The connection

by Fluffywolf

The beginning

The connection

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„Are you sure well be able to do this? It has to be done at the same time, and on both sides. I doubt they’ll know what this even is.“
„Don’t you worry ma friend. This is not a problem at all.“
„Then how do you plan to do it?“
„The same way we do everything. Exactly the same way my friend.“

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It was a bright and sunny day in Ponyville. The sky has been clear of any clouds for several days, mostly thanks to the hard work of the local pegasus Rainbow Dash. Summer started not long ago, and keeping the weather clear and pleasant was something she was born to do.
But Rainbow wasn’t the only pony in Ponyville who had lots of work. Almost everypony had to get the city ready for the upcoming celebration. The celebration was something special for Ponyville, but more importantly, its origin was even more interesting.

One day, not unlike today, a simple baker pony came out into the streets with his cart loaded with all of his pastries, pies, cakes and everything he made that day and shouted
„Listen up everypony.“
Everyone stopped to see what he wanted to say
„My daughter will be getting married soon. My parents are celebrating their anniversary and my lovely neighbor has birthday today. This simply cannot go without a proper celebration so come get something from this cart as a gift from me to you and let us enjoy this lovely day.“

This simple act of generosity didn’t go unnoticed. Many more shopkeepers went out into the streets after they heard the baker, and just like he, they started giving out their products to celebrate. From this day on, every year during this day, everypony in Ponyville, who can and wants to make something special does so, and although not all give their items for free, the day kept its spirit and the name as well: The celebration day.

That’s why there isn’t one pony, skilled enough to make anything, which wastes time during these days and not only them. The celebration day has become famous all over Equestria, and ponies from all over come here in these days.

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„So are you sure this will work? I mean, this never worked when we tried it before. What makes you so sure that this time it’ll work? “
„Oh that’s simple my friend, you see...“he took out a small glass pebble from his pocket „...this is what’s going to make it work. “
„Oh“ he smiled „So that’s what you were trying to get so badly in the last weeks.“ he patted him on his back „Shall we get ready then?“
„Yes. Let’s begin. “

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The celebration day
The liveliest day in Ponyville in the whole summer season. Each year bigger, each year more famous and each year more visited. This year Ponyville was shining from top to bottom, every house has been cleaned, almost every house, lamp, postbox, bench or tree have been decorated for the celebration. Stalls, carts, huge tables or just simple ponies with baskets were on the street, showing off their work. Bakers, candy makers, carpenters, painters, musicians, tailors, alchemist, street performers and magicians. No profession has been left out and no age has been forgotten either. Even little fillies were here to show what they drew in school.
But what would the celebration day be with only merchants? Nothing, and that’s why many ponies came from far and wide just to look, shop, enjoy and celebrate on this day. The streets were packed full, no corner left empty. It was joyous day for everyone.

„C’mon girls! Everyone’s there already. If we waste more time there won’t be anything left.“
„Oh c‘mon Twilight. Do you think they would come so unprepared to run out of everything in such a short time? Anyways, if there is at least one stall with good cider, then I don’t care about the rest“
„’Scuse me? There ain’t any better cider then what my family makes. Ain’t that right girls? “
„True AJ. But you always run out that I never get some. You have none today either so why not try something else. “
Suddenly Pinkie jumped out from behind them, hugging Applejack and Twilight at the same time
„I just hope there will be lots of candy. Nothing beats candy. “
She started giggling and hopping around them
„Really girls? Candy and cider? Is that all you can think of? How about you come with me so I can finally get some new cloths for your dresses? I want you all to look even better on the gala then last year. “
„Um....could we look at some pets too? ...I mean if you don’t mind...“
„Well if you hurry up well be able to look everywhere today. “ And as she said that she sped up her walk as well hurry up the rest of them too
„Last one buys the cider!“ said Rainbow Dash, and sped up to take the lead
„O no you don’t.“ said Applejack and ran after her.

The whole place was packed. Merchants describing their goods, bakers trying to lure ponies in by yelling how fresh everything they had was, candy makers watching the naughty fillies so they wouldn’t try anything, and of course, as Rainbow wanted, a few stalls with not only cider, but also lost of different drinks of known, but also secret ingredients. The closest stall with such a mysterious drink was where Rainbow and Applejack arrived first, and at the same time.
„I won. “said Dash
„Oh no, you didn’t. I was much faster. “
„Nopony’s faster then me! “said Dash and crossed hew hooves
They looked at each other, one waiting for the others response, the other thinking if there’s even a meaning for that. Luckily, the merchant was faster then both.
„Girls, Girls. You both came here at the same time. But if you don’t believe me, then why don’t you have a drink first? Your arguing might go better once you quench that thirst after a good race. What say you? Ill even give you a discount for my special brew. Two for the price of one.“ he said with a smile, knowing they couldn’t resist.
The girls looked at him, then at each other and started laughing. They took their mugs, paid for them and drank the mysterious liquid.
„Whoa. What in the hay is this.“ said Applejack and took another sip
Dash didn’t even talk after her first taste. She just smiled and continued, enjoying the mug she was holding
„I see you like it.“ he said „Its my special recipe from back home, which I won’t describe so I wouldn’t bore you, but I can say that nopony who has ever tasted my brew didn’t like it. I always make it with love and care, and everypony can taste the difference.“
By now the rest of the girls caught up to those two, and just as them bought a mug from the merchant. Since both Dash and Aj had finished theirs by now they bought another two and the six of them now had to decide where to go first.
„Well since these two have gotten what they wanted, I propose we go take a look at some cloths for your dresses while we still enough bits for them. “said Rarity
„Not to be rude or anything, but Rarity, you’re the only tailor in the town. I think the cloths will stay where they are even after a full day of being here. “said Twilight
„I just want candy. Can we get some candy? I’ve heard there were some awesome candy makers here. Candy. Candy. CANDY!“ Pinkie said while jumping around them all lively like usually
„Girls...we could go look at the pets first then...before they sell them all. I mean if you don’t mind. “said Fluttershy quietly
„Fluttershy, we all have pets already, and don’t you have hundreds of them already? “asked Dash „Oh and speaking of pets. Where Spike? “
„He stayed behind. He’s been feeling a bit sick lately, and he was even worse today so he went to take nap. I’ll take him once he’ll feel a bit better. “said Twilight
„Then why don’t we get something for the little Spikey-Wikey first just in case he won’t be able to come?“ said Rarity and she started looking around to find anything that Spike might like. The rest of them like the idea as well and so the six of them started their exploration of the various stalls in the street.

It didn’t take long for any of them to find something of interest. Fluttershy was the first one to find what she wanted. A huge tent has been raised in a alleyway, so it would block the streets too much, and in the tent were tens of cages full of little critters. Little puppies, cats, bunnies, hamsters, chicken even piglets, all specially rose to grow only so much. Fluttershy’s eyes started glowing like stars the second she saw them all, but not only hers. Many fillies came here with their parents, trying to get a pet or just to play with the small animals. Twilight even thought, that if they left Fluttershy alone in here, shed probably buy them all, which luckily didn’t happen. It turned out, that the lady owning the pets was a village not far from Ponyville, and that she had even more critters there, which made Fluttershy jump from joy even more then Pinkie normally does, and they left the tent knowing that one of them would be very happy for the rest of the day.

Dashes interest in various drinks and beverages didn’t stay quiet for long. Almost every fourd stall would have something to drink or to eat, so it was only a matter of time until a little contest broke out. Rainbow, Applejack and now Pinkie as well started going from one place to another to get something to drink, always making it a contest of who could drink it sooner. Of course Pinkie gave up soon after starting, not because she didn’t like the idea, but because, as she said „I gotta leave some room for sweets as well. Also I think I might have forgot to bring bits. “Rainbow and Applejack lasted much, much longer than that and only one stall stopped the contest, which to their surprise, stopped Dashes interest in the contest completely.

„O my gosh! “she squealed „Daring Do!“ Without realizing what she just said, she zipped right over and grabbed the book. She only came back into reality once she noticed the giggles from her friends silently watching her.
„I...Um...Uh yeah. I wanted to buy this for Twilight as a present. That’s why. Books are sooooo not awesome.“
„Of course they aren’t Dashie.“ said AJ throwing her hoof over Dashes neck „Why else would you read them so much if they weren’t awesome.“ now everyone burst out in laughter, to which Dash could only respond with a blush
„Ok enough.“ silence „I... love books.“ she said quietly so nopony could hear her
„What was that? We couldn’t hear you over here.“ said Twilight with a smile while the rest kept giggling
„I love books ok? Ever since I was in hospital... “the blush now stronger then ever before
„We all know that Dash. Do you think I wouldn’t notice my books missing after your visits or when you’d be reading them on your clouds when you thought nopony saw you? “asked Twilight, but before getting a response, if there would even be one she continued „Now grab one for me too and lets continue.“

Finding candy in this crowd proved to not be a problem at all. One thing that Pinkie was very good at was finding the bestest candy, or so she would call them, and lead her friends to it. That’s why after a short while every one of them had at least one bag of candy, hand picked by Pinkie herself from the various stalls all around the place. Of course Pinkie didn’t have only one bag with her once she was done, but nopony could really count how many because of her jumping around and vanishing and appearing all around the place. Also the question arose, how could she possibly afford so much, to which she replied „Silly me. I forgot I had bits hidden all over the place just in case of emergency.“ Even after such a long time together, the girls simply couldn’t understand Pinkies randomness powers.

Time was slowly running out as night was getting closer and so the girls finally decided it would be time to go buy clothes with rarity, even though they all knew she didn’t really need them for it. Once again, Twilight was right about still being enough to choose from, which pleased both Twilight and Rarity.
„Wonderful, wonderful! This ones perfect, this one too. This one.... not much.“ she started looking through all of them , picking what she thought was best while sometimes looking at the girls, as if comparing the cloths to them. Not even a few minutes later she had so many that even Twilight had to help her out with carrying them with their magic. Carrying all of them while still wanting to browse proved to be a really bad idea, because of all the balloons and decorations had the tendency to get hit so they had to drop them somewhere, and since Pinkies house was the closest they left all of them there with everything else they bought that day, just to not have to carry it around anymore.

They still had some time before night came and everyone would start packing up or be already packed so they went out to just look at what they have missed and then they remembered. A gift for Spike. How could they have forgotten about the poor little guy?
„How could we have forgotten about him? He’s home sick while were having a blast here. So not cool. “
„Think we can still find something for him? “
„What would be a better question. “Twilight wondered
Getting spike a gem would be probably the easiest, but also not worthy since the celebration was only once a year. Toys were out of option as well since he wasn’t really into that kind of stuff. That’s when they noticed something they haven’t on the first pass.
„Guys. That stall looks totally weird. How come we didn’t see it? “
„Because you and AJ had their noses in mugs.“ said Pinkie with a smile as the rest giggled
„Um...I saw it... “said Fluttershy quietly
„Why’d you didn’t say so sugarcube? “asked AJ
„Because it scared me and I didn’t want to go near it. “
„Aw shucks Fluttershy. There’s no need to be scared. Well protect you, right girls?“ said AJ and stood next to her to encourage her. Rainbow did the same from the other side and together they all went to see the mysterious stall, they didn’t notice before.

The stall itself was nothing special, just a simple table with a rug over it. But what was more interesting was the person standing behind it. It was a Zebra. At first they thought, while walking to it, that Zecora might have come to sell some of her magical potions but then they noticed that it was a stalion standing there. Once he saw they were heading his way he started smiling and once they were closer he said.
„Welcome. Welcome. Did the lovely ladies notice my humble stall between all these big ones. Or was it me who caught your eye. “he said and winked at Rarity, who wasn’t moved by this at all, but had praxis in responding to this. Once they were close enough, they let Rarity get the closest so she could work her magic.
„Oh my. Why does such a handsome stallion like yourself hide in this corner when you could be a center of attention out in the crowd? Don’t tell me you’re shy.“ she said and returned the wink she got earlier. The stallion smiled even more then before, indicating that Rarity managed to wrap another stallion around her hoof.
„O no no. I’m not shy at all. You see there’s a simple reason why I’m at this spot each year.“ to this the girls reacted with a simultaneous „What?“ clearly showing their surprise
„Years. But we’ve never seen you here once, and except one, we’ve all lived here our whole lives.“ said Rarity which for some reason didn’t move the zebra a bit, but now his smile started being a bit mysterious to the point where Fluttershy started getting chills down her back. Suddenly he laughed for a bit and then continued
„Exactly. I’ve been coming to this same spot every year for a while now. I even remember a few of you.“ he said and pointed at AJ, Rarity and Pinkie then continuing „You see the reason why you didn’t notice me before is simple. Magic. Me and my friend who lives close by, I think you might know her, Zecora, made a pretty interesting spell for this stall only. It cant be seen or sensed with magic unless you are looking for something special, and since all of you are here right now I guess you would like to „find“ something as well. Well then. Take a look.“ all six of them looked at the table and what they saw were various trinkets, chains, talismans, various stones and other items they could hardly tell what they even were
„Um… What are these.“ asked Twilight
„They’re stones duh.“ replied Pinkie instantly
„Actually no they aren’t just simple stones. Most of these have been enchanted by magic, or are said to have an effect on the owner. For example this one make you hair dry faster.“ he smiled and pointed at a little leather ball with what looked like fur glued to it, which seemed to disturb Fluttershy as much as Rarity. Both for a different reason.
„Actually we were looking for a gift for my baby dragon. I have no idea what he might need from here. “she said with a bit sad tone in her voice to which he replied
„Well since he’s a baby I might something for him here somewhere.“ he threw a quick glance at the items „This will help him with learning, this one will make him luckier, this one will make him successful in love life and this one will make his scales shinier. Just pick whichever you think is best. “
Twilight looked at her friends for suggestions „He’s your dragon Twilight. You probably know which one he needs the most. “disappointed with the help she got from her friends she chose one „The lucky charm then? Good choice I have one myself and I cant complain. Ill even pack it nicely as a present just for you. “as he said that he pulled out a little colorful box into which he placed the talisman and when he wanted to start packing it he heard Twilight whisper „Ill take the one for love too if I can.“ and she looked at Rarity with the corner of her eye, which luckily , she didn’t notice at all. „Sure.“ he said with a smile and after he packed the two talismans he then made a little ribbon on it, which made the girls wonder how that could be done with hooves. Twilight took the present for her little friend, paid and all of them turned around as to walk away but the zebra stopped them with a „Hey. Wait up. I’ve got something else for you too. “they returned and he handed each one of them one the pebbles, which Pinkie called stones before.
„As I said before, these aren’t simple stones. They have some magic in them and I have a feeling they might make things interesting if you keep them with you. “
„But...“ Twilight tried to say something but he stopped her
„Ah hush now. No spoilers. You’ll see for yourself one day.“
They thanked for the gift and left, none of them turning around except Fluttershy, and only once se was far enough, and she noticed the zebra still smiling their way.

„It’s just a stupid stone. It’s so boring. What does he think will happen if I keep a stone with me?“ said Dash
„C’mon Dash. A gift is a gift, even when boring. Just keep it.“ said AJ
„Dash is right for once.“ said Rarity „Its just a stone. You know what I think about stones, don’t you?“
„Have you already forgotten your lost love Tom? Smooshie smooshie. “ Dash teased her to which she only got a angry glance
„I cant feel anything from them, he might have just been making fun of us. He was kinda weird if you ask me.“ said Twilight while checking the stone out with her magic
„Told you it was just a stone. Teehee. Now we got a stone for free. Yay!“ said Pinkie all exited
„Anyways its getting dark. We should get our stuff from Pinkie and head home. I can check the stones tomorrow.“ said Twilight
Getting their belongings from Pinkie went without problem, except for the cloths, which ones again had to be carried by two unicorns. Once Twilight got to Rarity’s house and helped her place them in her workshop she said goodbye to her friends and they all went home.

The tree-library was dark and quiet. Twilight carefully opened the door and stepped in. Nothing has changed beside a few books she didn’t manage to get back were now back in their places on the shelf. She walked silently over to where Spike usually slept, finding him curled up, sleeping but without his blanket. She carefully covered him and laid his present next to him, where he’d find it once he woke up. She then lay down into her bed, looking out the window and then at the mysterious stone she had gotten that day. „What could it be.“ she thought. „Ah well. Tomorrow is also a day.“ she said, laying the stone on her bedside table. „It was a good day.“ she thought before falling asleep.
It was a cloudless peaceful night.

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„Oh this looks perfect. How long did you say it took you to build it?“
„Two years give or take. With all the knick knacks it needed, all the people we had to get. But I think it was worth it. “
„You don’t know that yet. Nopony does. Are you even sure it will work properly? I mean there’s no way of testing it. “
„Well it better work or who knows what’ll happen. But the risks are worth it, and as long as it doesn’t explode we’ll be fine. “
„You’re right. Building something like this from scratch when were in this phase already would cost you a lot of money. How did you even get so much? Doubt some millionaire would sponsor a project like this. “
„Are you kidding me? Have you been on the internet in the last few months? The show we made got us so much money we could swim in it. “
„You made that? Hah. I was wondering how somepony could even come up with something like that. Ah well. So what do you need now to make it work? “
„Well time mostly. The machines built, we have the equipment and the team ready we just need to wait for them. “
„Very well then. Let me know about your progress later. “
„Will do. “

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„So, Twilight. Found anything interesting about these....rocks I guess. “ asked Dash
“Actually I might have. I went to see Zecora about them as well, but she told me, that it would be better for me to find out myself. No help at all I guess.” she sighed “Anyways. I found an old book where there was a mention about mysterious pebbles, which would allow you to see far away places.”
“I don’t get it.” said Dash
“Urgh.” Twilight sighed again “To explain it simply. You have two stones You look into one, you see from another one. Get it?”
“Oowww.” Dash and Pinkie said at the same time, while the rest just looked at Twilight
“So the zebra just gave us these stones so we could see other places?” asked AJ
“Might be.” said Twilight, knowing that whatever the reason the Zebra had, she couldn’t read that out of any book she could find
“Wait a second. We all looked at them and none of us saw anything. They’re just rocks.” said Rarity while staring at the rock she got “Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Urgh, it’s not even pleasant to look at.” she said while throwing the rock back at the table where the rest of them were

The girls sat quietly in the library, having the celebration day after them and now everything cleaned up and all the merchants being back home Ponyville turned back to its normal regime. At least for the rest of the village. These six had their thought about the mysterious zebra and the pebbles. Why would he give them such a weird gift? If you could even call it a gift… Was it a prank? Were they really these stones from the legend and if yes, why didn’t they work? Not even Zecora wanted to help them. None of them had any idea. But sometimes all you need to do is take things easy and have a bit of fun. Like Spike did.

“Maybe their batteries ran out.” he said from upstairs, giggling at how funny his joke was. He liked the present he got from the six; he wore them around his neck everywhere he went. They were supposed to make him lucky and help with his love life after all. What he didn’t know, was that one of his amulets might have actually worked now.
“That’s it Spike! You’re a genius!” yelled Twilight all happy, but unlike her, no one else understood what she meant. Not even Spike.
“Really? You know I was just joking right?” he asked, confused
“Duh. Of course I know it was a joke. These should be magical artifacts, who knows how many years old. Their magical reserves ran out a long time ago. “she said, hopping her friends would understand which luckily, they did
“So all we need to do is charge them? I guess that would be your job Twi. ”said Dash

Using your magic to start something is one thing, storing your energy in the item another. Twilight had to put a lot of energy into these stones until they started to at least show signs of it working. Rarity even thought shed pinch in, even though this kind of magic was foreign to her. She didn’t have to in the end. First the stones started glowing, slowly loosing the glow but getting more and more transparent. Each took a stone to look at what was at the other side.
Fluttershy saw roots of a tree, in a place she has never seen.
Rarity saw a cliff with a beautiful view on sunrise.
Applejack saw something that looked like flowing water, but she wasn’t sure.
Once Pinkie stopped moving and sat down to look at the stone, she only saw sand and nothing else.
Dashes stone was showing the top of an anthill, not much bigger then the grass around it. It was built not long ago, even the ants were still working on it, working hard together to make their new home bigger.
And Twilights? Well Twilight had the most interesting, although weird sight of them all. When she picked the stone up, all she saw was a dark room with a blinking red light in the corner. After a while the red light stopped and she thought nothing would happen again. But then something came into view. It was three ponies.

The six hugged together so all of them could see into the small magical pebble in Twilights hand. They watched the three as they stood there, talking about something, pointing at the stone and waving their hoofs around, as if explaining something.
All three of them were stallions. Two of them were earth ponies, the other one was a Pegasus but all three wore white lab coats.
The first earth pony had a cyan colored fur, a bit brighter then how Dashes was, and a dark blue mane with white, lightning shaped stripes on it. He was the smallest of the three.
The middle one, a Pegasus, was orange colored with a bright red mane and small stylish glasses, which no one even noticed until Rarity mentioned them. He was bigger then the other two.
The last one, a gray earth pony with a white mane was standing behind the first two, looking back and forth at his colleagues, then at the pebble.
None of them could hear anything. The pebbles only showed things, nothing else.
They watched them with interest, as the ponies talked, and tried to make out what they were talking about. Sadly none of them could read their lips on the small stone.

After a short while the gray pony left the room leaving the two alone. Not even a few second later he returned, causing the two he left behind to stop talking and stand in the corner of the room with him. Then another stallion emerged. He was also a pony, massive in stature, even bigger then the pegasus behind him. As his colleagues, he also wore a lab coat, his fur black as night and with a dark green mane. He stood exactly in the middle of the room looking at the pebble, then bent over to look at it closer, making his eyes show his dark green irises. He then straightened up, waved at his colleagues to leave him alone. He then took a clipboard from his coat and started writing.

The clipboard said: “Magic is the image, the sound and the taste. Magic is the connection.” and under it were some strange symbols none of them understood, except Twilight. She recognized them, all of them. They were magical glyphs, not unlike those, she had on her scrolls and in her books. She quickly gave the pebble to Applejack and hurried to get a clean scroll and a quill to write them down exactly as he showed them to her. Once she was done she came back and smiled at the pony to show she was done. The mysterious pony just nodded and then walked away, upon which the room turned completely black.

“What in the hay was that?” Aj asked looking confused at the pebble, just like the rest
“No idea. But lab coats? Seriously? So not cool.”
“Maybe they were making some special drinks and didn’t want to get their clothes dirty?” suggested Pinkie
“I really doubt that darling.” said Rarity, which caused Pinkie to get into a deep thinking stance, wondering what else they could be cooking with lab coats on
“Twilight didn’t he show you something at the end?” asked Fluttershy quietly so they almost overheard her
“Oh, yeah. Whatcha see there Twilight. All I saw was jibba-jabba.”
“Well they were magical runes. Some old spells are written in these so I don’t really know what the spell does or why he would show it to me. I don’t get the line before the spell as well. What could he mean by magic being the connection?” Twilight wondered. First they got what seemed to be useless stones, now they saw four stallions who didn’t make any sense at all and now this.

“Uh oh the suns gone.” said Pinkie from the window. Nopony noticed her move, which none of them seemed to find weird. She was Pinkie after all. What was more interesting was the fact, that they sat there for so long it was night already.
“Oh my. Well I guess you can sleep here. I have lots of place here and I got blankets too for you. You don’t need to go home so late at night and we could make it into a sleepover. What do you think? ”
“YAY. A slumber party. Weeeee.” shouted Pinkie again, starting to jump up and down and all around the place. She suddenly vanished on the top floor, appearing behind them with a tray of pink cupcakes with rainbow colored sprinkles on them.
“Here have some. No party can be without my cupcakes.” she said smiling, offering one to everypony present, then going back up to give one to Spike, who didn’t take it. Not because he didn’t like them, but because he had fallen asleep in the meantime.
“Where in hay did you get those…. You know what? Never mind. Ill go get the blankets, just gimme a second.” Twilight said and went to get a blanket for each of her friends while still thinking about the spell. What could it do? Should she ask Celestia for help or should she just try it? Didn’t matter that much at the time. She had friends over and the spell could wait for morning.

The sudden sleepover went much better than they expected. Could have been the fact that Pinkie was able to get even more cupcakes from somewhere and also a few games they could play. Once the first yawn was heard, they all decided that sleep might be good aswell and so ended the day with a good nights rest.

Morning came faster than any of them expected. Applejack had no problems with waking up soon thanks to her work at the orchard. Sadly the weather pony had bigger problems with waking up then the rest of them. Unable to wake the sleeping pony, they just gave up and went to have breakfast before deciding what to do next. Since it was weekend and none of them had to work today, or had made any plans for today, they decided to stay and help Twilight with finding the spell in her books. This pleased Twilight, because of the mysterious spell she had written down and she knew, that the rest, maybe besides Dash, were thinking about it too.

Searching for the spell proved to be easier with seven people looking for it. Dash with Fluttershy searched the top shelves while Pinkie and AJ searched the bottom. Spike took care of the books Rarity picked from the middle rows and Twilight flipped through them with the speed of light looking for the right one. And then they found it.
“Got it!” Twilight shouted excitedly
“Finally.”Dash sighed with relief
“So what does it do? “
“Hmmm.” the spell in front of her was the same as she had written down, but there was something about it, that felt wrong
“It says here, that this spell was used some time ago as a way of communicating. Something like those stones but more advanced.”
“So they just wanted to talk to us? Couldn’t they cast it themselves?”
“Maybe they didn’t have a skilled unicorn like our Twilight here is.” said AJ
“The spell seems to be easy and now that we know what it does we can try it without fear. Everyone ok with this?” Twilight asked, looking at her friends waiting for their response. None of them seemed to mind, except Fluttershy, who replied with a low “Well if we have to.”

According to the book, the spell would create a magical window which needed some space so the girls moved some of the furniture from the shelves to make place. Then the six of them stood near the wall behind Twilight and watched silently as she prepared the spell. At first, she just stood there, eyes closed. Slowly her horn started giving a faint glow which gradually gained in strength. Then there was a flash o magic and the spell was done.

In front of them stood a huge window like opening, which was three meters tall and wide, covering the shelves behind it. At first, all they saw was a pitch black “screen” which suddenly started flashing red, as the light in the corner turned on. This time though, they also heard the sounds. A alarm like siren was heard from the picture which made the ponies think, that whoever the ponies were on the other side, must have wanted to meet someone for a long time. Why else would they go to such lengths?
Then the door opened and In came the black pony and once again, stood in the dead center of the room, right in front of them. He watched them, from one to other, seeping in the details of the six ponies and a dragon who managed to use the spell properly. He then laughed, something none of them expected, and said “You did well, my friends.” and left.

The girls couldn’t even question this. They had no time. The flashing stopped, the siren went silent and before they could realize what was happening, not that they even could, there was a flash and they were gone.

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“I can’t believe it. It worked. That actually worked? Finally...”
“Um... You should probably look at yourself before speaking.”
“What…. Oh you got to be kidding me. How to hell did this happen?”
“This might prove to be…well… a challenge, I guess.”
“You shut up before I smack you like never before.”

They stood there in the middle of a grassy field. Equipment they so carefully gathered at their sides, but their plan backfired. Scientists, once human and powered by greed, now in a world a pure innocence but changed. Not everything works as we think it does, which they would soon learn themselves.

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“Uh... What the hay was that?” asked AJ
“As if I’d know. Twilight what did you do?” said Dash angrily
“ME? Why do you think I did something?” now Twilight was angry, this was not her fault, nor any of them
“Um. Girls. I think you should look at something.” said Fluttershy
“At what?” replied Dash fast
“Yourselves?”
“WHAT? What is this? What are these? Where’s my fur?” said AJ confused
“ARGHAAA!” screamed Dash “My wings… they’re gone.”
“What the hay happened to us. Why are we looking like this?”
“I … I have no idea.” said Twilight, placing her hands on her head to try and think, only to realize that her horn was gone too

The six girls, taken from their homes. Taken from their world, into another, different, darker one. Changed to become part of it, but just as the other sides plan backfired, and made them simple ponies, the girls and the dragon kept something they owned. Although they didn’t know it yet.
All they knew was, that they were in a weird place, a different race, and naked.

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“Oh what in the hell was that. Cant a guy get rest in here?” he said as he woke up, sun shining into his eyes. He tried to cover up his face with his hands only to get a nice wake up slam on his face. First pain from the hit, then confusion. Where once his hand was now only a green hoof remained.
“I think I might still be dreaming.”

Trying to wipe his eyes proved to be a challenge, since now he only had hooves and no hands nor fingers. He stood up, all four on the ground, and looked around. The place he was at was so familiar yet unknown. Where was he? Why was he there? And why was he now a pony? He would soon find out.