Ponyville
As the humans landed in front of Twilight's Castle, the Mane Six plus Lyra and Starlight were waiting for them. The ponies soon trotted over to see their friends after they finished unloading the chariot.
"Woah, what happened here?!" Rainbow Dash inquired after seeing the large bandage on Smith's leg.
"Oh yeah, I got bit by a changeling and shot by their magic in that spot", Smith replied, unwrapping the now-unneeded bandage to show the two bite marks left by the changeling.
"Oh no! You poor thing! You should really put that back on before it gets infected!" Fluttershy exclaimed, not wanting the human to get sick.
"It's ok, really, that wound hasn't bled out for days now", Smith replied to the yellow pegasus, trying to calm her down.
"Oh we've missed you boys so much! You poor things look so dirty!" Lyra noted. After the last battle, the guys were intensely sweaty from the ordeal in Las Pegasus, while Summers was also still covered in some changeling slime.
"Nothing to worry about Lyra! Equestria's best emergency clothing expert came prepared!" Rarity exclaimed, levitating some fresh clothes with her magic. The humans picked them up.
"Thank you so much Rarity, this helps us out more than you know", Ramirez thanked the white unicorn.
"It's no problem at all darling, it's the least I can do for Equestria's strong new defenders!" Rarity replied while batting her eyes at Ramirez.
"I'm glad you guys came back today. The princesses wanted to come but they had to stay in Canterlot to recover from a cutie mark spell I cast on them," Starlight said sheepishly.
"You what?!" Parker asked.
"ANYWAY, welcome back guys! How long are you gonna be staying?" Twilight asked, trying to deflect Parker's question.
"I think we're gonna stay until the royal guards find Chrysalis", Summers replied.
"Ok then, come inside, you boys look like you've had a long fight," Twilight replied, leading them into the castle.
After waking up in the morning, the guys were wondering what to do. Smith decided to go to Sweet Apple Acres and visit Applejack. Parker and Summers stayed at the castle to hang out with Twilight and Starlight. McLaughn went to see Fluttershy at her cottage. Ramirez went to the Carousel Boutique to visit Rarity.
Sweet Apple Acres
Smith walked over and leaned over the fence to see Applejack and Big Mac bucking apple trees like they usually do. Applejack soon turned and noticed him.
"Hey Jeff! Whatcha doin here at Sweet Apple Acres?"
"Oh nothin much, just looking for something to do."
"Oh ok, you wanna help us buck apples?"
"Sure thing, just kick the tree?"
"Sounds 'bout right, oh, and that's my big brother, Big Macintosh."
"Hey"
"Howdy stranger", Big Mac replied while continuing to buck the trees. Suddenly Smith got an idea. He walked over to one tree, and did a Chuck Norris style roundhouse kick, bringing all the apples down at once.
"Wow! I've never seen bucking like that!" Applejack said in amazement.
"Nnope!" Big Mac agreed.
"Hey y'all, I'm goin to Starlight's village to visit my marefriend Sugar Belle. Jeff, do you think you can handle things for me?" Big Mac asked.
"Sure, have fun!" Smith said before Big Mac left. He then began helping Applejack kick the apples out of the trees.
Twilight's castle
"Yeah, so now Pinkie Pie's sister is one of my friends, and I've been with Trixie for a while. I'm starting to wonder, what if I form my own friendship team of six like Twilight has?" Starlight asked while lying across Parker's lap enjoying a belly rub.
"That sounds nice, maybe you guys could save Equestria again." Parker replied while scratching behind her ear and rubbing her belly.
"Mmmm, this is soooo much better than going to the spa! Maybe after this war, you guys could work there!" Starlight complimented the human on his exceptional cuddling skills.
"Yeah totally!" Twilight agreed from nearby as Summers was massaging her wings and back.
"Aww, then who would be your royal guard Twi?" Summers asked.
"That's also true! Hey, I just thought, maybe there's something to you guys cuddling us. From what you told us about yesterday's battle, that stuff seemed pretty traumatic. You guys are super calm right now though. Are you guys enjoying this as much as we are?" Twilight inquired, thinking of 'experimenting' with human-pony petting.
"Well, war veterans in our world sometimes get dogs to help them with war trauma like this too, so maybe." Parker replied.
"SPIKE!" Twilight called. The small dragon suddenly came into the room.
"Looks like somepony is enjoying themselves" he sarcastically noted. Twilight had flipped over so that she could get her belly rubbed.
"Spike, get some quills and paper, we need to research the effects of human-pony affection! We can start right now and AAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Twilight was cut off when Summers began poking her in the belly.
"Come on Twi, Spike works so hard for us, he's cooked most of the meals we've had in the castle so far, maybe he should have a break today." Summers told Twilight while continually poking his fingers into her sensitive belly.
"Yeah Twilight, maybe I should!" Spike said while fist bumping with Summers.
"OK! OK! We can save the research for later." Twilight relented.
"Well, back to reading," Spike said as he was about to leave. Parker, however, had an idea.
"Hey Spike! Come here!" Parker called. He then pulled out his Iphone.
"Woah, what is that?" Spike asked.
"It's an Iphone, it has a ton of games on it, like this one." He pulled up an app that allowed superheroes to battle each other and let him play on it.
"Wow, this is cool!" Spike said as he tapped his claws on the phone.
"HELLO? This pony needs more petting! Less talking!" Starlight called out, eager to get back to her petting.
"Oh, right, sorry about that Glim Glam!" Parker replied. Starlight began giggling.
"Glim Glam? Is that my new name? I like it! Just don't tell it to anypony outside this room!" Starlight told him.
Fluttershy's cottage
McLaughn knocked gently on the door so he wouldn't frighten the yellow pegasus.
"uh... who's there? Oh Corey! It's you!" Fluttershy exclaimed as she opened the door for the human, who crouched through the small doorway into her humble home.
"Hi Fluttershy, I decided to come hang out with you today! Whatcha doin?"
"Oh! I just finished feeding all my animals and put them outside. All of them, except Angel of course." Fluttershy responded while looking nearby at her bunny, who was curiously looking at McLaughn. He got a pouty look on his face after a few seconds. McLaughn looked uneasy at this, knowing about what evil this little bunny was capable of.
"Oh don't worry about him, he's always like this around new ponies and people. Would you like some tea?" Fluttershy offered.
"Sure! Can you make it sweet tea please?" McLaughn replied, having grown a taste for sweet tea after being in Texas for so long.
"Of course!" Fluttershy, well, fluttered into her kitchen to start making some tea for herself and the human. She came back a few minutes later with the tea.
"Here you go. If you don't mind me asking, what happened to your head?" McLaughn still had some bandages around his head from being shot by the changeling laser.
"Oh, I got knocked unconscious during the battle."
"Oh no! You poor thing! Is it feeling better?"
"Well most of the time it's fine, but I do get headaches once in a while."
"Oh, well I have pain medicine if you need some!"
"No no Fluttershy, I'll be fine."
"Oh but I insist! I don't want you feeling hurt all the time!" Fluttershy then crawled up onto his lap and gave him the most adorable face she could muster.
"Uuhh! Ok then Flutters, thank you for the meds." McLaughn said while blushing at the adorable pony in his lap. Fluttershy then hopped off and went to get the medicine. McLaughn began drinking the sweet tea. Fluttershy soon came back in and handed him a small medicine bottle.
"So Flutters, how's your life going?" he asked.
"It's going very well, thank you," Fluttershy answered while giggling.
"What's so funny?"
"Oh, well, you just keep calling me Flutters. Is it my pet name?"
"Oh, I'm so sorry Fluttershy, I didn't mean to make it look like I wanted to make you my pet!"
"Oh it's no problem at all! I kinda like it actually! I sometimes dream about being the pet instead of the owner."
"...."
"Not that I actually want that to happen! But don't worry. I still like the nickname Corey."
"Oh ok then."
Carousel Boutique
Ramirez walked into the boutique with the bell clinking behind him as he crouched through the doorway. He soon heard the trotting of hooves coming his way.
"Coming! Oh Sergeant! Welcome! What can I do for you today?" The white unicorn said upon noticing him.
"Hi Rare! Just call me Daniel. I just decided to spend my free day with you!" Like the other ponies at the other places, Rarity giggled at her new nickname.
"Hehe! Daniel, when did you ever come up with a name for me such as that?"
"What? Is it bad?" Ramirez looked down nervously.
"Oh not at all darling, not at all! It's just very amusing!"
"Oh that's good then."
"So you want to spend the day with me... I am usually busy at this time, but business has been slow this week. What do you want to do?"
"What would you like to do Rare?"
"Me? Oh! I usually do things with my friends, play with my little sister, or I'm busy trying to run my three shops across Equestria."
"Hmm... I have an idea! Do you have movie theaters around here?"
"You mean the moving picture theater? Yes we do have one in Ponyville!"
"Would you like to go to a movie?"
"Of course! I'd love to see a movie with you!" Rarity excitedly stated as she headed toward the door. Ramirez stepped in front of her and held the door open as she trotted out.
"Daniel darling! You're such a gentleman!" Rarity was impressed by the chivalrous act of the human.
"No problem Rare!" Ramirez replied as he walked out the door while turning the "open" sign to "closed".
Twilight's castle, end of the day
The guys had started coming back to the castle and were sharing their stories of their day with the ponies.
"Today was a bunch of hard work! I helped Applejack buck some apples from trees all morning, and then helped myself to Granny Smith's delicious apple pie! I tried to nap under an apple tree after that, but when Applejack tried to sneak some snuggles in, I grabbed her hat and took off with it! She chased me all over Sweet Apple Acres today!" The other guys laughed at Smith's story.
"Twilight and Starlight had us for their personal cuddlers today." Parker said.
"Yeah, they were really soft and cute too!" Summers added.
"I got to have tea with Fluttershy today!" McLaughn interjected.
"Of course you'd hang out with your waifu!" Ramirez said sarcastically, with the other guys laughing.
"Yeah we talked about human anatomy, history, and technology! She was really sweet. She even got me a blanket and cuddled me when I napped on her couch." McLaughn said. The others felt heartwarmed by this, since Fluttershy's reputation as the cutest pony was well established in the fandom.
"I went and took Rarity to the movies today!" Ramirez piped up.
"Of course you'd hang out with YOUR waifu!" McLaughn replied to Ramirez, resulting in even more laughter.
"We went and saw 'Guardians of Harmony', which was sort of like 'Guardians of the Galaxy', except with ponies of course. After that I took her to Pony Joe's for lunch, and then took her home and hung out with her for the rest of the day."
"Did your pony snuggle you too?" Parker asked.
"Yep."
"Sounds like you had the perfect date!"
"What?! Pffftt. Nah! It wasn't a date!" Ramirez replied blushing. Suddenly Twilight and Spike burst into the room.
"Guys! Spike just got this letter from my B.B.B.F.F!" Twilight shouted while levitating a letter over to Ramirez.
"It says that he found plans for the changeling royal guard to attack Thorax's friendly changeling hive in two days!" Ramirez said.
"If the changeling royal guard is gonna be there, there's a strong chance that Chrysalis will show up too!" Parker said.
"Twilight, can you and Starlight come with us this time since y'all know more about the friendly changelings?" Ramirez asked the purple pony.
"Of course Sergeant," Twilight replied.
"Right! Get some rest guys! We leave at dawn!"