"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

"Alright, let's go over the scene where Commander Hurricane comes home." Twilight says as Lightning Bolt, Rainbow Dash, and Scootaloo hold their scripts.

Rainbow clears her throat. "Ten Hut." Rainbow ordered.

Rainbow looks to her husband, the strategist of the Pegasus, and to her first born. They both snapped to attention in front of her before falling into a laughing fit. "Welcome home honey." Lightning greeted. "Hi mom." Scootaloo said as she hugs her. Rainbow closes the door behind her before returning the hug to her daughter. "I take it negotiations didn't go well?" Lightning asks.

"I kinda lost my temper at the beginning and all three of us wound up arguing and it went nowhere. I really think I should have sent you. It might have gone somewhere if the always cool and collected strategist Razor Wind went." Hurricane says half serious and half flirts.

Razor stands proudly. "I have been known to clear the negotiations quite easily."

Hurricane smiles. "That includes shoving a sword in their face until the deal goes through?"

"The men always love to hear about how that negotiation went with those pegasus barbarians you went to negotiation with for map information and wound up recruiting them into our ranks. It's also the award ceremony after that we met for the first time." Rainbow recalls.

"I like it we when dad talks about the bar fight during it." Scootaloo says laughing out loud.

Lightning chuckles. "Yeah, those were the good days. But you know what's better?" He asks her.

Rainbow smiles. "What?"

Lightning smirks. "Being with you."

"Alright good job guys you got the scene perfectly." Twilight says while Scootaloo seems a little grossed out.

Rainbow huffs and sits back in her seat. "I still can't believe that you have to be my husband in this. I don't even know why Princess Celestia wants a husband and a foal, if possible, to play too."

"Well they always were a part of the story if you read the book on it. They are mostly cut from the play to save time. But this year it seems she is going all out recounting the whole story. By the ways Scootaloo you did a great job." Lightning says.

Scootaloo smiles and hops next to Rainbow. "Thanks, but I don't know to stomach the lovey dovey parts."

"When that happens turn around and act like you're snickering." Lightning advises.

"Yeah, the crowd will buy that and there are a few scenes in the play where you do that anyways." Twilight reassured.

Scootaloo nods and leans against her sister. Rainbow wraps a hoof around her and holds her close. "Don't worry, because you will get it all. Just follow our lines and if can't remember, improvise."

"Yeah everything will be fine." Lightning says before they could continue the rest of the cutie mark crusaders opened the door to their car. "Scootaloo Canterlot is coming into view." Applebloom says.

Scootaloo jumps up and runs to the open window. When she pokes her head outside she sees the high valued Canterlot. "Wow." Oh yeah, she did become breathless at the sight. Lightning smiles as Applebloom and Sweetie Bell join her.

Rainbow watches the three fillies as they become amazed at the sight of Canterlot. She looks over to Lightning to see him walking towards her. "You sure you're ready?" Rainbow asks him.

"I'll be fine with the acting. It's the ponies in the crowd I'm worried about."

Rainbow suddenly grabs his head and hugs it. "You'll be fine. I know it." Rainbow sweetly said to him. Lightning taps her side a bit. "Can you let go now?" Rainbow sheepishly smiles and let's go. "Sorry."

Twilight sees this before leaving the car and goes where the other girls are practicing. "Alright girls, how are we doing?" Twilight announces as she enters the car.

"We are doing fabulous darling and Applebloom and Sweetie Bell are doing great as well. How is Lightning, Rainbow and Scootaloo doing?" Rarity says.

"They really got it down. Oh, by the way Rarity make sure you keep their measurements close by for wedding attire." Twilight says.

Rarity giggles as she hears the gossip. "I just knew that Mr. Lightning Bolt would be would get together with somepony soon. Who can't resist the good looks like that?"

"I'm surprised it was Rainbow Dash though." Applejack says.

"Well they aren't actually together yet. They are both the same type of pony and sometimes have trouble putting their emotions to words." Twilight explains.

Rarity suddenly gasp with surprise. "IDEAAA! What if we get them to reveal their feelings for each other in the play?"

Twilight shakes her head. "That's as bad as when the crusaders match made Big Mac and Cheerilee."

"They did what?" Fluttershy asks.

Twilight looks confused at her. "You didn't see the housed moved with a giant hole dug in front of the Boutique?"

"Ah no, I was tending to my animals and too busy to notice." Fluttershy says as the rest of the girls brought her up to speed.

Fluttershy blushes. "So Big Mac would have been married if they didn't bother with them? That's horrible, especially with just seeing each other and nothing else."

"So anyone else surprised the Lightning Bolt turned out to be the little brother of Spitfire, captain of the Wonderbolts?" Twilight asks.

Rarity shot up to her. "He's the little brother of the captain of the Wonderbolts?!" And faint.

"She didn't know?" Twilight asks.

Fluttershy shuffles her hoof across the wooden boards of the train. "Well, she has been busy with some orders that she didn't come out, not even to our spa meeting."

"Ah." Twilight says as Applejack revives Rarity.

Applejack grabs a bucket of water and prepares to throw it. "This always work on her." She dumps the water on Rarity, making her wake up with a scream. "Ah, I'm wet. No, my mane, not my beautiful mane. I can't live without it!" She runs to the bathroom to dry herself off.

A few minutes later she returns. "So what was this about Lightning and Spitfire being siblings?" Rarity asks.

"Lightning is Spitfire's little brother." Twilight explains.

"But I don't get it why would he not tell anyone or even let her know where he was?" Rarity asks.

"That's a good question and only one pony knows the answer to that." Twilight says.

They walk to the other car and sees Lightning trying to get Scootaloo back in from the outside. "Help me Rainbow or we're going to be foalless!" Rainbow rushes to him and helps pull her inside. After that they all sit down with Rainbow belittling Scootaloo. "...And don't you do that again."

'I think they are starting to take their roles a little too serious.' Twilight thinks.

Twilight turns to everypony in the car. "Okay, we report to the same building as before. I will go and tell Celestia that we are here." After that everypony, except Twilight, heads to the theater.

They arrive to find a few Ponies already there including Derpy who is waving at them. Lightning waves back as they all went to the dressing rooms were, but this time Lightning had his own dressing room because he's a stallion. He put on his own costume a black variation of the pegasus armor with a cloak underneath it. This was to set the strategist apart from the other soldiers so they wouldn't be mistakenly sent into direct combat.

Lightning looks over himself. "This is very cool. Too bad it isn't better than my armor." He said to himself. 'So this is the armor of my ancestors funny it just feels like...' Lightning's thoughts were interrupted when Derpy opened the door. "Show is starting soon." She says and closes the door. 'I guess I better get going.' Lighting thinks putting his hood up and walking out of the dressing room.

Walking into the backstage hall he sees the mares of the play come out of their dressing rooms. When he sees what Rainbow is wearing he becomes amazed. His jaw slightly drops and afterwards Scootaloo comes out wearing what looked like a light foal version of the pegasus armor. Lightning walks over slowly to Rainbow. "So where do we begin?" He asks nervously.

"You and Scootaloo hang back until we get to the scene where commander hurricane goes home. Why don't you talk to some of the other actors until then?" Rainbow suggests before she clears her throat and walks towards the part of the stage where she will enter from.

Lightning smiles and turns to Scootaloo. "So who do you want to talk to?" Waving his hoof to the multiple actors in the hall.

"I'll go talk to my friends see ya." Scootaloo says before walking over.

Lightning sigh and walks over to the other stallion actors playing the husbands. The actors turn to him as Lightning walks over. "So you're the Lightning we've been hearing about." One of the actors said.

"Yeah. Who are you?" Lightning asks taking note the Earth pony wore a farmer's clothes while the unicorn wore the robes of a student of magic from Princess Platinum's time.

"I'm Arcane." Said the stallion wearing the costume for Princess Platinum's husband.

"I'm Apple Field." Said the one wearing the costume for Smart Cookie's husband.

"And I'm Razor Wind." Lightning says seeing as they were getting into character.

The stallions chuckles. "Yeah, we also know your real name. So don't try to hide it. Any case, I think your part will come up first, then ours in about a few minutes." Arcane said as he looks at the clock.

"Got it." Lightning says waving over Scootaloo signaling it's almost time as he heard Spike start narrating. "Once upon a time, long before the peaceful rule of Celestia, and before ponies discovered our beautiful land of Equestria, ponies did not know harmony. It was a strange and dark time. A time when ponies were torn apart, by hatred."

"During this frightful age, each of the three tribes, the Pegasi, the unicorns, and the Earth ponies, cared not for what befell the other tribes, but only for their own welfare. In those troubled times, as now, the Pegasi were the stewards of the weather. But, they demanded something in return. Food that could only be grown by the Earth ponies. The unicorns demanded the same, in return for magically bringing forth day and night. And so, mistrust between the tribes festered, until one fateful day, it came to a boil. And what prompted the ponies to clash? 'Twas a mysterious blizzard that overtook the land, and toppled the tribes' precarious peace." Spike narrates as actor reenact the events.

"The normally industrious Earth ponies were unable to farm their land." Spike narrated as a plant withered in its hoof. "The Earth ponies were freezing." Spike narrated as a home was blown to pieces by the winds and the ponies inside shivered. "The home of the Pegasi fared no better. The Pegasi were hungry." Spike narrated as a pegasus tried to eat the fake fur on top its helmet. "And the unicorns were freezing and hungry." Spike narrated as a scene in a dining dictated this. "Even the unicorns' magic was powerless against the storm." Spiked continued as a door reinforced by magic was blown open. "Each tribe blamed the others for their suffering, and the angrier everypony grew, the worse the blizzard became." Spike narrated as the actors fought on stage over food. "And so it was decided that a grand summit would be held to figure out a way to cope with the blizzard." Spike narrated as the ponies were all headed for the same building.

"Each tribe sent their leaders." Spike narrated. "Daughter of the unicorn king, Princess Platinum." Spike narrates as trumpet sounded and Princess Platinum enters. "Ruler of the Pegasi, Commander Hurricane." Spike narrates as trumpets blew and Commander Hurricane entered. "And finally leader of the Earth ponies, Chancellor Puddinghead." Kazoos were blown as Chancellor Puddinghead entered. "Perhaps the three tribes could finally settle their differences, and agree on a way to get through this disaster." Spike narrated as all three took off their headgear before starting to yell at each other.

"All I wanna know is why the Earth ponies are hogging all the food!?" Commander Hurricane accuses.

"Us?! We're not hogging all the food, you are! Oh wait." She then smiles. "You're right. It's us." She then goes back into her accusing self. "Well, it's only 'cause you mean old pegasus-us-uses are making it snow like crazy!" Chancellor Puddinghead accuses.

"For the hundredth time, it's not us! We're not making it snow! It must be the unicorns! They're doing it with their freaky magic!" Commander Hurricane says redirecting the blame.

Platinum gasps. "How dare you! Unlike you Pegasi ruffians, we unicorns would never stoop to such a thing! Humph!" Princess Platinum insults.

"Well, if you non-earths aren't gonna stop using your weirdo powers to freeze us all, then I'm just plum out of ideas." Chancellor Puddinghead says.

"What a shocker. An Earth pony with no ideas." Commander Hurricane insulted.

"Commander Hurricane, please cease with the insults!" Princess Platinum pleaded.

"You're not the boss of me, your royal snootiness!" Commander Hurricane insulted.

"I beg your pardon?! I am a princess! I won't be spoken to that way!" Princess Platinum.

"Well, I'm leaving first!" Commander Hurricane angrily says.

All three leaders continue arguing as they leave through the door.

The curtain fell then rises to show the pegasus's home

"And the blizzard raged on. So the summit of the tribes did not turn out as well as hoped, and the three leaders returned home to lick their wounds, and basically complain." Spike narrates before the curtain rose revealing a pegasus stage.

"Atten-tion!" Commander Hurricane yells, sending Private Pancy slipping down the snow covered stairs. "Well? Aren't you curious about how it went?" Hurricane angrily asks.

"Oh! Commander Hurricane, sir! How did it go, sir?" Private pansy asks.

"Horribly! Those other tribe leaders are so disrespectful! Don't they realize that we are a mighty tribe of warriors, and should not be crossed? We have got to break ranks with those weak foals! Now if you'll excuse me I have others to inform of this." Hurricane says before entering the keep. Hurricane walks past the barracks and into her living quarters.

"Commander Hurricane, tired from her experience, goes to see her family." Spike narrates.

"The meeting didn't work out?" A voice asks when she steps inside.

Out of the shadows stepped Commander Hurricane's husband, the grand strategist of the pegasus tribe. "Strategist Razor Wind." Spike introduced as Razor Wind walked into the light. "Mother is home!" A voice yelled before running passed Razor Wind.

Hurricane grabs the foal running at her and hugs her. "Hi sweetie. You were good for daddy?" Commander Hurricane asks.

"Yeah, I was we played together all day and had a lot of fun." The little filly says.

"The first born of Commander Hurricane and Strategist Razor Wind, Typhoon." Spike narrates.

Hurricane looks to her husband. "To answer your question, the meeting didn't go well. Now we may have to find new land." She said as she still hugs Typhoon.

"What happened?" Razor Wind asks.

Commander Hurricane chuckled nervously and sets her daughter down. "Let's just say that no more meetings are going to happen between us all." She said as she walks to him.

"What happened?" Razor Wind asks sternly.

"I kinda lost my temper at the beginning and all three of us wound up arguing and it went nowhere. I really think I should have sent you. It might have gone somewhere if the always cool and collected strategist Razor Wind went." Commander Hurricane says.

"That includes shoving a sword in their face until the deal goes through?" Razor Wind finished.

"The stallions always love to hear about how that negotiation went with those pegasus barbarians you went to negotiation with for map information and wound up recruiting them into our ranks. It's also the award ceremony after that we met for the first time." Hurricane recalls.

"I like it we when dad talks about the bar fight during it." Typhoon says laughing out loud.

Razor laughs and looks to Hurricane. "But do you know what the best part is?" Hurricane looks to him as well.

"What?" Razor walks closer.

"Being with you." He finishes.

The audience whistles and cheers at this, though a certain Wonderbolt captain felt her protective sibling instincts kick in, but she suppressed them.

Typhoon see this, turns around and snickers.

The curtain falls then rises to show the unicorn's home

Princess Platinum walks in shivering. "Clover the Clever! I need you!" Princess Platinum yelled out.

"Yes, your majesty. Did the other pony tribes see reason as I predicted?" Clover the Clever asks.

"Those other tribes are impossible! I, for one, can no longer bear to be anywhere near those lowly creatures. The unicorns are noble, and majestic. We will no longer consort with the likes of them!" Princess Platinum says before walking through a door with Clover the Clever following.

"I take it that the meeting didn't go well?" A young filly dressed in regal clothes walking to them asks.

"The first born of Princess Platinum, Silver." Spike says.

"Well kinda, yes, by the way Silver where is your father?" Platinum asks slightly worried.

"He's doing another experiment." Silver answered.

Platinum sighs dramatically. "Not again. If he continues then something will hap..."

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

"Don't worry, that was just on the table, nothing else!" A voice calls from behind a smoking door.

Platinum sighs. "That's what I get for marrying the unicorn magician with an insatiable thirst for knowledge." Platinum says as the door opens and out comes a unicorn completely covered in dust

"The husband of Princess Platinum and one of the heads of the castle mages Prince Arcane." Spike narrates.

Arcane coughs a dust cloud. "That's what I get for mixing two spells that just amplifies an explosives spell." He coughs out another dust cloud.

"Dad I think you should stop messing with the explosive spells." Silver says.

Arcane smirks, but not before coughing out another dust cloud. "Where's the fun in that?" He remarks.

The audience chuckles at this.

"Dear..." Platinum started tapping her hoof.

Arcane shakes himself off and tries to cough out the dust. "Yes...?" He asks uneasily.

"What have I told you about blowing the castle up?" Platinum asks so calmly that it is scary.

Arcane chuckles nervously. "Don't destroy all of our priceless goods by a simple experimental explosion."

"And what did you do?"

He hung his head. "Made a simple experimental explosion." He said miserably.

"And?" Princess Platinum asks.

He sighs. "Harmed some of our priceless goods."

Platinum glares at him for a few minutes before sighing. "What am I gonna do with you." Platinum asks to herself.

Arcane smiles like the village idiot. "Love me?"

"Sometimes I think I'm too lenient with you." Platinum says facehoofing as Silver was laughing at the exchange between her parents.

Platinum sighs once before turning to them all. "Well in any case, we have to find some new land. I fear that this one is lost."

"Did we at least make any headway with the other tribes?" Silver asks.

Platinum shakes her head. "I'm afraid not. They are really stubborn for their own good."

"More like you're too stubborn for our own good." Silver muttered under her breathe.

Platinum turns around and starts to head for her quarters. "Now then, let's pack up and head off."

"What about Grandfather?" Silver asks.

Platinum nods as she keeps walking. "Yes, the whole family is coming."

"So only Grandfather Gold and Clover the Clever is coming along?" Silver asks.

"That's right." Princess Platinum verified.

Before they could continue a guard rushes in. "Princess Platinum I bring terrible news!" The guard yells.

Platinum groans out loud. "Now what?! What could be worse than leaving the entire kingdom behind?!" She yells.

"Your father King Gold the Kind has passed away." The Guard regrettably.

Everypony in the room freezes. Then Silver turns to him. "What?" She said quietly, almost not believing it.

"Your father King Gold the Kind has passed away from illness. I'm sorry your highness." The guard says. Arcane walks over to his wife and hugs her.

Arcane nuzzles Platinum. "I'm sorry."

"Father always did say he would never leave his home here." Platinum says with tears and nuzzles into her husband as Silver also started to cry.

He hugs Silver as she nuzzles them. "We can always stay."

The curtain falls then rises to show the earth ponies' home

Chancellor Puddinghead comes down the chimney.

"Wouldn't it have been easier to use the door, Chancellor?" Smart Cookie asks.

"Maybe for you, Smart Cookie. But I am a chancellor. I was elected because I know how to think outside the box. Which means I can also think inside the chimney. Can you think inside a chimney?" Chancellor Puddinghead asks. The audience laughs at her logic.

"Uh..." Smart cookie says a little dumbfounded.

"I didn't think so." Chancellor Puddinghead says her face covered in soot.

"Ugh." Smart Cookie groans.

"Ohmygosh. Hold on to your hooves, I am just about to be brilliant!" Chancellor Puddinghead says very energetic.

"That'd be a first." Smart cookie says under her breathe.

"I have decided that the Earth ponies are gonna go it alone!" Chancellor Puddinghead says.

"Aw, so you mean the other tribes didn't come around? Shoot... I really thought we could get through to 'em if we..." Smart Cookie began.

"Don't worry about them. We're the ones with all the food, right?" Chancellor Puddinghead asks knowingly.

"Actually, we're all out." Smart Cookie informs.

"Fine, then we'll have to go somewhere new where we can grow some new food. And with me as our fearless leader, what could go wrong?" Chancellor Puddinghead says opening the door and getting hit with a mini avalanche of snow.

"Where should I start?" Smart Cookie asks sarcastically as two earth ponies dug their way through the snow to enter the cabin. The stallion and filly both shook their bodies to get any excess snow off.

"Husband of Smart Cookie, Apple Field and their firstborn, Apple Pie." Spike narrates.

"I am super-duper excited! Aren't you excited Applefield? We get to go on a great journey to find new land! How about you Apple Pie?" Apple Pie raiser her hoof and opens her mouth, but before she can say anything, "Great! Let's pack up and start moving." Chancellor Puddinghead said pointing in the opposite direction of where they actually go and not allowing Apple Pie to speak.

Smart Cookie looks to her leader, Pudding Head in exasperation. Then turns to her husband and daughter. "Yes, I deal with this every day."

"No wonder ya'll so tired every day." Applefield says as Apple pie looks confused.

"Wait, what's going on?" Apple Pie asks.

"Chancellor Puddinghead says we are setting out to find a new land." Smart cookie answered.

"Oh..." Apple Pie said as she heard that...then, "WAIT, WHAT!"

"Don't question it just go with it." Smart Cookie says as Chancellor Puddinghead opens the front door and gets buried under snow again.

Smart Cookie sighs and walks off to the storage closet. "I'll get the shovel."

The curtain falls again and Spike comes out onto the stage. "We will now take a brief intermission. Please feel free to get up and stretch your legs." Spike says before retreating behind the curtain again.

Backstage

Lightning adjust his costume as the other stallions do the same. "I still can't believe that we're doing this." He remarked.

"Cheer up Lightning, you're doing great so far." Rainbow says.

Rainbow helps set the wing holes on his costume. "A few more scenes and we are done."

"Yeah, besides ya'll are doing great. I took a peek during your scene and it was almost like you both weren't actin." Applejack says.

They both chuckle nervously as they know what she is talking about. "Well, we practiced, that's good for us." Rainbow told her.

"Sure, that's all it is." Applejack says before leaving with both Rainbow and Lightning blushing.

"Are you excited guys?!" Both of the blushing ponies yelp as Pinkie appears behind them. "We get to do the real action scenes now."

"Throwing snowballs?" Both asked now not blushing.

Pinkie shakes her head like crazy. "No sillies. The traveling. I thought you knew that Rainbow?"

"How is that an action scene?" Lightning asks confused.

Pinkie snorts and giggles. "Because you are doing some action." She said smartly.

Lightning just looks at her awkwardly.

"So do you think I got that accent well enough?" The earth pony asks Applejack.

Applejack nods. "Yep, ya got it down to the pitch and tone."

"I feel as though I could do better."

She pats his side. "Nah, ya're good enough."

"Very well done." The unicorn actor says to Rarity and Sweetie Bell.

Rarity tries to brush the little dust off of her costume. "Yes well, we must prepare for the next bit."

"Certain in five minutes." Derpy says before going back to the props.

"Who was it that gave Derpy the job of overseeing the play anyways?" Lightning asks.

"Celestia, don't question it." Rainbow told him.

"So like Pinkie?" Lightning asks.

Rainbow stifles a laugh with her hoof. "Yeah."

"Curtain in 2 minutes." Derpy calls.

"I guess we're up." Lightning says.

The curtain rises to show the pegasus traveling scene

The curtain opens up and Razor Wind, Commander Hurricane, and Private Pancy are flying with Typhoon riding on Razor Wind's back. Razor Wind looks at the map. "The map shows that we're not much farther."

"Are you sure?" Typhoon asks looking over his shoulder.

"Stay alert private, you never know where are enemies are." Hurricane says.

Razor nods as they kept flying. "Yes, just past the mountains ahead."

"Ok. Hey daddy, look at mommy." Typhoon says as Razor Wind sees Hurricane fighting a cloud.

Razor goes up to his wife. "Is everything okay, honey?" He asks carefully.

Hurricane laughs nervously and Pancy is giggling at the scene. The heavy winds of the snow storm suddenly brings down a tree with a crash.

"YIPE!" Pancy yells, making her jump into Hurricane's forelegs.

Razor Wind's mouth turned into a grin and Typhoon was laughing at this scene. Hurricane huffs and let's go, sending Pancy falling before she caught herself with her wings.

The curtain falls and then rises to show the unicorns

Platinum hops around the snow to avoid it, but the snow has already melted and wetted her outfit.

"Ah honey what are you doing?" Arcane asks.

"Trying to avoid getting my outfit wet." She said as she hops around even higher, but it made things worse.

"You do remember you know levitation spells right?" Arcane asks.

Platinum stops and brings a hoof to her face. "Why didn't I realize that?" She asks herself.

"Because you were so focused on the problem you couldn't see the solution." Silver says causing everypony to look at her surprised.

"You are gonna have a sage like knowledge one day." Arcane says and Clover felt pride at the knowledge and wisdom her student possessed.

Platinum blushed in embarrassment and levitates herself with the others following behind her. Clover just shakes her head. 'I've been doing that ever since we left.' That is true since she is at least the correct height off the ground just so that the naked eye can't see it. Arcane then pulls her along with a magic tether from his horn.

The curtain falls and rises to show the earth ponies on a mountain path

Pudding Head walks through the snow as she looks through a map that has two holes for her eyes. "We are almost there!" She yells out. Cookie and her family tries to follow as the snow feels like it's getting deeper.

"She said that four hours ago." Apple Pie says back with her parents where Pudding Head couldn't hear them. Apple Pie stares at the map on her face. "Why does she have the map on her face anyway? She doesn't know where she is going if she can't see the map."

"I'll speak to her." Smart Cookie says sighing afterwards.

"Hey dad I have a question." Apple Pie told him.

"What is it?" Apple Field looks at her daughter, wondering what question she could have lingering in her head. 'I just hope it isn't a stupid question.' He hoped.

"If we are going to an undiscovered new land how do we have a map to there?" Apple Pie asks.

Apple Field stops and then facehooves as a sound effect went off in the background. The crowd laughs from the obvious logic.

The curtain falls. "And so, each leader encountered obstacles along the way, but eventually, they all arrived in a new and wondrous land. Nopony had ever seen paradise before." Spike narrates.

The curtain rises again showing the pegasus on a cloud

"This is the new land we've been searching for!" Commander Hurricane says.

"What a view... I can see my future house from here." Private Pansy says.

Hurricane is then given a flag by Razorwind and she plants it in the cloud. "I proclaim this new land to be... Pegasopolis!" Commander Hurricane proclaims.

"I've never seen such jewels! This ruby is dazzling. This whole land is dazzling. I'm double dazzled! In the name of the unicorns, I hereby dub this land Unicornia!" Princess Platinum proclaims.

"Shouldn't we check if there is any locals first?" Silver asks.

"Just let your mother have her moment for now." Arcane says.

The earth ponies are standing in a field as the other groups remained oblivious.

"The air! The trees! The dirt. This dirt is the dirtiest dirt in the whole dirt world!" Chancellor Puddinghead says wallowing in the dirt.

"And fertile, too. Perfect for growing food." Smart Cookie says as Applefield examines the ground.

"In the name of the Earth ponies, I think I'm gonna call this new place... uh... Dirtville." Chancellor Puddinghead announced as she planted a flag pole in the ground.

"How about Earth?" Smart Cookie asks.

"Earth! Congratulations to me for thinking of it." Chancellor Puddinghead proclaims again.

"We found our new home!" Commander Hurricane, Princess Platinum, and Chancellor Puddinghead yell all at once getting each other's attention. Upon seeing each other the three leaders start arguing much to the frustration of their families and friends.

Cookie Cutter brings a hoof to her ears as they get louder. Clover just brings a book out with her magic and starts to read it. "Do you have an extra book to borrow?" Razor asks. Clover just gives him another book. "Thanks." And so they read.

Not a minute later a snowball hits Razor wind in the face. Looking up he sees Puddinghead held down by the rest of the earth ponies and his wife and Platinum were about to start hitting each other with their hooves. "Please hold this while I try and stop this before it gets worse." Razor Wind says giving the book back.

Razor quickly tackles Hurricane, leaving a confused Platinum behind. "Hurricane, we don't have time for this! While you two were auguring the storm has gotten worse and now we need to find shelter!" Razor never yells to his wife like that unless it was something important.

Hurricane was cut off guard by this. Arcane also tries to restrain his wife but is having difficulty. "A little help here Clover." Arcane calls.

Clover sighs and places the book back into her bags and starts to restrain Platinum. Meanwhile Hurricane tries to pick herself up, only to be push back down, this time with her wings pinned. "Promise me that you will at least be rational for this new land." That wasn't a request that was an order.

"Alright." Hurricane begrudgingly says surprising the other leaders.

Razor lets go and lets his wife stand up. "Now we have to find some shelter because the blizzard is getting worse." He looks around and sees a cave on the mountain side. "We can take shelter there." He told everypony as he pointed to the cave, soon all three tribes in in the caved huddled around a small fire.

All of the families were huddled amongst themselves to keep warm due to the small fire. "Anypony have any more blankets?" Cookie asks trying to warm up her daughter.

"Here use my cloak, as one it is part of the winter uniform, so it will keep you warm." Razor Wind says removing his armor and cloak.

Hurricane grabs the cloak from him. "Are you crazy?! They're the enemy, not our friends!" She yelled to him.

She then wraps the cloak around their little Typhoon. "Here you go. Keep that away from your father's stupidity."

"Hurricane do we need to have another talk?" Razor Wind asks in a sweet but scary voice.

Hurricane freezes as she hears the tone. "Well...I...uh...I uh..." She stutters.

"Whoa, somepony who can make the great Commander Hurricane speechless." Platinum says mockingly.

Hurricane immediately grows mad and glares at Platinum. "You won't be saying that with my hoof down your...!" She feels a jab to her side. Looking to the jab she see Razor looking at her with a glare of his own and pointing at Typhoon. She seemed a little scared by her mother's sudden outburst.

Hurricane immediately calms down for the sake of her child. "I'm sorry honey. Mommy's having a rough day." She said as she hugs her daughter. Razor Wind wraps his cloak around the shivering Apple Pie.

Hurricane moves Typhoon closer to the fire as Platinum does the same. "Please, Commander Hothead." Platinum says.

"It's Commander Hurricane." Hurricane says annoyed.

Platinum clears her throat. "Please, Commander, could you just stand back and give me my royal space?" Platinum asks with a little sarcasm.

Hurricane huffs. "My little Typhoon needs her warmth to stay alive and she is definitely not sharing it with a has-been princess."

"I beg your pardon. I am Royalty you two bit barbarian." Platinum insults.

Hurricane's head shot up with an angry growl. "Two bits?! I can assure you that a lot of bits went into this armor to protect their leader!" She hits her armor to prove her point.

"A hunk of metal for those who can't even act like a proper mare." Platinum says.

Hurricane then points her hoof to her. "At least I act like a leader who isn't afraid of snow."

"How dare you." She points at the dirt. "You see this invisible line it outlines my territory." Platinum says pointing her hoof at the ground.

Hurricane smirks and steps over the line. Hurricane's smirk grew seeing Platinum get angrier. "Private, outline our territory." Hurricane ordered.

Pancy just shakes with fear making her armor rattle. Hurricane sighs and draws her territory, into the others.

The other rulers follow suit and start drawing lines. When Platinum and Hurricane line's crosses each other they growl. Pudding Head didn't know what was going on so she just followed the others example. Not a good idea for her as they were about to brawl. They then start arguing over a rock as the entrance freezes over.

The leaders didn't notice, but their families and assistance did. They all huddled in one corner of the cave as the wall finally covers the entrance. Then a whiny is echoed throughout the cave as the leaders continue to argue.

"HURRICANE!?" Razor Wind yells getting his wife's attention.

Hurricane looks over to her husband and then sees the ice wall of the entrance. She tries to move, but couldn't. Hurricane looks down and sees her legs starting to freeze up. Pudding Head and Platinum were too engrossed to notice that they too were icing up. Hurricane looks over to her Razor pleadingly. "Help." Almost a whisper.

Razor flew towards his wife but was hit by a blast of freezing wind that froze him and her as soon as he embraced her.

"Mommy! Daddy!" Typhoon yells out. She tries to run to them, but was held back by the other children. "Don't Typhoon! You'll freeze too!" They both yell.

"Let me go I got to save them!" Typhoon yells before being restrained by Private Pansy.

Pancy hugs Typhoon tightly as to not let her go. "You won't do any good by being frozen like them." She said softly to her. "You need to let us handle this."

"I don't think that's possible." Smart Cookie informed as Puddinghead and Platinum froze completely with their husbands as well, which happened without the notice of the rest of them.

Pancy eeps and hugs Typhoon to the point of choking. "Okay, we can't help them." She said fearfully.

The assistances gathered around the children as the ice grew closer until they heard a noise overhead. They all look up to see three blue spectral horses flying in a circle hovering overhead. They all shiver in fear, except for Clover who recognized what the spirits were.

"They must be windigos! My mentor Star Swirl the Bearded taught me about them. They're winter spirits that feed off fighting and hatred. The more hate the spirit feels, the colder things become!" Clover says.

"Then...this is our fault. We three tribes... we brought this blizzard to our home by fightin' and not trustin' each other. Now it's destroyin' this land, too." Smart Cookie says.

"But what about my Father, he never hated any of the other tribes. He was the biggest supporter of peace and harmony between the three tribes." Typhoon says.

Clover looks on sadly to the frozen ponies. "I heard of his methods. Maybe his way of talking actually made him seem as bad. It probably goes to anypony that acts with hatred."

"And now our bodies will become as cold as our hearts...all because we were foolish enough to hate." Clover says.

"Well, I don't hate you. I actually hate Commander Hurricane a lot more than I hate you guys." Pancy says. Typhoon looks at Pancy angrily before remembering what Clover said. She then calms down and just stares at her.

"That's my mom you're talking about." Typhoon says with a huff.

"Oh sorry." Pancy says.

Typhoon sighs. "It's okay, I know how she acts to her soldiers."

"Actually, I don't really hate her, I just really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really dislike her." Pancy says getting a chuckle out of everyone but Typhoon.

Typhoon looks to her frozen parents again. "Yeah, but that's what she is and what will be..." She turns to look at everypony. "...and I'm proud to be their daughter."

"You should be." Pancy says.

"Well, I don't hate you guys either." Smart Cookie says with the others agreeing with her. "No matter what our differences, we're all ponies." Smart cookie finishes.

As the ice is about to completely freeze them over Clover the Clever's horn unleashes a burst of magic blowing the windigos away.

"What was that?"

"I didn't know unicorns could do that."

"I didn't either. Nothing like this has ever happened before. But I know it couldn't have been just me. It came from all three of us, joined together, in friendship."

"All through the night, the three ponies kept the fire of friendship alive by telling stories to one another and by singing songs, which of course became the winter carols that we all still sing today. Eventually, the warmth of the fire and singing and laughing reached the leaders, and their bodies began to thaw. And, it even began to melt their hearts." Spike narrates and soon the ponies who were frozen start to thaw out.

The children run to their parents to hug them and they soon joined the rest at the fire again.

"The three leaders agreed to share the beautiful land, and live in harmony ever afterwards. And together, they named their new land. Though when Platinum and Hurricane started to fight their husbands quickly intervene." Spike narrates as the cast raises a flag of Equestria before the curtain falls again.

The cast comes out from behind the certain and takes a bow as the audience cheers and gives a rousing applause to the actors. Spitfire smiles as her brother enjoys the attention. She looks to her side to see the rest of the officers of the Wonderbolts cheering. 'Maybe it's about time I ask him to return to the Wonderbolts.' Spitfire thinks as the curtain closes for the final time.

Backstage

"So you coming to the after play party?" Rainbow asks through the door as Lightning was changing out of his costume.

Lightning places the costume back in the dresser. "Yeah, I might as well." He closes the dresser door.

Lightning walks out wearing his usual clothes and he and Rainbow Dash walks along with the rest of the cast to the party. The party was held in the living room area of backstage, able to hold many ponies at once, the room was repurpose and now adorned with many party supplies and food and drinks. As the party went on, Spitfire walks in and goes over to Lightning and Rainbow.

"Hey Lightning." Spitfire calls.

Lightning's ears perked up and turned around to see his sister approaching.

"Yeah, sis? What's up?" He asks.

"I just wanted to say hi, oh, and I brought the rest of the officers of the Wonderbolts with me." Spitfire says as they all walked in. "Oh is that all?" Lightning says as Rainbow Dash was getting excited.

"OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH!" Rainbow starts chanting.

"Rainbow." Lightning says getting her focus off them on him getting her to stop. Rainbow starts to laugh nervously. "He...he...sorry."

"I see all our practicing has allowed you to be able to snap out of that easily." Lightning says.

Rainbow blushes hard and tries to turn away from sight, but still takes some peeks every now and then. Soarin walks by fast after spotting a pie. Lightning looks at him weirdly then turns to his sister. She just shakes her head as a way of saying 'Don't question.'

"So still has the obsession with pie?" Lightning asks.

Spitfire sighs and does a facehoof. "I told you not to question."

"He had that before I left remember?" Lightning asks.

Spitfire groans out loud. "I don't want to deal with anything that involves pie and Soarin. So just drop it."

"Alright I won't bring up those incidents. So sister you look like you want to talk about something." Lightning says.

"Yeah." She looks at the other ponies listening in on the conversation. "But I want to do this in private." She tips her head to one of the dressing rooms.

Lightning looks at her questionably before turning to Rainbow. "You can stay here for a bit right?" Rainbow didn't move an inch. "Rainbow?" He pokes a hoof at her side, making her fall down like a wooden statue. Lightning sighs and grabs a glass of cold water and throws it onto her.

"YOW! Cold!" Rainbow yelled as she shot up, soaking wet.

"Now that you're awake Rainbow I'll go see what my sister wants." Lightning says walking passed her after Spitfire.

Rainbow shakes the rest of the water off and looks over to the food table to find some snacks, but ended up with finding Soarin's face in a pie. Her eyes slowly drifted back to the dressing room door where Spitfire and Lightning went to talk privately. Her curiosity getting the better of her, she walks over to eavesdrop.

"So sister what did you want to talk about?" Lightning asks.

Spitfire sighs and sits on her flank. "Well...I'm just wondering if you want to rejoin the Wonderbolts."

Lightning sighs. "I'm sorry sister I must decline." Lighting answered.

"What?" Almost a whisper came from Spitfire.

"I no longer think being a Wonderbolt is the life for me." Lightning says.

"Why, you used to love it all the time." Spitfire spat out.

"There is a saying sister. Time changes everypony. My time in Stalliongrad pushed me to the limit and change me so many ways and opened my eyes to so many things. I'm not the little foul that dreamed of being the greatest Wonderbolt." Lightning say.

"But..." She tried to plead then sighed. "I guess you're right."

"Sister look on the bright side. We are here now we can be a family again." Lightning says while smiling to ease her worries.

Spitfire smiles as best she could. "But it won't be all day like a real family, but I guess everypony changes and grows up someday."

"Yeah time waits for no pony." Lightning says.

Spitfire then looks to the door. "By the way, did you proposed yet and whens the wedding?" Rainbow flinches back as she hears this and thinks that Spitfire can see her. All Lightning did was blush like a tomato.

"Is it that obvious I like her?" Lightning asks.

Spitfire smirks. "You're my brother. Do you really want that answer?"

"Yes." Lightning says.

Rainbow leans her ear against the door harder to hear correctly. Spitfire walks over to the door and opens it, sending Rainbow flat on her face. Rainbow looks up with an embarrassed smile and looks around. "This isn't the bathroom?" She asks dubiously.

Lightning's face grew redder. "How much did you hear?" Lightning asks.

Rainbow gets up and dust herself off. "Since the beginning." Not looking at both of them. Spitfire closes the door to not allow anypony else in.

"So...ah...what are your feeling on the last part?" Lightning asks trying not to make eye contact.

Rainbow feels a shove, making her hit Lightning. Lightning catches her and breaks the fall from ever happening. Now they can't help but look into each other's eyes.

"So...ah...would you like to go out on a date sometime?" Lightning asks blushing hard.

Rainbow blushes heavily. "Yeah...I would like that."

Spitfire smiles and leaves them to their time alone having gotten all the answer she needs. Spitfire walks out with a smile and one of the Wonderbolt officers approached her. "So judging by that smile can we assume he is coming back to the Wonderbolts?" The Wonderbolt says delighted that Lighting is coming back.

Spitfire walks by, keeping the smile on her face. "Nope."

"Then why are you smiling?" The Wonderbolt asks confused.

Spitfire turns to him. "None of your business that's for sure."

"Mam, I am your assistant." The Wonderbolt reminded.

She frowns at his persistence. "This is my business and so is Lightning's, so don't even bother going to him. You do and I'll make sure that you fly around the course until your wings cramp and you have find a way out of it before you end up on the ground below!" She threatens.

The Wonderbolt cowards from her and hides behind his hooves. "Sorry sir, it won't happen again." He told her, scared out of his mind.

She nods hard once. "Good."

"Hey where's Dashie?" Pinkie Pie asks.

Twilight looks around backstage and finds nothing. "I have no idea." She told the others.

They see Spitfire walk by with a smile on her face. "Maybe Spitfire knows." Pinkie says bouncing towards Spitfire.

Spitfire bumps into somepony that strangely makes a squeaking sound. "Hi there! Do you know where Dashie is?"

Spitfire looks at her with eyebrow raised until she recognizes she was one of the actors. "I presume you mean Rainbow Dash?" Spitfire asks.

Pinkie nods like crazy. "Yeah, where is Dashie? Is she hiding under your wing?" She said as she lifts Spitfire's wing.

"Ah no, she is currently talking to my little brother. I say how they were developing feelings for one another and knowing my brother he most likely was having trouble telling his feeling so I gave them a little push." Spitfire says pulling her wing back.

Pinkie looks confused. "How hard a push? Like a regular push or a super heard push like this?" She gives Spitfire so hard a push that she went flying back into the wall that made a hole in the wall.

Spitfire climbs out the hole looking shocked. "Ok first how did you do that and second to answer your question. Basically I had him admit his feeling for her to me while she eavesdropped. Now that that awkward part is over maybe their relationship will proceed normally." Spitfire clarifies.

"First question is me being my usual Pinkie Pie self. The second one is thanks." She hops off to who knows where.

"She scares me." The actor who played Applefield said to Applejack.

Applejack just shrugs. "Who doesn't she scare these days?" She said offhoofly.

Pinkie Pie appears before her friends. "Oh who wants to eavesdrop on Dashie and Boltie?" Pinkie asks.

Twilight looks apprehensive. "I don't know Pinkie. That's an invasion of Rainbow's privacy and Lightning's too."

"Oh I wonder if they're kissing yet." Rarity says before squealing at the thought.

Twilight turns to Rarity. "We can't spy on them."

"Yes we can." Twilight turns back to Pinkie to see her dressed out in her spy outfit. "We got the gear." She said putting the night vision goggles on.

"Pinkie." Twilight was about to scold her but Pinkie dragged her and the rest of the Mane six to the door to eavesdrop. While the cutie mark crusaders were left confused. "So Scootaloo what do you think of Lightning Bolt, is he cool to you?" Apple Bloom asks trying to change the subject.

Scootaloo eyes lights up. "He is just as cool as Rainbow Dash. While we were rehearsing I started to think of him as a real father." She said admirably.

"From the sounds of it he and Rainbow Dash are gonna get together. What are your thoughts on that Scoots?" Sweetie Belle asks.

She stops being bug eyed and turns to them. "I don't know exactly." Was her only reply.

With Rainbow and Lightning

"So Rainbow what would you like to do?" Lightning asks while thinking he heard something at the door.

Rainbow blushes and looks away. "How about a flight for now. I'm not the one for dinner and all that." She rubs her hoof across the ground to stave away the embarrassment.

"Yeah we could do that." Lightning says before bringing his hoof up to his mouth to signal her to be quiet so he silently walks to the door.

"So...where should we go?" He said trying to keep up the ruse. "Maybe to Cloudsdale but..." Lightning stops mid-sentence and opens the door as the rest of the Mane Six tumbles in looking sheepish. "...maybe they have a recommendation." Lightning finishes.

Rainbow's astonished look turns to anger. "I thought that we agreed to never spy on each other for secrets after the Foal Free Press incident. Now I find you guys here doing the same thing."

"It was Pinkie's idea!" Rarity immediately shouted.

Rainbow walks to the mess of a spying group and moves everypony out of the way, leaving Pinkie huddled on the ground. "Well, what do you have to say for yourself?"

Pinkie looks around quickly and sees the food table. She grabs a pie as Soarin dives in for it, only to bang his muzzle on the table. "Surprise Attack!" You can guess what happens next. "My cover has been blown!" Pinkie yells running away.

"PINKIE! YOU GET YOUR FLANK BACK HERE, RIGHT NOW!" Rainbow yells out as she flies after her.

Everyone has a good laugh at this although Lightning was trying to suppress his own laughter.

Hour later on the streets of Canterlot

Rainbow finally stops chasing Pinkie and is walking with Lightning to a hotel the actors were staying in because the train wasn't running anymore that night.

Lightning gets some more of the pie that Pinkie hit Rainbow Dash with out of her Mane. Rainbow watches as he eats the pie of course. "Hey, can't let a good pie go to waste." Is the classic remark.

"Thanks for walking with me to the hotel Lightning." Rainbow says ignoring the pie running down her face.

Lightning warmly smiles. "Think nothing of it. Why don't you go on ahead? I have to take care of a few more things."

"Ok, but could you bring some hot apple cider they are selling. I kinda left my bits at home." Rainbow says sheepishly.

"Sure." He laughs a bit as she walks inside then he turns serious. He walks along and eventually into a furnace room. From there he uses his wings to get into the raptors where the shadows hide him perfectly. There he waited.

Lightning hears a door open and then a clack on the rafters of where he's at behind him. "Perfect now I just need to find him and take him out."

Lightning heard a voice on the nearby rafters say. "Oh and who is this somepony." Lightning says before moving to another rafter as he heard the pony jump on the rafter he was on.

The pony started to get a shaky voice. "I don't have a name yet, but I know where he is."

"So is this your first assassination job?" Lightning sarcastically asks throwing his voice using a trick he picked up hunting.

The voice started to sound shaky. "Y-yes sir."

"Pity. Because this is the memento of the last assassin." A piece of cloth falls to the ground.

"I'll try to find the name sir." The newbie assassin says nervously.

"Unfortunately you have three options: kill me, die by my hoof, or be killed by your superiors for failure." Lightning says.

"Please sir!" The newbie assassin says scared.

"So which option would you prefer?" Lightning asks.

Silence follows. "You made your choice." Lightning takes out a small dagger. He walks over to the assassin.

The new assassin didn't feel a thing as tears fell from his eyes and he dropped to the ground dead. Lightning Bolt just looked over the dead body and sigh. "I truly wished we lived in a world where this sort of thing was not necessary." Lightning says with sorrow.

"Sir would you like me to take care of the body?" A new voice says.

Lightning sighs. "Yes, just make sure that he's buried with his family present. He at least deserve that."

"Sir it's not my place but you did him a mercy. You ended him quick and painless. If his employers had been the ones who did it they would have made an example out of him and his death would have been long and painful." The voice says.

"You're right. But this does prove something." Lightning says.

"And that is?" The voice asks.

"Those creatures weren't there by natural means. Somepony deliberately put them there and this kid was not from Equestria meaning a foreign country. Which also means there is a traitor in this country and to make sure the creatures were never noticed while transporting them means it is someone with much money and influence. After you deliver the body I want you to start digging and find who was responsible." Lightning says.

"Of course." The voice says.

Lightning then left the building. Later he knocked on the door of the Mane six's hotel room.

Rainbow opens the door to find Lighting. "Hey there. Where's my Apple Cider?"

"Right here." Lightning say holding of a mug full of hot Apple Cider to Rainbow wearing an innocent smile. He feels his hoof empty after a moment after and finds Rainbow chugging the mug down.

"You want to come in?" Rainbow asks after she finishes.

Lightning nods his head. "Sure." Lightning says before walking into the room.

Author's Notes:

A/N: The next few chapters after this one is going to be slow. Probably by month instead of week. Reason is I have to get ready for college and that might get in the way of stuff. So not a lot of updating for a while when this is up. Once I'm in then the regular schedule can come back...or slow down by another week because...hey it's college.

Writer / Original Idea: Flair the demon dragon king

Writer / Editor: Primus

And that's another chapter and the beginning of many delays. Sorry again but its best this way for a bit. So does the great Flair have anything to say to our readers?

Flair: I just want to ask who saw the assassin attempt coming and can you guess what will happen next? Please place your answers in the reviews. Flair over and out.

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