New Friends from Far Away

Twilight and her friends gathered in the map room to discuss what they should do.

"I think we should investigate the crash site. Maybe we can talk to the crew to find out where the ship came from.", suggested Rainbow Dash.

"I agree with her, Aunt Twilight. We will not figure anything out unless we go to the ship.", added Flurry.

Everyone else agreed and they set off for the forest. Following the trail from when the ship touched down, they reached the crash site in a matter of minutes. Night was falling, so they made sure to bring headlamps.

"Twilight, look here. It appears that this ship is called the Disneystar.", said Rarity.

Twilight nodded and led everyone to the front of the ship. However, she felt heat radiating from the window over the bridge, so she led them to a side hatch and Applejack used her strength to get it open. Once they got inside, they turned their lights on and followed signs on the wall to reach the bridge. Fluttershy felt the heat through the door and grabbed a fire extinguisher from a holder on the wall. Once the doors were forced open, she blasted fire retardant until the flames were out. Once the cloud had settled from the fire retardant, they were shocked at what they found. There was nobody in any of the seats. The crew had vanished.

"Where's the crew?", asked Starlight.

"Yeah, where are they?", asked Pinkie.

After Rainbow had broken open the windows and created gusts of wind to blow away the fire retardant powder, she spotted a dimly lit screen on one of the consoles.

"Look at this screen.", she called.

Flurry ran over to look at it. The text on the screen said: "All escape pods launched".

"Aunt Twilight, this screen says all of the ship's escape pods have been launched. The crew must have evacuated before the ship crashed."

"You know, Twilight, that makes perfect sense. If the crew had not evacuated, they would have either been killed or severely injured in the crash.", said Rarity.

"She's right.", said Fluttershy.

Twilight looked near the front of the bridge and found a sealed compartment door that was split down the middle. The text on the door said it was heat-resistant. Prying open the door, she found a large disc-shaped device inside that was still powered up and glowing brightly.

"Let's take this device back to my castle. Maybe it contains the information we need in order to find the crew of this ship.", she said.

They left the wreckage and headed back to Twilight's castle. They had no idea that the device they found was Toodles, nor did they know that they would find the crew as soon as the device was powered up.