“Aw crap, my head,” James groaned as he was rubbing his forehead. The last thing he remembered was going to talk to Jack and everything went black after that. He opened his eyes to find himself in darkness and was confused where he was. He stands up trying to feel around where he was, only to feel several metal bars in front of him. “The hell?”

He waited for his eyes to adjust and he saw that he was in a cell block that had a side bed as well as a toilet and a sink next to it. Who he was with as well and was pissed off to see him was Jack Daniels who was roughed up from earlier.

“Well look who woke up,” Jack said with a growl.

“Wait Jack, what the heck?

“Not really in a mood to talk to you right now after today,”

“Wait, where are we?” James asked.

“We’re in a jail cell flankhole, thanks to you having to go and bug my damn ass,” He groaned as he slumped back into his seat. James then looked down at himself and noticed that he and Jack Daniels both had bruises all over their bodies signaling that they both had a fight. He then looked around the room he was in to find that he was in a cell.

“Wait, why are we-!” He paused as he remembered what happened today that led to them being in this situation.

-30 Minutes ago-

James left Sugarcube Corner and went to go and find Jack to see where he went. He searched around town until he found said stallion walking out of a store holding groceries again after having them spilled earlier.

“Found him,” He said to himself as he . “Hopefully he still isn’t too mad with me about earlier.”

It didn’t take long for the stallion to notice the human approaching, with a sigh he turned to him. With the mess the human caused it was clear that Jack was not in the mood.

“You need something, or did your clumsy ass decide to ruin my day with your presence. Or if you’re too stupid to understand, what the Tartarus do you want you waste of space?” Well clearly Jack was in no mood, that much could be heard with the thick venomous words that he spoke.

“Look I think you and I got off on the wrong foot and I was trying to make amends for what happened, but it would be nice without the insults for a change,” James said. “I wanted to try and introduce myself so can we at least-”

“I’m Jack Daniels, from Trottingham you are a nuisance. Glad we cleared that up, but seriously go play best friend somewhere else.”

“Okay, I’m trying to be nice and you’re just straight up being an asshole,” James said Dully, trying to keep his cool.

“Here’s the thing, when I don’t want anyone in my business wrecking things, and trying to get to know me. I have problems with nosy people, you’re just like every one of those people. Now leave before I decide to punch you in the throat.”

“Look man, I only want to clear things up and not cause a scene, so can you and least try and be civil about-” James didn’t get to finish as the stallion he was talking to made good on his promise. Before he knew it, a fist collided with his face causing him to stagger backwards.

“OW!!” he yelled, as he felt his face for a bit. He looked down to see that blood was drawn.

“I warned you, leave or I do a lot worse.” Jack adds, getting into a fighting stance as he shook his fist a bit from the slight pain.

“Bad move jackass…” James said, spitting out some blood as he entered his own stance.

“Hey I feel much better now, it’s a bit relaxing getting to-” Before he could finish his sentence he didn’t notice the kick to the side of his head fast enough to dodge, rocking him from his feet he kept his balance. Though the pain ringing through his skull was a lot greater. Groaning, he shook his head before chuckling.

“Tried playing nice and you threw the first punch, but I can hit back,” James added.

“Good, now I can claim self defense once I beat your ass bloody.” Wiping away the blood from his face he rushes towards him, managing to take him down before slamming his elbows against his skull, slam after slam before getting off of him and taking his hat off.

“Now you're just asking for it.”

“For fun? I definitely am, come on then fight back ya little shit!” He adds as he gets ready once again. Both males soon began to dook it out as James would throw a flurry of punches to keep up with Jack’s punches. He saw that Jack was pretty fast and did what he could to deliver his own punches that were easily blocked or dodged by James. With each punch Jack delivered to James, another was delivered right back to Jack.

“Fast little shit aren’t you! Fucking pest!” Jack shouts once again, throwing punch after punch, each heavy swing continuing to miss, though occasional grabs from his street fighting constantly slamming his knees against the human’s chest.

“I’m a second degree black belt, you got nothing on me, and I deal with assholes that try to fight dirty on a regular basis,” James added, as he did a low sweep kick to trip up Jack.

“Piss off fucker, I’ve dealt with smart little assholes like you in the past. All this friendship and kindness bullshit, annoying bastard. Just mind your damn business.” He shouts as he breaks from the clutch, looking at his fists noticing small bruises here and there, a smirk never leaving his face. If he was getting this pumped up might as well go all out.

“I’m trying to figure out why you hate everybody when we don’t even do anything to you,” James added, looking at his bruised hands as he had never fought anyone like this before. Jack was strong, but James could tell that he was holding back.

“Because all you assholes are the same, be friendly, act friendly, and then the moment I turn away. You fuckers steal from me. Take food from me and my sister. You are nothing but a Celestia damned parasite!”

“What are you on about?” James asked as hearing this genuinely confused him, and he stopped mid punch. He didn’t even have a chance to react as Jack managed to kick him in the gut hard enough to knock the wind out of him and he fell backwards.

“Just fuck off!” Getting on top of the human, he grabs the human’s head, slamming it down against the ground, each hit becoming harder and harder, as he continues slamming his head against the floor. Though before he could do any more, he couldn’t help but feel slightly woozy noticing the smoke billowing from a small capsule.

James noticed that he was no longer feeling his head slamming on the floor, and looked up to see that Jack was feeling woozy and noticed the smoke from the capsule. He felt himself getting dizzy and both males passed out. Before he could fully fall asleep, he noticed a pair of hooves walking in his direction.

“Honestly, I’m off duty for a day visiting family and I come back to see this,” it was a mares voice and she sounded annoyed as James finally dozed off.

-Now-

“Welp, this sucks,” James said to himself as he was now in a jail cell next to a stallion that probably hated his guts right now. “Not to mention the fact that you almost killed me today.

“Word of advice, when a guy looks pissed at you and wants to knock you on your ass, maybe it’s a good idea to Ya know, leave them alone. Can’t believe this shit, stuck in here with a freak, my sister alone at home wondering where the hell I am.” Jack lets out a sigh, rubbing his temples before removing his hat and fanning himself with it.

“Well excuse me for wanting to try and make amends for earlier, and you were the one that threatened to assault me after that.”

“You’r dumbass wouldn’t leave me alone.”

“Well excuse me for wanting to know why you have an issue with all of my friends,”

“Trust me I have no issues with your friends, hell I don’t even care about them enough to even want to know their names. Besides, it's none of your damn business is it? You want to play best friend, go do it with other stallions around here, besides I doubt you’ll stay long enough to get to know anyone around here.” He shakes his head as he looks away. “The way you and your brother do things, I’m surprised this town hasn’t burned to the ground.”

It was clear that even locked up, they’d have a rocky start to a friendship, if that was even in the cards. Though it seemed like the stallion was somewhat interested in the human, though mostly because of how he fought.

“You aren’t the first person I fought sure as hell ain’t the last, so tell me since we’re stuck in this cell. And we have nothing else to do besides sing Kumbaya together. Where did you learn to throw a punch? Not a lot of freaks can almost knock a Pegasus like me down to his ass. Hell, even earth ponies can’t do what you did.”

“Thanks I guess,” James said with a sigh. “Still I’m pretty puzzled by what you said earlier.”

“Oh that…” Jack added. “Look I don’t hate everyone, I just don’t trust anybody. Imagine taking your younger sibling from an abusive house. And just trying to make money to survive, and get it stolen from some asshole. You learn to distrust everyone.”

“Okay I don’t blame you for not trusting me and Scott right away, but you didn’t have to be an asshole about it,” James followed up.

“You don’t get it do you? I lived on the streets with my little sister for a few years. The moment I act sweet and nice to everyone, I get swindled or mugged. I’m not going to be nice to a stranger who doesn’t leave me the hell alone. She comes first, nobody else.”

“You honestly think I don’t know what that’s like?” James followed up, with a dull stare. “I also grew up on the streets after I was almost killed by my birth mother.”

“Wait, what?”

“She was a victim of rape and every time she looked at me, she only saw her rapist,” James added with a sigh. “I ran away at age six when she stabbed me in the shoulder, and I grew up on the streets for about a year now. I was six when it happened, and when I was seven, Scott and his mom found me. I may not understand your life, but I can somewhat understand your pain.”

“Good, because I can’t be nice to everyone. Even then taking her away from that house, even if we were taken care of. By my family’s wealth, the way they treated her. I gave up my life as a Royal Guard for her, and I won’t let her wind up on the streets again,” He adds as he sighs softly.

“You aren’t a bad guy, but I just can’t trust every stranger who says hello.”

“Point I’m trying to make is that you can’t keep your heart hardened like that,” James added as he sat up from the bed. “You never know that you might hurt someone that’s actually trying to be nice. From what I saw in this town, people can be nice, but you need to warm up in your own way.” James then holds his hand out towards Jack. “I’m not forcing you to change, I’m just asking to give me and my friends a chance. You never know if you come across good friends.”

Jack thought about James' words for a bit and was surprised by what he said. Seeing as he was being genuine, he takes James’ offer and he helps him up.

“Is that a risk I’m willing to take though, everything happens and ponies get run through. I’m not one of those, but I see your point. Especially if it means that Pinkie starts seeing me like an ass.”

“What’s going on there all of a sudden?”

“Look it’s obvious I like her, well more than like. That’s besides the point, the thing is I need to change if that means being nice to you. Well I’ll try, just don’t expect me to be sweet. It’s obvious I’m an asshole, I’ll just be a kind asshole.”

“You know if you try to get a grip on things I might be able to put in a good word for you to her,” James added with a smile. “By the way, you’re really good with your boxing skills man.”

“Well you’re put through boot camp the moment you wanna keep the princess safe. Just some things you pick up, just in case you’re faced with someone built like a damn train.”

“Well I’ve trained in martial arts since Scott’s mom dated a fighting instructor and it was where I picked up most of my techniques, also why do you combine fighting dirty with what you do?” James asked. “You tried to hit me in the nuts a few times.”

“Like I said before, living on the streets. It’s better to fight dirty than fair, if it means I hit someone in the balls, or poke their eyes. Then I’m all for it, besides some ponies don’t fight one on one, sometimes it’s 3 on 1, or even 2 on 1.”

“I’ve had fights like that where I beat up an entire football team once,” James added. “It was after what they did to Scott that set me off.”

“Well that’s you, for me even as a bigger Pegasus. Fighting fair well that won’t happen, ponies aim for my wings I go down hard. It’s better if I knock them down a peg first.”

“I see where you’re getting at,” James added. Before they could say anything else, a pair of hooves was walking in their direction. The lights then turned on and it revealed a mare with a tied orange mane and green eyes and she looked pretty annoyed seeing them. She was an earth pony with a grey coat. She was dressed in some casual attire as it consisted of a light blue blouse and black pants mixed with a black jacket, and had a pair of sunglasses on her blouse. The blouse did show off a generous portion of her cleavage as well.

“Well look who finally woke up,” she said in annoyance. “Hope you boys are happy with your little fight since it earned you some time in the slammer.”

“Um, who are you exactly?”

“The names’ Copper Pot,” she said in annoyance. “Normally I’d leave you here, but you got bailed out by someone who lives here, so consider yourselves lucky.”

“Wait, someone bailed us out?” James asked in confusion.

“Rather somepony bailed you out,” an annoyed female voice called out. Both males turned to see an annoyed Twilight, a disappointed Barb, and James' brother Scott, who looked pretty nervous right now.

“Well, you’re screwed James, do me a favor and tell my little sis to go to Pinkie’s for tonight. This happened before I’ll just wait for the night. They’ll let me go tomorrow morning.” Jack says with a sigh as he removes his hat and places it on his face laying on the bench.

“You’re not getting off easily either,” Twilight added, glaring at Jack Daniels. “Especially since you started the fight that got you both arrested.”

“Whoa whoa, the fight only started after I got a little heated. Besides it was bound to happen, between me and James it was either he got punched by me. Or I was kicked in the ribs by James. So in the long run we avoided a bigger fight in the future.”

“Plus we made up after talking out so it’s no big deal Twilight,” James followed up with a smile.

“Besides, if we weren’t arrested I would’ve won that fight.” Jack gives a chuckle at the joke, of course he was half joking.

“Pfft, you wish,” James added. “So why’d you bail us out?”

“The princesses want to see the both of you, now,” Twilight said with a sigh as she took out a letter that she just received.

‘Dear Princess Twilight,

I’ve been hearing rumors about new creatures roaming around Equestria and I’m not sure if they are a danger or not. If possible, could you allow me to meet them soon?

Princess Celestia.’

“You and your bro are getting popular, wanting to be seen by the princess. That’s a huge opportunity,”

“This is gonna be interesting,” James added with a sigh. “So where is everyone else?”

“They’re already at the train station, and I was on my way to find you both when I was told around town what happened,” Twilight said with a sigh.

“Is it alright if Jack can come along?” James asked.

“That depends if he’s gonna start a fight again,” Twilight said, giving the pegasus stallion a glare.

“Probably, just not with James. So if anything he won’t get punched in the throat, or face, or gut…”

“I’m sorry I asked,” she sighed. “Fine, but if you get in trouble again, I’m not bailing you out this time.”

“Alright,” James added as he and Jack left with Scott, Barb, and Twilight out of the small jailhouse. What was waiting for Jack outside was his rather upset sister.

“Now before you get mad Rose let me just say, you are absolutely adorable.” He tried his best to charm his way out, though with a solid punch to his leg the small filly simply hit her older brother.

“Why do you keep getting in trouble? You know it’s bad when the police station has a cell called Jack’s cell!” Rose says as she chewed out her older brother, the small filly simply looked at her brother with a small pout. With a sigh Jack shook his head, as much as he’d love to joke, the punch was a bit more painful than most hits he’d taken.

“Aww dammit.” Falling to his knee, Rose sighs and gives her brother a kiss on the cheek and a hug.

“Dummy.” She says with a shake of her head, it was the usual cycle between the two.

“I’m sorry alright, it was my fault and I’ll try to be civil, promise.” He says with a hand on his heart as Rose looked at the stallion with a small pouty glare, between Jack and Rose promises were almost never broken. It was best he kept his promises around her after all.

“So how’d you guys make up while you were there?” Scott asked.

“We’ll fill you in when we get on the train,” James replied as they all walked towards the train.

“So where exactly are we going?” Rose asks as she grasps Jack’s hand.

“Something about the princesses, honestly I have no clue Rose. We’re along for the ride, maybe it has to do with those two. Who knows, but hey at least you get to see the princess, not an everyday event after all.” He mentions with a chuckle.

“We get to meet the princesses?” she said with a beaming smile.

“Probably, if anything it’ll be a good couple hours taken meeting them.” Jack adds with a small shrug and nod.

“Your sister sure is an energetic bundle of joy,” James said with a smile.

“Yeah that’s usually how it goes with her, she’s perky if anything. Loud too, but I think it’s because anything that gets her out of here would make her happy.”

“Yeah I guess,” Scott added.

-Train Station-

“Honestly, what the hay is taking them so long,” Applejack said in annoyance as she leaned against the railing of the fence near the Train station. She was with Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Rarity.

“Considering that Jack Daniels started a fight, it may take time for them to arrive and the train will already be gone by the time that they get here,” Rarity added, as she was powdering her face with a puff palm and mirror. “I don’t understand why James was so fond of him.”

“You don’t think he swings both ways do you?” Rainbow Dash asked while she was looking overhead.

“Ah doubt it, and he doesn’t look the kind to discriminate,” Rarity added.

“I just hope neither of them are hurt after getting into a fight,” Fluttershy added, petting her rabbit on the head.

“Well however they're doing, I’m sure they’ll be cheerful to see the Princesses,” Pinkie added.

“Speak of the devil,” Rainbow Dash said as she spotted James, Scott, Jack, Rose, Twilight and Barb walking in their direction.

“Let’s just hope they don’t get into any more trouble than they already made themselves for now,” Rarity said with a sigh as they waited for the group to arrive. After awhile, Twilight, Barb, Jack, Rose, James and Scott arrive where the girls were waiting for them.

“Hey guys,” James said with a friendly smile.

“So why’s he here?” Rainbow said, gesturing to Jack. “Especially after what happened?”

“It’s cool, we made up,” James added. “He’s trying to get to know everyone better now, just give him a chance okay?”

“I know he can be a bit of a jerk, but he’ll be on his best behavior. He can’t break any of my promises, so I’ll keep an eye on him.” Rose said, trying her best to at least keep things from becoming too hectic.

“What she said, basically I won’t be an ass through this trip. Besides I started another fight, I’ll be spending the night in jail. And the beds there are not the comfiest.” He adds with a shrug as Rose gives her brother a glare.

“So can we get a move on already?” James added. “I’m interested to meet this princess you all think so highly of.”

“Yeah, I don’t want to keep sitting around doing nothing,” Scott added.

“Then let’s hurry up,” Twilight said. “We have an official seal from Princess Celestia, so we won’t need tickets.” she added as she showed the Train Conductor the seal and the group that she was going with. After that, everyone gets on the train car and they all step on. The train makes some preparations before taking off and that was the end of that.

-Train-

“Word travels fast in this town.” Jack mentions as the group were sitting in one of the train cars, of course to Jack it was all noise and he did start the fight. There were some ponies on the train cars staring at the group, as they couldn’t believe their eyes with what they were seeing.

“I guess fighting in public really made the town talk, the perfect storm of gossip and talking behind someone’s back,” Giving a shake of his head, he just shrugged his shoulders. At this point he’d be known as that angry stallion who’d punch anyone who annoyed him. Then again his previous reputation wasn’t the best either.

“That, or they made a bet with that mare we met in town, and something tells me she’s gonna be rich by the time word gets around,” Scott added.

“Well at least I did one good deed today, I made someone rich. And that’s the most important deed anyone could do,” Jack said jokingly.

“Okay then,” James said. “Did everyone doubt that mare or something?”

“Yes, we all did, and here you two are to prove all of us wrong,” Barb mentioned. “So I think by the time this is over, Lyra Heartstrings is going to be one very rich mare by the end of it all.”

“Glad, we didn’t make a bet,” Scott said with a sigh.

“You’ve been staring at me all day since we got on the train,” James said in confusion when he looked up at Rarity who was staring at him.

“Your hairstyle has been bothering me for a while,” she said. “You seem to waste a lot of hair gel in there for the whole punk spiked up look.”

“This isn’t because of hair gel,” James admitted, confusing her.

“Oh please,” she added as she took out a comb and tried to comb his hair down. “You need to be presentable for the princesses, and I doubt that they would appreciate your-” She stopped when she tried to comb into his hair only for it to get stuck. “What the?”

“Okay, you think you can stop now?” James said as he was in pain. Rarity was still trying to pull out the comb but James grunted when feeling the “Seriously, any harder, you’ll pull my hair out.”

“Oh fine,” She pouted as she let go, and James pulled the comb out of his hair.

“You think you woud;ve asked me before you did that?” James said in annoyance. “Plus trying to comb my hair is out of the question since it wouldn’t have helped.”

“What do you mean?” Rarity asked.

“I’m saying that my hair has always been like this,” James admitted, making the girls look at him in confusion as well as Jack and Rose.

“Seriously, and here I thought you couldn’t get any weirder. Guess you prove me wrong,” Jack looked at James’s hair with confusion.

“Hey, it’s not my fault I can’t change how my hair is, I was born this way,” James added in annoyance. “I don’t go judging someone for their hair for no reason and say they're a freak.”

“How about we not focus on that and just focus on the train ride to Canterlot,” Barb said with a sigh.

“She’s right,” James added.

-Some time Later-

"Uh, this is boring. How long is it gonna be until we reach Canterlot?" Scott complained.

"They said for another hour," James exclaimed. He knew Scott hated long train rides. There was one time his brother nearly lost it when a kid kept kicking his chair and later tossed one out of the window. Because of that he and his brother were suspended from trains for the next three years, but for James, he knew he was never going through that again.

"Well since we're on here, we never really got to know you girls." James stated.

"Yeah, what are your dreams?" Scott exclaimed.

"Well mah dream is to keep my family business up an' active," said AppleJack.

"Well my dream is to become a member of the WonderBolts," said Rainbow Dash.

"What's a WonderBolt?" Scott explained. But he was gonna regret that real fast. Rainbow Dash turned to him with a look that would almost make him wet his pants.

"Seriously, you never heard of the greatest flyers in Equestria?" she practically yelled causing a scene onboard the train.

"From another world, remember? We've never even heard of the WonderBolts Rainbow Dash." James explained calming her down. “We don’t know a lot about this world and I would rather not get killed by something we don’t understand.”

"You must feel pretty silly right now Rainbow Dash," said Pinkie, causing Rainbow to blush. At least the commotion died down.

"Well I'll just go to the bathroom." Scott said wanting to get away from her after that outburst.

“I think after this trip you guys are gonna need a rundown on what’s going on in this world,” Jack added with a sigh. “You’re gonna need it,” Jack mentions to James.

“Just a small heads up, a lot of this world is a bit different. Well a lot different from what I can tell, you two seem to get confused a lot,” Jack adds.

“That would be nice,” James added.

“I’m sure I can walk you through some of the things that are considered dangerous when it comes to-” Twilight was cut off when a loud crack was heard.

"Ow my nose!" Scott grimaced. Everyone hurt Scott’s voice and he later came back but was on the floor with a loud thud. “Assholes, what was that for?”

"Scott!!" Barb was the first to go to him.

"Dude, what happened?" James stuttered.

"I don't know. I was just on my way to the bathroom when these two guys blocked my path and one of 'em punched me in the face," Scott finished.

"There's that bastard," said a voice from behind them. When everypony turned around they saw the very same stallions that harassed Nursery Rhymes and Button Mash yesterday.

"Why the hell did you punks punch my brother?" James said with venom in his voice.

"Well thought he was you, you damn bastard. It's payback time for embarrassing us back there," said the first stallion.

"You punks deserved it for harassing that one mare and her son. Not to mention that you kicked him since they wanted to be left alone."

"Shut the buck up. This time, you're dead meat." said the other stallion. He tries to punch Scott again, only for James to grab his fist, twist it and toss him over on the other side.

“You guys are just asking to get on my bad side,” James followed up cracking his knuckles. “And trust me, it’s a side you do not want to be on.”

“You need help James, or can you handle this yourself? After our little fight, I think I need a little light exercise beating the crap out of two scumbags,” Jack asks as he looks at the stallions, as he gets up from his seat.

“Stay out of this top hat, or we’ll-” Before he could finish his sentence, Jack pressed the stallion against the train wall slamming him against it.

“It ain’t nice to diss someone’s fashion, do I need to break your fingers one by one to make you get the message?” Jack asked with a smirk on his face and showed exactly what he wanted to do.

“Get off of me jackass,” With a swift punch to the gut, he let go of the stallion watching him slump on the ground groaning in pain.

“Gladly,” Jack says with a smile as he delivers a swift kick to his head. The stallion clutched the side of his skull in pain and he glared at Jack.

“You’re dead!” he shouted as he was ready to throw a haymaker at Jack who duck’s and jabbed him in his side. Seeing the stallion stumble from the punch, Jack shoved him aside slamming him against the wall as he’d kneed his side before pushing him towards James.

“Shouldn’t we do something?” Fluttershy asked, but Scott got in front of the girls.

“Nah, he’s got this,” Scott followed up. “And it looks like our new friend’s got this as well.”

“Time for you to help here buddy!” Jack shouts as he shakes his hand from the slight pain. James meanwhile looked at the stallion and did a flying drop kick to the face causing him to flip over and fall backwards onto his back.

The stallion was pissed as he tried to sweep at his legs only for him to jump out of the way. The stallion groaned and got up wanting to punch James over and over but he kept dodging his swings.

Too distracted to focus on Jack, Jack came from behind and grabbed the stallion. Pulling him down to the ground Jack would get on top of him. Constantly punch him in the face, each punch harder than the last before he was shoved off from the stallion.

“Damn this is fun, haven’t beaten someone up until my knuckles started hurting in a long time!” Jack says with a smile, he was truly a fighter at heart.

Meanwhile the stallion that James tossed over got pissed and got up ready to brawl. He was annoyed and wanted to spill blood. He saw that his friend was getting bruised up, and he looked around for anything to use. Seeing a nearby broom on the floor, he goes over to pick it up and use it as a weapon. James felt movement behind him the stallion made a swing James ducks and sweeps his legs from underneath.

James followed up by doing a flying dragon kick into the stallion's chest when he tried to stand up. The stallion was pissed and tired to take another swing at James only for him to duck and dodge, using his swings against him, and tossing him behind him.

“You know you’ll have to try harder than that pal,” James taunted.

“Shup you, you bastard,” he yelled standing back up. Meanwhile Jack was dealing with the other stallion, with a swift kick to the stallion’s head he fell to the floor. As Jack grabbed him from behind, keeping him down. With the amount of pain the stallion was in, it was doubtful he’d get up anytime soon.

“Pissed off and embarrassed don’t make for a good combo.” Jack mumbles to himself as he restrains him, leaving James to deal with the other stallion who was just swinging at him and missing each swing frustrating him more and more. James was just toying with him, popping him in the muzzle and poking him in the eyes.

His biggest mistake was when he charged at him and when James made another dodge, the stallion couldn’t slow down as he landed face first into a pole. He clutches his face in pain and James would then end it by jumping up and drop-kicking him in the face, knocking him out.

“Told ya,” he chuckled to himself as he walked over to the girls.

“I guess now we just gotta wait until the train stops, we caused a big enough scene and caused so much damage they’re gonna be gossiping about this. Dammit I haven’t fought like that in awhile.” Jack mumbles trying to move his shoulder a bit though happy he finally had a chance to get all his anger out on someone.

“Guess y’all weren’t just all talk were ya?” Applejack said with a smile on her face. She then turned to Jack. “And where’d y’all learn how to fight like that?”

“That? Well some of it I learned from the streets, the other was what I learned from my time in the Royal guard. They were big on knowing how to handle others, just in case things got rowdy. But Canterlot is filled with rich ponies so I never really had a chance to use any of it. Unless it was for sparring practice with the other guard members.” He mentions as he takes his hat from Rose’s head.

“If y’all were a guard, then what made ya quit?” Macareina asked.

“Look, I'll try to be friendly with everyone and try to be friends, But one thing I need in return is that you don’t ask that that’s something I don’t wanna talk about.” He was a bit grim, though it looked as if he tried his best to not get angry. “Best to leave that story unsaid, for now at least. If you all can do that, then everything will go smoothly.”

“So what’re we gonna do about these losers?” James asked, turning to the two unconscious stallions on the ground.

“I have an idea,” Scott said with a smile on his face.

“What about?” Twilight asked.

“Do you know any spells to remove someone’s clothes?” he asked.

-Some time Later-

Some time later the trains slowed down at the station, and patrons on board the trains all stepped out to go about their daily business. But the sound of an air horn got their attention and they were greeted with a very hilarious sight. The same two stallions that attacked James and Jack were pushed out of their train in their underwear and everyone was laughing at the hilarious sight. Both stallions never felt so humiliated in their lives and they couldn’t even find their clothes.

“Hey fellas,” James said with a smile on his face as he, Scott, Jack, the Mane Six, Barb, and Macareina all watched as the crowd laughed at them. “Guess some folks are enjoying the view down there.”

“Call it karma for punching me in the face earlier,” Scott said with a smirk as he watched the embarrassment. After a while, both stallions literally had to run away covering their crotches leaving everyone laughing.

“Serves them right,” Macareina says as she wipes a tear away from her left eye from laughing so hard.

“Those guys were pathetic, what a bunch of chumps.” Rainbow says hips cocked to one side, her hands crossed under her chest.

“Did you guys see how small they were!” Pinkie says laughing Hysterically holding her gut

“Ah’m guessing those trophies of yers weren’t just for show were they?”

“Course they weren’t,” James replied with a smile. “Like I said, I earned those through hard work.”

“Well it was not bad.” Macareina says with a smile coming over her face. “I could have done better,” she says under her breath looking away.

“If we’re done wasting time, maybe we can go see Princess Celestia like she asked us to earlier?” Twilight said with an impatient tone.

Fluttershy comes out from behind her mane “Y-Yeah we should go.” she says as she holds onto Pinkie’s arm a blush coming across her face.

Author's Note

Credit goes to Alexsandr Sherbet and Beat Brony helping me out with this chapter. Sorry it took so long to get this story back together, but hopefully it helped out and focus more on world building in some of my older story driven chapters.