New Friends from Far Away

The next morning, everyone met together to decide who would go where. Rainbow Dash and Skye volunteered to head for Griffonstone to save Donald. Ryder decided to take Zuma and Rex to Froggy Bottom Bogg to save Daisy. Fluttershy went with them because she had been there before. Finally, Marshall and Applejack chose to take Tuck and Ella to White Tail Woods to extract Goofy. Later that day, Rainbow, Twilight, Ryder, Skye and Zuma would go to the North Luna Ocean to save Millie while Chase would go with Rarity and Starlight to save Melody in the Changeling Kingdom.

There was no time to take the train to Griffonstone. So Rainbow took to the air and told Skye to follow in her helicopter. Rainbow had contacted Gilda in advance to let her know they were coming. She was waiting when they arrived in the area.

"Have you seen anything drop down from the sky in the past two days?", Rainbow asked.

"As a matter of fact, we have. We saw something come down on three red parachutes and get blown towards the abyss. The parachutes have come loose, so we don't know if what was attached has come off or not. Whatever the case, we need to hurry.", Gilda answered.

"Let's go, we have no time to lose.", said Rainbow.

Leading the way to the abyss, Gilda told Rainbow and Skye to put on headlamps. When they got to the chasm, Gilda threw ropes down and Rainbow told Skye to drop the magnet from her helicopter. As all three rappelled into the darkness, Gilda saw something she didn't recognize.

"Dash, what's that orange thing?", she asked.

Rainbow couldn't see too well either, so she asked Skye to magnify with her goggles. Skye nodded and barked to activate her goggles. When she identified the orange as a safety mark on Donald's escape pod, all three of them began moving closer until they heard the EPIRB beeping.

"You were right, Skye. That beeping sound we're hearing is the radar beacon.", said Gilda.

Once they were close enough to the hatch, Gilda carefully knocked on the window because the rock was weak in this chasm. Donald knocked back to signal he was okay. Skye attached her magnet to the capsule and signaled the winch to reel it up. At the surface, Rainbow pulled out a plasma cutter and carefully cut the hatch open.

"Thanks for saving me. I'm not hurt, just shaken up real bad.", Donald explained as he took off his seatbelt and moved over to Skye's helicopter. Skye got back behind the yoke and followed Dash back to Twilight's castle.