//------------------------------//
// Desperate 
// Story: Portals 
// by The Derpy Doctor 
//------------------------------//

	A silence grew over all of Equestria. Twilight, their only hope, was in another dimension. The demon raided houses as all of the ponies floated in their auras.
Celestia tried to combat the monster’s great anger with sentimental feelings.
“Do you remember your name?” She appealed in the calmest voice she could use.
The demon had not heard speech in a long time and had longed the sense to even remember what they used to call him. He stood his limp body up to its full height-angling himself to meet the princess’ gaze.
“I don’t recall a name,” A raspy voice echoed in Celestia’s ears.
“I can tell you your name. You can be a proud member of our society just as Spike had. You are welcome here,” Celestia tempted.
“I can’t now,” The being began, “I’ve come too far.”
“Yes, but if you were to let me help, then we could all be a part of something better. Forget all of your other names. We don’t care about those. We don’t even mind that much what you did to Twilight. I’m sure she’ll forgive you,” the princess deceived.
“I won’t,” He snapped out of his trance, “I can’t accept your offer, and I will not accept any offer given by pony scum like you.”
As the demon walked away, Celestia tried her last play of wit and charm. “I guess you do remember your name then?” She smirked.
He stopped. It had been so long. He had not heard his own name since weeks after his birth. He was so old, and could not remember an ounce of that.
“No,” he raised his voice.
“I do,” Celestia used a cheeky voice.
“What is it?” starting to grow impatient, he fell for her tricks.
“Bellus,” Celestia snickered.
Bellus. The beast had a name. He was once considered a part of this society of smiles. He was once a pony. He had only never been able to see just what he was put here for. He had to know what he was a part of.
“You are bigger than this,” Celestia chimed, “You can defeat him.”
The beast waved himself away from her and trudged on to other parts of Equestria. Parts that hadn’t burnt yet: maybe he missed some. Master would be upset.

“Do you think that you can do it?” Kevin asked Twilight staring deeply into her eyes.
“I can,” Twilight said thoughtfully. Kevin had had a magical talking alicorn in his house for about a week and she had managed to make herself plenty much at home. After most of her bruises had faded, Kevin had asked her if she was up to magical training to ensure that she will make it to Equestria safely. Twilight, today, greedily eats up the chance to try magic again.
“Okay,” Kevin said, “let’s see.”
Twilight’s horn glowed. The light grew somewhat gradually until the light seemed to burst and then she was gone. Seconds later, the magenta mare apparated several yards away.
Kevin grinned. He was now helping his greatest friend ever in more than one way.
Twilight, having just teleported (and not seemingly too hard) was thinking about something completely different. She noticed that there was nopony like Kevin in her world. After thinking for the remaining end of the week, Twilight had made some discussions with herself and came to the realization that she had never seen anyone that looked even remotely close to him (if he were a pony) and that maybe he was like her. Did she really want to face that right now, though?
“Good job, Twilight” Kevin whooped.
Twilight came back to reality.
“Thanks, I couldn’t have done it without you.” Twilight acknowledged and crawled back to her best human friend ever.
“Don’t mention it,” Kevin said.
What does that even mean anymore? He has been using that phrase for every time she thanked him. He had been saying “You’ll still be my friend in the morning” every single time she went to sleep. Why does he say this with such repetition? Even when Kevin would go out for his new job he wouldn’t say goodbye but goodbye, friend.
Twilight never stopped thinking. This process kept going on day by day. Twilight picked up on these things, but was never able to completely decide what he meant. She also started thinking about other things. She could never ask him seriously, though. It was certain that this might have to wait until later.
Twilight then used the new magic that she had to tear the bandage off of her wing. It still hurt, but the adhesive was itchy and she decided that she didn’t need it anymore.
Today was a day of achievement for Twilight.
Today, Kevin still had his friend, and he was thankful he still had another day with her.
Kevin gave up eating again what he could have eaten for a vegan thing and ate with her. Both of them eating apples. Kevin really was tired of eating nothing but fruits and vegetables. He especially was tired of eating apples, but he wasn’t complaining. The longer he had his friend here the better.
They finished eating and began to practice again. Kevin kept cheering her on until she successfully completed many feats namely: rain, wind and mustache spells. Twilight was congratulated with each spell, and they both went to bed afterwards.
“Good night, friend,” Kevin told Twilight.
“Good night,” Twilight then responded to Kevin. There he went again. He wouldn’t just say goodnight. He would say friend or acknowledge her in some way other than a normal. She wondered about this character. Why does he keep wording his sentences like that? After overkilling the entire thought process, Twilight finally slept.



Applejack awakened, her chest still hurt from the sincere wound that the beast had put on it. She put her head to her hooves. She had not been fed decently in several days. When she had been fed, some of the food would consist of animal matter, and she was unsettled to have to eat it. Applejack tried to communicate to Rarity.
“Can you do it, Rare?” to which Rarity responded the best way possible
“If Twilight can do it, then so can I,” Rarity exclaimed putting her nose higher in the air, “Not that I’m any better than Twilight, but a 	unicorn must have some sort of… style factor don’t you think?”
“Whatever you say.” Applejack said rolling her eyes as she said so. 
“Okay. Here I go.” Rarity’s horn glew brighter and brighter with magic until it burst with brightness and then she disappeared. Bellus would not be back from wherever he was for a while. He went to northern Equestria to raid houses there. Rarity stood in the spot where the portal had once stood. Rarity had done the spell correctly. She had teleported to the right spot. Applejack was next Rarity did her best to carefully teleport the orange earth pony down to the ground beside her.
“Why can’t anypony else come with us, well, besides Pinkie and the others?”
“Because all of the other do not have friends on the other world. Twilight is our friend and she needs us.” Rarity responded as she used her magic to again teleport another pony down from the skies. Pinkie appeared. Somehow, she was very excited.
“Oh my gosh!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed, “Finally, after only seeing this world through short visions, I can see the humans in person!”
“Yeah, will you please calm it down, Pinkie?” Applejack said.
Rarity teleported the remainder of the crew as Applejack continued to silence Pinkie.
“Pinkie, if ya don’t calm down, then the monster might hear ya and then we’ll all be sorry.”
“Silly, Applejack, he’s not going to get us, he’s too large and slow.”
“Yeah but…”
“Girls,” Rarity interrupted, “Will you please stop talking and help us locate the portal?”
Applejack and Pinkie Pie both agreed to calm down as they followed Rarity to the small dented tin piece of ground where the portal had once been before it was torn off by a long, scaly tail.
Let’s all go, Rarity asked the others. Fluttershy and Rainbow dash had both been teleported down from their last spot in the sky and joined their companions on the ground. All five of them stood on the tin.
The frame might not be there, but the portal itself must be.
All of them thinking very hard about their good friend, they all disappeared through the portal.

Kevin woke up like he did every day, now. He got up, ate a breakfast of pancakes and then gave his best friend a hug, stroking her mane for good luck before walking out the door to got to his new job at a burger factory ™. Having paid his rent to the manager on his way out the door, he drove his car to work and gave it no second thoughts.
He had a feeling, today. He had a feeling that he was going to have a great day.

All five ponies opened their eyes. This world was weird. There was an unnecessarily bright sun, the streets were black, and there were strange metallic box-like scooters around every house. The weirdest part was that there were no humans. Applejack got to her hooves.
“Alright, Everypony. Let’s find Twilight.”

Kevin drove home, now. He had all the reason in the world not to see what was about to happen next.
He opened the door to his hotel. Hearing crying, he immediately went to Twilight’s bed to see if she hurt herself. As he got nearer, he noticed the sound starting to split itself. There was someone else in the room. There were two people crying. Noticing that this means that there must be someone that now knew about Twilight, Kevin started running.
“Twilight?” Kevin asked, “Twilight?”
By the time he reached the room, he had run out of words.
Twilight sat at the edge of the bed, stroking Fluttershy’s mane. Fluttershy cried. She cried out of pain and discomfort. Applejack cried. She cried out of pain.
Kevin rushed over to the bed. Two ponies he had known so well had appeared on his bed and were crying away all of their tears. Twilight seemed on the verge of tears.
“What happened?” Kevin exclaimed.
Applejack noticed the figure at the doorway. She sniffled and then turned back to Twilight. “Is he the one that’s been taking care of you?”
Twilight nodded as a tear finally left her eye.
Both Applejack and Fluttershy sat up and reached for Kevin. 
Kevin gathered himself and went to the side of the bed and hugged each of the lonely mares.
“What happened?” Kevin repeated.
“They came for me,” Twilight responded.
“And?” Kevin continued
“And they found me.”
“But why are they crying?” Kevin asked.
“They are crying because they are happy to see me and because they’re sorry they weren’t there to help protect me from a terrible 	human being.” Twilight said, annoyance making its way into her voice.
“Oh,” Kevin hung his head.
Fluttershy’s mane shined. Kevin continued to hug the saddened mares. 
After meeting with them for several minutes, Kevin finally went on to making dinner: a dinner of alfalfa seed sandwiches for the four of them l (apparently it’s a delicacy in Ponyville). Twilight was reunited with two of her very best friends.