Chapter 9
The Trade Is Set
the crash site of the ship
Randy was ravaging through the remains of the crash site and looked around for the dead guards that were slaughtered by the prince. This was his punishment for trying to make off with a few bits from the stash that he found, and as punishment, he was ordered to find and obtain the armor from the dead guards to make blue prints for the Ironclad soldiers new armor, and while he was out there, he could scout around for any civilizations that could be of means of trading to bring in more money for the village. As Randy continued to look around in the wreck, he could not believe what he had to do, just because he took a little money on the side.
"This is bullshit, I take a few bits for myself and now I'm out here looking for corpses, that Sergei's gotta lighten up." Randy whined as he picked up pieces of the ship and chucked them everywhere.
Finally Randy found the dead guards laying against the walls, right where the prince had left them, as he got closer, he realized that they were rotting and they smelled terrible. Randy held his nose in disgust and got closer and slowly removed the armor, the helmets and even the spears from both guards. With the equipment in his hands, he ran for the exit as fast as he could, and the minute he exited the ship he threw up from the nasty smell the bodies gave off.
"Jesus Christ! they only died two days ago!" he exclaimed as he caught his breathe and calm down. He was then going to leave with all the things he collected, when suddenly, he saw something flashing over the side edge of the Canterlot mountain. Curiosity overwhelmed his caution to stand clear of Canterlot as he ventured to the mountain.
When he came to the base of the mountain, he then walked closely around the base around the mountain. suddenly the flash appeared again only this time, it was brighter and a little clearer than before, he was then going to run out until he stopped, and sensed something wrong, he then looked up and saw it. He was right under the city of Canterlot, he then began to case around the city till his keen eye spotted a problem. There was a sentry on the walls looking out where Randy needed to go, Randy needed to think of something to take care of the sentry, and finally it hit him. Randy dropped his equipment, except for one of the spears, he saw the sentry and began to aim the spear at the sentry, with a keen eye he zero'd in the target and threw the spear high into the mountainous city, by some miracle the spear made it all the way up to the walls and went directly into the neck of the Canterlot sentry, who gripped the spear before falling from the walls, all they way to the ground, landing hard at Randy's feet. As the guard laid dead, Randy saw something of interest, a cross bow on the back of the sentry.
"Oh hell yeah, thank you, man with all this stuff I may get me out of the dog house for sure." Randy said as he took the cross bow and picked up the rest of the equipment. He then looked out to the flashing light and as he walked closer to it, he finally found what he needed to find.
It was a fairly large town that sat in the distance, its seemingly rich look and activity was like gold to Randy. Randy then excitedly ran to the town as fast as he could, he had never felt so over joyed to see civilization in his life, even if it was ran by ponies. Finally after a ten minute sprint to the town, he stopped right outside the walls of the town to catch his breath."This is great, this may get me back into the good graces of prince Silas, I must report this." he said to himself. Suddenly he looked to his intercom that was surprisingly still on, "I wonder." he thought.
He began toying with the radio part of his intercom till he began to hear voices, he then tried to speak into the intercom, trying to see if anyone could reach him, finally a voice came through, "Randy is that you?" said the voice.
Randy instantly recognized it as prince Silas, "yes sir! listen, i got good news."Randy replied.
Suddenly another voice came through, "Hey! did you get the armor!" the voice yelled.
Randy recognized it as Sergei and frowned, "yeah I got the armor comrade, don't worry about it" Randy said mocking Sergei."Anyway, good news sir, I have found us a civilization of interest." he started as he began pacing around the walls of the town."Its a decent sized town, and it appears to be quite prosperous." He proudly said
"Excellent Randy, just send me the coordinates to the town and i will be there as soon as possible." the prince ordered.
"Yes sir and may i ask-" Randy was then cut off when he suddenly bumped into three fillies, knocking all three of them to the ground. "WHOA!...um...hi." Randy simply said as the fillies got up. As they got up their appearance was made clear, one filly was an earth pony with a yellow coat, a red mane and tail, dirty gold colored eyes and a pink bow in her mane. Another was a unicorn with a white coat, light pink and purple mane and tail, and green eyes. The last filly was a Pegasus with an orange coat, a purple mane and tail and purple eyes. What was different to Randy was the fact that all three fillies did not have their cutie marks, the fillies looked real scared of Randy, but the earth pony manage to swallow her fear and speak.
"Um...hi."she said fearfully.
Randy noticed that the fillies were scared and kneeled as he slowly moved closer to them, "aww your bunch of cute little fillies, whats your names?" Randy asked softly.
"Apple Bloom."said the earth pony
"Sweetie Bell." said the unicorn.
"Scootaloo." said the Pegasus.
"Wow, those are pretty names, tell me young ones, what town is this?" Randy asked gently.
"Its Ponyville sir." Apple bloom said.
"Really, thank you for the information." He thanked.
"Um sir, what are you?" Sweetie bell asked.
"Yeah, no offense, but your really weird looking."Scootaloo said.
Randy just smiled at the fillies, "I'm a human young ones, my name is Randy Gavins, me and my friends came here from the sky, we are lost and i was asked to find a civilization and its ruler, for our leader." Randy explained.
"Ooh ooh, princess Twilight just got back from her visit to princess Celestia, you could talk to her." Sweetie bell exclaimed happily.
Randy's eyes widened dramatically at the mention of princess Celestia, but then smirked, "really? well thank you for the info little filly, now i must see this Twilight you speak of, and you should get back to your parents, they must be worried about you." Randy said as he then entered the town.
"Bye!" the three fillies called out as they left. Randy just waved them off as he ventured into the town.
As Randy entered the town, he was already receiving frighten and confused looks from all the towns folk. He just ignored them as he came to the town center to search for this princess. suddenly out of nowhere he hit in the back by a mare Pegasus pony with a cyan blue coat, a deep rainbow mane and tail, magenta eyes, and a cutie mark of a cloud with a rainbow colored lightning bolt. Randy only stumbled forward before regaining his balance, dropped the equipment and turned to see his attacker, and glare right at her.
"What the hell is your problem!" Randy roared.
The Pegasus just stared back at him, "I don't know what you are or where you came from creature, but i sense trouble with you, leave Ponyville immediately foul beast." the Pegasus ordered.
Randy just tensed up and prepared to fight, "Make me you rainbow bitch." Randy insulted.
Suddenly the Pegasus flew right at Randy and struck him right in the face with a good right hoof, but Randy didn't even get moved from it. He smiled as he shook the punch off, allowing the Pegasus to back up with surprise in his resilience to her attack. She then gritted her teeth and charged to give him a hard buck, but her buck was stopped cold by Randy grabbing her back hooves and throwing her back a few feet. As she got up, she then took flight and circled around Randy trying to throw him off, but Randy merely walked to the edge of the circle she made and extended his arm out, right in the path of the circle, and sure enough the pony was closed line by Randy's arm and she fell on her back, Randy then tried to stomp on her, but she manage to buck him in the face and escape. Randy was taken back by the buck to the face, his lip was even bleeding, that angered Randy and he turned to see the Pegasus charging at full speed towards him. Finally Randy had enough of these games, and reared back a hard right fist, he waited for the Pegasus to get closer, and just as she came almost to his face, Randy perfectly timed it and punch the Pegasus so hard that she lost four teeth, gained a broken nose and had bruises all over her face. She was sent flying right into a large tree that turned out to be a house of some kind, as the Pegasus fell to the ground unconscious, Randy walked over and put his foot on the ponies neck, threatening to end her life.
"Stop please, that's my friend your hurting." a voice rung out.
Randy turned to see none other than princess Twilight with a worried look on her face as she looked to her downed friend. Randy slowly lifted his foot of the Pegasus, picked up his equipment and walked casually to Twilight who stood her ground as she came face to face with Randy.
"You must be princess Twilight." Randy guessed.
"Yes, and you must be one of the humans i have heard a lot about." Twilight replied back.
"Yes, the name is Randy Gavins, I am a servant to the great prince of earth, Prince Silas Cosmos." Randy said with pride.
"That must be the leader i heard about." Twilight guessed
"Yeah, so you heard about us huh, let me guess, Celestia told you about us." Randy guessed again.
"Yes, she told us everything about all of you humans."she answered.
"So let me guess, you want to arrest me for my crimes and bring me before her don't you?" Randy said as he clenched his fist, ready for a fight.
"No, I don't want any trouble, I just want to know what you humans want with Ponyville." Twilight answered
Randy then smiled at her cooperation, "Well I'm sure prince Silas is on his way to explain what we need from you, so all we can do is wait for him to arrive." Randy said
"Agreed, guards! take Rainbow Dash to the hospital, while me and the human go to the library." Twilight yelled out to a group of Ponyville guards, giving away the name of the Pegasus.
"Yes princess!" the guards said as they rushed to the downed Pegasus and carried her to the hospital.
Twilight on the other hand stood with Randy who directed him to the big tree house and walked to it with Randy close behind her.
Few hours later
Prince Silas was coming in for a landing at Ponyville, along with his new personal guards. Upon landing landing, Ponyville gathered around to watch as the prince and the guards stepped out of the steel chariot. As the prince looked around, he smiled and continued through the crowd with his guards at his side, suddenly he noticed a certain rainbow maned pony, who was now bandaged up staring at him and he gradually walked to her and bent down to meet her face to face.
"If i had to guess, i think you may know where one of my own is." the prince guessed.
Rainbow Dash just kept staring silently at the prince who only chuckled at her resilience.
"the prince needs an answer from you!" one of the guards demanded.
Finally Rainbow bowed her head down in defeat and pointed to the big tree in the center of town, "he's in there with princess Twilight, they are...expecting you." Rainbow said as she walked off.
"Thank you and sorry for the beating he gave you!" the prince called out.
The Pegasus just snorted before taking off while the prince and guard chuckled at the joke. They then regain composure and walked to the tree, as they entered, the prince was happy to see Randy and the princess sipping tea and waiting patiently for Silas. Upon noticing the prince, Randy jumped from his seat and saluted the prince.
"Good to see you again prince Silas sir!." Randy exclaimed.
"At ease Randy."the prince ordered. Randy then dropped his salute and sat down revealing the things he took from the guards at the crash site."Are those the armors Randy?" Silas asked.
"Yes sir, I even got the helmets and spears and even a cross bow." Randy replied.
"Well done Randy, this will get you out of the trouble you were in." the prince ensured
Twilight then cleared her throat to gain the princes attention, "You must be the leader, prince Silas right?" Twilight asked.
Silas then sat down and poured himself a cup of tea while his guards stood at his side, "Yes I am, and you are?" he replied.
"Princess Twilight, ruler of Ponyville and former student of princess Celestia." Twilight answered, making the prince as well as the guards tense up.
"Really? so I'm assuming you know of us and what occurred between us and your princesses of the day and night." Silas assumed.
"Yes, but the truth is, I don't want any trouble with you, I heard of your skills and they are something that must be respected, so i ask you, what is you want from us?" Twilight asked bravely.
Silas smiled, "Well as you know, me and my friends reside in a village on the other side of the mountain known as Ironclad, and I have chosen to rebuild the village and improve it into a large kingdom, and to make it the perfect home for me and whats left of my crew, and to rebuild the village, we need money, so what i need from you is for you to open up a trade route between Ironclad and Ponyville."We will receive sixty percent income of bits and supplies, while you benefit with forty percent income, its not much, but you can still make a profit."the prince explained to Twilight.
Twilight looked deep into her thoughts and came to her decision, "very well, I will accept your proposition and open trade with Ironclad...on one condition."Twilight said.
"Name it."Silas said with a sly smile.
"I know of the bad blood that has rose between you and Canterlot, and honestly, I want nothing to do with it, I wish for Ponyville to remain neutral in these new times, so all i ask is to take blame for any causes that may occur in the future and leave us out of any confrontation you may encounter with the princesses." Twilight negotiated.
Silas just smiled and held out his hand, "deal."Silas simply said.
Twilight reached out with her hoof and Silas grasped it and shook on it, completing the trade deal."Thank you for understanding our needs prince Silas."Twilight said.
"Thank you for the deal princess, you know, your a lot nicer than those other princesses are, smarter too." the prince replied."Come now everyone, we must go back to Ironclad and give the good news."Silas ordered as he and his subjects left with the supplies from the dead guards.
As they all walked to the chariot, Silas turned to Randy and smiled, "I think you have earned these Randy." Silas said giving Randy a few bits.
Randy chuckled, "thank you sir." he replied.
"And with these weapons and armor, we can make weapons and armor for the guards, this will get you out of the dog house Randy."Silas said as they entered the chariot.
"Um sir, is this chariot safe?"Randy asked.
"Yes Randy, it is quite safe, now get in." Silas replied getting Randy to get on the chariot as it took off. As they all made to go back to Ironclad, the prince was happy, now knowing that their growth of Ironclad was now in full affect.
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