed Pinkie and she was in the middle of a huge dance group. Andy saw his brother standing outside the V.I.P section sipping some punch so he went over to join him.
"Hey dickhead pour me some punch" Andy ordered.
"Whatever you say asshole" Tony replied pouring his brother a cup of punch. Andy took the tiny cup and chugged it down.
"So where is Rainbow?" Andy asked.
"In there with the Wonderbolts, I wasn't too impressed with them so I came out here." Tony replied setting down his cup. "Say where is Pinkie at?"
Andy smiled and pointed behind him to the crowd of ponies dancing with Pinkie in the middle of the crowd.
"I see." Tony observed. "Hey Andy this is gonna sound weird but I think I'm falling for Dashie" Tony confessed, normally Andy would scold or make fun of his brother but he was feeling similar feelings towards Pinkie.
"I know what mean, I can't take my eyes off Pinkie sometimes" Andy said. "Hey here comes Tommy Dean and Applejack". Applejack left to go find somewhere to put all the money she made. Tommy Dean walked over to the brothers still in shock from Applejack's kiss.
"Hey you alright cowboy?" Tony asked.
"A-a-a-a-a-app-app" Tommy Dean muttered.
"Spit it out Billy the Kid!" Andy said referring to the old western outlaw.
"Applejack kissed me." Tommy Dean finally said. Tony and Andy stood there in shock.
"Dude no fuckin way!" Tony said.
"So how far did you get?" Andy said teasing Tommy.
"Alright you sick bastards it was a kiss on the cheek not a full on lip kiss" Tommy explained.
"Right" Andy and Tony said as they began laughing at Tommy.
Twilight and Danny were sitting at a table waiting to be served food. Danny loved explaining all the feats of human technology to Twilight
"Bonsoir, dinner is served" A stallion with a french accent said. Danny didn't know ponies had different accents but this world was full of surprises. Twilight used her magic to open the tray and revealed two grass and hay sandwiches. Twilight again used her magic and picked up the sandwich and started eating it. Danny just sat there staring at the sandwich.
"Danny aren't you going to eat?" Twilight asked.
"Well I can't really eat this, the human body can't digest grass or hay" Danny said.
"Please explain" Twilight asked making a mental note to write this information down later.
"Well all animal have different cells in the digestive tract called enzymes which break down food in the intestines and humans don't have the enzymes or chemicals to break down stuff like grass." Danny explained. Twilight had never heard of enzymes before but they did sound interesting.
"But you must be hungry you haven't eaten since this morning!" Twilight exclaimed.
"Well I guess i could eat the bread" Danny chuckled as he ate the slices of bread. The two than saw Princess Celestia with Iverson greeting guests.
"Hey Twilight if you want to spend time with the princess, the captain and I will greet the guests" Danny offered.
"Oh you don't have to do that" Twilight said.
"I wouldn't mind, I mean she looks like she's ready to kill herself up there!" Danny said pointing to Celestia who was obviously bored of greeting ponies.
"What about James? He wants to spend time with her" Twiight pointed out.
"He looks like he's about to kill himself too he needs a break" Danny said. The two went up to Celestia and Iverson who were both wishing to get out of there.
"I'd rather face an army of soulrippers than be greeting this stupid guests!" Iverson thought to himself as Danny and Twilight came up to them.
"Excuse sir, If you two want to take a break I can greet these guests for a while" Danny offered.
"Oh you don't have to Danny go enjoy yourself" Celestia said even though she would love nothing more than to leave and spend some time with her prized pupil Twilight.
"How thoughtful of you sergeant! Have fun!" Iverson intervened, he could not stand to greet one more pony. Celestia was about to speak but decided against it.
"James please excuse me but I need to talk with Twilight for a bit, I'll meet you later" Celestia said.
"That's okay, I have to see to my men" Iverson said as the the two ponies walked off. He looked over at Danny who was stuck now welcoming ponies.
"Your a life-saver sergeant, i might promote you for this" Iverson said as he darted off leaving Danny to greet ponies.
Whew that was the longest chapter i've written so far as always leave a review of your favorite human character and couple