My Little Egyptians

"Twilight, what have you found out?" Princess Celestia walked into the lab yet again after her wounds had been fully treated. Twilight looked back at her old teacher with a slight frown on her face. Princess Celestia walked up to her and put a hoof on her shoulder. "Don't try hiding anything from me Twilight, I can take any bad news you have." She said.

"It seems that most of them were blown away to some alternate universe, I'm unsure how, but we've never had unicorn magic quite like that before, so anything is possible at this point." Twilight told her. "On top of that, since you've been getting your wounds healed, more changelings have come back, at least the ones that weren't blasted into the alternate dimension. They've been terrorizing the city and it's really gone downhill up there since." Twilight told her.

Princess Celestia paced back and forth, trying to contemplate what her student had told her. There were so many thoughts running through her head and she was unsure how to start even one of them. She felt sorrow now, not only for letting her citizens down once, but letting them down yet again while she sat licking her wounds. Princess Luna came in from the top of the staircase as Celestia heard the iron trap door slam closed behind her. One of Luna's wings was badly injured and a few dozen feathers were missing. Along with this, her crown was tarnished and her horn cracked. Although these would all be mended, it was a rather horrific sight to see her sister so hurt.

"Twilight Sparkle," Luna began to speak. "The changelings are beginning to divide themselves, forming new changelings. Their numbers are growing exponentially and the citizens of Ponyville are being overwhelmed. We ask that you give us any assistance that you ca-" Luna cut off as she saw her sister standing by one of the machines. "Sister, are you well enough to fight?" She asked, Celestia nodding to her. "Then let us be off, the citizens need their princesses." Luna ran back up the stairs.

"Twilight, find a way to that alternate universe and fast, I'm sure Queen Chrysalis knows exactly how to stop her army, and if she doesn't, I'm sure taking care of her will at least slow them down enough to where we can get rid of all of them." Celestia started running up the steps as Twilight saluted her. She knew that she'd need her friends with her when they went off to wherever the changelings had ended up, so without hesitation, she called to Spike.

"Spike! Get out here!" She used her magic to pull him out from a corner where he had been eating some of the ration ice cream. Twilight understood why he was doing this, seeing the destruction of both his old and new home was difficult to bare, and after all, he was just a baby dragon. "I need you to go get the others, and tell them to bring their elements of harmony, I have a feeling we're going to need them." She told Spike, he contemplated for a few seconds before answering.

"Should they pack anything Twilight?" the question that he asked was something that Twilight considered, and thought that the others would already know, seeing as she didn't even know what they would need. Twilight thought for a moment, making sure to think of essential things that they would need no matter where they went.

"They should bring some food, probably enough for at least a week, but make sure they don't over pack. Aside from that, make sure that Pinkie brings her party cannon, we can convert that to a weapon if need be, Rainbow should bring a few weapons, seeing as she's been developing new kinds that may prove useful. Fluttershy can bring some medical equipment, whatever is small and helpful, we don't want to be weighed down after all. Apple Jack can bring cooking supplies for any food that needs to be warmed up or prepared, as well as some premade meals aside from the food we're already bringing. And Rarity should bring some of that armor she's been forging in her shop, she should have enough for all of us by now. I'll make sure to get all the equipment here working while you are gone. Don't be too long though, the Princess is counting on us Spike, and we can't let her down. "

Twilight finished her list, almost overloading Spike's brain, but half way through he started a list, making sure that he would remember every which thing she said. He knew getting to the houses of the others would be hard enough, he didn't need to worry about memorization. He breathed a slightly purple flame on it, sending it to a storage location so he could get it back later when he needed it. He saluted Twilight and ran up the stairs as she busily started working on the machines that were there. Twilight knew that Spike would face dangers out there as well, and could only hope that her assistant would be able to reach the others in time before the changelings caught onto her plan. Luckily, the two Princesses were out fighting, so the attack would at least be stalled in the immediate area, but Spike had a long ways to travel to find some of her friends.

The machines seemed to have locked onto the location of the queen and her servants that had been blasted away, but it wasn't a sure bet that they would emerge on the other side unharmed. Twilight gave the machine a test by throwing an apple and a camera into the teleporter that she had just finished working on. The camera was connected by a wire that hooked up to some of the monitors, and the apple tied to a string, so she could pull each of them back if need be. She looked on the screen, she saw the apple, the cable that had gotten in front of the camera, and a lot of sand. It was more sand than she had ever seen in her entire life, and just as she started to see out on the horizon, the camera overheated and shut down, nearly frying the recording equipment. Twilight didn't know where they were going, but it was a land much harsher than any of them had ever faced.