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It wasn’t suppose to be like this. She should be someplace warm and safe, have a belly that’s full of food. Not this.

In an abandon village that was leftover from a nameless battle in a Russian schtetl, with burnt buildings and long abandon homes. The place is cold, a forsaken place, in 1918. Day after day of searing wind that would freeze flesh in seconds, drifts of deadly snow piled to the eaves of the houses. A crude collection of dilapidated houses, even more huts and shacks.

Sunset Shimmer the personal student of Princess Celestia, has been trap in for a month now. She’s no longer a pony and the ape body she found herself as after going through the mirror can’t eat the few plants she could find. She had to feed off of anything she could find, even the long abandoned food supplies that were left, making her sick.

She could still use her magic and telekinesis but the clothes that appeared on her when she went through the mirror, didn’t offer her enough protection from the cold. All she could do was to find a basement in what looked to be a temple of some kind from all the relics she found and the books she could read. The fireplace was still there and she’s been picking the other buildings for wood to burn and keep her warm.

Sunset toss the wooden name plank of a family home, Moskowitz into the fire. She’s wrapped in dirty rags that she could and handled next to the fire. Hoping to survive the cold. (1)

She didn’t want to sleep as the nightmares would come to her. The life of her human counterpart, Anastasia Romanov is what she dreams about. In those dreams she was apart of the royal family and the human Celestia was her mother along with her other sisters and little brother. It was a life she had always wanted in Equestria, where Celestia would be her mother.

But then came the Great War and the revolution that cause her family to lose the throne. She could remember how her human father sending letters to his cousins who are other royal rulers of their own countries to take them in, but they never did. Which ended with the new rulers of the country having them executed. Which happen on the same day that she came to this world, 17 July 1918 and somehow a psychic link had formed as her human counterpart died.

Which made Sunset fearful, of anyone finding her and recognizing her. But with her skin and bones, haven’t had anything to eat in days, there wasn’t much hope that she would survive long enough for that to happen. She tried to distract herself with doing things around the village, mostly to survive and using her limited magic energy to kill any animal she finds and eat it. Her last meal was a crow.

Sunset eyes widen as she spotted a mouse, using her telekinesis she slams a rock on it that killed it. The rock bounced and hit the wall of the basement which made a hollow sound. Sunset heard that but with her body craving for food, she fell on the dead mouse and impaled it on an old metal knife and cooked it over the fire. She pulled the guts out and place it into a clay bowl where she would try to use it as bait to lure something else. She gobbled up the mouse, giving her something in her stomach.

Sunset walked over to the wall that made the hollow sound and picked up a rock. She place her ear to the wall and banged the rock on it, making a hollow sound. Hoping it could lead to a secret storage room, Sunset pulled on the wall with her telekinesis causing the wall to collapse and reveal a hidden room behind it. But it wasn’t food or anything that she could use. The room is small and only held an old small wood table that has a glowing cube on it.

Sunset’s eyes widen seeing that there’s a magical item that has been hidden away for who knows how long. She walks over to the cube and touches it, causing the cube to glow brightly upon contact with her magic and causing her to feel warmth. She picks up the cube and hits it to her feeling warm, and praying to anyone to help her.

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Elsewhere -

Across Russia, a call came out from a member of the royal family to help them. The call was answered as 6 loyal soldiers of the old royal family heard it. And in a way that cause much uproar for the new Soviet government, as 6 warships just disappeared from their ports or out at sea. The men onboard the ships fell into the water as the ships they were on just disappeared underneath them, only leaving the lifeboats for those who were out at sea.

The Pallada-class light cruiser Avrora, The U-boat salvage tug Volkhov, The Gangut-class battleships Gangut, Poltava, Petropavlovsk, and Sevastopol, all disappeared with many people seeing the event and word spreading quickly. With some at sea disappearing while in sight of other ships and rescuing the crew. Rumors and speculation spread around even as the Great War as nearing the end. All wondering what happen to the six warships.

All six ships were apart of the Russian Empire navy and while their crews no longer served the old empire or the royal family, the ships on the other hand still did. When the call from the last surviving princess of their Tsar was heard, they answered her pray.

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Abandon village -

Six young adult women appeared in the village having heard the call. They walk into the village zeroing in on the source where the call came from. They came to what use to be the village’s synagogue which was half burn down, but the basement was still intact which is where the call for help came from. They entered the basement and found who they came for.

The six women came out of the basement with one of them holding the small form of Sunset in her arms. Covered by her large fur and insulted overcoat that has been buttoned up. Sunset held onto the warm body as she was carried away from the village. The five other women surrounded the one who held their princess on all sides for protection and as one they walk out of the village and headed south.

Reports of the lost ships came in, all inland and resting on the dry ground or in bodies of water. Disappearing when the sun came out before any officials could see it themselves. The people who did managed to get close told tales of women walking along the decks of the ships all wearing large white coats that covered themselves up and them bringing back anything edible they could find or hunted. One hunter told how he spotted a woman in a large white coat carrying a fully grown bear on her shoulder.

The ones who managed to speak with the women revealed that they’re the loyal soldiers of the Romanov royal family and are taking the surviving member of the royal family, Anastasia Romanov to a safe port. Which spark the anti-communist forces and those who are still loyal to the empire to fight. And the new communist government and the leaders to panic as they thought that the soldiers sent to kill the royal family had made sure that they were all dead.

Which is true, the human Anastasia is dead and the rest of her family. The pony one from a magical world is the one alive and she has all the memories of her human counterpart up to her death. And she found a wisdom cube which in a future time would have called warships of the past to fight against sirens. But thanks to an early discovery by a lost princess of another world, that future has changed.

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Author's Note

1 - I’m using the village that was attacked and destroyed in, An American Tail.