Death Comes to Those Who Wait

"Nope." Case stated bluntly.

"Ha! I told you! Told... You?" Twilight stopped her gloating and smiled sheepishly. "Sorry."

"That's fine, I know you just want to protect your brother." Case sympathetically stated.

"Well I know my brother didn't do it! I was with him at the time, as well as Apple Bloom and Granny Smith! Ask em!" Applejack yelled in frustration.

"Well, I saw him on my way to the market at the time, does that help?" Rarity asked.

"That just leaves Flim, Trixie, Fancy Pants, and Prince Blueblood."

"It's getting late, is it not?" Rarity asked again.

"Yes, it is about eight at night." Case said bluntly.

The mares went to their given rooms and beds and fell into uneasy sleeping sessions.

Twilight awoke to the sound of tapping on the window. Twilight got up from her bed and went over to the glass pane. Outside stood a stallion in a brown cape. She suddenly heard the clock clack it's hands, and in a flash, the stallion was in her face. Twilight then shot up from her bed, sweaty and frightened, unable to move. She sighed and closed her eyes and finally fell into a slightly comfortable slumber.

Rarity heard Twilight gasp as she slept, but decided not to interfere when she heard her sigh in relief. She fell back into her very uneasy slumber and awoke to the shove of a hoof. She opened her eyes and looked around. She was in a metal box, with a few carrots and a bowl of water sitting on the floor. She felt pain all over her back, and for some reason she had wings instead of a horn. She tried to move, but wasn't able to make any motion whatsoever. A stallion peeked through the slat of a window on the door, then laughed evilly and slammed it shut, waking the poor unicorn from her too real night mare. She awoke and found her horn glowing a pale baby blue in the dark, but dismissed it as nerves.

Over back where Fluttershy lay, crying gently, she felt a familiar aura surround her body, then was taken to an unfamiliar home. She lay n a nice warm bed with a horn instead of wings. Her horn glowed a pinkish color in the dark, and was unable to move. She just lay, enjoying the warmth of the bed, but was suddenly pulled back to where she really was. She looked up at the stallion who stood over her with a hammer. He swung it heavily and hit her wings, breaking them further. The poor Pegasus cried out in pain.

Startled, the five mares in the same room awoke from their sleep. All of their eyes glowed with white light, and started walking. The sound of multiple hooves was heard by Case who came out of her room. She thought that maybe they'd take her to Fluttershy, so she quickly packed a bag with certain necessities and followed them out of the house. Twilight's horn glowed not the usual pink and fuscha tone, but a rainbow color. A rainbow stream similar to the one that punished Discord and Nightmare Moon, spun around them, and when Case got the opportunity to open her eyes, what she a saw astonished her.

Rainbow Dash gained a cyan horn, and Twilight Sparkle gained wings. Applejack and Pinkie Pie were rewarded with both wings and a horn of their coat colors, and Rarity was blessed with white wings. The glowing stopped and the rainbow went off in a circular pattern, mimicking a Sonic Rainboom. The five descended from their height and their eyes regained their normal colors.

"What happened?" Rainbow asked, rubbing her head. "I have a-a horn!"

"Why, I have wings!" Rarity exclaimed and batted the feathers.

"This is just weird." Applejack said rubbing the horn and wings.

"Alicorn party!" Pinkie yelled, and started flying poorly.

"The Elements transformed you into Temporary Alicorns." Case stated, still gaping at the change.

"I heard Fluttershy scream, and I just didn't like it... Is that what caused this?" Twilight asked Case.

"I'm fairly certain that's what happened. Try to get reconnected with the Elements and try to do that agin. Maybe we can find Fluttershy like that."

"I had a strange dream and I was a Pegasus. I was in a metal room with two carrots and a bowl of dirty water. A stallion glared through a hole in the door, then I was brought back."

"Rarity, I'm going to cast a spell on you, and you should remember key things about it, okay?" Case asked as she charged a spell.

Rarity nodded in response and suddenly many memories from the short time in the room popped out at her. "Something with a P. Pex. Pexus! There's a license plate... It says... Hoof. Hoofstin, I think. It's really dark. The room is small. I can't find anything else."

"Good, let's get a carriage to take us there."

"No," Twilight stated. "If we all use our horns and fire up a spell to take us to Hoofstin, it might just bring us there."

After about an hour of teaching the new members of the unicorn family how to use their power, they got in a circle and started firing up a spell. Instead of their normal fuscha and blue and pink, their horns glowed as rainbows and in a tornado of rainbow, the six teleported.