//------------------------------// // To Find Rainbow Dash // Story: True Harmony // by ddstory25 //------------------------------// They got into Ponyville, and not a moment too soon. As they did, the ground turned into bright pink polka dotted carpets, and the sun had just moved really high into the sky, even higher than its natural peak when it was acting normal. Twilight looked at the sky, then back at the ground, a worried look on her face. “We had better hurry up - things are getting worse by the minute. Let's go get that hot-air balloon.” Applejack piped up, “It should be in the center of town near Sugarcube Corner.” They started to run in that direction and quickly got to the pony running the hot-air balloon rides. But when they got their the mare yelled “Forget this I’m outta here.” She grabbed the aviator cap from her head and threw it at the ground, before she ran away, leaving the mane four looking on in confusion. When they looked back, they saw what she ran from, it was a tidal wave... about 45 feet tall... of chocolate milk, coming straight for them. They gazed upon it, horror on their faces but Twilight yelling; “We have to get the hot-air balloon in the air now!” The others stopped looking at the tidal wave and turned back to the balloon in front of them. Pinkamena and Applejack jumped into the basket while Twilight looked over the balloon to try and figure out how to make it work in such a short period of time. But Fluttershy looked around and grabbed a rope she found on the ground. She gave it Applejack and yelled confidence in her voice “Lasso it around me and you can direct me where to go. Twilight get next to me and help!” Twilight listened to Fluttershy and did as she was told, before using her magic to pull the heat level on the balloon. The basket quickly lifted, and they were soon in the sky just, before the wave crashed down on Ponyville. Twilight looked down and thought; ‘Oh Ponyville, We’ll fix this I swear. I really hope Starlight and Spike are ok.’ They started traveling northwest since at this time of the year Cloudsdale was near Canterlot. Twilight was happy knowing that since Rarity was in Canterlot and Rainbow in Cloudsdale, it meant they could stop everything soon. While they were on their way to Cloudsdale another letter popped up in front of Twilight. Following her as she flew; with it’s own little pair of wings, she looked at it and squinted. She rolled her eyes at it as she picked it up with her magic and opened it. ‘Twilight, I hope you don’t mind but I increased the difficulty in our game. It looked like the game was far too easy for you since you already have three out of five back. Oh and have you broken my spell yet? I bet not. Well, I also thought you should know it’s been two days now; three left, and I just made Celestia, Luna and Discord start to fight each other, so you may want to hurry. As ever, Dark Blitz’ Twilight was annoyed at the letter and she dropped it from her magic embrace. Then Pinkamena called from the basket, “Who was the letter from? Was it a friend of yours Twilight.” Before Twilight could answer, Fluttershy beat her to it. “It’s from the pony that changed our minds or brainwashed us, umm I think her name was Dark Mits.” Applejack gave a grunt. “Yeah that pony seems to be a might bit o’ trouble, I guess she altered our minds since we all seem to be friends with Twi over there. Besides I ain’t even seen that pony since I joined these two and that’s the first I saw a letter from this pony.” Pinkamena laughed and looked at them. “That’s ok, I can’t wait to remember you guys, you’re all fun in your own right. But I bet I’m the best when it comes to fun.” Twilight smiled since Pinkie was right about that, and for the rest of the way to Cloudsdale the four of them chatted away like everything was fine and the world wasn’t in disarray. They got to Cloudsdale at around maybe noon time on the third day, and Twilight looked back at Applejack and Pinkamena. “I’m going to cast a spell on you two so you can walk on the clouds up here, and you know, not fall through them.” Applejack and Pinkamena nodded and the two were wrapped up in Twilight’s magic as she focused to cast the spell. After Twilight’s horn was no longer glowing, Applejack and Pinkamena jumped out of the basket and landed on the clouds. To their surprise they were walking on the clouds, and it felt like pillows or cotton candy. That's when Pinkie said “Hey this is nice I remember doing this to help Rainbow Dash once but I don’t remember what the event was for. Also rainbows are spicy so don’t taste any ok guys.” Twilight smiled as one of her friends seemed to be breaking the spell they were under, slowly but surely. Applejack nodded in agreement. Fluttershy looked in deep thought, looking up with a smile. “Rainbow used to live on Fluffy Street, but I don’t know where she would be now, since, well, everything is crazy.” She was right; all the clouds were now pinks and blues instead of snow white like they should have been. The buildings were made of cotton candy, one of Discord’s favorites, and any buildings that were left untouched by Discord’s magic cotton candy were turned into trees with wings. Cloudsdale looked like a mass of chaos but it was next to Canterlot, and from up there Canterlot looked worse. With houses made of cake and street signs dancing down there - Twilight was glad they were up in the clouds first. So the group walked around for a few hours, trying to find Rainbow Dash with, no such luck. Applejack stopped, and called to the others. “Why don’t we just ask some ponies if they know Rainbow Dash? We may find her quicker, and besides, it's been about two hours now and we haven’t found her ourselves.” Twilight looked over at her and gave a nod. “Applejack’s right, let's split up and look around if we still can’t find her then we have to ask somepony. Lets meet back here in, I don’t know, maybe an hour.” Everypony agreed and they all went in different directions to find Rainbow Dash. Twilight went west, Fluttershy north, Pinkamena south and Applejack east. After an hour of searching, or at least it seemed like it was an hour, the gang regrouped at the corner they said they would meet at. Pinkamena was the first to say anything. “I didn’t find anything about Rainbow Dash and nopony would really talk to me. They all just said it was strange to see a earth pony in Cloudsdale.” Applejack nodded in agreement. “I just got the same responses from the ponies I talked to, but some of them said they knew Rainbow Dash, but they didn’t know were she was right now. They think she may work in the weather factory.”