Gone Missing

     Twilight woke up the next day, feeling rejuvenated. She went straight to bed after her flying lessons with Rainbow. She rubbed her eyes and got up. Something felt wrong but she shook the feeling off. She walked into the bathroom to start her morning routine. She glanced at the mirror as she walked past and froze. Her wings were gone. Blinking a few times, she called out "Spike. Can you come here please?" She took some deep breaths.

     "Yeah Twilight. What's goi-" He looked at her and stared. "Where are your wings?"

     "I don't know." Her voice was slightly panicky.

     "I'll go see if we have any books explaining it." With that said, he ran out of the bathroom. Twilight brushed through her mane then went downstairs to help. After a while, she heard a knock on the door.

     "It's open." She turned around and saw Applejack walk in.

     "Hey Twi." Applejack looked at the shelves.

     "Hello Applejack. Do you need something?"

     "I was just wonderin' if ya have seen RD at all today. Pinkie told me to ask ya."

     "Ah'm sorry to say Ah haven't." Applejack finally looked at her. Confusion flashed across her face.

     "Um..... Twilight. Your wings are missing." Applejack obviously felt awkward pointing that out.

     "I've noticed." Just then, the library door flew open, revealing Pinkie Pie, who was gasping for breath.

     She stood there for a few seconds before yelling, "Flutter shy and Rainbow are gone!!"

     "What?!"

     "You heard me! They're both missing!!"

     "Calm down Pinkie. How do ya know this?" Applejack took a step towards the pink party pony.

     "Nopony in town has seen either of them and when I went to Rainbow's, the entire house was falling apart and- Wait. What happened to your wings Twilight?"

     "They're gone and what about Rainbow's house?"

     "All the clouds are separating!"

     "That's not good." Twilight was somewhat scared now. Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and her wings were gone.

     "Ya comin Twi?" She looked up to see Applejack standing in the doorway and Pinkie was already gone.

    "Yes." She headed over towards Applejack. "I'm just wondering where they could have gone."

     "Listen Twi. Somethin bad is happenin. Ya should be able to tell. But do ya have any idea what is exactly is going on?"

     "I don't know. I just woke up."

   "Ya just woke up? Twilight, it's the middle of the afternoon."

     "Middle of the afternoon? I slept until the middle of the afternoon?" She was shocked. She had never slept in that long before in her life.

     "Apparently. Twi, what were ya doing last night?" Applejack asked.

     "I finished a flying session with Rainbow Dash and came back to the library. Then I fell asleep." Applejack looked at her carefully, as if she was trying to figure something out.

     "What time did ya fall asleep?"

     "The final rays of the sunset. Why?" She wasn't seeing any connection.

     "Come on!" PINKIE was barely in sight when they looked towards where the party pony was. "Dashie's house could disappear at any moment!!"

     "We're comin, Pinkie." Applejack started walking a little faster and Twilight wasn't far behind. They reached Pinkie very shortly but she was stomping the ground impatiently. Twilight glanced at Applejack, who seemed to be concentrating on something. She shrugged it off and they continued on their way. They soon reached Rainbow's cloud house. Or at least what was left of it.

     "That's weird. It hasn't moved since I left." Twilight looked up after Pinkie spoke. She gasped as she saw the wreckage. The clouds looked like had been throw to the side. But as she looked closer she saw a very thin line running across the middle of the entire thing.

     "What is that line?"

     "What line?"

     "That line." She was pointing at it now.

     "Twi, there ain't no line there." Twilight sighed as Applejack said that. If they couldn't see it now there was no use pointing it out. Applejack placed a hoof on her shoulder and smiled calmly. "It's okay."

     "Hey! Tank's looking at me! Hi Tank!!" Pinkie waved upwards towards the clouds. Twilight's head shot upwards to see a small green head poking over the edge of the clouds. Twilight immediately started to charge her magic, horn lighting up purple. She teleported, suddenly throwing Applejack off balance. Twilight opened her eyes and saw Tank. She looked around, immediately noticing Rainbow's possessions that had been tossed around, as well as a chunk of rainbow mane.

     "Twilight, what do us see up there?"

     "Part of Rainbow's mane."

     "You mean Dashie got hurt?!"

     "I don't know Pinkie."

     "Dashie must of got hurt! Some of her mane is gone! Who would do something like this?! Who would want to do this?! Who could be such a meanie?! They could have got Fluttershy too! Why would somepony do this?! Why? Why?! WHY?!?!?!?!?!" Twilight had to hold her hooves to her ears as Pinkie shouted for the ground into the sky.

     Twilight rolled her eyes when Pinkie stopped shouting. She looked around once again. Then she noticed she was slowly sinking into the thin cloud. She couldn't walk either. She was stuck. She quickly looked towards Tank. He wasn't sinking. Quite on the contrary. He was looking at her confused. The next thing she noticed was that she was falling towards the ground.