"Consider us lucky", Time Turner mentioned, turning right. "Dandy hardly ever lets anyone drive his car. Well, sometimes he allows Tricky to do it, but for me it's the first time..."

Derpy almost didn't hear him. When it came to driving, she preferred sitting at the back seat and not thinking about anything, but now it couldn't be done. First, this wasn't just a car. It was Dandy Turner's car, which meant that it was unlike others. Vintage (at least eighty years old, if not more), but functioning like new, and even more - at first, when Time had tried to start the engine, it had started after he had accidentally slapped his hand over its side. No roof, yellow base, an old-fashioned klaxon - a full collection. And right now Time was driving that tyrannosaurus in the world of cars, while Derpy was next to him on the front seat.

It's so cool to ride a bike, she thought. You can turn anywhere you wish... well, almost anywhere, and while driving a car there are more rules that are difficult to accomplish... Derpy couldn't get rid of the sensation that they were going to crash any moment. Only after parking the car ("Bessie", had Dandy called it this way?) she felt alive again.

It was time to gather Derpy's sister Dinky and Time's younger brothers Glimmer and Quote from the picnic out of town, this is why this very way of moving had been chosen.

"You can drive", Derpy noticed, not feeling her legs under her while climbing out of the car.

"Honestly, I was as afraid as you", Time admitted, blocking the gear and walking down the path to the vacation base where the "holiday" for kids had been going on. Maybe it was due to her worry, but Derpy couldn't get rid of the thought that they had come the wrong way... and in a moment this thought was gone upon the sight of children running among the trees.

Glimmer - rosy cheeks, green eyes full of curiosity and cheer and a large dark fringe combed to the side (and a tiny bowtie over his sky blue shirt - he obviously had a weakness for this accessory) - appeared in a wink, as well as Dinky, but Quote wasn't anywhere to be seen. Any representative of the Turner family wouldn't be left unnoticed, and here...

"Excuse me, have you seen Quote Turner?" Time asked one of the kids' supervisors, but it was Glimmer who answered, worry overtaking his usual optimistic mood:

"Quote's hiding".

"Hiding? Where?" Time crouched to be at the same eye level with his eight-year-old bro.

"I wish I knew", Glimmer shrugged. "I tried to use the magic of searching, like Victorian taught me, but it didn't work".

"Come on!"

Soon all gang - Time, Derpy, Glimmer and Dinky - were looking into every hole of the base's house and behind every tree. Surprising as it may be, but it was Derpy's clumsiness - or, in this case, its lack - which helped them locate the escapee. Derpy was exploring the kitchen when a pile of boxes in the corner shuttered and fell apart. Yes, she was standing close to it, but she couldn't have touched it even with her tail! That meant...

Yes, it did.

Derpy removed the top box and saw a head full of dark tight short curls popping from under it. Quote, the youngest of the Turners, was huddled in a ball in an improvised room made of those boxes.

"Hello", she smiled at him, but the boy only hugged his knees tighter. "What's up? Time! Glimmer! Dinky! I've..."

The next moment she was blown off his feet by a wave of energy - so powerful that she flew across the room, her back to the front, and slammed into the opposite wall. Her wings and tail didn't soften the impact much.

"Oh, wow", Derpy muttered, not knowing what she should feel - surprise or fear. Luckily Time was quick to come:

"Derpy?"

"Your bro's over there", Derpy panted, pointing at now scattered boxes. Having recovered and come closer, she saw that Quote wasn't going to finish his sulking. He was still hiding among the boxes, as if never wishing to come out. "Time, just tell me that he's like you".

"What do you mean?"

"You're ordinary, but you can fly. And he... Just imagine that Quote threw me across the kitchen without using his hands!"

The next moment all four of them hit the opposite wall with their backs.

All the way home Quote was silent on the back seat. And that was no good. Such things hardly ever occurred to Dinky (or in front of Derpy's eyes), but the older girl knew that such state was far worse than any tears or tantrums. It was the black despair.

Fortunately one of the older Turners - who all had been absent before, this is why Time had been told to gather the youngest ones - had already returned. That was Hobo, the second of them, who spotted that something was wrong right after Time drew the car into the garage. Yeah, this messy representative of the winged race was better than any mage when it came to guessing, especially in thoughts and feelings.

"Glimmer, be a good boy and tell me everything", he asked immediately after everyone, including Derpy and Dinky, was in the house. "You're not able to tell lies or hide it for a long time".

Glimmer nervously dug the floor with the tip of his foot, his hands behind his back.

"Emm... there was a competition for creating the best table among us", he began. "Dazzle said that we were empty places compared to her because she has a rich dad, and they had dishes more posh than ours, and suddenly there was a BOOM, and all her team's food was on the ground and on her!"

"Mean", sounded from the bottom. Finally Quote decided to speak, though with only one word.

Hobo rubbed his chin:

"And then?"

"And then..." Glimmer honestly told everything that had taken place after Time's and Derpy's arrival, which made Hobo let out a long tired sigh.

"Looks like we've got a compensation. You know that all of us carry magic inside, eh? Winged ones, like me, use it when flying, and mages... it's obvious about them. But the ordinary people are also able to use magic, expressed in advancing the usual things mostly. And it has lots of proofs... But sometimes the ordinary people have inborn abilities of a winged or a mage. Like our Time. He has no wings, but he's able to fly, though it's much more tiresome for him than for winged. And... seems like our Quote revealed his hidden abilities of a mage today..."

Be careful what you wish for, Derpy thought and felt shivering down her spine - she had recalled that Quote had once complained about his being ordinary.

"Wanted to punish Dazzle", Quote muttered, not looking up at his older brother. "She was so rude, and..."

"And you unintentionally used your powers". Hobo gave him a small smile. "It's no use hiding, Quote. Have you forgotten? Each and every one of us will help you, because we are family. No one messes with us and gets away so easily".

"But... what if I hurt any of you when you..." Quote slowly uncurled from his ball of tension, but his large watery blue eyes stayed widened. "I already hurt Derpy. And then Dinky, and Time, and Glimmer, and Derpy again..."

Hobo placed his hands on Quote's shoulders:

"I may not be a mage, but I know what it is like when you have a wave of emotions that you cannot control. Next time you feel you're close to releasing it, and cannot hold it, direct it to somewhere where it cannot hurt anyone. If you ask Dandy, he'll be more helpful than I".

Quote crawled off the couch he was sitting on, approached to Derpy and put his arms around her waist (just because he couldn't reach higher):

"Sorry. I made you hit the wall..."

"It's okay. It really is". Derpy felt even clumsier than usually - partly because she had never been given such kind of attention. A few seconds Glimmer and Dinky joined them, while Time gave it the final move. Hobo was about to complete the group hug when his blue eyes sparkled with glee, and he exclaimed:

"That's more like it!"

No one got what he was talking about until small fireworks filled the whole room.