Why Us?
The tent
Previous ChapterNext Chapter"So how are we going to do this?" I asked Rainbow on her idea of flying everyone here back to Ponyville,
"Well you hang on to Maple and I will grab you then we will be on our way."
"Let this?" I said grabbing Maple around her middle and holding her close.
"Yes now don't let go." Rainbow said grabbing onto Jessica, "And if you are losing your grip let me know and we will stop for a while."
"How long will it take for us to get back?" Maple asked,
"By myself four hours, but with you two maybe six."
"Can you fly for that long?" I asked Rainbow curious if she can,
"What am I a taxi pony? Of course not. I will have to take break stops every other hour. But then again it depends on how much daylight we have left."
"Oh, right it is harder to see in the dark, thus making it not safe to fly."
"That the about right. Now let's going." Rainbow said taking everyone to the sky
Oh, will you look at that the ground so far away from us and we are going really fast? If I close my eyes and focus on hanging onto Maple I won't have a panic attack. Think of your happy place, Jessica.
'You okay Jessica?' Maple thought to me.
'I am peachy. I just not used to flying.'
'Well Unclue Blitz takes me flying sometimes, and I find it easier not to be afraid when you just look around you and directly down.'
'Really' I open my eyes to test her idea. Well, what do you know? It works.
After a while, Rainbow got us out of the forest but now there is nothing of grasslands around us. We stop for a break soon after and I can see that night is soon upon us. I looked around us but I can't see any place that we can stay for the night. Then I notice that Maple is having a difficult time trying to get her saddlebags off.
"Hay Maple, what are you doing there?" I said moving next to her,
"Trying to set up my tent." She said pulling at her bags for a while before she begins to biting it off. "Whe doe thes hav to be swo difficult!" she said through her teeth,
"Here let me help," I said pulling at the strap to get the belt straps up done.
"Thank you," she said as the bags fell off her.
"Wait, Maple you said tent but isn't that your saddlebags?" Rainbow said finial noticing what we were doing.
"It is and it is." She then pulls a small string on the side and the saddlebags inflate and then four ropes with tent spikes came off the side of it and set up a small purple tent with white stars on it. "Uncle Biltz gave this to me for my birthday after our first camping trip." Maple said with a smile and enters her tent.
"Now isn't that something?" I said to Rainbow who nodded in agreement. We both jump when we heard a crash coming from inside the tent.
"I am okay." Maple said from inside the tent,
"Maple what was that?" Rainbow asks getting closer to the tent,
"I just forgot to clean up in here the last time I was in here."
"Ah, Maple just what do you have in there?" I asked wondering what this little filly could possibly be doing in there.
Maple then pokes her head out of the tent. "Just my stuff,"
"Maple just what can you possibly have inside that little tent? You just set it up."
"Want to see?" Maple asked,
"Sure why not," Jessica said moving to the entrance of the tent.
Jessica then enters the tent with Maple leaving Rainbow behind. But then Jessica comes out of the tent and look at the outside of the and the inside a few times.
"What is wrong Jessica?" Rainbow asks wondering why she was doing that.
Jessica turns her face to Rainbow with big eyes, "Logic has left the building."
"What do you mean?"
"Take a look for yourself," Jessica said opening the tent of Rainbow to see inside. Rainbow looks inside and can see a huge room made of logs wall. There are two couches, two windows on opposite side of the room. In the corner of the room, she can see a large bed for Maple to sleep in along with a shelf filled with many stuff animals. Moving inside she can see a table with some food prepared to eat and a smash dollhouse in the middle of the room. Looking through one of the windows she can see a winter wonderland of a place she hasn't seen for years. Rainbow looks at Jessica for an explanation, but she shook her head and points back to the fillies who is sweeping was remains of her dollhouse the side of the room.
"How?" Rainbow finial said once she snapped out of it.
*hum* Maple said putting down the broom, "Oh, the front of the tent has a consent teleporting spell linking to this Cabins' doorway."
"Really? I never heard of a teleporting spell being used like that."
"Well, it only works when it's getting dark. And we have a big alarm clock to wake us up before the doorways close and we are stuck here." Maple said pointing to the huge clock on the side of the wall,
Okay mental note never sleep here, Jessica thought to herself before looking back at Maple, "So where are we now?" she asked Maple as Rainbow is moving closer to one of the windows,
"I am not sure." Maple said moving to the table and getting something to eat,
"What do you mean you don't know?"Rainbow said from the window, "Can't you tell just by looking out of the windows here?"
"Oh those aren't real windows they only let you see past memories." Maple said eating a sandwich, "They are kind of cool actually."
"Wait you can see memories through those?" Jessica said moving to the snack table,
"Yeah. So if don't want others to see something embarrassing, I would be careful what you remember near those windows."
"What!?" Rainbow said just when the window next to her change from a winter wonderland to view of Ponyville and a younger Rainbow Dash is following somepony. "AAAAHHHH! How do you change memories!" Rainbow said panicking and looking all around the window to find a way to stop dark secret from her past.
"Think of something else." Maple said to her,
Rainbow quickly thought of the time she and Pinkie went on a pranking spree and the window change to that memory.
"Awe I want to see what Rainbow was remembering," Jessica said disappointedly.
"Not going to happen!"
Jessica rows her eye at that and turns her attention back to Maple. "So the only exit here is from where we came in?"
"Well yes and no. Uncle Blitz did say there is an actual exit from here, but he never told me where it's and I can't find it."
"Interesting, So does everypony have something like this?"
"Are you kidding me, Jessica," Rainbow said moving next to them "This is the first time I have ever heard or even seen stuff that we are seeing before."
"Really that is interesting."
"That is because only the chosen ever are worthy of these gifts." A new voice made itself known,
We all turned to see a creature we have never seen before at the entrance of the room. It was shaped like a pony but it was black with green eyes. It wears a wooden like arm guard on its right foreleg and a black metal arm guard on it's left. He is also wearing a lime green armor covering its chest and backside. Along with a lime green scarf covering its mouth. Before I could respond Rainbow beats me to it by flying in the air and shouting "Changeling!"
She then charges at it only for it to sidestep her dodging with ease. Rainbow then comes around for the second time but this time the changeling grabs her by her foreleg and pulls her downward. This causes her to crash into the couch, flipping it over. And before she could get back up the changeling is on top of her and from his wooden guard comes a glowing green blade that makes a high pick 's' next to her neck.
"Surrender Pony. My quarrel isn't with you but with that child."
I then pulled Maple closer to me once he said that, "What do you want with Maple!" I shouted at him.
"She is an abomination and must be eliminated." He then presses his blade closer to Rainbow "I will not allow her to escape again. She must be destroyed."
"Over my dead body!" Rainbow said,
"That can be arrange." The changeling said switching hooves to holding down Rainbow by her neck with his right hoof causing her to struggle.
Time seemed to slow down as the changeling lifts his blade up. There is nothing I can do she is too far away and I have to keep Maple safe. I am sorry Rainbow. The changeling then brings his blade down and I turn Maple's head away from what was going to happen; when I heard someone else voice.
"NO!"
I turned around to see another pony has appeared out of nowhere and started fighting the changeling. I can hear Rainbow coughing but I couldn't see anything. For some reason, everything around us started to turn dark hiding the two creatures in an epic showdown. I can see the outlines of the fighters attacking each other. Then changeling activates its blade again glowing in the dark and I could see another blade being activated by the stranger, but this one was sky blue. If I wasn't so terrified for my life right now. I would be going crazy about the fact that there is a lightsaber fight was five feet away from me. Well kind of.
The blades clashed against each other making a deep 'm' pitch sound everytime the collided. Their battle rage cross the room moving everywhere. Sometimes the fighters would get close to us but then the stranger forces the changeling away. Before long the fighter with the blue blade was able to pin the changeling on to the ground making him turn off his blade.
"What are you doing?" The stranger said to the changeling. "We are brethren. Stop this meaningless struggle! This fight is over! Yield!"
"This fight will never be over Templar!"
The changeling then knocks the stranger off of him and then stands up to fight him. And then a second blade coming from his other arm guard but this one was a red one. The stranger ready himself for the changeling next attack. However, for some reason, the changeling turned off his blades and runs to the darkest part of the room and all was silent. The light slowly came back to the room and the changeling was nowhere to be found. My first thought was 'what was that all about', and 'is Rainbow okay'?
I then made my way to Rainbow side to see that she just was getting back up again.
"You okay there Rainbow?"
"Yeah, I am okay. That changeling just got lucky that is all."
"Sure it did." Jessica giving Rainbow a light punch in the shoulder but then notice a lot of red on Rainbow foreleg. "You are hurt!"
"What? No I am not."
"But then what is wrong with your leg wait..."Jessica stop taking a closer look "Is that hair?"
"Oh, right it is yours," Rainbow said finial noticing that she never took off the bundle of Jessica red hair.
"Why do you have my hair around your leg?"
"Well, Twilight used it to help me find you. But more importantly what was a changeling doing here and how did it find us?"
"I do not know. It might have been the same ones that Exclusive was fighting off before you found us."
"Wait Exclusive was fighting changelings and we left him behind. Why did you mention that sooner! We could have gone back for him!"
"He told us to run and even if we did go back for him. We have no Idea where he is right now. We would just get lost."
"Is everyone alright?" The stranger said moving closer to us.
"Yes, we are fine-Huh!" Jessica started but had to do a double take on the stranger in front of them. He had a yellow cream coat and a short pink mane and blue eyes and a golden arm guard on his left foreleg. "You are not Fluttershy."
"Who?" The stranger said tilting his head to the side,
"Uncle Butterscotch!" Maple said charging at the stranger and giving him a big hug.
"It is good to see you again Maple." Butterscotch said hugging Maple back, not know that the other two persons in the room are having a small mental meltdown.
"WHAT!" both Rainbow and Jessica said together.
Author's Note
. . . . . . WHAT just happen!
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