Ponyville Under The Dome

1

Trixie still couldn't believe her bad luck. First that annoying squirrel tried to steal her apple - even more annoying was that it actually got a half, then she gets shocked when she tried to grab the other one and now, as she tried again, her hoof is somehow blocked from reaching the apple. At least she didn't get a shock the second time.

As she sat down and  waited for the squirrel to finish eating, hoping it would leave something for her (the squirrel on the other hand wanted to share as much as Trixie wanted to share in the first place, but she couldn't know that) she looked up towards a sky and saw two pegasi flying by.

'Yeah, flying, being free as a bird...or a pegasus, if I could do that my life would be great.' thought she and with a blick on the squirrel she added 'then i wouldn't have to worry about stupid critters ever again'.

She quickly changed her mind as the first of the two pegasi crashed into something directly above her. That was strange because there was absolutely nothing there. It didn't take the second pony long to crash into the same thing.

While Rainbow hit whatever she hit with such a high velocity that she stayed in the air like a fly that got squished on a window, Twilights speed was low enough for her to fall down right after her crash, and she was falling directly towards Trixie and the squirrel.

Trixie, who didn't want to be crushed by a falling alicorn, quickly jumped to the left, leaving the squirrel behind.

The squirrel however also didn't want to be crushed so it jumped at Trixie and grabbed one of her legs before she got out of reach. For any bystander it might have looked like the great and powerful Trixie saved a helpless critter.

Trixie turned around and looked at the unconscious alicorn lying in front of her and thought: 'finally something good happening this day'.

She could stand there all day and stare at her fallen nemesis, litterally fallen of course, but from the brink of her eye she noticed another pony entering the scene. Her mood quickly turned bad again.

That yellow earthpony from the apple-farm must have seen the accident and is now coming to

help. Trixie couldn't stand her. Basically she couldn't stand anypony who refuses to accept how great and powerful she is, but this one is even more annoying. She wanted to avoid her at all cost but whatever blocked her from reaching the apple also blocked her from going any further into the direction she was initially heading, so she decided to just walk along this wall, getting away from the accident and the apple farmer.

2

When the Cutie Mark Crusaders reached 'The Lake' they saw something none of them, probably nopony  ever, saw ever before. In the middle of the lake there was a clear line of... nothing.

There was water on one side and water on the other but between this water there was a small line where no water was.

"Do... do you think something's wrong?" asked Sweetie Belle carefully, hoping that she wasn't the only one who was seeing this.

"I don't know," answered Scootaloo, "but as long as it has nothing to do with our Cutie Marks i don't care."

Scootaloo then jumped in the water getting rid of the flour.

"Don't get to close to that...nothing... " said Apple Bloom, but Scootaloo wasn't listening. She was already getting closer towards the line in the water. As she was close enough she reached out her hoof to touch it. Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle watched, too excited and scared of what would happen.

Scootaloo's hoof got closer to the line. Closer and closer, just a little bit more.

"Ouch," said Scootaloo as her hoof hit the line.

"What?" asked Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle together.

"It zapped me."  Scootaloo touched the line again. "It's some kind of wall. It blocks me from getting to the other side of the lake."

"A wall that gives you electric shocks?" asked Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle asked: "Shouldn't we... tell somepony about this? Like Twilight, I mean she is the princess, she should know about this"

They all looked at each other. They were thinking the same. If they tell somepony about this wall they also have to tell them about 'The Lake' and then they will loose their secret spot, but if not, who knows what will happen if not.

"No," said Scootaloo, "I'm not ready to give up this place yet, I mean, we are the Cutie Mark Crusaders, there's nothing we cannot do!" "That's not our.." "We should investigate this first by ourselves. Maybe this is not that big of a deal. Maybe this is just something like a, umm, like, i don't know, but the point is that this maybe just something...small. And then it wouldn't be worth it to tell everypony about 'The Lake'."

Of course this wasn't anything small. But they agreed with Scootaloo anyway.

3

Everywhere across town ponies saw things they couldn't explain. There was the traveling merchant whose cart suddenly felt a lot lighter, the pony who was standing at a river that seem to stop like it was hitting a dam, even though there was no dam, nurse Redheart already had to deal with nearly a dozen ponies, mostly pegasi, who crashed into something and there was a line dragging through Sweet Apple Acres out of parts of treetops that have been cut off and a similar line led through a small part of the Everfree Forest. And as the word spread around more and more ponies came to see the miracles.

"I don't like this. I have a bad feeling about this." said Granny Smith as she watched the spectators walking around the line of treetops.

"Eeyup." Big Mac agreed with her.

Nopony had a good feeling and as they heard reports about a mysterious wall from every direction some ponies already assumed they were trapped and panicked so that the others had to calm them down. But as the time passed more and more ponies realized that this was just the beginning.