The lockers and hallway seemed to get dark like a dark alley.

"Can't believe I didn't recognize you guys earlier," the voice of Sunset Shimmer came behind them. "Should've known Princess Celestia would send her prized pupil with a bunch of humans after my crown and their little dogs too." she pointed to Bobby and Spike when she said 'little dogs'.

"Your crown? Ha! That's a laugh, you know as much as we do that it's actually Twilight's crown and her Element of Harmony." Atticus said, using his detective skills early.

Twilight was surprised of what Atticus knew about the crown.

"Whatever," Sunset smirked. "This is just a minor setback for me. You don't know the first thing about this place and I already rule it."

"If that's so, why do you even need my crown?" Twilight asked. "You went to an awful lot of trouble to switch it with the one that belongs here."

"Pop Quiz: What happens when you bring an Element of Harmony into an alternate world?" Sunset quizzed the former alicorn.

Twilight paused to think, she actually seemed lost.

"The one that wears it that maybe evil, which is what you are will become a powerful demon and be able to have your own army of teenagers and bring them back to your world." Atticus guessed with his detective skills.

Sunset was shocked that Atticus knew that, but just kept mocking Twilight in a school mean girl fashion. "And YOU'RE supposed to be Princess Celestia's star student. Then again, what were the chances she'd find somepony as bright as me to take under her wing after I decided to leave Equestria? A bit embarrassing that you were the best she could do."

Spike growled, barking threateningly to Sunset, his dog side taking over.

"Oh, and I'd keep an eye on your mutt," Sunset scoffed. "Hate for him to be taken away from you."

"Is that a threat?" Spike shook his new paw.

"Oh, of course not," Sunset continued to taunt, but she did flinch when he barked at her. "But I'd cut down the chatter if I were you. Don't want everyone to know you two don't belong here, now would you? You wanna be a princess here? Please... You don't know the first thing about fitting in." she then walked off, leaving the group in the dark.

"We'll teach you." Atticus said, placing his right hand on her left shoulder.

Twilight smiled then. "Thanks, guys."

The group walked in the hallway, then they came across a vending machine and Twilight saw snacks in it, one she really wanted, but she didn't know how to get it open. Atticus then brought out money for the snack Twilight wanted.

"Excuse me," a girl with light blue skin with white hair walked over, then nearly yelled at the top of her lungs. "The great and powerful Tr-r-r-rixe!...Needs some peanut butter crackers." she put her coin in, then got the food she wanted and walked off as she ate her snack.

Twilight watched her leave, then hung her head. "Sunset Shimmer is right. I don't know the first thing about this place. If I'm going to fit in and win votes, we need to do some research."

"Hey, don't worry about that, if I can fit in at a school, so can you, a lot of kids made fun of me and thought I'd give them fleas, but I didn't let that stop me." Mo smiled to her new friend.

"They really thought that you would give them fleas?" Bobby asked.

"Yeah, I wasn't sure what to tell people on my first day, the teacher just asked me to tell a little something about myself and I told them how I've lived on the street with my puppy Angel for a long time and even lived in a junkyard." Mo explained.

Twilight cringed a little, she didn't make any comments, but that sounded horrible and disgusting for her.

"Where are we gonna do research for Twilight?" Spike asked.

Twilight had an idea. "Do schools have libraries?"

"Normally, yes." Cherry answered with a smile.

"Then to the library." Atticus said.

Twilight wasn't sure how to work the computer. "So, I just push the letters here and then the words moving pictures will come up here?"

Cheerilee sighed, she looked annoyed for some reason, but smiled to Twlight. "That's right.

"Let me try, I saw Dad use one once." Bobby sat in the chair, trying to use the keyboard.

Suddenly, a hard rock song was heard as it looked like the human CMC were by a computer and grooving to the beat.

"What are they doing here?" Cherry wondered.

"Must be trying to see if making music videos is their talent." Atticus said.

"Wonder if humans have cutie marks." Twilight chuckled.

"Girls, what are you doing?" Cheerilee turned the music down.

"We're just seein' how many hits our new music video got." Sweetie Bell explained.

Apple Bloom turned the volume back up so she, Sweetie Bell, and Scootaloo could keep dancing.

"No, just, no," Cheerilee turned it down again. "The school computers are for research purposes only."

"It's just as well, y'all," Apple Bloom shrugged. "Some of the comments about our song were really awful. 'Epic fail', 'funniest thing I've ever seen'?

"Funniest thing they've ever seen, huh?" Sweetie Bell looked determined.

The three crusaders then had an idea and happily ran off together.

'Those three will learn sometime in the future.' Atticus thought.

Twilight kept studying the computer, one thing made her jump back in scare.

It was getting to after school hours now.

"So, Twilight, where you gonna stay?" Cherry asked.

Twilight blinked in surprise. "I never really thought of that..."

"You wanna stay at my place?" Mo offered. "We have a guest room."

"It would be great to sleep in a nice, warm bed." Spike said.

"You guys are welcome to stay over." Mo smiled.

Patrick honked his horn to let them inside his car and they went in.

"Mr. Fudo, this is our new friend, she's visiting from a far away land with no electricity and a new student too," Cherry made up a story. "Could she sleep over? Her parents say it's okay."

"Is this true?" Patrick looked back.

"Oh, yes, sir..." Twilight smiled nervously, not sure what the car was.

"Well... Okay, come in." Patrick shrugged.

Bobby was on his way with the others, but as soon as he left the school grounds, he turned back into Patch the puppy and he crawled back into Atticus's backpack. And as soon as it was safe and as soon as Patch was in his backpack, Atticus picked it up and got into the car.

"Twilight, are you Amish?" Patrick asked, thinking that was why Twilight had a slow grasp of modern technology.

"Uh, yeah, sure..." Twilight shrugged nervously.

"She's gonna stay with me, could Atticus also stay for dinner?" Mo asked.

"Only for dinner, he has to come right back as soon as you're done, I'm sorry Atticus, but your mother and I don't allow sleepovers on school nights." Patrick said sharply.

"Yes, sir." Atticus said, sounding disappointed.

James and Elizabeth greeted Cherry, Atticus, Mo, and Twilight.

"I'm gonna show Twilight to her new room." Mo told her parents.

"Okay, dear, I'll get dinner started." Elizabeth smiled.

Twilight followed Mo and the others upstairs. "You know, Monique-"

"Mo, please." Mo stopped her right there.

"Mo, right," Twilight said before continuing. "Anyway, you don't look much like your parents..."

"I was actually adopted after the Fourth of July when I was a little younger," Mo said as she walked in, then saw four-year-old Junior reading some kind of book in there. "Junior, OUT!"

"Hey!" Junior looked at her.

"We need this room, go play somewhere else." Mo said to her adoptive brother.

Junior then got out of her room, a little pouty, but still did as she said.

"You guys don't seem that close anymore." Cherry noticed.

"I don't know what happened with him, but he's been annoying lately." Mo shrugged.

Twilight closed the door behind them, then sat on the guest bed. "Can you finally tell me?"

"Yes, we're all alone now, it'll be good." Cherry said.

"Alright, so tell me, how do you all know I'm Princess Celestia's student and I'm here to get the Element of Harmony crown away from Sunset Shimmer?"

They began to explain of how they know about her and everything.

"How long have you know about Princess Celestia?" Twilight asked.

"A long time, but we just thought she was part of franchise for a children's cartoon," Cherry said. "We also know that Spike is a dragon and he came with you into Ponyville. You used to wonder what friendship could be, but they taught you its big adventure, tons of fun, and a bond faithful and strong and magic makes it all complete."

Twilight smiled as she thought back to the Mane Six. "They're all my very best friends..." she then frowned. "But it seems like my friends aren't friends..." she took out a blue book with gold lining with a horseshoe on it with a white bucking stallion. "It's called a 'yearbook'. It seems to be something you humans use to keep a record of things that have happened at the school. Look..." she noticed the human Mane Six that looked like freshmen and they were all together and happy.

Cherry noticed a cloud white-skinned girl with purple hair and shiny blue eyes. "That has to be Rarity."

"There's a Rarity here!?" Spike grew excited instantly.

"Yeah." Atticus said.

"I mean... Uhh... Interesting photo." Spike calmed himself down.

"Sorry, Spike, but we even know about THAT." Cherry smirked.

"Yeah, about your little crush on Rarity." Atticus smirked.

"Spike and Rarity sitting near a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G~" Patch sang.

Spike growled. "Watch it, guys. I'm not afraid to bite ya..." he then frowned sheepishly. "Well, actually I am."

"This is interesting though," Twilight kept looking at the photo. "It looks like they're friends."

"They do look like our friends, but I thought we'd figure that out already." Spike was confused by her analogy.

"No, Spike, Twilight means it looks like they were friends with each other," Cherry corrected. "Not like now."

"Not so much..." Spike thought that was sad too.

"I bet it has something to do with Sunset Shimmer." Atticus said.

"Same here." Twilight agreed with him.

"I wouldn't put it past her," Spike said as he walked by her, then got onto the bed next to her. "But she wanted your crown 'cuz she's planning on doing something even worse. If you guys are gonna stop her, you have to help Twilight focus on making friends at Canterlot High. She can't worry about why these girls aren't friends anymore, even if they do remind her of her Ponyville friends..." he yawned and fell asleep in the bed.

Twilight smiled and hugged him. "You're right, Spike. Eye on the prize."

"Dinner's ready!" Elizabeth called out.

"Mm, dinner time." Atticus said.

"You guys go on ahead... I'll be right here." Spike smiled as he got some sleep.

The others went down, even Patch did.

As Patch walked by, he greeted the cocker spaniel triplets. "Evenin', ladies."

"Well, hello there..." Danielle and Colette looked flattered while Annette looked annoyed.

"Is your sister okay?" Patch asked as he looked at Annette, seeing that she was annoyed.

"Oh, she just always looks like that." Danielle rolled her eyes.

"She doesn't know how to have fun anymore." Colette huffed.

Annette glared at them. "You can't talk to your big sister like that!" she snapped at them, then stormed off.

"Sorry about her." Colette told Patch.

"It's okay, sisters are a mystery, I have at least twelve dozen of 'em." Patch smiled.

"Oh, really?" Danielle asked in interest.

"Yeah, I have at least 99 siblings." Patch said.

"Full house, huh?" Danielle joked as she went with Patch and Colette.

Annette looked at them, rolling her eyes. "First Scamp, then Angel, and now some mutt named Patch..." she growled to herself, deciding not to join the others to dinner.

"Hey, Annette, you okay?" Atticus asked as soon as he noticed she wasn't joining them.

"I don't get any attention around here anymore," Annette glared at him. "You and Scamp went on that stupid adventure and I'm not top dog anymore!"

"What's going on here?" Lady came to her eldest daughter.

"Everybody ruins everything for me!" Annette ran out into the backyard.

Lady sighed. "It has to be a phase... I'm so sorry about that, Atticus."

"It's okay, she's just a little mad about not going on her own adventure." Atticus said.

"She's been like that a lot lately, I'm really sorry, Atticus." Lady said before going back inside.

Junior looked a little unhappy still.

"Junior, what's your problem?" Mo asked her brother. "You're not this whiny usually."

"It's cuz you got a boyfriend and I don't have anyone..." Junior sighed. "Plus I don't get to go on 'ventures."

"Oh, June, you're too young..." Mo patted her brother on the head.

"She's right, once you're at the right age, you'll be able to have your own girlfriend and maybe travel the world together." Scamp said.

Junior snorted slightly as he ate his dinner. After dark, Cherry and Atticus went home and Twilight slept over for the night.