If the events this day are referred to as "The Battle at Neighagara Falls" for the rest of history, I won't disagree.

It all seemed so peaceful at first. We packed up, gave the deer our thanks, and traveled onward to continue the Railway. A few ponies stayed behind in Hollow Shades, but no one stopped them. I don't blame them; Hollow Shades is a really nice place to live.

The entire feeling of the Trunkline changed as soon as the forest was out of sight. There were heated arguments between those I believed to be good friends. Others actually took a few swings at one another. I don't know how, but the crew was divided, one side on one half of the track, the same for the other. Progress had slowed significantly.

Then the unthinkable happened. Rook essentially stopped mid-throttle and collapsed on the tracks just in front of the Profectus. Big Iron kicked him, both literally and figuratively, off of the team. Swan rushed over and tried to defend her older brother. Unfortunately, when a female unicorn whose special talent is music goes up against a male workhorse who's probably been performing hard labor his entire life, the outcome was easy to predict. Of course, Swan was struck down, but nopony could've expected what happened next.

The unicorn was actually tied to a makeshift flogging post, and then Iron goes on to yell some kind of speech! "Disobey the crew, disobey Equestria! This is your punishment!" he kept screaming. The bastard pulled a whip out of freaking nowhere and held it out to the crew. "Who shall teach this blasphemer her lesson?!"

The entire world stopped for a few good second, and then Jack volunteers to give her the 7 lashings! I wanted to cripple the skittish pegasus right then and there, but now I realize that he had the best plan out of all of us.

The guy spun around lightning quick and turned the whip on his own boss! Gave him a good hit right across his eye!

The world stopped again, and then everything went to what the griffons call "Hell."

It was weird, seemed like slow motion at first. Everypony wordlessly turned on some other, like we all knew who to team up with and who to take down.

I've never used a hammer like that before.

It was over in what felt like seconds. Somehow, the side I was part of, the "good" side, managed to beat down Big Iron and those who followed him.

We chained the "bad guys" to the railway and set them on a march of shame back to Manehattan. Swan's alive and unharmed, Rook's walking again, and Jack has become friendlier with the remaining crew. He and Swan have grown closer. It was a violent change, but it was for the better.

I'm going to get to bed early tonight. The day's taken a toll on every-

There is smoke in the distance. We've all dropped what we're doing. We have our weapons at the ready. We're all galloping full speed towards the smoke. We fear the worst.