The day in Ponyville saw a lot of moving being done. Right now, Golden Oaks Library was currently being closed until a librarian could be assigned to the library proper. Until then, all book checkouts were to be done with Twilight Sparkle. The Castle of Friendship as it was being called, had a library proper. Some of Twilight's personal books were being transported from Golden Oak's Library to the library in the Castle.

Celestia was overseeing the process as some of the royal guard were assisting. There were even a few hamsters that had come with her, which seemed to include the remaining humans turned hamsters. Speaking of, Shadow Skull was waiting for Celestia to come up to the hamster group which she did so shortly.

"So, before anyone begins to even think about jumping through the mirror to the human world and picking up where we all left off, there's three problems with that. The first, is that through some, magical misshap we can't explain, a lot of humans got varied skin tones far beyond what was thought possible. Not even my own dark magic can pinpoint the exact origin of what's going on." Shadow Skull said. "The second problem, is that all of us have been gone for over thirty years, so anyone that wasn't turned into a hamster by being sent to this world has either died or grown up to the point beyond recognition."

"And that includes Travis, since we can't seem to find him anywhere." Lora noted.

"I think caused this whole-time situation when the ham-hams were swallowed up by that portal targeted hamster owners specifically." Shadow Skull said. "And Travis wasn't amongst that group."

"But there's one other thing: Apperently, the mysterious force that turned all the hamster owners into hamsters themselves, has caused their entire genetic makeup to alter." Celestia said. "I did a triple check with my own magic, and the results were conclusive, but probably not what you want to hear."

"Oh, don't be such a coward. It's only fair that they know now." Shadow Skull said. Celestia remained silent on the matter. "Fine, if you won't tell them, I will." Shadow Skull turned towards the entire hamster group. "It seems the transformation was a one-way thing; to put it another way, a human who was turned into a hamster won't turn back into a human if they use the portal. In other words, all the humans are stuck like this forever now."

"Geez, did you have to bring down the mood a little?" Hamtaro asked.

"Better you know, then find out the hard way." Shadow Skull said. "It's not like hiding that fact would change anything."

"Dad, that was a little unnecessary." Harmony said.

"You think it's unnecessary? Okay then, show of hands, how many of you humans turned hamsters would've tried to go through the portal if I had not said anything about the transformation being one way?" Shadow Skull asked. About every single paw that belonged to a human turned hamster went up. Only two didn't go up: Those belonging to Cappy's former owners. "I rest my case." Shadow Skull noted.

"...I guess I can understand the point now..." Harmony said.

"The truth may hurt at times, but it's better than the alternative in a lot of cases." Shadow Skull said. "Take it from a hamster who knows."

"How long have you even been alive father? You had to have been alive for much longer then even mom was aware of to say something like that." Harmony said.

"Enough that every so often, Furio gets upset that I'm still using dark magic to artificially prolong my own life cycle." Shadow Skull said.

"Whoa, hold up, whose Furio?" Hamtaro asked.

"Furio, is basically the entity that's maintaining reality." Harmony said.

"Oh sure, give them the simple version." Shadow Skull said. "But to be fair, that's probably as much as their mortal minds will be able to comprehend; the full story is something I doubt a single one of them will be able to follow along with."

"Now that, I can agree with." Harmony said.

"Err, what exactly is Furio's full story?" Celestia asked. "I know that of The Creator's, but not that of Furio's."

Suddenly Discord popped into the scene. "Oh trust me Sunbutt, your mind wouldn't be able to handle it either." Discord said before he popped away.

"...Well, you know it's complicated when even a being of chaos says it's too complicated for even the Princess to know." Twilight said.

Derpy suddenly flew in with a letter. "Letter for Princess Celestia." She said.

"Funny, your not my usual mailmare." Celestia said.

"Well, the post office passed it onto me, since they knew you were here in Ponyville right now." Derpy said.

"Wonder what this is about?" Celestia said, and started reading the letter to herself. "...Oh not this again."

"What's wrong?" Twilight asked.

"My nephew wants to discuss Ponyville again. No doubt another argument over wanting to turn this place into a carbon copy of Canterlot." Celestia said.

"Then let me join in. Now that my castle is here, it should help finally give some leeway into beating back whatever Blueblood argues this time." Twilight said.

Celestia smiled. "Very well, but I insist that we bring a royal guard member with us." Celestia said. "Flash Sentry, that's going to be you."

"Wh-ME?!" Flash Sentry was shocked.

"Him?!" Both Twilight and Shining Armor suddenly shouted, but for different reasons.

"I think it'd be great experience for the cadet." Celestia noted.

Twilight suddenly fainted. "B-but Flash Sentry is--" Shining Armor started

"Last I checked, Flash Sentry is still considered part of the canterlot royal guard; his position at the Crystal Kingdom is not yet permanent, am I wrong?" Princess Celestia asked.

Shining Armor knew when he was defeated. "...No your highness..." Shining Armor said.

"Then that settles things. Besides, Twilight will need her own royal guard eventually." Celestia said.

Shining Armor chose not to say anything, but Harmony was practically squealing like a little girl. I am so glad I don't have to convince Celestia about Flash Sentry. Caddence then nudged Harmony and gave the angel hamster a knowing wink before heading off. ...Then again, I think I know a certain princess of love who has been in Celestia's ear. If that's not capable of scoring brownie points with me, I don't know what is~

Author's Note

The intros are being saved until the actual first episode of the season, as the next update to this story; if the title didn't already give it away; is Rainbow Rocks. And that would be so weird to have the prologue have the usual intros like I did last season, only for the very next chapter update to be focused on the Equestria Girls side of things.