The bright light blinded the six ponies. When they reached solid ground, they instantly became very tired. The last thing Twilight remembers seeing is a shoreline and a two figures running over to her. She fainted next to her friends in the bright daylight.

"What happened?" asked Twilight quickly.

"Don't worry, you're safe here," said a gentle voice. It sounded familiar, yet she was sure she had never heard it before.

"Where am I?"

"In my house, but please, rest. You teleported a long distance, you are very weak. Don't worry about your friends, they are all sleeping right now." With that, Twilight fell back into sleep, the voice acting almost as a lullaby.

When Twilight woke up again, she remained awake. She looked around the room that she was sleeping in. The owner obviously loved music. There were lyres hanging on the wall and many other instruments laying around the room, including a very large harp in the corner. She saw music sheets in big piles, but organized nicely, which secretly delighted her. Just then, the pony that took care of her came into the room, Twilight could see now that it was a unicorn. Her skin color looked to be a very light cerise, with a hint of gray. Her mane held three colors, light gold, rose, and dark purple. "Oh good, you're awake Twilight Sparkle."

"How do you know my name?"

"Your friend told me. Anyways, you need to eat something. You've been asleep for many hours." Twilight followed the unicorn out of the room and into the main area of the house. There, she saw her five friends sitting around.

"You okay, Twilight?" said Applejack, "You've been asleep a long time."

"I'm fine, how long have you girls been awake?"

The unicorn responded, "Applejack woke first not too long ago, which I guess because she is a hard-working earth pony. She recovered quickly. She was followed by Pinkie Pie, then Rainbow Dash, then Fluttershy and Rarity. You woke last because you were the one who teleported everypony."

"By the way, what is your name?"

"My name is Cadence."

"So, Cadence, how do you know all of our names?"

"Your friend told me," she responded, then walked away from the six ponies. Twilight looked at her five friends, but they all gave confused looks. "Your friend is coming any second now. I sent him to get some apples from my orchard. They weren't grown in Equestria, but they are from seeds that were once there."

Just as she finished her sentence, the door opened, and a basket of golden apples appeared through the doorway. "Here are your apples, Cadence," said a voice all the ponies recognized.

"Thanks, Spike. I'm sure your friends are very hungry."

Astonished, Twilight asked, "What are you doing here Spike?"

"Celestia came to the library not long after you left it. She said I had to go with her to another place and wait for you here. So, she teleported me here, and I have been with Cadence for the past five days."

"You know Celestia, Cadence?" questioned Twilight.

"Yes, I know her," she said as she started preparing the apples, "She gave me my apple seeds, from which I grew my orchard. They are from her golden apple tree."

"Where are we exactly?"

"We are not in Equestria. We are far south of it, along a coastline."

"Why have I not heard of anyplace outside of Equestria?"

"Because you are not supposed to be here," Cadence said with a smile, "You cannot physically walk here, and only alicorns have the magical power to arrive here."

"Then how did I get us six here?"

"You received help from an outside source, that is the only explanation I can think of."

"Well, I'm not sure who, both Luna and Celestia couldn't have helped us, they-" Twilight paused.

Applejack quickly picked up, "Something bad happened to them, a creature named Discord returned."

"Discord? He came back?"

"Yes, and he actually turned-"

Cadence interrupted, "turned Luna into Nightmare Moon, I know plenty about Equestria."

"Well, we searched Luna and Celestia's old castle, and we found a note."

"Is this it?" Cadence asked, while picking up a piece of from a drawer.

"Where did you get that?" Twilight asked.

"I found it next to Applejack when Spike and I found you ponies yesterday. Anyways, that has always been a problem about Celestia."

"What do you mean?"

"She always tries to take an indirect approach towards things. She waits for a moment instead of going start towards the problem."

"How do you know that?"

"We know each other. Do you know what happened to Celestia, she said in her note she might come." Twilight came close to crying again. "She's gone."

"What do you mean 'gone'?"

"The same thing that happened to Luna when she turned into Nightmare Moon, Celestia is now Solar Flare."

"We have to save her," Cadence said sternly.

"I know that, but how, the two alicorns left in existence are now evil are would never help us return to Equestria."

"I know of one more."

"What? Celestia said she and Luna were the only two left."

"She lied to you, we kept the third alicorn a secret in case something similar to this happened."

"Who is it then?" Instead of speaking, though, Cadence took off her robe. Underneath, were two broad purple wings. The six ponies were speechless. Spike giggled a little when looking at his friends' faces.

When Twilight could finally speak, she said, "So, are you Celestia's sister?"

"Yes, the younger sister of Celestia and Luna."

"Why don't you live in Equestria?"

"There, I am royalty. Here, I am a normal unicorn if I hide my wings. I never liked politics. I left that to my older sisters. My real interest was in music. When Discord emerged, I hid myself by leaving Equestria. Only Celestia knows of me being here, we never told Luna. She probably thinks I died with the rest of the alicorns."

"Why did you never come back to Equestria? We could have used your help when Nightmare Moon emerged and when Discord broke from his imprisonment."

"In the end, you completed your missions on your own. And if I helped, ponies would know of my existence. A situation such as this one would be better if I remained unknown until the desired moment."

"So, you are going to help us save Equestria?"

"Yes, I will. Although, I do not have power there, I have my sisters I have to save."

"Alright then, but how do we defeat Discord, Nightmare Moon, and Solar Flare? We do not have the Elements of Harmony."

"Actually," said Spike, "we do have them."

"What? How? Celestia kept them and now she is Solar Flare."

"She only had the elements for a short while," he responded, "Celestia gave me the elements when she brought me here."

"Where the elements right now?"

"Hold on a second," Spike left the room and went upstairs. After a few moments, he returned with a box, "Here are the elements, I kept them hidden since Celestia gave them to me." Spike opened the chest and took out the elements. The elements appeared to be dimmer than when the ponies had seen them last. "Do they look... different?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"I thought that as well when I last looked at them," replied Spike.

"Anyways," said Twilight, "we have to think of how to defeat Discord and save Celestia and Luna."

"I believe the important part is to get to each of them separately, it would be easier," said Cadence.

"They do not exactly need to be together, so that part may be easy," Twilight responded

"So what? We just use the elements of them, that simple?" asked Applejack.

"I guess so," replied Cadence, "not very difficult of a plan."

"It just seems, almost too simple."

"Sometimes simplicity is the best route to take."

"Fine, but how do we get into the castle? We cannot simply walk into Caterlot."

"I believe we might be able to."

"How so?"

"How difficult was it to get into the castle after leaving the forest?"

"Well, no pony was around."

"There you go, because there are three of them, they believe they have little to fear."

"Still, it won't be too easy getting to them individually."

"I guess we'll have to work with what we find."

"Doesn't sound like a good plan."

"But it is still a plan, besides, I was never one for planning things. My sisters were in charge of that."

Rainbow joins the conversation, "Well, it sounds like we can go now."

"Why are you so anxious to leave?" asked Cadence.

"To save Equestria," replied Twilight before Rainbow could say anything.

"Very well then, if you think we can do it now, then we can go."