Metals POV

"How do you get yourself into these situations Metal, now you've gone and gotten yourself into one of the most complicated dilemma of all. The love triangle." I rubbed my temples and sighed. "This is just perfect." I walked back into the castle and was greeted by a group of Thestrals that saw my performance, many where mares who gave compliments on my outfit, some having a small blush. After the crowd dispersed I headed back to Lunas room, all the way thinking about my current predicament.

I entered the room and found some clothes hangers, I took of my suit and placed it in Lunas closet. "I take it you're keeping the suit then?"

I turned to see Luna sitting on her bed with a warm smile. "Yep, I look good in it, be a shame to just throw it away." She giggled and I walked over and lay on the bed with her. "So, what did you think?"

She placed a hoof to chin in thought. "It was good, not brilliant but good." I playfully nudged her and she laughed. "Fine, you were amazing."

"That's what I want to hear." She giggled and lay down next to me. "Have I ever told you your laugh is adorable?" She just looked at my with a curious look. "What?"

"Nothing, just...thinking."

"There was a pause there, what's up?" I sat up and looked at her. She looked away and smiled sheepishly.

"It's just...you always give me those compliments, and I have trouble telling if they are genuine or just a little joke." I looked at her wide eyed. I looked at her and placed a hand on her cheek.

"I can promise you they are 100% genuine." She looked at me with hopeful eyes, I saw tears starting to form in her eyes as she tackled me with a hug. "Um...I guess I answered right?" She nodded and started nuzzling my cheek. She had me in a death grip, so, unable to escape, I accepted my fate and allowed her to snuggle up to me.

As the sun rose above the horizon I slipped out of Lunas room and down to the dining hall where I found Cream and Cheese eating their breakfasts. "Morning you two, sleep well?"

"Good morning Mr Metal Sonic, yes we slept really well, the beds here are really comfy, did you sleep well?"

"I don't sleep Cream, I'm a robot. At night I spend time with princess Luna." She looked curiously at me.

"There's another princess?"

"Two others actually. Princess Luna raises the moon and princess Cadence is the princess of love. Luna sleeps during the day, so when everyone else is asleep I keep her company." She smiled and returned to eating her meal. After a few minutes the rest of the ponies came to the dining hall, at this point I was laying on one of the beams near the roof to avoid talking to Dash, I know it's cowardly but I needed to think about some stuff.

I was sitting just tossing one of the emeralds into the air when Dash flew up to me. "What are you doing all the way up here?"

"Just thinking about some stuff."

"What kinda stuff?"

"Personal stuff."

"What kinda pers..."

"Don't ask, we'd just get caught in a question loop." She looked at me with her head tilted. "You'd keep asking me questions which I would give an answer that avoids the question and then it just keeps repeating."

"Oh." We just sat there in silence while everyone bellow took turns looking up at us.

"Do you need somethin RD or did you just want to know what I was doing?"

"Oh right, I just wanted to see if you were up for another race, without the whole crashing into a hilltop thing."

"Sure I'm game, just as long as I don't get damaged, I don't have the master emerald to heal me anymore."

"That's fine, we'll have the finish line in the sky." I nodded and she flew back down muttering something under her breath, didn't take a genius to know what she was saying. I sighed and shouted down to them.

"Don't think I didn't notice you all looking up here!" They all froze in place. "Morons." I flew down and started walking towards the door, not before walking past Fluttershy and whispering. "I heard everything." I continued to walk as she just looked at me.

"Might as well get this over with, I'm gonna have to sooner or later." I was in the gardens holding a replica of a power ring. I held it tightly and imprinted my message. "If anyone out there needs some assistance or just someone to hang out with, call Metal Sonic." A vortex appeared in front of me and I threw my new token into the multiverse. "There, now that that's over with, I can get to my race."

I began walking back to the castle when I heard Cadence yell something out. "Shining no!" I didn't have time to react as a beam of magic sent me flying. I sighed and regained my footing, I looked over to see an enraged Shining Armour with Cadence giving me an apologetic look.

"What did I do this time?" Shining floated over the newspaper from yesterday to me. "Wait, didn't Celestia clear this up, this was all a misunderstanding." He didn't believe me as he shot another beam which I avoided with a quickstep. "I'm not getting out of this am I?"

"Shining, please don't do this." The rest of the girls and mobians showed up and looked at me worriedly.

"Bro don't do this." Pleaded Twilight, her brother ignored her and took a fighting stance.

"My my, this looks interesting." We looked over to see Chrysalis sitting there with a bucket of popcorn along with...wait is that Mothball from Bride of Discord?

"Hey Chrysalis, how've you been?"

"Oh you know, just helping my children get settled into pony culture and whatnot." I nodded and turned back to Raging Armour.

"Look Shining, you don't wanna do this, it's one fight out of many that you won't win."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Nothing important, just a word of advice for the future, take good care of that horn." He narrowed his eyes and we took defensive stances. "Girls, take Cream to the library, I don't want her to see this." They nodded and started walking towards the castle.

"Please be careful Mr Metal Sonic." I nodded and turned to my opponent.

"Alright, let's do this."