The three mares walked north towards the pegasus city of Cloudsdale. The Everfree forest seemed to radiate a darkness that could be felt by all three of the mares could feel physically. They ignored it and continued to walk north still. After about an hour from leaving Fluttershy’s cottage they heard a rustling from the Everfree forest.

“Eep,” Fluttershy jumped backwards almost falling into Pinkie Pie. Pinkie and Twilight looked intently into the dark twisted forest.

“Come out, come out wherever you are nasty,” Pinkie cooed into the forest. Out of the forest jumped a twisted corpse made of both ponies and changelings. Its eyes were a stallion and a changeling. It’s hooves being one of each race and gender of pony and changeling. It pawed at the ground like a stallion and it holes in its body like a changeling. It reeked of death and decay.

“Ugrgh,” the creature grunted looking at all three of the mares in front of it. Pinkie quickly grabbed a pie from her bag and threw at the creature.

“Pinkie why are you giving it pie?!” Twilight yelled. An explosions was then heard from the direction of abomination.

“I’m not I’m blowing it up with pie,” Pinkie responded with a giggle. Twilight looked towards it to see all of its legs were blown off.

“I did not see that coming. We should probably walk away from the forest,”

“Yes, yes we should,” both Pinkie and Fluttershy responded. They moved over a little before continueing to Cloudsdale. They walked another two hours before reaching Cloudsdale.

“Ooh Cloudsdale. It’s been so long since I’ve been here,” Fluttershy whispered.

“I see travelers!” yelled a female voice from above.

“Get General Dash!” yelled a male voice voice. They then saw an armored pegasus fly down from Cloudsdale, landing right in front of them.

“Hello mares. I’m Captain Dust, my daughter went to go get General Dash for you, but if you don’t mind me asking what are three pretty mares like yourself doing this far from safety?”

“We’re just here gathering supplies,” Pinkie responded quickly.

“Well can I get anything for you?”

“Some food and water would be nice,” right at that moment another pegasus flew down this one with a rainbow pluum on her helmet.

“Well here comes General Dash. I’ll go get those supplies for you,” the new pegasus landed right as the new one landed. This one’s armor looked different and it two short swords strapped to the sides of the armor. It seemed to be colored all of the colors of the rainbow.

“Hello travellers. I am General Rainbow Dash of the Cloudsdale guard. How may I help you?”

“Well Rainbow we just came here to get supplies but it is nice to see an old friend,” Fluttershy responded.

“Oh, hello Fluttershy, long time no see. What are you doing back in Cloudsdale?” Rainbow then took off their helmet to reveal a mare with a long rainbow mane styled much more wildly than Twilight’s but of a similar style.

“Supplies and I’m on a quest with my friend Pinkie who is escorting Miss Twilight here on something important for the cosmic princesses. So you are now high up in the pegasi military I see,”

“Not really I’m just general of the ponies who look over the side of Cloudsdale to watch for changeling swarms and abominations. But I do my job well and I’ll be loyal to the job until the very end,”

“That’s too bad. We would love to have your combat prowess join us in our quest,” Twilight said.

“Well I would make your quest go even faster and I have a lot of sick days I can cash in so... Hmmmmm I don’t know. My loyalty is with my job but my job is meant to keep the ponies safe and your three are the ponies...Hmmm sure why not,” at that moment General Dust flew down with food and water in saddle bags with a cloud and a rainbow lightning bolt on them.

“Sorry General but I couldn’t find anything else to hold it in,”

“It’s fine Dust. I’m going with them anyway. Until I come back you’re in charge. Got it,”

“YES MA’AM!” he saluted before flying back up to Cloudsdale.

“Well girls, let’s go,” Rainbow said as she put her helmet back on.

“Next stop. Manematten,” Pinkie said as they walked eastward.

Author's Note

Sorry for the wait, and it being a short chapter. Hopefully I'll start having more to write about eventually.