Ponies Will Save the Clans

"Uhh, where are we?"

"Ugh! So much mud!"

Rainbow looked around dazed. She couldn't see her friends, just a lot of cats. Wait! Cats! She looved down at her hoves, paws?

"We're cats." Twilight breathed in astonishment.

Rainbow looked around, she saw five other cats. A fluffy white one with blue eyes who rainbow guessed was Rarity judging by the disgusted way she was looking at her paws. There was a ginger cat with green eyes that she supposed was Applejack. A cream cat that could only be Fluttershy, and another ginger cat, though this time with blue eyes, Pinkie. That left the grey cat as Twilight.

She looked at her own paws, they were white. Okay, she was now a white cat in the middle of a muddy forest.

"Twilight," Rarity whined. "you didn't tell us that we would turn into cats or that this place would be so mucky!"

"I didn't know! Twilight defended herself.

Suddenly Raindow felt herself being bowled over by a grey tom. "Intruders, Frostfoot!" The strange cat yowled.

Frostfoot turned when she heard Coldheart's cry. When she entered the clearing a strange sight awaited her. Coldheart was prowling around a group of six she-cats, as if they were going to try to run or something. But these cats seemed to be barely six moons old, and kitty-pets at that, hardly a threat.

"What do you think? Should we take them to Tigerstar to be interrogated?" Coldheart asked.

"What else can we do?" She replied.

"Who've you got there?" Skyflight asked Coldheart as Coldheart herded the strange cats into camp.

"These cats were found on Tigerstar's territory." Coldheart replied. "We're taking them to Tigerstar to be questioned.'

Skyfight blinked sympathetically at the six she-cats, getting questioned by Tigerstar was no fun even if you were actually just getting questioned. He knew this from experience.

Applejack shuddered as she felt the gazes of many cats burn her pelt. As if getting turned into a cat wasn't bad enough, now they were prisoners, possibly of the very cat they were supposed to defeat.

Their captor, Coldheart, the one called Frostfoot had called him as they had walked here, was leading them towards what looked like a small cave in the wall of the ravine with Frostfoot bringing up the rear. As she stared into the dark depths of the cave Applejack almost froze with fear. She knew somehow that what they were about to face could kill them all in less than a minute.

Pinkie practically prances right into the cave. But when she came face to face with a large dark tabby tom, she stopped. This guy was scarier than Chysalis and Sombra combined! Was this the guy that they were supposed to defeat? She hoped not, he was practically insubstantial!

Fluttershy crouched in fear as a large tom started circling them. Then he started questioning them.

"Who are you?" Was his first question. "And what are you doing on TigerClan's territory?"

"I'm Nightpaw." Fluttershy wondered where Twilight had come up with that one when a name suddenly popped into her mind. Birdpaw. How strange.

Twilight couldn't explain the feeling that had compelled her to say that her name was Nightpaw, but the others apparently felt the same, as they started stating their names as well.

"Applepaw." Applejack said with some uncertainty as to whether she was lying or not.

"Cloudpaw!" Rainbow offered.

"Whitepaw." Rarity gently put in when prompted by Rainbow.

"Cherrypaw!" Pinkie jumped almost hitting the roof. "And that's Birdpaw!" Twitching her tail towards Fluttershy.

"And what were you doing on my territory?" The large tabby continued prowling menacingly.

"We got lost." Twilight 'explained', "We were trying to find this place we had heard of, but we forgot to ask for directions."

"And what was this place you were looking for?"

"Uh..." Twilight stuttered, unable to think.

"It was a place with lots of cats and a waterfall!" Rainbow put in.

"In that case, I think you traveled a little too far. Care to explain how you have apprentice names as well?"

"Our parents had heard of TigerClan cats and deciced to give us clan names?" It was a long shot, and Twilight wished it didn't sound so much like a question.

"Hmm..." The dark tabby thought. "I don't suppose you knew a cat by the name of Ravenpaw, did you?" His amber eyes seemed to burn at the name.

"Not personally, but Ravenpaw was a friend, of a friend, of my father's." Twilight made up.

The tabby apparently believed them to some extent because he said, "I'm Tigerstar, leader of TigerClan, you now have two choices, join TigerClan, or die."