As Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy watched their friends, along with the five alicorns, disappear, they realized that they were in over their heads.

"NO!!!!!" Twilight said once the seven had teleported away. "No, no, NO, NO!!!"

Twilight kicked the ground, her anger getting the better of her, not noticing that the map was splayed out in front of her, the red dot that had brought them to Pinkie Pie now in a different spot than where they were, but still glowing all the same.

"Twilight look!" Fluttershy said as she tried to draw the furious mare's attention to the map. "The dot, it's still there!"

"What?" Twilight said, trying to control herself.

"The dot, the one that brought us to Pinkie, it's still glowing, and it moved!" Fluttershy said, somewhat happy that they could easily track their friends.

Sure enough, the little red dot that they had used to find Pinkie Pie was still on the map. And it had moved a considerable distance from where they stood.

"Well then," Twi began, "I guess we better get a move on."

Rainbow Dash awoke with a start. Around her were trees, trees, and more trees, but the five alicorns that had captured her were nowhere to be seen. Pinkie Pie lay next to Dash, still unconscious from whatever spell the alicorns had used to knock them out. But even still, they were together, which was way better than last time when Rainbow woke up alone and afraid, only to eventually find her friends' mutilated corpses. Rainbow shivered at the memories, and pushed them away. No time for dwelling on the past, Rainbow had to focus on getting Pinkie Pie awake, and then getting the buck out of there. Because there was no broken wing grounding her like last time, and she intended to keep it like that.

"Pinkie," Rainbow said, shaking the pink pony in an attempt to rouse her from unconsciousness, "Pinkie wake up!"

No response. Rainbow was as good as alone until Pinkie came to.

"Come on Fluttershy! We're almost there!" Twilight said as she passed through another pair of branches that were blocking her path.

"Okay, okay!" Fluttershy said, panting.

They had been running for hours now. Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie were dangerously deep into the forest. So far in that Twilight knew that she and Fluttershy would have to keep sprinting as fast as they could if they were going to save them. She didn't have Fluttershy fly, however, because she didn't want to risk getting seperated by one of the alicorns jumping out, grabbing Flutters, and then teleporting away like they did with Rainbow Dash. Which, to be honest, wasn't that hard, as Fluttershy was too scared to even consider flying.

After another hour of furious sprinting, Fluttershy and Twilight came across the five alicorns, who were the last ponies they wanted to see today.

"Well whaddya know?" The leader mused, "You just can't back the buck off can you?"

"Where are Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie?!" Twilight demanded.

"Now where's the fun in telling you? I'd rather keep watching you try to find them. After all, we did put you on a wild goose chase.

"What do you mean?" Twi asked.

"Do you really think that the red dot on your map is Pinkie Pie?" The alicorn replied, "no, it was a decoy. I had one of my sisters put that spell on your map and to have it looking or me. So we could bring you here."

"Why?" Twi said, starting to get more than a little angry about this development.

"So we can kill you, of course." The leader said with an evil smirk. "But first, we must have Rainbow here, so she can watch as you and your friend die."

As she finished speaking, the alicorn that had grabbed Rainbow Dash when she attempted to help Pinkie flew off, presumably in the direction of Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie. Twilight tried to run after her, but the leader alicorn caught her with her magic, and soon had Fluttershy as well.

"Who are you evil ponies?" Twilight asked accusingly.

"Well, considering that you'll all die once my sister returns with Rainbow Dash, I might as well tell you. We are the Predaki, that is not a plural either, the six, or should I say, five, of us created this group when our parents were killed. And now we kill anypony who enters our part of the forest, or manages to kill one of us." The leader explained. "Your friends that we already killed did the first, and Rainbow Dash managed to do both. For which she, and all of those close to her, must die."

Author's Notes:

It took me a while to decide on a name for the group of alicorns, but I did it. "Predaki"... Has a nice ring to it, dont ya think?