Late that afternoon Celestia arrived at Twilight's castle and proceeded to the throne room where she was greeted by Princess Twilight, Applejack and Spike. Celestia asked, "Twilight, where are these ponies you told me about?"
The three stepped aside and Celestia saw the Ponyland ponies. Her jaw dropped open as she knew exactly where they had come from. She muttered to herself, "Oh great, the portal was discovered."
Twily asked, "Celestia, what is wrong?"
Celestia looked at AJ and asked, "Could you keep these six company while I talk to Twilight about this?"
Applejack nodded while Twily and Celestia left the throne room. Twily asked, "I take it this isn't good? I take it they are a danger to us?"
Celestia replied, "They are not a danger to us but something that I have hoped would remain hidden forever has been discovered. I was hoping that portal would never be discovered."
Twily asked, "Portal? They said something about coming here through a portal."
Celestia asked, "Did they say anything about how they discovered this portal or why they came through it?"
Twily replied, "They did but I think it would be best if they told you about this. They would probably be able to tell you everything about what brought them here."
Celestia simply nodded and they headed back into the throne room. While she would not show it, Celestia was a bit nervous as to what brought them to Equestria and was even more nervous about the possibility of citizens of Equestria discovering this portal and crossing through.
Once they returned to the throne room Celestia asked, "Could you six tell me your names and what brought you here?"
Twilight replied, "Well my name is Twilight, the white unicorn is Sparkler, the yellow earth pony is Posey, the orange earth pony is Applejack, the white pegasus is Surprise and the pink pegasus is Firefly."
Celestia said, "Alright but what brought you here?"
While the others seemed a bit intimidated by Celestia's size, Firefly was not. She pointed her hoof towards Twily and AJ and replied, "Well we are pretty sure that a couple of large eyed ponies like these two, two evil ponies abducted our queen and a friend of ours!"
Celestia spread her wings wide and stood tall, causing Firefly to shrink back. She yelled, "How dare you say that about any of my subjects! My subjects are not evil!" Her eyes began to shine white as she continued, "Perhaps it is you who is evil, perhaps it is you who has ill intentions against my subjects."
Firefly was actually a bit scared of Celestia at this point. Twilight realized that perhaps she should take over the conversation given Firefly's standoffish attitude. Twilight said, "I am sorry that Firefly disrespected some of your subjects your Majesty but we did have a couple ponies that resemble the ponies here pay our country a visit a while back. They seemed really close like sisters would but I'm not sure. I do remember them abducting our queen and a human friend of ours."
Celestia asked, "You're kidding, right? A human? You know those things don't really exist don't you?"
Twilight exclaimed, "But they do exist! Megan Williams is a friend of ours that comes across the rainbow bridge which connects our world to the human world."
The more Twilight talked about this, the more Celestia began to think they were merely troublemakers who were trying to cause problems in Equestria so she decided to ask them something that would provide more insight as to why they were there. "Ok, you claim that a couple of my subjects visited your world. What are their names and what did they look like?"
Surprise replied, "Well one was named Colgate and she is a blue unicorn with blue eyes and an hourglass for a cutie mark."
Twilight added, "And the other was a mint green unicorn that goes by the name of Lyra Heartstrings. She has gold eyes and has a lyre for a cutie mark."
Celestia's attitude changed suddenly given that not only did they give her the names of the two visitors but gave her accurate descriptions of them. She bent down to Twily and ordered, "Could you go and get Lyra and Colgate? I want to see their reaction to them."
Twily nodded and raced out the door. Celestia looked at the Ponyland ponies and said, "Very soon we should know what is going on here. Hopefully I can take care of things and IF what you are saying is true, your friends will be returned to you and you can go home."
At Colgate's house things have been going on pretty normally, well normally since they had brought their captives home. In the basement Colgate still had Majesty chained in a chair and Lyra was still having problems getting Megan to eat.
Majesty yelled, "I would like to know who you two work for." She became more angry and screamed, "Let me guess, your government is wanting to take over Ponyland! Well it isn't going to happen!"
Colgate smacked the belligerent queen and laughed, "The government wanting to take over your country? Everypony except for my sister and I believe Ponyland is a myth and chances are even Celestia doesn't know about that portal so you don't have to worry about us wanting Ponyland."
Majesty screamed, "And what is with this 'everypony, anypony' thing. Why do you speak like that?"
Colgate calmly replied, "That is just how we speak here in Equestria."
Megan interrupted, "Yeah and it sounds really weird. I know you are ponies but aren't there any other creatures that live here? Any creatures like me?"
Lyra laughed, "No, nothing like you!" Megan had not ate the oats Lyra got for her so she levitated her oats up to her and continued, "Megan, you haven't ate anything since we brought you here. Please eat, I don't want you to starve."
Megan sighed, "Look, I can't eat with my arms tied to my side like this."
Colgate sternly replied, "We will untie your arms if you promise not to try to harm us in any way and promise not to try and run away."
Megan sighed, "Fine, I won't."
Lyra untied Megan's arms and she began to eat her oats. It wasn't too long after that that they heard pounding on their front door. Colgate ordered, "Lyra, could you go and get that? I have stronger magic so I will stay down here and keep an eye on these two."
Lyra replied, "Yes sis, I'll go get it."
When Lyra headed up stairs she opened the door to find Twilight standing there. Twily asked, "Lyra, can we talk?"
Lyra invited her in and said, "Sure."
Downstairs Megan could hear Colgate talking to another pony and began to yell, "Help! Help! Somebody help us!"
Twilight heard this and asked, "What was that?" Twilight began to head towards the door to the basement but was blocked by Lyra. Lyra growled, "You can't go down there. I invited you in to talk, not to snoop around my house."
Twily pushed Lyra aside and headed down to the basement. She was horrified by what she saw. She saw a human girl with her legs tied together and a white unicorn with a blue mane and tail bound in chains and wearing a horn cap. She shrieked, "What in Equestria?" She looked at Megan first and asked, "Wh-what is that thing?" She then looked at Majesty and asked, "And why in Equestria do you have that unicorn chained in a chair?"
Colgate sighed, "Because she fired energy at Lyra and she had to be punished."
Twily pointed at Megan and asked, "And what is that thing? I've never seen anything like it before?"
Megan yelled, "I am not a THING!"
Lyra cheerfully replied, "She is my pet, Megan Williams! She is a human! I've always wanted a human for a pet and now I have one!"
Twily gathered herself together and said, "Oh no-no-no! This is bad, this is very bad! I guess those ponies in my castle weren't lying after all."
Colgate asked, "What ponies?"
Twily replied, "You'll find out soon enough." She looked outside and noticed that while the sun had set, there was still a bit of light. She continued, "Once it gets completely dark, all of us are going to my castle."
Megan's eyes lit up and she asked, "Really? Are you going to free us and help us get home?"
Lyra yelled, "NO! You are not taking my pet away from me! You have no idea what I had to go through to get her."
Twily ordered, "Colgate, unchain and free that unicorn from that chair and Lyra, untie your 'pet', once it is completely dark we're leaving."
While they were grateful that the purple pony had found out what was going on, they were curious as to who she was. Majesty asked, "I mean no disrespect, but who are you?"
Twily replied, "I am Princess Twilight Sparkle, the princess of friendship."
Megan asked, "Are you going to punish these two for doing this to us?"
Twily replied, "Well I'll see what Princess Celestia wants to do. She is the leader of Equestria."
While Colgate and Lyra both wanted to stun Twilight and take her captive as well, they knew that if they did that eventually Celestia would come searching for her and maybe find them so reluctantly they freed their captives. The two were both happy that they were no longer bound but were a bit nervous as to what the purple Alicorn had in store for them and wondered what kind of pony Princess Celestia is.