Chapter 9

The kids were all stunned for a whole minute, having learned that they were the cause for the destruction of Ponyville until Paco finally spoke up. "But that.. that's not possible!" he proclaimed. "We didn't do this! It was the Earthquake's fault!"

"Yes, please explain to us how six pre-adolescent children caused such destruction." Edwin said, adjusting his glasses calmly, hoping for an explanation.

"Please ma'am, how did this happen?" Tommy asked, politely.

"Simple, this destruction was caused by your presence here." Luna told them, bluntly.

"Our presence?" Mary echoed.

"Twilight, you remember what I said when I could not allow your friends to go with you to their alternate world?" Celestia question. "I told you that sending all of them with you would upset the balance of this alternate world, creating havoc and chaos such as what you see around you."

"So… this happened because more than one of us went through the stinkin portal?" Paco exclaimed, incredulously.

"Correct, and what is worse our entire world is danger of exploding unless all of you are returned to your world within three days." Princess Luna continued solemnly. This caused everypony to look shocked behind belief.

"Hold on a second!" Pinkie Pie said before taking a glass of water out of nowhere, taking a drink and doing a massive spit take, which ends up getting some of the kids wet, she giggled a bit. "Sorry!"

"Nice touch though." Felix admitted.

"You see the longer you six stay on in Equestria the negative energies created by the unbalanced worlds begins to take over the planet, causing more devastation, massive instability and eventual self-destruction." Princess Celestia finished.

"Whoa…" Rainbow Dash breathed.

"Oh my…" Fluttershy said, looking quite scared. Rarity just fainted dead away in a dramatic manner.

"WHAT? Man, you got to be kidding, Princess! You mean we have three days to get back home or this world goes kaboom?" Felix asked, in shock.

"With us on it?" Mary added, which made Darla whimper and cling to her older sister's leg.

Princess Celestia nodded. "That's exactly right."

There was a long moment of silence that filled the air as the ponies and the kids began to process all of it, it took a while before Applejack finally spoke.

"Well then it's simple, we'll just these kids back home, fix up the town and everything's normal again!" Applejack stated.

"Oh, that's a great plan!" Paco exclaimed sarcastically. "Except about the part about us not knowing how to get back!"

"Maybe we do…" Twilight mused.

Everypony, including the kids from the alternate world turn to Equestria's newest princess.

"What do you mean Twilight Sparkle?" Princess Celestia inquired.

"Yes, please explain." Luna added.

There is a pause before Twilight spoke. "Pack your bags and Elements of Harmony everypony; we're going to the Crystal Empire!"

"The Crystal Empire?" Everypony, besides the kids inquired, shocked.

"The Crystal what now?" Paco asked, confused.

"Empire. They already said it twice." Edwin reminded him.

"But why there Twilight?" Rainbow Dash questioned, confused.

"Look, the way I see it the only of getting these kids home is to make our own portal using a reflective surface just like the hand mirror in the library." Twilight explained. "All we need to do is combined our Elements power with the power of the Crystal Heart, that should be more than enough power to create a portal and the reflective natures of the crystals will be our own substitute mirror."

"This could work…" Celestia mused.

"It will work." Luna stated firmly. "It has to."

"Yeah… otherwise… this whole place is doomed." Tommy added.

"Bummer…" Felix muttered, the others nodded in agreement.

"Well then… what are we waiting for?" Paco demanded. "Let's get packed, get to this Crystal Empire place and get the heck back home! Follow me! To victory!"

Paco ran off in a hurry while the others just stood there, bewildered. It took a while but Paco finally began to stop and think about what he was doing.

"I have NO IDEA where I'm going…" he admitted.

Edwin sighed and face palmed in shame.

Tommy walked over to Rainbow with an apologetic look on his face. "Listen… Miss Rainbow? I'm sorry that we caused all of this…" he said.

Mary walked over as well. "Yeah, we didn't know this would happen…" she added.

Rainbow only sighed. "Let's just focus on getting you kids home ok? Good."

While Rainbow flew off a head Tommy lowered his head sadly as Twilight put a hoof on his shoulder.

"Don't worry, it'll be alright," she told him. "She just needs time."

"Well I hope your right about every being ok soon… for all our sakes…" Mary said.

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Author's Note: Yes I know it's short but I had to post something, it's been quite a while you know. I'll try to expand it later on but plus do give me a break I'm doing the best I can! he said stressed.