A door knocked loudly and we were both woken up by it. I got out first and answered the door to see Pinkie bouncing.

"Morning Bond, urgent meeting at the castle, we need to go!" she exclaimed before bouncing away.

I just blinked, what did she meant by urgent meeting. Then I felt the hooves of Rarity behind me.

"Was somepony there, darling?" she asked. "Or shall we go back to bed?"

I sighed. "As much as I want us to, we've gotta be at Twilight's castle, it's quite urgent according to Pinkie."

"Well if we have to, we must be on our way."

We kissed, held hooves and made our way to the castle. When we walked into the hallway, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie and Rainbow were already there with Twilight pacing about in a line shape which doesn't surprise me.

"You look nervous. There's no reason to be nervous." Twilight said with a huge amount of nerves.  "Nothing to worry about. Everything's gonna be fine!"

"Twilight, tell those butterflies in your tummy to beat it!" Pinkie replied. "Making new friends is always fun."

"Ohhhh..."

"They're probably just as nervous as you are." Fluttershy said.

"You've been planning this shindig for weeks." Applejack added. "You know everything about these fellers. It's gonna be dandy."

Twilight tried to take deep breaths to calm down. "You're right. Remember, Equestria and Yakyakistan haven't opened their borders for hundreds of moons."

"So that's what you're concerned about?" I asked. "Where is it?"

"Well, Yakyakistan is so far north of the Crystal Mountains, nopony's even been there! Imagine the look on Princess Celestia's face when she finds out we made friends with a yak prince! I'm calm! I'm calm..."

Spike then appeared blowing a trumpet, before the doors opened and a carpet rolled down.

Three yaks...if that's what they were entered inside with their manes covering their eyes, two of them moved aside and the yak in the middle approached Twilight.

"Ponies! Greetings, ponies!" he said.

Twilight moved forward to greet them. "Prince Rutherford, your Majesty. On behalf of all of us, I welcome you to Equestria."

"Me honored. Yaks hope for great friendship between ponies and yaks. Friends for a thousand moons!"

"You must be hungry after a long journey."

Spike then rolled in a tray full of food, I had to admit that I was kinda hungry as this time of the late morning.

"We've prepared a banquet of traditional yak foods." Twilight continued.

"If things not perfect, yaks get mad. Yaks always get mad when things not perfect!"

Twilight gulped and the rest of us looked on as the Yak leader munched on a meal before spitting it out.

"This no taste like yak food! Fake pony food make yaks mad!"

He then roared and flipped the table over, making a mess on the carpet and then proceeding to charge around the castle and cause some damage.

"Is it okay to be nervous now?" Pinkie asked.

"Gee, I don't know..." I replied sarcastically.

"Darling!" Rarity whispered loudly, nudging my shoulder, I really gotta stop thinking out loud.

After a moment of mayhem, they left the castle, but the hallway was in ruins and we all had to clean up and repair the damage.

"Them yaks sure have a funny way of saying "howdy"." Applejack commented.

"They're different, that's all. Very... different." Rarity added.

"I think they broke my record for most stuff broken in under a minute." Rainbow said. "I mean, they even broke the trophy."

"All we have to do is show them how great it can be to have friends before Princess Celestia arrives for the friendship party tonight." Twilight advised. "Now, who read the seven-volume cross-indexed history of Yakyakistan I recommended?"

"Um... I-I had a thing..." Rainbow said, almost wandering off with her words, I guess she and Soarin had a private night.

"I did, I did." Pinkie replied. "Did you know they live so far north of the Crystal Empire that it's cold all the time? Yaks have yak fur to keep them warm."

"Pretty sure that's what fur's always for, Pinkie Pie." Applejack corrected.

"I know! Yaks are so cool!" Pinkie jumped at Applejack which caused her to let go the hammer which smashed the vase that Rarity just put back together.

"Pinkie Pie, can you show them around town?" Twilight asked. "I know you have to plan the friendship party too, but it would really help make them feel welcome."

"Don't worry. They'll be in good hooves with me."

"Remember, we want to make sure Equestria feels like home. That means doing everything we can to make this place feel like Yakyakistan."

"No problem!"

"Good. Let's get out there and make some new friends!"

They all cheered in agreement, but I was a little unsure about it.

As the other five left, I stayed behind to make sure nothing else was damaged around the hallway.

"Oh Bond, you're still here?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah, listen. I wasn't even aware of yaks living in Equestria." I replied. "And they sure as heck didn't look or felt friendly."

"I know it's a big ask, but remember our goal here, we're supposed to help spread the magic of friendship to places that need them, like the buffalo tribe and the griffon kingdom, this is just another one that we have to accomplish."

"Even so, I think it's too much to ask in trying to be reasoning with them and with Pinkie in charge, I'm not sure if she can handle it."

"Bond, how many years have you known Pinkie and the others before and after I settled here?"

"About six years now, but what's that gotta do with it?"

"You're supposed to have faith in Pinkie's methods, remember?"

Twilight had a point, it was over 2 years ago since I first discovered that I represented the element of faith. Of course, a lot of things had changed, but some things remained the same, I was only concerned that Pinkie could get hurt by the Yaks should any damaging take place.

"You're right Twilight...I kind of forgot, cause a lot of things have been happening to us since this castle first rose up from the ground."

"Well, I'm glad you see it, but I wanna know why?"

"I'm just worried that Pinkie might get hurt by the Yaks, I'm not sure if Celestia would appreciate yaks harming ponies."

"Bond, it will never come to that and even if it did, I would be the first to write to Celestia about it and she would take care of the issue."

"Well, I was also wondering...just in case Pinkie isn't able to set up the party, shall I be the backup party planner. Pinkie can just tell me what needs set up and I'll do it for her."

Twilight pondered over it and smiled back. "That's actually a sensible idea, Bond. You should go and tell her."

"Hmm, I will as soon as I find her."

"I think she went with Applejack to show them the hay beds in the barn."

I nodded before leaving the castle and trotting through the town...when suddenly, I was immediately stopped by a pie that just got thrown in my face...it tasted like pumpkin pie, my least favourite kind of pie, I let the pie drop to the ground and looked around to see who threw it.

"Well, look who it is. Bond Lame kin pie!" a familiar voice remarked.

"Diamond Tiara!" I yelled. "Show yourself right now!"

I then saw the little brat trotting up to me, she had a clipboard and a paper on her back for some reason.

"Not much of a prince now, are you?" she giggled. "I have asked my dad to put a restraining order on you. That means you can't strike back, even if I provoke you."

I used my magic to clean my whole face off. "A restraining order?" I asked. "You lair, your father is much smarter to know than to fall for your pack of lies."

"Oh really? Read this paper if you don't believe me."

"Fine, give it here."

I used my magic to read the paper...I gasped. I didn't want to believe it, but the signatures and the details were there. It has to be a very good fake, but I thought it was better to not continue the charade.

"Well, you got me there...guess I can't solve this."

"Ha! I thought so, Prince loser!" she then galloped away, laughing.

I never felt so mad since Dark Wonder came here, I wouldn't be surprise if she was one of his hell spawn, if he was still alive of course. I then reminded myself of what I was meant to do until I saw Pinkie and the others walking to the castle. I decided to walk back with them, they all seemed a little down.

A while later, we were back in the castle and sat in the throne room on our seven throne chairs.

"So how did it go with the yaks?" Twilight asked the girls and each of them replied differently.

"Y'know... it's goin' okay." Applejack responded.

"Satisfactory, I'd say." Rarity added.

"It could be better." Rainbow half-heartedly replied.

"It's not very good." Fluttershy whispered.

"It's a disaster!" Pinkie exclaimed in horror.

I sighed quietly, I was not surprised at all, but at least Pinkie wasn't hurt.

"Pinkie Pie, tonight's Yakyakistan theme party is more important than ever!" Twilight said. "You'll make them forget all about this afternoon, right? Because if it's not perfect, they're gonna smash everything! And I'm not sure how much more smashing this visit can take!"

"I definitely will! I think. Maybe...?" Pinkie then slumped to almost underneath the table, as if she was feeling scared.

"Wait Pinkie." I intervened. "How about I take care of the party?"

"You, wanna do it by yourself?"

"Well, not really, cause I will need your help in what it should look like."

"Awww I really appreciate your help. It's going to be my most happy-tacular party ever! I hope!

"Why are your eyes darting around like that?" Rainbow asked, pointing to her eyes.

"It's what I do when I'm not nervous!"

"Then what are we waiting for?" I asked. "Let's go and set it up."

Pinkie then whooshed out of the castle...I knew where she would go, so I left the castle and went to Sugarcube Corner to find Pinkie in her bedroom and she seemed to be more nervous then ever.

"Gummy, what am I gonna do?" she asked her pet. "I had all this amazing stuff planned for the party, but they're gonna hate it! There's no way to make Equestria feel like Yakyakistan. They're just too sensitive! Even Fluttershy made them mad!"

I entered into her room. "Pinkie! You need to calm the heck down and take deep breaths!" I exclaimed. "Seriously, it's not like you're building a skyscraper all on your own."

"Not helping! I need a new idea, and I need it now. How am I supposed to make this party feel like Yakyakistan without actually going there and bringing something back?!"

Just then, as Gummy pasted his tongue on her nose, she gasped as if she just had an idea. "Gummy, you're a genius."

"Uhhh Pinkie, what are you doing?"

"I'm going to go to the Yak kingdom and bring home some stuff that they'll actually like and feel like home, I'll be back later!"

"Wait, what am I supposed to do?"

"Just prepare the party and keep it under wraps until I get back! See ya!"

Without a moments pause, she zoomed out and from the window, I could see she galloped to the station and took a train ride to somewhere.

"Well, guess I better get to work..." I said before I heard hose words by Diamond from earlier, cause me to lose my cool. "...and if those Yaks get out of line, I'll just use my magic to stop them from causing any destruction. I'm sure Twilight won't mind me in doing some damage control."

The preparations were being made and I was more than halfway of finishing it all, when I heard Twilight's voice approaching the shop.

"And this is Sugarcube Corner. They're working hard to make your traditional Yakyakistan cake."

"Vanilla extract balance very tricky." I heard the yak prince reply.

Suddenly, Twilight appeared in the store just a few feet away from me. "How's tonight's party coming? I'm doing what I can, but it's really up to you two at this point! ...Pinkie? Where are she?!"

"She went off to where the Yaks originally live." I replied. "Something to do with making the party look like they are home away from home."

Just then, the yaks walked in and Mrs Cake gave the Yak prince a slice of the cake, he then chewed before spitting it out.

"Hmm...ponies too heavy on vanilla extract!"

That was it, I just had to release my new source of anger, no way was this place going to be smashed.

"Oh no you don't!" I exclaimed and just as the cake got squashed, I used my magic to catch them all and float above the floor, unable to escape.

"Alicorn prince pony, nasty to yaks!" he yelled.

"Bond! What are you doing?!" Twilight asked loudly.

"What does it look like, I'm trying to prevent them from causing anymore destruction."

"No, you can't solve this problem with magic, put them down!"

But I was in such a bad mood that I felt I didn't want to. "If I do that, they'll turn this place upside down, after all you said you were fed up with the damage they've caused in this town."

"But we're supposed to be diplomatic, let them go now!"

"FINE!" I shouted as I stopped using my magic and the yaks landed gently on the floor.

"We demand party!" the yak Prince demanded. "Party now or yaks no friends!"

"No! Just a little longer!" Twilight replied.

"No more longer! We leave now! Yak go to train, return with more yaks! We declare war!"

Twilight gasped and at that point, I really didn't care on what I said.

"Fine, go ahead and declare war on the ponies!" I replied rudely to them. "Your tribal attitudes and smash-it-up styles are no match for alicorn magic as Princess Celestia will prove when you come back. If I were you, I wouldn't bother returning, Equestria would be better off without your kind!"

Just then I received a huge slap to the face and it hurt just as much as being knocked out with a tree trunk.

"ENOUGH!!!" Twilight shouted. "I don't know what has gotten into you today, but I will not tolerate you being a bully!"

I finally lost it and snapped. "SHUT UP TWILIGHT! I'm not gonna put up with shtick! And you know what, screw you, screw these yaks and screw whatever ideas Pinkie has to solve this issue! As far as I'm concerned, I am done with today...DON'T BOTHER LOOKING FOR ME!!!"

I then blew away the door and flew out of the town at a rocket speed before I was so far away from Ponyville. I landed on the hill and began to take anger management breaths...curse that Diamond Tiara, she started that pot stirring to make me angry in the first place.

After taking time out for an hour, I sighed and thought of what I should've done earlier. I flew back and looked for the Tiara family home, Granny Smith was able to help me find the location when I went to the farm first.

I then came across a classy house, I knocked on the door and after a moment, the door opened and there was Filthy Rich.

"Well good afternoon Prince Bond." he greeted. "This is a pleasant surprise."

"The feeling is mutual. May I talk to you inside, it's about your daughter."

Filthy's smiled faded. "Oh I think I know where this is going, but yes, come on in."

We then sat in the dining room, I took a deep breath and began to tell him what happened to me thanks to Diamond Tiara, he seemed surprised.

"A restraining order?" he asked. "I never filed a restraining order...unless..." He then trotted upstairs and came back with the piece of paper I saw earlier. "Hmm, let's see." He read it through quickly until he stopped at the signature part. "Aha! I have found the problem...this signature is a forgery!"

"Forgery, you mean it's not real?" I asked.

"Yes, it seems that my daughter used my father's hoof-writing and passed it off as mine. Prince Bond, you have nothing to worry about and I apologise for my daughter's behaviour. I will see to it that she is punished first thing tomorrow morning."

"Oh thank goodness...thanks Filthy Rich. I shall be going now."

"Alright Prince, take care." he then bowed as I left the house.

I decided to walk back to Sugarcube Corner when suddenly, I heard a scream passing right by me, I galloped in pursuit until I ran into the store to find Pinkie landing on a bed.

"No! I'm all the way back where I started!" she exclaimed. "I was this close to helping Twilight befriend the yaks. Now I've just let everypony down."

I sighed and felt sad...I felt so bad for how I behaved, now was possibly a good time to start making up for that.

"Pinkie, you're not a failure, your tried your best...but it's also thanks to me that we may have just started a war."

"Really, but what did you do while I was gone?"

"You don't wanna know..."

Just then, we heard a bit of muffling coming from below us. Pinkie planted her ear to the ground and then lifted up her bed to reveal a secret slide.

"Looks like they found my secret party place, wanna come along?"

"No thanks, I'll just listen in from here."

"Okie dokie lokie."

She then slid down whilst I placed the bed to one side to hear what they were saying.

"Looky here. It's notes for the party she wants to throw for her folks' fiftieth anniversary." Applejack said. "But they ain't nearly that old! Huh. She's already plannin' their one-hundredth too. And their five-hundredth?"

"I had no idea she worked so hard on her parties." Twilight added.

"She may be more organized than you, Twilight." Rainbow remarked.

"Let's not get carried away."

"I just wish Pinkie Pie were here so we could tell her how much we all appreciate her hard work." Rarity said before she sniffed. "And my loving darling, I miss him already."

"Thank you! Thank you!" Pinkie exclaimed. "I love you too! All of you!"

"You're back!" Twilight said happily.

"I tried to go to Yakyakistan so I could bring something back for my party. But at the last second, I made a mistake. I worked harder on this party than any party ever. But I'm still just a big failure."

"Pinkie Pie, you're not a failure."

"What matters is how hard you tried." Fluttershy added.

"At least you were more reasonable in what you tried to do unlike 'somepony'." Rainbow said impolitely. "I mean, who else would've gone all across Equestria to plan one party?"

"You know...the trip was really hard. But everypony I met along the way was so helpful. I just wish the yaks could see how friendly and wonderful and great Equestria really is!" Pinkie then gasped. "I just got the best party idea ever!"

"It's too late. The yaks left on the last train." Twilight said with a hint of disappointment.

I never felt so guilty at that point...if only I could go back in time to prevent what I did.

"Um, no, they didn't. Trust me! There are a whole lot of sheep out here!"

"So, um, do we walk back up the slide or...or what?" Fluttershy asked.

At that moment, I decided to make myself scarce and leave before they could see me.

A while later, I heard a party going on all around town and as much as I wanted to join in, I didn't feel that I deserved it, since I nearly cost a future of a pony/yak alliance as well as the future of Equestria, so I watched from a short distance.

"I am very impressed, princess." Celestia complimented.

"Heh. Just doing my best to spread friendship." Twilight replied.

"And you did a wonderful job of it. You and your friends."

"Well...almost all of my friends...something happened with Bond Racer."

"Well Twilight, if something is wrong with him, it is best to give him as much breathing space as he wants. I am sure that he will come back a better and wiser pony."

When I heard those words, I shed a tear. She was right, it was best for me to be away from Ponyville...but what about Rarity, I can't leave her without nopony to cuddle up to, not after we both just got settled into our new home with a foal on the way.

Seeing a golden opportunity, I saw Sweetie Belle and whispered to her about me being away for a while, she nodded and soon, I flew away fast and gave Ponyville a wave, I wasn't going to be away for long.

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