Twisted Friendship: An MLP story

Twisted Friendship: An MLP story

Chapter 7: Meeting Mayor Mare

Ponyville, a peaceful friendly town situated in the middle of Equestria. While the town's population contains all three types of equines living together, the villagers are mostly Earth Ponies while the Pegasi and Unicorns reside at their own cities. The town includes a city hall, a spa, a train station, furniture stores, a marketplace where food is sold, and another dirt path that leads to a farm in the distance.

Senshi Daniels, Twilight Sparkle, and Rarity are approaching Ponyville. The stock car driver was feeling a bit nervous as the town came closer and closer. He can see in the clouds above the village a pegasus clearing a bunch of clouds by flying at top speed through them or bucking them with her hooves. He put his right hand above his eyes and squints to get a better view of the sky so he identify who it was. As he did, he can tell who the pegasus is as she leaves behind a rainbow colored jet stream – Rainbow Dash. He watched in amazement as the cyan pegasus cleared the clouds in less than 10 seconds. She was right after all about saying that she's the fastest flier of all time.

Taking his eyes from Rainbow Dash, Senshi Daniels and the two unicorns entered Ponyville and it was sight to behold. A lot of ponies were trotting around while some were in a group having a conservation about random topics. There were also other ponies standing next to food and item stands selling different things to the villagers as they come and go.

The three entered Ponyville calmly until a beige Earth Pony filly, trotting alongside with her aqua colored mother, noticed Senshi.

“Mommy, mommy,” The filly said. “Look, it's the alien!”

The mother turned to see Senshi and wide eyed at the stock car driver's appearance. “AAAUUUGGHHH!!!! IT'S THE ALIEN!!! RUN!!!!”

The mother grabs her child and ran to the nearest house. The other ponies who heard her cry saw the human, or the alien as the mother and filly declared, panicked in sheer terror. Most of them grabbed their belongings while shop keepers closed their stores and stands and all ran to their homes locking it. Senshi, Twilight, and Rarity were left glancing each other once the streets were deserted.

“Okay!” Senshi said to the two magical unicorns. “What just happened? What is this about me being an alien creature?”

“I think it has something to do with this morning's paper about Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash discovering you in the Everfree Forest.”

“Paper? What paper?”

“This newspaper, darling.” Rarity said as she walked to a nearby newsstand that has several copies of the Ponyville Express. She picks one copy up with her teeth and brings it to Senshi.

The stock car driver takes the newspaper from Rarity and reads the front page headline. What he read made him shook his head in disgust. Like earlier in the hospital with Nurse Coldheart, the headline describes him and his Death Warrant, aka The Metal Beast as described by the ponies. As Twilight noted, the story includes that both Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash found him unconscious while bleeding on the dirt road. The yellow shy pegasus kept guard while Rainbow Dash brought Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie to help carry his body to the hospital where the medical staff performed the operation to save him. Besides Twilight and her friends being interviewed in the article, the news about him spread around Ponyville until one pony, remaining anonymous, believed that Senshi was an extraterrestrial and everyone, or everypony, bought it and are told by the Ponyville mayor to stay clear from him or “The Metal Beast.” At the end of the paragraph where the story ends, the name of the journalist is revealed to be somepony, named Big Scoop. No surprise there for somepony trying to write a juicy top story.

Senshi puts the paper to his left side as he looks at Twilight and Rarity in front of him. “So let me get this straight:...this 'Big Scoop' interviews you two and your four other friends about me and some unknown pony thinks I'm some sort of extraterrestrial that wants to rule your land. Then, my car is a identified as a 'metal beast' and every...pony...here believes in this story that as soon as I came in, it led to a public outcry of terror that got them packing to lock their doors?!?”

“If you put it that way, Senshi,” Twilight said. “Yes. That's exactly what everypony here thinks about you.”

“Not like us when we first met you.” Rarity added.

“Bullshit!” Senshi complained as he threw the paper to the ground. “I could've strangled that fucking pony who came up with these lies about me!”

The last word that came out of Senshi's mouth made both Twilight and Rarity flinched in discomfort.

“Uh...Senshi,” Twilight said. “I know your our new guest and all...but...would you please not use that kind of language here!”

Senshi raised an eyebrow at Twilight. “Why?”

“Because cursing or any use of foul language is forbidden in Equestria.” Rarity answered to backup Twilight's claim. “Hearing you say it makes me want to wash your filthy mouth out with soap!”

Senshi stared at them with a blank face. “Umm...okay...I'll watch what I say...but still...I need to talk to the mayor.”

“Sure,” Twilight said. “However, we should go get you some food first.”

“You do realize that all the ponies here just ran like crazy and locked their doors?” Senshi asked. “My sudden arrival may had affect the ones running Sugarcube Corner. Am I right or not?”

Both unicorns glanced at Senshi and then at each other. Both of them put a hoof on their chin to ponder if the human was right. The screams and shrieks from everypony did cause a lot of commotion throughout the town somehow that caused all stores, restaurants, and houses to be locked up and there's no way to convince all the ponies that Senshi is friendly unless a higher authority said so.

“He does have a point, Twilight.” Rarity spoke. “We shall visit Mayor Mare to straighten this out before this gets out of hoof.”

“Alright then.” Twilight agreed before turning to Senshi. “Follow us, Senshi.”

The three began to walk towards Town Hall. As he followed the ponies behind, Senshi began to scan the streets of Ponyville by looking at the houses and stores where the ponies ran into. He can see through the windows from each building a few silhouettes peeking through the window curtains and ducking out of sight. It looks like all the ponies were very frightened to step outside and get a closer look of the human, let alone greet him.

“What did you do when you spoke to this...Mayor Mare?” Detective Cade asked  Senshi as he took down notes.

“Nothing much.” Senshi replied. “I only told her who I was and where I came from.”

“Did you tell her about Twisted Metal and Calypso?” Hoss added.

Senshi took another sip from his Pepsi before settling it down on the table. “No. Not just yet! At that time, while I was chatting with Twilight and Rarity, I was thinking about doing something to cover up the truth on how and why I'm in Equestria. What happened was..."

“Here we are, Senshi,” Twilight said. “Ponyville Town Hall. What do you think?”

Senshi gazed upon the two floor, European style round structure. It had a balcony that goes clockwise with several flags on the wooden railings and a small watch tower on the top overlooking Ponyville. It doesn't look too bad of a town hall but what does he know.

The stock car driver took his off of the building and notices a mountain range in the distance...with a castle built on the side of it and a waterfall flowing to the right of the castle.

“Hey, girls,” Senshi called the mares. “What's that over there?”

Twilight and Rarity approached the stock car driver who is pointing at the castle that's far away from where they're at.

“Oh, that is the city of Canterlot.” Rarity said. “It is such a fabulous, rich place for us unicorns to reside and have some R&R when we want to get away from our problems.”

“It is also my home, Senshi,” Twilight said. “I grew up there attending Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns where I passed an exam to be Princess Celestia's most faithful student. I spent most of my time reading books about Equestria history and all types of unicorn magic with Spike as my assistant. Most recently, my brother and Captain of the Royal Guards, Shining Armor, is married to my former foal sitter Princess Cadance.”

“Princess Cadance?” Senshi questioned Twilight. “Is she Celestia's daughter or sister?”

Twilight giggled. “You're close. Cadance is her niece but Celestia does have a younger sister named Luna.”

“Who was once Nightmare Moon!” Rarity said. “She was such vile alicorn that wanted to send Equestria into total darkness but thanks to us that never happened.”

“What do you mean?” Senshi said to Rarity as he was interested in this story.

“Twilight, myself, and our other friends were on a journey to find the Elements of Harmony, six powerful artifacts that represent the power and magic of friendship. I, of course, represent Generosity. Twilight Sparkle here represents the most powerful of all, magic!”

“And I represent loyalty!” Came a familiar voice from above the trio.

Senshi, Twilight, and Rarity looked up and noticed Rainbow Dash hovering above them with her wings flapping.

“Hey guys!” Rainbow said with a smile. “What's up?”

“Nothing but you.” Senshi joked.

Rainbow dash let out a small chuckled. “Well, you got me there. So Senshi, you got released from the hospital today. Are you feeling better?”

“Not really. Well, my body is almost feeling better but I am not quite happy about Ponyville.”

“Why?”

“You do realize that Ponyville has become sort of ghost town?”

“Yeah, I noticed. I was asking myself where did all the ponies go and why it seemed so quiet.”

“That's because everyone ra...”

“'Everypony,' darling.” Rarity corrected.

Senshi sighed. “Right! Every...pony...ran off to their homes and barricaded themselves from evening coming outside to at least get good look at me. You have to blame it on some journalist named Big Scoop and some unknown pony who called me an alien.”

Rainbow Dash laughed. “That's rich!”

“No it isn't!” Senshi said annoyed. “If I don't get a chance to talk to the mayor or Princess Celestia, how am I supposed to make peace with all of you ponies? Besides, I need money to get the parts I need to repair my car and get this hospital bill taken care of.”

“Oh!” Rainbow Dash said coming to her senses. “Well, why don't you go and talk to her?”

“We we're going to do that until Senshi saw Canterlot and became fascinated to hear us discuss about it.” Twilight said.

“I think we stalled long enough with this conversation.” Rarity noted. “We should go inside and talk to her now.”

“Count me in! I wanna hang out.” Rainbow Dash said.

The three ponies and the Twisted Metal winner go inside Town Hall to have a chat with the mayor. As they go inside, they passed the Ball Room in the center of the building and head towards the left down a hall while passing a few doors. They approached a door at the end of the hall that read MAYOR MARE'S OFFICE. Twilight goes up to the door and knocks on it. In an instant, a frightened pale grayish amber pony with a light, bluish gray mane, glasses, and blue eyes with a cutie mark of a scroll seaked with a ribbon opened the door.

“Um...he...hello?” The cowardly pony said.

“Mayor!” Twilight said. “We need to talk.”

“Ab...About?”

“About me!” Senshi said as he came to the door.

Mayor Mare gasped in horror and tries to close the door but was unsuccessful as Senshi held the door with a tight grip.

“Take it easy!” Senshi said. “I'm not going to hurt you and I'm not an alien. I just want to talk to you and tell you the real truth about me.”

“Please Mayor.” Rarity pleaded. “He is friendly.”

Mayor Mare thought for a minute and decided to let Senshi and the ponies to enter. Once all four were in, the amber Earth Pony trots to her office desk and sat down on her chair. She looks at Senshi Daniels before clearing her throat.

“Okay, please tell me everything.”