Applejack had raced off after Rainbow Dash a few minutes after she had zipped out to "check on fires" as she had said, leaving Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy to head to Sweet Apple Acres, where Applejack said that she would get Rainbow to meet them. The small group was nearly there when they spotted Applejack and Rainbow Dash waiting for them at the top of a hill.

"Hey Twilight!" Rainbow yelled down the hill at them, at which Twilight simply teleported the group up the hill.

"Rainbow, you can't just leave like-" Twilight started.

"Twilight! You'll never guess what happened!" Rainbow cut her off, "The Princesses were there and everything!"

"Rainbow will you let me finish!" Twilight said.

"But Twi! There were ALIENS," Rainbow said.

"So explain to me why we are waiting here again?" Cinder asked.

"Rainbow Dash and her friend agreed they would explain what was going on before they meet us so that we don't start anything unwanted," Drake explained.

"That and they wanted to explain what miss princessy-bitch said without us listenin'," Jack said, once again sharpening his knife.

"Are the nicknames really necessary Jack?" Flint asked.

"Shh! Listen," Cinder said, at this the group quieted down as the two doors to the barn opened and a pony walked in, still looking behind herself at Rainbow.

"Rainbow if this is some kind of joke it's not funny," Twilight said. As she finished saying that her jaw dropped as she turned around to see all four capsuleers looking at her.

"Well don't just stand there gawking," Jack said after a few seconds, "Come have a seat..."

Celestia and Luna were both concerned about the strange beings that had fallen from they sky, even though their leader had been sincere about his promise that they only wanted to leave and would not hurt anypony they still had their doubts. However, when Celestia and Luna had both gotten a call for help from Baltimare they had both had to cut the meeting short, and left the four in the capable hooves of Twilight Sparkle. Now they were waiting for the mayor to show up in the City Hall. Suddenly the doors were flung open and several guards ran in, lead by their captain. A pair of guards in the group appeared to have a changeling in their grasp.

"Princesses!" The captain exclaimed and bowed, along with the rest of the guards, "We have dire news,"

"Where is the mayor, and what is this changeling doing here?" Luna immediately questioned.

"The mayor is calming ponies down, and in this situation I am in charge," The Captain said. "The changelings appear to be invading, several have already been caught flying over and running through the city, and thousands have been spotted on their way here."

"We're not invading!" The changeling yelled.

"Then what are you doing?" Celestia asked, "With so many of you its evident that your not simply stopping by for a visit,"

"Your majesty," The Changeling began, "We're running."

Jack was going to shoot himself.

The Ponies had all introduced themselves (though he couldn't be bothered to remember their names) and had seemed halfway decent. Except for the purple one. Her rainbow-haired friend had explained what sun-butt had said SEVERAL times and she was just now getting it. He was not getting payed enough for this bullshit.

"So you're all from space?" Twilight asked.

"That would be correct," Drake said, "Although we all had our beginnings on our respective planets, except for Cinder, she's never actually been planetside before," As he said this Cinder took a second to glare at him.

"That's fantastic!" Twilight exclaimed, "I have so many questions!"

"Ah have a few too," Applejack said, "If'n you don't mind,"

"We'll be happy to answer most of your questions," Flint said, "But please keep in mind that we do have things that need to be done,"

"That's amazing," Jack muttered sarcastically, "You've just taken us from multi-billionaire immortals to a question and answer session with... horses,"

"Excuse me!?" Rarity exclaimed, "We are not ho-"

"Hey!" Twilight interrupted, "Listen, I'm sure things are different where they come from Rarity, Its not like they've ever met any of us before. He probably didn't realize what he was saying.... You are a he right?"

"Oh yes, indeed I am" Jack said, "However I-"

"Jack i would prefer it if you did not attempt to cause 'complications' with the locals," Drake cut in, sensing that things were about to go downhill.

"With that aside," Cinder began, "I believe we all have some questions,"

"Indeed," Flint replied, "We would probably be best off to introduce ourselves first, I'm Flint, This is Drake and Cinder, and Jack is the one in the silver armor,"

"It's amazing to actually be meeting ponies, or, people, not from Equis. I'm Twilight, these are my friends Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, I think you already know Dash, and Fluttershy," Twilight said gesturing to each of her friends and the cowering Fluttershy.

"Indeed I do already know miss Dash," Drake said with a chuckle, "We met in the forest, I believe we may have gotten off on the wrong foot,"

"Naw, we're cool," said Dash, "Your new, i'll give ya a break this time, and stop calling me 'miss' it makes me sound old,"

"Are all of you ponies this nice?" Cinder asked.

"Most of us," Twilight said, "But there are some bad apples,"

"I know!" Pinkie exclaimed, "I'll throw you all a party! That way you can meet everyone and see that we're all nice!"

"I don't know about that" Flint said, "I doubt we would fit in very well,"

"Hey Drake, Where are your little guys?" Dash asked As she said that Drake pressed a button on his helmet and began looking around.

"They were waiting in the forest where I left them to avoid spooking anyone, but they should be orbiting the outside of the barn now," Drake explained.

"Wait, what little guys?" Twilight said.

"Rainbow would be talking about my drones," Drake said, "They were modified before the crash to work down here with my suit. I doubt i would have gotten out of my ship so quickly without them,"

"Can I throw them a party too?!" Pinkie asked.

"You could, though i doubt they would enjoy it. They don't actually think, machines like them aren't advanced enough to have an actual AI inside of them, they can only do what i tell them to do," Drake explained.

"That's Amazing!" Twilight exclaimed, "How do they work?"

"Well you see-" Flint began to see before being cut off.

"Flint now is not the time to go all Minmatar engineer on us," Cinder said, "We don't need a day long lecture on drones," Twilight awwed at that, but sighs of relief were heard throughout the rest of both groups.

"Are all your questions like that Twilight?" Drake asked, receiving a nod from her, "Then I believe we are going to have to postpone them until a time when i don't need my engineer," he finished, leaving Twilight looking a little sad.

"Look, we really need to start doing things before someone ends up hurt because of chemicals or something equally stupid," Cinder said.

"Now just a second," Applejack said, "I know ya'll are just trying to get home and all, but when you were explainin how you got here you said it was because ya'll fought somepon- er somebody. Mind explainin?"

"Didn't we explain that too?" Drake asked.

"No ya didn't, now quit dodgin the question," Applejack replied.

"Maybe you should just explain to the rest of us how you got here," Twilight said, "It might clear things up,"

"Very well," Drake said with a sigh, "But I'm not stopping to answer questions," he finished, looking at Twilight.

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"See! I told ya that you shot someone," Applejack said, "Ya'll can't be trusted,"

"I never said I didn't shoot him," Drake said, "But look at it this way, if I hadn't he would have shot Flint, who had Jack in his ship. Then two of my people die, and we two months worth of hard work,"

"But you still attacked another person!" Twilight said.

"Look at it this way," Cinder said, "This orchard is yours correct?" Applejack nodded an affirmative, "So Applejack what would you do if you were taking your apples to market one day and you were attacked by a bandit on the road,"

"Well i'd buck 'im into next week!" Applejack said, "I work hard for my Apples, if he wants 'em he can buy 'em like everypony else," Applejack said all of this, completely oblivious to what was said

"I think I get what your saying," Twilight said, "I guess i wasn't looking at it like that, but how did you know he would attack Flint?"

"He's got no reason to be sitting in w-space in a Battleship, as in, designed to fight things, has the word in its classification," Cinder said, "People like that are only looking for trouble,"

"Even I have to agree with Cinder there," Jack said, "While I'm not going to join in the fight that we're all righteous people just trying to make a living, because these three most definitely aren't, I would say that the Apocalypse was looking for a fight, and he got one,"

"Ya'll didn't have to kill him though!" Applejack shouted, "Just rough 'im up a bit,"

"Applejack," Drake began, "While the idea of ponies even threatening each other may be odd to you I'd like to explain that things are very different in New Eden. Fighting is a constant there, and while that may be hard for you to understand it is the truth. We don't always choose to fight, a lot of the time you have to. If you don't then you end up broke and begging for money in Jita,"

"That may be the case, but until ya'll prove it, I don't trust ya," She said with finality.

"That's something i can have respect for," Jack said, "Don't you ever trust nobody, its a good rule to live by,"

"Now that that's all out of the way though we do have several wrecks that needs to be looked at soon," Drake said.

"and we can't just leave my Manticore sitting at your farm" Cinder added.

"Don't you think we should find you somewhere to stay first?" Twilight asked.

"I don't necessarily think that us staying with you would be a good idea," Jack said.

"I can't just let you all stay in the middle of the Everfree forest, its dangerous and its a long treck to be making everyday,"

"I don't feel right leaving my baby to sit out in the middle of some gorge while I'm not there," Drake said.

"Wait, like, Ghastly Gorge?" Rainbow asked.

"I wouldn't know," Drake said, "Nobody has exactly handed me a map during my stay here,"

"I would assume that is where he is," Rarity said, "Its the only one around for miles,"

"There's a path to Ghastly Gorge Twilight," Rainbow said, "We wouldn't have to go through the forest!"

"I still don't think Celestia wanted them all out there on there own," Twilight said. "Maybe if one of them stayed in town? They could still watch Drake's... Ship? You are talking about your ship when you say that right?"

"What else would I be talking about?" Drake asked, as if it was incredibly obvious.

"Um, right, as i was saying one or two of you could stay in town and the others could watch Drake's ship. That way you guys have the ship safe, and the ponies in town don't feel like we've given four aliens free run of our country," Twilight said.

"Staying with ponies...." Jack thought out loud, "Sounds awful,"

"We'd probably be better off if i stayed closer to the manticore," Cinder said, "It does have all my stuff in it after all,"

"Manticore?" Rarity questioned, "Who would keep their things in a creature like that!"

"Her ship is called a manticore Rares," Rainbow explained.

"Indeed," Said Flint, "and while I don't mind staying with you ponies I sincerely don't think I would enjoy it for very long,"

"Well maybe we can land your ship in Ponyville dear." Rarity said, "It would solve finding you a place to stay, you can stay near your things and you're in town,"

"Yea!" Pinkie agreed, "and then Flint and Jack can just trade off or something! Oh! Maybe they can stay with me!"

"That idea works Pinkie," Twilight agreed, "But I doubt Mr and Mrs Cake would enjoy that, I do have a spare room in the library though,"

"Why do two of us need to be there again?" Jack asked.

"So that we don't freak everypony out. I doubt that ponies would be happy at the fact that you guys are just running all over the place doing whatever you want,"

"Point taken," said Flint, "I guess I'll go first, I'm pretty sure that Drake wants to talk to Jack before he stays with anyone,"

"While I like your thinking, Cinder's ship is probably about half the size of a football field. Where do you plan on landing it?" Drake asked.

"I don't know how much space that is, but there's a lot of space out inbetween the town and the school, I can talk to the Mayor and see if we could leave it there," Twilight said, "Until then I don't know where we could put it,"

"I can just cloak it up, it is a stealth bomber after all," Cinder said, "Nobody would see it unless i opened it up to get out, and even then the most they'll see is the inside,"

"Most unicorns will be able to detect the invisibility spell though, it would be even more noticable, especially with how big it is," Twilight explained.

"Invisibility spell?" Cinder asked while chuckling, "Like magic stuff from those Minmatar storybooks?"

"Well that much magic would be noticeable all the way to Canterlot," Twilight said matter-of-factly.

"I don't know what your smoking purple unicorn, but I would love to know where I can find some," Jack laughed.

"That's besides the point," Cinder said, "The covert cloak bends light waves, among other things, its invisible to sensors and any prying eyes,"

"But that still has to use magic," Twilight said, "There's no other way to do that,"

"Well i hate to disappoint you, but magic doesn't exist so you can throw that theory away," Jack said, still laughing.

"What do you mean 'Magic doesn't exist'!" Twilight said, "You guys use it in your ships don't you?"

"While I can see why you think its amazing, but my ship runs mostly on sleeper tech," Drake said, "Magic is just a story made up to keep lazy children out of trouble,"

"How can you deny magic that I can show you whenever I want?" Twilight almost yelled, "I mean really, watch," as she said that she teleported to the other side of the table.

"Congratulations guys," Jack said sarcastically, "You've finally beaten short range teleporting, Nice job learning basic physics,"

"Alright then," Twilight said, "Explain how your ships fly,"

"The generator creates power, this power is then routed to necessary systems and the engines, The engines then create thrust causing the ship to move," Flint explained, "It's really simple, I know you guys are still a developing race but I figured you would know things like this by now instead of just explaining everything with 'magic' That's just naive, haven't you even looked into how your 'magic' works?"

"Yes we have, it naturally makes earth ponies strong, allows pegasi to fly, and lets me use spells like teleporting and telekinesis," Twilight said.

"While the pegasi DO have small wings for some planets requirements for flight your planet has significantly reduced gravity, if it was the average Cinder's manticore wouldn't have fared too well. Also, you all appear to be different variations of the same species, 'Earth Ponies' as you call them are probably just naturally stronger, no magic there, and your 'spells' are all scientifically explainable as well, its probably just energy manipulation," Flint explained. As he finished Twilight was visibly fuming, but appeared to have no comeback to Flint's explanation.

"Of course you wouldn't understand," She said, "Your not a unicorn," When they didn't say anything she spoke up again, "Let's just go talk to the mayor about that land," There was quiet for a few seconds and then Drake spoke up.

"Sure, that's a great idea and all, but I'm afraid I do need to get back to my ship, there are some things I need to take care of while I still can, and Jack says he found a storage crate with drones in it. Flint and I should probably start clearing some of that up and seeing what needs to be fixed," He replied.

"Fine. Just take Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy with you," Twilight replied, still visibly upset, "The rest of you follow me, we'll stop by the library on the way,"

"Hey uh, Drake?" Rainbow began, "You sure you remember where you crashed? We've been wandering around for a while,"

"Well I'd be there by now if people would move a bit faster," Drake replied.

"sorry," Fluttershy squeaked out.

"Not you, you're doing fine Flutershy," Drake replied, "I was talking about Flint,"

"Shut up you, I don't have a suit," Flint replied.

"Just saying, I doubt you could go slower Drake laughed.

"Don't tempt me," He said with a chuckle.

"Hey, um Mr Drake?" Fluttershy started,"

"Yes?" Drake replied.

"Are you okay? if you don't mind me asking that is," She whispered.

"What do you mean?" Drake asked.

"You seem um.. hurt," as Fluttershy said this Drake stopped, and turned.

"How did you know that?" Drake demanded.

"I'm sorry! Its just that...Well... Your kind of limping..." Fluttershy barely managed to get out, "I'm sorry... I didn't mean to upset you,"

"No its ok, I just thought that I was hiding it pretty well," Drake replied.

"Your leg still?" Flint asked. "God Drake I thought we convinced you to get that fixed. How bad is it?"

"Well, Without the suit I doubt that I would be doing very much walking," Drake answered.

"Then that suit is pretty awesome," Rainbow said, "I didn't even notice,"

"That was the point," Drake muttered.

"We should get you patched up when we get back to your ship," Flint said, "I think I remember you having a medical storage unit on the bridge,"

"Don't you all pilot your own ships?" Rainbow asked.

"Yeah, but getting ejected from a carrier in a jetcan by its pilot is reason enough to be scooped on board," Flint explained with a small laugh.

"Well, I would love to get some medicine and such, and I totally would have when I left but the everything ended up broken and mixed in the unit when we crashed," Drake explained.

"Um.. we could stop by my house and grab some medicine, if you want..." Fluttershy asked.

"That would be great," Flint said, "and while you're at it see if you can knock some sense into his thick skull,"

"Oh, I don't think I could ever hit anybody," The humor seemed lost on Fluttershy.

"Is that it up ahead?" Rainbow asked as a hint of blue was now becoming visible through the treeline.

"Yea that's it," Drake replied as the group passed the treeline, slowing to an almost complete stop.

"Woah...." Rainbow exclaimed in awe. The beast before her was huge, at least five hoofball fields long, and layered thickly in metal. The front was reminisce of a hammerhead shark, it had a heavily armored midsection before it got somewhat smaller near the back where two armatures extended off of what Rainbow assumed were the engines. It was covered in twelve odd protrusions, one of which was spinning oddly, as if focusing on something for a few seconds before becoming bored. It had obviously been heavily damaged in the crash, but that made it no less impressive.

"Sorry to interrupt but... How is it doing that?" Fluttershy asked, breaking the silence.

"Doing what?" Drake asked.

"Um... Well.. Its not actually touching the sides of the gorge," Fluttershy explained.

"It has a shield around it, right now that's all that's keeping it propped in there," Drake explained, "If it were to fail the whole ship would plummet farther until it couldn't fall farther,"

"I haven't seen anybody look at yer ship quite like this since when you built it!" Flint exclaimed with a hearty laugh.

"Well it is something, especially considering the biggest ship they've probably seen is made of wood," Drake said.

"So how do we get in?" Dash finally spoke up.

"There's a drone bay near the back that I blasted the doors off of, we can get in there," Drake explained, as he started walking, everyone following except for Rainbow Dash, who was still staring.

"Come on Miss Dash, We can't just sit around all day," Flint said with another laugh.

"Alright, alright, sorry. How far from us is the entrance?" Rainbow said.

"At this pace?" Drake said, "It could take some time," As the group walked damage became more and more apparent, especially when Rainbow saw that a good chunk had been taken out of the bottom, and that several halls were visible through the other side of the ship.

It was definitely going to take some time.

Author's Note

Silly ponies always have to be right don't they? I would just like to point out that gravity in Equestria (at least in my story) is greatly reduced, allowing for the lighter frigates to be able to fly in the atmosphere, and for pegasi to fly, just don't expect anything bigger to be taking off without some serious help. Anyways, like I promised here is a chapter after less than a month, and of a decent size too. Expect updates like this about once per week :D (Also, Leave that author a comment, Authors love comments.)