Helium Treachery

This piece is based on a short scene from my fic Dreamers and the Moon, seen amidst a montage of this little cloudbound unicorn filly trying to make her own ways of flying:

Next up were actual balloons. Enterprise had held a grudge against helium balloons, for the way they insolently went against gravity without wings or anything else to lift them. They had been taunting her, so they deserved her scorn. But, inspired by the failed hot air balloon, she realized they might be useful.

Enterprise tied five helium balloons to a basket, then jumped in. But the balloons stubbornly refused to lift her more than her hoof’s width above the flat hardcloud roof of her house before the basket landed again. Frustrated, she wiggled the basket, which only caused three of her knots to fall apart. She cursed the treacherous balloons as they flew towards the sky without her.

The remaining two balloons had not been so lucky as to escape. Enterprise personally showed them one of the less magical uses of a unicorn horn.