"What happened AJ?" asked Vanilla. Applejack sighed a little bit, and sat down at the table.
"Well" she said, "ah wanted to talk to Rainbow Dash, and check up on how last night was fer ya guys. When she told me about how she flew ya guys there, that put me a little on edge. Ya two coulda flew off her or worse. And then how the night, when Luna came there, nothin seemed to wake her up. What if a bug came by and thought ya were lunch and went to attack ya?"
"I would've protected Twilight with my life." Vanilla intervened. AJ shot her eyes directly toward him. "No offense to ya lil one, but if a spider came around, and one of ya got hurt, and then the other one, and then eventually.......... "
This kinda brought down Vanilla's ego a bit, and made him feel very helpless. It was the first time in a while, that he felt small and helpless, since by now he could finally defend Twilight and himself from bugs. Heck, he even has a cutie mark of a karate-like throwing star.
Twilight then quickly jumped in "But I do trust Vanilla to protect me."
"Ah understand that, but Rainbow could protect ya even better, and yet she couldn't even wake up while another pony was there, let alone if a bug was there. So, to cut the story short, ah offered to look after ya'll instead of her. She got upset, and left."
Everyone went silent. Then of all the ponies to answer, it would be the smallest pony there.
"Are ya'll CRAZY?!" yelled Apple Bloom. Applejack was a gasped by her sisters reaction, even Twi and Nilla were, but they too agreed with Bloom.
"Why would you say something like that to anyone? Let alone Rainbow Dash, your best friend." said Twilight, waiting for a good reason for AJ to disrespect Dash.
"Ah was only thinkin of yer safety Twilight." she said in a shaky voice, knowing that Twilight was right in some ways.
"So was Rainbow" said Vanilla. Then the room went dead silent for a few minutes. No one could have another thing to say for a long while. Until that tiny voice once again had to break the silence.
"Why don't we just find her and apologize?" Apple Bloom asked. The others looked right at her, as if she was Celestia herself. She seemed to be the only one with logical answers.
"But where would she be?" asked Vanilla. "She would be somewhere else by now."
"Lets check out our friends places first. Lets go to Rarity's first." said Twilight.
"Good idea. You can come if ya want Apple Bloom, in case Sweetie Belle is there." said Applejack. Bloom just brightly smiled, and nodded. Bloom then gave the two tiny ponies to AJ, in which she placed them in the inside of her hat. When AJ put her hat back on, it was like it went from light, to pitch black.
"Ya'll okay in there?" asked AJ.
"Yeah, just very dark in here." replied Twilight. Applejack just gave a little chuckle, and they went on their way. It was a very bumpy ride to say the least. At least when Dash flied, it wasn't bumpy. And at least here, it wasn't like they could just easily fly off of her head. And being they were in an enclosed area, the smell of Applejack's sweaty scalp was getting stronger the longer they traveled.
Luckily, for Nilla and Twi, they arrived at the boutique. AJ knocked, Rarity answered, and let them both in. Luckily for Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle was there, and said that their other close friend Scootaloo would join them later. While the two fillies played, AJ took off her hat and allowed the tiny ponies to climb onto her hoof. After being in the sauna-like mane for a while, they got on with no problem. AJ placed the two on the table, then felt her mane and felt she was sweating, and blushed.
"Hehehe, ah guess ah shoulda left mah hat off, huh?" she said.
"You think?" said Twilight.
"So what brings you all here?" asked Rarity, as it looked like she was making breakfast for everyone, or at least her and Sweetie Belle. She always was a late sleeper, so it made sense that they ate later.
"Well, we wanted to ask ya: Did Rainbow Dash come by here at all today?" asked AJ.
"Why no darling" Rarity replied. "Why would she come by?"
"It's kinda a long story." said AJ.
"Oh, well I have to check on something regarding one of my clients, can you trot and talk?" said Rarity.
"Sure. Ah'm sure they wanna cool off fer a bit. We'll be back guys" AJ said, talking to the tiny ponies. And without another word, the two bigger mares left.
"You think they should've taken us with them?" asked Twilight.
"I don't see why. We should be fine up here." said Vanilla.
"Well I know we're out of harms way on this table" said Twi "but we're alone up here."
"True, but it's not like there's any other predators here". Just when Vanilla said that, they saw a shadow, creeping across the floor. At first they thought it was the crusaders, but there was no quakes made. They were confused until they heard what sounded to be little roars, almost like a lion. Wait, lion? More like a house cat to normal ponies.......... CAT?!
Rounding the corner, was Rarity's cat, Opalescence. They forgot about her, and apparently, so did Rarity. After seeing her, Twi and Nilla had to hide somewhere, and fast. Nilla knew first hoof, that cats and anything that was tiny, not a good mix. They looked for the first place they could hide in, and without thinking , saw a bowl right next to them, and climbed inside. When they landed inside though, they didn't expect it to be filled already. Twilight surfaced and coughed.
"*cough* Why did we go into a bowl *cough* filled already?!" she exclaimed. Vanilla quickly placed a hoof over her mouth and shushed her. They looked up and saw the massive girth of Opal walking over the bowl. Now that she was close, now they could hear each booming step she took. The two ponies hoped to Celestia that they didn't land in her drinking bowl. They looked around and saw strange looking objects just floating in the bowl, and swam close to one of them, hoping it would block Opals view of them. Twilight took one smell of the object, and froze in fear.
"This is a cereal bowl......." she whispered in fear.