Adagio, Aria, and Trixie stumbled through the portal and onto the castle floor. Adagio tried to stand but her body felt wrong. Muscles didn't respond as they should have, some appendages felt were missing, while new ones seemed to have popped out of no where. What was going on? Then she realized, she was in her other form, her original form. She was an earth pony again. A body she hadn't had for almost 1400 years.

She slowly got to her feet and saw the others not having a much better time of it. I have to close that portal before the others make it through, she thought. She looked around and saw a machine connected to the mirror which served as the gateway. That must be it! She stumbled over to it, turned around, and with as much strength as she could muster; she kicked it.

The machine sputtered and sparked. Adagio kicked it again. It made harsh grinding noises and smoke poured out from every seam. One more kick and it sputtered to a halt. The mirror went to being just that, a mirror, again. Adagio sighed with relief.

"What the heck did you do that for?" Aria yelled in surprise and anger. "How are we going to get back?"

"Easy," Adagio said coolly and full of pride. "They'll repair it. There's no way they'll let one of their own remain on the other side. At least not Miss Twilight. She's seems to important. And if not, we'll find a way to make our own. Either way, we can not be stopped now. And we're home now Aria. Home!"

"Home." Aria almost whispered it. After a thousand years, a thousand years of complaining, scheming, and yearning, her she was back in Equestria. It seemed almost too good to be true. She then realized that Adagio was an earth pony again. She walked over to the mirror (a task which felt exponentially harder), she saw that she, too, was an earth pony again.

Adagio walked over beside Aria. "I know; startling, isn't it? I forgot this face, this body. All those centuries of having a human body; I actually started to think I had always been such. You know what though?" Adagio turned to look at Aria who looked at her, and then Adagio looked back to her reflection. "No matter what form I take; I'm still one foxy filly." She then laughed and started walking off.

Aria just looked at herself. It felt like she was looking at a cartoon version of herself. She felt disconnected from the body she now occupied. She didn't look right or feel right. She was home physically, but not mentally. And with an almost horror; she realized she preferred her human body. O Henry would be pleased.

"I'm a UNICORN!" Trixie exclaimed as she had taken a spot in front of the mirror.

Adagio turned around and looked. "Well, that was unexpected but not unwelcomed. Come on now. We've got much to do. It's been a thousand years since we've last been here. Think how much the Earth has changed in that time. Names of places, towns, villages, have all changed or disappeared. We need to find a library, find out where we are now, where everything was in relation to where we are, and how to get back to where we originally found the gem stones. We also need to fill Trixie here in on what she can do, the species that live here, and what this place is."

Trixie turned around. A sudden bolt of fear went through her. "Just how long are we going to be here? What you described sounds like it'll take months."

"Or years", Adagio said dismissively. "I never said my plan was a quick one. What? - Did you think this was some sort of adventure that would be wrapped up in two hours? My dear, it took us two weeks just to make it this far. This is going to be a long journey. Now, you are here. You can stay here and fret over making the wrong decision; OR you could come with us and see the plan through. Your choice. I'm heading out now; so make your decision quickly." She then started to walk away again.

Trixie turned to Aria who shrugged and started walking after Adagio. What had she done? She was now trapped in a strange new dimension with two, things, she knew would betray her at first opportunity, and she was a horse (well unicorn, but, really, that's splitting hairs isn't it?). And the idea that she might be this way for months or years even; it was almost too much to bare. But, as she also realized, this was the deal she sold her soul for. And she really had no other option. So as fast as she could make this new body go; she followed as well.

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Twilight was inconsolable. She wept uncontrollably. She had failed miserably. She had let the Sirens escape back into Equestria and she was now cut off from her home uable to do anything about. All her friends and family were in danger because of her selfishness. She was a fool and wholly undeserving of being a princess. Princess! What a joke. What a failure.

"Twilight, come on! We got to go now." Sunset Shimmer tried to get her to stand up. But Twilight was too far gone into her own sadness.

Flash came over, picked her up, and turned her around so she could look at him. "Twi, Sunset's right. - we got to go now sweetie. You see that car down there, it's most likely stolen, so the police will be looking for it. If they come here, what will they find? The car all busted up, me all banged up and bloody, and you two with bloody knuckles. It won't look good. And this is one case where telling the truth WON'T set you free ok. We need to leave and leave now."

Twilight looked at him and thought if only she listened when Sunset had said that; they wouldn't be in this situation. She nodded she understood.

"Ok, everyone back to my house. We'll plan our next step from there," Sunset Shimmer said.

Flash ran back to his car and Twilight followed. Sunset went to hers and drove off. She wanted to peel away as fast as possible but realized a speeding car would only attract attention. So against all her instincts, she drove off normally. She was relieved to see Flash was doing the same. Now, just to keep calm until they got back.

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The three of them just sat around Sunset's table; not saying anything. None of them knew what to say. Twilight was lost in self loathing, Sunset was racking her brain trying to figure out what evil things the Sirens had in store, and Flash just looked at the two of them confused. Finally he spoke up.

"Alright, what do we actually know about what The Dazzelings want to do? I mean, they wanted to go back, but why exactly? What is it they were hoping to get over there? Do you have anti-grav tanks, giant mechs on your side?"

"I don't know," Sunset replied frustrated. "The leader never said. Just going back would allow her to somehow take over."

"Ok. Twi, the portal was open, why?"

Twilight never looked up; she just kept staring at the table. "I had to. Your realm is a realm of science; mine is a realm of magic. The portal is a magical one. So it can only be opened from my side. If I would have closed it once I got here, I never would have been able to go . . " and there she stopped and started sobbing again as she realized again that she was trapped here.

Flash sat down beside her and put his arm around her. "When The Dazzelings showed up, Sunset was able to let you know somehow. How? If the dimensions are cut off, at least from this end, how could she contact you?"

Twilight and Sunset suddenly turned and looked at each other. "The book!" they said in unison. Sunset snapped up and ran off.

Flash looked at Sunset leave, then turned back to Twilight. "Book?"

Twilight turned to Flash with a big smile on her face. "Sunset and I have two magic books that are connected inter-dimensionally. She writes something in hers' and it shows up in mine. We can write a message to my assistant Spike in her book and let him know I'm here and need him to re-open the portal."

"Got it!" Sunset exclaimed as she came back. She placed the book on the table with a pencil.

"Alright then. You write in that book, your assistant gets the message and portal is re-opened, BOOM!" Flash said feeling much better.

"Not quite," Twilight said a bit ashamed and sad. "Spike wouldn't be at my castle right now. I told him I was leaving for the weekend. So he won't be back until tonight. Even then he'll have to actually go down to where I keep the book and see that it's vibrating and glowing. That could take a couple of days. And that's just if the Sirens didn't completely destroy the portal on my end."

"They wouldn't," Sunset said. "They need it to cross back over. And that's one thing she did tell me, she wanted to conjure both realms. So I doubt they'd do anything too bad to it."

"And if they did, oh Celestia I'm stupid, the portal will re-open naturally in another two years. Not that I want to wait that long." Twilight couldn't believe she hadn't thought of that early.

"You're not stupid," Flash said. "You were upset. No one thinks straight when they're stressed. Now the question is; what is their exact plan. If we found that out, we could warn your friends back home."

Sunset snapped her fingers. "Sonata! Sonata might know."

"Who's Sonata?" Twilight asked.

"Sonata was one of the Sirens. The blue one," Sunset said.

"What? - Blue?" Flash asked, confused.

Sunset turned to Flash. "Yes. Sonata's blue. Don't you see her as blue?"

"No. I see her as white. Like you Sunset."

"Flash, I'm a dandelion color. What color do you see Twilight as?"

Flash was really confused now. "Twilight is Asian, by the looks, I'd say Japanese."

Twilight now looked at Flash, confused now herself. "Flash, I'm purple."

The three of them just looked at each other completely confused. Sunset and Twilight didn't understand how Flash could not see what color they really were and Flash couldn't understand what sort of nonsense Twilight and Sunset were going on about. It was Twilight who finally understood.

"Dimensional interpretation! Sunset, you and I are seeing the inhabitants of this world through the lens of our dimension. Flash, in our world, Sunset is dandelion and I'm purple. We see each other still that way. It's like our brains are re-interpreting you guys in the terms they most readily understand. You, however, only see us as regular, old humans."

"That makes sense," Sunset said. Suddenly a lot of things that had confused her at first now made sense.

"Well it doesn't to me." Flash said. "So let me get this right, you're really purple. In your home world right?"

"Yes."

"And you're dandelion?" Flash turned to and pointed at Sunset.

"Yes."

"And that's how you see each other?"

"Yes," they both replied in unison.

"So what color do you see me as?"

"Yellow," answered Twilight.

Flash raised one eyebrow. "Seriously?" he asked flatly

"Yeah, what's wrong with that? Don't you like yellow?" Twilight asked.

"Twi, I'm half Chinese."

Twilight was still confused. "So what does that have to do with not liking yellow?"

"I'll explain later," Flash said frustrated.

"First Birkenstocks, now yellow, I'll never figure this place out," Twilight said exasperated.

Flash looked at Sunset, confused. She just shook her head as if to say, not now.

"Anyway," Twilight started again, "we need to talk to Sonata. If anyone might be able to help, she could."

"Agreed," Sunset said. "My car or yours Flash?"

"I'll follow you Sunset. Twi, you riding with me?"

"Sure. Where we going?"

"Pinkie's house," Sunset said as she grabbed her keys. "All right everyone, let's ride."

Author's Notes:

I had planned on Adagio and company making it back to Equestria, but originally it was much later in the story. Twilight was slowly going to be spending more and more time in the human realm and they were going to find her after about a year or two.

But I realized that for that time, I wasn't doing anything with them. They would have just disappeared for a while before showing back up. I realized that wasn't very satisfying because it left too many unanswered questions as to what they had been up to. So I decided to move the crossover up and just have them on a journey to find more charms.

So now I won't be concentrating on them for a while. Which I'm somewhat sad about since I love the character of Adagio so much; but it now opens up space to concentrate not only on Sonata, Twilight, Flash, and Sunset; but to expand to the other characters as well. So it's a give and take. I will miss one scene I had planned on writing but would no longer make sense in this new timeline.

Also, I tried to explain how the EQG world could be our Earth but still have the candy colored people in it. Solution, we see people as Twilight and the other Equestrians would see humans, but not as they really are. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. It explains it for me, so that's enough.

Finally, while I'll try to keep this as light as possible, I did list it as a comedy; there are gonna be some sad moments coming up. Not everyone has a happy ending. In fact not all survive. Just a heads up. Hope you enjoy.

*NOTE* After finishing last night, I remembered that in Rainbow Rocks, Applejack says Flash has blue hair. This clashes with my story interpretation. However I have come up with a fix. In the next part I plan on having Flash ask about how they see hair color. Twilight will respond she see's his as blue and he will respond that he actually dyes his hair blue. Not the most elegant of fixes, but it squares the circle.