It was 9 AM sharp in the morning, Twilight, Spike and Sunset gather up with the others at the octagon shelter with their friends. They all chatted for awhile as they wait for the principals with Timber and Daisy to show up. Celestia, Luna, Timber, and Daisy walked out from the north as they passed the only totem in the Camp. The principals, Timber and Daisy stood in front of them in the octagon shelter and about to announce the tour.

"Alright, everyone!" Celestia said to them as she clapped her hands one time. "Today we are going to take a tour around the forest like what we did say yesterday."

Then Timber's turn to continue the announcement. "So we'll be heading off at 9:45 AM, at outside the cave. So take anything that you need for the tour and meet up there."

"And everyone must join this tour, we don't want anyone avoid this tour," Luna continued firmly. "Unless someone is sick."

"And please stick close once we are inside the forest," Daisy continued. "We don't want anyone else got lost in the forest."

Twilight wasn't very concerned about this, only her 6 Rainbooms friends that were a little worried about it, the others hoping it went better to do the tour. After the announcement, they all returned to their tent and grabbed the things they need for the tour. Sunset was carrying a small shoulder bag and some food and drink for the trip and kept wearing her , with a little tools that she would be need in her bag. Twilight however, was a little bit excessive about it, she's bringing in her knife along with the holster for the right thigh, med kit bag, rappeling rope, and other small equipments for the tour and MREs, the small equipments plus some of MREs she put it in the small bag on the belt hip on the left thigh while the medkit bag on the back and the rope next to the bag. Twilight also wore a black jacket that she ever used to the restaurant that time, and Sunset didn't even suspect it. Twilight wore a purple T-shirt and a light brown pants.

Everyone prepped up and gather back again at the cave and the time is 09:40. It was crowded the time Twilight and Sunset reached there, pretty a lot of stuffs temporarily putted on the ground and some still holding to it. Everyone talked to each other, discussing much more about the tour, the forest, and the danger in it, while the other discussions were about their next activity, news, interesting topics in the city, Pinkie planning a party again after coming back from the Camp (Juniper and Sonata felt restless about it to be honest), and etc-etc. Twilight, Spike and Sunset met up with their friends, including Juniper, Dazzlings, Lyra and Bon Bon and they all talked about how exciting would it be to do the tour. As they talked within 5 minutes, Timber then stood in front of them and announced the tour started with a loudspeaker.

"Alright, everyone! Let's start our tour!" Timber said, then principals and Daisy then lined them up and they all started to walk into the woods on their right.

It was a good start at first, they quiet enjoyed the tour. Juniper and Photo Finish pulled out their camera and started to took a picture on the way. Juniper took some pictures with her friends. But when comes to Twilight, she was a little bit worried to ask her that since her behaviour still like that.

"Um, Twilight?" Juniper called to her.

"Yeah?" Twilight responded as she look at Juniper in cold.

"May I take a photo with you?" Juniper asked to her.

Twilight only smiled at her. "Sure, why not?"

Juniper smiled, and quickly hugged Twilight with her left arm and took a selfie. "Say cheese!" After taking a couple of photos, she took a look at it and she was satisfied. "Thanks."

"No problem," Twilight replied still with a smile.

Twilight was walking behind her friends, in front of her were the Rainbooms, Dazzlings, Timber, Daisy, and the principals while behind her were Tennis, Cloudy, Trixie's band team, Flash, Derpy, Bulk, and the rest of the students, next to her is Spike. After Juniper took some photos with her, she walked back to her friends at the front and show some photos with her. Seeing from the photo, Sunset and Rarity can conclude that Twilight was indeed in good mood. Still they were walking happily through the forest with Timber and Daisy leading them. A few minutes later of walking, they found a small river up ahead and stopped for awhile.

The small downstream river was very shallow, allowing them to walked through the river even though will get their foot wet. There were also some flat rocks in the river so they can passed the river without getting wet. Trixie nearly slipped when passing the river by walking on the rocks but Dash, in other hand, slipped and fell to the river by landing her face first because of her clumsiness. She got a lot of laughed from her friends, including the principals and Spike and excluding Twilight who only chuckled.

"Oh, dude!" Dash exclaimed in embarrassment as she stands up and see her clothes are wet. "Come on!"

Once they took a look around the river and chat and Juniper took some photos with her friends at the river, Timber explained to them that they will be walking through the forest into a hill a little far away. So nothing will gone wrong to them, except for Twilight who had a feeling that they will be lost in the forest. Tennis and Fluttershy met up with Twilight and talked at the other side of the small river.

"Hey, Twilight," Tennis and Fluttershy both called in cheer.

"Hey, girls," Twilight responded with a smile. "Seems you both holding up well."

"Sure we are," Fluttershy suddenly turned worry. "But I just felt a little afraid about the dangerous animals in here."

"Sounds ironic," Twilight replied with a huff. "I though you can handle any animals well."

Fluttershy only chuckled at her comment. "No, not all I guess. Like bears and wolves."

"I hope we didn't have any encounter with those animals," Tennis said, receiving consent nods both from Shy and Twi.

"But if that happens, I'll got your back," Twilight said in confidence (What did you expect? Overconfidence?).

"You're sure?" Fluttershy asked with surprised and doubt, Tennis had the same reaction with Shy. "They are very dangerous and volatile around here."

"Don't worry about that," Twilight replied to her. "I'll make sure not any shit happened around here."

Tennis only felt a little awkward after she said that with a swearing. "Right..."

Fluttershy didn't felt offended when she's swearing like that, she then realized that Twilight brought some stuff that looked so, excessive. "Is that... a knife?"

Twilight sighed, remembered that Fluttershy afraid of something violent. "Yes, it is. Look I'm bringing it for protection and for other function alright? Don't worry about it." Twilight convinced her with a soft tone.

"If you say so," Fluttershy responded with a sigh of relief.

"You're also bringing a med kit?" Tennis asked to her after seeing what is she carrying on her back.

"Yeah," Twilight replied with a nod and lifting her both hands to her sides. "Did you also bring yours?"

"Sure, it's in my bag," Tennis replied whilst pointing her thumb at the bag on her back. "I guess you were right about bringing it around just in case."

"I'm really glad to hear that, Tennis," Twilight said in compliment tone. "Looks we got 2 medics in station."

Tennis and Fluttershy chuckled, and Shy spoke. "Come on, Twilight. It's not like you're both are paramedics."

"Well, at least there's someone know what to do if something happened, right?" Twilight asked with a smile, they both nodded in consent.

"Yep, and it's you," Tennis said with her both hands on the backpack strap in front of her shoulders.

Suddenly, a flash of light blinded them for a second. They felt a little dizzy, even though Twilight who ever got flashbanged more than twice, still felt less little dizzy by that because she wasn't ready for that. After they regain their awareness, they see that was Photo Finish who took a picture of them with a blinding light unexpectedly.

"Now that was a perfect shot!" Photo said happily as she took a look on the photos in the camera.

"Can you at least tell us that you're going to do that, Photo!?" Tennis asked with annoyance.

"Well, at least I didn't get flashbanged," Twilight said very silent to herself whilst darting her eyes at the ground on her left.

"What did you say?" Fluttershy asked, though she heard Twilight said something.

"Nothing," Twilight replied quickly with a shook.

1500 hours, 27 April
COP Emerald, currently off-duty

Twilight was watching the television with Foley whilst sitting on the couch (A makeshift one) while the others playing cards, playing chest, or chatting. And that time, Mccord who was still playing chess with Ramirez has a stupid idea that he will regret. Prank everyone in the break room by throwing a flashbang in there. Mccord excuse to Ramirez for awhile and headed to Dunn who is currently playing cards with Dolker, Yorker, and Zendel. Mccord talked to Dunn by whispering to his ear and he agreed to give him a flashbang. Dunn gave him his flashbang quietly by underneath the table and Mccord return back to play chess with Ramirez.

After awhile of doing their activities, Mccord asked To Foley. "Hey, Sarge. Do you remember about our last operation back in Maymana?"

"Oh, that one?" Foley asked to him whilst looking back, Twilight did looked back but then return her eyes darting back to the TV so she listen everything they're talking about whilst watching. "Yeah, we're clearing out the Talibans from there. Nearly got fucked up by their machine guns and armored vehicle if not for the air support arrived to assist us. There was this happens, Dunn, Ramirez, Mccord and me about to breach a building. I kicked the door open and Dunn throws the flashbang grenade. And that's the shit that happened."

Rendor somehow knows where this story is going. "Dunn threw the flashbang right at the door?"

"Yes, more correctly that's a 9-bang" Foley said loudly. "That's what happened!" Everyone laughed with that, Twilight only chuckled.

"So ya' guys just breaching through the door while blinded?" Yorker asked with a laugh

"Yeah!" Foley replied quickly. "We just breached through after we got blinded by our own flashbang, so we're in and just shoot them blindly, but don't forget that the Talibans were also got blinded. We shoot blindly very wild until we collide with the Talibans who tried to shoot back to us blindly."

"You didn't even get hit?" Laner asked in impression and surprised.

"Yeah, bro!" Ramirez replied whilst lifting his hands. "We collided with them blindly. After we fell, we regain our sights back and immediately stand whilst grabbing random weapons on the floor. The Talibans did the same."

"What happened next?" Dolker asked in curious, having a sense of humor of imagining what happen next.
"Then we and the Talibans pull the trigger at the same time," Dunn explained, but then chuckled. "Then some bullshit happens, we all realize that we are aiming each other with sticks and brooms as weapons." They all laughed with that story,
Twilight did laughed as well as she watched the TV.

"Yep, so we all dropped what we were holding and one of the Talibans just asked us to have a truce," Foley said, everyone chuckled with that. "So we just, 'yeah why not?' We shake hands with them and picked up our guns and leave."

"Then you guys leave there and pretending that there was nothing happened?" Twilight asked, not bothering to look away from the TV.

"Yeah, just like that," Foley replied, pointing his finger slowly gesturing to point towards Twilight. "Looks like there's a Taliban's version of thug life." Everyone laughed again, Rendor and Dolker face palmed as they laughed and some of them closed their faces for the sake of hiding their laughing faces.

"By the way," Foley said to Mccord, giving a pause to everyone in the room. "Why you even asked that?"

"Well," Mccord looked down at the ground first before looking back at Foley. "I think you're going to love this."

Foley quickly changed his expression to a dumbfounded, whilst said slowly. "Ooooh shiiiiit." Foley realized what's going to happen. "HE'S GOING TO THROW A FLASHBANG!!!

Everyone quickly tried to get out the room, except for Twilight who is late to react for what is going on. Mccord quickly throwed the flashbang forward and jumped back into a cover behind him as the soldiers try to find cover for their eye (and ears) and the flashbang flew right in front of Twilight, who just turned her head to the right...
*BANG*

....And blinded by the Flashbang.

After the Flashbang exploded, everyone get out from their cover and took off their eye (and ear) protection and looked around the room. And found Twilight was still sitting on the couch in silent staring towards her right, thinking that she didn't have a time to react or probably immune to it. The good thing is, the flashbang Mccord threw was a M84 banger which won't burn down anything but flammable fumes and liquids and it was thrown 10 feet in front of her which avoiding her from suffering burn wounds from the flashbang. She didn't get harmed for sure, but she was very exposed to the blast.

"You're okay, Twilight?" Foley asked in worry.

Twilight was still silent and miraculously didn't lost her eyesights for being a four-eyes and didn't lost hearness, she turned her head back at the TV and slowly put down her eyeglasses on the couch and then she slowly closed her head by the eyes and ears with hands, whilst... "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"

"Uh, whoops?" Mccord smirked in embarassment, and achieve a lot of glare from his fellow soldiers in mad.

"Right..." Twilight said to herself after remembered that 'flashing' prank, she really hate that time.

"Alright, I'm gonna took another picture of you if it looks perfect!" Photo said cheerfully.

"Said a girl who is about to lose her camera," Twilight said with a hint of anger towards Photo, clearly she doesn't like any surprise like that.

"Oh," Photo said nervously and a little afraid. "So-sorry about that, I.... better go now." She quickly left them in awkward to her friends (Photo's assistants) and took a picture with someone else, with that Tennis and Fluttershy worried of Twilight's behaviour.

"Did you just gave her a threat?" Fluttershy asked to Twilight in shy and scared, Tennis only stay neutral towards her.

Twilight sighed and calmed down and turned around towards Shy. "I'm sorry, I just don't like any surprises for now, Shy."

"Oh...." Fluttershy replied softly in understood. "That's fine I guess."

"Does she always use flashes to take a picture unexpectedly?" Twilight asked to Tennis.

"Yes, usually," Tennis replied as she swings her arms wide.

"Can you please tell her to not use any flash if she wanted to take a picture of me?" Twilight asked to them both.

"Sure, I'll tell her," Shy answered with a nod.

"So, how you're holding up?" Tennis asked to Twilight with a pat to her shoulder.

"In my opinion," Twilight replied with a shrug of doubt. "Same shit, different day."

"Huh," Tennis chuckled with that, but Shy understands her harsh words. "Why so?"

"everything looks the same to me," Twilight explained to her. "Even if we are touring in this area."

"Really?" Tennis asked in disbelieve. "We've been here like for 2 days."

"Yeah, I know," Twilight said quickly. "But that was my opinion of course, not we."

"Well, you're right about that," Shy said in agreement.

"Hey, girls!" A voice called from a distant, it was Sunset. "We're going to walked on, you're coming?"

"Yeah!" Twilight replied back at Sunset with a shout, then turning her sight at both Tennis and Shy whilst tilting her head to the right. "Let's go."

They walked on from the river and headed through the forest. Twilight was with Tennis and Shy, on their front are the Rainbooms and the Dazzlings with Timber, Daisy and the principals and with the rest are behind them. Soon, Trixie caught up to Twilight's position and walked next to her. While walking, Timber explained about the region they're in.

Twilight took a note in her mind that the place they're in are occasionally inhabited with deers. While there are some of the region of the forest was said to be dark and it would be a place for wolves. For bears, said to be in a cave in an enclosed area of the forest. But then he adds another thing about the area they're in, it's a home for birds and rabbits, also deers on some cases. They took a look around there and there were a lot of cute animals like that.

Fluttershy kneel down and a lot of animals came up to her. Shy talked to the animals and even understand it, She also did hugged, rubbed, patted, and gave care on the animals. Photo and Juniper took some pictures of the animal, Photo did even taught Juniper on how to took a good photo on the scenery. Trixie, Tennis, and Cloudy watched the animals playing with other animals with the Rainbooms, while the Dazzlings ate some crackers whilst looking on the animals. Twilight was sitting down on the rocks for awhile with Daisy, then Applejack sat next to Twilight.

"Hiya, Twilight," AJ greeted. "How are ya' holding up?"

"Good, AJ," Twilight replied with a thumb. "You?"

"Same," Applejack replied as she corrected her cowboy hat. "What do ya' think about this tour?"

"Feels like the same back at the Camp," Twilight replied, Daisy who is beside her was felt a little disappointed to hear that. "Though, that's my opinion."

"Well, at least you're doing it," AJ patted Twilight's back after she said that. "By the way, did ya' threatened Photo?"

Daisy was surprised with that, but Twilight only calmly replied to AJ. "I just don't want any surprises for now."

"Do you really had give her a threat?" Daisy asked to her in tone of mad.

"Forgive me," Twilight said in a apologetic tone. "I'm just upset, alright? I didn't have any intention to do that."

Seeing her lately changed behaviour, Daisy forgave her. "Alright, but don't make any trouble, alright?"

"I'll try," Twilight replied with a tone of doubt, AJ can sensed it but she stays silent for it though Twilight was honest to answer.

"But do you enjoy doing this tour?" Daisy asked again to Twilight.

Twilight smiled and blinked her eyes once. "I guess so," to Applejack's surprise again, she was honest to answer Daisy's question.

"Also I did heard you weren't concern about the wolves that lurks around, do you really meant it?" Daisy asked again to Twilight, AJ was pretty sure she was bluffing about it.

"Yes, I mean it. What I still concerned about is the safety of everyone in this tour," Twilight replied calmly and with no doubt, Applejack's expectation was wrong, her guts tell her that she was telling the truth.

"I'm impressed," Daisy complemented her.

"Thanks," then something caught Twilight's attention, Fluttershy gesturing a 'come' hand towards Twilight to give her a hand. "Now if you don't mind, Fluttershy needs me." Twilight then stood up and walked over to Fluttershy to help her to take care the animals.

"So?" Daisy asked to Applejack. "Did she answer my questions honestly?"

"Unfortunately, yeah," Applejack replied with a disappointed tone. "Ah' though she was lying about that."

"Me too," Daisy said, agreed with AJ. "But we know that she has changed a bit."

"Yeah," Applejack though for a moment about Twilight. "Ah' wonder what are her ways."

They once again moved on forward towards the hill. It was still halfway there and they are enjoying the sights of the forest. This time Twilight is walking with the Rainbooms, with Tennis and Derpy on her side. The Dazzlings who were at the front of them were talking to themselves about the school plus the things they need to do back home. Timber and Daisy were telling everyone some stories and everything else that's in the forest. While walking, Twilight and her friends starts a conversation.

"Look at that!" Rarity cried as she pointed at the visible hill off the distance ahead of them. "We're getting close!"

"Sure it is," Applejack said in slight relieve. "Ah' wonder how does the view it look like from there."

"Much better from down here for sure, AJ," Dash said to her in excited.

"True," Twilight said with an agreement and cold.

"How long do you think we'll reached there?" Fluttershy asked them, tired of walking.

"Soon enough," Tennis answered as she looked at Shy.

"Got any drinks?" Derpy asked them as she checked her bag. "I think I forgot to bring my own."

"Take my energy drink," Twilight said as she gave Derpy a canned NOS energy drink. "Don't worry, I have another drink."

"Thanks," Derpy then opened the cap and drink it. "Ooh, I think I got pumped up."

"Sure you are," Pinkie then looked over to Shy who was looked like tired. "Shy, why don't you try that drink?"

"Umm, what?" Fluttershy asked them nervously.

"Drink this," Derpy gave the canned drink to Shy.

Fluttershy was a little bit not eager to drink it, but then. "Alright, I'll drink it." After Shy took a gulp of it, she quickly felt pumped up and her energy was back and her tiredness was gone. "Ooh, I think that's enough for me..."

"Looks like Fluttershy got the side effects of the drink," AJ said jokingly, everyone only chuckled except Twilight.

"Hey, Twilight," Dash called. "What's with that rope?"

"Just in case I have to climb," Twilight replied as she looked at Dash.

"And what's with the knife?" Dash asked her, everyone except Fluttershy surprised to see that though they really didn't realize that she been bringing it all along.

"Self-protection, cutting, yatta-yatta, what else?" Twilight replied in annoyed tone.

"I dare you to spin the knife on one hand, on your palm!" Dash cried to her with pride. "Do that 10 times!"

Twilight sighed and pulled out her knife from her holster and grip it tight. Twilight then open her palm half and then swayed it up and spin the knife on her palm with her whole fingers open, and after the knife spun she quickly gripped it before repeating that again. She did that quickly and it was above 10 times. They were impressed and they lost the count of the spins. Twilight stopped spin her knife after she counted around 20 spins, her hand palm didn't even got scratch.

"Wow," Dash gasped in impressed. "I lost count on that, how many times did you spin it?"

"20," Twilight replied, that count was much more to Dash than she expected.

"You've been playing knives, Twilight?" Tennis asked in curious.

"Not pretty much I guess," Twilight replied as she looked at her knife on the pointy sharp edge. "But I already exercise caution when holding this thing around."

"Sounds good enough for me," Sunset said with a smile.

"Maybe ya' want to cook something once we reached there?" Applejack asked to Twilight, of course it was a joke.

"No, AJ," Twilight replied with a slight chuckle. "Besides, we don't have tools and ingredients to cook there except for our own food and snacks."

Then, Principal Celestia backed off from the front and walked next to them. "Hey, girls. Do you enjoy this tour?"

"Yes, of course!" Pinkie answered excitedly. "Ooh, this is a best day!"

"If it stays that way of course," Twilight added with a serious tone, made them all caught off-guard and glanced at Twilight.

"What do you mean by that?" both Derpy and Tennis asked in puzzled.

"What I meant is I have a feeling we're going to get lost in the forest," Twilight replied in cold.

"Don't be silly, Twilight," Principal Celestia said with no doubt. "We're going to be fine."

"I hope so," Twilight replied as she rubbed her neck.

After minutes of walking, they climbed up the hill with no difficulties. They only use their feet to get up there, not like they really had to climb like that climbing wall. However, they can see the weather clearly, it was still cloudy in the sky and the view halfway at the hill was rather a little foggy. They kept walking on to reach the top of the hill.

"Hmm, this fog could help Trixie The Great And Powerful to help with her magic tricks," Trixie said to herself whilst smirking.

They reached the top of the hill and settle down there. The top of the 50 meters hill was very spacious, enough for them to settle down. There were a few big rocks there and there are some small-medium trees on their left and right. There was one side of the hill, which Twilight presumed it was facing to the south, was actually a small cliff. More than that, the view from the hill was very much pleasant. They saw the whole vast of the forest and a river on the northwest side. There was their camp very far on the north, they nearly can see them due to the forests blocking the view, except for the outside part of the cave which is a huge sized smaller hill made of rocks.

"Well, well, this is beautiful!" Luna cried in happy.

"That's right!" Daisy shouted in excitement. "Alright, everyone settle down and have fun!"

So they head on and settle down around the hill and does their stuffs and activities they want. Trixie was playing with the fog to do her magic tricks, Tennis and Cloudy were with Mystery and Derpy playing monopoly, Flash and his band team admires the hill and the forest with the rest of the students, Timber and Daisy were talking with Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna, Juniper and Photo took some pictures around the hill (Including surprising everyone with a flash except for Twilight), the Rainbooms and the Dazzlings gossiped to each other, and Twilight sat down under a tree with her legs lay straight and draw something on her notebook, though she was continuing her drawing of Dolker with colors. When about to finish, she adds a touch on his neck in which make it look like got scarred by a bullet instead of claw. She finished the drawing and put down her coloring pencil and lifted her head to enjoy the sights of nature, even though she's still showing her expression of cold. After awhile, Rarity and Dash come over to Twilight and sat down in between her. She closed the book quickly and put it down above her thighs and then sighed.

"Did you write something?" Rarity asked to Twilight after saw she closed her book in haste.

"I didn't write," Twilight replied as her eyes darting down on her book, nearly give an expression of sad.

"Draw something?" Dash asked to Twilight in curious, which annoys Twilight.

"Yeah I did draw something," Twilight replied as she looked at Dash.

"May I see it?" Rarity asked as she tried to grab Twilight's book on Twilight's thighs, but then Twilight quickly grabbed and holds her hand in the air with a strong grip, Rarity nearly touched the book and she startled.

Twilight didn't bother to look at Rarity who was trying to grab her book, she used instincts. Twilight turned her head facing at Rarity in cold. "Get your hands off from my book!" she threatened to her with a flat tone, angry and not loud.

Rarity was a little shocked of her threat as Twilight threw away her hand to Rarity's side, Rarity never felt a strong grip like that. "I though you were drawing some designs," Rarity said to Twilight, trying to reason her.

"I don't give a fuck about your goddamn fashion, Rarity!" Twilight exclaimed to her in angry, and indeed insulting her.

Both Dash and Rarity were taken back by that sentence, but then Twilight's angry expression suddenly turned to cold as she turned her head facing forward with a sigh. "What the hell did I just said?" Twilight asked to no one but herself.

"You don't look okay, Twi," Dash said when noticing her sudden expression. "Why even a book made you mad?"

"just because it's a trivial thing does not mean you just underestimate it like that," Twilight replied, they both understood that, but Dash was a little annoyed to that because she always like to underestimate simple and small things.

"Really, Twi?" Dash asked with a grin, Twilight calmly replied with a nod.

"Sorry for saying that, Rarity," Twilight said in an apologetic tone and regret. "It's not that I don't like your fashion and models, but I'm not really interested or care about that."

"Apology accepted," Rarity replied with a smile.

"What's in the book?" Dash asked to Twilight, for sure they wanted to find out what she's hiding.

"None of your concern, Dash," Twilight replied with a shook for knowing it is something personal.

Rarity decided to change topic before they made her angry again. "Uh, Twilight, do you enjoy the view?"

Twilight smiled at the sight whilst answering to her. "Sure, I am. Feels like heaven here."

"Oh, that's the first time I heard you said that," Rarity said in surprised.

"Hey, she's enjoying this trip," Dash said to Rarity. "So what's the problem with that?"

Juniper then walked over to them from their left, for sure she wants to take a couple of photos of them. "Hey, girls, say cheese....."

Both Rarity and Dash posed to the camera, Twilight still stay on her current pose with a smile. After Juniper took some photos of them, she lower down her camera from her face and smiled at them. "Thanks, guys!"

Juniper left them and they three talked again about other topics that won't annoy Twilight. From a distance, Sunset with her friends and Dazzlings noticed they tree talking to each other under a tree. Juniper then come over to Sunset and friends after took some photos. Sunset and the rest looked over Juniper and asked her.

"How's Twilight doing now?" Sunset asked.

"I think she's not in good mood now," Juniper replied as she took a look on the lenses of her camera. "But she did angry because Dash and Rarity try to lend them her book. After that, her emotion turned into neutral."

"A book?" Applejack asked with her eyebrows raised along with her friends, excluding Adagio who don't really want to get into this mess. "Then we need to take a look on her book!"

"But didn't Spike say that Twilight must not be around us if we wanted to do that?" Fluttershy asked them in concern as she puts her hands on her chest. "I'm afraid if she knew and came back to caught us red-handed."

"What do you mean Twilight must not be around us?" Aria asked in puzzled.

"She has the instincts if there's something wrong," Pinkie explained. "Even if she was far away."

"Whoa, that's something I never heard of," Sonata said in compliment of Twilight.

"How does she even has something like that?" Adagio asked, she never knew Twilight has that kind of instinct even though she was a soldier.

"We don't know," Fluttershy replied. "But for sure she has something like that."

Sunset quickly remembered about something of yesterday. "Wait, I just remember something."

"What is it?" Aria asked her.

"Ooh, it's the scar that Twilight has on her arm?" Pinkie asked Sunset, achieving everyone's glare while Sunset gave a weird look at her.

"How did you know?" Sunset asked her.

"Just a hunch," Pinkie said happily as she smiled and closed her eyes.

"Anyway, I saw her scar," Sunset explained. "Her scar was having a form of circle shape and have some small dark skins around it."

"Do you think something happened to her?" Juniper asked Sunset in worry.

"Yeah," Sunset responded as she looked towards Twilight from a distant. "But not sure what was it."

It's been an hour of activities on the hill, Twillight, Dash and Rarity were talking with Blueberry Cake and Fuschia Blush. Then Twilight walked over to Trixie and Cloudy who were currently checking their equipment. Twilight greeted them with waving their hands to each other. They both then walked over to Twilight and have a conversation.

"How's your training about disappearing in the fog?" Twilight asked to Trixie.

"It's going well, young lady," Trixie replied with pride. "I can make some tricks in no time!"

"You?" Twilight asked to Tennis.

"Well, I win the Monopoly game," Tennis said with a little cheer whilst raising both hands in the air. "You?"

"I'm just drawing someone," Twilight replied with a shrug. "Someone I knew."

"Oh," both Trixie and Tennis said in the same time, what they in mind first was something personal.

"So, have you guys enjoying this trip?" Twilight asked to them quickly.

"Sure we are," Tennis said with a smile. "Well, after this we'll be heading back to the camp."

"That's for sure," Trixie added. "Trixie hope we didn't get lost in the forest."

"Don't worry about it," Twilight said in confident but cold. "We can get through to the forest."

Timber, Daisy, and the Principals called in everyone to regroup and announce them that they will be returning back to the camp. Everyone returned to their bags and packed them up. Twilight already got packed up along with The Rainbooms, The Dazzlings, Tennis, Trixie, and Flash. They all then regroup back to the principals, Timber and Daisy then they all heading down the hill in the direction of the camp. Everything was still smooth as usual.

They were still walking for minutes. Trees on their left and right, rocks stumbling on the road, leaves falling down from the sky, and birds chirping. Nothing to do there but talking and walking. AJ and Twilight did buck some trees on the way for being boring. Rabbits and deers were jumping around the road ahead. And still they kept march forward, turn left and right.

But for a mere minutes later (In which Twilight counted it was 45 minutes), they still have not reach the camp. Instead they were walking in circles without any direction. Timber and Daisy were starting to worry that they must have took the wrong path because the they really don't recognize this part of the forest. And the students and the principals are merely tired and a little impatient. They kept walking until they stumble upon a few trees in which the brown-colored bark was much more darker than the previous trees and there were mist and the roof of the forest were mostly blocking the light of the sun. Timber suddenly realizes where did they stepped into.

"Oh, this is not good," Timber said in afraid, enough for those behind him to hear him and they startled.

"Wait, WE'RE LOST?!" a young lady named Baton Switch asked with a shout and surprised.

"Forgive us, everyone," Daisy said to them. "We must have took the wrong path until here."

"Where are we exactly?" a boy named Bright Idea asked with his left eyebrow raised.

"We are at the edge of the dark part of the forest," Timber explained firmly. "Which is inhabited with dangerous animals and it's a rough path for us to return to the camp."

"Then that means we have to reroute back from where we came," Principal Celestia suggested while her hand is under her chin.

"The problem is we gonna take another hour if we're doing that," Daisy said to celestia. "The only fast way according to the map of the forest back in the camp is through this dark forest."

"That's crazy!!" Dash exclaimed in protest. "Do you even know how to get through here?"

"Unfortunately, no," Timber's answer made everyone disappointed, but Twilight only stay neutral at this. "We didn't bring any compass or map, all we can hope is only luck to get through here."

It was a tense moment of silence as they decide where to go next. "So, what's your decision?" Luna asked to the students.

The students can't decide either go back from where they started or go to the dark part of the forest. Going back to where they come from maybe can help them to find another to return to the camp but it will took a lot of time and they can possibly took another wrong path and stay lost in the forest. Going through the dark forest is of course the fast way but it is dangerous to go there with dangerous animals lurking around and the path in there didn't ever known to Daisy and Timber. Still they are discussing to each other about it, but they can't decide. Until Pinkie looked back and see that Twilight was sitting on a rock, still staying quite about the problem they had now.

"Twilight, what are you doing there?" Pinkie asked her, only to earned a glare from her. "Don't you wanna to get out from this forest?"

Everyone only looked at Twilight with confusion on why she didn't bother something like that. But what they don't know is Twilight have a decision to take the way through the dark woods. Maybe she doesn't know the path there but she has advanced land navigation skill to get through there, without map and compass. Twilight stood up from the rock and walked over to the front towards Timber and Daisy emotionless. She then turned around to look over them, they don't what is Twilight doing and waiting for her to say something.

"We're going this way," Twilight said to them, earning a lot of surprising glare from them.

"So what?" Dash asked to her in disbelieve. "You gonna lead us or something?"

"I'm going to lead you out from this forest," Twilight answered, without the sense of confidence or doubt.

"You sure, Twilight?" Flash asked her in unsure and concern as her arms folded. "You don't know the path through this forest."

"I'm sure," Twilight then turned around and walked towards the dark forest. "I have my own ways."

"What if we're still lost in the forest?" Principal Celestia asked in doubt and disbelieve.

"Don't worry about it," Twilight replied without any fear as she stopped and turned around at them. "I can get us out from here, I guarantee."

"Oh really?" Starlight asked (Not Starlight Glimmer) in disbelieve. "I think you're joking about it."

Twilight kept her eyes darting straight to Starlight in cold, and slowly approached her as she winced her right eye whilst asking. "Is my face showing that I'm joking, Starlight?"

Starlight about to say something, but none came after realizing her face expression was very far from joking. She though for another complain to Twilight. "But how do you even know which path we have to take to get out from here?"

"I have many ways to find one," Twilight replied solemnly. "So there is a bigger chance that we can return back to the camp in no time."

"Oh really?" Starlight asked as she winced her eyes in suspicion. "Without maps and compass, it's impossible Twilight."

"Nothing is impossible, Starlight," Twilight replied as she leaned her head forward at her. "I assure you I can get us out from here."

"I don't trust you to get us out from here," Starlight replied as she smiled in disbelieve and chuckled. "You're doing this so we can get lost out here and it will be your fault, so we can go ahead to our own ways to get back to the camp."

Twilight only stay silent and listen to every sentence of her word. "Look, I know you're a genius around here, but do you ever deal with this kind of situation? No, because you're a bookworm who only ever does stuff at city and never handle any situation like this in the forest. You only pick the path eeny-meeny-minnie-moe and walked there so we can get lost again because you never ever deal with outdoor-nature problems. You can't expect us to trust you to get out from here."

Twilight has reached the peak of her emotion hearing her every single word, her expression turned angry. "Then you MAY FUCK OFF FROM HERE AND GO FIND THE WAY OUT YOURSELF!!" Twilight shouted as she quickly leaned her head much forward at her whilst pointing her finger passing Starlight.

At this, everyone was caught off-guard by her outburst, including the Principals, Timber and Daisy, and Starlight immediately taken back by her outburst in startled and fear. Starlight took a step back as Twilight step forward once.

"YOU CAN GO AHEAD BY YOURSELF TO FIND A WAY OUT BUT DON'T EVER EXPECT YOU CAN FIND IT, NO, YOU WILL FIND IT!!" Twilight said that as she pushed her chest harshly with her index finger "YOU ARE ONLY ON YOUR OWN LOST IN THE FOREST SO YOU CAN ONLY TO GET YOURSELF KILLED BY ANIMALS, DIED FROM STARVATION OR FALLING OFF A CLIFF BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW HOW THE FUCK YOU CAN HANDLE YOURSELF WITH THIS SITUATION! I KNOW HOW BECAUSE I CAN! I'LL BE GLAD IF YOU'RE NOT WITH US BECAUSE YOU DON'T TRUST ME AND WILL LIGHTEN THE BURDEN FROM MY BACK IF YOU'RE DEAD, AND I'LL BE FUCKING DAMNED IF YOU ABLE GET OUT FROM HERE BY COINCIDENCE!!"

"Uh, Twilight, that's enough!" Sunset said to her trying to stop her outburst, Celestia nearly wanted to do that.

Twilight quickly turned her head at Sunset and still in outburst as she pointed at her with index finger. "SHUT THE FUCK UP, SUNSET! BEFORE I SHOVE A FUCKING ROCK INTO YOUR MOUTH!"

Sunset and her friends were gasped and taken back with her response of insult and threat. Celestia, Luna, Timber, Daisy, Flash and the rest had the same reaction like Sunset. They all decided to stay silent until she's done talking. Twilight quickly turned her head back to Startlight, Twilight was not done talking yet.

"YOU KNOW WHERE WE ARE HERE?!! WE'RE INSIDE THE DEEP FOREST!! NOT A FUCKING AGATHA FUCKING CHRISTIE NOVEL!! SO WHAT DO YOU THINK WE GOT HERE?!! WE GOT A FUCKING PATH TO FIND AND YOU DON'T KNOW HOW THE FUCK YOU FIND ONE EXCEPT YOU'RE THE ONE WHO IS GOING TO PICK THE PATH EENY-MEENY-MINNIE-MOE BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW WHICH DIRECTION IS THE RIGHT DIRECTION THEN YOU GOT FUCKED UP BY SOME 'UNFORTUNTE SHITSTORM' THAT'S GOING TO HIT YOUR EGGHEAD AND YOU FELL TO THE GROUND LANDING YOUR FUCK-ARSE FACE FIRST SO I CAN GODDAMN WATER YOUR FUCKING HEAD AND CALL IT A FACEPLANT!!! ALLOW ME POP UP A JAUNTY LITTLE BONNET ON YOUR SEARCH FOR THE WAY OUT AND RAM IT UP THE SHITTER ON YOUR LUBRICATED HORSE-COCK!!! I'M TELLING A FUCKING TRUTH SO I CAN GET OUR ASSES OUT FROM HERE WITH GUARANTEE AND YOU DIDN'T FUCKING TRUST ME, YOU MASSIVE PIECE OF MOTHERFUCKER!!!"

Twilight nearly done talking with that. Everyone around her felt heavy insult and heavy disgust but for sure they were afraid talk to her, including the muscled Bulk Biceps. Sunset, Adagio, Tennis, Flash, Timber , and Celestia left their jaw open for Twilight heavy swearing and outburst.

"If I had a fucking gun here, I would kill myself than saying some shit to you, NOW FUCK OFF!!!" Twilight shouted at Starlight whilst quickly leaned her head at her face in which made her backed off and ran back to the rest of the students behind them in regret of saying that, Twilight's done talking but her outburst still not done yet. "ANYONE ELSE WANTS TO MESS WITH ME BEFORE I MAKE YOU FUCK OFF?!!" everyone gave a shook at her for not wanting to fight with her. "Good."

Twilight slowly turned around towards the dark forest and walked forward. Slowly, her emotion starting to calm down as she walked whilst everyone staring at Twilight in dumbfounded and silent. After walking pass the principals, Timber and Daisy, she stopped. Twilight looked up to the sky to see the rays of the sunlight still coming through quite plenty so she can use the sunrays for something.

"Timber, get me a long stick will you?" Twilight asked him without looking at him except towards the ground.

Timber didn't think twice and does what she wants. After Timber gave her a long stick around 15 meters long, she pinned the stick to the ground and leave it standing.

"What time is it now?" Twilight asked to everyone for confirming the time today.

Flash did wore the watch by chance, he looked over to his digital watch and said. "12:47 PM"

"1247 hours," Twilight repeated to herself quietly as she kept an eye on the shadow that was made by the standing stick.

Twilight can see the shadow on the ground moving, it was only long shadow on the ground that is slowly moving on the right side of the stick. Because the time was 12:47 PM which is the afternoon, she marked the first position of the shadow with her finger drawing on the ground before it moved on. Then she marked the last position of the shadow, even though not waiting for the shadow to move to its position since she had calculated it correctly about where would it be after 15 minutes. She drew a line between the two positions, now she knew which is the west, east, north, and south. The west was the path to the dark forest, the north was only woods of the forest but not part of the dark forest, the east are where her friends were, and the south are woods with no path again.

"Which direction is the Camp is?" Twilight asked them as she kept staring at the marked positions.

"To the north," Timber replied.

Twilight stood up and looked forward as she points her finger forward as well. "That way is north."

Everyone was impressed of Twilight's skill to find the four main points of the compass, Timber and Daisy quickly regret with the fact that they forgot how to use that technique. Twilight then turned around towards the path to the dark forest. She stepped forward until stopped at the entrance. Turning around again to looked over everyone behind her.

"What are you waiting for?" Twilight asked to them as soft and calm as possible. "Let's go."

Everyone was felt apprehensive if they following Twilight is the right decision to made. They all agreed but with the felt of forcing themselves to agree with it. They all walked on into the entrance, and entered the dark part of the forest. Twilight was taking the lead with behind her Daisy, Timber, and Flash. The principals walked next to Sunset and her band while The Dazzlings, Tennis, Trixie, Cloudy, Starlight, Microchip, and Sandalwood walking in front of the group. What they do know is the situation in these dark woods is different than the previous one.

Atmosphere turned eerie to them with the music of silence and no birds were chirping. There were some of the trees were colored much darker along with it leaves. Sun rays barely got through the canopy of the leaves until it gave shadows ahead of them. Plus with the mist around, they felt worried, even though the mist can be seen through with eyes because it's very thin. Twilight do to take care to keep an eye around them with her senses of hearing, sights, and feeling. As they walked on, they were quickly surprised by Twilight got trip into a rock.

"Whoa, you're okay?" Flash asked to her as they three nearly ran to her.

"Son of a bitch," Twilight swore to the rock she got tripped on in low voice, before she replied back to them. "I'm alright, got tripped on a rock."

Sunset and the rest watched Twilight who is at the front leading them did tripped on the rock but able to get up on her own. Starlight who was next to Sunset did wonder why is she like that. Some of them did though it must be the memories of 'The Red Day' that kept bothering her. But Sunset doubt of that.

"She's not behaving like that because 'The Red Day', right?" Starlight asked to Sunset.

"No, I'm sure it's not that," Sunset replied with sure. "Must be something else."

"And this is kinda odd for Twilight to lead the way for us," Vice Principal Luna said in wonder as she scratched her head, Celestia agreed with her sister with a nod. "I though she only can lead the study only."

"And the way she said," Rarity added in disgust, did winced her eyes by that. "It's the first time we heard her swearing like that."

"Let's not talk about this, alright?" Aria said quickly to stopped them talking about Twilight. "Let us hope she really found a way out from here."

"Yeah, then we have a party!" Pinkie said nearly in a shout, Twilight who was at the front was slightly sullen to hear that.

"Pinkie, not now, alright?" Shy said to her to calm down her 'excitedness'. "Let's just keep moving."

Then AJ noticed Sunset was frowned as she was looks like worry of something. "Y'ah okay, Sugarcube?"

"A bit actually," Sunset replied as she rubbed her arm softly. "I was thinking about what happened at outside the school a few days ago."

"That time when you guys nearly get robbed?" Sonata asked to them.

"Yeah," Sunset replied with an agitated nod. "I got the feeling the shooter who killed that robber is still watching me."

"Hey, why are you so sure about it?" Dash asked to her to brighten feeling. "There's no way that shooter is going to follow you here, besides we already got lost here."

"I guess you're right," Sunset did a small smile at Dash. "Thanks to comfort me up."

As they walked, Twilight did mumbled to herself of the code of her own, and no one heard her mumbling. "Deploy, Engage, Destroy, Kill, Rescue, Protect, Resist, Evade, Escape, Survive."

Wherever Twilight go, they follow suit. Twilight turn right, walked forward, turned left, turned right, turned right again, then left, and kept moving forward, the others follow suit to her movement from behind. Still no sign of the exit of the dark forest. And Twilight still kept her senses up to know if there's something off. That 'something off' has found them.

They were kept walking in same pace and same speed. Until Twilight suddenly stopped in track. They all behind follow suit, plus they don't know what is going on. Everyone still stay silent as Twilight turned her head to the right to looked around the environment. She sensed something wrong around them.

"Uh, Twilight?" Daisy asked to her, only receive a quick shush from her.

Suddenly Twilight heard a noise, a very small noise that anyone can't hear except for herself. Twilight can locate where the noise came from, it came from the distant bush she's looking at right now. She slowly pulled out her knife from the holster and gripped it tight as she walked slowly towards the bush. Now everyone got worried and agitated seeing Twilight just pulled out the knife, the principals hope that she didn't pull out that knife for something stupid. She kept approaching, until she heard a very small growl noise that made her stop. Twilight knew what was in the bush.

"Son of a gun," Twilight swore to herself, before she was attacked by a leaping aggressive wolf from the bush and knock her down by biting her right arm where the knife she was holding on, and of course making everyone startled and screamed.

The wolf knocked her down and kept biting her arm as Twilight try to hold the wolf with her arm. Then she swayed her bitten arm to the right and the knife flown off from her hand due to lose her grip on the knife from the result of the wolf's bite. Twilight quickly holds the wolf face as strong as she can with her both hands on its chin and forehead while the wolf tried to bite her face aggressively. Everyone dumbfounded and terrified by the sight of the wolf attacking Twilight, until Flash and Timber quickly ran at her whilst Timber quickly took her dropped knife from the ground. Before Flash and Timber able to reached Twilight in time, Twilight quickly and strongly turned the wolf's head to the left until she snapped its neck to kill the wolf with a scream. The wolf died and fell on top of Twilight, she quickly threw the wolf's corpse to the left.

Flash and Timber stopped running for a little while after they saw Twilight dropped the wolf's corpse from her before continue on to walked over and checked her condition. For the first time in their life, they saw Twilight killed a wolf bare-handed, they all left their mouths open in awe. As they watched, Twilight slowly stood up with the help of Flash and Timber who were also amazed to see her killed a wolf. Twilight's arm was bitten but gladly she can handle that. Twilight looked down at the corpse of the wolf in satisfied for herself to survive that.

"Not today you bastard," Twilight said to the dead wolf as she catch some breathes in cold. "Not today."

"How did you kill it?" Timber asked in worried and puzzled.

"I broke its fucking neck," Twilight replied as she took back her knife from Timber still in cold. "Thanks for getting my knife back."

"You're okay?" Celestia asked her after the principals, The Rainbooms, The Dazzlings, Tennis and Trixie ran over to them in heavy worry.

"Don't worry, I'm fine," Twilight replied as she took a look on her wounded arm without any concern. "Alright, everyone keep moving." Twilight shouted as she kept moving not minding what to do with the dead animal.

Since there's no time for them to give a proper burial to the dead wolf, they only walked off and left the dead animal there. They kept moving on through the forest, ironically in zig-zag. As Twilight tried to bandaged her arm and Tennis helping her to do that. After that, Twilight pulled out an MRE and open it. Tennis was indeed curious on what she is eating with.

"What's that?" Tennis asked as she points her finger at it.

"Meal Ready-to-Eat," Twilight replied as she munched her food and then took a look in her MRE. "Some are tasty, some are not. I got all the tasty ones here, I got Taco Beef, Seasoned Black Beans, Cheddar Cheese Spread, Spiced Apples, and Shredded Barbeque Beef."

"I take the Shredded Barbeque Beef," Tennis said, Twilight gave her the selected MRE. Tennis opened it and eat a munch of it. "Not bad, and tasty."

"Yep, it gives you some energy," Twilight added as she munched on her MRE.

It was merely around 20 minutes, Twilight kept leading them until everyone except Twilight doesn't realize that they are already out from the dark woods. Twilight kept moving until stopped and the rest follow suit. They stopped at an intersection of the forest. there were three dirt road paths around them including the one they come from and a small river in front of them, unlike the previous river this one only have one dry path of rocks to across the river. Timber and Daisy both very surprised that the intersection they're in are familiar to them.

"Anything familiar, Daisy?" Twilight asked to her (and her brother) and not bother to looked back.

"We know the path!" Timber answered quickly in glad. "This way!"

It's Timber's and Daisy's turn to lead the way and Twilight step back to her friends after leading them out the dark woods. They both kept running toward the path they know as the rest follow suit. A few seconds later, they all have reached the camp and stopped in the middle of the field of grass. Everyone were shouting 'yay' for safely reaching the camp. Twilight only watched them a little far from them in cold, until Starlight come over to Twilight in upset and regret.

"Um, Twilight," Startlight said with a tone of apologetic one. "I'm sorry about what I said back there, I guess I underestimate you so much."

Twilight was only staring in silence to her for awhile while she does the same. "That's alright, I'm sorry too about what did I say."

"What?" Starlight asked with a gasp. "That's..."

"I know," Twilight then sighed as she closed her eyes. "Don't bother about it, I'm just.... well...."

"That's okay," Starlight interrupted her. "So, what about we get some rest?"

"Sounds good to be honest," Twilight said with a delight.

Cloudy then come over to her. "Hey, Twilight. Nice job for getting us out from the forest."

"Don't mention it," Twilight said with a smile, then looked over to Starlight. "You go ahead I catch up with you."

"Okay," Starlight then left them both, Twilight then looked over to Cloudy and she did the same.

"Guess being a soldier you learned how to get out from there without map and compass?" Cloudy asked her in curious and yet impressed.

"Yep, got a pathfinder badge for that," Twilight replied with a nod and smile.

"Maybe you can teach me about it?" Cloudy asked her.

"Sure, why not?" Twilight replied happily. "Now, how about we get something to eat?"

"Okay, lead the way."

Applejack and Sunset were watching Twilight and Cloudy from a distant. Then Applejack has a feeling of something, something she missed. She nudged Sunset to call her. Sunset looked over to AJ but notice her face has a slight surprise expression.

"Ah' think ah' miss something," Aj said to Sunset in apprehensive feeling.

"What do you mean?" Sunset asked her in puzzled.

"Ah' think someone else knows about her secret."

Author's Notes:

Ooooh, Chapter 20 Bruh!!! 😅
Next for Chapter 21