It was a nice day in Ponyville...well, actually, it was a nice day inside Twilight Sparkle’s Castle. Ponyville was still bustling around with activity. We’re talking about Spike, Starlight and Rainbow Dash for crying out loud!

As Starlight and Spike were reflecting back on the proposal, and how excited they all were about how they would finally be married off, there was still some planning to do and little time to do it.

Rainbow Dash was just exiting her room to go tell Starlight and Spike the big news, when she saw Twilight and Fluttershy hanging up a portrait of themselves in the hallway, next to their room. “How's it coming?” She asked as she looked at how lovely and exquisite the picture was as she touched it.

“Hey-hey-hey you're touching the picture!” Twilight pointed out to her friend as Fluttershy gave her a stare look. Rainbow looked and gasped as she saw the picture was the two as the American Gothic picture.

“Sorry....you freak!” Rainbow said sarcastically with a smirk as she left the hallway, and went into the throne room to go meet up with the others.

Meanwhile, Spike and Starlight were wondering about their proposal and how they would plan out their wedding. Starlight was the first to speak up. “Do you realize that any minute now, you, Rainbow and I could get married at our place of choice real soon?” She asked her lover. “It’s such a huge, life-altering thing.”

Spike sighed with content and happiness. “I know.” He said happily and calm. Just then, they saw Rainbow Dash enter the room, feeling dejected. “Hi.” She said with no emotion.

Spike and Starlight were surprised at Rainbow being in such a state. “Wow. That is not a happy hi.” Starlight said bluntly.

“I just got off the phone from Flim and Flam, and guess what?” The two lovers were still confused as to what their friend meant. Finally, she broke the ice excitedly. “WE’RE GOING TO GET TO CHOOSE THE PLACE WHERE WE’LL GET MARRIED!!!”

“We get to choose the place for our wedding?” Spike asked excitedly. “That's amazing! Where is it?”

“And the best part is, we're going to Las Pegasus!!!” Rainbow burst out, which made the other two jump up and down in excitement. “And you know what that means, buddies!”

“Yeah, We know that means, buddy!” Starlight said in excitement.

“ROAD TRIP!” All three said in excitement at the same time.

“Okay, not technically a road trip, because we're taking that,” Rainbow added as she pointed to a hot air balloon.

The two gasped in excitement. “We can use it to get to Las Pegasus!” Spike said excitedly.

“Whoa-whoa-whoa.” Starlight said worriedly. “What are we going to do about my job as guidance Counsellor?”

“Oh umm, not go.” Rainbow said, nervously and bluntly.

“All right, great, road trip baby!” Starlight and Spike said as they shifted back to excitement as they dashed out of the castle and to the hot air balloon! “Let’s go!”

They arrived at the balloon and got ready to enter as the balloon took off and to their destination of choice for their big moment. Las Pegasus was their next target: Their wedding.

Meanwhile, quite some ways away from Ponyville in Hope Hollow, a boy Pegasus filly, Pickle Barrel was entering a room as he was carrying a bucket of chicken that he was enjoying on. He was checking the mail when a small envelope fell out. Pickle didn’t know what this was as he picked it up and opened it.

He read the letter. “You are cordially invited to the wedding of Rainbow Dash to Starlight Glimmer and Spike, Brave and Glorious.” He gasped in shock and excitement as he saw that the invitation was from Rainbow Dash, who was the guest of honor at the Rainbow Festival. He even saw a picture of the three ponies who were about to be married, and was surprised as it showed them having an aftermath of their sex session.

At that moment, his sister Barley Barrel came in and saw him looking at the picture of the three lovers. What she didn’t know was that her brother was holding an invitation to Rainbow’s wedding!

She gasped. “Oh my God! That's Rainbow Dash!!” She cried out in sheer shock.

Pickle turned to see his sister and was shocked. “Oh no-no-no!” He said to his sister, trying to cover it up. “No-no-no-no-no-no-no!“

Barley walked past him, still facing him and felt angry and defensive as she saw the same sex picture he did. “You get away from me, You sick, sick, sick-o!!“ she said furiously to him.

At that moment, Moody Root, Kerfluffle, Sunny Skies, and Petunia Pettles came in the room, following Barley. “What's going on?” Moody Root asked curiously as the others wanted to know.

“Pickle’s got a secret peephole!“ Barley flat out accused.

The Hoofingtons and Torque came in as well and saw the picture that Pickle was holding and were a little surprised. They didn’t know why the picture was there, but they figured it wasn’t Pickle’s fault. “Oh no! No! No! No!“ Mr. Hoofington said in shock as he saw it, as Mrs. Hoofington and Torque gasped in shock as well.

“It’s not what you think!” Torque added.

“Yes! He has a naked picture of Rainbow Dash!” Barley continued to shout angrily. “He takes naked pictures of Twilight and her friends, and then he eats chicken and looks at them!“ As she said that, Pickle took off his jacket in a huff as she showed them the picture. “Look!”

Moody and Sunny took a look at the picture and gasped. “Pickle!” Sunny said in shock. “That’s our guest of honor!”

Barley continued to show the others as they all gasped in shock and horror at the sight of the picture. “Give me that!” Mrs. Hoofington said as she snatched to photo from Barley’s hooves.

Kerfluffle was confused as she wanted to know what’s going on. “All right, wait!” She said. “Just wait. Everybody just calm down. Okay? Let's give our friend, Pickle a chance to explain why he's such a big pervert!“

“No! I am not a pervert!” Pickle said in utter shock. “Okay? It's just… I just… Kinda…“ he was now at a loss for words as he didn’t know what to say now as he saw everyone else in the room with angry eyes at him.

“All right, look! Look. I think we can explain this.” Mr. Hoofington said calmly as he knew Pickle wasn’t a pervert as he and his wife came to his side.

Pickle sighed with relief. “Thank you!” He said happily.

“Pickle’s a sex addict.” Mrs. Hoofington said which made everyone else, including Pickle shocked at this.

“What?!!“ Pickle said further shocked. The Hoofington’s were wanting him to play along with it. But, he wasn’t willing to give in. “No I'm not!!”

“It's okay! It's good!” Torque added in agreement. “It's good. It's a disease!”

“No! No! I am not a sex addict!” Pickle continued pointing out, getting more flustered.

“Yes, you are!” Mr. Hoofington said. “That's the only way to explain all this stuff!”

Pickle was getting more stressed and felt like it was time to put his hoof down. “No it isn't! No, it's not. Because you can also explain it with the truth!” He said seriously and frustrated.

Everyone was confused because they didn’t know WHERE he was going with this. “Well, what is the truth?” Barley asked him.

“Yeah, what's going on?” Petunia Pettles asked.

“What's going on?” Moody Root asked as well.

Pickle had enough! He had to say it. “That’s even worse that you all were accusing me!!” He said to them. “You were all way over the line! You-you’re-you’re so far past the line, that you-you can’t even see the line! The line is a dot to all of you!”

Everyone was still confused that they still didn’t know what he meant. “Uh, what are you talking about?” Kerfluffle asked.

Pickle sighed. “Okay. The reason is this!” He got out the invitation for everyone to see. “I got this invitation to go to Rainbow Dash’s wedding, and I was going to tell all of you about it, when this whole fiasco started!”

Now, everyone felt guilty as they now knew what he meant. “Oh my, Pickle! We’re sorry, don’t cha know?” Petunia said regretfully.

“You got an invitation to Rainbow Dash’s wedding?!” Sunny Skies said in shock and amazement. “This is huge!”

“Well, if that don’t beat all!” Moody Root said excitedly. “I didn’t know the guest of honor is getting married! That’s a really big deal!”

“Our idol is getting married?!” Barley asked in shock. “Wow! I guess that explains why you got the invitation!”

“Speaking of which...” Mr. Hoofington said as he and his wife were thinking about it. “We got the same invite too.” They showed their invite, which shocked everyone.

“I think I got one too!” Torque added.

“And us too!” Kerfluffle and Petunia Pettles both said as they got theirs out.

“I think we all got the same invite.” Barley said in shock and excitement. “But, it’ll be great to go, knowing that our guest of honor is getting married! Though, I have to ask something...who is this Starlight Glimmer?”

“I don’t know.” Sunny said confused. “But, it sounds like a friend of hers and Twilight’s.”

“I think it says she’s from Sire’s Hollow.” Mrs. Hoofington said as she looked at the invite.

“Starlight’s from Sire’s Hollow.” Pickle said as he saw it. “And, it looks like this Spike character is from the Crystal Empire.”

Everyone gasped in shock that they heard that. “I thought the Crystal Empire was only a myth!” Petunia Pettles said in shock.

“Well, apparently, it rose after 1,000 years.” Pickle told them. “And Spike’s a hero of the Crystal Empire, since he saved them from King Sombra not too long ago.”

Everyone was now excited as they were going to a wedding of Hope Hollow’s guest of honor to a resident of Sire’s Hollow and a hero of the Crystal Empire! “Well then, we better get ready if we’re going to go to this wedding!” Sunny said excitedly. “And, it’s in Las Pegasus!”

“Wow!” Barley said in excitement. “It’s in Las Pegasus?! That’s awesome, considering we never went there before!”

“I think it’s a great place to start, Sis!” Pickle said to his sister.

“Well, then let’s get ready to rest if we’re going to head there!” Moody Root said as he yawned. “It’s a big trip, and we don’t want to be tired making the journey there!”

“And, we might meet Twilight Sparkle and the others. “ Mr. Hoofington said as well. “We’d better get ready to meet up with them.

“Yes.” Mrs. Hoofington said in agreement. “If we’re going to meet Twilight and the others, we’d better prepare for this big day!”

“Then, let’s get ready to rest up and prepare to meet up with the gang!” Torque said. “We’ve got a big day tomorrow!”

“Goodnight.” Sunny said as he and Petunia Pettles started back to their home. “We’ll see you all tomorrow at the hot air ballon station.”

“I’d better get ready too, if I wanna catch that ride!” Kerfluffle said as she and Moody Root started to head back.

“Yeah!” Moody Root said. “See you young fellers tomorrow!”

“We’re going to be heading back to get some rest.” Mr. Hoofington said.

“We trust you two will get good rest before we head out for Las Pegasus.” Mrs. Hoofington added as they started back to their house.

“Okay, Mr. Hoofington.” Pickle said.

“We’ll be there bright and Early, Mrs. Hoofington!” Barley said as well.

“Okay.” Mr. and Mrs. Hoofington said as they left. “Goodnight.”

Torque was starting to head back too. “Well, I’d better head back to my workshop, so I can get the hot air balloon ready for the trip!” She said as she walked out. “Good night, you kids! I’ll see you tomorrow morning!”

That left Barley and her brother in the room. “Well...” Barley yawned. “I’m gonna go to bed.” She noticed her brother picking Up his Chicken bucket and starting to eat it. “Hey, Pickle...what are you doing eating? It’s time to go to bed.”

Pickle turned to notice his sister with a look on her face. “I know. I know it is!” He said. “I’m just going to get back to my bucket.” He started to eat the skin off his chicken. “I'm only eating the skin, so the chicken's up for grabs.”

He offered it to Barley, who rolled her eyes as she went to her room to go to bed. Pickle rolled his eyes as he finished his chicken and then went to bed to get ready for the big day.

Morning finally came as Sunny Skies, Petunia, Torque, the Hoofingtons, Moody Root and Kerfuffle all met up at the hot air balloon station to take off from Hope Hollow and head to Ponyville. Petunia looked around and saw that the Barrel Twins weren’t there yet. “Oh, for cryin' in the mud, where are the kids?” She asked.

“I’m pretty sure they’re coming.” Sunny said. “They’re not ones to usually back out of a vacation.“

“Well, I hope they get there.” Torque said as she checked her watch. “It’s almost time to leave, and the sun’s almost up.”

“Yeah!” Moody Root said in agreement. “This balloon won’t take off itself.”

The Hoofingtons were also starting to get a little worried as they didn’t see the kids either. “You sure they’ll be there?” Mrs. Hoofington asked nervously.

“Oh, honey.” Mr. Hoofington said warmly. “They’ll show up. I’m sure of it.” At that moment, the kids were racing to get to the ballon on time.

“Beat ya to the balloon!” Pickle said as he was racing alongside his sister to get the destination.

“Nope! I'm gonna beat you!” Barley said with excitement and confidence as she whizzed by him.

The twins were racing neck-and-neck as they tried to get to the balloon. “I'm gonna beat you!” Pickle said as he pushed past her.

“No, I'm gonna—” Barley started as she tried to push past her brother. They both gasped as they saw the rest of her friends at the balloon, and lost their balance, causing them to tumble on the ground to said balloon. “Look out!” Barley shouted in shock.

“No, you look out!” Pickle shouted in shock. They screamed as they landed right next to the balloon, feeling a little bruised and having tired eyes from having to get up early for the voyage.

They both got back up...Barley being the first. “Why did you zig in front of me like that?” she asked.

“I didn't zig! You zigged! I zagged!” Pickle started to shoot back.

“Doesn’t matter!” Moody Root said seriously. “You two are BOTH still late! We gotta leave soon, or we'll miss the tailwind.“

“I don’t see WHY we had to get up so early!” Barley said as she rubbed her tired eyes. “It’s like 5:00 AM in the morning!”

“Provided none of us wake up at this time...” Pickle said. “We still had to wake up to get ready to leave, sis!”

“Don't worry.” Kerfluffle said as she giggled. “We wouldn't have left without you.”

“Well, that goes without saying, Kerfluffle.” Mrs. Hoofington said as she giggled. “After all, Rainbow Dash is getting married to Starlight Glimmer from Sire’s Hollow.”

“And Spike from the Crystal Empire.” Mr. Hoofington finished.

“Well, no matter what, It's should be a nonstop fun-o-rama party!“ Barley said excitedly.

“Yeah!“ everyone else agreed.

“Let 'er loose, Pickle!“ the filly told her brother as he undid the rope that held it in place. The ballon started to lift off in to the air, but then stopped after a few feet.

Everyone was confused. “Uh, why aren't we going anywhere?” Kerfluffle asked.

“The basket's too heavy.” Petunia pointed out as she noticed what was in it.

“Mrs. Hoofington?” Moody Root asked confused.

Said pony was shocked upon hearing that. “How dare you!” She said seriously. “I brought the itsy-est valise!”

“Honey!” Her husband said, trying to calm her down.

Barley saw what made it so heavy, and decided to sacrifice something. “Sorry to do this, Torque. But...” she took Torque’s bag of tools and threw it off the basket.

“My tools!” Torque cried out as they were thrown out.

“They'll keep 'til we get back.” Petunia said, while her friend groaned in disappointment.

“Well, what are you waiting for, Everypony?” Moody Root asked. “Let’s get to that wedding!” He raised the burner which made the balloon go up high as they left. “Next stop, Ponyville!” He steered the ballon in the direction Ponyville was and the Hope Hollow ponies were on their way to where their friends are!

Back in Ponyville, Fluttershy was scourging the castle, looking for Applejack. “Applejack!” She said. “I’m sorry I'm late!” She looked around and couldn’t find her. She went in the library. “Applejack?”

At that moment, Applejack came in the throne room as well looking for her. “Fluttershy?” Her friend came back in the room as she heard. “Oh, Flutters, I'm so sorry.” She said apologetically. “Have you been here long?”

“It's okay.” She said saddened. “What the hell took you so long?”

“Okay, you can not tell Big Mac. Okay?” She said nervously. “That I ran into Trenderhoof!”

Fluttershy gasped in shock. “Trenderhoof?! Oh my God!“

“It was, it was really nice.” Applejack said happily and calm. “We started talking and I-I ended up having lunch with him.“

Fluttershy was shocked and amazed that she was hitting it off and hanging out with Trenderhoof. “That is so weird!” she replied.

“The strange part was, he was really nice, umm and he looks great, but I didn't feel anything at all!” Applejack continued her story and was amazed and surprised as she told her friend, who was also shocked and surprised as well.

Fluttershy gasped. “So now, why can't we tell Big Mac?” She asked.

“Because it would totally freak him out and tomorrow, we’re leaving the kids at Cheerliee’s while we head on vacation.” The farm mare said nervously. “I just don't want anything to spoil that.”

“Oh, Applejack! I’m so happy for you!” Fluttershy said happily to her, which made her friend blush in excitement.

“I know!” Applejack replied.

Fluttershy gasped, suddenly. “Wow!” She realized. “I owe Twilight 20 bucks!”

Applejack was confused. “What?”

Fluttershy covered it up, quickly. “On a totally different bet.” she said.

At that moment, Twilight and Rarity both came in the throne room as well. “Hey!” Twilight said excitedly.

“It's almost time for our vacation!” Rarity said excitedly with Twilight.

“I know. Can you believe it?” Applejack said in excitement.

“We got you a present!” Twilight said as she gave Applejack the box.

Applejack was confused. “Oh, but the vacation’s not 'til tomorrow, Sugarcube!” She said.

“I know, but you have to open it today, Darling!” Rarity said as she and Twilight wanted their friend to open it.

Applejack sighed. “Okay.” The farm mare opened it and saw that it was...

Okay, Rarity snapped first. “Okay! There you go! It's tickets to Las Pegasus!” She said excitedly.

Applejack was shocked and amazed. “Wow!” She said.

“And, that’s where we’re going to this weekend!” Twilight said as she gasped excitedly. “Oh gosh, it would be perfect, we get to see our pals, plus we get to start enjoying life in the big city without any friendship problems! We can call it our freindshipversary.”

Applejack didn’t know what to say at first. “Do we have to?” she finally asked. “This is great, but Rainbow, Spike and Starlight said they didn't want any of us out there.”

“Oh, Rainbow just doesn't want us to go through any trouble.” Pinkie said as she came in the room. “Think of how excited she and Spike’ll be when we go out and surprise them! Plus we get to have our own, ani-Vegas-ary! A-Friendship Anniversary!”

“Aw shoot.” Applejack gave in. “I reckon you’re right! I mean Rainbow and Spike won’t expect us to see them while they’re there, so I think it’ll work.”

“Well, I WAS planning on organizing my baking sheets today, but I’ll go with you guys!” Pinkie said, giving in as well.

“It's a great idea, Pinkie!” Twilight told her.

“Okay, I'm gonna go too!” Fluttershy said as well. “Yay!”

Cozy then came in as well. “Y'know Fluttershy, it's kinda your friendship anniversary.” She said as well.

“Oh please, you are not gonna ditch me again like you did with Our Town?” Fluttershy asked jokingly.

“Ditch you?” Twilight asked confused. “Fluttershy, you were wanting to play hoof ball with Big Mac and Spike!”

“Uh-huh, great story! I'm going!” Cozy said in agreement. Just then, they all heard a loud knock on the door. Twilight answered it.

“Barley and Pickle Barrel?!” Twilight asked in shock. “What are you doing here?”

“Oh, Princess Twilight!” Barley said to start.

“We got the invitation to Rainbow and Spike’s wedding!” Pickle finished.

“And, we thought it’d be great if we came, Don cha know!” Petunia said as she and the other Hope Hollow ponies came in as well.

“Mayor Skies? Hoofingtons? Moody Root?” Applejack asked in shock.

“Kerfluffle? Torque?” Rarity asked. “What are you doing here?!”

“We just wanted to tell you that this weekend, we're all gonna go to Las Pegasus to surprise Rainbow Dash and your friends, Spike and Starlight!” Kerfluffle said excitedly. “Including me!! You wanna go?!”

“Well, I guess I could take a couple days off school.” Cozy started to say.

“Of course you can take a couple days off school, Cozy! Because, this trip includes us!” Petunia told her.

Cozy got nervous again. “Oh no, wait a minute, wait, I've got a test coming up. I can't miss that.” She said nervously, which made everyone start to groan in disappointment.

“Oh, but I've got tickets for us to go to the Van Gogh exhibit!” Fluttershy said as she got out her tickets. “I've been waiting like a year for this.”

“Art lover!” Pinkie coughed.

Cozy wheeled around. “What'd you say?” she asked.

“I said art lover.” Pinkie said bluntly.

“Is that supposed to be an insult?” Fluttershy asked, not knowing if it was a compliment or an insult.

“I don't know, I'm very tired.” Pinkie said sarcastically as she yawned.

“So Torque, maybe you, Kerfluffle and I could fly out together Saturday.” Applejack suggested.

“That sounds great.” Torque said to her.

“Yeah?” Mr. Hoofington said. “All right we’ll call the hot air balloon station.”

They all later met up at the station and got on the balloon. “Thanks for keeping me company, Guys.” Twilight said with relief. “If you all weren't here, well, I don't know who I'd be talking to right now.“

But suddenly, Windrider and Stormy Flare landed on the ground in front of the others, and took off his as Windrider said with a laugh. "Eh, you'd be talkin' to me.”

“Windrider?” Applejack asked in surprise.

“Stormy Flare?” Pinkie and Cozy asked in shock. “Are you going to Las Pegasus too.”

Stormy and Windrider giggled “I guess you could say that.” He said. And then he explained. "Princess Twilight, Spitfire sent a message last night that she was sick. So, Soarin had to postpone their air show just to take care of her.”

"Oh, no! I hope Spitfire’s okay!" Twilight gasped. "I know I'd hate to hear one of my friends were sick."

"Yeah, we hope so too, and we feel the same way," Stormy Flare replied with a nod. "But in the meantime, we’re headed to Las Pegasus ourselves. We want to come to your friend’s wedding."

"L-Like, in the actual wedding?" Twilight asked, hoping she wasn't hearing things.

"Unless Spitfire gets well and unless otherwise, yes," Windrider replied firmly. "After all, with Spitfire away, and Stormy and I getting married soon, I decided to call the shots. So what we say goes.”

“So, what do you say?” Stormy asked with a seductive tone in her voice.

Twilight thought about it, and after a few minutes, her mind was made up. "We won't let you down, Windrider!" The alicorn firmly vowed, then spun up into the sky as she squealed in glee! "This is the best thing ever! Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!"

Then, as she performed a series of odd moves in mid-air, she said in a sing-song voice. "We’re gonna get to our friends’ wedding with Wind Rider and Stormy Flare, 'cause We’re the bestest and We’re awesome and they know it! Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh..."

"Uh...Twilight Sparkle?" Windrider called, as he and his fiancé were both unsure what to make of all this.

But Rarity just shushed the veteran and told him. "Let her have this, darling. It's not everyday you get to fly alongside your idols.”

And she was right. It wasn’t everyday she and her friends would go to someplace extravagant and fly...or ride with one of Rainbow Dash’s idols! She and her friends, along with another new couple, and the ponies of Hope Hollow were about to head out to the big casino in the sky to see some very important friends of theirs. And, they knew where they all were headed too! Las Pegasus was their next target to see their friends!

Author's Note

And, that’s all for this chapter! Boy, it took me a few days to write this one! But, it was worth it! Twilight and her friends are off to go see their 3 best friends get married! Also, their friends from Hope Hollow have come along for the ride as well! And, so are Windrider and Stormy Flare! What do you think will happen when they all arrive to see their friends before the big day...or rather big night, as they might get married around that time? Well, you’ll just have to wait and see until the next chapter! So, as usual, stay tuned!