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// Manehanttan 
// Story: Around A World: Equus 
// by Dragon Shimmer 
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Diana is taking the wagon that she just created. It is a small wagon with cooking tools inside. After nailing the board to the wagon, the black cat writes something on it. 

Matt yawns and looks at the wagon. "Wow, it's actually like its owner. Painful."

"Thank you." Diana takes some red paint. "I think some decorating will be fine."

"What will you sell actually?"

Diana gives the swordsman her menu. When Matt finishes watching at the menu, the swordsman throws it away. "Are you serious? You can't make these in a big city like this."

"I know. So I will go to the center of the city." Diana rubs her head. "If I knew where it is?"

"How about the airship and us?"

"I will leave that to you." Diana pats his shoulder. "You have led your team and saved your world twice already."

"Fine." Matt turns away. "When will you leave?"

Diana taps her cheek. "Right now, I will stay with Sunset."

Matt nods and takes a seat on the chair. When the swordsman opens the hologram maps, he sees two red dots near him. In a flash, the swordsman jumps out of the airship and takes one of the clocks.

A red dot leads him into a room. Seeing that the red dot is near him, he looks up to see Twilight watching. 

Matt asks. "What are you doing here, Twilight?"

The purple alicorn holds her breath and is surprised. Matt glares at her and takes out his sword. The alicorn is trembling and trying to explain. "Wait, we are teammate, remember?"

"Tell me who I am?"

The alicorn is silenced, then she runs away. Matt starts chasing the purple alicorn. He loses track when he reaches the customer zone. Matt huffs and returns back to the airship.

All the others are already awake and are sitting on the table when Matt returns to the airship. Stepping inside, all of them look at the swordsman. 

Matt sighs. "Fine, I failed okay?" Diana taps her feet and coughs. The swordsman reports more. "That crystal like gained the 'shapeshifting' ability."

"Like the Changeling." Twilight comments. "Right?"

Diana stops the purple alicorn. "If they are actually a changeling using the crystal shard, then Matt must be wrong." Diana puts some orbs on the table. "You are in charge, Matt."

Matt sighs and sits down. Diana starts moving the wagon with her spell and Sunset follows her. The swordsman opens his hologarm map and notices many three-colored dots around here. Twilight taps her front hoof. "I think we should split up." 

Spike counters. "Dangerous. I think we should collect information about the criminal organizations."

"Good idea." Twilight looks at the manager of Sky Harbor. "I will do this."

"Right." Matt points at the dragons. "Spike, Icey, you two travel around this city." 

Icey turns her face away while Spike shakes his head. "I can't. This is a big city."

Matt takes the orbs. "These orbs will help us expand the map. Diana told me last night."

Icey huff and flies away. Spike takes all the orbs and follows her. Matt rubs his head as he doesn't know what is happening with the blue dragon. The swordsman enters inside the airship to activate security mode on the airship. 





Icey and Spike are flying around the city. To select the right position, the purple dragon looks at the map. Spike notices that Icey keeps looking at the map since they started flying together. 

The purple dragon coughs. "Are you okay Icey?"

"Uh... I'm fine." Icey stops in mid air. "So... uh... where will we go?"

"Lunar Harbor and Solar Harbor." Spike folds his claws. "Then we will go to Sungaze Bridge and Nightgale Bridge." Icey nods and she flies fast. Spike pulls her back and points to the opposite direction. "The Lunar Harbor is that way Icey." 

Icey snaps his claw. "Okay. I need some fresh air."

The blue dragon flies away as fast as she can, leaving Spike in confusion. When they get to Solar Harbor. The guards don't let them into the harbor because it's only for employees. On the table, the dragon pair watches the containers being packed out of the ship.

Icey is amazed by the harbor. "Wow, ponies in here are too busy, aren't they?"

"They always do." Spike leans on the chair, but the chair breaks, causing Spike fall on the ground. Icey is holding her laugh. Purple dragon sweeps all over him. "So, what will we do? Wait for the moon to rise?"

"Well, I see no way to get in there." Icey shakes her head. "It's generous when that demon cat gives us unlimited time to explore."

"How about we walk around another location?" 

"Then who will set these orbs?"

"Fine." Spike rolls his eyes. "I think we will wander around the harbor to find an ideal location to sneak inside."

"Good idea."

Spike and Icey start looking around the harbor. To ensure they won't be spotted, they pick an abandoned house nearby.





As Diana looks at the map, she decides to go to a nearby park. Sunset lies on the bed and waiting. The black cat puts down the map and moves her wagon to the park. Upon arriving at the park, many ponies are relaxing. Some of them have picnics with each other.

Diana is preparing to open her shop but a tap on her back interrupts her. Turning around, she sees two police officers looking at her. Diana sighs. "How can I help you, officers?"

One of the police asks. "Do you have any licenses to do business here?" Diana turns her face away. A police officer taps on the map. "Follow me. I will show you where to get a license."

"That's generous for you." Diana smiles. "Or maybe too generous."

"What do you mean?"

Diana folds her paws. "No one talks like that." The police flinch and step back. Diana sees two more polices are coming to this way. The black cat suggests. "How about taking to your cops?

"Eh... no. We're fine." 

The two policemen are preparing to walk away but something stops their hooves. Looking down, they find that many hands are holding their hooves. When the two police officers arrive, they arrest them immediately because of faking them.

Diana sighs in relief but the real police stop her. Diana turns to the police. "Okay, okay, I am planning to go away. Please don't arrest me."

"Actually you can sell your food here." The officer points to the licenses on display. "Those licences belong to Cloudale so it legal here."

"I thought it would not work here."

"Anyway..." the police say as he points at the orange dragon. "That's their target."

"Can you explain?"

The police start to explain. "Those two fake police you just encountered belong to a gang named Tatarus of Dragon. They only aim at dragons in this city."

"I see." Diana cracks her neck and turns her head to the roof of a nearby building. "How wide are they working now?"

The police smile. "We can't tell you, we're sorry. But don't worry. They will stay away from you this time."

Diana frowns and turns away. The police left her. The black cat huffs and starts opening her bakery.





After four hours, Diana's bakery is not crowded because Diana's cakes are too creepy for everyone. It is time for the black cat and the orange dragon to close the bakery.

Sunset complains. "Can you make some cakes that are less creepy? We can only sell three hundred bits because of that."

"Nah. Everything is fine." Diana takes off the sign. "What could be so wrong?"

Sunset is going to complain more but an arrow is shooting at her. Lucky that the arrow is being blocked by the pan that Sunset is intending to put somewhere. From the darkness, many arrows are flying toward the duo. Diana waves her paws and an ice wall rises to block the arrows. 

Diana grins. "You can come out now."

Five ponies, with crossbows on their hooves, are walking out the shadown. They switch to swords and charge. Diana puts her paws on the ground and another ice wall appears behind them. Eventually, the ice walls connect with each other and create the large ice rectangle that traps all the ponies.

The ponies are trying to break through the wall, but it is too thick for them. Sunset knocks on the rectangle. "Wow, you can do this?"

"Learn from you, Sunset."

The orange dragon rubs her head. "But I can't do that."

Diana chuckles and pats the orange dragon. When the black cat touches the ice wall, fire appears inside the rectangle. The ponies are circling around and shaking. This will be fun.