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Canterlot Castle. Throne Room. Noon.
Six young mares sat in the throne room of Canterlot Castle. As with all Capitol cities since the beginning of civilization, it was terribly busy. Ponies running around, trying to get all of the important business out of the way. Whether or not this business was delivering important legal documents to the Supreme Courts, or a simple errandpony delivering coffee to an ornery boss was irrelevant. The only thing that stuck out was the fast paced lifestyle all of these ponies lived.

"Consarn it!" Cried Applejack. A heavyset mare had bumped into the Element of Honesty, knocking the cup of coffee out of her hoof. Before She could chastize the chubby mare, she disappeared into the closest conference room. Applejack looked down at her spilled coffee with a forlorn look. It was actually kind of funny.

Of course, with funny came laughter, and with laughter came...

"Aww, don't worry about it Applejack!" Pinkie Pie was immediately at Applejack's side, consoling her. "There's more coffee stands around here!" She gestured around the room with her hoof. Sure enough, there were three Ponybucks carts hanging around. Coffee is awesome, but that's just overkill.

"There are so many ponies..." Fluttershy's voice shook. Despite being the Element of Kindness, crowds still terrified her. "They look so...busy." She commented. Rarity took this opportunity to speak up.

"Yes, of course." She claimed. "Canterlot is home to the elite and the powerful." She observed the busy throne room, ponies almost climbing over each other in their rush to work. "Although, it isn't an excuse to behave so abhorrently. They could calm down a bit."

"Yeah right!" Cried Rainbow Dash. She was hovering above the group, avoiding the large crowds. "These ponies wouldn't know how to relax if it bit them on the flank!"

"Uh, Rainbow?" Twilight spoke. "You might want to touch down right now."

"Twi, there's no way I'm I will land in that crowd. Not enough space for me to stretch my wings."

"But it's ill---"

"Twi, I'm not coming down. I'm perfectly fine where I---" A loud whistle interrupted her. A stallion wearing golden armor trotted up to the group.

"You!" He shouted. "Rainbow Pegasus! Get down here, now." By the tone of his voice, it wasn't a request. Rainbow Dash slowly lowered herself to ground level. The Guard glowered at her. "Are you aware that it is against the law for a Pegasus to be airborn in the Castle?"

"Uhh..."

"I'll take that as a no." He said. Using his magic, he lifted a yellow notepad and quill and proceeded to scribble some notes down. "What's your name?"

"Rainbow Dash."

"Rain...bow...Dash." He spoke while writing down her name. He quickly tore the page from the pad and hoofed it to Rainbow. "You have 30 days to contest this in court. If you decide not to contest this citation you have, starting now, 90 days to pay." He said authoritatively. "Don't let me catch you flying a second time or you will be placed under arrest. Good day." He quickly turned tail and left, returning to his post.

Rainbow Dash stared after the stallion. Her fellow Elements of Harmony all laughed behind her.

"I did try to warn you, Rainbow." Twilight laughed. Rainbow Dash shot Twilight an agitated look, then looked down at her citation.

"200 BITS!" She screamed. "Are you kidding me! That is just OVERKILL! UGH!" Pinkie Pie was laughing so hard she fell backwards and rolled around.

Before they could be chastised by the guards for disturbing the peace, A handsome stallion with a gray coat, and black mane and tail approached them. His cutie mark was a quill and paper.

"Ah! There you all are!" He exclaimed. "It's an honor to meet the esteemed Elements of Harmony." He seemed starstruck. Twilight stepped forward to address him.

"Thank you mister..." She trailed off, not knowing the stallions name.

"My name is Hot Secretary." He introduced himself. Ignoring the "Damn Right." from Rainbow, Twilight returned the greeting.

"Thank you Mr. Secretary." He nodded to her.

"Pleasantries aside," He began. "The Princess is ready to see you." He turned. "Please follow me to the throne room." He started walking, the six mares following behind him.

"May Ah ask you a question, Mr. Secretary?" Applejack asked. Hot secretary turned to look at her.

"Is it about my name?" He asked. There was an underlying edge to his voice. Applejack's ears splayed backwards at the stallions tone.

"Ne'ermind." She acquiesced. The attractive stallion nodded and turned around. After the awkward exchange, neither party said anything. The walk to Celestia's throne room seemed to go on forever. Finally, they made it to the large oak doors. Like the rest of the castle, they were ostentatiously decorated with gold trimming and bright paints.

"Here we are." Spoke up Hot Secretary. "Her Majesty is just inside. Have a nice day." After iving them a quick bow, he turned to leave.

"Dat flank."

The six Elements of Harmony all turned to look at one half of their benevelont rulers. Princess Celestia stood behind them, between the large oak doors, eyeing the retreating stallion and biting her lower lip.

"P-Princess!?" Cried Twilight, shock and disbelief on her face. "How could you be so...so..." She struggled to find a word.

"Horny?" Provided Fluttershy.

"Yes!" Twilight agreed. Then she blushed. "T-that."

"Well Twilight," She began in 'lecture mode,' "All living beings have an inherent desire to make more of themselves. It is only natural that life should desire to create more life. Many animals, including ponies, need a process to facilitate the reproduction of the species. That process is known as sex, and---"

"Princess," Twilight had a tired and antsy look on her face. "I still have nightmares over the first time we've had this conversation over five years ago. Let's not go down this road again." She pleaded.

Twilight's five friends couldn't help but laugh at her expense. Anypony could tell Celestia was messing with Twilight's head. Poor Twilight, however, still couldn't get her horn around the idea of Celestia making a practical joke.

Laughing, Celestia agreed and led the girls inside.

Inside the throne room was business as usual. There was a big desk, full of legal papers, also ostentatiously decorated.

"Now then," Celestia began. "I'm sure you ladies are wondering why I called you all here today." She looked at their waiting faces. She could tell that they were dying to know why they received a summons from her legal offices, rather than a personal summoning. "Simply put, I would like to hire you."

"Hire us?" Twilight asked. The girls all started talking amongst themselves.

"Well," Celestia walked over to to her desk and pulled out a map. "Every other time I've called upon you has been in service to Equestria. You girls have essentially been our first line of Defense s well as Offense. This time, I am in need of a different type of service." She laid out the map before the girls. On it was a single land mass surrounded by water. An island.

"This island rests fifteen miles off the coast of Equestria. It is unexplored and has never been visited. Recently, there has been talks of moving settlers over to it, as a response to the slight population boom that's been going on." The princess explained.

"How do we play into this, Princess?" Asked Twilight, not understanding.

"Well Twilight, before we send families over to this island, it has to be explored. We need to know what dangers, if any at all, exist on this island. On behalf of Canterlot University, I would like to formally hire you," She gestured with a hoof to the Mane 6. "For this job."

There was silence in the throne room.

"Princess?" Applejack spoke. "Ah'm rightly honored that you'd consider us for such a prestigious job, but what exactly are our qualifications?"

"Good question, fair Applejack." She acknowledged. "Simply put: you don't. At least, not all of you." Now she had their attention. "The only one who is qualified is Twilight, who has several degrees from Canterlot Uni, but these expeditions are not always just comprised of Doctors. No, there are others. In this case Applejack and Rainbow Dash will also act as security, should anything get out of hand you two are more than enough to quell the dangers. Should there be any dangerous animals there is no other to calm them than dear Fluttershy. Rarity and Pinkie Pie will be using their expertise of gems and minerals to help discover any deposits of precious stones or metals. Finally Twilight," The Princess looked down at her. "You will be in charge of documenting and categorizing this island."

"But Princess, aren't there more qualified ponied to be leading such an expedition?" Twilight asked. She was nervous at the prospect of an expedition on her own. The only times she'd ever been on one were with a senior professor. What if she messed up? She'd let the Princess down.

"You don't need to worry Twilight. This won't be the only expedition. This is only the intital exploration. All of your reports and discoveries will be published and distributed to the Professors of Canterlot University. After review, it will be determined if more expeditions will be sent. All you need to worry about is being thorough and exploring the island so that future explorers will know what to look out for. Besides," Celestia looked down at her student. "I believe its time you make your mark on academic history. You can't do that without going out and discovering something, can you?" The Princess smiled.

Twilight considered her mentors words. She had been away from academia for over two years already. Maybe it's time there were books and articles written by Dr. Twilight Sparkle.

The thought alone brought a smile to her face.

She turned to look at her five frineds. She eyed them all. They stared intently, silently suporting her as well as begging her to be a part of the monumental expedition. Twilight nodded to them.

She turned to her Princess.

"Alright Princess. We accept your offer."

30 Days Later
Noon. Southern Peninsula. Beach.
A tall, hulking figure quietly approached a sleeping woman. She was beautiful, the sun shone off her body giving her a divine appearence. Her skin was a dark tan color, an indication of hispanic descent and her waist-long, light brown hair was sprawled all about her giving her a wild, sexy look. Her muscles were toned, and her body curvaceous. She had everything a man could want in a woman: A beautiful face, a fit body, and she defined an hourglass figure. If there were such a thing as Goddesses, she would be one without a doubt. The figure observed her, watching her naked body and admiring every inch of her. Finally, it made its move and leaned forward to strike.

Only to receive a squirt of water to the face.

"Hijo de la-!" The figure leapt backwards, dropping a sack of fish to the ground, and began rubbing the water off its face.

The woman laughed. It was a melodic sound.

"That's what you get for trying to sneak up on people, pendejo!" She continued to laugh, and wiped her chin with her hand, renoving any exess water. Using his good eye, he watched, mesmerized, as her large breasts jiggled to the rythmn of her laugh.

"Tal vez, but I'm your pendejo." He responded. As he rubbed the stinging water out of his eyes, his female companion took her own opportunity to ogle her male comrade. He was incredibly tall. At least Six-foot-five. Despite her own six-foot-two frame, he still dwarfed her. Not only was he tall, but he was muscular. Broad shoulders, powerful arms, pecs and a six pack. He was the definition of Alpha Male. Like her, he had tanned skin, a reflection of his Hispanic heritage. He was incredibly handsome too, with hard masculine features and long, black hair that reached between his shoulder blades and a full beard, giving him a wildman look.

"So, whats in the sack?" She questioned.

""Fish!" He responded. She looked in the sack, noticing the large amount in it.

"There's quite a bit of fish in here. Are we having a party or something?" She joked. He nodded. Confused: "Seriously? What are we celebrating.?" She knew it wasn't anyones birthday. At her question, he took on a slightly more sombre look.

"We've been on this island five years to the day." He said. Yeah. They were stuck on an island.

"Oh..." She said nothing for a moment. "We've never celebrated that before, why now?" She asked.

"Well, its half a decade. It doesn't sound like it, but 5 years is a long time." She nodded. He was right. "Plus, we've managed to survive for this long." He said. "I don't know how we ended up here. I don't know why we're surrounded by magical creatures. And I don't know what happened to us." She kept silent, not wanting to interrupt his monologue.

"What I do know, is that things could have been much worse. We could have died in the plane crash. We could have been killed by the Dragon or the Hydra. Or, instead of being gifted with our abilities, we could have been killed from the inside out." It was true. Before their gifts, they could have died any number of ways. But somehow, they mangaed to not only survive, but THRIVE in this hostile world. Once their gifts kicked in, they DOMINATED their world. "I just thought that it was something worth acknowledging and celebrating." She smiled.

"You're right." She looked up at him, and hugged him close. "Despite everything thats happened, and no matter what happens, I'm glad you're with me. I love you Julian."

"Y yo te amo, Raquel."

He leaned down and kissed her.

Noon. South Side of Island. Jungle.
"Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh---"

"RARITY!" Cried Applejack. "Calm down. It's only mud." She tried to calm her firend down. They had disembarked over a month earlier and Rarity was still fussing about the "horrid state of this Celestia forsaken island!" Her other friends were too busy to help calm her down. Or perhaps they just got used to ignoring her outbursts. Rainbow Dash was helping Twilight make sense of the map, Pinkie Pie, in a rare state of seriousness, was observing various rocks and soil samples, and Fluttershy was...playing with a family of Snakes.

They had examined every square inch of the island, except por the southern peninsula. Wait...was it a peninsula? Could islands have peninsulas?

Oh well...

"Alright Girls!" Twilight called. Her five friends came towards her, surrounding her and waiting to listen. When she was sure she had everyponies attention she began. "We've covered the entirety of the island. There were some rough patches, but we survived." She looked at her friends. They all looked haggard. Truly, the expedition had taken its toll on them. "We only have the southern peninsula to go. We're almost done, then we can head home." They all looked excited at that.

"How long do you believe it will take to scout out the peninsula?" Questioned Rarity. She was probably the most eager to leave the island.

Twilight pursed her lips in thought.

"Well, if we hurry we can finish by the end of the day." She thought out loud. "And even so, its a three day hike back to where we docked our ship. So its a max of four days before we can return home." Unfortunately, Rarity didn't hear the last half of Twilights pondering. All that was left of her was a Rarity-shaped dust cloud.

"LAST ONE THERE PAYS FOR THE SPA TRIP I AM OH SO GONNA GET WHEN WE GET BACK TO CANTERLOT!!" And she's gone.

Author's Note

The Equestrian School system is never elaborated on. We know they have kindergartens and grade schools. But in terms of Higher Education, nothing. I know theres an academy, but after that? So I'm going with the Degree system. Basically, you complete a set numer of classes, then you're awarded a Degree/Diploma certifying you.

Twilight's level of Education is never stated. After she becomes Celestia's student-nothing. So i decided that, given Twilight's early no friends only books attitude, I've decided to give her multiple Degrees of varying gradation, including 1 Doctorate.

These are the Degrees available in Equestria from lowest ranking to highest: Collegian, Expert, Masters, Doctorate/PhD

Collegian means you just graduated college. Expert is the lowest diploma you can get in your given field while Doctorate/PhD is the highest.
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Anything italicized is pronounced with an accent or is an entirely different language altogether. This will mostly be done by the Humans.

Be ready for chapter 2: First Contact!