//------------------------------// // 11: Eh... Well This is Unexpected. // Story: The Curiosity of Mr. Disc // by CrackedInkWell //------------------------------// Screaming. "Girls," I said. More screaming. "Hey Crusaders," I said a little more loudly. Even more screaming. "That's it," I muttered, I waved my left hand into a megaphone, and, taking in a deep breath, I told them as politely as high volumes would allow: "PLANET EARTH TO CRUSADERS! DO YOU READ ME!?" That shut them up. "Now that have I have your attention," I said. "Would the three of-" "Applebloom!" Applejack spoke what was on our minds: "Jus' what in the name of Sam Hill are the three of you doin' here?" "Applejack?" the three of them blinked. "Rarity?" Sweetie Belle asked. Then the three of them looked up to me, "Mr. Disc? What happened to all of you?" "And what happened to us?" Scootaloo asked looking down. "And what's with the tiny wings?" "You have wings?" Applebloom asked. "Answer the question!" Applejack demanded. "What are you three doin' here?" "Sunset Shimmer?" the other Celestia asked, "Is that you?" Sunset took one look at the mirror before she made a run for it. She was about a good foot away before she was stopped mid-air engulfed in a golden light. She was lifted up in the air to be taken face to face with Celestia. "Uh, Princess Celestia, hey there. He-he..." Ms. Shimmer said sheepishly. "Long time no see?" "Sunset Shimmer," Celestia said dryly. "The last time I saw you, you were trying to overthrow me. And you showing up is rather unexpected." Sunset gulped. "Um, Principal Celestia?" she and I looked to Sweetie Belle with a raised hoof. "That is if it's really you." "I'm a Celestia," she replied. "And what is it?" "If it helps any, Sunset Shimmer has been growing nicer. Don't get me wrong, I still think she can be rather, well, bad at times but she's changed." "She's telling the truth," Twilight stepped in. "You do remember that I've told you how she's changed for the better." Celestia looked back at Sunset, "I do." Celestia said, "But what I want to know is what made you come back?" "We can explain that," Scootaloo told us before turning back to her other two friends. "Where's the camera?" "Don't ya have it?" Applebloom asked Sweetie Belle. For the next thirty or so seconds the three of them mined out Mount Soft until Sweetie Belle popped out with a handheld camera in both of her hooves. And by the looks of it, the thing was still recording. “Eh…” “What’s wrong Sweetie Belle?” Applebloom asked. “How do I stop this thing when I don’t have any fingers?” “Here, allow me,” I said with a whistle. The camera jumped from Sweetie’s hooves into my lion’s paw. And after fiddling around with it, I got the thing to play back the last few minutes. The tiny screen rewinds up until we left when we jumped through the portal. At this point, I could feel the other Celestia leaning over my shoulder to take a look. “Well, that’s that,” the human Ms. Shimmer said as she started to walk away from the statue. Suddenly the camera falls along with the voices of the Crusaders falling out of their hideout. “What the-” “It’s over Sunset!” Scootaloo proclaimed. “Where did my sister go?!” Sweetie Belle demanded in her squeaky voice. “And mine too!” Applebloom joined in. “Crap,” Ms. Shimmer cursed under her breath. “Uh look, there’s an explanation here.” “I bet she tricked them to be experimented on their alien planet,” Scoot’s stupidly assumed. “After what Ah’ve jus’ seen,” Applebloom said. “I reckon you might be right.” “Is that thing on?” Sunset questioned, pointing towards the camera. “Yeah,” Sweetie Belle answered. “After we put this up on the web, everyone is gonna know.” For the next thirty seconds, the camera shook in every direction which was making me nauseous; but the four of them arguing can clearly be heard. “Give that to me!” “No! Where’s my sis?!” “Give me that camera!” “Not until you tell us what planet you've taken them!” “Hand it over!” “No!” This went on until we see Scoot’s charging at the camera, and by the looks of it, I would guess that they were at the base of the statue. Scootaloo charged, there was some screaming, and suddenly, the camera showed the tunnel of many colors. Fast-forwarding a little, the camera showed them getting spat out and into the mountain of softness. The rest of the footage was dark, but we did hear Scoots saying: “Alright you alien!” “Yeah!” Applebloom joined in, “What did ya do, to... mah... sis...” It’s right there that I press stop on the thing. “So to be perfectly clear,” Celestia said to the crusaders. “This was an accident, correct?” “Ah guess so,” Applebloom said. “So… Are we on some other planet or what?” Celestia giggled, “I guess you might say you three have stumbled into a new world. New, and at the same time, familiar.” “So we’re in an alternative universe?” Sweetie Belle asked. “Right on the head kiddo,” Rainbow nodded. “But seriously, aliens? Really?” Applebloom and Sweetie turned to Scoot’s, “What?” she asked. “It seemed like it at the time.” When Scootaloo finished that sentence, Pinkie itched, sneezed and then twitched for a moment, “Omigosh! Guys! There’s a welcome party nearby!” “Dear,” Rarity said with a raised eyebrow. “What makes you say-” “Come on!” Pinkie urged on. “They’re waiting for us,” she said as she hopped out of the room with Twilight right on her tail. “Pinkie wait! You don’t know your way around,” And with that, all of the girls with the exception of Sunset followed Twilight out of the room. “So what are you going to do with her?” I asked Celestia. “Can I go back to the human world now?” Ms. Shimmer asked. “You will go back,” Celestia said. “But I want to have a little talk with you before you do.” “But-” “Excuse me, Julius,” she said turning to me. “Would you follow the girls, please? I wish to have a private chat with a former student of mine.” I saluted, “As you wish Ms. Boss.” When I left the room, all I've heard from Celestia before it became too far to hear anything was: "Sunset, we have quite a lot of catching up to do..."