Lost Colour

by Star Crest


2-The Questions

Princess Hope, the ruler of Dream Valley lifted the paper with magic that glowed like fire and read it carefully,
"Intriguing.." she said in her calm soothing voice, "and you found this, where?" The alicorn had a golden coat with a flowing mane and tail which was bearing the colours of fire and a lit candle for a cutie mark.
"Just outside of Dream Valley," Firefly said, Surprise standing next to her, "in the meadow."
The white Pegasus spoke, wings extended, "I bet something awesome is where that thing came from, if only we knew where.." the princess nodded slowly,
"I will study this with Twinkle later, to hopefully discover its origin," she set the parchment aside, "now, why don't you two gather up the rest of your friends?"
The ponies nodded and flew out of the building to find the others.

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"Not our Equestria?" said the lavender pony, a greatly confused expression on her face, "what in the hay does that mean?"
Princess Celestia closed her eyes, "I do not know. However, this paper arrived in fire like your dragon, Spike's. Yet, when I cast an origin spell it told of a world without colour and ponies without Cutie Marks and with evil in rule. Wherev-" she was interrupted by a bouncing pink pony shouting happily,
"Ooh!Ooh! Hide and Seek, oh, I lovethat game, no matter what I am, the Hider or the Seeker, I also find or hide from them, I'm like a Hidey-Findy-Sneaky-Seeky pony! Pinkie Diane Pie th-" she couldn't finish her tangent as a light blue hoof was jammed in her mouth, but she finished it anyways in muffles.
"Pinkie Pie," groaned Rainbow in annoyance, "you are so random,"
Twilight looked back to the princess, "I'm sorry, you were saying?" Celestia cleared her throat,
"Wherever these ponies are, they are living in an exact copy of our Equestria," she stood in silence, thinking, "If only we could learn why it is so different from ours." Twilght stared at the princess in disbelief, then her eyes widened,
"you mentioned a paper, and an origin spell? I think I know that spell, may I see the paper?" the ruler of Equestria nodded, and magically lifted a piece of parchment to her pupil. She took it from her with her own purple magic and brought it down so the six of them could read it. On the paper was a single word, a tear beneath it,
'Colour'

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Bunnies with giraffe-like legs trotted by the Library while pies slowly fell from the sky. Streak Light looked out the window solemnly,
"I fear for our victory, Round Spike," she sighed, "without Night Mane, how could we ever defeat Discord and Chrysalis?"
the baby dragon sat on her back, "you shouldn't be. If your calculations are correct, help will arrive from the other side of the Wall of Dimensions."
The unicorn closed her eyes, "yes, but even then, what if the help we get is nothing. What if they won't be able to help?"
The dragon hopped off her back and went up the stairs to retrieve the several papers she used to find the location of the Wall. When he found them, he came back down and handed it to her. She used magic to lift and bring over a quill, and she made a couple adjustments to her equation. Her brow furrowed and she went to her desk and worked on it furiously, Problems always have questions, and every question has an answer, she thought as she worked, and every true answer is clouded, only once this clouding has been cleared can the true answer be seen. she looked over her math several times, each time finding one more mistake and fixing it. She finally finished and gasped,
"Round Spike! Call a meeting Immediately!"

In the basement of the tree, the meeting took place, ponies in hoods gathering, startled by the sudden ad urgent calling,
"What in the hay is going on?" asked Grey Dash impatiently,
"What in tarnation ain't you tellin' us?" queried Apple Black,
Streak Light stepped up on to the table and cleared her throat, "everypony," they continued chatting, she rose her volume,
"everypony, please," Triple Diamond then got up next to her and took a deep breath,
"HEY, LISTEN UP!"
Streak Light flinched at her volume,
"thank you, now, I have gathered you all on such short notice because of a discovery I made." everypony there leaned towards her intently, "I have discovered that our message, may have gone farther than we expected. We thought it may go to one dimension, and they would come and help, well... we were right." excited and hopeful banter filled the room, which quickly stopped as they all remembered the strength of voice within Triple Diamond,
"Our message may have gone to... another one."

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Discord put his changeling wife down,
"The rebels," continued their daughter, "I found their hideout. Its the library, home of the unicorn Streak Light."
"Excellent!" exclaimed the draconequus king, "have you learned of the progress they've made on their ever so futile plans?" the mare nodded,
"I have. They've found the Wall and sent the message. Clearly they weren't aware of the third dimension,"
The couple smiled, the rule over Equestria was just getting better and better!