The Story of Mr Allan in Equestria

I was out busting clouds for some bits, a Pegasus named Cloudchaser offered me a job a few days before. I bust thirty clouds I get thirty bits. I had just got payed and was flying back to the library when I heard Spike.

"Allan!" he called. I saw him and flew down next to him.

"Hey Spike, what's up?" I asked.

"Princess Celestia has invited you, me and the others to Canterlot for a wedding." He said. "Everypony was given a task, including you."

"Hold up, who's getting married?" I asked curiously.

Spike pulled out a letter "Hold on." He scanned the paper intently "Princess Mi Amore Cadenza and Shining Armor."

"Isn't that Twilight's brother?" I asked.

"Yep." Spike replied. "You've been given the task of helping Twilight make sure everything goes well."

I sighed "This should be fun."

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The train didn't take long to get to Canterlot, there was some sort of giant magical bubble surrounding the city, similar to the one ShadowMere created to block attacks. We passed straight through it and into the train station. When we got off Twilight went to go look for her brother and the others went to get started on their tasks. I went after Twilight so I could get to my task. When I got up to her she told me she was headed to see how Applejack was doing with the food. We arrived at the Kitchen and Twilight started checking things off 'the check list'.

The pony I assumed to be Princess Mi Amore Cadenza enters the room. She took glance at everypony in the room then walked over to Applejack. I turned to Twilight "Does she always act this shady?" I asked.

"Only recently." Twilight replied.

I figured everything here was probably going well so I headed in advance to the next place of interest.

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I walked into the room to see Rarity making dresses, she seemed extremely focused. Twilight entered the room shortly after and started complaining about the Princess. I walked up to Rarity who seemed to busy to focus on Twilight. "Anything interesting happen yet?" I asked.

She looked at me realizing I had entered the room. "Oh hello Allan, nothing really I've been busy making the wedding dresses. Oh, I almost forgot." She dragged me towards a wardrobe "I finished your suit for the wedding as well so you don't have to go unprepared."

I took a quick glance at the well designed suit and smiled. "Cool, I like it." She smiled at my response.

Before we could continue talking Princess Cadence entered the room. Rarity dashed up to her and bowed down "Princess Cadence, I assume your here to check on the dresses?" asked Rarity.

"Yes actually." They walked over to the dresses and began to look at them.

After Cadence entered she was followed by presumably the bridesmaids, one of them being Lyra. This took me by surprise. "Lyra?"

Lyra turned to see me with surprise in her eye's "Allan? What are you doing here?"

"I got an invitation, what about you?" I said.

She smiled "Well I'm an old family friend and was offered to be a bridesmaid." She walked up to me and gave me a hug. "It's good to see you here."

I returned the hug, something always felt right when we hugged. The hug ended when Cadences voice was heard. "I was hopping for something with a little more beading and a longer train." Said Cadence while walking towards the bridesmaid dresses.

"Oh...yes, of course." replied Rarity.

Cadence looked at the dresses "and those should be a different color."

I looked at the dresses and there didn't seem to be anything wrong with them. "I think they are lovely." Said one of the bridesmaids.

"Me too." said another.

"I love them." said Lyra right before getting a glare from the princess.

The princess was about to leave the room "Make them a different color." she left.

Lyra turned to me "I need to go, talk to you later." she said right before walking out the door.

I turned to Twilight "The princess is a bit demanding don't you think?" I said to her.

"Yeah, maybe her name should be princess demandy pants." replied Twilight. We then left the room. Afterwards we checked up on the reception run by Pinkie pie, according to the princess it was 'Perfect, if it was a six year old's birthday party.' which was kinda true to be fair. Not much happened after that, nothing important anyway. Well actually something else did happen around the grand hall when I went to see Celestia.

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I entered the great hall, intent on asking Celestia a few questions. However when I entered the hall was empty, I looked around to see if anypony was nearby but nothing. I flew up to the nearest stained glass window and examined it. It had a picture of Celestia and Luna shooting magic lasers from their horns at each other. After examining some more stained glass windows I heard somepony enter the room. It was ShadowMere in full guard armor wielding a spear, he walked up to me and said "Allan, I want you to join my squad for the wedding."

I stared at him confused "What squad? I thought there wasn't going to be any military involvement in the wedding itself."

"Princess Cadence ordered me to organize a squad to protect the wedding and I want ponies I can trust on the squad." He said.

I still looked confused "So why are you asking me?"

"Because your my friend and I trust you." He responded.

I was hesitant at first but then I thought about how cool it would be to become part of a guard squad. "Sure." I said.

He gave a cheerful grin "Great, we all have to meet up at the wedding rehearsal tomorrow so we know what we're doing for the real thing." He levitated a map from under his armor and laid it out in between us. "We have two teams, the central guard and the outdoor patrol. We'll be switching shifts over the course of the wedding, for your first shift you'll be part of the central guard, your job is to keep an eye open for anything suspicious." He pointed at multiple places on the map "These are the guard positions, you positions will be here..." he pointed near the main entry door. "...and here." he pointed to a tower outside the main building overlooking the wedding. "Before the wedding and rehearsal we are to meet up outside the main building so I can brief you on any new developments." He then rolled up the map and put it under his armor.

I gave him a salute and we separated.

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The next day I rushed over to the meeting point, when I arrived ShadowMere was organizing eight other guards to the positions that were marked on the map. He saw me approach and held out a dagger with the handle pointed towards me. "All my squad is required to have a weapon." he said.

I took the dagger and picked up a conveniently placed weapon belt. I flew into position and the rehearsal began, Princess Celestia explained what was going to happen in the real thing until she got to the maid of honor bit. When Twilight was supposed to give the rings she wasn't there.

Suddenly the doors burst open and Twilight steps into the room and starts going on a rant about Cadence in front of everyone. I immediately face hoof. She starts blabbering on and on, then eventually she Cadence starts crying and runs out of the room as Twilight starts calling her evil. When Twilight turns around she gets yelled at by her brother, I begin to blank it out when Shining Armor mentions that "...the original bridesmaids were only in it to see Canterlot royalty...!"

My eye's widened in disbelief "Lyra wouldn't do that..." I thought "...she's completely honest with me there's no reason for her to..." my thought were interrupted by one of ShadowMere's team coming up to me.

"I think it's time you break this up." He said. I looked as Shining Armor finished off his rant and left the room.

I walked up to Twilight and dragged her out of the room by her tail. She gave me a sad look "Sorry Twilight." I said before closing the doors on her.

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I walked back to my hotel room and thought about the events that transpired during the day. I hadn't heard anything about Twilight nor Lyra after the rehearsal. But this was all something I could worry about later, there was a wedding approaching that I would never forget.