Talk:To Where and Back Again - Part 1/@comment-26423071-20161015213850/@comment-24908786-20161016173424

That's only until they see Starlight and Trixie off as they leave for Our Town. Since they did not take the train, it must have taken several hours, if not a day or two, to walk all the way to Our Town and back to Ponyville.

More than enough time for Chrysalis to swoop in and kidnap them and replace them with her drones before anyone found out.