The Banished Ones (Solar Empire and New Lunar Republic, Semi-Advanced)

"Howdy Applebloom. Is that where that rock came from? What are you doin' down here anyway, thought General Luna had everypony runnin' around and workin'. " Applejack said, trotting down the hallway. One of the doors opened and Twilight emerged, singed, sizzling, electicuted, and a peice of her mane was still on fire.
They exchanged nods and Twilight joined the group. "Hi guys, sorry for the entrance, I was just retreiving some sort of amulet from Trixie from the past. It wasn't very pretty."

Trixie gasped, outraged and feeling almiost violated. "I don't remember that happening!!" she burst.
"Time can be rewritten." Twilight said simply.
"Don't breathe too heavy Trixie, there ain't much oxygen down here."

"Oh, that happens sometimes. Like I said, Trixie is one tough fighter." she said that puurposly to cheer up Trixie, which worked.
"Well, I AM the Great and Powerful." she said proudly as Applejack quickly snuffled out the flame.
"That reminds me, don't start fires down here. Eats up the air we breathe. Hey, ain't Lyra supposed to come back sometimes around you do? Where is she anyway?"

Twilight shrugged. "I don't know, we should look for her just to be safe, the newbies can come along too."

(Is Lyra a time travel agent?)

"Applebloom, I beleive Fluttershy works in the infermory, Rainbow Dash, well... nopony quite knows what happened to her. Some think shes still hidin' over in Solar Empire territory, some say otherwise. Pinkie Pie is now Pinkmenia, ran away one day and nopony knows where. Rarity is a double agent, so shes in the Solar Empire as well, hasn't contacted base in many months..." Applejack trailed off, then coughed to make it seemed like she was just running out of oxygen from talking.
She left out the part about the burning of Apple Acres, and didn't give many details.
Truth was, she was afraid-which was rare for her- that it would upturn long-burried memories. Memories of the farm, her family, and life before the war. She would rather keep all the memories locked away and safetly hidden. They were too painfully sweet, to far away, too.... too good to be true.

"Basicly, alot has changed." Twilight said grimly, stopping at a large metal door.

" Heard tha too. I try not to ponder too much on it." Applejack said, looking sadly at her hooves but trying to hide it.
Trixie, for the first time since she was put in the base, since the begginning of the war even, felt sorry. Sorry for Applejack and all that shes been through, all the friends shes lost and everything in her life. Sure, everypony went through something similar, but Trixie suddenly felt very guilty, especially since she had been treating Applejack sourly and she tolerated it.

Twilight started entering passcodes for the door, since the doors leading to the Time Machines needed more than one passcode for entrance. While she was occupied with that, Trixie shifted over next to the orange pony and said softly. "Thanks, by the way."

AJ looked at her with her one green eye, confused. "What in the hay for?"
"For saving my life from the parasprite. I... I never thanked you for that." she said akwardly.
"Oh... well, you welcome I suppose. Just doing my duty." Applejack said, and Trixie nodded.
With a long, shrill beep and a sound that sounded like an exagerated sigh, the door parted to reveal a big white room.

"This one hasn't been used in a while, so its been cleaned. The machine is this way." Twilight wlaked into the room, which had a fairly large platform on it, and standing next to it was a control panel. "Get on the platform. We're gonna find Lyra." Applejack instructed.

Trixie stayed next to Sweetiebelle and Applebloom, curious to see where the conversation between the two would end up.

"Right now, we don't actually know WHERE she is." Twilight said, her eyes focused on the control panel and pressing many buttons, watching the screen. I can detect what time all Agents are in but I can't find out specificly where in that time they are, thats the tricky part. We have to go into that time period and try to find them without getting caught. If we get caught or mess up time in ANY way, it could ruin everything.
See, Time Agents are specificly assigned a mission, and they cannot stray from that mission, which is why is takes years of training and experience to-"

"I think they get it Twi. No need to get into some long, fancy explanation." AJ interupted while she jumped onto the silver platform, which was about 2 feet above the ground.

"Right, sorry. Anyway, its going to be tricky. You guys HAVE to vow on your life you won't do anything mess it up."

(what time is Lyra going to be in?)

(got it)

"Common girls, you can talk while we're teleportin', just get on the platform." Said Applejack.
Twilight read the small text whizzing across the screen to everypony. "Lyra's last mission was exactly one year after the war. I'm setting the cordinates now."

After a long series of taps and turns, Twilight set the timer for 15 seconds and jumped onto the platform with them. Trixie stood in the middle, her heart pounding from a tinge of fear, but mostly excitment and curiosity.