The teleportation spell sent the group of ponies and Hylians to the cozy little tree library that Twilight called home. Humming happily, Twilight skipped around the collapsed forms of the four boys and called out, "Spiiiike! Can you get my clipboard please!"
"Coming Twilight!" While the Hylians helped each other up, a small purple and green dragon climbed down a ladder, clipboard grasped in his claws. "Here ya go- Woah! What are those?"
"I know right?!" Rainbow Dash flew around Blue once and gave the boy an experimental poke to the gut. Blue responded by attempting to bite Rainbow Dash, sending the pegasus into a fit of laughter.
"We're Hylians." Vio said, straightening Red's tunic. "From Hyrule."
There was a sound of furious scribbling as Twilight wrote down everything Vio said, as well as hastily made measurements of Green's height. "Hyrule? Can you point it out to me on this map?" A scroll floated down from one of the many bookshelves, unrolling itself on a small table.
Vio hurried over to it, immediately captivated by the foreign geography. "This is..." His hands gently brushed the carefully made lines of the map, fingertips tracing the minute details. "Green. Red. Blue. Come here."
The others slowly made their way to their friend, looking over his shoulder with identical expressions of shock.
"What the heck is this?" Blue growled.
"It's a map." Twilight trotted over and put her hoof onto the paper. "This is Equestria. Aaaaaand, this is Ponyville! That's where we are."
"I guess you were right, Vio." Green shook his head, amazed. "We really aren't on our world anymore."
Vio sighed. "For once, I wish I'd been wrong."
Twilight gently pushed herself into the group. "What's that? Different world? What do you mean?"
Vio bit his lip before continuing. "Twilight Sparkle, I'm afraid we've fallen out of our dimension and into yours. Where we come from, ponies are either black, white, brown, or tan and they can't talk. They're pack creatures, or animals used for transportation. And the land looks more like..." Vio looked around him, brow furrowed, making useless gestures with his hands.
Twilight recognized the motions as a variant of what she does sometimes and sent her clipboard and quill in his direction.
"Ah. Thank you." He took the offered materials and quickly sketched out a rough drawing of Hyrule's map. "There's mountains here... A swamp there... Castle is here... About like this."
Twilight took the board and began to pace in a circle on the floor, studying the map. "I've never heard of a place like what you've just drawn..." She gasped, once again hopping excitedly in place. "Then maybe you really are from a different dimension! That would be so amazing! The amount of power it would take to transport four organic beings through the fabric of space itself must have been astronomical!" She was squealing with joy by the end of the sentence, tail flicking excitedly.
The four Links exchanged glances, wondering if they'd bitten off more than they could chew with this excitable mare. Spike, immensely curious of these fellow two-legged creatures, walked over and gently tapped Green's shoulder. Green looked down, blue eyes flicking across the small dragon's form. "Yes?"
Spike shifted and said, "I was just wondering about what you guys eat. I, personally, like gemstones!"
Green laughed and his stance relaxed. "Meat, fruits, vegetables, grains, we can eat pretty much anything so long as it's organic and fresh. Can't say I can eat something as hard as gemstones though. Sounds impressive."
Chest puffed out at the praise, Spike said, "Yeah, I am pretty amazing, aren't I?"
"Spike?" Twilight, taking a moment from her conversation with Vio, looked towards her helper with one brow raised. "If you're going to ask questions then write down the answers. Here." She dropped a piece of parchment and a quill into Spike's claws and the dragon obediently scribbled down a few lines.
While Spike quizzed Green on food, Twilight interviewed Vio on Hyrule, Rainbow Dash and Blue exchanged insults, Red and Fluttershy sat a bit away, unsure of what to say.
"So... Um... H-How do you like Equestria so far?" Fluttershy said, wings shifting awkwardly against her sides.
"It's really pretty! At least, what I've seen is. And you ponies are so cute!" Red threw his hands in the air, smiling. Fluttershy blushed faintly and hid behind her mane.
"Oh! Th-Thank you... That's very kind."
Red grinned in reponse. He started to speak again when Twilight spoke towards all of them. "Excuse me! Could all four of you come over here? I need to make a few measurements."
Red looked towards Fluttershy and shrugged before getting up and going to stand beside Vio. In front of them, Twilight was pacing, her horn glowing. Tape measures wrapped around each boy and the unicorn wrote down four numbers before moving on to a different part of them.
"This is phenomenal..." She said. "It's almost like you four are identical copies of each other! Is that normal for your species?"
Green laughed and shook his head. "No, it isn't. We look like copies of each other because we are copies. They're different parts of me. We were split by this." He drew the Four Sword from his belt and held it out for Twilight to see.
The pony's violet eyes widened as she looked at the weapon, it's sharp edge gleaming in the light. "Is this... Real?" She tapped the edge with her hoof, testing it even as Green nodded in confirmation. "Wow!" She took the sword in her magic and gently lifted it from Green's grasp. "And you said this split you? Really?" She turned it over and around, viewing it from all angles.
"Do you mind if I run a quick test to check for a magic signature?"
Green made a go-ahead motion with his hands and said, "Feel free."
After a distracted nod of thanks, Twilight's horn began to glow brighter, surrounding the weapon in a light purple haze. She gave a soft gasp, staring up at the sword with wonder. "This is... This is crazy! I've never seen an object with so much power imbued in it! Something not naturally magical shouldn't be able to contain this much without physical damage but it's... It's flawless!" She turned her excited gaze back to Green. "Where did this come from?"
Green thought for a second before gesturing for Vio to answer. Vio stepped forward and said, "Well, Miss Twilight, the legends say that the Goddesses sent it to seal away a great evil. The evil escaped recently and we defeated it, but the fact that it escaped at all leads me to believe that the Goddesses part of the legend it true as well."
Twilight's ears perked. "Goddesses? Do you mean Luna and Celestia?"
Vio shook his head. "Never heard of them. Our Goddesses are Nayru, Din, and Farore."
"This is so amazing!" Twilight grabbed hold of another piece of paper with had magic and scribbled down a letter before signing it and handing it to Spike. "Spike, send this to the Pincesses stat!"
Spike saluted and took the letter, breathing green fire on it. The resulting ash and smoke spiraled out of an open window and out of sight. Vio watched, eyebrows raised, and said, "May I ask what that was?"
"It's a fire message." Twilight said. "Spike's fire sends the letters to Princess Celestia's castle."
"Interesting..." Vio got a far-away look in his eyes, staring out of the window at the blue sky above.
"Yep. Now anyway," Twilight sat down and looked over her notes. "I'm going to need one of you to take off your clothes."
Blue hissed, Red blushed and tugged the hem of his tunic further down, Green hugged himself, blue eyes narrowed, and Vio's head whipped around to stare at Twilight, blinking in surprise. All four spoke at once. "Excuse me?"
Twilight seemed confused by their responses. "Well, I can't take entirely accurate measurements when you're wearing something! And besides, I want to know what your whole bodies look like. Since, like you said, you're copies of one another, I only need one of you to take off the clothes."
Red shook his head furiously, face the same color as his clothes. Blue wrapped an arm around Red's shoulders and glared. Green gave an awkward chuckle and said, "Um... Twilight? That's a very, very inappropriate request."
"What? It is?" Twilight tipped her head, brow furrowed in confusion.
Vio cleared his throat and nodded. He motioned towards Twilight's body and said, "Clearly clothes are optional for you, but for us it's... Well, it's highly shameful to be seen without them, to say the least. Especially among people- er, ponies, that we don't know well."
"Well..." Twilight considered for a moment. "Would it be okay if we ended up being friends?"
Again, Vio shook his head. "It's... Not a friendship thing, it's a... A romantic thing. We usually only undress for bathing or for..." He hesitated, face reddening. "Reproduction."
Twilight blushed as well, looking away. "Ah. I see. Well, forget I asked then." Clearing her throat, she shuffled through the papers on her clipboard and went back to her pacing. "I'm going to look through these, feel free to make yourselves something to eat. Spike, show them the kitchen please."
Spike led the way to the kitchen, and the four boys, plus Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, followed after.