My friends and I were at Sugarcube Corner. I was working on my sketchbook, and my friends were just looking around bored, waiting for Pinkie. Rainbow Dash groaned, "I thought she was bringing in cupcakes from the back room!"

"I wonder what's taking her so long," Twilight said, getting up to go to the kitchen. I set down my sketchbook and followed her, telling her, "Twilight, we don't want to disturb her. Remember the last time we came in while she was making cupcakes? She yelled at us for five minutes straight. I don't remember most of what she said, but I remember it ended with, 'Hey! Hey! Hey! Next time, stay out of my kitchen…'"

"Well, let's just put our ears up to the door," the unicorn said, and we both did. We both heard a strange noise, which was hard to describe. We then got hurt by the door swinging out, and after peeling ourselves off the wall, found a white earth pony with a blonde mane.

"Hi, guys! Nice to see you aga—Firefly, what did you do to your mane?" The white pony came up to Rainbow Dash's mane and was about to touch it, until RD pushed the hoof away, and asked, "Who are you, and what have you done with Pinkie Pie?!" The stranger came up to AJ and greeted, "Hey, Applejack! Love what you've done with your hair, but why do you need the hat?"

"I've never seen you before!" the orange earth mare exclaimed. "And I've always worn my mane like this and had this hat!" I came up to the white earth pony before she could talk to anymore of us, and said, "Alright, I have no idea who you are, or if you're just Pinkie Pie and you dumped flour on yourself again, but you need an explanation for why you're here and where Pinkie is!"

"I'm sorry, I don't know a Pinkie Pie!" she said apologetically. "And as for me, my name is Surprise." My friends all greeted her, although awkwardly, considering she had taken the place of our good friend. Twi then asked, "Where did you come from?"

"Oh, I don't really remember. Well, I remember where I was; I don't have amnesia or anything…but I don't for the life of me remember how I wound up in somepony's kitchen." All of us gasped, for without that information, we wouldn't know where Pinkie Pie could be. Surprise then continued, "I know I live in a place called DreamValley, but I don't know where I am right now or who most of you are."

"I don't know who you are, either," explained Applejack in response to her earlier comment, "but I do know that you're in Ponyville, part of CanterlotValley, but I've never even heard of a place called DreamValley."

"Me neither," Fluttershy agreed, "but your welcome to stay at my cottage until we can find your home."

"DreamValley…" Twilight muttered to herself, "Why does that sound familiar?"

"It sounds familiar to me to," I agreed, as I was close to her and could hear her mutterings. We both walked up to her and asked, "Could you tell us about DreamValley? Maybe it'd be easier to find if you gave us a description."

"Okay, well, me and my friends, who look a lot like you, used to live near DreamCastle, but we've moved far from there ever since the war started."

"What kind of war?" RD asked, looking interested. Surprise explained, "It only happened a few months ago. Our new leader, who has taken the place of our old one—Actually, we never really had a ruler, unless forever long ago counts—wanted to drive out all the creatures we used to live in harmony with. I met this stallion who said he'd help us through this war, and that's really all I remember."

"You're involved in war? That's sad…" Fluttershy stated. Surprise nodded in agreement. AJ looked at the clock and said, "I best be going. Applebloom is gonna need help with her homework again…" We all said are good-byes to her, and after a while, the only ponies in the café were Surprise, Twilight, and me.

"Alright, I have no idea where DreamValley or DreamCastle is, but they both sound familiar," the purple unicorn explained. "And wars don't usually happen around here, so it must be some place far away…" Suddenly, the white earth pony latched to her stomach.

"What's wrong?" Twi and I asked simultaneously. She got up from the table and we both realized she had some type of internal bleeding. The white pony looked at her back and realized, "That's not supposed to happen," and pulled off the bandages, also white, that covered her wings.

We all gasped and saw that her wing was crippled, and obviously, bleeding. I touched it, and the Pegasus moaned as I did. Pulling my hoof away, I asked her, "What happened? How did you get this serious injury?"

"Well, like I said, my country's at war with all the opposing creatures. Something must've attacked me and hurt my wing, but somebody, I don't know who, patched it up. I remember blacking out, and vaguely walking to somewhere, and that's how I ended up here."

"But…you couldn't of walked from where you were," Twi pointed out. "This 'DreamValley' seems to be far from here, so unless somepony brought you here-!"
"Wait...'somepony'?" Surprise questioned. "Where I come from, we use the word 'somebody.'" The unicorn turned to me and stated, "She must be far from her home. I've only heard it used by Spike and some griffins I've met." I turned my attention back to the white Pegasus and explained, "Well, Surprise, since you're new here, I think you deserve a tour around town. But…let's get you some new bandages, shall we?"

Surprise nodded, and we took off her bandages, replaced them with new ones, and we all headed over to Sweet Apple Acres. Twilight explained, "This is the farm where Applejack and her family work."

"Wow!" the Pegasus exclaimed. "This is way bigger than the farm my friend Applejack has." I leaned over to my best friend and whispered, "How does she know a different Applejack?"

"I don't know," Twilight whispered back. "Maybe it's a common name or just coincidence." I looked back to the white mare and asked, "So, what's the Applejack you know like?"

"Oh, well, AJ runs the farm by herself, and she's really clumsy. She usually calls on us to come in and help her." I then saw the purple unicorn's eyes widen, and she turned herself and me away from Surprise while she was taking a look around. She stated, "DD, I don't think Surprise is from here."

"Gee, I wonder how you figured that out," I snarked.

"No, I mean she's from another world! Remember our run-in with the Doctor a few months ago?" My eyes widened as I realized as well, and asked, "Do you think that…the Doctor stole Pinkie Pie and replaced her with Surprise?"

"Yes. Maybe it's because there's some crisis he needs to avert, and only overlapping the time-streams of the two dimensions can solve it!"

"Twi, I may not be an expert on time, nor a Time Lord, but I'd say that's pretty ridiculous."

"But there's no other logical explanation I can think of! The Doctor doesn't seem the type to pony-nap someone."

"Yeah, he may be crazy, but he's a pretty nice guy."

"Um, girls?" We both turned back to see Surprise, who was done looking around, and was now staring at us. She asked, "What are you talking about?" I answered, "We're just trying to figure out where your homeland is." That was only half-true; we just figured out where she had lived, but were still trying to figure out why she was here.

We decided to show her where she would be staying, which was Fluttershy's cottage. We were just about to come inside when we heard that strange noise we had heard before Surprise turned up. The three of us turned around to see the TARDIS coming in close to a nearby tree. The Doctor soon came out with a familiar pink pony.

"Pinkie!" Twilight and I exclaimed, and quickly hugged her. The purple unicorn then turned to the Doctor, and shouted, "You better have a good explanation for why you stole Pinkie, mister!"

"Well, first of all, I didn't steal her," he said calmly. "She wandered into my TARDIS and I thought she was Surprise. You know I'm bad with faces." My best friend and I nodded, as we both knew that was true. "I take the TRADIS to worlds in need, and Surprise's was no exception. The time we visited there was long after…after…" We all stared solemnly at Surprise, for we couldn't tell her that she would end up dead from the war.

"Anywhoo, I tried to patch up Surprise after she got her wing broken. She must've gotten up, and in her daze, left the TARDIS when we landed. Pinkie Pie, a curious mare, probably wandered into it while I wasn't looking. It wasn't until I left Sugarcube Corner did I miss the mares were different."

Surprise, who was done surveying the place, was grabbed by Twilight. She explained, "Surprise, this stallion will be taking you home." The white Pegasus looked at him, and exclaimed, "Hey! I know you! You're the guy who must've fixed me up! Thank you, kind sir, and I also thank you in advance for taking me home."

Surprise was led by the Doctor into the TARDIS. The Doctor explained, poking his head out the door, "Oh, I want to do the two of you a favor since you found Surprise and took care of her. I will willingly take you two on an adventure through time, if you want to…"

"Yes…." I gasped, "Yes! We would love to-!"

"Oh, no," Twilight stepped in-between the both of us. She turned to look at the Doctor. "If you drag us into some adventure we shouldn't play a part in again, I swear, I'll-!"

"Hey, guy," the snow white Pegasus interrupted, inside the TARDIS. "I need to get home. My friends are counting on me…" Twilight turned to me, and I still had the eager look of adventure on my face. The unicorn sighed, "Fine. We'll drop Surprise off, and then…we'll go on an adventure." The Doctor and I both had pleased looks on our faces. The three of us all headed in, and the last thing we heard before the TARDIS doors slammed shut was Fluttershy gasping at Pinkie's return.

The Doctor dropped off Surprise at the exact time she was taken, and it wasn't soon before the brown stallion asked us, "So, any ideas of where you mares would like to go?" I replied, "Well, I always wanted to have authentic Spaniesh food."

"Yes, I read up about that in some books. The Spaniesh draw much heritage from Equestrians, even though they live across the sea." He turned to the purple unicorn. "Twilight, I borrowed some of your books. I hope you don't mind." She pointed a hoof to him. "I don't remember you ever coming to the library."

"Oh, that's because I stop by at night with the TARDIS."

"Wait, you're the pony who took out Equestrian Atlas! That's a reference, and you can't check out-!"

"We can talk about this later," I interrupted their argument. "Can we just go to Spaniegh now?" The Doctor and Twilight sighed, and the brown stallion decided to start up the TARDIS. It didn't take long for the blue box to wind back down as we felt ourselves land. The doors opened, and revealed what looked like an old city.

"Um, Doctor," I stated, "We're in old Spaniegh, when it was first settled."

"Well, you wanted authentic Spaniesh food, right?" the Doctor laughed. "What better place than right here in old Spaniegh?"

"Good point," Twilight agreed. "Can they understand us?"

"Of course. I've been able to communicate with other races before, so a different language is a cinch!" We came to a small market, where vendors of many types of food items had come out. The Doctor explained, "Well, DD, we have burritos, tacos, churros, nachos—take your pick!"

"Hmm…" I said to myself. I pointed to a stand to my left. "I think I'll have an authentic Spaniesh taco to satisfy my hunger. You guys can get whatever you want." The Doctor grabbed one of Twi's hooves and announced, "Onwards to the churro stand!" I kindly paid the man at the taco stand some bits, and I watched as he used his horn to make the authentic dish, piling on the beans, tomatoes, lettuce and cheese into a hard shell.

He gave the taco to me, but I noticed something was off; the cheese was white, not yellow. I turned back to him and asked, "Excuse me, why is the cheese white?"

"Oh, senorita, that is what's used on tacos these days. They're very popular for having that type of cheese on them." I waited until he served another customer to throw the food item away. I looked around and found Twilight and the Doctor heading back, a churro in the brown stallion's mouth and a bag of churros held with Twi's magic. I sighed, "Well, at least your orders went well."

"Why?" the purple unicorn asked. "What went wrong?" The Doctor, eating the rest of his churro down, realized, "Oh, that's right; they make the tacos different here. It may not be akin to your tastes." Suddenly, we heard some shouting in the distance. "Wait, do you hear that?"

"It sounds like…." I tried to listen in on the shouts. "¡Ayuda!¡Alto!¡Ladrón!"

"Roughly translated," Twilight said, "That means 'Help! Stop! Thief!'"

"What are we standing here for?" the brown stallion asked. "We need to help!" We all ran to the cries of help to find a mare who was selling various peppers. She looked to us and said, "Extraños, I need your help! That dragon stole some of my finest peppers!" She pointed with a hoof to a small dragon that was starting to make a getaway. Twilight was the first to run after him, followed by the Doctor and my hesitant self. The dragon jumped over a balcony, and the purple mare pounced on him. The Doctor and I jumped off the balcony to see the dragon under Twilight's hooves. Of course, Twi gasped when she saw the little dragon. "Spike?"

"Sorry, senora," the dragon replied in a thick Spaniegh accent, "but you have me confused with someone else. I am Punto, and I must go." With that, he picked up his little sack of peppers and got out of the unicorn's grip. She yelled, "Wait! Stop!" but before she knew it, he was gone. I looked to the brown stallion then looked back to my friend. I just had to ask, "Okay, who was that? And why did he look like Spike?"

"He said his name was Punto," the Doctor explained. "Could he be the famous Punto Pendragon?"

"Who's that?" I asked, but Twi soon answered. "Punto Pendragon is the founder of the scribe dragons that have been in the Canterlot royal family for generations. He was magically enchanted to be able to send scrolls to and from the royal family, and the enchantment has stayed in the blood of his descendants. But…how did he get from the Spaniegh Isles to Equestria?"

"Well, if we follow him, I'm sure we'll find out," the Doctor answered. We all decided to follow the dragon in secret, since we might as well do something exciting while we were here. We followed the small dragon from afar, until he came to a brick road. Punto tapped on the bricks with his feet, and by the end of his little dance, a bunch of bricks pulled away. He went down beneath them, and the bricks soon went back into place.

The Doctor jumped onto the same bricks, and told us, "Don't worry; I memorized the pattern he tapped on." To see him dance on the bricks was quite amusing, considering he had four legs instead of two. Twilight and I couldn't help but laugh. Eventually, he got the bricks to open back up, much to the thief below's surprise.

"Agh!" Punto screamed as he organized his things. We all came down a set of stairs as the bricks covered back up. The place seemed to be a small workshop, filled with other various stolen items, and a small desk. The desk had writing paper, a quill, stool, and candle. The baby dragon then asked, "What are you ponies doing in my workshop?" Twi didn't even respond to the question and went over to the writing desk. She asked back, "What kind of writing do you do?"

"I-I used to work as an apprentice to a writer." The dragon still looked very nervous about us being here. "He was very kind, and found me when I was an egg. From a young age, he taught me how to read and write. I would write letters for him. But….he was old, and….died just three months ago. He had family, friends and neighbors, but…none of them would take me in, because I am a dragon. That is why I became a thief; so I could get what I needed to survive."

There was a short pause after he was done telling us his past, but the Doctor quickly broke it. "Well, Punto, I know it may seem tough, but I assure you, you have a bright future ahead of you." Not wanting to mess with time, and I'm sure my friends would agree, I asked, "Could you let us out? We really must be going." Punto nodded, and pulled a lever to slide the bricks open again, but someone was already there.

"Well, well, well," three guards stood above, and the leader of the other two spoke first. "This is where you've been hiding." The two guards grabbed up the small dragon, and no matter how hard he fussed with them, he couldn't get out. The main guard explained, "You may have tried to hide from this thief, but you didn't hide from us. We saw you wander over town, and…you led us straight to him. Whoever you are, we thank you for helping us catch this ladrón. Because of his thievery, he will be sentenced to the night in jail, and tomorrow morning, a public execution."

"Doctor, do something!" Twilight whispered to him. Though we were all shocked by what was happening, we still remained calm. The stallion whispered back, "I can't do anything; I left my Sonic back at the TARDIS….again." We could only watch as the baby dragon was taken away, screaming for our help. As the bricks slammed back shut, the brown stallion stated, "This isn't supposed to happen."

"Oh, you think!?" Twilight came out of a stunned silence. "Spike's ancestor is going to be killed and we have no means to save him!" Even though I didn't want to screw up time, I pleaded to the Doctor, "We got to do something!"

"Alright, we'll go back to the TARDIS; I can think better back there." We all did so, and devised a way to get Punto out. Every cell had a window that showed to the outside, so once we had some way to break down the iron bars, we could get Punto to safety. It was foolproof…so long as we didn't get spotted by the guards.

Twilight and I wore cat-suits, and the purple unicorn laughed, "Last time I wore these, I was in a place where I was free to roam." We then followed the Doctor to where the Spaniesh prison was located. We tried our best to sneak past the guards, but the stallion just looked at us in confusion.

"What are you doing that for?" He hit a button on the screwdriver in his mouth, and he walked past the guards without problem. He came back for us, and I asked in a whisper, "What did you do?"

"Cloaking device. Just grab unto me and you'll turn invisible too." We both grabbed onto his back with a hoof. We all were surprised there were no guards past the first gate. Once past the guards, Twilight asked, "Do you have every feature on that screwdriver?"

"Well, you forget," he replied through the Sonic in his mouth. "This is no ordinary screwdriver. Now, all the cells are on ground floor, so we can look for the one where Punto is hiding. Come on! Time's a-wasting!" We all started to look in the tiny windows that surrounded us, each one a different cell. The Doctor used his Sonic as a light to look in. Twilight whispered, "Punto?" into each cell. I just looked in them; most of mine are empty.

"Yes?" Twilight finally got a response from one of the cells. Twilight pointed to the window, and the Doctor and I came over to her. We looked into the cell to find….Punto! The purple unicorn explained, "We need to get you out of here."

"I'll use my Sonic on the bars and we'll have you out in no time." The stallion put the tip of the screwdriver to the bars and watched in awe as they started to melt. Unfortunately, the guards just outside the gate heard something….odd. They then looked to see us, three intruders trying to rescue a prisoner. One guard hollered, "Get them!" and more guards came to surround us. One of the guards said, "You will be thrown in and executed along with the prisoner tomorrow morning. Anything you would like to say in your defense?"
"There's something I would," the Doctor replied. By now, the bars were melted and Punto was climbing out. Punto climbed onto Twilight, the nearest pony to the window. The stallion ran off, exclaiming, "ALLONS-Y!" and we ran off as soon as he did. The guards went after us, but we were much faster. It was a daring chase. We followed the Doctor all the way to a boat port, where Twilight put the small dragon onto a shipping boat.

"This ship will take you all the way to Manehattan," the unicorn told him. By then, we had lost the guards. The sun was starting to rise, and the boat soon left the docks. I sighed, watching the boat float away, "We…we did it…..we changed history…for the better…."

"Actually, you didn't change a thing." The Doctor told me. He then turned to Twilight. "Twi, do you remember what it says in history books about how Punto came to Equestria?"

"Of course. Punto Pendragon was a thief at the time and a criminal with a high reward hanging over his head. He got into prison, but was rescued by a trio of ponies….oh, I see where this is headed." I asked, "Where?" The two laughed at me and we headed back to the TARDIS, though it would take me a while to understand that that trio was us.