Chapter 3:

Rise & Shine Mr Lightshift

The dream he had was the most vivid dream he had ever had. He was in front of a place he had never seen before, and a n orange coated pony was standing in front of him.

"Rise and shine, mister Lightshift, Rise and, shine." His voice was the creepiest voice he had ever heard. He woke without moving at all.

Looking out the window, he sees the sun is setting. He had slept the day through. The unicorn that had saved him was still there, so he walked over and decided to surprise her. Unfortunately he made a spark on the floor, and she turned around.

"Oh, hello! My name is twilight Sparkle. I see you slept well, maybe a bit too well." She said with a chuckle. It was then he realised that the sun was not setting, but rising. He had slept not only through the day, but through the following night as well. "I haven't seen your kind of pony here before, are you new? And also, what's your name"

"My name is Ion Lightshift, but call me Ion. I'm the last surviving member of my kind, and I can control and manipulate ions." She looked rather sad and replied

"That's horrible!"

"I can live with it."

"Oh well, at least you can still eat breakfast!" She had made a nice breakfast of something that he could not find the name for. The only thing he could think of was "delicious". The breakfast really cleared up his head, so he decided to ask Twilight some questions. "Where am I?"

"Ponyville, it's a good place to live, with a lot of things to keep you happy. Food, places to stay, place to eat, places to have fun & a lot of good ponies to make friends with." He liked the idea of it all. All except the last part, and the fact that there were lots of ponies living here.

"I appreciate the effort but I-" he was cut off there by a loud crash from outside. Ponies outside were panicking and dashing inside.

"Quick, we need to call the other elements of harmony." Ion was confused. He had no idea what these elements were. However he followed Twilight to where they were going. He took a last glance outside, and saw what he had come to fear. The Combine had arrived.