The Trio were all breathing hard as they pulled themselves out of the stream and into the jungle.
"That sucked," Scootaloo declared as she looked down at a large bruise on her arm.
"Suck doesn't even being to cover that!" Spike snapped back "Where gonna have to set up camp here," his companions looked at him for a second before looking up at the sky.
"But it's barely even noon," Silverstream noted as she saw the sun still at its highest point in the sky.
"And by the time we get out of this Jungle it'll be nightfall," Spike stated as he put his bag on the ground.
"Hey I just realized something," Scootaloo said as she took her backpack off "I wasn't wearing this when I was a seapony,"
"Well yeah," Silverstream said with a laugh "Any material item you have on you when you transform is stored in the crystal, so it's not messed up by the change in environment,"
"Hey," Spike snapped at the two to get their attention "Save your exposition until after we've set up the camp,"
"Oh but I love exposition," Silverstream muttered as she and Scootaloo began unpacking their bedrolls.
-20 minutes later-
The Looked in awe at the mess camp they had made, it was very simple and somewhat dull, but it was effective, they had tried to set up the bedrolls, but the ground was far too muddy, so they had moved a little farther, and they had been met with one too many ant hills so they had improved and now a simple set of three Hammocks made out of sleeping bags hand between two trees each higher than the last. Scootaloo jumped into the bottom one, Silver took the middle one, and Spike claimed the top one due to him not wanting Silver to drop onto him in his sleep. Scootaloo got nice and comfy on her bedroll and gave a sigh of relief at the idea of going to sleep and began drifting off while Spike and Silver talked about expositional stuff, she felt her self drifting into dream when a relaxation hit her too late, she jolted up in the dream world and looked around for a moment before she began sweating.
"Oh no," she said when as a shadow appeared behind her, she turned and looked into the eyes of Princess Luna.
"Oh no indeed," Luna agreed "why don't we wait for the others before we begin our little talk," the two existed in silence for a Moment, Luna standing her ground in silence while Scootaloo shook in her dream hammock, she didn't have to wait for long before Silverstream's hammock popped into existence, Before anything could be said she popped up with a worried look.
"We forgot about Luna," She cried out before looking from Scootaloo to the Princess and giving a guilty smile.
"Indeed you did," Luna agreed as Spike appeared and popped up.
"Hey," he said casually.
"Hey," Luna greeted with a smile before looking down at Scootaloo, there was a solid moment of silence before the Princess smiled at them, a spark of mischief gleamed in her eyes,"
"So...tell me how your quest has gone so far,"
Luna was laughing herself silly once they had finished telling the story.
"Oh Spike, my dear nephew, me and Tia would be honored to shelter you from Twilight when this is all said and done,"
"What about me...I mean us," Scootaloo demanded motioning to herself and Silver.
"You two did this voluntarily, you just dragged poor Spike here, quite literally, along for the ride," Scootaloo made to say something closed her mouth, tried again then scratched her chin.
"Yeah," she admitted with a sigh "Spike did not agree in any way to do this,"
"I'm fine with this," Silverstream replied happily "Just me, Spike, and Scootaloo, going on a quest doomed to fail," Luna chuckled.
"Ah, yes I don't imagine it's very likely you'll make it to the top of mount every hoof, but I think you can make it to Starlight's old town, altho the townfolks might end up turning you in.
"I'm fine with that," Spike replied with a shrug.
"We'll make it," Scootaloo replied with a determined look in her eye, "The look on Rainbow Dashes face when she finds out I made it to the top of Mountever hoof, the looks on my friend's faces," Spike and Silver looked at Scootaloo and both seemed to be thinking something, Luna looked to Silver expecting her to say something, but much to the groups surprise it was Spike who spoke up,
"It would be nice," he admitted "Twilight's done a lot of amazing things, but to be able to say I climbed to the summit of Mount Everhoof without any magical help..." Spike smiled and looked to Scootaloo, for the first time since he had been dragged along with them he looked excited "...it would be nice,"
"Let's do it!" Silverspoon cried out"
"I thought we already agreed to do it?" Scootaloo complained to her companions, who both looked to her for a moment.
"Yeah," Spike agreed "But I didn't think for a second we'd make it that far,"
"Same," Silver agreed "Heck it's still super unlikely, but I can at least promise you that I'll try my hardest to get us all there,"
"Yeah," Spike agreed "So what if we're totally boned once this is all said and done, the memory of us doing it, or at least the memories we make along the way before we get caught, will be worth it, We could even make a friend or to along the way," Scootaloo smiled as he two travel companions finally began getting as pumped as she was about their quest Luna sat silently and watched then make their plans before slinking away, leaving them in the joined dream so they could use their sleeping hours to plan out their next day.
"It might not be the most responsible thing to leave them to their own devices," She said to herself as she awoke from the sleeping world, she made her way to her dresser and after a few minutes pulled out an old crystal ball, she shook it a few times, using the dream world as he guide, and quickly saw the sleeping images of the trio in their makeshift hammocks shimmering in it "So I guess I better keep an eye on them,"