As the Timberwolves started closing in, I was looking for an escape route. The four possible ones became three, then two, and both of those very questionable. Suddenly a loud explosion came from behind one of the wooden mutts, causing all of them to run and scatter in fright. The sound was loud enough to wake up Emma.
"Wha-? Who? Where am I?" She looked around, then down, then at me, before calmly asking, "Equestria?"
"Yep."
"Displaced?"
"Uh-huh."
"The site where we got the helmet and contacts?"
"Most likely." I had to give her props for not freaking out. Well not in the usual way.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Emma squealed, "We're in Equestria! This is awesome! Where should we go first? The Chrystal Empire? The School of Friendship? CANTERLOT?!"
"First," I said,, "We should probably thank our rescuer." Turning I saw a familiar looking zebra in a brown cloak.
"Thank you, Miss?"
"Zecora," she introduced herself, "I saw the wolves on the stalking, and I was worried they were after something talking. If I may, what are you anyway?"
"We," I said, "are Mutants of a race called humans, meaning we have special abilities. My name is Eric, and this is my sister, Emma."
"Nice to meet you," Emma said.
"The pleasure is all mine, never have I met somepony so refine. Now is this power, that you did not use instead decided to cower?"
"Well, I have the power of magnetism, so with no metal, I was useless. As for Emma's" Looking over at her, we saw a second Zecora standing there instead.
'Zecora' smirked, before saying. "I can do this." Then a wave of scales went down her form until she returned to her original form.
"I see," Zecora said, "My house is very near. Perhaps you'd care to get away from here?"
"We'd be delighted," I said, "Lead the way." We followed Zecora back to her house, where she proceeded to make us tea.
"Thank you," I said taking my cup.
"If I may," Zecora asked, "Where do you intend to stay? There is a town of ponies quite near, but anything new they fear."
"We'd better get used to it," Emma said, "Even if we are accepted into society, there will always be some who fear our powers."
Quite right," I agreed, before realizing that I sounded like Ian McKellen. Looking into the reflective surface of my tea, I saw that I had indeed changed into the Magneto from the 2000 film. I shrugged, he was one of the better actors to portray him. Suddenly I had a thought, I pulled up my left sleeve, and my eyes widened at what I found.
214782. Quickly I covered it back up and continued on with the conversation.
"As to where we'll stay, there is a castle near here, is there not?"
"Yes, though it is in ruins," Zecora said.
"All we need is a large supply of metal, and we should be good to go," I said. After we finished our tea, Zecora lead us to the ancient ruins.
"This will be perfect thank you," I said.
"It will be nice to have a neighbor nearby," Zecora rhymed, "That doesn't run when I come by." With that she turned and walked away.
We decided to explore the castle, there was a kitchen, a dinning room, a library, the main hall, the hall of Elements (Now empty) a bunch of other rooms that I didn't see a use for, and finally two bedrooms.
We ended up fighting over Luna's old bedroom, neither of us wanting the larger, Celestia bedroom (That's what you get for both being Luna fans) In the end Emma turned into Sweetie Belle and did 'the eyes' (curse those eyes) so Emma won the room. However I won too, using magnetism, I floated all of Luna's old stuff into Celestia's room, and all Celestia's stuff into Luna's room. (Boy was Emma mad)
Next we decided to start cleaning up. Neither of us wanted to sweep, but we found an alternative. Bendng a piece of metal into a long pole, we tied the end of the old broom we found to inside to it and used that (we took it apart and made a metal broom FYI) Suddenly Emma screamed. Looking over, I saw her looking down.
"What is it?" I asked, urgently.
Looking up at me, she said something that made me fall to the floor laughing.
"I'm naked!"
* * *
"What are doing again?" Rainbow Dash asked obnoxiously. The six of them were searching the Everfree forest for whatever caused that magical surge Celestia felt.
"We are lookin' for somethin' or somepony out of the ordinary," Applejack explained, annoyed.
"I know that. I mean why are we doing it? Isn't this something for the Royal Guard or even the Princess?"
"Princess Celestia sent us to do it," Twilight answered, "She must know something we don't."
"Besides," Applejack added, "have you seen the Royal Guard? They kinda suck at their job."
"True," Rainbow agreed, "A thousand years of peace will do that to ya."
"When did you become so knowledgeable about peace and the military?" Twilight asked.
"The Pegasi were a proud race of warriors. There teachings are still passed down in some houses. That's how we divide inheritance, deicide the leader of a clan and so on, so on," Rainbow said.
"Then how come I've never heard about it?" Twilight asked.
"Most clans don't teach it anymore, because of peace and the massacre of Clan Magnus ," Rainbow mumbled the last part.
"Umm, guys?!" Pinkie said, "My Pinkie sense is a-tellen' me, we should go to the Castle of Two Sisters."
"But, um," Fluttershy said, "It's, um, right there." She pointed to the clearing just ahead, where the castle could plainly be seen. As everypony looked, they could feel something surrounding the castle, a sort of vibe, that none of them liked.
"Um, okay," Twilight said, "What ever it is we're looking for is most likely in there, so we'll check it out and report to the Princess. If it is an intelligent being, we'll try talking to it. Whatever you do, do not engage. We do not want to start a war with an unknown something. Got that, Rainbow?"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," the rainbow maned mare said.
Then, one-by-one, they walked over the bridged and into the castle.