"What the hell..." I almost whisper as I stare at the small pillar of smoke coming from my backyard. "A second meteor..."

"Matt, isn't that what I came in?"

"Yeah... It is. Let's check it out." I slide down the back of my roof without really thinking. Its a little too late by the time I realize I'm on top of a two story house, and I'm quickly sliding to the edge of the roof.

"Matt!" Rainbow yells behind me as I disappear over the edge. Well... fuck.

I hit the ground with a thud, and a dull pain shoots through my bad arm. Luckily I didn't land directly on it.

"I'm... fine!" I yell up at the roof as Rainbow jumps off and glides down to me.

"You're such an idiot." She mumbles as she helps me up.

"Yeah yeah, let's just check this out." I walk slowly over to the meteor in the center of my yard. Memories from two months ago quickly flash through my mind as we approach. Is this another one of her friends? Is there going to be another one now?

We approach the meteor as the smoke dissipates from around it. I notice it looks different than the one Rainbow came in. Its the same shape as the first meteor that Rainbow arrived in, but its definitely smaller than the other one was. Its about the size of a basketball, maybe a little bit bigger.

"Whats in it?" Rainbow mumbles as I kneel down and pick it up.

"I can't really see much out here, its too dark. Lets get it back inside, then we'll see if there's anything in it."

We jog back to the house and open the glass door. I try my best to be quiet, though I doubt anybody slept through the explosion from the impact. We make our way back to my room, and I close the door behind me before flipping the light switch on. Alright, time to open this baby up.

"Okay, open it Matt. I wanna know what it is, especially if its something from Equestria!"

"Alright, let me figure out how to open it."

"Just do what you did when you found me."

"I would, but there's one problem with that. I didn't open your meteor, it opened on its own."

I try tapping the meteor, kicking it, twisting it, but with no luck.

"Here, let me try." Rainbow just holds out a hoof and taps the meteor, which proceeds to make a whooshing sounds as if an air seal had been broken. The meteor opens like a chest, and the contents are revealed. Two small objects lay inside. A small note, and a weird crystal.

"What does that note say?" Rainbow asks as she hops up on the bed next to me.

"Okay it says this." I say as I unroll the note. "Dear Rainbow, If you find this, watch the message embedded in the crystal. -Twilight"

"T-Twi... Oh my gosh..." Rainbow gasps as she covers her mouth with her hooves.

"Message in a crystal? What the fuck does that mean?" I say curiously as I lift the crystal up in my hand. I stare at it, watching the light from my room pass through it. I tap the top of it with my finger, and it begins to glow a brilliant white.

"Rainbow, turn the light off, hurry." Rainbow quickly hops over to the light switch and flips it down. The room is lit up by the crystal's light. A bright beam of light shoots out from the top, and projects an image on the wall. The image is Rainbow's five friends looking back at us.

"Its... my..." Rainbow chokes through tears.

"Rainbow, if you're hearing this, then that means the spell was a success. We sent this message to you by sending the package to the coordinates you were sent to. Discord has been locked away for what he did, and he won't be sending anypony else anywhere."

"What the hell is this..." I mumble as I stare at the projection, my mouth agape.

"The five of us have been working nonstop to find a way to get you back home. We can't even begin to imagine what you must be going through... We've found a way to send objects to the world you now reside on, but we have yet to find a way to bring you home. Princess Celestia was able to track you down, and that's how we found your coordinates. We're getting close to finding a spell to bring you back home, it shouldn't take much longer. We miss you Rainbow, and we're doing everything we can to save you. Now I'll let the girls say something to you."

"Hey Rainbow, we really miss ya... Ah'm sorry this happened to ya, and we're trying our best to bring ya back. Hang in there partner." The orange pony, who I recognize as Applejack says.

"Please come back, we miss you Rainbow." Fluttershy says through watery eyes.

"Darling, life just isn't the same without you here." Rarity speaks next.

"I'm going to throw you the biggest party ever!" Pinkie...

"We miss you Rainbow, and we can't wait to see you again..." Twilight says through small tears.

"We love you Rainbow." They all say at the same time. Then the projection disappears in a flash of light. I stare at the blank wall, my mind trying to process what I just saw. I slowly turn my head to look at Rainbow, who looks just as stunned as I am. Her hooves are over her mouth, and tears are streaming down her face.

"Ma..." She chokes out. I quickly pull her into an embrace, and we both ball our eyes out, but for different reasons. She's crying because she finally saw her friends again, and she now has hope that she'll be able to go back. But me? I'm losing it because now there's a chance that Rainbow will leave earth forever. Could I ever let that happen? If it came down to it, what would she choose...

Me? Or them?

"I can't believe they're coming for me. I thought they would have given up..." Rainbow says quietly as we lay under the covers of my bed.

"Rainbow, you should know that they would never give up on you. Who would? You're too special."

"Isn't this great Matt? I can finally go home. I can see my friends again."

"Yeah, great news..."

"What's wrong? We should be happy right?"

"No, we shouldn't be! What do you think is going to happen Rainbow? That I'll just forget about you or something? That I'll still be with you!? Because if you believe that, its bullshit!"

"I-I... would be gone forever, wouldn't I?" She says with realization.

"Yea, I'd never see you again! I can't lose you Rainbow, you've made my life worth living, if you left forever, I wouldn't have much reason to live anymore!"

"You would... Oh, Matt!" Rainbow wraps herself around me as the tears begin to flow. "I can't just choose something like this! What if they just take me without notice? What if I don't even have a choice?"

"When it comes down to it, you have to make a decision Rainbow. I can't stop you from going back if that's what you want... Just go with what your heart tells you."

"I don't want to leave you Matt. But... I also really want to see my friends again. I can't just make that kind of decision..."

"I just hope that when the time comes... you make the right one."

"A crystal?" Alex says as we walk down the sidewalk on the cool Sunday morning.

"Yeah, it was some sort of a message. More like a video message actually."

"Well what was on it?"

"Rainbow's friends... from the other world."

"Really!? That's so cool! An alien message from another world."

"Not as cool as you might think. They said they were close to finding a way to bring Rainbow back to their world. That means that we would never see her again..."

"Wait, seriously? Dude, I don't think she would just up and leave you. I've seen how she looks at you Matt, she's like, head over heels for you."

"I don't know man... She looked pretty excited to get back to her own world. It wouldn't surprise me if I came home and she was just gone."

"Well, what do you think she'll choose?"

"To be honest, I really don't know. I'd hope she would choose to stay here, but I wouldn't blame her if she wanted to go back."

"I guess only time will tell huh?"

"Yeah... I guess so..."