The seven ponies and Spike gather the next morning at the train station and board the train heading west. Ellie sits next to window near Twilight on one of benches. She looks out the window a bit before turning to Twilight. "Hey, Twilight. Princess Celestia was kinda vague when she says that I need to make friends here. What do you think will happen once I do?"

"I have a feeling that the portal will open again and you can travel freely between this world and your own. But you made friends with us, I don't understand why it hasn't opened yet."

"Would it have to do with the town we're going to?"

"Maybe." Twilight states as she rubbed the bottom of her chin with her hoof.

Rainbow Dash, who sits directly across from Ellie on the train, was very fidgety. "I really hope we get to defeat a horrible monster."

"Why?" Twilight inquired.

"Because that would be awesome!"

"I guess I have to remind you Rainbow Dash that we're there to help them fix things like the weather and the crops."

"Yeah, Yeah, I know." Rainbow rolled her eyes and decided to look out the window.

Pinkie sits on the floor of the train playing with a red balloon, "I hope it'll be fun!" she says as she rolls around holding onto the balloon to her belly as she does so. A very short time later, Pinkie balanced on her stomach with the balloon under her and the balloon pops, dropping her to the floor. Pinkie pouted, her bottom lip trembled.

Rarity was sitting next to Rainbow Dash and Applejack when she looks at Pinkie and used her magic get a new balloon and gave the salesman a gold coin. She puts the balloon in front of Pinkie, who smiles a jumps up quickly and takes the balloon. She dashed up to Rarity and hugs her, the unicorn smiles.

"You're quite welcome darling." She says, "Just be careful with the balloon this time."

Pinkie put the string of the balloon in her mouth and happily hopped around. Ellie smiles at the pink earth pony, when a thought occurred to her. "What are the Elements of Harmony? I've never heard of them."

Everypony looks at her, "What do you mean you haven't heard of the Elements?"

Ellie just shrugged, "I haven't. What's so special about them?"

"Well, the Elements of Harmony help us protect Equestria from evil/threats." Twilight states, "And they're a total of six elements; Generosity, Loyalty, Honesty, Laughter, Kindness, and finally magic." She points to each pony as she talks, "Rarity is Generosity, Rainbow Dash is Loyalty, Applejack is Honesty, Pinkie Pie is Laughter, Fluttershy is Kindness, and I'm Magic. The Elements are formed through friendship, the bond that we have made over the years."

"So are the Elements in everyon-everypony?" Ellie asks.

"The Elements are in the Tree of Harmony."

"So they're actual objects?"

"Yes. They're crystals."

Applejack fixed her hat, "Though the Elements aren't with us, our friendship is tougher than nails and twice as sharp."

"How do you use the elements?" asks Ellie.

Twilight starts talking again, "That's kinda hard to explain. It's like a feeling, a strong feeling, a spark you could say."

"So you get magical powers or something? I mean, like more then you already have?"

Pinkie blurted out, "We become rainbow and sparkly! We also get designs on our hooves that match our cutie-mark!" While Pinkie was talking, she accidentally let go of the blue balloon and it drifted to the ceiling. Twilight brought it back down with magic, which Pinkie happily grabbed the string again.

"So, you're like magical girls powered by friendship?" Ellie giggles.

"What are magical girls?" Rainbow Dash questioned as she shrugged her shoulders.

"It's a term from my world. It's where a group of girls get magical powers to protect the world. They transform into fancy outfits and such. They usually have a mascot."

Rainbow Dash starts laughing as she pointed at spike, "That's you Spike!"

"Huh? M-me?" Spike stuttered.

"Yes Spikey, you're our mascot." Rarity smiles at him.

Spike smiles back, puffed out his chest and says heroically, "Then it's my responsibility."

Rainbow Dash bursted out laughing again. "This is too good!"

"I-I find it k-kinda nice to have a mascot." Fluttershy says quietly as she sits next to Twilight.

As the seven of them sits on the train, they got closer to the edge of Equestria. White Tail Woods was the last stop on the trail heading West. the ponies got off and headed out on foot, each carrying only one bag and each bag matches the pony that was carrying it. They walked into the undiscovered territory and after a while, they find a huge lake. The water glistens as light reflected off of it, the seven looks around the lake as to try and find any village nearby.

Twilight looks into the water, looking at her reflection, "I'm thinking this is White Mare Lake like the literal lake the the village was named after."

Ellie came up to Twilight looking at her own reflection, "I still can't believe that I turned into a pony…" she stares at herself for a bit before looking up as Rainbow Dash spoke.

"Hey you guys I spot a village over just past these trees over here!" she zoomed over the trees and landed just beyond them. The other six ponies ran through the trees before catching up to Rainbow Dash.

Before them, was a little village that could use a bit of repairing, to put it nicely. Buildings were old and almost falling down. There was no pony in sight, it almost looks like a ghost town. As the seven ponies walked into the village they looks at the houses. In the center of town was a fountain, from the look of it that thing in the village that didn't look damaged.

Fluttershy starts shaking, "I don't think I like this village very much. It scary."

"Does anypony even live here?" yelled Rainbow Dash.

Ellie looks around slowly and she spots a mare that was peeking her head out from a corner of a house that was left of the fountain. She approaches the pony, who quickly ducks her head back. When Ellie goes around the corner, she's met face-to-face with a light blue Earth Pony that had a light brown mane that was partially in a braid. She had blue-green eyes and a cutie-mark that was a black book and a black quill. The mare had a saddle on her back that was filled with books.

The blue alicorn looks at the mare and lifted her hoof to her, "Hi, I'm Ellie Pallet." The Pony grabbed her hoof and shook it.

"M-my name is Sia. Sia Quill."

Ellie smiles at Sia, "Do you want to meet my friends? They're by the fountain."

Sia nods slowly and walked out with Ellie and over to the Fountain. The Mane six turned to Ellie and Sia, "Who's this?" Twilight asks kindly.

"This is Sia Quill." Ellie says, "Sia this is Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Princess Twilight Sparkle."

Sia looks surprised and starts to bow, "It's a pleasure to meet you and your friends Princess."

Twilight stepped forward to Sia and spoke, "There's no need to bow. Sia, do you live here?"

The blue Earth Pony keeps changing her gaze from the ground to Twilight as she nods slowly, "Yes, I-I do."

"Does anypony else live here?"

"Y-yes. They're out in the fields trying to see if our crops survived."

"Survived?"

"Y-yes, Princess."

"Please call me Twilight. Can you tell me what is happening to your village?"

"It first starts with the weather. Random changes between hot and cold, snow and rain. The changes in weather starts to kill our crops, then we starts to run out of food. That's when our mayor contacted Princess Celestia, she thought that we'd be able to survive if we join Equestria." Sia says as she looks around at the houses, "The weather changes took a toll on our homes, but since we were using our time to try and save the crops we haven't had time to repair them."

"We're here to help." Twilight says with a smile before turning to her friends, "Alright, Rainbow Dash and I will try and fix the weather, Applejack and Pinkie Pie can you help with the crops?"

"Absolutoooolootely!" Pinkie replies happily.

"I reckon we can handle it." Applejack nods.

"Alright, Rarity and Fluttershy, can you work on repairing the houses?"

Rarity flipped her hair as she spoke, "I'll make them absolutely stunning."

"I could try and get some animals to help us." Fluttershy states quietly.

Ellie walked up to Twilight, "Hey, Twilight, what should I do?"

Twilight thought for a second before Sia spoke up, "You could help me clean up the library, if you want."

"Sure. I think I can managed that." Ellie smiles.

Twilight began to hover as she spoke, "Alright everypony, to your stations!"

Everyone replies, "Yeah!"