Since Fluttershy and Twilight were the only two that could fly, they had to leave Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie waiting on the ground while they flew to Rainbow Dash's house.

"While y'all look up there, we can search around here, just to make sure," said Applejack.

"Sounds good, we'll meet you guys right back here in a bit," replied Twilight. She gulped and leaped into the air just behind Fluttershy. They began their ascent into the clouds, the ground getting further and further away from them. Twilight tried not to concentrate on the fact that only her new wings could support her now.

Soon, Rainbow Dash's palace-like house came into view. Waterfalls flowed off the side and dissipated into water vapour, and rainbows circled the entire place. Fluttershy flew ahead of Twilight and landed next to the entrance. Twilight flew up next to her and hovered a few feet from the cloud.

"Can alicorns stand on clouds?" she asked nervously.

"I think so, I don't really know," said Fluttershy. "I guess we won't know until you try."

"Great," Twilight muttered. She slowly floated down until her hooves were dangling just inches from the cloud. Gingerly, she placed one hoof down, then another, then the last two. She stopped flapping her wings but still held them out, ready to use them again in case anything happened. When it appeared as if she was going to be fine, she folded her wings and took a careful step. The cloud seemed to hold. She breathed a sigh of relief and walked up to Fluttershy who was waiting for her at the door.

"Hello, Rainbow Dash, are you there?" Fluttershy knocked softly at the door.

"Well she's not going to hear that," said Twilight. She stepped up to the door and knocked louder than Fluttershy had. "Rainbow Dash? We've been looking for you, are you in there?" When there was no response, Twilight tried the door handle, it was unlocked. The door swung open.

"Um, Rainbow Dash?" called Fluttershy into the open door. Twilight went to walk in, but Fluttershy blocked her with one leg.

"I don't think we should just walk in there. I mean, do you think she'd mind?" asked Fluttershy, putting down her hoof.

"Oh no, I think she'd be fine with it. She'd understand," said Twilight reassuringly.

"Oh, okay then," said Fluttershy, unsure. The two ponies walked into the house side by side. They split up and took turns calling out Dash's name.

Twilight found herself in Dash's room. She had never been there before. There was not much to see. Most everything was made of cloud, and the walls were bare except for a lone poster of Rainbow Dash doing a Sonic Rainboom. Twilight looked over at Dash's bed. The cloud sheets were unorganised, piled up at the foot of the bed.

"This must mean that she slept here last night," said Twilight to herself. Twilight heard Fluttershy calling her from another room. She looked around Dash's bedroom one more time to make sure she didn't miss anything, and trotted over to where she heard Fluttershy's voice.

"Yes Fluttershy?" she asked. "Where are you?"

"In the kitchen," came the faint reply. Twilight wandered around a bit until she found it. She walked in.

"What is it, Fluttershy?" she asked.

"Look." Fluttershy was pointing to the middle of the room, where a there was a pile of ashes in the shape of a leaf.

"What's that?" asked Twilight.

"It's a burnt leaf," replied Fluttershy. "It looks like Rainbow Dash's favourite. I wonder why she would have done this." Twilight walked up to the remains and poked it with her hoof. It felt cold, as if it had been there for a couple of hours.

"Well it must have happened sometime early this morning," she concluded. "It looks pretty fried. It was probably pretty hot when it was first zapped." Fluttershy nodded. Twilight went around the rest of the room, searching every surface and corner for anything she might find. She stopped at the doorway, having spotted something odd.

"Fluttershy, come look at this," she said. Fluttershy trotted over.

"Look at what?" she asked.

"That," said Twilight, pointing at the ground.

"I don't see anything."

"Look closer." Fluttershy leaned in. At first, she saw nothing, but then her eyes focused on a small red dot.

"What is it?" asked Fluttershy.

"I think… I think it's blood," replied Twilight. Fluttershy's eyes grew wide.

"Do you think it's…" Fluttershy couldn't finish her sentence.

"Rainbow Dash's? Maybe, but it's only a small little speck. You know what, it's probably nothing," said Twilight, more to convince herself than Fluttershy. "Besides, even if it is blood, there's so little of it, Dash probably got a paper cut or something."

"Yeah, yeah you're probably right," breathed Fluttershy, not looking convinced. Twilight walked over to the cupboards and produced a small container.

"What's that for?" asked Fluttershy.

"Well I thought that we should maybe get a sample of the… red substance. That way, I can analyze it to see if it really is Dash's," said Twilight as she scooped up the red-stained cloud into the container. She popped it shut and held it with her magic.

"That's a good idea," said Fluttershy. The two ponies searched the rest of the house, but nothing else turned up. They left Dash's house and started on their way back to the ground to tell the others about their findings.