Author's Note: This is a non-profit fanfiction made for the sole purpose of doing something fun about one of my favorite characters in the Mass Effect series. Harbinger and Shepard belong to BioWare and My Little Pony belongs to Hasbro. Enjoy.

Chapter 16: Welcome to Hoofington

Location: Equestria, Friendship Express Ponyville-Hoofington

Time: Four weeks post Arrival

The Mane 6 and Harbinger were sitting comfily in the Friendship Express, which was on its way to Hoofington. The trip would last around three days, so they had lots of time to talk about it. One particular pink pony couldn't calm down about it.

Pinkie Pie: *giddily* This is so awesome! An entire week in Hoofington, that's like seven days, I heard they have great parties in Hoofington. *pauses to think for a moment* Wait, wasn't Hoofington a village in the show? How did it become some Washington DC like city?

Harbinger: The author apparently thought it was the Equestrian version of Washington DC. Yet after finding out it was a village he decided to keep it a city anyway.

Pinkie's face took on a serious expression and she nodded. The five other mares looked at the duo strangely, for Pinkie it was something normal, but for Harbinger to say something like that, something must be wrong.

Twilight: Leaving the weird conversation aside, I was pretty surprised that Black who helped us with the book is General Black, a dragon-pony as well.

Rainbow Dash: I never heard of him, until now, the way the guards talk about him is like he's some kind of legend. Pfft, he'd need to do something awesome like a Sonic Rainboom to become a legend.

Rarity: From what I heard among the guards, there was a common joke that if you don't follow a superior's orders, General Black would come and punish you. It's like one of those stories parents tell their children to get them to behave.

Applejack: *chuckles* Looks like now that he's 'ere the joke's on them.

Twilight: And speaking of Legendary, the princess told me that the last time the General was summoned… he was able to stop a massive plan to resurrect Nightmare Moon. An entire city disappeared from the face of Equestria.

The ponies gulped, Harbinger couldn't help but give a small smirk. Ponies were too naïve for their own good, it was a surprise to see a pony that did the work that all of the others should be doing themselves. Equestria is quite dark behind the veil rainbows and sunshine.

Fluttershy: Girls look, it's the city. *amazed* Oh wow, it looks more beautiful when you see it yourself.

They all looked through the windows and saw a city spanning across the entire horizon. Massive skyscrapers towered in the center of the city. From their POV they could see the Blank House, the work place of the prime minister of Hoofington. The current prime minister was Barricade Obama.

Twilight: Did you know that the blank house was destroyed two hundred years ago in a fire, but it was rebuilt later, all by earth ponies.

Applejack: *proudly* Goes tah show ya' what Earth Ponies are capable of.

Harbinger: The experimental possibilities are endless.

Applejack gave him a glare, it was just like Harbinger too slip into his 'Reaper scientist mode' from time to time.

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[Several Minutes Later…]

The train stopped at Unity Station, Hoofington's largest railway station. The six ponies and Reaper came out of the train quickly finding and picking up their luggage. They came out of the station and looked around. Ponies upon ponies bustling on the sidewalk. Taxi Chariots dragged by ponies, ran on the streets. Large chariots shaped into buses stopped at every designated station. It was in one word – amazing.

Rainbow Dash: This is so awesome, wait till everypony sees just how cool I am, maybe I could make a Sonic Rainboom in the middle of the town.

Applejack: And blow up all o' these 'ere windows, ah don' think so.

Rainbow Dash just waved her off with a hoof and took the air. She flew for only ten seconds flat before she was stopped by a Pegasus police pony.

Police Pony: Ah'm sorry ma'am but there's a strict "No Flying in the City Perimeters" order, Ah'll let ya off this time, since ah can tell yer not from around 'ere.

Rainbow Dash: *in disbelief* WHAT! No flying? Why is there a no flying order and why are you flying?

Police Pony: Well ah'm from police so we're an exception from this rule and the Hoofington Founding Parade is this week, so we don' need somepony crashing into one of the floats before its ready.

Rainbow Dash groaned and landed back on the ground, the Police Pony saluted and disappeared into the crowd. Applejack was laughing her flank off, Rainbow Dash just scowled.

[Later inside a Cab…]

Taxi Driver: And this is Times Rectangle, the most lively place in all of Hoofington and the place where the parade is gonna take place.

The ponies 'oohed' and 'aahed' at the sights of magically powered lights. The driver was a bit intimidated when he saw Harbinger, but anypony could love somepony for a goof wad of cash.

Harbinger: Are there any places that hold information such as Equestrian technology, science, art and other such things? A museum perhaps.

Taxi Driver: The place you're looking for is called 'The Sniffsonian Institute' the biggest museum in all of Equestria, best place for sciency stuff.

Harbinger: The SNIFF-sonian? Quite a strange name for a pony building

Twilight: That's because the museum was founded three hundred years ago by its first curator, Curator Bite Mark, a diamond dog.

All ponies, including Harbinger slightly were surprised at the revelation. A civilized Diamond Dog sounded a little unbelievable. Rarity even burst out laughing.

Rarity: *laughing* Oh that is amusing. A diamond dog founding a museum, I'd never believe that even if I were to see it.

Twilight: *dryly* It's true.

Rarity immediately stopped laughing and her jaw hit the floor.

Pinkie Pie: I'm more interested in the parade. Parades are always fun, they have balloons, cake, lightshows. *gasp* Maybe I could show everypony my Party Cannon. *le gasp* Maybe we could even make our own parade float. *turns towards everypony with a huge grin* Can we? Can we? CAN WE?

Fluttershy: That would be a great idea, but… the parade is in seven days, we'd never make it in time.

Pinkie's mane fell a bit at that.

Fluttershy: But-but I bet we could have fun even without it, a party maybe.

Pinkie Pie: *happy meter full* MAYBE A BIG PARTY? The biggest party, for the entire city.

They all chuckled, except Harbinger of course. I hope I don't need to specify that every time.

Taxi Driver: There it is mister, the Sniffsonian Institute.

Harbinger looked to where the driver was pointing and saw multiple buildings arranger parallel to one another. Multiple ponies, griffons, dragons and other creatures were bustling to see what miracles Equestria had to offer. Harbinger furrowed his eyebrows, Twilight noticed this.

Twilight: What's wrong Harbinger?

Harbinger: There is something off about that museum, I can sense some kind of anomaly coming from it and it is getting stronger.

Applejack: Maybe yer jus' overthinkin' stuff. Pro'ly jus' some of them fancy machinery.

Harbinger: Perhaps you're right.

Of course Harbinger lied, Applejack believed it, a feat that for anypony would be neigh impossible, but Harbinger never showed any emotions, never stuttered and never wavered, the perfect liar.

Taxi Driver: Alright, you asked me to show you a good place to eat and here it is.

The café was called Café Ivan the Awesome, Rainbow Dash was interested in this. They paid the taxi driver and went to get their seats. There they were greeted by a griffon waiter.

The Waiter: *russian accent* Dobrii deni, ladies and*sees Harbinger* gentleman? Is there anything particular that you would like or would you prefer to see the menu first?

Harbinger: The menu would be a good idea, but if I may ask. Do you by chance have any fish here?

The Mane 6 stared at him like he had grown another set of eyes. The waiter blinked a few times then burst out laughing.

The Waiter: I'm surprised, I don't see any ponies eating fish or any meat around here. But, yes we have fish, there are a lot of non-pony customers around here, so we have to keep it in stock. How much do you want?

Harbinger: Three servings.

The Waiter: Three servings of fish, what would you like ladies?

Twilight: Uh…we'll…uh…think about it.

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[A little later…]

Twilight:*mildly disgusted* I'm a little surprised you like fish so much, you didn't show any preference until now.

Harbinger: You never had any fish.

Applejack: Point taken, so when are they gonna' finish that food, ah'm starvin'.

Pinkie Pie: Hey look at that…preeeeettyyyyyyyyyy.

They looked towards a table and saw a pony receiving his order of pumpkin pie, but it was no simple pie, it had various magical swirls, fireworks and small figures running around the pie. All of the customers were watching in amazement.

Rarity:*amazed* That is absolutely beautiful, definitely the work of a unicorn, such exquisite design, do you think they could decorate mine in the same way.

Rainbow Dash: Mine would have to be awesome. Maybe they could make me doing a Sonic Rainboom.

Fluttershy: One with small animals would be nice for me.

Twilight: That would be a nice hit on the pouch. Oh there are our orde- *her eyes widen in surprise*

The pony carrying the orders was coming towards them on roller skates. Her silver blue mane, waving in the wind. A notebook strapped at her side, contrasting with her blue fur. The Cutie Mark of a wand and crescent moon and the horn on her head. It was none other than…

The Mane 6: TRIXIE?!

The showpony, currently waiter nearly dropped the order upon hearing the familiar voices, but recovered quickly and reached the table. Her right eye was twitching, of all ponies that had to come here, it had to be them, she took a breath to calm herself and put on her best smile.

Trixie: Ah, Twilight Sparkle and her friends and…

Harbinger: That is the fifty-ninth pony that has the same reaction today.

Trixie: Well, Trixie doesn't see such stallions as yourself very often. Twilight Sparkle sure has a strange taste in friends.

Harbinger: I am not her frie- *Rainbow Dash buts in*

Rainbow Dash:*snickers* Yeah, about that, looks like Twi and him have been going *makes mock puckered lips* smoochie-woochie behind our backs.

The ponies in the café all turned towards Twilight with mouths agape, Twilight blushed furiously and tried to hide herself under her hooves, Harbinger was unfazed.

Harbinger: By all standards, a kiss under an illusion and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation do not count a kisses. Do you ponies ever remain constant?

Pinkie Pie: Nope, that's what makes us fun.

Trixie: Well, leaving that aside I think you could all eat the food, before it gets cold.

Rarity: Well, Trixie, would you mind giving my dish a little more chic to it, if you know what I mean.

To say Trixie was surprised would be an understatement, not only had she humiliated these ponies in front of all of Ponyville, but also endangered the said town during an Ursa Minor attack. It wasn't her fault that those two idiots, Snips and Snails brought it to town, but she had lots of time to think and the more she was thinking the more she blamed herself. But now, here they were and were talking to her like nothing happened, it was very touching.

Trixie:*a big real smile* Very well, the Kind and Generous Trixie will make you the best looking dish, on the house.

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[Later after eating…]

The seven ponies were leaving the café, not only was the food delicious, but with Trixie's pampering it was also a sight to see. The Griffsian waiter came with a pie in one of his claws, the ponies looked at him confused.

The Waiter: This is for you ladies, a small present from Trixie, she said to give it to you before you left.

It was an ordinary pie, apple pie most likely, but it had an image of a town – Ponyville, and Ursa Minor above the town and a small pony figure that looked like a weeping Trixie. The words "I'm Sorry" floated above the town with small fireworks popping around it.

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Location: Equestria, Hoofington, Ivan the Awesome Café's Personnel Exit

Time: The end of Trixie's Shift

Trixie was exiting the café via a back door accessible only to the café staff. She waved goodbye to her work team and went outside into the streets. She looked at a building that was currently under repair, three large gashes were on the buildings side. She remembered why it was destroyed in the first place, for most of the ponies it was a horrible incident, yet for her it was a new beginning.

She smiled at the memory and walked into somepony, she tried to apologize but felt several hooves wrap around her into a hug. It was the Mane 6, they were hugging Trixie, forgiving her for what she did before. A few tears slid down Trixie's cheek, but she was smiling nonetheless. Harbinger watched with an impassive look on his face. Twilight raised a hoof, inviting him to join in, he didn't budge, six more hooves were raised and with a sigh and a roll of his eyes he joined them.

Transmission Terminated

Logging Off

*New Codex Entry Available*

Codex: Trixie

Trixie is a unicorn mare, formerly working as a travelling magician yet currently working as a 'showpony' waiter in one of the most popular Café's in Hoofington, her home town. Highly adept in illusion magic, Trixie is often believed to be on par or at least close to Twilight Sparkle in her magical prowess. Back during her showpony career, she often boasted about her superior skills, yet a certain incident involving an Ursa Minor ruined her showpony career. Her mind filled with thoughts of revenge, she trained a lot in magic, yet the more she trained the more she understood how wrong she was, and how week she used to be in reality. Another incident involving an Ursa Minor in Hoofington, returned her former fame, when she used her magic to lead the beast away from town, yet despite the fame returning, she decided against making more shows…

Author's Note: #1: I like fanfics were Trixie comes back as a good character, so I decided why can't I do the same.

#2: Griffsia is my story's equivalent of Russia, as you can guess it's inhabited by mostly Griffons.

#3: I decided against posting Code G.B. as a exclusive, but I also decided to postpone it a bit to make it a lot better, believe it or not I'm aiming high with that fic.

#4: I will put the fic on a hiatus after the Hoofington arc. Not because of some super bad reason, but because the events of the story will continue in Code G.B. although in a lot more violent environment. Code G.B. is by default a lot more violent, so expect Harbinger to finally kill someone.