“Spike what are you doing here?” Twilight asked while running up to Spike

“I’m fine Twilight thanks for asking.” Spike replied sarcastic

It was then that Spike looked at Twilight for first time and realized that his friend who is like big sister to him isn’t a pony.

“TWILIGHT? What happened what, what are you?” Spike asked while jumping in the air from shock.

“Oh yes I forgot about that, don’t worry Spike it’s just an illusion spell which makes other people here see us as humans.” Twilight said, while lifting her spell.

“Humans?” Spike asked and finally noticed Thomas standing in the room with them.

Thomas noticed spike looking at him at decided to introduce himself

“Hi there, I am Thomas, nice to meet you Spike.”

“Twilight, what is this guy doing here?”

“Well he’s living here, let me explain.”

Twilight summed up all of the events that occurred since they first arrived on earth, except for their party on Thursday.

“That’s pretty cool adventure if you ask me.” Spike commented

“I guess, but what are you doing here Spike? How did you get here?”

“Oh right, Princess Celestia has been trying to figure out how to bring you home, and she made few discoveries.”

All mares and Thomas have set their attention towards Spike, waiting for him to continue.

“It turns out that this world unlike ours doesn’t have any magic, so she can send things, or ponies, here but she can’t pull them back for the time being, she’s currently working on that part.”

“So why are you here Spike? You should have stayed back home it would be safer for you.” Twilight said in a way which resembled reprimand

“That’s because Princess Celestia used her magic on me and now I can deliver you letters from Equestria.” Everypony ears perked up on this information

“What do you mean Spike?” Twilight asked with curiosity in her voice

“Celestia created some kind of magical mailbox in Ponyville, whenever somepony puts there a letter, BAM it will travel to this universe through me.” Spike said with pride pushing his chest forward.

“By the way where is Rarity?” Spike asked but got completely ignored, girls where now overwhelmed with joy, not only Princess Celestia was working on bringing them back home, but now they will get letters from their family.

“Spike that’s great, but when do you think those letters will arrive?” Thomas asked

Spike still not completely trusting this human, he answered with small frown on his face

“Probably soon, Princess said that she will officially open the mailbox few minutes after she will send me here so they should start to arrive pretty so…”

He couldn’t finish, from his mouth erupted a small green flame which changed to letter, after 2 or 3 minutes of constant fire breathing, or in this case, letter breathing, Spike finally collapsed on the floor holding his belly and slightly swearing under his nose.

Twilight would normally scold him for such language, but she, as well as rest of the girls were now looking at the pile of letters with excitement.

They started to going through them, Pinkie got letters from both Mr. and Ms. Cake wishing her good luck and safe return, Rainbow got letters from Cloudchaser and Flitter, in which they assured her that they are doing fine with weather without her but she should hurry up with coming back, she also got many letters from her mini fan-club which Scootalo and some other kids created. Twilight got letters from Princess herself, wishing her to be safe and assuring her that both she and Luna are doing everything they can to bring them back. Fluttershy got letter from her friend Carrot Top, in which she wrote that she took care of her animals for time being, but even if she’s doing her best, they still miss Fluttershy. There were 2 letters for Rarity, one of them was from her sister, but to everypony surprise she even got a letter from Fancy Pants and Fleur Dis Lee. But what truly surprised everypony, except for Spike who was still growling in pain, was the fact that even Thomas got a letter, from Princess Celestia, in her letter Princess thanked him and his friends for helping girls.

‘How does she even know that? Oh who cares, she’s a 1000-years old Princess who rules a magical land full of Unicorns Pegasus and Earth Ponies, I guess I should have expected that.’ Thomas thought

Also aside from letters from their families and close friends, there seemed to be a letter from almost everypony from Ponyville, wishing for them to come back safely.

It filled them with hope and joy, as Twilight hugged Spike very tightly, after her each girl gave him a hug, and even Thomas did much to Spike’s surprise.
After first wave of joy finished everypony looked at Applejack who had a frown on her face.

“What’s wrong AJ? Dash asked

“Ah didn’t get any letter from Big Mac and Apple Bloom, Ah am worried that something happened to them while Ah was gone.”

“Don’t worry Applejack, you know that because of your absence Macintosh probably had to do everything by himself and didn’t have time to write to you, I am sure that they will write soon.” Twilight said while everpony else including Spike nodded in agreement.

“Thanks ya’all, Ah hope you are right.”

Miss Cheerilee was standing in front of the magic mailbox which was their only connection to where Twilight and others were right now, she turned towards her coltfriend who was standing by her side and asked.

“Mac, darling are you sure you want to do this?”

“Eeyup.” Big Mac nodded without hesitation while going towards the mailbox with a letter in his hoof.

“Think about it, Applejack is in this weird world, she’s probably scared and they must all be already stressed about this whole situation, don’t you think it would be better to tell her when she comes back? I mean look at how Apple Bloom reacted.” Cheerilee said with concern in her voice

“We can’t wait until she comes back, she deserves to know the truth, and you know as well as me, that it will only hurt her more if she will find out after coming back.”

Cheerilee wanted to protest but knew he was right.

Big Mac stopped near the mailbox, and after the moment of hesitation he pushed the letter into the mailbox.

“I just hope she will be all right.” Said Cheerilee with small tears forming in her eyes

“Eeyup.” Big Mac said and pulled his marefriend into tight embrace.

Earth, Thomas’s House

“Thanks ya’all, Ah hope you are right.” After Applejack finished her sentence, Spike burped out another trail of green flame with quiet scream of pain. It landed on the floor and everypony’s eye went wide when they saw who it was for.

“For Applejack from Big Mac”

AJ without moment of thinking opened the letter with huge grin on her face. As she was reading it, her smile suddenly started to vanish, she finished reading it, and read it again, and again, and again.

“Applejack is everything ok?” Twilight asked with care

Applejack’s eyes started to water, and she suddenly started to cry, she thrown letter on the floor and rushed upstairs slamming doors to the bedroom behind her.

Everypony stared with wide eyes at the scene which unfolded before them, after few moments of silence Thomas finally decided to read the letter. He picked it up and read it out loud for everypony to hear.

“Dear Applejack

Don’t worry about me or Apple Bloom, we are doing fine, it’s true that without you it’s more work on the farm but nothing we can’t handle, so you don’t have to worry about it.”

In this place of letter Thomas saw a small stain, he thought that It must be AJ tear but then he realized something, it wasn’t new.

“Now there’s something that Ah would prefer to tell you face to face, but it’s not possible at the moment, and Ah believe you deserve to know the truth.”

At that moment Thomas stopped reading out loud because what he read completely shocked him, he now understood AJ behavior, and he felt that his eyes are also starting to water.

“Come on dude don’t hold us here, what does it say?” Rainbow Dash said
Thomas gulped and continued

“Yesterday in her sleep, Granny Smith passed away.”