Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Spike walked out of the castle. Fluttershy trailing behind them and behind her was Rarity and applejack exchanging awkward glances. "Rarity I'm mighty sorry, I didn't mean…" Applejack started. Rarity looked at her with tears in her eyes "I'm sorry to applejack. I was really stressed but that's no excuse. I'm sorry too." They looked ahead to Fluttershy and nodded to each other. Rarity tapped her on the shoulder and they expected her to be crying.

She wasn't, Fluttershy beamed so hard she had stars in her eyes. She was happy which confused Rarity and Applejack "did you see Discord defend me?!" She said excitedly as she giggled, "he defended me, because he cares about me. Oh, he's come such a long way from not knowing everything about friendship to now. I'm so proud of him"

Applejack and rarity smiled, "yes, I suppose he has. I hate to change the subject but Applejack and I are very sorry about earlier." Rarity said frowning, Applejack added "mighty sorry sugar cube."

Fluttershy smiled at them both, "it hurt but I knew you're just stressed. Besides I'm too happy with Discords progress to be mad at you. Even if I wasn't I wouldn't want to stay mad at you." She said as she hugged them both, she let go to go join the rest of the group who were being stopped by guards. Applejack and Rarity followed closely behind her. Eventually, the group was caught up altogether.

“Celestia told us to come out here and meet you.” One of the guards said.

The group stood there confused. Celestia was still asleep and suddenly a voice rang through their head simultaneously. “No one must know, lie if you have to,”

“Right! Celestia, She told us to meet ya here, Definitely her, no reason not to believe it ain't her” Applejack said wrinkling her nose. Something she did when she lied.

“Yes...” The guard looked at her confused.

“Sorry, she's just panicking, This is all very stressful,” Fluttershy said butting in, covering Applejacks tracks. “Let’s go round every pony up.”

The guards shrugged it off, one of them spoke up “actually let us. Celestia gave us a list of all the homes in Canterlot. We will start with the closest and work our way up. When we come across some pony injured one of us will personally escort them back to the castle. If they are not we will put them in the cart and load them up, taking them back as one large group. This was Celestia's orders.”

Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Spike, and Fluttershy's eyes went wide. “Oh.” They said in unison as they tried their best to not act surprised. Not only was Discord currently going around as Celestia but he was going around giving orders as Celestia. It looked like they had no choice but to play along with the situation. There had to be a good reason as to why he pretended to be Celestia and they could just ask him later. Right now time was of the essence, homes were collapsed by the shock waves of the ongoing fight. If they stood here and debated it might mean lives wouldn’t be saved. So the group just followed the guards to the first house saying nothing, but millions of thoughts flew through their heads as they approached the doors of their very first house.

Fluttershy knocked on their first door thinking to herself why? Why did Discord make them a list? That's so organized. It made her anxiety swell up, she knew he could be orderly but it felt different this time and she had no idea why. Something felt foreboding like she shouldn't be here but by Discords side, but she put those feelings aside. She had to focus on her task now, to round up citizens. “Hello we-” she started her sentence only to realize she knew these ponies. It was Mrs. Cake. She had forgotten that they had been just visiting Canterlot this weekend, the Cakes planned on expanding their sweet shop to Canterlot.

“Hello Mr. and Mrs. Cake, we need you to come with us, please,” Fluttershy said boldly or what she considered bold. She had been seeing someone about that, someone who was actually a reputable therapist. Not like last time, when she took a certain minotaur's advice, she now took a kind wolf's advice. Yes, a wolf, a talking one, she would tell you about his backstory but that would take too long.

“Oh thank Celestia you're here, Mr cake is badly injured, Pumpkin and Pound are so worried. I can’t get him out from under the beam it's too heavy.” She said as she watched Pumpkin and Pound run to Pinkie, she whispered. “I have kept their eyes away from it.”

“Come to your favorite auntie!” Pinkie said with a bounce as she picked them up. It made them smile a tiny bit. She put them in the cart and started to juggle for them.

“Mind showin' us to Mr. Cake. I reckon I can get that beam off.” Applejack asked.

Mrs. Cake took applejack to the back of the house she was temporarily renting, there lay Mr. Cake his leg trapped squarely underneath a beam. It appeared to be broken in many places, and cut up pretty badly, blood-covered some of the floor.

Applejack winced at the sight she hated seeing a friend down like that. In one fell swoop, she bucked the beam in two halves. Mrs cake lifted one half away while rarity levitated the other. It was easier to lift now that it was in two manageable pieces. The two unicorn mares carefully lifted Mr cake off the ground and levitated him out of the house. The guards had prepared a gurney for him. There would have been silence but Pumpkin and Pound spoke up

“Pinkie Pie stopped hugging us so hard we can’t see.” Pumpkin and Pound said.

Pinkie looked at Mrs cake and smiled sheepishly. “Oh, you know your auntie Pinkie just loves her hardcore hugs.” Pinkie pie knew they were grown up, slightly older than Flurry heart but she didn’t care how grown up they were. They didn’t need to see this.

Mrs cake smiled sheepishly back and mouthed ‘thank you’ to Pinkie Pie as she followed her husband back to the castle.

Pinkie pie looked down at pumpkin and pound cake “you guys wanna help the adults?”

Pumpkin and pound smiled “we get to help?!”

“Of course, we could use you to cheer up the ponies that we’ll be putting in this cart. I know you can do it, you learned from the best.” Pinkie Pie said she had a plan to keep them distracted and to keep an eye on them.

Pumpkin and pound smiled up at her. “We’d love to help.” They said simultaneously.

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