The day was August 26th, 1945. A cool summer breeze rolled around outside German Research Facility 12, known as "Der Riese." To the surprise of Hans Joel Schreider, it was a fine day free of stress. That is to say, without any additional stress. Anything having to do with these bloodthirsty mules was stressful in of itself. Not to mention the fact that simply asking to not wear the uniform is grounds for being declared a traitor. And they didn't deal kindly with traitors. It was difficult being forced to be associated with the Nazis. Before he could finish that thought, there came a fast and urgent sounding series of knocks on his door. It must have been important, otherwise the useless grunt they sent to fetch him wouldn't have shouted through the door.
"COME, COME QUICKLY WE'VE FOUND IT! THE FREQUENCY HAS BEEN FOUND!"
Hans dropped his cup, still filled with hot tea, onto the ground, and it shattered. The pieces weren't even settled before he was halfway to the door. He ran as fast as he could. After two and a half years of this wretched place, they finally found something.
When he arrived, there were Jews inside the chamber, removing the rubber pads and scrubbing it down with the lime solution. He marveled at how long they were able to make 120 people last when they die off so quickly. He tossed the thought aside. If he gained a conscience now, he would try to help them, and be exiled, or worse.
"Now, you said the frequency has been found?" he asked, annoyed at the prospect of having to wait.
"Yes, Herr Schreider. We found it clocked at approximately 6,000 gigahertz." Responded the scientist.
"Good Lord! How in the world did you manage to get that kind of power?"
"Industrial strength capacitors, combined with electromagnetic pulses to generate power surges to be harnessed by copper conduction plates. In addition, we-"
"Yes yes yes, very nice. What kind of effect did it have?"
"Well, you see, we tried to harness it, but it didn't work that well. HOWEVER! We found that the machine will project a matter displacement field roughly 2 meters away at the entrance to the chamber. We feel it is because that is the least protected of the metal surrounding the chamber. I hypothesize that if we were to set up a tungsten-uranium plate in the room it will project the field on or around said plate. Is is possible to acquire that kind of material?"
"I will check. This is very good. Himmler will be most pleased. You may just be the one person on this planet who can single handedly change the tide of the war in our favor. How does it feel to have that kind of influence?" he asked, genuinely curious at the prospect of holding the world in one's hand.
"I am simply glad to help der Führer," he responded, true to his cause.
Hans turned around and walked out of the control room. Under his breath, he muttered, "I hope so, my friend. I hope so."
Equestria
It was a moody, cloudy day in Ponyville. The clouds were white, so it wasn't going to rain. The cloudy sky was partially broken in some places. Then in more. After 25 seconds, there was more sky than clouds. A streak of sky was slowly stretching across the the cumulonimbus vapor packs, a streak of multicolored light following in it's wake. The pegasus Rainbow Dash was clearing the sky using a new style of flight she learned a few days earlier while training. After another 35 seconds, it was a beautiful, cloudless day in Ponyville.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, this is AWESOME!" exclaimed Rainbow, floating down after her job was done. "Didja SEE THAT?! Man oh man, I just get awesomer every single DAY!" She was evidently very excited.
"Yeah yeah yeah, why doncha come on down off yer high cloud and help me move these here barrels. We could use a little help, ain't that right Big Macintosh?" asked Applejack.
"Eeyup."
"Fine. I'm coming," she replied, slightly annoyed that Applejack wasn't as excited as she was.
As they finished unloading the barrels onto the Apple Family Farm, they saw a pink dot on the road bouncing up and down. It was none other than Pinkie Pie, the party pony of Ponyvile. She looked happy, but happier than usual.
"Well, don't you look happier than a junebug in the middle of a cow pasture. What's goin' on?"
"It's TWILIGHT! ShesaysthatthePrincesswantstoseeallofusrightawaysowegettogotoCANTERLOT!" Pinkie was out of breath, now, and gasping.
"Woah, what would the Princess want with us?" Rainbow asked.
"Well if we go meet Twilight I'm sure that she will tell us everything." replied Applejack
"All right, let's go." Rainbow turned to start flying to the Library, and found Pinkie Pie almost out of view on the dirt road by that point.
Twilight's Library
A purple unicorn paced across the floor, biting her lip and wondering what was going on. Her brow was furrowed and her thoughts were deep. She was so lost in thought she almost didn't hear the knocking at her door. She rushed to it and opened it. Her 5 best friends were there. She pushed them all in at once, much to their discomfort, and began to tell them why they were here.
"Everypony, listen up. Princess Celestia has asked me to gather you for a special mission, very secretive. Apparently there have been unusual sightings of miniature lightning storms in the Everfree Forest. They happen on a weekly basis, usually twice a day. They have supposedly been getting bigger and louder as time passes. This has been going on for over a year now and she wants us to take the Elements of Harmony and investigate whenever these strange occurrences happen. Furthermo-"
"Oh PLEASE!" Rainbow interrupted. "Are you telling me that the Princess wants us to use the most powerful forces in Equestria to subdue some lightning? Just get a pegasus to go in and break up the cloud!"
"She might just be right, you know." Rarity agreed.
"Now hold on there sugarcube, she may be right, but if that were the case why hasn't the Princess already ordered her guards ta do it?" reasoned Applejack, apparently annoyed at the lack of respect they had for Twilight.her
"In any case, we are going to comply with the Princess' request. I want all of you to be ready to go at- FLUTTERSHY!"
Everyone turned in her direction to see her flying away, towards a window. Dash sped ahead and blocked her.
"And where are YOU going?" Dash asked.
"I'm sorry, I just, I don't know if I can do this. it sounds so scary," Fluttershy said, timidly hiding behind h+er mane.
"I know it sounds scary, but you'll just have to power through it. Besides, just keep happy thoughts and it'll be fine, right, Pinkie!"
"When I was a little filly, and the sun was-" That was as far as she got before Applejack shoved a hoof in Pinkie's mouth, cutting her off.
"Now's not tha time fer that." She said. Pinkie nodded and Applejack removed her hoof.
Spike came rushing down, his mouth puffed out like it was stuffed to the brim with something he wanted to get out. Someone unfamiliar with his abilities would have given him a pail or showed him to the bathroom. He opened his mouth and belched loudly. The spectacular burst of green flames materialized into a piece of parchment. Spike took the parchment and cleared his throat.
"My dearest student, I realize you are trying as hard as you can to get your friends together in a timely manner, but I cannot wait anymore. I will be teleporting everyone in your immediate vicinity to Canterlot when Spike .... finishes..... reading?"
He ended with a confused look, but it didn't take long at all to realize what Celestia meant, as they were all immediately surrounded by soft purple light and in the blink of an eye they were in the presence of Her Majesty herself. They all turned to Celestia and bowed. The princess rose and addressed them.
"Rise, my subjects." They obeyed. "This matter is of great importance. These storms have disturbed me greatly. Our top scientists have been studying these anomalies and observed that it may be a dimensional gate. They have seen what looked like a room with a window, and on the other side of the glass were strange beings unlike anything we've ever seen. They looked like they were studying the gate, like scientists. There were also men in uniforms, which suggests that they were military. If this is a foreign force, I want you to be there as an immediate response team. I want to have Twilight teach Rarity a few spells such as teleportation and shielding, to protect the group while Twilight can perform the spells with the Elements. If there is even a slight chance of military confrontation, I want you there. I will have Royal Guards there for support. Will you all accept this mission?"
"I will," they all answered in unison.
"Good. Then I will see to it that you are taken there immediately. I will have Luna show you all to th-"
"PRINCESS!" a messenger had burst through the door, running at full speed up to the Royal Chair.
"THE LIGHTNING STORM! IT'S OPENED A GATE AND IT'S NOT SHUTTING DOWN!"
"What?!" she gasped. The six girls in the room listened intently.
"Yes! Some creatures came through holding odd sticks. We approached them and talked to them, and they activated their weapons! They look like some kind of metal magic sticks! They started making noise and everyone just fell over dead! The research team, the guards, they are all GONE!" He was on the verge of tears now.
"Oh my, no..."
Twilight spoke up; "Princess, what does this mean?"
"It means that we could be at war."
AUTHORS NOTES
I am going to run with this idea. For those of you who do not know, Die Glocke was an actual machine built by the Germans to be a Wunderwaffe, or super weapon. This is based on actual historical scientific experiments. I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing it.