Welp here's chapter two, got really nothing more to say than thanks to those who like it so far.

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Meeting a Cowboy and Cowgirl

Ok after my little chat with Spitfire, she walked me out of her office and Soarin was waiting for either to talk to her or me, most likely the former. However she did pull Soarin aside for a moment to speak with him, mostly about me because I over heard my name a few times. No I wasn't listing in on them but Spitfire talks loud enough for me to hear her out right. She waved me goodbye and I returned it and now its just me and Soarin in the hallway. Soarin motions for me to walk over to him. I pick up my stuff and with my tablet in one hand I go over to him." Hey Spitfire told me that your heading down to Ponyville, correct?" I nod.

" Well I'll go with you too, along with Surprise." I'm kinda shocked that he would want to go with me, why do I get the feeling its because I'm mute? Though its kinda good that he can shut that mare up better than I can, uhh I hope Pinkie Pie ain't like her...oh what am I saying of course she's like her they could be sisters. I type something down on my tablet." Soarin you don't have to go with me. I am perfectly capable of traveling with Surprise alone, mostly." Soarin chuckles.

" Its been way too long since I've been to Ponyville. And this is the perfect excuse to take a few days off work. I think I can get Dashie to come along too." I shake my head and type a response." Soarin just because I am mute does not mean I can't travel by myself. I appreciate your hospitality and generosity, though."

" Your not getting rid of me that easily Kyra." He said with some force behind his words, wow sounds like Pip whenever he really wants something. I put my hands up, my sign of defeat. Soarin seems to know what I meant and chuckled." Alright now lets go find both Surprise and Rainbow Dash." He push himself off the wall he was leaning against and motions for me to follow. I find this really funny, when Spitfire was talking to Soarin I looked over at them and the one thing I thought when I saw Spitfire was...Dat Ass. If I could say one thing out loud that would be it, once again my forced silence saves the day again. We get back outside and I see Blaze siting on the bottom step of the main stairs." Blaze." Soarin said and she jumped up from that step like someone light her mane on fire.

" Yes sir?" She asked in a very militaristic style.

" Where did Surprise go?" He asked and she pointed to a group of small buildings across the runway.

" Over there most likely in her dorm room. Why do you ask?"

" I need to speak with her." He looks back at me." Stay here and I'll go get her." He looks at Blaze." Stay here with Kyra and make sure he doesn't do anything stupid." He ends that with a chuckle and I let out a voluntary cough. He looks back and I have two things for him, one is my fuck you face and my middle finger. He laughs and flips me off too, he is one cool guy." Yeah screw you too. Now I'll be right back. Blaze you don't mind right?" Blaze, still laughing slightly from our little fuck you war, salutes with a grin." Yes sir I'll keep him company." Soarin nods then looks at me.

" I won't be long, just stay here." He takes off in the air and is gone. Yeah fuck you too buddy. I let a huff of air, set my stuff down and sit three steps away from Blaze. She looks back at me and moves around to face me." So your name is Kyra, right? Or is that a nickname." I pull up my tablet and type.

" It is just a nickname. My real name is Zackary Kyra. But you can still call me Kyra." Yep still creepy monotone voice at its best. Blaze seems to nod.

" So you really can't speak?" I nod and type again." I was born without most of my vocal cords." That shut her up right quick. Ahh the awkward silence that I've made my friend, hello again. Blaze looks around, most likely trying to find something to talk about." So what do you do for a living?" She asked with a curious face. I was planing on going to college for medical studies, but I work as a dishwasher for a local pub. Yeah just go with dishwasher job.

" I work as a dishwasher for a local pub in Fillydelphia." My tablet responds, and she seems to buy it." So is this your first time in Cloudsdale?" I simply nod in response. Blaze looks around some more, I guess she's never met a mute before. From what I can recall is that almost every Equestrian loves to talk and only those who are extremely shy don't talk as much, but me I can't talk at all." So how old are you?" Ah the simplist of questions. I type in my age.

" I'm 20. How old are you?" I know its rude to ask a girl for her age but I'm just trying to 'talk' about something. Blaze doesn't seem offended by it." I'm 22. So are you a good flier? You see fit enough to join the Academy." Oh good god, this question. I shake my head no and type in something to not seem stupid, well less than I already look." I appreciate you compliment but I don't know how to fly. I've never tried thinking that my muteness wouldn't allow me to fly." A slightly half truth and Blaze does seem to buy it to an extent.

" Well I'm sorry to hear that. You still look healthy enough to fly and fight." Ahh the silence again. She turns around and I see Soarin flying back to us with Surprise in tow, uhhh. Soarin lands and I see that he's changed into some more regular cloths. A light blue button up shirt and blue jeans. I see that he has a one strap backpack on his back. I wonder how that would work with him flying and all. I also notice that Surprise has changed out of her wonderbolt's jumpsuit and into casual cloths. A frilly white dress and some blue jeans, with also a carry on backpack. I don't judge on what a girl will wear. She has a a huge grin and of course she still believes I'm just shy." Hi mister shy pants!" I roll my eyes and gather up my stuff.

" I couldn't find Rainbow Dash so I just left her a note in her room." Soarin informs me." Well are you ready to go?" I nod vigorously. Soarin and Surprise lead me away and I wave goodbye to Blaze, who waves back. I guess she's one to not question a superior officer. Soarin was leading us down the runway and towards what I can only guess is Cloudsdale. The huge floating city reminds me of Columbia from Bioshock Infinite. Though they didn't have control over clouds and weather and didn't resemble Mount Olypmous from Greek mythology. We get to, what I think, is a check point as I see two guard pegasi armed with..wait...AK47s? Ok this is just plain weird. Its one thing to include some earth like tech such as cell phones and computers but guns, wow wonder what other versions of Equestria are like. Wait? How do I know that this is one version of Equestria?" Greetings Soarin, taking some time off or just running some errands with these two?" One guard greets. I notice that they are dressed like actual military, tac vests, helmets and all, though sporting the wonderbolt colors.

" Just taking some time off as are these two." He gestures to me and Surprise.

" Ah alright then, you all take care. And you still owe me that beer Soarin." The guard chuckles and opens the metal gate. Soarin thanks both of them and we walk away, though not without Soarin having the last word." I'll bring one on my way back." We walk away and now the ground becomes clouds, though they are still firm like the ground but are slightly softer. I'm not afraid of heights, just clowns and mimes, ironically considering I'm a 'natural' mime. Pretty soon we get into the floating city. Wow, this place is huge. All made from clouds. Everything from the street lights, benches, buildings...all are made from cloud." I take it your surprised." Surprise giggles. I realize that my mouth was hanging open, and I mouth the word 'wow'. I see anthro pegasi of all shapes and sizes walking around, talking, I see a couple share a small kiss, and others are just going about their business.

" Amazing isn't it?" Soarin asked and I nod. I look around and while the city does resemble alot of Greek and Roman architecture, I still see some more modern style buildings, like a corner drug store, a few restaurants and shit like that. A few pedestrians say hello and I wave back at them.

" Alright this way will take us to the air balloon docks." Huh, air balloon docks why am I not surprised. We turn down a different street and I see a sign that says "Air Balloon Docks" and an arrow pointing north. Eventally we arrive but I realize I don't have any money. Instead of using my tts(I'll refer to the Text to Speech program like that from now on) program, I pull up the notepad app and tap Soarin on the shoulder. He sees the message and chuckles.

" Don't worry. I'll pay for you." I give him a thumbs up mouth the words' thank you'. We reach the building that looks like a toll booth." Three round tickets to Ponyville, please." Soarin asked the pegasus girl behind the counter. She nods and fishes out three small slips of paper that reminds me of plane tickets." Hundred bits please." She rings up our tickets, damn was not expecting it to be that much. I see Soarin reach into his back pocket and pull out a brown leather wallet. He pulls out intead of metal coins like in the show, he pulls out paper money. I don't get a good look at it but I'm about ready to shoot myself, this place is like if Earth and Equestria bumped uglies and this place was the end result. But this place is not like that movie Equestria Girls, it was alright but I prefer the show instead. Soarin pays for our tickets and we are handed our tickets. Its nothing fancy, though now that I hink about it, a hundred bits is far enough considering that pegasi can FLY instead of paying. We are pointed in the direction of a yellow and blue air balloon docked against the 'ground'. A pegasi was waiting for us. He looks about in his mid fifties with grayish mane and a whitish coat. He's dressed like an air ballon operator." Hi my name's Slow Glide and I'll be taking you all down to Ponyville today. May I please see your tickets." He extends his hand and he three of us hand him our tickets. He clips them with a paper clipper like train conductors do and hands them back." Step on and enjoy the ride." He steps aside and the three of us board.

Its a big basket. Large enough to fit five full grown men and like three large duffle bags. I set my bag down net to Surprise and Soarin's bags and lean against the basket side. Slow Glide steps in and shuts the basket door. I stare off into space long enough and I regain my composure to see that we are slowly floating down. I look over the edge and wow, we are high up.

-One Ballon ride later-

It was a nice ride down, calm and peaceful. No one really said a word to each other and I enjoyed the view. Its amazing to say the least but I get the feeling that somethings wrong, like seriously wrong. I don't get it either. The air balloon touches down on solid ground and we gather our stuff up and thank Slow Glide for the ride and get off. I look around and see that we are right next to Ponyville but near the fields, so I assume we'll meet Applejack first." Well here we are, Ponyville the best place this side of Equestria, well besides Canterlot." Soarin steps in front of me and holds his arms out wide, I simply shake my head at him with smirk on my face." Anyway, Kyra we are right near Applejack's farm so we'll stop there first and grab a bite to eat, maybe she has some of her homemade pies available." He grins and rubs his stomach. Oh yeah I forgot about Soarin in his love for pie, though I don't know if that was canon to the show or was that all fan made. Samething with Celestia and her addiction to cake, though if THIS world's Celestia is addicted to cake like in some of the fanfics I've read, someone is gonna get shot with an arrow to the knee. Thats what this place is to me, one big ass mlp fan made and meme dump, where all of the funnest and strangest things are canon." Follow me." Soarin waves to us. I notice that Surprise is walking very close to me.

" So Kyra will you say something to us considering that we're away from everpony else." She grins and I shake my head no and point to my throat." Oh come on silly, there's no need to be shy around us, we're your friends." Fuck this chick, if Pinkie Pie is gonna be the same way, we're gonna have problems, especially when I pull a gun. I'm not saying that I will jump strait to waving a gun around to get my point across but if its absolutely necessary, I will. Thats another thing, why didn't they check my bag? Hell Soarin should've checked my bag when we first met, thats what I would've done if found some random stranger in the woods, make sure they aren't armed like a secessionist. Even though that a .38 and a machete isn't much but it can still get the job done. If I had to choose though I would get my hands on a magnum, like a .357 or .44. Fuck if I can get a hand canon we're golden, a .500 Smith and Wesson revolver that fires a .50 cal bullet, hell yeah. I notice the apple trees coming into view so we're getting close. I start to hear the sound of gun shots so all of us run to the farm fence.

Uh oh gunshots, someone's goin' postal, I knew this would happen.

We get to the farm and I can't believe it. My god its Matthew, in his ponysona. Matt was born in Texas so seeing him as an Earth Pony doesn't surprise me, ok saying her name is creepy as fuck. He's light brown with a black mane and tail, matches his hair color I see Matt dressed in navy blue jeans, a stripped red button up long sleeve shirt with the selves rolled up, stereotyped as hell. He's wearing two holsters, a brown cowboy hat and is sporting two colt revolvers. I see a mare that I can only imagine is Applejack, dressed in similar attire and also sporting a revolver." Yer a damn good shot, Matt." She pats him on the back. I'm starting to feel a trend starting to form. Applejack looks back and sees us.

" Oh, howdy there Soarin. What can ah do fer ya today?" She walks away as Matt holsters his weapons only to quick draw them, twril them on his fingers, like Erron Black from MKX and opens fire on bottles set up on a fence. He cracks about four of them with ease." Damn wish I could shoot like that." I hear Soarin mutter under his breath before turning his attention to Applejack." I was hopeing that you could treat few weary travelers to some lunch." He grins and Applejack chuckles." Ah'll see what ah can do fer ya. So who is this?" She walks up to me and stretches out her hand. I take at and with a firm grip give her a handshake. Soarin speaks for me." Thats Kyra, he can't speak so I'll try my best to talk for him. So who is the young colt over there?" He points to Matt, who hasn't seen us yet, take a few more shots at some glass bottles.

" Oh thats Matt. Ah found him hangin' from a tree this morning. He's a good fella and a good crack shot, no wonder his cutie mark is a revolver." Why am I not surprised by that." So Kyra, ya can't say a single word, huh?" she doesn't seem to be pestering or rude but just genuine curiosity. I nod and type in a message in note pad and show her it." Ah, ah see. Well come and make yerselves at home. I'll get some grub up and we can can talk over lunch, err no offence Kyra." She gives me and aplogetic tone and I simply wave my hand and shake my head no and mouth the words' its fine'. She nods and we all follow her over to where Matt is. As soon as he turns around his eyes grow to the size of dinner plates and then he points a gun at me, our way of saying hi to each other on the 'battle field'." It is who I think it is?" He sports a grin but Applejack isn't liking that." Don't point that at him!" She yelled but he ignores her. I sport a grin of my own and then I disarm him. I grab the gun with my right and and pull myself in, grap the gun with my left hand, elbow him in the face with my right arm, bring my right arm down on his arm which is his left and cause him to lose his grip on it. I grab the gun from his hand with left hand and reappoint it at him. I smile wide and then twirl it around so the handle is facing him and he takes it back from me.

" Good to see ya again Snow White." He chuckles and pats me on the back, though I elbow him in the gut. He gorans and rubs his stomach." Yeah, saw that coming. Either way I'm glad your still alive Kyra. I don't know what the fuck happened." I shrug in response. Applejack gets our attention.

" You two know each other?" She raises an eyebrow a us and I nod." Yeah me and Kyra go way back. He's like the brother I never had, well if my broter was mute." He chuckles and I elbow him in the gut even harder, not liking that word. Only I can use that word." Ok saw that coming too. So where did you get sent too?" He asked but then looks at Soarin, who was kinda shocked by our little greeting." Oh, why am I not surprised." He shakes his head and then here comes the real trouble, Surprise." Hi! My name's Surprise, whats yours?" She grins like when I met her.

" I'm Matthew but you can call Matt. So your like Pinkie Pie with wings huh?" He sratches the back of his head, and while he doesn't see me, I roll my eyes. Surprise goes wide eyed." You know Pinkie Pie too! Thats awsome, we should all have a get together party and make mister shy pants here talk!" She points to me and I facepalm. Matt comes to my rescue, thank god." Uhh Surprise, Kyra can't speak what so ever. He was born without vocal cords so even though he is kinda shy," Fuck you Matt." He can't make any noise out of his mouth. The most I've heard him do is cough and breath, anything else is not possible." He shakes his head, showing disappointent in my situation.

" Thats awfull! Ya mean ya couldn't speak from birth?" Appljack looks at me and I just nod. Then my stomach growls, the one thing that can speak, hunger. Matt chuckles." Well it seems like Kyra did speak, he's hungry." I flip Matt off and he rolls his eyes.

" Well follow me and ah'll get ya'll settaled down." She waves us over to a picnic table right near the large red barn. I set my bag next to me on the ground." Well ah'll go make us sum sandwhiches, ah'll be right back." Applejack walks off towards her house. Matt takes the seat across from me and Soarin sits to my right and Surprise to my left. She goes strait to prodding my throat again." So you mean that there's nothing in there that can make sound at all?" I move her hand away from my throat and switch to my tts program, hello monotone." Yes, I don't have the majority of my vocal cords in my throat. Please stop touching my throat. So Matt how did you get here?" He yawns slightly.

" Well after the huge bright light thing knocked us all out. I woke up in a fucking tree. Applejack and her little sister Applebloom had to fish my ass out. After that we just talked and I explained to them what happened. What about you?" I hope to god he didn't explain that we are from another world. I type up an sumed up version.

" I woke up in a small wooded clearing at the Wonderbolt's Academy. Soarin found me and brought me to Spitfire, and she told me to come to Ponyville to find you, Travis, and Pip. I don't remember much before the bright light." Matt nods in agreement.

" So I see you have a duffle bag with you. Did you just wake up with a bag too?" He looks down at my bag. I nod and type in a reply." Yes, I wok up with a strange note along with this bag full of use full stuff, like my tablet, phone, cloths, and a few tools." I decided not to say what was actually there. Matt scratches his chin." So you found a note too huh? I'm also guessing you found a couple tools of the trade in the bag. Thats where I foud these badboys." He whips out both revolvers. Lets see two new arm style revolvers but with a modern twist to them. I nod and I guess its time to revile what I've hidden in my bag. I reach down and fish out both weapons. I lay both on the table and Matt picks up the revolver." Ah, a subnose .38, suites you just fine. And of course your Kukri, I should've known." Soarin snaps out of his little blank state.

" You had a gun with you this whole time!? Only officers and guards are alowed with weapons inside the Academy." I roll my eyes and reply to him." Your first instinct should have been to search my bag for anything dangerous, dumbass. But don't worry I'm not going to pull a gun on you nor anyone else that is friendly to me." I look over and I see Surprise holding my machete in her hands, exsamining it like it was something new. I tap her shoulder and hold out my hand and she sighs and hands it back to me. I put both things away and then pull out the note I had with me. I type in something." Do you still have the note with you?" He nods and takes it out of his shirt pocket. We exchange cards and I read his. It reads:

You have remarkable skill with a gun Matthew Westin. You are part of something larger than yourself. You are one of the four, Beta.

I flip the card over and its a picture of his cutie mark. A six shot revolver." This is a fucked up cutie mark." Matt said handing my card back. Applejack walks back outside with a tray of sandwiches, cups, a pitcher of lemonade, and a small pie. She sets the tray down on the table and hands out a sandwhich to all of us and pours us all a glass of lemonmade. She hands the pie and a fork over to Soarin, his mouth is psychically watering. She takes a seat and begins eating." So Matt, ya never mentioned that your friend Kyra was mute." She states and I look at Matt. He shrugs.

" It slipped my mind, I guess." I seem satisfied by his answer and take a bite of my own sandwich. As I expected there is no meat on it, instead t was hay. You'd expect to just spit it out right when you taste it, but the hay was sweetened like with sweet corn. Plus there was mayo, lettace, tomato, and some onions on it. I don't really judge on what someone will put on their sandwich, and its actually not half bad." So Soarin." Applejack starts." How's Rainbow Dash likin' her new job?" I wonder what kind of job she does.

" Oh she loves it. It also gives us more time to see each other." Soarin blushed a bit and wiped his mouth with a napkin. Matt speaks up now." I thought Rainbow Dash was a weather pony for Ponyville?" I shoot him a look, telling him if you blow our cover I'll shoot you in the dick, I've threatened him with that. Soarin takes another bite of pie." She was but after a spot at the Academy opened up, I threw it her way and she gladly accepted. How do you know Rainbow Dash anyway?" Oh christ, not that question. Matt swallows a bit of his food and sports a smile. I remember that Applejack can detect lies so we're fucked." The internet." He said blankly and Soarin shrugs.

" True, she has alot of friends on Muzzlebook(see what I did there)." Hold the motherfucking phone! The internet, here? Ok I'm gonna start a bullshit list for this place.

First thing is they have cell phones, check.

Earth like guns, check.

The internet, check.

Paper money instead of metal coins, check.

Earth like electronics, check. I think they still have magic here, as I can walk on clouds and shit, but this place is weird. I bet they have TV and computers...oh wait they do. I saw up in Cloudsdale a cafe with a couple of ponies on laptops and a few watching TV in there, but that didn't reguster in my brain until now. Applejack swallos the last of her sandwhich." So what does she do there anyway?"

" Oh she helps out with drills and files reports. She likes it there. She has her own room and everything there." Soarin smiles. Matt speaks up."Then who controls Ponyville's weather then?" Soarin chuckles.

" Derpy gladly took up the job." Derpy in control of Ponyville's weather is like me become an over the phone consultant, get the point?

" Sounds like the time of her life there. Ah saw a post Rainbow Dash made the other day about a Wonderbolt's show next week and invited me there." Soarin raises an eyebrow at Applejack.

" I'd never expect you to be a tech sabby pony, Applejack." Applejack snorts.

" Of course ah now how ta use a damn computer, Soarin! Though Applebloom knows more about them than me but still ah know how to use one." Damn she is pretty defensive about that. I guess its because she's a farmer, she shouldn't know shit about computers but she does, good for you AJ. She glars at Soarin but turns her attention to me." So Kyra, ah assume your here lookin' fer yer friends ah take it." I nod.

" Well you found me but I have no clue where Travis or Pip are." Matt chips in. Everyone seems to be done with our food and Soarin stretches." So how much do I owe you Applejack?"

" Nothin' Soarin. This is on the house." She smiles warmly at him and gathers up our empty glasses and plates. She would make a good Hooter's waitress. She's got both the body and the skill for it. Soarin looks over at me and Surprise." When she gets back we'll thank her and get out of here. I figure we can get a few hotel rooms. Are you alright with sharing a room with Surprise, Kyra?" Fuck no I'm not but I don't really have a choose considering that I have no money and the fact that Soarin is nice enough to even pay for a bum like me. I nod slightly and Surprise screams in my ear.

" YEAH! WE can stay up and tell ghost stories and eat popcorn and watch movies! It'll be fun!" I literally have to stick a fingre in my left ear to make sure I'm not bleeding after that. Matt chuckles up a storm." Aww Kyra made a new slumber party friend." He grins wide and I do the most resonable thing I can do. I kick him in his right knee with my hoof.

" AHH! Son of fuck that hurt!" He screams and grabs his knee. I just smirk at him. He glares daggers at me but I just wave a hand at him. Soarin chuckles." You two sure act like brothers. I don't know how many times I've see Lightning Streak and his brother Fire Streak fight like that. Though I've never seen one point a gun at the other." He glares at Matt, who just shrugs.

" Thats my way of saying hi to him when we train." The word train sticks to Soarin.

" Train? Like what kind of training?"

" Military training. Me, Kyra, Travis, and Pip all train together. We even freerun if we can." Soarin looks at me, giving methe same look Blaze did earlier." Well I can defiantly tell that you colts are in fit shape." He scratches his chin." You know Kyra, the Wonderbolts are always looking for new cadets. Maybe you can join and I'll teach you how to fly personally." My mouth falls open, if I could speak this would leave me speechless. Soarin, co-captian of the Wonderbolts, wants to teach me how to fly personally, holy shit. Surprise takes this opportunity to try to look down my throat and I have to push her away, she's determined to figure me out.

" Well what do you say...oh I didn't mean it like that." He realizes that I can't 'say' anything about. I type up a message." Hell yeah motherfucker, I won't let you down sir." I give a military salute to him and he laughs out." Take it easy Kyra, Spitfire gets the final say though." I nod my agreement. Applejack returns with a smile like usual." Well ah hope that was a satisfing lunch. So what to ya plan to do now?"

" Well we we're planing to go to the near by hotel and get a couple of rooms for a few nights." Soarin replied standing up. Applejack nods." Well it was nice ta see you again Soarin, and you too Surprise." She gestures to the white pegasus mare, who gleams with pride or happiness. She look back at Matt." Are ya leavin' with them or staying with me for the night?"

" I'm gonna stay with you, if thats alright with you." He smiles slightly and Applejack smiles at him." Of course ya can stay tonight. Besides ya promisied to help me with mah chorse today." Matt seems to almost blush at that. I'm getting a trend here. Matt said his favorite pony is Applejack, Pip said his was Pinkie Pie and Travis said his was Twilight. So I'm assuming I'll find Pip next, considering he answered next. We gather up our stuff and get ready to go. Applejack comes up to us." Ah'll see ya'll tomorrow. Ah'll bring Matt around the hotel in the morning." She gives Soarin a one armed hug and does the same with Surprise and the stops at me.

" Take care and good luck finding yer other friends, Kyra. It was great to meet ya." She gives me a full hug and I'm kind of stuned by it but I hug her back out of respect. She releases me and goes back over to Matt, who is lining up more glass bottles on the fence." Yo take care Snow White!" He shouts at me and I follow Soarin and Surprise but not without holding my right hand up high with my middle finger out for Matt to see. I look up at the sk an its seems to be about three or so in the afternoon.

So where to next?

End Chapter 2

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Well I hope everyone like this one. I'm getting a hang of writing a mute character now, because I need to fill in where he would speak more at and fill it with his thoughts instead. I personally like this story and I have good feeling on where its gonna go.

Also too Anon42- I'd be delited to see your OC and even share some ideas if possible. So can you PM me your email to me because it did not come in through your review. Actually check my profile and there may be a way to reach me outside of Fanfiction.

So until next time, stay awsesome-AJ