I was oh so gently kicked awake. I opened one eye, very irritated that somepony dared to wake me up. I saw Flash Sentry, and then all tiredness immediately disappeared.
"I'm so glad you made it back okay!" I said giving him a hug. His dark chuckle was a little strange, but I didn't care. I looked and saw not just little Scoots, but also another colt. I shot Flash a look, but he seemed a little out of it. By out of it, I mean that he was asleep on my shoulder. I smiled, and piled him next to the still sleeping Thunder Lane and Derpy.
"Hey, you. Front and center." I commanded, trying to make it clear I was the leader. Scootaloo came too, leading the colt with her.
"Twilight, this is Lightning Streak. He was just going into Pegasus Inc. when Flash rescued him and me." the orange filly said sweetly. I eyed the telepath suspiciously. How will he keep up with us if he couldn't fly? Why was he here?
"You know, he was still injected with the genes." Scootaloo replied. Wait a second, her mouth didn't move. Dang that violet maned filly. Reading my mind is not good. Bad Scootaloo, no mind reading! She smirked as I thought this loudly.
"Well, welcome to the flock Lightning Streak." I said, giving him a small smile. He looked like he had just met Celestia herself, the sheer admiration was evident. Thinking of Celestia, the sun was doing it's thing as we spoke. Without further ado, I lovingly kicked my flock awake.
"Wake your feathery butts up! We got some flying to do!" I shouted, and I continued to shout until Flash decided he was going to silence me. With his muzzle. He must have still been sleepy because he didn't back down from the kiss. Actually, it was kinda nice. After feeling me kiss back, his eyes fluttered open, and he saw that he was kissing me. An almost invisible blush settled over his cheeks.
"Oh, uh, uh..." he stumbled over his words, and I put a hoof to his muzzle. He quieted, and I ruffled his dark blue mane.
"You, my good stallion, need to get more sleep. Later. Right now, we need to get on the road before any Wendigos find us or something." I said, mainly talking to the flock at large. I took Thunder Lane's saddle bag and took out the rope inside. I tied one end around his neck, and the other end around my back hoof.
"This will do. Right Thunder Lane?" I asked as the light blue maned stallion seemed to doze off.
"Yes, Twilight. I can do fine with this." he replied. I could see into his blankish eyes the embaressment of having to need another pony to get around. With a flap of my wings, I was in the air. Then came Thunder Lane right behind me. I thought he'd be riding my tail, but instead he kept his distance. Derpy came and chatted away with him. I definately think that she had a crush on the stallion. Little Scootaloo tugged Lightning Streak into the air with her. It was clearly his first time flying, because he was all over the place. Even quick little Scoots was having a hard time keeping up with him. Flash Sentry flew up next to the two kids, keeping Lightning in check while keeping Scootaloo under a watchful eye. We made eye contact, and Flash quickly looked away. I smiled to myself. I was going to head to Little Filly first.
"Twilight, you need to go to New Pony."
I dropped like a rock in surprise. Thunder Lane came down with me, unable to hold up my weight. Before I hit the ground though, I managed to level myself out enough.
"Twi, you need to watch it. Blind pegasus in tow!" complained Thunder Lane, rubbing his sore neck. I was too shocked to reply. I just heard a voice, that wasn't my own, in my head. Flash Sentry left Scootaloo and Lightning Streak behind, soaring up to check on me.
"Are you okay?" he asked, worry clouding his beautiful eyes. I shook my head, feeling a headache begin to creep up on me. He gently lead me down to earth, with the kids, Derpy and Thunder right behind us. As we landed, I folded my lavender wings up against my body snuggly, hiding them from veiw with my saddlebags. Everypony else but Lightning did the same. He didn't have any saddlebags. So, I dug through Derpy's saddlebag, remembering that she had a sweater hidden in there somewhere. I yanked out a white hoodie, and threw it to Lightning. He put it on, and I was surprised that Derpy had five MORE hoodies. I pulled them all out, wondering how in Tartarus she got all of them. I picked the silver one first, being that it was on top. The next one was red, and Thunder Lane picked it. Then it became a free for all, Flash got light blue, Scootaloo got green, and Derpy got pink. We all put on our sweaters, then saddlebags. Lightning went through my saddlebags. Before I yelled at him, he came out with a knife.
"Mhm! Mhmmm, uhmm." he said, the knife muffling his words. I took the knife from the colt, then looked at him expectantly.
"Maybe if we cut small holes in the sweaters, we can still fly, but we could also hide our wings!" he exclaimed, proud of his own genious. I was fairly shocked that a colt could think of that before I did.
"Good job kiddo. I'll do all the knife work though. Wonder how all this stuff is in out saddlebags. Like we're hoarders or something." I laughed to myself. I first did myself, making small cuts. I was able to squeeze my wings through the holes. I enlarged the holes just enough so my lavender wings could breathe, but still be hidden well. I did the same for everypony else, doing the kids last. I almost cut Scootaloo, because she had been fidgeting too much. Lightning did himself like a good colt. We were ready to go. Nothing could stop us now!