"Alright," Twilight said to Applebloom "Are you absolutely sure, you don't know where they're going?"
"I don't"
"And you don't know who orchestrated the event?"
"No," Applebloom responded
"Are you sure?" Twilight asked, "Cause you are not in trouble, and I'm sure whoever orchestrated the event made it sound like a grand time, they were probably very good at talking others into things, maybe their good with words? Maybe..."
"Twilight, Of the three who ran off, that description matches none of them" Applebloom cut in "Scootaloo make's thing's sound dangerous, Silverstream would make it sound explosive, and Spike was only in the clubhouse because he was literally dragged into the house." Applebloom got out of her chair "Now if you'll excuse me I have work to do, and even if I did know anything...I.AM.NOT.A.SNITCH!" She screamed out as she slammed the door behind her
"Dammit" Twilight muttered as she threw away her list, "She was the last one to interrogate"
"Next to her Rainbow sat awkwardly, across from them Sat Pinkie and Princess Skystar
"I can't believe this" Skystar muttered angrily
"Look It won't take long for us to find..."
"Not about that!" She interrupted "Why wasn't I told about Silverstream and Spike? Oh, I bet they're super cute together!"
"I feel like Spike wasn't willingly apart of the relationship" Rainbow cut in "mainly because she literally dragged him around like a doll"
"Uh, Yeah! That's how Hippogriffs work, we find a guy we like, we drag him around, and keep him forever, it's rare a male Hippogriff is ok with what's going on" She swooned "I bet he fought so hard to get away"
"We....we can talk about that later" Twilight said with a head shake
"Maybe Spike was pulled into the event against his will?" Pinkie tried
"Pinkie...Spike is Literally the only reason they go AWAY!" Twilight screamed angrily "HE IS IN SO MUCH TROUBLE WHEN I GET MY HOOVES ON HIM, I...I...I..."
"Alright let's calm down" Rainbow cut in "We need to think, where would they go? They all ran away right? So they must be going someplace their really not suppose to go." with that the Four continued arguing over what to do for the rest of the night
-3 hours later-
"Last Time I make such a stupid Pinkie Promis" Spike muttered as he sucked up the fire and spat it back into the jar "Alright, I'm stuck with this plan, but we are doing the mountain thing last!" he turned to Scootaloo, who was rolling up the gear they had used to lay back and just think about how fucked they were "And as soon as we get to the top we are using the Ponyville teleporting jar to go home and accept our fate."
"Fine, Once we reach Everhooves summit we can go home." Scootaloo agreed "So...where is Starlight's old town?"
"At the End of the Tracks," Spike responded
"Wait!" Silverstream cut in "I thought that's how we get to the Kirin's village?" she asked in confusion.
"No, no, no, That's a Different set of Tracks, there are a fair number of them after all." Spike responded happily "You see the tracks that end in The Hippogriff Kingdom also end at the forest the houses the Kirin's town, the ones that end in The Crystal Empire will take us to Starlight's town."
"Wait but how..?" Silverstream asked when Spike cut in an answered her question
"Those are just a few examples, if you take the right train and switch at the right points you could easily get from the Kirin's forest to Starlight's town in...oh...a few days..."
"Oh no!" Scottaloo cut in "We are not taking the Train!"
"Scottaloo!" Silverstream cut in angrily "You're interrupting Spike, he was in the middle of nerding out..."
"Yeah I was...wait...I Wasn't nerding out!" Spike said in his own Defence when Scootaloo shut them both up
"We have broken so many rules, and I know for a fact that both of those locations would require us to go threw ponyville, and what if one of the mane 6 were on the train going somewhere, or Trixie, or Starlight, or a crystal pony!"
"I'm sorry you had me till that last bit" Spike cut in
"Oh please, you don't think Twilight has called in all the stops to bring us, or at least you two, in?" She asked this was met with silence "So no Train, we walk, we swim, we don't fly cause Rainbow Dash and all that."
"And also because you can't?" Spike asked, earning a slap across the face
"Ow." Scootaloo cried out holding her hand
"What part of slapping a dragon felt like a good idea?" Spike asked he shut up when Silverstream grabbed his face and almost broke his neck making him look at her
"Oh, are you ok? do you need me to kiss it better?"
"No! Let go!" Spike responded tearing up the ground with his feet while trying to get away "I'm not consenting to any of this!"
"I know," Silverstream said in the voice you'd use to talk to a baby with "And it's adorable." Scootaloo chuckled as she watched Spike destroy the ground trying to get away
"How is this funny?" He demanded, turning his eyes to glare at her
"Cause there is no way to escape her, she can literally follow you anywhere."
"Not into Lava!" He shot back
"Oh don't be silly" Silverstream chuckled "I'd turn you into a fish and drag you into the sea as soon as you made any indication you'd try to." She smiled as Spike froze "But Don't worry, I'll turn you into a SeaDragon, not a Pufferfish! You only turned into that cause Auntie Nova had it set to pony mode, not suppose to hit more than one species at a time you know" She said holding up her crystal, Spike went slack in her arms
"How long to Hippogriffs live?" He asked
"Long" Silverstream replied happily "Every time we change into Seaponies and back it cuts our aging in half." she smiled "Same for any other creature it's used on" She added, Spike let out a very loud groan
"Noooo, I'm gonna live forever and be stuck with you for even longer!"
"Alright, enough hypothetical future non-sense" Scootaloo cut in "Everything packed, bellies full, how much Water we got?" Silverstream let go of Spike, who flopped to the ground and check
"we've got 13 bottled waters, 3 Cantines, and 1 hip flash of water for emergency use only!" she turned and looked down at Spike "Are you ok?" She asked
"Not even a little" he muttered through the dirt "But!" He added as he got up "I guess this is my cosmic punishment for doing the stalker thing to Rarity" he brushed himself off and pulled out the large map he had brought began marking their path. "Alright, so first we go here" Spike began muttering the word here a few more times marking locations on the map as he went on "and finally we go here before Starlight's town..."
"Why are we doing your thing first?" Scootaloo demanded, Spike looked over at her
"Cause I'm making the map" He responded before turning back to it and continuing "then we go here.."Spike repeated the here thing a few more times"...then the Kirin village, then we backtrack to that place, then that, place, then we take the train to..."
"What happened to no trains!?" Scootaloo cut in
"Look at that point, if we make it that far, we're gonna be exhausted and one of us might be dead and we will all be injured, I think if we make it that far we'd have earned a train ride to the hardest mountain to climb."
"Fair enough" Scootaloo added
"you're taking your probable death well" Silverstream noted
"Wha...he didn't specify..."
"He's a fire-breathing Dragon, and If thing gets too bad I can turn monsters into fish...and that leaves you, the flightless Pegasus.." The Trio sat in momentary silence
"Oh please!" Scootaloo finally shot back "There's no way he was talking about me! I'm the coolest one here!"
"To be fair" Spike jumped it "I was referring to Silverstream accident killing one of us with her death grip."
"I'd never hurt you Spike" Silverstream responded without hesitation
"What about that time two weeks ago when you dislocated my..."
"I re-set it!" She said immediately
"Alright, Alright!" Scootaloo said standing up "Enough of this, we need to get moving, Spike, what is our first destination?"
"First stop, Applelossa!" Spike declared, the two turned to him "it's either that or Ponyville, there the closest towns in walking distance."
"Dammit all, fine, TO APPLELOSSA WE GO!" Scootaloo declared as they finished packing up and began heading East to their destination