The Forest Journey Mishap

Later that day, Jet Set and Upper Crust have both decided to go to Manehatten to join an important meeting. "Maybe we'll go to this meeting instead," said Upper Crust, "Even though it was originally not on our schedule."

"Well then, we must be off," Jet Set said to his wife. "Right," Upper Crust agreed and both she and her husband left their home.

However, the two ponies have not been to Manehatten for a while now. "Uh, maybe we should ask somepony for directions," suggested Upper Crust "You're right my dear," replied Jet Set.

Soon enough, the two came across a pony who is staring out into the air. "Excuse me, mister," Jet Set said to the pony. But the pony did not pay attention to Jet Set. "I said 'excuse me', mister!" Jet Set said in a louder voice.

Still, the pony didn't answer. "Uh, let me handle this, my love," Upper Crust said and she used her magic to get the pony's attention. "What?" the pony said to the two. "We're asking for directions to Manehatten," explained Upper Crust.

"Ok," the pony responded and quickly drew a map for the two ponies. "Here you go," the pony said, giving the map to Jet Set and Upper Crust. "Thank you very much," Upper Crust said, "By the way, what is your name?"

"Mountain Moral," the pony replied, "There you go, I think." "Thanks once again," said Jet Set and the two unicorns set off. "Why?" the pony asked. His name is not Mountain Moral by the way.

Nonetheless, Jet Set and Upper Crust followed the map that the pony had given them. "Uh, are you sure it leads to Manehatten?" asked Upper Crust. "Yes," answered Jet Set, "It says so."

But the two ponies ended up at the Everfree Forest instead. "Oh dear," said Upper Crust, "We must go through this?" "I guess so, my dear," replied Jet Set.

"Do we have to go through here?" asked Upper Crust in an unsatisfied tone of voice. "Well, the map says we must go through here," Jet Set explained, "Come on then. We don't have much of a choice."

"All right," said Upper Crust, disappointed, "Let's go then."

However, immediately, they walked through a mud pond. "Yuck!" groaned Upper Crust. "Sorry," said Jet Set, "Let's not try to walk into deep puddles."

When the two were out of the mud pit, they both ran into a thick wall of branches. "Oh my pony!" groaned Upper Crust. "Hold on," said Jet Set. It took them an hour to get through the thick branches.

"We're nearly through this jungle," said Jet Set. "I hope so," said Upper Crust, "No way we're going through Jumanji again!" But unfortunately, they got stuck in a large set of vines.

"Ok," said Jet Set, "Let's think on how we can get out of this!"

"Ok," said Upper Crust, "I think I have an idea!" Upper Crust was about to use her magic when a voice said, "STOP!"

The two unicorns did nothing in response. They saw that the voice came from a zebra, whose name is Zecora. "I see that you two are in a sticky situation," Zecora said, "Or should I say a viney situation? How did you both end up here? I see that you are from Canterlot, am I right?"

"Right," answered Upper Crust. "We were on our way to Manehatten. But it looks like we've made a mistake." "Then let me help you out first," Zecora said, "Don't use your magic on these vines. The strangle will not be fine at all."

"So you're saying that if we use our magic on these vines," said Upper Crust, "It'll cause them to squeeze us even harder, right?" "Right," Zecora replied. So Zecora helped Jet Set and Upper Crust out of the vine mess and guided them out of the Everfree Forest and thus, sending them on their way to Manehatten.

"Thanks," said Upper Crust as soon as they were out of the Everfree Forest. "No problem," Zecora said, "Good luck at whatever you're going to do at Manehatten."

"Ok," said Jet Set. "Oh, actually," Zecora said, "You're going to need to get on a train to Manehatten." "Oh," Jet Set and Upper Crust said together. They reached a nearby station to catch the next train to Manehatten.

Eventually, they both made it to their meeting and have made their business there. The two have made many suggestions to several ponies there and the plan will go on. No pony had asked about Jet Set and Upper Crust being covered in branches, leaves and mud.

But one of the ponies who were there was Doctor Hooves. He was the only pony who had noticed Jet Set and Upper Crust's condition. "Where have you two been?" he asked Jet Set and Upper Crust, "You're a mess."

"We got lost," explained Jet Set, "On the way to Manehatten and I don't know how it had happened." "Yeah," agreed Upper Crust, "We've followed this map."

"Wait a minute," Doctor Hooves said, immediately noticing the crumpled up piece of paper that Upper Crust was about to get out. He asked Upper Crust to hand it over to him and he looked at it.

"This is the path that you both took?" he asked. "Yes," answered Upper Crust, "We've asked this pony for directions and this is what he gave us."

"So what was his name?" Doctor Hooves asked. "He said his name was Mountain Moral," answered Upper Crust, "I think." "Yeah," agreed Jet Set. He was about to say more when Doctor Hooves interrupted him.

"His real name is Mountain Moron!" exclaimed Doctor Hooves. "What?" the two unicorns said together.

"Wait," said Jet Set, "Mountain Moron?" "He's too unintelligent to know his real name!" explained Doctor Hooves, "So he'd probably forgot that he gave you this sad excuse for a map in the first place!"

"Oh, I see" said Upper Crust, "He never paid any attention to us anyway. And he'd never drew a train on this map anyway."

So today proved to be some weird day for Jet Set and Upper Crust. The two have decided to stay at a one hoof Manehatten hotel for the night. Because they've never took a bath from the unplanned forest trip!