Henry couldn't stop thinking about her dream 'what did it mean?’ she sighed and looked around the town, there were other ponies just walking around living their lives, talking, laughing, and smiling.
That was when she saw a family of four, a mother and father and their two sons. It brought up memories of her family, she remembered the days they spent walking through town having fun, her parents would ask how their day went, the memories made her heart tighten as tears formed in her eyes 'no...no I cried enough’ she wiped her eyes and looked away from the family.
“Oh Lighting how would you like to go to SugarCube Corner? There are a lot of sweets there you can eat” Twilight smiled looking back at Lighting.
“Um I'm not really hung-” she was cut off when her stomach growled.
“Heh your stomach says otherwise” Spike smirked at her.
She frowned, she didn't want any sweets she wanted to go back home to her little brother, she wanted to go back to her regular life, but if she didn't want to be dissected by pony scientists she needed to act the part of a little kid, huffing she put on her best fake smile “sure”.
Twilight smiled and walked that direction spike following by her, after a few minutes they arrived at SugarCube Corner.
Henry looked up at the building 'it looks like it's made of candy, and judging by this world it probably is’ she thought as they walked in, she looked around the inside.
“Oh hello Twilight” Miss Cake said walking out of the kitchen.
“Hi Miss Cake” Twilight smiled.
Miss Cake noticed the filly on her back and raised a brow “who is this?”
“Oh this is L-” Twilight was cut off from answering by a loud yell.
“LIGHTNING BURST!!!” Pinkie yelled in excitement as she shot down the stairs tackling her off Twilight's back in a blink of an eye.
Henry looked at the crazy blue eyes of the pink pony as she was hugged tightly.
“Yes that's it” Twilight chuckled.
“Oh my I had no idea you had a filly! You should have told me I would have helped make a baby shower cake” Miss Cake wondered who the father might be.
“What? No no she isn't mine, I'm only being her guardian till we can find where she lives” Twilight quickly explained.
“Oh sorry dear, I just saw her with you and assumed she was yours” Miss Cake chuckled.
Pinkie was hopping around holding Lighting in her arms, she spun around the room “I missed you!! I'm so glad you're here, I wanted to ask you a bunch of stuff yesterday but Twilight said it would be better to ask later so I'll ask you now”.
Henry was having a hard time focusing, she was extremely dizzy at the moment from being spun around “ok…” she muttered as her eyes spinning around.
“What's your favorite candy? What's your favorite flavor of cake? What type of ice cream do you like?” Pinkie asked as she set Lighting in the ground and waited for the answers excitedly.
Henry shook her head to get rid of the dizziness “um caramel, vanilla I guess, and mint, why?”
“No reason” Pinkie smirked before running off.
'god she's weird….’ she thought before looking at what Twilight and Miss Cake were doing.
Twilight walked over smiling “sorry about Pinkie, she can get like that around new Ponies”.
“It's fine” she smiled faintly.
“Yes she can get pretty excited” Miss Cake smiled as she walked out from behind the counter with a tray of cupcakes on her head, she set them down in front of Lighting “you can have these to make up for it”.
“No thanks you don't have to for me” Henry pushed the tray back slightly.
“its alright Lighting go ahead” Twilight smiled.
Spike took one and took a bite out of it “mm yeah pretty good”
Henry looked down at the sweets, she had to admit they looked really good, she picked up a cupcake with both her hooves and then took a bite out of it, instantly her mouth was filled with sugary flavor, she then shoved the rest in her mouth and her vision went rainbow colored.
Henry groaned rubbing her head 'what the hell happened?’ looking around she found herself in a room she didn't recognize.
Twilight opened the door and smiled “hey Lighting….” She walked in followed by spike.
“What happened…?” She rubbed her head.
“You ate a cupcake and went crazy” Spike smirked.
Twilight glared at him “you had a sugar rush after you ate the cupcake”.
“I did?...what did I do?” Henry asked confused, she felt all staticy for some reason.
“Well you ate the other cupcakes and then rushed around the room, you were going as fast as pinkie, but then you tried eating more sweets so Twilight grabbed you and then took you back here all while you took every opportunity to escape back to the sweets” Spike explained.
“Really?....that's never happened before….” Henry was genuinely surprised, looking around the room she remembered she didn't know where she was “where are we?”
“Oh SugarCube Corner still, this is pinkies room, she said you could rest here” Twilight smiled.
“I'll have to thank her” Henry sighed laying her head on the pillow, her headache was slowly fading.
“That'd be nice of you” Twilight smiled happy with Lightning's choice.
Henry got up and out of bed “do you know where she is so I can thank her?”
“Oh sorry she left, you'll have to thank her another time, how about for now we go see Rarity? She said she wanted to see you something” Twilight opened the door for them.
Spike left the room excitedly.
“Huh wonder what for…” she followed Twilight out of the room and down the stairs.
“We're going to head out Miss Cake, once again I apologise for what happened earlier” Twilight said sheepishly.
“Yeah...I had no idea that would happen” Henry said trying to remember the events that occured but all she remembered was odd colors and a dolphin on a unicycle, she paused on the memory 'that….I don't think really happened….’ shaking her head she looked up at Miss Cake “I am really sorry if I caused any problems”.
“Oh don't worry dear it's fine, nor harm done, now hurry along you two, you don't want to spend the whole day here now do you?” Miss Cake said with a smile.
Twilight nodded and left with Lighting who stumbled as she walked, she looked at her “are you ok Lighting?”
“What? Oh yeah I'm fine, just uh….I'm not used to walking” Henry said without thinking before quickly adding “since my hooves got burnt”.
Spike looked at Lightning suspicious.
“Oh yes I forgot” Twilight lit her horn levitating Henry up on her back, spike frowned when this happened and crossed his arms, they all Conti her down the road to Carousel Boutique.
The three of them walked into the building and up the stairs to where Rarity was, she was currently sewing a dress.
“Hi Rarity!” Spike yelled excitedly, Henry got the feeling this little lizard had a thing for the diva.
Rarity stopped working and turned around before smiling “Spikey! Twilight and Lighting Burst too! I'm glad you brought her Twilight the moment I saw her I got ideas and I knew I just had to get to work” she said trotting over to a curtain.
“Work on what..?” Henry asked curious, that was when Rarity opened the curtain revealing a black dress with yellow lining, Henry's eyes went wider than they've ever gone before, she began shaking her head back and forth “I'm not wearing a dress!!” She jumped off Twilight's back hoping she could make it out of the room and then down the stairs, then maybe find a train or wagon and get out of town, dye her hair green and call herself Lemon Lime yeah that'd work, only none of that happened since she got caught in a blue magical aura and levitated over to the mannequin wearing her new dress “no...no...noooooo!!!!!” She screamed as she slowly got closer to her doom.
Henry now was wearing the dress the mannequin once wore, stood still the best she could as Rarity did the measurements of the dress all while Spike sat across the room in a chair snickering, Henry glared at him.
“It's not that bad Lighting Smile” Spike snickered.
“Then you wear it lizard face!” Henry yelled.
“Don't move please darling I'm almost finished” Rarity said as she sewed the dress together in certain spots.
“Fine…” Henry bit his cheek looking away grumbling 'swear if all this ends up being a dream I'm so gonna burn my brain cells….’
“I don't have to where the dress because I'm not you” Spike smirked.
Rarity stood back smiling “done!” She stepped away and looked at her work “you look wonderful darling!”
Henry turned to a mirror and her cheeks went red as she looked at herself 'dear god I look like a little girl's doll….’ she thought before she heard snickering.
Spike was doing his best to hold in his laughter, but in reality he was barely trying at all.
“Hrr” she growled looking away to hide her blush of embarrassment, she looked back at her reflection and looked at the dress, it didn't look bad it was just she used to be a guy and would never wear a dress, or anything girly.
Twilight walked over to Rarity “the dress looks beautiful Rarity”.
“Thank you darling, I did my best” Rarity smiled and walked over to Lighting “did you like it?”
“What? Oh um….well I don't really...” Henry stopped when she saw Rarity frown “..know anybody who wouldn't love this dress, I uh..for sure love it” she put her best smile on.
Rarity smiled happily “wonderful I'm so happy you do, I have many other ideas for dresses and I can't wait to make them”.
Henry gulped as dread engulfed her entire being “well um I'd love to but uh….” She was hoping for an idea to come to mind but she couldn't think of anything and cursed her brain for failing her.
“Rarity? Are you up there?” Sweetie Belle asked walking up the stairs and into the room before looking at her sister smiling.
“Oh hello Sweetie Belle” Twilight said and smiled.
“Hi Twilight, hi Spike” Sweetie Belle looked over at the filly wearing the dress “who's that?”
“Oh this is Lighting Burst, Twilight's taking care of her” Rarity explained before looking at Lighting “and she's my little sister Sweetie Belle”.
“Oh um hello” Henry looked at the other filly, she looked around the same age Henry currently was, and was just as small, another reminder of her shortness.
Sweetie Belle walked over to her smiling “hi, wow that dress looks great on you”.
“What? Oh um thanks” Henry blushed, she didn't know why she was blushing but for some reason the compliment made her feel strange.
“Oh I bet the girls would love to meet you, can I take her to go see them??” Sweetie Belle asked Rarity and Twilight.
Twilight looked at Rarity “well if she wants to I suppose she ca-” she was cut off.
“Yes! I'd love to go meet your friends and make some uh new friends” Henry smiled, finally a reason to get away from the fashion diva and feminine clothing.
“Alright then” Twilight smiled happy that Lighting was trying to make friends, she already was taking after her.
Henry got out of the dress and stumbled over to her “ok let's go!” She was happy that she wouldn't have to wear anymore dresses, the two left the Boutique to find Sweetie Belle's friends “so um...where are these friends of yours?”
“Oh they're at the clubhouse, I told them to meet me there so they should be there by now” Sweetie Belle said before looking at Lightning's Cutiemark “how did you get your Cutiemark?”
“Hm? Oh I um...got struck by lightning” Henry looked away from them.
“What really??? And survived??” Sweetie Belle asked in amazement.
Henry looked around before looking at her “....seriously…?”
“What?” She tilted her head confused.
“I'm literally standing in front of you...of course I survived!” Henry huffed, he didn't like kids all that much.
“Sorry” Sweetie Belle looked at the ground as they walked, eventually they got to the clubhouse.
“Why was I expecting anything more than a tree house…?” Henry asked herself looking at the small house in the tree, they then climbed the ramp up to the entrance where two other filly's stood, they smiled and looked excited spun seeing the two of them.
Applebloom ran over to sweetie Belle “who's this?”
“Her name is Lightning Burst, Twilight is taking care of her” Sweetie Belle smiled.
“Yo….” Henry felt a bit uncomfortable, he was a grown man and was hanging out with these three little girls.
Scootaloo looked at Lightning Burst's cutie mark “I bet you fly really fast huh?”
“What? Oh um...not really...I'm not good at flying...like at all” Henry looked at the filly's buzzing wings.
“Neither am I...my name's Scootaloo” Scootaloo held her hood out.
Henry looked between Scootaloo and the outstretched hoof 'handshake? But we don't have hands….crap uhhh’ she dissed her hoof and bumped their hooves together looking at her hoping that was right, Scootaloo smiled and lowered her hoof 'whew that was right…’
Applebloom walked over “hi mah names Applebloom, mah sister's Applejack” she smiled.
“Uh, nice to meet you, wait your name also starts with apple?” Henry raised a brow.
“Yup!” She smiled.
“Cool….” Henry felt super awkward, she had no idea what to do now, he was hanging out with a bunch of kids "so….what do you guys wanna do?"
The three girls looked at each other and smiled before speaking all at the same time "wagon race!!"
"Uh...tell me again what were doing up here…" Henry said looking down the steep hill while sitting in a wagon, Applebloom sat in front of him while Sweetiebelle and Scootaloo sat in another cart beside them.
"Well since we now got two pegasi we can race to see who can get to Sweet Apple Acer's first!" Applebloom said excitedly.
Henry looked at her "your pretty excited about this…"
"She usually has to race alone when we do this" Scootaloo explained as she adjusted her helmet.
"Wait" Henry looked over the three who had helmets "why don't I get a helmet?"
Sweetiebelle chuckled embarrassed "we don't have a fourth one…. usually it's just us three" she explained.
"Now get ready!" Scootaloo yelled
Henry huffed annoyed at the fact that him having no helmet was being shrugged off.
"On your marks!" Scootaloo looked forward a look of determination on her face.
Henry looked at the other two who got ready as well.
"Get set!" Scootaloo spread her wings.
Henry looked forward "alright...let's do this" he spread his wings
"GO!!!" Scootaloo cheered as her wings buzzed and her cart fell forward zooming down the hill.
Henry and AppleBloom leaned forward and he flapped his wings sending the cart down the hill chasing after Scootaloo's.
Both carts rocketed down the hill and zoomed across the path, Henry flapped his wings as hard as he could, catching up to Scootaloo's cart he looked at her and she looked surprised as his cart got ahead of hers, he smirked and looked forward to seeing a turn coming up "uh what do I do?"
"That's mah part!" Applebloom skilled and leaned to right turning the cart right.
Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle's cart turned right as well but was behind them "we need to catch up!" Sweetie Belle yelled.
"I know!" Scootaloo yelled as she flapped her wings harder.
Henry looked back and chuckled "this is way more fun than I thought!"
"Ah know! I'm having so much fun!" Applebloom cheered.
Henry chuckled before noticing something in the corner of his eyes, he looked to his left and saw Scootaloo and Sweetie belle catching up and starting to pass them, he also noticed her horn glowing "hey! No fair!"
Sweetie Belle stuck her tongue out as they passed them.
"What do we do??" Applebloom asked looking back.
"Ughh" he flapped his wings harder trying to catch up but it wasn't working, they already were flapping we fast as he could make them, Applebloom and him were gonna lose at this rate, he needed to be faster! His wings sparked before electricity engulfed them and they shot forward and thunder boomed, they rocketed last Scootaloo and Sweetiebelle.
Applebloom was pushed back into Henry from force of the speed, she looked back at the slowly disappearing Scootaloo and Sweetiebelle in the distance a smile forming on her face "wooo!"
Shooting across the first road they neared the finish line before tearing through it, both cheering at their win as they continued down the path.
"Up….Lightning...think ya can slow down now?" Applebloom asked as they continued at the same speed.
"Uh….I don't know how…" Henry couldn't stop his wings from flapping or stop the lightning that was speeding them up.
They got into town and zoomed down the road, Applebloom had to keep leaning in the cart to turn it out of the way of ponies and other cards in the road, they weren't slowing though they kept at the same speed.
The lighting on Henry's wings crackled and shot out hitting different things as they passed them, the things that were flammable caught fire such as a bundle of hay that burst into flames.
A stallion who had been pulling the hay in the cart looked back at it then forward before immediately looking back and screaming.
Henry was watching the and slowly looked back forward "oops…"
"What happened?" Applebloom asked looking back at Henry
"We uh….ran over a flower…." Henry lied not feeling like Applebloom needed to know about the hay, looking past her his eyes widened seeing something she definitely needed to know "uh Applebloom!" He pointed forward.
Applebloom looked forward and her eyes widened seeing a apple cart moving across the road, she leaned side to side but the cart was in the way "Ahhhh!!!" She hugged Lightning Burst
"Ahhhhh!!!" Henry yelled hugging Applebloom back.
Their cart smashed right into the cart sending apples flying all over, unsuspecting ponies were caught by surprise as a cloud came over them, looking up they found hundreds of red shiny apples blotting out the sun before they rains down onto the ponies.
Henry sat up from the apples and looked around the pile, Applebloom popped up with applesauce dropping down her face 'oh dang...we hit these apples hard…'
Applebloom looked at Lighting Burst and then the apples before she began giggling.
Henry couldn't help himself and started giggling as well.
Sweetie belle and Scootaloo rolled up and looked at the two of them "woah what happened to you two?" Sweetie belle asked.
"Hehe I uh kinda went to fast" Henry chuckled.
"Way to fast" Applebloom chuckled.
"Ah man! I'm riding with her next time" Sweetie belle pouted.
"Hey!" Scootaloo yelled glaring.
The three then began giggling together before Scootaloo joined in as well.
Henry trotted into the castle smiling, after him and the cmc helped clean up the apples they got smoothies which he found very tasty, as he trotted inside he spotted Twilight who was pacing, smiling he galloped over to her excited for all her about how much fun her had.
Twilight looked at Henry as he galloped over and frowned "do you know the mess you caused today??" She yelled.
Henry skidded to a halt in front of her confused "w-what?"
"You destroyed a lot of ponies property, I was told by at least twenty ponies the stuff you destroyed in your race, I told Rarity, Applejack, and Scootaloo's aunt's that cmc did too" Twilight frowned down at the filly.
"What?? No Scootaloo and Sweetie belle didn't do anything neither did Applebloom, and it was an accident! I lost control of m-" Henry tried to defend the girls and himself but Twilight cut him off.
"No excuses! Go to your room now!" Twilight yelled.
Henry's ears fell back against his head and he frowned "b-but."
"No buts!" She yelled and poured her hoof to the stairs.
Henry flinched from her yell and made his way to the stairs hanging his head, he climbed the stairs and entered his room, he climbed up onto his bed and laid down sniffling, he didn't want to but the tears flowed down his face and he buried his face in his pillow.