Donut Joe was used to seeing all kind of ponies walk into his store. He didn't have enough hooves to count how many times Princess Celestia had come to pick up Twilight Sparkle after the child fell asleep after one too many sprinkled donuts.

Still seeing a member of the Royal Guard walking in, still wearing the uniform was quite something.

"Hey Grey Clouds, over here!" the black coated unicorn look up and saw two other Royal Guards, out of their uniforms sitting on the table. The white pegasus was calling him while they grey earth pony was finishing a chocolate donut.

"Hi Swift Shoes, Rock Bitter." he says while taking his helmet off and taking a seat.

"Finished the night shift?" Clouds merely nodded at Swift question. "Ah come on, cheer up. Donuts on me, hey Joe grab a pair for my friend here!"

"You´re awfully cheer, Shoes. Don´t you remember we were invaded just this morning?" Clouds said.

"Still with that?" Bitter said while he took another bite out of his donut. "The Captain and his wife got rid of those nasty things. End of story."

"I know, it´s ju-"

"Nah, Mr Gloomy Pants here is sad because Twilight Sparkle blew him off." Shoes interrupted him.

"She didn´t blew me off! She was...distracted. She just didn´t see me waving and instead went and yelled at the captain, ugh." Clouds simply hit the table with his face.

"Come on men, cheer up." Swift tried to comfort him while Donut levitated a plate filled with donuts.

"You don´t have a chance with her." Bitter coldy said.

While Swift was silently saying "dude!", Clouds simply punched the table in frustration. "You know why she doesn´t pay attention to me? Because nopony pays attention to us! They all think we´re background ponies or something but we do plenty of things! Remember that time we escorted Princess Celestia clean off those...things that were in Fillydelphia?"

"Yeah, you have a point. Everypony is crazy for the Wonderbolts and nopony wants to join the Royal Guard. Well, its not the Wonderbolts the ones who have to fly by next the dragon migration and make sure they don´t burn any village!" Shoes let go of his frustrations too.

"Think that is bad? Try dealing with Diamond Dogs." now it was Bitter turn to complain. "You´ll think that Prince Blueblood will be smart enough to NOT get kidnapped by them! Then again, they seemed pretty eager to return him when we find them."

"Hehe, yeah he´s kind of a plain in the flank." Clouds admitted.

"Yeah, I bet he whined his way out of that problem." Shoes joked.

Soon the three of them were laughing out loud and since they were the only clients around, Joe didn´t mind at all.

"You know guys, we may be not "famous" ponies but we still have an important job to do. And frankly I´m quite proud of that. I'm a Royal Guard Pony, that´s what I am and I wouldn´t trade it for the world" Grey Clouds announced and his friend agreed, making a toast with their donuts.

"But I bet you would trade it for a date wit Sparkle." Shoes joked.

"Okay, cut it out..."

"You still don´t have a chance."

"Shut up Bitter..."

"How does the captain calls her? Twiley? Yeah? Oh Cloudy has a crush on Twiley!"

"Shut up Shoes..."

"I bet Donut here has a better chance that you."

"I love you Twiley!"

"Cut it out guys!!"

Donut Joe smiled and levitated another glass to clean. It was just another night at Canterlot for him.

Just another night.