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Lincoln Loud
A Royal Encounter
Need for Speed
Maud Pie
Taste of Equestria
Equestria Girls Part 1 - A Whole New World
Equestria Girls Part 2 - Parallel Friends and Diary's
Equestria Girls Part 3 - Coming Together
Equestria Girls Part 4 - Demons and Inner Demons
Abandoned
Aftermath
Everfree Invasion
Tree of Harmony
Wendy Yoroi
Flight to the Finish
Bats?!
Rainbow Falls
Pinkie Pride
Prologue
Lincoln and the Crusaders
Castle Mania
Rarity Takes Manehatten

Lincoln Loud

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A Royal Encounter

Everypony was silent as they witness the Royal sisters of Equestria suddenly teleport into Twilight’s home/library. As soon as they got their bearings, the Mane Six and Spike quickly went over to the two princess and bowed to them, with Lincoln still sitting down with a bit of a surprised expression on his face.

Celestia and Luna simply smiled at the group of ponies and one dragon bowing to them with Celestia saying in a calm nice voice. “Now, now, Everypony, we’re all friends here. There’s no need for that. Especially you Twilight.” Celestia said as all the ponies stopped bowing with Twilight giving a sheepish smile. Even though she was a princess now it wasn’t even that long ago, so she still had the habit of bowing down to Celestia whenever they met.

“Hehe, sorry.” Twilight muttered quietly while blushing, making everypony giggle.

Celestia simply gave them all a sweet smile as she said. “Well never mind all that. It’s so nice to get to see you all again.”

“Yes.” Luna agreed as she took a step up. “And after reading Twilight letter we knew we had to come quickly. So where’s this special guest you wrote ab-“ However, Luna soon cut herself off as she as well as her sister noticed Lincoln looking right at them. The princess’s eyes widened a bit as they saw the human for themselves.

Lincoln in turned looked back at the royal sisters and them and examined them a bit. They definitely looked royal what with the crowns and special jewelry they had. Also, their manes. Even though he’s only seen the manes of the ponies he’s passed by in town and the Mane Six’s own manes, the sisters manes seemed special what with the way they blew in a non-existent wind.

Before an awkward silence could started, Lincoln quickly got of the chair and walked towards the two princess’s and gave them a Japanese style bow that Wendy taught him. “My name is Lincoln Loud. Pleased to make your acquaintance your majesties.” Lincoln said politely. Luckily, he’s had experience in dealing with Royals as he’s met a few Kings, Queens, Prince’s, and Princess’s sometimes when he visited other planets back in his universe.

“Lincoln?” Celestia asked as she soon gave the boy a smile as that named clicked with Celestia almost instantly. “Oh, you’re the one that Twilight mentioned in her letter.”

“Yep, that would be me.” Lincoln said as he held his hand out to the sun princess. “It’s very nice to meet you.”

Celestia looked at Lincoln’s hand and noticed it wasn’t to different then the forelegs of creatures like griffons and simply held her hoof out to it with Lincoln softly grabbing it and shaking it in greeting. “It’s very nice to meet you to Lincoln.”

“Please to make your acquaintance as well.” Luna told him as she spoke with a more professional tone then her sister. “You may call me Luna, princess of the night.” The alicorn introduced herself as Lincoln nodded rather awkwardly.

Luna then rose an eyebrow as she went to shake hooves…hands…limbs with Lincoln and asked. “Is something wrong?”

“No, no, no, no. It’s just…a little awkward for me.” Lincoln explain as he didn’t want to offend the night princess his first time meeting her. “I’ll explain later I promise.” Luna simply decided to take Lincoln’s word for it and nod.

“I’m sorry for sending that letter on such short notice.” Twilight apologized as she approached the princess of the sun. “But I figured it would be best to tell you about this immediately.”

“It’s quite all right Twilight.” Celestia reassured the smaller Alicorn as she patted her back with a wing. “Plus, we actually weren’t all too busy today, so we have plenty of time on our hooves.”

“Yes, so a visit was perfect for killing the boredom.” Luna added in as both her and Celestia were both feeling a little bored before Twilight sent her letter as they didn’t have any meetings planned for the day. Yeah, those weren’t the most fun things either but at least it kept them busy.

“Well, glad I could entertain you all.” Lincoln said with a smirk as he crossed his arms. Luna simply whistled while averting her gaze while Celestia gave a playful smirk.

“Now, I believe it’s time we all get to properly know you.” Celestia said as everypony agreed a quickly got to setting up a little area for them all to sit down.

A few minutes later, the library now had a large circular table in the middle and chairs around it with everypony in them. Expect Rarity who was content in sitting on Applejacks lap. Lincoln sat across from Everypony as he got comfy in his seat and asked. “Alright, what do you wanna know about me?”

“Well first off all, if what Twilight wrote me was correct, you have a device that transforms you into ‘Aliens’ as you call them?” Celestia asked as she remembered perfectly what Twilight wrote down in her letter and was a bit more then intrigued when she read this human had a special device that could turn him into different creatures.

“That would be correct.” Lincoln said as he held up his left arm and rolled down his hoodie sleeve to show off the gauntlet-like device. “This is the Ultimatrix.”

Celestia and Luna eyed the device with interest. It certainly didn’t look like anything they’ve seen before and it didn’t take any sort of connoisseur that it looked A LOT more advanced then any sort of technology Equestria had. “Hmm, I can’t say I’ve heard of anything like that before.” The sun princess admitted.

“Makes sense.” Lincoln told her as he didn’t except technology like the Omnitrix/Ultimatrix is exist in a lot of places seeing how it’s the most advanced piece of tech in his own universe.

“If you don’t mind, could you transform for us?” Luna requested as she eyed the device. “That way we can get a better understanding of the situation.”

“Sure thing.” Lincoln quickly agreed as he stood up from his chair and activated the Ultimatrix.

“Oooooo! I wonder what we’ll see this time!” Pinkie Pie said excitedly a she was looking forward to seeing another one of Lincoln Louds transformations.

Lincoln hummed as he scrolled through the holograms. He wanted to pick something that’ll leave an impression but nothing to big seeing as they were indoors. Just then he spotted on and gave a nostalgic smile at it and decided this was the one that he would show them.

“Can’t go wrong with the classics.” Lincoln said as he lifted his hand up and slammed on the dial. The Mane 6 and Spike were quick to cover their eyes but since Celestia and Luna were unaware of the process they ended up getting blinded by the emerald green light. Luna in particular yelped in surprise as she fell backwards in her chair.

When the light died down, Celestia quickly used her magic to sit her sister and the chair up, and when her and Luna saw what was in front of them…they were stunned silent.

In front of them was a moth-like phantom creature with a blue and black color scheme and green tinted eyes. Its breathe was visible and the temperature in the room dropped from its sheer presence.

“Big Chill!” The now transformed Lincoln Loud announced as he spread all four of his wings.

“Oh my…” Celestia and Luna said in unison as they looked at the Necrofriggian in front of them.

Rarity and Applejack were quick to notice the drop-in temperature as they shivered and snuggled closed to each other for warmth. “Did ya’ll feel it get colder or is it just us?” Applejack shivered as he and Rarity held each other close.

“Sorry about that.” Big Chill apologized as he went to explain why. “Big Chill has the power to create and manipulate ice.” Big Chill showed this by holding out his hand and sprayed a small amount of blue mist onto the table. When it cleared it showed the table now covered in a thin layer of frost.

“How intriguing.” Luna said in amazement as she touched the frost with her hooves but quickly pulled back due to the temperature being MUCH colder than normal frost that appeared on windows during the winter season.

“But that’s not all.” Big Chill said with a grin.

“R-r-r-really?” Fluttershy stuttered as she avoided looking the necrofiggian in the eye due to his creepy appearance.

“Check it.” Big Chill said as he flew up at high speeds. Everypony gasped, thinking he was going to crash right into the ceiling. But just then they saw Big Chill’s body turn dark blue and transparent…and proceeded to fly right through the ceiling.

Everypony was silent as they just watched the transformed Loud boy fly right through the ceiling just like a ghost. Just then Big Chill reappeared through the ceiling again and landed right next to Celestia and made himself tangible again. “Also got myself some intangibility.”

“Uh, Intagi-what?” Rainbow Dash asked in confusion.

“Intangibility.” Celestia corrected as she explained what it meant. “The ability to phase through matter. I must say that’s quite impressive Lincoln.” Celestia complimented.

“Thanks, but that’s only scratching the surface of what this form alone is capable of.” Big Chill said with a smirk as he pointed a thumb to himself.

“Well this alien is pretty cool!” Pinkie Pie punned as she started to giggle madly to herself.

Everypony then groaned in unison at the bad pun with Big Chill face palming and saying. “Great, its Luan all over again.”

“So, getting back on topic.” Luna said as one who hated puns herself wanted to move right along. “How many of these transformations do you have in that Ultimatrix?”

“Hmm, let me think.” Big Chill told her as she started to scratch his chin. “Well, counting the ones I just got from Twilight and her friends I would say around 70, give or take a few readily available.”

Everypony present gasp at the information. Around 70 unique transformations, all of which have their own powers, strength, shapes and sizes? Something like that was completely unheard of! Yeah, the changelings could shapeshift but all they could do was copy the voice of the pony they were impersonating as. Nothing like Lincoln was showing them.

“That’s certainly quite the impressive line up darling.” Rarity complimented with wide eyes.

“Hold on,” Celestia interrupted as she put a hoof to her chin. “You said, ‘readily available’ does that imply that theres even more you don’t have?”

“Yep.” Big Chill stated casually as everypony else’s mouth gaped at the fact he had even more forms! “See, the Ultimatrix pretty much has the DNA of every single alien species in my galaxy back at my universe. I only have a handful of them unlock, so when the Ultimatrix is fully unlocked, it has the DNA of over one million aliens.”

“ONE MILLION!?” Everypony yelled in unison in complete shock and surprise.

Suddenly Twilight started hyperventilating again as her mane started to frizz out. “Oh no, not again.” Spike said as he went to try and calm Twilight down.

Big Chill noticed Twilight’s freak out and the transformed boy mischievous side couldn’t help but leak out as he decided to dump more information about the device he had stuck on his wrist. “But wait, there’s more!” Big Chill announced in a voice intimidating the people who spoke in infomercials.

“What more could there possibly be?” Applejack asked in surprise as she was still trying to get over the whole ‘one million aliens’ thing.

“Well first, let me ask you a question.” Big Chill said as he looked to everypony. “You know how creatures often adapt to their surroundings? And how they can evolve and change over time?”

“Yes of course.” Fluttershy, being the animal expert of the group, was more than familiar with the concept of adaptation and evolution. Everypony else nodded as well as at the least some of them had some basic information of the concept, even Twilight nodded despite her condition at the moment.

“Well, here’s a demonstration of what Ulti is part of the Ultimatrix’s name!” They then watched as Big Chill slapped the symbol on his chest. They all covered their eyes, expecting a bright emerald flash, but found none. They all uncovered their eyes and watched as Big Chill started to change.

A green glow covered the Necrofriggian his body changed in appearance instead of changing form all together. All of Big Chill’s blue parts turned a fiery red as his wings, antenna and eye crests all gained fire-like pattern on them.

“Ultimate Big Chill!” The now hyper-evolved Necrofriggian said with his voice now sounding more gravely and deeper.

“Oh no, what now.” Twilight said as she tried her best not to start freaking out again.

Rainbow Dash simply raised her eyebrow as she felt a bit underwhelmed by this as it seemed like Big Chill simply went through a palette swap. “Why did you change color?” She asked, trying to see if there was more behind this.

“I must admit I love the palette.” Rarity said as she examined U. Big Chill and thought his colors went perfectly together.

“It’s more then a simply color change.” U. Big Chill said as he wiggled a finger.

“Please explain.” Celestia said as her interest was piqued in learning about this device. She honestly reminded herself of Twilight right now as her former student was always eager to learn any new thing she could.

“Well remember how I said creatures adapt and evolve?” Everypony nodded in response to his question. “Well it’s a bit like that. See the Ultimatrix has a feature called ultimization. What this done is put the DNA sample in a simulation of a ‘Worst Scenario’ environment for around a million years so that it would be force to adapt and evolve in a world that’s essentially gone to hell. What you see here is what Big Chill’s species would look like after going through this scenario.”

All of the ponies and dragon couldn’t help but feel uneasy about that information. Creature’s being forced to change and adapt to survive a world that was essentially the apocalypse. “That sounds awful.” Applejack commented as Rarity nodded in agreement and held her marefriend close.

“Well it’s not like I’m doing this to anyone else or a living creature. Just the DNA sample that’s used to transform me.” Lincoln reassured them as he would never try to put a living creature through the simulation the Ultimatrix creates for the DNA samples.

“This…this is a lot to take in.” Twilight said as all the information being dumped on her was quickly overwhelming her.

“Remember Twilight, breathe.” Spike said as he patted the purple Alicorns back.

“Well, if what you say is true then it’s safe to assume these ‘Ultimate Forms’ are far stronger then their normal counterparts?” Luna asked as she was the first to get over the uneasiness of the ultimization process.

“Correct. Check it.” U. Big chill said as he faced away from everypony and breathed in. Just then everypony watched as Big Chill fired flames right out of his mouth. Spike’s jaw dropped as he witnessed this moth-like creature breathe fire like a dragon while Twilight’s eyes widened.

“Wait! Stop!” Twilight yelled as she was afraid Lincoln was about to burn her house/library down. However, her fear soon turned to complete confusion as when the flames cleared it showed, not burning wood…but frozen wood. The spot Big Chill fired flames at now had a chunk of extremely dark blue ice on it.

“Did…did that fire just turn into ice?” Rarity asked as she rubbed her eyes to make sure she wasn’t seeing this.

Just then Spike walked up to the ice and inspected it. “Ok, I’m no expert at pyrotechnics, but I do know fire. And fire is supposed to burn things, not freeze things.” The young dragon explained as he looked at his reflection on the ice. Just then he put his hand to it and…

“AAAAH!” Spike screamed in pain as he quickly removed his hand and started waving it around and blowing on it.

“Spike!” Twilight yelled in concern as she went over to him and check his hand. “Are you ok?”

“I-I think so.” Spike said as he couldn’t describe what his hand was feeling. He couldn’t tell if it was burning or freezing. “But jeez, I felt that through my scales.”

“Sorry about that, but that wasn’t fire I released.” U. Big Chill stated as everypony gave him a confused looked. Before anypony could ask, U. Big Chill explained. “See, it’s not really fire. It’s a concentrated plasma that sucks heat from the air. In simpler terms, it’s fire so cold it burns.”

“That’s so cool!” Rainbow Dash said in amazement. She was into awesome stuff and so far, Lincoln Loud was impressing her.

“That is truly remarkable.” Celestia said in amazement as she looked over the ice. In her many centuries as ruler of Equestria, she’s never seen anything of all the things Lincoln has showed them just today.

“Thank you. I try my best.” U. Big Chill said as he landed back on the ground. Just then the Ultimatrix symbol started blinking as he suddenly changed back to normal Big Chill, and then back to his human form.

“Hey, why’d you change back? I wanted to see more super-duper cool aliens!” Pinkie Pie asked as she bounced up in down in anticipation.

However, Lincoln gave everypony a sheepish smile. “Sorry everyone but looks like I gotta wait for it to recharge. Guess transforming so much, scanning four new speices, and going Ultimate wore the battery out. Don’t worry though, it only takes about five minutes to recharge.”

“So, it relies on a limit charge?” Rarity asked with Lincoln making a ‘so and so’ gesture with his hand.

“Sort of. See, right now it can hold about a charge of 3 hours, but transforming into other forms and going ultimate can ware the battery out more. But similar with the one million plus forms, when fully unlocked the Ultimatrix can stay in any form for an unlimited amount of time and I can transform with just a thought.”

“I see.” Luna said in understanding.

“Well, I think that covers everything about the Ultimatrix, anything else you all wanna know about me?” Lincoln asked as he went back to the seat he was in and sat down.

“Ooo! Pick me! Pick me! Pick me!” Pinkie said as she stood up on her hind legs and rose one of her fore hooves high.

Lincoln couldn’t help but chuckle at the pink pony’s enthusiasm and pointed to her. “Yes Pinkie Pie?”

“Do you have any brothers or sisters?” The pink pony asked with a smile.

“Really? That’s what your curious about?” Rainbow asked the party pony as of all the question’s she could have asked the boy about himself or about the insane device on his wrist, she asked about siblings?”

“What? Family’s nice.” Pinkie asked, not seeing anything wrong with her question. “Plus I love my sisters so, so, so, so, so, so much and I would like to know if he has any siblings he loves so, so, so, so, so, so much.”

Lincoln simply nodded and smiled in response. “I actually do.” Lincoln said before chuckling nervously. “Now, I know this is gonna sound crazy, but I have kind of a big family.”

“How big could it be sugar cube?” Applejack asked with a simple smile, not seeing how crazy a big family could be. “3? 4 siblings?”

Lincoln again chuckled nervously and scratched the back of his head. “Well…it’s more…like…10 sisters…to be exact.”

Everypony went silent and froze. They all stared at Lincoln with widened eyes. Did he just say…10. 10…sisters…in one family.

Rarity then chuckled sheepishly as she said. “I believe I miss heard you darling. Did you just say…10 sisters?” Rarity asked, feeling sure they all misheard what Lincoln said.

“Yup, I have 10 sisters.” Lincoln said simply, fully expecting this kind of reaction from everypony.

“That’s um…quite a few.” Celestia slowly said as she tried to get her bearings from that. She’s never once saw or heard of a family with that many siblings. Yes, there were big family branches like how Applejack’s apple family stretched all over Equestria, but a single family with parents having 11 kids…that was new.

“What kind of mare would want to have 11 kids?” Luna muttered to herself as she thought any mare want to have that many kids was insane.

“Yeah, and then we can go into something involving you Princess Luna.” Lincoln said as he pointed to the night princess.

“What’s that?” Luna asked as she tilted her head in wonder.

“Well it’s the reason why it’s a bit awkward for me interacting with you.” Lincoln stated as Luna rose a brow. She was finally gonna hear the reason why Lincoln seemed rather nervous with her. “One of my older sisters name…is Luna…”

“Ooooooh…” Luna said slowly as there was an awkward silence for a moment before Pinkie Pie broke it.

“Wow! What a Coinwinky dinky!” Pinkie Pie with her usual peppy tone and smile.

“Yep…” Lincoln said as he adverted her gaze from everypony.

“Yes well, I suppose I can see why that would be a little awkward for you.” Luna admitted as she understood how meeting somepony, let alone a princess, that shared the name with your sister would be awkward for one.

“Yeah, sorry about that.” Lincoln apologized.

“No, no, it’s fine. I understand.” Luna reassured him as she rose her hooves. “Let’s just try and move past that and simply just try to be normal with each other regardless of certain…circumstances.”

“Yeah, sounds good.” Lincoln quickly agreed as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a wallet. “Here, check them out.” Lincoln then opened his wallet and a long string of photos came out all each one showing a girl. “From youngest to oldest there’s Lily, Lisa, Lana, Lola, Lucy, Lynn, Luan, Luna, Leni, and Lori.”

“I bet they’re a hoofful for ya folks.” Applejack commented as she and everypony else took a look at the different photos of humans that were the sisters of Lincoln.

“Sometimes, yes.” Lincoln said as he could easily remember all the chaotic situations his family has been in, both pre and post alien device.

“Wow! That sounds super-duper mega amazing to be in a family that big!” Pinkie yelled out as she just imagined being in a family that big was like a party everyday.

Lincoln couldn’t help but smile and chuckle at the pink pony’s statement and said “Yeah, thing’s aren’t always smooth sailing, but I wouldn’t trade them for the world or even the universe.”

All the ponies gave him a smile, seeing the obvious love this boy had for his family with Rarity saying. “Aw, that’s sweet of you to say.” She complimented as Lincoln gave her a smile as thanks.

“Well, now that we’re all acquainted with, I believe there’s one question she should ask.” Luna said as she looked to Celestia who nodded at Luna, seemingly have the same idea in her head. “How exactly did you get here?”

Lincoln was about to answer, but seeing as how she was responsible, Twilight spoke up with a sheepish tone. “O-oh, hehehe, well funny story actually. I was studying spells that specifically reacted to Alicorn magic and I found one that could possibly open portals to other universe’s and I might have opened one that brought in Lincoln.”

“Twilight.” Celestia said in a soft yet scolding tone. “You know better then to be so reckless. Especially now that your magic has evolved with your ascension.”

“I know…” Twilight said in a sadden tone as she lowered her head with her friends giving her sympathetic looks. “I’m sorry.”

“Hey, don’t worry about it?” Lincoln told her with a soft smile.

“But I brought you here and I don’t know if I can bring you back. If I open another portal who knows if it’ll lead back to your world. It might open up a path to completely other universe.”

“Aren’t you worried about going home?” Fluttershy asked softly as she gave Lincoln a look of pity.

“Believe it or not…this isn’t the first time something like this has happened to me.” Lincoln told everypony causing them all to give him a surprised look. “Yeah, my life is strange.”

“Clearly.” Rainbow said with a smirk that Lincoln returned.

“But like I said, this isn’t my first time ending up in a whole new universe. And I’ve learned to just roll with what life throws at you.” Lincoln told them as some of the ponies could help but be impressed with how Lincoln was takin all this. “Plus, I know my family wouldn’t want me mopping around and worrying all the time, plus things always work out for me in the end.”

“Well I must say Lincoln your quite optimistic.” Celestia complimenting Lincoln for having a trait sadly many ponies lack.

“Well, it’s something I can say I’ve had long before I got superpowers.” Lincoln told them as he thought of himself as being optimistic long before that alien watch fell from the sky 4 years ago. “Plus, I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to stay in this world a little bit.”

“Really?” Applejack asked in wonder.

“Yeah, it’s always cool getting to meet new people, or I guess ponies in your guys case and to see new places. Plus, this place looks really nice and peaceful. Perfect for some R&R and even if something pops up, I’m more than willing to lend a hand. Plus, having fun and making new friends is always a plus. If that’s ok with all of you of course.”

“Well, you have my permission.” Celestia granted as she had no problem with Lincoln staying in Equestria for as long as he needed.

“Mine as well. You seem responsible enough.” Luna added in with a smile.

“Oh this is going to be so much fun!” Pinkie squealed in excitement as she suddenly popped right next to Lincoln and wrapped all her hooves around him for a big hug. “We’ll all be best friends!”

Lincoln laughed in response as he patted Pinkie’s cotton candy-like man. Just then Applejack said. “Should be mighty fun.” Applejack said with Rarity nodded in response.

“Yeah, and I wanna see more of those aliens you got in that watch of yours!” Rainbow Dash said as she pointed a hoof towards Lincoln’s left wrist.

However, Fluttershy then pointed something important out. “But where are you gonna stay while you’re hear?”

Lincoln…didn’t know how to answer that. Guess in his big speech of being ok with the turn of events that have happened he forgot he didn’t really have a place to live and probably didn’t have the correct currency to use in this world.

Luckily, Spike spoke up with a solution to one of those problems. “He can stay here with me and Twilight!” The young dragon spoke up. “We have a guest room here and it really hasn’t seen much use.”

“Hey yeah, you’re right Spike.” Twilight said as she remembered the spare bedroom here at the library. “Plus, it’s kinda my fault you’re here so I’m more then happy to give you a place to stay.”

“Well thanks Twilight. I really appreciate it.” Lincoln said with gratitude. Well that was one problem solved, now he just had to worry about what to do for money…

KNOCK!

“Ow!” A voice came from outside the door as somepony seemingly crash into it with Fluttershy letting out an ‘eek’ at the sound.

Twilight simply walked over to the door and used her magic to open it up and smiled as she saw who it was that crashed into the door. “Oh, hi Derpy.”

Lincoln looked to see the gray furred mare with a yellow mane and tail as well as crossed yellow eyes he passed by earlier on his way to the library was currently sitting on her butt in front of the entrance to the library and rubbing her head.

The mare now known as Derpy shook her head to get her bearings and then looked at Twilight the best she could with her crossed eyes as well as giving a smile and said. “Oh hi Twilight.” Derpy greeted. “I noticed you walking through town with this new strange creature and…”

But then Derpy noticed the princesses of the sun and moon and started to panic a little. “Oh my gosh! Princess Celestia and Princess Luna! Wait, are you having some special secret Royal Meeting? I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to interrupted! I’ll leave!”

However, Celestia then walked up to Derpy and gave the cross-eyed pony a smile as she put a hoof to the mare’s shoulder. “It’s quite alright My Little Pony.” Celestia reassured.

“Roll credits!” Pinkie Pie suddenly said as a loud ‘Ding’ sound suddenly rung out with everypony looking for where it came from.

Celestia and Derpy didn’t seem to notice as Celestia said. “You aren’t interrupting anything. I’m assuming you’re here for a reason?”

“Oh, you’re right. I’m sorry I almost forget.” Derpy said as she chuckled to herself as she started to fly up with her flight pattern seemed to be bit uncoordinated as she flew around all wavy-like while often accidently leaning in different directions.

“I came her because I wanted to meet that new creature, I saw in town today.” She said as she looked around the room before her crossed eyes met Lincoln.

“Well that would be me.” Lincoln said as he got up and walked up to Derpy and held his hand out. “I’m Lincoln Loud, nice to meet ya!”

Derpy looked at his hand and closed her eyes and smiled…only to accidently boop his nose with her hoof. It didn’t really hurt but it pushed Lincoln back a little bit. Derpy noticed this and her eyes widened a bit in corner as she sent an apologetic look to Lincoln. “Oh, I’m sorry!” Derpy quickly said as she grabbed Lincoln’s still held out hand with both of her hooves and sheepishly smile. “I’m Derpy Hooves. But you can just call me Derpy.”

“Hehe, it’s fine don’t worry about Derpy.” Lincoln said, referring to Derpy accidently lightly hitting Lincoln’s nose. “I’ve taken worse, trust me. So, what’s up?”

“Well, when you looked at me today and smiled, you seemed really nice.” Derpy said as she tried to keep flying place, but in her typical fashion she started to accidently fly backwards a bit. Luckily Lincoln gently grabbed her hood and pulled her forward. “And I just wanted to get a chance to meet you myself!”

“Well I’m glad you aren’t frightened by me. A lot of the ponies outside seemed a bit nervous around me.” Lincoln said as he remembered all the nervous looks most of the ponies outside gave him.

Derpy simply gave a bit of dopey smile and said. “Well I wasn’t. I didn’t see a reason to. Like I said, you look really nice.” Derpy complimented before she asked. “So what are you all talking about.”

“Not much when you came in.” Rainbow Dash told her fellow Pegasus.

“Yeah.” Lincoln confirmed. “Twilight just offered me a place to stay while I’m here. Although I did run into another problem. I don’t really have any of the currency you guys use and I don’t wanna have to ask them for money so maybe there’s somewhere here I can find work.”

Twilight was about to speak up and say it wouldn’t be any trouble. Even Celestia as she would have been willing to share a bit of the MASSIVE royal treasury, she and Luna shared back at Cantorlot to their other universe guest. But Derpy suddenly gained a wide smile as she beat them all to speaking up. “I can help with that!”

“You can?” Everypony in the room asked at once, even the princesses.

“Uh-huh!” Derpy confirmed. “We’re looking for a new delivery pony at the post office so if you can do that I’d love to hire you!”

“That’s really nice of you Derpy.” Fluttershy told her fellow Pegasus with a smile.

“Yeah, I wouldn’t mind doing that.” Lincoln said as being a mail man shouldn’t be to hard. Especially if he used some of his speedier forms to get the job done.

“Great! Meet me at the post office in the morning and we can make it official!” Derpy said happily before looking over Lincoln’s body and saying. “Although, I don’t think we’ll have a uniform that fits you.”

“I can handle that darling!” Rarity spoke up in an excited tone. “It’ll be a fun challenge designing something for a brand-new body type!

“Oh, thanks Rarity.” Derpy said as she started to fly out. “See you tomorrow Lincoln.” Derpy said…before flying into the wall right next to the door.

Derpy rubbed her head as she steadied herself and flew out the door this time. Once she was gone, everypony couldn’t help but giggles at Derpy’s, well, derpy actions.

Just then Lincoln let out a loud yawn, which ended up catching onto everypony else except Luna. “It is getting rather late.” Celestia said in response to all the yawns. “It will soon be time to lower the sun and raise the moon, so my sister and I must be on our way back to Cantorlot.” Celestia told everypony as they all waved to the princess and said their goodbyes.

“Wait, before you go.” Lincoln called out to them and asked. “Is it true you two actually raise the sun and moon?”

“Why yes, it is.” Luna said while brushing her hoof through her flowing mane.

“Wow…that’s pretty impressive.” Lincoln said to them as he put a hand to the back of his head. “That must take a lot of magic energy.”

“Yes well, it’s something we’ve done for a long time.” Celestia told the Loud boy in a modest tone. “It’s simply out duty. However, your talents are truly remarkable and unheard of in Equestria history. I honestly look forward to see more of what you’re capable of.”

“Well, you’ll both just have to wait and see.” Lincoln said as he smirked and put his hands in his hoodie pockets. “Good night you’re majesties, I guess I’ll see you later.”

“Yes, I hope we do meet again. All of us.” Celestia said while she and Luna gave a last goodbye before teleporting back to Cantorlot castle.

LATER THAT NIGHT

That night, the moon was shining high in the sky as everypony in ponyville was asleep. For one human however, he was awake. Lincoln simply laid down in the guest room bed, which was a little small for him given that the bed was made for ponies, but he could make some adjustments last, simply thinking about what’s happened today.

And then…Lincoln looked to the audience.

“Well, today certainly has been a little crazy.” Lincoln told the readers. “One moment I was fighting some bug monster, and the next I’m in a world of ponies. However, this seems like it could be a nice little adventure of itself. I already made some nice friends and who knows what tomorrow has in store. Regardless, I’m looking forward to it.”

Lincoln then stopped talking to the viewers before looking out of the window and to the moon. He remembered what he was told the Royal sisters could do and even heard it himself from said sisters…but still…

“Do they really move them?” Lincoln asked himself before shrugging and heading off to sleep. Best not look for trouble when he literally just got here.

SUGAR CUBE CORNER

In the Sugar Cube Corner, where Pinkie Pie lived, the party pony herself suddenly was wide awake and instantly sat up. Pinkie’s eyes narrowed as she said. “I feel a disturbance in the fourth wall.”

Author's Note

Alright, the last introduction chapter is over and now I can finally get to doing the real fun stuff!
Like I said I have a lot I have planned, especially with the first Arc I have in this story which will come soon but first I wanna do a few just for fun chapters and such. Just a little hint to that arc, their character is highlighted in this story.
Well, that's all I have for now, don't forget to leave a thumbs up if you like this story, and stay tuned next time for...

Need for Speed

It was a nice, warm, and sunny day in the town of Ponyville. It’s been a week since the Utlimatrix wielder Lincoln Loud had come to Equestria via a portal created by Princess Twilight Sparkle and the other ponies in town had gotten quite used the white-haired human. At first his strange appearance and the fact that no other creature like him existed set everypony off a little bit but once they got used to him, we was actually kind of delightful to have around the town.

Not only did his natural friendly appearance help everypony get at least a little comfortable with him. But once they stopped to get to know him, he was quickly being treated like any other member of Ponyville society.

Although they were surly shocked when they witnessed him transformed and feared he was Changeling at first, but then Lincoln started to use his transformations to help around town whenever he could. For example, he would help ponies move heavy carts with a tall, red, and extremely muscular four-armed alien he simply called Four-Arms.

He would help out on Applejacks farm on occasion by using a chicken hawk-like alien he called Kickin Hawk to kick down the apples from the tree with a single kick and easily carrying all the apples in the baskets, which the Apple family was more the grateful for. Granted the old pony Granny Smith was a bit unsure about letting this Human on the farm, once she saw how hard a worker, she was she allowed it. But that didn’t stop her from keeping an eye on Lincoln.

He also made frequent trips to Rarity’s boutique. This was because the clothes he had one when he came to Equestria were his only pair and Rarity was more then generous enough to make him some new cloths free of charge. Lincoln insisted to repay her, but Rarity was adamant of this simply being a favor from one friend to another. Plus, Rarity was quite excited in the new challenge of creating clothes for Lincoln body type since it’s something she’s obviously never had to do before.

Lincoln finally let Rarity have her way and said he wasn’t one to car about his appearance and told Rarity some copies of the clothes he had one were ok as he was the kind of guy that preferred having a signature look. While Rarity did make a few pairs of hoodies and jeans for him, she couldn’t help but make him a few other items. Even making him a tux that looked similar to the blue tux he had back home…how did she know that?

He’s also made friends with a few of the ponies in town. The first one being Derpy, who was know his co-worker at the post office. Lincoln was a little nervous at first since he’s never had experience in the postal system before but once Derpy showed him the ropes it was actually very easy. And she was more then happy to let Lincoln use his alien forms to make the job easier. Heck. It made it easier for everypony else.

He’s also made friends with Mr and Mrs Cake. His first experience with them was during a surprise party Pinkie Pie threw him.

His second day of Equestria started with him waking up and going downstairs and being met with a surprise party organized by Pinkie and the rest of the Mane 6. There was everything you’d expect in a party. And the balloons and streamers even were based around his colors, orange, white and green.

There was a bunch of sweets, punch and games as well as ponies from all over town. Some of the first he met were the Cakes who were introduced to him by, once again, Pinkie Pie. At first the Cakes were a little nervous around him similar to everypony, but once Lincoln got a taste of the deserts, they made he quickly started complimented on how delicious they were. The Cakes took the compliments humbly and then out of nowhere it started into a discussion about baking as Lincoln swapped a few recipes with them as he was a bit of a baker to and helped dad with making deserts and a few other dishes at his restaurant in his world.

Another pony he met was the aqua color one he saw sitting on the bench yesterday which he learned her name was Lyra Heartstrings. Lyra was also with another Mare who was an Earth Pony named Bon-Bon.

Apparently, similar to Derpy, Lyra really wanted to meet Lincoln for whatever reason. So, the three simply got to having a pleasant conversation with Lincoln simply telling them about himself with the two mares soon following. And just like that, Lincoln had even more friends in this new world.

And as the days past things were simply nice and calm as he got to know more about the Mane 6 and this world. With Fluttershy he learned of her love of animals which honestly rivaled Lana’s own love of animals. He even showed her some of his more animal like transformations like Wildmutt and Blitzwolfer which he was afraid she would be scared of due to their appearance, but the exact opposite happened and she actually started treating him a bit like the animals she took care of while in those forms…and he’d be lying if he said he didn’t enjoy a little bit while as those aliens.

With Rainbow Dash he learned the Pegasus truly was like his sister Lynn in almost every way. Extremely competitive and loves winning. Thankfully due to his years of experience of dealing with Lynn, Rainbow Dash wasn’t hard to handle, and he would say he enjoyed learning about all the different sports in this world. He also learned Rainbow Dash dreamed of becoming a member of the Wonderbolts. A flying team which reminded him of his worlds Blue Angels

He got to know Rarity while she was making cloths for him and quickly compared her to his sister Leni in their love of cloths and cloths making.

With Applejack she reminded him of his friend Liam. And since he’s helped Liam at his farm before helping out Applejack wasn’t so bad. Plus, it was nice to get a good work out in. He also learned AJ also had a bit of a competitive side but not as much as Rainbow Dash.

And then finally Twilight. He imagined Twilight would be the more friendly and social version of his genius sister Lisa. She enjoyed reading books a lot and couldn’t help but introduce him to a bunch of books about Equestrian history and culture so he could learn about their world. And although he figured out their terminology…he was sticking to his own way of talking. Saying everypony just didn’t feel right with him.

Although he did really get into a book series called Daring Doo. While he’s not the most avid reader that book series really did click with him and his love and action and adventure.

Although most of the history of Equestria he learned from Twilight herself as even though she provided him with a bunch of books, she couldn’t help but talk about things herself.

He learned about things like the legendary Unicorn Star Swirl the Bearded, all the other creatures in Equestria like Griffons, Dragons, Yaks, etc. However, what interested Lincoln the most of were the stories Twilight told him about Twilights adventures with her friends.

Stopping a dragon from spreading smoke in the sky, dealing with creatures called Parasprites, learning of Pinkie’s Pinkie Sense, and even creating a time traveling paradox when Twilight met her future self-warning her of a disaster…that never came.

But the stories that really interested Lincoln were stories about them dealing with some of the villains of this world. She first talked about Discord, the lord of chaos and how they used the elements of Harmony to turn him into stone after he broke free of a previous petrification. However, due to recent developments it turns out Discord has been reformed, though Twilight still voiced her doubts and concerns about the matter.

She then talked about Chrysalis. The queen of the Changelings. Lincoln remembered hearing that name when he first transformed in front of the Mane 6 and know he knew why they accused him of being one. Changelings were pony-like bug creatures with the ability to transform into anypony they see and even copy their voice.

Twilight told Lincoln about when Chrysalis disguised herself as her formal Foal sitter Princess Cadence during her wedding with Twilight brother Shining Armor. Chrysalis plan was to steal the love from Shining Armor and essentially use him to gain more power and for her and her changling armor to ambush the wedding to take over Cantorlot and eventually Equestria.

Then she told him about King Sombra. An evil unicorn who took over the Crystal Empire 1000 years ago and was banished by the Royal Sister, but not before casting a curse on the Empire causing it to disappear for 1000 years. And when the Empire reappeared, so did he. But the Mane 6 were able to defeat him due to Spike recovering the Crystal Heart that protect the empire from insanely harsh blizzards as well as cause Sombra to disappear again.

Along with these stories he learned about the Elements of Harmony. Magical artifacts of great power that was connected to the Mane 6.

Pinkie Pie represented the element of Laughter.

Rarity represented the element of Generosity.

Applejack represented the element of Honesty.

Fluttershy represented the element of Kindness.

Rainbow Dash represented the element of Loyalty.

And Twilight Sparkle represented the element of Magic.

But in all this, there was one story that didn’t sit well with Lincolns gut. Nightmare Moon. Apparently 1000 years ago, Luna started to feel intense jealousy over her sister as the Ponies practically worshiped her and the sun but would always sleep during the nighttime moon and left the Lunar Princess alone without anypony praising her.

Due to this, an evil spirit overcame Luna and turned her into the Dark Alicorn Nightmare Moon. After that happened, Celestia was forced to use the Elements of Harmony to banish her sister to the moon for 1000 years.

A lot of things in that story didn’t sit right with Lincoln as well at all. First of all, 1000 years stuck on the moon. He couldn’t comprehend how awful that sounded. Being stuck on a lifeless rock and surrounded by the extremely cold, empty and completely silent void of space for 1000 years…calling it torture was putting it very mildly.

And secondly, the act of Celestia do that in the first place. From what Twilight told him the Elements could do a lot of things. Celestia could have done something, literally anything else…but she chose to banish for own sister just because she felt neglected. That just felt so wrong to him. As someone with 10 sister’s family was one of, if not the most important things to him. Yeah, he and his sisters have had and still do have their problems, but Lincoln would go through Hell and back for them over and over again no matter what.

Honestly, part of him wanted to go to Celestia and demand answers about this, but he just entered this world. He didn’t want to go looking for trouble. He’ll get to it when it’s a more appropriate time.

But enough about the past week, let’s get back to today. Currently, Lincoln was now in the form of a monkey-like aliens with four arms and four green eyes with blue fur. This was Lincoln’s Archnichimp transformation Spider-Monkey.

Spider-Monkey was currently doing his job at the Ponyville post office any putting his multiple limbs to good use to quickly sort mail into the right slots. Just then Derpy Hooves walked past him and put her hat on a little hook next to the desk. “I’m going on my lunch break Lincoln. Will you be ok here?”

“Sure will Derps!” Spider-Monkey reassured her with a double thumbs up.

Derpy smiled at the gesture and use of the nickname Spider-Monkey made for her and gave a nod of approval before walking out and heading to go get something to eat.

A little later, Derpy was sitting at one of the outside tables of the PonyVille café with an iced tea, a Daisy, lettuce, and tomato sandwich along with a chocolate chip muffin. As Derpy was eating her DLT sandwich, a familiar voice called out to her.

“Hey Derpy!” Derpy swallowed the bit she took of her sandwich and looked up to see the source of the voice being none other than the blue Pegasus Rainbow Dash flying above Derpy.

The gray Pegasus smiled as Rainbow landed right next to her table and said. “Oh hi Rainbow Dash. How’s it going today?”

“Pretty good. Just got down practicing some awesome new tricks!” Rainbow Dash told her fellow Pegasus while making some gestures with her wings to emphasize what she said. “Although now I’m starving! Mind if I sit with you?”

“Oh sure! Pull up a seat!” Derpy told Rainbow Dash with her usual smile and happy tone.

A few moments later, Rainbow Dash now had her own food consisting of a cup of coffee and a hay and rose sandwich that had toothpick on it with an olive.

As the two Pegasus ate together, Rainbow Dash decided to ask. “So how’s snowball doing at the post office?” Rainbow Dash asked while taking a sip of her coffee.

“Who? Ooooooh, you mean Lincoln.” Derpy giggled at the name Rainbow Dash use for the human and went on to say. “He’s going great! He’s a super hard worker and really helpful! His uh, aliens I think he calls them really lightens up the workload for everypony.”

“Well that’s good he’s holding his own weight.” Rainbow Dash commented as she laid back in her seat. “He tends to lend a helping hoof, er hand I guess as he calls them, whenever he can.”

“It shows to.” Derpy said with a smiled as she’s remembered all the time Lincoln helping out whether it was at the post office or at the town somewhere. “Although he really shines when it comes to deliveries.”

“Oh really?” Rainbow Dash asked with a bit of interest as she started eating her sandwich.

“Uh-huh.” Derpy confirmed with a nod. “He has this form called, um, uuuh, I think he called it Accelerate or something like that. Anyway, he moves suuuuper fast and he’s able to deliver packages and letters all over Equestria super easily!”

“Ahhh, a form with speed huh?” Rainbow Dash now with some peaked interest at hearing that Lincoln had some speed forms in that gauntlet of his. “Well, I might just have to check that form out sometime then.”

“Oh, you totally should.” Derpy agreed with a nod as Rainbow Dash started to take a long slow sip of her coffee. And just then, Derpy dropped a bit of a bombshell. “I think he’s even faster than you Rainbow Dash.”

Hearing this, Rainbow Dash’s eyes shot open as she did a spit take with her coffee. Luckily Derpy was able to move her head to the side and avoided being dowsed by it. Rainbow coughed a few timesand wiped off her face before she looked at Derpy and started laughing a little. “Hehehe, that’s really funny Derpy. For a second, I thought you said Lincoln was faster than me.”

“But I did.” Derpy said as she tilted her head and spoke with her normal tone.

Rainbow Dash’s right eye twitched a tiny bit as she had to force herself to keep her smile on. “You’re…you’re kidding right?”

“No, you should see him go.” Derpy said, not seeing Rainbow Dash’s apparent annoyance at this and treating it like a normal conversation. “He was able to deliver a package from here all the way to Cantorlot in less then a minute! It was pretty amazing.”

Rainbow Dash was still trying to process everything Derpy told her as she stuttered. “L-L-L-Less than a minute?! From here to Cantorlot?! But that’s impossible!” The blue Pegasus yelled.

“Uuuuh, well,” Derpy thought as she put a hoof to his chin. “He did come back with a signed paper for the package that the pony he was delivering it to so I’m pretty sure he did.”

Once again, Rainbow’s eye twitched as her smile was slowly breaking as she said. “Give me a second.” Rainbow Dash then got up from her chair and buried her head in a nearby bush. Just then she let out a frustrated scream that was muffled by the bush as Derpy simply stared at her friend with a confused expression.

After a few seconds Rainbow stopped screaming and lifted her head from the bush and quickly flew up into the sky. “Sorry Derpy, but I gotta go!” Rainbow said quickly before disappearing in a rainbow blue.

“Oh ok, bye Rainbow Dash!” Derpy waved her friend off with a smile.

At Golden Oaks library, Twilight was simply enjoying a book while sitting on the couch in the main room of the Library. Just then she heard a familiar voice.

“TWILIGHT!!!” Twilight sighed at hearing it and proceeded to put her book down and open the window with her magic. She did this just in time for a rainbow blur to crash right into her library, luckily avoid knocking down any books.

“Yes Rainbow.” Twilight said in an unamused tone. Yes, she loved her friends but she was getting a little sick and tired to Rainbow Dash literally crashing into her home.

Rainbow Dash quickly got up and shook her head to regain herself as she suddenly rushed right up in front of Twilights face. “Is Lincoln faster than me?!” The rainbow themed Pegasus quickly asked.

“Wha-huh?” Twilight stuttered as she back away from Rainbow to get her personal space.

“I said. Is. Lincoln. Fast then me?” Rainbow said slowly with growing annoyance in her voice.

“What do you mean? Where did this suddenly come from?” Twilight asked with a confused expression, willing to hear her racing friend out.

“I was having lunch with Derpy and I was asking how snowball was doing at the post office. And then suddenly Derpy said Lincoln uses one of his alien forms to deliver packages across Equestria that’s faster then me!” Rainbow Dash explained as the memory only made her impatient to find an answer.

“Did you find out the name of this form?” Twilight said while trying to keep everything calm and rational.

“I think she said it was called Accelerate or something.” Rainbow answered as she put a hoof to her chin.

“Oooooh! You mean XLR8.” Twilight answered as she remembers what form her friend was talking about.

“What?” Rainbow asked with a raised brow.

“X-L-R-8. It’s supposed to be a play on the word Accelerate.” Twilight told her as she couldn’t help but admit how clever the play on the word was.

“Huh, that’s pretty cool actually.” Rainbow admitted with a mutter before shaking her head and saying. “Back to topic, is he actually faster than me. Because that’s gotta be some sort of joke, right?”

Twilight hummed in thought as she put a hoof to her chin. “Well, Lincoln has shown me a bunch of his forms so I couldn’t take notes on them and document them in a book and I’ve examined a number of his forms.” The Alicorn then grabbed a book of her work bench and opened it up to reveal page open page of showing Lincoln’s various forms which including high detailed drawings of each one and information about each one including home world, powers, personalities, etc.

Rainbow Dash then watched as the Alicorn turned to a page she made that had a picture of an armored velociraptor alien with wheels on its feet. Twilight then went to explain the details of this transformation.

“XLR8 is a Kineceleran. Their home world is the Planet Kinet. Their a species of Velociraptor-like species known for their high speeds, quick reflexes, enhanced stamina, recovery, jumping, agility and even dexterity and accelerated thinking. Features include sharp claws, a prehensile tail and a helmet with a visor that can be raised up or down at will.”

“Ok, ok, ok, all the egghead stuff is great and all, but can you just answer my question already.” Rainbow Dash said impatiently that made Twilight huff in annoyance. “How. Fast. Is. He?”

“Fine.” Twilight relented as she looked to where she wrote down the top speed. However, at seeing what she wrote down, she quickly closed the quick and gave Rainbow and nervous laugh and smile. “Oops, guess I forgot to write it down oh well.” Twilight said quickly as she started to walk away.

Rainbow Dash wasn’t buying it and narrowed her eyes at Twilight. “Twilight, you’re about a good a liar as Applejack is. What did you record for his top speed?”

“Really. It’s nothing Rainbow Dash. You’re a fast Pegasus and should be proud of what you’ve accomplished so far.”

“Twilight!” Rainbow yelled as she stomped forward.

“Ok! Ok fine!” Twilight surrendered as she opened up the book again and read from it. “The Kineceleran is capable at running at speeds faster than even natural lighting which moves at about 1/3 third the speed of light at 220,000,000 miles per hour.”

Everything went silent as Twilight and Rainbow stared at each other. Twilight sheepishly smile as Rainbow Dash was frozen in shock. Just then Rainbow narrowed her eyes at Twilight before she flew up and was preparing to fly out the door.

Twilight was quick to stop her as she walked up to the door and asked. “Wait, Rainbow Dash where are you going?”

“Where do you think.” Rainbow Dash said in a tone that made it seem like her destination was obvious. “I’m gonna find Lincoln and challenge in and that XLR8 form to a race. No way that’s true no pony in Equestria history is even close to being that fast. So, I’m gonna show him what I’m made of!”

“Are you sure that’s a good idea?” Twilight asked as Rainbow opened the door. “Rainbow, you’re still one of, if not thee fastest Pegasus in Equestria. That’s something to be extremely proud of. You really don’t have anything to prove against racing against another species all together.”

“Yeah-huh I’ve got something to prove!” Rainbow Dash said as she flew above Twilight to get through the door. “I gotta show I’m not just the fastest Pegasus but also the fastest pony period! Tell the girls to meet up at the open field.”

And with that, Rainbow Dash flew away leaving Twilight with a worried look on her face.

At the Ponyville post office, Lincoln could be seen wearing his regular cloths and walking out while switching the sign from Open to Closed. Letting a pleased sigh as he said. “Wonder what I should do for the rest of the day?”

“HEY LOUD!” Lincoln turned to the voice and his eyes widened as he narrowly avoided getting hit by a rainbow blur.

Luckily Rainbow Dash stopped herself before she crashed into anything. She then quickly turned around and sped right in front of Lincoln face and locked her narrowed eyes with his. “Uuuh, can I help you?” Lincoln asked awkwardly.

“You. Me. Right now! Let’s go!” Rainbow Dash challenged as she pushed forward causing Lincoln to lean back.

“I don’t know what you’re-“ Lincoln was saying before Rainbow Dash interrupted him.

“I wanna race right now!” Rainbow Dash finally said as Lincoln backed up and stood up straight.

“Um, ok. I mean I’m down for it but why?” Lincoln asked, surprised and a bit confused by Rainbow Dash’s request. Especially since she was acting a little aggressive.

“I wanna challenge that XLR8 form of yours and show that I’m the fastest pony in Equestria!” Rainbow Dash explained to him as she gave a cocky smile. “Unless of course you’re chicken.”

Lincoln was silent for a few seconds, but then grinned as he looked Rainbow in the eye. “Alright Dash, you’re on.”

An hour later, Lincoln and the Mane 6 and Spike were all gathered around the open fields Lincoln and Rainbow Dash were standing next to each other both doing stretches before the big race.

In front of them was a starting line made of party streamers supplied by Pinkie Pie. “Hope you’re ready to lose.” Rainbow Dash said as she stretched her wings out.

“We’ll see.” Lincoln said as he activated the Ultimatrix and quickly found the alien Rainbow challenged and slammed it down and was covered in the signature green glow.

“XLR8!” The transformed Kineceleran announced as he got into a running position along with bringing his visor down.

Meanwhile Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie were sitting a bit to the side awaiting the race that would occur. “Well, ah figured this would happen sooner or later.” Applejack commented as she stroked Rarity’s mane while the fashionista rested on her marefriends lap.

“I’m honestly surprised this didn’t happen on Lincoln second day here.” Rarity commented as she and everypony else knew how competitive Rainbow Dash could be and they were honestly waiting for when she would challenge one of Lincoln’s aliens to some sort of competition.

“Oh dear, I just hope nothing bad happens.” Fluttershy muttered timidly as she hoped this race wouldn’t end up hurting the loser. Fluttershy then sent a concerned looked to Rainbow Dash as a bad feeling in her gut told her she was the one she should be worrying about. And if anything hurt her more then most things, it was seeing her best friend and fellow Pegasus hurt and/or depressed.

With Twilight and Spike, they were currently setting up some sort of device a few yards away from the starting line. “Aaaaand…done!” Spike said as he finished something up. “Is this good Twilight?”

“Perfect Spike. Now we just hope it works.” Twilight said as she looked over her speed tracker. If her calculations and construction was correct this should be able to track speeds up to the speed of light so she can get proper data for tracking XLR8’s top speed.

She also had another simpler device at the finish line that would simply announce when somepony crossed it. The finish line was about 5 kilometers away which Twilight thought was a good amount of distance.

“So, who do you think’s gonna win?” The young dragon asked as he and Twilight walked next to the starting line.

It was then that Twilight put a worried look on her face and looked towards Rainbow Dash. “I think I already know.” She muttered quietly as she and Spike stood right next to the starting line with XLR8 and Rainbow Dash more than ready.

“Alright everypony, you both ready?” Twilight asked as she looked over them.

“Yep!” Both of the speedsters said instantly.

“On your marks…get ready…” Spike said as he rose his arm. “GO!”

“Here I g-“ Rainbow Dash said but was suddenly interrupted when an insane amount of backlash pushed her back and…

FINISH!!!

It wasn’t even a second.

The race took less then a second to finish.

Everypony froze once they heard the words finish pretty much right as start was heard.

They all looked to see that the shockwaves have pushed Rainbow Dash back and she didn’t even get past the starting line, but her opponent XLR8 was gone. When they all looked up at out the distance to where the finish line was, they saw XLR8 waving at them and standing next to the machine Twilight set up over there.

Just then they heard beeping, finally giving somepony a reason to talk. “Uh, Twilight, your speed thing is goin off.” Applejack told the purple alicorn as she pointed to the speed detector.

Twilight finally managed to get her focus back and walked over to the speed monitor and looked at what speed was record…and her jaw dropped. “Th-th-this is impossible!!!” The Alicorn yelled as she double checked the numbers.

“What? What’s wrong darling?” Rarity said as she and everypony stood up suddenly at hearing Twilight yell.

“What’s the speed monitor say?” Spike asked as he ran up to the purple mare as Rainbow Dash laid on the ground frozen.

“I-It s-says…261,741,964 miles per hour.” The Alicorn breathed out.

“WHAT?!” Everypony shouted in surprise as they went to check the speed monitor for themselves.

“Wowie Zowie!” Pinkie Pie gasped. “That’s super-duper mega mondo fast!”

“It shatters every single record in Equestria history.” Spike muttered as he’s read a few of Equestria’s record books and all record speed feats from all types of ponies didn’t even come close to that!”

Just then XLR8 sped right next to them to the point where they didn’t see him coming and everypony but Pinkie was startled by his sudden appearance. “So? How’d a do?” XLR8 asked with a simple smile.

“Well darling, needless to say you won.” Rarity answered for him as the dinosaur-like alien pumped up his fist in victory.

“So now that that’s over let’s go to the Sugar Bube Corner for victory root beer floats!” Pinkie Pie suggested as she suddenly popped up from being XLR8.

“Hey I could go for one of those.” XLR8 agreed as he slapped the Ultimatrix symbol and turned back to his human form.

“Me to!” Spike quickly said as he stepped up to them.

Everypony then muttered in agreement as Twilight packed up her gear. Only one was left out however. As everypony was walking away, Fluttershy looked back and gained a sympathetic look as she saw Rainbow Dash sitting on her flank facing away from everyone.

“Um, Rainbow Dash, would you, uh, like to join us?” The shy Pegasus asked as she tried to put on a smile for her friend.

“No.” Rainbow Dash said in a low tone as she started walking away.

“Bu-but, I’m sure everypony w-would like to have you the-“ Fluttershy was stuttering before being cut off by the rainbow themed Pegasus.

“Fluttershy, I really just wanna be alone.” Rainbow snapped silently causing Fluttershy to flinch and back away.

Fluttershy could only watch in sadness as she watched her best friend leave. All the yellow Pegasus could do was lower her head and walked towards the rest of her friends.

At the Sugar Cube Corner, Pinkie, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Twilight, Spike, and Lincoln could all be seen sitting together at a table all enjoying a root beer float with the exception of Rarity who simply had a bowl of vanilla ice cream.

Pinkie proceeded to chug hers down in less then 5 seconds and getting all the foam and ice cream on her muzzle which was quickly licked up by her long cartoony tongue.

“…Everything about that mare confuses me.” Lincoln said as Spike nodded in agreement as they watched Pinkie Pie just be Pinkie Pie.

As Applejack took a drink of her own float, she looked across the table and saw that Fluttershy with her head lowered and a sadden expression across her face and her root beer float untouched. “Everythin ok sugar cube?” Applejack asked Fluttershy making everypony look towards her.

Fluttershy snapped out of her thoughts and looked towards everypony and said. “Oh, sorry everypony. I guess I just can’t help but be a little worried is all.” The timid Pegasus answered.

“About what?” Spike asked as he wiped some root beer foam from his mouth.

“It’s about Rainbow Dash.” Fluttershy answered as most ponies on the table nodded and quickly caught onto what the yellow Pegasus meant. “I’m just worried how she’s taking her loss.”

“Why’s that?” Lincoln asked as he set his mug down.

“Well, I’m sure you’ve noticed by now darling, but Rainbow Dash is a rather proud pony.” Rarity said as Lincoln nodded at her words.

“Yeah, I’ve noticed she’s a lot like my older sister Lynn.” Lincoln stated he leaned his head on his head and took a swing of his float. “Lynn is essentially the definition of competitive. Pretty much good at every sport in the book, except chess, obsessed with winning, and until a few years ago, always in your face about her victories. She made family game night unbearable with her gloating since she always somehow won.”

“Yep. Sounds like Dashie alright!” Pinkie Pie stated as she licked the inside of the mug to make sure she got every drop of sweet liquid and ice cream.

“Yeah, she’s a very proud Pegasus and the thing she takes pride in the most is her speed.” Twilight explained as she came into the conversation.

“She is the first and only pony to pull off the Sonic Rainboom.” Spike confirmed as Lincoln remembered those words. Twilight explained to him Rainbow Dash’s Sonic Rainboom and how it ended up getting her and the entire Mane 6 their Cutie Marks.

“Right. Anyway, Rainbow Dash considered herself to be the fastest pony in Equestria.” Twilight said as she sent a worried look towards Lincoln.

“Aaah, I can see where this is going.” Lincoln said while nodding. He could tell what they were getting but everything was confirmed when Fluttershy spoke up again.

“I’m just worried how Rainbow is taking a loss like that.” Fluttershy said as she knew her fellow Pegasus was probably taking a massive loss like this very hard.

“Well, maybe this’ll be good for her.” Applejack commented as she took another drink of her root beer. “Help her act less arrogant.”

“Yeah I’m with AJ on this one.” Lincoln agreed with the farm pony as he gestured his head to her. “Like with Lynn, she needs to learn that while pride is a good trait to have to much of it can lead some problems.”

“Still…” Fluttershy said in a still worried tone. “I just hope she’s ok.” Once again, she hated seeing Rainbow Dash sad. It was probably one of, if not, her least favorite things. Seeing Rainbow without a smile on her face just made the shy Pegasus’s heart break.

“Don’t worry, she will be.” Lincoln said before an idea came to his head and he started nodding to himself. He then chugged down the rest of his float and put the mug down and stood up. “In fact, I think I have an idea. Twilight, you and everybody else met me and Rainbow Dash tomorrow at the field again and I think everything will work out well.”

And with that, Lincoln left. Everypony looked at each other confused, but simply shrugged and decided to go along with what Lincoln said and hoped for the best.

The next day, Celestia’s sun was slowly raising as Luna’s moon was lowering. Everypony was started to wake up for the day expect one certain Pegasus who was constantly flying across Twilight’s speed meter.

“Come on! Come on! Come on!” Rainbow Dash yelled to herself as she sped by the speed monitor again as fast as she could during her current condition.

After her completely humiliating defeat by Lincoln yesterday, Rainbow Dash had been working non-stop to try and get herself to the speeds XLR8 showed. But so far, her efforts were proven fruitless as the most she got was over 10,000 miles per hour. Fast, certainly faster than any pony but it doesn’t hold a candle to the Kineceleran she raced against who went over 1/3 the speed of light for just traveling 5 kilometers.

And the progress of Rainbow’s training showed as she was sweaty, had bags under her eyes, her fur and feathers were dirty, and her mane was messy.

When Rainbow landed, she winced due to how sore her muscles were from the non-stop working she’s been doing and looked at the speed meter but groaned when she didn’t even break the 10,000 mph mark.

“Oh, come on!” The blue Pegasus yelled in frustration as she fell back first to the ground. She released a groan of irritation as she looked up at the sky that was slowly but surely turning blue.

Rainbow closed her eyes as she talked to herself. “How? Just how can anything go that freaking fast?!” She was supposed to be the fastest. And if she wasn’t that, then what was she.

Just then she noticed a shadow being cast over her through her eye lids and opened her eyes to see a certain green-eyed human looking down at her and smiling. “Howdy neighbor.” Lincoln said.

Rainbow Dash glared as she turned her head from him and said. “What do you want?” Rainbow Dash said irritably.

Lincoln simply chuckled and proceeded to sit down in front of the Pegasus. “Well good morning sunshine.” The white head said as Rainbow Dash simply let out a huff.

“So what, come here to brag?” Rainbow accuses she didn’t move from the spot she was at.

“You know you really do sound like my sister Lynn.” Lincoln simply said as he looked up in thought.

“And what’s that supposed to mean?” Rainbow Dash asked in an annoyed tone as she sat up and gave Lincoln and unamused look.

“Well I think you and Lynn would get along great.” Lincoln said as he looked up at the sky and reminisced about his older sister. “You’re both athletic, good at nearly everything you try, and have a lot of pride within you.”

“Heh, your sister sounds pretty cool.” Rainbow Dash admitted as she smirked and thought about maybe meeting Lynn one day and challenging her to a few things.

“Yeah, and you know pride is a good thing to have. Just about everyone in my family has pride about something.” Lincoln told her when suddenly his expression saddened a bit. “But if you take your pride to far it can lead to some…issues.”

Rainbow Dash’s eyes widened a bit from Lincoln’s tone. She’s never heard him talk like that and asked. “What do you mean?”

“Well…” Lincoln began as he put a hand to the back of his head. “I won’t get into the exact details, it’s pretty long story that I’ll tell everyone together, but the summary is that when I was 11, something happened involving Lynn that caused me and my younger sister Lucy to resent her a bit. Things were shaky for a while and soon enough Lynn’s arrogance got the better of her and she did something that had some serious consequences. Yeah, everything worked out at the end, but I was really pissed at her for a while.”

“Wh-what exactly is the point? Why are you telling me this?” Rainbow Dash asked as she failed to see the point to all this.

“The point is, Lynn let her arrogance and pride get the better of her and led her to making some mistakes. Big ones.” Lincoln explained to the Pegasus as he looked her right in the eye. “I don’t want you making the same mistakes.”

Rainbow Dash took all of Lincoln’s words in and lowered her head a bit. She…did often let her pride get the best of her and more then once led to her doing something that at least annoyed her friends and at most got them really angry with her. Before Rainbow Dash could respond, Lincoln spoke up with friends. “Look, there’s nothing wrong with being prideful. But you can’t let it control you otherwise it can lead down a dark path. You think you’re the fastest thing alive, well sorry but to put it bluntly, you’re not.”

Rainbow Dash winced at Lincoln’s words and was about to retaliate but stopped herself when she saw the smile Lincoln was sending her. “But that’s not really a bad thing.” The white head said as he went on to explain his reasoning. “I mean, imagine that you were the fastest. Then what? No challenges, nothing to work up to. You’re just there…and then what?”

Rainbow Dash thought about Lincoln’s words for a bit, and then gave a small smile and admitted. “Yeah, I guess not having any goals or anything to work up to sounds a little boring huh?”

“Yeah.” Lincoln agreed with a small chuckle. Both of them sat in silence for a bit just watching as the sun finally reached its peak in the sky. After about 20 minutes of peaceful silence, Lincoln turned to the Pegasus and said. “Look, you may not be the fastest thing but I think you’re the fastest in one regard.”

Rainbow Dash hummed in interest as she turned to Lincoln with the white head saying. “Get some rest. I told the rest of our friends to meet us here in a bit. I’ll wake you up when they get here and then we can do something I think you’ll like.”

Rainbow Dash then let out a yawn after Lincoln said rest as she just realized how tired she was. “Yeah. I’m beat. See ya later Linc.” Rainbow Dash said as she flew up to the nearest cloud and once she landed on it, she instantly fell asleep.

A few hours later, Rainbow Dash still snoring loudly on the cloud she was sleeping on. “Hey.” A voice called out to her making her roll around in her cloud bed. “Come on, wake up!” Rainbow groaned out a ‘fine, fine’ as she opened her eyes and wincing at the sunlight that hit them making her vision blurry.

After a moment or two, her vision started to regain as she focuses in on a Pegasus stallion right in front of her that she didn’t recognize. He had light orange fur and a familiar shade of white for their mane and tail and green eyes.

“Wha-who are-“ Rainbow Dash was asking but stopped when the Pegasus turned to his side and showed what was on his flank. The Ultimatrix symbol. Rainbow Dash quickly shot up and was now wide awake as she asked. “Woah! Linc is that you?”

“Yep.” He confirmed with a smile. “But you can just call me Jetwing in this form!”

“Heh, nice name.” Rainbow Dash said before shaking her head and getting to the point. “So is this what you wanted to show me?”

“Part of it, yes.” Jetwing answered. “Look, you challenged XLR8 to race, not the fairest competition considering even an average specimen of his speices can go from 0 to hyper sonic in a second.” Jetwing told her as Rainbow sighed in annoyance at remembering just how outclasses she was compared to XLR8 and now his entire species.

“But,” Jetwing said in a positive tone. “Let’s see how we do against each other when on equal ground. If your up to it of course.”

Rainbow Dash thought about it. She knew what Lincoln met. Instead of Pegasus vs Alien. Pegasus vs Pegasus. Rainbow suddenly felt herself grinning as she looked Jetwing right in the eye and said. “Bring it on.”

Later, it was a similar to set up. The Mane 6 aside from Twilight and Rainbow Dash were sitting to the side now looking more positive although Fluttershy still looked a bit worried.

“Lincoln vs Rainbow Dash round 2!” Pinkie Pie yelled in excitement as she pulled out a bag of popcorn from her mane.

“Do your best darlings!” Rarity cheered for both of them.

“Show us some speed!” Applejack yelled while waving her Stenson hat in the air.

‘Come on Rainbow…’ Fluttershy thought as she looked at the rainbow themed pony. ‘I know you can do it.’

“Alright, everything’s all set up.” Twilight said as she and Spike took their assigned positions. “Everypony ready?”

“Ready!” Rainbow Dash and Jetwing said in unison.

“On your mark…get set…” Spike said as he raised his hand up. “GO!”

Both Pegasus quickly took off flying at the exact same time, creating a lot of backlash that pushed all the spectators back a bit.

With Rainbow Dash and Jetwing, they currently had their eyes narrowed at the quickly approaching finish line. Right when one gained the lead the other would instantly past the other. It was neck and neck when…

FINISH!

Everypony heard Twilights machine yell out the word and quickly looked forward to see both Pegasus had crossed the line. “Who won? I can’t tell?” Applejack asked as she put her hooves over her narrow eyes to try and see farther.

“Come on everypony, let’s go find out.” Twilight said as her friends gathered around her. Just then Twilight’s horn glowed brightly as she proceeded to teleport her and her friends away. They then reappeared where the finish line was and saw Rainbow Dash and Jetwing breathing heavily.

“So, who won?” Spike quickly asked.

Both Pegasus got up and looked to each other, and then to the group in front of them as Jetwing smirked…and gestured his head towards Rainbow Dash. Everypony gasped as Rainbow smirked in victory. “Might not be the fastest alive…but I’m still the fastest Pegasus baby!” Rainbow Dash told everypony proudly.

Everypony proceeded to cheer with Fluttershy in general letting out a surprise squeal of delight as she suddenly rushed up to her fellow Pegasus and wrapped her into a hug and nuzzled the side of her head and mane against Rainbow’s head.

The hug went on for minute with Rainbow Dash chuckling with a light blush and said. “Enjoying yourself flutters?”

Fluttershy’s eyes widened as she realized what she was doing and quickly let go and tried to hide her face in her mane. “I-I-I’m s-sorry. I di-didn’t mean to h-hold on for so l-long.”

“It’s no sweat. Thanks Shy.” Rainbow Dash said as Fluttershy’s cheeks turned red which she luckily managed to hide behind her mane.

“See that Rainbow.” Jetwing said as he stepped forward. “You may not be the fastest thing, but I still think it’s safe to call you the fastest Pegasus. So not only can you be proud of that, but know you still have something to work for and a reason to improve yourself. Just try not to let your pride and arrogance get the better of you.”

“Hehehe, I get that a lot.” Rainbow Dash admitted sheepishly as an embarrassed blush came to her face. “But I’ll try better from now on. Thanks Linc.”

“Always happy to help!” Jetwing said positively before hitting the Ultimatrix symbol and turning back to human. “Now I don’t know about you guys, but I’m in the mood for a breakfast muffin you all in?”

Everypony quickly cheered in agreement as they all went off to get some long awaited breakfast.

Author's Note

Another chapter done!

Shout outs to my friend YellowPikmin for giving me the idea for that small scene of Spider-Monkey organizing mail.

And shout outs to my friend Qazse for the name of Lincoln's Pegasus form.

I had a lot of fun making this and I have plans for more chapters like this as I kinda what to blend the elements of both Loud House and MLP together while I have that Ben 10 flare in there with some chapters revolving more around the Ben 10 type of stuff. But you'll just have to keep reading to see it all so remember to leave a like and comment and stay tuned for the next chapter...

Maud Pie

“Alright Pinkie better have a good reason for this.” Lincoln groaned as he wiped the sleep out of his eyes. He and the Mane 6 aside from Pinkie Pie herself were currently standing outside the Sugar Cube Corner…very early in the morning.

“Yeah. It’s way to early to get up for anything.” Rainbow groaned as she hovered closer to her friends while letting out a big yawn.

“I just can’t go without my beauty sleep.” Rarity said in a sleepy tone. Luckily Applejack was there to wrap a hoof around her marefriend and give her a kiss on the cheek.

“Well ah think ya always look beautiful sugar cube.” Applejack told the white unicorn, making her smile and lean into the farm pony’s neck. Applejack as really the only pony not effected by waking up this early as she pretty much did this on a daily basis to work on her farm. The blond mare then turned to the rest of her friends as asked them “Has anypony heard from Pinkie Pie since yesterday?”

“Not me.” Lincoln said as everypony else muttered, saying they also haven’t seen the pink party pony recently either.

Rainbow let out another yawn as she complained even more about the meeting time. “I just don’t get why she asked us to come this early!” The Pegasus groaned as she gestured over to a sleeping rooster. “Celestia hasn’t even raised the sun yet!”

“I hope everything’s ok.” Twilight said with concern before knocked on the door to the sweets shop.

Once Twilight knocked, they heard the sound of clattering come inside making everypony look at each other in some slight concern of what was going on inside. Just then the door opened revealing Pinkie Pie wearing safety goggles and a white chef’s hat. “Thank goodness you’re all here! There’s no time to lose!” Pinkie said quickly as she walked out and proceeded to throw her friends inside. The only one to avoid this was Twilight as she walked inside and Rainbow who tried to fly in, but Pinkie accidently closed the door on her once everypony else was inside. Pinkie quickly opened up the door again and grabbed the Pegasus’s hoof and dragged her inside.

When everypony was inside, they soon looked down to find tiny little colored rocks on the floor. Looking around the room they saw that there was tons of these kinds of rocks around with canisters filled over the brim with them.

“What is all this?” Twilight asked as they all watched as Pinkie held a bowl filled with even more rocks and was stirring them around with a whisk.

Pinkie them spat out the whisk as she explained to her friends the situation. “My sister Maud’s going to be here soon, and I need your help taste-testing my rock candy recipes.” The pink pony explained as she gestured her head over to all the piles of rock candy in the room.

“Uh, were happy to help Pinkie Pie, but this seems like an awful lot of candy…” Applejack pointed out as she felt a little intimidated by what was possibly hundreds of pieces of rock candy in the room.

“Even for you.” Rarity pointed out as she knew that Pinkie Pie loved sweets and tended to go a little bit crazy whenever doing something involving them, but this was dialing it up to 11.

“Yeah, I think you went a little overboard.” Lincoln added in as he tried his best to maneuver around the room and not step on one of the many pieces of candy on the floor.

“Maybe just a teensy bit.” Pinkie admitted with a big sheepish smile.

A few hours later, everypony but Pinkie was now on the ground groaning in pain with a few clenching their stomachs in pain due to eating one rock candy to many. “Ok guys, I’m tagging out.” Lincoln groaned as he fell down clenching his stomach.

Just then Pinkie came in wheeling in a what looked like a garbage can that was filled with, yet, even more rock candy. “Everypony ready for more?” She asked happily getting a groan from everypony in response.

“My teeth hurt.” Rainbow Dash as with a bunch of pieces of candy stuck to her muzzle and a clenching her belly.

“Ah think we’ve had enough.” Applejack quickly said as she and most likely everypony else couldn’t bare to eat a single piece more. “And shouldn’t you be on your way to pick up Maud from the train station?”

“But you only tried half of the flavors.” Pinkie Pie stated as she grabbed as much candies from the trash can as she good with her fore hooves and spoke with a slightly anxious tone. “And we have to choose the perfect ones before she gets here so I have time to make more.”

Everypony then all watch as Pinkie shoved all the candy in her mouth before picking up the trash can and dumping the rest of the candy in her mouth and quickly chewing it up and swallowing. Twilight then walked up to Twilight with a reassuring look on her face. “Pinkie, Maud is your sister. I’m sure she’ll love the rocky candy.” The Alicorn told the Earth Pony.

“Yeah.” Lincoln added in as he managed to sit himself up. “If anyone know how sisters behave with other sisters it’s me. I’m sure Maud won’t care about the flavor; she’ll probably care about spending some time with her sister.”

Everypony nodded in agreement to both Twilight’s and Lincoln’s words as Rainbow Dash added in. “And needless to say, you’ve made enough for one pony who’s only staying for a week.” The blue Pegasus stated as she gestured her hooves to the entire room.

“Well it’s not just for Maud silly.” Pinkie stated now having her usual smile back. “I’m making candy for all of us!”

Everypony groaned again, feeling like they’ve had eaten enough rock candy for the rest of the year. Lincoln then fell back down on the floor and got into a fetal position. “I, uh, think he’s out of commission.” Fluttershy said as she poked Lincoln’s back with her hoof.

Just then Pinkie actually looked at everyone with a serious expression as she said. “It’s a part of a very important, super-duper special tradition that only the closest and bestest of friends can share.” Pinkie explained as she pulled up a necklace with a bunch of pieces of rock candy attached to it. “We’re going to make rock candy necklaces together.” She followed up with an excited scream.

Pinkie then began to tell the story of how this tradition came to be.

“It all started when Maud and I were fillies on the rock farm. She taught me the Pie family rock candy recipe. It has a secret ingredient. It’s rocks! She showed me how to string the pieces to make them into a necklace. And once we were done, we’d trade.”

Everypony watched as Pinkie detailed her stories with a notebook and colored pencils. Once she finished the last drawing, she dropped the pencil and said. “Maud and I have been trading necklaces back and forth since I moved to Ponyville. They’re a sign that we’ll always be best friends.”

“Aw, what a great tradition.” Applejack complimented as she and everypony else smiled at the incredibly sweet tradition Pinkie and her sister had.

“Hold on!” Rainbow Dash interrupted as she realized something from the story. “The rock candy secret ingredient…is rocks?”

“Yeah.” Pinkie said with a simple nod.

“So…that rock candy…was actually rock candy?” Lincoln asked to make sure he didn’t mishear anything. When Pinkie nodded again, Lincoln eyes slowly widened as he put a hand to his stomach. “Well…that’s certainly gonna be something later.”

When Lincoln’s said that, everypony else’s eyes widen with the exception of Pinkie Pie as realization of what was to come came to them as well. However, Pinkie then came in and reassured everypony as she said. “Don’t worry everypony. They aren’t just normal rocks. They’re a special kind of rock that Maud discovered.”

Everypony eased up at hearing that as Fluttershy asked. “What kind of a rock are they?”

“I can’t tell you that, silly.” Pinkie Pie told the shy pony as she leaned in her ear and said in an exaggerated whisper. “It’s a secret.”

“Now that Maud is heading off to her Rocktorate in rock science, this may be our last chance to trade them for a really long time.” Pinkie explained as she turned to face all her friends. “I can’t wait for you all to meet her. I just know that my best Ponyville friends and best sister friend are going to become bestest friends. We can make bestestest friend rock candy necklaces together!”

Pinkie was growing more excited by the second as she began to list of traits Maud had in common with her friends. “She expresses herself through fashion just like Rarity. And she’s really smart and loves reading, just like Twilight.” She said as she wrapped Rarity and Twilight in her hooves. She then reached out for Applejack and Fluttershy. “And she’s honest and loves forest things.” She then grabbed Rainbow. “And is good at games.” She then grabbed Lincolns arms and wrapped him up into the forced group hug. “And she’s super brave and strong!”

“And, well, SHE’S AWESOME!!!” Pinkie yelled excitedly.

Lincoln couldn’t help but chuckle at the events taking place and said. “Well I can’t wait to meet her.”

“Yes, same here darling.” Rarity managed to say with her cheeks being pressed against Pinkie and Twilight. “But won’t she be worried if you aren’t at the train station when she gets here?”

“She sure will.” Pinkie said before realization came to her and she let out a panicked gasp. “I gotta get out of here!” And just like that, the pink Pony quickly threw her friends out of the group hug and quickly ran out of the sweets shop and headed to the train station as fast she could.

Later that day, with the sun now shining high in the sky the Mane 6, aside from Pinkie, as well as Lincoln were all setting up a picnic area to greet Maud with when Pinkie brings her to meet them. The ponies had also brought their pets with them with Applejack having a dog named Winona, Fluttershy having a bunny named Angel Bunny, Rarity having a white Persian cat named Opalescence, Twilight having an owl named Owlowiscious, and finally Rainbow Dash had a tortoise named Tank. Tank had a little something extra however has Rainbow Dash had set him up with a pilot hat/googles and a propeller so that her and Tank could fly together.

“Ok. That’s awesome.” Lincoln commented as he watched the tortoise fly above a few of the pets that were running around.

“I know right.” Rainbow Dash bragged a bit as she watched her beloved pet fly to his heart’s content. Lincoln would have to tell Lana about this when he eventually got home.

Meanwhile the rest of the ponies were busy setting up food and the red and white checkered pattern blanket for the picnic with Maud. “I sure hope Maud has an appetite.” Fluttershy said as she and Angel Bunny approached the picnic blanket.

“Never met a pony, or a critter, who didn’t love Granny Smith’s apple-spice muffins.” Applejack said as she put down a basket of said food item on the blanket. She also pushed back Angle Bunny when he tried to take a muffin.

“Oh, it’s no use.” Rarity said as she and her cat walked in with Rarity wearing a big purple hat covered with semi-transparent rocks. “I simply cannot find anything suitable to wear.”

Lincoln then looked at Rarity’s hat and had to suppress a laugh as he struggled not to smile and asked. “Rarity…what the heck are you wearing.”

“Well, I was trying to find the perfect outfit or accessory that would impress Maud.” Rarity explained as she looked at her hat with a glare. “But, as it turns out, nothing goes good with rock!” Rarity said as she sat down on her butt leading to one of the rocks falling off and landing in the muffin basket. Meanwhile Applejack saw down next to the unicorn and leaned her hand on Rarity’s shoulder to cheer her marefriend up.

“I doubt she’ll notice what anypony’s wearing.” Rainbow said as she simply shrugged her fore hooves. “So, what’s the big deal?”

“The big deal is how can we show her what a strong fashion presence we have in Ponyville if the most fashion-forward pony here can’t keep her hat from falling about.” Rarity explained as, true to her word, more rocks started to fall from her hat.

“Sugar cube, it don’t matter what you’re wearing. To me, you’re the most beautiful pony in all of Equestria.” Applejack reassured her marefriend as she grabbed her cheeks and gave her a soft smile making everypony present ‘aaw’ at the sight. Expect Rainbow Dash who turned away so she wouldn’t watch all the ‘lovey-dovey’ stuff.

“I think we’re all nervous about Maud’s visit.” Twilight told the couple after getting over the cute little scene. “She’s Pinkie Pie’s sister and it’s obvious Pinkie really wants us to hit if off. Being able to make those rock candy necklaces together is really important to her.”

“I think you’re all over thinking this to much.” Lincoln told everyone as he sat against a tree and rest his head behind his arm. “Just be yourselves. No need to get all worked up and out of your way for something. If she really wants to be your friend, then just be yourselves around her and let her be herself.” Lincoln told everyone with a confident smile as everypony looked to each other and smiled at the human’s words. And then they heard a familiar peppy voice calling out to them.

“WE’RE HERE!” Everyone turned to the voice of Pinkie Pie coming from atop the hill that led to the area they were at. They then saw as Pinkie Pie literally started bouncing down the hill to meet up with her friends.

When she reached them, Twilight walked up to her with a confused expression and asked. “Where’ Maud?”

“Yeah I thought you picked her up from the train station?” Lincoln asked as he didn’t leave his position of leaning against the tree.

“She’s coming.” Pinkie told everypony with an eager expression as she and the rest of the group looked up the hill.

After a few moments, they still didn’t see anything as Rainbow asked. “Are you sure?”

“She’s not quite as fast as me.” Pinkie told her friends as she reassured them. “I asked Gummy to stay with her in case she got lost.” Gummy was Pinkie’s pet…alligator which was named Gummy due to the reptile’s lack of teeth.

Everypony continued to look up at the hill, with Lincoln finally standing up and putting his hands over his eyes to see farther. And just then he spotted something. “Hey, I think I see someone.” Lincoln told the ponies around him as they narrowed their eyes and eventually saw the figure of an Earth Pony coming into view…very…very slowly.

“Is she even moving?” Rainbow Dash whispered to Rarity who simply shrugged in response as they saw the Pony slowly walking down the hill.

“WE’RE OVER HERE MAUD!!!” Pinkie yelled with her voice echoing throughout the area.

Finally, after a few more minutes they watched as Maud finally came into view, stopping in front of a small rock. Maud was an earth pony liked her sister and had bluish gray fur and a grayish violet man and tail, with the tail currently being chewed on by gummy. She had light turquoise eyes with mascara that was the same color as her mane and tail along with a single eyelash. She wore a grayish blue frock with a black belt around her waist.

Maud had a blank emotionless expression on her face as she gave everypony a brief glance before looking down at the rock in front of her. She didn’t seem to care that there was an Alligator teething at her tail.

They watched as Maud leaned her head down to the rock and gave it a few sniffs and hummed a bit and said in a tone that matched her expression. “Sedimentary.”

Pinkie had a giant smile on her face as Everypony rose a brow at Maud’s actions. All except Lincoln who was simply watching her and trying to get a good read on this pony and her personality. “Huh?” Rainbow asked as she landed in between Twilight and Pinkie, not hearing what Maud said.

“This is a sedimentary rock.” Maud explained as she held the rock in her hooves. Her expression never changing.

‘Ah, I see,’ Lincoln thought with a smirk as he realized the kind of personality Maud had. Not to unlike a certain black-haired sister he had.

Everypony was silent for a moment as Gummy finally jumped off the mare’s tail. Finally, Twilight managed to speak in a bit of an awkward tone. “That’s really fascinating, isn’t it, girls?” Twilight asked her friends as they all simply gave awkward expressions in response, with the exception of Lincoln who gave a slight nod as he put his hands in his hoodie pockets.

Twilight then managed to put on a friendly face as she walked up to Maud and spoke in a sincere and friendly tone. “We’re just so thrilled you could come for a visit before your big trip.” Twilight said as Maud simply listened with her usual expression. “Pinkie Pie has told us so much about you. I’m Twilight and this is Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Lincoln.”

All the ponies Twilight introduced each gave Maud a wave then their names was called with Lincoln simply giving a small nod in greeting.

“It’s so very nice to meet you.” Fluttershy greeted.

“We’re just gonna have the best time!” Applejack said with enthusiasm.

However, Maud didn’t give a response a response as she looked at everypony with the same blank expression she’s had since they’ve arrived. Most of the group felt a little nervous at this while Pinkie simply smiled at everyone.

Lincoln wasn’t fazed however as he stepped up to Maud and gave the Earth Pony and small smile and gave a simple. “Sup.”

Maud was still silent but looked up and Lincoln and looked over him and seemingly expecting his body. “Hi.” She said simply. She didn’t seem nervous around him like most ponies he first encountered. “Pinkie told me about you in a letter.”

“Really?” Lincoln asked, keeping his words simple and few.

“Yes. And she was right.” Maud told Lincoln as she looked into his eyes. “You are tall.”

“Yes I am.” Lincoln replied with a tiny smile.

Pinkie then let out a happy squeal as she said. “It’s so good to see you two get along!” She cheered as Lincoln simply nodded at the pink pony with Maud simply looking to Pinkie and blinking.

Everypony else was really confused and feeling rather awkward. For one, Lincoln didn’t really seem effected by Maud’s monotoned attitude and expression and two, getting along? Lincoln seemed like everything was going ok but Maud…it was impossible to tell just how she was feeling.

“Come on girls! Don’t be shy!” Pinkie told them with enthusiasm. “You should get to know Maud as well!”

The other mares looked at each other awkwardly for a moment, but then Rarity gained the confidence to introduce herself and walked up to Maud and said. “Pinkie Pie tells me you share my love for fashion.”

“I’m really into expressing myself through my wardrobe.” Maud explained with her usual monotoned voice.

“And what is the delightful frock you’re wearing now saying?” Rarity asked as she pointed a hoof towards the piece of clothing Maud was wearing.

Maud was silent for a moment before bluntly saying. “It doesn’t talk. It’s a dress.” She said while raising her eyebrow a bit at Rarity.

“Oh yes. Of course! I was just, uh, well,” Rarity said awkwardly before she started to babble nervous gibberish and back away.

Just then Lincoln came in and gave his opinion about Maud’s frock due to gaining some fashion skills from Leni. “Well I think it shows that while it’s simple, it’s the kind of simple that works with you and show that you aren’t trying to stand out, but are simply showing off who you are as a per, er, pony.” Lincoln said while having to correct himself at the end.

Maud then looked to Lincoln again and said. “Thank you. That’s what I was going for.” She confirmed with her expression and tone still not changing one bit.

Rarity looked to Lincoln with a gaped mouth. How was he interacting with Maud so well?! Before she could question anymore in her mind, suddenly Applejack’s dog started barking and circling around Maud. “Oh. So, this here’s Winona,” Applejack introduced her pet as the farm pony stepped up and started introducing everypony’s pet. “And that’s Owlowisious, Tank, Opal, and Angel. Pinkie Pie told use you have a pet too.”

“He’s in my pocket.” Maud told them as Fluttershy walked forward.

“Oooh, you have a pocket pet?” The usually shy mare cooed. “Like a tiny mouse? Or a baby bird? Or a trained butterfly?” She excitedly asked as Angel stood by her and looked pretty annoyed at Fluttershy getting excited over other animals.

“It’s a rock.” Maud bluntly revealed as she reached into a pocket on her Frock and pulled out a little rock and set it on the ground. Fluttershy looked at Boulder with a rather surprised look before looking awkwardly at Maud. “His name is Boulder.”

Everypony was silent while Lincoln couldn’t help but snicker at their reactions while Pinkie said. “This is going to be the best, most awesome, funnest week ever!” She said excitedly. “I can’t wait for us all to become bestest friends.”

“Yeah, this might be pretty fun.” Lincoln said as he turned to Maud and gave the mare a small smile, similar to the ones his sister Lucy made from time to time.

Maud looked Lincoln in the eye and although her expression didn’t change, Lincoln had enough experience with people like that to tell how they were really feeling.

Meanwhile the other ponies could only look to each other and chuckle nervously.

A little later, everypony was enjoying the picnic either by enjoying a sandwich, munching on a salad or enjoying one of the muffins Applejack brought. Speaking of which, Applejack watched as Maud took a bit of her sandwich before setting it down and pushing Bolder to it so he could…eat.

“Maud? Would ya care to try one of Granny Smiths famous apple spice muffins?” The orange pony offered as she pushed the basket towards Maud.

Maud tilted her head towards the basket and sniffed, only she didn’t sniff a muffin. She sniffed the rock that used to be on Rarity’s hat that was still in the basket. Maud then opened up her mouth around the rock instead of a muffin.

“Oh, uh, ha, that’s not-“ Applejack was saying but was interrupted by Maud biting into the rock and started eating said rock.

Everypony watched slightly as Maud simply crunched down on the stone with Lincoln looking towards the audience and saying. “Guess everyone has their different taste.”

After Maud took a few more bites, she turned to Applejack and said. “It’s crunchy.” Before swallowing the rock pieces.

Pinkie then reached into the basket herself and bit into one of the muffins and said happily with a full mouth. “Maud’s right. They are crunchy!” Pinkie then licked all the crumbs off her muzzle and let out a “Yum!”

“So, uh, Pinkie Pie tells us you like games.” Rainbow Dash said, trying to get rid of the awkwardness that just occurred.

Maud then answered as she pointed a hoof towards Boulder. “Boulder and I sometimes play a game called camouflage. It’s kind of like hide-and-seek, but waaaay more intense.” The Earth Pony explained with the exact some tone she’s been talking with this whole time.

Everypony looked at Maud awkwardly as Rainbow said in a tone that matched most pony’s expression. “Awesome…”

A little later, everypony was playing ‘Camouflage’ and were looking for Boulder the rock…in a small field filled with other rocks. Everypony was lifting up various rocks trying to find the specific rock, but no pony was having any luck.,

“Alright, there’s finding a needle in a haystack, and then there’s find a rock in a pile of rocks.” Lincoln said as he lifted up two rocks trying to find Boulder.

“I truly wish I had spent more time with Boulder, because I’m having a very hard time remembering what he looks like.” Fluttershy said as she tossed aside a rock.

“How are we gonna find that little varmit in all this?” Applejack asked in an annoyed tone as she kicked aside a rock.

“I don’t know darling; how can one tell one rock from another?” Rarity asked as she walked up to her marefriend as another rock fell off her hat.

“Rarity, ah love ya, but please don’t make this any harder.” Applejack said with an unamused tone while pointing to the rock Rarity once had on her hat.

Rarity then groaned as she said. “That’s it. I give up!” The fashionista yelled in irritation. “This is impossible.”

“It’ll hurt Maud’s feeling if we all stop playing.” Twilight pointed out before smiling and gesturing towards a certain pink Pony. “Besides, look how much fun Pinkie Pie is having.”

Everypony watched as Pinkie Pie happily showed Maud various rocks and asking, “Is this him!” Every time, all with a happy expression on her face.

“Just a little longer, ok?” Twilight asked everypony as they all groaned ‘All right.’

Meanwhile, Lincoln scratched his chin in thought as an idea came to him. ‘Hold on, if Boulder is with Maud most the time, then that rock probably has her scent on him.’ With his plan decided on, Lincoln activated the Ultimatrix and found the alien he was looking for before slamming it down.

Everypony noticed the emerald flash and looked as Lincoln started to transform. “Ooooh! Watch this Maud! It’s gonne be awesome!” Pinkie told her sister as Maud looked at where the flashing occurred.

When the flash died down, it showed a dog-like creature covered in white fur. This creature had no eyes, ears, nose, or even a tail. It had sharp defined teeth and sharp claws as well as three gill-like nostrils that were high lighted pink on each side of its neck.

The creature Lincoln turned into let out a roar when. “WILDMUTT!!!” …Pinkie Pie called out. Everypony, other then Maud, looked to Pinkie with a confused looked as the party said. “What? He can’t talk in this form. Somepony has to do it!”

Wildmutt looked to Pinkie and simply grunted as his gills started rapidly opening and closing, sniffing the area for Boulder.

Meanwhile Maud looked over and examined the Vulpamancer. If one looked very closely, they could see that Maud’s expression just barley changed to one of surprise. She watched as Wildmatt sniffed around the area before suddenly aiming his head towards her.

Wildmutt approached Maud and suddenly pushed his head against the area where Maud’s pocket was…and Boulder fell out.

Everypony but Pinkie’s jaws dropped when they realized…Boulder hid in Maud pocket. “Good job. You found him.” Maud congratulated with her usual tone.

Wildmutt gave a smirk in victory as he slapped the Ultimatrix symbol on his chest and turning back to Lincoln. “And that’s how you win at camouflage.” Lincoln said as he stretched his once again bipedal body out.

“Wow! Way to go Lincoln!” Pinkie Pie cheered as everypony simply looked on with still dropped jaws.

“That rocks a total cheater.” Rainbow Dash pointed as she crossed her hooves.

Maud then turned to Rainbow and said. “Don’t hate the rock. Hate the game.”

After that, the other Ponies had to leave due to their pet beings tired and wanting to go home and rest. This gave Pinkie the change to show Maud all the different kinds of Rock Candy she made for them all to make their rock candy necklaces with.

Once the Pie sisters left, the remaining members of the Mane 6 devised a plan to get to know Maud better by having one on one sessions with her. Everypony agreed, but Lincoln asked if he could tag along since he though Maud was pretty cool.

Everypony seriously could not get how Lincoln was handling being around Maud so well while everypony else has never felt more awkward about meeting a new pony. Maud was so…emotionless and didn’t seem to react to anything yet Lincoln was able to interact with her no problem.

They agreed to have him tag along on their session, mainly so they could see why he interacted with Maud so well and hopefully emulate it.

The next day, it was Rarity turn to spend time with Maud so she, Maud, Pinkie and Lincoln were all at her Boutique with the white Unicorn showing off different fabrics she had. “Where shall we start? I’ve chosen a few fabrics I think would be stunning with-“

However, Rarity stopped talking when she saw Maud eyeing something away from all of Rarity’s fabrics. “Choices, choices, choices.” Pinkie Pie said as she bounced next to her sister.

“You know, all you ladies concern yourself with fashion. Yet why am I the only one hear that looks fabulous in anything.” Lincoln said in a joking tone as he picked up a big purple sun hat with feathers in it and struck a pose.

Rarity gave Lincoln and deadpanned look while Pinkie started wildly giggling. Maud looked to Lincoln with her usual blank expression and said. “You look ridiculous.”

“Hey, ridiculous just so happens to be in season.” Lincoln said with the same playful tone.

Pinkie giggled again as she looked to Maud before saying. “Wow Maud, I don’t think I ever seen you laugh so hard!” The pink pony pointed at.

Rarity looked to Maud and didn’t see nor hear even a giggle from the Earth Pony as the Fashionista simply chuckled nervously and said. “Well I suppose it is quite humorous, hehe.” The Unicorn laughed awkwardly before clearing her throat. “Well anyway, if you don’t see anything that speaks to you, I would be happy to suggest-“

“I like this one.” Maud interrupted while holding up…a rag.

Rarity then laughed in turn as she said. “Pinkie Pie didn’t tell us you were so funny.”

However, Maud simply blinked at Rarity and asked. “What do you mean?”

“Oh, well, it’s just, I believe that is a dish towel.” Rarity pointed out while using her magic to levitate the towel towards her.

Maud was silent as Pinkie gave a giant smile with Lincoln chiming in. “Who say’s a dish towel can’t be beautiful.”

Rarity then said awkwardly. “But it does go very well with your complexion.” The Unicorn told the Earth Pony. “I’m sure I could work my magic and turn it into something fabulous.

Pinkie then added in happily. “My sister and Rarity working together to design something amazing. This is the best day ever!” The party pony said while giving her sister a hug and pressing their cheeks together.

Rarity then came in levitating a bunch of dish towels with her magic. “Perhaps I could sew all these together and make you something you would like.” The fashionista offered.

However, Maud simply took the towel she had originally and said. “No thanks. One is enough.” The gray pony said as she put the dish towel on like a scarf.

“Doesn’t Maud make the coolest scarves?” Pinkie Pie said excitedly as she eyed her sisters new…accessory.

“Work it girl!” Lincoln cheered as he leaned against the wall.

“Quite.” Rarity managed to see with a small and awkward smile.

Later, it was now Fluttershy’s turn with Maud as they, Pinkie Pie, and Lincoln were talking a nice stroll through the woods. Angel Bunny also decided to tag along as he followed behind Fluttershy. Pinkie had fun bouncing from bush to bush while Maud and Lincoln walked side to side following closely behind.

Just then a green hummingbird stopped in front of Fluttershy with the yellow Pegasus giving it a smile. “Hello there, Hummingway.” Fluttershy greeted her animal friends. “I’m ever so happy to see you.”

Just then Pinkie came up to them in a pink blur and eagerly asked. “What’s he saying?”

“He says hello, and he’s happy to see us.” Fluttershy translated for the little hummingbird.

Pinkie watched with sparkles in her eye as the hummingway flew off and said. “I wish I could speak hummingbird.”

Pinkie then bounced off while saying ‘hum’ over and over again. Fluttershy smiled at it and then turned back and saw Maud and Lincoln had stopped…to look at a rock.

However, Fluttershy walked up to them thinking they were looking at a spider that was crawling on the rock. “These spiders only live in Ponyville, and even though they may look a teeny bit scary, they’re actually really sweet and help keep other, and more dangerous insects away.” Fluttershy explained as they watched the spider take out a small red flower and hand it to the three.

Maud turned to Fluttershy and bluntly said. “I was looking at the rock.

“Oh.” Fluttershy said with an embarrassed blush.

Lincoln then smirked as an idea came to his head. “So Maud, just gonna take a shot in the dark here and guess you like rocks?”

“I don’t like rocks.” Maud said as she looked Lincoln in the eye. “I love rocks.”

The mares then all watched as Lincoln reached for the Ultimatrix and activated it and started scrolling through aliens. “Then you’re gonna love this.” Once Lincoln found what he was looking for, he slammed the Ultimatrix down and was covered in a green flash.

When the flash died down it showed Lincoln had turned into an alien made of a dark purple silicon material and having magenta crystal hands and having 6 magenta crystal shards on his back and 2 on his chest and one on the top of his head. He also had a single green eye and the Ultimatrix symbol on his chest.

“Chromastone!” The transformed Loud-boy called out while raising a fist in the air.

“Oooo! Pretty!” Pinkie Pie said as she suddenly appeared next to Maud.

“So, what do you think?” Chromastone asked as he put his crystal hands to his hips.

Maud took a minute to inspect every part of Chromastone’s body before looking into the aliens single eye and saying. “You’re the most beautiful think I’ve ever seen.”

“Woah! I don’t ever think I’ve seen you this happy before Maud!” Pinkie Pie commented as she looked at Maud’s face with surprise and happiness.

Fluttershy looked to Maud and raised an eyebrow and saw that Maud’s expression still didn’t change one bit. Chromastone turned to Fluttershy and pointed to Maud and said. “Trust me. She’s happy.”

Now, Lincoln, Maud, and Pinkie were inside Twilight’s library with the purple Alicorn grabbing a few books with her magic. “Maud is a total bookworm.” Pinkie said as she rode around on the wheeled latter the library had. “She loves poetry.”

‘Wow, she really is like Lucy.’ Lincoln thought as he leaned against the wall while noting even more things Maud had in common with his little sister.

“I’ve got lots of poetry. Do you read anything by Quill and Ink?” Twilight asked while holding a book of poetry in her magic that had the name she mentioned on it. She then levitated another book and asked. “Or Flourish Prose.”

“I prefer to read my own poetry.” Maud answered as she turned to Twilight.

Twilight put the books back and asked. “I’d love to hear some of it.”

Maud then slowly walked up to Twilight and cleared her throat before she recited some of her mentioned poetry. “Rock. You are a rock. Grey. You are grey. Like a rock. Which you are. Rock.”

When she was done, Pinkie came rolling by again with a smile on her face while Twilight…didn’t know how to react. Lincoln didn’t move from his position and simply listened to Maud’s words. “I’ve written thousands.” The Earth Pony told them.

“She’s so prolific!” Pinkie stated as she came by again.

“This next one is about rocks.” Maud said. “They’re all about rocks.”

Maud then recited more of her poetry. “Rocks, these are my rocks. Sediments. Make me sentimental. Smooth and round. Asleep in the ground. Shades of brown. And gray.”

Later, the group of Lincoln, Maud, Pinkie were now at Sweetapple acres inside of Applejacks house as Pinkie gathered apple’s while Applejack was at the stove stirring something in a pot. Meanwhile Lincoln and Maud were working together peeling apples as Applejack turned to them and asked. “You two bout done peeling apples for the cider?”

“I got a few.” Lincoln answered and gesturing his head to a small pile of peeled apples.

“I think this one is done.” Maud answered as Applejack and Lincoln looked to see that instead of using a peeler, Maud smashed an apple with a rock.

Applejack flinched at the sight while Lincoln remained calm and put a hand to Maud’s shoulder and said. “Maud, I think you’re cool and all. But you can’t solve every problem with rocks. Little kids have accepted it, rebellious teens have accepted it. It’s time you accept it to.”

Maud didn’t say anything and simply looked at the rock she used to smash the apple. Lincoln then turned to AJ and said. “I think we’ve peeled enough apples.”

Applejack laughed nervously as she backed up from Maud and said. “Y-yeah. Ah’m sure it’s good and ready now.”

Just then Pinkie suddenly appeared on the shelf above the stove and sniffed the cider and eagerly asked. “Can we taste it now?”

“Sure, why not?” Applejack said with a smile and she got out a few mugs and used a ladle to pour the cider into each mug.

Pinkie quickly took the mug in her mouth and chug the cider down in second. Lincoln quickly took his mug and took a swing from it and sighed in delight. If there was one thing he’s come to absolutely love from this world, it was all the stuff the Apple family made. “Aaaaah,” Lincoln let out in delight over the beverage as he lifted his mug in the air. “To apple cider. The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.”

Applejack shook her head and chuckled at Lincoln’s words, Applejack turned to Maud and asked. “What do you think Maud?’

Maud looked down at her drink before taking a sip and answering. “It tastes like apples.”

“Told ya she was super honest!” Pinkie Pie said as she quickly wrapped a hoof around the farm pony. “Just like you!”

“We’re, practically twins. Heh.” Applejack said slowly and awkwardly.

Later, the group was now with Rainbow Dash over by a small lake. They were playing a game called chuck the boulder which involved throwing a heavy rock as far as you can. Rainbow was able to throw one across the small lake they were in front of.

“Yeah!” Rainbow Dashed cheered as she turned to Maud. “Let’s see you beat that.” The Pegasus challenged.

But immediately, she was forced to dodge a boulder Maud quickly chucked. Everyone watched as the boulder went into the distance before finally landing far away with a big smoke cloud being created and a shockwave that reached all the way to the groups location making the small lakes get a wave of water that splashed down on everypony.

Pinkie quickly emerged from the water on a log and cheered as Rainbow Dash’s emerged after and turned to a wet Maud and asked. “Woah! How’d you do that?”

“I threw it.” Maud answered simply.

Rainbow was a little annoyed at the response and responded with. “I guess you won this one, Maud.”

“I’m not really into winning.” Maud told the Pegasus, making Rainbow Dash’s jaw drop.

“Well I gotta admit that was really awesome Maud.” Lincoln complimented as he to was soaked. “Now let’s try off.” The Loud Boy then activated the Ultimatrix and quickly found the alien he was looking for and transformed into…

“Heatblast!” The Pyronite called out as he walked a safe distance to Maud and started to help dry her off. “What do you think of Heatblast Maud.”

Maud looked at all the rocks covering Heatblast as she walked a little closer to him to dry off better and said. “He’s hot.”

“Heh heh, that’s what all the ladies say.” Heatblast joked before looking to where Maud threw the boulder. “Although I hope that didn’t hit anything important.”

“I’m sure it’s fine.” Maud said bluntly as Heatblast simply shrugged.

THE FARMERS MARKET

At a farmer’s market, many ponies had stands set up selling their own freshly grown fruits, veggie’s, and even flowers.

And currently, one stallion with light brown fur, dark brown mane and tail with a cabbage as his cutie mark was pulling a cart full of cabbages. Just then he hit a small pebble on the ground that caused his cart to bump up a tiny bit and for one of the cabbages to roll out.

The stallion quickly noticed this and went after the runaway cabbage. He quickly caught it and sighed in relief when he saw it was unharmed and-

BOOM!

Suddenly, a boulder came falling out of the sky and caused a huge dust cloud to appear in the area that pushed the cabbage stallion back. When the dust eventually cleared, everypony in the farmers market looked to see the stallion’s cart and cabbages completely crushed by the boulder.

When the stallion himself saw this, he fell to his hind-legs knees and yelled out. “No my cabbages!”

Back at Ponyville, Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Lincoln all arrived at the Sugar Cube Corner. When they got there, the door quickly opened with Pinkie stepping out and saying, “Great! You’re all here. Maud is off looking for rocks, so this is the perfect time for us to set up everything we’ll need to make our best-friend rock candy necklaces.” Pinkie said excitedly.

Everypony looked at each other nervously, with the exception of Lincoln who stepped forward and smiled. “I’m down for that. Maud’s actually really freaking cool.”

“The coolest!” Pinkie Pie quickly agreed as she turned to everypony else. “So, are you girls ready?”

However, Pinkie watched as her pony friends all had unsure looks on their faces as they averted their gazes from their pink friend. “What’s wrong?” Pinkie asked with a bit of worry.

Everypony was silent, not knowing what to say to Pinkie until Applejack nudged Twilight forward. “Well…” Twilight began slowly. “I’m not sure it’s the best time to make best-friend rock candy necklaces.”

“Not not?” Pinkie asked while tilting her head.

It was then that Rarity decided to speak up. “Well, you see…” However, that was all she could say before backing up and letting Fluttershy talk.

“You’re ever so thoughtful to share your special bonding ritual with us, but…” Fluttershy tried to say but struggled to find the words after that.

“But what?” Pinkie Pie said, eagerly awaiting a response.

Applejack then sighed as, being the element of Honesty, decided to just tell the truth. “The truth is, we’ve been trying real hard to get closer to Maud, but, well, maybe some ponies don’t click the way others do.” The farm pony said with the rest of the mares around her nodding in agreement.

“The only one here that’s had luck with her is Lincoln somehow.” Rainbow Dash stated while pointing a hoof towards Lincoln.

Lincoln simply shrugged and stated. “I just have experience interacting with people like that.” The Loud boy stated as living with Lucy his whole life meant he knew actually how to interact with mentioned people/ponies like Maud.

Applejack then spoke up again. “We just wouldn’t feel right making something that means we’re best friends if, well, we aren’t.”

When Applejack said this, Pinkie’s mane started deflating like a balloon as her face strained a bit in sadness as she said. “Oh. Ok. If anypony needs me, I’ll be in here trying to figure out what to do with 200 pounds of rock candy.” The pink pony said in a depressed tone before closing the door.

Everypony then looked down in sadness at their friend’s reaction before Lincoln sighed and said. “Well…that could have gone better.”

“She looked really upset.” Fluttershy said quietly.

“I just don’t get it darling.” Rarity said to Lincoln. “How did you socialize with her so well? It’s impossible to tell what that mare thinks of anything.”

“Actually, it’s not.” Lincoln told everypony as they all looked at him with a raised eyebrow. “Girl’s like Maud just express themselves differently then most. You just gotta noticed those settle differences. It isn’t easy but people like that are really interesting if you get to know them properly. Maud’s a lot like my younger sister Lucy. She hardly shows her emotions but behind that seemingly blank face is a heart of gold.”

Everypony then watched as Lincoln started to walk away as he turned to them again and said. “Just give it some thought. In the meantime, I think I’m gonna go hang out with Maud.”

A little while later, Lincoln and Maud were hanging out together in the forest with a bunch of rocks surrounding them. Right now, the two were simply sitting together in the center of all the rocks and have been simply talking.

Lincoln also got the change to show Maud a few more transformation’s he knew the Earth Pony would like such as Diamondhead and even Gravattack. Both of which Maud was incredibly ecstatic at seeing…in her own way of course.

“Cool.” Maud said in response to what Lincoln told her.

“Yeah I thought so to.” The white head responded as he just finished telling Maud a bit about Diamondheads spieces.

Just then a familiar bouncing sound got their attention and they looked to see Pinkie bouncing towards them with a wide smile on her face. “Well, looks like someone’s happy again.” Lincoln commented as Pinkie stopped in front of them.

“Come on! You two gotta see this! I just came with the bestest plan to make Maud friends with everypony else!” Pinkie said quickly and excitedly as she started bouncing away again. Lincoln then looked to Maud with a raised eyebrow and asked. “Should I be worried.”

“Probably.” Maud said bluntly before they started following the party pony.

Later, Lincoln and Maud were now met up with the rest of the Mane 6 and Pinkie pointed everyone to an obstacle course she built that certainly was…creative to say the least. “I call it Pinky-Rainbow-Rari-Twi-Apple-Flutter-Maud fun time!” Pinkie told everypony excitedly with a big smile before turning to Lincoln. “Sorry Lincoln, but I thought since you were already such great friends with Maud I wouldn’t need to make anything for you two.”

“Uuuuuh, yeeeeah.” Lincoln said slowly as he eyed every part of the obstacle course. “Pinkie, are you sure this is safe?”

“Whaaaat?! Pfft! Of course, it’s safe!” Pinkie reassured him as she suddenly appeared behind everypony. “I made this with everypony’s interest in mind to make into one giant activity that we can all enjoy together and that will totally bring all my bestest friends together as bestestest friends!”

Pinkie then quickly sped in front of a few pony manikins she set up that all had various hates and knee pads on them. “You’ll need these.” Pinkie said before putting on one that just consisted of a bunch of scuba gear. “Here! I’ll you!”

They all watched as Pinkie started crawling into the obstical course that started with a tunnel of Applesauce. “Applesauce tunnel for Applejack.” Pinkie then dived into a small pit full of sparkly fabrics. “Pretty, shiny stuff for Rarity.” Pinkie then ran over to and dived into a pile of books. “Reading material for Twilight.” Pinkie was then suddenly playing poker with various animals. “Critter time for Fluttershy.” Pinkie was then in an air dome that had cupcakes floating around in it. “Cupcakes for yours truly.” She then exited it and said. “And it’s a race for Rainbow Dash!”

However, the last piece of the course that freaked everypony out. “Pinkie, what’s that?!” Twilight yelled as she pointed to a giant pile of rocks with the top having a big boulder on it that didn’t exactly looked stable.

“A rockslide, of course.” Pinkie answered as she turned to everypony. “For Maud.”

Maud looked up at the rockslide before Pinkie said. “You climb up and then you slide down.” They then watched as Pinkie started giggling and jumping up the rockslide, but as she was doing with a rock fell down a tiny bit and ended up trapping one of Pinkie Pie’s hooves under it.

Pinkie then tried to free her hoof, put her struggling caused the rockslide to start shaking and the giant rock on the very top to start wobbling around. Everypony gasped as Lincoln quickly started to run up to his and get the Ultimatrix ready. “Come on, where’s Humungousaur?” Lincoln said as he scrolled through aliens as fast as possible.

Just then the giant rock finally came tumbling down leading to Pinkie calling for help. As Lincoln was still trying to find Humungousaur, suddenly a grey blur sped past him as he looked to see none other than Maud who leapt up the rockslide and quickly reached the giant boulder.

Just then everypony watched as Maud started to rapidly punch the rock at quick speeds easily breaking it down like a living jackhammer. Everpony saw in amazement as Maud reduced the boulder to pebbles before breaking the rock that was trapping Pinkie.

“…Holy shit.” Lincoln said in shock at what he just saw. “That pony’s dynamite.”

The two sisters then quickly got off the rockslide as everypony else approached them. When they were off, they watched as, for the first time since meeting her, Mauds blank face finally broke as she hugged her sister and looked at her with a worried expression and spoke in an equally worried tone. “Pinkie Pie, what were you thinking?”

Pinkie then frowned and adverted her gaze and said. “I guess I wasn’t.” Pinkie said as she lowered her head.

Maud then lifted a hoof to Pinkie’s chin and lifted her head up to look at her. “I know how important it is to you that your friends become my friends. But I just don’t think that’s going to happen. Other then Lincoln I don’t think I can connect well to them. I think it would be best if I just go back to the rock farm and spend the rest of the week there.”

Pinkie’s mouth gaped a little in sadness as Maud walked up to everypony else and said. “It was nice to meet all of you. It makes me happy know Pinkie Pie has such good friends. And Lincoln, it was nice getting to know you. I hope we can hang out again sometime.”

“Yeah. Me to Maud.” Lincoln responded simply. Maud gave him a nod before she started walking off.

“But…we never even got to make our rock candy necklaces…” Pinkie muttered sadly as she watched her sister walk off. Everypony then all watched as Pinkie followed after Maud saying “I’ll come with you.”

Everypony watched as the two Pie sister’s disappeared from view with Twilight saying. “I can’t believe Maud cut her trip short.” The Alicorn said sadly.

“I can’t believe we nearly lost Pinkie Pie to that ridiculous obstacle course.” Rarity commented as she couldn’t believe she almost witness her pink friend being crushed.

“Thank goodness Maud was able to reach her in time.” Fluttershy said in relief.

“Did you see how fast Maud moved?” Rainbow Dash added in as she couldn’t help but be impressed by the Earth Pony’s speed.

“Don’t forget how she crushed that rock into dust.” Lincoln added in, also feeling impressed. “I mean it would take one of my stronger aliens like Four-Arms to do that, that fast.” Lincoln then looked up at the sky and smiled. “Just shows are much she cares for her sister if she’ll do that for her in a heartbeat.”

Just then twilight realized something from Lincoln’s words and said. “That’s it! I think I finally realized what we all have in common with Maud.” The Alicorn told everypony as they all looked to her. “Something that might just be worthy of a very important, super-duper special tradition that only the closest and bestest of friends can share.”

Several hours later, Pinkie and Maud were walking together to the Pie family rock farm…which is exactly as dull as it sounded as clouds covered the whole sky letting now sunshine in, rocks all over the place, as well as a few dead trees.

Pinkie had her head down in sadness as they were walking, but suddenly Maud stopped her. Pinkie looked to her older sis and pointed her hoof forward. Pinkie look forward and gasped a bit in surprise when she saw the rest of the Mane 6 and Lincoln there in front of them with big bags of rock candy.

“What are all of you doing here?” Pinkie asked with confusion as they all stepped forward to the sisters.

“Pinkie Pie, we’re so sorry we hurt your feelings by not bonding with Maud right away.” Twilight apologized as she faced the two sisters. “And Maud, we’re sorry that your felt the only way to spare Pinkie Pie’s feeling was to leave Ponyville early.”

Everypony nodded at Twilight’s words as they gave an apology as well. And then Applejack spoke up. “We’ve seen how much you care about Pinkie Pie, first hoof.”

“Pinkie Pie’s happiness means as much to us as it does to you, and we’re sorry we couldn’t see it sooner. The thing that makes us click and creates a special bond between us is how we ALL love Pinkie Pie.” Twilight said as all her friends stepped forward with Pinkie Pie smiling happily at her friends.

“Aw, shucks.” Pinkie Pie said as her eyes lightly sparkled.

“There’s no great thing to have in common then your love for others.” Lincoln added in as he threw a bag of rock candy over his shoulder.

“Well, what do you think Maud?” Twilight as the Earth Pony.

Maud took a second to look at everypony before simply saying. “Sure.”

Hearing Maud’s rather unenthusiastic response made most of the ponies in the group look down, thinking nothings changed. “What’s wrong?” Pinkie asked with concern.

“Sorry, darling, I think we all just thought she’d be a bit more excited about this.” Rarity pointed out while everypony nodded in confirmation.

But then suddenly Lincoln started to lightly chuckle causing everypony to look at him. “Guys, remember when I said earlier how everyone has their way of expressing their emotions?” He asked getting nods from the Mane 6 other then Pinkie. “Well, I think it’s best you let them explain.”

Pinkie then excitedly pointed out, “Girls, I don’t think I’ve seen Maud this excited in my entire life!” Pinkie said happily as she started to do a happy dance.

“I don’t know if you’ve noticed but I don’t show my enthusiasm for things quite in the same way my sister does.” Maud explained as Pinkie started doing cartwheels behind her.

“Un, we noticed.” Rainbow Dash said as everypony smiled at her. “And we’re totally cool with it.” The Pegasus stated as everypony cheered in agreement.

A little while later, everypony was seeing Maud off at the train station and all giving her a rock candy necklace they made. Each one showed a bit of each pony’s personality as Applejack had a candy in the shape of an apple, Rainbow Dash had a candy in the shape of her cutie mark, Rarity’s resembling jewelry, and even Lincoln giving her one with a candy in the shape of the hourglass symbol on the Ultimatrix.

Pinkie and Maud then did their exchange with Pinkie giving Maud a necklace and Maud giving Pinkie a necklace she made.

Pinkie quickly got to licking and chewing on the candy, everypony watched as Maud took a box out of her saddle bag, and when she opened it, they saw it was filled with Rock Candy necklaces. Twilight watched as Maud put the necklace Pinkie made her in the box and asked. “Are those all the necklaces Pinkie Pie sent you?” Maud gave a ‘Hm-hm’ in confirmation as she closed the box and put it away. “You haven’t eaten any of them?”

“I don’t really like candy.” Maud said before looking to her sister and, for the first time since they’ve met her, gave a small smile. “But I do love Pinkie Pie.”

Twilight and Lincoln smiled as they and Maud watched as Pinkie happily ate the candy off her necklace with Lincoln saying. “You’re a good sister Maud.”

“Thanks Lincoln.” Maud said to the human.

Author's Note

I had a lot of fun making this chapter. Maud is just one of my favorite characters. I just really love characters who just seemed monotoned most of the time. Lucy is one of my favorite Loud House characters, Plank is my favorite Ed, Edd, N Eddy character, Shoto Todoroki is awesome.

I definitely wanna do more stuff with Maud in the future.

Make sure to leave a like, a comment and stay tuned next time for...

Lincoln and the Crusaders

Taste of Equestria

Today was a big day for Ponyville and Equestria in general. Today was none other then the Taste of Equestria fair. A fair dedicated to holding booths where some of the best bakers around would gather and share their baked goods with other ponies. Of course, there was more than just food booths here. There were a bunch of stuff you would see at fair’s and carnivals. Like rides, games, face painting, etc.

Currently walking along the paths of this fair, a group of ponies were dragging a serious of carts and wagons filled with boxes of various baked good. This group consisted of Mr and Mrs Cake, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, Spike, and Fluttershy.

Currently Pinkie was bouncing forward happily with an expression so excited, it shouldn’t be physically possible. “Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! I can’t believe it!” Pinkie Pie said impossibly happily as the rest of the ponies and dragon followed behind her. “I always went to the Taste of Equestria festival every year but now I’m actually a part of it!”

Pinkie Pie then suddenly appeared in front of Mr and Mrs. Cake and said. “Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you so much!” Pinkie Pie told the Cake’s as they chuckled in response.

“Well after helping us out at the ole shop for so long we figured it was finally time to let you help us out at the festival.” Mr. Cake told Pinkie Pie as the party pony gave a happy squeal in response.

“And it was nice of you to let us help out to.” Spike said as he carried a couple of boxes full of cupcakes. “And we do get to have some ourselves, right?”

“Of course, dearie!” Mrs. Cake told the dragon with a soft smile before she suddenly took a 180 as she gave Spike a stern look. “Afterwards.”

Spike swallowed a lump in his throat as he gave a nervous smile and rapidly nodded his head. “O-of course! Afterwards.”

“This will actually be me and Spike’s first Taste of Equestria festival.” Twilight said as she pulled a cart filled beyond the brim with boxes of cakes and pies. “I heard it’s really fun though and has some of the best baked treats you can find.”

“Oh, it is.” Fluttershy spoke up as she pulled only a small wagon filled with a few boxes of cupcakes and such. “Me and Rainbow Dash went together every year.” Just then Fluttershy frowned as her ears dropped. “I just wish she wasn’t busy today.”

“Yeah, strange how a lot of our friends were busy today.” Spike commented as he remembered them asking Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Rarity said they were all busy today and couldn’t come with them.

“Even Lincoln couldn’t make it.” Mrs. Cake said as she herself asked the Loud boy to help out them today but he said he couldn’t.

“Awww, they’re all gonna miss the festival today.” Pinkie Pie said as she frowned sadly. But her sadness only lasted about a second as she quickly perked up and said. “Oh well, we’ll just have to save them some goodies and tell them how amazing today was!”

The group then went on with all the baked goods the Cakes and Pinkie made until Mr. Cake stopped them all and pointed to a booth they were in front of. “Here it is everypony! Our booth!” Everypony looked to see a moderately sized carnival booth designed to look like a gingerbread house similar to the Sugarcube Corner itself.

“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it huh?” Twilight commented as she and her friends looked over the gingerbread house booth.

“We like to stay consistent.” Mrs Cake commented as she turned to everypony in their group. “Well, let’s set everything up everypony!”

Everypony cheered as they quickly started to help the Cakes set up their booth. It only took about 20 minutes as everypony set up shelves on the side of the booths and put the boxes of various baked goods on them as well as labeling them.

With a few of them they opened them up to set them on the front of the counter on the booth to show off what the cakes were selling as well as label the prices. Spike did try to act sneaky and take a cupcake when he thought nopony was looking, but right as he attempted it Mrs. Cake slapped his hand away and gave him a glare that quickly made him stop and continue working.

They all then stood and admired their work as they all looked around and admired their work and all the pastry’s around them. Pinkie Pie’s eyes were sparkling as she had a gigantic smile on her face. “Pinkie.” Pinkie turned around at the call of her name and saw Mrs Cake standing behand her and hoofing her a little piece of folded up paper that said ‘Open.’ “Would you like to do you honors.”

Pinkie Pie covered her mouth with her hooves as she let out a high pitched gasped and asked. “Really?”

“Really.” Mr. Cake confirmed with a nod.

Pinkie Pie’s smiled somehow grew twice as big as she quickly grabbed the little paper sign from Mrs. Cake and ran up to the front of the gingerbread booth and begun announcing. “I declare the Cake families Taste of Equestria pastry and sweet booth…OPEN!!!” Pinkie Pie screamed as she slammed down the sign on the counter declaring the booth open.

Everypony then stood at the front of the counter with Pinkie Pie and stood forward and waited for the ponies to show up looking for tasty treats.

…

Silence.

…

...

A quite long awkward silence.

…

“So, um, what happens now?” Fluttershy asked as she looked around for anything notable happening.

“We wait dearie.” Mrs. Cake said simply with a smile as Mr. Cake and Pinkie smile and nodded.

…

“So, we just wait for ponies to show up?” Spike asked while scratching his head as he looked around as well for any ponies coming up to their booth.

“Yep.” Mr. Cake answered simply with the same smile.

Twilight rubbed her foot against the ground as she started looking around as well. “So, how long does it usually take to-“

“Alright ya’ll, here’s our booth!” A familiar country accent was heard causing everypony at the Cake’s booth to quiet down and look towards the source.

When they looked to the source of the voice they saw the Apple family themselves pulling their own carts and wagons full of all sorts of apple baked goods such as Apple Pies, Apple Fritters, Apple Crisp, Apple Bars, pretty much every desert that has apple in it.

But it wasn’t just the fours members of the apple family with them. They also had some help with them. Such as…

“Rainbow Dash!” Fluttershy gasped as she saw her fellow Pegasus dragging a few wagons filled with apple pies.

“Rarity!” Spike said as she noticed the fashion pony walking next to her Marefriend as Applejack pulled a cart full of apple-based sweets.

And last but not least…

“Lincoln!” Mrs. Caked gasped out as she saw the white head helping out the Apple family with their baked good.

Lincoln heard his name being called and turned to everypony in the Cake booth and gave them a smile on a wave. “Oh, hey guys!”

“Howdy everypony!” Applejack said as she gave her friends a tip from her Stenson cap.

“How are you all doing today darlings?” Rarity asked kindly as she leaned against Applejack.

“R-Rainbow Dash, wh-what are you doing here?” Fluttershy asked with a bit of a hurt expression on her face. “I though you said you couldn’t come with me because you were busy.”

“I am busy.” Rainbow Dash said matter of factly as she gestured to the apple family under her. “I’m helping out the Apple’s with their booth.”

“Eeyup.” Big Mac, a rather large stallion with an apple red coat and an orange mane and tail and green eyes with his cutie mark being a green apple that’s been cut in half.

“Same here darling.” Rarity said as she gave Applejack a nuzzle. “I just had to help my little apple here.”

“Aw shucks, you’re making me blush.” Applejack said as she was in fact blushing.

“And they said Ah’m finally old enough to help out!” Applebloom said excited as she jumped up in glee.

“But Lincoln, I asked you to help out with us yesterday.” Mrs. Caked pointed out as she looked at the Ultimatrix user.

“Yes, you did. But the Apple’s asked me first and I’m a man of my word.” Lincoln said as he patted his chest with his fist. “Also they promised me a couple of fritters and pies to take home.”

“And they promised me a barrel of cider.” Rainbow Dash said as her mouth watered at the thought of getting a whole barrel of Apple family cider all to herself.

“And Applejack promised me-“ Rarity was saying before Applejack interrupted her.

“Not in front of Applebloom!” Applejack said quickly as she covered her little sisters’ ears with her muzzle apple red.

“Oh, right, sorry.” Rarity apologized as an embarrassed blush came to her face.

“Gross.” Lincoln and Rainbow Dash said in unison as they lightly glared at the couple.

“Hehehe.” An old sounding laugh rang out as another pony made herself known. She was a very old pony to having wrinkly pale green skin and a white man and tail that, unlike Lincolns hair, was due to old age. She also had orange eyes and frilled scarf with apple’s patterned over it and a cutie mark of a pie. This was Big Mac’s, Applejack’s, and Appleblooms grandmother, Granny Smith. “Looks like I beat ya to these yuggin’s.”

“Granny Smith.” Mr and Mrs Cake said in unison as they narrowed their eyes at the old mare. Both the Cakes and Granny smith walked up to each other with challenging glares in their eyes.

The atmosphere got a bit tense as both parties gave each other challenging glares. Lincoln shifted his eyes around awkwardly as he asked. “Ok am I missing something because I thought they were friends.” The Loud boy asked as they all witness the scene in front of them.

“Oh, we are dearie.” Mrs Cake said reassuringly while still looking Granny Smith dead in the eye.

“It’s just around this time of year…” Mr Cake was saying before being interrupted by Granny Smith.

“We can’t help but get a little competitive.” Granny Smith finished for the Cake male.

“See, around this time of year we both have booths for the Taste of Equestria fair.” Applejack begun explained as she walked up to the Cake group. “We always compete to see who can sell the most goods.”

“Eeyup.” Big Mac confirmed with a nod.

“And I recall we whooped your flanks for the last 5 years straight.” Granny Smith told everypony with a smirk.

Mr and Mrs Cake narrowed their eyes at the old mare as the latter said. “We’ll see about that this year Smith.” The Cake female said in a challenging tone.

“So, where’s your booth?” Pinkie Pie chirped in her usual peppy tone, not really taking all the competitive stuffed seriously.

Rarity rose her eyebrow at the party pony and pointed behind her. “It’s right there darling.” Rarity said as everypony looked to see that right behind the Apple family and their helping hands was a both the same size as the Cakes only modeled around a barn similar to the one the Apple’s owned.

“…How did we not notice that?” Fluttershy asked as she tilted her head.

“Not important right now.” Mr Cake said as he stepped up. “Sorry Apple’s but we really pulled out the stocks on this one and we intend to win this year!”

“Oh yeah,” Granny Smith said back as she turned to her own group. “Alright yuggin’s, set everything up! We got some Cakes to outsell!”

“Yes sir Granny Smith sir!” Everypony on the Apple’s side said in unison as they quickly got to setting up the Apple family stand.

“Everypony, we got some work to do!” Mrs. Cake instantly said afterwards as she and her husband quickly got back to their stand.

“Yippee!” Pinkie Pie cheered happily as she bounced close behind.

“Uh, Twilight.” Spike asked as he and the mare he called out stood in place. “What just happened?”

“I’m not quite sure Spike.” Twilight said as she watched the Apple side set up their own stand. “But I think we just got ourselves into a booth war.”

And so the great booth war began. For the next hour straight both groups had quite the number of ponies show up and buy treats from them. And both were making sure to keep score of how much items they’ve sold. However, they made sure the other group couldn’t see it.

But to those of you curious, the score was currently Cakes - 43, Apples - 49. In fact the Apple’s just hit 50 as Applebloom just sold an Apple fritter to an Earth Pony stallion. “Thank you! Enjoy you Apple family home cooked dessert!” Applebloom said as she gave the stallion a wave as he walked away enjoying his fritter.

Currently at the cakes stand, Fluttershy had her head down on the counter while looking at the Apple’s stand. Or more specifically, the rainbow maned Pegasus helping out at the Apple stand. Fluttershy sighed sadly as Twilight gave her a concerned look. “Something wrong Fluttershy?” The Alicorn asked with concern.

“Oh, uh, no. I’m fine.” Fluttershy muttered quietly, never taking her eyes off Rainbow Dash.

Twilight knew something was up, but ultimately decided not to pry about it yet. There would be plenty of time for that after this whole selling war between the Cakes and Apples. Just then Pinkie finished selling a chocolate cupcake to none other then Bon Bon and said. “Have a super-duper day!” The party pony said as Bon Bon nodded happily and took her cupcake.

Spike then changed the score the Cakes had to 44 after that sale. “Alright, we’ve made 44 sales so far. How do you think the Apple’s are doing?” The dragon asked as he had to jump to see over the counter of the booth.

“I’m not sure Dearie, but I can’t tell if they’ve gotten more sales or not.” Mrs Cake explained as, just like them, the Apple’s hid their sales sign from view so the other couldn’t see.

“I haven’t kept track of all the ponies that have shown up to them, but in my honest opinion, I think they’ve sold more then us.” Mr. Cake admitted admitted as he watched the Apple’s make three more sales. He didn’t miss the smug grin Applejack sent them.

“Wow! They’re doing really well today!” Pinkie Pie said happily as she waved to the barn designed stand in front of them.

However, Mrs Cake quickly grabbed Pinkie’s hoof and pulled Pinkie to where she was looking into the Cake mare’s eyes. “No, Pinkie. That’s a bad thing. If they sell more, we’ll lose. We have to sell more than them, understand?”

Pinkie Pie was silent for a moment before she gave Mrs. Cake her usual smile and said. “Okie doki loki!” Before going back to the front of the stand to make sales.

Mrs. Cake sighed at Pinkie not taking the competition seriously as a certain dragon walked up to Mrs. Cake. “Uh, hey, Mrs. Cake.” Spike said as he had his hands behind his back.

“Yes dearie?” Mrs. Cake asked as Spike cleared his throat.

“Well, I think I have a way to attract more customers to us.” Spike expained as Mrs. Cake’s eyes widened a bit at the information. She gestured Spike to go on as the dragon eagerly pulled out a sign in the shape of an arrow with a gingerbread design to it that said ‘Cake Family Baked Good’ on it. “I figured I could head to the center of the fair and spin this sign around in the direction of our booth and encourage other ponies to go here.”

“Spike that’s a wonderful idea!” Mrs. Cake complimented as she clapped her hooves together. “If this works you may end up with a little extra afterwards.”

Spike’s mouth quickly started to drool and the thought of earning even more goodies after this. He quickly shook his head to get back into reality and gave Mrs. Cake a salutte. “I won’t let you down!” The dragon said as he begun to run off with his sign.

However, he was quickly stopped by Mrs. Cake grabbing his tail the mare whispering to him. “Just make sure they don’t see you going over there. We don’t want them catching onto what we’re doing.” Spike gave a nod to Mrs. Cake as he began to walk off and hiding behind anything he could to make sure no one at the Apple stand could see him.

He hid behind everything from trash cans, to big stuffed animals, and even other ponies. All to make sure he wasn’t seen. And thankfully, he managed to make it to the center of the fair without any of them seeing him and quickly got down to attracting customers.

45 minutes later, things were looking up for the Cakes. More ponies quickly swarmed their stand asking for their baked goods. To which the cakes and everypony helping out was more than happy to provide. “Ok everypony, single file line please!” Mr. Cake chuckled as he handed a cinnamon bun to a Pegasus mare.

“Oh dear, um, here you go. Please don’t drop it.” Fluttershy said as she was starting to feel a little more than overwhelmed at all the ponies at the stand.

“Don’t worry everypony, there’s plenty of sweets for all of you.” Twilight reassured everyone while collecting the bits everypony was paying with her magic.

“I gotta give it to Spike.” Mrs. Cake said as she saw the score for their sales was now in the triple digits. “He must know how to spin a sign.”

At the Apple stand, they were all watching as the cakes stand was hounded by hungry ponies while hardly anypony seemed to arrive at their booth. “What the hay is going on?” Applejack asked as her group stared with widened eyes at the gingerbread booth. “How’d they get so busy all of a sudden.”

“I have no idea darling.” Rarity said, equally stunned. “We were doing so well and then suddenly it’s like everypony in the festival rushed over there.”

“Eeyup.” Big Mac said in response to Rarity.

Lincoln looked around for any hints of that was happening and took notice of something. “They all seem to be coming from over there.” Lincoln said as he pointed to the right. Everypony looked and, sure enough, all the ponies coming to the Cakes booth were all coming front the right pathway.

“That leads to the center of the fair.” Granny Smith said as she put a hoof to her chin as she tried to think of any connections between that and the Cakes sudden boom of customers.

Rainbow Dash then flew up a bit and did her best to look inside the Cakes booth and noticed one thing. “You know, I can’t seem to see Spike anywhere.” Rainbow Dash as she pointed out the lack of a small dragon in the booth.

“Hmmm.” Granny Smith hummed in response as she narrowed her eyes at the competition. She then turned to her youngest grandchild and ordered. “Applebloom, I want you to head to the center of the fair and see if anythings goin on.”

Applebloom quickly gave the old mare a salute and said. “Yes sir Granny Smith sir!” Applebloom then started to move around in the same way Spike was earlier. Hiding behind every nook and cranny. Avoided being seen from anypony.

Applebloom then eventually reached the center of the Taste of Equestria fair. She then heard the familiar voice of Spike from nearby and turned to see Spike surrounded by a group of ponies while spinning around his sign. “Anypony looking for a great sweet treat! Then come on over to the Cake family both for high quality sweets you won’t find anywhere else!” The dragon advertise as he started spinning the sign on his tail.

Applebloom narrowed her eyes at the dragon as she said. “So that’s how were playing this huh?”

“So they got Spike putting on a little show for everypony huh?” Applejack said with an unpleased expression as Applebloom explained the situation to everypony once she back back to her family's booth.

“Yeah, he’s spinning around a sign and advertising the Cakes booth to everypony at the center.” Applebloom confirmed as everypony else looked to each other.

“So that’s the kinda game they’re playing huh.” Granny Smith said with a determined look on her face.

“Eeyup.” Big Mac said as he looked to the cakes booth.

“Advertising huh?” Lincoln said as he put a had to his chin and begun brainstorming idea’s. He then smirked as something came to his head. “Well, I think we should fight fire with fire.”

“What do you mean darling?” Rarity asked as everypony turned to the human of the group.

Lincoln simply gave his group a confident smirk before he turned to Rainbow. “Rainbow, come with me. We got some advertising to do.” Rainbow Dash raised an eyebrow at the white-head, but decided to comply and follow Lincoln.

“Ok, why am I wearing this again?” Rainbow Dash asked as she was currently wearing a some ropes on her that attached to a little flag that said ‘Apple Family Treats’ in bold red letters.

“It’s simply, you simply fly around the festival and announce that our stand is the way to go.” Lincoln explained as he finished securing the ropes to Rainbow and the flag. “It’s what a lot of planes do to advertise stuff in my world.”

“Well I don’t know what these planes are but I feel completely ridiculous wearing this.” Rainbow complained as she tried scratching the area where the ropes were tied around.

“You want that keg of cider or not missy?” Granny Smith said with a glare as Rainbow huffed in response.

“Fine, whatever.” Rainbow Dash muttered at a lot volume.

“I DIDN’T QUITE HEAR YOU MISSY!” Granny Smith yelled, taking on a military officer-like persona.

“Yes sir Granny Smith sir!” Rainbow Dash quickly said in a frightened tone as she quickly flew out of the booth at high speeds.

Lincoln then leaned over to Big Mac’s ear and said. “Your grandma is terrifying.”

“Eeyup.” Big Mac said with a nod.

Sure enough, it started working. Pony’s from all over the festival quickly started to flock towards the Apple Family’s stand. Thankfully the family along with their help were able to keep up with the ponies coming up to them. Especially since Lincoln turned into Ditto and cloned himself to create event more help for the stand.

“We’re back in business ya’ll!” Applejack cheered followed by the rest in her group.

“Round of apple fritters coming up!” Ditto number 3 of 5 said.

“Here is your apple pie ma’am!” Ditto number 2 said as he handed a Unicorn mare a pie.

“Hehehe, we got this in the bag!” Granny Smith said as she shot the Cakes a cocky smirk.

Mr and Mrs Cake glared back at the old mare when suddenly Spike come in with his head lowered and his sign dragging on the ground. “Sorry everypony, they kinda lost interest in me when Rainbow started flying around.” The dragon explained as Twilight wrapped him up into a one hoof hug.

“It’s alright Spike, you tried your best.” The purple Alicorn reassured the Dragon.

Fluttershy looked up and saw her best friend flying around the sky with the flag advertising the Apple’s stand flying right behind her. Fluttershy sighed sadly again as she muttered at a volume only she could hear. “I wish we could have been on the same team.”

“Guess we gotta think of a new strategy otherwise that’ll be our 6th lose in a row.” Mr. Cake explained as his wife nodded in agreement.

“We are not going to lose again.” Mrs. Cake said determinedly before she said. “Got any idea’s Pinkie?” Mrs. Cake got silence in response. “Pinkie?”

Just then they heard the door that lead into the stand open up and everypony looked to see Pinkie Pie coming in...holding an Apple pie. “Hi everypony! I brought us something to snack one while we work!” Pinkie Pie said happily as she held out the pie.

Mr and Mrs Cake gasped when they saw the pie in Pinkie hands as the latter said. “Pinkie! Did you get that pie from the Apple’s stand?”

“Yep!” Pinkie Pie said with a happy nod, not detecting the tenseness coming off everypony. “I just figured since we probably shouldn’t eat any of the merchandise I can just go next door and get us something tasty to eat.”

“Pinkie! You’re just helping them out!” Mrs. Cake yelled as she took the pie from the party pony, making her pout. “Look, I know you mean well. But please try to take this seriously! No more going over there and no more buying their stuff!” Mrs. Cake finished by throwing the pie full force to the side.

“...Ok.” Pinkie Pie said sadly with a lowered head.

“Good.” Mrs. Cake said with a nod. “Now, we need to find a new way to-”

SPLAT!

The sound of a splatting was soon followed by the sound of everypony in the area gasping. Everything soon when quiet as Fluttershy shakily turned to Mrs. Cake. “Um...M-M-Mrs. C-Cake. Yo-You might w-wanna see wh-where you threw th-that p-pie…”

Mr and Mrs Caked looked in the direction where Mrs. Cake threw the pie and their eyes widened like dinner plates at that they saw. The pie hit Granny Smith dead on in the face. Everypony present was completely silent was they saw the pie slide down slowly on the old mare’s face until it fell off and showed Granny Smith covered in apple pie filling.

“Hehe, nice throw honey.” Mr. Cake nervously said as Granny Smith gave them a fierce glare as she wiped off the pie on her face.

“Hold me.” Ditto 1 said to Ditto 4 as he wrapped his arms around his clone.

“So, it’s a food fight you want huh?” Granny Smith said with a challenging tone and glare. Everypony flocking the stands quickly ran away as Granny Smith suddenly threw an apple cake right at Mr. Cake and knocking him to the end of his stand and leaving his face covered in cake.

Mrs. Cake gasped loudly as she looked at her cake covered husbands and then growled at the Apple’s stand. “That’s it.” She said as she glared daggers at Granny Smith. “This means war!”

And war it was. Not just a selling war. A food war! Everypony on both sides got equipped for the battle as they wore camouflage clothes, headbands, and straps containing various food items and pastries for ammunition. Both stands also fortified their defenses with bags of flour surrounding them.

Mr and Mrs Cake looked up from their stand with the former wearing a camo shirt and a soldier's helmet and the latter having face paint and a black vest with cupcakes attached to it. “Alright Apple’s! Give us your best shot!” Mr. Cake challenged.

However both screamed and quickly duck back down as they were quickly assaulted with apple and apple based products and were forced closed to the ground as their stand took heavy damage.

“They got us pinned down!” Mrs. Cake said as Pinkie sat next to her and her husband.

“Mrs. Cake why are we fighting over who’s stand is better?” The pink pony asked as she was just content in both her groups of friends having fun selling their baked goods and not competing over it.

“Pinkie this isn’t about who’s stand is better.” Mrs. Cake said as she shook her head before her expression change to a fierce one. “It’s about our stand being a lot better than theirs!”

Currently Granny Smith and Applejack were busy slingshotting small stuff like apple fritters and bars at the cake stands. When they ran out of ammo, Granny Smith turned to Applebloom and said. “Applebloom, arm the apples!”

“Yes sir Granny Smith sir!” Applebloom said as she saluted before grabbing an apple out of the bag next to her. Applebloom then bit off the stem and threw it at the Cake’s stand.

Fluttershy peeked an eye out while wearing a ridiculous amount of safety gear. She let out a high pitched scream as she saw the apple incoming and ducked behind the stand. When the apple land it proceeded to explode like a grenade and left a small hole in the ground.

Fluttershy quickly got into a fetal position and started shaky and said. “I can’t do this! I’m not cut out for war! I’ll never survive a day!”

Just then Spike came up to her and gave her a light slap across the face and pulling her in close and saying. “Get yourself together women!” The dragon yelled at the mare. “We gotta a war to win!”

Just then Spike ran off before coming back while pushing a canon into view. Fluttershy watched with stunned eyes as the Dragon pushed the weapon forward and asked, “Where did you get a canon?”

“Not important.” Spike instantly answered before turning to Twilight. “Load her up!”

Twilight gave a nod as she pulled up a desert with her magic. A three layered quadruple chocolate cake. Twilight loaded the cake into the canon as Spike went behind it and used his breathe to lit the fuse. “Ready...aim...fire!” Spike shouted as the canon fired the cake. However what the dragon didn’t notice is who the cake was aimed at. Rarity.

Rainbow Dash gasped as she saw the cake incoming. “Rarity! Look out!” The Pegasus yelled to her fashionista friend.

Applejack looked and time seemed to slow down as she saw the cake heading towards her friend. “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!” Applejack yelled in slow motion as she made it just in time to push Rarity out of the way and ended up taking the entirety of the cake herself.

Applejack was sent all the way to the back of the stand and splattered against the back wall with Applejack taking the full force of the attack. “Applejack!” Rarity yelled in concern as she ran towards the pile of chocolate cake. She was hestiate at first to reach her clean hooves inside it, but Applejack was in there.

Rarity quickly got to digging through the massive chocolate cake and quickly found her marefriend and dragged her out of the mess. Applejack looked a little dizzy as Rarity asked in a panicked tone. “Applejack! Applejack can you hear me?!”

“Rarity? Is that you?” Applejack asked in a tired tone with her eyes covered in cake.

“Yes darling, it’s me! Are you alright?!” Rarity asked as she held the farm pony’s hoof tightly.

“Rarity...I’ve been...caked.” Applejack said before being knocked out.

“Applejack! No! No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!” Rarity screamed dramatically while looking to the sky.

“That’s it! No more mister nice guy!” Lincoln said as he looked towards the one stallion in their group. “Big Mac, ready the Pieapults!”

Big Mac gave a salute as he pulled four catapults and proceeded to load them all with the biggest apple pies they had. “Fire!” Lincoln ordered as Big Mac pulled a rope which had the catapults launch all the pies toward the Cakes.

Mrs. Cake peaked out of her group's stand with binoculars. However she quickly gasped and retreated back into the stand as she announced. “Pie incoming!”

But it was two late as the four pies quickly came in and ended up hitting Twilight, Spike, and Mr. Cake. A pie did come down on Pinkie but the mare easily caught the pie in her mouth and swallowed it in one gulp.

Mrs. Cake looked at Pinkie when she did this and an idea quickly came to her as she grabbed a box full of cupcakes and called to the pink pony and said. “Pinkie, open up!”

“Ok, how com-” Pinkie was saying but was interupted by Mrs Cake stuffing all the cupcakes inside of Pinkie’s mouth causing her cheeks to puff out like a chipmunks. Mrs. Cake then picked up Pinkie over her shoulder and pulled on the pink mare’s tail causing a gun cocking sound to be heard. Just then Mrs. Cake started to fire cupcakes out of Pinkie’s mouth like a machine gun at the opposing stand.

“Everypony duck for cover!” Granny Smith yelled as she and the rest of her group quickly hit the dirt as the cupcake barrage hit them.

And so the battle waged on and on. Both groups working to get the upper hand on the other and unleashing all sorts of deserts on them. Never letting up for a second.

‘Day 43. I’m not sure how much of this war we can take. The will of this team is slowly being broken.’ Lincoln mentally said as he wrote down his thoughts in a journal.

“Granny Smith can ah go home? Ah’m getting tired.” Applebloom asked as Granny Smith looked forward at the opponent.

“Less talk more bang-bang.” Granny Smith ordered as Applebloom sighed in response and went back to throwing more food.

‘We have sustained many casualties on our side.’ Lincoln wrote down as Rarity was crying over the still unconscious and cake covered Applejack.

‘Local businesses have suffered as a result of this battle.’ Lincoln wrote as suddenly a misfired vanilla caked was fired right at a cabbage cart.

“MY CABBAGES!” The stallion running the cart yelled as his cabbages were destroyed by the cake.

‘Innocent lives have also been taking.’ Lincoln narrated as two unicorn stallions were walking next to each other.

The first unicorn had black fur and an orange mane and tail and wore a white scarf that also acted as a cape that went to his flank that covered most of his muzzle while still showing his blue eyes, black horn and mane. His Cutie Mark was of a piece of paper being written on by a pencil. The second stallion had green fur, a brown mane and tail along with a brown goatee on his muzzle with black eyes and his Cutie Mark being a canvas with a paintbrush painting on it.

As the two stallions were walking, suddenly a pie came in and struck the green Unicorn’s side. “Ouch! Aaaaaah! I’m...dying!” The green stallion yelled dramatically as he held the spot the pie struck him as his black unicorn friend gave him a deadpanned look. “Ah I’m to young a beautiful to die!”

‘It’s been months-’ Lincoln was mentally saying before being interupted by the green Unicorn’s dramatic wailing.

“Did I mention I’m dying!”

‘It’s been months-’

“So much pain! All the pain! Ah dying! DYING! Why now!? I had so much to live for!”

“Oh my Celestia! Petrus! Shut up!” The black Unicorn said as he-

Smack!

“Ow!”

‘...It’s been months since I’ve seen my beloved wife and kids!’ Lincoln narrated quickly before he could be interrupted again.

“What are you talking about sonny?” Granny Smith said in response to Lincoln’s thoughts...somehow. “It’s only been a few hours and you don’t have a wife or kids.”

‘...I hate it when that mare reads my thoughts.’ Lincoln thought with an annoyed look on his face.

“Then stop thinking out loud!” Granny Smith yelled as she walked away from the human.

After that the Apple’s stand was taking heavy fire from Twilight as she launched baked good after baked goods using her magic. “Excellent work Twilight!” Mrs. Cake complimented as she grinned. “Continue the onslaught!”

“That’s it!” Granny Smith said as she and the rest of her group except for a certain white haired boy peaked through the counter of their stand. Granny Smith then pulled out a walkie talkie and said. “Time to call in the air raid!”

The centerpiece of the entire fair was a giant mixing bowl with a banner hanging off it that said ‘Taste of Equestria.’ and currently on the top of the giant bowl was a creature covered in dark green-teal armor with three grill plates on the helmet and the Ultimatrix symbol on his chest. This was one of Lincoln’s forms NRG.

NRG brought his arms forward and then proceeded to jump off the bowl in a skydiving position. “GERONIMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!” NRG screamed as he fell closer to the ground when…

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!

A giant mushroom cloud explosion of cake batter occured that spread throughout the entire fair.

When the smoke from the explosion cleared, it showed the entire area was devastated. All stands and rides at the fair were destroyed as both the Cake’s group and the Apple’s group laid spread out and completely covered in the remains of baked goods.

Pinkie was the only pony still standing as she looked to everypony and said. “Look at what you’ve done!” The party pony cried out in despair. “All this wonderful food gone to waste!” At this point Pinkie face planted to the ground and started crying over all the destroyed pastries and sugary treats.

“Pinkie’s right.” Mrs. Cake said as she got up from the rubble of what used to be her stand. “It’s not about who sells the most, it’s about coming together to bring Equestria the best of what baked goods can bring!”

Mrs. Cake then walked up to Granny Smith and offered her hoof to her. “What do you say Granny?”

Granny Smith then look to Mrs Cake and gave her a smile and took the offered hoof. “Maybe this competition of ours has gotten silly.” Granny Smith said as Mrs. Cake helped her up.

“Next year, let’s do a stand together.” Mrs. Cake offered with a kind smile to which Granny Smith nodded.

“Sounds like a plan.” The old mare agreed as they both walked away together, bringing this year's Taste of Equestria fair to a close.

THE FAR NORTH

In the far northern parts of Equestria was an empire where everything was completely made of crystal. The house, the shops, the streets. Even the ponies that lived there shined like crystal. Even the castle was completely made of crystal.

And currently in said castle, two ponies were walking through its halls together. One of the was princess Celestia herself. And walking next to her was another smaller Alicorn that had pink fur and a mane and tail that were colored a darkish violet, a pale gold, and a rose color. This was Princess Cadance, ruler of the Crystal Empire.

“It’s always nice to get to see you auntie.” Cadence said as she looked up to Celestia with a smile.

“And I’m grateful I could get some time off to spend with my niece.” Celestia said as she gave Cadence a warm motherly smile.

As the two walked together through the hallways of Cadence’s castle, the Princess of Love spoke up. “I hope you don’t mind, but I sent a letter to Twilight and asked her if she and her friends wanted to come for a visit.” Cadence told her aunt who simply smiled at the information.

“It’s no trouble at all. I always enjoy getting to see Twilight and her friends.” The Princess of the Sun said reassuringly.

“Great!” Cadence said happily as she then looked up in thought. “I’ll admit, I’m rather curious about this ‘Lincoln Loud’ she mentioned to me in a letter.”

Celestia than chuckled lightly as she said. “Well you’re in for a surprise that’s for sure.” Celestia says as she remembered her and Luna’s experience with meeting the transforming human. “He’s quite the interesting fellow.”

“Well, I look forward to meeting him.” Cadence said as both her and Celestia kept walking down the halls and continued their small talk.

But, as they were walking, they passed a room with an open door. The room was mostly empty except for one single object that stood out. A crystal mirror. A crystal mirror with a purple rim around it that resembled a horseshoe.

As Celestia and Cadence passed the room with the mirror, the crystal glass gave off a dim glow for a brief moment before going back to normal.

Author's Note

Next time on Loud 10 and MLP Unite

Lincoln: So this is the crystal empire huh?

Twilight: I'm still not quite comfortable with all this Princess stuff.

Cadence: You must be Lincoln, it's so nice to meet you!

Twilight: My crown! She's got my crown!

Lincoln: Damn it!

Celestia: She was a former student of mine.

Lincoln: I'm going. I'm not taking no for an answer.

Twilight: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!

Spike: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!

Lincoln: AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!

...

Lincoln: Twilight that only makes you taller then me in Canada!

EQUESTRIA GIRLS

Equestria Girls Part 1 - A Whole New World

“Approaching Crystal Empire. All ponies stopping, please prepare to exit.” The conductor of the train announced over the intercom as he stopped the train at the station to the Crystal Empire.

On this train was none other than the Mane 6 as well as Lincoln Loud. They were there because of a letter Twilight old foal sitter and sister-in-law said sent her a letter saying she, Luna, and Celestia, were all meeting up at the Crystal Empire and would love it if Twilight and her friends could meet them there.

Cadence also asked if she could meet Lincoln for herself. Twilight’s sent a letter to her telling her about how she opened a portal to another universe that ended up bringing the Loud boy to Equestria. Twilight explained that he had a device that let him turn into ‘Aliens’ as he called them, and she also began to hear rumors from other ponies and the newspaper that strange creatures have started showing up and helping around Ponyville. Needless to say, the Princess of Love was curious.

But back with the Mane 6 and Lincoln, they were currently walking towards Cadence’s crystal castle. Lincoln was taking a bit of time to admire the scenery of literally everything being made of crystal. “So this is the Crystal Empire huh?”

“Yes, isn’t it magnificent darling?” Rarity said as she was probably the pony who enjoyed going to the Crystal Empire as the sight of an entire Empire made of Crystal was a mare’s dream come true for her.

“Yeah, kinda reminds me of Diamondhead’s home planet.” Lincoln said as he remembered when Tetrax needed his help to restore his planet and people with Chromostone and how the entire planet was basically entirely made of crystal.

Rarity’s eyes widened at this. She’s seen, and fanmared a bit, Diamondhead before. And an entire planet full of them. “You must take me there someday.” Rarity demanded as she looked Lincoln in the eye with a serious look.”

“Sure thing.” Lincoln chuckled as he and the Mane 6 made their way into the castle.

As they were walking in, Applejack approached Twilight and said. “Hoo-wee! Your very first princess sumit. You must be over the moon, Twilight.” The farm pony told her Alicorn friend.

“Oh, I’m excited.” Twilight answered with a smile before her expression turned to a small frown. “But I’m also really nervous.”

“You’re nervicited!” Pinkie said as she suddenly came in on the two, startling them a bit. “It’s like you want to jump up and down and yell, YAY ME!” Pinkie Pie emphasized her point by bouncing up and down.

“But you also want to curl up in a teeny-tiny ball and hide at the same time!” Pinkie continued again as she curled up into a tight ball to show her point. However, when she uncurled, a particular sound effect was heard that Lincoln recognized and made him look around.

“Where’d that come from?” The Loud boy asked nopony in particular as he swore he heard the Transformer’s sound effect.

Pinkie then gave a big smile as she ruffled Twilight’s mane a bit. “We’ve all been there!” The party pony reassured the princess.

“I’m there almost everyday.” Fluttershy said as she averted her gaze.

“You wouldn’t believe how much I felt it when I first got the Omnitrix.” Lincoln reassured the Alicorn.

“You got no reason to fret, Twi.” Applejack said as she faced the purple Princess. “Everythings gonna be just-”

But before the farm pony could finish, Applejack’s marefriend suddenly rush up to Twilight and yelled. “Twilight!” Rarity yelled as she grabbed Twilight’s cheeks. “Oh, sorry darling. But I just realized you’re not wearing your crown. I know you don’t like wearing it all the time, but don’t you think if you’re meeting with all the other princess’s you should be wearing it? You haven’t forgotten it back in Ponyville, have you?”

“It’s in my bag.” Twilight said as she gestured her head behind her. Everypony looked to see a bag with Twilight’s Cutie Mark on it that Spike was patting. “I just feel a little self-conscious about wearing it. Even in front of the other princesses. I’m...I’m still not quite comfortable with all this Princess stuff.”

“I haven’t even gotten used to these yet.” Twilight as she raised up her wings. She then started flapping them and raised up from the ground for a bit, but only for a few seconds before falling down. Even after a month of being an Alicorn she still wasn’t used to flying.

“You’re a princess Twilight! Embrace it!” Rarity said with a smile before she started having a mini fantasy. “I’m telling you, if I had a crown like that, I would never take it off. Why’d I sleep in the thing!”

“Not when were sleeping you don’t.” Applejack said as she gave her marefriend a deadpan expression with Rarity giving a sheepish smile in response.

Twilight simply looked away with a smile as she said. “Come on everypony, let’s not keep the princess’s waiting.” Everypony muttered in agreement as they went off to the throne room of the Crystal Castle where the three other princesses were waiting.

With Twilight leading them, the group made their way to big double doors that lead to the castle’s throne room. When Twilight opened them, they were immediately greeted by two rows of crystal pony guards playing trumpets to welcome them as that had flags with Celestia’s Cutie Mark on them. In front of them was the three princesses of Equestria in front of the Crystal Empire Throne.

As Twilight walked forward and looked around at the rather...eccentric welcoming for her, she ended up bumping into somepony. She looked up and saw it was a Pegasus stallion with blue eyes and melanin colored fur and a blue mane and tail. He was wearing gold colored armor that hid his Cutie Mark.

After Twilight bumped into him, she quickly backed up as the Stallion announced. “Her highness, Princess Twilight Sparkle!”

Once he had the announcement, the princesses all walked up to Twilight with Cadence giggling and giving her sister-in-law a nuzzle. “Twilight! I haven’t seen you since the coronation.” Cadence said, excited to see the purple Alicorn again.

“Hey, what’s up.” Lincoln said as he and the rest of Twilight’s friends walked up to the princesses.

Cadence looked up and Lincoln and quickly deduced this was the one Twilight talked about in her letter and gave the Loud boy a smile as she held a hoof out. “You must be Lincoln, it’s so nice to meet you!”

Lincoln kneeled down to Cadence’s level and shook her hoof with his hand and said. “Same. You must be Cadence, Twilight’s told me about you.”

“She’s told me about you as well.” Cadence said as she and Lincoln separated limbs. “I’ve heard your quite the character.”

“Well I’m only as good as the author writes me.” Lincoln said as he stuffed his hands in his hoodie pockets.

“What?” Cadence asked with a confused expression.

“Not important.” Lincoln quickly shrugged off while sending a wink to the audience before turning back to Cadence. “But yeah, I’m quite the unique individual, not to brag.”

Cadence giggled in response as she said. “Well I would love to get to meet you, maybe I can show you around the castle while we talk?” The Princess of Love offered.

“Hey, that sounds pretty fun.” Lincoln said before he turned to the Mane 6. “That cool with you guys?”

“Go ahead!” Twilight said with a smile as the rest of her friends nodded.

Lincoln gave them all a thumbs up as he turned to Cadence. “Lead the way.”

“Ok, so, what are these ‘Aliens’ Twilight told me about?” Cadence asked as everypony saw them leave the throne room and into the hallways of the castle.

Once that was done, Celestia walked up to her former student and said. “We have so much to discuss.” Celestia said as her sister Luna walked next to her and nodded. “But it can wait, why don’t you all get comfortable in your rooms and we can discuss everything tomorrow.”

Everypony chattered in agreement as they went off to the rooms that were set up for them.

Back with Lincoln and Cadence…

“OH MY CELESTIA! AHAHAHAHAHA! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!” Cadence laughed harder than she ever has before, forcing both her and Lincoln to stop so she could let out her howls of laughter.

“

It...seemed like a good idea at the time.” Lincoln said as he lowered his head and scratched the back of it with an embarrassed blush came to his face. Currently Lincoln was telling Cadance about the time him and his best friend Clyde set up a ‘Girl Guru’ stand to raise money for a fundraiser.

“Did you seriously get hit with salt and vinegar pies at the end?” Cadance said as it was taking all her strength and willpower not to fall on her back and clench her gut laughing.

“Yeah, yeah, laugh it up.” Lincoln said grumpily as he crossed his arms and looked away. “At least I didn’t do something as stupid as you about a crush.”

“Ahahahaha, yeah me and Shiny did some crazy things to get each other’s attention.” Cadence laughed as she wiped a tear of laughter from her eye. She ended up sharing some stories from when she was a teenanger and the crazy things she and Shining Armor did to get each other’s attention and with a lot of them being...to put it bluntly, completely stupid.

“Well, it’s settled. We’re both idiots.” Lincoln settled for them as Cadence giggled in response.

“I guess we are.” Cadence laughed a bit as they approached a set of doors that were larger then than the others. “Oh, this is my room. Wanna see?”

Lincoln rose an eyebrow as he asked. “Are you sure that’s ok?” He didn’t want to invade someone else’s privacy, especially a princess.

Cadence simply rolled her eyes at the Loud boy and said. “Lincoln, it’s fine. It’s just me and Shining’s bedroom.” Cadence reassured him before turning around and smirking and muttering under her breath. “Besides, it’s not like it’s me and Shiny’s special room.”

“What was that?” Lincoln asked, not quite hearing what Cadence said.

“Nothing!” The pink Alicorn quickly said as she opened the doors. “Anyway, it’s perfectly fine.”

“If you say so.” Lincoln said with a shrug as he followed Cadence inside. Once inside he saw that the very middle of the room had a giant bed worthy of a princess made of the finest materials along with giant blankets and pillows.

He saw there was a vanity with a big mirror and make up over it and draws that most likely contained similar items. Near the side of the room he saw some pony manikins with armor on them. Most likely belonging to Twilight brother and Cadence’s husband Shining Armor as Twilight told them that he used to be the head of Celestia’s royal guard.

“Nice~” Lincoln said as he looked over the room. “You royal’s sure know how to live.”

Cadence giggled in response as she said. “Oh, it’s nothing special really.” Cadence said modestly. Just then she looked around the room, seemingly to make sure nopony else was in there right them.

Cadence then gestured Lincoln to come closer to her. The white-headed boy raised his eyebrow at this but decided to kneel down to get on Cadence’s level. The Princess of Love then whispered to Lincoln. “So hey, I have something I wanna tell you. But you can’t tell anypony else, especially Twilight. I want it to be a surprise for her.”

“My lips are sealed.” Lincoln reassured the pink Alicorn. Cadence then began whispering to Lincoln at a volume quiet enough that surely only he could hear. Lincoln’s eyes widened when Cadence finished as he said. “Woah, are you serious?”

Cadence gave a gleeful smile and a nod. “Well congratulations!” Lincoln said to the Alicorn princess with a big smile of his own.

“Thanks!” Cadence said happily before giving Lincoln a serious look. “Remember, no telling.”

“Don’t worry I won’t.” Lincoln said as he rose his hands up. Just then Lincoln’s eyes looked out the window behind Cadence and saw it was pitch black outside. “Woah, it’s later than I thought.”

“Yeah, guess we talked for longer than we thought.” Cadence said with a sheepish chuckle at how long the two ended up talking to each other. “We better get to bed, there's a room about 3 doors away you can use.”

“Thanks, have a good night Cadence.” Lincoln said as he exited the Alicorns bedroom.

“Good night Lincoln.” Cadence as she jumped up to her bed and got comfy. Unfortunatly for her Shining Armor was away on a mission right now, but she would be fine sleeping on her own for a few nights.

In Twilight’s room, she was currently sound asleep in her bed as Spike was sleeping in a basket a little bit away from Twilight bed. Next to Twilight’s bed was a nightstand with a lamp on it, as well as Twilight’s crown. The crown as gold and the centerpiece was none other than Element of Magic. The most powerful of the elements of harmony was a dark pink jewel in a similar shape to Twilight’s Cutie Mark.

Both the Alicorn and Dragon were sound asleep, and due to this they were unable to notice a turquoise magic aura cover itself on the doorknob and open the door up. Just then a pony snuck into the purple Alicorn’s room. Their appearance couldn’t be seen due to a cloak they were wearing.

The pony made their way over to Twilight’s bed, passing by Spike still sleeping in the basket. They walked up to the nightstand and looked at Twilight’s crown before their yellow horn glowed turquoise as they picked up the Element of Harmony. As they picked it up, they ended up accidentally knocking the lamp off, but the cloaked pony quickly picked it up with their magic and set it on the nightstand again.

The figure looked to see if Twilight and Spike were still asleep. Once they saw they were, the clocked pony slipped the crown under their cloak and then brought up decoy crown to put in the real one’s place.

Once they made the swap, the figure started to walk away. However, they didn’t notice that Spike rolled around in his sleep, causing his tail to spread out right in front of the cloaked pony. This caused the mystery pony to trip and crash forward, causing both Spike and Twilight to awake.

“Huh! What?!” Spike said as he woke up from his tail being pulled on.

Twilight then looked around and saw the cloaked pony in front her. The cloak parted a bit, but this was enough for Twilight to see the saddle bag the mystery Unicorn was wearing and see her crown inside. “My crown! She’s got my crown!” Twilight shouted as she pointed at the thief.

The cloaked pony quickly started to run away as Twilight and Spike got up and started chasing the cloaked Unicorn. “Stop! Please!” Twilight yelled as she gave chase to the thief. “She stole my crown!”

Twilight yelling caused the rest of her friends to wake up and quickly leave their rooms.to go and try to aid their friend in the chase.

In Lincoln’s room, the human shot up from bed with a sleep expression on his face. “Huh-who-what?!” Lincoln said as he looked around with his brain still trying to reboot from suddenly being woken up.

Back with Twilight, as she chased the cloaked figure, her horn glowed purple as she suddenly disappeared and teleport right in front of the cloaked pony. “Stop!” Twilight ordered. But she watched as the cloaked pony kept running as their own horn started glowing a bright turquoise color.

Suddenly the figure did their own teleportation spell and teleported right behind Twilight. The figure’s teleportation caused their cloak to come off revealing their appearance. They turned out to be a mare with yellow fur to match her horn, cyan eyes, and yellow and red striped mane and tail. Their Cutie Mark consisted of a sun that half yellow and half red with the center of the sun being a darker yellow with red in it.

The mare looked at Twilight with a cocky smirk, the crown still in her saddle bag, before she started to run again. Twilight quickly ran back after her and started closing in, even using her teeth to try and catch her tail.

When that didn’t work, Twilight straight up tackled the unicorn leading them both to go tumbling into another room. The room that held the crystal mirror. When both mares feel to the floor, the crown came flying out of the yellow Unicorn’s saddle bag and ended up bouncing around the room. Right as the rest of the Mane 6 came into the room, they witness as Twilight’s crown ended up flying towards the mirror, and when it touched it the mirror glowed, and the crown was sent right into the mirror.

The Mane 6 all gasped as they witness the crown getting sent right into the mirror as Twilight faced the Unicorn who stole her crown and said. “What did you do?”

However, the thief simply gave a cocky smirk as she teleported in front of the mirror and said to her. “Sorry it had to be this way.” The unicorn said in a cocky tone and if you listened closely enough, complete bitterness. Especially when she finished by saying. “Princess!”

And with that, the Mare jumped into the mirror herself. Disappearing into it as the Mane 6 gasped again. Just then footsteps were heard as everypony watched as a still sleepy Lincoln came up to everypony. “I-I’m here! Wh-what’s g-going on!?” He asked as the Mane 6 all gave him nervous looks.

THE NEXT MORNING

The following morning, the Mane 6, Lincoln, and the princesses were all gathered in the throne room. Currently the Mane 6 just got done explaining the situation of what happened last night to the Princesses.

“Damn it!” Lincoln cursed as he looked down in shame and tightened his fist. “If only I had been faster, I could have stopped it!”

“It’s alright Lincoln.” Twilight reassured the human as she looked down. “None of us could have been prepared for last night.”

Celestia hummed in thought as she took in everything Twilight and her friends told her. “The way you described her, it must be Sunset Shimmer.” Celestia explained as everypony gave the Princess of the Sun a confused look. “She’s a former student of mine.”

Everypony gasped at the information as Rainbow Dash asked. “She used to be your student?!” The Pegasus yelled in surprise.

“Yes, in fact she was my personal student before Twilight.” Celestia further explained as she pointed a hoof towards Twilight, who’s eyes widened in surprise.

Just then Cadence lowered her head as a sad look came to her face. “Sunset…” Cadence muttered in a depressed tone.

Everypony looked to Cadence with a concerned look as Lincoln asked. “Cadence are you alright?”

Cadence gave a sigh as she gave an explanation for why she suddenly turned sad. “Well, you see, I actually used to foal sit Sunset when she was young before Twilight.” Cadence explained as everypony’s eyes widened a bit at the information. “She was really shy and nervous around everything when she was young but I loved spending time with her. In fact, she had a lot of things in common with Twilight, and when Twilight became Celestia’s student as well and I started foal sitting her as well, I wanted to introduce you two to each other so you could possibly be friends.”

Cadence smiled at the happy memories before she frowned again as sadness overtook the pink Alicorn again. “But she eventually grew out of needing me apparently. And then one day she left due to a completely petty reason...and she never even said goodbye to me. Ever.” Tears began to build up at the memories of the mare she used to foal sat betrayal and especially at not getting a proper goodbye.

“Why’d she leave?” Applejack asked as Luna went to comfort Cadence.

“She grew jealous of Twilight.” Celestia answered as everypony looked to the purple Alicorn.

“Oh me?” Twilight asked as she pointed a hoof towards herself.

“Yes.” Celestia answered with a nod. “When I took you in as my student, she started to get bitter and jealous of the time I spent on you. She eventually became cruel and dishonest. I tried to help her, but she ended up abandoning her studies and pursued her own path. One that sadly led to her stealing the crown.

“She tried to replace Twilight’s crown with this.” Spike said as he held up the fake crown Sunset Shimmer tried to replace with Twilight’s real one.

Celestia moved her head down to inspect the fake crown and said. “I suppose Sunset Shimmer thought she wouldn’t notice right away that this was not yours. And by the time you did, it would be too late to go after your own crown and Element of Harmony.”

“But I don’t understand. Where did she go? Where did she take the crown?” Twilight asked with confusion in her voice.

“From what you guys told me the crown and Sunset ended up going through that strange mirror.” Lincoln said as he and everypony else followed Celestia as she started walking away.

“You’ll soon know more about this place then even I do.” Celestia told her former student as she led the group through the halls of the crystal castle.

The room Celestia led everypony was the room the mirror that Sunset went through was in. Princess Luna stepped up and begun explaining. “This is no ordinary mirror, it is a gateway to another world, a gateway that opens once every 30 moons.”

“Hey wait a minute.” Rainbow Dash suddenly spoke up. “Gateway to another world? Like the kind that brought Lincoln here? I thought it took Alicorn magic to open those kinds of portals up.”

“Hey yeah, what gives?” Lincoln asked as he gave an accusing glare to the royal sisters.

“This is a little different than that particular spell.” Luna explained as suddenly Pinkie put her hoof on the mirror causing it to sparkle.

“Ooooh! Sparkly!” Pinkie said as Luna gave an annoyed look and used her magic to remove Pinkie from the portal.

“It’s a special portal created by Starswirl the Bearded that uses the magic from the moon to open up the gateway.” Luna explained as everypony nodded at the lunar princess’s words. “It’s always been kept in the Cantorlot Castle, but when Princess Cadence took over the Crystal Empire, we sent it here for her to watch over.”

Princess Celestia then walked up to the group with a serious look on her face. “I had always hoped Sunset Shimmer would use it to return, to come back to Equestria seeking my guidance.” She said as she closed her eyes. “Obviously, this is not what happened.”

Twilight currently help but feel uneasy at the tension coming off the solar Princess. Just the Cadence looked to the purple Alicorn and said. “Twilight, you must use the mirror to go into this other world and retrieve your crown.” Cadence said as Twilight started moving towards the mirror portal. “Without it, the other Elements of Harmony have no power, and Equestria without one of its most important means of defense.”

Twilight nodded as she looked at the mirror portal in front of her with a nervous expression. “Your crown does not belong in the place Sunset Shimmer now calls home.” Luna said seriously as she looked to Twilight. “And in her position, your Element of Harmony will no doubt be used to bring harm to the inhabitants of this other realm. They will not have the power to defend themselves.”

Luna then levitated a saddlebag onto Twilight as Celestia stepped up to her former student. “Do you understand the importance of your task?” Celestia asked the purple alicorn in a serious tone.

“Of course.” Twilight instantly answered as she looked to the Princess of the Sun.

“Good. Then you must go at once.” Celestia told Twilight.

Twilight took a deep breath to ready herself for her important mission and then started walking forward, closer to the mirror.

But just then Rainbow Dash quickly rushed forward in front of Twilight and stopped the Alicorn in her tracks. “Woah! Woah! Woah! She’s goin, we’re goin with her!” Rainbow Dash said as the rest of the Mane 6 appeared at her side. “Right girls?”

“Ooh! I’m so nervicited!” Pinkie cheered with a nervicited smile on her face.

“You do realize that’s not a real word, right?” Applejack said to the pink pony with a deadpan look.

Twilight gave her friends a grateful, but then Celestia said. “I’m afraid I can’t let you go.” The solar Princess told everypony.

“What?! Why not!?” Rainbow Dash demanded to know.

“Sending all of you could upset the balance of this alternate world,” She explained to the group of ponies in front of her. “Creating havoc that would make it impossible to get the crown back from Sunset Shimmer.”

“Then I’ll go with here!” Lincoln said as he stepped forward.

Celestia however shook her head and Lincoln and said. “I thank you for the offer Lincoln, but I already said any more of you going could create imbalance.”

“Yeah, but they belong in this world.” Lincoln said as he pointed the Mane 6, minus Twilight, as he continued talking. “If I’m not causing any imbalance here, I shouldn’t cause any imbalance there so I can safely help out.”

Celestia sighed as she began saying. “Look, Lincoln-”

But Celestia was quickly interrupted by the Loud boy as he said firmly while looking the Sun Princess right in the eyes. “I’m going. I’m not taking no for an answer.” Lincoln said sternly before he rolled out his sleeve to show off the Ultimatrix. “And I can and will use violence if you try to stop me.”

Celestia glared hard at Lincoln’s eyes. Everypony quickly got nervous as they started backing up as the Ultimatrix user and solar Princess glared each other down. They feared an actual fight could break out between the two. But ultimately, Celestia sighed as she said. “Fine. I suppose some back up would be good.”

Lincoln rolled up his sleeve and walked next to Twilight and crossed his arms. “So, it’s decided then.” Lincoln said directly to the ruler of Equestria before turning to Lincoln. “Anything else we need to know.”

Luna shook her head to ease herself of the previous tension and used her horn to create an image of the moon moving high in the sky. “On the third day, when the moon reaches its peak in the night sky, the portal will close. And once it does, it will be another 30 moons before you will be able to use it to return.”

“Alright, get the crown back before the end of the third day, got it.” Lincoln said as he punched a fist into his palm. He then turned to Twilight and asked. “You ready?”

Twilight swallowed a lump in her throat as and nodded. “As ready as I’ll ever be.” The Alicorn answered nervously as the two started walking towards the portal.

When they were right in front of the portal, Lincoln said. “On the count of three?” Twilight took a deep breath and nodded in response. ”One...two...THREE!” When Lincoln got to three, the two decided to just go for it and jump right into the mirror, disappearing into the portal.

When the two disappeared, Spike watched with a panicked look before he suddenly bolted towards the mirror. “SPIKE NO!” All the ponies yelled as they watched dragon continue running towards the portal and could do nothing as the dragon suddenly jumped in.

Inside the portal, Lincoln, Twilight, and Spike found themselves flying through a rainbow vortex and screaming as they were sent swirling towards a bright light.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!”

And then all three of them were blinded by an incredibly bright flash of light.

“Ugh...my head.” Lincoln groaned as he rubbed his head and sat up. He tried to open his eyes but winced a bit as sunset suddenly hit him.

“What happened?” He heard Twilight’s voice next to him.

“Uh, Twilight…” They heard Spike’s voice in front of them.

“Spike. You’re not supposed to...Spike?” Twilight was saying but when she regained her vision and looked to where Spike was talking, she saw what appeared to be a dog with Spike’s colors such as having purple fur, and a light green furred under belly with darker green floppy ears. He was also wearing a spiked collar with a yellow pendant that had a heart in it. “Are you a dog?”

Spike looked over himself, turning around a few times and said. “I think so.” The dragon turned dog answered.

“Ah, my heads killing me.” Twilight heard Lincoln groan as the two faced each other.

“Lincoln, are you ok?” Twilight asked with concern as she watched Lincoln rub his head and open his eyes completely to look at her.

“Yeah, it’s just a head...woah.” Suddenly Lincoln forgot all about his headache as he looked at Twilight with widened eyes.

“What? What’s wrong!” Twilight quickly asked in a panicked tone.

“Uh, hehe, well you just might wanna take a look at yourself.” Lincoln said with a small smirk and a chuckle at what Twilight had become.

“Huh, what do you-” Twilight was saying as she brought your hooves to her face...only the weren’t hooves. They were hands. “What?” Twilight gasped as she looked over herself and saw that she had ended up turning into a human just like Lincoln. She had purple skin and her eyes were the same and her hair went down past her back. She wore a light blue blouse with a dark pink ribbon and a purple skirt that had her Cutie Mark on the side. She also had long purple boots with black bottoms and dark pink socks. And the saddle bag she had one ended up turning into a backpack.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-” Twilight screamed before Lincoln put his hand over her mouth.

“Stop screaming! It’s alright! You’re just a human now!” Lincoln said in a reassuring tone as he still held his hand over Twilight mouth. Twilight nodded in response as she tried to calm down. “You’re fine. Ok?” Lincoln continued to hold his hand over Twilight mouth as the Alicorn turned human nodded again. “You’re not gonna scream?” Twilight nodded in response as Lincoln removed his hand from Twilight’s hand.

“Ok, I’m ok. I’m ok. I’m ok.” Twilight said to herself to calm down. After a few deep breaths, she finally calmed down a bit and said. “Ok, I’m good.”

“Well at least we got a human here with us otherwise we’d have no idea what to do.” Spike said with a sigh of relief.

“Yeah.” Twilight said as Lincoln gave them a thankful smile. “Wait, a second...human.” Twilight then turned to Lincoln and looked him in the eye and said. “Wait, Lincoln, if I turned into a human here, do you think this is your world?”

Lincoln hummed a bit at the question as he scratched his chin in thought. “I’m not sure, the odds are infinity to one. Plus, humans don’t normally have purple skin. And dogs don’t have purple or green fur.” Lincoln said as he looked around and saw more humans walking around with most of them having very unnatural skin colors for humans back in his world. “But this is still a human world meaning I got a bit of a home field advantage.”

“Great! Cause we're gonna need every advantage we can get if we’re gonna get my crown back!” Twilight said as she looked at her hands for a moment before making a fist with one and punching it into her open palm like she sees Lincoln do sometimes.

“Right! Come on, let’s go!” Lincoln said with a determined expression. Twilight nodded...but didn’t get up off her knees. “You, uh, you gonna get up?”

Twilight looked to herself and looked at her legs before giving Lincoln a sheepish smile and saying. “Could, uh, could you help me up please?”

Lincoln rolled his eyes before walking up Twilight and offering his hand to her. “Here, take my hand.” Lincoln said as Twilight looked at her hand for a moment and wiggled around her fingers. She then steadily moved it over to the hand Lincoln offered and wrapped her fingers around it.

Once it was secure Lincoln gently pulled Twilight up to her brand-new feet. When she was standing, Twilight quickly lost her balance due to not being used to being bipedal. Luckily, Lincoln was able to watch her before she fell. “Ok, easy does it.” Lincoln said as she helped Twilight balanced herself. “Look, if you wanna fit in, you gotta learn to act and behave like a human.”

“Yeah, and I better get used to it fast. We only have 3 days to find my crown.” Twilight said as she tried to copy what she’s seen from Lincoln and started walking around a little to get used to her head. She then walked in front of Lincoln and looked between him and herself and couldn't help but give Lincoln a smug smile and cross her arms. "I'm taller then you now."

Lincoln's eyes widened as he compare the height of himself and the purple skinned human and said. "No way, we're the same height!"

"Actually..." Twilight said as she looked to her hand for a bit before straightening it out and using it to measure the maximum height of herself and Lincoln. "I have about 2 millimeters on you."

Lincoln gave Twilight a deadpanned look in response and said. "Twilight, no one counts millimeters here!" The Loud boy told the Alicorn turned human. "That only makes you taller then me in Canada."

Twilight was about to retort, but noted the last word Lincoln said. "I don't know what this Canada is, but it sounds very weird."

"It is." Lincoln confirmed with a nod. "But come on, we gotta get back on track.

“Hey, why don’t we check out that castle over there?” Spike suggested as he pointed a paw forward. Lincoln and Twilight looked in front of them and saw a big two story building with windows all over the walls, horse head statues on the corner of the roof and a dome at the top with a big block on top of that with the very tip top of the clock having a red flag.

“Good idea Spike! Let’s go!” Twilight said before Lincoln stopped her by grabbing her arm.

“That’s not a castle.” Lincoln said simply as he looked over the building.

“It’s not? Then what is it?” Twilight asked as she looked over the building and noted how many similarities it had to a castle.

“It looks like a High School.” Lincoln told them as the Equestrian’s gave him raised eyebrows. “It’s building where you go for education.”

“Education!” Twilight said excitedly as she stared at the building with stars in her eyes. “That should give us all the information we need about this world and getting my crown back! Let’s go!” Twilight then quickly started running towards the place of learning.

“Twilight wait! Not so-” Lincoln was yelling but stopped and wince when Twilight tripped and fell on her face. “Fast.”

Lincoln and Spike quickly walked over to the Alicorn turned human as she raised her dazed face. “Ooooow.” The purple skinned girl groaned as Spike walked in front of her face.

“Twilight, are you ok?” Spike asked with a concerned look.

Twilight gave another groan as Lincoln knelt down and offered his hand again. “Maybe stick to just walking for now.” Lincoln said with a small smile and being forced to hold in a snicker.

“Yeah. Walking sounds good.” Twilight said as she took Lincoln's hand again and let the white head help her to her feet.

With Lincoln's help, Twilight and Spike were able to go up the stairs leading to the high school, once they reached the doors, Twilight saw they didn’t have a knob on them and tried to use her magic to open it...only she couldn’t. “My magic, it’s gone!”

“Makes sense.” Spike said as he looked up at the now teenage girl. “You don’t exactly have your horn.”

Just then Twilight rushed up to Lincoln and grabbed his hoodie and asked in a panic. “Humans can use magic right?!” She asked desperately.

“Well, sort of.” Lincoln said as he pushed Twilight off him. “At least in my world, humans are capable of learning how to use magic by drawing power from a separate realm named the Ledgerdomain, but I have no idea how it would work here. Heck, I don’t even know how to use magic in my own world.”

Twilight made a loud groan as she hung her head low. “Great…” She complained with a sigh.

Lincoln gave Twilight a reassuring smile as he patted her shoulder. “Relax, it’ll be fine. We just need to find your crown, grab it, and get the heck outta dodge. Easy.” Lincoln told the Alicorn told human as she raised her head up to look at him. “Come on, let’s head inside.”

Twilight watched as Lincoln simply gave the class door a light push and opened it up completely for the Equestrians. “Here, after you to.”

“Thanks Lincoln.” Spike and Twilight said in unison as they entered the High School and looked around with Lincoln following close behind. When they entered the High School, Twilight and Spike quickly started to look around the place.

Just then Twilight gaze caught onto a glass case filled with first place trophies, ribbons, and banners. Twilight and Spike walked up the trophy case with Lincoln following them to make sure the two wouldn’t get into trouble. Once Twilight approached the trophy case, she put her hands on the class as Spike peeked his head up to look. “What do you two think? Other artifacts she stole from Equestria?”

“No this is just the School Trophy Case.” Lincoln answered as he walked up next to Twilight.

“Trophy case?” Spike asked as he looked up the white head.

“Yeah, schools have teams for things like sports and academics and compete with other schools to see which team is better. And then the winning team gets trophy or an award of some kind and their put here for the whole school to see.” Lincoln explained as Twilight looked at all the trophies again.

“Well that’s a relief.” Twilight before she noticed she could see her reflection in the glass and her full human body. She took her time to look over herself before she turned to Lincoln. “Ok, I don’t how long were gonna be here, so Lincoln, can you tell me some basic human information so I can fit in a little better.”

Lincoln scratched his chin as he thought about which things to tell Twilight. Once he was done thinking, he said. “Ok, first off, you gotta start using my terminology. Like everybody, anybody, somebody. None of that pony talk. Also, in scenario’s where you would say Celestia, either say gosh or God.” Lincoln explained as Twilight nodded her head and made sure to memorize what Lincoln was saying. “If a bathroom is labeled with a stick figure, it’s the boy’s bathroom, if it’s labeled with a stick figure in a dress, it’s the girl’s bathroom. Keep your cloths on! Don’t use your mouth to pick up stuff or write with. And finally, if anyone ask, Undertale is the best RPG of all time.”

“Terminology, bathroom, cloths, hands, Undertale. Got it!” Twilight said as she listed off what Lincoln said with her finger and nodded with a serious look, determined to remember these things so she can properly fit in with the humans.

Lincoln mentally chuckled at the last bit but kept it to himself. Just then they heard the bell ring and looked up. “Uh-oh.” Lincoln said as he knew what was about to happen.

“What’s happening?” Twilight as she looked for the source of the ringing bell. Just then Lincoln took Twilights hand and picked up Spike as he quickly started running for cover. “Lincoln! What’s going on?!”

“Quick! We gotta take cover!” Lincoln said as he started running towards a row of green lockers. Luckily, they made in time to avoid a crowd of students that started flooding the center of the high school.

“Woah, that was a close one.” Spike said with relief as he jumped down from Lincoln’s arms.

“Yeah, you wanna watch out for when the bell rings.” Lincoln warned them as he let go of Twilight’s hand. “It’s everyone for themselves when the bell rings.”

“Alright, now that we’ve avoided that,” Twilight begun saying as she straightened up her skirt. “We can get to looking for-OW!” As Twilight talked, she walked forward and ended up walking straight into an open locker door.

“Oooooh!” Lincoln and Spike winced as Twilight fell down onto her butt.

“Oh shoot! Sorry about that!” A male voice apologized to the purple skinned girl. Twilight rubbed her head and looked up to see a boy with a blue mohawk and blue eyes and melanin skin. He wore a black jacket with a red, white, and blue strip on the center and sleeves, a white shirt with a lightning bolt on it and jeans with black and white shoes.

The boy offered his hand to help Twilight up, and the purple skinned girl looked at it for a second before taking it and the boy helping her up. “You ok?” He asked Twilight.

“Uh, yeah, thanks.” Twilight said a little sheepishly.

The boy gave Twilight a small smile in response before he started walking away. Lincoln then walked up to Twilight and said. “Ok, new human rule, look before you walk.” Lincoln said in a joking tone. Twilight and Spike simply gave him a deadpanned look in response. Lincoln cleared his throat awkwardly before he said. “L-let’s just keep looking.”

“Yeah.” The Equestrians said in unison as the three went off again.

The three walked around the high school for a little bit. Twilight made sure to look at everything extensively to get a knowing for her and asked Lincoln a question about everything she thought would be important to which the Loud boy answered every one of them.

Lincoln also told Spike to keep his mouth shut when around other people as talking dogs weren’t exactly a common occurrence.

Thankfully as they were exploring the educational institute, Twilight got much better at the use of her new body parts like her hands, legs, nose, and ears. And as they were walking past a row of lockers…

“I’m so sorry. I just found it and I thought I should give it to her. I didn’t know you had dropped it.” They heard a rather timid and soft voice say from around the corner.

“Did you hear that?” Spike asked as he raised on of his green floppy.

“Yeah…it, it sounds really familiar.” Lincoln said as he’s swore, he’s heard that voice before but couldn’t put his finger on it.

“I think it came from over here.” Twilight said as she pointed the end of the row of lockers.

Lincoln, Twilight and Spike all peaked their head behind the corner and saw two girls having a conversation. The first girl they saw looked extremely shy and scared of the situation she was in and looked extremely familiar. She had light yellow skin and blue eyes with long pink hair with a butterfly clip in it. She wore a sleeveless white tank top and yellow backpack with a green skirt with pink frills that had three butterflies on it and green boots with white bottoms.

They couldn’t see the second girls face due to her back being turned to them, but they could see she had yellow skin, red and yellow striped hair, a leather jacket, an orange skirt, and black boots with pink marks on them.

“Well, I did, and I was about to get it before you swooped in and ruined everything!” The red and yellowed haired girl yelled to the pink haired girl rudely. “You shouldn’t pick up things that don’t belong to you.”

“It…doesn’t really belong to you either.” The shy girl said quietly. Just then she was pinned to the lockers as the mean girl slammed her hands on the ones behind the shy girl causing her back into them and look up at the mean girl fearfully.

“Excuse me?” The red and yellow haired girl said threateningly.

The shy girl whimpered as she slid down onto the floor and whimpered out. “Nothing.”

Lincoln and Twilight started glaring at the mean girl with Spike embracing the dog he had become and started growling. “That’s what I thought.” The mean girl said to the small one in a mocking tone. “It’s as good as mine and you know it. You really are pathetic! It’s no wonder your best friends are all stray animals!”

At this point Lincoln and his group couldn’t just watch anymore as the Loud boy stepped forward and yelled at the mean girl. “HEY! LEAVE HER ALONE!”

“How dare you speak to her that way!” Twilight yelled in addition to what Lincoln said.

“What did you two say?” The mean girl challenged allowing them to see her face and her cyan eyes and magenta shirt that had a particular sun mark on it.

Lincoln and Twilight then stomped forward with the mean girl doing the same leading to Lincoln and Twilight staring the mean girl down. And all by standers nearby quickly got out of there while they could.

“She said how dare you speak to her like that.” Lincoln said in his own threatening tone. “Or else!”

The mean girl simply scoffed and gave the white head a cocky grin. “Or else what?” She challenged while putting her hands to her hips.

Lincoln glared the girl right in the eye as his right hand twitched, he had to fight off the urge to go hero and kick this girl’s ass. So, Lincoln simply gave a warning. “You don’t wanna know ‘or else.”

The bully simply rolled her eyes and said. “Right, I’m so scared.” Sarcasm practically leaked out of her voice.

“You don’t have any right to talk to her or anypo-one, like that!” Twilight said while having to correct herself from using Equestrian terminology.

The bully simply scoffed again as she said. “You two must be new here. So, let me give it to you straight, I can talk to anyone anyway I want.” She then flicked Twilight’s chin, causing the purple skinned girl’s head to go up. “Got it!” She then went in to flick Lincoln, but just then the Loud boy’s hand came in quicker than she could see and grabbed her wrist in a vice grip that caused her to wince and try to pull back. “H-hey! Let go!”

Lincoln simply narrowed his eyes as he tightened his grip causing Sunset’s to wince even more and force herself not to scream in pain as she legs started trembling. “Now listen here you.” Lincoln said in a dark threatening tone that even surprised Twilight. “I’ve dealt with far more then you can even know, some like you, some a lot worst. And I’m just gonna let you know, compare to most of them, you’re nothing but petty small fry. So, do yourself a favor, and back off!” Lincoln finished by throwing the bully to the ground on her butt.

Once she was on the ground, she looked to her know red and throbbing wrist and looked to Lincoln and Twilight with a completely pissed look in her eye. “You two just made a horrible mistake.” She said through her teeth as she got up and rubbed her wrist. “You just made a dangerous enemy.” And with that, the bully walked away as Twilight and Lincoln glared at her.

Once she was gone, everybody nearby looked to Lincoln with widened eyes and dropped jaws, looking like they couldn’t believe what they just saw. “What? What are you are lookin at?” Lincoln said in an annoyed tone causing everyone in the hallways to flinch and go about their business and pretend that nothing’s happened.

They then turned to the shy girl who was looking just as shocked, if not more so, then everyone else that watched the scene go down. Lincoln then looked her in the eye making her flinch. “You alright?” Lincoln asked as Twilight stood next to him.

The shy girl shook her head a bit to snap out of her shocked state as she said to the two of them. “I can’t believe you two just did that.” She said in a surprised but still quiet tone.

“Well we couldn’t just stand there.” Twilight said simply with Lincoln nodding in agreement.

“Well, it’s just that nobody ever stands up to Sunset Shimmer.” The shy girl said as Lincoln and Twilight’s eyes widened at the information.

“That was Sunset Shimmer?” Lincoln asked as he looked down the hallway the mean girl went down that turned out to be the very person, they went here to get the crown back from.

“You’ve heard of here?” The pink haired girl asked.

“Sort of.” Twilight answered vaguely.

“I don’t think I’ve seen either of you here before.” The light-yellow skinned girl said as they both tensed up when she said that. “Did you transfer to Canterlot High from another school?”

“Uuuuuuuuh…” Twilight was trying to think of a way to answer that question, but luckily Lincoln came to the rescue and spoke up.

“Yes! Yes, we did!” The Loud boy said quickly. “We were, uh, just looking around the place right now.” Lincoln then completely looked over the shy girl’s body and thought. ‘Ok, that’s gotta be her.’ He then asked. “Say, your name wouldn’t happen to be Fluttershy would it?”

The girl’s eyes widened at this as she answered. “Y-Yes it-it is…how did you know that?” She asked shyly with a pink blush.

‘Crap! I should’ve thought this through more!’ Lincoln mentally screamed to himself as he was just now realizing that calling out the name of someone who’s technically never seen you before must be both weird and creepy. ‘Come on Lincoln! Think of something to say!” Lincoln then cleared his throat awkwardly as he said. “W-well we j-just heard about a g-girl with pink hair that was good with a-animals and I just assumed.”

“Oh, I see.” The human Fluttershy said quietly as she looked down, thankfully buying the excuse.

‘Oh thank God!’ Lincoln thought with relief. “Anyway, my name is Lincoln Loud and this is Twilight Sparkle.”

“Yes, it’s, uh, very nice to meet you.” Twilight said with awkwardness in her voice at the fact she was having to introduce herself to a parallel version of a someone she was already good friends with.

Fluttershy gave them a greeting nod, but suddenly gasped as she smiled happily at a certain someone that was coming up next to Twilight. “Who’s this little guy?!” Fluttershy asked eagerly as she got on her knees to be eye level with Spike, who had just come in and walked up to Twilight.

“That’s Spike. My, uh, dog.” Twilight said, also not used to calling Spike a dog.

“Oh, he is so cute!” Fluttershy cooed as she reached into her backpack and pulled out a dog treat and handed it to the dragon turned dog. “Go on, eat up, little pup!” Spike took a small bite of the biscuit, not sure how it would taste. But in his new dog form, it ended up tasting really good, so he ended up quickly eating the rest of the treat.

“Oh, wouldn’t you just give anything to know what they’re really thinking?” Fluttershy said as she watched the dog eat up the biscuit.

“Eh, take it or leave it.” Lincoln said in a joking tone which made Spike give Lincoln an annoyed looked as Twilight couldn’t help but giggle and kept her mouth shut about Spike being able to talk.

Twilight then put on a serious look as she asked Fluttershy, “Sunset Shimmer said you picked something up. Something that belonged to her. It wasn’t a crown was it?”

“How did you know?” Fluttershy asked as she gave Twilight a confused look.

“Uh, lucky guess.” Twilight said with a nervous smile as Lincoln lightly bumped her with his shoulder. “You wouldn’t happen to still have it would you?”

“Uh-uh.” Fluttershy said while shaking her head.

Twilight gave a disappointed sigh as she then asked hopefully. “Do you know what happened to it though?”

Fluttershy nodded this time and proceeded to tell the two what happened. She told them about how she was trying to hand flyers and get volunteers to Cantorlots animal shelter, but no one gave her a single glance. When Fluttershy dropped her flyers and curled into a ball and stared to cry, she was suddenly hit in the head and looked to see it was a crown that ended up giving her a hit on the noggin.

“I had no idea where it came from.” Fluttershy said after she finished her story while petting Spike. “But I didn’t want anything to happen to it, so I decided to give it to Principal Celestia.”

Lincoln and Twilight looked to each other with surprised expression’s as they said in unison. “Principle Celestia?”

They then turned to Fluttershy again with Lincoln asking. “Could you point us towards her office please?”

“Third door on the left.” Fluttershy said with a smile as she pointed to the correct direction.

“Thank you!” Lincoln and Twilight said as they and Spike started to run towards said direction.

“Oh wait!” Fluttershy called out to them called out to them, causing them all to stop and look towards her. “You’re not really supposed to have pets on school grounds.” Fluttershy explained while pointing to Spike. “Might want to tuck him into your backpack. That’s what I do.”

Just then a bunny, cat, and bird ended up coming out of Fluttershy’s backpack and cuddled up the light-yellow skinned girl with her happily hugging them back. “They just get so lonely when I’m at school all day.”

Lincoln gave her a thumbs up as Twilight said. “Thank you!” Just then the day run leading to Fluttershy quickly standing up.

“I’m late for class!” The shy girl gasped as she quickly scooped up the animals in her backpack and ran off.

Just a few minutes later, Twilight and Lincoln made it to a door that said ‘Principal’s Office.’ Spike was securely in Twilight’s bag as Twilight herself started bowing. Lincoln gave Twilight a blank look and said. “Twilight, she’s principle in this world, not a princess. You don’t have to do that.”

Twilight straighten up as an embarrassed blush came to her face as she said. “Sorry.” Lincoln simply rolled his eyes and knocked on the door.

“Come in.” They heard a familiar voice come from inside the room.

“Just let me do the talking.” Lincoln whispered to Twilight who nodded in response. Lincoln then opened the door to the office where they saw a woman reading something from a file.

“How may I help you?” She said in the exact same voice as Princess Celestia back in Equestria.

“Hello, my name is Lincoln Loud and this is my friend Twilight Sparkle. We’re new here.” Lincoln introduced themselves as the women put the file down and they could see her hair was exactly the same as the Celestia they knew only without the flowing and sparkling. She also had white skin and purple eyes.

“Well it’s nice to meet you two.” Principal Celestia said with a kind smile. “Is there anything I can do for you two?”

“Yes actually.” Lincoln answered as he looked around the office. “We we’re told Fluttershy picked up a crown and gave it to you?”

“Yes actually.” Celestia said as she picked up the file she was reading and walked over to a cabinet. “No idea how it ended up on the front lawn thought. But my sister Vice-Principal Luna put it somewhere for safe keeping.

Twilight bit her lip in worry as Lincoln remained calm and continued. “I see, so what’s the deal with the crown anyway?”

“Well it goes to the winner of the Fall Formel Dance.” The principal answered as she walked towards a calendar that had a date circled and labeled “Fall Formel.” The event was 3 days from now, the day where the portal would close once the moon rose high up in the sky.

Celestia then continued explain details about the event. “Students vote for the one they want to be Princess of the Fall Formel most and the one with the most votes gets the crown.” Celestia then gestured to three pictures framed beside each other. All of them were Sunset Shimmer winning the crown. The first one she looked genuinely surprised and happy. The second one showed her gloating a bit and pointing to her crown. And the third one was straight up her laughing manically.

“That’s not foreboding at all.” Lincoln said sarcastically as he looked at the three pictures. He then looked back to Principal Celestia and asked. “So, you just have to get the most votes to win the crown?”

“Yep.” Celestia answered before giving Lincoln an apologetic smile. “Of course, only girls can run. It is the Princess of the fall formal after all.”

“…Aw.” Lincoln said in sadden tone as he looked down.

“But your friend Twilight here can still enter though.” Celestia said as she gestured her hands to Twilight. “Would you be interested in running.”

“Oh, I don’t think-“ Twilight was saying but stopped when Lincoln grabbed her shoulder.

“Say yes. If you win, we get your crown back.” Lincoln whispered to the purple skinned girl.

Twilight rose a brow at Lincoln’s statement, but ultimately decided to follow the white heads advice. “Uh, yes. Yes, I would.”

“Well then you simply have to inform the head of the Fall Formal committee and ask her to sign you up.” Celestia informed the two as they nodded.

“Alright, we’ll go do that.” Lincoln said as he pointed his thumb back to the door. “Thank you for your time ma’am.”

“Your welcome, and if you two need anything else my door is always open.” Celestia told the two kindly as they nodded and left the office.

When the two left, they continued walking towards the hall as Twilight turned to Lincoln and asked. “Lincoln, why didn’t we just say the crown was mine and ask for it back?” The purple skinned girl asked with confusion.

They both stopped as Lincoln turned to Twilight and crossed his arms. “Twilight, if we explain the exact detail to her about how your pony princess from another universe that came here through a mirror portal, she’ll think we’re crazy.”

Twilight rose a finger and rose about to make a retort…but couldn’t. Honestly, before she met Lincoln, if you told her there was a world of bipedal creatures that looked like they did know, she would think they were crazy.

Just then Spike poked his head out of Twilight backpack and said. “Well why don’t you just transform in front of her and show them we’re telling the truth.”

Lincoln gave Spike a deadpanned look as he said. “Yes, because transforming into a strange creature in front of someone who’s probably never seen aliens or anything of the like before in a public place won’t cause a panic at all.” The Ultimatrix wielder said completely sarcastically.

Spike nervously chuckled in response and said. “Ok, that’s a good point.”

“Well, I guess if the only way to get my crown back is the become the Princess of the Fall Formel, then that’s exactly what I’m gonna do!” Twilight said enthusiastically as she raised her hands into the air.

“…And how exactly do you plan on doing that?” Spike asked with a raised eyebrow.

“I have no idea!” Twilight said with the same enthusiastic tone and her hands still in the air.

This…was going to be something to say the least.

Author's Note

Man I can't tell you how long I've been looking forward to this. I've had this arc planned for a long time and had help from my awesome friends Qazse and Petrus-C-Visagie.

Sunset is my absolute favorite MLP character and I've thought a lot about her for this fic and I'm excited to write down all my ideas to share with all of you.

So remember to stay tuned for the next chapter...

Parallel Friends and Diary's

Equestria Girls Part 2 - Parallel Friends and Diary's

"Well this isn't going to be easy, but we have to win!" Twilight said determined as she and Lincoln walked side by side over to the school auditorium where the head of the Fall Formel Committee.

"Don't worry, with me on your side, you got this bag." Lincoln couldn't help but brag a bit as he rested his head behind his hands. "Back home I helped Lola win beauty pageants for years, this'll be a peice of cake."

"You really think you can get all those groups to vote for Twilight?" Spike asked as he poked his head out from Twilight's backpack. About a half hour earlier, they joined the human Fluttershy for lunch and Twilight told her about how she was gonna run to be Princess of the Fall Formel.

Fluttershy quickly told the two it was a bad idea and how Sunset Shimmer doesn't take well to having competition. But the two told her they couldn't back down and were determined for Twilight to win. Fluttershy then explained that if she really wanted to win, she would have to get all the different groups of students to vote for her which included the Althetes, the Fashionista's, the eco-friendlys, the rockers, the tech geeks, etc.

"I live with 10 sisters Spike; I know how to get groups of people on my side." Lincoln said confidently, believing in his abilities of persuasion.

Twilight couldn't help but roll her eyes in response, but simply went along with it. Lincoln was the human expert here so if she wanted any chance to try and win, let out fit in, she's gotta trust his judgement and advice. And it's been good so far, though he did make quite the scene with Sunset earlier when they confronted her.

Just then the two started to approach two blue doors and started to open them. "Well Fluttershy said the head of the Fall Formal Committee would be here." Twilight said as they entered what appeared to be a gymnasium.

They looked around and saw tables, chairs, speakers, balloons, streamers and even a disco ball set up. "Well this definitely looks like a place to have a party." Lincoln commented as they saw there were even streamers all over the floor.

And as they were looking around for anybody in the gym, they heard a familiar peppy voice yell. "INCOMING!" The two of them then looked up to see rolls of streamers falling from up above. Twilight and Lincoln quickly hit the ground as the streamers ended up covering them.

When the streamer onslaught was over, they got up and saw the person who were the streamers. Similar to when they first saw Fluttershy, she looked extremely familiar. She had pink skin and darker pink colored hair that was very poofy and resembled cotton candy. Her eyes were a bright blue and she wore a small blue short sleeved jacket over a white shirt with pink highlights and a pink heart on it. She had a purple ribbon around her wait a and a light purple skirt that had Pinkie Pie's Cutie Mark on it.

'Ok, I'd reconize that pinkness anywhere.' Lincoln thought as he watched what was without a doubt Pinkie Pie's human equivilent take one of the balloon marks off her skirt and for it to be an actual balloon as Pinkie started blowing it up.

As she was doing this, Lincoln and Twilight got up and walked over to her and with the former asking. "Excuse me but you wouldn't happen to be Pinkie Pie, the head of the party planning committee?" The Loud boy asked as the human Pinkie let the air out of the balloon causing her cheeks to be pushed back by the air.

She suddenly rushed up to Lincoln and Twilight and gave the both of them a strong and fast handshake. "Yepper-deppers! You two must be new here! It's super-duper nice to meet you two!" Pinkie said with enthusiasm and happiness that could only be rivaled by the other pony Pinkie Pie.

"Hehe, it's very, uh, nice to meet you as well!" Twilight said with awkwardness as, similar with Fluttershy, it was weird having to introduce herself to a person she was already great friends with in another world. "Anyway, Fluttershy said we could find you here."

Just then Pinkie put on an unamused face, something that seemed completely unnatural for the walking pink sugar rush. "Fluttershy huh?" Pinkie said in an annoyed tone as she tied up a yellow balloon she finished blowing up. "Don't let the whole shy thing fool you. She can be a real meanie."

Both Twilight and Lincoln's eyes widened when Pinkie said that as Lincoln said. "Fluttershy and mean in the same sentence. Never thought I'd see the day."

"You two aren't friends?" Twilight asked with a surprise and disbelieving expression.

However, Pinkie seemed to dropped the discussion about the shy girl as she walked backwards towards Twilight while leaning down to look at the purple skinned girl with a giddy smile. "Well your just in time to put your name on the ballot before it closes! The dance is the day after tomorrow!"

But just then Pinkie started looking over Twilight with narrowed eyes and started inspecting the Alicorn turned human and asked. "Hey, you sorta look familar. You wouldn't happen to have a twin sister that lives in the city, looks just like you, has a dog named Spike that looks exactly like that!" Pinkie asked as she pointed to Spike, who was now out of Twilight's backpack, playing with a balloon.

"Uuuuuh." Twilight delayed the answer as she looked to Lincoln for a little help.

"She must mean your own human equivalent in this world. Luckily she doesn't go here so just say yes." Lincoln whispered quickly to Twilight,

"What are we whispering about?" Pinkie suddenly whispered to them as she got in between the two and startling them.

"Uh, yes, yes I do." Twilight quickly answered for Pinkie's previous question.

"Thought so." Pinkie said with a shrug as she put a hand inside her hair and dug around a little bit. "Anyhoo, just need to fill this out and you are officially up for the coveted Princess of the Fall Formal Crown!" Pinke explained as she pulled out a clipboard with a signup sheet on it as well as a pen from her hair.

Twilight looked at the pen with worry. She had no idea how to write with hands! She usally always used her magic to pick up feathers or pencils to write with. Luckily, Lincoln came in for the rescue.

"Uh, I'll sign up her name for her." Lincoln said as he took the pen from Pinkie. "Twilight's having some hand cramps right now."

Pinkie didn't question it and simply gave a happy, "Okie doki loki!" As Lincoln wrote Twilight Sparkle onto the signup sheet.

Pinkie looked at the sheet before giving a wide smile and saying. "Congratulations Twilight Sparkle! You are now in the running for Fall Formal Princess!" The pink skinned girl announced enthusiastically while gesturing her hands to Twilight who smiled nervously in response.

Just then another voice made themselves known as the doors to the gym opened. "Somebody order a dozen cases of fizzy apple cider?" A familiar country accent asked as the 3 of them looked towards the source.

"Ooh Ooh! Ooh! Me! Me Me!" Pinkie said as she quickly ran up to the figure. The figure then came fully to view while carrying a case if apple cider. She had light orange skin with three white freckles on each side of her face. She had green eyes and blond hair tied at the end with a red band. She wore a white shirt that was green at the top with a brown belt with an apple buckle and a blue jean skirt along with brown cowboy boots with pony Applejack's Cutie Mark on them. And on top of her head was a Stetson hat.

'Another familiar face.' Lincoln thought with a smirk as he quickly recognized this girl to most likely be this world's version of Applejack.

The human Applejack wiped some sweat from her forehead as she turned to the still open gym door and asked. "Can you bring in the rest?"

"Eeyup." They heard another familiar voice say as they saw another person coming in carrying 4 containers of apple cider. When he came in, Applejack took the container on the top revealing his face. He had light red skin, orange and also had green eyes. The human version of Big Mac.

As Applejack took the container from Big Mac, she stopped when she saw Lincoln and Twilight looking at her and said. "Hey, I know you two?"

"You do?" Lincoln and Twilight asked in unison with raised brows.

"Yeah, you two are the new guys who gave Sunset Shimmer the what-for today." Applejack explained to them as she took a bottle of cider and opened it up. She then took a drink from it and gestured to Lincoln. "Especially you, I heard you grabbed her wrist tighter than a snake on a rabbit and told her off good."

Lincoln chuckled sheepishly as she rubbed the back of his head. "Yeah, I sometimes let my emotions get the better of me."

Applejack simply gave a hearty chuckle as she took a long drink of the cider. Just then Pinkie came up from the side, literally, and told the farm girl. "Twilight here is running against Sunset Shimmer for Princess of the Fall Formal." The pink girl explained as she pointed to Twilight.

Applejacks eyes widened as she did a spit take with the cider she just drank and quickly got up and faced Twilight and Lincoln and warned them. "I'd think twice about that. Oh, sure, she'll probably approach you all friendly-like-" Applejack was saying as Pinkie floating next to her due to the balloon she was blowing up. Applejack then grabbed the heart shaped balloon as Pinkie started blowing up a yellow balloon and started drawing faces on them.

She then raised up the heart balloon and showed that she drew a face of Sunset Shimmer on it and started to do a bad impression of said girl. "I sure am looking forward to some friendly competition." She then raised up the yellow balloon Pinkie just inflated that had a picture of Twilight drawn on it and Applejack did another bad impression of Twilight's voice and acted out, "That's so good to hear."

"But then here comes the backstabbing." Applejack said as she turned around the sunset balloon to show a taped on needle and used it to pop the Twilight balloon. "About the only girl you can trust less than Sunset Shimmer is Rainbow Dash."

"Rainbow Dash?" Twilight asked with surprise, especially of Applejack talking negativaly about her.

"There must be a parallel version of everyone here." Lincoln muttered under his breath as he cupped his chin. So far they've seen versions of Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Big Mac, and Celestia and heard of versions of Luna, Rainbow Dash and Twilight.

Just then Pinkie came bouncing on a giant yellow balloon and explained. "She's the captain of, like, every sports team at CHS." Pinkie said before the balloon popped.

"She's also the captain of saying she's gonna do something for you and then turning around and not even bothering to show up." Applejack explained in a slightly bitter tone.

"Don't worry about us Applejack." Lincoln reassured her as her and Twilight walked up to her with the former but his hand on the farm girls shoulder.

Well, suit yourselves." Applejack shrugged before she realized something Lincoln said and asked. "Hey, how did you know my name was Applejack?"

'Crap! Not again!' Lincoln mentally panicked as he made the same mistake with AJ as he did with Fluttershy. Thankfully he was able to think of something quickly. "Oh, uh, we just heard rumors about a girl wearing a Stetson hat and a country accent named Applejack and, well, you kinda fit the bill."

Applejack and Big Mac looked to each other as Twilight and Lincoln sweated nervously. Applejack then looked back at them and shrug. "Guess that makes sense."

Lincoln and Twilight gave a sigh of relief as the former spoke up again. "Well, it was nice to meet you all, but I gotta prepare Twilight to whoop Sunset's butt at the Fall Former." Lincoln said as he started walking away with Twilight and Spike quickly following behind.

"Well, them two were mighty strange." Applejack said with a raised eyebrow while putting her hands to her hips.

"Totally!" Pinkie agreed as she suddenly popped up next to Applejack. "I mean, white hair? They're hiding something!" Applejack chuckled and rolled her eyes at Pinkie pointing Lincoln's hair of all things.

Before she could say anything else, the other set of doors that led into the gym were suddenly pushed open followed by an unfortunately familiar voice yelling. "This looks terrible!" They all looked to see none other than Sunset coming in along with two younger kids behind here. These were the human equivalents to Snips and Snails, also known as Sunset's goons.

Sunset then stomped up to the middle of the gym with Snip and Snails following close behind. "There should be more streamers near the stage and fewer balloons!" Sunset demanded as she used her finger to pop a few balloons right in front of Pinkie.

"Yeah! Streamers!" Snips yelled as he ripped up a streamer her picked up.

"And few balloons!" Snails added in as he tried, and failed, to pop a yellow balloon.

Sunset then picked up a bottle of apple cider and looked at it in disgust. "Fizzy apple cider? Ugh! This is my coronation not a hoedown!" She said as she held it away from her and glared at Applejack and Pinkie Pie.

Applejack then glared back at Sunset and said in an annoyed/angered tone. "Well, now, it ain't necessarily gonna be your coronation this time around!"

Just then Sunset appeared right in front of Applejack's face and glared right into her eyes. "Oh, is that so?!" She yelled before speaking in a mocking tone and turning AJ's hat backwards. "You country folk really aren't that bright. Must be why the other students say such awful things about you." She then covered AJ's face with her hat, causing Applejack's face to go red and steam with anger as the top popped off and showing her rage.

"Obviously it's gonna be my coronation." Sunset said confidently as she walked away from the steaming farmgirl. "I'm running unopposed."

"Not this time!" Pinkie Pie said as she held up the signup sheet. "The new girl just signed up."

"What?" Sunset gasped as Pinkie handed her the signup sheet. On there, Sunset saw there was a name under her own on the signup sheet.

Twilight Sparkle.

Sunset gritted her teeth hard as she tightened her grip on the clipboard as she glared hard at the name. Her! That little princess followed her here! Sunset managed to tear her eyes away from the paper and looked hard at Applejack and Pinkie Pie and demanded to know, "Where...is...she." She said through her teeth as the two she was facing flinched a bit at her incredibly aggressive attitude. Even more aggressive than usual.

However, AJ quickly stood her ground and glared back at the yellow skinned girl. "Like we'd tell you." Applejack retorted before crossing her arms and smiling smugly. "And if ya do find her, she's with that Lincoln fella, you know, the boy that dropped you on your butt earlier today?"

Sunset's anger only grew at the mention of that white-haired boy who had the nerve to threaten her today and even touch her. Her wrist was still sore from that ordeal. Sunset then turned to her goons and said. "Come on, we're going." Sunset told Snips and Snail's with a growl before stomping out of the gym.

Back with Lincoln and Twilight, they were currently walking through the halls together as Lincoln was giving Twilight advice on how she can win the Fall Formel. "Alright Twilight, first is your walk. You wanna leave an impression, so 'To win the day, you must sashay." Lincoln instructed as he was giving Twilight the same teachings he gives his younger sister Lola to prepare her for Beauty Pageants.

"Alright, remember to sashay." Twilight said seriously before turning to Lincoln with a confused look. "What does sashay mean?"

Lincoln groaned in response as he said. "This is gonna take a loooooot of work." He sighed making Twilight smile sheepishly and give an embarrassed blush.

As they continued walking with Lincoln explaining things to Twilights, they suddenly heard the flickering of lights. They looked to see a dark hallway in the school with the lights flickering and a locker door hanging loose.

Lincoln shook his head as he put his hands on his hips. "Budget cuts. Damn shame."

"Can't believe I didn't recognize you earlier." The two suddenly heard. They then looked back to see Sunset Shimmer looking at them while leaning against one of the lockers.

"Well if it isn't Sun-nag herself." Lincoln insulted with a smirk as he crossed his arms.

Sunset glared at Lincoln in response to this, but then looked to Twilight with an even fiercer glare as she crossed her arms and walked up to her. "Should've known Princess Celestia would so her ever prized student to steal my crown." Sunset said before she looked at Spike as he poked his head out of Twilight's backpack. "And her little dog to."

"It's my crown!" Twilight retorted as she and Spike glared back at Sunset.

"Whatever." Sunset said cockily with a shrug. "This is just a minor setback to me. You don't know anything about this place and I already rule it."

"Don't count us out just because of that." Lincoln said as he gave Sunset a smug smile. "She may not know too much about this, but I happen to be full human. I know all the ins and outs of High School and human culture in general."

"Ha, even if that is true," Sunset mocked, not believing Lincoln's claim. "But do either of you know what happens if you bring an Element of Harmony into an alternate world."

Both Lincoln and Twilight were silent as they looked to each other as the former said. "Well she's got me there." Lincoln admitted with Twilight only being able to nod, not knowing the answer herself.

"Seriously? You don't know?" Sunset said in a mocking tone towards Twilight. "And you're supposed to be Princess Celestia's precious star student." When she said the last three words, Lincoln notice Sunset's tone turn for the worst as her words leaked with bitterness.

Twilight frowned a bit as she struggled to keep a strong expression against Sunset as the yellow skinned girl continued. "Then again, what were the chance she'd find someone as bright as me to take under her wing once I decided to leave Equestria." She then got right in Twilight's face and poked her forcefully in the chest. "A bit embarrassing that you were the best she could do."

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Lincoln yelled as he suddenly appeared right in front of Sunset. "Look, I don't know what your beef with Twilight is, but know this. You're not gonna win. I was serious when I said I've dealt with worse than some petty jealous brat. But know this, I know exactly how things work around here and how to deal with people like you. We intend to win that crown, and even if we don't, I can easily take it from you whenever I want. The only reason I don't clobber you right now is because I don't want to start a scene. But know this, there is no scenario where you possibly win this."

Sunset was a bit taken aback by Lincoln words, but managed to glare back and stand her ground and said. "We'll see about that snowball." Sunset insulted back.

Lincoln simply rolled his eyes and said. "Like I've never heard that before."

Sunset growled in response as she pushed Lincoln back and started stomping away. Lincoln glared at Sunset's retreating form. He's dealt with people like her before even without an alien device on his wrist. No doubt she would be stirring up trouble and doing stuff to sabotage them so they couldn't win. So, he made a decision.

"I'm gonna follow her." Lincoln said as he stepped forward and looked around to make sure no one was watching them before rolling down his sleeve and activated the Ultimatrix.

"What, wait?" Twilight and Spike gasped in response.

"I'm gonna follow Sunset around and make sure she doesn't do anything to mess us up. You're gonna have to be on your own for awhile while I do this." Lincoln explained as he scrolled through his aliens.

"What?! But you can't!" Twilight yelled as she walked in front of Lincoln. "I don't completely understand this place! What will I do?!"

"Just find the library and do some research about the student and the various groups here and think of a plan to get them to vote for you and I'll meet up with you later and we can go over it." Lincoln explained as he finally found the alien he was looking for and looked up at Twilight. "You just have to trust me here Twilight."

Twilight and Spike were still very unsure about this. They still had very little knowledge about how most things worked in the human world and Lincoln was their only guide. Without him they had no idea what to do. But, they saw the seriousness in his eyes and reluctantly sighed and nodded their heads. "Alright, thank you." Lincoln said to them as he slammed down the core of the Ultimatrix.

In Lincoln's place now floated a ghost-like creature with pale orangish-white skin with black creases over his body. He also had shackles and chains over him and a single green eye with a black pupil and the Ultimatrix symbol on his chest surrounded by chain.

"Ghostfreak!" He announced in a hollow haunting voice.

Twilight and Spike paled a bit at seeing the ghost, but watched as Ghostfreak slammed down the Ultimatrix core again and causing four prongs to come out of it. And then Ghostfreak started to evolve.

Ghostfreak's body was now an extremely dark purple for the most part with an equally dark orange growth around his neck. He had a fog-like white plumage billowing on his head with some of it covering the left side of his face with the uncovered half showing the same green eye like regular Ghostfreak had. He know had skinny arms and long tatthers hanigng off his shoulder that were the same color as the rest of his body as well as claw-like hands. He had a slight hourglass figure and appeared to be wearing an old, ripped cloak.

"Ultimate Ghostfreak!" The hyper-evolved Ectonurite announced in a deeper and even more haunting voice.

He then turned to look at Twilight and Spike with his single green eye and said. "I'll meet up with you later." And with that, U. Ghostfreak turned invisible and flew off.

Twilight and Spike shivered a bit at seeing the evolved alien, but quickly shook it off and went to look for the Library.

Back with Sunset, she was currently stomping around and look for her stooges and ended up finding them walking out of the gym and completely wrapped up in streamers. She stomped up to them and quickly tore off the streamers causing them to spin around. Sunset grabbed them and caused them to stop before barking orders at them. "I want you to follow her." She said, referring to Twilight. "Give me something I can use just like you did with that last girl who thought she could challenge me."

Snips and Snails gave her a salute as the former said. "You got it Sunset Shimmer!"

Sunset then turned around and held her hands together before speaking menacingly. "When the crown and its power are mine, Twilight Sparkle will be sorry she ever set hoof in this world." She spoke as she could only talk about Twilight with bitterness in her voice. "Not that she would have been much safer if she'd stayed in Equestria."

Snips and Snails then laughed a bit as Snips quoted the girl. "Yeah! In Equestria!"

Sunset then turned to them with an annoyed look. "What are you still doing here? Go!" She ordered. Snips and Snails quickly reacted and ended up running into each other, but quickly recovered as they started running to find Twilight and record embarrassing footage of her.

Once they ran past the corner of the hallway, Snips turned to Snails and asked. "So where do you think this Twilight is?"

"I don't know." Snails answered as he shook his head as a fearful expression came to him. "But we better find her quick or Sunset is gonna-" Suddenly Snips was cut off when suddenly two claw-like hands come out of the wall and covered their mouths before dragging the two boys right through the wall.

A little later, Snips and Snails could be seen tied up in the janitor's closet with duct tape over their mouths, muffling their screams as it was U. Ghostfreak that dragged them right through the walls and tied them up in the closet. "Sorry, nothing personal, just can't have you two causing trouble." U. Ghostfreak told the boys before phasing through the walls again and leaving the boys to their muffled screams.

Once the hyper evolved Ectonurite phased out of the room, he turned invisible again to avoid detection and looked around for one person in particular. Sunset Shimmer. It took a bit of looking around, but eventually he saw the red and yellow haired girl step out of a classroom while the other students made sure to stand out of her way.

U. Ghostfreak narrowed his eye at the bully before flying over and behind here. He then proceeded to fly right into her shadow and merged with it. Susnet's shadow changed to resemble a silhouette of U. Ghostfreak, but the hyper evolved alien quickly shifted his shadowy form to resemble Sunset's regular shadow so no one would get suspicious.

Later into the day, school was closing, and all the students were eagerly leaving the building and heading to their homes. Sunset in particular wore a cocky and confident smirk as she walked out of the high school with all the students she passed quickly running away from her to avoid any sort of wrath of the yellow skinned girl.

But what Sunset was unaware of was that right inside her shadow U. Ghostfreak was still lurking inside the following right behind the Unicorn turned human. And this continued as Sunset walked through the streets of the city. As she was, suddenly her look turned bitter as she took heavy breathes. Her fist tightened as she said through her teeth. "Twilight Sparkle…" She said with nothing but bitterness and hatred. "You'll regret getting in my way. Then and now!"

'What's this chicks deal?' U. Ghostfreak thought as he noticed that Sunset couldn't even speak Twilight's name with nothing but complete bitterness, hatred, and anger.

Just then Sunset approached a two-story apartment building and walked inside with U. Ghostfreak inside the girls shadow the whole time. The girl went up the stairs of the apartment building and made it to the second story of the place and proceeded to walk over to the second door on the left. She took a key out of her backpack and unlocking the door and stepping in.

Sunsets apartment had a few things you'd except to see in an apartment. Mircowave, stove and over, fridge, TV, and bathroom. There were some stairs that led to a bedroom area higher up in the apartment. Under this area was a desk with a few papers on it and she also had a cactus on her windowsill.

Once she was inside, Sunset quickly threw her backpack to the couch and then pulled out her phone. "It won't matter. I'm going to destroy her!" She said in continuation to what she said earlier. She then looked to her phone and said. "Now lets see what those two have sen-"

But as Sunset was talking, she was suddenly completely covered in a void of darkness. When the void faded, Sunset instantly feel on her face, fast asleep. As she snored, U. Ghostfreak appeared behind her with a sphere of dark energy in his hands.

Once the hyper evolved Ectonurite saw she was asleep, he made the dark energy in his hand fade before slamming the Ultimatrix symbol on his chest and turning back to normal Ghostfreak, and then back to his human form. "That should keep you down for a while." Lincoln said as he simply let Sunset sleep on the floor.

Lincoln then looked around the apartment and said. "Well, time to look around for dirt." Lincoln said as he decided to take a page out of Sunset book and try to find something that would embarrass Sunset and discourage students from voting for her.

And so, searching around the girl's apartment he did. He looked around all over the place for anything to use against Sunset. He looked in her drawers, closest, even underneath somethings to find anything. And so far, he couldn't find anything discriminating on her. And Sunset's snoring was started to get annoying.

The only place he hasn't look at so far was Sunset's bedroom area up the stairs. He then went up and began searching the last place of the apartment. He looked at the book drawer, under Sunset's bed and her nightstand. And still nothing.

Lincoln sighed and looked behind him and saw the very last place he has yet to check. A drawer with three small doors on it going from top to bottom. He went over it and opened the top one and saw it was empty. He then opened the second one. Empty. Lincoln groaned as he went to open the third one. If it was empty, his efforts would be completely fruitless. He opened the drawer…but found something.

A diary.

Lincoln's eyes widened as she looked at it. It appeared to be very old with worn out pages and covers. He picked it up and blew on it causing a bunch of dust to be blown off, showing the diary hasn't even been touched in probably years. "Geez this thing is old." Lincoln muttered as he shook the diary to get all the dust off it. The Loud boy then smirked as he looked at it and went down to sit on Sunset's couch as he saw said girl was still fast asleep from Ultimate Ghostfreaks powers. "Well, if there's anything to use against her, it's in her." Lincoln said as he opened it up and began reading in his head.

He noted that the first page had very old and poor handwriting. Like it was written by a child that just begun to learn to write.

Entry 1

I honestly can't believe I'm alive. When I ran away from the orphanage, I didn't think I would survive a week on the streets of Cantorlot. Honestly…it would have been better then spending another second in that place. I had to eat garbage just to survive, nopony would give me any food. Guess the other kids were right. Nopony wanted to waste their time with me. But when I blacked out and expected to die…I said woke up in an informery…and she was there. -n- -l-s-. I don't know why she off all ponies would even give any care about me. But she save me. When I woke up, she asked me a few things and I answered the best I could. She said I could stay at the castle until something was worked out. As long as I don't go back there. Anywhere but the orphanage again.

She also gave me this diary. She said writing out my feelings and experiences would help me feel better. So far…it's not working to well. I don't wanna be thrown away again.

Lincoln was surprised to say at the least at what he read. It was at all what he was expecting. He noted a couple words were scratched away, with the scratches looking more recent then everything else on the page.

He ended up looking to the still sleeping Sunset…with a sympathetic look. He didn't even realize he looked at her that way and looked back at the diary and skipped a couple of pages.

Entry 5

I can't believe it. P-s- -e-t- actually wants me to be her student! I…I don't know why she could possibly want me though. I just couldn't go to sleep last night and ended up going to the library last night. I found some magic books and decided to try out some of the spells just for fun and to hopefully tire myself out. She ended up finding me inside and doing some of the spells written down. I was so scared and thought she would be furious…but she asked to see more.

Not really having much of a choice, I did what she told and just did some random spells in the book. She…she was impressed. She said I was preforming spells a Unicorn my age should be capable off. I didn't think it was anything spectacular. I just did what the book said.

She said I had amazing talent. I didn't know how to respond to that. I rarely, if at all, get compliments. I'm just used to everypony insulting and berating me. But she not only wanted me as a student for her School for Gifted Unicorns…but her personal protégée. I couldn't believe it. Most ponies would kill for something like this, and here I am, a 7-year-old unicorn that just read a book and got offered the opportunity of a lifetime.

Out of impulse, I said yes. I just hope I don't mess this up. I…I really wanna stay here.

Once again, Lincoln saw a couple words were scratched out and could only make out a couple letters.

Lincoln kept reading.

Entry 10

I'm…I'm really not used to all this praise. I've been her student for a little over a week now and I've done everything I'm instructed and told. Everypony keeps saying how talented I am and what a great student I am…but I'm just doing what I'm told, just like everypony else.

Why are they…why are they being…so nice to me? I thought everypony just hated me and thought me as a waste of space. That's what the ponies at the orphanage told me. How no would ever want me. How nothing would change if I was dead. That my birth parents were right when dumping me here when I was a newborn.

Everypony always ask why I never smile. Why I always look scared and sad.

I can't understand…I just…can't understand.

Lincoln was really confused now. This had to be Sunset's Shimmer's diary…but so far it's nothing what he expected.

Lincoln kept reading.

Entry 12

-n- -e-i- said she could watch me today. I was scared, I thought this meant she was getting rid of me. I started crying but she quickly reassured me that she was just busy today. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, she is a very busy pony after all. I'm just used to everypony abandoning me.

She said she would have her niece Cadence foal sit me till she was done. I'm…I'm really scared about meeting her. I'm afraid she'll just hate me like most ponies do. She assured me that Cadence would love me but…old habits die hard.

Entry 13

I spent the day with Cadence today…she was actually…really nice. At first, I would try to avoid her and keep to myself. I was scared the second I started talking and interacting with her, she would start yelling and beating me up. But she kept trying to get me to open up and play.

I've…never really played before. She was confused when I said this and kept trying to talk to me. Eventually I opened up and explained my worries to her. To my surprise, she just wrapped me in a soft warm hug and told me everything would be alright. That we don't have to do anything I'm not comfortable with yet.

I…I really appreciate it. So, we just quietly talked the whole time and got to know each other. I was scared at first, but Cadence turned out to be really nice. When our time was up when the P-s showed up, Cadence said she'd love to see me again. Again? We were doing this again? I'd…I'd actually like to see her again.

…I still can't seem to smile though.

Lincoln was only getting more confused. He knew Cadence used to foal sit Sunset. This must have been where it started. But he was learning things about Sunset he didn't expect from the school bully. He was…started to feel bad for her.

Lincoln kept reading.

Entry 24

It's been over 2 years since she took me under her wing. I've honestly never been happier. I finally have a home. I see Cadence about 4 times a week and I enjoy every second we spend together. We always play games, she helps me study, and she even taught me a little dance and song. I even learned she had a crush on a Unicorn named Shining Armor.

Although I can't say I've made a lot of friends outside of Cadence. I want to…I guess I'm still nervous about socializing. I did meet one pony though. Her name is Moondancer. She seems nice and I've had a few conversations with her. Although most of the time she has her muzzle in a book. She's nice though. I guess I should at least try to befriend her.

And then theirs -e—s-. She's no longer feels like a teacher. She…she feels like the - I've never had. I just feel so safe and happy whenever I'm around her. And she always sticks up for me. I finally have a place I can call home.

…I can finally smile.

Lincoln then noticed an entire word was scratched out. Rather aggressively to. No letters could be made out.

Lincoln kept reading.

Entry 30

I can't believe it! I can't believe! I can't believe it! I have my Cutie Mark! I actually have it! And it's shining sun! Just like hers! This is the happiest day of my life! I have to show her right away!

Entry 31

That…wasn't what I was expecting. I rushed to her bedroom quickly and told her I got my Cutie Mark. She looked so excited to and eagerly asked to see it. I showed it to her…and she frown. She looked…disappointed.

I asked her what was wrong, and she quickly told me she was just tired from court today. I…I guess that makes sense. I just showed her at the wrong time. She was there all day today so of course she'd be tired.

I'll just show her tomorrow! I'm sure once she's rested up and sees it, she'll be impressed! I'm sure of it!

Entry 32

…I don't know what's wrong. I showed her again in the morning…and she still looked disappointed. Even more then last night. Why? What's wrong with it? I thought I did something good to earn it. It's just like hers to…

…Isn't she of proud of me.

Lincoln didn't know how to react to this. He expected this diary to be full of secrets, but it seemed to be telling Sunset's life story. Like an autobiography. It started out pretty sad but eventually got happy but now it seems to be turning negative again.

Lincoln kept reading.

Entry 37

I don't know what I'm doing wrong. No matter what I seem to do…she's never impressed anymore. She simply shrugs it off, gives an empty compliment and tells me to continue my studies.

She actually seems annoyed whenever I come up to her now. That's not right though…is it? She used to look forward to the progress I made on my studies but now it seems like she could care less.

What am I doing wrong…I thought she loved me.

Entry 45

I rarely see her now. And when I do she's always with that purple filly. Twilight Sparkle I think her name is. Why? Why doesn't she ever come to see me again?

I rarely see Cadence as well.

Or Moondancer.

Please…

I don't wanna be alone again.

Something was seriously wrong. This couldn't be the diary of what that jealous petty girl he's met today right? Something deeper was going on.

Lincoln kept reading.

Entry 54

…Cadence never comes to see me anymore. Whenever I see her it's always through a window or something. And she's always with Twilight Sparkle.

Same with Moondancer. Whenever I see her, she and her own group of friends always seem to be around Twilight Sparkle, even if she's just reading a book and not really paying attention to them.

And -nc- -ia…she seems to bother with me. It's like she's forgotten about me. She's either at work…or with Twilight Sparkle…

Why…

Why...

WHY?! WHAT MAKES THAT FILLY SO SPECIAL?! WHY DOES EVERYONE ALWAYS SEEM TO FAWM OVER HER?!

WHY?!

Why…

…Doesn't anypony love me anymore…

Entry 60

She does remember me! She really does! She told me she had something she wanted to show me! A lesson! An actual lesson! After so many years! I knew she didn't forget about me! I gotta make sure I don't mess this up!

Entry 61

…A mirror…that's what she showed me. At first I was a little underwhelmed and disappointed. But then she explained to me what the mirror was and what it could do. I looked into it…and I saw something. Myself…but more. I…I was actually…I was her little princess. Just like I always wanted to be. I wanted to look more, but she stopped me.

I keep asking her about it, but she keeps telling me that I'll know when I'm ready. I don't get it. I…I am ready. I want to be her little princess. I…I just can't wait. I have to figure this mirror out.

Maybe if I do…she'll love me again.

Mirror? She must have met the portal! But…what did she mean by 'Her Little Princess.' There was a lot he didn't understand but he was beginning to fill in a few pieces to this puzzle.

There weren't many pages left.

Lincoln kept reading.

Entry 62

She…she threw me away…

…she found out I was reading about the mirror…and had the guards kick me out.

She said I was no longer her student…and to never come back…

She abandoned me…she threw me away…

…She promised she'd never do it…

She told me she'd never leave me…

…I'm all alone again.

…I've been thrown away again.

…

Twilight Sparkle…

It's her fault…

She took everything away from me.

She took Cadence…she took Moondancer…she took -

SHE TOOK EVERYTHING I'VE EVER HAD! IT'S HER FAULT THEY ALL LEFT ME!

…the mirror.

That's it.

I'll go into it and take whatever power it has!

Watch out Twilight Sparkle! You'll regret taking everything and everypony from me!

Well, know Lincoln knew why Sunset came here. At least a little bit. And it seems she has that bitterness towards Twilight because she took everything from Sunset? Lincoln didn't have the full story. The only one who most likely did was sound asleep in front of him.

There seemed to be only one page left.

Lincoln read it.

Entry 63

Date 12-25-2017

…I hate today.

I hate this holiday.

Whenever I look outside, I only see families loving and spending time with each other…and I'm all by myself in bed.

I'm cold. No matter what I do…I'm freezing. It's like my veins are made of ice. I can't sleep. I can't stop shivering.

And all I can hear is everyone outside laughing and cheering and being with each other…it's like their taunting me. No matter what I do to try and drown it out…it's always in my head.

Everyone's with each other…and I'm all alone…

…

Please…

Santa…

…

I want my mommy.

Lincoln closed the diary. A sadden expression came to his face. This was more then some sort of jealous petty girl. There was something much deeper to this. To Sunset. He still didn't have the full story…but he was determined to find it.

Just then a snore brought Lincoln out of his thoughts. He looked to see Sunset Shimmer sound asleep on the floor. Lincoln got up from the couch and looked at the yellow skinned girl with a sympathetic look and proceeded to pick her up piggyback style.

He then walked up the stairs to Sunset's bedroom area and carefully laid the girl down in her bed. He brought the blankets up to her and tucked her in before giving her a soft pat to the head. Lincoln then took the diary and put it into his hoodie pocket before he quietly went down the stairs and exited the girl's apartment.

Once outside, Lincoln quickly ducked into the nearby alleyway and turned into…

"Big Chill!" After transforming, the Necrofriggian quickly took off into the sky and making himself invisible so no one could see him. He quickly started flying back towards CHS with one thought in his mind. 'There's more to Sunset then being just some stereotypical power-hungry villain. I gotta get to the bottom of this.'

Snapping Big Chill out of his thoughts, the Ultimatrix symbol suddenly started to beep red. "Crap!" Big Chill yelled as he quickly started to dive down towards the ground as the Ultimatrix was started to power down.

He was just a few feet above the ground when, in a flash of red light, Big Chill turned back into Lincoln and ended up falling and rolling on the ground and ultimately landing on his back. "Dang it." The loud boy groaned as he got up and wince. "Guess I drained the battery out staying Ultimate for too long."

As Lincoln got up, he looked up and noticed the sun was being to set. "Better find a place to camp out." Lincoln said as he begun to walk into the small woods surrounding Cantorlot Highschool. Lincoln walked around, trying to find a place in the woods to fall asleep for the night.

And as he was looking around, he ended up finding a place that made him stop and look around. It was a garden. A beautiful garden with a small pond in the middle. There were small plots of land where beds of well-kept flowers and other plants were.

"Wow, this is beautiful." Lincoln commented to himself as he looked all over the garden and just admired how beautiful it was. Whoever took care of this garden was really dedicated to it. "Well, no place better then to catch some Z's."

Lincoln then went over to one of the trees surrounding the garden and sat down and leaned against one. He yawned as he took the diary, he took from Sunset's out of his hoodie pocket and looked to it and sighed. "This is gonna be harder than I thought."

And with saying that, Lincoln put the diary back in his pocket and closed his eyes and started to fall asleep.

THE NEXT MORNING

"U-uh, ex-e-excuse me? Wh-why are y-y-you sl-sleeping in my g-garden? D-Do you mind w-w-w-waking up pl-p-please?"

Lincoln groaned as she started to stir. He opened his eyes and winced at the sunlight that hit, but his eyes quickly started to adjust as he started to open them. The sound of singing birds filled his ears and when he completely opened his eyes…he saw a girl right in front of him.

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" Lincoln screamed as the sight of the girl startled him when he just woke up.

"AAAAAAAHHH!" The girl screamed back as herself was startled by Lincoln's screaming. "I-I'm sorry! I didn't m-mean to scare you!" The girl stuttered as she calmed herself down.

Lincoln held his heart as he tried to calm himself down. You'd think after years of fighting villains, getting into deadly situation, and living with Lucy that he wouldn't get surprised by things like this. He wasn't. "Its…it's ok…sorry about that." Lincoln said as he slowed his heartrate down.

He then stood up and saw the girl in her entirety. She had light green skin and darker green hair that went to the bottom on her back. She had freckles on her face and brown eyes. She wore a brown sweater with light brown stripes, dull blue jeans, and dark gray shoes with lighter gray stripes and bottoms.

"It's, it's fine." The girl said as an embarrassed blush came to her face. She then asked the question she asked him while he was sleeping again. "So, uh, why w-were you sl-sleeping in my garden?"

"Oh, uuuuh," Lincoln said as he tried to think of an excuse. "I was, um, stargazing! Yeah! I was looking for a place to stargaze and I found this beautiful garden and thought this was the perfect place to lay down and look at the night sky. Guess I ended up falling asleep while I was doing it. My bad, hehe."

"O-oh ok." The girl said, buying the excuse. Just then her eyes widened as she completely registered what Lincoln said. "W-wait, you really think my garden is beautiful?"

"Well, yeah!" Lincoln said as he looked around the garden in the daylight and was able to see it's beauty even better. "If this is your garden then consider me impressed with you, this looks amazing!"

"R-r-really? T-thank you so much!" The girl said as she gave a shy but happy smile. "It's kinda my pride and joy. I've put a lot of hard work into it."

"I can tell." Lincoln commented with a small smile. His eyes then widened a bit as he looked towards the girl and held his hand out. "Oh, sorry. I forgot to introduce myself. I'm new here, my names Lincoln Loud."

The girl softly took Lincoln's hand as her green cheeks turned pink a bit as she shook it. "W-W-W-Wallflower B-Blush." She introduced herself as she quickly retracted her hand from his and backed up a bit. "I-I'm the fo-founder of Cantorlot High's g-gardening club…also the only member of the Cantorlot High Gardening Club."

Lincoln rose and eyebrow as his face turned to one of confusion. "The only member? How come?"

Wallflower looked away as she started fidgeting with her fingers. "W-Well…I k-kinda have a hard time making myself known to o-other people. I guess you could call me invisble."

"Really?" Lincoln asked with a sympathetic tone. "What about your friends?" Wallflower adverted her gaze as lightly grinded her foot against the ground. Lincoln's eyes widened as he quickly figures out what this implied. "You don't have any friends?"

"…Not really." Wallflower answered quietly as she looked down and held her arm. "It's just…no one ever seems to notice me, and when they do, they quickly forget about me. Even when I try to get other's attention, they just don't notice me. And in the rare moments I do get someone's attention, I never know what to say. I just end up awkwardly stutter and can't think of anything to say and I just…runaway."

"Well…you're talking to me right now." Lincoln said softly as Wallflower's eyes widened a bit. Just then the green skinned girl felt a hand on her shoulder, and she looked up to see Lincoln giving her a wide smile. "Well consider yourself no longer friendless."

Wallflowers eyes sparkled a bit as she said. "R-Really?" Lincoln nodded in response as Wallflower said. "Bu-But we h-hardly know each other."

"Well now this gives us a reason to actually get to know each other doesn't it?" Lincoln said with a wink and thumbs up. Wallflower couldn't help it as a small smile came to herself as a happy feeling suddenly came into her. Lincoln then spoke up as he said. "Hey, I have an idea. Why don't I introduce to my friend Twilight? You could actually help us out with something were working on!"

"A-are you sure?" Wallflower said with uncertainty in her voice. "I-I'd hate to be a bo-bother to you two."

"You won't know unless you try." Lincoln encouraged her as Wallflower hummed in response. "Come on, it'll be fun."

Wallflower thought about it for a bit before she finally looked to Lincoln and nodded. "A-Alright! Lead the way!"

"Sweet!" Lincoln cheered with a pumped-up fist. "Let's go!" And with that Lincoln, with Wallflower Blush behind him, went off to go find Twilight.

Author's Note

Ok, I've been looking forward to this chapter for a long time. It changes up a lot from canon and gets into some stuff I've been planning for a looooooooong time. I enjoyed writing so much and I can't wait to do more.

Btw in case any of you were wondering, Ultimate Ghostfreak is based off of Darkrai from Pokemon.

Also, if there are any typo's PM me about them instead of making a comment about them please.

Make sure to stay tuned for the next chapter...

Coming Together.

Equestria Girls Part 3 - Coming Together

“Hey, you doing ok?” Lincoln asked the green skinned girl following him as the two walked through the halls of CHS. Lincoln looked back as he saw the Wallflower Blush, the girl he met this morning due to falling asleep in her garden, following behind him with her head lowered, a nervous expression across her face, and fidgeting with her fingers.

“J-Just ner-nervous is all.” Wallflower answered nervously as they stopped walking. “I-I’m not used to meeting new people. You’re honestly my f-first friend in a w-while.”

Lincoln gave a Wallflower a soft smile as he put a hand to the gardener's shoulder. “Don’t worry so much, Twilight will love meeting you.” Lincoln reassured her as he was confident Twilight would like meeting some new people and potential friends in this world. “Just trust me.”

Wallflower looked Lincoln in the eye for a moment before she took a deep breath and nodded her head. “O-Ok, I t-trust you.” Wallflower said as a small smile came to her face. “Th-thank you Lincoln, this...this really means a lot.”

“Anytime.” Lincoln reassured Wallflower with a thumbs up. The Loud boy then turned around and said. “Alright, Twilight should be in the library. Do you know where that is?”

“Yep. Follow me.” Wallflower said as she took the lead and began leading the way to the Cantorlot High’s Library. It was only about a 7 minute walk as Wallflower led Lincoln to the library. The doors were already open so the two could just walk in.

Once inside Lincoln’s eyes widened as he looked around the circle shaped room. The roof was the dome he saw outside and all around were rows and rows of books on shelves with the middle being a computer area. There was even an upper level with even more books.

“Wow, this is a nice Library.” Lincoln commented quietly due to being in a library. “Way better than the one at my old school.”

“Hehe, yeah we do have quiet the book collection.” Wallflower said sheepishly as she pointed to a shelf across the room. “I usually spend my time in here around the nature and flora section.”

“I wonder why?” Lincoln said with a grin, making Wallflower’s cheeks turn pink in slight embarrassment. Lincoln decided to stop teasing the poor girl and said. “Alright, I think Twilight should be somewhere in here. She has purple skin and eyes and wearing a blue blouse.”

Wallflower nodded at gaining the information of Twilight’s appearance and the two began spreading out around both halves of the library looking for said girl. However, surprisingly, their efforts proved fruitless when they saw no sight of her or Spike.

“Dang it.” Lincoln muttered as he went back to the center of the room to meet back up with Wallflower. Twilight must be around somewhere, he just hoped she wasn’t in any sort of trouble or did anything to embarrass herself.

“I couldn’t find her.” Wallflower said as she walked up to Lincoln.

“Yeah me neither, she must be somewhere else but I have no idea.” Lincoln explained as he sighed. “No clue where she is either.”

Wallflower looked down and hummed in thought. These new kids probably didn’t know this school to well and this Twilight Sparkle could be anywhere. She looked around for any sort of clues to find her, and then her eyes set open a women she knew as Mrs. Cheeriee, one of her teachers, sorting around books.

“U-Um! Excuse m-me! Mrs. Cheerliee!” Wallflower Blush called out as Lincoln looked to where she was looking and saw the human version of Mrs. Cheerilee stacking books on shelves.

The teacher heard her name being called and looked to see Wallflower and Lincoln walking up to her. She put on a smile as she said. “Oh, hello there. You two must be new here.”

Wallflower was taken aback by this as she stuttered. “Wh-what? H-He’s new but I’ve been your student for y-years. I’m Wallflower Blush.” The green skinned girl explained with a bit of an offended look. It was one thing for her fellow students not to recognize her, but her own teachers?

“O-Oh! I’m sorry I didn’t realize it was you.” Cheerilee said with a nervous chuckle and an apologetic smile.

“You don’t recognize your own student?” Lincoln asked the teacher with an accusing glare.

“Um, well, you see…” Cheerilee struggled to say before she simply gave a nervous smile and said. “You know what, I’m sorry. What can I help you to with?”

Wallflower simply sighed and decided to drop the subject. She was used to it. “W-Well we were wondering if you seen a girl named T-Twilight Sparkle here? She has a blue blouse, purple skin and eyes.”

They then watched as Cheerilee suddenly gave a slightly annoyed look when that purple skinned girl was brought up as she said. “Oh, her.” The teacher said in an annoyed tone as she remembered interacting with the girl yesterday and how...poor her computer skills were. “Yes I saw her here yesterday.”

“Do you know where she is now?” Lincoln followed up immediately.

Mrs Cheerilee scratched her chin in thought for a moment before she answered. “I think I saw her with Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Applejack heading to the soccer field earlier.”

“So there is a Rarity here.” Lincoln muttered under his breath so the other two wouldn’t hear him. “Thanks Mrs. Cheerilee. Come on Wallflower, let’s go!” Lincoln said before he started to run off.

“O-Oh! Right!” Wallflower said as she started running after the white-headed boy.

A little later, Wallflower was leading Lincoln to the school’s soccer field where Twilight as well as the other parallel versions of their friends were. As they were walking, Wallflower spoke up, “I’m guessing if they’re all over there they must be meeting Rainbow Dash. She’s the captain of every sports team and always spends her free time practicing.”

“So I’ve heard.” Lincoln responded as he remembered Pinkie Pie saying Rainbow Dash was in fact the captain of all the sports teams in the school. “So do you know them?”

“S-sort of.” Wallflower answered with a ‘so-so’ expression. “They don’t k-know me but I’ve seen them around the school sometimes. I’ve actually been classmates with them for years but they’ve never talked to me, just like everyone else.”

“Have you ever tried interacting with them?” Lincoln asked with a raised eyebrow as he put his hands in his pants pocket.

“N-Not r-really.” Wallflower answered as she lowered her head a bit. “Nobody else seems to notice me and they are some of the coolest students here. I figured if everybody else didn’t notice me, what are the chances they would.”

“Well now's your chance to find out.” Lincoln said with a kind smile. Wallflower couldn’t help but smile a bit herself. It seemed being around and befriending Lincoln helped her confidence a bit. Not much, but, maybe enough so that she could give this a try at last.

“Ok, know it’s my turn to ask you a question.” Wallflower said as so far Lincoln’s been asking her question, it would be nice to ask him a question for a change. “You said I could possibly help you and Twilight with something. What is that exactly?”

Lincoln knew this would come up eventually so better to just tell her now and get it over with. “Well, me and Twilight are trying to get her to become Princess of the Fall Formal and win the crown.”

Wallflower came to an immediate stop as her eyes widened. She then looked to Lincoln like he was crazy. “You’re friends running against Sunset Shimmer?!” Wallflower yelled as Lincoln simply nodded his head. “Do you two have a death wish or something?”

“Well, it’s kinda important that we win.” Lincoln said vaguely, not revealing the true nature of the situation. “It’s a long story but Twilight just has to win.”

“Well, I still think it’s a bad idea. But I guess there's no changing your mind.” Wallflower said as she quickly deduced that trying to talk her new friend out of it would be for not. “Well, one thing about being practically invisible to everyone is that the bullies never go after you. I’m probably the only student here who Sunset hasn’t targeted so...lucky me I guess.”

Lincoln melt the drawbacks of being practically non-social definitely out weighed the benefits, but decided to leave that be. Instead, it was the word ‘bully’ that Lincoln reacted to as he looked down with an unsure look. “Yeah...bully.” Lincoln muttered quietly.

Wallflower noticed Lincoln’s change in mood and asked with a slightly concerned expression. “Is something wrong?”

Lincoln put his hand to his neck as he looked at his hoodie pocket where the diary he took from Sunset’s apartment was. He remembered all the diary entries he read and how it showed something much more was going on than just Sunset being some power hungry villain. “Well...it’s just…” Lincoln said as he tried to sum up his explanation. “I just think there's probably more to Sunset then we think.”

“What?” Wallflower asked with a completely confused expression and a raised eyebrow. Everyone knew that Sunset was pretty much the queen bee of the school that would crush anyone who got in her way. What more could there be to here.

Lincoln looked around for a moment to see if anyone was watching them, and when he saw the coast was clear he reached into his hoodie pocket and pulled out the diary. He showed it to Wallflower and said. “Guess who’s diary this is?”

Wallflower looked at it for a bit before her eyes slowly started widening as she said quietly. “No...way…” She said in a completely surprised tone as she pieced together that it must have been Sunset’s diary since they were just talking about her.

“Yeah.” Lincoln confirmed with a nod as he put the diary back in his hoodie. “She’s had it for a long time, probably since she was a kid. It’s old and the handwriting in the first several pages isn’t the best. And I read through it and...I’m not sure what exactly, but I think there's a lot more to Sunset then we think. Something more deeper and emotional that’s making her act like this.”

Wallflower hummed as she took all of this information in. It was hard to believe that the girl the whole school was afraid of actually had something more to her than just being a total bitch. But if the diary Lincoln had said all these things...then maybe it was possible. It was probably easier for Wallflower to consider this as a possibility then any other student since she didn’t really have any beef with Sunset since Sunset never interacted, just like every other student. “Ok…” Wallflower said as she started considering the possibilities. “So what are you going to do about it? I assume you’re probably gonna try and dive deeper into this.”

“...Yeah.” Lincoln admitted as he did want to know more about Sunset’s past and her potential problems. If she was doing this all for a specific reason, and she most likely was, and Lincoln could help her, he wanted to. “I don’t know the full story, but there is one person who does.”

Wallflower instantly knew who Lincoln was talking about and gave the white head a worried look. “It’s not going to be easy.” She told him in a concerned/warning tone. “She’s not just gonna open out about any potential problems she has. Especially to you. I’ve heard about what you did to her yesterday and you probably aren’t one of her favorite people.”

“Yeah I know.” Lincoln said with a sigh before looking to Wallflower Blush with a small smile. “But it’s like I told you, you won’t know unless you try.”

Wallflower couldn’t help but giggle a bit and say. “Yeah.” The two then started walking again as the green skinned girl pointed to a door they were coming up to. “That leads right to the soccer field.”

Lincoln nodded in response as the two of them approached the door and opened it up. Sunlight leaked out causing them to wince, but once their eyes adjusted to the brightness they saw that right in front of them was the Cantorlot Soccer field.

And in the distance near the bleachers, they saw 6 people standing there. Lincoln was able to see Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy. Along with those 4 he could see the human version of Rarity and Rainbow Dash. She would recognize their unique hair style and colors respectively anywhere.

“There they are! Let’s go!” Lincoln said as he started to run towards the group. But he soon stopped when he noticed a lack of footsteps behind him. He looked to see Wallflower Blush in the same place, hold her arm with an incredibly nervous expression on her face.

Lincoln knew what was up and walked up to Wallflower and put a hand on her shoulder. “It’ll be ok. I promise.” The Loud boy reassured her softly.

Wallflower looked back at Lincoln for a moment, then over at the Main 6 by the bleachers. She swallowed a lump in her throat as she mouthed out an ‘Ok.’

Lincoln nodded at her before the two started working towards the group together. Once they got close, Lincoln shouted to them. “HEY GUYS!”

This got the Main 6’s attention as they saw Lincoln approaching them. Twilight smiled brightly as she got up from the bleachers and quickly went over to him and said. “Lincoln! It’s so good to see you again!” Twilight said as the Loud boy gave her a reassuring thumbs up. “So, uh, how did you little mission go.”

Lincoln averted her gaze as he said vaguely. “It...went.” He answered as Twilight rose a brow. Before she could ask further Lincoln quickly said. “I’ll tell you about it later. Let’s focus on the now. I’ve seen you’ve been busy.”

Twilight perked up as she nodded and moved to the side and showed Lincoln the human version of all their ponyville friends standing behind her. “I ended up meeting up with Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity when I was going over my plans to win the Fall Formal. They were trying to protect me from Sunset since she hasn’t done anything to me yet and I ended up finding out some things. Long story short we met up with Rainbow Dash and her and Applejack made up and now they’re all friends again!”

“Well that’s good to hear.” Lincoln commented as the human Rainbow Dash walked up to him.

“So, you’re the guy that knocked down Sunset Shimmer huh?” Rainbow asked the Loud boy with crossed arms. Lincoln nodded...but it didn’t sit right with his gut. Honestly after reading Sunset’s diary he was starting to feel bad about what he did and said to her. “Ha! Man I wished I could’ve seen that!”

“Hehe...yeah.” Lincoln sheepishly muttered before he cleared his throat and quickly changed the subject. “Anyway, Twilight, you’re not the only one who’s been busy making friends. I actually have someone here with me.”

“Really?” Twilight asked with a smile. “Where are they?”

“She’s right her.” Lincoln said as he took a step to the right and showed Wallflower blush hiding behind him and looking at everyone with a shy and nervous expression and a pink blush on her cheeks.

“H-H-H-Hi…” Wallflower nervous stuttered as she forced herself to smile.

Twilight simply smiled at her and gave her a wave. “Hello. I’m Twilight Sparkle. It’s really nice to meet you!” Twilight told her in a positive and welcoming tone.

“I-I’m W-W-Wallflower B-Blush.” Wallflower responded as she looked away and tried to hold her composure.

However, the CHS students all looked at her with confusion with Rarity raising her brow and asking. “Apologizes darling, but we’ve never seen you before. Are you new here?”

“I-I’ve b-been classmates with all of you for years.” Wallflower muttered quietly as she poked her fingers together.

All the CHS students were surprised by this. She sounded honest, and Applejack could stop a liar from a mile away, but they’ve never seen her before.

“Are you sure?” Rainbow Dash asked as she kicked the soccer ball at her feet up to her hands. “I’ve never seen or heard of you before.”

“I’m...not the most well known person.” Wallflower admitted to everyone sadly as she fidgeting her fingers and looked down.

“Guess not.” Applejack said as she adjusted her hat. “Sorry bout that.”

“It’s fine, really.” Wallflower said as she grinded her foot into the ground softly. “I’m used to people ignoring and forgetting about me.”

“Oh you poor thing.” Fluttershy said with sympathy as she hovered a hand over her mouth. “No one should be forgotten. Right Pinkie Pie?” Fluttershy didn’t get any response. “Pinkie Pie?”

As Wallflower listened to everyone’s words, suddenly a shadow loomed over her. She looked and was unprepared as she was suddenly pulled into a bone crushing hug by none other then the everyone’s favorite cotton-candy haired girl.

“Hi! I’m Pinkie Pie!” Pinkie Pie introduced herself in the only way she knew how. “I’m super-duper sorry that we haven’t noticed you before but now we know each other and can start becoming the bestest friends!”

Wallflowers face went went as her cheeks was pulled up against the pink girls cheek. Her heart rate increased from how close to the two were as Pinkie simply smiled happily as she pulled Wallflower into the hug tighter. However, at this point Wallflower’s face went from red to blue as she started to lose the ability to breath.

“Pinkie! Down girl!” Lincoln shouted to her as he watched Wallflowers face go from green to red, then blue. “She can’t breath!”

Pinkie released Wallflower from the hug, allowing the green skinned girl to breath. Pinkie smile never left her face as she simply said. “Whoospy-doopsy! Sorry about that!”

“...It’s...alright…” Wallflower managed to say in between breaths as she started to stand up.

“Alright, getting back on track.” Rainbow Dash said as she looked over to Lincoln and Twilight. “So you two are looking to dethrone Sunset Shimmer and for Twilight to become Princess of the Fall Formal huh?”

Twilight and Lincoln looked to each other before Twilight simply gave a sheepish smile and nod. Rainbow then started to juggle the soccer ball with her knees as she said. “Gottta say, I’d love to see that happen. I’ll totally help you out.” The athlete told them, making them smile. However, Rainbow Dash then looked to Twilight and said. “All you gotta do is beat me in a game of one-on-one?”

“What?” Twilight gasped with worry as Rainbow Dash begun explaining.

“First to five goals wins.” The blue skinned girl said as she kicked the soccer ball up and did a flip kick to it and sent it into the nearby goal. “One-Zip!”

Twilight looked with a completely worried look. She didn’t know how to play this game and she’s still getting used to her human body. But just then Lincoln stepped forward and said. “No hold on, I wanna take you on!”

However, Rainbow looked to Lincoln and rolled her eyes. “Sorry, but it’s Twilight here that’s running for Fall Formal and trying to dethrone Sunset. I think she should be the one proving herself to me.”

Lincoln glared at Rainbow. No way Twilight would be able to beat her, even if she knew what Soccer was. He had to think of a way for Rainbow to accept his challenge instead so they’d have a shot. Just then Lincoln smirked as an idea came to his head and he said. “What’s wrong Rainbow? Scared of losing to a boy?”

“Ooooooooo!” The rest of the CHS let out as Lincoln said that. Twilight looked to Lincoln with widened eyes as Rainbow slowly turned to Lincoln and glared hard at him.

“Say...that...again.” Rainbow challenged in a tone that Lincoln knew all too well from his older sister Lynn.

“I said...are you scared...of losing...to a boy.” Lincoln said back as he got right into Rainbow’s face and looked her in the eye.

Everyone was silent as Rainbow narrowed her eyes harshly at the Loud boy and said. “It’s...on!”

And on it was. Everyone watched as the two battled it out on the soccer field. Thanks to his constant hero work, playing with his sister Lynn, Lincoln was no slouch and was able to keep up with Rainbow Dash and score some girls.

But Rainbow Dash still proved a challenge as she still had much better actual experience with the sport then Lincoln and was able to one-up the white-head a number of times.

Currently the score between the two was tied up. 4 to 4. Everyone was watching anxiously as Lincoln currently had the ball and was heading towards Rainbow’s goal with said girl hot on his heels.

Currently Wallflower was watching the white-head with her fingers crossed and muttered. “Come on Lincoln.” Rooting for her friend.

Just then a tub of popcorn was handed over to her and she looked to see it was Pinkie as the party girl looked at her with a smile and said. “Popcorn?” with a smile as she took a handful of it and ate it happily.

“Thanks.” Wallflower accepted with a smile as she took a bit of popcorn and ate it. She hummed at the taste as it was sweeter than popcorn normally is. Wallflower turned to the pink girl and asked her, “Where’d you get it?” While taking some more.

“I was keeping it in my hair.” Pinkie Pie answered casually as she took more. Wallflower stopped eating as she looked slowly to the popcorn in her hand and chewed very slowly on the popcorn still in her mouth.

She then looked to Pinkie again and saw the pink girl stick her hand in her hair and dig around a bit before pulling out a salt shaker. “Want some salt with that?” Pinkie offered as she handed the salt to Wallflower.

Back at the game, Lincoln, the ball at his feet, was approaching the goal with Rainbow right behind him. Lincoln then came to a stop as he prepared to kick the ball into the goal, but suddenly Rainbow’s leg came in and lightly pulled on the leg that was still on the ground and tripped Lincoln.

“Hahahaha!” Rainbow laughed as she took the ball and began running off towards the other end of the field.

Twilight and the CHS students all gasped at the dirty move Rainbow just pulled with Wallflower standing up and pointing to Rainbow and yelling. “THAT’S CHEATING!”

“All’s fair in love and war!” Rainbow Dash yelled as she got closer and closer to the goal.

“Is that so huh?!” Lincoln yelled before he smirked and went for the Ultimatrix.

“What’s he doing with his watch?” Rarity asked as everyone watched Lincoln turn the core of the device on his wrist.

“Oh boy.” Twilight muttered. After this they would have some explaining to do to their new CHS friends.

Lincoln then quickly found the alien he was looking for and slammed down the core. Everyone watched as Lincoln was covered by a green flash and then-

“Fasttrack!” A high pitched voice yelled out as suddenly an orange and black blur emerged from the flash.

Before Rainbow knew she was suddenly tripped and the ball was kicked up high into the sky. The blur then jumped up high towards the ball and performed a roundhouse kick and the ball was sent rocketing towards the other goal and even creating a small crater when it landed.

They then watched as Lincoln’s Citrakayah transformation land on the field on his feet. Everyone but Twilight’s jaw dropped at the scene as Fasttrack turned to a completely stunned Rainbow Dash and said. “Guess I win.”

“...WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?!?” Rarity yelled she stood up from her seat.

“Hehehe...we can explain.” Twilight said nervously.

And so explained they did. Once everyone was able to somewhat calm down, Lincoln went on to explain the Ultimatrix to them. Needless to say, they were pretty shocked and surprised to hear that the white-head was capable of with that device on his wrist.

“That’s...certainly a lot to take in.” Applejack commented as she finally regained the ability to speak.

“Yeah, sorry about just surprising you guys with it.” Lincoln said sheepishly. It probably would have been better to not just surprise them with it like that, but Rainbow forced his hand, er, wrist.

“Well, you surprised us for sure.” Wallflower said as she scratched her head as she tried to process everything she was just told.

“Thats...so...COOL!” Pinkie said as she started to rush and look at Lincoln. “You’re like a real life superhero!”

“Heh, you could say that.” Lincoln said with a small smirk.

“Well, even though you kinda cheated…” Rainbow Dash was saying as Lincoln gave her a blank look, not bothering to state she cheated as well by tripping him. “You still did beat me, so I’ll give ya guys a helping hand in.”

“Alright! Thank you so much Rainbow Dash!” Twilight said as she gave the athlete a quick hug.

“No prob.” Rainbow Dash said as she returned the hug. “So, what’s the plan for dethroning Sunset?”

“We’re...still working on that.” Twilight admitted with a nervous chuckle.

“Oh! Why don’t we head over the Sugarcube Corner and discuss it.” Rarity suggested as she was in the mood for a coffee right now.

Everyone muttered in agreement over the meeting place and as they were doing so, Wallflower looked to every and gave a small smile before she started to walk away. But she didn’t get far as suddenly she bumped into someone. She looked to see it was Pinkie that suddenly appeared in front of her and gave her a bit of a sad look. “Where are you going?” She asked in a tone that matched her expression.

“We-well…” Wallflower again as she tried to find the words. “You all seem to be in the middle of something important a-and I just met you all. I-I don’t wanna get in the way or anything.”

“Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?” Pinkie let out as as she waved it off with a ‘pfft’ and said. “You’re not in the way at all silly-willy!”

“But-” Wallflower said but was interrupted.

“She’s right darling, why don’t you join us.” Rarity offered with a generous smile.

“R-Really?” Wallflower said with a surprised look.

“Uh-huh.” Fluttershy said with a nod before she looked away and covered her face with her hair. “I-If you wa-want to o-of course.”

“Come on Wallflower, we’d love to have you on board.” Twilight added with a big smile.

Wallflower could only watch everyone looking at her with open arms. Something she’s never really seen before. Her eyes started to sparkle as her cheeks turned pink and a small smile came to her lips. Finally, she spoke. “Well...if you all really want me that bad...then who am I to say no?”

Everyone cheered when suddenly Pinkie pulled Wallflower into tight hug causing the green skinned girl to go red again from the gesture.

Lincoln chuckled at the whole scene before his face suddenly turned a bit serious as he turned to everyone and said. “You guys go. You can fill me in on the plan later.”

Everyone turned to him surprised as Applejack asked. “What do you mean Linc?” The farm girl asked. “Ain’t you comin?”

“Actually...there’s something else I gotta do.” Lincoln said in a calm voice, making everyone raise a brow. “Do any of you know where I can find Sunset Shimmer after school?”

Everyone gasped at what Lincoln asked. Everyone except Wallflower. She had a few guesses as to why Lincoln was asking that. “Why do you wanna know darling? Need I remind that she was the one who divided the entire school apart.” Rarity said as she looked at Lincoln like he was crazy.

“Oh! Wait, I know why!” Rainbow Dash said as she gave an excited smile at Lincoln. “You’re gonna find her, transform into one of those alien hero dudes and beat her ass into the ground!”

“...No.” Lincoln answered seriously, surprising everyone again. “I just wanna talk with her.”

“But...why?” Twilight asked with a confused tone.

“...It’s just something I have to do.” Lincoln said again in the same tone.

Everyone still looked at him confused. Why did he want to talk to her? Before anyone could question anything else, Wallflower spoke up. “I-I know where she is.” The green skinned girl told as everyone looked to her.

“You do?” Lincoln asked her and urged her to go on.

“Y-Yeah.” She confirmed. “She works at this sushi restaurant at the mall. I go there sometimes. The sushi there is really good. Sunset Shimmer works there as a waitress.”

“Thanks Wallflower. I gotta get over there.” Lincoln said as he started walking towards everyone. He then reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. He had it with him since Twilight first opened the portal that sent him to Equestria and he’s kept it around. Of course it couldn’t call anyone or use wifi in Equestria, he could still use the non-internet required stuff and charge it with his electric forms. But here he should at least be able to use it to contact other people from this human world. Even if isn’t the same as his own.

“Here’s my number.” Lincoln said as he showed his contact information to Wallflower. The green skinned girl nodded and pulled out her own phone and quickly wrote down his number into her phone. “Text me the plan, I gotta get to that restaurant.”

Everyone then watched as Lincoln walked away, not even giving anyone a chance to speak up to him again. They all simply looked at each other and shrugged and let Lincoln do what he wanted to do.

Later into the day, Lincoln was now in the Cantorlot City Mall. It wasn’t hard to find after asking someone for directions. Once inside, Lincoln quickly found the map of the mall and found the sushi restaurant was located on the first floor near the fountain.

Lincoln quickly walked over there and found a restaurant named “The Fishing Hole.” and quickly assumed this was it. He went inside and requested a table and thanks to it not being busy today, he was able to be seated immediately.

After a few minutes of waiting, he heard footsteps coming towards him followed by a familiar voice in an annoyed tone. “Alright, let’s make this quick. What do you want to drink?” Lincoln looked to see that, sure enough, Sunset Shimmer was walking over to him, not noticing it was him due to holding a notepad in front of her face.

Her uniform consisted of what looked like a mix between a basic waitress outfit and a japense kimono. It was primarily blue with white marks over it and the center being a white apron with a chibi octopus on it and a pufferfish hair piece.

“Hey.” Lincoln greeted simply.

Sunset’s eyes widened when she heard the familiar voice. She looked to see Lincoln looking at her with a neutral expression and a wave. Sunset looked at him with a very annoyed looked and asked again. “What...do you...want...to drink.” She asked aggressively, wanting this to be over quickly.

“I don’t wanna drink. I just wanna talk.” Lincoln told her calmy.

“Well, then I guess we're done here.” Sunset said rudely as she started walking away.

“Then I guess you won’t get you tip.” Lincoln said. Sunset gritted her teeth and looked behind her...and saw Lincoln holding up three 20$ bills.

Sunset looked at the money before giving Lincoln and light glare. She walked up to him and snatched the money from him before sitting across from him, crossing her arms and sayings. “You got 5 minutes.”

Lincoln then let out a sigh as he faced Sunset and said. “First, I wanna say...I’m sorry.”

“What?” Sunset asked with a raised brow.

“I’m sorry for what I did and said to you. I lost control and shouldn’t have reacted like that.” Lincoln specified while looking Sunset in the eye.

Sunset simply glared at Lincoln in response as she said. “Is that it? If you seriously think a stupid little apology is gonna make me-”

“I’m not done yet.” Lincoln interrupted her with the same tone he’s been talking in the whole time. “I also wanna say... I understand.”

“Huh?” Sunset asked rudely with a raised eyebrow.

“I understand.” Lincoln answered again. “I understand what it’s like to feel unwanted. Not no feel needed. To feel...alone.”

Sunset’s bully and rude demeanor had finally broken as she suddenly tensed up. “Wh-what?” She said in a surprised tone as she suddenly had a few beads of nervous sweat go down her head.

“Listen, I live with ten sisters.” Lincoln told her, honestly surprising Sunset in a completely different way. “All of them have their own special talents. My sister Luan’s a comedian, my sister Lana’s great with animals and tools, and my sister Leni has her fashion talent and the list goes on. And for most of my life, I can honestly say I was jealous of them.”

“Wh-where are you going with this?” Sunset asked as he demeanor continued to slowly break. Lincoln’s eyes were able to see that Sunset started to lightly tremble and her arms shifted a bit. She was starting to hug herself.

Lincoln then continued, hoping to get Sunset to open up. “I really didn’t have a talent of my own. I was pretty much just the boy of the family. I didn’t really find myself all to special and could only watch as everyone would praise them and their trophy cases would fill up. I felt pretty insecure about myself. I would always try the craziest things to try and accomplish stuff. But a lot of the time I would end up humiliating myself or get my sisters into some sort of crossfire. It’s like everything I did just...didn’t matter.”

Sunset’s condition only got worse as her trembling got more noticable, her breathing got more rapid, and she held herself tighter. “Where...are you going with this.” Sunset said quietly through her teeth.

“I’m saying I know how you feel.” Lincoln answered simply as he gave Sunset a soft sympetic smile. “I had friends, but...I still didn’t think too highly of myself. And by sisters used to push me around a lot. Until I was 11, I really didn’t have anything that really made me stand out. Like...if I wasn’t a part of my family...nothing would even change.”

Sunset went completely quiet when Lincoln said that. She froze as her breathing got funny. Just then she shot up as she quickly left the booth. “Ok! We’re done here!” Sunset quickly said as she got up from the booth.

But she failed to notice Lincoln stood up when she did and as Sunset and as Sunset was trying to calm herself down and regain her demouner, she couldn’t do anything as Lincoln walked up to her...and hugged her.

Sunset froze as the Loud boy pulled her into a soft hug. She didn’t struggle or do anything as Lincoln held her close and said. “You don’t have to do this. You don’t have to be alone anymore.”

Sunset’s eyes widened again when he said that in a comforting tone, the kind you’d expect to hear from a big brother cheering up their young sibling after they’ve had a bad day. Sunset stood still for a few moments until she was finally able to snap back to her senses and pushed Lincoln back and out of the hug.

Lincoln’s demeanor didn’t change as he kept looking at Sunset with the same sympathetic expression and soft smile. Sunset kept trembling as water started to build up in her eyes. She did her best to glare at Lincoln as she reached into her pocket and took the 60$ Lincoln gave her and slammed it down on the table.

“Keep your stupid money!” Sunset said in an almost broken tone. “When I get that crown...I won’t need it!” And with that, Sunset quickly power walked away.

As Lincoln watched her left, he picked up the money and said one thing.

“I’m not giving up on you.”

Back with Sunset, she quickly made her way to the girls bathroom in the restaurant and locked herself in the stall. She pounded her first against the stall door as she breathed heavily and could do nothing to stop the tears that fell down her eyes.

The conversation she had with Lincoln kept playing in her head.

‘I understand.’

“Shut up!” Sunset said as her legs started trembling as she pounded the door again.

‘I’m saying I know how you feel.’

“No you don’t!” Sunset shouted again as she slowly started to fall to the floor.

‘You don’t have to be alone anymore.’

“Just...leave...me...alone…” Sunset said as she fell to her knees and lightly hit the door as she started to quietly sob.

Back with Lincoln, he was simply sitting on a bench in the mall thinking. Thinking of a way to get Sunset to crack and finally open up. It was pretty much confirmed now through her reactions that she had something more to her.

And he was determined to help her.

Just then he felt a vibration in his pocket. He took out his phone and saw he got a text from an unknown number. It must have been Wallflowers. Most likely the plan to get the students to vote for Twilight.

He opened it up and read it.

“...Huh...that’s quite the plan.”

THE NEXT DAY

It was the third day. The day where the Fall Formel would be taking place. The day where the portal would close. Currently, it was lunch time at CHS as all the students were separated into their groups.

And currently, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Wallflower Blush, and Lincoln were sitting around the lunch room in different places. All of them were wearing CHS Wondercolts shirts, pony tails, and headbands with with pony ears on them.

Just then Pinkie came up to the lunch line and put on her own headband as she grabbed a lunch tray and started beating it against the counter in a beat.

And then the rest of their friends started adding to the beat. Rarity stomping and clapping her hands, Fluttershy banging cups against the table, Wallflower banging spoons against a row of upside down bowls, and Lincoln slamming his fist down on the table. Just then Spike, who was sitting in the corner in Twilight backpack, hit a button on a radio with a phone in it causing it to play music.

And then...they started singing.

AJ, FS, RD, R, PP, WB, and LL:

Hey, hey, everybody! We got something to say!

We may seem as different as the night is from day!

But you look a little deeper and you will see that I’m just like you! And you’re just like me! Yeah!

All of them then started going around the lunchroom and getting everybody’s attention about the song so they would listen to what they had to say.

AJ, FS, RD, R, PP, WB, and LL:

Hey, hey, everybody!

We're here to shout that the Magic of Friendship is what it’s all about!

Yeah!

You thought we we were different as the night is from the day!

Until Twilight Sparkle helped us see another way!

So get up! Get down!

If you’re gonna come around!

We can work together helping Twilight win the crown!

So get up! Get down!

Cause it’s gonna make a sound!

If we work together helping Twilight Sparkle win the crown!

As they all started to get the others into the song and beat, suddenly Pinkie Pie took over as she started to get other’s attention.

Pinkie Pie:

Hey! Hey! Hands up now!

We’re sending a message to the crowd!

Hands wave up! Then come down!

We party together all around!

Rarity:

Generous, Honestly,

Applejack:

Laughter, Kindness, Loyalty!

Fluttershy and Wallflower Blush:

Twilight helped us each to see,

Lincoln and Rainbow Dash:

All that we can be!

AJ, FS, RD, R, PP, WB, and LL:

So get up! Get down!

If you’re gonna come around!

We can work together helping Twilight win the crown!

So get up! Get down!

Cause it’s gonna make a sound!

If we work together helping Twilight Sparkle win the crown!

Lincoln and Wallflower then opened the doors to the lunch room revealing Twilight wearing her own CHS shirt, ears, and tail. She then came into the lunch room and started singing herself.

Twilight Sparkle:

I’m gonna be myself, no matter what I do.
And if we’re different yeah I want you to be true to you.

If you follow me. We’ll put our differences aside!

We’ll stick together and start working on the that SCHOOL PRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE!!!

Everyone:

Jump up! Make a sound!

Stomp your hooves! turn around!

Start now! Make a change!

Gonna come around!

Jump up! Make a sound!