//------------------------------// // 13- Dissapeared // Story: Applegate // by Flutters Is Shy //------------------------------// She had been having a lovely conversation with Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash was trying to convince her to come to the next Dragon migration, but she had firmly stated that she REALLY didn't want to. Regardless, Rainbow Dash kept pushing, till finally she had caved, just as long as Rainbow Dash accompanied her to the bunny, butterfly, AND badger migration. It was then that Discord popped into her living room, touting what she could only assume was Wade in his...'Flutterbat' form. Fluttershy wasn't really sure what to think about this breach of privacy, if she had known what he had been intending to do she would most likely have refused his request. To have somepony wandering around with her face...Oooh, it was just so creepy. As is, the deed was done. She'd have to ask politely when he wasn't busy if he wouldn't...wear her. If that was okay with him, that is. Discord then grabbed Wade, and...started tickling him. Wade let out great big whoops of laughter and protest, till finally he had succumbed to Discords demands and let out 'I'm a pretty pony'. At this, Discord had dropped Wade and disappeared, leaving Fluttershy to deal with the broken pieces of normalcy. Rainbow Dash hurriedly claimed that she needed a shower(odd, she hadn't smelled bad, and even the slight musk she had was actually quite pleasant) and zoomed out an open window. So there Wade lay in the middle of her living room, looking up at her with an embarrassed blush. "Are you okay?" She asked, letting her concern tinge her voice. To which he responded something about beams and 'scotties'( maybe scottish terriers? They sure are cute...) "Agh, no! I take it back!" He yelled in a panicked voice, as he started to sink into the floor. Fluttershy tried her best to reach him and help him, but by the time she had gotten where he was he was gone. "No no no no no no NO!" she cried, as she frantically dug at the floorboards, even managing to pry one up before the obvious stared her in the face. "EEP!" She uttered, opening her wings and hovering. "Angel Bunny, what are you doing, the floor ate Wade!" grabbing her minute friend, she tried to think of what to do. "Twilight! Twilight does magic, she'll help Wade!" It took her about 3 minutes to get to the Friendship Castle, but by that time the damage had been done. Tears streaming from her face, and an annoyed rabbit in her forelegs, she flew into the window nearest her(Twilight had taken to leaving them open, much easier than having to replace them when Rainbow Dash eventually broke them...) she landed in a distraught ball of pink and yellow fluff in front of her friend. "Fluttershy? Whats wrong?" "Wade...he...he!" "Great, what did he do?" "The floor ate Wade!" Burst from her lips, eliciting another round of tears, and another annoyed look from the bunny tucked tight against her chest. "The..." Twilight let out a tired sigh, "the floor 'ate' him?" Fluttershy gave a rapid up and down nod, so fast she probably got over 20 in under a second. "...are you sure?" "He sunk into my floor, and then I tried to help him, but there wasn't anything below the floorboards, and, and, and...!" She trailed off, not knowing where to lead on this development. "Wait, so he actual SANK into your floor. Its not like the floor ate him?" A nod. "Listen, I'm just reading a book, how about we go back over to your place, you can show me what happened, maybe I can see if I can find anything?" Another nod. Twilight sighed, and gathered up a saddlebag with a few books on a relative topic. (Matter and You, Why We Need It. Theoretical Antimatter for Dummys.) With a comforting smile to her high strung friend, they left for Fluttershys house. ~-----------------------------------------~ "I can't see anything wrong." Twilight had scanned the area for magic, and besides the ambient pegasi magic that Fluttershy had been giving off, she couldn't sense anything out of the ordinary. Besides the middle of the floor that had been torn up, but apparently that was Fluttershy's doing. She had found Rainbow Dash lounging on a cloud between Fluttershy's house and the...(sigh) Friendship Castle, so she had asked her to fly around and keep an eye out for their wayward human. (apparently she had been at Fluttershy's when Wade had come by. Discord apparently chastised him for impersonating Fluttershy...) Fluttershy whimpered(she had also refused to walk on the floor, instead hovering a couple feet above the ground.),"Are you sure, can you please check again? I mean...please?" Twilight sighed, the act would be one of futility, but she would do anything to ease her friends state of mind. Wait... "Wasn't Discord here?" She asked, if he was, then that could mean... "Oh, yes. He popped in with Wade right before he disappeared..." "Well that's odd...I should see some Chaos magic in the surrounding area, but there's nothing...Almost as if...something sucked it out?" Twilight mused, sending a spark of magic into the air. Nothing happened, predictably. She'd have to try something a bit more...unstable. Twilight was an exceptionally good student, magic WAS her element, after all. That being said, it had taken her over a year of training with Pinkie Pie and Discord to even START understanding the basics of chaos magic. To even begin using it was even harder. The magic she had grown up learning was all about structure, being precise, in a word, order. Chaos magic however, well it was as its name suggested. Chaotic. You couldn't force it out, it was impossible to hold onto, and it almost never did WHAT you wanted it to. The best results she had gotten were when she had a basic idea of what she intended to do, and just bled a random amount of magic into it, and hope something favorable happened. So she let out a gout of chaos magic, formless, into the surrounding air. Almost immediately, the mass of energy got...sucked out of the room. Through the floor. "What the..." letting out another burst, she watched dumbfounded as it all disappeared, again. Following the escaping energy, she came across a truly monumentous discovery. All the energy...it was entering a void. A void that negated all of her attempts to probe it. How frustrating. Was this the kind of door Wade had come through? No wonder she hadn't been able to find anything at the farm, she'd been scanning for energy based off of Starswirls mirror in the Crystal Empire. If she could just figure out how this worked.... Both she and Fluttershy let out a squawk of surprise, as Wade came tumbling out of a hole in the air.