Chapter 4

While the six children were quickly making their way through their realm and to the realm of Equestria, the Mane Six had just arrived back at Twilight's home; the Golden Oak Tree Library, which greatly fit her as she was known for her love of books. Twilight used her magic to open the door to her house, turn on the light and lead the others inside.

"Well, here we are, home sweet…" Twilight Sparkle began to say, but before she could finish the rest of it she and the others notice a small mirror floating in the middle of the library. It then started to spin and glow with a magical aura as sparks began to fly off it rapidly.

"Whoa!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.

"What… what's going on?" Twilight wondered a bit scared.

"Uh… we were kinda hoping you would know Twi…" Applejack admitted.

Twilight then attempted to use the magic to cease the mirror's floating in spinning but instead it had no effect whatsoever and continued to float and spin at an incredible speed.

"My magic… isn't working!" Twilight cried.

Fluttershy yelped with fear and hid behind the others, preparing for the worst.

Eventually, the mirror stopped spinning, flashed a bright light that temporary blinded everypony and all of a sudden, Tommy and his foster siblings all came shooting out of the mirror one by one as if it were a leaf blower. They all crashed land on the wooden floor and laid in a pile groaning in pain.

"Have we landed?" Mary asked, dizzily.

"I think so…" Tommy replied, just as dizzy as Mary. "Are we still alive?"

Koji adjusted his classes. "I believe so," he answered.

"Unless… we're angels…" Darla slowly said looking around.

Gabe made a face. "I don't think angels lose control of their bladders,"

Everyone reacted with disgust as they pushed him off. Felix then used his crutches and brace to hoist himself back up.

"Whoo! That was kinda fun!" he remarked.

Everyone else slowly got up as well, coughing and hacking due to the smoke all around them.

"Yeah… fun," Mary remarked sarcastically.

"So… where are we?" Gabe asked.

"I cannot tell just yet, all this smoke makes it hard to see," Koji stated.

The kids blew the smoke out of their faces and faces till it finally cleared, when they were finally able to see clearly they saw dozens of books on shelves all around them.

"It's… a library!" Tommy realized.

"Well, this is definitely not the worst place to land in!" Koji proclaimed happily.

"But how did we get here in the first place?" Darla wondered. "I mean… weren't we just in the antique store with that mirror?"

Gabe gazed around them and saw something that made his eyes widen with shock.

"I'll bet it was that mirror that sent us here!" Mary remarked.

"You mean… it was magical?" Tommy inquired intrigued.

"That's impossible!" Koji declared. "Magic is nothing but smoke and mirrors, it is not real in any way!"

"But how does it explain how we got here?" Felix questioned.

"Uh… better question…" Gabe said out loud, the others turned to him as he pointed to something in front of them. "What are those!?"

Everyone looked forward and were stunned when they saw the six colorful ponies and the purple and green dragon in front of them, rubbing their eyes and slowly regaining their own sight as well. When they saw the kids they too were stunned. Both groups stared at each other wide with silence until Fluttershy poked her head out from behind the others and screamed when she saw them as well. Her scream causes the kids to scream, who in turn cause the Mane Six to scream as well.

Tommy and Rainbow Dash pointed to each other. "Who are you? Who am I? Who are you?" They both said in unison. Both groups back away from each other in fear

"Their… their… talking horses!" Mary exclaimed.

"Cool!" Darla said in awe.

"More like weird!" Felix stated.

"Not to mention completely impossible!" Koji remarked. "Equines can't speak!"

"Well their lips are moving and words are coming out," Gabe stated. "But they so don't look natural…"

"Yeah… their all different colors…" Darla agreed.

"I'm thinking we should probably keep our distance guys…" Tommy whispered. "You never know, they could be hostile,"

The kids nod in agreement.

On the other side of the room, most of the Mane Six were whispering to each other at the same time as well.

"What in Equestria are they?" Rainbow Dash questioned.

"I don't know… but sure don't look natural!" Applejack stated.

"I've never seen anything like them!" Fluttershy told them.

"Oh! Just look at them! Their hideous!" Rarity proclaimed dramatically. "Those garish clothes, those skinny legs and tiny muzzles…"

Rarity gasped sharply when she saw their 'hands', although neither she nor most of the others knew what they were at the moment.

"And those… those… things on end of their hooves! Oh, that look simply dreadful!" she exclaimed.

"They look funny! Do you think they like parties?" Pinkie Pie asked excitedly.

"I'm not so sure they want to party Pink, best we keep our distance…" Applejack stated. The others nodded in agreement, while Twilight and Spike struck up their own conversation.

"Hey, Twilight, don't they look like those… beings from the other world that we went to?" Spike inquired.

"Yeah, they do… but how?" Twilight Sparkle wondered. "The portal between our two worlds has closed… and shouldn't they be turned into ponies like how I was turned into one of them?"

Spike shrugged. "Who knows? Right now, I think it be best if we calmed them down take them to the Princess, she'll know what to do,"

Twilight nodded. "Agreed. I'm gonna try and talk to them,"

Twilight starts to step forward, the others saw this and bug out a little.

"Twilight! Get back here!" Rainbow Dash whispered harshly.

The kids saw Twilight approaching and flinch, they back away as she got closer and closer to them.

"Whoa, whoa, easy! Calm down, I'm not gonna hurt you, honest!" she assured them.

"You… you just stay back you… talking horse you!" Gabe exclaimed, pointing at her threateningly.

"I am not a horse! I happen to be a pony, thank you very much" Twilight Sparkle said matter-of-factly.

"OH! Yeah, a talking PONY, that makes SO much more sense!" Mary exclaimed sarcastically.

"This must be a hallucination…" Koji remarked.

"Or a REALLY bad dream!" Gabe added.

"I don't know… it feels pretty real to me," Felix stated.

"Listen, I now all of this is strange to you but how about we all just calm down and talk it over, ok?" Twilight offered.

"OR we could… RUN!" Tommy exclaimed. Moving as fast as lighting, Tommy and his adoptive brothers and sister leapt over Twilight, rushed over and moved around over her friends before dashing out the door. Twilight ran to the door but was unable to stop them.

"Wait! STOP!" she cried. "We have to go after them!"

"But just what ARE they?" Rainbow Dash questioned. "And how do you know them?"

"I'll explain later, right now we have to catch them and quick!" Twilight Sparkle proclaimed before she, the girls and Spike rush after the children.

(The Benny Hill Show Theme Starts Playing)

Before long all six children were running through the town of Ponyville (Scooby-Doo style), but because the land was completely foreign and new to them they had absolutely no idea where they were going. They also continuously bumped into several of the townsfolk, screaming upon seeing them. The towns people were all just as afraid and stared at the children shocked and fearfully while the Pony gang chased after them.

The six of them ran around every corner of town and around every building, at times they stopped and the other half of them pass by and other times one of them sat back and watched the others run around before rejoining the chase. Some, mostly Pinkie, even stopped for a snack along the way.

The kids then began to run into different houses in Ponyville with the Mane Seven right on their heels and then somehow reappear out of another door before running to another. This pattern repeats itself and quickly became chaotic and confusing till finally the kids managed to get all seven friends to collide into each other before dashing away.

"Holy Moly, those kids are speedy!" Pinkie Pie remarked.

"Yes… and I thought bunnies were quick," Fluttershy added.

Rarity panted. "Oh my stars, if I run any faster I just might begin to sweat and that something I will simply not stand for!" she declared dramatically.

"Rainbow, where are they headed now?" Twilight Sparkle asked.

The cyan Pegasus flew upwards to get a better view of the landscape in front of her. "Looks like their heading West!" she called out.

Applejack eyes widened. "They're heading for Sweet Apple Acres! Come on, I know a short cut!" she told them before running ahead.

"Oh, great, more running…" Spike complained before running ahead with the others.

The six foster kids soon arrived at Sweet Apple Acres and had just ran up to the big red barn with the purple roof.

"Come on, we'll hide in here!" Tommy told the others.

Gabe pulled on the handle but it would not budge. "Ugh, I can't get it open!"

"Stand back, this is a woman's job!" Mary stated before attempting to pull open the door but she couldn't do it either.

Darla looked over her shoulder and saw that the Pony Gang was heading their way. "Hurry! They're coming!"

The kids then began to use pick axes to open the door and when that didn't work they tried using jack hammers, but that failed as well.

"Man! What is this door made of!?" Felix exclaimed.

"Obviously some type of very strong wood," Koji remarked.

"Thank you Professor Obvious…" Gabe said sarcastically

"Hmm, maybe we could…" Tommy started to say before Twilight and her friends approached them, clearly out of breath.

"Oh… there you all are!" Twilight Sparkle remarked relieved. The kids turned and screamed when they saw them, Koji then jumped into Gabe's arms.

"Stop screaming would ya!?" Applejack exclaimed annoyed.

"And stop running already!" Spike added.

"Please… calm down and…" Fluttershy began.

"Calm down!? You're a bunch of talking ponies and a dragon, we have every reason not to be calm!" Felix proclaimed. "Oh, this can't get any worse…"

The door opened up behind them, startling the six of them. They all gulped when they saw the large stallion that was Applejack's brother Big McIntosh standing behind them.

"Howdy," he said simply.

This was one too many curveballs for the kids to handle in one day, and they crash down like a stack of dominos in a dead faint. The ponies all loomed over them.

"Good one, Big Mac," Spike told the stallion sarcastically who still looked mighty confused.