The next morning, Pit was raring to go. "Okay, now that I know what my troop needs, I can start training them; and if that rainbow girl gets on my nerves again I'll make her do fifty laps around the camp" Pit said to himself to psych himself up. He marched towards the door, kicked it open, walked right out and said "This is going to be a great morning" to the shimmering night sky. "Wait, it's still nighttime?" Pit said "That's weird, I never get up before the sun." Suddenly the moon falls over the valley and the sun appears in its place "Ah, that's better... wait?" Pit stared confused at the sudden change, not just with the time of day, but with the way the world looks. The puffy white clouds are now sticky pink cotton candy, the waterfall falling to the earth is now made of chocolate, and the rainbows are now just ribbons with a tacky pattern on them.
Looking around some more, Pit found a gathering of angels talking to one another, Pit decides to join them.
"What's going on, what happened to this place?" Pit asked an angel.
The angel turns his head to glance at Pit "It seems like Discord has broken free again."
"Discord?" Pit started scratching his head.
"He's a fella that likes to cause chaos across Equestria, but Rainbow Dash and her friends stopped him last time."
"Yeah she did" said someone in the crowd "Can you help us again Rainbow Dash?"
"Of course I can" she said at the center of the crowd "I'll make sure Discord will learn his lesson once and for all."
She flies up into the air and as the group cheers her on, she flies off to a tree house on the earth. As she starts flying away Pit takes chase after her, "Hey wait" he said "I'm coming too."
Rainbow Dash turns her head around looking at the young angel running below "What? No way, I'm not going to let some pipsqueak slow me down." She starts to fly faster.
Pit does the same with his feet "I promised Lady Palutena to take care of the troop, and I'm not going to let one of my officers go into a battle without me."
"Don't worry, I dealt with him before, he's a push over."
"I'm still not going to take any chances" Pit said as he got to the edge of Cloudsdale.
Rainbow Dash stops and flies in front of Pit "Well it look like you can't come along, unless you know how to use those useless wings of yours" she starts to hackle as she flies away.
Pit grit his teeth in frustration "D... D... DO FIFTY LAPS AROUND THE CAMP!" but Rainbow Dash was just to far away to hear him.
"Grr... if only I could fl..." Pit stopped his sentence as his eyes started to widened "OH DUH, how could I forget."
Pit starts yelling into the sky "LADY PALUTENA I NEED YOUR HELP TO FLY", there was no answer.
"LADY PALUTENA, DISCORD IS CAUSING HAVOC AND I NEED YOUR HELP TO STOP HIM, PLEASE, LET ME FLY" Palutena still did not reply.
"... LADY PALUNTENA!" nothing but the wind replied.
"Why isn't she answering?" Pit said as he started to lose his cool "What am I going to do now?" He stared off into the distance at the changed world, trees floating, fields of grass are now checker patterned, and even the animals have changes. Rabbits as tall as giraffes, buffaloes dancing, and even pigs flying "Even pigs taunt me" he said in a shallow tone. "I have to do it, I have to fly" the angel coached himself as he made a fist pump "If a pig can do it then so can I." Pit took a few steps back and prepared himself, he spread his wings, he felt the wind on his feathers, he felt the cooling breeze on his face. He took a deep breath, charged forward, and jumped at the edge. "I'm doing it, I'm flying, I can't believe it" Pit said just before he started to fall like a rock.
"AARRGGHH, I WAS RIGHT, I REALLY CAN'T FLY, THE PIGS ARE FAR MORE SUPERIOR" Pit whined as he fell through the air.
"Twilight, this is Discord's doing isn't it?" Rainbow Dash said as she bursts through the window of the tree house.
Within the tree house was Twilight, wielding a staff with a sparkle at the top, Applejack, carrying an arm shaped like an apple, Rarity, holding a bow studded with jewels, Fluttershy, surrounded by two orbitars shaped like butterflies, and Spike, the dragon.
Twilight looked up at Rainbow Dash "I believe so, but unfortunately Lady Celestia has yet to communicate to me about the situation." she replied as she looks back at some papers she's holding "That's why we're going to try to sneak into the castle, get the Elements of Harmony and stop Discord; and now that you're here we can finally go over the plan to infiltrate the castle, Applejack could you get Pinkie?"
"Sure thing Twi" she said and starts walking towards an open door "HEY PINKIE, WERE GOING OVER THE PLAN" she yells.
PInkie is standing underneath a raining cotton candy rain cloud, drinking the chocolate rain drops it was pouring "I'M COMING" she yelled back. She picks up her cannon and was heading for the house until a blue haired woman, carrying a purple box that had gold tapestry lines over it, as well as it's edges, stopped her.
"OK" Twilight said "If Discord doesn't have the elements, then there's a good chance that this plan will work. Rarity, Applejack and myself will enter into the castle from the front, getting Discord's attention while Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Pinkie enters the back of the castle to look for the elements, they should be-"
"GOT THEM" Pinky said as she holds the box that the woman was holding.
"Got what?" said Twilight
"The elements" lifting up the box to show off.
"How did you get them so quickly?"
"One of the guards came by saying that Celestia sent them to deliver the elements to us." Pinkie replied as she placed the chest on the table.
"Really!" Twilight said in astonishment, she start to give a worried face "I guess Lady Celestia is really in trouble if she trusted a guard to carry them to us."
All of the girls gathered around the chest as Twilight opens the box. A bright purple light shines out of the box.
Falling back to the falling Pit, we see that he is about to hit the ground. "Alright, that little subplot that the story took should've given me an idea... SO WHY DIDN'T IT?" Pit yelled just before he hit the ground face flat. "Well at least I can move forward now" Pit mumbled into the ground. This wasn't the first time he made a crash landing, but still, he never could get used to these falls.
"Are you okay?"
"Of course, that little fall won't slow me dow..." Pit stopped in confusion and looked to see who just spoke up. In front of Pit was a young girl that was probably a few years younger then him. She was an angel with orange wings, purple-red hair, had a palm weapon, and was riding a scooter. "Yeah, I'm perfectly fine" Pit said as he was staggering to his feet.
"Why didn't you fly?"
Pit had just about had it with that question, after being made fun at by his soldier, seeing an adynaton come to life to be rubbed in his face, and having to fall a large drop from the lack of his default he just didn't care anymore. "I can't fly, okay. An angel commander that can't fly, alright." Pit was ready to be ridiculed, but the most unexpecting thing happened.
"REALLY! Neither can I" replied the girl with a smile on her face.
Pit was expecting anything but that. He stood there stunned, listening as the girl continued on.
"Everyone in my class knows how to fly but me and it's really irritating, especially when they make fun of you. By the way, my name's Scootaloo."
"Er... I'm Pit" he said as he tried to get himself back into gear "Um... tell me, have you seen an angel with rainbow hair fly by here?"
"Your looking for Rainbow Dash, too!" she exclaimed "I've been trying to find her so I can tell her that Discord's back."
Pit looks around himself to see the bizarre world "I'm pretty sure she knows, in fact she said she was going to take care of him and began heading off towards a town."
"Then she must be going to see Twilight, I'll go see her off" she said as she turns her scooter.
"Wait, could you take me with you" Pit asked.
Scootaloo looked at Pit for a moment, she was probably thinking about whether or not to help a stranger, but she eventually spoke up "Well okay, get on" she said as she jumped off.
Pit look at her a bit confused, but he does what he's was told "How do I ride this thing?"
Scootaloo jump on and locked her arms around Pit's waist, Pit was stuttering for a moment "Hold on" Scootaloo says with a grin and starts to flap her wings, giving them momentum on the scooter.
Pit was a wonky at first but he got used to the scooter in no time, "So are you a fan of Rainbow Dash?" asked Scootaloo.
"No, she's just one of my officers."
"Really, I would think she would be in charge of things, it's just she..." Scootaloo went on glamorizing Rainbow Dash. Pit began to tune her out. "What do all these people see in her?" he thought "She's rude, stubborn and egotistical; but she has people that count on her and she even has a fan. It just doesn't make any sense." Pit kept on steering and Scootaloo was directing him until they reached Twilight's tree house. "Hah, it literally is a tree house" said Pit. Scootaloo jumped off and opens the door of the tree's "Hey Rainbow Dash, I..." Scootaloo paused, she started to begin laughing. Pit walked through the door and saw what was so funny, apparently she was laughing at the girls. Oh, they were okay, nothing wrong with them; I mean, for a group of walking eggplants, they seemed okay.
END OF CHAPTER 2