To Feel Is To Understand: A My Little Pony Story

"The Map wants me to go where!?" I ask.

"Northeast Equestria. I didn't think the map would call you. There isn't anything out there, not that I know of." Twilight says.

I wonder why it would send me out there. I wonder why it would call me, in the first place.

“Do you think the train would go out that way, Twilight?" I ask.

"I don't think so. But I think you can ride the balloon. Do you know how to operate it?" Twilight says.

I shake my head.

"I know how. By the way, you aren't going without me." Derpy says.

"Us too." Potato says.

Moon, Potato, and Uyada walk towards me.

"I guess I should go too. You do need somepony to keep you out of trouble." Starspiral says.

I say "I guess we should pack some things?".

12 hours later
(Noon)

After going home, to sleep, the crew spent their morning packing. They are getting ready to leave.

As I place the final bag of supplies inside of the hot air balloon, Twilight walks up to me, and says "Good luck, Arthur. I know you will complete your task."

"Thanks, Twilight." I say.

"I'll fine tune your plan while you are gone." Twilight says.

"Try not to change it much." I say.

Twilight nods.

"Are we ready to go yet?" Potato asks.

"Yeah, we are. Alright, everyone, let's go!" I say.

Starspiral, Potato, Moon, Uyada, me, and Derpy, climb inside of the basket.

Derpy lifts up the anchors.

The balloon floats up.

"Whoa! Is that supposed to happen?" Moon says.

"It's a balloon, Moon. Balloons float." I say.

Twilight and Spike waves at us, I wave back.

We float above the houses of ponies, we keep floating, until the ponies start to look like ants.

Moon looks over the side of the balloon.

"Oh man! Why did I have to come?" Moon says.

I laugh, then say "After years of heisting and you are still scared of heights."

"Remember the Skyscraper Job?” Moon asks.

"That's what made you scared of heights?" I ask.

"The engine gave out, and we barely made it out." Moon says.

I chuckle, then say "I even got a scar to prove it."

I lift up my shirt, showing a scar going down diagonally from under my left rib cage to right above my left hip.

"The Museum wasn't the first time Arthur almost died." Moon says.

"It wasn't the second time either. I saved Moon's life, by taking a bullet for him. It hit my lung, luckily we had the best team." I say.

"Or the best luck." Moon says.

"Most likely the first one." I say.

"I miss Jens. He was the best of us, too bad he moved back to his country." Moon says.

"What about Abby? She kept us going, when we thought we weren't. She sacrificed herself to save me. Pushed me out of the way of a grenade explosion." I say.

"Sounds like you've had an action-packed life. Better than my boring life." Starspiral says.

"You still have a long way to go. It's a little too early to say it was." I say.

“Yeah. I guess you’re right. Maybe, when this whole thing is over, we should go do something, Arthur.” Starspiral says.

“Yeah. Maybe we should.” I say.

I look over the side of the balloon, seeing Canterlot.

"Wow. Now that's the type of scenery you'll never see in our world." I say.

"What type of scenery do you have in your world?" Derpy asks.

"Tall buildings, fortified cities, with giant walls, beautiful, untouched forests, filled with wildlife, tall mountains, grand canyons, snowy deserts, dry deserts, giant oceans, and billions of different humans." Moon says.

"It may seem like it's a good place to stay, it isn't. Corrupt governments rule the world, they trapped the society inside a system, guarded by wolves who only hunt themselves. Greed, hatred, and dishonesty, spread like butter on toast, in our world. Nexus will destroy this world, metaphorically and physically. I will do anything in my power to stop him." I say.

“Wow. You still know how to suck the life out of a conversation.” Moon says