The falling snow had begun to coat over Jack’s body as Luna rushed to his side. She felt for a pulse but couldn’t feel one. “No… Jack don’t you die on us” Luna cried as she began to shake him, obviously never hearing of CPR. Luna pulled Jack off the carriage and laid him on the snowy ground, “Jack, you can’t be dead… you haven’t shown us the holidays” Luna cried as she tried furiously to shake him back to life.
Jack didn’t move, Luna rested her head on Jack’s chest and began to sob. Jack groaned and put a hand on her shoulder, “You know that you’re really annoying when you cry?” Jack chuckled painfully and Luna looked towards his face. Tears still ran down Luna’s face as she looked Jack in the eyes. Jack shivered “And your tears are really cold” Jack said as he stood up.
“You’re… alive, but why didn’t you answer us when we tried to wake you” Luna asked through her sniffles. Jack stretched his back and chuckled “Figured I’d have to get you back for the train ride” Jack laughed and walked towards the line of police carriages. Haggard ran up and began sputtering angry phrases. “Got dammit Jack, that was irresponsible. Ponies could have died, goddammit Jack are you even listening to me, JACK!” Haggard yelled and Jack walked past him, Jack stopped for a moment and looked back to Haggard “Tell it to Celestia”.
With that he walked off into the crowd that had formulated to watch the commotion. He began to walk through the crowd but suddenly an erratically jumping pink mare bounced in front of him. Jack’s head bobbed up and down as he tried to keep his line of sight on the pink mare. “Hey Jack, guess what I’m having a party! Want to join, you’re invited of course, here’s you invitation. Oh boy when I heard that some bad stuff was going on and that some guy was totally saving the day I knew it was you and” Pinkie continued on her rant as Jack looked at the invitation.
“Yeah, thanks Pinkie I’ll make sure to drop by” Jack replied and Pinkie stopped her rant. “Okay seeya, oh hi Princess Luna! if you want to join the party you can to” Pinkie told the princess and with that she zipped away. Jack looked at the invitation, December 23rd at Sugarcube corner. “Oh shit that’s tonight” Jack muttered and began to pace away when suddenly Rarity stepped in front of him.
“Oh dearest Jack… it’s so good to see you again” Rarity said in a rather royalty like voice. Jack sighed “Okay I’ll bite what do you want?” Jack replied and Rarity was taken back by the comment. “What in Celestia’s name… Jack I simply wanted to say hi, you really don’t think I’d want something from you when you just got back” Rarity gasped.
“Well considering you were probably sleeping and heard about the commotion and thought you’d see it tomorrow on the papers, then you heard that there was a human law bringer and you thought ‘oh I really need him to try on a dress that I was making’” Jack replied and Rarity sighed. “Okay you win… Yes I’d like you to try on a new suit I’ve been designing” Rarity said and looked to his tattered duster, “And by the looks of things you need some new threads” Rarity said and whirled around and began to trot back to her boutique.
She stopped and looked back to Jack, “Well are you coming or not?” Rarity asked and Jack sighed and turned to Luna. “This won’t take long” Jack told her and she nodded, “Please do not worry, we need to lower the moon soon so that our sister may raise the sun” Luna replied and Jack followed Rarity, with Luna following him closely.
They finally arrived at the boutique and Jack flopped himself down on Rarity’s panic couch. “Hey… get up, I need you to try these on” Rarity ordered as she levitated out a custom crafted: black jacket suit, black dress pants, a white dress shirt, black tie and some beautiful made black dress shoes.
“Who am I dressing up as? James Bond?” Jack asked sarcastically, “Who is this James Bond you speak of dearie?” Rarity asked and Jack rolled his eyes and grabbed the suit. Luna tapped him on the shoulder and Jack turned to her “Pardon us for a moment, we must go lower the moon” Luna told him and Jack shrugged. Luna trotted off and Rarity watched Jack patiently.
“Well go ahead try it on” Rarity offered and Jack looked at her with a blunt expression. “What? Don’t you like the suit?” Rarity asked and Jack motioned for her to look away. “Oh right… you humans and your… morals” Rarity laughed and turned around as Jack undressed.
His duster coat dropped to the ground with a THUD, several handguns and revolvers hidden in the coat. He took of his trousers revealing a sawn off double barrel strapped to his left leg and as he removed his boots he untethered a bowie knife off his ankle sheath. He slipped on his suit and grunted to himself.
Rarity turned around and gasped, “Oh darling you look absolutely breathtaking” Rarity commented and Jack tried to fit himself a little more comfortably into the suit but it was a little tight, like suits were supposed to be. ‘How the hell did 007 always do those action stunts in a suit like this?’ Jack thought to himself.
Rarity looked to the cluster of run down clothes and levitated them up, “Darling I promise to have your clothes fixed up for the party this afternoon, but until then you’ll have to wear those… please don’t scuff them up too much” Rarity said and was about to depart when Jack rushed up. “Wait” Jack called out and Rarity stopped. Jack rummaged through his duster coat and pulled out a Walther PPK and 2 extra magazines.
He grabbed a shoulder holster and concealed it inside the suit. “If I gotta look like 007, I might as well be 007” Jack chuckled and Rarity rolled her eyes at the comment, not having any idea what he was taking about.
Jack chuckled to himself as he left the boutique and started humming the 007 theme song. Luna had lowered the moon and the sun had begun to rise, Jack looked to his watch ‘5:39am’ and as he looked at the watch he muttered “Maybe I can make this thing shoot lasers or have a built in magnet gun thingy” Jack chuckled, remembering the various watch gizmos 007 had for his movies.
Luna turned to him and Jack yawned “Come on let’s go get a rented room so I can get some sleep” Jack muttered.
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Jack opened the door to Luna’s motel room, “Okay now I know that being a princess you’re probably used to 5 star hotels and shit but” Jack began but Luna squealed and ran over to the Christmas tree and looked at the decorations. “Yeah well anyway… I’m gonna be in the next room so if you need anything just call or whatever” Jack muttered and left Luna to her mingling.
Jack sighed as he walked through the door to his room and closed the door behind him. He didn’t even take off his shoes and simply flopped down on the bed, which was rather comfy considering it was a motel.
* * *
Jack felt hooves begin to shake his body, “Ahhhh 5 more minutes” Jack groaned but Luna kept shaking him. Jack groaned “Why can’t you be gentler like when I wake you up” Jack muttered as he looked to his watch and realized it was 5 in the afternoon. “We apologize Mr. Jack, but we wanted to know if you would accompany us to Ms. Pinkie Pie’s party” Luna offered and Jack slid off the bed and got up, a little drowsy but he still managed to go to the washroom and splash some water on his face to wake himself up.
“Alright let’s go” Jack muttered and Luna followed him out the door of the motel room. As they walked down the street Luna constantly tried to hold his hand with her hoof, Jack would constantly pull away. “Stop it” Jack muttered and Luna looked to him with a confused look. “In Equestria holding hooves is a way of showing friendship” Luna informed him and Jack groaned, “Fine whatever… just don’t uhhg” Jack mumbled and Luna took his hand and held it with her hoof. “See isn’t this more comfortable” Luna asked and Jack shook his head “No it’s… freaky” Jack muttered.
They entered the store known as Sugarcube corner were the party had obviously just begun. Jack held the door open, “Mares first… I think” Jack muttered and Luna smiled as she stepped through the doorway. The party went quiet as the entire group inside looked to Luna, whether in fear or out of respect they all kept quiet.
Jack stepped forward “What? You guys look like you just seen a ghost or something… oh wait this is perfect” Jack muttered as he grabbed a white table cloth and put it over his body. “Ooooo” Jack laughed, making scary ghost like noises and walked around like a ghost.
Only Pinkie laughed at the ridiculous actions but the others stayed quiet. Jack pulled the table cloth off his body. “Oh come on, you guys are a bunch of party killers” Jack laughed and Pinkie came dashing through the room spraying confetti everywhere but still the others remained silent.
“Please do not fear us, for we wish to take part in your joyest holiday known as Hearth’s warming” Luna informed them but still they didn’t move or talk. ‘Okay quick thinking Jack’ Jack thought to himself. He looked around and grabbed a red Santa hat and a few gifts from under a Christmas tree.
He snuck up behind Luna as she tried to talk the others into livening up the party again. He quickly slid the hat on her head and lifted her body up onto her hindlegs. “What do you think you’re doing, put us down” Luna boomed in her royal voice, which frightened many ponies.
“Hey shut up and go with it” Jack whispered and Luna kept quiet. Jack tried to do his best Santa Claus voice “Ho ho ho, merry Christmas, Merry Christmas” Jack said in a fake Santa Claus voice and began to toss presents towards the frightened group.
It still didn’t make them budge and Jack set Luna back down on all fours. “Hmm come on Jack think” Jack thought outloud then snapped his fingers. “Luna try and… try and coo them or something” Jack said as he ran outside. ‘What in Equestria could he be thinking?’ Luna thought to herself and looked towards the frightened group. “Please do not fear us, for we simply want to join you in your festivities” Luna began.
Jack walked outside and lightly packed some snow into a snowball. “Oh boy, desperate times call for desperate measures” Jack muttered to himself and ran back inside. “Hey uhh Luna?” Jack asked and Luna turned her head. Jack gave the snowball a light toss and the snowball hit her in the side of the face, the snowball was in no means hard and when it impacted her head it puffed into a cloud of snow.
The group stood there silently as Luna gave Jack a cold stare.