Author's Notes:

Name two people who care that i haven't posted any chapters in a month.

So, after sitting on that cloud and watching the aliens have their flanks kicked in by giant dragons, I realized my day could be a lot worse.

"What do we do now?" Rayden asked as the green one slapped the aliens into a tree with it's tail.

"Well," Zaanne started, or was it Gabriel now? "Your vision showed me looking beaten up when you showed where the right mountain is, so i belive the dragon's will beat us up abit more before we find the place."

I leaned forward and got a glance into his eyes. They were bright blue, which meant it was Gabe. "So we just wait?"

"No, no more waiting." He stood up and spread his wings. "I still can't fly well, but we should be able to glide back." He eyed Rayden curiously. "You wanna go home? Last chance to see Rainbow Dash.

The blue pegasus stood quickly. "What do I do?"

It was too obvious that Rayden liked my sister. He didn't seem to hide it either. Gabriel and Fluttershy were also eyeing eachother, plus that kiss could give the wrong idea there. The only thing I was confused about was why a human would like someone outside of their own species... Or planet. I decided to ask Spike about it later, since he's a dragon wanting a unicorn.

"She's following the baby dragon," ship told him, "my scanner says that she will return soon."

The useless information made me lean more over the cloud. "If you can scan where Rainbow's at, can you not tell me where Apple Bloom is?!"

"The machines that the aliens make disrupt my scanning abilities, so i would have to assume she is being held captive in the mountain already."

The aliens were getting yelled at the aliens in dragon tounge, which i could translate for some reason, though they didn't have the cleanest language. Part of me wanted to ask why they were attacking the human fakes anyway, but I figured it had something to do with Zaanne, since they gave Gabriel small glances every so often.

"Ship?" Gabriel asked loudly. "Random question!"

"How random is it?" He responded urgently.

"Can amputees play Twister?"

You could hear the silence sting. Even the dragons stopped beating up the aliens to look back at him. The only thing making a noise was Zaanne, who was laughing his head off.

"How is that relevant?!" The blue and white dragon hissed.

"I'm just wondering! It was in the back of my head all day!"

"Is not really the best time to question it though?" Rayden asked

"It's always a good time to ask questions!" Gabriel answered loudly. He say back on the cloud and blew air through his nose. "What if they get 'hand on blue'?!" What do they do there?!"

Zaanne slowly stopped cracking up. "You could seriously be offending the three people reading this, man. Not that i care, it's a legitimate question to me." He then went on to sing "if you're happy and you know it", though with hands and feet instead of hooves.

Now Gabriel began to laugh, though he looked more embarrassed for accidentally saying something offencive. "It was just a question!" He insisted.

Even Ship chuckled "Proposal is also a question, but it can sometimes screw the rest of your life up."

That brought up my own question. "When were you married, Ship?"

"Hm, not sure..." There was a pause in the commotion. "Maybe it's just in my brain."

I was about to remind him that computers don't have brains (which he was the one that told me such), but the roars of the dragons came back up, drowning out my voice.

Gabriel shouted over them, "Well we should get back to this problem at hoof!"

"What was our plan again?!" I asked.

"You and go back home with Rayden and wait there, i have to go get beaten up!" And with that, the genius hopped into the demon trio.

"He's insane." I decided.

Ray shrugged. "Maybe is his Asperger's syndrome giving him ADHD. Or maybe he's an idiot."

"I don't like burgers, i feel like they're missing something..."

"Like meat?" Zaanne asked.

"Nah, maybe it's that they always overcook them at Pegaburger."

"The he-... The heck is that?" He studdered.

"No time to worry about it. I put my hooves into the cloud and started up my wing power (which is apparently under .05, according to Twilight). Catching the wind, our cloud sputtered through the sky.

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I wasn't going nearly as fast as i wanted to go, but I didn't want to waste the crystal's magic any more than i needed to. Not that i was running out.

"So what do we do?" Ray asked, starting to help by flapping his much wider wings. The town was still fairly snowy, and the fruitcake barrier's open roof was now concealed in the large wall of clouds over ponyville.

We directed the cloud to the rim of the wall and slid off. "We're supposed to wait for Gabriel." I looked down to the town, and tried to recollect the vision. "In my dream, the library was just to my right, so I'm going to wait for them over there."

"And what about me?" Ray looked out to the sky, which became invisible to the fog shrouding the top of the pastry sheild.

Zaanne responded, "You go ahead, try to find Rainbow. We will meet up with you two when Gabe gets back, which will be soon."

"How soon?" Ray asked.

"He's purposely getting his flank handed to him, I'd give Boy Wonder here about three minutes."

"And why can't i go after them? That's my sis and best friend out there, one of which could be in danger!"

"The vision starts in Ponyville, now go." And with that, Ray took the cloud and hovered off.

There was not much to say as i passed through the empty streets of Ponyville, an eerie wind passing through my fur and violet mane now as wind picked up. Too much was on my mind to keep thinking straight. Too many to ask ship, because my questions mixed with my emotions.

My father had something to do with the psycho aliens hunting us down, but they seem to have a weird interest in Zaanne. I became certain my dad knew him, which means he knew my dad. Not that I cared about Blue Flare in the least bit. But, if I could find him... he has some child insurance to pay, that's all.

~Scootaloo,~ Ship spoke, ~are you alright?~

"Of course I am." I lied, thinking of my dad made me angry, but I'm not one to talk about my feelings with a fragment of data. "Why do you ask?"

"Well, your heart rate is increasing, along with your soul reacting to something."

"We can see souls? What do they look like?"

"Imagine a translucent, glowing orb. The stronger the soul, the bigger that orb."

"That's an anime!" Zaanne complained.

Gabriel came up in the conversation too. "The anime where Satan's son is raised in a church or the one where Vic Mignogna is a pervert father? They both work with souls right?"

"The Vic Mignogna one," Zaanne answered, "and no, the Satan one is more about choosing your own path and stuff like that instead of having a sound soul. Do you even know who Vic is?"

"He played Broly right?"

"Who?" I asked.

"Yes, but really dude, you gotta watch more animes. Or at least stop forcing yourself to sleep before Adult Swim comes on!"

"I don't like the shows on there! Why are there dolls being murdered?!"

They began an argument over robotic chickens, and I tried to block them out, even though they were broadcasting out of my necklace.

After about two minutes of skipping through the empty town, the great wall behind me made a loud BOOM!!! Like my sound effects? Really rumbles through your brain.

I spun on the back of my hooves to the wall, where a green dot spiraled over the wall.

I thought Gabriel was flying for a second, then I heard his screaming, him being consumed in a ball of green fire, and a loud explosion not too far away. A few scooter kicks later, I came upon a heap of green, yellow and blue hair.

"How'd that beat up theory work out for you?" I asked.

"Waffle!" he rolled to his hooves, smiling like an idiot. "I mean... Perfect! The next thing in your dream showed a few houses on fire and it snowing abit of soot."

"So the dragons do destroy the place?!" I could hear the dragons roaring fairly far away, but still about fifty miles too close for comfort

"Not if I can help it!" He walked up to one of the buildings, nodding abit to himself. "I have an idea to screw with your future sight."

"What? Is this like beating yourself up?"

"Close," he nodded to me like a pony bobble-head. "Watch."

He yelled out, "ghost fire!" And extended his hoof. Instead of green flames, light blue shot out and engulfed the building, changing to red on collision with a physical object.

I was in the right mind to walk over and knock him out with my scooter, but Zaanne explained. "It's fake fire, like literal ghost flames, hence the wording."

"When did he learn that?!"

"I taught him, but we saw the crystal do it before it exploded."

After setting a few houses on fire, he made a real fire and shot it into the sky, along with some burning sticks. Shortly after, black specks started to fall, like negative snow.

"Everything is set, i still have 60% of my crystal power, and the dragons will be here soon, there's only one more thing to do-" He directed himself to the mountainous horizon. "-we run that way like it's the end of the world!"

We didn't get too far before the roars came back. I figured the wall of cake was done for, but after six or seven heart pounding bangs and a series of annoyed roars from behind, I started to appreciate the ludicrous idea. Apparently fruitcake becomes cement with the addition of dry peanut butter.

Nearly twenty seconds later, I looked up into the mountains. The expanse of peaks faded from blueish-brown into white as it got longer, except the center mountain, where Canterlot stood regally.

On a seperate place, nearly having the wall hide it, a small black dot resembled a cave. Occasionally, blue flickers of light would become visible inside the speck of darkness.

I rose my hoof quickly at the mountain and shouted, "that mountain!" but a ticked off roar drowned my voice.

As soon as i did that, Gabriel waved his hoof quickly, making the fake flames dissapear. "You can extinguish fire?"

He was slowly getting out of breath. "No, that's fake fire!" And he continued running.

"Now, can we save Applebloom?!"

"Yes!" Zaanne confirmed. "And get out of Ponyville as fast as you can!"

~finally!~ I thought, and resummoned the scooter. ~let's get Applebloom back!~