Starlight is a crybaby

«We need to go to the Castle! This is the biggest discovery of the century!» said the overjoyed Mega Volt. His eyes were bulging out while he and his friends were running around the destroyed town, buried under meters of mud and trees.

«Yea, yea, we remember, Volty, but there is so much more than just the castle! This is the place where all the cool stuff were made! Like - we can find the legendary places like the School for the Unicorn Prodigies under the patronage of Celestial the Holy!» said Qucker Jack, while blowing on some old signs.

«Or the Bakery Street under the name of Luna the Restless!»addedBanana Brains, while trying to guide them using some semblance of the old map in the book, that deffinetly wasn't accurate, but was better then absolutely nothing. By the legends after Luna the Restless came back - Celestial the Holy gifted her the street as a welcome-back gift. This place later was know as the birthplace of one of the greatest bakers Canterlot has ever seen. Some even speculate that after restirment Princess Luna might've had a secret house on this street, but it was never confirmed.

«Or the Auction House!» added Quacker Jack, while running into some old caffe, looking around like a little colt on his birthday...which wasn't that far from the truth. Only his birthday was in about a month or so.

«Or Royal Archives and Library,» continued Banana Brains, while imagining all these places.

«Or Canterlot's Carousel owned by Rarity the Generous!» added Quacker Jack, while coming back to Banana Brains and hugging her with one hoof, imagining all those pace, while listing them, already forgetting that they were saying all of that for Mega Volt

«Or the Art Gallery!» saidBanana Brains, while Mega Volt just signed and came into the caffe Quacker Jack just came out of, starting to screw out the light bulbs to see if they were still functional and how they were made. The technology of this time was fascinating to him, especially in his own field.

«Or the Pegasai station for flying sports!»saidthe colorful Pegasus, while flaming his small wings.

«Or Joe's Donnut Shop!» said excited little filly while looking through her book.

«Yea,or-wha?» suddenly stopped the exited kid, turning around and looking at his friend with a confused expression, «why would we care about some old donut shop that must predate the birth of Discord with it's age?»

«Did you even open your history book?» slowly turned her head equally confused Banana Brains. «...whistle non-suspiciously -...argh,Joe's donnut shop, from some sources, is said to be the favorite donnut shop of the Princess of Friendship!» said the little filly, while opening one of the pages with the biography of her idol-pony.

«...Erm, ah, yea! Oh, yea, THAAATS Joe's donnut shop! Yea, I, eh, deffinetly knew about that...» said Qucker Jack, while backing away to hide his embarrassment. Showing himself like an idiot before his friends...at least not intentionally was really embarrassing!

«Ah,you mean this pace?» the earth-pony and an extravagant pegasai turned around, to see Mega Volt lifting pieces of the old sign. The paint was gone long ago, but the outline of the letter's "JOE'S" and the circle that resembled the donnut shop was still there.

«...EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!» Banana Brains couldn't help herself. She started playfully jumping towards the entrance to the shop. Now all three of them were inside. Quacker Jack was looking for any fun-looking stuff, but mostly found some very old coins, which he stored securely in his backpack. Mega Volt was spewing out any electronic he could find and was directing it with his screwdriver while writing some stuff down and mumbling in the creative frenzy. But the most lucky one was Banana Brains. She found an old safe, which opened form a casual kick from her backhoofs,and opened to her the treasure of this place...The cookbook from Joe's donuts!And,most importantly - the pages were saved by the plastic bag it was secured in,so the book was in perfect condition! After that the search throughout the rounds was going even more energetically.

The library was the easiest to find. Mega Volt spotted it really quickly and brought his friends along like a bulldozer, and while Bana Brains had fun looking at some of the books, and Mega Volt loved this place, the only way to entertain himself that Quacker Jack found - is to sleep with a book covering his face. Not a small part of the reasoning for his boredom was the fact that most of the books were rotten. At the end Mega Volt collected some old interesting book on diffirent themes, while the others just gone off while he was busy, wishing to find something more exciting. The next place they found was the Art gallery. While Banana Brains was collecting the art that she liked after dusting it off - Mega Volt was collecting the electronics he could find as they most likely cost a ton after all those years. Quacker Jack on the other hoof was holding a painting until his friends - and pierced it with his head, scaring two fillies and having to dodge a painting and an old radio for that. But he still thought it was a fair tradeoff, because he had fun.

Next was the Auction House. Unfortunately it was mostly destroyed and they couldn't find much of anything, but Quacker Jack secretly found an old War-Horn and the Party Cannon that belonged to the Pinkie the Eternally Joyful. He tried sneaking it...but he couldn't. The others found it and he couldn't convince them that "this is just the artifact of the past!".No one was stupid enough to belive it wasn't to annoy them in the future.So Jack had to leave it...for now.

On the way to the just-found boutique Carousel - they noticed a big tower, leaning on another building. Even thou it was dangerous - Quacker Jack convinced them to explore, because "how can Tower NOT have anything interesting?!", which was an impenetrable logic in the eyes of the foals...

There was absolutely nothing interesting. There was only more book and the diary of some "Moondancer" pony. Mega Volt tried convince them to read what she had here, but was dragged out by the hoofs with the combined forces of the other two fillies.

«What a waste of time,eh?» asked Quacker Jack, while the Mega Volt was crying, limply being dragged along the ground.

«Yea, what in tartarus? In all the fairy tails Towers always belong to someone cool, why are there only books! We have library for this stuff!» agreed Banana Brains.

«Disappointment. Let's go see if some dresses from the Carousel are still in tact!»

After that the three fillies were gone to the boutique. Unfortunately - all of the dresses were destroyed. Not a single one left. That was heartbreaking, as the two foals expected to find something extraordinary that belonged to one of the legendary Elements of Harmony. But while fooling around and swinging from the sealing lamp out of boredome and disappointment - Quacker Jack accidentally broke a locked cabin.

«...well that's one way to replace the lock picks,» said Banana Brains, barely containing her laugh. But the importance of this,wasthat the unfortunate and bored colt noticed - one of the pieces of the paper that landed on his face. Surprisingly - the paper was almost perfect, because it was laminated. Andtherewas the designs. And it had the thing that was a proof of who was the creator - the sign-off form the Rarity herself! Quacker Jack after that started flaunting that he was the one who found it and how they should try getting lucky themselves. He collected all of them, while the other two were envious... but eventually he gave them some of the drawings of the dresses, because he feltnice today.

The next on list was the Pegasai school for Flying sports. And at that moment Quacker Jack remembered about his camera-cap, so this was the best fun they had here yet. Quacker Jack deffinelty didn't like the colors of their uniform, so with a little spray-pain he made a costume that was more his style and started posing for Banana Brains. He also made a couple laps on the course and had the others try the uniform as well. They even accidentally found a trophy with the signing of the Princess Celesfia the Holy herself! All three of them knew they wouldn't leave it here,so Quacker Jack now had a trophy which he put his name on with a marker,feeling proud of himself.

The next place they have gone to was Celestia's school for Unicorn Prodigies. Surprisingly - the one who enjoyed it the most was Banana Brains. And that way she was pissing Mega Volt off. How could he know that when he would be convincing them to go there - Quacker Jack would find a rock that looked almost exactly like his horn,vand give it to Banana Brian's,vwho likes parodying voices? For the next two hours where Mega Volt was begging Discord to take these idiots away - Quacker Jack were playing out a scene where Celestia was giving him a reward for being the "Dorkiest, most boring, stuck-up, clingy, adorkable nerd to ever bore everyone's lives in all of Equus". And to his demise - there wasn't even any technology or artifacts left. Only the trophies of the students, which Quacker Jack, a Daring Doo lover, immidietly desided to "save for his successors". And the argument that Pegasus can't have a unicorn childwith another pegasus was landing on a deaf ear.

On their way to the Royal Library Quacker Jack secretly flew away to look for the party cannon, which he successfully brought out of the city while his friends were busy. What fought his attention was an unusually dark building on his way to the cannon. With him being overwhelmed with interest he flew right into the house...obviously after getting the cannon out of the city. He needs to bring it with him after they finish the Ruin Crawling. Inside the place was...surprisingly tidy!Despite the entire city deffinetly falling down the mountain and being under the ground for hundreds of years - it looked pretty presentable, and not much was destroyed! Quacker Jack was wandering around,searching this place up. After going to the bathroom - he noticed a key and some old clothing, that indicated that the one who lived here before was a mare. So he quickly grabbed they key and ran out in emberacment. Trying to forget the indictment clothes he just saw - he has gone around the house to look for where the key belonged. Drawers and cabins were quickly dwindling, as he was trying to open them. These were deffinetly not rotten that much, so even if he lands on them - it won't break. But finally - he opened the drawer that this key belonged. And what he found was shocking... The crown. The crown that, by the design, resembled the one that the Princess Luna was wearing! With that new knowledge - finding some old games,women's clothing and the overall gothic aesthetic of this place made more sense. With trembling hoofs he placed the crown on his head... he half-expected it to glow and turn him into an Alicorn, but even just wearing the Royal Regalia of the Alicorn Princess made him squeal in happiness.

«Hiiiiiiii hihihihihi! The other's won't belive me!» he said while tip-hooving around, «...wait a second, I can't let them know about this! They might wanna try it! It is mine!...I'll keep it as a personal trophy. No one needs to know about it...» little colt said to himself, while sneaking the crown under all the other trophies, so no one finds it. Others found that the Royal Archives were entirely destroyed and rotten, so there were only two places left to go.

Unfortunately - they couldn't find anything interesting in the garden of statues. Only the statue of three angry creatures : a Pony with holes in her hooves and strange snake-like tongue, a old-looking centaurus, and an...angry filly? Doesn't matter - they were disappointed in this place. Nothing interesting. So they just have gone away, not noticing a little crack appearing on the statue of the pony with holes in her hooves.

«So...how will we decide where to go?» asked Banana Brains, while standing with the others at the open entrance to the castle.

«What do you mean? We just go in and search until we find something amazing!» said Quacker Jack.

«And the traps? Starlight the Terrible lived here, do you honestly think there will be nothing?» asked Mega Volt, whilst slapping his muzzle.

«Oh...right. Well, I have something for this!» to the surprise of the other two - the Quacker Jack started shuffling some stuff in his backpack, until he brought out...a rubber duck? Before they could question him - he booped the duck's beak, making it retract inside of its head. After a couple of second of the rustling noises - the bottom part of the duck opened up, and a pair of legs appeared, while the eyes opened up and revealed long tubes with red ocular's, most likely camera's. Quacker Jack brought the controller out of his backpack as well.

«Well, now we can look at the right path without any harm or danger!» said proudly Quacker Jack at his creation,placing it before the entrance and turning it on.

«...this thing surely won't blow up?» asked Mega Volt

«Or teleport us to another reality?» added Banana Brains.

«...well,it shouldn't» after a bit of thinking said Quacker Jack, and turned it on. Two of the fillies,who were covering themselves form the possible explosions for almost a minute - surprisedly heard the noises of the duck feet walking, and opened their eyes to see the little spy walking.

«...sometimes I forget the reason we love you, Jack» said Mega Volt.

«You love me?! I'm soooooo touched~» said Quacker Jack.

«...and this reason is deffinetly not your ability to be cute.» added Mega Volt.

Using the duck to guide them - they didn't find a single trap!...or more specifically the swinging axes and the flying spears were too high for them to notice, as they were made for a grown pony, and not foals. First they found the throne room. And can the three ponies resist the temptation to sit on the throne of the legendary princesses? The only problem was the fact that there were only two thrones...but Banana Filly found it pretty easy to convince two gentlecolts with mysterious bumps on their heads to share Luna's throne, while she enjoyed the place of the Princess Celestia, imagining how she waves to "her" little ponies, placing herself in the place of the legendary Alicorn.After that they found a lot of places, from the guard quarters, to the place they were approaching with dread....The room that belonged to Starlight the terrible. Her cutiemark on the door, her armour inside, the flag of Equestria inside, and...some strange purple hat? They didn't exactly knew what this was for...but they still feared this place and it’s traps. Even if there was none.Three fillies slowly entered inside and started looking around. Quacker Jack stole Starlight's helmet, Mega Volt was fascinated by the strange hat...And Banana Brains immidietly had her eyes glued to a book. Getting closer and catching the attention of the two colts - they all have came to look at the book. Title said "The book of Teacher and Student", depicting a quite-childish drawing of Starlight the Terrible and...Twilight Sparkle?!