Turning the corner they see two massive wooden doors with guards on both sides. They hear guards coming up from behind them and make the decision to rush the doors and hope to make it through. Boxer starts running at his full speed with Jules close behind him. This of course surprises the two guards because they were not expecting two creatures to come around the corner and charge at them. They hadn't yet been informed of the request to remove / arrest the two charging yet. They respond by repositioning their bodies for a better blocking of the throne room doors. When Boxer gets about halfway to the door the guards following him and Jules come around the corner walking briskly. They immediately notice A minotaur and zebra charging down the hallway towards the door. "HALT!" one of them yells out. Boxer looks over his shoulder and sees easily 10 guards behind him.

"Shit. Oh well, this will be more fun if they attack", he says to himself.

Boxer puts on more speed and quickly closes the remaining gap and turns his shoulder in front of him and slams the two earth pony guards into the door throwing the doors open and slamming them loudly against the wall. The noise startled the guards inside the room along with the princess. The guards started moving to attack Boxer and Jules once their minds registered what was happening. Boxer starts slowly walking towards the princess and all the guards move to intercept him. "Ah Boxer, I'm so glad you and Skippy decided to join me today. You are late for our lunch. Guards return to your posts. There is no need to capture these visitors. Tell me though where is Mongoose? I thought I asked all 3 of you to join me, did I not?"

"He said he would be along shortly. He just had some issues with the 4x4", Boxer replied.

"Ah, we should go check on him. Girls we will return shortly", Celestia said.

As they were leaving Boxer asked the princess "Why are the girls here? I thought it would be just you, your sister and Mongoose, Skippy and me."

"I asked them here. I figured Twilight wouldn't let you three be until she got some answers and I figured that this would be the best way. She brought along her friends since they seem to be very close since they met."

"We aren't getting out of here quickly, are we?"

"No, no you are not. We have many questions for you."

"Oh! On the way I would like to stop at your attendant for a bit. Just something I need to say to him."

"He always does something."

The walk to the lobby wasn't long. The look on the attendant's face when he saw Jules and Boxer with Princess Celestia was priceless. "Ah Just the pony I wanted to see. Now what was that you said about talking to the princess? I think it was that she wouldn't talk to me? Do you think that's true princess?"

...

"Really? You're pulling that on me? Wow." Boxer says.

"Hahaha. I couldn't resist the chance. I'm sorry", Princess Celestia says.

"Anyway I just wanted to prove you wrong attendant. Good day", Boxer says while leaving.

"He has a name you know."

"We didn't really meet each other."

"You don't need to be so harsh to him."

"He didn't need to offend me either but did that stop him? No."

"That is still no reason. Just because somepony resorts to offending somepony else does not mean you should be mean to them."

"I'm surprised to hear this from you. You have seen the dark side of the world. You know of war and famine. why do you care so much?"

"I care because I have learned that life is best preserved when everypony is happy and that is when there is very little anger or hate in the world."

"And you teach that by making ponies feel superior to everyone else?"

"NO! I don't teach that! Why do you think that?"

"You said everypony instead of everyone. It's subtle stuff like that. For all your age you seem to learned very little. Ashkore would be very displeased."

"It seems I have overlooked some things. Thank you."

The rest of the walk was pretty tame. No unwanted interruptions happened. Outside the vehicles was a very unexpected sight. It would appear that Mongoose decided to blast a music dance party with all the guards in the area. It appears that most of the guards can't dance at all. "Huh. I didn't think he would be nice to the guards at all", Boxer says mostly to himself.

"I don't think I've heard this music before", Celestia says.

"It was just something that we had."

"HEY! MONGOOSE! YOU THERE?" Boxer yells.

I pop my head out of the truck and see Boxer with Jules and Celestia. Immediately I turn off the music and all the guards groan. "Sorry guys but it appears that I am about to be in trouble."

"OH! SHIT!" all the guards except two quickly ran off to be at their stations.

"So how are things?" I ask.

"It would seem you chose to be late for lunch", Celestia said.

"I was only late because you decided to have guards come and inspect our vehicles while we had lunch."

"I only wanted an unbiased opinion on this technology."

"Unfortunately for you researching this technology will be much harder unless you have something similar. The closest thing I have seen thus far is the train and that is coal burning, right?"

"Yes, they are."

"The reason I bring that up is if you don't understand the concepts it's like reading a language you don't understand. It's just too much too fast and some of the things can be thought of as crazy things to have on a personal transport."

"Such as?"

"For one we have climate control. Another is surround sound for playing music. We were working on integrating wireless networking between vehicles for communication. It wasn't working but we can continue that later."

"How intriguing. How did you think to combine these technologies?"

"It was just a quality of life thing. We thought 'Why should we have to travel at the world's temperature?' or 'Why can't we speak to someone else who is also traveling?'. It was just figuring that out."

"How would you two like to work for me as engineers for the Royal Court? Trying to better pony life one invention at a time."

"We should talk, give us a minute", I say. I walk past Boxer and motion for him to follow. "What do you think?"

"It would set us up for life here. I mean we would work for the crown, so the pay must be good."

"True but I still want to go out on our own and not work for anyone. Just doing our own thing, no rules, no regulations, just living how we want. Didn't we want to figure out the sombra thing?"

"Yeah, we could but I don't know if she'd offer us a job when we came back."

"So what if she doesn't? We could always just invent our own stuff and sell it. Make our living that way. No need for her to be involved at all then."

"Alright man, Let's go off and live our own lives."

We walked back over to Celestia and I said "We need to live our own lives for a while before going to work for someone else. We won't be accepting your offer, thanks anyways."

"If you ever change your minds I'm sure I could find a place for you to work."

"That might not be very soon. Anyways we should get back to lunch. The others might start wondering what happened", Boxer said.

"Others?" I ask.

"Yeah, she brought the six we already met and Luna."

"Great. More fun."

~~~~~~

"Hello everyp-everyone, sorry about earlier. It would seem I didn't need to rush", Celestia said.

"It's ok. Is everything better now?" Twilight asked.

"Yes, it turned out to be necessary I left."

"So what is this lunch about?" I ask a little upset about the whole ordeal.

"I thought we should get to know my 3 newest subjects", Celestia replies.

"We haven't decided to be your subjects, so don't assume we will be loyal subjects", I snap back.

"You can't seriously be this rude to the princess", Twilight states more than a little surprised.

"Why can't I? I feel that one must earn respect regardless of their position. You should be able to respect a position without respecting the being in that position."

"You should respect her because she is the leader of Equestria and controls the sun."

"Just because a creature has great power does not mean they deserve my respect."

"Ah don't think you're gonna win this argument sugarcube", Applejack says.

"So let's bring this back to the original point of getting to know us?" Boxer asks.

"Yes, specifically how you got here", Celestia says.

"Ah, well that actually is a story that starts 2 days before we met you. It's probably best we eat lunch first."

"You did arrive a little later than expected."

"We weren't expecting to move slowly across the mountainside."

"How did you get here? I noticed you didn't take the train", Twilight asked.

"Well, we drove here on the train tracks. Those tracks really slowed us down", I say.

"You drove on the tracks? Wouldn't it have been easier to ride the train?"

"Well yeah, but we like driving and we don't trust them to be alone in the forest."

"Do they have a mind of their own?"

"No, they're machines. We just think of them like they do."

"So it was you that we saw driving earlier today. You almost got yourselves killed by the train. What were you thinking?"

"I was thinking it would be fun to race a train. We would've won if we didn't have to drive on railroad ties."

"We're getting distracted. You should tell us this story", Celestia says.

"So, It was just another average day..."

Author's Note

So I'm finally to a point where I'm getting into action in the next few chapters. However these are probably worse than the other chapters so...