The train began to slow; the conductor began to shout orders to the few active crew to get ready to stop. The 5 of us the entire trip, besides the moose part, hadn’t done much. In reality, we had been hustled onto the train and it took off like a lightning bolt. It clearly was far faster than the Equestrian Express, because we were already almost there. I wonder what Canterlot looks like, is it big? Shiny? Big and shiny?

“There on our right is Canterlot City, we will be there in under 15 minutes.” Our conductor said, they really didn’t need a conductor since 90% of the crew had already been to Canterlot, but it was a nice edition.

Canterlot looked like some city out of a fantasy movie. It was a massive city, seated on top of a mountain. Next to it stood a behemoth of a water fall, falling almost from the sky, the city itself was impressive but it was hard to miss the castle. The entire area was adorned with huge spiraling towers of white and yellow and a huge land space. I could even see a massive telescope coming out of one of the towers, an observatorical expansion of some sort?

“GUYS WE LEFT THE MONEY BACK THERE!” Tyler shouted, Tyler was kind of…stupid, if you haven’t noticed and it kind of take him extra time to figure things out.

“Who cares!? Look at that observatorical expansion they have” Nico said

“Wait, who sent us again?” I asked

“Princess Solestia or something?” Mike said

“Celestia I think” Dan said “Why would a princess want us to come to her castle?”

“o my god Dan Its obvious, we are getting paid because we slammed a helicopter into a 50 foot Justin Bieber who was going to destroy the entire city of Las Pegas, including the army of Gryphons, Mob members, and Gangsters who were going to murder us.” Mike said, common knowledge is common knowledge.

“Okay we are almost there guys, like 10 minutes” Shining Armor said. Just then we hit the threshold of the city; passing the train station. What is going on? Then I realized, this Princess Celestia must have her own trains station at her castle.

We rode the rails through tunnels and through gardens. We passed through the entire city of Canterlot almost. Everywhere the rails took us, we saw beautiful looking houses, rich looking ponies wearing suits and fine dresses, and one drunk homeless guy who was eating a live mouse.

Eventually we got a close up of Canterlot Castle. It was just as big as you would have imagined, a moat covered the entire thing. The Castle was safeguarded by the waterfall off to its side, it formed a natural moat that ended into another waterfall. Over the center was a massive wooden and brass gate with guardsmen at watch towers. Just as soon as I thought we were going to go through the front gate, we made a sharp turn and went around Canterlot Castle. We entered through a well-guarded back door. We were here.  

Almost before we got off the train a massive barrage of flashes and non-seneschal babbling hit us like a brick wall. I then noticed that a massive army of members of the press were wildly shooting cameras and asking questions at us, we haven’t even set foot in Canterlot yet.

“Lieutenant, what is with all of these reporters here?” Shining Armor asked

“We had to let them in sir?”

“Princess’s Orders?”

“No, they blew a hole in the wall sir” The Lieutenant said quickly, obviously embarrassed to state that the ROYAL GUARD had been powerless against an army of eager reporters.

Shining Armor face hoofed and gave out a sigh “Fine, guys just walk fast, look straight, and talk to no one”

The door opened, everyone basically exploded at the sight and the flashes all went off almost at the same time, practically blinding us.

“Out of the way! Out of the way! All questions will be answered later at an interview!” Shining Armor said him and two guards pushing through the crowd of reporters for us. Even with Shining Armor’s orders it was hard not to turn around and tell people to get the fuck out of your face. It is more rage inducing then someone talking over you or even people breathing loudly into their mics on Xbox. Imagine a monkey that weighed just as much as you jumping on your back, blinding you and screaming in your damn ear. What would you do? Frankly I’d like to throw thee reporters into the moat,  but I doubt our story will look good under the headline “Stallion Throws Reporter into Waterfall”.

“Sir how did you defeat the monster that attacked Las Pegas”

“What did you sir do to help safe Las Pegas?”

“How do you like Canterlot so far”

“What do you want from Canterlot?”

“JUMBO SHRIMP, ALCOHOL AND FOR ONCE AND 8 HOUR NIGHT SLEEP” Mike shouted, I could almost see the disdain on Shining Armor’s face, but by then we were already approaching the massive back gate guarded by soldiers with spears. The 8 of us hurried inside and the gate was sealed behind us.

“Well that is done with, I’ll show you to your rooms” Shining Armor said. He dismissed his two guards and we passed through a giant artificial redoubt. Piles of dirt were stacked high and then smoothed out to make an artificial high ground; the bottom entrance was coated in steel and teeming with guard towers.

Once we got passed that it was apparent that Canterlot Castle was more than just a military stronghold. Like we saw on the train, it had gardens and room after room full of an amazing assortment of things. Café’s, bedrooms, party rooms, lounge rooms, wine cellars, tennis courts, observatorical areas, bars, minibars, its own club, an artificial FUCKING LAKE, 5 pools, 607 closets, 3 armories, 17 food courts, a dozen sun rooms, a make your own sundae bar, dungeons, art room, game room, an inside fort, and a shit ton of other things. I knew I’d be pretty easy to get lost in this castle.

The only bad part about this was we had to travel through all of that, Shining Armor even looked confused at some times and eventually he had to just ask for directions at times. But it was obvious he knew a fair part of the castle.

“Cadence!” He shouted what the fucks a Cadence? Then I turned around and realized he was talking about a pony, but this was just no ordinary pony. Most ponies have a horn, or wings, am I right? Well this bitch got a horn and some wings :O! Was this some other princess or something? She was a pink unisus (Unicorn Pegasus?) with tri-colored hair of deep purple, pink, and yellow white.

“Shining Armor!” She said, coming in for a hug and a kiss. Dawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

“Dude, that’s hot” Tyler said always trying to piss off authority.

“Guys this is my wife, Cadence” Shining Armor said, basically ignoring Tyler’s snide remark.

“Hi” She said “Wait, were you the ponies who killed that giant monster over Las Pegas?”

“Yea, that was all me” Mike said, I wasn’t sure to frown in disapproval, or smirk, Mike might lie, but he does it only to entertain everyone.

“Wow, that was amazing!” Cadence said

“Yea, we better get going, see ya Cadence (;3)” Shining Armor said, clearly insecure about getting upstaged by Mike; hes such a bro.

“So here are your suites” Shining Armor said, showing us our level of rooms. We instantly all fanned out and called rooms.

“My room has free shampoo it’s the best!” Tyler shouted

“All of ours do!” Nico shouted

Before we knew it we all were given precise orders from Shining Armor. He told us to get ready, there should be clothes already ready, and get prepared for the interview. A lot of ponies had heart about the giant monster, and even more had seen it on PonyTube (Our YouTube… couldn’t’ they have called it YouTube anyways?) via amateur eye-witnesses, AKA, idiots with phones.

It didn’t take long to realize that this could be an interesting night, we all were ready and were basically out on the stage almost. Then I realized there were 6 seats, was Conor going to be up here with us? Then I realized it was far worst.

“Who’s the 6th seat for?” I asked

“Well we got called up by a pony who said he knew you guys, he explained a lot and we agreed to let him on” The guy said. Well the guy probably had a name, but since im terrible with names, ‘ll just call him the guy

“Whats his name?” I asked

“He called himself, Harrison”

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God

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