"I-Is that a forest fire?!" Fluttershy yelled.
"Don't worry, it hasn't grown big enough to be unstoppable. I'll call the fire department and you try to find a pond or something." Jim responded.
"Why do I need to find a pond?"
"Because if the fire starts getting out of control before the fire department gets here then we need to make it go down."
"Oh, alright, I'll let you know if I find one." She said as she left.
"Just be careful!" Jim shouted after her, "Ok, we can do this." Jim reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. He dialed 911 and waited for them to pick up.
"Hello, this is nine-one-one, what is your emergency?" The lady one the phone said.
"I need the fire department."
"Where is the fire at sir?"
"It is at the southwest corner of the local park, and it doesn't seem to have gotten out of control yet."
"Thank you for keeping calm, a fire truck should be on it's way. Just try to stay away from the fire until the fire truck arrives."
"Thank you, I'll try to stay away." Jim finally hung up and saw Fluttershy running back towards him.
"I found a little river and a pond not too far from here." She said.
"The fire department should be here very soon, so we should get you hidden." Jim replied.
"Alright, let's go."
They ran towards the pond and into a different patch of trees that was far away enough from the fire to be safe. they stopped a few trees in and turned around to see a fire truck arriving and putting out the fire with a hose.
"Whoa, what is that thing?" Fluttershy asked.
"That, is a fire truck. the way it works is a bit too complicated for me to remember."
"But how did it get here without somepony pulling it?"
"Well it has a thing in it called an engine and that does a lot more complicated things, that I don't think I'll ever figure out, and it makes the truck go by its self."
"Oh... do you think any animals got hurt by the fire?" She said with a very sad expression.
When Jim looked at her he could tell that she was genuinely worried about the animals, "I'm sure that all the animals made it out of the way of the fire," Jim said to reassure her, "It was only a little fire and they could probably sense it, so they got away."
Now that Fluttershy was happy again they watched the firemen put out the fire and drive off. Jim soon remembered why they came here and opened up the picnic basket that he was still holding. Inside was all the food that they had packed but it was a bit jumbled up. He started pulling everything out and setting it up when he heard a rustle in the bushes.
"Did you hear that?" Jim whispered to Fluttershy.
She nodded and said, "Do you think it was an animal?"
"I'm not sure but I don't want to take any chances. You stay here while I go check it out."
Jim got up and slowly walked towards the bushes. As he got closer he started to hear whispering, but it sounded like whoever was talking was just talking to themselves. He crept slowly forward and moved the bush to find... "Another pony?!"
"Aaahhhh!" It screamed.
"Aaahhhh!" Jim screamed.
"Aaahhhh!" Fluttershy quietly screamed from a few feet away.
The pony, which by the scream Jim could tell was a girl, started having its horn glow.
"What the..." Suddenly a small beam shot out of the pony's horn and hit him in the head, and the next thing Jim saw was darkness.
As Jim started waking up he heard distant voices, but one sounded familiar.
"Twilight you didn't have to do that."
"But it might be dangerous!"
"His name is Jim, and he has been helping me."
"But... but... ok, I might have overreacted, but I was worried about you."
"Ugh, well at least you didn't kill me." Jim mumbled just loud enough for them to hear.
"You're awake!" Fluttershy said as she rushed over to Jim, "I was getting really worried."
"it's gonna take more than a laser to the face to keep me down," He said groggily as he sat up, "Just don't do that again."
"Sorry, but I still have my eye on you." The pony said. She was a light violet with a dark purple, short cut mane. Her mane also had a light pink strip going through it that was also in her tail.
"Jim, this is Twilight," Fluttershy introduced, "She's one of my friends."
Jim now stood at his full height which intimidated Twilight by just a little, "Wait, so if she's here, then can she bring you back home?" he said with a hopeful smile.
"Well..." She said with a sheepish smile, "I haven't mastered that spell yet."
"You have got to be kidding me!" Jim exclaimed while throwing his hands up in the air, "Ok, can you master it if we give you time?"
"Well, if I study, practice in a safe area and have enough time then I could probably master it. Do you have any books on advanced teleportation and magic concentration?"
"Um... no. This world doesn't have any known magic. Magic is only in mythology." Jim replied.
Twilight just sat there with her mouth hanging and her right eye twitching, "Ho do you not have magic!" She screamed, "How do you survive?!"
"Well, humans just make machines to do tasks that would take tons of people to do by hand," Jim said slowly, "And we have technology that can do what we need it to."
"I need to study this," She said as she paced back and forth, "But I need to master the spell, but the studies, but the spell, studies, spell..." She then continued to mumble and pace.
Jim and Fluttershy just stared at her and gave each other a sideways glance. As Twilight started trying to plan everything out, Jim just continued setting the picnic up. After it was set up Fluttershy and Jim sat down and started eating some sandwiches. Halfway through their sandwiches, Twilight snapped out of what she was doing to see them eating.
"Did... did I go into 'planning mode' again." She asked with a blush.
"Yeah," Fluttershy nonchalantly said, "Want a sandwich?"
"Sure," Twilight replied as she sat down, "I'm sorry about that, it's just so fascinating to think about a world without magic."
"Hey, now that I think about it, how did you get here?" Jim asked.
"Oh, well there was a large storm coming towards our town so I tried a new spell that would make it disappear, but Fluttershy somehow got caught in it and was teleported away with it. I cast a tracking spell on Fluttershy and then recast the spell to send me to her."
"Well if you got here the same way she did, then that would explain the fire. But why wasn't there the loud crack of lightning?" Jim pondered.
"Maybe since I had a target location and because of me using the spell before, it made a more controlled entrance." Twilight replied.
"Alright then, well let's enjoy this picnic and get back home. Who knows, maybe Zach found something that could help us."
They ate in silence after that, but enjoyed the meal very much... Fluttershy then gave a tiny burp and they all laughed together.