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// CDC: Two of a Kind 
// Story: 255: The Aegis Collection 
// by AegisExemplar 
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Club looked mighty ridiculous with his mohawk parted right down the middle the entire length of his mane, with a white bow tie struggling to stay attached about his mighty neck. The cafe was filled with ponies of every type, all of them staring at the behemoth waiting alone at the small table.

Then she arrived, the apple of Club’s eye. The red coated, brown-maned, blue-eyed Earth mare had chosen to wear a flower in her hair, a white chrysanthemum. Club gulped.

“Um, hi, uh, Club... how do I look?”

“Just fine, Ancile.”

Ancile giggled a little. She found Club’s brevity of speech charming. “I’m not late, am I?”

“No.”

“Have you ordered yet?” Ancile sat down across from Club, taking up a breadstick to nibble on. Club suddenly found himself with a goofy smile. She was so cute when she did that.

“No.”

“Oh, okay...umm...think they have a good celery sandwich here?”

“Probably.” Club couldn’t stop staring at the mare, and hoped he wasn’t going to freak her out. It’d taken a lot to ask her to this lunch; Club was a stallion of few words, and stringing more than the three needed had pushed him to his limit.

“My brother said he’d love to meet someone brave enough to ask me out.”

“Your... brother?”

Ancile nodded happily. “He’s a Captain in the Guard; maybe you know him? His name is-”

Club glanced at her red coat, her brown mane, and her blue eyes again, a terrible thought in his head.

“-Aegis Exemplar. Sound familiar?”

“I have to go.”