"Did you see anything?" Tex asked as she walked past Tucker. Tucker opened his mouth but Tex cut him off with a rough laughed. "Of course you didn't."
"Still a total bitch, huh?" Tucker muttered as Church next to him.
"Does that surprise you?"
"Not really." Tucker shrugged. "So where's she going?"
"She's going to try and find some of the fragments on her own."
"Well at least she didn't try to kill any of us this time..."
"Tell that to Grif."
"Oh, is the ball hitting curse back to him now?" Tucker laughed as he got off the ground.
"Give it time, this could be just a fluke. Maybe someone will start beating your balls again."
"Bow chicka bow wow."
"What are you guy talking about?" Rainbow Dash asked.
Church and Tucker turned to see that the others had now crossed the bridge.
"Oh you know, the usual." Tucker shrugged.
"There is no time for idle chat, we must go down the path to see if we can find any whereabouts of the other fragments." Delta said as he continued walking.
The group nodded and they traveled down the trail until the path became obstructed by a large amount of flora.
"This is unusual." Twilight said as she examined the bushes.
"What?" Church asked.
"There weren't any bushes when we came by here last time."
A yellow pony suddenly burst out of the bushes and stared nervously at the group.
"Which one is this one?" Applejack asked.
"What's that?" The yellow pony asked in a voice that varied in pitch as he pointed a shaky hoof behind the group.
The girls turned their heads to look behind them but saw nothing. The yellow pony took a few step back when he realized not all of them had looked.
"Gary." Church said flatly.
The yellow pony looked at Church's cutie mark and his eyes misted over for a brief moment before returning to their previous state. The yellow pony smirked and jumped back into the bush.
"We need to get him as fast as we can. Gamma will be one of the trickier ones to catch." Delta said as he set a quick pace towards the bush. "He does however have one advantage over us."
"And what's that?" Church asked.
"There are two paths behind this bush."
Church looked over the bush and saw a fork in the trail, neither of which had Gamma anywhere in sight.
"Well that's just great." Rainbow Dash muttered.
"Why don't Rainbow Dash and I just fly above the trees and find him that way?" Tucker asked.
"The trees are too close together where there is no path so that effort would be in vain if he went off the set path." Delta answered.
"And since he's deceit he probably did just that." Twilight added.
"Alright reds, you go down the path on the left. Tucker, Caboose, Delta and I will go down the other." Church said as he hopped over the bush.
"What about us?" Fluttershy asked.
"I think you girls should try and find Tex to make sure she doesn't hurt anyone other than Grif and the other fragments." Church said as the other guys jumped over
"Not cool." Grif muttered.
"Hold it blue, you have four and we have three." Sarge grunted. "These aren't balanced teams."
"Fine take Applejack or whatever." Church said impatiently.
"We have spent enough time talking, I would suggest we leave now." Delta said.
"On it." Applejack grunted as she hopped over the bush and began to gallop down the path.
"First team that comes back with Gamma wins." Sarge said as he set off down the path with Simmons and Applejack.
"Whatever gets him back here fastest." Church grunted as he and the others went down the other path.
Grif watched as both groups ran down the paths, looking through the trees to see if they could fin Gamma in them.
"Grif get your ass in gear!" Sarge snapped.
"Damn, and here I was hoping he wouldn't have noticed." Grif sighed as he set a not so quick pace down the path.
The reds soon came to a clear opening where the path ended abruptly. Applejack went to the middle of the clearing and took off her hat to wipe the sweat off of her head.
"He couldn't have gotten this far..." Grif panted as he caught up with the others.
"What makes ya say that?"
"The fact that I don't want to run anymore."
Gamma suddenly burst through the trees and smiled awkwardly at the reds who were now all looking at him.
"Get him!" Sarge yelled.
Gamma jumped into another thick bush, but Simmons, Sarge and Grif jumped inside of it too. Simmons and Grif came out of the bush half of a minute later and looked around.
"Dammit we lost him again." Grif muttered.
"Maybe we wouldn't have if you kept up with us." Sarge grunted as he jumped out of the bush a few seconds later. "Let's go, he couldn't have gone far."
"Ya mean he wasn't in there?" Applejack asked, giving Sarge a serious look.
"No he wasn't." Sarge said quickly. "Now come on, we need to find him."
"Yeah." Applejack muttered as Sarge began to walk away. She leaned in to Grif and kept her gaze on Sarge. "Keep yer eye on him, will ya'?"
"You don't have to tell me twice." Grif said nonchalantly. "So what now?"
"We keep tryin' t' find him." Applejack said with a slow wink.
"What was that?" Simmons asked when he saw something dart in front of him.
"I didn't see anything." Grif said quietly.
"That's because you weren't looking." Simmons grunted angrily. "But something went behind that tree."
"Alright, then I vote we don't go behind that tree."
"Shut up Grif. You go around the left side of the tree, and I'll go around the right side."
Grif shrugged and slowly made his way to the left side of the trunk while Simmons pressed his back against the right side.
"One. Two." Simmons said slowly. "Three!"
Simmons and Grif circled around the tree and headbutted each other.
"Dammit, I told you it was nothing!" Grif yelled as he rubbed his head.
"Quit yer belly achin'." Applejack said slowly as she helped Grif up. "We need t' find him soon or who knows what'll happen t' Ponyville."
"Good point." Simmons sighed. "We know he's nearby, so maybe we can split up."
"I don't know 'bout that." Applejack muttered as Sarge began walking towards them.
"Come on, it will probably be faster. Besides from what I know Gary isn't really a fighter so he shouldn't be much trouble for one of us to handle."
"Ah guess you're right."
"Okay, I'll take Sarge and-"
"Actually Simmons, ah think ah should take Sarge."
"Why?" Simmons asked, but saw the unsure look Applejack was giving Sarge. "Oh. Ohh, yeah, okay. Hey Sarge, me and Applejack decided that we should split up even further to find him. I am going to go with Grif and you are going to go with Applejack."
"Simmons, don't talk like an idiot." Sarge murmured. "Leave that to Grif."
"Okay well, we'll just be going now. To find Gamma, that is."
Sarge watched as Simmons and Grif quickly walked away, looking back at Sarge every other second.
"What's wrong with them?" Sarge asked.
"Why don't ya tell me?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"Nothin'." Applejack sighed.
"Let's hurry up and find this guy so we can rub it in the blues face that we caught one." Sarge said as he began to walk the opposite direction that Simmons and Grif were walking.
"Hey Sarge, can we talk fer a minute?" Applejack asked quietly after her and Sarge had been walking for several minutes.
"Sorry AJ, now's not the time."
"C'mon it won't take that long." Applejack
"Fine, just make it quick." Sarge grunted.
"Well ah was just wonderin'..." Applejack said with a small laugh as she rubbed the back of her neck. "D'ya wanna hear a knock knock joke?"