Warehouse like storage facility under canterlot castle
10/20/19
10:44 AM
Dakota POV

"What the hell are these doing here!?" I partially shouted. I couldn't believe what I was seeing right now. All of my missing vehicles, were here in a warehouse underneath canterlot. Everything from a simple Cummins swapped Silverado classic, to my most loved and modified Ford ltl9000 that had the same Detroit diesel engine with the same mods in my Topkick. All of my missing vehicles were brought here to Equestria and have been sitting here, untouched for probably over a month now.

"How long have all of these been sitting here for?" I quietly asked both Celestia, and silver as I shut off my Topkick and got out. "The last one that was brought here was that big red and black one sitting there in the corner." Celestia replied as she pointed a hoof at the LTL. Every last car and truck was here, completely untouched, perfectly clean. The list of vehicles here included the LTL9000, 2 Chevy Kodiak's, 1 Ford F550, 3 F450s,2 F350's, 2 F250s, 2 Silverado classic 2500's, 1 4th gen ram Laramie 2500, 4 GMC Sierra Denalis, 1 GMC MH9500, 2 ford F750's, 1 F650,1 Duramax powered suburban LTZ Z71, 1 cumstang (Cummins swapped mustang), 1 Jeep gladiator, 1 Jeep Wranglers, 1 Peterbilt 359, 1 2020 peterbilt 389, 1 Peterbilt 567 ultraloft, 1 Peterbilt 579 ultraloft, 2 P71 crown Vic's, 1 dodge demon, 1 1973 dodge coronet, 1 Toyota Tacoma Prerunner sr5, 1 challenger MT945B tractor (surprisingly), one kenworth C500, one kenworth W900, 2 2nd gen ram 3500 flatbeds, 1 first gen ram 350, 2 55 foot double-decker car transportation trailers, 1 Plymouth Barracuda, 3 dodge Dakota’s, 1 Pontiac grand am firebird, 2 Ford Raptors, 2 regular Ford F150s, 2 ford rangers, one ford GT40, 3 volvo vnl 860 semi's, one from 2003, another from 2015, the last one from 2019, 2 Nissan titans with one having a Cummins engine, two Toyota Tundras, 2 Ford Explorers, 2 Ford Expeditions, 2 ford excursions, 1 Chevy bison, 1 international lonestar, two western star 6900’s one being the 8x8 twin steer version, one MAZ 7310 that was very hard to get, one freightliner classic XL, One freightliner cascadia, one mack vision, one mack anthem, one Ford Fusion, one Ford Taurus, one Kia Optima, and one BMW M5.

“So, this is where all of my cars and trucks have ended up at. I gotta say, despite being here for god knows how long, they still look exactly the same way I left them before they were brought here, come to think of it, they all look brand new for some reason, like they’ve never been driven before.” I said. I climbed inside of the vehicles to see if the interiors had been cleaned out as well, and sure enough, they were. I didn't notice until now when I was climbing out of one of the Peterbilts when I glanced over at the odometer and saw that it was at 7 miles with less than 30 minutes on the engine. I checked the odometer and clock in the LTL and sure enough, it was the same as the one in the older Peterbilt.

"Something is definitely not right about all of this."

I said to myself. Taking the time to check the odometer's on every vehicle in the warehouse, they were all the same. The odometer in my Topkick was similar to all the other ones, with a few more miles on it since I was driving it earlier.

"Is something wrong? why do you keep checking the insides of all of these vehicles you supposedly own?"

I heard Celestia ask me while I was checking out the odometer in the coronet.

"It's weird how every last vehicle in here now has no miles on them at all. It's like they're all brand new, right off the production line."

I said. I was still just in awe by the fact that everything looked brand new. Sure I took great care of everything I owned, but they would still show their age regardless, mainly by idling rough and loping a lot, mainly because I could never be bothered with the task of fully rebuilding the engines.

"Well, Are they all brand new, or not?" I heard silver ask me. "No, more than half of all these vehicles are older than 10 years with that one being the oldest." I said as I pointed to the coronet which was now technically 43 years old. I didn't want to see them just sit here, I wanted them to be stored somewhere where I can easily access, maintain, and operate them, all of them. I decided to try and ask Celestia If there was somewhere more suitable that I could relocate my stuff to when silver said something and grabbed my attention.

"If you don't mind, you can use my property to store them if you want. I have a large backyard at my house that's almost 3 acres long and 1 acre wide." Silver said to me. "That could work, but are you sure you would want me to store them there? the place's where I would park them would leave tire marks and would stay there for quite a while." I said to her. "I don't mind. I never use my backyard anyways. I've actually been looking for an excuse to use it for something so this could work out for both of us. I don't live far from here, its about a 30-minute walk from the castle to my home if you stay on the main roads. I live in the suburbs of western canterlot and it's pretty hard to miss my house." Silver explained to me. "Well, if you don't mind if I park on your property and work on my stuff from time to time, then I don't mind. Would you mind if we checked out your home first just to make sure your backyard is big enough?" I asked her. "No problem. When do you want to head over there?" she asked me. "We can head over there right now if that's fine with you." I said to silver. She told me that works and we proceeded to head over to her place. I decided to hop in the coronet since I needed to drive something a little bit smaller so I could fit on the streets properly since most of canterlots roads are side streets and I could barely fit my topkick through the narrow side streets, the main surface streets were much wider though and easier to navigate. I opened up the doors on the coronet and allowed silver to hop inside with me. Celestia said she was going to stay here and wait for us to come back before she would allow us to move my vehicles.

Once I got the lap belt on, I looked through my clusterfuck of a key ring to find the coronets key and then stuck it in the ignition. Turning the key all they way, I listened to the 7.2L V8 rumble to life and felt the whole car vibrating with the engine. Narrowly avoiding scratching my topkick on the way out since it was still in the way, I started driving up the ramp and out of the castle. Leaving the castle and entering the city, clean up was still being taken care of as there was excessive damage to some buildings while others only had small amounts of damage like some roof shingles missing from the battle. The majority of the ponies who were currently out and trying to get some shopping done or look through piles of rubble that may have once been their home, all stopped to look at me as I cruised past. I could see looks of uncertainty on their faces while others had confusion currently as their expression as they most likely saw silver in her armor sitting in the passenger seat with me while she was giving me directions to her house.

10 minutes later

I was now In silver's neighborhood and was proceeding down the road she lived on and she said her house was the last one on the right. I could see her house now and I was in awe. Silver lived in a mansion, a fucking mansion, on a royal guards' salary of about 50,000 bits a year on average. The equestrian bit actually had almost the same value as the US dollar, being 2 dollars to the bit. "How the hell did you manage to get a place like this and not go into debt from the mortgage payments?" I asked while bewilderment was clear in my voice. "My parents had given me the deed to the house when I was 18 right before they moved away to a small town named ponyville. They said they were tired of the city life and wanted to go someplace quiet and get a smaller home, and in the process, they left a "Small" sum of 500,000 bits for me so I could finish paying off this house and provide for myself. I still like to go and visit them every now and then on my off day when the trains are running to ponyville." She explained to me. I pulled up to the gate where there was a gatekeeper who asked silver who I was before she briefly explained that she was allowing me to use her property to store all of my trucks and cars that had ended up in Equestria. The old guy seemed to understand and opened it up and allowed me to drive in before I pulled in the little roundabout she had in front of the front door with a fountain in the center of it. Shutting off the car, we both got out and she guided me around to the backyard she said she had, and holy shit was it huge. Silver's yard was easily the size of a relatively medium-large truckstop, with enough room for a whole fleet of Peterbilts to be parked up at. It was clear she had underestimated the size of her own property, like WAAAAYY underestimated unless an acre is bigger here in Equestria than it is on earth. Silver's backyard was easily 5 acres all around if I had to guess.

“Well then, this will do nicely. Given the size of this place, I could fit all of them here without even taking up a quarter of the yard.” I said to her. I even decided to park the first car here by going around to the front and bringing the coronet around And parking it up next to the back door. When I got out, I could see ponies inside silvers mansion looking out at me, most likely servants that worked for her. Silver did say she liked to do things herself, but with her home being so big and not wanting to move, she had kept the current staff employed to help keep her home in good condition while she helped out as much as she could.

“Well, that’s one car down, about 60 more to go. We best start walking back to the castle.” I said. Not wasting any time, we began our walk back to the castle instead of driving back because, 1 I needed to lose some damn weight because weighing 253 pounds at my age is most likely not healthy, and 2, it gave us the opportunity to learn more about each other that we hadn’t talked about yesterday. We left silvers street and had gotten onto the main road. We were talking about all sorts of things on our way back, mainly like our interests and hobbies. Silver asked if I had ever had a job before and I explained to her that I worked part-time as a stocker for HomeDepot back home as my first job. I asked her if she went straight into the royal guard once she was done with school and everything and she had but I wasn't surprised by it. She was very passionate about being in the guard and jumped on the opportunity to begin training for the guard when she was still 17 and still in high school. She had training on the weekends and was extremely excited to be welcomed into the royal guard officially right before she graduated high school and graduated 1st in the guard's academy. What still surprised me though was the fact that she was already a staff seargent and yet she was still only 19 years old, that made her just a year older than me. I had told her that I had wanted to join the marine corps at some point in my life after I got out of school and go onto to be either a tanker or a drill instructor. I had to explain to her what a tanker and a tank was so she wouldn't be left confused about it. We were just casually talking about other things and joking about other things as well while we walked back. We got a lot of confused and nervous glances from ponies who were out and about trying to help clean up what they could or just going out to get stuff.

8 minutes later

"And that's why some people may say I'm crazy because it's actually a wish of mine to experience a tornado emergency at some point in my life." I said. I was just casually talking about some of the things that I wanted to do in life even though some of it was questionable while the rest of it was outright stupid. We had gotten back to the castle now and were walking down the ramp to the warehouse where all my cars and trucks were sitting at and were about to tell Celestia that silver's backyard would work perfectly for me. True to her word, Celestia was still in the warehouse waiting for us while she was sitting on top of some crates scribbling something down in what looked like a sketchbook. "We're back Princess. Silver's yard will work perfectly and I'm ready to move as soon as she is." I said "That's great news. I did some research while you both were out and found out there Is a way to send you home Mr.Dakota, but there is a large catch." She informed me. Perking up at this, I asked her what the catch was and found out that the method that would have been used to send me home only has a 15 percent chance of success. In other words, im now stuck in Equestria for the rest of my life, but I didn't mind. "Well damn, oh well. I've wanted to try and start a new life anyways because I had a troubled upbringing earlier in my childhood and early teens when I was living in virginia since my parents were divorced and I had lived in an apartment complex that had a high amount of gang activity in the surrounding area, and after a particularly nasty fight with my father, thats when I decided to run away to Florida with some of my friends who were having similar issues." I explained in further detail than I did yesterday.

"Anyways, since I'm now stuck here for the rest of my life, I might as well seek out a job and someplace to live for the time being." I said before Silver interjected. "You're more than welcome to come and live with me as well if you want Dakota. It makes sense since you will already have your vehicles parked in my backyard that you move in as well so you can access them easier. I have a few guest bedrooms at my house that you can use and I can speak with captain armor to see if you can join the royal guard. The starting pay is around 30,000 bits per year and captain armor did say he thought you could be a viable asset to the guards." Silver said. "Well, I don't know what to say silver, but, thank you for the offer." I said "What are friends for? It's the least I can do." She said. It's funny because we had both only known each other for about two day's now and we had already hit it off and became friends and now, she was even offering me the chance to move in with her. Silver truly was a nice mare, she cared about me like a real friend and was the first pony I met that was genuinely interested in me and didn't see me as a killer because I killed a bunch of bugs, or as a lowly peasant because I wasn't rich or as strange hairless ape from another world. She simply saw me as just another living being, and I liked that because she wasn't one of those snobby fuckers who only looked to advance their own agendas even though she was extremely rich.

"Well, we best not waste any more time. I say we should use those packer trailers to move vehicles by 16 at a time, save us a bunch of time, and we should be done by sundown." I said "That sounds like it could work, but there is one problem. You're the only one that can is able to operate these vehicles, what are we supposed to do?" Silver asked the first half of the question while celestia asked the other half. I thought of something that could potentially work but was incredibly dumb.

"I can teach one of you how to drive one of the semi-trucks down here and then help me tie down vehicles when I load them onto the trailers and then proceed to take them to silvers house." I said. like I mentioned before, stupid ass plan that could go wrong In so many different ways. Surprisingly, the both liked the plan I came up with. I would fist need to teach silver how to drive one of the volvo's since those were the simplest trucks since I didn't want her grinding the gears and dropping the clutch in either the Peterbilts or the ford. I told silver to get in the 2015 volvo with me as I climbed inside and started the engine. The rumble of the swapped in Caterpiler C15 engine was a very nice sound. Pulling out and moving up the ramp, I stopped at the enterance and turned in my swivel seat and told silver to swap places with me. I gave her the rundown of what everything did and what she needed to know. I told her how to operate the clutch, how to shift up and down, how to go from low gears to high gears and then back to low gears, how to steer the truck, how to use the jake brake, what to do if the truck was on an incline, everything. I told her to pull the truck out and get it to the castle gates without going off the path or without hitting anything. I watched as she pressed the accelerator down ever so gently but the truck wasn't moving. It was in gear and everything, then it hit me. I forgot to tell her about the parking brake I told her to push the yellow knob in so that we would move forward. She did as I said and we started rolling forward. She got to the gate and the guard on duty looked confused but seemed to understand once we both cleared everything up for her.

I told silver to keep the truck going at a speed of 25 miles per hour or slower and to use the jake brake when going down hill. We had made it into a market place now and we were getting a lot of looks from many ponies who just watched as the Swedish big rig slowly rolled by. Silver was doing a very good job so far but I could see her visibly sweating as she was obviously nervous and a decent deal of stress as she had never done this before, that and the heat was on since it was cold outside. That reminded me about something. I got up out of my seat to look through the small closet behind my seat to see if I had any warm clothing in there so I wouldn't freeze my ass off when I'm out for a walk, thankfully, I found one of my spare winter coats and some jeans so I would be set for a good bit. I got back in my seat and I had talked silver through the whole thing to make sure she wouldn't hit anything and to try and help take her mind off of driving this thing, and it had worked. Before we both even knew it, we had already made it back to silvers home.

"Well look at that, you did it. We made it to your home and you did a great job. You're a natural trucker silver." I said to her "Now we gotta go back to the castle. Do you think you can handle that? or would you like me to take over?" I asked her. "I think I can handle it. It wasn't too bad on the way here, it shouldn't be too bad on the way back." Silver replied. "Alright then, Use the shifter to get us in reverse and turn us around and then when we get back to the castle, Ill hook up a trailer and we can practice with that." I said. She nearly made the mistake of using the seat shifter like I did since it wasnt hooked up to anything anymore since the original transmission was replaced with an Eaton 15 speed manual

Most people who have never even seen the inside of a Volvo semi would even think to look there for that shifter to get the truck to move and would instead just go straight for the gear shifter on the ground without even realizing that you need to use the other one first to put it in either drive or manual. Getting the truck in reverse, She had to partially pull into one of her neighbor's driveways. I could see in one of the mirrors that a pony walking her dog had to rush out of the way to avoid getting knocked over. This truck was a sleeper cab so it had no rear window and you had to rely solely on your mirrors or someone to spot you, which is what I did. This model was also the largest of the sleepers and was a double bunk as well. The pony behind us just stared at us while her dog barked uncontrollably while I was guiding silver backwards and getting ear raped by the backup signal before she was good enough to pull forward and I got back in. Getting the shifter into gear, we finally pulled away and started back towards the castle.

More ponies were out and about now and even more of them were staring at us as the futuristic-looking semi-truck rolled past at a low speed. I told silver to push the city horn if there was any pony standing in our way and to press the big air horn if there was a group of ponies in our way. I had built a quad horn setup into the truck along with the regular air horn that could be toggled on and off by using a switch next to the ignition. I had done the same for both of the other Volvo’s just so they would feel more like a mans truck. We had made it back into the shopping area from earlier and silver was just laying into the air horn right now. I told her to stop before she drained the air tank and that she only needed to use the horn if there were pony’s in the way. We were now right back outside the walls of the castle and had crossed over the little bridge that was really sketchy looking and went over a moat that was easily 15 feet deep that separated the castle from the rest of the city physically, I honestly thought it would collapse under the weight of the truck as we went back over it since it was only made of stone and some small amounts of wood but then again, it seems to be well maintained and should handle the weight just fine.

Arriving at the warehouse entrance, I told silver to swap places with me as we went back down the ramp so I could hook up to one of the trailers and pull it back out. Going all the way back down the ramp, I had forgotten that the trailers were parked along the walls and would be very difficult to get out here without hitting anything. I asked silver to get out and spot me as I reversed the truck and lined up the fifth wheel with the trailer’s pin. I got it lined up perfectly and got the trailer attached and just needed to connect the air lines and lights and then we could head back out. I raised the trailer legs and then got back in the truck with silver. I did a quick tug test on the trailer then pulled back out. I got us outside of the castle walls then swapped seats with silver again. I had to explain to her that a trailer will change the weight and handling of a truck and she would need to swing wide the trailer when turning right to avoid hitting anything.

30 minutes later

We had made to and back from silvers house again with no issues. She handled driving the truck amazingly and now it’s one to see how well she would do without any guidance. We would start to load my vehicles onto her trailer and then I would grab one of the other trucks and other trailer and load that one up as well then we would head to her home, and then unload the trailers. We were rolling through the streets of canterlot again with a large and long yet empty trailer that would either end in numerous close calls considering these are tight streets or in failure because we rolled the truck over, hit something, or jackknifed it. I glanced over at silver again and she had seemed to stop sweating now but I could tell she was still a bit nervous just by looking into her eyes a little bit. Her pupils were somewhat dialated and she was continuously glancing left and right. I decided to reach around and turn on the radio since yesterday both celestia and silver did tell me they have regualr AM/FM, So I decided to see what was on right now. I kept rolling the dial until I found an electronic music station that had just jumped into a news flash.

"Welcome back everypony. I'm your host, DJ PON3, and your listening to 102.8, The beat. We got some breaking news regarding the events that had happened the day before including the new creature that is now living in canterlot. We have been getting numerous reports now saying that yesterday it was discovered that this creature that was in canterlot had attacked and killed over 400 changelings during yesterday's failed invasion attempt and there were more reports that indicated that had saved a royal guardsmare's life in the process. Whats more surprising is that this creature is not only not from the planet of equis, but it also speaks perfect equish as well. He attempted to flee canterlot in a large black ponyless cariage that he had arrived in and exceeded speeds of 150MPH only to roll it over in the vally below the city and sustain major injuries. After reading reports from the royal guards that he had suffered multiple cuts from broken glass, a cut tongue, 10 stab injuries to both of his shoulders, and at least 5 broken ribs. After the benevolent Princess Celestia patched him up, He asked if there was any way that that she could fix his carriage that He said is called a Truck and then proceeded back into canterlot in order to pick up a large green cannon that he had left behind while fleeing yesterday before finally ending up in the castle for the rest of the night. He was later seen earlier today In a similar black carriage but more surprisingly, with the same guardsmare that he had saved yesterday and he was seen roaming around canterlot as well with this mare still, this time in a much larger carriage with this mare as well but this time, with her operating it. It seems that this otherworldly being is teaching this mare how to use his very unusual carriages and was recently spotted again traveling to and from a large mansion in the west canterlot suburbs, this time, with a very large and unusual looking object hooked up to the back of it, Not much else is known right now but the Princesses have stated that they will release a fully detailed report on this strange being within a week at most when it is complete and we will give you an update then, but for now we will continue to update you with what we get from you fillies and gentlecolts out there. Now, back to those sweet wubs you guys keep asking for!" The DJ said

I rolled the dial left some more to see if any other stations were talking about everything that had happened within the past day or so, and it would seem that just about every station was currently on its news brake. Each station's announcer was talking about me in different ways. Some were referring to me as "The hero from another world" while others had taken to calling me a monstrous killer and the rest being neutral about their stance on me. I rolled the dial back to the right to see if the stations on the other end of the FM band were talking about me as well, and they were sure enough. I switched to the AM band to see if there was anything else at all other than the news talking about me that was playing. Surprisingly and Not surprisingly, there were radio stations playing in high FM quality all up and down the AM band but they were on the news and talking about me. There was surprisingly only about 7 or 8 empty stations on the AM band as well.

"Well, it would seem that word travels fast and just about half of the entire planet is now aware that I exist," I said out loud to myself. "Well, of course, they know you're now here. You caused quite a stir yesterday by eliminating all of those changelings and then attempting to flee the city and attack the elements of harmony as well. That's guaranteed to get anypony's attention in this day and age. I'm honestly surprised no pony's tried to take you out yet." Silver said to me before I even realized I spoke out. "Hey, I acted in self-defense and you saw it. They were all about to pile up on me even when it was obvious that I had numerous broken ribs. Also, remember what I told you about using your turn signals at intersections like this." I responded to silver trying to explain my reasoning why I tased rainbow dash and pepper-sprayed the rest while also trying to remind her about driving a giant truck like this requires full attention. We continued all the way to her mansion and then repeated the process of going back to the castle.

“Alright silver, you’ve proven to me that so far you can drive a large truck like this with no problem, but now it’s time to see if you can handle a full route to and from your home without guidance AND without me in the truck. You will need to go back and forth with and without a trailer and without guidance from me. I’ll be following behind you in another truck to see how well you do. If you get stuck or need me to guide you through a narrow street, press this button on the steering column, Ok?” I said to her.

"Are you sure that's a good idea? I only have about 5 hours worth of experience operating this thing and you saying ive done an outstanding job so far doesn't say much that I'm ready yet. I feel confident enough with you guiding me through the whole trip but I'm not so sure I'm ready yet do this by myself." Silver replied to me. "You've got nothing to worry about. I already said that I will be following behind you in another truck and if you get stuck, just press that red button and I'll help you. You can already drive a truck better than I could when I first started driving them. I'll start you off easy by driving without the trailer and sticking to main roads as much as possible and then you can move onto a trailer when you feel ready." I said.

After getting silver to agree, I took control and got us back to the castle so I could detach the trailer. The hard part was reversing all the way back down the ramp and getting the trailer lined up against the wall. After finally getting the trailer positioned back where it was, I unhooked the airlines and wires then lowered the trailer legs. I made my way over to the Freightliners and got in the classic. I turned on the electronics and got silver on the CB radio and reminded her what to do. We both started our engines and let silver out first before I followed her out. We had made it to the gates and she was doing a great job so far, She remembered to swing wide for right turns since the truck she was in was longer than most and to slow down earlier. Because canterlot was like a giant hill in most places, I was constantly Jaking since we were mainly going downhill on grades ranging from 6 to 15 percent which would require the use of the engine brake to keep the truck from going too fast. The sound of the 10 inch straight detoit diesel engine paired with an 18 speed transmission sounding off was enough to be heard throughout the entire city given the fact that canterlot is an absolutely huge city. It was only when I was shifting gears that I could hear the engine brake In silvers truck which was significantly quieter than mine by a good amount given the fact that the truck she was driving also had a CAT engine which was notorious for being exceptionally loud, and probably because I also hadn’t straight piped it yet either so it still had its mufflers and standard pipes. We had made it to silver's house once again but encountered a problem that I didn't think about, There was not enough room for both of us to turn around without hitting each other. Improvising, I grabbed my CB and told silver that she would need to try and do a three-point turn while I reversed back down the street and she followed where I would let her out before I would get behind her again. There was just enough room in the culdesac she lived in to allow for the three-point turn to be made while I spotted her.

Silver had managed to get the Volvo turned around better than I probably could and in a shorter amount of time. Seriously, she probably only has about 3 hours worth of experience driving a big rig and already she’s doing way better than I probably could a year ago. Our trucks were now facing each other and ready to go again. I threw my truck in reverse as I now started going back down the street we would be going down again either later today or early tomorrow. The Side streets of Canterlot were a bit wider than I first thought because I didn’t need to cut the steering wheel all the way to the side before the cab was even in the road and I had a good bit of room to work with. The hard part would be when we had the trailers since we gotta swing wide with them so we don't hit anything and the fact that they're 55 foot long trailers would only serve to make it harder for both of us.

We were almost back to the castle now but there were a bunch of foals playing in the road and were blocking our way. I told silver to let me pass real quick so I could try and get them to move out of the way. I give a few quick blasts of the city horn but instead of moving out of the way like I had hoped they would, they just froze up instead and gazed and gawked at my truck with some of them just letting their jaws hang so low in awe that I honestly thought they would probably fall off if they didn't close their mouths. I asked silver through the CB to try and ask them to move since they would probably freak out if they saw me and run off screaming. I heard her set the parking brake as she got out of the truck while I shut my engine off and partially rolled my window down.

"She should have better luck talking to them than me since I don't think they would even know what I am and would most likely run away screaming." I said to myself.

Silver POV

Dakota had just stopped me and motioned for me to allow him to pass and get in front of me real quick before he stopped real quick and used his horn real quick. He asked me to get out real quick as there was a large group of foals playing in the road and he wanted me to get them to move out of the way as they would probably freak out if they saw him. I turned off the truck real quick and got out right as he shut his truck off. "Hey, If you can't get them to move out of the way, I'll just find a way to the castle using some side streets." He said to me as I walked past. Here goes.

"Hey kids. I know what you're all seeing right now is very cool and interesting, but I need you all to move out of the way because I and this nice gentle colt are trying to get back to the castle as we are doing something important." I said trying to get the little foals to move, but with little to no avail. Many of the foals wanted to actually speak to Dakota since it was in their nature as children to question anything living that they didn't understand. "Well, I can see if he has the time to talk right now but I can't guarantee anything since we're both busy." I said to them. I walked over to his truck but before I even said anything, he gave me his response to the question that I was about to ask.

"I heard the whole thing. I'm in no rush to get this done. The fact that they won't run away screaming from me just upon seeing me is all I need, but we should probably move the trucks off the road first. You spot me while I park them." He said. He started the engine again and proceeded to move his truck out of the road and reversed it into a nearby ally way. I could hear a lot of hushed gasps and oohs and awes coming from the foals as he got out and made his way over to the other truck and started to move that one off onto the side of the road next to the sidewalk before he finally shut it off and got out and walked over to us. Before he even had time to react, every last one of the kids rushed over to him and just started to bombard him with questions and just checking him out. It was kind of cute actually. Some of them even tried to climb on him.

"Hey Woah Woah! Bit close for comfort now aint yall?"

He was practically getting smothered at this point. Perhaps I probably should help him.

"Alright you kids. Give him some space. I know you all probably have questions for him."

"This is honestly more attention ive ever gotten at one time than compared to back home. Most of the time kids would just look at me out of curiosity."

1 Hour later

Standing up, he had to say sorry to the kids as we had to go but next time he saw them, he would show them the inside of the trucks if they wanted to. He began walking back over to his truck and stopped to say something to me.

“That was fun, I genuinely hope I get to see those kids again. I hope they all grow up to become something amazing. They'd have a better future than I've had."

After we finished talking about everything, we finally moved on and got back to our trucks and were about to head out, but the engine wouldn't start for some reason. I got out and walked over to Dakota's truck and it sounded like he was having the same issue. I asked him why the truck won't start and got my answer right away.

"If you're wondering why the trucks not starting, its because the engine has gotten cold and its going to be much harder to start it in the cold weather. Just keep holding the key all the way to the right but let off of it after every 15-20 seconds so you don't damage the starter motor. The truck will eventually start. Once it does start, just let the truck sit for a little bit so the engine can warm up." He said.

Following his instructions, I walked back over to the other truck and got back in. I did as he said and held the key for 20 seconds. The engine must have been really cold because it was not starting, until I finally heard a knocking noise from inside of the truck's engine and it finally started. I got out and walked over to Dakota's truck where he had just started to try and start his engine which sounded like it was having a rougher time until his engine started spluttering and finally started as well. We had let the trucks sit for about 10 minutes and let them warm up before we finally got moving again.

We had now made it back to the castle and I had to hook up a trailer now and to make a run to my house and back here without hitting anything. Setting the seat lever to R, I began to move backwards and had to line up the little peg sticking down from the bottom of the trailer with part of the truck that connects it and hook up the cables. I asked Dakota why he was doing the same but to my surprise, he needed to get used to driving with a trailer through the narrow streets of canterlot as well since he wasn't used to driving a large truck through tight urban areas, especially with a long trailer. We finally got both trailers hooked up and we were ready to go. We had left the castle and were back in the streets of canterlot. the main streets were wide enough for us to drive side by side without the risk of hitting each other. We were going downhill at a decent rate until the street got narrower. Dakota had slowed down and stopped to let me pass him on the right. I was now leading the way towards my home and we would have to get in to my yard just to turn around and get back out.

2 hours later
Dakota POV

I was finally done teaching silver how to drive a truck and she had done amazingly. It was a little bit past 6 in the evening now and the sun was only just starting to be set. I hadn't realized how hungry I was until now when my stomach decided to vocally protest the absence of calories while I was unhooking the trailer from my Freightliner and standing next to silver.

"Well, you certainly sound like you haven't eaten in a while." she said while helping me lower the trailer legs. "Well yeah, I haven't had anything at all today since breakfast this morning. I would actually like to try out some of the local eateries in the area, but you'd have to tell me if they were any good or not because I'm not from around here." I replied. "There is a local sandwich place not far from here, It's in the shopping district and has the best pasta and potato sandwich served on sourdough and it is so good." She said. Already was I picturing the delicious-sounding stack of food and it was making my mouth water. "Well then, lets go. You lead the way, I'll be right behind you." I said. Silver honestly kind of took it as a challenge, like she wanted to race or something. There was one more thing I wanted to say first before we went out again. "By the way silver, since you did a great job driving earlier, that truck is now your's to keep and use as you wish." I said.

I watched as her eyes grew a bit in surprise. She wasn't expecting me to say that the truck that I let her drive was now hers. "Well then, if that's the case, Ill race you all the way to Prime Rye and back!" She said before dashing for her Volvo. "Hey no fair! I gotta unlock my door!" I shouted. I got back in my truck and it was now a match of Freightliner vs Volvo. Who would win? Detroit diesel, or CAT? I felt my competitive spirit rise up and take over. I could tell now I was going to enjoy my new life here in equestria.

Author's Note

Yall thought I was dead didn't you? This story is still alive and so am i but considering the fact that I gotta write at school, I can only get so much done. Anyways, enjoy more royal guardsmare story.