I woke up the next day and I looked around, it was no dream, this was really my new house...well our new house once Rarity sorts herself out with what she needs on her end. Speaking of which, I should go and check on her today to see if she needs help with some of the big stuff. Getting out of my king size bed that will be shared soon, I grabbed a quick breakfast and began my walk to the boutique.

But halfway through my walk, I was stopped by the swoosh of a wind passing by. I looked up to see Soarin who landed by me as well as Thunderlane who I hadn't seen the competition at Rainbow Falls, he was a little less confident than Soarin, but smiled all the same.

"Yo Prince Bond!" Soarin greeted.

"Hi Prince Bond." Thunderlane added as he bowed.

"Hi there you two, what brings you to Ponyville?" I asked.

"Well, we just came to tell you that we found a bit of gossip." Soarin replied. "It happened earlier this morning that I heard from my marefriend Rainbow."

"Yeah, we heard that Flash Sentry, Twilight's personal guard finally got the courage to ask her out on a date." Thunderlane added. "They're going to be away from Ponyville until this evening."

"Well, that's a new one." I said. "Anything else."

Thunderlane began to blush. "Yeah...it's nothing special."

Soarin nudged him. "Come on, don't be shy in telling him about your crush on Lightning Dust."

"Dude, don't mention my crush, it's not cool."

I looked back with a smirk. "You have the hots for Lightning?"

Thunderlane went into a pale shade of red, confirming that he did.

"Well I say that you shouldn't be embarrassed, I think you both match pretty well." I assured. "You should try asking her out the next time you see her."

"Maybe not yet, but someday...and thanks."

"So anyways, Spike is gonna have the castle all to himself." Soarin continued. "We're thinking of having a party there and let our minds go wild, it would be awesome if you could come along!"

"Well, I'm tempted but at the moment, I'm waiting for Rarity to move some of her stuff into the new home I moved into yesterday." I replied.

"You have a new house? Mind if we crash there instead?"

"There's a baby cot in the corner of one of the rooms, what do you think?"

"I'll take that as a no...the castle it is then, I'm sure Spike won't mind."

"Wait, let's go and talk to Spike about it first before we jump into anything and if he says no, then you can leave me out of it."

"Okay man, let's go."

Soarin, Thunderlane and I began walking to the castle, but when we got there, we saw Flash and Princess Cadance looking over Twilight who appeared to be snoring her head off on a pile of books.

"Whoa, what happened to her?" I asked.

"Shhh!" Cadance replied.

"Napkin! Tell the delegates I'll..." Twilight mumbled before snoring again.

"She's been awake since midnight, preparing for the summit! We need to make sure she gets some rest today! She'll never be able to attend the welcome reception in this condition! Can I count on you to see to it that she isn't disturbed?"

"Uhhh, as much as we like to, we kinda wanted to ask Spike about a party." I answered.

"Actually you know what, don't worry about it." Thunderlane said. "We'll talk about this another time. see ya Bond."

Soarin sighed. "Okay, guess we'll plan it somewhere else, we'll see you sometime Bond."

Soarin and Thunderlane then left the castle.

"What about you, Flash?" I asked him.

"Uhhh, I'll come back and see her another time for a date." he replied before leaving as well.

Just then, Spike appeared. "I promise! I won't let you down!" he said determinately.

A little later, I helped taking Twilight to a bed in one of the towers of the Canterlot castle and tucking her in gently.

"Perfect." Spike commented.

Then we heard a bird chirping.

"Hey there bird." I greeted. "Do you follow me on twitter?"

"Uh, excuse me? Can you keep it down a little?" Spike asked before the bird began chirping louder. "I'll give you bird seed! Worms! Anything! Just please stop singing before you wake the Princess!"

The bird then left through the window and away from the castle.

"Huh, I can't believe that worked!" I said.

"You doubt my methods, dude?" Spike asked.

"I wouldn't dream of it, you know that."

We then heard several ponies outside, we looked through the balcony to see a group of ponies in a game of croquet.

"Hyah!" Spike yelled as he ran from the ccastle.

"Wait Spike! Wouldn't it be better to just shut the window?" I whispered loudly.

I sighed, knowing he couldn't hear me, so I closed the window slowly and drew the curtains. Now Twilight could get some sleep in peace. I then followed Spike out of the castle and to the ground to see him being crowded by ponies who didn't seem pleased by his interruption.

"Uh, hi fellas. Sorry to break up your game, but there's sort of an important diplomatic summit kind of thingy going on, and it involves a princess needing her sleep, and, uh...maybe you could move your game somewhere else?"

But before they could answer, a chainsaw began to work into motion, I looked to see a pony using one by a tree.

"Spike, wait!" I exclaimed but he seemed to ignore me as he went straight to the stallion.

"Excuse me! Do you have to do this right now?" Spike asked before he sneezed. "Oh no! Are those dragon-sneeze trees?!"

"Uh, these are too top-heavy." the stallion replied. "Wouldn't take much to bring these beauties down."

"Can't you just wait a few hours?"

"Sorry, it's a public hazard, got my orders."

"Spike! Could you just hold on for a moment!" I said. "I've been trying to tell you something."

"What, dude?!" Spike asked before he sneezed again.

"I closed the windows and pulled the curtains, Twilight shouldn't be able to hear anything out here right now."

Spike then jumped to the ground. "Ohhh, but I don't think that's gonna be enough."

Suddenly, a drill was then turned on and began drilling the ground by a unicorn. It was so loud from where we was, I couldn't stand it.

"Excuse me, sir! I really need you to stop right now!" Spike yelled before the drill stopped.

"Lemme guess, the noise? Sorry, but we can't have a broken water main!" the unicorn driller replied.

"Ugh, you couldn't do this yesterday?!"

"Spike!" I scolded lightly before carrying him away from the unicorn with my magic. "I know you wanna stop all this just to give Twilight her sleep, but that's no reason to start being rude to ponies, you're gonna get yourself in trouble."

"I know man, I know and I'm sorry, but I want Princess Twilight to be rested, Princess Cadance to be proud and that maybe, Princess Spike will get a little reward. Hah! Princess Spike."

"Except that you're not a female dragon." I giggled. "I think Prince is the word you're looking for."

We were then back at the tower where Twilight was sleeping, noises were still going on, but I knew that it wouldn't be a problem for Twilight. Just then, we began to hear an argument from two ponies who were walking past us.

"Let me handle this, Spike." I said as I walked to them. "Uh, greetings. Can I help you?"

"Well greetings mister..." The mare asked back.

"Prince Bond Racer, you might recognize me from some of the pairings on key events."

They gasped together before bowing.

The mare continued. "My distinguished friend the delegate from up Manehattan and I, the delegate from Whinnyapolis are having a bit of a pickle, and we need the Princess Twilight to resolve it!"

"Well we have a bit of bad news, Twilight is in no condition to solve this right now, she is in dire need of sleep, so maybe you could come back later?"

"Oh sure now gosh I wish we could but, uh, we're both supposed to give speeches about our local economies in five minutes, and we've been booked in the same hall!"

"I had the room first, and let's be honest, my speech is more important!" the Manehattan delegate said.

"Wait a moment there sir, I think you'll find my speech is the more important one, don't'cha know?"

"Look, you is gonna have a lot of unhappy delegates on your hooves unless we get a ruling from Princess Twilight right now!"

I gulped slightly, the last thing I want is for any trouble to be caused on my account because of a princess who needed sleep.

"Uh Spike?" I asked him.

"Lemme see what I can do." he replied before going in the room.

Spike shortly came out with a look of uncertainty.

"Well? What'd she say? She picked with me, right?" the Manehatten delegate asked.

"Hey hey hey, let's not be too hasty there good sir. I got a feeling she went with me." the Whinnyapolis delegate added.

"He-hey, if she didn't pick me, it ain't hard to see that as an insult to all of Manehattan! Know what I'm sayin'?"

"And it'd sure be a shame see something like a scheduling issue create a nasty old rift between Whinnyapolis and Ponyville!"

"So? What'd the Princess say?"

"Come on, now! Spit it out!"

Spike looked like he had to come up with something, he then looked back at them. "Um, she said that, well, she said that she...she wants you to...share it?"

I sighed away from him, knowing that this will not end well.

"If that's what the Princess wants, what are ya gonna do?" the Manehatten delegate said.

"The Princess is always right!" the Whinnyapolis delegate added as they shook hooves before walking away.

Spike sighed in relief as he sat down and pulled out a bowl of red gems. "Now, back to more important things!"

"Uh Spike, mind if I leave now? I have a few important errands to run today." I said.

"Oh uh sure thing, I've got it all under control." he replied confidently.

"Okay man, just try to stay out of trouble."

I then flew away and back to Ponyville and by the time I got back, I noticed Rarity with a few boxes carried by her magic.

"Hi my love." I said. "Sorry if I'm late, I got caught up in a few moments and-"

"Bond!" Rarity said as she looked at me. "Where have you been? I was looking all over for you as soon as I found the time to visit you, but you weren't there."

"Yeah about that, I got caught up in helping Spike on a few errands that Twilight can't handle, because Cadance said that she was working all through the night last night and hasn't been able to sleep until this morning."

"Well Twilight working through the night doesn't surprise me, but what on earth for?"

"Spike said it was to do with something called a summit at Canterlot, with delegate speakers from all across Equestria."

"That sounds like a huge lot for Spike to do, so I guess you're back for a reason?"

"Yeah, I wanted to come straight back and help you with any of the heavy equipment you need help moving with."

She looked back at me with a smirk. "Well you might be out of luck, darling. Big Mac volunteered to help with one of my spare sewing machines."

I then saw Big Mac coming out of the boutique, pulling a cart of the machine. "Eeyup! Fluttershy wanted me to help you after ya'll helped her with Tree Hugger."

"I see, is there anything else?" I asked Rarity. "Something that I can do to make this up to you?"

"Well, once some of my stuff is in our new home, you're gonna have to do whatever I tell you to do, later tonight."

"Yes, I will do so, my love...you know I'm sorry, right?"

Rarity walked towards me with a comforting smile. "Of course I do, dear."

We then shared a quick kiss.

"Save that for the night, ya'll!" Big Mac intervened as I blushed and grabbed one of the boxes outside the boutique.

After a short while of helping some of Rarity's stuff moved into the home, we told Big Mac that we could take care of the rest before he left smiling. Rarity and I then thought of having a quick dinner since it was approaching sunset time. Afterwards, we talked about where the stuff would go and we moved most of her things in the spare empty room that would be used as a spare sewing room.

We now looked at the whole house, it felt like a new and improved home, I had my fiancé with me and a foal on the way.

We then shared a long hug, it was almost like we made up and that we felt stronger than ever.

"Shall we go and tell the others?" I asked.

"Why of course, darling." she replied happily.

We then left the house and walked to Twilight's castle, as soon as we walked in, Twilight and Spike returned from Canterlot and they told us what happened after I had left.

"Well Spikey, it seemed you had your claws full today, although you did learn your lesson." Rarity commented.

"I sure did and I promise never to take everything into my own claws again if I can't handle it." Spike replied. "By the way Bond, thanks for helping me out when you did."

"It was no problem." I said. "I did try my best, even though it distracted me from what I was meant to do earlier."

"Oh yeah, we heard that you and Rarity have moved in together in that new house, awesome!"

"And we couldn't be happier for you both." Twilight added. "By the way, did you see Flash Sentry earlier?"

"I did and he said he would try to ask you out another time." I replied.

"Well this time, I will be awake to see him when he I get the time. See you both soon and have a good day."

Rarity and I left the castle and walked back to our new home, we then walked upstairs and looked to see the start of night time, we got into the king-size bed and snuggled up together, it felt warm to be by her side again.

Just then, I heard a knock on the door, I whispered to Rarity to let me handle it. I answered it to see Thunderlane...and Lightning Dust!

"Well good evening you two, what's all this?" I asked.

"We just wanted to say thank you for giving me that assurance boost I needed." Thunderlane replied.

"We had a really good date tonight, we'll be dating again when we have time." Lightning added. "Just taking it slow, know what I mean?"

"Of course and I am so glad it worked out well, goodnight."

They smiled and flew away as I closed the door and went back upstairs and to the bed to find Rarity out of it and dressed in her sexy nightwear outfit.

"Oh darling, I nearly forgot...you still owe me for what happened earlier." she said slyly.

I gulped, knowing that this was going to be a fun night before I could get any sleep.

Oh well, better enjoy it and see what tomorrow brings me... Next Chapter: Party Pooped Estimated time remaining: 3 Hours, 56 Minutes