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Twilight flew, the landscape beneath her sloping into a verdant green. She saw a set of trees to the north, and was about to dismiss them from further consideration when she saw a flash of red.

Intrigued, she set down, trotting to the trees for a closer look.

There, hanging from the tree branches, were a number of bright red, delicious apples.

Delicately gripping an apple with her alicorn magic, Twilight gently plucked the apple from the tree, levitating it down to her outstretched hoof. She held it and stared at it, even as she ran a full battery of magical tests.

The results came back. There was only one possible conclusion: This apple was exactly identical to the ones grown at Sweet Apple Acres.

In the past, Twilight would have wracked her head trying to find a reasonable explanation for how this was possible. But she was a different mare now. Her friends had been there for her, and had taught her many lessons.

But she was not entirely that mare any longer.

Twilight scowled, her eyes holding a hint of a sickly yellow. She carefully placed the apple in her bag, then plucked twelve more from the tree for good measure, wrapping all thirteen in a magical anti-corruption spell. They went neatly into her saddlebags.

Twilight looked around her for the first time, seeing this place in its pristine wonder. It seemed as if nopony had been there in millennia. Fluttershy would have loved this place.

Her eyes seemed blue in the midday light.

She spread her wings, intent on heading east once more. But suddenly she felt a massive shockwave rolling across her.

Turning to the west, Twilight saw a brilliant beacon of white light, flashing up into the heavens. It was nothing compared to the magical surge that occurred simultaneously, however.

The harmonic energy surged through her, temporarily enhancing her abilities. Twilight gazed, and with her sharpened vision, glimpsed a tumbling speck of brown, which seemed to have ...feathers?

As quickly as they had come, the harmonic surge and the pillar of light dissipated, nearby magic quickly returning to close to normal levels.

Twilight shifted uneasily, pondering what she had barely glimpsed. After a half hour had passed without further occurrence, Twilight shrugged. She turned, spreading her wings and taking flight, headed towards the east once more.