Despite Twilight’s strange reaction, Skyla walked into the castle. The inside of the castle amazed her, if the outside didn’t succeed in that job already. She then turned head to notice Twilight grabbing a book, which at least looked 300 years old or more.

Frantically, Twilight searched through the pages until she found what she was looking for. After reading what she was looking, she then turned her to see Skyla there.

“You might want to come look at this,” Twilight sounded concerned, so Skyla did as she was told. Skyla read the pages, and seemed a little surprised herself. “I just finished reading this when you got, coincidence?”

Skyla couldn’t find her words, what she was reading was truly shocking. It was a prophecy, and surely enough, she was involved. How? She didn’t know... yet.

“I think that’s more than a coincidence, Twilight,” Skyla finally managed to spit out, as she felt like she would’ve been a stuttering mess. Thankfully, that wasn’t the case.

“When did you get here?” Skyla seemed a little alarmed, thinking how random it was. Twilight noticed this, and then added, “It’s just out of curiosity really.”

“Oh, well...” Skyla seemed to freeze for a moment, realizing that she didn’t know how long ago it was. There were no clock, and she had a terrible sense of time. Really terrible at that. “I think about five minutes ago. Or ten. Somewhere in between.” Twilight nodded in understanding. She practically just got here. But that wasn’t the point.

“How did you get here?” Twilight asked, intrigued. Another difficult question to answer. Not that Skyla didn’t know how, she did, just the answer seemed a bit ludicrous to Skyla. Especially if she asked where it occurred. The only other option was to lie, even if she was in front of a Princess.

“I don’t remember,” the answer seemed straightforward, Skyla thought, and it seemed somewhat logical. “I was told that I fell out of the sky however.” She mentally added. She wanted to tell Twilight, but that otherwise. Then another thought popped into her head. “What kind of Princess are you?”

“Well, I am the Princess of Friendship, if that’s what you’re referring to,” Twilight replied simply. Skyla didn’t bother with retorting to that, it at least somewhat helped. “Do you remember what happened before you arrived?”

“Only falling out of the sky... that’s is,” Skyla said, that part was true. The rest? She doesn’t know how deep down the rabbit hole she’ll have to go, but she hopes not too far.

“Before that...”

Oh. Then nothing much.”

“You’re telling the truth right?” Twilight asked, Skyla knowing that she hasn’t for part of it. Yet, it’s only a little lying, like it wasn’t going to hurt anyone.

“Yes, I am,” Skyla stated, making hard for her to decide if it was true or not. However, Twilight seemed to buy this. Then another thought came to Skyla, what did she look like? “Is there a mirror here? I haven’t had a look of myself in a while.”

“I can do this, if it helps,” Twilight replied, summoning a mirror out of thin air, big enough to see Skyla’s whole body.

As it turned out she had been turned into a pony. Yet she looked beautiful. Her coat was blue, like a sky blue. Her mane and tail, it was red and purple mixed well done. A horn rested atop her head. Her eyes, a simple green, but still stunning to Skyla.

For some reason, something told her to turn, so Skyla did as such, and found something on her flank. It was a Cutie Mark. She didn’t know it was called that, however. The Cutie Mark itself seemed something of interest, as it was two swords going diagonally into shield, as if it meant protection. But to whom? She didn’t know.

“What is that?” She muttered, which she kinda hoped would be heard.

“That is your Cutie Mark,” Twilight answered, Skyla a little confused, “Simply put, it represents your special talent. Like mine, for example, shows my special talent to be something related to magic.”

“Well that’s interesting,” Skyla commented, now wanting to know more, but that would have to wait. “Anything else you want to ask me? Not trying to be rude, just wondering.”

“Not at the moment, so you’re fine,” Twilight responded, with Skyla nodding in understanding.

“So, if I have to stay here, where would I stay?”

“You could stay here if you’d like, I have plenty of rooms, after all, this castle is probably big enough to store all of Ponyville if needed.”

“Well the offer does intrigue me, I’d rather stay somewhere more, in the outdoors if you know where I’m going.”

“Well, you can stay at Sweet Apple Acres, and help Applejack and her family if you’d like.”

“Who is she?”

“She’s an Apple farmer, along with her family, Granny Smith, Big Macintosh, Apple Bloom...” Skyla’s mind seemed to stop when Apple Bloom was mentioned, she didn’t hear anything else Twilight said, before Skyla asked something.

“Is this Apple Bloom a filly with a yellow coat, and a red mane and tail?” Twilight nodded, “Her and friends just helped moments ago before they told me about your castle, which, even if this does seem off topic, it is very beautiful I have to admit.”

“You mean Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle, correct?” Skyla nodded in response, as Twilight continued, “Interesting, where did they find you at?”

“Somewhere in Everfree Forest, if that is what it’s called. A filly name’s Sweetie Belle noticed me fall out of the sky apparently, and wanted to make sure I was okay.”

“Thank Celestia for the Cutie Mark Crusaders,” Twilight muttered, before getting back to the discussion at ha- hoof. “Anyways, like I was saying, you can stay at Sweet Apple Acres and help around with their chores, that is if you’d like.”

“I think I will stay at this ‘Sweet Apple Acres’, as it seems promising. If you wouldn’t mind leading me the way there...” Skyla trailed off, with a sheepish smile to follow.

“Sure thing, since you did just get here not long ago,” Twilight said, as Skyla followed her out of the castle.

The two went down a trail in Ponyville, which lead to Sweet Apple Acres. Once there, an orange pony waved to them, a hat resting neatly on her head.

“Howdy Twi, who’s this you have here?” The orange spoke in her country accent.

“My name is Skyla, Skyla Scarlet, yours?”

“Applejack, nice to meet ya!” Applejack greeted, stretching her hoof out to shake. Skyla stretched hers out as well, and the two shook hooves in a friendly way.

“Applejack, Skyla is going to stay here with you and your family to help, if you don’t mind that is,” Twilight explained briefly.

“Ah assure ya that she’ll have an excellent time here,” Applejack replied happily, then turning to Skyla, “Welcome to Sweet Apple Acres! Ah can show ya around and give you a rundown on basic chores here, if you’d like.”

“Sure, doesn’t bother me,” the blue unicorn said, as Applejack gave her a signal to follow her.

Twilight left the farm and went back to her castle. Once back inside, she opened the book she was reading before Skyla arrived, curious about what else it said. Then something caught her eye.

“‘This Pony will not be from this world, and thus from another, as she was brought here out of one’s hatred towards her.’,” Twilight quoted from the book she was reading, which then made the Alicorn Princess think for a moment.

“Was she lying to me? And if so, why? Perhaps for own safety would make sense, but still,” Twilight let the thought sink before she continued reading, now intrigued.

Back in the normal world...

“So, let me get this straight,” Daisy began, trying to summarize what her, Zeph, Nathan, and Mike were just told, “Skyla came in just to check on Jackie, when she saw her building this portal thing, then Liz pops out of nowhere, and they have a fight. Liz was about to touch a button before Skyla smacked her hand, stopping her from doing so. And then Jackie got onto her, which resulted in Liz trying to punch Skyla without even looking, but instead lost balance and fell to the side,” Daisy took a breath before continuing, “and then after Jackie told her what the button was about, Liz attempted to hit the button, which caused Jackie and Skyla to stop her, but Liz bit Jackie’s hand, which then in turn caused her to be shoved Liz into something, and then Skyla talked to Liz about not doing, but Liz did it anyways, pressed the button and shoved Skyla in there. HOWEVER, Nemod couldn’t go with her, so he is now stuck here meanwhile we have NO IDEA where Skyla is.”

Liz, Jackie and Nemod nodded in agreement, as that was the simplicity of what happened. Daisy had to catch her breath from all the talking, so she couldn’t argue to Liz. However, with Nemod’s point from earlier being very clear, NO ONE wanted to argue, especially with what he could do...

“Now, I do want to mention. I can only be without her for a certain time. Seems weird I know, but that’s how the system works. As of this moment, you have one month to get her back here or I separate from her. Seems good right? But here’s the thing, I’ve had her memories after the curse was laid on her. All her knowledge, whatever. So if I separate from her, she won’t have any idea who you are, and will act how she acted before the curse was put on her,” Nemod explained, “Now, how long would that be there. As I’ve heard, sometimes time moves slower or faster, or about the same in different dimensions.”

“Well it would be around year there for a month here. And I’m just gonna say, I am NOT explaining all the time differences as that would take forever,” Jackie replied. Everyone else nodded with what Jackie said afterwards.

“So, can we get her back before it’s too late or what?” Nathan asked with concern.

“We can get her back, just I need to make something that can get me or anyone in and out of dimensions quickly,” Jackie responded, “Funny thing, I’ve been working on this as well, in case if a scenario like this would occur. But it needs some more time to finish.”

“How much more?”

“About three weeks. Then it needs to be tested for two days.”

“Ugh, humans never make things easy.”

“I know, and that’s our charm! ...other than wars. But those are never a good thing.

Author's Note

Here’s another chapter! A little shorter I know, but it’s worth it. Anyways, hope you enjoyed and I’ll catch you later, peace!