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// Chapter 4 
// Story: 20% Warmer Than Usual 
// by Black_Board23 
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                                                                                               Chapter 4

Rainbow Dash was the first to wake up. The first thing that hit her was a searing, but very recognizable pain in her left wing. After she pushed through it, she remembered where it was from. The last time she'd felt pain like that, her wing had been broken! The injured pegasus looked back and, to her suspicions, her wing was pointing in a direction it shouldn't be able to. "AAAAAHHH!" Rainbow Dash screamed at the top of her lungs. That woke Twilight Sparkle. She only had a lot of cuts and bruises, but was otherwise alright. The purple unicorn tenderly got up and groggily said, " Alright, I'm getting used to blacking out by now, so what happened?" "I broke my wing!" Rainbow answered, frantic to get the words out. "Oh sweet Celestia! I need to make a splint for it, I have enough materials in my bag." Twilight responded in the blink of an eye. Gingerly walking around the crash site, Twilight found her luggage case a few meters from the demolished and deflated balloon. She unzipped it and almost instantly let out a blood-curdling scream. Because the suitcase was looking back at her with two big yellow eyes! However, Twilight recognized them vaguely. These eyes were special. They weren't pointed in the right direction. Having a good idea of who it was, the unicorn carefully walked up to the bag and pulled out the rest of the pony by the wing. She tumbled out of the suitcase. Having her suspicions confirmed, Twilight slapped a scraped hoof to her face and let out a long, disappointed sigh. The grey mare standing in front of Twilight Sparkle said, very expectedly, "I just don't know what went wrong!" in a voice so happy ant confused it made you want to smile. Twilight calmed her nerves a bit and said, "Of all the possible stowaways on our balloon that could've made us crash, why did it have to be YOU Derpy Hooves?!" Looking sad now, Derpy stood up, shook herself off, and said," Well, I heard you guys were going on a trip and I thought I could help you fall." Twilight blinked, the gears in her head turning, thinking about what was just said to her. Suddenly, she realized what what was meant and her teeth began to grit and her mouth started to turn into an uncontrollable scowl. The last time she'd been this angry had been when her, Pinkie Pe, Applejack, and Fluttershy had finished running from a hydra and Pinkie said that it wasn't the doozy her pinkie sense had detected. If unicorns were flammable, Twilight Sparkle wouldn't exploded. "When I said we were going on a TRIP," Twilight growled through her clenched jaw,"I mean't we were going on a VACATION!" The minute she screamed at Derpy, the purple unicorn regretted it. All the happiness in the grey pegasus's eyes drained away as she frowned and looked at the ground. Clearly disheartened, Derpy Hooves said, "Oh, my bad." Twilight softened up and reached out to her, saying, "Hey, it's not that bad." Up to then, Rainbow Dash had just laid there quietly, listening to what transpired behind her. But that comment really set her off. "Not that bad? How in the hoof is it not that bad? We're trapped in the middle of- wherever we are and I've still got a broken wing!" she shouted screamed. Wherever that pegasus goes, trouble follows, Rainbow Dash though to herself. The last time I saw her, I nearly got electrocuted and was smashed into the basement of the town hall. Twilight hated to admit it, but Rainbow had a good point. They didn't have a clue where they were. For the first time, the three of them took a good look at their surroundings. All that they could see was sand for miles around. Whatever it was, a mountain, a valley, a dune, it was all made of sand. There was no doubt about it, they were in a desert. "Now that I mention it, where are we anyway?" Rainbow questioned, the anger in her voice replaced with mild insecurity. "It's about 20 percent warmer than usual here." Rainbow said. Realizing how close that was to her famous quote, she laughed a little bit to herself very briefly. The brevity of it was caused when the pegasus saw the rock-solid look that Twilight Sparkle wore on her face. Also noticing it, Derpy asked, "What's wrong, Twilight?" in a somewhat concerned tone. "I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that I know where we are." Twilight said very vaguely. There was a short silence, filled only with the sound of the desert wind whipping about after that. Rainbow Dash broke it by saying, "Well, okay. Spit out the bad news already." "The bad news," Twilight Sparkle began to say, taking a gulp first, "The bad news is that we're in Saddle Arabia."