Fluttershy sat in her home, reading one of Brandon's Earth magazines. Still no identification of the strange creatures seen infiltrating Project Paladin Base. Unknown motive, eye witnesses say they looked like horses, but looked different. Possibly an experiment go wrong, but whatever it is has the internet in a spark as it has not died down since the months of their first appearance, she read. She thought about what that meant for a moment. Oh! That's us! Wow, I never thought I'd be in the paper! Wait till I tell Brandon! She got up to go feed Angel Bunny, who was impatiently tapping his foot in front of her. As she got the rabbit feed out from the cabinet, she told Angel all about what she read. "It's so exciting! I've never been in the paper before!...Oh, I guess I have. I forgot about the time I was a model. Oh, I can't believe I haven't told him that! Do you think it would make a good story?" Angel just nodded his head, he wasn't listening, he just wanted his food. She kept talking, which was rare for Fluttershy. "I wonder if he's ok. It's getting dark now...He should be back. I hope he's ok..."
"Pinkie, give me the map!" Brandon told her. "Nah, it's ok, I can do it! She replied back to him, "You don't have to be bothered with the map. You're carrying the gems after all!" Pinkie was trying to be nice, but it wasn't working. "Yeah, on my back! Rarity isn't carrying the gems. Give the map to her!" "Rarity never does the work. I don't wanna force some pony into changing their style! It's rude." Brandon wanted her to give the map to someone who could walk and read at the same time. It would be a lot easier if they didn't have to stop every 5 minutes to see if they were going the right way. "Pinkie, please..." He resorted to begging, that's serious. "I can do it!" She looked at her map. We need to go Neest." "Neest? What is Neest?" Oh crap...she didn't...
"Neest! It's that way!" She pointed in one direction with her hoof. Rarity walked over to Pinkie Pie and her eyes got wide when she saw the map. "Darling, the map is sideways. And you're not even pointing 'Neest'! You're pointing south. We're supposed to go East." Brandon took the map, "Great. She got us lost. Now what do we do?" Rarity magically levitated the map toward her, "easy! We just find our location on this map and go from there!" Sweetie Belle noticed a noise coming from the shrubbery behind her, "Guys...what's that noise?" They all turned around and saw a band of Kobolds, mischievous goblin-like creatures, accompanied by what seemed to be a manticore. "Gems! Get them!" The giant leader said, releasing the manticore from it's chain leash.
"Oh, you have got to be freakin' kidding me."