When Rarity and Applejack leave for Manehatten to deal with a friendship problem, it leaves Twilight with nothing to do. Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately, a certain fox can't help but overhear, and takes it upon himself to rectify the situation.

Quick, random one-shot.

Clockwork has existed in a state of repeat for longer than any creature can recall. Everyday the same as the last, every pony as grey as the next, little more than living parts in a great machine with no purpose. No change, no variation. Everything a shade of grey.

Until one foal finds a spot of black.

When Professor Marks got his class an exclusive field trip to an R&D firm working on some of the latest technologies, they were pretty exited. And for the most part, it met expectations. Right up until it all exploded, stranding them in a new world, with new bodies, and scattered across the face of Equestria. Now in a race against time, they have to find each other, stop one of their own, and return home, or who knows what could happen.