Rainbow Dash was waiting for the rest of the Weather Team in the skies over one of Ponyville's fields, tapping her hoof impatiently.

Rainbow Dash had just gotten a letter from her superiors in the Equestrian Weather Administration, and she was not happy with them at the moment. The established weather schedule for Ponyville had called for little to no snow for the region this year, meaning it would take literally no effort for Winter Wrap-Up. The letter Rainbow Dash had received informed her of sudden changes.

The colossal bureaucracy that dictated weather law and weather procedure made it take a large amount of time to get anything through. The Equestrian Weather Administration set up weather schedules for the whole nation years in advance to counter this. However, they didn't anticipate nobles holding their courts anywhere in Everfree Province. The Ponyville Town Council permitting Noblesse Oblige to establish Ponyville as his Provincial Capital meant that significant changes had to be made on a moments notice.

Almost everypony who was apart of the Ponyville Weather Team was present. The only Pony they were waiting on was Thunderlane.

“Geez, that was embarrassing,” Said Thunderlane as he flying the Weather Team's usual gathering point.

“Urgh, tell me about,” Was all Rumble said, still upset at his mishap.

Thunderlane and Flitter had accompanied Rumble to see him off on his first day of School in Ponyville. They had arrived at the schoolhouse just before seven, just in time for the morning time class. They were greeted not by Ms. Cheerilee, but a dark green stallion who introduced himself as Limitless Potential. Rumble was not on Mr. Potential's student roster. This is when Mr. Potential looked on the other period rosters, and saw that Rumble was in the noon time class. They had arrived a whole five hours earlier than they should have. Both Flitter and Cloud Chaser both had busy days today at their jobs, so Thunderlane decided to take Rumble with him on the Weather Team today.

“Huh, that's weird,” Said Thunderlane.

Rumble traced his brother's gaze and found a strange sight indeed. It looked like for whatever reason, Rainbow Dash had called for a full muster for the Weather Team. Both brothers quickly looked over to the Everfree Forest. Everfree Province was one of few Equestrian provinces that actually needed a whole Weather Team in every settlement. Most provinces simply held a single Weather Team in the provincial capital as the land's natural magic was usually enough to sustain the area for a long period of time, meaning that they didn't require much weather-maintenance. Everfree Province was an exception to this rule as it's namesake forest had a will of it's own. The weather in the Everfree Forest was random and uncontrollable, and it was this 'wild weather' that often bled out into the surrounding settlements. The Weather Teams in the Everfree Province were not just there to watch over their own towns, but to make sure the wild weather didn't leak out to the rest of Equestria.

Thunderlane and Rumble were confused as they saw that the weather over the Everfree was calm, so whatever called for the entire Weather Team's attention was most likely an administrative issue. “I have a bad feeling about this,” commented Rumble.

“Finally!” Yelled Rainbow Dash as she saw Thunderlane closing in on the Weather Team.

Thunderlane and Rumble seated themselves on the storm clouds that had been placed for just this kind of occasion. That's strange thought Thunderlane The weather schedule called for clear skies and cold winds for the rest of the week.

“Now that Thunderlane is here,” Exclaimed Rainbow Dash, “As you all have noticed, we have received a heavy shipment of storm clouds from the EWA. With all of the development that Everfree Province will be under going soon, there had to be last minute adjustments to Ponyville's weather schedule.”

“Why would development cause the weather schedule to change?” Asked Rumble, lacking the education the other weather-Ponies had.

“Because a larger population and larger industry affects how much magic the leylines exude,” Explained Rainbow Dash, “More Earth Ponies means more magic feeding into the ground, more Unicorns and Pegasi means there will be an increase in loose ambient magic, and this all means that the Everfree Forest will be more active. Had we known that Ponyville would be a Provincial Capital ahead of time, it wouldn't be that big of a deal. But since we didn't know for sure until the end of the year, it means that we need more drastic weather immediately to keep the Everfree from going wild and expanding over the whole province,” There was more to it than that, but Rumble would get a more in depth explanation of it in school in some point and this required urgent attention.

“So what are doing with the storm clouds?” Asked a mare that Thunderlane recognized as Blossomforth.

Rainbow cringed as she knew nopony was going to like this particular sudden change, “While we have put the leylines into a light rest as the EWA called for, the upcoming increase in Everfree Province's magical signature means that it is too light as is. So, we are going to have basically drown the whole Province in ice and snow.”

“You're kidding, right?!” Asked a random Pegasus in the crowd.

“I'm not,” Said Rainbow Dash, “It's not just us, every Weather Team in the Province has too work double time to deepen the sleep that the area is in. Or else the wildlife in the Everfree Forest will overcome the settlements in Everfree Province and endanger not just our nation, but the whole continent.”

Rainbow Dash could hear the whole Weather Team in front of her talking amongst themselves with a slight tone of panic. Rainbow Dash would've simply told everypony to get to work, but she still needed a moment to mentally prepare herself, “Blossomforth, take your company over to the Farming Districts. Derpy, your company will handle the weather distribution over the Ponyville Fields. My company will deal with the City Limits. Come on Team! Lets fly!”

Celestia was looking out of the balcony that went to her private bedchamber. Though one could see over half of Equestria from this viewpoint, the Sun Princess had her gaze centered on the pitch black clouds surrounding the Everfree Forest. Noblesse could have actually made Ponyville his Provincial Capital since the 'Canterlot Wedding Fiasco,' but Celestia had used every trick she could have to delay her young grand nephew.

Celestia was concerned that her nephew wouldn't be safe in Everfree Province, especially not Ponyville. While she was sure that the accidents that had plagued Noblesse since he moved into the Canterlot Palace from the Under-City of Whoanelliesburg, she couldn't deny the outcry of her more conservative subjects in Canterlot. Noblesse did not make it a secret that he had taken the Under-City Blood Rites, and this sickened many Ponies who kept themselves in the know. Many Ponies demand that Noblesse be sent back to the Under-Cities, others suggested banishing him to Tartarus, a disturbing number of Ponies had demanded that the colt be executed for witchcraft.

Celestia shared her nephew's vision of reintegrating Under-City Ponies into the surface and now that Luna was supporting the idea as well, the Under-City Ponies were willing. Many Ponies were concerned that doing this would 'taint' the populace of Equestria, others were concerned that allowing Under-City Ponies to migrate to the surface would undermine the security that the Under-Cities provided to all of Equestria, though most simply saw them as subequine freaks and mutants that had no rights.

Celestia's worries caused her to delay her nephew for his own good, but he insisted. Celestia eventually saw her nephew's point of view in this matter, though it came very late. And because Noblesse wasn't able to start with bureaucracy that went into choosing a Provincial Capital until late into the year, the whole Province was suffering for it.

“Sister?” Called a familiar voice, “Are you alright?”

Celestia was so deep in thought that she didn't hear the flapping of Luna's wings. She spun around to face her younger sister, “Gah! Luna, you scared me.”

Luna couldn't help but chuckle, “Hehehe, it's not too often that you're the one that's caught off guard.”

Luna walked to Celestia's side as Celestia turned to face the Everfree Forest. Luna traced her sister's gaze to their old home, “Are you still beating yourself up over that?”

Celestia turned her head to face her sister again, “A whole County is suffering because I kept Noblesse from leaving for as long as possible.”

“You had the best of intentions,” Countered Luna, “You always have every one of us in mind.”

“You mean like when I bani-” Celestia was interrupted by a slap to the face from her younger sister.

Luna reached up and hugged her sister before speaking, “Tia, we've talked about this. My madness was not your fault. If I wanted our subjects' attention, I should have been more outgoing like you.”

Luna let go of Celestia and turned to the Everfree Forest. Luna didn't need a magical affinity for the subconscious to know that something else was bothering her sister, and she would figure out what.

“I understand that you're worried about him, but there's something else,” Stated Luna simply, “Please Tia, what's troubling you so much?”

“Was I that obvious?” Asked Celestia with a sad smile.

“Only because I know you so well sister, and I haven't been able to get to you in the Dreamscape,” Admitted Luna, “What could have you so worried that you've losing sleep?”

Celestia debated dodging the issue or even lying, but Luna was probably the only person alive who could tell that she would be lying. Luna was also the only person alive she would be comfortable talking about this particular subject.

Celestia decided to give Luna the truth, “I'm worried that I've created yet another monster,” Said Celestia, “Only this time it won't negligence, but laziness that made it.”

“I beg you're pardon?” Though Luna knew her sister better than anyone, even more so than their parents, she still couldn't always decipher what Celestia was thinking without an explanation.

Celestia sighed, “I'm afraid that Noblesse will become a second Nightmare Moon entity,” Admitted the Sun Princess, “Only it will be worse because it won't be jealousy and neglect that takes him, but paranoia and disdain that will drive him to commit whatever acts of vengeance he does.”

Luna nodded, she had the same worries about her grandfoal that her sister did. But she wasn't as worried as Celestia was. Noblesse was in Ponyville, the town that made her feel loved and respected after twelve-hundred years of neglect. The best chance of healing his heart lays in Ponyville.

Luna wrapped one of her wings around her sister, as best she could anyway, and gave her sister as much company and comfort as she could.

“So why did your family move from Trottingham?” Asked Noblesse.

“My parents lost their jobs, so we either had to move to a different town or move into one of the less 'enjoyable' parts of the city,” Explained Pipsqueak, “I might have been against moving 'ere if my old schoolmates weren't such jerks.”

Noblesse nodded, “I can relate. Most Ponies in Canterlot didn't exactly approve of my appearance either, they used to call me 'Golem' because my natural colors are closer to metal than candy,” Noblesse rolled his eyes thinking about his 'peers,' “It wasn't all bad though, I made some friends in the Palace District.”

The two colts would have continued their conversation, but Top Priority noticed something odd, “Why are all of the foals outside of the schoolhouse?”

The two colts stopped and noticed that the schoolhouse was in sight, “That's odd,” Said Pipsqueak, “We're supposed to be workin' on math this week, phys ed ain't till next week.”

The three Ponies felt the bite of cold as snow started falling from the skies. The three looked up and saw dark storm clouds expanding over all of Ponyville, “Doesn't the weather schedule call for clear skies this week?” Asked Noblesse.

“Hey! You three!” The three Ponies looked up but couldn't see the dark gray stallion landing in front of them due to the dark clouds in the skies.

Thunderlane cleared his throat to get the attention of the three Ponies looking to the skies, “You three need to head home now. There have been some issues with the EWA and we're going to be having massive snow storms all week long.”

“What about school?” Asked Pipsqueak.

“School's been canceled to keep Ponies from being hurt in the coming storms,” Explained Thunderlane, “I can have some guardponies help you three home, but have to head back immediately.”

The snow storm was increasing in intensity as the conversation went on. Even Thunderlane, who had the benefit of being a Pegasus, started to become uncomfortable in the dropping temperatures. The meridians throughout the body of a Pegasus gave them magical insulation which usually kept them warm no matter how cold the altitudes the Pegasi flew in. If the temperature dropped or raised too quickly however, it required some time for a Pegasi's body to adjust to the sudden change in temperature.

“Noblesse, Pipsqueak,” Called out Priority, “Stand on opposite sides of me.”

The two colts did as they were told as Top Priority began channeling magic into her horn. A yellow aura coated the purple mare's horn and became brighter and brighter within moments. Thunderlane had to cover his eyes as a blinding light came from the mare's horn and loud popping noise came from the direction of the three Ponies he was just addressing.

When Thunderlane uncovered his eyes, he saw that the three Ponies were gone. Thunderlane would have been concerned about their well being, but the crack of thunder above him reminded him that he had more important things to worry about at the moment. Thunderlane flew back into the skies too help manage the raging storm above him.

There was a large yellow flash in the foyer of the Everfree Palace surprising everypony that was not wearing the protective blindfolds.

Noblesse, Pipsqueak, and Priority were dizzy from the teleportation and needed to take a moment to regain their balance.

“Blimey!” Exclaimed Pipsqueak, “I didn't know you could worp multiple Ponies at once.”

“Neither did I,” Admitted Priority as she nearly stumbled, “I only risked it because I know that teleportation spells can't directly harm anything. The worst thing that could've happened is that we wouldn't quite make it to our destination.”

“Considering we're in the Everfree Forest, that could be pretty bad in of itself,” Pointed out Noblesse.

“The Everfree Forest?” Pipsqueak looked around at his new surroundings, “Where are we?”

“Oh, I forgot that thou hast never been here,” Said Noblesse, “Welcome to the Everfree Palace Pipsqueak, the new house of Provincial Government and house of Lord Noblesse Oblige.”

As Pipsqueak looked around, he saw the strange looking Ponies with blindfolds. At least, he though they were Ponies, “Oi, what in 'ell er they?” Pipsqueak pointed to the Under-City Ponies.

“The lord thought that now was a good time to reintegrate Under-City Ponies into Equestria's surface,” Started Priority, “The palace was going too need a large amount of staff and this ensures that surface Ponies don't discriminate against them for their looks.”

“Under-City Ponies?” Asked Pipsqueak.

Noblesse facehoofed and started chuckling, “Pfft- hahaha, this is going to take a while.”