It didn’t take them long to land in Canterlot since it was now only a few hundred feet away, Cloudsdale having floated closer over the course of the last few days. Rainbow and Fluttershy flew down to the ground, close enough so that Applejack could put Twilight down on the blue striped part of the road. After she had deposited Twilight on the floor, the two pegasus let the earth ponies down to join her on the ground. They all looked around in horror as the moon was ever closer to the land, and the sun moved across the sky in an erratic pattern. The land was in no better condition as the houses were all made mostly of cards, the roads were soap and blue striped rugs. All the ponies that walked around were gray and acting crazy; Some were digging tunnels to nowhere, and others literally eating the road. The street lamps had come to life, dancing in pairs to an unheard song. Muffins with wings flew around like bugs and any food and wildlife were also dancing or singing. The girls gawked at each other, none of them knowing what to say. An almighty crash caught their attention, and looking up, they caught a glimpse of Celestia, Luna and Discord fighting each other around the castle.
Applejack stopped gawking at everything and broke the silence.
“Ok y’all, we better look for Rarity in this mess of Canterlot.”
Fluttershy shook herself to clear her mind, and looked over at her.
“Yeah we should do that soon. But, errm, I don’t remember what she looks like. I think Twilight said she has a purple mane, but I don’t remember anything else about her.”
Applejack just nodded and pitched in;
“I know she made clothing.”
Pinkamena just yelled;
“Didn’t she have a boutique in Canterlot somewhere?”
Rainbow hovered above, looking disinterested,
“Don’t ask me because I don’t even know who you’re talking about. So there’s no way I can help.”
They didn’t know what to do, so they just put Twilight on Applejack’s back and started looking around the twisted city, hoping their tidbits of information would be enough.
They looked around every corner for Rarity, and everypony with a purple mane they stopped to talk too. Everypony was either insane or brain dead, and the roads and buildings were moving around constantly, shifting so much that they didn’t even know where they were going anymore. Some building would become pudding, then change to cards in an instant and the sun and moon changing every minute, which was another pain they had to deal with. Every road they took either lead them back to where they started or to where they thought they started. That's when a note appeared in front of Rainbow Dash, before it fell to the ground. Rainbow grabbed it and opened it. She read it outloud to the rest of the group;
“Well I guess the game's over, but I’ll wait til the deadline is up. I hope the rest of you can make up for Twilight’s absence. Good luck, I hope you can find Rarity in this mess of Canterlot. Just know that you only a few have hours left to stop the gods, find Rarity all before I kill the tree.
-Dark Blitz”
Rainbow just looked it over again and again confusion invading her face, till she threw it on the ground. She looked at the other four,
“Okay... so who's Dark Blitz and why does she want to kill some tree?”
The others looked at each other but it was Fluttershy that cleared her throat and spoke up,
“Well that note was from the pony that changed us, made us all different and took our memories. She also, well... um, it’s a long story Rainbow Dash, but we’ll sit down and tell you about it.”
So Fluttershy took it upon herself to get Rainbow Dash up to speed on everything.
~~~~~~~~ Thirty minutes later~~~~~
Rainbow didn’t know what to think, but she looked at the sleeping Twilight before looking back at the group,
“Well I’ll stick with you guys since I promised Twilight, besides you need me. But we need to find this Rarity, So where do we start?”
Applejack looked around, and stomped her hoof on the ground,
“Well why don’t we go down to the fashion part of Canterlot an look there. She is a designer after all, so she should be there.”
The rest of the group nodded and they headed towards the fashion part of town; or at least they thought they were there, mainly because it was full of striped and spotted clothing flying like birds. The buildings were all patch worked together in all types of fabrics while all sorts of pins and capes draped everywhere. Some buildings wore hats atop them and others were missing entirely, as if they had gotten up and walked away. The windows that decorated the buildings where dotted up with gems and beads. The gang didn’t even know where to start looking in this mismatched masterpiece of Canterlot. They looked through every building they could find, or at least make out, in the area in order to find Rarity. It felt like a never ending cycle of searching since most buildings where the same. That's when Pinkamena asked
“So does anypony have any idea if were even in the right part of Canterlot? Because if you ask me where lost and we’ll never find Rarity at this rate.”
Applejack looked at Pinkamena and spoke in a jovial upbeat tone,
“Oh sugarcube, I know we’ll find her.”
That's when Rainbow Dash flew over to the unconscious Twilight, picked her up, and yelled in her ear,
“TWILIGHT! WAKE UP WE NEED YOU NOW!”
Twilight just grunted and mumbled,
“Not now I’m on the C’s”
Rainbow and the rest of the gang felt hopeless as Twilight, the pony who brought them all together, was down and out. The gang just looked at each other, they didn’t know what to do any more. That's when Pinkamena suddenly yelled,
“I can’t take it anymore! I’m going to ask if anypony knows Rarity!”
Rainbow looked at Pinkamena and replied,
“Pinkie, what's the point everypony is acting crazy?”
“It’s Pinkamena, and I don’t care if everypony is nuts I can’t take it anymore; this new Canterlot is driving me nuts. It’s always changing and rearranging. I want to find Rarity, stop the princesses, and then beat the stuffing out of Dark Blitz. So I’m going to ask some pony if they know Rarity so we can leave.”
Rainbow rolled her eyes as Pinkamena walked up to the first pony she could see; a mare with a gray body and mane. She had a sewing needle for a cutie mark so Pinkamena asked her,
“Are you the fashion pony named Rarity?”
The pony turned around and just looked at her; squawked at her and then said,
“I know that pony, she's such a snob. I think she’s in that building with the huge boulder on top of it. Or maybe it was the building with the fabric with the hearts on them.”
Pinkamena looked at her and thanked her as she slowly backed away from the pony, she told the rest of the gang.
Applejack said,
“Well it's worth a shot looking into this building I guess.”
Fluttershy then added in
“So which building should we look into first?”
Rainbow said to them
“I think the fabric one since you know she apparently designs clothes..”
She flew up looking in every direction to see if she could spot the building, and about five minutes later she came back to the group.
“I saw a building with a heart pattern all over it, two minutes from here.”
“All right we’ll head on over to that building. Lead the way Rainbow Dash.”
Applejack yelled to the blue pegasus.