The six ponies of the past and the present were still traveling through the time hole.
"Equestria's past. Everfree Forest." The screen reads before a white glow came at the end of the time hole trip, then they were all engulfed by the glow.
Soon Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity, along with their filly counterparts were sent flying out of the time hole. They all managed to land on their hooves in time.
"Do time holes ever know when to send a lady out, gently?" Rarity humphed, as she made sure Filly Rarity was okay.
"Focus Rarity. Now where are we this time?" Applejack asked, as she and her filly counterpart checked their surroundings. They were in some kind of dark forest.
A very familiar dark forest, as Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity began to shake a little out of worry, while the clueless Filly Applejack, Filly Rainbow Dash, and Filly Rarity were confused.
"This is... the Everfree Forest." Applejack shook in slight fear. As they looked around, and saw dark bushes and trees everywhere.
"Out of all the places, why the Everfree Forest?!" Rarity screamed.
"Wait, Rarity, I don't see any of the creatures around." Rainbow Dash realized.
"You're right Rainbow Dash, it's almost like they've vanished. Where are the creatures in the forest?"
"I don't know, but something tells me that the Shroobs are behind it." Applejack said, as she put all her fear and worry aside.
"I agree. Those ruffians should pay for turning the places around here into wastelands." Rarity nodded, as she stood ready for action. "So where should we go?"
"Lets start with this way." Rainbow Dash said, as she pointed to the right direction.
The three ponies along with their filly counterparts started walking the right path. They continued forward, until they reached a very large tree in front of them.
"Okay, we are now nearby a very large tree. Where do you think we go now Rarity?" Applejack asked her friend.
"Anywhere to get out of this dreadful..." Rarity said, but before she could continue, the six suddenly heard something.
"...l...i...g...h...t..." They heard somepony speak nearby, but it was really weak.
"Huh? Who said that?" Rainbow Dash asked, as the three ponies set their filly counterparts down the ground.
"M...i...s..." The same voice suddenly muttered. The three ponies, along with Filly Applejack, Filly Rainbow Dash, and Filly Rarity started checking their surroundings, but couldn't find anypony nearby.
Rarity soon started to shake in fear. "It's... not a ghost is it?"
"Rarity calm down, we've already been through this. Ghosts do not exist." Applejack said.
"I know, but if it is a ghost, it's lucky that I don't have my magical vacuum with me. If it comes near me, I will tear it to..." Rarity threatened, before she's cut off, by the voice once more.
"Twi... ight." The voice muttered. The unicorns now realized where the voice came from.
"The voice. It's coming from that tree." Applejack realized, as she pointed to the tree. The six of them walked closer to it, and then saw something slightly curly, dark blue, light yellow, and pink.
"That... that looks kinda... familiar." Rarity said, as she got closer to the curly thing stuck on the tree. Then suddenly, it turned up.
"Twilight Sparkle..." The voice said, which turned out to be Bon Bon.
Both Rarity, and the fillies jumped up in surprise, and ran toward the bushes. Rainbow Dash and Applejack stood there quietly, as they was shocked at Bon Bon, being stuck in the tree thanks to the vines tying her up. "Twilight Sparkle..."
"Oh no, I'm not Twilight." Rarity said.
"Bon Bon?" Rainbow Dash realized.
"Yes it's me, Bon Bon. I was... it'sn the... time machine... with... Princess Celestia." She explained weakly.
"You were? Where's Princess Celestia? Is she alright? And why are you stuck in that tree?" Applejack asked her.
"As... as soon as we arrived... in this time... we were... attacked. A fierce... alien race known as... the Shroobs... came... out of nowhere..."
"Go on." Applejack said.
Flashback
(About 20 minutes, after Chrysalis's airship retreated from Canterlot)
The time machine started appearing on top of the ruins of Canterlot. It landed in front of her old throne. Princess Celestia, along with her followers, Lyra and Bon Bon, stepped out of the time machine.
Princess Celestia was shocked at the ruins, and destroyed remains of Canterlot. "Oh my goodness! What's happened here?"
Lyra and Bon Bon continued checking their surroundings. "Was this before Canterlot Castle was built Bon Bon?"
"Don't know Lyra. But it could use a bit of... "Bon Bon replied, until she stopped, and started to shake in fear, upon what she's witnessing arriving to the throne room.
"EEEK!" They both screamed, as they both ran behind Princess Celestia's flank, and hugged each other tightly. Princess Celestia on the other hand, was recovering her senses of the Canterlot ruins, and watched, as more than a hundred Shroobs walked up to her.
"Who are you?! What are you creatures?! Tell me at once!" Princess Celestia firmly ordered. But the Shroobs ignored her. They then turned both left and right, where the Shroobs in the middle stepped back. She then noticed a very tall female Shroob, who had a royal like figure walk up to her. Celestia assumed she was their leader.
"Who are you?" Celestia asked, but the royal Shroob didn't respond, but instead walked closer to them. Celestia, Lyra, and Bon Bon took a step back, as the royal Shroob was very close to them. It then surrounded it's alien hands with pink energy orbs, as Lyra and Bon Bon was starting to get more afraid, while Princess Celestia was shocked at the Shroob's display of power.
"Help!"
"I want my mommy!" Lyra screamed.
End of flashback
"Princess Celestia was... taken... by the Shroobs..." Bon Bon explained, as Rarity came out of her hiding spot, carrying Filly Rarity on her back. "And I was... captured by... the trees... of the Everfree Forest..."
Rarity felt bad for Bon Bon. "Oh you poor dear."
"So what are the trees for? Why did they bind you to it?" Rainbow Dash asked curiously.
"These trees... they're slowly but surely... siphoning away all our... magical power... our vim... The pure vim... then flows through the... roots of the trees... deep, deep underground... It is gathered... at the Shroob Vim Factory... in the heart of... the Everfree Forest." Bon Bon continued. "Rumor has it... the magic is... somehow changed at the... Vim Factory. It's mixed with awful chemicals and... becomes the fuel for... the Shroob's flying saucers..." Bon Bon explained further.
The ponies couldn't believe it more, what the awful Shroobs are planning on doing. "That's... horrible. And insane!" Rainbow Dash said, out of disgust.
"Why those ruffians." Rarity said out of anger. "Come on darling. Let us help free you from this horrid tree."
Bon Bon however shook her head. "No... You must... leave me... Hasten to... the Vim Factory... It is all that matters now... besides my friend Lyra. Somewhere... in that horrid place... is a... Cobalt Star Shard... I just know it..."
"Wait, there's a Cobalt Star Shard, and what is this Vim Factory?" Applejack asked her.
"The Cobalt Star... and Princess Celestia..." Bon Bon is about to explain... until 5 flying saucers suddenly appeared above them, and started firing an energy blast toward them. The first one hit near Rarity and the fillies.
"Yikes!" Rarity screamed, as she ran back to her hiding spot with the fillies. Applejack on the other hand was at first too shocked to run.
"What the?! How did they find us so quickly?!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, as she flew around the tree to dodge the blasts, but the blasts they fired were too quick for her to react. As she ran for cover, one of the blasts suddenly hit Bon Bon, creating smoke around her.
Applejack gasped. "Bon Bon!"
As the smoke cleared, a purple mushroom, similar to the Shroobs was now in her place. The Bon Bon mushroom fell down to the ground, as Applejack ran up to what remained of Bon Bon.
"Oh no! What have they done to you?!" Applejack said, as she felt agony and sadness, in Bon Bon's poor fate.
"The... shards... Gather..." Was all she heard. But the rest sounded too dull for her to listen clearly, as the voice was soon too weak to listen to at all.
Rarity then arrived with he fillies. "Poor Bon Bon. If we had Twilight with us, then she could use a spell that can turn her back to normal."
"I'm not sure Rarity." Applejack said. "Ah think the mushroom appears to be too resistant to her magic."
"Well those ruffians are gonna pay. Lets find the Cobalt Star, shut down the awful Vim Factory, and get back to our time." Rarity suddenly declared. Applejack felt proud for her friend's declaration to take on the Shroobs.
"I'm glad that you're in it. Lets continue, and find the factory." Applejack said, with Rarity nodding in agreement. They let their filly versions climb up to their backs, and started continuing on their path.
"And hopefully give those enemies a piece of our minds." Rainbow Dash added.
As they continued their way through the forest, they noticed more ponies tied to the vines of several trees in the Everfree Forest. Rarity felt disgusted by the numerous ponies, having their power sucked away. Most of the ponies around, were also too weak to even speak. Along the way, they came across some Koopeleons, Boo guys, Elasto-Piranhas, and defeated them. They even picked up some fire flowers, mushrooms, and green shells. They eventually reached a huge red and purple dome in front of them, along with two metallic Shroob Arms in front of the entrance.
"There is the entrance Rarity. I bet the Cobalt Star is in there." Applejack speculated.
"Normally, I would've refused to go in there. But knowing that it's the only way, to get more clues to where Princess Celestia is... i'm in." Rarity said, as they walked toward the entrance. Soon they walked inside the entrance passage, where they saw every kind of machinery inside.
"Wow. This Shroob technology must be really advanced." Rainbow Dash said, as she watched in awe of the interior.
"Would you focus already? The Shroobs are our enemies." Applejack reminded her, as Rainbow Dash soon snapped out of her thoughts. They then reached a large room, with two doors on the other side.
"Two doors. Which way girls?" Rarity asked, as she, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash put the fillies down.
"I don't know. But maybe we should try..." Rainbow Dash said, until suddenly, two insectoid pony like species suddenly jumped down from the ceiling. Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity certainly know what race they are.
"Changelings?!"
"What are they doing here?" Rarity asked. The Changelings were a bit different. They wore some sort of advanced green steel armor, both had a hammer equipped to their horns, and both wore a special helmet with an antenna above.
The right one spoke first, with a metallic light voice, none of the ponies barely understood. "AREA RESTRICTED. ALL NOOB INTRUDERS 2 B HAXORED BY US L33T HAMM3R BROZ.!"
"What the hay did they just say?" Rainbow Dash whispered to Applejack.
"Ah don't know. Maybe that's almost the same Shroobs speak in pony language. The Shroobs must've brainwashed them."
Then the left one spoke, with a slightly deeper voice than his comrade. "WE R TEH SHROOB ALLIES. WE ROXOR U AND THEN ROFL. THEN U AM CRY. WE RECEIVE ORDERS THRU ANTENNAS ON THESE L33T HELMETS. THEY R HOTNESS. WE MUST OBEY ALL ORDERS. WE LIKE 2 PWN NOOBS 4 TEH MASTER SHROOBZORS. U = NOOBS. BROZ. = L33T. PREPARE FOR TOTAL PWNAGE. WOOT! WOOT! WOOT! WOOT!"
Suddenly, two large wooden nose suddenly appeared above Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and started sucking up air with it's nostrils. Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity suddenly felt themselves being lifted off the ground.
"Uh, what in tarnation is happening?" Applejack asked not knowing what's going on. Before Rainbow Dash or Rarity responded, all three of them were stuck in the nostrils of the wooden nose with Applejack and Rainbow Dash in one side and Rarity in the other.
"EW! So gross! Get off me!" Rarity exclaimed, as she did her best to struggle herself out of the nose. Filly Applejack, Filly Rainbow Dash, and Filly Rarity panicked, and called out for them, while the three present ponies were helplessly taken away by the wooden noses. The two Changelings then looked at the three fillies.
"NOOBZ STILL R NOT PWNED. CONTINUE PWNERSHIP UNTIL ALL NOOBZ R PWNED" The right one said.
"TEH ESCAPE IS IMPOSSIBLE. WE ARE 2 L33T. WE OWNZ JOO. U WILL GET FLATZORED BY R L33T HAMMERS." The left one said, as they both prepared to fight the three fillies.
To be continued...