//------------------------------// // Chapter 7 // Story: Dream of Flight // by Blueheartpegasus //------------------------------// Pinkie Pie bounced around. she saw nothing suspicious- this world seemed remarkably like her own. Same type of houses, same gardens, even the same pets. But there seemed to be many more towns and less nature. She started humming a song to herself as she looked around for something that might be tied to the imbalance. "Come on everypony, smile smile smile, fill my heart up with sunshine sunshine, all I really need is a smile smile smile, from these happy friends of miiiine." she hummed. "How can I smile?" someone asked. Pinkie turned to see a sad-looking brown Earth Pony stallion. "Well, it's easy, silly!" Pinkie Pie raced over to him and stretched his mouth into a smile. Once she took her hooves away, the smile faded. "I've been turned into a strange creature that I know nothing about." he said, his hazel eyes brimmed with sadness. "How can I smile when I'm as lost and confused as I am now?" "Aww, don't be sad." Pinkie said, "I like to make everypony smile! I will fix this so everypony in this universe will smile too!" She looked around. Nothing looked that strange. She turned to the stallion. "Have you seen anything that looks strange around here?" He thought about it. "There's the tower in that direction. It's rumored that at night, it has a strange glow." "Great!" Pinkie clapped her hooves together in triumph. "I will make you smile again!" and, because it would be quicker than bouncing, she galloped off in the direction the Earth Pony had told her. ---- Rainbow Dash looked around her from where she sat on a cloud. She saw the galloping form of Pinkie Pie far below. That was strange, Pinkie usually bounced instead of galloping. She corkscrewed down towards the pink Earth Pony and stopped right before she hit the ground. She flew beside Pinkie and asked, "Have you found anything." "A sad Earth Pony told me that there was a glowing tower in thi direction." Pinkie nodded forward, "It might be what Celestia was talking about!" "Let's check it out." Rainbow grabbed Pinkie Pie's forelegs and pulled her up into the air. "What about Blue Heart?" Pinkie asked. "After we find the tower." Rainbow carried Pinkie Pie through the sky as fast as she could, looking for said tower. ---- "Blue Heart!" Twilight saw the little blue filly waving from high above. "You're safe! Rainbow's out looking for you." "Well, I'm fine." The Pegasus that Blue Heart had been riding landed and she jumped off. "This is my friend, Emily." "Hello, Twilight." Emily waved with her forehoof. "I know about what's going on, and I want to help." "You're a human, though, right?" Twilight looked at Emily. "Yes, and even though I've always wanted to be a pony, I have to help my universe right itself!" "Great Idea!" Twilight looked around at the nervous ponies. "I think we need Pinkie Pie to calm these ones down. Emily, can you go find her and Rainbow? I sent Rainbow looking for Blue Heart, and I sent Pinkie looking for something that might have anything to do with the imbalance. Rainbow is a blue-" "I know who everypony is, I'll be fine." and Emily took off, dashing through the sky. ---- "I think that's it!" Pinkie exclaimed. they were approaching a big Bell Tower. "Alright." Rainbow said. She slowed down and they landed safely at the foot of the tower. After looking it over, Rainbow turned to Pinkie. "It looks normal, but I think we should look inside." "Okey Dokey!" Pinkie clopped happily to the foot of the tower, found the door, and twisted it the doorknob with her mouth. She clopped inside, but clopped right back out, looking scared. "It's dark in there." She had her ear laid back. "It's scary dark. Not the I-can-laugh-it-away scary, either. A bad kind of scary." "Let me go in." Rainbow trotted in, and instantly knew what Pinkie was talking about. It was pitch black, and it seemed that the very taste of the air made her feel scared. She kept trying to go on, but her fear held her back. Finally, she dashed out. "I see what you mean." Rainbow gasped, trying to calm herself, "We might need a unicorn to light the way in there." "Then we should go get Twilight!" Pinkie said, still shaken by the fear in the tower. "I'll go get her, stay here." Rainbow spread her wings and dashed off into the sky just to collide with a dark teal Pegasus. "Ow!" she and the stranger said at the same time. Then the other Pegasus saw who it was she had collided with. "Rainbow Dash!" she exclaimed. Rainbow was surprised. "You know me? Who are you?" "My name's Emily, I'm a human from this world and a friend of Blue Heart's." she spoke quickly, "I know all about the situation. Blue Heart is fine and she's with Twilight. I've been sent to find you and Pinkie." "Pinkie's down there." Rainbow pointed to Pinkie, who was watching from below. "We think we found the source of the imbalance in this world." "That means that we need to tell Twilight and Blue Heart!" Emily looked delighted. "I'll go get them, then we can meet back here!" ---- About an hour later, Twilight, Blue Heart, Emily, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie were all sitting around the Bell tower. Emily looked beside her, and saw that Blue Heart was trembling. She pulled the filly close and wrapped a leg around her. "It's okay, I'll protect you." She smiled down at the filly. "I'm like your big sister from another world." "We should explore it." Twilight said. "We'll all go in. I'll lead the way, because I can light it up." She clopped over to the door. "I want Emily and Blue Heart in the middle. they're not really used to this 'saving the world' thing."