For a moment, Kaylee had frozen up, lying nearly still as the ground rumbled beneath her. But when she saw the light flicker out across the pond, she mustered up enough strength to stand upright and, even as her hooves shook and she could barely remain steady, she let the magic course out of her horn that would light up the space around them.

"K-Kevin!" The moment her horn lit up, Flight had called out and Kaylee could see the look of surprise on the yellow filly's face as she bounded forward. "What's going on?"

"I don't know!" Kaylee shouted. She looked down at the pond, whose surface was churning wildly, splashing up at her hooves and even past them onto the grass. The filly used her magic to lift her saddlebag out of the way, wincing as she noticed the bottom of the bags were soaked, but threw it over herself all the same. She bit her lip as she lifted Flight's saddlebag, and flung it over the yellow filly's side as she skidded to a halt alongside, sending murky water splashing up into the air.

Once Flight had shown she could hold the weight, she stood up taller and turned to Kaylee. "Wh-what should we do?" she asked, a worried expression on her face. Her head frantically turned toward the bend in the trees, which she could just barely see in the green glow.

"I guess we should... try and make it back over to the others?" Kaylee replied, her voice quavering with uncertainty. "I don't know what else to do... if Cotton's horn went out, I'm not sure what's going on, but... what other choice do we have?"

"I-I guess you're right," Flight stammered, shivering as the water shook around at her hooves. The ground wasn't rumbling nearly as much as before but... it was definitely still rumbling.

Kaylee looked back at the pond's surface or at least what she could see of it in her hornlight's green glow but as she looked at the water, she noticed something alarming.

"Um... where's Scootaloo?"