After I don't really care anymore about running I stop by a stream for a break. I collapsed on my belly and Maple jumps off my back. After catching my breath I craw to the water for a drink and dunt my head into it. Not the best ideas I ever had. I still got to breathe after all.

*GASP*

"Are you okay Jessica?" Maple said moving next to me as I cough a little.

"I am fine. I just tired." I then move away from the water and made myself comfortable under the shade of a tree nearby. "So you and your father said that you two were going to leave Equestria before the changelings attack correct?" I asked Maple as she moves in to lay down next to me.

"Yeah, but that my Dad's idea. I thought he would get an army of soldiers and take down the Changelings before they did anything! There would be a glorious battle with my Dad leading the charge and once the dust settles. The Chief would be under his hoof begging for mercy. And then he would strike him down forever and will become ruler of these lands." Mable then proceeds to stand on her hind legs and throw her hooves in the air. And shouts an evil laugh for about three seconds before she tips over.

I just stare at the filly wondering what her dad lets her read and what stories has he been telling her. "You make it sound like your dad is a conqueror of lands," I said as she gets back up and moves in front of me.

"Well, he used to be something like that." Maple said before putting a hoof to her face think about something. "At least that what Uncle Berry used to tell me."

"WAIT, Berry as in Pinkie's cousin?" I knew there was no way there could be ponies of the same color of coat and mane could be relative.

Somewhere in Equestria, two brothers, stallions sneezed for no reason.

"Yeep."

"Let me guess that not his real name is it?"

Maple then tilts her head to the left to think about my question before answering. "I don't know. They never called themselves anything else."

"And how many uncles do you have?"

"Four." She said happily "There's Uncle Berry, Uncle Applejack, Uncle Blitz, and Uncle Butterscotch."

"And do they also happen to be living in Ponyville as well?"

"Nope. Uncle Blitz is in Cloudsdale. Uncle Applejack lives in Appaloosa but I think he is helping at the Sweet Apple Acres right now. And Uncle Butterscotch is in Canterlot."

Okay, that would make sense as to why I haven't seen them. Wait, every time I meet one of Maple's Uncles, there seems to be a mare that looks just like them. Like with Exclusive and Rarity and Berry with Pinkie. The only difference between them besides their genders was their cutie marks. If they were trying to blend in then they aren't doing a very good job at it, if they copying the looks of a mare in town. Makes me would what the remain three Uncles look like.

"Well, at least they keep track of each other."

"Ah huh."

There were a few moments of silence before I spoke up again. "So what are you all then. Was what that Twilight saying was true about Exclusive not being a real pony of Equestria?"

"Well, he is a pony. If that what you are wondering. But if you are meaning his species I am not sure. Daddy never likes to talk about before Equestria."

"So you are foreigners. But if that the case why did your dad want to hide that fact?"

"I wonder about that myself and even I asked Dad about it where we come from. But he just told me that the past is better off forgotten. And I should just focus on the right now."

"Sounds like your Dad brought you here for a new start in life."

"Yes, but what about you."

"Me I am doing fine."

"No not that. I mean are you really an Alien?"

"Well, I never got called that before. But yes, I would believe so. And no I am not going to eat you or do anything else to you for that matter."

"Wasn't going to ask that. You are to nice to do something like that."

"Well, when it comes to children you are correct. Also, my species is known as Human. And I do have a question for you Maple."

"What is it?"

"How come you trust me so easily? I know that you have heard about me from your dad and you might have seen me around Ponyville, but I want to know is why? I could have been putting on an act the whole time."

"Oh, that kind of hard to explain. It like whenever I am near you. I feel like I am meeting with my best friend in the whole world, and that I can trust you with anything including my safety. I don't know why I feel that way with you but I do Jessica. It is strange."

"That is strange. No one has ever felt like that before around me back at home."

"And what about that thing you talking about earlier? That there are others like you in Equestria?"

"Now that a long tale. Maple get comfortable and let me tell you all about the Humans in Equestria."

Meanwhile

"Thisdoesnotmakesense.Thisdoesnotmakesense.Thisdoesnotmakesense.Thisdoesnotmakesense.Thisdoesnotmakesense." Twilight keep saying to herself as she paces back and forth in front of her friends.

"Ah Rainbow. How long is Twilight going to be like that?" Starlight asked Rainbow thinking that she would know how to deal with this situation.

Rainbow puts a hoof to her face to think about before telling her. "Give her a couple of hours to cool off and remember to water her every now and then."

"What water her! Why?"

"I am just kidding with you. To be honest I don't know. She never acted this way before. It is like she is having a mental breakdown of everything she knew."

"Maybe she just needs some time to figure this out." Starlight suggested but Rainbow was going to have none of it.

"Well, we don't have the time for that and neither does Jessica. She is still out there and my tracking spell is acting up. And Twilight has the other half of the spell so I need to her to stop acting like a maniac." Rainbow then Inhale deeply and then shouted to Twilight. "HAY Twilight I going to head back to your room and let a tornado loss in there, try and stop..."

Rainbow's rant was stopped when Twilight forced her to the ground with her magic and staring daggers into her eye. "DON'T Mess up my room Rainbow!"

"Welcome back Twilight," Rainbow said weakly as Twilight let her go.

"What happen?" Twilight asked her friend because she forgot what caused her to be like she was earlier.

Not wanting to deal with unnecessary conversation. Starlight decides to steer the conversation back to the main problem at hand. "We were going to find Jessica."

"Oh, Right. Let's get a move on."

"Hay about that Twilight," Rainbow spoke up. "No offense, but you two are really slowing this rescue mission down."

"What?!" Starlight said to Rainbow but was stop by Twilight before she did anything.

"No she right Starlight. But you could have said that in a nice way Rainbow."

"I will make a note of it. Come on Twilight hurry up with the spell potion whatever you call it."

"It's a potion Rainbow. And I already used it on this piece of hair." Twilight said lifting the piece of Jessica's hair to Rainbow.

"Okay, then give it here," Rainbow said lifting her hoof.

"Now remember Rainbow," Twilight said to her friend as Rainbow tied the hair to her foreleg. "We are trying to save her not to scare her away."

"I know that. And once I do find her I will let you now with a rainboom." Rainbow said taking off into the sky but was stop my Twilight's magic. "Oh now, what?!" She said as she was moved in front of Twilight.

"No rainbooms Rainbow! You may have stop Bonbon from find Jessica. But that doesn't mean that she was the only pony looking for her." Twilight said letting Rainbow fly again.

"Okay I get it but then what am I supposed to do then?"

"If you do find her make one of the nearby clouds start to rain instead."

"Yeah, and what if the cloud runs out of water?"

"Then stay with Jessica until we arrive. And if night starts to fall know that we will start heading back to Ponyville. And if that happens, get her back to Castle Friendship A.S.A.P."

"You sure that a good idea Twilight?" Starlight asked her teacher

"We don't have much of choice here," Twilight said moving in front of her friends. "None of us here has anything we can use to make a campsite. And Rainbow has the last of the tracking spell. If anypony has a chance to find Jessica it is Rainbow."

Rainbow then makes a salute "You can count on me Twilight. I will find her." Rainbow then takes off to the skies leaving her friends to follow her trail.

"We will follow you as best as we can Rainbow."

"And then I fell into a lake of darkness and once I came out of it that's where I meet a creepy shadow creature who told me to wait in a cave, and you know the rest." I have just finished telling Maple everything I know about the other humans in Equestria and my last encounters with them. She was very attentive and listen to everything I had to say. And like any good kid, they save their question to the end of the presentation.

"So what happened to Lyra? Did she make it back to Ponyville?"

Now that is a good question. "I don't know. She left around the same time the camp was attacked. I want to believe she got away in time, but there is no way of knowing." But with how many guards were there at the campsite I don't think her chances were high.

"So does Mathew capture mean that the humans have lost?" Maple asked.

Mathew. I honestly thought he could do something about all of this but he couldn't. There are just too many of them. But that doesn't mean I have to give up. "We lost the battle but not the war. But I don't know what I can do though. I am just one mare. I want to fight back but I don't know how to." I told Maple as I rest my head on my hooves.

"Maybe my dad can help."

I rowed my eyes at her statement before looking at the filly, "If he wanted to help he would have done that already. Not run away." Maple was going to argue, but I raise my hoof at her letting her know I wasn't done yet, "But I have a feeling that part of the reason has to be that he is just protecting you above all else."

"But there are Ponies getting hurt out there. And I know Uncle Berry wouldn't lie to me, so that means my daddy can fight back."

"And you are his little girl. There is no way he would risk your safety to save someponies he doesn't know."

Maple starts pacing in front of me trying to come up with a plan to get her daddy to fight back that doesn't involve getting herself in trouble. She then stops as an idea comes to her head. "Maybe you can make him fight back."

"Me?"

"He loves you, Jessica. He would do anything for you. It is the perfect plan!"

"Maple, I am aware of that. He made his feeling for me very clear a few days ago. But I told him that I wasn't interested."

"That doesn't mean anything." Maple said quickly

"What are you going on about?" Because I am just getting the feeling that she just wants to ship me with her dad.

"Even after you turn him down. He still went looking for you after you disappeared and was going to take you with us once he found you."

Okay, I can see where she is going with this but "That just him being a good friend. He himself said that..." I was interrupted by Maple asking me these simple words.

"But do you love him?"

Author's Note

The big question has been drop. I wonder just what can be going through Jessica's head right now?

Jessica head"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"