Goldenpie

Dimitri Mishkin looked out of the big window overlooking the Palace Square in St Petersburg. There were the sound of brass and woodwind instruments playing outside. Mishkin watched the marching band below. They moved their feets unison, perfectly timed with the rhythm of which the snare drum provided. The harmonies of the flutes and the trumpets gave the otherwise static movements meaning and a sense of progression. That was how defense minister Dimitri viewed the state of Russia, a unison rhythm as a groundwork for all to follow, along with the harmonies of each individual contributing, creating a piece of music. As the situation was his job largely surrounded the rhythm part of the analogy.

But that was part of Dimitri’s identity he felt, to once in a while step out of the rhythmic part of state work and behold the chaotic side of the world. He felt like that part was just as important as a steady beat. Without chaos, there could be no order.

Was this how Dimitri actually felt? Or was all this just something he told himself to normalize what he spotted on that TV screen showing the satellite image of the burnt Severnaya station? The image of that jumping pink pony still festered itself inside Dimitri’s mind. Strange as it may be, it almost felt like that image was some kind of turning point in space and time, like everything that he was about to say right now, in this very council room, would have been completely different if he had seen something else. There were the sound of someone knocking.

‘Duty calls.’ Mishkin thought before walking back toward his seat.

At the sides of the long table there were eight more characters presence. All of them had important positions within the government and influences within the business sector. Dimitri Mishkin watched as the the double door opened at the end of the big room situated inside the Winter Palace.

As Ourumov entered through the door it sent large echoes resonating inside the lightly curtained room. He took of his general hat and walked toward the long table. Defense minister Mishkin were standing at the end of it.

“Good morning, general Ourumov.” Mishkin greeted. He talked slowly and had a constant edge in his voice, like if saying ‘i can't wait to hear what you have to say for yourself.’

“Defense minister Mishkin, gentlemen.” Ourumov addressed everyone in the room. They all looked at him with half closed eyes and expecting faces.

“Please, deliver your report.” Mishkin said as he sat down.

Ourumov threw down his hat on the table. He planted his hand on the chairs back holder without sitting down. He remained standing as he obliged the defense minister with an confident voice.

“As this council is aware, seventy-two hours ago, a secret weapon system code named Goldeneye was detonated over Severnaya. As head of space division i personally undertook the investigation.” Ourumov then went straight to the lie.

“I have concluded that this crime was committed by Siberian separatists, seeking to create political unrest.”

Ourumov turned his head down and faked a saddened appearance as he continued.

“Regrettably the peaceful work and much needed hard currency earnings of Severnaya has been set back by several years. Therefor i tender my resignation.” Ourumov said the last part fast and decisively.

There were gasping and talking among the state men and women around the table. Mishkin touched his chin. Never had he fully trusted Ourumov, and the report that he delivered today only cemented his distrust. The time had come for this man he had been forced to make a general to spill the beans!

“It seems that this council does not want your head Arkady Grigirovish, merely your loyal assurance that there are no other Goldeneye satellites.” Mishkin had his head raised high as he spoke.

“I can give you that assurance defense minister.”

Mishkin looked at Ourumov, his authoritarian head stretched and his glaring eyes hardened.

“And what about the pink pony?”

Ourumov's blood froze. He tried to hold his posture as he looked at Mishkin.

“I was aware only of the two. The blue unicorn dressed as Merlin the magician and the blue eyed unicorn with purple mane and lovely blue lines.” There was an obvious panic behind Ourumov’s confident appearance.

Mishkin looked down at his papers.

“There was a third also, spotted via satellite images. Curly hair, jumping happily up and down like she is on a trampoline. She will bring you party balloons and birthday cake Ourumov.”

“Birthday cake?” Ourumov asked.

“Birthday cake.” Mishkin’s eyes grew large.

The tension in the room was so thick that it indeed could have been sliced like a cake. Ourumov’s nervous eyes met Mishkin.

“I will investigate immediately, defense minister.” Ourumov said. It was now Mishkin’s turn to go straight to the point.

“It would seem presumptuous, general, to blame this incident on Siberian separatists before the ‘pony point of view’ have been determined.”

The serious eyes around the table glared at Ourumov as they waited for his answer.

“Do you agree?” Mishkin asked.

“Yes defense minister, thank you for bringing it to my attention.” Ourumov’s eyes grew angry as he said the last part.

“That would be all.” Mishkin said.

Ourumov’s angry eyes tore right through the TV screen straight into the souls of the ponies watching in Equestria. A raspy voice have had enough.

“Alright, Thats it! We have to do something, we can't just sit here and watch while all the villains of the movie, all the mad, crazy humans comes after our friends. We have to go in there and help them!” Rainbow Dash wailed her hooves around incredulously.

There was a mumble of approval among the ponies, all except for the alicorn princess.

“No Rainbow Dash.” Twilight said as she paused the tape.

Rainbow Dash looked at Twilight with a disapproving face. Twilight continued in a decisive tone.

“So far, all that our friends have done, for every action they have taken have only caused the movie to go further away from script. If we all go inside we will only make the situation worse.”

Rarity still had the image of Xenia whipping helpless Trixie on the ground.

“I do not doubt your judgement Twilight, but unfortunately i have to agree with Rainbow Dash. We have to get in there and do something.” Rarity said emotionally.

“Oh, i don't know.” Fluttershy whispered, saying neither yes or no.

“That mad Onatopp lady whipping Trixie have everything that I'm gonna do to her coming, of that you can be sure of!” Apple Jack blasted in her thick country accent.

The voices of the ponies blurred together, shutting out Twilights pleas. She started sweating. She was just about to decide to either give in and take them all into the movie or leave the room in tears when a savior entered the conversation, a savior with a long neck.

“Twilight is right.”

The ponies turned to Littlefoot, their faces twisting in bewilderment. Peter Dinklage, Ash and Pikachu stayed in the background.

“I have been thinking...” Littlefoot began. “...Ever since James Bond started shouting randomly like that. I thought that i remembered it from somewhere.”

The ponies looked curiously at Littlefoot.

“I remember it from the very first scene, the dam scene. That shout that James Bond keeps repeating is the very same shout that James Bond made when failing that jump because of your friends mistake. Now, i have doubted myself about that for a while, asking myself why in the world would he let the past bother him like that, but then i always come back to the question why all the other characters in the movie does not react to his shouts.” Littlefoot paused for a dramatic effect.

“The other characters does not react to his shouts because his shouts have already happened, but the movie keeps repeating them because the movie knows that something is not right. Another proof of this is i believe, i could hear they way you said it earlier Twilight, ‘Why are M saying the same things that she did in the original script?’ Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but does that mean that the scene setups in some scenes remains the same, even though the main plot have changed completely?”

“Yes, yes it does.” Twilight said enthusiastically. She hadn’t though about any of this.

“Right. But how can that be possible if the main story have changed so much?! Unless... When putting all these facts together, could really only mean one thing.” Littlefoot paused again before coming to his conclusion.

“THE MOVIE repeats the last phrase of the main character before things went astray, THE MOVIE tries to jam in the original scenes inside the already derailed main plot, THE MOVIE is trying to put itself back on track.”

The silence laid itself inside the living room. Littlefoot continued.

“Now, I know that you all want to help your friends, and i know that seeing them suffer inside while all you can do is watch, nothing can be harder. But the movie itself is on your side, if you go inside now and make things more difficult for it you might cause it to give up. And if that happens while you are all inside...”

The ponies were speechless. Littlefoot ended darkly

“...You will be stuck inside the same derailed plot line forever.”

Twilight couldn’t help but feel herself go into awe mode.

‘What a smart longneck this is.’ She thought.

Littlefoots word ‘forever’ echoed inside the heads of the ponies as they imagined trying to live the same lives they now live in ponyville inside that crazy foreign world, filled with gunfire, secret agents and mad villains. Rainbow Dash thought it would be awesome at first, until she realized that she would never see Scootaloo again.

“It is fascinating also...” Peter Dinklage spoke up, the others looking at him.”... Being an actor myself, that the characters inside the movie seem to have a will of their own, reacting to your friends actions, even though they are still being played by the actors portraying them. Sean Bean still portrays Alec in his own genius way, even though Alec himself has a will of his own inside the movie. It makes you wonder about the real relationship between actor and character, don’t you agree?”

The silence continued as the minds inside the room raced. The eyes turned toward Ash Ketchum. Ash closed his eyes and laughed nervously while touching his back.

“Did you know that Greninja can evolve to look just like his trainer, hehe!”

“Pikaaaaa...” Pikachu said while doing the same gesture as his trainer.

Starlight Glimmer couldn’t remember the last time she had so many eyes looking at her. Indeed, the movie made sure to let her know that she was an alien pony walking around in a human world. Neither could she ever have imagined that she would be meeting so many familiar faces, actors that she had watched in all those movies she owned back in Equestria.

Indeed, such were the case of traveling within a movie outside the locations intended for the main plot. The movie knows it needs people within it for it’s world to feel alive, so it therefore makes sure to fill itself with extras. Starlight had already seen Christopher Walken as a cab driver dropping of train travelers at the station. She thought she saw Sean Penn as a station employee.

“Oh, this is so exiting!” Pinkie Pie were exclaiming happily. “We will be riding the famous Trans Siberian Express...!” Pinkie Pie paused and looked bewildered ”...Whatever that is.” she said. Her face lit up again. “Still. It’s so famous!”

“All on board!” The station master exclaimed, sounding almost like Tom Hanks.

Starlight felt the nervosity boil up inside her as she approached the opening train doors. What if she ran into...?

“Oh, excuse me miss.” A handsome voice apologized as he bumped into Starlight. Starlight felt her heart stop.

“Jonny Depp?” Starlight thought out loud. A huge smile formed on her face.

“Jonny? Who’s Jonny?” The extra played by Jonny Depp asked.

Starlight had to restrain herself from shrieking. Jonny Depp was her number one favorite human actor. From his look he seemed to be in his late teens now. Starlight guessed that Goldeneye must have been made much earlier than those movies that she had seen him in. In other words, he was roughly at her age!

‘I’m a pony, he’s a human... I'm a pony, he’s a human... I’m a pony, he’s a human...’ She scolded herself repeatedly inside her head.

“Oh, I'm sorry, i thought you were somepony Ehm...some-human else.” Starlight said smiling.

The extra walked past her, looking bewilderingly back at her before continuing on into the station.

The group were on their way to Moscow where an underground MI6 office were situated. They had taken a boat over to the Russian mainland. They would now be taking the Trans Siberian railroad the rest of the way. Alec had decided that it would be best for Trixie to come along and tell the agent stationed there herself what she saw inside the Severnaya station.

The ponies however had something entirely different in mind. Just like Twilight had reluctantly been forced to accept, they needed to break up Alec Trevelyan’s and James Bond's friendship. This, the ponies hoped, would cause Alec to go through with his betrayal plans and put the original Goldeneye story back on track, allowing for Starlight or Twilight to bring them home again. Since they never saw the movie beforehand Starlight, Pinkie Pie and Trixie still didn’t know anything about Natalya's role in the original story. Neither had Twilight back in Equestria remembered her.

As the ponies entered the train they were greeted by a luxurious sight. The seats along the train cart were red with round tables for four. The curtains were also red but with a slightly lighter shade. Blue ornaments decorated the walls over the large windows. With all the waiters walking around they guessed that this must be the dining cart.

When the ponies entered their sleeping cart they gasped as they beholded the beautifully decorated, fairly large room for a train suite. Starlight had bought two luxury suites next to each other. One for James Bond and Alec and the other for the ponies. As for the payment of all this she had just used her horn magic and transformed a rock into four million Russian rubles.

“Now THIS is a bedroom suited for a master illusionist like myself.” Trixie bolstered while throwing herself onto the bed.

“Speaking of which, does everypony know what to do?”

“Sure Starlight. I go and keep James and Alec occupied while you two go down to the dining room and prepare for the show.” Trixie said.

“Right. And then i come back and invite them for a meal. As they both sit down at separate tables, you Trixie will do what you do best.” Starlight said.

“Im all over it Starlight.” Trixie said determined. “They are going to se me, the one and only, the great and powerful Trixie!” Trixie pointed her right hoof into the air.

“Great. And then it’s your turn Pinkie. You have the most important role of all.” Starlight said while looking at Pinkie Pie.

Pinkie Pie looked at Starlight with half determined eyes. She opened her pink mouth to speak, but hesitated. She lowered her face. Starlight grabbed her chin and looked straight into her blue eyes.

“I know this must be very hard for you Pinkie Pie, but trust me when i say that it won't be for long. All that you need to do after Trixie’s show is to convince Alec Trevelyan that James Bond is not his real friend. And then, the moment he makes that final decision, to leave MI6 and work for Ourumov. Then, in that precise moment the movie will be back on script and i will be able to bring us back to Equestria immediately, right here inside this very train. Neither you or any of the characters will ever experience the consequences. Everything that would have happened here will be gone forever. It will be like this storyline never even existed.”

“If you say so Starlight.” Pinkie Pie said with a sad face. “I don’t want to be the cause of us beings stuck inside this movie forever, and i know that i am the perfect pony for the job.”

Indeed, Pinkie Pie was the perfect pony for the job. She was famous for being friends with every pony in ponyville. If her friend making skills allowed her to make friends that fast it could easily be turned around and be used as a weapon to break up other friendships. Pinkie Pie felt her heart sink lower and lower the more she thought about it. Pinkie Pie wished there was another way.

The ponies waited for the train to start moving before they began their scheme. Outside the windows the beautiful wintery landscape of Russia went by like a realtime slideshow. The rumble of the train wheels hitting the lines were the train tracks join came in subdued intervals. Trixie stood outside James and Alecs room. She took a deep breath. She used her horn magic to open the door. She put on a large smile.

“Well hello there gentle colts!” She greeted as she walked in.

“Hello Trixie. Nice to see ya.” Alec greeted politely.

Bond looked at Trixie. He smiled handsomely.

“OAAAAH!” He blasted.

Trixie swallowed the awkwardness.

“I was just thinking i’d join you guys for a while. Is that ok?”

“Well of course Trixie. Come on in and sit down.” Alec offered.

“Thanks.” Trixie said and trotted in. She sat down opposite of Alec. Alec looked with interest at the blue pony.

“Trixie. I don’t think iv’e really had the time to ask ya, but where do ya ponies come from?”

“We come from a place called Equestria.” Trixie said. She raised her right hoof looked at it as if she were studying it. “Its kind’a dull, but i get by. I have a magic show there you know.” Trixie looked sideways at Alec in a bolstering manner. Alec took it positively.

“Thats interesting Trixie. You know, i used to want to become a magician myself.”

“Really?” Trixie asked gasping.

“Yea, really. I had a magic set that my father bought for me.”

“Wow. Thats so kind of him.” Trixie said without thinking.

“Yea.” Alec said with a dropping voice. “Thats so kind.” His eyeballs wailed around. Trixie now remembered to late what Twilight had told the ponies.

Apparently the humans had a big war around what they called year 1945. Alec's family had been Lienz Cossack's at the time. After being betrayed by their friends, unable to live with the shame, Alecs father had shot Alecs mother and himself, leaving Alec orphaned. It was part of the Ponies plan to remind Alec of this betrayal. Now was not the time though.

“Fathers love, eh?” Alec continued.

“Eh hehe... when did you and James meet each other?” Trixie changed the subject.

“We meet during school. I was kind of an outsider.” Alec laughed nervously, trying desperately to leave out the Cossack reason why he had been an outsider.

“It was tough, didn’t have many friends in school. But James was an orphan to. He protected me and i protected him. Didn’t we James?” Alec looked at James

“OAAAAH!” James blasted.

“Thats so kind of you both. You know, i was kind of an outsider myself” Trixie sighed. Her face dropped slightly. She continued in a whispering tone.

“...And i deserved it. I wasn’t always that nice to other ponies. I would have still been an outsider if it weren't for Starlight Glimmer. She was an outsider to. Together we helped each other discover what it meant to treat other ponies with respect, and to respect yourself enough to be able to do just that.”

“How far you can come if you only learn to connect to someone, heh?” Alec said.

“Hehe, yea.” Trixie laughed. Her laugh faded slightly. Why did her laugh fade? Was Trixie still ashamed of what she did to all those other ponies back then, or could there be a wave something called ‘Second thoughts.’ that just flushed over Trixie regarding this plan of theirs?

Inside the dining kart Pinkie Pie and Starlight had grabbed a seat next to each other. All the preparations had been finished exactly according to Trixies instructions. Starlight had her hoof around Pinkie Pies mane, who still had doubts.

“It will be ok Pinkie Pie.” Starlight said. Pinkie Pie still had her head turned to the floor. Starlight Glimmer put her hoof under her chin and turned it up to face her. “Hey Pinkie. Look at me.”

Pinkie Pie looked directly into Starlights eyes, which sparkled with understanding as she spoke with a soft voice.

“To me you will always be the same happy, kind and funny Pinkie Pie that I've always known, no matter how this turns out.”

Pinkie Pie looked at Starlight. She felt a smile form on her face. She laughed. Starlight laughed to.

“Now, lets get this over with.” Starlight said.

Pinkie Pie hesitated. In the end she kept her smile on and said.

“Yea. Lets do it.”

Starlight got up on her hooves and walked out of the dining cart. When she came back she had Trixie, James Bond and Alec with her. They were shown to their seats by the waiter. The waiter was in complete ecstasy. The Trans Siberian Express was filled with rich hurried passengers. It was an absolute tipping goldmine.

“Are you enjoying your stay? Could i offer you our vodka, made specially for you? Or maybe you want our soufflé, made by one of the best cooks in the Russia? Oh, can i offer you a handkerchief?”

Alec leaned over to Pinkie Pie.

“I think he can give you a run for your money eh.” Alec said referring to Pinkie Pies exploding personality.

James Bond turned his head and faced the waiter.

“OAAAAH!” He blasted. The hair wavered around the waiters head.

“It will be my pleasure sir, a vodka martini it is.” The waiter answered.

Alec now noticed that Trixie was nowhere to be seen.

“Where is Trixie?” He asked.

In that moment the light faded. Trixies voice echoed inside the cabin as the scenery smoke from Pinkie Pies party cannons seemed to come out nowhere. There were dramatic orchestral music in the background coming from Starlights enchanted speakers.

“It was a cold and wintery day, a group of unicorn ponies were on their way to have a party with the earth ponies.”

There were colored silhouettes of unicorns moving across the surface of the thick smoke. The unicorns were of three colours. Blue, red and silver. Awes could be heard among the other diners in the cabin. Trixies voice were deep and dramatic as she continued.

“Yes, they were on their way to a party, a party to make good of past mistakes. What past mistakes may you wonder? Well, hold on to you hats fillies and gentle colts, because here is were the story gets dark.”

There was a sudden explosion of thick dark smoke rolling over the unicorns. After it passed over them the smoke showed yellow pegasus ponies and lavender earth ponies along with the unicorns. A party cake was situated in-between them.

“Long ago the earth ponies the pegasus ponies and unicorn ponies partied together in harmony. That is, until IT came along.”

There suddenly were a big silhouette of a timber wolf towering over the Ponies.

“Together, the earth and pegasus ponies joined forces to fight this newly arrived foe. They asked the unicorns if they wanted to join them.”

The smoke now showed the earth and pegasus ponies talking to the unicorns.

“The red unicorns were more than happy to help...” The red shapes nodded. “...But the blue unicorns had been intimidated by the beast that wanted nothing but total world domination.”

The smoke showed frightened faces on the blue unicorns as they looked at the huge timber wolf.

”Reluctantly, they decided to join the monster and fight the earth and pegasus ponies.”

There was another explosion of smoke. The scenery changed. It now showed the silhouettes of a village in flames.

“The blue unicorns tarmac the sky villages of the pegasus ponies. They drove them from their homes and made them endure unspeakable things, all to bode way for the monsters lust for total control.”

The image showed the horns of the blue unicorns sparkle and send out a black smoke, engulfing the horrified pegasus ponies.

“But the earth ponies and pegasus ponies would not give up. With the loyal help of the red unicorns they were able to drive back the blue unicorns and annihilate this overpowered foe that threatened their world.”

The smoke showed the blue unicorns retreating to the sideline whilst the yellow pegasus, the lavender earth ponies and the red unicorns grew in size and towered over the timber wolf, who had its face dropped in fear as it shrunk down. It’s silhouette finally disappeared in a puff.

“Now, you may all think that now would be the time for things to go back to their usual happy normal, right...? WRONG!” Trixies ‘wrong’ hit the audience like a cannonball, who all looked on with exited faces.

“...Because the pegasus ponies were still angry. They were angry at the unicorns for burning their villages, even the ones that had not fought in the war at all!”

The smoke now showed the red and the blue unicorns backing away from the yellow pegasus ponies, who were shouting with their hooves wailing in the air. The neutral unicorns were represented by the silvery shapes.

“But the earth ponies appeared understanding. They approached the unicorns of all colours. They told them that they would convince the pegasus ponies to forgive them all so that they can all live happily together again.”

The smoke showed the earth ponies approaching the unicorns with happy faces. The smoke then went back to the first scene again.

“So that brings us back to were we are now, for it is at this very party that the earth ponies had promised the unicorns they would all be forgiven. But little did they know...”

The shapes shifted again. It now showed the party cake again. The lavender earth ponies stood with happy faces at one side of the cake, the unicorns with various colors approached from the other side. Slowly the happy faces of the lavender earth ponies turned into mean grins. Behind the unicorns more earth ponies arrived, trapping the unicorns in the middle.

“The earth ponies had decided that their relationship with the pegasus ponies was more important than the friendship of the unicorns. The earth ponies trapped the unicorns and arrested them all, even the red ones that had fought along side them, even the innocent silvery ones that never had fought in the first place. They were all sent to the city of the pegasus ponies, located above the clouds. There, they spent the rest of their lives in prisons, left to the mercy of a justice system that put cultural belonging before actual guilt.”

The image showed the, red, blue and silvery unicorns behind bars. Their sad faces was the last thing shown before a big puff of smoke wiped away the image for the last time.

“...The end!” Trixie ended darkly.

As the audience clapped their hands Alec did the same. His face appeared normal, but his mind was in complete turmoil. Once again he felt that doubt inside of him, that doubt that once caused him to approach Ourumov and make way for a deal, a deal that would allow him to wreak vengeance upon the British once and for all. But it wasn’t going to be, Alec thought. No, as long as he had friends at MI6 he had the wisdom to know that it was better for him to stay with James Bond, his best friend in the world.

As the ponies and humans were returning to their sleeping cabinets Starlight and Trixie made sure to invite James Bond into their cabinet, leaving Pinkie Pie alone with Alec.

“Nice that you wanted to join me Pinkie Pie.” Alec said as they both sat down inside the cabin. Alec threw his eyes toward the door.

“Where is bond?” He asked.

“Eh... Away. I don’t remember where, he’ll be back.” Pinkie Pie said modestly. She looked at Alec. She took a deep breath. This was it.

“Speaking of Bond...” She began. Alec seemed to listen. “I have been talking to him. He seems like a nice guy, don't you agree?”

“Yes? In fact, we have been friends since child legs.”

“Yes. I have a couple of friends in Equestria myself since my filly moons. One of them changed my life actually, a pegasus pony by the name of Rainbow Dash.” Pinkie Pie said.

“You don’t say?” Alec was interested.

“Yes, and as you probably know it is pretty important for friends to stand by each other, even when things are tough and...” Pinkie Pie felt her mouth jam.

The rest of Pinkie Pies speech, containing everything that James Bond had done in her majesty secret service instead of being with Alec, in contrast with Rainbow Dash who were always there for her friends, laid at the tip of her tongue. It wasn’t that she was worried about her ability to tear Alec and James Bonds friendship apart, she knew it would work if she only said it the way she had planned. Instead she opened her mouth, emptied her lounges, and followed her heart.

“...And nothing i have seen or heard points to James being any different. You are truly lucky to have such a loyal friend Alec.” Pinkie Pie said and smiled.

Alec looked bewildered at Pinkie Pie.

“Being any different? What do ya mean?” Alec asked. Pinkie Pie pretended to laugh.

“Never mind. I was thinking of somepony else.” Pinkie Pie answered, in her head concluding that Rainbow Dash and James Bond were probably more alike than any other pony or human that she had meet.

Outside the train the Russian wildlife laid underneath the white snow. The Trans Siberian Express train rumbled the ground as it past by. If one peaked inside the windows one would have seen a pink pony meeting a unicorn with blue lines across her mane.

“How did it go Pinkie? I have tried to bring us back to Equestria again and again but so far it doesn’t seem like he’s made a decision.” Starlight Glimmer said, her eyes sparkled with worry.

“Yea... About that.” Pinkie Pie said while touching her mane with her hoof. Starlights eye widened.

“You decided against it, didn’t you?” Starlight said understanding but with a slight edge in her voice.

Trixie was now poking her blue head out of the cabin door behind Starlight.

“In a way...” Pinkie Pie almost whispered.

“In a way?” Starlight said hoarsely. She started growing angry.

“... I mean, they have been friends for so long. It just doesn’t seem like the right thing to do.”

Starlight Glimmer had an image of her and Twilight hugging each other at her graduation day. Her face dropped.

“But what about our friends back in Equestria?!” Starlight wailed, letting her emotions get the best of her.

Pinkie Pie stared blankly at Starlight.

“What about how long they have been friends with you Pinkie? Don’t you want to see them again?!”

Only the rumble of the train tracks could be heard between Starlights shouts.

Pinkie Pies mouth opened halfway. Her eyes sparkled as tears swelled up inside them.

“I don't know.” She answered with a broken voice.

Pinkie Pie snorted. She closed her teary eyes, turned around and galloped down the train cart, leaving Starlight standing alone on the carpeted train floor. There was a moment of silence before another hoarse voice sounded.

“Starlight?” Trixie called.

Starlight turned around.

“Trixie! Good. Come, we need to go after her!” Starlight exclaimed and started galloping. She had only taken a couple of hoof steps before Trixie said it out loud.

“I agree!”

Starlight stopped dead in her tracks. She turned around. Trixie walked out of the cabin and stopped in front of Starlight. Starlight looked bewildered at Trixie.

“Yes...” Starlight hesitated. “Thats good. Now, lets go!”

“No Starlight. I agree with Pinkie Pie.” Trixie said and smiled.

Starlight opened her mouth, but no words came out. Trixie walked closer to Starlight.

“I talked with Alec earlier. He and James Bond were outcasts, just like we were Starlight. I know that it won't matter if we we’re able to get back, but in a way i feel like it does anyway.”

Starlight still looked silently at Trixie. Trixie continued.

“We have been through so much together, just like James Bond and Alec have. Together we can find another way back to Equestria.” Trixie smiled as if she was looking forward to it all.

Starlight Glimmer was speechless. A smile formed on her face. Never before had she been so happy of being wrong.

The following minutes the ponies spent looking for Pinkie Pie. Being unsuccessful, they grabbed a seat at the dining hall. Alec and Bond joined them. Alec noticed the downed faces of the ponies.

“Well, you seem like a sunny day.” Alec Trevelyan joked.

“Yea.” Trixie said. “Its Pinkie Pie. We’ve been arguing. And now we can't find her.”

“Sounds rough mates. I hope it sorts out for ya all.” Alec said and nodded in a manly gesture.

The dining cart was half full of people and ponies. A man had just stepped inside it. To the right he could se the ponies that his employer had been payed to have killed. So far he hadn’t known who, but judging by the talking from the other assassins on this train he seems to have been a high ranking general within the Russian government. He reached his hand underneath his coat, grasping the uzi he had hidden inside. All he needed was just one pull of the trigger and he would get the entire share for himself. A shadow closed itself over him. It was the waiter.

The waiter saw that the gentleman had reached into his pocket for his wallet. The time had come to make some money on the side. Maybe he could invite his wife to a luxury restaurant later.

“Can i offer you some the finest vintages in Russia?” The waiter offered.

“Im fine, thank you.” The man said. The waiter blocked his path

“But may i insist in a coffee maybe sir.”

“No, I'm fine!” The man insisted irritatingly. The waiter still didn’t move.

“I tell you what. How about i give you a cappuccino on the house?” He said and smiled.

The assassin now saw James Bond glaring at him. Panicked, he grabbed his uzi and pointed it at the waiters forehead. There was a subdued blast when the back head of the waiter exploded, sending a wide splatter of blood all over the dining guests behind him. There were the sound of a woman screaming as the already dead waiter crumbled to the floor. There were three more blasts. The body of the assassin jerked three times as the bullets entered him. He fell down to his knees and face down to the floor. From across the room the seasoned MI6 agent James Bond had gone from sitting to standing within half a second, his PPK smoked from the shots fired.

James Bond saw four more black coats down the other cart. The hands of the wearers reached underneath them. He fired three more shots, grounding one more of them. There then were the roaring sound of automatic gun fire. The sound of bullets entering wooden furniture jittered around the ponies.

“GET DOWN!” Alec shouted as he pushed the ponies over behind the seats. James grabbed for cover as he returned the fire.

Glasses placed on the tables shattered as bullets went through them. Wooden structures fell down to the floor as their bases exploded. Dining guests caught in the crossfire crumbled to the ground between James, Alec and the assassins.

“OAAAAH!” James Bond blasted. The ponies almost though he’d been shot until they remembered this was how he had sounded all the time.

“Check! Falling back! Ponies! Behind me!” Alec answered bond.

The group backed away, Alec and James suppressing the assassins firing from opposite cart. The had just entered the cart they backed away toward when suddenly a door opened behind them. A black figure pointed something at them. Starlight didn’t hesitate. She fired a spell, causing the assassin to stagger slightly. He raised his weapon again, but now Alec had seen him.

“Get down!” He exclaimed as he pushed the ponies and himself to the side. The assassin was just about to pull the trigger when the world suddenly went black.

The assasins head jerked backwards before his body fell in the same direction. James Bonds distinguished face didn’t show any sign of blinking behind his PPK .

Alec ran and grabbed the uzi dropped by the assassin while James Bond reloaded his pistol. Trixie and Starlight tried their best to not get in the way of the MI6 agents. The group continued pushing backwards toward the drivers booth. The assassins tried to hinder their retreat. Little did both groups know that the devil herself would soon be boarding the train, death and love being her tickets.

The gangster had just made a re-check of his uzi. He heard shooting toward the front of the train. He made a hand motion for his gangster friend to move out. When there was no answer he turned around, only to find that his friend had his chest jammed between two legs. It was a woman's legs. Her parachute went sailing away behind her. His friend gasped for air as the legs were choking him. The woman raised her hand. There were three blast before the world blackened.

Xenia Onatopp had no idea who these goons these were. Maybe it was a drug raid? Maybe they had been paid by Ourumov, the same employer that payed her? Who knows and who cares? This was going to be fun!

James, Alec, Trixie and Starlight had fallen back all the way to the drivers booth, only to find that the driver had been shot dead. Alec and James were out of ammo. They closed and locked the door behind them. They heard footsteps outside.

Pinkie Pie looked out from the bullet hole that had been made by a stray bullet through the bathroom of which she had locked herself in. From the hole she saw six gangster gathered. They seemed to plant some kind of bomb at the door to the drivers booth. The words of Starlight Glimmer echoed inside Pinkies head.

‘And then, the moment he makes that final decision, to leave MI6 and work for Ourumov. Then, in that precise moment the movie will be back on script and i will be able to bring us back to Equestria immediately.’

Pinkie Pie felt the guilt pour over her like ice cold water. They all could have been home in Equestria by now. And now she was about to watch her friends blow up, only because of her silliness! She would be all alone, forever trapped inside an endless movie, without friends. She looked down. She saw a pistol lying just outside the door to the bathroom.

‘Might as well die here and now.’ The thought pierced through Pinkie Pies shattered heart.

Suddenly Starlight heard single shots fire outside, along with men screaming and bodies crumbling.

“Shot her! Shot her!” Voices were crying outside. The same voices screamed before there were more shots and more bumping sounds of bodies hitting the floor.

“Where is she?!” A voice wailed.

There were silence. The heavy breathing of a horrified human could be heard outside. A single shot suddenly sounded close to the door, followed by one more crumbling body. The silence fell again.

After almost a minute of silence Alec opened the door, slowly. The bewildered faces of the group scanned the room. In front of them six gangster was lying dead on the floor. Starlight walked over the bodies. There were a pink patch behind the seat ahead. As Starlight rounded the seat she saw Pinkie Pie down on her hooves, a pistol lying in front of her. She whispered to herself while staring blankly at it.

“I am Pinkie Pie, and all i want is to see my friends smile... Smile... Smile...Smile” Pinkie Pie's voice faded.

Starlight stepped forward and helped Pinkie Pie up on her hooves.

“Come on Pinkie, we need to go. We can talk about this later.”

There suddenly was a gunshot. James bonds arm jerked backwards.

“Oaaaah!” He shouted, for real this time.

Alec grabbed a uzi from a fallen gangster and fired toward the shooter that took cover ahead.

Xenia Onatopp smiled. She knew what she saw ahead, all she needed was one shot. After Alec had stopped firing Xenia leaned out of cover. With one pull of the trigger she sent a bullet straight into the bomb the gagsters had planted by the booth earlier. It exploded right beside Alecs face. The explosion created a large hole at the side of the train of which Alec fell out. Bond followed shortly after.

“Bond! Alec!” Starlight exclaimed as the ponies grabbed for cover. There were the sound of fabric being cut as Xenia’s bullets went through the seats the ponies were hiding behind.

“Starlight!” Trixie tried to get Starlights attention.

Starlight looked out of the hole in the train. She thought she saw a small ridge above the track. She closed her eyes. She tried to memorize how it looked like and how big it was. Her horn gave a glow before the world flashed.

Xenia saw the ponies disappear behind the passenger seats ahead. She was about to curse herself when she suddenly had a realization. She recalled the last minutes of sweet carnage. A pleasuring smile formed on her face. She moaned. She knew how this was going to end.

Starlight felt the tension release inside her as she found that her extremely hard-pulled teleportation had worked. She saw Pinkie Pie standing in front of her.

“Pinkie. Are you all right?” She asked, still trying to catch up with her breath.

“Starlight.” Trixie called behind her

Pinkie Pie looked back at Starlight. Starlight saw her face calm down in relief, only to fall back into worry as she looked behind Starlight.

“Starlight.” Trixie repeated, with a weaker voice this time. Starlight wailed her head around and saw Trixies hooves weaken. She felt that tension rise inside her again.

“Trixie!?” Starlight exclaimed as she galloped to her. She was barely able to save Trixie from falling to the ground. Trixie laid in her hooves as she looked at Starlight, her eyes half shut.

“Starlight.” She whispered.

Starlight had a hoof underneath Trixies belly. She pulled it out and looked at it. Trixies blood was smeared all over it.

“No. No!” Starlight was shaking her head.

“Starlight... See...You...In...Equestr...ia...”Trixies voice faded. Her eyes closed. In the same moment Starlight felt Trixies entire body weight push down on her hooves.

“No! No! TRIXIE! NO!” Starlight wailed as tears formed in her eyes. Behind her Pinkie Pie looked on blankly in disbelief as Starlight Glimmers sobbing filled the air.

The snowy mountains rose toward the sky. The heavy snow pushed down on the pine trees giant twigs. Starlight Glimmers cries echoed through the Russian wilderness, a wilderness filled to the brink with bears and elks, animals that were more than aware of the death that awaited them all and the unavoidable grief when their loved ones faced it before they did.