"Marvin!" Arthur yelled frantically, running to nowhere in particular. "Marvin where are you?"

"How far could he have gone?" Trillian asked, trying to keep up with Ford.

"Well, considering he has the mind the size of a planet, I would assume not very far at all." Ford said. "But it's WHERE he could have gone that worries me. This world was not meant to hold such sorrow."

"Why? What can he do that would be so bad?" Arthur asked, glancing in every which direction.

"A wise man once said that a immensely depressed robot said is always capable of only doing one thing you can know for sure." Ford Said.

"And what is that?" Trillian asked, scared for what the answer might be.

"I don't know." Ford said. "All I remember was that it was something incredibly bad."

"Oh that makes me feel much better about our predicament." Arthur yelled.

"This way!" Ford yelled, making a sharp towards a forest. "Of course he would go in the forest..."

"Wait, how do you know where he is?" Arthur asked.

Ford shook his head.

"No time to explain, just move." Ford muttered.

Arthur shared an unsure glance with Trillian, and then hoofed it after Ford, who was running full speed ahead towards an eerie forest. It didn't take them long to make it to the foot of the forest, but when they did Ford stopped and closed his eyes.

"Why did you stop?" Trillian asked.

Ford let out a sigh.

"Stop talking for one damned minute." Ford snapped.

Trillian was taken aback and fell into a silence.

"This way." Ford said, running straight into the forest. "We need to get there as fast as we can."

"Why?" Arthur asked.

"You don't want to know." Ford yelled, quickly gaining speed.

Back at Twilights place the girls came back into the room where they thought the others were sitting, only to find Zaphod by himself, snoring heavily on the floor.

"Is he okay?" Fluttershy asked, standing next to Zaphod, putting her ear to his chest. "He still has a heartbeat."

"I saw him feel good when he drank this!" Pinkie Pie said, picking up Zaphods flask.

"I wonder what it is?" Twilight asked.

"Only one way to find out!" Pinkie Pie said, taking a tiny sip of the flask. Pinkie Pie eyes went white and she dropped the flask on the ground and started trembling.

"Pinkie are y'all right?" Applejack asked, approaching Pinkie.

Pinkie Pies face then went green and she spewed all over the floor.

"What in Celestias name is in there?" Rainbow Dash asked, glancing nervously to the flask.

"I don't know, but whatever it is it tastes yucky." Pinkie groaned, scrubbing her tongue with her hoof.

"It may taste disgusting at first." Zaphod groaned, finding himself extremely queasy. "But it grows on you."

"Oh good you're fine." Twilight said. "I was beginning to get worried."

"Yeah, don't worry about me, that happens sometimes when I drink out of that flask." Zaphod laughed deeply.

"What vile concoction is in it?" Rarity asked.

"You know that awesome drink I was telling you about?" Zaphod asked, to which Rarity replied with a simple nod. "Yeah, it's that."

"So the "awesome" drink that you like so much makes you sick and then tired?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah, actually, that is exactly what it does." Zaphod said, raising the flask to the girls. "Any of you want a sip?"

All the girls looked at Pinkie, whose face was completely flushed. They then glared at Zaphod and shook their heads.

"Suit yourself." Zaphod shrugged. "More for me."

This, however, was a redundant statement. The reason it was redundant is because when Zaphod was the fake president of the galaxy, and coincidentally a couple hours before he stole the Heart of Gold, he hired the greatest scientists in the world to invent a container that would regenerate any liquid put into it forever. It wasn't until later that they realized this was a mistake.

"Where did the others go?" Twilight asked, trying to change the subject.

Zaphod then glanced around lazily. "I was about to ask you the same thing."

"Oh this can't be good." Applejack said.

Back at the forest, Ford, Trillian and Arthur found themselves behind a bush, watching a huge towering beast, growling at Marvin, who stared at it indifferently.

"Do it. You would be doing everybody a favor." Marvin moaned.

"What is that thing?" Arthur whispered.

"I don't know." Trillian replied. "But it seems to be a lion, with a scorpions tail and a set of wings."

"It's called a manticore." Ford said. "The only thing we can do is hope Marvin some how makes it go away. If we try to intervene it will probably kill us all."

"And I was beginning to think we finally made it to a completely happy, safe and mostly harmless world." Arthur said.

"I've been to mostly harmless planet before." Ford said. "It was a nice place while it lasted."

"What happened to it?" Arthur asked.

"It got blown up by the Vogons to make room for an intergalactic highway." Ford said with a laugh.

Arthur glared darts at him.

"What? Are you not going to do anything?" Marvin asked somberly. "Oh I get it. Big vicious creature that can hurt anything decides to go soft once someone begs to be put out of his misery."

With that, the manticore turned around and ran back in it's gave.

"Come back here and do it you mangy creature." Marin said, slightly louder than he usually speaks. "Even when I yell at him he doesn't do anything. What does an ex robot have to do on this planet to get mercy killed."

"For some strange reason I kind of saw that coming." Arthur said loud enough so that Marvin could hear.

"So that's why it ran back in the cave. What are you... things... doing here?" Marvin asked.

"We're here to bring you back to Twilight's home." Trillian replied.

"I wasn't talking to you." Marvin said, pointing behind them. "I was talking to them."

Arthur, Ford and Trillian slowly turned to see that there were dozens of wolves in the trees, seemingly blending in.

"Are they made out of... wood?" Arthur whispered to Ford.

"Timberwolves." Ford said. "Just great." Next Chapter: Chapter 5 Estimated time remaining: 9 Minutes