Out in froggy bottom bog, Fluttershy was helping to migrate all of the frogs out to the bog. She was just about ready to leave when she saw a large, round sort of mossy pebble falling from the sky. Fluttershy gently dropped her cart down onto the ground before trying to catch the pebble. She didn't want to upset any of the frog's eggs from hatching into tadpoles. But as the pebble kept on coming downward, she noticed that the pebble was turning into a more medium sized rock, and then a boulder. Fluttershy's eyes widened while quickly gathering as many frogs and tadpoles as she could before the large boulder could crash into the swamp.
Fluttershy then ducked for cover as the small town-sized rock crashed into the swamp with great force. Luckily neither Fluttershy nor her frogs and tadpoles were hurt. But before relocationg the frogs and tadpoles, Fluttershy heard a weird groaning sound, like somepony was hurt. Fluttershy carefully flaced down the animals and went into the small cavern. She looked around at the strange torn-up structures that lay ontop.
"A-anypony there?" quivered Fluttershy.
Mel got up, opening her eyes wearily, trying to get back up to her feet. But she couldn't feel her fingers or toes. Mel wobbled over and got onto all fours. When she looked at her hands, if you could still call them hands, Mel screamed loudly. Fluttershy covered her ears with great pressure trying to block out the scream.
"E-excuse me miss?" asked Fluttershy.
Mel saw Fluttershy and quickly backed up onto the side of the Aperture Science Innovators statue.
"D-don't be scared, I'm just trying to help." said Fluttershy nervously.
"W-who are you? W-where am I?" asked Mel.
"I-I'm Fluttershy...y-you're in Froggy Bottom Bog. You crashed down here into the swamp with this small cave." Fluttershy replied silently.
"Okay...my name's Mel. Short for Melanie.
"Okay, well it's nice to meet you Mel. Are you okay? You're very scared."
"Uhm...I'm just really tired and hungry...but other than that I'm fine. Is there any towns or cities nearby?"
"There's Ponyville, but that's kind of a far trot from here. But I'm sure it's a good five minute flight back"
"Huh?"
Mel had never heard of such flight. Planes were still in development back in 1952, but they were really small. Mel noticed that the yellow pegasus named "Fluttershy" had wings, did she have similar wings like them? Mel turned her head to see a beige coat, a pair of wings, and a long redish-brown tail flowing behind her. She didn't have anything on her flank like Fluttershy had her butterflies. This was new for Mel, but then again so was being trapped in an old facility for thousands of years while your only friend is a robotic sphere, or "core" as Virgil called it.
Mel looked back up at Fluttershy, then she looked back at her wings. She seemed to be able to move them on her own just by thinking she could move them. It's like she had a few new arms on her back. They just had feathers and could help her fly.
"Y-yeah..." said Mel slightly nervous about her new apendages.
"Is everything okay?" asked Fluttershy worryingly.
"I-I'm just kinda...new to this." replied Mel.
"I think we should go to town, there's more ponies who can help there. I-if that's okay with you..." said Fluttershy.
Fluttershy then placed the cart on her back again and started to take off. Mel tried to follow behind, but flying was a whole new thing for her. Mel wobbled in the air for a few moments before getting a steady pace while flying. Ponyville was a small town, like something you'd see in Norway. The houses were made mostly of wood and were a tanish color with brown outlines in the more outer structure of the houses. But when Fluttershy began to land, Mel had no idea what she was doing. She tried to land, but instead she toppled overwards into a somersault while planting her face into the ground. But after hitting her head on the ground she toppled over and landed onto her hooves. Luckily those old long fall boots were still in proper function.
Fluttershy was just watching in aghast after Mel had preformed her little "stunt".
"A-are you okay?" asked Fluttershy.
"Yeah, just a little bruised, but I'll be fine." replied Mel brushing the chunks of dirt off of her.
"What're those things on your legs? I-if you don't mind me asking." stammered Fluttershy pointing and the old Aperture Long Fall Boots.
They had seemed to have changed with her, fitting onto her hind hoovesquite nicely. But this didn't really concern Mel.
"Oh, they're just a sort of thing to protect my back legs." replied Mel, shaking her wings to get out all of the gunk in them.
"Incoming!" yelled a raspy voice from out of nowhere.
Before Fluttershy could reply, mare with a rainbow mane came crashing head first into Mel. Mel was pushed backwards into the dirt, still on her hooves, but the mare had bounced right off of her like a tennis ball to cement. The mare got up and wildly shoke all the dirt off of herself.
"Whoa! That. Was. AWESOME!" yelled the mare.
Mel covered her ears in slight pain.
"Oh, sorry. I was just practicing a few tricks and I sorta, kinda, lost control. My name's Rainbow Dash by the way, what's yours?" asked rainbow.
"Mel, nice to meet you. I'm kinda looking for some help around this place." replied Mel looking around at her suroundings more than Rainbow Dash.
"You're new around these parts, huh. Pinkie Pie is gonna be pretty happy to see you. She greets every new pony with a party." said Rainbow Dash scratching the back of her mane.
'Yeah, but I was hoping if you could-" said Mel before being cut off by Rainbow Dash.
"Woah, you don't have a cutie mark? That's something you don't see everyday." said rainbow Dash.
"Rainbow! Don't be rude to Mel, she's new here and very confused." said Fluttershy trying to stop Rainbow from worrying Mel any further.
"I-It's okay." stammered Mel.
"I'm sorry, but I think you should see our friend twilight. She's good with new ponies and can most likely help you." said Rainbow Dsh.
"Sounds good...but where're we going?" asked Mel.
Rainbow pointed to a castle in the distance from where they were standing. Mel's eyes widened at the sight of the large castle standing out from the rest of Ponyville. This was going to be a long day.