The New Repair Pony in Town

Lotto received a new letter from the City of Canterlot that several of the officials there would like to offer him a new job as the royal repair pony of Canterlot Castle. He looked over it happily and within minutes he was on his way to Canterlot Castle. After a few hours of hard driving and more than 600 miles from his home town he reached the City of Canterlot. He pulled up and got out with his bag of tools on his back and looked up at the shockingly big walls and towers of the old castle. He started to look in shock at how big the place was when suddenly Shining Amor the leader of the royal guard walked up to him and said, "Hello Lotto we are glad you could come all this way here to Canterlot Castle." Lotto said, "I'm very glad about this new job offering of yours of Royal Repair Pony." Shining Amor said, "I hope you don't mind but in order for you to start working you must get approval from the Princess herself."

He said, "You mean I have to be approved by the Princess herself you mean Princess Celestia herself?" Shining Amor said, "Yep that is how it is done her in that Princess Celestia doesn't let anyone work near her unless she approves of them herself. In that you are one of the lucky ones like me who will be working around her side day and night." Lotto smiled, "That sounds pretty cool in that I've never seen her before in real life. I don't even know what she really looks like expect that she would be really noble looking. Also I heard she is part unicorn and part Pegasus or something close to that. I also expect that I would never even get see her while I'm working most of the time." Shining Amor said, "Well your way off my friend in that you in fact will be living in the same part of the castle as her. You will be working so closely near her that you will be less than a 500 feet from her living areas where she eats and sleeps. And trust me she does get pretty upset when her royal bathroom toilet overflows or her sink doesn't stop dripping at 3.00AM in the morning."

They both walked up to a set of one of the castle's large steel gates that opened and closed to let ponies into the castle and out of it. Shining Amor said, "Lotto would you mind helping us with your repair services even though you don't have the job yet?" Shining Amor tried to use his powers to open the castle doors but they where rusted closed." Lotto said, "Well ok I can't get the new repair job if I first can't get into the castle." He quickly repaired the old castle gates with a few minutes and they opened up for them. Several royal guards and workers went over and said, "We don't have to throw things over the castle walls anymore." Lotto said, "Let me guess you guys tried butter on greasing the castle gate gears?" Shining Amor said, "No your way off. Let's put it this way Fluttershy would be very upset if I told you what we used for it."

They walked into a large room that must have been where the Princess's Throne room was at in how fancy and elaborate it looked. Lotto meanwhile looked at its old grander all he saw was old peeling paint and a few cracked stain glass windows and broken floor tiles. He said, "This castle is like a changeling hungry for love in terms of what it needs in repairs." Shining Amor said, "The Princess will be here in a few minutes to an hour depending on how busy she is so the royal chiefs brought you lunch while you wait." He said, "That is nice of you guys."

Shining Armor left the room and Lotto started eating some of the banana cream cake. A few minutes went by and another larger white unicorn walked into the room he was in. She walked into the room with her head held up high with her pretty rainbow colored mane flowing by him. He looked up at her and she walked up to the table where he was eating at. She said in a pretty soft voice, "I'm very glad the royal chiefs made my favorite banana cream cake today." He looked at her and realized she was a white unicorn who was double his size. He had never seen a cute looking mare before who was double his size. He looked back at her and he realized this was one of his dreams come true to have a mare that was double his size talk to him. He didn't know what to do but his mind told him, "Hey go say something to her she could be single and the Princess isn't here yet."

He went over and pushed over a slice of Banana cream pudding cake up to her and she smiled and said, "Why thank you." She started nibbling on the cake and said in her soft pretty, "You really should try the chocolate ice cream soda it's quite good." She used her unicorn powers to put one of them down in front of him for him to drink. His mind thought she might be trying to open up to him being around her after all she was a Canterlot Unicorn and he was a Pony Republic Earth Pony after all." He said, "It's very good I'm very amazed at how welcoming every pony is in Canterlot so far to me." She said, "My kingdom of Equestria is founded on the model of Friendship is magic. Friendship is what holds everything together around here in my kingdom." He said, "In my home town things were going downtown hill until we found out about the invention of the steel building and the magic of cement."

The large white unicorn got a funny look on her face and said, "So this is what you Earth Ponies have been so busy doing in the Pony Republic with moving around so many strange alien materials that we have never seen before in Canterlot you guys where building better houses?" Lotto said, "Yep finished renovating my place last year replaced all that old worn out cold straw and stick hobble with a real nice 4000 square home that has indoor plumbing and heating and cooling."

He pulled out a photo of his old house which was a dumpy straw pleasant pony hobble and showed her a picture of his new steel and brick house which looked oddly like a large common US suburban house." The White Unicorn said, "Hum very nice I bet that your new steel house of yours is very good in the cold wind storms and bad thunder storms that hit your area along with the intense heat that is common during the summer?" He said, "O it's the best thing ever and now every pony else on my block wants one and is building them too." She said, "Could I look at this some more in that I've always kind of wondered what everyone else was doing outside of Equestria." He said, "Yes you can my white mare."

She had an odd look on her face and said to her, "Did he call me his white mare?" She looked back at him and picked up a tea pot and put some tea into a tea cup and started drinking it." She started slowly drinking it slowly with her Canterlot manors and looked at him. She said, "Hum so what position do you have here among the royal servants in Canterlot in that I have not seen you here before?" He said, "I'm the new repair pony the Princess requested a few days ago to help her fix up the castle." She said, "I'm glad you're here there are so many things in Canterlot that badly need repairs in that it's really been falling apart these last few years." He said, "I'm ready for what this decaying dump of a castle can throw at me." She lathed in her soft voice.

She had an odd look on her face and said to her, "Did he call me his white mare?" She looked back at him and picked up a tea pot and put some tea into a tea cup and started drinking it." She started slowly drinking it slowly with her Canterlot manors and looked at him. She said, "Hum so what position do you have here among the royal servants in Canterlot in that I have not seen you here before?" He said, "I'm the new repair pony the Princess requested a few days ago to help her fix up the castle." She said, "I'm glad you're here there are so many things in Canterlot that badly need repairs in that it's really been falling apart these last few years." He said, "I'm ready for what this decaying dump of a castle can throw at me." She lathed in her soft voice.

Suddenly a bell went off in the room they were in and she said, "Hum O dear look at the time I better get back to work." He asked, "What castle servant position in the castle you have here. You know maybe royal maid or dishwasher or royal gardener or maybe royal chef?" She said, "Hum O that really hard job of being well ruler of Equestria." He looked at her and said, "You could be her in that I haven't seen the legendary Princess Celestia around her before in that I really don't know what she looks like. But once I get the job as royal repair pony many I will get to see you around the castle sometime." She said, "You don't know what the Princess looks like?" He said, "I think she is supposed to be some type of cross between a unicorn and a Pegasus or something like but I really haven't seen any real good photos of what she really looks like." She said, "Hum well on the flip side of that I rarely see Earth Ponies in Canterlot to tell you the truth."

The white unicorn stood up and said, "Well you will get to see her soon enough in fact she is on her way to this very room." Lotto said, "The Princess is coming here but I thought she wouldn't have time to come down and interview me for a simply repair pony job." She said, "You will be after all taking care of my royal sleeping cambers not to mention the pay is considerably very good for a repair pony position with a very good health care and retirement plan to go with it. You also will enjoy having all the royal holidays off to go enjoy them along with every pony else."

Suddenly a royal maid came in to the room carrying a golden stash and clown and said, "Here my Princess I'm sorry for the delay but we got them cleaned up as good as new." She said, "Hum very good they were looking a little dirty." She put the royal clown on and sash and said, "Hum that's so much better now that I look like a Princess again." Lotto looked back at her and said, "Wait a minute if you have royal jewelry on and no one else here wares a jeweled clown wouldn't that makes you a noble of some kind?" She said, "Right you are Lotto my new royal repair pony that would make me Princess Celestia ruler of Equestria." He got scared and bowed down in front of her. She said, "Not to worry Lotto I love talking to new ponies in my castle it helps me find out what is going on the outside. It's that I've never ran into a pony who didn't know what I looked like before." He didn't know what to say about this." Princes Celestia meanwhile said to him, "No to worry Lotto you are now by royal decree Canterlot Castle's newest royal repair pony."

He said, "Thank you my Princess." She smiled and said, "Hum very good I've got a ton of things for you to repair before the day is over." He said, "Anything you say my Princess." They both walked down a hallway and they heard a load bubbling and grinding noise." She tried to yell over it and said, "This little nightmare has been keeping me awake for over the last three nights." Lotto said, "What is it?" She said, "It's the royal washing machine!" He jumped into the room that the washing machine was in and she heard him say, "Back you beast back I say. Hey don't you dare give me that look you." Within three minutes he stepped out covered in head to hoof bubbles and Celestia could stop lathing at this. He said, "It turns out the motor was bad on it and it kept getting stuck on the wash cycle." She said, "Very good Lotto on ward to the royal bedroom and bathroom. "

She pointed at the royal toilet which didn't stop running none stop. She also pointed at the royal bath tub water which was ice cold in that the hot water heater had died a few days ago. Lotto meanwhile listened to her repair requests and made a list of them and asked her which ones she wanted done first and said, "I will come by later this evening to see how you are doing with repairing things." He said, "Yes my Princess." He looked as she walked down the hallway with her head held up high and a noble smile on her face.

He meanwhile had the royal guards bring in the list of building materials that he had ordered to repair the Princess's Bathroom. At this point in time Princess Celestia didn't think much about him or his jobs expect when she would be able to have hot water for a bath later that evening for the first time in a few weeks.

That evening around 7.00PM he was quickly finishing up renovating the Princess's Bathroom by replacing the toilet and several of the old worn out pipes that fed hot water into her bath tub and sink. Princess Celestia meanwhile walked into the room he was in and looked at him as he was fixing up things. He finished up and walked up to her and said, "I'm done my Princess I replaced the old worn out 200 year old pipes and replaced the sink and the toilet along with the hot water heater. I also retiled the bathroom and worked a little bit on the ceiling. "She turned on the bath tub facet with her unicorn powers and felt the hot water with her hooves and said, "Good job Lotto my new repair pony now to show you where you will be staying at in the castle." He said, "That sounds good I wonder where it could be at?"

She led him up some stairs into one of the castle towers to the same room that Rarity had stayed at before. She walked in with him and said, "This will be your new home while you stay here in Canterlot." He said, "This is very good my Princess. I never expected it to be so good for a servant." She said, "Well a happy and health servant is a good hard working servant." He said, "That sounds like a good idea I really like how kind you are." She said, "Thank you it's really nothing at all. Now I must go to my royal dinner. If you need food or something to drink you can always go down to the servant's dining room. The food we give our servants is at the same high standards as the same food that I eat." He said, "Thank you my Princess." She said, "If you have any more questions feel free to ask Lotto.