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// X+VI: No Horsing Around 
// Story: Three and a Half Mares 
// by SurprisePinkiePinkiePie 
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"Okay," muttered Celestia. "That's three impossible things. I haven't just believed them, I've seen them. Can we get started on breakfast now?"
Luna stared at Pinkie Pie, the older mare now using the three balloons onto her Cutie Mark to fly. "Okay, there's this and the way she pulled a ball out of her hair, but what was the other thing?"
"Me agreeing to play this dumb game."
"Come on!" yelled Scootaloo. "Have some fun! Here, catch!"
"Ahh! A ball!" screamed Celestia, ducking out of the way as Scootaloo threw the ball at her. Luna rolled her eyes. 
"I didn't even know somepony could be that bad at sport!"
The older sister blushed. "I'm still getting used to the wings!"
"I don't know what we're going to do about breakfast," admitted Twilight. "The guards caught me breaking you out, so if I go back to Unicornia to smuggle food like I did before then they might recognize me."
"Then what are we going to eat?" asked Minty.
Sunset shrugged. "Either we try to find some other ponies and hope that they give us food- or steal, if it comes to that- or we try and find something we can eat out here." 
"Find food out here?" choked Kimono. "As in finding berries and things? They could be poisonous!"
"So could starvation!" quipped Toola-Roola.
"I've done enough research," muttered Celestia. "if we find something I haven't heard of we'll just avoid it."
"Yeah," agreed Cheerilee. "Although other ponies might have more food than us......StarSong, could you go and fly around to see?" 
"I'll come," volunteered Twilight. "And......Celestia, do you want to come so I can teach you to fly properly?"
"Errr.....okay....."
Celestia had pretty much just gone to sleep after introducing herself to everypony, and early that morning she had snuck in a few minutes of 'flight practice' which mostly consisted of pathetically flapping her wings until she finally got off the ground and inevitably crashed into a tree. She wasn't sure if she was ready to actually go anywhere.
Still she found herself flapping her wings again, managing to get off the ground with a lot less difficulty than she expected. "We'll come back if we find anypony," decided Twilight, and they flew off. 

"Wow! I'm doing it! I'm actually flying! I'm-"
Smack. 
"Well," muttered Celestia. "I don't know what I expected."
She awkwardly righted herself in the air. It was the tree's faul, she thought. Stupid tree. 
"You might wanna look where you're going," advised Twlight Sparkle. "And try going a little higher."
I nodded, flapping my wings a little harder and rising up a little higher. "Are you okay?" asked StarSong. 
"Yeah," Celestia muttered. "Still haven't got the hang of this."
"Hey, I think I can see something!" yelled Twilight. "Stay here, I'll be right back!"
She flew down, both hoping her eyes were playing tricks on her and hoping that her eyes weren't playing tricks on her. What she saw confirmed that they weren't.
They had seemed weird enough when Sunset showed them to her, but then she had been an alternate universe full of weird things called 'humans' so she had assumed they were a normal thing there. But here? How? Discord?
They were freaky. Like normal ponies, but taller, overly muscular, strong enough that Applejack and Big MacIntosh would be the weaklings of the herd. She had a feeling they could break every bone in her body without even trying. And those noises.........Couldn't they talk? Why weren't they colourful? 
Were they animals?
She flew straight back to the others. "Follow me," she panted. "as fast as you can." 
She flew past them. They followed her blindly, Celestia falling behind and struggling to dodge trees every two seconds. "Wait for me!" she panted.
Nopony did. 
After a while they got back to the others. They weren't gathering berries, though- instead Toola-Roola was giggling to herself and whispering "I told you so!" to an annoyed-looking Cheerilee, while Rainbow Dash's eye was twitching as she marched up to Luna, standing over the filly.
"I don't want to have to say it again: No, I'm not British. No, my parents aren't British. No, I'm not faking the accent. No, I don't know why I have a British accent. Okay?"
"What?" choked Twilight, then decided to ignore it and trotted over to Sunset. 
"What is it?" Sunset asked urgently.
"Horses."