Well, the good news is that the disasters made by the new alicorns has been calm. The bad news is that Twilight and her friends, the said alicorn, are in big trouble with the princess. They were told to wait in the library so that Celestia will talk to the Mayor over what happened.

A while later, Celestia arrives in the library, pacing back and forth in front of her students and her friends who looks guilty and sad. The princess sighs while saying, "I can't say that I am not disappointed. You were alicorns for 1 day and already you almost destroyed Ponyville. You're lucky that I convince the Mayor not to press charges or have you exiled just because it's your first time."

"Princess...I take full responsibility for my friends' actions." Twilight said to Celestia in sadness. "I warned them about going crazy with their powers...and only made things worst. Please, punish me, not my friends."

"Princess, it's our fault. We didn't listen to Twilight." Rainbow said to Celestia in guilt. "We used our magic when we didn't know how to control it yet."

"Right, and while my wings are an improvement, even they made things worse." Rarity said with a nod of agreement. "We were selfish."

"Yeah, I guess I got carried away with my fun." Pinkie said in regret, with her mane and tail flattened showing how sad she can be. "Don't take me away..."

"Or send us to the moon." Fluttershy said with a whimper.

Celestia sighs while saying, "Well, girls, you have all seen what happened when you can't control your newfound alicorn powers or misuse them. That's lesson one: use them wisely. Perhaps it was a foolish move to let you return home after becoming alicorns so soon."

"Yer're going 'ta banish us fro' our home?!" Applejack gasps to Celestia as the other new alicorns look worried. Will their ruler be forced to have them removed from Ponyville, all because of some mistakes beyond their control?

"No, you will still be living in Ponyville but you will need to go into training sooner than expected! Prepare yourselves!"

Celestia's horn glows as a flash appears throughout the room. A while later, everyone, even Spike, are gone...

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Twilight blinks a bit as she looks around. She and her friends, as well as Spike, find themselves in some strange space full of stars and nebulae. Celestia stood there in front of the new alicorns, calmly as if being here before.

"Princess, where did you take us?" Twilight ask the princess as her friends look around in surprise, amazement or fear (mostly fear on Fluttershy's part). "What is this place?"

"This realm you are in is called the Infinite Realm, outside the timeline of Equestria." Celestia explains to the ponies calmly.

"So wait, so we're moving bound by time or something?" Spike asks Celestia in amazement. "Cool."

"But how are we breathing?" Fluttershy ask in a whisper, looking worried and concerned. "Are we...dead?"

Celestia of course gave a smile, explaining, "No, you are perfectly safe and can breathe. I brought you here to do some training with your powers. Normally, I was intending on taking Twilight here when the time comes...but after what happened, I think the rest will get that honor."

"Cool! So what, we're going to train to be princesses too?" Rarity ask Celestia curiously

"Maybe, but that depends on how well you all do."

"But won't our families and friends done miss us?" Applejack asks the princess in concern. "Ah mean, Ah know 'dat Ah done mess up on mah farm..."

"Relax, Applejack. We wouldn't be gone long, in fact we will be gone for a whole year here and still, time won't pass much out there." Celestia giggles to the former Earth pony. "I already contact your families and friends about the training and you will be gone for a while so you won't worry about a thing."

"Are we ready, sister?" Luna asks as she appears from out of nowhere.

"Princess Luna?" Twilight ask Luna, surprised to see the former Nightmare Moon and now the reinstated co-ruler of Equestria here.

"I have come to assist my sister in your training. Trust me; I won't be easy like some teachers do."

"Can I watch? And can I have some food as well?" Spike asks the princesses curiously. Celestia made some food for him to eat; the baby dragon takes some ice cream eagerly. "Thanks!"

"Oh Spike." Twilight giggles to Spike, shaking her head at this. "As usual, Spike can't keep his mind out of his stomach."

"All right, time for the training to begin." Celestia said sternly as the training begins with the scene changing to a wasteland. "This place can change scenes definitely on my decision so prepare yourselves!"

"So let me ask, what are we doing here, princess?" Rarity asks Celestia in concern.

"This will be the first part of the training...and with no wings and horns!" Celestia exclaims as she uses her magic to put ropes around the ponies, covering their wings and put some collar on their necks, keeping their magic.

"Wait, what?" Twilight ask Celestia in surprise.

"For this training, you must build up to be alicorns. You shall start as Earth ponies. When you succeeded, we will move up to unicorns, then to Pegasi and finally to alicorn." Luna explains to the ponies in agreement.

"Seriously," Applejack asked with a shrug. "Well, if Pinkie an' Ah started out as Earth ponies, it's done easy fer us."

"Yes...except you got to catch us." Celestia taunts as she and Luna flew off, "You must catch up to us without use of wings or magic, my little ponies."

"Ooh! A game of chase! Sounds like fun!" Pinkie exclaimed happily.

"But I've never done it without wings before!" Rainbow complains a bit. "How am I supposed to catch up?"

"Just try your best!" Twilight exclaims as she and her friends rush after the princesses. "If we must learn to control our alicorn powers, we got to work up to the alicorn level!"

"Well, sounds fair." Fluttershy said meekly as she and her friends, with Twilight putting Spike on her back without magic, follows the princesses.

The six and Spike continues rushing. Luna smirks while suggesting to Celestia, "How about we throw down some obstacles, sister?"

"Interesting idea," Celestia giggles as she drops some green slime onto the ground. "Watch it, ponies!"

"Eew, gross," Rarity exclaimed in disgust as she dodged the slime.

"Hey, no fair!" Pinkie protests while dodging the slime.

"Well, Earth ponies have to deal with this kinda stuff all the time." Celestia explains while using magic to make spikes (not Spike!) appears. The ponies jump over and move around them. "Impressive!"

"We learn fast!" Rainbow laughs while dodging a spike, "Hey, Applejack! Betcha I can beat ya to the princesses!"

"'Dat's a challenge? Ah accept!" Applejack laughs while moving around, chasing Rainbow with the others catching up.

"Whoa, slow down!" Twilight exclaims as she tries to catch up. "Hang on, Spike!"

"What do you think I was doing?" Spike asked Twilight while holding onto the pony. He looks up and gasps. "Look out for that..." The ponies crashes right into a rocky wall, with Spike falling off. "...wall."

The new alicorns look up to see Celestia and Luna above them on top of a cliff of the rocky wall. Celestia jokes, "How's the weather down there?"

"Princess, how are we supposed to catch up now?" Twilight ask Celestia in concern.

"You are Earth ponies for the moment, so I suggest you find ways to get up this rocky wall without magic or wings." Celestia suggest to her student and her friends with a grin.

"Why, that no-good, ornery bucker!" Rainbow shouted angrily as she started climbing up the wall.

"Rainbow, calm down; this is the princess we're talking about." Fluttershy said to Rainbow calmly while climbing up. "Besides, I'm sure she wouldn't mean to troll us...would she?"

"The princess has won the 'Best Prank Award' in Canterlot 100 years in a row." Twilight explains to her friends with a shrug while climbing upward.

"That explains things." Rarity said. Twilight yelps as she almost fell but the white pony caught her in time, "Careful, darling."

"Thanks." Twilight said as the ponies continue their climb. "Rarity, can I ask you something...between you and me?"

"Certainly, darling; Anything from a friend," Rarity said to Twilight with a smile.

"Uh, it's about Spike. I know already but...did you...I don't know...notice how goofy he is towards you?" Twilight ask Rarity curiously, wondering if her friend suspects the baby dragon's crush towards her by now.

"Oh, maybe...don't get this wrong. It's cute...but...I want to get to know Spikey Wikey before getting...further." Rarity said to Twilight with a wink of her eye.

"So how about you, egghead, got a special somepony in your life?" Rainbow asks Twilight. May as get some questions to pass the time while climbing.

Hearing this got Twilight off guard a bit. No one asked her that before.

"Err, uh...hey, we're there." Twilight said, blushing as she saw that she and her friends has gotten to the top of the cliff.

The alicorns glances at Spike who shrugs while saying, "Don't look at me. Twilight won't talk to me about it either!"

As the new alicorns gotten to the cliff, they see the Royal Sisters...having a tea party of all things. Luna, seeing them, said, "Ah, you all made it."

"Did we catch up wit' yew yet?" Applejack asked the princesses with a sigh.

"Yes...and you may join us." Celestia said with a grin. The ponies and Spike sigh as they prepare to head over...over for the princess to fire a blast at them.

"Hey!" Pinkie exclaims in surprise and alarm.

"Well, come on, you may join us." Celestia said to the ponies with a playful smirk.

Twilight can guess what this is: another part of the test. They have to get by Celestia's zaps to get to the table and with no magic and wings. Rainbow and Applejack tries to charge in but Celestia kept them back with her magic.

"Well, what are you ponies waiting for?" Luna taunts the ponies in amusement. "You may join us."

"Girls, listen up. We got to use trickery to pass this part of the training." Twilight whispers to her friends, making up a strategy. "Pinkie, can you make a distraction?"

"Leave that to me!" Pinkie said confidently with a wink.

"Okay, Rarity, do you see anything that can...make clothes that can hide us?" Twilight ask Rarity. "And a follow up: can you do dresses without magic?"

"My dear Twilight, I was doing dresses long before you show up. Of course I can do magic by hoof." Rarirty said to Twilight with a smile.

"Look, while Pinkie distract, we will sneak in. Rainbow, Applejack, when we get closer, you grab Celestia from behind." Twilight whispers to Rainbow and Applejack who nodded. "Fluttershy...can you be cute?"

"Yes, I can." Fluttershy said with a nod.

The Royal Sisters watch as the ponies is in a huddle, whispering their plan. They'd love to see what the six will do to join them for tea.

Soon the ponies goes into break and zip off, leaving only Pinkie Pie. Dress making noises are heard, much to Celestia and Luna's notice.

"Hmmm, what are those ponies up to, sister?" Luna ask in amusement and interest.

"I don't know...they got some plan" Celestia said with a giggle.

"Okay, give us all your tea and cookies!" Pinkie laughs madly as she fires at the two alicorns with a party cannon. "I wanna fight for my right to PARTY!"

Celestia uses her force field to cover herself and Luna. This goes on for a few minutes or so. For a moment, it looks like nothing would come out of it. Luna however notices that part of an area...looks weird moving as if it's moving.

"INVADE!" A familiar voice exclaims as five familiar ponies came out of a dress that hid them all. Celestia looks startled as Applejack and Rainbow came behind her and hold her.

"Oh dear, help me, sister!" Celestia exclaims in pretend shock and panic.

Luna prepares to jump in but Fluttershy flew in front of her, giving the princess puppy dog eyes look, saying, "Please don't hurt my friends, Princess of the Night."

"Oh dear, the cute one...is too cute!" Luna exclaims, too 'paralyzed' by the cuteness. By this time, Twilight laughs as she jumps into a seat near Celestia.

With Celestia held down, she couldn't keep her force field up, allowing Pinkie, Spike and Rarity to jump into seats on their own; the remaining ponies jump into the remaining ones by the time the Royal Sisters recover.

"Oh yeah, we did it!" Rainbow cheers wildly. They have caught up with the Royal Sisters and joined them for tea!

"Yes, you did." Celestia said proudly to the alicorns. "Congratulations, my little ponies. You have completed the Earth pony part of the training."

The ponies smiles while cheering. Spike exclaims, "Cool! So that's it? They have to chase ya and join ya in a tea party?"

"While we make it tougher to do so;" Luna explains with a proud smile. "Now you may join us."

"Thank goodness. We were wondering if you did that during alicorn training!" Rarity exclaims as she sips from a tea cup."

"Well, back then, the training...wasn't like this." Celestia admits to the ponies. "It was simpler. We just change it to 'spice' things up a bit."

"It worked." Rainbow remarks while Pinkie eat some cookies happily.

"So when will we do the next part?" Twilight ask her teacher curiously. She wishes for herself and her friends to get the training done so that they can go home.

"The unicorn part will be tomorrow." Celestia answers gently. "For now, just rest and relax; because from then on, things will get...harder."

"I kinda figured you would say that." Twilight said with a sigh as the party continues on. This is going to be one long training.

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It was nighttime...well, wherever the ponies are as the alicorns all slept in a huddle. The Royal Sisters has chosen to return to the main reality, leaving Twilight and her friends for now.

Twilight is the only one not sleeping, sighing sadly as she looks up at the sky. This wakes up her friends who notice. Applejack ask, "Twilight; Yew okay, sugah cube?"

"I'm fine...well, not really." Twilight said while looking down a bit.

"You did fine in the first training. Why are you unhappy?" Fluttershy ask Twilight in concern.

"Girls...I'm sorry. I didn't want you to go through what we did; being alicorns when you should've gotten better, staying as you are and continue on with your normal forms."

"We already forgave you, Twilight. Isn't that enough?"

"I know...it's just....you went through some hard training like I did when I was student before meeting you. I felt responsible for what happened to my new friends." Twilight explains to her friends who listen in. "Before I met you, I didn't need friends...especially since..."

"Twilight...did something happen to your special somepony?" Rarity asks Twilight who went silent because of that. "I know you were caught offguard earlier by that subject. You can tell us."

"...yes, I did have a special somepony. His name is Ben Mare, an Earth pony. He and I used to go to the same school before I became a student under Celestia.

"'Ben Mare'," Rainbow scoffs in disbelief by the name. "Isn't 'Mare' a female pony term?"

"Rainbow Dash, quit it! 'Dat ain't ice!" Applejack scolds Rainbow before turning back to Twilight. "Tell us more."

"Us, come on, tell us." Pinkie said to Twilight with a warm smile.

"Ben Mare was a good friend, he has the nicest smile. He was often bullied or picked on by some foals, especially that jerk Boris." Twilight remarked, scoffing the name of a former classmate of her. "But Ben and I were...close..."

"Close as in special sompeonies?"

"Yes."

"So what happened to him?" Rarity asks Twilight in concern. "Why isn't he with you now?"

"I don't know. On the day that I became the princess's new student, he disappeared...I never saw him again. After that, I never dated or made friends out of fear that they too will disappear." Twilight sighs sadly as she looks to the sky of the weird dimension. "Somehow, I feel like he's watching me, doing his best to protect me..."

The other Mane Six members listen in, feeling sad and sorry for their friend. Applejack pats the purple alicorn on the back saying, "Don't yew worry, sugah cube. We won't be going nowhere anytime soon."

"Yeah, we will still hang around." Rainbow remarks to Twilight with a light chuckle. "And who knows? When your training is complete, you can use your powers to help you find your colt-friend."

"And we'll help." Fluttershy said gently. "Because that's what friends do. They help."

Twilight thought about what her friends said then smiles while saying, "Thank you. And you're right. We can do anything in our powers to find Ben and bring him home."

The Mane Six hug one another, Pinkie said happily, "Normally, this will be a time when I make a party...but since its sleepy time, I will save that for later!"

"Pinkie."

The ponies resume their bedtime; they need all the rest that they themselves can get for training tomorrow. Unknown to them, someone is watching from nearby, looking interested and amused.

"I had a feeling that they cause all the mess; Hmmmm. Maybe I can help them with their powers. Better get things ready." The figure said as she then heads off through a portal nearby, disappearing from sight.

Author's Notes:

The alicorns' Earth pony part of the training is complete, but who is the newcomer? In the next chapter, it's time for the unicorn part of the training with magic spells and obstacles. More to come so read, review and suggest!