It was another day at the Golden Oaks Library, Spike was in the kitchen doing the chores, and Twilight was reading a book called "101 Questions About being an Alicorn", but as she was reading the book, she swore she could here angry jeers, but shrugged it off, thinking that it was just her imagination. Despite it being a usual day, there was one thought that going through their heads; a three word thought that a filly or colt would say when they have nothing to do.

"I'm so bored!"

Twilight slammed her head against the book, the last exciting thing that she remember happening was when her and her friends freed Discord and Fluttershy reformed him, and that was a month ago. She needed something to do, she needed something to happen. That was when she heard a loud crash in the kitchen, getting up, she ran to the kitchen, hoping that it was something that would take her boredom away.

Spike wiped the table down, as his thoughts wondered to what happened two weeks ago, when he promised to look after all the pets, just so he could get jewels for his cake. Sure he lost all of his jewels, and the pets were the hardest thing he ever had to do in his life, but at least it was exciting to him. Now all he has to do is clean the library, and go see Rarity on occasions. He thought of what to do that would get him out of his state, but was interrupted when a letter attached to a rock crashed through the window.

"Spike! Did you break some!?" Twilight yelled, running into the kitchen to scold the young dragon.

"It wasn't me Twilight, somepony threw this a rock at our window, with a letter attached to it," Spike explained.

Twilight gave a confused look, who would deliver mail like that? To her it seemed like somepony hated her for some reason, and wanted her to know it, but why attach a letter, so she could read why the culprit hated her?

Spike picked up the letter to see who it was from. "To Twilight Sparkle and Spike, from Reliable Excavation Demolition and Builders League United, a division of MannCo,"

"Reliable Excavation Demolition? Builders League United? MannCo? I never heard of the before," Twilight said, wondering when those companies even existed.

Spike opened the envelope, and took out the letter. Raising an brow when he saw what was written.

"Well, what does it say Spike?" Twilight asked.

"Are you sure you want me to read it?"

"Spike, just read it,"

The baby dragon shrugged his shoulders, clearing his throat, he began to read.

"Congratulation Twilight Sparkle and Spike! You two have been formally invited to the grand opening of Reliable Excavation Demolition, and Builders League United (RED and BLU for short) in the badlands near Dodge Juctions! You two, plus 16 others will be given a tour of the two facilities! There will be a train waiting for you tommorrow at 7 o'clockAM! We hope that you two will enjoy Equestria's first ever location! (Edited by Miss Pauling)" Spike shouted, causing Twilight to put her ears against her head to drown out the shouting.

"Spike, I told you to read it, not shout it,"

"But I am reading it, it's just that the sentences end with exclamation marks," Spike explained.

Twilight grabbed the letter with her magic and read the letter, true to Spikes word, every sentence ended with exclamation marks, and it even ended with "edited by Miss Pauling". She couldn't believe that somepony would write like that.

"So can we go Twilight?" Spike asked eyes wide in anticipation.

Twilight thought about it, it was different than what they were doing, and she could learn what the two companies do, and she couldn't think of anything that was negative.

"Yeah, we can go,"

Spike jumped in excitement, and ran up the stairs to get his stuff ready for the trip.

Spike and Twilight were at the train station, with Spike trying his best to stay still.

"Oh man I'm so psyched!"

"I can see that Spike, I just hope that you don't go crazy and wreck the place,"

Spike just glared at Twilight and went back to waiting. They got there at 5:30, because Twilight didn't want to miss the train, it was now 6:30, so only 30 minutes were left.

"Twi? What are you doing here?" a voice asked from behind.

Spike and Twilight looked behind to see that it was Rainbow Dash flying towards them, with Scootaloo under her.

"Rainbow Dash? Scootaloo? Why are you here?" Twilight asked.

"Me and Scoots here are going to see the RED and BLU companies," Rainbow Dash answered, giving the orange filly a noogy.

"Really, Spike and I were are also going to see the Reliable Excavation Demolition and Builders League United,"

"Now isn't that a coincidence, Sweetie Bell and I are also going,"

All four heads turned to see Rarity and her little sister Sweetie Bell, who was yawning because of how early she had to get up.

Twilight smiled seeing that some of her friends were coming also, but as time went on, her other friends Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Applejack, who had brought along Applebloom and Big Macintosh, joined her. And to all their surprise Derpy Hooves, her daughter Dinky Doo, Cheerilee, Zecora, Nurse Red Heart, and Berry Punch also got invitations to see the two companies.

Twilight became suspicious, she understood her and her friends, because they were the bearers of the Elements of Harmony, but the others did not make sense to her.

"Why would they invite an herbalist, a nurse, a mailmare and her daughter, a teacher, and a liquor store owner? In fact, why is Spike, Scootaloo, Sweetie Bell, Applebloom, and Big Macintosh also invited, this makes no sense," Twilight thought, her brow furrowed in concentration.

At 7 o'clock the 16 ponies, and 1 dragon heard the rumble of a train and quieted down, the train they saw was not what they imagined. This train was white with a red stripe across the side, and the engine was not the usual kind, it was almost bullet shaped in appearance, and there was no stack for the smoke to come out. The train stopped and opened the door to let the guests in, all of them going in single file. They took their seats and the train took off.

Inside the car, everypony was talking to each other, some were making small talk, some were making jokes, and some were wondering what the two companies would be like. Twilight on the other hand, was looking around.

"Twi, what are you doing?" Rarity asked, worried that the mare beside her was nervous.

"I'm looking for the 18th pony, there are only 17 of us," Twilight pointed out.

Rarity looked around and saw that her friend was right, there was no 18th pony.

"Maybe the pony you seek, is waiting for us so we can meet," Zecora said.

"Zecora, that didn't even rhyme," Rainbow Dash pointed out.

"Actually she did, but it was a slant rhyme," Twilight said.

"A what?"

"A slant rhyme, it is when two words share the same vowel sound, or share the same consonant sound," Twilight explained.

"Well it seems like she's pushing it,"

"Silly Rainbow Dash, it's because the author isn't that good at rhyming," Pinkie Pie said, jumping from seemly out of nowhere, and disappeared again, causing Twilight to look at the spot where the pink pony came from, and have her eye twitch.

"Don't think about it Twi, it's Pinkie Pie,"

After being on the train for 2 hours, it finally stopped and the doors opened, letting the 17 passengers to be let out, what they saw caused their faces to open in aw, in front of them were two buildings, one was red and made out of wood, and had a logo with a bomb that said RED in it, the other was a blue building made of concrete, the logo was a wrench with the word BLU in it. To the ponies, this was the most high tech facilities they have ever seen.

"You know, I had the same reaction to,"

Twilight gasped when she heard the voice, instantly recognizing it, staring at the direction of where it came, her suspicions were confirmed when she saw her brother, Shining Armour, smiling at them.

"Shining!" Twilight yelled, running up to her brother and giving him a hug.

"It's been so long since I've seen you, how is Cadence, and the Crystal Empire?"

"It's been good Twily, it's great to see you again," Shining said, hugging his sister back, unfortunately the moment was ruined when a voice came out of nowhere.

"Enough of this go to the main entrance now!" the voice was female, but it was full of venom, and it also demanded everypony to listen.

The sibling finished their hug and trotted to the main entrance, which seemed to connect the two buildings, going inside the voice spoke once again.

"Now before the tour begins, sign the papers located near the door,"

Everypony complied and began to sign the forms, thinking that it was to say that the company was not responsible for any injuries. After signing it, they put the papers back.

"Congratulation, you 18 are now employees of this facilty," the voice said.

"What!? We didn't say anything about that!" Shining yelled, surprise and anger in his voice.

"You didn't have to, you signed the contract, you work for us now,"

Before anypony could argue, they are felt pain in their necks, instinctually grabbing the part of the neck, causing them to pull out a tranquilizer dart. They all felt woozy, and fell to the floor unconscious.

The doors opened to reveal a young human woman wearing purple, with other humans holding guns.

"Take the ponies and the dragon to the lab to get their injections, than put them in their respected rooms," the woman ordered, the armed men complied, grabbing the unconscious figures and taking them to the lab. The woman walked out of the room, knowing that when they wake up, they will get quite the shock.