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Pondah slowly decelerated as he finished rolling down the hill. He coat glistened with the morning dew he'd collected during his decent. In just a moment, Pondah was in the town centre and facing towards the direction he believed could take him to the Grand Mareland. Pondah began walking down a street in search of any clues. His eyes settled on a flier stuck to a wall. It read:

 

"Early bird special: Buy one breakfast and get a second absolutely FREE! 

 

Grand Mareland Hotel: Just right of La Casa de Bocadillos

 

Offer available weekdays from 6am - 10am. Second breakfast must be of equal or lesser price than the first.

We reserve the right to withdraw this offer at anytime. You just lost the game. Ask at the reception for more details.  

 

'Excellent! Now I've not only got a hint to the hotel's location, but I've also got knowledge about one of their deals!'

Edited September 1, 2013 by Sir. Loin

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"Oooh, I like those!" Mumbled the distracted mare as she wandered through the garden, stopping to smell some of the flowers and promptly tripping, tumbling through the flower bed.

 

The garden didn't seem to have an entrance from what she could tell: she had clambered over the hedge surrounding it to gain entry and did the same again to leave. It was most inconvenient!

 

Unbeknown to her, she had actually just passed through the decorative gardens behind her destination and was now steadily circling it whilst looking somewhat worse for wear.

[Skycoaster 697]

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Skycoaster

Skycoaster was laughing to himself as he say Bubble and Pondah scramble to find the hotel's location.

 

"Um..Ok? I'll meet you guys there?"

 

Corkscrew took to the air, cruising at a relaxing speed toward his destination. As he approched the hotel, he saw Bubble in the back gardens.

"Um...Bubble, why are you doing in the hotel's gardens? You know you have to....wait...How did you get in here..and where's your friend? I can give you a lift out of there if you want?"

[MLPForums Phanact 1,374]

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Bass pondered the response for a moment before asking, "Well, if we can't find anything you've trained to do... why don't we find you something you like to do?!" The stallion asked with quite a bit of enthusiasm for his idea. "I mean, heck, if I just did what I was trained to do, I'd still be in Canterlot handling Neuro patients... but I dropped out of Med school because I hated it." Rolling his eyes to the other side of the room, the pony then added, "My parents sure weren't happy about that, and basically cut me off.... I was on my own to make money, and for a while, I just played my bass in the park for some cash, but I finally saved up enough for my first mixer and got to work learning to make electronic music."

 

He let a release of air out as he finished his monologue, and after a moment of recovering his breath, he asked. "So what'dya say, hm? I'm sure we can find something your cutie little flank likes to do. Other than me of course.." The unicorn grinned slyly at his dirty statement, and waited for a response.

 

"HEY! What did I say, cheeky?" Bass' hooves were still firmly placed on Kaz's flank and he was making small circular movements with his hooves. "It's too early to be talking like that, save it for tonight, handsome." Kaz said with a flirty smile and a wink as Kaz placed his hooves crossed on his own chest.

 

"I suppose I could try auditioning for some gig's maybe? Wait... Do you need any support acts for yours?" Kaz's excitement overtook his mind, imagine a simple pony from Trotland performing with one of the next biggest DJ's to hit the music scene.

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Armed with new information, Pondah now had two places he could search for but in the streets of Baltimare, things were getting busy and he needed another way to find the hotel and La Casa de Bocadillos. A waft of perfume from a nearby mare gave him the help he needed. 'Of course! Smell! This place should smell good from what I've heard about it. It's time to follow my nose.'

 

​Pondah sniffed around in the air for a lead. He was still sniffing as he wondered down the streets, picking up several dirty looks from Baltimare's elite. A gust of wind bought the lead Pondah desperately needed as a waft of basil infused air flew into him. With his nose high, Pondah began to chase down this lead. At it's end was a building that lit up Pondah's face. 'La casa de Bocadillos! I found it! And right next to it is... Symphony's Sensual Secrets... Ooer. I best get looking.'

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

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"I'm okay!" Bubble answered happily as she wandered purposefully onwards in the wrong direction. "Wait, where are we going again? I got lost..."

 

She stopped to pluck a leaf out of her mane, looking around at an area she had never seen before, flicking an ear in confusion.

 

"Uhm... Okay. Which way is it?" She finally said, resigned to the fact that she wasn't going to find this 'Grand something' without help.

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Pondah had broken back into a gallop as he headed left of La Casa de Bocadillos. He ran past several smaller resteraunts and cafés until he finally saw what he was after. At the end of street was the Grand Mareland hotel. All that lay between him and it was crowded street.

 

'I'll never be able to take a purely street-bound path. I'm going to have to take a cut through the bushes. It's more direct but may be painful.'

 

​Taking a deep breath, Pondah began to charge through the bushes using every ounce of strength he'd stored. The thick vegetation tried its hardest to cling to Pondah and hold him down but the urge to not be the loser spurred Pondah on. He erupted from the other side with a rose stuck to the fur on his neck and some particularly sticky green balls in his tail.

 

'One last push. I'll be there soon.'

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@@Skycoaster"I'm okay!" Bubble answered happily as she wandered purposefully onwards in the wrong direction. "Wait, where are we going again? I got lost..."

She stopped to pluck a leaf out of her mane, looking around at an area she had never seen before, flicking an ear in confusion."Uhm... Okay. Which way is it?" She finally said, resigned to the fact that she wasn't going to find this 'Grand something' without help.

Skycoaster

Skycoaster let out a slight chuckle. "Your kind of in its back yard. So to speak." Skycoaster was hovering over the garden and hotel, and could see Pondah charging towards the hotel and did a face hoof.

 

"Well, your friend is going to beat you if you don't get out of that garden."

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

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Thunder Dash was there waiting. He saw Skycoaster and Bubble coming towards the Grand Mareland Hotel. "You guys! Over here!" Thunder Dash yelled as he waved a hoof at Sky. He was relieved that they had finally arrived at the Grand Mareland Hotel. Now they could go ahead and have some delicious Baltimare cuisine.  

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

Finally regaining something that could be described a sense of direction, Bubble noticed the entrance to the Grand Mareland and smiling happily as she casually popped one of the flowers she had found into her tail.

 

Hopping the hedge with apparent ease, she cantered towards , not really caring whether she won or not: she had been having a lovely time!

 

 

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Pondah was beginning to slow down and tire as the finish line came into sight. That was before he saw something that have him a sudden burst of energy. 'That brown, green and pink figure can't be her can it? No! She's right near the entrance!'  Pondah galloped with all he had, hoping to at least draw with Bubble. In a minute, he was right alongside Bubble in the very final stretch. 

 

"This was close. How did you find this place so quickly?"

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"HEY! What did I say, cheeky?" Bass' hooves were still firmly placed on Kaz's flank and he was making small circular movements with his hooves. "It's too early to be talking like that, save it for tonight, handsome." Kaz said with a flirty smile and a wink as Kaz placed his hooves crossed on his own chest.

 

"I suppose I could try auditioning for some gig's maybe? Wait... Do you need any support acts for yours?" Kaz's excitement overtook his mind, imagine a simple pony from Trotland performing with one of the next biggest DJ's to hit the music scene.

Bass cocked his head, pondering the stallion's suggestion. "Uh..." He began. "I always have openers play for me, but it's always electronic... What music do you play? I didn't think you did electronic music..." He stated, still confused at the stallion's enthusiastic idea.

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

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"I got lost!" Bubble chimed as she bounced along towards the door in no hurry at all: It made sense to her anyway."You're manes a bit messy - did you fall over? Are you okay?"

 

A leaf fluttered gently down in front of her: shaken free by her curiously energetic canter. She flicked an ear as she did so. "I didn't know it was autumn... Oh! That means it's going to be winter soon! I love snow!"

[Skycoaster 697]

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Skycoaster

Skycoaster, having watched the mare jump the hedge, flew over to where Thunder Dash was standing, waiting for the Pondah and Bubble to arrive.

 

As they arrive, he looks them both over. "Ummmm.....Ahhhh......You know what, buck it. Who's ready to eat. Just let me head in first to get a table, OK? And you two might want to clean yourselves off a bit. You can use my room if you like to clean up."

 

Skycoaster took a badge out of his saddle bag and showed it at the door, looking back, pointing to Thunder Dash, Bubble, and Pondah. The pony at the door nodded, as Skycoaster motioned for them to enter the hotel.

Sky walks over to a table and takes a seat, laying his weather factory badge laying on the table.

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

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Thunder Dash followed behind sky and sat across from him. "So, how long have you been working at the weather factory?" Thunder Dash asked wanting to know more about him. He then thought about his cousin Storm Rush, who lived in Manehattan and wasn't working as much. 

[Skycoaster 697]

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"I just graduated engineering school a few months ago. My father got me an interview for a weather engineer, and I was hired on the spot....Only thing is, I'd rather be out there in the clouds than behind that darn desk. Sign this, approve that, go check on machine B. It got old fast. My boss says I'm too good at my job. He thought I needed a challenge. That's why they sent me here. To try to fix them." as he looked up.

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

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"Ugh, that is sooo boring. My job in the weather factory was to break up loose storms and regain control of them as they traveled through the weather factory. My brother and I have had that job since we were colts. As a matter of fact, when I went to go rescue a pegasus that was caught in a loose storm, I was struck by lightning, which is wear I got my electric abilities. Somehow, the electricity was absorbed inside my body. I am still trying to figure out how that happened, 'cause in reality, I should've gone down." Thunder Dash explained.   

[Powercell 30]

"Welcome back to hell.. If you look to your left yu will probably see a wall..." Midnight thought to himself, half mocking tour guides and half trying to make himself smile. He got up from his roll mat and packed it into his saddlebag, exiting the gloomy alleyway. However a glimmer, like sunshine on metal, lit up the corner of his eye. He turned quick and ran to where he saw it. And quicker than an owl on a mouse he snatched it up, it was a golden locket. "I might just get dinner from you" he whispered to it, walking to the nearby pawnshop.

[Starshine 16,333]

Starshine once again trotted down the road, sulking. The brief trade with the armored jeweler was rather unproductive. Turned out there was a reason nopony wanted to pay more than a hundred bits for the medals. Now he was wandering around the city without any destination whatsoever. "Hah... I might as well return thee worthless medals."

 

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As his luck would have it, Starshine came across the hotel where Skycoaster and the rest of his group was in. He trotted to the table, paying no mind to any other ponies around Skycoaster, and tossed the silver and bronze medals to the orange pegasus. "There, you can have your toy medals. They're fake. Somepony took some tin medals colored them with magic."

Edited September 3, 2013 by Starshine

[Serious Sam 259]

Now Rut-Light was faced with a personal dilemma; On one hoof he didn't want to cross the bridge because of the chance of it collapsing under the extreme weight, but he also didn't want to find another way around for two reasons: First of all, what if there was no 'other way' around to Baltimare Station?  That would be a waist of valuable time.  Finally if there was a second way then he would be even more late then he might already be.  He sat there for about 2 minutes wracking his brain, trying to see if he can come to any conclusion at all, and as he neared his third minute of thinking he had come to a decision, looking back the patiently waiting flag pony he finally said with hesitation, "I'll cross the bridge, slowly of course."  The other pony looked at him and nodded his head, "Very well then, but proceed with caution, I don't want to have the guilt of letting a locomotive as beautiful as this one falling down a ravine and getting permanently destroyed on my shoulders...good luck driver."  Then the pony walked off and went back to talk to his co-workers.  

 

Rut-Light was now feeling nervous, and he never has while driving a train before; but now was different, this could easily be his last ride if he wasn't careful.  "Come on Rut-Light, screw your nerves together and deliver the mail train."  With that in his head he slowly moved the Regulator to 21% throttle and turned the brass Reverser until it was in the position to go forward, finally with dignity and courage in his heart he turned on the sander and released the train brakes.  "Lets move."  He gave the whistle two long tugs and the train started moving, albeit slowly.  The locomotive was moving at a slow pace and was about to go on the bridge when Rut-Light took a chance and increased the Regulator to 23%, as the train was starting to cross the bridge the old wood started to groan and creak like it was upset.  "Come on! We have to push on!"  Rut-Light gave the whistle a good long tug for 3 seconds and then let go, hearing that sound gave him hope, and over all; a good feeling.

 

The 4-4-0 locomotive was halfway across the bridge and Rut-Light thought he would make it, until disaster struck.  Another one of the wooden supports began to shift then suddenly *CRACK*, the support split under the immense pressure.  Rut-Light began to panic beyond what he could handle and shouted, "NO! No no no no no no!  Come on my lady!  Pull with all your might, you can do this."  He shuttled the throttle to 100% percent and the train lurched forward and went faster with each wheel rotation, putting all of its power into pulling the heavy load across the length of the bridge safely.  The bridge started collapsing on the side side he came from, and it was headed straight for the train, the entire train was in danger of falling into the ravine.  Rut-Light looked behind him and gasped in shock at the sight, "Oh crap!  Lets move!"  He throttled the Regulator until it could go no more and fully released the brakes, the train seemed to come to life and began to pull harder and harder until the entire train and coaches have successfully made it off the bridge in one piece with nothing but a very panicked pony in the train cab.  

 

Despite how stressed he felt, Rut-Light was damn proud of himself and the train, after a while he let out an enthusiastic yell, "WOOOHOOOOO!!!"  To calm himself down he gave the whistle rope 2 pulls; each at least 3 seconds long.  He massaged the side of the locomotive and whispered, "Lets go home my lady."

Edited September 3, 2013 by Midnight-Inferno

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With a smile on his face, Pondah turned Bubble. "Can we call this a draw?" ​Pondah asked. "To answer your question, I am fine. I just rolled all the way down a huge hill and almost knocked everypony down with me. I'm guessing that you're covered in flowers and grass because you climbed through hedges and bushes."

 

​Pondah giggled to himself. He'd only been with Bubble for a couple of days but already he could read her like a book and predict what she had done like some sort of mind reader.

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"I got lost!" She repeated as if this answered any possible questions about what had happened - for Bubble, it kind of did. She brushed at her mane with a hoof without achieving much effect.

 

"Shall we?" she asked, holding out a hoof and nodding towards the entrance, eagar to explore inside. The pony standing at the door gave the pair a look of mild confusion mixed with entertainment but said nothing to stop them.

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"If you want." ​Pondah replied. Pondah made sure to stay complete parallel to Bubble as they entered; he wasn't going to lose the race now.

 

The inside of the hotel was lavishly decorated with golds, silvers and purples and hanging baskets levitated plants above the patron's heads. The air hummed with the conversation and laughter of the elite and ground shook with the steps of a horde of waiters and waitresses. "Are you going to get cleaned up?" ​Pondah asked. "I'll get the key if you are."

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"What do you mean?" Bubble flicked an ear: cleaned up? Pondah was the one with the messy...

 

She caught a glimpse in a particularly shiny decoration and noticed a pony looking back covered in various odds and ends from the garden.

 

"... Oh!"

 

Stifling a giggle, she nodded - it looked fancy inside, maybe she should clean up: it was only polite after all!

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When Bubble realised just how much of a mess she was, Pondah couldn't help but giggle. "I'll get the key," ​he told her. Pondah walked over to were Skycoaster, attracting some sneers from rather posh ponies who could probably smell he was poor.

 

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"Um... excuse me," ​ Pondah's said quietly. "Can Bubble and I have you room number and key?"