I glared wearily at the Queen. Even if she was only a false monarch she had what looked like guards. Well armored and well armed guards. Unicorns on top of that. I wondered about the name Unicornia, wasn't that the name of what Princess Plantinum had wanted to give to the land of Equestria? That was an old mares' tale though... I recalled though that I used to think that about Nightmare Moon. Anything is possible. Maybe Unicornia is just a town of unicorn supremacists. That make sense. Sort of.

I watched as most of my friends were levitated out of this room. Watched until I could watch no more. As the oaken doors swung close on their hinges, I turned my head towards that...Queen.

"What are you doing to my friends?!" I spat.

I felt helpless. We should have just been there to investigate the hole. Had I been thinking clearly none of use would be here. I thanked the heavens that at least Rainbow Dash got out of here.

I felt a weight lifted from my head and I stiffened. Had I looked in a mirror at that very moment I would have seen my pupils shrink down to pin pricks. I saw my tiara pass by me in a blue haze. I could feel my rage building and was too outrage to speak out.

"What is this curious tiara? I could sense the magic practically dripping from it the moment you intruded upon my throne room. There were faint traces I could detect in those treasonous ponies necklaces also..."

I was flabbergasted. For the past two years us six, often times with our elements saved Equestria a multitude of times. I've encountered snobby Canterlot elite that just didn't care that I have saved their hides but never anypony who had never heard of us. I found my tongue.

"How in Equestria have you not heard of the Elements of Harmony?"

I had more to add, not believing she never heard of us but the quirk of her brow and the look in her eyes suggested to me that she truly was confused. But I saw the eyebrow raise though at the mention of Equestria. She was confused about Equestria!

"What is this Equestria you speak? And am I to presume this tiara," she hefted it closer to herself," and those necklaces were a set?"

While she was talking she walked ever closer to me, stopping mere inches in front of me. She completed her sentence by using a metal shod hoof to lift up my chin, having us see eye to eye. That was another difference between our Trixie and this Lulamoon, she was taller. My Trixie, we could see eye to eye normally. This one was almost as tall as Princess Cadence. The longer I was here the more I realized how different they were. It seemed like the only similarity was in the colorin and the voice. And her voice was slightly differently. She sounded educated, refined even. I wondered how we all mistook her for Trixie the showmare.

With hestitation I spoke. I could be dealing with a crazy mare, easily!

"Well, you see Equestria is where we are currently. The kingdom mainly inhabited by pegusi, unicorns, and earth ponies? To the north is the realm of the Crystal ponies? To the west is the Badlands, home of the changlings that attacked last year?"

None of what I was saying seemed to be ringing a bell to the mare in front of me. I grew increasingly worried for my friends. If this mare was unhinged, it was entirely possible my friends were actually in danger.

"Look, my friends and I didn't mean to come here, we fell throu-"

I was cut off.

"A crack, yes. I saw it too.."

Now Trix- ugh Lulamoon trailed off, peering out the window. I had dimly noticed that the wind had picked up but I took no heed of it considering the moonstruck mare that first whisked my friends off to Luna knows where and then wants to sit around playing games.

"Are you hungry? We could throw a feast together in short order," I noticed the Queen's voice now sounded anxious, "I could try to bring your unicorn friend up to join us even."

I decided she was definitely crazy now. One does not simply bargain with a prisoner. It's supposed to be the other way around. I peered towards the window, I had noticed when offering me a feast her eyes kept flickering between my face and the window.

Earlier I though I could see the shadowy outlines of various masses but now all I could see was a swirling mass of white. I knew the y must be snowflakes but even in the northern Crystal Kingdom the snow never got this bad. Something was wrong.

Then I saw it. There were faces forming in the snow its self. Elongated faces. Equine faces. I never saw one in person but I knew what they were.

"Windigos..." I whispered.

I was aware of Lulamoon nervously nodding in agreement.

"They are the worst this time of year, and the arguing between us, maybe even the appearances of the others must have flared them up."

I recalled how in our Hearth's Warming Eve pagent how using the power of friendship the windigos were exiled from the land of Equestria. Maybe where ever we were, this is where the windigos fled to.

"Well, in my home of Equestria windigos were banished long ago by the power of three ponies' friendship. Maybe my friends and I could help you out if you'd be willing to let us go?"

I was trying to be helpful, honest, but I was hoping to also get my friends out.

"The windigos have been here a great amount of time. Our books tell how we left our home land to get free of them but they followed us. We came here though following the path of our last ruling Princess, Princess Platinum, who died with her unnamed assistant while she was fighting for our right to the land with the leaders of the other clans."

I gasped inwardly. Clover the Clever lived. Together they founded harmony. They settled Equestria...Equestria... If Clover the Clever died Equestria wouldv'e never exist. Oh no, oh no. I remembered in a text book I read in my academy years mentioned how any action can create a different, alternate reality, that tear... We were no long in Equestria.