Sunkick arrived back home to find the house completely empty. He had spent most of the day with his friends and now he was incredibly tired. Before heading off to his room, he decided to look through the mail and see if there was anything for him. His eyes soon fell across a small lavender envelope with Stormflower's name on the cover.

"Hmm...a letter from Stormflower," he said. "Haven't heard from her in a while." He quickly opened the letter and began to read. "Dear Mom, Dad, and Sunkick. I'm currently in Ponyville trying to visit Rainbow Dash. However, Rainbow Dash doesn't seem to be in town. She has up and left town mysteriously and neither I nor anypony in town knows where she could have gone. I was wondering if any of you had seen Rainbow Dash anywhere. Please reply as soon as possible. Hoping you are all well. Love Stormflower."

Sunkick scanned over the letter several times before placing it down on a nearby coffee table. This was certainly strange. Rainbow Dash was missing? Where could she possibly be? He had to tell his parents about this straight away...but he didn't know when they'd be coming home. Sunkick sighed with an annoyed tone and fell down on the couch. He was just about to look over the letter again when he got a peculiar feeling. A feeling that one gets when they know that they're being watched. Sunkick looked up and looked around the room. Nopony was there.

"Hello?" he asked. He looked for something. Any type of sign that would suggest that somepony else was in the house. There was no sign. He looked towards the kitchen and saw something. There was a spot of air in the doorway connecting the kitchen to the living room that looked oddly cloudy. Sunkick stood up and slowly approached the spot of air. He came to a halt about three feet from the spot of air. He focused on the spot and cocked his head slightly. "Now what is this?"

Suddenly he heard something. It was faint and was hardly loud enough to even be picked up by Sunkick's ears, but he heard it. It sounded like a voice. A very confused and surprised voice. He didn't understand what it had said. He didn't even know if he had even heard anything. Maybe he was losing his mind. No. He had heard something. He was sure of it. He decided to play along with his possible insanity.

"Could...could you speak up? I didn't hear you completely the first time," he uttered. He waited several seconds but then the voice returned. It was still faint and quiet...but he could understand what it said.

"Can you hear me?" it asked. Sunkick couldn't believe his ears. Somepony was talking to him and yet he couldn't see them. It was as if the voice was coming from inside his head but he knew that it was coming from an external source.

"Yes, I can hear you. But you're very faint."

"I can't believe it! You can hear me!"

"Who are you?"

"Don't you recognize my voice?"

"Your voice is really faint. I'm lucky enough to even make out some of the words that you're saying."

"It's me, Sunkick."

"Who?"

"It's...Rainbow Dash."

Sunkick shook his head. This was impossible. How could Rainbow Dash be communicating with him like this? Had he and her somehow formed a telepathic link? Nah. That stuff only existed in storybooks.

"Rainbow Dash?" he choked.

"Yes," said the voice. "It's me. Your big sis."

"How can I be so sure that you're really my sister?"

"When we were really young, you told me that you really wanted to become a detective like Dad was at the time. I also used to call you Sunny but you hated that name."

Sunkick's eyes grew wide. This was her. This was Rainbow Dash.

"R...Rainbow Dash? H...how?! How are you doing this?! Are you that puff of smoke right in front of me?!" he asked.

"Yes...I'm right here, Sunny. I'm right here," Rainbow replied. "I'm putting my right hoof right against your left cheek."

Sunkick nearly jumped. He felt something. His left cheek suddenly became extremely cold. Almost as cold as ice. The air around him became really cold and he began to feel somewhat sad.

"You...you're crying. Aren't you?" he asked.

"Y...yes," replied Rainbow.

"How are you doing this, Rainbow Dash? How?!

"It's...it's because I'm-"

Suddenly the door burst open and Sunkick turned around. Thunder and Caroline walked in.

"Hey son," said Thunder. Sunkick instantly felt the air warm up around him and the cold spot on his cheek went away.

"Rainbow Dash!" he cried as he turned back. The cloudy air was gone.

"What about Rainbow Dash?" Caroline asked. Sunkick walked over to his parents and pointed at Stormflower's letter. "What's that?"

"It's a letter from Stormflower. Rainbow Dash has disappeared."

"What?!" asked a surprised Thunder. He grabbed the letter and quickly ran through it. Once he was done, he looked at Sunkick with a worried expression.

"Honey," said Caroline. "What's wrong?"

Sunkick looked at his parents and said, "Mom. Dad. I think we need to visit Ponyville as soon as possible."