Lotto and the Coming of the Cars to Canterlot

Princess Celestia said, "Hum Lotto if this happened to you with you being in the land of the two feet and you and your friends being able to get out of it safely why didn't Princess Cadence not really talk about it if this did happen to her with you and her being in the hot air balloon accident that crashed at sea and you guys getting picked up by a race of strange creatures called two feet in a giant metal cruise ship?

He said, "Princess Cadence told us after the whole ordeal that she didn't want to come off as crazy. And as part of that she said she would never talk about it to any pony." Celestia said, "That's a pretty wild story but do you have any physical proof that it happened to you ponies before I ask Princess Cadence about it?" Lotto said, "Yes my Princess in that after looking at several of their wheeled machines called cars I built one for myself that runs off of electricity. In fact I drove it here over 600 miles from my home town to come work here." Celestia had a puzzled look on her face and said, "This I must see right away." He said, "I also broke my back leg in the crash when the air ship fell into the sea during the hurricane. I was in extreme pain it would have killed me if I was in Equestria do to our medieval medical treatment. But the two feet had someone over there in the lands called an Equine Vet who works on taking care of a species of larger equines like us. The equines over there in the land of the two feet are highly prized by them. It was one of the reasons why they had a soft spot in helping us."

He pointed at his back leg and she looked at it and saw a spot where there was a red mark under his green fur where the stitches used to be at that had healed over time. He said, "What happened was the back leg bone had became dislodged when it broke and the vet had to carefully cut it open and reshape the deformed bone to make it fit back into place again. They then sealed it up with the stitches and it healed by itself several weeks later. She looked over it and said, "I don't think you would make up something like this to me. Besides whoever did treat you looked like they did a very good job with it in how clean it has healed. Celestia didn't know what to say about the east in that him seeing a group of creatures called Two Feet is like getting picked up by space aliens in Equestria. She said in her soft voice, "I would really like to see that wheeled car thing of yours that you built?" He said, "Yes my Princess it is like nothing you have seen before." The voice in the back of her head seemed satisfied for now and it stopped upsetting her as if it was maybe it tired of the daily grind of castle work most likely and wanted to see something different.

They both went out to the royal carriage house which had dozens of wagons and her flying golden chariot part in it. They walked along and he pointed at the four wheeled truck and Princess Celestia looked back at it and found it quite strange in that it was made out of metal and had four rubber tires instead of wood. He got into it and sat down in a custom built seat built for ponies. Along with that he had the gas pedal and gear shifts and steering wheel all refitted for a pony to drive along with the seat belts made for ponies. She said in all my years of ruling I have never really seen any machine like this before."

Princess Celestia got in and sat down and put on the seat belt copying Lotto and said, "Ok now so what does this thing do now?" He started it up and pushed a few levers and it started backing up under its own power. He turned it around until they were facing the street. He stopped it and said, "This is what it does it drives under its own power the Two Feet get into these things and drive wherever they want on giant paved roads called Freeways." She said, "Sounds very interesting to see four or six or ten rows of these things driving side by side with one another down one of those freeways." He said, "It's interesting but the two feet sometimes don't like it and have told us that we have it a lot better than they do."

She said, "They are most likely right but this is a very interesting ride." He drove it for two to three miles to let her get the feel of it at 25 miles an hour. The 1920's like truck rocket back and forth as it hit ever rut and pot hole and root in the old dirt and gravel road. Celestia also found herself getting very dirty from all the dirt and dust that was kicked up by the truck driving down the road even though she was inside of it. Instead of getting upset like he expected her too she was enjoying it despite getting out of the truck in a brownish red all over her snow white fur coat. She looked at him and said, "Thank you Lotto it was very fun glad to break away from the boring old Canterlot noble life for a few hours. She said, "The only thing I hope now my royal repair pony is that you fixed the castle's hot water and my shower." He said, "Yes I did my Princess." She smiled and said, "Very good indeed.

They pulled back to the castle and Lotto nodded good evening to her and she smiled and nodded back. She walked into her royal bath tub to wash herself off of all the grimy red dirt off of her fur and of course she was taking a bubble bath. She washed off all the dust and dirt off of her snow white fur and ears and looked across the room at a mirror and at herself looking back at her. Suddenly she heard the voice of herself say, "That was an extent ride in that new self powered wheeled machine Lotto built Tia could we do some more of this. I must have more of this affection?" She said, "Yes I did very much did enjoy myself on that afternoon drive. I would very much like to do this again sometime again with him. But I worry now though if Lotto says what he saw was true about all the things the Two Feet can do without magic how could that affect us in Canterlot If say Earth Ponies or the Diamond Dogs started to modernize and we didn't what things could they do if their tech where able to match our Knowledge of magic?" She looked back at herself in the mirror and said, "Tia you know as much as I do the whole story about the magic less high tech Two Feet sounds silly in my opinion. But even if those two footed creatures are not real these machines that he did show us might be here to stay even if we want them to or not so we might have to start to get ready for them if we are to hold on to Canterlot Castle."

She said back to the mirror, "I still think those former stitches on his back leg though might be the real deal though. Besides why would he tell a story like that to me about something like that affects his health of working here for us. From what he said about how bad his health was if some pony or two feet didn't help him he would be unable to work as my royal repair pony. If that stitches where done by someone or some pony they must have done a really good job and most likely knew what they were doing. Besides if what Lotto did with several other ponies in building a few small batches of horseless wagons by way of these new inventions that he saw in some fictional land that the some fictional creatures known as two feet drive around in. that could change things for us even if the two feet are not real but the horseless wagons are real. These are the things we should look out for in our kingdom's upcoming future."

She said, "I guess we are going to have to embrace these new things and try to adapt to them then try and hold them back by holding on to the past." She said, "Very well Tia now with this said you still know what you have to do for me." Tia said, "I don't know where would I begin I haven't thought of it in over a 1000 years or so." She said, "It's very easy find me some pony that is very intelligent and above all not from around here in that they all seem to be one family from the same gene pool which I can't stand." She said, "I see but I really don't know the first thing about things like that."

Princess Celestia thought to herself a little bit and said to everyone in the room in her soft voice, "Today I would like to bring to everyone's attention that Equestria has been greeted by what is called the horseless wagon." Every pony looked back at her like they didn't know what she was talking about but listened. She said, "My royal repair pony Lotto showed me this wheeled machine that is able to drive very fast by itself called a truck. It is able to carry ten times the load a normal pony and cart can carry at much higher speeds. But its main flaw is that it can't drive that well on our primitive old dirt roads by itself. To address this and to address that it might be a part of our kingdom's future. I'm going to commission the royal engineers to build an experimental three mile section of modern paved highway built out of the old dirt road to be able to carry more of these heavy metal wheeled trucks and cars known by some as horseless wagons.

Several of the unicorn nobles said, "Your majesty are you sure that we should expend so many resources for some experimental project for some type of strange wheeled self powered machine that in itself is another simple experiment that might not work?" She said, "I'm sure we should at least give it a try incase it turns out to be a part of the future or not."

The next morning Princess Celestia had Lotto meet her in the royal throne room and from the looks of it looked very important. She said, "Lotto my royal repair pony I have a royal challenge for you. You see I have decided to have an experimental three mile section of modern road like you saw in the land of the Two Feet built to carry the weight of your truck. I'm doing this in that a part of me suspects that sooner or later Canterlot will be hit by waves of change soon. And something also tells me that these cars and trucks along with modern roads might be the wave of the future."

He said, "Yes my Princess I expect your royal challenge about this small experimental modern highway project. But I will need a list of materials and several other things too for it." She said, "That should be easy make up a list like you usually do for your daily building supplies and I will approve funding for it." He said, "Thank you my Princess I will make sure it is up to your high quality building standards."She said, "I do have several concerns about spending quite a bit of resources on this project and that is will the regular none motorized wagons and carts be able to use it once it is done if the waves of cars like you talk about never come?" Lotto said, "They should be able to in fact they might even do a lot better once we knock out and straighten some of the curves on the old dirt trail. It will be a lot drier when we put in culverts in over some of the low lying creek areas along it and fill in some of the depressions too. Once I'm done with this one section of old dirt trail that I'm thinking about working on it will make the distant between Canterlot and Manehatten two miles shorter. It should save 30 minutes off of the trip.

She said in her soft voice, "Is this thing could to be like one of those giant ten lane wide freeways like the ones you saw in the Land on the Other Side?" He said, "No a rural two lane paved county road would work great for us and this project. I remember seeing several very nice ones while over there. The giant freeways allowed no none motorized wagons on them do to the very high speeds everyone was driving on them. Also they were mainly built to handle the populations of tens of millions of cars and trucks between the vast mega cities of the two feet while we barely have a few ten thousand ponies in Canterlot. "She said, "Sounds good but could you bring me some ideas for drawings of it tomorrow morning." Yes my Princess."