The Kids From Equestria

"I am not alright with this!"

"Why not?"

"Because there are boys! No offense."

"None taken," Blitz mumbled, rolling his eyes while he watched a movie on Pinkie's television.

"Mom, if they sleep on the floor everything will be fine!"

"I just... Oh, alright." Mrs. Cake sighed and left with the door wide open so that she could hear their every word.

"How are we going to leave with your overprotective mother," Blitz wrote on a piece of paper, passing it to Pinkie.

"Hold on," she wrote back and after an hour when the movie was over, Mrs. Cake came back with cookies and milk for them all.

"So, Dusk, how are you liking Ponyville?"

"It's great, thank you for asking."

"That's great, dearie. Well, goodnight kids, I'm heading off for the night. I love you, Pinkie," she sang while giving her a kiss on the cheek. Hesitantly she left and Blitz groaned, but Pinkie shushed him and held her hands up.

"What," he whispered and Pinkie heard the sound of the bed creak from downstairs. Only when she heard the chain of their lamp turn off, she stopped holding her breath.

"Alright, come on."

"They aren't even asleep!"

"What are you talking about," a boring, monotone voice came from the door and Pinkie looked to her tall sister with wide eyes.

"Twenty bucks and don't tell Mom."

"Thirty."

"Twenty five and a hug?"

"Hugs are repulsive. I'll take twenty five. Have fun sneaking out, don't get caught." The girl began to leave and Pinkie had an idea.

"Wait, Maud!"

"What?"

"Can you help us?"

"With what?"

"Getting out! You're nineteen, you can go wherever you want!"

"Oh. Sure. The art of it is to copy every one of my footsteps so that there's no extra noise. Got it?"

"Wait," Blitz scoffed, "you're related to Pinkie Pie?"

"Why? Do we not act alike?" The five kids looked between Pinkie's smiling face to Maud's blank expression and they nervously fidgeted.

"Oh, uh, of course," they all agreed.

"Barrel of sunshine," Blitz mumbled, looking to the window.

"That was a joke," Maud mumbled.

"Thank God," Blitz laughed, "you sound like the most boring person in the whole universe!" Maud blinked her beautiful eyes and tilted her head.

"Ouch." She turned around and sighed. "Stand up and follow my footsteps." And so they did, but even more so, Maud was right. She opened the back door and rushed them out and Butterscotch just nearly got out before Mrs. Cake's voice filled the room.

"I knew you were sneaking out," she shouted, but she sighed. "Oh, Maud. It's just you. What are you looking at?" The kids panicked as they heard the short, heavyset woman approaching and when she looked through the backdoor, she only saw the blank, quiet, still town.

"I heard a sound."

"That's not good. Let me know if you hear it again, alright?"

"Got it." Mrs. Cake went back to bed and Pinkie gave Maud a tight hug.

"Thanks," she whispered, "you're the best sister ever!"

"That's good to know. Don't get shot, I kind of like you guys." Maud shut the door and Pinkie sighed with a smile.

"Isn't my sister great?"

"Yeah, I guess," Rarity laughed, truly flustered.

"We have to get to Everfree," Dusk panicked, and Butterscotch raised his hand as they walked.

"I live there -"

"- does anyone know where it is?"

"Not sure," Blitz groaned, rubbing his face.

"I live in Everfree," Butterscotch shouted louder than any voice they had ever heard. All of the kids turned to see the boy, who was hunched up with an angry expression, balled up fists, and the Stare.

"Oh, well that's great! Lead us to your house." Butterscotch's fingers twitched before he was finally able to take a deep breath.

When they arrived to the sweet little cottage, Butterscotch grabbed a lantern from the backyard. When he lifted it, hundreds of little red eyes glared at him, making the kids shriek out of terror.

"They're chickens and bunnies," he mumbled and Blitz smoothed out his letter jacket.

"Yeah dude, I knew that they were a bunch of evil mutant rabbits," he shouted angrily, eyeing Butterscotch to make sure that he didn't see him scream. By the tired, annoyed look on the poor boy's face, it was obvious that he wasn't amused.

"Looks like the only chicken here is you, Blitz," Butterscotch muttered, but Rarity gasped from behind.

"That's a bear," she screamed and the pale-faced kids all looked as if they had seen a ghost. Butterscotch twirled around and sighed, passing the lantern off to AJ.

Then, with all the strength he could muster, Butterscotch gave the huge creature a hug. "What are you doing," Dusk wheeze, but when AJ held the lantern up higher, they saw that the evil eyed critters were all sweet and cute around their owner. "How did you... People can't train bears!"

"He did," Pinkie reminded them and she skipped happily as Butterscotch led the way into the horrifying Everfree Forest.