Ch 21 - The Arrangement

----------(FIRELIGHT HOUSEHOLD AT SIRE'S HOLLOW, SATURDAY 11:00 A.M.)----------

It was a very busy day for the mayoral candidate who was sitting at the wooden round-table, sorting out the hundreds of letter mails that were coming in large burlap sacks. Helping out the mayoral candidate Firelight, who was sitting at the side of the table close to the office entrance, were his two secretaries and his assistant manager Minty Mocha, who sat on the opposite side of Firelight's seat. Two of Firelight's secretaries were seated at the north side of the roundtable (near the bookshelves). One of these secretaries, with the name tag "Raspberry Latte", was a white-coated mare who wore violet square glasses, had puffy and swirly pinkish mane, a pink business suit, a fuchsia neck scarf and a pair of dangling amethyst-colored sapphire circles on her ears. The other secretary, with the name tag "Ever Essence", was a light-blue coated mare who had a sleek blue permed mane, an eggplant-purple suit with a pear-green tie, a white buttoned cotton shirt, a white nylon skirt and white high heels.

Sorting out all the mail was not very easy with so few little staff in Firelight's political team. Each of them have to open up one of the letters from the sack, skim through the contents and place them into their categorized stacks. Those included fan mails, party invitations, news interview requests, junk mail, political questionnaires, bank statements and (saving the worst for last) death threats. Unfortunately for Firelight, most of these letters came from Equestrians from all around the world who read about the negative press coverage and expressed outrage over his questionable parenting skills with her daughter Starlight Glimmer. Some of these angry letters threatened to eliminate Firelight as retaliation for not showing his daughter a better life besides becoming a maniacal cult leader. Other letters came from journalists who wanted to interview him about those said allegations, hoping to clear things up to the rest of the world. However, Firelight's managers had warned him that some of the press may twist his words and would only end up worsening his reputation, so most of these letters were either ignored or replied with a printed letter expressing their gratitude for their concerns and that they would gladly partake in the interview once they had finished dealing with their own family matters first. As of now, Firelight's team decided it would be best to focus more on the positives and find any piece of invitation from other major cities, fan mail from Firelight's supporters or citizen request letters for the future mayoral candidate.

"Uggghhh, explain to me why you drag me ALL the way over here to read through thousands of letters", complained Ever Essence as she ripped the edge of the mail envelope with a letter opener.

"Because I needed somepony who used to work as Stellar Flare's inventory stock accountant for her mall projects.", replied Minty Mocha as she stared at the bemoaned Ever Essence with half-lit eyes, before shouting "Now get back to reading those letters! We got a long night ahead of us!"

"HEY, Minty Mocha, come over for a second!", called Firelight as he stared at one of the letters addressed to him. Minty Mocha rushed over to Firelight's aid and looked at the letter marked with two raunchy names.

"Throw this letter into the fire pit! I don't like prankster letters with silly lewd names, like Haboob and Kumbang!", ordered the disgusted Firelight as he tried to hand the letter to his assistant manager.

"OH no no no no no, sir! The word 'haboob' is a legitimate word that originated in Saddle Arabia! It refers to a hot dry wind that forms a huge dust storm over a desert or arid region!", explained Minty Mocha as she took the letter and pointed at the top written name, before moving on to the next one.

"As for this one, the word 'kumbang' is a word found in some Middle Eastern Equestrian languages to refer to a desert beetle. Based on what these names are referring to, I think they may be brothers from Saddle Arabia!", Minty Mocha further explained.

"REALLY?!! I got fans from Saddle Arabia??!", shouted the excited Firelight as he quickly took back the letter and opened up its envelope with his shearing magic blade.

*RING RING!* goes the house doorbell, before Minty Mocha called out

"HEY, Heifer! Öffne die Tür!1"

A blonde braid-maned buxom minotaur cow in a khaki-green long dress went over to answer the main door and saw the smiling Starlight Glimmer standing by the entrance.

"Guten Morgen, gnädige Frau!2", greeted the Germane minotaur maid as she let Starlight Glimmer inside the house to see her dad in his usual office room.

As Starlight went into the hallway and saw her dad working with assistants in rummaging and organizing the mail, she could hear them rambling and bumbling about the various letters and the names of each recipient, as well as discussing on how they should respond to each letter.

"Why hasn't Mr. Slush's response letter about my planned community-funded grocery store arrived yet? Go check that sack of letters again!", ordered Firelight as he had his face turned away from Starlight, while addressing to his two secretaries on his right side of the table.

"We gotta send a more convincing letter to Mr. Slush if we are to have his approval!", suggest Minty Mocha as she went through a small pile of letters on the center of the table.

"Dad...", called out Starlight Glimmer as she looked at her dad sitting on his wooden stool. He was unable to respond as he still had his back turned away from her and was too focused on rummaging through the letter bag.

"This one, sent by Ginger Beard...!", shouted Firelight as he showed one of the letters to Ever Essence.

"Send this letter to his workplace and another to his mail box!", demanded Minty Mocha as she showed Firelight's two newly written letters to Raspberry Latte.

"Dad!", yelled Starlight Glimmer in a slightly louder voice. She still couldn't get her busy father's attention yet.

"Sending him with more letters than he needs is WAY better than getting nothing from us, you hear?!", ordered Firelight as he addressed to his two secretaries.

"DDDAAAAADDDDD!!!!!!", bellowed Starlight Glimmer as she activated her booming vocal chord spell!

That really got everypony's attention in the office room! As Firelight quickly turned his back and saw his daughter standing behind him, he leapt up from his seat and rushed on over to hug her.

"OH, sweetie! You're back!! It's SO nice to see you again!", cheered Firelight as he held his daughter's hands. He began to escort Starlight Glimmer to a nearby couch at the west side of this office, while his assistant manager followed him around. "We've been SO worried about you! Do you have any idea how hard it was to keep in touch with you?? C'mon dearie, come have a seat at the couch and let's talk things over with some tea."

As Starlight Glimmer, Firelight and Minty Mocha took their seats on the comfy green Chesterfield couch, Heifer the maiden minotaur served the three Equestrians their chamomile tea on a ceramic dish and placed it over the glass tabletop in front of the couch.

After Firelight was done sipping his portion of his tea, he told to his daughter, "We've been trying to contact you through telegraph for updates on your memory progression! For some reason, we couldn't been able to get a response from the Ponyville Telegram Office!"

"OH, didn't you know? Our telegram office had to change their name to 'Friendship Pony Express-a-Gram'!", explained Starlight Glimmer after she sipped her tea. "Plus, there was a power line reconstruction project that had to take days to complete to repair the damages caused by a falling fish from one of our professor's pet albatrosses!"

"REALLY??! Why didn't you tell me about it??", questioned the confused Firelight.

"...Uhhh, I sent you postal letters about it a whole week ago...", replied Starlight as she stared at her father with half-lit eyes.

"Uhhh, I---hadn't notice??", nervously replied Firelight as he darted his eyes around. It was obvious that he was unable to reach her letters due to the abundance of mail coming in large bags in his home.

"HEY, look! A marriage confirmation letter had just came in!", shouted Ever Essence after finding a piece of mail with a bright pink rose pasted onto the center flap of the white envelope. Starlight Glimmer then later rushed over and grabbed the flowery letter from Ever Essence's hand with her telekinesis.

"Wow, REALLY?! Congratulations!", cheered Starlight Glimmer as she offered her hand to Minty Mocha who was standing by her side.

"Nuh-uh! That's not for me!", corrected Minty Mocha as she shook her head and stared at Starlight Glimmer.

Shocked at her response, Starlight Glimmer pointed at her dad with her right thumb and looked behind her, seeing her dad smile graciously at her.

"Awwww, DAD!! You sneaky little charmer!", shouted the happy Starlight Glimmer as she wrapped her right arm around her smiling dad. Firelight gave her daughter a courtesy gesture with his right hand and said to her,

"Après vous, ma fille!3"

"Wait---FOR ME??!!! BUT---!!", yelled the shocked Starlight Glimmer and she quickly ripped open the marriage letter that was actually addressed to her. Starlight Glimmer continued to ramble to her dad.

"But-but--BUT I came over here for you to help me find out who my real boyfriend is, didn't I?!!", shouted Starlight Glimmer as she quickly skimmed through the lavender-scented letter. "Why in Equestria am I getting married all of a sudden??!"

With an assuring smile on his face, Firelight calmly said to his daughter, "Because your future groom, Sky Dream, is going to help with my preservation project! Soon, when you decide to retire, this house will be waiting for you with ALL the luxurious commodities provided by my business associate, Mister Sky Dream from Canterlot!"

"Wait---WHAT??!!", shouted Starlight Glimmer who expressed unfathomed horror to her smiling dad.

"Oh no! I just realize something!", muttered Firelight as he snapped back from his daydreaming. "I forgot to renegotiate our dowry deal with Mister Sky Dream!"

Without even saying goodbye, Firelight quickly teleported out of the house and ran out on her seething red-faced daughter, who couldn't believe what her dad had done behind her back.

"Who in Tartarus is Sky Dream?!", shouted Starlight Glimmer as she unleashed her anger towards Minty Mocha, who then later sighed deeply before explaining

"Mister Sky Dream is a rich banker from Canterlot who agreed to share his 10 million bit fortune to help pay for the collateral on your dad's house, in exchange for an arranged marriage with you. It was your father's only way to pay off the debt after his 23 failed historical preservation projects."

This explanation only made Starlight even more upset as her horn emanated a maelstrom of red aura.

"LOOK, I'm going to go check on your dad for awhile. Don't go anywhere, all right??", pleaded the anxious Minty Mocha before she scurried out of the office room to catch up with Firelight.

----------(SIRE'S HOLLOW TELEGRAM OFFICE, SATURDAY 11:30 A.M.)----------

After waiting in line for the pay-station phone4 within the telegram office, he used his telekinesis to pick up the left-side receiver, cranked the dynamo generator and spoke to the operator on the payphone.

☎"Hello, Operator! I would like to make a long-distant call with Mr Sky Dream from the Canterlot Royal Bank!", called Firelight as he spoke through the transmitter.

📞"That'll be 30 bits/hr!", responded the female operator.

☎"Sure...", replied Firelight before he inserted six 5-bit bronze coins into the 5-bit slot.

📞"One moment please..."

☎"... ... ..."

----------(30 SECONDS LATER)----------

📞"YES, hello?!", responded Sky Dream from his office in the Canterlot Central Bank.

☎"Mister Sky Dream, this is Firelight calling from Sire's Hollow! I need to renegotiate our deal in our stock sharing contract!", demanded Firelight.

📞"C'mon, Firelight! You know the deal: I marry your daughter and you only get 0.05% of my stocks!", reminded Sky Dream in response to Firelight's request.

☎"THAT'S the problem! It's not enough to cover the collateral over my house! Why not lend a little more from your account?", pleaded Firelight.

📞"Unless your lovely blooming pansy of a daughter agrees to endorse my student loan promotion plan, you're not getting even one hundredth of my stocks in Canterlot!", scorned Sky Dream.

☎"Don't you think you could rip ME off, Mister Sky Dream!", shouted Firelight through the transmitter. "I let you marry my daughter and you do whatever it takes to save my projects from crumbling! Then I will work with you in becoming the next richest billionaire mogul in Equestria! Otherwise, what's the use to becoming in-laws in the near future??!"

📞"LISTEN, mister! Gimme 1% of your stocks, or else I'm calling off the marriage with my boss' daughter!", threatened Minty Mocha as she called through a wall pay-station phone on the outside wall of the telegram office.

"WAIT WAIT WAIT, Minty?! How did you get hold of this phone line??!", questioned the surprised Firelight. Before Minty Mocha could answer though, she was immediately interrupted by Starlight Glimmer when she pulled down the disconnector lever on the left side of the pay-station phone.

"Please tell dad that I don't wanna get married yet! There's no way he can force me into his arrangements!", pleaded Starlight Glimmer as she clasped both her hands.

"OH, but he just did! You signed that contract from last week, remember?", reminded Minty Mocha as she stared at the teary-eyed Starlight Glimmer.

As soon as Starlight Glimmer looked back to her last week's visit when her father made her write her name on a piece of official paper, her mind started to go blank. There was no going back on that contract. She wouldn't even know where her dad even put it. Since she has no memory of the boyfriend who gave her that key, she wouldn't be able to know the location of where her boyfriend was living.

Suddenly, in a pit of despair, Starlight Glimmer fell to her knees and stared motionlessly into the ground. It was at this moment...that she wouldn't be able to find her long-lost lover in time before her arranged marriage with some rich stranger that she had no experience with. How was she going to live with herself after letting down her unknown boyfriend, who must be waiting for her at his abode?

"C'mon, sweetheart...", said Firelight as he picked her daughter up from the ground. "I'll take you to the boutique to help find you the perfect wedding gown."

----------(GINSENG HOUSEHOLD, SATURDAY 12:30 A.M.)----------
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"All right, Saan Jyu! I got the welcome cake ready, just like you asked!", hollered Delft Blue as he carried a small rectangular gift box wrapped in golden shiny paper and tied together with a golden-laced ribbon. He walked up to the white plastic round-table on the lawn (where his boss Ginseng Dragon was sitting) and laid the golden gift box on that very table.

"You sure you added the 'butterscotch cakes' from the railroad site and not ACTUAL butterscotch from the local bakery, riiigghhtt??", checked Ginseng Dragon, whose top scalp was now covered with wrapped white bandages

"OF COURSE, sir! Once we have our Sunny Boy give this explosively delicious butterscotch-flavored yellow-cake to Gingko Dragon, you just open up this briefcase phone5, place your finger into hole #2, rotate clockwise to the tab, let it spin back to position---and KABLOOIE!!", explained Delft Blue as he opened up his newly bought Tel-com 150A Briefcase Phone5 and demonstrated to his crime boss on how to operate the rotary dial.

"Briefcase telephones?! BAH! I never heard of such rubbish!", scoffed the skeptical Ginseng Dragon after he took a brief look at the briefcase phone.

"No no no, Dragon Head!", quickly hollered Delft Blue as he shook his head, before he further explained the benefits of a portable mobile radio telephone. "It's a REAL work of advanced technology developed by the top engineers in Canterlot University! It's very popular among only the classiest and richest business moguls in Western Equestria! You can practically take it anywhere--- Canterlot, Manehattan, Baltimare, Coltarado, Vanhoover---ANY major city that has the proper huge wireless telephone network service, you can call any creature at any time---so long as you keep the batteries running!"

"Hmmmm, is THAT so??", questioned the interested Dragon Head as he stroke his chin. "But---how is calling any creature on this---briefcase contraption---going to solve our two most troublesome obstacles in our empire?!"

With an sinister and maniacal tone, Delft Blue eagerly explained away the inner workings of their new ingenious plan

"Ahhhh, but we are NOT! You see, one of Sunny Boy's students had actually bought off this revolutionary case contraption from a mansion auction center after one business mogul filed for bankruptcy! This smarty pants genius actually managed to rewire this briefcase phone to send a long-distance pulse once you turn that dial from hole #2. That pulse will energize an antennae connected to a special copper electromagnetic coil around a glass tube filled with gunpowder and magical fire crystals, all which are hidden underneath the recess of our delicious cake! This in turn will ignite the gunpowder AND the dynamite--ERRR--I mean---butterscotch filling---and thus BLOW APART both Sunny Boy AND Gingko Dragon away!! Then all that bad luck you've been experiencing, including your itchy head, will be totally gone out of this world forever! MWHAHAHHAHAHA!!!"

Ginseng Dragon stood pretty silent for a couple of seconds, amazed at the convoluted explanation of the complicated yet foolproof plan. After he had finished gathering up his thoughts, he told Delft Blue

"...I have NO clue about what you had just said to me..."

"NEITHER DO I!", admitted Delft Blue with a smiling face as he lifted up a piece of scribbled paper. "I was just reading what was written to me by Sunny's engineer student who gave me this wicked contraption! But you won't have to understand how this works, because I've seen this gadget work in action!!"

"REALLY??! You've seen it work??! No wonder you sound so jumpy", postulated the surprised Dragon Head.

"YEP, used it to blow up ten indebted business shop owners who skipped town to bail on our shark loans!!", happily boasted Delft Blue as he picked up and waved the rotary phone.

Then Ginseng Dragon thought for a little moment, before he asked

"Well, why not just simply ignite the explosive cake with my magical horn, just as I had originally planned?"

"Noooo, that would make you look TOO conspicuous and guilty in front of all the eye-witnesses, including the gangsters!", explained Delft Blue as he shook head. "If we're going to cover our tracks, we gotta make sure this daring assassination is the plot of other jealous kirin gangs! We can't be caught red-handed in our little conspiracy!"

"Ahhh, of course...", agreed Ginseng Dragon. "Well, as long as I will keep my throne as their Dragon Head, we will follow through with this unnecessarily complicated plan!"
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----------(MEANWHILE AT THE SIRE'S HOLLOW BOUTIQUE)----------

From the white lacy silk curtains of the changing room within the boutique, Yona came out of the small enclosure, sporting a bridal headdress between her huge black horns. On top of her head, she had a pink rose planted on top of her big head and she felt gigging like a giddy little Western Equestrian bride, even though she was still wearing her leafy-green tank top and purple shorts. She could practically imagine the phonographic "Here Comes the Bride!" tune playing in her head as she freely fantasizes herself marching down the red carpet with special her yak groom on their imaginary wedding day.

"Does Yona look pretty with white head dressing??", asked Yona as she squinted her eyes to make them look sexy and posed like a model fashion star.

"HAHA, yeah Yona! You look very nice indeed!", complimented the tuxedo-wearing and cheek-blushing Sandbar as he chuckled at Yona's bridal headdress.

In reaction to Yona's all-important question, Miss Starlight Glimmer turned around on her black vinyl swivel chair after she was done putting on blue eye-shadow and violet facial makeup in front of the bulb-lit mirror. In lieu of her casual street clothes, Miss Starlight Glimmer was now sporting a snow-white beaded corset bodice wedding dress and a pair of lacy finger-less doily-patterned gloves. The wedding dress had no shoulder straps and was snugging against her triple D-cup bust, while showing off half of her deep cleavage. As she looked at the beautified Yona with her headdress, she stood up from her swivel seat, before Yona went up to her and felt the softness of her wide corset dress.

"WOW, Starlight mare look MORE prettier in wedding outfit!!", complimented Yona as she looked up to the dashingly gorgeous Miss Starlight Glimmer. In spite of Yona's kind words, Starlight Glimmer was not really in a good mood about her upcoming wedding day with the man she never met.

"YOU look way better in a bridal dress, Yona! So why don't YOU go marry that Canterlot banker instead??", further complimented the saddened Starlight Glimmer as she looked at the big-eyed blushing Yona.

"Yona no ever see lady feel sad about own wedding!", muttered Yona to Sandbar as she threw away her bridal headdress.

"I don't get it! If you're so dedicated to finding that mystery lover boy who gave you his home key, then why not just bail out on the marriage right now??", questioned Sandbar as he looked up to Miss Starlight Glimmer.

"I can't! I signed a marriage contract without my dad explaining it to me! If I leave now, the groom will sue me and force me AND my dad into bankruptcy! How in Equestria can I back out now?!", groaned the stressed-out Miss Starlight Glimmer as she tried to hold back her tears and clenched her fists.

Then, entering into the dressing room from the wedding bouquet florist section of the boutique was Master Zhi, Mr Tang, Tiny Turnip Head and the rest of the Student Six. All of these creatures were invited by Firelight to attend the special wedding between Miss Starlight Glimmer and Sky Dream. In exchange for boosting Firelight's ratings by inviting more diverse range of creatures to his guest list, all the creatures he had invited had agreed to attend the wedding for the sake of free food, music and dancing. Though Sandbar was the only one who gotten himself a suit for such an occasion, all the other creatures had already requested Professor Rarity to knit them up some custom wedding party guest suits and dresses for such a lavish occasion (well, lavish for Firelight and his friends at least).

"Heya, Miss Starlight! You done dressing up yet?!", asked Master Zhi as he entered.

"WOW, you look JUST like Snowblind the Snowflake Princess!", cried the flying Tiny Turnip Head as he squished his cheeks in excitement.

"Uhhh, HEY! Miss Starlight no want any nice things said about wedding dress! Make Starlight sad...", warned Yona as she waved her cloven hands.

"Riiighht...sorry about that....", apologized the pitying Gallus. "I was told you'd been marrying some rich handsome stranger that your dad picked out for you from Canterlot....at least you got to have a chance to BE the one being married in a wedding...."

Miss Starlight Glimmer took pity on the sad Gallus, remembering about that rejection story her female students had told back in Tuesday night at the Castle of Friendship. She later looked up to Gallus and smiled at him, before saying to him

"HEY, you know I think? I think getting rejected is WAY better than marrying some random creature that was picked out for you, Gallus. At least you still have plenty of opportunities to pick out who you want to spend the rest of your life with. So please...don't let rejection be the reason why you can't find love, all right?? Let it be the catalytic fuel that drives your ambition further..."

Gallus then looked up to Miss Starlight Glimmer, before tearing up a little and responded with a content tone

"Thanks, Miss Starlight......I won't give up on my life that easily yet..."

"ALL RIGHT, enough with the sappy lovey-dovey stuff over here!", interrupted the disturbed Mister Tang "We got somepony we like for you to meet!"

As Master Zhi, Mr Tang, Tiny Turnip Head and the students stepped aside to the far-right side of the dressing room entrance, two familiar stallions named Student #12138 and Sunny Boy came in to greet Miss Starlight Glimmer. Their sudden introduction caused Yona, Miss Starlight Glimmer and Sandbar to be caught off guard.

"HEY, what's with the get-up?? Trying to impress your secret boyfriend??", joked Sunny Boy after he saw her pull up the top of her dress to cover up her cleavage.

"I'm---getting married soon in Manehattan tonight...", replied the soft-spoken Miss Starlight as she turned her face to the brightly lit mirror. She later turned her attention to Sunny Boy and asked

"Sooo, you wanna go attend the wedding? You'll have to go apply for invitation with my dad first though..."

Thinking she was just joking around so he wouldn't feel too dejected by her push-back, Sunny Boy scoffed at her and casually chuckled at her.

"Well---I better get going now...", said Sunny Boy before he went off and exited the boutique.

"HEY, wait a moment!!", shouted Sandbar as he and Yona ran out of the dressing room to see where Sunny Boy was heading off to so soon.

"WOAH, leaving so soon??!", shouted Gallus as he turned his attention to the fleeing Sunny Boy.

"Chickening out already??!", questioned the surprised Smolder.

"But you just GOT here! Don't you wanna say a few more words to her?!", hollered the confused Tiny Turnip Head.

"HEADMASTER, WAIT!!", shouted Ocellus as she stretched out her chitinous hand.

"Don't go, street unicorn!", shouted Yona as she ran beside Sandbar.

"Where is HE heading off to in such a hurry??!", asked the befuddled Silverstream as she scratched her head.

"I'm very sorry he had to go so soon", deeply apologized Student #12138. "But Sunny Boy has a VERY important errand to run for his godfather near the School of Friendship in Ponyville."

Student #12138 then looked at his watch and realized, "And---he's not THAT in a big of a hurry. He's still got plenty of time to catch the next train to Ponyville."

As the creatures looked onto the sharply dressed gangster, Student #12138 took out a piece of blue paper from his fuschia-red shirt pocket, went up to Miss Starlight and gave her that paper.

"Miss Starlight Glimmer, this here is the written address of the apartment and its specific door that has the lock that will fit with the mystery key you are holding...", said Student #12138 as he showed her the scribbled paper. "Headmaster really wants you to keep it before he leaves..."

"Hmmmm, 7007 Rainbow Road, Apartment 8...", quietly muttered Miss Starlight Glimmer as she read the paper.

"C'mon! Just take it already, or else you'll end up forgetting the address!", insisted Student #12138.

As quickly as she snatched that blue paper from the student, she quickly rushed out of ther dressing room and ran to the exit door of the Sire's Hollow boutique. She lifted up her corset wedding dress to make running easier, so as to not dirty up the bottom hemline of her snow-white dress

"HEY, what's with the big rush, Miss Glimmer??! Wait for us!!", shouted Master Zhi as he and the rest of the creatures started chasing after her.

----------(5 MINUTES LATER AT SIRE'S HOLLOW TRAIN STATION)----------

As Sunny Boy was about to board his next train to Ponyville from the wooden train station platform, he was suddenly interrupted by the rushing Miss Starlight Glimmer calling out for his name.

"HEY, Sunny Boy!!", Miss Starlight Glimmer called out as the rest of the creatures ran behind her. As Yona was catching up on the wooden train platform, she accidentally slipped on the soaking puddle near a wet floot sign and rolled herself over towards the car, causing her horns to accidentally pierce on of the steel train cars!

"HA-HA! Serves you right for running on the train platform!!", teased Mister Tang as he pointed at the clumsy Yona. Smolder then slapped Mr Tang's hand with her claw in disapproval of his teasing, causing Mister Tang to wince in pain and stare menacingly at the unphased Smolder.

Ignoring the comedic chaos around him, Sunny Boy looked over his shoulders and saw Miss Starlight Glimmer in her wedding dress and her accompanying posse behind her. As the lovely bride stared silently at the stoic Sunny Boy, she tried her best to find the righteous words to say to the man who gave up his futile dream in chasing her, before saying to the chivalrous gangster wannabe

🙂"...Thank you.....thank you so much....for everything..."

Without saying a word back to Miss Starlight Glimmer, Sunny Boy later gave out a weak but sincere smile, before turning back and heading off to his next train ride to Ponyville.

"UHH---I better get going TOO!", hollered Student #12138 before he rushed forward to catch up with Sunny Boy and yelled

"YOH, wait for me, Headmaster!!----"

Then he remembered something that Sunny Boy had announced back at the park

"Ooohhh, right! You're no longer Headmaster anymore....my mistake...", he spoke before he headed off to the next train car adjacent to the one where Sunny Boy had entered, before the train engine took off to their next destination in Ponyville.

As Miss Starlight Glimmer looked deeply onto the piece of paper with the scribbled address, she later ordered all her remaining friends and students to wait at the train station and follow her to their next train ride to Ponyville, where she will discover the true identity of her long-lost forgotten boyfriend. Hopefully, she would get back to her new home in time before her father catches wind of her unexpected departure...

---END

Author's Note

1. German for "Open the door!"

2. German for "Good morning, madam!"

3. French for "After you, my daughter!" (used in formal tone)

4. Model looks like Kellogg & Gray Magneto Paystation Service Phone
   

5. Before cellphones become widely available, briefcase phones were very popular with high-class business workers back in the mid-1960s to 1980s. It consisted of a handset that is basically attached to a large charging unit with a supposed 2-hour battery life and can be charged by plugging in the charging outlet on the car dashboard. The model I'm choosing for this story is a rotary-dial version of the briefcase phone

Tel-com 150A Briefcase Phone