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// Lost in the Battlefield 
// Story: A Vacation in History 
// by Blank Canvas 
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Gregorian Calendar: June 18, 1815
Equestrian Calendar: The 8th Day of the 8th month, 804 years after the Banishment of Nightmare Moon 

Twilight Sparkle woke up to find herself to find in the middle of a field. It was midday, and the air was warm. She looked around, and began to wonder what happened. "Have I traveled too far?" she thought. 

She looked behind her. And then she saw the biggest fright of her life. 

Standing there was an enormous horde of bipedal, orange-skinned aliens. Many of them seemed to wearing uniforms, similar to those that the Wonderbolts once wore. They were all holding miniature tubes with switches attached to the stub at one end. Some of the aliens even had cannons with them. Another army, dressed in red, showed up in the other direction. It only took a few seconds to realize what was going on. 

She was being confronted by the alien military. 

"Oh crap."

The aliens quickly cocked their weapons with what seemed like hands. The general of the blue group, a brown-haired man riding an earth pony, quickly made action.

"Tenez-le! Nous semblons avoir trouvé une licorne ailée d'une certaine sorte. L'un de vous, prendre le petit poney à Paris et avoir nos meilleurs naturalistes étudient. Il peut être utile," he said. 

It sounded similar to Applebloom's gibberish back when he was trying to get a cutie mark from Zecora. Twilight quickly tried to explain herself. "Umm...hi...my name is Twilight Sparkle, I come from the land of Equestria. I -"

The general looked stunned. Then he began to yell again. "La licorne! Il parle anglais! Elle est leur arme! Tue-le avant qu'il ne nous tue, qui est un ordre!" The soldiers cocked their guns at her again. 

She quickly ran for her life.

Twilight ran into a farmhouse defended by gray-clothed soldiers. She was afraid to approach them, but, other than the shock of seeing a winged unicorn, they seemed more than willing to let her in. 

She quickly hid inside there for a few hours, hearing constant gunshots and the explosions of cannons. There were multiple attempts by one of the armys to get in, but, surprisingly, the house stayed unharmed and unintruded.

When the gunshots and battle ended, it was already dark. She quickly got out, and she was approached by a man in a red coat. "Please don't hurt me! I don't even know how I got here!" she said frightenedly. The man was startled at first, but then he gained control of himself and walked closer. "Do not be alarmed. I am Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington. Your kind has intrigued us for thousands of years. If you don't mind, I'd like to present you to the king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, his magesty George the Fourth."

Twilight Sparkle was a bit confused at first, but then decided to go with it. She didn't know much about anything that was going on, but the one thing she did know was that she was far, far away from home.