Together We're Homefree

I was still a bit red after the embarrassment of loosing so big.

Then I remembered, I was competing against Rainbowdash... no freaking wonder I lost!

Never the less, I tried my best and I guess my best wasn't good enough.

Who knows, it might have ended like that one "banned" game, whatever it was called.*

I had walked for about half an hour and was very close to Sugarcube corner.

I could see the library a bit away and right over it I could see a chariot, presumably the one that Twilight came into town on.

So, by my calculations that means she must have at least met Pinkie and was on her way to Applejack.

Look, I can do maths to!

That means Pinkie should be on her way here to fix the party and or is collecting all the ponies in town to meet here and then finish it up.

Just as i said that a pink blur came speeding towards me and knocked me over.

We rolled for a bit and stopped a few feet from the door of the library.

"Oopsie!" the pink blob giggled.

I shook my head to get rid of the dizziness. When I finally got my vision back I saw that Pinkie was lying on top of me.

"Well, at least this is better then Ride to Hell."* I said.

I looked into Pinkies eyes.

"Can you please move, I want to know if something broke. Because I'm pretty sure my lungs collapsed."

"Oh, Sorry my bad!" Pinkie jumped of.

I took myself of the ground and dusted of all the dirt.

"I didn't see you there! I was on my way to fix up a party for the new pony!" she said and bounced up and down.

"Oh really? Is it me? Oh wait... I'm not moving in... anyway, do you need any help with that then?"

Pinkie tapped her cheek.

"Well, there are some ponies I haven't asked to join us at the party so if you could go and fin them that would be nice!"

I smiled. "That, I can do! Who are they?"

"Well, there are two ponies I haven't managed to find somewhere in the town called, Steel Crescent and Lyra Heartstrings. They're said to be right outside of town but I haven't got time to check because I must fix the decorations, make punch and other sweets! I also have to paint a special background so the audience can see the shadows of the ponies but the main character can't!"

I frowned at her.

"You are really fond of breaking the fourth wall aren't you? sure, I will go and look for them. You can stay here and do... whatever Pinkies do..."

I turned around started slowly walking away from her.

"I must warn you though!" Pinkie shouted.

"They are kinda weird! They talk about some kind weird war with something called, the changelings!"

"I'll keep that in mind!" I shouted back and kept walking.

"Steel Crescent... where have I heard that name before?" I said quietly to myself.

I finally got to the edge of the town and was met meadow.

On that meadow there appeared to be two ponies.

One of them was a mint colored unicorn, Lyra, and she had a lyre with her.

The other one was a light grey pony with a light blue mane, presumably Steel.

I started walking towards them and I could hear their voices as I got closer.

"I had a feeling that you would attempt to pick up cloud walking. I mean it was a matter of time before you got bored of the teleporting and stasis fields." Lyra said.

Steel looked very tired and tried to laugh but he stumbled.

He fell to the ground and Lyra dropped her lyre on the ground when she started galloping towards him.*

I started running towards them and when I got there I saw Lyra giving Steel mouth to mouth.

"By Celestia! Is he alright!?" I shouted when I go next to her.

She jumped a bit. "Oh! You startled me! But yeah, he'll be fine. He'll just be out for a couple of minutes."

I looked back at her lyre. "Looks like your lyre broke." I said and turned back to her.

She was lying on the ground next to Steel. "Oh don't worry, I have loads of 'em."

"My name is Thunder Struck by the way, hope I didn't interrupt." I said and sat myself down infront of them.

"Lyra Heartstrings, he's Steel Crescent and no, you didn't interrupt. We were just talking anyway." She said and looked down at Steel.

"May I be so rude and ask just what you were talking about? I overheard you saying something about him teleporting. I'm not one to judge but he doesn't look like a unicorn to me."

Lyra looked up at me again.

"Classified information I'm afraid, all you need to know is that we are a pair of normal ponies who were having a normal conversation."

"O...OK... So anyway, we should probably get him to a bed or something like that. I'll help you."

I took myself of the ground and reached down to pick Steel up. Lyra did the same.

We draged Steel back into the town.

I asked Lyra if she had any place where we could pt him without being interrupted.

"I'm a traveling pony, just like Steel. So we don't really have a place to stay. There's no inn here this town."

"Well, maybe we could go to the library? Sure, there might be a party there starting fairly soon but there might be a place we can put him."

"It doesn't look like we have any other options, do we?"

We started walking towards the library, and as soon as we got there we were met with Pinkie herding a bunch of ponies inside.

"Oh great! You found them!" Pinkie exclaimed.

"What happened to Steel? Wait! We don't have time! Just get him upstairs and get him bed! HURRY! SHE'S ALMOST HERE!"

We got in and saw a lot of ponies bunched up together and we hurried past them.

As we past them I looked around for, A, but there were so many ponies that it was hard to tell if he was there.

Even if I didn't see him I saw a bunch of others, including Ditzy, Carrot Top and Pink Berry!

When we got upstairs we put Steel down on the bed.

We sat down next to him, both sat upright, facing the door we came in from.

I sighed and looked over to Lyra.

"So... I have this thing I wanted to ask you-"

"No, I'm not obsessed with hands because I sit this way! Whatever that is..."

"Wha- NO! Wait... how would you even..? Never mind, I wanted to ask you about the whole you and Steel thing."

She turned to me with an annoyed expression on her face.

"I told you it's classified information."

"Well, I just think I know what the so called, "classified information" is."

She looked at me for a bit then laughed.

"You're kidding right? How desperate are you to get this out of me? I'm not telling you!"

I raised an eyebrow and shut my eyes half way.

"Well then, I suppose the 'lunar scouts' should be proud to have a member as loyal as you."

Her pupils became as big as peas and she started to sweat nervously.

"How... how do you know that name? Why do you know that name? Are you apart!?"

I chuckled.

"Oh Celestia no! I just know things about stuff! But I prefer to keep it as; "Classified information" as it were. Makes the whole thing, interesting."

"B-but.."

"Ah-ah-ah! classified information! Lets just act like this never happened and talk about something else!"

Just as I said that Steel started moving. Lyra turned to him.

"Steel? Are you ok?"

Steel opened one of his eyes.

"Our sparring matches made me more exhausted, but I'm fine."

Steel sat up as well.

"Please just lie down! You're not rested enough." Lyra said and tried to put the grey pony to bed again.

Steel tried to force himself up again.

"No worries, I've been through worse." He said and pushed lyras hooves aside.

"... Who are you? And where are we exactly?"

I shook my head and tapped my hoof against it.

"Oh sorry! How foolish of me! My name is Thunder Struck, but yo may call me TS. And I was actually looking for you and miss Heartstrings here to get you to a party at the local library. Short story shorter I saw you pass out and we draged you here to the library and put you to bed."

Steel looked around.

"This place has a bedroom? It sure looks smaller on the outside."

He stopped for a moment and then looked back at us.

"Wait, you said something about a party here?"

"Yeah, it should be starting any minute as a matter of fact." Lyra said and put a hoof to her ear.

Some faint cheering could be heard from downstairs.

"It seems like it has begun." I said and made a little pout.

I hopped out of the bed and started walking towards the stairs.

"I just have to do one quick thing, I'll be back in a mome-"

"NO!" Steel yelled and pointed his hoof towards me.

"You cannot go down there! Not now!"

"Why not?" I asked and then turned towards him.

"It'll ruin the footage!"

"What are you talking about? What footage?"

He hopped out of the bed and swayed a bit.

"You just can't! It'll ruin the canon! We have to hopp out of the window and start walking towards the town hall."

Lyra got a look of realization on her face and turned to me.

"That's right! I forgot about that! We need to hurry. She'll be here any-"

Just as she said that someone could be heard walking up the stairs.

"HURRY!" Lyra shouted and grabbed my hoof.

Before I could question anything further we were mid-air plummeting towards the ground.

It became black and I couldn't feel anything for what felt for hours.

Suddenly I started to feel my body again and I slowly opened my eyes.

It looked like we had landed in a bush. i lied on my back with Lyra to my right and Steel to my left.

"This is a que to a weird non-kid friendly novel if I ever saw one."

I turned around and rose myself from the ground. I dusted off most of the leaves from my coat and tried to shake the rest from my mane.

The others got themselves up to and did the same.

"So, are you gonna tell me about what just happened?"

Steel turned to me.

"Nope! we have to advance the plot because I'm to lazy to explain something the people are going to understand! C'mon! Let's go already!"

They started moving and Steel didn't seem to have any problem walking now for some reason.

"Pinkie was right, they are a bit cooky, but I guess that just adds to the mystique of the Lunar scouts" I said to myself and followed them.

When we got to the town hall there was a crowd of ponies who were proceeding to enter the building.

I guess they wanted to get to the festivities early.

I got the feeling that I had forgotten something very important. Like something that would be a turning point on my adventure but I just could put my hoof on it. When we actually got inside I looked around for A but couldn't find him anywhere.

Just like the sense of humor in this fic.*

I felt someone poke me in the side, I turned and Lyra and Steel looked me in the eye with a serious look on their faces.

"We need to tell you something." Lyra said to me and and put her hoof on my shoulder.

"Are you finally gonna tell me what that whole my situation was about?

"No, but me and Steel have talked and we know who you are now."

"R-really?" I sputtered.

"Yes, and we are going to have to take actions about that." Steel exclaimed.

"What do you mean?" I said and took a step back.

"It's not that bad! All you need to know to move the plot forward is to run as fast as you can towards the Everfree forest when you see our signal." Lyra told me.

I rolled my eyes.

"What is it with everyone being omnipotent but me!? What plot are you talking about? Is it my plot? Is it to fat for you!?"

Lyra and Steel looked each other in the eye and then turned back to me.

"You'll know in time" They both said in unison.

Just as they said that a beige mare entered the the stage and the ceremony was up and yada yada yada, you know the drill, you have to have seen the first episode of the show, why would you otherwise be here?

So Nightmare moon comes up and laughs maniacally and everyone gasps and screams.

I look around for a bit and realize I should probably do the same.

Suddenly a big "shadow" comes and covers both Steel and Lyra and they both vanish.

"I guess that's my que." I say to myself and start running towards the door.

With a fast beating heart I run as fast I can towards the Everfree forest, still confused as to what actually happened.

Why am I making the endings of these later chapters so rushed? Because writing this feels like a chore nowadays and I want to work on other projects but I feel like I can't do it unless this is done.  THE MORE YOU KNOW!

End of Chapter 5.