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// He broke my roof 
// Story: The Quiet Kid: Day by Day 
// by aegishailstorm 
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"So, what you're tellin' me is, Equestria still has no first amendment?" William questioned Twilight as the 2 of them stood just outside her castle. In the days after his journey all the way to the Kirin village, he had taken to just kicking back and relaxing. For some odd reason, he just felt drained after his trip there. And he hadn't the slightest idea why. Currently, he, and the alicorn beside him were watching Spike learn how to fly. Much to William's sadistic amusement, he was failing, badly. Time and time again, he went plummeting to the ground. All this time, he couldn't help but feel a little bad for the dragon, after all. He himself had tried flying before, and absolutely loved it. Spike had likely not had the benefit of learning how to use his wings over the course of several months in lucid dreams after all.

"Well, no-" She was interrupted by a wave from Spike, "You're doing great!" She called out. He had begun this discussion/debate about Equstrian vs. American law just 15 minutes earlier. Though he, as usual, had grown more and more impatient as Twilight repeatedly explained things he already knew far, far to much about. He ran his fingers across the barrel of his rifle, pulling the bolt halfway open to see the 5.56 round waiting inside. Well, that was all good and all, at least until Spike came barreling down on William. Crash-landing dead center of his helmet. William rubbed his temples, and looked down at the form of the crumbling dragon that lay before him. He was about to say something, but, instead, he just gave him the finger and walked away.

"Morin' Joey." William waved to his friend as he turned onto his home street. It was still odd, calling a place in a world like, well... this, home. But he did it nonetheless, and damn did he ever enjoy it. "Morning William. So, how's Spike doing so far?" William shrugged. "Scratched the paint on my helmet. Crash-landed right on top of me." Joey winced, "Yowch, he ok?" William scowled. "Oh, so you're asking about the dragon, but not me?" The alicorn stallion rolled his eyes, "I'm more worried about your victims than you." He chuckled, " Go figure. Well, I'm off to turn in early." 

"What do you mean by that? You're going back to bed, at 10:30 in the morning?" William picked up his pace, passing Joey. "No, of course not. I'm gonna make myself a bowl of rock salt and karaoke Sabaton!" This response wasn't entirely unexpected, William was well known for his... unusual hobbies, but this was definitely pushing his ego. And the limits of his friends sanity. "Ok... have fun with that, I'm got  somewhere to be." He turned away, and trotted off. William was all but satisfied. " Don't get killed!" His statement earned him more looks of confusion and dismay from the passerby's. As he got to his doorstep, he swung around and gave the crowd a thumbs up, before diving back into his house, and slamming the door behind him. A few minutes later, a faint rumbling that Joey recognized as William's favorite type of music began emanating from his bedroom. Followed by a malicious laugh. " And the doctor's said he's perfectly sane." He murmured to himself as flew by his house.

"Ah damnit!!!' William cursed as something impacted his rooftop. Whatever it was, it was big. In a fury of rage, he threw off his headphones, racked the action of his M4A1, and  climbed out of his window, and up onto the roof.  He was met by a rather large, and overweigh dragon. "Aghhh..." The creature groaned as it got to it's claws." Hey there-uh, what are you?" William frowned and pushed his rifle stock up against his shoulder, training the holographic recital on it's skull. "You crashed into myhouse, apologize, or I put a bullet in your brain." Would have been more patient had it been a griffon or a pegasus or hell, even an alien. But he had very little respect for dragons. And this one didn't look all to trustworthy. Not wanting to die, the dragon raised his front claws, " I'm sorry." William nodded, 'Alright, that's good enough, now, get off the roof. GENTLY!!!" He waved his right hand off to the side, but still kept the gun trained on the dragon. "Ok, ok, just, don't kill me!" He groaned in frustration as the dragon climbed off the roof, knocking part of the gutter off as he dropped.

"Why world, why?" William rubbed the brim of his helmet, and climbed off the roof, jumping the last 5 feet. " Can y'all not break my stuff for like... 5 seconds?" William groaned again, and walked past the dragon to his broken gutter. He looked up at the wall, thinking about how painful it would be for him to fix it all. "Well, you're down now. State your name and business." He asked the dragon, who was dusting himself off. "Name's Sledge." William shrugged, " Why are you here. And why in the name of all that I hold dear did you crash into my house?!" He began to stutter, "Uh... I don't have to explain myself to you-" He hefted his rifle, " Equestrian law doesn't require me to read you the Miranda rights. You're comin' with me." 

He grabbed the dragon by the foreleg, and began to pull him along. "Hey, stop resisting!" The dragon mad a vain attempt to get away from the human dragging him along. William, sensing this, turned and smacked the dragon square in the jaw with a cattle prod, and spartan kicked him him the back. "Get your sorry ass off the ground! You're damn lucky I haven't shot you yet!" William pulled him back up and escorted him all the way to Twilight's castle. 

"Uh, William, what happened? And why are you holding that dragon hostage?" Spike and Ember questioned him as he stood in the castles doorway. "####er crashed into my roof, started acting difficult. He's your problem now." He gave him one final kick to the back, sending him the rest of the way in, then spun around and jogged off towards his house. 
"So, what's with the dragon?" 
"Cannonballed right into my roof. Then tore off my gutter,  Wouldn't give an explanation for him being here. Or for why he was flying over my house." William responded as the 2 friends looked up at his house, William was anything but calm. And he was dreading repairs, but still, he had made it quite clear that he would be the one to fix it. And that he didn't trust anypony when it came to that. Well, anypony except Joey. But only because it was a pain to pull the gutter back into place, and Joey had both a horn and wings. " And I take it you want my help?" William nodded again, "Yes, Just levitate it back into place, I'll tighten it down.  His friend sighed, and lit his horn.

"You know, you shouldn't be so aggressive with newcomers." William rolled his eyes as he stood perched on the edge of a ladder, with his friend flying next to him. " I know, just don't care. Besides, I had a bad feeling about that guy, I have would have had no trouble with him had he not damaged my property, hen lied to me." He finished screwing the final bolt in as he said it. And gave the gutter lien a firm shake, ensuring it was firmly secured. "Alright, that's done, now for the roof.." The 2 of them looked up in dismay at the still smoldering crater. "How does stuff like this still happen? I thought Equestria was supposed to be getting safer." William clenched his fist, and got to work.