//------------------------------// // 5 (Mark of Misfortune) // Story: My Little Kitty // by ChingKittyCat //------------------------------// Rainbow Dash batted at one of the clouds. The clouds she couldn't reach, because they were thousands of feet in the air. Rainbow really didn't have anything else to do. Today had been especially boring, which was exceptionally strange because usually Pinkie would be around, and the two would pull some pranks together. Rainbow was just laying back down on Ms. Robinson's roof, looking at the clouds. Nothing more, nothing less. Rainbow really wondered what clouds were made out of. Were they just made of cotton? Maybe they were just big smears of white? Rainbow hadn't gotten the chance to touch clouds, neither had any other cat she had known. Well, it seemed as if she was out of luck. Cats couldn't really fly. So, she was just stuck on the ground. Just like everycat else. Rainbow's attention was caught by an airplane. The loud whirs of the metallic flying machine high above had just begged for attention. Rainbow would love to go on a plane. That would be a dream. Unfortunately, she didn't really have a human to go with. Well, her humans didn't really go anywhere. Also, they weren't really her owners. They were just her temporary care takers, despite having a collar on her neck. Okay, her thoughts were getting off topic. How had she gone from planes to owners? Whatever. It really didn't matter. Rainbow suddenly got an itch in her nose, sneezing loudly. Closing her eyes as she did so. When the short flinch had ended, she had noticed that the clouds were in a completely different position. Strange. "My sneezes control the clouds?" Rainbow wondered out loud at the phenomenon, eyes pacing back in forth as she looked at the clear blue sky. Her sneezes controlled clouds. Of course, they did. Why wouldn't they? She smirked at the thought. Rainbow Dash, a cat who controlled the weather. Sounded crazy, but pretty awesome too. So many prank opportunities would open up! Rainbow needed to double check her facts. She waggled her tail over to her right side, so that it slipped out from underneath her. She tickled her nose once more, in hopes of getting another sneeze. She did successfully sneeze again, but this time, the clouds refused to move. Rainbow's smirk went away. Cats couldn't really control the weather anyways. What a silly and ridiculous thought. So, with a puff, Rainbow stood herself up, and made her way down the row of residential homes. The thought of controlling clouds still wandered about in her mind, as she ignored the sounds of the plane overhead. Eventually, Rainbow found herself over at Pinkie's home. A two story home with a blue wooden exterior. It had a black chain link fence around the home, with an opening for the driveway. Rainbow just moseyed into the home, heading around to the backyard. She was kind of just doing whatever, looking for Pinkie. She hadn't seen Pinkie in a couple days, and neither had any of Rainbows friends had either. Rainbow had checked Pinkies home, but Pinkie was never there. Not even in the tree that she would almost always be inside of. That tree being a lemon tree that stood in the backyard of Pinkies house. There was something in that tree, however. Something that stood out, like a black cat in a lemon tree. There was a black cat in Pinkie's lemon tree. Rainbow had never seen such a strangely colored cat. Just pure black. She wasn't trying to be a colourist, but black cats were more than strange. They were incredibly abnormal. Normally, cats were bright pastel colors. Seeing a black cat was more than just a rarity, it was so much worse. Rainbow glowered at the black cat, who sat discreetly on one of the branches of the lemon tree. Rainbow poofed up, her whole body becoming covered in fluff. Great. This again. She would deal with it later. "Who are you, and what did you do to Pinkie?" Rainbow hissed as she drew closer to the tree, the black cat not even moving an inch from their spot. Rainbow felt a slight unease from the cat's silence. It didn't really help Rainbow's confidence that she was this gigantic puff ball for some reason. Why she had become this big thing of fur was still unexplained to her. "I know you did something to her, you can't fool me!" Rainbow growled, just now acknowledging that she couldn't really go up the tree to face the fiend. She was a gigantic puff, and she had tried to climb this way before. Long story short, it didn't work, and Rainbow almost broke all of her legs. The black cat stayed silent as it rose to it's paws. Rainbow slowly started to back up. She didn't really want to get into a tussle with a black cat. They were said to be able to slay anything that crossed them. Also, they could place a mark of misfortune on those who even so much as looked at them. Luckily enough for Rainbow, the black cat decided to head the other way. Jumping from the tree and over the chain link fence. Out into the nearby neighbors yard. Then, with a blink, the black cat had just completely disappeared. Creepy.. Rainbow headed into Pinkie's home. In hopes that she could find the pink cat just being lazy. Perhaps stuffing her face with treats and such. Though, it was never like Pinkie to just sit at home for a good week. ... Rainbow had checked every last nook and cranny of Pinkie's house. Her owners were noticeably absent, along with the cat. Rainbow could only draw one conclusion. They went on vacation. No, they couldn't have gone on vacation. Rainbow knew when they went on vacation. They usually took their bags and stuff. Their bags were still where they regularly were, in one of the bedroom closets. Which was closed at first, but Rainbow had managed to open from some miracle. Nevertheless, Pinkie wasn't here, and her owners weren't here. This was a certainly strange situation. Rainbow headed back out to the backyard. She had slicked her mane back before doing so. It took at least an hour to do and got Rainbow a gigantic hairball. Definitely not the most pleasant experience. She just hoped her fur wouldn't just continuing growing like it did last time. Rainbow sighed. She would check back tomorrow, again. Rainbow didn't really have much to do today. She had already visited with her temporary owners and most of her friends. She hadn't been over to Fluttershy's park in a while. Maybe it would be a good time to go there? It was just a five minute walk from the current rooftop Rainbow was on. Well, it was actually a five minute walk on the sidewalks. If she were to travel by roof to get there, it would take much longer. Rainbow would just have to cut through a couple roads, and she would be over at Fluttershy's in no time. Without further delay, Rainbow jumped down from her perch (using nearby telephone poles and such), and strutted down the sidewalk. It was peaceful, just like earlier today. Quiet, just like earlier today. Lonely, just like earlier today. Yeah, the loneliness was actually new. The sidewalks were surprisingly barren of any other cats, save for Rainbow. It made Rainbow feel slightly uneasy. Was she missing out on something important? Usually the only times that the sidewalks were this empty was when there was an emergency. Rainbow, the loser who was just walking by herself on empty sidewalks, eventually arrived at the road she had to cross. Rainbow looked to the left. Nothing was coming from that side. She looked to the right. Nothing was coming from that side either. Rainbow checked again. Nothing was coming from either side. Rainbow placed one paw on the road's asphalt, closing her eyes as she did so. Nothing. Why would there be something? Huh. Maybe she was just worried. All this silence and stuff was just getting to her; she guessed. So, Rainbow crossed the road. The road that seemed a bit wider than she remembered. Or maybe it was just her imagination. In the middle of the road, Rainbow suddenly stopped. Her ears flicked. There was a rrrring noise, quickly approaching. She couldn't detect which way it was coming from, but she knew one thing. Get off the road. Rainbow sprinted to the other side of the road, as an entire squad of motorcycles flew down the asphalt, and would have run over Rainbow if she had not moved. Rainbow watched wide-eyed on the sidewalk as a large and threatening truck drove after them. Rainbow shivered, thinking of what would have happened if she had not heard the noise of the vehicles before they had speeded down the road. Rainbow was relieved that she had not met her end on a road. That would be the most horrible place to kick the bucket. So, still a bit tense, Rainbow entered the park. It was serene, as usual. Empty, except for the yellow cat who sat on the branches on the big oak tree in the middle of the park. The park was a nice, relaxing place, and as Rainbow approached the tree, she felt herself loosen up. Dropping her guard. "Hey Flutters." Rainbow greeted softly, a new for her. Fluttershy, who was laying down laxly on one of the larger branches, opened one of her eyes. The bird who had been previously perched on Fluttershy's head flew off to one of the other branches to visit with the other birds. Flutters stretched out her body, before sitting up on a branch. "Hello Rainbow, is there something wrong?" Fluttershy inquired, looking at Rainbow with a slightly confused look. Rainbow looked back at Fluttershy with even a more confused look. "You're all puffed up." Oh, great. Rainbow looked back at herself. Her fur was up on it's ends. She had been a bit scared from that whole cars and bikes almost killing her. Rainbow sighed as she smoothed back as much fur as she could. What this whole puffing up thing was about, she still had no idea. "Um.. Rainbow..?" Fluttershy spoke up, starting to climb down from her tree perch. She didn't really like to jump or just fall down from high places. Fluttershy was a pegasus cat with a fear of heights and jumping. Kind of strange. "Yeah Flutters?" Rainbow questioned, still smoothing back her fur. She hated this stuff sometimes. Was it just her with this problem? It couldn't be. Pinkie probably had this problem too, because she had such long fur. "Your collar is glowing." Fluttershy pointed out, staring directly at Rainbow's collar. There was a dim glow that radiated from Rainbow's collar. It glowed with all collars of the rainbow, and the cyan stuck out more than the other six colors. "Uh..?" Rainbow poked at one of the gemstones on her collar, and received a small cyan shock that went directly into her paw. It didn't hurt, it was just a bit of a shock. Rainbow's fur puffed up once more. The glow of the collar started to fade down to nothing. "What was that all about?" Rainbow asked, her voice having a bit of irritated tone from her fur puffing up again. Fluttershy shrugged as she looked up into the sky. Fluttershy went pale, as her eyes widened, and her pupils constricted. Rainbow stared at the distressed form of Fluttershy, as the ground started to become a bit dark. "Flutters..?" Rainbow rose an eyebrow, as she looked upwards. Oh. That was a uh.. Plane.. Yeah. That was a plane. That was definitely a plane. Falling directly down. Bottom first. Its nose was the thing casting the shadow upon the two cats. Rainbow felt an entire rush of adrenaline shoot into her, as her collar started to glow once more. Rainbow pushed Fluttershy out of the shadow, as to not get squished. Then, the plane's nose came down. Rainbow held out her paw right before she was squished, as a flash of bright light was all Rainbow could see even though she had her eyes closed. Everything was quiet and still. Rainbow felt like she was walking on air. Rainbow's eye opened. "Oh my Celestia.." Rainbow gasped, looking at the sight just a hair above her. The metal nose of the plane was just above her. It was frozen in the air. The tail and body of the plane had already smashed through multiple houses. Sure enough, the humans were unharmed, but they were poking their heads out from the wreckage known as houses. Rainbow looked around frantically. There was a plane, basically right on top of her head. Was she dead? Was this something that happened when you died? Rainbow didn't know! She had never done this before! SOMECAT NEEDED TO EXPLAIN EVERYTHING TO HER RIGHT NOW! "WHAT IS GOING ON!?" Rainbow yelped as she refused to move, scared that she would squish herself if she did. Rainbow was panicking, and Fluttershy was obviously taking note of that. Fluttershy shakily walked underneath the plane with Rainbow. Fluttershy was slightly bigger than Rainbow, and she hoped she could use that to her advantage. "T-try n-not to-to mo-move.." Fluttershy was absolutely terrified as she grabbed onto the scruff of Rainbow's neck. Rainbow stiffened her paws and body, as Flutters was having a decently hard time picking up Rainbow. Maybe if she were older, this would work. Fluttershy huffed and puffed as she just attempted to push Rainbow. Fluttershy had no choice but to decide to just ask Rainbow to move herself. "R-rainbow.. C-could y-you try t-to move your p-paw..?" Fluttershy requested as Rainbow looked down at her paw. She just now noticing that there was a soft white glow on her paw pad. Rainbow was magical; that's what she concurred. Rainbow focused on moving the plane upwards, and out of the houses it had previously crushed. The plane, sure enough, started to rise. How the ever-loving Tartarus it had done so, Rainbow was not informed. Nor was anycat else. Rainbow stared at the plane. Focusing on the plane, and only the plane. Nothing else, other than the plane. She decided to place it off onto the road, where it could cause the least damage. The plane had landed, without any landing gear out, in the middle of the street. Its wing's had gone between the spaced out houses, cutting into some walls of the houses they were in between. Once it had landed, Rainbow stared off into space, as the glow in her paw pad slowly started to fade, along with the glow of her collar. Rainbow slowly turned her head over to Fluttershy, who was right beside her. Rainbow's jaw slowly lowered as there was a glint in her eye. "Fluttershy..?" Rainbow stared at her friend, as her face slowly started to shift to an expression of pure joy. "Y-yes..?" Fluttershy answered, and she could tell what Rainbow was going to do next. "FLUTTERSHY. I. HAVE. SUPERPOWERS!" Rainbow was bursting with happiness, twitching as a gigantic smile was upon her face. How had she gotten her superpowers? When had she gotten them? Rainbow cared not. She was just so happy she had randomly gotten superpowers. This was her dream, having superpowers, whatever they may be. The two danced out, with what limited range of dance abilities they had. Fluttershy didn't question why Rainbow had superpowers. Rainbow had saved her and even some humans. Okay, make that a lot of humans. That was an entire airliner. Maybe a couple hundred, who knows. Maybe a whole neighborhood. Nevertheless, the humans were just now leaving the airliner. Yellow plastic slides had popped out from the two sides of the plane, and humans had slid down them and onto the roads. The ones who had been inside their homes had pulled out their phones and were holding their phones to the side. Rainbow didn't care about the humans at the moment. She just wanted to know how to do that again! That was so awesome! She was the best! This was the best! "Did that cat use the Force to save us?" "I don't care. Look at our house!" "Bro, we've got insurance." Twilight purred as her owner scratched behind her ear. The two were watching some new cartoon with an entirely different premise. It looked a lot realer than the last cartoon that her owner had watched. This cartoon, if she could even call it that, was about some Doctor who had a blue box that he flew around in. Her owner suddenly pulled out their phone, which had a new message on it. It was from a contact named 'Beerdog', and they had said 'Check the news, I think you're going to freak.', Twilight was interested in Beerdog's message, as her owner rolled their eyes, a smirk on their face. "This is a rerun anyways." Her owner said, before retrieving the remote from Twilight. Her owner poked at the numbered buttons on the remote, as the television changed to a different image. "-e are multiple residents who have commented on the miracle." The tux wearing man reported, holding a large amount of paper in his hands. The screen then shifted over to a new image, another person. This guy had a hat on, with some strange symbol on the front. They were pale and had brown hair. They also had on what seemed to be a t-shirt with some sort of slogan on it. "Yeah, I was just sitting at home, when I started to hear something. I just thought it was my housemate, but this plane crashed through the middle of my house. We were really lucky to have not been killed." The person stated, as the image changed to show off the house, in which was now barely standing. It was split down the middle, as debris and rubble littered the center. "Multiple reports have been coming in from earlier today of a plane suspended in mid-air by some strange force. This plane has been identified as the same plane." The picture changed to show off a new person. This person was a girl, and she wore some sort of dress, or something like that. She had red hair that went up in a bun. "We were up there for I think four hours or so, and when the plane started to plummet, everyone had started to panic. I think I'm going to quit my job because that was one of the most scary things I have ever been apart of." She smiled this 'I almost got killed' sort of smile, before the image changed back over to the tux wearing man from before. "There are multiple videos filmed of the plane halting in mid-air, and each has currently surpassed ten views. Congratulations. There have only been two known videos of the plane after plummeting. One of them being in vertical mode and the other being in horizontal mode. The real tragedy here is that someone would actually record something in horizontal mode. Nevertheless, we will show the better quality video of what happened after the plane had plummeted from its perch in the sky." The image transitioned into a new one, as the video was currently playing. The camera view was from underneath the plane, and was pointed directly at two small cat-shaped blobs across the street and inside the park. Twilight recognized that park and the colors of the blobs. The camera panned upwards, as the plane started to rise upwards as well. Out from the mess the plane itself had made and onto the road nearby. As it was moved, it destroyed multiple walls in the way of it's wings. The person who was taking the video then got up and turned off the video. "The current comments on the video have stated that this video is fake, and we do not blame them for thinking so. More on this story will be coming up soon." Her owner changed the channel before the logo of the news station could even so much pop up on the screen, back to the other show they had been previously watching. Twilight could tell that her owner was astonished, by the look on their face. Her owner picked up their phone and proceeded to text back. Twilight wondered about what that was all about. If she was right, those two blobs were Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. Twilight needed to go confirm this with them. So, Twilight got herself up, stretching while she did so. She jumped off of the couch, much to her owner's asks for her to come back. Those two were in for an interrogation, they were. "Then, right before the plane hit us, I held out my paw, and the plane stopped in mid-air! Then, I dropped it onto the street. That's when all the humans came out." Rainbow boasted as she sat upon her box perch. Her story had attracted quite the crowd. Mostly of kids younger than herself. The sort of kids that were still in the Academy. Scootaloo scooted up to Rainbow, pushing her way through the crowd. Rainbow was uncertain if Scootaloo had a thing for her or not, but Rainbow considered them two to be friends. "That's awesome, Rainbow Dash! Can you teach us how?" Scootaloo asked as mewls of agreement came from the other cats in the crowd. Rainbow gave a nervous smile, before putting out her paw. She really didn't know how to do this stuff. It just happened, no reason behind it whatsoever. She just stared at her paw, hoping that something would happen. "Uh, sorry kids, but I think I'm all out." Rainbow made up a quick excuse. Scootaloo and the other kids looked pretty disappointed in this new fact as they all collectively sighed. "Could you show us tomorrow?" One of the other kids spoke up, as the crowd collectively mewed. They did want to see Rainbow's unexplained superpowers in action more than anything at the moment. "Y'know what? If my powers start acting up again, you guys will be the first cats to know." Rainbow offered as the kids were obviously pleased by this. After a small bit of chit chat, the kids waddled off, whispering praise about Rainbow Dash to each other. With a satisfied smirk, Rainbow put her chin on her paws. Was her spot back here always going to be this popular now? I mean, she is basically the coolest cat in town now with her superpowers and what not. Suddenly, two new cats turned the corner and entered Rainbow's line of sight. Twilight and Fluttershy. Fluttershy looking a bit distressed, and Twilight looking either shocked or disgusted, Rainbow couldn't tell. Sure enough, it seemed like Twilight had something on her mind. "Okay, Rainbow, please tell me you have an explanation for what you did with that plane because Fluttershy has no idea how you did it, and I'm worried." Twilight quickly stated, her face now shifting to show concern instead of whatever she was trying to show just a couple seconds ago. Rainbow looked over and Fluttershy, who was nervously shuffling her paws around on the cement floor. "Also, I would like an explanation as to why we're inside of an abandoned toy factory." Twilight requested. Yeah, Rainbow came to this factory an awful lot. She didn't know why she came here so often, but she just did. Maybe she liked the smell in the air, or the mystery of why the second floor of the factory is off limits and barricaded. Nevertheless, she hung out her a decent lot when she wanted some time away from everycat else, but was bored with the sky. "I like to come here a lot." Rainbow answered the second question that Twilight had with ease. The first one might be a bit harder to answer. "And uh.. I don't really have a real answer to your first question." Rainbow mewed with a smile, as Twilight frowned and gave a loud 'UGH' in return. It wasn't Rainbows fault she was given these powers out of ACTUAL NOWHERE. "This doesn't make any sense whatsoever! First a plane halts in mid-air, and then it plummets and you stop it from crushing you! That shouldn't be possible!" Twilight began to pace in a circle. Talking to herself, as Rainbow just looked over at Fluttershy. Fluttershy looked like she had a lot on her mind. Something seemed wrong. "Hey Flutters, is there something wrong?" Rainbow asked as Fluttershy looked up at the cyan cat. Fluttershy had an extreme amount of sadness within her blue eyes, it was astonishing. She looked like she was about to cry. "Flutters! What's wrong!?" Rainbow exclaimed, as soon as she saw how sad Fluttershy was. "This place.. I don't like it." Fluttershy whimpered, backing up as she looked around the factory's ground floor. It was littered with boxes and toy making machines. "Uh.. That's alright Fluttershy, you can leave if you want." Rainbow offered as Fluttershy quickly took the offer. Fluttershy bolted out of the factory as quickly as she could. What was that all about? Maybe Flutters would talk about it later today, or tomorrow. Who knows. "Did you see any sort of magical anomaly?" Twilight asked, not acknowledging Fluttershy's sudden rushing off. "Anomaly meaning..?" "A strange, out of place thing." Rainbow thought back. Well, she did see one thing that could be called out of place. Actually, no, there were multiple. "Well, I saw a black cat with no collar, and a plane fall from the sky." Twilight froze at Rainbow's statement. Just, in mid-pace, frozen. Twilight's entire body turned to look at Rainbow. "You saw a what." "A black cat and a plane..?" "Dash. You saw a black cat. With no collar." "Yes." "YOU SAW A BLACK CAT WITH NO COLLAR!?" "Uh.. yeah." Twilight went ballistic. She was talking so quickly, it rivaled Pinkie. Rainbow could hardly keep up with what sort of nonsense Twilight was talking about. Something about the world ending and two thousand and twelve disasters, or something like that. Also, something about going underneath ladders. "So, whatever you do, do NOT go outside. You need to get home, and stay at home." Twilight finished, finally. Wait, no going outside? Twilight was telling her, the Rainbow Dash, not to go outside? What? Excuse her? That was like, the one thing that Rainbow could do to pass the time! Before Rainbow could object, Twilight had scrambled off. Rainbow sighed and looked around the old factory. Why was Flutters so afraid of this place anyways? Who knows. Maybe Rainbow could do some more exploring today? Perhaps try to break into the second floor? That would be fun. ... Okay, maybe not. Still, it would be something to do. So, Rainbow got herself up and started up one of the nearby metal staircases that wrapped around the walls. Every single one of these staircases leads to the same thing. A door, barricaded with wooden planks and chains. Well, there was nothing else to do. Besides, Rainbow had always been curious as to what was smelling so weird behind those doors. Every single door had the same smell that came from underneath that small crack in the door. You know, that small space imbetween the door and floor. Two hours, it felt like. No success. Rainbow sat up against the door. She was thinking of what to do. She could go outside, and just spit metaphorically directly into Twilight's face. That would be an extremely rude thing to do, however. So, Rainbow wasn't going to be doing that anytime soon. "Bored, hm?" A voice asked. It was a sleek sounding voice, like the voice of ninja cat. "Yeah." Rainbow replied to the voice without thinking. "Why's that?" The voice asked. "Well, I can't go outside because Twilight said that I got cursed or something." Rainbow sighed. That was the one and singular thing she had gotten from Twilight's ramble. That she had been cursed because she had saw a black cat with no collar. "That's unfortunate." "Yeah, and it really sucks. I mean, I'm stuck here until Twilight gets back from doing whatever she is doing. I mean, she wouldn't leave me hanging like this for any reason." Rainbow sighed, as she felt something beside her. Rainbow turned her head just slightly, and was directly facing a.. Black cat with no collar. A very familiar black cat with no collar. Rainbow nearly had a heart attack. She had not seen this cat come up the stairs, or even make any noise while sitting beside her. "GAH!" Rainbow shouted, jumping up from her strange human sitting position. "Calm down. We are not here to harm you." The black cat spoke gently. Rainbow acknowledged the use of 'we' instead of 'I'. "WE?" Rainbow looked down the stairway, to notice a literal gang of cats (who were not rhythmically snapping their fingers) on the steps. How did they get there!? "Okay, okay. What do you want?" Rainbow tried to calm down. Even though she thought she was in the presence of demon cats, or something. These cats were not well, if they could be that silent and invisible. "We've come to talk." The black cat beside Rainbow stated, with a nod of their head. It sounded like a girl. "Okay.. About what?" Rainbow questioned. "About the plane. About what you did to it." Rainbow gulped at this. What was wrong with what she did to the plane? She saved a bunch of people! "We want to tell you about that power. The ability you used." The black cat continued. Wait a second, they knew about the superpower's origin? Oh, awesome! She needed some explanation. It didn't matter who it came from. "We know about the Elements of Harmony, more than any person or cat. We are the second best to Celestia herself. You are the Element of Loyalty, and we can tell." How did they know? Rainbow would ask them about how they got their knowledge afterwards. "You see, the Elements of Harmony are not of our world. They are powerful weapons not meant to be used by humans. They can only be used by specifically chosen cats who appeal to the characteristic of an Element. You see, when you first used them, you allowed them to embed themselves into your collars. Those gemstones in your collar are basically the Element you represent." The cat continued. Okay, this brought up some major questions. Rainbow would wait, however. "So, you always have an Element of Harmony with you, no matter what. As long as no one removes your collar, you always have an Element. When you do something that is relevant to your Element, like doing a great act of Loyalty in your case, the Element reacts and-" "We've got purple cat, turning corner." A different black cat interrupted. As the female black cat's eyes widened. "I am sorry, but we will be cutting this exposition short." Then, with a blink, they were gone. Just vanished. How? Why? Who knows? "Rainbow! I need to see you! I think I might have some explanation to what's going on!" Twilight shouted from the entrance of the factory, as Rainbow scampered down to the purple feline. "Uh, Twilight.. I think I might have gotten an answer too." Rainbow stated as she approached Twilight. Twilight raised a cat eyebrow at this. "Really? What did you find out?" Twilight asked. "Okay, you might want to sit down for this.." Twilight sat down for this. ... After a decently long explanation of what Rainbow had interpreted from the black cat's exposition, Rainbow just started to finish her explanation. "and then you yelled at me to come down here, and here we are now." Rainbow finished. Twilight put her own paw on her chin. "That certainly is interesting, but I represent the Element of Magic. Something people say doesn't exist for cats. How would that theory work? Ugh. Dash, I'll be at my house. If you see a black cat twice, the curse is lifted. So, you should be safe. I have some theorizing to do. I'll see you later." Twilight bid farewell before exiting the factory. "You are in grave danger, Rainbow Dash. Carry on with your daily life with caution." Rainbow heard a whisper in her ear. She looked both ways, even behind her. Nothing. "Great. Just what I needed. More things to worry about. I mean with Pinkie gone, there's enough to worry about.."