Hey hey hey! I did it! Single focus this time. And update for next week is promising! Yays! So have at this chapter!
Even Mindy was silent as the four of them stared at the shed. It wasn't much of a shed. Old and rickety with a hint of attempt at revival long past given up on.
Rainbow shook her head. It was ridiculous to feel uneasy of a shed like that. She trotted up to it, knocking on the door, "Hello? Anypony here?" She paused, maybe a few seconds longer than she would admit, and pushed the door open.
A black cat sprinted out, it's white tipped tail disappearing in the brush. Inside held a lot of cobwebs. Dash grimaced at the mass of them. She stepped in anyway, looking around slowly for anything suspicious. She heard a couple sets of claws on the wood behind her.
"Bock...bock...bugock?" Buttons whined again in response.
Rainbow scoffed, "There's nothing here. We can g-"
In the corner, a floorboard creaked. Rainbow knew she saw it move. She crept towards the floorboard. The air in the shed would have almost choked her if she weren't holding her breath. Boo scratched at the floor nervously. Mindy even began to fuss under the tension thick air.
The pegasus took one step at a time, watching the now still floorboard intently. A buzzing hit her ears as a parasprite flew around her, quickly fading as it left the building.
The floorboard creaked as Dash laid a hoof on it lightly. Suddenly a series of loud creaks and some splinters later, she found herself colliding with cold hard dirt.
Rainbow groaned before sitting up. Above her, the three faces of her followers looked down at her from the corner of the shed.
"I'm alright!" She shouted, "If a little sore..."
"Rainbow Dash!?" A hushed, but excited, whisper called her from the darkness around the pegasus. She couldn't see anything, but she could hear the faint jingle of metal. "Rainbow, get out of here! Hurry!"
She knew that voice anywhere, "Rarity?"
"Rainbow Dash, you have to leave!"
The cyan pony stood, searching the darkness for her friend, "I'm not leaving you here!"
The metal chinked again, louder and closer, "You must!"
Another voice, high and even more hushed, forced out a whine. "Fluttershy? I'm going to get you guys out if here. I need to find out where you are-"
"No!" Fluttershy's squeal echoed in the darkness. Rainbow's head snapped to the hole in time to watch first Buttons, then Boo, and lastly Mindy hit the dirt in the same place she did.
"Hey! What hap-" again she was cut off, but this time by a laugh. It was insane, cold, and full of purpose.
Something slid across the wooden floor above. The light began to fade around the pegasus. The hole was being covered! "Oh no you don't!" Rainbow dashed up to the surface, but she knew as soon she left the ground she wouldn't make it. In seconds her head hit square into whatever was covering the hole.
Dash rubbed her head, noticing a slit of light. She hovered as close to it as she could, looking through it. There was enough space to see a set of gray hooves trot past.
She wouldn't admit it most times, but right now, Rainbow was genuinely scared.