Life is a highway

Chapter 9

Nitro-x scanned the area for any life signatures. There was a whole bunch of 'em. He growled and complained. "This is gonna take forever! Whose brilliant idea was this, anyway?!" An angry rev of an engine responded beside him and Electric Storm snapped. "It was mine, Einstein! And at least I came up with something! You're the one who got us into this mess and all you've done is complain!" Thus began a fight between the two siblings; until Twilight shouted. "Guys!"

"What?!" They both shouted. Twilight pointed her hoof towards a grey pegasus with a saddlebag and a muffin in her mouth. "There's Derpy! She's the mail carrier! She has the letter!" The pair of cars accelerated to try and keep up with the flying pony. When Electric Storm was close enough to her, she shouted above the wind. "Derpy! I need you to slow down! You took a letter by mistake!" Derpy turned her head towards the red car and asked. "What? Did you say something?" Unfortunately, talking caused her to drop the muffin in her mouth. Where gravity took over, and it landed on Storm's windshield. She let out a screech as the muffin splattered and blocked off her view, making her swerve and try to gain control.

Nitro-x decided this would be a good time to take over and shouted to the pegasus. "Slow down Derpy! We have to talk!" A confused look struck the mail carriers face and she asked. "You want me to crown the stalk?"

"No! Slow down so we can talk!"

"Clown wearing a smock?"

"Slow. Down. So. We. Can. Talk!"

"Hold on! Let me slow down so we can talk." If Nitro-x had been in his robot mode, he would've faceservoed. They screeched to a halt.

Meanwhile, Electric Storm, who finally remembered she had windshield wipers, cleaned the muffin muck away to see where she was going. And she just happened to be going towards a tree. She screamed and swerved, trying to avoid being rammed, but still ended up crashing into the tree.

With a groan her car doors creaked open and she moaned. "All ashore that's going ashore. Last stop, everybody out."

Once all their passengers were out, Nitro-x and Electric Storm went over to the grey pegasus. "Derpy," Nitro-x began, "You have a letter that wasn't meant to be sent out. Can we please have it back?"

A funny look went Derpy's face. "Letter?" She asked, "I didn't do the letters today. A little dragon named Spike sent all the letters to where they needed to go. It's faster that way."

The pair grabbed their helms and shouted in agony. "Nooooooo!" They scooped up their passengers and then transformed, racing to get to the Castle. Derpy scratched her head. "I wonder what their problem is." Moments later a white cop car pulled up beside her and asked. "Did you see two cars pass this way?" He asked. Derpy nodded and smiled, pointing a hoof in the direction they had gone in.

Prowl thanked her and drove off,

At the Castle…

The two finally pulled up to the castle. They were about to go in but two guards stopped them. "Halt! Who goes there?" They demanded. "We go there, stupid! We need to see the Princess!" Electric Storm snapped, her nerves frayed.

"The Princess is unable to see anyone. She is at the visitor's base."

"Oh you have got to be kidding me!"

Tires squealed and they were off once again.

At the base…

Electric Storm and Nitro-x practically threw their passengers out and transformed as quick as they could, racing to the crash. They screeched to a halt once they saw who was there. Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Optimus Prime and Sentinel Prime. Their optics widened and their paint paled. The four leaders stared back at them with a perplexed look. Electric Storm let out a nervous laugh and asked. "Guess you read the letter?"

Nitro-x forced some laughter and stated. "Learn something new every day!" Their attempts to lighten the mood were futile. Prowl stepped out from the shadows with a half smug half angry look on his face. "Prowl?!" The two yelped in unison. Nitro-x asked. "How'd you get her so fast?!"

"Shortcut."

Prowl then stalked up to them. He grabbed Nitro-x's arm and Electric Storm's doorwing. "Come on you two," He growled and began dragging them away, "We're going to the brig."

"We as in you, me and my brother?" Electric Storm asked hopefully.

*CLANK!*

"Ow! I was just asking!"

He paid no attention to her and dragged them away with Electric Storm's protests. "Ow! Careful! My doorwing! Sensitive, remember?! Sensitive!"

Princess Celestia shook her head. "Never a dull moment in Equestria."