Before Celestia leaves, she tells Twilight that she might have luck to help Ellie if she took her to a distant land to the west called, White Mare Lake. She states that she received a letter earlier from the mayor of the town, saying that they would like to join Equestria. They say that their country has been plagued with hardships; food is not growing, weird weather patterns and the town has been in a deep freeze for weeks. Princess Celestia thought that it would be best if the Elements of Harmony went down there to help the ponies out.

"I guess we'll have to get my friends." Twilight states to Ellie after Celestia left.

"Where are they?" Ellie asks the princess.

Twilight starts walking towards the front exit of the castle as she talks to Ellie, "They're probably at home, so we have to go get them." The blue alicorn just nods in agreement as Twilight starts to flap her wings and take off. "Let's go and get Rainbow dash first."

"Uh, Twilight?"

The princess turns to look at Ellie, "Yeah?"

"I don't know how to fly." Ellie points out as she begins to poke at the ground with her hoof.

Twilight looks at the mare before landing back down, "Then let's go and get Fluttershy, I'm sure she can help you." She starts walking again, going ahead of the blue alicorn, Ellie galloped to catch up to Twilight.

On the way to Fluttershy's, Ellie ponders on a question as she walks next to the purple princess. She smiles before asking right out of the blue, "So am I magical?"

"What?"

"Am I magical, do I have powers like you?"

"I wouldn't say 'powers'. Magic, yes. But you have to learn spells to tap into that magic."

Ellie excitedly starts to jump up and down in pure joy, "Cool! This is so awesome!" She begins to run around Twilight, while the purple princess just sighs before smiling and watching Ellie.

They arrive at Fluttershy's cottage a little while after they left the castle. Before knocking, Twilight looks over her shoulder and smiles at Ellie briefly. Fluttershy opens the door slowly before sticking her head out.

"H-hello, Oh. Hello Twilight." she says softly, but squeaks in fear when she saw Ellie.

"Don't be scared Fluttershy. This is Ellie. She came here from Canterlot High. Through the portal." Twilight says as she tries to reassure her as Ellie smiles and waves.

"The other world?" she asks, scared but somewhat curious.

"Yes, and she doesn't know how to fly yet so I was hoping that you'd teach her. Since Rainbow is in Cloudsdale and we can only get to her is by flying. All of the balloons are taken today."

"I don't know Twilight, I've never taught a pony to fly. I've only taught baby birds." Fluttershy states as she looks at the ground and she starts twiddling her hooves, unsure of herself.

"I know you can do it, teaching a pony how to fly is just like teaching birds. Just imagine that Ellie is a baby bird."

The mentioned alicorn tilts her head to the side slightly in confusion, So, I'm an animal now?

The shy pegasus slowly opens her door all the way, stepping to the side and motioning them into her home. "I guess I could try." Fluttershy turns to her window and whistles softly calling a few birds to the sil. One bird, a blue jay, tweets softly to Fluttershy who replies, "Well, Mr. Jay, my friend Ellie would like to learn how to fly. So, I'm kindly asking if you would please show her as an example." The birds looks over at Ellie for a second before shifting their gaze back at Fluttershy and nodding kindly before the birds starts tweeting softly.

Fluttershy turns to smile at Ellie, "They say that they'll help teach you."

The blue alicorn smiles gleefully, "Awesome!"

Fluttershy begins flapping her wings softly and she looks at Ellie before motioning to the birds, who begins to flap their wings and hover next to the yellow pegasus. Ellie looks down at her wings and slowly unfolds them. She looks at Fluttershy as she begins to try and flap her wings. She only got a few feet up before falling back down to the ground with a thud.

"Oof!" she sounded as she lands.

"Come on you can do it Ellie!" Twilight cheers as she sat on the couch by the wall.

Ellie sighs but begins to push herself up off of the ground. She moved her hooves as to try and gain balance, not used to being in the air she tumbled back down hitting the wood floor once again.

"I'm not sure I'm cut out for this flying stuff." Ellie murmured as she stood up and brushed herself off. "How about you two just go and get Dash, I'll just walk around town. I can see if I meet other people-I mean-ponies in this place." She leaned her head down and frowns.

Fluttershy lands on the ground in front of Ellie, she speaks quietly, "don't worry if you can't fly now, you'll get the hang of it. When Twilight got her wings, she have trouble flying too." Twilight blushed a bit.

The two alicorns looks at eachother, "You mean you didn't have wings before?" Ellie questioned. Twilight shook her head slowly.

"No I didn't, before I was just an unicorn. Princess Celestia turns me into an alicorn, saying it was my destiny. I didn't see how me being a princess does anything. I'm still me. The same goes for flying, just because I have wings doesn't mean I'm good at flying."

Fluttershy raised her hoof, "Um, I have a suggestion… Why don't I ask Mr. Jay to take a letter to Rainbow Dash telling her to meet us at Sugarcube Corner?" She whispered as she twiddled her hooves.

"That's a great idea Fluttershy!" Twilight exclaims as jumps off the couch and trotted over to a table that have paper. She used her magic to grab a pen, ink and a piece of paper and begins writing. She gave the now rolls up paper to Fluttershy, who in turn have it to Mr. Jay before sending off to Rainbow Dash.

"What's Sugarcube Corner?" Ellie exchanged a confused looks with the ponies in front of her.

"Sugarcube Corner is where Pinkie Pie lives. Pinkie Pie is our town's party planner, she maybe a bit random and a bit...uh..eccentric. I think you'll like her." Twilight explained as she starts to head towards the exit of Fluttershy's cottage.

As they starts to head towards Sugarcube Corner Fluttershy decided to speak up, "Um...Twilight?"

"Yes?" The purple princess answers.

"Why are we getting everypony together?" Fluttershy speaks softly.

"I'll explain when we are altogether. It's easier than have to explaining it several times."

"Okay...Sorry I asks," the yellow pegasus replies as she looks at the ground as she walks.

"There's nothing to apologize for Fluttersh-"

"TWILIGHT!"

There was a loud scream, coming from what appeared to be a gingerbread house with a chocolate frosting roof. The three ponies galloped to the house, where suddenly a pink blur dashes out of the front door and tackled Twilight. Ellie jumps to the side as she examined the strange pink pony that was currently hugging Twilight to death.

"Pinkie...Can't...Breathe." Twilight managed to gasp out.

Pinkie steps back away from Twilight with a smile on her face. "Sorry." She turns to Ellie and gasps loudly. She rushed over to Ellie and got right in her face before leaning her forehead against Ellie's, looking her straight in the eyes. "Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie!" The pink pony grabbed Ellie's front hoof and shook it rapidly.

Ellie continues to shake her hook even after Pinkie let go of it, putting her hoof down after she stopped. "Hi. I'm Ellie Pallet."

"I've never see you before, did-you-come-from-the-portal?!"

"How'd you know that?"

Pinkie shrugs and smiles, "Just a hunch." she gasps again, "Do you like to draw and paint?"

Ellie smiles brightly, "I love to draw! Was that just a hunch too?"

Pinkie steps closer and rubs her hoof in Ellie's hair, messing up her mane. "It shows on your cutie-mark, silly." She quickly dashes back into her house before dashing out to say something. "I have something for you. STAY RIGHT THERE!" Zip and she's gone.

Ellie looks at Twilight, who shrugs her shoulders. The blue alicorn jumps when Pinkie Pie zips back out of the house and put a saddle bag on her. She looks down at the bag, which was a pretty cerulean blue and have her cutie-mark on the clip. "Just have it lying around. Open it!" Pinkie exclaims as she begins to jump up and down as she smiles.

Ellie reaches back with her hoof and tries to open the bag. She begins to struggle with the bag and she frowns before just giving up and staring at the ground. "I can't open it. I don't know how to hold anything with these hooves. I can't even open a flipping bag!" She frowns at Pinkie, who jumps over to Ellie and helps her open the bag. Inside the bag, on one side, there are containers that cupcakes are placed in. On the other side, there are art supplies such as sketch books, pencils, color pencils, and an assortment of paints and oil pastels.

"Oh my gosh, I love it! Thank-you Pinkie Pie!"

"Don't mention it. We're besties now!" Pinkie declared as she hugged Ellie tightly and giggles.

"Okay!" Ellie giggles as she hugged Pinkie back.

"It seems you two are already friends." Twilight interjected with a smile. Unbeknownst to them, Rainbow Dash was sneaking up on them riding on a cloud. The blue pegasus flies behind the cloud and kicks the cloud hard with her hind hooves, launching a lighting bolt at Ellie and Pinkie Pie. When striking the ground it make a loud crack in the air. Fluttershy screams and hid underneath Twilight, covering her face with her hooves and letting her hair cover her face. Pinkie starts laughing as Ellie jumps and yelps. A cackle could be heard from Rainbow Dash as she starts to roll around on the cloud.

"Rainbow Dash!" Twilight yells as she stomps her hoof, "That wasn't very nice. let alone a good impression on a new comer and future friend."

"You don't have to so bent out of shape Twilight, it's all in good fun. Stop being a party pooper."

The princess looks at Rainbow Dash with a deadpan look as she steps away from Fluttershy who was still covering her face. "Look at what you did to poor Fluttershy. You scared the bejeezus out of her. That wasn't in good fun to her." Rainbow Dash jumps down from her cloud and reaches a hoof out to Fluttershy.

"Sorry I scared you Fluttershy." Rainbow Dash states before Fluttershy cautiously looks up at Rainbow Dash and took the offered hoof. The blue pegasus walks over to Ellie and asks, "Are you alright?"

Ellie relaxes a bit and looks at Rainbow Dash, "Yeah, I think. But how did you do that?"

"Do what? The lightning?"

"Yeah."

Rainbow Dash looks confused, "Are you serious?"

"Yeah, I am."

Twilight steps forward, "Rainbow, this is Ellie Pallet. She came here through the portal, she doesn't know about Pegasi." She turns to Ellie, "Here in Equestria, Pegasi control the weather. So, Rainbow Dash here can manipulate clouds for rain, snow and even lightning."

"That sounds awesome." Ellie replies.

Rainbow blows on her front right hoof before rubbing it on her chest. "I know," she states with pride.

"I guess the only ponies left to get is Applejack and Rarity." Twilight states as she starts walking to the Carousel Boutique, having the four ponies traveling behind the princess.

The five ponies arrive at Carousel Boutique, which was a gorgeous building according to Ellie, who thought that it looks exactly like a carousel. It looks like the one she used to ride on when she was a little kid back in her world. Twilight opens the door with her magic, and steps inside along with her friends.

The place was quiet, like eerily quiet. The five ponies looks around the shop to try and find her before finally Rainbow Dash yells, "Rarity? Where are you?"

Rarity steps out of the back room carrying a recently completed dress with her magic and replies, "Really, must you be so loud Rainbow Dash?" The dress has a purple bodice with lavender colored lace for the trim, the bottom of the dress was rainbow. Each section was a different color, stitched so perfectly that they seemed to blend perfectly into each other, an amethyst was placed on the front of the bodice. Rarity walks straight up to Ellie, "Have we recently acquired another princess to Equestria? Would you mind trying this dress on deary? I need a real body to make sure that'll look good. The manikins can be a bit vague since they're white."

Ellie looks at Rarity and smiles, "Sure, but I might need help putting it o-"

"I can help with that!" Pinkie Pie interjected with glee. Pinkie Pie practically pushed Ellie into the dressing room.

Rarity turns to Twilight, "Seriously Twilight, I thought I told you to let me know if there was any news from Canterlot."

"Rarity, Ellie is not a princess. She came through the portal, from Canterlot High."

"Really darling? Will while she's here, I'm going to make sure to show her my best side."

A voice came from the changing room, "You really don't have to do that Rarity. I think I'm going to be here for a bit." Ellie steps out of the changing room, wearing the gown. "I'm not special or anything. So you don't have to act differently around me." Pinkie Pie smiles as she exits also, carrying Ellie's newly acquired saddle bag on her back.

Rarity begins to smile as she trots around Ellie, observing the dress in every angle. "It's perfect! The dress certainly matches your complexion and the lavender really brings out your eyes! I knew that I needed a different colored pony to try it on. Thank-you ever so much! As thanks I'm going to give you the dress."

"No, Rarity you don't hav-"

"But I want to deary, that gown is perfect on you. I insist."

"Alright, if you really want to." Ellie replies before turning to Pinkie Pie. "Hey Pinkie, could you help me take this off?"

"Absolutely!" Pinkie says happily as she and Ellie steps back into the changing room.

Rarity turns once again to Twilight, "Twilight, why'd you bring everypony here? And where's Applejack if you don't mind me asking?"

"We're on our way to get her now. I'll explain once we're all together." Twilight replies as she sees Ellie exit the changing room now with the saddle bag and the dress on her back. Rarity looks over at the dress and uses her magic to neatly fold it and put it in one side of Ellie's saddle bag.

"If you say so. Alright, let's go and get Applejack," the white unicorn states as she clips the bag shut and trots out of the shop, flipping her hair as she exits.

The six ponies walk over to Sweet Apple Acres, which are mostly always abundant with apples. They walks over to the big red barn that was Applejacks house, It was a beautiful cherry red with apple signs on the shingles. Twilight walks up to the door and knocks on it with her hoof. The top section of the two sectioned door swings in and appeared an orange earth pony. "Howdy girls, what brings you here?"

Twilight motions to Ellie to come forward, which she does. "Hey Applejack," Twilight starts, "This is Ellie Pallet, she came here from Canterlot high, from the portal."

Applejack jumps down and swings the bottom door in before walking out. "How do you do, I'm Applejack. It's a pleasure to meet you. This is my farm, me and my family grow apples here in Ponyville." She reaches out her hoof to Ellie to accepts it and they shake hooves.

"Okay Twilight, now can you tell us what is going on? We have Applejack now." Rainbow Dash complains motioning her hooves to Applejack and Ellie.

"Why I gathered you all is because we have a mission from Princess Celestia-"

"SWEET!" Rainbow Dash cut in, "We finally get to kick some butt."

"Rainbow!" Twilight yells. Rainbow Dash shut up and looks down at the ground, saddened. "As I was saying, Princess Celestia called us and says that we are to report to a town called White Mare Lake. They recently asks to join equestria, but first the princess wants us to help them clear problems that they've have. Such as strange weather patterns and they're crops dying as well as being in a deep freeze. So, we need to leave as soon as possible."

Rarity looks like she going to start to panic, "How will I ever pick which outfit to wear?"

Applejack just rolls her eyes, "You don't need to bring outfits, just go as yourself."

"But Applejack, I need to accessorize." Rarity says as she flips her mane.

"No you don't, it's not like this is goin' to be one of your fashion shows."

"You never know."

The rest of the ponies sigh at Rarity and Applejack, before Ellie speaks up, "How about we all meet somewhere tomorrow, bright and early, what do you say?"

"Okay, Everypony meet at the train station tomorrow at 8am." Twilight confirms before continuing, "Ellie you can stay with me tonight at the castle."

"Alright."