Adara slowly opened her eyes. It took a while for her eyes to adjust properly to the bright light surrounding her. It was then she remembered what happened. She quickly raised her head, trying to find the source of the light. To her surprise, she found herself outside, lying on the ground. Very carefully she sat up in order to get a good look round. She was very weak, so it took some time by she realised that she was in a village by the look of it - a village she had never been to before. Oh god, she thought, please say I'm dreaming.
Suddenly, there was a scream coming from behind her. She immediately recognised it as Garnet's voice. Trying to turn around as quickly as possible, she heard her friend shout, "Oh god! Please no!" Once she was finally around, she realised her friend had a very good reason for screaming.
She was a pony.
Adara froze, staring at her. Questions came going through her mind - What? Why? How? Eventually, she came back to her senses and shouted to her friend, "Don't worry Garnet! I'll - Just keep calm!"
Adara did not know what she could possibly do, but she knew her friend was in need of help, and help she would give. She started to get up to run over to her friend, but suddenly, found herself unable to keep her balance. She looked down, and found herself in shock again.
She was also a pony.
She raised her hooves to her face and examined them. Definitely real, she thought. This is not a joke. She looked around for something reflective, and saw a small pond nearby. She went, as quickly as she could, towards it and looked in. Looking back at her was indeed a pony - a light grey pony with a spiky blue and turquiose mane and purple eyes. She leaned in, not believing what she saw. Examining her mane, she noticed a grey horn poking through. Raising her hoof, she touched it. She turned around to looks at her tail. Exact same colour scheme as her mane. I look very familiar, she thought. Then it hit her. Vinyl Scratch - the famous DJ in Equestria. She looked just like her, except the blue in her mane was a slightly different shade, her eyes weren't red and her mane was darker. Thinking of Vinyl made her remember she had no idea where she was. She turned around. She walked around a bit, taking in her surroundings. Then, she realised. She was in the the town of Ponyville. Suddenly, she was filled with excitement. "Whoo hoo!" she shouted, while jumping up. "I'm a pony! A flipping pony!" She laughed.
"Dara?" a voice said. Adara whipped around to face another pony - a pegasus no less. This pegasus had a pale green coat and a dark green mane and tail.
"Sky?" she asked, walking closer to the mare.
"Oh my god, Adara, what is going on? I never ever thought I'd ask this but why are we ponies?"
Adara shook her head. " I have no idea, Sky. But I have a feeling that we're going to be finding out soon. Come on, let's help the others. I bet they're freaking out more than us."
They walked over to each of their friends. All of them - Heidi, Sophie, Effie, Liz, Lacey and Garnet - were all ponies. Only Effie and Skylar were pegasi; the only other unicorns were Liz and Sophie. Compared to Garnet, they were taking quite well. Garnet was still yelling out ' please say I'm dreaming' to anyone who would listen.
While helping her friends to their feet, Adara noticed something about them. None of them had their cute marks. After a while, Adara checked her own flank. Blank. No cutie mark. She mentioned it to Skylar. "Well," she replied, "we have only just come here. I mean, humans don't have cutie marks. Maybe they'll come later?"
"Yeah, maybe." Adara was a bit worried. She knew how hard it was to get a cutie mark - she'd watched The Cutie Mark Crusaders trying to get one for months. She knew how important a cutie mark was - when a filly gets her cutie mark, it is the most important day of her life. She shook her head. She was getting ahead of herself. She didn't even know if they were going to be staying here - Celestia would probably find us and send us back home.
Once everyone had been calmed down, Adara and Skylar, as the only ones out of them who watched the programme, had to explain where they were.
"Please say we are not in Ponyland," Garnet pleaded to her friends.
"Well actually 1. The town is Ponyville. And 2. The country's name is Equestria," Adara informed her friend.
Heidi shook her head. "It doesn't matter what it's called; all that matters is why we are here. And how we can get home."
Adara lowered her head. "I don't know why we're here. I don't know how we got here. And I do not know how to get back home."
"Maybe I can help you."
Adara gasped as the rest of her friends turned around to face a purple unicorn.
"Welcome to Equestria," Twilight said.