The Little Pony Legend: A Kingdom of Friendship

by MaggiesHeartLove

Princess Bolin

Bolin still couldn't believe it! He was actually attending the Gran Equestria Summit with the alicorns, Asami and Jinora. Pony delegates from all over Equestria arrived at Canterlot castle for the event, from the Crystal Empire to even Griffonstone. But it wasn't just them. Humans and even spirits attended as well. There were delegates from across the earth kingdom, Queen Hou-Ting's right hand woman, Kuvira was present. Representatives from the fire nation and the water tribe as well and Asami was the delegate from Republic City, being the city's most famous industrialist and who helped built most of the new roads. Jinora was the delegate for the Air Nation, being the youngest there but still wise beyond her years to do so. As always, Bolin was eager to to be here, especially if he could help in any way he possibly could.
He stood alongside Spike and the rest of the alicorns, who stood at the very top of the staircase. The delegates were eager not only to see them but for the unavailing of a very large statue in the ballroom, which was covered in a long white sheet. Fanfare sounded off and Leilani walked out alongside her daughters.
"Welcome to the Grand Equestria Summit!" she said in her most dignified but modest tone of voice that only Leilani herself could pull off. Alongside her were her daughters, Cadance, Twilight and Korra. The crowd cheered for their beautiful royals.
"You delegates have traveled far and wide to represent your cities and nations as we seek to celebrate and learn from all the unique places that make up our wonderful home worlds. At tonight's welcome reception, Princess Cadance will dedicate this beautiful friendship statue made up of gemstones from each of your home cities."
Using her magic, Leilani removed the sheet to reveal the most stunning form of a pony, decorated with all sorts of gemstones, each representing a different city, country and nation of the three worlds. It was truly a stunning sight, Spike couldn't help but lick his lips. He just loved gemstones, the rubies tasted the best. However, he needed to keep him composure, this statue was not for eating.
"Now I'd like to turn things over to the ones who organized the summit: Princess Twilight Sparkle and Princess Avatar Korra!"
Before the two could step forward, Korra drank the last bit of her coffee before handing the now empty cup to Bolin. Twilight did the same with hers. The two had been up for many nights organizing the summit. They got most of the work done faster by working together, and with the help of some coffee, but Korra made sure for Twilight not to use more than she could handle. She insisted she use decaf.
Now with more energy the two addressed to the crowd, with Twilight speaking first. "Thank you, everypony. With delegates from over fifty cities and four nations attending three days of conferences, receptions, and meetings, this is the largest Grand Equestria Pony Summit yet. And let me tell you, putting it all together has led to more than one sleepless night."
Korra placed her hand over Twilight's pony head and continued next, "We're so excited to have you all here and to learn more about life all across this great land and beyond."
The crowd cheered, stomping their hooves and clapping their hands, or the transparent ones of the spirits. Bolin gently poked Korra's shoulder, getting her attention. "And now my good friend Bolin would like to say a few words."
The earthbender step forward with a broody smile on his face, his hand on his chest, trying to look regal, and winked at his girlfriend from the audience, who winked back. Bolin cleared his throat, "Um, hello, everybody! I'm here to help any way I can. So if there's anything I can do for any of you—"
"We love you, Princess Korra!" one of the ponies in the crowd cheered.
"We love all the princesses!"
"And our queen!"
The crowd cheered once more for their beautifully perfect royals, while Bolin awkwardly slid back into the background, dropping his shoulders in disappointment. "I guess everybody loves a princess."

The next morning, Spike was organizing Twilight's books in her temporary room at Canterlot, while Bolin, dejectedly, assisted. The dragon could smell his disappointment from a mile away.
"Aw, cheer up, Bolin! It wasn't so bad."
"Easy for you to say, Spike. You're an official royal assistant to a princess, not to mention a hero to the Crystal Empire."
"Come on, you're exaggerating."
"Ten crystal ponies asked for your autograph before we got here!"
Spike's ears lowered, "Okay, maybe I'm not the best example."
Bolin sighed as he sat down on the floor in a lotus position. "It's not like it matters, I'm always the odd guy out."
Spike placed the books down on the bed and consoled his friend, "No you're not, Bolin. You're an important part of Team Avatar!"
"Yeah, nobody can crack up jokes like I can." he said in disappointed sarcasm.
"You know that's not what I meant."
"I know. Just once I'd like to feel like I'm contributing to society too. Korra and Twilight are princesses, Mako and Flash are royal cops, Asami's an industrialist, you're royal assistant, everybody's got an import job but me."
"Well, who knows, maybe the universe will point you in the right direction." the dragon said optimistically. The two were startled by a knock at the door. Spike walked up to answer it, only to accidentally get slammed by it once both Korra and Asami entered the room, all both looking frantic and worried.
"Bolin!"
The little dragon slid to the floor and a stack of books from the shelf landed on him, while the earthbender stood to face the two.
"Hey, what's going on?"
"We got a big problem!" Asami said before looking around the room, "Where's Spike?"
"A little help?" Spike's muffled voice was heard among the books while he stuck out his claw. Using her magic, Korra levitated him upwards.
"Boys, we need you!"
Hearing this, Bolin and Spike stood up straight and saluted, ready to assist. "Of course! What can we do?" Bolin asked in a soldier's tone.
Korra pointed her thumb to the door as it opened, and in walked a very sleepy, and very, very exhausted looking Twilight Sparkle. She had bangs under her eyes, her hair was a mess, and he could already smell her morning breath, mixed with a bit of coffee, but not the decaf kind unfortunately. She wobbled as she walked and she couldn't keep her eyes open.
Spike winced at the sight of her, "Whoa, what happened to you?"
Twilight groaned tiredly, "I'm sorry, Spike. I just…" she yawned, "…need a quick... nap." she wobbled back, resting on the pile of books as if it were a bed. She was delirious as well, "Napkin! Tell the delegates I'll…" she trailed off before falling asleep.
"She's been awake three straight days preparing for the summit!" Korra stated. "We need to make sure she gets some rest today."
"Wait, hold up." Bolin interrupted, "If you've both been working on this together, why aren't you tired?"
Korra blushed and fiddled nervously with her hair, "I…may have dozed off last night. And Twilight, being Twilight, must have taken up the rest of the work by herself."
Bolin placed his hands over his heart, "Awwww, that's actually kinda sweet of her."
"Yeah, but now she'll never be able to attend the welcome reception in this condition and I've still got my own work to do today."
Asami placed a hand on her boyfriend's shoulder, "Bolin, can we count on you and Spike to make sure she isn't disturbed?"
It may not have been the most extravagant request anyone has ever asked of him, but he would do it anyway for his friends. He and Spike saluted.
"We promise!"
"We won't let you down!" Spike added.
Korra gently took the sleeping alicorn and placed her onto the bed, wrapping the blanket over her body. She tried to get herself up but Korra gently stroked her mane and she went back to sleep.
"Get some rest, you've done enough already." Korra kissed the pony's head before magically closing the curtains to darken the room. "Don't let anybody else in until she wakes up." she whispered to the two boys.
The three gently walked out of the room, leaving Bolin and Spike to watch over the sleeping princess.

Twilight slept soundly, snoring the cutest little snore, while Bolin and Spike marched inside the room, both holding telescopes over their shoulders. Spike looked out the window to see if there was any trouble. So far, all her saw was a female unicorn pushing a baby stroller, a male unicorn drinking some coffee, and…a pony mime. Spike turned to Bolin, "Nothing to report, sir."
"Perfect. I call that an unqualified success." Bolin smiled proudly until the sound of loud chirping was heard. They both looked through the telescope and spotted a bird on top of one of the castle towers, singing rather loudly despite the distance.
"Not on my watch." Spike jumped out the window and climbed up to the tower in hopes of talking the bird to be silent. "Uh, excuse me? Can you keep it down a little?"
But instead of complying, the bird flew off…right into Twilight's room!
"Oh, no!"
The bird landed on Twilight's horn and continued to sing. Bolin pulled on his hair frantically before telling the bird to shush. "Please, be quiet." he whispered, but the bird did not obey. "I'll give you birdseed! Worms! Anything! Just please stop singing before you wake the princess!"
The bird stopped and looked down at Twilight. She had no idea it was a princess. The bird bowed in respect and flew away out the window just when Spike arrived, only to find the bird gone.
"Where'd the bird go?"
"I took care of it."
"How?"
"I just asked her to stop before she woke the princess and it worked."
Even Spikes was impressed, "Huh. I can't believe it."
"Well, looks like nothing but smooth sailing." but Bolin was just about to be proven wrong.
The two boys heard incredibly loud cheering coming from down bellow, where various ponies were having a polo game, while shouting. Twilight started to groan and turn in her sheets. If the noise did not stop she would be startled awake and never get back to sleep.
"Spike, you stay here and make sure she doesn't wake up." Bolin rushed out the door to try and stop the game, or at least tell them to be silent.
The unicorn hit the polo ball only to have Bolin catch it, much to the pony's surprise that he dropped his polo stick.
The young man was now surrounded by a heard of angry polo playing ponies. He scratched the back of his neck, "Uh, hi fellas. Sorry to break up your game, but there's sort of an important diplomatic summit kind of thingy going on, and it involves a princess needing to sleep, and, uh... maybe you could move your game somewhere else?…Please?"
The ponies all looked at one another before looking back at him. "Did you say the princess?" one asked.
Bolin gulped once more, "Yep."
"Well, why didn't you just say so? Come on fellas, let's take our game out to the country. More room for us there." the ponies all politely complied and happily trotted off with their sticks and polo balls. Bolin was very surprised by this.
"Uh, okay. The princess thanks you for your understanding! Wow. That's twice in the same hour. I'm on a roll!"
His victory was cut short when he heard the sound of a chainsaw buzzing. A green colored pegasus pony was cutting down the branches of a tree of very beautiful red lotus flower-like plants. This noise would wake up Twilight for sure.
Bolin walked up to him and placed his hands near his mouth to speak with him, "Uh, Excuse me. Do you have to do this right now?"
The pegasus pony briefly stopped. "Uh, these are too top-heavy. Wouldn't take much to bring these beauties down."
"Can't you just wait a few hours?"
"Sorry, it's a public hazard. I got my orders."
"Well, I've got my orders too from Princess Twilight and--"
"Princess Twilight? Why didn't you say so? Gee, I reckon they'll keep a few more hours." the pony kindly walk away, leaving Bolin even more amazed by this.
"Huh. Good thing I've got the princesses on my side."
Suddenly, the ground began to shake and Bolin released vibrating yelps, literally felling his body jump up and down rapidly at the sound of a jackhammer rattling. He was moved towards where the sound came from and saw it was a worker unicorn repairing a water main.
"Aw, come on! Excuse me?" Bolin had to result to shouting, "Excuse me, sir! I really need you to—" he didn't realize the jackhammer stopped, "—stop right now!...Oops."
"Lemme guess, the noise?" the pony asked loudly, "Sorry, but we can't have a broken water main!" he gestured to the maine in the crater before him, which really was broken with drops of water dripping out from it.
"You couldn't do this yesterday?!"
"Hey, pal, I'm just tryin' to make sure everything runs smooth for the summit!"
"But there is no summit without Princess Twilight, and she needs things to be kept quiet around here. So if you don't mind, I'd—"
"Alright, alright, if that's how she wants it!" the pony was about to walk away but then used his magic to pull Bolin by the collar of his shirt down to his level and narrowed his eyes at him, "But if something happens, it ain't my fault!"
Once the pony released Bolin and left he looked around to find that there was no more sound aside from the soft gentle sound of the water. He did it, he actually managed to get peace and quiet so Twilight could sleep, and if Twilight could sleep then that would mean the summit will go on as planned. All thanks to him.

Bolin gently opened the doors of Twilight's room to where Spike was still keeping watch. The little dragon quickly ran out and the two spoke outside.
"So, is everything okay?"
"Oh yeah." Bolin said proudly and started numbering what he did using his fingers. "I got some polo ponies to move their game somewhere else, got another pony to stop cutting down trees with his chainsaw, and another pony with a jackhammer." he stretched his arms, placing them behind his head. "Yep. I'd say everything's going to be A-okay! Oh, and I found these really pretty flowers for Asami." Bolin took out a bouquet of the same flowers from the tree he found. But once Spike saw them, his nose started to twitch, his eyes red and teary and he started to sneeze.
"Ah…ah…aaaaaa--choo!" Spike released a puff of green fire from his mouth. "Oh, no! Bolin, those are dragon-sneezes!" he was just about to sneeze once more until Bolin stopped him by covering the nose and throwing the flowers away.
"No need to explain what they do." he said, "It's fine, I'll just get her some tulips instead."
Spike's nose cleared up almost instantaneously and poked into the room, relieved to see that Twilight was still asleep. He sighed in relief. "Well, this is good. Princess Twilight will be rested, Korra and Asami will be proud, I think this calls for a reward." he took out a bowl of dumplings for them to share.
Bolin sat down, happily taking one. "Don't mind if I do!"
Just as they were about to enjoy their snack they heard two ponies coming up the stairs, arguing with one another. So much for their little break. The two placed the bowl aside and addressed to the two ponies.
They were the Manehattan Whinnyapolis Delegates. The Manehattan one was male, large with a tan colored coat and dark hair with green eyes, wearing a suite and a pizza cutie mark. The Whinnyapolis was female pony with rosy eyes, blond mane and tail wearing a brown winter hat and jacket with a coffee cup cutie mark.
"Uh, hi. Can we help you?" Spike asked.
The Whinnyapolis delegate spike first in a strong Wisconsin accent, "My friend here, the distinguished pony from up Manehattan, and I are in a bit of a pickle, and we need the Princess Twilight to resolve it."
"Uh, can you talk a little quieter?" Spike asked politely.
"And maybe come back later?" Bolin asked, "Like say…an hour or so?"
"Oh, sure now, gosh, I wish we could but, uh, we're both supposed to give speeches about our local economies in five minutes, and we've been booked in the same hall!"
"I had the room first." said the Manehattan delegate in a thick new york accent, "And let's be honest, my speech is more important."
The Whinnyapolis delegate rolled her eyes, "Point of order there, sir, but I think you'll find that my speech is the more important one, don't'cha know?"
The Manehattan delegate gestured to the two boys, "Look, youse is gonna have a lot of unhappy delegates on your hooves unless we get a ruling from Princess Twilight right now!"
The two delegates were not the only ones in a pickle. Bolin and Spike couldn't wake Twilight up, but what other choice could they make. Spike whispered up to Bolin, "Any ideas?"
"Me?!" Bolin whispered back, "Why don't you come up with something?"
It was only fair, Bolin did his part, now it was Spike's. The dragon sighed, "Lemme see what I can do."
He opened the door to find Twilight still asleep. He quietly walked up to her, internally debating wether or not he should wake her up. He squealed once Twilight sat up, but only barely with her eyes open.
"Does something need scheduling?" she asked, half asleep.
"Oh, uh, yeah. Two delegates have speeches booked in the same hall. What do I do?"
Twilight yawned, "Okay, no problem. Just put the hay in the apple and eat the candle, hm?" Twilight yawned once more before dozing off. This was not going to help.
The dragon called out to Bolin from the door, "Psst! Bo."
"What you got?"
"No dice. Twilight can't even think straight! What are we supposed to do?!"
The two delegates were already getting impatient. "Well? What did she say?" the male pony asked, "She picked me, right?"
"Hey, hey, hey. Let's not be too hasty there, good sir. I got a feeling she went with me."
"He-hey, if she didn't pick me, it ain't hard to see that as an insult to all of Manehattan! You know what I'm saying'?"
"And it'd sure be a shame to see something like a scheduling issue create a nasty old rift between Whinnyapolis and Ponyville."
The two boys were literally sweating up a river. They had to come up with something, but what? Bolin fiddled with his fingers, trying to figure out a way out of this.
"Um, could you excuse us for just one more second?" the earthbender dashed inside while taking the dragon with him. "Okay, okay, let's think for a second. What would Twilight or Korra do?"
"Well, first they'd be all sweet and nice giving friendship speeches and if that doesn't work they give a very stern talking to." Spike said.
"And if that doesn't work?" Bolin asked.
"Normally somebody ends up with a black eye. But, we're not Korra. Or Twilight."
"No, we're not." then, Bolin got an idea. A very, very, very risky idea. "But they don't know that."
"Hu?"
"Just play along my little dragon friend, Nuttuk is here to save the day."
The two exited the room, the little dragon twisted his tail nervously as the two delegates eyed at them both impatiently.
"So? What did the Princess say?"
Bolin cleated his throat and put his acting skills to good use. "You see, Princess Twilight believes it would be more fair for the two of you and your cities if you both would…share the hall with one another?"
Spike was literally jaw dropped that a fly flew into his mouth and he chocked, pounding his chest to get the insect out.
The two ponies were silent for a few moments until the male spoke up. "If that's what the princess wants, what are ya gonna do?" he shook hooves with his companion, setting aside their differences.
"The princess is always right!"
The two ponies, now on much more friendly terms with one another, left the two boys who sighed in relief.
"I can't believe that worked." said Spike.
"I told you I had this covered. Now, back to more important things!" he pulled out the bowl of dumplings again and the two started chewing.
Things were looking up.

After eating their rewards, the two boys lazily sat in front of the doors, just soaking up the good life, until another pony delegate walked up to them, starling them awake. The pony was blue from head to tail, with a mustache and red tie.
"Combining those two talks was a disaster! The hall was overcrowded and the speakers just shouted over each other!"
"Huh? B-but—"
"Why would the princess have made such a decision?!"
Spike narrowed his eyes at Bolin, who smiled nervously. More annoyed chatter was heard as more and more delegates walked up the stairs. Bolin really did stir up some trouble. And worse, they couldn't let Twilight wake up.
"Uh, by order of Princess Twilight, be quiet!" Bolin's yell echoed out, much to his surprise. He wasn't making the situation any better.
One of the delegates, a pegasus named Fluffy Clouds, stood before them with tears in his eyes. "I was really looking forward to the "Don't Spend All Your Yuans" Speech, but when I went into the hall, a pony had taken my seat. A pony who used to be my friend!"
Bolin arched an eyebrow, "Your friend took your seat? Hah, big deal! Why don't you just—"
"No offense, but I don't need some random human boy's opinion. I-I want to hear what Princess Twilight thinks."
The dragon huffed at the insult until Bolin spoke up, "Let me have a word with the princess." he walked inside for a brief moment before walking back out. "The princess says no friendship should end over a seat. You should forgive your friend!"
Fluffy Clouds gasped in realization, "Of course! Oh, the princess is so wise!"
Seeing how happy he was, all of the other delegates wanted to hear from the princess. Spike then got an idea, since Bolin wanted so badly to feel he was contributing to something he decided to help up. He stepped forward, easing the anxious crowd.
"Everybody, easy. Any questions you have you can ask Bolin. The princess has appointed him to speak for her while she works."
"Yeah. Wait, what?"
"And me, Spike the dragon, his assistant for the day."
Bolin smiled nervously and squatted to Spike's level, "Spike, what are you doing?" he whispered.
"We can tell these delegates anything as long as they think it came from Twilight. You did say you wanted to feel important, well now's your chance."
Bolin pondered on this for a moment. He would be helping his friends, and he would be doing something for these ponies. After all, who knew Twilight as well as they did? He smiled and rubbed his hands, ready to get to work.
"Alright! Who's next?"

For the rest of the day, with Spike using a clipboard, he and Bolin attended to anybody who came to ask them for advice from the princess. Every time somebody or somepony asked them a question, Bolin would walk inside the room, pretending to speak with Twilight, and give them either her seal of approval or polite rejection. So far, all the choices he made were fair. He thought hard on what they asked for and made sure everything would work smoothly. If something wasn't going to go right he would decline it.
Spike was very impressed, he had never seen such a natural at work. Bolin was a people person and he had the charisma to back him up. Spike even got his moment to shine as well, giving Bolin advice if he was stumped. They were both feeling great, Spike loved to be an assistant while Bolin loved feeling important and having people care about his opinions and seeing them have an impact.
With every new pony he assisted, Bolin's confidence grew and grew. Their final delegate of the day was non other than Fancy Pants himself from Canterlot. The unicorn was tall, white as snow with a mane and tail styled to perfection wearing an expensive suite and pentacle on his left eye.
"So, how can Princess Twilight be of service?" Bolin asked the unicorn.
"Well, as host city, the Canterlot delegation feels it's only right that we should get passes to every meeting and party, yes?"
"Well, that doesn't seem fair—" Bolin cleared his throat, "I mean, Princess Twilight doesn't think that seems fair."
"Ehhh… yes, yes, very well. It was worth a try though, wasn't it, old chap, hm?" despite his rich demeanor, Fancy Pants was still a colt of honor and manners, if something didn't go his way he accepted it with dignity.
Bolin couldn't help but pound his fist together in victory. "This is great! We just took care of a whole bunch of stuff that Twilight won't have to worry about when she wakes up! Wonder if anybody else needs the princess's help?"
"I think we've done enough today, Bolin."
"Oh! I know! Why don't you go inside and get Twilight's to-do list. If we check a few of those off of her schedule, then when she wakes up, she won't have to think about anything but the reception."
Spike pondered, "You make a good point."
"Of course I do. Now go on." he gently shoved the dragon inside and he took the list from the table. Now it was time to get to work.

As the two walked down the streets of Canterlot, Spike went over the list. Bolin was also receiving a lot of praise from various delegates he had already helped.
"Great advice, Bolin!"
"Lookin' good, buddy!"
"Thanks again!"
"The princess sure if lucky to have ya!"
The young man never felt more pride in his life. Before he would get praise because of his sport skills or acting, now he was getting praise for being smart. It was a feeling unlike anything he had ever felt. This must be how it was to be important.
"There's a lot to go over on this." said the little dragon, "Maybe if we split up we can get more done faster. Bolin? You listening?"
The earthbender was in his own world that he almost canceled the little dragon out, "Hu? Oh, yeah, great idea. Listen, why don't I take the list from here?" he snatched the paper from Spike and read the list of things to do. "I can finish half of this in no time!"
"Don't you mean we?"
"Oh. Yeah, of course."
But Spike was already beginning to worry about his friend, "I'll take half off the top and you take the rest down bellow."
Spike looked at the list and frowned, "I guess that's fair."
"Great! good luck, little buddy! Duty calls!" Bolin nuggied Spike's head before walking in the opposite direction and Spike, dejectedly, got back to work.

Bolin approached a female, nerdy looking pony sitting at an outside cafe, drinking a mocha. He waved at her, "Hi! Says here you have a meeting with Princess Twilight?"
"Uh, yuppers. She wanted me to prep her on all the different gemstones in the Citizens of Equestria statue before the reception tonight." she placed a diagram of the statue and the different stones onto the table.
"Okay, go ahead."
The nerdy delegate arched an eyebrow, "Um, well, I'd rather, um, tell the princess directly." she said.
"Well, if it helps, you can call me 'Princess Bolin'." he noticed the pony was about to leave, "No-no-no, it's alright. The princess asked me to take care of a few things for her. That's why I came to find you."
"Um, if you say so."
"The princess says so!"
"Uh, okay. Let's start with topaz…"

The unicorn worker from before bit on an apple while waiting for somepony to arrive.
"I'm here for your two o'clock!" said Spike once he arrived.
"You?! But I'm supposed to be briefing Princess Twilight on the progress with the water main!"
"I speak for the Princess."
"Uh, well, uh, can I start fixing it again? I'm getting a little worried, to be honest." the pony looked down at the water main, which was actually looking worse than before. Spike had to agree that this did needed to be fixed, but before he could answer, Bolin interrupted him once he came over.
"Actually, Twilight still needs her rest, and her no-noise policy is still in effect for a few more hours. Sorry."
Spike tugged onto his pants, "Uh, Bo, I really think he should fix it. It doesn't look too good."
Bolin simply smiled with confidence, "Relax, Spike. He'll work on it the second Twilight waves up. No biggie."
The boys were then startled when Asami walked up to them. "Hey, guys." Asami greeted, her voice sounding rather concerned. "What's going on?"
Bolin rubbed his knuckles on his chest then inspected his nails like the confident one he was, "Oh, you know, just settin' 'em up and knockin' 'em down!"
"What do you mean?" Asami asked with concern.
"Not only have I kept things quiet so Twilight could sleep, I also took care of all her afternoon meetings so she won't have to worry about them when she wakes up."
Spike's eyes widened at this, "Hey! I helped out too, you know!"
"Oh, yeah, Spike helped too."
"Are you sure she would want you doing that?" Asami asked, "There are so many things to keep track of at this summit."
Bolin waved his hand without a care, "Nah, don't worry. I got it covered. I know Twilight so well, it's easy to make decisions like her!"
Asami arched an eyebrow, "Well, I'm glad you're keeping Twilight's stress level down. As long as that's the real reason you're doing it."
"Well, why else would I be doing it?"
Asami placed a hand on his shoulder, gazing at him with concerned eyes, "You're not enjoying speaking for Twilight a little bit?"
The boy scoffed, "Enjoying it? Ha! No way!"
"Bolin, I know how good it can feel to have people appreciate your work, but you shouldn't let it go to your head."
"Asami, baby, relax, kiss--" he kissed her on the cheek, "--everything's fine. The only things I'm doing by order of the princess are for the good of the summit."
Asami really wanted to trust him but her instincts would not let her stay at ease. Still, she gave him the benefit of the doubt before walking off to the rest of the delegates.
"You're not letting this go to your head, right?" Spike asked him suspiciously.
"Of course not!" he then stretched his arms, feeling a crack on his neck. "Though, this princess business really isn't a walk in the park." then, he got another idea. If he could get delegates to listen to him if he knew Twilight…
What else could he do?

He had already done what needed to be done, now it was time to enjoy the perks of it. He got himself a massage, free deserts, and even got a pony to pain an exaggerative portrait of himself. Every time they asked him if he could, or if he could pay, he always replied with.
"By order of the princess."
"By order of the princess!"
"By order of the princess…!"
All the while Spike watched from the sidelines. This was exactly what he was afraid of. But if the earthbender wouldn't listen to him, maybe he will listen to somebody else.
Somebody who could knock some sense into him.

In the ballroom, Bolin lounged in a chair, chewing on some dumplings. "Princess life is good!"
"It sure is."
Bolin automatically screamed in terror and practically fell off of the chair. Standing before him was non other than Korra, Spike…and Asami. All eyeing him with crossed arms.
"Korra! And Asami! Hey, honey." he waved, trying to act innocent.
"Enjoying the perks of royalty, Bo?" Korra said sternly.
"Eh, it's not so bad."
His girlfriend spoke next, "Bolin, I'm concerned you might be abusing your relationship with Twilight."
"What are you talking about? I'm a great princess—I mean, Twilight's a great princess! And I've been working hard to help her! When two delegates had a falling out, I'm the one who fixed their friendship! I listened to that pony drone on about gems for forty-five minutes so Twilight wouldn't have to! I moved a polo match away from the tower so she could sleep! I'm a decision-making master!"
But judging by the looks on his friends' faces, they did not agree. Somehow, seeing Korra, a person he admired so much, greatly disappointed in him, his girlfriend unsure if she should believe him, and his littler dragon friend, who he had been starting to neglect after he tried his best to help him, the earthbender finally came back to his senses. He lowered his head in shame.
"Okay. So maybe I did get a little carried away making decisions. I guess I just liked the fact that people were actually starting to see me more as somebody who could help instead of some comic relief guy or a famous mover star. I felt…important."
Asami surprised him with a tender loving hug. "You are important. You don't have to be high on the social scale for people to listen to you. They'll listen if you're honest."
Bolin knew he could always count on Asami to be there for him, even when he messes up. "Thanks, Asami. And I'm sorry for pushing you away like that Spike."
The little dragon smiled, "It's okay. Besides, it's not like anything really bad happened."
Right after the words left his mouth, the polo ponies hit the ball which then flew out, hitting the dragon-sneeze trees, causing them to tumble down like a line of dominos and one landed on the water main, finally breaking it and releasing the large portion of water which aimed at one of the crystal glass windows of the ballroom.
The water flooded the entire room, wiping away the tables, banners, chairs, even the group of friends. This was witnessed by Princes Cadance who flew into the room, shocked to see it flooded. Korra, Bolin and Asami managed to climb up onto the stage, all soaked, while Spike was on an upside-down floating table.
"This is unexpected!"
"What happened?!" Cadance asked.
Bolin cringed, "I guess we should have had that main fixed after all, hu?"
The two girls narrowed their eyes at him, but there was no time to get mad. Korra turned to her fellow alicorn. "Cadance, go shut off the main! I'll get rid of the water!"
Cadance flew out and Korra took her stance, the star on her forehead started to glow as she rose her hands up, the waters obeying her command. As she rose them up, she magical caused them to disappear in a display of frozen sparkles.
Outside, Cadance used her magic to shield off the broken main by forming crystalized stones around it. The water stopped poring which was good news for Korra who had just finished vaporizing the rest of the water. She sighed in relief, even though the room was a mess at least the water was gone.
Spike walked up to the tall statue for the summit. "At least the statue's okay." but he spoke too soon, for his eyes began to water and his nose was now stuffy. On the floor were petals of the dragon sneeze flowers, and more scattered across the room.
"Oh. Oh, no. Oh, no!"
He was about to sneeze, before anybody could stop him, it was too late. His green fire caused the whole statue to break apart!
The group of friends gasped in horror at the sight, the statue was broken, the room was a mess, and to make matters worse, the delegates came into the room. Fancy Pants gasped.
"Oh, my! What is the meaning of this?!"
This was not good and Bolin knew that this was all his doing. "Well, uh, you see, there was this polo game, and—"
Fancy Pants turned to the worker pony, "How could you let a water main burst on Canterlot's most important day?!"
"Hey, don't look at me! Princess Twilight said to stop working on it!"
Fancy Pants turned to the green pegasus, "Well, what about these trees?! I ordered them trimmed to avoid just such a situation!"
"But the princess told me to stop, bub!"
"Why would the princess make such horrible decisions?! This all could have been prevented!"
Bolin stepped forward, trying to take responsibility for his actions, "Please, everybody, listen! I'm so sorry all this happened!"
"What are you apologizing for?" asked Fancy Pants, "These were Princess Twilight's awful decisions!"
"I'm about to blow my stack on Princess Twilight, I'll tell you that for nothin'! said the Whinnyapolis delegate
"Yeah, me too!", The Manehattan delegate agreed.
"I'll not let Princess Twilight give Canterlot a bad name in the eyes of Equestria!" said Fancy Pants, "Come on, everypony! Let's go give her a piece of our minds!"
"HOLD IT!"
Everypony in the room stopped their arguing once Princess Korra flew up, speaking to all of them with he powerful voice.
"Everything will be resolved if you would all stay still and listen to what needs to be said! Understood?"
They all nodded their heads in yes and Korra gently lowered down, now completely calm. "Thank you. Now, there is absolutely no need to turn into an angry mob scene."
"With all respect, princess." said Fancy Pants, "but you are not at fault here, Princess Twilight--"
"--Did not make any of those decisions."
The crowd murmured to one another in confusion. Korra turned to Bolin, gesturing for him to confess the truth.
"I did." he finally confessed. "You see, I---"
"Hey everybody!" all eyes turned towards the door, where a well rested Twilight walked in, stretching her legs, "I haven't slept like that since I was filly---ay-ai-ai! What happened?!"
But she was not alone, Mako and Flash Sentry accompanied her as well. "Looks like a flood went through here." said the firebender.
Spike turned towards the camera, "I've been wondering where they've been all episode."
"We went to check up on Twilight but she was already up." said Flash, his eyes still scanning the place before addressing to the firebender, "See? This is what happens when you're out of the loop!"
Fancy Pants approached the princess, "Princess Twilight Sparkle, we demand an explanation for all of this! Where have you been while all of this was happening?"
Twilight looked over at her friends, "Guys, what's going on?"
Bolin still stood up front, "Um... you needed to sleep. And Korra said you couldn't be disturbed. And there was this bird, and, well... long story short, I made a few decisions on your behalf."
"A few decisions?!" the alicorn exclaimed, already growing angry with what happened.
"Well, maybe more than a few, but I had good intentions! Honest!" he took notice of all the glares he received, and the extra from Cadance who just entered. "Until I... didn't anymore. I'm sorry, Twilight. I guess I got a little carried away. It-it just felt so good to have folks caring about my opinions on such important stuff. I guess I was just enjoying feeling like a princess."
Korra placed a hand over his shoulder, "Well, Bolin, one of the most important things a princess can do is realize when she's made a mistake and fix it."
"How do I do that?"
"You could start with them." Twilight gestured to the rest of the delegates, who were all waiting for an apology for what Bolin allowed to happen.
Bolin sighed, "Yeah, that figures." he walked up to the stage and spoke to the crowd, who all listened to him attentively. "Uh, hi there, everybody. So I guess I owe you all a pretty big apology. It's funny. Here we are at a summit that brings together ponies, humans and spirits from three different worlds, and all I could think about was myself. You all came here to celebrate the things that make each of our homes so unique and special." he sadly gazed down at a single sapphire jewel, looking down at his reflection in regret, "But instead of getting into the spirit of things like all of you, I used my friend's position to make myself feel good. I can't expect you all to forgive me but, I hope you can at least give me a chance to make it up to you."
The young earthbender startled the crowd once he started picking up all of the gems and tried to put the statue back together. It was a sweet gesture, but also rather sad seeing it collapse every time he tried to place it back together.
Asami stepped forward and took the amethyst stone that represented Republic City and placed it in its rightful place, where it remained. He smiled in gratitude, only to be surprised when the rest of his friends started to help him as well.
"You guys don't have to do this."
"We know." said Spike, right before helping with the building of the statue. Seeing this gesture made the other delegates reconsider their feelings towards the boy. Bolin reached for a ruby when it was surrounded with a golden aura, curtesy of Fancy Pants.
"The Canterlot ruby goes here, old sport."
The Whinnyapolis delegate placed their gem as well, "And ours goes here, don't'cha know?"
Every pony, human and spirit gathered together to reconstruct the statue back to its rightful glory. One by one, the gems were placed in their rightful spots, like connecting pieces of a puzzle together. It was truly a wondrous moment. From a few steps away, Kuvira watched the scene unfold before her eyes and smiled, quite impressed by the young man's spirit and ability to get others to work together as one. Once all of the gems were placed, the statue now stood even brighter than it did before.
"Does this mean you forgive me?" Bolin asked hopefully.
The Manehattan delegate smiled, "Sure! You know, the whole idea of the statue is that when each of us plays our own small part, it adds up to somethin' great."
"Just like each city and nation make all of our homes so beautiful and amazing!" said a little yellow spirit with levees on its head.
Princess Cadance addressed to the crowd, which gazed up at the stunning statue, "I hereby dedicate the Citizens of Harmony statue to everybody who plays their part, no matter how big or how small!"
The audience cheered for Bolin, not only for his courage to take responsibility for his mistakes, but for reminding them all what the Equestria summit was really all about. Asami hugged him and kissed him on the cheek, feeling immense pride for what he did.
"Guess you're not such a bad princess after all."
Bolin blushed at the compliment when one of the delegates from the earth kingdom game Bolin a bouquet of flowers. But, sadly, they were dragon sneezes. Spike's eyes started to water again.
"Aw, come on! Ah--ah--aaaaaaaahhhh-CHOO!!"
Thankfully, his fire didn't destroy the statue again, for Bolin stepped in between the line of fire and was scorched by the green flames. Luckily, Spike's flames weren't fatal but he still got burned. His hair was a mess and his face and cloths were now black.
"Guess it's true what they say. Play with fire, you get burned."
The entire ballroom bursted with laughter…and so did Bolin.