My Little Pony: Ignorance is Bliss

Disclaimer: I don't own My Little Pony

Thunder Wing shows Honey Flower and I how to get to Sweet Apple Acres. Rainbow Dash and Derpy Hooves are nowhere to be found. A tall crimson earth pony is pushing a plow across the field. Maybe I should talk to him.

"I was supposed to meet Rainbow Dash and her friends here. Do you know where I could find them?" Thunder Wing asks.

"E-nope." He says turning his head the other way.

"Do you know who princess Cloudstar is?" I ask.

"E-yup!" He says shaking his head.

"Do you know where we could find her?" Honey Flower asks.

" E-nope." He says. He makes a break for it and comes back with a basket of apples.

" I don't want your stupid apples! I want answers." I say pointing my hoof at him. He hunches himself over and his ears flop down.

" Yall ain't gonna get any information out of him?" An orange earth pony with a brown hat says.

" It's about time we crossed paths again. I haven't seen you in two chapters. How are you?" Pinkie Pie asks.

" Pinkie, stop breaking the fourth wall. It freaks out the original characters." A violet unicorn says.

"What's the fourth wall?" I ask.

" I'm not really supposed to tell anypony." The unicorn says.

"Why? Is Cloudstar hidden behind the fourth wall?" I ask.

"Can't we just tell her, Twilight?" Rainbow Dash asks.

"No. There are things for us to know and for nopony else to find out." Twilight says. I'm going to find out what the fourth wall is if it kills me.

"What are we here for again?" Derpy Hooves asks.

" We're helping Sprinklejinx, Thunder Wing, and Honey Flower find princess Cloudstar." Rainbow Dash says.

"I think I might have read about her in a book. Wasn't she captured by Diamond Dogs?" Twilight Sparkle says.

"They're not so tough. You just have to put them in line, that's all." A white unicorn with a purple mane says. I'm guessing she is Rarity because she's the only pony known to escape from them.

"I'm so glad you made it out alright, Rarity. So many ponies enslaved by diamond dogs never see the light of day." Honey lower says shuddering at the thought of being back in the tunnels.

"She's Princess Cadence's sister." I say.

"Princess Cadence is my brother's wife. I should do some more research, right away." Twilight says.

"We should split up and search around town." The orange mare says.

"Good idea. Spike, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy will go look all around town. You three should take Pinkie Pie, Derpy Hooves, and I to the Everfree forest. We'll all meet back at Sugar Cube Corner when we're all done." Twilight says.

"Alright every pony, let's go." Applejack says.

My group trots over to the Everfree forest. I've never been there before. The trees are tall and eerie. It looks like ponies can get lost here all the time.

"Be careful. This place is dangerous." Twilight says.

"Stay on the path. We don't want to get lost." Honey Flower says. Suddenly I hear an echo of a crying child.

"I think I hear something." I whisper.

"I don't hear anything, Sprinkles." Thunder Wing says jumping in a puddle and splashing me.

"It might be the little voice in your head. I get them all the time. They tell me to eat candy before supper, but I don't listen." Pinkie Pie says.

"It sounds like somepony is in trouble." I say.

" I think I hear it too." Derpy Hooves says fumbling into the sky. She takes to the sky and disappears behind a cluster of trees.

I gallop after her franticly. "Stop!" Honey Flower shouts. I skid to a halt in front of a patch of blue flowers.

"What's the matter?" I ask.

" You almost stepped in that poison joke." Honey Flower says pointing at the blue flowers with her hoof.

"What's poison joke?" I ask staring at the plants.

"It's a plant that play a prank by messing with your body." Honey Flower says.

"I'm glad you know so much about plants." Thunder Wing says.

"Just jump over the poison joke." Twilight says.

"I hope Derpy Hooves didn't step in it already." I say.

" I found the princess." Derpy Hooves cheers.

" What?" I ask.

" I found her." She says pointing at a little pink earth pony wearing a crown. She's sitting alone in the grass sniffling.

" That's not the princess, that's just Diamond Tiara." Twilight says.

" Well, she's a filly and she's wearing a crown." Derpy Hooves says.

" She was almost four when she went missing. She went missing fifteen years ago. She's at least eighteen now." I say.

"We're not looking for a toddler." Thunder Wing says.

"We're not?" Derpy Hooves asks scratching her head.

" Wearing a crown doesn't make you a princess. She's not even an Alicorn." Twilight says.

" What's the matter little filly? I'm gonna cheer you up." Pinkie pie says squeezing Diamond Tiara.

" I ran away from home because my daddy yelled at me for calling Apple Bloom a Blank Flank. She deserved it. Now I'm lost, cold and hungry." She whines.

" Everything's going to be okay, The boogie stallion isn't going to get us?" Pinkie Pie says in a squeaky voice. Diamond Tiara whipes her hooves over her ruddy swollen eyes.

" The boogie stallion is just an old ponytail. We'll take you home." Twilight says.

" I don't want to go home. I'm not going anywhere with you. I can take care of myself! " She says dashing through the trees.

" Diamond Tiara, Come back!" I say trying to catch up with her.

" She's heading right towards the poison joke." Thunder Wing says.

" Hurry!" Honey Flower says. She lowers her head and smells the light blue flowers. Not knowing what they are, she opens her mouth.

"Stay away from that plant. It'll hurt you." I say.

" I'm not a loser like you. I'm not afraid of anything." She says stuffing six of them in her mouth. " See, nothing happens." She says through her spotted lips. Her mouth begins to swell up and her lips look like fish lips. I hold in my laughter as I drag her out of the poison joke by the tail. " What's happening to me?" She asks.

" You're lips are swollen. If Zecora gives you a nice warm bath you should get better." Twilight says.

"I'm thirsty." Diamond Tiara says sounding muffled.

" I think I saw a stream nearby." Thunder Wing says carrying her in his arms and soaring into the sky.

" Where are you taking me, you big stinky idiot!" She screams.

" Does she remind you of anypony?" He says looking over at me.

" I'm nothing like her." I say. Thunderwing tosses her in the stream.

" This water is brown, muddy, and disgusting. I want clean water." Diamond Tiara says.

" The water looks okay to me!" Thunder Wing says. A pony's body floats down the stream. She's covered in mud and motionless. She slowly sinks to the bottom of the stream. Pinkie Pie screams and leaps on top of Twilight.

Every pony helps me drag her limp body out of the stream. She has a horn covered in her soaked mane and mud coated feathered wings. Can it be the princess?