Saw this chapter drop the moment I refreshed the page...I can't help but wonder if Celestia and/or Twilight will be with Nondis at the big reveal to his parents.

You're right in saying this story has gone in a different direction than what I thought it would, but I don't think that's a bad thing. Keeps me on my toes.

Still want Twi and Nondis to stop being silly, though, so hopefully I'll at least get that right.

Wow the animal abuse from your neighbors, poor puppies.

Great chapter, as usual. But damn, it derailed my plans for the night. XD 20,000 words is a pain to fit in. XDDD

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It's more of something along the lines of the woman who stays next door has a mother who's in need of looking after, she gone to do other things and engaged in other social activities. I'm sure you can imagine what that can lead up to for the elderly lady. Meanwhile we're looking after the mother, who is wheelchair bound and can't use her left arm. She'd do it, but her condition doesn't allow for her to look after much. She's exceptionally high in spirits when we do take her out of the house every once in a while. But often times we're the ones taking her off the bus when she gets home from the doctors.

She's a kind and wonderful soul trapped in an unfair situation.

The daughter on the other hand, the less of her I see, the better.

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Ohh I see, I just don't like seeing animals neglected or abused. Thank you for the wonderful story you kept together. It is always sad when good stories just die or go inactive for years to the point it might as well be dead.

Been here from the beginning. Somehow every time I start thinking that it's around the time a new chapter for this comes out, a few days later and behold!

I can wait a couple months.

I'm in this for the long game.

I like dogs, and if not for the fact that I'm not able to be around often enough to raise a puppy I'd be glad to take one off their hands.

But glad to see you aren't dead, in any case.

So, the latest chapter takes place on the same day as ‘Crusaders of the Lost Mark’. Does this mean Nondis arrived in Equestria before or after the ponies had gone to Starlight’s village? I swear I saw a reference to her village in a past chapter, but I can’t remember which one, or whether or not they encountered her before or after meeting Nondis.

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I want him to be with celestia now. T_T love the story so far.

Can he just be with Celestia... I like their relationship more than him and twilight.

"I learned my lesson dad, don't get drunk and do a bunch of drugs, or else you drive your car into the gulf and can't get yourself out of a wet paper bag. Next time I'll find myself teleported to a mystical world filled with rainbows and magic unicorns." He announced sarcastically.

don't get drunk and do a bunch of drugs

There is something inherently wrong with that sentence.

"Academic probation." Mrs. Haines explained. "Apparently he didn't perform well on one of his core curriculum courses and the coach held him on the account of getting his grades in check."

"I thought they had work around courses for the football players." Nondis replied.

"Dude, this ain't UNC we're talking about." Alex said placing his arm around his shoulder. "Texas A&M is a military founded institution. If anything else, they're all about that discipline."

"A military founded institution?" Celestia questioned. "Doesn't that mean he's a reserve?"

"It's voluntary." Mrs. Haines quickly replied. "My son's not going to the military, he's trying to go pro. And if it doesn't work out for him, he can always be a coach... or an accountant."

Celestia pretty much nailed it on the head. While the military might just pick anyone off the street, the first people they would suck up would be the ones enrolled in said institutions... if I am seeing things correctly, the student with the bad grades would like be sucked in when they start calling in for the non-volunteers, with Stanton possibly being called into service about a year after being able to get back in the game. Pretty much, Mrs. Haines is likely gonna end up an emotional heap when she finds out the ugly news.

...The controller he used wasn't in the spot he originally placed it. It was just a few inches to the left.

Uuuhhhhh........ Is this going where I think it's going? Because if so, holy shit things are going to get real interesting.......