[Marty had been having nightmares. They’ve been going on for a while actually; at least a few months now. He did ask some people about it but it but most of the answers he got just told him he had nothing to worry about. (granted he probably should have asked a better question than “Can dreams predict the future?”)

However, while he tried to act normal, the nightmares were really starting to wear on him. He knew that dreams couldn’t hurt him, how could they? They weren’t real after all.

Still, it was getting increasingly harder to go back to sleep, knowing that could possibly witness the death or vanishment of his best friend again. They seemed to be getting worse too; seeming like they last days and having to deal with losing everything he cared about.

It’s about 3 AM when he opens his scroll.]

H-hey, can I talk to someone?

[Despite obviously looking panicked, he tried his best to look casual about this whole situation. Marty really didn’t want anyone to worry about him. Besides he rather not talk about what was wrong and just talk about random stuff that was completely unrelated to time travel and/or dying.]

Archives are open again, huh?

Maybe this time I'll find something even cooler down there. Anypony care to keep a mare out of trouble while I delve and loot everything that doesn't move?

[Hello ponies. Tails has been turned into a rare male Vulpix. He seems pretty happy by this surprisingly enough by the way he bounces a little.]

Man it's been long since I've woken up in a different form like this. It really feels nostalgic. Like I'm still apart of the community.

Looks like I can count myself among the list of people having been turned into a pokemon at one point or another. I wonder if that means we'll start having weird stuff happening for seemingly no real reason like a virus or having ponies start acting weird?

Maybe I'll even get turned into a mare at some point. It's pretty par for the course at this point.

[He scratches an ear with a paw.]

It'll be annoying not being able to fly for a while, but that's not much different from being human again for the umpteenth time.

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[Ami thought she was dead. She remembered the excruciating feeling of her body being ripped apart and crumbling away to nothing as her sailor crystal was forcibly ripped from her body by Sailor Aluminum Siren.]

[And yet, as her eyes open and her limbs twitch slightly, it appears she wasn’t. Had Sailor Moon managed to bring them back? Fight off the hardest enemy they had faced so far? With a groan, Ami pulls herself to her….feet? Stumbling on four legs, Ami quickly examines what she can easily see of herself.]

[A blue horse? No, wait. She feels the top of her head. A unicorn?? Is this the work of the enemy? Is this what happens when your star seed is removed? Ami was thankful that she was still wearing her school uniform, and not in Sailor Mercury form even if she was a horse. Small comforts and all that.]

[Ami slowly sits down, looking around with a troubled expression and trying to take it all in. There seemed to be different coloured horses, unicorns and pegasi everywhere, but none that she recognised as the outer senshi or Makoto. Makoto had been with her when both their sailor crystals had been taken. Surely she’d be here too? Ami suddenly panics and examines her body frantically, searching for her Mercury Crystal. The feeling of its soothing presence against her neck in the form of a heart shaped necklace soon calms her down, and she puts a hoof to it, relieved.]

[She’s currently sitting near the town hall, trying to figure out what on earth happened.]



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[Among her things, Ami found a strange scroll. It didn’t take too long for her to figure out that it was a form of communications, although writing using her new horn was…an experience. Her handwriting hornwriting? was a little messier than she would have liked Read: still pretty damn neat. That would need some practice. ]

Good morning. I apologise for the inconvenience, however I was hoping that someone may be able to assist. I’m unfamiliar with the area that I’m in, or how I came here – I cannot recall any reference to this type of place anywhere in the world in my Geography studies.

I was wondering if anyone has seen or spoken with some friends of mine – their names are Usagi Tsukino, Makoto Kino, Minako Aino, Rei Hino, Haruka Tenou, Michiru Kaioh and Setsuna Meioh.

If so, if you could ask them to contact me, Ami Mizuno, via the scroll network, that would be greatly appreciated. Alternatively, I’m near what looks to be some kind of large circular government-style building.

Thank you.

[Sometime after the ponies wake up, scrolls and quills suddenly start raining from the sky. Don't worry, its not the ponypocalypse, its just a squadron of flying white ponies dropping them from above.

Once everyone receives one, the scrolls suddenly glow and come to life, its surface revealing the visage of a large white alicorn with rainbow hair and a golden crown, sitting on a large, velvet-upholstered throne. She has a calm, reassuring, regal smile on her face as she speaks, though those who know her better can see the light of worry and concern in her eyes.]

Good afternoon, newponies! I am Princess Celestia.

I've heard of your arrival in Ponyville and of some of the more interesting stories that have come from it. We're...not certain how this phenomenon has occurred, but we here at the royal castle will put our efforts into solving this mystery, and I hope you will help us out as we wish to help you out!

Rest assured, no harm will come to you. Nor, as some of you have worried, are we holding you against your will. On the contrary, you're free to move about Equestria as you please, be it through Ponyville, Los Pegasus or anywhere in between. I only request that you use the scrolls we have provided you to check in from time to time, so that we know where you might be when we figure out the solution to this current situation.

If you have any questions, you are free to ask them of me. If I am not available - and, I will admit, there are times when I can be quite busy - there are many other ponies willing to help you, including the other princesses of Equestria. We are all in this together, after all.

[And then she smiles a little more. Its a much more relaxed smile. The concern is still there, of course.]

But, in the meantime, I'd also like to get to know all of you! I always like to meet new people, after all. I hear we even have a dragon?