We just stand there, in complete awe, at the world around us. It's definitely where we're supposed to be, but something in that silver realm, which I might end up calling the 'Time Stream', must have brought us here for a reason, if anything.

"What is this place?" Rainbow Dash says, who is standing on my left. "And why does it look redder than I remember?" I feel curious and frightened at where we are. She's probably feeling the same way.

A crash down the street makes us jump, well it made me jump anyway, I don't know what it did to her though. Taking me by surprise, I almost lose my balance as Dash runs into me whilst hugging me in fright. We both cautiously walk down the sidewalk, me ahead, as we poke our head out around the corner. Without us knowing it, we're bagged from behind, over our heads, then dragged off screaming. Well, Dash was anyway, but I didn't want to freak out and do something stupid.

I got the feeling that this was bad. Really bad. We had no idea what was going on, until I feel something soft bash against my back. I don't even dare to say anything, in-case who we're up against are the people who did this to our future, sorry, present time. I worry for Dash as I begin to softly attempt to vibrate my body again. Although, I stop when my arm shackles start to rattle the moment I hear a soft buzz coming from my body.

"Hey you," A deep, masculine voice says. I bet it's at me, but I can't tell. "Get the boy and take him to our leader. Take the rainbow haired girl too." The pure mention of Dash being okay washes through me with relief, but I'm a bit confused by something.

The softly announcing but masculine voice has the same intonation as FlutterShy. I try to look through the bag on my head as we're being pushed to our location. We come to a halt a couple of minutes later when Dash and I reel in pain at the sound of some ancient-like grind of metal as it moves. We're both roughly shoved as the bag are removed from our heads.

"Ow!" I hear from my left, recognising the voice. "Hey that hurt! What gives? Oh, RHYAN!" I'm jump attacked by a big hug, as Dash literally runs into me. She let's go after we find that we're both okay.

We both wonder why we're even here, but after an agreed silence, we decided not to say anything else. It feels like days, but with decent hospitality, we soon realise that we're not under some lockdown. Heck, we hadn't even realised that the door was open the entire time. I look out of the door, to be greeted with Dash by about eight or so people. Someone starts walking over from the back of the group as Dash hides behind me with what I could only describe as an angry but confused look on her face.

"I see you might think you were there to stay, let me introduce myself, for I am ZeZe." The woman says as she nears us. Her rhyming was kinda unexpected. Like, really unexpected.

"Uh, hi... SeySey, was it?" I ask awkwardly. "What's going on around here?" I add, at the same time Dash says it too. I notice that her name pronunciation says it with more with the letter 'z' than an 's' just after our jinxed question, making me cringe a bit internally.

"My name will be spoken as ZeZe, now come, what have you got to say?" She beckons, as she gestures for us to follow. We shrug as we follow her into the basement of the house we're in. "You are now welcome to our home, all but outside, you are free to roam." I guess that meant we weren't allowed outside the house then.

I get tapped on my shoulder by Dash, as she get my attention, pointing to a guy with the same voice we heard from earlier. He was looking after a small group of kids, showing them how to look after animals.

"He's behaving a lot like FlutterShy." She whispers into my ear as I just stare at him with her. I just nod in agreement.

All around us, as we walk over to a bunch of weird equipment, we recognise the other versions of our friends. We stare at each other in astonishment at what we are currently witnessing. Except there's one small issue - there isn't another Rainbow Dash. Turning around to follow ZeZe again, we notice that they're all in some sort of worn out school uniform. Including some of the other teenagers.

"So, uh," I hear Dash start, uncomfortably, as we enter a room that blocks out a majority of the noise from out there.

"What happened here?" I add, finishing her sentence.

"For deep in the forest where it came from yonder, a creature that called itself, Ghalmar the Beyonder." ZeZe replied. That was the most sense we got out of her. "He definitely came from out of thin air, but I hear that it was through some magical tear." That bit we literally tilted our heads in unison due to our joint confusion, barely understanding her once again.

It was only now that I realised I could get a good look at her under the soft glow from the lights above. Her hair had white with retreating black stripes, two golden, circular earrings from her ears, a white shirt under a pale grey hoodie, black jeans with white sticking and white and black sneakers. Making us jump, someone walked into the room from a door we hadn't been aware of before.

"Zec- uh, ZeZe," They began, correcting themselves very quickly, but I caught on that ZeZe was a nickname for her. "We jus' did ah check on these two - they're not one of his minions. They're clean, heck, even their eyes are unaffected by anything this world has seen." ZeZe nods, then smiles. The girl's voice sounded very familiar.

"Excuse me!" I say a bit louder than I wanted to, getting ZeZe's attention, including the other girl. "Could you help us, please? As we're struggling to understand what she saaeeee...." I immediately trailed off the last words as I realise who it was when they came into the light completely. It was Applejack.

"Um, ah'm JackApples, but who the hell are you two?" She says, with no hint of recognition in her eyes. I refrain Dash from zipping around the table, mainly because I saw her getting out of her seat probably after recognising this girls, sorry, JackApples' voice. "And why aren't yah both dressed like us?" I see her pointing between us, with half-crossed arms, as Dash sat back down.

"Well," I begin, as I describe our situation, with Dash's random input as well, over the course of a few minutes, leaving out some information about our friends from our own time. "And that's how we got here."

"Huh," JackApples responds, as I watch her face change from a sceptical look, to a surprised look then finally a bewildered look. "Ah guess y'all want to help us out? We're actually in need of some support in this war for our world." She tells us the story, along with ZeZe's input too, as we begin to understand her rhyming more and more. It was a complete shock to hear that Sunrise Shimmer had magically sacrificed herself to help them relocate back into this town, to confuse the big threat they all know as 'Ghalmar The Beyonder'.

A few minutes after our private meeting, we're stuck in a briefing room as some of the students Dash and I once called friends all huddle into. I recognise Twilight, FlutterSh-, sorry, FlutterGuy, JackApples and Party Pie. The others must be somewhere else. Seeing Dash upset about this timeline's Sunset Shimmer had in fact been a bigger shock to her that it was for me. Out of nowhere, I watch as Dash's hair pulse silver and recognise a silver flash in her eyes the moment I look at her.

So that's what it looks like on me. I thought to myself, when I see that everybody in the room goes quiet as they stare at us. Uh oh, busted.

"It now seems very clear to me," Began ZeZe, her voice loud and strong. "That we are the ones, who are not meant to be." All of a sudden, I realised she meant that this is a timeline that shouldn't exist. "Come my colleagues and friends, for now this battle must have to end!"

I recognise a young girl hiding in a corner of the room, her hood covering her head. I just begin to notice that she's talking to her self, but ZeZe beckons the two of us out to the training court to display our abilities that we could use against the thing that threatens this world. Within seconds, we're standing in the middle of a large warehouse, with a lot of training equipment that most of the students that fight train with. I recognise the girl I knew as a DJ.

I watch her place a hand on the bag with a disc and music symbol on it, then throw her other hand towards a bashed up but clean mannequin, firing a warping stream of musical notes at it. I notice Dash's jaw has dropped dramatically, probably like mine has, as we watch the barrage of music cocoon the prop, then implode,, leaving a slightly burnt and scratched mannequin in its place.

"Come an' give it ah go, Rhyan. You too, Rainbow Dash!" JackApples says, patting my shoulder. "Show us what yah got." I catch Dash winking at me whilst giving a thumbs up, before disappearing in a rainbow streak, giving strong punches to a stationary punchbag. I hear the "ooh's" and "aah's" of a lot of the other teenagers as she zooms around, dodging automated attacks and laser tag rifles.

I smirk, then chuckle a bit, before shifting into a faster speed than she's going at, as I do the same thing to the ones on my side of the room. For a brief moment into our display of power, I stop by a display that shows a thirty second delay to our progress, as I watch my streaks and Dash's streaks overlapping every now and then. I couldn't help but notice that when they did, my lightning kinda flashed silver. Keeping that in mind, I wanted to try something new.

Shifting into an even faster speed, I decide to run over to Dash, as I tell her to shift out of super speed as I tell her my plan. I stop by ZeZe and JackApples, telling them to inform the others of something that is only possible by us and to expect it any second. As Dash and I start running, I explain how we'll temporarily see ourselves before I try a controlled 'time jump' For the first time. Her face lights up at the plan. We start to run side by side, looping around the circuit.

I take a brief look backwards at our speed, noticing that our trails start to mix together and randomly flicker silver as our speed suddenly increases dramatically. I feel my body suddenly become a blur of movement, with the exact same look of surprise but control as Dash does as we look at each other.

Two seconds later, our two silver trails both stay silver, as we suddenly have a copy of ourselves by our sides as we run around for three laps, then I focus on a silver portal in front of each of us, just off of our current positions, reappearing in the place we saw our future selves. We don't look at our past selves, until they jump through a portal as well. I have to admit, this would feel OP, if it didn't drain us of our powers so dramatically.

We come to a sliding stop, then jog normally back over to the group of onlookers. Every face we looked at, except for five of them, had the look of shock and amazement with dropped jaws. One of the younger girls even closed another girl's jaw just for the comedic impact. We both start laughing, making the entire group shake out of the unbelievable experience.

However, the experience was short lived, as the roof of the warehouse was ripped off by something really big. Zipping around and saving girls and boys from the falling rubble, I attempt to try something I'd not tried before. I wanted to try something new. Something cool. As I run in a tight circle, I catch up with my own lightning, then immediately stop and throw my arms forward and upward, watching my powers flow past me, striking all the rubble and turning it into extremely fine dust.

"NO! When did he... HOW DID HE FIND US?!" I hear Moonlight Sparkle yell, this timeline's version of our Twilight, as I saw what, or who was staring into the warehouse after my weak attack, which could only mean that the one they all feared had found their hideout.

The one who controls this world by force and fear.

The one they call...

Ghalmar The Beyonder.