Meeting the Cast
Extended Holiday
Chp 5: Meeting the Cast
Act 1
“Sister, why drag me away? We, we have been hoodwinked, Taken in by honey words and,” Celestia held up a wing to silence her sister.
"Yes Luna, I knew that they were having holes in their story right away, One is not as old as I ruling without telling when something is being covered up, but I fear it is we who carry most of the blame, imagine if you would, dressing up for pretend only to end up in a world that thought you were really who you were. Now, would you cause more mayhem and harm to your own self by revealing your deception? Or play along and hope that your story stays intact."
Luna only blushed a little at her sister's wise words. "I see truth in what you speak sister, we will have to swallow our own pride, and play along as much as they will have to play along with what we have given them. But shall we tell that we know of their masquerade?"
Celestia only smiled a little. "What? Miss our chance to prank three aliens in our world? It would be like when we were younger."
Luna only smiled, "Yes, oh yes I remember." She replied with a smile. "Reminds me of that one time with Star Swirl." Luna smiled as she cut herself off with her own laughter at the long ago memory.
A few days had gone by, on the second, they got news that a royal wedding was going to take place at the castle, which explained the quantity of ponies inside the castle. On the third, Matthews light armor had been checked on and finished, he had finally decided on something in homage to the US Army and gone with a pure yellow color of his mark. Or as he would call it the Great Seal of the United States, the only set left to be finished was Shawns.
With a sigh Shawn rubbed his eyes, looking out their window into the darkness just before dawn. Glancing at one of the clocks it read around six in the morning. He grumbled to himself, his face scrunching up in light frustration. Things were off, they had gone to dinner with the Princesses for the past few days and had gotten to meet several nobles and in fact, the one to be wed, Princess Mi Amore Cadenza.
She seemed a bit off when they had met, but everyone seemed to push it off on wedding jitters. But something kept going on in his head, something was wrong, he could feel it, but he couldn’t figure out why.
He shook his head, he had gotten a bit less sleep than he normally had, but he could easily press on if need be, he had done it before.
The small candle at his side flickered slightly, as he sat at one of the writing desks, thankfully, with a surplus of paper, quills, and ink, he wrote out random notes and information that could be of use. He kept to himself the thoughts of Cadenza, not wanting to hear anymore counter arguments that just made no sense to him.
He had caught wind of a simple weapon that was going to be given to Matthew, they said they hoped he would never have to use it. A simple crossbow, and even then the thing seemed older and outdated. He had been drawing a new design that he would one day try and make, or give it to one of the smiths to make. With a quick roll he placed the scroll back in its hidden area, behind some of the top shelf books that they still couldn’t read.
He stared out the window, watching as over time, the sky began to lighten up and soon the morning was upon them. With a quick motion he extinguished the small candle and stood up, stretching. Looking over to Taze’s bed he lightly tapped the edge of the bed with his foot.
“Come on Peter, time to get goin’.” Shawn said out loud.
Taze’s fist shot into the air randomly before he started to stir. “A magical land of ponies, they control there sun, yet they can’t move sunrise back an hour or two?”
“Because reasons Taze.” Shawn said rolling his eyes slightly. “I would like it too, then again I would like to actually sleep a little longer than I normally do.” He shrugged afterwards. “Eh, you got eight and a half to nine hours of sleep.” He chuckled.
“And we got to meet the mane 6 before I can even go to Joes.” Peter groaned. “Schedules are evil.” Peter had discovered Donut Joe's during their stay and took to spending his morning there.
Shawn rolled a finger in the air, a smirk on his face. “Yeah, get to meet the mane six, and you seem so enthusiastic, heheh.”
The door opened about then and Matthew looked at the two with a smile on his face. “oh, you two are awake, I must say that you two slept through me getting up and leaving last night, good news the crossbow works and I am having Storm Hammer making more bolts for me.” He was grinning now. “Not the AR 15 or the M16 from my ROTC days but it still will work in this age for range.” he grimaced. “That drink is still bitter, but I just, just I have something in the back of my mind telling me that something is going to happen.” By the time he moved to his bed to get to his knees and pull things from under it for the day they could tell he was muttering more to himself then the others as he moved to dress for the wedding. “Must say that at least they got me a suit to wear and not my BDUs.” He smiled at he moved to the wardrobe to take out his suit, which was black with a tux shirt and a black silk bowtie you tied yourself. “Honestly you should have let me teach you how to tie a bowtie.” He quipped to his roommates with his backs turned to them as he moved about.
Shawn gave a shrug. “I got an interesting design, essentially what I have but its colors are… unique. A black jacket with red inside, think of it just like my first coat, but the gold is replaced with red and the maroon replaced with black.” He sighed. “Interesting color choice…” He chuckled lightly.
“Ah I just gave them a description of S.O.L.D.E.R. armor and told them it was ceremonial.” Peter noted.
“Still no idea where you got that idea but what floats your boat.” Matthew replied before he sighed a little. “I actually got made fun of in school for liking suites and dressing up in ties and what not.” He got up and holding some black shoes. “Well going to use the bathroom to change, see ya soon.” He said.
Peter yawned as he checked his gear, finding he had ended up putting a lot in the pockets of his costumes belt without thinking. Too tired to bother to check everything in detail he completed a general check before suiting up.
Shawn only watched from one of the walls, chuckling lightly. With a slight roll of his eyes he began to plan out the day in his head, also trying to come up with answers to questions that might pop up from any of the six.
Matthew only nodded to Taze and Shawn before vanishing into the bathroom to start changing into his suit and bowtie. “Got to make a good first impression as I… how do diplomates deal with having to be the face of their nation to other nations?” he muttered as he left.
“Well if you're good at it you play the saxaphone.” Taze laughed as he stretched.
“They’re taking forever on purpose.” Taze grumbled leaning on his sword, they had been instructed to wait in the current room they were waiting in until the princesses sent for them. “How long does it take to walk from a train station?”
Shawn simply shrugged. “What do you expect, this has to be a big place.” He said. “Not that I would really know, staying inside most of the time…” He grumbled slightly.
“Well,” Mr. Conner responded looking out the window, a little. “It might be because of the giant pink dome that has been above the city since the morning. Or the fact that we have double the number of guards out on the streets today than when we first appeared? Anyone else been noticing that the number of troops have been rising since we got here?” Matthew moved to look at an addition to his suite that he had insisted on. A stylish pocket watch chained to the vest. “Besides this is nothing compared to trying to describe a three piece suite to the tailors.”
Shawn chuckled from the pillar he was leaning on. “Well at least you remembered it, or at least most of it.” He shrugged. “I’ll just stick with what I have, though I hope to get some everyday wear at some point.”
“Personally considering what we know, I’m good with light strong armor.” Taze noted. “Equestria is kinda dangerous.”
Shawn laughed out a bit. “Oh, I know that idea, better safe than sorry.” He pulled the side of his coat open, showing he had his sword at his hip. “Better safe than sorry.” He finished, patting the blade under his coat.
Matthew looked up as he felt two folks looking at him. “You think I am going to show what I have to protect myself? No way do I have to tell either one of you what I am wearing…. other than the folding knife in my pocket… other than that, sorry that is classified.” He was grinning a little before looking out the window. “Well, I see a group of ponies heading into the side entrance under us… I may say that the group is arriving.”
Shawn gave a quick stretch, cracking some things in the process. “Alright then, ready to get this big session rolling?” He asked nobody in particular.
“Session? Sounds like you are starting some big paper and pen role play game or something.” Matthew muttered around his friends as he moved to a pillar to stand by as he blinked away some spots from his eyes. He yawned a little. “Sorry just a little tired.” he spoke after the yawn. “Uh… brain freeze, what are we meeting the elements for again?”
“Celestia thinks it would be good for us to meet the embodiment of the equestrian ideal, which harmony is.” Taze muttered off. “The mane 6 together make up what equestria stands for”
“That, makes sense, I just, I am not going to be surprised if what I remember of them is wrong… it still is, I mean…” He knocked on the marble stone pillar. “This was just… flat flash animation not even a week ago, and..” He paused and realized he was talking in public about something they said they would not.. “Still, just I am the first US Citizen on another plane of existence… anything can happen.” He did not tell anyone that seeing the moon and sun in the sky at different times was still freaking him out.
“Time Web,” Taze said “Technically the plane of existence is the same, we haven’t ascended or anything, we’ve just broke the veil and entered a different time line, this is everything the infinite worlds theory said proven true.”
“I think we are going to at least be friends with Ms. Sparkle if we keep speaking like this.” Matthew chirped with a small laugh as they heard the sound of hoofs clip clopping on the floor towards the door. “We'll, show time folks.”
“Allons-y.” Taze said sheathing his swords in one quick motion. “Onward and upwards.”
“Thank you Doctor.” Matthew muttered right before the door swung open and the group of ponies entered the room. Matthew smiled a little at the group. “Hello.”
Just before they had entered Shawn’s smile faltered slightly. “Lets hope these amulets work in translating them…” He mumbled to himself, lifting the amulet off his chest.
In what seemed to be milliseconds the three found themselves wrapped in pink hooves and squeezed tightly. “Hi I’m Pinkie Pie you look funny were gonna be the best of friends but first i have to plan a party which will have to wait cause first I have to plan this party.” Her eye’s widened with a large gasp. “Or I can make the two parties one big party and make it the BEST PARTY EVER!” Somehow in the time of her insanely fast speech she had released them from the hug and proceeded to check every square inch of them and was now standing on Shawn’s chest as he leaned back trying not to fall over. She looked down right into his face.
In that moment, Shawn could only speak a couple of things. “Uh… Kay.” He said with a neutral expression.
Matthew blinked a little and slowly spoke calmly. While mentally recalling a friend of his from home who was, just as hyper as she was. “Ms. Pie, while I do appreciate this offer, we are here for a royal wedding and I would feel that would only take away from the special event of two ponies getting married.”
“Pinkie you're gonna start a war or something.” rainbow sighed face hoofing.
“You would be pleased to note that to my knowledge my nation has never gone to war over the hyperness of a party planner meeting new beings before.” He was praying that he was being diplomatic at the moment. “However as at the moment we have a Royal Wedding in the castle, now might not be the best time to throw two parties. Rather I would feel that one party be planned now.”
A sigh came from a Purple unicorn as magic surrounded Pinkie. “Can we please stay focused Pinkie,” She sounded stressed it seemed. “This is my brother’s wedding to the best foal sitter in Canterlot.” She smiled a little though her smiled faltered a little “or at least she used to be” she mumbled under her breath. She took a deep breath before speaking again. “Hello, I am Twilight Sparkle and you met Pinkie Pie. The blue pegasus is Rainbow Dash.”
“Well howdy there, mah names Applejack.” The orange earth pony with a hat said out loud, she had three red apples as a cutie mark.
“Rarity, a pleasure to meet you all.” A white Unicorn with three diamonds as a cutie mark replied with a small bow. “I do say, your outfits are wonderful, maybe if you visit Ponyville you wouldn’t mind visiting my shop? I am sure I could whip something up to go with your outfits.”
A very faint voice from a yellow pegasus replied, that is before she saw who she was speaking to. “Hello,” It was after this that she seemed to perk up. “Oh, I never seen your kind before, are you a subspecies of a Minotaur?” She paused before gasping. “Oh, oh my, I didn’t tell you my name, I am Fluttershy.”
“Gorilla actually.” Taze said “Unfortunately there are no minotaurs where we live”
“That is if you believe in evolution, there are others in our world that believe that we were created in our maker’s image.” Matthew was smiling a little to show he was trying to poke a little fun at Taze. “But, A pleasure to meet all of you.” he lowered his head in a small head nod of respect.
“What's with these?” Rainbow flew behind Tazes back and poked his swords. “You some kinda guard where you come from?”
“A Hunter actually I protect innocents from dangerous monsters.” Taze said striking a pose.
Fluttershy squeaked and hide behind some of her mane. “Oh dear, monsters. I hope you are safe, but what about the poor animals?”
“When a giant beast roars a beam of solid lighting at you, negotiation is kinda out the door.” Taze said. “But i only hunt those that are a danger to people.” He covered quickly seeing the look on her face.
“Oh, you help with nature then….” She muttered softly.
“Like the time you dealt with the dragon darling, only… I fear that those monster might be a little less in the mood for talking.” Rarity replied with a smile.
Fluttershy blinked and looked at the others. “So… what do you all eat?”
Matthew blinked as he felt some eyes on him. He saw the other two a little nervous looking and he sighed and spoke. He felt that he might as well use the excuse that most Americans were blunt in some areas. “Uh, well, meat. You see, unlike what I have seen here, from paintings of creatures of myth and higher levels of intelligence, where we come from, actually where I come from, I shall not speak for others. We eat meat,” he blinked as if scared for what would come next.
“Oh, I was wondering as you had incisors akin to some of the meat eating animals I take care of.” She smiled a little. “I would like to maybe hear more about your diet and maybe farming techniques? As I think.” She flew up and to Matthew’s surprise she looked into his mouth. “As I thought, you have a structure that allows both plant and meat eating,”
Twilight coughed and hide a little greenish look. “Maybe not now Fluttershy, not everyone sees all of nature as you do.”
“Whelp, I believe you guy have a wedding to organize.” Taze noted yawning again.
Pinkie gasped. “You're right I’ve gotta start planning right away” and she was gone, and then she was back “Uh, Twilight, where was I suppose to plan this party?”
“I would say,” Twilight began, “In the main ballroom. It is big enough and won’t be used for the wedding.”
“Okie dokie lokie.” She said hopping away like…. Pinkie Pie.
Matthew just looked befuddled. “She reminds me too much of a cartoon from home with her hopping.”
“I’m going outside to… practice.” Rainbow said shifting her eye’s before heading to the window and scanning the horizon for fluffy clouds.
And then their were only four ponies left in the room. Well at the moment. “AJ, I think now might be a good time to start cooking for the wedding.”
“Oh, oh my, I do need to get going and help get the bird choir into key then, I’ll see you girls later.” She smiled a little. “See you later tall creatures.” She was gone.
“Ah do need to get to work, if ah don’t start soon we might not have enough to go around.” AJ chuckled. “Hope to see yall at there.”
“Oh dear, we forgot to tell her what our species was called.” Matthew muttered before he looked down at the amulet that was around his neck. “At least this works.”
Before anyone could speak two ponies came in and were shocked. “Rarity, you are Rarity, you must come at once the gowns are not done and we need to get going.”
Rarity actually freaked out. “Oh Yes, yes we must be, I shall see you all later, maybe for tea or something? But I will see you later Twilight, oh this will be perfect.”
Twilight smiled a little as her friends left all happy, but the smile was a little strained. “Well… I guess I better start organizing the wedding,” She turned and smiled at the little dragon on her back. “Now, Spike was was first on the list?”
“Ask Celestia how the new visitors might help in the wedding, and to introduce them and invite them to a lunch meeting with your friends.” It looked like Spike had read three different check boxes.
“Right, Right.” Twilight turned again to the three. “As you heard I am Twilight Sparkle and I am organizing the final parts of this wedding. Now, what are some of your skills?” She turned to Shawn first. “Why not start left to right with you sir.”
Shawn lightly shrugged. “I was use to organising and keeping things in check with the troops of our nation, had to make sure their training was top notch, and that their equipment was good, so I guess I am more of a Overseer…” His face scrunched up slightly in thought. “Though that more or less be your job… I can move heavy objects if need be.” He said with a shrug, “I’m not sure how I can help that much in all honesty.”
Twilight only smiled. “Well maybe you can help Pinkie Pie then, she will be working with heavy things.” She turned to Taze. “Please tell me you can do more then hunt things for a living.” She took a deep breath. “Sorry, It’s not you, it is not you I am upset about.”
“Your sister in law to be is acting strange and nobody's paying attention because of the wedding.” taze said bluntly.
Twilight blinked and looked confused. “But from what Celestia said, you only been here for less than a week how can you know or see that?”
“Where we come from I have a condition that affects my memory I take things I hear, see, and read, strip away what's necessary and process the important information, none of the guards stories about Cadence matched her attitude, nor Celestia’s nor Shining Armor’s.” Taze noted. “She has been somewhat cruel towards us if not wildly since we got here, those where just irritations till you walked in and i noticed your posture.” Taze noted. “Your forcing your shoulders up, your smile is faked to a degree and your voice trembles every so often, am I missing anything Shawn? Matthew?”
Shawn pointed towards her ears. “Your ears also twitch every now and then, as well as your tail and a you seem to be tapping your hoof in a manner to help relieve some of the stress or anxiety.” He chuckled. “I could go on with Taze here, but I am sure we have a valid point.”
“Uh, well, sorry, but I was a little more unnerved by keeping my eyes on Pinkie… I am afraid that I might not do well with Pinkie if she jumped me… So I missed all of that.” he looked a little nervous and now a little worried at missing all of what they said.
“I have had five uncles get married along with an older sister, believe me the stress of a wedding doesn’t cause a one-eighty like that.” Taze said
“Oh,” Twilight replied before focusing on Matthew. “Well, don’t worry you are only going through Pinkie Shock, no worry it should wear off soon.” she turned back to Taze. “Thank you, I, I thought I might have had a slight… bad first meeting with her.” She paused and tilted her head. “Do you know somepony like Pinkie you appear unaffected by her antics.”
“I’m not a morning person, after some caffeine I’m not that different.” Taze said.
Shawn on the other hand gave a shrug. “After some of things I have seen and dealt with, I’m not really bothered by stuff like that. Or at least, not right away.” He said waving a hand dismissively.
Matthew only nodded his head. “Well, I do not know what to do,” he paused and blinked. “Uh, going back to the first question. I really do not know my own traits in helping, I can help in anything I think as long as it is light work. I guess I can do odd jobs or paper work.”
“I’m good at…. ideas?” Taze said tiredly. “Listen I’m going to walk down to Joe’s drink a few… those big things? you pour them into the cups?”
Spike smiled a little. “Well, can I come with you? I was thinking of getting a few doughnuts myself.” He looked at Twilight a little and smiled bigger when she nodded her head.
“Just be back in.” Matthew looked at his pocket watch. “Three hours? I think that would be good?”
“Yes, yes that would be good.” Twilight replied with a look determination. “I was planning on checking on the preparations during that time, and you three can come with.”
“Sure” Taze said looking over at Spike. “Never talked with a dragon before, mostly because they're trying to melt my face.” Taze chuckled, seeing the looks on everyone's faces. “Oh these were um very bad dragons?” He said looking at Shawn.
“Most creatures in our land are very, very, dangerous.” He said with a slight roll of his eyes. “In most cases, they tend to charge at you…” He stopped for a second. “Yes, dragons there are more… Mindless and dangerous. Thankfully not the same here from what I see.”
“Thank goodness for that.” Matthew muttered under his breath. “I have never felt scared to leave a building before coming here.” He shook his head. “If you do not need me for three hours, I shall… be exploring the public areas of the castle and do my own things.”
Taze lifted Spike up “Be faster if I carry you” He noted before heading out. “Be nice to finally talk to Joe without a translator..”
Shawn shrugged before turning to Twilight. “Just show me where I am needed.”
“Ah, she was jus’ probably trying to save mah feelings.” AJ said in response to Twilights rant.
“Applejack was it? You supposed to be the Element of Honesty yeah?” Taze asked rolling his eyes. “Be honest with yourself Twilight obviously has a point here”
“Yall wouldn’t know, you jus’ met the girl after all.” Applejack said.
“noted but by that same logic, so did you” Taze said turning away and letting the conversation peter off with that point.
Matthew just shook his head and wrote done a few notes in a book in his hands. He said nothing as he looked up. “Now, now…. shall we save this series of events for later?” He asked a little nervous at the two glaring at each other. “I think we are all a little stressed at the moment.” He had seen the exchange and it left something in his mouth. Still he was a diplomate somewhat. “Shall we at least shake and agree to disagree?”
“But if you agree to disagree then who’s agreeing to agree to what disagreement?” Pinkie asked, bouncing her way to the group, Shawn not that far behind, his coat over his shoulder.
Matthew just blinked and shook his head. “Uh… nevermind.” he looked at the other two. “How did you two go today?”
Shawn cracked his back before sitting down with the group. “Not bad, things weren’t that heavy really in my opinion but doing it for awhile you can start to feel it.” He shrugged. “It wasn’t enough to make me feel it in the morning I can say that though.”
Matthew shook his head. “You remind me of the third Doctor suddenly for some reason.” He sighed and shook his head as he looked down at the book he was writing in. “So anything you found interesting happening during your time in the ballroom?” He had joined Twilight after her trip to the ballroom.
“I was mostly just moving around the heavier stuff, but I had a… Nice…. Run in with Princess Cadenza.” He paused, sighing. “I’ll say it right now, even if it was set up to ‘childish’, she was very rude in how she, not asked, told, Pinkie to change it.” He shrugged, sighing again.
Twilight nodded her head, “See, demanding, and rude, and…” She lowered her head. “Not the foal sitter I remember her to be.”
Matthew slammed the book shut startling every being there. As well as interrupting Spike and Pinkie playing kissing with the dolls for the top of the cake. “I have my conclusion.”
“Conclusion? To what?” Rainbow Dash asked with confusion, it seemed she had not given any attention to the day’s events or the conversation.
“As to what is going on here.” Matthew opened his book again. “She is not demanding of the guards, but she had changed and outright named certain guards to be in the inner circle, even though some of those guards are… not fully trained for that detail section.” He paused a little. “What more, Shining Armor has… been acting more in a haze then I have seen most officers, third… It seems the civilian oversight who co-signs a change of patrol also signed off on the papers.”
“Uh… what?” Rainbow Dash asked again. “How do you know this?”
Matthew only smiled a little. “Keep your ears open and you can hear things from complaints and what not rather easily if you pay attention.” he took a breath. “My conclusion is that something is up, not sure what… but based on my own view of a wedding when my brother got married, and Taze with his family wedding experience. I say that something more is weighing on her mind not just the wedding.”
“Silly filly!” Pinkie rubbed Matthews head. “You’re overthinking it!”
“I am? But I like overthinking things, it makes me feel smart.” Matthew whined a little before blinking. “Okay… you are making me act more like a child, you know that?” He coughed and moved a little from her hoof as he muttered to himself. “I have to represent my nation, not act like a child.” He coughed again and smiled a little bigger. “Anyway… anyone, or anypony want to see my notes?”
“No thanks, hey Twilight what's with the semi-transparent pink bubble?” Taze asked. “And why is light still filtering through it white?”
Matthew blinked and looked up from the food that was delivered to him, he realized that it was mostly hay, and some type of lettuce that he could not identify. He pushed it a little from him while speaking to Taze. “Wouldn’t that be blue white light? Since through the dome we can still tell the sky is blue?”
“You’re overthinking it.” Shawn said aloud. “I would suggest you try to maintain your sanity, or what’s left of it.”
Twilight blinked and blushed a little. “I’m sorry but this is a spell my brother can only do… and while I did figure it out once, I cannot say, military secret.” She did look apologetic to the three humans.
“Oh, Classified, that makes sense and say no more.” Matthew tapped his head. “I understand that and I don’t want to go any further, I don’t like poking my head where it does not belong.”
“Whelp we’re making little progress with anything here” Taze said “What still needs to be done?”
Twilight blinked and pulled out a scroll. “Well, all that I need you three at the moment is to attend tomorrow’s rehearsal. Can you all be at the castle chapel tomorrow at ten? I personally need to go see my brother at home just to check on him.”
Matthew blinked and looked around. “Hey Shawn can you take my book? I wouldn’t mind walking Twilight home… and it might allow me to thank the Captain of the Guard for not throwing me in the dungeon when I first showed up.”
Twilight nodded her head. “Sub protocol with prisoners, otherwise known as the kind heart routine.” She smiled a little. “My brother left all his ROTC books out and about, of course I am going to read them.”
“Does Canterlot have an arcade?” Taze asked getting up.
“Oh Oh! I know, I know.” Pinkie Pie shouted with glee. “Come on I’ll show you.” She began to hop around back and forth with giddy joy.
“Shawn you coming?” Taze asked getting up.
“Nah, I got some things I would like to check on and perhaps investigate.” Shawn replied, raising Matthew’s book in his hand slightly.
“Ok I’ll catch up with you two later then.” With that he followed Pinkie as she bounced off.
Upon arrival at the arcade it was surprisingly lacking the the amount of ponies, then again it was a bit later in the day. There was rows upon rows of machines all lit up in their pixel glory.
“Over here! You should try this one first!” Pinkie exclaimed while pulling Taze over to one of the many machines.”
“Is that Mario?” Taze asked examining the red overall clad pony.
“No silly! That’s Pipewrench!” Pinkie giggled. Pulling him too it she took out a bit and put it in the slot. “The idea is too…”
“Move along jumping on enemies while collecting coins and hitting blocks to find hidden power ups?” Taze asked eye’s focusing.
“Yeah…” Pinkie trailed. “Have you played this before?”
Taze concentrated on the screen, jumping the pony onto the upward moving girders and waiting till he was just off the screen before jumping onto the roof by passing the warp pipe to reveal three other pipes in a large room with the text Welcome to Warp Zone, at the top of the room.
“Nope never heard of it.” He commented, focusing on the game before him.
At their room Shawn had been looking over Matthews notes that he took in his book. The notes seemed to match some of the ideas that filled his mind about Cadenza. With a quill and ink on the side with some fresh parchment he scribbled small notes on blank paper while writing some of his own important notes in the back part of the book, where it hadn’t been filled yet.
He hummed in thought, squinting lightly at the pages as he read the words written down before shaking his head lightly and writing some more on the spare parchment. His own mind drifted as he wrote, he did more than comment in the book, he also made more designs that could be accomplished should he want to try some things. With a final note he closed the book, making sure the ink was dry before doing so of course, and put it off to the side of the desk.
He sighed in defeat, rolling his blueprint scrolls and hiding them with the rest of his notes that he for some reason hid away. He felt the need to hide them, and thankfully they are put in a way they can not be found easily.
Leaning back in his chair he put his hands behind his head to rest. Not to sleep, but rest, the day had been nothing but interesting.
Matthew looked at the sky and the dome as the night sky slowly grew deeper. “It still unnerves me that the moon is not present in the daytime sky… funny how you do not notice those little details unless you either not see them or are looking for it.”
Twilight blinked and looked at Matthew. “Wait your sun and moon are visible during the same time? Isn’t that impossible?”
Matthew looked down at Twilight and only smiled a little. “I’ll explain it at a later time, I need paper and ink to show you.” He looked around the street a little. “Well I must say thank you for the escort, it is nice to see places outside of the castle walls.”
“Not a problem.” Twilight however stopped and pawed the ground with a hoof. “Actually, there is a problem. You see I want to see my brother, alone. Sister and Big Brother Best Friend Forever type deal, and… do you mind if you let me pass along your message?”
Matthew paused something in his head was telling him that something was going to happen. His gut was telling him that there was trouble, however he saw the look on Twilight’s face and he just nodded his head. “Okay, just… stay safe okay?”
“Sure,” Twilight replied. “I’m going to see my brother, not Nightmare Moon.” She replied with a joke and a smile. Matthew returned it but for some reason he felt it was a fake smile. He waited till Twilight left by taking a left at a crossroad that was a few paces in front of him. He sighed turned around and ran right into a Night Guard with an oof. Matthew stepped back from the hard metal and blinked.
“Mr. Conner? May I ask to your presence outside of the castle at this time of night?” Matthew blinked the voice was female sounding and he hoped he answered the correct way.
“Yes Ma’am you can.” he paused and grinned a little before his face fell. “Sorry, something my father would do when I asked him a question, as for the real answer I was escorting Miss Twilight Sparkle to her brother’s place but she said she could handle herself the rest of the way, and being a gentleman, or would you say Gentlecolt, I allowed her to proceed on her way.”
“Very well, do you need any help getting back to the castle?” She asked again and Matthew blinked and was happy for that. Because frankly he did not know where he was, and while you could see parts of the castle above the city, you could not see a very direct route, unless of course you flew. Still he accepted the offer and was soon on his way back to the castle.
Time had rolled on in its way, leaving the moon in the sky. While Shawn had went to the room first, the others had done their own thing. Matthew had shown up an hour later after Shawn, immediately taking another drink of his medication and the going to bed due to his exhaustion, he seemed more tired than normal but Shawn didn’t get to question it due to him going to bed almost right after arriving.
Taze staggered into the room late, very late, or perhaps very early depending on how you might view the hour of three AM. He didn’t even look physically tired, in fact Shawn could almost see the pixels in his eye’s from hours of non-stop gaming.
Shawn’s brow raised, a questioning look on his face. “Where in the world have you been?” He chuckled to himself. “It’s three AM man.”
“Reliving the golden age” Taze said in an almost wistful tone. “They have Mario here Shawn.”
Shawn only blinked at hearing the name. “Mario? Here? Oh boy, I’ll have to check out that arcade you went to, what other games did they have?” Shawn said, leaning forward.
“More than you can think.” Taze said. “Pac Pony, Donkey Kong, Pong, Tetris, Street Fighter 1 and 2, and Megamare Shawn, MEGAMARE!”
Shawn chuckled. “Oh, I am so checking that place out when we have some free time tomorrow.”
“It was every game you ever loved as kid all under one roof, just pony-fied.” Taze said “it was heaven, if I died right now I’d be happy.” He thought for a moment. “Although Sonic being a timberwolf was a bit strange.”
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Lol sonic being a timberwolf...
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Ah yeah, the werehog...
XD another great chapter, here's for hoping that there all op.
Spike smiled a little. “Well, can I come with you? I was thinking of getting a few doughnuts myself.” He looked at Twilight a little and smiled bigger when she nodded his head.
Wft?!
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Thank you for the catch.
editing is a little tough and even when three people go over it, while also writing the story, it can be hard to catch details like that. This is in the old unedited chapters, so while it will be fixed, we do have a story editor going over the chapters later this month.
Once more thank you for the catch, and well, at least you got a laugh out of the problem. I hope you continue to enjoy reading the story.
5386183 Yeah no problem!
And it sure did give me a laugh!
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Not a problem.
That is great news, and yes it is fun to find errors like that.
5223990 I bet Knuckles is manticore in equestrian sonic.
I don't know why but I'm loving all the doctor who references Cx
Do they watch Doctor Who?
cuz I do.
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Well, I know the human characters watch Doctor Who, but as for the mane six...
I doubt it as they do not have that show. But I am happy you are enjoying the Dr. Who references.
I am extremely put off by the exceptionally poor grammar in this story. There are cases where a character's name is used to describe possession, but it is spelled, 'Matthews'. Where is the apostrophe? There are missing world all over the place. The only saving grace for this story is that is is interesting enough for me not to downvote.
*we've
*six
*six
There are a few paragraphs after that last point that have bad grammar and spelling.
That isn't a real thing.
Fun fact for those that don't know, historically people would sprinkle some sand sand on letters, notes, etc. to help dry ink and prevent smearing the work or staining other parchment.
Did Taze unironically say that humans are a subspecies of gorilla? nani the fuck??? lmao
Gorillas and humans are great apes that share a common ancestor, we're not descendant from gorillas holy shit
Glad to see that their charade wasn't taken seriously and its already crumbling.
I've still got no clue what this 'S.O.L.D.E.R.' armor is. Tried looking it up but got nothing.
Wow, I'm laughing sooo much😐