Life on the train after inkie’s rescue was pretty uneventful, of course Roxy and Clyde were grateful, and even Sherlock Hooves gave us a respectful glance, but nothing new happened. It was already morning, we had been up all night on this train.

“When are we going to get to las Pegas?” I asked

“Pretty soon” Sugar Blossoms said

I sighed, I wanted to get some sleep in-between now and then. But first, I had to have a sangwich (Translation: Brooklyn to English: Sandwich). I quickly head to the café cart in-between Carts 1 and 2 in its own little cart and got something to eat, nothing fancy; just a sangwich; Nonetheless a good sangwich. Pretty soon Dan and Tyler came by.

“O hey there you are Vespi” Dan said “Mike and Sugar Blossom are really kicking it off in there”

“Cool” I said, taking another sleepy bite of my sangwich “Sangwich?”

“A sandwich you mean?” Dan asked

“Yea a sangwich”

“No you mean a sandwich”

“Nah, sangwich”

“Sandwich”

“sangwich” I said

“Fine whatever get me a sangwich” Dan said. Pretty soon the 3 of us were drinking some soda while me and Dan ate our sandwiches. Tyler silently ate some potato chips. Pretty soon Nico dropped by aswell.

“Yea those two are probably going to make babies, I’ll just stay here” He said with that customary smile

“Go join them” I joked

“You guys are always going to remember that aren’t you?” Nico said

“We clearly are” Dan said

“Dude, that was pretty hot” Tyler joked

“Shut up” Nico said “Can I have something to drink?”

I got up from my sea at our booth and grabbed a Ponspi for Nico. Just as I bended over to get the soda a loud feminine voice from the intercom called out into the carts “Our next stop is Las Pegas, expected arrival is in 1 hour, enjoy.”

I headed back, sitting down, something just hit me like a brick, that book!

“Hang on guys I’ll be right back” I said, I rushed into Cart 1, passing Sugar Blossom and Mike intimately talking. Sugar Blossom barely looked my way when I came rushing out with the book.

“Here guys read this” I said, slamming the book on the table. A clock rang 1 o clock, on the dot.

“I hate books” Tyler said plainly

“Tyler can u even read?” I asked

“Fine let me try” Tyler said, I slid the book to his side. He quickly flipped it around

“White Cloaks and Red Cloaks? Tyler asked “What’s that?”

“Just read it” I said

“Fine” Tyler said. He opened the book to page 1, Nico and Dan looked over either of his shoulders to see what was on the pages.

“Wait go back what did that say? Dan asked

“It was just the title” Tyler said

“Wait who’s the author” Nico asked

“It didn’t say”

“Okay wait let me see” Dan said, grabbing the book

“No its my book I read it!” Tyler said, resisting Dan’s attempt to grab the book. God this was going to take forever.

“Here ill read it” I said, I grabbed the book from under Tyler’s hooves and opened it to the first actual page.

“Yaaaaaaay Story Time :D!” Dan said in a fake childish voice

I cleared my voice and began

“During the times of the three times there was massive amounts of xenophobia in every village and town. Many people didn’t trust their neighbors, their coworkers or even their own family. Many feared that the same ponies they lived with were actually spies from the other two spies. Aware of this, many ponies set up small groups of trusted individuals who usually met in secret.”

“Early on in this quarrel in-between the tribes, a small group of ponies in a small unicorn town formed a small guild, a guild where all members were bound to secrecy and all of said ponies were to trust one another. After choosing a name they declared themselves the ‘White Clocks”

“Sadly, early on one of the top members cloak was accidentally washed with the colors, giving him a pink cloak; which using magic powers; he turned into a crimson cloak. In order to not be that “One guy” he started his own guild, the “Red Cloaks”

“After a battle of supremacy, neither guild could get the edge over the other. By the time the first scouts explode Equestria, both guilds were gathering members from all races, Unicorn, Earth, and pegasus all banded together. For the first time in Equestrian history, race didn’t matter; all that mattered was the color of your clothes. “

It is common belief that both guilds both believed of a different race had walked in the lands of Equestria beforehand, they were a technologically advanced race, more advanced than anypony had ever seen. They were-“

“Excuse me” One of the stallions asked, I looked up two stallions were standing right by our booth. Both had mustaches and were wearing proper businessman’s attire.

“Wan we interest you in some shampoo?” The business pony asked opening a briefcase full of shampoo

“Were good thanks” Dan said

“Are you sure? We have strawberry!” The pony said. Wait a second, if you were to get rid of the mustaches…they look like, the two guys who were staring at me and Dan! I studied them for a quick second using the reflection of the table (I dunno), in-between cordial small talk with Dan and Nico they were eyeing the book.

It happened fast and it happened out of nowhere

“If you look closely the strawberrys are imported from Marabia” The one said, showing the shampoo to Tyler

“Nice bro” He said

In a split second a spray hit Tylers face from the shampoo bottle, the second pony grabbed the book and slid it into the briefcase.

“DAH HE JUST MACED ME!” Tyler screamed

Wait what? WE GOT TO GET THAT BOOK BACK!

“Nico after him!” I screamed “Dan let’s get Mike!”

Nico was a smart choice, him being a fucking god at sports made him the perfect pick for chasing down these guys. Dan and I ran through the Cart and into Cart 1.

When we came in all we saw was Sugar Blossom at the threshold of Mikes doorway. Mike was probably inside

“Hang on I’ll be right there!” She said quickly, aloof to us looking behind the door. She quickly scanned the room before flicking her wrist to reveal a blade. Wait….a hidden blade? It had a….crimson blade. Could they?

Sugar Blossom went into Mike’s room, Dan and I looked at each other, we knew what we had to do.

We kicked the door open

“MIKE LOOK OUT SHE HAS A KN-“ O wait, Sugar Blossom must of heard us, she had the knife already trained on Mike’s throat. She used him like a human/pony shield, in case we had any smart moves.

“Move and he dies” She said in a cold voice, what a bitch!

“Relax bro” Dan said, slowly approaching her “We don’t want any trouble, we just want to BAGEL!”

Dan snatched a bagel from Mike’s coffee table and chucked it at Sugar Blossom, hitting her right in the face.

Just then Mike turned around and punched her in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her. She quickly took hold of the knife and slashed at Mike, Mike jumped back and swung at her, missing. She responded with a hoof to the face, knocking Mike back.

Sugar Blossom turned around and threw the knife like a throwing knife. Dan jumped over the coffee table and onto the floor by it, the knife was lodged in the wall. Sugar Blossom quickly grabbed the knife and threw t again breaking the glass of the window; she jumped out before we could respond. She got away!

We quickly hoisted Mike up, fortunately he was conscious

“Thanks Dan, that bagel saved my life” He said

“Hurry we got to get those other two guys!” I shouted, Mike blindly followed us into the dining cart. Nico was there.

“They got away with the book!” he said

“Now what?” Mike asked, looking ready for a fight

I looked around, my sangwich was still there.

“I don’t know, im still hungry”

Meanwhile Tyler is still rolling around with mace in his eye.

And Conor is still missing

And Mike was almost seduced and murdered

You know, normal day.

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