“Okay we’re here!” the pink pony exclaimed, getting up on her hind hooves and making confetti rain from the sky as if it was some sort of party, “why are we here again?”
“We’re here to find Twi, sugarcube,” the orange mare said.
The royal guards walked in front of them and saluted, “what would you have us do, the princess has requested us to help you on your mission.”
Oh, right ya’ll had better be checking each house on what they know of Twilight, and about the hooded mare,” the orange pony said, in a southern accent.
“Of course,” one said with a salute and they took off down the street, their golden armour glowing in the sunlight as they left.
“Ok, we just need to find that hooded mare the princess was talking about. Wasn’t her name, something like Sunset Rose,” said the light-blue pegasus with a Rainbow mane.
“You mean that hooded mare?” said the pink pony, pointing her hoof to a pony with a black cloak walking down the street.
The light-blue pegasus looked over, and said, “Oh, that was easy.”
“Hold on darlings, we don’t know if it is the same mare or a different one,” the white unicorn explained to her friends.
“Well, what are we waiting for,” said the pink pony, speeding of in the direction of the hooded mare.
Sunset Rose continued her walk, paying no mind to the ponies who arrived with royal guards as they must be here for important business like a meeting with the mayor of the city. She had no idea that they where here to meet her and to search for their lost friend.
A pink blur appeared before her making her yelp and stumble back, but she kept her balance. As she looked up she saw a pony before her who had light pink fur with a darker pink mane that seemed to be inflated, she had three balloons for a cutie mark.
“Hi!” she spoke in a very high pitched voice, “i’m Pinkie Pie, what’s your name, ohh spooky cloak what’s that for? is it Nightmare Night? No it isn’t, silly Pinkie” it surprised Sunset of how fast she was speaking without even taking a breath.
“Calm down, Pinkie Pie,” the orange mare, walking up to them with three other ponies and a baby dragon,”we’re not in Ponyville, she isn’t used to your ways.”
“Come Applejack, we’re just having fun, isn’t that right?” said Pinkie Pie looking down at the frightened mare, “Oh I’m sorry.”
“It’s fine,” said Sunset.
“You sound awful familiar umm, what’s your name?” asked Applejack.
“It’s Sunset, Sunset Rose.” said Sunset, as she looked at the group all having a look of shock and disbelief.
“Okay, have you seem a mare about your height, a unicorn, is your colour,” she said, as she held up Sunset’s hoof,” goes by the name Twilight Sparkle, no? Umm, very nerdy, reads a lot of books, uhh has a star as cutie mark.”
“No, sorry,” said Sunset, as she racked her brain for a mare that came close to that description, and the only pony, who she could think of was herself, 'but we can't be the same mare as i am called Sunset Rose and the mare they were talking about was called Twilight Sparkle' she thought.
The group turned to walk away when Applejack said, “ It’s alright sugarcube, we better be off and search the rest o' the city.”
As they walked off, she could only be confused, not by the group or their questions but by the pony named Pinkie Pie, she was on a next level of weird. But she shrugged it of and continued to the market place to pick up food, she didn’t want to be out for too long.
Meanwhile at Canterlot Castle, a white unicorn stallion with a blue mane and a shield for a cutie mark lay in bed, crying. He wasn’t the only pony in the room as he was being comforted by a pink alicorn.
“It’s all my fault, she was my sister and.. and I let her go,” sobbed the unicorn, into the pillow.
“It is not your fault Shining, you were brainwashed, you couldn’t have controlled what you said,” said the pink alicorn, while running her hoof though the rugged blue mane of Shining Armour, as he hadn’t even taken care of himself since Twilight’s disappearance.
“It is, my words are what caused her to leave. I am a horrible big brother, I didn’t deserve to have somepony like Twilight as a sister,” said Shining Armour into the pillow.
“That is absolutely not true! You love Twiley and you would never say those things on purpose. It wasn’t your fault you were brainwashed” said cadence, still trying to comfort Shining Armour.
“But..but..but I let her go,” sobbed Shinning Armour.
“Hey, we can search all around Equestria, personally, knock on every door, ask every-pony, until we find Twilight,” said Cadence.
“Really? But what about your royal duties?” asked Shining Armour, bringing his head out of the pillow.
“Yes, it’s not like I have anywhere to run and I don’t have many duties to begin with,” said Cadence.
Shining Armour looked at Cadence’s face to see if there was a hint of a joke but he noticed she was completely serious, and said, “ Okay.”