Church and Applejack arrived at the library to find that the door had been locked. Church knocked on the door and looked through the window.
"Twilight, you still here?" Church called out.
"Maybe she left t' go check on something." Applejack suggested.
"You think she would have left a note or something."
Church looked through the window once again and saw a note on the table.
"Looks like she did leave a note. It just happens t' be in th' wrong place." Applejack said.
"Why are you two out here?" Twilight asked as she came up from behind them.
"Well you seem to have locked us out." Church said.
Twilight walked up to the door and opened it. She turned to Church and raised her brow.
"Doesn't seem t' be locked no more." Applejack snickered.
"I could have sworn."
"Listen Church, do you mind waiting out here or going for a walk? I need to discuss with Applejack in private."
"Not a problem." Church said.
Church decided that rather sit on the grass he would go for a walk around Ponyville for a few minutes, and when he got back he saw Applejack leaving.
"Looks like I came back just in time." Church said.
"Ah guess ya did." Applejack laughed.
"What did Twilight need to talk to you about?"
"Oh just stuff." Applejack said as she broke eye contact. "See ya around Church."
"See you later." Church nodded and walked into the library.
"I'm glad you're getting along with the others." Twilight smiled.
"Why wouldn't I be? Your friends are... well better people than I've ever met."
"Why would you say that?"
"Well you guys aren't the lying slash killing types." Church chuckled.
"You're in a different world now." Twilight smiled.
Church thought about bringing up the fact that they were just in the Epsilon unit but decided not to.
"So what did you need to talk to Applejack about?" Church asked.
"She was just giving me some papers." Twilight said quietly.
"Papers? She didn't seem like the scholarly type to me. Then again I never really was a good judge of character. What did they say?"
"I don't think you would really be too interested in it." Twilight coughed awkwardly.
"That's okay, I'm used to having everybody I meet keep secrets from me."
"I'm sorry Church I would love to tell you but I am not allowed to."
"Listen you can just tell me you don't want to tell me, you don't have to say someone forbade you from doing so."
"I can tell you that it was Princess Celestia that didn't want me to tell you."
"Celestia? What does she have against me?" Church asked.
"That I do not know. Maybe it has something to do with you being from a different world."
"That would make sense." Church shrugged. "Oh well, if you can't tell me you can't tell me. I won't push the matter any further."
"Thank you." Twilight said happily.
"But if I were to push it further..." Church said jokingly.
"I would tell you no yet again." Twilight laughed.
"Damn. It was worth a shot. By the way Fluttershy may come by soon for you to check up on Grif again."
"Why would she do that?"
"Well if I'm right then Grif should be hospitalized right now."
"Hospitalized? Why would you think that?" Twilight asked stiffly.
"I'm not too sure on the details, but Applejack is having a competition with Sarge and they asked Grif to come up with something for them to test their mettle. Then Grif went out of his way to make Sarge lose a challenge and Applejack made Sarge escort Grif back home to settle their differences."
"That doesn't seem so..." Twilight trailed off as her mind processed this. "You really think it would be that bad?"
"From what I've seen Sarge loves pride more than anything else, so being essentially forced to lose wouldn't be his most favorite thing in the world. Most of the things he did when we were fighting each other - well I guess we kind of still are - but when we first started fighting, like before the whole freelancers thing"
"I see. Maybe we should go check on them..."
"Maybe we should." Church nodded.
Back in Cloudsdale, Tucker followed Score into the gym area where there were multiple stations set up.
"Alright here is the bench press, to the left is the leg press." Hoops said. "At the opposite end we have the trotmill and the chin up bar-"
"What does this have to do with pushing clouds?" Tucker asked.
"You have to keep in shape with this kind of job. You're flying for hours without letting up."
"Well then why isn't there anything here to work on your wings?"
"When you're flying you're not just relying on your wings, you need everything in working condition to be able to fly with precision." Score answered. "You're one of those grounders, aren't you?"
"What the hell is a grounder?"
"They're what we call the pegasi who ditch the skies and stick to the soil. It's a shame too, turning their backs on the most important ponies in Equestria. Without us pegasi the earth ponies crops would either flood or dry up and the unicorns would starve with them."
"Maybe they're like me and just thought flying isn't exactly something I thought I would be doing for a living."
"Well all that matters is that you're back to the clouds where you belong." Dumb-Bell laughed.
"Enough with the talking, get your flanks in gear." Inclement Storm called out from the other room.
"Man that guy seems like a dick." Tucker muttered.
"He kind of is, but he keeps everypony under control and makes sure they don't do anything stupid."
"And here I thought pushing clouds was going to be easy..." Tucker muttered. "Alright, what are we going to do first?"
"Pick a station and work on it until you drop." Score said as he ran up to the chin up bar.
"I got the dumbbells." Dumb-Bell said, running to the dumbbells.
"I got the bench press." Hoops said.
"I should have just stayed and slept in." Tucker muttered.