I had seen Flutter fly towards her home. I imagined she had reached it safely. Not that she ever was the best, or the fastest of fliers, even in Ponyville, even if I was excluded from the race?

She had flown slow, but from her perspective, I guess I would go as far as to say it was very fast. Even if her bat self is very different, from who she had been?

Then I hear something and look up. There was thunder, even if it may be just the one cloud, and it was hanging just at the rim of the forest of Everfree. Then it had erupted, the flash lighting up the sky, as the sound rumbled, like no weather I ever seen, or heard of. It is the Everfree, granted, but still.

Curious, I fly in for a closer look, sure in my abilites, knowing I'm the pony who is safest to inspect, what eve it is going on down there. Somepony had to have the look, in order to say what was going on, what's up, with the cloud at the border of Ever free.

After a mere minute of consideration I take off, taking to my wings aand go up high into the sky, before I dove towards the rim of the forest, where the cloud is, merely giving of teasing lightning to keep something at bay.

Flying at best speed, I realised too late, just how fast I was flying, the care and determination from my element of loyalty clouding my perception. Finally breaking off, just mere feet from the ground,a nd the few yards from the tree line, just in time to make it safely into the air above the trees. Had I not veered off, I would have been inside of one of these scare crow trees. Waiting for Twilight to break me free.

What it was I saw, just before I broke off, is a pack of timber wolves. They were heading for the Sweet Apple Acres, and the apple family. I just couldn't allow them to get out of the forest, now could I.

What I had forgotten to take into consideration, is the effect of a Rainboom at ground level, just at the rim of a forest. The Everfree, nontheless. Maybe I had never thought of it in this manner, but the boom hit the forest with full force, leaving line after line of trees ripped right out of the ground, and then several lines broken. The wolves apparently nothing more then splinters of coffee woods now. It is a horrific site to behold, but no ponies were hurt, even the orchard and the house was left intact, as if my the grace of Celestia herself.

Before I had managed to stop, turn back to the sight, I had gone far up into the clouds over the forest, such as it is at the time. Slowly circling down towards, what had been the scene, no tree left standing, and no beasts prowling. There is silence and stillness, like none I ever saw.

Naturally, no pony would be left untouched, or unmoved by the action in the early morning. Any and all pony would wake up, then be up and about. First of all onto the scene would be Apple Jack Big Mackintosh, then Apple Bloom and old Granny Smith. There is no chance of them missing it, not even the elderly Granny Smith. Not even a deth pony could miss it, not this close.

Once I finally managed to set my still slightly inflated hooves on the ground, Apple Jack and Big Macintosh already was out of the house, trying to discern, just what in Tartarus was going on.

Now it was up to me to explain, just what is up. They deserve to know, not just because they happened to be next door to the event, but because they are my friends. I can't leave loyalty in the cloud where I had been met up by Flutter Shy in her new bat form. It isn't me, how ever much one may desire it, from time to time, considering the price loyalty can exact, in a moment of choices. Even if I knew full well, I was still making the better choice. Not just because doing otherwise had been to give up a part of myself.

Apple Jack, you can't believe how happy I am to see you, despite what I would prefer I did not have to explain to you!” I exclaimed as she came at full gallop towards me.

“I guess I'm glad you're here. Rather then what ever could have been looming from this direction of the forest!” she responded.

Author's Note

I think it is time to go into details, exploring and explaining more of what the situation. It isn't just Flutter Shy and Rainbow Dash experience sudden and unexpected changes from the transformation.