Rainbow Dash Network In Equestria

RAINBOW DASH NETWORK IN EQUESTRIA

BY DOATES

CHAPTER TWO

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FILLYDELPHIA

The two ponies were placed into a cell in the station. waiting for the questioning. Commodore Crazy was arrested for trespassing and for allegedly assisting the grey pony in the break-in of the jewelry store. The grey pony was accused of breaking-in the jewelry store and attempting to steal its contents.

The cell had other inhabitants, some bony, some big-build. Some you could tell were there for a while from their facial expressions. The silver pony went immediately to a far corner that wasn’t occupied and sat there. He was sweating and eyes were scanning the room back and forth, hoping that none of the other “prisoners” would come near him.

When Commodore came in, he was nervous, like the silver one, but not as nervous. Crazy decided to sit a couple feet away from the entrance so he could get out of the cell as quickly as possible. He thought of waiting for the next person to be thrown into the cell and making a break for it, but he was in a police station and he had more chances in breaking into Fort Knox.

“Commodore Crazy. You’re up.” announced the officer. The officer was a unicorn mare with a handcuff cutie mark. Crazy grumbled and moved forward. ‘Thank goodness the wait didn’t last that long. Feel bad for the silver one, though.’

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“Please state your name for the record.” said the unicorn, staring down at a notepad while she was writing down her questions and his future answers.

“um, commodorecrazycommanderofthe1stroyalbrigadeofspiceracksandcheese” Commodor Crazy replied.

The unicorn stopped writing, but continued to stare down at the notepad.

“Commodore Crazy, for short.”

“You were in the military?” the officer asked.

“No.”

“Then why are you called Commodore?”

“I decided to call myself that.”

“Then, what is your real name?” The officer was starting show hints of frustration towards just to figure out who the pony sitting across from her.

“Just call me Crazy and can we move on please?” answered Commodore, annoyed as well for the conversation that was going on.

“Sure. Now, why were you on the Apple Family grounds? And why did you run from Mr. Macintosh?”

There was a long pause. ‘I have no idea why I was on the Apple Family grounds. In fact, I have no idea how I even wound up on Equestria.’

“Well?!” the mare asked. ‘Oh sweet Celestia, this colt over here is starting to become a pain in my-’

“I don’t know why I was in the Apple Family grounds.” the stallion answered, interrupting the officers thoughts.

“So you just walked into private property for no reason at all?”

“No. I don’t even know why I was there.”

“Suuuuuuure... Fine, if you want to put it that way, then we will talk later”

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Commodore was brought back to the cell along with his frustrated officer. It wasn’t his fault that she got confused about his name. Heck, he even gave her the short version of it and she still made an issue about it. No wonder the conversation ended early. He was inadvertently annoying and frustrating her to her breaking point. ‘Eh could be worse.’ Commodore thought.

The pony walked into the cell and went and sat where he was before the officer took him for questioning. The silver pony that came with him was still there, and in the same position, but was more nervous and stressed than before.  The officer pointed at him and ordered “ You. The grey one. Come with me”.

The grey pony was infact a pegasus and he looked down as he walked out the cell.

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The grey pegasus walked into the stone room and sat down, not saying a word. The officer walked in and sat opposite from him.

“Okay, for starters, since we haven’t seen you before, what is your name?” asked the officer.

“Silver Brony.” the pegasus answered with a low tone.

“Glad to get that out of the way.” mumbled the officer. “So, would you care to explain how you got into the jewelry store without opening any doors and windows? Also, would you also please explain what you were planning on stealing?”

Silver Brony took a deep breath before he answered. “All I remember is that I was in my room and then all the sudden I was in the jewelry store you are talking about. I was never planning to steal anything.”

“And can anypony confirm that you were in your room before you were caught within the jewelry store in question?”

“Yes. My friends were in the other room.”

“And, where do you live?”

The pegasus stopped talking when the question came up. The officer sat there staring at the pegasus, waiting for the answer. A minute and a half went by when the silence was broken.

“I said, where do you live?” the officer repeated. Silver Brony began stare at anything but her. ‘oh, Celestia, not this again.’

“Fine, if you want to pull the whole silent treatment, then okay, enjoy your stay.” the officer opened the door and the pegasus walked out, returning to the cell.

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Silver brony returned to his spot in the cell. The officer came into the cell with him and looked at both Commodore Crazy and Silver Brony.

“You two have to be the hardest cases I ever met. Better rethink how you are going to speak and behave, because it’s only a matter of time before you are going to out of our hands.

“Mister Brony, you will be awaiting a representative of the Royal Guard to pick you up. Breaking in a jewelry store is yes, a federal crime, but the one you were in and the area you were in, makes it worse for you.

“And you-”

“Wait, your name is Brony?” Crazy interrupted.

“Yeah, why?” asked Silver Brony.

“Hm, oh, nothing.”

‘Oooookay’ though the officer. “Anyway, Commodore Crazy, if that is your real na-”

“YOUR NAME IS COMMODORE CRAZY?!” yelled Silver Brony. Commodore gave a shocked look in return of the question given to him.

“Ye-Yes.” he answered.

“I’m Silver Brony.” Silver introduced himself. Crazy’s eyes turned from nervous to awe.

“Silver. Brony.”

“Yeah.”

“Okay, okay, okay. Woah. Do you two know each other?” asked the officer, still trying to comprehend what is going on infront of her eyes.

“Pretty much.” answered Crazy.

“We go on the same website.” Silver Brony continued.

“Wait, website? What is a ‘website’?” asked the officer.

“Excuse me, what is your name?” asked Brony.

“Ah, Officer Alipoe.” she answered.

“Officer Alipoe, how on Earth can’t you know about a website?”

“Possibly, I just don’t know about it. I am not exactly an “In-The-know” kind of pony. So what ‘website’ do you go on?”

“RDN” both answered.

“RDN?” Alipoe asked.

“Rainbow Dash Network.”

“There is a ‘website’ based on the mare that won the Best Fliers Competition?”

“Sort of, yeah.” Commodore answered.

“Hey, Alipoe, there is someone here to speak to your new guests.” yelled a nearby officer.

“Whoooohomystars!”

“Good afternoon, officer. Could I, by any chance, borrow your new friends for a while. You see, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna are asking for an audience with them.”

The entire cell was quietly staring at the new guest. Commodore Crazy and Silver Brony were the verge of fainting.

“Oh, there you are. Sorry for the rudeness, let me introduce myself. My name is Shining Armor, captain of the Royal Guard. And you are?”

Two hours and a half earlier....

CANTERLOT

Celestia and Twilight stared at the grey dragon in front of them and the dragon did the same to them. The dragon, from its size, was possibly in its teens.

‘It’s the same size as Spike’s first growth spurt, before he got bigger and eventually a fifty foot tall dragon’ Twilight observed.

The stare possibly lasted for a few minutes before the dragon noticed the fly-swatter floating and then stared at Celestia and then Twilight. His eyes went wider than before.

‘Of all the alternate versions of MLP, I just had to wind up in of the more disturbing.’ the dragon thought. He began to look around his surroundings looking for something and saw a stool within arms reach and looked out the window. ‘Hope this doesn’t hurt that much...’

“Dragon, please identify you-” Princess Celestia began, but was interrupted by the scene that was transpiring in front of her. The dragon grabbed the stool and threw it at the window, which shattered. It then ran towards the opening and grabbed the curtains and used them a makeshift rope as he jumped out the window.

Unfortunately, for the dragon, the curtain snapped and he fell down to ground, with no way to brake. He desperately reached for a pole that was coming near him and held on for dear life. After a quick second, he let go and continued his plummet. He landed on a patio and then jumped down to the ground from a safe distance.

‘Well that could have been worse.’ the dragon thought. He grinned and stared up at the window he jumped out of. It was a good 30 feet up. ‘Much worse.’

He was about to jog his way out, until midway through his sprint he noticed the two, grey coated pegasi, in royal guard armor facing him.

‘Well, at least I didn’t end up in a Molestia fic. Or at least, I don’t think I did...’

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Celestia and Twilight stood still and stared at the shattered window before them. Twilight slowly walked towards the window and looked out. She saw the dragon running from the royal guards, whom were chasing after it.

“Twilight, what just happened?” the princess asked, who was just trying to put together what just transpired.

“I think a teenage dragon got inside the castle, came in here, saw us and tried to make a break for it.” answered the student.

“I’ll send a message to the royal guard for them to capture, but not hurt the dragon. Poor thing must be scared out of it’s mind.”

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‘Dear Luna, how many guards are there in this place?!’ The number of guards chasing him skyrocketed after a few minutes while he was being chased by the two guards he landed next to. ‘Guess Celestia sent out an order about me. Just lovely.’

The dragon decided to run towards an alley to avoid more guards. ‘Have to figure out how to get out of this place. I could try the sewer system, but guards might be already be down there. Uuugh. Why is this happening to me, of all people?’

“There he is!” yelled one guard.

“Surround and corner him!” yelled another.

‘Well this is just great.’ thought the dragon. Two guards on both sides blocked the ways out of the alley. ‘Why couldn’t I have wings?!’ The guards began to move forward, trying to box in the dragon. Then a miracle, you might say, occured.

Though you’d think it would be painful, the dragon only felt a tingle on his back. When he turned his head, he was wings growing out of his back. Both him and the guards were staring in awe what was transpiring. The dragon also noticed that his hands and feet were transforming into hooves. As in horse hooves. ‘What. The. Heck. Is. Happening?’ the dragon thought. ‘I’m becoming a dragon pony hybrid!’

The hybrid fell forward so he could maintain balance. He began to flap his wings testing them out and to get a feel for them. ‘This is both weird and cool at the same time. Might as well test these things.’ he thought.

The guards came out of their trance and galloped in to prevent him from flying away, when he did just that. At first, he wobbled mid-air trying to maintain balance and keep his axis straight. He eventually leveled and managed to start flying straight. Pegasus guards gave chase, but the hybrid was too far ahead.

“So, long suckers!” yelled the hybrid. Little did he know, he was flying right into a pink-colored transparent wall. Just before he flew into it, he turned his head and faced the wall.

“Now that’s just plain not fair.” he said before he hit the wall, losing consciousness.

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“HE DID WHAT!?!?” Princess Celestia yelled.

“Sister, please watch your tone.” Her sister, Princess Luna, requested.

“I’m sorry, Luna.” apologized Celestia. She turned back to the guard, “Why did he think it would be wise to use a protection spell on the poor thing? He could have died!”

The guard tried to remain professional in terms of stance, but his eyes were those of fright. “He said that you ordered for the dragon, erm, hybrid to be captured. Since it-”

“Wait. Hybrid?” Luna asked, cocking an eyebrow.

“Yes, your highness. When some of the guards cornered it in an alley, it grew wings and its limbs became hooves.”

Luna turned her head facing Celestia, whom was still looking at the guard with a stern look.

“Have you at least tried to find the creature?” Celestia asked.

“Yes, your highness. Though it was speaking in rambles while it was unconscious.”

“What ramblings?”

“Something about RDN, a room and teleportation.”

“Thank you, that will be all. You can go outside now”

“Yes, your highness.”

The guard left the throne room and went outside to his assigned position for the day.

“Luna, I wish for you assign Shining Armor to watch over the ‘hybrid’. I will return to the library to learn what this ‘RDN’ is.” Celestia stated.

“Yes, my sister.”

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“ugh” the hybrid moaned, having finally woken up from the hit to the head. His head was throbbing with pain. He began to notice that he was laying in a bed, tucked in no less. He also observed his room. It looked standard, a window to the his left, the exit was to his far right and the bathroom was in front of him to the left.

That’s when he noticed his guest. it was a white coated unicorn with purple armor and a golden lining. His mane and tail was a dark blue with a sky blue stripe going down the middle. That  and the armor gave away the identity of the unicorn.

‘SHINING ARMOR! I AM IN THE SAME ROOM WITH SHINING ARMOR!’ the dragon thought in his head.

“Oh, good you’re awake. My name is-” Shining Armor began.

“Shining Armor.” the dragon interrupted.

“Pardon?”

“Shining Armor, captain of the royal guard.” the dragon continued.

“So you know my name, but what is yours? And what is ‘RDN’?”

‘If he is asking about RDN, might as well use my username’ the dragon contemplated. “My name is Grey Dragon.”

“Kind of obvious.” Shining Armor remarked.

“Well, the full name is greydragon412, but I thought it would be better with just Grey Dragon.”

“Sounds logical”

“Quite.”

“Well, moving on, what is this ‘RDN’?” Shining Armor asked again.

“You’re sure you want to know?” asked Grey.

“Yes, so tell me.” ordered Armor.

“RDN stands for Rainbow Dash Network. It is a micro-blogging site for the brony community so they can socialize and interact with other bronies around the world.” Grey deadpanned.

“What is a micro-blogging site?”

“A smaller version of a social network. RDN is based on the more popular Twitter.”

“Okay. What is a brony?”

Grey Dragon paused for a second, trying to figure out how to answer this question. He breathed deeply and continued. “A brony is a fan of the ‘My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic’ television show.”

“I hardly doubt that is all. What is this ‘My Little Pony’?”

“I’m afraid that I can’t answer that.” Dragon answered.

“And why not?” Armor persisted.

“Because that is not important. I think trying to figure out how I got here is more important.” Dragon said.

“You’re a spunky one, aren’t you.”

“And some say that I am nuts.” Dragon retorted.

“I wonder why?” Armor mumbled.

‘Though I may be calm, I am possibly literally soiling myself.’ Grey thought to himself.

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“Sister?” Luna asked as she came into the library.

“Yes, Luna? Has the ‘hybrid’ awakened?” asked Celestia.

“Yes and Shining Armor is questioning it.” Luna answered.

“So it can talk. Interesting...” Celestia said. She began to try to piece together the whole transformation of the dragon. The fact it could talk, which didn’t surprise her, but the fact it transformed still dumbfounded her.

“But there is something else?” Luna continued.

“What?”

“At the same time when you saw the ‘dragon-hybrid’, a grey pegasus was found within a jewelry store.”

“So, leave that with the federal investigators.”

“The odd thing is, the pegasus insists that it never broke in, but it just appeared in the store.” Luna continued.

“Is there a possibility that they might be lying.” Celestia responded.

“At first yes, but there is more. Just a mile and half away, an Earth pony appeared in the Apple Family grounds. They had the same story as the pegasus.”

“And this happened-” Celestia began

“At the same time the dragon was found.” Luna finished. “Sister, I have heard of coincidences before, but this looks more like a pattern.”

“I agree. I want this to be contained. We have no idea what is going on right now, and don’t know what kind of things are going to happen. Where did all this happen?”

“Fillydelphia.” Luna answered.

“Send Shining Armor there. Only us three can know about this.” Celestia ordered.

Before Luna could leave, a scroll appeared before them.

“Who is it from?” Luna asked.

“Spike.” Celestia answered as she read the letter. “Well, there are more ‘appearances’ occurring around the country. Luna, once you are done sending Shining Armor, I wish for you to go to Ponyville, specifically Fluttershy’s cottage.”

“What in Mother’s name is going on?” Luna asked.

“I have no idea, sister.” Celestia answered.

PONYVILLE (SUGARCUBE CORNER)

The green maned unicorn was standing in front of Sugarcube Corner. ‘If I am going to get out of here, I might as well get meeting Pinkie Pie over with.’ The unicorn walked in and saw the pony he was looking for.

“Hey, My name is Mi-” the unicorn started, as he walked to Pinkie Pie, but didn’t finish. The moment she saw the him, Pinkie jumped up, gasped and zipped out the door.

“You must be new here. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have done that.” remarked Mr. Cake.

“Yeah, I am new here. Anyway, how long do I have to wait before I could talk to her?” the unicorn asked.

“You might have to wait until the end of the day. It usually takes her a bit to arrange the party and get everypony invited.” Mr. Cake answered. “So what is your name?”

“Minti.”

“Interesting name.”

“I’m an interesting pony.”

PONYVILLE (FUTTERSHY’S COTTAGE)

“Alright, the letter has been sent. Now what?” Spike asked.

“I don’t know. I mean, I never met anypony that looked so much like me.” Fluttershy answered.

“Well, hopefully the princess could help sort this all out.”

A loud noise came from the front of the cottage, scaring the living daylights out of Fluttershy. Of course it was Pinkie Pie.

“Fluttershy,anewponyarrivedatthesugarcubecornerandIwaslike‘gasp’andranofftogetaparttogetherandstuff-”Pinkie Pie rambled. She turned her head and saw the Fluttershy look-alike. Her eyes widen with glee.

“TWO NEW PONIES!THIS IS GOING TO BE THE BEST PARTY EVER!” yelled Pinkie Pie. Before the pink pony could finish, Spike slapped his hand on her mouth.

“Pinkie, please? You scared Fluttershy half to death.” informed Spike. Fluttershy, meanwhile was curled up in a ball quivering.

“Oh.” Pinkie Pie realized. “I’m sorry Fluttershy. You know that I get excited when I meet new ponies. Do you want me to leave?”

“No, no. Please, it wasn’t your fault. You just startled me, that’s all. Have you seen Twilight lately?” Fluttershy asked.

“Nope. I heard she was going to Canterlot to spend time in some seminar or something like that.” Pinkie answered.

While the two mares were conversing, the visitor finally regained consciousness.  Spike was the first one to notice.

“Woah, you okay there?” He asked.

The pegasus possibly either didn’t hear him, or they were more focused getting up. Pinkie Pie soon helped them get up.

“So if you don’t mind me asking, who are you?” she asked.

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After a bit of asking the public, Minti learned that Pinkie Pie rushed towards Fluttershy’s cottage. ‘Knowing Fluttershy, I think i should take it easy with the new.’ he thought. He was coming up the hill in front of the mini-bridge over the creek that led to the cottage, when something landed right next to him.

“If you have any appointment with Ms. Fluttershy, I suggest that you reschedule for a later date.” the figure said. It was a voice of a female, but slightly formal. Minti turned to face the figure and looked face to face with Princess Luna.

‘Well that skips the whole scheduling to meet with the Princesses.’ he remarked, who was still staring at Luna.

“Could we help you?” she asked.

“PRINCESS LUNA!”

The loud child-like voice started both Minti and Luna out of their stare. They both turned to face the bouncing pink pony coming their way.

“I didn’t know you were coming! First two new ponies come and the-”

“Ms. Pie-”Luna began.

“Call me Pinkie” the earth pony interrupted. There was a long pause.

“Pinkie, Did you saw two new ponies?” Luna asked.

“Yeah-huh!”

“And where are they, if you don’t mind me asking.”

“Coarse I don’t mind. One is right next to you, and another is in the cottage!” Pinkie explained. Immediately after her answer, Princess Luna turned and faced the unicorn next to her.

‘Well this is awkward.’ he thought.

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“So, um,...What was your name again?” asked Fluttershy.

“Derpyshy.” replied the look-alike.

“And you are from?” the yellow pegasus asked.

“Earth.” the green pegasus replied.

“Is that near here?”

“Don’t think so.”

“How did you get into my cottage?”

“I have no idea. Possibly Cerulean’s fault.”

“Who?”

“Nothing.”

“You look like me, but you sound like a stallion.” Fluttershy remarked.

“Yeah. We might want to talk about that later.” Derpyshy replied.

“Fluttershy, Princess Luna is here. Pinkie Pie went out to meet her”, Spike informed from another room. He was in the kitchen, while the two were in the living room of the cottage. The two looked out the window and saw the night princess conversing with Pinkie Pie, but a white unicorn was with them. It took Derpyshy a bit to figure out who it was.

“Hold on, I’ll be right back.” he said.

“Wait, where are you going?” Fluttershy asked. Derpyshy didn’t answer as they were already out the door. “This isn’t going to end well.”

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“What is your name, unicorn.” the princess asked.

“Minti Breeze” Minti answered.

“How long have you been here?”

“Um, a couple minutes.”

“Do you know what an ‘RDN’ is?” Luna asked.

‘Might as well be honest... “Yep,” Breeze answered.

“Do you?” Luna asked again.

“Yeah. Why do you ask?”

“Do you know a person related to RDN that goes by the name Grey Dragon?” she asked.

“HE’S HERE TOO!” Minti yelled. Before Luna could respond to Minti’s response, a green pegasus that looks a lot like Fluttershy galloped up next to Pinkie Pie, who was just watching the show.

“Pardon me, but is your name by any chance be Josh?” he asked

Minti gave an annoyed look at Derpyshy. “Why do people say that?! Just call me Minti!”

“Yep, you’re Minti. So how did you get here?” Derpyshy asked.

“Wait, you’re Derpyshy?” Minti asked.

“Yeah.”

“Now this is just weird.”

Luna had nothing to say. She staring in shock while the two were interacting. ‘How many of them are there? At first it was just two, now it looks like there might be more of them. And where are they coming from? I hope we figure out what this RDN is, and soon.’

Pinkie Pie on the other hand was thinking the exact opposite. She was in glee that there will be more new ponies to greet. She couldn’t wait to welcome this Grey Dragon, whoever he is.

CLOUDSDALE

“So what do we do?” asked Spitfire. The four Wonderbolts that were in the spa looked down at the the wet pegasus that fainted right before their eyes.

“I think the question is how the hay did he get in here?” Fleetfloot remarked. The others agreed. They were relaxing and the next thing they knew, a peachish pegasus falls from the ceiling and startles Spitfire from her relaxation within the pool.

“I’ll go talk to the employees, to see they recognize them.” Soarin’ stated before going out the door.

“Hey, I think the klutz is waking up.” informed Blaze.

The pegasus slowly woke up, still drowsy from the dive in the water, he slowly got up, legs wobbling. ‘Woah what happened?’ he thought. They eventually returned to reality, well, the reality that he had fallen into and noticed the Wonderbolts huddling around them.

“Woah dude, don’t faint on us again, please?” Spitfire requested. The male pegasus took some deep breaths trying to stay calm and preventing himself from fainting again, cause if he did, he would fall into the water again.

‘I’m in Equestria. Fantastic. The first ponies I meet are The Wonderbolts. Have to say, that’s a first in my book.’ the pegasus remarked as he analyzed their surroundings and the other pegasi.

“So what is your name?” asked Blaze.

‘Maybe I should tell them my Earth name. Nah, that will be bland. OH! How about my OC name! Um.. Eagle Hooves.” he responded.

“Great. Now, how did you get in here?” Fleetfoot asked.

“To be perfectly honest, you wouldn’t believe me.”

“Try us.”

“Okay. I am from an alternate reality where my world is called Earth.”

The three Wonderbolts stared at Eagle Hooves in disbelief.

“Yep, you’re still drowsy from your little dive.” Spitfire remarked. After that the doors opened up, with Soarin’ and some of the employees of the spa. They were in mid-discussion when the employees saw what Soarin’ was talking about.

‘Oh, man. I land in Equestria and meet the Wonderbolts and now I think I might be in trouble.’ the pegasus thought to himself.

“Excuse, me sir?” asked one if the employees. “Could you please tell us how you got in here?”

“I honestly don’t know how. All I remember is that I was on my computer and, poof!. Here I am here right now.” Eagle Hooves answered.

“What is a computer?” asked the other employee.

“It’s something that we, humans use to create documents, presentations and interact with one another.”

“Human?” Spitfire asked. “What’s a human?”

“A bipedal organism.”

“Pretty much a diamond dog.” translated Blaze.

“Exactly.” Hooves replied.

“Wait, you know what a diamond dog is?” Soarin’ asked. The employees stood there confused on whether to walk away or stay where they are.

“Yeah.” Eagle replied ‘Have to tread lightly on this next bit.’

“If you are from an ‘alternate reality’, then how do you know about diamond dogs?” asked Fleefloot. ‘Busted’.

‘Here we go...In my reality, you are all characters in a television show. Just pictures that play that everyone across the globe is watching, but dubbed in the provinces language or tongue.”

The Wonderbolts called it a quits when it came to questioning the pegasus.

“If you are from an alternate reality, then I believe that the only logical decision is to get you back there.” Soarin’ stated. “And the only pony that could be able to do that is possibly Princess Celestia.”

‘I get to meet Celestia. Hopefully the version that isn’t a tyrant nor a molesting maniac.’

HOOFINGTON

“Everypony understand the plan?” asked the pegasus. The others nodded their heads. “Alright. In four days time, the train would leave the station at 12:19 pm. I expect all of you to be at your appropriate stations and don’t be late.”

The others once again nodded their heads. Behind the pegasus sat an unicron bound and gagged to a chair. The pony was trying to break free from his restraints.

“Mr. Conventrix, please cease trying to break free. You should be proud in fact. You are about to make history.” smirked the pegasus.