//------------------------------// // Chapter 4: Chasing Scenes and Sets // Story: Sun Equestria Girls Adventure: Movie Magic // by Pinkie Pie Sweets //------------------------------// After leaving the nightclub set, Sun and the girls have been trying to find the relics and the thief. Sadly, they aren't able to find anything. What's worse… they end up getting themselves lost. "We are so lost," Aria bluntly replies. "Really? I thought we just can't find the studio set?" Sonata replies, looking clueless. Rainbow groans looking annoyed, "Sonata, that's what Aria means by us being lost." Sonata eyes blink for a few times looking confused. She finally replies, "Oh?" "I'm sure we'll find our way, we just need to keep an eye on any of the Daring Do set and we'll know we're in the right direction," Sun says. "I hope so. I haven't come here with my dad much, so I don't fully know my way around here," Falling Star replies. "I'm sure we'll find our way back if we just keep an eye out for any of the Daring Do sets, or at least one of the workers and ask for direction," Twilight says. Just then, the girls are confronted by a nervous P.A. He says in a panic, "There you are! W-Where are your costumes? We've got to hurry! I-I-I'm so gonna be fired if you aren't ready. The director wants to shoot in three minutes!" Before the girls can say anything, the girls end up in costumes and are on set. Twilight, Rainbow, Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie, and Spike are dressed like superheros. Meanwhile, Sun, Adagio, Falling Star, Aria, Sonata, and Nina wearing a supervillain like outfits. What scare them is that the man has mistaken them for outfits. Applejack nervously says, "Uh, I think there's been some kind of mistake." "She's right, we're not actors," Sun adds. The director sitting on the chair notices and reacts while looking through a small telescope, "Wait, wait. Who are these girls?" "They're the Power Ponies!" The P.A answers with a nervously smile. The director groans in reply. Knowing the worst, the nervous P.A asks, "I'm fired, aren't I?" "So fired." the director bluntly replies. The girls still on the set are still not sure what to do about the situation. They begin to look around to see if she can see anything. Applejack shockley shouts, "Hey! There she is!" The others turn to see the mysterious person is sneaking around the set. Rainbow and Pinkie try to catch the person, but get stuck in the wall. The girls give chase. They run after the mysterious person, who has been running to many different sets and other location in the studio. At one of the sets, Pinkie thinks it will be fun to slide over the cars like in the movies, but the alarm sets off. The girls are starting to get tired and are begin to lose the disguised person. They end up reaching to a set that looks like a city block, that is entirely covered in some strange brown goo. "Uh, what's this place supposed to be?" Applejack questions. "And where did she go?" Rainbow asks. "She must be around here somewhere. Wherever here is." Twilight answers, looking skeptic at the location Pinkie gasps, and shouts, "Are you kidding?! This is the set of Stormy with a Side of Pudding!" "Stormy with a side of what, now?" Applejack questions, looking very confused. Pinkie grunts, and says, "It's only my all-time favorite movie!" The girls except Sonata are giving confused looks at Pinkie. Rarity facepalm her head in response. Sonata smile shows a big smile, remember the film. "I've tried to get you all to watch it, like, a kazillion-billion times!" Pinkie says. "I remember, you and I watched it together last week,"sonata says. "I know, I've heard they use real pudding!" Pinkie replies with a smile. Pinkie and Sonata look at the giant blob of pudding on one of the building. They grab some with their finger, and puts it in their mouth. They both feel the sensation of the brown blob, and happily says, "They do!" They then slurp up the reminings from their mouth. Aria sticks her tounge out, "Blech!" "You two shouldn't be eating that. You don't know where it's been," ADagio says, narrowing her eyes. "Who cares?! It taste great," Sonata replies. Rainbow becomes frustrated about this, and says, "Ugh! We're running out of time! We're supposed to be hunting down the missing relics and catching the bad guy, not eating pudding!" "We're trying. Maybe we should make our way back to the Daring Do set. There might have been some clues we missed," Twilight suggests. Aria groans, "It's hard enough we had to chase this person around who practically knows every inch of this studio." "And whoever is doing this is a doing a pretty good job at it. And getting a close look at the person even under the body suit, I'd say the person is somewhere around our age, and she appears to be female," Sun says. Everyone, except, Rainbow, Aria, Adagio, and Nina scream in surprise. The four turn around to see the others have been caught in a net. They look to see the mysterious person, and suspect that where the net comes from. The person begins to runaway from the scene. "Don't worry! I've got this!" Rainbow declares. Then use her geode to run after the crook at top speed. Adagio, Aria, and Nina begin to follow them. Rainbow stops to see the person has disappeared, the others are able to catch up with her. "Where did she go?" Adagio asks. "I don't know, but she came here somewhere," Rainbow says. Just then, the girls hear a strange sounding around here. "Where are you?" Rainbow asks looking nervous. Just then, something shot past the girls and they become spooked. Then they see one of the doors has closed loudly. Nina walks towards the door, and says, "She went here." Rainbow opens the door, and she and the others come inside. They look around to see so many different props, costumes, and other stuff in this room. Arai quietly says, "This must be where the studio store their extra stuff." "Yeah," Nina answers. The four begin to look around as they look for the mysterious person. Rainbow screams to see a monster costume, and bumps into Adagio. Rainbow turns and sheepishly says, "Sorry." Just then, Rainbow notices a nice orange outfit in the locker. She takes it out, and says, "Hey! This is just like the outfit Daring Do wears in the nightclub scene. What's it doing in here?" "That must be the costume that went missing when we got here," Adagio suspects. Then Nina says, "Which means that someone stole the costume and hid it here where no one can find it." Just then, Arai has a theory, "Maybe the thief ether hid the relics here somewhere or must have hidden it in a safer hiding place where no one will suspect." As Aria turns around, she look to see the thief is going to leave the closet. Aria runs after her, and is able to grab hold of her. The two struggles as they try to carry out their objectives. As Aria tries to hold on to the mysterious person, she ends up seeing someone under the hood. She gasps to see something that can lead them to the culprit. Just then, the mysterious person is able to escape Aria's grasp and pushes her to the ground, then closes the door. Adagio gasps, "Aria!" Adagio runs to her sister and helps her up, "Are you alright?" "I'm fine, but I wasn't able to catch the bad guys," Aria says. Rainbow tries to opens the door and notices something wrongs, "We got bigger problems… she locked us in!" "What?!" The two girls gasps. The two try to push the door but it's locked. "We're locked in!" Aria says, with a grunt. "And the security has our phones so we can't call the girls," Adagio adds. Nina says, "Which means, we're going to have to hope someone find us." "Then let's try to get someone's attention," Rainbow says. Rainbow and the others begin to shake the door and scream as loud as they can. They hope that the girls or at least someone can hear them so they can be out of the closet. After finally getting the net off of them, the girls need to find Rainbow and the other along with the person behind the problems going around here. "We have to find Rainbow Dash," Applejack says. "And Adagio and the girls are with her," Falling Star adds. "I don't see how. She moves so fast, she could be anywhere on the lot by now. Why she felt it necessary to wear the geode that gives her super-speed to a movie set, I'll never know," Rainbow replies. "And it might be hard for Adagio and the others to find her," Twilight responds. Sun sighs, and says, "I wish I'd brought mine. One touch and I'd be able to see Chestnut's memories and get to the bottom of this whole thing." "I know how to find Rainbow Dash! Follow the pudding!" Pinkie declares, licking the treat from her finger. The girls are looking a bit confused by it. Pinkie kneels down to the bucket of pudding that is spilled, and says, "See?" The girls look to see the bucket that is spilled to the ground, and Rainbow has lead a trail when she runs after the thief. Spike sniffs the trail and it leads to a different. "Follow me!" Spike shouts, and runs to follow the trail Twilight happily says, "You're a genius, Pinkie Pie!" "I know!" Pinkie replies, with glee. Then Sun says, "C'mon, this way!" The girls begin to follow Spike as he follows the trail of pudding tracks on the ground. Twilight look to see Pinkie putting the bucket of pudding in her hair. Twilight is confused to see the event. Pinkie shrugs her shoulders, and says, "Eh, for the road!" Twilight and Pinkie begin to follow the others. After following the trail, Spike begins to sniff the area to find the pudding track has ended. Pinkie looks a the trail herself, "There's no more pudding. Which means she must be here somewhere." "And it seems the others must be with her. I picked up their sent," Spike says. "Hello? Is anyone here?" Twilightly calls out. Then Applejack calls out, "Rainbow Dash? Where are ya?" "Adagio? Aria?" Sonata adds. "Nina?" Sun adds. Just then, the girls hear rattling sounds coming from the door. They then hear Rainbow grunts, as she struggles and shouts, "Help! Somebody! We're trapped in here! Fluttershy hears the sound from the door, and questions, "Hello? Rainbow Dash? Are you in there? "Yes!" Rainbow answers. Then Adagio's voice cries out, "Help!" "Someone locked us in!" Aria adds. "It's okay. We're here," Fluttershy calmly reassures. Fluttershy tries to open the doors, but it's locked up tied. Falling Star says, "I'll see if we can borrow Canter's keys." "Wait," Twilight says, causing Falling Star to halt. Twilight grabs hold of her geod and uses the magic that is connected to her hand. She place her hand on the door and hears clicking noises from the lock. The door quickly opens, and Rainbow jumps out as she happily says in relief, "Boy, am I happy to see you!" Adagio and the others walk out of the room as well. "It's about time you guys find us," Aria says, rolling her eyes. Adagio sternly says, "Now Aria, be glad the girls are able to find us and we won't have to be stuck in that supply closet." "I'm so happy you two are safe!" Sonata cheers giving her sisters a hug. Rarity asks, "Did you just make that lock unlock itself?" "Nice!" Sun compliments. "Thinking' maybe we should all start wearin' our geodes around. Never know when our new magic might come in handy," Applejack says, avising the idea of carrying the geodes around. "How did you find us? We gave up banging on the door five minutes ago," Rainbow asks. "Pudding never lies," Pinkie answers with a grin on her face. Then she and Sonata begin to eat the pudding with the spoons. Sun notices the costume in Rainbow's hands, and asks, "Hey, is that the costume that went missing when we first got here?" "Yeah. But We didn't see the person who locked me in, and there's still no sign of the relics," Rainbow answers. "Not all of us," Aria speaks up. The girls look at Aria with skeptic looks on their face. Sonata asks, "What do you mean?" Aria sighs, "Look, I didn't say it earlier with the others because I wanted all of us to hear this. I tried to stop the person from locking us in, but couldn't. But when I fell to the ground… I actually got a better look at the person's face." The girls gasps in shock. Rainbow exclaims, "Wait?! Are you saying…" "Yes. I know who is behind all of this… and I think I have a pretty good idea why," Aria answers. "So that means we can confront her, right?" Fluttershy asks. "True, but she won't admit it," Rarity says. Then Twilight asks, "Who did it?" "I'll only whisper to you and Sun, because I may saw her face, know how she pull it off, and why she did, but… I feel safer with you two knowing the culprit first," Aria explains. Sun and Twilight nod their heads in reply. Aria then lean to the two's ears and whispers who it is and how she manage to figure out." After hearing the statement, Twilight says, "I figure much." "So you agree?" Aria asks. Twilight nods her head, "Yes. I know how we can catch her, and… I think I know how we can find the relics. "How?" Falling Star asks. Then Sun answers, "We're going to let the culprit lead us to them, but we're going to need some help in order to do it." "And I think Canter Zoom is the one who can help us with our plan," Twilight adds.