We're just lost in your world!

"So Marney, who's your new friend?" Butterscotch asked as he flew above the group, a little black bunny perched on his back.

"I uh.. dunno actually, our introductions got interrupted by your arrival, but I heard her dragon call her Twilight or something..." Marney chuckled, following the unicorn mare on hoof.

"That's a dragon? It's so tiny."

"Hey, I have a name you know!" Spike grumbled. "It's Spike, and I'm around the same age as you guys."

"Now now Spike, you are still a baby dragon, remember? You're barely 2 years old in dragon years." Twilight chided as she trotted after the carriage.

Spike grumbled unintelligibly and pouted. "Old enough to breathe fire."

"She has a Canterlot accent.. but it's slightly off." Butterscotch blinked as he landed, trotting alongside his sister.

"She is from Canterlot, but she's a travelling astronomer, mapping constellations and stuff." Marney nodded. "Said she hasn't been home in a while so it's probably muddled her accent a bit."

"Can that happen?"

"It can actually, if you stay somewhere that isn't your home, you start to unconsciously speak with the same inflections and accent as those around you, so you can end up with an accent that is a combination of two different ones." Twilight nodded. "Also I have an Old Canterlot accent, not a new one, I lived close to the palace."

"Oh,so you must have been nobility then!" Butter smiled. "Sunset will be glad to meet you then, Twilight."

"I don't think she's too interested in meeting the princess, bro." Marney chuckled.

"Huh?"

Marney smirked. "You didn't notice her staring at Elusive?"

"Oh that poor mare..." Butter sighed.

"No no, here's the best part right? He actually looked back and smiled at her."

Butter blinked. "He.. smiled at her? He didn't turn up his nose? Wow..."

"Wait? Is Elusive that snobby?" Spike asked.

"Snobby.. no, he just has high standards, and he's good friends with princess Bluebelle, the two of them constantly have suitors fawning over them so they tend to put on this air of coldness to drive ponies away, for him to actually smile at your mom there..."

Both Spike and Twilight blushed at that.

"Uh.. about that actually..." Spike began.

"It's nice to hear somepony well versed about dragon familial traditions." Twilight finished.

"Oh yes, the Canterlot libraries are stocked with information about dragons, so I know all about how the one who hatches a dragon egg is officially recognised as their parent." Butterscotch smiled. "But how did you come across an egg to hatch?"

"Actually, it was part of my admission into Celestia's school for gifted unicorns... but I was told later that apparently the test wasn't to hatch the egg, just to show off creativity and control, I just warmed his egg with a high heat spell and he hatched." Twilight smiled. "My parents looked after him for me since I was only a filly then."

"Oh, so that would make you more like brother and sister then." Marney added.

"Yeah, that's more accurate." Spike nodded.

"Butterscotch was technically correct but..." Twilight nodded.

"Oh. I know, assumptions make an ass out of you and me." Butter paused before turning to look behind him. "No offence."

"None taken." A passing donkey responded.

"...I swear this place conspires to prove me wrong." Twilight sighed.

"So.. Twilight, are part of the house of Star?" Butter asked.

"Wait what?" Spike blinked.

"Princess Luna's personal retainers are Twilight Velvet and Crescent Light, their son is Prince Shining Armour of the Crystal Empire." Butter nodded.

"I thought the house of Star was renowned for the powerful Mares in it's lineage." Twilight responded.

"Well.. yeah, but something about a miscarriage during their second pregnancy... I dunno, very personal, I only know that because I was visiting Luna with Sunset one evening to talk and overheard her talking to her retainers before we knocked." Butter rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.

Twilight and Spike just looked at each other.

"I see... well, no. I'm not related to Star House at all, it's just a coincidence that I share the name of the current matriarch." Twilight nodded.

"Weirder coincidences are abound I guess." Butter nodded.

"Don't we know like.. five different ponies with that hourglass cutie mark?" Marney asked.

"Three. Minuette, Colgate annnd... what was his name again?" Butterscotch blinked.

"Time Turner I think." Marney tilt her head.

"Oh. About time you slowpokes caught up." A raspy voice sounded ahead. "We had to stop the carriage and wait for your slow flanks."

"Oh. Rainbow Dash... she doesn't change, no matter what world we visit." Twilight muttered.

"Heh." Spike just smirked.

"Now Dash, just cause Butter there got a bit excited to see his sister don't mean you can ridicule him none."

"Especially not when he brought some rather gorgeous company with him." Elusive smiled as he blinked out of the carriage and trotted over to Twilight.

"Wait what? Elusive, showing interest in a mare? What kind of bizarro world did we stumble into without us noticing?" Dash blinked.

"The best one." Twilight mumbled.

"My my my... she's even more gorgeous up close. Hmm.. though I do see signs of a rushed dye job in her mane and tail." Elusive noted as he eyed her critically.

"Oh.. th-that'll wash out with water..." Twilight blushed. "I can quickly summon a rain cloud to wash it out if you'd like.. and I can dry myself in an instant..."

"Ugh.. gag... Twilight, you're worse than I am." Spike rolled his eyes.

"Oh ho... quite a bag of tricks there. Hmm.. you seem quite honestly flustered by my presence, unlike the typical throng that only want to hear me whisper sweet nothings in their ears." Elusive smiled warmly, which made Twilight's face even redder.

"Spike.. stay here, I need to go.. cool my face..." She muttered, levitating the dragon off her back and cantering off behind a bush. "with a raincloud, or waterfall... or stream..."

Dash watched her wander off into the forest. "Hey uh.. she knows it's dangerous in there, what with that Zebra right?"

"Zecora's not dangerous." Spike crossed his arms. "She's actually the nicest creature in the forest."

"Zewhat now?" Dash blinked.

"Wait, ya mean you two know that Zebra in the forest?" Applejack trotted over.

Spike blinked and looked at all of them as they stared at him. "Oh... crap baskets..."