"Look at everything we can see from here!" Sweetie Elle said to her best friends as they sat on the cliffside of a mountain, looking down at everything below, and Ponyville from a visible distance.
"I don't think I can be any happier being a bird..." Scootaloo added.
The very next second, a growl could be heard.
"Uh, did either of you just growled?" Apple Bloom asked.
"We thought you did!" Sweetie Belle and Scooaloo replied in unison.
The three looked behind them and saw a hungry-looking cougar! The large cat fiercely leapt at the birds, obviously trying to catch them for snack, causing the Cutie Mark Crusaders to scream and take off for their safety.
"Fly, girls, fly!" Apple Bloom screamed, as she and her best friends flew in all sorts of directions, hoping to shake off the cougar.
The predator's hunger served as a catalyst that boosted its determination to catch the CMCs in their bird forms, to the point that it leapt up a few metres of the ground it was on, attempting to snatch the panicking birds.
"This cat's really determined to have us for snacks!" Scootaloo panicked, realising the cougar's determination.
"He's leaving higher than any pony can leap!"" Sweetie Belle cried out loud.
"Looks like the only way out is to go far, not up!" Apple Bloom announced, leading her friends towards Ponyville and away from the mountains, as well as its hungry cougar resident.
Once they were safe from the large cat, the Cutie Mark Crusaders heaved a sigh of relief.
"Thanks for your quick thinking, Apple Bloom," Scootaloo thanked.
"Yeah, otherwise, we might be in that cougar's belly by now!" Sweetie Belle added.
"Aw, it was nothing, Crusaders," Apple Bloom modestly replied.
Jus then, Sweetie Belle suddenly felt something changing.
"Girls, why do I suddenly feel that the sun isn't shining on me?"
The others turned to look at their friend.
"That's because there's a shadow over you!" Scootaloo answered.
"Something must be blocking the sun's light in your direction so it can't reach you, but what?" Apple Bloom asked, looking up to see what it was. To the girls' horror, it was a large bird that was diving down at them.
"It's a hawk!!!" the girls cried in unison.
"And hawks eat other birds!" Scootaloo cried out loud.
The hawk was inching closer and closer to the CMCs, causing he girls to scream and split up. The hawk followed Sweetie Belle, causing her to panic, "Help!!!"
"We're coming, Sweetie Belle!" Apple Bloom and Scootaloo shouted, flying towards their friend and the danger she was in.
Scootaloo targeted the hawk from above, diving down and ambushing it with a poke attack on its back, causing it to squawk in pain due to the pressure.
"Yes!" Scootaloo cheered, but her success was short-lived as the hawk quickly recovered and targeted her instead.
"Uh oh..." quick as Rainbow Dash, Scootaloo zipped away, with the hawk not far behind.
"Now Scootaloo's in danger!" Sweetie Belle cried.
"We got to help her, and lose the hawk once and for all!" Apple Bloom announced.
"What if we lure the hawk into the trees?" Sweetie Belle suggested, "The branches create small openings in between them, that the hawk might not be able to fit through!"
"Worth to try, Sweetie Belle," Apple Bloom figured, before they flew off to the sky, in order to do what Scootaloo just did to the hawk that made her its target.
Scotaloo was panting as she got tired from flying at high speeds for a bird her size. "I...can't....take much of this...anymore...."
The next second, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle poked the hawk's back and convinced it to forget about Scootaloo and follow them in a fierce chase. The duo followed their plan and lured the hawk into the forest, where it stopped chasing them, knowing that it would get stuck in the branches.
"Phew, that was close!" Sweetie Belle commented.
"Now, we got to fly back up there so Scootaloo knows where we are," Apple Bloom instructed, second before hearing a hissing sound.
"Did you hear that, Apple Boom?" Sweetie Belle asked in fear.
"I did, and it sounds like a...." Apple Bloom whimpered, before they boh saw the head of a famous carnivorous reptile.
"A SNAKE!!!" the two girls screamed in horror.
"I wonder where those two have gone..." Scootaloo said to herself, flying above the forest before hearing her best friends' screaming. As fast as a peregrine falcon, Scootaloo dived down to see he trouble her friends were in: They were attacked by a snake.
"I'm coming!" Scootaloo shouted, flying towards the snake to catch its attention and dodge its attacks.
"I can't keep this up forever!" the orange bird shouted to her best friends.
"What if we trick it into tying itself up?" Sweetie Belle suggested, "Snakes have bodies shape like ropes, and ropes can be tied!"
"Great idea, Sweetie Belle!" Apple Bloom complimented.
The yellow and white birds then flew around the snake, telling Scootaloo, "Leave this to us!"
Scootaloo quickly listened and flew aside, watching her best friends got the snake to tie knots on itself as they lured its head to the positions they wanted it to be in.
The snake was defeated in a matter of time, to the Cutie Mark Crusaders' relief.
"That snake sure won't be bothering us for a while!" Scootaloo commented.
"I hope that it won't bother us forever..." Sweetie Belle replied.
"And we can't stay birds forever! Come on! We got to get to Pincess Twilight now!" Apple Bloom announced, leading her best friends.
"It's about time,I don't think I can fly so long anymore..." Sweetie Belle commented.
"And being a bird isn't so great after all...especially with so many creatures wanting to eat you..." Scootaloo added, "I just got to be a pony again!"
"Even if you still can't fly as a pony?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"Anything better than being food for all kinds of creatures!" Scootaloo responded.