Author's Notes:

Comment the word "taco" if you read this.

After the fruitcake barrier, i wasn't sure if Zaanne and Gabriel could possibly come up with a dumber idea. After Rayden flew down to tell me about the note, i realized i was wrong.

"They're going after the dragons." I translated from the small paper, which merely said "Gon fishin".

"It says they were fishing though." Ray re-read the paper. "Were they lying?"

"Yes, it's called sarcasm." I folded up the letter. "You take things too literal sometimes."

There was a streak of colors in the sky, then Rainbow Dash landed next to us. "Scoots! Why are you still in ponyville, Dragons are comming!"

"Applebloom is safer here, so I'm staying to watch over her." I gestured a hoof to the library, which wasn't too far behind us. Applebloom suggested to stay inside, since the fruitcake wall couldn't possibly keep the dragons out; they'd most likely fly over it.

R.D. inspected the crystal around my neck. "That other stallion had one of those. Zaanne, right?" She turned to Rayden and got nose to nose with him. "Where's your friend at?!"

Rayden seemed unable to speak, so I tapped Rainbow's shoulder. "Zaanne is fine, he's out to slow the dragons down, or possibly stop them."

She scoffed, apparently vexed by Zaanne's stupid action. "On his own? No way, I'm going after him!"

She started to take off, but Rayden interrupted her. "Wait, there's more than dragons, if I'm correct." The redhead nodded to me. "If anyone does happen to get by and attack Scootaloo, how would you feel about that? Stay here, protect your town. I'll go help Zaanne, I've got this armor so i should be alright.

Rayden had completely tricked out his clothes/weapon stick. It was now entirely mechanical, with almost thirty random attributes to it, like lazer shooting, a stun gun and the gauntlets became roller blades if the rocket boosters broke. The dagger wings had a mix of red and blue on it, sparkling in the sky and creating a violet blur when he flapped them. The chest plate had a lot of other neat trinkets that Ship suggested to him, with Rayden's ring design engraved on the metal.

Rainbow stared him down, and he looked back with a straight face. "Why should i trust you?"

Why should you trust anypony? Zaanne muttered.

You trust Gabriel, i asked, don't you?

The human world is a screwed up place, filled with the worst of people, and never the best. Gabriel can't subconsciencely feel empathy, so he doesnt relate himself to others without purposely doing so. Therefore, with the amnesia and your world of friendship, he's a fairly good kid.

Geez, Zaanne, you sound like Ship.

Rayden eyed the wall. "As the element of loyalty, it'd be best to stay here. I don't want to see you get hurt."

"I can handle myself if that's what you're talking about!" Rainbow turned back to me though. "I'm staying here, for the sake of Scootaloo-" she peeked at the chest armor. "-and because you've got a nice taste for armor."

He didn't say anything but his face flushed slightly. I guess he didn't expect rainbow to notice her own element on his chest or something.

After a minute he turned and walked down the path, murmuring to himself, "at least these dragons aren't evil pirates."

After a thought of a pirate in a red suit sadistically beating them up (Zaanne's fault, I'm not sure why he put that image up though), I went back into the library, closely followed by Rainbow Dash.

You treat rainbow like your sister, and vise-versa, Zaanne observed.

Ship informed him, My Little Pony's timeline is dated backwards a few episodes. We are currently set about a week after the events of "Sleeplessness in Ponyville".

You six went camping in the winter?!

Rainbow and I walked around the library, not talking much besides Rainbow's annoyed grumbles. After those insane dreams with the princess of the night, I had less nightmares, but far more questions. How does dream walking feel? Where does Luna's physical body go when she enters ones mental state? Can I get a Cutiemark in psychology?

But Gabriel and I are in the break after season three! We already know what happens!

wait, what happens? I hopped to a window seal and stared out to the mass of cloud above the walls.

Spoilers, all I'll say is you'll be bucking pissed at Twilight in a few weeks. he paused for a moment before asking, But seriously, did you guys go camping in February?! It's, like, ten degrees here!

"Hey, Scoots. You there?" I looked over to see a pair of magenta eyes. "You alright?"

"Y-yeah, why?"

"You've been spaced out for nearly ten minutes now, what's on your mind?"

The wind picked up abit, rustling throughout the tree branches. "Just, you know, voices in my head. Quite normal for a kid my age."

"Oh, alright." She shuffled her hooves nervously. Her annoyance seemed to fade since Rayden looked away. "May i ask you a question? Sis to Sis?"

"You don't have to ask me to talk." I sat on the Twilight's bed but kept an eye out the window.

"Well, it might seem to be off the topic of dragons, but you seem to know abit about these two. Tell me what's going on."

I sighed, mainly because I was getting tired of trying to explain it, to ponies and myself. "Long or short story?"

She went with short, so I put the crystal in my hooves. "This necklace is part of a magic living spaceship. Zaanne's real name isn't Zaanne, it's Gabriel. The real Zaanne lives in our heads, along with the ship's conscience." I pointed to the barrier. "The first people to ride in the spaceship are attacking us for it, since it's power can destroy/create planets if used in the wrong hooves." I paused for her to ask anything.

"People?" Was the first question.

"Gabriel and Rayden are not from this world."

"So they're-"

"Aliens, technically yes. But they're good aliens, and me and Zaanne are being attacked by bad aliens."

Her eyes closed slowly. "So it's their fault that we're in trouble?"

"No! This could have happened to anypony!"

"Actually," ship started through the crystal, "the bad aliens set course for Zaanne specifically, which is why it hit Gabriel's school. Your place was hit because they flew into Titan on the way to earth, knocking part of the ship off. Knowing to shoot down a school, part of me found the second closest one, being in ponyville."

"What about the school in canterlot?"

"I was looking for a charter school."

Rainbow asked the obvious question. "Did that rock just talk?"

"Yeah, he does that some-." There was loud BANG outside, startling me off the bed.

Rainbow's ears perked up. "Go check on Applebloom," she ordered, "I'll go see what that was."

I nodded quickly and rushed downstairs as rainbow flew out the window. Applebloom was still in the lab, jumping to each machine and inspecting it. "There's so many cool things in here!" She yelled excitedly as I entered.

"Yeah, it's awesome." I scanned the place for any bad guys, but there were none. It was a little dim though, so the crystal brightened the room nicely.

Applebloom was messing around with the potions. "Maybe i can get mah cutiemark being a scientist!" She tossed a random mixture of herbs with other premade vials together and stirred, filling the room in a plume of green smoke.

After a fit of coughing and feeling around, i found Applebloom's back. "I think that's more Twilight's deal!"

The smoke cleared. "Nah, Ahm sure anypony can do it if they try hard enough, like mah sis Applejack!" She took out a large container of some yellowish rocks.

Ship warned her, "That's a lot of sodium, it can be deadly if used badly." Applebloom did the smart move and set it back on the table. I looked at the other items set out. There was a bowl of water, some orange liquid in a glass beaker, some hot plates, a funny looking metal tube attached to a metal tube and Applebloom's new potion.

"Iron chef here." Zaanne whistled. I didn't know if that was a famous human scientist or not, but I decided not to bother asking.

AB asked, "You're gonna be alright when the dragons get here, right?" If Gabe went out to go stall them, we had maybe two minutes of free time. My dream showed Applebloom in a cage, and i started to wonder if she was safer there, or surrounded by hundreds of dangerous chemicals.

I smiled anyway. "Yeah, and we're still on for Hearts and Hooves day, right?"

Applebloom giggled cutely and nodded. "So long as this fruitcake plan works." Zaanne said that it wasn't necessarily made to protect the ponies so much as the town in general, though it still didn't serve a purpose in air combat.

I thought back to Fluttershy giving Zaanne a good luck kiss, so I figured, Why don't i do it? I might have been a little more straightforward on it though. I took Applebloom's hoof gently and leaned forward, kissing her on the cheekbone. "If anything happens to you, I'll make sure those aliens get it."

Applebloom stared back dumbfounded, and I wondered if the good luck thing only worked for older ponies. Her face was deeper red than Gabriel's, and she sat down, losing all her curious energy.

Uhm, why did you kiss her? Zaanne asked.

"It was for good luck." Something in the back of my head told me it wasn't just for good luck, but I set it out.

She managed to speak. "T-thanks... You're gonna be fighting soon, I wish ah could help." She ran up and hugged me, pressing my crystal to her chest. "Be careful!"

I couldn't think when she hugged me, that thing in the back of my head was shouting now, but i couldn't hear it. It as drowned by a crashing noise upstairs.

I had expected it to be rainbow, since at fires all I saw was a blue blur. The blur changed into what looked like a winged cerulean version of spike. It spotted us immediately, shouting "SHINY THING!!!" Before flying at us.

I was knocked to the floor in a miniature shockwave from his speed, the crystal dimming. When I sat up, the baby dragon had began flying around the room rapidly, knocking over various objects. At some point he knocked the sodium open and pushed half of it into the water. After a series of explosions and a new plume of smoke, I stood to see Applebloom in his claws. He didn't look twice when he took off up the stairs.

"Hey! Wrong pony!" I made it up the steps in two hops and bolted out the library door. "Ship, scooter!" I jumped into the air and landed on my ride, which had appeared in a flash of light within seconds. Rainbow Dash was airborne, chasing after the stupid lizard at full speed.

So much for keeping her safe! Zaanne yelled at me as I bolted down the town. There were plenty of ramps and empty streets to accelerate through, and soon I was leaping houses in a single bound. The crystal continuously supplied energy (which ship said required little power from him) so I didn't have to conserve it like I used to in hard tricks.

The dragon had Applebloom over his shoulder, flying nearly twenty feet above me. "Zaanne, how can I get up there?!"

The blue guy was nearing the wall, speeding up and laughing like a maniac. "Your scooter should be connected to the crystal as you hold it, so try transferring the fire trick into it."

"How do I do that?! I'm not a computer!" Rainbow had shot upward into the clouds after seeing me chase the dragon.

"Just think!" Was Zaanne's last response.

I hit a flat-roofed building and shut my eyes while driving forward. I imagined the scooter being so fast it created a spark from the friction, then a fire. The scooter was alright, but the speed required for that buzzed my imagery, even making my grip feel warmer. I pictured the scooter being used like a rocket, firing upward into the sky.

When i opened my eyes, the world glowed green and the edge of the building was at my feet, so I jumped. Forget jumping a few houses, I cleared half of the town. I laughed in freedom as the air ripped through my lungs, the dragon right in front of me.

"Too shiny!" Blue yelled before shooting upward. I hit the wall and kicked off it into the clouds. I was obviously on fire, with a green and purple comet tail glowing behind me.

Even though I can't fly, I can still walk on clouds. Riding on the cumulonimbus like solid ground, i followed him from above. Obviously I couldn't see him through the clouds, but i followed the glowing blue dot under me, i guess his aura or something like that.

When i took a moment to look up, the sight was beautiful. Rolling feilds of white to the edge of a two mile radius ended in a flood of blue. The sun beat down over my head, but the clouds kept me cold. Wind whipped through the layer, puffing up thin clouds and flicking them through the air like steam, which it kind of is.

Zaanne was singing something about a neverending story, Ship had begun to concentrate on the magic use (I used about 15% overall from the magic scooter) and I was only thinking of two things, give Applebloom back and how does the scooter not fall through the cloud? It's not a pegasus...

Above the canopy of clouds, I saw RD forming clouds together. With a kick, a streak of lightning shot down at the dragon. There were two paniced screams, but the bolt misfired into the fruitcake wall. I figured the wall was toast, but it looked like nothing happened to it.

The dragon shot upwards from the pastry, apparently having enough sense to not go head in against the fruitcake. Rainbow collected another charged cloud, but i shouted for her not to.

She then noticed the ball of green fire that was me. "Scootaloo?! What's going on?"

"Just catch him!" I had zero time to explain as I kicked off a cloud, spiraling through the sky after the dragon.

Too late. The idiot flew it to the top and made a beeline to the mountains. "Scootaloo!" Applebloom cried out as she was dragged through the air.

I was seconds from cloud bouncing after her when Gabriel yelled at me to stop. "If you go, the dragons and aliens will destroy Ponyville! Zaanne, Rayden and I can hold them off, but we can't take them all on without the entire ship, which includes you."

"But they have Applebloom!"

Gabriel's voice became stern and earnest "I get that, but remember your dream. You will see her again, I promise. Let Rainbow follow him, she can scout him out easier with flying."

The cyan pegasus landed next to me. I explained the plan. "I'll get 'em! Don't worry!" With that, she flew into the clouds and dissappeared.

Honestly, It took a lot to keep me from going with her, but I could hear louder roars and multiple dots in the distance. The aliens were actually easy the first time, but now they seem more into it.

"Ugh, stupid dragons!" I kicked on my scooter's magic speed and tore through the feilds, making the area where I began explode in a shower of dirt.