A Race through Space and Time Itself
As soon as Pinkie's curly, pink tail disappeared through the portal, Minty was jittery. She felt just awful about how she had run away from the Equestrian when she was just trying to make friends with her. The green pony really wanted to say her sorry, but now it was too late. Unless...
Minty raced to the portal, which was now starting to close. She hurried faster, cursing herself when she tripped over her hooves.
"Minty, no!" shouted Starsong, zooming down to stop the pony. Just as Minty was about to reach the portal, she felt a sharp tug on her tail, and then was pulled away from the circle of light.
Pop! the portal closed, and Starsong let Minty go. The earth pony was still in momentum from pulling at Starsong's grip on her tail, and now she slammed straight into the building where the portal used to be.
"Bummer," she complained, rubbing her head. Now she would never get to apologize to Pinkie Pie.
"Wheee!" Pinkie Pie squealed as she spun around and around in the portal's vortex. The colorful swirls were nothing like the first portal she went through. She watched the purple-and-magenta blur in front of her spin out of sight, and closed her eyes as the colors bleached into white...
"Oof!" grunted Twilight as Pinkie fell on top of her. The portal disappeared with a pop!, and soon everything came into focus.
"Where are we?" Twilight looked around in confusion and awe. "This isn't Ponyville!"
"Hello!" said a cheesy voice, much like the ones in the last Ponyville the Equestrians visited. They looked up to a face, not as creepy as the last bunch, but still much different then they were used to. "Welcome to Pony Land!"
"Excuse me," said Twilight, shaking herself off. "Where are we? What is Pony Land?"
"My," commented the other pony. "What is that thing on your head?"
"Oh! You mean my horn?" the unicorn looked up at it. "I was born with it. Anyway, my name is Twilight Sparkle. What's your name?"
"My name's Bright Eyes!" smiled the teal pony. She had an orange mane and tail, and she was actually kind of pretty. She turned to Pinkie. "And you are?"
"I'm Pinkie Pie!" the earth pony did a cartwheel. "Nice to meet you, Bright Eyes!"
"Well, your welcome to stay a while!" Bright Eyes motioned towards a town. It was basically Ponyville under a different name. "You can come and meet my friends!"
"I'm terribly sorry, but I'm afraid I must be going!" Twilight smiled sadly. "You see, we are from an alternate dimension, and we came here by mistake, and we really must get home!" But as soon as the unicorn attempted to get up, her face paled and she nearly collapsed. "Or... maybe we can meet your friends," she gasped. Pinkie helped her up and the trio made their way towards the town. They eventually set down at a little park next to the school house.
"My girls will be here any minute now," Bright Eyes looked down the walkway were several ponies were roller skating through the park.
"Look! There's Clover and Melody now!" she cried with glee, and galloped down to meet them. Pinkie saw them exchange a few words, and Bright Eyes pointed at the Equestrians a couple times, but finally she led the two ponies towards the bench where Twilight was resting.
One was a light lavender color with a light pink mane and tail. On her flank was the image of a clover, so Pinkie assumed that was who she was. The other was a hot pink with a bright blue mane and tail, with a picture of a microphone with music notes all around it. Pinkie also assumed that that one was Melody.
"How many friends do you have?" asked Pinkie Pie as Bright Eyes led Clover and Melody to the ponies.
"This is Clover and Melody," she pointed to the corresponding pony as she stated each name. "My other friends are Starlight, Sweetheart, Patch, and Bon Bon."
"Did someone say my name?" demanded a voice. A yellow earth pony showed up with a royal purple mane and tail. Her cutie mark was a piece of blue candy, so Pinkie guessed this was Bon Bon.
She guessed right again. Soon everypony was coming to the bench, and Bon Bon brought cookies.
"Yum," said Pinkie after a mouthful.
"So who are you, and what is this about an alternate dimension?" inquired Bright Eyes.
"You see-" Twilight started.
"We'refromanalternatedimension,actuallyitiscalledPonyvilleandwereallyneedtogethome,butTwilightaccidentlytookushereinsteadofourhome,andnowshe'sreallytired,sowehavetostayherewhilesherests,butwehavenoideahowwegothere,sowewerewonderingifyouhaveanyunicornsheretoteleportusbacktoPonyville,buthereeveryponyisanearthpony,soweneedtogetbackhomeassoonaspossible,butfirstweneedtofigureouthowwegothereinthefirstplace,butwehavenoideawhereweare,and-" Pinkie Pie spoke at the speed of light until Twilight interrupted.
"Yes, Pinkie, thank you, but I'll take it from here," she smiled at the confused ponies, as if saying Sorry about that. Pinkie ignored that.
"You see, we're from an alternate dimension called Ponyville, and we need to get home. I think I have a hypothesis about how we ended up here in the first place, but I am still unsure. As you can see, I am very weak and tired from creating the first portal, and I need to rest before we can move on. It should take about ten minutes for my horn to charge up again-"
"Is that the thing on your head?" intervened Patch. She was a pretty golden pony with a light pink mane and tail, with a patch on her flank.
Twilight sighed. "Yes, that's my horn. Now, as I was saying-"
"I've never seen anything like it!" gasped Starlight.
"Were you born with it?" asked Sweetheart.
"Yes, I was born with it," huffed Twilight. "Now, if there are no more questions-"
The unicorn stomped her hoof as Clover raised her's.
"Can you do any tricks with it?" she asked.
"Yes," growled Twilight.
"Oooh! Can you show us?" demanded Melody. Twilight sighed again, and lifted a tree branch with her magic as the earth ponies oohed and ahhed.
"Now, can I please please PLEASE finish my sentence without being interr-"
"Yeah, yeah, we get the picture," interrupted Bon Bon. "You seem strong enough to go home now. So cast your gypsy magic and go back to your world, already!"
"Bon Bon, don't be rude," chided Bright Eyes.
"But she's right, Twilight," Pinkie argued. "You are ready to cast the spell!"
"Alright, I'll try," the unicorn focused her magic. Sweat appeared on her brow, and her horn began to glow magenta. As a circle of light appeared in the air in front of the bench, Twilight suddenly gasped. The spell faltered for an instant, then Twilight sat up as she regained balance.
As Pinkie stepped through the portal, she saw the wondered looks of these ponies, and then she was sucked in.
When Pinkie opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was a pink castle in the middle of a vast grassland, with a forest on the edge. She saw ponies dancing and playing in the meadow, pegasi flying through the air, and strange pony-fish hybrids splashing in a pond with a ball.
Twilight was gasping next to her, and Pinkie poked her side with her hoof to wake the unicorn up.
"Uh... Twilight?" she asked. "This isn't Equestria."
"What?" Twilight's purple eyes snapped open. "Where are we now?"
"LOOK OUT BELOW!!!" shouted a voice above them, and Pinkie looked up for an instant at the hot pink pegasus spiraling towards them. She pushed Twilight out of the way as the mare crashed into a mud puddle next to them.
WHOOM! The mud splashed all over the Equestrians, but Pinkie didn't notice. She recognized this mare.
"You act just like Rainbow Dash!" Pinkie exclaimed, trotting up to the mud coated pegasus. She had a hot pink coat, with a messy royal blue mane and tail, and three lightning bolts decorated her flank.
"I'm not Rainbow Dash, I'm Firefly!" she said as she shook herself off.
"Well, if you were cyan, with a rainbow mane and tail, and a different cutie mark, you'd be Rainbow Dash!" Pinkie rambled.
"Firefly!" called a voice. It belonged to a teal pegasus with pretty blue eyes, and a cutie mark of several music notes.
"Hey, I've seen you before!" Pinkie yelled to the pegasus. "In Ponyville!"
"Pinkie, how could you have seen this pony before?" Twilight demanded as the pegasus landed. She turned to Firefly. "Could you please tell me where we are?"
"You're in Ponyland!" said the teal pegasus. "I'm Medley!"
"Who are they?" Pinkie inquired, pointing at the five other ponies trotting up the hill towards them.
"You already met Firefly," Medley pointed at the hot pink pegasus. "And they are Sparkler, Posey, Surprise, Applejack, and Twilight!"
"There's a Twilight here?" the Equestrian Twilight gasped. She was still too weak to get up, so Firefly and Medley carried her down the hill.
"And an AJ?" Pinkie jumped up in happiness.
"Oh my goodness, you sound just like me!" A white pegasus with a bouncy yellow mane zoomed up to Pinkie and looked her directly in the eye. "I'm Surprise!" she squeaked.
"I'm Pinkie Pie! We're from another world!" the pink earth pony exclaimed to her pegasus counterpart. "I'm you, and you're me, and THIS IS SO EXCITING!!!" she and Surprise shouted in unison.
"A spell to teleport from one dimension to another?" Equestrian Twilight and Ponyland Twilight were having a conversation about magic. "That takes winking out to a whole new level!"
"What's winking out?" Pinkie asked Surprise, who was floating right next to her.
"It's where a unicorn like Twilight or Sparkler-" she pointed her hoof at a pretty blue unicorn "-go from one place to another in the wink of an eye. Winking out," the pegasus explained.
"Where I come from, we just call it teleporting!" Pinkie said. She felt strangely calm now that she had found her alternate self, one that understood her perfectly.
"Do you have a Surprise Sense?" Surprise jumped the question at Pinkie unexpectedly.
"Yes, but I call it my Pinkie Sense!" the earth pony giggled. "Why are you a pegasus and I'm an earth pony?" she asked.
"I don't know, but-" Surprise was cut off by a timid cough by a yellow earth pony with a light pink mane.
"You really should meet Megan," she almost whispered. She looked just like Fluttershy, except that she didn't have wings, and her cutie mark displayed three flowers.
"Oh, yes, darling, you must meet Megan! She'll want to hear all about this!" said Sparkler. She looked just like Rarity, and sounded like her, too.
As the Ponylanders brought their guests to the castle, a strange creature came out. It was obviously female, judging by the hearts that decorated her overalls, but she stood on two legs, only had fur on the top of her head, and had strange, aposable sticks on the ends of her hooves. As Firefly zipped towards her, the creature hopped onto the pegasus's back and rode to the rest of the ponies.
Equestrian Twilight staggered towards the creature while Ponyland Twilight held her up.
"What do we have here, Firefly?" the Two-leg asked.
"I'm Pinkie Pie, and this is my friend Twilight Sparkle, and we're from another world!" Pinkie summarized their adventures through dimensions as quick as she could, then turned to Twilight for anything she missed.
"And I need to rest and recharge my horn before we can go back," Twilight inputted. "I think I know how we ended up here instead of Equestria. This whole dimension is part of a great loop, and you can't go backwards in it. You just have to go around and around until you get to the stop you want."
"So, when will we get back to Equestria?" Pinkie asked.
"I'm pretty sure it will be next stop. About 62% sure," she added.
"Megan! Megan! This pony's the other me!" Surprise flew up to the creature, Megan, and told her of their conversation on the way here. "-and she has a Surprise Sense, just like me, and-" Pinkie only caught bits and pieces.
"I think that I can make the portal now," Twilight interrupted. "Just give me a second..." as her horn glowed magenta, her forehead beaded with sweat. There was a flash of light, and soon a portal of light appeared before their eyes. Out of the corner of her eye, Pinkie saw Megan grab Surprise's tail so she wouldn't follow them through. Then Pinkie and Twilight stepped through, and the last thing she saw was Surprise's pouting face as her new friend was lost forever.
"Pinkie Pie! Pinkie Pie!" shouted a familiar voice. Pinkie's eyes blinked open to Rainbow Dash's annoyed face in the Golden Oaks Library.
Then Pinkie remembered. "Surprise!" she shouted as she jumped up. When she saw Dashie's confused face, she couldn't talk in complete sentences. "You.. portal... fashion... Firefly... me... party... Starsong... Twilight... Surprise!" she stammered.
"Pinkie Pie! Talk normal!" Rainbow grabbed Pinkie's shoulders, and looked at her with her magenta eyes. "Tell me what happened," she said in a calm voice.
But Pinkie didn't hear her. Her eyes rolled up to the top of her head, and everything went black.
"Oh dear... oh dear..." Pinkie woke up to a pair of teal eyes in her face. She groaned.
"She's awake!" said a voice with a Southern drawl. Pinkie focused on an orange earth pony with a blond ponytail over her shoulder.
"Now, Pinkie, darling," said another voice. "Please tell us what's wrong, and why you and Twilight were passed out on the floor."
"Rainbow Dash?" Pinkie tried to name the voice.
"Why would you think Rarity was me?" demanded an annoyed pegasus. "I sound nothing like her!"
"You were a fashion designer..." the earth pony trailed off. "In another world..."
"Fluttershy?" Twilight asked, just waking up. "Why are you in my face?"
"Twilight!" Rainbow Dash flew over to the unicorn's bed side. "Could you please make sense of what Pinkie is saying? What was that about me being a fashion designer?"
And so Twilight explained. Everything.
"Wow," was all the ponies could say.
"Wow is right," said Spike, just coming in to check on Twilight. "You probably just have magical strain," he mused when he saw his friend. "Even the most talented unicorn couldn't pull off three portals in less than an hour without side effects!"
"Don't worry, I'll be fine," she said. "We'll just leave this little adventure alone, until it's time to return to our friends in Ponyland..."
And Pinkie was sure she was going to do that.
Okay, I have no proof that there ever was a Surprise Sense, I just made that up. 
To everyone who guessed one of the G3 ponies would follow them through; HA! I was never planning to do that in the first place! 
And yes, Surprise and Twilight did not come from the same G1 episode. I just needed to do the Mane Six in G1 form.
Sorry this one took so long; I kind of lazied out and put it off for a while. 
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This was funny, but went way too quick. The last chapter should have been cut into several chapters, because the concept is great. I hope you do more. Great job.
3407106 Thanks!
3407846 Oh, sorry about that!
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Would it happen to be "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8, don't be late!"?
I know my G3
3497847 That's a relief. Now I don't have to explain stuff to you. I'm partially glad this is over, because I had to watch some G3 episodes to get it all right. It burned my eyes.
Glad you like it.
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I grew up with G3, so rewatching it now is a bit less painful, but it was still pretty difficult rewatching The Runaway Rainbow multiple times to get my story to work
3502150 What story? I'd like to see it.
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This one right here
It was my first story on the site, but it got featured
...Looking back on it, I really need to update the description...
All in all, this was an interesting story, not too long, but at the same time, not too short.
This is definitely a concept you should consider revisiting.
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I... have to be honest here, this story needs some serious reworking in order to reach it's full potential. As it is, it's not bad but it could stand to be much more improved. I could tell from reading the story that you weren't terrible fond of the past generations, which is fine for something like a blog post comparison, but when writing fiction it's considered a general good rule of thumb to not make your views quite so... obvious.
it be one thing if Equestria Pinkie just noted how the G3 verse just felt and looked different then Equestria, and maybe a comment along the lines of "Wow I never seen ponies as funny looking as you guys before." But actively referring to them as " deformed and ugly" is just poor show and doesn't at all seem like something PInkie would think, let alone about a pony that just saved her.
Then there's the very slop shod, rushed ending. I love the idea behind it, having G4 characters meet up with members of past generations and NOT treating them as if they all take place in the same world. the problem here is that it's so rushed that we barely spend ANY time in any of these worlds to get know them well enough. Hell, if anything the whole multi generational crossover idea is something that would need to be a full novel to pull off, but I digress.
So bottom line, the idea isn't bad but the execution needs some serious work here and there.
This could have been a really interesting story, but you made it far too short. I estimate that such a story could end up with at least 20 chapters, detailing Twilight and Pinkie slowly discovering what its like in those worlds and having adventures while Twilight waits for her horn to recharge (you barely kept to the idea that her horn takes a while to do so and didn't add on to or develop that idea, making it kind pointless in the storyline that you created). You could even include a plot twist at the end, for a bit of a "Wow, I didn't expect that" factor that readers adore. More suspense is also required to keep the readers on the edge of their seats and it is currently way too predictable for me to properly enjoy.
I think you should consider rewriting. Make it longer and work on describing the settings of each "world" with more detail. Such a story would most likely end up in the featured box.
However, I would like to congratulate you on surviving through those awful, AWFUL previous generations. G1 was only intended to sell toys, and the plot was rather boring, G2 was stereotypically girly, and I don't even want to say anything else about G3 but that I feel like I'm slowly dying inside just by watching the opening. So well done on watching them (especially G3) and living to tell the tale.
Best Wishes,
iCuddles
I liked G3.
4293069 Me, too. I'll admit it: I actually started watching G3 after this story was finished. I based this solely off of one Core Seven special; Pinkie Pie's Special Day.
I actually think I could have enjoyed some of the G3 specials if a little more effort were put into them. My all time favorite pony is (and I'm not joking here) Star Catcher!
4556408 I didn't make that up.
5110829 All fixed! Thank you for the feedback!
5397654 That is what I like to call hypocrisy.
Okay, the story was well written and funny, but there are just some things that make it fall entirely flat for me. The Ponyville Pinkie Visited here wasn't the G3 ponyville, but rather a caricature of it;
-G3 Ponyville is presented here as totally crazy and warped- what about Kimono? Storybelle? Starcatcher? Puzzlemint? They couldn't even get their head out of a paper bag if they were as dumb as most people think the G3's are.
-G3 Pinkie Pie has one point over G4 Pinkie Pie; SHE'S SANE! Yeah, her voice sounds nasally, but she doesn't jump around acting like a random lunatic. G3 Pinkie actually acts like a leader sometimes to her ponies, and I'd rather be friends with her than a hyperactive five year old on too much sugar!
-Dash? The whole argument against G3 Dash is how different she is from G4. Yet all those personality traits are present in G4 Rarity. Except guess what? G3 Dash in the G3 Storybooks loves sports, is athletic, and loves going on adventures while STILL being her girly 'darling' self. So all we're left with as an argument against G3 Dash, is she's not G4 Dash -_-
-G4 Ponyville is better? HAHAHAHA! G4 Ponyville has it's share of sugary and girly exteriors, insane and stupid ponies, gets destroyed and rebuilt by comedic threats on a weekly basis, and can't make up it's mind wither the town's inhabitants are rude jerks (putting your hoof down) or nice and sweet friends (the 'smile smile smile' song the very next episode). I'd rather live in the G3 one, thanks.
-This story does present a good parody of what bronies think G3 is like, So good job on this awesome story! ^^
5768096 I would like you to know that I am currently working on a new story about G3, that I personally think is much better. It's going to be a three-story series called Generations, where different groups of G3 ponies end up in G4 and have to adjust to it. If you want to know more, I have posted several blog posts on the matter.
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Hmmmm, interesting! As the writer of two G3 fics myself (and a third on the way) I'm eager to see what you come up with!
5768096
I can't believe how much you and i are actually fully and utterly AGREEING HERE!
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It's not that surprising. We are in total agreement on the merit and value of previous generations, and their equal in quality (if not superior) to g4. We just disagree on how those gens should be presented, and we both extremely dislike each others fanfic on previous generations.
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Recently in the Pony POV Series fic BIGGER SPOILERS triggered a cosmic retcon when she BIGGER SPOILERS, making her a temporarily goddess, allowing her to lessen or erase a lot of the greater and minor wrongs, she did as many as she could before she had to stop from exhaustion.