Rainbows and choices

24

I woke up without opening my eyes. There was a lot of noise in the hall, but I ignored it. I thought about the previous evening. Had I really been as a family to Gallus? Why can't I remember the things from before the Rainbow factory? Why did I suddenly lose control so quickly? Did the loss of my friends have anything to do with it? How could I have pulled Smolders wings off? It was such a shame to remove wings. But why didn't it bother me? In general, I was convinced that doing something was much easier than bearing the consequences. But now it was the other way around. It had been so hard to kill my friends, but now I didn't care anymore. Somehow I was even glad they were gone.

My door flew open and Starlight came in. 'Sorry to wake you up, but Twilight wants to talk to you?' She said with a slight undertone of panic. Slightly confused, I followed her to Headmare Sparkle's office. The door just opened and Devo came out. His ears lay flat on his head and I could see the pain and sorrow in his eyes. I would prefer to start comforting him for whatever the problem was, but Starlight pushed me inside. 'We have to tell you something.' Said Applejack. All teachers, Spike and Starlight were in the office. 'What is it?' I asked confused. 'It might come a bit hard. So Applejack will tell.' Said Pinkie Pie. I had never seen Pinkie so serious and it would have to be very bad if they would rather not say so.' I already told Devo, you say it, Rarity.' Said Applejack. 'I'm sure Rainbow Dash will tell you better.' Said Rarity. 'I'm not good at bringing things carefully, why don't you say it, Fluttershy?' Said Rainbow Dash. Only now did I notice how well Dash acted. For a moment she didn't look like the pony that forces me in the air to kill others. Fluttershy gave a high squeak and Twilight sighed. 'I'll tell you. Black Blue, what I'm going to say to you now is coming hard, but we still need your help to solve everything. We would appreciate it if you could answer a few questions first.' She said. 'What is it now?' I asked a bit irritated. 'Sandbar, Gallus, Silverstream, Smolder and Yona have disappeared and nobody knows where they are. Do you perhaps know what could have happened to them?' Said Twilight. I just managed to suppress a sigh of relief. For a moment I thought they knew what I had done. 'I don't know where they are.' I said in a false worried and shocked tone. I also started to get pretty good at acting. 'We think they might have been looking for Ocellus. Devo said that Gallus had a plan and would tell you after school, but that Devo could not be there himself.' Said Twilight. 'It has nothing to do with the plan. We would give locators to the ponies who would take their test and follow the locators of the failures. The next flight test is only in two weeks and Sandbar would only get the locators from his cousin in three days. They didn't go looking for her. There is something else.' I said.

After a few more questions, they let me go back. I walked down the corridor. Ember sat on a bench talking to Prince Rutherford. They both tried to look cool, but you could tell they were worried. Last time they knew why they ran away. Now they had no idea what had happened. General Seaspray sat a little further. He didn't even bother to hide his concern. Grandpa Gruff looked like always. An irritated griffon. Yet you could see he was a little nervous. Thorax landed in the courtyard. He announced that no one had come looking for Ocellus in the hive of the changelings. He was clearly still devastated by the fact that Ocellus had failed the flight test, but now he tried to reassure Ember. A little further Devo sat. He was crying alone. I sat down next to him. 'Are you okay?' I asked. 'Where a-are they? They w-wouldn't go l-looking for Ocellus without us? ' Devo cried. 'Our plan could only be implemented in a few weeks. They didn't go find Ocellus.' I said. 'You saw them last, at the lake. Where did they go afterwards?' Asked Devo. 'I don't know. I left earlier.' I answered.

For a moment we remained silent. 'Shall we go for a walk? To change our mind for a moment.' I suggested. I wasn't sure what else to do to cheer him up. I used to be good at that. Now I found sad beings just uncomfortable to be with. But Devo was my last friend. I would do it for him. 10 minutes later we walked through Ponyville. A white hippogrif landed near the bridge and gazed at the water. Me and Devo sat a little further and looked at him. 'Terramar? What are you doing here?' Asked Apple Bloom's voice from behind us. She and Sweetie Belle approached and stood by the sad hippogrif. 'I wanted to know if they had heard anything from Silverstream. They have searched all of ponyville, the entire school, the Everfree Forest and this time also the clubhouse. She's not on Mount Aris or in Seaquestria. They are searching everything between the school and our home, but nobody knows where she is.' Terramar said. 'We understand how you feel, Terramar. We still remember when Scootaloo disappeared.' Said Sweetie Belle. Hearing that name, Scootaloo's voice echoed through my head again. "You have beautiful eyes" I shook my head. Last words had never been a good idea. They just kept chasing you and I really didn't need that. 'That was different. Scootaloo failed her test and was sent away. At least you still know she's somewhere. Probably happy, with new friends and healthy and well. I don't know anything about what happened to Silverstream.' Terramar said. I couldn't suppress a little smile. They didn't know that Scootaloo and Silverstream had had exactly the same fate. 'What is it?' Asked Devo. 'Nothing, let's walk on.' I answered. My thoughts were with Terramar and what was left of the CMC. 'What happened here?' Devo suddenly asked. I hadn't seen that we had headed toward the lake. The sand on the shore was wildly, full of hills and wells. You could see that a skirmish had taken place. The short fight between my "friends" and the workers of the Rainbow factory.