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Pinkie slept peacefully in her bed, her forehead was damp with sweat and her rash was sticking to the fabric like Velcro. Her eyes eventually cracked open, all she saw next to her was an empty space where Twilight once slept. She slowly rubbed her hooves against her eyes and pulled herself out of bed, looking around the room for the lavender geek. Pinkie’s mind immediately began to ponder the reasons of Twilight’s absence from the scene; perhaps it was to make breakfast or perhaps to use the fillies room. Despite these plausible reasons, Pinkie’s mind could not let go of the negative and less pleasant reasons Twilight would have abandoned her. The mare began to think of horrible thoughts such as Twilight not wanting to be around Pinkie or maybe she realized what Pinkie really felt for her. The last thought gave the pink pony a crushing sensation around her chest, the feeling that she was busted and that her friends would know of her orientation. As she nervously climbed out of bed, her hooves squished against something soft, fuzzy, and warm. Pinkie immediately looked down to find a unicorn half asleep on the floor, her sleepy eyes looking back up at Pinkie’s as she grumbled, “Get off, Pinkie.”

Pinkie quickly bounced back onto the bed, a loud sigh of relief rushed out of her lungs before she apologized, “Sorry, Twilight, didn’t see you there.”

Twilight pulled herself to her hooves, she rubbed the sleep out of her eyes as she replied, “It’s okay, Pinkie,” Twilight began, “I must have fallen off the bed during the night.”

Pinkie decided to help her friend find the reason as to why she fell off the bed, “Maybe it was some super-duper turbulence, or maybe it was a nightmare!” Pinkie darted from one corner of the room to the next as she listed reason after reason, her mind tried its best to help her friend yet Twilight just covered her friend’s mouth and shook her head with a smile.

“It’s alright,” she began, “whatever it was; it threw me onto the floor.” Twilight made her way to the mirror and began to fix her hair, she splashed water onto her face to further wake her up before she turned to her friend and said, “Well, let’s go wake the others up. We don’t want to miss the huge concert.”

Pinkie was already a few steps ahead of her friend, “I completely forgot!” said the party pony, “I’ll go wake the others!” Pinkie rushed out into the main area where the others slept, what surprized Twilight was how calmly Pinkie would wake them and how her tone was very soothing compared to her usual energetic screaming.

Eventually Applejack, Rarity, and Fluttershy were woken from their sleeps. They all yawned in synchronization as they looked around the room, everypony began to notice something wasn’t right about the whole scene. It felt like something was missing from the whole scene, as though it were more or less quieter than usual. Twilight looked towards Rainbow’s seat only to find hers empty, the blanket and pillow still remained in a tattered mess yet the rainbow pony was nowhere to be seen.

The group began to panic, they searched frantically around the room for their missing friend, calling out her name despite the size of the one room and how there was barely anything to hide behind. As they all searched, Applejack along with Twilight both looked at each other as to say they knew what was going on. The two knew Dash didn’t simply disappear into thin air, she just left them for some reason.

Applejack nodded towards Twilight and the others before turning to Pinkie as she began, “Pinkie, the girls and I think that RD might have left us.”

Pinkie’s eyes opened wide, her ears dropped in depression as her colors faded, “But… Rainbow Dash would never leave us,” she began as she moved to tears, “Rainbow Dash is the element of loyalty, why would she hate us so?”

Rarity approached the crying pony and rested a hoof on her shoulder, “Pinkie Pie, darling, Rainbow Dash might just be going through a hard time. Dash would never hate” Before Rarity could finish, a tapping came from outside the room. Pinkie looked behind her towards a window to see the Rainbow pegasus flying next to the giant air cruiser, she immediately began to veer off and over the plane.

Twilight grunted in frustration, “That girl and I are going to have a serious talk if she doesn’t change her act soon.” It was confirmed to Twilight that the rainbow pony was up to something and it had something to do with her change in character. Twilight picked Pinkie up and wiped the tears from her eyes as she said softly, “Let’s get seated, I’m sure we’re getting close and we’ll be landing soon.”

Pinkie nodded, she returned to her chair and buckled up before rolling to her side and looking out towards the window. Twilight turned to the others and motioned her head towards their seats before returning to hers.

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(Coming VERY SOON: Micolt Jackson’s Nightmare, parody of Thriller.)