“Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!” yelped Twilight in a body cast.
“Would you please hold still, the less you move the less it hurts!” shouted a nurse with a pink mane and white coat.
“I can’t help it! I have this really bad itch!”
“Where?”
“Oh I’ll get it!” Pinkie Pie bounced next to the nurse. “Just tell me where the itch is and I’ll scratch it.”
“Um, never mind, I think it’s gone now.”
“By golly, it’s been a week and you still haven’t recovered like all of us,” said Applejack.
The whole gang were here.
“Well I guess that’s what happens when a four ton you know what drops on top of you.”
“A four ton what?” asked the nurse.
“Oh um, sorry, Nurse Redheart, mixed my words again. I meant fell down a four stair steps, figure of speech I was trying to remember.”
“I don’t get it,” whispered Spike over to Cherilee. “Why don’t we let any pony in on what happened?”
“I’m afraid it would lead to complications, like ponies learning about unicorns and Orbs of harmony and so on. I doubt we’d ever get any peace.”
“Still, it’s just a nurse I don’t see any problem.”
“Personally I don’t want to find out if there would be problems, it’s better not to risk these kinds of things.”
“Look, I really would like to know what really happened. These injuries you’ve suffered don’t look your fell down some stairs. Looks more like a herd elephants trampled you instead. The body looks to have been crushed.”
“Um, what if I told you a boulder fell on me after the stair fall?”
“Close enough. But I’ll talk about this after and leave you with your guests,” said the pony leaving.
“Thanks Nurse Redheart.”
“Now that we’re all here, can we talk about getting my big brother, Big Mac back?” asked Applebloom.
The group gave a moment of silence, but Applejack reluctantly stepped forward. “I’m sorry Applebloom. But when Rainbow Dash died during the battle, Fluttershy passed on as well and as a result, the Orbs of harmony became gone as well. So we have no way of bring Big Mac back.”
“But that can’t be, we can’t just leave it like this.”
“She’s right,” said Spike. “I don’t want Rainbow Dash or Big Mac to be just gone. There has to be some way?”
“I’m sorry, but without the Orbs of harmony, there’s no way we can bring them back. We’ll just have to leave them in peace?”
“But I don’t want to, I want Big Mac back!”
“And I want Rainbow Dash back!”
“My grandson was too young to die, it’s unfair,” said Granny Smith.
They heard a cough and saw Angel outside the window glaring. Eventually Cherliee stepped forward and looked out the window. She saw he was on a magic carpet.
“Um, what can we do you for Angel?” asked Twilight.
The rabbit shook his arms wildly.
“Calm down, we don’t understand what you’re trying to say,” said Applejack.
The rabbit pointed at his carpet.
“I think he wants someone to go on the carpet with him,” suggested Twilight.
“Oh I’ll go, I want to ride the magic carpet!” shouted Pinkie Pie.
“Hold on, no offence Pinkie Pie, but I think someone with a higher attention span should go,” said Applejack.
“I should go then,” said Rarity.
“No, I’ll go,” said Cherliee. “You guys have just been busy from protecting the world. I should go.”
When Cherliee looked at the carpet, she trembled. Taking a deep breath, Cherliee put one hoof out the window and placed it onto the carpet one at a time. She was moving at a snails pace while Angel tapped his foot. Finally on, they vanished.
The two then reappeared in a vast barren land with canyons.
Cherliee had been flat against the rug with her eyes closed. Opening them, she got up and looked around. “Where are we?”
They descended. Angel hopped off the carpet and waved his arm for Cherliee to follow. The two walked into a gorge. Cherliee kept her head down. She gasped at what she saw.
On four cone feet and shaped like an egg, made of unrecognisable solid white material and had glass eye at the front of it, was some form of house.
“What is this?”
Angel clapped his hands and a disk shaped piece fell out of the ship. The bunny hopped on it and indicated for Cherliee to follow. The pony reluctantly complied. Angel clapped again and the two rocketed upwards.
Cherliee found herself in the home. There were beds and three chairs before a monitor and other such furniture and devices.
“This here’s an aircraft isn’t it? Where did it come from?”
The rabbit climbed onto a chair. He lifted his arms and two orbs appeared out the armrests. Cherliee sat beside him.
Angel rolled one of the orbs. The aircraft shot up, so fast that Cherliee was flat against her seat. It halted and Cherliee was able to see outside.
“We’re above the clouds!”
“Greetings, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy,” said a computer voice, startling her. “Destination input.”
“Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy?”
A holographic projection showed the two. Angel scrolled through a holographic list and was able to show the orbs of harmony. The machine then replied. “You wish to return home? To Cloudsdale? Please confirm this action?”
“Wait, their home you mean?”
*
“We need to go to Cloudsdale!”
“Huh?” Everyone echoed. Applejack answered. “Why the heck would you want us to go to a place called Cloudsdale?”
“Because it’s where Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash came from. There has to be more like them, more that have Orb’s of harmony that can be used to wish back everyone, especially Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Big Mac.”
“That’s brilliant!” shouted Rarity.
“You mean that we’ll actually have Rainbow Dash back?” asked Spike.
“And my big brother?” asked Applebloom.
“How are we going to get there though?” questioned Twilight.
“There’s this guided aircraft that can be used to get there. That’s what Angel wanted to show me!”
“Any idea how long it would take for us to get there?” questioned Applejack.
“By the looks of things, just two days.”
“Sweet, let’s go now!” shouted Applebloom.
“Hold on, we can’t just go just yet, we need to prepare ourselves and secondly we need to decide who to come,” said Applejack.
“I’ll come!” yelled Applebloom.
“Yeah, me two!” shouted Sweetie Belle.
“No,” replied Rarity. “It could be dangerous! Wherever this Cloudsdale is, I’m worried that the Inhabitance violent as Rainbow Dash.”
“You can’t be serious?”
“Sorry, Applebloom.” Applejack mussed Applebloom’s hair. “But you’re still too young to go around getting into fights. Best just leaving it to the pros.”
“That’s not fair!”
“I wish I could come. But I’m needing a little time healing here.”
“Now that’s just another word for please drag me along,” laughed Applejack.
“Don’t worry, I have some Zenzu apple seeds growing, soon as they’re ready I’ll be sure to have Applebloom give some, while we’re away.”
“You’re not going either Granny Smith!” yelled Applejack. “Sorry, but I don’t want any more of my family getting hurt.”
“Is it alright if I don’t come?” requested Snip in the corner. “Just that I technically did the most work in that fight and we need someone to stay behind in case Trixie comes back.”
“I think that’s a delightful idea, if I do say so myself,” replied Rarity.
“Am I really not allowed to come?” questioned Sweetie Belle.
Nurse Redheart entered. “Alright, times up, could you please leave so that the patient could get some rest.
“Alright, be seeing you Twilight and we promise, we’ll get everyone back,” said Applejack.
Next day, everyone was gathered outside Granny Smith’s place, with their luggage and bags.
“You don’t think that’s a bit too much?” Applejack asked Rarity.
“A pony like myself can never have too much. Plus I needed to catch up with the latest fashion.”
“You know... never mind.”
“Thanks for letting me stay at your place Granny Smith,” said Spike.
“No problem hun, least I can do.”
“I can’t believe this, we are all going on a trip together, this is so cool! Do you think we can have a picnic when we get there?” shouted Pinkie Pie.
Something rip through the sky. It was the aircraft landing down. Emerging out on a disk was Cherliee.
“Alright I got the ship ready for you guys. All that’s needed is a few voice commands and then your off, I hope you guys succeed.”
“Thanks, just wish I knew where my sister was so that I could say good bye to her for now as well.”
“Probably off sulking like mine,” said Rarity. “I swear, she was up all night begging to come along, but I just couldn’t.”
“Well, not much we can do about that then I guess. Let’s get on this crud bucket and go and revive our friends!”
“Yeah!” shouted Spike and Pinkie Pie.
They all crammed onto the disk and entered the ship. Granny Smith, Snip, Owlysious and Cherliee waved.
They all took their place. Both Rarity and Applejack were at the pilot seats.
“Alright, spaceship, let’s get going and off to Cloudsdale!” yelled Applejack.
“Order confirmed.”
The ship fired into the sky.
*
Out in the middle of a small island, Diamond dogs patrolled around a long spiral building. Inside of it, through its corridors and pass its rooms, a black-coated pony with a doctor’s outfit watched over this container filled with liquid. Inside of it was Trixie. She was unconscious and hooked up to a mask and dozens of tubes.
“What happened?” asked a nurse. “I’ve seen Trixie come in here once or twice for a check up, but she’s never once come here for intensive care or anything close to that.”
“Apparently she went to this area called Equistria. But that’s all I’ve gathered thus far.”
“Where is her partner Snail?”
“Gone I believe.”
“You think Snail turned on Trixie and did this?”
“Snail’s nowhere capable of doing this to someone like Trixie. I don’t know anyone who could’ve done this.” Trixie’s twitched “Best go now, she won’t like seeing someone gawking at her injuries.”
The nurse obeyed and the doctor clicked on a panel. The container drained and the wires slipped off Trixie. The unicorn awoke, her eyes fierce. The container opened up and she emerged.
“Greetings Trixie, glad you’re still with us. You would’ve been a great loss to our assets. I must say though that your damages were pretty severe. I wasn’t sure how much I could. Luckily I was able to do something about your horn.”
“My horn?” Trixie she looked at the liquid that slid off her to create a puddle and saw her reflection. Her horn was fine again.
“Sadly our science doesn’t have the necessary breakthroughs to repair it. All we could do was give artificial replacements. You’ll notice outlines of where we had to fix it.”
“That little runt, I swear I’ll kill him.” She approached a bench with armour and scouters and suited up.
“I hope you don’t plan on going anywhere, Trixie.”
“Oh and who are you to say that to me?”
“Not me, Trixie, our master instructed it.”
Trixie’s eyes popped. “What?”
“Our master learned of your unauthorised trip to Equistria. She was quite displeased about something to do with Orbs of harmony.”
“Th-that’s impossible, me and Snail had our scouter communications turned off.”
“You forget that there’s an override on the master computer. Our master had used that to find what you were up to.”
“Where is our master now? Tell me?”
“After there was enough feedback, our master, for some reason, decided to go to Cloudsdale, home of the pegasi.”
“I wish for a chariot immediately!”
“But your orders?”
Trixie growled over the doctors face. “I wished for a chariot, immediately! Get me one or else!”
“U-um right away, Trixie.”
*
Woken back up after the first day Rarity got out from bed. When she tripped on a baked bean can and tumbled into some dirty laundry.
“Rarity, would you mind where you’re stepping?” asked Applejack as she played a card game with Spike and Pinkie Pie. They sat around a pile of empty food bags, crumbs and juice spills.
Erupting from the laundry, Rarity yelled. “How did you beasts manage to cause this level of mess in just one night?”
“We partied out last night that’s how,” responded Pinkie Pie. “Too bad you missed out; it was a lot of fun!”
“How can one party cause all this? There has to be enough scattered food that a herd of animals could only leave!”
“Um, if it makes you happier Rarity, I could clean up all this?” offered Spike.
Rarity was nudged. “Hallo, what’s this?” She dipped into the laundry. She ascended out madder, holding Applebloom and Sweetie Belle in her jaws. “Sweetie Belle!”
“Applebloom! What in tarnishing are you doing here?”
“We told you to stay home because it was too dangerous!”
“I know sis, but we really wanted to come.”
“Yeah, I want to help revive my big brother and everyone else. No fair that you get both get to.”
“Sweetie Belle, we talked about this and we’re not talking about it again! Applejack, do you think it’s possible to make a return journey home?”
“No!” cried the sisters.
“Tried to stop the ship last night to get a good look at the moon, but the whole things automated, no way I can change course until we reach Cloudsdale.”
Rarity gave a boiled growl. “Fine! Congrats! You have both successfully tagged along! But you are in so much trouble when we get back home Sweetie Belle that you don’t have any idea!”
“Same goes for you missy!”
“Would you two chill, you should find it pretty sweet that your sisters wanted to come along and help, I know I would,” said Pinkie Pie. “Plus more the...”
A red light flashed in the room. Applejack rushed to the chair and looked at the holographic messages.
“What’s the matter?” asked Spike.
“It says that there’s collision possibility detected, but I don’t see anything to worry about...”
Something that emerged out of nowhere. It was big, round and coloured the same as the sky.
“Oh sweet nelly...”
They went head on into it, but slipped through it and found themselves in a metal made room so huge.
“What’s just happened?” questioned Rarity.
“I-I don’t know, but the ship’s coming to a stop and it looks as if we’ve entered a hanger’s bay of some sort.”
“What do we do?” asked Pinkie Pie.
“Just wait and see, I guess.”
The ship came to a stop.
“Nothing’s happening,” said Sweetie Belle.
“She’s right, what do we do?” asked Rarity.
“May as well go out and check,” said Applejack.
“Should someone stay here to guard the little ones?” questioned Rarity.
“No!” cried the little sisters.
“Might as well stick together, we don’t know what’s going on and might require all of us,” said Pinkie Pie.
“Yeah!” shouted the sisters.
They all went down and landed in the solid room. They paced forward. As they advanced, Pinkie Pie’s eyes caught a slice of cake on the floor.
“Oh cake!”
“No!” Pinkie-!” yelled Applejack.
Pinkie Pie dashed and jumped onto the cake, eating it. When she was finished, she saw her friends. “Oh, sorry, did you all want cake as well? I’m sure there’s some…” A rope lassoed around her ankle and hung her high.
“Pinkie Pie!” Everyone shouted.
“Weee! This is fun!”
“Pinkie Pie! What are we going to do with you!” yelled Applejack.
The ground tremble and found themselves surrounded by buffalos. They leered defiantly at them.
“Um, hi,” said Spike.
Stepping forward, a buffalo towered over all the rest with a fancy feathered headgear. Beside him, was a more delicate and very small, but determined faced buffalo.
“I am chief Thunderhooves, leader of this tribe. This here is Little Strongheart. We ask you, why do you intrude?”
“Intrude? Pardon me, but we did not intrude, your aircraft appeared out of nowhere and forced us on your ship,” explained Rarity.
“Why are you here then, where was your aircraft off to?”
“We’re off to Cloudsdale if you really must know.”
“Cloudsdale? Then you must be one of them?” The buffalos grunted and scrapped the ground with his hoof.
“Excuse me? One of whom?”
“Them! The ones who removed us from our home, we had heard they were off to Cloudsdale and so you must be a part of their fleet.”
“Now hold on!” shouted Applejack. “We have no idea what you’re on about, but there’s no way we’d be involved in something so low down.”
“I know your kind, you lie when you know you are outmatched, no use lying now.”
“Look out sugarcubes, we may be in for a ho down with these guys!”
The buffalos readied themselves, but one of them burst through the door.
“Chief! We have big problem!”
“What?”
“We are about to hit into storm cloud that came out from nowhere, we must brace ourselves!”
“What how long do we have before impact!”
“A few seconds!”
Thunder clapped and everyone was knocked off their hooves. Panic ensued. Chunks of its structure started to fall out of place and smash to the ground and explosions ignited.
“Let’s go now, while they’re confused!” shouted Rarity.
“No! We can’t leave them like this!” replied Applejack.
“I’m sure they’re prepared for a situation like this!”
“I honestly doubt that!”
They noticed Little Strongheart fell. A large chunk of metal was about to drop on her. Thunderhooves shielded Little Strongheart, but Rarity, Spike and Applejack destroyed the metal with energy blasts.
“Alright! But what can we do?”
“I think they only at the edge of the storm. I’d say if we move this crude bucket to the right, we’ll have moved them out of it.”
“You saw how big this thing was from the outside right? And it isn’t going to be any easier to move it while inside a storm?”
“If we get Pinkie Pie down, we’ll have a chance.”
The two fired energy shots that severed the rope and freed Pinkie Pie. Push against the right side of the ship!”
They flew up and pressed the wall. They powered up. Slowly, the ship began to calm. In a few minutes, the buffalos relaxed.
The fighters descended to the ground. Sweetie Belle and Applebloom rushed to them and the buffalos surrounded them once more. Thunderhooves leered. “You realised you could’ve escaped.”
“Yeah, but we didn’t.”
“Why?”
“Cause, not only are we not the guys who kicked you out of your homes, but we’re the good guys.”
“You are?”
Little Strongheart limped beside Thunderhooves, smirking. “You were sort of jumping to conclusions. We sort of all were.”
“Hm, I guess that is true. Therefore I apologise and hope you forgive me, I guess reckless paranoia has gotten the best of me, with what we’ve been through.”
“We understand, must be hard that you’ve lost your home and by the sounds of it, having nowhere to go. So I think I speak for all of us when we forgive you,” said Rarity.
“Thank you, as forgiveness for our misjudgement, we invite you to a feast, if you would humbly accept that?”
“We hum-diggy do!” responded Applejack.
“Yeah! Party!” shouted Pinkie Pie.
Later they all sat around eating.
“We lived very simple lives and perfect harmony, before the organisation arrived and gave us three options. One was to remove ourselves, which we did and happened to be able to rent this aircraft from a nearby continent, two was to serve them and the third was total annihilation.”
“Why did they do such a thing?” questioned Pinkie Pie.
“This organisation is trying to be an Empire. It perhaps is, but does not go by that name. It has ruled for a very long time and I do not know how much of the world it owns. But if my guess was right, I’d say over a quarter of the world.”
“Any idea who’s behind this?” questioned Applejack.
“I do not know. But this person is indeed very powerful. The minions under this person’s command were as strong as our best warriors and were far too ruthless and barbaric to serve under something such as charisma or material wealth, just raw power.”
“And you say this varmit’s heading for Cloudsdale? Any reason why?”
“I do not know, but I believe just to further the expansion of their empire. The place is home to the pegasi however and their warriors are very strong and ruled by a very wise person, if they cannot repel this organisation, no one can. Except maybe you four. I have never seen such strong fighters, perhaps if the pegasi struggle, you may swing the balance.”
“I take it the pegasi are very friendly then?”
“The pegasi are brash and reckless ponies, but their intentions have always been good. They will welcome you, so long as you don’t mean harm.”
“Thanks for the information chief Thunderhooves.”
“It’s the least I can do. Though I am baffled by your strange customs.”
Pinkie Pie swung pass in a strange dance motion to the war drums. She was followed by Sweetie Belle and Applebloom .
*
The group were on their way again. They were all calmly relaxed, but Rarity then brought up.
“It’s strange, being on an adventure and not having Twilight here. She was the one who gathered all of us into this circle of friends after all and has always been in every adventure any of us has been on.”
“Sure is strange,” replied Applejack.
“I do miss her,” said Pinkie Pie.
“Wait, what do you mean she was the one who gathered all of you?” asked Spike.
“Well I wouldn’t say intentionally, it was more by Cherliee as well. But one by one we were somehow rounded to be apart of Twilight’s own adventures and I think it’s fair to say that each one of us three considered her a rival when we first met.”
“Sure do.”
“It was more of a friendly rivalry between me,” noted Pinkie Pie.
“Could you all tell me, they sound exciting?”
“They sure our,” said Sweetie Belle. “I was there throughout all of it, tell him about sis.”
“Well we’re not exactly going anywhere.” Rarity then cleared her throat. “I’ll go first, being that I was the first to meet Twilight. It started off just after Cherliee had found Twilight, as you know, Twilight was young at the time and she had never been out into world, always confined to herself reading books, but was still somehow very strong. Cherilee found her because she was tracking the Orbs of harmony to uncover the myth. The two had formed an alliance I believe, Twilight would hand over the Orbs of harmony so long as Cherliee assisted in showing her the world. Shortly afterwards, the lot more younger me and Sweetie Belle were in search of the Orbs of harmony as well. We wanted the Orbs of harmony so we could wish for our own business.
So when I our paths cross, I was determined to take them. However, me and Twilight were surprisingly an equal match. Knowing the fight wouldn’t end without me scarring a hoof I made a retreat. I continued to try and surprise and trap her, but she eluded them, just as I eluded all her traps.”
“But sis, didn’t she catch us in that rope trap?”
“We escaped it before the trap hindered us anymore than what if should’ve,” replied Rarity frustrated. “But differences were placed aside when a bunch of hooligans wanted to take the Orbs of harmony for themselves, only so they could take over the world with an iron fist. We didn’t want those were cared about hurt by this, so worked together to defeat them. Soon realised I had the confidence and skill to design clothes to make a business, I decided to rest my pursuit of the Orbs of harmony and go into fashion.”
“Me next! Me next!” jumped Pinkie Pie. “Granny Smith had found me and Twilight and took an interest in us both. She is like this big time trainer, so it was a big deal to be taken in by someone like her. In order to be inducted though, we both needed to make our own apple pie, mostly because Granny Smith felt a good apple baker always made a good fighter for some reason, never understood why even though she told us it. Anyways after me and Twilight had gotten apple slices, I had three and she had six. Knowing I didn’t have enough, I got really pressured, so I did a terrible thing and stole three of Twilight’s apple slices, it was mean because Twilight didn’t have enough apples now, but I really wanted to train with thy awesome Granny Smith. However when Granny Smith tasted our pies, she found them both delectable and I didn’t know why.”
“Because Pinkie Pie, it isn’t the number of apple slices that make a pie taste right, it’s your heart,” said Applejack.
“Yeah, it’s what Granny Smith told me at some point. Afterwards though I admit I got jealous and wanted to redeem myself that I deserved to be with Granny Smith just as much. I ended up competing with Twilight in my training, racing with her as we ran from a dragon with huge rocks on our backs, tried to do the biggest energy blasts and sparred to win. But it didn’t take long for me and Twilight to realise that we had become good friends and that we both liked parties.”
“Onto my turn then?” asked Applejack and got a nod from Pinkie Pie. “Alright, I hadn’t met Twilight or Pinkie Pie yet, while I they trained with my Gran. Reason why is because I had left my Gran about a year back, because although I respected her and her humble training, I wanted a more fancy life, with more glamorous training that I went to my Uncle and Aunt who lived in the high life, training people. Big Macintosh had joined me so I wouldn’t be lonely, being that my Uncle and Aunt wouldn’t have enough free time to hang with me after training sessions.”
“I still wish you brought me along, it wasn’t as fun with Granny Smith until Twilight and Pinkie Pie came.”
“You did fine sis, you would’ve realised it probably was better you stayed with Granny Smith. Although me and Big Mac did the best in my Uncle and Aunt’s class, everyone thought we were getting special treatment and we felt pretty alienated because of our unusual customs from our background. I wanted to go back, but I was too proud and felt I had done the right thing. It changed though when my Uncle and Aunt decided they wanted me to represent them at the big tournament that they always go to. It was there I found out about Granny Smith’s students, Twilight and Pinkie Pie and when I saw how happy they were with my family and Gran was so proud of them both, I got so jealous. I fought in the tournament to compete and show up my Granny Smith in an attempt to get back at her.”
“You did seem a little mean when we first met,” said Pinkie Pie.
“Be glad you were unable to precede Pinkie Pie after you were too hurt after fighting my brother, because I swear I didn’t know what I’d do. Bad enough I tried taking it so badly out on Twilight, I tried to kill her off so many times in that one match, that I even used the Apple family specialty, but that Twilight was a wily as a coyote.”
“I wasn’t sure who to root for when I saw you fighting,” said Applebloom. “My sister or my Gran’s best student.”
“Technically it ended in a draw. Me and Twilight ended up wiping clean the entire arena so we were fighting in midair to avoid touching outside the ring, even though there was a ring no more. It ended with Twilight knocking the two of us out with a headbutt, we then dropped back to the ground unconscious, but surprisingly enough, Twilight hit the ground first, therefore she was eliminated before I was, even though she struck the final blow. It didn’t matter anyways, even though I had won the tournament that all went pass over my head when I found out my Granny Smith and sister came to me first. I was so touched, I let out that I had been wanting come back to them and was jealous because I thought they replaced me and Big Mac for Twilight and Pinkie. I left my Uncle and Aunt, who wasn’t too bad about the thing and had been wondering when I’d up and leave and me and Big Mac went back to where we really belonged.”
“It’s then that we formed our little group that went about getting ourselves in all sorts of messes, like the one we’re in now,” said Rarity.
“Wow! All those stories sound so cool!”
“Could we hold on for just a minute, I think the ship’s slowing down?” asked Applejack. The pony had gotten up and made her way over to the pilot chair. It was there she paused and slowly said. “Um, guys, I think we’ve arrived at our destination.”
Everyone rushed up to where Applejack was and looked outside. Everyone of them were now amazed at what they saw, but couldn’t believe it. Ahead of them were what looked like solid clouds that were shaped to mimic almost exactly into small islands that were arrayed throughout the sky, around them was a sea of rainbows that poured around this apparent world. Other than that this place seemed like an entire land that was up in the sky.
“Now this is cool,” said Spike.
*
“Yipes!”
“Twilight! I told you to not move, it makes things easier if you hold still!” shouted nurse Redheart. A number of other ponies tried to examine Twilight.
“How are you doing Twilight?” Granny Smith entering the room.
“Hey! This is not visiting hours!” yelled nurse Redheart with a visible vein on her forehead.
“I know.”
“Granny Smith! Oh please have you brought Zenzu apple seeds!”
“Sure have.” Granny Smith pulled out one. “Afraid I was only able to grow six though, have to wait until next season until I can grow more.”
“That’s alright, just pass one here.”
“Hey! No strange substances inside this hospital!” yelled nurse Redheart. “You’ll have to go through the doctor before I let you!”
Granny Smith threw it and Twilight caught it in her mouth. Her muscles bulged the bandages off and she bounced off the bed.
Twilight began doing stretches while the nurse gaped. She paused and looked up to Granny Smith. “Hey, um Granny Smith, why did you bring six Zenzu apple seeds. Did you really think I’d be that badly hurt?”
“Oh no, you’re actually needed in Cloudsdale.”
“Wait, what? What do you mean I’m needed in Cloudsdale?”
“Well this might sound like the craziest thing you’ve ever heard and probably will ever hear. But I’ve been hearing voices for a while. At first I thought that was me finally starting to get old. But then they started making sense to me and Cherliee was hearing the same things as well and she’s too young to start getting voices inside her head. So we listened to what they had to say and heard that you would most likely be greatly needed.”
“Did the voices have a name?”
“Well had one name, called itself Za-corn-na or something like that.”
“Well did Zacornna tell you how I would get to Cloudsdale?” teased Twilight.
“Mr Cake has been working on an aircraft powerful enough to perhaps get you there. He seems to have been getting the strange voices as well.”
“He has?”
“Yep, even has Cherilee and Owylsious working on it with him right now, said he’d have it running this afternoon.”
“That’s great I’ll go there immediately! Thank you so much Granny Smith!”
Twilight then took the pouch and vanished. All the nurses now trembled at what they just saw and experienced. Nurse Redheart eventually asked. “Granny Smith was it? Mind telling me what just happened?”