Twilight woke up with a throbbing head for the third time that day. This had to be a new record. Blinking her eyes open, she realized she was no longer inside the wall in the midst of a battle between the soldiers and titans. Instead, she was in what appeared to be a prison cell. Just her luck.
"Oh, good, you're finally awake." Twilight looked up to see two men standing before her. One was a short, black haired man with neatly trimmed hair and a cravat fastened at his neck, and the other was a tall blonde, with eyebrows that looked like two bushy caterpillars had crawled onto his face and were trimmed in a neatly curved triangle. She recognized the voice from earlier, when she was eavesdropping on a conversation outside the tent.
"Wha-what's going on? What happened? Why was the city overrun with titans? I thought it was supposed to be safe!" Twilight's words were rushed and slurred in her grogginess. The shorter man raised an eyebrow at this but didn't answer her questions.
"Never mind your obvious amnesia, what we'd like to know is how you pulled that stunt back in Shiganshina. How were you able to disappear like that?" The taller one asked.
"I'm really not sure." Twilight answered honestly. She'd never been able to use magic in her human form before, except when her and her friends wielded the elements of harmony to defeat Sunset Shimmer. "I don't even know how I got here. And who are you, anyway?"
"Forgive me, I'm Commander Erwin of the Survey Corps. This is Heichou Levi of the Survey Corps." The blonde one, Erwin, said.
"Survey Corps? What is that?" Twilight asked, feeling incredibly confused about the whole situation.
"Geeze, you really do have amnesia. Either that, or you were a very sheltered child." Levi spoke smoothly.
"No, it's not amnesia. I'm not from here. I'm not even sure where here is, to be honest. I was kinda hoping you could explain it to me." Twilight replied, rubbing the back of her head awkwardly. Levi just stared at her, stone faced.
"What do you mean 'not from here.' Are you saying your some sort of alien or some shit?" Levi asked, his words laced with venom, yet keeping his usual dead expression. Twilight flinched a little from the use of profanity. Growing up in Canterlot, she very rarely heard any pony cuss like that.
"No, it's not like that! Well... Maybe it is... Wait, no! Gah, even if I told you, you'd never believe me."
"Ma'am, we just saw you disappear in Shinganshina, and reappear in Trost. Then you were asleep for two days straight, and we had to work diligently to make sure news of your little trick didn't reach the public. We're a little more than curious. At least start out by telling us your name." Erwin explained to her. Twilight bit her lip nervously before answering,
"Twilight. My name is Twilight Sparkle." Erwin and Levi gave each other a look that seemed to mean something along the lines of "What the fuck are we having to deal with right now?"
"Riiight. Well, Twilight, mind telling us what you were doing outside the walls?" Erwin asked, attempting to sound gentle but a hint of irritation showed in his voice.
"I don't know. I was trying to go help my friends, but I woke up out there instead. Honestly I don't know what's going on." Twilight replied, growing tired of asking questions without receiving answers.
"So you say. Now I'm going to ask one more time before things turn ugly. How did you disappear and reappear like you did?" Levi asked. Twilight sighed lightly, before responding,
"All right, I'll tell you. But you're not going to like it." And so Twilight told them about how she was once a magical pony princess from Equestria who went through a portal in an attempt to help the human copies of her friends at a high school. It sounded a lot better in her head, to say the least.