The Cutie Mark Crusaders get ponynapped and have to go through four chambers and must find a way out within each one. The Mane 6, however, soon realize and must rescue the CMC before it's too late.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders discover a floating tree and soon continue to walk to it. They discover that the tree is a trap that leads them into four chambers and must find a way to get out. The Mane 6 try to find the missing Cutie Mark Crusaders after learning of their disappearance. They'll have to rescue them, find the pony who ponynapped them and get them home safely. All before time runs out...
Will the Mane 6 rescue the Cutie Mark Crusaders or will they never be seen again?
This is my first fic so, don't expect it to be awesome and don't be mean.
The season of fall or autumn occurred in a relatively smooth transition as the summer was over in the land of Equestria. It has only been a few days since the holiday of Nightmare Night. The weather outside started to become crisp and cool as winter would soon begin to approach.
During this season, Sugarcube Corner saw a boost in sales of pumpkin pie and apples as they were used for apple cider but that only came during cider season somewhat close after the fall began. Lots of things happened during this season, animals started to hibernate, and most importantly the season stood out because of the colors of red, orange, and yellow colors that would appear on the leaves.
The leaves would fall from their prospective trees and 'paint' the ground in a beautiful color. Some would be picked up by ponies who would rake them to keep their yards clean or from colts and fillies who would collect them in large piles to jump in them and create the biggest 'cannonball' yet to come.
Clearly, as for everypony, nothing was going to go wrong... But this, in particular, there were three fillies working hard to earn something they chased all their lives for.
Those group of fillies was called the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
In Ponyville, there were establishments like Sweet Apple Acres, that belonged to the Apple Family. But in one part of Sweet Apple Acres, there was the clubhouse of the Cutie Mark Crusaders. In there they would discuss what to do to get their cutie marks - mostly.
"Well, I dunno. Do you see a way doing it?" Scootaloo asked. The Cutie Mark Crusaders were in their treehouse, discussing other ideas to receive their cutie marks.
Scootaloo was the only pegasus who didn't have the ability to fly, but she was strong on the ground like she would be in the air.
"No, I don't but we could try!" Sweetie Belle said as she pointed a hoof at Scootaloo who then thought about the idea.
Sweetie Belle was the only unicorn in the clubhouse, she wasn't good with magic to start with. She has never been, but she would learn in the future, for now, she was no good as much as she'd try.
Then came an excited Apple Bloom. The only Earth Pony in the clubhouse, she was (obviously because of the name) a part of the Apple family with a country accent.
"Don't worry girls! I'll get the To-Do List, so we'll get every idea we have!" Apple Bloom exclaimed, rushing to get the list underneath the podium, grabbing it, and setting it down near the 'great idea spot'. "Great, now here we did-" Apple Bloom suddenly felt a small, dry, sharp, pointy object on her back. Out of shock, she then jumped out followed by a short scream. "SPIDER!" She dashed quickly leaving behind a silhouette of clouds outlining where she was standing. She went to the corner of the clubhouse, in fear of almost getting bitten.
Out of curiosity Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo both looked back to her and saw no spider, but however, saw a leaf slowly fall toward the floor where Apple Bloom once stood.
"There's no spider, Apple Bloom," Sweetie Belle said, moving closer to the leaf.
"Don't be scared!" Scootaloo said assuring her friend. "It's just a leaf,"
Sweetie Belle then picked up the leaf from the floor. "Yeah, Scootaloo is right! It's just a leaf."
"Yeah! But it scared the apples outta me!" She exclaimed back to Sweetie Belle.
"I know, but-" She was cut off by how the leaf looked. "It's so shiny and yellow. I bet Rarity would love this!" She took the time to inspect it closer on her hoof discovering its own beauty.
Rarity always loved these types of colors, it was the fashion of them that would bring her dresses together during this time of the year. Sweetie Belle was right about this leaf being shiny, it had the color of gold, reflecting any type of light almost like a mirror.
"It looks like it's made of gold!" Scootaloo said amazed by the leaf's perplexity.
Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo had joy in their hearts as they saw this. Apple Bloom soon joined and all three circled around Sweetie's hoof as they were amazed by the texture and brightness of the leaf they had just seen.
More leaves began to fill the room, the fillies took notice as they came from the window beside them.
They all thought of the same question at once. 'Where were they coming from?'
Scootaloo walked toward the small area where the leaves were landing. "Where are they coming from?" She picked up a hoof-full of leaves and inspected them as any detective would.
"Here, I'll take a look outside," Sweetie Belle ran out onto the porch only seeing the endless forest of apple trees.
That didn't help.
She ran around the porch and up the ramp to the upper floor containing a telescope and a blue flag. Once she made it to the top she looked around hoping she could see where the source of the leaves was coming from.
Apple Bloom and Scootaloo soon followed in hopes of having a better chance of finding the strange leaves, "All I see is nothing but apple trees," Sweetie Belle said to the others.
"Try looking through the telescope that'll help, I think," Scootaloo suggested.
Sweetie Belle listened, she shut one eye as she used the other to look through the telescope seeing Ponyville at first. Sweetie Belle moved the telescope toward and above the endless horizon of apple trees. "Wow, is it just me or are there more apple trees than I remembered?" She said, "I mean it must take forever just to buck all of these trees of apple cider season!"
"Yeah, I know it just takes a few days that's all," Apple Bloom replied.
"Ugh! Enough talking about apples!" Scootaloo exclaimed. "Look toward where the window was and find-"
"THERE IT IS!" Sweetie Belle yelled in excitement, surprising Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. "It's a tree!"
"Wait, what?" Apple Bloom asked. "I don't remember planting a tree here in Sweet Apple Acres!"
Sweetie Belle moved to make room for Apple Bloom to see it. She looked through the telescope seeing a tree's branches with golden leaves, strangely higher and behind all of the apple trees. "It's higher than the height of AppleJack's hay stacking," Apple Bloom said shocked and confused as she looked at Sweetie Belle.
"Wait! Let me see!" Scootaloo exclaimed. Apple Bloom moved so she can view it and as she did she looked into the telescope. "Woah! It looks so beautiful, and so..." Scootaloo stopped to think of a new word to describe it.
"Amazing?" Both Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle asked.
"Yeah!"
"Do you know how tall it is?" Sweetie Belle asked Apple Bloom.
"I dunno I have never seen a tree like that before!" Apple Bloom exclaimed before Scootaloo can get an answer.
"Well, there is only one way to find out!" Scootaloo eagerly ran down the ramp and entered the clubhouse with Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle soon following. Scootaloo grabbed their blue with yellow outlined Cutie Mark Crusader capes hanging on the wall next to the door. "We're going to that tree!"
The Cutie Mark Crusaders took their saddlebags and stuffed them with supplies they thought they might need. They also wore their capes as well in hopes to receive a cutie mark during their mini journey.
It had taken them a while to reach this tree, they got somewhat lost as Apple Bloom strangely didn't know this place as best as she should have. The journey was rough and took longer than it should have.
"Girls! I think I see the tree!" Sweetie Belle said seeing an open view behind many apple trees as it cast a shadow over them. It was a dense forest of apple trees, a place Apple Bloom didn't even know.
"I don't remember this part of Sweet Apple Acres here!" Apple Bloom exclaimed.
As Sweetie Belle ran toward the tree, she jumped through a large bush blocking her way to see it. "Woah!"
"Sweetie Belle, wait up!" Apple Bloom called out as she ran toward her to catch up.
"Yeah! Don't hurry so much!" Scootaloo followed.
"Yeah," Apple Bloom agreed. "we could just- what the?" She looked at her surroundings.
"What is it?" Scootaloo said as she walked next to Apple Bloom. Her eyes widened at the view of the astonishing tree.
The tree that they laid their eyes upon was floating. The roots spread out and hovered over the beige grass dropping a shadow underneath the tree. Behind the tree was a dark blue horizon with scattered trees in the distance.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders looked toward the left and right seeing a straight border of apple trees as far as the eye can see.
Apple Bloom couldn't believe what she was seeing.
"That's really high, how are we going to get there?" Sweetie Belle said with confusion.
"I brought some sticks and string in my saddlebag, I bet we could make a ladder," Apple Bloom suggested, it was an okay idea to make but it seemed like it was a good one. "Let's just do it really fast so, Applejack wouldn't notice we were gone for so long,"
"Apple Bloom, how long were we gone?" Scootaloo asked her, to their surprise it was a long time. By this time it was late noon and Apple Bloom was afraid that being gone for so long would indeed raise some questions.
"Um, I dunno an hour?" Sweetie Belle suggested.
"Maybe, so but that doesn't explain all of this!" Apple Bloom pointed her hooves toward the plain field of grass that have appeared. "I bet that even Applejack or even Granny Smith don't know about this!" She exclaimed.
"Maybe, we could get our Cutie Marks for exploring?" Scootaloo suggested. All three of them looked at their Cutie Marks still to no surprise, no Cutie Marks appeared.
"Nope," They all said.
"Well, let's just build a ladder. The sooner we do it, the sooner we get it done!" Apple Bloom said as she bit the strings and sticks materials from her saddlebag, all to make a ladder.
"Yeah, Apple Bloom is right," Sweetie said. "The sooner we get it done, the sooner we get home!"
"Well, alright," agreed Scootaloo.
They all placed their hooves together, "Cutie Mark Crusaders go!" They said as they all raised their hooves in inspiration to complete the journey for their Cutie Marks.
After some time, all three of them made the hoof-made ladder. "Do you think it's safe?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"Of course, it is just look at it!" Scootaloo said in excitement.
What showed was a worn down, low-quality ladder that seemed it couldn't hold ten pounds.
"Uh, maybe, it doesn't look right. At least we did something that we didn't know we could make!" Apple Bloom insisted.
"Yeah, of course, we did!" Sweetie Belle said, "Now, come on let's get to this tree!" They all used their muzzles to raise the ladder against the tree.
"Well, who's gonna go first?!" Apple Bloom asked.
"I will!" Scootaloo exclaimed in excitement, as she began to climb it.
"Be careful!"
"It's okay the ladder won't breeeaaaak!" The ladder started to break and collapse under her. "Nononononono!"
The ladder basically broke itself the sticks that were connected by the strings seemed to be unable to hold her weight.
Scootaloo jumped onto the central trunk of the tree, looking down she saw nothing but sticks and string.
"Are you okay?!" Sweetie Belle shouted above.
"Yeah, I'm alright. I'll try to find a way to bring you up here!"
"All right just be careful!" shouted Apple Bloom.
"Woah," Scootaloo said in amazement, looking at the central trunk.
The center of the tree was hollow and contained little light that filled in the darkness from the outside. As she took a closer look at the hollow tree it began to slowly descend to the ground.
"See it was all a part of my plan!" Scootaloo said, relieved. She saw as Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle followed the tree as it made it's way toward the ground. 'See told ya!" She winked at them.
"Right, it was apart of your 'plan'," Teased Apple Bloom.
In the other hand, Sweetie Belle was amazed by how she did that. "Good job Scootaloo!" She said.
"Thanks!" Cheered Scootaloo proud she did something good.
When Scootaloo helped Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle to onto the roots of the tree it started to float up to its 'normal spot' the same spot and altitude the Cutie Mark Crusader discovered it as it was before. But it floated a little high like, 'It did it for 30 more seconds 'high'.
"We're higher than usual," Scootaloo said remembering how high she was "I was lower than this height!"
"It doesn't matter how high we are at least we got each we will be okay!" Sweetie Belle said cheerfully but a little lightheaded from how high they were.
Both Apple Bloom and Scootaloo nodded in agreement.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders just watched the view as it showed most of Ponyville on a beautiful view. Scootaloo was the first to look back once they stopped raising altitude.
"Look at the staircase I've found!" Scootaloo said, pointing toward the staircase making the two others to look behind and into her direction.
"Looks like some kind of staircase," Scootaloo examined it "Come on, nothing bad would happen, it's just a staircase!"
"Oh really?" Apple Bloom asked as a rhetorical question. "Scootaloo this ain't normal somethin' weird is going on!" Exclaimed Apple Bloom.
"Yeah, let's just take our time and go slow on this," Sweetie Belle said agreeing with Apple Bloom.
"Well, alright. I don't to rush things so..." Scootaloo said sadly.
"It'll be alright, just like Sweetie Belle said, it don't matter what the challenge is as long as we got each other we'll be find," Apple Bloom hugged Scootaloo to her Scoot's suprise.
"Yeah, let's go," They broke up from their hug and continued toward the staircase with, of course, Scootaloo first.
"Just look for any things that might kill us! I don't like this!" Sweetie Belle exclaimed.
"We know just looked behind once in a while so we wouldn't get ponynapped." Apple Bloom was inbetween behind of Scootaloo and ahead of Sweetie Belle. That statement made Sweeite Belle to turn behind her for any suspicious actions. She shivered in fear due to that, remember they were in a dark shadwo and none of that helped.
"Look!" Apple Bloom pointed. Scootaloo was watching her step so she wouldn't trip again. As for Sweetie Belle she looked back and saw a light.
"Wow,!" Scootaloo ran up the stairs onto a smaller platform than the previous and was probably at the tallest point of the tree. "That is the most beautiful view of Ponyville ever!" She cheered as Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom ran up to see the view.
"Wow, you're right Scootaloo, I don't think I've ever saw this!" Sweetie said as she smiled feeling the nice breeze from the side.
"Wow, I'm impressed if ah do say so mah-sel," Apple Bloom looked at Ponyville spotting the Cutie Mark Crusaders clubhouse and the Apple Farm. Sweetie was focusing on the Carousel Boutique. Scootaloo was fousing on trying to find Rainbow Dash.
"Wow, this is awesom-,"She was cut off by a trapdoor was swung open below them makign them fall into a black dark hole. They all realized that the tree was hollow , then slowly the trap door closed. They all called out for help and tried for somepony to get them but they were alone and tired for all of the yelling. They drifted off to sleep.
Sleeping like babies Apple Bloom woke up on a bed.
"Where am Ah?" She said as she woke up to find herself in a dome.
The dome she saw showed a "fake" sky and a moon, but it did look realistic.
But the moon was a bit off, the light illuminated by the moon was much more brighter than that of Luna's. So much so, that, she casted a clear shadow like the Sun but enough bright that she can see the Moon without covering her eyes, unless like Luna's Moon where it's a bit dimmer and not as big. But somehow by memory, she can tell the position of the Moon was the same's as Luna's.
Amazed, she yawned and went back to sleep.
It has been a few hours of rest and now the Cutie Mark Crusaders were waking up around eight o' clock they got up, and rubbed their eyes due to how bright the Sun is (Even though its the same brightness as Celestia's Sun) they trampled to the ground then started to stand.
"Where am I?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"I- Wha?" Scootaloo looked around as well as Sweetie Belle.
"We are in some kind of dome," Apple Bloom said trying to explain the plot to them.
Scootaloo looked up seeing the Sun and some clouds.
"Well, this is... cheery". It was so hard to tell real life and a fake, the Sun looked like a big spotlight with the clouds looking hyper-realistic or just some kind of advanced technology.
Sweetie Belle started to investigate the non-ceiling room, the walls looked like they had moss on it. The room was very different it looked like a dungeon with moss and vines coming over the wall in their room. The architecture looked like it was centuries old and the place was humid and hot. She looked around seeign their beds that were the colors of a white pillow and a red blanket, as she was doing this she spotted a chest.
"What's this?" She said out of curiosity opened it, then heard a loudspeaker with a ringing sound before it can even speak.
"Welcome to the 'Game Show' the 'Cutie Mark Crusaders' say hello to your host, here call me: 'Unknown' anyway, to start this off you are in a dome with the only way to escape is to complete a 32 perimeter mile journey with each chamber being a different theme. The first one is a jungle with ruins and a fortress in it. The second one is a snow the a large building ready to collapse. While all trying to complete obstacles in your way. The third one is a desert with a 'ghost town' in it. And now the fourth one is a mystery to you, you three have to complete all of the three chambers to get to the fourth then escape, the chest one of you have opened has the supplies to go the next chamber. Good Luck!"
"Oh, great now what?" Apple Bloom said to both of them confused and scared.
"I guess we have to do what the 'Unknown' says," Scootaloo said with a worried expression.
"Girls! Look!" Sweetie Belle said finding five loaves of bread and two fish, with some survival gear in the chest, that survival gear was made for a jungle-like survival.
Sweetie Belle gave the gear and the four and a half loaves of bread to Apple Bloom and Scootaloo with the two fish. They put in their items in their saddlebag next on top of their own bed, which had a white pillow and a red blanket.
After they placed everything into their saddlebags they looked and headed toward the door which looked like it had some moss attached to it making looked like Mother Nature took over it.A lot of years about 800 give or take it was a metal bar door that was rusty making it easy to break down.
Scootaloo tried to break down the door by bucking it down.
"Here, I got this," Apple Bloom insisted.
"No, no don't," Scootaloo said stopping Apple Bloom dead in her tracks. "Sweetie Belle give me your axe," Sweetie Belle 'hoofed' the axe to Scootaloo.
Scootaloo hit the lock on the bar-door which then broke it down. Scootaloo bucked it again making it turn 180 degrees to the left then falling down showing the backside of the door which looked much worse than the side they saw into the room it looked like it rotted and had moss on it for years.
"Now, Now our adventure starts here," Scootaloo said with inspiration.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders looked into the jungle what felt like what they were being blinded by was green.
Chapter 2 - Chamber 1: The Jungle [Part One] (Currently in Editing)
Sweetie Belle started to make a sundial, to keep track of the time, they woke up at eight o' clock in the morning. Only meaning that ten hours passed. Only have the hours marked: 9 AM - 4 PM
When the 'Unknown' said about the 32 miles it wasn't only a straight line of a jungle. It was a big open world of a jungle that only meant 32 miles wide and 32 miles in length.
Each of them had a part, Scootaloo being the navigator, Apple Bloom gathering resources for shelter, weapons, and sticks for firewood, and Sweetie Belle for exploring the ruins for tools and food.
Looking for the fortress, gathering resources, and exploring ruins they find themselves lost.
"Where is that fortress? When we find it that should be our headquarters." Scootaloo said desperately.
"We will find it, as long we are together we will survive." Sweetie Belle teaching Scootaloo about faith.
"Sure, we have gear and as much as I'm gathering resources we should be okay!" Apple Bloom added.
All they found was ruins, moss, trees, rocks, until Sweetie found a ruins that had a tunnel.
"Hey! I think I found something!"
Apple Bloom stopped with Scootaloo then headed to Sweetie Belle.
"What is it?" Apple Bloom questioned Sweetie Belle.
"It seems to be a tunnel." Sweetie Belle replied.
Then Apple Bloom got a rock with the axe then swiped the axe on the rock, then a spark came with it.
"It's flint and steel isn't it?" Scootaloo said.
"We took a quiz on it at school remember?" Sweetie Belle said.
Apple Bloom looked though her saddlebag to find a stick. Then getting the axe and flint swiped it with the spark landing on the stick to create fire.
Putting the axe and flint back together in her saddlebag.
Now with the new torch working they can walk right though.
"Here let me hold that." Scootaloo insisted now holding on to the torch with her mouth.
Now going though the dark tunnel only lighted up with the torch they find themselves into a non-equal cave.
"Where going we go from here?' Sweetie Belle asked herself.
"Right there," Apple Bloom pointed to the ledge.
"Are you sure?" Sweetie replied with a question.
The Scootaloo jumped to the ledge knowing if she failed she would fall to her death.
But she made it.
"Scootaloo what were you thinking?!" Apple Bloom shouted to Scootaloo with Sweetie.
"It's okay I'm fine!" Scootaloo yelled. "Jump its not a long distance!"
Sweetie then jumped soon following with Apple Bloom.
Then landed on their hoofs but, then crumbling to the ground.
They were in a tight space the only way out was jumping onto ledges, possibly four.
"Here we go" Scootaloo trying to speak clearly due to holding the torch.
All of them jumped ledge to ledge only on the second one Sweetie saw light.
"I think I found our way out of here!" Then pointed to the light.
Apple Bloom saw it with Scootaloo, now they were almost out of there until the last ledge.
"Oh No" Apple Bloom said looking at the ledge.
It was way too far she knew if she jumped she would rather fall to her death or barley making it with only holding on with one hoof.
"It's too far we'll never make it" Apple Bloom said, then looked down knowing it's a suicide jump.
"This can't be good!' Sweetie Belle said then looked at Scootaloo. "Scootaloo what do you think?"
"Um, very bad, maybe we should, um." Then she flopped into the ground nothing to think about.
Apple Bloom then searched in her saddlebag trying to find a way to cross the ledge.
"Try to make a bridge." Sweetie suggested.
"I have nothing it looks like we have to run from here to over there" Apple Bloom said then sighed.
"Is there an other way?" Sweetie asked Apple.
Apple looked at her with her face saying 'No'.
Apple Bloom then went to the back of the ledge then started to run as fast as she could to the other ledge then jumped.
As in mid air she looked down only seeing darkness, she reached out her hoof to the ledge then making it.
Landing with a barrel roll.
"Wow!" Sweetie and Scootaloo said together.
"I- I made it!" Apple Bloom then smiled seeing her friends at the other side.
"Sweetie jump just grab my hoof, okay." Apple Bloom yelled at Sweetie.
"Are you sure?" Sweetie asked Apple Bloom.
"Yes."
"Okay, here I go"
Then jumped Apple let out a hoof as Sweetie reached out, then Apple Bloom successfully grabbed on to Sweetie's hoof.
"Got you." Apple said to Sweetie, then pulled her up.
"Thanks."
"Come on Scootaloo you can make it" Sweetie shouted to Scootaloo.
Scootaloo knew that if her friends made it then she could make it.
"Alright, just grab my hoof just in case!" Then jumping to the ledge to her friends.
She looked down only seeing what Apple Bloom saw.
Using her wings to make to land on the ledge. She made it.
Hanging on with one hoof, then looking down as if her life depend on it. The platform that she hanged on broke.
"Nononononononono!" Scootaloo screamed.
Dropped the touch, using her wings, jumped on the platform that broke on her to use as a support making the the chances of surviving higher.
Then Sweetie grabbing her right hoof with Apple Bloom grabbing her left hoof.
Then pulled her up onto the ledge.
"Thank you, without your help I wouldn't made it" Scootaloo thanked them.
"Your welcome!" Apple and Sweetie replied.
Then, they all braced in a hug.
"Come on, here is the way out" Apple Bloom said to the Sweetie and Scootaloo.
Then Scootaloo going to a clear path with trees next to her.
Now it open into a small-big area.
They saw the huge fortress that looked like it was sitting there for 800 years.
The fortress was in the distance.
Probably about four football fields away from them.
"Come on, let's go" Apple Bloom told them.
They ran toward it. Bringing it closer and closer to them.
Finally when they got there they were out of breath, standing at the corner of the fortress.
Sweetie found the entrance.
"I found our way in!" Sweetie told them as they ran their way in.
In the fortress they saw boxes, gates, stone walls with mother nature taking over it, a tower, a big stone tower, and basically everyting you see in a fortress.
Then the gate closed behind them, now all of them were trapped in the fortress.
"Now what do we do?" Scootaloo asked Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle.
"I don't know." Apple Bloom replied.
"Nowwheredo we go?" Sweetie Belle asked them.
As questions and answers weren't the thing to solve the problem.
All of them realized they had just keep going forward.
Sweetie spotted a lever, while her friends were exploring the little area surrounded by stone walls.
Then pulled it, bring up a gate.
Apple Bloom and Scootaloo immediately looked at the gate with Sweetie next to it.
"You scared me." Apple Bloom said to Sweetie Belle.
They went to the little space that was inside the gate with a small staircase leading up to the second level.
Then Apple Bloom noticed a torch in the small space. It was getting dark so she flicked on the her axe and flint.
"There we go, now we have more light to guide us when it gets dark" Sweetie looking at the torch as it glows brighter.
"Yeah, now we have to lit more torches" Scootaloo said.
They went up the stairs only to see a tower next to a open area with a big stone tower next over a stone wall.
"Wow, I wonder who built this." Apple Bloom said to herself.
"The 'Unknown' did, I mean think about it we are under a HUGE dome with a fake Sun and Moon and fake clouds, rain, snow, stars, and sky. She built all of this, or made this using a spell." Sweetie explained.
"Yeah, she's right Apple Bloom he/she build all of this, and we have to escape each chamber." Scootaloo added.
"Not really escape more like pass." Apple Bloom correcting Scootaloo.
"Girls, lets just focus we got to get very torch lit here, we got to go the that big stone tower, and somepony has to go up to that tower over there!' Sweetie Belle telling her friends.
"Your right." Apple Bloom and Scootaloo said together.
"Then let's get moving!"
"Now if we do this before nightfall we will be okay," Apple Bloom said. "Now we must have our own part, Sweetie try to find a way to that big stone tower and make it home, Scootaloo go up that tower and see what's up there it might have something that we need. And I'll lit all the torches in this fortress. Got it?" Apple Bloom said to her friends.
Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle nodded.
"Then let's get to it"
"Cutie Mark Crusaders go!" All of them shouted.
----------------------------- [Scootaloo's Point of View]
Scootaloo ran to the tall skinny tower there were windows without glass in each floor, even though there wasn't floors.
There was nothing available to go up there.
She had do it the hard way.
She looked around to find a way up there but nothing came up.
Then five feet away from her was a lever same as the one Sweetie Belle pulled.
She walked up to the lever then pulled it.
A new gate went up.
"Hey, thanks I could put more torches in there!" Apple Bloom shouted to Scootaloo.
"Your welcome!"
Now she went to a staircase that lead up to a higher area for the outlook.
She took the same staircase to go down to enter to the open gate.
"Here we go." Scootaloo said to herself.
She entered seeing pillars that hold nothing.
Then thought that she could climb the pillars to go to the tower.
So she did.
Finding the smallest pillar she climbed it , then found an another pillar then jumping toward it.
Then landing.
She did the same for all pillars that go higher and higher, (she even jumped on two balconies to go higher) until she went on the highest pillar to have a rope hanging.
"Now what?" She thought for a second.
Then her thought was to jump on the rope swing on it hit the old 800 tall pillars that are 't' shaped make it fall down to make a path to an another balcony.
She didn't know what would happen.
Then looked for Apple Bloom just in case she got hit by the stones.
Then found her next to a medal door. She noticed she only lighted one torch.
"Apple Bloom are you okay?!" Scootaloo shouted.
"Yeah, I'm okay I just need this door open!"
"Try kicking it down!"
"I already did, I just need a key!"
"Okay!"
Scootaloo looked backed at the 't' shaped pillars then did what she thought.
Kicking it down.
"Ahhhhh!" Scootaloo shouted.
Then the first pillar collapsed on the second pillar to collapsed on the third. Then hit the balcony next falling to the ground.
Scootaloo smiled as she saw still hanging on the rope.
Then she fell down.
Looking up she saw rocks falling down. It was going to land on her.
Then she quickly avoided it, then seeing the rocks landing on the ground.
"Are you okay!?" Apple Bloom quickly ran toward her.
"Yeah, I'm okay." Scootaloo replied cleaning her body.
"I'm so sorry, you know you don't have to go to that tower!"
"It's okay I'm going up there anyways."
Scootaloo then jumped on a rock then climbed on the broken pillars.
She jumped to the on the broken pillars to reach a balcony.
Now she was the same wall as the gate was.
She found a balcony on the same wall as she was, then jumped on it. Doing the same thing on an another.
Until her wall ended then had to climb a different wall.
It was the same wall when they climbed up the staircase to come to the big open area.
"The climbing never stops!" Scootaloo said to herself.
She went to the corner then climbed to the other side of that corner.
Until she was at a walkway under the lever she pulled.
Then walked to the small walkway she was halfway there.
Until it broke using a pillar, the pillar leaned toward the tower.
Using the small platform she had she jumped for it.
To grab on a hoofgrip with only one hoof hanging on it.
"Are you okay Scootaloo?!' Sweetie Belle shouted to her.
Scootaloo saw that she found a way the big stone tower, then saw Sweetie wave at her.
She tried to wave but she needed two of her hoofs to hang on to the hoofprints.
Including that she was using herwings.
She saw an another hoofprint so she jumped.
Using her whole body she barley made it.
And she had to more of it to go to the top.
After some jumping and moving side to side she jumped up more and more.
Then she could find and hoofgrips to jump on, so instead she pulled herself toward a window that was right above her. Then found a platform on her side and an another on on the other side.
It wasn't a length it was only just a hop. So she hopped over the empty space to be at the other side.
Then hanged at the ledge to be at the outer wall of the tower.
She looked up. Only seeing three more floors to the top.
Again she climbed up to the top going around the tower and jumping up repeating the same process.
Then finally she made it up to the top.
But the floor didn't cover the whole tower, it was only halfway.
But upon arriving to the top she saw only one key, next to a pony skeleton that looked like it was protecting it.
"Ugh." Scootaloo discussed on the skeleton.
She opened the skeleton's hand to get the key, then pushed the skeleton out of her way. Then falling to the ground.
She pushed a rope down that was attached to the floor then climbed down on the rope with the key.
"If there was an another floor I would not go up there!" Sore and relived Scootaloo ran toward Apple Bloom with the key in the hoof.
"Here you go!" Scootaloo said to Apple Bloom.
"Thanks Scootaloo!" Apple Bloom replied.
"Your welcome!" Scootaloo said.
Apple Bloom opened the medal door she entered along with Scootaloo and together went though the hallway. Scootaloo stopped so that Apple Bloom can lit the torches.
Until the hallway split into two.
"I'll go to the left, you go to the right." Scootaloo said to Apple Bloom.
"Okay." Apple Bloom said.
As Scootaloo went to the left then, noticed a staircase going to the right. So she went to the going up the staircase.
Went she as at the top of the staircase, she was at a platform, then saw she was at the side of the big stone tower. It looked like the 'platform' she was on broke and saw pillars she can jump on.
"Not again." Scootaloo said.
As if she never climbed ever in her life.
She jumped on the first pillar then jumped on the second, then the third.
She had no more pillars to jump on only two balconies.
After a jump and an another, she was a window that didn't had a glass.
"A window without glass huh?" Scootaloo said to herself.
She jumped though to the window then forcing herself be in the building she successfully made it in the big stone tower.
Then seeing Sweetie Belle going down the stairs then noticing her.
"Welcome home Scootaloo!"
"Hey, wheres Apple Bloom?"
"I don't know, it's about eight o' clock it getting dark. How was I supposed to know where shes at?"
"Just go down and find her. Wait one more question, where do these stair go to?"
"Oh, these staircase go to the 'big stone tower'. I call this tower 'Cutie Mark Crusaders tower' like our tree house at home."
"OK, thanks for telling me!"
"Your welcome!"
Then saw her going down the stairs, Scootaloo went up the stairs to find their 'Home' in the Jungle.
She found a sleeping bag that was the color as her then got in it on it then fell asleep.
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[Sweetie Belle's Point of View]
Sweetie Belle went to a wall and jumped over it.
Only seeing an another big area with a gate surrounded by stone walls.
"Okay, this is harder then I thought." Sweetie Belle said to herself.
She can hear Scootaloo and Apple Bloom yelling at each other, it sounded like Scootaloo opened a gate.
She looked around then spotted a lever at a balcony, next to a vine.
She climbed the vine to get to the balcony, then jumped on it.
She pulled the lever down to open the gate at the center of the wall she was at.
When she got down she went to the new open area where the gate was closed.
Then she can hear some stones break then someone yelling "Are you okay?!'
She thought that something happened then wanted to focus at her mission.
To make the 'big stone tower' home.
She looked around and wanted to a entrance to something she noticed two: One passage way that leads upstairs and one that leads downstairs.
Then looked up seeing a balcony to the 'big stone tower'.
She decided to go the the one that leads upstairs. It was an narrow staircase leading up with some windows at some parts at the staircase even one window that had two balconies with some pillars then her seeing an another pathway.
Then heard a big crash. She jumped from the crash then wanted to know who caused it.
She went to the balcony in front of her then saw Scootaloo climbing the tower.
She waved at Scootaloo then Scootaloo tried to waved her back but couldn't.
She took a step back seeing junk behind her.
"You have got to be kidding!" Sweetie Belle said to herself.
She looked in the creates only seeing spiderwebs. and threw the creates over the balcony.
After throwing a lot creates off the balcony she noticed an another mini balcony on the building's left she threw the boxes out through the small balcony and found a stick.
Cleaning the spiderwebs with the stick at the corner, and all of the creates gone she wanted to make sleeping bags.
Looking though her saddlebag she found three sleeping bags with their own color.
She put them on the floor next to each other.
She looked outside on the balcony and saw Scootaloo going down with a key in the hoof.
Then she was out of sight.
Sweetie did some cleaning her and there trying to sweep up the dust on the floor. Until she heard a sound downstairs she rushed down only to see Scootaloo, sore and tired.
"Welcome home Scootaloo!"
"Hey, wheres Apple Bloom?"
"I don't know, it's about eight o' clock it getting dark. How was I supposed to know where shes at?"
"Just go down and find her. Wait one more question, where do these stair go to?"
"Oh, these staircase go to the 'big stone tower'. I call this tower 'Cutie Mark Crusaders tower' like our tree house at home."
She thought about that name only for a second until Scootaloo said:
"OK, thanks for telling me!"
"Your welcome!"
She went down stairs then thinking in her mind then said:
"I hope that's a good name."
When she went all the way down she saw Apple Bloom a bit wet.
"Where have you been?"
"At a water contraction." Apple Bloom said a bit angry. "Me and Scootaloo went two ways, I don't know where she went but I came from a sewage."
"Scootaloo came from a window,"
"Really?!"
"Yeah, I saw her on my way here. I think she went up stairs."
"Oh, Okay let's go to the 'big stone tower'."
"Well its actually call 'Cutie Mark Crusaders Tower', do you like the name?"
"Yeah, its a really good name!"
Apple Bloom and Sweetie went up the stairs seeing Scootaloo in her sleeping bag. They both thought it would be a good idea to sleep too.
So they got in their sleeping bags and went to sleep.
----------------------------------------------- [Apple Bloom's Point Of View]
"I'll go to the left, you go to the right." Scootaloo said to Apple Bloom.
"Okay." Apple Bloom said.
Apple Bloom went to the right then looked back if Scootaloo left.
She did.
Then she fell into a stream with a fast current.
Soaked, she got up at the end of the current.
Which the current had enough force to make her not move an inch.
"Come on, up can do it!" Apple Bloom said to herself.
She slipped and the water forced her to hit the brick wall.
She looked above the wall only to see some hoofgrips.
She jumped.
Now out of the water she climbed to a mini bridge that was above the current.
Now on it she looked to the left to see a gate next to a lever.
She pulled the lever to make the gate rise.
She walked in, falling again to a low water level.
"What the...?!"
Her exit was way above her. She had to rise the water level to get up there.
Next to her was a lever with a tunnel bigger than her.
She pulled the lever not knowing what it was going to do.
She heard sounds that got louder and louder like if water was hitting the corners of the tunnel.
Until she noticed what was happening.
"Oh no."
She ran towards the side of the tunnel due to not getting washed by the upcoming wave of water.
She braced for impacted.
Nothing.
There was nothing.
She felt like the lever she just pulled did nothing or something she friends would noticed from outside.
She looked back at the tunnel with her whole body in front of it.
There the water came out of nowhere.
Having enough force to push her out into the center of the pit and filling the place up quickly.
Now the water level rising higher and higher the pit was filled only halfway.
Apple Bloom swam up to the surface.
Gasping for air, she saw an another lever with a tunnel right in front of her.
"Not again!"
Swimming toward the lever she got on the platform pulled it then dived into the water, then opened her eyes underwater.
Nothing.
Nothing at all.
She swam up to the surface again only to seeing little water coming.
"Huh, I guess all of the water came from the tunnel below me."
She got up to the platform then pushing more water towards the pit.
Then a powerful force of water came pushing her into the pit, then quickly filling it up.
Now she had enough water to climb up a stair, climb the stairs pulling the lever to open the gate then climbing up a final set of stairs that go outside.
As she did all of that she encountered Sweetie Belle.
"Where have you been?"
"At a water contraction." Apple Bloom said a bit angry. "Me and Scootaloo went two ways, I don't know where she went but I came from a sewage."
"Scootaloo came from a window,"
"Really?!"
"Yeah, I saw her on my way here. I think she went up stairs."
"Oh, Okay let's go to the 'big stone tower'."
"Well its actually call 'Cutie Mark Crusaders Tower', do you like the name?"
"Yeah, its a really good name!"
Apple Bloom and Sweetie went up the stairs seeing Scootaloo in her sleeping bag. They both thought it would be a good idea to sleep too.
So they got in their sleeping bags and went to sleep.
Chapter 3 - Chamber 2: The Winter [Part One] (Revised)
Apple Bloom woke up suddenly breathing heavily then following with a sigh. "Phew, good thing that was a dream!" She said.
She looked around seeing her two friends beside her sleeping peacefully as she saw the fake full moon lowering, "It's probably about 2 o' clock in the morning." She said.
She went back into the sleeping bag to continue sleeping, with the last thing she heard was a sound of a pony.
"Apple Bloom get up!" Apple Bloom heard in a dim-echo-y voice.
"Yeah, you have to!" With a similar voice.
She got up with snow piling her seeing the two fillies in a new room with her.
"Where am I?" She asked Scootaloo.
"I don't know." She pointed the door to the jungle which was a heavily rusted door with mother nature taking over it.
"I guess this is level two." Said Sweetie Belle now thinking of the how many levels there were in total.
"Hey! Where is our gear?" Apple Bloom asked.
"Gone, but we got new ones for the snow." Sweetie Belle replied.
"Here, have this jacket," Scootaloo then gave Apple Bloom the jacket as she got up from her new bed.
"Wow look at all of this." Apple Bloom said. The room was themed differently with the beds being blue, the floor being 'red planked wood' and with the walls being solid ice. It was like living in an igloo
"I know it's strange." Sweetie Belle replied as she too was amazed by the different architectures of much of how the room changed.
"Come on let's go," Scootaloo throwing a white-blue camouflage saddlebag at Apple Bloom.
Apple Bloom opened it with it containing a white helmet to blend in with the white jacket she was wearing and snow goggles with a white outline, with a blue scarf.
As the Cutie Mark Crusaders put on the gear they headed for the door which was overtaken by the frost of ice and snow.
"Okay," Sweetie Belle got a rope tied it to herself, as Apple Bloom then Scootalo did the same connecting it to each other so they wouldn’t get lost. "It's better we stay together." Then her putting on her goggles. "It's like a blizzard outside so we better not get lost finding each other."
Following with a nod from Apple Bloom and Scootaloo who did the same wearing their saddlebags and wore their goggles too.
"Okay, let's do this!" Scootaloo shouted kicking the door, which in all not budging at all.
Due to the ice, she slipped and fell on the door making the others slip with her. "Ouch!" Scootaloo felt as the pain was more aggressive in the ice and snow.
Sweetie followed by her two friends started to kick the door or by to open it by the knob but still, it was covered by frozen ice. After pushing and bucking the door down waiting for it to break all three of them lied their back on it as another way for it to break down.
Until something happened....
The door’s hinges broke making the door collapse into the freezing blizzard and snow, it began to slide down making it go downhill. As it began to slide down the miles per hour was increasing faster and faster. Worse of all the Crusaders were all on the door as it fell on its frame. With the three of them on the door riding the door, they had to wait until the ground became flat.
But it didn't happen.
But instead, a huge wall and two Chinese-looking doors appeared in front of the three fillies in a second were going to smash into it.
But it was too late as the sled-door smashed into the doors breaking them down in the process with them sliding as well with the Crusaders.
From a distance, it seemed nothing but downhill until the light came, showing a building as snow from the sky came falling hard. Sweetie was right it was a blizzard. As they got closer and closer it seemed more clear that they were heading off into a cliff!
"Nononono!" Scootaloo cried. As both Sweetie and Apple Bloom took notice of the cliff, the metal ice door and two wooden-Chinese-doors soon followed as they fell down toward the eternal abyss. Luckily for Scootaloo she was connected and tied down with a rope hanging one the edge of nowhere. "HELP!" She cried.
Hanging, Sweetie Belle then slowly pulled walking backward followed by Apple Bloom. Scootaloo was slowly rising up. "Don't worry I'd got you!" In a mumbled voice by the earth pony.
"Alright,” Scootaloo said as she pulled herself up once she was close to the ledge.
"Thanks, guys!" Scootaloo said as they hugged for a few seconds.
"Alright, we have to get out of he-re," Sweetie shivered in the cold. As the whole ‘fake sky’ wall was covering a huge crater filled with a building that seemed to be together hanging or held together probably by pillars from the ground of the eternal abyss. In which looked abandoned with a twenty percent of solid ice with the Sun shining dimly through the snow not like outside where the Sun would be shining in the hot Summer. The crater was as big as the big ‘fake sky’ dome was in the same circumference and diameter. The sky wasn’t clear as the only thing visible was the Sun.
"Wow, look at the snow!" Scootaloo said pointing. Looking at the building that looked like in any second it was going to break down into the abyss, but she was right on that. The snow coming in fast, mostly now burying their hoofs.
"Well, here we go..." Scootaloo said.
"Aw man, I was so not looking forward towards this!" Said Apple Bloom in a little rage.
"Don't worry we will survive!" Sweetie Belle calmly said in a mellow voice.
"Sweetie! Bloom!," Scootaloo said snapping them.
"You're right, come let's go!" Sweetie told Scootaloo meaning that they had no time of arguing, and had to think about the time for surviving with no food.
They will not make it.
"Okay, I'm coming!" Apple Bloom said.
As they looked around trying to find a way out, Sweetie Belle found some red plank stairs leading down. "I found some stairs!" She said. it had the ‘red wooden planks’ just like from the room they started in.
With the Cutie Mark Crusaders lost and going everywhere, the only way was through the building with nothing to support it but beams only making it fall easily to the ground connected to the door.
"I don't like the looks of this." Sweetie Belle worried of death just by one wrong step.
"Yeah, me too!" Apple Bloom said frustrated. "Since how did we get her’?"
"The floating tree," Scootaloo replied.
"Okay, let's just..." Sweetie Belle looked down with one side of her head telling her to go and the other side telling her no.
"Find a way to the exit, which will most likely be at the end of the building," Scootaloo said quickly finishing up her story.
"Right." Apple Bloom said. "We have a long way ahead' of us."
Which was true it was an only a matter of time until they shook heads with the Grim Reaper.
"Great, I lost my ma' a-and no-w I lost my lil' sis!" Applejack was sobbing into the pillow making the pillow as if it was dropped into a bucket of water.
"I Remember your ma and pa, they were great people." Granny Smith says rocking in her rocking chair.
"Yep." Big McIntosh said. With some tear coming out of his eyes. He wasn't sobbing but it looked like at any moment he will break down.
"She is out there somewhere but I bet she will find a way back." Granny Smith said to Applejack trying to her down.
"B-B-B-B-B-B-U--U-U-U-U-U-T-T-T-T-T-T." Applejack did her hardest to talk to Granny Smith without breaking down but she couldn't. She had looked so much pain, the pain of not living with their parents, and now with Applebloom gone Applejack is heartbroken.
"It's okay, sweetie." Granny Smith started to pat Applejack calming her.
"B-B-B-U-U-T, Sc-Scootaloo is g-g-one t-t-t-too!"
"Cloudsdale reporting for lost Pegasi, repeat reporting for a lost Pegasi,"
"She has gotten to be around here somewhere!" Rainbow Dash called out with tears running down through all of her body, she was flying so hard that the wind pushed the tears all the way down to her back hoof.
"No!" She cried outgoing as fast as she can searching places where she would normally be at. "No!" Checking everyplace in Cloudsdale.
"Ok, let's check in Ponyville!" She flew as fast as a speeding bullet, but her winds weren't giving up on her.
She flew so fast that the umbrellas and tents for the shade, was picked up by the wind from Rainbow Dash.
Even the ponies that were walking to shops in Sugarcube Corner or in Ponyville in general. Doing what they love or do, the wind picked up their manes and tails to how fast Rainbow Dash was going and was shocked of how she didn't hit one of them.
"Nope," Rainbow looked around the corner to a shop. "Nope," She said again as she moved a pony to see if Scootaloo was present behind the pony. "Nope," She said looking every single place where Scootalo could be at.
"No," She stopped instantly, then a gush of heavy wind going the speed to where she was going hit her. The gush lasted for about ten seconds. "She has to be at Treehouse of course!"
Then in a flash flew through Sweet Apple Acres to the tree house. "SHE IS NOT HERE EITHER!" She was going insane just to find her little-adopted sister. "I hope Rarity is doing okay." She said as a face of worry and fear came to her.
Rarity was more or less in one place. Her home the Carousel Boutique, crying eating strawberry ice cream on the sofa. With her mascara ruined and Spike, the dragon helping her feeding more ice cream to Rarity, it was a total mess with it. "Sweetie Belle is gone! S-w-eetie Belle!"
"There, there I'm sure everything is going to get better," Spike said calming her.
"Better?" Rarity asked Spike.
"Well, yeah better," Spike repeated himself again.
"You really think everything is going to get BETTER?!" Rarity was now enraged of what Spike said.
"Ummm," Spike then gulped sweating, regretting what he said about 'things getting better'.
"What really needs to get better is- is..." She was on the verge of breaking down, the thought of Sweetie Belle clouded her head every minute of the hour, then with her gone didn't make things better. "Is... SWEETIE BELLE!!!" Cried out now having a pillow over her now wet filled with tears. Now helpless with Sweetie gone.
"Oh boy, I hope Twilight is working on to find them."
Wearing a cloak, equipped with a magnifying glass and blowing bubbles with a wooden pipe, Pinkie Pie was helping Twilight finding the three crusaders. She searched the floor in the underground basement lab in the library where Twilight lived. She was making a new advanced portable machine to find the Cutie Mark Crusaders. "Nothing here!" Pinkie said keeping up a fast pace going side to side across the room.
"Pinkie they wouldn't be here!" Twilight exclaimed. She then used magic to lift Pinkie off the floor and to freeze to a standing position. "They were last seen in Sweet Apple Acres remember?" Twilight reminded Pinkie Pie.
"Yep, I remember!" Pinkie answered. "Okie Dokie Loki Pokie!" She smiled then followed by an 'ee' sound.
Twilight then stopped her magic dropping Pinkie. It wasn't a high fall just about three inches off the floor.
Twilight was building a radar with straps on the bottom so she can strap it around her, the radar was done, the little screen connected with the radar in a tube of wires was done. She grabbed a list with a checklist, she checked it one by one then with that done a knock came from the wooden door.
‘KNOCK’ ‘KNOCK’ ‘KNOCK’
“Who is it?” Twilight called out.
“Um, Fluttershy,” The yellow and pink mane pony walked in surprised to see Pinkie and Twilight building some type of thing.
“Oh, hello Fluttershy!” Twilight greeted Fluttershy as she walked down the stairs mostly looking at Pinkie. “What brings you here?” Twilight then looked back at the machine she was making the screen that came with the radar.
“Oh nothing, I thought I’d come by for a quick visit and-” She was cut off by Pinkie explaining how shocking it was for three little innocent fillies to be gone.
“I know right. Then everypony started crying with tears-and-how-everypony-went-crazy-and-nailed-posters-saying-’MISSING PONIES’.” Pinkie was stopped by Twilight placing her hoof over Pinkie’s mouth, she was still talking but in a very mumbled voice.
“Pinkie,” Twilight said in a complained-like voice. Making Pinkie instantly stop talking about random, fast ramble.
Pinkie then pulled Twilight’s hoof away from her mouth, “Sorry...”
“Oh my,” Fluttershy already knew about the situation but never thought of it like of what Pinkie said.
“Don’t worry Fluttershy I got this!” She then used her left foreleg to point to the machinery on a table she invented.
“What is it?” Fluttershy then slowly walked toward the thing unable to understand it.
“It's a radar, I used parts and some magic to work the thing.” She then grabbed the almost working screen to Fluttershy hoofing it to her. “You see in the all you have to do is put some DNA under the radar under this latch,” Fluttershy nodded as Twilight explained making more and more questions appear to her mind as Twilight continued. “The radar tracks it down then there you go! The screen should show where the source is coming from!” Twilight smiled impressed of what she has created. But leaving Fluttershy in the mix of questions and worry of the three fillies.
“But how?” She asked, which was most important than the other minor ones.
“I used a spell from a book that tracks ponies of any kind by DNA!” She lifted the book with her magic, bringing it in front of Fluttershy then smiled as her view was left of the book.
“That’s nice Twilight and all, but how are we going to get the DNA from the girls?” This question was most important as well.
“Nurse Red Heart should have some blood stored in for research.” Twilight then grabbed a mask as she was going to get a propane torch and continue working on the radar. “Oh, Fluttershy before I forget.” twilight’s voice sounded muffled and echoed through her mask.
“Yes?”
“Can you get Spike over here? I’m going to need help making this machine.” Twilight then turned on the propane torch ready to continue on her work.
“Hey! What about me?!” Pinkie upset on getting her replaced as Spike.
“Pinkie, cheer Rarity up, she’ll finish all of her ice cream before she can even know it,” Twilight replied as Pinkie, the element of laughter speeded leaving an outline of her shadow visible for a few seconds with an almost transparent trail of pink meaning that she followed her path to the Carousel Boutique.
“Wow,” Fluttershy mumbled as she trotted toward the Carousel Boutique following Pinkie Pie.
“I have to be a hero,” Spike walked toward the treehouse. Going up the staircase ramp. “Maybe if I find Sweetie Belle, Rarity will think of me as a hero!” He started to remember when the Diamond Dogs jumped on both of them, then pony-napping Rarity only for Spike to come and save the day. “For Rarity,” He clutched his claw into a fist and held it to his heart.
He went into the clubhouse to his surprise out of the ordinary, there was a huge, huge pile of golden leaves so huge in fact at some of them started to escape from the door landing into the ground falling ever so swiftly. “What the,” He was in shock but where were they coming from? “They must be buried!” The thought came to him, it wasn’t exactly where the source but they just probably slept and got trapped. “I’m coming for you!” He leaped into the leaf pile almost touching the ceiling of the clubhouse. he leaped and just like that.
‘BOOM’
As a now destroyed pile was gone now scattered leaves everywhere covering the floor, “Got you!” Spike recalled as the leaves fell down so slowly. “Wait, they are not here,” He then thought of how much of a stupid idea he had in mind. “Maybe, they followed the leaves,” Spike then rushed to the porch, looking for what he could find as a clue.
Just then more and more leaves started coming for the direction of him, he looked flattening his claw and putting on his forehead horizontally covering Celestia’s Sun. “There!” He proclaimed seeing waves and waves of more leaves coming in front of him or which felt like it. “There has to be something so I can get a better view at it!” He started looking around, he went to the left of the porch just then seeing a ramp that went up and up to a hidden room. “There!” He went up and up leading above the tree leading to a viewing point, the room was a square with a curtain in the entrance, a blue pointed flag at the top of the roof and a telescope. “Wow, they got the view of their lives.” He looked through the telescope seeing Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie walking (or bouncing for Pinkie) toward Sweet Apple Acres talking about well, whatever they talked about. “Okay, where are those leaves coming from?” Spike adjusted the telescope looking for the source, then out of nowhere he could see a tree’s top with nothing but pure shiny golden leaves.
“Woah, Rarity would love those!” His eyes became filled hearts and the thoughts of Rarity came with him, but saving the Cutie Mark Crusaders were most important than giving gold to Rarity. “Ok, here we go!” He stepped down but took a wrong step as he stepped on a leaf causing him to collapse and trip down the ramp. “Ow,” Every hit and bump he took leading him to some bruises and cuts of blood.
After landing he found himself on the ground, you see there are two separate ramps leading up to the lookout spot in the top of the tree. The two ramps are connected by a little square nailed down to a branch and have no handles for going up and down, therefore, leaving Spike wounded (not really).
“Aw, for Rarity!” He was weak, it took a bit for him to get up and walk away from it, “For Rarity!” he repeated again running toward the tree.
The journey to the tree took a bit longer than expected, but once he got there it was both weird and magnificent. he found himself in the middle of nowhere like as if the place he was at wasn’t marked down on any maps. Just behind him as Appletrees to Sweet Apple Acres but after that border it was nothing but yellow grass and a few trees in the distance. but most surprising of all.
A tree.
A tree with golden leaves levitating with its roots acting like if it was any other tree. “What is this?!” Spike exclaimed as he looked at the floating tree as some of its leaves were floating away from the tree eventually landing the Cutie Mark Crusaders clubhouse. “How do I get up there?” Spike looked around for a way up to him it seemed that all he needed to do was to jump onto the lower roots. “Okay, here we go,” He jumped on then grabbed in on wrong timing leading him to fall back on the ground. “One more time,” Just then he jumped once more, this time learning from his past mistake. He jumped and grabbed hold of the roots.
The tree, however, was to ever so slightly go down from its original altitude. Spike climbed and climbed using his claws and feet to gain an advantage to help him get the top of the tree just as then when the branch came from one to separate branches there seems to be a staircase well hidden from the leaves. “Where does it go to?” he soon then followed up the stairs leading to a plank of bark wood that camouflage with the tree, “They are not-” He suddenly fell down realizing that the plank of bark wood was a trapdoor, then realizing further that the tree was hollow all along.
“No, NNNOOOOOO!” He cried out there was nothing he could do about it, he was there in the dark in a cramped up space all by himself.
He fell asleep after shouting and crying out for help.
Sand, sand was the only thing on his scales breezing and in a poorly lit up room. He could only see the door and light from it with sand that seemed the source of it was coming behind it.
“One added to the list,” The Unknown said walking through a door that seemed behind Spike.
Spike was too weak to get up, all he had to do was rest on the floor as sand came in slowly and slowly...
