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I was asleep. I was sleeping peacefully. I may have been sleeping on the floor despite not camping but I was sleeping peacefully when something…dreadful happened. Usually, when I wake up, it's either because I just woke up when the sun was out or because the birds were chirping outside. Instead of anything like that, I heard this annoying beeping sound that seemed to beep every two seconds. I tried to sleep through it but it just didn't stop beeping. "Come on Twilight, wake up!" I heard Stella's voice say right when the terrible beeping noise stopped. "Is it morning already?" I asked as I slowly sat up while rubbing my eyes. "Well, in a few moments, it will be. First, I have something that I want to show you." Stella said in a very excited voice. I still wasn't fully awake yet but I was able to get up on my hooves rather quickly. I then put on my new necklace and I was ready to go. "Was there something you wanted to show me, Stella?" I asked in a curious voice. "Right here," Stella said as she then handed me what appeared to be a shopping bag. "I didn't have much time to wrap it," Stella said as I carefully opened the bag and saw something I wasn't expecting. "Figured you would need a uniform for this job. It's the policy after all." Stella said as I took a look at my supposed new uniform. It was green, almost looked like an apron and the best part, it looked like it was made for a pony or in this case, me. "It looks amazing. I can't thank you enough Stella." I said with visible happiness in my voice. "Oh, it was nothing. It's a good thing that I know how to sow, or in this case, move the sleeves around." Stella said in a happy voice. With a little bit of help, I put on the uniform and took a look at myself in the same mirror as last time. I was starting to like this new look the more I looked at it and honestly, I think I wanted to keep it. I don't know why other than I liked it but I wanted to just keep it for a while. "Now we have to act fast. The sun is starting to rise and that's when more people are out and about so we should get going." Stella said as we wasted no time. Stella then grabbed her uniform and we were out the door at approximately 5.38 seconds. We then walked along the same walkway as last night and in a few minutes, we arrived at the same strip-like area to find something that we both did not expect. Remember that mob from before? The one that tried to capture me and what we wanted to avoid? "Seriously, it's not even six and there's at least over like 50 people here!" Stella whispered loudly as we ducked behind one of the walls. "So, what do we do?" I asked while trying not to burst into full-on panic mode, even though I was already most of the way there while I tried to think of an idea. "Hm, perhaps maybe they won't recognize you one-to-one?" Stella asked in an optimistic voice. "Listen up everyone!" A voice from the mob of people said. "We know that the purple unicorn is here! Maybe in this very mall itself. We shall check every store, every dumpster, everywhere here. If we don't find it, we keep looking throughout this city until we find that purple unicorn! WE SHALL NOT REST TILL THEN!" One of the humans yelled as the other humans raised their hands in what seemed like agreement. "Well, just when we thought this would be easy," Stella said in a disappointed voice. "Hm, maybe we could just wait them out?" I asked as the idea just appeared in my head. "I don't think that's going to happen, plus I have to open the shop in about five minutes, not to mention I do have to get you situated so we need a quicker plan," Stella said as something crossed my mind…and my nose. "Wait a second, what are these bags doing out here?" I asked as I caught the same, awful smell as yesterday when I landed in that garbage bin. "Those are garbage bags. I think they were just left out here for who knows how long." Stella said when she stopped. "Stella?" I asked. "I just had an idea," Stella said. "Hey Stella, isn't it a little early to be taking the trash out?" I heard one of the humans say in a laughing voice. "Just emptying my trash. Not a big deal." I heard Stella say in a somewhat annoyed voice. As I was sitting in the trash bag, trying not to make any noise whatsoever, I held my breath to the best of my ability, considering that it also smelled pretty bad. After what seemed like a minute or two, Stella set the bag down and I was able to crawl myself out of there as I could finally breathe. "Ugh, what leftover food was in there?" I asked as I tried my best to remove the smell from my nose. "Wipe that awful smell and let me show you around Twilight!" Stella said as I stood back up and followed her as fast as I could into the kitchen from before. "So this right here is the kitchen. Over here are all of the needed ingredients and instructions." Stella was explaining as she showed me all of the ingredients. A few I was able to recognize from Equestria like the milk and eggs but a few of the appliances like this glass bowl, I didn't recognize. "That right there is the blender. You just put a bunch of ingredients into the blender and it blends them, creating a combined liquid. A lot of our drinks have them so you must know what to put in every time." Stella explained in a serious voice. "Well, I am good with paying attention." I said. "Alright, you'll do great Twilight." Stella said. "I hope so." I said just when I heard something…open. "Just remember to stay here so you don't get spotted. I'll handle the cashier." Stella said as she quickly rushed out of the kitchen. I then closed my eyes as I took a deep breath. "You got this Twilight. I mean, how hard could it possibly be? The worst thing you could do is mess up so badly that you cause some sort of accident which leads you and Stella to get exposed, you get shipped off to who knows where and never find your way out and never see any human or pony including your friends for the rest of your-" I thought when something snapped me out of my fearful thinking. "I need one Java Chip Frappuccino. The same one from before." I heard Stella's voice say. "One Java Chip, coming up!" I said as I looked over and saw the same instructions from last night. I then got out the required ingredients and began to follow the instructions the same way only this time, I knew exactly what to do. Now that I didn't need to be so quiet, I could finally operate the blender with ease so I didn't need to substitute that step with breaking each ingredient down this time and it made my job a bit easier. I then pulled out the whipped cream and mocha and I began to drizzle them on top of the drink. "Order up!" I said as I placed the drink on top of the serving window, to which Stella picked it up. "Order for Anderson." Stella then said as a teenager then stood up to pick up the drink and walked out of the door. "Not bad for your second drink and first customer Twilight." Stella said in a very happy voice. "Thanks, Stella. I wasn't entirely sure that making drinks would be this fun." I said in a very happy voice. "Well, I'm very glad." Stella said right when the door opened. "Another customer, keep it up!" Stella said as she went over to the register. "On it!" I said as Stella gave me another order of a Mocha Frappuccino Blended Beverage. This went on for a while as Stella kept giving me order after order and I continued to make order after order. I wasn't expecting to have this much fun making drinks for a species that wanted to capture me but I enjoyed it a lot. Perhaps when I get back to Equestria, I could try and make these drinks at Golden Oak since they're just so good. While I was enjoying making the drinks for the humans, I'm guessing I lost track of time as when I saw the outside, the sun was starting to set. "Well, how was your first day of work?" Stella asked in a semi-tired voice. "I enjoyed it quite a lot. Who knew I would be so good at making drinks?" I said in a very calm and happy voice. "Well, that's the end of our shifts. Just let me close up shop and we can return home." Stella said as she then went into the kitchen while I headed towards the front counter where I was admiring the design. Shortly afterward, she closed up the shop and we headed outside as we headed home…

Or that's what I thought was going to happen… As Stella and I were trotting away from the store, checking to see if anyone was there at the strip mall, we saw two people who were talking behind an all-black car. "Sir, we've arrived at the mall you spoke about." The person said as Stella and I froze. "We better hide," Stella said as we hid behind one of the planter boxes near some old benches. "If that unicorn is here, we'll bring it back to base at once and lock it up. We don't know what it's truly capable of." The person said as he along with the other humans looked at each other and trotted away from our hiding place. I don't exactly know what was going through Stella's head but I can say that I was freaking out. "Why is everyone here trying to capture me? I'm just an alicorn." I said with fear in my voice. "Well, alicorns are mythical creatures in this world, knowing that they exist, the government would surely want to see one for itself," Stella explained with a worried look on her face. "Wait, what's the government? I asked in a confused voice. "I'll explain later, right now, we need to go," Stella said as we both wasted no time as we rushed out of the mall when the humans entered one of the other stores. "We better get back to my room," Stella said as I agreed as we rushed out of the area as sneakily as we could. That was a close one for sure…I just hope that I can keep my cover…or get locked up elsewhere. This day just got even more interesting…scary and something even better to write about.