//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 - Strange Beings // Story: Incursions // by Blondlionezel //------------------------------// Twilight Sparkle stared at the second Earth in disbelief. Applejack almost passed out, while Rarity did pass out. Fluttershy screamed in horror, while Rainbow Dash stood wide-eyed, and Pinkie Pie was jumping around. The group stared at her. "How could you be so happy at a time like this?!" Rainbow Dash questioned Pinkie Pie harshly. "Oh! Because a second Earth means twice the parties!" Pinkie Pie answered, "And twice the destruction!" "Okay...maybe there's other ponies on that Earth?" Twilight Sparkle thought out loud. She hoped that on this planet that maybe there was someone she could relate to. As if her thoughts were negatively answered, a bird-like vehicle could be seen descending from the second Earth. It was large, grey, and shaped like a bird stretching out its mighty, steel wings. It had a beak-like cockpit, along with a pair of fins on the back. It was as if some predatory bird had begun its flight between the two earths. "What do you think that is?" Applejack asked Rainbow Dash. "Beats me..." Rainbow Dash answered. "Maybe it's a giant death-bird!" Pinkie Pie suggested. Both Applejack and Rainbow Dash facepalmed as a second metal-bird vehicle followed the first one. "Maybe it's... aliens?" Fluttershy fearfully added. As soon as Fluttershy finished her sentence, the two metal-bird vehicles landed in a field near the groups. The ponies then began a mad gallop to the vehicles to find out what lay inside of them. Aliens? Other ponies? Or something stranger? As the backside of the metal-bird vehicle opened up, a two-legged, two armed being with blonde hair and blue eyes, wearing a blue, red, and white outfit along with a red, white, and blue with a white star shield walked out of the vehicle. The group quickly separated and scattered to hide in bushes to watch what unfolds. They didn't want to end up alien-chow, or worse, an experiment being opened up on some gross table. "What is this place?" The strange being asked, looking around for any signs of life. "Some place called Equestria, Cap!" A man in a red and gold robotic armor with a glowing blue core in his chest, along with a red and gold head-mask answered. "Cap...he must be a Captain...but of what?" Twilight Sparkle inferred. Suddenly, Pinkie Pie slipped and cracked a branch, which got the two beings attention. "What was that?" Cap questioned, looking around. Another being, this time a red and blue full-body outfit with a web-like pattern all over it stepped out, along with a different being with a blue, red, and yellow outfit, with a round chest and a strange, star-like symbol on it. The second vehicle also opened up, revealing a scrawny man in lab-wear, along with a man with blond hair, viking-esque armor, a red cape, and carrying a medieval hammer. "All right, we need to explore" The man in the robotic armor told the group, "Captain America, Spider-Man and I go talk to the those beings, Captain Marvel, Bruce Banner, and Thor will scout out the area" "Roger that" Captain America understood, as he and Spider-Man walked slowly to the bushes. Thor, Captain Marvel, and Bruce Banner began to look over the area. "Maybe it's other people?" Spider-Man reckoned as they approached the bushes. "Maybe it's magical ponies?" Captain America speculated. "As Iron Man, I bet you $3 that it's not" Iron Man bet. As if something stupid was compelling her, Pinkie Pie jumped out of the bush and waved at the gaudily-dressed group, but Rainbow Dash and Applejack pulled her back down into the bushes. "What was that all about?!" Rainbow Dash whispered angrily. Pinkie Pie looked around, looked down, looked up, and then smiled. "I wanted Iron Man to win the bet!!" Pinkie Pie giggled. Applejack and Rainbow Dash facepalmed again. "Did you see that?" Captain America asked Iron-Man and Spider-Man, "It's a magical pony!" "Oh my gosh..." Spider-Man gasped as Iron-Man handed Captain America his $3. "I'll try to talk to it, I can speak to horses!" Iron-Man told the group as he walked over to the bush. "Really?" Captain America questioned Iron-Man, raising an eyebrow. "Of course!" Iron Man responded, flexing his muscles "I can do anything! "What's it going to do?" Twilight Sparkle shook in fear. "Neigh! Neigh!" Iron-Man imitated a horse, "Whiny! Whiny!" As if the nerves of the ponies had been lost, they all began to laugh and chuckle. They knew that horses didn't make those sounds, they spoke in English! "And now I feel like an idiot..." Iron Man sighed as Spider-Man and Captain America walked towards the ponies, who began to show themselves. "Who and what are you?" Captain America asked the ponies. Twilight Sparkle stepped forwards looked at Captain America. "My name is Twilight Sparkle, how do you do?" Twilight Sparkle introduced herself, putting her hoof out for a hoofshake. "My name is Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, and I'm doing alright" Captain America put out his hand and they handshaked as the pony crowd cheered. However, many miles away from Equestria, in the Everfree Forest, a large, muscular, purple being was looking over the sights, along with his Black Order. "We just finished raiding that Zebras house..." Proxima Midnight, an alien woman with blue skin, black armor, and a golden spear informed her master. Corvus Glaive, a skeleton alien in a black cloak, carrying a sword, was roasting some zebra. "Well..." The purple alien smiled, "I shall destroy this world, if my name isn't Thanos!" (To Be Continued)