One Muffin filled Equestrian morning a wall eyed blonde mail carrier pegasus named Derpy woke from her lazy slumber. She hopped up on her hooves clopping down the stairs clumsily as was routine, it's a real wonder how she didn't fall down them. The mail pony clopped towards the table seeing her favorite breakfast laid out filled with a multitude of muffins from all sorts of flavors for her and her family, her favorite husband smiling warmly at her. The brown stallion with dark brown messy sort of hair was called Dr. Whooves around Ponyville. Probably because he was always doing tons of crazy experiments involving time. This explained his hourglass cutie mark. But Derpy refused to call him that she just called him honey or muffin when their daughter Dinky wasn't around. Dinky was sitting with Sparkler at the table. Dinky was taking happy bits out of a muffin. 'D'aaww she takes after me!' Oddly enough, Derpy's kids Dinky and Sparkler were both unicorns. It was very rare for two non-unicorns to have unicorns. However it was possible if one of your parents was a unicorn. Which in this case it was. Sparkler was older then Dinky and the same size of her parents. She was purple with a matching mane but the mane had a lighter almost pink streak that was short cut but it a long tail. Her cutie mark was three diamonds. Dinky was a light gray like her mom with short blonde mane but long tail. The mother pony smiled. The family enjoyed their totally epic and balanced breakfast. Well not so balanced as it was delicious!
“Ditzy! Dinky! Sparkler! We must go to the lab at once! In the name of Science!” The doctor exclaimed pumping his fist in the air. Though Derpy was the ponies real name. He called her Ditzy because it seem more positive to him.
The family of ponies smiled as they trotted down with him to his downstairs lab. “I didn't want to disturb my families breakfast, but I bring you this!”
It was an interesting device it was made with green metals and had a glass case around it. A phone a was inside with a light up pad that shot out a green hologram of a hoof sized number pad.
“Yay! Noh I can call Pinkie an RSVP four da parteh!” The pegasus smiled as she opened the booth.
“Wait! Ditzy no!” Whooves yelled. It was too late she had already typed in the first 4 numbers of Pinkie's phone. The machine vanished transferring her to the time she had dialed.
“Dad? Where did mom go?” Dinky asked.
“I have no idea.” The professor face hoofed.
Derpy got out of the booth which she newly mistaken for a muffin dispenser and broke in the process. She licked the glass of the booth hoping it would taste like muffins. Unfortunately to her surprise glass tasted like glass. Derpy looked around noticing the the vast landscape looked absolutely nothing like the Equestria she remembered. It was filled with tall untamed grasses large boulder seemingly misplaced and a harder ground. She noticed a castle in the distance. It looked nothing like any modern castle she ever saw. She flew carelessly towards it with a silly smile on her face. Reaching it she noticed that the structure was not made out of muffins which she had hoped, but gray stone. 'who wants a grey muffin anyway?' She thought.
The large structure was surrounded by a giant wall which held a city in it. The wall was large with towers atop of each corner and the top of the wall was boarder so the ponies would not fall of when on it. The castle on the other hand was massive, but poorly decorated. It was a darker grey then the wall with red gold trimmed flags held up at the top and at the window openings. The googly eyed pony smiled grounding herself before walking into the city. The city was fairly lively filled with countless residence that were armed with weapons and armor. Earth ponies were heavy armored as unicorns dressed poshly and pegasi dressed in light armor. Their were a few exceptions in class, but most seemed to stick to the same style. Derpy felt strange for being naked in a city of clothed ponies, but at the same time she didn't care. She flew off to the castle carelessly crashing into a door like a bird into a clean window. The door open and a cobalt coated stallion with long messy rainbow mane and a red beard looked at her with strong sliver eyes and laughed. His wings flapped as he rolled on the floor revealing him to be a pegasus and his cutie mark to be wings wrapped around a sword.
“Wow! Please don't tell me yer one of ye new recruits?” The pegasus finished laughing, he spoke with a very stereotypical pirate accent.
“Recuts?” The grey pony said confused.
“Come on, kid we got work to do if yer going to join the Knights.” The rainbow colored pony laughed softly. “I'm Gale Dash, one of the Knight Cap'ns!”
They gray mare recalled somepony with the last name Dash. She just couldn't remember.
“Ma momma called meh Derpy.” The pony responded.
“Aye, fitting fer ye.” The pegasus chuckled. “Well lass lets get to it!”
Captain Gale lead Derpy to the training area. It was just a basic room with read floors, weapon stashes, and dummies. The rainbow maned pony slapped a horned helmet on the derped pony. It tilted slightly but, she didn't seem to notice.
“Alright lass, ye sure do look silly. Get yer self a weapon!” The warrior smirked.
Derpy dived into the pile of pointy weapons jumping back out with a longsword in between her teeth without a single scratch on her. Dash just twitched.
“Aye, now attack that thar dummy!” The cobalt pegasus watched.
The wall eyed pony charged head on into the dummy crashing her horned helmet into it. The Captain face hoofed again. “Yer so lucky wer' low on ponies.” The Captain pulled the horned helmet pony out of the dummy. “Now use yer sword!” Derpy slashed the across the dummy diagonally. To Gales surprised the dummy slide apart in half crashing on the floor.
“Di ah do goo?” The silly pony asked.
“Aye, ye did better den good! I've never seen a recruit down a dummy with on slash befer. Yer in!” The Captain said proudly.
Derpy teared up a bit. “I leik to thank de acadameh and mah hubby an mah tow dautahs! Wat I win?”
“Yer de silly one, Peachie Pie would love ta meet ye. Well since yer a new recruit an' I'm yer Cap'n ye need to meet the other two.” The warrior explain.
“Duh, who ar thy?” The blonde pegasus asked.
“They be, Cap'n Peachie Pie of ye Earth Ponies and Cap'n Sunset Sparkle.” The Captain grinned.
Dash wrapped a sheath around Derpy's waist and she put away the sword. The two clopped off to what looked like a war room. Chairs laid out around a large table. Crested shields hanging from the walls. Two ponies sat on the chairs one glared at the Captain. While the other looked at the new pegasus.
“That be the them now. That one be Peachie and the lad glarin' at me be Sunset.” The warrrior sighed.
Peachie was an bubble gum pink tone earth pony with a slightly darker curly mess of a mane and tail. She wore heavy looking dark purple armor decorated with hot pink trim and a cutie mark that was a cannon firing confetti. She looked at Derpy with wide bright purple eyes. Sunset was a violet unicorn with a black short cut mane with a bright orange streak and a long but maintained matching tail. He wore a sinister looking dark red cape and a stylish matching hat rocking a meteor cutie mark. His blood red eyes were staring down Gale.
“Gale, your late again! How many times do I have to tell you we're at war!” Sunset slammed his hoof on the table, speaking in a very strong tone.
“Awwww! Come on Sunset, its not all bad! Look at the little cutie he brought us.” Peachie giggle playfully.
“Yes, I'm quite curious on the story of that girl. Is she your wench?” The unicorn asked raising an eyebrow.
“Nay! She not be like that, she be me new apprentice!” The Cap'n smiled proudly.
“Just like you Dashie to go get yourself an apprentice when you're suppose to be recruiting for the guard.” The pink pony giggled.
Sunset face hoofed. “I can't believe you would do this again. I should have known you wouldn't learn after the last two.”
“Aye, they say the third times a charm! Besides whats a Cap'n without his first mate?” He chuckled.
“What's your name you silly filly?” Peachie smiled.
“Ma nam ish Derpy!” The wall eyed pegasus smiled with her tongue sticking out.
The wizard face hoofed. “You sure know how to pick them, Gale.”
“Her flyin' may need a bit work, but she knows how to swing dat blade!” The Cap'n grinned.
“That's great! I'm glad she can defend herself! It's hard to lead the supply raids you do with all those enemies.” The earth pony said cheerfully.
“Well Derpy, welcome aboard!” Sunset sighed.
“Yay!” Derpy jumped for joy.
The captains cheered with happily. Even Sunset welcomed the new 'first mate' with open arms. The team took their seats awaiting their leader.