The train whistle blew loud throughout the station. Ponies of many different kind started to load and unload the train. Ushers were helping with loading the heavy luggage as they went about their work.
A week or so had past since the meeting of the two species. Chip was able to help secure a place for his kind at the Princess's castle temporarily . In return he was to spend time with Celestia's star pupil, Twilight Sparkle. It would of been as simple as that if Bob would not have come into the picture. Now there is a psychotic ex-doctor running a muck. Even with Celestia's guard tracking Bob down he still felt uneasy in his tummy.
Celestia looked at Chip with concern as he gazed around the station. Ever since she saw Bob's attempt on Chip's life she had been worried sick. This only made her want to send him to Ponyville even more. Still she worried if he would get along, let alone fit in.
"Chip are you sure you will be alright?" Celestia said as she levitated his ticket over to him.
"I can't promise anything but I picked out some of the guys to protect me." Chip said pointing behind him. Four other clay men already holding their tickets nodded.
"Why did you not take Pip or Rick? You will need Pip to tell Bob apart from the others right and I thought Rick was your best friend?"
"I will need them here Princess. This is were all the clay men are so Pip will need to be here the most. Rick didn't want to come anyway. I had already asked him but he just wanted to stay locked in his room."
"Well why did you pick these four men behind you. Why not take the sheriff or Henry?" She continued to question Chip's decision.
"For one the sheriff is not that helpful. I also don't trust Henry even if he is a weapons maniac. No wait, that's just another reason to not bring Henry. Anyway the four behind me are the guys who took down the murderer. They have plenty experience with taking down bad guys without anything screwing up. Well most of them."
"Hey what are you looking at? Yea get out of here. Get outta here!" One of the four yelled at a random pony walking by causing him to run away. "Go!"
"Ryan calm down." One of the other four responded. Celestia eyed the four of them and gained their attention.
"You must protect Chip at all cost. If he trust you then so do I." The four of them once again nodded. One of them a little too much that he got dizzy and fell over.
"All aboard!" The conductor said as he leaned out of the window. He gave the train whistle a couple blows to make sure everypony knew.
"All right then I guess we shall part ways. As I said before Twilight will meet you in your room. I hope you two get along. I think that this will be a good experience for the both of you." Celestia said as she threw a wing over Chip's shoulder. "And stay safe." With that Chip and his bodyguards boarded the train. Ponies gave them strange looks as they entered the train. Celestia waved at them as the train started to leave. Chip looked down at his ticket.
"Alright guys we need to find room 308."
"How will we know what room that is?" One of them asked.
"It will have a 308 on it." Chip responded.
"But how will we know what room that is?"
"It will have a....."
"Don't answer that he will just keep going." Mark interrupted Chip.
"Room 308 you say? Would you like me to escort you to your room young..... gentle colts.....?" The train worker stopped after gazing at the five clay figures. He noticed that he was stalling. "Oh I am sorry."
"Yes please take us there. Were not from here by the way."
"Oh yes of course." He shook his head then started to usher them down the hallway. After two minutes they stopped in front of their room. "Here you are. If you need anything don't hesitate to ask." He opened the door to an almost empty room. A purple alicorn was seated near the window of the room.
Twilight stared at the five intently as she scanned their forms. Her eyes seemed to grow in shock.
"Don't you try any funny business!" Ryan grabbed the employee. The employ started to struggle free.
"Unhand me sir!"
"Ryan let him go. I'm sorry about that." Mark said as he pulled Ryan into the room. All five of them sat down and stared at the alicorn in the room. Twilight was starting to feel a little nervous under all their gazes. They had no eyes but she could still feel their glares.
"Um...hello, I am Princess Twilight Sparkle." She ran a hoof over her mane. "You can just call me Twilight though. So which one of you is chip? Both Chip and the clay person who kept asking questions raised their limbs. "Oh you both are Chip?"
"What, no." Chip slapped the others limb back down. "That's Louis he's kind of special."
"Oh." Twilight adjusted herself uncomfortably. "Well Chip it is nice to finally meet you. The Princess has told me a lot about you in her letters. Who are the others?"
"This is mark. He's the most normal of the group. The one who raised his limb also was Louis, and the one who grabbed the employee is Ryan. At the end of the room is Phil, he doesn't talk."
"Oh, well this is an interesting group. Why are they here?"
"They are protecting me."
"I see. Well I can't wait to show you Ponyville. It is a great place you are going to love it. Oh and don't even get me started about my freinds." She said with excitement.
"Is this Ponyville? Louis asked.
"No we are still on the train." Twilight leaned over with a smile. Before he could ask the same question again Mark punched him. "So Chip you seem to have a physical difference compared to these four. It seems to be ironic given your name. How did that happen if you don't mind me asking?"
"I actually don't know. I think I just always looked like this."
"Forgive me, but I just have to ask a lot more. I have never meet a creature such as yourself. I mean species. You appear to be made of clay as well. Can you explain that?"
"Not really." Chip shrugged. Twilight gave a little disappointed expression.
"Oh. I guess I can find out more once we get to my lab. So..." A gunshot interrupted Twilight echoing down the train cart. "What was that!?" Twilight stood to her full height. She peeked out the window of her door. "Wait here." She ordered as she left the room.
"Lock and load boys. We got a murderer!" Mark said as he pulled out a pistol. The others did the same thing except Louis who pulled out an MPT-9k sub machine gun. All of their weapons clicked as they switched off the safety.
"Where the heck did you get those!" Chip stood up in panic.
"We found em. Why?" Ryan responded as he looked over his pistol.
"I thought we did not bring any of the guns over!" Chip started to look around the room. The door shortly opened. Twilight walked in with four guns pointed at her. She immediately fell backwards after a scream of surprise.
"What in Celestia are you pointing those things at me?" She breathed out while regaining her poser. Chip helped her back onto her hooves.
"Sorry I had no clue they had guns on them."
"Guns? What are guns?" She looked at the four.
"Here I'll show you." Ryan shot out the window breaking the glass. Twilight's ears ringed as the blast went off. Mark slapped Ryan's gun back down. Twilight looked back at Ryan with fear.
"What the heck guys!" Chip yelled at them. They only sat their without response. Twilight looked around the room analyzing the situation.
"Chip we have a problem. I asked what was going on and they told me to go back to my room. Some pony was shot!" She locked the room door as she returned to her seat. "I hope your body guards know what they are doing."
"Did they have any clues of who did it?" Chip asked Twilight.
"Well they said they heard one thing but it was quite strange. Right before the shot they heard some pony say I'm a murderer." She started to tap her hooves nervously. "What if it's a psychopath?!"
"Looks like it's round two fellas. Let's go find us the murderer." Mark said as they all arose from their seats.
"Can you do it?" Chip asked Mark.
"We did it once we can do it again." Mark opened the door letting the other three out. Ryan gave a pumped up shout as he exited the room.
All four of them stood outside the door and looked around. Each of them pointed their gun down the hallway.
"How will we know if he's the murderer?" Louis asked.
"Well he usually announces it before he shoots you."
"But how will we know....."
"Louis I swear to Got I will shoot you!" Mark yelled as he slapped Louis. "Let's split up guys. Me and Phil will go this way. Louis you guard the door and Ryan go the other way."
Mark and Phil entered the next cart over. They tactically checked around every corner. All the rooms where locked from the inside. An employee walked around the corner and screamed at them.
"Calm down were the good guys! Have you seen the murderer?"
"No the shot came from the other side of the train. What in Celestia are you pointing at me?" The pony started to shiver with his hooves blocking his face. "Don't hurt me!"
"Other side huh? Let's go help Ryan out Phil." Another gunshot sounded from the other side of the train. Mark and Phil ran back to room 308. "Louis did you see him?"
"See who?"
"Never mind, let's go Phil. You stay here." Mark Kicked open the door to the next cart over. Inside one of the clay men laid on the ground dead another standing right beside him. "Ryan is that you?" Ryan gave a nod and put his pistol away. "Good work Ryan let's get back to the room." The three returned to room 308 to find Louis looking down the barrel of his gun. He quickly looked back to them.
"Who's that?" He pointed to Ryan behind them.
"That's Ryan what do you mean?" Mark started to turn around.
"I'm the murderer!" He slowly raised his gun. He shot nailing Phil in the head as he jumped in front of Mark. Mark fired back hitting the murderer in the shoulder causing him to shoot again. This time hitting Mark in the chest. Mark dropped his gun as he held his chest.
"Is that the murderer?" Louis asked as Mark fell to his knees.
"Yes...." Mark gasped out as he fell over on the carpet.
"Oh." Louis fired multiple rounds into the murderer. He was instantly filled with holes and fell over. Louis continued to fire his gun into the murderer's body until it was a lumpy mess. Chip opened the door to see the chaos. Twilight looked over his shoulder and immediately fainted.
"What happened?!" Chip yelled at Louis. "Is that the murderer?" He pointed to the lumpy mess.
"Murderer?" Louis scratched his head with the machine gun. Chip looked down at the other two bodies. He then looked back at the fainted alicorn.
"Why me? Why now?" Chip fell over onto the floor next to Twilight. "Shes going to think were crazy now!"
"Are we in Ponyville?"
"No!!!!"