As everypony bickers to one another about what to do, I see a creature walk towards us out of the corner of my eye. I quickly turn towards it and aim.

KER-PEW

I nearly loose the rifle as it blast a massive bolt of energy at the creature. The usually pencil size bolt is now a leg size bolt, and turns the icky creature to ash.

"What was that!" Storm asks as he runs over and takes a look. "What did you do?"

"I...I don't know! I saw one of those disgusting creatures and took a shot at it! But the shot came out and it was... well... bigger." Everypony stares at me in disbelief, as if I would lie about something I have absolutely no control over.

"I think it was Miles." Twilight says as she look back to him. "Him over exerting himself like this must be sending excess energy out. Our rifles must be over powered right now, and possibly our magic. It's just a theory, but it makes the most sense right now." I look between Miles and my rifle, not completely understanding everything. Just how much power is the poor dear dealing with right now?

"Alright, magic OP, great. Right now we need to get out of Quartz Crest..."

"What?! Storm, why would we leave so close to the objective?" Twilight interrupts.

"Fluttershy is injured. You've been over exerting yourself magically. My sword doesn't do shit against those creatures and we only have two effective fighters; not to mention our most effective fighter is currently flailing around on the ground. We need to head back to Moosden and wait for everypony to heal...."

"How do you propose we move Miles?" Twilight asks, getting Storm to think about it.

"Like this." He says as he pulls his sword out and slashes at Miles, making a gust of wind that blows him down the street.

"STORM!" Everypony yells as he walks after him.

"Look, we need to get out of here. This is the only way to get him out of here. I don't like it either.... but we have to get going." Everypony looks to each other before following after Storm.

"I hate you so much." Miles whines as he goes into the fetal position.

"Love ya..."

"CAN I DO IT!" Pinkie asks as she runs up beside Storm. "Please? Please please please please please please..."

"Alright, but just this once." Storm says as he gives her the sword.

"YES! Ahem..... FUS-ROH-DAH!" She yells as she slashes at him, sending him further down the street. "OK, now Cheesus will be happy." She says as she gives Storm the sword back.

"The.... pimp?"

"He wishes." Pinkie chuckles as she hops after Miles. We all look to each other and shrug it off as a Pinkie thing.

"Alright, I'll take lead. Twilight, Rarity, take the sides and shoot anything green. Rainbow, fly above us and call out any creatures you see. Applejack, pick up the rear and buck anything that isn't us."

"RIGHT!" Everypony says as we take our positions and follow after Storm.

"Please don't." Miles begs as Storm walks up to him.

"Sorry buddy, but this is for your own good."

FOOSH

"AAHHHHHAHAHAAaaa." Miles screams as he slams into the bulkhead of the dome. Storm was able to speed up the time by blasting him into the air and continuously hitting him, keeping him air born. Luckily for us, we didn't run into many of the food creatures, but to keep up with Storm, Twilight had to teleport us a couple of times. This has left her fairly worn out. Most of those creatures must of been killed when Corpus Glacius took over Miles's body.

"Alright.... *pant* we made it..." Twilight says before collapsing to the ground.

"You... can say... that twice." Rainbow says as she sets Fluttershy down and drops next to Twilight.

"Now... how do we open the door?" Applejack asks Miles, only to get pained cries from him in response.

"Where's that gold stick Miles had that he used to open it?" Pinkie asks as she starts to look around for it.

"I have it." We all look to Miles as he rolls over to show the glowing stick on his back. It must be enchanted to resist high temperatures.

"Well.... OK. Let me try to levitate it off." I says as I flare my horn. I envelope the rod with my magic and work on getting it out... but things don't work out. The rod is so hot that whenever I try to move it, it just burns through my aura field. After several failed attempts, and an ever growing head ache, I finally give up. "Sorry girls, and Storm, but there is no way that thing is coming off."

"Well... what now?" Storm asks as he looks back to the bulkhead. I sit down and try to think of something as well, when I hear Miles mumble something. Curious, I step closer to him and listen to what he's saying.

"....me..... teleport me.... Twilight..."

"Uh Twilight dear, can you come here please." I says as I back away from him, due to his flailing around.

"Yeah Rarity?" Twilight asks weakly as she approaches the two of us.

"Miles was mumbling something. I think he wants you to teleport him somewhere..."

"What? I need to save up to get the group back to the surface..."

"Yes, I know. But I think you should give it a try anyway, this could be important." I say as I glance back to Miles.

"*sigh* alright, here goes nothing." Twilight says as she charges her horn and tele...

KA-BOOM

We all drop to the ground as Miles reappears in a massive explosion down the street. Once we feel its safe to, we all raise our heads and look down the street to see a massive hole in the ground where Miles should be, along with a few fires.

"That.... could of been us." I say as I look back to everypony. "Miles is not coming back to the surface with us..."

"We can't just leave him here though, its too dangerous to be here alone!" Rainbow says as she tries to get air born, but drops back down due to a pain in her wing.

"Hey! I think I found the lever!" Pinkie says as she pulls a large lever that's sitting on the wall beside the bulkhead. Once its down, the door begins to slide upwards, getting cheers from everypony... except for me. I know what I have to do... I just need Storms sword. As everypony goes to talk with Pinkie I walk over to the hole in the ground beside Storm and look down with him. There seems to be a fire down there, probably one of those icky goo piles with Miles in the center.

"Why don't you let me go down and get him, I'm sure you're plenty tired from doing all of that hard work earlier." I say as I nudge him a bit.

"How are you going to get back up?" Storm asks while raising an eyebrow.

"Magic."

"Oh... right. Well here's my sword." He says as he offers me his sword. I take it and walk to his other side, trying to aim it so he's between me and the bulkhead. If he only would open his wings....

"Did I ever tell you about the time Twilight and I had a threesome with Applejack?"

FWOOSH

"WHAT?!"

FOOSH

I swing the sword as hard as possible, sending Storm flying into the girls and knocking them all over. Using my magic, I switch the lever back as I continue to swing the sword at them, making them roll into the cave and out of the city.

"One day." I yell to the others as the door slowly reaches the bottom. "Come back in one day. If the door isn't open by then, then come back in another twelve hours. I'll be back at that time and every hour afterwards." I yell as the door finally shuts. I stare at the door for a bit, feeling horrid for deceiving them like this, but I had to do it. I'm the only one here who will stand a chance with Miles. Twilight and Rainbow are too tired. Fluttershy is injured. Storm, Applejack and Pinkie don't have any means of fighting the creatures effectively... I have to be the one to stay behind and watch after Miles...

"RAHWIJAAAAA!" I turn around to see four of the creatures slowly approaching me. I lift up the rifle with my magic and shakily hold the sword up.

"HOW BOUT YOU!" I yell as I open fire and swing the sword.

THUD

"Ow..." I say as I fall back. I had tried to fly back inside to stop her, but I was too late. Dammit Rarity, what do you think you're doing?

"What does she think she's doing! She can't stay in there by herself! Rarity can barely function with a speck of dirt on her hooves! How is she going to fight off an entire city of crazy food creatures!" Twilight yells as she tries to lift the bulkhead up with her magic. I walk over to her and put an arm around her, getting her to stop and hug me tightly.

"There has ta be sum way we can get inside." Applejack says as she walks up beside me and looks at the door with me.
"Is there anything we can do?" Rainbow asks as she joins us.

"Panic?" Fluttershy asks as she limps over. We all give her a look, getting her to offer a smile in response.

"There isn't anything we can do." I say, getting everypony's attention. "We just have to trust that Rarity will be able to hold her own. We don't need to worry about Miles, he's practically on fire right now. Lets just head back to Moosden and work on getting rested up. We need to get back as soon as possible."

"If you say so." Pinkie says as she mopes behind us, hair falling straight down.

"You'll see. Well be back here tomorrow and everypony will be fine.... you'll see." Everypony stays silent as Twilight charges her horn and prepares to teleport us away. I hold onto her a little tighter, worrying about Rarity and Miles.

FLASH

*Grrrr*

"Who goes there!" I yell as I jolt awake and look around for anymore of the creatures. I've been on the move for ever, trying to find anywhere remotely safe to hold up to rest. And so far its been rather difficult. I stand up and look around the office some more, trying to find the disgusting creature that's hiding in here. After a few minutes of searching around cubicles I tur...

*Grrrr*

Oh.... I'm just hungry. I shake my head as I trot back to where I left....

"MILES!" I run over to him and shake him, trying to wake him up. The fire on his back has gone away, as well as most of the lines on his body. I watch as the lines completely retreat to his hands and feet and the fires on them fade away. He's finally done! Now he just needs to wake up now.

"Miles! Miles? Rah, don't you know its rude to keep a lady waiting." I say as I shake him some more. Sadly, he remains asleep. I look around before I raise a hoof and gently slap him... nothing. Well... ok, one more. I try again, but with a little more force, and come to the same results.

"Hmm... this must be some kind of... magically induced coma. Oh... I wish I had Twilight here, she would know what to do." I look around and decide to let him sleep while I get something to eat.

Once I get the picnic blanket down, and all of the silverware down, I finally go into my bag to.....

"HOW COULD I NOT BRING ANY FOOD!" I yell as I dig into my saddle bag. Scarf, tiara to go with the scarf, rain boots... why didn't I put these on earlier? I shake my head as I dump out all of the contents of my bag and despair. How could I bring all of these fashionable things but not even a single scrap of food?!

*Grrrr*

"Oh keep quiet you." I say as I stand up and look around. The only edible thing in this room is that pile of green stuff in the back corner NO! I won't even consider such a horrid and disgusting thing.

*Grrrr*

Well, Miles did say it was food. And he did eat it. NO! I am a lady. I will not eat such disgusting goo. Especially if its on the ground. I absolutely refuse too.

*Grrrgrrrgrrrrgrrrr*

Oh who's side are you on? Hmm... there isn't anypony here. Except Miles.... MILES! I quickly run over to his satchel and open it.... oh of course. I turn it upside down and dump the ashes onto the ground, but stop when I hear a soft thud. I sift through the ashes and find Miles phone. How did this make it through the heat... how did the bag make it on that point?!

BEEP BEEP

"AH!" I yelp as I drop the vibrating thing. It gives a few more shake before it goes still, doing a little tone before staying silent. "What in Equestria was..."

'One unread message. From : "Eximius." received: January 26th, 1132'

I stare at the phone as it falls silent again. There were two voices coming from it. One sounded like one of those bots while the other one sounded like... a stallions. A well refined stallion at that. I wonder what the message was.... no. That is Miles's personal, private message. I should...

*Grrr*

"*sigh* fine, you win. I shall.... give it a try." I say as I walk over to the green pile and sit before it. Am I really going to do this? maybe I should hear what the message has to say... it could be something important after all. What if the food is poisoned! Or worse... what if it's made of... meat. OK, that's it. I'm going to see what the message on Miles's phone is.

I get up and walk back over to Miles's side, levitating up the phone and looking it over. Hmm... how do I use this? I've seen him do it a couple of times before. You just, take your hoof, point at it, and slide it around. As I try this, the screen stay blank. No matter how much I move my hoof around, nothing will change on the darn thing.

*Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*

"Oh.... Fine. If I must, then I must." I say as I set the phone down and walk back over to the pile off goop. I can't believe I'm about to do this. This has to be the single most disgusting thing on the face of the planet. I must never tell a soul about this. I raise a hoof and bring it before the goo, shaking slightly in fear of what I'm about to do to my coat. With a heavy heart I push my hoof into the goop, squealing from the feeling. I pull back and take a look at my hoof, nearly gagging from the sight.
"Well... I already have it..." I gulp a bit before I bring the goo to my mouth and try to take a bite.

*Nom nom nom*

"Oh my." I say as I continue to chew. it's not bad. Actually, for what it is, its fairly decent. I reach back into the pile and take a larger chunk of the goop to eat. I'm actually starting to like this a bit. It does has the texture of tooth paste, but other then that it's not half bad. I reach back inside to get some more, but freeze when I feel something solid. From out of the goo one of the creatures rises.

"Oh, is this your pile of goo? How rude of me." I say as I back away from it. I glance back to see the rifle laying beside Miles, so I start to move towards it.

"Rahwijinimina." It mutters as it crawls towards me.

"Yes.... well, sorry about the whole, eating your goop thing. A girls got to eat." I say as I continue to step away from it.
"Awima." It says as it stops and rears back, revealing its stomach. Dozens of the yellow spore things grow out from it's chest and stomach and come towards me. I tried to jump away but it quickly dropped down and tackled me.

"LET GO OF ME YOU RUFFIAN!" I yell as it pins me down and starts to send the yellow spores at me. I scream out as they reach closer and....

PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW

From behind me red bolts of energy ring out and slam into the creature, making pockets of ash fall from it.

"GET THE FUCK OFF OF HER!" Miles yells as he tackles the beast to the ground and uses his magic to set it on fire. I fall back and sigh in relief in Miles saving me....

"MILES! you're awake!" I yell as I jump to my hooves.

"A little busy!" He yells back as he wrestle the creature, holding its head back from biting him. "WANT TO EAT SOMETHING HUH? LETS SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT!" He yells as he lunges forward and bites it's neck, making it scream in pain.

"M-Miles." I say as I back away from the two of them.

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As we all stand in front of Squishy's house, I can only shake my head at Pinkie.

"How could you total two cars?" I ask for the hundredth time.

"I dunno. It was in gear, I turned it on, then I hit Squishy's car.... physics did the rest." Pinkie explains.

"My parents are going to kill me." Squishy says as he stares at the remains of his car.

"At least now you can get a car without purple seats." I offer.

"THEY WERE BROWN!" As we glare at each other, Cheesus and Pinkie start to walk off together. "Where are you guys going?"

"Burrito." Cheesus says matter of factly.

"But.... I'm Californian.... I don't walk anywhere." I pout as Pinkie looks back to me.

"So you can write a 400k word story but you can't walk two miles?" Squishy and I just look back and forth between the wreckage and the others walking away.

"Not like it's going anywhere." Squishy says as he runs after them.

"But.... police reports.... tow truck.... then... fuck, WAIT UP!" I yell as I run after them.

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