"Is that Canterlot?" Natalie asked, pointing her finger at the big city with a castle literally merged with a mountain.

"Yes. Hang tight!" Replied the guard as he and the other two guards carrying Matt and NoLegs suddenly performed peregrine dives. Pretty soon, the sheer velocity of the sudden free-fall caused panic among the humans and cat.

"HOLY HEEEEELLLL!!!!" Matt shrieked as he barely hung onto both the guard and Heaven's Gate. His hat was on the hand guard above the hilt, and the wind threatened to whisk it away to the ends of the earth. It was a miracle it didn't let go!

"MAYBE THIS WAS A BAD IDEEEEAAA!!!!!" Cried Natalie as she used both hands to hold onto the guard's tail with the Nirvana in between her huge breasts and neck.

NoLegs yowled like someone repeatedly stepped on his tail.

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"Lance?" Asked Anna as she was in the streets of Canterlot with the others.

"Yeah? What is it, tree-woman?" Lance retorted, resting his gunblade on his shoulder.

"I get the feeling something's coming for us." Anna admitted, moving her eyes away from Nazi-boy.

"Um, guys, I see something in the sky." Twilight said as she was looking up at the full moon.

"What is it?" Rainbow asked, her ears perked because she heard a faint sound getting closer.

It sounded....like two ponies were screaming. Either that, or...

"GUYS! GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Lance called as he ran to the closest alleyway and proceeded to pull a Snake.

"HOLY SHIT!" Anna cried as she went to a bush opposite of Lance's box.

Rainbow and Twilight hid in the Valkyrie, which was lifted out of the way by the Mighty Oak.

Three Pegasus guards of the Crystal Nation landed gracefully onto their hooves. On the back of one was a blond youth with a golden sword. On the back of another was a legless cat. There was nothing on the third...until one saw a red-head barely holding his tail as she was face-first in the ground. Jutting out from under the red-head was a staff made of trees, complete with leaves.

"Matt?" Asked Lance, who lifted the cardboard box just slightly so he could peek.

"Natalie?" Anna gasped as she emerged from the bush.

"NoLegs?" Asked the mares as they peeked from the top of the Valkyrie.

The legless cat meowed as he hopped off the Pegasus's back.

"Hey, guys." Matt said as he got off the guard he rode and tried lifting Natalie up so he could hoist an arm onto his shoulder. He also found out that if she didn't have huge boobs, her ribcage would've cracked upon impact...or worse. "Yeah, we had problems at the Crystal Palace..."

"We saw Genesis from Ponyville, no need to inform us a second time." Lance sighed as he put the box in the Valkyrie and hoisted the mares out.

"We also had problems in Ponyville. First timberwolves, then those damn wasps!" Anna complained as she stepped out of the bush.

"Um, we had Golems and Slimes and lots of Bees and Ancient Eyes. And a walkabout Beholder." Matt said...before Natalie jolted awake and proceeded to beat him with her Nirvana.

"She really hates those things, huh?" Twilight asked.

"It's better to not bring it up around her. I bet that's what pissed her off." Lance whispered into the purple mare's ears.

"Natz! I was only telling them what we went through in the Palace! Take a chill pill!" Matt cried.

Natalie suddenly stopped. "Oh...I see.." She sighed before helping Matt off the ground. "I'm sorry."

"It's okay, Natz." Matt patted the mage's back with a smile.

"Where do we go now, Twilight?" Asked Lance.

"Straight to the castle. Tomorrow, that is. We need a place to rest and the Valkyrie would look suspicious to the unicorn residents here." Replied the unicorn. "But don't worry, I have an illusion spell that regular unicorns can't break."

"Okay...?" Asked Natalie, who was confused.

The Pegasus guards had long since taken flight back to the Crystal Nation while the Mighty Oak rested in an alleyway with the Valkyrie in front of him. The illusion spell was cast by Twilight before everyone went to bed. Anna and Lance shared one sleeping bag while Matt and Natalie shared another. NoLegs was curled between Rainbow and Twilight as they slept.

"Matt..." Natalie whispered.

"Yeah?" Replied the swordsman.

Natalie wrapped her arms around him and snuggled close.

"I had another bad dream." She answered.

Matt sighed, making sure to keep quiet. "Hoo boy, you wanting me to...uh...."

"Work your magic?" Natalie finished for him.

"Not with all these people present. I fear the worst." Matt whispered, sounding as if he was choking on a toad.

"Just a kiss?" Pleaded the mage.

"Not even that, sadly. They can hear." Matt pointed out. "When we have time to ourselves, maybe. I remember what Lance did when we thought we had privacy."

"Oh...that. At least we had payback." Natz snickered.

"You saw me and Anna?" Lancealot complained, acutely hearing what Matt said.

"Lance, they had the right to since we started the whole thing..." Anna pointed out, not even bothering to get up.

"I'll let you off the hook this time, Matt. Next time results in a double date." Lance hissed accusingly before covering back up and falling asleep.

"A double date is something you can't get, Nazi..." Matt said under his breath before he fell asleep.

"Only reason you two did that was because you were jealous that Matt and I did it..." Natalie mouthed before getting closer to Matt and falling asleep hugging him.