The sky was dark over ponyville,the air felt still and moist,a heavy fog stuck to the ground making it near impossible to see anything other than the color grey,and the heavy rain that fell all around,a whether combination that seemed very odd for ponyville or anywhere for that matter.
" G...girls?" the small yellow pegasus wearing a long peppermint green raincoat,hat and boots said shakily " Rainbow? Pinky? Anypony?" she said quivering as she started to back away from where ever she was before.
" Fluttershy!" shouted two familiar voice from up ahead.
" R...Rainbow Dash,AJ?" she asked as a orange pony with a cowgirl hat and grey coat and a bright cyan pegasus wearing a red coat similar to fluttershy's with a hood came into view.
" Are ya' ok? We heard ya' yellin." The orange pony known as Applejack asked worried.
"Uh..ya i'm..just a little l...lost in th..the fog…" She said still shaking violently.
" Sorry bout that I don't know what but something in this fog is making it completely resistant to pegasie magic, we were on our way over to tell you when we heard you call."the cyan pony explained sounding pretty annoyed.
"Where the hay are we anyway?" Aj asked as she and Rainbow started walking forward.
" I..d..don't know." she said following right behind her friends until she took another step forward and started to fall.
Rainbow's Pov.
" Ugh my head!" she grumbled as she attempted to sit up,she was lying somewhere cold,dim,and completely unfamiliar,she felt something hard and flat under her raincoat and realised she was lying in a large cave,the walls were lit dimly in a few places by some glowing mushrooms that grew near a small trickle of water coming out of the cave walls and flowing into a narrow stream,she noticed that a little further down a larger stream of water came directly from the top of the cave into a deep pool of steaming water and guessed that it must be connected to some sort of natural hot spring,a little further down she saw there was a few cracks in the walls where sunlight poured through and let some type of grass and nice smelling flowers grow , about twenty feet ahead she saw a larger gap where light came through, just big enough to fit a adult pony if they crawled.
"Rainbow,are ya' awake?" she heard AJ mumble( though it sounded more like Applebloom) and looked over to see some unfamiliar looking creature wearing AJ's hat and coat with the strap tied making it look like a dress that came down to just below her knees,she had strange limbs were her hooves would be,tan skin instead of fur,and a short blond mane with the same hair ribbon as her pony friend tied into a little bow at the end of her hair,the creature was pretty small even for pony standards but she guessed that was just how big they got.
" WHAT ARE YOU WHERE ARE AJ AND FLUTTERSHY!" the once pony shouted as she jumped back onto her hooves,that is if she had them took less than a second for her to realise that she was missing her fur as well as hooves,pony ears,muzzle, wings,and her coat was also tied like a dress.
"Now calm down sugarcube,it's me ok?" the creature said with its heavy western accent
" A..AJ?What happened to us? Where's Fluttershy?" the now-human-girl said in a shaking voice.
" She's over there,I think she hit er' head on the way down" Applejack said pointing towards a unconscious pink haired girl wearing fluttershy's coat tied the same way as Aj's and using her hat as some sort of pillow.
" Is she bleeding? Does she need a doctor?" Rainbow said anxiously.
" The skin ain't' broken but she has a pretty nasty bump,an' should probably see one if she can." AJ said looking back at the pale girl lying on the floor of the cave.
" THEN LET'S GO!" Shouted the rainbow haired girl as she charged away on all fours towards a patch of sunlight that was the entrance.
" WAIT! We need ta' look around firs'!We don' know where we are,fer' all we know there could be monsters outside jus' waitin' to eat us up!We'll take a look outside then we decide if it's safe" said the blond.
"Fine but hurry I want to find out what's going on,asap."
AJ's POV:
The two girls walked on there hands and knees cautiously towards the entrance of the cave and stopped to look outside,they were in a forest surrounded by tall pine trees,but that's about all she could notice before she heard something approaching the cave,she pushed rainbow back further into the cave like the protective older sister she was and kept looking out,there where two of them she assumed from there looks that they were both male,one had dark brown hair and the other black but they both and wore a green vest and a headband (well one was more of a bandana) with what she believed looked like a leaf,they were about three feet taller than she was(so she assumed her current appearance was that of a child around four years old )and walked on two legs.
" Hey-!" rainbow attempted to shout at her for pushing her back but Applejack
quickly cupped her hand over her mouth.
"What was that?"
"It came from that little hole."
" Geeze now ya' dun it" Aj scolded in a hushed voice
" Sorry! I didn't know what was going on!" She said quietly.
" whoever's in there come out now!"
" come on, we'll come back fer' Fluttershy later but now we got' ta lead em away." Applejack said with a sigh and the two girls walked shakily (on two legs) out of the cave.
"Izumo,It's just some kids!"one of the creatures called to the other apparently named Izumo.
" what do we do with them?"questions the same creature that had shouted before.
" we could take them back to the village,but they may be spies"
" I can't feel any chakra being used so it's not a transformation jutsu,there definitely real kids or really small ninja."
"Rd,on the coun'a three run,once ya get far enough away meet back here in a hour kay?"Aj sad in a hush tone.
" Ok"
"1"
"2"
"3!" she shouted and kicked the opening of the cave with the back of her boot causing it to collapse (so the strange men couldn't get in and find their third companion,and so she didn't wake up and wander off when they left),and as soon as she saw the last rock fall into place she rushed ahead with all the speed her little body had.
Rainbow's POV:
"HEY WAIT" shouted one of the creatures,Rainbow wasn't quite sure which one but she wasn't willing to stop and look back,she heard some distant voices and then the sound of running steps coming closer,she wasn't very good with her feet yet and knew she was going to slow,at least she didn't feel to heavy and could tell that her body had some good leg muscles but the footsteps were coming closer.
'Oh haystacks what do I do!'she thought to herself as she looked back and saw the one named Izumo about ten feet behind her and closing in fast,she reacted upon instinct when she tried to spread her wings,but she had know idea it would work.
She felt her magic rush through her body and start pouring out behind her along with some strange energy she hadn't felt before today,she looked back behind her and and felt her mouth drop at the sight,a pair of beautiful cyan wings had formed on her back,they were bigger than her old ones,probably bigger than an alicorns,they were slightly see through and gave off an angelic glow,Rainbow Dash wanted to admire her awesome new wings a little longer but knew she had to go save Aj from the one chasing her.
She pushed off the ground and with a single flap of her new wings rose above the trees,she looked down at the world under her feet and saw the strange creature had fallen back in surprise,she gave him a confident smirk and rushed off in Aj's direction.
AJ's POV:
She had no idea what had happened but one minute she was running for dear life from some crazy creature,and the next she was three miles above the ground being carried by her multi colored friend,who now had wings.
" What in tarnation! Last time I saw ya i'm pretty darn sure ya didn't have no wings!"
She shouted confused
"Haha how about right?"the rainbow haired girl said looking back to admire her (totally awesome) new pair of wings.
" Ok let's get going we have to get back to Fluttershy!" she said as she started to turn.
" No wait! We don' know if they're still there er not we should wait ,in the meantime we should look for a town ya heard them speak and sense they wear clothes they must be civilised enough to have some."she said
"ok you're right,let's go I think i saw one on the way over."the winged girl said as she turned and started off towards the town.
Fluttershy's POV:
'where am I?'she asked herself as she looked around,she had been woken up rather pleasantly by a small chipmunk licking her hand...wait hand!
She crawled over the stone floor to a small clear puddle and looked into the water,and saw a light skinned creature with pink hair and turquoise eyes gazed back at her,she tried splashing her face and pinching her cheeks but nothing seemed to wake her up from this dream,she kept at it until she realized the structure of her body seemed familiar some how.. just then she remembered this is how she pictured the creatures Twilight had told her about after she got her crown back, though she didn't remember them having peach colored skin.
Sarutobi POV:
"Sir,no enemy ninja were spotted but we did find a couple of strange children around the age of four judging by their height."the creature named Izumo gave his report.
"Strange how?"an old man in long white and red robes asked and the other ninja,Kotetsu.
"well the one I chased kicked stone and made it fall apart."he answered
"The girl I was chasing sprouted what looked like wings of chakra and flew off in the direction the other child."
The fourth hokage wasn't really sure what to say but he knew he couldn't just pretend it hadn't happened
" Gather a team and scout the surrounding area,capture them and have them questioned,I'll decide what to do with them from there." He said sounding rather stressed.