Spike flew next to Rainbow as she held Applejack tight. It had been a long flight that was made longer with their need to land so Applejack could catch her breath and switch who was carrying her.

As they finally arrived, the group looked in shock at what they saw. Several of the buildings were either falling apart or made of metal plates.

"What the hay is going on?" Applejack asked.

"I don't know." Rainbow replied, looking around. "Something doesn't feel right."

"Release the mare, you monsters." A southern voice ordered as a pegasus came out, aiming a rifle at them.

"Now hold your horses." Applejack countered. "These are my friends. Not monsters."

The stallion narrowed his eyes at her for a moment before noticing Rainbow's spines. "Friends you say?... show me your marks."

"Why?" Applejack asked in shock.

"I want to confirm my suspicions." He replied. "And her colors are suspicious." He added motioning to Rainbow Dash.

"Would it help if we told you we're from different time periods?" Applejack asked as Rainbow turned to show her flank.

As soon as he saw the lighting bolt, the stallion's jaw dropped as he sat hard. After a moment he turned to Applejack. "I… I take it you're Applejack?" He asked. Seeing her nod, he sighed. "Then I believe you."

"Would you mind telling us what's going on?" Spike asked.

"War." He sighed. "It's a long story. But what I can tell you... Is to avoid the rainbow pools and anything glowing."

"And why is that?" Rainbow asked, narrowing her eyes at him.

He turned and called over to one of the buildings. "Hey Derpy! We have some old friends that would like to say hi!"

After a few moments a strange looking mare that looked like a living corps with a chalkboard around her neck stepped out. The moment she saw Applejack, she rushed over and gave her a squishy hug. As she pulled away, she quickly wrote something on her bord and held it up.

"How are you so young?" Applejack read. "I'm from a different timeline." Derpy thought for a moment before writing something new. "Sorry Derpy. I don't know about your timeline. We're looking for our other friends."

Derpy thought for a moment before rushing back to the building and returning with a letter she gave to Spike. Looking it over he turned to the girls with a smile. "It's definitely from Pinkie." He explained before opening the letter.

"What does it say?" Applejack asked.

Dear friends… I guess you're not my friends but the other me's friends but also kinda my friends at the same time. Anyway, I don't have much time to explain because the chapter would become too long and there's other letters I have to write. So I'll get straight to the point… what was my point?... oh yeah. You won't be able to find many ponies that can help. But there is one pony in town you should take with you. The others might like him.

"Yeah… that sounds like Pinkie." Applejack laughed.

"Did she really write all those spaces?" The stallion asked. The three nodded as he sighed. "Well… the only pony I can think of is…"

Just then there was an explosion as a pony was shot out of a building and into a pile of barrels. "Who's that?" Spike asked.

"That would be him." The stallion sighed as laughter came from the barrels.

"I figured it out!" A young sounding stallion laughed as he pulled himself out of the pile.

"Wait… he's a…" Spike stammered.

"Alicorn!!!!!" The three gasped.

"It's complicated. But to make a long answer short. Yes." He replied as he made his way over. "Oh… hi uncle."

"Uncle?!?!?!"

Tapping a Hoff to his chin, he looked Spike over. "No… you're much smaller than you were when we last met… much closer to my last… Pinkie… party…" He sighed.

The girls looked at each other for a moment before smiling at him. "If you help us. We can have another one of her parties." Rainbow suggested.

Smiling, he turned to the stallion. "You don't mind. Do you?"

The stallion shook his head and turned away. "Nope. Just remember the rules of survival."

"What rules? The girls asked.

"Stables in our time are death traps, and so is going underground. Oh and if you hear an ery moaning, run." The alicorn replied.

"Why would moaning be bad?" Applejack asked.

As if to answer her question, they heard moaning behind them as the stallion with a gun looked past them. "It's a herd! They're coming this way!"

Turning, the group saw a large group of ponies that looked much like Derpy buy with feral blank eyes. "Taint spitters… crap." The alicorn groaned. "You three best stay back. Let the others handle this."

Rainbow smirked at Applejack who looked at a gun saddle before smiling back at the two dragons. "We'll help. If you don't mind."

Twilight smiled as Pinkie told them what she was able to remember about their plan. The three rode on the back of the creatures as they listened to Pinkie's surprisingly long story.

"And I hid and found that side that led me to you." Pinkie finished.

"That's… a surprisingly detailed story." Applejack commented in shock.

"Did you see who it was that undid the spell?" Twilight asked.

Pinkie giggled. "Sorry Twilight. I can't ruin the suspense for the readers."

"Say what now?" Applejack asked before getting cut off by Pinkie pointing ahead of them.

"Look! The other prisoners are being led out by my sister!" Pinkie announced before shouting. "HI MOD!"

"Pinkie. Before you go rushing to your sister. I want to ask you something." Twilight interjected.

"Sorry Twilight. I can't help fix the timeline." She replied.

"How did you?... never mind. Why not?" Twilight asked.

"Because, silly. Everypony knows about timing. Besides, you still need to find the others and Spike." Pinkie replied.

"How do ya know about Spike?" Applejack asked.

"It's Pinkie." Twilight sighed. "Don't question it or you'll get a headache." Turning to Pinkie she smiled. "Then do you know where we should go next?"

"Yeap." Pinkie giggled. "And don't forget Fluttershy." After a moment she blinked.

"Twitch? What is it?" Twilight asked.

"Don't know… but it's in Canterlot."

Twilight smiled and turned to Applejack. "Then that's our next destination." With a nod the group headed out to get their friend and start their journey.

Author's Note

I thought I'd mix things up a little. I'm a fan of the Fallout Equestria series. And thought I'd reference it. Don't know if I'll do my own fanfic for it. But still.
Let me know what you think in the comments.