"GET OUT OF HERE YOU ..... WHATEVER YOU ARE." someone shouted, soon followed by a small white unicorn running away from the source of the shout.

"You're just jealous that I can sing better than you." Sweetie Belle said as she ran out the bar and into a nearby alleyway. Making sure she wasn't being followed, she failed to see somepony else running up to her.

*WHAM*

Both ponies ran into each other and recoiled back in pain at the sudden impact. Sweetie Belle then felt something hard hit her in the head and reared back when the object added to the pain she was already suffering from. After allowing for the stars that lined her vision to dissipate, she noticed that the pony she had run into by mistake was none other than Apple Bloom, who had apparently been carrying an apple, which she figured was the second object that hit her.

"Hey! I thought you said you didn't bring any food?" she asked the small earth filly, feeling a bit betrayed.

"I didn't!" Apple Bloom responded, finally being able to see straight after the headbutt she had gotten from her unicorn friend. She counted herself lucky that she had somehow missed the horn, which would have hurt far more than a simple bump to the head.

"Then what's that?!" Sweetie accused the yellow filly, pointing to the fruit sitting on the ground between them. Her voice cracked slightly as she spoke, making her sound angrier than she truly was.

"Oh that. I got that from a fruit kart I found 'round here. Kinda wished I had taken' nuthin' from it though." she said as she picked up the apple and took a bite from it. She then looked over to her confused friend and offered a bite to her.

"I don't want that if you took it without paying for it!"

Apple Bloom swallowed the bit of apple she had eaten and gave Sweetie a disgruntled look. "Ah didn't steal it. I picked up an apple while the clerk was talking to a customer, put the three bits I owed the clerk near where he could see them, and before I knew it, he was calling out that someone stole from his stand and gave 'im three pen-n-Es to mock 'im; whatever that means. I was so scared that I did something wrong that I ran off, since I didn't know how he would react to me being a talking pony, and that's something ah’ don't plan to figure out on mah own."

"Oh." Sweetie said, feeling kind of bad for calling her friend a thief. "I guess that means our bits are worthless here. I tell you one thing though, whatever these creatures are, they have no sense of art when they hear it." Sweetie Belle stated, starting to sound a bit like her sister.

"Why, what happened? Ah thought you only left me behind to go sing karaoke. Which, by the way, you got too easily distracted because of."

"Well, when I got up there and took one of the mics and started to sing with the lyrics that the machine displayed, every one of them in the place started to scream while covering their ears. To make matters worse, my invisibility spell wore off, and they all looked at me with angry and confused expressions. One of them said 'Get rid of that thing' and one of the girls, that were singing before, grabbed me by my mane. I quickly teleported out of her grasp, but that only made them freak out. They're just jealous that I can do things that they can't, and that I can sing sooooo much better than them." Sweetie claimed with confidence. “Oh, and they kept saying ‘protect the shure’ for some reason.

Apple Bloom rolled her eyes. “What’s a ‘shure’?”

“I have no idea!” Sweetie squeaked in exasperation, waving her front hooves around like a madmare.

"Well how 'bout we get back on track with finding Scootaloo, okay? Celestia only knows that if we're having this much trouble together, she must be in worse condition being alone."

Sweetie swallowed hard after hearing her friends words, knowing that they may be true. "Okay but my magic needs a bit of a break, how about we walk into that store and ask someone if they've seen her."

Apple Bloom looked at her friend with utter disappointment. "Really, don't you think that we've had enough problems with these creatures?"

"We'll just tell them that we mean no harm and that we're looking for our friend, I'm sure they'll understand."

Apple Bloom simply finished the last bit of apple and stated "I know that no good'll come of this, but we need to find her soon." *BELCH*

"Agreed, now let’s go" Sweetie Belle replied, choosing to ignore her friend’s little unladylike outburst.

With that, the duo of ponies entered the store. With night time approaching, they knew that they had to hurry so that they wouldn't get lost. They sat out of sight until they were sure that no one else except the store clerk was left in the store. Once they saw an opening, they ran up to the counter to ask him for information.

"Excuse me sir," Sweetie spoke up, "we were hoping you could tell us just where we are, and perhaps ask if you could give us a map to borrow?"

The store clerk looked around, confused at the noises he heard when Sweetie spoke. "That's odd," he said, "it sounded like a horse was in here."

Apple Bloom realized that the dummy didn't hear them so she walked up to the counter, turned around, and gave it a firm kick to get the guy's attention. When she saw that he looked down on the two of them, she spoke up herself. "Look, we don't know where we are and we're tired of running around here trying to figure everything out, so can ya help us or not?"

The guy blinked twice in disbelief, seeing before him two young ponies of abnormal color, one white with a purple mane and a one yellow with a red mane. To add to it, the yellow one seemed as if it was trying to communicate with him, but all he could hear were a bunch of whinnies and snorts. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINGS SUPPOSE TO BE?!" he finally shouted out.

The reaction alone was enough to send the girls into a bit of panic. Their panic only rose when they saw him grab a broom and start to swing it at them, all while screaming at the two creatures to get out of the store. When he started after the two, they got separated in trying to lose him in the store.

"WHAT'S YOUR ISSUE?! ALL WE WANTED TO KNOW IS WHERE WE ARE YOU BUCKING BRUT-ooofff!" Sweetie's sentence was cut short when she ran into a pyramid of canned fruit, knocking the entire thing to the ground. She managed to dig herself out of the pile, and started to run again once she saw that doing that only seemed to make him angrier.

"Somethin' tells me that they can't understand us. Maybe that's why we can't explain nuthin to - ahh!!!" Apple Bloom had crashed into a shelf knocking over other selves in the store like a row of dominoes.

"Then why can we understand them?"

"Maybe its cause we have a bit of magic in us that lets us understand them."

Sweetie was about to argue with that statement, but then she remembered something that miss Cheerilee had taught them about how every pony in Equestria had a small bit of magic in them, including earth ponies and pegasi. In her thinking, she didn't notice that her and Apple Bloom had walked themselves into a corner, with the creature right behind them.

"You two little freaks are gonna pay for wrecking my store!" The two of them held onto each other and braced for the worse, when suddenly Sweetie's horn flashed to life. The store clerk backed off when he saw the two ponies that he had spent all this time chasing suddenly disappear from his sight, almost like magic. He decided to shrug it off as best as he could, but his attention was soon turned to his manager that had walked in right as the two ponies disappeared. He saw his manager's face turn into one of utter aggression and rage, all of which was directed towards him. "Oh fuck my life."

The two ponies suddenly opened their eyes when they heard the sounds of crickets chirping. They both sighed with relief once they realized that they were safe.

"Good thing your magic can be helpful even when you don't want it ta' be."

"Yeah no kidding. Sorry I almost got you hurt with my dumb idea."

"Aww shucks girl, it wasn't the idea that was dumb, it was the darn fool we tried it out on." Apple Bloom said, pulling her friend in for a comforting embrace.

Sweetie smiled at this, but her smile only grew when she used her magic to try and find Scootaloo again. "My horn must've teleported us to where Scootaloo is, cause my tracking spell is really responding now."

"That's great, she must be in that house over there then." Apple Bloom replied, pointing to the house that they were currently sitting in front of. "Cutie Mark Crusaders: Operation "Save Our Friend" is a go!" They chanted in unison.

With that the two ponies walked up to the front door and knocked, but were left with no response. Tired of waiting, Sweetie used her magic to unlock the door, and the two crusaders ran inside.

"Wait, did you hear that?" Sweetie whispered.

"Yea, it sounded like Scootaloo groaning. Along with some other creature." Apple Bloom replied, whispering like her friend.

"It came from upstairs."

The two ponies tiptoed up the stairs, trying to be quiet as they made their way to a door that was cracked slightly open. They listened closely and heard nothing but gasping and panting coming from their friend. With panic sinking in at what they thought was happening to her, they both charged in, but stopped once they saw the scene displayed in front of them. Both of their jaws nearly hit the floor when they saw the larger creature, who appeared to be completely naked, holding Scootaloo tightly to his chest; his face right behind her most private of areas.

Sweetie's face turned to one of anger, while Apple Bloom looked as if she was still trying to figure out what was going on. Sweetie knew what was happening, and had known ever since she once peeked in on Rarity and Spike doing something of the same nature. When she saw the creature whisper something to Scoot and her nodding in response to what he had said, she finally spoke up in a way that made everyone present jump.

"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE?!"

Author's Note

From point A to Point B.

I figured y'all deserved to know how Sweetie and Apple Bloom found Scoot and Alex.

In the next chapter, things will start to heat up in both good and bad ways.