After what happened, Zerj told everyone to meet him at the train station in ten minutes, to catch a train to Canterlot. At first, they were still startled that the unicorn knew them, and at the letter they had received from the princess. Because of this, they all slowly nodded, followed his commands, and met at the trainstation.

Everyone waited till the train arrived. They were all quiet, except for Fluttershy and Phil: Both of them talked about animals, as usual. It didn't take long before the train arrived. The gang waited till everypony was off board. Only a few ponies came and waved hello to the gang, especially one familiar pony.

"John. Whatz up!?" said the white, blue mane pony.

"Nothing much Vinyl," John replied, "You?"

"Dude, I DJed two parties in Las Pegasus and it was awesome! Too bad that I wasn't there when you defeated the Ursa-Major."

"Sounds like if you- wait, how did you heard about the Ursa-Major incident?"

"Everypony in Equestria knows about it, and the burning hospital. Ponies thought that you caused the fire, but there's no proof that you actually did it."

"And who started saying this stuff?"

"Beats me. I only heard it during the parties."

The Dj pony suddenly noticed that there were other humans at the station. Her eyes began to get big as a grin was on her face. She was glad that she came.

"There's more of you!?" cried Vinyl.

John nodded.

The Dj pony fainted.

"Uh...Vinyl? You okay?"

The gang and Zerj boarded the train to Canterlot. Questions roamed in the minds of the Elements of why the princess summoned them, while the humans wondered what the city would look like. They were eager for what the capital of Equestria had in store.

"Are you guys excited?" asked Peter.

"Of course we are. What do you think?" Tyler replied.

"I don't know. I'm not psychic. Duh."

The guys started to blab about how the ponies in Canterlot might react while John just sat there and did nothing.

They're getting excited just for a city that got it's name from a fairytale, John thought, Yet, they bitched about me playing Friday.

"Wow, you guys are excited huh?" said Twilight.

"Heck yeah we are," said Aaron, "Are you excited?"

"Not really. We're all wondering what the princess wanted to talk about. Besides, I was born there."

The guys stared at Twilight with grins on their faces.

"Did you say you were born there?" asked Richard.

"Indeed I did," said Twilight.

This is going to be one long train ride.

After an hour of talking about Canterlot and stuff, everyone turned their attention to Zerj, who had remained quiet all this time.

"So Zerj, how exactly did you know the princess?" asked Rainbow Dash.

The male unicorn sighed and looked at them.

"Well, I met her when I joined the Royal Guards when I was just a young colt," said Zerj, "At first, she saw me as a regular guard, but then, she saw me talking to a very young colt named Shining Armor about joining the Royal Guards."

"Shining Armor!" exclaimed Twilight, "He's my brother."

"Yep. If it wasn't for him, I'll still be some regular guard. Matter of fact, the last thing he said was that he wanted to be a Royal Guard someday."

"He said the same thing every time we talked about our dreams."

"Well, you have a good brother."

Twilight smiled while her cheeks were red.

"So what happened next?" asked Rarity.

"We both started talking about how I was nice to him and the next thing I knew, I was friends with her."

"Really?" said Applejack.

"And within a year in the force, I was promoted as captain of the Royal Guards."

Jaws were dropped in the cabin.

"How?" stuttered everyone.

"To be honest, I gave good advice to ponies who had tough times. You see, I was raised in a very wise family. My parents always tell me that when you see somepony is in trouble, go and advise them. And when I advise, their problems are gone away. As a token, they suggested Celestia to let me be Captain of the Royal Guards."

"That's amazing!" said Twilight, "You did things that no pony can ever do and for granted, you were promoted captain of the Royal Guards."

Twilight hugged Zerj in the most friendly way, follow by the rest of the Elements. The ponies were saying that you're awesome and cool with they squeezed the colt. All smiles were in the room.

John looked at them and it somehow reminded him when his friends gave him the group hug. He turned away to the guys and it all made sense. Each friend represents an Element of Harmony. John looked back and forth and was so surprised how his friends represented the ponies he first met. But then, he also realized that the same dream he had in weeks was half solved. The only part that was missing was the meaning of Jessica turning into a baby wrapped up into a blanket. John never understood the concept behind it.

I wonder what Spike's doing? wondered John.

***

Meanwhile at the library, Spike swept the floor while he was humming Byob. Spike decided to stay home while the others go to Canterlot. Of course, due to recent events, someone had to stay in the library. Overall, Spike was having a good time.

As Spike finished mopping, there was some knocking on the door.

"Wonder who might come to the library in this time of hour?" wondered Spike as he looked at the clock.

As Spike went to the door, there were several more knocks and they were loud. He slowed down until he no longer moved from where he was. The knocks turned into bangs with seconds, whiched made Spike scared. His pupils shrank as the door got knocked down by force, which caused the lights go out all of the sudden. Weird. He remained frozen and stared at something he wished not to see.

"No. Not you," stuttered Spike, "How?"

The creature chuckled for the moment and smiled at Spike.

"Anything is possible," said the creature.

Within a second, he was surrounded by beings he never even wanted to see in his life. They were getting closer to him as Spike began shaking like he never had before in his life.

"TWILIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!"

***

During the night, John stood up, still thinking about what Princeton said as well as Yetson. The more he thought of the serious unicorn, the more he felt that he must have met him before, but where on Earth (or in Equestria) could he have seen him? It troubled his mind for the thought as he began to get drowsy. He laid down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

Moments away from having that same dream again, John thought.

Within moments, John began to dream. This was another day to dream the same dream. However,

"Where am I? This is not the same dream. Finally, something new here."

John couldn’t see anything. Everything was too bright and blurry to make out any detail. He was vaguely aware of an ambient hum, and a slight, rhythmic jostling. He must have been in a moving car.

He could make out three dark shapes, two directly in front of him, and one to his left. He also noticed that he was strapped down tightly, incapable of doing anything besides stare at the roof of the vehicle. He tried to sit up, but his muscles refused to heed his commands, and all he managed to do was limply flail his arms.

"Dammit! I hate it when you can’t move."

He struggled much as he could to move, but he didn't budge. So John would do is stare at the roof. Defeated, he resigned himself to being unable to move, and decided to just listen.

"Well, at least I have a different dream."

The car ride was very relaxing, and he would have fallen asleep, if he wasn’t already dreaming. Instead, John just stayed put, contemplating his surroundings. He came to the conclusion that he was strapped down in the middle back seat of a five-seater car, there were two people in front of him: one driving, the other merely sitting silently in the passenger’s seat; and another person sitting beside him. Although it was mostly conjecture, as he couldn’t make out any details of the shapes surrounding him.

Suddenly, a strangely familiar child’s voice emanated from the shape to his left, "Mommy, why there's so many kids in that big house?"

A voice that was very familiar to him came from the passenger’s seat, "You mean the hospital?"

The head of the child next to him bobbed in ascent.

Another voice he recognized came from the driver, and his father’s voice filled the car, "Walden, there's a lot of kids in there because...God saw their parents as bad people. So he puts their kids to a big house with other kids so good parents, like your mommy and I, can get them."

Walden, now affirmed as John’s brother in child form, seemed confused; but he nodded and remained silent as the car rounded a corner, drove up a shallow hill, and parked.

Walden’s silhouette shuffled a bit, and a seat belt unbuckling was heard, before he opened the car’s door, and left.

Once Walden shut the door, John’s mother spoke again, "So sad that this one and the other one was found at the park. Who in the world would leave their children that way?"

His father replied, "I agree. They weren’t related to each other, but that just makes it even worse. It just means that two sets of parents decided to leave their babies for dead.”

Both his parents left the car, and John was briefly allowed time to think about the strange dream, before the car door on his right opened. He was startled as massive hands started undoing the restraints that held him down previously. He started to struggle against the gargantuan hands, as they wrapped themselves around his entire torso and lifted him with ease.

Suddenly, his mother’s voice cooed from the mountainous shadow that held him, “Easy now, John. It’s okay, I’m your mommy now.”

The gigantic figure pulled him to her, and warm softness enveloped him, as his mother embraced his infantile form.

It all came to him like a freight train, he was a baby. This was a memory of the day he came home from the hospital; only he hadn’t come from the newborn ward, he had come from the orphan’s ward.

It couldn’t be true, this was some kind of sick joke his sleeping mind was playing on him. But still, It felt so real.He saw his mother’s face, much younger than the last time he had seen it, and his father’s as well, as they both leaned in over his tiny body.

He had say something, a question left his mouth, "Mom. Dad. I'm not adopted...am I?"

Apparently, his parents couldn’t understand the baby’s words, as they merely smiled at him and said, “Yes, that’s right! We’re your family now!”

As if things could get any worse, the environment began to be covered in darkness. John looked around and saw everything turning black. He was horrified by how things was turning black and didn't know what would happen next.

As it did, John began to hear noises from everyone he knew in his life, saying only sentence that made him even more scared.

"You're adopted."

"You're adopted."

"You're adopted."

"No. That isn't true."

John went down to his knees and covered his ears. However, covering his ears didn't help the voices go away. He began to shake his head rapidly as he was getting annoyed and scared by the voices.

"Please. Stop," John cried.

"You're adopted."

"It's not true."

"You're adopted."

"It's not true!"

"You're adopted."

"IT'S NOT TRUE!!"

"You're adopted."

"John."

"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" John screamed at the top of his lungs.

"Holy shit, dude!" Ryan jumped, "You scared me."

John was breathing heavily, as he felt his head was wet.

"Your sweating."

"I know." John wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Well, I came here to tell you that we're almost to Canterlot."

John looked around and saw that the cabin was empty.

"Where is everyone?" asked John.

"In the other cabin."

"Oh."

"Anyway, you may wanna change your clothes, they’re soaked with your sweat."

Ryan left the cabin to hang out with the others, leaving John alone in there.

"Man... what a nightmare!" He sighed with grief.

Author's Note

What a train ride!?

Edit by Narlepoax III and Theblacksmithbrony