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// Stroll in the City 
// Story: Imperial Pony 
// by Dragonrose Lovesong 
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Barely three minutes in town and Rainbow Dash has already been forced to back up into a bush. She watches helplessly as her cousins rummage around sniffing everything and everypony in the street they had just entered. After about a minute the street is empty as the two tumble through the now empty street.
Much to Dash's relief a whistle was blown making the two half timberwolves whimper and regain some semblance of civility.
"Yikes!" Lemon Honey comments rubbing her sore ears.
"A little louder why don'cha?" Sugar Stalk adds with her ears down and back.
"Sorry but you girls were a bit ...unruly" BlossomForth reveals herself from the cloud she was in.
"Oh, I like turtles." Honey comments.
Just then there is mewing from a bush behind Sugar, who correctly translates this to mean "I'm stuck."
"Rainbow, are you okay?" Sugar asks pulling a branch away letting the small half cat tumble out of the bush.
"Rainbow Dash!?" BlossomForth asks, shock clearly written on her face.
"Oh, you're friends with our cousin?" Honey asks.
"Cousin?" She looks confusedly at Rainbow Dash.
"Whatever." She rolls her eyes, "Blossom meet my cousins, Lemon Honey and Sugar Stalk. They're Winona's pups." She motions to her cousins with a wave of her hoof and they wag their tails at the mention of their names.
"Winona's your aunt?" She asks unbelieving.
"Yes my best friend's dog is my aunt." She replies her unease clear in her voice and on her face.
"Isn't she just adorable?" Asks Honey as she picks up and cuddles the struggling pony.
"Not usually, but I gotta say she's pretty cute right now. Didn't know you were Imperial Dash. But why so tiny." She asks stifling her giggles.
After prying herself from her cousin's wooden limbs Rainbow shakes herself out before answering. "I don't exactly see a reason to tell anypony that I'm a cat. And I know I'm small. I can't feel my imperial magic so I can't change my size anymore. "  she states then fixes her mane with her forehoof. "Anyway how'd you know to calm them down with a whistle?" She looks up confused for a minute.
"Well they sounded like dogs, but they don't look like dogs." She examines the twigs sticking out at various angles on Sugar Stalk.
"Well they are timberwolves after all." Dash answers nonchalantly.
"Umm," she gulps, " what?"
"Hmm, I smell fear." Sugar's tail wags.
"No, sis, we told mom we'd be good." Honey says in a demanding tone.
"Killjoy." Sugar grumbles.
"I thought, Sugar was alpha?" Rainbow says.
"We're both alpha." Says Honey.
"Silver's beta." Sugar adds.
"Right." Dash says sarcastically, rolling her eyes.
"I still don't get why Dash is so small." BlossomForth says.
"Mew?" Rainbow tilts her head.
"Aww!" They say looking at her.
After grumbling to herself Rainbow starts heading towards the train station.
"Oh yeah the train." They two part wolf ponies say in unison.
"Oh going to the mountains." BlossomForth asks.
"Yeah you coming?" Honey asks.
"Yeah I'm right behind you." As soon as she answers the wolves speed off.
Honey suddenly stops in front of Rainbow Dash, who just ducks out of the way as Sugar crashes into her sister.
"What's wrong Honey?" Dash asks the pony who is focused with pulling her twigs out of her sister's mane.
"I just remembered something." She sits there wagging her tail.
"What did you remember, sis?" Sugar asks after freeing herself.
"Turtles are slow." She r plies happily.
It took a moment before Rainbow caught on and flew back to where BlossomForth was.
"Do you think you'll make it to the station in time for the train?" Dash says while rubbing against BlossomForth ' s stationary leg.
Struggling to quicken her pace, BlossomForth barely raises the leg Dash is rubbing against while saying, "I can make it."
"My my this is troublesome. Up we go." BlossomForth is caught off guard by the sudden maturity in Sugar Stalk's tone as she picks her up and carries her.
Rainbow Dash flies unto Lemon Honey's head and says as they walk around the town. "Timberwolves are known for their strength and loyalty to those they trust." She then gives a smirk that seemed too much for her stature, "You didn't think we'd leave you hanging, did you?"
BlossomForth smiles at her as they are carried to the station.