I woke up with my eyes still feeling heavy; I felt a marble ground beneath me. I groaned as I sat back up, my hand feeling my forehead due to a headache I now had. It was then that I realized something, I had hands again! At that moment I looked at my hands and then curiously looked at my surroundings. I was in a room, and not far in front of me… was a large door with no handles, this was familiar; it was the same room from before.

I stood up and looked at it the room curiously. It looks like it's able to open, but there's nothing for me to open it with, and it also looks too heavy for me to push open with bare hands. Despite how impossible this seemed, I still walked towards the large double door, and then placed both of my hands on it, one on each door.

I heard a loud roaring sound from within, then saw darkness begin to engulf me and pain surged through every cell in my body. I winced in pain and felt myself fading away as if I were waking up from a dream, but then I remembered this scene, this has happened before.

"No, not this time," I said to myself.

I forcefully pushed the feeling of pain away from my mind and then I looked towards the door that the darkness did not allow me to see. I pushed through, and I felt the door budge, but not easily. It took a lot of my will and strength to push the door open even the littlest bit, it was not an easy task; however, every time I pushed, the door got lighter. Once the large double door began to open, light penetrated through the opening, banishing the darkness.

Soon, the door suddenly jerked itself open completely and I stumbled forward through it before regaining my balance. I looked ahead and before me was a large circular room; at least I thought it was a room. When I took another look, there were more doorways; Three of them. None of them had any doors, and the whole place had no ceiling, at least, not anymore. The ground was grass this time, the walls were made of marble still, but this time covered in thin vines shooting up from the ground and swirling in an artistic design.

The sky was blue, full of light and a few clouds here and there. When I looked back, I saw that the door from the first room was gone, just a wall where it used to be; somehow, I expected that to happen. Realizing that I had no way back, I stepped into the center of the large circular room and looked into each open doorway from where I stood; all three lead into a long hallway. The hallways to the left and right were curved just a bit and the one straight ahead went perfectly straight forwards for maybe about ten yards before leading to a dead end.

I saw that the hallways also had grass floors and no ceiling, and that the hallways had even more doorways leading into more hallways. This was definitely some sort of maze. I began to explore, walking down the hallway to my right first.

Pinkie Pie bounced down the roads of Ponyville, having two baskets with her, one on each of her sides with various party supplies as well as already blown up balloons tied to her back and floating up a few feet, kept still with string. She was heading down and around Ponyville giving invitations to just about everypony. She bounced excitedly and happily with a large shiny smile on her face, unable to wait until morning to hand out the invitations; she was too excited to sleep. All of the ponies who received an invitation, which is everypony in town, were tired and still drowsy from a lack of sleep when she came loudly to their door for invitations; however, they were happy to receive them none the less.

The last house was, in her mind, the most important. She was bouncing down over to the library to give the last two invitations made for Twilight sparkle and Allard. She stops right in front of the door, and she raised her hoof to knock on the door when… she heard somepony outside.

Her hoof froze in midair and she turned her head behind her to see a cloaked pony. The cloak covered everything except a bit of the muzzle and the hooves; it was easy to tell that the pony was male. Normally anypony would be at least a bit scared by the sudden appearance of a strange cloaked pony, but not Pinkie Pie.

"Oh, hi! I haven't seen you around here before! Are you new here too?!"

Pinkie Pie excitedly turned around, glad to see this new pony in town. She was, in fact, too excited to notice the pony take out a small vial from within the cloak he wore.

"My name is Pinkie Pie! What's your name? Oh, it's so exciting to see a new pony in town, we just got another one in yesterday and I'm throwing a-"

Her talking was cut off when the vial was thrown in front of her, releasing a white gas into the air that slowly rose up, catching her attention for a brief second.

"What's this? What's going…? I'm… feeling… sleeeeepy…."

Her eyes suddenly began to grow heavy; she then fell over to her side on the ground with a quiet thud, passed out.

The pony walked up to her, then removed his hood to reveal a stallion with a greenish coat and a short red mane.

"Allard, get up!" Yelled Twilight. "Hurry!"

I groaned tiredly, my eyes still heavy as I opened my eyes to see the pony world before me, and Twilight panicking not far from my bed. I remembered that dream I had… of me exploring that huge maze the entire night.

"Allard! Hurry up!"

I sat up in the bed, then made my way off of it and looked at the purple pony in front of me.

"What's all the panicking about?"

"Pinkie Pie is gone!"

"Huh?"

"Pinkie Pie, I woke up this morning and found two invitations to a party on the ground in front of my door."

"Yeah… and?"

"She NEVER just leaves invitations on the ground; she always delivers them in person."

"What were the invitations to?"

"A party as usual."

"Well… maybe she was doing something different… no reason to assume she's missing."

"But she IS missing. I went all over Ponyville and everypony says she gave the invite in person, but nopony knows where she is now! Even Mr. and Ms. Cake can't find her, we've been searching everywhere! It's just not like her to disappear like this."

"That's… actually, now that I think of it… that does sound pretty odd."

"Exactly! I mean, even if she left Ponyville for a while, she'd let us know ahead of time. Something has to be going on; I've already sent a letter concerning the situation to the princess."

"Twilight! I got a response letter from the princess!"

Spike would then come rushing up the stairs to the two of us, waving a rolled up piece of paper as he ran up. The paper was then taken from his hands quickly by Twilight's magic, tripping Spike and making him fall onto the ground. He slowly got back up and ran over to Twilight's side.

"You could've just taken it nicely… what does it say?"

"Let me see."

I looked at Twilight Sparkle; she opened the paper and held it in front of her with her magic and began to read the letter out loud.

"My faithful student,

I'm sorry, but I am unable to do much for you at this very moment for I am already tied up in a similar situation. One day ago one of the royal guards disappeared by unknown means and could not be found anywhere. The thought that it has happened to your friend Pinkie Pie as well is unfortunate. Foalnapping is a rare crime within Equestria and is not taken lightly. I now suspect that these two disappearances are somehow related. I wish for you to bring your friends to Canterlot immediately to discuss the situation, including the new pony you informed me about in your previous letter. I am sending a couple royal chariots to bring you and your friends here.

-Princess Celestia"

"Wait, including me? What does she want me for?"

"I don't know, but there might be something going on. Allard, stay here with spike, I'm going to go get the others and bring them here."

I didn't respond, and almost instantly after she finished speaking, Twilight hurried down the stairs and left out the front door.

"Awe man… I never get to go on any adventures…" Spike said as he sighed and walked away. "Just once I wish I could go with them somewhere."

He went down the stairs. I felt a bit bad for him over the fact that he couldn't go, but it wasn't my problem. I can't believe I'm getting involved of all of this, this situation doesn't concern me what so ever. If they think that I'm going to help them with their own problems, then they're thinking wrong. No matter what the princess thinks, I am not helping. I just want to get home, nothing more, nothing less.