Story

“What happened?” Twilight asked herself in confusion. The last thing she could remember was firing a magic burst at the object, after that her mind went black. “Where am I?” was the next question to be answered. She could still barely see due to being flashed by the blazing light. Her vision was kind of blurry and she could only make out silhouettes. She was not in her lab anymore, that was for sure. It was still daytime and she could hear faint noises in the distance, which seemed to be a gathering of ponies. She decided to wait a couple of minutes to recover from her fainting.

Once she regained her vision, she noticed that she did not recognize the buildings around her, she certainly wasn’t in Ponyville anymore. She decided to approach the crowd of ponies to ask somepony where she was and maybe get a clue on how she got here. After she walked out of the valley, she came to an unfortunate realization. This was the Crystal Empire, but not the one she was used to, what she saw looked older, almost ancient.

She remembered that she still had the object she was examining and after looking at it for a while, it felt like a punch in the face. "It was part of King Sombra's crown!" she screamed out in desperation. Apparently, it had sent her back to the time before Princess Celestia and Princess Luna had liberated the empire from his cruel reign. She was doomed.