"Sunny, I love your enthusiasm, but you're gonna need to slow down."Ĭadence looked between Twilight's group, and Sunny's. Twilight cut her off by enveloping her in magic, levitating her off the ground. "I'm so excited! I've always wanted to meet you two! I'm Sunny Starscout, and my dad-" "Are you really Celestia and Luna?! The princesses of the sun and moon?!" She hurriedly bowed, but kept talking. Goodness!" exclaimed Sunny, rushing past Twilight. "We'll need to do some magic scans on it. "We actually got it back in this time a while ago," said Twilight, passing the device to him. And it didn't have that kind of power before." "But I thought Clover sent that artifact to another dimension more than a thousand years ago. "The Time Twirler?" asked Star Swirl, looking at the device. She lit up her horn, popping open her saddlebags, and levitated out a single object. "We did, actually," said Twilight, though her reply was a bit more terse than usual. Did you find the source of the time rift?" "You're back!" she exclaimed, before composing herself. "Oh, you have no idea," replied Applejack.Ĭelestia approached Twilight. "Does she always do that?" asked Hitch, brushing confetti off the top of his head. "I know we've only been gone a couple of hours, but we're back!" "We're back!" exclaimed Pinkie, firing her party cannon into the air once again. Then, five additional ponies emerged, four mares and one stallion carrying a baby dragon on his back. She strolled onto the grass, followed by her five best friends. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity of waiting, Twilight's head poked out from inside the vortex. They appeared to be ponies, but they were clustered so close together, they couldn't be counted. Within the blue and white spirals, several silhouettes began to take shape. Three additional pairs of eyes snapped onto the portal. Suddenly, Cadence's voice rang out, knocking the other two alicorns out of their stupor. Luna draped a comforting wing over her sister's shoulder without speaking. She will find a way."Ĭelestia nodded, but her eyes still looked downcast. "Twilight has proven to be the most capable pony I've ever known. We need to have faith that Twilight and the others will triumph, as they always have." "But we don't know for certain that what lies beyond the void is, in fact, perilous. This time, nopony knows what's on the other side of that portal." The fact is, when I sent Twilight into danger before, I usually had some knowledge of what she'd be facing. "I'm not saying I don't have faith in her, or any of them for that matter. She didn't look angry, but she wasn't smiling, either. "What happened to 'I have the utmost confidence in you, Twilight?'" Cadence demanded. "I almost wish she hadn't volunteered to go," admitted Celestia. Discord had opted to leave, saying it was making him anxious to wait. Starlight Glimmer and Spike had wanted to stay, too, but they'd had duties to tend to at the School of Friendship and Twilight's castle. Or maybe they simply didn't know what to do with themselves since the six ponies had left. Perhaps they were hoping against the odds that Twilight's group would reappear quickly. Exactly what they were waiting for, nopony could say. Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Princess Cadence, and Star Swirl all remained in the tent obscuring the space-time rift ever since Twilight and the others left.
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