"You have done an excellent job taking care of Ponyville Twilight. You and all of your friends." Celestia looked upon her student proudly, Twilight beamed with happiness at the praise.
"Unfortunately, we must go." Twilight now frowned.
Celestia and Luna spread their large, elegant wings and took to the sky.
Twilight Sparkle watched as the Princesses departed. She stood, a distant look gleaming in her eyes for a few moments. She then remembered the praise and her duty and snapped to attention. She made her way to Pinkie Pie to see how she could help the party along.
I've been out of the police academy for exactly 25 days now. Me and my Field Training Officer (FTO) have been drilling, training, and walking and driving beats and otherwise honing my academy training to a finer point. I've gotten a few arrests under my belt and the days have been passing by at such a rate. I am absolutely loving my job.
Me and my FTO found ourselves walking a beat that took us past Central Park. He was talking to me about beat route planning and community presence.
I was listening intently to him, but I couldn't help noticing this one blue dude. He was about 15 steps in front of us. I doubted he knew our presence. His hood was hiked high over his head, despite it being sunny and the middle of summer, and I could tell he was anxious about something. He was looking around too much for a regular pedestrian, he was looking for something. I pointed the guy out to my FTO, and he saw it too, so we got silent and watched him.
Up ahead a woman was busy chatting away on her fancy new iPhone 5. Unbeknownst to her she was about to be robbed. The strange guy marched right up to her, casting a few weary glances around him before reaching out and snatching the phone right out of her hand. She let loose the expected scream but me and my FTO had already bolted after the dude, shouting various 'Police' and 'stop resisting' and etc. I thought he was gonna stop when he looked back and saw me on his tail, but he must have changed his mind cause he took off across the street, cutting some cars off, and jumping a low wall into Central Park.
I could hear my FTO over the radio, indicating our position to back up, but he had fallen behind me long ago. It was a single probably unarmed pickpocket, I wasn't worried, but just in case I fumbled around on my holster and brought out the taser. Every time I put the red dot on his back he darted around a tree. I kept up behind him and I could see he was starting to tire.
The party was in full swing. DJ-pon3 was rocking some hard tunes. Some ponies even gave their hand at dancing. Many of them were clothed. Some found their old clothing worked, others were lucky enough to get a few pieces of Rarity's work.
Twilight Sparkle was on a small stage, where a small gathering of ponies were questioning her. She tried her best to answer their questions. Some had problems, like Applejack, where they didn't know how to continue their jobs with their new body. Thankfully there were no situations they found that couldn't be worked around. Some asked the more general 'why did this happen?'s and 'What are the Princesses going to do about it?'s. Twilight found she couldn't answer any of them. Twilight wasn't even sure if she should tell them it was permanent. After some consideration she devised that if the Princess told her that in confidence she would have been sure to tell her to keep it under wraps. Of course when she told the crowd there was a collective groan and smatterings of panic. As the evening wore on Twilight had brought the gathered ponies to a collective agreement that it wasn't so bad and anything that was bad could be worked it. It was an all around success. The small gathering finally dispersed and she found her self free for the first moment since The Change hit.
She stumbled off stage, her hooves hurting. She decided she wanted to head home to see if there were any books she could consult about today's events. A moment of focusing and magic later she disappeared from the spot in a flourish of raspberry brilliance and reappeared an odd distance from her home.
"Why am here?" She looked around. "Even when I first learned this spell I was never this far off?"
She saw the tree that was her home and town library a short distance away. She looked behind her and saw a small gathering of trees and foliage. She would have made her way home were it not for something odd she had seen.
This guy didn't want to quit. I almost fired the taser on three separate occasions, but each time there was a tree or a rock or a low wall he'd dart around or over. People squealed as we cut across pathways as we ran through the park.
Thankfully his foot work began to get sloppy and he was getting tripped up by various combinations of dirt mounds, roots, and rocks. He finally ran out of luck and hit the ground hard. I could hear him swearing under his breath, cursing his hooves. I trained my taser on him, ordering him not to move and brought my hand up to my radio.
"Hey, 1-Adam-37, I've got our guy at taser point. We're like 15 yards off of the-" Of course I wouldn't be allowed to broadcast my location. There was a blinding flash of pure white at my right and this strange girl was tumbling towards me. The next thing I saw was a tree as my head smacked into it when she collided with me.
Twilight stood in front of the anomaly with her mouth agape. In front of her was a tree around 20 feet tall. Except when she looked at its trunk about half way up it was as if there was no tree there. She craned her neck and looked at the disturbance from various angles. It was as if she was looking through a window, and what she saw was somewhere else. The scene on the other side of the window was as idyllic as it was on this side of the window. Just trees and foliage, but it was different, why she couldn't put her finger on. She stared at the window for quite some time, berating herself for not bringing parchment and ink with her. When two people appeared through the window she jumped in fright.
A blue pony in a hoodie and a teal pegasus in a blue uniform of some kind ran into to window's scope, the blue pony fell over his own feet and the one in the uniform stopped, brandishing something black and yellow that Twilight couldn't identify. Twilight could even hear him.
"Stop resisting! I will tase you!" Oh no, the teal pegasus was threatening the blue one.
"Waait!" She stepped through the window, not expecting it to push her on her way out.
She went careening into the teal pony, who was quite shocked. Unfortunately he didn't have much of a chance to do anything else cause he ended up whacking his head into a nearby tree and passing out. She looked at the blue pony on the ground, who looked quite bewildered, but decided to take off running.
She stood up and fretted over the teal pegasus, she felt bad that he ended getting knocked out but she was glad she stopped him from hurting the other pony. She pulled him away from his slumped over position on the tree and laid him flat on the ground. She check his eyes and pulse and made sure he was still breathing before trying to nudge him awake. She held onto the yellow thing he was brandishing at the other pony. She looked him over, noticing the gold crest on the upper left of his chest, she read the engraving, and found herself paling at the works she read.
"P-protect and serve?" This was a police pony?!
"Oh no, no, no!" She knew bigger cities like Manehattan needed police to keep criminals in line. But she had never seen one in Ponyville or Canterlot. Canterlot had it's guards, Ponyville was crime less. The closest she had ever seen to a police pony was a sheriff in Appaloosa. She began to pace. She interfered with a police pony, she was going to be put under arrest and taken to jail. Oh how she panicked, she began to mumble to herself how her Celestia was going to punish her and send her to magical kindergarten.
When Godfrey came to he found some strange, purple, seemingly deranged, but well dressed, unicorn pacing over him. She was muttering to herself about how much trouble she was in and her worries about going to jail and being punished by someone who seemed to be her mother or tutor. He heard 'I'm gonna be sent to magical kindergarten,' and couldn't help himself; he started laughing.
"I'm not gonna arrest you for bumping into me." She stopped dead in her tracks and stared at him.
"Y-your not? Y-your not going to tell Princess Celestia are you?" What? Who the hell is Celestia and why did she refer to her as 'Princess'?
"Uhh, no, but, uhh, are you ok?"
"Who me, no, no, I'm fine!" The unicorn told him.
"So what are you doing out here in the center of the park, running into cops?"
"Well I saw this really weird anomaly and when I went to investigate I saw you on the other side. I've never seen a police pony before so when I saw you yelling at that other pony I thought you were going to hurt him, and I jumped through the window or whatever to stop you." She started to lose confidence when she saw Godfrey's expression change.
"Ok an accident is one thing but deliberately trying to stop me is another, and how can you not have seen a cop before." He crossed his arms before him, looking upon her doubtfully.
"Well I've never been to a major city before, I'm guessing this is Manehattan, we don't have police in Ponyville or Canterlot." He was liberally confused at this point, where the hell is Ponyville and Canterlot? And did she have to butcher her 'Manhattan' pronunciation.
"Look lady-"
"Twilight Sparkle, is, a, my... name." She had interrupted him but regretted it when he didn't appear all too pleased to be interrupted.
"Is it my turn to talk?" He asked her, she tentatively nodded.
"Right, well, Twilight you're not making much sense. I've never heard of this 'Ponyville' or 'Canterlot'. So you'd better find some better excuses. You wanna try explaining why you're in the park again?"
Twilight gulped. Not quite sure what to say.
"Well like I said I've never been in a big city before." Godfrey watch her wave her arm at a random spot behind her.
"I came through a portal or something right over there." Godfrey almost decided right there she was completely insane.
"A portal. You take me for an idiot?"
"No! Look it's still there!" She walk over and pointed out a space in front of a near by. Godfrey made his way to the spot and found himself speechless. There was something there. He looked through the portal and could see an oddly large tree in the distance with windows on it.
"You came through this?"
"Yes. See, that's my house there. I was trying to teleport to it and fell short."
Godfrey could feel a cool breeze coming through the portal. Along with a strange sensation that was making its way through his body. He felt energized, and his fingertips were tingling. The portal seemed electric and it made the fur on the back of his neck stand on end. He reached out to touch the portal.
"Wait it'll pull you-" Twilight was cut off by a bright white light and the body of the officer disappearing. She quickly made to the portal and jumped through it herself. When she got the the other side what she saw made her heart sink.