Ch 22 - Remember Me...

----------(7007 RAINBOW ROAD, APARTMENT 8, PONYVILLE, 2:30 A.M.)----------

Up on the tenth top floor of the white-painted concrete-and-steel apartment, two sliding thick nickle-chrome steel doors opened up to reveal Miss Starlight Glimmer the bride, Master Zhi, Mister Tang, Tiny Turnip Head and the Student Six all cramped within the 1 m x 1.2 m x 2.4 m single lift box. Fortunately for the snow-white dressed Miss Starlight Glimmer, she was positioned closest to the elevator doors, while her friends were uncomfortably cramped up in the back. As soon as Miss Starlight Glimmer exited the elevator lift, all the others quickly barged out from the tight box, gasping and taking in as much fresh air as they can.

"BAAAAHHH, Yona NO like taking tight metal lifting box! Make Yona sick!", complained the red-faced nak girl.

"WELL, this is the floor! Now to find the right door!", wheezed Mr Tang as he knelt down to take a long breather.

"Now LET'S see...hmmmm....Room 10F...", mumbled Master Zhi as he read the address on the blue paper while walking across the hallway of apartment rooms.

"MISS STARLIGHT!! LOOK!! Room 10F!!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head as he called out his teacher near the elevator. It didn't took too long to find the right room, as the blue apartment door 10F was closest to the elevator and was located at its right side of the hallway.

"Get over here! This is the room with the matching lock!", hollered Ocellus before Starlight Glimmer, Master Zhi and Mister Tang ran back over to the young students.

"C'mon, Miss Starlight! Hurry before mean dad finds out!!", shouted Yona as she signaled Miss Starlight Glimmer to hurry on over with her cloven hoof.

"ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT!! We heard ya!", shouted Mr Tang as he ran towards Room 10F in the hallway. "Keep it down a notch! You're gonna disturb the neighbors!"

Master Zhi then proceeded to ring the doorbell repeatedly, much to Silverstream's surprise as she never heard the melodious ring of an electronic bell before in Seaquestria.

"HUH, he's not answering!", said Master Zhi.

"Maybe try 'ding-a-dinging' it 100 more times!", suggested the excited Silverstream who loved the sound of that doorbell ringing in her head.

"That may be music to your ears, but that'll just make him and the residents in this floor get really angry at us", responded Sandbar as he mentioned the rest of the apartments doors across the hallway.

"I'm not sure this is the room...", said the unsure Miss Starlight Glimmer as she stared at the brass '10F' label on the door.

"Don't you have that key with you??!", reminded Gallus as he pointed the key-chain around her wrist.

"C'MON, Miss Starlight!! Open it already! I wanna see---!!", shouted the gleeful Tiny Turnip Head as he did his little flying loop.

"SSSHHHHHHH!!!!!", loudly shushed Miss Starlight Glimmer as she unwrapped the key-chain with the sunny acrylic decal. She stared at her key and the small circular lock on the left-sided curved door-handle on the door.

"I--I still need time to take this all in.....just let me have a quiet brief moment here", pleaded Miss Starlight as she nervously held her key close to the lock.

This was it. This was the moment that Miss Starlight Glimmer had been waiting for. This is the key that will unlock the hidden lost memories of her past life. Would she like what she would see behind this very closed door? Will things ever be the same if her secret boyfriend find out she was getting married to somepony else soon? Well, it doesn't matter anymore. Maybe if she waited for him at his suite, he would come back for her and together, they may elope hand-in-hand with each other to escape the clutches of her clingy father. So long as she has found and cherish her precious memories, it doesn't matter what the future holds for the damsel bride...

As Miss Starlight stared down at her key, she quickly thrust that key into the small key hole on the door handle, but missed its target entirely. She tried shoving in the key again, but for the second time, she only hit the edge, but failed to insert her precious key. Finally, after a third try, she manages to get the key snug into the hole, but had a bit of trouble getting it through the hole entirely, as her hands were shaking anxiously and her head was feel nauseous about the upcoming flush of memories she was anticipating. With all her little might in her left hand, she finally managed to insert the key all the way into the lock. After taking a few deep breaths, she quickly turned her key clockwise to disengage its lock. It was now time to unveil the surprise her secretive boyfriend had in store for her...

As soon as she opened the door, Miss Starlight Glimmer and the creatures behind her all gasp in shock and surprise at what was behind that mystery apartment door. The marbled walls and floors were very polished and the sky-view window overlooking the streets of Ponyville was very visible. The window was flanked by two bright orchid-orange curtains hanging over a single silver railing.

"WOAH, would you look at that?! WELL, head on in, Miss Starlight! Bridal ladies first!", insisted the gentlemanly Master Zhi as he let Miss Starlight step into the apartment room.

"OOOHH, SO SHINY!!", shouted Yona as she rushed into the room with Tiny Turnip Head.

"Look!! A bouncy square!!", hollered Tiny Turnip Head as he rushed in and body-slammed the creamy-white sofa square seat. "C'mon, Yona! Jump with me!"

"HEY HEY HEY, no damaging her boyfriend's property, guys!!", scolded Mister Tang as he rushed into the room to stop Yona from jumping onto the cushion seat, while the delightfully curious Master Zhi and the sutdents went inside to explore the apartment living room.

"WOOOAAAHHH, that special somepony even knows your favorite houseplant, Miss Starlight!", pointed out Ocellus as she examined the tall philodendron houseplant in the white ceramic pot, which was sitting at the corner nearest to the apartment door.

"MAN, check out all these records! Who knew this lover boy was such a classical nerd?!", teased Gallus as he rummaged through the various vinyl records of classical music stored within the large white rectangular cabinet. Standing on top of that cabinet was a glass-encased gramophone on the center and a pair of speakers flanking the gramophone case1. "HECK, there's even records of what seems to be 'audio encyclopedias'! Now that's REAL brainiac who really likes to know his stuff more!"

"Ooooh, that feels VERY comfy!", gladly sighed Sandbar as he lay his body on the white three-seat vinyl couch that was set adjacent to the right-side wall.

"Yoh, check out that weird tuxedo mannequin over here!", hollered Smolder as she pointed out the sharply dressed mannequin with a teal-blue suit and pants. Holding on its right wooden gloved hand was a bouquet of rose campion and rare turquoise ixia flowers. In replacement of an Equestrian head, the mannequin was instead fitted with a smiling red-and-yellow feathered phoenix head. Hanging on the male mannequin's chest was a ebony-framed photo of Miss Starlight Glimmer posing with bunny-ear fingers alongside an honey-yellow coated and glasses-wearing unicorn with a swirling orange mane.

"Heeeyy, wait a minute....that guy in the photo----he looks---familiar....", slowly said Smolder as she stared questionably at the picture frame hung over the mannequin's chest.

As every student and the Far Eastern Equestrian trio looked over and joined Smolder on examining the mentioned photo, Miss Starlight Glimmer spotted another white-painted bocote wooden door with a golden doorknob. It was found through the short hallway near the strange mannequin. She gently walked over to open the second door and saw that it lead to what looked like a bedroom with two beds. Hanging on the white plastered wall over and between the two purple mattress beds was a large rectangular framed photo of Miss Starlight Glimmer as a young filly hugging it out with a young orange-yellow unicorn colt. These two little foals seemed to be inside a kitchen and were posing together in front of a green wooden round table. In addition to that framed picture, more large Polaroid single portrait photos of Miss Starlight Glimmer were neatly placed onto the single pillow and blanket on the left bed, while photos of the mysterious honey-yellow unicorn were positioned similarly on the other right bed.

It was a big total shocker for the speechless Miss Starlight Glimmer. How long has she been together with this mysterious forgotten boyfriend that justified having so many pictures of her and the male unicorn in their apartment room? And why does this unicorn looked so familiar to her right now? If she had been with this man for so long, then how come he hasn't come over to fetch her sooner, instead of hiding away from her for so long? Only Celestia knows how long he must had been waiting for her with a broken heart...

Then, peering over to the left side of the purple mattress bed with Miss Starlight's own portrait photos, there were two picture frames that were lit up by an enchanted ever-glowing yellow crystal lampshade on top of the two-shelf drawer. The larger picture frame at the back looked like a perfectly lined-up group photo of the students and professors (including her and the Student Six), all sitting on three rows of escalating seats with an alicorn princess sitting at the bottom middle. Only a purple-scaled dragon with green crests was the only one standing in front of the princess and holding the official School of Friendship logo.

In front of that large-framed school group photo, there was a smaller more decorative silver-framed photo of Miss Starlight Glimmer and that mysterious unicorn boyfriend again. As she went up closer and picked up that couple's photo, she stared deeply into that mysterious smiling honey-yellow unicorn stallion that was wrapping around her shoulders at her right side within that photo.

Just why does he looked so familiar? Why does she hear tingling bells in her head and a warm sensation growing inside her body? More strangely, how come her mind kept racing back at that sunglasses-wearing gangster rogue who was responsible for bringing her and that mysterious lover together in a more sentimental fashion?

Then, it dawned on her...that time they met back in the soccer field...

💭'Very well, 'Miss Headmare'! If we can't take him to his home or have him pay the entry fee, then I, Sunny Boy, will settle this with a traditional physical challenge: a two player team soccer match with your nameless student!'

Then there was that time that commissioner invited that same rogue, who turned out to be their special informant

💭"Of COURSE, Sunny B! "A good friend of the police is a good friend of me! You can come in here as much as you like!"

Finally, and most recently, one of his students mentioned his Headmaster's name before he gave Miss Starlight Glimmer the address to that mystery dwelling that had the matching home key.

💭"I'm very sorry he had to go so soon. But Sunny Boy has a VERY important errand to run for his godfather---"

This sounded very far-fetched for the would-be bride, but could it be possible that---? No, it can't be! He and that rogue can't be---!? They're both very different stallion men! But if he is that guy---then---there's a chance he may actually be---!?

"VICE-STALLION SUNBURST??!!", shouted Sandbar at the top of his lungs.

"I KNEW that home decor looked pretty familiar! Who knew that boyfriend was the master of school nerds all along?!", teased Gallus as he express amazing awe to his Vice-Stallion's apartment abode.

"HUH! For an talkative awkward wizard man, he sure has tacky taste in home interior design!", complimented Smolder as she stared at the strange phoenix-headed mannequin.

"WOW, he did ALL of this for her! Such a fully dedicated stallion!", sighed the dreamy Ocellus as she looked at the framed photo hanging from the mannequin's chest.

"Awwww, that's SOOOO sweet of him!", awed the excitedly heartfelt Silverstream.

"WELL! Guess that solve strange boy love mystery!", shouted the excited smiling Yona as she lightly leapt for joy.

"It's too bad he's not here to witness this ever since he was reported missing, right guys??", sighed the saddened Turnip Head as he looked up to Master Zhi and Mr Tang.

Then, the tiny white pegasus boy noticed that his foster father and grandfather were spacing out, looking aimlessly into space as their eyes became glued at the picture of Starlight and that familiar unicorn man they saw get kidnapped at the hospital.

💭"Tell you what, old man. If you managed to keep this secret quiet for just one week, I'll send you 1000 bits each month from my salary and you can live a more comfortable luxury back home...sounds like a deal?---Unless----you want me to summon more of my old friends with my mass teleportation spell to keep you permanently quiet???"

Master Zhi and Mr Tang couldn't help but feel ashamed about forgetting that Vice-Stallion this whole time, while they were too focused on taking care of Miss Starlight Glimmer. Though they had forgotten him upon the blue-maned kirin's request, they really had not cast him off on purpose. True to the kirin's word, he did send them the 1000 bit crate stash as courtesy for not mentioning the kidnapping report to the police, preferably under the shadowy covers of the night to avoid detection. They used their money to pay off the rent of their apartment, reimburse the police commissioner for the damaged car and get the students new ice cream treats. But was it really all worth it to let Miss Starlight's trusted Vice-Stallion to go missing for over a week, while she struggles in silence as she tried to search for her lost memories? Who knows what kind of horrors those kirin did to that poor stallion during his captivity...

Something had to be said to clear the conscience of these guilt-ridden men. They had to know the truth about what truly happened to their Vice Stallion after that cart crash. Master Zhi was the first to speak to the students after gulping down really hard, though he was a bit hesitant about speaking about what really happened to the Vice Stallion at the hospital.

"GUYS---I have something--to--tell you! Your---Vice-Stallion---HE'S---!!"

Just as he was about to finish his sentence, he suddenly got bumped so hard in the rear by Miss Starlight's quick dash for the exit, that he suddenly felt himself spinning crazily like a loose top on a board game! In Starlight's hand, she was holding on very dear to the couple's small framed photo that she had took from the bedroom.

"HEY!! Miss Starlight leave so soon??!", questioned the surprised Yona so loudly as she saw Miss Starlight head for the open apartment door.

Then, quickly as she was about to head out, she came back and rushed over to the strange mannequin with a different framed picture of her and her stallion lover, before quickly shouting out to her friends

"Him!! That---MAN! The one named Sunny Boy! Where is he right now??!"

"OH, him? He's heading off to the greenery outside of the School of Friendship!", answered the recently dazed Master Zhi.

"I think I heard there are going to be volunteer students that will hold a mini spring promenade for the little schoolchildren out there!", mentioned Sandbar before Master Zhi responded

"Though, I don't why you want to see him again, but---"

"THANKS!!", shouted the interrupting Miss Starlight Glimmer as she quickly headed out of the apartment door with her wedding dress lifted off the ground and with the framed couple's picture in her hand. Once she was facing the elevator, she slammed on the 'down' button on the elevator control panel. Feeling too impatient to wait for the thick metal doors to open, she quickly head out into the hallway and spotted the exit door on her right. As soon as she opened that door, she saw a flight of concrete stairs that led to ground refuse room.

"Uhhh, should we stay here and guard this room, or chase after Miss Starlight in case she gets into another accident again?", wondered Sandbar.

"Of COURSE we're gonna go after her, you moron! Who knows what other brain-traumatizing events she may encounter??!", cried Gallus as he quickly flew out of the apartment door and slammed on the 'down' button on the panel.

"LOOK, there's Miss Starlight!", squawked Silverstream as she pointed at her substitute teacher exiting out the middle hallway door.

"What Miss Starlight doing now?? Where teacher going??", asked the confused Yona.

"You talk too much, Yona!! She's obviously taking the stairs!! LET'S GO, GUYS!!", shouted Master Zhi as he and Mr Tang shoved and spun Yona out of the way, before running off to chase Starlight to the exit door. After the dizzy Yona quickly regained her consciousness, the students quickly followed pursuit through that same exit.

"WOAH!!", shouted Sandbar as he barged through the door with Master Zhi and saw the steep spiraling staircase below him. "That's gotta be a LOTTA stairs to go down!"

"Not for this dude!! Who needs stairs if you got the railings?!", shouted Master Zhi as he jumped on the left green-painted steel railing and proceeded to slide his way down the stairs' handrails like a surfer pro. "COW-A-BUNGA, BABY!!"

"GO MASTER ZHI, GO!!!", cheered the flying Tiny Turnip Head as he pumped his fists for joy.

"I can't believe I'm doing this! WAIT FOR ME, GUYS!!", shouted Sandbar as he proceeded to jump up and sat on the railing, before butt-sliding his way down each level like a laid-back board surfer.

"HA, who needs stairs OR railings if we can just FLY our way through??!", boasted Gallus as he lifted up and held Mr Tang in his arms. "C'mon, you old geezer! Let's catch up with the rest!!"

"I TOLD you I don't need---uhhh, forget it! Do what you have to do to catch up with my reckless friend!", groaned the senile grey-maned unicorn as he held tight onto Gallus' arms.

"WITH pleasure, sir!!", shouted the eager Gallus as he, Smolder and Silverstream flew graciously downwards around the spiral staircase.

While Master Zhi, Mr Tang, Sandbar, Gallus, Silverstream and Smolder quickly made their way to the ground floor (even surpassing Miss Starlight who was struggling to climb down with her bulky wedding dress), Yona on the other hand had trouble lifting herself up the railing, due to her immense weight. She didn't want to walk down either as it would be too much physical work for her AND she feared tripping over and tumbling down the stairs like a rolling boulder.

"AWWWW, stair railings TOO high!! Yona no can ride on them!", cried the fat nak girl as her arms and legs tired out from failing to lift her up.

"It's okay, Yona! We'll find another way!!", shouted the assuring Tiny Turnip Head as he hovered above Yona.

"Why tiny Turnip pegasus no go with others??!!", questioned the surprised Yona.

"I'm NOT leaving you behind, Yona! No matter what, I can't have you miss Starlight's reunion with her newfound lover!", answered the determined and dedicated Tiny Turnip Head.

📱*DING!* goes the elevator as it signaled its arrival at the top tenth floor.

"AAH, there goes the elevator! It's here! C'mon, Yona! Let's go!!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head as he barged through the door leading to the middle of the hallway.

Suddenly, Tiny Turnip Head and Yona noticed that the elevator doors were nearly closing in on each other. Both the fast-flying white pegasus and the running Yona rushed to the elevator before it closes. Thanks to his zipping dash ability, Tiny Turnip Head was able to get inside the lift box before the heavy metal doors closed on him

"WAIT WAIT WAAAIITTTT!!!", shouted Yona as she struggled to reach her cloven hand into the closing lift. Unfortunately, she was too slow to get inside the lift in time and she accidentally found herself with her cloven finger being crushed by the two heavy steel sliding doors!

"AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!", screamed Yona as she now struggles to pull her smashed right index finger from the closed doors. After a few hard tugs, she was able to pull her finger out, but not without having it turned completely red and swollen like a pulsating cherry.

"WWAAHHH, metal door traps hurt!! Yona NO like lifting box tricking yak!!", cried Yona as she blew on her swollen right index finger.

As soon as she pulled out her finger, the metal doors opened once again and Yona was greeted by Tiny Turnip Head inside the lift, who had just pressed the 'open' door on the indoor control panel for her.

"C'mon, get in!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head as he saw Yona tearing up and clenching on her swollen red finger. "I got some bandages and Po Sum healing balm2 for that finger!"

With newfound appreciation for her new tiny pegasus friend, Yona gladly stepped in the lift with Tiny Turnip Head, before the lift finally closed in on them and took them down to the ground level.

Meanwhile, outside the apartment and on the streets of Ponyville, Master Zhi, Mr Tang and the remaining Student Five rushed out onto the wooden sidewalks and urged Miss Starlight Glimmer to hurry on over as fast as she can.

"C'MON, Miss Starlight!! Get your hooves clopping!!", shouted Master Zhi.

"I'm trying, but it's hard to not trip over my own dress, while keeping my boobs from popping out!", hollered the slow-running Miss Starlight pulled up the top of her dress with her telekinetic magic, before lifting up the bottom hemline of her wedding dress. She was still holding desperately on that precious picture of herself and her boyfriend with her right hand.

As Master Zhi, Mr Tang and the rest of the remaining students ran to and across the cobblestone road to the south, Sandbar notices a public L'Obéissante steam bus3 stopping by the bench and picking up a passenger from the back door.

"Miss Starlight, over there! You can take the steam bus!", called out the running Sandbar as he pointed at the L'Obéissante steam bus that was about to take off.

"WAAIITTT!!!", shouted Miss Starlight Glimmer as she fumblingly ran south across the sidewalk, but she was too late as the L'Obéissante steam bus had already started closing its back door and took off chugging along the south road, before taking a hard turn to the west on the intersection.

"DON'T follow the minibus!! Take the public omnibus4 heading east to the school!!", hollered Master Zhi from the Y-shaped concrete sloped barrier at the intersection, before he and the rest of his friends chased after the self-condensing two-storey SAS Omnibus4 from behind.

Master Zhi picked up the pace of his hooves like a jockey horse to chase the 35 km/h (22 mph) omnibus, while Sandbar was running right behind him with a rapidly beating heart on his chest.

"HUFF---HUFF---!! Can't---keep---UP!! Legs---giving---OUT!!", panted the sweating Sandbar as his legs were starting to cramp up from the intense running.

As soon as Master Zhi got close to the rear horizontal railings of the first-level bus platform, he leaped up into action and grabbed its middle railing at the back of the bus, but then found himself slagging his lower hooves along the road. He struggled achingly to pull himself up to the top upper horizontal railing. As soon as his head was above both railings, his sweaty hands inadvertently slipped, but he managed to catch the top railing with his teeth, all while the bus was still moving! He finally grabbed the top railing with his hands and released his dental grip, before planting his lower hooves firmly on the lower bumper ridge of the bus.

"GRAB MY HAND, kid!!", shouted Master Zhi as he reached out for Sandbar's arm, but the strain was just too much for the kid to handle! Sandbar shouted to Master Zhi with breaths puffing like a steam train

"I--CAN'T---HUFF---hold--out--HUFF--much longer!!"

"Wait a minute, what am I doing??! I have magic!!", shouted the running Miss Starlight Glimmer as she glowed her horn.

Suddenly, a flash of violet magic illumination teleported Sandbar onto Master Zhi's back, before another flash of illumination appeared to his left and out from the teleportation aura was the bride-to-be herself!

"PHEW, thanks Miss Starlight!!", Master Zhi sighed with a relief of satisfaction while holding onto the outside rear railing at the front and Sandbar at the back.

"NO, thank you! For supporting me on this important quest to save what I had once lost!", replied Miss Starlight Glimmer as she smiled at the photo of herself and her boyfriend, all while holding the rear railing at the back of the moving bus.

Just as she, Master Zhi and Sandbar were entranced by the framed picture of the lovely couple, the omnibus suddenly his a pothole on its left wheel, causing the bus to slightly tip over and caused Miss Starlight Glimmer to lose her grip on the railing!

Just as she was about to fall on her back, Master Zhi suddenly leapt off the back of the bus and positioned his raised hands onto her bare-naked back, holding her up at an incline plane and sprinting like an emu! Meanwhile, her lower hooves remained in contact with the moving bus' back bumper, thanks to Master Zhi who tried to run as fast as he can to match the omnibus' fast speed---all while trying to prevent the (un)lucky Miss Starlight from falling backwards onto the hard cobblestone pavement!

"Miss Starlight!!!", cried Sandbar as he gripped tightly onto Master Zhi's back to prevent himself from falling off the fast-running yellow stallion man.

Just as Master Zhi was about to lose his speed from draining energy, he felt the weight being lifted of his shoulders as Gallus, Smolder and Ocellus assisted in pushing Miss Starlight Glimmer back on the railing.

"We got your back, Headmare!!", shouted the flying Gallus as he lifted Miss Starlight to the railing. "We won't let your memory reset back from scratch again at the hospital!"

"HEY, now that we saved you, does that mean my suspension gets revoked??", asked the chilled Smolder as she nonchalantly asked her headmare.

"You can renegotiate your appeal later, Smolder!!", yelled Ocellus after she transformed herself into a light-blue hippogriff to increase her pushing strength on Starlight.

"HEY, maybe next time, try going IN the bus! It's much safer that way!", mocked Mr Tang as he was now being held by the flying Silverstream.

"And pay for the ludicrous fare??! No way!", jokingly shouted Master Zhi after he immediately jumped forward and grabbed the railing once more with Sandbar on his back.

"PHEW, that was TOO close! Thanks, guys!", hollered the appreciating Sandbar as he looked at his flying friends.

"HEY!!! MASTER ZHI!!! OVER HERE!!!!", shouted a screeching male colt-like voice on the road! It sounded like it was coming over from Miss Starlight's and Master Zhi's left.

Speeding at 32 km/h (20 mph) near the back left-side of the omnibus was a yellow Model 1913 Argo Electric5 taxicab with horizontal black-and-white checkered patterns along the mid-horizontal section of the cab. Sitting at the right-side backseat was Tiny Turnip Head, who slid down his window and yelled out, "GUYS, OVER HERE!!!"

Mr Tang was shocked to see that the little guy was actually late to the party, despite being the fastest flyer among the students. While hanging onto the flying Gallus, he yelled out to Tiny Turnip Head

"Turnip Head??!! 'Bout time you got here! What the hell took you so long??!!"

Mr Tang finally got his answer when he saw Yona sitting at the front right-side passenger seat of the taxicab. Yona stuck her huge head out of her open window and yelled out

"Tiny peggie says taxi is faster! No stops in traffic! Will go to quickest path!"

"RIGHT! Of course!! C'mon, Miss Starlight! Let's get off this thing and hop into that taxi!", shouted Master Zhi as he leapt off the omnibus railing and ran towards the taxi. As for Miss Starlight Glimmer, she simply just teleported her way off the railing and placed herself onto the road, before she began chasing the electric taxicab.

"Sandbar and Starlight, you sit in the back! The rest of you flyers can follow along with us beside the cab!", ordered Master Zhi as he continued pursuing the taxi.

"HOLD on there, Zhi!! I'm riding with you! I think I'm starting to get too airsick from this pigeon ride!", hollered Mr Tang as his face was becoming a little green from being in mid-air for too long.

"HEY, I take offense to that, geezer!!", cawed the upset Gallus.

"Just let him ride the taxi, Gallus! I don't want him barfing all over the outside windows while we're riding!!", yelled Master Zhi as he ran alongside the taxi.

"Uggghh, FINE! But he better award me with some barley seed ice cream after this!", demanded Gallus before he gently laid Mr Tang on the road, specifically along the taxi's left side.

Meanwhile, at the top deck of the omnibus, a brown-coated beanie hat-wearing colt was drinking his milkshake cup and sitting near the far left edge, when he peered over to check out the commotion on the road below him. As soon as he saw a bundle of creatures (including a unicorn mare in a wedding dress), he immediately cried out for his mom and peered over the top deck railing---only to accidentally spilled his entire milkshake into the path of the speeding taxicab, which in turn splattered the taxicab's front windshield and partially blinded the driver's view! Embarrassed by the idiotic accident, he sheepishly returned to his seat and hid the milkshake cup in his backpack.

Surprised by the sudden assault on his frontal windshield, the taxicab honked its electric horn, drove past the omnibus and swerved to its right to block the omnibus' path. The bus driver then pressed on the speed pedal and released all steam pressure from the generator, thereby halting the whole omnibus into a standstill.

As soon as Master Zhi found himself running past the taxi and omnibus, he immediately braked himself and turned around to rush towards the taxicab. As the brown-coated and yellow cap-wearing stallion taxi driver got out of his vehicle, he coarsely yelled at the onrushing creatures heading for his taxi

"HEY, what are guys corralling around my cab for??!!"

"OH, don't worry about us! We're friends with the yak and that little pegasus boy!!", quickly replied Miss Starlight Glimmer as she entered the taxi from the left-side of the backseat, while Tiny Turnip Head exited the backseat from his right side.

"C'MON, every creature without wings! Hop in!", shouted Master Zhi after he quickly got inside the right-side passenger seat. Quickly thereafter, Sandbar was the first to jump into the backseat from the right side of the taxicab, much to Mister Tang's chagrin as the backseat was now already full of passengers.

"HEY, I was gonna sit there, you damn prick!! This backseat has no more room anymore!", shouted the red-faced enraged Mr Tang, before Sandbar replied

"What are you talking about? We can squeeze more room by---"

Just as he looked to his left, he saw a brown tan-coated and red bobcut-maned unicorn mare in a blue bare-back dress, sitting snugly at the middle between himself and Miss Starlight Glimmer in a wedding dress. Shocked at the sudden abrupt halt in her taxi ride, the unicorn mare cried,

"Just WHAT in Princess Twilight's name is going on in here??!"

"Wait, STELLAR FLARE??!!", shouted Miss Starlight as she looked at the familiar passenger sitting to the right of her.

"Starlight??! Is that you?? I haven't seen you since---wait, why are you wearing a wedding dress??!! You never told me you were getting married today!!", questioned the confused Stellar Flare as she continued to feel squished by the green colt boy and the bride-to-be in her cumbersome wedding outfit.

"Wait, you know this lady, Miss Starlight??!", shouted Master Zhi as he looked back from the passenger seat, before he noticed a chubby nak girl sitting on the driver's seat.

"C'mon taxicab!! GO!!!", yelled the frustrated Yona.

"What the---YONA??!! You're driving this taxi?!", asked the bewildered Master Zhi as he looked at the upset nak girl.

"WAIT, this is where driving happens??! Yona thought this vehicle go by itself!!", panicked the clueless and worried nak girl.

"NO time to explain! I NEED to get to the School of Friendship---ASAP!!", shouted the impatient Miss Starlight as she slammed the backside of the driver's cushion seat.

"YONA, hop on the right speed pedal below you and get this taxi moving already!!", ordered Master Zhi who has to now act as a driving instructor to Yona.

Yona attempted to stretch her right leg over the pedal in front of her, but her short stubby legs prevented her from reaching the pedals!

"Yona can't! LEGS TOO SHORT TO REACH!!", the fak stubby nak girl yelled.

"I'll be your engine, Yona! Just tell me which pedal to press and how hard to press on it, Master Zhi!!", shouted the heroic and determined Tiny Turnip Head as he flew into the open driver's window and kneeled down underneath the steering wheel. After placing his hands on the two pedals, he awaited for his master's driving commands. One of the pedals on the right had a curved roof over the toe-end of the pedal.

"Where the hell am I supposed to sit now??!! The taxi's full!!", shouted Mr Tang as he found himself stranded on the cobblestone road.

"Hmm---", pondered Silverstream as she stroke her furry chin before she thought up of an excellent idea and yelled

"WAIT, I got it! You can ride the taxi in the same way Master Zhi rode that steam machine!"

"GREAT idea, Silvia! Sorry about this, sir!", shouted Gallus as he placed his talons underneath Mr Tang.

"Wait, what are you talk---WAAAAHHHHH!!!!", bawled Mr Tang as he was suddenly being lifted off the ground by Gallus, before finding himself placing his hands on the back top edge of the car roof and floating in the air with the wing-flapping Gallus holding onto his armpits.

"C'mon, Master of all escape plans!! Get this metal hunk of junk moving!!", squawked Gallus as he rapidly fluttered his wings forward.

"TURNIP, RIGHT PEDAL!! SLAM IT AS HARD AS YOU CAN!!!", bellowed Master Zhi to his foster son on the driver's car floor.

"YES, SIR!!", shouted Tiny Turnip Head as he pushed down on the sandal-like speed pedal as hard as he could.

"HEY, which one of you spilled milk over my taxi?!!", shouted the angry cab-driving stallion, before he realized his ride was being carjacked. He ran after the taxi for only a short distance before yelling

"WHAT IN TARTARUS??!! Why the hell are you taking away my taxi for?!!"

It was no use though. By then, the taxicab had already drove off with Starlight Glimmer, Stellar Flare, Sandbar and Master Zhi riding inside the car, with Yona and Tiny Turnip Head as their driver and co-driver, respectively. At the same time, Mr Tang was being pushed onto the back of the moving taxi by the flying Gallus, as the blue griffon was trying his best to keep up with the electric vehicle. As for the flying ladies (Smolder, Ocellus and Silverstream), they were having a breeze at flying alongside the taxi, acting as aerial escorts and lookouts for both the passengers and drivers.

"This is not how I imagine myself taking a taxi ride around town!!", shouted Mr Tang as he grabbed on for dear life on the taxi roof.

"HEY, at least this beats flying, right??! PLUS, you won't have to pay for fare!", joked Gallus as he continued to push him into the backside of the moving electric taxicab.

"Just keep your hands on that steering wheel in front of you, Yona! DON'T let go!!", ordered Master Zhi as he yelled from his passenger seat.

"UGGGHH, can't this dumb horseless carriage go any faster??! I can run way faster than that with my wings tied!", shouted the flying Smolder as she flew alongside the electric taxicab and spoke to Master Zhi by the right-side open window.

"This is an electric cab, lizard brain!!", explained the adrenaline-fueled Master Zhi. "Its max speed is proportional to its limited battery charge that powers the wheels!! Plus with all that weight added from the extra passengers---"

"HEY!!", yelled the insulted Stellar Flare and Miss Starlight Glimmer.

"---AND the driver also, there's no way this cab will get to the school under derby car speeds!", continued Master Zhi as he stared at the backseat passengers with a glare.

"Sorry that we had to interfere with your ride, Miss! We HAVE to get to the school promenade for some reason!", apologized the blood-rushing Sandbar as he held tightly to Stellar Flare's bare right arm.

"Just WHY in the world are you in SUCH a hurry to the school for, Starlight??! Are you REALLY that late for your own wedding??!!", shouted Stellar Flare to Miss Starlight Glimmer as they grabbed hold each others arms.

"IT'S NOT THAT!! My dad's been forcing me to marry somepony else!! I bailed out on him, so I could go see him before my suitor takes me away for good!!", shouted Miss Starlight as she showed Stellar Flare the framed photo she's holding. As soon as Stellar Flare saw the picture, her pupils instantly dilated at the sight of somepony who is very close to her. Even though Stellar Flare was in complete shock at the situation she was caught up in, she soon understands the urgency of Miss Starlight Glimmer's quest for re-connecting with her boyfriend.

"WELL, I WAS going to be on my way to Mayor Mare's office, but THIS is a much more important matter for me as it is to you, Starlight!", shouted Stellar Flare as she happily smiled at Miss Starlight, while also examining her scrunched-up white wedding dress. "He'll certainly be very happy to see you like this!"

"YONA, rotate the wheel to the right to make a turn! TURNIP, lift the speed pedal half way to slow down!", commanded Master Zhi who yelled at the driver and co-driver like a drill sergeant.

"YONA turning now!!", shouted the chubby nak girl as she made a hard right on the intersection.

"Okey-dokey!!", obeyed Tiny Turnip Head as he lifted the springed speed pedal to only halfway.

As soon as the electric cab made a hard right, Gallus immediately reacted by shifting his flying position to focus his push against Mr Tang's left shoulder, thereby keeping the old man propped against the backside of the taxi.

"HEY, look out, you idiots!! ROGUE TAXI COMING THROUGH!!!", shouted Mr Tang as soon as he saw an old violet-coated and blue-and-white swirly-maned grandmare pushing her baby carriage along the crosswalk.

"YONA, watch out for that grandmare!!!", warned Miss Starlight Glimmer as she pointed at the surprised grandmare through the partially splattered windshield. Upon seeing the swerving machination, the grandmare instantly scurried away from rogue taxi surrounded by trailing flyers.

"YONA can't WATCH!! Too short to see glass window above!!", cried the fat nak girl as she tried to lift herself off from her seat.

"Ladies, push that car to the right side, PRONTO!!", commanded Gallus as he shouted for his female flying companions

"We're on it, Gallus!!", assured Ocellus before she, Silverstream and Smolder flew over to the left side of the taxi and pushed the vehicle to the right as hard as they can.

"WOAH---WOOAAAHH!!!", shouted Starlight Glimmer as she immediately cast her telekinetic magic to keep herself, Sandbar and Stellar Flare firmly planted onto the seat cushion. The taxicab had just tipped over and veered to the right, but has not completely toppled over. Unfortunately, it was now heading over to an open arch entrance into a flower shop, where a ladder stood in the middle of the entrance. Standing on that ladder was a honey-yellow coated and dark-green maned unicorn mare painter, who was holding her can of white paint and was just about to get onto the high-level wooden scaffolding platform adjacent to the flower shop sign.

"BRAKE!! BRAKE!! I said BRAKE, GODDAMMIT!!!", commanded the panicking Master Zhi.

"Break what??!!", asked the screeching Tiny Turnip Head.

"NOT that kinda 'break'!! You know?? For stopping!! JUST PUSH THE LEFT PEDAL!!!", shouted Master Zhi from the top of his lungs.

"Ohhhhhh!!", understood Tiny Turnip Head before he immediately pushed onto the left brake pedal. But it was already too late for the taxi to stop itself from crashing into the ladder!

As soon as the taxicab instantly stopped with its frontal hoodie peering into the flower shop, the ladder tipped over after being rammed, causing the mare painter to fall from the highest step of her ladder, before Silverstream quickly swoop into action and managed to save her from falling any further onto top of the car roof at such a great height.

Unfortunately for the taxicab though, the can of paint that the unicorn painter was carrying was dropped and had accidentally splashed its opaque liquid contents all over the taxi's frontal windshield!

"GODDAMMIT, you moron!! You drive worse than my ex-wife!!", berated Mr Tang after he almost had a heart attack from seeing the taxi almost completely crash into the flower shop.

"BACK UP, BACK UP, BACK UP!!", shouted Miss Starlight Glimmer in a panic.

"Turnip, pull back the right pedal as far as you can to reverse! Yona, steer right!!", commanded Master Zhi as he barked his orders.

"YESMASTER!!", both Yona and Tiny Turnip Head shouted before the driver and co-driver managed to back out of the flower shop they had crashed in and made a reverse right-sided turn back onto the cobblestone road.

As soon as Silverstream placed the painter gently down onto the sidewalk and quickly apologized for the mess they had made, she and the rest of the female flyers resumed back to following the taxicab. To their horrified eyes, they saw that the spilled white paint had completely covered the whole frontal windshield!

"BRAKE!!", yelled Master Zhi before Tiny Turnip Head instantly pushed on the brake pedal.

"HEY, why the hay are you all stopping??!!", shouted the anxious Miss Starlight Glimmer.

"C'mon, Master! We gotta get this thing moving!", demanded Sandbar.

"WHAT'S THE HOLD-UP BACK THERE??!!", shouted Mr Tang who was holding onto the outer backside of the taxi roof.

"Yona no see anything no more!! Window all white now!!", pointed out Yona as she and Master Zhi can no longer see through the opaque and whitened front square windshield.

"Hehehe, sorry about this, Miss Starlight!! Looks like are completely snow-blind right now!", apologized Master Zhi as he looked at Miss Starlight Glimmer and shrugged his shoulders.

----------(MEANWHILE IN MANEHATTAN'S MANEFAIR HOTEL)----------

Standing by the entrance into the wedding reception, Minty Mocha was yelling through the receiver of the wall-embedded pay-station telephone as wedding guests were passing by to take their seats at the reception

☎"How in the hell did this happened??! Did you actually found Starlight yet??"

Seeing how the guests were reacting to her enraged fury, Minty Mocha quickly moved her muzzle close to the transmitter, cupped her muzzle with her right hand and softly scolded

☎"I'll be damned to Tartarus if my boss doesn't see her daughter for even another hour!"

Immediately the caller shouted something that caused Minty Mocha to stand straight on her hooves and gave out a shocked "WHAT??!", before immediately replying

☎"Well, to hell with you then! Go jump in a lake for all I care!!"

Then, she fiercely slammed the receiver onto the dis-connector arm on the left of the wall telephone, before angrily marching back into the reception room with Firelight standing by at the white-covered guest listing table, which was stationed by Strawberry Latte and Ever Essence.

"Please, please! Make yourself at home!", greeted the nervously smiling Firelight to his two new party guests as he tried desperately to keep up with the cheerful celebratory facade.

"Why don't you gentlemares and colts play some poker over by that card table over there??", pointed out Minty Mocha as she directed them to the playing area.

"Take care, everypony! Thank you for coming over to our wedding!", hollered the fake smiling Firelight as his guests head on over to the playing table at the far corner of the reception room.

As soon as the guests were out of sight, Firelight immediately relieved himself of his feigned happiness and turned his angry worried expression to his assistant manager and quietly asked

"PLEASE don't tell me our staff had failed to picked up my daughter up from the wedding boutique. I don't think I can keep up this charade in front of ALL these guests!"

"Of course, Mr Firelight...", replied Minty Mocha as she tried to put on her best smile in front of her boss.

"And DON'T even mention about me having to write a speech to explain ALL the guests about why my daughter hasn't arrived to the wedding yet, okay?!", demanded Firelight as his sanity was slowly leaking out of his head.

"OF COURSE, Mr Firelight! Your Starlight Glimmer will be here ANY soon!!", lied the sincerely smiling Minty Mocha as she greeted more party guests at the invitation table.

"HELLO, Mr Firelight! It's so nice to see you here! Love the violet suit! Say hi to the lucky groom and bride for us!", hollered the purple fluffy-maned unicorn mare guest as she entered the reception room.

"Good to see you too!", shouted Firelight as he quickly put back his feigned smile for his new guest.

Dear Twilight Sparkle only knows how long they could keep up with their cheerful front before everypony at the reception figured out what was going on...

----------(MEANWHILE NEAR THE SCHOOL OF FRIENDSHIP)----------

During their walk down along the lonely yellow dirt road to the School of Friendship, Student #12138 anxiously said to his companion Sunny Boy

"The Dragon Head of the Ginseng Triad told us to give this golden yellow gift box to his friend Gingko Dragon, the true top Dragon Head of all the Triad gangs in Equestria. Don't you feel even a BIT nervous about this meeting, sir?"

"No, not at all...", replied Sunny Boy as he walked alongside his comrade with the golden gift-wrapped box in his hand. "Why do you ask?"

"It's that---this meeting JUST doesn't feel right for some reason...", muttered Student #12138 as he looked down onto the ground and watching his hooves walk along the dirt road. "...Something strange is probably going on around here..."

"Ahhh, don't worry about it, my friend!", assured the confident Sunny Boy as he looked at the golden gift-box. "My godfather is the reason I'm still alive today. I don't mind being his errand messenger boy."

"Yeah....it's just a simple package delivery. How hard can it be?", wondered Student #12138 as he looked at the package with his friend Sunny Boy.

Walking along the south dirt road to the School of Friendship was a blonde fluffy-maned and green-coated kirin who was sporting a large white fluffy yeti coat that covered his whole body. He was surrounded by six kirin soldier bodyguards in black suits as his security detail, who followed the lavishly-dressed kirin from behind. They were bulky around the limbs, chest and back as they were wearing padded body armor for extra protection. He turned his attention to one of his soldier bodyguards and asked

"SO, where are we supposed to meet up with my friend Mister Ginseng?"

"In front of that granite bridge to the School of Friendship. You know, where you first recruited him into your cult?", replied the kirin bodyguard. "Your friend is pretty loyal to you, Top Dragon Head"

"LOYAL, you say??", questioned Gingko Dragon. "Tell me, if one of you suddenly became the substitute Dragon Head in Western Equestria during my absence, would you be willing to give all that power back to me peacefully once I return from my exile?"

The kirin bodyguards looked at Dragon Head and then to each other sheepishly with apprehension to their true feelings, and nonchalantly replied, "Uhhh, YES!/Of COURSE we would!/No doubt about it, Top Dragon Head!"

"...GOOD! Now, we have to make sure the ritual exchange goes all right...", ordered Gingko Dragon as he continued to walk to the School of Friendship with his soldier bodyguards. "If he tries to do anything sneaky, kill him on the spot!"

"YES, Top Dragon Head! We won't let you down, sir!", shouted the kirin bodyguards in unison.

"HEY, Sunny Boy...", whispered Student #12138 to his companion as the two young adult unicorns carefully approached Gingko Dragon and his posse upon spotting them. "That furry snow wolf cosplayer looks SO much like the new Dragon Head! You don't you think he's Gingko Dragon, is he??"

"Ooaaahhh, you worry too much, my dear student!", teased Sunny Boy as he messed up his student's spiky black mane with his black-gloved hand.

----------(SOMEWHERE ON THE ROADS OF PONYVILLE, 2:45 A.M.)----------

"WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH!!! TOO FAST, TOO FAST!!!", shouted Mr Tang as he held on for dear life on the speeding electric taxicab, which was now going more than 50 km/h (31 mph) on the cobblestone road.

The sudden spiked increase of the electric taxicab's top speed was all due to two major upgrades to the taxi, with the first one being the escorting flyers. Aside from the flying Gallus pushing Mr Tang onto the outer back of the taxi cab. Silverstream and Smolder were dragging the taxi cab by the left-side and right-side window edges and were using the strong beat of their wings to further push the taxi cab to higher speeds. They also act as stabilizers to keep the taxicab steady as it made hard turns and epic two-wheeled skiing on the cobblestone pavement. The second upgrade was the rechargeable capability and extra amperage provided by Ocellus in the form of a large Twittermite. Previously, the front car hood was ripped open by Ocellus in her bugbear form, before she turned herself into a large electrifying Twittermite and positioned herself onto the lead-acid batteries that were powering the front wheels of the taxicab. By converting all her vital force into electricity to supercharge the batteries, she was able to further increase the electric motor speed and thus also increase the torque of the powered wheels.

Unfortunately, since the taxicab had become completely blinded on the frontal windshield by the quick-drying white paint, it made it much harder to control the cab properly without crashing. To help guide the blinded taxi in its journey to the School of Friendship, Master Zhi had to stick half of his body out of the left-side of the driver's window and shout out immediate commands to both Yona and Tiny Turnip Head, all while the taxi cab speeds down the road occupied by oxen carts, steam cars, omnibuses, stagecoaches, rickshaws, hovering sedan chairs and many other vehicles.

As the taxicab approached the gas-powered stoplight, Master Zhi shouted out to Yona and Tiny Turnip Head

"TURN RIGHT, TURN RIGHT!! 45 degrees!! Quarter speed!!"

"Watch it, watch it, watch it!!", shouted Gallus as he struggled to keep up with the rapid-rolling super-charged taxicab.

As all four stagecoaches veered away and almost hit the speeding taxicab, Yona turned the steering wheel of the taxi way too hard and made a 120 degree right turn instead! That caused the car to do a two-wheeled skiing on its two right-sided tires and turned 225 degrees clockwise from its z-axis at the middle of the stoplight intersection!

"I said 25 degrees, Yona!! And that was a HALF speed, Turnip!! Quarter means half of half!!!", scolded Master Zhi as he immediately held onto the roof as it dangerously tipped over.

"YONA SORRY!! Yona and Turnip failed math in school!!", cried the panicking nak girl.

"Godamnit, Yona! You drive like a bitch!!", insulted the frustrated Mister Tang as he held onto the taxi roof for dear life while Gallus tried to prevent him from slipping off!

While the car was at the brink of tipping over, Miss Starlight was firmly sitting tightly at the back and used everything in her telekinetic magic to hold herself, Miss Stellar Flare and Sandbar firmly to their unrestrained cushion seats. Meanwhile, Silverstream and Smolder were struggling to stabilize the cab as it dangerously tipped to its right side while skiing. As soon as the taxicab landed safely onto its two left wheels on the intersection, Master Zhi yelled out to Mr Tang

"Tang, I need you at the passenger seat! Help Yona and Turnip with their trigonometry and fractions!!"

"FINALLY, I was getting REAL tired riding on the OUTSIDE of this death contraption!!", shouted Mister Tang as he was immediately airlifted by Gallus to the right-side passenger seat.

"Gallus, you provide the extra air boost at the back! Help these ladies stabilize the car when needed!", commanded Master Zhi as he inserted half his body into the driver's window.

"You got it, sir! Just get this cab moving already before we get surrounded!", squawked Gallus as he positioned his hovering spot behind the cab and placed his talons on top of the roof.

"WILL DO! Right turn!! 45 degrees!! HALF SPEED!!", commanded Master Zhi before Yona jerked the steering wheel to the right, while Tiny Turnip Head pressed the speed pedal at halfway. Before Yona ended up turning over the taxicab though, Mr Tang (who was at the front passenger seat) used his telekinetic magic to stop Yona from turning the wheel too far and yelled,

"STOP! That's 45 degrees! One-eighth of a whole circle!!"

Mr Tang then magically projected two blue holographic protractors on the middle of the steering wheel from his horn, one above and other below. The 45°, 90°, 135° and 180° markings were made bold on both semi-circle protractors for both clockwise and counter-clockwise turns. All other angle markings were labelled in 10° intervals across each arc of both semi-circles. To make it easier for Yona to understand how far she was turning, Mr Tang then highlighted the 45° markings in yellow for better visualization on his makeshift hologram.

"Oooohh, Yona now see!!", understood the quick-thinking nak girl as she made a turn to the south-east road. She could clearly see the holographic angle number markings very well as she stared at her steering wheel.

"GOOD!! Now I don't have to kick you outta the cab and drive this death trap myself!", shouted the relieved Mr Tang as he saw Yona keeping her cloven hands steady at the 0° markings.

"You try kicking her out, I'll toss you in the middle of the road!", threatened the unamused Miss Starlight Glimmer.

"WEAK bluff, you damsel-in-this-dress bride!!", scorned Mr Tang as he looked behind his seat.

"NO TALKING!! Turn left at 35° angle!! HALF speed!!", commanded Master Zhi as he saw the street sign pointing to the direction to the school. As soon as he heard the order, Mr Tang then highlighted the 35° markings in yellow on his two blue holographic protractors, before Yona made a reasonably steady rotation to the left, until her cloven hands were at the 35° marks.

"GOOD! You're learning fast!! For a loafer, of course!", halfheartedly complimented the prejudice Mr Tang as he tried to keep himself steady in case of any wild skiing or wheelie shenanigans.

Breathing in and out deeply and rapidly under Yona's crazy driving, Miss Starlight Glimmer tried to keep herself calm under the intense pressure, while Stellar Flare held tight onto her left hand and massaged her palm.

"Just keep it cool! It's going to be all right!! No pressure!", panted Miss Starlight Glimmer to herself as she tried to stop herself from panicking.

"HEY, I'll be there with you along the way, no matter the risks, my dearie!", assured Stellar Flare.

"C'mon, guys!! Move faster already!!", shouted Sandbar from the backseat.

"YOU SHUT THE HELL UP, backseat driver!!", scolded Mr Tang as he stared intensely at Sandbar from his front passenger seat.

"75° right turn!! Three-quarter speed!!", commanded the observant Master Zhi as soon as he spotted a curved road flanked by two stone-walled barriers.

"YONA HEAR YOU LOUD AND CLEAR!!", loudly replied the smart nak girl.

As Yona made her right turn under the holographic guidance of Mr Tang's protractors, Tiny Turnip Head accidentally pushed on the speed pedal too hard onto the floor, causing the taxicab to tip over to the left and make another skiing skid on its two left wheels across the curved road!

"WWWAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!", screamed Master Zhi as he was now hugging the roof of the car once again.

"DAMIT, kid! You pushed the pedal too hard!!", scolded Mr Tang as he instantly hung onto the passenger door to stop himself from falling into the driver's side.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I don't know know what he meant by three-quarters!!", cried Tiny Turnip Head as he suddenly felt the sheer force of the tipping taxicab.

As Mister Tang and Master Zhi held onto dear life so as to not lose their sitting within the left-tipping car, Gallus rushed to the aid of Silverstream on the left side of the vehicle to prevent the skiing cab from toppling over, while Smolder tried to do her best to bring down the right side of the tipping taxicab. This was all done while the taxicab was making a hard right crescent-curved turn on the busy traffic road, before it continued speeding and skiing along the next straight cobblestone road, nearly ramming against three merchant carts along the way! The citizen drivers who got caught in the ruckus were not to happy at whoever was driving the car, nor were they pleased at the flyers trying to keep the cab from rolling over!

"HEY, what the hell are you doing, man??!"

"Get off the road, jackass!!"

"Are you both blind AND stupid??!!!"

"Who taught you how to drive??!"

"If you can't ride without having to rely on pigeons to keep you steady, you should quit now!!"

"Stop trying to help that nutcase! You're making it worse!"

"Go find a better driving tutor before you kill somepony on the street!"

"Burn in Tartarus!!"

"HQ, we have a situation at 650 Trottingham Road!", shouted a Diamond Dog traffic post guard as he yelled onto the unlocked callbox. He was standing by the street and was witnessing one of the most craziest vehicle joyrides in his lifetime! He continued with his report

"A runaway rogue Argo taxicab is suspiciously and dangerously skidding to the east, and they are accompanied by three multiple flyers outside of the taxi! Send extra backup now! We got four unicorn police officers on pursuit with their Tandem Humbers6!"

"Think of it as three semi-halves of a pizza or cake slice!!", advised the panicking Mister Tang as he held on for dear life.

"Uhhhhhhhh------Oooh!", mumbled Tiny Turnip Head as he tried to figure out what Mister Tang was saying, before he suddenly realized what he meant. Soon, the bright-headed pegasus boy could visualize in his imagination a slice of chocolate cream cake slice flanked by two acutely angled speed pedals!

"There is TOO much cake on this pedal!!", yelled Tiny Turnip Head as he eased his speed pedal pressing to 3/4 speed. This allowed the car to land back on its two right wheels and presumed driving at a normal balanced level, while the rest of the passengers finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"If I knew you could drive that like, I would commute to work more often!", joked Stellar Flare as her chest was pounding from the prolonged skiing stunt.

As soon as they were about to relax and cool their heads, the taxi passengers, drivers and winged escorts immediately heard high-pitched sounds of wailing sirens from behind the taxi!

"WAAHH, what was yak!!??", shouted the panicking Yona as she tried to keep her cloven hands steady on the wheel.

"WUH-OH!! I think I can see a couple police bikes chasing after us!!", shouted Mr Tang as he peered out the right-side window. "And it's one of those damn electric doo-hickeys again!"

"WHAT??!! But why??!! We're just heading out to see Sunny Boy at the outdoor promenade!!", cawed the clueless Silverstream as she grabbed hold on the left-side taxicab and flapping her wings as hard as she can.

"What the hell do they want with us??!!", asked Smolder as she grabbed hold on the right-side of the taxicab and flapped her wings in unison with Silverstream.

"I THINK they don't like the way Yona and Turnip is driving the vehicle right now!", answered the squawking Gallus as he continued to fly forward while pushing the vehicle forward.

"NO SHIT, birdbrain! We DID almost ran over a couple vehicles along the way!!", shouted Master Zhi as he looked behind him and saw the police officers sounding their electric horns at the front of their bikes. "Must've pissed off a lotta drivers back there!!"

"Getting---low---on----energy!!! Too---tired!!----Can't---keep---up!!!", cried Ocellus the exhausting Twittermite beast, as her electrical discharges were getting weaker by the minute from supercharging the taxicab for too long.

"Hang in there, Ocellus! Just a couple more roads up ahead!!", encouraged the hard-flapping Smolder.

----------(MEANWHILE BACK AT THE TRIAD MEET-UP)----------

"So, did Ginseng Dragon ever told you what you should do if any creature like Gingko Dragon appeared in the middle of a Triad meeting?", asked Student #12138 as he walked alongside Sunny Boy.

"Loudly say the secret code phrase 'The golden guest has finally arrived' after giving him the special golden gift", replied Sunny Boy as he held the golden-wrapped gift box.

As soon as Student #12138 heard his answer, he immediately stopped Sunny Boy at his tracks and shouted out

"Stay where you are and DON'T move, please!"

"Hmmm, looks like the Dragon Head of Ponyville himself chose not arrive", commented on of the kirin bodyguards standing next to Gingko Dragon's left side. The top golden dragon head of all the triads, as well as his posse, were all standing around 50 meters away from Sunny Boy and Student #12138.

"Instead, it seems like he decided to send two teenage hipster dorks over here to meet us instead...", muttered the other kirin bodyguard standing next to Gingko Dragon's right side.

"...阿爾法 (Yaw Yeet Fut)7, go over and check on them...", ordered Gingko Dragon as he talked to his right-sided bodyguard, before Yaw Yeet Fut, who was a grey-coated and teal-maned male kirin, stepped forward and walked towards the two young men. In response, Sunny Boy and Student #12138 walked forward to meet Yaw Yeet Fut at the middle (25 meters away from Gingko Dragon and his remaining posse).

"SO, did Mister Ginseng sent you boys over to meet us?", questioned Yaw Yeet Fut with a suspicious distrustful tone.

"His name is Ginseng Dragon, not Mister Ginseng", replied Sunny Boy with a lightly harsh tone. "If you're wondering who we are, I'm his godson and this here is my right-hand man."

Sunny Boy then showed him the golden box he was holding and offered it to Yaw Yeet Fut for him to take to Gingko Dragon as a special welcome gift.

"My godfather wanted Gingko Dragon to have this present...", said Sunny Boy in a polite manner.

"May I see what's actually inside first?", asked the skeptical Yaw Yeet Fut.

"My godfather told me I can't have any creature open the present without his permission until it reaches Gingko Dragon", replied Sunny Boy in a calm manner.

Not wanting to play games anymore, Yaw Yeet Fut immediately pulled out his .34 caliber pocket pepperbox pinfire pistol8 from his waistband and pointed at Sunny Boy, while trying to keep his gun hidden by using his black suit jacket as cover.

"OPEN---the box---or face the consequences...", threatened Yaw Yeet Fut as he had his hidden pocket pepperbox pistol aimed at Sunny Boy's torso. Suddenly, a dead silence rings in the air as Gingko Dragon and his remaining posse stared at Yaw Yeet Fut, who was blocking their view of the two young men.

As the standoff continued to drag on, a wooden sailboat was floating on the large water of body within the moat, a couple of meters north from the school's granite moat bridge. Crouching on the open deck with a pair of tripod-supported binocular tower viewers, Delft Blue could see the backside of Gingko Dragon and his posse, as well as the standoff among Sunny Boy, Student #12138 and Yaw Yeet Fut. In addition to that, he was also holding the briefcase telephone with his right cloven hand, waiting for an opportunity to activate the bomb inside that golden package.

"Saan Jyu, one of Gingko's bodyguards got sent over to check out our golden gift box...", reported the tacky-dressed Delft Blue as he turned his attention away from his viewer and onto his crime boss. "Why don't we just give that briefcase telephone dial a twirl right now?"

Delft Blue was holding up the briefcase telephone to show that he was more than ready to detonate the explosive package. However, Ginseng Dragon was very hesitant to initiate the plan. He held Delft Blue's right wrist and told him

"No, not NOW! They're TOO far apart! I'm afraid if we set it off now, the explosion wouldn't reach far enough to eliminate Gingko Dragon! We got to wait for them to get closer"

"If you want to shoot me now, do it!", taunted Sunny Boy as he stared stoically at Yaw Yeet Fut. "Student #12138 is not the kind of unicorn who specializes in patience"

"Who the hell is Student #12138?", asked Yaw Yeet Fut while still pointing his hidden pepperbox at Sunny Boy's abdomen.

"THAT would be ME...", answered Student #12138 as he menacingly stared at Yaw Yeet Fut "But YOU can call me the new Headmaster of the Sunny Side Schoolboys!"

Suddenly, Yaw Yeet Fut could feel a cold jab poking at his stomach and as he looked down, he immediately realized that Student #12138 had a two-barrel .66 caliber howdah pistol9 pointed at blank-range to his abdomen! Even with his padded armor, getting shot at such a close distance by such a powerful huge caliber would surely penetrate through the layers of silk sheets in his soft armor!

Feeling trapped like a mosquito on arsenic fly paper, the kirin bodyguard was scared stiff as he was imagining how that large-caliber pistol could penetrate and wreak havoc to his intestines. All he could do was stare at Student #12138, the new Headmaster of the Sunny Side Schoolboys, taunting at him with complete smugness on his face.

Screeching to a halt on its thin flimsy tires on the cobblestone roads, the yellow taxi with the white-painted opaque windshield had finally arrived at the near eastern edge of the town, where the School of Friendship was in a clear and plain open view from its border.

"Leave the po-po to us, Miss Starlight!! You just head on out there and meet your dream boy!!", ordered Master Zhi as he stood out with half his body in the driver seat.

As soon as the bride-to-be Miss Starlight Glimmer and Stellar Flare got out of the taxi, she yelled out to Master Zhi

"Thank you SO much! I owe you a lot, Master---!"

"You can thank him later!! GO, GO!!", shouted Sandbar before he quickly slammed the left-side backseat passenger door shut.

"OKAY GUYS!! FLOOR IT!!", shouted Master Zhi before Tiny Turnip Head pressed the speed pedal as hard as he can, sending the taxi into an instant dash from the two pursuing electric tandem police bikes and one extra police steamer. In spite of the vital essence being almost exhausted, Ocellus was still giving all the juice she could muster to supercharge the taxi for as long as she can.

"COME and get us, you prancing peppies!!", taunted Mister Tang as he yelled out from his front passenger window.

"GOOD LUCK, Headmare!!", shouted Gallus as he readied himself to push the taxicab to its turbo speed. Soon, Master Zhi, Mister Tang and the rambunctious friendship students were already off on the road, luring the police away from Miss Starlight and Stellar Flare with their vehicular shenanigans.

"C'mon, dearie!! He's not far away now! It's time for you to reunite with your long-time soulmate!", cheered Stellar Flare as she grabbed hold of Miss Starlight's left hand.

With the framed picture in Miss Starlight's right hand, the headmare bride rushed on over with Stellar Flare to the open greenery scene outside of the School of Friendship. She was now close to meeting the one she had lost very long ago, yet not realizing that the one she seeks was there with her the whole time...

As the silent tension among Sunny Boy, the new Headmaster and the jittery kirin bodyguard grew more tighter than a cocked gun hammer, every kirin within Gingko Dragon's posse were waiting with bated breath for either their comrade or the young men to make their first move. This could end with either one, two or even all three of them dead. If one or two of the boys survived, this would end in an enchanted wizard fight between the young men and Gingko's soldier bodyguards. If Gingko loses, this would spell the end of Gingko's legacy and Ginseng Dragon would soon use his newfound power to take over Ponyville's underground world, leaving a blood-soaked trail of destruction in his wake. Even if the two boys laid defeated and dead however, Gingko Dragon would have to high-tail out back to Eastern Equestria in exile again to build up his new army of kirin soldiers to battle against the Western triad of his soon-to-be rival Ginseng Dragon. Either way, this could only end in a massive bloodshed, no matter how the outcome will turn out for both the Triad gangs.

"Should we send 試用版 (Seeng Yoong Gung)10 over to ease the tension?", whispered the left-sided kirin bodyguard as he spoke to the stoically dead-eye staring Gingko Dragon.

Giving a long pause to decide on the answer, Gingko Dragon quietly replied

"....No...let's wait and see what happens..."

A few minutes had passed by....and yet no creature tried to fire even a single shot...or even cast a single attack spell...both sides knew this would end in a bloody battle, unless the kirin bodyguard decides let the two young men peacefully hand over the golden gift box.

Running tirelessly on her white high heels with her hands lifting up the white lacy hemline, Miss Starlight Glimmer ran towards the School of Friendship, desperately trying to hold tight to the precious memory photo on her right hand. As soon as they got a bit closer, they could finally see the stallion boy they had long been awaiting for...

"SUNBURST!!!", cried Starlight Glimmer as she continued to ran towards Sunny Boy.

"Sunburst!! My BABY!! We've been looking ALL over for you in Equestria!!", shouted Stellar Flare as she also ran towards Sunny Boy alongside Starlight Glimmer

Suddenly caught off guard by the running unicorn bride in her wide corset bodice dress and the red-maned middle-aged unicorn mare following alongside her, the Gingko Triad posse looked behind and wondered what in Equestria's name are they shouting about.

"SUNBURST!! OVER HERE!", shouted Starlight Glimmer as she continued to run towards Sunny Boy and raising a framed picture in her right gloved hand. As she was running, she tried to stop her bosoms from popping out of her dress with her telekinetic magic.

"Don't worry, Sunburst! Mommy's here!", cried the heartfelt Stellar Flare as she continued to run with Starlight while holding and swinging her left hand.

Despite the view being blocked by the kirin bodyguard, Sunny Boy was able to hear Miss Starlight and that strange middle-aged mare running towards him, yelling out a name he has never even heard about. Why was she here? Why is she not back at the apartment with her boyfriend?? Who was that other mare that is escorting Miss Starlight Glimmer? Could it be that Miss Starlight's boyfriend is actually right behind him and that her lover was going to be caught in the middle of a deadly crossfire? He looked behind his shoulder---but there was nopony here besides him, the kirins, the new Headmaster and the two mares who seemed to be happy about seeing somepony---but who could it be? Who was she and that old mare yelling at? Could it be that one of the kirin he was facing be one of Miss Starlight's lovers? If they were, one of them would've reacted and try to interfere. But it seemed that none of them seem to know who this---this--this---

"Sunburst!---Sunburst!!----SUNBURST!!!----SUNBURST!!!!----"

---END

Author's Note

1. Set-up looks similar to this phonograph sound system
   

2. Po Sum Healing Balm: medicated oil composed of all natural ingredients such as peppermint oil, cassia oil, dragon's Blood, scutellaria root and liquorice.
   

3. L'Obéissante: a steam-powered bus developed in 1873 by bellfounder Amédée-Ernest Bollée; able to travel an average speed of 30 km/h (19 mph) and with top speed of 40 km/h (25 mph)
   

4. SAS (Self-Acting Steam) Omnibus:
   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_bus

5. 1913 Argo Electric Car
   
   Fun fact: Back in 1899, nearly 90% of the taxicabs in New York City were powered by electricity
   https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/04/in-1899-ninety-percent-of-new-york-citys-taxi-cabs-were-electric-vehicles/

6. 1899 Humber Electric Tandem Bicycle
   
   Source: http://www.bicyclehistory.net/motorcycle-history/electric-bicycle/

7. Cantonese for "Alpha"
   https://www.bing.com/translator?ref=TThis&&text=%E9%98%BF%E7%88%BE%E6%B3%95&from=yue&to=en

8. .34 cal Pocket Percussion Pistol
   

9. Howdah Pistol: a large caliber short pistol used by elephant riders (howdahs) to defend against predators and bandits
   

10. Cantonese for "Beta"
    https://www.bing.com/translator?ref=TThis&&text=beta&from=&to=yue