“Gac, what part of the network of caves did you take me?”
“To the other opposite side of where you fainted.”
“Oh, gougers! We’ll never find our way back to Our Town! But now, I have to ask. WHAT IS PAST THIS MOAT?!? It’s like six liquids perfectly separated, hard on the eyes and ears as they land on the clouds!! It’s giving me a migraine!!!”
“Hmm. No! Let me guess. Uh. Rainbow... Water?”
“Please, Gac. No town could be more generic than Our Town. Rainbow Water doesn’t even remotely have any meaning to it.”
“Choo choo! I see a tourist, Hatch!”
“Tourist?”
When I look at my hoof, I see it holey instead of whole.
“Ah! My disguise!”
I change back into my Catcher disguise, worried that the “tourist” walking by would see me. As it appears, the “tourist” doesn’t look until the next few seconds.
“Oh my gosh! Is that a dog?!? Whoa!!!”
The filly Gac had pointed as a tourist falls into the moat, then comes up to me and Gac’s side of it.
“Say, what’s your name?”
“You may call me Catcher. And this is my pet dog, Brown.”
“Brown? Not a bad name!”
“So, what is yours?”
“Diamond Tiara. I came here in Rainbow Falls to-”
“Rainbow FALLS?!? That’s really the name?!? YOU’RE LYING!!! That’s worse of a name than Our Town! Our Town may’ve been a generic name, but at least it had meaning!!”
“Hey!! I didn’t name either!”
“Then I demand the presence of whoever named this “Rainbow Falls” location as such!! I desire to speak with him (or her) now!”
“Look, they aren’t around right now. So, settle down. What’s your situation?”
“I was at the other side of the network of caves inside that mountain behind me and I need the way in there back to Our Town.”
“Our town? You don’t need a cave to head back to Ponyville.”
“I’m not talking about- okay seriously, who named all these towns? Anyway, I wasn’t talking about ‘Ponyville’. I was talking about Our Town You know. The town I used to compare with ‘Rainbow Falls’.”
“Our town...”
Diamond Tiara gasps.
“OH!! Our Town! Okay. Okay. Whatever surrounds ‘Our Town’, look through the caves and until you find that. I can go with you if you want.”
“Yeah, sure, whatever. Come on, G- um Brown.”
So, after barking happily a couple of times, Gac tags along my walk back into the cave, Diamond Tiara following suit. After about an hour after entering the caves, the three of us find the right path out.
“Diamond Tiara, I congratulate you for a job well done on helping us find our way to Our Town. You may go back to your ways as I won’t require your services any longer.”
“Well, thanks, Catcher. Actually, I want to see what this town has to offer before I go back to my vacation at Rainbow Falls.”
“What?”
“I just want to look at the town. I can go alone. It’s right over there.”
“Very well then. You may do that. Farewell, Diamond Tiara. I wish you the best of luck.”
“Bye, Catcher. You may be quirky, but you have a wide vocab for a filly your age. See you later! Bye, Brown!”
Moments later, Diamond Tiara disappears from sight, queuing me and Gac to step out of our disguises. Gac does, but I can’t at the moment as I start itching at the fur, with my right back hoof, before I drop the disguise.
“Ugh! How can you stay in that for so long?!? I nearly blew my own cover staying in that for so long the itching was that bad! Rahit hunur duru!”
Gac just stares at me and blinks twice. I briefly hang my head and sigh.
“Sorry about that. Let’s head to the caves.”
-=-
Gac and I have been digging higher into the cave ceiling for the past couple of hours, and we’re still going. That is until we hear a familiar voice.
“Hello? Catcher?”
Oh no! Party Favor! I levitate Gac and myself, trying as hard as we can to avoid getting caught without our disguises. The cave echoes too much to make any sound, so we have no other option but to stay as we currently are, changelings.
“Catcher? Brown? Where are you? Wait a second. I didn’t know those two had flashlights on them! I guess the two are mining or something.”
Wait a minute. How can Party Favor see in these caves? I mean, it’s a given that- oh. So, that’s how. It’s because of our eyes. Hun! I guess that means that we can’t close our eyes, as it would make the cave dark for Party Favor.
“Oh well, I’ll just leave them to their business.”
So, after a minute and a half of Party Favor’s hooves clipping onto the hard rocky cave floor, the echo finally leaves me and Gac’s ears. Both of us sigh in relief, wiping our foreheads.
“That... was a close, close call. Now, how about we keep working on making that hive, Gac?”
“I’m in!”
“Great! Then let’s roll.”
And with that, the two of us continue to dig upwards until we finally come back down.