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As the members of SG-1, minus Daniel, walked down the path in the woods back to the castle. O’Neill looked down at his side where the small orange pony was trotting. "So, is everyone around here a pony, or are there other animals wandering around somewhere?"
Applejack looked up to the tall creature, a human she reminded herself, as she thought about the question. "Most of us are pony folk, but there are Griffons and Dragons to the north. If you want I could take you to meet Zecora on the way to the castle. She's a Zebra that lives out here in the forest."
"I was under the impression that this forest was dangerous for your kind?" questioned Teal’C, "Why would one of you deliberately live out here if that is the case?"
“Well Zecora likes to keep to herself. She knows how to keep an eye out for danger, so she stays away from the bigger dangers. Plus all of the herbs and plants she uses in her potions grow out here. Strangely enough not to long ago there were rumors going around that made here out to be as bad as some of the monsters.”
“What kind of rumors would those be?” Teal’C asked as Applejack walked over to him.
“You see, Zecora is the first zebra we’ve seen in these here parts. And well, some of the ponies around here can be slightly superstitious of things they don’t know. Then from there they just grew out of hoof.” Carter just raised an eyebrow and shook her head at the expression. “It was actually Apple bloom that made friends with Zecora first, and the rest of us came around after that.”
“I see, and now you’re all one big happy family now are you.” Jack asked with a smirk on his face. “Sounds like a nice place to be, friends all around.” As they continued down the path towards the castle, stories were told of various misadventures they had gotten into.
When they got to the castle they went into a back hall that lead down to the gate. “Huh, that’s strange I think we missed this hall when we came exploring the other week. So your strange device that takes ponies to other worlds is down in the basement. Seems to me like a strange place to put it.” Applejack remarked as she followed SG-1 into the gate room. When she entered the room a gasp of amazement escaped her lips at the sight. Well I’ll be that certainly is a strange thing, how does it work?”
“Careful with that question, you might get more than you bargained for in an explanation.” Jack grinned as he looked over to carter standing next to the DHD.
“Well you see, this device I’m standing at is what we call a Dial Home Device. What this does is allow us to input coordinates of different gates spread throughout the galaxy. Then once a connection is established a wormhole will open up in the gate over there, connecting to another on the receiving end. When they connect it allows near instantaneous travel between them no matter the distance. This is how we manage to travel to other planets and explore.” With that she pushed the red orb in the center to make the connection. As the gate came alive, Applejack gave another gasp “what in Celsetia’s name.”
Jack reached up to his radio, “General we’ve made contact with the locals. You’re not going to believe what they are though.”
The Generals voice came back over the radio. “Just what am I not going to believe about these locals Colonel?”
”Hey Applejack can you come up here and say hi to our boss.” Jack said as he waved her forward towards the MALP camera.
“Your boss is a big metal box?” She asked as she came up to stand next to Carter in front of the MALP.
“No, the General is back on our home planet. This device allows us to communicate with him via the Stargate. Here come stand in front of this,” Carter said pointing to the camera. “This camera will let the general see you.”
“Uh, hi y’all. I’m Applejack, how ya doing. I’m from Sweet Apple Acres outside of Ponyville here.”
‘Colonel, what kind of joke is this? You expect me to think that is one of the locals? I we heard here was various horse noises’ Hammond’s voice came back over the radio.
“Sir? We heard English come from her mouth. I don’t know why you can’t hear it.” Jack with a confused look on his face looked over to Carter for help.
“Sir, it may have something to do with that translation spell that was cast.” Carter replied, a look of distaste crossed her face at the word spell. “Mabey because it wasn’t cast on the General he can’t understand, but since he is speaking English Applejack can still understand.”
“So that means we have to play translator until another solution is found?” Seeing her nod, he sighs. “Well great, ok General what she said is. That her name is Applejack and she is from an apple farm outside that local town. All of the locals here seems to be of the same type of ‘people’, they call themselves ponies. Daniel stayed behind to try and figure out a more permanent solution to our language problem.”
Hammond’s voice came back over the radio. ‘Well, that does seem interesting colonel. Sounds like you will have quite the report to file when you get back. Report anything of importance in thirty hours, SGC out.’
“I’ll write soon general,” Jack said with a wave. With that the gate disconnected plunging the room into the darkness of just the flash lights.
“Well looks like we get to stick around for a while, Carter looks like you will have all the time you need to study these impossibilities. Let’s go and see what kind of trouble Daniel got himself into by now.” Putting action to words O’Neill headed for the stairs back up.
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After the rest of SG-1 left the house, Twilight turned to Spike. “Spike take a message. Dear Princess Celestia, I write to inform you that we have visitors here in Ponyville. The likes which I have never seen before. It is my recommendation that you and Princess Luna come down to Ponyville post haste. Please bring with you any records you have on various magical artifacts that you had in your old castle. It seems that one of them is the cause of their arrival.” Seeing Spike finish it up, and send it on its way via magic fire. Twilight turned to Daniel, “now that’s taken care of. We should recive a response soon, in the meantime how about a tour of Ponyville. Granny Smith if it’s alright with you I will take Daniel here into town?” Getting a nod in reply, Twilight turns to head out the door with a “follow me,” called over her shoulder.
“Well, it’s been nice meeting you, thanks for the tea.” With a wave Daniel Followed twilight out the door. As he walked beside her he finally noticed just how small she was. Twilight’s shoulders only came up to about his stomach. Thinking about it he realized that it if it were just these ponies here it would explain the low doors back at the farm house. “So Twilight, is everyone around here a pony like you, or are there other creatures to?”
“In this area just about everypony is indeed a pony, we do have a few exceptions. Cranky and Matilda are donkeys, while Zecora is a zebra. We are a rather rural area within Equestria so there are not many other races here. If you were to go to some of the bigger cities like Canterlot or Manehatten, you will come across others like griffons, zebras, and even a few dragons. Though dragons are not very common outside their own lands. There are of ofcourse other creatures that are not sentient like us. I believe you may have come across some timber wolves coming out of the forest, correct?” Seeing Daniel nod she continues. “They would be your lesser creatures, if you would. Not sentient but still have their own way of doing things.”
Before twilight could get any further, a voice breaks through the still air. “Twilight!!” Looking up Daniel saw a sky blue Pegasus flying fast towards them. “Twilight, are you ok? What’s going on? I saw Spike and Apple bloom running through the town. What’s standing next to you?” Rainbow Dash finally runs out of steam when she catches sight of Daniel.
“Rainbow Dash this is Daniel Jackson, Daniel this is Rainbow Dash. Rainbow, Daniel and his friends are from a different planet. They came here through a device that was in the old castle.”
“A pleasure to meet you Rainbow Dash, how are you today?” Daniel said with a smile.
“Uh, Twilight when did you learn to speak gibberish? Was it in one of your books ‘The Art of Speaking Gibberish.’” Rainbow said with a grin, “but seriously what did he say?”
“You can’t understand him? That’s strange, the translation spell should have fixed that.” As twilight tried to figure out what went wrong, Rainbow walked over to Daniel.
“So, sounds like you can understand me, is this true?” Seeing him nod she smiles, “ok then. You aren’t going to cause any trouble for my friend here are you?” When Daniel shakes his head no, Rainbow holds up her hoof. “Great that means we can be friends then.”
“I got it!” Twilight calls out suddenly. Startling Daniel and Rainbow from their shake. “The spell only works on the ponies that were present at the casting. Since Daniel and his friends were there they now understand Equestrian, but you Rainbow weren’t. So you can’t understand him. I will need to find a better spell to use, it will be a pain to cast this over and over again. Mabey the Princesses will have something better when they get here.”
As Daniel stands back up he turns to Twilight. “So for the moment will you act as translator for us until a better solution is found. Could you tell Rainbow Dash that I am pleased to make her acquaintance. In that case I suggest that we continue to head towards your library.” As that now larger group started heading back into town, Daniel started to ask questions of Rainbow Dash. “So Rainbow Dash what is it that you do here?”
When that question was translated through Twilight, Rainbow puffed up with pride. “I am the captain of the local weather team, the youngest captain I might add.”
“Captain of the weather team, what’s that? Do you watch the weather, and predict what’s to come?” Asked Daniel with a confused look on his face.
“No we control the weather, make sure it stays on schedule. Why would we need to predict what happens, we just change it how we like. Don’t you have similar teams on your world?”
“No we don’t have a way to control the weather. I didn’t think anyone could control the weather like you are talking about. Could you show me an example of how you do it?”
“Sure just a moment,” with that Rainbow Dash flew up into the sky to one of the nearby clouds. When she got up to it, she grabbed it with her hooves and pushed it back down to the ground. “This is how it works, we can move and control the clouds. We have schedules for when the rain comes and when it is to be sunny. It allows for better crop production from what I’ve been told. Through we do have to be careful because the weather from the Everfree Forest is wild and sometimes wanders into Ponyville. When that happens we have to chase it back into the forest.”
As Rainbow Dash explained why they control the weather. Daniel put his hand up to the cloud to see if he could touch it. When his hand passed through it he sighed and looked at Rainbow. “Well it seems that I can’t touch these clouds any more than I can back on Earth. A shame really it would have been interesting to push clouds around like you can.”
By this time they had reached the outskirts of the town proper as more buildings came into view. The town had an almost medieval feel to it with lots of thatched roof houses and dirt paths everywhere. When they stepped onto the street the few ponies that were out turned to look at the strange creature that was Twilight and Rainbow Dash.
Twilight stepped forward, “Everypony this is Daniel Jackson. He and his friends came here from beyond the Everfree Forest, please be kind to him.” After she said this the ponies turned back to what they were doing. “Wow I didn’t think that would work, but then again it is Ponyville so they are used to strange things showing up in town. Come on let’s go to the library and wait for the princesses to reply.”
“I would like to go with but I need to report for duty soon, so I’m going to have to leave you ponies here.” With that Rainbow Dash flew off into the clouds.
“Sam and Jack are going to be jealous of her, I just know it.” Seeing Twilight looking at him in confusion he explained. “On our planet we have our own version of Pegasus’s you could say. We have large machines that allow a man to fly, and they both pilot them. The ease in which she can fly puts some of our planes to shame.” With a look of understanding on her face she turned to head for her home. With a look of wonder Daniel followed her through town, “This is amazing how you could build all of this without the use of hands.”
“Well considering that we didn’t even know what hands were before you came, I don’t see anything wrong with it. Earth pony strength, with Pegasus flight and mobility, and Unicorn magic allow us to do anything that we can imagine. Well here we are welcome to Golden Oaks library, my home.” With a burst of magic she pulled open the door to the tree. Inside was a small room with bookshelves on all of the walls, in the center of the room was a round table with a horse head sculpture on it.
“Wow what a nice library, it has got a sort of homey feel to it.” Daniel ducked through the door and walker over to one of the bookshelves. Picking out a book at random he opened it, and glanced inside to just see scribbles in a language that he couldn’t read. “Well it was too much to hope that your spell would let me read to. Guess I will just have to learn it the hard way if I want to read something.” With a sigh he put the book back on the shelf. Seeing that there were no chairs around Daniel sat down on the floor with his back against a shelf. “So tell me Twilight, Just what is the difference between the three different types of ponies. Besides the obvious I mean.”
“Well like you said the obvious differences is physical. Earth ponies are generally of a larger and stockier build. Pegasus’s have their wings and are of a lighter build, and Unicorns have their horns. Now it’s the magic that each race wields that is the big difference between them.”
“Wait I thought that just the Unicorns had magic?” Daniel asked in confusion.
“Unicorns do have the most visible and versatile use of magic, but the other two have their own brand of magic. The Pegasus’s are the ones that can manipulate the clouds and weather, their magic is why they can. It makes the clouds solid for them, it even allows them to plant a seed of weather in them I guess you could say. That is how they are able to make the rain happen when they want, unfortunately I don’t know the specifics of how they do that. You would have to go up the weather factory in Cloudsdale to learn more.”
“Wait, wait. You mean that you have a factory that makes the weather you want. And it’s in a city in the clouds? Carter is going to have a fit with this one.” With a shake of his head he leaned back against the shelf. “Imagine being able to order up a rainstorm for your crops or a sunny day for a picnic. If someone back home could figure this out back home they would be rich.”
“It is quite nice, but you just can’t get what weather you want. There is a schedule that is approved by the weather council of Equestria. This way the best weather is maintained around the land for everypony. Now their magic even can allow them to control the winds to some extent, this allows them to help direct the clouds where they want. There is an old filly tale about a Pegasus that could summon the winds to his beck and call.
Now Earth ponies, there magic is a little harder to pin down. They have greater strength, and have a connection to the planet that can allow them to grow most anything they want. My friend Pinky Pie’s family are actually rock farmers.”
“Rock farmers? How does one grow rocks?”
“I don’t think its normal rocks, they grow some of the best jewels and gems in the area. Another thing is that there are some ponies that have such a strong connection to the ground that they can become immovable by almost any force, or even move it to how they want.
Now Unicorn magic is very versatile and almost all Unicorns can use it to levitate objects that they wish to use. However, the extent that they can use is depends on their talent. Most can only use the higher functions of their magic in conjunction with their talent.”
“How about you? You don’t seem to have any trouble with magic.”
“Well my talent happens to be magic, so with enough practice I can do most spells.”
Before any more could be discussed Spike came back down stairs. “Twilight you got a return letter!” Handing the scroll over Twilight read.
“It seems that there might be an artifact in the archive that can help with communication, so they are sending some down with it. She and Luna will be by later today after court is over. So I guess all we have to do is wait for them to come.” Twilight said with a smile on her face.
“Good to know,” reaching for his radio he call O’Neill. “Jack this is Daniel, it seems Twilight got a reply from her princess. She will be down later today, you should make your way back into town soon so you can be here before she arrives.”
‘Roger that Daniel, we will head back soon Applejack wanted to take us to a friend out here in the forest first.’ Jacks voice came back over the radio
“Well now that that is taken care of where were we?” Daniel said as he turned back to Twilight.
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As the group climbed back out of the basement and into the throne room, Applejack turned to the others. “If’n ya’ll sticking around for a while, how about I introduce ya to Zecora.”
“Who is this Zecora?” Teal’c asked.
“She’s the one I told ya bout. Lives out here in the forest all by her lonesome. I’m sure she would like the company.”
“Well we’ve got nothing to do for now, so lead on.” At that Jack waved his hand toward the door. “You said this Zecora mixed potions from the local herbs, what is she some kind of witch doctor?” As he chuckled Sam just shook her head in exasperation.
“Now that you mention it ya she is. Don’t worry as long as you stay out of the poison joke you will be fine.”
They had walked for a while when Daniel came over the radio. ‘Jack this is Daniel, it seems Twilight got a reply from her princess. She will be down later today, you should make your way back into town soon so you can be here before she arrives.’
Grabbing his radio O’Neill sent back. “Roger that Daniel, we will head back soon Applejack wanted to take us to a friend out here in the forest first.” Turning to Applejack he asked, “Are we close to where she lives? We will have to head back into town soon.”
“She’s just around the next bend in tha road.” As they came around the last tree they came into a small clearing that had a wood hut that was built into the trunk of a tree. It had big tiki masks around it, all in all it had the look and feel of a witch doctor to it. “Zecora are ya in? I brought some new friends for you to meet.”
At the call the front door opened up and a zebra walked out, she had large gold rings on one hoof and around her neck. “My eyes do not deceive, strange new creatures I see. Tell me Applejack, who you brought to my shack.”
“Well Zecora, this here is Colonel O’Neill, Captain Carter, and Teal’c. They are humans from a different planet, they came here through a ring found in the castle ruins basement.” As she called out their name each member of SG-1 waved their hand.
“Humans a strange name, but be welcome here all the same. My name is Zecora, what brings you to Equestria?” She waved them into her hut, “sit here you three, I will get you some tea.”
“We would love to Zecora, but we have to get back into town. Daniel says that a princess is coming to talk with us. So we have to be back before she arrives.” Carter said as she looked around the hut.
“Celestia you must mean, I will accompany you to the scene. Talk with her I must, things have been happening in the forest.”
“All right then, Applejack take us back into town to meet the princess.” Jack said with a grin, as they started away from the hut.
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