Twilight was walking around in circles, very worried for her friend: she said “He couldn’t have, could he? No, he wouldn’t, would he?” Thomas and Applejack had just walked in the door
Thomas had a forced smile on his face “Hey Twilight” he said to her retaining his cool
She showed a sign of relief on her face “So I guess you’re gonna help me tomorrow?”
“I don’t go back on my words” Thomas had helped board up the library and went to the bedroom with the three double beds and the one single. He looked around, everypony was in bed, and the only spare bed was with Applejack. He crawled into bed and went out like a light.
Thomas woke up early in the morning, he got up and realised that everypony was still sleeping. He killed time downstairs by un-barricading the doors and windows, by the time he had finished everypony was up “Good morning Rainbow Dash” he said with a shit-eating grin
She flew over to look him dead in the eye “What are you up to?” she hatefully asked him
He started grinning even more “Nothing I just slept well last night, next to your best friend”
Rainbow Dash started to get angry “Simmer down Rainbow he’s just tryin’ ta stir ya up” Applejack told her as she walked down the staircase
The human gathered Twi’s attention “Twilight, I’m ready to do that thing involving the princess”
“Good! Here’s a scroll for you to write on”
“Okay, but why a scroll?” he asked confusedly
“We use them to write on that’s why” Twilight barked
After writing on the scrolls Twilight called Spike over and he exhaled fire, burning the scroll “why did you do that?”Thomas asked pissed off, he noticed green smoke come from the paper
“See? Now Princess Celestia will get that note soon, then she’ll send us a reply letter”
He noticed that Spike had belched up another scroll “that was awfully quick” Spike commented, then he handed the scroll to Twilight, Twilight used her magic to grab it from him “What does it say Twilight?” the dragon asked
“It says: Dear my faithful student Twilight, if this letter I have received is true and I believe that it is. I will have a chariot sent to pick your friends and this human called Thomas up and bring you all to see me in Canterlot, sincerely Princess Celestia”
Thomas sat down “Well I guess I’ll meet the princess, by the way did she say what time she’d pick us up?” he asked pondering whether he should sleep or not
Twilight re-examined the letter “It’ll be getting dark by the time that the chariot arrives”
The human smiled “I’m okay with that” the hours slowly passed and finally the chariot arrived, it was large enough for them all to fit in with six guards at the front and six at the back “Damn that’s big, who else is coming?” Thomas chuckled at his own joke, he allowed the ponies to get on first then he followed, as the hours passed they finally reached Canterlot.
Thomas had woken the ponies up and told them they had arrived in Canterlot “Hey guys, wake up” Rainbow Dash was the first to get up then followed by Applejack, Twilight, Fluttershy, Rarity and Pinkie Pie.
They got out of the chariot and walked into the castle where upon the arrival Thomas was held at spear point “Bow to princess Celestia, show some respect” a hostile guard shouted
Twilight was concerned “you better do what they say Thomas, they are armed” she would be terrified in that position
He laughed at the guards “I don’t have to do shit for you, and empty threats are no way to get me to do something nor are they scary” the guards moved the spears in towards Thomas’ throat, he jumped pulling the spears up on his shoulders “you’re never gonna be able to kill me” A platinum guard walked over to Thomas “Huh? Why isn’t he in gold like the rest of you?”
“He is a general, but I shouldn’t be talking to scum like you” the same guard informed Thomas
{Stop right there criminal scum} Thomas joked inside his head
The platinum guard spoke “Welcoming her royal highness, Princess Celestia” the guard directed his attention to Thomas “Why is he not bowing down?”
The hostile guard saluted “He has refused to cooperate general” said ‘Sir kiss-ass’
“I demand that he be thrown into the dungeon for the rest of his life”
{Little harsh don’t ya think?}
The guards approached Thomas, a female voice called out “Halt” it was princess Celestia “It’s okay general he doesn’t have to bow, he’s not from here”
“But princess...” Thomas nodded his head at Celestia
“No excuses general you and your men may leave now”
“I will leave at least three”
“Very well” the platinum guard gave Thomas a hateful look in his eyes “so you are Thomas”
“Yes your highness”
“Please, you can be less formal than that, you can call me Tia”
“Okay Tia” he acknowledged
“Thomas I’d like to talk to these girls in private if you don’t mind” the princess told him
“What should I do in the time between, Tia?” he asked feeling like an oddity
“Feel free to walk around, I’ll send someone to get you when I need you again” Thomas started to leave “Oh by the way, Thomas”
“Yeah Tia?” he asked as he turned back to her
“Don’t piss off the general”
“Will do, well won’t do” Thomas left the room.
Twilight was the first to speak “Princess?”
“Twilight, I requested this time so that I may ask you and your friends a few questions”
“What are they?” Twilight was nervous, as if she felt she might be harbouring a criminal, those feelings stemmed from the scene earlier
“I have faith in your judgement, but do you really trust this stranger. We don’t even know whose side he’s on”
“Princess I have faith in him and I have no reason not to”
“Very well then. If you don’t mind I would like to hear your friends’ opinions on him”
Rainbow Dash got up “I don’t trust him”
Celestia responded “would you care to explain why Rainbow Dash?”
“He seems shifty, just that kind you can’t trust”
“What about you Applejack? You have been awfully quiet and from what I have heard you spent a whole day with him”
“Ah did, an’ he just seemed to be so nice to me”
“Would you say you trust him Applejack?”
“With mah life” Celestia turned her head away from directly at Applejack.
Thomas had been walking through the castle for a while. He was walking past a door and heard a soft lonely crying. He pushed the door open a bit so he could see who was crying, he walked into the room and saw a greyish purple Alicorn who had a light blue mane “hey, why are you crying?”
“I never get to talk to anypony because most of the time I’m awake when they’re asleep or I’m asleep when they’re awake”
Thomas walked over to her bed that she was on “if you like, I’ll talk to you. Would you like that?”
“Yeah, I would, I’m Luna by the way”
Thomas sat on the bed next to Luna “Nice to meet you Luna, I’m Thomas”
“So I guess from the looks of you that you’re not from here”
“Yeah, I’m not. So why are you only up at night?”
“Because I raise the moon every night”
“Hence your name being Luna?”
“Yeah it’s kinda like a pun” she laughed
An hour had passed and a guard came into the room “Princess Celestia wishes to see you Thomas”
Thomas nodded at the guard and turned his head towards Luna “Hey Luna, wanna come with me?” She nodded her head and got up to walk with him.
The guard stopped at a large wooden door “Through this door”
“Thank you” said Luna
Thomas entered the room that he had first met Celestia in. Luna continued to walk and sat on the throne next to Celestia, Celestia spoke “I see you’ve met my sister Luna”
Thomas shared a stare with Twilight, most likely Thomas’ saying: ‘I had no who she was’ before returning to Celestia
“So Tia what did you want?”
She directed her attention at him “Do you have any idea what ‘it’ may be?”
“Well not really, although where I come from this sort of stuff is in the movies”
“Do you have any idea how it’s spreading from the bite?”
“Well if one film is correct, and I believe it is, it probably spreads in the blood. Contamination from the inside”
“Have these films had a cure?”
“Not any that I’ve seen. Unless you count bullets as a cure I don’t think there would be one”
Time slowly passed as Celestia questioned Thomas “Umm... Tia?” Thomas yawned out
“Yes? What is it?” the white Alicorn asked the human
“I’m getting really tired, so may I go home. Well...by home I mean Twilights’ library”
She nodded “Of course, you’ll have a chariot awaiting you outside. But I will most likely call for you again”
Thomas, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity and Pinkie Pie walked out of Canterlot and into the chariot held by the same six Pegasi.