The small group of friends filed onto the white and red streetcar, packed as it was, it was actually rather easy to navigate. Flitter and Cloudchaser were never really into riding any sort of vehicle for whatever occasion, so they followed overhead, with their wings, leaving the unicorn, the earth pony and the two human girls on the streetcar.

"So, Iliana, what do you do for a living?" said the DJ pony, with a slight flourish of her unique, purple shades.

"Well, on Earth, I work as a program writer for a private company that leases out computers to a few special clients, some military, some expeditionary, especially when those expeditions include Equestria. I must say, the thought of an alien country just appearing in the middle of the ocean, seemingly overnight, well, your country is nothing short of amazing!" the friendly, very talkative, and slightly ditzy blonde human exclaimed.

Vinyl had almost felt sorry when she thought to herself, 'Man, Derpy would absolutely love her,' then shared a small laugh with Octavia when Vinyl whispered to her, "Think she likes muffins?" as the blonde human nearly fell on her way up the platform to the restroom car.

Tavi and Vinyl had slightly snickered as Iliana stumbled, and Brittany noticed and joined in. Vinyl noticed that the dark haired girl hadn't spoke much since they met, so she struck up a conversation.

"So how do you guys find Canterlot so far?"

"I must say Vinyl, it's quite amazing, so peaceful, you'd never find a humbler place on Earth,"

"Really? We've never been, what's California like?" asked Octavia, intrigued.

"Well, it's sort of similar in the terms of It being a big city and all, but its much easier to breathe here, California is too crowded what with Hollywood and all."

"Sorry, dear, Hollywood?"

"Well, it's a city in California that produces most of our movies and television shows,"

"I see how that could cause discomfort. It must be nice to get away for a while," said the prissy gray earth mare.

"Man, this place is crowded today!" Vinyl said a little loudly as she stared out of her window.

"My, my, this should be an interesting day." Octavia said with a slightly devilish little grin.

'I'm surprised Vinyl hasn't found out about it yet,' the prissy pony thought to herself, 'She has that persistence that leads her to uncover secrets, I mean, for crying out loud she discovered my strange obsession...' Octavia trailed off, thinking to when her largest secret had come to surface and Vinyl had discovered her adult foal...thing, 'I'm so happy that Vinyl keeps an open mind, she's so understanding,' thought Octavia as their group trotted along the street.

"Hey! Let's go see that store!" exclaimed the blonde woman, Iliana.

"Sure," Vinyl and the pegasi said, almost at the same time.

"Ya comin' Tavi?" said her marefriend as they walked.

"Of course dear, be right there, I'm just going to run and get a drink, really quickly, go on ahead," Octavia started to walk away and hit a full gallop as soon as her friends were out of sight and out of earshot, 'Vinyl better love this,' she thought as she neared the unassuming building, which only had one feature to it, a neon sign, that read 'The Platinum Pony' in blue and pink.

Octavia walked in and sort of hid her face from view as she walked to the counter, it seemed the only other occupant of the building was the slender pink mare sitting behind it. She walked up to it and cleared her throat, "Ahem, I called a few days ago, for the... 'extra help'..."

The pink mare shot her a look, "Umm, you'll have to clarify ma'am, we get more than a few requests for 'extra help',"

"Oh for Celestia's sake, the 'wearable extremity"

"Oh, of course ma'am, here you are, that'll be 30 bits,"

"Seems a little high for that sort of item,"

"I don't make the prices ma'am, I just sell the sex toys,"

"Now, dear, please, do be quiet, I can't have anyone see or here of me coming in here! Here, 30 bits and 5 extra, for you,"

"Thank you ma'am, please come again!"

Octavia ran away from the building, almost as swiftly as she ran to it. She knew Vinyl would love her new idea. She was ready to blow that white unicorn's mind. See, Octavia is a bit of a sly operator, she knew Vinyl would agree to today, so called in advance. Granted, she was way out of her element in the slightly scummy looking sex shop, but pressed on to please her mare, in more ways than one. As she arrived at the store she left her friends at just as they exited, Vinyl shot her a teasing pout, then stared at her empty hooves.

"Where's your drink?" The white unicorn stared at her lover.

"Oh, I finished it along the way, sorry it took so long dear, the line was horrible at Saddle Bucks," the gray mare said innocently.

"It's ok babe, let's keep shopping, let's hit the music shop next, I wanna pick up a few vinyls, got some plans to work with an earth DJ,"

"Ok, love, you guys coming?" Tavi said, referring to the humans and pegasi they were hanging out with, Scratch felt a bit embarrassed, as she had forgotten all about them.

"Sounds good to me!" said Cloudchaser and the group set off for the music store.

When they arrived at their destination, Vinyl trotted in happily, with the group trailing right behind her. Scratch headed straight to the human 'dubstep' section, and picked up a few records, then a few Sapphire Shores records from the ponypop section.

"Yeah, this is gonna be good!!" exclaimed the DJ pony, smirking with a slight air of smugness.

"What exactly are you going to do with those two? They're so different," said Octavia.

"Oh, babe, this isn't it, I'm gonna need some cello tracks from you, some bass, you can never go wrong with bass, and some violin tracks from your friend in the orchestra."

"What in Celestia's name are you planning?" Octavia said, not thinking these tracks could come together at all.

"Oh, you'll see soon enough, love." Scratch had a very wide grin on her face, already planning on the master mix.

"Whatever you say love, come on, let's go get some food."

"Ok, be right there, lemme check out." Vinyl said as she trotted over to the clerk.

"Where do you guys wanna go eat?" Cloudchaser asked the group as they walked over to the restaurant district.

"Hmm, we need to show Ili and Brittany some fine Equestrian dining, so somewhere fancy." Flitter answered.

Octavia lit up and said, "Ooh, ooh, let's eat at the Sugar Cube Corner they opened up here in Canterlot!" The prissy pony had grown to love SCC, as that's where her and Vinyl first ate together, and the delicious pastries and baked goods they sold certainly didn't challenge it either.

"That's a GREAT idea!" Vinyl exclaimed.

"Of course it can't be as good as the original, but I heard Pinkie's in town, so I bet she could make some really great cakes!" The group traveled a small way down Trottingham Boulevard and arrived at their destination on the corner of Galop Street and Filly Lane.

As they walked in, they were immediately barraged by a rain of confetti and the sound of a party horn. 'Yup, definitely Pinkie's party cannon' Scratch thought as she pulled confetti from her mane.

"Who's ready to PARRR-TAYYY!?!?!" the party pony exclaimed as she so energetically greeted her best friend's little sister and all of her friends.

"You guys like the new Sugar Cube Corner?! I kinda miss Ponyville and Mr. and Mrs. Cake, but hey, telephones and all, we can still be GREAT friends! I'm so excited to live in Canterlot, in my very own Sugar Cube Corner! I'm so glad Mr. and Mrs. Cake agreed to let me franchise the business!! I-"

Pinkie was cut off by a white unicorn's hoof shoved in her mouth, "Now Pinkie, dear, that's no way to greet guests, you need to calm down a bit, it's so unladylike." the white unicorn with the curled purple mane and striking eyes that reminisced of sapphires said.

"Hey Rarity, I didn't know you came with Pinkie to Canterlot." Scratch had said, greeting her big sister's friend, the Element Of Generosity.

"Well, of course I came dear, all of us did, well, almost all of us, Applejack would have loved to come, but as you can imagine, it'd be a bit difficult to move an entire apple farm."

"Ah, yeah, I forgot that now that Twilight became a princess that Princess Celestia requested you guys to move here. So what happened to Carousel Boutique?"

"Sweetie Belle is running the Ponyville branch now, she's surprisingly running it quite smoothly too."

"That's great, how are you guys settling into Canterlot?"

"Well, I'm doing fine dear, just fine."

"Me too!!" Pinkie exclaimed from the kitchen.

"We've all gotten pretty acquainted with our new lives, well, except for Rainbow Dash, she can't find a cloud to suit her rather low standards."

"Huh, sis is having a hard time?" Scratch let her thoughts trail off again.

"So sorry, lady Rarity, would you care to join us?" Octavia asked.

"Well, sure dear, but really, you should learn to lighten up, just call me Rarity."

"Of course, Rarity, please, have a seat."

While the group happily munched on desserts and sandwiches Pinkie made, Vinyl Scratch was off to her thoughts again, this time she thought of how to help her sister out, ways to amaze her marefriend, and something she felt deeper, but couldn't quite figure it out. She was so entranced that she almost didn't notice her marefriend hold her hoof under the table. She looked up at Octavia's beautiful, understanding eyes and thought of the most beautiful amethyst, she thought 'Does she know what I'm thinking about? Or is she just giving me a caring look?' She didn't see that Tavi's mouth was moving.

"Scratchie, hey Scratch, ya in there?" Octavia asked.

"Huh? Oh, yeah, sorry, what were we talking about?"

"Umm, we were leaving, you ok honey?"

"Leaving? What? We just got here?"

"If 3 hours is 'Just Getting Here' then I couldn't imagine an extended stay" Octavia laughed at Vinyl's absent-mindedness.

"3 hours?!" Scratch nearly yelled, "Did I fall asleep or something?"

"Actually, you did, you passed out as soon as you lay your head on the table."

"Oh, sorry, I need a Nos."

"Way ahead of ya Scratchie!" Pinkie exclaimed as she tossed a bottle of the highly acclaimed energy drink that the humans imported to Equestria. Octavia caught it for her, as she was in no shape, still being half-asleep.

"Sweet Celestia Scratch, you're so lazy on the weekends" a familiar voice was followed by a laugh just above Vinyl's head, she looked up and saw her sister, Rainbow Dash just above her head,

"Shit, Dash you scared the crap outta me!" Vinyl exclaimed with a jump backwards.

"What'd I miss while I was out? Why ya here sis?"

"Well, it was Octavia's idea really, I guess she thought, 'what the hay, the more, the merrier' and invited me and the other Elements to your little party tonight at the Gilded Gryphon" after Rainbow's explanation, Vinyl noticed that Fluttershy and newly-coronated Princess Twilight had joined them.

"Huh," Scratch said, "I don't think I've ever drank with a princess before," Vinyl said with a laugh, teasing her friend, Twilight Sparkle.

"Ha-Ha, very funny, Scratch," Twilight said, slightly annoyed, "I'm still the same Twilight, and please, please don't talk about the coronation, every time I hear about it, my head starts pounding from Pinkie's 'special brew' she made, damn, that stuff had some kick!!"

"Of course Twilight, it was only a joke, anyway, let's get going, or we'll lose our reservation."

The group arrived at the slightly golden-yellow building that was the Gilded Gryphon Hookah Bar, of course Scratch ordered a round of shots for everyone and a bottle of Zin for Octavia. 'This night is going to end perfectly' the thought kept persisting in Scratch's mind. She brushed it off and brought the drinks to their table, where Octavia was setting up the hookah with Vinyl's favorite shisha. 'Damn,' Scratch thought, 'I really do love that mare.'

Author's Note

Chapter 3 is in! Hopefully this one is more entertaining. Adult theme in the next installment, I plan to make it quite humorous. Enjoy!!