Rainbow Dash had knocked all the unicorns out with her rainboom. They'd be lucky if they lived, now. She picked up all the fish and flew over to the cave entrance, the others looking very worried. She dumped the fish on the ground, and the others brightened up a little.
"Rainbow! Ah heard a cannon, you scared me to death!" Exclaimed Applejack.
"Where's- No. Nononono! He can't of- died?" Said Pinkie, her eyes wide.
Rainbow nodded sadly. "The unicorns got him." She said.
They sat in silence for the next hour, not believing that their entertaining friend could have gone. It was unreal. But their mourning thoughts were soon interrupted by a tremor.
"What the hay--" said Applejack.
"I don't know. Carry on." Said pinkie, who was also confused.
But soon after there was a more violent tremor that was more like an earthquake. Pinkie Pie fell over and Applejack had trouble standing up.
"Hold on.. Wait. NO. COME... ON...." Said Rainbow Dash, flapping her wings harder and harder. " NO! NONONO! I CAN'T FLY!"
" What in Tarantion!?" Said Applejack. "Why can't you fly?"
"It must be the gamemakers," said Pinkie Pie, "They must have stopped all pegasi from flying somehow. That means the career team is probably unable to fly, too."
"What!? But I NEED to fly!" Protested Rainbow Dash, "I have to fly! This cutie mark wasn't for nothing, you know."
"Uh, sugarcube, sorry to interrupt, but is that smoke in the corner over there?"
All three of them peered to the corner of the cave. Smoke seemed to be billowing out of a hole in the wall. Pinkie Pie hesitantly stepped forward. She picked up the backpack that was in the same corner as the smoke. At least, she tried to. As soon as she picked up the bag, pints of lava spilt out of the hole in the wall, a steadily growing puddle of liquid fire which originally came from under the earth's crust. Pinkie tried to pull the bag out of the searing mess.
"PINKIE! DON'T! YOU'LL KILL YOURSELF! DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE SUPPLIES, JUST GET OUTTA THERE!" Applejack yelled.
But it was too late. The pink mare was soon stuck in the lava, screaming out in agony. She was being burned alive. Horrible smells of burning flesh wafted around them. She was now unable to move, engulfed in the horrible liquid. She kept howling and screaming. There was nothing Applejack or Rainbow Dash could do but stand, unable to speak because of the smoke in the air, and gape in horror at their usually happy friend die.
A cannon sounded.
Coughing and crying, Rainbow Dash and Applejack decided to move out before the lava got them.
They climbed the mountain, up and up. They eventually got to the last cave- it had so e smoke inside and it was cold, but better than the others. Smoke slowly started rising up into their cave. Rainbow Dash stumbled to the mouth of the cave, and saw a horrible sight. Lava spread all over they arena. nothing but lava. They couldn't go higher up and they couldn't go down to ground level. Some of the lava had hardened, though, and was okay to walk on.
They decided not to move until the lava settled- which had terrible downsides, as the smoke filled the cave more and ore until it was impossible to breathe. Both ponies had passed out before they could notice a parachute sailing silently towards them.