The island is shown. But there's something different. Smoke rises from the middle of the island, revealing it to be an active volcano.
3 years after the fall of Ancient World, the debate over Isla Ponya rages on. The island's long dormant volcano, reclassified as active, has shown considerable unrest in recent months.
A news lady talks about the volcano and this event.
"Geologists now predict an extinction level event will kill off the last living ancient creatures on the planet. Since the disaster that shocked the world 3 years earlier, the Masrani Corporation has paid out more than 800 million in damages to settle class action lawsuits brought by survivors. Activist groups have mobilized around Equestria in what has become the Flash Point Animal Rights Issue of our time. With an eruption expected at any moment, the Equestrian Senate has convened a special committee to answer a grave moral question: Do these ancient creatures deserve the same protections given to other endangered species, or should they be left to die?" the news reporter finished.
Then, it shows 2 Ponychiosaurus grazing on the treetops. They bellow out as the camera on a helicopter filming them zooms by.
Then, we go to the Senate room where judge ponies are facing one pony sitting in the chair before them.
"I think that we should allow our magnificent, glorious dinosaurs to be taken out by the volcano" the pony said and immediately, mumbling was heard from the audience and the judges looked to each other.
"Silence, please" a judge said and the audience hushed.
"Deeply sad as that would be" the pony continued, "we altered the course of natural history. This is a correction."
"Are you suggesting the Tree of Harmony is taking matters into its own hands?" the judge asked.
"Senate, with all do respect, the Tree is not part of the equation. No, what I mean is that in the last decade we emasked landmark technological power and we've consistently proven ourselves incapable of handling that power, and now we've got genetic power so, how long is it going to take for that to spread around Equestria and beyond and what's going to be done with it? It ain't gonna stop with the deextinction of those ancient creatures" the pony finished.
"I'm not sure I know what you are talking about" the judge replied. "I'm talking about...pony made, cataclysmic change" the pony said.
"What kind of change?" the judge asked. "Change is like death. You don't know what it looks likes until you're standing at the gates..." the pony finished.
Ponyville...one of the best places in Equestria.
Everypony knows about the dinoponies and the other ancient creatures now and also about their soon to be extinction.
Everypony felt sympathy for the ancient creatures, but mainly 2 ponies: Twilight Sparkle and Claire Dearling.
After they heard about this, they started up a thing called the Dinosaur Protection Group. Claire mainly came up with the idea.
Twilight totally agreed with it and so did her friends. An elevator was going up. Inside, 7 pairs of hooves and a pair of clawed feet were there.
They soon were revealed to be Claire, Twilight, Spike, Rainbow, Applejack, Pinkie, Rarity, and Fluttershy.
Claire was holding 4 cups of coffee with her magic while also looking on her phone at the news on the debate over Isla Ponya.
The elevator arrived at its destination.
It stopping and opened the doors, but the doors only went half way because it was an old elevator and Claire had to squeeze through in between them.
When she was through, the elevator doors finished opening and the Mane 7 followed her in. A mare earth pony was talking on her phone to somepony.
She had a red mane and tail, a white coat, and brown eyes.
"As a matter of fact, I do have the dinosaurs best interests in mind. I'm a paleoveterinarian" she said to the pony on the other side.
"That's a real thing. No, I haven't seen one with my own eyes. You no, not everypony can afford to spend their life savings..." she said frustratingly to the pony on the other side.
Then, she saw Claire. "Claire!" the mare said and Claire immediately came over with the Mane 7 following. Then, the mare handed Claire the phone.
"Hello, hello! Um...Congressmare Delgado" Claire said and the mare made sure on what Claire should say.
"I-I'm Claire, I'm the lead organizer hear. O-Of course, but if I could just get a moment of your time...Great! Thank you. So, our mission here at the Dinosaur Protection Group is to secure federal funding to..." Claire continued talking to the pony while the Mane 7 stayed with the mare.
Then, a stallion earth pony turned to the mare. He had a black mane, brownish coat, and blue eyes. "That was like 40 seconds. You're getting better" he said.
"You got to stop letting your mom shop for you" the mare replied. "You don't need to insult me every time someone pisses you off" he said.
"Dude, I'm a doctor, not a telemarketer" she replied. "Hey, Franklin, what is your job again?" Rainbow asked. "It's plugging cords right?" the mare asked.
"It's actually more important than it sounds" the stallion, named Franklin, said and he went back to his computer.
Back with Claire, she was still talking with the congressmare on the phone.
"Can I ask you a question? Do you have kids?...Okay so your kids, an entire generation has grown up in a world where creatures from the past are living and breathing, but soon they're gonna have to watch them go extinct...or not, if ponies like you make a difference" Claire finished.
The congressmare replied a positive answer. Claire sighed in relief. "Great!" Claire said and she hung up.
She turned back to the mare and the Mane 7 and did a gesture of success. "Yes!" the mare cheered and the Mane 7 cheered.
Then, the TV went to the news and it showed the Isla Ponya Crisis.
"Oh! Claire, everypony, its on!" Twilight said and everypony immediately came to the TV while Claire turned up the volume.
A judge came to the podium and announced the final decision.
"After a thorough deliberation, the committee has resolved not to recommend any legislative action regarding the deextinct creatures on Isla Ponya. This is an act of the Tree of Harmony and, while of course we feel great sympathy for these animals, we cannot condone government involvement on what amounts to a privately owned venture" he finished and Claire muted the TV, feeling great sadness and anger.
"What did they do? They didn't do anything wrong" Pinkie said. "Pinkie, those politician ponies are messed up sometimes" Applejack said.
"I don't think the Tree of Harmony has anything to do with this" Twilight said. "They're all going to die and nopony cares" Claire said. "We do" Franklin said.
Then, Claire heard her phone ringing. "Give me a second. Get back to work. Okay, everypony, come on" Claire said. Then, she headed to her phone.
Twilight followed her. "Who is it?" Twilight asked. "I don't know" Claire said and she picked up the phone with her magic. "Hello?" Claire asked.
"May I speak with Miss Dearling?" a mare voice said from the other side. "Uh, yes, this is Claire Dearling" Claire said. Twilight listened in.
"Good morning, I'm calling from Benjamin Lockwood's Estate. Would you mind holding for a second?" the voice said.
"Yes, o-of course, I'll hold" Claire said, completely shocked, for Benjamin Lockwood worked with Mr. Masrani and helped create Ancient World.
He was the original founder of Ancient World. Although he was old, he had the idea and passed it on to Masrani.
Claire looked to Twilight and Twilight had the same expression Claire had and immediately, they went to tell the others.
Author's Note: I'm using Benjamin Lockwood because, since there was no Ancient Park, there can't be a John Hammond.