Feral World

The next morning at the town hall, Celestia and Luna were in their office at the desk, as a unicorn guard was giving the two a follow up on what was going on last night. The unicorn guard had a white coat, and his mane and tail were colored cerulean, sapphire, and dark phthalo blue.

“Two cars blown up, belonging to mares Surf and Turf respectively,” he began, “The tree outside Flintheart's home just fell right over splitting his home in two, and the tree was in no means unstable at all.”

“Destruction like that and against those three particular ponies doesn't sound like simple vandalism or destruction of public property.” Luna suspected.

“And what of the ponies attacked last night?” Celestia inquired of the guard.

“One of them was Rumble, little brother to Thunderlane of the Wonderbolts division. Some armored figured snuck into his backyard and attacked him. His family found him in one of the garbage bins. And three more ponies identified as Hoops, Score, and Dumb Bell were found mercilessly beaten outside a gas station with the bones in their wings broken.”

“We thank you for this update, Shining Armor.” Celestia said.

“Of course. But that's just the damage report. There's also the recent missing ponies case,” Shining continued, “My little sister and her friends didn't come home last night. And I can tell not even Sunset and Luster came back?”

“They didn't.” Celestia said in sorrow.

“None of the other parents know where they went nor are they answering their phones. And more so, we found two of the guards stationed to patrol the wall were knocked out through some sleeping drug that was shot into them, we assume through tranquilizer. But we found no sign of the darts. Whoever did it knew to cover their tracks.”

The two sisters nodded, until another guard barged in, “News on the attack from last night, your highness’s!” he announced.

“Yes?” Celestia inquired.

“The three boys Hoops, Score, and Dumb Bell have woken up. They know the one who attacked them.”

“Who was it?” Luna asked.

“Spike Clawson.” the guard answered.

This news shocked the two princesses, but recalling the victims of the property destruction and the ponies who were attacked based off Sunset and Luster's stories they should've known Spike was connected to them. Especially with the threat he made yesterday about being done with Canterlot.”

“Are you absolutely sure of that?” Celestia inquired.

“That's who they said.” he confirmed.

“Why would Spike Clawson go out of his way to attack them?” Luna asked.

“They claim they don't know. He just showed up and started brutally attacking them.” the guard explained, as Shining Armor squinted. He would occasionally overhear his sister Twilight talk with her friends about how some of the students at her school, those three in general would target the only human student Spike Clawson out of their own sense of superiority.

“Is that all?” Celestia wondered.

“There is more. We have reason to believe it was Spike Clawson that knocked out the guards and left the city.”

“Oh, dear.” Celestia gasped.

Shining Armor started wondering something before gasping, “Oh, no. Princess, I think I know where your daughters and their friends went.”

“What?” Luna asked.

“I think they followed Spike over the wall.”

“Oh, no.” Celestia gasped in even more shock.

“Why would the Princesses own daughters follow one human over the wall?” the one guard asked in confusion.

Celestia sighed, “Because they couldn't stand living in this city no more than Spike could. How could I have let this happen?” she looked down in guilt.

Luna looked to the one guard, “Leave us.” the guard bowed before leaving and closed the door behind him.

“Princess?” Shining asked.

“It's my fault,” she said in guilt, “I thought I could help Spike and the other humans, but my daughters were right. I never did enough for them. And now Spike has gone AWOL from the city, and my daughters and their friends followed him because they also are ashamed of our lack of progress to help the humans. Why didn't I do more?!” she cried, as she slammed her fist onto the table making it shake.

“Sister, you are not to carry this blame alone,” Luna replied, “We're both in this together, and I haven't made any real progress either.”

Shining Armor spoke, “As captain of the guards it's my duty to keep the peace on the city's streets between the ponies and the humans. Sadly I'm always backed into a corner making me unable to help the humans as much as I want.”

The three looked ashamed of themselves knowing their lack of keeping the city safe for ponies and humans resulted in nine of their teenage citizens to run away beyond the wall.

“But where could they be going?” Luna wondered.

“There's nothing out there since the relocation in the city from years ago.” Shining Armor added.

“Spike sounded like he had a plan since our talk yesterday,” Celestia recalled, “He must believe there is something out there that could be habitable.”

“So what should we do?” Shining Armor asked.

Outside the room, the guard from before hadn't left, but had been listening in on their conversation, and still was, “Take a number of guards and see if you can find out where they are. They couldn't have gotten far from last night.” Celestia instructed.

“And what of Spike and the girls?” Shining asked.

“They are to be brought home unharmed. Especially Spike. Make sure the guards know that as well.”

“You have my word princess.”

The guard smirked, “No harm is to come to the human, huh? Well, we'll see if she'll keep that order if something were to happen and he happens to be the cause of it.” he snickered, as he left.

Back in the office, Celestia continued, “And you all must be very careful out there. Outside the Ferals, you never know what else could be out there beyond the walls.”

“I understand, Princess. I just hope Twily, and the others realize that as well.” Shining Armor said in worry.

Meanwhile far from Canterlot, Spike and the girls had been trekking through the wasteland of the world along the dusty road.

“Oh, there's sand in my everything.” Rarity panted.

“Spike, we've been walking all night, and all morning,” Applejack called to the boy leading them, “Don't you think it's best we stop somewhere to rest?”

“Remember what I said about keeping up, Applejack?” Spike replied.

“I do, but even you can't keep walking this long without feeling tired.” Applejack noted.

“A.J's right, Spike,” Twilight agreed, “If we don't rest soon none of us will be in any condition to keep going. Not even you.”

Spike sighed knowing they were right, and that exhaustion was starting to creep over him, “Ok, I get it. Fortunately, there's a city up ahead where we can stop for a breather.”

“What is it?” Fluttershy asked.

“All that remains of Chicoltgo.” Spike replied.

“I'd hate to imagine what's become of it after all this time.” Rarity said in worry.

“We'll find out soon enough.” Sunset replied, as they kept on walking.

Soon enough they arrived at the city of Chicoltgo. The whole city was a ghost town with debris lying all over the place, buildings and shops with broken windows and damaged roofs, and cars abandoned on the streets.

“What a dump.” Rainbow looked around.

“To think this city like so many others from long ago used to be teeming with life.” Luster gasped.

“Now it's just rotting away.” Pinkie said sadly.

“We should take the time to salvage some things around here just in case.” Spike suggested.

“Like how about a cool ride?” Rainbow suggested, while looking over the various abandoned cars.

“A ride?” Twilight asked.

“Well, duh? You think any of us can make it to the Garden by foot alone. And not all of us can fly.” Rainbow reminded them.

“She has a point.” Pinkie agreed.

“What do you think, Spike?” Twilight asked.

“Well, It would be good to have some mode of transportation. Especially since I'm not traveling alone like I initially planned.” he replied to her.

“Are you still bitter about that?” Sunset asked in disbelief.

“I thought you were ok with it.” Applejack said.

“I am. I just didn't realize there could be true complications if I was unable to repair my rocket boots and how far I could get on foot. I guess I didn't think of every possibility as I thought.” he sighed.

“Everyone makes an oversight, Spike, even I've made them in several of my own studies.” Twilight confessed.

“First thing we should do is go someplace to rest. Preferably a place where we know we can be safe.” Rarity noted.

Spike looked up and saw a hotel tower, “Bingo.” he smirked.

They walked into the lobby of the hotel to see much like the outside, the inside was trashed as well with debris laying all around and baggage carts lying on their sides.

Sunset walked to the elevator, “Hope it still works,” she clicked the up button but nothing happened, “So much for that.” she sighed.

“Hold on,” Spike went to the fuse box and opened it. After turning everything on, he spoke, “Try it now.”

Sunset pressed the elevator button to see it activated, “It works!”

“Let's go all the way up to the penthouse level.” Rainbow suggested, as they piled into the elevator that closed and took them all the way up.

When they reached the top floor, they piled out and walked down the empty hall passing by several housekeeping carts. They stopped before one room, but noticed it was flung wide open.

“At least we don't need a key.” Luster said, as they poked their heads inside seeing the villa looked trashed, but it still looked hospitable enough to rest in.

“I don't think anything's here.” Fluttershy said.

“Good, we don't need any Ferals up here.” Spike said.

“Ok, let's all get a bit of shut eye, and when we wake up we'll get to salvaging.” Twilight instructed.

The girls started picking out several of the rooms to take a bed for themselves, while Rainbow, Applejack, Pinkie, and Sunset stayed behind to sleep on the large sofas. As Spike went to find some place to lay down and rest, he found his hand taken by Rarity who whispered, “Come with me.”

So Spike followed Rarity into one of the rooms, where she had just used her magic to remove anything covering the bed so they could lay down.

“Rarity, why're you letting me share this bed with you?” Spike asked in confusion.

“Because you've never truly slept on a real comfy bed, Spike. I can imagine the beds at the orphanage were no different than what you had to sleep on in that apartment of yours.”

“Yeah, there wasn't a real difference.” Spike admitted.

“Well, come on. Lay down and rest.” Rarity said, as she laid atop the bed on her side, while rubbing the side next to her.

Spike got on the bed and laid down on his back right next to Rarity, “Whoa.” he said in surprise.

“What?”

“I feel so comfy. I don't think I can get up.”

Rarity giggled, “Don't worry about getting up right now. Just relax and sleep.” she said soothingly.

Spike finally let sleep take hold, as he shut his eyes. Rarity herself followed, as she fell asleep right next to the boy.

Hours later, Spike's eyes started to open as he let out a yawn, “Wow. That the best sleep I ever had.” he tried to sit up only to realize something was weighing him down. He looked to see Rarity sleeping on top of him, as she nuzzled her head into his chest looking all comfortable.

Spike looked down and blushing while thinking, 'I have a girl pony cuddling me in a bed. This is real!' he mentally cheered.

As Rarity kept snuggling up to Spike, he couldn't help but put his arms around her, 'She feels so soft.' he thought to himself, 'And, oh, wow. Is she really pressing her rack against me?' he blushed harder, as he could feel Rarity's breasts through her shirt rubbing against him.

Suddenly the unicorn girl woke up and yawned, “Mm, now that's some good beauty sleep,” she looked over at Spike, “Oh, Spike. Good morning, did you sleep well?”

“Uh, good morning. And yeah I slept like the dead.”

“Well, you've earned it as much as we did.” Rarity smiled.

“Thanks.” Spike smiled, as they gazed at each other, until he continued, “We should probably get up.”

“Right.” Rarity agreed sheepishly, as they sat up and left the room.

They entered the main room to see everyone else had woken up as well, “Alright, girls, everyone rested up?” Spike inquired.

“I'm fit as a fiddle.” Applejack answered, as she stretched her arms up, before putting her hat back on.

“We're all good.” Luster agreed.

“Good. Let's head out to closest convenience stores and scrounge up anything edible.” Spike instructed.

“Yessir!” Pinkie saluted.

So they left the hotel and explored around the empty city, “Imagine an entire city devoid of life.” Twilight said in surprise.

“Kinda depressing.” Pinkie said, as she looked around.

“What do you supposed happened to everyone who used to live here?” Fluttershy asked.

“Like you have to ask?” Spike asked rhetorically, “Whatever humans probably lived here turned Feral and wiped out anyone else human and pony alike.”

“Spike, I didn't mean to-” Fluttershy tried to apologize.

“It's fine, Fluttershy, forget about it.” Spike said, as he just walked ahead.

“Oh, now I've made him mad.” Fluttershy said in guilt.

“Don't take it so hard, Fluttershy.” Sunset calmed her.

“Remember we're all here to help Spike, and show him there are those that still care.” Rainbow added.

Fluttershy sniffled, before smiling, “Yes, you're right.”

They stopped outside one of the abandoned convenience stores, before going inside, “Remember to grab anything that won't perish.” Spike ordered, as they started collecting what they could. Spike bagged whatever he could and went outside. He took a seat on a bench and scoped around the area seeing nothing's changed.

He looked and imagined how much better this city used to be before the pandemic. People and even ponies were going about their daily lives without a care in the world regardless of whatever hostilities they had for the other. His fantasy soon faded back to the ruins the city was now. Spike suddenly saw Fluttershy take a seat next to him.

“I know the outside world beyond the wall isn't what you expected.” she began.

“I knew there'd be places like this,” Spike confessed, “Not every city was lucky to be protected.”

“And yet you never felt protected even when you were rescued.” Fluttershy said.

“All my life was a constant struggle,” Spike looked down, “At the orphanage several of the pony kids there shunned me because I was human and could be feral. And any of the surviving human kids like me were too afraid to stand up for me or themselves. I was alone there, and I was alone when they kicked me out.”

Spike was suddenly pulled closer to Fluttershy who held his head close to her bosom, “That's all in the past, Spike. Because you're not alone anymore. You have me and the rest of the girls now. And no matter what we're all going to stick together. Including you.”

Spike started to smiled, as he rested comfortably on Fluttershy's bust. Until they heard the store's door open, and they pulled away from each other.

“Yo, Spike, we got what we need.” Rainbow said, as they saw Spike and Fluttershy on the bench blushing nervously.

“Are you two ok?” Applejack asked.

“We're ok!” Fluttershy and Spike answered a little too loudly.

“Ok.” Sunset replied sensing the awkwardness.

“So, now that we got enough food and drink, we'll need some way to store it.” Spike said.

“Already take care of.” Twilight replied, as she pulled out a simple knapsack.

“That doesn't look big enough, Twilight.” Spike noted.

“Looks can be deceiving, Spike.” Twilight smirked, as she took a bag of food and put it inside the back, and then to Spike's surprise started putting the other bags inside.

“Well, that makes it easier.” Spike admitted.

“Well we got our rations covered, now we just need to find us some wheels to travel by.” Applejack said.

“Shouldn't be too hard, since we got us a whole lot to pick from.” Rainbow motioned to the various abandoned vehicles.

“We should at least pick one that can support all of us, Rainbow.” Twilight reminded her.

“And one with style as well.” Rarity put in.

“And none of the ones around here fit the bill.” Pinkie looked over the various abandoned vehicles inside and out.

“We could always raid a car place.” Rainbow suggested.

Spike looked and saw a dump in the distance, but saw something else as well. He dawned his mask, and the lenses zoomed in giving him a better view. He smiled, and spoke, “Girls, I think I found our ride.”

“Where, Spike?” Luster asked.

“Follow me.” Spike activated his rocket boots and flew off.

“Spike, hold up!” Twilight called, as she Rainbow, and Fluttershy flew after him while holding onto the rest of the girls.

They saw Spike land outside a spot, and they landed as well. Rarity looked up and saw where they landed and looked repulsed, “A junkyard? Blech!”

“Are you serious?” Sunset asked the boy.

“Trust me, there's something here we can use.” he entered the place and started looking around.

The girls followed Spike while trying not to step on anything sharp or dangerous. Spike stopped and saw what he spotted on a mountain of compressed junk, “That!”

The girls looked and saw Spike was eyeing an old broken down Winnebago, “That's it?” Rainbow asked sounding unimpressed.

“We wouldn't even get an inch in that thing.” Luster said.

“Even if it does look big enough, how can that thing move?” Fluttershy asked.

“Now hold on, girls,” Applejack stopped them, “Sure it may not look like much, but if we all put our minds to it I'm sure we can make this jalopy into a vehicle fit for the road.”

“Applejack may be onto something,” Twilight agreed, “Plus with the right fine tuning it can also make for the perfect combat vehicle.”

“Well, I do love a challenge.” Rainbow admitted.

“And I suppose I could make it more presentable.” Rarity agreed.

“So, you girls all in?” Spike asked, and they gave him nods of confirmation, “Perfect.”

Twilight, Sunset, Rarity, and Luster used their magic to levitate the vehicle off the piles of compressed garbage and put it safely on the ground.

“I'll draw up some plans, while the rest of you get any equipment you can find.” Twilight instructed, until Fluttershy froze.

“Fluttershy, what's wrong, darling?” Rarity asked in concern, as they all looked at her.

Fluttershy spoke up, “Everyone, something's here.”

Everyone was cautious, until they saw something leap out from a junk pile which was a feral beast that looked tiger-like, with bat shaped ears, and sharp claws. The group jumped away as the creature landed on the ground growling.

“A feral!” Spike gasped.

“Not just a feral, Spike,” Twilight replied, “It's a wraithslicer!”

“What?” the girls asked.

The wraithslicer charged in their direction, only for Spike to blast it with one of his energy blasts. The feral was knocked back and rolled onto its side, but got back up.

“Get to higher ground!” Twilight ordered, as Spike helped her, Rainbow, and Fluttershy lift the others on top of another mountain of compressed garbage.

“Twilight, what's going on?” Rainbow asked.

“Yeah, that Feral looks so different from the ones we fought outside the wall.” Pinkie recalled.

“Those were just savage types. This one's a wraithslicer.”

“What's the difference?” Applejack asked.

“Wraithslicer's may have poor eyesight, but they possess incredible hearing.”

“And how do you know?” Rainbow wondered.

“I've been studying up on various scientists research and learned there is more than one type of Feral. After all not every human mutated into the same form.” Twilight reminded them.

“If we're gonna get past it we need to be quiet.” Sunset said, as all eyes fell on Pinkie.

“What?” she asked in confusion.

As the wraithslicer was circling around the junkyard, the girls and Spike got down to ground level making sure to be absolutely silent. They tip toed back the feral that being blind and not hearing the group was looking around trying to listen for anything.

The group continued to creep further away, until a breeze blew some dust close to Rarity that tickled her nose.

“Achoo!” she sneezed making everyone's eyes widen, as the wraithslicer looked in their direction, and could feel their presence.

It roared as it charged in their direction, before Rainbow spotted a glass bottle, grabbed it, and threw it at another broken down car's door shattering it. The feral stopped having heard the new sound and ran in the direction only to crash its head against the door.

“Oh, man, he ran right into that one!” Rainbow laughed.

“Yeah, but now you made it angrier!” Sunset warned her.

They saw the wraithslayer looking back in the girls direction, until Twilight got inspired by Rainbow's recent action, “Everyone spread out, and make as much noise as you can.”

“Why?” Rarity asked.

“It can't tell where to go if it hears stuff all around.”

Seeing what she meant, everyone grabbed garbage and started banging things together to make noise. As the feral was hearing constant noise from all around it didn't know which direction to go in and kept turning and turning while growling in frustration.

“We can't keep doing this forever!” Luster warned them.

Spike looked around, until he saw the trash compactor. Getting an idea, he spoke to Twilight, “You and the girls keep stalling. And when I say now, stop making noise.”

“Ok.” Twilight said trusting Spike.

Spike flew above the feral landing close to the trash compactor, he went to the controls and turned it on. As it started up, Spike stood before the conveyor belt, before calling out, “Now!”

The girls stopped making noise, only for Spike to start banging on a pan. The wraithslicer hearing the new sound started following it with a roar. The ponies watched, as the feral was coming right before Spike who wasn't budging. They wanted to cry out to him, but Spike motioned them to remain silent.

As the feral was right on top of Spike, the boy flew up as the wraithslicer landed on the conveyor belt and pulled right into the machine. The girls looks away as they heard the crunching and slicing of the feral's body as it went through the compactor. Then out from the end was a compressed cube of the feral's mutilated body.

“Ok, that was the grossest thing I ever saw!” Rarity said looking a little green.

“But he did it!” Rainbow cheered, as Spike went over.

“Spike, you did it!” Pinkie cheered.

“Well, you guys managed to distract it long enough. So it was a team effort.” Spike replied humbly.

“Luckily, Twilight knew this feral had incredible hearing.” Sunset reminded everyone.

“And we were able to use that against it.” Applejack added.

“I just can't believe there's more than one type of feral.” Fluttershy said in surprise.

“Well, there are,” Twilight confirmed, “Some are land based, some are sea based, there are even ones that fly.”

“If there are ones that can fly, how come none of them would get into the city above the walls?” Rainbow asked.

“Because they always have a constant magical barrier placed surrounding the top of the city whenever there's reports of flying ferals in the area.” Twilight explained.

“This is amazing.” Spike gasped, “Twilight with your research on the ferals, and my research on the location of the Garden we really could make it there.”

“Now are you glad we decided to come along?” Twilight asked cheekily.

Spike looked sheepish, and decided not to answer, “So now that we got rid of him, what do you all say we get to work in making this hunk of junk road worthy?”

“Yeah!” the girls agreed.

So as both Twilight and Spike got to work in drawing up blueprints, the rest of the girls began salvaging for car parts and such from the junkyard or taking them off the abandoned cars in the city.

Sunset and Spike were attaching fresh new wheels and tires to the vehicle, before Twilight and Luster used their magic to raise the vehicle up allowing Applejack and Rainbow Dash to work on the bottom of it. As Rainbow was trying to tighten it she ended up getting a shot of oil in the face making the girls laugh, while she gave them a dry look.

The girls opened the hood and removed the old worn out engine, before taking the engine from another vehicle in the city and transplanted it into the Winnebago. Once the exterior was fixed up and parts replaced, Fluttershy and Rarity were fixing up the interior making sure it was clean and the sofa and seat cushions were cleaned , as well as the kitchenette and everything else.

Once that was done, they got to work in cleaning off all the grime, rust, and dirt off the vehicle's exterior. As Spike and Luster were working on one side of the vehicle with soapy sponges, Luster looked over at Spike and smirked. She playfully blew some suds onto Spike who looked at her making her laugh. Spike smirked, before covering her with suds as well. Soon the two were covered in suds and both laughed at each other silly.

When Winnebago was all fixed up, they brought out some paints they took from one of the city's hardware store and started to give it a makeover.

After hours of hard work and fun, Spike and the girls stood before the Winnebago that looked like it was fresh off the market. It's new paint job was silver, and decorated with hot rod flames with images, of stars, apples, diamonds, balloons, butterflies, rainbow colored lightning bolts, and two sun images within the flames, and the hood ornament was of a dragon.

“We did it!” Fluttershy cheered, “I can't believe we did it!”

“All in a days work.” Rainbow replied.

“Now this was team effort.” Sunset added.

“Check out the inside.” Luster said, as they went inside the vehicle to see everything was spruced up. The seats and table were all clean, the kitchenette was in good condition, even the bathroom was usable.

“We'll be going to the Garden in style.” Rarity said confidently.

“And the fridge works, which means we can store our foods there.” Twilight added.

“And we got TV and radio,” Spike said, “At least we can keep track of what's going on.” Spike put in.

“And with the weapons you and Twilight installed we'll be prepared for any feral out there.” Pinkie finished.

“Or other things.” Twilight said.

“So now that we got our ride, how about we get back on the road?” Rainbow suggested.

“Rainbow, we're exhausted from all that working.” Luster yawned.

“And it'll be dark soon.” Twilight put in.

“One more night here could do us some good.” Rarity added.

“We'll get back on the road first thing in the morning.” Applejack said.

“Well, good point.” Rainbow admitted.

“Come on, let's get back to the hotel.” Applejack said, as she got in the driver seat and started it up.

To everyone's joy, the Winnebago started and, Applejack drove it out of the dump and through the city.

“Careful, don't hit anything.” Rarity warned Applejack.

“I got it.” she replied, while maneuvering through the abandoned cars.

When they reached the hotel, Applejack pared it right out front and they got out, “You sure no one will end up stealing it, or what if another feral trashes it?” Rainbow asked.

“Not to worry, Spike and I installed the perfect protection.” Twilight clicked on a remote which caused a magical barrier to surround their new ride.

“Nothing can get through that barrier. The car will be fine for the night.” Spike said.

“Speaking of, sun's going down now.” Applejack noticed the sun setting.

“Let's get back to the room.” Rarity suggested, as they went inside.

That night, as the girls were back in the room, Spike got up and walked quietly so not to disturb any of them. After leaving the room he headed up to the roof of the hotel making sure to wedge the door open. He looked out into the abandoned city and sighed.

“I really hope the Garden is better than this, as they say.” he told himself.

“We're sure it will be all that and more.” came Twilight's voice.

Spike looked back and saw Twilight, Sunset, and Luster standing close to the doorway, “Couldn't sleep?” Sunset asked.

“Tried to. You?” he asked.

“Same.” Luster answered.

“I just can't get enough of what to expect out here,” Spike began, “Aside from ferals, who knows what other lost cities and towns are out there that everyone in Canterlot forgot about or couldn't help.”

“We know,” Sunset agreed, “Even though mom and Aunt Luna have tried helping everyone as much as they could, it still never felt enough for the humans.”

“Don't have to tell me about it.” Spike replied.

“I am concerned about my family, though,” Twilight admitted, “Who knows what they're thinking of right now.”

“Like our mom and aunt, they're probably worried about you. In fact the rest of our friends parents are worried about them.” Luster said.

“Well, you all knew that would happen when you followed me over the wall.” Spike reminded them.

“We know.” Sunset confirmed.

“I still can't understand why'd you all do that anyway. Why go all this way for me?” the boy wondered.

“Like you, Spike, we're tired of living in Canterlot.” Sunset answered.

“Every day it's the same,” Luster explained, “Ponies and humans in a never ending civil war with ponies having more rule and freedom than the humans. Watching humans every day get mistreated for one reason or another. We got tired living in a corrupt system.”

“And personally there's not much left in the city for me,or for any of us,” Twilight added, “But a chance to see beyond the walls. To see what else is out there that has been forgotten by time. That is the opportunity of a lifetime. Especially if it involves the Garden.”

“We know you have a bigger reason to look for it, Spike. And we wanna help you see it through.” Sunset said.

Spike smiled, “Thanks, girls. Honestly after today I'm really glad I chose not to go it solo after all.”

The three girls approach Spike and hugged him, “No matter what happens, we'll all see it through together.” Twilight told him.

“That's a promise.” Luster finished.

“Right. A promise.” Spike agreed, as they hugged before heading back to the hotel room to get some much needed sleep.