2 days later
"Canned food?" Pinkamena asked.
"Check!" Mane answered raising the cans.
"Plastic cutlery and plates?"
"Check!"
"Small army shovel?"
"Check!"
"Toilet paper?"
"Check!"
"Small pickaxes?"
"Check!"
"Sleeping bags?"
"Check!"
"The books we need?"
"Ancient Languages and Ciphers, check! Myths and Legends, check! The ancient royal maps leading to the ruins, check!"
"Flint and steel?"
"Check!"
"Pistols, pouches of ammo and gunpowder?"
"Check!"
"Soap and personal hygiene?"
"Check!"
"Change of clothes?"
"Still working on mine." Mane scratched his head in a bit of shame
"Well then go finish It, the list is almost done." Pinkamena ordered. "It's still one of the things missing."
"On It." Mane disappeared from the room.
The list was rather big with other things they had to make sure were there. The camping backpacks couldn't be that heavy, with Mane in charge of carrying the heaviest one. How to reach the Undiscovered West was still a question.
They could sneak in a train to Los Pegasus regarding their destination was on the way there, but jumping out of a moving train was no way the best option. Only a pony out of his mind would do that, but what could they say when they were about to venture to an unknown place to the rest of Equestria, but maybe not unknown for the princesses.
"Hey, what do we do about the dirty clothes then?" Mane asked across the basement from his room.
"We could wash them in a river and let them dry whenever we set camp." Pinkamena suggested.
"Then had to the list. One extra bar of soap." Mane added.
"And... done!" She answered finishing the note.
"I think we should take some rope too, so we can hang the washed clothes to try." Mane came back with an extra pairs of underwear and black and grey t-shirts.
"It's on the list, don't worry." Pinkamena sighed while looking over the piece of paper.
"How big is It?" Mane asked.
"Enough to hang twenty guys by their necks." She answered in a morbid tone.
"Fuck, Diane! Was that line really necessary?" Mane sounded shocked.
"Eh... I have my days." She sighed. "Just like you."
"I'm not that direct, jeez..." The unicorn looked at her with concern.
"I'll tell you something." Pinka lowered the list and looked at him in the eyes with a killing stare. "When a lion roars, they show how you feel with your presence. They are angry, they are giving you a warning. Now a serpent... they stay in silence, saving their poison to kill without their victims knowing..." Her voice was slow and cold like death.
"Are you saying my presence is making you like that?" Mane raised an eyebrow.
"I didn't forget that day in your friend's tavern." She stepped towards Mane slowly and grabbed his vest by the collars like she did that night. "I left the place humiliated by your childish behavior. And... I recall you said something the night before we left the Crystal Empire. You would like to meet my family one day?" Her blank stare turned into a fierce one with her ears flopping down in anger. "Do you expect that to happen if you keep behaving like that?! Because they live near the San Palomino Desert!"
Mane didn't change his expression. He had no fear this time because he remember an ace up his sleeve even if his vest had none.
"Do I need to mention whenever you go mad for no reason, that I must lock myself in my room before you get your hands on me?" Mane dropped.
"I have a problem and you know that!" Pinka screamed at his face.
"Well shit, I have one too and I go out of control sometimes. Sounds like we are even!" Mane smirked at her with a provoking expression. "Pretty little psycho..."
*PAF!*
Pinkamena delivered a slap to Mane's cheek and turned her back pouting checking the list again, leaving Mane rubbing where he was hit and laughing quietly.
"Listen, crystal brains." She called without looking. "How are we going to the Undiscovered West? There's a train to Los Pegasus but jumping from a moving train is madness."
"I've heard of an anual event that happens in a forest on the way there. White Tail Woods?" Mane asked.
"Oh, you mean the "Running of the Leaves"? Yeah." Said Pinkamena. "It's happens every autumn."
"According to the map, It's nearby Ponyville. If there's an event there every year, so It's easy to get there." Mane decoded.
"Makes sense. So you're saying we're going by our own hooves?" Pinka asked.
"Looks like It. We should go at night per usual so nopony notices us." Mane justified. "If we keep a steady pace without getting too tired, we should get there in some days."
"I like the idea." Pinkamena looked over the list again. "Okay, let's review the list over again."
"Oh come on! It's the fourth time!"