The two friends dashed to the train station. Luckily, there was a hot air balloon ready to go. Lyra handed the handler enough bits for both of them to ride to Cloudsdale. They got in the pink and brown balloon and soared off to Cloudsdale.

"Lightning!" the handler yelled.

Lyra panicked. She grabbed onto Bon Bon and screamed as the balloon got struck by lightning and the three slowly floated down. In the distance they could see Canterlot. Bon Bon looked at the ground. The handler had fainted.

"Let's get her to Canterlot." Lyra suggested.

"Sounds good." Bon Bon replied.

The two frantically picked up the handler. But it was two much for the two.

"Didn't you do a spell once where you can teleport all of us? Or make us all unicorns?" Bon Bon asked Lyra.

"I could try." Lyra replied warily looking at the handler.

A spark came from Lyra's horn. In a flash of light blue light, they arrived at Canterlot. When they got there ponies there gasped as they looked down at the handler's body. Princess Celestia from her balcony heard all this. She flew down from the balcony.

"What's all this about?" she questioned the two.

Lyra panicked. She didn't know what to do. It wasn't her fault this pony might be dead. Bon Bon nearly went into tears. She couldn't imagine what would happen to them.

"Those two murdered Balloon Flight!" a voice rang out from the crowd.

"You know what I must do." Princess Celestia said to the two in a stern voice. "Balloon Flight was our only handler for hot air balloons, making travel between places such as Cloudsdale easy. But if she is dead, we have no transportation from Cloudsdale to Ponyville. You've ruined a transportation system and now ponies are stuck in Cloudsdale your punishment will be-"

"No." a stern voice called out from the crowd. A pony with a goldish brown coat and dark gray mane with lighter tints came from the crowd to the front. The ponies gasped.

"Octavia?" Lyra thought.

"How dare you interrupt me?" Princess Celestia yelled.

"How do you know this was murder? There is no proof yet. There is no blood. These ponies were my best friends at one time along time ago" Octavia explained. She winked at Lyra and Bon Bon. " I know these ponies and they would never do this. This must be a accident."

Suddenly, Balloon Flight got up. All of Canterlot cheered.

"See?" Octavia continued. "It was a mistake. The lightning probably knocked out Balloon Flight. These ponies did a favor by bringing her here. She might have gotten even more hurt if they left her out in the wilderness alone."

Tears came from Lyra and Bon Bon's eyes. The two ran to Octavia and hugged them as hard as they could.

"Thank you." Bon Bon said through her tears.

Lyra just stood there crying.

"I'm sorry, I just shocked." She murmured.

"So what brings you to Canterlot?" Octavia questioned Lyra and Bon Bon.

"You see, we're trying to reunite you, me Bon Bon, Vinyl, Time Turner, and Derpy. We might even try to regain our popularity!" Lyra explained to her.

"I'll help you!" Octavia exclaimed enthusiastically. "But how do we get all the places we need to get to?"

Lyra tried doing the spell to teleport the three. Her magic didn't work.

"Guys." Lyra called to the two. "The magic didn't work. How do we get to Cloudsdale? Balloon Flight needs to recover from her accident."

Bon Bon stopped walking. "I never though about that."

"I got an idea!" Octavia told the two. "Maybe we can write a letter to Derpy. Then once she comes, we take a train to Manehatten, and then the Crystal Empire?"

"Ok, but where do we stay until then?" Lyra questioned Octavia.

"Funny story." Octavia murmured. "I live in Twilight's old observatory."