//------------------------------// // CH. 5 The Captains Subordinate // Story: 601 Corn Neck Road // by AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH //------------------------------// Time: 5:55 Date: January 3, 2024 Location: NORAD Headquarters, North Eastern US Sector, Colorado POV: Captain John Henderson, Commander of the North Eastern US Sector I walk through the aisles of men under my control, making sure that they are taking their job as NORAD operatives seriously, and not playing Solitaire or something. I take another sip of coffee, wishing that we didn't have to wake up at 4 in the morning. 'Why do they even have this ridiculous schedule?' I think, 'We all live in the complex anyway, it's not like we sleep in a motel 45 miles awa-' "Sir!" My thought prosses was interrupted by someone calling me for something, Private Eric Bethins of Strange Weather Anomalies I think. I walk over to his workstation, leaning over his shoulder to see what's on his screen. "What is it Bethins?" "The report about the unexplained storm over Rhode Island just came in! It says that they detected an aircraft of unknown design and origin was downed near Block Island last night! It has an alien appearance, almost a little horse with wings. The CIA is asking if we should send some MiB's to go check it out." "Little horse with wings?!" I say in surprise, "Now that's just ridiculous! But just in case, tell them to send over a couple, we don't know what we're dealing with here. For all we know this is some prelude to an alien invasion. I'm going to call General VanHerck to see what he thinks." "Yes sir!" He immediately starts dialing the number for the CIA, telling them to send over 2 MiB's to check it out. I meanwhile, was heading towards my office to make a call to Commander in Chief of NORAD General Glen D. VanHerck to tell him the situation. "You just interrupted a very important thought prosses I was vey hooked on, so this better be good "Hello sir, this is Captain of the North Eastern US Sector John Henderson, we just received a report about the unexplained weather anomaly over Rhode Island. They say an aircraft of unknown design and origin was downed near New Shoreham, we already authorized the sending of 2 MiB's to the island to check it out, see if it is Russian or Chinese, I'm sending the report via E-mail right now." I clicked a few buttons on my computer and sent the full report to him. "Hmmm... ok this seem to warrant investigation, I approve of your decision to send men over to investigate. I'm going to call the President, see if he approves. You are dismissed." "Sir." I put the phone down and looked at the picture of my kids on my desk. "I hope this is a false alarm," I mutter under my breath, "I would hate to see you two dead." I take another sip of my coffee and start patrolling the aisles again, all the while thinking about my family. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 8:01 Date: January 4, 2024 Location: Airspace over Boston POV: Twilight Sparkle "Wow..." I say under my breath, looking at the gigantic metropolis below me, "Its so big, much bigger that Manehattan." *Snort* "You think this is big? You should see New York. Now that's big." "What?! How can anything be bigger than this?! This is the biggest city I have ever seen!" "Boston is only a kinda big city in my opinion, it only had a metro population of 4 million, but I guess living near one of the biggest cities on the planet skewers with my perception a bit. Eh whatever." I could only stare in shock at Carl, who was controlling the best piece of technology I have ever seen like he didn't care, and wonder how big of a city he lives near could be if this was 'kinda' big. "Can we go there? I want to see how big it is!" "Sorry, no can do Twi, it would only add more time to our flight, and we would get very low on fuel, so yeah, we can't." "Awwwwww." I was disappointed that we couldn't see it, but hearing my nickname being said by Carl really gave me a sense of loneliness. I have been so preoccupied with everything that happened recently, with the storm, Carl, all this amazing technology, that I didn't give much thought to my friends. I'm starting to miss them, I hope they know where I am right now. I sit back and think about them while we speed at unbelievable speeds through the air, over an unbelievably big city. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time: 8:10 Date: January 4, 1010 Location: Canterlot, Canterlot Castle, Equestria POV: Rainbow Dash I fly into the big room that Celestia said to go to, no idea why, and see a weird metal circle thingy in the middle. "What is that thing?" I say, while my friends run into the room behind me. "It looks like a giant, metal donut." "OH oh oh, I know what it is!" Pinke says, "It's a giant interdimensional portal that takes us to different worlds and dimensions via a lot of electricity and magic pumped into it every second it's on to make sure that it doesn't collapse by the massive power output it needs! What, that's what it is, isn't it?" Everypony, including me, was staring at her. "That... is fairly accurate Pinkie, maybe scarily so, considering that you have never seen it before." Celestia says in shock. "Thanks! I aim to impress!" Pinkie says, oblivious to us still staring at her. "Anyways, yes, this is an interdimensional portal, capable of transporting us to different dimensions for the interest of science. And Twilight is lost in one. We are going to get her back" We all gasp in surprise, pinkie more so because... well... pinkie. "Now, I understand if you don't want to go through, the risks acco-" "Were ready, what do we need." I say. "Well, preferably lots of water, food, and some supplies to build a shelter. We don't know what's going to happen, so its better to be prepared." "Yes ma'am. Come on girls, lets go get prepared!" We all rush out of the room, ready to get whatever we need. *Insert epic training montage here* We all rush into the portal room, with everything that we need. "Were ready!" we all say at once. "Good, now, Raven, power it up." Celestia said, and the portal started emitting a strange noise, something between a choir humming and a distant train whistle. "Now, we have no idea where we are going to come out, so be prepared for anything." We all nodded and braced ourselves, getting ready to step into the unknown. We stepped through as one, having no idea what would come next.