//------------------------------// // Ponyville or the Kingdom of Sol Fury. -II // Story: Dimension parallela // by Nerom_Fencer //------------------------------// When they came to the library Twilight quickly unlocked the door with a spell. Inside she stopped dead in her tracks. The library was dusty, like somepony had not live there for a long time. Not to long but still a year or two. Most of the things where on the wrong places, somethings where gone completely. The bird perch was none existent. Twilight was confounded to say the least. They went inside, lit the lamps and took a seat. At least Alice did. "Like I said I have an odd feeling." Alice said after a good hour of the pony frantically looking around, grumbling over the dust and panicking when she could find no sign of herself ever had lived there. Alice was picking around in and organizing her bag. Feeling the odd feeling that something was off again, Alice switched out the standard Combat knife on her leg with a Full tang Combat knife with a guard ring. Alice inspected the fine blade. This knife was not some cheap thing. It was a custom made blade it fit perfectly in her hand, with a spin she set it into it's custom sheath on her left thigh. The 16 inch blade fit perfectly. The other knife she stashed in her left boot. You never knew when you needed a knife. She considered the shoulder holster for her gun but voted against it and stashed it in the bag. Guns was not her forte even if she was almost a perfect marksman. Still she was better with knifes. When she was done outfitting herself and going trough the bag, she started to grow bored. When Alice had not seen Twilight for the last five minutes or so, she decided it was time to take a proper look around. She went to a door with a small candle on it and opened it, only to see the basement she first woken up in. Her gut feeling told her to go down. Twilight had finally calmed down after a while, she was beginning to understand what have happened here. She was not in Ponyville or her Ponyville anyway. Somehow Starswirl's oculus had transported them to an alternative Equestria. Similar to her own, but not precisely like it. Parallel dimension meant one thing. The question was only. How to get back? She had a plan, but for it to work she needed to get to Canterlot and so far the ponies of Ponyville had seemed less than welcoming. Trotting out of her, no correction the library's master bedroom she was going to tell the news to Alice as she was the only thing that was for certain in this world right now. "Alic.." She stopped dead on the stairs highest steps, they where not alone in the library anymore. "Hello. Twilight Sparkle." Said the mare she held Alice's bag in her magical grasp, her mane flowed like a raging fire. Her wing's flared and she lowered her head to a ready. Before Twilight could react she saw the magic burst forth, the only thing she did was scream. Alice heard the scream from above. "Twilight!" she quickly made it up the stairs or rater she flashed up with her shadowleap. She flung the door open and had a throwing knife in her hand, slightly concealed to get the edge. Before her stood a big mutha fucker of a pony, she was easy twice the size of a normal pony. She held Twilight in a magical grasp, the smaller mare unconscious. Alice did not hesitate, the knife flew true but the big pony deflected it with a wing. Her eyes glowed like the sun itself, her horn amassed a pulsing light and before Alice knew it she was flung down into the basement. Her body started to shutdown by the massive damage it had been delivered. The last thing she saw before she faded away was her body, left half of it was like it had been drained of all water and well she looked like a half burnt mummy right now. in time her body would heal, but now it shut down in a state of death like stasis. ~~~0~~~ The fury of the sun looked down the pitiful staircase, down to the dark basement below. There laid a broken body and so a dead being. She felt no life from the creature. She left the library, she still carried the mare and the bag in her grasp. "We don't know how you escaped thy prison Twilight Sparkle. One month ago, We will not make the same mistake again." She flashed back to her castle, when she returned her entire appearance had changed, her mane of flame had calmed and her eyes no longer glowed. The now flowing rainbow of her mane completed her calm face mostly, it was more flaring than it had once been. Back when she was Princess Celestia. Now when she was Queen Sol or Sol Fury as she called herself now. Never mind the trivial small thinking she had a execution to plan, this was going to be a grand spectacle. The only being in Equestria with the power to destroy her, was at the mercy of her hoof. Two years ago, The nightmare had almost been destroyed by this little mare. But she had been able to plant the seed in a new host. Celestia, who had foalishly lowered her guard, thinking her dead had been an easy target. It had only taken her a week to become strong enough to plant the seed of hatred, another to make Celestia her pawn. She had even tried to get rid of Luna, by once again branding her a traitor. Twilight and the element of magic was as now the only threat to her. Luna had escaped thanks to Twilight and she to had been branded a traitor, her friends closely monitored for months to clear them from suspicion of hiding Luna. Twilight herself had been captured and sent to Mares.(Mars) She had somehow escaped. 'Never again will you bother me Sparkle.' The nightmare thought proudly in her head. Somewhere deep inside her Celestia wept. _.-._ Alice reentered the world of the living when a creak came from the basement door, without thinking she drew a knife and threw it with her good arm, if not for the excruciating pain from her left arm she would have hit her target. Applejack stared fear struck on the blade that had planted itself in the door only inches from her face. "WHOA! Watcha there. Ya could hurt a pony." "That was the Idea." Hissed Alice she was ready to draw one of the other throwing knifes she had, then she noticed the trade mark hat that the pony had. Twilight had mentioned her friends and the mare with the southern accent and the stetson was not hard to notice. "Sorry thought tha' ya was someone to come and kill me." She said. "Kill ya? Nonsense! Why would ah do tha'? Ah just saw Queen Sol leave with Twi, which meant one thing somepony left their safe-house." The farmer pony said one eye still on the knife. "Sorry I threw that at ya then. Guess ya get a little cranky if someone fries ya, leaving ya dead in a heap on the floor in a basement. To bad she did not finish the job." Alice said wincing as she got up her arm ached and her head felt like she had way to much to drink. Her arm had stopped healing somewhere halfway. 'Guess I need some gas.' With that she meant food and water. "I don't recon ya have something to eat?" The mare shook her head. " Not on me sugar cube. Sorry, if we was at tha farm ya could have some apples. What are ya anyway?" "Alice. let's leave it at that." She got back on her feet. "I knew something was wrong," she mumbled. "That mare, Queen or whatever what does she want with Twilight?" "Twi stopped her from publicly executing Princess Luna, Sol branded her a traitor and banished her to Mares. With tha help of Luna, we managed to free her a month ago. Twi was on her way to her safe-house in smokey mountain, what did ya do with her? Why come to Ponyville she knew it was dangerous!" The mare looked at Alice as she picked up her own stetson from the basement floor. "Because we did not know that. According to Twilight, she lived in Ponyville. Her world was not like this. It only strengthens my suspicions." She mumbled the last part. "Are ya one of Twilight's friends?" "Ah am, would never betray her." "Great, can ya help me I need to save her." Applejack had never seen such determination in a set of eyes before. There was not only determination tho there was also something else, Applejack thought it was revenge. "Ah can. Ya know where tha acres are?" Alice nodded. "Can ya get there?" once again Alice nodded. AJ told her to get to the Apple's farm asap. Then she rushed out the library. Alice wanted to take a little more stealthy approach. First she retrieved her knifes. With four being more or less destroyed by the alicorns magic she counted eight knifes on her, all of them was throwing knifes, all concealed and her two combat knifes where damaged or warped beyond use, a shame really. Her destroyed clothes barely holding on to her body. The military grade stuff was hardy, but not to flameproof. Lucky for her she had left a jacket when she first shadowleapt to the basement door, with she now donned. She limped to the kitchen and turned the faucet. Stale water pouring through the pipes. She waited a moment and then begun to take large gulps of the life giving acid. Yes water is a Acid, it's also a base. She felt that her body pumped life into dead tissue, reanimating dead cells and most of her headache gave way. she counted to ten and drank again. This time she started to feel that her stomach was being filled. A good sign, now all she needed was food to replace the damaged cells that could not be brought back. Headache almost gone she noted. She made way in the shadows, the library was far from any forest that could easily conceal her, she had to resort to her skills to make way. hard to do with her damaged body. once she even resorted to start a fire in a flower stall to conceal her movement. If the 'Queen' had know that they came into Ponyville, then there was a risk that if she was seen that she knew that Alice was still alive. Half an hour after AJ had left her at the house she reached the orchard. She "stole" an apple and ate it. It was not much but it helped with her limp and she felt some of her skin closing on her left breast. Funny how the body saw something like that more important than a leg or an arm. Now it only accounted to that she got an irritating itch, when she regained the sense of touch. She closed in on the farm house, AJ was greeting a white unicorn with a stylish mane and showed her in. She sneacked closer to the house and came into sight on the porch. "Having guests?" "Yea, friends of Twi don't worry. Also Granny Smith know that ya coming. Ah had the pleasure of telling of your injuries to her." Then AJ faced her. "Ya looking better, Rarity probably still want ya to take a shower. Get tha blood cakes of ya an all that." She was referring to the slightly healed burns that now sported blood clots, better than raw burns worse than scars. not that Alice would get any if she got something to eat. The only scars she had was the almost invisible ones on her arms and one slit on her cheekbone, left side. you needed to really look to see them. They where the result of torture and a tale for another time. Her stomach growled. "And something ta eat if ya don't mind. Would really help." "Ah will see if Fluttershy will take a look at them wounds, she probably will be scared of ya, especially of ya carry that knife." "Ain't losing it." "Suit y'self. Common in." Inside there was some noise from what Alice smelled was the kitchen. Alice had to didn't have to duck to get into the door without hitting her head, like when she had in the library. The answer came pretty quickly as a big red stallion leisured on a sofa, AJ promptly or more or less forced Alice into it. "Tis 'ere is my brother Big Macintosh, just call 'im Big mac for short. Ah will help with dinner. Ya can hit tha sho'er when Rainbow get out Alice. she hit tha mud on the way 'ere." Applejack snickered and went to where the sweet smell of apples being cooked. "Sup." Alice said. "Eyupp." Then they did not say anything to each other more, still they had a silent understanding of each other. The mare known as Rainbow Dash sipped into the kitchen to talk with her friends. Mac nodded to Alice and he too went to the Kitchen. Alice felt comfortable on the sofa and leaned back. She sighed, she could not come up with a sound plan on how to get to or rescue Twilight. She also wondered why none of Twilight's other friends had greeted her. After a minute or so a light green old mare came in, Alice came to the conclusion that this was Granny Smith. She had a tray on her back. "Now missy I understand if ya don't want to eat with us, here ya go." The old mare presented a small feast on the plate, putting it on the table. "It's not like I did not want too, I was just not invited to it." Alice said calmly. To be fair she preferred to be alone right now. The old mare chuckled. "That be true, sorry about that. Now eat and if ya want more there is plenty, just join us in the kitchen or if ya want to the shower is upstairs to the left, can't miss it." The old mare slowly made her way to the kitchen. Alice was already eating the food before her and she had been crying from the start. It was the best darn food she had ever eaten. And she had eaten gourmet food from earth, this topped that. Alice quickly ate just to finish the darn crying! She felt that most of the food being processed quickly and a tingling feeling in her breast and limbs started, the burn that had been on her cheek she could feel was gone. She made it to the bathroom. it was a big room with a big tub with a shower in. You could easily fit at least fit two adults in the tub. Alice closed the door, turned on the shower and stripped of her damaged clothing. somehow her underwear was still holding together but her hipsters had become half string. When she had attempted to remove the bra she had, it fell apart in her hand. 'That's just great.' She was happy that her body was quickly healing the most serious damages so quickly, that being right now her skin. Being forced to run around almost naked, was not as fun on the other hand. With a annoyed sigh she dropped the useless piece of cloth in a bin and went to the shower. The warm steaming water gently caressed her skin, dried blood and clots loosened and fell off dissolving slowly in the steamy water. Like liquid bliss. "What do you mean she did not come home?" Rarity asked the purple and green dragon that had gathered them. "I told you Rarity. I have not seen Twilight since yesterday morning when I put a blanket on her when she slept in the lab. She did not come home last night and now I'm really worried. I even sent a letter to the princess asking if she knew.." "Did she know?" "I do not." All ponies in the library snapped their heads to the voice. Princess Celestia walked into the small door her tall frame forced her to gently bow her head. Luna who followed closely did not have to. "Princesses!" The ponies in the room begun to bow down to the monarchs. "No need to bow my little ponies." The friends got back on hoof. "It was not my intention to meet you all, not now anyway. Luna and I have been investigating Twilight's disappearance since yesterday night." Celestia said with her serine voice. "We came to take a look at the last place Twilight Sparkle was seen." Luna added. "I believe I was right sister, Twilight was last here. Spike you were right in sending that letter, it made my sister realize something VERY IMPORTANT." She growled the last words to her sister almost unnoticed by the other ponies. Celestia blushed a little. "Spike as Luna said your letter spread some light over the situation." She hung her head a little. "And it's probably my fault that it happened. Twilight Sparkle is no longer in this world." Five ponies and a dragon almost screamed in shock. All of them stared at the princess of the sun. Mouths gaping "Y-Y-you mean she is...is..D-d-dead?" Pinkies mane deflated with each stutter. A surprised Celestia had made the wrong choice of words and only now she realized it. "Oh no! That was not what I meant at all. See not even me or Luna can find her using our magic in fact there is almost no trace of her left." Pinkies mane somewhat puffed up again. "That is why we are here." Luna continued. "If Twilight was only dead we would have been able to find her easily. Knowing my sister, we knew that she kept tabs on her student. What we want to say is that we don't really know what happened but we have a theory." Luna excused herself and went down into the lab. The ponies above stirred a little and tried to ask the princess questions what this was all about. "in due time" was all Celestia said. Luna came topside again after only minute. "That was unsuspected. Have you all not looked in the lab?" the ponies that was addressed shook their heads. "They only got here before you did princess." Spike excused. Luna nodded calmly. "Twilight is not dead. Yet anyway." She turned back to the lab. "Come with me please." The rest of them followed her as she descended into the lab. Luna and the rest with wings flew while the other took the stairs. She made them gather around the Oculus. "An' now what?" Applejack eyes the spinning crystal. "That did not look like that the last time I looked." Spike said with a confused look. "Because it was not activated properly. Let me explain. This is Starswirl the bearded's Oculus, it allows ponies to pear into the sub lay lines or that was the intended design." Celestia said. She knew much about the contraption but she had never seen it in its intended use, also she had never seen it being used like this. Luna frowned a little when her sister stole the spotlight. "It seems that it somehow transported Twilight to another world. The text here and here mention the name of it but it's only random numbers." She pointed at two lines of ancient runes the only pony in the room that could read them properly was herself and Luna, Rarity could only understand a few basic runes. "The first one is our world. the other where she is now, look closely and you can see a difference in the runes." The five ponies and the dragon stared intensively at the crystal screen. "It tells also about her status and a short summary of what she have done so far in that world. It also speaks of a task she need to do. A quest if you will. So far she have only completed one objective, hard to do if you don't know them. But that is not the interesting part here, it's this." She pointed a hoof to another panel. "Subject 13." Luna began. "Alice 'Dawn' Pendragon. Status: Alive. Semi immoral. Age: 19 Alignment: Ruthless avenger. Species: Human, Composite. Sex: Female. Potential: Unknown It looks like she is strong, it also says that she is in a 'party' with Twilight." Luna added after she read a small list. "What does it say about Twilight?" Dash almost faceplanted the other list set. Celestia gently pulled her away with a stream of magic. "Patience Rainbow. I'll read it to you all but I can't say it's accurate: Twilight Sparkle. Status: Alive, Immortal, Status effects: Sleep. Age: 19 Alignment: Harmonius defender. Species: Equestrian Error Sex: Female. Potential: Unknown. Phantasms: Element of Magic. Shroud of harmony." Then Celestia stopped telling the list, it was longer for both of them, unnecessary information for the most part. "See not completely accurate, for one she is not immortal. There is also a small summary of the two of them." "HUZZAH!" Luna beat one hoof in the air as the crystal projected the lists of the party and two screens of pictures in the upper corners. Both displaying the faces of the two. between them a larger picture showed a bathroom familiar to most of the ponies and what Celestia knew was the castle's dungeon. In contrary to hers that had been gathering dust the last fifty years or so this one was cleaned. Luna flickered some her magic and the screens separated to occupy a wall each. "We are so boss!" "Luna.." Celestia gave her a stern look. Luna gave her a sheepish grin. "Great work." Celestia beamed to her sister. The other ponies saw that Luna was relived. "Think you can get some sound?" "I think so.." Luna's horn flared up again and the sound of falling water made it's presence. That and a load of swearing. All heads snapped to the screen the sound came from. Yes somehow the sound came from the wall. Alice was cursing like a sailor pony that stubbed his hoof on a nail. but she was screaming on a red big pony that with haste ran out of the bathroom when she had somehow pulled a knife from somewhere and thrown it at him. Applejack growled a little. "When Ah get mah hoof' on her! Nopony does that to mah brother an' get's away wit' it!" Still growling. "Applejack dear I can understand why she did as she did. You don't just walk into a lady who cleans herself it's rude." Rarity puffed.