Out of the corner of my eye I saw Rory, Amy, and Rose standing in the crowd, Pinkie Pie must have combined our parties after she saw all of us together in town, and guessed that we were friends. I tried to enjoy the party, while trying to not be noticed by Lyra, if we met each other then there could be some serious consequences with time, and I could not let that happen. I spent most of the party on the opposite side of the room from her as she talked with some other mare I hadn't met, or at least, I didn't remember meeting. I turned towards the front door as somepony opened it, Princess Twilight.

"Hey Pinkie, sorry I'm late for one of your "Welcome to Ponyville" parties, had to re-organize the library," she said, closing the door behind her.

If I remembered correctly, around this time there would have been a new library built, as the original had been destroyed by some villain known as "Tirek," whoever that had been.

"Hello, Princess Twilight," I greeted my old/new friend.

"Oh, you can just call me Twilight. Are you one of the new ponies Pinkie threw the party for?" she asked.

"Yes, I just moved here from..." At that exact moment Pinkie called twilight over to a conversation she was having with Rose and that mare Lyra was talking to before. Wait, where was Lyra? My question was answered seconds later by a tap on my shoulder. I turned around, and there she was.

"Hi, my name is Lyra Heartstrings, welcome to Ponyville," she said, hoof reached out for me to shake.

"Nice to meet you, I'm..."

"Lyra, over here," that mare she had been talking to earlier called her over.

"Sorry, that's my best friend, Bon-Bon," she said.

"It's fine," I said, eager to get her to go over there so I wouldn't have to think of an excuse to get away from her.

"Have we met before?" she suddenly asked.

"No, I don't think so," I said. This is what I was afraid of, my timeline was beginning to merge into the changing one, at all the wrong places in time.

"Oh, sorry," she said as she walked away.

I was getting interrupted at all the right times today. I had forgotten what city I would use if somepony asked me were I came from, and I had forgotten to come up with a fake name to use. I really should have thought of a fake name before coming here, I had only made one up when I bought the houses we would be using while we were here.

Two hours later, after the party

I laid in my new bed thinking about when Lyra asked if we had met before.

This was what I was afraid of, the timelines changing because of my being here. I also couldn't think of a reason for the TARDIS to land so far from the planned time. It didn't make sense, the TARDIS had done this before, but always for a reason. What reason was there for it this time? I can't help but think it has something to do with Lyra being alive at this time, but I had gone through her records after she died, it was almost a tradition for the friends and family of somepony to go through their war records after they died, I never really understood why. According to the records, just before the Daleks arrived she had been in Manehatten, so why would she be significant in this if she wasn't even going to be there? So many questions, not enough answers. Maybe in the morning this will make sense.

With that, I drifted off to sleep, reliving the Battle of Manehatten in my dream.

Author's Note

Sorry this chapter took so long. I really don't have a good excuse as to why it took this long. Feedback accepted.

-TNB