Waiting for the Elements

Twilight was writing a letter on her desk with Spike awaiting her call.

Dear Princess Celestia

A few things have happened here which is the reason why I couldn't write you a letter earlier. One of the things to happen is that I have made a new human friend, a being from another world from a spell I used. He wasn't the only one however as we now have up to four humans in Ponyville! It's very exciting with them around, and I hope you meet them soon! They're really nice to have as a friend.

From your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle

Levitating the letter over to Spike, he blew a green flame onto the scroll and the dust of the flame was sent outside towards Canterlot.

"Well, that felt refreshing to send another letter after all this time." Twilight stated.

"Hey, you wanna hang out with the others?" Spike asked.

"Yeah, sure! They might be doing something exciting again." Twilight said enthusiastically as they left downstairs.

Meanwhile, Balkin and Rainbow were having an arm to hoof wrestle during a visit to Rarity's boutique. Eris, who was living with Rarity, was looking at all of the clothing around her.

"Do you like it?" Rarity asked coming up from behind.

"Oh! Rarity! Yes, they all look amazing, but I do wonder…" Eris started.

"What is it?"

"Why doesn't anyone here wear clothes that much?" Eris questioned.

"Well, it's not required since we all have a nice coat. I was actually wondering why you wear clothes all the time." Rarity responded.

Eris blushed and simply said, "Well, let's just say we don't have a coat like you ponies."

Rarity slowly nodded understanding what she meant. "I…see…"

Balkin was winning in the arm to hoof wrestling until Rainbow slipped her wing under Balkins sides, making him laugh and lose focus. Rainbow took the chance and pushes his arm down, winning the contest. she started to fly lightly in the air and boasted.

"Oh yeah! In your face!" Rainbow told pompously to Balkin.

"You cheated!" Balkin complained.

"Excuse me!? How in the world did I cheat?" Rainbow questioned.

"You used your wings to tickle me just now!"

"It's not my fault that my wings happened to be where it was."

"Well then, I guess this isn't my fault either!" Balkin pounced on Rainbow and started to tickle her, causing her to flail around laughing.

"Heheh, H-Hey! S-Stop that- Hahaha!" Rainbow stuttered as she laughed.

"Sorry! My hands just happened to be here!" Balkin replied.

Eris walked up to the two and giggled.

"What's so funny?" Balkin asked as he finally stopped tickling Rainbow, giving her time to breath.

"You two just look so cute together." Eris said with another small laugh.

"W-What are you talking about!?" Balkin and Rainbow replied with a red face.

"I'm sorry, it's just that you two look so happy, and…well, I guess it's just me." Eris stated.

"Y-Yeah, it's just you." Rainbow replied.

"Totally." Balkin added.

"So, what would you like to do today?" Eris asked the two. "Surely, we can do something fun."

Balkin nodded as he said, "Yeah, we can find a little game we can all play."

"Why don't we all go to Cloudsdale?" Rainbow suggested.

"Cloudsdale?" Eris and Balkin repeated.

Rarity pondered in the conversation explaining, "It's Rainbow's hometown, the name was given because it’s a town in the clouds up in the sky."

Balkin gave a worried expression. "Wait, how can we even stand on them? They're clouds."

"Twilight can help you with that. She has a spell that can let you all stand on them." Rainbow informed the two.

"Why don't we all invite the others?" Eris suggested.

"Then lets gather them up!" Rainbow declared to the others.

With the four in agreement, they head on out to meet up with the others with their plans. Splitting up, Rainbow and Balkin went alone and Eris went with Rarity since she was new to town still.

Rarity and Eris went to Sugarcube Corner and met up with Pinkie and Lucy.

"Hey Rarity! Hey Eris!" Pinkie said in that order.

"What's up?" Lucy asked.

"We were planning to go to Cloudsdale, wanna come?" Eris asked them.

"That sounds like fun!" Pinkie said.

"What kind of place is that?" Lucy asked.

"A town on clouds in the sky dearie." Rarity explained to Lucy. "Now, once we get Twilight to help us with a spell to get on clouds, we'll be able to pay a visit to Cloudsdale."

"A town in the sky!? Oh my, that sounds magnificent!" Lucy said gleefully as her eyes sparkled at the thought.

"What are we waiting for!? Let's go meet up with the others!" Pinkie commanded in excitement.

Over by Sweet Apple Acres; Aleu, Twilight, Spike, and Applejack were at the orchard while Aleu trained Applejack with her new skills. She demonstrates the new high jump technique she made with the recoil effect.

"Alright, ready?" Applejack asked the others for their undivided attention.

"Ready!" The other three said in unison.

Applejack bucked the ground, and soon she flew up all the way to the sky reaching even a cloud and Rainbow Dash who happened to arrive.

"Howdy Rainbow!" Applejack said before she used pulled both her hind legs back and thrusts them toward the ground.

"What the!?" Was all Rainbow could say.

Applejacks double hind kick made her dive down at the speed of Rainbow Dash, and then landed with a loud impact.

"Quaking Buck!"

The energy of the technique was used to make a small quake around the farm, soft enough not to cause collateral damage, but enough to send all the apples down like Aleu's Quaking Kick. The attack also managed not to leave a crater. Twilight, Spike, and Aleu applauded for her new skill.

"Amazing! You're as strong as Aleu now!" Twilight commended Applejack.

"Nice one Applejack!" Spike added.

"You certainly got the hang of it!" Aleu grinned with the pleasing results.

"Aw shucks, thanks Aleu. It means a lot coming from you ya know." Applejack replied to her tutor.

Rainbow flew down to the four with a confused expression.

"AJ! How in Equestria did you do that!?" Rainbow questioned her.

"Awesome, huh?" Aleu responded for Applejack. "Taught her a couple of tricks, and she made her own too! She even bounced off the ground even higher than me, and got down way faster too!" Aleu boasted Applejacks skills.

"Well, I wouldn't say I'm better than anypony." Applejack blushed at the compliment.

Rainbow's expression was somewhat annoyed. She then puts her forelegs on Aleu and demanded, "Okay! Aleu! You have to show me those moves!"

"What?!" Applejack reacted to the demand off guard.

"Well, sure, but when? We're done with practice today…not to mention apple bucking." Aleu smirked at the great accomplishment of using a single kick to buck all the trees.

"Tomorrow! At noon!" Rainbow replied quickly.

"Alright then! We'll do it here with AJ." Aleu responded.

"Okay…Oh yeah! I almost forgot! Me and the others were planning to go to Cloudsdale today." Rainbow remembered. "Do you all wanna come?"

"Cloudsdale? What's that place?" Aleu questioned.

"It's a town on clouds." Twilight informed him. "We'll need my spell for the non pegasus to go on the clouds."

"Why don't the pegasus need the spell?" Aleu wondered.

"We can naturally touch them like a solid object." Rainbow informed Aleu.

"Why? Is it that your coats are different from the others in which it allows you to feel them?" Aleu wondered.

The others exchanged looks at such an intelligent question.

"I…never really thought of it like that." Twilight admitted.

"That would certainly explain a lot." Applejack said as she poked Rainbow's coat.

"Hey! Knock it off!" Rainbow scolded as she swatted away Applejacks hoof.

"Geez, you're like Twilight dude." Spike stated.

"Eh heh, right. So anyways, we should meet up with the others so we can get going!" Aleu suggested.

"We're already here!" Balkins voice said to Aleu's group.

They all gathered and met up at Sweet Apple Acres. All of them, Pinkie, Rarity, Fluttershy, Lucy, Balkin, and Eris.

"Balkin told me what you're all going to do today, and I'm…pretty excited…" Fluttershy spoke softly.

"Alright! Everypony line up to get your cloud spell!" Twilight told the group. Nodding in agreement, they made a waiting line. Spike was first and the glittering aura went around him. After finishing, Twilight leaned over to him and said, "Okay, go get the balloon ready, I think it's all in the closet."

"You got it!" Spike assured Twilight that he understood.

After he left to get the balloon, Twilight went on with the others to give them the spell.

Over by Spike, he entered the library and got out the balloon and the large basket. He pulled all of it out slowly since it was pretty heavy. As Spike went outside with the equipment, he bumped into someone behind him. Spike turned around to apologize.

"Sorry about that! Didn't see you-"

Spike looked up to see Mark. Spike was about to scream, but his mouth was covered by Mark's hand. Mark then pushed Spike to a wall and threatened him.

"I'm not going to kill you as long as you don't scream. I'm not even going to capture you, got that?" Mark said in a dark matter.

Spike nodded with fear in his eyes. Mark grinned as he said, "Good. Now listen carefully. I was planning to just sabotage the balloon ride you were going to have, but then that's be a waste on a capable fighter like Aleu."

Spike's eyes widened hearing of that name. Mark leaned in closer as he said the next words more clearly. "Now, all you have to do is lead Aleu to the Wonderbolts coliseum after it finishes its closed. I don't care how you do it, as long as he's alone so I can capture him, got it?"

The dragon only glared at Mark. Mark's grin disappeared and then threatened. "Okay then, I'll just kill that unicorn you live with. Are you alright with that?"

Spike's eyes widened again and nodded 'no' rapidly.

"Then you bring just the boy and you'll be fine. Don't warn the others, don't get in our way, and everything will be peachy." Mark explained. "Oh, and if you wondering if you could tell them by whispering or whatever, I'll have you know I'm gonna be nearby you at all times, whether you think so or not."

Mark then pulled out a bottle with black goop. He splashed on the ground and jumped into it like it was a hole in the ground, then disappearing into the black goop along with it.

Spike sighed as he said, "I don't want to go to Cloudsdale anymore…"

"Oh, but you have to!" Mark's voice was heard from the basket. Spike took a look inside it to see no one there.

"How are you doing that!?" Spike questioned.

"I doubt your puny mind could comprehend dark matter's abilities! Now remember our deal." Mark's voice said to Spike as he now became quiet.

Spike sighed as he readied the balloon. He was kept at a tight spot on choosing to betray Aleu or lose Twilight. Either one would be awful, but what could he do now? For now, he chose to think as he readied the trip. On time, the others came with their Cloudsdale preparations done. Twilight seemed to be tired.

"Twilight? Are you alright?" Spike asked.

"I just used the spell one too many, that's all." Twilight replied.

"Sorry Twilight, I didn't want you to lose all your energy on all of us." Eris apologized

"M-Maybe you should stay here! Get some rest before you tire yourself out too much." Spike suggested hoping to save Twilight on this one easily.

"No way! If I leave her out of this friend bonding experience, I would never forgive myself!" Aleu stated. "We all need this time to get closer as a group. Perfect for Eris since we're all teaching her how to be a friend, right?"

All of them nodded. Eris walked over to Twilight telling her, "I really don't want you to get hurt, but I think…if you don't come with us, you'll feel even worse."

"She's right on that." Balkin then said. "You'll just regret it, so you have to come with us. I'll even carry you around."

Twilight looked at her human friends compassion. She smiled grateful for their advice.

"Thank you…I think I will go with all of you…" She said somewhat weakly.

Her friends cheered and got her in the basket safely. Spike moaned as he was that close to getting Twilight to safety.

On the balloon heading to Cloudsdale, the group were having a colorful time together.

"Balkin! Scoot over! I can barely move!" Aleu complained.

"Well, don't move him over here!" Applejack scolded as she nudged Balkin somewhere else.

Balkin moved over to Fluttershy, accidentally bumping her head, making her say, "Oh! Ouch…"

"That's it! I'm jumping off!" Balkin declared.

"What!? But we're so high up!" Lucy warned her brother.

Twilight and Eris giggled as the group tried to handle their space problem.

"How about I just meet you there?" Rainbow Dash suggested.

"And how are you going to do that?" Aleu asked, receiving Rainbow's wings flapping as an answer. "Oh…right."

Rainbow jumped off and flew ahead. There was now enough room to move around a bit.

"Alright, now I can finally relax a bit." Balkin sighed.

Twilight looked over at Spike noticing he still had a worried look on his face.

"Spike, is there something wrong?" Twilight wondered.

"Hmm? I'm sorry, I was just thinking about you and…" Spike stopped in the middle of his sentence.

"Aw, what a great assistant. You're lucky Twi, having someone like Spike to watch over you too." Aleu commended.

"Yes, he's certainly a great baby dragon, isn't he?" Rarity added.

Spike couldn't feel any guiltier as Aleu had just complimented him. His expression didn't change and soon they reached Cloudsdale. Upon reaching it, Rainbow waved at them to get in closer. Harboring the  balloon on the edge of the clouds, Applejack tied the rope to a pole to prevent the balloon from leaving. They enter the town which was BIG. The kind of big that would match up to the city, as there were stores, restaurants, tall buildings, even some were on their own cloud. The humans were beyond belief as if this was the closest thing to a city in heaven. Of course you wouldn't call it heaven if you could just fall off and plummet to your doom.

"Okay, this is beyond cool." Aleu stated.

"I can't believe it…" Balkin said slowly.

"It's…just…wow…" Eris could hardly speak.

Lucy and Pinkie hopped around as they asked, "Where should we go? Where should we go?"

Twilight giggled at the baffled humans as Rainbow flew in front of them and declared, "Alright, since you're all new here, I'll be your official tour guide of Cloudsdale!"

They all nodded in agreement to Rainbow's plan. She grinned, happy to know they were all following her. Spike was still worried. If he chooses to save Aleu, then Twilight would be targeted. If he chooses to save Twilight, then Aleu might get captured. It was a pretty difficult situation, and even if he chooses to let Aleu get captured, how would he do it without the others noticing?

"Spike? Spike!"

He turned to the direction of the voice with a simple, "huh?"

"I was worried. Are you okay?" Lucy asked somewhat worried.

"I'm fine. I was just thinking about something…" Spike replied.

"…You're not fine…"

Spike jumped thinking Lucy had figured him out. Lucy took a moment looking at Spike, then her smile returned.

"Oh! I figured it out!" Lucy stated.

"Y-You did!?" Spike panicked.

Lucy went in close and whispered, "You're in love with Rarity, aren't you?"

Spike fell to the ground. A little girl finds out that secret when he wasn't even thinking about it.

"Don't worry! Your secret is safe with me!" Lucy giggled as she skipped over to Pinkie.

Spike was hanging his head low until Aleu came by next to him.

"You okay bro?" Aleu asked with a grin.

"Y-Yeah, just having some trouble on the clouds." Spike lied.

"Well, better get used to it! We should all have some fun!" Aleu suggested. "Rainbow! Let's speed up the tour! Take us somewhere awesome!"

Rainbow grinned at the request. "Now you're speaking my language! Follow me!"

Rainbow flew to the clouds and ran making sure the others followed. They all ran, but Rarity, Fluttershy, and even Twilight fell behind a little. Then the three humans came up behind them and picked them up giving them a piggyback ride. Eris carried Rarity, Balkin carried Twilight, and Aleu carried Fluttershy. They raced over to the next destination as quickly as possible.

They were taken to the Rainbow factory where rainbows were being produced.

"Rainbow Factory?" Aleu pondered at the falls. He took a sip and had a shaky feeling. "This stuff is gross!"

the girls laughed as Rainbow flew over and said, "Look, it's just to bring rainbows around, not for drinking!"

"Oh I get it! You let this evaporate and then let it out of the sky to produce a rainbow!" Aleu deduced.

Once again, awestruck by the complex mind of Aleu. Twilight seemed to have enjoyed this.

When shopping, they saw all kinds of wares and products.

Aleu seemed very interested in the red cloud cooker. He toyed around with it as it was like a microwave. You can stuff your food in the red cloud, then press the button to make the cloud cooker heat up your food. Aleu enjoyed it most of all because it did not require electricity and was toxic free. Twilight who was with him enjoyed the talk about such technology differences with him.

Balkin, Pinkie, Rainbow, Applejack, and Lucy were at the arcade. They all played some games like bowling or basket toss. One of the most memorable was the two on two fighting arcade game. Lucy was cheering the four on while Balkin and Pinkie went against Rainbow and Applejack in this two on two videogame. Surprisingly, Balkin and Pinkie had won against the two. Rainbow and Applejack gracefully accepted defeat…well, Rainbow said it was Applejack's fault at one point.

Eris was with Rarity looking at the many fabrics, looking at the many lovely designs while outside Spike, Fluttershy, and Aleu were eating ice cream.

"Hey, Spike, can you give this one to Rarity?" Aleu requested dragon as he gave him the ice cream.

"Uh, yeah, sure." Spike replied.

He got up and went to Rarity. getting her attention, she looked to see her gift.

"Oh Spike! Did you get that for me?" Rarity questioned.

Before Spike could reply, Aleu came in interrupting his answer. "Oh! that's why you bought two cones!"

Spike was confused until Aleu gave him a wink. "Spike, what a nice dragon you are!"

'Does everypony know I have a crush on Rarity!?' Spike thought in his mind.

Rarity levitated the cone and took a taste. "My, that's very kind of you Spiky Wikey~!"

Rarity gave a kiss to Spike, making him blush redder then cherries. Aleu laughed as he went back outside. Spike was only feeling guiltier on letting Aleu go into the coliseum.

Speaking of the coliseum, Rainbow had conveniently lead them there. Spike started to panic.

"W-Why are we going here!?" Spike questioned.

Rainbow stopped and flew up to Spike saying, "What do you mean why!? We're here to see the Wonderbolts!"

"Wonderbolts?" Aleu repeated.

"Yeah! They're like the top fliers, in Equestria!" Rainbow praised them.

"That's funny…" Aleu thought aloud. "We have an air force in our world called the Thunderbirds."

"Really? There are humans that can fly?" Twilight wondered.

"No, no human can fly on their own, so we have a vehicle called a plane or a jet, which can be driven or maneuvered. Basically, it's like riding a gigantic speedy pegasus." Aleu explained.

The ponies were impressed to hear such technology.

"Wow Aleu! Your world sounds amazing!" Pinkie commented.

"Thanks! But enough of that! I wanna see what these top fliers are all about." Aleu stated.

They all went in and bought their tickets. Going deeper into the stadium, the roar of hundreds of ponies cheering for the pegasus flying leaving smoke and thunder for their trails. As the ponies scooted in for their seats, Aleu remained standing as he let the breeze of the stadium blow through his hair.

"Aleu?" Fluttershy called out. "Is there something wrong?"

Aleu awoke from his daze and blushed as he apologized, "Sorry! it's just…they kind of remind me of the Thunderbirds."

"You…actually know them!?" Balkin reacted surprised.

"Well, not really. I got a little face time, but nothing else." Aleu said as he stared at the Wonderbolts. "You're right Rainbow, they're simply superb."

"See? What I tell ya!?" Rainbow shouted to Aleu.

Indeed, they all loved it. The spectacular tricks cannot simply be imitated without teamwork as perfect as theirs. A while later, the show had finally ended and the crowd took its time getting out. Upon being outside, the day had almost ended. Spike knew what he had to do. Painfully, he walked over to Aleu.

"A-Aleu…!" Spike stuttered as his shoulders were raised up high and his face was scrunched and in frustration.

"Spike? What's wrong?" Aleu asked worried for his health.

"Do you…Can you come to the coliseum with me?" Spike asked.

"Oh sure!" Aleu happily said. "Listen, just between us, that Spitfire was totally off the hook! I wanna get her autograph before we leave, you think we can do little run back and forth?"

Spike couldn't believe how easy it was. Aleu was going to enter the coliseum either way. As Aleu held his claw and brought him close to the entrance, Spike would at times try to stumble or trip to slow them down.

"Dude, you okay? You're dizzier than Twilight." Aleu pointed out.

"N-Not really." Spike admitted.

"Oh shoot…How about I carry you?" Aleu suggested, doing so without hearing an 'okay' from Spike.

They entered the coliseum grounds and no one was there. Spike started to sweat as Aleu got closer to the center.

"Hello!? Hello!?" Aleu called out hoping to hear an answer.

"Maybe they're not here anymore, we should turn back!" Spike suggested.

"Hold on, I want to stay just a bit longer." Aleu replied.

Suddenly a black goop appeared behind Aleu. Mark stepped out of it and then pulled out a few nails and a hammer. Like a tennis racket, he used the hammer to hit the nails launching them to attack Aleu. Spike notices immediately and warns Aleu.

"Dude! Behind us!"

"Nail Shot!"

Aleu notices in time and jumps away with Spike dodging the nails making a dent to the non cloud structures. Aleu glares at his brainwashed friend.

"Mark…" Aleu growled.

"Ah, nice to see you Aleu." Mark replied. "Thank you Spike for leading him here."

Spike started to sweat as Aleu asked, "What do you mean Spike lead me here? He only came with me so I can get an autograph."

"You idiot! I told Spike to lead you here so I could capture you." Mark informed Aleu.

"Spike, is this true?" Aleu asked the shameful dragon.

"I…only wanted to save Twilight…" Spike replied.

After a moment, Aleu sighed in relief.

"Thank goodness! I though you hated me!" Aleu stated.

"What? Y-You're not angry at me?" Spike questioned.

Aleu grabbed and hugged Spike as he said, "Thank you Spike…for helping the others…"

Spike noticed he cried in joy as he sets him down and readies himself to fight Mark.

"Alright Mark! Bring it on!" Aleu called out.

"What, do you really think you can beat me? You said it yourself that you were the weakest of us three. What makes you so sure you can defeat me?" Mark questioned.

Aleu simply grinned as he said, "Cause I'm not a mindless puppet!"

Mark blew a fuse and rushed in at Aleu. Mark's attempt to bash missed, as Aleu managed to jump away in time, but then a hammer struck his back.

"Hammer-Rang!"

The hammer struck Aleu down and it went back to Mark. Spike was shocked to see a technique like that. Aleu got back up as he groaned, holding his back.

"D-Dang…Just like back then!!" Aleu recalled the fight with Mark back then.

Mark then pulled out a drill and puts a few bolts on it. He aims it at Aleu and out comes the bolts, heated due to the friction of the customization of the drill.

"Bolt Flare!"

The bolts were hot and singed at Aleu's arms. He screams in pain as it burns his skin. As Aleu fell to rest, Mark walked up to him. In the moment of terror, Spike's bravery puts himself between Aleu and Mark.

"Move…!" Mark commanded the dragon.

"N-No way!" Spike rebutted.

"Move or else!" He said again with a threat, pulling out three nails.

"No! I'm done taking orders from you! I…I…rather die with my friend than hand him over to you!" Spike declared.

Mark only looked down as he pulled out his hammer and tossed the nails up, about to hit them.

"Little fool…" He said lastly.

"You're the fool!" Eris's voice called out, as an arrow pierces through Mark's arm.

Mark fell down as he saw his right hammer arm bleeding.

"D-Dang it! Who did that!?" Mark called out.

"I did." Eris revealed herself upon the bleachers of the coliseum. Mark pulled out his drill and shot the heated bolts.

"Bolt Flare!"

The bolts were shot, but then stopped in midair. They were levitated by Twilight who stood by Balkin ready to back her up.

"You…you're all here, aren't you?" Mark deduced. "Was this a trap for me?"

"No, it wasn't!" Applejack called out to Mark. "But when you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us!"

Mark was surrounded. The ponies had him in the middle, making him at a disadvantage. Mark gritted his teeth as he glared at all of them.

"You think you won!? I still have one more trick!" Mark told them all as he pulled out two hammers, both having a golden mallet on top. Aleu looked up to see, making him panic.

"Everyone! Off the stadium grounds!" Aleu warned all of them.

Mark slammed both hammers to the ground and the entire coliseum cloud surface was no more. everyone managed to get to higher clouds while Aleu, Spike, and Applejack were on one lone cloud.

"He busted the surface cloud in one slam?" Rarity pointed out surprised.

"But, where is he?" Lucy wondered.

Aleu pointed to the boards hanging off the clouds. Looking closer, Mark was building a pathway with wooden two by fours towards Aleu.

"Boardwalk!"

Aleu saw that his leftover cloud shared with Applejack and Spike made them an open target. Mark stopped building the platform, and jumped to the three.

"What do we do!?" Spike panicked.

"Hold on! I got this!" Applejack claimed as she kicked the flooring. however, as she did, she busted her part of the cloud and fell off with Spike.

"Whoa!" The two screamed.

"Hold on! I got you!"  Rainbow declared. "Fluttershy! Get Spike!"

"R-Right!" She replied.

The two pegasus flew down to save the falling duo. Aleu was left alone on the cloud, and was bonked on the head by Mark's two hammers.

"Double Hitter!"

Aleu fell off the cloud as Mark took his place on the platform.

"ALEU!" They all screamed as he plummeted down to the very earth of Equestria. Rainbow and Fluttershy couldn't help since they were saving Applejack and Spike, and he was too far down.

Mark sighed. "You made me kill him. Great."

Balkin glared at Mark. "I swear if you weren't brain damaged right now, I'd beaten you dead!"

Mark turned his gaze over to Balkin. "I'll have to kill all of these bystanders so I can just round up the humans and get a move on."

"Oh no! Ponies! Take cover!" Eris warned them.

They all did as told and found something to hide behind. Mark pulled out his drill and this time had a clip of nails. he then shot it all over the place like a machine gun.

"Rapid Twister Nails!"

It was like a mafia shoot down. The nails were breaking clouds and structures. Balkin and the other humans had no choice but to take cover as well.

"Dang it! Are all of Aleu's friends this insanely strong!?" Balkin cursed.

Marks shoot out soon came to an abrupt stop by Spitfire who came from underneath the cloud coliseum. Mark glared at Spitfire stopping his attack like that.

"You just have a death wish, don't you?" Mark said to Spitfire as he pointed his drill at her.

"Hey! Don't forget about me!"

The voice sounded like Aleu, but it couldn't be. Looking down, Balkin and everyone else were in disbelief. Aleu was…running on air!? They couldn't believe it, not even Mark. He took only deep breaths seeing Aleu's new skill.

"I gotta say I was coming to save the kid until I saw…this!" Spitfire explained.

"H-H-How are you doing that!?" Mark questioned frantically.

"Heheh, I have no idea!" Aleu admitted. "I was just trying to save my friends, so I tried running after them, even though it did me no good running on air…well, that's what I thought."

Mark stood back and was about to run, but the lone cloud had sealed his fate. Aleu rushed in before Mark could react, and with Spitfire, the two lunged at Mark in the air with Spitfire spiraling around Aleu, creating a tempered kick.

"Kick of Spiraling Spitfire!"

The flaming kick knocked Mark out of the stadium and onto the bleachers, creating a cloud crater. Aleu ran on the air and to the now unconscious Mark.

"Mark! Please wake up!" Aleu cried out.

No response.

"Please! You gotta! I…need to know…did you…really want me dead?" Aleu said quietly.

"…..Of course not dummy…" Mark replied in his sleeping state.

"Mark!?"

Mark opened his eyes slowly and held his head.

"Oh man…what happened? I was just about to drink some Milky way Smoothies and then…Aleu!? What happened!? Why are you burned…by my bolts!? What did I do!?" Mark started to panic.

Aleu slowly smiled s he started to laugh. He then hugged Mark crying once more.

"Thank goodness…this is the real you…" Aleu gratefully said.

"Um…mind telling me what's with all the ponies? And why we’re on clouds?" Mark questioned.

"Maybe later…" Aleu replied. "For now…can you take me to the hospital?"

"Eh?"

Aleu fainted on Mark. He then started to panic.

"Oh man! Someone! Get a doctor! He needs medical attention!" Mark pleaded.

All of them got up and ran to his aid. A while later, Aleu awoke in the hospital of Cloudsdale. It was much softer than the one at Ponyville. With all of them awake, Mark was informed of what's been going on so far.

"Grr… Whoever did that is totally gonna pay!" Mark growled. "Again, I'm so sorry of all the trouble I caused you, let alone the pain I gave."

"It's alright dude." Balkin replied. "But your right on one part. This guy is going down! I'm gonna beat him until his face looks like nothing but bumps!"

"Aleu, are you alright?" Twilight asked.

"I'm better than okay! This was the best day ever!" Aleu cheered. "Not only did I get Mark back to normal, but now I can literally run on air! Applejack! Once I get this skill handled, be prepared to fly high!"

"Really!? Alright!" Applejack cheered as well.

"Oh, what!? But I can already fly!" Rainbow pointed out. "This isn't good news for me!"

"Hey, Rainbow mane, it's not all about you ya know." Mark remarked.

"What'd you say Marker!?" Rainbow scolded.

"Marker!? You're one to talk clown wig!" Mark yelled back.

The others laughed while the two were bickering at each other. Suddenly, Spitfire came in the room. Rainbow was shocked and breathing heavily. She walked over to Aleu with a smile.

"That was some pretty sweet running out there kid." Spitfire commended him.

"Thanks!" Aleu replied. "Oh hey! Can I get your autograph?"

"My autograph? Sure, but I think I should be the one asking you that!" Spitfire chuckled.

"Really? Why?" Aleu wondered.

"Come on! You gotta admit those were some pretty sweet moves out there!" Spitfire explained as she signed her name on a note, then handing it over to Aleu. "Here you go kid."

"Alright, now hold on a second…" Aleu replied.

He wrote his name on a note as well and handed it over to Spitfire, the two then traded autographs.

"There! Now I have a memory of you, and you have a memory of me!" Aleu casually grinned as he said so.

"Well, thanks kid! What was your name?"

"Aleu."

"Nice to meet you Aleu. See you later!" Spitfire said farewell as she left the room.

Rainbow flew to Aleu and said, "You're so lucky! you just fought alongside with her, and you got an autograph from Spitfire too! Oh my gosh!"

"Is she…that much of an idol to you?" Aleu questioned.

"Of course she is!" Rainbow stated.

"Then…can you take care of this for me?" Aleu requested as he gave the autograph to Rainbow.

"You…you want me to hold on to it?" Rainbow replied.

"I think you can do it better than me. So can you watch over it? Please?" Aleu asked once more.

Rainbow blushed knowing Aleu was actually giving it to her. "Alright then…Um…thanks!"

"Says the clown wig." Mark scoffed.

"What's you say!?" Rainbow scolded again.