The final bell bell rang and the students of CHS poured out of the various classrooms, ready to get to their various weekend plans. As the crowds of students in the hallway began to thin, Sunset came out of study hall. Making her way down the hall, she had a slight skip in her step, Rainbow had gotten permission from her parent to take her dad's crotch rocket out and had texted all of her friends, inviting them to join.

Wallflower walked out to the parking lot, a small smile on her face. She and Sunset had made plans for on going on another date. Her mom had given her the location of a theater that played old, notoriously bad movies, and the Saturday matinee double feature was showing Plan 9 from outer space and Them. Hearing her name being called, she looked over her shoulder, seeing six of the Rainbooms standing by or leaning on the plinth that once held the mascot of CHS, TJ the Wondercolt, the statue had been destroyed during the Friendship games. Rainbow was shouting her name and waving her over.

Once Wallflower walked over, Rainbow asked, "Hey Wally, you wanna come out to the airstrip with us? I'm bringin' my dad's crotch rocket, The Comet, AJ's gonna bring a couple of dirt bikes, Fluttershy's gonna bust out her folk's old Vespa, Rarity's gonna bring her mom's quad. And what was it you're bringing, Pinkie?"

"A suped-up velocipede that Mr. and Mrs. Cake has been helping me work on!", the chubby, pink-skinned girl with poofy hair, a darker shade of pink, said excitedly.

Wallflower didn't know what a velocipede was or why someone would supe it up. "I...uh...I...don't know. I've got homework and stuff tonight."

"Sunset's gonna be there.", Rainbow said, waggling her eyebrows.

Wallflower went to say something, but paused, unsure what to say. She drug the toe of her shoe across the concrete and kicked a few pebbles.

"You know you wanna come.", the rainbow-haired girl said, "Think about it, the wind in your hair, the scenery rushing by, the bugs in your teeth."

That last one wasn't very appealing to Wallflower. "I...uh...uh..." She felt a hand wrap around her waist as a hip bumped into hers.

"Hey there, sexy."

Wallflower nearly jumped out of her skin. Turning her head, she looked right into the light cyan eyes of Sunset.

"Rainbow, don't pressure Wally into doing something she doesn't want to do." Sunset kissed Wallflower on the cheek.

The green-skinned girl asked, her face and ears suddenly feeling hot. "I'll...uh...I'll...uh...go if you want me to."

"I'd love for you to come along, but only if you want to.", Sunset replied, "I'd feel bad knowing you were there and not having fun. If you wanna stay home, it's cool. I'll text ya when I get done hangin' out and I'll see ya tomorrow for our date."

All six girls gave a drawn-out love-dovey sigh and big doe eyes, except for Rainbow, who did the same as her friends, then immediately acted like she didn't.

Wallflower hemmed and hawed, unsure of what to say. Rosewater pulled up to the curb and stepped out of the car, she was dressed in her blue uniform. She walked around the front of the car, giving quick greetings to the seven girls. "Wallflower, I got called in for a double right as I was getting ready to head out the door." She placed the car keys in her daughter's hand. "I won't be home until the morning. There's plenty of leftovers in the fridge and I've left some cash in the kitchen drawer, you know the one, in case you want to order a pizza or two. If you decide to invite your friends over, just keep the noise down to slightly less than a jet engine, and if it's just you and Sunset, I just ask that you two keep your clothes on. Mr. Magnet will peek in to make sure everything's okay. Biscuit will be picking me up in about ten minutes."

"Um...mom? The girls have invited me to go out to the old airstrip and ride bikes with them. Is it okay if I go with them?"

Rosie smiled. She, like the rest of the cops in OHPD, she knew about the old airstrip. It was once an Air Force base that shut down in the early nineties, Celestia and Luna had bought it shortly after they started working at CHS, the former as a guidance counselor, and the latter as a metal shop teacher, to give the kids somewhere they could race their cars and whatnot in a safer environment than the streets. Cops drove by there regularly to make sure the kids who gathered out there weren't hurt or drinking and whatnot. "As long as you were a helmet and be safe."

"Dun worry 'bout that none!", Applejack said, "Ah'll toss a couple'a extra helmets an' a couple'a ol' leather jackets in th' bed o' th' truck."

Rosie gave a satisfied grunt and nod. "Alright the, be safe. I'll see you in the morning before you go off to school, and if you need me for anything, no matter how small, give me a call." She gave her daughter a hug and bid the seven other girls goodbye, then headed to the road.

Sunset and Wallflower climbed into the car together as the other girls made went their separate ways. "So, you got the house all to yourself?", Sunset asked as Wallflower put the keys in the ignition.

Wallflower said nothing and placed her hand on the back of Sunset's. She let her fingers creep across the amber-skinned girl's hand and wrist until she made her way to her girlfriend's thigh. Her palm and fingers slid across Sunset's thigh and gripped the inside. The two girls, their brains running on autopilot as passion and teenage hormones took control, leaned towards each other. Lips met and tongues swirled in a dance of passion. Fingers crept across bodies to touch supple flesh. Muffled moans came out of their mouths. A loud knock on the window snapped the two girls out of their make-out session. Looking over, they saw Luna with her signature scowl on her face. The dark blue-skinned woman pointed to the school gates. The two girls sheepishly smiled and nodded. After the car holding Sunset and Wallflower drove off, Luna couldn't help but give a small chuckle as she remembered what it was like to be young.

Wallflower stared at the strange two-wheeled object with an oversized front wheel, Pinkie sat atop a small seat, behind a pair of small handlebars, the forks of which extended down to the front axle, balancing herself and the archaic two-wheeler under her as she pedaled back and forth. Wallflower had seen pictures of similar vehicles in history books, just none with neon lights strapped to the side and an electric engine attached to the front wheel. "So that's a velocipede, huh? And that's how you supe one up?"

"Yup and yup!", Pinkie replied.

"Uh...how do you recharge the engine?"

Pinkie attached a couple of pinwheels to the engine. "Wind power!"

Wallflower swore she heard the grinding of gears and smelled burning rubber as she tried to wrap her head around that.

"It's Pinkie being Pinkie.", Sunset said, laying a hand on Wallflower's shoulder, "Just remember that mantra when you see her do anything that seems out of place. It'll help with your mental health."

Pinkie, having finished attaching the two pinwheels to the electric engine, pulled a helmet that looked like a cupcake and a pair of goggles, seemingly from nowhere. After attaching the goggles and helmet to their proper places, she reached down and flipped a switch on the engine. "Alright everybody! Maiden drive of the Cupcake Flier!" The front wheel began spinning around faster and faster, sending up a cloud of white smoke into the air, despite there being no rubber tire on it. The velocipede lurched forward like it was going to speed off at a high rate of speed, then began to creep forward slowly, before it suddenly zipped backwards, leaving neon-colored light hanging in the air.

"Huh, that's diff'rent.", Applejack said as she walked forward and tapped a knuckle on the solid light.

With a crackle and a pop, Pinkie reappeared, still atop the velocipede, though she was wearing bright blue speed suit she wasn't wearing a few seconds before, several patches in the likenesses of various baked goods sewn to it, though the helmet and goggles were the same. Pulling off her helmet, her hair was stuck forward in a stiff windblown style. Hopping off the seat, she walked over to the electric engine. "There's the problem, it was on backwards!" She pulled a screw driver from her hair and started taking the electric engine off. Noticing Wallflower's confused stare, she said with a smile, "What? The author felt this story was a liiiiiiiiiiiitle too serious, so he decided to add in a little humor."

"Bu...no...uh..." Wallflower.exe has encountered a critical error and needs to shutdown.

***

Abacus Cinch had fallen off the wagon, hard. Though she managed to keep herself from drinking herself into a stupor while the students of Crystal Prep were still in, once the last one had left the school for the weekend, she had tore into the fifth of cheap gin she had in the bottom drawer of the desk. Though Blueblood had tried to get into her head, that wasn't what had gotten her rattled. Today was the birthday of her daughter she gave up so many years ago.

Cinch held in her hand, the picture of her newborn daughter the doctor had snapped for records, the baby had red and blonde-striped hair, and a newspaper clipping of an article that had the same girl, aged seven, who had been killed in a hit-and-run. For years she had kept it a secret, only telling Blueblood once she had a secret daughter when he had put enough booze into her. One thing she never told him or anyone else was that the father was Sombra, former head-principal of Crystal Prep and Blueblood's stepfather. She had held herself together for years until the Friendship Games last year, when she laid eyes the girl named Sunset Shimmer, who was the spiriting image of her daughter she gave up all those years ago, that was when she began drinking heavier.

"Hhhhhhaappy birshday, little Annette.", Cinch slurred, grabbing the bottle of cheap gin and downed the remaining half. She wobbled back and forth behind the desk, her vision became even more blurry and unfocused as she began losing motor control. Her stomach felt like it was doing the lambada. When her esophagus suddenly felt like it suddenly got shorter, she went to get up and hurry to the bathroom, her legs seemed to forget how to work and she collapsed, falling face down onto the floor. Unconsciousness quickly overcame her as her stomach heaved. On the desk, her cellphone rang.

Doctor Pavlovian Response walked through the front door of Crystal Prep. A scowl had spread on his face as he put his cellphone away in a jacket pocket. He hurried over to a custodian. "Excuse me, do you know where I can find Abacus Cinch? I've been trying to get a hold of her, but she's not answering her phone." The custodian pointed him to the office.

Pavlovian gave the custodian a halfhearted thanks and walked to the principal's office. Looking through the window in the door, he didn't see Abacus Cinch, but he did see an empty gin bottle laying on its side on the desk. Cursing under his breath, he pushed the door open, the combined scents of cheap booze, urine and vomit assailed his nostrils. Hurrying around the desk he found Cinch face down in a slowly expanding puddle of vomit. "Abacus!" He bent down to wake her, but found her unresponsive. Turning her face to the side, he checked her breathing and gave a sigh of relief, she was alive for now. Calling nine-one-one, he reported Cinch as having alcohol poisoning and unresponsive when the operator picked up the line.

***

Sunset sat astride the Comet, Rainbow Dash's dad's motorcycle. Nothing made her feel more like all that is woman than to have a machine that had ridiculous amounts of power and speed between her legs, currently the green-skinned girl with brown eyes had wrapped her arms around her waist tightly added to the feeling. Raising the visor on the helmet, she looked over her shoulder and spoke up, "You ready babe?" Wallflower nodded, though Sunset couldn't see her face under the helmet and visor, she assumed that her girlfriend was smiling. "Okay, hang on tight. We're about to tear ten kinds of ass!" Sunset lowered the helmet visor, turned the key and revved the engine several times. Kicking the motorcycle into gear, the crotch rocket sped down the strip of blacktop.

"Woooooooooooo!", Sunset heard shout from the seat behind her as she opened up the throttle on motorcycle.

Throughout the afternoon the eight girls drove their various two and four-wheeled vehicles down and around the airstrip. As the shadows began to lengthen, the girls began to load up the vehicles onto the various trailers. At the front of the pickup truck, the girls caught Rainbow leaning against AJ, the latter had her arms wrapped around the former's waist.

The girls let loose several teasing 'awws' and lovey-dovey coos.

The farm girl's and the athlete's necks and faces both went beet red.

For half an hour there were rounds of friendly jabs and teasing being passed back and forth between the eight friends before they all loaded up in their respective rides to go home.

Wallflower and Sunset sat in the front seat of the car as they drove to Wallflower's house. Stopping at a red light, the two girls' mouths interlocked as hands went under shirts seeking out the other's flesh. The loud honking of a car behind them snapped the two girls out of their make-out session. The driver passed them and shouted something unintelligible, while shaking their fist at the two girls.

Sunset and Wallflower pulled into the driveway of Wallflower's house. After pulling under the carport, they both got out of the car. "Why hello there flower-girl!", an effeminate man's voice called out. A purple-skinned man with perfectly coiffed blonde hair and a freshly waxed blonde mustache leaned his tall, lean form against the fence, a long black cigarette holder clutched in a manicured hand.

"Hey there, Mr. Magnet.", Wallflower said.

"Who's your friend?", Steven Magnet asked, giving a knowing grin.

"Sunset Shimmer.", Sunset replied extending a hand, "You must be Mr. Magnet."

Steven Magnet took Sunset's hand in a surprisingly firm grip. "Charmed, and Mr. Magnet is my father, my friends call me Steven."

"Nice to meetcha Mr...er...Steven."

"I'll let you two get back to what you're doing. Just don't get too loud." Steven Magnet leaned away from the fence with a cheeky grin on his face and began walking to his house. He paused and turned back for a moment. "If either of you need me for anything, I'll be right next door. Oh, and flower-girl, I'll pop by in about two hours to check in on you two. If you're going to be preoccupied at that time, make sure you've got a sock on the bedroom doorknob so I don't walk in on anything personal."

Sunset watched as Steven Magnet walked into his house. Her eyes traced along his front yard, following the water as it flowed from the small fountain, through a shallow marble trough that wove through the yard like a miniature river to a small reservoir where it was cycled through again. She felt a tug on her upper arm. Turning back to her girlfriend, Wallflower aggressively kissed her. Sunset was initially caught off guard by Wallflower's aggressiveness, as the green-skinned girl's tongue forced it way in her mouth, but she quickly recovered.

The two girls' tongues swirled around each other in a dance of passion as they pressed their bodies together. Closing the carport door behind them, the two girls rolled along the wall, aggressively making-out. Sunset pinned Wallflower against the wall, breaking from the make-out session to catch her breath and give her girlfriend the same chance to breath.

Sunset and Wallflower panted as they stared into each other's eyes. Leaning forward, the two girls' mouths met in a new battle of passion, green and amber hands found their ways under shirts to grasp at the flesh underneath. Wallflower pushed Sunset away momentarily, grasped the tail of her shirt in her hands and pulled it up over her head. Sunset took in her girlfriend's fuller figure and larger breasts, contained by a beige brassier. She leaned forwards and planted line of kisses, starting at Wallflower's throat, tracing down to the cleft between her girlfriend's breasts. Wallflower let out a string of coos and moans. Leaning back from kissing her girlfriend's body, Sunset grasped the tail of her shirt and pulled it up over her head, revealing her leaner form and smaller breasts contained in a lacy red bra.

Wallflower grabbed Sunset by the wrist and drug her to the bedroom. The two girls' bodies intertwined as they made out. Shoes, socks and pants were hastily pulled off, until the two were left in only their bras and panties.

Sunset paused for a moment as she felt a familiar tingle across her skin...Equestrian magic. 'I never thought that having someone so close to my body could make feel so good!' Sunset swore she could hear her girlfriend's voice. "Babe, are you okay?"

Wallflower looked up into Sunset's eyes."Yeah." Please don't stop!

Sunset leaned back and shook her head to clear it.

A concerned look spread on Wallflower's face. "What's the matter, Sunny?"I bet she's disgusted in how I look. I'm an ugly, fat whore! She wrapped her arms around her body, suddenly feeling self-conscious.

"I don't think you're ugly, fat or a whore."

Wallflower's eyes went wide. "I...uh...I didn't say that." Oh crap! Can she hear my thoughts! Is she listening now! Shit! She can hear me?! Dah-duh-duh-duh-dun-duuuuun!

"You don't have to yell. I can't hear your thoughts, I think."

"I never said anything about you hearing my thoughts. And-and I wasn't yelling."

This time it was Sunset's turn for her eyes to go wide. "Then there's some Equestrian magic floating around. It's a strong source, though not as strong as what happened at the Friendship Games. It's probably a rogue portal. I'll get a hold of Twilight and the other girls to find and close it." She pushed herself up from the bed and her eyes landed on a grey stone with odd runes carved into it. Picking up the stone, she began looking it over. Her eyes went wide again."Babe, where did you find this?"

"I found it in the woods by CHS, buried between three big rocks with similar stuff carved into them. I thought it was something put there by the natives a long time ago."

"At least you didn't figure out how to use it."

Wallflower hung her head, letting her dark green tresses hang over her face. "I...uh...figured out how to use it."

"Well that's good...waitaminit...you figured out to use it?!"

Wallflower suddenly felt very ashamed and hung her head. *hsnf* "Yes" Tears leaked down her cheeks.

Sunset placed the stone on the nightstand by the bed and wrapped Wallflower in a hug. "I'm not upset or mad or anything, Wally. I'm concerned, magical artifacts can be dangerous in the hands of those who don't know how to use them properly. I know from personal experience."

The two girls put their clothes back on and Wallflower showed Sunset the odd cloth it was wrapped in when she found it.

Sunset was a bit rusty with her ancient Equestrian, but she was still able to interpret the writings. "I cannot remember where I came from originally, only that this world isn't mine. My name is Clover and I leave this here with this warning in the event that someone finds it in the hopes they never use it. In my dreams I see a pony with with light fur, blue eyes and light green hair, she is sitting on the ground holding a pair of fillies, one with white fur and a pink make, the other with dark blue fur and a light blue mane. I think they might have been my wife and children, but I cannot remember their names, only the feelings of love. I curse the day I came into possession of this stone. I know my name is Clover and that I'm a pony, but little else. The beings who live here have taken me in. I will bury this cursed rock and have some boulders erected around it in the hopes that it will keep any other beings away. I will also bury this scrap of my cloak with it in the hopes it gets back to those who loved me. My name is Clover. Please remember me, my homeland, for I cannot remember you."

Sunset, after finishing interpreting the words, looked up. "Clover, Clover, Clover. Why does that name sound so familiar?", she said softly to herself. Her eyes went wide with sudden realization. "Clover the Clever!" Looking around, she snatched her shirt off and wrapped it around the stone. "We need to send this to Equestria! It affects the memories of anyone who messes with it."

"I know." Wallflower said, "I figured it out not long after I found it. At first I used it to erase awkward moments and uncomfortable conversations. Then *hsnf* things got bad. *hsnf* After Long Pass a-an...", tears began trickling down her cheeks, "I had planned on using it one last time to erase myself from everyone's mind right before I tried to kill myself, but *hsnf* I m-met y-you and f-f-fell for--" She buried her face in her hands and began to cry.

Sunset wrapped Wallflower in a tight hug. Tear stung her eyes as she held her weeping girlfriend.

After a hour of the two holding each other, the silence only broken by the occasional sniffle, Wallflower spoke up, "Sunny, how could you hear my thoughts?"

I guess it's time I finally come clean with my last dark dark secret. "When I was still Princess Celestia's personal student, my specialty was mind magic, specifically telepathy and empathy.", Sunset said, "I think I need to get everyone over here and come clean about something."

***

Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Sci-Twi, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie sat on the couch across from Sunset, who was wearing one of Wallflower's spare shirts, though it was a bit too big for her. Wallflower sat next to Sunset, holding her hand for support.

"Okay, I have something I need to get off of my chest. Something I kept as a secret. You all know that I'm a unicorn and that I was the personal student of Princess Celestia." Sunset took a breath and continued."My specialization was in telepathic and epmathic magic. That means I could, to a limited degree, read a person's or pony's thoughts and feelings. On this side of the portal it was diminished, but not completely gone and if I concentrated, I could use it to get a better read on someone's feelings, to better manipulate them. Between putting on the Element of Magic, turning into a demon and getting blasted by the Rainbow of Light, I though my special talents were stripped from me."

"So lemme get this straight, before Princess Twilight came through the first time an' we all hit ya with th' rainbow beam, you were mind controllin' th' school?", Applejack asked, leaning forward.

"Not mind controlling, just using what I had to understand better which buttons to push." Sunset hung her head in shame. "I should have come clean sooner. Can you forgive me for keeping it a secret?"

"You saved me from myself when what happened at the Friendship Games, so I think I can forgive you wanting to keep a secret from before I knew you."

"P'shaw, darling. There's nothing to forgive, especially after Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom and Scootaloo had convinced us with that fake MyStable account that you were up to your old ways and then you forgave us."

"Ah get it, sugarcube. Ya weren't 'specially proud o' yer past an' what ya did, but there ain't nuthin' ta forgive."

"You helped us fight off those totally lame sirens and helped save the world at the Friendship Games. In my book that makes you nearly as awesome as me."

"You...um...may have started out as a total meanie, but now you're super nice. The critters at the shelter all like you and they don't like just anyone. Besides, we're friends through and through, and it wouldn't be very nice if we held it against you."

"Nobody smiles bigger or more genuine than you! Like Grammy Pinkie always said, 'If someone comes to asking for forgiveness, you give it to them, then you throw them a big party.'"

Sunset and Wallflower found themselves in a group hug, the latter squeaked in surprise before settling into it.

After breaking from the group hug, Sunset told them about the stone and the message on the scrap of cloth. "This a highly dangerous artifact that could cause real harm if it fell into the wrong hands." She shuddered at the memory of her turning into a demon and mind-controlling the student body. "We need to send this back through the portal before it can cause some serious harm. Though being in proximity allowed me to hear Wallflower's surface thoughts. When I write Princess Twilight, I'll tell her about it allowing me to use my special talent. Maybe she can help figure out how to better control my special talent, we might be able to help the other girls who have been hurt by Long Pass and his fuck-heads."

Quick murmurs of agreement went back and forth between all eight girls. Sunset snatched up the still wrapped-up stone and tossed it into an old shoebox. All eight girls loaded up into two cars and began driving to CHS. As the box holding the wrapped-up stone sat in the floorboard of the car, all the girls tried to keep as far from it as possible, like it was a nuclear device that had a hair trigger. Sunset quickly scribbled down a message to Princess Twilight in the journal as the two cars drove quickly to CHS, fortunately they didn't run into any cops along the way.

Stopping at a red light, the journal began to glow and buzz. Sunset opened it and began to read the reply.

By Celestia's snowy flanks! You were fortunate to find such a dangerous artifact before it fell into the wrong hooves! I was in Canterlot tending to some business when the message came through. Fortunately Spike was at the castle taking care of a few things when he noticed the journal and sent it to me by dragon fire. Once Princesses Celestia and Luna saw the message, they went to a secret restricted area. There they found and brought an ancient journal by Clover the Clever. That artifact is called the memory Stone that was created by a sorceress using dark, forbidden magic. When used, it erases memories. Princesses Celestia, Luna and I shall be waiting on your side of the portal for you and your friends.

Sunset's eyes went wide reading the message. She shouted in an excited and slightly panicked tone, "Wally! Call your mom and tell her that Equestrian royalty will be waiting at the school! They'll probably need an escort as I don't think they'll fit into either of our cars. Rainbow, call Rarity's phone and tell her what's going down! I'll call Principal Luna and Dr. Cadance and tell them what's going down!"

Wallflower pulled out her phone and called her mom. After a short, but very energetic conversation, she ended the call and put her phone in her pocket. "Mom said to pull over at the gas station. We're going to receive an escort."

***

The three Equestrian princesses were standing by the plinth that contained the portal with a full compliment of guards. Princess Twilight was helping the guards get better situated to a bipedal form when a dozen police cars pulled up. Out stepped two dozen One Horse police officers in dress uniforms. Three more police cars drove up escorting two civilian cars.

"Well it looks like they sent out their guards to greet us.", Princess Celestia said.

"Those aren't guards. They're police.", Princess Twilight said.

Princesses Celestia and Luna looked at Princess Twilight. "Pardon?"

"You know, they're kinda like constables."

Sunset, Wallflower, Sci-Twi, Rainbow, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie got out of their cars. "Princess Celestia!", Sunset shouted as she ran over to the solar princess and threw herself onto the solar princess, hugging her, whom returned the hug. Parting from the hug, she curled her hands into facsimiles of hooves, dropped to her knees, extended her left arm forward and bowed before the princesses in proper Equestrian fashion.

"Rise Sunset Shimmer.", Princess Celestia said in an even, regal tone.

The other six girls, initially stunned by Sunset running over to to the two women who looked like cross between mythical amazons and goddesses, dressed like they were plucked from bronze-age Greece and dropped into modern times, along with a familiar purple princess, who was dressed in a manner similar to modern royalty. The six girls stopped in front of the princesses, just behind Sunset. Rarity curtsied, Applejack took off her stetson and lowered her head, Rainbow bowed like she was in a karate dojo, Fluttershy did a combination curtsy-bow, Sci-Twi placed one hand on her stomach and the other on her lower back and did a formal bow, Wallflower, clutching the shoebox, stood there uncomfortably, Pinkie had a huge smile on her face as she pulled a tray of cupcakes seemingly from this air.

"I-I-I-P-P-P-uh..." Sunset tried to speak, but found that she forgot how to make words.

"Just breathe, Sunset.", Princess Celestia said.

Sunset took a few deep breaths and cleared her throat. "Princess Celestia, we have recovered an ancient and potentially dangerous artifact from Equestria's history. We surrender it to your possession so that it may be contained so that it cannot harm none." She gestured for the box to be brought up.

Wallflower, trembling like a leaf, walked up and held the box out.

"Peace be upon you, my little human.", Princesses Celestia said in a gentle tone,"You have nothing to fear from me." She pulled the lit from the box to look at its contents.

"I'm-uh I'm sorry that we had to use an old shoebox. We didn't have any silver wire and lead plates to make a proper containment box.", Sunset said.

Princess Celestia smiled at her former student and the green-skinned girl. "You did the right thing by limiting exposure." She picked through the contents of the box and pulled out the scrap of cloth holding the writing. The Equestrian princess read the message on the cloth, tears welled up in her eyes and she turned to her sister. "Luna, we now have closure on what happened to father."

"Father?!", Sunset and Princess Twilight said at the same time.

The two high pony princesses in human form read over the scrap of cloth, tears shimmering in their eyes. "Yes, Clover the Clever was our father, and his wife, our mother, was Smart Cookie.", Princess Celestia replied. If Sunset and Princess Twilight could have made sounds like broken computers, they would have. "Mother searched high and low for years trying to find some scrap of information on what happened to him until her dying days.", the elder pony princess continued, "After Starswirl mentioned the portal and how he and his fellow pillars had used it to banish dangerous creatures through it, Luna and I took a few excursions through looking for any signs of what happened to him. Unfortunately the portal on both sides moved around, until it was anchored into a mirror. It appears that after we anchored it, it wound up anchored on this side too."

As Sunset was taking this all in, several more cars pulled up.

Principal Luna stepped out of her car, as did Vice-principal Dr. Cadance and they mayor, Mrs. Mare. Out of the other cars stepped men and women wearing black suits and dark sunglasses. One of the people wearing dark suits opened the door on a car and out stepped a woman wearing a charcoal gray pantsuit, the out-of-place strands of hair in her bun indicated that she had been hastily roused from her sleep and she had just as hastily gotten herself prepared for the impromptu meeting with inter-dimensional royalty.

The three princesses took this in before the eldest turned back. "Before we are whisked off to a meeting with the United States government again, I'd like to see where this was found. Pray-tell, which one of you discovered this artifact?"

"Uh...th-that would be me.", Wallflower said meekly.

The woman, surrounded by people in dark suits walked up. "Princesses Celestia, Luna and uh..."

"Princess Twilight Sparkle.", Princess Twilight replied.

"Right, Princess Twilight. May I ask what the nature of your visit to our country entails?"

Princess Celestia smiled. "Why of course, miss Marigold Bloom. We were made aware of a powerful magical and the possible resting place of a pony of significant importance to Equestrian history. We came to retrieve the object and inspect where it was found, to confirm that it is their final resting place."

"And if this is the individual's place where their remains are housed?"

"We'd like to place a marker so that when Equestrians travel here,they can pay their respects."

"And if there's no remains to be found?"

"We'd still like to place a marker so that our little ponies can pay their respects."

Marigold Bloom nodded her head. "Very well, it shall be as a symbol of friendship between our two worlds, Besides, the potions you gifted the U.N. have heads of our best scientists and doctors bubbling with new treatments and cures for diseases that have plagued mankind since the dawn of time."

Princess Celestia smiled at the mention of potions being used to cure diseases. She turned her attention to Wallflower. "I'm sorry, in all the commotion, I forgot your name."

Wallflower dug her toe in the dirt, feeling very self-conscious, until her mother came up from behind and gave her a nudge. She jumped slightly. "Oh! Um...my name's Wallflower...Wallflower Blush...your highness." She gave a slight curtsy.

"Very well, miss Wallflower, would you please escort me to where you found the artifact?", Princess Celestia asked.

As they walked in uncomfortable silence, the solar princess leaned down and whispered in to Wallflower's ear, "So, do you prefer to be called Wallflower Blush or Wallflower Wallflower Blush?"

Wallflower looked over at the white-skinned, amazonian-looking woman with hair that flowedon a breeze that wasn't there the color of a pastel rainbow giving a cheeky grin. "Uh...just the one Wallflower is fine."

Princess Celestia leaned down and whispered into Sunset's ear, "I can see why you've chosen to stay here,my former student. She is quite a handsome mare. So when are you planning to marry her, and would you want me to officiate the ceremony?"

If Sunset had been drinking anything, she would have done a spit-take right then and there, instead she opted to choke on air. After her body figured out that there was nothing solid in the air to choke on, she replied, "I think it's a little early to think about marriage, we've only been dating for a couple of months."

***

After the former resting place of the Memory Stone had been inspected and all parties had gathered at the front of the school by the plinth, Princesses Luna and Twilight went back through the portal, Memory Stone in tow, Princess Celestia opted to stay behind to allay the mind of the United States and a few other governments' that Equestria wasn't showing any favoritism to one country or another.

As a limousine was pulled up, the solar princess turned to the mayor. "I'm curious about something, miss Mare. The school is called Canterlot High School, but the city is called One Horse, may I ask of the history as to why it's called as such?"

Mayor Mare smiled at the visiting Equestrian princess. "Of course, your highness. One Horse was once six cities that slowly grew together, Canterlot City, Crystalville, Williamsburg, Diamondton, Griff and Road Apples. Over time no one could remember or even agree where the five city limits began, ended, or even where they exactly were. About eighty years ago, the five city councils decided to incorporate, but no one could agree on a name, so they agreed to leave it up to a local election to decide on a name. Someone decided as a practical joke, to slip the name One Horse into the ballot, you know, as the idiom one horse town, meaning a small, insignificant, bump-in-the-road town in the middle of nowhere. It wound up being the name that one,and as they say, history was made. Honestly, as stupid as that sounds, it's not as stupid as how the town Arad, Alabama got its name."

Princess Celestia gave a bell-like giggle. "You'll have to tell me the story of that one."

"The town was originally called Arab, but when they had a new sign made, the people who made it accidentally swapped the B for a D. Instead of sending the sign back and saying,'Hey, you misspelled the name of our town. Get it right or we'll sue.', they decided to just change the name of the town from Arab to Arad."

Princess Celestia guffawed at that. "Is that true?"

Mayor Mare simply shrugged and made the 'I don't know' sound. "That's the way I've always heard it."

***

Blueblood woke up in his bedroom and turned on the radio. He paused in his morning routine, hearing the reporter talking about the surprise visit by a Equestrian princess and how she was currently meeting with U.S. President Theisman, Canadian prime minister Candace "Candy" Rocs, and United Kingdom prime minister Pipsqueak. He spat curses, some of which may have been in dead languages, as he quickly got dressed.

Blueblood rushed out of his manor and to his car. He had some choice words he was going to scream in the faces of anyone and everyone at the local One Horse state department office for not alerting him of a foreign dignitary showing up in his town. He slipped the key into the ignition, turned it and the car, instead of cranking up, instead made an ungodly whining sound. "Oh come on!", he screamed at the top of his lungs. "Fucking! Piece! Of! Shit! Fuck! Fuck! Shit! Ass! Cocksucker!", he screamed, slamming his hands on the steering wheel with each syllable.

Suddenly the radio made a horrible screeching sound."Click. This just in, Blueblood stuck at his house because Kay-Kay and Moony don't want to talk to him."

Blueblood recognized the voice and glared at the radio."Scratch! I don't know how you're doing this, but you're dead! Everyone you've ever known, dead! The guy you buy coffee from in the morning, dead! Everyone at the restaurant you occasionally buy burgers from, dead! The little old lady you stopped to say hello to once, dead!"

"And now an announcement from our sponsor.", the "broadcast" changed to a commercial with Mr. Scratch speaking in a stilted tone as cheesy music played., "I'm a patient creature, Blueblood. Keep on this path and when Kay-Kay and Moony come for you, I'll be waiting for you at the end of that path. I think you humans say it best, 'fuck around and find out.'", the "broadcast" changed again, "We interrupt the word from our sponsors. We have a bit of news breaking. It appears that smoke has been spotted in the direction of Blueblood's car engine. Click."

Blueblood's car made a strange coughing sputter, a moment later black smoke and white steam poured out from under the hood. Blueblood stepped out of his car, raised his fists to the sky and let out a scream of rage and frustration.

Author's Note

This story is getting close to ending. Just another 3 chapters or so, unless something changes.

Thank you all for reading.I hope you all enjoy.

Comments, questions and criticisms are appreciated.