The Adventures of Sinbad created by Ed Naha

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic developed by Lauren Faust

"Apple Bloom, should we be doing this?", Sweetie Belle asked worriedly while Apple Bloom stood over a small cauldron, "You DO remember what happened the last time you used something of Zecora's to get a cutie mark, right?"

"Sweetie, ah promise ya, this time's gonna be diff'rent."

"Yeah", Scootaloo muttered, "just like the last few times you said that."

Once more, the Cutie Mark Crusaders were tampering in something they had little understanding of. This time, they "borrowed" a book of spells from Zecora to see if there was a spell to show them what their cutie marks would look like, which would give them a hint as to what they were doing wrong. However, they couldn't find most of the ingredients needed, so Sweetie Belle replaced the foxglove with rose petals, while Scootaloo substituted chalk for jasper.

"So how long do you hafta keep stirring?", Scootaloo asked Apple Bloom, anxious to see what the future held.

"Ah'm almost done, Scoots", Apple Bloom said. "Jus' a few more seconds...an' done!"

"Finally!", Sweetie shouted in joy. "Now we'll know what our destinies are!"

All three fillies gathered over the green goo in the cauldron with high hopes for what the future held. As the potion bubbled and swirled, an image began to form, showing a Middle Eastern city with strange bipedal creatures moving about in it.

"I don't get it", Scootaloo said. "Why's it showing us Saddle Arabia?"

"And are those humans?", Sweetie asked. "I thought they were myths!"

The image then moved over to a young man dressed in a tattered white shirt and blue pants with a pale red bandana on his forehead and a rainbow bracelet on his right wrist.

"Why's it showin' us this guy now?", Apple Bloom asked. "Does he have somethin' ta do with our cutie marks?"

"Not unless our cutie marks involving being con artists", Scootaloo replied as they watched him try to weasel some bread from a vendor. But as they continued to watch, they saw the young man try to sell the dog he found to a sinister looking man dressed in gray and black, only to be confronted by a prince and his royal guard...and then push two of them away, flee, and dash up a wall before announcing, "The next time you want to get ahead in this world, my prince, remember, Sinbad's is already taken!"

"Woah, this guy's awesome!", Scootaloo said. "Well, not as awesome as Rainbow Dash, but still..."

"Look at that!", Apple Bloom said. "He's givin' them guards a harder time than when we tried to cure Big Mac an' Cheerilee a' that love poison!"

"Forget the future!", Sweetie Belle said. "I wanna see what this Sinbad guy does next!"

Elsewhere, in Sinbad's world, Rumina sat in her domain on the Isle of Tears, fuming over her latest defeat at the hands of the sailor and his crew.

"Damn you, Sinbad", Rumina thought, the rage coursing though her brain "Every time I think I have you, you always manage to defeat me. But one of these days, your luck will run out, and you'll pay for killing my father."

Then she felt something in the air.

"What is this? It feels as if the very fabric of reality were torn."

Walking over to her cauldron, Rumina concentrated all her magical energy into a scrying spell to locate the source of the disturbance. When her cauldron formed an image, she saw what looked like three little horses gazing into a cauldron of their own...and watching her enemy.

"Interesting", Rumina said in an amused tone. "Looks like I've got myself a new hobby..."