Why Us?

"I really hate this place," I said peeling a potato.

"Hay you are one who wants to come into this tent to work. So if there is anypony to blame for this its-"

I stop her by point my peeler in her face. "You finish that sentence. And I will peel your face off."

She looks at the peeler and then to me. The look on her face says that she not taking my threat seriously as she pushes my hoof away. "Temper. Temper Jessica. You should talk to somepony about that temper of yours. Before you hurt somepony."

*Hum*"Too late."

"What?"

"Nothing," I said quickly.

"If you girls are done messing around."Ruby said coming from around the corner, "Then I suggest you get back to work."

"Yes miss Ruby." we both said to Ruby as she goes back to work on cabbage on the counter. Lyra has an uneasy look on her face as she looks at Ruby for a few more seconds. She then turns to another pony (person) nearby.

"Is she always like that?"

The stallion looks at her for a moment before he replies to her as he resumes his work. "What being mean. She has no time to waste on people who won't work around here. So you either start making yourself useful or there the door right there."

Huh, maybe I should have stayed in the cell. I thought to myself I a put another finish potato in a bowl.

Meanwhile back at Ponyville.

Everypony is having a happy day going through their daily routines. This, however, cannot be said to two ponies in the town square. One Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle to be precise. After their late night meeting with the girls, Twilight divided everypony into groups of two to go around Ponyville looking for any signs of Jessica and/or Exclusive. However, after a few hours, one by one some of the girls were forced to give up the search as their lives caught up with them.

It started with Rarity as the order she and Exclusive were working on earlier was pushed to a soon date and she must get working on it least she not make the deadline. AppleJack and Fluttershy were next when Applebloom came to them to tell some of the fruit bats have left their sanitary and are in the Applebarn. And finally, Pinkie Pie said something about going radio silent and they haven't heard from her since. That was about an hour ago for the last two ponies looking for Jessica.

As their search continues Rainbow just realize that they could have asked for help from volunteers in Ponyville. But after the third random pony turned her down she was starting to get annoyed. Twilight tried to comfort her friend doing very little in her current mindset. After venting out her frustration on Twilight, Rainbow then talked about getting the guards to help find Jessica.

"So why haven't we ask the guard to help with finding her yet?"

"Sorry Rainbow. But as missing ponies procures go. A pony can only be declared missing after a whole day has passed since the moment he or she was last seen. We still got three hours before we can file a report."

"Who's idea was it to make such a dumb rule anyway?"

"Well, Celestia must have seen the paperwork for it at one point."

"Oh, come on Twilight! We have a pony missing whose life could be in danger right now!"

For some unknown reason, Jessica let out a huge sneeze on her potatoes. "What? NO! I just finished peeling those!"

"Regardless, Rainbow. I have the report ready and waiting for the time is up. Then we can turn this over to the guards."

"Wait. Are you saying that we should stop looking for her?"

"Yes, and No."

"What do you mean Twilight?"

"What I mean is that even if we keep looking for Jessica in Ponyville. There is a high chance that she may not be in Ponyville anymore."

"Then we will look somewhere else."

"Rainbow be reasonable."

"I am reasonable. There is a missing pony that, who I may or may not like very well, might be in danger as we speak."

"Rainbow I am worried about Jessica too. But sometimes there are things that are out of our control. We can't just stop our lives in Ponyville and look for Jessica until we find her."

"But Twilight-"

"RAINBOW!" Twilight shouted at her friend who remains silent. "I don't want to give up looking for her but look at the situation we are facing. Jessica is not a citizen of Equestria, also she is only been in Ponyville for a few days, and no pony has seen her since she disappear yesterday."

"But Twilight."

"We have no leads Rainbow. And even Exclusive is still missing since he went to find her. My only conclusion is that He did find her only to be captured by the same ponies that were after Jessica."

"SO that is IT! We are going to just give up!"

"Like I said Rainbow yes and no."

*AAAGGGHH* "Stop saying that and tell me what you mean."

"What I am saying is that we should stop searching for Jessica the old fashion way."

"Twilight, what are you thinking about. and is it going to hurt somepony?"

"No." Twilight said looking a little nervous "Maybe?" Rainbow lifts an eyebrow at her. "Look I have never done this before and I am going to need Starlights help to get it to work."

"Why do need he- Wait you are going to use a new magic spell to find her!?"

"Something like that."

"Well, what are we waiting for let's get back to the castle and get cooking." Rainbow then started flying towards the castle only to realize that Twilight went in the opposite direction. She flies back to her friend confused by her actions. "Ah, Twilight the castle is this way."

"Yes, I know that. But I need to get Starlight, who is at the spa at the moment."

"Oh, right. We better get her first then."

As the girls went down the road a brown unicorn stallion was slipping his coffee as his green companion had a hard time holding still in his seat. *sip* "Will you calm down Green hoof. You are making a fool of yourself."

"How can-"

*Shh*

Green hoof looks around them before replying softly to his companion "How can I? When we are in the heart of Ponyville and two of the Elements just ran right by us!"

*sip* "It's easier when you have something to drink."

Green hoof just looks at him with a flat stare "You know we can't getting any nutritional value from pony drink's you know."

"I know that. It the thought that counts."*sip* "Plus it makes me seem more nature around ponies."

"In any rate did you hear what they were talking about?"

"Yeah, but there is no way we can sneak into castle friendship like last time. Refill please." He called to a waiter.

"So how are we going to find out what they are up to?"

The waiter finished filling his cup and left "Thank you miss. And We aren't going to Green Hoof."

"But can't we use one of our agents in Ponyville? Surely one of them can-"

"And risk blowing their cover? No way. The Queen has put in too much effort in getting them into their positions. Just to be blown by some rumor. Besides, all we needed to do is wait patiently for them to lead us to the lost human. And who knows we just might find the rest of the lost sheep." *sip*

"You know its moments like these when I understand why you are in charge and not me."

"Oh please Green hoof. I am just a pony doing his duty to his queen and country." *sip* "Green hoof I need you to send a message back to the Chief."

"I have been meaning to ask about that. It that really his name?"

"Oh, course not. You know how those types of ponies are."

"Alright, so what is the message?"

"Tell him the debt will soon be paid."

"That a strange thing to say- oh it a code word for something right?"

"Your catching on. Now go."

Back with Twilight

They just pick up Starlight form the spa. Needless to say, she was upset about being interrupted her weekly spa visit. The three of them have enter castle friendship and went straight to the library.

"Twilight." Starlight complained while drying her mane with a towel she picked up from the spa before they rushed her out of there. "I know I am your student and all but what was so important that you had to pull me away from my spa visit."

"Starlight." Twilight started. "Have you heard about a pony named Jessica?"

"I think so. Was she involved with the Diamond dogs incident a couple of days ago?"

"Yes and the Fluttershy attack the day after that."

"How come I never heard about her before? She sounds like a regular around here."

"Well, believe it or not, she just arrived in Ponyville a few days ago."

"Well if you ask me if she gets anymore involve with the strange things in Ponyville. She going to go crazy."

"Too late for that." Rainbow quietly.

"What was that Rainbow?"

"Nothing!" she said quickly

"Okay, so what about her?"

"Well, last night Pinkie Pie gather me and the girls in a secret meeting at the Apple barn."

"Wait don't tell me Chrysalis is planning another changeling invasion! And she is coming back for revenge on me!" Starlight starts looking around for anything out of place. "We barely survive the last time she attacked us! I can't handle this!" Twilight then grabs her in her magic and brings her in close.

"There is no changelings invasion Starlight calm down!"

"Sorry. I got a little carried away there." She said as Twilight puts her down.

"As I was saying. The meeting wasn't about changelings at all. Pinkie pie told us that a day ago. Jessica was confronted by a mysterious stallion, who told her that soon she will be taken away from Ponyville."

"I don't like where this is going."

"That is what I thought, when Pinkie told us," Rainbow said landing next to Starlight.

"In any case thanks to Pinkie," Twilight said continuing the conversation. "We now know that this is not the first time these Ponies have done something like this."

"So, What you are saying is that Ponies have been making ponies disappearing all over Ponyville and Jessica is going to be the latest victim of theses ponynapping?"

"'I am afraid so."

"Then what are we doing here we got to find her!"

"I am afraid that they got her before we were able to get to her."

"So why did you bring us to the Library Twilight? If Jessica is already gone?" Starlight said as Twilight was scanning the shelves for some books. She grabs two of them and brings them to a table next to the girls.

"We are going to tweak a few old spells and make a new one."

"Twilight." Starlight said staring at Twilight with an uneasy look.

"Now now, it should be completely harmless."

"That wat you say right now. Just what old spells did you have in mind?"

"The crystal orb of viewing,"

"Okay. That one harmless it just lets you see old memories."

"The spell of far sight."

"Interesting."

"And time travel spell."

"TWILIGHT!" Both Rainbow and Starlight shouted at Twilight.

"Now just hear me out before you all go crazy on me."

"You are the crazy one. Haven't you learned your lesson with messing around with time yet!?" Rainbow said in disbelief in Twilights plan.

"Oh, but that is the beauty of it girls. If this works. We won't be messing up with the timeline at all."

"Okay Twilight what is your idea?" Starlight said a little curious about her plan.

"We are going to combine an Apprentice level spell and an Expert level spell with a Master level spell. To make an opening in the space-time continuum to view our desire location without disturbing the timeline."

"Okay, so can you explain that again to the pony that doesn't speak geek," Rainbow said

Twilight rows her eye before simplifying her answer. "My idea is to make a viewing orb the will show small parts of Ponyville of what has already happened in the area,"

"Oh, I get it. You want to find out where Jessica was the day she disappeared."

"Yes. If we can get this spell to works. All we have to do is follow where Jessica went right after she left the Boutique to the point where she went missing."

"Twilight that sounds great and all but I am not sure we would be able to control such a spell for long. Messing with time is hard enough on its own, and you want to create a new spell with it to open a window to look into the past?"

"That the idea."

"Ah huh."

"Starlight I know we can do this. If anypony can create a new form of the time spell to find a missing pony it is you Starlight,"

"I don't know about this Twilight. Who knows what will happen after we succeeded in make the spell."

"What are you going on about Starlight?" Rainbow asked

"What I mean Rainbow is that. The time spell was a long forgotten spell in Canterlot. Then shortly after Twilight finds it. I then use it to change Equestria for everypony, and not for the better."

"Yeah kind of not notice that," Rainbow said since she only heard what happen from Twilight.

"I am just saying after we do this we must never tell anypony about the spell. If this secret group of ponies is real. Then imagine what kind of damage they could do with a spell like that."

"I see your concern. No pony would be safe from them."

"Then it is agreed. After we find Jessica. This new spell must never be used again."

"Agreed. now then let's get started."