Rainbow knocked on Mascaran and Cheerleader's door. The stepsisters currently had their friends getting together in the family room.

The door opened, "Hey, Rainbow, anything new?" Cheerleader asked.

"Lots. Let's talk." Rainbow sighed.

"Kay." Cheerleader said and closed the door as Rainbow came in.

Everypony but Racer and Sprinter were there.

Mare's day. Rainbow thought.

"Hey Rainbow, where were you the past couple days?" Volley asked, sitting on a couch next to Helping Paw and Trackee.

It suddenly hit Rainbow. It was June 8th, the sleepover happened on June 5th, Rainbow left Volley's house on June 6th and hung out with Hoop and Soarin the whole day. On June 7th, her date came over and Soarin ruined it for her.

"Busy. Can I tell you guys something?" Rainbow asked.

"Anything, Rainbow. What's the matter?" Helping Paw asked.

Rainbow told the whole story- what happened after she left Volley's house, up to what happened after Flashing Skies left.

"That's...bad..." Volley said.

"No, it's adorable!" Mascaran squeed, "Stallions fighting for her! Oh, I wish that would happen to me!"

"No you don't." Rainbow grumbled, "It's terrible."

"Well, Soarin had a crush on you. Wouldja look at that." Trackee said.

"I saw it coming from a mile away." Mascaran replied.

"Soarin is not my coltfriend, though! I have Flashing Skies." Rainbow reminded.

"Are you guys planning on..y'know..." Cheerleader began awkwardly.

"No!" Rainbow screamed.

"You know you want to, Rainbow." Mascaran teased.

Helping Paw chuckled.

"Oh shut up, Mascaran. You know, I'm sure you and Racer have already." Rainbow responded, rolling her eyes.

"Would you guys stop it with Racer?! We aren't dating!" Mascaran protested.

"Oh, here's my perfect chance to tell you guys!" Cheerleader smiled, "Racer and Sprinter came over yesterday. They were making out in her room. Me and Sprinter both saw. Oh, it was so good. There was saliva on the bed and everything!"

Mascaran's face went bright red, "What?! No, I never ever did that."

"I'll ask Sprinter." Volley said, bringing out her iPone.

Did u see Mascaran making out with Racer yesterday?

After a few minutes...

Yeah I saw it was hilarious lol

"Well it's proven, Mascaran does have a thing for Racer!" Volley announced.

"What?! Let me see that!" Mascaran said, and snatched Volley's phone.

"Celestia dammit, Sprinter." she muttered, and gave the phone back to Volley.

"Okay, I did..." she admitted.

Everypony burst into laughter.

Mascaran changed the subject, "Did you kiss anypony before Flashing, Rainbow?"

"No, and my first kiss was a makeout. It was awesome." Rainbow chuckled.

"I've kissed a colt before. In like, first grade, though." Cheerleader said.

"I'm a lip virgin." Trackee muttered.

Everypony chuckled.

"Same." Volley admitted.

"Yup, me too." Helping added.

"I saw that MountainHike stallion looking at you in the school year, Volley." Trackee said.

"You did? Oh, he's cute. He's pretty nice, too." Volley thought aloud.

"I think Volley got a crush." Rainbow snickered.

Volley just smiled.

***

Hoop was surprised to hear a knock on his door. It couldn't be Soarin. He was right behind him. Instead, it happened to be Racer and Sprinter.

"Oh, um hi." Hoop said.

"The mares are spending the day together. So I thought we might as well have a colt's day." Racer said.

"Oh, good idea." Soarin said, wanting to use anything he could to get his mind off of what happened yesterday.

"Want to shoot some hoops at the park?" Sprinter suggested.

"Sure." Hoop replied.

The four colts made their way to the nearby park's basketball court, which was simply a large concrete slate with a basketball hoop.

There, they saw BusyBay again- but she saw them before they saw her. She raced up to them, excited, with the young colts she was watching at the park trailing after her.

"Hey, Hoop! Hi Soarin! Soarin, you look sad." She came up to his face and lifted up his chin, getting a good look of his sad face.

"I'm fine." Soarin said quickly.

Busy looked around the group. "Oh, hi, Racer and Sprinter! Where's everypony else?"

"They're all busy." Hoop lied. He knew Busy's feelings would be hurt if she hadn't been invited to Cheerleader and Mascaran's.

"Can we hang out?" A blonde colt, sister of Mascaran asked.

"If you guys want to play basketball, sure." Hoop shrugged.

Finally the other colts joined him, and the game began.

Busy wondered what to do. The mares were busy, the stallions were playing basketball, she would play, but she didn't really like basketball. Now she was sitting alone on a swing.

Then an idea hit her head.

The game ended, and she walked over.

"Who won?" she asked.

"Soarin, Wheelie, and I." Hoop replied, scruffing the young blonde colt's mane.

Wheelie laughed.

"Truth or dare..." BusyBay said, in an evil-like tone, "Everypony sit down and listen. You have to do whatever the dare pony says, unless it's kissing or killing yourself and stuff like that. And you have to tell the truth, no matter what. This makes it fun."

The ponies made a circle.

"I'll be the first." she said, looking over to Soarin, "Soarin, truth or dare?"

"Dare." Soarin said.

"I dare you to tell me why you're sad." Busybay said.

A blush went to Soarin's cheeks. But this wasn't truth- he could lie.

"My brother was just a jerk." he lied.

"Oh." BusyBay sighed, in disappointment.

She was expecting it to be like him fighting for Rainbow Dash because she was making out with some colt and then Soarin got really mad and attacked him and now Rainbow's mad at him.

BusyBay began to speak,

"Well, Soarin, it's your turn."  

***

"Okay, pretend I'm Flashing Skies." Volley began, "I'm about to take you out on a date to Griffon Park." she put a hoof over Rainbow,

"Now let's walk to Griffin Park- which is the kitchen."

"Uh, okay." Rainbow said awkwardly, "Seriously, why are we doing this?" she asked.

The two arrived at the kitchen, and then behind the counter, Trackee popped out.

"I'm Soarin." she quickly whispered, then made a fake-angry face, "Now you see me, and I'm mad at your coltfriend. What do you do?"

"Uh, tell Flashing Skies to ignore him I guess..." Rainbow said.

"Okay, let's play it out." Volley said, and then walked Rainbow by "Soarin".

"Soarin" jumped on Volley and pretended to bite and kick her.

"AAAH, Oh nooooo." Volley said, dramatically falling to the floor.

"Your coltfriend has passed out! Now you have to face Soarin." Trackee said.

"What's the point in this?" Rainbow grumbled.

"Practice- for if you ever have to face Soarin somewhere with Flashing." Trackee whispered, then went back into character, then pressed her muzzle into Rainbow's cheek.

"What are you doing?" Rainbow asked.

"Pretend like I'm kissing you." Trackee whispered.

"Okay...uh..." Rainbow pushed away "Soarin". "What the hay are you uh, doing?! Get away from me!"

"But, I love you, Rainbow!" "Soarin" cried.

"No, get out of my face. Uh, Flashing, get up, we're leaving." She grabbed "Flashing's" hoof and brought "him" off from the ground and began to walk "him" away.

Mascaran over-enthusiastically clapped, "Bravo!"

Rainbow rolled her eyes.

"Should we go outside or something? It's nice and warm."

"Sure." Cheerleader shrugged, and they went in the large backyard of the step sisters'.

Rainbow stepped in the cloud-grass, and saw Celestia's sun high in the air. She wondered what it'd like seeing the sunset at the edge of Cloudsdale, despite the fact that it was still afternoon.

Then they heard...crying.

Each pony gave a confused look, and then there was a scream.

They all launched themselves off the cloud-ground, and then saw a horrifying sight.

Soarin, Hoop, Racer, Sprinter, and Busybay and young colts were taking a walk, when Northway shot out from behind a house and tackled Soarin, and with surprising strength, she dragged him away from the group. Soarin gave a scream, and all anypony could do was stare in shock.

So that's her special talent! Rainbow thought, Strength.

Rainbow was the first to take action, and then she flew over to the struggling Soarin.

She gave a nice kick to her face, and Northway howled, but she kicked Rainbow in the belly, knocking the air out of her and she fell, but luckly was saved by the soft cloud ground.

"Rainbow!" Everypony cried.

Northway progressed to take Soarin away, but soon enough, everypony managed to catch up to the mare and the scared colt, with Helping and Mascaran hesitating.

Rainbow lay on the ground, trying to catch her breath, and groaned, and slowly stood up, head spinnning.

She knew the combined power of about fifteen ponies had to take over one pony, right?

Right. she thought, as Soarin managed to break free with the help of the others.

Northway, now realizing she was outnumbered by fifteen to one, began to fly away.

Angered, Rainbow was determined to kick the buck out of that mare.

She flew after her, and someone from behind called, "Rainbow, stop!"

How can I stop if this damn mare won't learn her lesson? Rainbow thought, in anger.

She caught up with Northway, and punched her in the side.

Northway replied with a bite on the wing.

Rainbow turned while her wing was being bitten, and kicked Northway in the chest with both back hooves.

Now both pegasi were flightless, and in the air.

They crashed into the ground, and once they both got up, the fight continued.

Rainbow hit Northway under the jaw, and Northway fell, but arched her back and hit Rainbow in the belly, once again, knocking the wind out of her.

Rainbow couldn't recover in time, though. She was picked up by Northway and was lifted off the ground. She finally recovered, but could not break the grip of the strong mare.

Rainbow gave a scream, but Northway stopped her by shoving her hoof in Rainbow's mouth, Rainbow couldn't even bite down.

Northway proceeded to fly away.

Help, oh Celestia, help me! Rainbow thought, Where are my friends? They should be here by now!

Then Rainbow heard the flapping of wings, and then gave a muffled scream.

Northway flew behind a house quickly, and Rainbow continued to struggle.

From an angle, she could see her friends searching for her.

"Where is she?!" Volley cried, scanning the area around her.

Then Rainbow was startled by Northway's whisper, and she hissed, "Soon enough, you'll be my bait to get to Soarin. He'll see how much it hurts... and I'll take all of your stupid friends, too!"

"I'm calling the police." Helping said, and brought out her iPone.

Northway's eyes widened and said, "Poop...I guess I'll just have to take the long way."

And she flew, with Rainbow in her clutches.

***

"How would Flashing react?!" Mascaran said, worried out of her mind.

Soarin felt a tinge of red go to his cheeks.

Don't be jealous right now, he can help us get Rainbow back. he thought.

An officer came by, and questioned.

"So you're saying that this mare has kidnapped you before?" the cop questioned.

Mascaran nodded, and said, "Same with my friend, Helping, over there. They had to rescue us. But she took our friend, Rainbow Dash. She has a blue coat and a rainbow mane and tail.

"Do you know where she lives?" the cop asked.

Soarin replied,

"Yeah, we do."

***

Rainbow panicked as she was taken past Northway's house. She gave another muffled scream, but had to submit to the too-strong mare.

She closed her eyes, and hoped it would all be over.

She opened them when they landed.

She was at a different house, but it was rather the back of a house.

Rainbow was dragged inside the house, and into the basement.

Why always the basement? Rainbow thought.

There was another pony down there. A mare; about their age. She was pink with a blonde mane, and green eyes.

Northway began to speak, "I brought us a friend. But I don't think she'd make a good friend. She should use her for something else."   Rainbow began to panic. What would they use her for, exactly? "Like a model for our designs or something." Northway said.

Rainbow let a silent breath of relief.

Surely, her siblings or parents would find out before anything could happen, right? Rainbow thought, but she wasn't so sure.

"Good." the pink pony replied, "Did you get the other two, yet?"

Other two? Is she referring to Mascaran and Helping Paw? Rainbow thought.

"Almost got Soarin today." Northway said, annoyed.

"What about Hoop?" the pink pony asked.

"He was with Soarin. But like I told you, I only managed to get her." Northway pointed at Rainbow Dash.

Hoop? Rainbow thought, Why the hay would they want Hoop?

"Whatever." the pink pony said, "Just put her away. Let's make a plan to get the others."

Rainbow's entire body was wrapped in duct tape, which reminded her on what happened three nights before, how Mascaran and Helping Paw were wrapped in it.

She was put in a closet, where she continued to struggle but knew it was useless. Northway looked at her kidnapped pony, and smiled and closed the closet.

If somepony told me one day, I'd be captured by a super-strength, mentally-disabled mare and wrapped in duct tape and put in a dark closet, unable to scream because I had twenty layers of duct tape on my muzzle, I would've called 'em crazy. Rainbow thought,

But this is really happening. Why did I doom myself? I shouldn't of have chased after her...I'm so dumb... I've got to get out of here.

Rainbow couldn't move though, and all she could do was tip herself over, and hope the there would be a knife sticking out of the closet wall so she could have it cut the duct tape off.

She let out another muffled scream, but it was useless.

I'm dead...I am so, so, dead. So, so, dead.

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