Author's Note

Pinkie Pie's POV

Prologue: 1

What ever spell had Twilight Sparkle been up to? Apparently, it had taken all the concentration, all the focus she could muster. Yet, the result of a single squeak, from the friend, bouncing by had pushed it all off course.

I knew distractions could have strange effects, but nothing the likes of what I found myself wondering into as I bounced by her.

“Hiya, Twillie!” I exclaimed as I closed in on her position where she stood, head held low in concentration.

Should I have seen this coming, but I am afraid I failed to see it.

Twist by twist, the world unravels, right before my eyes, as I see the tiles of my reality slipping out of bounce, making up a portal before me. What ever it was and where ever this path was leading, I realised it well after the last chance to turn back. Twillie just a few steps behind me.

The next moment I noticed something else, she isn’t a Pony, or is she. Either way, the same goes for me.

Maybe the bounce in my step followed through, just as her galop, as we continued along the path on which we had embarked. There certainly is no turning back.

Casting a glance behind me to see if she was still with me soon revealed what I had hoped not to see, the gate behind us closed as fast as it had opened.

I could see a path, laid with smooth black stone tiles of untold age. I continued, yet slowed down to walk in a more normal walking gait. The next moment, I notice Twillie by my side, just a foot to my right, just where she should be. Shouldn’t she?

“Hiya, Pinkie. How did we get here? Oh, and where are we? I can’t recognise this place!” she responded in a silly confusion.

“I guess it wouldn’t be much of an answer to say that we walked her. As to the next question; we are very far from Ponyville, your castle and even Equestria, I dare say!” I pondered as I looked around.

The only thing I could see is the road and the sand of a flowing desert.

“I don’t like this place, where ever it is!” Twillie shot back.

“Sorry, I can’t blame you. I can’t say I like it either. This certainly isn’t festive enough for my taste, just bland sand as far as the eye could see. short of the road, that is!” I responded.

“Without the road, we would have been lost in the middle of nowhere. I guess we have these black stone tiles to be grateful for. No, I could take a landscape just a bit more festive, right about now. Just sand as far as my eyes can see. How about some grass, or even a villages to raise above the monotone flow of dead dry sand?” she responded.

“If I had been the Unicorn among us, I would have tried to accommodate your request, now you are the Alicorn. Maybe you could conjure up something more restful for our eyes?” I suggested, trying to find something to see, aside from the black road.

“That is the problem, the landscape is so dry, I can’t even conjure up a small swath of grasses, let along a building or a monument for a landmark here. Not even the element of magic and Alicorn Princess could do anything with this barren location as it looks right now. I need to save what little magic I have available for now!” she pointed out.

“Yikes, I didn’t see it being that dry a place. Sorry I interrupted your spell, Twillie, thus exiling the both of us to this forsaken place!” I responded in a very apologetic tone of voice, my ears flapping down to the sides in a sad sign, even my mane started to straighten out, even if it thankfully stopped half way, leaving me with a regular, as flat as it was mane.

Suddenly the wind had chosen to lower and obliterate a dune on our right, thus pushing the intersection into the foreground. What came next was a surprise, a shock and in a sense a welcome distraction from the situation.

Just an intersection without a sign to guide us isn’t all that much of help. Just that what came next is a pair of Ponies, if one could call them that. Both walking on their hindquarters in a manner not too different of our own gait as we moved along the road from nowhere to nowhere.

From what I could see, they are both young Stallions as it turned out, the smaller one with his right arm and left leg crafter out of metal, while the larger one towered over his older brother, looking more like an enormous battle armour out of olden day from some far-flung distant realm, never heard of.

“Greetings, I am Edward Elric and he is my younger brother Alphonse. Nice to see a new face or two right about now in this desolate place!” he spoke.

“Gretings!” the younger brother Alphonse echoed just after his older brother had finished the presentation.

“Hiya, Edward and Alphonse Elric, I am Pinkamena Diana Pie, an out of control Party Pony. Call me Pinkie, all my friends do!” I responded, brightening up at the prospect of something more entertaining than the black road in the barren desert landscape.

“Greetings, Edward and Alphonse Elric, I am Twilight Sparkle, and Alicorn Princess. I hope you will make us company along the road, where ever it may take us through these desolate ranges through nowhere!” Twillie continued.

“I’d be damned, but this is just too much. I have no idea where we are, or how we got here. The intersection you came on just showed up before us as we walked across the desert!” Edward put forth.

“Did you say Pony, Pinkie? As in an Equine? This is just so confusing to me. Even if I am a disembodied spirit trapped in a battle armour.!” Alphonse enquired, then looking down to see his legs changed in order to adapt to the equine stance, hooves in place of where feet had once been.

Then he noticed how his brother had changed in the same manner, leaving him gasping at the realisation of the strange occurrence that had caught him.

“Yes. Yes, I did say Pony. I hope you are not uncomfortable in your new armour!” I responded.

“I guess it would explain a few things, but it is still very confusing to me right now!” Al responded.