Against The Crowd: Twilight Sparkle

by RowanSkie


1 - The Attempt

"Ow!"

Twilight Sparkle woke up falling from her bed. Her bed in her castle. Spike looked at Twilight, trying to hold his laughter.

"What?" Twilight fixed herself and the bed.

"Nothing," Spike sniggered, "It's been 5 days you've been doing that!"

"And it's getting annoying," Twilight added, "must be something, and into research!"

Twilight ran into the library, and made two of her friends, namely Rainbow Dash and Rarity, spinned and looked at each other in confusion. They decided to secretly follow, before Twilight slammed the library door shut.

"Okay, nearly making myself look suspicious," Twilight fixed her messy mane and looked at the crystal mirror, "first, hope that the mirror is closed so that I could use it as a portal to other worlds..."

Twilight touched the mirror, and it sparkled a bit. She quickly withdrew her hoof.

"Open, that means Sunset Shimmer can visit, hmm..." Twilight looked around Star Swirl's books for a spell. "No, nothing can help me at the sort."

A vortex suddenly appeared in the library room.

"Unless there's a vortex appearing in the room, of course!" Twilight heard voices from the vortex. She listened.

"Hey! You just created a vortex to the My Little Pony universe!" An old man's voice shouted.

"What? Can't I?" A young female voice said, "Besides, it's called 'Equestria' universe."

"Very funny," a familar voice commented, "Just make sure Pinkie Pie doesn't enter here or else she'll have to make a hyperspace kind of party."

Pinkie Pie peeked in from the not-locked library door, "What...?"

Twilight pushed Pinkie away and closed the door, and locked it. Twilight listened to the conversation again from the three voices.

"And I think I heard a door banging," the third voice said, "and Pinkie."

"What!?" there were sound of buttons being pressed. "Opening the vortex to see what's om the other side..."

The vortex, seen as a small group of spinning clouds, enlargens to make a hole in the middle and Twilight slack-jawed, then quickly closed her jaw.

"Oh dear, Stargate fashion," Twilight began writing stuff down, "a control room, with flashy buttons and slides, I now wonder what it does, some long weird metals things, three humans looking... What."

The three humans, two men and a woman, stared back at Twilight.

"Congratulations, sir, now she's looking at us." The woman deadpanned, before waving.

"Hi...?" The vortex closed, leaving a small piece of paper. Twilight read the paper...

Don't tell Opal. He absolutely wants to see you again.
- Jane Numero Frost, aka. That girl who waved at you.
PS: I ABSOLUTELY WANT TO HUG YOU OHGOD

Twilight blinked. "What fan you are."

Another paper appeared right on top of it.

Don't quote Delsin Rowe.

Rainbow Dash went inside through the window. She looked at Twilight Sparkle, who were holding two pieces of paper.

"That was 10. Seconds. Flat." Rainbow deadpanned, "Care to explain, please?"

"Well... first, thank you asking, second, I really have no idea a random patch of cloud spinned and became a vortex," Twilight pointed to the location, "in there. Then the vortex widened to show a quite shiny room with three humans."

"Are we going Lyra now here?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"No! I mean, whatever you think, I've been more crazy before, right?" Twilight winked.

"Oh, that." Rainbow thought about it, "ok, so anything else?"

"Let's see... I'm wondering about the throne-" Twilight and Rainbow Dash hear a series of knocks. Twilight opened the door to see Spike holding a letter. Twilight took the letter and read it.

Dear Twilight Sparkle,

I need you and your friends at the Tree of Harmony. As soon as you can.

Your former mentor,
Princess Celestia

Underneath is a patch of writings Opal, herself, and Princess Celestia made for privacy.

I do believe that it is the work of Opal, who seems to have alicorn magic without turning into an alicorn. He also sent me a few warnings, about the danger that lies beyond our world...

You have something in your hooves, literally, that is listed as one of the dangers.

Twilight looked at her left and right hoof, before looking at Rainbow Dash.

"On it!" Rainbow went outside, and called her friends.


"I've never seen anything like this, Lulu." Celestia said to Luna, who were both at the Tree of Harmony.

"It's not of Discord's doing, Cel." Luna said back.

"Luna! Celestia! We've come as fast as we could!" shouted Twilight as they all arrived. "What's wrong?"

Celestia pointed to the tree. Twilight 's eyes grew large. A small vortex is in front of the tree, and the elements power it. Rainbow Dash and the others are shocked to see such thing.

"I'll enter the vortex." Twilight proclaimed.

"Wait! We don't know if it's safe!" Luna warned, before a wounded girl from the vortex appeared.

"...ugh..." it- she muttered.

"A wounded human from the vortex." Celestia noted, "it's not safe. Are you sure about your decision, Twilight?"

"Not really..." Twilight pointed to the jacket and skirt the girl was wearing, "it's me. She has the same cutie mark on her dress."

The girl opened her eyes a bit and grabbed Twilight's upper hoof. Some sort of light from the girl travelled to Twilight's hoof who was trying to escape, and then she disappeared, into dust. Twilight fainted.

"It's happening... Help us all..." Celestia prayed, muttering a spell and fired it at Twilight.

She immediately woke up. Rarity looked at Princess Celestia.

"What spell was that?" She asked.

"A simple wake-up spell." Celestia lied. It really was more of that.

The spell she casted on Celestia was healing spell. A healing spell capable of healing anything, even King Sombra. A spell created by Opal before he has forgotten everything, the last spell he created for the Princesses.

"I... Opal's crazy dashy Neon powers... did I have?" Twilight asked.

The other ponies are confused while Celestia nodded.

Twilight looked at the vortex, "one of the dangers already in me..."

Twilight pointed her right hoof at a tree outside the cavern where the Tree of Harmony is, and a beam of neon from her hoof destroyed it. Twilight chuckled like crazy.

"It's going to be cool." Twilight said, before winking at Celestia and jumping through.


Opal woke up with a sense of imbalance.

"Twilight! Why..." Opal said, before heading to the library, a Golden Oak Library.

Opal expected a human Twilight greeting her, but he saw no one on the library.

"Oh, Twilight? Hello?" Opal looked around, and spotted Twilight, Princess Twilight, fainted and lying on the floor of the bedroom.

He lighted his horn, but decided not to cast the same spell, and instead he sent a letter to Princess Celestia by the vortex. Then, the vortex closed.


Dear Princess Celestia, and Everypony else.

Princess Twily's here. Not in a safe location. She should leave, but the vortex has closed at the time you're reading this. She'll have to wait for at least 1 Equestrian year. The Summer Sun Celebration was yesterday, right?

From the Yeltor's Creator (I'll keep that title in Tartarus!),
Opal Gemstone

PS: The Tree of Harmony will show the next vortex.

Celestia giggled a bit. Rainbow Dash took the letter and read it. Then Applejack. Then Rarity. Then Princess Luna. Then lastly, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie who read the letter together.

"Oh, dear. In a world of blood, an Equestria ruled by Prince Solaris located in an Earth," Princess Celestia proclaimed, "I'm starting to think that Twilight's going to survive."