Ch-7 - New Friends

Everyone was feeling a lot better after the sweet litte moment with Butter Sauce. "It's no wonder you're the element o' kindness'' said Aj to Fluttershy, who blushed. Twilight, now feeling more confident than she had in days, said happily

"I think we've got Butter on our side now. He could help us escape!''

"Yup'' said Rainbow. "But we've still got a lot to do. We need a plan to stop Lime and Honey Pancake."

''From what Butter said'' Fluttershy responded "We might be able to convince Honey to help us too. I'm sure she would love to have friends."

Everyone just nodded. It was nighttime now, and after the days events, they all wanted to sleep. Spike had already started to doze off, cuddled into Twilights' wing. Soon, they were all fast asleep, their hearts full of hope for the next day.

They woke up to the sound of Butter coming down with their breakfast- fresh oats and berries. To their surprise, Honey Pancake was behind him, looking a bit nervous. She said in a much different tone than they had heard before "Lime already left to Manehattan. We can talk freely for a long time." The others, still a little sleepy looked at eachother. "What's going on?" asked Twilight, getting up.

Butter answered shyly "I told her that you could help us. You know, from our brother."

Rainbow replied jokingly "Yeah, we were gonna ask the same thing." Honey smiled ,her whole face looking much sweeter and kinder.

"Come on, let's get out of here! We're ALL free!" Hardly believing their luck, the mane 7 got their backpacks returned to them and went out. "What are we gonna do now?'' asked Pinkie, back to her old self again.

''Let's get rid of those flowers'' said Twilight, holding the matches. Honeys' face fell.

"They're with 's why he left- to spread the fumes." she replied glumly.

"Then let's go find him!" said Rainbow, glad to fly freely again.

Twilight, suddenly remembering, asked their two new friends "Would you happen to know of a cure from these flowers?"

Thinking for a while,Honey answered "Lime said there was a cure he knew, but he never told us what."

Everyone was excited now. Rainbow said

"When we find him, we'll force him to tell us." Butter shook his head.

'You don't know our brother. Even if he's imprisoned, he'll never tell anyone. He's too stubborn."

Twilight, refusing to give up hope now, asked "Do you now how he found the cure?"

Butter replied "He found out about the flowers from an ancient book from a library. Maybe the cure is in that!"

"Where's the book?" asked Twilight. Butter answered again "It's in our old house at Canterlot. We can go there and search for it." The 9 friends took a train to Canterlot. Pinkie used the time teach their newest friends their names. They left the train laughing and chattering, but as soon as they took a look around, their not-so-pleasant mission snapped them back to the bad situation. A few guards and doctors were helping dozens of weak ponies to the hospital. Seeing Fluttershy about to cry again, Butter quickly said "This way." and led them to a deserted part of the saw a small house and went in. It was poorly furnished and looked rather sad. Honey led the way to a crammed bedroom and pointed to a large book on a messy desk.

"This is the one." she said.

Twilight smiled, saying

"Well Pinkie, do your thing." Pinkie immediately opened a random page from the book.

"Found it!'' Twilight began to read. "The cure is a spell!" she exclaimed "Only an alicorn can perform it. Guess it's up to me.'' She copied the complicated looking spell in her notebook.

''And NOW we can beat up Lime?" asked Rainbow hopefully. Twilight smiled.

"As soon as we find him"

They all went out confidently. Once again, they were oblivious of what they would really be facing.