In a void of black with a white ground and towers was a dragon.
It was big, flying around with black scales and purple eyes.
It hovered then landed on a platform of white stone as Endermen looked at it.
"the time has come....the invasion will begin..." The dragon said.
The Endermen cheered at this news but was silenced by the dragon.
"a new commander will lead this invasion......" he said.
He made something fall as he released his right claw on it, and then he summoned purple lightning.
It hit the item dead on and continued a few seconds.
"now my new commander, rise and lead the invasion of the surface dwellers!" The dragon roared.
The form of a pony stood up, it had black and grey full body armor.
It had helmet hiding it's face, and a sword of red diamond.
"yes my master" the pony said in a dark female voice full of sadist and malice.
Pinkie Pie woke up with a scream that pretty much woke up everypony in the house.
"Pinkie Pie what is wrong?" Twilight asked.
"I...I don't know, it must have been a bad dream" she said.
"maybe you shouldn't have had that piece of cake before bed" I said.
"Pinkie are you sure your going to be ok?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"of course you silly filly!, it was just a bad dream, I am Pinkie Keen!" she said confidently.
"well that's a relief, you looked like you got scared half to death" Rarity replied.
"you can say that again" Applejack said.
In a few seconds everypony got out of the house, but before I left I pondered on what happened.
"it couldn't have just been a dream right?, it could have been a vision of some kind..." I thought.
"if it was a vision, it could have been something important, but what?" I continued.
"I am going to have to consult with Pinkie on this later, I have a feeling it may be vital..." I thought as I went outside and shut the door to the house.
After we had breakfast we went back inside our house and Steve drove the two mobile homes towards the town.
When we got there people looked at us strangely, but kept on going on with their own business.
"well this is awkward...." Twilight said.
"it's going to be fine Twilight, people are used to seeing weird things in this world, just act natural" Steve said.
"wow this place is big!" Pinkie Pie said.
"it's not really that big, this is just a town, some places have castles and way more buildings then this" Steve replied.
"the market kind of reminds me of Ponyvilles a bit" Applejack said.
The market street was lined up with all types of buildings and booths.
Some of the booths were either selling food, trade supplies, and clothing.
Though the buildings had other merchandise like armor, weapons, books, potions, enchantments, and mechanical devices.
"ok so what is the plan, what exactly do we need?" I asked.
"basic needs, were running out of coal so we need to trade for that, though we also need potions" Steve said.
"Steve what are those contraptions in the air?" Twilight asked.
She was looking at something made out of wood that had a half blocky circle made of wool above it connected by rope and a propeller on the back.
"that is an airship, a rather small one though, airships come in many shapes and sizes" He replied.
"though how do they move around in the air like that?" she asked.
"they use an engine that is powered by coal, though some do use steam power to move or redstone" Steve said.
"that is interesting, is there any other ways people get around?" she asked.
"well there are planes and helicopters for air as well, though water uses boats" Steve replied.
"this is exiting!, there is so much we could from here, hold on I need to get a few books on the subjects!" Twilight said as she hurried off.
"wow, that pony sure does love to learn" Steve said.
"next to the princesses, Twilight is one of the most intelligent ponies that we know of" Rarity said.
"that egghead always likes to learn something new" Rainbow Dash replied.
"well while she is busy let's get the supplies that we need" I said.
We split into teams and went to get what we need, after awhile we met up with Twilight, who had many new books.
"the book store had many books on the subject of aviation, so I got a few, but I also got a book on red stone and the current edition of The Eggheads Guide To Minecraftia" she said.
The book still pretty much looked the same, with the grey leather and the words "don't panic!" printed on the front with friendly big red letters, but it was bigger.
"alright let's head into the enchantment and potions store to get what we need there and leave" Steve said.
We went inside the store which had an azure carpet with purple drapes that had stars and moons on it.
Potions lined the walls, but so did enchantment scrolls, magic glyphs, and several books.
There was some steps coming from the back of the store, that is when the door magically opened the owner came into view.
She was a mare with an azure coat with a mane and tail colored like two colors of ice, she had light purple eyes with a star wand and magic mist cutie mark.
It was obvious who she was, it was The Great and Powerful Trixie.
Everypony except for me, Steve, and Enderbro gasped when she showed up.
"well, well, well, if it isn't Twilight and her group of friends, here to grace in my presence " Trixie said.
"Trixie, still a boaster as ever I see" Twilight replied a bit angry.
"there is no need of hostility Twilight, I'm done with that type of thing, I now dulge myself in more practical magic" Trixie said.
"like we would believe anything you say you snake" Applejack said.
"great, hostilities are getting increased here, I need to stop this" I thought.
I trotted between both parties and said "all of you calm down, this is no time to argue, were all Equestrian's here everypony"
"I know what Trixie did was bad, but you got to trust me that she has changed, if anything everypony deserves a second chance, and like it or not, if we want to get back home somehow, we need her help" I said.
"so you need my help right?, what is it exactly that you need Trixie for?" Trixie said.
"look all we came here for was some potions and a few enchantments at least" Steve said.
"it is not anything Trixie can't handle, she can make potions and enchantments with not much difficulty" she replied.
"good, we will talk about payment later then" Steve said.
"by the way, what do you mean by getting back home?" Trixie asked.
"well we didn't arrive here on purpose" I said.
"so the same thing happened to Twilight as to Trixie then, I have tried to get back, but no spell like that works here" she said.
"but the princess must be so worried about us, there has to be a way to contact her" Twilight said.
"hmmmm, there is one way, but I have had no luck with the spell myself, it just requires a reflective surface" Trixie said.
"you mean a spell that can enable us to communicate across dimensions?, that sounds like some difficult magic" Twilight said.
"yes indeed, and dispite buisness here I miss Equestria, so I will help you to gain your trust" Trixie said.
She trotted to the back and gestrued us to come, the room had the same azure carpet, but the room was lined with several bookshelves, a few enchanting tables, some alchemy stands, and a mirror with a table that had several books with it.
She went over to one of the books on the table and flipped through several pages but stopped.
"ah here is the spell we need, together Trixie and Twilight should be able to gain a connection to Cantelot" Trixie said.
"I have never tried this before, but I willing try if it means seeing the princess again" Twilight said.
Both her and Trixie read the spell and focused, sending their magical energy at the mirror.
Both energies from both mares started to make the reflective image shift slightly, but then it started to rapidly.
The image kept shifting, until it started to focus, and Celestia's room came into view.
Fortunately Celestia was there, but she was busy reading a scroll.
"we only got a few minutes, so let's hurry" Trixie said.
"Princess it is me Twilight" Twilight said.
The princess looked up, she was slightly surprised, but she came over to us.
"Twilight my faithful student, I was getting worried that you wouldn't contact me, but it is strange for you this way" she said.
"Celestia it is not just me who is here, Spike and everyone else is too, including Trixie, we got stuck in another dimension" Twilight said.
"another Dimentsion?, how did this happen?" Celestia asked.
"well we can't get into specifics, but somehow the transpotation spell messed up?" Twilight said.
"can you tell my family not to worry and that I'm alright princess?, they must be worried sick" Applejack asked.
"tell the Cakes that I'm alright ok princess?" Pinkie Pie asked.
"and the same thing for my parents and Sweetiebell, they must be so worried about me being gone for so long" Rarity said.
"it is good to see you all too, and I will make sure I send them your messages" Celestia said.
"also for me as well?, my brother must be worried, and how is Luna?" I asked.
"she is doing fine, though I am sure she would like to talk to you all as well" Celestia said.
Celestia came back with Luna, to me she looked just as beautiful as ever.
"it is good to see all of you again, and you must be Trixie I presume?" Luna asked.
"Trixie is honored to meet you princess" Trixie said.
"Celestia there is allot of stuff here that we could learn, but I will keep recording of it" Twilight said.
"it is good to see that your all well my little ponies" Celestia said.
"Celestia, Luna we did have some help from two locals though" Twilight said.
She motioned for Steve and Enderbro to come into view and did.
"hello your majesties, my name is Steve, and this is Enderbro" Steve said.
"greetings to you both, your kind to help our subjects" Celestia said.
"good tidings to you both" Luna said.
"don't mention it your majesty" Steve said.
"your both very pretty!" Enderbro said with his sparkling eyes.
They both blushed, but Trixie said "need to wrap this up, Trixie doesn't know how long it will last"
Twilight said "Celestia, Luna we will come back but it will take us time, but we will"
"I know you all will to your best, stay strong, all of you" Celestia said.
"we will Celestia, until then Princess" Twilight said.
Everyone pretty much left, but I turned round and went back to the mirror.
"Celestia hold on, I want to have a few words with Luna" I said.
"is there a reason why?" she asked.
"I just want to talk to her is all, we haven't talked in awhile" I said.
"I guess it wouldn't hurt then, I will see you when you return" she said.
She left view but I didn't talk until the door shut.
"that was close, I thought she wouldn't leave, Oh Tirimor I wish this never happened" she whispered.
"me too Luna, but we both have to stay strong" I replied quietly.
"I know that, but being without you, it feels so wrong" she said quietly.
"I have that same feeling too, but I will return" I whispered.
"I know you will my love, but I can't help but worry about you" she replied quietly.
"it's going to be alright, our love will keep me safe, and I am not alone" I said quietly.
"you still have what I gave you?" she asked.
"yes I do, and I keep it close to me all the time" I responded.
"may it give you enough luck to come back to my embrace then my grey knight" she said quietly.
"don't worry my night flower it will, I will never give up no matter the obsticle" I whispered.
"never forget, no matter were you go, I will always be with you" she replied with tears.
"the same to you Luna, I will never give up or give in, we will find a way, so we can be together again" I said.
I placed my right forehoof on the mirror and she did the same with hers.
From that gesture I felt comfort, and now I knew I would return back to her.
"everpony is probably getting suspicious, so I regretfully I have to go for now" I whispered.
"be swift my grey knight, and come back to me safe and sound" she replied.
"be merry my night flower, for when I return I will come to you to be in your embrace" I whispered.
"and I will for that day my grey night, for it will be my happiest" Luna said quietly with tears.
"and mine as well, my beautiful Princess of The Night, may your joy be many and your hardships few" I whispered.
"yours as well Tirimor, but may the light guide your path back to me" she said.
"it will, and I will hold you close when I return, but this is farewell for now, my dear and beautiful Luna, stay strong, and always know that I love you" I said quietly.
"and I will always love you, till then, goodbye, just for now" she whispered smiling.
I smiled back at her as well, and that is when the image shifted again, and went back to showing my reflection.
"my beautiful Princess Luna, I will return to you, that is a promise" I thought.
I turned and went out, but not before looking back at the mirror one more time as a tear fell.
After Trixie grabbed what she could that was useful and important, then we went out of her shop.
"before we go, Trixie does no of one more pony here as well, she came here about the same time Trixie did" she said.
"are you sure they would like to come?" Twilight asked.
"I'm sure, she misses Equestria as much as we all do" Trixie said.
"this is great, the more the merrier!" Pinkie Pie said.
"her place is just down the road, she works and lives in a bakery" Trixie said.
We went to the bakery and went inside with Trixie leading us.
"hello?, Trixie is here" she said.
That is when another mare shows up, but she looked almost exactly like Pinkie Pie, exept she had strait hair and a serious look.
Both her and Pinkie practically looked at her and said "oh my Celestia your me!, I'm you!".
"wait a minute how is this scientifically possible?" Twilight said.
"two Pinkies?, and I thought we could only handle one" Rainbow Dash said.
"well, she doesn't look all that bad" Fluttershy said.
"my name is not Pinkie, it is Pinkamina" she said seriously.
"there is no need to be grumpy you silly filly!" Pinkie said.
"so what is your business here?, make it quick I got work to get to" Pinkamina said.
"we were hoping you would like to come with us" Fluttershy said.
"were all Equestrian's here, so we all have to work together to get back to Equestria" I said.
"Equestria....there is nothing left for me to go back to my Equestria, I have no friends and no home" she said.
"but you still miss it right?, you could come with us to ours, start a new life" Twilight said.
"a new life?....a second chance..." she said a hoof to her chin.
She sighed and said "fine, any Equestria is better then mine, wait here".
After some time she came back with whatever she could get that was usefull and important.
We got back to the mobile home with three new cows and our supplies after Trixie and Pinkamina sold thier places.
"alright let's get to work then, this mobile home is going to need an extantion" Steve said.
After awhile, the second mobile home was complete, it now had to more beds for Trixe and Pinkamina, along with a kitchen.
It also had a small study room that had rows of bookshelves filled with books, along with two enchantments tables and four alchemy stands.
We also had extra chests to use to hold our supplies and everyone had a person large chest.
Steve made some sturdy wheels out of stone for both homes, and made harnesses for both of the new cows and hooked them up.
"alright, were ready to go, now the decision is were?" Steve said.
"well I hear there is a bigger town about two days away, we can head there" Twilight said.
"I also heard that place has a dragon problem though" Fluttershy said.
"then what better way to get people to trust us then?, if we help solve the problems of the good and innocent people will start liking us" I said.
"but how are we going to solve that?, dragons are dangerous" Pinkamina said.
"only way we can if this dragon is evil, we may have to slay it" I said.
"slay it?, couldn't we just reason with it?" Spike said.
"Spike evil dragons here are known not to be very good negociators, they would rather fight first, then ask questions later" Steve said.
"though some dragons here are good, I was reading about it in The Eggheads Guide to Minecraftia" Twilight said.
"well I am always up for helping others, even if we have to fight, and who knows we may find a way how to get back home" I said.
"Tirimor is right, if we go to this town and fight this dragon, then others will start to trust us and we may find a way home, Trixie thinks that we should at least try" Trixie said.
"well trying is always better then nothin' so we should go while we still got sun" Applejack said.
"but it's two days away, we could make it there fast if we pushed through even at night, but we would have o take turns over watch" Twilight said.
"we can't travel at night, even if our group is twelve strong it is suicide" Steve said.
That is when Twilight had a spark in each eye and said "hold I got an idea!, I just need some wood, a few dispencers, arrows, and some red stone!"
She trotted inside to our mobile home, then came out a few minutes later, placing her new invention on the roof.
It looked like some giant thing with a dispencer in front and another behind it that held onto wood.
It had a chair on it with an iron block in front of it and two sockets.
"this is what as known as a turret, airships use them to defend their cargo, so I decided to use it with a few modifications" she said.
"ponies lack hands, so I used redstone wiring to make a simple socket that allows us to control the turrets movement and firing mechanism" Twilight said.
"but how in the hay is this thing going to work?" Applejack said.
"well for non magic ponies you place your hoofs in like this" she said sitting on the chair and placing her forehoofs in.
"left and right controls the horizontal while up and down control vertical, and pushing your hoofs in cause the turret to fire" she said as she did the actions.
Though there was only a clicking sound from the turret when she pushed her forehooves in.
She got off the turret and used magic to land right by us.
"with this we can defend our mobile homes from any monsters that try and attack us at night" she said.
"well I guess you guys were right, she is indeed very smart" Steve said.
"but won't it keep us all awake?" Rarity asked.
"no not really, I used a sound muting spell on the turret to silence the sound to a mere whisper, only if your in the seat can you hear it" Twilight said.
"Well were burning daylight here, let's go" I said as I stepped inside.
After everyone was in Steve made the cows go, and we had a steady ride going through the plains away from the other town.
"as long as we keep heading north west we will make it to the town in to days as long as we don't have any delays" Twilight said.
Everpony was busy doing their own thing, Dash was napping, Applejack and Rarity were talking amongst themselves, and Twilight was busy consulting a map while reading an entry in The Eggheads Guide To Minecraftia.
Pinkie Pie and Pinkamena were busy baking,
Fluttershy was looking out one of the windows while Spike was reading something.
Trixie was in the in study room, so since I had nothing to do I decided to talk to her.
I sat by her while she was reading in a spell book about enchanting.
"so Trixie, how does it feel to be on the road again?" I asked.
"being on the road again reminds Trixie of her days as a showmare, days on the road were always quiet for Trixie" Trixie said.
"yeah, it can get like that when you were alone, you know I spent most of my life alone" I replied.
"to tell, so how was it for you?" she asked.
"not that good really, living in Manehatten you had to be careful where you step" I said.
"you lived in Manehatten?" she asked somewhat shocked.
"well since I was eight, I spent twelve years alone, but I got out fine" I said.
"how could you even manage such a feat?, Manehatten was not in Celestia's ring of influence, it went by it's own laws" she said.
"yep, were the poor got poorer, the rich got richer, and the guards were just as corrupt as their employer" I said.
"you must have had some good luck then, Trixie never thought anyone could get out there alive" she said.
"it was more skill then luck really, I scavenged what I could and trained constantly" I said.
"trained?, what were you training?" she asked.
"that is something I keep to myself Trixie, nopony knows about it, not even Twilight" I said.
"well do you at least have a special somepony back in Equestria?" she asked.
"for that your going to have go into the pool to find out" I said.
"a pool?, Trixie doesn't know what your speaking of" she said.
"you know a pool, it's like a betting table, I'm not sure which pony started it, but their betting on to see who my special somepony is" I responded.
"and why exactly are there doing this?" Trixie asked.
"there doing it for fun even if it costs bits, even I know about it and we always kid about it" I said.
"hmmmm, well how big is exactly is this pool?" she asked.
"I'm not really sure, I think the last I heard that it was up at least a hundred bits" I said.
"a hundred bits?, that is a lot of bits" she said.
"yeah, though I am not sure who their guesses are, there are allot of mares in Ponyville" I said.
She sighed and said "seems like allot of ponies have special someponies, except for Trixie"
"don't worry Trixie, I'm sure you can find a fine stallion to be yours" I said.
She chuckled and said "Trixie isn't into Stallions, she is into mares".
"mares?, well I'm not going to judge you on that" I said.
"all Trixie wants....is a mare that looks past my time as a showmare, to see the real me, somepony that is smart, and kind" she said.
"I'm sure you will find your special somepony Trixie, who knows, they may be closer then you think" I said.
"maybe, Trixie needs to continue studying Tirimor, but I am glad we talked" she said.
"me too, I will see you later I guess" I said.
She nodded as she kept on reading her book as I left and went back into the living quarters.
After awhile it turned into night time, and by that time Twilight had three other Turrets up on the roof with stairs leading to it.
She, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Pinkie Pie took the first watch, and as the rest slept I layed down in bed and closed my eyes, going to sleep.
Dear, Princess Celestia
Today we learned that everypony deserves a second chance, even if they were bad before.
We met The Great and Powerful Trixie today, it seems she somehow got stuck in this world as well.
My friends and I learned that she did learn from the incident that happened in Ponyville and she decided to join us.
Though we did also meet a pony similar to Pinkie Pie when it came to image only.
Not everypony is evil, sometimes they make mistakes and have to live with them, even if others are hurt.
However, that doesn't mean they don't deserve a second chance, to make amends for what they done, and everypony deserves that chance.
Your Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle