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// Canterlot was...in a pot. 
// Story: Tom's Destiny 
// by Caleb Roy 
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		It took another thirty minutes before Tom and Roseluck made it into Canterlot, but when they did, Canterlot was... well, Canterlot just wasn't Canterlot...At all. I mean like dudes and dudets, there was like death destroyed buildings and junk all over the place. You had like messed up towns and like buildings with shattered glass and like ghost towns and everything. Dudes and dudets it was like crazy. Oh and then the sky was all like gray and like cloudy and stuff, man, if only you could have seen it. Anyways, I always did wonder how that happened. I mean think about it... How in the world does a city go from being beautiful to like a dump in three days. It amazes me. I mean maybe if it was like three hundred years or something, but in three days or a week, I mean was the evil super villain dude really that bad. Seriously?! Anyways, I am sure that the audience has ants in their pants and wants to see this story finished. I am sure that they want to see how Tom saves everypony and how he gets things and what his destiny is. I am sure that the au--
"Hey narrator!?", asked the audience.
HOLD YOUR HORSES AUDIENCE!!! Alright, well, let me get back to the story at hand. Tom started to head for the city gates. He was stopped, however, because two scorpion guards stood before him. They asked Tom and Roseluck a question.
"Where are your passes?", asked the first one, "Let us see them now or you may not enter!", he yelled.
"Well", began Tom, "I actually don't have a pass, but--"
"No pass No entrance!", screamed the second guard, "Get out!", he finished.
Just as Tom began to turn around, trying to think of a plan to enter in, Roseluck told him to wait.
"Tom, hold on!", yelled Roseluck, "I have a pass." Roseluck then turned back to the two scorpion guards and gave them her pass. She also said that Tom was with her. The scorpion guards looked at her, the pass, Tom, and each other, and finally decided to let Tom and Roseluck in. Tom and Roseluck both entered, and here begins the beginning of the end.
The scene was a mess. On every corner, block, and street there were five guards. They were all scorpions. Tom wondered why every single guard was a scorpion and he wondered what had happened to the Royal Guard soldiers. Tom had a lot of questions. I mean Tom was a nice rock and all, but sometimes he could be just a tiny bit, well, just a tiny bit impatient. It wasn't a rocks big suit to be patient, but patience could be learned, and for now, Tom would have to wait upon his questions. Anyways, Tom dropped off Roseluck at the train station, and he told her that he had to finish this journey on his own. Roseluck, who actually wanted to help Tom, understood. She thanked Tom again for saving her, wished him good luck, and finally, kissed Tom on his equivalent to a cheek (I'm sorry I don't know much about rock anatomy, but I just never really paid much attention during Rock anatomy class), and finally she left. It was up to Tom now. He had to get into the castle, Celestia's castle that is. Tom knew this was going to be fun, and fun it was going to be.
Tom headed for the castle. He had to be pretty secretive because there was like a scorpion guard on every corner. It was like 1984, but in a story about Tom. Anyways, Tom didn't have to beat anybody up...yet, but he did have to take the sewer at one point. It all started like this.
Tom turned around one corner, and then just out of nowhere two scorpion guards came around. Tom could tell by the patch on their arms that they were border patrol soldiers. They would have stopped Tom in a heart beat, and he would have been arrested in two. Tom quickly jumped to the side. However, just as he hit the side of the wall, he noticed two more soldiers (these ones were normal) who started to walk down where Tom was hiding. Tom knew that if they found him hiding there, then they would have questioned his hiding. Basically, either way Tom went, he would have been stopped and then punished. Tom wasn't quite sure what to do when he realized a sewer vent. He knew he had one shot, and he was missing it right now. He decided to take it. He jumped into the sewer vent, and landed with a splash into so much muck and disgusting things that he almost cried, but rocks don't normally cry so he didn't. Tom looked up and saw both of the scorpion soldiers greet each other and then they turned away and left. Tom was going to start climbing up the ladder, but then he realized that it was broken. Tom realized that there was only one thing left to do. Tom had to go through the sewers and then go up into the castle. It was a good thing that Tom was once a plumber and sewer fixer or else he might have never known the ways of the sewer. Tom took his right because he knew that was the way into the castle.
As Tom walked for what seemed like hours, he saw two scorpion guards. They were standing right in front of the only path into the castle. Tom knew that if he was to make it into the castle then he would have to fight all of these guards. The problem was that these specific guards were much bigger than the average soldier. There was also another problem. It was that just as Tom was about to charge these two guards, two more came into Tom's sight and one of them was a leader. Tom, however, decided that it may have been now or never so he charged.
Tom was yelling and screaming his charge down the road. Quickly, I must interrupt and say that I don't get why you yelled when you charged. I believe General Custer said it best when he said that when you charge if you scream they will hear you. Wow, I just looked at that sentence and realized how much it didn't make sense. Man, I really ought to--
"Narrator!! Get back on Tra--", the audience began to interrupt.
SHUT UP AUDIENCE!!! I'm doing that right now. Man! Alright, so Tom was charging these guys, but just as Tom was within ten feet from them, a random white horse came rushing out. Tom realized it was a she, a female horse. Tom saw this horse kneeling (or whatever a horse does) looking at all the four guards who had her surrounded. The light that was coming partly through a hole from above shined on this horse. The horse had a whole Rambo get up. Tom stared at this horse trying to make her out because she looked very familiar. Then the horse looked up, and Tom recognized her. It was none other than...
It's Celestia!!!", the leader scorpion guard yelled, "The boss wants her alive. Get her!". 
At that moment, all of the guards tried to pounce on Celestia. However, just as they jumped, Celestia jumped up, and landed on two with a thunk. She kicked one in the head, and punched the other one twice. Then, one of the guards went to grab Celestia, but he was too slow as Celestia jumped back doing an amazing backflip in slow-motion (How that happened, I don't know). Anyways, then Celestia grabbed the guard who missed her, and flung him back into the leader scorpion. The leader scorpion collapsed just as soon as he got up. Celestia turned around again and punched the one scorpion in the neck, and then grabbed the other scorpion by his arm. She flung him again. She also threw one of the scorpions right into pony poop. Tom actually chuckled a little bit. Anyways, Celestia was kicking these scorpion's butts. Literally. For example, one tried to grab her, but she pun around, dodged him, and then kicked him right in the butt. He then flew into more sewer muck. Celestia was good, but she was still no match for four especially big scorpions. These guys, remember, were like the size of the Hulk, Igor the Strong man, or Arnold Schwarzenegger. Your pick. Anyways, so Celestia was kicking their butts when she threw a  flying roundhouse at the leader. The leader scorpion dodged the attack, and grabbed her leg. The leader then spun her around bringing her off balance. Celestia fell into the muck. She got up quickly, but not in enough time because as she got up to regain herself, one of the scorpion guards hit Celestia in the back of the neck knocking her to the ground. Then two other guards grabbed her by her front legs, and held her tight. She struggled, but she couldn't get free. The leader began to mock her too.
The leader grabbed her by the chin, and said, "Oh look at the poor pony princess. Look how she falls before our scorpion might...Poor Poor little pony princess girl, probably saw yourself ruling a wonderful kingdom, but I guess not now. Alright, lets take her back to the dungeon, and the boss, I am sure he will be pleased. Knock her out.", the leader scorpion finished. Then one of the scorpion soldiers raised her beefy arms, and was just about to hit Celestia when Tom began rolling and yelling again. You see Tom knew that he had to save Celestia because he needed to know what was going on, and just to save her. He charged.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH", yelled Tom. He crashed into the leader, and like threw the leader twelve feet back. Then Celestia saw this as a good chance so she spun around and did a backflip loosening the scorpion's grip on her even more. Then with her two hind legs, she tripped the scorpions. They both fell into the muck. Tom rolled over and hit the scorpion soldier, who was going to hit Celestia, right in his gut. The scorpion soldier fell back, knocked out.
"One down, three to go", thought Tom as him and Celestia were surrounded. Celestia and Tom were back to back and they were surrounded by the three scorpion soldiers. The whole scene was all like dramatic and junk. Anyways, Celestia whispered something to Tom.
"You ready to kick some tail?", she whispered to Tom.
"Correction", said Tom, "You ready to kick three tails?"
Celestia chuckled, and then threw herself on top of the leader with a flying punch kick. The leader went down, and him and Celestia were beating the crap out of each other. Tom, however, attacked his culprits very nicely. He threw himself on top of the first scorpion, knocking the soldier down into the muck. That soldier was knocked out instantly. The other soldier, however, grabbed Tom. Tom threw himself back into the muck, practically knocking the air out of the scorpion soldier behind him. The soldier wasn't totally knocked out though, and so he grabbed Tom by whatever Tom's leg would be. Tom went down hard into the muck. The soldier then jumped onto Tom, but Tom was able to quickly throw him back. The scorpion soldier went down hard, and hit a bar. Tom thought he was knocked out.
Tom got up, brushing himself up. He was about to turn around and go help Celestia. That didn't happen, however.
"Don't move rock!", yelled the scorpion leader to Tom, "Or else your little princess gets it". Tom turned around to see that the leader guy had Celestia pinned against a sewer wall. The leader also had his huge pincers around Celestia's neck.
"You wouldn't kill her!", said Tom.
"Oh really?", said the scorpion leader, "and why not?".
"Because", said Tom, "Because then your boss would find out that you killed the princess. How would you explain that to him?"
"Ha ha ha", laughed the scorpion, "Listen rock, I could say that she has never been found. That she died. I could say anything I wanted. It's not like he would ever find out."
Tom knew the leader was right. He could easily kill Celestia and get away with it. Tom had to think and he had to think fast. It was at that moment, though, that Tom heard a buzzing sound. He mildly looked back, and saw that the scorpion soldier who had hit the bar was not knocked out. The soldier was pointing his pistol at Tom. The soldier then pulled the trigger. Tom dodged. The blast hit the leader scorpion dead in the chest. The leader was killed, and Tom rolled himself very quickly into the soldier who had fired the gun's chest. The soldier was knocked out instantly. Tom then went over to help Celestia.
"Princess!", Tom yelled, "Are you alright?"
"Yes *cough cough* yes... I'll be fine." answered Celestia.
Tom helped Celestia up, and walked with her back to where Celestia was hiding out. He helped Celestia recover from her injuries, and fed her. Tom let her sleep, and when Celestia awoke about five hours later, Tom asked her what had happened to her. Celestia then began to tell the story of what had happened while Tom was gone...