Chapter 3: Close Calls

At this point I had the high beams on and I had the warning lights on (I had installed rotating orange beacon lights on each side of every trailer.) And I also had the fog lights on and my high powered spotlights (they allowed me to see 1/2 of a mile in front of me.) When all of a sudden a really large bear wondered in front of the path about 1/8th of a mile ahead of me. (Now realize this this tractor trailer has a STOPPING DISTANCE OF ¼ OF A MILE.) In other terms if this bear did not move we were screwed. So like a reasonably smart person I told Twilight and Braburn to cover their ears and I blew the horn. When said horn blew I had thankfully put on hearing protection otherwise I would have very shortly gone deaf. The horn was a train horn hooked up to a amplification cone (basically a traffic cone glued to the horn) this amplified the volume 5 fold but on top of all of this it was hooked up to a megaphone which increased the initial volume 50 fold. In other terms it was very loud and anything within 500 ft of it would possibly go deaf. And it could be heard ten miles away. That bear was so scared it went running really fast. But then it tripped and fell.

So I decided to stop and help it. Simply I applied the trailer brakes and about 5 minutes later we came to a complete stop. We were approximately 1/8th of a mile ahead of it so we quickly walked over there. We quickly asked if it was hurt and it responded no, so we walked back jumped in the truck and continued on our way it was now 11:30 so the predicted time of arrival was pushed back to 12:30.
At 12:10 I slowed down to about 40 mph so I could stop faster if necessary. Then I realized something and I asked, Twilight would you mind if we dropped Braburn off and continued on to Canterlot?”

“Ok that’s fine with me.”

So we did exactly that we dropped Braburn off said goodbye and the proceeded on to Canterlot. We approached Canterlot at 2:00 pm. The first thing I noticed was the giant castle built into the mountain. I realized that I still had no were to park so I asked, “Twilight do you know of any good place to park this thing?”

“Well, I suppose you could park on the side of the street in front of the castle.”

“That is allowed?”

“Yah, carriages do it all the time.”

“Ok, but if I get in trouble I’m blaming you.”

“Ok.”

We continued on until we arrived at the main gates of Canterlot, they were open so I decided to turn off the high beams and the spotlights, I did leave the low beams and beacons going though. We rolled through the city until we arrived at the castle. Thank god that the front gate of the castle was massive enough so that I did not have the back end of the trailers hanging off. We hopped out and I asked twilight, “ok so should we find a room until morning or should we just go in now?”

“Well Princess Luna should be holding night court, and she said if at all possible interrupt her during night court so we should probably go in.”

At this point I hadn’t noticed the guards that stood on either side of the entrance talking amongst themselves, but they had already notified the princess that something was going on and someone was here. So naturally we got silence as we walked in. we proceeded in silence until twilight had led me to the throne room. and as if this happened every day the guards opened the doors for us, and we walked in.

Author's Note

if you see any errors let me know. also sorry this is a short one becuase when i did the original in word i did not see i had a chapter 3 in it i thought i skipped chapter three so i broke up chapter 2 and now at posting time I realize i just missed it when I was scanning.