As Raptor stepped through the portal, Celestia caught eye of what he had brought back. Weapons. Weapons she did not recognize, nor trust. “What do you intend to do with those?” she asked as she walked down the staircase towards him.
“They’re just for protection your highness. I won’t use’em unless I havta.” She looked at him suspiciously for a moment and then continued past him.
“So long as I can trust you, let me show you where to begin.” Celestia said as they walked to a door adjacent the staircase.
“Don’t worry, your highness, I’m not going to shoot anyone that doesn’t deserve it” She stopped and glared at him. “Just kidding.” he smiled innocently.
Her horn came aglow and the doorway opened revealing a balcony overhanging the mountainside that Canterlot Castle sat atop. Both of them stepped out and up to the balcony’s guardrail, where Raptor gazed across the land. The planet’s sun beat down at them from mid-day, making him frown; he knew this would be a long day.
“This is most of Equestria” explained Celestia as her hoof made a simi-circle indicating all of the visible land. Her golden-clad hoof came to rest directing at a small town nearby. “That is Ponyville, the home of some ponies I need you to meet.” she turned and walked back into the castle, Raptor following silently behind her.
Gingerly they made there way out of the room, leaving via the front entrance of the throne room itself. The two made there way down a corridor, in which two banners hung with Celestia and Luna’s portraits woven into them with great care. Raptor made sure to not fall far behind Celestia, the guards’ looks made him slightly uneasy. They both exited this hall and stepped into the main foyer. There the staircase that led down from where they had entered came to a “Y” with a doorway opposite them. Both staircases met at a lower level and made a 90 that came down to the first floor.
“Step lightly Colonel, I am anxious to have you find out what is happening in Cloudsdale.” Raptor looked up and saw that Celestia had already made it to the bottom of the entire staircase. He jumped and bolted down to meet up with the princess.
“Sorry, but this is the first castle I have been in…that looks so….ornate.” he apologized.
“You have been in castles before?” she asked as they continued to walk towards the front entrance of the castle.
“Yeah…a long time ago.”
Two Unicorn ponies opened the doors at the end of this hall with their magic and both Celestia and Raptor stepped outside. “This is Canterlot, our capital city. I’ve already arranged a carriage for you to be flown to Ponyville.” she leaned closer to Raptor’s ear and whispered, “Trust not pegasus ponies, they are the group keeping the secret I want you to find and they may be inclined to do anything to stop you. Though, if you can, please do not kill any of my subjects.” she stood erect again and smiled. Now speaking normally, she continued to explain, “What I want you to find is in Cloudsdale, but I need you to beable to walk on clouds first. Twilight Sparkle, a most honorable student of mine, will beable to help. She’s the first pony I want you to meet in Ponyville.” Raptor begins to ask a question, but is interrupted as two pegasi pull up with a carriage strapped to them. Raptor hopped in it and then looked back at Celestia. “Good luck.” she stated as the carriage pulled away. Raptor looked at the two pegasi cautiously, and remembered what Celestia had mentioned to him. Every once in a while he would notice one of them staring at him.
“Musta never seen a Human before.” he thought to himself.
He looked over the edge of the carriage and noticed flowing rivers and grassy plains. At one end of the valley there appeared to be a gloomy forest that had despair written all over it. He then walked to the other side and saw a large apple orchard outside of Ponyville. He sighed and looked over his shoulder as he leaned against the carriage’s railing. Behind him he saw a large floating city made of nothing but clouds. “Huh, I bet that‘s Cloudsdale.” he pondered. “It would make since….cloud….dale…that hasta be it. Kinda sounds like Clydesdale…”
The carriage flew over Ponyville‘s main street and came in low to land. As soon as it stopped Raptor hopped out, landing boots first onto the dusty cobblestone road. An old familiar filling over swept him as gawking ponies stopped to stair at him. He had felt this before; when visiting Saperia, a planet full of anthropomorphic animals. “Once again the only Human.” he sighed.
“Where might I find this…Twilight Sparkle?” he asked aloud to the two ponies that had brought him here. At first he was unsure if they would even answer his query, being pegasi and all.
“In the library over there.” one of the two answered as he pointed past Raptor at a tree with windows and a small door. He spun on one heel and saw the building. With a nod he thanked them and began to walk towards Twilight’s house.
Rainbow Dash was sitting in her cloud home above Ponyville washing out her tail. Black ink oozed into the drain of her shower. A loud banging from her front door broke the silence that had over swept her. The day had been long, and she had seen more horrors than anypony could ever dream. Yet it was just another day in her neighborhood. She let out a sigh and reluctantly climbed out of the bath. She dried off and then walked to the front door. Upon opening it she found Chancellor Black on her doorstep. “What a surprise chanc-”
“Rainbow, the factory is in danger. I think Celestia is onto us.” stated Black as he burst into her house.
“Well come on in.” grumbled Rainbow Dash.
She closed the door and watched Black pace nervously around her living room for a moment. “What do you mean by that?” she asked as she walked over to a cloud couch and relaxed on it. Black, still up-tight, glared at her.
“I mean that she suspects what we’re doing in there, you dumb bitch!” he exclaimed, letting his anxiety let loose any verbal restraints. Anger flashed across Rainbow’s face as she dove for Black and pinned him to the wall.
“Look here shit head, it’s your job to keep her from finding out what’s going on in there!” Rainbow’s rosy eyes were almost buried into Black’s, her nose pressed against his.
“I’m trying, but each case of a family breaking from the cover story tips her off again and raises her suspicions even more.” Rainbow released Black from her grip and hovered back over to the couch. She leaned forward and grabbed an apple from the table with her snout and then began to eat it. “Ever since we developed this form of rainbow creation we’ve left Celestia in the dark about it, and her suspicion has grown greatly in the past few centuries.” she looked at him calmly, at the apple down, and stood up. Gingerly she walked over to him, and looked deathly into his eyes.
“Keep her off our backs, or you’ll join those fuckers in the machine.” she then turned around and walked to the front door. With little care for Black‘s continued presence, she aggressively opened the door and gave a demanding motion for him to leave.
At first he didn’t want to move, the sheer anger in Rainbow’s eyes had petrified him. He then nervously nodded and crept out the door. Rainbow watched him lift off and fly away. She slammed the door shut and cursed under her breath. Glancing at the window and noticing the height of the sun, she knew she needed to head down to the Cutiemark Crusaders’ club house soon or she’d be late…and she’s never late.
Raptor knocked on the front door of the Library. As he waited for an answer he looked curiously at the painted-on candle that resided on the door itself. Suddenly the door swung open and a medium sized dragon stood there. “Holy guacamole!” he exclaimed as he darted back into the building.
“What the hell?” Raptor asked in confusion. He ducked his head as he stepped inside and looked around the big open room. Books lined the walls around the inside of the tree with wheeled ladders at every few interval. He found the dragon looking at him nervously from behind some books he appeared to have been putting away before Raptor interrupted him.
“Spike!” shouted a female voice from the second floor. “Spike where are you!?” a light purple unicorn started walking down the staircase that lined the furthest wall from the door. She was looking around the room until her eyes landed on the purple dragon. “Ah Spike there you are, I was wondering if you could help me find…” she was trotting down the staircase and up to Spike until she spotted Raptor. Her eyes went wide and she bolted to him. “What in Equestia are YOU!?” she asked as she examined him at different angles.
“I’m Colonel Raptor, from Earth. I was brought here by Celestia to help her with something. She said I needed to talk to you so I could…walk on clouds. I’m assuming you’re Twilight Sparkle.”
“I am and she was right to send you to me.” she exclaimed as she walked over to a book case. “Now where did I put that book?” she asked as she read the names off their spines.
“Are you looking for the one you used on Pinkie Pie, Apple Jack, and yourself at the Young Fliers Competition a few years ago?” asked Spike as he slowly came out from behind his cover.
“Yes actually.” Twilight responded without looking at him.
“It’s over here!” Spike exclaimed as he reached up and grabbed a book off of a higher up shelf, not even using a ladder.
“Wow Spike, how you’ve grown so fast. You don’t even need a ladder anymore.” she said as she grabbed the book from Spike’s hand with her magic. She levitated it over to herself and then began reading through it. She looked up at Raptor over the top of the pages. “This spell is rather easy, what do you need it for?”
“I’m going to…uh…Cloudsdale? Celestia wanted me to check something out for her.”
“Cloudsdale huh? Well maybe you should get Rainbow Dash or Fluttershy to give you a tour once you’re there. It’s a really nice city for it being made of clouds and all.” she smiled as magic began to burst from her horn. Suddenly Raptor was surrounded by a purple hue and then it faded.
“That’s it?” he asked surprised.
“I told you it was easy.” she said cheerfully as she placed the book back on the shelf. “If I remember correctly I think Rainbow Dash was actually going to meet with Scootaloo over at Sweet Apple Acres to teach her some flying lessons before her big test.” she glanced at the clock and then looked back at Raptor. “If you go over there now you might still catch her there.” Raptor nodded and began to leave. “Do you even know where it is?”
“I saw it as I was flown in by some of Celestia’s pegasi…assuming…again…that it’s that apple orchard to the east.”
“Indeed it is.”
“Thanks Twilight.” Raptor said as he darted out the door.
The main street of Ponyville bustled and brawled with ponies of varying colors, species, and age darted this way and that. Only one thing seemed to stop them in their tracks, and that was the Human walking down the street. The creepy and freaked out looks the ponies around Ponyville were giving Raptor were starting to make him more uneasy than usual. He had forgotten how this feeling felt, but not even the Anthros on Saperia gawked at him like this. Thankfully it ended as he left the town’s main road and began down a dirt path leading to the apple orchard.
When he finally reached Sweet Apple Acres he walked through the front gate and saw a brown earth pony with a cowpony hat on her head bucking some apple trees. He yawned as he walked under the wooden archway. His attention bounced between the rustic farmhouse, barn, and windmill as he walked up to her. As soon as he reached her though his attention was drawn in by two rear hooves coming at his head. He ducked the attack and when he was standing up again one of his swords was drawn.
“Who the hay are you!?” the amber colored mare exclaimed, ignoring Raptor’s drawn weapon.
“I’m Colonel Raptor, Celestia sent me.” he said, his sword held up in a ready-to-strike position.
“Oh!? I’m sorry sugar cube, I didn’t know.” she said as her aggressive stance cooled and a smile donned her snout. “Anyone sent by Celestia‘s worth trustin‘” Raptor put his sword back in its sheath.
“I’m Apple Jack, this here is mah farm…well, mine and my brother’s.” she stepped aside and motioned with one hoof at the barn, farmhouse and acres of apple trees. Raptor looked around for a moment and then saw a small rainbow jolt through the sky in the back corner of the property.
He looked at Apple Jack and inquired, “I came here looking for a pegasus named Rainbow Dash. Twilight said she’d be here giving flying lessons?”
“E’yup, she’s back in the back teachin’ lil’ Scoot how tah really fly. Follow me an’ I’ll show yah to ‘er.” Raptor nodded and then followed Apple Jack. “Are you that Human that everypony’s been talkin’ ‘bout?” she asked as they walked.
“Yeah I am…how’d you hear about me way out here?”
“News travels fast ‘ere in Ponyville.” she smiled as she pushed some brush out of the way with her hoof.
Once they made it past some unkempt foliage he saw a tree house that was recently repainted with a two part stair case in front of it leading to the ground. In front of it sat two teenage foals looking up in the sky. Apple Jack walked over to the light brown one and tried to follow her gaze. Raptor tried to stay back, but also attempted to look up and see what they were looking at. Unfortunately there was to much tree cover from where he was standing. “What’cha lookin’ at AB?”
“Rainbow’s up d’ere showin’ Scootaloo how tah spin some clouds.” the light brown one replied.
“She’s been doing really good!” squeaked the white one to their right.
“Well that’s good tah hear. RAINBOW! YOU GOTTA VISITOR!” shouted Apple Jack.
“Who?” both the foals asked looking at her. Apple Jack turned around to introduce Raptor but chuckled lightly at the fact that he was hiding.
“Come out ‘ere yah silly filly. You ain’t gotta hide” she laughed as she motioned him out of the brush.
He slowly walked out and the two foals gasped. “Is he thah Human we’ve been hearin’ about sis?” asked Apple Bloom.
“Yep, he’s ‘ere to talk to Rainbow Dash ‘bout sumtin’” the white one dashed up to Raptor and looked him over curiously. He quickly noticed she was a unicorn.
“My name’s Sweetie Bell.” she stated as she walked around him.
“Colonel Raptor” he responded matter-of-factly. Sweetie Bell went to say something but two dust plumes billowed up as two pegasi landed in a flash. Raptor looked up and saw them both staring at each other grinning and panting heavily.
“I beat you Rainbow!” shouted the light orange one.
“You wish squirt! I totally kicked your ass!” exclaimed the slightly taller cyan colored one with a rainbow colored mane.
“Rainbow! Whut I say ‘bout yer cussin’!” exclaimed Apple Jack.
“Sorry…guess I got a little excited.” said Rainbow Dash, her head hung a little.
“So who’s here to see the most awesome pony in Eque-” she was high trotting towards the two other foals when she ran almost snout first into Raptor’s chest. He looked down at her face as she gaped at him. This made him realize how much shorter they were than him. With Rainbow so close, he could tell she was only up to the middle of his chest in height. “You must be Rainbow Dash” Raptor said as she slowly walked back from him, her mouth hung slightly ajar.
“You okay RD?” asked Apple Jack. Rainbow shook her head and grinned in a cocky fashion at Apple Jack.
“Of course I am, AJ. I just wasn‘t expecting to see the Human here.” she said coolly.
“None of us told you I was a Human.” Raptor noted. Rainbow’s ears flattened and she muttered something under her breath.
“Oh?” She asked nervously. She finally caught her cool. “I overheard somepony in town mention a Human being here.”
“I guess that makes since…I have been the center point of conversation it’d seem” Raptor said, quickly dismissing the awkward conversation, or at least attempting to.
“So what’d you want with me?” she asked with her cocky smile returning.
“I was gonna ask for a tour of Cloudsdale.” Rainbow’s eyes widened. She knew exactly why he was here. Especially after what Apple Jack said next.
“Celestia sent him, RD. So I bet he’s ‘ere to learn ‘bout us ‘er sumtin‘” she smiled at the end of her sentence.
“I’m sure he is.” Rainbow said coldly and mostly to herself. “Sorry mister…uh…”
“Oh sorry, Colonel Raptor” he said with a friendly smile, and suppressing the urge to hold out his hand. He wasn’t sure if shaking their hoofs would make for the same polite greeting as it did with Humans.
“Colonel, I can’t give anyone any tours today or tomorrow.” she walked backwards till she was next to the orange foal. “I gotta teach lil’ Scootaloo how to fly good enough to pass her flight exam the day after tomorrow.” she rubbed her hoof in Scootaloo’s purple mane.
“Yeah, I gotta pass that test!” exclaimed Scootaloo. “Rainbow calls it a uh…bastard of a test!” Apple Jack glared at Rainbow Dash as she smiled innocently.
“Shut it kid, you’re gonna get me in trouble.” Rainbow joked to Scootaloo.
“Sorry.” the orange filly smiled.
“Do you think you can gimme a tour after the exam?” Raptor asked politely. Rainbow looked up at him irritated.
“I’ll havta check my schedule.” she remarked flatly.
Raptor noticed her hostile attitude towards him. He pondered why it was she was the only one that had an issue with his presence. Most others were either curious about him or afraid. Though he did remember what Celestia had said about pegasus ponies, and Rainbow Dash was the first one he had officially met.
“You guys want to stick around for our little camp out?” asked Sweetie Belle.
“Y’all aren’t to old fer that?“ ask Apple Jack with a raised eyebrow.
“Are you kidding? You’re never to old to go camping.” said Rainbow with a grin.
“You wanna join us too?” asked Scootaloo to Rainbow Dash
“Tartarus yeah, nothing like telling spooky stories.” she knelt down menacingly at the three young fouls and walked slowly towards them. They all giggled at her.
“Whut ‘bout you Colonel?” Apple Bloom asked Raptor. He was shocked to be invited.
“I’ve got nothing better to do.” he said smiling. He figured he could probably get some shut eye with being outdoors. The change of scenery from the stuffy battle cruiser would probably let him relax a little easier. “I’ve been stuck inside for a few months now, so being outside’ll be refreshing.”
“Cool, we get to have our first campfire with a Human!” exclaimed Sweetie Bell.
“Yeah that is pretty cool,” added Scootaloo, “but not as cool as Rainbow Dash sticking around.” she grinned up at her admired pegasus.
Apple Jack looked out at the sun and saw that it was setting. “Well, we shud start gettin’ this fire set up. The sun’ll be down soon.” she stated as she walked over to some fire wood. Raptor noticed an aged ash pile and sat next to it. Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash sat on the other side and Sweetie Bell sat near Raptor. She smiled up at him, clearly infatuated with him. Apple Bloom and Apple Jack gathered some wood for the fire as they all waited patently.
Moments later the two earth ponies appeared with wood on their backs. Carefully they piled it next to the old fire pit and Apple Jack began to build the fire.
“I’m surprised it’s so easy for you to make a fire without any kind of ignition source.” Raptor said as he watched Apple Jack run a bow shaped stick with string back and forth spinning another stick that was twisted in the string. The spinning action of the stick caused enough friction to ignite the wooden plank she had been twisting it on. When a small flame began to come up, Apple Jack knelt down and blew softly on it. Within moments a full fire was going.
“It tain’t nutin.” Apple Jack said with a waive of her hoof. “It’s easy when you been doin’ it fer years.”
“Yeah practice does make perfect doesn’t it.” she nodded in agreement with him, smiling.
“I couldn’t ah said it better mah self.”
As time passed and the sun started to sit down below the mountains, Sweetie Bell kept asking Raptor a plethora of questions. Many he was willing to answer, and others not so much. While he was distracted, Rainbow stared at him with a deep scowl. He was a risk to their operation in Cloudsdale and she had to figure out how to get rid of him before Scootaloo’s exam. However, with him having already made friends with Apple Jack and the Cutiemark Crusaders, he was going to be hard to dispose of. For a brief moment, she wondered how the machine would take to Human.
As they played and ate apples that evening, Rainbow continued to keep an eye on Raptor, watching his every movement. She noticed that he never removed the objects that clung to his back, no matter how much they appeared to make him uncomfortable.
Later that evening as they all sat around the campfire, Dash had developed a plan to probably at least scare Raptor away. She’d drop him through her cloud home. She knew that since Humans weren’t from Equestria that Raptor wouldn’t know that he couldn’t stand on the clouds like pegasi could and she was unaware of what Celestia had already told him. So she invited him to sleep at her house that night after the little campfire experience and he agreed. “Sure thing Rainbow. I’d enjoy it.” he said as he watched the sun go down behind the mountains completely.
“Uh Rainbow, aren’t yah gonna tell’im that he’ll fall through thah clouds?” asked Apple Jack.
“Oh don’t worry about it AJ, Celestia sent me to Twilight first so that she could cast that cloud walking spell on me. I can stand on clouds just like any other pegasus.”
“Mother fucker.” Rainbow whispered to herself, “Now I’m was stuck with this guy all night.”
“Oh Rainbow, can I stay over too!?” asked Scootaloo excited. “Maybe you can tell me some more about you’re flight school days!” she had a very large grin on her face.
This relived Rainbow and she let out a subtle sigh. “Of course Scoot. Anything to make sure you don’t flunk that test.” she smiled innocently.
“So if you live on a cloud…how am I supposed to join you?” asked Raptor, pointing at his back as he spoke. Rainbow smiled maliciously but before she could speak Scootaloo jumped in.
“You can ride on Rainbow’s back!” she exclaimed. Rainbow did everything she could from smacking the little filly across the back of the head.
“I dunno, I’ve not ridden a flying horse” he said looking away in thought.
“We’re not horses.” smiled Apple Jack.
“Right, ponies…sorry.”
“That’s alright sugar cube. You ain’t from ‘round here”
“So where are you from?” inquired Sweetie Bell, for the millionth time. Raptor looked at her and sighed.
“Well, it’s kinda hard to explain because…I’m still not entirely sure where here is in comparison to my planet. All I can tell you is that I’m from a planet called Earth.” he stared curiously at the stars above.
“You keep calling us horses. Do they live on your planet?” asked Rainbow genuinely curious.
“Yeah actually. And they look a lot like you guys…just not so blue.” he said looking directly at Rainbow Dash with a grin. “Or purple either…I’ve seen some pretty weird fur colors since I’ve been here.”
“Well Equestria is a land full of all kinds of magic, and we all are a part of it.” Rainbow said knowledgably.
“Since when’d you know so much ‘bout Equestria, Dash?” asked Apple Jack with a raised eyebrow.
Rainbow chuckled a little. “I guess after reading Danger-do I mighta picked up a few other books.” this caused Apple Jack to chuckle a little.
“Guess Twi isn’t the only ‘egg-head’ anymore huh?” joked Apple Bloom.
“Don’t call me an egg-head.” demanded Rainbow glaring down at her.
“Sorry, I wus only jokin’.”
Rainbow sighed. “Sorry Apple Bloom, I’m just not used to being an ‘egg-head’.”
“It’s been ten years RD, yah shoulda been used to it by now.” Apple Jack spoke up.
Raptor looked out over the open field, letting the conversation around him pass unnoticed and became aware that the twilight hour had finally passed, allowing the stars to be entirely visible. Maybe now he could pin point where in the universe he was. As he looked around the stars he didn’t recognize anything. None of the constellations made since to him. He had noticed back in the Milky Way galaxy that even though he went to a different planet some of the constellations would be similar to that of Earth‘s. Unfortunately none of these were familiar to him. He had to be in a different galaxy. At least, that’s what he concluded.
He looked down at the ponies in front of him and watched them converse for a little bit. Once again loneliness swept over him. All the ponies had something to talk about, but all he could do was listen about their adventures. One thing he noticed, while sitting silently, was that Rainbow would occasionally look in his direction almost as if she was studying him. “Maybe staying at her house isn’t such a good idea.” he thought.
He pulled off his weapons and sat them next to him, on the other side from Sweetie Bell. Carefully he laid back into the grass, laying his arms across him as his eyes almost forcefully shut. Images began running through his mind again, but he was so tiered he just simply ignored them. They finally faded to black as he drifted off to sleep.
Rainbow Dash looked at the snoozing Human with malicious intent. She could kill him now and end all her troubles. Except that everypony around her would never let her get away with it. Murdering Raptor in front of them would cause more problems than help. She sighed as she watched him through the fire, barely listening to what Scootaloo was talking about.
After a little bit their conversations drifted to their strange friend. They all stared at him for a moment, watching his slumber. His arms were under his head and one of his legs was stretched out. The other bent with his knee in the air.
“He’s one strange creature huh?” Sweetie Bell asked. The others nodded in agreement. Rainbow wondered why such an odd creature was chosen by Celestia to undermine her work.
She then thought of something funny, but malicious to do to him. She stood up, and put her hoof to her lips when Scootaloo went to ask her what she was doing. Rainbow snuck over to Raptor’s side and raised her hoof over his chest. “It would be so easy” she thought. “To put all my strength through his chest, but not with them looking. I can’t kill him now.” she brought her hoof down on his chest hard enough to make him sit up coughing. Even though she smiled innocently, she was laughing menacingly on the inside. The attack was harmless, and not even an attack really. It was just enough to make him hurt a little. Raptor looked at her angrily as she laughed playfully. The others were chuckling a little. Raptor shook his head and looked around. At first he couldn’t think of where he was, but looking at the ponies around him reminded him that he wasn’t on the Highrule anymore.
She knelt down to level her face with his and grinned. “Wake up sleepy head. We’re heading out.” she said.
“But we’ve still got more wo-” started Scootaloo, but Rainbow shot her a look that made her bite her lip.
“Well, me an’ Apple Bloom do need tah buck thah east field tomorrow.” said Apple Jack.
“Awe, but I thought Big Mac was helpin’ yah with that.” complained Apple Bloom.
“He hurt himself again.” Apple Jack chuckled. “And Rarity’s prolly wonderin’ where Sweetie Bell is.”
“Nah, I told her I’d be staying over here tonight.” Sweetie Bell chimed.
“Does that mean she can stay over all night AJ?” begged Apple Bloom.
“Sure thing, so long as Rarity won’t mind.” Apple Jack said as she looked at Sweetie Bell.
“What she doesn’t know won’t hurt her.” The white filly grinned as she spoke.
“Well it’s settled then, Sweetie Bell, yer stayin’ ‘ere tonight”
“YAY! SLEEPOVER AT APPLE JACK’S!” both Apple Bloom and Sweetie Bell shouted together.
“You two have fun with that. I’m hangin’ with the greatest flyer in Equestria!” Scootaloo said as she stood next to Rainbow Dash. Raptor stood up and brushed himself off. He then reached down and picked up his belongings and threw them onto his back. He yawned and rubbed an eye as Apple Jack kicked dirt onto the fire to knock it out. With the fire out it took Raptor a moment for his eyes to adjust. Just as he was being able to see in the dark Sweetie Bell lit the tip of her horn lighting the area around her.
“Well see yah later Rainbow. Don’t crash into anything’ on yer way home.” Apple jack mocked with a chuckle.
“I can see just fine thank you.” Rainbow Dash claimed with a cocky grin. As Sweetie Bell followed the two apple ponies back to the house, Scootaloo jumped up in the sky and waited for Rainbow Dash who was knelt down so that Raptor could get on her back. When he was on her securely as he possibly could, she took off.