It's been at least 3 days after the incident in Canterlot and things are finally peaceful in Ponyville.
One day:
Sakura is in the park reading some of the spellbooks Princess Celestia send to her, in order to do better with her magic. She just finish learning one of the spells until she hears a chanting some time away from her.
Sakura decides to take a look to see what is going on. When she look behind the tree she can see that in the clear field her friend are doing some kind of chant along with a dance routine.
She can see them doing cheers and acrobatic moves. Sakura can see that her friends are doing an amazing job. After doing the big finish, they stopped with a 5 pony pyramid.
When the performance ended, Sakura starts clapping for her friends and really liking their performance, that catches their attention. They decides to take a break to great their special friend.
"Hey, Sakura how are you doing?" Baked Apple asks happily greeting his friend.
"Fine," Sakura answers.
Then she curiously asks, "What are you up to?"
"We're working our welcome routine and making sure it's ready for the Equestria Games Inspector to come," Ace explains.
"Equestria Games Inspector?" Sakura asks a little confused.
Aerial Ace and the other stare at her for a little bit, until they realize that Sakura hadn't been in Equestria very long so there are many things that she didn't know about.
Ruby says, "Oh my Sakura forgive us, we forgot that you only been with us a few weeks so you don't know."
"You see, every 4 years we have a tournament called the Equestria Games," Ace adds.
"There's going to be food, games, sales, and a lot of competition from different towns all over the country," Raspberry adds happily.
Sakura eyes sparkle and smile big, amazed by this event she is hearing right now. She says, "Wow! That sounds amazing."
"Yeah, it's going to be exciting," Raspberry screams happily.
"But we need to be careful about the inspector," Ace replies looking a little serious.
"Why?" Sakura asks.
"You see the Equestria Games Committee has a new inspector we don't know she looks like or what she will be like," Ace explains feeling a little concern.
"And I heard that she has an eye for trying to catch host off guard," Ruby adds.
"But what does the inspector do?" Sakura asks.
"The inspector decides which town or city gets to host the Equestria Games," Baked Apple explains.
"Wow," Sakura replies with amazement.
"Yeah, but we need to make sure the inspector has a good time here," Ace replies.
"You see we're the welcome committee this year and we need to make sure the inspector is fine during her visit," Eden adds.
"I wish I can help, but I'm not part of the committee," Sakura says, wishing she can help her friends with the committee.
"Don't worry about it, just enjoy yourself around Ponyville and leave the welcoming to us," Eden reassuring her friend.
"Okay," Sakura replies feeling a little better.
Then Sakura asks, "Where are we meeting the inspector anyway?"
"At the train station, she won't be here for a little while,"
"Look out below," A mare's voice calls.
Sakura and the others turn to see a gray pegasus with light yellow mane and tail falling from the sky. Sakura knows she has to act fast, so she use her magic to levitate a towel and use it to catch the falling pegasus.
After the pegasus landed on the towel, Sakura uses her magic to bring her down safely. When the towel was removed, the pegasus is actually Derpy Hooves, the Ponyville Mail Carrier.
"Are you okay?" Sakura asks worriedly.
"Yep," Derpy answers happily.
"Derpy what happen?" Baked apple asks in concern.
"Well I was flying over to find you guys, but I flew too fast I couldn't stop ," Derpy explains.
"So darling, what are you doing?" Ruby asks.
"I'm here for two messages for you, first off Aloe and Lotus Blossom needs Eden's help," Derpy explains happily.
Then Eden asks, "What happen?"
"They need some special herbs and flowers for their soaps and lotions and stuff and you're the only pony to know where they are," Derpy replies.
"I understand," eden replies.
"Are you sure about it?" Baked Apple asks.
Eden turns to her cousin and says, "Of course, they can't find the kind of herbs and flowers they need on their own."
"Okay," Baked Apple replies.
"Besides the Games Inspector isn't do to arrive for some time I sure you'll have some time," Ruby adds.
Sakura turns to Derpy and to remind Derpy about something. Sakura says, "You said you have another message."
After hearing that, Derpy gets a nervous and starts to sweat a bit. Then she nervously says, "Um… yes, the games inspector Ms. Checkered Flag will be arriving on the… next train."
"Huh?!" Everyone react to the news, realizing that they don't have much time let before the inspection starts.
Ace looks at Derpy very upset and says, "What you couldn't tell us that news first. That's 15 minutes from now."
The others are starting to get worried cause now they don't have enough time to practice.
Ruby turns to Eden and asks, "How long until you'll be done?"
"I'll try to find them as soon as I can," Eden answers.
"Okay just make sure you meet us at town hall after you're done," Ruby suggests.
"Okay," Eden replies agreeing to the idea.
With that Ruby takes the note from Depy reading the note and says, "Okay, we'll be good."
Then she turns to the others as they make their way to the train station, "Everyone keep an eye out for a pony with a star print luggage,"
"Easy peasy," Raspberry says happily while bouncing.
"We'll bring the games inspector to Town Hall, give her our welcome how do you do and then," Ace instruct the others.
Until Raspberry says, "Stop for lunch and have a lot of desserts too."
Ace gets an awkward look on his face of what Raspberry just said. Then he says, "I'll just ignore that." While everyone else laugh a bit.
"Don't worry as long as you all calm down and sometimes improvise I'm sure you're going to impress her," Sakura says trying to calm the others down.
"Thanks Sakura," Ace replies feeling much better.
"No problem," Sakura says happily.
"Alright guys, we need to be calm and positive about Ms. Checkered Flag's visit," Ace instruct his friends.
"I hope things go well with her visit," Ruby replies worriedly.
"Don't worry, things will go great as long as we stay one step ahead and don't fall for any of her mind games," Ace informs the others like a leader.
"Got it," The other replies at the same time agreeing with the plan.
At the train station:
Sakura and the others made it there before the train arrives.
Sakura looks around the station and decides to explore around. Sakura says to her friends, "Okay well I'm going to explore the station for a little before heading back to Ponyville."
"Okay," Her friends replies.
After sakura left to check the station the train comes to the station, When the train got there it engineers blows the whistle and the conductor calls the passenger to get off the train if Ponyville their stop.
One of the passengers is a mare with cream fur, orange mane and tail, pink eyes, and her cutie mark are two checkered flags making an X look on it. She has a brown bag with yellow stars on it. When she sees Ace and the others she walks right to them.
"Hello," The mare calls Ace and his friends.
Ace comes over to the mare to introduce himself to her. He says, "Hello, are you Ms. Checkered Flag?"
"Yes, yes I am," Ms. Checkered Flag answers.
"Hello it's nice to meet you, I'm Aerial Ace and these are my friends, Dragon Ruby, Baked Apple, and Raspberry Pie. We're your welcome committee," Ace introduces himself and his friends to the inspector.
"Charmed," Checkered Flag says firmly.
"Now that you're here, we will like to take you over to the town hall," Ace replies.
"Okay," Checkered Flag replies.
"Let's go," Raspberry replies happily.
With that Ace and the others are escorting Ms. Checkered Flag to Ponyville for the tour. They didn't realize that Checkered Flag is making a strange smirk on her face, because she has something in mind for Ace and the others.
Back at the station:
Sakura is just exiting the station to see her friends are leaving the station with the Games inspector. She was just about to leave the station to Ponyville. until she sees a mare that looks like Ms. Checkered Flag is waiting for someone, she has a brown bag with white stars on it.
Sakura thinks the mare might needs some help. So she goes to her and says, "Excuse me."
"Yes," The mare replies.
"Are you lost?" Sakura asks.
"Well, no I'm just waiting for someone but they aren't here yet," The mare replies firmly.
"Maybe I can help," Sakura replies trying to help.
"That's very kind of you, but I need to wait for someone and I'm sure they are expected to arrive," The mare explains to Sakura.
The mare sighs and says, "What a way to start a new job,"
Sakura can tell that the mare is rather upset about something. So Sakura asks, "Maybe I can show you around Ponyville?"
The mare looks at Sakura with a confused look on her face, and just by Sakura's appearance, but she want to help her. The mare asks. "Are… are you sure?"
"I'm sure about it," Sakura answers happily.
Then Sakura explains, "You see since you're new on your job and at Ponyville, you need someone to guide you and I can show you around."
"Well I guess I can accept you generosity and you can show me around Ponyville," The mare replies still deep in thought about Sakura intentions.
"No problem," Sakura replies happily.
"By the way what is your name?" The mare asks, Then she says with a curious look at Sakura, "I mean, I remember seeing someone like you before."
Sakura starts to feel embarrassed and says, "Oh, my name is Sakura."
The mare eyes widen and remembers when she saw Sakura before. She remember reading about her and her family on the newspaper. The mare surprisingly says, "You mean you're Sakura, the alicorn hybrid and daughter of Twilight Sparkle."
"Yep," Sakura answers with a smile.
"Well, it sure is an honor to meet you," The mare replies happily.
Sakura starts to blush and says, "Oh, I don't know about that,"
"Well, shall we be off?" The mare asks politely.
"Okay," Sakura answers agreeing to her suggestion. Then she asks, "By the what what is your name?"
"My name is Ms. Checkered Flag." The mare answers.
Sakura eyes widen and surprisingly says, "Wait, you're the games inspector."
"Yes, why?" Ms. Checkered Flag asks rather confused.
"Because I just saw you left with my friends," Sakura answers with a concern look on her face.
"Oh dear," Ms. Checkered Flag replies, worried about this little problem. She now realized why she didn't see the welcome committee when she got out, her friends were tricked by someone who is pretending to be her.
Sakura and the real Checkered Flag have a big question, who was the mare that just went with Ace and the others?