As the rising sun greeted me, I saw the everypony else was also waking from their slumbers. I yawned, and stood up. My wings were rested, and my mind was set. All that we needed to do was wake up all the way. Stumbling over to Derpy and Thunder Lane, I quickly awakend them with a quick tap of the wings. I decided to let Scootaloo sleep a little longer. The violet maned pegasus was just too adorable sleeping to disturb. I turned back to my branch and found that Flash Sentry was already awake. To my relief, he had also woken Scootaloo. Seeing my half-lidded and sleepy flock asembled, I began telling them my plans.
"Okay everypony, today we're flying to the nearest town. Then, we'll have to steal some saddlebags that will hide our wings. After that, we will all pick a destination in Equestria and we can go try to be normal." It was nothing fancy or special, but it woke everypony up. Wings buzzing, the excitement was palpable. We had always heard of the outside world know as Equestria, and we couldn't wait to go explore it. Taking to the beautiful sky, we went off towards the nearest town. The nearest town was surprisingly close to Pegasus Inc. It was just a five minute flight, no breaks needed. As we all landed in the outskirts of the town, I motion for them to stay hidden while I tried to nabsome saddlebags. I crept among the shadows as I stalked the nearest house, and it oh so convienently had saddlebags on the back porch. Quick as a whip, I snatched up the five saddlebags. I picked the black one for myself, making sure they covered my lavender wings perfectly. As carefully as I had come, I left. Making sure to leave no trace besides the missing saddlebags. The flock was waiting for me in the exact place I left them.
"Okay guys, pick and choose as you please." I said as I dumped the other saddlebags on the ground. We all let Scootaloo go first, with her being the youngest and all. She quickly chose the pure white one, and I helped her put it on. Then went Derpy, who couldn't decide.
"Well, I love the color blue, but I really like yellow. Yellow is the color of the sun and all, but the green reminds me of..." The rest of her chatter was cut of as Thunder Lane wrapped a hoof around her muzzle. Flash Sentry grabbed the green one and placed it around Derpy's buzzing wings. Once that little ordeal was over, it was Thunder Lane's turn to choose. He picked the yellow saddlebegs, and Flash Sentry took the blue one without comment or complaint. Now that we all had our wings hidden, I lead us into town. Flash Sentry nudged me as he spotted a diner, and I nodded in reply. We all walked in, and Scootaloo grabbed a map. Shuffling through the saddlebags contents, I found some bits and gum. I gently took the map from the little filly, and opened it wide on the table. There was a little star that said "You Are Here!" in large letters. Flash dug through his saddlebgas as well, and found a few stickers.
"Okay everypony, take a sticker." I instructed, taking one for myself. The others got where I was going with this, and unwrapped their stickers.
"Now, pick a place in Equestria we all want to go." I took my sticker and placed it on the nearby city of Las Pegasus. Thunder picked Manehatten, Flash chose New Pony, Scoots chose San Ponio, and Derpy chose the exact spot we were already in.
"I've always wanted to go to Little Filly, California." she said simply. We all laughed. Derpy may be a little lacking in the mental department, but it was very endearing. A server of the diner walked up to our table. His name tag read "Timber Fall".
"Welcome to Poyus, what would you like this lovely morning?" he asked. I looked around at the flock. They all shrugged. We had never gotten a choice of what we ate before.
"Surprise us." I said simply. Looking a little confused, her wrote it down. Then he left our table to prepare out food. It might take a while, so I decided to get to know the flock.
"Well, let's get to know each other better. As you know, my name is Twilight. I am from the humble town of Ponyville, and I helped organize Winter Wrap-up last year before I got ponynapped. My favorite color is silver, and I was in Pegasus Inc. for a year." It was short and simple, and I thought it was nice enough. After all, I barely knew these pegasi and they decided I was our leader. Derpy inhaled a big breath, and began her rapid fire chatter mode:
"Well, I'm still Derpy, and I'm a mail pony from Ponyville too! I had been at Pegasus Inc. for about three years. My favorite color is neon green, but not like this pine green saddlebag. More like the green of a neon sign!" She finished, out of breath. Before she could start again, Thunder covered her muzzle.
"Well, I'm from Ponyville too. I was a race pony before I was taken two years ago. My favorite color is yellow." he said calmly. I couldn't believe we were all from Ponyville, well, so far anyway. We all looked to Flash expectantly. He sighed and shook hs head. I could understand, he must have a really bad story.
"I came from Canterlot as one of Princess Celestia's royal guards. I was taken away five years ago. It is the biggest blemish on my duty as a royal guard. I failed at protecting myself, and if they were after Celestia it would've been even worse." That shock us all. I didn't know whether to be more surprised about how much he said, or how sad and depressing that must be for him. Still in silence, Timber Fall gave us our food. I tossed him six bits, and he left us alone. We ate our oatmeal in silence, until Derpy decided that she couldn't be quiet for that long.
"Don't worry Flash! We're all your family now, and everypony makes mistakes!" She smiled, attempting to cheer him up. It worked, and we shared a group hug. It was a little awkward with the table in the way, but it was sweet all the same. It was time for us to go. Little did we know, waiting outside was a horrible trap. A trap we were going to escape at any cost.