//------------------------------// // Chapter 7 // Story: NSL/Anon-A-Miss: Our Past Is Not Today // by cornholio4 //------------------------------// In the human world; the local counterparts of Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity & Pinkie Pie had their heads down as they were sitting down at their usual table at the Sweet Shoppe. They had gone down there not to hang out or enjoy themselves as they usually did but to do the closest thing that they could to drowning their sorrows. ".....Then Sunset said that she was going home and from how she talked, I can only assume that that she meant for good. Taking Lincoln with her; looking after him seemed to be the one thing that kept her going since this mess started." Mrs Cake had explained to them with a disappointed sigh; having been asked by the group of what happened when Sunset was last there with the boy Lincoln. Hearing that only made them feel more guilty; "Thanks Mrs C." Pinkie said her hair deflating more than it already did at the point with everyone thinking that they had only gotten further clarification of what they had figured out. "So that's it; Sunset is lost to us through the portal, Twilight will no doubt not want to have it opened for us to try and plead forgiveness from Sunset no matter how many times we say sorry with cherries on top?" Pinkie asked and for a minute they were silent at the reality of it now. "Tis the season to be jolly...." Rainbow Dash snarked sarcastically as she was about ready to bang the table in frustration. "Sunset; why couldn't you have held out longer since we found out today.... Why couldn't we have gotten to her in time?" Rainbow Dash almost screamed out. "Would she have listened to us? She didn't seem to want to hear what we had to say when we saw her going through the portal." Fluttershy pointed out causing more sighs. "Plus I am willing to bet that she had no reason to want to stay any longer." Applejack pointed out. "Or get out before it could only get worse for her; like if Rainbow Dash decides to let her anger on the posts get the better of her and set her up to be beaten by Gilda and brutes of the school." Rarity pointed out and Rainbow Dash was now open mouthed and glaring at her. "It was just a suggestion darling...." Rarity spoke defensively as they heard the door slamming open and a lot of footsteps entering the establishment. "Excuse me; can anyone please help us? We are the Louds and we are looking for our son Lincoln seen here." said Lynn Sr showing a phone with the last post that Sunset had done on MyStable.. The five then had their eyes widened as they took a closer look and panic as it was indeed the post. "So that boy Lincoln is your son? The one with our friend Sunset?" Fluttershy asked as the Loud family all turned their eyes to the five as they grew nervous and hesitant about how this was going to turn out. "You know the girl? You can help us find our brother?" Lori asked urgently. "We have been looking for our bro for quite a long while." Luna said sounding a bit relived with her voice. "I can't wait to see Linky again! We miss him so!" squealed Leni which only made this harder for how they were going to break this for them. Applejack was seeing that it looked like all the girls were siblings and while she had a big family as her reunions could attest to; you didn't have so many of the younger ones being siblings. The group were beginning to mentally debate how to break this gently and with the upmost tact.... "Sunset went home; took the kid with him and you are never going to find him. Best that you forget that he ever existed." Rainbow Dash ended up saying shocking the Loud family and Rainbow Dash had her friends gasp her name. "What? No good drawing it out or give them false hope; better to just rip it off....." Rainbow Dash defended herself to her friends and while they could get her point, the way she just bluntly and carelessly blurted it out... "Look; we came all the way here and so tell us where your friend took our brother or you will be made into a human pretzel!" Lori demanded pulling Rainbow Dash up by the collar of her jacket; as Dash tried to get Lori to put her down, Dash used her hand to go to a table and grab a spoon... "She was the one who initiated the violence so this can't be solely squared on me...." Rainbow Dash told her friends shaking their heads at her as both groups had been kicked out and the Louds were tending to Lori as she was nursing an injury in her eye. The 5 then decided to just leave and go their separate ways before the Louds could chase them at the moment.