//------------------------------// // The Mall // Story: Winter Song Diaries: Kira's Lost World // by Sea Pony //------------------------------// -13 days left- Twilight eyes flutter open and immediatly groans as she felt the pain coming from her head. ``Twilight yer finally awake! We were worried sick sugarcube.`` Twilight blink in surprise at the familiar voice of Applejack. She didn’t expected to wake up with ponies in her room this morning. That was when she remembered what happened last night. ``What happened?! Did the guards got us?!`` She cried in panic grabbing the apple mare in her hooves. She release her with a bright blush when she realised how close her face was from Applejack. ``Rainbow and Vinyl counterpart save us from the guards after ya were knock out and we decided to stay the night t’ill ya recover. We also got some responses from them. The place we’re currently in is controlled by the changelings.`` Twilight eyes widden in alarm in this new. ``Aparently in this world they are rebels who fight against the tyrany of Sunset Shimmer. Ah don’t know if it just an excuse to get the throne but fer now we will let them help us if we need it. Also the guardian we’re looking fer is called Helios we don’t know were he is for now. But some rumors say that he’s hiding somewhere living the life of a normal mortal.`` ``What happened to Rarity and the others?`` Twilight ask slowly. ``Am not really sure we didn’t see them but we hope they’re alright`` ``Wait! Maybe one of the girls came with one of their cell phone did you try to call them?`` Applejack facehoof in response. ``Ah knew ah forgot something! Winter! Can ya come here?!`` They hadn’t to wait a long time before they heard my hoofsteps. ``Hi aunt Applejack! Hi Princess Twilight!`` Twilight instantly frown at the greeting. ``Winter I told you I don’t want you to call me Princess. You are my niece and I don’t want to be treated any differently than your other aunts.`` I roll my eyes at her. Why is she so insistent to be treated like a normal pony? I mean after all she done with the other elements you would think she want some recognition . ``So why did you woke me up of my bed? It better be a good reason.`` I said fighting the urge to yawn. ``We were wondering if you could try to phone Rarity maybe she have her cellphone with her.`` Twilight said slowly, I look at her blankly for a second before responding. ``Sure why not.`` I took a while but I was able to open the phone on my own this time. I had to wait a few seconds but finally somepony responded. ``Hello who is it?`` A familiar tired voice ask. ``Rarity! It’s me Winter Song. How things going since we’ve been separated?`` Twilight and Applejack shared a relieved look as they heard me talking with my aunt. ``Well it’s seem we have met Applejack counterpart. She was gracious enough to let me and the other girls stay at her home for the night. So... How you and the other girls doing?`` ``Well we got attack by some guards yesterday.`` I heard my aunt gasp dramatically at this. ``They knock out Pri- I mean aunt Twilight. Fortunately through Rainbow Dash and Vinyl Scratch counterparts saved us. We’re curently hiding in the changeling territory.`` ``That may be a problem. The Applejck we’ve met seem to dislike changelings for some reasons. I don’t think she would like to acompany us there and I don’t think I could find my way in this gigantic new city... Oh I know! You and the girls can come at the mall-`` ``The what now?``I ask in confusion. ``The mall! Applejack said it’s a place like our small market in Ponyville but bigger. Where we can buy almost anything we want! Me and the other girls need to buy some things to survive in this place. So we decided we would go see it today.`` I groan at this, of course aunt Rarity would jump at the occasion to go ‘shopping’. ``I will talk about it with the other girls and mom I will call you later.`` With that I end the call. I spun around to find Twilight and Applejack giving me hopeful smiles. ``So what did she say?`` The cowgirl was the first to ask. ``I think we need to talk to the other girls apparently Rarity want to meet us at the mall. Whatever this is.`` They gave me a strange look but quickly shrugh it off. They proceed to go call the girls downstair so they could talk about what we will do. Since this is surely a ‘grown-up’ matter I decided I would take a quick nap t’ill they finish to talk. - - - - - - We were all nervous to return in the insane vehicule of Rainbow Dash. I’m still wraping my head around that they’re two versions of my aunts in this world. The ride to the mall was surprinsingly calm. No guard chase us. Rainbow and Vinyl didn’t pull any crazy stunts and everything was alright. Okay, almost alright. My mom was still nervous even through we were rolling at like thirty miles per hour. We finally in front of a huge white building with many and I mean many publicities showing all the shops that was avaible inside. ``Now you three, don’t fly or at least don’t take off too quickly and keep the magic to a minimum. Nopony should jump at your throat for your magical abilities, but it still look down upon especially in Everfree city.`` Rainbow Dash state. ``But the guards attacked us yesterday! Why wouldn’t they attack us now?`` Twilight ask worriedly. ``Yesterday you blew up a part of one of the biggest building of the city. Which could be easily mistaken for a terrorist attack. Ponies tend to jump the gun when their city is treatened.`` Rainbow deadpan back at the Alicorn. I slowly open the door of the ‘car’ as Vinyl as been calling it and the rest of the girls followed behind. Twilight was kind enough to open the door for the rest of us with her magic. The ground of the mall was completely white. I could see myself when I look at it. I was interupt of my revery by a loud metalic beat coming in our direction. I look up and was surprised at the metalic thing before us. It looked like a pony but instead of being made of flesh and fur. It’s was completely made of steel. It’s eyes were glowing with golden magical energy. ``Welcome to the Everfree’s mall have a great day, friend.`` His voice wasn’t what I expected. I expect a emotionless robotic voice like in those sci-fi movies. Instead it was only a emotionless voice as if somepony was boringly reading a text it had pratice thousand of times before. I quickly trot pass him not wanting to see his creepy stare any longer than needed. ``Yoohoo! Over here!`` A voice called us from afar. I squint my eyes before I recognise who called us. In one of the tables of a small looking restaurant was our favorite fashionesta with the two other missing ponies. When we pass through the mall a few ponies gave us wary looks but liked Dash assured us nopony attacked us. My mom zoom past us and happily tackle Rarity on the ground. ``Rarity! I was so worried!`` The white Unicorn grimaced as she saw how the ‘attack’ mess up her mane, but smile back at her best friend nonetheless. ``I’m glad to see you girls too. I reserve a seat for all of you, now that we’re together we can plan how we will find this guardian we’ve been-`` ``What in tarnation?`` The fashionesta was interupted when Applejack saw... Another Applejack?! ``Who the hay are you and why do ya look just like me?`` Applejack- I mean the other Applejack stare at her with a curious frown. ``Ah should be the one that ask that. Y’all are the ones who stumble into mah world afterall.`` I blink and confusion and look at the two of them. ``This is weird. They are completely identical they even have the same hat. Hey! Isn’t it dangerous to see your own counterpart in a alternate universe?!`` I ask bluntly. ``Of course not Winter. It’s not like we’re the first one to see a counterpart of ourself with all the worlds there is around there probably thousand of ponies who saw their counterpart at a moment or another.`` Oh jeez I shouldn’t have ask. Now Twilight is in her lecture mode. ``Now since we will probably pass some time together we should find some way to name the two of you so we will not be too confused when we talk to each other.`` ``Ah suppose since we’re technically the aliens here, y’all can call me AJ`` Our cowgirl said. ``And ah will simply be Applejack.`` The counterpart agreed with a nod. ``I’m Dash!`` The Pegasus version of the rainbow colored mare cried. The Earth Pony version huff in annoyance. ``I suppose simply Rainbow will have to do for now.`` It was now that Applejack took notice of Rainbow and glare coldly at her. ``What does this traitor doing here?!`` The scream raise a few heads in the restaurent. My mother visibly shrink at the attention. ``You’re still on that? I told you a hundred times I fight for the good of Trotana. How can you really believe we’re really the bad ponies when it’s Sunset Shimmer of all ponies who brand us as traitor?`` Rainbow countered with a glare. ``Ah don’t care about this fraud of Sunset Shimmer! Didn’t ya think for a second that being a criminal of the country could have put yer friends in danger?! We arleady lost Twilight do ya want to lose Fluttershy and Rarity too?`` Rainbow growl at this. A few of the ponies around us took a shocked expression when the cowgirl treat the new princess as a fraud. ``Exactly we lose Twilight! I won’t stop my attack t’ill we have her back. And even when we will save her I will continue because Twilight would want to have her mentor back!`` Rainbow scream back. ``Miss?`` A waiter politely ask. ``WHAT?!`` The two angry mares turn they’re glare at him. ``i-I will h-have to ask you t-t-to leave the restaurant, you are disturbing the patrons.`` Rarity glare angrily at the two barbarian for having ruined her deligtful moment but had no choice to follow the rest of us. ``Well this day could have gone better.`` I said when we were outside. ``We should try to come another time. I wasn’t interest at first but I’m curious to see the other shops of this place.`` The others simply stayed silent. I roll my eyes at them, adults can be so boring sometimes. - - - - - - A lavender mare was being ‘escorted’ through the now corupted halls of the castle of the royal pony sisters. When they arrive at the throne room one of the guards kick her in the flank and she was sent sliding on the floor like a miserable rag doll. ``Ah! Twilight Sparkle. I hope you’re finally over with the thing I ask you to do.`` Twilight tried to hide her grimace as she heard this horrible voice she came to loath. In the throne was a beige pony with a yellow and red mane she wore a smirk that tell her she enjoyed seeing her miserable like this. How could she have come this low? A few years ago she was surounded by good friends and was becoming one of the prodigy of the magical industrialisation. Now she was simply the pet of this new tyrant forced to research every changelings or sign of magic. It was a cruel fate to work against the ones who she support the most in this civil war. But she had no choice if she wanted to keep her friends safe as long as she could. ``It’s seem this new source of magic that disturbed our most advanced magical radar came from a sort of wormhole that was formed eighteen hours ago. I also assumed the two ‘shooting star’ that destory the building came from it.`` Sunset Shimmer took a concerned expression at this. ``Throught the maw of magic, the seven daughters of Kira will appear from the starry sky and lead the world back to it former glory.`` She frown harder. ``We have to stop these ponies right now.`` ``GUARDS!`` The Queen call angrily the two guard cam trotting quickly in the room. ``Tell the other to take the magic detectors and find ponies with strange source of magic in the city.`` The two of them salute her before they began to gallop to their captain. ``Are you sure it’s wise to go head first into this?`` Twilight ask trying to buy some times to these new ponies. Whatever legend Sunset talk about she had to make it happen it may be her last chance to get out of this hole. ``Shut up pet, you can go back in your filthy lab I don’t need you anymore.`` ``Yes your majesty.`` The mare said through her grinding teeth. Before trotting out of the throne room. She had to find a way to warn her friends that something was brewing up.