True Equestria: Generosity

chapter 3
written by “bludingo”

“You do have our tickets don't you granny?” Zippy asked, standing next to her Wonderfully large Grandmother at Ponyvile Terminus. The platform was packed with other ponies from far across the land, some from far beyond Equestria.

“Well YEAH Zips! I put them in my back pocket like usual.”

“Ok granny.” The young colt sat down on the bench behind him, pulling out his brand new 'Gamecolt' with one of the games that came with the thing. The broken station speakers sparked to life and began to crackle as they struggled to project sound.

“The next train for Canterlot will be here in a minute. Please stand back from the edge of the platform.” The locomotive began to crawl around the hill at the western side of the station, coming from the workshop after being refueled and serviced.

“Damn it I just switched this thing on!” Zippy quickly slipped his Gamecolt back into his pocket. The train slowly pulled up onto the platform, slowly coming to a stop. The guard jumped out from the rear of the train, walking along the carriages and opening all the doors.

“Train for Canterlot now boarding!”

“Come on Zippy!” Saggitha walked towards the door of the first carriage. She walked in and suddenly stopped, tugging forward to no avail.

“Um Zip! I think I'm stuck!”

“You definitely are Granny. Give me a second and I will try and push you through.” The young colt put his hooves against his grandmothers cheek, pushing as hard as he could. His rear hooves slipped on the concrete platform and Saggy still didn't move at all.

“Could ya ask one of the guard to help out? I'm too well stuck for you.”

“I'm going granny!” Zippy turned around and ran over to the guard who was talking to the driver at the front of the train. Both the stallions quite muscular, hopefully strong enough to help zips granny out. “Could you guys help my granny out? She's kinda stuck.”

“Sure! Where is she?” The guard said, smiling and walking up to the young male.

“She's over there!” Zippy pointed to the large rear protruding from the sleek side of the train.

“Ah. I see.” The masculine stallion walked up to her, standing at the door and observing her. “Would you be alright miss if I were to use force to get you out?”

“Um what does that mean?” Saggy gulped, watching as the guard turned around and reared his legs. She closed her eyes tight and seconds later the males hooves landed on her rear with tons of force, shooting her through the door way finally. She landed flat on her poor udders, crying out loudly.

“GRANNY ARE YOU OK?” Zippy ran over to his grand mother, helping the dazed mare up.

“Oh damn it! My poor flank is going to be redder than blood tomorrow morning.”

“I'm sorry miss. That was the only way we could get you out of there.”

“Thank you for getting my granny out.” Zippy picked up his grandmothers bag, handing it to her as the guard closed the door.

“LAST CALL FOR CANTERLOT!”

“We should probably find some seats Tiny. It's going to be a long trip to Canterlot.” Saggitha looked down the aisle of seats, most of them already taken. She saw a row down the back that was empty and began to walk down to them. She put her bag onto the table and sat down on the seat, hearing a loud creak as her weight sat upon it.”They don't make these carriages very well.”

“Don't worry granny, it looks like it will hold.” Zippy smiled and sat down next to her grandmother, pulling out her game colt again. The screen came to life, lighting up as it loaded the game.

“ALL ABOARD FOR CANTERLOT!” A few moments later with a jeering lurch and long painful squeal the train began to slowly roll forward, letting out deep raspy puffs of steam as it's engine began to awaken again.

“So why are we visiting Canterlot again?”

“The princess has requested me to create more charms for her but she couldn't tell me what kind of charms they would need to be, so instead of creating them and posting them to her she gave us train tickets and we are going to Canterlot while I make them for her.”

“How do you know the princess? I thought you just made charms. Wouldn't Celestia be able to use her magic to do the job of the charms?”

“Charms contain renewable energy. They never run dry or grow weak. About twenty something years ago she commissioned me to create a charm that would make her incredibly fertile and then when Princess Luna returned she commissioned a charm to help her little sister to resist corruption.”

“Wow, thats awesome!”

“Tickets please!” The guard that had earlier freed Saggitha walked along the aisle, with a ticket punch held out checking ponies tickets. He walked over to Saggy and Zippy and smiled.
“I'm sorry about earlier. I hope it doesn't hurt too much anymore.”

“Don't worry about it. I'll be fine.”

“Well good. Could I see ya tickets?”

“Oh yes of course, give me a second.” Saggitha reached into her back pocket, pulling out the tickets. As she handed them to the guard she realized that they were soaking wet. “Um...”

“Don't worry about punchin 'em miss. I will just say you did. Also when you get off, there is a wider door in the second carriage. You shouldn't get stuck on that one. Anyway have a wonderful trip miss. Try to maintain that wonderful complexion.” The guard left after flirting with saggy, walking over to the other ponies in the car.

“Hmmm he seemed cute.”

“EW! Really granny?”

“Oh shush and play your Gamecolt.” Zippy scrunched his nose and looked back down at his game colt. Saggy pulled out a book the princess had sent her and leaned back against the chair, her eyes running along the lines of text. Zippy turned his attention back down to his game, waiting as it loaded. Suddenly the screen went black, the quiet whir of the fans inside the device fading to nothing.

“STUPID BATTERY!” Zippy slammed the Gamecolt against the table in front of the seat, crossing his arms and letting out an angry huff.

“Perhaps you should have charged it before we left then.” Saggitha chuckled and put the book down on the table.

“So what's that book about granny?”

“It's about the lands beyond Equestria and everything that makes everything. Pretty much everything they DON'T teach you at school.”

“Woah so is it top secret what they don't teach you at school or something your never going to use?”

“I think it's a bit of both. Although right now it's nothing too mind blowin.” Zippy sighed and slumped onto the table, face first on the hard wood surface.

“I'm so BOORREED!”

“Why don't you look out the window?”

“Because your in the way granny.” He lifted his head up slightly and face planted the table again.

“We can get off and try and get some batteries at Garden field.” Saggy slipped the book Celestia had sent to her into her bag.

“Next stop, Garden field!” The trains whistle blasted soon after the guard announced the next stop, the wheels squealing as the brakes slowed down the huge train. They glided into the station, steam spraying from either side of the locomotive.

“Come on Tiny.” Zippy climbed out of the seat and watched as his granny stood up after him and grabbed her bag. Her huge breasts slid out from under the table, both teats having dribbled milk from the pressure of being under the wooden surface and made her bra wet.

“Hey again missy! Would you like me to hold the train while you and your son check out the shop?” The guard walked down the middle of the aisle, blushing slightly when he saw Saggy's giant udders.

“Oh no we wouldn't want to hold up the train!”

“Don't worry about it miss. You won't be that long won't cha?” He winked at her and grabbed her hoof, kissing it before walking past her to open the wide access door at the other end of the carrige before moving to the next car.

“Wow what a hotty!” Saggy giggled as Zippy pretended to puke, wiggling her hips as she walked towards the door.

“Do you have to let him flirt with you granny,” Zippy complained, following behind her.

“Yes because A, it makes you react in the cutest ways and B, he actually is kinda cute.” The chubby mare stepped onto the platform, looking down towards the south end where the shop was. “Theres the shop. Come on!” She walked down to the shop, with Zippy close beside her. The two ponies walked through the shop door way. “Ok now go find another battery for your Gamecolt and I will get us something to eat.”

“Ok granny.” Zippy strolled over to the comic and electronics aisle, stopping to stare at the latest edition of 'Iron Mare'. “Wish I had a few bits on me.” He sighed and moved down the aisle, picking up a battery and walking back to the counter. He set the battery down with the other things his granny was getting, two juice boxes, a bag of crisps and a magazine.

“Hey Tiny, did you get the right battery?”

“Yeah I'm pretty sure this one will work granny.”

“Ok that will be about forty one bits.” The stallion behind the counter said, punching numbers into the cash register.

“Here ya go.” Saggy pulled the bits out of her bag, handing them to the cashier. “Thank you and have a nice day dear.”

“You too madam!” She grabbed her stuff and slipped it into her bag, turning around and exiting the store with her grandson following behind her. The two earth ponies boarded the train again, finding their seats quickly.

“All aboard!” The train began to wheeze to life again, rolling forward slowly. Saggy placed her bag down on the table again, opening it and pulling out the battery.

“Ok here's your Game colt battery.”

“Thanks granny!” Zippy pulled out the battery from his Gamecolt, throwing the dead battery onto the table and grabbing the new one. He slipped the battery into the device and immediately switched it on, watching as the Game colt began to whir again. “Yay!” Saggy pulled the book out of the bag again, flicking through a few pages until she found something interesting.

“By now we know that Equestria's borders are not the edges of our world. We have discovered civilisations beyond our own that have shown equal if not higher technological power. Afoalia had mastered magic, Saddle Arabia had mastered the combustion engine. We have learned many things from many other empires and countries and we ourselves are still discovering information on our own. Our first discovery was the thing that fueled Unicorns magic, potions and other supernatural things we depended on.”

The following page had a large illustration of the periodic table on it, with an extra one hundred and eighteenth element, Ununoctium.

“Pure Ununoctium has never been found outside of a lab. Every instance of it has had to be extracted in a lab. Although the element is not found purely in nature, it is within every organic cells in different amounts. Unicorns have a higher amount of the element contained in their horn. About %20 of a unicorns horn is made of Ununoctium and in stronger unicorns there is an even larger amount.”

“Hey again madam!” Saggy turned her head and saw the guard standing in the aisle.

“Oh hey there.” The big male blushed a slight shade of pink and rubbed one of his hooves nervously.

“D-did you get what you needed from the store?”

“Yes we did. Thanks for holding the train for us.”

“Oh it's no trouble. Especially for a beautiful mare like yourself,” the stallion chuckled nervously and blushed more. “M-might I join you two?”

“Why of course. Sit right here.” Saggy smiled and closed her book, slipping it into her bag.

“T-t-thank you very much.” The guard slipped into the seats facing Saggy and Zippy, getting himself comfortable.

“So H-h-how has your day been uh...would you prefer if I kept calling ya miss?”

“Well my name is Saggitha but you may call me Saggy, and our day has been fairly nice. Zippy and I cleaned up the Dojo before we left for the train station. We're going to be spending a week or so in Canterlot with a friend of mine.”
“I bet that will be fun!”

“Oh it will be more business for me I think. For Zippy it will definately be fun.” Saggitha chuckled and turned to her grandson, who was engrossed in his Gamecolt.

“I live in Canterlot by the train station. Maybe I could invite you two over for dinner some time after you have visited your friend? T-t-that is if you would be interested.”

“We may be. But we may also be busy. As soon as we get back from our trip we have customers and such to deal with at home.” The stallion's mood seemed to suddenly sink, looking down at his lap. Saggy put her hooves on his, smiling at him as he raised his head to look at her. “But you never know. So don't lose all hope.” The male blushed a deep colour of red when she held his hooves.

“W-well send me a l-letter when you know when you would like to come. I live right next to the trainstation.”

“I will, who should I wright it too?”

“M-m-my name is D-dan.”

“What a cute name. Very simple for a pony.”

“Thanks S-saggy. My parents named me something simple so if I got a cutie mark that was the exact opposite of it it wouldn't sound silly.”

“So why are you so interested in me Dan?”

“Well I guess it's because your so Pretty miss, your voice is soothing and sweet and your green eyes glisten beautifully in the sunlight as it shines through the windows.” The male by now was blushing furiously, his usually pale brown cheeks now as red as roses.

“Why thank you. It's been a little while since any stallions have said anything like that about me. You know you don't look bad yourself, your very strong, and adorable. When you blush your entire face turns red.” She giggled as he covered his cheeks with his hooves.

“H-h-have you and Zippy had lunch yet?” Dan asked, slowly sliding his hooves down off of his cheeks.

“No not yet. Although I doubt Tiny here can pull himself away long enough to eat.” Zippy blinked a few times, rubbing his eyes as if waking up.

“whu-wha?” Dan chuckled and stood up.

“I will go get something for you two from the dinning car if you would like. What would you fancy?”

“I think a hayseed sandwidge would be alright. What would you like Zippy?”

“Uh-uh-uh same please!” Zippy didn't even pull his eyes away from the screen, totally engrossed.

“Ok I'll be back.” Dan chuckled at the colt, walking down throught the door between the carriages.

“Wow who would have thought that I still had it?” Saggy leaned back in her seat, closing her eyes and sighing happily. “What did you think about him Zip?”

“He seems alright.”

“Here we are!” Dan walked back through the carriage, carrying three hayseed sandwdiges. He placed them on the table, sliding into his seat again.

“Thanks Dan!” Saggy took one of the sandwidges and unwrapped it. “Hey Zip! Time to put the game away!” Zippy switched of the Gamecolt, taking a sandwidge.

“Thanks.”

“How much do I owe you?” Saggy asked, opening her bag.

“Oh don't worry about it. It wasn't too expensive.” He smiled and took a bite out of his sandwidge, looking out the window as the scenery passed by. “Would you like a ride when we get to Canterlot?”

“Yes please. Do you have one of those new Auto-coaches?” Dan chuckled to himself, shaking his head.

“Dear sun no, I just have a normal cab which I pull ponies around in my spare time to earn extra money. Im not very rich despite living in Canterlot, but I'm not too poor either. What about you Saggy, what do you do for work if I may ask?”

“Oh well I own a charm shop and Dojo. Infact that is the reason we have most likely been invited to Canterlot.”

“Oh neat. Well I hope it goes well for you. You definatlely deserve it more than anyone else.”
Saggy blushed softly, smiling warmly. “Th-thank you.” As the trip dragged on the sun slowly descended in the distance, falling behind the mountains as night finally fell upon Equestria. Not long after dark Zippy fell asleep and Dan folded the table up. He moved seats so he sat inbetween Saggy and the window. Saggy fell asleep about an hour before Canterlot. The stallion fell asleep not long after the older mare, with her leaning up against him. About 5 minutes before the Terminus the guards bell rang in all the carriges, to warn him that the station was coming up. He opened his eyes drearily, looking over at the beautiful female he had fallen asleep with.

“I-I-I'm so sorry dear but I have to go.” He gently tapped Saggy's shoulder. The beautiful mare opened her eyes slowly, groaning and looking up at Dan.

“Ohhh, g-g-good morning.”

“I have to go Saggitha, but I will meet you outside the station ok?” He said, gently lifting her up so she sat up on her own.

“Ok, we will meet you at the entrance.” Saggy blushed and pecked him on the cheek before he stood up, making him blush bright red again.

“Th-th-th-thank y-you.” He slowly walked into the aisle, looking over his shoulder at her. Saggitha yawned and rubbed her eyes, turning to her grand daughter.

“Her Zips, We're nearly there.” She tapped the young colt on the shoulder, watching as he grumbled and opened his eyes.

“Hey granny. Where is Dan?”

“He had to go work. We will see him after get off the train.” Saggy picked up her bag, and stood up, walking down the aisle to the wider door at the rear of the carrige with Zippy following behind her. The brakes of the locomotive began to screech, The train sliding into the station to a soft stop. Dan walked along outside the carriges opening them for all the passengers, when he opened the door for Saggitha he bowed politely and winked at her before continuing to the front of the train. Saggy blushed and winked at him, walking off the train with Zippy and walking out the front.

“Why are we meeting him out the front Grammy?”

“He is giving us a lift to Canterlot.” The two sat on a bench out the front, looking around and waiting for him to arrive. Soon the muscular pony arrived, pulling his cart behind him.

“Hello M'lady. Would you and your Grandson like me to take you to your destination?” Saggitha chuckled and smiled climbing into the cart.

“Why of course! I would hate to reject such a gentlecolts service! Come join us Zippy.” The young colt rolled his eyes, climbing up onto the cart.

“So where are we going Miss?”

“To Canterlot Castle!” Saggitha pointed in the direction of the Castle that stood above the tall Canterlot buildings, acting as a beacon.

“Oh my! Really?” Dan gasped and turned around, suprised to hear someone he had just thought to be a simple but wonderful woman traveling to such a place of high distinction. He was not disgusted but suprised.

“Yes. The Princess herself has requested my presence. I assume it has something to do with the charm I made for her two decades ago.”

“Oh my, I never knew I was in the presence of such greatness!” Dan smiled and began to pull the cart towards the Castle, a big grin painted across his face. Saggitha leaned back and closed her eyes, just letting the noise of the busy Canterlot streets soothe her head. She was sure that this had been the most pleasant trip of her life, meeting such a nice stallion who had shown an interest in her.

“Where nearly there Saggitha.” The mare opened her eyes, looking around and seeing the Castle gates barely a hundred metres infront of them. The stallion pulled the cart up outside the gates, unhitching himself and walking to the side of the cart. He offered his hoof to her to help her out.

“What a gentle colt.” The mare giggled softly, taking his hoof in one of her own, stepping down onto the ground. Zippy followed behind his grandmother, Being helped down from the cart by Dan.

“Hault! Please state your name Madam.”The lead guard demanded. Saggitha pulled the letter she had been given from her bag, handing it to the guard.

“My name is Saggitha Slap, this is my grandson Zippy Slap and this wonderful colt here is a close friend of ours.”

“Alright. Welcome.” The guards opened the gates slowly, letting the three ponies in. Dan's mouth hung open untill he was inside the castle walls.

“I'm honored that you would bring me inside of these walls Saggitha!” Dan blushed and walked behind her, as if she was a god.

“Please Dan stop treating me like I am royalty. I like you so act like we are just friends.” He blushed and nodded, running up so he could walk beside her. In the courtyard was many beautiful glass lanterns, Shaped to look like the three types of pony, Earth, Unicorn and Pegasus.

“Wow. The courtyard is beautiful!” Dan stared at the lanterns in awe, taking in the amazing sight. The trio walked up to the main hall. The huge doors slowly swung open, slowly revealing the princess's, standing with Rarity inbetween them and Belles standing on the other side of Celestia. The two Princess's were in beautiful dresses, suited by Rarity. The curvy mare beside Celestia also wore a very tight fitting outfit, two large breasts held by her tight suit.

“Welcome Saggitha, Zippy and Guest.” Clestia smiled, greeting her guests with a warm smile.

“Hello Celestia. This is a Stallion I met on the trip up and soon grew close with. Is it alright if he joins us for our stay?” Saggitha asked politely, walking up to the party of mares that greeted the trio.

“Why of course. Any friend of yours is always welcome here, as are you.” Celestia said, looking at the stallion.

“You didn't describe to me the meaning of this trip in your letter princess, what is it exactly that you require?”

“Lets discuss this over dinner shall we?” Celestia motioned to the ready table behind them, prepared with food for their guests. They all took their seats at the table, the trio sitting on one side and Princess Celestia, Luna sitting at the head. Rarity and Belles sat on either side of the eldest queen. “Saggitha, you remember Belles right?”

“Why of course! She has a figure one cannot forget.” Saggitha said, taking a mouthful of her meal.

“Well we want to get together. The Princess and I.” Belles said softly, blushing as she looked up at the love of her life. “But of course we are met with the problem that I will not live on forever like her.”

“I see. I'm not sure how I can help though.” Saggy replied, very aware of what they were asking now.

“We would like for you to make a Charm that will prolong Belle's life if not make it un-ending.” Celestia answered.

“But I'm not sure what materials would be powerful enough let alone durable enough to last millenia!”

“The book I sent to you mentioned the power source, and we can enchant a conductor such as gold to make it last forever.”

“Very well, but the book said that the element was incredibly rare and hard to create?”
“We may know where something even more powerful is. Recently Equestrian explorers have discovered an entire continent covered in jungle, grown over strange advanced structures made out of Elemental compounds we never even thought of. It is the ruins of some advanced civilisation, and we suspect that they have the strongest power source in our realm.” Celestia's horn began glow, casting a hollogram of a bright yellow crystal into the air.

“Is this the power source?” Saggitha asked, watching the hologram closely.

“One of them. There are a hundred of these crystals scattered amongs certain ruins in the continent based of the energy waves emmiting from the locations. We have struggled to get close in the past. But we suspect that we can use an airship to get a few ponies close to one of these power sources, to retrieve it and then to get out again.”

“Have you selected a team of people to do this yet?”

“I asked for volunteers and we have twenty guards so far as well as Rarity and Belles. Luna and i cannot leave as we have to raise the sun and the moon everyday. We were hoping you would join them on their trip because of your expertise.”

“I don't know. If something happened to me who would take care of Zippy?” Saggitha looked at her grandson with a concerned expression.

“We would be able to teleport you back to the castle once if anything were to go wrong.” Luna said, holding up a golden device, glowing blue with strong magical energy.

“Well, I will have to think about it. This is pretty serious. If you could give me a few nights to ponder it I should have an answer for you.”

“I understand. Take as long as you need and in the meantime make yourself comfortable.”