It was a beautiful day in Ponyville. A lavender alicorn mare with a navy blue mane, a purple skirt, and light blue shirt was walking beside a short, purple and green dragon.

The alicorn Twilight was walking back to the castle after a good day of work, pondering something.

“What are you thinking about Twilight,” said the dragon, Spike, as he walked beside her.

“I'm wondering why I saw Starlight there,” said Twilight as they kept walking. “I mean she looked like she was wanting something.”

“Are you sure you saw her? I didn’t see her anywhere.”

“That's because you were too busy staring at the picture of Rarity I had up with the others.”

“I know. Isn't she simply divine?”

“Wow, that sounds like something Rarity would say about an outfit.”

“Well I’m trying to change up my vocabulary, hopefully, I can impress h-- ,” Spike replied as he tripped over a rock.

Twilight stopped, then looked slightly annoyed, with her hand covering her face. Twilight’s wondering about Starlight switched to why Spike was still trying to get Rarity’s heart. ‘I have told him plenty of times’ she thought. ‘that things would not end well in a relationship between a pony and dragon. ‘But he will never listen, and it isn’t like Rarity does not know what he up to every time. Oh well… wait a minute,’ Twilight stopped her pondering in her tracks ’I never thought to ask for Rarity’s thought on the matter. Hmmm.’

“Oh Spike, I need you to go tell Rarity that I need to talk to her at the Castle,” said Twilight as she turned only to notice that Spike had immediately gone running down to the Carousel Boutique. Twilight just kept walking home. It seemed she had totally forgotten about seeing Starlight Glimmer.

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Twilight got to the Castle Of Friendship, only to notice the door was wide open. “Hmm, that’s strange. Mental note, fire the new guard. He has been leaving the door open too much,” said Twilight to herself as she walked in. “I mean how hard is it to close the door?” Twilight continued to talk to herself as she walked. “Maybe I can get somepony to replace him?” Suddenly she thought of a perfect replacement. “Maybe I could replace him with, Flash Sentry?” She started to blush on the idea of having Flash be her guard or even her personal guard.

Twilight walked into the map room. “Wow, this Flash must be pretty fine to get a blush out of you, Twilight Sparkle,” said an unknown mare as she sat with her legs on the table.

Twilight’s blush look turned straight to anger upon seeing a pink unicorn with a purple mane, wearing a purple jacket and black shirt and pants - Starlight Glimmer - who was sitting so smug in Fluttershy’s chair. “Starlight. So I did see you. What do you want?” asked Twilight.

“What do I want? To change history, to make things better,” said Starlight, as she got on top of the map while holding a piece of parchment.

“Better? How could you make things better? Equestria is at peace and everypony is happy, and besides, how can you change history? It's not like you can go into the past,” said Twilight with the confidence of knowing there was no spell that could do that.

“Oh really?” said Starlight as she opened the parchment, revealing what lay inside.

“Oh no! Starswirl's Spell,” said Twilight as she slapped herself for forgetting that spell. “I have to stop her!” She charged forward, but it was too late. Starlight activated the spell and using the magic of the map, opened a doorway in time.

Starlight entered the doorway and Twilight followed after her. They flew through the pathway that looked like a vortex with several openings. As they flew through the vortex, Twilight tried to grab Starlight, but Starlight kicked with great force and Twilight was sent her flying back towards the entrance. While Starlight was heading for the past, Twilight was now heading for what she assumed was still present.

However as Twilight landed on the table, she was knocked unconscious. She did not know what she would find upon awaking, or that this world was no longer the same world had she left.

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