Rainbow's P.O.V
I looked at Twilight, waiting for her to answer my question, let's just say that she didn't look impressed. Twilight gave me challenging glare.
"Well, for one don't call me boss, ok? As for the answer to your question, I called you out here to discuss a recent issue" Twilight said, reaching under the table to grab something.
She pulled out an old piece of folded up the paper. It even had some of the corners torn off.
"This," Twilight announced, waving the piece of paper in the air, "is a map of the whole of Equestria!"
She held the map in the air in the same way my teacher would have done back when I was a child.
"How exciting!" Pinkie gasped, bouncing from her seat and snatching the map from Twilight's grasp.
I jumped back slightly. I didn't even know Pinkie was there. Speaking, of which she had been surprisingly quiet.
"What do we need the map of Equestria for sugar cube?" Applejack questioned, a baffled expression on her face.
"I would show/tell you if Pinkie gave MY map back," Twilight replied. Never the less Pinkie just kept studying the map in her hands,, as if she hadn't heard what Twilight had just said.
"I'm going to unfold it!" Pinkie declared as she started an attempt to unfold it.
I snickered at her remark. It was good to know that Pinkie was still the same laughable, random person
"Here, let me do it for you Pinkie." Fluttershy kindly said as she walked over to Pinkie. Removing, the map from Pinkie's grasp as gently as possible, she unfolded it and spread it on the table in front of her.
A little taken back, I looked at Fluttershy. She had always been the quiet type, so I wasn't surprised that I hadn't noticed her presence. There was something else though. Something, else that was bugging me. She seemed ... different. I studied her from head to toe. I noticed there were a few appearance differences. Her usually long, pink dainty hair was now a lot shorter and more jagged. The best way I could describe it was that it looked like the hair the guys in the teen boy bands had.
Her sculpture wasn't as dainty as her hair had once been - it was more muscular. The most noticeable thing however was a scar that ran down the side of her neck. The crimson red shade of scar stuck out like a sore thumb against Fluttershy's pale skin.
I wasn't that which was bugging me though. It was something else, but I just couldn't think what. Shifting in discomfort, I turned my attention to the map.
"Wow!" I said in awe as I stared at the map.
I could almost sense my eyes lighting up. Just looking at the mass of land that was Equestria made me pumped. It had been so long since I gone anywhere outside the walls of Ponyville. Hey, maybe that was why Twilight had invited us over. Yes! That had to be it! Why else would Twilight call over the elements of Harmony? Maybe Discord was causing chaos? Maybe the changelings where back?!
The excitement was just too much. So much, that I couldn't help, but blurt out,
"I almost forgot that Equestria was this big. It's amazing what so many years in the factory..."
I cut my own sentence short after realising the last word that had escaped my lips.
"You never told us that you worked in a factory dear." Rarity said, finally taking an interest in the conversation now that there was a chance to get some juicy gossip.
I shrunk further back into my chair, trying to hide my face from Rarity. I was a terrible liar and Rarity was good at prying her nose where it didn't damn belong. If I at least hid my face, it would be harder for her to read me like a tabloid newspaper.
"Of course, she does!" Pinkie chipped in, "She works in a paint factory. Can't you see the fresh paint on her jacket?"
I looked down at my jacket, which I had taken off and placed on my lap. "Shit," I thought. The jacket still had splotches all over it.
I was in such a hurry, I had no time to clean it. I kept my face hidden.
"No Pinkie dear, I can't see her jacket because It's on her lap. Do you mind passing it over Rainbow? I would just love to take a look at it." Rarity asked.
From what I could tell she had gotten up from her seat and was making her way towards me. Her steps echoed through out the room as her heels clicked against the crystal floor.
Everyone had fallen silent, even Pinkie. As if they were too surprised or scared to say anything. Heat started to creep down my neck. The thought of the six people who I considered my friends staring at me made me feel strange. Around others I was usually fine, but them. What if I screwed up? What if they found out? They might not forgive me... or my sins.
The clicking had stopped and I felt the warmth of Rarity's hand brush against my cheek. She managed to spin my chair around so when I looked up I would be facing her. My face grew hotter as I felt her slid one of her long fingers down my chin and flick my head up. Grabbing, my jaw with her hand she narrowed her eyes at me. I tried to look back down, but she had practically dug her nails into my skin. Then grip on my jacket tightened.
Just as felt the felt Rarity's had brush past mine, I heard the sound of Twilight's impatience voice.
"I think you can wait till later Rarity!" Twilight stated, by the look of her, she had enough of all this. I gave a silent sigh of relief as Rarity's grasp on my jaw loosened.
Rarity looked at Twilight, then at me. Giving me a some what awkward smile, she trotted back to her seat. "Right, what were you going to say Twilight?" she chuckled, as if the scene she had made a few minutes ago hadn't happened.
"As I was going to say," Twilight said, pointing at our hometown on the map, "Recently, people in Ponyville have been going missing."
A few glances where shared between the people in the room. Turning, my chair back around, I returned to staring at the floor in an attempt to hide my face.
I knew where this was starting to go and I didn't like it. I didn't like it one bit.