Rainbow Dash soared through the sky. She felt free as ever, with the wind whipping through her feathers, and the blur of motion in her eyes, and the meteor heading straight for her face...wait what? Rainbow Dash barely had enough to think in her euphoric state before she moved out of the way of a massive flaming rock that flew past her and exploded in the distance. She floated midair for a moment before turning and sonic rainbooming her way to Twilight Sparkle's house. "Yo Twilight!" She yelled in a panic as she entered the door.

The lavender unicorn raised her head from a book and looked at her friend, "Is something wrong Rainbow Dash? You look troubled."

Rainbow Dash explained what happened and Twilight Stood up, "If you can find anyone else, tell them to head out to the meteor. I'm going to start investigating. Spike!"

The baby dragon had already jumped and landed on her back, "Eeyup I'm ready!"

"But did you-" She was cut off by Spike who slapped a backpack onto Twilight.

"Already have a book about astronomy, meteors, comets, and other extraterrestrial objects in there!" He said, having trouble pronouncing Extra Terrestrial. She smiled at her young helper and took off out of the door.

Several minutes of running along the edge of the Everfree Forest put her at the crash site...there wasn't a meteor there. Only six colts and a baby dragon that looked remarkably like her and her friends. One was already waking up, his sky blue coat glistening with crimson splattered over it. He was wearing armor similar to the ones that guarded Canterlot Castle day and night. He looked at Twilight and roared, sprinting forward in a blur and pinning her to the ground, a bloodied saber in his hands. "This is real funny huh Changeling!? Impersonating one of my closest friends as a woman!"

Twilight Sparkle covered her face in fear, "No-I have no Idea what you're talking about!"

The Rainbow maned terror shoved her legs down, "Just what a changeling would say! If I cut out your throat you won't be able to say much though!" Twilight Sparkle screamed as the blade made contact with her neck.

A blur slammed into the pony as Rainbow Dash plowed him over in a tackle pinning down the much larger colt underneath her. His saber was knocked from his grasp and he couldn't move under the hold of her grasp. As he looked up, he saw in her eyes, the rose color of her irises. He stopped, and then grimaced once more.

"GET OFF ME YOU CHANGELING!" She shoved him down hard, even as the new pony ,that looked almost exactly like her, struggled to get up.

Rainbow Dash Confused on what to do, quickly brought her hoof down in a hard strike across his face again, and again, eventually knocking out the pony and bruising his eye. She got up, panting from dealing with this pony. she looked down at the blood on her hands and screamed. She had just beaten down another pony, something many others had never even heard of happening.

Fluttershy squeaked and shoved Rainbow Dash out of the way, looking at the bloodied pegasus that resembled her so much. The others dove into the crater and started to pull the others out, and only Rarity stopped and looked at Twilight.

"What happened here?!" She said this with a near frantic tone in her voice.

"That colt just nearly killed me!" Twilight Screamed, moving herself off the now pancaked Spike. He groaned and stood, and walked to the edge of a crater in a daze.

"Whoa!" He fell and landed on something scaly as he looked at another dragon. This one was a girl, roughly his age, and his snout was pressed firmly against hers. The other dragons eyes opened, and with a pair of yelps the two shoved each other away. Spike was the first to ask, "Who are you!?"

The female dragon hid herself behind her tail before asking, "I should be asking you that!" The two stopped panicking and looked at the other.

"You're...a dragon?" They asked at the same time. They stood and took a few awkward steps towards each other when a pair of screams hit their ears.

"Dusk!"

"Twilight!" They both shouted as they scaled the cliff that separated them from their masters.

The two violet unicorns were panting, each one had the same exact cutie mark, had the same color hair, mane, and eyes, and even had the same build! The only difference was that one was a scrawny looking colt, the other was a well toned pretty looking filly.

They started yelling at each other, "Who are you!? No I asked you first! No I asked you! Stop saying everything I do!" They were both silenced as a massive hoof clamped down on Dusk's mouth. The massive colt AJ stood there, holding Dusk shines mouth closed, even as he was supported by the small frame of his female half under him.

"Shut up Dusk...we aren't in a position to fight. Especially against ourselves." The big colt fell down onto his side after this groaning and in pain. "Someone go get help! We won't be able to carry these guys alone!" Twilight stood up and focused all of her magic on the 14 life forms around her, and in a flash of violet light, they were all sitting in the middle of her library.

"Or, we could always just do that..."

"Fluttershy! go get some of the nurses from the hospital! Tell them they need to make a house call with half a dozen wounded ponies!" Fluttershy nodded in her not-so-standard fashion and then zoomed out of the door faster than she had ever done before.

"Applejack! They look pretty emaciated, get the Apple fires going, they're gonna be hungry when they wake up!" She nodded and sprinted out of the door.

"Rainbow Dash! Get the weapons and other things off of them, including that armor! Rarity! After she gets done, I'm going to need your help cleaning up the blood from these six."

Rarity looked at Twilight with a shocked expression, "Hahaha-that is indeed a good joke Twilight, but I shall take no such part in that!"

"Rarity! I'm not joking! These ponies are in serious conditions and we need to get something over these lacerations until the nurses get here!"

Rarity shook her head as if shocked, "I shall craft the bandages, but no more than that! The ugh...blood...is your department to clean up!" Twilight nodded and started to strip off the bloodied armor from the Rainbow Dash man. Rainbow Dash had already taken off the armor from the other five and threw it into a large pile, taking notes of each wounds and how serious they were.

Rainbow flew over to Twilight ,"It looks like AJ, me and Rarity have the worst of the wounds. They're pretty messed up. I think one of my wings are broken and it looks like a chip was taken out of Rarity's horn. Applejack's front leg and face are pretty mauled. I think the leg is broken..." Twilight nodded. At that moment, Rarity came back with several bandages all made up of a quality silk that she usually reserved for dealing with good dresses.

"This was all I had to make the bandages." Twilight nodded and levitated the silk cloths to the areas where they were needed most, tying up profusely bleeding wounds from Rainbow's Wing, and Jack's leg. She had enough left over to cover some small cuts on the others, but they were still going to die unless-

"Where are the patien- OH SWEET CELESTIA!" Came the voice from the door as Doctor Hooves sprinted to the center of the victims, pulling his medical bag out of hammer space. "Nurses Red Cross, and Red Heart! Get in here and help me with these ponies!"

At the mere mention of their names, the two nurses rushed in, "How can we- OH DEAR-"

"Yes yes, we all know the line, now grab 50 cc's of that anesthesia and start knocking out ponies. Close up those you find that need stitches. Ladies, I thank you for telling me about these colts, but I don't think you want to watch. Please head somewhere else while we work." At those words the group of six left the house.

"Are they gonna be OK?" Spike asked from his perch on Twilight's back. "Those are some tough colts, especially if they are anything like us."

Twilight looked at all of her friends, minus Applejack, "Let's go help out with the baking while we wait, I have some things I want us all to hear and chip in." The others had no words for the situation they had found themselves in and went to Sweet Apple Acres at a full gallop. They arrived in the kitchen out of breath, only to see a massive feast of apple based food.

"Whew! All finished, and it looks like just in the nick of time. What's going on Twilight, how are our...well how are we doing?"

Twilight sighed, "When we left they were in the worst condition I've seen anypony since Celestia had her horned ruined by Chrysalis."

Applejack lowered her head in a sad motion for a moment before looking Twilight in the eyes and smiling, "Aww shoot Twilight. If these ponies really are us, then they are gonna be just fine."

Twilight sighed and sat down. Her horn gave out a few sparks of magic. This sort of thing usually happened when she was under unbelievable amounts of mental stress which meant only one thing in this case with her.

"Twilight darling, why are you so worked up over these ponies? If they are the opposite of us in gender only, shouldn't we be glad to have a few more ponies to gossip with?" Rarity spoke, pulling out one of the choice bite-sized-apple fritters and floating it to her. Twilight took a bite out of the small confection and her horn stopped sparking as the sugar helped ease her thoughts just a bit.

"I'm worried about the one that looked like Rainbow Dash. He yelled something about me being a changeling, and he was armed. I have never heard of, or seen that pony in all my visits to the castle, so he is either from somewhere that isn't in this world, or he is a thief and he stole from the castles."

Dash spoke up, "They definitely aren't from here. They came flying past me in a METEOR!"

Twilight thought for a moment before looking at Spike, "Did you bring along the pack that had that book on Meteors Spike?"

The baby dragon gave a sly grin and pulled it out from behind his back, "I didn't bring the pack, but I brought the book!"

Twilight smiled and levitated it away from him, flipping to the table of contents she found what she was looking for almost immediately, "Magical Meteors and Comets, and Spells Related to Such." She flipped to that section and started skimming, looking for anything about Meteors being used as- "Aha! I found it!" At the mention of that all the other ponies gathered around her and craned over the book. "Transportalization, a spell only able to be cast by unicorns of the highest order, or by Alicorns...The spell works by sending the target or targets to a different plane of existence that the user knows about. They target(s) arrive by means of a meteor in their new home and attempt to integrate with society, though any physical wounds or trauma mentally that happened beforehand will still remain with them, to the detriment or better will of the new Area."

Pinkie Pie looked at Twilight, "Uh, hey Twilight, what does all that mean?"

Rarity spoke for Twilight in this case, "It means that the other ponies were sent by a very powerful being to our world due to this spell, and apparently were much more savage and warlike before they came here."

Twilight lowered her head in thought, "Would you all mind taking care of the colts while I head to Celestia? I need to ask her some questions."

Fluttershy shook her head, "Oh no, not at all Twilight."

Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie to either side of Fluttershy, Pinkie mimicking Dash, "Not at all. You gotta do whatcha gotta do!" Pinkie snorted and giggled but was quickly silenced by a look from Rainbow Dash.

Applejack and Rarity nodded, "They'll be fine, now get yerself to the Princess!" Twilight flipped Spike onto her back using her magic and then started to gallop towards the trains.