Twilight marched around the chamber where the portal was. "Alright girls, listen up. We rehearsed this."
Rainbow Dash grumbled in the background and rolled her eyes.
"Rainbow, listen up please! Okay, as I was saying, we head into the portal, tell them we're here for the princesses, and come back with them. We'll cross any bridges when we come to them. Simple enough. Are we ready?"
The 5 friends nodded in unison.
Twilight then nodded as well. "Very good. Is everypony ready?"
"Yeah!" the 5 friends cheered.
"Okay then. On the count of 3, we all jump in. 1, 2, 3!"
A bright light engulfed each of the six as they all went into the portal.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Around that time...
On the beach, Luna was pacing around the sandbanks nervously. "Okay, based on our recent discoveries, I think that we have a good chance of getting off this damned beach. So, we draw out a S.O.S, and use our flare gun, and hope to be found. Sister, is that clear?"
Celestia nodded. "All too clear, my dear sister. Except for 1 thing. Where ever did you put that flare? Celestia said.
"Um..."
"You LOST it?
"Sorry!" Luna said.
Celestia rolled her eyes. "Look, we need to co-operate if this plan is to work, alright? I'll go get another flare. YOU stay here."
"Okay 'Tia." Luna answered.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Back to the Mane Six...
After shaking off the feeling of arriving in a new dimension and then walking a few miles...
"Alright then girls, let's go!" Twilight said.
"Woo hoo!" Pinkie Pie cheered. She already started jumping up and down. "Boing, Boing, Boing. Hey Twilight, do you know where we are?"
"I think this is..." Twilight's eyes then darted to a billboard. "Welcome to... Vancouver?"
"Don't you mean, VanHOOVER? Rainbow asked.
"No, I mean Vancouver! Look at that sign!" Twilight yelled.
"Wow." Rainbow said. "Just wow. So we are in a new place now! Just... the same."
"Oh, all this dreadful traveling is getting mud all over my hooves!" Rarity complained.
Applejack blinked. "If y'all gonna be SO crazy about your hooves, maybe you shouldn't have come, and MAYBE y'all should've stayed back in Ponyville!"
"Yeah? Well maybe YOU should've kept your extremely unpleasant mouth back there too!"
"And maybe YOU should've left your scrupulous habits back there too!"
"And maybe YOU just have no care for cleanliness!"
Twilight put herself between the 2 girls. "GIRLS! Stop fighting! Unless you don't want to find the princesses!"
Pinkie started to eat a pizza.
"Pinkie, where ever did you get that?" Rarity asked.
"Oh, I bought this from this REALLY big building where there was a lot of bipedal things and they stared at me awkwardly and they started talking to each other and then a ton of them started swarming me and asking for autographs and then one bought me this pizza and a bunch more gave me a bunch of more neat stuff and -" Pinkie said.
"Wait, what? Where did you find the building?" Twilight asked.
"Over there and behind the trees!" Pinkie answered.
Twilight shook her head. She would never understand Pinkie. "Alright, Rainbow, please look over those trees and tell us how far it is, alright?"
"No problem! I'll do it 5 seconds flat!" Rainbow responded.
The friends closed their eyes as a big cloud of dust came up as Rainbow took off towards the airport.
"I'm back!"
"Alright then, how far?"
"Not far! Only a short walk!"
So the friends walked over to the building.
"Vancouver International Airport," Twilight read. "Huh, I think I've been here. This place, from what I remember, is very beautiful! Except that it's an airship station."
"Yeah, and where did you get that from? Your books?" Rainbow asked.
"Didn't I JUST say that I've been here before?"
"Oh, oh, okay. Twilight, don't you think that's too harsh?"
"Sorry!"
As the friends finally reached the airport, they were greeted by a certain man.
"Hello there! You seem to be the ponies that were supposed to go on the flight to Paris, right?" the man asked.
"Okay then! Oh, um, did you catch 2 ponies named Celestia and Luna?" Twilight asked.
"Yes! Why, I am their Tour Guide! Wait, I remember, they already took their flight. Silly me. It was 2 ponies anyway. Sorry!" the Tour Guide said.
"Okay then, what's your name?" Rainbow asked.
"My name is Roger, and I was appointed to guide the 2 princesses throughout their trip, though I haven't been doing a good job, as you can see." Roger said.
"We haven't heard from those 2 ponies in a while, do you think you could take us to Paris? We suspect something might have happened." Twilight said.
"Sorry, can't help you." Roger said.
"Oh, then sorry to bother you..." Twilight said.
"Then again... it is my job to take care of those 2... How about this; I have this errand at Prince Edward Island, could you do it for me? Then maybe I'll help you. I'll give you the flight there, I have my own plane." Roger said.
"How convenient," Twilight whispered. "Alright, we'll do it!"
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
"Let's turn on some music. Here we go, this sounds nice!" Rainbow said.
"Don't you think that's a bit, um, strong?" Rarity said.
"Not at all! It's awesome, like me." Rainbow said.
Twilight rolled her eyes. "Whatever. We'll be arriving soon, so be on the lookout for some buildings."
"Aaaand touchdown!" Pinkie exclaimed.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
After walking to the docks...
"Hello there! So like I told you, I need help. If you do, I'll tell you how to find the 2 ponies you're looking for." Roger said.
"Just say it." Twilight said.
"I need you to manage the fishing stocks and list down the market price for all the types of fish in that compartment." Roger pointed to a large warehouse.
"That's boring. You know what would make it 20% cooler?" Rainbow said. "NOT doing this stupid job!"
"Well you asked for this job, so get to work." Roger said.
"Fine."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
"Right. So thank you for sorting out that matter, so here's your help. Just talk to those nice fellows over there. You see those coast guards?" Roger said.
"Yup!" Pinkie said.
"Well they'll help you if you ask. I've told them to give you high priority.
"And why would they listen to you?" Twilight asked suspiciously.
"Because I'm a government agent." Roger said.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
After heading off into the Atlantic Ocean...
"Alright girls, let's hold on the information we have right now." Twilight said. Spike, make a liiiiiist? Where's spike?
"Don't you remember? He was out getting supplies when we were talking." Pinkie said.
"Then he must be worried sick!" Twilight exclaimed.
"Oh, before we left I put a note on the door." Pinkie said.
"How do you - nevermind. Okay then. We -"
"I'm so bored," Rainbow complained. "I never knew sailing could be THIS boring!"
"Whatever. We have to remember this is a rescue mission! If we see a flare or something we gotta go save them!"
"I... well FINE! I'll just... um... go outside and stuff!" Rainbow said.
"Go ahead."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
"Are you ready?" Celestia asked.
"Ready as I'll ever be!" Luna said.
"Okay then, 3, 2, 1, FIRE!" Celestia then launched the flare.
"WE DIDN'T EVEN SEE A - oh, there's a ship. I shall not ever doubt thou ever again." Luna said.
"Now when did you start using that "accent" again?"
"Come on, you know that's a joke."
"I'm just teasing. Let's go home."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
"A flare!" Quick, we gotta stop! Captain!!" Twilight said.
"Alright then, prepare to stop." the captain said.
A very slow and gradual stop followed.
"There they are!" Twilight said. "Though I don't know how this happened, I knew something happened to them! Here, open the door!" Twilight then opened the door.
The 2 sisters rode their raft over.
"Ya highness, are y'all alrigh'? Applejack asked.
"We're quite fine, thank you." Celestia responded.
Luna winced. "Oh dear, the old wound still hurts."
"Are you okay? It was only a few days since... something happened." Celestia said.
"I should be worried about you! You were only..." Luna trailed off as she realized she was making the friends nervous. "We're fine, really! Don't worry about us now, we can finally leave! We should be happy right now!"
"Your highness, I do respect your decisions, really I do, but I think you need to clean that wound, maybe a little alcohol? Rarity said.
"Um, alcohol?" Luna said nervously. She smiled at Rarity. "Alright, fine."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
We are experiencing some fog. This may delay our ride for a while.
*Crack*
"That doesn't sound good..." Twilight said.
"No kidding." Rainbow dash said.
Suddenly, the ship began to tilt backward.
Luna started to breath heavily. "Uh oh..."
Celestia comforted her sister. "Don't worry, we'll all be fine." She then hoped that was the case.
"This must be major. I mean, Luna's like, hyperventilating!" Pinkie said.
"Pinkie, that's not hyperventilating! Where did you learn that word anyway?" Twilight said.
"Never mind that now, SOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Rainbow said.
As the ponies hung on for dear life, a man seemed to be viewing from a distance.