Chapters The three stallions stood at attention before their king, splendid in full uniform regalia only their eyes followed the grand figure of their lord as he paced, slowly turning to them “Bow Sehne” the king nodded to the earth pony of dark brown skin and forest green mane and tail with a bow for a cutie mark. The King turned next to a pale skinned dark maned pony with an abacus on his flank and a confident look in his eye nodding toward his sire “Magnus Wolke” the king smirked at the Intelligence pony before turning to a noble looking stallion standing straighter then the rest, a much more elegant and stylized uniform an eager controlling grin threatening to overtake his face. “My nephew you will lead this group of your friends to Equestria and you will send me reports every week on what you find on their nature, and from your reports we will make plans on removing that foal Celestia.” The king laughed as he sent his three spies off to start their appointed task. “Messer Von Ross” The immaculate pony turned slowly to face his uncle the King “Yes Mien Liege?” the king watched him before saying “Succeed and the title barony is yours….fail..” he let it hang in the air as Messer bowed “Of course”.
All of ponyville were gathered just outside the town eagerly waiting for the three guests about to visit them, Celestia stood a little off form the group flanked by two of her elite guards, she looked as regal and beautiful as always but that serenity underlined a torrent of emotions that was mainly predominated by a deep seated worry that she couldn’t explain. “Princess Celestia are you alright?” Twilight looked at her mentor with concern “I’m alright…here they come.” Every pony looked up seeing a huge red zeppelin slowly floating toward them, a large ornate cross lay on the side slightly covered by series of armored plates put on for protection, everypony stood their mouths slightly agape at the sight of an armored battle zeppelin.
The helmeted ponies took their places and one of them spoke to the assembled crowd “Now summoning his lord the nephew of the king, Messer Von Ross and his two friends and comrades Magnus Wolke and Bow Sehne!” Three stallions slowly in unison of the parade grounds walked down the ramp from the huge zeppelin, Von Ross taking his place in the front as the other two walked behind them beside him once they hit open ground and stopped in front of Celestia “Princess Celestia it is such an honor to see you again and this time I may see your beauty off the field of battle” a slight smirk almost threatened to cover Messer’s face but he kept it in check from the Equestiran Matriarch as he offers his hoof to her, Celestia slowly and guardedly placed her own on his as he brought it up to him and kissed it in a gesture of courtly etiquette. “My uncle sends his best wishes to you as well and hopes that we will learn much from you and your ponies” Von Ross smiled waving a hoof to his soldiers signaling them to return inside the Zeppelin.
Messer Von Ross turned away from departing Princess and faced the gathering of ponies and the six bearers of the elements, “How quaint…how small…and yet they have such power in those six, this should be interesting” he thought to himself when the pony introduced to him as Twilight Sparkle walked over and bowed her head, the three bowed in respect as well as she spoke.
Fluttershy's cottage was very homely, Sehne looked at all the animals wandering about but staying close to the small home. Wondering if she kept them or they always just lived near her "well they look like interesting sport, especially some of those smaller birds" he thought to himself. Fluttershy looked back at the stallion and saw him watching the birds following even the sharp movements of the humming bird and it made her think for a moment "Oh...well..maybe he likes animals to...t-that would be nice" She thought to herself as he trotted over to catch up with her and they went inside.
Showing him the spare bedroom that she seldom used because of how rarely she had guests that stay for longer then a few hours that wasn't an animal she was helping or taking care of. "Thank you it's...very nice and I am grateful for your hospitality" Bow looked around at the small but welcoming room as he tired to sound kind and comforting, but from the way she looked his efforts hadn't worked as well as he had hoped "well I-It was no problem I'll...uhhh just be downstairs making something to eat." and with that she had vanished out the door and downstairs.
Taking a deep breath and sitting on the bed thinking he had already failed his mission "Well that went well, she probably wants nothing to do with me, and what am I supposed to write up, a report how the animals look like good sport?" Sehen sighed and ran a hoof through his mane "Von Ross is gonna kill me." Throwing his bag in the corner and moving to his bow which he had placed carefully on the chair next to the door...but it wasn't there "what the hay?" after a few frantic minutes of running around the small room his attention was pulled to the door where a small white bunny sat there holding his bow in his arms, Bow sat there looking at the weird picture for a moment before his sense returned to him. "Uhh you..bunny give me the bow, I'm sure your owner wouldn't like you playing with it" the pleading backfired on him almost instantly, as angel gave him a look that he easily knew that meant "She is not my owner, and you are not getting this back!" and with that angel bunny started off hopping down the hall to the stairs carrying off the bow with Sehen hot on his heals.
Fluttershy busied herself in the kitchen making food for all her animal friends then she would set about the task of making a little something for her and her new guest. "I guess he's not that bad, he seems to like the animals for what I saw outside and he's nice" she thought to herself starting to relax a little feeling at ease. Meanwhile Sehen had been chasing the irate little bunny throughout the house, making as little sound as he could as to not betray what he was doing to Fluttershy, stopping in a hallway as he poked his head out seeing Fluttershy working and humming to herself "Ok..I cant let her...hear me" using all of his ranger guile and stealth he started to sneak past Fluttershy and lunged at angel, finally grabbing hold of the annoying bunny. "Finlay I got you and this time you are not kicking your way out of this!" he cursed as quietly as he could while taking his precious bow back "You'd make a great hat for the reichsted's winter you little annoyance!" he half yelled as he almost started to throttle the helpless bunny when a soft voice echoed from behind him "what are you doing with Angel bunny?"
Bow froze thinking quickly and almost hugging the upset looking bunny as he turned to face Fluttershy "your pet here took my bow and I finally caught up to him and took it back, he could have hurt himself" Fluttershy hovered over to angel picking him up from Sehen's arms "Oh angel where you being a bad little bunny?" she started to fly off before turning around "thank you for not getting angry with him, I don't know what I would do without his help" she patted the pissed looking bunny's head and continued to talk to him as she flew off into the kitchen again, and Bow let out a sigh of relief "that was close...and i swear if that bunny even so much as looks at my bow again..I will make him a hat" he thought to himself as it already made him feel better.
Magnus looked around still unsure of even what had happened…all he remembered was a blur of pink, a torrent of words and ginger bread looking house, well that’s what he thought it looked like as he started to sit up.
“Hi I’m glad you’re awake for some reason you passed out weird isn’t it, I mean what pony passes out at their own welcoming party!” Blinking his eyes against the room he sat in it looked….festive, balloons floated up almost covering the entire celling of the room blocking it from view, streamers hung and where tied to almost every conceivable location and a large cake coated in pink frosting sat in the center of the table.
“When did you make all this up, if I may ask?” the pink pony bounced in place giving him a huge smile that seemed to threaten to devour her entire face “I always have a party set up just in case silly!” she winked and Magnus could only shrug at the apparently boundless energy of this pony.
“I’m sure you went through a lot of trouble but I’m a busy pony and don’t have time for….parties besides I’m sure their pointless anyway ” pinkie’s incessant bouncing suddenly stopped as if somepony hit a switch and she just sat there a sad look on her face as she stares at him sullenly “what. How can a party be pointless…it makes ponies happy and what pony doesn’t like to be happy, I think there’s something wrong if you don’t like being happy!” starting to bounce madly again in circles “It’s also my special talent, and what could be better than making ponies happy, do you have a party pony where you come from oh I bet she would be just like me only…reichy maybe reichest? The clearly insane pink pony shrugged and started to march around the room in circles like the circles she had seen from before when he had arrived drawing an open mouthed gap from Magnus.
“Are you always like this?” he waves his hoof toward her indicating her as she…somehow stopped in midair and looked at him putting a hoof on her chin while magically floating back down “I guess so, I never thought about it and everypony hasn’t really asked me about it” giving him another of those over large smiles about to restart her bouncing episodes again before he stoped her quickly.
“Stop...” taking a deep breath “look I don’t want a party I just wanted a place to stay, while we stayed in this town, now if you continue then I’m going to have to find a new place to stay alright?” Pinkie’s face almost drooped at his words trying to make sense of them while not showing her obvious disappointment at the fact her party had been rejected, why didn’t he like them no pony hated her parties she just couldn’t make any sense of it.
As Magnus closed the door to his room Pinkie stood up instantly as if something had bitten her “I got it gummy!” shouting at the small green alligator that had appeared from under one of the many piles of balloons and streamers “I didn’t make this a good enough party for somepony like him to get into parties, so all I have to do is try harder and soon he’ll come around and have fun!” restarting the bouncing as gummy stared blankly forward apparently not caring much “Thanks for giving me the idea gummy I have to plan more surprise attack parties!” once again grinning from ear to ear she bounced off leaving gummy among the party decorations as he contently bite a balloon to no effect.
Up in his room Magnus sat down on the bed shaking his head still trying to make sense of what he just saw and questioning this particular pony’s sanity, but it wasn’t his problem that wasn’t his job he thought to himself as he pulled out a book and some notes on the bed. “Well…seems like the place I should start is the Library, better find out as much as I can about the local area and what can be used against these..” he thought for a moment for the best word to describe these ponies he found himself surrounded by, when a large thud erupted below him knocking something that looked like a picture from the wall.
Letting out another sigh figuring exactly who that could have been but why did it sound like a cannon? Once again choosing to ignore the complete randomness from his hostess back to his bag and seeing the rich Reich drink most likely Bow put in there, he kept saying he should lighten up and stop being such a smartass, the dark brown bottle looked almost appealing to him at this point but he pushed it away and sighed laying down on the bed “Confound these ponies…they will drive me to drinking..”