"Are you sure this is another planet? I seems like it could be Gaia."

"Look up there." The Doctor pointed towards the sky.

"It's purple. The sky is Purple!" I laughed "I'm on another planet!"

"We should also be 1000 years in the future." The brown stallion smiled

"This is so awesome!" I bounced through the grass, which got stuck on the stripped sweater I was wearing "Whoo!" I rolled down the hill

The Doctor laughed, and ran down after me, but ended tripping over and face planting one the ground

"Pfft!" I giggled, pulling him up.

"I meant to do that."

"Oh really?"

"Shut up." The Doctor hid his embarrassment by wiping the dirt off his face.

I laughed "So where are we?"

"I have no idea." Silence

We burst out laughing.

"What's that?" I asked pointing towards what looked like a small town.

"Probably a pony colony, its 1000 year in the future remember?"

"So there are ponies colonizing space 100 years in the future?"

"I supposed so. Look over there, there's a pony! I was right!"

"Come on lets go!" I charged down

"Pinkie, wait!" the Doctor called out "Aaaaaaaaaannd she's gone."

I bounced into the small town, which for the most part was empty, except for a few ponies walking down the street.

"This is so exciting!" I did a flip in midair.

The Doctor stopped next to me "Please don't charge off like that!"

"Sorry! This is just so amazing!" I giggled "I mean just look at this place!"

By then a few of the ponies had noticed us, and I guess there must no have bee a lot of ponies on the colony, because they all seemed pretty startled to see strangers.

A white unicorn mare walked up to us "Excuse me, but I don't recall seeing you before."

"Ah, yes well that because we are representatives of the uh ministry of health and safety on Gaia." the Doctor rummaged around through his pockets till he found a blank piece of paper, which he almost immediately dropped. I rolled my eyes and picked it up "Thank you." The Doctor handed it to the mare

"Seems to be in order." She handed the paper back to the Doctor, who fumbled around with it. it took a while to get it back in his pocket. "Right, well than Doctor Smith, I'm Trinket, head of the security division, and you are?" She gestured towards me

"Oh I'm Pinkie Pie, I'm Doctor Smiths… Assistant"

"Alright then, I thought an inspection wasn't due for another two months."

"Right, well there's a new surprise inspection thing, just to make sure everything is fine without you preparing it before hand… hoof."

Trinket looked at the Doctor "Okay, well I suppose you'd better want to talk to Princess Twilight."

"Princess Twilight!" I exclaimed "As in, Twilight Sparkle?"

"Um, yes? Shouldn't you know this?"

I blushed "Yes I was just… Checking that you knew."

The white mare looked at me strangely "Okay then…"

The Doctor changed the subject "Right then, we're going to see Princess Twilight. Lead the way."

It was a very quite walk through the colony, but that gave me time to look around. Most of the buildings were painted the same shade of grey, and looked exactly the same as each other, but the insides, or at least the ones that were furnished, were all different, different colours, different decorations, sound systems, computers, all that sort of stuff. When we got to a different section of town, there was a cafeteria, an empty hall, a building with no windows that I didn't know what was for, a laboratory, and a library

Finally we go to a building that was slightly taller than the others; it was really fancy, with red fuzzy couches, gold lamps, and a receptionists desk.

"We have two ponies from the Health and safety department on Gaia, apparently here for a surprise inspection; they want to talk to the Princess."

The stallion behind the desk didn't look up from his papers "You know where it is Trinket; you don't have to explain every little thing that happens here."

"It's your job." Trinket flicked her blue mane

"Good for you, when you see Twilight tell her that I signed up to be the princesses body guard, not her foalsitter."

"Whatever." The unicorn stalked off down the hall "You two coming?"

"Right!" we both said at once, which was actually kinda awkward, extremely awkward actually.

Trinket marched down the hallway "He has to be the laziest pony I have ever met! I am so sorry about him, the rest of our security staff are much more reliable, believe me." We approached a silver door at the end of the hallway "One moment, I just have to pop in and make sure she isn't busy."

"So, you have identification that says you're a health and safety inspector, what else haven't you told me?"

"It's physic paper, it can say whatever I need it too, really handy in a pinch."

"Neat."

"So how do you know this Princess Twilight? We're one thousand years in the future, anyone…"

"Pony."

"Pony that you know would probably be… well… dead."

I giggled "Silly, Twilight is an alicorn princess! Did I forget to tell you that?"

"Alicorn princess? But you said she was a unicorn! What? And how does that explain what she would be doing on a different planet in the future?"

"Alicorns can live for thousands of years! Like princess Celestia, back in the time that we just came from she was one thousand one hundred and twenty six."

"Wait, you said that was the year."

"I guess so."

"So, why would that be?"

"Well, the specific date was 1126 C.E. Celestial era."

"Okay, so how is Starlight Twinkle an alicorn?"

"Twilight Sparkle." I corrected "Celestia decided she was ready to become a princess so she sent Twilight a spell that switched all of our cutie marks, and once she fixed it well I'm not actually sure exactly what happened but Twilight blew up then a few minutes later she appeared and she had wings!"

"She blew up?"

"Well…. Yeah!"

"And she was a princess?"

"Yep!"

"Your monarchy makes no sense, so you have no kings or queens or anything? Just Princesses?"

"Well, there's a Changeling queen and king Sombrero I mean Sombra"

"And what do they rule?"

"The changeling Empire, but let me tell you Chrysalis was a really meany pants, and so was Sombra for that matter, but I'm fairly sure he's dead so it should be fine!"

"What?"

Before the conversation could go on the door swung open

"The Princess will see you now." Trinket flicked her mane and walked past us

The Doctor shrugged and walked in.

Twilight Sparkle was sitting on a couch, and she looked like she could barely hold in her excitement

"Pinkie!" she cried and in a gigantic leap across the room she tackled me in a huge bear hug. The Doctor quickly stepped to the side to avoid being crushed. There were tears streaming down her face.

"Are you okay? Why are you crying

Twilight let go of me and wiped her face "Sorry, I just haven't seen you in forever and I got a little… emotional. So this is your first trip with the Doctor right?"

"Yep! Wait how did you know?"

"Because… well it's complicated and I can't exactly say much without somepony" she eyed the Doctor "Getting mad at me for messing with the time stream."

"I take it you know me then?" He sat down on the couch

"Yes… well, somehow that's an understatement."

"What do you mean?"

"Things happened back in Ponyville, lots of things. And I suppose you don't really know me right now!" She seemed really eager to change the subject "I'm Twilight Sparkle, I'm the ruler of the colony on Avem, we've already met a few times in my time stream, well I was a princess of Equestria back then."

"Right, what is with all this princess stuff? If there's no-one…"

"Pony, you are really bad at this."

"Above you then why not call yourself queen, also, you're royalty, but you're not descendant of anypony that's royal and you didn't marry into the royal family, how does that work?"

Twilight laughed "Our monarchy works differently than the way you're used to Doctor, We use the term Princess because all of the princesses rule the kingdom equally, so nopony claims the title of queen, I suppose being the sole ruler on Avem I could say I'm the queen but the colony is part of Equestria, so Celestia and Luna technically also rule here. As for the second question, well, it's complicated."

"Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out what happened there, just one minute your gone then the next, poof! Princess! Alicorn party! We still need to have that, when we get back to Ponyville remind me about that!"

Twilight scratched her nose "Alright, well I'd better go organise some things… I don't think you'll be seeing much of me during your visit, but the cafeteria is always open and you should have full access to all facilities and resources, Flint out there should set up rooms for you both." She shook her head "But please, don't hurt yourselves" She looked at us meaningfully before walking out of the well organized room.

"What did she mean by that?"

"Meh, it's probably nothing!"

"Usually when people say something like that they mean something."

"Well there's nothing we can do about it now is there?"

"I suppose not, what do we do now?"

"Well we have access to all the facilities, let's have some fun!"