(Author's Notice: I am rewriting this story, for I am no longer following my own plot. The flow of events was off and haphazard to me, and that displeased me. Now that I am coming into this prepared, I am sure a more coherent story can be made. Thanks for understanding, ~Nano)

Chapter 1
Crash Landing

"Alright, Xion, let's see where the next piece is." I said, invoking upon my magical power to locate another shard. In my mind's eye, I saw a faint dot appear in the distance, the next location. "Computer, analyze the coordinates set by my… brain, and plot the fastest course to the destination." A few beeps from the mainframe signaled that the process was complete.

"Do you really think that my heart can be fixed?" Xion wrote.

"Yes, Xion. I really do." I stretched a little, feeling tired. "The ship will take a while to get to the world. Let's get some sleep before that happens." I walked over to a bunk I chose in the ship and climbed into it, Xion going to the bunk opposite. "Goodnight, Xion."

(Hours Later…)

I felt something prodding my shoulder, waking me up. "We're here." Xion's pad had written on it as I picked it up. I jumped off of my bunk and landed on the floor, closing the curtain around my bunk to get a little privacy to change my clothes. The same duds for two interplanetary trips seems a little wrong.

I walked out in brown cargo shorts, and my shirt was a dark blue. "We're here already?" I asked. Xion nodded, and pointed to the world below. I saw it to be like many others- blue water and sky, green plains, tall, stony mountains… the only thing different from other worlds was that this one had a gigantic rainbow circling the planet.

"Well, I'll do a short little dream drop, get your heart fragment, seal the world, and we can be off." I said. Sounded like a good plan. Too bad those never actually come to happen. On the planet's surface, I saw a large rainbow-colored explosion rip across the sky. An aftershock was so powerful, it hit my ship.

"Shit!" I screamed, struggling for control. The rainblast apparently had an EMP effect on my ship. I started to lose control of the Falcon, and it was headed straight for the planet below.

I felt the ship hit the ground, and the force was so great it tore the hull in two. Xion was unfortunately in the other half. "XION!" I screamed, before a jarring skip on the ground caused the safety harness I wore to snap, and I flew into the roof of the ship. I was out cold before the ship stopped moving.

~In Ponyville, Twilight Sparkle's POV~

"Hmm… I think I just need a little more sulfur…" I said, walking around my home, searching for a jar of the yellow colored dust. "Sulfur, sulfur… ah!" I had found the jar nestled behind a few books about chemistry, and I picked it up using my magic. I placed it next to the bubbling concoction on my desk, when I heard a knock on my door.

"Hey, Twilight, you home?" I heard. Outside my door I could see nothing but a blue- furred face, with violet eyes and a rainbow-colored mane, which was her namesake.

"Rainbow Dash, aren't you supposed to be clearing the sky today?" I asked her, as I opened the door.

"You know I can do that quickly. Ten seconds flat, remember?" She said, strutting into my tree-shaped home. "What are you doing, is more the question." She took one look at the bubbling potion on my desk. "Egghead stuff, huh?"

"No, I'm working on a very potent medicine for the local infirmary. In fact, it's Poison Joke again." I still remembered what it did to my horn, and I shuddered.

"Oh, right. That stuff that made me fly upside-down, it turned Applejack tiny, and it made Pinkie Pie's tongue all floppy. Rarity's hair looked terrible, too. But what did it do to Fluttershy? I can't remember…"

I giggled. "It made her sound like an old Colt, that's what!" We both laughed. "Anyway, Zecora gave me the recipe she used last time, so I should be done soon." I turned my attention back to the potion, ignoring the actions of my friend. Don't worry; she decided to tell me what's going on.

"Hey, Twilight, check this out!" I heard her scream. I accidentally put a few more grains of sulfur in the potion than was listed, and the thing popped, fizzed, and exploded. Not a big one, but the bottle shattered and a small mushroom-cloud appeared on my desk.

"RAINBOW DASH!" I yelled, startling my friend off of her perch near a window. "What did I just say? This is very important work!"

"Sorry. But what's everyone doing down there? It seems like they're all huddled around Pinkie." She said, pointing to the crowd. We decided to head outside to see what's going on.

"Pinkie Pie, what's wrong?" I asked her, and the crazy pony almost ripped my mane off when she grabbed me.

"It's my tail! It won't stop shaking, and it's bigger than every other shake I've ever had!"

"Tail shaking… what does that mean again?" I racked my brain. "Oh, yeah, something's…" I was cut off by the pink-furred girl.

"SOMETHING BIG IS FALLING! FROM OVER THERE!" she grabbed my head, and twisted it around. I looked up, and I did see something big.

It looked like a multicolored meteor of some sort. But, the problem was, it was headed straight for us! "EVERYPONY RUN!" Rainbow screamed, flying away. I ran, Pinkie holding on for dear life on my tail. The meteor flew past overhead, and I saw it more clearly- it was made of metal, and I saw that it was on fire, from the atmosphere, no doubt.

The strange meteor-thing grazed the top of my house, knocking a few branches down. It hopped and skidded outside of Ponyville, heading straight for the Everfree forest. I stood up, looking at the giant skid-mark in the ground.

"Hahh… Is everypony alrigh'?" I heard, recognizing the voice as my friend Applejack.

"I'm fine, but I can't say the same for my hair…" That voice must be Rarity. I walked out, Pinkie following me. Those two, as well as Rainbow Dash, were sitting together, looking at the crater.

"What do 'yall suppose that thing there was?" Applejack asked.

"I think it was some kind of Super Comet!" Rainbow said.

I proposed my opinion. "Girls, I saw it up close as it hit my house. It was made of metal, and looked badly damaged. I think it was a spacecraft of some sort, and it got hit or something." I said. It went against anything I've read on the subject, but it was the safest assumption from what I saw.

"Well, whatever that thing was, Ah suggest we all find it before it goes and hurts somepony." Applejack said. The rest of us nodded in agreement, and we walked down the trench, Rainbow grabbing Fluttershy along the way.

"B-But what if it wants to hurt us..?" She stuttered.

"Then I'll fight it off, you scaredy-pony." Rainbow said.

I hushed them up. "We'll see what it is when we get to it, alright, girls?" I walked forward, leading the six of us into the forest.