//------------------------------// // Day One: Arrival // Story: Police Of Ponyville Episode 10: She's A Star // by Shadow Storm 44 //------------------------------// “Clear the area,” An officer shouted. “If you're not wearing a vest move along.” This had been the scene for the whole morning. Clearing the area for the V.I.Ps, scaring a route for them to get to their hotel, which was also being cleared and checking when the V.I.Ps arrive. Night made it clear that she wanted everything to be done by the book in a quick and timely manner. Not the small-town way, not the county way, the way we were taught in the academy. Even if Night didn’t say it, Storm knew that she wanted nothing out of the ordinary happening for as long as this festival was going on. That and maybe she didn’t want the town to get sued when the town is already broke. “Black cloud, this is Ground star do you copy?” A voice asked over the radio. Storm and Star were placed in different groups and so were Comet, Clover, and Phantom. Storm and Comet are in the air unit while Star and Clover are the patrol team who was picked to escort the V.I.Ps to the hotel. Then Phantom was placed in the crowd control unit. “Star, stop with the stupid code names,” Storm said. “Well, excuse me for trying to have some fun, we're basically being forced to do this.” “Our job?” Storm asked. “No, that volunteer line that the chief said at the briefing. We didn't volunteer she basically threatened us.” He was right. The Chief did threaten them with crappy hours and lots of paperwork for them to do when her secretary leaves for vacation. Nobody dared to call her bluff. “How long have we been here?” Comet asked shifting around in her cloud. “It feels like hours.” “We’ve been here for.” Storm looked at his watch. “Two hours.” The arrivals for the Festival should be here any minuter now. Storm, Comet, and the other pegasus officers that make up the air unit had been on overwatch duty giving a heads up when trains arrive or when there’s something strange happening in the crowd. Star and Clover along with other groups who were picked to escort the V.I.Ps and make sure that they got to their destination on time and safely. The only one missing was Phantom. He was back at the station with the crowd control unit waiting to be deployed. So far things have been pretty calm. There was a bit of excitement when certain artists were confirmed to arrive. It didn’t get to a point where it was a problem. However, Chief Night wasn’t lying when she said that they were going to be outnumbered. “I wonder how the guys down there are doing.” A pegasus said looking at the large crowd near the train station. "I think the crowd double in size." “Not too well,” Comet replied. “When our guest arrives things will go bad real fast.” “Well, it’s about to get real bad.” Storm jerked his head in the direction of a train approaching. A train appeared and stopped at the station. “Speak of the devil here they come.” “Look alive we got the first train arriving.” Dispatch called out. " Everyone get ready." 30 minutes later STAR’S POV “Men,” Star said closing the doors to the train station. “They act like they have never seen a pony that can sing or rap before.” “OK,” Clover said. “I think this is the last group before we have to clear the station.” “Good,” Star said. “Then what?” “I’m pretty sure it’s going to be like this for the whole festival. Unicorns and Earth Ponies on the ground Pegasus stay in the air. It’s been pretty quiet and calm so far.” As Star and Clover near the Train stations platform there was a voice shouted from the there. The first thing Star could describe the voice as annoying, bossy, and really rude. “I got this,” Star said stepping ahead of Clover. “There you are.” A stallion said as if he were waiting for hours. “Sorry, sir.” Clover apologizes. “We are running a bit behind. So we must get going.” “Fine.” He said with his nose in the air. “Let’s go.” “Let’s hurry up and get this over with.” Star murmured to Clover. “This is going to be the worst one out of all of them.” As the group neared the exit the crowd started to go wild seeing the group behind them. Some of them even tried to open the door. “Holy crap,” Clover said. She then grabbed her radio. “This is the escort team. The crowd is starting to become a bit out of control. We request that overwatch teams provide backup for crowd control teams to clear a path.” Clover said that while looking at the doors. “Your girl's sure are popular,” Star said to them while looking outside. “Of course they are. Do you not know who we are?” Their manager said as if Star insulted him. Knowing all well who they were Star could use a good laugh. Besides, he did this to Storm all the time. He wanted to see how it will work on someone else for a change. “No, I don’t,” Star answered. The manager looked at Star. “Your joking right?” “No, sir I am not.” “Those girls are known as Perfume. The best mare singing group in the music world.” This is Silver Flash, Rose, and Snowflake.” The manager pointed to the gray mare, the red mare, and the white mare in that order. “And I am Copper the manager of Perfume.” “Neat.” Star smiling. “I’m Loadstar a police officer who is here to protect you for little pay and right beside me is one of my co-worker who is bilingual. “We should get moving,” Clover said. “Overwatch units gave us an opening.” The five moved towards the door. Outside there was the Crowd control unit and overwatch teams pushed back the crowd that once blocked the doors. Even with help crowd was still winning by a pretty big margin. “Let’s get moving,” Clover said. “I don’t know how long they’ll last.” “We’re going into that?” Rose said lifting her sunhat. “I thought that this was a small town.” “Yea, well when it was confirmed that you guys and Twin Cities were performing, the neighboring town and cities decided to make the trip to our little town to see you.” “But.” Snowflake looked outside. “Are you sure that we should go now? Maybe we should wait.” “If we don’t go now we will be stuck here all day,” Clover said. "This is our only chance." “She right.” Star agreed. “Were pretty outnumbered and this is the biggest window that we will get.” Star then bucked open the door. “Stay low, Go fast.” Clover went first followed by Rose, Snowflake, Silver Flash, Star, and then Copper. The crowd seemed to get even wilder. Many tried to push through the wall of officers. Pegasus spread their wings to extend their reach to push back, Earth Ponies pushed back by using their body’s and Unicorns use riot spells to push them back. It was a battle of raw power. “ROSE, ROSE I LOVE YOU.” A voice shouted from the crowd. “Don’t you even think about it Bow,” Star shouted back to the voice. "I'll drop you in a second." Finally they arrived at the carriage that would take the group to the hotel they were staying at. Clover opens the door and just like a dog running into an open house they jumped in one by one. Star did a quick headcount before closing the door and sending the carriage on its way. The V.I.P.S have made a getaway from their fans." “Well that was easy,” Star said. “Now what?” Clover reacher for her radio again. “Storm the last of our VIPs are gone, what now?” “Go to your assigned positions. This is only the beginning everyone.”